Chapter Summaries

A baby boy was born in Aolai City as seven-colored light shielded Red Mountain Hospital from a devastating lightning tribulation. During the rescue effort, Yali met the child, felt an inexplicable connection, and secretly left a Life Mark in his Divine Soul before returning to help the wounded.

• A baby boy was born at Red Mountain Hospital as seven-colored light filled the sky and Dark-Gold Thunderbolts devastated Aolai City, leaving the hospital unharmed.
• Yali arrived to aid survivors and directed rescuers to bring the seriously wounded to Red Mountain Hospital.
• Yali followed a mysterious pull to the delivery room and held the newborn, whose presence stirred her Wishing Angel Martial Soul.
• When a rescue worker called her to the critically wounded, Yali returned the baby to his mother and secretly placed a Life Mark in his Divine Soul with a kiss.
• Yali left to resume the relief effort while the baby’s hidden mark fell dormant.

On Awakening Day, Tang Wulin awakened Blue Silver Grass with rank-three innate soul power, while Tang Qingye revealed the Seven-Colored Heaven-Slaying Gourd and innate full soul power. Tang Qingye left with his family, intending to use the Spirit Pagoda’s resources as he prepared to overturn Tang San’s plans.

• Tang Wulin emerged from Awakening Room Three disappointed that his martial soul was Blue Silver Grass and his innate soul power was rank three, and Tang Qingye reassured him.
• Tang Qingye awakened the Seven-Colored Heaven-Slaying Gourd, whose sharp seven-colored aura astonished the Spirit Transmitter.
• Tang Qingye tested at innate full soul power, and the Spirit Transmitter invited him to join the Spirit Pagoda.
• Tang Qingye politely deferred the offer until he could discuss it with his parents and left the academy with Tang Wulin.
• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue took their sons home, while Tang Qingye resolved to overturn the plans Tang San had laid out on the Douluo Continent.

After Tang Qingye revealed that he and Tang Wulin had awakened martial souls with soul power, he explored the Seven-Colored Heaven-Slaying Gourd and received the Taiyi Azure Wood Mark. Its life aura resonated with Ya Li in Shrek City, while the brothers’ parents discussed their futures at home.

• Tang Wulin grew feverish and fell into a deep sleep after the awakening, while Tang Qingye told Tang Ziran and Lang Yue that both brothers had soul power and explained their martial souls.
• Tang Qingye entered his Sea of Consciousness and discovered the Seven-Colored Heaven-Slaying Gourd, which contained seven ancient swords of law.
• The azure-green ancient sword sent the Taiyi Azure Wood Mark into Tang Qingye, filling him with a powerful life aura.
• The spreading aura resonated with Ya Li’s Wishing Angel martial soul on Sea God Island, and she looked toward Aolai City.
• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue discussed Tang Qingye’s innate full soul power and his wish to join the Spirit Pagoda, as well as Tang Wulin’s prospects.

Tang Qingye went to the Spirit Pagoda to seek a suitable Soul Spirit, where his Martial Soul and unusual power caught Leng Yaozhu’s attention. The Heavenly Phoenix Douluo declared him her personal disciple and promised him her resources.

• Tang Qingye sent Tang Wulin into Red Mountain Academy and went alone to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Su Yunyang tested Tang Qingye and was stunned by his strength and Spiritual Power, then took him to the century-old Soul Spirit area.
• Tang Qingye revealed the Seven-Colored Heaven-Slaying Gourd, frightening the Soul Spirits and finding none suitable.
• Leng Yaozhu arrived, examined Tang Qingye’s Martial Soul, and sensed its potent life force and sharp sword intent.
• Leng Yaozhu named Tang Qingye her foremost and final personal disciple and told him she would provide any resources he wanted.

Tang Qingye accepted Leng Yaozhu as his master, and she promised to bring him and his family to Shrek City. On the way home with Tang Wulin, he intervened when thugs attacked a child, then had Tang Wulin whip them with his Blue Silver Grass.

