Chapter Summaries

After nearly a month beneath the Icefire Lake, Li Chang'an emerged safely, and Dugu Yan's Lovesick Heartbreak Red shielded her from the spring water. Li Chang'an discovered that his eyes let him see colored threads linking everything in the world, though he could change their unusual red-and-blue color back to black.

• Dugu Bo urged Dugu Yan to leave the lake, but she said the Lovesick Heartbreak Red protected her and she could stay.
• Bubbles rose from the Icefire Lake, and Li Chang'an burst through its surface as Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo watched.
• The Lovesick Heartbreak Red protected Dugu Yan from splashes of the spring water, and she tearfully welcomed Li Chang'an back.
• Li Chang'an saw colored threads surrounding the world and noticed a thick red thread connecting him to Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo noticed Li Chang'an's changed eyes, and he used a Water Mirror to see that one was red and the other blue.
• Li Chang'an wondered whether his eyes were linked to his new vision, then changed their color back to black.

Li Chang'an reunited with Dugu Yan after awakening his Nine Infants bloodline, and her devotion left him ashamed and determined to protect her and improve her Martial Soul. He considered seeking the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s Inner Core in the City of Slaughter, while concluding that his human body remained bound by the Soul Master system.

• Li Chang'an returned to shore, accepted clothes from Dugu Yan, and embraced her as Dugu Bo quietly left them alone.
• Li Chang'an recognized that Dugu Yan had plucked the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and felt moved and ashamed because his own feelings had not yet reached the same depth.
• Li Chang'an resolved to improve Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul and considered finding the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent in the City of Slaughter for its Inner Core.
• Li Chang'an reflected that awakening the Nine Infants bloodline had raised his Soul Power to level forty but had not freed his human body from needing Soul Rings to advance.
• Li Chang'an decided to continue cultivating as a Soul Master while relying on his beast clone and dormant bloodlines as alternatives.

After awakening the Nine Infants Bloodline, Li Chang'an discovered he could shrink and enlarge his body, then tested how the ability affected his strength and energy. He left the underground cave and ended the chapter as a hundred-meter behemoth, eager to explore the ability’s potential.

• Li Chang'an decided to leave the underground cave and explore the Soul Beast Forest after awakening his bloodline.
• Li Chang'an discovered he could shrink his body to about one meter and retain his strength and toughness.
• Li Chang'an tested enlarging himself and grew to a hundred meters as the process consumed his energy.
• Li Chang'an observed that his enlarged form had increased physical strength and raw power, and considered how far the ability might take him.

Li Chang'an tested the limits of his size-changing ability and realized that energy, rather than his awakened Nine Infants Bloodline alone, determined his strength. While approaching a lake to hunt, he saw threads connecting all living things and tried to affect one, causing his mental power to drain rapidly.

• Li Chang'an discovered that shrinking and returning to normal required no energy, while enlarging and sustaining the change consumed energy.
• He concluded that his powerful Nine Infants Bloodline had improved his aptitude but had not made him strong, and decided to pursue cultivating an Inner Core.
• Hungry, Li Chang'an traveled toward prey, suppressed his conspicuous aura, and shrank his body to approach without frightening the animals.
• At a lake, Li Chang'an saw a peaceful gathering of Soul Beasts, including a thousand-year-old reindeer with crystal-clear antlers.
• Li Chang'an saw colored threads connecting the living creatures and focused on the thickest thread attached to the reindeer, triggering a mental boom as his mental power rapidly drained.

Li Chang'an discovered that he could see soul beasts’ pasts and futures through Fate Threads, then used his bloodline pressure and elemental abilities to interfere with a predicted attack. He freed and treated a Thousand-Year Deer, though the terrified animal still did not dare move.

• Li Chang'an saw a Thousand-Year Soul Beast’s past and realized his vision revealed Fate Threads and could show the future.
• Li Chang'an foresaw a Man Faced Demon Spider attacking a soul beast, and the spider soon ambushed the animals by the lake.
• The Man Faced Demon Spider trapped a Thousand-Year Deer in a toxic web and prepared to devour it.
• Li Chang'an revealed his aura, froze both creatures with his bloodline pressure, and burned away the web with a flame.
• Li Chang'an sprayed the Thousand-Year Deer with water that carried detoxifying and purifying effects.

