Chapter Summaries

As the Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony approached, Lu Chen worried that his missing system would leave him without a powerful martial soul. He teased Tang San at his home and guessed that Tang San would awaken Blue Silver Grass.

• Lu Chen lamented that his system had not appeared and wondered what martial soul he would awaken at the ceremony the next day.
• Lu Chen found Tang Hao drunk and went to look for Tang San in the outhouse, jokingly trying to push his way inside.
• Lu Chen told Tang San he was nervous about the ceremony and asked him not to abandon him if he awakened a weak martial soul.
• Tang San reassured Lu Chen that he seemed extraordinary, then said he was curious about his own martial soul.
• Lu Chen guessed that Tang San would awaken Blue Silver Grass because of Tang San's connection to the grass.

The day before the Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony, Lu Chen teased Tang San about which Martial Soul he might awaken, then Tang Hao surprised Tang San with a lavish meal and a rare display of affection. Old Jack reminded Tang San to attend the ceremony and said he and Lu Chen would meet him outside the church.

• Lu Chen predicted Tang San might awaken Blue Silver Grass or a hammer, and Tang San joked that Lu Chen might awaken a carrot like Old Jack.
• Tang San returned home and found Tang Hao had prepared a table full of Braised Rabbit Meat for him.
• Tang Hao apologized for being an inadequate father, and Tang San reassured him before eagerly eating the meal.
• Old Jack arrived to remind Tang Hao that Tang San had to attend the next day's Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony.
• Tang San calmed Old Jack after Tang Hao provoked him, then promised to meet Old Jack and Lu Chen outside the church the next morning.

Lu Chen arrived at the Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony in Holy Soul Village, hoping to become a Soul Master, while observing Su Yuntao conduct the tests. After seven children showed no Soul Power, Tang San stepped forward for his turn, with Lu Chen still awaiting his own awakening.

• Lu Chen accompanied Old Jack to the Spirit Hall branch, where all nine village children gathered for the ceremony.
• Old Jack worried that Tang San was late, but Tang San soon arrived and joined the group.
• Su Yuntao introduced himself and demonstrated his Lone Wolf Martial Soul before beginning the awakenings.
• Su Yuntao awakened seven children’s Martial Souls, including a handkerchief, spatula, sickle, brick, and soup bowl, but found no Soul Power in any of them.
• Lu Chen reminded Tang San that it was his turn, and Tang San stepped forward for his awakening.

Tang San awakened a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul but revealed Innate Full Soul Power, while Lu Chen began his own awakening and encountered a vast, terrifying sphere of light in his spiritual world.

• Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass, and Lu Chen urged Su Yuntao to test his Soul Power.
• Tang San's test revealed Innate Full Soul Power, astonishing Su Yuntao and delighting Old Jack despite the Martial Soul's reputation.
• Tang San reflected that Blue Silver Grass might not be useless and teased Lu Chen for predicting his Martial Soul.
• Lu Chen took his place in the awakening ceremony as Su Yuntao said he was ready to proceed to the next village.
• Lu Chen entered his spiritual world, where he approached an enormous sphere of light filled with increasingly violent energy.

Lu Chen’s Martial Soul awakening spiraled out of control, draining Su Yuntao and erupting with enough force to knock everyone in Spirit Hall down. Lu Chen emerged with the six Infinite Gems revolving around his wrist and declared himself invincible.

• Lu Chen entered his spiritual world during his awakening and watched a swelling sphere of light crack as energy gathered inside it.
• Su Yuntao told Old Jack he could not explain the delay, while Lu Chen feared the sphere would explode and ruin his mind.
• The sphere burst into light, and six gems appeared in Lu Chen’s spiritual world before entering his body.
• Su Yuntao’s Soul Power ran out, and energy erupted from Lu Chen, knocking everyone in Spirit Hall to the ground.
• Lu Chen returned to consciousness and discovered six Infinite Gems revolving around his wrist as his Martial Soul.
• Lu Chen boasted to Tang San that he was invincible, prompting Tang San to step away from him.

