Chapter Summaries

Ye Ling survived an attempted murder by two intruders, whom Kong Deming killed while guarding him in secret. After Li Pu removed the bodies, Ye Ling hinted that he knew Li Pu was involved and received a system mission to investigate his parents’ deaths.

• Two men broke into Ye Ling’s room to kill him and stage the attack as a burglary.
• Ye Ling woke and summoned Kong Deming, who killed the intruders and left their heads behind.
• Li Pu arrived, found Ye Ling alive, and carried away the two heads after Ye Ling told him to clean up.
• Kong Deming questioned why Ye Ling let Li Pu leave, and Ye Ling implied he would deal with him the next day.
• Ye Ling received a system mission to investigate his parents’ deaths, with a compatible Divine-level Martial Soul as the reward.

On the morning of his Spirit Awakening, Ye Ling confronted housekeeper Li Pu and Spirit Hall bishop Asno with a recording of their murder plot. Asno admitted killing Ye Ling’s parents and raised his seven Soul Rings, but Ye Ling called on Elder Kong as the confrontation began.

• Two maids helped Ye Ling dress and escorted him to the front hall for his Spirit Awakening.
• Asno and Li Pu discussed their plan to make Ye Ling die during the awakening and divide his family’s fortune.
• Ye Ling entered, ignored Asno’s greeting, and challenged the men before the Spirit Awakening.
• Ye Ling played an Image Recorder showing Asno and Li Pu discussing the plot, then asked whether they had killed his parents.
• Asno admitted killing Ye Ling’s parents and summoned his seven Soul Rings to threaten him.
• Ye Ling called out for Elder Kong to appear.

Ye Ling used Kong Deming’s power to force Asno and Li Pu to face each other, then watched as both men died. After receiving a new mission to awaken his martial soul, Ye Ling prepared to leave for Nuoding City.

• Kong Deming appeared before Ye Ling and revealed his Titled Douluo strength and 100,000-Year Spirit Ring, causing Asno to kneel and plead for mercy.
• Asno and Li Pu blamed each other for the plot against Ye Ling’s parents, and Ye Ling gave Li Pu a blade and ordered him to kill Asno.
• Li Pu killed Asno, handed Ye Ling the family’s Storage Soul Guiding Device, and then took his own life.
• Ye Ling received a Divine-level Martial Soul and a mission to find Su Yuntao in Nuoding City to awaken it.
• Ye Ling told Kong Deming to gather the valuables and announced that they would leave for Nuoding City in Fasinuo Province.

Ye Ling traveled from Vast Sea City to Nuoding City to awaken his Martial Soul, hoping the location’s connection to Tang San would bring him a powerful one. After Kong Deming intimidated Su Yuntao into making an exception, Ye Ling followed him to the awakening hall, where the process was about to begin.

• Ye Ling explained to Kong Deming that Nuoding City was where Yu Xiaogang met Tang San and said he hoped to awaken a powerful Martial Soul there.
• Ye Ling and Kong Deming spent nearly a month traveling from Vast Sea City to Nuoding City, and Ye Ling decided to visit Spirit Hall.
• Ye Ling learned that Su Yuntao had recently returned from the surrounding villages and towns, suggesting Tang San might have awakened his Martial Soul recently.
• Su Yuntao initially told Ye Ling to wait, but Kong Deming’s pressure frightened him into arranging an immediate awakening.
• Su Yuntao led Ye Ling to an altar hall and instructed him to stand within the six black stones.

Ye Ling awakened the Ancestral Witch Battle Body, a mutated body martial soul, and demonstrated Innate Full Soul Power. The awakening’s extraordinary phenomenon drew attention across the continent, while Su Yuntao and Kong Deming struggled to make sense of Ye Ling’s unusual talent.

• Ye Ling’s Spirit Awakening produced twelve colored pillars of light and revealed his Ancestral Witch Battle Body.
• Ye Ling received a Super Strongman Summoning Card and a mission to obtain an over-age First Soul Ring for a cultivation technique.
• Ye Ling tested as having Innate Full Soul Power, and Su Yuntao told him he had recently found another such child in Holy Spirit Village with Blue Silver Grass.
• Ye Ling told Su Yuntao that his martial soul was his body, then left the Awakening Hall with him.
• Kong Deming explained that he had moved onlookers away from the hall, then reacted with surprise when Ye Ling confirmed his body martial soul had Innate Full Soul Power.

Ye Ling awakened a Body Spirit, and Kong Deming took him to find his First Soul Ring. Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit Ye Ling as his disciple, but after Ye Ling exposed and mocked him, Kong Deming struck him aside, and Ye Ling left for the Star Dou Great Forest to find a helper.

