Chapter Summaries

Zhao Linchuan awakened the Wood Azure Dragon and Metal White Tiger martial souls, though Su Yuntao mistook the first for Blue Silver Grass and dismissed him. Realizing he had Innate Full Soul Power, Zhao Linchuan planned to seek out Ah Yin’s hidden body and began scheming about future opportunities, then rejected a cruel plan involving Xiao Wu; he resolved to search for Ah Yin the next morning.

• Zhao Linchuan awakened a pale-cyan Wood Azure Dragon while secretly keeping his other martial soul hidden.
• Su Yuntao dismissed Zhao Linchuan’s martial soul as useless Blue Silver Grass and left without properly testing his soul power.
• Zhao Linchuan sensed that he possessed Innate Full Soul Power and worried about finding a suitable first spirit ring without connections or academy support.
• Zhao Linchuan remembered that Tang Hao had hidden Ah Yin behind a waterfall and devised a plan to dig beneath the soul power barrier.
• Zhao Linchuan considered exploiting Xiao Wu for her spirit rings and spirit bones, but slapped himself and rejected the plan.
• Zhao Linchuan decided to gather herbs for money and search for Ah Yin’s hiding place the next morning.

Zhao Linchuan found Xiao Wu near Nuoding City and frightened her with a fabricated story about a Soul Beast’s Sacrifice to a Title Douluo. After Xiao Wu began doubting whether it was safe to attend Notting Academy, Zhao Linchuan offered her a better place to study if she became his little sister.

• Zhao Linchuan left Village Chief Old Jack and searched the villages near Nuoding City for Xiao Wu.
• Zhao Linchuan found Xiao Wu studying her Notting Academy work-study enrollment certificate and told her a story about a Title Douluo with a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu let slip that humans could not endure absorbing a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, and Zhao Linchuan claimed a Blue Silver Emperor had sacrificed herself to protect her newborn child.
• Xiao Wu grew suspicious and worried that the Title Douluo at Notting Academy might discover her identity and force her to Sacrifice herself.
• Zhao Linchuan noticed Xiao Wu’s Innate Full Soul Power enrollment certificate and offered her a better learning environment if she became his little sister.

Zhao Linchuan took Xiao Wu to a hidden cave behind a waterfall, where they dug around a Soul Power barrier to reach the Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin. He attacked her to obtain her Soul Ring, while Tang-San felt a sudden pain and feared that something had happened to his father.

• Zhao Linchuan opened a hidden cave entrance behind the waterfall and brought Xiao Wu inside.
• Zhao Linchuan told Xiao Wu that the Blue Silver Grass behind the Soul Power barrier was the Blue Silver Emperor, and they dug a tunnel around the barrier.
• Zhao Linchuan sent Xiao Wu to guard the cave entrance, then uncovered a lead box and prepared to absorb Ah Yin's Soul Ring and Spirit Bone.
• Zhao Linchuan struck Ah Yin's roots with a shovel, causing a yellow Soul Ring to rise from her body.
• Tang-San felt a piercing pain in his chest at Yu Xiaogang's place and worried that something had happened to his father.

After absorbing Ah Yin’s Soul Ring, Zhao Linchuan broke through to level sixteen and discovered its Wood Azure Dragon Break skill. He and Xiao Wu traveled toward a town as Zhao considered how to fund his plan to settle near Sunset Forest and observe Dugu Bo.

• Zhao Linchuan emerged from the cave after the Blue Silver Emperor Spirit Bone helped open his Eight Extraordinary Meridians and raised his Soul Power to level sixteen.
• Zhao Linchuan pulled Xiao Wu away from the waterfall and took her to a stream, where he washed and examined the skill granted by Ah Yin’s Soul Ring.
• Zhao Linchuan learned that Wood Azure Dragon Break could attack enemies with a wooden dragon or heal allies with restorative rain.
• Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu ate grilled fish, and he promised to take her for a carrot feast the next day.
• Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu reached a town, where Zhao weighed his plan to settle near Sunset Forest and realized he lacked enough money.

Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu set out to find money, but a pair of human traffickers tried to lure them away on a country road. Zhao Linchuan killed the couple with his first Soul Skill and left Xiao Wu confused as he went to search their belongings.

• Zhao Linchuan promised Xiao Wu he would keep her fed, and the next day they walked together along a country road.
• A middle-aged couple blocked their way and tried to trick them into coming along by claiming they knew Zhao Linchuan's grandmother.
• The couple revealed their white Soul Rings and convinced Zhao Linchuan to follow them toward a carriage.
• Zhao Linchuan unleashed his First Soul Skill, Wood Azure Dragon Break, and killed the middle-aged woman and man.
• Zhao Linchuan warned Xiao Wu to beware of strangers, then told her to wait while he searched the bodies for useful items.

Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu escaped the traffickers, divided their stolen wealth, and traveled to Ox-Horse Town, where Zhao Linchuan bought them a house. A mysterious silver-haired woman followed them, wondering whether mating with Zhao Linchuan could produce offspring stronger than the Dragon God.

• Zhao Linchuan searched the dead traffickers and found two Storage Soul Tools containing Gold Soul Coins and a black deposit card.
• Zhao Linchuan discovered the card held 30,000 Gold Soul Coins, gave Xiao Wu a storage ring, and took her toward a nearby town.
• A silver-haired woman watched Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu leave, wondered if he could father offspring stronger than the Dragon God, and followed them.
• Half a month later, Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu arrived in Ox-Horse Town, where Zhao Linchuan had bought a house for 130 Gold Soul Coins.
• Zhao Linchuan told Xiao Wu that the house would be their home and that they would keep sleeping together and save money for her food.

Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu settled into their home, then went shopping for household supplies at the market. There, Zhao Linchuan became interested in a blue pouch at a street stall and asked its owner how much it cost.

• Xiao Wu planned to grow carrots, and Zhao Linchuan agreed to go with her to the market for seeds and household goods.
• Xiao Wu slept beside Zhao Linchuan without pajamas, asked him about his body, and startled him by slipping under the covers; their commotion lasted late into the night.
• Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu bought household necessities and autumn chrysanthemums at the market.
• Xiao Wu asked why Zhao Linchuan had bought lumps of iron, and he said he intended to make a huge fishhook to catch a Wealthy Thousand-Gold Fish.
• Zhao Linchuan noticed a blue pouch at a street stall and asked the old stall owner its price; the man offered it for two Silver Soul Coins.

Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu discovered that a cheap blue pouch was a rare Storage Soul Tool capable of holding living things. A year later, Zhao Linchuan reached level twenty and told Xiao Wu they would go to Sunset Forest to hunt for his second Soul Ring, leaving her troubled by the prospect of killing Soul Beasts.

• Zhao Linchuan paid two Silver Soul Coins for a blue pouch and hurried home with Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu found that the pouch could store a giant, freshly dug ginseng, and Zhao Linchuan explained that it could hold living creatures.
• The seasons passed, and Xiao Wu and Zhao Linchuan shared watermelon in their courtyard while Zhao Linchuan hid his gunpowder formulas.
• Zhao Linchuan told Xiao Wu he had reached level twenty and asked her to accompany him to Sunset Forest the next day to hunt for his second Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu objected that Soul Beasts had families, but Zhao Linchuan insisted Soul Masters followed the continent's rules and urged her to cultivate if she wanted to change them.

Tang San returned to Holy Soul Village for break and told Tang Hao that Yu Xiaogang had discovered his second Martial Soul. Tang Hao later found Ah Yin's Blue Silver Grass dead and her Spirit Bone missing, then returned home and drank in a fury.

• Xiao Wu asked Zhao Linchuan to stop lecturing her, and he gave her a few days off from cultivation.
• Tang San returned to Holy Soul Village with wine and told Tang Hao that he had reached level fifteen and Yu Xiaogang knew about his second Martial Soul.
• Tang Hao said Yu Xiaogang might help Tang San solve the problem of cultivating Twin Martial Souls.
• After several quiet days at home, Tang Hao went alone to the cave where Ah Yin had been planted.
• Tang Hao found Ah Yin's Blue Silver Grass withered and her Spirit Bone missing, then destroyed the cave with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao returned home and smashed an empty wine jar, drawing Tang San out of the inner room.

Tang Hao mistook Tang San for Ah Yin while drunk and grievously harmed him, then massacred Holy Soul Village to conceal what happened. Elsewhere, Xiao Wu asked Zhao Linchuan if he would protect her if she were not human, and she began to reveal her secret.

• Tang Hao, overcome by guilt and alcohol, mistook Tang San for Ah Yin and hurt him despite Tang San repeatedly telling him who he was.
• Tang San left Holy Soul Village at dawn, while Tang Hao stayed behind and decided to silence anyone who might expose what happened.
• The next day, news spread that fallen Soul Masters had massacred Holy Soul Village, leaving only Old Jack, who had been away, alive.
• Zhao Linchuan combed Xiao Wu's hair as she asked whether he would protect her if many people wanted to kill her.
• Xiao Wu asked whether Zhao Linchuan would still protect her if she were not human, and then said she had a secret to tell him.

