Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi discussed Lingyun City’s rise and the deaths of thirty-two people in an attack, explaining why he held on to his emotions while planning how to respond to the forces behind the assault. He left Dugu Bo reassured that he had arrangements against Xue Ye and a way to trace the attackers’ backers, while suspecting the Star Luo Empire had been involved.

• Ling Yi compared Douluo Continent’s power struggles to rival superpowers and aimed to make Lingyun City a fifth major force through strength, interests, and reputation.
• Ling Yi told Dugu Bo that thirty-two people had died in the attack on Lingyun City and that he remembered each death, despite the risk that sentiment could hinder him.
• Dugu Bo promised to support Ling Yi and offered to poison Xue Ye, but Ling Yi said he already had plans to make Xue Ye pay.
• Ling Yi explained that the captured imperial consecrator had identified himself, while the other attackers were death warriors who did not know their employers.
• Ling Yi planned to use information from his grassroots contacts to trace the forces behind the attack and noted that the Star Luo Empire, rather than the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan or Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, appeared to have acted.

Ning Mofan learned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s failed attack on Lingyun City had been narrowly avoided and realized Ling Yi’s growing power made the sect’s position vulnerable. He retired and installed Ning Fengzhi as sect master, while Ling Yi suspected the succession was part of a calculated move and traced the sect’s fleeing force toward Heaven Dou City.

• Ning Fengzhi reported that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Soul Emperor, Ice Meow, had survived the attack on Lingyun City by waiting and fleeing through several kingdoms.
• Ning Mofan regretted failing to recruit or suppress Ling Yi earlier, then took Ning Fengzhi to meet his secluded family elders and told him to learn from the visit.
• News spread that Ning Mofan had retired with his three wives and that Ning Fengzhi had become the new sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ling Yi considered the timing of Ning Fengzhi’s succession and reviewed the sect’s recent movements and possible role in the attacks on Lingyun City.
• Ling Yi connected the fleeing team’s route through the Star Luo Empire, Balak Kingdom, and Hagendas Kingdom to Heaven Dou City, and suspected Ning Mofan had made a strategic retreat.

Liu Erlong broke through to level 50 while cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and prepared to obtain her Fifth Soul Ring. Ling Yi and Yang Shelly captured an eighteen-thousand-year Unicorn Flame Dragon Beast, and Ling Yi used his abilities to restore its body and transfer its remnant soul so that Liu Erlong could claim its ring.

• Liu Erlong showed Ling Yi, Yang Shelly, and Ah Yin how her Fire Dragon Martial Soul and Soul Power had changed after she reached level 50 at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ling Yi told Liu Erlong he had arranged a suitable Soul Beast for her Fifth Soul Ring, and two days later he set out with Yang Shelly and Ah Yin to meet her.
• Yang Shelly scouted a valley and drew out an eighteen-thousand-year Unicorn Flame Dragon Beast for Liu Erlong to hunt.
• Ling Yi and Yang Shelly used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to expel the Beast's remnant soul from Yang Shelly's Fifth Soul Ring, then Ling Yi repaired its corpse with his Sixth Soul Skill: Rebirth.
• Liu Erlong drew the Beast's dark Soul Ring toward herself as its remnant soul returned to its restored body.

Ling Yi lectured researchers at Lingyun City's Martial Soul Research Institute on the nature and classification of martial souls, then demonstrated how they might relate to the body's organs. He left the students with questions about why martial soul quality and innate soul power differed, asking them to prepare answers for the next lesson.

• Yu Xiaogang explained his view that martial souls combined bloodline, soul, and energy, and Ling Yi praised his insight.
• Ling Yi classified plant-type martial souls separately and identified martial souls such as Liu Hao's brain and Ni Xing's heart as Body Martial Souls.
• Ling Yi demonstrated a Three-Ring Soul Elder summoning his battle saber and explained that will or Mental Strength preceded the flow of soul power and the martial soul's manifestation.
• Ling Yi opened the Soul Elder's chest and compared Ni Xing's Heart Martial Soul with the man's beating heart, describing a Body Martial Soul as a second organ.
• Ling Yi asked the researchers to consider why people had different martial soul qualities and innate soul power, and assigned them to present substantive answers in three days.

