Chapter Summaries

Bai Chen and his companions entered Qiling Mine Cave to hunt Soul Rings and joined Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Old Ma on their journey toward the cave’s depths. Meng Hongchen became interested in recruiting Bai Chen, while the group continued deeper toward the Soul Beasts they sought.

• Xuan Ziwen gave Bai Chen and the others four modified Seventh-Level Disintegration Cannons and warned them to return safely with the valuable weapons.
• Bai Chen’s group reached Qiling Mine Cave and encountered Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Old Ma, then agreed to travel together.
• Old Ma introduced himself as a Level-Eight Soul Engineer and learned the travelers’ names, Martial Souls, and Soul Ring requirements.
• The group learned that Xiao Hongchen had come to hunt a Soul Ring so he could advance to Soul Grandmaster.
• Meng Hongchen remembered Jing Hongchen’s remarks about Bai Chen, admired his appearance, and secretly resolved to bring him into her camp.
• The group set off with Old Ma toward the bottom of Qiling Mine Cave without stopping along the way.

Bai Chen traveled with the Hongchen Siblings and Ning Tian into Qiling Mine Cave, where they found a powerful Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast guarding dark-blue crystals. After Old Ma defeated the beast, Meng Hongchen’s feelings for Bai Chen appeared to deepen.

• Bai Chen learned that the academy planned to collect rare metal from the mine’s depths, then continued onward with the group.
• Xiao Hongchen obtained Golden Surge, and Ning Tian obtained Strength Amplification as their Soul Skills.
• The group reached the deepest part of the mine, where a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast guarded dark-blue crystals that Xiao Hongchen wanted.
• The beast burrowed into the wall and attacked from concealment, but Bai Chen spotted danger and moved Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Ning Tian out of its path.
• Old Ma tracked down and killed the beast while Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen protected the others from its crystal attacks.
• Meng Hongchen thanked Bai Chen for saving her, while Ning Tian looked displeased and Bai Chen wondered whether Meng Hongchen had grown attached to him.

Bai Chen learned about Meng Hongchen’s poisonous Martial Soul and returned to the academy, where his Soul Tool skills improved over two months. In the Douluo I Era, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began the Wisdom Soul Ring ritual for Bai Chen, who lost consciousness as the Million-Year Soul Beast’s power entered him.

• Xiao Hongchen quietly thanked Bai Chen, and Old Ma agreed to give him some azure-blue crystals after Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen approved.
• On the journey back, Meng Hongchen explained that her Vermilion Radiance Ice Toad Martial Soul’s cold poison harmed her body, and Bai Chen decided to keep her condition in mind.
• Bai Chen returned to the Sun-Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, where Xuan Ziwen guided him as his Soul Tool skills improved over the next two months.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm announced that he had devised a way to condense a Wisdom Soul Ring, and Bai Chen summoned Di Tian before starting the ritual.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sent his ten golden veins’ energy into Bai Chen, who lost consciousness as the beast’s body became light and its shed skin flew toward him.

After fusing with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Bai Chen discovered that he had gained a powerful Skin External Soul Bone and a Million-Year Soul Ring. He tested his new Spiritual Detection with Di Tian and realized his Three-Eyed Golden Lion Martial Soul had given it the ability to perceive one second into the future.

• Bai Chen woke in his Spiritual Sea and learned that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had fused a Skin External Soul Bone with him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm described the Soul Bone’s four skills: Skydream Armor, Spiritual Prison, Cast-Off Shell Prison, and Simulation.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Bai Chen he could strengthen his Soul Rings and help him gain an ice-attribute Second Martial Soul once he reached Rank Twenty.
• Bai Chen returned to the cave entrance, asked Di Tian to spar, and revealed the golden Soul Ring granted by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Bai Chen used Spiritual Detection and found that he could see both the present and a fixed scene one second into the future.

Bai Chen tested his new Fate Attribute and combat abilities against Di Tian, earning his approval and permission to leave the Star Dou Great Forest. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion prepared to accompany him in human form, while Di Tian assigned Scarlet King to escort them.

