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Six-year-old Lu Xuan awakened a system that let him choose four rewards, and he selected twin martial souls, level 20 innate soul power, two random god-level martial souls, and a soul-tool creation method. His awakening unleashed two immense pillars of light, drawing the attention of powerful figures across the continent.

• Lu Xuan recalled how he had transmigrated to Douluo Continent and been raised by villagers after his parents died hunting for a soul ring.
• Grandpa Village Chief took Lu Xuan to the village Spirit Hall for his martial soul awakening, where Su Mingyuan conducted the ceremony.
• A system appeared in Lu Xuan's mind and offered nine beginner's package options; he chose options 1, 2, 3, and 8.
• Lu Xuan's awakening burst through the Spirit Hall, releasing red and emerald-gold lights that revealed two god-level martial souls.
• Qian Daoliu, Bibi Dong, and the Silver Dragon King sensed the phenomenon and reacted to Lu Xuan's power.

Lu Xuan awakened the Life Scepter and Asura God Sword, displayed overwhelming soul power, and agreed to join Spirit Hall. Before Bibi Dong could summon him, Qian Daoliu sent Azure Luan Douluo to take him to the Worship Hall, leaving Gui Mei to report the news.

• Lu Xuan awakened the Life Scepter and Asura God Sword, then shattered a soul-power testing crystal ball with his innate power.
• Su Mingyuan recruited Lu Xuan into Spirit Hall, and Lu Xuan left Sword Dao Village for the Nuoding City branch.
• Bibi Dong learned of Lu Xuan's twin martial souls and ordered Gui Mei to retrieve him.
• Qian Daoliu sent Azure Luan Douluo to Nuoding City, where he took Lu Xuan away before Bibi Dong's agent arrived.
• Gui Mei learned that Azure Luan Douluo had taken Lu Xuan and hurried back to Spirit City to report to Bibi Dong.

The Asura God discovered that six-year-old Lu Xuan had awakened both the Asura God Sword and a Life Scepter, and secretly marked him as his successor. The Goddess of Life also recognized Lu Xuan as a possible successor, but the God of Destruction saw his mixed aura and stormed away, convinced the Goddess of Life had betrayed him.

• The Asura God saw Lu Xuan’s twin Martial Souls and secretly sent an Asura divine seed into his brow to protect and claim him as a successor.
• The Goddess of Life watched Lu Xuan through an illusory screen and decided he could help her and the God of Destruction leave the Divine Realm.
• The Goddess of Life tried to hide the screen when the God of Destruction suddenly appeared in the Life God Temple.
• The God of Destruction saw Lu Xuan’s life and Asura auras, accused the Goddess of Life of concealing something, and left for the Destruction Temple.
• The Goddess of Life chased after the God of Destruction to explain what had happened.

Azure Luan brought Lu Xuan to Spirit Hall’s Worship Hall, where Qian Daoliu invited him to become his disciple after seeing his two Martial Souls. Bibi Dong arrived and offered to take Lu Xuan as her student, but Lu Xuan chose Qian Daoliu, leaving Bibi Dong furious.

• Azure Luan carried Lu Xuan to the Worship Hall, where he introduced him to Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu asked Lu Xuan to summon his Martial Souls and was impressed by the Asura God Sword and Life Scepter.
• Qian Daoliu offered to make Lu Xuan his disciple and promised to use Spirit Hall’s resources to train him.
• Bibi Dong arrived and tried to take Lu Xuan to the Papal Palace, arguing that her experience with Twin Martial Souls made her the better teacher.
• Lu Xuan chose Qian Daoliu as his master, and Bibi Dong left angrily.

Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo assessed Lu Xuan’s strength, and Lu Xuan persuaded Qian Daoliu to let him attempt a thousand-year first Soul Ring. The next morning, Qian Daoliu took him to Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Beasts for his Asura God Sword.

• Qian Daoliu taught Lu Xuan a Soul Power circulation route and brought in Golden Crocodile Douluo to assess his physical condition.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo found Lu Xuan’s body unusually strong and well-nourished, and Lu Xuan asked to absorb a thousand-year first Soul Ring.
• Qian Daoliu initially rejected the idea, but Golden Crocodile Douluo supported Lu Xuan, and Qian Daoliu agreed after Lu Xuan insisted he could endure the pain.
• Qian Daoliu told Golden Crocodile Douluo to take Lu Xuan to rest in a room beside Xiao Xue’s, then considered suitable Soul Beast targets.
• The next morning, Qian Daoliu flew with Lu Xuan to Star Dou Great Forest and named the Armor-Breaking Tiger and Bloodthirsty Demon Wolf as their targets.
• Qian Daoliu released his spiritual force over Star Dou Great Forest to search for prey.

