Chapter Summaries

Bai Chen gave Xuan Ziwen Spirit-Forged Metal under the condition that its Soul Tools would not be given to Mingde Hall, then faced Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen in a spar. After summoning Xiong Da to engage Ji Juechen, Bai Chen countered Jing Ziyan’s smoke-covered attack and caught her whip.

• Xuan Ziwen recognized Spirit-Forged Metal’s potential for Humanoid Soul Guide Devices, and Bai Chen asked him not to give any Soul Tools made from it to Mingde Hall.
• Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen challenged Bai Chen to fight them both, and Xuan Ziwen let them leave his laboratory to spar.
• Jing Ziyan filled the training ground with Phantom Smoke and Condensed Smoke while Ji Juechen gathered his Sword Intent.
• Bai Chen summoned Xiong Da and sent the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear to attack Ji Juechen while he waited for Jing Ziyan to reveal herself.
• Jing Ziyan used a Flash Cannon to blind Bai Chen and fired several shells, but Bai Chen dodged by leaping and turning away from them before catching her whip.

Bai Chen defeated Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen in the Soul Battle Hall assessment, then returned from the Spirit Ascension Platform with two new Soul Skills. Zang Xin began explaining an upcoming assessment for Bai Chen, whose purpose and reward were still undisclosed.

• Bai Chen recognized Jing Ziyan's delayed Soul Guide Cannons as a setup, pulled her close with her whip, and forced her to concede after narrowly avoiding his Darkgolden Terrorclaw strike.
• Bai Chen and Xiong Da defeated Ji Juechen, who fell from the platform and thanked Bai Chen before leaving to cultivate.
• Jing Ziyan acknowledged Bai Chen's close-combat advantage, then left with Ji Juechen after thanking him for the practice.
• Bai Chen recalled Xiong Da to his Spiritual Sea and said he would focus on studying for the new semester.
• In the Douluo III Era, Bai Chen returned from the Spirit Ascension Platform with Dark Attribute and Lightning Attribute Soul Skills, and Zang Xin reminded him about his assessment.
• Zang Xin explained that Bai Chen was being assessed because he belonged to the Soul Battle Hall, whose members carried out missions, but he had been kept from missions because he was only seven years old.

Zang Xin set Bai Chen’s year-end assessment: he had to survive the Spirit Ascension Platform’s dangerous Riot Period to earn the Tang Sect Icefire Seal and access to the Icefire Yin Yang Well. Bai Chen met his assigned teammate, Yuanen Yehui, and the two entered the platform together, where the assessment began.

• Zang Xin gave Bai Chen the Tang Sect Icefire Seal as a reward he could claim after passing the assessment.
• Zang Xin explained that Bai Chen had to survive inside the Spirit Ascension Platform until the Riot Period ended.
• Zang Xin named Yuanen Yehui as Bai Chen’s teammate, and Bai Chen recognized her as the young wielder of the Titan Giant Ape and Fallen Angel Martial Souls.
• Bai Chen met Yuanen Yehui, who barely responded, and Zang Xin explained that she was still struggling after a devastating upheaval.
• Bai Chen and Yuanen Yehui entered the Spirit Ascension Platform together, as Riot Period teams could arrive at the same location.

Bai Chen and Yuanen Yehui fought their way through the dangerous Riot Period Spirit Ascension Platform, where Bai Chen displayed his varied abilities and revealed his Evil Martial Soul. They reached the Flame Demon Lion Pack and began wearing down the powerful group, though the chapter ended with the cost of Bai Chen’s Dark Thunder still unresolved.

