Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ran brought his son Xiao Cheng to the Spirit Pagoda for the martial soul awakening ceremony, where they met Deputy Pagoda Master Leng Zhaoran and his daughters. Xiao Cheng walked onto the awakening platform as the ceremony began, with his martial soul still unknown.

• Xiao Ran reflected on his past and worried that luck might affect Xiao Cheng's martial soul awakening.
• Xiao Ran and Mu Wan reassured Xiao Cheng that their love for him would not depend on what martial soul he awakened.
• Xiao Ran, Mu Wan, and Xiao Cheng arrived at the Spirit Pagoda and greeted its members.
• Xiao Ran spoke with Leng Zhaoran while Xiao Cheng met Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai, who shared their hopes for their own awakenings.
• The Spirit Pagoda deacon began the ceremony, and Xiao Cheng stepped onto the awakening platform.

Leng Yulai awakened a Dark Phoenix with Innate Full Soul Power, then Xiao Cheng revealed Twin Martial Souls: the Azure Sky Snake and a Body Martial Soul. The awakening brought back memories of Xiao Cheng’s two previous lives, and he realized his new life in Douluo Continent had just begun.

• Leng Yulai awakened a Dark Phoenix, and the deacon announced that she had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Leng Zhaoran celebrated his younger daughter's rare martial soul as Leng Yulai proudly joined him.
• Xiao Cheng awakened the Azure Sky Snake, then a second surge revealed a Body Martial Soul and Twin Martial Souls.
• Xiao Cheng’s memories of his former lives as an office worker and martial artist flooded back as his souls fused.
• The deacon announced Xiao Cheng had Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power, astonishing the hall and delighting Xiao Ran and Mu Wan.
• Xiao Cheng composed himself and looked toward his parents, confident in the possibilities of his new life.

Xiao Cheng stunned the Spirit Pagoda with a spiritual power score of 239, then returned home and told his parents that a mysterious inheritance had placed Martial Dao knowledge in his mind. Xiao Ran and Mu Wan accepted the explanation and agreed to study the Taixuan Technique with him, while keeping the inheritance secret.

• Xiao Cheng scored 239 on the spiritual power test, entering the Spirit Connection Realm and further astonishing Leng Zhaoran, Xiao Ran, Mu Wan, and the other attendees.
• Xiao Ran and Mu Wan took Xiao Cheng home, where Xiao Ran asked about the purple-gold mark he had seen flash across his son's forehead during the awakening.
• Xiao Cheng claimed the mark had given him memories of Martial Dao and wrote down the Taixuan Technique for his parents.
• Xiao Ran and Mu Wan judged the Taixuan Technique to be upright and safe enough to try, and Xiao Ran promised to guide Xiao Cheng's cultivation.
• Xiao Ran told Xiao Cheng that the three of them must keep the inheritance secret, and Xiao Cheng agreed, relieved that his Martial Dao knowledge now had a believable explanation.

Xiao Cheng received his first Soul Spirit, an Azure Sky Snake specially created by Xiao Ran, and gained the Power of Empty Green soul skill. After reaching rank eleven, he began his path as a Soul Master, with Xiao Ran planning to start his Taixuan Technique training that night.

• Xiao Ran and Mu Wan discussed the Taixuan Technique and learned that Xiao Cheng had already circulated the stronger Dragon Transformation Sutra.
• Xiao Ran took Xiao Cheng to a restricted Spirit Pagoda laboratory to receive his first Soul Spirit.
• Xiao Ran explained that he had created the Azure Sky Snake Soul Spirit for Xiao Cheng, sealing prototypes of Self-Created Soul Skills inside it.
• Xiao Cheng absorbed the Azure Sky Snake Soul Spirit, which resonated with the Dragon Transformation Sutra and his Azure Sky Snake Martial Soul.
• Xiao Cheng gained the first soul skill Power of Empty Green and advanced to rank eleven.

After six months of intense spear and body training, Xiao Cheng reached Level 15 and prepared to test his abilities in real combat. Xiao Ran and Mu Wan brought him to the Spirit Ascension Platform, where he was about to face the Soul Beasts within.

