Chapter Summaries

Zi Yan took command after Lan Shui recklessly engaged Dugu Bo, then joined the fight as the mercenary group’s formations and fields weakened Dugu Bo’s soul skills. Dugu Bo was overwhelmed by coordinated attacks but unleashed a powerful burst that sent the captains flying, and Xia Yu ordered the formation to defend.

• Zi Yan ordered the Sixth Brigade and Thirteenth Brigade to enter the battle, activate the Soul Power Suppression Field and Soul Power Interference Field, and left Xia Yu in command while he went to aid Lan Shui.
• Zi Yan transformed into a Fire Elemental Giant and joined Lan Shui against Dugu Bo as Xia Yu directed the mercenary group’s Soul Masters and field operators.
• The two fields disrupted Dugu Bo’s soul power and weakened his Time Freeze, while Lan Shui, Zi Yan, and nearly five hundred Soul Masters besieged him.
• Dugu Bo tried to break through, but Xia Yu ordered a coordinated barrage of control skills followed by offensive attacks that briefly stopped the Jade Phosphorous Serpent.
• Dugu Bo erupted with green light and blasted away his attackers, sending Lan Shui and Zi Yan flying, so Xia Yu ordered the Soul Masters to defend with shields.

Lan Shui and Zi Yan used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Frigid Nether Blazing Fire, to overwhelm Dugu Bo with the mercenaries’ attacks. Dugu Bo surrendered while barely alive, and Lan Shui asked whether he truly meant to give up.

• Lan Shui and Zi Yan fused their opposing elemental martial souls into Frigid Nether Blazing Fire and engulfed Dugu Bo.
• Xia Yu ordered the Black Beast Mercenary Group to retreat, then led its soul masters and artillery in a sustained assault on Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent form was badly burned, and he reverted to human form, severely injured.
• Dugu Bo shouted that he surrendered, so Xia Yu halted the attacks and Lan Shui and Zi Yan released their fusion skill.
• Lan Shui asked the half-dead Dugu Bo whether he intended to surrender.

Dugu Bo surrendered to the Black Beast Mercenary Group after failing to seize the herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, hoping to use his allegiance to gain treatment for his poison. Li Ang learned of his capture and hurried to Sunset Forest while the mercenaries kept Dugu Bo under guard.

• Dugu Bo surrendered to the Black Beast Mercenary Group and secretly hoped they would help resolve the toxins in his body.
• Zi Yan ordered Soul Masters to seal Dugu Bo's Soul Power, imprison him under heavy guard, and treat his injuries without letting him recover fully.
• Zi Yan and Lan Shui reported Dugu Bo's capture to Li Ang, who learned that Dugu Bo also wanted to join the mercenary group.
• Li Ang connected Dugu Bo's changed fate to the system's plot rewrite progress increase and its reward of 500 points and one Constitution attribute point.
• Li Ang sent Shui Bing'er and the Heavenly Water Academy Team toward Heaven Dou City, left a clone behind, and flew toward Sunset Forest.

Li Ang recalled how he overcame his level-thirty-nine bottleneck by preparing for years to find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest. After using the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to strengthen himself, he repeatedly harvested its Immortal Herbs until he could enter safely and guard the place as his own.

• Li Ang spent several years researching Immortal Herbs in major city libraries before seeking the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Li Ang led a mercenary squad through Sunset Forest for more than two years, losing many subordinates before finding the well.
• Li Ang sent death warriors into the well to retrieve the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, whose effects helped him break through his bottleneck.
• Li Ang returned to the well whenever his cultivation stalled and used its Immortal Herbs to advance his strength.
• Li Ang eventually became strong enough to withstand the well’s ice and fire auras and stationed armed guards around it.

Li Ang returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well camp and went to question the captive Dugu Bo. Dugu Bo mistook the rejuvenated Li Ang for his son until Li Ang revealed himself and mocked him.

• Li Ang rode through Sunset Forest, where the soul beasts fled from his familiar aura, and caught a Five-Colored Pheasant for lunch.
• Li Ang ate with his disciples Zi Yan and Lan Shui and said he would visit Dugu Bo afterward.
• Dugu Bo recovered in a cage under guard by Black Beast Mercenary Group experts.
• Li Ang entered the cell with two mercenary captains, and Dugu Bo mistook him for Li Ang's son.
• Li Ang revealed his identity and taunted Dugu Bo for losing to his disciples and being the weakest Titled Douluo.

