Chapter Summaries

Ning Chen, the neglected son of Ning Fengzhi, was beaten by disciples at Ning Rongrong’s command because of his poor cultivation talent. As his rage and hatred surged, he rose in a crimson haze, seemingly losing control.

• Ning Rongrong watched as six older disciples surrounded and beat Ning Chen in a secluded clearing.
• Ning Rongrong ordered the disciples to keep hitting him, dismissing one boy’s warning that Ning Chen could be seriously hurt.
• Ning Chen recalled how his half-level innate Soul Power had made the school mock and neglect him, despite two years of diligent cultivation.
• Ning Chen realized he had been lured away from attempting to break through his Soul Power bottleneck by Ning Rongrong’s invitation.
• After a blow struck his back, Ning Chen’s fury awakened a surge of unfamiliar strength, and he roared to his feet with bloodshot eyes.

Ning Chen lost control and brutally killed one Inner Disciple, then beat another unconscious as the others fled. He approached the terrified Ning Rongrong, but his rage faded and he collapsed at her feet.

• Ning Chen caught an Inner Disciple's wooden stick, beat him severely, and hurled him into a tree, killing him.
• Ning Chen tackled a second Inner Disciple and continued attacking until the man could no longer move.
• The remaining four Inner Disciples fled into the forest, leaving Ning Rongrong frozen with fear.
• Ning Chen walked toward Ning Rongrong and raised his bloodied hand, but his eyes cleared and he collapsed before striking her.

Ning Rongrong’s confrontation with Ning Chen ended with two Inner Disciples dead and Ning Chen apparently dying in the forest. After learning what happened, Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived at the clearing, where Ning Fengzhi examined the victims.

• Ning Rongrong found Ning Chen collapsed beside two mangled corpses, then fled the forest in fear.
• The School Deacons assessed Ning Chen’s grave injuries, and one went to report the incident to Ning Fengzhi while the other went after Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Chen’s aura faded until it vanished, and he appeared to die in the clearing.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived after the deacon reported the deaths and Ning Chen’s condition; Ning Fengzhi had also confined four fleeing Inner Disciples in his hall.
• Ning Fengzhi examined the two dead Inner Disciples, finding one with a broken spine and the other’s face too mutilated to identify.

Ning Fengzhi covered up Ning Rongrong’s role in the deaths of Ning Chen and two Inner Disciples, then buried Ning Chen. That night, Ning Chen crawled out of his grave, alive and furious.

• Ning Fengzhi found Ning Chen dead and decided to protect Ning Rongrong from the scandal because of her exceptional talent.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong fabricated a story blaming the deaths on a wandering Fallen Soul Master and ordered the four surviving disciples to keep quiet.
• Ning Fengzhi sent the four disciples away, confined Ning Rongrong for a month, and buried Ning Chen while claiming the other two bodies were missing.
• Ning Chen’s grave began shaking, and he clawed his way out of the soil.
• Ning Chen recovered enough to stand and cursed whoever had buried him, saying he had only gotten drunk.

Ning Chen escaped his grave with the perfected Nine Yang Divine Skill and realized he might possess a powerful Heart Martial Soul. He decided to leave the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and seek strength on his own, while Ning Fengzhi remained convinced he had done nothing wrong.

• Ning Chen recovered memories of his life on Blue Planet and learned that the Myriad Realms Roulette had granted him the Great Perfection Nine Yang Divine Skill.
• Ning Chen recalled how the original owner had been neglected by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and killed after Ning Rongrong tricked and attacked him.
• Ning Chen suspected that the original owner had awakened a second Martial Soul: his heart, a Body Martial Soul with tremendous potential.
• Ning Chen resolved not to return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, vowed to avenge the original owner, and left beneath the moonlight.
• Ning Fengzhi stood sleepless by his window, felt guilty about Ning Chen, but believed his decision to favor Ning Rongrong had been right.

Two months after settling in Barak City, Ning Chen worked as an apprentice carver at Emerald Treasure House while secretly preparing to hunt for his first Spirit Ring. After refining Whale Rubber to strengthen his body, he was ready to leave for the nearby Soul Hunting Forest the next morning.

