Chapter Summaries

Li Tianlan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to slaughter Jarvis’s mercenaries and confronted Jarvis and Javita, but Qian Renxue intervened before Javita could attack. When Javita agreed to leave, Li Tianlan charged him anyway, astonishing Qian Renxue with his speed and Yangquan Fire.

• Li Tianlan killed Huo Dongdong with Three Thousand Lightning Movement, then cut down seven or eight mercenaries as they fled in panic.
• Li Tianlan confronted Jarvis, while Javita activated his third soul skill and charged at him.
• Qian Renxue arrived with her Angel Martial Soul and wounded Javita with her Angel Divine Sword.
• Qian Renxue ordered Javita to leave or die, and he agreed to withdraw.
• Li Tianlan ignored Javita’s retreat and attacked him with a Yangquan Fire sword, leaving Qian Renxue stunned by his abilities.

Li Tianlan killed Javita with a single Earth-tier fighting skill, then chased down and killed Jarvis as Qian Renxue and Bena watched. After learning Qian Renxue had reached level fifty and come to the Star Dou Great Forest alone to hunt for her fifth Soul Ring, the group left the bloodied scene together.

• Li Tianlan used the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler with Yangquan Fire to kill Javita in one strike, stunning Qian Renxue and Bena.
• Jarvis fled, but Li Tianlan caught him with Three Thousand Lightning Movement and slit his throat.
• Qian Renxue recognized Li Tianlan's Treasure Bag and resolved to build a relationship with him, then introduced herself by name.
• Bena urged Li Tianlan and Qian Renxue to leave before the blood attracted Soul Beasts, and they departed together.
• Li Tianlan asked why Qian Renxue had come to the Star Dou Great Forest, and she proudly revealed that she had reached level fifty and planned to hunt for her fifth Soul Ring alone.

Qian Renxue got lost in the Star Dou Great Forest while seeking a fifth Soul Ring, and Bena revealed that a suitable Bright Falcon was a terrifying Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast. Li Tianlan decided to use poison to help her hunt it and began preparing an alchemical mixture, leaving Qian Renxue shocked by his Demonic Silver Furnace.

• Li Tianlan realized Qian Renxue had been lost for five days, and Bena offered to guide her as she searched for a fifth Soul Ring.
• Li Tianlan identified the Bright Falcon as a suitable Soul Beast, but Bena warned that the one she knew was a powerful forest overlord near the hundred-thousand-year level.
• Xiao Yan told Li Tianlan to use poison from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and suggested refining a Poison Dragon Pill.
• Qian Renxue prepared to return for help, but Li Tianlan said he could bring down the Bright Falcon with poison.
• Li Tianlan set up his Alchemy Furnace, and Qian Renxue recognized it as the Demonic Silver Furnace owned by Dugu Bo and suspected Li Tianlan was his successor.

Li Tianlan prepared to poison the Ten Thousand Year Bright Falcon by having Xiao Yan refine a Poison Dragon Pill. After the pill was completed, Li Tianlan, Qian Renxue, and Bena set out to find the beast.

• Li Tianlan showed Qian Renxue his Yangquan Fire and explained that his martial soul could absorb Heavenly Flames to evolve.
• Li Tianlan warned Qian Renxue and Bena to retreat before he brought out highly poisonous herbs, then let Xiao Yan take control of his body.
• Xiao Yan used Yangquan Fire to refine the Poison Dragon Pill while Li Tianlan studied his technique and Qian Renxue and Bena watched from a distance.
• Xiao Yan finished the jade-green pill and advised Li Tianlan to poison a water source near the Ten Thousand Year Bright Falcon.
• Li Tianlan put away the pill and asked Bena to lead the way to the Ten Thousand Year Bright Falcon, and Qian Renxue followed them.

Li Tianlan used a poisoned bait to weaken the Ten Thousand Year Bright Falcon so Qian Renxue could obtain its Soul Ring. As Qian Renxue carried Li Tianlan and Bena toward the fallen falcon, a lost mercenary group led by Mad Dragon appeared elsewhere in the forest.

