Chapter Summaries

Wang Xiaoming began absorbing the seven-hundred-and-seventy-year Iron Armored Rhinoceros Soul Ring despite Chen Xin’s warning. As he endured the painful process, Chen Xin noticed a mysterious mechanical bug guarding him from the sky.

• Ning Rongrong celebrated Wang Xiaoming’s victory, then tried to stop him from absorbing the Iron Armored Rhinoceros Soul Ring.
• Chen Xin arrived, revealed the Soul Beast was seven hundred and seventy years old, and warned Wang Xiaoming that absorbing its Soul Ring could cripple or kill him.
• Wang Xiaoming swallowed melted Whale Rubber and began absorbing the Soul Ring before Chen Xin could stop him.
• Chen Xin prepared to intervene, but Wang Xiaoming begged him to trust that he could survive the absorption.
• Ning Rongrong stayed beside Wang Xiaoming while Chen Xin noticed a red mechanical bug watching him from the sky.
• Wang Xiaoming endured the Soul Ring’s painful influx of Soul Power, helped by the Whale Rubber he had eaten.

After absorbing the Iron Armored Rhinoceros Soul Ring, Wang Xiaoming discovered that his Blay Rouzer had gained several unusual abilities. He prepared to test Charge Slash against Sword Douluo Chen Xin, who watched him charge.

• Wang Xiaoming finished absorbing the Soul Power and revealed his new yellow Soul Ring to Ning Rongrong.
• Wang Xiaoming corrected Chen Xin, insisting that his Blay Rouzer was a sword, and wondered about the strange abilities granted by his Soul Ring.
• Wang Xiaoming told Ning Rongrong and Chen Xin that he seemed to have gained multiple Soul Skills, though Chen Xin said that was impossible for a yellow Soul Ring.
• Chen Xin offered to test Wang Xiaoming's abilities, and Wang Xiaoming drew his Ride Booker Sword and activated Charge Slash.
• Wang Xiaoming charged at Chen Xin with a rising magenta blade glow as Chen Xin calmly watched him approach.

Wang Xiaoming demonstrated his powerful Ride Booker Sword strike and revealed a second Soul Skill that created defensive cards, though the rebound left him covered in stone dust. After Chen Xin took Ning Rongrong back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Wang Xiaoming watched them leave and returned to Heaven Dou City, where the Kabuto Zecter followed him home.

• Wang Xiaoming struck Chen Xin’s Seven Kill Sword with a fully charged Ride Booker Sword, but Chen Xin’s blade remained still as the impact cleared the surrounding weeds.
• Wang Xiaoming used his second Soul Skill, Defense Vent, to form translucent cards that shattered a stone thrown by Chen Xin, covering him in powder.
• Ning Rongrong laughed and wiped the stone dust from Wang Xiaoming’s face with her handkerchief.
• Chen Xin prepared to take Ning Rongrong back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Wang Xiaoming advised her how to handle the expected scolding and possible confinement.
• Wang Xiaoming watched Ning Rongrong and Chen Xin fly away, then returned to Heaven Dou City and found the Kabuto Zecter had followed him home.

After absorbing his First Soul Ring, Wang Xiaoming returned home and received an invitation to Heaven Dou Royal Academy from teacher Qiu Yue. He kept the admission letter for later and had not yet decided whether to enroll, while Ning Rongrong asked Chen Xin to stop outside the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s main hall.

• Wang Xiaoming returned to the hall without the Kabuto Zecter, told Meng Zhuang he had absorbed his First Soul Ring, and asked him to arrange dinner.
• Wang Xiaoming meditated with the method Ning Rongrong had sent and sensed that his Soul Power had reached level thirteen and was nearing level fourteen.
• Qiu Yue visited on behalf of Heaven Dou Royal Academy and presented an admission letter along with a handwritten letter from Xue Qinghe.
• Wang Xiaoming learned the letter gave him eligibility without obligating him to enroll, then told Qiu Yue he would consider it.
• Ning Rongrong tugged Chen Xin’s sleeve and asked him to stop outside the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s main hall.

Ning Rongrong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and described Wang Xiaoming’s unusual first Soul Ring and twin Soul Skills, surprising Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong. The next morning, Wang Xiaoming went to Heart Sea Hall to buy more Whale Rubber and found the apothecary nearly empty.

