Chapter Summaries

At the Martial Soul Awakening ceremony, Di Yao revealed the mythic-grade Demon Emperor, Di Jun, and displayed Innate Level Twenty Soul Power. The Spirit Hall Branch master arrived to find the hall in ruins and stared at Di Yao in shock.

• The children mocked Di Yao as he waited for his Martial Soul Awakening ceremony at the Spirit Hall Branch.
• Su Yuntao awakened Di Yao, whose power transformed the hall and darkened the sky as a Three-Legged Golden Crow emerged from a Dark Gold Sun.
• Di Yao named his Martial Soul the Demon Emperor, Di Jun, and asked Su Yuntao to test his Soul Power.
• Di Yao's Soul Power shattered the testing crystal ball, and Su Yuntao concluded that he possessed Innate Level Twenty Soul Power.
• The Branch Hall master rushed into the hall, saw Di Yao amid the crystal dust, and froze in shock.

After the Branch Hall Master tried to conceal Di Yao’s awakening and exploit his talent, Di Yao forced him to confront the cost of keeping him at the Branch Hall. Ghost Douluo Gui Mei and Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan arrived, exposed the attempted cover-up, and took Di Yao to Spirit City, where he intended to use Spirit Hall’s resources for his own advancement.

• The Branch Hall Master ordered the hall sealed and tried to delay reporting Di Yao’s Divine Martial Soul, but Di Yao accused him of seeking personal gain.
• When the Hall Master pressured Di Yao and ordered guards to seize him, Di Yao’s Demon Emperor Manifestation overwhelmed the two Beast Spirit guards.
• Di Yao demanded thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins, a core recommendation, soul-ring research, Library Pavilion access, and a copy of the awakening record sent to Spirit City.
• Ghost Douluo Gui Mei and Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan arrived, confronted the Hall Master over concealing the report, and learned that Di Yao had at least level twenty Innate Soul Power.
• Yue Guan agreed to take Di Yao to Spirit City, while Gui Mei dragged the Hall Master away and Yue Guan ordered Su Yuntao to write the awakening record.

On the journey to Spirit City, Di Yao laid out the resources, training, and teacher he expected from Spirit Hall, insisting that he was explaining his value rather than making a threat. The Pope ordered Yue Guan and Gui Mei to bypass the usual institutions and bring Di Yao directly to meet Bibi Dong, as Spirit City came into view.

• Di Yao studied the Soul Beast Catalog and explained that he wanted a powerful solar, golden-flame, or royal avian soul beast for his First Soul Ring.
• Di Yao told Yue Guan and Gui Mei that he expected top-tier training, Over-Limit Absorption with Title Douluo protection, access to the Library Pavilion, and a teacher able to support his path to godhood.
• Di Yao named other continental powers that might recruit him, while Gui Mei warned that threatening Spirit Hall was unwise; Di Yao insisted he was simply stating his value.
• Gui Mei received the Pope's order to take Di Yao directly to see her, bypassing the academy and Elder Council.
• As Spirit City appeared in the distance, Di Yao closed his eyes and circulated his Soul Power, eager to claim Spirit Hall's resources and face its dangers.

Di Yao met Bibi Dong in the Pope Palace and withstood her Death Spider Emperor’s pressure, while his Demon Emperor Di Jun briefly caused the phantom to falter. Bibi Dong agreed to oversee his training, but the Worship Hall demanded a joint examination, setting up a struggle over his future.

• Di Yao told Bibi Dong he sought Spirit Hall’s resources and offered cooperation in exchange for becoming stronger.
• Bibi Dong tested Di Yao with the Death Spider Emperor’s pressure, and the Demon Emperor Manifestation briefly made the spider phantom falter.
• Di Yao endured the pressure and requested advanced training, access to the Library Pavilion, a Title Douluo guide, and a status that would speed his growth.
• Bibi Dong said Di Yao would remain in the Pope Palace and that she would decide his training plan, pending his survival through the first trials.
• A messenger reported that the Worship Hall wanted the Elder Council and Worship Hall to examine Di Yao’s martial soul before the Pope Palace trained him alone.
• Di Yao welcomed the examination, and Bibi Dong agreed to let the Worship Hall come and see whether it could take her chosen candidate.

