Chapter Summaries

Bai Yi challenged Yu Xiaogang’s claim that his martial soul was an embroidery needle by revealing the Ruyi Golden Cudgel and defeating Tang San in a fight outside Nuoding Academy. Afterward, Bai Yi recalled that he had transmigrated as a stone before breaking free as a Lingming Stone Monkey with the ability to transform into a human.

• Yu Xiaogang told Bai Yi his embroidery-needle martial soul and low Innate Soul Power meant he could never become a soul master, and the gatekeeper tried to bar him from Nuoding Academy.
• Bai Yi enlarged his supposed embroidery needle into a golden pillar that pinned Yu Xiaogang to the ground, then shrank it and walked away.
• Tang San challenged Bai Yi to defend Yu Xiaogang, but Bai Yi struck him with the Golden Cudgel and sent him flying, leaving Tang San doubting his teacher.
• Bai Yi recalled that he had once been a modern person who transmigrated into a stone, later broke free as a Lingming Stone Monkey, and possessed the Ruyi Golden Cudgel as his martial soul.

Bai Yi reflected on his Great Grade Heavenly Immortal Art and continued cultivating while developing his Lingming Stone Monkey abilities. After revealing to Xiao Wu that he had once been the stone she and her mother slept on, he left her mortified by the memory.

• Bai Yi considered the power of his immortal art and decided to keep a low profile until his simulated Soul Power reached level ten.
• Xiao Wu challenged Bai Yi for Dorm Seven's leadership, but he struck her with the Golden Cudgel and ignored her complaints as he cultivated.
• Months later, Bai Yi entered a Soul Hunting Forest to awaken his talents and pursue a soul ring for the Golden Cudgel, while a trial tasked him with defeating a powerful bear.
• Bai Yi confronted Xiao Wu for secretly following him, then revealed his monkey form and told her he had once been a stone in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Wu remembered sleeping on that stone during her time as a rabbit and turned away in embarrassment.

Bai Yi hunted a three-thousand-year Black Gold Mysterious Armor Bear in Soul Hunting Forest, killing it with the Golden Cudgel and Immobilization Technique. After absorbing its Soul Ring and completing his first trial, he gained new strength and divine abilities, while Xiao Wu wondered whether he might use the immobilizing technique on her.

• Bai Yi led Xiao Wu into the forest and told her to wait while he approached the Black Gold Mysterious Armor Bear's cave.
• Bai Yi buried the cave entrance, drew out the bear, and dodged its attacks while repeatedly striking its abdomen with the Golden Cudgel.
• The Black Gold Mysterious Armor Bear unleashed Black Wind Roar, but Bai Yi used the Immobilization Technique to freeze it and killed it with a final blow.
• Bai Yi absorbed the bear's three-thousand-year Soul Ring and completed the first Nine Trials of Heaven-Equal, gaining a million-year Soul Ring and two divine abilities for the Lingming Stone Monkey.
• Xiao Wu asked Bai Yi about the technique that froze the bear, then worried that he might use it on her; Bai Yi called her a stupid rabbit.

Bai Yi reached Level 20, activated the Second Trial, and sought admission to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. After displaying his exceptional talent, he asked to be tested against Yu Tianheng, leaving the academy committee to decide whether to accept the match.

• Bai Yi arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and revealed his two thousand-year soul rings when a guard questioned his right to take the entrance examination.
• Sun Buyu examined Bai Yi’s Ruyi Golden Cudgel and proposed that he enter the Heavenly Supreme Class before advancing to the Heaven Dou Class.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Yushan, and Zhi Lin confirmed Bai Yi’s extraordinary talent and offered him a test against a Heaven Dou Class student.
• Bai Yi chose Yu Tianheng as his opponent, and the committee warned him about Yu Tianheng’s strength and combat experience.

Bai Yi defeated Yu Tianheng in one blow during his challenge to join the Heaven Dou Class, then beat Dugu Yan after she attacked him with poison. He left the arena unhurt while Ye Lingling treated both students.

• Bai Yi challenged Yu Tianheng before the Heaven Dou Royal Academy students and revealed two thousand-year Soul Rings.
• Yu Tianheng attacked with Thunderclap Dragon Claw, but Bai Yi struck him down with Mountain Crushing Peak Suppressing.
• Ye Lingling used her Nine Heart Begonia to heal Yu Tianheng, and Bai Yi asked Meng Shenji whether he could enroll.
• Dugu Yan angrily challenged Bai Yi and unleashed her Jade Phosphorus Purple Poison.
• Bai Yi created clones with Body Outside Body Technique, struck Dugu Yan until she surrendered, and left her bewildered and crying.
• Ye Lingling healed Dugu Yan as Dugu Yan hid in her arms without explaining what had happened.

