Chapter Summaries

At the martial soul awakening ceremony, Chu Jin awakened a crippled-looking beast martial soul and innate soul power level one, drawing pity and mockery. After choosing three Hextech System rewards, he gained new abilities that revealed the beast was a Twelve-Winged Holy Dragon Hatchling, leaving him aware that its apparent mutation had been badly misunderstood.

• Chu Lie tried to reassure Chu Jin before the awakening ceremony, while the other children awakened mostly ordinary martial souls and one boy gained a Gray Wolf with innate soul power level three.
• Chu Jin awakened a round, one-winged beast with weak dragon and light attributes, and Steward Ma judged it a detrimental mutation after Chu Jin tested at innate soul power level one.
• Chu Lie comforted Chu Jin and offered to raise him even if he never became a soul master, while Chu Jin picked up the beast and prepared to leave.
• The Hextech System activated and offered five options, and Chu Jin selected New Recruit, Level Up!, and Rule the Field.
• The rewards altered Chu Jin's perception, revealing flowing soul power and a golden name above the beast: Twelve-Winged Holy Dragon Hatchling.

Chu Jin’s second Soul Power test confirmed he had level-three Soul Power, and his newly awakened Double Pupils startled Steward Ma with their overwhelming mental pressure. The Spirit Hall reported Chu Jin’s Twin Martial Souls as confidential information, while Chu Jin returned home with Chu Lie and his External Beast Martial Soul.

• Chu Jin asked Steward Ma to test his Soul Power again after withdrawing his External Beast Martial Soul, and the crystal ball showed level three whether the beast was inside or outside his body.
• Steward Ma probed Chu Jin’s mind, triggering his Double Pupils and causing a battlefield illusion that made the level-twenty-seven Soul Grandmaster stagger backward.
• Chu Jin revealed his Double Pupils as his second Martial Soul and said they could show Soul Power flow and influence minds.
• Steward Ma ordered the witnesses not to spread the news and prepared an emergency report about Chu Jin’s Twin Martial Souls.
• Chu Lie took Chu Jin home, checked that his eyes still worked, and promised to stew meat for him.
• Chu Jin summoned his External Beast Martial Soul and wondered how the little beast could become the Twelve-Winged Sacred Dragon described by his Double Pupils.

Chu Jin discovered that Xiao Jin grew by eating energy-bearing ores and sent part of its growth back to him, strengthening his body. After testing several metals, Xiao Jin ate a piece of Black Meteoric Iron, awakening a golden node in its wing and making the smithy’s weapons tremble.

• Chu Jin named his little golden dragon Xiao Jin and used his Double Pupils to examine its sealed energy nodes.
• Xiao Jin ignored ordinary food and common ores but eagerly ate Starshine Iron, which strengthened its wings and fed physical power back to Chu Jin.
• Chu Jin lifted a hundred-jin forging hammer and estimated that his strength had increased by about thirty percent; he and Chu Lie began testing other ores.
• Chu Jin and Chu Lie found that Xiao Jin preferred light-aligned materials, could also eat fire-aligned ore, and had a daily limit to how much it could digest.
• Xiao Jin bit a piece off the Black Meteoric Iron, causing the weapons in the smithy to tremble and a dormant golden node in its wing to light up.

Chu Jin trained in forging and halberd techniques while Xiao Jin slowly adapted to eating Black Meteoric Iron. When older youths challenged him, Chu Jin and Xiao Jin defeated them, and he realized the Overlord Army’s power remained weak without worthy enemies or followers.

• Xiao Jin ate a small piece of Black Meteoric Iron, and Chu Jin felt his strength and bones grow stronger as Chu Lie locked the remaining iron away.
• Chu Jin began forging lessons, using his Double Pupils to study Chu Lie’s technique and quickly improve his hammer strikes.
• Chu Jin chose to train with a blunt eighty-jin Iron Halberd, and he practiced blocking Xiao Jin’s quick movements with it.
• The well-dressed Gray Wolf boy and four other youths challenged Chu Jin, but Chu Jin and Xiao Jin defeated them in the smithy yard.
• Chu Jin made the youths replace the stone slabs they had cracked, then learned from the system that the Overlord Army needed stronger enemies and willing companions to reach its full power.

