Chapter Summaries

Ye Wen stopped Huo Rui from attacking Tang San and Yu Xiaogang by warning her that Yu Xiaogang’s father was the powerful Thunder Douluo. The group attended Ye Wen’s Master Acknowledgment Ceremony, where the arrival of a usually palace-bound figure drew everyone’s attention.

• Huo Rui vowed to kill Tang San, but Ye Wen warned her that Yu Xiaogang’s father, Yu Yuanzhen, would retaliate.
• Ye Wen promised Huo Rui a gift that could help her reach Titled Douluo, and Huo Yu’er asked him to face future troubles with her.
• Ye Wen, Huo Rui, Huo Yu’er, and Dugu Bo arrived at Heaven Dou’s most luxurious hotel for the ceremony.
• Yu Yuanzhen and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong arrived among the prominent guests.
• The hall fell silent when an unusual visitor, who normally never left the imperial palace, appeared.

At the Master Acknowledgment Ceremony, Xue Ye tried to strengthen ties with Ye Wen’s faction and introduced Ye Wen to Princess Xue Ke. Ye Wen and Xue Ke began talking comfortably while Xue Ye watched their first meeting with hope.

• Xue Ye arrived with Xue Ke and greeted the nobles, while privately resolving to win over Ye Wen’s faction through marriage ties.
• Xue Ye praised Ye Wen and explained that Xue Qinghe was handling state affairs because of his poor health.
• Xue Ye introduced Ye Wen to Xue Ke and left them to talk, prompting the other noble ladies to move aside.
• Ye Wen spoke about ordinary life, and Xue Ke listened intently before explaining that his stories were novel to her.
• Xue Ye watched from afar and took their relaxed conversation as a promising beginning.

At Ye Wen’s Master Acknowledgment Ceremony, Ning Rongrong interrupted his conversation with Xue Ke, and Ye Wen explained how he had identified her. The chapter left Ning Rongrong listening as Ye Wen concluded that her unusually high cultivation revealed her identity.

• Ning Rongrong joined Ye Wen and Xue Ke at their table, interrupting their conversation.
• Ye Wen asked Ning Rongrong to move and give him and Xue Ke some privacy, but she challenged him to explain how he knew her identity.
• Ning Rongrong threatened to complain to Chen Xin and Gu Rong, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s table listened in.
• Ye Wen explained that he recognized Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul and sensed her Soul Power was around Rank 28.
• Ye Wen reasoned that her cultivation at around twelve years old was unusually high and identified her as Ning Rongrong, Ning Fengzhi’s youngest daughter.

At the Master Acknowledgment Ceremony, Ning Rongrong met Ye Wen and teased him while Xue Ke reconsidered her arranged marriage to him. Ning Rongrong had agreed to pursue Ye Wen as a potential husband after Ning Fengzhi brought her to the ceremony to strengthen the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Ning Rongrong introduced herself formally to Ye Wen, then dropped her polite manner and teased him as they spoke.
• Ning Rongrong told Xue Ke that Ye Wen had defeated a group of talented opponents despite being outnumbered, causing Xue Ke to reconsider marrying him.
• Xue Ke realized Ning Rongrong might also be interested in Ye Wen because the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect needed combat-capable Soul Masters as partners for its heirs.
• Ning Fengzhi had brought Ning Rongrong to the ceremony to teach her about her responsibilities as the sect heir and seek a strong alliance for the sect.
• Ning Rongrong had agreed to pursue Ye Wen, finding him more appealing than Tang San and unwilling to stake her happiness on Tang San's hidden weapons.

Oscar grieved over Ning Rongrong’s departure and lamented that his Support Martial Soul left him dependent on others, while Ning Fengzhi weighed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s ties to the Heaven Dou Empire and considered Ye Wen as a possible match for his daughter. Ye Wen escaped a tense exchange between Xue Ke and Ning Rongrong with Huo Yu’er’s help, and she reassured him that she trusted him.

• Oscar watched Ning Rongrong leave and lamented that his Support Martial Soul made him feel inferior and unable to stand on his own.
• Xue Ye proposed finding a suitable young man for Ning Rongrong, but Ning Fengzhi said the decision depended on her wishes.
• Ning Fengzhi concluded that Ye Wen joining the Heaven Dou Imperial Family would not threaten the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, though he remained disappointed that his daughter might not win Ye Wen over.
• Xue Ke and Ning Rongrong traded veiled barbs over Ye Wen until he tried to leave the conversation.
• Huo Yu’er arrived, and Ye Wen used her presence as an excuse to leave with her.
• Ye Wen thanked Huo Yu’er for rescuing him, and she said she trusted him and had come to help.