• Bai Chen and Yuanen Yehui revealed their Martial Souls before a pack of Soul Beasts attacked them.
• Yuanen Yehui defeated a Century Soul Beast while Bai Chen killed the rest with thin Wind Attribute threads and gave her the spiritual power.
• Bai Chen and Yuanen Yehui continued through the platform, exchanging spiritual power as they fought more Soul Beasts.
• Yuanen Yehui observed Bai Chen defeat increasingly powerful Soul Beasts with a wide range of abilities.
• Bai Chen and Yuanen Yehui fled the Flame Demon Lion Pack while he planted Dark Thunder traps that killed and weakened its members.
• Bai Chen said they could win by dragging out the fight, while Yuanen Yehui ran beside him and watched the pack suffer losses.

Bai Chen defeated a Flame Demon Lion Pack and shared its spiritual energy with Yuanen Yehui, then reassured her that he would accept her despite her Fallen Angel Martial Soul. Yuanen Yehui opened up to him and began trusting him as they continued their Spirit Ascension Platform trial.

• Bai Chen used Time Freeze and Spatial Movement to kill the Flame Demon Lion King, then tricked the enraged pack into devastating itself with its own attacks before finishing the survivors.
• Yuanen Yehui declined to absorb the spiritual energy at first, believing Bai Chen deserved it because he had won the battle alone.
• Bai Chen told Yuanen Yehui he wanted her as his partner, and she admitted that her Second Martial Soul was the Fallen Angel and asked whether he would still accept her.
• Bai Chen said he judged people rather than Martial Souls and gladly accepted Yuanen Yehui as his friend, so she began absorbing the spiritual energy he gave her.
• Zang Xin watched the two children get along and told Yun Ming their progress was going smoothly.
• Yuanen Yehui finished absorbing enough energy to raise both Soul Rings to about eight hundred years, while Bai Chen reached the peak of Level Twenty-Eight.

Bai Chen confronted the hundred-year Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear guarding the passage from the Junior to the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform, hoping to claim the Soul Bone it contained. He defeated the guardian by combining his Soul Skills and left the way open to obtain its Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Right Palm Bone.

• Bai Chen and Yuanen Yehui encountered the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear guarding the entrance to the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform, and Bai Chen recognized it as a guardian made from the Soul Bone he wanted.
• Bai Chen told Yuanen Yehui to retreat, then intercepted the bear when it tried to pursue her.
• Bai Chen blocked the bear's Terrorclaw with Spatial Barrier and pierced its eye with his Tail Hook, then evaded its counterattack using his wings.
• Bai Chen tripped the bear with a buried Dark Thunder and restrained it with Wind Threads and Dark Mire.
• The bear broke free and flung Bai Chen aside, but Bai Chen used Evil Explosion Technique to destroy its head.

Bai Chen defeated the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear, absorbed its right palm bone, and gained a mutated Darkgolden Terrorclaw ability. He and Yuanen Yehui completed their assessment and returned to the Bai Family Villa, where she agreed to stay with them.

• Bai Chen killed the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear and recovered the Soul Bone it had been made from.
• Yuanen Yehui guarded Bai Chen while he absorbed the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Right Palm Bone, which increased his strength and gave him black-and-gold claws and a variable Darkgolden Terrorclaw Soul Skill.
• Bai Chen and Yuanen Yehui spent the remaining assessment days without serious trouble and successfully exited the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Zang Xin congratulated them, gave Bai Chen the Tang Sect Icefire Seal, and told Yuanen Yehui he would arrange her Tang Sect entry procedures.
• Zang Xin brought Bai Chen and Yuanen Yehui to the Bai Family Villa, where Xue E agreed to let Yuanen stay and she accepted.

Bai Chen welcomed Na'er home and prepared to take Yuanen Yehui in before leaving on a trip with them. Na'er revealed her determination to support Bai Chen through mecha design, and she asked about his relationship with Yuanen Yehui as they went to sleep.

• Zang Xin told Xue E that he would take Bai Chen and Yuanen Yehui out of the city starting the day after tomorrow, then left.
• Bai Chen reunited with Na'er and introduced her to Yuanen Yehui, who would be staying at their house.
• At dinner, Na'er was disappointed that Bai Chen would soon leave again, while Yuanen Yehui was surprised by how much Bai Chen and Na'er ate.
• Na'er showed Bai Chen her book on mecha design and explained that she wanted to support him after failing to awaken a Martial Soul.
• Bai Chen let Na'er sleep in his room, and she asked what relationship he had with Yuanen Yehui.

