Chapter Summaries

Xia Liang traveled to Holy Soul Village and found the Blue Silver Emperor Seedling and its hidden right leg bone in the waterfall cave. He took both treasures and left the province, planning to absorb the bone once he was safely beyond Tang Hao’s reach.

• Xia Liang saw Zhu Zhuqing being pursued by Zhu Zhuyun and deduced that Tang San and Xiao Wu were likely on their way to Shrek Academy.
• Xia Liang traveled through Guowan Village, repaid nearby village chiefs, and arrived in Holy Soul Village a month later.
• Xia Liang searched for three days before finding the waterfall cave and discovering the Blue Silver Emperor Seedling and an iron box hidden in the rock.
• Xia Liang used Remote Object Retrieval to take the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone from the box and uproot the seedling without disturbing the soil.
• Xia Liang planted the seedling in soil from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and stored it in his Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch.
• Xia Liang left Fasinuo Province and sought a safe place to absorb the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, hoping its healing ability would help his Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul grow missing bones.

Xia Liang absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, gaining low-cost flight and greatly strengthened meridians, while his Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul grew a complete right arm. After searching the Star Dou Great Forest for a month without finding a suitable fourth Soul Ring, he decided to seek an Ancient Bloodline Soul Beast called the Shadow Lord.

• Xia Liang absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, which expanded and strengthened his meridians and caused his Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul to grow a complete right arm and part of a left arm.
• Xia Liang gained a flight skill with low Soul Power consumption and found that his Soul Power had reached the level forty bottleneck.
• Xia Liang flew to retrieve his Bone Dragon Daggers, then traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek the Man Faced Demon Spider’s External Soul Bone and a suitable fourth Soul Ring.
• Xia Liang searched the Star Dou Great Forest’s Outer Area for thirty-one days without finding a suitable Soul Beast.
• Xia Liang chose the Ancient Bloodline Soul Beast Shadow Lord as his preferred target for his fourth Soul Ring.

Xia Liang witnessed the Titan Giant Ape carrying Xiao Wu away and followed Tang San, hoping to intercept the Man Faced Demon Spider and obtain its External Soul Bone. Tang San continued searching for Xiao Wu until the spider appeared before him.

• Xia Liang heard a powerful beast roar, flew toward it, and saw the Titan Giant Ape carrying Xiao Wu away.
• Xia Liang recognized Tang San flying after the Titan Giant Ape and decided to follow him toward the Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Tang San lost the ability to fly, rested briefly, and continued searching for Xiao Wu.
• Tang San heard a rustling sound and spotted a Man Faced Demon Spider approaching.

Tang San fought an injured Man Faced Demon Spider while Xia Liang secretly studied his cultivation, then Xia Liang intervened and helped Tang San continue after Xiao Wu. Tang San hurried after the Titan Giant Ape as Xia Liang held the spider back.

• Tang San used Blue Silver Entanglement and hidden weapons against the injured Man Faced Demon Spider, but it broke free and badly wounded him.
• Xia Liang watched from a distance, studying Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill and confirming Tang Hao was not nearby.
• Xia Liang arrived between Tang San and the Man Faced Demon Spider, and Tang San recognized his former Nuoding Academy roommate.
• Tang San begged Xia Liang to help him hunt the spider so he could absorb its Soul Ring and regain the strength to rescue Xiao Wu.
• Xia Liang gave Tang San restorative food, warned that the spider's two-thousand-year cultivation exceeded the recommended limit for a Third Soul Ring, and held it in place.
• Tang San thanked Xia Liang and hurried toward the Titan Giant Ape while Xia Liang kept the Man Faced Demon Spider from following.

Xia Liang killed a Man Faced Demon Spider and absorbed its Eight Spider Lances into Bone Transformation Susanoo, turning them into a bow and claw. After a Red-Eyed Treant stole the spider’s corpse, Xia Liang discovered it was nearing ten thousand years of cultivation and considered it for his fourth Soul Ring.