At Dugu Bo’s Master Acknowledgment Ceremony, Ye Wen became his official disciple as powerful figures gathered and discussed how to win him over. Yu Yuanzhen recognized Ye Wen and Dugu Yan’s exceptional potential, leaving him troubled by the threat they posed to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s ambitions.

• Xue Ye encouraged Xue Ke to pursue Ye Wen, and she resolved to become part of his life.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong to prioritize the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and accept Ye Wen’s other partners; she agreed rather than risk being matched with someone else.
• Ning Fengzhi and Xue Ye began planning how to win Ye Wen over.
• Ye Wen offered tea to Dugu Bo, who publicly declared him his disciple and promised to defend him, his medicinal shop, and Earl Tianxin’s estate.
• At the banquet, Yu Yuanzhen sensed Ye Wen’s great potential and grew more concerned when he saw that Dugu Yan’s cultivation surpassed Yu Tianheng’s.

Yu Yuanzhen grew wary of Dugu Bo’s growing circle of powerful allies and considered using Yu Tianheng to get close to Dugu Yan, while Dugu Bo warned him not to harm his disciple. The exchange left Yu Yuanzhen nursing a grudge, as Xue Ye and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect observed their confrontation.

• Yu Yuanzhen weighed Dugu Bo’s growing influence and decided to urge Yu Tianheng to pursue Dugu Yan rather than attack her directly.
• Dugu Bo confronted Yu Yuanzhen as he prepared to leave and threatened to seek justice from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan if anything happened to his disciple.
• Yu Yuanzhen denied plotting against Dugu Bo’s disciple and blamed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, prompting Dugu Bo to dismiss the accusation and warn him again.
• After Dugu Bo returned to the banquet, Yu Yuanzhen vowed to interfere if someone stole Dugu Bo’s girl.
• Xue Ye inferred that Yu Yuanzhen feared Dugu Bo’s future influence, while Gu Rong and Ning Fengzhi dismissed Yu Yuanzhen’s accusations.

Yu Tianheng begged Dugu Yan to take him back, but she exposed his opportunistic motives and rejected him in front of their classmates. After learning Dugu Yan had become a Soul Ancestor, Yu Tianheng decided he could no longer remain at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and would withdraw.

• Yu Tianheng recalled that Yu Yuanzhen had promised to name him the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's heir if he married Dugu Yan, prompting him to propose to her.
• Dugu Yan broke up with Yu Tianheng, saying she no longer loved him after he failed to appear when her life was in danger.
• Yu Tianheng knelt and pleaded with Dugu Yan, claiming his absence had not been his fault.
• Dugu Yan revealed her four soul rings and warned Yu Tianheng to stop acting familiar with her.
• After Dugu Yan left, Yu Tianheng drove away the watching students and decided to withdraw from Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Ye Wen helped Dugu Bo use the Mysterious Origin Skill and his Pill Pearl to suppress his toxins, allowing him to break through to level 92. Dugu Bo entrusted Ye Wen with the Immortal Herbs, including permission to harvest some for Huo Yu’er and the others.

• Dugu Bo praised the Mysterious Origin Skill after it improved his control over his toxins, and Ye Wen explained that his Pill Pearl made the technique especially effective.
• Ye Wen recognized that Dugu Bo’s Pill Pearl could suppress his toxins and accelerate cultivation, and he had redirected his research to help Dugu Bo use it.
• Dugu Bo broke through to level 92 and cried with relief after decades of suffering from toxic backlash.
• Dugu Bo thanked Ye Wen for becoming his disciple and remembered his wife and son, who had died because of the toxins.
• Dugu Bo let Ye Wen decide how to use the Immortal Herbs and agreed that he could harvest some for Huo Yu’er and the others.

Ye Wen gave Huo Yu'er the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and gave Huo Rui the essence of an Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid to strengthen her cultivation and heal hidden injuries. Huo Rui began refining the essence, while Ye Wen reflected on protecting the people close to him.

• Ye Wen gave Huo Yu'er the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, which she absorbed without difficulty.
• Ye Wen visited Huo Rui and insisted that she accept a gift from him.
• Ye Wen explained that the Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid essence could strengthen Huo Rui's foundation, improve her talent, heal hidden injuries, and remove impurities.
• Huo Rui drank the essence and sat down to refine it as its effects took hold.

