Chapter Summaries

Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo discussed Meng Zhongqi’s advancement and his offer to join Spirit Hall, weighing the danger he posed and the political cost of recruiting him. Qian Daoliu decided to oversee Meng Zhongqi’s coronation and provisionally appoint him Spirit Hall’s fifth elder.

• Dugu Feng ordered gifts prepared and planned to support Meng Zhongqi after learning he had advanced to Titled Douluo.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo confirmed that Qian Jun’s report about Meng Zhongqi was authentic, including his rank ninety-three Soul Power and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Qian Daoliu explained that the Meng Family had deep foundations and warned that Meng Zhongqi’s destructive power made him someone Spirit Hall must not antagonize.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo pointed out that Meng Zhongqi was willing to accept Spirit Hall’s investiture and become an elder.
• Qian Daoliu considered rival powers and Spirit Hall’s need to secure Meng Zhongqi, then ordered Golden Crocodile Douluo to oversee the coronation.
• Qian Daoliu provisionally named Meng Zhongqi Spirit Hall’s fifth elder, leaving the Elder Hall rankings for later discussion.

Meng Zhongqi was crowned Ice Toad Douluo and appointed Spirit Hall’s fifth titled elder, while his hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring stunned the gathered powers. A rumor about his Martial Soul’s lifespan-shortening defect concealed the Meng Family’s plan to deter enemies and keep Spirit Hall from suspecting their ambitions.

• Qian Daoliu conducted Meng Zhongqi’s coronation in Spirit City, where Meng Zhongqi revealed nine Soul Rings, including a hundred-thousand-year ring, and was named Ice Toad Douluo.
• Qian Daoliu appointed Meng Zhongqi Spirit Hall’s fifth titled elder as Spirit Hall’s powerful elders gathered before the guests.
• Tang Chen and the other visitors recognized Spirit Hall’s overwhelming strength and abandoned any thought of challenging it.
• News of Meng Zhongqi’s promotion brought the ancient Meng Family into the continent’s attention, while rumors claimed his Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad Martial Soul shortened his lifespan.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and other Spirit Hall elders believed the rumor explained Meng Zhongqi’s request for leave, unaware that the Meng Family had spread it to lower Spirit Hall’s guard and warn off potential enemies.

Meng Qianqiu and Dugu Bo went to enroll at Heaven Dou City Junior Soul Master Academy after the five great secluded families pledged allegiance to Spirit Hall. Dugu Bo learned that Meng Qianqiu had reached rank fourteen Soul Power and pledged to follow him.

• Meng Zhongqi became Spirit Hall’s fifth elder, and the five great secluded families agreed to follow him in pledging allegiance to Spirit Hall.
• Dugu Bo invited Meng Qianqiu to attend the junior Soul Master Academy with him, and they discussed the academies and Spirit Hall’s monthly allowances.
• Meng Qianqiu and Dugu Bo rode to Heaven Dou City Junior Soul Master Academy and entered after submitting their documents.
• Dugu Bo asked Meng Qianqiu about his Soul Power and was shocked when Meng Qianqiu said he had reached rank fourteen in only a few months.
• Dugu Bo praised Meng Qianqiu’s talent and hard work, then vowed to follow him and hold his stirrup.

Meng Qianqiu enrolled at the junior Soul Master Academy and met the talented students in his dorm after stopping Wang Zhan’s mistaken ambush. His roommates learned of his extraordinary background, and Gui Mei explained that Meng Qianqiu attended because his family had joined Spirit Hall.

• Dugu Bo explained why he had chosen to follow Meng Qianqiu and helped him enroll at the junior Soul Master Academy.
• When Wang Zhan attacked him at the dorm room door, Meng Qianqiu activated Fire Roar and drove him back, then learned the attack had been a misunderstanding.
• Meng Qianqiu introduced himself to Wang Zhan, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei, who were astonished by his external Martial Soul and Soul Power level fourteen.
• Yue Guan recognized Meng Qianqiu as the heir to Heaven Dou’s Meng Family and guessed that Ice Toad Douluo was his grandfather; Meng Qianqiu confirmed it and asked them to keep it secret.
• Wang Hu questioned why Meng Qianqiu had come to study, and Gui Mei explained that the Meng Family had joined Spirit Hall, making school attendance necessary.