Over three months, Chu Jin reached level ten and demonstrated Xiao Jin’s material absorption and power feedback to Zhou Mingyuan, who sent an urgent report to Spirit Hall. The chapter left off as Guang Ling Douluo arrived at the Azure Stone Sub-Hall and asked for Chu Jin.

• Chu Jin raised Xiao Jin with varied materials and reached level ten through rapid cultivation and two [Level Up!] rewards.
• Zhou Mingyuan retested Chu Jin, confirmed his level-ten Soul Power, and observed Xiao Jin absorb Light Stone and dragon-type bone powder and feed power back to Chu Jin.
• Chu Jin wielded a five-hundred-pound Heavy Halberd for three controlled moves, impressing Zhou Mingyuan with his strength and control.
• Xiao Jin gnawed at Zhou Mingyuan’s Light Soul Power shield, revealing that it could consume externally released Soul Power.
• Zhou Mingyuan sent an urgent report assessing Chu Jin’s potential to change the upper limit of beast Martial Souls.
• Guang Ling Douluo arrived at the Azure Stone Sub-Hall and asked Steward Ma where Chu Jin was.

Guang Ling Douluo tested Chu Jin’s combat instincts, endurance, and martial soul coordination before offering to take him to Spirit City for training. Chu Jin accepted, provided his uncle could come too, and Guang Ling ordered them to bring their detailed training records and promised to supply Xiao Jin with materials.

• Guang Ling visited Chu Jin at the smithy and examined Xiao Jin, the metal-eating external beast martial soul.
• Guang Ling tested Chu Jin with ice arrows, and Chu Jin used his Double Pupils, heavy halberd, and Xiao Jin to deflect them without retreating.
• Guang Ling subjected Chu Jin to Titled Douluo pressure, sensed resistance from the power within Chu Jin, and stopped before he collapsed.
• Guang Ling offered to take Chu Jin to Spirit City, and Chu Jin agreed on the condition that Chu Lie could come with him.
• Guang Ling found Chu Jin’s detailed records of training and Xiao Jin’s growth, told them to bring the notebooks, and promised to provide materials in Spirit City.

Chu Jin led the convoy through a bandit ambush, using the Overlord Army and the terrain to defeat the attackers with few injuries. Guang Ling reported his first battlefield command to the Consecration Hall, where Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo took interest in him, before Chu Jin and his uncle arrived in Spirit City.

• More than thirty bandits ambushed the convoy in a narrow mountain pass, and Chu Jin ordered the guards and workers to form a defensive line beside the cliff.
• Chu Jin used the Overlord Army to coordinate the defenders, and they repelled repeated attacks, defeated the bandit Soul Masters, and captured the fleeing leader.
• Guang Ling sent a battle report to Spirit City, prompting Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo to discuss Chu Jin's command ability.
• Chu Jin, Chu Lie, and Guang Ling reached Spirit City, where Chu Jin asked where to find light- and dragon-attribute materials for Xiao Jin.

Chu Jin underwent tests in the Consecration Hall, demonstrating Xiao Jin’s devouring growth, his Double Pupils’ combat insight, and his resolve under Qian Daoliu’s pressure. He passed and became a core disciple, with the Consecrators dividing his training and selecting a Radiant Nightmare Dragon Lizard as a candidate for his first soul ring.

• Yue Guan tested Xiao Jin by feeding it various materials and observed its broad potential for growth, while Golden Crocodile tested Chu Jin’s strength and the Consecrators debated his training path.
• Chu Jin explained that Xiao Jin would be his primary martial soul, the heavy halberd would serve close combat, and the Double Pupils would support observation and control without receiving soul rings for now.
• Chu Jin used his Double Pupils to read a Soul Ancestor’s soul power pathways and briefly disrupt him with spiritual pressure.
• Chu Jin and Xiao Jin endured Qian Daoliu’s Six-Winged Angel pressure as they climbed the mountain steps, and Chu Jin reached the top without retreating.
• Qian Daoliu named Chu Jin a core disciple, while Golden Crocodile, Guang Ling, and Yue Guan took charge of different parts of his training.
• Qian Daoliu gave Chu Jin a list of first soul ring candidates, and Xiao Jin reacted eagerly to the Radiant Nightmare Dragon Lizard.

