Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan, a transmigrator living in Douluo Village, tested a homemade bomb and brought home a wild boar as he awaited his martial soul awakening. Su Yuntao began the village’s annual ceremony, and Lu Yuan entered the formation last to discover his own martial soul.

• Lu Yuan used a homemade bomb to kill a wild boar in the mountain forest.
• Old Tom used his water martial soul to bring rain to Douluo Village’s fields, then welcomed Lu Yuan home with the boar.
• Old Tom told Lu Yuan that Su Yuntao would soon arrive to awaken the children’s martial souls, and Lu Yuan hoped to gain innate soul power.
• Su Yuntao arrived at the village’s dilapidated Spirit Hall and explained the awakening to Lu Yuan and two other children.
• The other children awakened Blue Silver Grass and a hoe, both without innate soul power.
• Su Yuntao called Lu Yuan into the awakening formation for his turn.

Lu Yuan awakened Meow Meow as his martial soul, but the test showed he had only level 0.5 innate soul power. The villagers celebrated his chance to attend Nuoding City's Junior Soul Master Academy, and Old Tom promised to tell him more at home.

• Lu Yuan awakened Meow Meow, the Pokémon he had commanded before his death, as his martial soul.
• Su Yuntao tested Lu Yuan's innate soul power and found it was only level 0.5, while Lu Yuan believed Meow Meow could evolve with suitable soul rings.
• Su Yuntao announced that Lu Yuan was the one child in Douluo Village able to become a soul master and told Old Tom to send him to Nuoding City's Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Meow Meow warmed to Old Tom, who accepted Lu Yuan's low talent and promised to celebrate with a feast and tell him more at home.

Lu Yuan discovered that Meowmeow had brought along evolution items for both the Crowned Magic Cat and Fighting Cool Cat, and that the Soul Beast Compendium could reward Coco Fruits and boost his soul power. After celebrating his new Soul Master status with Old Tom and Meowmeow, Lu Yuan opened a mysterious bundle that appeared to contain whale rubber.

• Meowmeow showed Lu Yuan the Crowned Magic Cat evolution item, then unexpectedly spat out the Fighting Cool Cat evolution item.
• Lu Yuan summoned the Soul Beast Compendium, which recorded Meowmeow and produced a Coco Fruit that raised Lu Yuan’s soul power when Meowmeow ate it.
• Lu Yuan realized that recording each Soul Beast could earn a Coco Fruit and that reaching every tenth soul power level would grant him another Locke ability.
• Old Tom invited Lu Yuan and Meowmeow to a celebratory meal and treated Meowmeow as part of the family.
• Old Tom gave Lu Yuan a cloth bundle, and Lu Yuan opened it to find what he identified as whale rubber.

Lu Yuan entered Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy after Old Tom gave him rare ten-thousand-year whale glue and warned him not to search if he disappeared. There, Yu Xiaogang offered to take Lu Yuan as his disciple, but Lu Yuan questioned his soul power level and provoked his anger.

• Old Tom gave Lu Yuan ten-thousand-year whale glue and said he had important business to handle after Lu Yuan enrolled.
• Old Tom escorted Lu Yuan to Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy, handed him his belongings, and warned him not to look for him if he disappeared.
• Director Su checked Lu Yuan's Spirit Hall Certificate and led him toward Dorm Seven, where they met Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to teach Lu Yuan because they both had external martial souls, and Director Su praised Yu Xiaogang's martial soul research theory.
• Lu Yuan asked Yu Xiaogang's soul power level, then remarked that level 29 meant he was only a Soul Grandmaster, angering Yu Xiaogang.

Lu Yuan rejected Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to take him as a disciple and arrived at Dorm Seven, where he defeated Wang Sheng’s ambush with Meowmeow. The work-study students accepted Lu Yuan as their leader, though they doubted his ability to protect them after learning his innate soul power was only level 0.5.

• Yu Xiaogang stormed off after Lu Yuan criticized his strength and refused his offer to become a disciple.
• Director Su dismissed Yu Xiaogang and took Lu Yuan to Dorm Seven.
• Meowmeow scratched and knocked down Wang Sheng when he attacked Lu Yuan at the dorm entrance.
• Lu Yuan explained that Meowmeow was his external martial soul, and Wang Sheng introduced himself and yielded the position of Dorm Seven’s leader.
• Lu Yuan agreed to lead the work-study students on the condition that they handle his assigned cleaning duties.
• Lu Yuan revealed his level 0.5 innate soul power, leaving the students doubtful, but said he could still become a Titled Douluo.

Lu Yuan advanced his soul power rapidly by studying soul beasts, while Bibi Dong marked him for observation despite doubting his potential. When Xiao Chenyu attacked the work-study students and Wang Sheng defended Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan arrived and confronted Xiao Chenyu.

