Chapter Summaries

Li Tianlan mastered the Purple Dragon Hammer Technique, received Zhang Hu’s family notes, and went to Suotuo City’s auction house to buy the Ten Thousand Year Golden Ginseng. He won a suspicious spirit bone and drove the ginseng’s price beyond the City Lord’s Manor’s limit.

• Li Tianlan quickly mastered the Purple Dragon Hammer Technique and forged a Mountain Splitting Saber, impressing Zhang Hu.
• Zhang Hu gave Li Tianlan the Purple Dragon Divine Craftsman's Notes and said he had nothing more to teach him.
• At Suotuo City’s auction, Xiao Yan sensed a powerful soul inside a low-grade spirit bone, so Li Tianlan bought it for five thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Li Tianlan bought several medicinal herbs and spent over two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins before the Ten Thousand Year Golden Ginseng came up for auction.
• Li Tianlan outbid the City Lord’s Manor’s steward, raising the ginseng’s price to five hundred ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Li Tianlan collected the auction proceeds and goods, then fought off the Suotuo City Lord's Manor steward before returning to the inn to refine Body Tempering Fluid. He successfully fused the medicinal essences, but the force of the process cracked his Deep Sea Demon Silver Alchemy Furnace.

• The Suotuo City Lord's Manor steward threatened Li Tianlan over the auction price, and Li Tianlan collected his auction items and settled the payment backstage.
• The steward and his men confronted Li Tianlan outside the auction house, and Li Tianlan sent the steward flying with a single punch before leaving.
• Li Tianlan returned to the inn and began refining Body Tempering Fluid while Xiao Yan praised his rapid progress as an alchemist.
• Li Tianlan forcibly fused the medicinal essences, producing Body Tempering Fluid as the Alchemy Furnace erupted and filled with cracks.

Li Tianlan’s Alchemy Furnace exploded, but he saved the Body Tempering Fluid and used it to raise Bena’s soul power to level thirty. He then began purifying the Deep Sea Demon Silver to forge a stronger furnace.

• Li Tianlan gave Bena the Body Tempering Fluid and said it could improve her aptitude enough to make her a Soul Elder.
• Bena swallowed a drop, expelled impurities as the medicine cleansed her marrow, and broke through to level thirty soul power.
• Li Tianlan congratulated Bena and promised to take her hunting for a Soul Ring after dealing with the Earth Core Flame.
• Li Tianlan returned to his room and used Yangquan Fire to melt and purify the Deep Sea Demon Silver for a new Alchemy Furnace.

Li Tianlan forged a new Golden Sea Furnace and prepared Body Tempering Fluid to exchange for the Earth Core Flame. At the City Lord's Manor, Moke learned that Li Tianlan had taken the Ten Thousand Year Golden Ginseng and demanded to know who he was.

• Li Tianlan combined Golden Crystal with Deep Sea Demon Silver, hammered the metal into a new furnace, and named it the Golden Sea Furnace.
• Li Tianlan decided to offer Body Tempering Fluid to the City Lord's Manor in exchange for the Earth Core Flame and refined five bottles.
• Li Tianlan left his room and ate dinner with Bena, who revealed her Chef's Knife Spirit and named it the Dragon Slaying Saber.
• Moke raged at his steward after learning that Li Tianlan had taken the Ten Thousand Year Golden Ginseng, which Moke hoped would restore his health and youth.
• The steward told Moke that Li Tianlan had paid five hundred and ten thousand Gold Soul Coins for the ginseng and had beaten him when he objected.

Moke ordered his butler to recover the Ten Thousand Year Golden Ginseng from Li Tianlan, while Li Tianlan studied a soul bone and arranged to sell his Body Tempering Fluid and gather herbs. The butler began hiring underground mercenaries in Suotuo City's Black Market.

• Moke vowed to avenge Li Tianlan for taking his Ten Thousand Year Golden Ginseng and ordered his butler to bring it back.
• Li Tianlan examined the soul bone, and Xiao Yan explained that it held a Soul Fragment that required Heavenly Flames and herbs to refine safely.
• Li Tianlan bought a Tianning Fruit from the blond pharmacy owner, then asked him to sell the Body Tempering Fluid and gather the items on his list.
• Li Tianlan offered the shop owner a ten-percent commission, and the owner eagerly agreed to help him.
• Moke's butler went to Suotuo City's Black Market to search for underground mercenaries.

The Desperate Three Sisters accepted a contract from the Suotuo City steward to kill Li Tianlan and retrieve the Ten Thousand Year Golden Ginseng. Li Tianlan led the three mercenaries outside the city, where he met Qin Ming, Li Xuan, and Xie Ji, and the confrontation was about to begin.