Chu Jin hunted an eight-hundred-and-eighty-year Radiant Nightmare Dragon Lizard and overcame its spiritual illusion by using his Double Pupils to find its source. With Xiao Jin’s help, he killed the beast, and its dark yellow soul ring appeared as Xiao Jin stared at it hungrily.

• Chu Jin left Spirit City with Golden Crocodile and Guang Ling to search for a suitable Radiant Nightmare Dragon Lizard, carrying his father’s spearhead.
• On the seventh day, the group found an approximately eight-hundred-and-eighty-year-old Radiant Nightmare Dragon Lizard, and Chu Jin faced it alone.
• The dragon lizard trapped Chu Jin in an illusion of his parents’ deaths, but his Double Pupils revealed the spiritual threads leading to its hiding place.
• Chu Jin dodged the dragon lizard’s attacks and studied its movements while Xiao Jin distracted it and helped expose a weak scale on its throat.
• Chu Jin drove his heavy halberd into the dragon lizard’s throat, killing it with Xiao Jin’s help, and a dark yellow soul ring rose from the corpse.
• Xiao Jin stared hungrily at the soul ring before Chu Jin could begin drawing it in.

Chu Jin absorbed an 880-year Radiant Nightmare Dragon Lizard soul ring, evolved Xiao Jin, and gained the first soul skill Holy Dragon Soul Suppression. At the Worship Hall, he began testing the skill against a level-twenty-six Windshadow Cat Soul Grandmaster.

• Golden Crocodile warned Chu Jin that the Radiant Nightmare Dragon Lizard's lingering spiritual power could endanger him as he absorbed its soul ring.
• Chu Jin and Xiao Jin fought the Dragon Lizard's spiritual phantom together, defeated it, and completed the absorption after a day and a night.
• Xiao Jin grew a pair of golden wings, while Chu Jin received Soul Power feedback that raised him to level thirteen.
• Chu Jin revealed Holy Dragon Soul Suppression, which combined spiritual intimidation with light and dragon might to frighten nearby soul beasts.
• Golden Crocodile and Guang Ling brought Chu Jin back to Spirit City, where Qian Daoliu arranged a test against a level-twenty-six Windshadow Cat Soul Grandmaster.
• The Windshadow Cat Soul Grandmaster moved in to strike Chu Jin, and Chu Jin activated his first soul skill as Xiao Jin spread its wings and roared.

Chu Jin defeated a level-twenty-six Windshadow Cat Soul Grandmaster and was accepted as a core disciple of the Worship Hall. While touring Spirit City with Qinghe, Chu Jin recognized her as Qian Renxue but chose not to expose her, leaving their identities unspoken.

• Chu Jin used Holy Dragon Soul Suppression and his Heavy Halberd to defeat the Windshadow Cat Soul Grandmaster, who admitted defeat.
• Qian Daoliu accepted Chu Jin as a core disciple and assigned Golden Crocodile, Guang Ling, and Yue Guan to train him.
• Qinghe arrived, and Qian Daoliu asked him to show Chu Jin around Spirit City.
• Chu Jin's Double Pupils revealed that Qinghe was Qian Renxue, though he kept his discovery to himself.
• As Qinghe guided Chu Jin through Spirit City, she explained his surroundings and gave a prepared account of her place in the Qian Clan.
• Chu Jin told Qinghe that he would not press her about secrets she did not want to share, surprising her.

Chu Jin and Qian Qinghe visited Spirit City's materials market, where Chu Jin bought samples for Xiao Jin to test and stopped a thief from stealing an elderly woman's money. The day ended with Chu Jin telling Qian Qinghe that her disguise was mediocre, leaving her frozen outside the courtyard gate.

• Chu Jin and Qian Qinghe settled into the Worship Hall's residence, where Chu Lie inspected the forge and met Qian Qinghe.
• Chu Jin bought small samples of ores and Soul Beast materials for Xiao Jin, choosing to pay with his own money rather than use Worship Hall supplies.
• Xiao Jin caught a teenage thief who had stolen an elderly woman's money pouch, and Chu Jin sent the boy to the Spirit City Security Team after guards confirmed his circumstances.
• Chu Jin accepted one Silver Soul Coin as Xiao Jin's reward for returning the pouch, explaining that the elderly woman had little money.
• At the residence, Qian Qinghe asked Chu Jin what he thought of her appearance, and he called her disguise mediocre, leaving her stunned.

