Chapter Summaries

Zhao Ming awakened his Martial Souls at the Spirit Hall in Vast Sea City, revealing a Steel Whip that had evolved through years of cultivating Nine-Breath Qi Absorption. His Soul Power test showed Innate Full Soul Power, while his Treasure-Dropping Coin Martial Soul had yet to appear.

• Zhao Ming recalled how fallen soul masters had slaughtered his village before four angel soul masters rescued him and another child.
• Zhao Ming explained that his system had left him the Treasure-Dropping Coin, a Mustard Seed Space, Nine-Breath Qi Absorption, and two prize wheels before abandoning him in the Douluo Continent.
• Zhao Ming cultivated Nine-Breath Qi Absorption at the orphanage, evolving his inherited wooden rod Martial Soul into a Steel Whip and resolving to kill fallen soul masters.
• At the Spirit Hall awakening ceremony, Zhao Ming manifested a heavy Steel Whip, and the deacon mistook it for a mace before testing his Soul Power.
• Zhao Ming's crystal ball shone brightly, revealing Innate Full Soul Power and drawing the bishop of Vast Sea City's Spirit Hall downstairs.

After joining Spirit Hall, Zhao Ming received money from Tom and planned to buy whale glue to strengthen his body. He unlocked two inheritances through the system’s prize wheels, gaining an alchemy method and the introductory Shangqing Sword Technique.

• Zhao Ming agreed to join Spirit Hall, and Tom offered him a room and arranged donations for his orphanage.
• Tom gave Zhao Ming three thousand gold soul coins, which Zhao Ming planned to use to buy whale glue.
• Zhao Ming settled into a room at Spirit Hall and activated the system’s two prize wheels.
• The first wheel awarded Zhao Ming the Supreme Clarity Lineage’s introductory alchemy method and the Yin-Yang Flame-Gathering Art.
• The second wheel shifted from the Jade Clarity Talisman Compendium to the Shangqing Sword Technique, which Zhao Gongming demonstrated and imprinted into Zhao Ming’s soul.

Zhao Ming discovered that his Treasure-Dropping Coin granted him the Fortune-Gathering Domain, drawing the attention of the Divine Realm’s God Kings. He then refined three pieces of whale glue at the orphanage, greatly improving his physical constitution and preparing to absorb a stronger first soul ring.

• Zhao Ming summoned the Treasure-Dropping Coin and discovered its Fortune-Gathering Domain could boost his attributes, weaken enemies, and manipulate fortune within its range.
• The five God Kings sensed Zhao Ming’s law of money, and Kindness decided to visit the Sea God to take charge of the Angel God’s divine trials.
• Zhao Ming left Spirit Hall with Snake, bought bedding for the orphanage children and three pieces of whale glue, then melted the glue at a nearby blacksmith shop.
• Zhao Ming swallowed and refined the three-thousand-year whale glue with Nine-Breath Qi Absorption, then refined both five-thousand-year pieces.
• Zhao Ming sensed that his physical constitution had improved enough to support a first soul ring of eight or nine hundred years.

She Long took Zhao Ming from Vast Sea City to hunt for his first soul ring, after Spirit Hall rewarded Tom and Snake for discovering him. At the edge of Star Dou Forest, a Golden Armored Earth Dragon suddenly charged at them.

• She Long arrived at the Vast Sea City Spirit Hall branch, examined Zhao Ming's steel whip martial soul, and gave Tom fifty thousand gold soul coins as a reward.
• She Long introduced himself to Zhao Ming as a level ninety-one Title Douluo and flew with him toward Star Dou Forest.
• Zhao Ming named a Titan Giant Ape, Golden Armored Earth Dragon, and Terrorclaw Bear as candidates for his strength-focused first soul ring.
• She Long and Zhao Ming flew for three days before reaching Star Dou Forest.
• A Golden Armored Earth Dragon burst from the bushes and charged at She Long and Zhao Ming.

Zhao Ming absorbed a first soul ring from a Golden Armored Earth Dragon and gained the powerful Vajra Body skill. After half a month of combat training in the Star Dou Forest under She Long’s protection, he left the forest with sharper instincts and stronger control of his soul power.

• She Long killed a Golden Armored Earth Dragon, and Zhao Ming convinced him that its more-than-nine-hundred-year soul ring was suitable for his first ring.
• Zhao Ming absorbed the soul ring and gained Vajra Body, which boosted all his attributes and greatly increased his strength and defense.
• Zhao Ming asked to remain in the Star Dou Forest to train, and She Long agreed to protect him there for half a month.
• Zhao Ming fought ten-year and hundred-year soul beasts, rapidly improving his combat skills with the steel whip and Vajra Body.
• She Long led Zhao Ming out of the forest and praised his progress during their journey.