Di Yao endured Jin Lie’s Golden Lion King pressure for three breaths without kneeling, forcing the Worship Hall to honor his demand for information on a powerful beast-type soul beast. Bibi Dong granted him top-level training privileges and ordered preparations for his first soul hunt under the Millennium Limit Plan, while Hu Liena watched him from outside the hall.

• Jin Lie arrived on behalf of the Worship Hall and challenged Di Yao to withstand three breaths of Golden Lion King pressure in exchange for information on a thousand-year beast-type soul beast.
• Di Yao resisted Jin Lie’s pressure through all three breaths, and the Golden Lion King manifestation instinctively retreated half a step before Di Yao knelt.
• Bibi Dong ended the test, assigned Di Yao to the Pope Palace’s training, and ordered Yue Guan and Gui Mei to escort Jin Lie and the Worship Hall experts out.
• Bibi Dong granted Di Yao high-level training access, personal approval for the Over-Limit Spirit Ring Protocol, and protection during his first spirit hunt.
• Di Yao asked for a detailed Soul Beast Catalog, and Bibi Dong ordered preparations for his first soul ring under the Millennium Limit Plan.
• Hu Liena watched Di Yao from outside the hall, felt challenged when he ignored her, and saw him turn his attention to the coming spirit hunt.

Di Yao set out with Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Hu Liena, and Spirit Hall guards to find a suitable First Soul Ring, dismissing ordinary fire-attribute soul beasts as unworthy. In the Soul Hunting Forest, he sensed a nearly thousand-year-old Mutated Sun Crow King and declared it the one he wanted, leaving Hu Liena impressed despite her doubts.

• Di Yao criticized the Soul Beast Catalog and told Yue Guan and Gui Mei he would identify a suitable soul beast by sensing its aura himself.
• Hu Liena joined the hunting party and challenged Di Yao, who dismissed her usefulness and said he aimed to leave his peers far behind.
• The party entered the Soul Hunting Forest, where Hu Liena put aside her irritation and released her Demon Fox Spirit to help scout.
• Di Yao rejected nearby fire-attribute soul beasts as having weak bloodlines and searched for one that could replenish the Sun Origin through Demon Emperor Di Jun.
• Di Yao sensed an unusually proud flame aura, and Gui Mei identified its source as a nearly thousand-year-old Mutated Sun Crow.
• Di Yao found the nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-year Mutated Sun Crow King and chose it for his First Soul Ring, surprising Hu Liena.

Di Yao used the Demon Emperor Manifestation to suppress a beast tide while preparing to claim the Sun Crow King as his First Soul Ring. A hidden Spirit King agent tried to kill the Sun Crow King, but Gui Mei captured him, and Di Yao moved in to deliver the final blow himself.

• Di Yao declared that the Sun Crow King belonged to him and suppressed its fiery attack with the Dark Gold Sun.
• A beast tide driven into a frenzy by Beast-Attracting Incense charged into the forest, and Di Yao subdued the beasts with the Demon Emperor Manifestation.
• A gray-clad Spirit King tried to kill the Sun Crow King and ruin Di Yao's chance to claim its Soul Ring.
• Gui Mei captured the agent before his dagger could strike, while the man tried to poison himself and was sealed by Gui Mei.
• Di Yao ordered the agent kept alive and faced the enraged Sun Crow King, insisting that he deliver the final blow for his First Soul Ring.

Di Yao killed a mutated, 999-year-old Sun Crow King and devoured its soul ring, gaining the Great Sun Golden Flame as his First Soul Ring. Despite his injuries, he decided to continue deeper into the forest to seek a Second Soul Ring.

• Di Yao outmaneuvered the Sun Crow King, pinned it with his Demon Emperor Di Jun manifestation, and killed it despite suffering severe burns.
• Di Yao refused to abandon the Sun Crow King's soul ring and began absorbing it while Hu Liena, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei watched.
• Di Yao's martial soul suppressed the Sun Crow King's remnant soul and devoured the ring's power, allowing him to complete the absorption.
• Di Yao revealed his First Soul Ring, a deep yellow ring tinged with purple, and named his first soul skill Great Sun Golden Flame.
• Di Yao demonstrated that the flame burned poison, countered sinister forces, and suppressed soul beasts, then announced he would seek a Second Soul Ring.