Li Chang'an changed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s fate so it would be killed by Dugu Yan and give her its External Soul Bone, then used Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to enhance his eyes. He discovered that his eyes had gained the powers of blessing and Calamity Power.

• Li Chang'an cured the Thousand-Year Deer, released it, and saw that he had changed its fate from certain death.
• Li Chang'an learned that Tang San was destined to kill the Man Faced Demon Spider and obtain its External Soul Bone, which he wanted for Dugu Yan.
• Li Chang'an changed the spider’s fate so Dugu Yan would kill it half a month later and gain the External Soul Bone.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Li Chang'an consumed the essence of Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and cultivated its medicinal power.
• Li Chang'an opened hidden meridians around his eyes and discovered powers representing blessing and Calamity Power.

Li Chang'an discovered that his eyes could bestow temporary good luck or bring misfortune, and named them the Auspicious Ominous Eyes. After finding that his power could not be stored in a Storage Soul Guidance Device, he learned that ordinary objects could hold it, leaving him with a way to accumulate Blessing Power and Calamity Power.

• Li Chang'an realized his red left eye contained Blessing Power and his blue right eye contained Calamity Power, which could grant temporary luck or misfortune.
• Li Chang'an named his abilities the Auspicious Ominous Eyes and recognized that their power depended on energy stored in his eyes, which recovered after use.
• Li Chang'an considered accumulating the energy over time to unleash stronger blessings or calamities, then tried storing Blessing Power in his bracelet Soul Guidance Device.
• Li Chang'an found the device could not sense or store Blessing Power, so he tested various ordinary objects as possible vessels.
• Li Chang'an successfully placed Blessing Power into a piece of forged iron and discovered that inanimate objects could hold either Blessing Power or Calamity Power.

Li Chang'an discovered that jade could store Blessing and Calamity Power, and he carved pendants that could hold a million points each. After confirming his power recovered daily, he planned to prepare more jade containers and use the stored power to sway luck in his favor or sabotage enemies.

• Li Chang'an tested different materials and found that purer, more precious jade stored the most Blessing and Calamity Power.
• Li Chang'an obtained a Top-Grade Jadeite Rough Stone and carved four comma-shaped pendants that could be joined into Yin-Yang Fish designs.
• Li Chang'an filled two pendants with Blessing and Calamity Power, transforming them into Red Jade and Blue Jade, and found each could hold roughly one million points without losing power over time.
• Li Chang'an learned that the pendants could gradually affect the fortune of whoever carried them, so he recognized them as potential Blessing Artifacts or Calamity Artifacts.
• Li Chang'an discovered that his eyes replenished their power after one day and decided to prepare more jade containers for future use.

Li Chang'an and Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul beasts for their next rings. Li Chang'an chose a Wind Chasing Shadow Wolf pack’s ten-thousand-year Wolf King as his fourth-ring target and persuaded Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to let him attempt the dangerous absorption.

• Li Chang'an discovered that his human and snake bodies shared the same daily supply of Blessing and Calamity Power and planned to give his snake body two jade pendants.
• Dugu Bo led Li Chang'an and Dugu Yan through the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul beasts for their next rings.
• Li Chang'an told Dugu Bo that he wanted a Wind Chasing Shadow Wolf for his fourth soul ring.
• At night, the group found a pack of Wind Chasing Shadow Wolves led by a Wolf King estimated to be about twelve thousand years old.
• Li Chang'an claimed his strengthened constitution and spiritual power would let him absorb the Wolf King's soul ring, and he eventually persuaded Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to agree.

Dugu Bo subdued a pack of Wind Chasing Shadow Wolves without killing them, then Li Chang'an chose to hunt the Wolf King for its Soul Ring despite the risks. The chapter ended with Li Chang'an approaching the incapacitated Wolf King and striking it with the Azure Scale Sword.

• Dugu Bo attacked the Wind Chasing Shadow Wolf pack and discovered that its Wolf King could create a Shadow Clone.
• The Wolf King and its clone attacked Dugu Bo, but he poisoned and incapacitated them both.
• Dugu Bo paralyzed the rest of the pack with poison mist rather than killing the rare Soul Beasts.
• Dugu Bo again warned Li Chang'an about absorbing a powerful Soul Ring, but Li Chang'an insisted he was confident.
• Li Chang'an summoned the Azure Scale Sword, approached the Wolf King, and thrust the sword down.

