Chapter Summaries

Emperor Xue Ye sent his newborn son Xue Ya away with Prince Xue Xing to preserve an heir to the Heaven Dou Imperial Family. Six years later, Xue Ya was directing an explosive experiment in Biyou Village, with his old butler about to test it.

• Emperor Xue Ye told Xue Xing that Spirit Hall threatened the imperial family and entrusted him with one of his newborn twins.
• Xue Xing named the child Xue Ya, and Emperor Xue Ye gave him half of a broken jade pendant and ordered Xue Xing to hide him with an ordinary family.
• Xue Xing carried Xue Ya out of the palace under concealment, and the story moved ahead six years to Biyou Village.
• Lin Ya directed Liu Huang, Xiao Shi, Mu Tan, and Bai Tang as they mixed sulfur, saltpeter, charcoal, and sugar in a sealed iron barrel.
• Lin Ya used the old butler as the experiment's test subject, while he and the others covered their ears behind him.

Old Yan tested Lin Ya’s powerful black-powder grenade and was left badly scorched, while Prince Xue Xing arrived to visit his nephew. After rewarding Old Yan and showering Lin Ya with gifts, Xue Xing told him it was time to awaken his martial soul.

• Old Yan lit Lin Ya’s five-hundred-gram grenade, which exploded with enough force to badly scorch him but could not effectively harm a Soul King.
• Prince Xue Xing heard the explosion, hurried to the Lin residence, and mistook soot-covered Old Yan for a beggar before learning Lin Ya had caused the damage.
• Xue Xing criticized Old Yan for being injured by a child, then paid him fifteen thousand gold soul coins and received his vow to protect Lin Ya.
• Lin Ya had Bai Tang record the grenade’s explosive properties and greeted Xue Xing with an innocent show of affection.
• Xue Xing gave Lin Ya a bag of gifts and announced that it was time for him to awaken his martial soul.

Lin Ya awakened the Heaven Dou royal family's White Swan martial soul, prompting Prince Xue Xing to urge him to hide his identity and powers in Notting City. Lin Ya then revealed a second martial soul, Outcast, and manifested its Golden Light Mantra.

• Prince Xue Xing secretly led Lin Ya to a hidden chamber and prepared to conduct his martial soul awakening himself.
• Lin Ya awakened the White Swan martial soul and joyfully flew around the chamber with his new wings.
• Xue Xing warned Lin Ya to stay in Notting City, keep a low profile, and disguise his White Swan as an ordinary white goose.
• Lin Ya told Xue Xing that he had another martial soul and recited the Golden Light Mantra.
• Golden light surrounded Lin Ya, revealing his second martial soul as Outcast.

Lin Ya awakened the Outcast and White Swan Martial Souls and demonstrated Innate Full Soul Power, thrilling Prince Xue Xing. Xue Xing decided to take him to hunt his first Soul Ring, and Lin Ya eagerly agreed.

• Prince Xue Xing celebrated Lin Ya's Twin Martial Souls, while Lin Ya identified the Outcast as a Body Martial Soul with the Golden Light Mantra as its innate ability.
• Xue Xing warned Lin Ya to conceal his White Swan Martial Soul and avoid adding Soul Rings to it, and Lin Ya resolved to cultivate the Outcast instead.
• Lin Ya touched the testing orb and revealed Innate Full Soul Power, delighting Xue Xing.
• Xue Xing proposed taking Lin Ya to hunt his first Soul Ring, and Lin Ya eagerly accepted.

Prince Xue Xing escorted Lin Ya into the Soul Hunting Forest to obtain Lin Ya’s first soul ring, bringing an overwhelming force and giving him a powerful storage ring. His retainers captured seven century-old soul beasts, including a rare three-hundred-year Soul-Devouring Demon Spider, and Lin Ya was left to choose one.

• Prince Xue Xing used his royal token to bypass registration and led Lin Ya and seven powerful soul masters into the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Xue Xing gave Lin Ya the Xue Xing Ring, which held one hundred cubic meters of storage space and served as his personal token.
• After Lin Ya said his mutated martial soul could likely accommodate any attribute, Xue Xing ordered the soul masters to capture nearby century-old soul beasts alive.
• The seven soul masters returned with seven subdued beasts, including a two-hundred-year Ghost Vine, a two-hundred-year Cockscomb Phoenix Snake, and a three-hundred-year Soul-Devouring Demon Spider.
• The Soul Saint explained the rare spider’s devouring ability, and Xue Xing invited Lin Ya to choose his first soul-ring target.