• Tang Qingye accepted Leng Yaozhu's offer to take him as her disciple, and she gave him a token and promised to collect his family in three days.
• Tang Qingye asked Leng Yaozhu to provide his family with a home and protection, and she agreed to bring them to Shrek City.
• Tang Qingye met Tang Wulin outside Red Mountain Academy and offered to buy him food while hearing about his difficult day.
• Tang Qingye found three thugs beating a child in an alley, cut their wrist and ankle tendons with Rainbow Pierces the Sun, and returned the child's wallet.
• Tang Qingye told Tang Wulin to use his Blue Silver Grass to whip the thugs, letting him vent his frustration before the brothers went home.

Tang Qingye told his family that Leng Yaozhu had accepted him as her disciple and persuaded them to move with him to Shrek City, where Tang Wulin could receive better training. The family departed Aolai City together, with Leng Yaozhu taking Qingye in her Heavenly Phoenix mecha and the others following in black-grade mechas.

• Tang Wulin told Lang Yue and Tang Ziran that children with soul power at school would not play with him, but Tang Qingye had taken him for a treat and taught a bad guy a lesson.
• Tang Qingye revealed that he had skipped school and become the final disciple of Spirit Pagoda vice pagoda master Leng Yaozhu, and he convinced his parents to move the family to Shrek City for Tang Wulin's future.
• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue agreed to leave their mecha repair shop in Aolai City, and Tang Wulin eagerly embraced his brother.
• Leng Yaozhu welcomed the family at the seaside, promised that the Heavenly Phoenix Family would support them in Shrek City, and arranged for them to travel in mechas.
• Leng Yaozhu carried Tang Qingye into the Heavenly Phoenix mecha, teased him in the cockpit, and flew with the family toward the continent's heart.

As Tang Qingye and Leng Yaozhu arrived in Shrek City, the Golden Tree awakened and called to him, prompting an emergency meeting of Shrek’s elders. Tang Qingye’s family settled into a new home while they waited for him to join them.

• The Golden Tree awakened, its roots reaching toward the Spirit Pagoda, while Ya Li felt the pull of Tang Qingye’s Taiyi Azure Wood Mark.
• Yun Ming called an emergency Sea God Pavilion meeting, where the elders struggled to explain the Golden Tree’s response.
• Tang Qingye sensed the Golden Tree as Leng Yaozhu brought him toward the Spirit Pagoda’s residential area and told him she had chosen a girl to serve as his attendant and bodyguard.
• Tang Wulin explored the family’s new apartment on Phoenix Street and asked why Tang Qingye had not come with them.
• A woman outside the apartment asked whether they were the family of Young Master Tang Qingye.

Tang Qingye settled into his new residence on the Spirit Pagoda’s ninety-eighth floor and considered the dangers surrounding Shrek City and his upcoming Soul Spirit choice. While Leng Yaozhu gently put him to bed, Tang Hao secretly sent Old Tang to watch Tang Wulin, unknowingly exposing the divine consciousness to Tang Qingye’s Seven-Colored Heaven-Slaying Gourd.

• Leng Yaozhu gave Tang Qingye the entire ninety-eighth floor as his residence and said she would take him to the Core Repository the next morning to choose his first Soul Spirit.
• Tang Qingye weighed the Golden Tree’s possible call, Tang Wulin’s hidden Old Tang, and his options for a Soul Spirit before falling asleep on the sofa.
• Leng Yaozhu returned, carried the sleeping Tang Qingye to bed, tucked him in, and left him to rest.
• Tang Hao, unable to find the source of the Golden Tree’s disturbance, sent an invisible thread of plane fortune into Tang Wulin to awaken Old Tang early and make him watch the boy.
• Tang Hao resumed draining the Plane Spirit, unaware that Old Tang’s divine consciousness had been delivered to the mouth of Tang Qingye’s Seven-Colored Heaven-Slaying Gourd.

Tang Qingye’s exceptional abilities led Leng Yaozhu to offer him powerful soul spirits, but he demanded something stronger and she opened access to the Spirit Pagoda’s most forbidden collection. At the same time, the Silver Dragon King awakened in the Star Dou Great Forest and set out toward the human world, vowing destruction.

