Chapter Summaries

Three months after Long Qianming took the Hell Demon Dragon King's corpse, Tang San began studying at Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy under Yu Xiaogang. Yu Xiaogang learned that Tang San possessed the Clear Sky Hammer and advised him to develop his Native Dog Martial Soul through poison, ending with plans to seek a suitable Soul Ring.

• Long Qianming removed the Hell Demon Dragon King's corpse from the Lake of Life, and Bi Ji led the Ferocious Beasts back to arrange for the beast souls to enter the banner.
• Yu Xiaogang welcomed Tang San as his disciple, and Tang San moved into Dorm Seven, where he fought Xiao Wu and bit her thigh with his Native Dog Martial Soul.
• Tang San showed Yu Xiaogang his Clear Sky Hammer, and Yu Xiaogang recognized the Martial Soul and warned him not to reveal it casually.
• Yu Xiaogang recommended that Tang San develop his Native Dog Martial Soul along a Power Attack path centered on poison, with battlefield control as a secondary role.
• Tang San accepted the poison-based path, and Yu Xiaogang planned to take him to Soul Hunting Forest the next day to obtain a suitable Soul Ring.

Yu Xiaogang took Tang San into the Soul Hunting Forest to seek a poison-attribute Soul Beast for Tang San’s first Soul Ring. After Tang San killed a four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake and began absorbing its ring, the poisoned Yu Xiaogang collapsed unconscious.

• Yu Xiaogang explained Luo Sanpao’s weaker Martial Soul mutation and privately resolved to use Tang San and the Clear Sky Sect to pursue revenge against Long Qianming.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San they were seeking a venomous snake Soul Beast, and Tang San accepted that one could strengthen his Native Dog Martial Soul.
• A four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake attacked their campsite, and Yu Xiaogang ordered Tang San to retreat after Luo Sanpao’s Soul Skill failed to stop it.
• Tang San used his hidden weapons to kill the Mandala Snake after Yu Xiaogang revealed its throat as its weakness.
• Tang San began absorbing the Mandala Snake’s Soul Ring, and Yu Xiaogang fell unconscious from poison while standing guard.

Asura raged over Tang San absorbing a poison-attribute Soul Ring, while Tang Hao watched his son from hiding and then suffered a mysterious injury. After Tang San finished absorbing the ring, he rescued Yu Xiaogang and revealed his strange but potent first Soul Skill before they set off from the forest.

• Asura condemned Tang San's Mandala Snake Soul Ring and decided to use the Clear Sky Hammer as his divine vessel instead of the Bloodthirsty Wolf Emperor.
• Tang Hao watched Tang San and vowed to help him destroy the Heavenly Dragon Sect and Spirit Hall, but fell from a tree when his Clear Sky Hammer released a slaughter aura and broke several bones.
• Tang San finished absorbing the Soul Ring, treated Yu Xiaogang's poisoning, and said his Soul Power had risen to level fifteen after eating herbs.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San to demonstrate his First Soul Skill, Venomous Wolf Frenzied Bite, which let him bite a tree and corrode its trunk with poison.
• Yu Xiaogang praised the skill's damage and corrosive poison, then he and Tang San began their journey back.

Long Qianming returned from the Star Dou Great Forest and found that the Heavenly Dragon Sect was thriving, but its institutions still needed stronger enforcement. He introduced Soul Banners as weapons for the Punishment Hall and confronted Lin Luhe over abusing fellow disciples, leaving his punishment unresolved.

• Long Qianming warned Bi Ji and the other Soul Beasts that the Dragon Soul Banner could hold more souls but might destroy the Star Dou Great Forest if overloaded, then departed.
• Back at the Heavenly Dragon Sect, Long Qianming saw Long Zishu studying diligently and surveyed the sect’s peaks, noting the Soul Tool Hall’s lack of staff and the Punishment Hall’s weak enforcement tools.
• Long Qianming summoned the 212 people on Punishment Peak and presented them with a hundred unblooded Soul Banners that could recognize an owner and extract souls.
• After hearing the disciples describe misconduct within the sect, Long Qianming had the imprisoned Lin Luhe brought before them.
• Lin Luhe pleaded for forgiveness, and Long Qianming rebuked him for relying on past merits while violating sect law and beating a fellow disciple.

