Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yun prepared to travel to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Dugu Bo decided to bring Dugu Yan along to cultivate there. After learning about Xiao Yun’s unusual strength, Tang Yuehua saw a possible path beyond the Soul Master system for herself.

• Xiao Yun discussed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Saint Zixuan, received medicinal herbs, and returned to Douluo Continent to prepare for the journey.
• Dugu Bo returned to his estate and noticed that Dugu Yan’s cultivation had accelerated since Xiao Yun opened her meridians.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan he would take her to his Sunset Forest base, and she agreed to travel with him to find Xiao Yun the next morning.
• Tang Yuehua read a report about Xiao Yun’s background, theories, and ability to kill Evil Spirit Masters despite lacking Soul Power.
• Tang Yuehua resolved to seek another path to power after realizing Xiao Yun might have abilities outside the Soul Master system.

Tang Yuehua invited Xiao Yun to Moonlight Pavilion, while Zhu Zhuqing learned the first level of the Phantom Movement Technique and received instruction in two offensive techniques. After buying supplies with Xiao Yun, Zhu Zhuqing heard rumors about the Star Luo Zhu Family’s Second Young Lady infiltrating Heaven Dou Empire as they headed for the town entrance.

• Tang Yuehua wrote Xiao Yun an invitation to meet at Moonlight Pavilion and ordered Aunt Lin to deliver it.
• Zhu Zhuqing practiced the Phantom Movement Technique until Xiao Yun taught her to create a lingering phantom by pausing amid high-speed movement.
• Xiao Yun passed Zhu Zhuqing the Nether Claw Technique and Wind Chasing Leg Technique and warned her to use their power with restraint.
• Zhu Zhuqing disguised herself as a maid and accompanied Xiao Yun through the market while Heaven Dou City Guards searched stalls with a portrait.
• Zhu Zhuqing overheard women discussing the Star Luo Zhu Family’s Second Young Lady infiltrating Heaven Dou Empire, then followed Xiao Yun toward the town entrance.

Xiao Yun left town with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan for a secret base, taking Zhu Zhuqing disguised as his maidservant. After learning he had gone, Tang Yuehua decided to travel to his town and wait for his return.

• Xiao Yun and Zhu Zhuqing boarded Dugu Bo's carriage, and Dugu Yan questioned the disguised Zhu Zhuqing as they traveled toward Sunset Forest.
• Lin Qingluo arrived at Yunlai Tavern with Tang Yuehua's invitation letter but learned that Xiao Yun had already left with Poison Douluo.
• Lin Qingluo returned the unopened letter to Tang Yuehua, who burned it after hearing the news.
• Tang Yuehua ordered Lin Qingluo to prepare a carriage and buy a house beside Yunlai Tavern so she could wait for Xiao Yun.

Xiao Yun guided Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan in cultivating their meridians while Zhu Zhuqing listened and learned. They arrived at Sunset Town and settled into Sunset Tavern, where Zhu Zhuqing noticed a hooded figure using techniques like those of the Star Luo Dark Guard.

• Dugu Bo asked Xiao Yun how to overcome a blockage at the Taichong Acupoint, and Xiao Yun taught him to warm the Qimen Acupoint before guiding his Soul Power downward.
• Xiao Yun advised Dugu Yan to focus on the Ququan Acupoint, while Zhu Zhuqing memorized his cultivation insights.
• The carriage reached Sunset Town, where Dugu Bo observed that Soul Beast activity seemed frequent and Xiao Yun took in the bustling Soul Master streets.
• Dugu Bo booked four superior rooms and a quiet dinner at Sunset Tavern, and the party went upstairs as the tavern's patrons watched them.
• Zhu Zhuqing noticed a hooded figure in the tavern peeling an apple with a dagger in a style reminiscent of the Star Luo Dark Guard.

Dugu Bo briefed Xiao Yun, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing on the hidden dangers of Sunset Forest before their planned expedition. Xiao Yun realized an assassin was watching them and arranged for Zhu Zhuqing to stay near his room, while remaining confident that the threat could be handled.

• Dugu Bo warned the group that poisonous insects, other Soul Master hunting parties, and lone Soul Masters posed serious dangers in Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo advised them to avoid other hunting teams and solitary Soul Masters, explaining that misunderstandings and desperate experts could get them killed.
• After Dugu Bo left, Xiao Yun told Zhu Zhuqing to stay in the room beside his because someone was watching them.
• Xiao Yun recognized the watcher’s technique as an assassination method associated with the Star Luo Empire, but dismissed the immediate threat while Dugu Bo remained nearby.
• The group returned to their rooms to rest before gathering at the hour of the tiger to enter Sunset Forest.

Xiao Yun, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing entered Sunset Forest, where Dugu Bo left them to train independently and follow a map through the forest. As they traveled, Xiao Yun gathered herbs and explained his pill-making method, leaving Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing astonished by its potential.

• Dugu Bo used his token to take Xiao Yun, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing through a hidden passage into Sunset Forest’s Mixed Zone.
• Xiao Yun examined the unusually dense Soul Power and responsive plants, while the group spotted three hundred-year Crystal Eye Snow Martens.
• Dugu Bo gave Xiao Yun a map, then departed and told the three to travel independently unless they faced mortal danger.
• Xiao Yun led Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing through the forest, gathering soul herbs and protecting them from a venomous snake.
• Xiao Yun explained that he could study herbs and refine pills, prompting Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing to marvel at the cultivation benefits.