• Tang Qingye woke in Leng Yaozhu’s bedroom, and she took him to the Spirit Pagoda’s Core Repository.
• The testing instrument measured Tang Qingye’s innate soul power at rank 10, spiritual power at 230 points, and physical strength at rank 29.
• Leng Yaozhu showed Tang Qingye a dark gold terrorclaw bear, an emerald swan, and a blazing flame demon mastiff, but he rejected them because their bloodlines were not high enough.
• Leng Yaozhu used her highest authorization to open the repository’s deepest level, warning Tang Qingye that its unyielding soul spirits would not compromise with humans.
• In the Star Dou Great Forest, the Silver Dragon King emerged from beneath the lake, and Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts bowed to her.
• The awakened Silver Dragon King vowed to destroy the human deities and took the form of a silver-haired, purple-eyed girl as she headed toward the human world.

Tang Qingye chose the Nine Heavens Azure Luan Soul Spirit despite Leng Yaozhu's concerns that its powers did not match his Martial Soul. After Leng Yaozhu showed its strength in the Spirit Ascension Platform, the Azure Luan defeated a dark gold terrorclaw bear and lamented that it had no worthy opponents.

• Leng Yaozhu showed Tang Qingye the chamber's Soul Spirits and explained why the dark gold terrorclaw bear was powerful but too dangerous for him to absorb yet.
• Tang Qingye felt the Gourd's cyan pattern resonate with the Nine Heavens Azure Luan and asked Leng Yaozhu to trust his choice.
• Leng Yaozhu established a connection and showed Tang Qingye the Azure Luan in the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• The Nine Heavens Azure Luan effortlessly evaded the terrorclaw bear's attack, then cut through its defenses with a giant cyan saber and killed it.
• The Azure Luan surveyed the silent forest and complained that there was no worthy opponent.

Tang Qingye confronted the Nine Heavens Azure Luan in the Spirit Ascension Platform and persuaded it to become his soul spirit after revealing his Azure Nether Suppression Domain. With Leng Yaozhu guiding the ancient contract ritual, the bond formed smoothly, and the luan entered Tang Qingye’s body as the soul-merging stage remained.

• Leng Yaozhu sent Tang Qingye into the Spirit Ascension Platform, where he landed before the Nine Heavens Azure Luan.
• Tang Qingye and the Azure Luan sensed a strange familiarity and asked each other’s names before speaking face to face.
• Tang Qingye offered to take the luan across the world and revealed his peak seven-revolution cultivation and Azure Nether Suppression Domain.
• The Nine Heavens Azure Luan submitted to Tang Qingye and produced Divine Marrow as a sign of loyalty.
• Leng Yaozhu began the Spirit Pagoda’s ancient soul spirit contract ritual, and Tang Qingye urged the luan to accept their bond rather than see it as a restraint.
• The Azure Luan entered Tang Qingye’s body, completing the contract stage; Leng Yaozhu remarked that she would punish him for deceiving her.

Tang Qingye completed his Soul Spirit contract with the Nine Heavens Azure Luan and entered the riot-period Spirit Ascension Platform with Leng Nu Jiao. He revealed his powerful plant domain as their trial began.

• Tang Qingye absorbed the Nine Heavens Azure Luan's energy, formed a contract with her, and gained a three-thousand-year Soul Ring and a new Martial Soul ability.
• Tang Qingye told the Nine Heavens Azure Luan that he could become a Venerable despite the world's limits on godhood.
• Leng Yaozhu checked Tang Qingye, introduced him to Leng Nu Jiao, and sent them to test his strength in the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Tang Qingye and Leng Nu Jiao entered the riot-period Spirit Ascension Platform, where she summoned her ink jade spirit bamboo Martial Soul.
• Tang Qingye released his Wood Qi domain, which let him sense movement within a hundred meters and eased Leng Nu Jiao's aches, then led her into the trial.

Tang Qingye and Leng Nu Jiao found and slaughtered a pack of Bloodclaw Badgers in the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform, with Tang Qingye claiming their spiritual energy under their Demon Pact. After he killed the Bloodclaw Badger King, a Soul Bone appeared among its remains.

