Chapter Summaries

Li Tianlan fought Yu Tianheng in the arena while showcasing the Raging Soul Pill’s power and deliberately prolonging the match to promote it. As the pill’s effects neared their end, Li Tianlan declared Yu Tianheng had lost and met his final lightning attack head-on.

• Li Tianlan dodged Yu Tianheng’s lightning attacks, closed the distance, and destroyed his lightning arm with a Wave-Splitting Flame Ruler strike.
• Li Tianlan held back his blow, letting Yu Tianheng knock aside the Wave-Swallowing Ruler and mistake the reduced force for Li Tianlan weakening.
• Yu Tianheng praised the Raging Soul Pill for giving him seemingly inexhaustible Soul Power, drawing attention from spectators and sending some to the Divine Medicine Tower to buy it.
• Li Tianlan continued evading Yu Tianheng’s lightning barrage with Three Thousand Lightning Movement while spectators marveled at his speed and Yu Tianheng grew frustrated.
• Li Tianlan said the pill would last only another dozen seconds and that Yu Tianheng had lost, but Yu Tianheng unleashed a massive lightning bolt, which Li Tianlan met with a Wave-Splitting Flame Ruler strike.

Li Tianlan defeated Yu Tianheng, sold him Raging Soul Pills, and drew so much attention that no one else dared challenge him. He hurried back to Divine Medicine Tower after hearing that the shop’s popularity might put Xiao Wu and Bena at risk, and arrived to find Bena confronting an angry customer.

• Li Tianlan shattered Yu Tianheng’s lightning attack, depleted his Soul Power, and sold him a bottle of Raging Soul Pills after Yu Tianheng asked to buy a hundred.
• Yu Tianheng conceded, and the referee declared Li Tianlan the winner; no other Soul Masters dared to challenge him.
• Li Tianlan left the arena and rushed toward Divine Medicine Tower, worried that the attention from his display would endanger Xiao Wu and Bena.
• Bena threatened a young Soul Master who demanded pills after she told him they were sold out, and her black third Soul Ring made him recognize her as the Golden-Haired Girl who had killed three Soul Saints.
• Li Tianlan returned, and Bena told him the shop had sold thirty million Gold Soul Coins’ worth of pills; he explained that he had beaten Yu Tianheng again.

Li Tianlan demanded compensation from Tailong after the young clan leader damaged his shop, then let Tailong’s fury drive him to wreck the place while increasing the claimed bill. The shop lay nearly in ruins, and Li Tianlan had not yet collected payment.

• Li Tianlan identified Tailong as the Strength Clan’s young clan leader and demanded compensation for the damaged shop and his friends’ distress.
• Tailong threatened to smash the shop again, and Li Tianlan challenged him to try.
• Tailong attacked, but Li Tianlan blocked his punch with one hand and charged him three thousand Gold Soul Coins for the damaged rosewood floor.
• Tailong activated his third soul skill, Berserk, and launched a barrage of punches, while Li Tianlan dodged and raised his compensation demand to one hundred million Gold Soul Coins.
• Tailong’s attacks reduced the shop to ruins, and Li Tianlan announced that the bill had reached one hundred and fifty million Gold Soul Coins.

Li Tianlan defeated Tailong in one blow, bound him, and dragged him toward the Strength Clan to demand compensation. Titan learned of the humiliation and gathered the clan’s experts to confront Li Tianlan.

• Li Tianlan stopped dodging and knocked Tailong through the Divine Medicine Tower’s doors with a single punch.
• Li Tianlan demanded two hundred million Gold Soul Coins in compensation, then chained up Tailong when he refused.
• Li Tianlan, Bena, and Xiao Wu headed for the Strength Clan residence with Tailong in tow as onlookers and clan informants spread the news.
• Titan heard that Li Tianlan was dragging Tailong to the residence and ordered the Strength Clan to gather its men.
• Titan led three Soul Douluos and more than twenty Soul Saints toward Li Tianlan.

Li Tianlan confronted Titan and the Strength Clan over the damage Tailong had caused to his shop, demanding compensation while Titan sought revenge. After Li Tianlan defeated Titan in their first exchange, Titan and the other elders attacked together, but Li Tianlan shattered Titan’s arm with his Clear Sky Hammer and left the clan elders stunned.

• A crowd of Soul Masters followed Titan and gathered to watch him confront Li Tianlan.
• Li Tianlan demanded compensation from Titan for Tailong smashing his shop, while Titan raged over Tailong’s injuries and threatened to cripple Li Tianlan.
• Titan punched Li Tianlan, but Li Tianlan met the blow head-on and sent Titan staggering back, injured and bleeding.
• Titan called on the other two Soul Douluo of the Strength Clan, and the three elders activated their Martial Souls.
• Li Tianlan summoned his Ink Iron Clear Sky Hammer and smashed Titan’s arm into bloody pulp, sending his enormous body crashing to the ground.
• The First Elder and Second Elder stared in shock at the Clear Sky Hammer in Li Tianlan’s hands.