• Ning Rongrong staged an emotional apology to Ning Fengzhi and revealed that Wang Xiaoming had absorbed a roughly seven-hundred-and-seventy-year-old Iron Armored Rhinoceros Soul Ring and awakened twin Soul Skills.
• Chen Xin confirmed Ning Rongrong’s account, and Gu Rong apologized after initially doubting that Wang Xiaoming had defeated the beast himself.
• Ning Fengzhi asked for the full story, and Ning Rongrong recounted how she had borrowed an authorization token to leave the sect.
• Wang Xiaoming used the Diendriver to summon Ning Rongrong to massage his legs and noted that he needed to buy more Whale Rubber.
• Wang Xiaoming went to Heart Sea Hall in Heaven Dou City to purchase Whale Rubber and found the shop unusually quiet.

Wang Xiaoming went to Ye Renxin’s pharmacy to buy Whale Rubber, but found only Ye Lingling minding the shop and unable to help him. Ye Renxin returned and sold Wang Xiaoming all three pieces, while wondering why the boy kept buying something that could no longer strengthen his body.

• Wang Xiaoming searched the pharmacy for Ye Renxin, then asked Ye Lingling for hundred-year-old and thousand-year-old Whale Rubber.
• Ye Lingling shook her head because she did not know the price or whether the pharmacy had any.
• Ye Renxin returned, explained that Ye Lingling was his quiet granddaughter, and brought out a box containing three pieces of Whale Rubber.
• Wang Xiaoming bought all three pieces, and Ye Lingling mistakenly pitied him for his supposed family condition.
• Ye Renxin questioned why Wang Xiaoming kept buying Whale Rubber despite already being too strong to benefit from it.

Wang Xiaoming bought Whale Rubber from Ye Renxin and ate wontons while Ye Lingling quietly followed him. When Zhang San and his accomplices cornered Ye Lingling, she used smoke pellets to escape, but they caught up with her until Wang Xiaoming intervened.

• Wang Xiaoming told Ye Renxin to keep stocking Whale Rubber and left the shop, while Ye Lingling followed after him.
• Ye Lingling left the shop with Gold Soul Coins from Ye Renxin and secretly followed Wang Xiaoming through the street.
• Zhang San and two accomplices blocked Ye Lingling and tried to take her away, but she crushed white pellets and escaped through an alley.
• Zhang San and his companions cornered Ye Lingling again, but someone kicked one of them into the others and sent all three flying.
• Zhang San and his companions activated their Martial Souls and saw that their attacker was Wang Xiaoming.

Wang Xiaoming protected Ye Lingling from thugs by summoning the Heaven Dou Empire's patrol guards, and an unknown attacker later crippled the fleeing men. Over wontons, Ye Lingling tried to repay him, but Wang Xiaoming asked her to be his friend and secure him a discount on medicine instead.

• Wang Xiaoming intervened when Zhang San and two other thugs threatened Ye Lingling, then called the patrol guards and identified himself as a viscount.
• The guards pursued the fleeing thugs, while a red shadow attacked them and crushed their right hands and dantians before the guards arrested them.
• Wang Xiaoming invited Ye Lingling to eat wontons with him, and she placed a money pouch on the table to repay him.
• Wang Xiaoming refused the money and asked Ye Lingling to be his friend in exchange for a twenty percent discount on medicine from her grandfather.
• Ye Lingling agreed and said her name, but Wang Xiaoming did not hear her clearly.

Wang Xiaoming befriended Ye Lingling before cultivating to level fourteen and deciding to test his combat skills at the Great Soul Arena. He registered as Knight and insisted on fighting an opponent far stronger than himself, then went to wait for his match.

• Ye Lingling introduced herself, and Wang Xiaoming gave her an unusual introduction before leaving her to pay for the wontons.
• Wang Xiaoming cultivated to level fourteen and headed to the Great Soul Arena to hone his fighting skills.
• Wang Xiaoming registered under the name Knight and paid ten Gold Soul Coins for an identity plate.
• Despite warnings from the receptionist and spectators about the danger, Wang Xiaoming insisted on being matched with an opponent above his level.
• The receptionist gave Wang Xiaoming his identity plate and sent him to wait in the preparation area.

Wang Xiaoming entered the Great Soul Arena and challenged the much stronger Black Whirlwind, transforming into Decade for their fight. As Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan watched from the stands, Lord Yue Guan arrived with Salas to observe Wang Xiaoming.