After defeating Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, Bai Yi joined the Heaven Dou Class and considered what he still needed to accomplish for his second divine trial. Xue Qinghe learned of his extraordinary abilities and ordered him watched, deciding she might try to win him over.

• Yu Tianheng vowed to defeat Bai Yi someday, and Meng Shenji officially welcomed Bai Yi into the Heaven Dou Class.
• Ye Lingling healed Bai Yi, while Dugu Yan challenged him to a rematch before leaving with Ye Lingling.
• Bai Yi concluded that he needed to defeat the Heaven Dou Class's Soul Ancestors and other top students to complete his trial.
• Xue Qinghe reviewed a secret report on Bai Yi, ordered her guard to keep watching him without making contact, and considered recruiting him.

Bai Yi told Ye Lingling he could eventually break the Nine Heart Begonia’s inheritance restriction and agreed to help her mother as well. In return, Ye Lingling began helping him cultivate the Indestructible Diamond Body, leaving their partnership set to continue the next night.

• Bai Yi invited Ye Lingling to talk after class and promised he had a way to solve the Nine Heart Begonia’s single-line inheritance restriction; Ye Lingling agreed to meet him.
• After practical combat class, Bai Yi met Ye Lingling in the grove and used his power to show that he could help her martial soul evolve, though he said he needed to reach Soul Ancestor first to fully solve the problem.
• Ye Lingling asked Bai Yi to help her mother, whose Nine Heart Begonia was weakening, and Bai Yi agreed.
• Bai Yi asked Ye Lingling to use her healing martial soul to support his Indestructible Diamond Body training, and she agreed.
• Bai Yi burned himself with Earth Fire Dragon Flame and had Ye Lingling heal him, then arranged to train with her again the next night and promised to find a way to help her mother.
• Dugu Yan questioned Ye Lingling when she returned to the dormitory, and Ye Lingling asked her to stop speaking badly about Bai Yi.

Bai Yi tested the Seventy-Two Transformations, then fought a seven-person team with Ye Lingling healing him as Xue Qinghe watched. After defeating Yu Tianheng’s team, he asked for the next team, while Xue Qinghe and her uncle discussed keeping him away from Spirit Hall.

• Bai Yi reached the first stage of the Indestructible Diamond Body and briefly transformed into Dugu Yan to test the Seventy-Two Transformations, but Ye Lingling sensed that something about her was strange.
• Zhi Lin told Bai Yi that Xue Qinghe would visit the academy to watch him fight, and Meng Shenji later described Bai Yi’s progress to Xue Qinghe.
• Bai Yi asked to fight teams of seven with Ye Lingling as his only teammate, and Yu Tianheng assembled a team that included Dugu Yan.
• Bai Yi fought aggressively with his Golden Cudgel while Ye Lingling repeatedly healed him, and he defeated all seven opponents despite taking multiple injuries.
• Xue Qinghe’s uncle warned that Bai Yi must not be allowed to go to Spirit Hall, and Xue Qinghe agreed while Bai Yi asked for another team and Ye Lingling stood ready to continue.

Xue Qinghe hosted Bai Yi and other top Heaven Dou Class students at the East Palace, using gifts and personal attention to recruit Bai Yi. She agreed to arrange nearby residences for Bai Yi and Ye Lingling, while Ye Lingling hinted that she would consider living with him once he helped her mother.

• Xue Qinghe invited Bai Yi, Ye Lingling, Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and three other students to a banquet at the East Palace.
• Xue Qinghe praised the students and gave them gifts suited to their strengths, including Bai Yi's mysterious black ore.
• Xue Qinghe praised Bai Yi's undefeated record and gave him medicine to strengthen his muscles and bones.
• Bai Yi asked Xue Qinghe to arrange a grand residence near the imperial palace, and she agreed to find him one.
• Xue Qinghe offered to arrange a nearby residence for Ye Lingling, and Ye Lingling accepted so she could stay close to Bai Yi.
• On the walk back, Ye Lingling said she would consider living with Bai Yi if he solved the problem with her mother's martial soul.

Ten-year-old Bai Yi reached rank thirty and secretly left Heaven Dou City to find his third Soul Ring. After witnessing a Golden-Winged Thunder Roc kill a ten-thousand-year Thunder-Patterned Earth Dragon, he decided to pursue the Roc as his target.

• Bai Yi told Zhi Lin and Meng Shenji he had reached rank thirty, then agreed to wait for their arrangements to hunt his third Soul Ring.
• Bai Yi transformed into a tiny black beetle, slipped past the spies watching his residence, and left Heaven Dou City alone.
• Bai Yi reached the Star Dou Great Forest and watched a Golden-Winged Thunder Roc kill a Thunder-Patterned Earth Dragon in a few breaths.
• Bai Yi examined the earth dragon's wounds and chose the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc as the target for his third Soul Ring.

