Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan fought Yu Tianheng, using Meowmeow’s control and support skills to counter the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon heir’s Dragon Transformation and powerful soul skills. After evading Thunderous Might with a self-created grappling skill, Lu Yuan prepared Meowmeow’s third soul skill, leaving the duel poised to end.

• Yu Tianheng transformed his right arm with Dragon Transformation and attacked Lu Yuan with Thunder Dragon Claw.
• Lu Yuan had Meowmeow restrain Yu Tianheng with Vine Strangle, then cast Photosynthesis on himself.
• Yu Tianheng activated Thunderous Fury and Thunderous Might, sending paralyzing lightning arrows across the arena.
• Lu Yuan escaped the lightning by firing a soul-power grappling claw upward, astonishing Yu Tianheng and Qin Ming with his self-created skill.
• Lu Yuan landed and ordered Meowmeow to use its third soul skill, Sieve-Tube Surge.

Lu Yuan defeated Yu Tianheng in one move at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy training grounds, and Ye Lingling healed Yu Tianheng afterward. Lu Yuan left to explore the academy, while Yu Tianheng vowed to surpass him and reclaim his honor.

• Lu Yuan struck Yu Tianheng with his third soul skill, Sieve-Tube Surge, and badly wounded him despite holding back.
• Qin Ming called for Ye Lingling to heal Yu Tianheng with her Nine Heart Begonia martial soul.
• Yu Tianheng admitted Lu Yuan was stronger but warned that his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon abilities would grow with his soul power.
• Lu Yuan told Qin Ming he would go see his dormitory and explore the academy, and Qin Ming let him leave.
• Yu Feng praised Lu Yuan, Osler called him aloof, and Shi Mo teased Ye Lingling about liking him.
• Dugu Yan suspected Lu Yuan had been cultivated by Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, while Yu Tianheng vowed to defeat Lu Yuan someday.

The Life God King and the God King of Goodness visited Lu Yuan and offered him the vacant God King of Goodness legacy. Lu Yuan accepted and received the first divine trial, leaving him with a new path to pursue.

• The Life God King and the God King of Goodness revealed themselves to Lu Yuan in his dorm room and discussed his exceptional potential.
• The Life God King offered Lu Yuan the God King of Goodness's godhood, explaining that the God King of Goodness planned to reincarnate in the lower realm.
• Lu Yuan accepted the legacy, deciding that even an incomplete God King inheritance was worth taking.
• The God King of Goodness marked Lu Yuan as her successor and set his first trial: becoming a Soul Emperor before age fifteen.
• The two goddesses vanished, and Lu Yuan reflected on his unexpected inheritance while looking at the full moon.

At the Heaven Dou City exhibition, Lu Yuan spotted Old Tom, the grandfather who had raised him and disappeared six years earlier, and followed him into an alley. Old Tom recognized Lu Yuan, who asked whether he had come to the city for important business.

• Qian Renxue brought Lu Yuan to the exhibition, where they discussed its guests and the nearly hundred-thousand-year-old Torso Soul Bone on offer.
• Lu Yuan noticed Old Tom in the crowd, excused himself from Qian Renxue, and followed him behind the exhibition.
• Old Tom realized someone was following him and disappeared into a narrow alley.
• Old Tom confronted Lu Yuan in the alley and recognized the boy he had once adopted.
• Lu Yuan greeted Old Tom as Grandpa and asked why he had come to Heaven Dou City.

Lu Yuan reunited with Old Tom and learned that he had come to claim the Golden Hawksbill Turtle Torso Soul Bone, which Old Tom believed should have been his. As they approached the exhibit, Dugu Bo confronted Lu Yuan about visiting the Ice and Fire Strange Spring in the Sunset Forest.

• Old Tom admitted that he had searched for the Golden Hawksbill Turtle Torso Soul Bone for years and believed it belonged to him.
• Lu Yuan trusted Old Tom and went with him to the room where the soul bone was stored.
• Old Tom revealed his true martial soul, a golden fishing spear, as he and Lu Yuan slipped past the guards.
• Dugu Bo appeared behind them, startling both Old Tom and Lu Yuan.
• Dugu Bo questioned Lu Yuan about the Ice and Fire Strange Spring and claimed that a venomous snake could recognize its scent.

