Chapter Summaries

Dugu Bo helped Dugu Yan force the toxins in her body into her Spirit Bone, curing her and strengthening her poison ability. A week later, he returned to the Medicine Garden and honored his promise to Quan Yi, agreeing to share the precious land and offering him one favor.

• Dugu Yan endured more than four hours of Dugu Bo's Soul Power pressure and the Detoxification Pill's effects until she forced all the toxins into her Spirit Bone and passed out.
• Dugu Bo confirmed a week later that Dugu Yan was free of toxins, and her Seed of Corrosion skill had grown more powerful.
• Dugu Bo returned to the Medicine Garden after more than a month away and found Quan Yi watching a scorching medicinal herb.
• Dugu Bo told Quan Yi that his Forcing Poison into the Bone method had worked and agreed to their joint operation of the precious land.
• Dugu Bo promised to help Quan Yi accomplish one thing, provided it did not violate his principles.

Quan Yi used Dugu Bo's promise to secure access to all of his Medicine Garden research, including future findings, and gave him a Microscope to aid his studies. Dugu Bo was amazed by the device and learned how it could help him examine herbs and their effects.

• Dugu Bo promised to grant Quan Yi one request, and Quan Yi asked to share all research results concerning the Medicine Garden, past, present, and future.
• Dugu Bo agreed, and Quan Yi gave him a Microscope as a research tool.
• Quan Yi used the Microscope to magnify a thin slice of meat, astonishing Dugu Bo with its intricate structure.
• Quan Yi explained that Dugu Bo could use the Microscope to study plant and animal structures and observe how herbs affected the body without risking himself.

Quan Yi accepted Dugu Bo’s Wishful Treasure Pouch in exchange for a Microscope, then demonstrated how he used his Eyes of True Sight to recreate the Infernal Delicate Apricot’s energy circulation with Soul Power. Dugu Bo was alarmed by the replica’s dangerous Fire Poison and asked how Quan Yi had made it.

• Dugu Bo gave Quan Yi the Wishful Treasure Pouch, a Storage Soul Tool that could hold living things, in exchange for the Microscope.
• Quan Yi stored the pouch in his Blazing Sun Heart and summoned the Nine-Section Emerald to ask whether it could be kept inside.
• Quan Yi explained that he had been studying the Infernal Delicate Apricot’s energy circulation and described what he knew about the poisonous herb.
• Quan Yi shaped Fire Element Soul Power into a replica of the Infernal Delicate Apricot, whose Fire Poison made Dugu Bo feel threatened.
• Quan Yi controlled the replica’s energy and confined its aura, while Dugu Bo asked how he had created it.

Quan Yi created a powerful Self-Created Soul Skill by imitating the Infernal Delicate Apricot, then began intensive training and study while Dugu Bo investigated poison with his new Microscope. The chapter left Quan Yi wary of the skill’s destructive potential and continuing his physical training around the spring.

• Quan Yi used Mental Power and soul power to construct an Infernal Delicate Apricot imitation that produced Fire Poison as potent as the real plant’s.
• Dugu Bo recognized Quan Yi’s creation as a Self-Created Soul Skill, and Quan Yi named it Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Quan Yi explained that the skill could release a destructive explosion and widespread Fire Poison capable of killing those beyond the blast area.
• Dugu Bo used the Microscope to study his Toxin, physical condition, and the plants in the Medicine Garden.
• Quan Yi trained in a hundred-thousand-kilogram armor suit near the spring, where his body recovered and absorbed Heaven and Earth Source Power more efficiently.

Quan Yi returned from cultivating with Dugu Bo and found that Lou Gao had successfully replicated a Storage Soul Tool using Quan Yi’s instructions. The chapter left Quan Yi pleased that Soul Tools could be made by others once they mastered the method.

• Quan Yi said farewell to Dugu Bo after completing his oath and left the Poison Array to return to the dormitory.
• Quan Yi learned that Huo Wu was in seclusion, cultivating to break through her bottleneck, and went to visit Lou Gao instead.
• Lou Gao showed Quan Yi a piece of Soul Guidance Metal carved with the pattern Quan Yi had provided.
• Quan Yi infused the metal with soul power, made a Gold Soul Coin disappear into it, then released the coin back out.
• Quan Yi praised Lou Gao for replicating a Storage Soul Tool and confirmed that others could make one by mastering the method.

Quan Yi discovered that Soul Tools and Soul Rings relied on intricate runes that shaped the flow of Soul Power, and he began studying whether Soul Ring patterns could reproduce Soul Skills. He returned to his Forging Room to copy the Wishful Treasure Pouch’s ability to store living creatures.

