Chapter Summaries

Tang Yan left Holy Soul Village after Tang Hao rejected him for choosing to join the Spirit Hall. He renamed himself Xiao Yan and began his new life in another world.

• Tang Yan thanked Old Jack for caring for him and left him half of his Spirit Hall stipend.
• After the Martial Soul Awakening, Tang Yan and Tang San fought because Tang Yan wanted to join the Spirit Hall.
• Tang Yan declared that he would repay Tang Hao and Tang San, but Tang Hao disowned him and ordered him to leave.
• Tang Yan refused Tang San's help, said goodbye to him, and left Holy Soul Village.
• Tang Yan vowed to become strong and took the name Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan and Su Yuntao entered the Soul Hunting Forest to find Xiao Yan his first Soul Ring, but the Flame Light Bird they encountered was far stronger than expected. Xiao Yan defeated it with a mysterious technique and collapsed beside its corpse, leaving a purple Soul Ring behind.

• Su Yuntao brought Xiao Yan into the Soul Hunting Forest and explained that they hoped to obtain a nearly four-hundred-and-thirty-year Flame Light Bird Soul Ring for him.
• The Flame Light Bird attacked, and Su Yuntao discovered it had reached the thousand-year level; he was injured while shielding Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan used fire to distract the beast and displayed uncanny footwork and ranged attacks as Su Yuntao fought it.
• Su Yuntao wounded the Flame Light Bird, but it struck toward Xiao Yan, who unleashed Eight Extremes Collapse with cyan flames and killed it.
• Su Yuntao saw a purple Soul Ring above the beast's corpse and praised Xiao Yan's potential as Xiao Yan collapsed from exhaustion.

While absorbing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, Xiao Yan learned from a flame-made figure called Yan Xiao that they had come from another world and that their body, spirit, and power had been divided and sealed. The figure taught Xiao Yan how to disguise Emperor Flame’s energy as Soul Rings, and Xiao Yan emerged with a plan to grow stronger and uncover their past.

• Su Yuntao worried that Xiao Yan was rushing by absorbing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his first Soul Ring, but stayed to guard him.
• Xiao Yan met a flame-made figure in a strange space who revealed that Emperor Flame contained their sealed memories and power.
• Yan Xiao explained that the Green Lotus Core Flame had broken through the seal to protect Xiao Yan when he was near death.
• Yan Xiao told Xiao Yan that they were from another world, where this world’s power had divided and sealed their body, spirit, and strength.
• Yan Xiao taught Xiao Yan to disguise Emperor Flame’s energy as a Soul Ring and explained that pure energy, including Soul Rings, could help break the remaining seals.
• As the space faded, Yan Xiao gave Xiao Yan the name Yan Xiao and urged him to grow strong enough to uncover their past and return to the other world.

Bibi Dong was astonished by Xiao Yan’s unusual cyan Soul Ring and recruited him into Spirit Hall as her disciple. After Hu Liena welcomed him as her junior brother, Xiao Yan began his new life as part of the Golden Generation.

• Bibi Dong questioned Xiao Yan about his family and whether they would approve of him joining Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Yan claimed he had no parents and wanted the strength to decide his own fate, moving Bibi Dong to offer to take him as her disciple.
• Xiao Yan accepted Bibi Dong as his master, and she advised him to rely on his own strength.
• Bibi Dong introduced Hu Liena, who welcomed Xiao Yan as her junior brother and promised that Spirit Hall would be his home.
• Bibi Dong welcomed Xiao Yan into the Golden Generation, and Hu Liena hugged him.

Xiao Yan defeated two young Soul Masters in Spirit Hall to discourage others from challenging his place as the Pope’s student. As he left the arena, Yan appeared and challenged him to a spar.

• Xiao Yan turned an opponent’s flames against him and quickly defeated him and a bear-type Soul Master.
• Xiao Yan asked whether anyone else wanted to challenge him, but the crowd fell silent.
• Xiao Yan explained to Yan Xiao that he had fought to prove himself and prevent envious people from questioning the Pope’s choice of student.
• Yan approached Xiao Yan, revealed his Flame Lord Martial Soul and level thirty-six Battle Soul Elder rank, and challenged him to a spar.

Xiao Yan fought Yan in the ruined arena, using his speed and cyan flames to overcome Yan’s greater strength and Soul Power. After Yan’s Hell Flame submitted to him, Xiao Yan challenged Yan to a final strike with a Fire Lotus, and the chapter ended as their attacks collided.