• Suo Leile accepted ten thousand Gold Soul Coins as a deposit and agreed to kill Li Tianlan for a further three hundred thousand.
• Li Tianlan sensed that the Desperate Three Sisters were following him and heard them discuss attacking him in the street.
• Li Tianlan fled toward the outskirts of Suotuo City, intending to fight the mercenaries where civilians would not be endangered.
• Li Tianlan met Qin Ming, Li Xuan, and Xie Ji outside the city and warned them that three Soul Emperors were pursuing him.
• Qin Ming and Xie Ji volunteered to fight, and the Desperate Three Sisters caught up and taunted Li Tianlan and his companions.

Li Tianlan fought the Three Sisters, a trio of Soul Emperors, and overwhelmed them with his Wave-Splitting Flame Ruler despite his young age. As his Soul Power dwindled and the trio held out behind their shield, Qin Ming prepared to intervene while Xie Ji ran to summon Shrek Academy's headmaster.

• The Three Sisters threatened Qin Ming and Li Tianlan, and Li Tianlan declared he would test his new weapon on them.
• Li Tianlan struck Suo Leile with the Wave-Splitting Flame Ruler, breaking his arm and sending him crashing to the ground.
• The other two brothers joined Suo Leile to defend themselves, while Li Tianlan kept battering their shield and forced them backward.
• Qin Ming and Li Xuan watched in shock as Li Tianlan fought, and Qin Ming admitted he could not withstand even one of Li Tianlan's attacks.
• After Li Tianlan's Soul Power began running low, Qin Ming sent Xie Ji to get Shrek Academy's headmaster and prepared to support Li Tianlan with Li Xuan.

Li Tianlan revealed that he had plenty of strength left after Suo Leile assumed his Soul Power was exhausted. As the Three Sisters prepared a powerful fusion attack, Li Tianlan replenished his Soul Power and charged them with a massive hammer.

• Xie Ji vanished, leaving Qin Ming and Li Xuan to help defend Li Tianlan against the Three Sisters.
• Li Tianlan struck Suo Leile with the Overturning Sea Seal, badly injuring him after Suo Leile dropped his shield.
• Suo Leile used his sixth soul skill, Life Exchange, to heal his injuries by burning away twenty years of his lifespan.
• The second and third sisters began forming their fusion soul skill, while Qin Ming warned that its attack could kill anyone below the Titled Douluo level.
• Li Tianlan took a Spirit Replenishing Pill, charged the forming Energy Shield, and revealed a ten-thousand-jin Clear Sky Hammer as he began the Purple Dragon Hammer Technique.

Li Tianlan defeated the Three Sisters and learned that the city lord’s manor steward had hired them to kill him. He offered the Sisters Spirit Replenishing Pills to help him attack the manor, while Fred and Zhao Wuji hurried toward the battlefield.

• Li Tianlan shattered the Three Sisters’ Energy Shield and badly injured them with his Clear Sky Hammer, replenishing his Soul Power with a Spirit Replenishing Pill.
• Suo Leile offered to surrender and pay Li Tianlan one million Gold Soul Coins, but Li Tianlan refused the money and asked who had hired them.
• Suo Leile revealed that the city lord’s manor steward had sent the Sisters after Li Tianlan because of the Ten Thousand Year Golden Ginseng.
• Xie Ji rushed to Shrek Academy and told Fred and Zhao Wuji that the Death Sisters were fighting Qin Ming, so they hurried to the battlefield.
• Li Tianlan offered Suo Leile three Spirit Replenishing Pills to help him level the city lord’s manor, and Suo Leile considered the pills’ power.

Li Tianlan and the Death Sisters agreed to join forces against the Suotuo City Lord's Manor after the sisters betrayed their employer. Fred and Zhao Wuji decided to accompany Li Tianlan, while City Lord Moke waited for his steward to secure the Ten Thousand Year Golden Ginseng.

• Li Tianlan agreed to cooperate with the Death Sisters, who had switched sides after he defeated them.
• Fred arrived and learned that Li Tianlan had beaten the three sisters and that they planned to attack their former employer.
• Zhao Wuji asked why the City Lord's Manor wanted Li Tianlan dead, and Li Tianlan explained that it was over the Ten Thousand Year Golden Ginseng he had bought at auction.
• Fred hesitated to confront the Darak Kingdom's officials, but Zhao Wuji urged him to go, and Fred agreed to accompany Li Tianlan to the City Lord's Manor.
• City Lord Moke learned that his steward had hired the Death Sisters to obtain the ginseng and demanded that the steward secure it by the next day.