Bai Yi used the Seventy-Two Transformations to outmaneuver and weaken a thirty-thousand-year Golden-Winged Thunder Roc in the Star Dou Great Forest. After evading its devastating lightning attack, he struck down the exhausted soul beast.

• Bai Yi threw his transformed Golden Cudgel at the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc, but its metallic feathers deflected the spear and it dove at him.
• Bai Yi evaded the dive with clones, then struck the roc with his cudgel and weakened its left wing.
• The roc attacked Bai Yi’s clones with its talons while his invisible true body waited for an opening and pierced its wounded wing.
• The Golden-Winged Thunder Roc unleashed a powerful area-wide lightning attack, but Bai Yi watched safely from afar on the Somersault Cloud.
• Bai Yi returned to the weakened roc and killed it with a decisive blow from his cudgel.

Bai Yi absorbed the Golden-Winged Thunder Roc’s ten-thousand-year Soul Ring and gained the Thunder Wings soul skill. While testing it, he discovered the wounded and poisoned Zhu Zhuqing fleeing through the forest, followed by Luo Li.

• Bai Yi absorbed the Thunder Roc’s Soul Ring after a mental battle in which his immense phantom frightened the beast into submission.
• Bai Yi tested Thunder Wings, using golden lightning to fly and launch a blade that split a tree.
• Bai Yi heard someone fleeing and hid himself with the Invisibility Technique.
• Zhu Zhuqing stumbled into the clearing, wounded and apparently poisoned, then continued deeper into the forest.
• Luo Li followed Zhu Zhuqing’s trail past Bai Yi’s hiding place, and Bai Yi judged the pursuer too weak to threaten him.

Zhu Zhuqing was cornered by Luo Li in the Star Dou Great Forest, but Bai Yi arrived and killed him with his Thunder Wings and Golden Cudgel. Bai Yi then agreed to take Zhu Zhuqing to Heaven Dou City and used his Soul Power to purge her poison and heal her injuries.

• Zhu Zhuqing, poisoned and weakened, was caught by Luo Li, who revealed Zhu Zhuyun had ordered her death and prepared to kill her.
• Bai Yi blocked Luo Li’s attack and revealed himself as a Soul Elder with a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Luo Li attacked Bai Yi with his soul skills, but Bai Yi’s Thunder Wings shattered the poison thorns and sent Luo Li crashing into a tree.
• Bai Yi struck Luo Li with a lightning blade, killing him and reducing his body to ash.
• Bai Yi offered to take Zhu Zhuqing to Heaven Dou City, then poured Soul Power into her to remove the poison and heal her wounds.

Bai Yi returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy after rescuing Zhu Zhuqing and revealed that he had obtained a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. Appointed captain for the exchange with the Five Elemental Academies, he faced Godwind and Blazing Fire Academies in a team battle and left Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wu on the defensive.

• Bai Yi cured Zhu Zhuqing's poison and injuries, flew her to the outskirts of Heaven Dou City, and told her she could visit him at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Bai Yi returned to the academy after two weeks away and showed Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin his three Soul Rings, including a stable Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Meng Shenji appointed Bai Yi captain of the Heaven Dou Royal Team for the exchange with the Five Elemental Academies, which was scheduled to begin three days later.
• After Heaven Dou Royal Academy finished the individual matches with three wins and two losses, Bai Yi entered the team battle with only Ye Lingling beside him against the joint Godwind and Blazing Fire team.
• Bai Yi used his Golden Cudgel and Thunder Wings to break the opposing formation, counter Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wu, and protect Ye Lingling.
• Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wu regrouped instead of pressing their attacks as the spectators watched Bai Yi hold off their team.

Bai Yi fought Feng Xiaotian and the Godwind Academy team, overcoming their wind-and-fire attacks and defeating Feng Xiaotian in an aerial battle. Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wu accepted their losses and vowed to challenge Bai Yi again, while Ye Lingling waited with him after the match.

• Feng Xiaotian organized the team to keep their distance and attacked Bai Yi with a rapid series of wolf-claw strikes, but Bai Yi read his rhythm and dodged.
• Huo Wu fused her Soul Rings while the team added wind, creating a flaming tornado that Bai Yi dismantled with lightning energy blades.
• Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wu combined wind wings and fire to challenge Bai Yi in the air, and Bai Yi summoned his Thunder Wings to meet them.
• Bai Yi struck Feng Xiaotian with Thunder Feather Thousand Strikes, burned his shoulder, and forced him to concede.
• Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wu admitted defeat and promised to challenge Bai Yi again, while Ye Lingling gave Bai Yi water and stayed beside him.

