Chapter Summaries

During Tang San’s Spirit Awakening, Qian Xunji discovered his Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power, then offered to adopt him. Tang San accepted Qian Xunji as his foster father and prepared to return to Spirit City with him.

• Tang San revealed Blue Silver Grass and a hammer as his Twin Martial Souls, and Yue Guan tested his soul power.
• Tang San’s test produced a brilliant light, revealing his Innate Full Soul Power and astonishing Yue Guan.
• Qian Xunji asked Tang San to become his adopted son, and Tang San eagerly accepted, calling him Father and declaring Spirit Hall his home.
• Qian Xunji gave Tang San the Heart of the Starry Sky storage device, while Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Old Gauss congratulated them.
• Qian Xunji told Tang San to prepare to return to Spirit City, and the children outside congratulated Tang San on becoming the Pope’s adopted son.

Qian Xunji brought Tang San to Spirit City and introduced him to his family, who welcomed him as an adopted son and gave him gifts. At the welcoming banquet, Tang San embraced Spirit Hall as his home and vowed to defend his family at any cost.

• Qian Xunji rewarded Light Three Villages and took Tang San with him to Spirit City.
• On the journey, Qian Xunji told Tang San about his new grandfather, two mothers, two sisters, and older brother.
• Qian Xunji introduced Tang San to Chihiro Doriu, Ling Yuan, Ah Yin, Qian Ren Han, and Little Wu at Pope's Palace, and they welcomed him warmly.
• Chihiro Doriu, Ling Yuan, Ah Yin, and Qian Ren Han each gave Tang San a gift, while Little Wu promised to protect him.
• Qian Xunji held a welcoming banquet, and Tang San vowed that Spirit Hall was his home and that he would die defending his family.

Qian Xunji received a World Seed and Jianmu Sapling after adopting Tang San, while Ma Hongjun awakened a dark, evil bird Spirit Soul at Evil Underworld Hall. The chapter ended with the bird’s nature still unclear.

• The system rewarded Qian Xunji with a World Seed and Jianmu Sapling for subverting Tang San’s fate by adopting him into Spirit Hall.
• Qian Xunji learned the World Seed could grow into a high-level world and the Jianmu Sapling could nourish it and speed his cultivation.
• Qian Xunji put aside his thoughts about the rewards and went to bed with Ling Yuan and Ah Yin.
• At Evil Underworld Hall, Ma Hongjun entered the Spirit Awakening Array as Bibi Dong watched and questioned whether her plans would succeed.
• Ma Hongjun summoned a purple-black, flame-covered bird Spirit Soul that radiated a dark and evil aura.

Ma Hongjun awakened the Dark Underworld Evil Phoenix with Innate Full Soul Power and was named Holy Son of the Evil Underworld Hall, while Qian Xunji searched for Ma Hongjun and Oscar and took Tang San to hunt his first Soul Ring. Qian Xunji chose a four-hundred-year Undying Vine for Tang San and burned away its roots, leaving its vine body ready to be hunted.

• Ma Hongjun awakened the Dark Underworld Evil Phoenix with Innate Full Soul Power, and Bibi Dong named him the Holy Son of the Evil Underworld Hall.
• Qian Xunji ordered the Spirit Hall Branch in Suotuo City to search for Ma Hongjun and Oscar.
• Qian Xunji brought Tang San and Little Wu to the Star Dou Great Forest, where he taught Tang San to strengthen his Blue Silver Grass with life-attribute plant Soul Rings and to innovate beyond relying on soul skills.
• Following Little Wu's guidance, Qian Xunji found a four-hundred-year Undying Vine in the forest's outer region.
• Qian Xunji used Holy Sun Fire to burn away the Undying Vine's underground roots while leaving its exposed vine body intact.

Tang San absorbed the Undying Vine’s Soul Ring, turning his Blue Silver Grass into a vine with binding abilities. Six years later, God King Tang had become a Soul King known as the Big Head War God, but he still feared Qian Ren Han had far surpassed him.

