Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen planned to establish Mount Targon in the Far North Ice Plains and travel there with Gu Yuena and Tian Meng. Bibi Dong initially refused to let him leave Spirit City, but Luo Chen explained that his spatial anchor would let him return to her every night.

• Gu Yuena explained that the Surface Void meant the universe and starry sky, and that Tian Meng was the stellar domain's gatekeeper.
• Tian Meng suggested placing Mount Targon in the Far North Ice Plains, and Gu Yuena and Luo Chen agreed the location could work.
• Tian Meng recommended the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, but revealed that the Ice Empress had hunted her rather than befriended her.
• Luo Chen decided to travel to the Far North Ice Plains with Gu Yuena and Tian Meng, then told Bibi Dong he wanted to leave Spirit City to broaden his experience.
• Bibi Dong refused to let Luo Chen leave until he turned twelve, so Luo Chen explained that he could return to the Papal Palace each night through a spatial anchor.

Luo Chen persuaded Bibi Dong to let him travel while returning to Spirit City each day, then arranged an identity that would let him move freely through Spirit Hall. Qian Daoliu made him the Eighth Enshrined, and Luo Chen chose the title Tian Meng Douluo.

• Luo Chen told Bibi Dong he would travel each day and return home at night, and she agreed after he promised to come back for meals.
• Luo Chen told Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and the others about his plans, while Qian Daoliu offered to send the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh to protect him.
• Luo Chen summoned Tian Meng and introduced her as his fourth Aspect, revealing the Celestial Star Crown's power to Qian Daoliu while keeping Gu Yuena's existence secret.
• Luo Chen asked Qian Daoliu to make him an Enshrined so he could travel under Spirit Hall's authority and investigate its branches.
• Qian Daoliu gave Luo Chen an Eighth Enshrined Token and promised Bibi Dong would arrange special privileges, including executing first and reporting afterward.
• Luo Chen declared that he would travel as Spirit Hall's Eighth Enshrined, Tian Meng Douluo.

Two-year-old Tang San used dreams of his future as God King Tang to plan a different path, rejecting Yu Xiaogang as his master and deciding to develop his powers without repeating his other self’s mistakes. After awakening three Martial Souls, he planned to revive his mother, protect Xiao Wu, and prepare early for the coming world-ending catastrophe.

• Tang San woke from a nightmare of the Divine Realm’s destruction and reflected on the future he had seen in his dreams.
• Tang San resolved to support the development of Soul Tools while continuing to cultivate the Tang Sect arts and his own strength.
• Tang San awakened the Clear Sky Hammer, Blue Silver Emperor, and Asura God Martial Souls, gaining innate Soul Power at level twenty.
• Tang San rejected Yu Xiaogang as a master and decided to develop the Blue Silver Emperor for its vitality rather than control.
• Tang San planned to find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, revive his mother Ah Yin, and bring Xiao Wu under his family’s protection.
• Tang San decided to seek his first Soul Rings and pursue the Slaughter God Domain and Sea God inheritance ahead of schedule.

Luo Chen traveled north from Spirit City with Ah Yin, Ah Rou, and Tian Meng, taking his time to experience the world before seeking the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion. After five days on the road, they approached a mountain village, while Tian Meng missed the simple comfort of burying herself in a hole to sleep.

• Luo Chen traveled on foot with Ah Yin, Ah Rou, and Tian Meng, planning to explore the continent before confronting the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.
• Ah Yin told Luo Chen she had spent much of her life in a village and had only briefly visited Heaven Dou City and Star Luo City.
• Tian Meng admired a butterfly, kept her Spiritual Detection active, and complained that the Far North was cold, white, and boring.
• After five days of travel, Tian Meng sensed a nearby village, and Luo Chen agreed they should head there.
• Tian Meng struggled with the hardships of the road and missed being able to dig a hole and sleep soundly.

Luo Chen and his companions reached Bamboo Sword Village and offered to awaken the village children’s Martial Souls after discovering the Spirit Hall attendant had not arrived. While the villagers prepared dinner, Luo Chen brought Bibi Dong to the village, where she changed into a modest outfit before joining the banquet.

