Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao persuaded the Fire and Water Dragon Kings to join his faction and protect it for a thousand years, but their Soul Bones exposed a plot to kill him. He bound the bickering sisters again and got both to admit they had conspired together.

• Huo Yuhao offered Gu Xuanying and Gu Qingming freedom to leave if he failed to restore their shattered souls, in exchange for a thousand years of service to his faction.
• Gu Xuanying and Gu Qingming agreed to join, and Huo Yuhao released them before asking about their Soul Bones.
• Gu Xuanying and Gu Qingming brought their Soul Bones to Huo Yuhao, but Gu Xuanying warned that absorbing them without their divine assistance would kill him and accused Gu Qingming of plotting against him.
• Gu Qingming admitted she had considered using her Soul Bone to harm Huo Yuhao, and after he confronted her, she called him Master.
• Gu Qingming accused Gu Xuanying of being her accomplice, and after Huo Yuhao bound them again, Gu Xuanying admitted that she was.

Huo Yuhao bound Gu Qingming and Gu Xuanying, then learned that he could safely absorb only one of their Soul Bones for now. After telling them about the Dragon God’s fall and the soul beasts’ decline, he agreed to help the soul beast race on his own terms.

• Huo Yuhao released Gu Qingming and Gu Xuanying from the White Light after they called him master.
• Gu Xuanying explained that Huo Yuhao could absorb only one Soul Bone because the laws of water and fire would clash, and she warned that absorbing one after becoming a god could cripple him.
• Gu Qingming asked Huo Yuhao to explain what had happened outside, and he told the sisters about the Dragon God’s fall, the Dragon Kings’ deaths, and the soul beasts’ inability to become gods.
• Gu Qingming asked Huo Yuhao to help the soul beast race, arguing that its survival also mattered to humanity and Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to help the soul beast race according to his own plan, and Gu Qingming accepted.

Gu Qingming proposed using Huo Yuhao’s White Light and Dual-World Gate to mediate the fusion of the Water and Fire Dragon Kings’ powers and Soul Bones. The fusion succeeded, leaving Huo Yuhao transformed and bearing new Soul Rings and Soul Bones.

• Gu Qingming explained that the White Light could suppress the conflict between the Soul Bones, while the Dual-World Gate could mediate their water and fire attributes.
• Gu Xuanying approved Gu Qingming’s plan, and Huo Yuhao’s White Light activated, drawing the Dragon Kings into his Sea of Consciousness as the Dual-World Gate settled against his forehead.
• Huo Yuhao endured intense pain as the Dragon Kings’ powers collided, then blended into purple under the Dual-World Gate’s silver-gray radiance.
• Dragon scales covered Huo Yuhao’s body, and two new Soul Rings appeared beneath him, one Blue-Gold and one red-gold.
• Gu Qingming and Gu Xuanying guided the Water Dragon King Torso Bone into Huo Yuhao’s torso and the Fire Dragon King Soul Bone into a pair of wings on his back.

After absorbing the God King-level Soul Bones at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Huo Yuhao gained a powerful new Martial Soul and abilities over water, fire, space, and time. Gu Qingming and Gu Xuanying explained that the well remained intact and that he would need to return to strengthen his Soul Bones and Soul Rings.

• Huo Yuhao emerged from his transformation with dragon scales and discovered that he could wield water and fire, teleport, and accelerate time.
• Gu Qingming and Gu Xuanying became bound to Huo Yuhao as partners and explained that his Martial Soul had evolved into the Water Fire Space-Time Four Elements Dragon Martial Soul.
• Gu Qingming suggested that Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul might evolve further if he found dragon souls of other attributes, while Gu Xuanying urged him to focus on mastering his current abilities.
• Gu Qingming told Huo Yuhao that Dugu Bo had been searching for him all night, and reassured him that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had not been ruined.
• Gu Qingming revealed that the Soul Bones and Origin Soul Rings still needed to absorb the well’s remaining energy and were currently a little over five hundred thousand years old.

Huo Yuhao explained that Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor had a defect that caused poison to spread through his body, then described two ways to contain it. He left Dugu Bo considering the methods while withholding the third option for later.

• Huo Yuhao emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and told Dugu Bo he had thought of three ways to treat his deadly poison.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul lacked a venom sac and a way to neutralize its own poison, causing toxins to spread through his body.
• Huo Yuhao proposed storing the poison in a high-quality Soul Bone, but warned that it could reach capacity and endanger Dugu Bo and the bone’s future users.
• Huo Yuhao introduced the Soul Core Method, which involved condensing a poison-attributed Soul Core to store toxins and aid cultivation.
• Dugu Bo ruled out the Soul Core Method for Yan Yan because she had not reached Soul Saint rank, but remembered it as a possible option for himself.

