Chapter Summaries

Qian Chongling, Bibi Dong, and the others listened as a storyteller described the Heaven Dou princes and explained how innate soul power shaped a Soul Master’s prospects. The story left the audience wondering whether the third prince, Xue Haicang, had rank-eight innate soul power.

• The storyteller praised Xue Qinghe’s looks, literary talent, and judgment, saying he was nicknamed the Ink Dragon.
• The storyteller claimed that innate soul power determined how far a Soul Master could normally advance, outlining the prospects for ranks one through six.
• The storyteller said rank-seven innate soul power could lead to becoming a Soul Saint and mentioned the Clear Sky Sect, upsetting several guests.
• The storyteller explained that Soul Saints upheld a faction and said rank-eight innate soul power could make someone a potential successor who might become a Soul Douluo or Titled Douluo.
• A traveling merchant asked whether Xue Haicang might have rank-eight innate soul power, prompting gasps from the audience.

Dai Mubai listened to a storyteller praise the Heaven Dou princes before meeting Qian Chongling’s group in the Mingyu Building. He introduced himself and invited the women to dinner, while Qian Chongling recognized the storyteller as a member of Spirit Hall’s Dark Hall.

• Dai Mubai asked Black Tower to find out what someone with innate full soul power could achieve, but Black Tower refused and prepared to leave.
• The storyteller described Xue Beng’s childhood interest in women and his reputation as the Amorous Dragon.
• Bing Lianxue asked what someone with rank-twenty innate soul power could become, and the storyteller said such a level did not exist.
• Qian Chongling noticed the Dark Blue Butterfly tattoo on the storyteller’s arm and recognized him as a member of Spirit Hall’s Dark Hall.
• Dai Mubai introduced himself as a nine-year-old, twenty-first-level Soul Grandmaster and invited the women to dinner.

Dai Mubai tried to charm Bibi Dong and the others, but Bing Lianxue mocked him and challenged him to a fight. After their first clash, Dai Mubai was forced back while Bing Lianxue remained steady.

• Dai Mubai introduced himself as a nine-year-old Soul Grandmaster, while his leering gaze made his intentions clear to Bibi Dong and the others.
• Bing Lianxue insulted Dai Mubai by calling him Golden-Haired Loser and comparing his hairstyle to a puppy.
• Dai Mubai took offense, activated his White Tiger Martial Soul, and attacked Bing Lianxue after she summoned her Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul.
• Bing Lianxue met Dai Mubai's tiger claws with her scorpion pincers, and the collision sent Dai Mubai stumbling back three steps.

Bing Lianxue overwhelmed Dai Mubai in the arena while Qian Chongling secretly struck him with six silver needles. Dai Mubai called for Uncle Hei, learned he had left, and fainted, leaving Bibi Dong to ask Qian Chongling what he had done.

• Dai Mubai fired his White Tiger Fierce Light Wave at Bing Lianxue, but her scorpion pincers blocked it unharmed.
• Bing Lianxue used Emperor's Wrath to smash the arena floor, forcing Dai Mubai to dodge her attack.
• Dai Mubai tried to wear Bing Lianxue down, but she kept attacking until she struck his chest and sent him flying.
• Qian Chongling secretly pierced six of Dai Mubai's acupuncture points with silver needles as Dai Mubai flew past.
• Dai Mubai called for Uncle Hei, learned from a spectator that he had left, and fainted after spitting blood.
• Bibi Dong asked Qian Chongling what he had just done.

Qian Chongling revealed that he had used acupuncture to alter Dai Mubai’s body and hormones, leaving him impotent and likely to become more feminine over time. Dai Mubai woke after a humiliating encounter, unaware of the reason his performance had changed.

• Qian Chongling told Bibi Dong he had treated Dai Mubai, then postponed explaining what he had done until they returned to the Moonlight Tower.
• At the Moonlight Tower, Qian Chongling explained that he had used the Gender-Reversal Chapter of the Six Yang Acupuncture Technique on Dai Mubai.
• Qian Chongling said the needles had damaged Dai Mubai’s kidney function, reduced his male hormones, and increased his female hormones, with the effects lasting unless he reached Soul Saint rank.
• Dai Mubai lay in a room at the Mingyu Building after a woman left, and he wondered why he had become impotent.
• Dai Mubai recalled the woman saying that he had lasted less than five seconds.

Tang San arrived at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy to enroll, but the gatekeeper mocked his Spirit Hall certificate until Grandmaster intervened. Grandmaster confirmed the certificate was genuine and led Tang San into the academy, where he revealed he was only a guest, not a teacher.

