Chapter Summaries

Ling Yu opened a package from his reclusive grandfather and found a Rumble-Rumble Fruit, a strange scale, and a book. When he touched the scale, he and the items in his home vanished, leaving his destination unknown.

• Ling Yu returned home with a Naruto figurine and found a package sent by his grandfather.
• Ling Yu opened the figurine box and admired the Uchiha Madara figure he had bought after spending a month's salary.
• Ling Yu recalled that his grandfather had raised him in the mountains before sending him to school, then disappeared except for their yearly letters.
• Ling Yu opened his grandfather's package and found a blue spiral-patterned fruit, an earthy yellow scale, and a book.
• Ling Yu recognized the fruit as the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and felt electric shocks from it.
• Ling Yu touched the scale, causing a strange fluctuation that made him and the items in both boxes vanish.

Ling Yu recalled his transmigration to Douluo Continent and how a cultivation manual from his grandfather had appeared in his mind when he was three. Now nearly six years old, his Soul Power had stalled and his martial soul had yet to awaken, though his training had made him extraordinarily strong; he returned to Morning Glow Village as his awakening approached.

• Ling Yu finished his dawn cultivation on a hill and reflected that nearly six years had passed since he was reborn in Morning Glow Village.
• He remembered that the "Basic Cultivation Method" had appeared in his mind at age three, after which he began cultivating and gained an earthy yellow scale on his chest.
• Ling Yu recalled that his Soul Power had reached saturation six months earlier, while his physical strength continued to grow through training.
• He described lifting a millstone weighing at least fifteen hundred jin and nearly killing a water buffalo with one punch.
• Ling Yu told Uncle Zhang that his martial soul was about to awaken, then said goodbye and headed home.

Ling Yu prepared for the Martial Soul awakening ceremony and arrived at the village Spirit Hall, where Su Yuntao began testing the children. The other children showed no Soul Power, and Ling Yu stepped into the formation as the next candidate.

• Ling Yu stayed home with his grandfather, then spent two days continuing his cultivation and hunting for food.
• Ling Yu went to the village Spirit Hall after the village chief told him Su Yuntao had arrived to conduct the awakening ceremony.
• Su Yuntao introduced himself as a level twenty-six Soul Grandmaster and summoned his Lone Wolf Martial Soul.
• The first children awakened ordinary tools and plants, but none had Soul Power, leaving Su Yuntao increasingly disappointed.
• Ling Yu entered the formation, and Su Yuntao looked at him with renewed expectation.

Ling Yu awakened an extraordinary Eye Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, prompting Su Yuntao to urge him to join Spirit Hall. His grandfather agreed, and Ling Yu was left waiting for Spirit Hall to come for him.

• Su Yuntao awakened Ling Yu's Martial Soul, and a dragon's roar and immense pressure left Su Yuntao kneeling in distress.
• Ling Yu revealed a red Eye Martial Soul with tomoe patterns, and the Crystal Ball confirmed his Innate Full Soul Power.
• Su Yuntao invited Ling Yu to join Spirit Hall, and Ling Yu agreed after saying he needed his grandfather's permission.
• Su Yuntao told the village chief about Ling Yu's talent, and the delighted old man agreed to let him join Spirit Hall.
• Su Yuntao gave Ling Yu money and hurried away to notify Spirit Hall, telling him to wait for someone to come collect him.

Ling Yu awakened the Sharingan and discovered that the Goro Goro no Mi had become his second martial soul. After eating it, he gained lightning powers and found that he could swim without suffering the Devil Fruit curse.

• Ling Yu examined his reflection and confirmed that he had awakened the One-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Ling Yu summoned the Goro Goro no Mi, recognized it as his second martial soul, and ate it.
• Ling Yu’s body crackled with electricity as he tested his new lightning powers and controlled his levitation.
• Ling Yu tied himself to a tree with a vine and jumped into the river to test whether water weakened him.
• Ling Yu found he could swim normally even while using his lightning powers, then celebrated by swimming across the river and startling the village animals.

Ling Yu continued tempering his body and considered using a powerful soul ring to speed up his progress. Yue Guan of Spirit Hall arrived, recognized Ling Yu’s rare Eye Martial Soul, and prepared to take him to Spirit Hall.