Six-year-old Di Yao hunted an eighteen-hundred-year Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python and endured its soul-ring backlash. He gained the second soul skill Ten Thousand Demon Edict and set out for Spirit City, where he expected greater trouble to await.

• Di Yao persuaded Yue Guan and Gui Mei to seek Bibi Dong’s approval to hunt the Red Gold Sun-Swallowing Python, and Bibi Dong granted permission.
• At Earth Fire Rift Valley, Di Yao used Great Sun Golden Flame and the Demon Emperor’s suppression to kill the python with Yue Guan and Gui Mei preventing its escape.
• Di Yao absorbed the python’s eighteen-hundred-year soul ring and forcibly refined its remnant soul despite the violent backlash.
• Di Yao gained Ten Thousand Demon Edict, a command-like suppression skill that could make weaker soul beasts obey and delay stronger ones.
• Hu Liena acknowledged Di Yao’s strength as he returned toward Spirit City with Yue Guan and Gui Mei, anticipating that his real trouble was still ahead.

Di Yao defeated Yan in a training-ground challenge by suppressing his Flame Lord with the Great Sun Golden Flame and ending the fight with one palm strike. Bibi Dong then made Di Yao a direct disciple and granted him the chance to compete for a core Golden Generation position, while promising him access to the Library Pavilion.

• Yan challenged Di Yao to prove that the younger disciple’s flames and combat ability lived up to the rumors.
• Di Yao’s Great Sun Golden Flame suppressed Yan’s Hellfire, and Ten Thousand Demon Edict briefly stalled Yan’s martial soul.
• Di Yao struck Yan’s weakened Soul Power with his palm, forcing him to one knee and winning the challenge.
• Di Yao refused Yan’s demand for a rematch, and Xie Yue told Yan to accept that he had lost.
• Bibi Dong officially placed Di Yao among the Pope Palace’s direct disciples and gave him the chance to compete for a core Golden Generation position.
• Di Yao accepted the competition for its resources, and Bibi Dong invited him to the Library Pavilion the next day.

Di Yao uncovered years of Spirit Hall resources routed to Nuoding City under Yu Xiaogang’s name and persuaded Bibi Dong to authorize an investigation. He left with a Pope Palace token and Hu Liena, intent on turning the case into an opportunity to advance within Spirit Hall.

• Di Yao studied Spirit Hall’s research dossiers before finding repeated resource transfers from Fasnuo Province to Nuoding City in the account ledgers.
• Di Yao and Hu Liena traced the transfers to Yu Xiaogang, whose special approvals had sent resources out without consistent results being returned.
• Di Yao presented the account records to Bibi Dong and requested his first mission: investigating the Fasnuo Province resource losses.
• Bibi Dong granted Di Yao investigative authority and a Pope Palace token, ordered him to gather solid evidence, and assigned Hu Liena to accompany him.
• Di Yao left Pope Palace with Hu Liena, focused on the trail leading to Nuoding City and Yu Xiaogang.

The night before their mission, Di Yao exposed the weakness in Hu Liena’s Charm and suppressed it with the golden eyes of his Demon Emperor Dharma Image. Hu Liena left determined to prove herself, while Xie Yue and Yan planned to test Di Yao after the mission; Di Yao intended to use the case to gain authority in Pope Palace.

• Hu Liena visited Di Yao before the mission and challenged his judgment of her Demon Fox abilities.
• Hu Liena used Spirit Resonance to Charm Di Yao, but his Demon Emperor golden eyes exposed and suppressed her mental influence.
• Di Yao told Hu Liena her Charm relied too much on attraction and explained how fear and hesitation could make her a stronger controller.
• Hu Liena left vowing to improve, and Xie Yue and Yan decided to test Di Yao together after the mission.
• Di Yao reviewed the Fasnuo and Nuoding City case files and planned to use the investigation to gain authority in Pope Palace.