• Wang Xiaoming waited for his match and was announced as a level-fourteen One-Ring Battle Soul Master challenging the level-twenty-nine Black Whirlwind.
• Black Whirlwind mocked Wang Xiaoming, then summoned his Frenzied Ape Martial Soul and displayed one white and one yellow Soul Ring.
• Wang Xiaoming used his barcode card to transform into Decade, revealing a yellow Soul Ring and drawing mixed reactions from the audience.
• Ye Lingling watched anxiously as Dugu Yan joined her and wondered whether Black Whirlwind was the kind of man Ye Lingling liked.
• Lord Yue Guan watched Wang Xiaoming from the VIP seats while Salas confirmed he was the Innate Full Soul Power child.

Wang Xiaoming defeated Black Whirlwind in the arena, revealing the strength of his armor and a powerful attack. Afterward, Ye Lingling went to find him, and Dugu Yan teased her for liking him and urged her to approach him.

• Wang Xiaoming withstood Black Whirlwind’s empowered punch, dodged his second strike, and hit him in the abdomen.
• Black Whirlwind pretended to surrender, then used his strange Soul Skill to throw two clumps at Wang Xiaoming.
• Wang Xiaoming dodged the attack, used the [Charge Slash] card, and knocked Black Whirlwind out of the ring with a punch.
• The crowd cheered as Wang Xiaoming left the arena, while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling discussed his Martial Soul.
• Ye Lingling spotted Wang Xiaoming at the registration desk, and Dugu Yan guessed that she liked him and encouraged her to go after him.

Wang Xiaoming teamed up with Ye Lingling for a duo Soul Fighting match after Dugu Yan introduced them. The Human-Machine Combination won their first match easily, with Wang Xiaoming defeating both opponents without Ye Lingling needing to act.

• Wang Xiaoming collected his reward and asked Bisi to register him for another match, but she refused to let him fight more than once that day.
• Dugu Yan suggested Wang Xiaoming enter a duo match and introduced him to Ye Lingling as a potential teammate.
• Ye Lingling agreed to team up with Wang Xiaoming, and he promised to protect her during their matches.
• Wang Xiaoming and Ye Lingling registered as the Human-Machine Combination and entered the duo matchmaking pool.
• Wang Xiaoming defeated their two level twenty-one opponents by himself while Ye Lingling watched.

After a successful day at the Great Soul Arena, Wang Xiaoming discovered that the Dimensional Wall had awakened inside him. Back home, he met Yue Guan of Spirit Hall, who introduced himself as Chrysanthemum.

• Wang Xiaoming asked Ye Lingling to join him for daily fights, gave her his Gold Soul Coins, and left the Great Soul Arena.
• Dugu Yan teased Ye Lingling about Wang Xiaoming, making Ye Lingling blush and run away.
• Wang Xiaoming discovered the Dimensional Wall inside himself and hurried home, convinced it could take him anywhere he wanted.
• Wang Xiaoming found Yue Guan in his courtyard after Yue Guan had put the household to sleep.
• Wang Xiaoming flattered Yue Guan, who revealed that he came from Spirit Hall and held the title of Chrysanthemum.

Yue Guan visited Wang Xiaoming and tried to recruit him to Spirit Hall, but Wang refused to choose a faction for now. Wang then tested the Dimensional Wall, landed near a village burned by Evil Soul Masters, and transformed to confront them.

• Yue Guan revealed his nine Soul Rings and warned Wang Xiaoming against joining the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect while offering to take him as a disciple in Spirit Hall.
• Wang Xiaoming returned to his room and used the Dimensional Wall to test traveling through time.
• A dark figure appeared in Wang Xiaoming's room and wondered why his presence had suddenly vanished.
• Wang Xiaoming emerged in a forest and found Evil Soul Masters celebrating after burning a village.
• Wang Xiaoming transformed into Kabuto King, equipped the Kunai Sword, and activated Clock Up.

Wang Xiaoming rescued Bibi Dong after killing the Evil Soul Masters who attacked her village, then learned her mother had been taken to a bandit stockade. He sent Bibi Dong to Yelan City to report to Spirit Hall and went to confront the remaining bandits himself.

• Wang Xiaoming cut down the Evil Soul Masters who were burning and looting Bibi Dong's village.
• Wang Xiaoming met the young Bibi Dong, who asked him to take her to Spirit Hall and explained that bandits had captured her mother and other women.
• Bibi Dong pointed out the mountain stockade and told Wang Xiaoming that fewer than ten bandits remained, though their strongest leader was absent.
• Wang Xiaoming used the Dimensional Wall to send Bibi Dong to Yelan City, where she ran toward Spirit Hall.
• Wang Xiaoming appeared at the stockade and prepared to attack the bandits guarding its gate.