• Kong Deming praised Ye Ling's Body Spirit and led him out of Spirit Hall to seek a soul ring.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped Ye Ling and claimed his theories proved Ye Ling must have Twin Martial Souls.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to teach Ye Ling and revealed that he was a rank 29 teacher at Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Ye Ling challenged Yu Xiaogang's theories and mocked his low Soul Power, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and scandal with his younger female cousin.
• Yu Xiaogang lunged at Ye Ling, but Kong Deming slapped him flying, and Ye Ling left with Kong Deming for the Star Dou Great Forest to find another helper.

Ye Ling refined ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber to strengthen his body and prepare to exceed the normal limit for his First Soul Ring. After recovering, he used a Super Strongman Summoning Card and received five powerful candidates to choose from.

• Ye Ling told Kong Deming he wanted his First Soul Ring to exceed the usual age limit and asked him to search the family collection for high-quality Whale Rubber.
• Kong Deming found gelatinous Whale Rubber likely produced by a deep-sea demonic whale over ten thousand years old and refined it with soul power.
• Ye Ling absorbed the refined Whale Rubber, and its energy circulated through his body as black impurities seeped from his skin.
• Ye Ling finished refining the Whale Rubber overnight, washed in a nearby pool, and ordered the system to use his Super Strongman Summoning Card.
• The system offered Ye Ling a choice of Body Douluo Du Busi, Bright Phoenix Douluo Yan Shaozhe, Blazing Phoenix Douluo Ma Xiaotao, Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng, or Starry Sky Douluo Ye Yulin.

Ye Ling summoned Du Busi, a Level 98 Super Douluo, and began planning to establish a force with help from him and Kong Deming. Du Busi examined Ye Ling’s Ancestral Witch Battle Body and discovered it contained twelve powerful elemental forces, leaving Ye Ling worried that he could not accommodate them all with only nine spirit rings.

• Ye Ling chose Du Busi from the Super Strongman Summoning Card, activating a mission to establish a force and earn a Linked Summoning Card.
• Du Busi arrived and greeted Ye Ling as his master, then recognized Kong Deming, though Ye Ling stopped the two from revisiting their past conflict.
• Du Busi and Kong Deming explained that establishing a force required territory, influence, powerful figures, and a soul master group.
• Ye Ling sent Kong Deming to Heaven Dou City to secure a place and make practical Soul Guiding Devices; Kong Deming gave Ye Ling the defensive ring Myriad Ton Sky Guard before departing.
• Du Busi examined Ye Ling’s Ancestral Witch Battle Body and sensed twelve powerful elemental forces within him, though a soul master could have only nine spirit rings.

Ye Ling chose a space- and wind-attribute Spirit Beast for his First Soul Ring, and Du Busi took him to the Star Dou Great Forest to search. At the edge of the Mixed Zone, they spotted a roughly two-thousand-year-old Void Mantis Beast that suited Ye Ling, and he decided to take it.

• Ye Ling decided that his First Soul Ring should involve space and wind attributes, despite Du Busi warning that spreading his attributes could limit his development.
• Du Busi flew Ye Ling from Nuoding City to the Star Dou Great Forest in three days, leaving Ye Ling exhausted.
• Du Busi led Ye Ling toward the Mixed Zone, where they hoped to find a suitable Thousand Year Spirit Beast.
• At the boundary of the Outer and Mixed Zones, Du Busi noticed two Four-Ring Soul Masters fighting a snow-white Void Mantis Beast.
• Du Busi identified the Void Mantis Beast as a rare space-traveling Spirit Beast of about two thousand years old, and Ye Ling decided to take it.

Ye Ling and Du Busi watched a Void Mantis Beast fight two Soul Hunters, then intervened after Enshriner Zhao killed the hunters and tried to claim the beast for Prince Aldo. Ye Ling killed the beast and began absorbing its spirit ring after Du Busi revealed his Titled Douluo power and the two killed Aldo and Enshriner Zhao.

• Ye Ling and Du Busi watched two four-ring Soul Ancestors wear down the Void Mantis Beast, until Enshriner Zhao ambushed and killed them with vines.
• Enshriner Zhao and Prince Aldo approached the fallen beast, but Ye Ling and Du Busi appeared and Ye Ling killed it to claim its purple spirit ring.
• Aldo ordered Enshriner Zhao to attack Ye Ling and Du Busi after they ignored his claim to the beast.
• Du Busi revealed nine spirit rings, including three 100,000-year rings, and his pressure forced Aldo to kneel and Enshriner Zhao to the ground.
• Ye Ling killed Aldo and Enshriner Zhao, then sat down to absorb the Void Mantis Beast's spirit ring while Du Busi guarded him.