• Quan Yi used his Scarlet Dragon Eye to identify and replicate the runes in a Soul Tool, successfully copying a small Storage Soul Tool.
• Quan Yi bought Soul Tools to study their runes and realized that Soul Rings also contained distinct patterns that guided Soul Power into producing specific effects.
• Quan Yi told Lou Gao to add more Soul Tool functions, including storage, to his armor, and they agreed to divide the work between forging and rune design.
• Quan Yi decided to investigate whether copied Soul Ring patterns could create an Artificial Soul Ring or reproduce part of a Soul Skill.
• Quan Yi took the Wishful Treasure Pouch and sleeping Nine-Section Emerald to his Forging Room and activated his Scarlet Dragon Eye to study the pouch’s internal patterns.

Quan Yi replicated the Wishful Treasure Pouch’s living-storage ability and tested it against the Blazing Sun Heart. After returning to the Wooden Cabin, he reunited with Huo Wu, who had reached Level 50, and gave her the Nine-Section Emerald as a protective companion.

• Quan Yi carved the Wishful Treasure Pouch’s design into Soul Guidance Metal and confirmed that his replica could store living creatures.
• Quan Yi compared ants stored in the Blazing Sun Heart, the Wishful Treasure Pouch, and his replica, finding that the ants in the Blazing Sun Heart lost their vitality after about an hour.
• Quan Yi returned to the Wooden Cabin and reunited with Huo Wu after she came out of seclusion.
• Huo Wu told Quan Yi that she had broken through to Level 50, and he congratulated her with a gift.
• Quan Yi introduced the Nine-Section Emerald to Huo Wu and let it coil around her wrist as a protective snake bracelet.

Quan Yi gave Huo Wu the Nine-Section Emerald and its Wishful Treasure Pouch, then agreed to accompany her as she hunted for her next Soul Ring without outside help. They left for the Star Dou Great Forest on Quan Yi’s Scarlet Dragon Descent, whose full size astonished Huo Wu.

• Huo Wu admired the Nine-Section Emerald, and Quan Yi explained its abilities and gave her the Wishful Treasure Pouch to store it.
• Huo Wu tested the pouch, thanked Quan Yi, and shared a kiss with him before he cooked Dragon meat for their celebration.
• Huo Wuxie praised Huo Wu’s talent above Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation and offered to help her obtain a Soul Ring.
• Quan Yi declined Huo Wuxie’s help, and he and Huo Wu set out to hunt for her Soul Ring by their own strength.
• Quan Yi summoned his Scarlet Dragon Descent outside the city and carried Huo Wu toward the Star Dou Great Forest inside an energy shield.

Quan Yi used his evolved Scarlet Dragon Eye and enhanced Fire Element Perception to search the Star Dou Great Forest from the sky for a suitable Soul Beast for Huo Wu. After checking hundreds of targets without finding a match, they considered settling for a forty-five-thousand-year-old Explosive Flame Dragon Python, though Quan Yi still had five locations left to investigate.

• Quan Yi carried Huo Wu high above the clouds on the scarlet dragon and flew them to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Quan Yi revealed his evolved Scarlet Dragon Eye and explained how it worked with his Fire Element Perception to locate Soul Beasts from the air.
• Quan Yi found a roughly twenty-thousand-year-old Black Flame Leopard, but he and Huo Wu rejected it as unsuitable.
• Quan Yi searched hundreds of fire-element sources over several hours, finding no suitable Soul Beast among the targets he checked.
• Huo Wu suggested choosing the forty-five-thousand-year-old Explosive Flame Dragon Python if Quan Yi's last five targets were unsuitable, but Quan Yi continued the search.

Quan Yi searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a special fire-attribute Soul Beast suitable for Huo Wu’s next Soul Ring. He and Huo Wu infiltrated an underground Magma Dog den, where they found a mysterious flame-covered figure seated on a throne.

• Huo Wu told Quan Yi that a Fire Spirit Ghost King would be rare, and Quan Yi reassured her that they could search elsewhere if none appeared.
• Quan Yi surveyed several fire-attribute Soul Beasts, including a Flame Lion King, a Blazing Flame Eagle, and an Earth Fire Dragon Lizard, but rejected them as unsuitable.
• Quan Yi located two powerful fire-element signals underground near a lake and discovered Magma Dogs entering a concealed cave.
• Huo Wu used Peach Shadow Ghost King Transformation to conceal the Scarlet Dragon and their presence as she and Quan Yi entered the cave.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu passed the patrolling Magma Dogs and reached a large underground chamber, where they saw a flame-covered humanoid with black bones sitting on a throne.