Dugu Bo recognized Lu Yuan’s connection to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and exposed him as a Spirit Hall agent, forcing Lu Yuan and Old Tom into a confrontation. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo enveloping them in poison gas after Lu Yuan revealed his extraordinary strength, leaving them trapped and struggling to survive.

• Dugu Bo sensed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s aura on Lu Yuan and deduced that he was a Spirit Hall operative working beside the crown prince.
• Old Tom learned Lu Yuan had joined Spirit Hall and prepared to defend him from Dugu Bo.
• Lu Yuan and Old Tom revealed their martial souls and soul rings, and Lu Yuan exposed his level 58 cultivation and five unusually powerful rings.
• Dugu Bo praised Lu Yuan’s talent but decided he could not be allowed to live, then attacked with jade phosphorous serpent poison gas.
• Old Tom used his sixth soul skill, Water Tornado, to shelter Lu Yuan and himself, but Dugu Bo vanished into the poison surrounding them.

Lu Yuan negotiated with Dugu Bo by revealing that he knew about the Jade Phosphorus Snake poison afflicting Dugu Bo's family and offering a cure. Dugu Bo agreed to spare Lu Yuan and Old Tom and conceal Lu Yuan's identity, while Lu Yuan prepared to explain the remedy.

• Lu Yuan realized Old Tom was badly injured and learned from Dugu Bo that Old Tom had once forced his way to Soul Douluo and reached level 88.
• Lu Yuan considered ways to escape Dugu Bo, then revealed that he knew the Jade Phosphorus Snake poison could turn against its users.
• Lu Yuan described Dugu Bo's poison flare-up symptoms, convincing Dugu Bo that he knew the truth about the family's affliction.
• Lu Yuan demanded that Dugu Bo spare him and Old Tom and keep Lu Yuan's identity secret.
• Dugu Bo accepted the terms, and Lu Yuan offered to explain the remedy immediately so Dugu Bo could test it.

Lu Yuan gave Dugu Bo a way to draw the Jade Phosphorus Snake toxins into a soul bone, earning safe passage for himself and Old Tom. They reached the Seven Great Families’ vault, where Old Tom began recounting the past behind the Golden Hawksbill Turtle Torso Soul Bone.

• Lu Yuan told Dugu Bo to transfer the toxins in his body into a soul bone, and Dugu Bo used the method to ease the backlash.
• Dugu Bo thanked Lu Yuan, promised to spare them and keep their identities secret, then left.
• Lu Yuan and Old Tom evaded the guards and reached the Seven Great Families’ storage vault, where they found the Golden Hawksbill Turtle Torso Soul Bone.
• Old Tom offered to tell Lu Yuan the soul bone’s history and began describing his friendship with Old Jack and Mary, and their travels after turning down Spirit Hall’s recruitment.

Old Tom recounted how he, Old Jack, and Mary had obtained the Golden Hawksbill Turtle Torso Soul Bone and been ambushed by Prince Xue Xing’s forces, then fled the exhibition with Lu Yuan and the bone. After the theft was discovered, Xue Xing rallied others to pursue the thieves.

• Old Tom told Lu Yuan that he, Old Jack, and Mary had defeated a nearly hundred-thousand-year-old Golden Hawksbill Turtle, but their soul bone drew the attention of Prince Xue Xing and other factions.
• Old Tom explained that a battle left him gravely injured, crippled Old Tom’s martial soul, and ended with Mary’s fate left unstated.
• Old Tom took the Golden Hawksbill Turtle Torso Soul Bone from its display case and fled the storeroom with Lu Yuan.
• Qian Renxue searched the exhibition hall for Lu Yuan as the Seven Great Families prepared to present their exhibits.
• A family member told the spokesman that the soul bone had been stolen, and the spokesman revealed that their people were pursuing the thieves.
• Prince Xue Xing offered to lead the pursuit, and several people agreed to go with him.