After finishing his surgery lesson, Ling Yi offered the despondent Yu Xiaogang some homemade jerky and encouraged him to eat and look after his health. Yu Xiaogang entered the library still jealous of Ling Yi, but resolved to study and prove his own worth.

• Ling Yi healed the dissected Three-Ring Soul Elder, put him in a Vitality Coffin, and left the practical classroom.
• Ling Yi caught up with Yu Xiaogang and urged him to eat before going to the library.
• Ling Yi gave Yu Xiaogang a packet of homemade jerky to eat while he read.
• Yu Xiaogang admitted to himself that he envied and resented Ling Yi's success, though Ling Yi's kindness made hatred difficult.
• Yu Xiaogang entered the library and resolved to study rather than compare himself with people he considered beneath him.

As Ling Yi left Lingyun City, he reflected on Yu Xiaogang’s envy of Tang Hao and the contrasting lives their talents had given them. He resolved to use Yu Xiaogang as a source of information for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and to shape what the world learned by controlling information dissemination.

• Ling Yi detected Yu Xiaogang’s envy of Tang Hao and considered why Yu Xiaogang regarded Tang Hao as an object of admiration rather than Ning Fengzhi.
• Ling Yi compared Tang Hao’s fortunate life with Yu Xiaogang’s tragic experiences and concluded that Yu Xiaogang was useful as a tool for passing information to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Ling Yi recalled how people accepted whatever beliefs outside information encouraged and decided to control what the people and powerful factions of Douluo Continent could learn.

The continent’s attention shifted from the rumors about Ling Yi and Tang Hao to Lingyun City’s rumored Titled Douluo and the rise of Ning Fengzhi. As Lingyun City stayed quiet, Erlang’s strength grew so much that he pushed Chen Xin to his limits, though Ling Yi still kept his true capabilities undisclosed.

• Clear Sky Sect wiped out two clans that had publicly mocked Tang Hao, ending the rumor storm surrounding its clash with Ling Yi.
• Ning Fengzhi became the new sect master of Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as rumors spread that a Titled Douluo lived in seclusion in Lingyun City.
• Ling Yi kept Lingyun City’s response to the rumors restrained, relying on Dugu Bo, Yang Shelly, and Ah Yin to handle most external disputes.
• Erlang’s God Sealing Armor became a coveted treasure after word spread that it had blocked Tang Hao’s and the Valkyrie’s attacks, though Ling Yi could not reproduce it.
• During a sparring match, Erlang forced Chen Xin to use his strongest techniques without using Thunder Mode or his Qi and Blood Soul Rings, leaving Chen Xin shocked by his strength.
• Ling Yi declined to reveal how strong Erlang had become, while major powers continued to regard Chen Jianjun as independent of Lingyun City despite Chen Xin’s support for Ling Yi.

Chen Xin left City Lord Manor after sparring with “Erlang,” reflecting on how Ling Yi’s training and guidance had accelerated his and Chen Jianjun’s cultivation. In Room 403, Ling Yi taught that martial souls developed like human organs and posed a question about differences in talent, just as Yu Xiaogang’s prepared ideas were voiced by other students first.

• Chen Xin descended Green Cloud Mountain, aware that spies were watching him, and restrained his anger because he believed Ling Yi had plans for them.
• Ling Yi called on Liu Hao, Ni Xing, Er Yuexuan, and other students to discuss how inherited traits, nutrition, and environment could affect martial souls.
• Yu Xiaogang realized that the ideas he had prepared had already been stated by classmates, and Ling Yi used his Holy Light Illumination skill to soothe him.
• Ling Yi said everyone on the continent possessed Innate Soul Power and asked why Tang Hao and Tang Xiao had different levels of talent despite sharing the same Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul and parents.
• An unexpected voice began to answer Ling Yi’s question with, “Because...”

Ling Yi explained that Tang Yuehua’s weak Soul Power resulted from damage to a Martial Soul whose innate domain reflected its exceptional original quality, prompting Yu Xiaogang to wonder whether his own Martial Soul had suffered a similar mutation. He then introduced the possibility that low-Innate-Soul-Power Clear Sky Hammers might be strengthened through training, leaving Yu Xiaogang eagerly awaiting what the theory could mean for him.

