Chapter Summaries

On his sixth birthday, transmigrator Qiangu Yunche endured a brutal training session from his older sister, Qiangu Yunmei, then received a restorative bath and a Mystic Water Pill. The siblings entered the family’s main hall, where its elders had assembled before an altar of ancestral memorial tablets.

• Qiangu Yunmei tested Qiangu Yunche by chasing and whipping him while he fought to evade her and her black tiger, Little White.
• Yang Shu arrived, carried the exhausted Qiangu Yunche away, and warned Qiangu Yunmei to reach rank sixty within three months or train in Heart-Burning Valley for a year.
• Qiangu Yunche recovered in a potent medicinal bath and reflected on his past-life death and his family’s ancestry.
• Qiangu Yunmei gave Qiangu Yunche a Mystic Water Pill, which he swallowed before meditating; she admitted she and Yang Shu had traded insults.
• Qiangu Yunche and Qiangu Yunmei went to the main hall, where the family’s upper ranks and seven elderly men awaited them before the ancestral altar.

At his Martial Soul awakening, Qiangu Che manifested the Evil-Breaking Dragon Soul Spear and its innate Domain of Destruction, astonishing the Qiangu Clan elders. Qiangu Qing named Qiangu Liting patriarch and Qiangu Che young patriarch, leaving the clan’s future and direct-line inheritance on Qiangu Che’s shoulders.

• Qiangu Che assured Qiangu Qing that he accepted the clan’s burdens and declared his ambition to stand supreme across all ages.
• Qiangu Qing activated the awakening array, and Qiangu Che’s Martial Soul emerged as a silver spear with a golden dragon coiled around it.
• The elders recognized the spear’s golden rippling aura as an innate companion domain, and Qiangu Che named it the Domain of Destruction.
• Qiangu Qing declared Qiangu Liting the clan patriarch and Qiangu Che the young patriarch, defending Che’s spear as a rightful heirloom despite its departure from the Coiling Dragon Staff.
• Qiangu Qing decreed that the Evil-Breaking Dragon Soul Spear would become an orthodox inherited Martial Soul alongside the Coiling Dragon Staff if one of Qiangu Che’s descendants inherited it.

Qiangu Yunche chose a pure offense cultivation path suited to the four traits of his Evil-Breaking Dragon Soul Spear. Yang Shu advised him to study spear techniques under Yang Tie after obtaining his first Soul Ring and told him to visit his great-grandfather the next day.

• Qiangu Yunche explained the four battle-oriented traits of his Martial Soul and said he would focus on offense.
• Qiangu Yunmei endorsed his choice, and Qiangu Yunche noticed her immense physical strength when she smashed a table with one slap.
• Yang Shu agreed that Qiangu Yunche's Martial Soul suited a pure offense path.
• Yang Shu told Qiangu Yunche to study spear techniques and force application under Yang Tie after obtaining his first Soul Ring.
• Yang Shu asked Qiangu Yunche to visit his great-grandfather the next day because the old man had something to tell him.

Qiangu Qing explained how Ancestor Wuchen’s rise and mysterious death were tied to killing an Auspicious Beast and following the defiant Unyielding Staff Technique. He urged Qiangu Yunche to learn from the ancestor’s fate and prepared to take him for his first Soul Ring the next day.

• Qiangu Qing asked Qiangu Yunche how far cultivation could go and told him the clan had once nearly produced a god in Ancestor Wuchen.
• Qiangu Qing revealed that Ancestor Wuchen killed an Auspicious Beast, whose fortune and destiny were devoured by his Evil-Breaking Dragon Soul, helping him rise to Limit Douluo.
• Qiangu Qing said Ancestor Wuchen likely died because the Plane Laws rejected him for a cultivation path that defied heaven and earth.
• Qiangu Qing praised Qiangu Yunche’s potential to surpass Ancestor Wuchen and told him to consider the lesson.
• Qiangu Qing said he would personally take Qiangu Yunche to obtain his first Soul Ring the next day.

