Chapter Summaries

Tang Shan died in a dump-truck accident and was reborn in Douluo Continent, where Su Haichao and his son Su Yuntao adopted him. At age three, Tang Shan used his knowledge of the world to guide Su Yuntao’s training, and the family prepared for him to hunt for his first soul ring.

• Tang Shan was struck and killed by a dump truck, while the Asura God secretly entered a special plane and drew Poseidon’s attention.
• Su Haichao found an abandoned infant named Tang Shan in an alley and adopted him alongside his son, Yuntao.
• Three years later, Tang Shan joked with Su Yuntao about his eye exercises and recalled that his adoptive brother was the famous Spirit Hall soul master.
• Su Haichao told Tang Shan that Su Yuntao had trained his body for a year before hunting for a soul beast, following Tang Shan’s advice.
• Tang Shan agreed that Su Yuntao’s training had reached its limit and that it was time for him to hunt for a soul ring.

Tang Shan persuaded Su Haichao and Su Yuntao to hunt for Su Yuntao’s soul ring in safer, stocked forests instead of the Star Dou Great Forest. After they departed, Tang Shan reviewed his theories about martial souls and failed to cultivate early, leaving him to rely on his own knowledge and imagination.

• Tang Shan warned Su Haichao that the Star Dou Great Forest was dangerous, and Su Yuntao joined him in asking to search forests where soul beasts were raised instead.
• Su Haichao agreed to take Su Yuntao to safer forests and left Tang Shan at home with ten gold soul coins.
• Tang Shan considered his plans for Su Yuntao’s training, then wrote down his theories about martial souls and burned his notes.
• Tang Shan tried to sense soul power and cultivate before his awakening, but fell asleep without success.
• Tang Shan saw Su Haichao and Su Yuntao off, reminding his father to find a wolf-type soul beast for Su Yuntao; Su Yuntao joked about hunting a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and Su Haichao rebuked him.

Tang Shan learned that Bibi Dong had been named Spirit Hall’s Holy Maiden and studied how a Soul Master’s intent might affect the skills granted by soul rings. Meanwhile, Su Haichao and Su Yuntao entered the Soul Hunting Forest to find Yuntao a suitable ring, where they encountered a wolf pack.

• Su Yuntao and Su Haichao left Tang Shan at home and went to hunt a soul beast for Yuntao’s next soul ring.
• Tang Shan visited Nuoding City’s Spirit Hall, met Ma Xiunuo and Sisi, and wondered how his older brother would respond to her.
• Ma Xiunuo told Tang Shan that Bibi Dong had been chosen as Spirit Hall’s Holy Maiden, helping him narrow down the timeline.
• Tang Shan read about soul rings and questioned whether a Soul Master’s consciousness could influence the skills gained from them.
• Su Haichao assessed that a soul beast around six hundred years old would suit Su Yuntao and told him to climb a tree when wolves appeared.
• Su Haichao activated his first soul skill and rapidly killed attacking gray wolves while Su Yuntao watched from above.

Su Haichao defeated a pack of Gray-Furred Wolves and helped Su Yuntao absorb a nearly six-hundred-year-old soul ring. Su Yuntao gained an amplification skill as Tang Shan had predicted, and the two prepared to return home to him.

• Su Haichao used his Claw Shadow and Amplification skills to defeat the Gray-Furred Wolf leader and drive off the rest of the pack.
• Su Haichao identified the nearly six-hundred-year-old wolf as a suitable match for Su Yuntao, who killed it and prepared to absorb its soul ring.
• Su Yuntao followed Tang Shan's advice and focused on gaining an amplification skill while absorbing the ring.
• Su Haichao secretly cut off two of the wolf's legs after sensing soul power fluctuations, then kept watch while Su Yuntao absorbed the ring.
• Su Yuntao finished absorbing the ring and confirmed that his first soul skill was an amplification skill, so he and Su Haichao set off home to Tang Shan.