After refining an immortal herb, Huo Rui regained a youthful appearance, advanced to Rank 84, and healed most of her hidden injuries. Ye Wen persuaded her to recover at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and avoid fighting, where she and Dugu Bo immediately resumed their bickering.

• Huo Rui refined the immortal herb, looked younger, advanced from Rank 83 to Rank 84, and said her hidden injuries had mostly healed.
• Ye Wen examined Huo Rui and found lingering meridian damage, then urged her to focus on treatment and avoid fighting.
• Huo Rui agreed to listen to Ye Wen, who arranged for her to recover at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo was astonished by Huo Rui's rejuvenated appearance, and the two traded insults until Ye Wen stopped them from fighting.

Ye Wen brought Huo Rui to Ye Xixi for treatment of the hidden injuries caused by overusing her power, and Ye Xixi agreed to heal her for a fee. During the treatment, Ye Xixi reacted with shock to an energy inside Huo Rui, and Ye Wen grew suspicious of her.

• Ye Wen told Huo Rui that he had figured out how to heal her remaining hidden injuries by supplying them with life force.
• Ye Wen brought Huo Rui to Ye Lingling’s home and asked Ye Xixi to treat her; Ye Xixi agreed to charge one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins per treatment.
• Ye Xixi began treating Huo Rui and noticed a strange energy inside her that made her martial soul tremble.
• Chen Gang entered, and Ye Xixi told him to step farther away because his martial soul aura was affecting the treatment.
• Ye Wen noticed Ye Xixi’s reaction and marked her as suspicious, while Chen Gang stayed nearby to guard her.

Ye Wen confronted Chen Gang and Ye Xixi after noticing Ye Xixi's reaction to the Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid. He proposed bringing the Ye Family into his faction in exchange for helping Chen Gang reach Titled Douluo and resolving the dangers in Ye Xixi's cultivation, leaving the deal awaiting Chen Gang's answer.

• Ye Xixi finished treating Huo Rui, and Ye Wen asked about the Ye Family Head's earlier expression.
• Chen Gang waived the treatment fee and told Ye Wen and Huo Rui to leave, but Ye Wen stayed to discuss the Ye Family's future.
• Ye Wen pointed out that Chen Gang had few powerful successors to protect the Ye Family, and Chen Gang confronted him with Soul Power before agreeing to hear him out.
• Ye Wen told Ye Xixi that her medicine-driven cultivation likely prevented her from reaching Titled Douluo and offered to eliminate its hidden dangers.
• Ye Wen proposed that Chen Gang bring the Ye Family into his faction, promising to help both Chen Gang and Ye Xixi advance their cultivation.

Ye Wen tried to recruit Chen Gang and the Ye Family into Dugu Bo's faction by offering protection and help resolving Ye Xixi's cultivation danger. Chen Gang revealed his condition for joining: Ye Wen had to marry Ling Ling, leaving Ye Wen alarmed.

• Chen Gang weighed Ye Wen's promises but asked about the faction's purpose, duties, and obligations before deciding.
• Ye Wen explained that the faction aimed to stay out of conflicts between major powers and that its members only needed to help defend the group or assist important members.
• Chen Gang inferred that Ye Wen might eventually lead the faction and suspected Dugu Bo had arranged Dugu Yan's breakup with her Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan boyfriend.
• Chen Gang said he would not let the Ye Family join unless Ye Wen accepted his condition, and Huo Rui angrily protested.
• Chen Gang demanded that Ye Wen marry Ling Ling, and Ye Wen realized the demand was directed at him.

Ye Wen was pressured into accepting a marriage alliance with Ye Lingling to secure the Ye Family’s future, despite his reluctance. Back at Dugu Manor, Huo Yu’er responded with understanding, while Dugu Bo angrily objected that someone else had secured the engagement he had wanted.

• Chen Gang argued that a marriage alliance with Ye Wen would protect the Ye Family’s interests, and Huo Rui agreed to the match with Ye Lingling.
• Chen Gang suppressed Ye Wen as he tried to refuse, and Ye Wen ultimately accepted the engagement and promised to treat Ye Lingling like Huo Yu’er and the others.
• On the way home, Huo Rui told Ye Wen to explain to Huo Yu’er that Grandma had arranged the match.
• At dinner in Dugu Manor, Ye Wen told Huo Yu’er about Ye Lingling, and Huo Yu’er held his hand and asked whether he thought she would scold him.
• Dugu Bo shouted at Huo Rui for arranging the engagement, while Huo Yu’er told Ye Wen they would face future trouble together and he did not need to sacrifice his own happiness.