Xue Qinghe reconsidered Bai Yi’s hidden abilities after learning he had defeated Godwind Academy and Blazing Fire Academy, while other students reacted to his strength. After enduring another grueling training session, Bai Yi fell asleep as Ye Lingling healed and watched over him.

• Xue Qinghe learned that Bai Yi had defeated the combined teams of Godwind Academy and Blazing Fire Academy, realized he had evaded the shadow guards, and ordered them to keep watching from a distance.
• Huo Wu vowed to beat Bai Yi next time, while Feng Xiaotian, Thunder Academy, Elephant Armor Academy, and Skywater Academy discussed his power and prepared for future competition.
• Zhu Zhuqing overheard Heaven Dou City residents discussing Bai Yi’s victory and ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, then compared herself unfavorably with him and suppressed her growing feelings.
• Bai Yi exhausted himself tempering his body with lightning, and Ye Lingling healed him with her Nine Heart Begonia.
• Bai Yi told Ye Lingling he needed strength to stop others from deciding his fate, and Ye Lingling stayed beside him as he fell asleep.

Bai Yi prepared to face Skywater Academy while Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Dugu Bo watched from the stands. The chapter ended with Shui Bing'er asking Bai Yi to bring a full team, but he refused to fight alongside anyone besides himself.

• Ning Fengzhi pointed out Ye Lingling to Ning Rongrong and explained that she had chosen to work with Bai Yi.
• Dugu Bo came to watch Bai Yi after Dugu Yan told him about Bai Yi's strength and Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Shui Bing'er led Skywater Academy's team onto the arena, drawing the spectators' attention.
• Shui Bing'er asked Bai Yi to lead a full team against Skywater Academy, but Bai Yi said cooperating would affect his performance.
• Ning Rongrong called Bai Yi a hypocrite for refusing to cooperate while keeping Ye Lingling by his side.

Bai Yi defeated Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er's Skywater Team with his lightning attack, then overcame their Martial Soul Fusion Skill with a new combination of fire and lightning. Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er collapsed from exhaustion, leaving Bai Yi victorious.

• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er attacked Bai Yi with ice skills, but he dodged their attacks and struck down the Skywater Team with golden lightning.
• Shui Bing'er protected herself and Shui Yue'er with crystalline wings as the rest of their teammates fell unconscious.
• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er joined hands and unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Ice Snow Fluttering, forming a gigantic Ice Phoenix.
• Bai Yi combined flames and lightning in Thunder Fire Wing God Strike and shattered the Ice Phoenix.
• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er collapsed after exhausting their Soul Power, and Skywater Team lost.

After Bai Yi defeated the Five Great Academies, Ning Fengzhi invited him to consider Ning Rongrong for the Heaven Dou Royal Team, but Bai Yi questioned the lineup’s need for another support Soul Master. Bai Yi then agreed to visit Dugu Bo’s home to apologize to Dugu Yan, giving him a chance to pursue access to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

• Meng Shenji told Bai Yi that the academy would appoint him captain of the Heaven Dou Royal Team after his victory over the Five Great Academies.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed that Ning Rongrong study at the academy and possibly join the team, but Bai Yi said her support abilities overlapped with Ye Lingling’s.
• Ning Fengzhi argued that combining the two support Soul Masters could strengthen a team built around Bai Yi, while Ning Rongrong objected to working alongside Ye Lingling.
• Sword Douluo Chen Xin tested Bai Yi with his pressure, but Bai Yi remained unaffected.
• Bai Yi recognized Dugu Bo and considered earning his trust to reach the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and complete his Third Trial.
• Dugu Bo confronted Bai Yi over his treatment of Dugu Yan, and Bai Yi agreed to visit his home the next day to apologize.

Bai Yi visited Dugu Bo's residence and offered to remove the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison from Dugu Yan within seven days in exchange for a condition. Dugu Bo agreed if Bai Yi could cure her, but Dugu Yan urged him to treat her grandfather first, while Dugu Bo feared losing his poison cultivation and the power to protect her.

• Dugu Bo brought Bai Yi to his residence, where they found Dugu Yan cultivating her poison arts.
• Dugu Yan rejected Bai Yi's apology and vowed to defeat him, and Bai Yi taunted her before revealing that her poison threatened her life.
• Dugu Bo erupted in anger when Bai Yi mentioned Dugu Yan's poison, but Bai Yi offered to remove it within seven days without affecting her cultivation.
• Dugu Bo said he would accept any condition if Bai Yi truly cured Dugu Yan, and Dugu Yan asked Bai Yi to treat Dugu Bo first.
• Dugu Bo refused treatment because removing his poison would destroy his cultivation and leave him unable to protect Dugu Yan.