• Xiao Yan used Blast Step to dodge Yan’s attacks while Yan wondered whether his speed came from a Self-Created Soul Skill.
• Yan charged with his First Soul Skill, Magma Hell Charge, and clashed fists with Xiao Yan, but Eight Extremes Collapse wounded Yan’s left arm.
• Yan unleashed his Third Soul Skill, Hell Flame, but the flames stopped before Xiao Yan and submitted to his cyan fire.
• Xiao Yan fused the Hell Flame with his Green Lotus Core Flame to form a Fire Lotus and challenged Yan to decide the winner with one strike.
• Yan lit all three Soul Rings and charged with a granite fist as Xiao Yan thrust the Fire Lotus at him, and their attacks collided in an explosion.

Xiao Yan and Yan’s fierce battle ended when Pope Bibi Dong intervened to stop their strongest attacks. She named Xiao Yan the final member of the Golden Generation and left him poised to become one of Spirit Hall’s future leaders.

• Xie Yue told Hu Liena that Xiao Yan’s powerful Martial Soul had suppressed Yan’s Flame Lord and guessed the fight was already over.
• Bibi Dong stopped Xiao Yan and Yan’s attacks, and a healing-type Soul Emperor treated their injuries.
• Bibi Dong reprimanded Yan, who admitted he had gone too far and accepted responsibility for the fight.
• Xiao Yan also took responsibility, thanked Yan for the challenge, and pleaded for him.
• Bibi Dong forgave Yan, declared Xiao Yan the final member of the Golden Generation, and took Xiao Yan away.
• Xie Yue praised Xiao Yan’s judgment and encouraged Yan, while Hu Liena felt relieved that Bibi Dong had intervened.

Bibi Dong made Xiao Yan the fourth member of Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation and promised to provide him with the best cultivation resources. After leaving Pope's Hall, Xiao Yan reunited with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, beginning his future as part of their team.

• Bibi Dong introduced Xiao Yan to Ghost Douluo Gui Mei and Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, then explained that the Golden Generation included Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena.
• Bibi Dong invited Xiao Yan to become the Golden Generation’s fourth member and promised to nurture him; Xiao Yan called her family and accepted.
• Outside Pope's Hall, Hu Liena tearfully welcomed Xiao Yan, and Xie Yue introduced himself as her older brother.
• Yan acknowledged that Xiao Yan had beaten him, promised to repay the favor, and left after ruffling Xiao Yan’s hair.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and Xiao Yan stood together as the sun set over them.

Six years later, twelve-year-old Xiao Yan joined Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan in hunting a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast for his Soul Ring. After saving the others from the beast’s false-body explosion and killing its hidden true body, Xiao Yan stood ready to claim the black Soul Ring.

• Hu Liena briefly disrupted the ten-thousand-year Flame-Horned Lizard King, letting Xie Yue and Yan trap it with a coordinated attack.
• The Flame-Horned Lizard King shed a false shell and exploded, threatening Xie Yue and Yan.
• Xiao Yan used his speed to pull Xie Yue and Yan clear of the blast, then pinned the lizard’s hidden true body with his Black Ruler.
• Xiao Yan explained the beast’s bloodline mutation and thanked Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan for helping him hunt a Soul Ring.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue were revealed as level-fifty Soul Kings, Yan was close to becoming a Soul King, and Xiao Yan had grown into a formidable twelve-year-old talent.

Xiao Yan absorbed a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring during the Golden Generation’s trial in the Star Dou Great Forest, revealing another bizarrely colored ring. The four youths then headed deeper into the forest to hunt Yan’s fifth Soul Ring, unaware that their decision would change their futures.

• Hu Liena praised Xiao Yan, and Xie Yue told him to absorb his new Soul Ring while the others rested.
• Yan marveled at Xiao Yan’s talent, while Xie Yue recalled his unusual Martial Souls and Soul Rings and worried about the tensions surrounding Hu Liena.
• Yan remembered how Xiao Yan’s previous Soul Rings had taken strange colors, confusing Bibi Dong despite their Soul Power matching their actual ages.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring in half a stick of incense, and it appeared earthy yellow rather than purple.
• Xiao Yan concealed the truth that his apparent Soul Rings were formed from Heavenly Flame energy, then told the group to help Yan find his fifth Soul Ring.
• The four youths ventured deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest, unknowingly setting out on a course that would change their futures.

Xiao Yan and his companions found a powerful fire-and-earth giant ape in a lava lake and prepared to hunt it for Xiao Yan’s Soul Ring. Ghost Douluo warned them of its Titan Giant Ape bloodline but agreed to protect them if they defeated it themselves.