Quan Yi identified the throne’s guardian as an Undead Flame Lord with over forty thousand years of cultivation, a suitable target for Huo Wu. Huo Wu concealed her approach with the Peach Illusion Fire and struck the Flame Lord with her strongest attack, leaving the battle’s outcome unclear.

• Quan Yi explained that the Undead Flame Lord had been born from a Hundred Thousand Year Flame Lord’s remains and that its cultivation was just within Huo Wu’s limit.
• Huo Wu decided to hunt the Undead Flame Lord and asked Quan Yi to watch the Magma Dog.
• Huo Wu used her Peach Illusion Fire to hide herself from the two Soul Beasts and approached the throne.
• Huo Wu activated her boosts and gathered a compressed sphere of blazing white flame.
• Huo Wu fired Solar Flame Bullet through the Undead Flame Lord’s chest, unleashing an explosion comparable to a Spirit Saint’s strike.

Huo Wu defeated the Undead Flame Lord and began absorbing its forty-thousand-year Soul Ring while Quan Yi kept the Magma Dogs away. The absorption proceeded smoothly at first, but its danger was only beginning as the Soul Ring’s energy continued to rise.

• Huo Wu killed the Undead Flame Lord with a concentrated flame attack, and its pitch-black Soul Ring appeared above its remains.
• Quan Yi used his Dragon Might and a Mental command to drive the Magma Dogs from the underground space.
• Quan Yi examined the Undead Flame Lord’s remains and judged that its Soul Ring was within Huo Wu’s ability to absorb.
• After recovering, Huo Wu drew in the Soul Ring and began absorbing its energy while Quan Yi watched over her.
• Huo Wu maintained her composure as the Soul Ring’s energy circulated, though its output was expected to peak as her condition declined.

Huo Wu risked severe injury while absorbing her Forty Thousand Year Soul Ring to force open a Hidden Meridian. After she succeeded and completed the absorption, Quan Yi was immobilized by a strange power from Huo Wu and recognized it as her Domain Skill.

• Huo Wu let the Soul Ring’s energy rampage through her meridians as she searched for the Hidden Meridians, while Quan Yi monitored her and waited to warn her if she reached her limit.
• As her meridians neared failure, Huo Wu compressed the energy with her Mental Power and forced open a Hidden Meridian running from her lower abdomen to beneath her eyes.
• Huo Wu regained control and absorbed the remaining Soul Ring energy, completing her Fifth Soul Ring four hours later.
• Quan Yi tried to approach Huo Wu but found himself unable to move, then used the Eye of True Sight to identify the power as her Domain Skill.
• Quan Yi smiled and told Huo Wu to withdraw her Domain Skill.

Quan Yi tested Huo Wu’s newly acquired Shadow Domain and discovered that it bound him by controlling his shadow, with stronger light and shorter distance increasing its force. After Huo Wu explained the domain’s limits, Quan Yi used Dark Flame Power to weaken his shadow and challenge her control.

• Huo Wu kept her Domain Skill active as Quan Yi approached, and its restraints intensified with each step.
• Quan Yi boosted his strength with Soul Power and pushed closer, prompting Huo Wu to reveal the domain’s full power through blazing white light and doubled restraints.
• Quan Yi spotted his detached shadow behind him and deduced that Huo Wu’s Shadow Domain controlled his body through it.
• Huo Wu explained that brighter light and closer distance strengthened her control, while weaker light reduced it.
• Quan Yi covered himself in black flames with his Second Soul Skill, Dark Flame Power, and watched his shadow begin to fade.

Quan Yi saw through Huo Wu’s Shadow Domain, then comforted her and the two reconciled over their trust in each other. Huo Wu revealed her fifth soul skill, Purgatory Shadow Flash Kill, and explained its powerful attacks and teleportation through shadows.

• Quan Yi used his Scarlet Dragon Eye and Dark Flame Power to break free of Huo Wu’s Shadow Domain and touch her shoulder.
• Quan Yi reassured Huo Wu that her domain was powerful despite his ability to see through it, and she embraced him.
• Huo Wu promised to stand by Quan Yi through danger, and Quan Yi apologized for leaving her out of his plans before they kissed.
• Huo Wu explained that Purgatory Shadow Flash Kill created a Shadow Space linking nearby shadows, letting her teleport and send Flame Spikes through them.
• Huo Wu described how the skill could form up to fifteen Flame Spikes or focus its power into one capable of threatening a Soul Douluo.