• Bena warned Li Tianlan and Qian Renxue that they had entered the Ten Thousand Year Bright Falcon’s territory, and they witnessed it crush a nearly ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.
• Li Tianlan fed a Poison Dragon Pill disguised with immortal-herb scent to a Giant Horned Rhinoceros, expecting the falcon to swallow it.
• The Ten Thousand Year Bright Falcon swallowed the rhinoceros, realized it had been poisoned, and flew toward its nest before collapsing in the forest.
• Li Tianlan urged Qian Renxue and Bena to reach the weakened falcon before it could purge the toxin, and Qian Renxue carried them toward it.
• Elsewhere, mercenary captain Mad Dragon cursed after his group lost its way in the forest.

Li Tianlan intervened when Su Bingyuan and the mercenaries tried to claim a poisoned Ten Thousand Year Bright Falcon, quickly overpowering Su Bingyuan. As Su Bingyuan prepared to fight again, Qian Renxue arrived, furious that the Bright Falcon had nearly been taken.

• Taonode noticed that the Ten Thousand Year Bright Falcon was poisoned and urged Su Bingyuan to kill it before it recovered.
• Li Tianlan struck Su Bingyuan as he approached the Bright Falcon, snapping his wrist and sending him flying.
• Taonode argued that the Bright Falcon belonged to the mercenaries because they had found it first, while Li Tianlan asked why it had fallen from the sky.
• Xiao Yan assured Li Tianlan that he could defeat Taonode and the mercenaries, and Su Bingyuan recovered and revealed his Black Tortoise martial soul and five spirit rings.
• Su Bingyuan charged at Li Tianlan after the mercenaries laughed at him, and Qian Renxue arrived, angry that the Bright Falcon had nearly been stolen.

Qian Renxue drove off Su Bingyuan, but Taonode decided to attack her and Li Tianlan after suspecting her Spirit Hall protectors were gone. Xiao Yan took control of Li Tianlan’s body, killed Taonode and the mercenaries, then asked Li Tianlan if he was impressed.

• Qian Renxue kicked Su Bingyuan through a tree, and the mercenaries recognized her Angel Martial Soul and powerful Soul Rings.
• Taonode questioned whether Qian Renxue’s elders were present and prepared to attack her and Li Tianlan.
• Li Tianlan told Qian Renxue to kill the poisoned Ten Thousand Year Bright Falcon while he handled the mercenaries, and Xiao Yan took control of his body.
• Xiao Yan killed Taonode with his Eight Extremes Collapse and Heaven-Overturning Seal.
• Xiao Yan pursued and killed the fleeing mercenaries, then released control of Li Tianlan’s body.
• Li Tianlan asked Xiao Yan when he would become as powerful as his teacher.

Qian Renxue killed the Ten Thousand Year Bright Falcon and absorbed its Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring while Li Tianlan and Bena guarded her. After she completed the absorption, she revealed the defensive effects of her new skill, Guardian Sanctuary.

• Li Tianlan explained to Qian Renxue that combat experience had to be built gradually, then she killed the Ten Thousand Year Bright Falcon with her Angel Divine Sword.
• A blood-red Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring appeared, and Qian Renxue began absorbing it as Li Tianlan stood guard.
• Bena recovered a thirty-thousand-year skull soul bone from Taonode's corpse, and Li Tianlan used Nether Flame to clean it before Bena claimed it.
• Bena gathered the mercenaries' money, Soul Tools, and belongings while Qian Renxue completed her absorption.
• Qian Renxue revealed that her new fifth spirit skill, Guardian Sanctuary, strengthened her defense and gave allies a protective light shield.

Qian Renxue revealed the overwhelming power of her new soul skills, while Li Tianlan took the soul bone from the Ten Thousand Year Bright Falcon and prepared to search for the Purple Orchid Heart Flame. After the group escaped the Earthfire Dragon King, Su Bingyuan revived an hour after Li Tianlan had killed him.