• Yu Xiaogang gave an explanation for the talent difference between Tang Xiao and Tang Hao, and Ling Yi agreed that their parents’ differing cultivation at conception could account for it.
• Er Yuexuan and Shang Wenqing described Tang Yuehua’s poor Soul Power and seemingly useless Martial Soul, and Ling Yi revealed that she possessed a rare innate domain.
• Ling Yi theorized that Tang Yuehua’s original Martial Soul had been exceptionally high quality but was damaged during awakening because her young body could not support it, leading Yu Xiaogang to suspect his own mutation had a similar cause.
• Ling Yi asked whether some Tang family members with Clear Sky Hammer Martial Souls had very low Innate Soul Power, and confirmed that such clansmen existed.
• Ling Yi proposed that body training and Soul Power nourishment might strengthen low-quality Clear Sky Hammers, while Yu Xiaogang listened with intense excitement.

Yu Xiaogang withdrew from his research projects at the Martial Soul Research Institute and left Lingyun City, accepting the City Lord’s offer of a ride with a merchant caravan. He chose the route to Heaven Dou City and began his journey with hope for what lay ahead.

• Yu Xiaogang asked Ling Yi for leave and withdrew from his research projects, and Ling Yi agreed to settle his share of the research remuneration.
• Yu Xiaogang collected signed withdrawal statements from Qing Yu'an and the leaders of three other research groups.
• Yu Xiaogang left the Martial Soul Research Institute and headed out of Lingyun City without returning to pack.
• A guard named Li Yang told Yu Xiaogang that Ling Yi had arranged for a caravan to take him outside the city, and Yu Xiaogang chose the one bound for Heaven Dou City.
• Yu Xiaogang joined the caravan protected by Li Yang’s squad and watched the clouds from a carriage as they traveled away from Lingyun City.

Tang Zhen wondered about Ling Yi’s Martial Soul Organ Theory as the major clans assessed Lingyun City’s research and recruitment. Yu Xiaogang sought resources from his clan to test the theory, and Yu Yuanzhen secretly equipped him to pursue the experiment.

• Tang Zhen read intelligence about Martial Soul Organ Theory while Clear Sky Sect’s attempt to cultivate a Blue Silver Grass healer showed little promise.
• Yu Xiaogang explained Ling Yi’s theory to Yu Yuanzhen, arguing that soul power could strengthen martial souls and purify beast martial soul bloodlines.
• Yu Xiaogang requested money, dragon-type soul beast materials, medicinal herbs, and dragon-type soul bones, but Yu Luomian and other clan members objected.
• Yu Yuanzhen dismissed the clan members and Yu Luomian, then privately gave Yu Xiaogang two million Gold Soul Coins and a 5,700-year Black-Striped Snake Lizard Right Leg Bone.
• Yu Xiaogang believed he could use the soul bone, his body-tempering training, and medicinal soup to raise his Soul Power to level 30.

Yu Xiaogang entered a tavern near Slaughter City to meet Hannibal, but after drinking Bloody Mary he was rescued by Tang Hao and Tang Xiao. Five days later, he encountered Li Yang and his companions beside a river, where Tang Hao tried to buy their Azure Horned Crab.

• Yu Xiaogang met Tang Hao and Tang Xiao outside a tavern, and Tang Xiao warned him that entering Slaughter City at his strength would be dangerous.
• Yu Xiaogang went inside to meet Hannibal, but the tavern’s patrons gave him Bloody Mary while Hannibal was away gathering ingredients.
• Tang Hao and Tang Xiao rescued Yu Xiaogang, who thanked them and learned that his father knew about the dangerous place.
• Li Yang caught an Azure Horned Crab while Mo Yuxiong brought back two large fish, and Chen Tianqi explained that exotic beasts could make valuable food.
• Yu Xiaogang reunited with Li Yang beside the Tian Yuan River, and Tang Hao offered to buy the crab from Chen Tianqi.

Ling Yi investigated the Ministry of War guards’ sale of an Azure Horned Crab to Yu Xiaogang, ruled that the guards had acted fairly, and then went into seclusion to manage his growing coldness. He traveled in disguise to challenge the Clear Sky Sect prodigy said to be Slaughter City’s newest Slaughter God, introducing himself as Wu Wudi of the Rakshasa Sect.

