Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating to Douluo Continent as Lin Qing, a boy born without a Martial Soul, Lin Qing encountered the million-year-old Chaos Lone Bamboo and accepted its inheritance. He awakened a Lone Bamboo Martial Soul fused with the bamboo, then headed back to Holy Soul Village while a six-year-old boy sensed that he had missed something important.

• Lin Qing recovered his memories in the bamboo forest and realized he had transmigrated into a frail orphan from Holy Soul Village who had awakened no Martial Soul.
• After Lin Qing's blood touched a bamboo root, the forest transformed and revealed the giant Chaos Lone Bamboo, which said it had awaited someone from another world.
• Chaos Lone Bamboo explained that Lin Qing's blood had awakened it and offered him its inheritance, which Lin Qing accepted.
• Chaos Lone Bamboo dissolved into green light and golden leaves that entered Lin Qing, awakening a Lone Bamboo Martial Soul and placing the bamboo's presence within his spiritual sea.
• Lin Qing summoned his new Martial Soul and set off to find Old Jack, while a six-year-old boy in Holy Soul Village woke with a sense that he had missed something important.

Lin Qing learned that his Lone Bamboo Martial Soul came from a being outside the Douluo Plane, then went to the village’s Martial Soul awakening and revealed a mutated Lone Bamboo with Innate Full Soul Power and a mysterious green halo. The chapter left him recognized as a genius alongside Tang San, who watched him closely.

• Lin Qing returned to Holy Soul Village, where Old Jack welcomed him home and fed him.
• Lone Bamboo told Lin Qing that they both came from outside the Douluo Plane and would need to reach God King level together to return to their former worlds.
• Old Jack took Lin Qing to the annual Martial Soul awakening, where Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass with Innate Full Soul Power.
• Lin Qing awakened a jade-like Lone Bamboo, and a green halo appeared around one of its joints as the crystal ball shone.
• Su Yuntao recorded Lin Qing’s Martial Soul as a beneficial mutation with Innate Full Soul Power, and Old Jack celebrated the village’s two places at Nuoding Academy.
• Tang San stared at Lin Qing as he left the crowd.

Lin Qing received his first Bloodline Soul Ring from Lone Bamboo and learned its passive Bamboo Breath abilities. He and Lone Bamboo agreed to rely on each other as partners, with Lin Qing naming him Ah Zhu.

• Lone Bamboo guided Lin Qing as a green Bloodline Soul Ring formed behind him and branded itself onto his back.
• Lone Bamboo explained that Bamboo Breath enhanced Lin Qing’s healing, endurance, poison resistance, and affinity with life.
• Lone Bamboo revealed that his power came from Chaos Qi and described the four rhythms of Bamboo Breath.
• Lin Qing experienced Bamboo Breath’s effects, including faster healing, greater stamina, poison cleansing, and reduced need for food.
• Lin Qing realized that Bamboo Breath would help him survive injuries, while Lone Bamboo warned that fatal wounds could still kill him.
• Lin Qing stopped calling Lone Bamboo “senior” and named him Ah Zhu, which Lone Bamboo accepted.

Lin Qing and Tang San entered Nuoding Academy, where Yu Xiaogang accepted them as disciples and led them to the Soul Hunting Forest. Lin Qing absorbed a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo Soul Ring, then faced a sudden attack from a creature hidden in the bamboo grove.

• Lin Qing and Tang San arrived at Nuoding Academy and met Yu Xiaogang, who recognized their Innate Full Soul Power and accepted them as disciples.
• Yu Xiaogang took the boys to the Soul Hunting Forest with his Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, and explained the limits for their first Soul Rings.
• Lin Qing chose a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo after Ah Zhu advised him to absorb a Soul Beast with the same origin as his Martial Soul.
• The bamboo transformed into green light and merged into Lin Qing, producing a strange green-gold Soul Ring that shocked Yu Xiaogang and confused Tang San.
• A pair of green eyes appeared in the grove and lunged at Lin Qing, who activated his first Soul Skill, Lone Bamboo Pole Vault, to leap into the air.

Lin Qing used Lone Bamboo’s powers to evade and kill a nearly four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake, then let Tang San absorb its Soul Ring. Yu Xiaogang questioned Lin Qing’s supposedly Ten-Year Soul Ring, and Lone Bamboo hinted that their fully fused First Soul Skill could break dimensional barriers.