• Qian Renxue explained that her soul skills boosted her defense fivefold and gave her one attack with ten times her power, and she said she had reached level fifty-nine.
• A hundred-thousand-year torso soul bone formed from the Ten Thousand Year Bright Falcon, and Li Tianlan took it after Qian Renxue and Bena declined it.
• Bena gathered the falcon's useful materials, but the group fled when the Earthfire Dragon King arrived and began eating the corpse.
• Xiao Yan identified the Heavenly Flame within the Earthfire Dragon King as the Earth Core Green Lotus Flame, but Li Tianlan chose to search for the Purple Orchid Heart Flame first.
• Bena agreed to guide Li Tianlan and Qian Renxue toward the Purple Orchid Heart Flame after Li Tianlan reassured her he was prepared.
• After the Earthfire Dragon King left, Su Bingyuan revived using his Revival soul skill, which brought him back to life an hour after his death.

Li Tianlan and Qian Renxue entered the valley of the Purple Orchid Heart Flame, where they discovered the remains of a powerful Titled Douluo and faced a sudden attack by undead skeletons. Li Tianlan was wounded while trying to evade three attackers.

• Su Bingyuan vowed to report Li Tianlan to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and have a Soul Douluo hunt him down.
• Li Tianlan and Qian Renxue entered the valley while Bena waited outside, and Qian Renxue discovered the remains of Yu Bao, a level 97 Titled Douluo from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Li Tianlan gave Qian Renxue a Spirit Cleansing Pill, which increased her mental power by thirty percent.
• A skeleton with white flames in its eye sockets rose and attacked Li Tianlan, while two more skeletons ambushed him from the bones on the ground.
• Li Tianlan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to evade the attackers, but one skeleton cut his shoulder deeply as the other two charged at him.

Li Tianlan and Qian Renxue escaped a valley after three concealed skeletons injured him, but he remained determined to find the Purple Orchid Heart Flame. He began refining Spirit Replenishing Pills to help Qian Renxue sustain her Guardian Domain as Su Bingyuan reported Li Tianlan’s feats to Ning Fengzhi.

• Li Tianlan drove off the skeletons with his Wave-Splitting Flame Ruler, and Qian Renxue used Guardian Sanctuary to protect them as they fled the valley.
• Outside, Qian Renxue told Beiqi that they had found Yu Bao, a level 97 Titled Douluo from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, dead inside the valley.
• Li Tianlan asked Xiao Yan for a solution, but Xiao Yan refused to give him one and urged him to rely on his own strength.
• Li Tianlan insisted on returning for the Purple Orchid Heart Flame and proposed replenishing Qian Renxue’s Soul Power with Spirit Replenishing Pills so she could keep her Guardian Domain active.
• Qian Renxue took watch from a high tree while Li Tianlan began refining Spirit Replenishing Pills in Dugu Bo’s Alchemy Furnace.
• Su Bingyuan returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and told Ning Fengzhi that Li Tianlan had killed more than a dozen Soul Emperors and Jarvis, a level-seventy-nine Battle Soul Sage.

Ning Fengzhi ordered Su Bingyuan to apologize to Li Tianlan and recruit him, but Su Bingyuan forged the order into an excuse to lead a team against him. After recovering and making Spirit Replenishing Pills, Li Tianlan prepared to face his enemies, only for Xiao Yan to warn that a powerful group was approaching and someone he thought dead had returned.

• Ning Fengzhi told Su Bingyuan to apologize to Li Tianlan and recruit him, then gave him a token and a team for the journey.
• Su Bingyuan secretly decided to use the team to kill Li Tianlan and claim the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Li Tianlan gave Qian Renxue a Spirit Replenishing Pill, and she found it could sustain her Guardian Sanctuary for three hours.
• After two days of recovery and pill-making, Su Bingyuan led Gongsun Jian and seven Soul Saints into the Star Dou Great Forest, falsely claiming Ning Fengzhi had ordered Li Tianlan's death.
• Li Tianlan prepared to confront his enemies, but Xiao Yan warned him that a Soul Douluo, seven Soul Saints, and someone presumed dead were approaching.