Golden Crocodile began training Chu Jin to control his rapidly growing strength with weighted stair climbs, waterfall practice, and basic halberd techniques. Chu Jin endured the first day’s exhausting exercises and watched Golden Crocodile demonstrate how to put the whole body into each move.

• Golden Crocodile brought Chu Jin black weights and a five-hundred-jin Dark Iron Heavy Halberd, then ordered him to meet at the Third Training Ground on Consecration Mountain.
• Chu Jin climbed and descended a thousand-step staircase carrying the Heavy Halberd and wearing three hundred jin of weights, using his Double Pupils to correct his movements.
• Golden Crocodile explained that Chu Jin’s body had grown faster than his control and told him to train until he could command every ounce of strength.
• Chu Jin repeatedly entered the waterfall and struggled to stand firm and hold the Heavy Halberd steady against the falling water.
• After a brief rest, Golden Crocodile demonstrated halberd thrusts, sweeps, and chops, and Chu Jin watched how he coordinated his entire body in each move.

Chu Jin trained with Golden Crocodile, sparred with Qian Qinghe, and tested his Double Pupils against Hu Liena’s mental charm. Xiao Jin disrupted Hu Liena’s illusions, and the chapter ended with Qian Qinghe filling Chu Jin’s schedule with more training and study.

• Chu Jin practiced halberd techniques under Golden Crocodile until dusk and improved his ability to hold a thrust beneath the waterfall.
• Qian Qinghe challenged Chu Jin to a spar, and Xiao Jin helped Chu Jin defeat her while exposing her use of Seraphim Martial Soul power beyond their agreed limit.
• Hu Liena visited Chu Jin to test whether his Double Pupils could counter mental charm, but Xiao Jin bit into her demon fox phantom and broke her first illusion.
• Hu Liena drew both Chu Jin and Xiao Jin into a forest illusion, and Chu Jin used his Double Pupils to guide Xiao Jin in destroying its mental nodes.
• Qian Qinghe arrived to take Chu Jin to the library and responded to Hu Liena’s visit by filling his schedule with study and training.

Qian Qinghe trained to convincingly impersonate Xue Qinghe and revealed to Chu Jin that her disguise was tied to a plan to infiltrate the Heaven Dou Empire. Chu Jin warned her that a mask worn too long could make her forget herself, and the chapter ended with the Angel Rite approaching in seven days, when he would see her true appearance.

• Qian Qinghe studied Heaven Dou Imperial Family records and practiced Xue Qinghe's mannerisms under Ci Xue Douluo's guidance.
• Chu Jin joined Qian Qinghe after training and asked whether her duties were her own choice or had been arranged by others.
• Chu Jin revealed he had suspected Qian Qinghe's identity since their first meeting and criticized a decade-long plan to infiltrate Heaven Dou.
• Chu Jin suggested Spirit Hall build its strength and face the empire openly once powerful enough, while Qian Qinghe considered his warning about losing herself to her disguise.
• After Chu Jin left, Qian Qinghe briefly shed her disguise and remembered that the Angel Rite in seven days would expose her true appearance to him.

Qian Renxue completed the Angel Rite, revealing her true appearance and awakening a powerful resonance between her Six-Winged Angel and Xiao Jin’s Holy Dragon bloodline. After learning Chu Jin had known her identity since their first meeting, she chased him around the temple before they reconciled and introduced themselves again.

• Qian Renxue entered the sacred pool, and the Angel Rite stripped away her disguise soul bone to reveal her true form.
• Xiao Jin flew to Qian Renxue and resonated with her Six-Winged Angel, strengthening the circulation of her angel soul power.
• Qian Renxue confronted Chu Jin about knowing her identity, and he explained that his double pupils had seen through her disguise from their first meeting.
• Qian Renxue chased Chu Jin around the Angel Sacred Pool, while the consecrators watched and Qian Daoliu let them settle the matter themselves.
• Qian Renxue told Chu Jin not to call her Qian Qinghe or mention her past disguises, then introduced herself as Qian Renxue and shook his hand.

