Chapter Summaries

At his martial soul awakening, Lu Yuan received a system that let him choose a powerful martial soul, an external soul bone, and a loyal guardian. He awakened the Sky-Holding Spear with innate full soul power, rejected Su Yuntao’s invitation to join Spirit Hall, and learned that his guardian would arrive within two days.

• Lu Yuan used the system’s choices to select Yun Ming’s Sky-Holding Spear talent, the Rock Kingdom version of the Ice Dragon King, Ice Dragon Wings, and Tang Wutong as his loyal guardian.
• Lu Yuan suppressed the Ice Dragon King’s manifestation and revealed the Sky-Holding Spear to Su Yuntao.
• Lu Yuan tested at innate full soul power, astonishing Su Yuntao.
• Su Yuntao invited Lu Yuan to join Spirit Hall, but Lu Yuan declined and requested a martial soul certificate.

Lu Yuan awakened the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul, condensed a Soul Ring himself, and gained powerful skills before fusing with the Ice Dragon Wings brought by Tang Wutong. He and Tang Wutong then flew toward the Great Star Dou Forest to seek a Soul Ring for his Sky-Holding Spear.

• Lu Yuan summoned the Ice Dragon King, condensed an icy blue-gold Soul Ring, gained Dragon Dance and Extreme Cold Ice Blade, and reached Soul Power Level eleven.
• Lu Yuan cultivated for a day while waiting, and Tang Wutong arrived with the Ice Dragon Wings External Soul Bone.
• Lu Yuan fused with the Ice Dragon Wings, gaining Skyflight, Ice Dragon Body, Frost Armor, and an embryonic domain called Ice Dragon Heaven Realm.
• Lu Yuan asked Tang Wutong to take him to the Great Star Dou Forest to hunt a Soul Ring for his Sky-Holding Spear, and she carried him there using her Radiant Dragon God Butterfly wings.

Lu Yuan hunted his first Soul Ring in the Great Star Dou Forest and gained the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff’s Overlord Domain. Back in Notting City, he practiced the newly unlocked first style of the Sky-Propelling Nine Styles and asked Tang Wutong to spar with him.

• Tang Wutong carried Lu Yuan into the Great Star Dou Forest, where he asked about the age of Soul Ring his body could absorb and chose to seek a powerful offensive Soul Beast.
• Lu Yuan and Tang Wutong found a roughly seven-hundred-and-forty-year-old Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, and Tang Wutong captured it for him.
• Lu Yuan killed the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff and spent six hours absorbing its Soul Ring, gaining the Overlord Domain and reaching soul power level fourteen.
• Lu Yuan returned to Notting City with Tang Wutong and practiced his Sky-Propelling Nine Styles, using the first style, Sky-Propelling: River Severance.
• Tang Wutong gave Lu Yuan a towel after his practice, and he asked her to spar with him later.

Lu Yuan sparred with Tang Wutong and then went to Notting Academy, where his Innate Full Soul Power attracted Yu Xiaogang's attention. Yu Xiaogang offered to teach him, but Lu Yuan challenged his qualifications, leaving Yu Xiaogang defending his low Soul Power Level and relying on his theories.

• Tang Wutong used the Golden Dragon Spear to spar with Lu Yuan and helped him improve his spear techniques.
• Lu Yuan asked Tang Wutong whether she would kill Tang San and Xiao Wu, then told her they were her future parents; Tang Wutong did not believe him.
• Lu Yuan presented his Spirit Hall certificate at Notting Academy, and Director Su and two teachers praised his Sky-Holding Spear and Innate Full Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived with Tang San, learned of Lu Yuan's talent, and asked to guide his cultivation.
• Lu Yuan questioned Yu Xiaogang's qualifications and learned that he was over fifty with Soul Power Level twenty-nine; Yu Xiaogang defended the value of theory over cultivation.

Lu Yuan humiliated Yu Xiaogang during his enrollment at Notting Academy, then accepted Tang San’s challenge to duel the next day. After Lu Yuan learned that Tang Hao was watching over Tang San and Xiao Wu, Yu Xiaogang took Tang San to Soul Hunting Forest to obtain his first Soul Ring.