• Bai Chen confirmed that his Fate Attribute let him share the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Future Prediction and that his actions could alter the future he saw.
• Bai Chen used Soul Shock to bypass Di Tian’s resistance to the Mental Attribute, then demonstrated fused Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire and trapped Di Tian with Spiritual Prison.
• Di Tian praised Bai Chen’s abilities, said he saw hope for godhood in him, and agreed that he could leave the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Di Tian summoned Scarlet King and ordered him to escort Bai Chen and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion safely out of the forest.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion transformed into a girl who looked about ten years old and showed Bai Chen her two yellow and two purple Soul Rings.

Bai Chen brought Bai Yueqiu and Scarlet King to Heaven Dou City, where he began using his future-era Soul Tool and forging knowledge to build a foothold. After disguising himself as an eighteen-year-old Soul Ancestor, he impressed a blacksmith shop owner with his exceptional forging skill.

• Bai Yueqiu chose the name Bai Yueqiu for her human identity, and Scarlet King took human form as Bai Chen’s bodyguard.
• Di Tian agreed that he might send Bear Lord—or go himself—to help Bai Chen eliminate someone if Bai Chen offered sufficient benefits.
• Bai Chen explained that he planned to earn money by introducing advanced Soul Tool and forging technologies, then left the Star Dou Great Forest with Bai Yueqiu and Scarlet King.
• The group reached Heaven Dou City, where Bai Chen registered at the Spirit Hall branch, collected his Soul Master subsidy, and found a blacksmith shop.
• Bai Chen used Simulation to disguise himself as an eighteen-year-old Soul Ancestor and asked the shop owner for work.
• Bai Chen forged top-quality First-Grade Thousand-Forged Metal using Spiritual Detection’s future prediction, impressing the shop owner with his skill.

Bai Chen settled into a Heaven Dou City blacksmith shop and began preparing to make Soul Tools, unaware that his presence had doubled the cultivation speed of nearby soul masters. He revealed to Bai Yueqiu that he intended to use future knowledge to transform human society, leaving his ambition clear as Heaven Dou City’s powers investigated the mysterious phenomenon.

• Bai Chen secured work and a private forging room at the blacksmith shop, while the owner treated him as a powerful young master and agreed to pay him well.
• Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi discussed the doubled cultivation speed in Heaven Dou City and ordered their people to find its cause.
• Bai Chen finished preparing Soul Tool-making equipment and examined the crimson-gold forging hammers whose unpredictable effects he could foresee.
• Bai Yueqiu practiced forging, then joined Bai Chen as he began explaining how to make Soul Tools, though she quickly lost focus.
• Bai Chen told Bai Yueqiu that he wanted to use knowledge from the future to advance human society rather than merely increase his own strength.

After creating Soul Tools to fund his planned organization, Bai Chen learned that his presence had turned Heaven Dou City into a cultivation holy land. He disguised himself as a Title Douluo and brought his creations to the Heaven Dou Auction House, where they were valued at five million Gold Soul Coins.

• Bai Chen agreed that Bai Yueqiu could become the second-in-command of his future organization.
• Bai Chen spent a week crafting a Level-Four Explosive Flame Shell and Storage Soul Guidance Devices.
• Bai Chen learned that Heaven Dou City had become a cultivation holy land and realized his Emperor Auspicious Beast ability had caused it.
• Bai Chen, Bai Yueqiu, and Scarlet King arrived at the Heaven Dou Auction House in disguise, and Bai Chen used Simulation to display nine Soul Rings.
• Bai Chen demonstrated his weapon-type Soul Tools at the auction house, and the appraiser valued them at approximately five million Gold Soul Coins.

Bai Chen sold successive batches of Soul Tools in Heaven Dou City while concealing his identity, then left the city after the cultivation boost he had caused ended. Xue Qinghe followed Scarlet King outside the city to meet Bai Chen, hoping to recruit him after realizing his force might be behind the recent changes.