• Ling Yi questioned Li Rongfeng, Li Yang, Mo Yuxiong, and Chen Tianqi about selling Yu Xiaogang an Azure Horned Crab for eight thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Chen Tianqi explained that Tang Hao had driven up the bidding, and Ling Yi cleared the guards and let them divide the proceeds.
• Ling Yi asked whether the guards had been reluctant to sell the rare crab, and Mo Yuxiong and Li Yang explained that they valued it for its cultivation benefits more than the money.
• Ling Yi entered seclusion, transferred his negative emotions into his incarnation Erlang, and donned the Demon Sealing Armor.
• Ling Yi sensed three young men approaching along an official road, then confronted them and challenged the younger-looking member as Wu Wudi of the Rakshasa Sect.

Ling Yi, calling himself Wu Wudi of the Rakshasa Sect, challenged Tang Hao and overwhelmed him, then defeated Tang Xiao when he intervened. After mocking the brothers’ hammer techniques and taunting Yu Xiaogang, Ling Yi left Tang Xiao and Tang Hao beaten on the ground.

• Ling Yi confronted Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and Yu Xiaogang, and Tang Hao summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and activated his Slaughter God Domain.
• Ling Yi countered Tang Hao’s attacks with blade techniques and sent him flying with Clouds Sever the Azure Sky, while Tang Xiao caught him and was driven into a boulder by the impact.
• Tang Hao resumed his assault with Clear Sky True Body, but Ling Yi held his ground and battered him with a range of martial techniques.
• Tang Xiao joined the fight, but Ling Yi defeated both brothers after fifteen minutes and criticized Tang Hao’s Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique and Tang Xiao’s Clear Sky Nine Wonders.
• Ling Yi mocked Yu Xiaogang and told him he was not worthy of dying by Ling Yi’s hand, then turned back to the fallen Tang Xiao and Tang Hao.

Ling Yi’s overwhelming defeat of Tang Hao and Tang Xiao left the brothers shaken, while news of Wu Wudi and the Rakshasa Sect unsettled Qian Xunji and Qian Daoliu. Two years later, Yu Xiaogang reached Level 39 and traveled to Lingyun City, hoping to find guidance on breaking through to Level 40.

• Tang Xiao helped the injured Tang Hao leave for the forest, while Yu Xiaogang split off in the opposite direction after realizing his clothes were damp.
• Qian Xunji learned that Wu Wudi of the unknown Rakshasa Sect had defeated Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, and he went to ask Qian Daoliu about the sect.
• Qian Daoliu explained that the Rakshasa God and Asura God were rival deities and that Slaughter City served as a place where the Asura God selected potential successors.
• Tang Zhen encouraged Tang Hao to grow stronger and challenge Wu Wudi again, while the Clear Sky Sect viewed the masked fighter as an elder expert comparable to Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu.
• Yu Xiaogang cultivated his martial arts and Soul Power to Level 39 over two years, then headed to Lingyun City because he believed only one person could guide his next breakthrough.

Yu Xiaogang and Ling Yi discovered six possible bloodline advancement routes for Luo San Pao, including the powerful Light Sacred Dragon, while Yu Xiaogang weighed the cost of pursuing it. Ling Yi then advised him to strengthen his body and reach Soul Power level 40 before choosing his fourth Soul Ring.

• Ling Yi showed Yu Xiaogang the results of two weeks of experiments, which had identified six advancement sequences compatible with Yu Xiaogang's mutated bloodline.
• Ling Yi explained that one sequence had produced a trace of Dragon Force resembling the Light Sacred Dragon, giving Luo San Pao a chance to advance toward that form.
• Ling Yi described other possible routes, including the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, Golden Earth Dragon King, Holy Flame Winged God Dragon, and Thunderfire Thunderbolt Dragon, before noting that the final sample was an accident.
• Ling Yi recommended the Light Sacred Dragon route but explained that it demanded far more resources than the alternatives, leaving Yu Xiaogang uncertain about his choice.
• Ling Yi examined Yu Xiaogang and directed him to use the Nine Shao Tuning Soul Guidance Array and Flood Dragon Snake Shot training to reach level 40 before selecting his fourth Soul Ring.