• Xiao Cheng practiced with the Azure Sky Divine Spear until he found a steadier connection between his spear techniques and his young body.
• Xiao Cheng recalled Xiao Ran’s lessons in the Power of Empty Green and his own rapid progress in defense, reactions, and short-range Teleportation.
• Mu Wan trained Xiao Cheng’s body with strenuous exercises and medicinal baths that strengthened him over the past half year.
• Xiao Ran confirmed Xiao Cheng had reached Level 15, with Soul Power far denser than that of an ordinary Level 15 Soul Master.
• Xiao Ran warned Xiao Cheng to survive and rely on his own skills at the Spirit Ascension Platform, while promising to extract him if necessary.
• Xiao Ran and Mu Wan took Xiao Cheng to the Spirit Ascension Platform for his first real combat experience.

Xiao Cheng entered the Junior Spirit Ascension Platform, hunted several Soul Beasts to strengthen Lueqing, and was trapped by a Man Faced Demon Spider. Leng Yaozhu appeared and opened a way through the spiderweb, leaving Xiao Cheng beside her as the spider pursued them.

• Xiao Ran warned Xiao Cheng about the Spirit Ascension Platform’s dangers before staff linked him to the virtual forest.
• Xiao Cheng summoned his Azure Sky Divine Spear and killed a hundred-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent to feed Lueqing.
• Xiao Cheng defeated a Wind Baboon, a pack of Wind Wolves, and an Electric Mouse, then rested in a tree hollow to recover his Soul Power.
• A Man Faced Demon Spider attacked Xiao Cheng’s hiding place and trapped him inside a web barrier.
• Leng Yaozhu burned an opening through the web, allowing Xiao Cheng to escape as the spider pursued them.

Xiao Cheng and Leng Yaozhu teamed up to kill the Man Faced Demon Spider in the Spirit Ascension Platform. Xiao Ran suspected Leng Yaozhu’s arrival had been arranged, and Leng Zhaoran confirmed he had adjusted her teleportation coordinates while leaving her choice to help Xiao Cheng up to her.

• Leng Yaozhu burned away the spider silk as Xiao Cheng advanced on the Man Faced Demon Spider, deflecting its attacks and searching for a chance to strike its abdomen.
• Leng Yaozhu’s flames forced the Man Faced Demon Spider to change course, letting Xiao Cheng stab its abdomen, but the spider fired its Web Bind at him.
• Leng Yaozhu used Heavenly Phoenix Flowing Fire to burn away the web, and Xiao Cheng killed the Man Faced Demon Spider with the Azure Sky Divine Spear.
• Xiao Cheng and Leng Yaozhu absorbed the spiritual light from the corpse, thanked each other, and wondered whether their meeting had been a coincidence.
• Xiao Ran reviewed the battle and suspected Leng Zhaoran had arranged for Leng Yaozhu to appear near Xiao Cheng.
• Leng Zhaoran admitted he had adjusted Leng Yaozhu’s teleportation coordinates but said her decision to help Xiao Cheng had been her own.

Xiao Cheng and Leng Yaozhu grew into a formidable Spirit Ascension Platform team, but a thousand-year Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger repeatedly hunted them and forced them to retreat. After a year of cultivation and monthly expeditions, they were nearing level twenty and resolved to face the tiger rather than keep running.

• Xiao Cheng and Leng Yaozhu defeated a thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Fox and reflected on their growing teamwork.
• The thousand-year Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger appeared, and Xiao Cheng and Leng Yaozhu escaped by pressing their teleportation buttons.
• Xiao Cheng discovered that Lueqing had gained at least three hundred years of age, while Leng Yaozhu asked him to team up again the following month.
• Over the next year, Xiao Cheng reached the peak of level nineteen, Lueqing surpassed a thousand years, and the pair repeatedly encountered the Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger.
• Leng Yaozhu vowed to burn the tiger's tail, and Xiao Cheng decided they should stop running and confront it themselves.

Xiao Cheng broke through to Soul Grandmaster and completed the first Blood Exchange of the Dragon Transformation Sutra, awakening True Dragon Qi. After recovering, he agreed to return to the Spirit Ascension Platform with Leng Yaozhu next month to confront the Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger, which might leave behind a valuable reward.