• The work-study students lost faith in Lu Yuan after learning his innate soul power was only rank 0.5, and Lu Yuan compared his meditation manual from Old Tom with the academy's standard one.
• Bibi Dong noticed Lu Yuan's unusual external martial soul, Meowmeow, dismissed his potential, then marked his name for Spirit Hall surveillance and possible recruitment.
• Lu Yuan reached rank three after a little over two months of cultivation, using the Soul Beast Compendium to unlock soul beasts and feed Coco Fruits to Meowmeow.
• A work-study student told Lu Yuan that Xiao Chenyu's group had attacked Dorm Seven's students and that Wang Sheng had fought back, so Lu Yuan hurried to the field.
• Lu Yuan used Meowmeow's leaves to knock away the student pinning Wang Sheng, carried Wang Sheng to safety, and challenged Xiao Chenyu to repeat what he had threatened to do.

Lu Yuan and Meowmeow fought Xiao Chenyu and his followers, then used the Shining Tournament domain to defeat Xiao Chenyu one-on-one. Xiao Chenyu rolled out of the playground as Lu Yuan demanded, while secretly vowing revenge.

• Lu Yuan and Meowmeow beat back Xiao Chenyu's followers, healing through Meowmeow's passive ability as they fought.
• Lu Yuan expanded his Shining Tournament domain, ejecting Xiao Chenyu's followers from the ring and trapping Xiao Chenyu inside.
• Lu Yuan and Meowmeow beat Xiao Chenyu until he begged for mercy, then Lu Yuan ended the domain and kicked him away.
• Lu Yuan ordered Xiao Chenyu to roll out of the playground, and Xiao Chenyu obeyed while privately planning revenge.

After hearing that Lu Yuan had displayed a possible domain, Yu Xiaogang became determined to take him as a disciple so he could study his unusual martial soul. Lu Yuan rejected him again, but news that Lord Xiao had arrived at the academy put Yu Xiaogang’s threat to the test.

• A student told Yu Xiaogang that Lu Yuan had defeated Xiao Chenyu and more than a dozen older students using a power that changed the scenery, leading Yu Xiaogang to suspect an innate domain.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to approach Lu Yuan again, hoping to make him a disciple and study his strength and external martial soul.
• Yu Xiaogang offered Lu Yuan another chance to become his student, but Lu Yuan refused, citing Yu Xiaogang’s age and rank as a Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Lu Yuan that Lord Xiao might retaliate for Xiao Chenyu’s defeat and claimed that becoming his disciple would offer protection.
• A work-study student reported that Director Su was confronting Lord Xiao at the academy gates, and Yu Xiaogang smugly pressed Lu Yuan to accept him as his teacher.

Lu Yuan refused Yu Xiaogang’s offer of discipleship despite City Lord Xiao threatening to cripple him over his fight with Xiao Chenyu. Just as Lu Yuan stepped forward to face the consequences, an aged voice interrupted City Lord Xiao.

• Lu Yuan arrived at the academy entrance and confronted City Lord Xiao and Xiao Chenyu, who accused him of injuring Xiao Chenyu.
• Director Su defended Lu Yuan, but City Lord Xiao released his four soul rings and threatened to punish them both.
• Lu Yuan realized Yu Xiaogang expected him to become a disciple in exchange for protection, but he rejected that choice.
• Lu Yuan stepped out from behind Director Su to address City Lord Xiao, and an aged voice suddenly stopped the confrontation.

Ma Xiunuo intervened when Lord Xiao moved to punish Lu Yuan for injuring Xiao Chenyu, revealing that Spirit Hall had orders to protect the boy. The chapter ended with Ma Xiunuo telling Lord Xiao that the Pontiff herself had ordered Spirit Hall Headquarters to keep an eye on Lu Yuan.

• Lord Xiao demanded to know why Ma Xiunuo and the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch were protecting Lu Yuan.
• Su Yuntao and Sisi approached Lu Yuan while Ma Xiunuo privately confronted Lord Xiao.
• Sisi explained that she had told Ma Xiunuo and Su Yuntao about Lu Yuan's fight with Xiao Chenyu, and Ma Xiunuo recognized Lu Yuan as the boy with an external Martial Soul.
• Ma Xiunuo told Su Yuntao and Sisi that higher-ups wanted Lu Yuan and hurried to the academy entrance to save him.
• Ma Xiunuo told Lord Xiao that the Pontiff herself had ordered Spirit Hall Headquarters to watch Lu Yuan.