Ye Ling absorbed a 2,200-year Void Mantis Beast Soul Ring as his first ring, aided by mysterious energy flowing from his heart. A golden incantation fused into the ring and gave it a silver-white rim, leaving Du Busi puzzled and Ye Ling wondering whether the incantations were connected to Ancestral Witch Power.

• Du Busi judged the Void Mantis Beast to be about 2,200 years old and explained the potential and risks of Body Spirits absorbing Soul Rings beyond their limits.
• Ye Ling struggled to refine the violent Soul Ring power until mysterious yellow energy from his heart transformed it and nourished his body.
• A golden incantation detached from Ye Ling and entered the forming purple Soul Ring, adding a silver-white rim.
• After half a day, Ye Ling awoke feeling refreshed and noticed the unusual rim on his first Soul Ring.
• Du Busi explained that an incantation had fused into the ring, then counted ten and a half golden incantations on Ye Ling during Martial Soul Possession.
• Ye Ling wondered whether the incantations were the source of Ancestral Witch Power, and Du Busi asked what his First Soul Skill was.

Ye Ling revealed that his First Soul Skill, Chaos Anomaly, allowed cost-free short-range movement and gained the Nine Revolutions Witch God Art after completing a growth mission. After training for three days, he discovered that the Void Mantis Beast had dropped a Soul Bone with an Instant Movement skill.

• Ye Ling demonstrated Chaos Anomaly to Du Busi, who judged its Wind Blade and Instant Movement unusually powerful for a First Soul Skill.
• Ye Ling received the Nine Revolutions Witch God Art, underwent a three-day transformation, and greatly increased his physical strength while Du Busi stood guard.
• Ye Ling received a new mission to absorb an over-limit Soul Ring as his second Soul Ring, with a Spiritual Power cultivation art as the reward.
• Du Busi reminded Ye Ling to check the Void Mantis Beast's corpse, and Ye Ling found a silver Right Leg Bone that likely carried Instant Movement.

Ye Ling and Du Busi traveled to Nuoding City to search for Tang Hao’s hidden 100,000-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone. They found the concealed cave behind a waterfall, where Ye Ling encountered Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Grass, and Du Busi located the soul bone.

• Ye Ling told Du Busi about the soul bone near Holy Spirit Village, and a system mission promised Soul Bone Evolution for finding it.
• Ye Ling warned that Tang Hao might be guarding the soul bone, but Du Busi agreed to go and said he could defeat a Level 95 Super Douluo.
• Ye Ling and Du Busi reached Nuoding City and searched the waterfalls near Holy Spirit Village until they found a hollow one with a hidden stone slab.
• Du Busi broke through the slab and its protective Soul Power, and the two entered the cave behind the waterfall.
• Ye Ling examined Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Grass while Du Busi searched above; Du Busi then announced that he had found the soul bone.

Ye Ling obtained Ah Yin’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone and persuaded her to leave the cave with him. Du Busi learned that Ah Yin was Tang San’s mother and that Tang San’s martial soul was the Blue Silver Emperor, leaving him shocked by Tang San’s origins.

• Du Busi brought Ye Ling the hundred-thousand-year Right Leg Bone from the cave, and Ye Ling stored it for later Soul Bone Evolution.
• Ye Ling persuaded Ah Yin to leave the cave, and she agreed by shaking her leaves once.
• Ye Ling transplanted Ah Yin into a flowerpot and put her away to take her with them.
• Du Busi questioned Ye Ling for speaking to ordinary Blue Silver Grass, and Ye Ling revealed that it was Tang San’s mother.
• Du Busi realized Tang San was born to a human and a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and laughed at the revelation.

Ye Ling and Du Busi reached Heaven Dou City and met Kong Deming, who had prepared a temporary base and Soul Tools. Ye Ling arranged their next tasks, then went with Kong Deming to the Grand Auction House to sell a weapon capable of killing a Six-Ring Soul Master.

• Ye Ling and Du Busi traveled for more than ten days to Heaven Dou City and met Kong Deming at the city gate.
• Kong Deming reported that he had made practical Soul Tools and bought a residence to serve as their temporary base.
• Ye Ling asked Kong Deming to hire trustworthy servants and assigned Du Busi to seek civilian Soul Masters with Body Spirits.
• Ye Ling and Kong Deming went to the Grand Auction House, where Ye Ling told an appraiser he wanted to sell a weapon that could kill a Six-Ring Soul Master.

Ye Ling and Kong Deming demonstrated a Level Five Destroyer Hand Cannon at the Grand Auction House, proving its power to kill a Six-Ring Soul Master. Young Master Xu demanded to buy it, but Ye Ling refused because he planned to auction it.

