Chapter Summaries

Du Bai responded to a bearded man's probing by revealing his nine soul rings and demonstrating his power. He wounded the man and ordered him and his two companions to leave while Yu Chenglong continued absorbing his soul ring.

• The bearded man questioned Du Bai about his cultivation and tried to provoke him into a spar.
• The bearded man used his First Soul Skill, Frenzied Spikes, to attack Du Bai, but Du Bai caught the spikes with his Soul Power.
• Du Bai revealed nine soul rings and prepared to fire Barrett Destroyer at the bearded man and his companions.
• Du Bai shot a patch of flesh from the bearded man's leg and warned the three men to leave.
• The bearded man apologized and hurried away with his two companions.

Yu Chenglong absorbed a two-thousand-five-hundred-year Myriad Phenomena Poison Devouring Demonic Mosquito soul ring and gained the Demonic Mosquito Poison Tide skill. He and Du Bai returned to camp, where Sun Meilan asked to see the new skill.

• Yu Chenglong completed his soul-ring absorption, reaching level thirty-two as Nightmare changed slightly.
• Yu Chenglong told Du Bai that his new third soul skill was called Demonic Mosquito Poison Tide, but said he wanted an opponent to demonstrate it.
• Du Bai and Yu Chenglong returned to camp while Du Bai's clone went to clean the jade vessel containing poisonous blood.
• Yu Chenglong told Zheng Datong and the others that he had absorbed the soul ring of a two-thousand-five-hundred-year soul beast with Du Bai's help.
• Sun Meilan asked Yu Chenglong to demonstrate his third soul skill.

Yu Chenglong agreed to test his third soul skill by sparring with Li Yuyi, while Zheng Datong wagered that Li Yuyi would lose. The two Soul Elders began fighting, and Li Yuyi halted when Yu Chenglong unleashed a cloud of poisonous mosquitoes.

• Sun Meilan offered to spar with Yu Chenglong, but he refused because his poison might hurt her.
• Zheng Datong suggested that Li Yuyi serve as Yu Chenglong’s opponent, and Li Yuyi accepted the challenge.
• Zheng Datong promised to kneel, kowtow, and send Li Yuyi out of Sunset Forest if he defeated Yu Chenglong, then warned Yu Chenglong not to throw the match.
• Yu Chenglong and Li Yuyi released their martial souls and revealed matching yellow, yellow, and purple soul rings.
• Li Yuyi charged with his third soul skill, Gravity Wolf Claw, while Yu Chenglong unleashed Demonic Mosquito Poison Tide, forcing Li Yuyi to stop before the poisonous swarm.

Yu Chenglong’s Demonic Mosquito Poison Tide overwhelmed Li Yuyi and left him incapacitated, demonstrating how the mosquitoes drained and disrupted an opponent’s Soul Power. Yu Chenglong recalled the swarm, which could also restore his own Soul Power.

• Li Yuyi tried to evade Yu Chenglong’s poison mist as Nightmare released more swarms that combined into a giant Three-headed Demonic Mosquito.
• The giant mosquito charged Li Yuyi, who activated his Gravity Frenzy Claw and tore it in half.
• The mosquito split into tiny poisonous mosquitoes that covered and bit Li Yuyi, poisoning him and draining his Soul Power until his martial soul manifestation vanished.
• Yu Chenglong explained that his Demonic Mosquito Poison Tide weakened enemies and replenished his Soul Power when he recalled the mosquitoes.
• Yu Chenglong recalled the swarm from Li Yuyi as Nightmare opened its mouth.

Yu Chenglong absorbed the Demon Tumor Poison Mosquitoes into Nightmare and demonstrated how his third soul skill had strengthened him. Du Bai promised to protect his disciple and encouraged him to fight boldly at the Heaven Dou Soul Fighting Arena the next day, while Xie Burong and his brothers feared Yu Chenglong’s power.

• Nightmare swallowed the returning Demon Tumor Poison Mosquitoes, grew stronger, and returned to Yu Chenglong.
• Du Bai worried that Yu Chenglong’s vicious third soul skill might provoke hostility, but resolved to protect him from anyone who targeted him.
• Yu Chenglong thanked Du Bai for helping him obtain a powerful soul ring and said his soul skill had increased his cultivation.
• Du Bai warned Yu Chenglong to use the skill discreetly when alone, but promised to confront anyone who came after him.
• Du Bai urged Yu Chenglong to fight freely at the Heaven Dou Soul Fighting Arena the next day, and Yu Chenglong vowed to defeat the challengers.
• Zheng Datong and Sun Meilan praised Yu Chenglong, while Xie Burong and his brothers looked fearfully at the battered Li Yuyi and Yu Chenglong’s strength.