Bai Chen left with Zang Xin for the Icefire Yin Yang Well, where the plant guardians assessed him and allowed him to choose medicinal herbs. The chapter ended with Bai Chen learning that he could take up to two herbs and preparing to choose.

• Na'er asked Bai Chen whether he liked Yuanen Yehui or Xiaoyan, and he assured her they were only friends.
• Bai Chen reflected on the uncertain future he had caused by interfering with the main plot and continued studying late into the night.
• Zang Xin took Bai Chen to the Icefire Yin Yang Well and explained its rapid-growing medicinal herbs and the rules for selecting them.
• Zang Xin guided Bai Chen through Sunset Forest's poison formations to the valley containing the Icefire Yin Yang Well.
• A purple-robed guardian examined Bai Chen, accepted the Tang Sect Icefire Seal, and permitted him to take up to two medicinal herbs.

Bai Chen defeated the guardian of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and absorbed its energy, breaking through to level 30 before consuming the herb. Aromatic Silk Beauty then offered to become Bai Chen’s Soul Spirit, leaving Bai Chen to decide whether to accept.

• Zang Xin explained that Bai Chen controlled the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s influence through his willpower and had developed unusually strong spiritual power.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty told Zang Xin he wanted to become Bai Chen’s Soul Spirit because he could not survive his coming Heavenly Tribulation alone.
• Bai Chen chose the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and insisted on fighting its guardian himself.
• Bai Chen used the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Soul Skill and Ultimate Evil Power to defeat the guardian, then refined its energy and reached level 30.
• Bai Chen picked and consumed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, greatly strengthening his body.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty introduced himself to Bai Chen and asked to become his Soul Spirit.

Bai Chen absorbed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Void Vine, strengthening his Evil Attribute's Devouring Power and potential, then accepted Aromatic Silk Beauty as a Soul Spirit. Zang Xin brought him into the Star Dou Great Forest to seek a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, where they encountered increasingly powerful Soul Beasts.

• Bai Chen agreed to take Aromatic Silk Beauty as his Soul Spirit, and Aromatic Silk Beauty gave him a Hundred-Thousand-Year Void Vine to absorb.
• While Bai Chen absorbed the Void Vine, Aromatic Silk Beauty used it and Bai Chen's Devouring Power to increase his potential by drawing in heaven and earth energy.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty merged into Bai Chen's body, explaining that he would remain hidden unless Bai Chen faced a life-or-death crisis.
• Zang Xin decided to seek Bai Chen's third Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest rather than at sea, and explained how the Star Dou Fortress and Spirit Pagoda's arrangements contained the Soul Beasts.
• Three days later, Bai Chen and Zang Xin entered the forest with tickets; Zang Xin explained how human exploitation had changed its population and zones.
• Zang Xin defeated attacking Soul Beasts without killing them, and the pair continued deeper until they began encountering Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

After absorbing a thirty-thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Ape Soul Ring, Bai Chen gained the Evil Tiger Demon God Transformation and returned to his routine in Skysea City. In the Douluo I Era, he chose the Ice Jade Scorpion Empress as his Second Martial Soul and offered Di Tian the location of the Water-Fire Dragon Kings’ corpses in exchange for help persuading her.

• Zang Xin subdued a Three-Eyed Demon Ape, and Bai Chen killed it and absorbed its black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Bai Chen discovered that his third Soul Skill was Evil Tiger Demon God Transformation, an ability that greatly enhanced his strength and control over the Evil Attribute.
• After returning to Heaven Eye Academy in the Douluo I Era, Bai Chen chose the Ice Jade Scorpion Empress as his Second Martial Soul and decided to ask Di Tian for help persuading her.
• Bai Chen contacted Di Tian through Myriad Demon King and offered to lead him to the Water-Fire Dragon Kings’ corpses in exchange for help obtaining his Second Martial Soul.
• Di Tian and Gu Yuena arrived at Heaven Eye Academy, where Gu Yuena told Bai Chen to call her Gu Yuena.