• Lu Yuan argued that Yu Xiaogang’s level-twenty-nine soul power limited his ability to guide others, and Yu Xiaogang demanded that Director Su expel him.
• Director Su registered Lu Yuan as a day student, and Tang San challenged Lu Yuan to a duel after class the next day to defend Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San that he was unprepared for a duel, then planned to take him to Soul Hunting Forest to obtain a Soul Ring.
• Tang Wutong told Lu Yuan she had spotted a disguised Titled Douluo at Notting Academy, and Lu Yuan identified him as Tang Hao and told her to monitor him.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San left for Soul Hunting Forest with supplies, and Yu Xiaogang explained that his martial soul needed white radishes as support.

Lu Yuan sent Tang Wutong to make Tang San absorb a Ten-Year Lone Bamboo Soul Ring, while Tang San and Yu Xiaogang searched the Soul Hunting Forest for a suitable Soul Ring. Lu Yuan also challenged Xiao Chenyu at Notting Academy, and Yu Xiaogang and Tang San were left struggling after five days without finding a suitable soul beast.

• Lu Yuan learned that Yu Xiaogang and Tang San had left Notting Academy and ordered Tang Wutong to guide Tang San toward absorbing a Ten-Year Lone Bamboo Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang showed Tang San his Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, and explained how to estimate a Lone Bamboo's age; Tang Wutong overheard that a Lone Bamboo was already Yu Xiaogang's fallback option.
• Xiao Chenyu demanded that Lu Yuan call him Boss and challenged him to a match; Lu Yuan agreed and left the cafeteria, while Xiao Wu and Wang Sheng followed to watch.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San searched the Soul Hunting Forest for five days, but the soul beasts they found were unsuitable, had disappeared, or were already dead.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that their water and dried rations were nearly exhausted.

Yu Xiaogang led Tang San to absorb a Ten-Year Lone Bamboo Soul Ring after they failed to find a better soul beast, while Tang Hao secretly followed and was outraged by the choice. After Tang Hao rescued them from a Black-faced Bear, he confronted Yu Xiaogang, who tried to justify his decision by claiming he could guide Tang San in cultivating Twin Martial Souls.

• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San searched the Soul Hunting Forest for another day, then returned to the Ten-Year Lone Bamboo as their only option.
• Tang San cut down the Lone Bamboo and began absorbing its white Soul Ring while Tang Wutong watched from hiding.
• Tang Hao emerged to stop the absorption but changed direction to kill a charging Hundred-Year Black-faced Bear with one blow.
• Tang Hao revealed himself to Yu Xiaogang and learned Tang San's absorption had stabilized and could not safely be interrupted.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed that his past relationship with Bibi Dong and his guidance of her Twin Martial Souls proved he could teach Tang San to cultivate his own.

Yu Xiaogang survived Tang Hao’s visit by persuading him that Tang San’s Ten-Year Lone Bamboo Soul Ring would help him absorb stronger rings later. Tang Wutong’s intervention accidentally transformed Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul, while Lu Yuan began his duel with Xiao Chenyu at Notting Academy.

• Yu Xiaogang convinced Tang Hao that Tang San’s Ten-Year Lone Bamboo Soul Ring would strengthen him for absorbing higher-year Soul Rings, and Tang Hao left without revealing his identity to Tang San.
• Tang Wutong startled Yu Xiaogang by driving a Black Mamba Tentacle Snake into his anus, then sent golden light into his abdomen before leaving the Soul Hunting Forest.
• The golden light fused the snake’s essence with Luo Sanpao’s and transformed Yu Xiaogang into a purple-skinned boar-like beast with ponytail-like feelers and a snakehead where his anus had been.
• Xiao Chenyu challenged Lu Yuan to a duel at the back mountain outside Notting Academy, promising to acknowledge him as boss if he lost.
• After they announced their Martial Souls and levels, Xiao Chenyu learned Lu Yuan was a first-year student with fourteen levels of soul power and charged at him; Lu Yuan thrust his Sky-Holding Spear forward.