Lord Xiao abandoned his plan to punish Lu Yuan after Ma Xiunuo revealed Spirit Hall and Pope Bibi Dong were watching him. More than half a year later, Lu Yuan reached rank ten and planned to seek his first soul ring, just as Tang San arrived at Dorm Seven.

• Ma Xiunuo told Lord Xiao that Spirit Hall Headquarters had ordered the branch to watch Lu Yuan and that Pope Bibi Dong was interested in him, so Lord Xiao withdrew his men.
• Lord Xiao rebuked Xiao Chenyu and left with him, while Ma Xiunuo, Su Yuntao, and Sisi thanked Lu Yuan and departed.
• Yu Xiaogang resented Spirit Hall for thwarting his attempt to take Lu Yuan as a disciple and vowed to find a better student.
• Over the following half-year, Xiao Chenyu avoided Lu Yuan, and the work-study students' treatment improved as Lu Yuan cultivated in Dorm Seven.
• Lu Yuan broke through to rank ten and decided to ask Director Su or Su Yuntao to help him find his first soul ring.
• A new six-year-old student entered Dorm Seven, and Lu Yuan recognized him as possibly Tang San.

Tang San arrived at Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy and challenged Lu Yuan, who revealed he had also reached rank ten. Their fight began, and Lu Yuan shocked Tang San by teleporting directly in front of him.

• Tang San joined Dorm Seven as a work-study student and learned that new students had to challenge its leader, Lu Yuan.
• Tang San blamed Lu Yuan for refusing Yu Xiaogang as a teacher and secretly resolved to kill him, while Lu Yuan recognized Tang San and stayed wary of his hidden weapons.
• Tang San revealed that his Blue Silver Grass martial soul had innate rank-ten soul power, and Lu Yuan announced that he had reached rank ten despite starting with rank 0.5.
• Lu Yuan summoned Meowmeow to fight Tang San, whose Blue Silver Grass trapped and attacked the creature.
• Tang San redirected his Blue Silver Grass toward Lu Yuan, but Lu Yuan vanished and reappeared in front of him, prompting Tang San to identify the move as Instant Teleportation.

Lu Yuan defeated Tang San in a sparring match by using his stamina-based speed bursts, then beat Xiao Wu after she challenged him for the work-study students’ leadership. Xiao Wu conceded, leaving Lu Yuan as Dorm Seven’s boss.

• Lu Yuan used sudden bursts of speed and Meowmeow’s support to drive Tang San into a corner.
• Xiao Wu arrived at Dorm Seven, and Tang San was distracted by her long enough for Lu Yuan to knock him down.
• Xiao Wu introduced herself and challenged Lu Yuan to a match for the right to be called the work-study students’ boss.
• Lu Yuan and Meowmeow restrained Xiao Wu with speed and blue silver grass, and Xiao Wu conceded after being freed.
• Wang Sheng and the other work-study students cheered for Lu Yuan as their boss.

Lu Yuan defeated Tang San and Xiao Wu, then welcomed Xiao Wu into Dorm Seven and agreed to share his bed with her. Several days later, after Director Su confirmed Lu Yuan had reached level ten soul power, he offered to accompany Lu Yuan on his first soul hunt.

• Meowmeow helped Lu Yuan defeat Tang San and Xiao Wu, and Xiao Wu became interested in Lu Yuan as a potential ally against Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Wu eagerly ate green leaves Lu Yuan grew, and Lu Yuan told the work-study students to call her Sister Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu joined her bed to Lu Yuan's and persuaded him to share his quilt, while Tang San received a quilt from Yu Xiaogang's messenger and watched them jealously.
• Several days later, Lu Yuan visited Director Su and said his soul power had reached level ten.
• Director Su confirmed Lu Yuan's level and offered to accompany him to hunt for his first soul ring.

Director Su and Lu Yuan searched the Soul Hunting Forest for a suitable first soul beast before finding Yu Xiaogang unconscious and Tang San fighting a Mandala Snake. Director Su wounded the snake, but Lu Yuan and Tang San stopped him from killing it, leaving its fate undecided as they discussed Tang San's planned soul ring.

• Director Su led Lu Yuan into the Soul Hunting Forest and searched for a suitable soul beast, but their first day and the following morning turned up nothing appropriate.
• Director Su heard a disturbance and rushed with Lu Yuan to find Yu Xiaogang unconscious and Tang San facing a Mandala Snake.
• Director Su pierced the roughly four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake with his bronze spear and brought it close to defeat.
• Lu Yuan and Tang San both stopped Director Su from delivering the final blow, and Lu Yuan suggested the snake might be intended for Tang San's first soul ring.
• Tang San confirmed that Yu Xiaogang had chosen the Mandala Snake for his Blue Silver Grass, and Director Su questioned the choice of a poisonous animal soul beast.