Du Bai agreed to help Zheng Datong, Sun Meilan, and Lin Yuchun hunt for soul rings, while Xie Burong and his three brothers begged to become his followers. Du Bai refused and let his companions punish the brothers; Sun Meilan began by unleashing her Full Moon Slash.

• Du Bai and the others decided to hunt soul beasts together so Zheng Datong, Sun Meilan, and Lin Yuchun could obtain soul rings.
• Sun Youcheng thanked Du Bai for agreeing to help, and Sun Meilan and Lin Yuchun also expressed their gratitude.
• Zheng Datong complained about the brothers’ stench, but Du Bai refused to take them in and ordered them to endure punishment before leaving.
• Xie Burong and his brothers begged Du Bai for protection from Evil Douluo, but he threatened them into silence.
• Zheng Datong urged Sun Meilan to vent her anger on the brothers, and she released her Mad Blade martial soul and used her Second Soul Skill, Full Moon Slash.

Sun Meilan wounded Xie Burong and his four brothers, then Zheng Datong tormented them by rubbing salt into their wounds. After Sun Meilan was satisfied, Du Bai and the others resumed their journey to hunt soul beasts.

• Sun Meilan used her second soul skill to slash Xie Burong and his four brothers, deliberately avoiding vital areas.
• Zheng Datong took salt from Sun Meilan and claimed that rubbing it into their wounds would help them heal.
• Zheng Datong sprinkled salt on Xie Burong, Zhan Yongbiao, and the other two brothers, forcing them to thank him; Zhan Yongbiao fainted from the pain.
• Sun Meilan thanked Zheng Datong, and he returned with her to Du Bai and the others after finishing the punishment.
• Du Bai, Yu Chenglong, Zheng Datong, Sun Youcheng, and the others packed up and set off to continue hunting soul beasts, while Sun Meilan and Lin Yuchun supported Sun Youcheng.

After Du Bai and his companions left, Xie Burong’s group decided to flee the Heaven Dou Empire and kill Li Yuyi to protect their whereabouts. Li Yuyi fought back with a death wish, fatally wounding Zhan Yongbiao before Xie Burong struck him down; Xie Burong then prepared to end Zhan Yongbiao’s suffering.

• Xie Burong and his companions decided to abandon their pursuit and flee to the Star Luo Empire, while agreeing that Li Yuyi had to die.
• Zhan Yongbiao spat on Li Yuyi and rejected his plea to be spared, prompting Li Yuyi to attack him with a death wish.
• Li Yuyi bit into Zhan Yongbiao’s neck, and Xie Burong’s blow to Li Yuyi’s head caused him to tear away a large piece of flesh.
• Li Yuyi collapsed and died as Zhan Yongbiao bled from his neck and begged for help.
• Xie Burong concluded that Zhan Yongbiao could not be saved and said he would kill him quickly before the group continued on.

Xie Burong decided to kill the dying Zhan Yongbiao while his brothers prepared a grave. Meanwhile, Du Bai's group searched Sunset Forest for a soul beast suited to Lin Yuchun and secured a thousand-year Blazing Tiger for him, leaving Lin Yuchun to absorb its soul ring.

• Xie Burong ordered his two brothers to dig a grave for Zhan Yongbiao, then raised his Soul Power-filled palm to end his life.
• Sun Youcheng said he would tell Li Yuyi's uncle the truth about Li Yuyi's attack on Sun Meilan and would sever ties with the Li Family.
• Zheng Datong asked Lin Yuchun what he would do if forced to choose between death and humiliating Sun Meilan, and Lin Yuchun said he would choose death.
• Du Bai sensed a thousand-year Blazing Tiger suited to Lin Yuchun's Mad Tiger martial soul, captured it, and struck it down.
• Lin Yuchun thanked Du Bai, activated his Mad Tiger martial soul and second soul skill, and killed the Blazing Tiger.

Lin Yuchun absorbed the Blazing Tiger's soul ring and gained his third soul ring. Du Bai then captured the dead tiger's blood brother and gave it to Sun Meilan to absorb.

• Lin Yuchun completed the fusion of the Blazing Tiger's soul ring, forming his third purple soul ring.
• Lin Yuchun thanked Du Bai, and Du Bai proposed that the group continue hunting soul beasts.
• Du Bai sensed the dead Blazing Tiger's blood brother approaching and said it could become Sun Meilan's soul ring.
• Du Bai swiftly captured the thousand-year Blazing Tiger, withstanding its flames and knocking it unconscious.
• Du Bai brought the weakened tiger back and gave it to Sun Meilan to absorb.

Sun Meilan successfully absorbed a Blazing Tiger soul ring with Du Bai’s help. After Du Bai offered to escort Sun Youcheng’s group out of Sunset Forest, they decided to stay and watch Zheng Datong obtain his soul ring.