• Ling Yu noticed his chest scale had turned faintly golden and realized his body was absorbing Soul Power faster, though he still needed about a year to perfect Body Tempering through cultivation alone.
• Ling Yu decided he would seek guidance about soul ring absorption after joining Spirit Hall.
• The village chief called Ling Yu outside to meet a visitor from Spirit Hall, and Yue Guan introduced himself as a level ninety-four Titled Douluo and elder.
• Ling Yu released his Sharingan, and Yue Guan identified it as a rare Eye Martial Soul and told him to say goodbye before they left for Spirit Hall.
• Ling Yu promised his grandfather he would write and return for holidays, while Yue Guan observed that the child seemed to be doing the farewells usually made by parents.

Ling Yu left Morning Glow Village with Yue Guan, who explained Body Martial Souls and the structure of Spirit Hall during their flight to Spirit City. As the city came into view, Ling Yu began planning how to use his knowledge of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to secure its Immortal Grasses.

• Yue Guan flew Ling Yu away from Morning Glow Village and explained that his Sharingan was a Body Martial Soul with Innate Full Soul Power.
• Ling Yu called Yue Guan “Grandpa Yue Guan,” and Yue Guan happily told him to keep using that name.
• Yue Guan told Ling Yu that Bibi Dong had been Spirit Hall’s Pope for five years, helping Ling Yu place himself in the timeline before the main story began.
• Ling Yu decided he would seek a book about Immortal Grasses from Yue Guan and find a way to claim the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for himself.
• Yue Guan explained Spirit Hall’s hierarchy and institutions as they approached Spirit City, where Ling Yu arrived feeling determined.

Ling Yu climbed to the Pope’s Palace, where Bibi Dong tested his resolve and martial soul before offering to make him her disciple. The chapter ended with Ling Yu accepting her as his teacher.

• Yue Guan led Ling Yu up the mountain to the Pope’s Palace, testing his endurance along the way.
• Bibi Dong watched Ling Yu climb and said she would consider taking him as a disciple if he reached the top.
• Ling Yu sensed that energy around Spirit City was unusually dense and sacred as he continued climbing.
• Ling Yu reached the palace and, after Yue Guan prompted him, summoned his Sharingan for Bibi Dong to inspect.
• Bibi Dong recognized Ling Yu and asked him to become her disciple, and he bowed and accepted.

Bibi Dong accepted Ling Yu as her second disciple after the Rakshasa God’s trial instructed her to raise him, while the Rakshasa God became intrigued by the extraordinary power surrounding him. Ling Yu asked to delay obtaining his first soul ring, and Yue Guan discovered his body could keep growing stronger and absorbing Soul Power.

• Bibi Dong named Ling Yu her second disciple and ordered Yue Guan to find him a place to stay before their planned soul-ring hunt.
• Bibi Dong learned that the Rakshasa God’s Second Trial required her to take Ling Yu as a disciple and devote herself to nurturing him.
• The Rakshasa God sensed a power beyond the Douluo God Realm surrounding Ling Yu and decided to connect him more closely to her heir.
• Ling Yu asked Yue Guan to delay the soul-ring hunt because he expected his body to grow stronger over the next six months.
• Yue Guan sensed Ling Yu’s unusual physical strength and ongoing absorption of Soul Power, then decided to report his discovery to Bibi Dong.

Ling Yu returned to Pope's Palace, where Bibi Dong accepted his request to delay obtaining a soul ring and gave him a Spirit Hall meditation method. He began training in a gravity-enhanced room and found that his rapid recovery could help him reach the peak of Body Tempering in less than half a year.

• Yue Guan brought Ling Yu back to Pope's Palace and explained that his rapidly strengthening body made him want to postpone obtaining a soul ring.
• Bibi Dong agreed to wait until Ling Yu's physical growth reached its limit, offered to teach him about martial souls, and gave him Spirit Hall's Meditation Method.
• Yue Guan led Ling Yu to a large residence with a training room, where Ling Yu sensed that the floor produced a gravity effect.
• Ling Yu practiced Baji Quan under the increased gravity and unleashed a powerful Crushing Fist.
• Ling Yu concluded that training and recovering in the gravity room could let him reach the peak of Body Tempering in less than half a year, then continued practicing.

Ling Yu’s intense Baji Quan practice ended when Bibi Dong found him unconscious and carried him to a medicinal bath. The next morning, he discovered that his body had grown much stronger and resumed his daily cultivation.