Meng Qianqiu learned about Gui Mei’s tragic past and offered Yue Guan a rare Vajra Chrysanthemum to help with his first soul ring. Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Wang Zhan accepted Meng Qianqiu’s offer to support their cultivation, and he invited them to lunch.

• Meng Qianqiu learned that Gui Mei’s parents had been killed by evil soul masters and that Gui Mei had awakened his Ghost martial soul after surviving the attack on his village.
• Yue Guan told Meng Qianqiu that he had reached rank ten and planned to hunt for his first soul ring.
• Meng Qianqiu offered Yue Guan a three-hundred-year-old Vajra Chrysanthemum, and Yue Guan accepted the rare spiritual herb.
• Meng Qianqiu promised to help Gui Mei and Wang Zhan obtain soul rings in the future, and all three agreed to follow his lead.
• Meng Qianqiu invited Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Wang Zhan to lunch at the small dining hall.

Meng Qianqiu met Dugu Bo, and the two One-Ring Soul Masters sparred at the academy training grounds. Meng Qianqiu’s poison immunity and enhanced strength overwhelmed Dugu Bo, who surrendered.

• Meng Qianqiu introduced Dugu Bo, the level-fourteen eldest son of the Dugu Family, to his dormmates, and Dugu Bo mistakenly thought Yue Guan was a girl.
• Wang Zhan suggested that Meng Qianqiu and Dugu Bo fight, and both agreed to test their skills.
• Dugu Bo revealed his Jade Phosphorus Snake King Martial Soul and hundred-year first Soul Ring, while Meng Qianqiu showed that his tiny Manggu Vermilion Toad was his External Martial Soul.
• Dugu Bo unleashed Jade Phosphorus Poison Fire, but Meng Qianqiu used Fire Roar to clear the poisonous smoke and boost himself for combat.
• Meng Qianqiu’s poison immunity and superior strength let him beat Dugu Bo in close combat, and Dugu Bo surrendered.

Meng Qianqiu defeated Dugu Bo with the Manggu Vermilion Toad’s poison and fire abilities, then brought Yue Guan to the Meng Family estate to obtain a Soul Ring. Yue Guan absorbed a three-hundred-and-sixty-year Vajra Chrysanthemum Soul Ring, reached rank twelve, and pledged his allegiance to the Meng Family’s faction.

• Meng Qianqiu explained that the Manggu Vermilion Toad was immune to poison and fire, then demonstrated its lethal red mist and overwhelmed Dugu Bo.
• Meng Qianqiu encouraged Dugu Bo by praising the potential of his Jade Phosphorus Snake King Martial Soul.
• Meng Qianqiu invited Yue Guan to the Meng Family estate and showed him the family’s vast flower valley and medicinal fields.
• Yue Guan harvested and swallowed a three-hundred-year-old Vajra Chrysanthemum, then absorbed its three-hundred-and-sixty-year Soul Ring.
• Yue Guan gained the enhancement-type Soul Skill Self-Admiration, advanced to rank twelve, and declared that he would serve Meng Qianqiu.

After two years of cultivation, Meng Qianqiu became an eight-year-old Soul Grandmaster, while his friends advanced rapidly but fell behind him. He invited them to visit his home, where he planned to give them rare Potential Potions that might let them obtain Thousand-Year Soul Rings as their second rings.

• Meng Qianqiu spent two years strengthening his body and cultivating, then returned to the academy as an eight-year-old Soul Grandmaster.
• Dugu Bo, Yue Guan, and the others reacted with shock to Meng Qianqiu’s breakthrough and compared their own cultivation progress with his.
• Gui Mei, Yue Guan, Wang Zhan, and Dugu Bo had each advanced in Soul Power, with Dugu Bo nearing rank twenty.
• Meng Qianqiu invited his friends to his home for a surprise and revealed that his grandfather, Meng Zhongqi, had created rare Black Potential Potions.
• Meng Qianqiu said the potions could help them absorb Soul Rings beyond their limits and might usher in an era of Thousand-Year second rings.