• Bai Chen sold Soul Tools at the Heaven Dou Auction House for millions of Gold Soul Coins, and Xue Qinghe approached him to request a meeting.
• Bai Chen caught a black-clad watcher with Scarlet King's help, but the man killed himself before revealing who sent him.
• Bai Chen gave the blacksmith shop owner fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins and urged him to leave Heaven Dou City before departing himself with Bai Yueqiu and Scarlet King.
• Bai Chen left the city to conduct an experiment, and the cultivation boost affecting Heaven Dou City's Soul Masters abruptly vanished, causing widespread unrest.
• Scarlet King appeared in Xue Qinghe's room, demonstrated his strength, and told her Bai Chen had agreed to meet her outside the city.
• Xue Qinghe followed Scarlet King out of the city, resolving to treat Bai Chen courteously and try to win him over.

Bai Chen struck a deal with Xue Qinghe to establish Heaven Eye Academy and the Mandate Pavilion near Heaven Dou City in exchange for imperial support and discounted Soul Tools. After returning to the Star Dou Great Forest, Bai Chen gave Di Tian a map marking a distant landmass and said he had information about the Dragon Clan.

• Bai Chen told Xue Qinghe that his group caused the cultivation-speed increase and proposed a deal for help establishing a sect and an academy.
• Bai Chen and Xue Qinghe agreed to build Heaven Eye Academy and the Mandate Pavilion near Heaven Dou City, with imperial funding and instructors in exchange for priority admissions and five years of discounted Soul Tools.
• Xue Qinghe returned to Heaven Dou City and began calming the disturbance and preparing to establish Heaven Eye Academy.
• Bai Chen returned to the Star Dou Great Forest and told Di Tian he had new information about the Dragon Clan.
• Bai Chen handed Di Tian a map of Douluo Star with a distant landmass marked.

Bai Chen revealed that Dragon Valley might contain the Dragon God's Soul and the remains of the Light and Dark Dragon Kings, prompting Di Tian to assign Myriad Demon King as Bai Chen's protector and report the news to the Silver Dragon King. In Heaven Dou City, Bai Chen introduced Myriad Demon King to Xue Qinghe, then learned that the emperor had agreed to provide two mountains for Heaven Eye Academy and Mandate Pavilion.

• Bai Chen told Di Tian that Dragon Valley might hold the Dragon God's Soul and the remains of the Light and Dark Dragon Kings, and Di Tian confirmed he was telling the truth.
• Di Tian ordered Myriad Demon King to protect Bai Chen, then reported Bai Chen's information to the Silver Dragon King, who hoped the Dragon God's Soul could speed her recovery.
• Bai Chen returned to Heaven Dou City with Myriad Demon King and other Soul Beasts to meet Xue Qinghe.
• Bai Chen revealed that Myriad Demon King was a Rank 99 Peerless Douluo, astonishing Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Qinghe told Bai Chen that the emperor had granted two mountains outside Heaven Dou City for Heaven Eye Academy and Mandate Pavilion, then led the group to inspect the academy site.

Bai Chen and Xue Qinghe inspected Mandate Pavilion’s territory, where the Myriad Demon King transformed the land with his power. Bai Chen met Ning Fengzhi, agreed to discuss academy access and Soul Tool crafting methods, and then demonstrated his strength to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s combat Soul Masters.

• The Myriad Demon King caused trees to grow across the Mandate Pavilion grounds, and Bai Chen approved the site for construction.
• Xue Qinghe took Bai Chen to meet Ning Fengzhi, who asked to send sect disciples to the academy and later asked about buying Soul Tool crafting methods.
• Ning Fengzhi offered help protecting Bai Chen, but Xue Qinghe revealed that the Myriad Demon King was a level 99 Peerless Douluo.
• Bai Chen claimed to be a Level 26 Soul Grandmaster and agreed to spar with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s combat Soul Masters.
• Ning Fengzhi arranged for members below Soul Emperor level to challenge Bai Chen, while Gu Rong said he could not see through the child and Ning Fengzhi wondered whether Bai Chen might suit his daughter, Ning Rongrong.