Huo Wu absorbed a forty-thousand-year soul ring, reached level 55, and gained a powerful shadow-based Soul Skill. As Quan Yi recovered the Flame Lord’s bones, the chapter revealed that the undead had originated from the Flame Lord itself, transformed and diminished by a Lightning Tribulation.

• Quan Yi and Huo Wu recognized that her new Soul Skill drew on the Fire Shadow Martial Soul’s shadow aspect and planned to seek similar Soul Beasts.
• Huo Wu tested her Soul Power and reached level 55, nearly level 56, after gaining five levels from her breakthrough.
• Huo Wu lamented that no soul bone had dropped, but Quan Yi encouraged her to save room for Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bones.
• Quan Yi recovered fragments of the Flame Lord’s bones and noted their extraordinary weight and lingering power.
• The narration revealed that the Flame Lord had transformed itself into an undead Flame Demon, but a Lightning Tribulation consumed its body, cultivation, and memories, leaving it with ten thousand years of cultivation.

Quan Yi returned to an ancient volcano crater in the Star Dou Great Forest to retrieve a powerful Fire Element ore buried deep underground. After digging through the mountain overnight, he found the extraordinarily heavy metal and pulled it from the magma, where its dense Fire Element aura and Fire Poison surged toward him.

• Quan Yi brought Huo Wu back to the volcano crater, explaining that he wanted to dig out a powerful Fire Element ore.
• Quan Yi used his Sixth Soul Skill to dig through the ground while Huo Wu waited above and nearby Soul Beasts stayed away from his Dragon Might.
• Quan Yi studied how the patterns on his Sixth Soul Ring responded to his dragon claws and recorded what he observed.
• Quan Yi dug through rock and shallow magma until he struck the buried ore with his dragon claw.
• Quan Yi pulled the roughly one-cubic-meter ore from the magma and sensed its immense weight as its Fire Element aura and Fire Poison rushed toward him.

Quan Yi recovered a powerful, fire-poisonous metal and tested its toughness before showing it to Huo Wu. After finishing their tasks in the Star Dou Great Forest, Quan Yi and Huo Wu headed home, looking ahead to the Advanced Academy and the All-Continent Advanced Elite Tournament.

• Quan Yi tested the metal's resistance to his claws and Ultimate Fire, then stored it inside the Blazing Sun Heart.
• Quan Yi showed the metal to Huo Wu, who resisted its Fire Poison by circulating her Soul Power.
• Quan Yi put the metal away, and he and Huo Wu returned from the Star Dou Great Forest after completing their hunt and excavation in two days.
• Huo Wu looked forward to entering the Advanced Academy and leading Blazing Fire Team in the All-Continent Advanced Elite Tournament.

Quan Yi warned Huo Wu that Blazing Fire Academy’s noble-focused admissions would prevent it from competing with Martial Soul Hall Academy, prompting her to consider reform. After Huo Wu resolved to act, Quan Yi received a letter from home that revealed he was going to become a brother.

• Quan Yi explained to Huo Wu that Blazing Fire Academy needed to admit commoner students if it hoped to grow beyond its current limits.
• Huo Wu asked whether recruiting commoners like Skywater Academy could reverse the situation, and Quan Yi said reform was necessary but would not guarantee success.
• Quan Yi shook Huo Wu out of her troubled thoughts, and she declared that she would not admit defeat to Spirit Hall.
• Huo Wu hurried to the Dean's Office to make suggestions to Huo Wuxie, while Quan Yi returned to the dormitory.
• Quan Yi opened a letter from home and learned that he was going to be a brother.

Quan Yi learned that his mother was pregnant, Quan Li had broken through to Level 90 by condensing a special solid-state Soul Power Crystal, and his family needed help obtaining a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Huo Wuxie discovered the power of Huo Wu’s Shadow Domain and struggled to break free.

• Quan Yi read that Su Ling'er was six months pregnant and would give birth in a little over four months.
• Quan Yi learned that Quan Li had reached Level 90 after creating a mobile solid-state Soul Power Crystal that strengthened his soul power and absorption.
• Quan Yi read that the Quan Family wanted him to help Quan Li obtain a Sea Soul Beast’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, so he decided to return home.
• Huo Wu demonstrated her Shadow Domain to Huo Wuxie, leaving him unable to move or speak.
• Huo Wuxie struggled to activate Martial Soul Possession, and his body began to transform as a red Unicorn Dragon Shadow appeared behind him.