Lu Yuan defeated Xiao Chenyu and accepted Xiao Wu’s wager to settle their groups’ rivalry after Tang San returned. Meanwhile, Tang San reached level 12, but Yu Xiaogang woke to find that the Black Mamba Tentacle Snake had fused with him, lowering his soul power and altering his soul skills.

• Lu Yuan defeated Xiao Chenyu, who declared him the new boss, and the academy students accepted Lu Yuan.
• Xiao Wu challenged Xiao Chenyu’s group to a wager, and Lu Yuan agreed to wait until Tang San returned so they could settle it together.
• Lu Yuan told Xiao Chenyu to request leave and recover while he prepared to fight Tang San.
• Tang San absorbed the Ten-Year Lone Bamboo spirit ring and broke through to level 12.
• Tang San discovered Yu Xiaogang had become fused with the Black Mamba Tentacle Snake and helped him inspect his altered body.
• Yu Xiaogang realized the fusion had lowered his soul power by two levels and changed his soul skills into Steel Cannon Fusion abilities.

Tang San returned to Notting Academy with a Ten-Year Soul Ring and the Blue Silver Pole Vault skill, while Lu Yuan ordered Tang Wutong to watch for a chance to kill Tang Hao. Tang Hao stayed near the academy to protect Xiao Wu and mistook Yu Xiaogang’s mutated appearance for an intruder.

• Yu Xiaogang dispelled his Martial Soul Possession, dressed, and heard Tang San describe his Blue Silver Pole Vault soul skill before they left Soul Hunting Forest.
• Tang Wutong reported Tang San’s Ten-Year Lone Bamboo Soul Ring to Lu Yuan, who told her to monitor Tang Hao and kill him if an opportunity arose.
• Tang San returned to Dorm Seven and argued with Wang Sheng after he called Blue Silver Pole Vault useless, then left to visit Yu Xiaogang and collect his Soul Master subsidy.
• Tang Hao watched Tang San leave, confirmed Xiao Wu was still at the academy, and went to check on Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang Hao burst into Yu Xiaogang’s room, seized the mutated Yu Xiaogang, and demanded to know who he was and where the master had gone.

Yu Xiaogang persuaded Tang Hao to help him recruit Lu Yuan as a disciple and make Lu Yuan support Tang San. Meanwhile, Lu Yuan gathered the students for the arranged fight, and Tang San returned to Dorm Seven and agreed to go.

• Tang Hao told Yu Xiaogang that he trusted him to guide Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang explained that Tang San might lose to Lu Yuan because he could not reveal the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Tang Hao to reveal his strength and his relationship with Tang San to persuade Lu Yuan to become his disciple and support Tang San, and Tang Hao agreed and gave Yu Xiaogang a black token.
• Xiao Chenyu told Lu Yuan that Tang San had returned, and Lu Yuan ordered the students to gather at the training ground.
• Xiao Wu and Wang Sheng brought Tang San to the training ground, where Tang San realized Boss Lu was Lu Yuan and agreed to go fight.

Lu Yuan exposed Tang San’s hidden-needle attack during the work-study students’ match, then fought Tang San after their argument escalated. Lu Yuan shattered Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass, leaving him coughing blood from the backlash.

• Xiao Wu and Lu Yuan led their groups to the back mountain and agreed to a three-person relay fight.
• Wang Sheng fought Liu Long and was about to lose when Tang San secretly shot needles into Liu Long’s hand.
• Lu Yuan stopped Liu Long, exposed the needles, and knocked Wang Sheng unconscious when he charged in.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu accused Lu Yuan of planting the needles, but Tang San then challenged Lu Yuan to fight.
• Tang San attacked with hidden weapons and tried to escape using Blue Silver Grass, but Lu Yuan shattered it with the Sky-Holding Spear, causing Tang San to spit blood.

Lu Yuan defeated Tang San and Xiao Wu, then had Tang San dumped outside Yu Xiaogang’s door. That night, a powerful man carrying a hammer confronted Lu Yuan, who went out with Tang Wutong to meet him and consider killing him.