• Xia Liang crushed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s head, preserved its legs, and watched them transform into the External Soul Bone Eight Spider Lances.
• The Eight Spider Lances fused with Bone Transformation Susanoo, becoming Susanoo’s Bow and Susanoo’s Claw with Deadly Poison and Devouring abilities.
• Xia Liang tested whether Susanoo could absorb a Ten-Thousand-Year Left Arm Bone, but it did not fuse, so he returned it to the Three-colored Ring.
• Black vines dragged away the Man Faced Demon Spider’s corpse, and Xia Liang used X-ray Vision to locate the Red-Eyed Treant that had taken it.
• Xia Liang determined that the Red-Eyed Treant had over nine thousand years of cultivation and could become a suitable fourth Soul Ring if it reached ten thousand years.

Xia Liang tracked a mutated Red-Eyed Treant into a misty valley, hoping to claim it as the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul’s Fourth Soul Ring. After devouring a Man Faced Demon Spider, the treant broke through to the ten-thousand-year level and became a Red-Eyed Treant King.

• The Red-Eyed Treant hid the Man Faced Demon Spider’s corpse and ran toward a distant valley, while Xia Liang followed under concealment.
• Xia Liang identified the treant as a highly intelligent Demon-Eyed Treant mutation with Undead and likely Dark attributes, and judged it a strong candidate for his Fourth Soul Ring.
• The Red-Eyed Treant reached its lair in a mist-shrouded valley and began extracting the flesh and blood from the spider’s corpse with black vines.
• Xia Liang watched from a distance as the treant devoured the corpse and absorbed its energy.
• The Red-Eyed Treant transformed, grew taller, and advanced to the ten-thousand-year level as a Treant King.

Xia Liang launched a surprise attack on the Red-Eyed Treant King with Bone Transformation Susanoo in its Ring Fusion state, hoping to claim its ten-thousand-year soul ring. The black-flame arrow and Undead Domain devastated the Soul Beast, and the chapter ended with its corpse lying in the scorched forest.

• Xia Liang used Ring Fusion to transform Bone Transformation Susanoo and prepared a powerful arrow while the Red-Eyed Treant King rested.
• Xia Liang fired a black-flame arrow through space at the Red-Eyed Treant King, then used Flight and Spatial Jump to bring it within his Undead Domain.
• The arrow pierced the Red-Eyed Treant King and exploded, damaging its soul and engulfing the surrounding Stone Forest in Black Flame.
• Xia Liang retreated from the blast, restored his stamina and Bone Transformation Susanoo with the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, and watched the flames fade.
• Xia Liang saw the Red-Eyed Treant King's corpse lying on the ground.

Xia Liang searched the Red-Eyed Treant King’s soul, learned how it had gained its Dark and Undead Attributes, and absorbed its Ten-Thousand Year Soul Ring and External Spinal Bone. The new bone became part of his Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul, giving Bone Transformation Susanoo a sword that could consume and refine the souls of those it killed.

• Xia Liang took the Red-Eyed Treant King’s corpse to a cave and searched its soul while restoring his Soul Power.
• Xia Liang learned that the Demon-Eyed Treant had fused with a Black Spirit Flower, gained the Undead Attribute, and reached ten thousand years by devouring corpses and undead.
• Xia Liang discovered that the Red-Eyed Treant King had restored its body with Flesh Regeneration and that the Undead Domain had prevented it from resurrecting through Undead Possession.
• Xia Liang absorbed the Red-Eyed Treant King’s Ten-Thousand Year Soul Ring and External Spinal Bone after about five shichen.
• Xia Liang tested the new spinal bone and found that its sword form could consume killed enemies’ undead souls, seal them within his Martial Soul, and refine them into bone.