• Ning Chen impressed Shen Yushan with his jade carving and was told he could soon take formal customer orders.
• Ning Chen asked Shen Yushan for a day off, claiming he needed to take his wages home, but planned to hunt Soul Beasts instead.
• Ning Chen revealed that his Soul Power had reached the level-ten bottleneck and that two Myriad Realms Roulette prizes had given him confidence to hunt for a Spirit Ring.
• Ning Chen heated and swallowed Whale Rubber, then quickly refined it with the Nine Yang Divine Skill to strengthen his body.

Ning Chen traveled to the Balak Soul Hunting Forest with an Azure Wood Puppet and Thunderfire Thunderbolt Bombs, intending to hunt a Rock Crystal Beast for his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s first Spirit Ring. After reaching the hills where the beasts lived, he replenished the puppet’s Soul Power and prepared to search.

• Ning Chen left Jade Verdure Studio and headed for the Soul Hunting Forest southeast of Barak City.
• Ning Chen summoned the Azure Wood Puppet he had drawn from Myriad Realms Roulette and equipped it with a hooded cloak and mask.
• Ning Chen entered the forest with a hunting permit and traveled west toward the rocky hills where Rock Crystal Beasts lived.
• Ning Chen gave the Azure Wood Puppet five Thunderfire Thunderbolt Bombs and kept five in reserve.
• Ning Chen replenished the puppet’s Soul Power and prepared to search for soul beasts.

Ning Chen and the Azure Wood Puppet ambushed a seven-hundred-year Rock Crystal Beast with Thunderfire Thunderbolt Bombs, then attacked it while it was badly wounded. The puppet kept pounding the beast, which struggled to get back up.

• Ning Chen found a sleeping Rock Crystal Beast in a valley and realized it had seven hundred years of cultivation.
• Ning Chen ordered the Azure Wood Puppet to approach and throw eight Thunderfire Thunderbolt Bombs at the beast.
• The bombs exploded around the Rock Crystal Beast, severely injuring it and shattering several crystals on its back.
• The Azure Wood Puppet charged through the smoke and struck the beast in the head with its fists.
• The Rock Crystal Beast bit the puppet's shoulder but failed to damage it, and the puppet knocked the beast down and continued punching it.

Ning Chen absorbed the Rock Crystal Beast’s seven-hundred-year Spirit Ring and gained a powerful strength-amplification Soul Skill. He emerged as a level-fifteen one-ring Soul Master, with his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s endurance greatly enhanced by the Nine Yang Divine Skill.

• The Azure Wood Puppet blocked the Rock Crystal Beast’s final attack, defeated it, and dragged it back to Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen moved the Rock Crystal Beast to a secluded location and, with the Azure Wood Puppet guarding him, killed it and began absorbing its Spirit Ring.
• The Nine Yang Divine Skill purified and guided the Spirit Ring’s energy, allowing Ning Chen to absorb it by nightfall.
• Ning Chen gained the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s strength-amplification Soul Skill, which initially boosted strength by thirty-five percent.
• Ning Chen’s Soul Power rose to level fifteen, and his unusually abundant reserves meant he could sustain his amplification far longer than ordinary pagoda Soul Masters.

After absorbing his first Spirit Ring, Ning Chen benefited from the Nine Yang Divine Skill, built up wealth, and moved into his own courtyard. There, he used the Myriad Realms Roulette and drew an old book titled Introductory Guide to Dao Refining from the Heavenly Craft Pavilion.

• Ning Chen left the Soul Hunting Forest after absorbing his Spirit Ring and spent the night at an inn before returning to Barak City.
• Ning Chen resumed carving and cultivation, then consigned his Thunderfire Thunderbolt Bombs through Treasure Gathering Pavilion and earned three hundred gold soul coins.
• Ning Chen used the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's treasure-sensing ability to find bargains, increasing his wealth to more than a thousand gold soul coins.
• Ning Chen found a five-cubic-meter storage soul tool at an open-air market for one silver soul coin.
• Ning Chen rented a courtyard in the eastern district and left Emerald Treasure House.
• Ning Chen spun the Myriad Realms Roulette and received Introductory Guide to Dao Refining from the Heavenly Craft Pavilion.

