In the remote village of Xuanshui in Douluo Dalu, the boy Mu Chen has shared an inexplicable bond with the streams since childhood. Beneath his short, deep-blue hair lies a secret unknown to others. On the day of his Martial Soul Awakening at age six, he meets Su Ling'er, a girl misunderstood because her parents sacrificed themselves fighting Soul Beasts. Bound by shared hopes and hardships, their two innocent souls grow close.
When a Spirit Hall official from Nuoding City brings the light of awakening, Mu Chen's Martial Soul overturns everyone's expectations. It is neither an ordinary Beast Martial Soul nor a Tool Martial Soul, but a special existence deeply connected to the mysteries of water. His awakening also brings with it the untold past of his mother, Lin Xiu, the secret of the rusty blade in his father Mu Feng's hand, and a mysterious power hidden in his bloodline.
From the banks of the stream in Xuanshui Village to the classrooms of Notting Academy, from his first bewildered steps into the world of Soul Masters to the trials posed by Soul Beasts and human nature, Mu Chen advances step by step along the path of a Soul Master, carrying his promise to protect. With water as his blade and his soul as his edge, he will make friends, face powerful enemies, uncover the mystery of his origins, and carve out a dragon's path of "Xuanshui" amid the continent's turbulent power struggles. He will prove that a boy from an ordinary village can also raise storm waves mighty enough to change the age.