Qiangu Yunche learned that his first Soul Ring would come from the sea and met the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor, who proposed an equal soul contract and asked him to promise to revive her and help kill the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. The chapter ended with Qiangu Yunche being asked whether he had the courage and confidence to face the eight-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.

• Qiangu Liting and Yang Shu told Qiangu Yunche that his great-grandfather would take him to obtain his first Soul Ring from the sea.
• Qiangu Qing brought Qiangu Yunche far into the Star Luo South Sea and summoned the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor.
• The Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor's powerful aura nearly overwhelmed Qiangu Yunche, but his golden dragon and Evil-Breaking Dragon Soul Spear helped him resist.
• Qiangu Qing introduced Qiangu Yunche as his great-grandson and asked him to release his innate companion domain.
• The Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor agreed to their arrangement if Qiangu Yunche signed an equal soul contract, promised to revive her after becoming a god, and helped kill the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King upon reaching Soul Saint.
• Qiangu Yunche accepted the first two conditions and asked which Soul Beast she wanted him to hunt; she named the eight-hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and asked if he had the courage and confidence to face it.

The Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor explained that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had gravely wounded it and was now an eight-hundred-thousand-year threat, prompting it to seek immortality through a pact with Qiangu Yunche. After Qiangu Yunche swore his commitment, the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor began its sacrifice, leaving Qiangu Qing unable to interfere.

• Qiangu Yunche agreed to kill the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King after reaching Soul Saint, despite Qiangu Qing's alarm.
• The Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor isolated Qiangu Qing and revealed its identity as the last Cangming Dragon, along with its severe injuries and dwindling life force.
• The Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor recounted how the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had attacked it nearly a thousand years earlier and returned stronger than ever.
• The Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor explained its agreement with Qiangu Yunche's ancestors and said it had chosen him as its partner in pursuing godhood.
• Qiangu Yunche made three soul vows, and the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor began its sacrifice while Qiangu Qing watched helplessly.

Qiangu Yunche completed the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor’s sacrifice, gaining a powerful Soul Ring, a left arm Soul Bone, and a dramatic increase in strength. After returning to the Qiangu Clan as a six-year-old Soul Grandmaster, he began rigorous training and inspired the clan’s younger generation to work harder.

• The Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor sacrificed itself to Qiangu Yunche, granting him a left arm Soul Bone and warning him to strengthen his body and soul so its consciousness could awaken sooner.
• Three hours later, Qiangu Yunche completed the sacrifice, gained the Cangming Dragon Clan’s Water Control ability, and revealed that he needed another Soul Ring.
• Qiangu Qing brought Qiangu Yunche back to the Qiangu Clan, where his red first ring, black second ring, and Soul Grandmaster rank caused an uproar among the clan’s upper ranks.
• Qiangu Yunche defeated a thousand-year Explosive Ape King and began learning spear techniques from his uncle while dedicating himself to comprehensive training.
• Qiangu Yunmei went to Heart-Burning Canyon to train, and Qiangu Yunche’s diligence inspired the Qiangu Clan’s younger generation to cultivate harder.

Qiangu Yunche reached Rank 50 at nearly eleven years old after defeating a thirty-thousand-year Variegated Giant Tiger, and Yang Tie gave him his final lessons in spear technique. His parents planned for him to obtain his fifth Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest, while he also asked to visit Star Luo City for the Spirit Eater Carving Knife.

• Qiangu Yunche defeated the Variegated Giant Tiger and advanced to Rank 50 Soul Power.
• Qiangu Liting arranged for Qiangu Yunche's second cousin to absorb the tiger's compatible Soul Ring.
• Yang Tie told Qiangu Yunche to forge his own spear path by uniting his essence, energy, spirit, and spear.
• Qiangu Yunche told Qiangu Liting and Yang Shu that he had reached Soul King before turning eleven, and they discussed his cultivation goals.
• Qiangu Yunche asked to visit Star Luo City for the Spirit Eater Carving Knife before obtaining his fifth Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yang Shu said Qiangu Yunche's sister would accompany him and should use the trip to break through to Soul Saint.