Li Chang'an killed the Wolf King and used Blessing Power to test the danger of absorbing its Soul Ring, discovering that it could gauge how difficult a goal was. He absorbed the ring safely, devoured the Wolf King's remnant soul, and woke with a fleeting, savage change in his eyes as Dugu Yan asked about his Fourth Soul Skill.

• Li Chang'an pierced the Wolf King's skull with the Azure Scale Sword and watched a black Soul Ring form above its corpse.
• Li Chang'an found that Blessed Luck would not activate for safe absorption, realizing that its consumption could reveal how difficult a goal was to achieve.
• Li Chang'an absorbed the Wolf King's Soul Ring, while the Wolf King's remnant soul appeared in his Spiritual World.
• Li Chang'an manifested as the Nine Infants and destroyed the remnant soul, consuming its spiritual power.
• Li Chang'an finished absorbing the Soul Ring in half an hour, and Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan noticed a brief, ferocious change in his eyes.
• Dugu Yan asked Li Chang'an how he felt and what Fourth Soul Skill he had obtained.

Li Chang'an demonstrated his Fourth Soul Skill, Sword Shadow, which created a powerful Martial Soul clone and boosted his speed. Dugu Yan absorbed a Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring while Li Chang'an's concealed Nine Infants Snake Body watched nearby.

• Li Chang'an revealed that Sword Shadow could create a full-strength Martial Soul clone, increase his speed by forty percent, and transform the clone between sword and serpent forms.
• Dugu Bo decided Dugu Yan's third Soul Ring could strengthen her combat ability because the immortal herb had eased concerns about her Martial Soul's poison.
• Li Chang'an's snake body drove a Man Faced Demon Spider toward the group, and Dugu Bo subdued it as a suitable Soul Beast for Dugu Yan.
• After waiting half an hour for any pursuing Soul Beast, Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan to kill the spider, and she absorbed its purple Soul Ring.
• Li Chang'an's nine-headed snake body concealed itself on a nearby branch and watched Dugu Yan, undetected by Dugu Bo.

Dugu Yan smoothly absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider's soul ring and gained a rare External Soul Bone in the form of eight spider legs. She learned what had appeared on her back and examined it in Li Chang'an's Water Mirror.

• Li Chang'an secretly used Blessing Power to make Dugu Yan's soul ring absorption go smoothly.
• Dugu Yan completed the absorption, and eight spider legs grew from her back.
• Dugu Bo recognized the spider legs as a rare, growable External Soul Bone.
• Li Chang'an reassured the startled Dugu Yan and used water elements to create a Water Mirror.
• Dugu Yan examined the External Soul Bone in the mirror.

Dugu Yan learned to retract her Eight Spider Legs, while Li Chang'an recovered his jade pendants and decided to leave the Star Dou Great Forest. He set out for the Far North to grow stronger beyond the Silver Dragon King's reach and seek the nearly million-year-old Fat Ice Silkworm.

• Dugu Bo taught Dugu Yan to retract her Eight Spider Legs, which she stored as streams of energy along her ribs by spending Soul Power.
• After Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan left, Li Chang'an retrieved two jade pendants and stored them in his stomach space.
• Li Chang'an decided against developing in the Star Dou Great Forest's Core Area because Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts might force him to serve the Silver Dragon King.
• Li Chang'an chose the Far North as a safer place to build his strength and gather subordinates.
• Li Chang'an planned to seek out and eat the nearly million-year-old Fat Ice Silkworm to boost his cultivation.

Dugu Yan gained the Eight Spider Lances, which absorbed the toxins in her body and gave Dugu Bo an idea for storing poison in Soul Bones. Back at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Li Chang'an tried to devise a way to hide his Soul Rings, but he lacked the Blessing Power to do so.

• Dugu Yan tested the Eight Spider Lances and discovered their piercing power, venom, and ability to devour energy, life force, and poison.
• The Eight Spider Lances absorbed Dugu Yan's accumulated toxins, and Dugu Bo considered using Soul Bones to store poison and delay the effects of poisonous Martial Souls.
• Dugu Yan stayed with Dugu Bo to train with and fully fuse with the Eight Spider Lances while Li Chang'an returned alone to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Li Chang'an worried that revealing his rapid rise to Soul Ancestor would put him in danger, so he sought a way to hide his Soul Rings.
• Li Chang'an used his Auspicious Pupil to check the Blessing Power required to create a hiding method and learned that he needed over sixteen hundred points, far more than he had stored.