• Ling Yu practiced Baji Quan in a state of deep absorption, improving his understanding and physical strength before he collapsed from exhaustion.
• Bibi Dong found Ling Yu unconscious, carried him to the meditation room, and placed him in Yue Guan’s medicinal bath.
• Ling Yu absorbed the medicinal liquid while unconscious, and it turned black as it drew impurities from his body.
• Ling Yu woke the next morning, realized Bibi Dong had undressed him, and then found his strength had increased by nearly thirty percent.
• Ling Yu estimated that his first cultivation realm would take about three months to complete and began his daily cultivation at sunrise.

Ling Yu revealed his second Martial Soul, the Body of the Thunder God, to explain how he endured the training room’s gravity. Bibi Dong recognized him as a Twin Martial Soul possessor and promised to help him develop his talent using the solution she had discovered.

• Ling Yu joined Bibi Dong for a breakfast of rare Soul Beast meat and learned the meal had been prepared to celebrate his becoming her disciple.
• Bibi Dong asked how Ling Yu had endured the gravity in the training room, which was meant for far stronger Soul Masters.
• Ling Yu revealed his second Martial Soul, the Body of the Thunder God, and explained that it let him control lightning.
• Bibi Dong was astonished to learn Ling Yu had Twin Martial Souls and said he was the third such person in a century.
• Bibi Dong told Ling Yu that she was also a Twin Martial Soul possessor and had found a way to solve the conflict between the two Martial Souls.

After Ling Yu absorbed the energy from a meal of Soul Beast meat, Bibi Dong noticed that the aura from his body made her powerful Martial Souls tremble. She arranged intensive training and study for him, and the chapter ended with Ling Yu planning to develop a Lightning Release Armor Mode using his second Martial Soul.

• Ling Yu's body absorbed the energy from the Soul Beast meat, and Bibi Dong sensed that his aura frightened her Martial Souls.
• Ling Yu told Bibi Dong he expected to complete the first level of Body Tempering within two months and obtain a Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong arranged gravity training, a five-hundred-jin Adamantine Armor, nourishing food, medicinal liquid, and access to Spirit Hall's archive room for Ling Yu.
• Bibi Dong gave Ling Yu her Supreme Pontiff token and warned him not to attach Soul Rings to his second Martial Soul before becoming a Titled Douluo.
• Ling Yu put on the weighted armor and returned to the training room, then decided he could begin developing Lightning Release Armor Mode.

Ling Yu experimented with using lightning to stimulate his cells, succeeding in making his arm absorb energy nearly twice as fast before mental exhaustion made him faint. He dreamed of Yinglong restoring a shattered universe, then awoke beside a startled woman.

• Ling Yu tried forcing lightning into his arm, burned himself, and healed with his breathing and circulation method before attempting the stimulation again more carefully.
• Ling Yu gradually increased the lightning's frequency while monitoring his cells, and his arm began glowing pale gold as it absorbed energy nearly twice as fast as the rest of his body.
• Ling Yu exhausted his Spiritual Power and fainted, leaving his glowing arm in the dim room.
• Ling Yu found himself in a shattered universe and watched Yinglong restore its earth, life, and stars.
• Ling Yu awoke when a woman called to him, and his fleeting golden eye-glint startled her.

Ling Yu showed Bibi Dong his Lightning Tempering method, which used his Body of the Thunder God to strengthen his body and accelerate Soul Power absorption. Bibi Dong said it could only work for him unless he developed a version for other Soul Masters, and Ling Yu returned to training to enter Lightning Release Armor Mode.

• Bibi Dong scolded Ling Yu for passing out during training and learned that he had been experimenting with lightning to strengthen his body.
• Ling Yu demonstrated Lightning Tempering, and Bibi Dong confirmed it increased his body's Soul Power absorption and physical strength.
• Bibi Dong explained that the method suited Ling Yu's pure lightning affinity, while Ling Yu asked whether he could make it work for other Soul Masters.
• Bibi Dong urged Ling Yu to focus on growing stronger, and they shared a meal.
• Ling Yu returned to the training room and prepared to enter Lightning Release Armor Mode.

Ling Yu completed his accelerated Body Tempering and went with Bibi Dong to Sacred Soul Forest to obtain his first soul ring. They entered the guarded forest, while five Soul Douluo remained at its entrance.

