Chapter Summaries

Yu Hengqing attended his Martial Soul Awakening, where golden lightning erupted and overwhelmed Yu Yuanzhen before vanishing. After Yu Hengqing passed out, he woke in a strange silvery-white space and heard a voice identifying itself as Leiyi from the Helka Galaxy.

• Yu Yuanzhen took Yu Hengqing to the sect hall for his Martial Soul Awakening, and Yu Luomian was relieved to find him clear-headed.
• Yu Hengqing entered the awakening formation, where an unusual abundance of golden specks gathered around him.
• Golden lightning burst from Yu Hengqing's palm, shattered the floor, and clashed with Yu Yuanzhen's Dragon-Transformed arm.
• Yu Yuanzhen caught the unconscious Yu Hengqing, dispersed the lightning, and carried him away for treatment while Yu Luomian organized the cleanup.
• Yu Hengqing awoke in a silvery-white space and heard a voice named Leiyi ask which planet and galaxy he was on.

After Yu Hengqing awakened his Martial Soul, he discovered that Leiyi suppressed his Soul Power because it conflicted with Leiyi’s thunder power. His Innate Soul Power test began to shine intensely, while a broken sword beyond Douluo Continent absorbed colored lightning and escaped into a rift in the void.

• Yu Hengqing awoke, and He Feng confirmed that his congenital deficiency had improved but still required training and medicine.
• Yu Hengqing summoned Leiyi, a physical Beast Martial Soul covered in golden lightning, and Yu Yuanzhen recognized it as an External Beast Martial Soul.
• Leiyi told Yu Hengqing that it was suppressing his Soul Power and could assimilate it if he supplied it with the world’s power of thunder.
• Yu Hengqing placed his hand on the crystal ball, which burst into intense light as Yu Yuanzhen wondered whether he had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Beyond Douluo Continent, a broken sword devoured the colored lightning in its collapsing space, released sword aura to hold back the void, and slipped through a rift.

The Silver Dragon King sensed the Thunder God's artifact on the Douluo Continent and ordered Di Tian to find it or its successor. The broken sword chose Yu Hengqing, healed him, and granted him the Thunder God's Nine Trials, leaving him to begin a quest for a lightning-attribute Soul Ring.

• The Silver Dragon King concealed the Thunder God's artifact's aura with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's power and ordered Di Tian to search for it or its successor.
• Yu Hengqing asked Leiyi to stop suppressing his power, and the crystal ball revealed his Innate Soul Power was level six, delighting Yu Yuanzhen.
• The broken sword struck Yu Hengqing, entered his mindscape, and healed him after Leiyi let it pass.
• The broken sword identified Yu Hengqing as a qualified successor and transmitted the Thunder God's Nine Trials, with a first task to obtain a lightning-attribute Soul Ring at least 700 years old.
• Yu Hengqing woke beside Yu Yuanzhen, who had been keeping watch with the sect archives.

Yu Hengqing learned that the Thunder God had chosen him as an inheritor, but he needed a seven-hundred-year lightning Soul Ring his body could not yet withstand. Yu Yuanzhen planned to strengthen him with Whale Rubber and prepare a hunt for a Thunder Python, while Bi Ji left Life Lake to carry out a task as Di Tian focused on growing stronger.

• Yu Hengqing told Yu Yuanzhen that the Thunder God had chosen him and required a lightning-attribute Soul Beast of at least seven hundred years for his First Soul Ring.
• Yu Yuanzhen proposed physical training and searching for rare treasures, and Yu Hengqing suggested Whale Rubber after recalling its body-strengthening effects.
• Yu Yuanzhen planned to soften the Whale Rubber with Soul Power flame and use a Cold Jade Bed to suppress its effects on Yu Hengqing.
• Yu Yuanzhen first suggested a Purple Lightning Thick-Armored Rhino, but Yu Hengqing preferred a Thunder Python's offensive Soul Skill, so Yu Yuanzhen agreed to seek one once his body was stronger.
• At Life Lake, Di Tian offered to take Bi Ji's task because of the danger, but Bi Ji left the barrier and told him to focus on growing stronger so he could protect them.

