Chapter Summaries

After awakening memories of his past life, Meng Chen realized he had been reincarnated in the Douluo world with the benefits he had chosen, including twin martial souls, full innate soul power, a guardian, and a God King inheritance. He awakened the Thunder Hell Vine and full innate soul power, declined Su Yuntao’s invitation to join Spirit Hall, and was set to study at Notting Academy.

• Meng Chen remembered choosing four transmigration benefits and learned that his martial soul awakening was scheduled for that day.
• The village chief brought Meng Chen to the awakening hut, where Su Yuntao guided the children through the ceremony.
• Meng Chen awakened the Thunder Hell Vine and sensed that he had a second martial soul, a spear.
• Meng Chen demonstrated innate full soul power, and Su Yuntao invited him to join Spirit Hall, but Meng Chen refused.
• The village chief promised Meng Chen the village’s remaining work-study place at Notting Academy, while the God of Destruction sensed Meng Chen’s power and watched him from the God Realm.

Meng Chen arrived at Notting Academy as a work-study student after discovering that his second martial soul was the Atlas Spear. Yu Xiaogang learned that Meng Chen also had Innate Full Soul Power and ordered Tang San to bring him in for a meeting.

• Meng Chen summoned his second martial soul, the Atlas Spear, and wondered why his protector had not arrived.
• The village chief and Uncle Dalin saw Meng Chen off, and Uncle Dalin brought him to Notting City and Notting Academy.
• Meng Chen paid for a room in the academy, said goodbye to Uncle Dalin, and passed Yu Xiaogang and Tang San on the road.
• Yu Xiaogang learned from Director Su that Meng Chen had Innate Full Soul Power and a Thunder Hell Vine martial soul, and considered taking him as a disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed Tang San's twin martial souls, and Tang San bowed and accepted him as his master.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to find Meng Chen in the work-study dormitory and bring him to see his teacher.

Meng Chen met his guardian, Ye Xishui, the Death God Douluo, and warned her that the Angel High Priest posed a grave threat to her. Back at Notting Academy, Grandmaster approached Meng Chen and tried to persuade him to become his disciple.

• Meng Chen bluffed his hidden guardian into revealing herself in an alley and recognized her as Ye Xishui, the Death God Douluo.
• Ye Xishui explained that a mysterious power had summoned her to guard Meng Chen, promising her godhood if he inherited the God King position.
• Meng Chen warned Ye Xishui that the Angel High Priest and her Angel God Power could threaten her, so she should avoid Spirit City and limit her Blood Soul Demon Puppet Martial Soul.
• Meng Chen returned to Notting Academy and found Yu Xiaogang waiting at the dormitory entrance.
• Yu Xiaogang cited Meng Chen's Innate Full Soul Power and mutated Martial Soul, then claimed Meng Chen needed him as a master to overcome its flaws.

Meng Chen mocked Yu Xiaogang’s theories and refused his offer of discipleship, prompting Yu Xiaogang to leave vowing Tang San would prove him right. Back at the dormitory, Meng Chen explained parallel worlds to Ye Xishui and asked her to retrieve a hidden Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and gather Whale Rubber to prepare his body for stronger Soul Rings.

• Meng Chen questioned Yu Xiaogang’s level twenty-nine Soul Power and mocked his claim that his theories were invincible.
• Yu Xiaogang threatened to have Meng Chen expelled, but Meng Chen defied him, and Yu Xiaogang left promising Tang San would prove his theories.
• Ye Xishui offered to kill Yu Xiaogang, but Meng Chen refused and explained that their worlds were parallel, so events here would not alter her era.
• Meng Chen asked Ye Xishui to retrieve a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone from the Water Curtain Cave and gather thousand-year or ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber.
• Ye Xishui agreed, while Meng Chen learned she had methods to increase Soul Ring age but considered them risky Evil Soul Master techniques.

Yu Xiaogang made Tang San his sole disciple after Meng Chen rejected him, while Meng Chen settled into Notting Academy and befriended Xiao Wu over lunch. The chapter left Tang San watching helplessly as Xiao Wu followed Meng Chen and ignored him.

• Yu Xiaogang complained that Meng Chen had insulted his theories, then promised to devote himself to training Tang San and help him obtain a soul ring.
• Meng Chen counted the coins Xiahe Village had gathered for his schooling and received a storage ring from Ye Xishui.
• Meng Chen met Tang San and Xiao Wu in class, where the students introduced themselves.
• Meng Chen invited Xiao Wu to share his lunch, and she promised to protect him in return.
• Tang San saw Meng Chen wipe rice from Xiao Wu's mouth, then watched her leave with Meng Chen without acknowledging him.