Ning Chen studied the Introductory Guide to Dao Refining and began forging Soul Tools to make up for his lack of offensive methods. After two months of rapid cultivation and intensive blacksmithing practice, he had shaped the crimson blade of his first Fierce Slash Blade.

• Ning Chen received the Introductory Guide to Dao Refining, which contained techniques and blueprints for practical artifacts adapted into Soul Tools.
• Ning Chen bought materials in the market and began forging a Level-One Soul Tool called the Fierce Slash Blade.
• Ning Chen struggled with forging and studied basic blacksmithing techniques while relying on his Nine Yang Divine Skill to cultivate.
• Ning Chen raised his Soul Power to level twenty in two months after obtaining his first soul ring.
• Ning Chen apprenticed at a blacksmith shop in Barak City and quickly mastered its techniques, then shaped a crimson blade in his courtyard.

Ning Chen completed a set of second-level Soul Tools and sold his earlier blade to fund preparations for a journey to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his second Spirit Ring. He set out toward the forest, planning to pass through Suotuo City, where Shrek Academy was located.

• Ning Chen tested his newly forged Fierce Slash Blade and found it could cut through thick wood with power comparable to a high-quality hundred-year Spirit Ring soul skill.
• Over two months, Ning Chen forged the Fierce Slash Blade, Earthguard Armor, and Wind-Chasing Boots, but spent nearly all his money in the process.
• Ning Chen consigned his First-Level Flame-Slashing Blade at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and received two thousand Gold Soul Coins after it sold to a noble from Barak City.
• Ning Chen used the money to buy travel supplies and a gray horse he named Little Gray, then hitched a carriage to it and departed for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ning Chen headed toward the Star Dou Great Forest by way of Suotuo City, home to the countryside Shrek Academy founded by Flender.

Ning Chen traveled from Soto City to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a thousand-year soul beast and evaded three men who had targeted him. The three scoundrels abandoned their pursuit to hunt Bule’s fourth Spirit Ring.

• Ning Chen left Soto City and continued southeast toward the Star Dou Great Forest after resting overnight.
• Ning Chen sold his carriage and horse, changed his outfit, and entered the forest with a map and protective soul tools.
• Ning Chen used the Azure Wood Puppet to clear a path while avoiding other soul masters as he searched the outer region.
• Ning Chen sensed three men following him, stored the puppet, and escaped using the Wind-Chasing Boots’ attached spell.
• Bule, Old Goose, and Tianya arrived at the spot where Ning Chen had vanished and decided to focus on hunting Bule’s fourth Spirit Ring.

Ning Chen encountered a roughly fifteen-hundred-year Phoenix-Tailed Cockscomb Snake while searching for a suitable soul beast in the Star Dou Great Forest. After enduring its attacks and exhausting its stamina, Ning Chen prepared to strike as the Azure Wood Puppet blocked its escape route.

• Ning Chen heard movement in the bushes and ordered the Azure Wood Puppet to intercept the approaching creature.
• A Phoenix-Tailed Cockscomb Snake attacked Ning Chen, dodged his slash, and knocked him into the bushes despite his Thick Earth Protection.
• Ning Chen summoned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and used its Power boost along with his Wind-Chasing Boots, armor, and blade to withstand the snake's attacks.
• Ning Chen prolonged the fight until the snake slowed, then pressed his attack as it tried to flee.
• The Azure Wood Puppet blocked the Phoenix-Tailed Cockscomb Snake's only escape route after Ning Chen had secretly ordered it into position.

Ning Chen defeated the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent and absorbed its Millennium Soul Ring, reaching level twenty-six. His new Speed Amplification exceeded expectations, and he began considering how Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Masters could use self-created skills to defend themselves.

• Ning Chen used the Wind-Chasing spell and Flame Slash to strike the exhausted Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, whose body was devastated by the attack's explosion.
• Ning Chen finished off the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent and absorbed its purple Millennium Soul Ring, raising his Soul Power to level twenty-six.
• Ning Chen tested the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's second soul skill and found that Speed Amplification made him faster than the Wind-Chasing Boots' inscriptions.
• Ning Chen realized that his amplification ratios had risen to fifty percent and considered creating self-defense and movement skills to expand the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's combat potential.

