Chapter Summaries

Ling Yu returned to Spirit City with Bibi Dong after their ordeal in Sacred Soul Forest, then reviewed the major gains from absorbing the Three-Eyed Golden Phoenix soul ring. He discovered his Soul Power was only level 11, but its quality might be approaching the prerequisite for forming a Soul Core.

• Ling Yu carried Bibi Dong back to the guards at Sacred Soul Forest, and she ordered him to visit her room that night before they bickered over an accidental kiss.
• Ling Yu and Bibi Dong reached Spirit City, where she continued riding on his back until he carefully set her down, then flew with him to the Pope's Palace.
• Ling Yu returned to his room, reflected on his new Blood Refining Realm, 4,000-kilogram strength, control skill, and Five-Element Escape Techniques, and examined the External Soul Bone skill Nirvana.
• Ling Yu checked his Soul Power with the Crystal Ball and found it was level 11, though its quality rivaled that of a Soul Douluo and might be a prerequisite for condensing a Soul Core.

Ling Yu encountered Hu Liena at the Pope's Palace and fought her after they traded insults. He brushed off her Charm skill and left her startled as their confrontation continued.

• Ling Yu cultivated on the mountain and estimated that his compressed Spiritual Power would let him advance a level every three or four months.
• Hu Liena found Ling Yu at the Pope's Palace and challenged him after they argued over her calling him an idiot.
• Ling Yu dodged Hu Liena's punch and knocked her more than ten meters away with a shoulder strike.
• Hu Liena summoned her two yellow Soul Rings and used her first Soul Skill, Charm, but Ling Yu recovered in less than two seconds and taunted her to use more.

Ling Yu met his fellow disciple Hu Liena and quickly escaped her Bewitchment, surprising her with his spiritual strength. After Hu Liena tried to punish him and complained to Bibi Dong, the three reconciled and went to lunch together.

• Hu Liena was shocked when Ling Yu broke free of her Bewitchment in less than two seconds, and he explained that his spiritual-type martial soul gave him strong Spiritual Power.
• Ling Yu introduced himself as Bibi Dong's new disciple, and Hu Liena tried to make him fetch hailstones as punishment for striking her.
• Bibi Dong arrived and Hu Liena accused Ling Yu of bullying her, but Bibi Dong told him to apologize in exchange for an extra dish at dinner.
• Ling Yu teased Hu Liena before apologizing sincerely, and Hu Liena forgave him.
• Bibi Dong invited Ling Yu and Hu Liena to lunch so they could get to know each other as fellow disciples.

Ling Yu enjoyed a meal with Bibi Dong and Hu Liena, then trained under five times gravity while Hu Liena watched. Hu Liena asked him to join her, Xie Yue, and Yan when they hunted for Xie Yue’s third Soul Ring.

• Ling Yu ate thousand-year Soul Beast meat with Bibi Dong and Hu Liena, and felt his body and Soul Power grow stronger.
• Ling Yu asked Hu Liena about Xie Yue and Yan, and she explained their strength and upcoming Soul Ring advancement.
• Ling Yu reassured Hu Liena about her talent before heading to his training room and practicing under five times gravity.
• Hu Liena watched Ling Yu train and offered him a towel when he finished.
• Hu Liena asked Ling Yu to accompany her, Xie Yue, and Yan on their upcoming Soul Ring hunt.

Ling Yu agreed to travel with Hu Liena and then returned to training, determined to learn the Shadow Clone Jutsu. After several failed attempts, he finally created a full-sized clone and wondered if he was as inept as Naruto.

• Ling Yu accepted Hu Liena's request to join her trip, and Hu Liena left angrily after he told her to go back.
• Ling Yu sat down to recover and studied the energy circuit and hand seal needed for the Shadow Clone Jutsu.
• Ling Yu resolved to collect and cook edible Soul Beasts left behind after their soul rings were absorbed.
• Ling Yu's first attempt produced a miniature clone, so he dispelled it and tried again.
• Ling Yu successfully cast the Shadow Clone Jutsu after more than a dozen attempts.

Ling Yu trained his Shadow Clone Jutsu and learned six more jutsu while preparing for a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest. At Pope's Palace, he met Xie Yue and Yan, then agreed to spar with Yan before their journey.