Qian Daoliu helped Lu Xuan absorb a thousand-year first Soul Ring and a 6,300-year second Soul Ring, leaving the six-year-old with two purple rings and Soul Power at rank 27. Watching Lu Xuan surpass expectations, Qian Daoliu regretted his cautious approach to nurturing Qian Renxue and realized that geniuses needed to break past limits.

• Qian Daoliu found a suitable thousand-year Armor-Breaking Tiger, knocked it unconscious, and Lu Xuan killed it to obtain his first Soul Ring.
• Lu Xuan endured the first ring’s violent energy as Life Energy repeatedly healed his damaged meridians, then completed the absorption and collapsed unconscious.
• Qian Daoliu examined Lu Xuan, found that his body could withstand far older Soul Rings, and let him recover for a day and night before feeding him.
• Qian Daoliu found three Bloodthirsty Demon Wolves, and Lu Xuan chose the 6,300-year-old wolf and absorbed its Soul Ring without the torment of his first absorption.
• Lu Xuan’s two purple Soul Rings helped him reach rank 27, and Qian Daoliu realized he had been too cautious in nurturing Qian Renxue.

After Qian Daoliu returned Lu Xuan to Spirit City, Lu Xuan unlocked an immense legacy of Soul Tool knowledge and began the body-strengthening regimen arranged by Golden Crocodile. The chapter left him refreshed after a medicinal bath, with Qian Daoliu set to begin teaching him swordsmanship the day after his rest day.

• Qian Daoliu brought Lu Xuan back to Spirit City and told him to rest before swordsmanship training began the day after tomorrow.
• Lu Xuan unlocked the sealed knowledge of Soul Tools, including blueprints and Core Array methods, and realized it could let him become a rank 10 Soul Engineer as his cultivation advanced.
• A maid delivered Soul Beast soup and a foul medicinal paste that Golden Crocodile had ordered Lu Xuan to finish.
• Four maids prepared a medicinal bath and, at the Great Enshrined's instruction, personally helped Lu Xuan absorb its potency.
• The maids finished caring for Lu Xuan and left him to rest in his bedroom.

Lu Xuan spent the day preparing to make soul tools before finding Qian Renxue crying alone in a secluded garden. The chapter ended when she turned and met his gaze.

• Lu Xuan found a Storage Soul Tool bracelet and a golden identity token that Qian Daoliu had left for him.
• Lu Xuan went into Spirit City, bought rare metals, and commissioned a set of engraving knives from a blacksmith.
• Lu Xuan returned toward Spirit Hall and heard someone sobbing in a garden pavilion.
• Lu Xuan recognized the crying girl as Qian Renxue, and she turned to look at him.

Lu Xuan comforted Qian Renxue after she was rejected by Bibi Dong, helping her believe her mother’s behavior stemmed from a painful past. When Qian Renxue learned he was Qian Daoliu’s new disciple, she realized the child she had called little brother was actually her martial uncle.

• Lu Xuan hesitated to approach Qian Renxue, but she stopped him and asked him to talk with her.
• Qian Renxue asked what a mother should be like, and Lu Xuan described a caring mother while recalling his own mothers.
• Qian Renxue asked why a mother would despise her child, and Lu Xuan suggested Bibi Dong’s painful past could explain her behavior.
• Qian Renxue felt relieved by Lu Xuan’s explanation and thanked him.
• Qian Renxue questioned why Lu Xuan was in the Worship Hall, and he revealed that Qian Daoliu was his teacher.
• Lu Xuan showed Qian Renxue his Angel Token, and she realized he was her martial uncle and blushed with embarrassment.

Lu Xuan began his formal training with Qian Daoliu and demonstrated the two soul skills granted by his thousand-year soul rings. He explained their effects, leaving Qian Daoliu to assess their unusual power.

• Qian Renxue asked Lu Xuan to keep quiet about her visit to Bibi Dong, and Lu Xuan agreed after she called him Uncle Lu.
• Qian Daoliu welcomed Qian Renxue back from seclusion and noted that she had reached level 40, then told her to rest before hunting for her fourth soul ring.
• Lu Xuan discovered that his room was next to Qian Renxue's as they walked through the Worship Hall.
• Qian Daoliu began Lu Xuan's training and asked him to demonstrate his two soul skills.
• Lu Xuan used Instant Annihilation Slash, which Qian Daoliu caught between two fingers, and Qian Daoliu praised its explosive, armor-piercing force.
• Lu Xuan used Blood Moon Wave and explained that it could pierce multiple targets, inflict bleeding, and prevent healing for targets with lower soul power.