Snake Spear Douluo brought Zhao Ming to the Crown Prince's Palace, where he met Qian Renxue in her true appearance. Qian Renxue revealed why she had chosen to meet him honestly, leaving Zhao Ming shaken by her trust.

• Snake Spear Douluo brought Zhao Ming into Heaven Dou City and led him to the Crown Prince's Palace.
• Snake Spear Douluo sent Zhao Ming into the study, where he found Qian Renxue instead of Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.
• Qian Renxue revealed her Seraphim martial soul and introduced herself as a member of Spirit Hall's Angel Lineage.
• Qian Renxue explained that she met Zhao Ming in her true identity to honor the Angel Lineage's openness and to treat him as a trusted companion rather than a pawn.
• Zhao Ming recognized Qian Renxue from his previous life and was moved by her frankness and trust.

Qian Renxue revealed her full plan to seize the Heaven Dou Empire and asked Zhao Ming to join her; he accepted, trusting her as the angel soul master connected to his past. After testing his strength, Zhao Ming kept the benefits of whale glue secret while reflecting on Tang San and the consequences of destroying Spirit Hall and other institutions.

• Qian Renxue explained her plan to steal the nation, and Zhao Ming listened without showing fear or hesitation.
• Qian Renxue asked Zhao Ming to stay by her side, and he accepted because he trusted her angel martial soul and called her Big Sister.
• Qian Renxue promised that Zhao Ming would remain with her and arranged for Snake Spear and Porcupine to teach him soul-master basics.
• Zhao Ming told Qian Renxue about his Golden Armored Earth Dragon soul ring and first soul skill, then measured at Level 14 on her crystal ball.
• Qian Renxue examined Zhao Ming and concluded that his physical constitution could let him absorb a thousand-year second soul ring.
• Zhao Ming withheld the effects of whale glue and considered how Tang San’s destruction of institutions had left society in disorder.

Qian Renxue settled Zhao Ming into a secluded courtyard and arranged for She Long to teach him soul master fundamentals. As Zhao Ming began his lessons, Emperor Xue Ye learned of the child and ordered an investigation into his identity and talent.

• Qian Renxue showed Zhao Ming his new room in the Crown Prince's Palace, and he happily accepted it.
• Qian Renxue asked She Long to teach Zhao Ming the basics, and She Long agreed to instruct him each morning.
• She Long began teaching Zhao Ming about soul power cultivation, soul beasts, soul rings, and combat techniques.
• News of Zhao Ming's arrival reached Emperor Xue Ye, who ordered his spy to investigate the boy's identity, background, and innate soul power.

Ning Fengzhi learned that Zhao Ming likely possessed Innate Full Soul Power and ordered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to watch him and investigate his origins. In Spirit City, Bibi Dong learned Worship Hall had taken Zhao Ming and wondered why Qian Daoliu had intervened.

• Chen Xin told Ning Fengzhi that Zhao Ming was likely an Innate Full Soul Power genius taken to Crown Prince Xue Qinghe's palace.
• Ning Fengzhi decided not to approach Zhao Ming yet and ordered his people to monitor the child and investigate his background.
• A red bishop told Bibi Dong that a Spirit Hall elder had taken Zhao Ming from Vast Sea City using an elder token.
• Bibi Dong suspected Qian Daoliu had a reason to take Zhao Ming that went beyond the child's apparent talent, but decided not to challenge Worship Hall for now.
• Bibi Dong dismissed the red bishop, assuring him that Worship Hall's intervention was not his fault.

Qian Renxue allowed Heaven Dou City's forces to investigate Zhao Ming, whose verified background and innate full soul power made him the city's hottest prospect. After receiving lavish gifts from the imperial family and other powers, Zhao Ming stored them away and remained focused on cultivation and study.

• Qian Renxue told She Long not to interfere with the investigations into Zhao Ming, explaining that his background had been made spotless.
• Information about Zhao Ming's orphanhood, steel whip martial soul, and innate full soul power spread through Heaven Dou City, along with a story explaining how Xue Qinghe brought him to the Crown Prince's Palace.
• Emperor Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Heaven Dou City's noble houses sent gifts to Zhao Ming through Qian Renxue.
• Zhao Ming was stunned by the fortune, then stored the gifts in his mustard seed space and returned to his usual cultivation and studies.
• Snake Spear Douluo praised Zhao Ming's composure to Qian Renxue, who felt satisfied with her judgment of him.