Li Tianlan, controlled by Xiao Yan, faced Su Bingyuan and Gongsun Jian’s force of one Soul Douluo and seven Soul Saints. After sending Gongsun Jian flying with a Heaven-Overturning Seal, Xiao Yan dodged his attacks and hurled a Buddha’s Fury Lotus Flame at him.

• Su Bingyuan revealed his resurrection soul skill and accused Li Tianlan of taking his soul beast, while Qian Renxue claimed the beast as hers.
• Gongsun Jian and seven Soul Saints emerged from the forest, and Li Tianlan urged Qian Renxue and Bena to escape into the valley.
• Xiao Yan took control of Li Tianlan’s body and challenged Gongsun Jian as Qian Renxue and Bena fled.
• Gongsun Jian attacked, but Xiao Yan deflected his sword and struck him with a Heaven-Overturning Seal, leaving him dazed and the Soul Saints afraid to move.
• Gongsun Jian unleashed his sixth soul skill and attacked repeatedly, but Xiao Yan dodged and combined Bone Spirit Cold Flame with Yangquan Fire into a Buddha’s Fury Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yan hurled the Buddha’s Fury Lotus Flame at Gongsun Jian’s head.

Xiao Yan crippled Gongsun Jian with the Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame, then withdrew into the valley with Li Tianlan to conserve Soul Power. After learning that Su Bingyuan had falsely claimed to act on his orders, Ning Fengzhi sent for Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo and headed to the Star Dou Great Forest; Li Tianlan caught up to Qian Renxue.

• Xiao Yan's Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame exploded when Gongsun Jian struck it, blinding him in one eye and badly burning him.
• Xiao Yan fled into the valley with Li Tianlan, explained that he needed to save his Soul Power, and returned control of the body to Li Tianlan.
• Gongsun Jian ordered the Soul Saints and Su Bingyuan to pursue Li Tianlan, while the Soul Saints reluctantly obeyed.
• Ning Fengzhi learned that Su Bingyuan had falsely conveyed his orders and sent a subordinate to find Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo.
• Ning Fengzhi set out for the Star Dou Great Forest, planning to kill Su Bingyuan if Li Tianlan survived or Gongsun Jian if he did not.
• Li Tianlan reached Qian Renxue after crossing the valley without being attacked by the three sinister skeletons.

Li Tianlan lured the zombies from the bronze gate into Gongsun Jian’s group, diverting them while he watched for the treacherous skeletons. After Gongsun Jian and the Soul Saints killed the zombies with a support boost, a skeleton suddenly assembled and attacked Gongsun Jian.

• Li Tianlan sent Qian Renxue and Bena into hiding, then provoked the zombies and led them away from the bronze gate.
• Li Tianlan drew the zombies into Gongsun Jian and seven Soul Saints as they arrived at the valley of white bones.
• Gongsun Jian’s group fought the zombies while Li Tianlan watched the bone piles for hidden skeletons.
• A Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Soul Saint amplified Gongsun Jian’s strength and speed, allowing him to kill the zombies.
• A skeleton assembled from a pile of bones and thrust toward Gongsun Jian’s heart.

Li Tianlan escaped while three skeletons attacked Gongsun Jian’s group, then reached the Purple Orchid Heart Flame in an abandoned hall. After entering the flame’s thirty-meter dream field, he realized he was dreaming but found himself unable to control what happened.

• A skeleton nearly killed Gongsun Jian, and another suddenly tore out Su Bingyuan’s heart.
• Three skeletons attacked Gongsun Jian and the Soul Saints, giving Li Tianlan time to head for the valley.
• Li Tianlan met Qian Renxue and Bena at a bronze gate, opened it, and found the Purple Orchid Heart Flame inside the dusty hall.
• Xiao Yan warned Li Tianlan that the flame drew intruders into dreams and that they had to stay awake.
• Li Tianlan stepped within thirty meters of the flame and entered a dream of robed worshippers, where a masked figure warned him that the flame was ominous.