Lu Chen awakened a rare six-colored gem martial soul and displayed Innate Full Soul Power, shocking Su Yuntao and Tang San. Su Yuntao urged Lu Chen to join Spirit Hall, and Lu Chen weighed the offer against his friendship with Tang San and his dislike of Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang.

• Old Jack helped Su Yuntao inspect Lu Chen's six-colored gem martial soul, which Su Yuntao could not identify.
• Lu Chen drew a tiny amount of energy from the orange Soul Gem into the testing crystal, making it shine brightly and reveal his Innate Full Soul Power.
• Su Yuntao called Lu Chen's martial soul a rare Six-Colored Gem and confirmed his Innate Full Soul Power, while Tang San wondered how Lu Chen had gained it.
• Old Jack explained that the village had only one work-study student slot despite having two newly awakened soul masters.
• Su Yuntao proposed that Lu Chen join Spirit Hall for its resources, and Old Jack asked Lu Chen what he wanted to do.
• Lu Chen considered the offer and his friendship with Tang San while thinking critically about Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang.

After awakening the Infinite Gems, Lu Chen asked Su Yuntao for time to consider joining Spirit Hall and then studied the Gems’ abilities. He left the chapter wondering whether he was already invincible and whether he should test his powers.

• Lu Chen asked Su Yuntao to let him think before deciding whether to join Spirit Hall, and Su Yuntao invited him to visit the Spirit Hall in Nuoding City.
• Su Yuntao gave Old Jack the awakening certificates, explained that the academy had only one work-study spot, and left for another village.
• Old Jack took Tang San home to tell Tang Hao the news, while Tang San and Lu Chen said goodbye.
• Lu Chen summoned the Infinite Gems and processed their abilities, including control over power, time, space, souls, reality, and minds.
• Lu Chen realized he could use the Gems without side effects as long as his stamina held out, then wondered whether he was invincible and should test them.

After testing the Power, Time, and Space Gems, Lu Chen explored a forest and encountered the Titan Giant Ape carrying a figure he suspected was Xiao Wu. He pursued them into what he believed was the Star Dou Forest.

• Lu Chen shattered a stone pillar with the Power Gem, then used the Time Gem to restore it.
• Lu Chen opened a Spatial Tunnel back to Old Jack’s home and decided to explore beyond Holy Soul Village.
• Lu Chen teleported to a forest, where the Power Gem turned a swarm of poisonous butterflies to dust.
• Lu Chen heard a commotion and saw a huge Titan Giant Ape carrying a figure as it fled through the forest.
• Lu Chen suspected the figure was Xiao Wu and chased after the Titan Giant Ape.

Lu Chen endured Er Ming’s pressure and used the Mind Gem to knock the Titan Giant Ape unconscious, then rescued Xiao Wu and led her away. He and Xiao Wu introduced themselves, but both concealed the truth about why they were in the depths of the Star Dou Forest.

• Xiao Wu stopped Er Ming from harming Lu Chen and ordered him to carry the child out of the forest.
• Lu Chen confronted Er Ming to rescue Xiao Wu, while Er Ming’s roar and pressure failed to make him collapse.
• Lu Chen used the Mind Gem to knock Er Ming unconscious after pretending to be overwhelmed by the roar.
• Lu Chen grabbed Xiao Wu and took her to a safe area before Er Ming could wake up.
• Xiao Wu questioned Lu Chen about his strength and how he had reached the forest’s depths, and Lu Chen gave his name while asking for hers.

Lu Chen let Xiao Wu and the Azure Bull Python take him out of the Star Dou Forest, then returned to Holy Soul Village using the Space Gem. Old Jack welcomed him with a feast and reminded him that he would soon leave for Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy as the village’s hope.

• Xiao Wu asked Da Ming, the Sky Azure Bull Python, to knock Lu Chen unconscious so she could leave the Star Dou Forest without exposing her secret.
• Da Ming’s spiritual attack had no effect on Lu Chen, but Lu Chen pretended to faint, and Xiao Wu dragged him toward Er Ming before leaving with Da Ming.
• After Xiao Wu and the soul beasts departed, Lu Chen got up, considered visiting the Land of Great Evil, then decided to keep a low profile and used the Space Gem to return to Holy Soul Village.
• Lu Chen found Old Jack preparing his favorite dishes, and Old Jack told him to study hard when he left for Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy.