• The Mandala Snake pursued Lin Qing, whose Bamboo Breath absorbed its venom and helped him vault through the forest while Tang San and Yu Xiaogang tried to slow it down.
• Lin Qing unleashed bamboo leaves that wounded the snake, then followed Lone Bamboo’s advice and pierced its vital point seven inches below its head.
• Bamboo roots spread from Lin Qing’s hand and Lone Bamboo, immobilizing the snake, and Lin Qing urged Tang San to absorb its Soul Ring.
• Tang San killed the Mandala Snake and began absorbing its yellow Soul Ring while Yu Xiaogang questioned Lin Qing’s extraordinary First Soul Skill.
• Lone Bamboo explained that the Soul Ring’s ten years had been its own and said their fully fused skill could break the dimensional barrier.

At Nuoding Academy, Lin Qing developed his strength, defeated Zhao Lei, and broke through to his second Soul Ring, gaining Bamboo Shadow Startling Swan. After graduation, he chose Heaven Dou Royal Academy to seek Dugu Bo, while Tang San chose Shrek Academy.

• Xiao Wu visited Lin Qing and sensed that he smelled like bamboo, and Lone Bamboo told him she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form.
• Lin Qing used his resilience and Lone Bamboo to defeat Zhao Lei in combat class, and no one challenged him afterward.
• After years of training, Lin Qing broke through to his second Soul Ring and learned Afterimage Clones, a burst of speed, and the Bamboo Shadow Sword.
• Yu Xiaogang offered Lin Qing and Tang San recommendation letters to Shrek Academy and Heaven Dou Royal Academy; Lin Qing chose Heaven Dou to find Dugu Bo, while Tang San chose Shrek.
• Lin Qing said goodbye to Tang San and Xiao Wu and left Nuoding Academy for Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Lin Qing arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and awakened his second Bloodline Soul Ring, Bamboo Heart, gaining the ability to sense his surroundings and create bamboo with a thought. After impressing the new students with his powers, he defeated Yu Tianheng in combat class, leaving the academy stunned.

• Lin Qing entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy and met Yu Tianheng, who warned him not to fail the next day's combat assessment.
• Lin Qing awakened Bamboo Heart with Ah Zhu's guidance and learned to sense distant surroundings and create bamboo in different forms.
• During Qin Ming's assessment, Lin Qing created a floating bamboo sword and cut through a stone pillar, surprising the students.
• Lin Qing spent a month winning combat-class challenges and expanding the ways he could shape bamboo.
• Yu Tianheng fought Lin Qing with his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, but Lin Qing used Bamboo Heart and his Soul Skills to defeat him with a giant bamboo sword.

At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Lin Qing challenged Dugu Yan and demonstrated that his Bamboo Heart ability could purify her Jade Phosphorus Snake Venom. He revealed that he knew her and Dugu Bo were poisoned, hoping Dugu Yan would tell her grandfather and give him a chance to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Dugu Yan defeated a fire-attribute Soul Master with her Jade Phosphorous Fire Poison during arena combat class.
• After Chaos Lone Bamboo sensed a place rich in life energy, Lin Qing connected it to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and decided to approach Dugu Yan.
• Lin Qing challenged Dugu Yan and used Bamboo Heart and Lone Bamboo Pole Vault to withstand her poison attacks.
• Dugu Yan charged through poison mist with her Second Soul Skill, but Lin Qing evaded her with Bamboo Shadow Startling Swan.
• Lin Qing used Bamboo Heart · Purification to dispel Dugu Yan's poison mist and told her that he knew her and Dugu Bo were suffering from the venom.
• Dugu Yan ended the spar and left, while Lin Qing expected her to tell Dugu Bo about him.

Lin Qing waited for Dugu Bo to investigate his ability to deal with poison, then revealed that he could purify toxins and offered to cure Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo stunned by Lin Qing’s demand to enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and choose its treasures.

• Lin Qing prepared ordinary antidote herbs as a pretext for demonstrating his poison-purifying ability to Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo arrived at the academy and tested Lin Qing by sending his poisonous Soul Power into Lin Qing’s body.
• Lin Qing’s Bamboo Breath countered the poison, and Dugu Bo realized Lin Qing could purify toxins rather than merely resist them.
• Dugu Bo explained that he had failed to cure Dugu Yan’s lifelong poisoning and admitted that Lin Qing gave him hope.
• Lin Qing offered to cure Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan in exchange for entering the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and choosing its heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
• Dugu Bo was shocked by Lin Qing’s demand.

Lin Qing persuaded Dugu Bo to take him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he planned to use the Immortal Herbs to awaken and fuse his bloodline. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo granting him several days to prepare a cure for the Jade Phosphorus Snake poison affecting him and his granddaughter.