• Luo Chen, Ah Yin, and Tian Meng approached Bamboo Sword Village, where villagers and children were waiting for a Martial Soul awakening.
• Ah Yin introduced the group as Soul Masters from Spirit Hall, and Luo Chen offered to perform the children’s awakenings with the tools he had brought.
• The village chief welcomed Luo Chen and his companions and arranged local food while the villagers prepared dinner.
• Luo Chen messaged Bibi Dong that he would eat dinner outside, and she suggested that he summon her to join him.
• Luo Chen teleported Bibi Dong to Bamboo Sword Village, and she changed from her Supreme Pontiff attire into a casual outfit before going to the banquet with him.

Luo Chen and Bibi Dong investigated why a Spirit Hall deacon had missed Bamboo Sword Village’s Martial Soul awakenings, then held the ceremony for the village children themselves. During the fifth child’s test, Luo Chen detected Soul Power in an unusually indifferent boy and examined the small sword above his hand.

• Bibi Dong accepted Luo Chen’s invitation and gave him Spirit Hall Martial Soul Awakening certificates to use for children in villages they encountered.
• Luo Chen and Bibi Dong heard from the village chief that the Spirit Hall deacon assigned to awaken Bamboo Sword Village’s children had failed to arrive, and Luo Chen said he would investigate.
• After their meal, Bibi Dong took the six children to the village’s Spirit Hall hut, where Luo Chen set up the Awakening Array and began the tests.
• Luo Chen found that one child’s bamboo sword Martial Soul had no Soul Power, leaving the child unable to become a Soul Master.
• While testing the fifth child, a scrawny, long-haired boy, Luo Chen sensed a faint fluctuation of Soul Power and examined the small sword floating above the boy’s hand.

Luo Chen discovered that Xiao Chi had a sword Martial Soul and level 3 Innate Soul Power, then learned that the boy had lost his memory and had been found holding unusual meteoric iron. After renaming him Jian Chi, Luo Chen invited him to join Spirit Hall.

• Luo Chen and Bibi Dong found that Xiao Chi had a sword Martial Soul but only level 3 Innate Soul Power.
• The village chief explained that Xiao Chi had appeared near Bamboo Sword Village a year earlier with no memory of his identity or family.
• Xiao Chi brought out the black stone he had kept since being found, and it floated and glimmered when Luo Chen touched it.
• Luo Chen identified the stone as meteoric iron, returned it to Xiao Chi, and renamed him Jian Chi.
• Luo Chen explained Spirit Hall's benefits and invited Jian Chi to join.

Luo Chen and Bibi Dong discovered twelve Fallen Soul Masters approaching Bamboo Sword Village and discussed how Soul Masters became corrupted. They intercepted the group, and Luo Chen prepared to confront their leader, Yaogui, with Bibi Dong standing by.

• Xiao Chi agreed to join Spirit Hall, and Luo Chen planned to take him to Spirit City with Bibi Dong the next day.
• Luo Chen, Bibi Dong, Tian Meng, and Ah Yin sensed twelve Fallen Soul Masters near Bamboo Sword Village, including nine Soul Elders, two Soul Ancestors, and a Soul King.
• Bibi Dong explained the stages of corruption that marked Fallen Soul Masters, and Luo Chen reassured her about her own past devouring.
• Luo Chen and Bibi Dong teleported to the valley and blocked Yaogui and his group before they could reach the village.
• Luo Chen asked Bibi Dong to stand by while he dealt with the Fallen Soul Masters.

Luo Chen and Bibi Dong defeated a group of Fallen Soul Masters, then learned their captive Yaogui came from a world whose history and powers differed from their own. The chapter ended with Yaogui naming Shrek Academy as the Douluo Continent’s strongest force, leaving Luo Chen and Bibi Dong stunned.