Yu Hengqing learned that Leiyi would sleep while refining the Seven-Colored Lightning, then tested Whale Rubber with Yu Yuanzhen on the Cold Jade Bed. After absorbing ten- and hundred-year-old pieces, Yu Hengqing’s strength rose substantially, and he eagerly continued his body training.

• Leiyi told Yu Hengqing he would enter a deep sleep to refine the Seven-Colored Lightning and try to resolve the conflict between their powers.
• Yu Yuanzhen showed Yu Hengqing a Flame Dragon Lizard Head Soul Bone that could produce flames to prepare Whale Rubber.
• Yu Yuanzhen led Yu Hengqing through a hidden passage to the Cold Jade Bed and instructed him to absorb the prepared Whale Rubber there.
• Yu Hengqing absorbed ten-year-old Whale Rubber and showed a slight increase in strength when he punched Yu Yuanzhen.
• Yu Hengqing absorbed hundred-year-old Whale Rubber, refined its medicinal energy on the Cold Jade Bed, and increased his strength by thirty percent.
• Yu Hengqing described the effects as drinking hot water, while Yu Yuanzhen hesitated to risk giving him a stronger dose; Yu Hengqing began practicing his body-tempering martial arts.

Yu Hengqing tried a dose of millennium Whale Rubber, but its power caused him intense pain until Yu Yuanzhen used lightning to help him absorb it. After Yu Hengqing recovered, Yu Yuanzhen asked Yu Luomian to find a clan disciple to test whether Whale Rubber could raise the age of an absorbable Soul Ring, while privately resolving to test his brother’s loyalty.

• Yu Yuanzhen purified millennium Whale Rubber and gave Yu Hengqing a fifth of it to consume.
• Yu Hengqing struggled to circulate his Soul Power as the medicine overwhelmed him, so Yu Yuanzhen used lightning to stimulate his body and help him absorb it.
• After about three hours, Yu Hengqing used up most of the medicine, drank water, and fell into a deep sleep after Yu Yuanzhen helped him back to his room.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Yu Luomian about Yu Hengqing’s experience and asked him to find a trustworthy disciple to test whether Whale Rubber could increase the age of an absorbable Soul Ring.
• Yu Luomian agreed to find a suitable disciple, while Yu Yuanzhen privately vowed to punish him if he failed the test of loyalty.

Yu Yuanzhen tested Yu Hengqing’s physical strength and took him to the Star Dou Forest to find a suitable Thunder Python for his first Soul Ring. They reached Thunder Valley and spotted a huge snake approaching, but its age was still unknown.

• Yu Yuanzhen’s disciple absorbed a nearly nine-hundred-year Soul Ring at level twenty after taking Whale Rubber, so Yu Yuanzhen secretly bought more of it.
• Yu Hengqing reached level ten, passed Yu Yuanzhen’s physical-strength test, and received a Storage Soul Tool before they set out for the Star Dou Forest.
• Yu Yuanzhen showed Yu Hengqing the map and explained that Thunder Valley was their best place to find a Thunder Python.
• After three days of travel and exploring the forest, Yu Yuanzhen led Yu Hengqing into Thunder Valley and explained how to judge a Thunder Python’s age.
• Yu Hengqing and Yu Yuanzhen waited for a suitable Thunder Python, then saw a gigantic snakehead emerge from the distance.

Yu Hengqing and Yu Yuanzhen pursued a Purple Lightning Marten after it stole a Thunder Python egg, and Yu Hengqing absorbed the beast’s Soul Ring and lightning power. His Soul Power reached level thirteen, and he gained the explosive Quick Attack skill.

• Yu Hengqing and Yu Yuanzhen watched a Purple Lightning Marten wound the Thunder Python and steal one of its eggs.
• Yu Yuanzhen carried Yu Hengqing through the treetops and found the Purple Lightning Marten eating the egg about three kilometers away.
• Yu Yuanzhen trapped the Purple Lightning Marten with Thunder Prison, and Yu Hengqing killed it with a dagger.
• Yu Hengqing absorbed the Purple Lightning Marten’s remaining lightning power and Soul Ring, raising his Soul Power to level thirteen.
• Yu Hengqing told Yu Yuanzhen that his first Soul Skill was Quick Attack, an explosive skill.