Qiangu Yunche and Qiangu Yunmei arrived in Star Luo City, where Qiangu Yunche planned to buy the Spirit Eater Carving Knife from Starlight Auction House. After presenting a golden membership token, he and his sister were ushered into the auction house to await assistance.

• Qiangu Liting gave Qiangu Yunche a golden card and a Starlight Auction House token that allowed him to buy the Spirit Eater Carving Knife directly.
• Qiangu Liting left Qiangu Yunche and Qiangu Yunmei to explore while he went into their hotel.
• Qiangu Yunche and Qiangu Yunmei walked through Star Luo City, chatting as passersby stared at them.
• Qiangu Yunche presented his token at Starlight Auction House and asked to purchase an unsold auction item.
• The maids welcomed Qiangu Yunche and Qiangu Yunmei into a lounge and promised to send someone to assist them.

Qiangu Yunche and Qiangu Yunmei met auctioneer Xu Jiujiu at the Starlight Auction House, where Yunche bought the Spirit Eater Carving Knife. He revealed their true surname and arranged to meet Xu Jiujiu again in a week, leaving her to learn that the guests were members of the Qiangu Clan.

• Xu Jiujiu visited Qiangu Yunche and Qiangu Yunmei in their VIP lounge and asked how they were related to the token holder, Mr. Pei.
• Qiangu Yunche identified Mr. Pei as their father and asked to purchase the Spirit Eater Carving Knife.
• Xu Jiujiu explained the knife's risks and offered it for its cost of one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Qiangu Yunche paid for it.
• Xu Jiujiu escorted the pair out and asked how long Qiangu Yunche would remain in Star Luo City.
• Qiangu Yunche agreed to dine with Xu Jiujiu in a week, revealed that his real surname was Qiangu, and introduced himself by name.

Qiangu Yunche purified the Spirit Eater Carving Knife’s vicious aura with his Domain of Destruction, revealing its Life Gold. He absorbed the Life Gold into his Sea of Spirit, where it formed a life-giving lake and awakened the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor.

• On the way back to the hotel, Qiangu Yunmei teased Qiangu Yunche about Xu Jiujiu, and he explained that he wanted her help finding a spiritual Soul Tool or technique to conceal his Soul Rings.
• Qiangu Yunche opened the Spirit Eater Carving Knife’s box and used his Domain of Destruction to destroy its sinister aura and resentful thoughts.
• Qiangu Yunche broke off most of the purified Life Gold and pressed it to his forehead, absorbing its life force into his body and Sea of Spirit.
• The Life Gold formed a green lake in Qiangu Yunche’s Sea of Spirit, nourishing his body and prompting the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor’s spiritual origin to awaken.
• The Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor asked what Qiangu Yunche had done, and Qiangu Yunche explained that he had fused with the god-tier Life Gold.

Qiangu Yunche gave Qiangu Yunmei a drop of Life Gold, greatly strengthening her body and Spiritual Power. While the siblings and Qiangu Liting searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable seventh Soul Ring, distant explosions suggested that an unexpected opportunity was approaching.

• Qiangu Yunche gave Qiangu Yunmei a teardrop-sized piece of Life Gold and guided her through absorbing it safely.
• After absorbing the Life Gold, Qiangu Yunmei questioned Qiangu Yunche about its effects and where he had found it.
• Two days later, Qiangu Yunmei, Qiangu Yunche, and Qiangu Liting entered the Core Area of the Star Dou Great Forest, where they found far fewer powerful Soul Beasts than expected.
• As they camped for the night, Qiangu Yunmei said she hoped to obtain a powerful Soul Beast for her seventh Soul Ring and joked that a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast might deliver itself to her.
• Qiangu Liting stood after hearing a distant explosion and told Qiangu Yunmei that sometimes pies fell from the sky; another, louder explosion followed.