Li Chang'an used Blessed Luck to discover how to hide his Soul Rings, letting him conceal his rapid growth while still using his fourth Soul Ring. After considering how to create a Demon Inner Core method, he went to the Soul Battle Zone, where seeing Yu Tianheng brought Dugu Yan’s grim future to mind and stirred his killing intent.

• Li Chang'an spent Blessed Luck to comprehend a way to conceal his fourth Soul Ring without losing access to its soul skill.
• Li Chang'an learned that creating a Demon Inner Core method would consume far more Blessed Luck and considered studying the Primordial Variant Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent in the City of Slaughter.
• Li Chang'an visited the academy’s Soul Battle Zone to relax and spotted Yu Tianheng among the spectators.
• Li Chang'an recalled the original work’s account of Dugu Yan’s unhappy marriage to Yu Tianheng, her inability to bear children, Dugu Bo’s death, and her eventual isolation.
• Li Chang'an’s resentment toward Yu Tianheng deepened as he remembered that Yu Tianheng had pursued and harassed Dugu Yan.

Li Chang'an faced Yu Tianheng in a duel after Yu provoked him, and easily dodged his opening attack despite displaying only Level 31 Soul Elder strength. Yu Tianheng powered up and unleashed a sweeping attack, but the chapter ended before it hit Li Chang'an.

• Yu Tianheng provoked Li Chang'an, hoping to make him attack first, but the two were scheduled to duel in the arena.
• Li Chang'an and Yu Tianheng announced their levels as Level 31 and Level 32 Soul Elders, then the referee started the match.
• Yu Tianheng attacked with Thunder Dragon Claw, but Li Chang'an dodged so quickly that spectators thought he had vanished.
• Yu Tianheng activated Thunder Fury and used Thunderous Myriad Bolts to cover Li Chang'an's possible escape routes.
• The chapter ended as Yu Tianheng's Lightning Arrows surged toward Li Chang'an.

Li Chang'an defeated Yu Tianheng by evading his Lightning Arrows and poisoning him with the Azure Scale Sword. Yu Tianheng’s teachers could not cure the venom, and Li Chang'an had already left the arena.

• Li Chang'an dodged Yu Tianheng’s Lightning Arrows and crossed the ruined arena unharmed.
• Yu Tianheng grabbed Li Chang'an’s sword, but its poison quickly numbed his body and stopped him from fighting.
• Yu Tianheng admitted defeat, and the referee declared Li Chang'an the winner.
• A teacher’s Detoxification Apple failed to counter the poison, so the referee concluded they needed to find Li Chang'an and ask him to cure Yu Tianheng.

Li Chang'an cured Yu Tianheng’s visible poisoning but secretly planted Nine Infants' Poison deep in his bone marrow, planning to make him suffer rather than kill him outright. He then considered using the poison to control or empower followers, deciding to quietly build influence among Soul Beasts instead of humans for now.

• Li Chang'an used his Azure Scale Sword to draw the poison from Yu Tianheng, and the teachers confirmed that Yu Tianheng was cured.
• After the teachers left with Yu Tianheng, Li Chang'an revealed that he had hidden Nine Infants' Poison in Yu Tianheng’s bone marrow.
• Li Chang'an planned to let the poison slowly drain Yu Tianheng’s life force and Soul Power, weakening his talent and shortening his lifespan.
• Li Chang'an realized that Nine Infants' Poison could both punish traitors and strengthen followers, depending on how he controlled it.
• Li Chang'an decided to develop Soul Beast underlings quietly rather than risk attracting attention by building a human faction.

Li Chang'an arrived in the Far North, where he planned to build his strength and establish himself as its ruler. He adapted his scales to blend into the snow and began hunting local Soul Beasts.

• Li Chang'an surveyed the Far North and decided its isolation would let him develop without human interference, though the Snow Empress remained far beyond his current strength.
• Li Chang'an discovered he could absorb the surrounding cold and turn his scales snow-white, allowing him to camouflage himself in the snowy landscape.
• Li Chang'an sensed a pack of Icefield Wolves hunting ice-thorn boars and confirmed no powerful Soul Beasts were nearby.
• Li Chang'an released his aura, forcing the wolves and boars to submit, then swallowed the boars and began digesting them into energy.