Chapter Summaries

Meng Hongchen prepared to travel with Jing Hongchen to the Far North to obtain her second Soul Ring, while Bao Liang and Xiao Hongchen worried over their weakness and resolved to become stronger. After they left, Bao Liang drew Xiao Hongchen into the laboratory to help finish a magnetic bomb.

• Jing Hongchen confirmed that Meng Hongchen could absorb a Soul Ring of up to thirteen hundred years and planned to seek a pair of Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toads in the Far North.
• Xiao Hongchen thanked Bao Liang for helping Meng Hongchen advance, and Bao Liang accepted a packet of pastries.
• Meng Hongchen and Jing Hongchen departed for the Far North as Bao Liang and Xiao Hongchen saw them off and worried about the dangers of the journey.
• Xiao Hongchen said he would eventually travel to the Far North to learn the way for Meng, while he and Bao Liang agreed that they wanted to grow stronger to protect those important to them.
• Bao Liang invited Xiao Hongchen to help complete a magnetic bomb, and the two went to the laboratory while discussing their fear of death and mediocrity.

Bao Liang and Xiao Hongchen developed a magnetic attraction bomb, and Jing Hongchen helped them stabilize its formations before forcing them to focus on cultivation. They ended the chapter eager to build a higher-level version once their Soul Power and spiritual power were sufficient.

• Bao Liang showed Xiao Hongchen his magnetic attraction bomb, and Xiao identified how the formation order caused its energy circuits to interfere.
• Bao Liang told Xiao Hongchen that his Ultimate Flame could amplify Soul Tools, and the two agreed to keep the ability secret.
• Bao Liang and Xiao Hongchen presented their bomb to Jing Hongchen, who demonstrated how buffer gaps between formations stabilized the energy conversion.
• Jing Hongchen helped them create Level 2 and Level 3 versions, then sealed the laboratory and ordered them to cultivate.
• Bao Liang and Xiao Hongchen trained while Bao Liang refined his flame control, and they promised to make a stronger magnetic attraction bomb when their spiritual power grew.

Bao Liang proposed turning Meng Hongchen’s Ice and Fire Poison Ring into a defensive Self-Created Soul Skill, and he, Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen began developing it with Jing Hongchen’s support. After months of risky practice and Bao Liang’s advice, Meng Hongchen made progress, and the chapter ended with the family celebrating her eighth birthday.

• Meng Hongchen demonstrated her second Soul Skill, Ice and Fire Poison Ring, and explained how it strengthened her poison and spread it across an area.
• Bao Liang suggested that Meng Hongchen develop a defensive Self-Created Soul Skill based on historical techniques called Repelling Ice Ring and Repelling Fire Ring.
• Xiao Hongchen and Bao Liang arranged for a trusted healing-type Soul Master to supervise Meng Hongchen, and Jing Hongchen provided a training room and support.
• Meng Hongchen practiced for months, while Xiao Hongchen studied Soul Power control and Bao Liang offered advice that helped her push the ring outward, though it sent him flying.
• Bao Liang prepared longevity noodles for Meng Hongchen’s eighth birthday, Xiao Hongchen gave her Soul Tool hair ornaments, and Jing Hongchen watched the children celebrate together.

Bao Liang reached level twenty after months of cultivation, and Jing Hongchen prepared to take him and Xiao Hongchen to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain their next Soul Rings. The Hongchen family set out together, beginning the long journey toward the forest.

• Bao Liang broke through to level twenty, and Jing Hongchen confirmed that his Soul Power foundation was solid enough for a Soul Beast around 5,000 years old.
• Jing Hongchen announced that the family would travel to the Star Dou Great Forest for Bao Liang's and Xiao Hongchen's Soul Rings, while Bao Liang and Xiao Hongchen teased and chased each other around the courtyard.
• Jing Hongchen checked that he had brought three Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Bombs, and Bao Liang packed snacks and his Immortal Herb Catalogue for the trip.
• The next morning, Uncle Li and the servants loaded supplies into the soul guidance vehicle, and Jing Hongchen reminded the children to follow his orders and avoid acting recklessly in the forest.
• The group traveled toward a border town near the Ming Dou Mountain Range, where Jing Hongchen planned to rest before leading them on foot into the Star Dou Great Forest.