Yu Xiaogang showed Yu Yuanzhen several kinds of purified Dragon Force and explained how the resource could strengthen Soul Masters without the drawbacks of ordinary soul power. He revealed that the rare Eight Petal Immortal Orchid was needed to produce it, and described the evolutionary potential it offered Luo San Pao.

• Yu Xiaogang presented Yu Yuanzhen with five Storage Soul Crystals containing different purified Dragon Forces, and Yu Yuanzhen recognized their exceptional purity and potential uses.
• Yu Yuanzhen considered how Dragon Force could help strengthen young children without leaving the mental imprints that ordinary Soul Power nourishment could cause.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked about the cost of producing Dragon Force, and Yu Xiaogang explained that he could reproduce the process but lacked a rare medicinal catalyst.
• Yu Xiaogang asked the clan to search for the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid, whose Star Moon Dew was required to purify Dragon Force.
• Yu Xiaogang said feeding Luo San Pao Dragon Force could raise his aptitude and trigger its first evolution, with further evolution possible through compatible ten-thousand-year Soul Rings.

Ling Yi refused Yu Xiaogang’s request for more Star Moon Dew, explaining that the supply was limited and already allocated, while Yu Xiaogang’s clan had reserved most of the Dragon Force production. The chapter revealed that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had offered Yu Wushuang as a bride to secure Ling Yi’s help, but Ling Yi rejected the marriage alliance and agreed to provide only ten standard portions of Dragon Force a year.

• Ling Yi refused Yu Xiaogang’s offer to pay more for Star Moon Dew and said he could reserve only twelve drops a year for him.
• Yu Xiaogang learned that Yu Luomian had reserved ten annual portions of Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Dragon Force and left the Martial Soul Research Institute in despair.
• Ling Yi privately decided he would not spend his stored immortal herbs to help Yu Xiaogang evolve Luo San Pao, despite having enough materials to do so.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan prioritized Dragon Force for its young members and elders, and Yu Luomian offered Yu Wushuang’s hand in marriage to Ling Yi in exchange for greater production.
• Ling Yi rejected the marriage alliance but agreed to provide the clan with ten standard portions of Dragon Force per year.
• Liu Erlong teased Ling Yi about Yu Wushuang’s offer while Ah Rou and Ling Yi listened.

Ling Yi visited Di Xiya and Xue Qianxun, then learned that the Radiant Bird of Paradise egg he had given the girl was close to hatching. Meanwhile, Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi agreed that Ning would become Xue Qianxun’s teacher, and Ling Yi returned to Lingyun City to find Dugu Bo on the verge of breaking through to Soul Douluo.

• Ling Yi visited Di Xiya and watched five-year-old Xue Qianxun practice, apologizing for missing her birthday.
• Ling Yi sensed that the Radiant Bird of Paradise egg he had given Xue Qianxun would hatch within two days.
• Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi agreed that Ning would become Xue Qianxun’s teacher, strengthening their ties amid concern over Lingyun City’s growing influence.
• Ling Yi returned to Lingyun City and found its residents gathered to guard Dugu Bo as he prepared to break through to Level 80.

Ling Yi prepared to transfer the lingering spirit mark in a powerful Medusa Soul Ring into a younger Medusa, while a village patrol in the Heaven Dou Empire fought and killed the Fallen Soul Master Niger. The patrol survived the battle with many injuries and began tending to its wounded.

• Yang Shelly told Ling Yi that a young Medusa had been found near Lost Trace Grand Canyon, and Ling Yi decided to use it as a new dwelling for the spirit mark in his refined Medusa Soul Ring.
• Ling Yi explained that he had raised the Medusa Soul Ring's energy to the level of a seventy-thousand-year Soul Beast but could not erase its final spirit mark.
• Niger fought a patrol of ordinary townspeople and villagers who repeatedly rose to attack him despite their injuries.
• The patrol exhausted Niger's Soul Power and hacked the Four Ring Soul Ancestor to death.
• Dong Mingyu called for Jiu Lan to treat Dong Mingwei, while Yi Linlie and Alaleiqi confirmed that their patrol had killed a Soul Master.