• Xiao Yan and the others spotted a young giant ape swimming in a lava lake and considered it as a target for Xiao Yan’s Soul Ring.
• Ghost Douluo appeared and warned the group that the giant ape’s Titan Giant Ape bloodline could draw the King of the Forest into a fight.
• Ghost Douluo explained that even he would not dare face the hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape directly.
• Xiao Yan asked Ghost Douluo whether he could get the group out safely if they hunted the giant ape.
• Ghost Douluo agreed not to help them hunt, but promised protection if they succeeded and said he had summoned Chrysanthemum Guan.

Xiao Yan and the Golden Generation put their plan into action to hunt the Magma Giant Ape, using Demon Charm and strengthening pills to weaken it while buying time for Xiao Yan’s reserved attack. The ape’s molten armor and furious counterattack put Yan between it and the others as the fight continued.

• Xiao Yan and the others discussed how to hunt the Magma Giant Ape, then split up to carry out their plan.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena used Demon Charm to weaken the Magma Giant Ape, while Xie Yue struck it with a Full Moon and wounded it.
• The Magma Giant Ape absorbed magma to form armor, then attacked the group with a powerful punch.
• Xiao Yan explained that Yan would take most of the strengthening pills and protect Xie Yue while he maintained Demon Charm.
• Xiao Yan told the Golden Generation that his reserved move would be their real attack, and the four joined fists before the battle.

Xiao Yan exhausted himself fusing three Heavenly Flames into a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, leaving Yan Xiao in control of his body. Yan Xiao unleashed the lotus against the giant ape, and Gui Mei vanished beneath its flames.

• Xiao Yan began fusing the green lotus core flame, fallen heart flame, and netherworld poison flame to attack the magma giant ape.
• Yan Xiao warned Xiao Yan that a three-flame Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus would kill him, but Xiao Yan said Yan Xiao could wield the soul power needed to survive it.
• Xiao Yan used up his strength and fell unconscious, allowing Yan Xiao to briefly control their body and access the Emperor Realm Soul's power.
• Yan Xiao sent Xie Yue and Yan out of danger and shielded them before launching the Fire Lotus at the giant ape.
• The Fire Lotus erupted and burned away everything beneath it, leaving Gui Mei nowhere to be found.

Xiao Yan’s devastating attack killed the giant ape but left him badly weakened, while Yan used a Green Lotus Core Flame Child Flame to absorb its Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and evolve his Martial Soul. The group’s relief ended when the furious roar of a hundred-thousand-year-old forest king echoed through the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Xiao Yan’s attack annihilated the giant ape, leaving only its Soul Ring, and a protective force kept Xie Yue and the others from harm.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan found Xiao Yan injured and weak, and Hu Liena supported him as they started toward the forest’s outskirts.
• Xiao Yan gave Yan a Green Lotus Core Flame Child Flame to strengthen him and help suppress the giant ape’s Soul Ring.
• Yan absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, and his Flame Lord Martial Soul evolved with cyan lotus patterns and flames.
• A furious roar shook the forest, and Xie Yue grabbed Yan and shouted for everyone to run from the hundred-thousand-year-old forest king.

Xiao Yan and his companions escaped the Titan Giant Ape after Gui Mei and Yue Guan rescued them with the Two Extremes Stillness Domain. Xiao Yan’s violet-gold blood reached the silver dragon in the Lake of Life, partly healing her and awakening Di Tian as she reclaimed the Soul Beasts’ worship.

• Xiao Yan tried to use Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus to protect Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, but Gui Mei rescued them before the Titan Giant Ape could strike.
• Yue Guan attacked the Titan Giant Ape with his ninth Soul Skill, and he and Gui Mei immobilized it with their Two Extremes Stillness Domain.
• Xiao Yan and the others fled the Star Dou Great Forest while Gui Mei and Yue Guan escaped the Titan Giant Ape as well.
• A drop of Xiao Yan’s violet-gold blood flew into the Lake of Life, where the silver dragon swallowed it and gained a measure of healing.
• The silver dragon’s movement awakened Di Tian, and the Soul Beasts bowed as their sovereign returned.

Bibi Dong praised Xiao Yan and Hu Liena, then named them Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and Holy Maiden and heirs to the papacy. An old man’s sudden show of power revealed a threat, and he spoke Xiao Yan’s name as angelic light descended.