Long Qianming punished Lin Luhe with a Dragon Soul Banner, then issued Soul Banners to Punishment Hall enforcers and declared that disciples would be judged by their work and cultivation. Meanwhile, Dugu Bo brought Ye Qingxiu and Ye Lingling to the Heavenly Dragon Sect, hoping Long Qianming could cure the Ye Clan’s curse before Ye Lingling awakened her Martial Soul.

• Long Qianming used the Dragon Soul Banner to inflict Soul Punishment on Lin Luhe, then stopped before the punishment killed him and ordered him taken for treatment.
• Long Qianming distributed blood-bound Soul Banners to a hundred Punishment Hall enforcers and urged them to enforce the sect’s laws impartially.
• Dugu Yan invited Ye Lingling to study at Heavenly Dragon Academy, but Ye Lingling worried that awakening the Nine Heart Flowering Apple would mean her grandmother’s death.
• Ye Lingling explained that the Nine Heart Flowering Apple curse allowed only two living owners, and her grandmother’s worsening illness suggested her time was short.
• Dugu Bo reassured Ye Qingxiu as they approached the Heavenly Dragon Sect, while Ye Qingxiu feared his wife might die before Ye Lingling’s Martial Soul Awakening.

Dugu Bo brought Ye Qingxiu and Ye Lingling to the Heavenly Dragon Sect, where its floating peaks and lavish tournament prizes astonished them. Ye Qingxiu hoped the sect’s Martial Soul-evolving pills might lift the Ye Clan’s curse, and the chapter ended as Long Qianming and Bibi Dong welcomed the visitors.

• Dugu Bo guided Ye Qingxiu, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan through the poisonous barrier and showed them the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s floating peaks.
• Dugu Bo flew the group toward the highest peak while Ye Qingxiu and Ye Lingling watched sect disciples fight for places in the tournament.
• Dugu Yan explained that tournament prizes included Soul Power-raising pills, Martial Soul-evolving pills, Gold Soul Coins, and compatible Soul Bones, including high-year Soul Bones for the top three.
• Ye Qingxiu asked whether the special pills could break the Ye Clan’s Martial Soul curse and learned he would need to discuss the matter with Long Qianming.
• Long Qianming and Bibi Dong welcomed Ye Qingxiu at the highest peak, and Ye Qingxiu felt hopeful about saving his clan.

Ye Qingxiu sought Long Qianming’s help to save his wife and lift the Ye Clan’s Martial Soul curse. Long Qianming offered pills with different effects in exchange for the Ye Clan joining the Heavenly Dragon Sect, and Ye Qingxiu accepted.

• Ye Qingxiu asked Long Qianming for a way to save his wife and lift the curse on the Ye Clan’s Martial Soul, promising to pay any price.
• Long Qianming showed Ye Qingxiu a jade-green pill for his wife and a red-and-white pill for Ye Lingling to take after her Martial Soul Awakening.
• Ye Lingling asked whether her grandmother could take the red-and-white pill, and Long Qianming explained that doing so would likely leave the curse affecting future generations.
• Long Qianming urged the Ye Clan to begin breaking the curse with Ye Lingling’s generation by changing her Martial Soul.
• Ye Qingxiu prepared to leave with Ye Lingling to help his wife, but Long Qianming asked the Ye Clan to join the Heavenly Dragon Sect as payment.
• Ye Qingxiu agreed to join the Heavenly Dragon Sect.

Ye Lingling joined the Heavenly Dragon Sect, while Long Xiaoyao mastered Long Qianming’s spear skill, Yin Dragon First Form: Devour. Long Zishu met Ye Lingling and introduced her to Long Xiaoyao, whose rank astonished the new arrival.