Li Tianlan forced the Strength Clan to negotiate after overpowering its elders, then Dugu Bo arrived and revealed that Li Tianlan’s Divine Medicine Shop belonged to him. The Strength Clan’s confrontation now faced the threat of Poison Douluo’s intervention.

• Taino recognized the force of Li Tianlan’s hammer, and Li Tianlan demanded three hundred million Gold Soul Coins in compensation.
• The Strength Clan’s Second Elder accepted buffs from two Soul Saints and struck Li Tianlan, but Li Tianlan emerged from the fight uninjured.
• The Second Elder abandoned thoughts of fighting and tried to negotiate, while Li Tianlan suggested taking treasures from the Strength Clan’s treasury instead.
• Dugu Bo arrived as the Second Elder insulted him, prompting Tede to apologize and Taino to ask why he had come.
• Dugu Bo told Taino that Li Tianlan’s Divine Medicine Shop belonged to him.

Dugu Bo forced the Strength Clan to pay three hundred million Gold Soul Coins for damaging the Divine Medicine Tower, and Titan proposed repaying the debt with weapons. Li Tianlan entered the clan’s treasury to inspect its treasures while Dugu Bo stood guard outside.

• Dugu Bo threatened to destroy the Strength Clan unless it paid three hundred million Gold Soul Coins, and Elder Taino agreed.
• Titan asked to repay part of the compensation with the clan’s weapons, and Dugu Bo ordered him to show what he had.
• Titan led Dugu Bo, Li Tianlan, Bena, and Xiao Wu to the Strength Clan’s treasury after opening its spatial gate with his blood.
• Dugu Bo stayed outside to guard the entrance while Li Tianlan checked that the gate was safe and entered the treasury.
• Li Tianlan saw the treasury’s many valuable treasures and Soul Tools as the Second Elder watched, unable to challenge him.

Li Tianlan browsed the Strength Clan's treasury and bought several treasures for himself and his companions. He recognized a massive, sealed piece of metal as Dragon Pattern Black Gold wrapped in Immortal Source, though he had no way to open it.

• Li Tianlan bought the Sapphire Ring for eight million Gold Soul Coins and gave it to Bena.
• Xiao Wu chose a Ten Thousand Year Marrow Cleansing Flower, which Li Tianlan bought for ten million Gold Soul Coins.
• Li Tianlan found a black, dragon-patterned metal encased in azure crystal that weighed a million jin and could not be moved by hand.
• Xiao Yan warned Li Tianlan that even at his peak he might not have been able to break the crystal shell.
• Li Tianlan identified the metal as Dragon Pattern Black Gold wrapped in Immortal Source and told Xiao Yan it could be used to forge Supreme Dao Weapons.

Li Tianlan took a vast haul from the Strength Clan’s treasure vault and gave Dugu Bo three soul bones, promising to help him overcome his poison. As Li Tianlan left for a meal with Bena and Xiao Wu, the Strength Clan elders demanded punishment for Tailong, and Titan accepted that he could no longer protect his grandson.

• Li Tianlan explained to Xiao Yan that a Supreme Dao Weapon could destroy immense stretches of the cosmos, then stored the Dragon Pattern Black Gold in his Soul Tool.
• Li Tianlan took three eighty-thousand-year soul bones, six Pseudo Divine Artifacts, and more than a dozen Immortal Grade Herbs from the Strength Clan’s treasure vault, and dismissed the remaining treasures as unremarkable.
• Li Tianlan gave Dugu Bo three soul bones and promised to refine pills to cleanse his marrow and help him reach level 95 Soul Power.
• Li Tianlan invited Bena and Xiao Wu to eat at Immortal Treasure Tower, while the Strength Clan members lamented their losses and the elders revealed that another treasure vault remained hidden.
• The Strength Clan elders called for Tailong to lose his position as young clan leader and be expelled until he reached the Soul Douluo realm, and Titan accepted that his grandson had to be punished.

After the Strength Clan cast Tailong out, his resentment awakened a monstrous mutation that turned him into an Evil Soul Master. Meanwhile, Li Tianlan enjoyed a lavish meal at Immortal Treasure Tower, where his refusal to submit to Prince Xue Changhe ended in a fight.