Yu Hengqing completed his first God Trial, gained three Soul Power levels and Cangming Lightning, then returned to the sect with Yu Yuanzhen. He began refining his share of the lightning while Leiyi absorbed the other bolt, hoping it would help restore his cultivation speed.

• Yu Hengqing's first God Trial reward raised his Soul Power to level sixteen and granted him Cangming Lightning.
• Yu Hengqing demonstrated his Quick Attack Soul Skill, and Yu Yuanzhen warned him about its predictable straight-line charge.
• Bi Ji sensed Yu Hengqing and Yu Yuanzhen near the Star Dou Forest, suspected one was the Thunder God's inheritor, and returned to Life Lake to consult Di Tian.
• Yu Hengqing and Yu Yuanzhen returned to the sect, where Yu Hengqing entered his mental space and claimed the Cangming Lightning from the broken sword.
• The broken sword split the Cangming Lightning between Yu Hengqing and Leiyi, who began refining her bolt to free herself from relying on sleep to refine the Seven-Colored Lightning.

Yu Hengqing returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Dugu Yan offered him a rare ginseng to train with her, and he began considering a plan to recruit commoner geniuses through Blue Tyrant Academy. At Life Lake, the Ferocious Beasts debated how to retrieve the Thunder God's divine artifact and agreed to follow the Silver Dragon King's instruction to invite its Soul Master holders back politely.

• Leiyi told Yu Hengqing that his cultivation speed had recovered to one-fifth of an ordinary person's and that he could now refine the Seven-Colored Lightning while awake.
• Yu Yuanzhen took Yu Hengqing back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Yu Hengqing heard that the academy would stop accepting talented commoners and considered helping Blue Tyrant Academy recruit them instead.
• Dugu Yan asked Yu Hengqing to spar with her and offered him a Century-Old Purple Vein Ginseng as payment.
• At Life Lake, Xiong Jun urged the Ferocious Beasts to kill the Soul Masters holding the Thunder God's divine artifact, but Bi Ji warned that the injured beasts should not act rashly.
• Di Tian told Xiong Jun to follow the Silver Dragon King's order and invite the artifact holders back politely.

Yu Hengqing visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Thunder-Fire Hall to improve his cultivation and tested how well his partially refined Cangming Lightning could withstand the active fire energy. He began cultivating alone in a low-energy corner as other students watched, unaware of the danger they expected him to face.

• Yu Hengqing accepted Dugu Yan’s Century-Old Purple Vein Ginseng and agreed to meet her at No. 3 Training Ground the next afternoon.
• Yu Hengqing ate at the academy cafeteria, then walked to Thunder-Fire Hall to train.
• Noble students discussed Yu Hengqing’s arrival and speculated about his talent and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s succession.
• Leiyi warned Yu Hengqing that the hall’s active lightning and fire energies were dangerous and directed him to test his Cangming Lightning in a low-energy corner.
• Yu Hengqing summoned his Martial Soul and began cultivating alone while a girl considered warning him, but her companion persuaded her to wait.

Yu Hengqing cultivated at Thunder-Fire Hall, where his extraordinary resonance and stamina astonished the students watching him. After leaving, he learned from Leiyi that someone was following him.

• Yu Hengqing used the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's meditation method and resonated with the energy in Thunder-Fire Hall almost instantly.
• Yu Hengqing cultivated while using Cangming Lightning to temper his Soul Power and control the hall's fire-element energy.
• The students gathered to watch Yu Hengqing surpass Yu Tianheng's record by cultivating for an hour and a half.
• Yu Hengqing declined several invitations and left Thunder-Fire Hall.
• Leiyi warned Yu Hengqing that someone was following him.

Yu Hengqing learned that Zhou Yan wanted him to help cure the dangerous lightning buildup afflicting his father’s Thunder-Roaring Purgatory Vine Martial Soul. After confirming his own lightning was stronger, Yu Hengqing agreed to help once he became a Soul Emperor, in exchange for Zhou Yan’s Golden Lightning Pattern Fruit.