Li Ang reunited with Dugu Bo, who revealed that Tang San had brought him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in hopes of curing his accumulated poison. Li Ang warned that the herbs could kill Dugu Bo or strip him of his poison arts, then asked where Tang San was.

• Dugu Bo recognized Li Ang, panicked at the sight of him, and questioned how he had regained his youth.
• Li Ang dismissed Dugu Bo’s questions and asked why he had broken into the Black Beast Mercenary Group’s camp.
• Dugu Bo explained that he had captured Tang San and offered to serve Li Ang for life in exchange for the two Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Li Ang warned Dugu Bo that consuming the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Blazing Apricot Jiao Shu was highly dangerous and could cripple his poison arts.
• Dugu Bo realized Tang San’s plan could cost him his powers and vowed revenge, while Li Ang asked where Tang San was.

Li Ang learned that Tang San had escaped the battle and told Dugu Bo that a soul bone could store the poison harming him. Believing his own condition was too severe to fix, Dugu Bo offered to serve Li Ang for two years in exchange for protection for his granddaughter, Dugu Yan.

• Li Ang questioned Dugu Bo about Tang San, and Dugu Bo said Tang San had fled during the battle.
• Dugu Bo vowed to make Tang San pay for deceiving him, and Li Ang decided to keep Dugu Bo alive as a potential obstacle to Tang San.
• Li Ang explained that Dugu Bo could store his poison in a soul bone to prevent it from harming his body.
• Dugu Bo said the poison had fused too deeply with him to remove safely and estimated he had only two years left.
• Dugu Bo offered to serve Li Ang until he died if Li Ang would care for Dugu Yan, whose poison could still be treated.

Li Ang helped Dugu Bo suppress and ultimately resolve the poison hidden in his body, securing his service to the Black Beast Mercenary Group. After Dugu Bo left to confront Tang San, Li Ang remembered he had come to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for another purpose.

• Li Ang proposed combining controlled doses of the Blazing Apricot Jiao Shu and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass with his treatment, and Dugu Bo agreed to serve him if he cured the poison.
• Li Ang freed Dugu Bo, and the two sealed their deal with a handshake.
• Over the following months, Li Ang and Dugu Bo tested the treatment at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, easing Dugu Bo's pain and helping his cultivation approach a breakthrough.
• Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to Li Ang, asking him to take her as a disciple and treat the poison in her body.
• Li Ang trained Dugu Yan and the girls from the Heavenly Water Team at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• After Li Ang cured Dugu Bo, Dugu Bo left to find trouble with Tang San, and Li Ang remembered he had come to the well for another purpose.

Li Ang exchanged 8,888 system points for a Fully Automatic Alchemy Furnace and tested it at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. The furnace plundered the well and nearby divine remains for materials, then began a 48-hour refining cycle that Li Ang left in his Kamui Space.

• Li Ang found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well depleted after years of harvesting its herbs and supporting his faction.
• Li Ang spent 8,888 points on a Fully Automatic Alchemy Furnace and learned to operate its material-collection and pill-refining buttons.
• Li Ang activated the furnace, which seized the remaining herbs, including the Acacia Heartbreak Red, and even absorbed the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with the Fire Dragon King and Water Dragon King remains.
• Li Ang opened his Kamui Space, and the furnace's chains dragged out the Ice and Snow Gods' remaining divine cores and divine souls.
• Li Ang started the 48-hour refining cycle, stored the furnace in his Kamui Space, and left to watch a good show.

Li Ang arranged for Dugu Yan to catch Yu Tianheng cheating so she would break up with him. Dugu Yan found Yu Tianheng embracing twin girls in Heaven Dou City and exploded in anger.

• Li Ang investigated Yu Tianheng and learned that he already had three children, then arranged a cheating-catching scheme for Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan doubted the rumors but followed Li Ang’s advice and used a Soul Tool to disguise herself and secretly return to Heaven Dou City.
• After Dugu Yan left, Yu Tianheng skipped school and went out to find girls.
• Dugu Yan tracked Yu Tianheng with Li Ang’s Soul Power Detector and found him flirting with twin girls on the street.

Dugu Yan followed Yu Tianheng and discovered him entering a Love Hotel with two girls, then told Li Ang what she had seen. With Li Ang’s help, she found Yu Tianheng’s room and stormed inside, leaving him and the two girls to face her anger.