• Lin Qing told Dugu Bo that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could help remove the Jade Phosphorus Snake poison and asked to be taken there.
• Dugu Bo threatened Lin Qing if his claims proved false, then led him through the poisonous barrier in the Sunset Forest.
• Lin Qing’s Bamboo Breath purified the poisonous miasma as they traveled, and they reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The life force in the valley awakened Lin Qing’s Bloodline Soul Ring, allowing his Bamboo Heart to sense the Immortal Herbs.
• Lone Bamboo said it could complete the bloodline fusion and awakening in three days, after which Lin Qing could cure the poison.
• Dugu Bo agreed to let Lin Qing use the medicinal herbs and cultivate there for several days, warning him not to touch the lake.

Lin Qing cultivated between the cold and hot springs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, using the Lone Bamboo’s guidance to temper his body with their opposing energies. By the end of the first day, his Soul Power had reached level twenty-eight, and the green lines across his body had darkened and spread.

• Lin Qing sat between the springs and learned from the Lone Bamboo that the valley’s life energy could help their fusion and transform his body.
• Lin Qing circulated his Dou Qi as the Lone Bamboo drew in the springs’ energy, and he endured the cold and heat as they coursed through his body.
• The bamboo breath guided the opposing forces through Lin Qing’s meridians until they became spiritual Qi and strengthened his body.
• Lin Qing sensed the life pulses of the immortal herbs, which shared traces of their origin power with him.
• Lin Qing’s Soul Power rose from level twenty-seven to level twenty-eight by the end of the first day, while the blue-green lines spread farther across his skin.

Lin Qing broke through to Soul Power level 30 while absorbing the powers of the cold and hot springs, and awakened his third Soul Skill, Bamboo Sea Emergence. After testing its bamboo forest domain, Lone Bamboo told him he could enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to complete his final bloodline awakening.

• Lin Qing endured the cold and hot energies as the Immortal Herbs helped him channel them through Bamboo Breath.
• Lin Qing broke through to Soul Power level 30 and condensed his third Soul Skill, Bamboo Sea Emergence, into a bamboo shoot in his palm.
• Lin Qing planted the bamboo shoot and spread a bamboo forest across a hundred zhang, then used it to move swiftly and launch bamboo leaves.
• Lin Qing sensed that the bamboo forest was his domain but that sustaining it consumed Soul Power.
• Lone Bamboo told Lin Qing to enter the waters of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for his final bloodline awakening.

Lin Qing absorbed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s origin forces and the immortal herbs’ essence, completing his Martial Soul Second Awakening and gaining a third Bloodline Soul Ring. After witnessing his transformation, Dugu Bo heard Lin Qing say he could cure his poison.

• Lin Qing swallowed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then followed Lone Bamboo’s guidance into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Lin Qing absorbed the well’s opposing ice and fire origin forces, which widened and strengthened his meridians and transformed Chaos Lone Bamboo.
• The immortal herbs’ essence flowed into Lin Qing as his body and Soul Power were refined, while his spiritual power spread across the valley.
• Dugu Bo arrived and saw Chaos Lone Bamboo rise from the spring with Lin Qing held at its top.
• Lin Qing emerged with three green Bloodline Soul Rings, and Dugu Bo recognized that he might have undergone a Martial Soul Second Awakening.
• Lin Qing told Dugu Bo that he could cure his poison.

Lin Qing used his ice, fire, and Bamboo Breath powers to begin cleansing Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan of their accumulated poison. After learning Spirit Hall had summoned him to the Golden Generation selection in Spirit City, he agreed to go.

• Lin Qing treated Dugu Bo, fading the poison patterns on his arm, and told him the cleansing would require at least three sessions.
• Dugu Bo led Lin Qing to Dugu Yan, who hesitantly agreed to let Lin Qing treat her poison.
• Lin Qing cleansed some of Dugu Yan's poison and said he would return in seven days for another session.
• On his way out of Sunset Forest, Lin Qing met Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, who told him Spirit Hall had come looking for him.
• Tang San gave Lin Qing Spirit Hall's letter inviting him to the Golden Generation selection in Spirit City, and Lin Qing agreed to attend.

Lin Qing and Cheng Du reached Spirit City, where Cheng Du assigned Lin Qing to house seventeen and told him to report to the training ground the next morning. Lin Qing used the Bamboo Soul to scout nearby rooms and streets, then prepared for the selection and to learn the city’s strength.