Qian Daoliu taught Lu Xuan the Angel Sword Technique and set him on a demanding routine of sword practice, cultivation, and body tempering. After Qian Renxue joined him for a wooden-sword spar and defeated him in three moves, Lu Xuan vowed that she should not look down on him for being inexperienced.

• Qian Daoliu demonstrated the Angel Sword Technique and began training Lu Xuan, correcting his grip, strikes, and footwork.
• Qian Daoliu established Lu Xuan’s daily schedule of morning sword practice and afternoon and evening cultivation and medicinal baths.
• Qian Renxue visited the training ground after absorbing her fourth Soul Ring and asked to spar with Lu Xuan using only wooden swords.
• Qian Renxue overwhelmed Lu Xuan in three moves and knocked his wooden sword from his hand.
• Lu Xuan protested that he had practiced for only three days and declared, “Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west-don't scorn a youth for being poor!”

After Lu Xuan persuaded Qian Renxue to reconsider her mission to infiltrate the Heaven Dou Empire, he described his recurring dreams of a spring surrounded by strange herbs. Yue Guan identified it as the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Qian Daoliu sent a party to find it in the Sunset Forest.

• After two and a half months of training, Lu Xuan had reached Soul Power level 28 and improved enough to last dozens of sword exchanges against Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue told Lu Xuan she might leave for the Heaven Dou Empire, but he urged her to focus on cultivation and inherit the Angel Godhood instead; she agreed to think it over.
• Lu Xuan told Qian Renxue about his recurring dream of a valley with an ice-and-fire spring and unusual medicinal herbs, and she took him to Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu summoned the Enshrined, and Yue Guan identified the spring as the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the herbs as immortal herbs.
• Qian Daoliu concluded the place was in the Sunset Forest and ordered Azure Luan, Guang Ling, and Yue Guan to take Lu Xuan there; Qian Renxue joined them.

The group entered Sunset Forest to claim Dugu Bo’s treasure land, and Azure Luan Douluo killed him after overpowering him. They reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Yue Guan was overwhelmed by the rare Immortal Herbs growing there.

• The five traveled to Sunset Forest and entered its depths, where Yue Guan recognized Dugu Bo’s poisonous mist.
• Dugu Bo confronted the group, but he yielded when he saw Azure Luan and Guang Ling’s Super Douluo power.
• Azure Luan ignored Dugu Bo’s plea to negotiate, killed him, and took the Soul Bone he dropped.
• Guang Ling protected Lu Xuan and Qian Renxue as the group crossed the poisonous barrier and discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Yue Guan excitedly recognized the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Aromatic Silk Beauty, and Lovesick Heartbreak Red among the Immortal Herbs.

Lu Xuan entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after taking two opposing immortal herbs, drawn by the possibility of finding the fallen Dragon Kings’ relics. At the bottom, two dragon phantoms appeared, recognized the auras of Asura and Life on him, and roared as the spring erupted.

• Yue Guan gave Qian Renxue a cockscomb phoenix sunflower to absorb and warned her to endure its painful effects.
• Lu Xuan asked to enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Azure Luan reluctantly gave him permission after Yue Guan explained how two poisonous immortal herbs could protect him.
• Lu Xuan swallowed the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot together, then plunged into the well.
• The Asura God watched Lu Xuan enter and hoped he would enjoy the gift waiting inside.
• At the bottom of the well, two dragon phantoms recognized the auras of Asura and Life on Lu Xuan and wondered what had happened in the Divine Realm.
• The dragon phantoms roared, sending waves and terrifying pressure surging through the well and shaking Sunset Forest.

Lu Xuan received and absorbed a Million-Year Torso Soul Bone from the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, then began absorbing another Immortal Herb at the spring. Qian Renxue awakened with an evolved Eight-Winged Seraph Martial Soul and Ultimate Fire.

• The Ice and Fire Dragon Kings judged Lu Xuan worthy of their legacy and gave him a Million-Year Torso Soul Bone, asking him to look after the Soul Beast Clan if he gained supreme power.
• Lu Xuan absorbed the Soul Bone, which refined the medicinal effects in his body and greatly increased his Soul Power and physical strength.
• Lu Xuan returned from the spring and told Azure Luan, Guang Ling, and Yue Guan about the Soul Bone and his transformation.
• Yue Guan chose an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid for Lu Xuan, who ate it and began absorbing its medicinal effects.
• Qian Renxue awakened after absorbing the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, gained six Soul Power ranks, and evolved her Six-Winged Angel into an Eight-Winged Seraph with Ultimate Fire.