Tang Shan exercised while developing theories about Martial Soul awakenings and Innate Soul Power, then reunited with Su Yuntao, who had grown stronger after absorbing a Soul Ring. Su Haichao revealed a rare Soul Bone from Yuntao’s Gray-Furred Wolf, and Yuntao chose to give it up for Tang Shan.

• Tang Shan jogged through Notting City and reasoned that a Martial Soul’s strength and Innate Soul Power depended on both its awakening and the body’s nourishment.
• Su Yuntao returned from his breakthrough taller and more muscular, then excitedly greeted Tang Shan.
• Su Haichao summoned his sons to his room and extracted a Soul Bone from the Gray-Furred Wolf’s foreleg.
• Su Haichao offered the Soul Bone to Su Yuntao, explaining that it would work best with the Soul Ring from the same beast.
• Su Yuntao declined the Soul Bone and proposed saving it for Tang Shan, moving his younger brother.

Tang Shan persuaded Su Haichao and Su Yuntao to delay absorbing the Hundred-Year Soul Bone and prepare Su Yuntao for a thousand-year Second Soul Ring. The family agreed to use whale rubber, physical training, and an anonymous theory submission to support the plan, and Tang Shan began training his older brother.

• Tang Shan asked Su Yuntao about his First Soul Skill and Soul Power Level, then proposed that he aim for a thousand-year Second Soul Ring.
• Tang Shan explained that Su Yuntao's unusually old First Soul Ring, further training, and whale rubber could raise his safe absorption limit.
• Su Yuntao agreed to take the opportunity, while Su Haichao approved Tang Shan's plan to buy thousand-year whale rubber with an anonymous Spirit Hall theory reward.
• Tang Shan advised Su Haichao to keep the Hundred-Year Soul Bone in reserve and submit the theory anonymously so Su Yuntao's future achievement would attract less attention.
• Su Haichao agreed to the plan, and Tang Shan began training Su Yuntao with more advanced exercises.

Tang Shan trained Su Yuntao with demanding exercises and then wrote a paper proposing three theories about Martial Souls, bottlenecks, and Soul Rings. He finished the paper intending to submit it to Spirit Hall, with his advice on physical training and older Soul Rings aimed at Soul Masters with limited talent.

• Tang Shan taught Su Yuntao increasingly difficult exercises, and Su Yuntao completed them despite becoming exhausted.
• Su Yuntao asked where Tang Shan learned the exercises, and Tang Shan claimed he had found them in a Spirit Hall library book.
• Su Haichao called the brothers to eat and was surprised by how exhausted Su Yuntao looked.
• Tang Shan wrote a paper called Three Theories of Martial Souls, discussing Twin Martial Souls, cultivation at bottlenecks, and physical training to absorb older Soul Rings.
• Tang Shan reviewed the paper and decided its third theory offered a way for less talented Soul Masters to improve through older Soul Rings.

Tang Shan submitted a limited Martial Soul theory that could enable a Thousand-Year Second Ring, while keeping his most disruptive discovery secret. The theory drew Spirit Hall’s attention, and Qian Daoliu and Qian Jun prepared to investigate whether it could benefit the young Qian Renxue.

• Tang Shan gave Su Haichao his findings but withheld the theory that a Soul Master’s intent could influence acquired Soul Rings and Soul Skills.
• Su Haichao contacted Salas, who ordered someone to collect the theory after hearing it might make a Thousand-Year Second Ring possible.
• Salas read Tang Shan’s Three Theories of Martial Souls and recognized their potential benefits for lower-level Soul Masters.
• Salas contacted Qian Jun, who summoned Qian Daoliu and explained that the theory might help Qian Renxue obtain a Thousand-Year Second Ring.
• Qian Daoliu agreed to meet Salas while taking Qian Renxue to hunt Soul Beasts.

Qian Daoliu examined Tang Shan’s soul-ring theory and decided to strengthen Qian Renxue with an Angel Clan soul bone while supporting her plan to infiltrate the Heaven Dou Empire. Meanwhile, Tang Shan learned Spirit Hall had rewarded his theory with ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Su Haichao planned to save the money for Tang Shan’s cultivation.