Bai Chen led Gu Yuena and the soul beasts to the Icefire Yin Yang Well, where Gu Yuena confirmed the Water-Fire Dragon Kings’ presence and Di Tian gave Bai Chen his Reverse Scale. After consuming two Immortal Herbs and receiving Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s energy, Bai Chen reached the Formed but Immaterial spiritual power realm, then left Dugu Bo a prescription before discussing Gu Yuena’s distrust of humans.

• Bai Chen guided Gu Yuena, Di Tian, and the Myriad Demon King to the Icefire Yin Yang Well, where Gu Yuena sensed the Water-Fire Dragon Kings’ aura.
• Gu Yuena summoned the Dragon Kings’ souls and ordered Di Tian to give Bai Chen his Reverse Scale.
• Gu Yuena let Bai Chen choose two Immortal Herbs, and he consumed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm released his origin energy as the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew transformed Bai Chen’s Spiritual Sea, helping him reach the Formed but Immaterial realm.
• Bai Chen left Dugu Bo a prescription for his family’s hidden ailment, then told Gu Yuena that her view of humans was too one-sided.

Gu Yuena fused the Water-Fire Dragon Kings into Bai Chen as Martial Souls and Soul Rings, hoping they could regain their strength when he became a god. Bai Chen survived the fusion and woke at Heaven Eye Academy with a new Second Martial Soul and two unusual dragon powers.

• Bai Chen explained to Gu Yuena that humans could overcome their inherently evil nature through willpower and effort, earning her greater trust.
• Gu Yuena sent the Water-Fire Dragon Kings’ remaining power into Bai Chen, explaining to Di Tian that they could recover if he became a god and that their souls would return to their bones if he died.
• Bai Chen endured the painful fusion as Gu Yuena sealed most of the energy in his Spiritual Sea, with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm helping keep him safe.
• Bai Chen lost consciousness, then awoke in Heaven Eye Academy’s principal’s office beside Myriad Demon King and Bai Yueqiu, having reached the level 30 bottleneck.
• Bai Chen summoned the Fire Dragon King, which had become an unusual second Soul Ring for his Three-Eyed Golden Lion Martial Soul, then revealed his Water Dragon King Second Martial Soul with Ultimate Water and Ultimate Ice attributes.

Bai Chen traveled to Gengxin City to recruit skilled blacksmiths and meet Divine Artisan Lou Gao. Lou Gao was fascinated by a piece of Spirit-Forged Metal Bai Chen had sent him, and the chapter ended with Bai Chen claiming he had created it through forging.

• Bai Chen awakened with two God Level Soul Bones and absorbed a seventy-thousand-year spiritual-type Soul Ring provided by Di Tian.
• Bai Chen left Heaven Eye Academy with the Scarlet King and Bai Yueqiu to seek forging talent in Gengxin City.
• Bai Chen explained Gengxin City's blacksmith ranks to Bai Yueqiu and set out to recruit experienced blacksmiths, beginning with Lou Gao.
• Bai Chen met Lou Gao at the Blacksmith Association and showed him a golden sphere made through Spirit Forging.
• Lou Gao asked where the metal came from, and Bai Chen said he had refined it through forging techniques, prompting Lou Gao to exclaim that it was impossible.

Bai Chen recruited Lou Gao and most of his blacksmith disciples into the Mandate Pavilion by demonstrating advanced forging techniques and promising benefits, then trained them to spread the craft in the Douluo I Era. After several months of progress, he announced that Heaven Eye Academy had begun classes, drawing attention back to its guarded grounds beside Heaven Dou City.