• Tang San smashed the Undying Vine and absorbed its Soul Ring, breaking through the First Heavenly Layer of the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Tang San summoned his transformed Blue Silver Vine and tested its binding attacks and first soul skill, which improved its rooting, growth, and recovery.
• Little Wu asked Qian Xunji to visit Da Ming and Er Ming in the Star Dou Great Forest Core Area, and he agreed.
• Six years later, God King Tang won a Soul Duel in Heaven Dou Imperial City and was announced as Big Head War God Tang San.
• Yu Xiao Gang praised God King Tang as a sixteen-year-old Soul King and the youngest Purple-Gold Soul Duelist, while Tang San worried that Qian Ren Han had grown even stronger.

Tang Hao broke through to level 90 and set out with Tang Xiao to find a Ninth Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Qian Xunji brought Little Wu to reunite with Da Ming and Er Ming, then sensed a familiar spirit power fluctuation while scouting the Star Dou Great Forest.

• After ten years of cultivation, Tang Hao broke through to level 90, and Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders congratulated him.
• Tang Hao decided to ask Tang Xiao to help him hunt a suitable high-cultivation spirit beast rather than risk pursuing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Tang Hao told God King Tang about his breakthrough, then departed with Tang Xiao for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qian Xunji sent Tang San back to Spirit City with Yue Guan and Gui Mei, then took Little Wu to the Core Area to reunite with Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Qian Xunji flew around the forest for several hours to scout powerful spirit beasts, then sensed a familiar spirit power fluctuation nearby.

Qian Xunji found Tang Xiao and Tang Hao hunting a ninety-thousand-year-old Vajra Gorilla Bear in the Star Dou Great Forest and transformed into a Golden Dragon to attack them. After defeating Tang Xiao, he spared his life and pursued Tang Hao, leaving Tang Hao in despair as the dragon caught up.

• Qian Xunji sensed Soul Power and found Tang Xiao and Tang Hao fighting a Vajra Gorilla Bear as Tang Hao hunted his Ninth Soul Ring.
• Qian Xunji transformed into a Golden Dragon and charged at the brothers, prompting Tang Xiao to push Tang Hao away and stay behind to cover his escape.
• Tang Xiao unleashed his eighth and Ninth Soul Skills, but Qian Xunji evaded the attack, struck him down, and spared his life.
• Qian Xunji seized Tang Xiao and flew after Tang Hao, quickly catching up to him.
• Tang Hao saw the pursuing Golden Dragon and feared he would die before avenging his father, challenging Qian Xunji, or proving himself to Third Sister.

Qian Xunji forced Tang Hao to choose between death and absorbing a ten-year spirit ring, using Tang Xiao’s injuries to ensure his compliance. Tang Hao survived with a white ninth ring and a humiliating new soul skill, while Qian Xunji spared the brothers and flew away.

• Qian Xunji stopped Tang Hao and threw the severely injured Tang Xiao to the ground as leverage.
• Qian Xunji offered to spare the brothers if Tang Hao absorbed a ten-year spirit ring, and Tang Hao accepted to stay alive.
• Qian Xunji made Tang Hao kill a Rotten Wood Maggot and absorb its white spirit ring as his ninth ring.
• Tang Hao used his Ninth Soul Skill, sending out streaks of light shaped like Rotten Wood Maggots.
• Qian Xunji kept his promise, spared Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, and flew away as Tang Hao grieved over his white ninth ring.

Qian Xunji brought his son Qian Ren Han to Skywater Academy and asked Dean Shui Linglong for her daughter Shui Binger’s hand in marriage. Shui Linglong hesitated over the future of her clan, but Qian Xunji and his Titled Douluo companions pressured her to decide.

