Chapter Summaries

Li Tianlan replaced his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul with Flame Emperor Xiao Yan and became his disciple, discovering that his talent soul skill could form Heavenly Flames. The awakening left him with Level 1 Soul Power, and Wang Zixi’s test confirmed his weak starting level.

• Li Tianlan used his Martial Soul Summon to replace Blue Silver Grass with Flame Emperor Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan learned about the Douluo Continent and agreed to become Li Tianlan’s master.
• Li Tianlan discovered that Dao Tong Yan could devour flames to form Heavenly Flames, and he and Xiao Yan realized they could share them.
• Li Tianlan told Xiao Yan they could return to his world after reaching Level 100 Soul Power.
• Wang Zixi tested Li Tianlan’s Soul Power and found it was only Level 1.

Li Tianlan began preparing to cultivate the Flame Mantra and met Xiao Wu, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form. After a playful fight, he persuaded her to cultivate with him and promised to protect her.

• Xiao Yan advised Li Tianlan to cultivate the Flame Mantra so the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and future Heavenly Flames could temper his body.
• Xiao Yan recognized Xiao Wu as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and encouraged Li Tianlan to approach her.
• Li Tianlan teased Xiao Wu about flowers on her face, prompting her to attack and restrain him.
• Li Tianlan complimented Xiao Wu and promised to stand up for her if anyone bullied her.
• Xiao Wu accepted Li Tianlan's invitation to cultivate with him.

Li Tianlan brought Xiao Wu to his home, where she agreed to stay and cultivate with him. As he meditated, Dao Tong Yan resonated with Flame Mantra, raising his Soul Power from Level One to Level Three, and Xiao Yan hinted that there might be a way to keep advancing quickly.

• Li Tianlan introduced himself to Xiao Wu and invited her to live and cultivate at his home, and she accepted.
• Li Tianlan brought Xiao Wu to his shabby house and offered her the bedroom while he planned to sleep on the sofa.
• After Xiao Wu went to the bedroom, Li Tianlan meditated under Xiao Yan's guidance and contemplated Dao Tong Yan.
• Dao Tong Yan resonated with Flame Mantra, and Li Tianlan's Soul Power rose from Level One to Level Three.
• Xiao Yan explained that the rapid progress was a one-time occurrence, then hinted that another method might make such growth possible; Li Tianlan asked what it was.

Xiao Yan taught Li Tianlan the basics of alchemy and urged him not to attend Nuoding Academy, while Li Tianlan grew closer to Xiao Wu. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan comparing the pair to himself and two women from his past.

• Xiao Yan revealed that he would teach Li Tianlan alchemy, then passed on his knowledge of first- through third-grade alchemy.
• Li Tianlan bought dinner and carrots for Xiao Wu, and the two ate together at home.
• Xiao Wu told Li Tianlan she planned to attend Nuoding Academy as a work-study student and asked him to come with her.
• Xiao Yan warned Li Tianlan not to agree, so Li Tianlan said he would not attend but promised to stay in touch with Xiao Wu.
• Li Tianlan comforted Xiao Wu and resolved to become strong enough to protect her, while Xiao Yan recalled Xun'er and Medusa.

Li Tianlan followed Xiao Yan’s advice to focus on cultivating the Flame Mantra and absorbing flames, then shared an awkward but affectionate morning with Xiao Wu. After deciding to pursue a relationship with her, Li Tianlan vowed to prevent an unnamed tragedy and make those responsible pay, before returning to meditation.

• Xiao Yan explained that Li Tianlan’s Dao Tong Yan complemented the Flame Mantra and advised him to prioritize absorbing flames, so Li Tianlan began meditating.
• Li Tianlan bought breakfast and returned to find Xiao Wu awake; they ate together in shy silence.
• Xiao Wu asked Li Tianlan to comb her hair, and he gently restored her scorpion braid with the comb her mother had left her.
• Li Tianlan touched Xiao Wu’s cheek, and she blushed and retreated to her bedroom.
• Xiao Yan warned Li Tianlan that Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, but Li Tianlan affirmed his choice and vowed to prevent a tragedy and punish those responsible.
• Li Tianlan resumed meditating on the sofa while Xiao Yan wondered about his words and background.

Li Tianlan said goodbye to Xiao Wu and left Nuoding City to cultivate in the Sunset Forest, where Xiao Yan began teaching him combat and movement techniques. He received the Eight Extremes Collapse and Three Thousand Lightning Movement, while Xiao Wu watched him leave and promised to wait for his return.