• Ling Yu reduced his Shadow Clone Jutsu's activation time to about 1.5 seconds and found that each clone possessed roughly one-fifth of his strength.
• Ling Yu assigned his clones to cultivate Soul Power and practice jutsu, then continued his own cultivation.
• Over the following week, Ling Yu learned three Fire Release jutsu, two Water Release jutsu, and one Earth Release jutsu.
• Ling Yu met Xie Yue and Yan outside Pope's Palace as they prepared to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest for Xie Yue's third Soul Ring.
• Yan challenged Ling Yu to a spar, and Ling Yu accepted, telling him they could fight right there.

Ling Yu sparred with Yan and revealed that his Sharingan, water techniques, fire techniques, and physical strength far exceeded Yan’s expectations. Yan admitted defeat, while Hu Liena watched Ling Yu with growing admiration.

• Yan activated his Flame Lord Martial Soul and Granite Rock skill before charging Ling Yu.
• Ling Yu dodged Yan’s attack and explained that Granite Rock made Yan too slow to hit him.
• Yan used Hell Magma Rush, but Ling Yu countered with Water Release: Exploding Water Colliding Wave.
• Ling Yu fired a Flame Bullet and redirected it into the sky, demonstrating his control over its trajectory.
• Ling Yu helped Yan to his feet, and Yan admitted defeat.

Ling Yu and Yan recovered from their spar, and Bibi Dong sent Ling Yu, Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain soul rings. As their carriage traveled toward the forest, Hu Liena doted on Ling Yu while he avoided her attention and cultivated.

• Ling Yu encouraged Yan after defeating him, and Yan regained his determination to become a Titled Douluo.
• Xie Yue asked about Ling Yu's elemental control, and Ling Yu claimed it was an ability of his Martial Soul.
• Bibi Dong ordered the group to set out, and Yue Guan gave them tokens they could use to summon his help in an emergency.
• The four traveled by Spirit Hall carriage toward the Star Dou Great Forest, with Hu Liena trying to care for Ling Yu and Yan left to sit beside Xie Yue.
• Ling Yu began cultivating in the carriage, and the other three followed his example during the journey.

Ling Yu traveled with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan to the Star Dou Great Forest so Xie Yue could hunt for a Soul Ring. After sensing two Soul Beasts fighting ahead, Ling Yu led the others toward them as the beasts appeared.

• Ling Yu arrived with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan at a town near the Star Dou Great Forest and saw how Soul Masters regarded Spirit Hall with awe.
• The four entered the forest the next day, where Ling Yu noticed its unusually rich cultivation environment and the mild behavior of the Soul Beasts.
• Xie Yue described three possible thousand-year Soul Beasts for his third Soul Ring: an Adamantine Saber-toothed Tiger, a Shadow Leopard, and an Armor-piercing Rhinoceros.
• Ling Yu used his Sharingan to detect two Soul Beasts fighting ahead, and the group advanced cautiously toward them.
• A tiger-like beast and a second enormous beast appeared before the group.

Ling Yu and the others found an Adamantine Saber-toothed Tiger and an Armor-piercing Rhinoceros fighting in the forest, then waited for both Soul Beasts to weaken before intervening. Ling Yu knocked out the tiger while Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan defeated the rhinoceros, and Xie Yue began absorbing its soul ring.

• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and Ling Yu spotted the two Soul Beasts and identified them as suitable targets for Xie Yue and Yan.
• Ling Yu estimated the Soul Beasts' ages and told the others to wait until their fight left them badly injured.
• The Adamantine Saber-toothed Tiger and the Armor-piercing Rhinoceros exchanged powerful attacks and fought until both were gravely wounded.
• Ling Yu knocked the saber-toothed tiger unconscious without killing it, while Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan brought down the rhinoceros.
• Xie Yue killed the Armor-piercing Rhinoceros and began absorbing its purple soul ring as the others stood guard.

Xie Yue absorbed a third soul ring, and Ling Yu’s group encountered a mysterious little girl near the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest. After Yue Guan agreed to take her to Spirit Hall, she introduced herself as Gu Yuena.