Meng Qianqiu defended the possibility of a thousand-year second Soul Ring and set out to test the idea. With Meng Zhongqi and Nangong Wan accompanying him, he absorbed a thousand-year Flame-Devouring Beast’s Soul Ring and gained a new fire-based skill.

• Meng Qianqiu argued that Soul Ring configurations had improved over time and said he would pioneer absorbing a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast for his fourth ring.
• Meng Zhongqi led Meng Qianqiu and Nangong Wan to Black Spirit Abyss and captured a thousand-year Flame-Devouring Beast.
• Meng Qianqiu’s Manggu Vermilion Toad killed the Flame-Devouring Beast with its poisonous red mist and absorbed its purple Soul Ring.
• Meng Qianqiu completed the absorption with little difficulty, and the Manggu Vermilion Toad gained a second Soul Ring.
• Meng Qianqiu activated his Second Soul Skill, Flamethrower, and the Manggu Vermilion Toad fired a beam of flame.

After acquiring a thousand-year second Soul Ring, Meng Qianqiu spent five years growing stronger alongside his companions and winning their allegiance. At graduation, he announced that he would enter Spirit Hall’s elite selection and fight for the Holy Son position as the first step toward the Pope’s throne.

• Meng Qianqiu displayed his yellow first and purple second Soul Rings at the academy, astonishing everyone with his thousand-year second ring and earning the allegiance of Dugu Bo, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Wang Zhan.
• Five years passed, and thirteen-year-old Meng Qianqiu and his companions prepared to graduate after the Meng Family’s resources helped them make rapid progress in Soul Power.
• Wang Zhan, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei discussed their plans after graduation, while Dugu Bo prepared to graduate from the Exotic Beast Academy.
• Meng Qianqiu explained that ordinary graduates joined Spirit Hall, served the Heaven Dou Empire, or pursued further study, but said his own ambitions lay beyond those paths.
• Meng Qianqiu declared that he would enter Spirit Hall’s elite selection, defeat Qian Xunji, claim the Holy Son position, and ultimately ascend the Pope’s throne.

Meng Qianqiu declared his ambition to become Spirit Hall’s Pope and decided to compete for the Holy Son position. After consuming Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, he broke through to rank forty and prepared to hunt a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast for his fourth ring.

• Meng Qianqiu told Yue Guan and the others he would enter the Elite Selection Tournament and first claim the position of Spirit Hall’s Holy Son.
• Dugu Bo, Wang Zhan, and the others agreed to compete, and Meng Qianqiu promised to further nurture them before the tournament.
• Meng Qianqiu consumed Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to strengthen his spiritual power and make up the Soul Power needed to reach rank forty.
• Meng Qianqiu broke through to rank forty and told Meng Zhongqi and Nangong Wan'er that he planned to hunt a Wind Fire Demon Dragon for his fourth Soul Ring.

Meng Qianqiu and his grandparents planned a route to the Fasinuo Great Wasteland to hunt Wind Fire Demon Dragons, choosing the safer path through Silves City. They arrived in Silves City, where Nangong Wan'er and Meng Qianqiu went to negotiate with the Speed Clan for the Bai Family’s Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng.

• Meng Zhongqi described the Wind Fire Demon Dragons in the Fasinuo Great Wasteland and outlined two routes for the Soul Hunting trip.
• Nangong Wan'er chose the longer, safer route, and Meng Qianqiu proposed trading a thousand-year torso bone for the Bai Family’s naturally eighth-grade spiritual herb.
• Nangong Wan'er volunteered to approach the Bai Family, while Meng Zhongqi warned her to respect the family’s ties to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Meng Zhongqi, Nangong Wan'er, and Meng Qianqiu traveled from Heaven Dou City through Jialing Pass and continued to Silves City.
• Nangong Wan'er and Meng Qianqiu presented a visiting card to Bai Jingyu to request a meeting with the Speed Clan’s patriarch, Bai He.