Jing Hongchen took Bao Liang, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen across the border to the Star Dou Great Forest so they could hunt Soul Beasts and gain combat experience. After crossing the military defenses, he left the three children to test their teamwork in the forest.

• Jing Hongchen brought the children to the Ming Dou Mountain Range military camp and explained his trip to Commander Wang Yiheng.
• Wang Yiheng accepted Jing Hongchen’s explanation that he was taking the children to hunt Soul Beasts and wished them a safe journey.
• Jing Hongchen led the group across the border defenses, and Xiao Hongchen revealed his admiration for the military and battlefield environment.
• At the Star Dou Great Forest’s outskirts, Jing Hongchen equipped the children with defensive Soul Tools and challenged them to fight Soul Beasts.
• Xiao Hongchen assigned Bao Liang to take point and guard against danger, Meng Hongchen to cover the flanks, and himself to provide rear support as they entered the forest.

Bao Liang, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen fought a pack of Hell Wolves in the Star Dou Great Forest, then reviewed their mistakes and refined their teamwork. Jing Hongchen watched from the shadows and quietly withdrew, leaving the children to continue toward fiercer battles deeper in the forest.

• Bao Liang detected a pack of Hell Wolves approaching, and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen took their positions for the planned fight.
• Bao Liang charged the wolves while Xiao Hongchen covered the rear with Soul Guidance Ray Guns and Meng Hongchen guarded the flank with poison.
• Bao Liang killed the wolf king by planting a bomb on its face, and the surviving wolves fled or fell to Meng Hongchen's poison.
• Bao Liang, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen examined the wolf king's corpse and discussed how to judge a Soul Beast's age.
• The three reviewed their combat mistakes and discussed how to improve their coordination, while Jing Hongchen watched from the shadows before quietly leaving.

Bao Liang and Xiao Hongchen used Bao Liang’s talents to lure a Soul Beast, drawing out a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear. Xiao Hongchen chose to claim its two-thousand-year Soul Ring and began absorbing it, while Bao Liang silently considered the effects of his attack.

• Bao Liang proposed making Xiao Hongchen bait by spreading the metal-element scent of his Martial Soul, and Xiao agreed after Jing Hongchen gave him the Level 9 Soul Tool Red Dust Protection.
• Jing Hongchen and Meng Hongchen hid in the canopy while Bao Liang injected Hot Core and Deflagration into Xiao Hongchen, but a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear soon appeared and attacked them.
• Bao Liang struck the bear with a Destruction Bomb, and Xiao Hongchen pulled him clear of its claws before Jing Hongchen intervened and pinned the injured beast down.
• Xiao Hongchen stopped Jing Hongchen from killing the bear and insisted on taking its Soul Ring as his Third Soul Ring; Jing Hongchen broke its bones, and Xiao killed it.
• Xiao Hongchen began absorbing the two-thousand-year Soul Ring and suffered intense pain, while Bao Liang silently examined his right hand and recalled his attack's feedback.

Bao Liang and Jing Hongchen found an External Soul Bone in the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and gave it to Xiao Hongchen, who gained powerful new abilities. As Jing Hongchen led the group to find a Fire Sylph for Bao Liang’s Second Soul Ring, Meng Hongchen asked whether something was wrong with Bao Liang’s Martial Soul.

• Bao Liang suggested searching the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s corpse, and Jing Hongchen found an External Soul Bone in its right paw.
• Bao Liang and Meng Hongchen declined the bone, so Jing Hongchen gave it to Xiao Hongchen, who absorbed it after finishing his Soul Ring.
• Bao Liang told Jing Hongchen he wanted an elementalization Soul Skill, and Jing Hongchen promised to take him to find a Fire Sylph.
• Xiao Hongchen revealed his Gold Condensation Soul Skill and Dark Gold Dreadclaw abilities after absorbing the bone.
• Jing Hongchen led the group toward the Fire Sylph habitat, where Meng Hongchen asked Bao Liang if something was wrong with his Martial Soul.