• Dugu Yan secretly followed Yu Tianheng and watched him take two girls into a Love Hotel.
• Li Ang found Dugu Yan, listened to her explain what Yu Tianheng had done, and urged her not to forgive him.
• Dugu Yan declared she was not finished with Yu Tianheng and rushed into the hotel with Li Ang following.
• Li Ang paid the receptionist fifty Gold Soul Coins to reveal that Yu Tianheng was in room 307 and hand over the key.
• Dugu Yan punched the door to room 307 off its hinges and entered Yu Tianheng’s lavish pink room.

Dugu Yan caught Yu Tianheng with two women and attacked him, while Li Ang intimidated him with his power as a Titled Douluo. Li Ang left Yu Tianheng’s fate to Dugu Yan, offering to deal with him despite his family’s opposition.

• Dugu Yan burst into the bedroom with Li Ang and caught Yu Tianheng with twin beauties.
• Dugu Yan slapped Yu Tianheng twice and kicked him in the groin, prompting him to summon his Soul Spirit and confront her.
• Li Ang threatened Yu Tianheng, revealing his nine Soul Rings and identifying himself as Dugu Yan’s teacher.
• Yu Tianheng recognized Li Ang as Black Beast Douluo, backed down, and admitted he had wronged Dugu Yan.
• Li Ang told Dugu Yan to decide Yu Tianheng’s fate and offered to help deal with him.

Li Ang spared Yu Tianheng at Dugu Yan’s request, then compensated the hotel and left with her. Two days later, he had settled in Heaven Dou City with his mercenaries and focused on the Fully Automatic Alchemy Furnace.

• Li Ang pinned Yu Tianheng to the wall with a beam of Soul Power, and Dugu Yan knocked out the screaming twin sisters.
• Li Ang asked Dugu Yan whether Yu Tianheng should live or die, and she told him to let Yu Tianheng go before leaving the bedroom.
• Li Ang left Yu Tianheng unharmed, paid the hotel manager one hundred Gold Soul Coins, and invoked the Black Beast Mercenary Group’s protection.
• Li Ang comforted Dugu Yan and settled in Heaven Dou City as the Black Beast Mercenary Group’s two battalions joined him there.
• Li Ang watched the Fully Automatic Alchemy Furnace in his manor, where he and his mercenaries had taken up residence.

Li Ang opened his furnace and examined the pills refined from divinity, dragon bones, and herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After taking pills that strengthened his body and mind, he ate an Immortal Pill and felt his Soul Power surge.

• The furnace opened and revealed more than twenty pills divided into four categories.
• Li Ang stored the Fire God Pill and Ice God Pill, which could grant their consumers divine positions.
• Li Ang swallowed a Dragon Strength Pill and a Divine Soul Pill, strengthening his body and mind.
• Li Ang found eighteen Immortal Pills that could improve talent, transform martial souls, and raise cultivation, but worked only once per person.
• Li Ang ate a black Immortal Pill and felt the Soul Power within him surge.

Li Ang broke through to level ninety-eight and found that his physical strength and mental power had surpassed those of ordinary Limit Douluo, though he planned to stay out of the spotlight and keep building strength. He learned that the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament had begun under a changed format, with his Black Beast Kingdom among its organizers.

• Li Ang naturally advanced to level ninety-eight, and his system panel showed his Constitution and Charm had each risen by ten points.
• Li Ang assessed his strength and resolved to avoid attracting attention while he continued rewriting the plot and accumulating power.
• Li Ang stored the pills from his refinement session and left the Pill Room to check on the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Li Ang’s Black Beast Kingdom, which controlled three and a half provinces, became one of the tournament’s organizers alongside the two great empires.

Li Ang stayed in Heaven Dou City as the Heavenly Water Academy Team’s instructor, ignoring invitations from the empire’s nobles and visiting Ning Fengzhi to discuss weapons and assess the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s political stance. Ning Fengzhi remained unwilling to commit to either Heaven Dou or Spirit Hall, leaving Li Ang with confirmation that the sect intended to preserve the status quo.