After Qian Renxue evolved her Martial Soul into an Eight-Winged Seraph, Lu Xuan returned to Spirit Hall and prepared to absorb a ten-thousand-year third Soul Ring. Qian Daoliu found a suitable Unyielding Mad Lion and subdued it, leaving Lu Xuan beginning to absorb its Soul Ring.

• Lu Xuan awoke and told Guang Ling that his Martial Soul had not changed and that his Soul Power reserves would be revealed after absorbing his third Soul Ring.
• Azure Luan returned to Spirit Hall with Lu Xuan and Qian Renxue, while Guang Ling and Yue Guan stayed in Sunset Forest to guard Spirit Hall's treasure land.
• Qian Daoliu praised Qian Renxue's Eight-Winged Seraph, then warned Lu Xuan about the Soul Shock caused by ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts.
• Azure Luan gave Lu Xuan an eighty-thousand-year Medusa Skull to protect his spiritual consciousness, and Lu Xuan began refining it as Qian Daoliu searched for a third Soul Ring.
• Qian Daoliu took Lu Xuan to Star Dou Great Forest, subdued an eighteen-thousand-year Unyielding Mad Lion, and brought it to a safe valley.
• Lu Xuan killed the Unyielding Mad Lion with his Asura God Sword and began absorbing its ten-thousand-year Soul Ring.

Lu Xuan absorbed his third and fourth soul rings, gaining powerful new abilities and an unexpected external soul bone. After his soul power surged to level 46, he revealed his fourth skill, Slaughter Barrier.

• Lu Xuan endured the Unyielding Mad Lion's Soul Shock, using his Medusa Skull to destroy its remnant soul and absorb his third soul ring.
• Lu Xuan's dormant power surged to level 40, and he learned that his third soul skill, Unyielding, boosted all his attributes and granted immunity to many control skills.
• Qian Daoliu subdued a forty-three-thousand-year Fear Demon Dragon, and Lu Xuan killed it and began absorbing its soul ring.
• Lu Xuan's eyes transformed into dragon eyes, revealing an eye-type external soul bone, while his soul power rose to level 46.
• Lu Xuan demonstrated his fourth soul skill, Slaughter Barrier, which suppressed and damaged enemies in a fixed area while enhancing his own speed.

Lu Xuan defeated Qian Renxue in a sparring match by combining his superior stats with his Soul Skills and domains. Humiliated and alarmed by how strong he had become, Qian Renxue abandoned her plan to infiltrate the Heaven Dou Empire and decided to stay in Spirit Hall to train.

• Lu Xuan used Slaughter Barrier to weaken Qian Renxue, suppress her flight, and overpower her in close combat.
• Qian Renxue activated Blazing Angel Domain, but Lu Xuan's Asura Domain suppressed it.
• Lu Xuan shattered Qian Renxue's Angel's Blade attack with Blood Moon Wave, then launched a rapid strike that Qian Daoliu stopped between two fingers.
• Qian Daoliu declared Lu Xuan the winner, and Qian Renxue left the training grounds vowing to surpass him.
• Qian Renxue decided to abandon the Heaven Dou Empire Nation-Stealing Plan and remain in Spirit Hall to train.

After reaching level 52, Qian Renxue visited Lu Xuan intending to defeat him, but he tested a newly made Defensive Soul Tool against her attacks. She accepted the necklace as a gift, and Lu Xuan realized she liked it.

• Qian Renxue broke through to level 50, obtained her fifth Soul Ring, and went looking for Lu Xuan to challenge him.
• Xiaoyu told Qian Renxue that Lu Xuan was in his workshop, where he had been engraving a piece of deep sea sunken silver.
• Lu Xuan took Qian Renxue to the training ground and asked her to attack him while he wore a newly made necklace.
• Qian Renxue's attacks could not break the necklace's barrier, and Lu Xuan explained that its Core Array could withstand attacks below the Soul Emperor level.
• Lu Xuan gave the necklace to Qian Renxue, who accepted it while pretending to criticize its design.
• Lu Xuan noticed Qian Renxue's pleased reaction and concluded that she liked the gift.

Lu Xuan broke through to Soul King at age seven, then went to Spirit City’s market to look for rare metals. There he encountered Hu Liena and Yan, and left Yan unconscious after Yan tried to bully him.