• Xiao Cheng reached Level 20, and Lueqing evolved into an azure python and gave him a second purple Soul Ring, raising him to Level 21.
• Xiao Cheng condensed True Dragon Qi and completed his first Blood Exchange, greatly increasing his physical power and control over his body.
• Xiao Ran and Mu Wan welcomed Xiao Cheng after his successful breakthrough, and Xiao Cheng told them that the Dragon Transformation Sutra’s first level was complete.
• Leng Yaozhu visited Xiao Cheng, learned that he had reached Level 21, and agreed to accompany him to the Spirit Ascension Platform next month.
• Leng Yaozhu told Xiao Cheng that the Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger was an Unyielding Soul Spirit that might leave valuable spoils if defeated.
• Xiao Cheng spent the following days consolidating his cultivation and learning to use his second soul skill.

Xiao Cheng tested the limits of his new Voiding soul skill before joining Leng Yaozhu, Leng Yulai, Qiangu Qingfeng, and Qiangu Dongfeng in the Spirit Ascension Platform to challenge the Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger. After Leng Yulai practiced against several hundred-year soul beasts, the group prepared for the Scorpion Tiger to appear.

• Xiao Cheng discovered that Voiding let him evade physical attacks for only a few seconds before its escalating Soul Power cost became dangerous.
• Leng Yaozhu told Xiao Cheng that Qiangu Qingfeng and Qiangu Dongfeng had joined their team, and that Leng Yulai would come along to gain combat experience.
• Qiangu Dieting planned to gather the five young soul masters into a Spirit Pagoda team to compete against Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect.
• Xiao Cheng met the four others at the Spirit Ascension Tower, and the group entered the Spirit Ascension Platform together.
• Leng Yulai defeated a hundred-year Wind Baboon with her Dark Phoenix Flowing Fire and improved by fighting several more soul beasts.
• Qiangu Dongfeng said the Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger should arrive soon, and the group prepared for it.

Xiao Cheng and his companions fought the Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger, which feigned weakness before ambushing and eliminating the Qiangu Brothers. As Xiao Cheng and Leng Yaozhu faced its final attack, Xiao Cheng’s Purple-Gold Mark awakened and swallowed the beast; both were then teleported away.

• The Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger lured the five fighters into thinking it was weakening, then ambushed Xiao Cheng and attacked the Qiangu Brothers.
• The Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger badly wounded Qiangu Qingfeng and Qiangu Dongfeng, who pressed their rescue buttons and were teleported out.
• Leng Yaozhu saved Leng Yulai from the beast and sent her out, but was left unable to escape its attack.
• Xiao Cheng teleported in front of Leng Yaozhu and knocked the Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger away, then both pressed their rescue buttons.
• The Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger used Dark Sky Curtain to slow their teleportation, but Xiao Cheng’s Purple-Gold Mark awakened and a vortex swallowed the beast.
• The darkness dispersed, and Xiao Cheng and Leng Yaozhu completed their teleportation out of the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Xiao Cheng awakened after the battle with the Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger and discovered that he had gained the beast’s External Soul Bone. After Xiao Ran concealed the mysterious purple light and explained the Tiger’s past, Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai visited Xiao Cheng, who rested while planning to study his new power.

• The Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger ambushed the five children with its hidden strength and Dark Sky Curtain, but a purple light appeared and the beast vanished as Xiao Cheng and Leng Yaozhu were teleported out.
• Qiangu Qingfeng, Qiangu Dongfeng, Leng Yulai, Leng Yaozhu, and Xiao Cheng emerged from their pods, with Xiao Cheng waking last after suffering mental exhaustion.
• Xiao Cheng told Xiao Ran that he sensed an unfamiliar power at the base of his spine, and Xiao Ran identified the purple light as resembling the mark from Xiao Cheng’s martial soul awakening.
• Xiao Ran explained that the Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger had once been a ten-thousand-year beast and concealed the purple light’s connection to Xiao Cheng by attributing it to a protective method left by his mother.
• Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai visited Xiao Cheng, thanked him and Leng Yaozhu for saving them, and left after Xiao Cheng promised to rest.
• Xiao Cheng fell asleep after deciding to investigate the External Soul Bone once he recovered.