• Yu Hengqing evaded Zhou Yan’s pursuit, then confronted him and asked why he wanted to follow him.
• Zhou Yan offered a Golden Lightning Pattern Fruit and explained that his Martial Soul accumulated lethal lightning energy after reaching Soul Saint.
• Zhou Yan told Yu Hengqing that his ancestor had once cured the condition by drawing out the lightning with a stronger lightning-attribute Martial Soul.
• Yu Hengqing and Zhou Yan compared their lightning through a Martial Soul Possession hand grapple, and Yu Hengqing’s golden lightning overwhelmed Zhou Yan’s purple lightning.
• Zhou Yan realized Yu Hengqing could save his father, who had suffered from the condition since becoming a Soul Saint the previous year.
• Yu Hengqing agreed to help Zhou Yan’s father once he became a Soul Emperor and arranged to meet Zhou Yan at the school gate at eight the next morning for the Golden Lightning Pattern Fruit.

Yu Hengqing learned about Zhou Yan’s family troubles, accepted Zhou Yan’s Golden Lightning Pattern Fruit, and prepared to train with Dugu Yan. The chapter ended as he met Dugu Yan at No. 3 Training Ground, while Zhou Yan secretly headed to the infirmary.

• Zhou Yan recalled his family’s fall after his grandfather died and said he hoped to resolve its troubles through his own efforts.
• Yu Hengqing told Yu Yuanzhen how Dugu Yan had given him Century-Old Purple Vein Ginseng, and Yu Yuanzhen agreed to process it while warning him not to use it until Yu Hengqing explained that Cangming Lightning could temper his Soul Power.
• Yu Hengqing met Zhou Yan the next morning and accepted the Golden Lightning Pattern Fruit without checking it, telling Zhou Yan that he trusted him.
• Yu Hengqing and Zhou Yan trained at Thunder-Fire Hall, and Yu Hengqing told Zhou Yan he would meet Dugu Yan at No. 3 Training Ground.
• Yu Hengqing left for the meeting, while Zhou Yan quietly went to the infirmary instead of returning to training.
• Yu Hengqing met Dugu Yan at No. 3 Training Ground and said he would honor his promise to help her train because he had accepted her gift.

Yu Hengqing sparred with Dugu Yan, defeated her with his lightning, and accepted an antidote from Zhou Yan afterward. At home, Dugu Bo discovered that Dugu Yan had less poison in her body than before.

• Dugu Yan and Yu Hengqing fought in No. 3 Training Ground, where she used Jade Phosphorus Red Poison and Jade Phosphorus Blue Poison to strengthen herself.
• Yu Hengqing used his lightning to move faster than Dugu Yan could react and knocked her down.
• Dugu Yan praised Yu Hengqing and reminded him that she had invested in him by giving him the Purple Vein Ginseng.
• Zhou Yan brought Yu Hengqing an antidote for the Jade Phosphorus Blue Poison, and Yu Hengqing swallowed it.
• Dugu Yan asked Dugu Bo to check her pulse, and he found that the poison in her body had decreased by a tenth.

Dugu Bo discovered that Dugu Yan's poison had decreased and suspected Yu Hengqing's Soul Skill was responsible, so he asked Yu Yuanzhen to arrange another spar. After Yu Hengqing defeated Dugu Yan again, Dugu Bo left with her, saying he would consider Yu Yuanzhen's terms.

• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo what she had done during his absence, and he decided to investigate her sparring match with Yu Hengqing.
• Dugu Bo gave Yu Yuanzhen a heavenly treasure in exchange for his help arranging a meeting with Yu Hengqing.
• Dugu Bo told Yu Hengqing that Dugu Yan's Martial Soul might have evolved after their previous spar and asked them to fight again.
• Yu Hengqing sparred with Dugu Yan at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's training ground and defeated her with his Soul Skill.
• Dugu Bo helped Dugu Yan up, then left with her and told Yu Yuanzhen he would consider the terms Yu Yuanzhen had proposed.

Yu Hengqing ate the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma and refined it alongside his Cangming Lightning, breaking through to Soul Power level twenty. After experiencing and overcoming a perilous illusion in his mental space, he learned the requirements of the Second God Trial.