• Lu Xuan reached rank 50 after two months of secluded cultivation and absorbed a fifth Soul Ring under Qian Daoliu’s supervision, rising to rank 52 and becoming a seven-year-old Soul King.
• Lu Xuan searched Spirit City’s trading market for metals suitable for higher-tier Soul Tools but decided he would need to visit Gengxin City.
• Lu Xuan recognized Hu Liena and Yan when he saw Yan following her through the market.
• Yan noticed Lu Xuan looking at Hu Liena, threatened him, and tried to grab his collar.
• Lu Xuan dodged Yan’s attack and knocked him unconscious with a punch that used only his physical strength.

After Lu Xuan knocked Yan unconscious with one punch, Hu Liena learned that he lived in the Worship Hall and took Yan there to apologize. They reached the hall, where Hu Liena told Yan its residents held status equal to or greater than Pope Bibi Dong.

• Lu Xuan told Hu Liena that Yan had attacked him without cause, revealed that he lived in the Worship Hall, and left.
• Hu Liena took Yan to the infirmary, where a healing Soul Master treated him until he woke.
• Yan remembered being knocked out, insisted on confronting Lu Xuan, and argued that he could still win using their Martial Souls and Soul Power.
• Hu Liena ordered Yan to apologize and led him through Spirit City toward the Worship Hall.
• Hu Liena and Yan arrived before the Worship Hall, and she explained that its residents held positions no lower than her teacher's.

Yan challenged Lu Xuan to a fight instead of apologizing, and Lu Xuan revealed overwhelming Soul King power before knocking him unconscious with a single kick. Hu Liena reported Lu Xuan’s strength to Bibi Dong, who was stunned and wondered how his rapid cultivation might affect her plans for Spirit Hall.

• Yan abandoned his intention to apologize and demanded that Lu Xuan defeat him in a fair fight.
• Lu Xuan released Soul King-level pressure, then struck Yan with a whip kick that sent him flying unconscious.
• Hu Liena dragged Yan to the Spirit Hall Academy infirmary and hurried to report what happened to Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong reacted with disbelief that Lu Xuan had become a Soul King within a year and questioned what this meant for her plans.

The Asura God and Goddess of Life agreed Lu Xuan was ready for divine trials, and the Goddess of Life summoned him to begin hers. The Asura God then imposed his own trial as well, leaving Lu Xuan with two first trials to complete.

• The Asura God observed Lu Xuan's rapid cultivation and, after consulting the Goddess of Life, agreed to grant him a divine trial alongside hers.
• The Goddess of Life summoned Lu Xuan to an emerald space and asked what he believed was the meaning of life's birth.
• Lu Xuan honestly admitted he did not know, and the Goddess of Life began the Life Nine Trials, setting the first task as climbing the life god tree within ten years.
• The Asura God broke into the emerald space and began the Asura Nine Trials, requiring Lu Xuan to cross Hell Road within five years.
• Lu Xuan realized the shorter deadline meant he should complete Hell Road first, then asked to leave and returned to the Worship Hall.

Lu Xuan learned that two deities had given him Divine Trials and traveled with Qian Daoliu to Slaughter City to begin the Hell Road trial. After entering the city through a hidden passage, Lu Xuan heard its warning that everything came at the price of his life.

• Lu Xuan discovered that his forehead mark changed between the Asura God Sword and the Life Scepter when he switched Martial Souls.
• Lu Xuan told Qian Daoliu that he had ten years to climb the Life God Tree and five years to traverse Hell Road, so Qian Daoliu took him toward Slaughter City.
• Qian Daoliu prepared Lu Xuan for the city's violence by leading him to wipe out bandit dens along the way.
• Lu Xuan drank a Bloody Mary at the tavern, then killed the server and destroyed the bar when the server refused to let him enter.
• Lu Xuan opened the passage beneath the tavern, told Qian Daoliu to wait, and descended into Slaughter City, where a voice welcomed him to the capital of hell.

Lu Xuan defeated the Terror Knight Scott and earned the token needed to enter Slaughter City. A black-veiled woman welcomed him inside and began explaining the city as its oppressive streets revealed the violence beneath their surface.

• Scott confronted Lu Xuan at Slaughter City's gate and challenged him to earn entry by defeating him.
• Lu Xuan used his Asura Domain and Fear Illusion Soul Bone Skill to overwhelm Scott, who eventually surrendered and gave him an identity token numbered 9148.
• Lu Xuan passed through the city gate after a black-veiled woman welcomed him.
• The woman led Lu Xuan into Slaughter City, where he sensed bloodshed and madness beneath the dimly lit streets.
• The black-veiled woman began introducing Lu Xuan to Slaughter City.