Chapter Summaries

Six years later, Qian Chongling guided the martial soul awakening in Holy Soul Village’s Spirit Hall. He awakened the first child’s sickle martial soul, but the boy had no soul power and could not become a Soul Master.

• Village chief Jie Shi brought eight children, including Xiao Yan, to the Spirit Hall for their awakenings.
• Qian Chongling introduced himself and arranged the black stones and blue crystal ball for the ritual.
• Qian Chongling revealed his Chaos Angel martial soul and used it to awaken the first child.
• The first child manifested a sickle as his martial soul.
• The boy showed no soul power when he touched the crystal ball, so Qian Chongling sent him aside.

Qian Chongling awakened the village children’s martial souls and found that three had soul power, including Xiao Yan, whose rolling pin had mutated into an Eyebrow-Level Staff. Old Jie Shi planned to secure academy places for the three children and went to tell Xiao Huo.

• The seventh child awakened Green Leaf Grass and showed level-two soul power.
• Xiao Yan awakened an Eyebrow-Level Staff, a beneficial mutation of a rolling pin, and tested at innate soul power level four.
• Qian Chongling told Old Jie Shi that three children had soul power and left for Nuoding City.
• Old Jie Shi celebrated the news and planned to borrow two work-study places from neighboring villages.
• Old Jie Shi sent Lin Xun'er and Zhao Fenmian home, then took Xiao Yan to tell Xiao Huo about the academy places.

Xiao Yan awakened a mutated martial soul with level-four innate soul power, and Xiao Huo and Feng Yuhan hesitated over whether to send him to Nuoding Academy or ask Qian Chongling to teach him. After Qian Chongling left Holy Soul Village, Xiao Yan set out for the academy, while Qian Chongling’s completed trial revealed why he had stayed there.

• Jie Shi told Xiao Huo and Feng Yuhan that Xiao Yan had awakened a mutated martial soul with level-four innate soul power and proposed sending him to Nuoding Academy.
• Xiao Huo postponed his decision because he wanted to ask the Titled Douluo Qian Chongling, who lived next door, whether he would guide Xiao Yan.
• A Spirit Hall Soul Elder delivered Qian Chongling’s letter announcing his departure and appointed Xiao Huo to oversee martial soul awakenings in nearby villages.
• Xiao Huo asked Jie Shi to arrange Xiao Yan’s enrollment, and three months later Xiao Yan, Lin Xun'er, and Zhao Fenmian left for Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Qian Chongling left because he had completed the first of his Nine Chaos Trials by living for five years in Holy Soul Village, which he believed was the future source of evil.

One year later, Qian Chongling confronted the soul beasts at a lake in the Star Dou Great Forest after overhearing Qing Wu discuss taking human form. He effortlessly defeated Da Ming and Er Ming, leaving Qing Wu and the other Soft Bone Rabbit terrified.

• Qian Chongling found the Titan Giant Ape, the Sky Azure Bull Python, and the two Soft Bone Rabbits gathered beside a lake in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qing Wu told Da Ming she planned to take human form to survive her next heavenly tribulation.
• Qian Chongling emerged from hiding and threatened to kill Qing Wu, prompting the Titan Giant Ape to attack him.
• Qian Chongling stopped the Titan Giant Ape's punch with one finger and flicked him through a tree.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python attacked with his tail and lightning, but Qian Chongling froze him solid with his Cold Ice Palm.
• Qing Wu cried out for Da Ming and Er Ming as she and the other Soft Bone Rabbit faced Qian Chongling's overwhelming power.

Qian Chongling beat four powerful soul beasts and demanded one of Qing Wu’s legs in exchange for sparing their lives. He took her leg and revealed himself as Spirit Hall’s seventh Pope before leaving, while the wounded beasts realized they had been deceived about his identity.

• Qian Chongling told the injured soul beasts that he wanted their meat and threatened to stop any of them from self-destructing.
• Qian Chongling kicked the Sky Azure Bull Python and demanded one rabbit leg in exchange for sparing all four soul beasts.
• Qing Wu agreed to the deal, and Qian Chongling swiftly cut off her right foreleg and stored it in his soul tool.
• Da Ming asked Qian Chongling who he was, and Qian Chongling identified himself as Spirit Hall’s seventh Pope before leaving.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python recalled that the Pope he had heard about thirteen hundred years earlier had the same name, and the four soul beasts realized Qian Chongling had tricked them.