Lin Ya chose the Soul-Devouring Demon Spider for his first soul ring and became an eleventh-level soul master. His first soul skill, Spirit Binding and General Summoning, summoned the dead spider as a powerful fighter, leaving Xue Xing and the other soul masters stunned.

• Lin Ya selected the Soul-Devouring Demon Spider from the subdued soul beasts.
• Lin Ya killed the spider and absorbed its hundred-year soul ring despite the force overwhelming his body.
• Lin Ya succeeded in becoming an eleventh-level soul master, and his first soul skill transformed his ring into a phantom spider.
• Lin Ya summoned the Soul-Devouring Demon Spider and sent it after a hundred-year wind baboon.
• The summoned spider killed the wind baboon with Spear of the Unending, astonishing the soul masters present.

Lin Ya discovered that Spirit Binding and General Summoning could devour soul rings and use their power to strengthen his own. After his Devouring Demon Spider consumed a Wind Baboon’s ring, Xue Xing arranged a second test with a caged Phoenix-Tail Cockscomb Snake.

• Lin Ya’s Devouring Demon Spider killed a century-old Wind Baboon in one exchange, astonishing Xue Xing and the watching Soul Masters.
• The Devouring Demon Spider consumed the Wind Baboon’s soul ring, raising Lin Ya’s first soul ring from three hundred and eleven years to three hundred and sixty-six years.
• Lin Ya realized Spirit Binding and General Summoning could devour soul rings with far greater efficiency than other known methods and received the skill’s complete cultivation method.
• Xue Xing ordered a Soul Emperor to kill a caged two-hundred-year Phoenix-Tail Cockscomb Snake and present its soul ring for the Devouring Demon Spider to consume.
• Lin Ya gave the Devouring Demon Spider permission to proceed, intending to test whether it could devour soul rings from soul beasts he had not killed himself.

Lin Ya raised his first soul ring to six hundred years by having the Devouring Demon Spider consume soul rings, then stopped when his body reached its limit. He won the soul spirit's submission and asked Prince Xue Xing to gather whale glue so he could strengthen his physique and endure stronger soul rings.

• Lin Ya had the Devouring Demon Spider devour soul rings from a Phoenix-Tail Cockscomb Snake and a Ghost Vine, raising his first soul ring to six hundred years.
• Lin Ya stopped the slaughter and released the remaining trapped soul beasts when pain signaled that his body was nearing its limit.
• Lin Ya promised the Devouring Demon Spider he would help it advance, and the soul spirit bowed and submitted to him.
• Lin Ya told Prince Xue Xing that his physique could not yet withstand a stronger soul ring and asked him to gather whale glue.
• Prince Xue Xing mistakenly thought Lin Ya wanted whale glue for its reputed effects on male vigor, but Lin Ya clarified that he wanted it to strengthen his body; Prince Xue Xing promised to find some.

Lin Ya gave Prince Xue Xing Black Silver Liquid to test blood relations before entering Nuoding Academy. There, Yu Xiaogang spotted Lin Ya’s registration and concluded that he had been born with full soul power.

• Prince Xue Xing repeatedly warned Lin Ya to stay safe and promised to help him find a soul ring when he reached Rank 20.
• Lin Ya used Black Silver Liquid to show Prince Xue Xing that his blood could merge with his, then explained that it could verify blood relations.
• Prince Xue Xing accepted the liquid, ordered tests on father-son pairs with matching and differing martial souls, and considered visiting the imperial palace.
• Lin Ya entered Nuoding Academy and went to register as a new student.
• Yu Xiaogang saw Lin Ya’s record showing Level 11 soul power and the martial soul Outcast, and believed Lin Ya had been born with full soul power.

At Nuoding Academy, Yu Xiaogang eagerly tried to recruit Lin Ya, believing the new student’s innate full soul power and supposed mutated martial soul made him an ideal disciple. Lin Ya rejected him and went to class, leaving Yu Xiaogang bitterly promising to find someone better.

• Yu Xiaogang spotted Lin Ya and became excited, convinced he had found a promising disciple.
• Lin Ya recognized Yu Xiaogang and dismissed his theories, deciding he had no interest in studying under him.
• Yu Xiaogang blocked Lin Ya and praised his talent before asking him to become his disciple.
• Lin Ya refused, and Yu Xiaogang tried to persuade him by claiming his martial soul was mutated and promising to help him reach high ranks.
• Lin Ya corrected him, asked him to move aside, and left for class.
• Yu Xiaogang watched Lin Ya go, vowed to find a better disciple, and decided to get something to eat.