Meng Chen moved Xiao Wu from the boys’ work-study dormitory to a girls’ room and cared for her, stirring memories of her dead mother. After class, he treated her to dinner and secretly stored fresh carrots for her.

• Meng Chen took Xiao Wu to Director Su and paid two Silver Soul Coins to transfer her from the work-study dormitory to a girls’ room.
• Meng Chen helped Xiao Wu settle into her new room and bought her bedding, and Xiao Wu quietly missed her mother after he left.
• Ye Xishui asked Meng Chen whether he planned to trick Xiao Wu into sacrificing herself, but he did not explain himself.
• Meng Chen and Xiao Wu went to class together, where Tang San watched them with a shadow in his eyes.
• Meng Chen bought Xiao Wu chicken legs with dinner, then secretly asked the kitchen for fresh carrots and stored them in the Bone Dragon Ring.

Xiao Wu moved out of the work-study dormitory, leaving Tang San distressed, while Meng Chen prepared to obtain his first Soul Ring. Before setting out, Meng Chen returned to Xiahe Village, learned that Ye Xishui had failed to find the Soul Bone, and consumed ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber.

• Xiao Wu packed her belongings and moved out with Meng Chen, telling the work-study students to seek her help if they were bullied and leaving Tang San wary and upset.
• More than half a month later, Meng Chen told Xiao Wu that his teacher had summoned him to hunt for his first Soul Ring, then received ten days of leave from Director Su.
• Meng Chen returned to Xiahe Village and told Village Chief Grandpa that he was preparing to become a Soul Master, delighting the old man.
• Ye Xishui told Meng Chen she could not find the Soul Bone behind Saint Soul Village but had obtained ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber.
• Ye Xishui heated the Whale Rubber with Phoenix flames, and Meng Chen ate a large piece as its heat coursed through his body and reddish-brown sweat poured from his skin.

Meng Chen left Xiahe Village for the Star Dou Great Forest, but a carriage driver tried to rob him and was killed when Meng Chen defended himself with a soul tool pistol. After following a fake map into the wilderness, Meng Chen met Ye Cixin and Ling Ling, who learned he was alone and lost on his way to hunt soul beasts.

• Meng Chen used a gold soul coin to hire a carriage in Notting City, but the manager and scar-faced driver plotted to rob him.
• When the driver pulled a dagger in a forest, Meng Chen shot him with Ye Xishui's soul tool pistol and continued toward the Star Dou Great Forest with the horse and carriage.
• Meng Chen discovered the map he had bought was fake and became stranded on an unfamiliar road.
• Ye Cixin and Ling Ling stopped their carriage after spotting Meng Chen, and Ye Cixin asked where his parents were.
• Meng Chen told Ye Cixin that he had no parents, had gotten lost because of the fake map, and was heading to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul beasts.

Ye Cixin met Meng Chen, learned he had Innate Full Soul Power, and tried to bring him home, but a warning from his hidden teacher made her back off. She left him outside Keer City with a map and ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Meng Chen continued on his own.

• Ye Cixin explained Soul Ring requirements to Meng Chen, then learned he had Innate Full Soul Power and invited him into her carriage.
• Ye Cixin introduced herself and Ye Lingling, offered Meng Chen food, and proposed adopting him to protect her daughter.
• When Ye Cixin tried to ask about Meng Chen's teacher, Ye Xishui's unseen warning frightened her into silence.
• Meng Chen asked Ye Cixin to drop him at the nearest city, and she let him out near Keer City after recommending the Sunset Forest.
• Ye Cixin gave Meng Chen a map of Tiandou and a Gold Soul Card holding ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, then said goodbye after learning his name.

Meng Chen traveled to Star Dou Great Forest to find a suitable lightning soul beast for his Thunder Hell Vine martial soul. With Ye Xishui's help, he killed a nearly fifteen-hundred-year Azure-Scaled Thunder Flood Dragon and endured its violent soul ring energy until he absorbed it.

• Meng Chen freed his exhausted black horse and continued on foot to Star Dou Great Forest.
• He used his soul tool pistol to kill soul beasts as he searched deeper into the forest for a suitable lightning-type soul beast.
• Ye Xishui found a millennium Azure-Scaled Thunder Flood Dragon downstream, and Meng Chen chose to face it despite its age exceeding his target.
• Ye Xishui pinned the charging dragon with her pressure, allowing Meng Chen to shoot through its head and kill it.
• Meng Chen began absorbing the dragon's soul ring, struggled against its violent energy, and completed the absorption after more than three hours.