• Dugu Yan welcomed Ye Lingling into the Heavenly Dragon Sect and took her to meet the other children.
• Ye Qingxiu left to save his wife, and Dugu Bo accompanied him to the Ye Clan in Heaven Dou City.
• Long Xiaoyao used Yin Dragon First Form: Devour to destroy the golden-striped bamboo around the training platform.
• Long Zishu complained that Long Xiaoyao had disrupted her nap, then asked him to defend her after Long Qianming arrived.
• Long Qianming met Ye Lingling, whom Dugu Yan introduced as a new sect member, and Long Zishu greeted her as a younger sister.
• Long Zishu introduced Long Xiaoyao to Ye Lingling, who was astonished to learn he was a six-year-old Soul Elder.

Long Qianming ordered Ye Lingling and his children to train at Heavenly Dragon Academy and planned to teach them there under another identity. Half a month later, Ye Lingling awakened an evolved Martial Soul, and her grandmother’s illness improved as the Ye Clan settled in the Heavenly Dragon Sect.

• Long Qianming welcomed Ye Lingling into the children’s group and ordered all four to reach Soul King rank before age seventeen while studying at Heavenly Dragon Academy.
• Long Qianming told Long Xiaoyao and Dugu Yan to keep Long Zishu from slacking off, and they promised to supervise her cultivation.
• Long Qianming explained to Bibi Dong that he would enter the academy under another identity to teach the children, while delaying the creation of Soul Guidance Peak until promising students graduated.
• Half a month later, Ye Lingling awakened the Nine Thoughts Mutual Generation Flowering Apple after taking a pill, and her grandmother’s illness was alleviated.
• Ye Qingxiu moved the Ye Clan to the Heavenly Dragon Sect, while Ye Lingling’s parents stayed in Heaven Dou City to run their clinic.

Long Qianming sent Long Zishu, Long Xiaoyao, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling to Heavenly Dragon Academy, then ordered the academy to establish a Soul Tool course and department. Two days later, he arrived in disguise as the new Soul Tool teacher, and a gatekeeper escorted him inside.

• Long Qianming escorted the four children to Heavenly Dragon Academy and reminded them to conceal their identities and avoid trouble.
• After the children entered the academy, Long Qianming appeared in the conference room and told Ah Yin to add Soul Tool classes and prepare a classroom for thirty students.
• Long Qianming said he had arranged for a Soul Tool teacher and samples, then left the remaining preparations to Ah Yin.
• Two days later, Long Qianming arrived at the academy gates in disguise and introduced himself as the new Soul Tool Department teacher.
• The gatekeeper recognized that the academy had been expecting the teacher and carefully led Long Qianming inside.

Long Qianming, posing as Kong Tianlie, introduced his rank-89 External Martial Soul Rayquaza at Heavenly Dragon Academy and began establishing a Soul Tool class. After a month of introductory lessons, he gathered thirty students and gave them books to study Soul Tool components and practice forging.

• Long Qianming entered the dean's office, where Ah Yin welcomed him and offered to introduce him to the academy.
• At an academy-wide assembly, Long Qianming presented himself as Kong Tianlie, revealed his Rayquaza Martial Soul, and invited students to join his Soul Tool class.
• Long Qianming explained that Soul Engineers needed to learn Soul Tool construction and blacksmithing, then showed Lower-Year Class One a dismantled Soul Tool.
• After teaching ten classes over roughly a month, Long Qianming selected thirty students with suitable Martial Souls for the Soul Tool class.
• Long Qianming gave each class member a book about Soul Tool components and core formations, emphasizing the forging exercises.

Long Qianming praised Kong Minghai’s Soul Power Milk Bottle Martial Soul for its potential in Soul Tool development, then drove six arrogant students from his class after they insulted Kong and defied him. Ah Yin arrived to have the injured students treated and ask Long Qianming what had happened.

• Kong Minghai asked whether Soul Tools could be used with Martial Souls, and Long Qianming recognized the potential of his Soul Power Milk Bottle Martial Soul.
• Long Qianming encouraged Kong Minghai and told the class his Martial Soul was exceptionally suited to developing Soul Tools.
• Several wealthy students dismissed Kong Minghai’s Martial Soul and challenged Long Qianming when he ordered them out of class.
• Long Qianming identified Ge Hu as Ge Long’s son and threw Ge Hu and five other students from the third-floor window.
• Ah Yin arrived, sent the six injured students to the infirmary, and went to question Long Qianming.