• Qian Daoliu brought Qian Renxue through a Light Gate to Spirit Hall, where Salas gave him Tang Shan’s theory.
• Qian Daoliu explained that physical strength affected the soul-ring age a soul master could absorb and offered Qian Renxue an Angel Clan soul bone to improve her physique.
• Qian Renxue insisted on pursuing her plan to replace the Heaven Dou crown prince to prove she could surpass her mother, and Qian Daoliu gave Salas permission to publish the theory and award its creator ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Tang Shan watched Su Yuntao struggle through burpees until Su Haichao arrived with news of the reward and plans to find thousand-year whale rubber.
• Su Haichao told Tang Shan he would save the Gold Soul Coins for Tang Shan’s cultivation rather than use them for himself.

Tang Shan helped Su Yuntao use Whale Rubber to strengthen his body, then published several influential theories on Martial Souls and Soul Power. Three years later, at age six and about to undergo his Martial Soul Awakening, Tang Shan’s story reached a turning point as a new crown prince appeared in Heaven Dou City, the Clear Sky Twin Stars rose, and a weary man arrived at Notting Academy.

• Tang Shan persuaded Su Yuntao to swallow a piece of heated Whale Rubber and exercise through its effects, boosting his sit-up performance and briefly accelerating his Soul Power growth.
• Tang Shan published the anonymous “Three Theories of Martial Souls,” prompting Soul Masters to debate whether its author deserved the title of Grandmaster, and Spirit Hall awarded Su Haichao a Grandmaster Medal for him.
• At age four, Tang Shan published the “Martial Soul Fourth Theory,” strengthening his reputation by arguing that Soul Rings should match a Soul Master’s Martial Soul.
• At age five, Tang Shan published the “Martial Soul Fifth Theory” on the relationship between Qi and Blood and Soul Power, earning another ten thousand Gold Soul Coins from Spirit Hall.
• Three years passed, and six-year-old Tang Shan prepared for his Martial Soul Awakening as a new crown prince appeared in Heaven Dou City, the Clear Sky Twin Stars shone, and a weary middle-aged man entered Notting Academy.

Tang Shan learned that Su Haichao had gained the powerful Teleportation soul skill from a random soul ring and considered how it could strengthen him. As Tang Shan prepared for his martial soul awakening the next day, he asked Su Haichao to let Su Yuntao perform it.

• Tang Shan and Su Yuntao discussed Tang Shan’s upcoming awakening, his martial soul theories, and Su Yuntao’s stalled cultivation and trouble with Sisi.
• Salas accompanied Su Haichao on a soul-ring hunt and helped him defeat a nearly five-thousand-year-old White Sky Wolf.
• Tang Shan learned that Su Haichao had failed to obtain a domain skill but gained Teleportation, which let him move farther by spending more soul power.
• Tang Shan recognized the skill’s potential for travel and physical training, and advised Su Haichao to test its limits while recovering.
• Tang Shan reasoned that Su Haichao’s exceptional random skill was unlikely to be replicated by deliberately choosing a soul skill.
• Su Haichao told Tang Shan to rest before his martial soul awakening, and agreed to let Su Yuntao awaken it the next day.

Tang Shan awakened a Body Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, then began studying how to cultivate it in an era with no established methods for Body Martial Souls. His first meditation revealed that Douluo’s basic cultivation method was crude and inefficient, leaving him to consider how to build a better foundation.

• Su Yuntao awakened Tang Shan’s Martial Soul, which Tang Shan recognized as his entire body, a Body Martial Soul.
• Tang Shan learned that his Martial Soul explained his unusual growth and strength, but he worried that Douluo I lacked ways to cultivate it.
• Tang Shan tested as having Innate Full Soul Power, prompting Su Haichao to predict he could become a Titled Douluo.
• Tang Shan asked Su Haichao to report his awakening truthfully and said he would study his Martial Soul before choosing a cultivation plan.
• Tang Shan meditated for the first time, sensed and absorbed Soul Power easily, and stopped when his meridians reached their limit.
• Tang Shan judged the basic Meditation Method inefficient because it circulated Soul Power only through the Ren and Du Meridians instead of first building a foundation through the Twelve Regular Meridians.