Bao Liang tested the limits of his First Martial Soul and learned that its explosive power depended on how closely his strength matched his target’s. Jing Hongchen then brought the group to a Scarlet Flame Dragon Crystal Vein, where Meng Hongchen suggested Bao Liang use his Ultimate Flame to deal with the Fire Sylphs hidden inside the ore.

• Bao Liang asked Jing Hongchen to find Soul Beasts of different ages and bloodlines so he could test his Martial Soul.
• After testing more than a dozen Soul Beasts, Bao Liang concluded that his bomb’s effectiveness depended on his Soul Power, Martial Soul strength, physical stats, and spiritual strength.
• Jing Hongchen reassured Bao Liang that his Martial Soul’s limits were reasonable, since being able to kill a Titled Douluo with one blast would attract dangerous attention.
• Jing Hongchen took Bao Liang, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen to a Scarlet Flame Dragon Crystal Vein and explained that Fire Sylphs nested inside its indistinguishable ore and marrow.
• Meng Hongchen suggested that Bao Liang use his Ultimate Flame to overcome the difficulty of obtaining a suitable Soul Ring, and the others agreed.

Bao Liang used his Ultimate Flame to lure the Fire Sylphs from the earth vein and encountered a Blueflame Dragon Fire Sylph. After giving up its Blue Flame Dragon Crystal Earth Vein Pith, the Sylph plunged into Bao Liang’s right eye, and its sacrifice began.

• Jing Hongchen agreed with Meng Hongchen’s suggestion that Bao Liang could use his Ultimate Flame to draw out the Fire Sylphs, and Xiao Hongchen gave Bao Liang Red Dust Protection.
• Bao Liang released his Ultimate Flame at the earth vein, awakening its scarlet flames and drawing dozens of Fire Sylphs around him.
• Bao Liang noticed that some Fire Sylphs resembled dragon skulls and followed the group’s opened passage toward the brightest flames.
• A Blueflame Dragon Fire Sylph approached Bao Liang, examined his flames, and returned carrying a piece of Blue Flame Dragon Crystal Earth Vein Pith.
• The Blueflame Dragon Fire Sylph absorbed the pith’s energy and plunged into Bao Liang’s right eye, sending red and blue light through the earth vein as its sacrifice began.

Bao Liang completed the Sacrifice and gained a twenty-three-thousand-year Second Soul Ring from the mutated Fear Blue Flame Sylph, along with a dragon-patterned eye and a boost to level twenty-eight. After the Fire Sylphs gave him valuable ore, they recognized Jing Hongchen as the one who had killed their patriarch’s son and daughter-in-law, forcing the group to flee.

• Jing Hongchen explained that intelligent soul beasts could perform a Sacrifice, while he and the Hongchen siblings waited for Bao Liang’s ritual to finish.
• Bao Liang absorbed the mutated Fear Blue Flame Sylph’s twenty-three-thousand-year Soul Ring, reached level twenty-eight, and gained a blue dragon pattern in his right eye.
• Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Jing Hongchen checked on Bao Liang, and the Fire Sylphs gave him scarlet flame dragon crystal ore and earth vein marrow ore.
• A Fire Sylph recognized Jing Hongchen and alerted the others, who attacked him and the group.
• Bao Liang told Jing Hongchen that he had previously killed the patriarch’s son and daughter-in-law while they were mating, and Jing Hongchen fled with the others under the clan’s bombardment.

After escaping the Fire Sylphs, Bao Liang revealed his second Soul Skill and learned that the surviving Blueflame Dragon Fire Sylph could fight beside him as a Fear Demon Dragon-like companion. He named it Dragon Fang, and after a week of intense training in the Star Dou Great Forest, Bao Liang, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen returned to the Sun Moon troops greatly improved.

• Bao Liang explained that Molten Fire Thousandfold Forging let him become elemental, reshape objects and Soul Power, and conceal the age of his Soul Rings, then revealed that the Blueflame Dragon Fire Sylph had survived inside his right eye.
• Jing Hongchen recognized the skeletal dragon head as resembling a Fear Demon Dragon and reasoned that dragon blood had mutated the Fire Sylph, giving Bao Liang a living companion with spiritual intimidation abilities.
• Bao Liang named the creature Dragon Fang, and he, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen chose to remain in the Star Dou Great Forest for training.
• Over the next week, Xiao Hongchen refined Gold Condensation, Meng Hongchen developed her Poison Repelling Ring, and Bao Liang and Dragon Fang experimented with their combined abilities while the trio improved their teamwork.
• A week later, Bao Liang, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen reached the Sun Moon troops in the Ming Dou Mountain Range and celebrated that their training was over.