• Tang Qingye detected a hidden Bloodclaw Badger pack and asked Leng Nu Jiao to agree to a Demon Pact so she would not take his kills.
• Tang Qingye charged into the badger lair and killed the pack’s vanguard and most of its members with his Azure Sky Marrow-enhanced attacks.
• The Bloodclaw Badger King emerged and attacked with the remaining badgers, but Tang Qingye’s Heavenly Emperor Fist scattered them and wounded the king.
• The Bloodclaw Badger King went berserk, but Tang Qingye killed it with his Soul-Shattering Iron Claw and absorbed the pack’s spiritual energy.
• A blood-red orb containing a Soul Bone appeared after the Bloodclaw Badger King’s remains dissipated.

Tang Qingye used the Bloodclaw Badger King's soul bone and the spiritual energy around him to lure Xu Xiaoyu, Mu Xi, and Ouyang Zixin into approaching. He killed Xu Xiaoyu with a spear enhanced by Heavenly Cang Marrow, then faced Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin as Leng Nu Jiao emerged from hiding.

• Tang Qingye obtained a temporary nine-hundred-year Bloodclaw Badger King's Trunk Bone and attracted attention with the dense spiritual energy around him.
• Tang Qingye told Leng Nu Jiao to hide as Xu Xiaoyu, Mu Xi, and Ouyang Zixin approached, hoping they would mistake him for an easy target.
• Xu Xiaoyu demanded Tang Qingye's spiritual energy, while Mu Xi objected and Ouyang Zixin refused to join the robbery.
• Tang Qingye offered the spiritual energy in exchange for a spar, then formed a spear and infused it with Heavenly Cang Marrow.
• Tang Qingye killed Xu Xiaoyu with a single spear strike, prompting Mu Xi to accuse him of pretending to be weak.
• Tang Qingye asked Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin whether they would leave or have Leng Nu Jiao show them out, and Leng Nu Jiao emerged from the forest.

Tang Qingye and Leng Nu Jiao confronted Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin over the spiritual energy, forcing Mu Xi to leave while Ouyang Zixin stayed behind. After Tang Qingye and Leng Nu Jiao departed, they heard a thousand-year soul beast nearby and went to investigate.

• Leng Nu Jiao emerged and revealed three purple Soul Rings, frightening Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin with her strength.
• Mu Xi accused Tang Qingye of lying about being alone, and he claimed Leng Nu Jiao was his wife before Leng Nu Jiao ordered the girls to surrender the spiritual energy and leave.
• Tang Qingye insulted Mu Xi by comparing her unfavorably to Ouyang Zixin, and Mu Xi reluctantly surrendered her remaining spiritual energy and left the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Ouyang Zixin stayed behind, spoke with Tang Qingye, and learned his name before he and Leng Nu Jiao departed.
• Leng Nu Jiao teased Tang Qingye about Ouyang Zixin, and the two heard a thousand-year soul beast roaring nearby and went toward it.

Tang Qingye and Leng Nu Jiao fought a thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear in the Spirit Ascension Platform, and Tang Qingye fused his power into her, evolving her martial soul and greatly increasing her strength. Leng Nu Jiao defeated the bear, which left behind a dark-gold bone for Tang Qingye to fuse with.

• Tang Qingye confronted the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear while Leng Nu Jiao prepared to protect him.
• Tang Qingye used his domain and soul skills to wound the bear, then drew it into Leng Nu Jiao’s arms and asked her to fuse with him.
• Tang Qingye poured his Azure Sky Power and life force into Leng Nu Jiao, evolving her Ink Jade Spirit Bamboo into Ink Jade Divine Bamboo and raising her power close to Soul King level.
• Leng Nu Jiao trapped the bear with Forest of Kun - Heaven Prison, battered it with Extreme Wind-Falling Slaughter, and froze it with Extreme Ice-Explosion.
• Leng Nu Jiao shattered the ice coffin and killed the bear, leaving a dark-gold bone in the crater.
• Tang Qingye and Leng Nu Jiao ended their fight together, with Leng Nu Jiao telling him to fuse with the soul bone first.