• Bibi Dong praised the youths’ deeds in the Star Dou Great Forest, advised Xie Yue and Yan, and dismissed them.
• Bibi Dong comforted Hu Liena and embraced Xiao Yan, then led them to a public ceremony outside the Pope’s Palace.
• Hu Liena displayed her five Soul Rings, and Xiao Yan demonstrated his Twin Martial Souls before the gathered Spirit Hall members.
• Bibi Dong gave Hu Liena and Xiao Yan Holy Son Tokens and declared them first in line to succeed her as Pope, with the first to become a Titled Douluo taking the position.
• An old man appeared above the crowd and unleashed a wave of Soul Power; Bibi Dong dispersed it, and the old man vanished.
• The old man reappeared deep within Spirit Hall, said Xiao Yan’s name, and an angel’s light shone down.

Xiao Yan continued relearning alchemy in the workshop Bibi Dong had built for him, but his experiments with local materials could not make up for the absence of Magic Cores. After a day of failed testing, he left the workshop battered and no closer to solving the problem.

• Yan Xiao told Xiao Yan that his former teacher, Yao Lao, had taught him alchemy and then went dormant to recover.
• Xiao Yan replenished his soul power and prepared to refine pills in his alchemy room, which Bibi Dong had built and stocked with rare ingredients.
• Xiao Yan recalled how he and Yan Xiao had worked with master smiths to create a cauldron and refine their first batch of pills in this world.
• Xiao Yan recognized that Soul Rings produced poor results and that the lack of Magic Cores limited the quality and quantity of his pills.
• Xiao Yan spent a day testing a natural treasure as a possible substitute for a Magic Core, then left the workshop with his hair blown up and his face black.

After abandoning his dangerous experiments, Xiao Yan discovered a native pill made from Soul Beast blood essence and plants. Bibi Dong suggested the blood essence might be the missing ingredient in his pill refining, so Xiao Yan decided to return to the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Xiao Yan stopped refining pills after an explosion made him a notorious, soot-covered figure in Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Yan bumped into a young Soul Master and picked up the Mystic Water Pill he had dropped.
• The young Soul Master explained that the pill could cleanse the sinews and marrow and increase cultivation speed, and Xiao Yan gave him a Storage Soul Tool filled with precious medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan brought the pill to Bibi Dong, who suggested that Soul Beast blood essence might be the ingredient his pills lacked.
• Xiao Yan agreed that he would likely need to visit the Star Dou Great Forest again to refine true pills.

Xiao Yan saved Tang San from the Man Faced Demon Spider, and the childhood friends reunited after six years before clashing over Tang Hao. Xiao Yan left Tang San with the spider’s Soul Ring to absorb, but an eight-ringed old man arrived and threatened to draw him into a dispute over the kill.

• Tang San wounded the Man Faced Demon Spider with his Clear Sky Hammer, but its venomous counterattack let it escape before he could finish it.
• Xiao Yan arrived and pinned the fleeing spider with his Heavy Xuan Ruler, allowing Tang San to kill it with the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and claim its Soul Ring.
• Xiao Yan and Tang San recognized each other, laughed over their awkward reunion, and recalled the years they had supported each other as children.
• Tang San urged Xiao Yan to reconcile with Tang Hao, but Xiao Yan rejected the suggestion and revealed that he knew Tang Hao was the Clear Sky Douluo.
• Xiao Yan assured Tang San that he had not told his teacher about Tang Hao, destroyed Tang San’s Hidden Weapons with a punch, and walked away.
• An eight-ringed old man carrying a dragon-headed cane approached Xiao Yan, apparently bringing a dispute over ownership of the Man Faced Demon Spider.

Xiao Yan revealed his status as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and persuaded the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny to protect Tang San while he absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring. After Tang San learned who had helped him, he regarded Xiao Yan as an enemy and continued searching for Xiao Wu.

• Meng Yiran confronted Xiao Yan over the Man Faced Demon Spider, but Meng Shu stopped her and asked Xiao Yan about his origins.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Bibi Dong was his master and displayed his four Soul Rings, prompting Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang to recognize him as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son.
• Xiao Yan declined the Man Faced Demon Spider and asked Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang to protect Tang San, saying he was repaying a favor to Tang San’s father.
• Zhao Wuji and the others arrived as Tang San completed his breakthrough, and Meng Shu told him that Xiao Yan had arranged for his protection.
• Tang San learned that Xiao Yan had changed his surname and become Spirit Hall’s Holy Son, then privately decided that they were enemies and resumed searching for Xiao Wu.