Long Qianming had the six students expelled after they opposed him, then resumed teaching and enforced strict morning exercise and forging assessments in the Soul Tool class. The chapter ended as the students continued their forging tests.

• Ah Yin agreed to Long Qianming's plan to expel the six students, and news of their expulsion spread across the academy.
• Ye Lingling woke Long Zishu for morning exercise, but the two arrived thirty seconds late and Long Qianming deducted points and assigned them extra training.
• Long Zishu carried a twenty-jin basket of stones and jogged at the back of the group around the academy.
• Long Qianming began the forging assessment, and Kong Minghai passed after shaping crude iron with sixteen hammer blows.
• Kong Minghai shared his forging techniques with his classmates as Song Qing began the next assessment.

Tang Hao killed a ninety-thousand-year Fifteen Ton Ant Emperor and escaped its enraged companions before absorbing its Soul Ring. Later, he planned to attack a Heavenly Dragon Academy teacher and two students, but an unfamiliar External Martial Soul dragon appeared, leaving him wary yet determined to proceed.

• Tang Hao used his hundred-thousand-year Eighth Soul Skill to send two Fifteen Ton Ant Emperors flying, then killed their wounded companion.
• The surviving Ant Emperors pursued Tang Hao, and one transformed blood-red; Tang Hao blasted them away and escaped with the corpse.
• Tang Hao found a safe place and absorbed the Ant Emperor's Soul Ring, vowing revenge on Long Qianming and Spirit Hall.
• In Heaven Dou City, Tang Hao blamed Long Qianming for the Clear Sky Sect's decline and decided to target a Heavenly Dragon Academy teacher and two students.
• As Tang Hao pursued the three people, he saw a green-gold, nine-segmented dragon External Martial Soul and recognized its owner as a rank-eighty-nine Soul Douluo.
• Tang Hao laughed and continued through the forest, intent on attacking the Soul Douluo and the two students.

Long Qianming took Long Zishu and Long Xiaoyao to the Star Dou Great Forest so they could learn to hunt Soul Beasts themselves. After Tang Hao ambushed them at night, Long Qianming revealed his identity and crushed Tang Hao beneath overwhelming Soul Pressure.

• Long Qianming reprimanded Long Zishu for complaining about the journey and reminded her to cultivate diligently.
• Long Qianming brought Long Zishu and Long Xiaoyao to the Star Dou Great Forest, where they camped until daylight to begin searching for Soul Beasts.
• Tang Hao secretly followed the group and attacked Long Qianming while Long Zishu and Long Xiaoyao slept.
• Long Qianming revealed his disguise and identified himself, shocking Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao tried to break through Long Qianming's barrier with his Clear Sky Hammer, but Long Qianming's Soul Pressure forced him to the ground.

Long Qianming defeated Tang Hao and killed him after Tang Hao detonated eight Soul Rings but was unable to overpower him. Long Qianming collected Tang Hao’s six Soul Bones and returned to the campsite, where Long Xiaoyao and Long Zishu came out of hiding.

• Tang Hao used his Martial Soul Avatar and attacked Long Qianming, but Long Qianming blasted him away with a burst of Soul Power.
• Tang Hao detonated eight Soul Rings and charged Long Qianming, who shattered the Clear Sky Hammer with Rising Dragon Fist and left Tang Hao gravely wounded.
• Long Qianming burned Tang Hao to ashes and gathered the six Soul Bones he left behind, including a ninety-thousand-year Fifteen Ton Ant Emperor Soul Bone.
• Long Qianming returned to the campsite, caught the spear Long Zishu threw, and told Long Xiaoyao and Long Zishu they could leave the tent.
• Long Zishu complained that Long Qianming had left them alone during the battle, while Long Qianming reflected that they had remained within his range of protection.

Long Qianming gave Long Zishu and Long Xiaoyao rare Soul Tool gauntlets, then led them deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest to seek suitable Soul Rings. At a two-colored pool, Long Xiaoyao identified the two dragon-type Soul Beasts living there, and Long Zishu asked how he knew.