Qian Chongling cooked and ate a hundred-thousand-year-old rabbit’s leg in the Star Dou Great Forest to fulfill his Chaos Second Trial. He concluded that the trial’s second source of evil was one of the two rabbits whose descendants gave Tang Third Brother confidence.

• Qian Chongling prepared a rabbit leg with spices, lotus leaves, clay, and fruitwood charcoal in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qian Chongling broke open the clay shell, ate the roasted rabbit leg, and drank Green Plum Wine.
• Qian Chongling recalled that his Chaos Second Trial required him to cook and eat part of the second source of evil.
• Qian Chongling reasoned that the second source was one of the two rabbits, whose descendants and family connections gave Tang Third Brother confidence.

Qian Chongling received a trial to take Bibi Dong as his disciple and reasoned that doing so would not prevent the Angel God from appearing. After speculating that powerful gods were manipulating events around the Angel God and Third Brother, he decided to head to Skywater Academy to unwind.

• Qian Chongling activated the chaos third trial and learned that he had to take Bibi Dong as his disciple for a 10% increase in chaos divine power fusion.
• Qian Chongling and the system concluded that the Angel God did not have to be Qian Renxue and that the Qian Family would produce a destined descendant regardless of Bibi Dong.
• Qian Chongling questioned Qian Renxue's sudden love for Third Brother and suspected that the Angel God's divine trials had been corrupted by the Sea God or another deity.
• Qian Chongling worried about the Rakshasa God, the Sea God, and the Asura God interfering with Spirit Hall and Third Brother.
• Qian Chongling decided to seek a gatekeeper position at Skywater Academy so he could enjoy the scenery while protecting its students.

Qian Chongling discovered Wang Liao, an Evil Soul Master, draining a child’s parents and moved to punish him. After saving the girl from witnessing more, Qian Chongling revealed his overwhelming power and began to confront Wang Liao.

• Qian Chongling crossed Tiger Leap Mountain and sensed an Evil Soul Master in the village below.
• Wang Liao drained the blood from a couple and prepared to attack their six-year-old daughter.
• Qian Chongling entered the house and provoked Wang Liao, who launched his sixth soul skill, Blood Feast the World.
• Qian Chongling erased Wang Liao’s attack with his pressure and revealed nine soul rings, including five red ones.
• Qian Chongling knocked the girl unconscious and told Wang Liao he would torture him for his crimes.

Qian Chongling tortured Wang Liao while protecting an unconscious little girl, but his interrogation was interrupted when Shui Rou and two Soul Saints tracked the blood scent to the house. They found Wang Liao dead, and Qian Chongling became interested when Shui Rou introduced herself as Skywater Academy’s vice dean.

• Qian Chongling twisted Wang Liao’s limbs and used icy slivers to cut away his flesh, while covering the unconscious girl with a warm garment.
• Shui Rou, Huo Xu, and Feng Jinghong searched Tiger Leap Mountain for Blood Shadow King Wang Liao, whom they had pursued for killing members of Four Elements Academy.
• Feng Jinghong detected a faint smell of blood despite the strong wind, and Shui Rou concluded that a nearby village had likely suffered heavy casualties.
• The three Soul Masters followed the scent to a house in Tiger Leap Village, where Huo Xu kicked open the door and they found Qian Chongling, the girl, and Wang Liao’s mutilated remains.
• Shui Rou identified herself and her companions to Qian Chongling, who showed interest when he heard she was Skywater Academy’s vice dean.

Qian Chongling killed Wang Liao, then persuaded Shui Rou to take in the orphaned girl and hire him at Skywater Academy. Three days later, he received an invitation to serve as a specially appointed teacher, despite having wanted a gatekeeper or dormitory supervisor post.

• Qian Chongling introduced himself to Shui Rou and explained that he had killed Wang Liao after finding him tormenting the little girl.
• Huo Xu criticized Qian Chongling's brutal killing, and Qian Chongling explained that Evil Soul Masters had murdered his loved ones.
• Qian Chongling asked Shui Rou to admit the orphaned girl to Skywater Academy and find him a position there, and Shui Rou agreed to both requests.
• Shui Rou sent Huo Xu and Feng Jinghong to clean up and report the Evil Soul Master incident while she took Qian Chongling inside to rest.
• Three days later, Shui Rou delivered Qian Chongling an invitation to become a specially appointed teacher at Skywater Academy, leaving him disappointed that he had not become a gatekeeper or dormitory supervisor.