Tang Shan tested his newly awakened Body Martial Soul through strength training and discovered that activating it enhanced his body and eliminated the need for warm-ups. His training sparked ideas about Body Martial Soul awakenings, and he ended the chapter recovering at home after an intense workout.

• Tang Shan reviewed his cultivation notes, burned his diary, and joined Su Yuntao for breakfast before heading out to train.
• Tang Shan activated his Body Martial Soul and found that it increased his strength and let him sense his bodily movements more precisely.
• Tang Shan concluded that his first Soul Ring should help him achieve complete control over his body and that strength was his martial soul’s innate attribute.
• Tang Shan began push-ups without warming up, explaining to Su Yuntao that activating a Body Martial Soul brought his body to its optimal state.
• Tang Shan completed one hundred push-ups, and his sudden inspiration about Body Martial Soul awakenings led him to ask Su Yuntao for warmed Whale Rubber.
• Tang Shan showered with cold water to recover, while Su Yuntao prepared the Whale Rubber at home.

Tang Shan used Whale Rubber to recover from training and strengthen his body, then developed a theory that a Body Martial Soul must gradually fuse with its user’s body before it can undergo a Second Awakening. He left with a plan to test his theory through training and to seek a strength-type Soul Beast for his First Soul Ring.

• Tang Shan ate Whale Rubber and cultivated through its intense effects, strengthening his body while Su Yuntao watched over him.
• Tang Shan told Su Yuntao he wanted to train longer and attempt a Thousand-Year First Ring, and they agreed to hunt Soul Beasts together once Su Yuntao reached Level 20, within a year.
• Tang Shan studied past examples of Second Awakening and theorized that a Body Martial Soul must fuse with the body before the body’s potential can awaken it.
• Tang Shan concluded that the Body Sect’s god-level body method actually raised the Body Martial Soul to god level, carrying the body with it.
• Tang Shan burned his notes and planned to test whether keeping his Martial Soul active reduced the Soul Power needed to maintain it, while seeking a strength-type Soul Beast.

At the Nod City Spirit Hall, Yu Xiaogang collected his Soul Master stipend and decided that Tang Shan would be the perfect disciple. He visited Su Haichao’s home to recruit Tang Shan, who recognized him and cautiously called him Teacher Yu.

• Ma Xiunuo issued Yu Xiaogang ten Gold Soul Coins and a new certificate, then remarked that Hall Master Su’s son had Innate Full Soul Power but a Body Martial Soul.
• Tang Shan finished his demanding exercise routine, explained his horse-stance training to Su Yuntao, and helped him recover.
• Yu Xiaogang visited Su Haichao and claimed he could guide Tang Shan to become a renowned powerhouse.
• Su Haichao introduced Yu Xiaogang as a Martial Soul researcher temporarily staying at Notting Academy.
• Tang Shan recognized Yu Xiaogang and addressed him as Teacher Yu rather than Grandmaster Yu.

Yu Xiaogang mistook Tang Shan’s full-powered body martial soul for one of two martial souls, then left after Tang Shan proved otherwise. Afterward, Tang Shan declined to decide about Spirit Hall Academy and wrote a Sixth Theory of Martial Souls proposing that full-powered Blue Silver Grass could be the Blue Silver Emperor.

• Yu Xiaogang insisted Tang Shan must have a second, unawakened martial soul and offered to take him as a disciple.
• Tang Shan demonstrated that his sole martial soul was his body, but Yu Xiaogang still claimed another martial soul might awaken and then left.
• Yu Xiaogang privately dismissed Tang Shan’s body martial soul as worthless and blamed his own theories for none of his failures.
• Su Haichao told Tang Shan that Bishop Salas had asked whether he wanted to attend Spirit Hall Academy, and Tang Shan postponed the decision until after obtaining his first soul ring.
• Tang Shan decided to continue publishing martial soul theories and wrote a Sixth Theory suggesting that full-powered Blue Silver Grass could be the Blue Silver Emperor.