Huo Yuhao discussed ways to cure Dugu Bo and his granddaughter, then learned Prince Xue Xing wanted him dead. He rejected Dugu Bo’s offer to reconcile with Xue Xing and tried to recruit him, but Dugu Bo refused to join his faction.

• Huo Yuhao explained that he would first try to evolve Dugu Bo and his granddaughter’s Martial Souls, then consider the other cures if that failed.
• Dugu Bo tested Huo Yuhao’s trust in him, then proposed marrying his granddaughter Yan Yan to Huo Yuhao; he withdrew the offer after hearing how many girlfriends Huo Yuhao had.
• Dugu Bo told Huo Yuhao that Prince Xue Xing had learned of his investigation into the Slave Hunter Group and wanted him killed, though Huo Yuhao’s companions were safe.
• Huo Yuhao suspected Qian Renxue had deliberately leaked the information and refused Dugu Bo’s offer to help him reconcile with Prince Xue Xing.
• Huo Yuhao offered to repay Dugu Bo’s debt to Xue Xing in exchange for Dugu Bo joining his faction, but Dugu Bo refused.

Huo Yuhao persuaded Dugu Bo to join the Spirit Pagoda as an honorary elder by revealing the power behind him and promising help with his and his granddaughter’s Martial Souls. After teaching Dugu Bo a Soul Core Method, Huo Yuhao turned to harvesting herbs and stopped Gu Qingming and Gu Xuanying’s quarrel with his Succubus Physique.

• Huo Yuhao convinced Dugu Bo that his Super Douluo teacher would kill Prince Xue Xing if the prince continued to target him, then displayed four stored Titled Douluo attacks as proof of his backing.
• Dugu Bo agreed to become an honorary elder of the Spirit Pagoda in exchange for help resolving his and his granddaughter’s Martial Soul problems.
• Huo Yuhao transmitted a Soul Core Method tailored for Dugu Bo, who sat down to study it while Huo Yuhao turned toward the medicinal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Gu Xuanying teased Huo Yuhao about recruiting people through threats and rewards, and she and Gu Qingming began arguing and fighting in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao activated his Succubus Physique, turning the Sea of Consciousness pink and leaving the two Dragon Kings dazed, then asked them to listen to him.

Huo Yuhao learned about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s herbs from Gu Xuanying and asked her how to cure Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul defect. With Dugu Bo’s permission to use the garden’s medicinal ingredients, Huo Yuhao gathered rare herbs for the best treatment and learned that Snow-Colored Swan Kiss could transform a Poison-Attribute Soul Master if they survived its effects.

• Huo Yuhao stopped Gu Xuanying and Gu Qingming from fighting in his Sea of Consciousness and warned them to keep their presence hidden from the God Realm.
• Gu Xuanying and Gu Qingming explained their knowledge of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s herbs, and Gu Xuanying began teaching Huo Yuhao about medicinal properties and alchemy.
• Dugu Bo praised Huo Yuhao’s Soul Core Method, and Huo Yuhao asked him to fetch his granddaughter so they could address his Martial Soul defect.
• Huo Yuhao secured Dugu Bo’s permission to use the garden’s medicinal ingredients and chose the best method to treat him.
• Gu Xuanying directed Huo Yuhao to gather Snow-Colored Swan Kiss, Faint Fragrance Qiluo, and supporting ingredients, explaining that the dangerous herb could transform a Poison-Attribute Soul Master who survived it.

Huo Yuhao and Gu Xuanying prepared pills to evolve Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s poison-attribute Martial Souls, and Dugu Yan began taking hers. Huo Yuhao planned medicines for his friends and teachers, putting off a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest for his Spirit Eye Martial Soul’s missing soul rings.

• Gu Xuanying explained that Huo Yuhao’s blood could catalyze the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss and Aromatic Silk Beauty, producing pills that evolved poison-attribute Martial Souls while purifying their poison.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Xuanying spent the night preparing four pills for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo returned with Dugu Yan and introduced her to Huo Yuhao, while privately considering whether to match them.
• Huo Yuhao gave Dugu Bo two pills and advised him to take his outside the valley; Dugu Yan swallowed hers while Huo Yuhao stood guard.
• Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul began transforming as green poisonous mist seeped from her skin.
• Huo Yuhao discussed medicines for his friends and teachers with Gu Xuanying, then decided to prioritize refining them over seeking soul rings for his Spirit Eye Martial Soul.

Huo Yuhao prepared Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew while Dugu Yan’s treatment evolved her Martial Soul and removed its poison. After Dugu Bo returned, he proposed betrothing Dugu Yan to Huo Yuhao and challenged her understanding of Yu Tianheng’s motives.