Nangong Wan'er traded a Thousand-Year Torso Bone and three purple potions for the Speed Clan's Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, which Meng Qianqiu planned to cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Later, as the group camped on Desolate Gold Plain, Wolf Bandits surrounded them under cover of night.

• Nangong Wan'er asked Bai Jingyu to sell the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and secured it by offering a Thousand-Year Torso Bone and three purple potential potions.
• Meng Qianqiu confirmed the herb was the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, and the group discussed Meng Zhongqi's cultivation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and whether two immortal herbs could sway Qian Jun and Jiang Mo.
• Meng Qianqiu criticized Qian Xunji's ambition and considered how Qian Daoliu's attitude could shape his own future in Spirit Hall.
• Meng Zhongqi led the group across the Gold and Iron Mountain Range toward Desolate Gold Plain and warned them about dangers in the region.
• Meng Zhongqi spotted Wolf Bandits approaching their camp at night, and Nangong Wan'er prepared to confront them.

Meng Qianqiu, Meng Zhongqi, and Nangong Wan wiped out the Wolf Bandits at Desolate Gold Plain, and Meng Zhongqi found a powerful Soul Bone suited to Nangong Wan. The chapter left Meng Qianqiu amazed by his grandparents’ ability to kill over a thousand bandits in the span of one incense stick.

• Meng Qianqiu ordered the Manggu Vermilion Toad to attack, and its Solar Beam killed numerous Wolf Bandits.
• Meng Qianqiu explained that the Manggu Vermilion Toad drew on sunlight and that its third Soul Skill grew stronger in bright conditions.
• Meng Zhongqi killed the Wolf Bandit leader and found a thirty-thousand-year Berserk Hurricane Right Leg Bone, which he offered to Nangong Wan.
• Nangong Wan declined to absorb the Soul Bone yet, saying she would wait until her Soul Power reached Level 89.
• Meng Qianqiu urged his grandparents to eliminate the remaining Wolf Bandits, and Meng Zhongqi and Nangong Wan slaughtered more than a thousand of them.
• Meng Qianqiu marveled that his grandparents had wiped out the Wolf Bandits in about one incense stick's time.

After resting in Vast Sea City, Meng Zhongqi and his companions traveled toward Dune City to hunt a ten-thousand-year Wind Fire Demon Dragon, but a pack of dragons appeared along the way. Meng Zhongqi revealed his Titled Douluo strength and confronted them, leaving the battle underway as he activated his Ice Toad True Body.

• Meng Zhongqi and Nangong Wan'er looted the Wolf Bandits’ corpses and found a twenty-thousand-year right arm bone, then rested in Vast Sea City before setting out for Dune City.
• While their camel caravan crossed the desert, its guide warned that Wind Fire Demon Dragons had been attacking travelers, and several dragons suddenly appeared.
• Meng Qianqiu watched the caravan’s Soul Masters form up against the dragons and reflected on the long conflict between humans and Soul Beasts.
• Meng Zhongqi stepped forward, revealed himself as a Titled Douluo and Spirit Hall’s fifth elder, and summoned his Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad with a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Meng Zhongqi unleashed his Ice Prison Poison Swamp domain, chilled the desert, and transformed with his seventh Soul Skill, Ice Toad True Body.

Meng Qianqiu absorbed a thirteen-thousand-year Wind Fire Demon Dragon soul ring and gained the rare Twin Wings of Wind and Fire external soul bone. Meng Zhongqi warned him to keep the bone secret until he had mastered it.

• Meng Zhongqi used his ultimate martial soul and soul skill to poison and bring down the Wind Fire Demon Dragons.
• Meng Qianqiu selected a thirteen-thousand-year Wind Fire Demon Dragon, killed it, and began absorbing its soul ring.
• Meng Zhongqi killed the remaining dragons and sent the rescued soul masters away.
• Meng Qianqiu successfully absorbed the soul ring and revealed the Twin Wings of Wind and Fire external soul bone.
• Meng Zhongqi recognized the bone's immense value and warned Meng Qianqiu not to reveal it to others.