Xue Qinghe and the Pope learned from the Sixth Theory of Martial Souls that Ah Yin might be the Blue Silver Emperor, prompting the Pope to set out to capture her. Meanwhile, Tang Shan trained with Su Yuntao until a guard arrived with an urgent summons from their father, leaving the reason unknown.

• Xue Qinghe received and read the Sixth Theory of Martial Souls, while She Long accepted a Soul Bone meant to help him become a Titled Douluo.
• The Pope read the theory, concluded that Tang Hao's companion was the Blue Silver Emperor, and set out with the elders to capture her.
• Qian Daoliu learned of the Pope's plan but chose not to interfere, despite Ah Yin being connected to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Shan practiced Standing Stake and told Su Yuntao to master the horse stance before attempting it.
• Xiao Wang arrived at Spirit Hall and summoned Tang Shan and Su Yuntao at their father's request.

Su Haichao told Tang Shan and Su Yuntao that a battle between top-tier experts could change Spirit Hall. The chapter showed Tang Hao and Ah Yin welcoming their newborn son before Tang Hao faced Qian Xunji, Chrysanthemum Guan, and Gui Mei to protect his wife.

• Su Yuntao and Tang Shan went to Spirit Hall, where Su Haichao told them a major battle had shaken the continent.
• Ah Yin safely gave birth to a son, and Tang Hao brought the baby to her.
• Asura God watched the birth and called the child the child of destiny, while Poseidon altered a token of his inheritance.
• Qian Xunji arrived with Chrysanthemum Guan and Gui Mei and demanded that Tang Hao surrender Ah Yin.
• Tang Hao refused, detonated his Soul Rings, and fought all three Titled Douluo with his black hammer.

Tang Hao fought Qian Xunji, Chrysanthemum Guan, and Gui Mei while trying to reach Ah Yin and their newborn son. Ah Yin sacrificed herself to give Tang Hao her Soul Ring, leaving him newly empowered but devastated as the three Titled Douluo watched.

• Tang Hao used Chaotic Cloak to turn the Spirit Hall trio’s attacks into momentum, but Qian Xunji’s Angel Holy Light and the others’ combined assault broke his rhythm.
• Qian Xunji unleashed his Angel Domain, suppressing Tang Hao as Ah Yin struggled against Spirit Hall’s fighters.
• Tang Hao detonated his remaining three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, drove Gui Mei back, and cleared a path to Ah Yin.
• Tang Hao killed the three Soul Saints attacking Ah Yin and urged her to flee with their son, claiming he could hold off the Titled Douluo.
• Ah Yin revealed that she knew Tang Hao would not survive and sacrificed herself, giving him her red Soul Ring and leaving her Soul Bone for their child.
• Tang Hao’s Soul Rings rose through the ranks to include Ah Yin’s red ring, while the three Titled Douluo could only watch her sacrifice end the domain.

Tang Shan learned that Tang Hao had defeated Qian Xunji, Gui Mei, and Chrysanthemum Guan, leaving the Pope gravely wounded, and that the Pope later died as Spirit Hall prepared for war with the Clear Sky Sect. After the conflict devastated the sect, Tang Shan tested his nearly year-long training against Su Yuntao and prepared to hunt for his first Soul Ring.

• Qian Xunji, Gui Mei, and Chrysanthemum Guan attacked Tang Hao, who shattered his restored Soul Rings and struck them down with his blood-red ninth ring.
• Su Haichao told Tang Shan and Su Yuntao that the Pope had died and Bibi Dong would succeed him as Spirit Hall prepared to fight the Clear Sky Sect.
• Qian Daoliu read a tear-stained letter from Qian Xue and prayed before the Angel God Statue, promising she could judge the family's sins.
• The Clear Sky Sect lost its leader and many disciples, shut its gates, expelled Tang Hao, and lost the support of the Four Single-Attribute Clans.
• Su Yuntao celebrated his breakthrough, then sparred with Tang Shan, whose strength and technique overwhelmed him.
• Tang Shan prepared to hunt a Soul Beast the next day and obtain his first Soul Ring.