After a year of disciplined training, Zhao Ming broke through to Rank Twenty and became ready to obtain his second soul ring. Qian Renxue sent She Long to take him to Sunset Forest, where they would seek a speed- or agility-enhancing skill for his Steel Whip.

• Zhao Ming trained each day in the Nine-Breath Qi Absorption, studied under Snake Spear Douluo, practiced sword techniques, and read about Douluo Continent.
• Qian Renxue visited Zhao Ming and grew pleased with his mature, attentive manner.
• Over the year, Zhao Ming's body and soul power improved, and he broke through from Rank Fourteen to Rank Twenty.
• Qian Renxue instructed She Long to take Zhao Ming to Sunset Forest for a second soul ring that could improve his speed or agility.
• Before dawn, She Long disguised himself as a coachman and departed the Crown Prince's Palace with Zhao Ming in a blue-canopied carriage.

Zhao Ming traveled with Snake Spear Douluo to the Sunset Forest to find a soul beast for his second soul ring, hoping for an Emerald Demon Bird despite its rarity. When they entered the forest, an Emerald Demon Bird appeared and flew straight toward a cliff.

• Zhao Ming told Snake Spear Douluo that he wanted a speed-boosting second soul skill from an Emerald Demon Bird or, as an alternative, a Sharp-tailed Swift.
• Snake Spear Douluo warned Zhao Ming that Emerald Demon Birds were nearly extinct and offered to take him to a Sharp-tailed Swift habitat in the Sunset Forest.
• Zhao Ming trusted his inexplicable intuition that he would find a suitably aged Emerald Demon Bird, which he suspected was tied to his Treasure-Dropping Coin martial soul.
• Snake Spear Douluo and Zhao Ming reached the Sunset Forest, left their carriage and horses at its edge, and entered the woods.
• An Emerald Demon Bird suddenly shot out of the forest, and Snake Spear Douluo recognized it as the rare soul beast.
• The Emerald Demon Bird flew past them without slowing and headed straight toward a steep cliff.

Zhao Ming absorbed a soul ring from a two-thousand-year-old Emerald Demon Bird and gained a powerful second soul skill. He then discovered that the bird had also produced a right arm soul bone, though he considered it too low-level to use.

• Snake Lance Douluo found that the Emerald Demon Bird and Sharp-tailed Swift had both crashed into a cliff and were just over two thousand years old.
• Zhao Ming killed the Emerald Demon Bird and absorbed its purple soul ring while Snake Lance Douluo guarded him.
• Zhao Ming gained Emerald Feather Protection, which boosted all his attributes and greatly increased his speed and agility without a set duration.
• Zhao Ming pulled a right arm soul bone from the Emerald Demon Bird, surprising Snake Lance Douluo, then regretted that it was not an External Soul Bone and was too low-level.

After returning from the Sunset Forest, Zhao Ming showed Qian Renxue his new soul skill and asked to train alone for three months; she agreed but secretly assigned Snake Spear Douluo to protect him. Zhao Ming slipped out of Heaven Dou City and vanished in the woods, leaving She Long unable to find him.

• Zhao Ming told Qian Renxue how he obtained his second soul ring and demonstrated Emerald Feather Protection, which boosted his attributes, speed, and agility.
• Zhao Ming asked to train alone for three months, and Qian Renxue agreed on the condition that Snake Spear Douluo secretly follow him and intervene only if his life was in danger.
• Qian Renxue tested Zhao Ming's soul power and found it had reached level twenty-three and a half.
• Before dawn, Zhao Ming left Heaven Dou City disguised beneath vegetable baskets in an ox cart and then entered the woods alone.
• Zhao Ming activated his second soul skill, reached a secluded ancient tree, and vanished, leaving She Long unable to trace his aura or find him.

Zhao Ming explained the Mustard Seed Space’s concealment and practiced his Intangibility skill while hiding from Snake Spear Douluo. After three days, he emerged and headed for Notting City, intending to claim the Blue Silver Emperor soul bone.