Xiao Cheng practiced controlling his Dark Demon Scorpion Tail and learned that Spirit Pagoda planned to form a seven-person team to challenge Shrek Academy and Tang Sect at the competition in seven years. After training with his father, he joined the assembled Seven Luminaries Team at Spirit Pagoda headquarters.

• Xiao Cheng awakened and practiced using the Dark Demon Scorpion Tail, landing a strike but realizing he still needed to improve his control.
• Xiao Ran told Xiao Cheng that Tower Master Qiangu planned a seven-person Spirit Pagoda team for the All-Federation Youth Soul Master Competition.
• Xiao Ran named the other candidates: Zhang Geyang and Xia Zhengleng, alongside Xiao Cheng, the Leng sisters, and the Qiangu brothers.
• Xiao Cheng agreed to master his spirit bone, and Xiao Ran offered to train him personally over the next half month.
• Xiao Cheng, the Leng sisters, the Qiangu brothers, Zhang Geyang, and Xia Zhengleng gathered at Spirit Pagoda headquarters as the Seven Luminaries Team.

The seven members of the Spirit Pagoda Seven Luminaries Team introduced themselves and their abilities, revealing rivalries over leadership between Qiangu Dongfeng and Qiangu Qingfeng. Qiangu Dieting announced a seven-year mission to win the All-Federation Youth Soul Master Competition and said a practical combat drill would decide the team captain.

• Xiao Cheng broke the awkward silence, and the seven members introduced themselves and their martial souls, ranks, and combat roles.
• Qiangu Dongfeng revealed that Qiangu Dieting had given him a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, worsening Qiangu Qingfeng's resentment and determination to compete for leadership.
• The team discussed their abilities, including Xiao Cheng's Azure Sky Snake, Teleportation, and External Soul Bone.
• Qiangu Dieting arrived with Leng Zhaoran, Zhang Hongwen, and Xiao Ran, formally named the seven members of the Spirit Pagoda Seven Luminaries Team, and set their goal of defeating Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect in the competition seven years later.
• Qiangu Dieting proposed that a practical combat drill determine the captain, setting up a leadership contest among the team.

Zhang Geyang challenged Xiao Cheng for a spar and was decisively defeated, prompting praise for Xiao Cheng’s spear skills. Leng Yaozhu then challenged Qiangu Dongfeng, but Qiangu Qingfeng stepped in, and the brothers prepared to fight over the arena.

• Zhang Geyang challenged Xiao Cheng, confident that his stronger Soul Power and Nether Flame Beast gave him the advantage.
• Xiao Cheng used Teleportation and his Azure Sky Divine Spear to evade Zhang Geyang’s attack and knock him out of the match in seconds.
• Qiangu Dieting praised Xiao Cheng’s spear technique, while Zhang Hongwen took the injured Zhang Geyang away for more training.
• Leng Yaozhu challenged Qiangu Dongfeng, but Qiangu Qingfeng demanded to face his younger brother instead.
• Qiangu Dongfeng accepted Qiangu Qingfeng’s challenge, and the brothers took the arena with the Coiling Dragon Staff and Purgatory Halberd.

Qiangu Dongfeng defeated Qiangu Qingfeng and Leng Yaozhu, then fought Xiao Cheng to a draw after using the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone’s powers. The captain selection was postponed, leaving Xiao Ran and Leng Zhaoran considering whether Xiao Cheng could claim the role.

• Qiangu Dongfeng overwhelmed Qiangu Qingfeng with his staff technique and defeated him after Qiangu Qingfeng briefly unleashed a stronger halberd strike.
• Leng Yaozhu challenged Qiangu Dongfeng, but he used Gravity Control from his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to overcome her aerial advantage and force her to concede.
• Xiao Cheng challenged Qiangu Dongfeng and matched his staff technique with his spear, spatial abilities, and Dark Demon Scorpion Tail.
• Qiangu Dongfeng activated Dragon Elephant Power, while Xiao Cheng used Voiding and Teleportation to evade his attacks and counter him.
• Both fighters exhausted their Soul Power and agreed to a draw, so Qiangu Dieting postponed the captain selection.
• Xiao Ran and Leng Zhaoran reconsidered Xiao Cheng’s chances of becoming captain after the other team members resisted Qiangu Dongfeng’s leadership.