• Tang San and Old Jack reached Nuoding City, and Old Jack hurried him past City Lord Xiao Yu's park-opening speech toward the academy.
• The gatekeeper laughed at Tang San's certificate for a Blue Silver Emperor martial soul and innate full soul power, then returned it to Old Jack.
• Grandmaster arrived, examined the certificate, confirmed it was genuine, and offered to take Tang San inside to enroll.
• Tang San followed Grandmaster into the academy after Old Jack gave him final reminders, while inwardly considering killing the gatekeeper.
• Tang San asked whether Grandmaster taught at the academy, and Grandmaster said he was merely a guest who freeloaded on food and drink.

Yu Dashi tried to recruit Tang San as his disciple by arguing that Tang San had twin martial souls and claiming his theories were more reliable than Spirit Hall’s. Tang San began to trust him and asked to hear more, while Yu Dashi’s thoughts revealed his lingering suspicions about Bibi Dong and Qian Xunji.

• Yu Dashi asked Tang San to become his disciple and claimed Tang San’s innate full soul power proved he had a second martial soul.
• Tang San countered that Spirit Hall’s deacon had said twin martial souls must be of equal quality, and Yu Dashi dismissed the deacon’s judgment.
• Yu Dashi insisted his research proved Tang San had a second martial soul, and Tang San cautiously asked about his ten core competencies.
• Yu Dashi recalled his past with Bibi Dong and suspected Qian Xunji had forced her to leave him before Tang San called him back to the conversation.
• Yu Dashi explained martial soul mimicry theory, and Tang San asked to learn more before Yu Dashi brought up mutated martial souls.

Tang San became Yu Dashi’s disciple, completed his enrollment at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, and joined the work-study students in Dorm Seven. He befriended Wang Sheng and the other children by sharing the spicy rabbit meat he had brought from home.

• Yu Dashi explained martial soul inheritance and mutations, then convinced Tang San with his theories about soul rings until Tang San kowtowed and asked to become his disciple.
• Yu Dashi escorted Tang San through registration, where Tang San became a work-study student and received his academy uniform and Dorm Seven assignment.
• Tang San overheard teachers criticizing Yu Dashi and privately dismissed their judgment of his teacher.
• Tang San reached Dorm Seven, met its self-proclaimed boss Wang Sheng, and introduced himself as a work-study student from Holy Soul Village with a Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
• Tang San offered the children spicy rabbit meat from his bundle, and Wang Sheng and the others eagerly ate two rabbits.

Tang San shared his spicy rabbit with the new work-study student, Xiao Wu, who was horrified to learn she had eaten rabbit meat. Seeing rabbits in the baleful energy around Tang San, she attacked him, and he began to counter while trying not to hurt her.

• Wang Sheng praised Tang San's rabbit meat and promised to look out for him at Nuoding Academy.
• Xiao Wu arrived at Dorm Seven and introduced herself to the students.
• Tang San offered Xiao Wu his spicy rabbit, and she eagerly ate some before learning it was rabbit meat.
• Xiao Wu became sick and saw rabbit-shaped baleful energy surrounding Tang San.
• Xiao Wu attacked Tang San with a kick, and he dodged while reaching for her ankle and driving his shoulder toward her.

Xiao Wu attacked Tang San after learning he had killed rabbits and served her rabbit meat, then explained that her rabbit Martial Soul made eating rabbit unbearable. After Wang Sheng helped them understand each other, Xiao Wu apologized, and Tang San accepted.

• Xiao Wu hooked her legs around Tang San’s neck and kicked him across the dormitory.
• Wang Sheng asked Xiao Wu why she had attacked Tang San, and she said it was because he had killed rabbits and made her eat rabbit meat.
• Wang Sheng explained that Martial Souls could influence their owners’ habits, helping Tang San understand Xiao Wu’s reaction.
• Tang San said Xiao Wu had chosen to eat the rabbit meat herself, and Xiao Wu admitted she might have vented her bottled-up grief as well as her anger.
• Wang Sheng suggested that Xiao Wu apologize, and she bowed to Tang San, who accepted her apology.

Tang San and Xiao Wu learned about Nuoding Academy’s factions and became the work-study students’ new leaders. Meanwhile, City Lord Xiao Yu and his father planned to start late-night square dancing at a nearby park after the opening ceremony.