• Yan told Ling Yu that he would not reach level thirty for another two or three months and that Elder Ghost had chosen his next soul ring.
• Xie Yue gained the soul skill Break, which increased his attack and piercing power and let him ignore some of an opponent’s defense.
• Ling Yu noticed that Soul Beasts had fled the forest and hurried toward its edge with Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue.
• A young girl with silver hair appeared and said she had woken up alone in the forest and did not know who her parents were.
• Ling Yu summoned Yue Guan, who agreed to bring the girl to Spirit Hall, where she gave her name as Gu Yuena.

Ling Yu and his companions traveled toward Spirit City with Gu Yuena, but Yue Guan halted them after discovering a village massacred by Evil Soul Masters. He ordered the young Soul Masters to attack the village while he dealt with the stronger enemies, and Ling Yu led the others into battle.

• The group resumed its journey toward Spirit City with Gu Yuena, who stayed close to Ling Yu and shared the others’ grilled meat.
• Yue Guan ordered the carriage to stop, and the group found the air thick with the smell of blood.
• Yue Guan told Ling Yu, Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue that several hundred villagers had been killed by Evil Soul Masters who cultivated by killing people.
• Yue Guan instructed the four Soul Masters to rush to the village and kill the Evil Soul Masters while he fought the high-level enemies.
• Ling Yu led Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue toward the village, warning them to regroup with him if they faced an enemy they could not handle, while Gu Yuena stayed behind and asked him to return safely.

Ling Yu arrived at a village massacred by Evil Soul Masters and unleashed his rage on the perpetrators. After his Sharingan evolved and he awakened overwhelming lightning power, he left the village’s attackers dead and stood wrapped in lightning as Hu Liena and the others watched in shock.

• Ling Yu and his companions reached the village, where they found corpses and signs of a brutal massacre.
• Ling Yu’s Sharingan evolved into Two-Tomoe as he attacked the black-clad Evil Soul Master with Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Jutsu.
• Ling Yu used his golden gaze and Heaven-Piercing Cannon to kill the first man and the four others who joined him, then finished the wounded survivor.
• Ling Yu found six more Evil Soul Masters, who mocked him and revealed their soul rings after boasting that they had killed a Spirit Hall deacon.
• Ling Yu transformed amid crackling lightning, killed two of the six with a burst of speed, then summoned a Thunder Dragon that destroyed the remaining four.
• Hu Liena and the other two watched the attack leave a deep crater as Ling Yu hovered in the air, wrapped in lightning.

After slaughtering the attackers, Ling Yu struggled with the deaths he had witnessed and devoted himself to burying and honoring the villagers. A vision of his grandfather helped him find resolve, and he awoke determined to become a light in the dark world.

• Ling Yu walked through the rain to lay the slaughtered villagers to rest while Yue Guan told Hu Liena not to disturb him.
• Ling Yu carried the villagers’ bodies outside the village and dug a grave by hand, with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan joining him.
• A silver-haired girl arrived and helped Ling Yu carry the dead, and the group continued until every body had been placed in the pit.
• Ling Yu used Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu to cremate the bodies, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Ling Yu met an illusion of his grandfather, who urged him to remember his original heart and find his path.
• Ling Yu emerged with renewed resolve, declaring that he would become a light in the dark world.

After receiving a strand of Grandmist Violet Qi, Ling Yu endured a violent transformation as lightning reforged his body, soul, and Martial Souls. As the ordeal unfolded near Spirit City, Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu arrived, and Ling Yu discovered his lightning had gained a trace of destructive power.

• Ling Yu found that the Yinglong phantom had rewarded him with a strand of Grandmist Violet Qi, which rushed into his body.
• Ling Yu awoke in the carriage and began convulsing as his Martial Souls appeared, lightning erupted, and a storm gathered over him.
• Qian Daoliu questioned Yue Guan about the disturbance, and Yue Guan explained Ling Yu's Twin Martial Souls and his defeat of more than a dozen powerful Soul Masters.
• Bibi Dong arrived with Ghost Douluo and asserted her authority over Yue Guan as the group watched Ling Yu endure the lightning.
• Ling Yu realized the Grandmist Violet Qi was rebuilding his body and soul, restoring his control and removing the aftereffects of his Sharingan's forced breakthrough.
• Ling Yu sensed that his Goro Goro no Mi lightning had gained a violet-black destructive trace, though its future growth still depended on Soul Rings.