• Luo Chen used his Rainbow Bridge to approach the Fallen Soul Masters, while Bibi Dong restrained her urge to intervene.
• Luo Chen summoned the Celestial Star Crown and crushed the twelve Fallen Soul Masters with his self-created Kingship skill, forcing Yaogui and the others to the ground.
• Luo Chen and Bibi Dong questioned Yaogui, who admitted that he had devoured the Spirit Hall deacon sent to awaken the village children’s Martial Souls.
• Yaogui said he had escaped the Xuanming Sect, which he described as the Heaven Dou Empire’s greatest sect, and identified its inherited Martial Soul as the Black Tortoise.
• Luo Chen realized Yaogui’s account did not match their world and asked what force ruled the Douluo Continent.
• Yaogui answered that Shrek Academy was the continent’s strongest force, shocking Luo Chen and Bibi Dong.

Luo Chen learned from the Chronokeeper that his second trial required him to break the predetermined fate of the future Douluo world, while an awakened Void threatened to consume all worlds. He learned that he must obtain all his Soul Rings before he could meet Bard and travel to the future.

• Luo Chen and Gu Yuena determined that Yaogui and the other Fallen Soul Masters came from the future, and Gu Yuena found the priest overseeing Luo Chen’s second trial.
• Luo Chen and Bibi Dong entered a golden realm and met the Chronokeeper, who explained that the trial’s “past” meant predetermined fate rather than a time travelers could revisit.
• The Chronokeeper revealed that the novel’s Douluo world had been destroyed, the comic’s future world was merging with Luo Chen’s world, and Luo Chen had to change that future’s fate.
• The Chronokeeper warned that the Void, awakened when Luo Chen absorbed his first Soul Ring, would eventually invade and devour the worlds.
• Luo Chen learned that he needed to obtain all his Soul Rings before meeting Bard and connecting to the future world, and that Xiao Chi had come from the future but suffered amnesia during the Chronokeeper’s first attempt to bring someone across.

After learning more about the Void and the future, Luo Chen reached Heaven Dou City with Ah Yin and discovered Tang San was nearby. He decided to meet Tang San without confronting him yet, and asked Gu Yuena to bring Ah Rou and Xiao Wu.

• Luo Chen returned to Bamboo Sword Village with Bibi Dong and Gu Yuena, sealed Yaogui’s senses, and crushed the Evil Soul Masters’ remains with Kingship before Bibi Dong took Yaogui to Spirit City.
• Luo Chen spent five months traveling to Heaven Dou City with Xiao Chi and Ah Yin, stopping along the way to explore and write a travelogue.
• Ah Yin told Luo Chen that she had once visited the Moonlight Pavilion with Tang Hao, and Luo Chen recalled Bibi Dong’s failed search for Tang Hao and Tang San at Holy Soul Village.
• Ah Yin sensed Tang San’s presence in the Moonlight Pavilion, but Luo Chen chose not to confront him yet and said Tang San would be easy to handle if he became a god.
• Luo Chen asked Gu Yuena to bring Ah Rou and Xiao Wu so they could meet Tang San.

Luo Chen brought Xiao Wu and the others to Heaven Dou City, where Xiao Wu learned that her mission was simply to accompany him while he met Tang San. He then took the group to Moonlight Pavilion and asked its pavilion master, Tang Yuehua, to appraise his shakuhachi.

• Gu Yuena told Xiao Wu that Luo Chen had a mission for her, and Xiao Wu eagerly agreed to go.
• Luo Chen entered Heaven Dou City with Ah Yin and checked into a hotel while planning to visit Spirit Hall's local branch later.
• Xiao Wu arrived through Gu Yuena's spatial teleportation, and Luo Chen explained that she only needed to accompany him to meet Tang San and explore the city.
• Luo Chen gathered Na'er, Tian Meng, Ah Yin, Ah Rou, and Xiao Wu, then took them to Moonlight Pavilion.
• Luo Chen showed instructor Xiao Yu his shakuhachi and asked her to arrange a meeting with Tang Yuehua for an appraisal.

Luo Chen and Tang Yuehua met, while Tang San recognized Xiao Wu and reacted with disturbing intensity. Tian Meng detected traces of spacetime power on Tang San, and Luo Chen prepared to use hypnosis to uncover his secret.