Xia Liang finished absorbing the Red-Eyed Treant King's Soul Ring and bones, reaching level forty-eight and gaining powerful new abilities. As he left the Star Dou Great Forest, he spotted Xiao Wu with the Titan Giant Ape just after she completed her third Soul Ring.

• Xia Liang gained the Ten-Fist Sword's Soul Sealing Bone Transformation, reached level forty-eight, and acquired the fourth Soul Skill Demonic Eye Soul Seizure.
• Xia Liang considered whether Tang San's luck had transferred to him and decided to return to Heaven Dou City to collect treasures near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xia Liang stored the Red-Eyed Treant King's corpse in the Three-colored Ring and left the cave after nightfall.
• The next day, Xia Liang traveled cautiously through the Star Dou Great Forest and saw the Titan Giant Ape guarding Xiao Wu, who had just finished absorbing her third Soul Ring.

Xia Liang encountered Xiao Wu in the Star Dou Great Forest and used his Fourth Soul Skill to tamper with her soul, secretly taking control of the benefits of her future sacrifice. Xiao Wu hurried toward the forest entrance to find Tang San, who believed she had been killed by the Titan Giant Ape.

• Xia Liang rejected killing or capturing Xiao Wu and decided to use Demonic Eye Soul Seizure with the Undead Domain to tamper with her soul.
• After Xiao Wu condensed her Third Soul Ring and the Titan Giant Ape left, Xia Liang caught up with her and claimed he had recognized her from a distance.
• Xiao Wu recognized Xia Liang as a former Nuoding Academy student and told him she had become the academy's boss.
• Xia Liang activated his Fourth Soul Skill while Xiao Wu looked into his eyes, secretly tampering with her soul despite suffering a heavy loss of Soul Power.
• Xiao Wu asked where Tang San was, and Xia Liang said he might be heading out of the forest, so she hurried toward the entrance with Xia Liang following.
• Tang San grieved over Xiao Wu's presumed death and blamed himself for failing to protect her as Zhao Wuji and the others watched.

Xiao Wu returned safely with Xia Liang, reuniting with a grieving Tang San, who promised to repay Xia Liang by teaching him about meridians. As the exhausted group prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest, a herd of returning Soul Beasts charged toward them, and Xia Liang asked Oscar for a Soul Power-restoring sausage.

• Xiao Wu emerged from the woods with Xia Liang, and Tang San embraced her in relief as they apologized to each other.
• Zhao Wuji questioned Xia Liang, who explained that he had been Xiao Wu and Tang San’s classmate and had met Xiao Wu while traveling.
• Tang San thanked Xia Liang and agreed to write down his knowledge of meridians for him.
• Zhao Wuji ordered the group to leave the forest, but a herd of returning Soul Beasts began charging toward them.
• Tang San asked Oscar to make Flying Mushroom Sausages, and Xia Liang requested a Soul Power-restoring sausage, saying he could help them avoid the herd.

Xia Liang protected the group from a Soul Beast Herd with his Skeleton Martial Soul, while Tang San captured a Man Faced Demon Spider and began absorbing its Soul Ring. As Tang San cultivated, Ning Rongrong invited Xia Liang to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but he declined for now while considering its potential help in the future.

• Xia Liang enclosed himself, Tang San, and the others in his enormous rib cage and used a Giant Bone Hand to shield them from the charging Soul Beast Herd.
• After the herd passed, Tang San killed a Man Faced Demon Spider with his Godly Zhuge Crossbow and identified its Soul Ring as roughly thirteen hundred years old.
• Tang San asked Zhao Wuji to let him absorb the spider's Soul Ring, and the group formed a protective circle around him as he began.
• Xia Liang used his X-Ray Vision to observe Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill circulation while he absorbed the Soul Ring.
• Ning Rongrong invited Xia Liang to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but he politely declined and considered the sect as a possible future ally.

Tang San completed absorbing the Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Ring, reached level thirty-one, and discovered a rare Torso Soul Bone in the beast’s corpse. After Xia Liang explained the bone’s possible benefits, Tang San hesitated over absorbing it and began suspecting Xia Liang might covet it.