Qian Chongling praised Skywater Academy’s resources and criticized Shrek Academy while lazily serving as a teacher and librarian. Two years later, Shui Yuewu summoned him to the dean’s office, and he arrived grumpy after she dragged him from his nap.

• Qian Chongling compared Skywater Academy’s faculty, facilities, students, and graduation standards favorably against Shrek Academy.
• Qian Chongling selected promising students for guidance and helped Shui Yuewu raise her Soul Power to level thirty-two and gain a two-thousand-one-hundred-year purple Soul Ring.
• Qian Chongling took on the role of Skywater Academy’s librarian and spent his days lounging in the library.
• Shui Yuewu told Qian Chongling that the dean wanted to see him, but he refused to leave until he had slept.
• Shui Yuewu dragged Qian Chongling from his nap, and he went to the dean’s office in a foul mood.

Qian Chongling agreed to take Skywater Academy students to the Far North to obtain soul rings suited to their limits, while Qian Daoliu mistakenly presumed him dead and arranged a cenotaph in Douluo Hall. Years later, Qian Chongling found the gravestone and was furious at his unfilial descendant.

• Shui Ning asked Qian Chongling to help five Skywater Academy students obtain soul rings at their true limits, and he agreed despite being unable to guarantee they would exceed conventional limits.
• Qian Chongling chose the Far North because it suited the students’ water and ice martial souls and offered him a chance to meet its powerful soul beasts.
• Shui Ning notified the students that they would leave for the Far North in a few days.
• Qian Daoliu told the Worship Hall Titled Douluos that Qian Chongling had been gone for eight years and proposed a cenotaph; Golden Crocodile Douluo Tian E, Holy Dragon Douluo, Demon Bear Douluo, and the others supported him.
• Three days later, Qian Daoliu had a gravestone erected for Qian Chongling in Douluo Hall, listing him as Spirit Hall’s eighth-generation ancestor and ninth Pope.
• Years later, Qian Chongling saw the gravestone and wished he could beat Qian Daoliu for declaring him dead.

Qian Chongling led Skywater Academy’s students to the Far North and helped Qin Yan acquire a Soul Ring from an Ice-Congealing Sparrow. Qin Yan survived absorbing the purple Soul Ring beyond the usual limit, but gained no external soul bone.

• Qian Chongling escorted the Skywater Academy group on their long journey to the Far North.
• Qian Chongling stopped the Ice-Congealing Sparrow’s Extreme Cold Erosion and shattered its limbs to prevent it from escaping.
• Qin Yan killed the wounded Ice-Congealing Sparrow with her second Soul Skill, and its purple Soul Ring appeared.
• Qian Chongling and the two Soul Saint teachers guarded Qin Yan as she endured the Soul Ring’s icy energy.
• Qin Yan completed the absorption safely, changed her soaked clothes, and told Qian Chongling she had succeeded.
• Qian Chongling asked whether Qin Yan had gained an external soul bone, and she said she had not.

Qian Chongling brought the Skywater Academy group to Snowfield Town and told them he would handle other business in the Far North while they waited. That night, he secretly surveyed the hotel with his spiritual power, while Chen Xiaoxue and the others discussed his Starry Sky Body-Tempering Art in the hot spring.

• Qian Chongling booked rooms and drinks at the Snowfield Hotel, then assigned Chen Xiaoxue and Qin Yun to lead the students to their rooms.
• Qian Chongling told Chen Xiaoxue and the others to wait ten days to half a month while he took care of other business in the Far North.
• After nightfall, Qian Chongling used his spiritual power to survey the surroundings and accidentally glimpsed the women bathing before withdrawing it.
• In the hot spring, Qin Yun asked Chen Xiaoxue about Qian Chongling's business and the effectiveness of his body-tempering training method.
• Chen Xiaoxue explained that the method had helped the children obtain Soul Rings beyond their usual age limits, while the girls complained that its poses were difficult and awkward.

Qian Chongling reached the Far North’s core region just as the Ice Empress faced her Heavenly Tribulation. The Ice Empress survived the first bolts but was battered by scarlet lightning as the Snow Empress watched, and her counterattack against the next strike began.

• Qian Chongling flew into the Far North and, after several days, spotted a Heavenly Tribulation gathering over the core region.
• The Snow Empress watched as the Ice Empress endured the first purplish-black lightning bolt using walls of Ultimate Ice.
• The Ice Empress raised her carapace as a shield against scarlet lightning, but the impact damaged it and shattered a distant mountain peak.
• The Heavenly Tribulation sent down two more scarlet bolts, and the Ice Empress froze one with an icy beam fired from her tail.