Di Yao restrained Xie Yue and Yan when they teamed up to test his combat skills, then learned that the Elder Palace had moved the Newcomer Ranking up to three days from now. He left to investigate his case first and accepted the challenge, expecting the Elder Palace to try to make him lose.

• Di Yao faced Xie Yue and Yan together at the training grounds and used his battle sense and soul skills to expose their attacks and control the field.
• Di Yao exploited Yan's unstable emotions and predicted Xie Yue's movements, stopping their combined attack before half an incense stick had passed.
• Xie Yue ended the match, and Di Yao pointed out weaknesses in both fighters' tactics.
• A Pope Palace Deacon announced that the Newcomer Ranking would open early, with young soul masters from the Pope Palace and Elder Palace able to register challenges.
• Di Yao learned the ranking would begin in three days, chose to investigate his case first, and said the Elder Palace would pay the price if it tried to make him lose.

Di Yao entered the Spirit City Newcomer Ranking and won ten consecutive matches, using his martial soul’s pressure and precise attacks to defeat Beast Spirit and other challengers while conserving his strength. As he agreed to continue, the Elder Palace sent a three-ring Tiger King Soul Elder to face him.

• Di Yao registered for the ranking and challenged the opponents to come one after another.
• Di Yao defeated six Beast Spirit students in succession, and the remaining Beast Spirit students hesitated to take the stage.
• Di Yao beat a Tool Spirit Master and two more challengers, then refused the official’s offer to rest after nine straight wins.
• Di Yao defeated a two-ring Black Horned Rhino Spirit Master to claim his tenth consecutive victory.
• A three-ring Tiger King Soul Elder stepped forward to challenge Di Yao, who welcomed the chance to fight a stronger opponent.

Di Yao fought a three-ring Tiger King Soul Elder despite having already won ten consecutive matches, exploiting a weakness to knock him to one knee before the Elder Palace called him off. The Elder Palace then sent a four-ring Soul Ancestor against the injured Di Yao, who chose to continue the fight.

• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan recognized that the Elder Palace had sent the Tiger King Soul Elder to crush Di Yao’s momentum after ten victories.
• Di Yao studied the Tiger King Soul Elder’s attacks, took a shallow wound, and used Ten Thousand Demon Edict to interrupt his Third Soul Skill.
• Di Yao struck the Tiger King Soul Elder’s right shoulder and forced him onto one knee, then retreated as the injured Elder attacked in a rage.
• The Elder Palace ordered the Tiger King Soul Elder off the stage, and Di Yao replied that he had already knelt.
• After Di Yao completed eleven consecutive matches, the Elder Palace sent a four-ring Blazing Lion Soul Ancestor to face him.
• Despite his bleeding arm and depleted Soul Power, Di Yao refused to surrender and told the referee to continue.

Di Yao endured Qin Lie’s overwhelming Soul Ancestor assault while secretly planting Great Sun Golden Flame markers across the arena. As Qin Lie unleashed his Fourth Spirit Skill, Di Yao used the markers to divert his charge and prepared to counterattack.

• Qin Lie revealed himself as a level-forty-one Soul Ancestor with a Blazing Lion Beast Spirit and began attacking Di Yao.
• Di Yao tried to counter Qin Lie with Great Sun Golden Flame, but Qin Lie’s Mad Lion Fire Armor let him press forward and injure Di Yao.
• While retreating under Qin Lie’s assault, Di Yao planted scattered flames in the arena cracks, and Xie Yue recognized them as markers.
• Qin Lie used Flame Lion Stomp to scatter many markers, then continued attacking and demanded that Di Yao concede.
• After Di Yao taunted him, Qin Lie activated his Fourth Spirit Skill and charged, but a remaining flame marker shifted his footing and sent his fist off course.
• Di Yao declared that it was his turn as the Dark Gold Sun rose behind him.

Di Yao used the Ten Thousand Demon Edict and hidden Great Sun Golden Flame to injure Qin Lie and break through part of his Fourth Spirit Skill. Qin Lie’s humiliation turned to killing intent, and Di Yao stood his ground as the confrontation threatened to become a real attempt to cripple him.