In Sunset Forest, Zhao Linchuan chose a three-thousand-year Iron-Armored Spiked-Tail Lizard as his next Soul Beast despite Xiao Wu's warnings. Xiao Wu lured the lizard into a trap, and Zhao Linchuan attacked it from behind with his Azure Dragon.

• Xiao Wu proposed distracting a Soul Beast while Zhao Linchuan ambushed it, and he reminded her to say “we” instead of “you.”
• Zhao Linchuan identified a three-thousand-year Iron-Armored Spiked-Tail Lizard and decided to hunt it for its Soul Ring despite Xiao Wu's concerns.
• Xiao Wu struck the lizard with a pebble and led it on a chase through the forest.
• Xiao Wu stopped before a thorny barrier, trapping the lizard between her and the thicket.
• Zhao Linchuan unleashed a dragon roar that forced the lizard to the ground, then sent his Azure Dragon lunging at it.

Zhao Linchuan killed a thousand-year Iron-Armored Spiked-Tail Lizard and absorbed its Soul Ring while Xiao Wu stood guard. He gained the second Soul Skill One Leaf Knows Autumn, which drained the life from nearby plants, and explained its potential against aging Soul Masters.

• Zhao Linchuan killed the Iron-Armored Spiked-Tail Lizard with two attacks, and a purple Soul Ring appeared above its corpse.
• Xiao Wu congratulated Zhao Linchuan and guarded him as he absorbed the Soul Ring, resolving to use Sacrifice if anything went wrong.
• After about two hours, Zhao Linchuan subdued the three-thousand-year Soul Ring and awakened his second Soul Skill, One Leaf Knows Autumn.
• Zhao Linchuan used the skill, withering the surrounding vegetation by stripping away its life.
• Xiao Wu recognized the Soul Skill's danger, and Zhao Linchuan explained that it could threaten aging Soul Masters but would be less effective against Title Douluo and stronger opponents.

Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu returned home after discussing his new spirit skill, where Xiao Wu playfully tested his patience. By the following winter, Zhao Linchuan had developed the Soul-Extinguishing Gun, and Xiao Wu practiced with it while weighing whether to condense a thousand-year spirit ring.

• Xiao Wu praised Zhao Linchuan's new area-of-effect skill, and he took her home to eat carrot cake.
• That night, Xiao Wu secretly touched Zhao Linchuan's transformed toy, but he stopped her and said they would discuss it after teaching her human knowledge.
• By the second winter, Zhao Linchuan had developed the Soul-Extinguishing Gun with a self-destruct mechanism to deter copying.
• Xiao Wu practiced firing the gun and hit near the bullseye, then said she wanted to use it against an Iron-Armored Spiked-Tail Lizard.
• Zhao Linchuan reminded Xiao Wu to cultivate and asked about her fighting style, and she admitted she had only added the Invincible Mad Rabbit Fist.
• Xiao Wu considered condensing a thousand-year spirit ring despite its possible cost to her future rings, and Zhao Linchuan promised to find her a suitable sixth ring, prompting her to point out it would need to come from a spirit beast of her own origin.

Four years passed as Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu grew stronger and more prosperous, with Zhao reaching Soul Power Level fifty-three and gaining a powerful domain skill. When Xiao Wu returned from selling watermelons, Zhao told her to pack for a long trip and prepare to leave their home for a while.

• Xiao Wu fled into her room to condense her Soul Ring after teasing Zhao Linchuan about being his child bride.
• Over the next four years, Zhao Linchuan earned more than a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins selling pills on the black market, while Xiao Wu reached Level thirty-six with yellow, purple, purple Soul Rings.
• Zhao Linchuan reached Level fifty-three by age twelve and gained a ten-thousand-year third Soul Ring and a fifty-thousand-year fifth Soul Ring that granted him the Heaven and Earth Loss of Color domain.
• Xiao Wu returned from the market with five pounds of pork ribs after earning two Silver Soul Coins selling watermelons.
• Zhao Linchuan told Xiao Wu to pack everything they could and clean the house because they were leaving on a long trip and might not return for a while.

After six years of planning, Zhao Linchuan took Xiao Wu to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and harvested nearly all of its Immortal Herbs. He approached Xiao Wu with a piece of Black Absolute Stone and said he had a story to tell her.

• Xiao Wu reluctantly left behind her vegetable garden after Zhao Linchuan said they would not be returning soon.
• Zhao Linchuan recalled tracking an emerald light that traveled between Heaven Dou City and Sunset Forest, and realized it was time to visit the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu traveled through Sunset Forest and reached the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Zhao Linchuan warned Xiao Wu not to touch anything carelessly, then harvested nearly all the Immortal Herbs and medicinal plants in the valley and stored them in jade boxes.
• Zhao Linchuan approached Xiao Wu with a piece of Black Absolute Stone and began telling her a story.