After the Seven Luminaries Team failed to choose a captain, Mu Wan took Xiao Cheng to Heaven Dou City so he could meet his maternal family and receive the Body Sect’s guidance. They arrived at the sect’s mountain gate, where Xiao Cheng anticipated discovering what its inheritance could offer him.

• Xiao Cheng told Leng Yaozhu that the Seven Luminaries Team’s captaincy would likely remain unsettled until the members grew stronger.
• Mu Wan told Xiao Ran that her father had invited her to bring Xiao Cheng to the Body Sect, and Xiao Ran agreed while staying behind to work on his project.
• Mu Wan took Xiao Cheng to Heaven Dou City in a Black-Grade Mecha, where her younger brother Mu Man welcomed them.
• Mu Man escorted Xiao Cheng and Mu Wan to the Body Sect and described the sect’s former glory, wartime losses, and gradual recovery.
• Xiao Cheng arrived at the Body Sect’s mountain gate and looked forward to exploring its inheritance.

Xiao Cheng reunited with his grandfather Mu Huang and met Mu Wan’s teacher, Han Tianyi, at the Body Sect. After they examined his rare Body Martial Soul, Mu Huang explained that its true purpose was self-perfection, and Xiao Cheng eagerly accepted the prospect of arduous training.

• Mu Wan brought Xiao Cheng to the Body Sect, where Mu Huang welcomed his daughter and grandson with delight.
• Mu Huang and Mu Man teased each other before Mu Wan questioned Mu Man about the girl he was courting and advised him how to confess.
• Han Tianyi arrived, greeted his disciple Mu Wan, and bickered with Mu Huang over whether Xiao Cheng counted as his grandson too.
• Xiao Cheng revealed his Body Martial Soul, and Mu Huang and Han Tianyi praised his physical condition and unusually strong spiritual power.
• Mu Huang explained that cultivating a Body Martial Soul meant understanding and perfecting one’s body, and Xiao Cheng eagerly prepared for the arduous training ahead.

Xiao Cheng began intensive physical and spiritual training under Mu Huang and Han Tianyi, discovering that Yang Spring strengthened his True Dragon Qi and that he could endure Han Tianyi’s starry spiritual world unusually well. He shared the Taixuan Technique with Mu Huang and Han Tianyi, hoping to strengthen Body Sect against a future disaster.

• Mu Huang made Xiao Cheng run ten mountain laps wearing gear that imposed ten times normal gravity, then guided him through strength training.
• Mu Man brought Xiao Cheng to Yang Spring, where he recovered from training and found that its yang energy strengthened his True Dragon Qi.
• Han Tianyi trained Xiao Cheng in his spiritual world, where Xiao Cheng lasted half an hour and began sensing the stars’ patterns.
• Mu Wan taught the Taixuan Technique to Mu Huang and Han Tianyi after Xiao Cheng agreed to share it.
• Mu Huang and Han Tianyi praised the Taixuan Technique’s benefits, and Mu Huang believed it could help him reach Limit Douluo within ten years.

After months of intense cultivation, Xiao Cheng used the Body Sect’s Ice-Fire Golden Body Refinement to awaken the power stored in his Purple-Gold Mark. The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s bloodline became his Body Martial Soul’s first Soul Ring, and Mu Huang and Han Tianyi urged him to keep the secret hidden.

• Xiao Cheng told Mu Huang and Han Tianyi that a mysterious power seemed to be stirring within him, and Mu Huang confirmed it was not a Second Awakening of his Body Martial Soul.
• Han Tianyi proposed using the Body Sect’s Ice-Fire Golden Body Refinement to force the latent power to awaken.
• Three days later, Xiao Cheng entered a bronze cauldron filled with Ice-Fire Spirit Liquid and endured its opposing forces while circulating the Dragon Transformation Sutra.
• After absorbing most of the liquid’s power, Xiao Cheng manifested the Purple-Gold Mark and summoned the phantom of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Xiao Cheng learned that the mark had stored the Evil God Bloodline after devouring the Dark Demon Scorpion Tiger, and that it had now formed his Body Martial Soul’s first Soul Ring.
• Xiao Cheng’s Soul Power reached level 25 and his strength rose to eight thousand jin, while Mu Huang and Han Tianyi warned him to conceal the tiger’s power and the mark.