Bai Chen defeated several Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect opponents, revealing both his mental attacks and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion Martial Soul’s Ultimate Fire suppression. Ning Fengzhi then sent out the strongest Soul King, Yan Lan, and their match was about to begin.

• Bai Chen knocked out a Soul Grandmaster and a Soul Elder with mental attacks, then defeated a Soul Ancestor after a longer fight.
• A fire-attribute Soul King challenged Bai Chen but collapsed under the pressure of Bai Chen’s Ultimate Fire and fled the stage after Bai Chen extinguished his fireball.
• Gu Rong concluded that Bai Chen used mental-type abilities, while Myriad Demon King reflected on the power of Bai Chen’s Three-Eyed Golden Lion Martial Soul and resources.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed sending out the strongest Soul King, and Bai Chen agreed after confirming the opponent did not have an opposing elemental attribute.
• Yan Lan introduced himself to Bai Chen, summoned his sheathed longsaber Martial Soul, and revealed two yellow, two purple, and one black Soul Ring.

Bai Chen defeated Yan Lan and used a series of public challenges to establish Heaven Eye Academy’s strength, revealing the Myriad Demon King as a level ninety-nine Peerless Douluo. With the academy’s authority secured, construction began, though Xue Qinghe said it would take at least a year.

• Bai Chen defeated Yan Lan, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s strongest Soul King, through close-combat skill and precisely timed mental attacks.
• Bai Chen declined to fight a Soul Emperor, and Ning Fengzhi warned the sect’s soul masters to train harder after witnessing his strength.
• Xue Qinghe announced Heaven Eye Academy and the Mandate Pavilion, while intruders who infiltrated the academy’s mountain were later found dead.
• Three Soul Douluos died after challenging the academy, prompting Bai Chen to invite powerful challengers to gather there a week later.
• Bai Chen’s forces incapacitated more than twenty challengers, and Xue Qinghe revealed that the Demon Tree Douluo was a level ninety-nine Peerless Douluo.
• With Heaven Eye Academy’s authority established, construction began, and Xue Qinghe estimated that the academy would take at least a year to complete.

Bai Chen’s three counterparts made progress across the Douluo eras, while the Sun-Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy invited Bai Chen and Ning Tian to skip two grades. They joined Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s class, where Bai Chen was immediately appointed vice class monitor.

• Bai Chen’s Douluo I counterpart reached Soul Power Level 19 as Heaven Eye Academy neared completion, while his Douluo III counterpart reached Level 27 and collected thirty-two Soul Beast skills.
• Bai Chen’s Douluo II counterpart became a Level-Five Soul Engineer, and Ning Tian’s Soul Power Level rose to 18 as he planned to hunt a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast during the holidays.
• Bai Chen disguised his Soul Engineer ability as Level One for the final examination, but he and Ning Tian received invitations to skip two grades into the third-year preparatory class.
• Bai Chen accepted the invitation after discussing Meng Hongchen’s feelings and the grade skip with Xuan Ziwen.
• Bai Chen and Ning Tian joined Class One of the third-year preparatory class, where Xiao Hongchen introduced them and named Bai Chen vice class monitor in place of Lu Lin.

Ning Tian challenged Lu Lin to a two-on-two match to establish whether she and Bai Chen deserved the vice class monitor position. Bai Chen and Ning Tian won, making Bai Chen vice class monitor, and they prepared to return to the Heaven Dou Empire during the academy break to seek their second Soul Rings.

• Ning Tian proposed that she and Bai Chen fight Lu Lin and a partner for the vice class monitor position, and Lu Lin accepted.
• At the Soul Guide Trial Arena, Lu Lin revealed he was a Two Rings Soul Grandmaster, while Bai Chen displayed his Millennium Soul Ring and Ning Tian boosted him with her Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda.
• Bai Chen blocked the partner's Soul Guide Ray and fought Lu Lin, while Ning Tian used the Tang Sect Six Absolutes to defeat her opponent.
• Bai Chen broke through Lu Lin's defense and forced him to concede, then Ning Tian won her match two minutes later.
• Bai Chen officially became vice class monitor, and he and Ning Tian planned to return to the Heaven Dou Empire and visit the Star Dou Great Forest for their second Soul Rings during the break.