Ye Wen agreed to marry Dugu Yan after Huo Yu'er encouraged him to welcome her into their relationship. He postponed the engagement banquet to keep their growing power out of the spotlight, leaving Dugu Yan to ask him to stop calling her Senior Sister.

• Dugu Bo asked Ye Wen to marry Dugu Yan, who had broken up with Yu Tianheng.
• Ye Wen hesitated, but Huo Yu'er told him she would accept more sisters and urged him to agree.
• Dugu Bo approved of Huo Yu'er, while she privately hoped her considerate approach would help keep Ye Wen's future relationships in check.
• Dugu Bo proposed holding an engagement banquet, but Ye Wen asked to delay it until their power had grown.
• Dugu Yan accepted the delay and teased Ye Wen for still calling her Senior Sister.

Ye Wen welcomed Chen Gang’s family to the estate beside Dugu Manor and discussed forming their new faction together. He then prepared to help the aging Chen Gang pursue a breakthrough to Titled Douluo with Immortal Herb Origin from the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower.

• Ye Wen reassured Huo Yu'er of his love while Dugu Yan smiled happily beside them.
• Chen Gang, Ye Xixi, and Ye Lingling arrived to move into the neighboring estate and join Ye Wen’s new faction.
• Ye Wen invited Ye Xixi and Ye Lingling into Dugu Manor, and Ye Lingling grew more receptive to the idea of becoming his partner.
• Chen Gang agreed to keep the engagement low-key as Ye Wen led everyone into Dugu Bo’s private cultivation chamber.
• Ye Wen presented Chen Gang with Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Immortal Herb Origin and explained that it could give him the potential to reach Titled Douluo.

Ye Wen gave Chen Gang the Mysterious Origin Skill and a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower essence to help him prepare for a breakthrough to Titled Douluo. Chen Gang began refining the essence, evolved his Martial Soul, and started gathering his Soul Power as Ye Xixi prepared to heal and revitalize him.

• Ye Wen gave Chen Gang an abridged Mysterious Origin Skill, which Chen Gang quickly learned and praised.
• Ye Wen gave Chen Gang the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower essence and explained that Ye Xixi's healing Life Force could temporarily restore his physical condition for a breakthrough.
• Chen Gang swallowed the essence and began refining it, causing his Martial Soul to evolve from a red lion into a dignified golden Lion King.
• Dugu Bo sensed that Chen Gang was preparing to break through to Titled Douluo and told Ye Xixi to use her Eighth Soul Skill on him.
• Ye Xixi began casting Complete Healing, and Ye Wen urged her to activate her Martial Soul Avatar to provide more Life Force.

Ye Xixi sustained her healing until Chen Gang completed his breakthrough, but his martial soul’s roar exposed the rise of a new powerhouse in Heaven Dou Imperial City. As powerful factions sent people to investigate, Ye Wen ordered Dugu Bo to protect the manor and allowed Chen Gang’s breakthrough to be announced.

• Ye Wen gave Ye Xixi a medicinal liquid that restored some of her Soul Power, allowing her to continue healing Chen Gang.
• Chen Gang completed his breakthrough, and his Golden Mighty Lion martial soul roared into the sky.
• The roar alarmed Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, Qian Renxue, and Spirit Hall, who sent people to investigate.
• Ye Wen asked Dugu Bo to surround the manor with poison miasma and said Chen Gang’s breakthrough could be made public.
• Dugu Bo reminded Chen Gang that he owed him a favor, while Chen Gang focused on stabilizing his surging Soul Power.

Dugu Bo kept onlookers away while Chen Gang recovered from his breakthrough to Titled Douluo and discovered that his Martial Soul had evolved into the Blazing Mighty Lion Emperor. Ye Wen identified Chen Gang’s greatest change as his fire attribute reaching Ultimate Fire, leaving Chen Gang and his family confused by the unfamiliar term.

• Dugu Bo told the people gathering outside Dugu Manor that Chen Gang had broken through to Titled Douluo and warned them to leave or be killed.
• Chen Gang recovered from his breakthrough, regained his youth, and noticed that his hair and beard had turned gold.
• Ye Wen explained that Chen Gang’s Blazing Lion Martial Soul had evolved toward the Blazing Mighty Lion, which Chen Gang confirmed had become the Blazing Mighty Lion Emperor.
• Chen Gang ignited golden flames in his hand as Ye Wen said his fire attribute had reached the level of Ultimate Fire.
• Chen Gang and the other two looked baffled by the term Ultimate Fire, and Ye Wen realized he had used a concept from ten thousand years in the future.