The Ice Empress survived a brutal heavenly tribulation and was comforted by the Snow Empress, while Qian Chongling reflected on the perilous fate of Soul Beasts. He interrupted the sisters and revealed himself to the startled Snow Empress.

• The Ice Empress awakened after the Snow Empress healed her, then sobbed that the heavenly tribulation had nearly killed her.
• The Snow Empress comforted the Ice Empress and considered the dangers Soul Beasts faced from repeated tribulations and the choice to become human.
• Qian Chongling wondered whether his transmigration had changed the sisters’ fate, since he believed the Ice Empress could survive only a few more tribulations.
• Qian Chongling interrupted the sisters by saying that the Snow Girl and Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion had no future together.
• The Snow Empress turned toward Qian Chongling, surprised that he had approached without her noticing, and saw a young man in a black robe with gold patterns.

Qian Chongling defeated the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, then offered them a deal to become Soul Rings for a future god and be revived afterward. The two Soul Beasts heard his proposal, but had not yet agreed to it.

• The Snow Empress attacked Qian Chongling with her Emperor Sword techniques, but he deflected her strikes and knocked her unconscious.
• The Ice Empress charged Qian Chongling, who wore her down without killing her until she demanded to know what he wanted.
• Qian Chongling said he wanted to reserve the Snow Empress's and Ice Empress's Soul Rings, and showed he knew about Di Tian and the Silver Dragon King.
• The Snow Empress stood up, and Qian Chongling warned both Soul Beasts that they would eventually die beneath a Heavenly Tribulation.
• Qian Chongling proposed that, within fifty to one hundred years, the Snow Empress and Ice Empress sacrifice themselves to a future god and become her Soul Rings, then be revived after she ascended.

Qian Chongling secured the Snow Empress and Ice Empress’s cooperation, then encountered the Skywater Academy team hunting a giant lobster for a meal. The chapter left the young women asking whether Chen Xiaoxue knew how to cook it, after Qian Chongling had turned himself into their camp chef.

• Qian Chongling persuaded the Snow Empress and Ice Empress to accept his offer and gave each a black feather that would alert him if crushed.
• Qian Chongling flew from the Far North and spotted five Skywater Academy students hunting beside Round Mirror Lake.
• Zhao Ziyi opened the Boston lobster’s defenses, and Qin Yan killed it with her third soul skill, Extreme Cold Erosion.
• Chen Xiaoxue explained that freezing the lobster at the moment of death preserved its meat, but Qin Yun challenged her to cook it.
• Qian Chongling’s fish hot pot had previously made the students abandon their black-bread rations and led him to become their chef.

Qian Chongling cooked lobster and mushroom hot pots for the women from Skywater Academy, then prepared to travel with them to the academy. Later, beneath the moon in the Far North, he reflected on his failure to become a god and remembered Qingyue.

• Qian Chongling returned and had Chen Xiaoxue and Qin Yun help him prepare lobster and mushroom hot pots.
• The five Skywater Academy students ate Qian Chongling’s food and experienced vivid, embarrassing fantasies caused by its effect on women.
• After the effects faded, Qian Chongling told the seven young women to rest before their journey to Skywater Academy the next day.
• In the Far North, Qian Chongling drank Green Plum Wine, lamented that he still had not become a god after nearly fifteen hundred years, and saw an apparition of Qingyue vanish.

Qian Chongling received a Genius Character Summoning Card, then resumed his journey with the seven young women. When Qin Yun and Chen Xiaoxue learned that bandits had terrorized Three Zhang Village and its neighbors, they climbed Black Tiger Mountain and killed two men guarding the path.

• Qian Chongling checked in and received a Genius Character Summoning Card, bringing his total to four.
• Three years earlier, Zhang Bailang and his accomplices had occupied Black Tiger Mountain and raided the nearby villages, taking grain and young women.
• After hearing the Village Chief of Two Zhang Village describe the bandits, Qin Yun and Chen Xiaoxue headed for Black Tiger Mountain.
• Old Qin and Old Lu blocked the women on the mountain path and admitted they were nobles posing as bandits.
• Qin Yun killed Old Qin, and Chen Xiaoxue killed Old Lu after he confirmed they had robbed the villages.