• Four years passed, and Qian Xunji traveled to Heaven Dou Imperial City for the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament awards ceremony with Qian Ren Han, Tang San, Little Wu, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei.
• Qian Xunji left Tang San and Little Wu at the castle, then took Qian Ren Han, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei to visit Skywater Academy.
• Shui Linglong led the academy’s teachers and students in welcoming Qian Xunji and accompanied him and his entourage to her office.
• Qian Xunji asked Shui Linglong to arrange a marriage between Qian Ren Han and her daughter Shui Binger, praising Shui Binger’s Ice Phoenix martial soul and talent.
• Shui Linglong hesitated because she hoped Shui Binger could lead the Shui Clan, while marriage into the Qian Clan would benefit Spirit Hall instead.
• Qian Xunji questioned Shui Linglong’s hesitation, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei released Titled Douluo pressure that left her feeling she had no choice.

Shui Linglong agreed in principle to Qian Xunji’s proposal to engage Bing Er to Qian Ren Han, but asked for three days to consult Bing Er’s father. At the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament, Qian Xunji provoked Tang Hao, while Tang San grew furious at Tang Hao’s disrespect before the final between the Spirit Hall Team and the Heaven Dou Royal Team began.

• Shui Linglong accepted the proposed engagement in principle and promised Qian Xunji a final answer in three days after consulting Bing Er’s father.
• Qian Xunji left Skywater Academy with Qian Ren Han, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei.
• At the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, Qian Xunji congratulated Tang Hao on becoming a Titled Douluo and taunted him about registering his title, while Tang Hao concealed that his Ninth Soul Ring was ten years old.
• Tang San became angry at Tang Hao’s cold response to Qian Xunji and resolved that Tang Hao had chosen his own death.
• Qian Xunji, Xue Ye, and Ning Fengzhi took their places as the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament final began between the Spirit Hall Team and the Heaven Dou Royal Team.

The Heaven Dou Royal Team faced Spirit Hall in the tournament final, and Tang San expected to win with his level-58 Soul King cultivation. He was left shaken when Spirit Hall revealed Xiong Tian and Qing Feng as level-70 Soul Saints, making him fear that this life was veering too far from his past to become a God King.

• Xue Ye watched the Heaven Dou Royal Team enter the final, confident that Tang San and the academy's powerful spirit masters could win the tournament.
• Tang San noticed two unfamiliar members on the Spirit Hall Team as both teams prepared to summon their Martial Souls.
• The Heaven Dou Royal Team revealed several unusually powerful Soul Ring configurations, including ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Rings for Tang San and two teammates.
• Xiong Tian and Qing Feng revealed evolved Martial Souls and seven Soul Rings each, showing that both had reached the Soul Saint realm at age twenty-two.
• Tang San was stunned and enraged by the two Soul Saints, then feared that the changes to this life could prevent him from becoming a God King.

Xiong Tian and Qing Feng, both Soul Saints, overwhelmed the Heaven Dou Royal Team in the final and brutally defeated God King Tang. Tang San recognized God King Tang's Tang Sect techniques and concluded that he was a fellow transmigrated disciple, then vowed to kill him.

• Xiong Tian and Qing Feng revealed their Soul Saint ranks, alarming the VIP spectators and despairing the Heaven Dou Royal Team.
• God King Tang rallied his team, but Xiong Tian and Qing Feng quickly defeated the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and Clear Sky Hammer Spirit Masters.
• Xiong Tian and Qing Feng burned away God King Tang's Blue Silver Grass and defeated the rest of the team, leaving him and a female support-system Spirit Master.
• God King Tang fought with his Clear Sky Hammer, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and Purple Demon Eyes, prompting Tang San to recognize the Tang Sect techniques and suspect he was a fellow transmigrated disciple.
• Xiong Tian and Qing Feng slapped God King Tang, burned him and his clothes, and left him badly scorched as the audience laughed and Tang Hao looked grim.

After the Spirit Hall Team won the tournament, Qian Xunji brought Qian Ren Han to Skywater Academy to settle his engagement to Shui Binger. Shui Binger agreed, and Qian Xunji presented a blue pill as an advance bride price.