• The Strength Clan's Grand Elder disowned Tailong and had guards throw him out, leaving him vowing revenge on Li Tianlan.
• Tailong's Martial Soul mutated into a blood-red, spike-covered Powerful Gorilla, transforming him into an Evil Soul Master.
• Li Tianlan, Bena, and Xiao Wu ate at Immortal Treasure Tower, where Li Tianlan and Bena devoured the food while Xiao Wu avoided the meat.
• Xue Changhe confronted Li Tianlan, challenged him to a duel, and grabbed his shoulder when Li Tianlan ignored him.
• Li Tianlan smashed a plate into Xue Changhe's face and kicked him to the ground, leaving his guards stunned.

Li Tianlan defeated Xue Changhe’s guards and forced the prince to thumbprint a ten-million-Gold-Soul-Coin IOU. Back at the hotel, he examined the Strength Clan’s treasures and discovered a powerful spear, then asked Xiao Yan for a spear technique.

• Li Tianlan beat Xue Changhe’s four guards and approached the prince.
• Li Tianlan threatened Xue Changhe with a dagger until he thumbprinted a ten-million-Gold-Soul-Coin IOU.
• Li Tianlan returned to the hotel and began inspecting the treasures he had obtained from the Strength Clan.
• Li Tianlan tested a spear that released a sharp spear aura and cut through refined iron.
• Xiao Yan told Li Tianlan he possessed one form of the fragmentary Heaven-tier Fighting Skill, the Six Forms of the Sky Desolation Spear.

Li Tianlan received the Six Forms of the Sky Desolation Spear from Xiao Yan and learned that mastering the mid-grade Heaven-tier skill would take time. After sorting his spoils from the Strength Clan, he planned to enroll at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where powerful factions were already pressuring the dean to reject him.

• Xiao Yan passed the Six Forms of the Sky Desolation Spear to Li Tianlan, who watched its six forms and realized he would need years of study to master them.
• Li Tianlan sorted the supplies and calculated that he still had nearly 160 million Gold Soul Coins after accounting for the treasures taken from the Strength Clan.
• Li Tianlan planned to report to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Bena and Xiao Wu, then visit the Mercenary Guild to ask about Heavenly Flames.
• At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Prince Xue Changhe, Titan, and Yu Tianheng demanded that the dean refuse Li Tianlan admission.
• The dean objected that Li Tianlan was practically Poison Douluo Dugu Bo's grandson and that the academy could not afford to offend Dugu Bo.

Yu Tianheng and Xue Changhe plotted against Li Tianlan, while the academy dean tried to stay out of the conflict and decided to inform Dugu Bo. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Li Tianlan, Bena, and Xiao Wu waited to take the entrance examination as a royal convoy arrived.

• Yu Tianheng suggested that Li Tianlan could die during the entrance examination, but the dean warned him that Dugu Bo could retaliate with poison.
• Yu Tianheng agreed to exercise restraint, while Xue Changhe secretly decided to have Li Tianlan killed by hired assassins during the examination.
• The dean decided to tell Dugu Bo about the plot so he would not be blamed if anything happened.
• Li Tianlan, Bena, and Xiao Wu arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and read its entry requirements and five-stage examination rules.
• After waiting in line for two hours, Li Tianlan and his companions saw a lavish imperial convoy arrive, which applicants identified as Prince Xue Qinghe's.

Li Tianlan and his companions reached the Heaven Dou Royal Academy entrance tests, where Bena’s talent earned her the chance to skip ahead and Xiao Wu impressed the examiner. Li Tianlan’s seven-year-old Soul Grandmaster rank was met with disbelief, and the teacher asked him to summon his Martial Soul and Soul Rings.

• Qian Renxue watched Li Tianlan from her carriage and decided to wait for a chance to tease him because he did not know her identity.
• The examiner saw Bena’s registration and let her skip the first four tests to proceed directly to the fifth.
• Xiao Wu registered as a seven-year-old with Soul Power Level 15, and the examiner praised her potential.
• The examiner questioned Li Tianlan’s claim that he was a seven-year-old Rank 28 Soul Grandmaster and asked him to summon his Martial Soul and Soul Rings.
• Li Tianlan felt troubled by the examiner’s request to show his Soul Rings.

Li Tianlan reluctantly revealed his extraordinary Soul Rings during the academy test, but the teacher pretended to accept his claim that they were merely mutated hundred-year rings. After passing, Li Tianlan reunited with Dugu Yan, whose embrace sparked jealousy in Bena, Xiao Wu, and Qian Renxue.

• Li Tianlan released his thousand-year and golden-red Soul Rings after the testing teacher challenged him, shocking the teacher and nearby Soul Masters.
• Li Tianlan claimed his martial soul randomly changed the colors of two hundred-year Soul Rings, and the teacher played along and declared him passed.
• An eleven- or twelve-year-old blue-haired girl doubted Li Tianlan's explanation.
• Dugu Yan arrived and embraced Li Tianlan, prompting Bena and Xiao Wu to demand that she let him go.
• Qian Renxue watched the girls surrounding Li Tianlan with irritation, and her maid asked if she was jealous.