• Huo Yuhao strengthened Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew with the essences of Star Moon Grass and Sun Flower, then stored the herb.
• Dugu Yan awoke at Rank 40 with an evolved Jade Serpent Crown Martial Soul and no remaining poison, then realized she was naked and hurriedly dressed.
• Dugu Bo returned, confirmed Dugu Yan’s cure and his own rise to peak Rank 94, and asked Huo Yuhao what he thought of Dugu Yan.
• Huo Yuhao praised Dugu Yan’s beauty and generosity, and Dugu Bo offered to betroth her to him.
• Dugu Yan objected because she already had a boyfriend, Yu Tianheng, but Dugu Bo told her Yu Tianheng had pursued her more because of him.

Dugu Bo tried to persuade Dugu Yan to leave Yu Tianheng and spend time with Huo Yuhao, then arranged for them to stay together while he went into seclusion. After Dugu Yan absorbed a soul ring and ate food prepared by her grandfather, she was overcome by an aphrodisiac, and Huo Yuhao realized she needed help.

• Dugu Bo urged Dugu Yan to break up with Yu Tianheng, but Huo Yuhao suggested that they spend time getting to know each other before she decided.
• Dugu Bo caught a nine-thousand-year Purple Winged Snake for Dugu Yan, whose Soul Power rose to Rank 49 after she absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo left food for Dugu Yan and told her and Huo Yuhao to get along while he went into seclusion.
• Huo Yuhao refined medicinal herbs as Dugu Yan ate the food and gradually became flushed and lost control of her reason.
• Dugu Yan wrapped herself around Huo Yuhao, who realized she had been drugged and hurried to help her dispel the poison.

Huo Yuhao detoxified Dugu Yan after she was poisoned, and their relationship gradually softened as they lived together at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. With his deadline near, he prepared to leave, but Dugu Bo returned to find the medicinal herbs almost entirely gone.

• Huo Yuhao ignored Gu Xuanying's advice to use a Clear Heart and spent a day and night detoxifying Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan woke, confronted Huo Yuhao, and stopped short of striking him; he helped her blame the drugging on an unknown culprit, whom she suspected was Dugu Bo.
• Huo Yuhao and Dugu Yan began living together, and their distance gradually eased through daily interactions.
• Huo Yuhao refined nearly all the herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and planned to return to Heaven Dou City before his one-month deadline.
• Dugu Bo returned proudly announcing that he had condensed a Soul Core and reached level ninety-five, then stared in shock at the nearly barren Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Huo Yuhao placated Dugu Bo after stripping the Icefire Spring of its herbs by giving him pills, and Dugu Bo accepted the harvest and agreed to Huo Yuhao marrying Dugu Yan. Huo Yuhao and Dugu Yan left for Heaven Dou City together, where she planned to end her relationship with Yu Tianheng.

• Dugu Bo found the Icefire Spring stripped of its herbs and angrily confronted Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao showed Dugu Bo pills he had refined from the herbs, and Dugu Bo took them and welcomed him to return for more herbs in the future.
• Huo Yuhao and Dugu Yan blamed an unknown person for drugging them, while Dugu Bo concealed that he had arranged it himself.
• Dugu Bo asked Huo Yuhao whether he would marry Dugu Yan as his wife, and Huo Yuhao agreed.
• Huo Yuhao and Dugu Yan reached Heaven Dou City, where Dugu Yan said she would break up with Yu Tianheng and Huo Yuhao offered to go with her.

Huo Yuhao accompanied Dugu Yan to Heaven Dou Empire Royal Academy, where she ended her relationship with Yu Tianheng and named Huo Yuhao as her fiancé. After Yu Tianheng insulted her and revealed his contemptuous motives, Huo Yuhao stepped in to defend her and accepted Yu Tianheng’s challenge to fight.

• Huo Yuhao and Dugu Yan arrived at Heaven Dou Empire Royal Academy, where students noticed them holding hands.
• Yu Tianheng and the Royal Fighting Team went to Royal Fighting Square after learning Dugu Yan had returned.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself as Dugu Yan’s fiancé, and Dugu Yan confirmed her betrothal and broke up with Yu Tianheng.
• Yu Tianheng insulted Dugu Yan and admitted he had pursued her because of her grandfather, prompting her to lose respect for him.
• Huo Yuhao stopped Dugu Yan from confronting Yu Tianheng, mocked him, and accepted his challenge to fight in the Soul Duel Zone.

Huo Yuhao defeated Yu Tianheng, prompting Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to leave the Royal Fighting Team with him. Back at Dugu Bo’s residence, Huo Yuhao told Dugu Yan he would be away for several months and spent the night with her.

• Huo Yuhao suppressed Yu Tianheng’s Martial Soul with his Dragon King aura and knocked him unconscious with a Spiritual Hammer.
• Dugu Yan announced she was leaving the Royal Fighting Team, and Ye Lingling chose to leave with her.
• Huo Yuhao, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling returned to Dugu Bo’s residence in Heaven Dou City.
• Huo Yuhao told Dugu Yan he would leave the next day for several months, then persuaded her to share his bed.
• When Dugu Yan bit Huo Yuhao’s arm, he used his strength below to distract her.