After returning from wilderness training, Jing Hongchen realized that Wang Yiheng had reported his trip and his suspicious handling of Bao Liang’s information to Crown Prince Xu Tianran and Kong Deming. Wang Yiheng told him that Kong Deming wanted to see his granddisciples, leaving Jing Hongchen convinced he was doomed.

• Bao Liang, Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen returned to the military camp exhausted and eager for hot food, baths, and beds.
• Jing Hongchen reassured himself that Mingde Hall was safe and celebrated the group’s gains from their trip.
• Jing Hongchen saw Wang Yiheng waiting at the camp and remembered that he had reported Jing’s departure from the Sun Moon border.
• Wang Yiheng told Jing Hongchen that Crown Prince Xu Tianran and Kong Deming already knew about the trip, and that Kong Deming had summoned his granddisciples.
• Jing Hongchen panicked over Kong Deming learning about his concealment of information concerning Bao Liang.

Jing Hongchen brought Bao Liang and the Hongchen siblings to meet Crown Prince Xu Tianran, who questioned him about hiding Bao Liang’s rare talent. Jing Hongchen concealed the true nature of Bao Liang’s Martial Soul, and Xu Tianran let them leave while privately ordering Ju Zi to explain Jing Hongchen’s motives.

• Jing Hongchen led Bao Liang, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen to the palace, where they met Xu Tianran and Ju Zi.
• Xu Tianran praised the children and confronted Jing Hongchen for failing to report Bao Liang’s Innate Full Soul Power.
• Jing Hongchen claimed Bao Liang had a volatile Explosion Martial Soul and described his talent as comparable to Xiao Hongchen’s.
• Xu Tianran offered resources to help Bao Liang, and Jing Hongchen thanked him before departing for the Imperial Worship Hall.
• After they left, Xu Tianran accused Jing Hongchen of deceiving him, but Ju Zi argued that he was protecting Bao Liang as a prospective grandson-in-law.
• Xu Tianran accepted Ju Zi’s explanation for now and resolved to settle accounts with Jing Hongchen after ascending the throne.

Jing Hongchen brought Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Bao Liang to meet Kong Deming, who scolded him for concealing Bao Liang and then warmly questioned the children. When Kong Deming demanded to know Bao Liang’s background, Jing Hongchen asked him to secure the hall, and Kong Deming sealed it against intrusion and detection.

• Kong Deming seized Jing Hongchen by both ears and berated him for hiding Bao Liang from his teacher and the imperial family.
• Kong Deming praised Xiao Hongchen and Bao Liang for their Magnetic Attraction Array idea and offered to review their design plans.
• Xiao Hongchen told Kong Deming about his new Third Soul Ring and Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear External Soul Bone, while Kong Deming checked on Meng Hongchen’s health.
• Kong Deming questioned Bao Liang about his talent and Soul Tool studies, then demanded that Jing Hongchen reveal the boy’s background.
• Jing Hongchen asked Kong Deming to secure the hall, so Kong Deming activated layers of barriers and demanded that he speak.

Jing Hongchen revealed Bao Liang’s extraordinary Martial Souls and abilities to Kong Deming, who scolded him for hiding the truth before considering how Bao Liang should be trained. The chapter ended with Kong Deming proposing Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao as Bao Liang’s Martial Soul teacher, despite his ties to Evil Soul Masters.

• Jing Hongchen told Kong Deming everything he knew about Bao Liang’s Twin Ultimate Martial Souls, talents, Soul Ring, and rescued Soul Beast.
• Kong Deming twisted Jing Hongchen’s ear and berated him for hiding Bao Liang’s potential and risking his cultivation.
• Kong Deming decided he could oversee Bao Liang’s Soul Tool training but needed another expert to teach him about his Martial Souls.
• Kong Deming offered to seek out a teacher with ties to Evil Soul Masters, and Bao Liang agreed to hear the proposal.
• Kong Deming named Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao, a Level 99 Limit Douluo with the Dark Holy Dragon Martial Soul, as Bao Liang’s potential teacher.