After Tang San absorbed his first soul ring, Lu Yuan and Director Su continued searching for a suitable soul beast and met Su Yuntao and Sisi in the forest. Lu Yuan deliberately killed a thousand-year-old azure vine instead of the intended dodder and began absorbing its purple soul ring.

• Tang San awakened Entanglement, while Yu Xiaogang accused Lu Yuan of relying on soul bones; Director Su defended Lu Yuan, and the two groups parted ways.
• Lu Yuan and Director Su encountered Su Yuntao and Sisi, who were watching a wounded azure vine, a dodder, and a Rouge Fox fight beside a stream.
• Director Su intervened when the Rouge Fox attacked the two plant soul beasts, crippling all three so Lu Yuan, Su Yuntao, and Sisi could claim their soul rings.
• Sisi began absorbing the Rouge Fox's yellow soul ring, while Lu Yuan used Director Su's knife to kill the thousand-year-old azure vine instead of the dodder.
• Lu Yuan sat down and began absorbing the azure vine's purple soul ring.

Lu Yuan and Meowmeow absorbed the Azure Vine's roughly two-thousand-year soul ring as Meowmeow's first ring, and Lu Yuan emerged unharmed. The ring then changed into a yellow ring of about four hundred years, leaving Director Su, Sisi, and Su Yuntao puzzled while Lu Yuan hid that he had caused the transformation.

• Lu Yuan ignored Director Su's warning and began absorbing the Azure Vine's Thousand-Year Soul Ring with Meowmeow.
• Sisi awoke after reaching rank twenty-one, learned about Lu Yuan's dangerous choice, and joined Director Su and Su Yuntao in watching anxiously.
• After another day and night, the Azure Vine's soul ring settled around Meowmeow, then changed from purple to yellow as its aura weakened.
• Lu Yuan woke unharmed and said Meowmeow had urged him to absorb the Azure Vine's ring because Meowmeow was his martial soul.
• Director Su suggested the ring's age had fallen because its energy had dissipated, while Lu Yuan privately knew he had caused its transformation.

Lu Yuan concealed the true age of his first soul ring and his soul power while registering as a soul master at the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch. After learning how he absorbed a thousand-year soul ring, Ma Xiunuo decided to report Lu Yuan's rapid advancement to Spirit City.

• Lu Yuan told Su Yuntao and Sisi that his first soul skill, Vine Strangle, restored twice the soul power it cost, and claimed his soul power was level twelve.
• Su Yuntao and Sisi encouraged Lu Yuan to register at the Spirit Hall Branch and collect his monthly reward, and Director Su let him travel there with them.
• Ma Xiunuo certified Lu Yuan as a soul master and gave him a Gold Soul Coin.
• After Lu Yuan left, Su Yuntao and Sisi told Ma Xiunuo how Lu Yuan had absorbed the thousand-year Azure Vine soul ring.
• Ma Xiunuo resolved to report Lu Yuan's progress to Spirit City because the Martial Soul Hall Headquarters and the Pontiff were watching him.

Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to recruit Lu Yuan for Spirit Hall Academy after learning of his unusual cultivation speed and external martial soul. At Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy, Lu Yuan confronted Xiao Wu about whether she was a soul beast, and Tang San watched with resentment as she began to cry.

• Bibi Dong read a report about Lu Yuan reaching rank 10 in a year and considered admitting him to Spirit Hall Academy.
• Bibi Dong summoned Yue Guan and ordered him to invite Lu Yuan to Spirit Hall Academy without harming him.
• Yue Guan recognized the similarities between Lu Yuan and Yu Xiaogang, then hurried out to carry out Bibi Dong's order.
• Lu Yuan quietly asked Xiao Wu if she was a soul beast and pointed to clues about her first soul ring.
• Xiao Wu became tearful, while Tang San watched Lu Yuan with resentment.

Lu Yuan persuaded Xiao Wu to trust his plan to hide her identity and return to the Star Dou Great Forest after the school year. At the academy, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan arrived to recruit Lu Yuan for Spirit Hall Academy, leaving Lu Yuan facing a dangerous choice.

• Lu Yuan reassured Xiao Wu that he considered her his little sister and warned her that Tang San's father was likely Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao.
• Lu Yuan invented a story about his grandfather Old Tom to explain his knowledge and told Xiao Wu to keep her identity secret, maintain her friendship with Tang San, and return to the Star Dou Great Forest during vacation.
• Xiao Wu trusted Lu Yuan and agreed to follow his plan.
• At the Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy, Lu Yuan collided with Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, who said he had come on the Pontiff's orders to recruit Lu Yuan for Spirit Hall Academy.
• When Lu Yuan did not respond, Yue Guan raised his soul power and fixed him with a threatening stare.