Ning Tian and Bai Chen left the Sun-Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy for the Nine-Treasure Glazed Sect, where they became engaged. After the ceremony, Hua Tianyu took Bai Chen to the training grounds to test his strength.

• Ning Tian told Bai Chen she had arranged for them to become engaged during the vacation, and Bai Chen agreed.
• Meng Hongchen protested the engagement and vowed not to give up before leaving the laboratory.
• Bai Chen and Ning Tian packed their things, said goodbye to Xuan Ziwen, and left the academy with Ning Jingchen and Hua Tianyu.
• The Nine-Treasure Glazed Sect welcomed Bai Chen and held his engagement ceremony with Ning Tian, attended by Wu Feng and other guests.
• Hua Tianyu took Bai Chen to the training grounds and asked whether he should suppress his Soul Power to the Soul Ancestor realm.

Bai Chen proved to Hua Tianyu that his physical strength could withstand a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, then demonstrated a disguise for his Soul Ring colors. After Ning Tian reached level twenty, the group entered the Star Dou Great Forest, where they heard several powerful Soul Beasts fighting and Hua Tianyu urged them to detour.

• Bai Chen defeated Hua Tianyu in a sparring match, convincing his master that he could contend with Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• Bai Chen changed his second Soul Ring’s appearance and explained that he could disguise it as purple to avoid drawing suspicion at the Sun-Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.
• Hua Tianyu agreed to take Bai Chen to obtain a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring after Ning Tian broke through level twenty.
• Two days later, Ning Tian reached level twenty, and the group traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Bai Chen and the others searched the Mixed Zone, then ventured deeper when they found no suitable Soul Beast.
• Hua Tianyu sensed at least four Soul Beasts over fifty thousand years old fighting ahead and proposed that the group detour.

Bai Chen and his companions found a twenty-thousand-year Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear being overwhelmed by three stronger Soul Beasts. After Hua Tianyu defeated the attackers, Bai Chen persuaded the bear to become his Soul Spirit, and the ritual succeeded.

• Bai Chen sensed a Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear among four battling Soul Beasts, and Hua Tianyu agreed to investigate it as a possible Soul Ring source.
• Hua Tianyu and Ning Jingchen observed the bear fighting three Soul Beasts with cultivations above seventy thousand years, then waited until it was gravely wounded before intervening.
• Hua Tianyu protected the bear with a crystal cage and defeated the three attackers, killing two with an azure storm and the last with fiery gems.
• Bai Chen offered the dying bear a chance to survive as a Soul Spirit and take part in the human world, and the bear agreed.
• Bai Chen performed the Soul Spirit Ritual, obtained a black Soul Ring, and summoned the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear into the clearing as his Soul Spirit.

Bai Chen gained a Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear Soul Spirit, a powerful second Soul Skill, and reached Level 24 after his forest expedition. Before vacation ended, he became a Level-Five Blacksmith by successfully Spirit Forging metal, then gave his first Spirit-Forged piece to Xuan Ziwen.

• Bai Chen used his innate Soul Beast Soul Spirit Transformation ability to turn the consenting Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear into his Soul Spirit, naming it Xiong Da.
• Bai Chen demonstrated his Darkgolden Divine Aura, which enhanced his attacks and defense and extended his attack range, and revealed that he had reached Level 24.
• Bai Chen and the others found Ning Tian a suitable Soul Beast in the forest outskirts, and she obtained a defense-enhancement Soul Skill and advanced to Soul Grandmaster.
• Bai Chen successfully Spirit Forged metal in his laboratory, becoming a Level-Five Blacksmith at age seven.
• After vacation ended, Bai Chen returned to the Sun-Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy and gave his first piece of Spirit-Forged Metal to Xuan Ziwen.