• Xiong Tian and Qing Feng relentlessly beat God King Tang until the Heaven Dou Royal Team surrendered, allowing the host to announce the Spirit Hall Team as tournament champions.
• Two days later, Qian Xunji arrived at Skywater Academy with Qian Ren Han, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo to hear Shui Linglong's answer about the engagement.
• Shui Linglong said Shui Binger and her father, Shui Wuhen, had agreed to the engagement, and Shui Binger and Qian Ren Han quietly considered their feelings about becoming betrothed.
• Qian Xunji declared the engagement settled and said the Qian Clan and Shui Clan would be joined by marriage.
• Qian Xunji opened a Jade Box containing an ice-blue pill and presented it as an advance bride price.

Qian Xunji gave Shui Binger an Ice Spirit Pill that evolved her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul into a Perfect Ice Phoenix and raised her cultivation to level forty. He then took her to the North Pole Land to hunt for her fourth Soul Ring, where the group found and subdued a ten-thousand-year Ice Snow Flying Luan.

• Qian Xunji gave Shui Binger an Ice Spirit Pill, and she refined it for three hours until her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul evolved and her cultivation reached level forty.
• Qian Xunji gave Shui Binger Ice-Attribute Soul Enhancing Pills as a meeting gift, winning Shui Wuhen's approval of her marriage to Qian Ren Han.
• Qian Xunji set out for the North Pole Land with Shui Binger, Qian Ren Han, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei to find Shui Binger a Soul Ring.
• Qian Xunji and the others found a ten-thousand-year Ice Snow Flying Luan with phoenix bloodline that suited Shui Binger.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei froze the Ice Snow Flying Luan with their enhanced Spirit Fusion Skill, and Qian Xunji struck it with his Golden Dragon Spear, severely wounding it.

Shui Binger absorbed the Ice Snow Flying Luan’s ten-thousand-year Soul Ring and reached level forty-five. Qian Xunji then transformed into Long Aotian to draw the Snow Empress out, and several powerful North Pole Land soul beasts sensed his Dragon Might.

• Qian Xunji wounded the Ice Snow Flying Luan, and Shui Binger killed it and absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Shui Binger’s cultivation reached level forty-five after she absorbed the Soul Ring.
• Qian Xunji sent Shui Binger and Qian Ren Han back to Heaven Dou Imperial City with Yue Guan and Gui Mei while he stayed in the North Pole Land.
• Qian Xunji transformed into Long Aotian and released powerful Dragon Might to attract the Snow Empress.
• The Snow Empress sensed the Dragon Might and flew toward its source, while the Ice Empress, A'Tai, and Xiao Bai also sensed it.

Qian Xunji visited the North Pole Land to ask Snow Empress about condensing Soul Cores, but she refused because of the Star Dou Great Forest’s past attempt to subjugate her territory. He decided to capture Snow Empress and Ice Empress and take them home, and Snow Empress prepared to challenge him.

• Qian Xunji arrived in the North Pole Land as a Golden Dragon and waited for Snow Empress and the other beasts.
• Snow Empress arrived and confirmed that she was the ruler of the North Pole Land.
• Qian Xunji asked Snow Empress to teach him how to condense Soul Cores and Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Cores, and she pointed out that Di Tian already knew the methods.
• Snow Empress refused, explaining that Di Tian had once tried to make the North Pole Land submit to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qian Xunji decided to capture Snow Empress and Ice Empress, while Snow Empress declared that she would fight him.

Qian Xunji overwhelmed Snow Empress, Ice Empress, the Titan Snow Demon King, and Ice Bear King Xiao Bai in the North Pole Land, then sealed the two Empresses’ cultivation. He refused Snow Empress’s offer to reveal the Soul Core methods and announced that he would take her and Ice Empress away to have children.