• The tournament’s qualifying places were divided among the Heaven Dou, Star Luo, and Black Beast Kingdom regions, while four teams, including the Black Beast Academy Team, qualified directly for the finals.
• Li Ang’s decision to leave the Black Beast Kingdom and serve as the Heavenly Water Academy Team’s instructor puzzled Heaven Dou’s upper ranks, whose invitations he ignored.
• Li Ang visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Upper Three Sects member with which he had the strongest relationship, to discuss an armaments procurement order.
• Li Ang sounded out Ning Fengzhi for Spirit Hall, and Ning Fengzhi showed that he wanted to avoid choosing between Heaven Dou and Spirit Hall and maintain the status quo.

As the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament approached, Dugu Bo returned to Li Ang’s estate badly injured after Tang Hao defeated him. Dugu Bo revealed that Spirit Hall had helped him escape and was preparing to send Golden Crocodile Douluo after Tang Hao, while Li Ang doubted that would be enough.

• Li Ang learned that Spirit Hall was testing Ning Fengzhi’s willingness to side with it and might eventually move against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• The system notified Li Ang that plot alteration progress had reached 25.4%, awarding him 1,000 points.
• Patrolling mercenaries found Dugu Bo near death, and Li Ang asked him what had happened.
• Dugu Bo told Li Ang that he had tried to kill Tang San, discovered Tang San was Tang Hao’s son, and was nearly killed by Tang Hao.
• Dugu Bo explained that Chrysanthemum Pass and other Spirit Hall experts helped him escape, and said Golden Crocodile Douluo planned to capture Tang Hao.
• Li Ang doubted Golden Crocodile Douluo could defeat Tang Hao and noted that Qian Daoliu was unlikely to intervene.

Li Ang left Dugu Bo to recover and attended the opening ceremony of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament in Heaven Dou City. Xue Ye and Salas questioned him about his sudden rejuvenation, but Li Ang offered only a vague explanation.

• Li Ang told Dugu Bo to heal his injuries and prepare to help the Black Beast Mercenary Group.
• Li Ang attended the tournament’s opening ceremony and sat between Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi in the VIP Seats.
• Xue Ye congratulated Li Ang on his youthful appearance and probed him for the secret behind it.
• Li Ang claimed that a recent cultivation breakthrough had made him younger.
• Salas questioned Li Ang about what kind of breakthrough could restore a Soul Master’s youth.

At the competition’s opening ceremony, Li Ang entertained Xue Ye, Salas, and Ning Fengzhi with an invented story about his past while Salas conducted the preliminary draw. Salas then offered finalists a place in Spirit Hall’s Holy Temple, angering Xue Ye, and Ning Fengzhi redirected the tense exchange by asking Li Ang about his role at Heavenly Water Academy.

• Li Ang made up a story about fusing with a strange flame, cultivating Sage Mode on Mount Myōboku, and living a second life, while Salas and Xue Ye doubted him.
• Ning Fengzhi returned after his speech, and Li Ang drew him into the story as Salas began the preliminary competition draw.
• Salas announced the first-round matchups, including Heaven Dou Royal Academy versus Shrek Academy and Heavenly Water Academy versus Elephant Armor Academy.
• Salas promised that any participating student who reached the Finals could join Spirit Hall’s Holy Temple, stirring excitement among the young soul masters.
• Xue Ye grew furious at Salas’s recruitment offer, but Ning Fengzhi restrained him; Salas returned to the VIP Seats pleased with himself.
• Ning Fengzhi changed the subject by asking Li Ang whether he had joined Heavenly Water Academy and become its representative squad’s team leader.

Li Ang and Salas argued over which academy would win the Soul Master Competition, while Ning Fengzhi hinted that he favored Shrek Academy. The opening match between Shrek Academy and Heaven Dou Royal Academy began, and Li Ang watched Xiao Wu closely, still puzzled that no one had detected her soul beast identity.

• Li Ang declared that his disciples from Heavenly Water Academy could win the tournament, and Salas sarcastically dismissed his confidence.
• Ning Fengzhi withheld the team he favored until Li Ang guessed it was Shrek Academy, which Ning confirmed by implication.
• Salas pointed out that Shrek Academy would face Heaven Dou Royal Academy in the opening match, and Ning replied that he should wait and see.
• Prince Xue Xing and Heaven Dou Royal Academy's committee members assured Xue Ye that their team would perform well.
• Shrek Academy and Heaven Dou Royal Academy began the match, and Shrek's strong lineup included Tang San with a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring.
• Li Ang focused on Xiao Wu and wondered why no powerful Soul Masters had uncovered her soul beast identity.