• Sun Meilan killed the Blazing Tiger with her Round Moon Slash and began absorbing its soul ring.
• Sun Meilan successfully obtained her third soul ring and thanked Du Bai, Zheng Datong, and Yu Chenglong for their help.
• Du Bai asked Sun Youcheng whether his group wanted to leave Sunset Forest or continue adventuring with them.
• Sun Meilan asked to stay and watch Zheng Datong obtain his soul ring, and Sun Youcheng agreed.
• Zheng Datong welcomed them and boasted that his martial soul would impress them, while Sun Meilan challenged him to prove it.

Du Bai’s group searched Sunset Forest for a suitable soul beast for Zheng Datong’s first soul ring, while considering whether he could absorb a thousand-year ring. They encountered three battered soul masters fleeing a powerful beast, and Du Bai instructed Sun Youcheng to question them before deciding whether to help.

• Du Bai considered Zheng Datong’s improved physique and decided his first soul ring could come from a soul beast just over a thousand years old.
• Du Bai led the group through Sunset Forest, but they found no suitable soul beasts before he sensed three soul masters approaching.
• Sun Meilan and Zheng Datong suspected the newcomers might pose a threat, while Du Bai suggested they could be fleeing a powerful soul beast.
• The three injured soul masters begged Sun Youcheng for help, claiming a powerful soul beast had killed two members of their hunting squad.
• Du Bai quietly told Sun Youcheng to ask about the beast’s age and wait for his decision before agreeing to help.

Sun Youcheng and Du Bai heard that a Hell White Tiger and a Golden Scaled Serpent had killed two members of a soul-hunting team, and they followed the survivors to find the beasts. Du Bai sensed the two beasts fighting beside a Spiritual Fruit Tree and decided to act before they killed each other, hoping Zheng Datong could obtain their soul rings.

• A surviving soul master told Sun Youcheng that a Hell White Tiger and a golden-scaled snake had killed two of his teammates while fighting.
• Du Bai told Sun Youcheng to lead the survivors to the beasts and told Zheng Datong that he might obtain soul rings from them.
• Sun Youcheng persuaded the three survivors to guide the group, claiming he was a level-seventy-plus Soul Saint who could protect them.
• The survivors led Sun Youcheng, Zheng Datong, Du Bai, and the others toward the beasts and a Spiritual Fruit Tree.
• Du Bai sensed the Hell White Tiger and Golden Scaled Serpent fighting near the tree and saw the two dead soul masters’ remains.
• Du Bai decided to intervene before the beasts killed each other and destroyed the chance for Zheng Datong to obtain their soul rings.

Du Bai rushed ahead and captured the Hell White Tiger and Golden Scaled Serpent by himself. Sun Youcheng explained Du Bai’s strength to the three young Soul Masters, who watched in shock as he returned carrying both beasts.

• Du Bai vanished ahead to confront the Hell White Tiger and Golden Scaled Serpent while Sun Youcheng told the three young Soul Masters to stay back.
• Sun Youcheng said Du Bai was the strongest member of their team and that his cultivation surpassed Sun Youcheng’s.
• Du Bai returned carrying the Hell White Tiger in one hand and the Golden Scaled Serpent in the other.
• Zheng Datong praised Du Bai for capturing the beasts, and one of the young Soul Masters asked in disbelief whether Du Bai had done it alone.

Du Bai sent three young soul masters to recover their companions’ remains and set up cenotaphs, warning them to stay away from the Spiritual Fruit Tree. After they left, Zheng Datong revealed that he intended to absorb both defeated soul beasts, prompting Sun Meilan and Sun Youcheng to question him.

• Du Bai told the three young soul masters he had killed the Hell White Tiger and Golden Scaled Serpent, then agreed to help them leave Sunset Forest.
• Du Bai warned the three to collect their dead companions’ belongings and not approach the Spiritual Fruit Tree, and they promised to obey before heading into the forest.
• Du Bai explained that he had sent the three away to keep Zheng Datong’s Twin Martial Souls secret while he absorbed the soul beasts.
• Sun Meilan praised Du Bai and lamented that one of the powerful soul beasts would go to waste because Zheng Datong needed only one soul ring.
• Zheng Datong announced that he wanted both soul beasts, but Sun Meilan and Sun Youcheng doubted him, noting that only a soul master with Twin Martial Souls could absorb two soul rings at once.

Zheng Datong prepared to absorb the Golden Scaled Flood Dragon as his first soul ring, despite everyone’s disbelief, and Du Bai gave him a heavy Wolf-tooth Club to kill it. Zheng Datong approached the dying beast, ready to claim it as his soul ring.