• Tang Hao watched Tang San lose to Lu Yuan and left the back mountain in disappointment.
• Xiao Wu conceded Tang San’s match, but Lu Yuan mocked him, kicked him unconscious, and defeated Xiao Wu when she challenged him.
• Lu Yuan ordered his followers to carry Tang San to Yu Xiaogang’s door, where Yu Xiaogang found him covered in filth and suspected Lu Yuan had arranged it.
• Lu Yuan cultivated the Mysterious Heaven Technique before a deep voice called him outside.
• Lu Yuan and Tang Wutong went out to confront a burly, drunken man whose nine soul rings included a red ring.

Tang Wutong ambushed Tang Hao after Lu Yuan lured him into a trap, severing his left leg and arm before he escaped to Notting Academy. Tang Hao fled with Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, while Lu Yuan and Tang Wutong found they had already left and decided to search for Xiao Wu before departing.

• Tang Hao confronted Lu Yuan and demanded his loyalty, but Lu Yuan revealed the act and ordered Tang Wutong to attack.
• Tang Wutong disarmed Tang Hao, severed his left leg, and pierced through his left arm with the Golden Dragon Spear as he escaped.
• Tang Hao reached Notting Academy but found Tang San missing from Dorm Seven and learned he had been left outside Yu Xiaogang's residence.
• Tang Hao collected Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, then fled with them before Lu Yuan and Tang Wutong arrived.
• Lu Yuan said Tang Hao had lost his Soul Bones and much of his power, then planned to look for Xiao Wu and leave Notting Academy.

Lu Yuan and Tang Wutong kidnapped Xiao Wu, retrieved the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone from Ah Yin’s cave in Sacred Soul Village, and traveled to Sunset Forest to seek the immortal herbs. They entered the poisonous miasma, where Tang Wutong protected Xiao Wu from the gas.

• Lu Yuan ordered Tang Wutong to capture Xiao Wu, then revealed that he and Tang Hao had known she was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• Lu Yuan and Tang Wutong went to Sacred Soul Village, found a hidden entrance behind a waterfall, and discovered Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Grass in a cave.
• Lu Yuan found the hidden box containing the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, and the group left for Sunset Forest.
• Lu Yuan led Tang Wutong and Xiao Wu through Sunset Forest in search of the poisonous miasma around the Icefire Yin Yang Well.
• Lu Yuan entered the miasma using his Ice Dragon King martial soul, while Tang Wutong followed with Xiao Wu and dispersed the poison around them.

Lu Yuan confronted Dugu Bo at the Icefire Yin Yang Well and forced the poisoner to submit by threatening his granddaughter and promising to cure his poison. Dugu Bo agreed to serve him, and Lu Yuan sent him away with instructions to bring Yanyan and Whale Glue back.

• Dugu Bo recognized Xiao Wu as a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and moved to attack the group.
• Tang Wutong revealed her nine Soul Rings and pinned Dugu Bo to the ground with her pressure.
• Lu Yuan used Dugu Bo's concern for Yanyan and offered to cure his poison, persuading him to submit.
• Lu Yuan had Tang Wutong give Dugu Bo an Earth Dragon Golden Melon and told him to eat it after returning to Heaven Dou City.
• Lu Yuan ordered Dugu Bo to bring Yanyan and Whale Glue to the Icefire Yin Yang Well, leaving Dugu Bo suspicious of his intentions.

Lu Yuan refined the Velvet Sky-Piercing Chrysanthemum, cured Dugu Bo’s poison, and accepted Whale Glue before preparing to obtain Soul Rings. After consuming the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, Lu Yuan plunged into the icy spring as its intense effects overwhelmed him.