Zhang Lexuan and her Shrek Academy team were overwhelmed by a Blood Sea and a hundred-thousand-year Dragon Demon Wa-Woman after Elder Xuan failed to arrive. Qiangu Yunmei and Qiangu Yunche rescued them, and Yunche's golden domain began erasing the Blood Sea.

• Zhang Lexuan's team struggled to hold back the Blood Sea as their Domain of Light weakened and the students began to lose hope.
• A Dragon Demon Wa-Woman emerged, and Zhang Lexuan ordered Gufan and Xiaoyuan to lead Xiaoruan and the others out while the rest took Blood Burning Pills and fought.
• The breakout failed, the Dragon Demon Wa-Woman badly injured the students, and Zhang Lexuan's group was left close to defeat.
• Qiangu Yunmei arrived, while Qiangu Yunche carried the injured Qing'er out of the Blood Sea and placed her beside Zhang Lexuan.
• Qiangu Yunche released a golden domain that spread across a hundred meters and rapidly melted the Blood Sea and its monsters.

Zhang Lexuan confronted Xuanzi over the injuries suffered by Shrek Academy’s students, while Qiangu Liting defeated the Dragon Demon Wa-Woman and Qiangu Yunmei began absorbing its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. After Xuanzi carried the injured students back to the academy, Zhang Lexuan thanked the Qiangu family and stayed behind to recover.

• Qiangu Liting overwhelmed the wounded Dragon Demon Wa-Woman as Zhang Lexuan and the Qiangu siblings watched.
• Xuanzi arrived, and Zhang Lexuan accused him of neglecting the students and told him that they might all have died without the rescuers.
• Overcome with guilt, Xuanzi accepted responsibility, carried the eleven injured disciples away, and left Zhang Lexuan behind.
• Qiangu Liting sent the Dragon Demon Wa-Woman flying, and Qiangu Yunmei destroyed its head and began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan thanked Qiangu Liting, who revealed he was the Qiangu Clan patriarch and advised her to recover before leaving the forest.
• Zhang Lexuan sat down to recover her Soul Power.

Qiangu Yunmei celebrated gaining a hundred-thousand-year seventh Soul Ring, while Qiangu Liting recalled leaving Shrek Academy after fighting hundreds of students for one toilet. After Qiangu Yunche obtained his fifth Soul Ring, Xu Jiujiu visited him in Star Luo City and entered his room.

• Qiangu Yunmei awakened after her seventh Soul Ring settled and marveled at the strength it gave her.
• Qiangu Liting told Qiangu Yunmei that he had left Shrek Academy because its teaching was outdated and hundreds of students fought over one toilet.
• Qiangu Yunche, Qiangu Yunmei, and Qiangu Liting spent five days searching the Star Dou Great Forest before Qiangu Yunche absorbed an eighty-thousand-year Silver Moon Dragon Python as his fifth Soul Ring.
• Xu Jiujiu found Qiangu Yunche at his hotel less than two hours after his return to Star Luo City and reminded him of their planned meeting.
• Qiangu Yunche invited Xu Jiujiu into his room.

Xu Jiujiu visited Qiangu Liting to invite him to meet with the Star Luo Empire’s imperial family and Offering Hall elder, while seeking to grow closer to Qiangu Yunche. After Qiangu Liting agreed to meet that night, Xu Jiujiu and Yunche prepared to leave together for their first date.

• Qiangu Yunche brought Xu Jiujiu into the reception room, where Qiangu Liting detected and revealed the presence of her guardian, Nebula Douluo Manyi.
• Xu Jiujiu invited Qiangu Liting to the imperial city to meet her imperial brother, Xu Jiawei, and the Offering Hall elder, explaining that they hoped to recruit powerful allies.
• Xu Jiujiu privately planned to use her growing relationship with Qiangu Yunche to connect the imperial family with his clan.
• Qiangu Liting accepted the invitation and scheduled the meeting for that night, then left Xu Jiujiu and Yunche to spend time together.
• Xu Jiujiu called Yunche by his given name and prepared to take him on a private date while Manyi arranged Qiangu Liting’s meeting.