• Yu Yuanzhen gave Yu Hengqing a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma from Dugu Bo and told him to accept Dugu Yan's sparring requests when they did not interfere with cultivation.
• Yu Hengqing ate the herb, and the Cangming Lightning helped temper its medicinal power as his body was cleansed and his Soul Power began growing again.
• In his mental space, Yu Hengqing fell into a drowning illusion but used the Cangming Lightning to break free after remembering Leiyi and Yu Yuanzhen's advice to keep his own rhythm.
• Yu Hengqing woke with his Soul Power at level twenty and told Yu Yuanzhen he would research lightning-type Soul Beasts for his Second Soul Ring.
• Yu Yuanzhen gave Yu Hengqing ten packets of prepared Purple Vein Ginseng medicine, and they parted to attend to their own affairs.
• Yu Hengqing summoned the Cangming Lightning and received the Second God Trial: complete forty-nine rounds of Thunder Body Tempering to earn Cinder Extinction Lightning and the growing Skin of Thunder.

Yu Hengqing learned that his Second God Trial required forty-nine rounds of Thunder Body Tempering and planned to go to Thunder Valley with an escort. As he considered candidates for his Second Soul Ring, Leiyi questioned whether Soul Beasts had to be hunted, and Yu Hengqing revealed that humans would eventually develop Spirit Souls as an alternative.

• Yu Hengqing asked Leiyi how to attract lightning, and Leiyi warned that his current body could withstand only three strikes before serious injury.
• Leiyi taught Yu Hengqing that he would need to attract lightning during a thunderstorm, and suggested Thunder Valley as a place where lightning was common.
• Yu Hengqing asked Yu Yuanzhen to arrange an escort to Thunder Valley, and his father agreed but told him to choose his Second Soul Ring first.
• Yu Hengqing studied lightning-type Soul Beasts with Leiyi, considering the Thunderstorm Lark, Thunder-Clap Bird, and Thunder Shell Turtle as possible sources of a Soul Skill.
• Leiyi asked whether Yu Hengqing had to hunt Soul Beasts for a Soul Ring, and Yu Hengqing said humans would develop Spirit Souls tens of thousands of years later as a replacement.

Yu Hengqing traveled with Yu Hezai to the Star Dou Forest to hunt a Second Soul Ring, while Bi Ji followed the Dragon Scale to locate the Thunder God's successor. She vanished from the pursuing Ferocious Beasts, who began searching the forest for Yu Hengqing as he set up camp.

• Yu Yuanzhen told Yu Hengqing that Yu Hezai would accompany him to Thunder Valley and that Dugu Bo would bring Dugu Yan there each week to fight him.
• Yu Hengqing and Yu Hezai traveled to the Star Dou Forest and headed for the Thunder-Clap Birds' nesting grounds to find a suitable Second Soul Ring.
• Di Tian told Bi Ji that the Dragon Scale was glowing, and Bi Ji set out to find the Thunder God's successor after treating an injured Soul Beast.
• Several Soul Beasts debated whether to pursue Yu Hengqing, then followed Bi Ji toward the forest outskirts.
• Bi Ji detected Yu Hengqing near a cliff, hid her aura to evade her pursuers, and left them searching the outskirts for him.
• Yu Hengqing finished setting up his tent, unaware that the Soul Beasts from the Life Lake had noticed him.

Yu Hengqing and Yu Hezai trapped and wounded a Thunder-Clap Bird, but a Soul Beast rampage forced them to flee. As Bi Ji realized the Scarlet King had attacked a divine successor and rushed after Yu Hengqing, Xiong Jun set out to find the Thunder God's successor, while Yu Hengqing faced a sudden attack from gleaming claws.

• Yu Hezai lured a roughly 1,100-year-old Thunder-Clap Bird from its nest, and Yu Hengqing baited it into a net.
• Yu Hezai struck the trapped Thunder-Clap Bird with his Thunder Ring, leaving it gravely wounded.
• Yu Hezai carried Yu Hengqing away when a Soul Beast rampage erupted, abandoning the bird behind.
• The Scarlet King told Xiong Jun that he had triggered the rampage after fighting two Titled Douluo and being wounded by a divine successor.
• The Ten Thousand Demon King reported that he had found the Thunder God's successor, and Xiong Jun rushed to meet him.
• Bi Ji detected the Scarlet King's aura and divine power at the rampage's center, then hurried after Yu Hengqing, who was suddenly attacked by a pair of claws.