• Tang Yuehua brought Tang San to meet Luo Chen and his companions at the Moonlight Pavilion.
• Tang San entered the tearoom, recognized Xiao Wu, and stared at her so intensely that she felt threatened.
• Ah Yin and Gu Yuena noticed Tang San's strange reaction, and Tian Meng detected two traces of spacetime power on him, including one left about two years earlier.
• Luo Chen suspected Tang San had undergone soul transmigration and prepared to use his shakuhachi and Complete Hypnosis to make him reveal the truth.

Luo Chen played the shakuhachi piece “Dawn” for Tang Yuehua at the Moonlight Pavilion, moving her to tears with its sorrowful music. Using Kyoka Suigetsu, he also planted permanent hypnosis Spirit Seeds in Tang Yuehua and Tang San, leaving them under his influence.

• Tang San realized Xiao Wu had appeared years earlier than expected and resolved to keep her with him, believing he was protecting her.
• Luo Chen comforted Xiao Wu when Tang San stared at her, while Tang San suppressed his anger and vowed to make Luo Chen pay.
• Ah Rou and the others recognized Tang San’s intentions toward Xiao Wu and judged him unsuitable for her.
• Luo Chen performed “Dawn” on the shakuhachi, and the music stirred Tang Yuehua’s grief over her life and family.
• After Tang Yuehua praised the performance, Luo Chen used Kyoka Suigetsu to plant permanent hypnosis Spirit Seeds in her and Tang San.

Luo Chen won Tang Yuehua's trust with his music and knowledge, then met Xue Qinghe and introduced himself as a World Walker from Mount Targon. After Tang San followed Xiao Wu around Heaven Dou City, Xiao Wu's practiced rejection of his gifts left him reduced to her admirer.

• Luo Chen used Kyoka Suigetsu to test Tang Yuehua and Tang San, confirmed that their perceptions were under his control, and impressed Tang Yuehua with his music and guidance.
• Tang Yuehua invited Luo Chen and his companions to stay at the Moonlight Pavilion, where they met Xue Qinghe, the genuine prince whom Tang San mistook for Qian Renxue.
• Luo Chen introduced himself as a level-23 Soul Grandmaster from the hidden sect Mount Targon, surprising Tang Yuehua, Tang San, and Xue Qinghe.
• Tang Yuehua considered Luo Chen a valuable potential ally for the Clear Sky Sect, while Xue Qinghe and Luo Chen quickly struck up a friendly conversation.
• After lunch, Xiao Wu and the others went to explore Heaven Dou City, and Tang San followed, giving gifts that Xiao Wu secretly considered worthless.
• Xiao Wu continued to handle Tang San with practiced charm and distance, impressing the women watching as Tang San became her admirer.

Tang Hao found Ah Yin alive in Heaven Dou City and learned that Mount Targon had saved her and accepted her as a member. Ah Yin rejected his assumptions about her loyalty, while Tian Meng arrived to defend Mount Targon and introduced herself as its disciple.

• Tang Hao searched Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, failed to find it, and returned to Heaven Dou City.
• Tang Hao recognized Ah Yin while she was out with Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the others, and Ah Yin revealed her face to him.
• Ah Yin explained that Mount Targon had saved her and rebuilt her body, and that she had joined the sect to repay them.
• Tang Hao objected to Ah Yin joining another sect and insisted he would never agree to it, while Ah Yin privately condemned his priorities.
• Tian Meng teleported over and identified herself as a disciple of Mount Targon, leaving Tang San puzzled by her resemblance to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Tian Meng confronted Tang Hao when he tried to claim that Ah Yin belonged to the Clear Sky Sect, and Ah Yin rejected him and chose Mount Targon. Tian Meng revealed overwhelming divine power and blocked Tang Hao’s attack with one finger, leaving the confrontation poised to continue.