Lin Ya attended his first class at Nuoding Academy, where he judged the soul masters’ cultivation methods primitive and considered adapting the Golden Light Mantra into a basic method for others. After class, Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, and Ling Feng tried to recruit him as a lackey, and he challenged all three to fight him together.

• Lin Ya arrived late to Nuoding Academy’s noble class and took the reserved seat assigned by the teacher.
• Lin Ya listened to the lesson on soul master cultivation and concluded that its methods were inefficient compared with those of later eras.
• Lin Ya considered simplifying the Golden Light Mantra into a foundational cultivation method suitable for soul masters.
• After class, Liu Long dented Lin Ya’s desk with his soul staff while Xiao Chenyu and Ling Feng introduced themselves and demanded his submission.
• Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, and Ling Feng offered to take Lin Ya under their protection as their lackey, and Lin Ya told all three to attack him together.

Lin Ya defeated Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, and Ling Feng, then revealed he was a level-eleven Battle Soul Master with a hundred-year soul ring. The noble students accepted him as their boss, and he sent them to run ten laps at the academy field.

• Liu Long attacked Lin Ya with his staff, but Lin Ya’s Golden Light Mantra protected him and sent Liu Long crashing into a wall.
• Xiao Chenyu and Ling Feng attacked together, but Lin Ya blocked them, knocked Ling Feng down, and dislocated Xiao Chenyu’s wrist.
• Xiao Chenyu called on the thirty noble students to swarm Lin Ya, but they bowed and greeted him as Boss Lin after seeing his hundred-year soul ring and level-eleven strength.
• Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, and Ling Feng charged Lin Ya again and claimed they were his first underlings.
• Lin Ya ordered his new followers to run ten laps on the academy field, and they obediently headed out.

Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, impressed Xue Ye and Xue Xing during a sparring match, but a bloodline test revealed she was an impostor. Rather than risk war with Spirit Hall by exposing her, Xue Ye ordered her studies doubled to hinder her cultivation while they bought time for Xiao Ya to grow.

• Qian Renxue deliberately took a wound during a sparring match and stopped Xue Xing from punishing the Soul King, winning Xue Ye's approval.
• After Qian Renxue left, Xue Ye and Xue Xing tested her blood against Xue Ye's with Black Silver Liquid, and the drops failed to merge.
• Xue Xing wanted to kill the impostor and bring Xiao Ya back, but Xue Ye stopped him and identified Spirit Hall as the likely source of her disguise.
• Xue Ye warned that Spirit Hall and Qian Daoliu made retaliation too dangerous, then ordered Xue Qinghe's coursework doubled to slow her cultivation.

Lin Ya reached Level 20 and prepared to hunt for his second soul ring, while Prince Xue Xing brought him whale gelatin to help raise his absorption limit. They left for the Star Dou Great Forest so Lin Ya could pursue a powerful soul ring.

• Lin Ya ended Xiao Chenyu, Ling Feng, Liu Long, and Wang Sheng’s training and warned them not to return without first soul rings at least a hundred years old.
• Lin Ya wondered whether Prince Xue Xing had discovered anything about Xue Qinghe’s identity as he headed out to hunt for his second soul ring.
• Prince Xue Xing arrived to congratulate Lin Ya on reaching Level 20 and gave him several dozen pieces of whale gelatin, including three thousand-year pieces.
• Lin Ya said the gelatin gave him confidence to attempt a thousand-year or even two-thousand-year second soul ring.
• Prince Xue Xing took Lin Ya toward the Star Dou Great Forest instead of the Soul Hunting Forest, saying it could offer soul beasts old enough for Lin Ya’s goal.

Lin Ya traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest with Prince Xue Xing to obtain his second soul ring, where Soul Douluo Zhi Lin discovered the boy’s extraordinary talent. Zhi Lin eagerly invited Lin Ya to join Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, while Xue Xing worried that Lin Ya’s resemblance to Xue Beng could complicate his future in the imperial family.