• An appraiser doubted Ye Ling's claim until Kong Deming showed him the hand cannon, which the appraiser could not identify.
• The appraiser led Ye Ling and Kong Deming to an outdoor testing area, where Kong Deming fired the hand cannon and blasted a huge crater into the ground.
• Kong Deming explained that the cannon could kill any Six-Ring Soul Master but had only a thirty-percent chance of killing certain Seven-Ring Soul Sages.
• Supervisor Zhao arrived with security, and Young Master Xu appeared and asked who owned the powerful weapon.
• Young Master Xu offered to buy the hand cannon, but Ye Ling refused and said they intended to auction it.

At Heaven Dou City's Grand Auction House, Ye Ling refused to hand over his auction item to Young Master Xu, who tried to use force. Kong Deming revealed himself as Silver Moon Douluo with a 100,000-year ninth spirit ring, leaving Xu Yunchang to confront his nephew's offense; Young Master Xu's fate remained unresolved.

• Young Master Xu demanded Ye Ling sell him an auction item, but Ye Ling refused and asked whether he would dare steal from Ning Fengzhi or Yu Yuanzhen.
• Young Master Xu ordered the black-robed Uncle Wang to attack Ye Ling, but Ye Ling immobilized the Seven-Ringed Soul Sage and appeared before Young Master Xu.
• Young Master Xu called on the auction house guards to seize Ye Ling and Kong Deming, but Kong Deming revealed nine spirit rings, including a red 100,000-year ninth ring.
• Xu Yunchang arrived, identified himself as the auction house's person in charge, and asked Kong Deming what had gone wrong.
• Kong Deming accused Young Master Xu of trying to take his auction item and attack him, and Xu Yunchang rebuked his nephew for offending the Titled Douluo.

Ye Ling and Kong Deming confronted the Grand Auction House after its staff tried to rob them, and Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect arrived to mediate. The dispute ended with Xu Yunchang offering the auction house’s rare metals as compensation.

• Xu Yunchang slapped his nephew away and apologized to Kong Deming, but Ye Ling called out his attempt to conceal the nephew’s misconduct.
• Ye Ling threatened the Grand Auction House, and Kong Deming trapped everyone inside the building with his Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived, and Ye Ling ordered Kong Deming to release the auction house’s occupants.
• Xu Yunchang explained what had happened to Ning Fengzhi, who acknowledged that the Grand Auction House was at fault.
• Ye Ling requested rare metals as compensation for the mistreatment, and Xu Yunchang agreed to give them all the metals the auction house had received.

Ye Ling demonstrated the Destroyer Hand Cannon to Ning Fengzhi and revealed that his group manufactured soul tools. After Ning Fengzhi offered him the position of vice sect master, Ye Ling refused and ordered Xu Yunchang to auction a hand cannon and publicize its power across the continent.

• Ye Ling sent Kong Deming with Xu Yunchang to select rare metals and kept a Level Five Destroyer Hand Cannon for himself.
• Ye Ling showed Ning Fengzhi the hand cannon, and Gu Rong tested it, blasting a second crater into the ground with power comparable to an ordinary Spirit Saint's full-strength strike.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized the weapon's potential to protect Support-type Soul Masters and offered to buy soul tools in bulk.
• Ye Ling explained the soul tools' power requirements and said his group made them, while withholding the existence of the Milk Bottle.
• Ning Fengzhi invited Ye Ling to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as vice sect master, but Ye Ling mocked the proposal and refused.
• After Kong Deming returned with the selected metals, Ye Ling told Xu Yunchang to auction a hand cannon within seven days and publicize its capabilities to the continent's other forces.

Ye Ling pressured Xu Yunchang into promoting Mending Heaven Pavilion’s Destroyer Hand Cannon and prepared to make the pavilion known across the continent. He left the auction house planning to let competing forces seek cooperation, while Ning Fengzhi resolved to pursue a partnership with the pavilion.

• Ye Ling made Xu Yunchang promise to promote the Destroyer Hand Cannon and warned him to send his nephew out of Heaven Dou City.
• Ning Fengzhi reluctantly returned the hand cannon, invited Ye Ling to stay with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and received a refusal.
• Xu Yunchang gave Ye Ling an invitation to a top-tier auction in seven days, and Ye Ling identified the weapon as Mending Heaven Pavilion’s Level Five Soul Tool.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong discussed Mending Heaven Pavilion and concluded that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect needed its Soul Tools and should seek cooperation.
• Ye Ling told Kong Deming that Mending Heaven Pavilion had been established and instructed him to mark every Soul Tool with its name.
• Kong Deming asked why Ye Ling had not proposed working with Ning Fengzhi, and Ye Ling said he would let the auction spread their name before choosing among potential partners.