After lunch, Lu Chen secretly used the Time Gem to help Old Jack, then visited Tang San and encouraged him to bring rabbit dishes to the academy to build friendships. Lu Chen challenged Tang San to a fight, but Tang Hao interrupted to ask what Lu Chen’s martial soul was.

• Lu Chen remembered his difficult past and how Old Jack had raised him, then used the Time Gem to give Old Jack sixty yearly restorations of his physical condition.
• Lu Chen went to Tang San’s home, where Tang San and Tang Hao were eating rabbit meat instead of practicing blacksmithing.
• Lu Chen advised Tang San to bring extra rabbit dishes to Nuoding Primary Soul Master Academy to share with his roommates, and Tang San asked Tang Hao to prepare more.
• Lu Chen said he had come to talk about their future at the academy, then challenged Tang San to a fight to decide who would be the big brother.
• Tang Hao asked Lu Chen to summon his martial soul so he could inspect it.

Tang Hao demonstrated his extraordinary hammering technique to Tang San and decided to teach him the Clear Sky Sect’s Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer. Lu Chen watched and joked that the technique was just “clang clang clang.”

• Lu Chen summoned his six-gem Martial Soul and told Tang Hao he had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Tang Hao explained the uncertain potential of Gem-type Martial Souls, then sent Tang San to the forge.
• Tang San practiced hammering pig iron while Lu Chen watched and teased him about the rhythm.
• Tang Hao showed Tang San how to channel strength through his body and flatten the iron in three blows.
• Tang Hao demonstrated eighty-one increasingly powerful strikes and named the technique the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Tang San said he had learned about seventy percent of the technique, and Lu Chen dismissed it as easy clang clang clang.

Lu Chen used the Reality Gem to win a bet with Tang Hao by forging flawless refined iron with his chaotic hammering, then left the forge to consider the Soul Gem’s powers. He wondered whether he could steal, control, or alter souls, martial souls, and soul rings.

• Lu Chen challenged Tang Hao to a bet, claiming his sense of rhythm could forge pig iron to match Tang Hao’s refined iron.
• Lu Chen danced wildly while hammering and secretly used the Reality Gem to forge an identical, flawless piece of refined iron.
• Tang Hao accepted his loss and owed Lu Chen one condition, while Tang San remained baffled by Lu Chen’s hammer technique.
• Tang San resumed practicing the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, and Lu Chen said he was going for a walk before leaving Holy Soul Village.
• Lu Chen considered using the Soul Gem to steal or control souls and to alter martial souls and soul rings.

Lu Chen used his Soul Gem to strengthen Gou Sheng’s soul and began creating a Martial Soul for the village dog. He considered powerful canine forms as Gou Sheng trembled through the transformation.

• Lu Chen imagined using his Soul Gem to alter Grandmaster’s Luo San Pao, then laughed so loudly that villagers mocked him.
• Lu Chen went to Old Wang’s house to visit Gou Sheng before leaving for Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Lu Chen startled Gou Sheng awake with a shout, prompting Old Wang to flee naked from Old Li’s home into the woods.
• Lu Chen dragged Gou Sheng into the small woods and used his Infinite Gem Martial Soul to strengthen the dog’s soul.
• Lu Chen pondered what canine Martial Soul to create for Gou Sheng, considering a three-headed hellhound, Nasus, wolves, and MetalGarurumon.

Lu Chen used the Soul, Reality, and Mind Gems to transform Gou Sheng into an intelligent Digimon-style martial soul with a planned evolution line and skills tied to its soul rings. Gou Sheng awoke, recognized Lu Chen as its father, and followed him despite his protests.

• Lu Chen chose Unimon as Gou Sheng's martial soul and planned its evolutions and abilities through OmniGarurumon.
• Lu Chen used the Soul and Reality Gems to transform Gou Sheng into Unimon, then used the Mind Gem to grant it intelligence.
• Lu Chen startled Gou Sheng awake by shouting at it, and Gou Sheng barked and ran away.
• Gou Sheng began acting anxiously, then rushed to Lu Chen and called him Dad.
• Lu Chen told Gou Sheng to leave and not call him Dad, but Gou Sheng continued circling him and calling him Dad.