• Snow Empress attacked Qian Xunji with her ice techniques, but his Golden Dragon form and Holy Sun Soul Power rendered her attacks ineffective.
• Ice Empress joined the battle, and the Titan Snow Demon King and Ice Bear King Xiao Bai arrived to help, but Qian Xunji knocked the two fierce beasts unconscious with one punch each.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress used Pride of the Ice and Snow Empresses, but their combined attack failed to harm Qian Xunji.
• Qian Xunji subdued Snow Empress and Ice Empress and sealed both of their cultivation with a god-level sealing technique.
• Snow Empress offered Qian Xunji the Soul Core methods in exchange for their release, but he refused and said he would take her and Ice Empress away to have children.

Qian Xunji forced Snow Empress and Ice Empress to accompany him by threatening the Titan Snow Demon King, Ice Bear King, and the North Pole Land’s soul beasts. As he flew them toward Spirit City, he persuaded them that he was the Dragon God’s chosen Golden Dragon and introduced the Soul Spirit Contract, leaving them cautiously hopeful that humans and soul beasts could unite against the God Realm.

• Qian Xunji threatened Snow Empress and Ice Empress with the lives of the Titan Snow Demon King, Ice Bear King, and the North Pole Land’s soul beasts, and they reluctantly yielded.
• Qian Xunji summoned his Twelve-Winged Angel Spirit Avatar, carried Snow Empress and Ice Empress into the sky, and claimed the Dragon God had chosen him to change relations between humans and soul beasts.
• Qian Xunji explained that the Soul Spirit Contract could benefit both humans and soul beasts, and Snow Empress and Ice Empress were shocked by its potential.
• Snow Empress asked whether she and Ice Empress could contract with Qian Xunji, and he said they could do so privately until they were strong enough to challenge the God Realm.
• Ice Empress doubted that the Soul Beast Clan could contend with the God Realm, but Qian Xunji confidently declared that he could face a Level 100 God.

Qian Xunji returned to Spirit City with Snow Empress and Ice Empress, prompting Chihiro Doriu to confront him over bringing home two powerful soul beasts. Qian Xunji defended his choice as a way to strengthen the Qian Clan bloodline, leaving Chihiro Doriu and the other consecrates stunned.

• Qian Xunji left Qian Ren Han in Heaven Dou Imperial City with Yue Guan and Gui Mei guarding him, then returned to Spirit City with Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
• The Holy Emperor Warriors greeted Qian Xunji and wondered whether he had brought home two more wives.
• Chihiro Doriu sensed the two soul beast auras and hurried to confront Qian Xunji outside Douluo Hall.
• Chihiro Doriu angrily accused Qian Xunji of endangering the Qian Clan's and Spirit Hall's reputations by bringing back two ferocious beasts transformed into human form.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo, Azure Luan Douluo, Mighty Lion Douluo, and the other consecrates arrived and were shocked to learn Snow Empress and Ice Empress were over two hundred thousand years old.
• Qian Xunji denied being addicted to soul beasts and claimed Snow Empress and Ice Empress could produce exceptionally talented descendants for the Qian Clan.

Chihiro Yuki returned to Spirit Hall and eased the conflict between Chihiro Doriu and Qian Xunji over Qian Xunji bringing home Snow Empress and Ice Empress. Chihiro Doriu accepted the situation on the condition that their identities stayed concealed, then took Yuki to Angel Holy Hall after learning she had reached level ninety-two.

• Chihiro Yuki returned and affectionately reunited with Qian Xunji, while Chihiro Doriu greeted her warmly.
• Chihiro Doriu accused Qian Xunji of bringing home two powerful soul beasts transformed into human form, and Yuki admitted she had seen Snow Empress and Ice Empress outside.
• Chihiro Yuki criticized her father but argued that he could conceal the beasts’ identities and that their children could help the Qian Clan flourish.
• Chihiro Doriu relented, told Qian Xunji to keep the beasts’ identities secret, and sent him away.
• Chihiro Doriu took Yuki to Angel Holy Hall and learned she had reached level ninety-two.