Ning Chen settled in Soto City, grew stronger, and forged a set of fourth-grade soul tools before deciding to leave for Heaven Dou City. He also obtained a Human-Skin Mask that could conceal his identity even from a Title Douluo, but prolonged use risked irreversible physical changes.

• Ning Chen left the Star Dou Great Forest and traveled to Soto City, where he rented a house and made it his new home.
• Over the following months, Ning Chen reached level thirty-six, mastered Heavenly Craft Pavilion's Introductory Guide to Dao Refining, and forged fourth-grade soul tools and Azure Flame Pearls.
• Ning Chen abandoned his plan to wait in Soto City for a chance to kill Ning Rongrong and decided to go to Heaven Dou City instead.
• Ning Chen obtained the Human-Skin Mask, which could disguise his appearance and physical state beyond a Title Douluo's detection.
• Ning Chen learned that using the Human-Skin Mask to alter his body for more than half an incense stick could cause irreversible changes.

Ning Chen left Soto City for Heaven Dou City, intending to claim the immortal herbs at the Icefire Yin-Yang Well. After Bule, Tianya, and Ekao followed him out of the city to attack him, Ning Chen disguised himself and ambushed them with an Azure Flame Pearl, leaving all three severely injured.

• Ning Chen sold his unwanted belongings, left his home in Soto City, and set out for Heaven Dou City without a carriage.
• Bule, Tianya, and Ekao followed Ning Chen, intending to kill him outside the city and take revenge for his earlier escape.
• Ning Chen used his Wind-Chasing Boots to escape their pursuit, then disguised himself with the Human-Skin Mask and confronted them in the forest.
• Ning Chen tossed an Azure Flame Pearl near the three men and detonated it, blasting a crater into the ground.
• The explosion left Ekao and Tianya near death, while Bule survived behind his Heavenly Net Twin Shields but lost his Martial Soul and suffered severe injuries.

Ning Chen killed Bule after revealing his identity, then traveled to Heaven Dou City, selling Soul Tools along the way. He arrived in the imperial capital and entered the city in disguise, planning to craft new Soul Tools there.

• Ning Chen revealed his face to Bule, who recognized him and realized his friends had died because he had once spared Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen killed Bule with his Fierce Slash Blade and left the three bodies behind.
• Ning Chen traveled toward Heaven Dou City at high speed and sold three outdated Soul Tools in separate cities for thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Chen planned to craft a Windrider Airship and experiment with storage-type Soul Tools once he reached Heaven Dou City.
• After nearly half a month, Ning Chen arrived in Heaven Dou City, concealed his identity with the Human-Skin Mask, and joined the crowds inside.

Ning Chen obtained the Starlight Bracer from the Myriad Realms Roulette and discovered that its powers could disguise his Martial Soul and Spirit Rings. He considered using a new identity to join a faction, but ruled out Soul Master academies and had not yet chosen where to go.

• Ning Chen drew the Starlight Bracer, an artifact with abilities for defense, enhancement, illusions, and a stellar domain.
• Ning Chen bound the bracer with his blood and learned to store it inside his body and summon it at will.
• Ning Chen used Illusory Stars to disguise the bracer as his Martial Soul and alter the number and colors of his Spirit Rings.
• Ning Chen considered using a Human-Skin Mask and the Starlight Bracer to join a faction under a new identity.
• Ning Chen ruled out Soul Master academies because they lacked the highest-level combat power he sought.

Ning Chen chose to approach Spirit Hall, planning to use its intelligence network to find Body Martial Soul users and prepare to establish the Body Sect. At the Heaven Dou City Martial Soul Temple, he registered under a false identity and revealed himself as a twelve-year-old Soul Elder, prompting the temple’s leaders to take notice.

• Ning Chen ruled out the Heaven Dou royal family and chose Spirit Hall for its influence, intelligence network, and access to information about Body Martial Soul users.
• Ning Chen went to the Heaven Dou City Martial Soul Temple and registered as Cao Benqi with the Starlight Bracer Martial Soul.
• Ning Chen used Illusory Stars to display two yellow Soul Rings and one purple Soul Ring, then showed Soul Power at level thirty-two.
• The female steward confirmed Ning Chen’s age with a bone-age test and hurried upstairs to report his talent.
• The high-ranking steward heard the report and took the female steward to a higher floor.