Gou Sheng left Holy Soul Village to cultivate after Lu Chen awakened its martial soul, while Lu Chen used the Infinite Gems and went to meet Tang San for their challenge. The chapter ended with Lu Chen declaring that he would be Tang San’s father instead of his big brother.

• Lu Chen explained to Gou Sheng that he was its benefactor, warned it to avoid the human world, and advised it to seek a soul beast forest until it grew stronger.
• Gou Sheng left Holy Soul Village to cultivate, setting out on the path that would later make it known as Dog Douluo.
• Lu Chen reflected on the powers of the six Infinite Gems and wondered why Tang San had not come to challenge him.
• Lu Chen went to Tang San’s house, where Tang Hao told him Tang San was waiting in their usual grove.
• Tang San prepared broken stones as hidden weapons and planned to use his techniques to keep Lu Chen at a distance.
• Lu Chen met Tang San in the grove and said he intended to be Tang San’s father rather than his big brother.

Lu Chen and Tang San fought after Lu Chen’s martial-soul awakening had greatly increased his abilities. Lu Chen used the Time Gem to evade Tang San’s attacks and slow him down, leaving their duel unresolved.

• Lu Chen challenged Tang San to fight and controlled his strength so he would not seriously hurt him.
• Tang San threw a stone at Lu Chen, who dodged it, then caught all eight stones in Tang San’s next volley.
• Tang San charged Lu Chen with a punch, and Lu Chen accelerated his own flow of time to dodge and move behind him.
• Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to evade Lu Chen, but Lu Chen slowed Tang San’s flow of time by half.

Lu Chen defeated Tang San in a sparring match, then encouraged him to work hard and surpass him. Tang San returned home determined to train, while Lu Chen considered how to spend the days before they left for Nuoding City.

• Lu Chen slowed Tang San with Time Power and sent him flying with a punch, leaving Tang San startled by his sudden strength.
• Lu Chen overwhelmed Tang San with a rapid barrage until Tang San admitted defeat, then struck him in the stomach as he began to talk.
• Lu Chen helped Tang San up, encouraged him to keep improving, and insisted Tang San call him Brother Chen.
• Tang San returned home and told Tang Hao he had lost; Tang Hao ordered him to eat and continue practicing the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer the next day.
• Lu Chen noted that several days remained before they left for Nuoding City and decided he could not spend the time waiting around.

Lu Chen went to Star Dou Forest to find a powerful opponent and improve his combat skills, choosing Er Ming and Da Ming as training partners. After changing his appearance and heading toward the forest’s depths, he heard a nearby battle and went to investigate.

• Lu Chen decided to travel to Star Dou Forest to practice his fighting techniques against a powerful soul beast.
• Lu Chen teleported to Star Dou Forest and used the Mind Gem to locate Er Ming, who was sleeping beside a lake with Da Ming hidden underwater.
• Lu Chen used the Time Gem to grow into his future appearance, then used the Reality Gem to create clothes.
• Lu Chen raced through the forest toward the Mixed Ring and heard a battle in the Outer Ring.
• Lu Chen headed toward the nearby fighting to see who was there.

Lu Chen secretly watched Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan hunt a Sting-tailed Spirit Fox for their third soul rings. When the beast nearly killed Hu Liena with a tail spike, Lu Chen saved her with a Space Barrier, leaving Yue Guan searching for the unseen rescuer.

• Lu Chen recognized Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan as Spirit Hall's Golden Generation and realized Yue Guan was secretly protecting them.
• Xie Yue and Yan cornered the Sting-tailed Spirit Fox, while Hu Liena controlled it with Demonic Fox Charm.
• Yan and Xie Yue crippled the fox's limbs, and Hu Liena prepared to kill it with Fox Fire Command.
• The dying Sting-tailed Spirit Fox launched a tail spike at Hu Liena, but Lu Chen blocked it with a Space Barrier.
• Yue Guan arrived and denied saving Hu Liena, then searched for the person whose aura he could not detect.