• Di Yao struck Qin Lie’s right shoulder with a condensed Great Sun Golden Flame, but Qin Lie retaliated and destroyed much of Di Yao’s fire setup.
• Qin Lie unleashed his Fourth Spirit Skill, Fierce Lion Burning Mountain, and forced Di Yao toward the edge of the arena.
• Di Yao used the Ten Thousand Demon Edict to stall Qin Lie briefly, then attacked his right shoulder from three directions with the remaining flames.
• Di Yao burned through Qin Lie’s armor and diverted the giant lion claw, though the blast threw him down and left him injured.
• Qin Lie’s humiliation became killing intent, while Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue recognized that the fight was no longer a spar.
• Di Yao rose, challenged Qin Lie to try to cripple him, and summoned the battered Dark Gold Sun again.

Di Yao survived Qin Lie’s killing move by finding and cutting through a weakness in his soul skill, injuring the Soul Ancestor while suffering severe wounds himself. Bibi Dong ended the trial and let Di Yao be carried away, while his feat established him as Spirit City’s leading young talent.

• Bibi Dong refused to intervene as Qin Lie unleashed Fierce Lion Burning Mountain, and Di Yao decided to break the attack himself.
• Di Yao compressed his Great Sun Golden Flame and used Ten Thousand Demon Edict to expose a weakness linked to Qin Lie’s injured shoulder.
• Di Yao cut into Qin Lie’s soul skill, causing it to break apart and backlash, though the flames badly injured Di Yao and threw him against the arena’s edge.
• Bibi Dong stopped the trial, condemned Qin Lie’s excessive killing move, and warned the Elder Palace against turning the Newcomer Ranking into a killing ground.
• Di Yao vowed to kill Qin Lie in a same-realm fight, then refused Hu Liena’s help before Gui Mei had shadows carry him away.
• Bibi Dong accepted Di Yao’s wildness, while the Pope Palace faction celebrated his victory and the Elder Palace side left with grim expressions.

After waking from his injuries, Di Yao explained his ambitions to Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue, earning their growing respect. He received the Fasnuo Province Resource Loss Case and prepared to answer the Pope’s summons, with Yu Xiaogang’s name emerging as a potential lead.

• Di Yao woke and learned that the Newcomer Ranking had been terminated after his eleven consecutive victories, the Tiger King Soul Venerable’s defeat, and Qin Lie’s rule-breaking.
• Di Yao told Hu Liena that injuring a Soul Ancestor proved high-level soul masters could eventually be killed, and Hu Liena recognized how far his thinking differed from theirs.
• Yan brought Di Yao medicine and asked about his fire; Di Yao advised him to give the Flame Lord Martial Soul an oppressive will rather than merely spreading its flames.
• Xie Yue delivered the Fasnuo Province Branch Resource Loss Case, and Di Yao explained that investigating it would turn his potential into real authority and reveal his enemies’ reach.
• Di Yao found Yu Xiaogang’s name in the case file and said he would leave the city to investigate, while Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue began to acknowledge his path.
• A Pope Palace Deacon summoned Di Yao to the Pope, and Di Yao left despite his injuries as Xie Yue told Hu Liena they needed to catch up faster.

Bibi Dong appointed Di Yao a personally taught core disciple and granted him authority to investigate the Fasnuo Province Branch Resource Loss Case. Di Yao led Hu Liena and a ten-person Law Enforcement Team toward Fasnuo to trace the resource network, while Yu Xiaogang and Tang San learned that the investigation was coming.

• Bibi Dong granted Di Yao a Pope Palace token, a ten-person Law Enforcement Team, Hu Liena’s assistance, and secret protection from Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.
• Di Yao negotiated for fifty percent of the recovered resources and persuaded Bibi Dong to approve his departure the next day despite his injuries.
• Hu Liena joined Di Yao as they led the enforcement team out of Spirit City toward Fasnuo.
• Di Yao told Hu Liena they would seal the branch accounts, warehouse, archives, and Potion Vault before questioning anyone, aiming to expose the resource network through whoever panicked.
• Yu Xiaogang received a warning that Di Yao was coming to inspect the accounts, and Tang San promised to protect him.