Tang Qingye recovered from his Spirit Ascension Platform training, discovered new developments inside the Seven-Colored Heaven-Slaying Gourd, and gained Ferocious Beast powers. Leng Yaozhu then took him and Leng Nu Jiao out around Shrek City, ending the night by leading them toward its largest auction house.

• Leng Yaozhu examined Tang Qingye and Leng Nu Jiao after their training, and Leng Nu Jiao became the first female lodger on the ninety-eighth floor.
• Leng Yaozhu received word that negotiations had been settled and the other party was willing to trade.
• Tang Qingye entered his Sea of Consciousness, named the newly intelligent azure gourd Big Baby and the Azure Luan Jiu'er, and inspected the gourd's Refinement Space.
• Tang Qingye sent two purified beast-soul lights into his body, gaining Ferocious Beast power in both arms before Leng Nu Jiao rushed into the bathroom to check on him.
• Leng Yaozhu took Tang Qingye and Leng Nu Jiao shopping and to Longevity Street, then had them leave peachwood plaques at the Heart-Joining Chun Tree.
• Leng Yaozhu led Tang Qingye and Leng Nu Jiao toward Shrek City's largest auction house.

Leng Yaozhu brought Tang Qingye and Leng Nu Jiao to Yaluo Auction House, where she selected an extreme-cold carving knife for Tang Qingye. After he said he could subdue it with some time, Manager Mo went to arrange the purchase while Tang Qingye continued enjoying Ruoling’s massage.

• Leng Yaozhu arrived at Yaluo Auction House with Tang Qingye and Leng Nu Jiao and was escorted to the Heaven No. 1 private room by Manager Mo.
• Ruoling began massaging Tang Qingye’s shoulders, while Leng Nu Jiao inwardly resented her for taking over the job.
• Leng Yaozhu asked Manager Mo to introduce a carving knife made from Far North ice marrow and ice-soul gold, whose extreme cold could damage ordinary Soul Masters.
• Leng Yaozhu asked Tang Qingye whether he could subdue the knife, and he replied that he could with some time.
• Manager Mo left to arrange the knife’s purchase, while Tang Qingye resumed enjoying Ruoling’s massage.

Tang Qingye chose three auction treasures to test his theory about absorbing heavenly treasures, and Leng Yaozhu agreed to help him with the dangerous Thorn Dragon Crystal. The auction ended with Leng Yaozhu winning all three items for him, including the crystal for eighty million Federation coins.

• Leng Yaozhu told Ruoling to show Tang Qingye the remaining auction items, and Tang Qingye selected Thousand-Year Dragon-Scale Grass, Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, and the Ten-Thousand-Year Thorn Dragon Crystal.
• Tang Qingye explained that he wanted to experiment with the dragon crystal, and Leng Yaozhu promised to remove some of its violent elements and help him avoid injury.
• Manager Mo returned with the Nine Nether Cold Blade, and Tang Qingye used his arts to shield his arm before handling the freezing blade.
• At the auction, Leng Yaozhu outbid the other guests and bought the Dragon-Scale Grass for five million Federation coins and the Whale Glue for twenty-five million.
• Leng Yaozhu bid eighty million for the Thorn Dragon Crystal, silencing the rival bidders, and Ruoling declared it sold to Tang Qingye.

Tang Qingye refined dragon materials into pills and hidden combat marks, then used the Thorn Dragon Crystal to unlock and cultivate the Nine Dragon Canon’s first dragon phantom. When a storm triggered Leng Nu Jiao’s childhood fear, he comforted her until she fell asleep in his arms.

• Tang Qingye examined the Night Phoenix Ring Leng Yaozhu had given him and resolved to repay her care with a gift.
• He refined dragon scale grass and ten-thousand-year whale glue into two pills, then absorbed their powers as concealed combat marks.
• Tang Qingye purified the Ten-Thousand-Year Thorn Dragon Crystal, which broke the jade slip’s seals and revealed the Nine Dragon Canon.
• He formed the Thorn Prison Dragon as his first dragon phantom and tested its spatial attack, which consumed nearly thirty percent of his soul power.
• Tang Qingye sensed Leng Nu Jiao’s fear during the thunderstorm, entered her room, and soothed her with his plant power and embrace until she fell asleep.