• Prince Xue Xing brought Lin Ya and several guards to the Star Dou Great Forest, where they waited for their helper, Zhi Lin.
• Zhi Lin questioned why he had been summoned to help an eight-year-old, until Prince Xue Xing explained that Lin Ya needed a soul ring.
• Lin Ya revealed his Outcast martial soul and showed Zhi Lin that he already had a hundred-year soul ring and was seeking a second one.
• Zhi Lin realized Lin Ya had reached rank twenty before turning nine and enthusiastically invited him to join Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
• Prince Xue Xing said Lin Ya should wait until he graduated from junior academy and privately worried about his resemblance to Xue Beng and his possible claim to the throne.

Zhi Lin led Lin Ya and the others through Star Dou Great Forest, where they witnessed a Man-Faced Demon Spider and a Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear fight to the death. The spider died, while the poisoned bear collapsed on the brink of death.

• Zhi Lin spotted a Voidbright Demon Leopard with over ten thousand years of cultivation, but it fled before he could act.
• Zhi Lin sensed a powerful soul beast aura and led the group to a clearing, where a Man-Faced Demon Spider faced a Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear.
• The Man-Faced Demon Spider poisoned the bear with a venomous spike, weakening it as the fight continued.
• The Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear unleashed Darkgold Terrorclaw and smashed the Man-Faced Demon Spider to pieces.
• The poisoned Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear staggered to its knees and neared death.

Lin Ya’s Soul-Devouring Demon Spider devoured the Man-Faced Demon Spider’s thousand-year soul ring and evolved his first ring into a thousand-year ring. He then urged the dying Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear to sacrifice itself as his second ring, leaving the bear ready to take the gamble.

• Zhi Lin warned Lin Ya that the Man-Faced Demon Spider and Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear were too old to become his second soul ring.
• Lin Ya ordered his Soul-Devouring Demon Spider soul spirit to devour the Man-Faced Demon Spider’s soul ring.
• The Soul-Devouring Demon Spider evolved Lin Ya’s first soul ring into a thousand-year ring, stunning Zhi Lin and Prince Xue Xing.
• Lin Ya approached the dying Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear and offered to preserve its soul if it sacrificed itself as his second soul ring.
• The Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear listened to Lin Ya’s promises of revival and power, then decided to gamble on his offer.

Lin Ya absorbed the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear’s willing sacrifice, reached level twenty-two, and gained the second soul skill Divine Machine Hundred Refinements. He proved he could use it to reshape materials and then summoned the bear back as a soul spirit, showing that it had survived in another form.

• The Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear willingly sacrificed itself to Lin Ya, shocking Soul Douluo Zhi Lin and Prince Xue Xing.
• Lin Ya absorbed its two-thousand-year soul ring, advanced to level twenty-two, and gained Divine Machine Hundred Refinements.
• Lin Ya used the new skill to transform a pebble into a throwing knife and iron ore into a steel pipe, then told Prince Xue Xing that his future soul tools could let ordinary people defeat Titled Douluo.
• Lin Ya used Spirit Binding and General Summoning to summon the Soul-Devouring Demon Spider and the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear as soul spirits.
• The Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear recognized that Lin Ya had kept his promise and that it had survived in another form.

Lin Ya obtained a low-grade soul bone, but Prince Xue Xing stopped him from absorbing it and promised to find him a better one. Their discussion was interrupted by the arrival of the Starcrown Duke and his young relatives, Weiss and Zhuyun.

• The Soul-Devouring Demon Spider convinced the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear to accept it as boss and took to calling it Bear Two.
• A Soul Sage guard found a two-thousand-year soul bone, and Zhi Lin urged Lin Ya to absorb it immediately.
• Prince Xue Xing stopped Lin Ya, explaining that he should wait for a soul bone of at least fifty thousand years, and Lin Ya agreed to trust him.
• The Starcrown Duke arrived with Weiss and Zhuyun and introduced them to Prince Xue Xing.

Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun arrived as Prince Xue Xing refused to give up Lin Ya’s Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear soul bone. The Starcrown Duke challenged Lin Ya to wager it against Dai Weisi, and Lin Ya rejected money as a prize, asking instead for a rare treasure or ore.

• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun introduced themselves to Prince Xue Xing, boasting of their levels as Soul Grandmasters.
• The Starcrown Duke asked Prince Xue Xing to sell the soul bone, but Lin Ya and Xue Xing refused.
• The Starcrown Duke proposed that Dai Weisi fight Lin Ya for the soul bone, offering five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins if Lin Ya won.
• Lin Ya turned down the money and said he might accept a wager for an interesting treasure or rare ore.