• Tian Meng defended Ah Yin and challenged Tang Hao’s claim that she belonged to the Clear Sky Sect, while Ah Yin said she would not betray Mount Targon.
• Tang Hao accused Mount Targon of bewitching Ah Yin, but she told Tian Meng she wanted nothing more to do with Tang Hao and gave him permission to act as he liked.
• Tian Meng unleashed divine power, shocking Tang San and making Tang Hao fear that she was a Peerless Douluo.
• Tang Hao attacked Tian Meng with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, but Tian Meng stopped the hammer with one finger and sent Tang Hao flying backward.
• Tang Hao released his Divine Slaughter’s Domain and revealed his nine Soul Rings, including a hundred-thousand-year ring, while Tian Meng dismissed the display.

Tian Meng easily overwhelmed Tang Hao, while Ah Yin withdrew to Luo Chen’s Martial Soul Space rather than face him. When Tang Hao attacked again with Ring Detonation, Luo Chen analyzed the technique and prepared to confront him, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Tian Meng used Spiritual Detection and Kyoka Suigetsu to control Tang Hao’s senses, then knocked his Clear Sky Hammer from his hand with one punch.
• Ah Yin returned to Luo Chen’s Martial Soul Space, and she told Luo Chen she could not bring herself to seek revenge on Tang Hao.
• Luo Chen reassured Ah Yin that he would not kill Tang Hao, but said he would punish him for upsetting and claiming her; Gu Yuena agreed that Tang Hao should lose a hand.
• Luo Chen appeared beside Tian Meng, and Tang Yuehua and Xue Qinghe arrived to hear Tang San explain Ah Yin’s resurrection and Tang Hao’s attack.
• Luo Chen projected an illusion of Ah Yin bound in chains, provoking Tang Hao into crushing several Soul Rings to use Ring Detonation.
• Luo Chen analyzed Ring Detonation and called Tang Hao’s use of it crude, angering Tang Hao as he challenged Luo Chen to explain who he was.

Luo Chen defeated Tang Hao after Tang Hao attacked Mount Targon, then exposed the hypocrisy in Tang Yuehua’s accusations and explained that Tang Hao had taken Ah Yin’s freedom for granted. The chapter left Tang Hao unconscious and afflicted with hidden damage to his vitality and cultivation, while Ah Yin agreed to let Luo Chen take back the Soul Power Tang Hao had gained from her sacrifice.

• Luo Chen transformed into the Star-Creating Colossus and overwhelmed Tang Hao with rapid attacks, leaving him battered and unable to defend himself.
• Tang Yuehua accused Luo Chen of striking too viciously, but Xue Qinghe and the others recognized that Tang Hao had attacked first.
• Tang Hao blamed Luo Chen’s spatial abilities and demanded that Ah Yin be returned, while Tang Yuehua tried to calm him.
• Luo Chen told Tang Yuehua that Tang Hao had attacked Tian Meng and claimed control over Ah Yin, and Ah Yin confirmed that she wanted to join Mount Targon.
• Luo Chen warned Tang Hao that another attack would get him killed, while Gu Yuena realized that Luo Chen had secretly infused him with celestial laws that would erode his vitality and cultivation.
• Ah Yin agreed to let Luo Chen reclaim Tang Hao’s Soul Power, and Tang Hao soon lost consciousness as the powers in his body took their toll.

After Luo Chen defeated Tang Hao, Heaven Dou’s leaders and Ning Fengzhi investigated Mount Targon and considered recruiting its members. At the hotel, Luo Chen disciplined Salas, revealed his ties to Spirit Hall and Mount Targon, and ordered him to keep their alliance secret while publicly treating them as rivals.

• Tang San struggled to accept Tang Hao’s defeat, while Ning Fengzhi and Heaven Dou’s princes investigated Luo Chen and Mount Targon.
• Ning Fengzhi learned that Mount Targon had saved Tang Hao’s wife and offered to pay for the damage caused during the battle.
• Salas knelt before Luo Chen after Tian Meng used a Spiritual Imprint to frighten him and interrogated Spirit Hall members about his conduct.
• Luo Chen warned Salas against abusing his position and ordered him to investigate corruption among Spirit Hall members in Heaven Dou City.
• Luo Chen revealed that Bibi Dong was his teacher, explained the purpose of Ascension Hall and Mount Targon, and told Salas to keep their connection secret.