Li Tianlan led his allies to confront City Lord Moke over the Ten Thousand Year Golden Ginseng and destroyed the manor gate with a two-colored fire lotus. Moke recognized Li Tianlan as the child who had taken the ginseng and begged for his life, but Li Tianlan prepared to kill him anyway.

• Li Tianlan arrived at the City Lord's Manor with Zhao Wuji, Fred, and other powerful allies, then fused his two flames into a fire lotus.
• Li Tianlan blasted apart the manor's gate and much of its courtyard, alarming the Death Sisters and Zhao Wuji.
• Moke came out, saw the destruction and Li Tianlan's powerful entourage, and immediately surrendered and offered compensation.
• Li Tianlan asked Moke about the Ten Thousand Year Golden Ginseng, and Moke realized Li Tianlan was the child his steward had planned to attack.
• Moke blamed his steward and pleaded for mercy, but Li Tianlan dismissed the excuse and raised his Wave-Swallowing Ruler, while Moke offered even more compensation.

Li Tianlan spared City Lord Moke after demanding a vast payment and was led to the Mo Family’s hidden treasure vault. He collected a rare soul bone and began surveying the vault’s many treasures.

• City Lord Moke offered Li Tianlan money and treasures in exchange for his life, and Li Tianlan named his demands.
• Li Tianlan barred the three sisters from joining the group as Moke led him, Fred, Zhao Wuji, and the others to the treasury.
• Moke opened the hidden soul-tool vault with his blood, and Xiao Yan confirmed it was safe.
• Moke presented a 95,807-year-old Blood Tiger soul bone, which Li Tianlan put away.
• Li Tianlan scanned the vault’s many treasures, and Xiao Yan told him he had struck it rich.

Li Tianlan found a versatile Exotic Flame Seed, emptied Moke's treasure vault, and subdued the Earth Core Flame. He gave Moke Body Tempering Fluid and spared him, leaving Moke to suspect Li Tianlan intended to bring him under his influence.

• Xiao Yan told Li Tianlan that the tiny flame was an Exotic Flame Seed that could mature into different Exotic Flames, and Li Tianlan stored it in his Treasure Bag.
• After Fred's group chose their treasures, Li Tianlan swept the rest of the vault's contents into his Treasure Bag.
• Moke led Li Tianlan to the Earth Core Flame, and Li Tianlan suppressed it and sealed it inside a separate Soul Tool.
• Li Tianlan gave Moke Body Tempering Fluid, explained that it could heal his hidden injuries and extend his life, and warned him not to attack again.
• Moke realized Li Tianlan seemed interested in subduing him and saw an opportunity in their relationship.

Li Tianlan refined the Earth Core Flame, strengthening his Soul Power despite his displayed level falling, and prepared pills for another trip to the Star Dou Great Forest with Bena. At Shrek Academy, Qin Ming reached Level 60 and became the youngest Soul Emperor on Douluo Continent, while Xie Ji proposed confronting Li Tianlan.

• City Lord Moke pledged obedience to Li Tianlan and paid him ten million Gold Soul Coins.
• Li Tianlan returned to the hotel, where Bena said she had resumed cultivating and hoped to become a Soul Saint.
• Li Tianlan swallowed and refined the Earth Core Flame, gaining another increase in Soul Power quality and quantity as his displayed level fell to 13.
• Li Tianlan decided to refine pills before taking Bena to the Star Dou Great Forest to find the Earth Core Green Lotus Flame and address her Soul Ring.
• At Shrek Academy, Qin Ming reached Level 60 after taking Li Tianlan's Body Tempering Fluid and became the youngest Soul Emperor on Douluo Continent.
• Xie Ji urged Qin Ming to go settle the score with Li Tianlan.

After Qin Ming became a Soul Emperor, Shrek Academy prepared to hunt a Soul Ring for him. Li Tianlan gave Bena a nearly hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone to strengthen her body, then took her into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Soul Ring.

• Fred told Qin Ming that all the teachers from Shrek Academy would join the hunt for his Soul Ring.
• After leaving his room, Li Tianlan learned that three days had passed and Bena was preparing to hunt a powerful Soul Ring.
• Li Tianlan gave Bena a ninety-five-thousand-year left leg bone and explained that it would raise her Soul Ring absorption limit.
• Bena fused with the Soul Bone over the next day, transforming her body and widening her meridians.
• Li Tianlan and Bena entered the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt her Soul Ring.