Meng Qianqiu demonstrated his fourth Soul Skill, Seven Kill Wind Fire Edict, and returned home with Meng Zhongqi and Nangong Wan'er after their successful Soul hunt. He refused four powerful Soul Bones because he wanted to save his Soul Bone slots for his future plans, leaving Nangong Wan'er to absorb them.

• Meng Qianqiu showed Meng Zhongqi and Nangong Wan'er his fourth Soul Skill, a powerful wind-and-fire area attack, and revealed that his Soul Power had reached level forty-two.
• Meng Zhongqi praised Meng Qianqiu's achievements and urged the family to leave before trouble found them.
• Nangong Wan'er found a forty-thousand-year Wind Fire Demon Dragon left leg bone, and the family hurried home with three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones from the expedition.
• Nangong Wan'er offered Meng Qianqiu four top-grade Soul Bones, but Meng Qianqiu refused because their attributes did not suit his Martial Soul and he wanted to preserve his Soul Bone slots.
• Meng Zhongqi told Nangong Wan'er to absorb the Soul Bones, and she agreed while planning to pursue a breakthrough to Titled Douluo.

Meng Qianqiu returned from Soul Hunting with a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring and explained the spiritual-power requirements and Martial Soul principles for absorbing ten-thousand-year rings. He began nurturing his companions by giving Yue Guan a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, leaving Wang Zhan and the others eagerly waiting for their own rewards.

• Meng Qianqiu returned with a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring and told his companions that absorbing one safely required Spirit Sea Realm spiritual power.
• Meng Qianqiu explained spiritual-power realms and how Soul Masters could use their Martial Souls and Soul Beast relationships to weaken Soul Ring impacts.
• Meng Qianqiu gave Yue Guan a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and instructed him to consume its stamens and petals while saving its roots and stalk.
• Yue Guan consumed the immortal herb, gained five Soul Power ranks, and learned that it could help him reach Limit Douluo and possibly the demigod realm.
• Wang Zhan and the other companions asked Meng Qianqiu not to favor Yue Guan and looked to him for their own rewards.

Meng Qianqiu distributed immortal herbs to Gui Mei, Dugu Bo, and Wang Zhan, transforming their martial souls and raising their Soul Power. After the four thanked him, he told them to consolidate their strength and prepare for the elite selection tournament in three months.

• Meng Qianqiu gave Gui Mei the narcissus jade muscle bone, which raised his Soul Power to rank thirty-nine and awakened his martial soul into the Dark Night Sovereign.
• Gui Mei and Yue Guan noticed their Soul Power resonating and suspected that their increased compatibility had created a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but they agreed to investigate it later in private.
• Meng Qianqiu gave Dugu Bo an earth dragon golden melon, evolving his martial soul into the Golden-Eyed Earth Dragon and raising his Soul Power to rank thirty-nine.
• Meng Qianqiu gave Wang Zhan aromatic silk beauty, transforming his martial soul into the Golden Light War Tiger Emperor and raising his Soul Power to rank thirty.
• Meng Qianqiu urged the four to consolidate their strength and prepare to support him in the elite selection tournament in three months, and they agreed.

Meng Qianqiu and Ling Yuan met while registering for Spirit Hall’s Elite Selection Tournament, where the competitors’ age and Soul Power were checked. After Qian Xunji and his powerful team impressed the crowd, Meng Qianqiu prepared to enter the selection and test how Qian Daoliu would handle the contest for Spirit Hall’s Holy Son.

• Ling Yuan introduced herself as a fourteen-year-old level thirty-three Battle Soul Master, and Meng Qianqiu revealed that he was thirteen and level forty-five, with the Manggu Vermilion Toad as his External Martial Soul.
• A cardinal announced the preliminary requirements, causing most of the applicants to withdraw before the remaining competitors registered for age and Soul Power checks.
• Qian Xunji and his four companions passed the checks, drawing attention as a formidable team led by the Pope’s nine-year-old son.
• Ling Yuan worried that Qian Xunji’s team had secured the Holy Son position, but Meng Qianqiu encouraged her and said stronger competitors might still appear.
• Meng Qianqiu headed for the Soul Power test, eager to face Qian Xunji’s team and discover whether Qian Daoliu would appoint an heir by lineage or merit.