• Snake Spear Douluo failed to find Zhao Ming and left to report the truth to the young master.
• Zhao Ming described the Mustard Seed Space, its protections, and the limitation that he could only exit where he had entered.
• Zhao Ming practiced Intangibility, a skill that let him transfer parts of his body into the Mustard Seed Space to avoid attacks.
• Zhao Ming explained that his spiritual power had reached the Soul King level, though he could sustain Intangibility for only about two minutes.
• After hiding for three days, Zhao Ming emerged beneath the ancient tree and ran toward Notting City to prepare to take the Blue Silver Emperor soul bone.

Zhao Ming defeated a bandit leader by using the Treasure-Dropping Coin to suppress his weapon martial soul, then drove the remaining bandits away. He reviewed the coin’s abilities and limits, including how Soul Power affected its suppression and how the Fortune-Gathering Domain could replenish its cost.

• Zhao Ming knocked the bandit leader’s broadsword martial soul from his grasp, then used his soul skills and Steel Whip to kill him.
• Zhao Ming frightened the remaining bandits into fleeing and took the leader’s money pouch.
• Zhao Ming reflected on the month and a half he had spent traveling, fighting in Soul Fighting Arenas, and facing dangers in the wild.
• Zhao Ming concluded that the Treasure-Dropping Coin could suppress weapon martial souls, with stronger effects against opponents near his Soul Power Level.
• Zhao Ming determined that suppression against opponents of the same rank lasted about five minutes, and that the Fortune-Gathering Domain could extend it by replenishing his fortune.

Zhao Ming finished his training outside Notting City and continued toward it to obtain the Blue Silver Emperor's soul bone. In the God Realm, Kindness God King discovered that Sea God had taken some of Angel God's authority and demanded that he hand over Angel God's Divine Trial.

• Zhao Ming concluded that his training had achieved its goals and set off for Notting City, feeling guilty that Qian Renxue might have worried about him.
• Kindness God King visited Sea God's Temple to reclaim Angel God's Divine Trial and select an inheritor, but Sea God repeatedly put off handing it over.
• Kindness God King tested Sea God's divine power and recognized Angel God's Authority of Purification within it.
• Kindness God King accused Sea God of stealing and refining the authority, then ordered him to hand over Angel God's Divine Trial immediately.

The Kindness God King discovered that Poseidon had stolen the Angel God's authority and contaminated her Divine Trial. She began repairing the damaged trial and resolved to find the Angel God a worthy inheritor.

• The Kindness God King inspected the Angel God's Divine Trial and found Poseidon's divine power deeply intertwined with it.
• The Kindness God King confronted Poseidon, confiscated the Divine Trial, and ordered him to remain in his divine hall pending the God Realm Council's judgment.
• Poseidon recalled stealing the Angel God's authority of Purification and tampering with the trial to control its future inheritor.
• The Kindness God King found that nearly seventy percent of the authority of Purification had been siphoned away and the Divine Trial's structure was unstable.
• The Kindness God King began removing Poseidon's divine power and repairing the Divine Trial so the Angel God could have a worthy inheritor.

Zhao Ming arrived in Notting City and settled near the road to the Soul Hunting Forest, where he planned to take the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone after Tang Hao left Holy Soul Village. In the God Realm, Evil God King and Destruction God King agreed to oppose leniency for Poseidon and proposed sending him to guard the Forbidden Divine Land.

• Evil God King and Destruction God King rejected Asura's request to treat Poseidon leniently and discussed sending him to guard the Forbidden Divine Land.
• Zhao Ming surveyed Notting City, bought a local map, and rented a secluded courtyard near the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Zhao Ming planned to wait until Tang Hao secretly followed Tang San into the Soul Hunting Forest before seeking the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone behind Holy Soul Village's waterfall.
• Zhao Ming settled into the courtyard and cultivated Nine-Breath Qi Absorption, practiced Shangqing Sword Technique: Introductory Chapter, and trained his Soul Power and Intangibility.

After reaching level 25, Zhao Ming prepared to seize the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone while Tang Hao was away from Holy Soul Village. He found a hidden waterfall cave in the mountains, where the soul bone might be waiting.

• Zhao Ming broke through to level 25, bringing his spiritual power close to that of a Soul Emperor and deciding he needed ten-thousand-year whale glue before hunting for a third soul ring.
• Zhao Ming learned that Yu Xiaogang had accepted Tang San as his disciple and watched them leave for the Spirit Hunting Forest.
• Zhao Ming traveled to the mountains behind Holy Soul Village, reasoning that Tang Hao would be following Tang San and the area would be unguarded.
• Zhao Ming searched for waterfalls and ruled out two that had no caves behind them.
• Zhao Ming discovered a hidden waterfall with a dark cave entrance in the mountain wall behind it.