• Bai Chen convinced Lou Gao that he could refine extraordinary metals through forging and secured his agreement to join the Mandate Pavilion under three conditions.
• Bai Chen recruited Lou Gao's disciples, expelled Wu Kai for making an excessive demand, and brought the remaining blacksmiths to Heaven Dou City.
• Bai Chen taught the blacksmiths Douluo III Era forging methods, and Lou Gao and several others advanced to Thousand Forging.
• Bai Chen announced through Xue Qinghe that Heaven Eye Academy had begun classes after several months of preparation.
• People across the continent turned their attention to Heaven Eye Academy, while the Myriad Demon King's presence continued to deter anyone from approaching its grounds.

Bai Chen established Heaven Eye Academy and expanded Mandate Pavilion while growing stronger across the Douluo I and II eras. After two years of progress, he agreed to consider Xiao Hongchen’s invitation to investigate an unusual mineral on the Sun-Moon Empire’s outskirts.

• Bai Chen divided Heaven Eye Academy into three tiers and used its Soul Tool courses to recruit potential members for Mandate Pavilion.
• Bai Chen and Bai Yueqiu enrolled at the academy under identities connected to Bai Yan, and the academy and Mandate Pavilion entered a stable period of growth.
• Over the next two years, Bai Chen reached level 30 in the Douluo I Era, while the academy attracted more talents and Mandate Pavilion’s forging division expanded.
• Bai Chen reached level 30 in the Douluo II Era as the Ten-Thousand-Year Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear generated his third Soul Ring, which he concealed from the academy.
• Xiao Hongchen invited Bai Chen to accompany his team to investigate an unusual mineral discovered in a distant Sun-Moon Empire city.

Bai Chen traveled with Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Old Ma to Wuyang City to investigate a rumored mine of unusual metal. At the auction, Xiao Hongchen judged the metal promising enough to buy, leaving the group poised to follow its trail to the person who brought it to the city.

• Xiao Hongchen invited Bai Chen to join a trip to investigate unusual ore and said Meng Hongchen would come too.
• Bai Chen, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Old Ma traveled to Wuyang City to find a mysterious visitor who claimed to have discovered a mine of the metal.
• The group attended Wuyang Auction House, where Meng Hongchen asked Bai Chen about his materials research and learned that Xuan Ziwen had praised his progress.
• The auction presented a large piece of purple metal, and Xiao Hongchen sensed that it modestly improved cultivation.
• Bai Chen suggested buying the metal to help trace its seller, and Xiao Hongchen began bidding.

Bai Chen discovered and captured the person stalking Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, but a Level-Seven Soul Engineer attacked and caused destruction near Wuyang City Auction House. Bai Chen secretly tracked the attacker’s companion, then fled when Old Ma mistook him for the culprit.

• Bai Chen noticed someone had been following the group and left Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to investigate.
• Bai Chen found the stalker near the auction house entrance, subdued him, and questioned who had sent him.
• A Level-Seven Soul Engineer fired a Penetrating Ray at Bai Chen, then unleashed a destructive cannon attack that injured bystanders and let both men escape.
• Bai Chen revealed that he had attached a tracker made with Wei Lai’s technology to the captured stalker.
• Old Ma arrived, mistook Bai Chen for the attacker, and chased him as Bai Chen fled.

Bai Chen returned to the auction house after escaping Old Ma and learned that the Hongchen Siblings had likely been targeted. That night, he followed a tracking Soul Tool to an inn, where he discovered the attackers belonged to the Rebel Army and were arguing over the innocent people killed in their attack.

• Old Ma failed to catch Bai Chen, who returned to the auction house and reassured Meng Hongchen that he was unharmed.
• Bai Chen suspected the Hongchen Siblings were the attackers’ targets and left the auction house with them and Old Ma.
• Bai Chen slipped out of the hotel at night and followed his tracking Soul Tool to a small inn.
• Bai Chen listened outside a room as two Rebel Army members argued about the civilian deaths caused by the attack.