• Li Tianlan told Xiao Wu he would leave Nuoding City to cultivate, and Xiao Wu worried about him going to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Li Tianlan asked Xiao Wu to avoid too much contact with boys, embraced and kissed her, and promised to treat her well.
• Xiao Yan advised Li Tianlan to go to the Sunset Forest instead of the Star Dou Great Forest and promised to teach him combat and movement techniques.
• Li Tianlan secretly left his money and a note for Xiao Wu, then departed Nuoding City as Xiao Wu watched from the bedroom.
• After walking into the forest, Li Tianlan learned that Xiao Yan would teach him Eight Extremes Collapse and Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Xiao Yan imprinted both techniques into Li Tianlan's Sea of Consciousness.

Li Tianlan mastered the first level of Three Thousand Lightning Movement and traveled to Sunset Forest under Xiao Yan’s punishing training. After killing a Ten Year Blazing Tiger, he rejected its spirit ring and continued searching for a stronger, fire-attributed first ring.

• Li Tianlan mastered Lightning Flash overnight, and Xiao Yan explained that the skill might keep him alive in Sunset Forest.
• Li Tianlan traveled on foot for five days while repeatedly using Lightning Flash to drain and replenish his Soul Power.
• A Ten Year Blazing Tiger ambushed Li Tianlan, but he dodged with Lightning Flash and killed it with Eight Extremes Collapse.
• Li Tianlan left the tiger’s white spirit ring behind because he wanted a stronger one.
• Xiao Yan advised Li Tianlan to seek a powerful, pure fire-attributed spirit ring for his first ring.

Li Tianlan searched the forest for a suitable first Soul Ring until a powerful King of Earth appeared, and Xiao Yan advised him to use Bone Spirit Cold Flame to defeat it. After the beast died, Li Tianlan prepared to absorb its thousand-year Soul Ring, though he remained wary of the danger.

• Li Tianlan continued searching for a fire-aligned soul beast and wondered how Xiao Wu was doing at Nuoding Academy.
• A King of Earth over thirteen hundred years old approached, and Li Tianlan decided to use it for his first Soul Ring.
• Xiao Yan told Li Tianlan that Bone Spirit Cold Flame would suppress the fire-attribute beast and help him survive absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Li Tianlan dodged the King of Earth's attack and struck it with Bone Spirit Cold Flame, then killed it with another Eight Level Collapse.
• Li Tianlan found no Soul Bone and waited for the King of Earth's purple Soul Ring to form.
• Xiao Yan assured Li Tianlan that his flame-tempered body could withstand the thousand-year Soul Ring, though Li Tianlan questioned the risk.

Li Tianlan absorbed a Thousand Year Soul Ring with Xiao Yan’s help, reaching Soul Power Level 14 and gaining the First Soul Skill, Myriad Transformations. After eating the cooked King of Earth, he discovered his new skill could shape his flames into weapons, defenses, and a lotus, exciting Xiao Yan about the possibility of creating the Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame.

• Li Tianlan endured the Thousand Year Soul Ring’s energy and resentment as Xiao Yan destroyed the King of Earth's phantom in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Li Tianlan completed the absorption, improved his physical constitution and strength, and raised his Soul Power to Level 14.
• Xiao Yan urged Li Tianlan to eat the King of Earth, and Li Tianlan found its cooked meat delicious and beneficial to his cultivation.
• Li Tianlan tested his First Soul Skill, Myriad Transformations, and changed his flame into a sword, an axe, a shield, a net, and a lotus.
• Xiao Yan recognized that the lotus form might help Li Tianlan fuse Heavenly Flames into the Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame.

Li Tianlan followed Xiao Yan’s flame sensing through Sunset Forest and found a Man Faced Demon Spider empowered by a purple-black flame. He killed the spider with Bone Spirit Cold Flame and left the story examining the flame, which caused both of them pain when they looked at it.

• Li Tianlan reached Soul Power level 15 while exploring deeper into Sunset Forest, and Xiao Yan guided him toward a powerful flame aura.
• Li Tianlan discovered a Man Faced Demon Spider whose strength exceeded its actual age because it had claimed the purple-black flame beneath its body.
• Li Tianlan tested his first soul skill, shooting the spider with a Bone Spirit Cold Flame arrow and then cutting its face with a flame sword.
• Li Tianlan burned the spiderweb, exploded a flame attack against the spider, and controlled the flames to cling to its body until it stopped moving.
• Li Tianlan asked whether the spider could be eaten, then he and Xiao Yan focused on the purple-black flame and felt pain in their minds.

Li Tianlan endured the Nether Flame’s painful fusion and absorbed it, raising his Soul Power Level to 17 and strengthening his meridians. After learning the flame’s abilities, he left the area, newly able to use Lightning Flash more powerfully.