Li Tianlan reunited with Dugu Yan at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy and gave her a powerful weapon. Their closeness made Bena uneasy, while Li Tianlan warned Dugu Yan to keep the artifact’s strength secret.

• Dugu Yan hugged Li Tianlan, and Xiao Wu reminded her to let him breathe.
• Li Tianlan introduced Dugu Yan to Bena and Xiao Wu, then promised Dugu Yan a gift after the academy assessment.
• Dugu Yan pulled Li Tianlan into her dormitory, where he revealed the Golden Thunder Whip, a Pseudo Divine Artifact forged by the Strength Clan.
• Dugu Yan accepted the whip and kissed Li Tianlan on the cheek, leaving Bena displeased.
• Li Tianlan told Dugu Yan to keep the Golden Thunder Whip as a trump card and conceal her abilities from opponents.

Li Tianlan gave Dugu Yan, Bena, and Xiao Wu customized Body Tempering Fluid PLUS Version bottles and explained how each would benefit from the treatment. He began Dugu Yan’s bath treatment, which healed damage from her innate poison and strengthened her body with Golden Dragon King blood.

• Li Tianlan gave Dugu Yan a bottle of Body Tempering Fluid PLUS Version made to heal her innate poison damage and cleanse her body.
• Bena and Xiao Wu protested that they had not received the new fluid, so Li Tianlan revealed he had prepared customized portions for them too.
• Li Tianlan explained that Bena’s fluid would strengthen her spirit and Xiao Wu’s would improve her physical constitution, and warned them to absorb it slowly in a bath.
• Dugu Yan entered a tub of hot water, and Li Tianlan poured her fluid into it before beginning to help her absorb its effects.
• The golden liquid healed damage caused by Dugu Yan’s innate Jade Scale Snake venom and strengthened her body with purified Golden Dragon King blood.

Dugu Yan completed her first round of body tempering, gaining level twenty Soul Power, great physical strength, and the beginnings of a Golden Dragon King transformation. Li Tianlan reached the academy’s initial assessment just in time and began testing his Soul Power, while Xue Changhe waited nearby with plans to take revenge.

• Dugu Yan absorbed the last of the Body Tempering Fluid’s power, clearing her Innate Poison and beginning to transform her Jade Scale Snake martial soul toward the Golden Dragon King.
• Dugu Yan shattered the wooden bathtub when she tried to stand, and Bena explained that she would need time to control her new strength.
• Li Tianlan rushed toward the assessment grounds using the Three Thousand Lightning Movement as the initial screening’s deadline approached.
• Xue Changhe waited at the assessment site with a Soul Emperor-level expert, intending to get revenge on Li Tianlan.
• Li Tianlan arrived before the deadline, and the assessment teacher explained that he would test Soul Power and physical strength before the official matches began the next day.
• Li Tianlan poured his Soul Power into the crystal ball to begin the test.

Li Tianlan’s Soul Power test destroyed the crystal ball, and while the teacher went to find a replacement, Xue Changhe confronted him with the Soul Emperor mercenary Tomos. Li Tianlan sent Tomos crashing through a wall with one punch, leaving Xue Changhe horrified and Tomos demanding to know who Li Tianlan was.

• Li Tianlan’s Soul Power shattered the testing crystal, so the teacher went to get another one.
• Xue Changhe confronted Li Tianlan and threatened to castrate him, but Li Tianlan remembered him as the man he had beaten at the Immortal Treasure Tower.
• Xue Changhe ordered Tomos, a Soul Emperor mercenary, to kill Li Tianlan.
• Tomos charged Li Tianlan, who blocked his attack with a punch and sent him through a wall.
• Xue Changhe realized Li Tianlan’s strength exceeded the Soul Emperor level, while Tomos crawled from the rubble and demanded to know who he was.

Li Tianlan confronted Tomos, revealed that he had killed the Death Sisters, and had Bena behead the Soul Emperor. When Xue Changhe tried to flee, Dugu Yan kicked him down and Li Tianlan stomped him into the ground.

• Li Tianlan told Tomos that his punch had only made his arm numb and said he had killed the Death Sisters.
• Li Tianlan declared that Tomos would not kill another person, and Tomos turned to run.
• Bena used her Execution martial soul to behead Tomos with a single slash.
• Xiao Wu pointed out that Xue Changhe was trying to escape, and Dugu Yan kicked him to the ground.
• Li Tianlan caught Xue Changhe and stomped him into the earth.