Ling Yu survived the lightning trial and discovered that his Martial Soul had stabilized and evolved, bringing major changes to his body, Spiritual Power, and cultivation. As Bibi Dong took him back to Spirit Soul Mountain, her unexpectedly tender behavior left him confused.

• After the storm subsided, Ling Yu descended safely and found that he could concentrate his strength into powerful strikes, his Spiritual Power had improved, and he had awakened a domain.
• Ling Yu realized that Grandmist Violet Qi had transformed his body and improved his comprehension, while his cultivation could now absorb energy automatically.
• Ling Yu noticed everyone staring at his newly refined appearance and examined his face in a mirror.
• When Bibi Dong asked what had happened, Ling Yu explained that his Martial Soul had evolved, and she accepted his explanation and prepared to leave with him.
• Qian Daoliu invited Ling Yu and Bibi Dong to the Worship Hall, then Bibi Dong flew toward Spirit Soul Mountain with Ling Yu, Ghost Douluo, and Yue Guan.
• Ling Yu noticed Bibi Dong's unusual tenderness and anticipation, and she told him not to call her Teacher.

Bibi Dong moved Ling Yu beside her bedroom and took him to two houses by a lake, where she embraced and restrained him while saying she would never let him leave again. Ling Yu escaped into one of the houses, while Bibi Dong warned him not to seek out Liu Erlong.

• Bibi Dong had Ling Yu's belongings moved beside her bedroom and led him to her lakeside residence.
• Bibi Dong took Ling Yu's hand and told him she knew it was him, then embraced him and said she would not let him leave again.
• Bibi Dong restrained Ling Yu and forced him to embrace her as a white-haired old man watched from the mountain.
• Bibi Dong released Ling Yu after sunset and told him not to look for Liu Erlong.
• Ling Yu protested that he did not know Liu Erlong, then fled into a house and locked the door.

Ling Yu discovered that his transformed body absorbed purer Soul Power at an astonishing rate, then trained while Gu Yuena stayed by his side. The chapter left them together in the training room as she watched him practice.

• Ling Yu woke beside Bibi Dong, slipped out of bed, and began cultivating on a mountainside.
• Ling Yu realized his Immaculate Body filtered impurities from Soul Power, leaving him with purer energy to refine.
• Gu Yuena asked Ling Yu to call her Na'er and said a Spirit Hall deacon would awaken her Martial Soul in a few days.
• Gu Yuena followed Ling Yu to the training room, where he warned her to avoid its gravity center.
• Ling Yu brought Gu Yuena a sofa, roasted meat, and juice, then used four Shadow Clones to train while she watched.

Ling Yu accompanied Gu Yuena to Spirit Hall for her martial soul awakening, reassuring her that he would protect her as family no matter how powerful her enemies were. They arrived to find Su Yuntao conducting awakenings, and Ling Yu noticed that the former village awakener had grown plumper since receiving his new position.

• Ling Yu trained with Gu Yuena nearby and grew closer to her, then took her to Spirit Hall for her martial soul awakening.
• Ling Yu promised Gu Yuena he would protect her and his family even against powerful enemies, and she told him she liked him.
• At Spirit Hall, a knight explained that Su Yuntao had been assigned to conduct awakenings after helping Ling Yu join Spirit Hall.
• Ling Yu and Gu Yuena entered the awakening room and found a long line, with Su Yuntao waiting at the front.

Gu Yuena awakened a powerful Silver Spear Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, astonishing Su Yuntao and delighting Ling Yu. After she fainted from embarrassment at his embrace, Ling Yu stayed beside her until she woke, then proposed they ask his teacher to accept her as a disciple.

• Ling Yu watched as Gu Yuena entered the Awakening Array and Su Yuntao began her Martial Soul awakening.
• Gu Yuena summoned a Silver Spear whose dragon-like aura overwhelmed Su Yuntao and caused him to kneel.
• Ling Yu took Na'er from Spirit Hall to Spirit Soul Mountain and tested her Soul Power, discovering she had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Ling Yu embraced Gu Yuena in excitement, and she fainted from embarrassment; he laid her on a sofa and stayed beside her.
• Gu Yuena woke to find Ling Yu beside her, and he suggested they ask his teacher to accept her as a disciple.