• Ling Yu successfully used Lightning Release Armor Mode with breathing exercises to cultivate and strengthen his body.
• After a month of training, Ling Yu perfected Body Tempering, reached three thousand kilograms of physical strength, and prepared to obtain his first soul ring.
• Bibi Dong arrived to take Ling Yu to Sacred Soul Forest, and the two teased each other before flying there together.
• Bibi Dong and Ling Yu entered Sacred Soul Forest as the soldiers and five Soul Douluo saluted them.
• The Soul Douluo discussed Ling Yu's arrival, but a scarred middle-aged man told them to return to their duties.

Ling Yu accompanied Bibi Dong into the forest to hunt a soul ring, but she vanished after a Wind Wolf ambushed him, forcing him to fight alone. He killed the four-hundred-year beast with a single Crushing Fist, then left annoyed as Bibi Dong admitted she had staged the attack as a test.

• Ling Yu admired the forest scenery while Bibi Dong teased him and led him onward.
• A four-hundred-year Wind Wolf attacked Ling Yu with a wind blade, and Bibi Dong disappeared.
• Ling Yu dodged the Wind Wolf’s attacks and struck it in midair with Crushing Fist, fatally shattering its waist.
• Bibi Dong reappeared, praised Ling Yu’s strength, and explained that the ambush had been a test.
• Ling Yu walked away in irritation while Bibi Dong followed and said talking with him had improved her mood.

Bibi Dong led Ling Yu through the forest to find a spiritual-type Soul Beast, and they discovered a rare Three-Eyed Golden Phoenix. Ling Yu killed it and began absorbing its three-thousand-year soul ring, leaving Bibi Dong to wonder whether he would gain its innate soul skill.

• Bibi Dong and Ling Yu searched the forest for a suitable spiritual-type Soul Beast but found none for hours.
• Bibi Dong followed her intuition and rushed with Ling Yu toward a bird cry, where they found a Three-Eyed Golden Phoenix.
• Bibi Dong used her Soul Power and poison to pin and paralyze the Three-Eyed Golden Phoenix for Ling Yu.
• Ling Yu stabbed the Soul Beast through its neck, and a purple soul ring appeared after it died.
• Ling Yu sat down, summoned his Sharingan, and began absorbing the Three-Eyed Golden Phoenix's soul ring.

Ling Yu absorbed the Three-Eyed Golden Phoenix’s three-thousand-year soul ring, unleashing an overwhelming aura that made Soul Beasts across the continent kneel. The silver-haired girl learned of the aura, left her lake to enter the human world, and the event was recorded as the Day of Dragon’s Rise.

• Ling Yu endured the soul ring’s scorching energy as he absorbed it, while Bibi Dong urged him to stay conscious.
• Ling Yu’s aura transformed into a vast, ancient pressure, forcing every Soul Beast in Sacred Soul Forest to prostrate itself.
• The aura reached the Star Dou Great Forest, where the seven Ferocious Beasts knelt before their silver-haired Lord, who judged it stronger than the Dragon God.
• Xiong Jun questioned the Lord and was struck down by her silver lightning for his disrespect.
• The silver-haired Lord decided to visit the human world, and Di Tian and Bi Ji discussed her departure.
• Historical records later named the day the continent’s creatures bowed to Ling Yu’s aura the Day of Dragon’s Rise.

Ling Yu broke through to Blood Refinement after Yinglong’s light transformed his energy, and he discovered a collection of ninjutsu in his mind. After revealing his new soul skill to Bibi Dong, he manifested an External Soul Bone, while Bibi Dong collapsed into his arms.

• Yinglong’s golden light compressed Ling Yu’s cultivated energy into liquid, helping him break through Body Tempering and enter Blood Refinement.
• Ling Yu found a collection of ninjutsu from all five elemental styles in the book in his mind and suspected his energy came from Yinglong’s scale.
• Ling Yu told Bibi Dong that his new soul skill, Golden Eye Fury, restrained targets with golden light and damaged their spirits.
• Bibi Dong praised Golden Eye Fury as an exceptionally powerful control skill that opponents could not dodge.
• Golden wings burst from Ling Yu’s back, and Bibi Dong identified them as an External Soul Bone.
• Bibi Dong collapsed into Ling Yu’s arms, and he asked whether she was there to take a dump.