• Tang San finished absorbing the Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Ring, and Xia Liang observed that his Soul Power had risen to level thirty-one.
• Tang San noticed a glow in the Man Faced Demon Spider’s corpse and used his Mysterious Jade Hand to remove a spine-like Torso Soul Bone.
• Ning Rongrong identified the object as a rare Torso Bone, while Tang San sought advice from Zhao Wuji and learned that neither of them knew much about its effects.
• Xia Liang explained the differing functions of Soul Bones and said that a Soul Ring and Soul Bone from the same Soul Beast were more compatible when absorbed by one person.
• Dai Mubai and Xiao Wu urged Tang San to absorb the Soul Bone quickly, and Tang San suspected Xia Liang’s knowledge might mean he wanted it for himself.

Tang San absorbed a thirteen-hundred-year Man Faced Demon Spider Torso Bone and discovered its Spiderweb Restraint ability. As the Shrek group prepared to leave the forest, Dragon Duke Meng Shu confronted them over the Man Faced Demon Spider they had killed.

• Tang San absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider Torso Bone while Xia Liang worried that its low age and Poison Attribute would limit Tang San and harm his future prospects.
• Tang San revealed that the Soul Bone granted Spiderweb Restraint, a fast, tough, adhesive, neurotoxic web that could strengthen his control abilities alongside his Blue Silver Spiderweb Restraint.
• Zhao Wuji congratulated Tang San and Oscar on becoming Soul Elders and led the Shrek group toward Shrek Academy.
• Dragon Duke Meng Shu, Snake Matron Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran emerged from the bushes, and Meng Yiran fixed her gaze on Xia Liang.
• Meng Shu confronted Zhao Wuji, demanding an explanation because the Shrek group had killed the Man Faced Demon Spider Meng Yiran was hunting.

After Dragon Duke Meng Shu learned that Tang San was connected to the Clear Sky Douluo, he dropped the dispute over the Man Faced Demon Spider. The Meng Family then turned its attention to Xia Liang, but he showed Snake Matron Chao Tianxiang a token identifying his connection to the Poison Douluo, and they left without recruiting him.

• Zhao Wuji explained that Tang San had absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring and privately told Meng Shu about Tang San's background.
• Meng Shu spared Tang San because of his connection to the Clear Sky Douluo, while Meng Yiran showed interest in Xia Liang.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang considered recruiting Xia Liang, but Xia Liang asked Chao Tianxiang to speak privately and showed her his Jade Phosphorous token.
• Chao Tianxiang recognized the token's connection to the Poison Douluo and told Meng Shu, who abandoned the idea of recruiting Xia Liang.
• Meng Yiran left with her grandparents after giving Xia Liang an unwilling glance, and Xia Liang resolved to become stronger.

After returning to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Xia Liang revealed that dragon-blooded herbs could evolve Dugu Bo and Yan Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Souls and eliminate their poison backlash. Dugu Bo chose to keep the stronger Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng for Yan Yan, leaving the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd for himself.

• After leaving the Shrek group, Xia Liang traveled to Heaven Dou City with Tang San’s Meridian Studies book and decided to focus on cultivating Spiritual Power instead of pursuing the Tang Sect’s secrets.
• Ten days later, Xia Liang met Dugu Bo at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and demonstrated what he had learned about herbology.
• Xia Liang identified the missing herbs as the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot based on where they had grown.
• Xia Liang explained that the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd and Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng could awaken the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Souls into Dragon Species and stop their poison backlash.
• Dugu Bo chose to consume the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd and save the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng for Yan Yan, hoping she would grow stronger than he had.

Xia Liang collected the immortal herbs around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, cutting off Tang San’s chance to obtain them, then devoured the Red-Eyed Treant King to strengthen his Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul. After refining away its poison energy, he awakened its dual Dark and spiritual attributes and evolved it into a Super Martial Soul.