Meng Chen broke through to level fourteen and gained the soul skill Thunder Hell Strangulation before returning to Xiahe Village and heading back to Notting Academy. There, Yu Xiaogang and Tang San arrived with Tang San newly possessing a hundred-year soul ring, and they looked forward to confronting Meng Chen.

• Meng Chen reached level fourteen, awakened his purple first soul ring, and gained the control-and-damage skill Thunder Hell Strangulation.
• Meng Chen found the black horse waiting beside his abandoned carriage and brought it back to Xiahe Village.
• Meng Chen gave the village chief a pouch of Gold Soul Coins to repay the village and told him he had become a Soul Master.
• Meng Chen paid Uncle Dalin to care for Big Black, then returned to Notting Academy by carriage.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San arrived after Tang San absorbed a soul ring from a Mandala Snake, and Yu Xiaogang urged him to show Meng Chen the difference their teacher made.

Meng Chen returned to the academy after obtaining his first soul ring and experimented with a new use for his Thunder Hell Strangulation soul skill. He created a powerful spiraling Thunder Hell Spear, and Ye Xishui began teaching him a spiritual cultivation method to help him master it faster.

• Meng Chen reported his return to Director Su, who told him that Xiao Wu had also left to obtain a soul ring.
• Back in the empty dormitory, Meng Chen twisted three Thunder Hell Vines together into a spear-like form.
• Meng Chen tested the Thunder Hell Spear on Ye Xishui, whose palm sustained a tiny mark from its spiraling attack.
• Ye Xishui judged that the spear could seriously threaten many stronger opponents but warned that forming it took too long.
• Meng Chen asked for a method to cultivate spiritual power, and Ye Xishui began explaining a secret method from the Sun Moon Imperial Family.

Meng Chen cultivated the Silver Moon Meditation and clashed with Tang San, whose dream had made him expect his life at Notting Academy to follow a predetermined course. Their feud led to a soul duel on the training field, where Tang San revealed a hundred-year first soul ring.

• Meng Chen cultivated the Silver Moon Meditation overnight and went to class, where Tang San watched him with hostility.
• Tang San blamed Meng Chen for disrupting the future he had dreamed of, in which Xiao Wu became close to him and called him Brother.
• After morning classes, Tang San confronted Meng Chen, and Meng Chen challenged him to settle things in a soul duel on the training field.
• Students and teachers gathered to watch, while Yu Xiaogang expected Tang San to demonstrate his hundred-year soul ring and Blue Silver Entanglement.
• Tang San summoned his Blue Silver Grass martial soul and revealed a yellow hundred-year soul ring, astonishing the crowd.

Meng Chen revealed his Millennium Soul Ring and defeated Tang San’s Mandala Snake-powered Blue Silver Grass in seconds. Tang San was left bound by Meng Chen’s Thunder Hell Vines as Meng Chen mocked the strength of their Soul Skills.

• Tang San showed off his hundred-year Soul Ring and challenged Meng Chen, who revealed a purple Millennium Soul Ring from his Thunder Hell Vine Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang protested that a first Soul Ring could not reach a thousand years, while the students and teachers marveled at Meng Chen’s achievement.
• Tang San argued that battle skill and theoretical knowledge mattered more than Soul Ring quality, and Yu Xiaogang backed him up.
• Tang San used his Binding Soul Skill, but Meng Chen’s Thunder Hell Vines electrocuted Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and then swiftly wrapped him up.
• Meng Chen mocked Tang San’s Soul Skill and said his own Soul Skill came from a fifteen-hundred-year Azure-Scaled Thunder Flood Dragon Soul Ring.

Meng Chen exposed Yu Xiaogang’s double standards about soul-ring theory, then defeated Tang San and electrocuted him into unconsciousness and incontinence. When Yu Xiaogang confronted him afterward, Meng Chen electrocuted him too, leaving both teacher and student sprawled on the training grounds as the crowd fled.

• Yu Xiaogang claimed Meng Chen could not have absorbed an Azure-Scaled Thunder Flood Dragon soul ring, but Meng Chen challenged his theory by comparing it with Tang San’s Mandala Snake soul ring.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Meng Chen of lying about the soul ring’s origin, while Meng Chen turned his attention to the defeated Tang San, who demanded another fight.
• Meng Chen used the Thunder Hell Vine’s lightning to shock Tang San unconscious, and Tang San wet himself as the watching students and teachers pleaded for Meng Chen to stop.
• Yu Xiaogang confronted Meng Chen over Tang San’s humiliation, so Meng Chen shocked Yu Xiaogang until he collapsed and soiled himself.
• Meng Chen and the crowd retreated from the foul-smelling training grounds, leaving Tang San and Yu Xiaogang lying there unattended.