Huo Yuhao discussed recruiting Ye Lingling and her mother by resolving the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul flaw, while asking Dugu Yan to help pave the way. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao preparing to leave at dawn and Dugu Yan agreeing to speak on his behalf.

• Huo Yuhao told Dugu Yan he was considering joining another academy so they could participate in the Soul Master Competition and advance his plans.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection Sharing with Dugu Yan, allowing them to see Ye Lingling listening from the next room.
• Huo Yuhao learned from Dugu Yan that Ye Lingling blamed herself for her grandfather's death after awakening the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao offered to resolve the Martial Soul flaw affecting Ye Lingling's family, and Dugu Yan asked him to help her friend and her mother.
• Huo Yuhao told Dugu Yan to lay the groundwork for recruiting Ye Lingling before he left at dawn, and Dugu Yan agreed.

Ye Lingling overheard Huo Yuhao promise to resolve her family’s Martial Soul flaw and accidentally saw him with Dugu Yan, leaving her mortified. After failing to find Ning Rongrong and Zhu Qing, Huo Yuhao met Qian Renxue in her true appearance, and she invited him to discuss the Slave Hunter Group incident.

• Ye Lingling heard Huo Yuhao offer to help with her family’s Martial Soul flaw and saw him with Dugu Yan through the window before fleeing back to her room.
• Huo Yuhao left Dugu Yan sleeping and went to find Ning Rongrong and Zhu Qing, but learned they had already left.
• Huo Yuhao visited the Crown Prince Residence, where a guard told him the Crown Prince was absent.
• Qian Renxue, posing as Qian Xue, met Huo Yuhao outside and took him to a teahouse.
• Qian Renxue revealed that Spirit Hall had sent her to handle the Slave Hunter Group incident and asked Huo Yuhao for details.

Qian Renxue tested Huo Yuhao’s attitude toward Spirit Hall and invited him to help establish an academy with Spirit Hall’s support. Their friendly stroll ended with Qian Renxue giving him a token and probing the limits of his disguise skill.

• Qian Renxue questioned Huo Yuhao about whether Spirit Hall or the Heaven Dou Empire had harmed ordinary people, and he hinted that the Heaven Dou Empire was responsible.
• Qian Renxue invited Huo Yuhao to join Spirit Hall, but he declined and proposed that Spirit Hall support his academy alongside the Heaven Dou Empire and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Qian Renxue agreed to support the academy, while Huo Yuhao and Qian Renxue each privately welcomed the prospect of gaining the other’s people and cooperation.
• Huo Yuhao used Simulation to disguise them as they strolled through Heaven Dou City, and Qian Renxue gave him a token to visit her at Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue asked whether Huo Yuhao could disguise other people, and he demonstrated that his Simulation created an illusion rather than changing a person’s substance.

Huo Yuhao and Qian Renxue shared a sweet afternoon, cooking and eating together before he discovered his refreshed ability: Omni-Purpose Martial Soul Fusion Material. The ability’s Purple grade could enable fusion skills with anyone, but its normal Solidification Task left Huo Yuhao worried about the harder tasks ahead.

• Huo Yuhao bought sugar-coated haws and shared one with Qian Renxue, who explained that she had grown to prefer sour and bitter flavors.
• Huo Yuhao and Qian Renxue went to a courtyard, where he cooked lunch and taught her to prepare one dish; they then enjoyed dessert together.
• Qian Renxue said she would save their relaxed time together for occasional visits because she wanted to strengthen Spirit Hall and prove herself.
• Huo Yuhao discovered his refreshed Purple ability, Omni-Purpose Martial Soul Fusion Material, which let him form Martial Soul Fusion Skills with anyone and more people as he gained Soul Rings.
• Huo Yuhao learned the ability grades and realized its Solidification Task would have normal difficulty, prompting him to worry about completing harder tasks.

Huo Yuhao considered how to complete a task requiring him to defeat someone six ranks above him with a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then left Qian Renxue after helping clean up. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue resolved to recruit him, and Dugu Yan asked Ye Lingling whether she would join them and accept Huo Yuhao’s help.

• Huo Yuhao concluded that his strength and potential fusion skills might let him defeat a Soul Douluo within the task’s one-month limit.
• Huo Yuhao and Qian Renxue cleaned up together, and she felt their Soul Power mingle before he said farewell.
• Qian Renxue rejected Snake Lance Douluo’s advice to kill Huo Yuhao and explained why she believed he could be recruited to Spirit Hall.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling awkwardly met at noon, then shared lunch while thinking about the previous night.
• Dugu Yan asked Ye Lingling if she was willing to join them and promised Huo Yuhao would help resolve the flaws in her Martial Soul even if she refused.