Bao Liang learned that the teacher Kong Deming had chosen for him was Long Xiaoyao, a powerful figure in the Holy Spirit Cult whom Jing Hongchen respected. Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen agreed to seek Long Xiaoyao’s permission, but after nearly half a month of teaching the children at the Worship Hall, they still had no idea where he had gone.

• Bao Liang recognized Long Xiaoyao’s name and worried that his prospective teacher was the Holy Spirit Cult’s grand elder.
• Jing Hongchen explained that Long Xiaoyao had helped him counter Evil Soul Masters and supported Bao Liang becoming his disciple.
• Kong Deming warned Bao Liang to keep his twin Ultimate Martial Souls secret and offered to teach the children Soul Tool knowledge while searching for Long Xiaoyao.
• Kong Deming taught Bao Liang, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen at the Worship Hall, while Jing Hongchen returned to Mingde Hall to manage its affairs.
• Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming searched through their contacts and intelligence networks, but Long Xiaoyao remained missing.
• Jing Hongchen looked out into the night and regretted not searching the barbecue restaurant first.

Bao Liang obtained the Soul Devourer carving knife and recognized that it was actually Gold of Life, though he chose not to risk using it recklessly. Later, his suggestion that metal could be purified through forging gave Kong Deming a breakthrough, and Kong summoned Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin to the Worship Hall.

• Bao Liang asked Jing Hongchen for the Soul Devourer carving knife, and Jing reluctantly had it brought to him.
• Bao Liang recognized that Soul Devourer was a piece of Gold of Life and decided to nurture it cautiously with his Ultimate Flame rather than use it recklessly.
• Kong Deming explained Life-Bound Soul Tools, and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen's questions gave him new ideas about their materials and growth.
• Bao Liang suggested that Ultimate Flame might purify metal and proposed forging as a way to remove impurities.
• Kong Deming realized repeated forging could strengthen Soul Tool metals and excitedly summoned Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin to the Worship Hall.

Kong Deming summoned Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin after Bao Liang, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen proposed new ideas for Soul Tool Technology. Xiao Hongchen became Kong Deming’s disciple, while Meng Hongchen asked Ye Yulin to teach her, leaving both children with masters.

• Kong Deming told Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin that the children had suggested using space as a carrier, letting Life-Bound Soul Tools grow, and forging metal to remove impurities.
• Jing Hongchen connected the forging idea to the Tang Sect Hidden Weapons Sun Moon had seized and proposed studying the techniques behind their quality.
• Bao Liang suggested that Xiao Hongchen’s metal-controlling Three-Legged Golden Toad Martial Soul made him an ideal forging student, and Kong Deming asked Xiao to become his disciple.
• Xiao Hongchen accepted Kong Deming’s offer, and Kong Deming told him there was no need to kneel.
• Meng Hongchen asked Ye Yulin to teach her, and he agreed after Jing Hongchen gave his approval.

Bao Liang joked with Jing Hongchen during the discipleship arrangements, then the group turned to Kong Deming’s plans to investigate forging. Xiao Hongchen proved uniquely able to sense metal’s inner structure, and Kong decided to keep the forging research secret as the chapter ended with the Worship Hall lit through the night.

• Bao Liang teased Jing Hongchen by offering to become his master, then kowtowed and accepted Jing Hongchen as his own master after Jing chased him around the hall.
• Kong Deming assigned the forging workshop to be set up within three days, arranged Meng Hongchen’s apprenticeship with Ye Yulin, and told Xiao Hongchen to visit the Worship Hall often.
• Kong Deming told Bao Liang to leave the Soul Devourer alone while Long Xiaoyao remained missing and warned him that he had other arrangements for Bao Liang’s Martial Soul cultivation.
• Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, Ye Yulin, and the three children revisited Bao Liang’s idea of forging, but only Xiao Hongchen could sense metal’s microscopic structure clearly enough to guide the process.
• Kong Deming connected forging to old blacksmithing and Tang Sect materials the Sun Moon Empire had overlooked, then decided to conceal the research from the imperial family and the outside world.