• Li Tianlan touched the Nether Flame, and its attack on his Sea of Consciousness forced him to release it; Xiao Yan explained how to absorb it using the Flame Mantra and Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Li Tianlan began absorbing the Nether Flame and endured its painful assault while Xiao Yan urged him to keep circulating the Flame Mantra.
• Li Tianlan drew strength from his promises to Xiao Wu and Xiao Yan, held on to his consciousness, and completed the absorption by evening.
• Li Tianlan discovered that his Soul Power Level had risen to 17 and that the Nether Flame was a mental-attribute flame ranked eighty-seventh among the 108 Heavenly Flames in Dao Tong Yan.
• Li Tianlan left to avoid powerful soul beasts and found that his strengthened meridians made Lightning Flash smoother and more powerful.

Li Tianlan explored Sunset Forest with Xiao Yan and tracked down a powerful Earth Bear carrying a kingly golden flame. Unable to defeat it yet, Xiao Yan secretly marked it so they could find it again, and Li Tianlan left the area.

• Li Tianlan teased Xiao Yan about his childhood, and Xiao Yan angrily defended his status as the Flame Emperor.
• Li Tianlan trained in Sunset Forest, sold hunted soul beasts, bought clothes, and sent Xiao Wu a letter.
• Xiao Yan sensed that the flame aura had moved and urged Li Tianlan to investigate while concealing his own aura.
• Li Tianlan found a nearly thirty-thousand-year-old Earth Bear with a golden flame burning on its forehead.
• Xiao Yan placed a concealed spiritual mark on the Earth Bear, and Li Tianlan quietly departed.

Li Tianlan rested in his cave in Sunset Forest, decided to stay another fifteen days, and reread Xiao Wu’s letter while thinking of becoming strong enough to protect her. After waking, he spotted two black-clothed men chasing a poison-wielding girl and prepared to help, but Xiao Yan told him to wait and assess the situation first.

• Li Tianlan returned to his cave, told Xiao Yan he would stay another fifteen days, and asked to learn the mark Xiao Yan had used.
• Li Tianlan reread Xiao Wu’s letter and fell asleep, while Xiao Yan reflected on his own wives.
• Li Tianlan woke the next afternoon, traded teasing remarks with Xiao Yan, and heard fighting outside the cave.
• Li Tianlan saw two black-clothed men pursuing a little girl in a dark green skirt who threw poison bottles to keep them back.
• Li Tianlan grew angry and wanted to rescue the girl, but Xiao Yan urged him to observe the situation before acting.

Li Tianlan rescued Dugu Yan from two Four-Ring Soul Sect Masters who had pursued her, using arrows infused with Nether Flame to ambush and badly burn one of them. He emerged from his cave to confront the surviving attacker, who activated his Soul Power and prepared to fight.

• Dugu Yan ran out of poisonous gas and told her pursuers that her grandfather was the Titled Douluo Dugu Bo, but they continued threatening her.
• When one Soul Sect Master approached Dugu Yan with lewd intent, Li Tianlan decided to intervene, and Xiao Yan urged him to teach the men a lesson.
• Li Tianlan fired two controllable Nether Flame arrows from inside the cave, and one struck Second Brother in the arm before exploding into flames that burned him from within.
• Big Brother tried to extinguish the flames but only intensified them, then demanded that the attacker reveal himself.
• Li Tianlan came out of the cave, condemned the men for pursuing and threatening Dugu Yan, and faced Big Brother as he activated his four Soul Rings.

Li Tianlan tested his strength against a four-ring Soul Ancestor, then killed him and rescued Dugu Yan. After Dugu Yan helped treat his injured arm, Li Tianlan learned that her grandfather was a Titled Douluo known as Poison.

• Li Tianlan used Bone Spirit Cold Flame to shield himself from the Soul Ancestor's attack, but the staff shattered his shield and badly injured his arm.
• The Soul Ancestor discovered that Li Tianlan had killed his brother, then allowed Li Tianlan's arrow to pierce him; Li Tianlan burned both brothers' bodies.
• Li Tianlan introduced himself to Dugu Yan and explained that he had come to Sunset Forest alone to train.
• Dugu Yan supported the injured Li Tianlan to his cave and applied medicinal powder from her grandfather.
• Dugu Yan told Li Tianlan that her grandfather was a Titled Douluo with the title Poison, shocking him.

Li Tianlan agreed to escort Dugu Yan through the Sunset Forest to find her grandfather, a Titled Douluo, after she promised to follow his conditions. As they set out, he rebuked her for relying on her grandfather’s status, and she fell silent behind him.