After Meng Chen humiliated Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, Yu Xiaogang failed to convince the dean to expel him, and the dean told Tang San and his teacher to leave Notting Academy. Meng Chen celebrated with Xiao Wu at a lavish hotel while Tang San stayed behind, fuming with hatred.

• Yu Xiaogang woke, demanded Meng Chen be expelled, and fainted again when the dean refused.
• The dean told Tang San to take Yu Xiaogang and leave Notting Academy, prompting Tang San to blame Meng Chen and hate the dean.
• Meng Chen became popular among Notting Academy students after his thousand-year Soul Ring drew attention.
• Meng Chen met Xiao Wu, told her about the day's events, and took her to the Deno Grand Hotel for a celebratory meal.
• Tang San sat beside the unconscious Yu Xiaogang, ate in the infirmary, and cursed Meng Chen for his humiliation.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San left Notting Academy for Shrek Academy after the headmaster expelled Yu Xiaogang. Tang Hao tried to attack Meng Chen but was stopped by Ye Xishui, who spared him as a future opponent for Meng Chen, while Tang Hao vowed that Tang San would surpass him.

• Yu Xiaogang woke up, learned the academy was expelling him, and decided to take Tang San to his friend Flender at Shrek Academy.
• Tang San helped Yu Xiaogang pack and leave Notting Academy, then vowed to repay Meng Chen for humiliating him.
• Tang Hao arrived at Notting Academy to attack Meng Chen, but Ye Xishui blocked him and overwhelmed him with her power and soul rings.
• Ye Xishui told Tang Hao she had spared him to serve as a future whetstone for Meng Chen, and Tang Hao escaped after threatening them.
• Ye Xishui told Meng Chen she had handled Tang Hao as instructed, while Tang Hao returned to Saint Soul Village and declared that Tang San would become Meng Chen's stepping stone.

After graduating from Notting Academy, Meng Chen and Xiao Wu arrived in Heaven Dou City to enroll at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy. Meanwhile, at Shrek Academy, Dai Mubai pursued Zhu Zhuqing, who had come seeking his strength despite being disgusted by his debauchery.

• Six years after Tang Hao left, Meng Chen and Xiao Wu graduated from Notting Academy and received special admission offers to Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
• Meng Chen and Xiao Wu entered Heaven Dou City, checked into the Heaven Dou Imperial Grand Hotel, and settled into adjacent rooms.
• At Shrek Academy, Dai Mubai handled registration while Tang San stayed away to work on his hidden weapons.
• Dai Mubai approached Zhu Zhuqing, but she ignored him and felt disgust at his leering attention.
• Zhu Zhuqing recalled watching Dai Mubai frequent brothels and decided to judge whether he had truly fallen into depravity, since she needed his strength against Zhu Zhuyun and the family rules.

Meng Chen and Xiao Wu reported to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where they learned about its grounds, student ranks, and leadership. Xiao Wu grew nervous after hearing that three Soul Douluos served on the Education Committee, but Meng Chen reassured her as they waited to be tested.

• Meng Chen helped Xiao Wu get ready, and they set out on foot for Heaven Dou Royal Academy after breakfast.
• An admissions teacher checked their special-admission invitations and led them through the academy's mountain campus.
• Teacher Li explained the academy's student and teacher ranks and said its Education Committee consisted of three Soul Douluos.
• Xiao Wu became anxious about the Soul Douluos, and Meng Chen held her hand and comforted her.
• After Teacher Li left to attend to other matters, Xiao Wu leaned against Meng Chen and told him she was nervous while they waited for the Education Committee.

Meng Chen and Xiao Wu enrolled at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy after declining a dedicated mentor, and their entrance assessment stunned Qin Ming with Meng Chen’s unusual soul rings. They were admitted directly as Heaven Dou-level students and left to begin their studies.

• Meng Shenji introduced Qin Ming as the students’ proposed mentor, but Meng Chen refused, explaining that he and Xiao Wu already had teachers and wanted the academy’s cultivation environment.
• Qin Ming agreed that adding them to his existing group could disrupt his teaching, so Meng Shenji arranged for them to follow the ordinary enrollment process.
• During the entrance assessment, Meng Chen revealed his Thunder Hell Vine martial soul and two purple soul rings and one black soul ring, shocking Qin Ming and Director Chen.
• Meng Chen explained that his ten-thousand-year soul ring came from a Five-Element Beast that had been near the ten-thousand-year threshold, while Xiao Wu also displayed rank thirty-nine cultivation.
• Director Chen registered Meng Chen and Xiao Wu as Heaven Dou-level students and granted each a monthly subsidy of one hundred gold soul coins, and they signed their enrollment forms.