• Wang Sheng explained that Xiao Wu and Tang San’s fighting techniques were not soul skills, then accepted Xiao Wu as the work-study students’ new boss.
• Wang Sheng showed Tang San and Xiao Wu his bruises and described how academy-faction leader Nuo Ya bullied the work-study students, while city lord faction leader Xiao Chenyu challenged them to monthly training.
• Wang Sheng outlined the academy’s factions, classes, and work-study duties, and teacher Mo Hen assigned Tang San and Xiao Wu to clean the garden south of the sports field.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu shared dinner with Wang Sheng and returned to Dorm Seven after nightfall.
• At the city lord’s residence, Xiao Yu and his father agreed to begin square dancing at Nuoding Park the day after the academy’s opening ceremony, despite the park’s proximity to the dormitory.

Ning Rongrong woke from a new nightmare and described visions of a future in which Tang San fell in battle and Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo died retrieving his body. She left her father and guardians alarmed, with the meaning of her prophetic dreams still uncertain.

• Ning Rongrong screamed herself awake, and Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Fengzhi hurried to her room.
• Ning Fengzhi reported that Ning Rongrong was physically healthy and showed no signs of mental Soul Skills.
• Ning Rongrong recalled dreams of a group of seven students, including a girl who shared her name, winning a championship after she left their village school.
• Ning Rongrong described a battlefield vision in which Tang San fought Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue at Jialing Pass, then fell after being struck by purplish-black light.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong died using their lives to bring back Tang San's body, and Ning Rongrong told them her latest nightmare was new.

Ning Rongrong recalled a nightmare in which Tang San killed Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue before two mysterious men appeared and announced that Douluo Affiliated World One had strayed from its course. The men’s arrival shattered more than half the world, and they demanded that its inhabitants submit to a return to its original starting point.

• Ning Rongrong’s nightmare showed Tang San defeating Bibi Dong, who begged him to spare Qian Renxue and Nana before dying in Qian Renxue’s arms.
• Tang San handed Qian Renxue over to Xue Beng, then killed her when she tried to self-destruct, claiming he had not broken his promise.
• A mocking voice challenged Tang San as purple-black lightning and blood-red rain appeared across Douluo World.
• Two men descended in black and white pillars of light, and their power erased more than half of Douluo World.
• The man in black invoked the Myriad Worlds Pact, said Douluo Dimension had strayed from its course, and asked whether Douluo Affiliated World One would submit.

Tang San and the others were erased when the man in black destroyed Douluo World and rewound it to one hundred million years ago. Ning Rongrong’s dream ended with a fragment of her other self escaping into the Douluo Origin World, leaving her future choice uncertain.

• Old Wang revealed that he knew Tang San’s next words, while the man in black announced that they would begin the cleanup.
• Tang San attacked the man in black with the Asura Demon Sword, but a single finger shattered the sword and Tang San’s body.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin charged at the man in black, who erased Douluo World and rewound its world origin to one hundred million years ago.
• Old Wang told the man in black that a sliver of the tower-wielding girl’s soul had slipped into the Douluo Origin World, and the man in black chose not to erase it.
• The man in black and Old Wang argued over their bet and nicknames before disappearing from the scene.
• In Ning Rongrong’s dream, an almost transparent figure dissipated after urging her other self to make the right choice.

Ning Fengzhi discussed Ning Rongrong’s strange dream with Chen Xin and Gu Rong, concluding that parts of it could reveal the future and might lead to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. He decided to investigate the dream’s promising clues while avoiding risks, and Gu Rong agreed to look into several named geniuses.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Chen Xin and Gu Rong whether Ning Rongrong’s dream was real, but they initially dismissed it as childish imagination.
• Ning Fengzhi argued that Rongrong could not have invented the Hell White Tiger detail, since it involved the inherited martial souls of the Dai and Zhu families.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin noted that Rongrong’s dream mixed accurate details with an apparent contradiction: Clear Sky Sect members appeared at Jialing Pass despite the sect having been destroyed six years earlier.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed that Rongrong had dreamed of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and three gifted youths named Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Xiao Wu.
• Ning Fengzhi said the sect should pursue useful opportunities while avoiding danger, and asked Gu Rong to investigate the three youths and help collect ancient texts about evolving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong returned to the Lake of Life, where Bibi Dong absorbed the Sky Azure Bull Python’s sacrifice and reached level ninety-two. Di Tian then escorted them into the Subspace to meet the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena, and the other Ferocious Beasts.

• Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong arrived at the Lake of Life, and Bibi Dong called the Sky Azure Bull Python out of hiding.
• Qian Chongling stopped the Sky Azure Bull Python from summoning the Ferocious Beasts and made it sacrifice itself to Bibi Dong, who advanced to level ninety-two.
• Di Tian emerged after the sacrifice and invited Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong to meet the Silver Dragon King.
• Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong entered the Subspace beneath the lake and met Gu Yuena and several of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts.
• Qian Chongling released part of his aura, quieting the Ferocious Beasts as he looked over those gathered.

Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong confronted the Ferocious Beasts before meeting the Silver Dragon King, who took human form and introduced herself as Gu Yuena. After discussing the Dragon God War and the Angel God, Gu Yuena offered to reveal how Qian Chongling’s ancestor died in exchange for one condition.

• Qian Chongling unleashed his killing intent, frightening Xiong Jun, the Scarlet King, and the other Ferocious Beasts away from Bibi Dong.
• The Silver Dragon King calmed the atmosphere, praised Qian Chongling’s strength, and changed into human form at his request.
• Qian Chongling asked the Silver Dragon King to use his name, and she introduced herself as Gu Yuena.
• Qian Chongling described what he knew of the Dragon God War and asked whether the Angel God had died in it; Gu Yuena said she had already been recovering at the Lake of Life before the Angel God attained godhood.
• Gu Yuena revealed that she had noticed Qian Chongling at the Lake of Life and offered to explain how his Angel God ancestor died if he agreed to one condition.

Qian Chongling confirmed that the Sea God had dealt the Angel God’s fatal blow and negotiated an alliance with Gu Yuena, who sought Bibi Dong’s blood essence to heal her injuries. Gu Yuena accepted most of Qian Chongling’s conditions, including helping Spirit Hall and eventually killing the Asura God, and four ferocious beasts left the Lake of Life.

• Qian Chongling inferred from Gu Yuena’s reaction that the Sea God had struck the Angel God’s fatal blow, possibly with the Asura God’s help.
• Gu Yuena asked Bibi Dong to grant her a drop of blood essence, explaining that she hoped its Torch Dragon bloodline would help her overcome her injuries.
• Qian Chongling asked what Gu Yuena would do if she encountered a human with the Golden Dragon King bloodline, and she admitted she would swallow that person to become the Dragon God.
• Qian Chongling proposed conditions for a deal, including sending Di Tian and Xiong Jun to the Rouge Pavilion, Zi JI and the Myriad Demon King to Spirit Hall, and having Gu Yuena support Spirit Hall’s offensives and eventually help kill the Asura God.
• Gu Yuena accepted the first three conditions and questioned whether Qian Chongling could fight alongside her; he revealed that he had inherited a God King-level divine position.
• A Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff appeared above the Lake of Life, while Di Tian, Xiong Jun, Zi JI, and the Myriad Demon King left.

Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong traveled toward Spirit Hall as Di Tian and Xiong Jun headed for the Star Luo Empire, while Tang San and Xiao Wu endured Nuoding Academy’s punishing opening ceremony. Tang San made it back to Dorm Seven and fed the starving Xiao Wu, who was hovering near unconsciousness.

• Di Tian warned Zi JI and Myriad Demon King to obey Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong before leaving with Xiong Jun for the Star Luo Empire.
• Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong set off toward Spirit Hall with Zi JI and Myriad Demon King.
• Dean Noxus made the academy students stand in the sun for five hours without breakfast while delivering his opening speech, leaving Xiao Wu and Tang San exhausted.
• Tang San dragged Xiao Wu back to Dorm Seven and ate the black bread and Rice Porridge Wang Sheng had saved for them.
• Tang San realized Xiao Wu was nearly unconscious from hunger and used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to get Rice Porridge into her mouth.

Tang San fed the starving Xiao Wu and later visited Yu Dashi, where he read his teacher’s theories on martial souls. Yu Dashi recalled Spirit Hall’s threat over his research and basked in Tang San’s admiration as he gave him another book.

• Tang San gave Xiao Wu rice porridge and black bread, and she ate eagerly before falling asleep.
• Tang San went to Yu Dashi’s study and read the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.
• Yu Dashi returned, and Tang San praised his theory as Yu Dashi explained that Spirit Hall had refused to publish it.
• Yu Dashi remembered a Spirit Hall soul master threatening him with death if he revealed materials he had copied.
• Yu Dashi struck a proud pose, enjoyed Tang San’s admiration, and handed him another book.