• Xia Liang harvested the Evergreen Oil Hemp Vine and other herbs, intending to use the vine alongside the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng to strengthen Dugu Yan.
• Xia Liang gathered the remaining immortal herbs around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, leaving Tang San without the chance to obtain them.
• Xia Liang used Susanoo’s Claw to devour the Red-Eyed Treant King’s corpse, directing most of its energy into his Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul.
• Xia Liang burned the Red-Eyed Treant King’s Poison Attribute energy from his skeletal frame and retained its Dark and spiritual attributes.
• Xia Liang completed the refinement, expanding his Spiritual World and awakening his Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul’s dual Dark and spiritual attributes as it evolved into a Super Martial Soul.

Xia Liang and Dugu Bo discovered that the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd had transformed Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul, cured his serpent poison, and raised his Soul Power. Dugu Bo agreed to spar with Xia Liang without using his Martial Soul, leaving them about to test their strength.

• Xia Liang emerged from meditation with improved eyesight, doubled Spiritual Power, and the ability to see through flesh, disguises, and illusions.
• Dugu Bo awakened the Dragon Species Bloodline in his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, which became the Jade Scale Serpent Emperor and gained an earth-based Sand Poison Domain.
• Dugu Bo realized his poison backlash had been resolved and his Soul Power had risen from rank ninety-one to rank ninety-two, giving him hope that Yan Yan’s poison could also be cured.
• Dugu Bo thanked Xia Liang for helping him and Yan Yan, and Xia Liang congratulated him on his increased potential.
• Dugu Bo offered to demonstrate his strength, and Xia Liang accepted a spar without Dugu Bo using his Martial Soul.

Xia Liang demonstrated his newly awakened Dark Attribute and ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring to Dugu Bo in a spar, revealing the offensive power of his Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul. Dugu Bo ended the fight after countering Xia Liang’s Ten-Fist Sword with his Medusa Head Soul Bone, then welcomed him to Dugu Manor.

• Xia Liang told Dugu Bo that he had reached level forty, obtained his fourth Soul Ring, and awakened a Dark Attribute.
• Dugu Bo agreed to spar with Xia Liang and took him to an open clearing inside the Poison Array.
• Xia Liang summoned Bone Transformation Susanoo’s Armed Form and attacked Dugu Bo with a Finger Bullet, a punch, and the Ten-Fist Sword.
• Dugu Bo used the Medusa Head Soul Bone’s petrification beam to stop the Ten-Fist Sword and called an end to the spar.
• Xia Liang asked about Dugu Bo’s soul bone, but both men kept their abilities secret; Dugu Bo gave Xia Liang the key to Dugu Manor and welcomed him as a guest.

Xia Liang returned to Dugu Manor, where Dugu Bo pushed him and Dugu Yan to acknowledge their feelings, then went to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to request leave for her. There, he reunited with Xue Qinghe and explained that his Skeleton Martial Soul had awakened its Dark Attribute.

• Dugu Yan embraced Xia Liang when she found him arriving at Dugu Manor with Dugu Bo, and she confronted Xia Liang for leaving without telling her.
• Dugu Bo pressured Xia Liang and Dugu Yan to define their relationship; they agreed they seemed like a married couple, and Dugu Bo urged Xia Liang to call him Grandpa.
• Xia Liang learned that Dugu Yan was absorbing the medicinal power of two Immortal Herbs under Dugu Bo's supervision, and he went to the academy to request leave for her.
• At the Principal's Building, Xia Liang waited for Xue Qinghe's meeting to end, then explained Dugu Yan's absence to the Three Education Commissioners.
• Xue Qinghe sensed a change in Xia Liang and asked about it; Xia Liang said his Skeleton Martial Soul had awakened its Dark Attribute, and Xue Qinghe invited him to talk in the Principal's Office.