Chu Jin and Qian Renxue formed a Faith Anchor after she accepted her true identity and stood by him, and a year of rigorous training brought him close to level twenty. An emergency rescue signal then summoned Chu Jin, Golden Crocodile, and Guang Ling to the Worship Hall, where they found Qian Daoliu holding a bloodstained token and a badly injured soul master awaiting them.

• Qian Renxue openly accepted Chu Jin and formed the Overlord Army's first Faith Anchor, while claiming the future vice-captain position.
• Chu Jin and Qian Renxue walked through Spirit City together without her disguise, with Xiao Jin accompanying them.
• A year later, Chu Jin completed halberd training beneath a waterfall with an eight-hundred-pound Heavy Halberd and reached level nineteen.
• Xiao Jin returned from training with a Huo Yun Crystal from Guang Ling and ate it beside Chu Jin.
• An emergency rescue signal rang, and Chu Jin, Golden Crocodile, and Guang Ling hurried to the Worship Hall.
• Qian Daoliu received them with a bloodstained identity token, several elders, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and a severely wounded middle-aged soul master.

After learning that Blood Butcher had resurfaced and challenged him using his father Chu Xiao’s identity plaque, Chu Jin secured permission to join the mission to River Valley Town. Qian Renxue joined him, and the team prepared to leave in one hour while Chu Jin planned to break through to level twenty first.

• Chu Jin learned that the Bloodfang Evil Soul Group had attacked the River Valley Town branch hall, taken civilians, and used his father’s identity plaque to provoke him.
• Chu Jin presented his combat records and plan to rescue civilians and weaken Blood Butcher’s forces, then persuaded Qian Daoliu to let him join the mission.
• Qian Daoliu approved Chu Jin’s participation on the condition that he follow orders and put civilian safety first.
• Qian Renxue arrived and joined the mission, citing her level thirty-three strength and Seraphim Martial Soul’s advantage against evil soul masters.
• Chu Jin and Qian Renxue prepared to depart in one hour, and Chu Jin said he would break through to level twenty before they left.

Chu Jin broke through to level twenty and led part of a Spirit Hall mission force toward River Valley Town, where the Bloodfang Group was sacrificing civilians. When the group’s cover was blown and the ritual began early, Qian Renxue destroyed the blood altar as Chu Jin prepared to lead the guards to rescue the captives.

• Chu Jin broke through to level twenty, then joined Qin Yue and Qian Renxue on a mission to suppress Blood Butcher and the Bloodfang Group.
• Chu Jin studied the town’s defenses with Qin Yue and devised a plan to prioritize civilians and sever the blood array’s connection to the waterways.
• Outside River Valley Town, Chu Jin used his Double Pupils to identify evil soul masters, corpse puppets, and four underground array nodes.
• Chu Jin stopped the control-type Soul Ancestor from touching unstable bone stakes, and Qian Renxue burned the array nodes with Angel Sacred Flame.
• The Bloodfang Group discovered the team and began its sacrifice early, so Qin Yue ordered a frontal assault and Chu Jin took responsibility for leading guards to rescue civilians.
• Qian Renxue flew to the ritual grounds and split the blood altar with a holy sword strike.

Chu Jin led Spirit Hall and the townspeople in rescuing captives and holding off Bloodfang’s corpse puppets. As the battlefield turned in their favor, Blood Butcher emerged atop a Blood-Bone Behemoth and confronted Chu Jin.

• Qian Renxue and Qin Yue broke into the sacrificial grounds, while Chu Jin organized the guards and freed the civilians from their chains.
• Chu Jin identified the corpse puppets’ controlling blood threads and organized Spirit Hall members and local soul masters into a defensive formation.
• Chu Jin’s Overlord Army coordinated the fighters as Qian Renxue and the others eliminated the hidden evil soul masters controlling the puppets.
• Chu Jin defeated an evil Soul Elder who had disguised himself as an injured townsman, while Qin Yue continued suppressing the Soul Ancestors.
• Blood Butcher appeared atop a Blood-Bone Behemoth and told Chu Jin that he resembled his father.