• Long Zishu persuaded Long Qianming to give her and Long Xiaoyao two Class 2 Soul Tool gauntlets, which strengthened their attacks.
• Long Qianming told them the enemy who had attacked him was dead, then set out with them to find suitable Soul Beasts.
• After searching for hours, Long Qianming stopped near a pool divided into black and green waters and questioned Long Zishu about its inhabitants.
• Long Zishu hesitated when asked to identify the Soul Beasts, while Long Xiaoyao estimated they were a Weak Water Black-Scaled Flood Dragon and a Jade Water Heaven-Devouring Python, around five thousand to ten thousand years old.
• Long Zishu asked Long Xiaoyao how he had identified the two Soul Beasts.

Long Qianming hunted Soul Beasts so Long Zishu and Long Xiaoyao could obtain their next Soul Rings, and both children successfully absorbed them. A lightning tribulation then struck a rocky canyon in the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving Long Qianming wondering whether a Soul Beast was breaking through to a hundred thousand years.

• Long Xiaoyao explained the differences between Jade Water Heaven-Devouring Pythons and Weak Water Black-Scaled Flood Dragons, and Long Zishu requested a four-to-five-thousand-year python while Long Xiaoyao asked for a ten-thousand-year flood dragon.
• Long Qianming and Rayquaza subdued the pool's Soul Beasts, and Long Qianming brought a nearly six-thousand-year Jade Water Heaven-Devouring Python to Long Zishu.
• Long Zishu ordered the Death Dragon Spider Empress to kill the python, and she absorbed its purple Soul Ring.
• Rayquaza brought Long Xiaoyao a dying Weak Water Black-Scaled Flood Dragon, which he killed with his Black Dragon Spear before absorbing its black Soul Ring.
• After about six hours, Long Zishu reached level twenty-four and Long Xiaoyao reached level thirty-five.
• A powerful lightning bolt struck a rocky canyon, and Long Qianming wondered whether a ninety-thousand-year Soul Beast was undergoing its hundred-thousand-year tribulation.

A Fifteen Ton Ant Emperor survived its lightning tribulation and became a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, unleashing its ant swarm across the Star Dou Great Forest. Qian Lingyun ordered Spirit Hall to investigate and prepared to hunt it before Long Qianming could claim it.

• Long Qianming explained the dangers of a Soul Beast's lightning tribulation and left with Long Zishu and Long Xiaoyao to investigate the new Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• The black Fifteen Ton Ant Emperor helped its mutated brother weaken the lightning bolts, and the red Fifteen Ton Ant Emperor survived its tribulation and grew to sixteen meters tall.
• The Hundred-Thousand-Year Fifteen Ton Ant Emperor summoned a vast swarm that killed Soul Masters on the ground throughout the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qian Lingyun learned of the new Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and worried that the Heavenly Dragon Sect would claim it before Spirit Hall could act.
• Qian Lingyun ordered Yue Guan and Gui Mei to investigate the Soul Beast and told the others to prepare for her to hunt it herself.

Asura lamented Tang Hao’s death and resolved to hasten Tang San’s path to godhood, while Tang San arrived at Shrek Academy with Xiao Wu. When Tang San revealed his Werewolf Martial Soul, the crowd accused him of being a half-human, half-beast Wolf Bandit, and his hatred surfaced.

• Asura blamed Long Qianming for Tang Hao’s death and decided Tang San should encounter a divine artifact sooner.
• Tang San felt a stabbing pain at Nuoding Academy, then continued cultivating and later graduated at level 30.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived at Shrek Academy, where Li Yusong rejected an over-age applicant and displayed his six Soul Rings.
• Li Yusong confirmed Tang San was ten years old with level-30 Soul Power and asked him to reveal his Martial Soul.
• Tang San manifested his blood-red Werewolf Martial Soul, and the crowd called him a Wolf Bandit’s half-human, half-beast child and demanded that he be driven away.
• Tang San turned toward the crowd as his right eye darkened with hatred and gray fur and red claws emerged.