• Zheng Datong told Sun Youcheng, Sun Meilan, and Lin Yuchun that he would fuse two thousand-year soul rings, then explained he planned to make the Golden Scaled Flood Dragon his first.
• Sun Meilan and Sun Youcheng warned Zheng Datong that a Soul Scholar could not survive absorbing a thousand-year first soul ring, but he insisted his situation was special.
• Du Bai threw the Golden Scaled Flood Dragon to the ground and stomped its head, leaving it barely alive.
• Zheng Datong said he needed a weapon to finish the beast, so Du Bai handed him a roughly three-hundred-jin Wolf-tooth Club.
• Zheng Datong struggled to lift the club, then carried it toward the dying Golden Scaled Flood Dragon, thinking that becoming his soul ring was an honor for the beast.

Zheng Datong killed the thousand-year Golden Scaled Flood Dragon and began absorbing its soul ring as his First Soul Ring. As the fusion proceeded smoothly, Du Bai discovered a rare Beast Core inside the dragon’s corpse, which also belonged to Zheng Datong.

• Zheng Datong repeatedly smashed the badly wounded Golden Scaled Flood Dragon with his Wolf-tooth Club until it died.
• Du Bai instructed Zheng Datong how to absorb the soul ring and reassured him that he would keep him safe.
• Zheng Datong released his Night-Shaking Ink Brush Martial Soul and began guiding the dragon’s purple thousand-year soul ring into fusion.
• Sun Youcheng, Sun Meilan, Lin Yuchun, and Yu Chenglong watched in astonishment as the soul ring formed steadily around Zheng Datong’s Martial Soul.
• Du Bai used his spiritual power to find a cherry-sized golden Beast Core in the Golden Scaled Flood Dragon’s seven-inch spot and recognized it as Zheng Datong’s prize.

Zheng Datong successfully absorbed the Golden Scaled Flood Dragon’s thousand-year soul ring as his first soul ring, gaining two cultivation levels and earning everyone’s congratulations. He bowed to the slain Flood Dragon in gratitude, while the captured Hell White Tiger feared it would soon become Zheng Datong’s next soul ring.

• Zheng Datong smoothly solved the soul ring’s challenges and completed his absorption, forming a Thousand-Year Purple Soul Ring and gaining two cultivation levels.
• Du Bai silenced the struggling Hell White Tiger, which feared sharing its fate with its mortal enemy, the Golden Scaled Flood Dragon.
• Zheng Datong bowed to the Golden Scaled Flood Dragon’s corpse and promised to help it become a true dragon if he became a god.
• Zheng Datong thanked Du Bai, Yu Chenglong, Sun Youcheng, Sun Meilan, and Lin Yuchun for their concern and blessings.
• Du Bai, Yu Chenglong, Sun Meilan, and Sun Youcheng congratulated Zheng Datong on his powerful first soul ring.

After absorbing the Golden Scaled Flood Dragon as his first soul ring, Zheng Datong explained his powerful control-and-attack skill to Du Bai and the others. He searched the dragon’s corpse for its Demon Core and possible soul bone, sensing an unusual warmth as his soul ring stirred.

• Lin Yuchun and the others congratulated Zheng Datong on obtaining his first soul ring.
• Zheng Datong described his First Soul Skill, Golden Scaled Flood Dragon's Deathly Kiss, which restrained foes before biting off their heads.
• Du Bai praised the skill and suggested arranging a spar between Zheng Datong and Yu Chenglong, Sun Meilan, or Lin Yuchun after Zheng Datong obtained a second soul ring.
• Zheng Datong decided to bury the Golden Scaled Flood Dragon, and Du Bai revealed that its corpse contained a Demon Core.
• Zheng Datong cut into the dragon’s vital spot and searched its body, sensing an unusually warm area as his first soul ring stirred.

Zheng Datong extracted the Golden Scaled Flood Dragon's Snake Core and, following Du Bai's advice, swallowed it into his dantian, where it nourished him and strengthened his First Soul Skill. He then began preparing a grave for the Flood Dragon, with Yu Chenglong, Sun Meilan, and Lin Yuchun helping him.

• Zheng Datong removed the Golden Scaled Flood Dragon's Snake Core and told Du Bai that it felt familiar and made him want to swallow it.
• Du Bai advised Zheng Datong to wrap the Snake Core in Soul Power and place it in his dantian, assuring him he would help if anything went wrong.
• Zheng Datong swallowed the Snake Core, sensed it settle in his dantian, and found that it nourished him and seemed to strengthen his First Soul Skill.
• Du Bai told Zheng Datong to bury the Golden Scaled Flood Dragon and collect the Hell White Tiger, and Zheng Datong began digging a grave.
• Du Bai asked Yu Chenglong to help Zheng Datong, and Sun Meilan and Lin Yuchun also joined them in digging.
• Zheng Datong said the grave was ready, but the Flood Dragon's enormous body led Sun Meilan to offer further help, which Zheng Datong accepted.