• After recovering in Li Tianlan’s cave, Dugu Yan asked him to escort her into the depths of the Sunset Forest to find her missing grandfather.
• Li Tianlan agreed on the condition that Dugu Yan would not question how he handled Soul Beasts and would obey him throughout the journey.
• Li Tianlan packed his belongings and left the cave with Dugu Yan following and talking beside him.
• When Dugu Yan invoked her grandfather’s status again, Li Tianlan reminded her that he had saved her and that she should not rely on her grandfather’s power.
• Xiao Yan told Li Tianlan not to comfort Dugu Yan, explaining that her Mandala Snake martial soul could cause her trouble if she did not cultivate properly.
• Li Tianlan continued deeper into the forest, watching their surroundings as Dugu Yan followed quietly behind him.

Li Tianlan and Dugu Yan spent the night in a tree in the Soul Beast Forest, where he explained how he had trained and she began to accept his advice. As they set off toward her grandfather the next morning, Xiao Yan asked Li Tianlan whether he had considered establishing or joining a faction.

• Li Tianlan and Dugu Yan stopped for the night in a tree because the Soul Beast Forest was dangerous after dark.
• Li Tianlan told Dugu Yan that he had trained by himself in Sunset Forest, gaining his first Soul Ring and tempering his combat skills and Soul Power.
• Dugu Yan compared herself to Li Tianlan and quietly acknowledged that his words made sense, while Xiao Wu missed him at Luodi Academy.
• Li Tianlan woke to find Dugu Yan exhausted from sleeping on the hard branch, and the two continued toward her grandfather.
• Xiao Yan asked Li Tianlan whether he would join a faction or establish one, and Li Tianlan considered the strength and foundation he would need.

Li Tianlan and Dugu Yan traveled through Sunset Forest and reached the poisonous mist surrounding Dugu Bo’s private cultivation site. Dugu Bo came out to meet them, learned that Li Tianlan had escorted Yan Yan, and led both youths inside behind a Soul Power barrier.

• Li Tianlan and Dugu Yan avoided powerful soul beasts, including a ten-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider, as they traveled deeper into Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Yan mocked Li Tianlan’s claim that he had killed a hundred-year Man Faced Demon Spider alone, and he stopped arguing with her.
• At a deadly bank of Poison Mist, Dugu Yan explained that her grandfather had created it and fired a Signal Arrow to summon him.
• Dugu Bo emerged from the mist, embraced Dugu Yan, and questioned Li Tianlan’s age and background after she introduced him as her escort.
• Dugu Bo formed a Soul Power barrier around the three of them and led Li Tianlan and Dugu Yan into the Poison Mist.

Li Tianlan discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and learned from Xiao Yan that its mature spiritual herbs were exceptionally valuable. Dugu Bo allowed Li Tianlan to take the herbs, then left with Dugu Yan to investigate who had pursued her, while Li Tianlan and Xiao Yan considered helping them remove their poison.

• Dugu Bo explained that he had created the Poison Mist and led Li Tianlan and Dugu Yan to a basin containing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xiao Yan told Li Tianlan that the spring and its mature spiritual herbs were extraordinarily valuable, and identified a nearby plant as the Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Li Tianlan asked Dugu Bo about the herbs and firmly requested permission to use them, while Dugu Bo warned him that some were deadly and offered to hunt him a Soul Ring instead.
• Dugu Bo let Li Tianlan have the herbs and left with Dugu Yan to find the people who had pursued her.
• Li Tianlan asked Xiao Yan whether they should help remove the poison from Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, and Xiao Yan agreed while remaining focused on the herbs.

Li Tianlan planned to refine Icefire Apricot Pills from the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, while Xiao Yan promised to cure Dugu Bo’s poison. Dugu Bo challenged Li Tianlan to prove his pill-making ability before he could enter the herb garden, leaving Li Tianlan ready to attempt the test.

• Xiao Yan warned Li Tianlan that consuming the two immortal herbs directly would make his body explode, then proposed refining them into gentle, powerful Icefire Apricot Pills.
• Xiao Yan told Li Tianlan to borrow an Alchemy Furnace from Dugu Bo and reminded him that he could cure Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s poison.
• Dugu Bo suffered a painful flare-up of his Innate Poison as Li Tianlan arrived to ask for an Alchemy Furnace.
• Dugu Bo doubted Li Tianlan could safely handle the herbs and challenged him to refine a qualified pill from a formula before entering the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Li Tianlan accepted Dugu Bo’s challenge, and Dugu Bo agreed to give him an easy formula.