Lu Yuan and Old Tom recovered the Golden Hawksbill Turtle Torso Soul Bone but were pursued by the Seven Great Families. Their pursuers surrounded them, and Qian Renxue recognized the disguised Lu Yuan as Ning Fengzhi explained Old Tom’s past.

• Old Tom and Lu Yuan defeated a Soul Douluo and several Soul Saints from the Seven Great Families after fleeing with the soul bone.
• Xue Xing, Chen Xin, Dugu Bo, Ning Fengzhi, and others arrived and demanded the soul bone, while Dugu Bo kept the pair’s identities secret.
• Qian Renxue recognized Lu Yuan by his appearance and movements, and Snake Lance Douluo confirmed that she knew who he was.
• Old Tom revealed his face, and Xue Xing recognized him and taunted him for surviving their conflict decades earlier.
• Ning Fengzhi recounted how Old Tom and two commoner companions had obtained the soul bone, leading to one companion’s death, another’s crippled martial soul, and Old Tom’s retreat into the forests.
• Qian Renxue asked Snake Lance Douluo for a favor.

Qian Renxue asked Snake Lance Douluo to save Lu Yuan, and he left her under Porcupinefish Douluo’s protection to intervene. As Dugu Bo attacked Lu Yuan and Old Tom in public, Snake Lance Douluo blocked the strike, leaving the guests stunned by his changed avatar and increased power.

• Qian Renxue pleaded with Snake Lance Douluo to help Lu Yuan, and Snake Lance Douluo agreed after seeing how much Lu Yuan mattered to her.
• Snake Lance Douluo told Porcupinefish Douluo to protect Qian Renxue and disappeared into the crowd.
• Old Tom accused Xue Xing of spreading word about the Golden Hawksbill Turtle Torso Soul Bone, while Lu Yuan stood by him.
• Xue Xing asked Dugu Bo to capture Lu Yuan and Old Tom, and Dugu Bo unleashed his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison.
• Snake Lance Douluo appeared in his Golden Two-Headed Dragon avatar and shielded Lu Yuan and Old Tom from Dugu Bo’s attack.
• Dugu Bo recognized Snake Lance Douluo but was shocked by his altered avatar and level-94 soul power.

Snake Lance Douluo rescued Lu Yuan and Old Tom from Xue Xing and Dugu Bo, and they escaped aboard his golden two-headed dragon. Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo speculated that the mysterious Titled Douluo might be connected to Spirit Hall.

• Snake Lance Douluo declared that Lu Yuan and Old Tom were under his protection, and Xue Xing backed down when Sword Douluo refused to intervene.
• Snake Lance Douluo invited Lu Yuan and Old Tom onto the golden two-headed dragon, and Old Tom chose to leave with them.
• Lu Yuan and Qian Renxue exchanged a final, covert look as the dragon carried Lu Yuan and Old Tom away.
• Ning Fengzhi considered recruiting the mysterious Titled Douluo but decided to investigate him privately because of the political risks.
• Sword Douluo recognized similarities between the golden two-headed dragon and She Long's martial soul, prompting Ning Fengzhi to worry that Spirit Hall was expanding its influence.

Lu Yuan brought Old Tom to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he gave him a Heavenly Mountain Snow Lotus to heal his hidden injuries. Old Tom recovered and reached rank eighty-nine, leaving him on the threshold of becoming a Titled Douluo.

• Snake Lance Douluo led Lu Yuan and Old Tom into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Old Tom learned that it contained many immortal herbs.
• Lu Yuan picked a Heavenly Mountain Snow Lotus and urged Old Tom to consume it, while Snake Lance Douluo signaled that he could take the herb.
• Old Tom refined the snow lotus and healed his hidden injuries.
• Old Tom discovered that his Soul Power had risen to rank eighty-nine, bringing him close to rank ninety.