Li Tianlan and Bena encountered Meng Yiran and the Dragon Snake Combination after Li Tianlan accidentally killed Meng Yiran’s Human-Faced Demon Spider. When the Dragon Duke demanded Bena join his clan, Li Tianlan challenged him and the Serpent Granny to fight.

• Li Tianlan advised Bena to become a Battle Soul Master and led her toward the Death Mantis territory.
• A Human-Faced Demon Spider attacked Li Tianlan, who accidentally killed it with his Wave-Swallowing Ruler.
• Meng Yiran, Snake Dowager Chao Tianxiang, and Dragon Duke Meng Shu appeared and accused Li Tianlan and Bena of killing the spider.
• Bena refused Meng Shu’s demand that she join his Spirit Master clan, and Li Tianlan challenged the Dragon Snake Combination to fight.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang recognized the immense weight of Li Tianlan’s ruler and realized how unusually strong he was.

Li Tianlan rejected Dragon Duke Meng Shu’s offer to join the Meng Family and challenged his strength instead. He sent Meng Shu flying with a single ruler strike, leaving Meng Shu and Snake Dowager astonished by his immense physical power.

• Dragon Duke Meng Shu offered Li Tianlan a place in the Meng Family and proposed Meng Yiran as his fiancée, but Li Tianlan refused.
• When Meng Shu promised to grant any request, Li Tianlan asked for six Fierce Beast soul bones and then a path to godhood, and Meng Shu could provide neither.
• Meng Shu challenged Li Tianlan to last the time it took an incense stick to burn, and Li Tianlan told him to make the first move.
• Li Tianlan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement and struck Meng Shu with the Wave-Swallowing Ruler, sending him flying and slightly injuring his internal organs.
• Li Tianlan claimed he had been born with his extraordinary strength, while Meng Shu and Snake Dowager marveled at his power.

Li Tianlan fought Dragon Duke Meng Shu without using his martial spirit, then forced Meng Shu to concede after he summoned his own. Meng Shu gave Li Tianlan a Meng Family token, and Li Tianlan and Bena continued toward the Earth Core Green Lotus Flame, said to lie in the Earth Fire Dragon King’s lair.

• Dragon Duke Meng Shu attacked Li Tianlan with his Soul Power and briefly pushed him onto the defensive.
• Li Tianlan judged Meng Shu’s combat strength and struck him with the Wave-Splitting Flame Ruler, forcing Meng Shu to use his martial spirit and summon a white dragon shield.
• Bena called out Meng Shu for breaking his promise, and Meng Shu conceded the contest and dropped his claim to the Human-Faced Demon Spider.
• Meng Shu gave Li Tianlan a token representing the Meng Family, and Li Tianlan accepted it before leaving with Bena.
• Li Tianlan and Bena headed toward the Earth Core Green Lotus Flame, which was believed to be in the lair of the ninety-nine-thousand-year Earth Fire Dragon King.

Li Tianlan discovered that the Earth Fire Dragon King was hibernating through an evolution that would make it even more powerful, then learned it was hunting Xiao Wu. To divert the dragon, he flew into its volcano to seize the Earth Core Green Lotus Flame, but Xiao Yan warned that the ancient Heavenly Flame was dangerous.

• Bena told Li Tianlan that the hibernating Earth Fire Dragon King would evolve into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and become far more powerful.
• The Earth Fire Dragon King sensed Xiao Wu, recognized her as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast taking human form, and charged toward her; Xiao Wu realized she was its target.
• Xiao Yan advised Li Tianlan to attack something the dragon had to defend, and Li Tianlan chose the Earth Core Green Lotus Flame.
• Li Tianlan left Bena behind, flew into the volcano, and found the Earth Core Green Lotus Flame deep beneath the magma.
• Xiao Yan sensed that the flame had been nurtured for at least a hundred thousand years and warned Li Tianlan that it was dangerous.

Li Tianlan fought the Earth Core Green Lotus Flame, a powerful serpent-like flame that threatened to devour the Heavenly Flames within him. He blasted the serpent apart from inside, leaving it immobilized only briefly as he prepared to seize its source flame.

• Li Tianlan decided to risk absorbing the Earth Core Green Lotus Flame despite Xiao Yan estimating his odds at only fifty percent.
• Li Tianlan battled the flame serpent with his Wave-Swallowing Ruler, but its wounds healed rapidly in the lava.
• Li Tianlan devised a plan to enter the serpent and use Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame to destroy it from within.
• The serpent swallowed Li Tianlan, who detonated a four-colored fire lotus while shielding himself with the Wave-Swallowing Ruler.
• The explosion blasted apart the serpent's head and upper body, temporarily immobilizing it as its scattered flames began gathering again.