Wang Xiaoming found Bibi Dong among the victims in Boss Tu’s blood-filled village and attacked the men responsible. He killed several lackeys, but Boss Tu unleashed a devastating Soul Skill across the backyard.

• Wang Xiaoming entered the village and discovered Boss Tu and his men bathing in blood while draining kidnapped villagers.
• Wang Xiaoming recognized Bibi Dong’s light purple hair among the bodies and shot a lackey who had mocked the victims.
• Boss Tu revealed his Bloodthirsty Lion Martial Soul and attacked Wang Xiaoming, but Wang Xiaoming used the Dimensional Wall to redirect the blow and kill another lackey.
• Wang Xiaoming charged into the group and killed two more lackeys with his Kunai Sword.
• Boss Tu unleashed his Fourth Soul Skill, Blood Lion’s Frenzied Roar, which shattered the backyard and killed the lackeys in front of him.

Wang Xiaoming outmaneuvered Boss Tu and sent him through a Dimensional Wall into Spirit Hall, where the patrol arrested him. After Bibi Dong returned to the village, she found Wang Xiaoming burying the victims and asked whether he had seen her mother.

• Wang Xiaoming avoided Boss Tu's attack, pressed him for information, and faced his Mad Lion Transformation.
• Boss Tu boasted that bathing in blood had strengthened him, but Wang Xiaoming questioned how many of his victims had been Soul Masters.
• Boss Tu charged with his Stone-Shattering Claw, and Wang Xiaoming opened a Dimensional Wall that sent him to the central square at Spirit Hall.
• Spirit Hall patrol members arrested Boss Tu and threw him into a cell.
• Bibi Dong returned to the village and found Wang Xiaoming burying the victims; she asked whether he had seen her mother.

After the massacre of Bibi Dong’s village, Wang Xiaoming took her in and gave her the name Wang Dong'er. They returned through the Dimensional Wall to Wang Xiaoming’s home, where he began considering how time differed between the two places.

• Wang Xiaoming comforted Bibi Dong while the Spirit Hall group investigated the massacre and helped bury the villagers.
• Bibi Dong asked Wang Xiaoming to take her with him, and he agreed to treat her as his little sister and call her Wang Dong'er.
• Wang Xiaoming visited his family’s old residence in Heaven Dou City and carved a barcode into a tree as a mark for checking whether he had returned to the right place.
• Wang Xiaoming and Wang Dong'er passed through the Dimensional Wall smoothly, and he noticed that only about five minutes had passed at home despite his night and morning away.
• Wang Xiaoming told Wang Dong'er that his home was her home now.

Wang Xiaoming brought Wang Dong'er to live at the viscount's residence and told her to keep Bibi Dong's name secret. He introduced her to Meng Zhuang and arranged for the household to provide her with a room, meals, and clothes.

• Wang Xiaoming searched beneath the old locust tree for the mark he had carved, found nothing, and wondered if he had reached a parallel world.
• Wang Xiaoming reassured Wang Dong'er and told her to present herself as his little sister, Wang Dong'er, until she was six and could awaken her Martial Soul.
• Wang Xiaoming woke Meng Zhuang by blocking his nose with his foot while Wang Dong'er watched from the doorway.
• Wang Xiaoming introduced Wang Dong'er to Meng Zhuang and instructed him to arrange a room, meals, and clothes for her.
• Wang Dong'er greeted Meng Zhuang as Grandpa Meng, and he cheerfully went to prepare everything for her.

Wang Xiaoming practiced extending and focusing his Spiritual Power, then used it with the Dimensional Wall to locate Ning Rongrong in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. He appeared in her room and tried to wake her, while Xue Qinghe ordered Pufferfish to watch Wang Xiaoming from nearby.

• Wang Dong'er praised Grandpa Meng, and Wang Xiaoming joked that the old steward was not durable when stepped on.
• Xue Qinghe learned that Wang Xiaoming had vanished and returned with a little girl, then told Pufferfish to watch him without interfering unless his life was in danger.
• Wang Xiaoming trained his Spiritual Power by probing the area around his home and refining the focus of his observations.
• Wang Xiaoming used Ning Rongrong's clothes as an anchor and followed her Soul Power to locate her at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Wang Xiaoming traveled through the Dimensional Wall to Ning Rongrong's room and tried to wake her by tickling her nose with a hair.