Xiao Wu absorbed the Lovesick Heartbreak Red while Zhao Linchuan harvested the Blood Swan Kiss to use its poison-amplifying power against stronger enemies. He then consumed the Ice and Fire Immortal Herbs and plunged into the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well as their opposing forces tore through his body.

• Xiao Wu spat blood onto the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, picked it, and began absorbing it in the valley.
• Zhao Linchuan left Xiao Wu to cultivate and harvested the Blood Swan Kiss, planning to use it to amplify poison against powerful enemies.
• Zhao Linchuan drank the Dew of Autumn Water Gazing at the River and swallowed the two opposing Ice and Fire Immortal Herbs.
• Zhao Linchuan felt ice and fire ravage opposite sides of his body and leaped into the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Xiao Wu absorbed the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, reached level forty, and condensed a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring. Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu left the gorge after he carved a false Clear Sky Sect warning into its rock, then camped in a secluded valley, where Xiao Wu explained her choice of Soul Ring age.

• Xiao Wu discovered that absorbing the Lovesick Heartbreak Red had raised her to level forty and began condensing her fourth Soul Ring.
• The next morning, Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu finished cultivating and left the gorge together.
• Zhao Linchuan carved a warning claiming the gorge belonged to the Clear Sky Sect and signed it as Howling Sky Douluo Tang Xiao.
• Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu traveled from Sunset Forest to a secluded valley and set up camp beside a brook.
• Xiao Wu told Zhao Linchuan that she had condensed a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring to preserve enough origin power for a stronger fifth ring.

Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu spent time together before Zhao Linchuan encountered the wounded Zhu Zhuqing in Star Dou Forest and intervened when Star Luo Empire pursuers cornered her. After healing her enough to move, he invited her to come with him.

• Xiao Wu said her Soul Power had reached level forty-four and that she expected to break through to level forty-five soon.
• Several days later, Zhu Zhuqing fled through Star Dou Forest while wounded and dodged a barrage of soul-skill arrows.
• After an arrow injured her shoulder and she collapsed, more than a dozen soldiers caught up and surrounded her.
• Zhao Linchuan arrived atop an azure energy dragon and ordered the soldiers to stop, then challenged the leader when he threatened him with the Star Luo Empire's pursuit.
• The soldiers withdrew, and Zhao Linchuan used azure light to restore some strength to Zhu Zhuqing before telling her to come with him.

Zhu Zhuqing told Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu why she had fled the Star Luo Empire: she was searching for her betrothed, Dai Mubai, under her family’s brutal survival tradition. After Zhao Linchuan said Dai Mubai was living aimlessly in Suotuo City, he suggested they go there so Zhu Zhuqing could see the truth for herself.

• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing washed at the hidden waterfall, and Xiao Wu worried that Zhao Linchuan might be attracted to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Over a roasted meal, Xiao Wu asked Zhu Zhuqing why the Star Luo Empire wanted her, and Zhao Linchuan encouraged her to explain.
• Zhu Zhuqing described the marriage alliance between the imperial family and the Zhu Family, the rule that only the strongest survived, and her search for her missing betrothed.
• Xiao Wu condemned Dai Mubai for abandoning Zhu Zhuqing, while Zhao Linchuan said Dai Mubai lived in Suotuo City as a debauched, arrogant Soul Elder.
• Zhu Zhuqing grew discouraged when she heard Dai Mubai was only level thirty-four, so Zhao Linchuan proposed that they travel to Suotuo City together.

Zhao Linchuan brought Zhu Zhuqing to Suotuo City, where she saw Dai Mubai entering a hotel with two women and broke down over his behavior. Later, a youth recognized the crude crystal Zhao Linchuan had bought as a Crystal Plate and examined it with excitement.

• Zhao Linchuan reassured Zhu Zhuqing that he and Xiao Wu would help her, and she agreed to travel with them to Suotuo City.
• Seven days later, Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing watched Dai Mubai enter the Rose Hotel with two women, and Zhu Zhuqing decided to leave without confronting him.
• Xiao Wu comforted the crying Zhu Zhuqing by telling her how Zhao Linchuan had cared for her since childhood.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing questioned Zhao Linchuan after he returned with a crude-looking crystal he had called a treasure.
• A youth rushed over, asked to inspect Zhao Linchuan's crystal, and reacted with delight after identifying it as a Crystal Plate.