Li Tianlan saw through Purple Orchid Heart Flame’s dreamscape and beat the flame into submission, while Gongsun Jian’s group was overwhelmed by the three skeletons. Gongsun Jian tried to flee after his allies ran out of Soul Power, but the skeletons pursued him.

• Li Tianlan failed to contact Xiao Yan, then used his spiritual power to locate Purple Orchid Heart Flame at the dreamscape’s core.
• Li Tianlan revealed that he could wield Xiao Yan’s divine sense, broke through the dreamscape, and forced Purple Orchid Heart Flame to attack him directly.
• Li Tianlan protected himself with Yangquan Fire and used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to beat Purple Orchid Heart Flame, leaving Qian Renxue and Bena stunned.
• Outside, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Soul Saint exhausted his Soul Power as Gongsun Jian and the other Soul Saints struggled against the unharmed skeletons.
• Gongsun Jian ordered a retreat, but the three skeletons pursued him.

Gongsun Jian survived the skeletons’ attack and reunited with Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo, who learned that Li Tianlan had escaped. After discovering the order to kill Li Tianlan was forged, the group decided to leave the dangerous valley when Sword Douluo sensed a grave threat.

• The three skeletons suddenly retreated, and Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo arrived to find Gongsun Jian badly injured.
• Gongsun Jian told Ning Fengzhi that Li Tianlan had defeated him but escaped, alarming the sect leaders about how powerful Li Tianlan might become.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed that Su Bingyuan had forged the order to kill Li Tianlan, and Gongsun Jian learned his mission had been based on a lie.
• Gongsun Jian said Li Tianlan had entered the valley, while Bone Douluo warned that the place was extremely dangerous.
• Sword Douluo began exploring but quickly sensed a threat and ordered everyone to flee the valley.

Li Tianlan subdued the Purple Orchid Heart Flame, which strengthened Xiao Yan and allowed Li Tianlan to understand the three skeletons guarding the valley. After escaping the collapsing hall, he and Qian Renxue headed back toward the city while Ning Fengzhi's group waited outside.

• Sword Douluo told Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo that he had seen Yu Bao's corpse in the valley and warned them not to enter.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the Purple Orchid Heart Flame's dreamscape, helped Li Tianlan refine the flame, and revealed that his spiritual sense had grown strong enough to approach the Soul Douluo level.
• Li Tianlan obtained the Purple Orchid Heart Flame, and Qian Renxue and Bena were relieved that he had survived its attack.
• Li Tianlan warned Qian Renxue and Bena that the hall was collapsing, and Qian Renxue used Guardian Sanctuary to get them outside.
• Li Tianlan understood the three skeletons and learned that they were free to leave the valley, after which they departed.
• Li Tianlan, Qian Renxue, and Bena headed out of the valley while Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo waited outside and watched Su Bingyuan revive.

Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect raced toward the valley after Qian Renxue sent a distress signal, while Li Tianlan prepared to face the approaching Titled Douluo. The chapter ended with Sword Douluo and Ghost Douluo nearing the group, and Xiao Yan estimating only a forty percent chance of escape.

• Spirit Hall discovered Qian Renxue was missing and sent Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and more than a dozen Soul Douluo to search for her.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo tracked Qian Renxue to within a hundred li, but her exact location remained concealed.
• Qian Renxue fired Spirit Hall's Angel-shaped distress signal from the valley, prompting Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to rush toward it.
• Ning Fengzhi saw the signal and led Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and the others into the valley to save Qian Renxue and Li Tianlan.
• Li Tianlan told Qian Renxue to flee while he held off the enemies, and Xiao Yan estimated their chance of escaping at forty percent.
• Sword Douluo and Ghost Douluo approached to within a hundred zhang of Li Tianlan.