• Lu Yuan sent Dugu Bo away and asked Tang Wutong to plant Ah Yin and bring him the Velvet Sky-Piercing Chrysanthemum and Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid.
• Lu Yuan consumed the Velvet Sky-Piercing Chrysanthemum and refined its medicinal power for eight or nine hours while Dugu Bo returned, cured of his poison and newly advanced to level ninety.
• Lu Yuan reached level twenty, and Dugu Bo knelt to thank him before handing over one piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue and two pieces of Thousand-Year Whale Glue.
• Lu Yuan invited Dugu Bo to accompany him to obtain his second Soul Ring and help Dugu Bo hunt for his ninth Soul Ring.
• Lu Yuan swallowed the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, became overwhelmed by its heat and medicinal effects, and plunged into the icy spring as Dugu Bo cried out in alarm.

Lu Yuan survived the icy spring and used its cold energy to form a second Ice Dragon King Soul Ring, gaining new abilities. After refining the Whale Glue, he prepared to leave the Icefire Yin Yang Well with Tang Wutong, Xiao Wu, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Yan, who received an Earth Dragon Golden Melon.

• Lu Yuan emerged safely from the icy spring and summoned his Ice Dragon King Martial Soul, revealing his Twin Martial Souls to Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Xiao Wu.
• The icy spring's energy gathered around the Ice Dragon King and formed a second ice-blue and gold Soul Ring for Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan discovered that the ring gave him Bloodthirsty Ice and Ice Dragon Shedding, which allowed the Ice Dragon King to leave his body, fight alongside him, and cultivate independently.
• After the Whale Glue's effects were fully refined, Lu Yuan left the spring, dressed, and told Tang Wutong to give Dugu Yan an Earth Dragon Golden Melon and harvest the immortal herbs.
• Dugu Bo gave Tang Wutong his Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch, and Dugu Yan thanked Lu Yuan for the Earth Dragon Golden Melon as Tang Wutong finished harvesting the herbs.

Lu Yuan left Xiao Wu imprisoned at Dugu Estate while he and Tang Wutong accompanied Dugu Bo to the Great Star Dou Forest, where Dugu Bo obtained his ninth Soul Ring. The group then found a Thunderstruck Dragon Rhino for Lu Yuan’s second Soul Ring, and he killed it despite Dugu Bo’s concern about its age.

• Lu Yuan ordered Dugu Bo to imprison Xiao Wu at his estate, where Steward Ma Bao'guo shocked her when she resisted.
• Lu Yuan, Tang Wutong, and Dugu Bo traveled to the Great Star Dou Forest and hunted an eighty-thousand-year Jade-Scaled Snake for Dugu Bo’s ninth Soul Ring.
• Tang Wutong told Lu Yuan that his improved physique could support a higher-age second Soul Ring, and Lu Yuan advised Dugu Bo to give Dugu Yan Whale Glue without attracting other factions’ attention.
• The group found a four-thousand-two-hundred-year Thunderstruck Dragon Rhino, and Lu Yuan chose it for his Sky-Holding Spear despite Dugu Bo’s warning.
• Dugu Bo poisoned and weakened the Thunderstruck Dragon Rhino, and Lu Yuan killed it with his spear, producing a purple Soul Ring.

Lu Yuan absorbed a four-thousand-year Soul Ring and planned to send Liu Erlong away from Blue Tyrant Academy. Meanwhile, Tang Hao, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang reached Suotuo City, where Tang San learned his father was a Titled Douluo and then angered him by questioning the ban on adding Soul Rings to the Clear Sky Hammer.

• Lu Yuan gained the Thunder-Piercing Charge Soul Skill from a purple Soul Ring, astonishing Dugu Bo.
• Lu Yuan asked Dugu Bo about Liu Erlong and said he planned to make her leave Blue Tyrant Academy to find Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang Hao, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang arrived in Suotuo City after escaping Notting City, with Tang Hao gravely injured and weakened.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that Lu Yuan had defeated him and described the powerful female Titled Douluo who had fought beside Lu Yuan.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that Tang Hao was the Clear Sky Douluo and that Tang San's second Martial Soul was the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San asked whether the Clear Sky Hammer could help him defeat Lu Yuan and complained about Blue Silver Grass, so Tang Hao slapped him and forbade him from adding Soul Rings to the hammer.