Qiangu Yunche and Xu Jiujiu spent an evening walking through Star Luo City before dining at a restaurant she had invested in. As they sat together, Qiangu Yunche asked Xu Jiujiu for a favor.

• Xu Jiujiu asked Qiangu Yunche to call her Jiujiu, and he teased her before eventually agreeing.
• Xu Jiujiu grabbed Qiangu Yunche's wrist and hurried him to a restaurant, where Xiao Yu mistook them for a couple.
• Xu Jiujiu explained that she had invested in the restaurant and introduced Qiangu Yunche to its food.
• After watching Xu Jiujiu eat, Qiangu Yunche asked her for a favor, surprising her.

Qiangu Yunche asked Xu Jiujiu to obtain a way to conceal his cultivation and Soul Rings, and she agreed to secure a Soul Tool and secret technique within half a month. After learning he was not yet eleven, Xu Jiujiu questioned him about his abilities and family as they walked through the crowded streets.

• Qiangu Yunche asked Xu Jiujiu for a secret technique or Soul Tool that could hide his cultivation and Soul Rings from an ordinary Super Douluo.
• Xu Jiujiu said she could arrange a combination of a secret technique and a Soul Tool, and Qiangu Yunche revealed that his family had found him a ten-thousand-year camouflage head soul bone that he considered too weak.
• Xu Jiujiu hinted that she wanted more than Gold Soul Coins, but froze when Qiangu Yunche revealed he was not yet eleven.
• Xu Jiujiu agreed to deliver the Soul Tool and secret technique within half a month, and Qiangu Yunche accepted her help.
• As they walked through the streets, Qiangu Yunche offered to answer some questions about his family and abilities, and Xu Jiujiu learned his Martial Soul was the Evil-Breaking Dragon Soul Spear and his family's inherited Martial Soul was the Coiling Dragon Staff.

After spending the evening with Xu Jiujiu, Qiangu Yunche learned that the Star Luo Empire wanted an alliance with the Qiangu Clan and intended to match him with the princess. He considered creating a God King seat by uniting the continent’s power of faith and began to share his idea with Qiangu Liting.

• Qiangu Yunche escorted Xu Jiujiu back to the Starlight Auction House after their shopping trip.
• Qiangu Yunmei teased Qiangu Yunche about his date, and Qiangu Liting warned him not to become too attached to Xu Jiujiu.
• Qiangu Liting told Qiangu Yunche that the Star Luo Imperial Family’s senior expert had at most half a year to live.
• Qiangu Liting explained that the Star Luo Emperor had offered the Qiangu Clan nation-protecting-sect status and a hereditary dukedom, while hinting at a match between Qiangu Yunche and Xu Jiujiu.
• Qiangu Yunche concluded that he could unite the plane’s power of faith to create a God King seat and began telling Qiangu Liting his idea.

At Xu Jiujiu’s auction, the Star Luo Imperial Family gifted Qiangu Yunche and his companions a priceless spatial External Soul Bone, the Emerald Wings, to secure their cooperation. After the auction, three blue-clad men confronted them and demanded a conversation, prompting Qiangu Liting to turn hostile.

• Qiangu Liting bought a fifty-thousand-year Golden Horned Mammoth right arm bone for the Qiangu Clan at Xu Jiujiu’s top-tier auction.
• Xu Jiujiu revealed the final lot, the Emerald Wings, a spatial External Soul Bone from a ten-thousand-year Emerald Dragon believed to descend from the Emerald Dragon King.
• Xu Jiujiu offered the Emerald Wings as a gift from the Star Luo Imperial Family, and Qiangu Liting accepted on behalf of his group.
• The Emerald Wings sold for fifty million Gold Soul Coins, and Xu Jiujiu personally delivered it to Qiangu Yunche.
• Three men in blue outfits stopped Qiangu Yunche, Qiangu Liting, and Yun Mei after the auction; when one threatened them, Qiangu Liting’s eyes turned icy.