• Lin Qing and Cheng Du arrived in Spirit City after two and a half days of travel and passed through its guarded gate.
• Cheng Du led Lin Qing to a stone house in the western district, gave him an iron token marked seventeen, and told him to gather at the training ground the next morning.
• Lin Qing sent out the Bamboo Soul and sensed several residents nearby, including a person whose concealed presence suggested they were at least a Soul King.
• Lin Qing explored a nearby street with the Bamboo Soul, but withdrew it when someone noticed its presence.
• Lin Qing reviewed the Bamboo Soul’s range and abilities, then went to bed, intending to see Spirit City’s strength and boundaries for himself.

Lin Qing competed in the Spirit Hall selection, where twelve candidates fought for six places. He defeated the young man in gray and advanced, knowing stronger opponents still awaited him.

• Lin Qing followed Cheng Du to the training ground, where a red-robed man explained that candidates would draw lots and winners would advance.
• Lin Qing drew token seven and was paired with a young man in gray for the second match.
• Lin Qing watched a whip wielder defeat a saber wielder by defending until his opponent tired, then disarming him.
• The young man in gray attacked Lin Qing with a feint and a follow-up strike, but Lin Qing used Bamboo Sea Emergence to control the field and Lone Bamboo Pole Vault to evade him.
• Lin Qing froze the young man's wrist with cold air, and the young man conceded the match.

Lin Qing faced number five, a Soul Ancestor with the Evil Spirit Cat Demon Martial Soul, in his second selection match. He used his bamboo and cold Qi to control and defeat him, then left the arena with the bishops watching.

• A deacon told Lin Qing that his next match was against number five.
• Number five revealed the Evil Spirit Cat Demon Martial Soul and evaded Lin Qing's growing bamboo grove.
• Lin Qing spread frost across the ground, disrupting number five's movements and slowing him with cold Qi.
• Lin Qing restrained number five with Bamboo Heart and sealed his meridians with golden bamboo leaves, winning the match.
• The referee declared Lin Qing the winner, and a red-robed bishop gave him an extra glance as he left the arena.

Lin Qing decided to pursue a place in the Golden Generation to gain access to Spirit Hall’s resources and speed his path toward godhood. In the second-round trial, he defeated Sun Yan by sending ice and fire into his body past the Diamond Mammoth’s crystalline defense.

• Lin Qing asked Lone Bamboo how long it would take him to reach god level and decided to claim a place in the Golden Generation.
• At the western district training ground, the bishop announced that three contestants would fight in rotation and that anyone who lost both fights would leave.
• Lin Qing used Bamboo Sea Emergence to make a bamboo grove, but Sun Yan’s Diamond Mammoth armor resisted his cold Qi and his cudgel struck Lin Qing’s ribs.
• Lone Bamboo advised Lin Qing to attack Sun Yan from within, so Lin Qing used Lone Shadow Startling Swan and piercing bamboo leaves to get behind him.
• Lin Qing pressed ice and fire into Sun Yan at the same time, making the forces collide inside him and drop him to one knee.
• The referee declared Number seventeen the winner.

After winning first place in his competition area, Lin Qing received a Spirit Hall token and learned he would advance to the main competition area. He arrived there and was assigned a room, with the next stage set to begin the following morning.

• Lin Qing recovered from the strain of his ice-and-fire palm strike and received a Heavy Silver Spirit Hall token and 100 Gold Soul Coins for winning his competition area.
• Cheng Du told Lin Qing that someone would take him to the main competition area the next morning and warned that the competitors there would be tougher.
• Lin Qing assessed his skills and recognized that he still needed to improve his control of his techniques and the ice-and-fire energy.
• A middle-aged man escorted Lin Qing toward the main competition area, then left him to continue on his own.
• Lin Qing entered the main competition area, registered his name, and received a wooden plaque assigning him to West district, number twenty-four.
• Lin Qing found his room and circulated Bamboo Breath to prepare for the next morning's assembly.

Lin Qing arrived at the main competition area and learned that its selection matches were single-elimination, with only six competitors advancing. After watching the first two bouts, he faced his own opponent, and the chapter ended as their match was about to begin.

• Lin Qing spent the night examining his bronze token and went to the training ground the next morning with the other competitors.
• A gray-robed attendant explained that the top six would advance through a draw-based elimination competition, and Lin Qing drew token number three.
• Lin Qing watched the number one match end with the short-blade wielder defeating the Shadow Snake wielder.
• The number two match ended when one competitor knocked his opponent beyond the boundary with a palm strike.
• Lin Qing stepped onto the field to face a broad-armed man with old scars on his knuckles, and the attendant told them to begin.