Xiao Yun, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing encountered dangerous Soul Beasts in Sunset Forest, where Dugu Yan used her poison to repel a swarm of blood-red bats. After Zhu Zhuqing demonstrated her Night Cat King’s stealth ability, Xiao Yun explained how Dugu Yan could develop sensory skills to guard against sneak attacks.

• Xiao Yun detected multiple followers as the group traveled, then they encountered a Thousand-Year Profound Ice Bear feeding on a Soul Beast corpse.
• The corpse burst into blood-red bats, and Dugu Yan used Green Viper Purple Poison while retreating with Xiao Yun; the poison killed several bats and drove the rest away.
• Dugu Yan realized that Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and blood-red bats were appearing unusually far out on the forest’s outskirts, suggesting something had happened deeper in Sunset Forest.
• Xiao Yun ordered Zhu Zhuqing to scout the area and gather plants, and she used her Night Cat King’s Shadow Transformation to slip into the forest unseen.
• Xiao Yun explained that Dugu Yan could develop infrared sensing and Vibration Sense, then gave her a method for practicing the latter.

Xiao Yun sampled more than thirty herbs while Dugu Yan stood guard, recording their properties and medicinal effects in a notebook. Dugu Bo watched from the shadows, impressed by Xiao Yun’s methods and wondering how his completed book might affect the continent.

• Xiao Yun told Dugu Yan to protect him while he tasted the gathered herbs, and he explained that his constitution made him immune to poison.
• Xiao Yun examined and sampled Blue Silver Grass, Iron Thorn, Crimson Flame Flower, and other plants, documenting their forms, traits, flavors, and medicinal effects.
• Xiao Yun continued testing more than thirty plants, including poisonous herbs, without suffering any ill effects.
• Dugu Yan guarded Xiao Yun and was shocked by how much he ate without reacting.
• Dugu Bo watched from the shadows and considered how Xiao Yun’s book might become the foundation of a family rather than be made public.

Xiao Yun spent seven days cataloging herbs in Sunset Forest with Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan while Dugu Bo secretly protected them. They reached the Bilin Flower Sea, where Xiao Yun began explaining why its Poison Mist stayed contained.

• Zhu Zhuqing returned from scouting, and Dugu Yan explained that Xiao Yun was tasting herbs to learn their medicinal effects for pill refining.
• Xiao Yun advanced slowly through the forest, analyzing and recording unfamiliar plants while Zhu Zhuqing documented his findings and Dugu Yan kept Soul Beasts away.
• Zhu Zhuqing identified Titled Douluo-level Snake Venom Crystal near their camp, and the group realized Dugu Bo was secretly protecting them as nearby Soul Beasts fled.
• On the fourth day, the group found seven Soul Masters trapped by Dugu Bo's Ten Thousand Snake Cage and Soul Devouring Grass, and Xiao Yun burned his notes about cultivating the grass with Soul Masters.
• By the seventh day, Xiao Yun had recorded 973 plants, and the three reached the Bilin Flower Sea, where Dugu Bo appeared and confirmed they had arrived.
• Xiao Yun said the Poison Mist stayed in the valley because it was heavy, then hinted that another factor prevented it from continually accumulating as Dugu Yan, Dugu Bo, and Zhu Zhuqing listened.

Xiao Yun deduced that Ring Valley’s central hill contained hot and cold springs, then crossed into the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower Sea to collect plants and test their poison. He returned unharmed and began identifying which parts of the flowers were poisonous.

• Xiao Yun inferred from the cloud above the central hill that the valley held a hot spring and a nearby cold spring, and Dugu Bo confirmed his reasoning.
• Xiao Yun spotted plants surviving among the Bilin Seven Absolute Flowers and jumped into the poisonous sea, alarming Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Yun uprooted a Bilin Seven Absolute Flower and a nearby plant, evaded the attacking vines, and returned to the group.
• Xiao Yun inhaled the Poison Mist and exhaled it safely, astonishing Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Yun chewed a leaf and a white root from the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower, then recorded that neither was poisonous and suspected its poison was in the flowers.

Xiao Yun tested the Bilin Seven Absolute Flowers’ poison on himself, neutralized it with his Five Colors Lotus Platforms, and recorded its properties. He then identified the Jade Marrow Heavenly Heart Orchid as a way to cross the Bilin Flower Sea safely.

• Xiao Yun ate a petal of the Bilin Seven Absolute Flowers despite Dugu Bo’s warning, and the poison rapidly corroded his body.
• Zhu Zhuqing examined the poison’s path through Xiao Yun while Dugu Yan prepared to seek an antidote, but Xiao Yun continued writing in his Hundred Herbs Compendium.
• Xiao Yun’s Yi Wood Green Lotus healed him, expelled the poison as emerald crystals, and gave him permanent resistance to the flower’s poison.
• Xiao Yun recorded the Bilin Seven Absolute Flowers’ traits and medicinal uses, impressing Dugu Bo with how thoroughly he had analyzed it.
• Xiao Yun asked Dugu Bo about the Jade Marrow Heavenly Heart Orchid and explained that its poison-neutralizing effect could help them cross the Bilin Flower Sea.

Xiao Yun passed Dugu Bo’s poison test, gathered dangerous herbs from Dugu Bo’s garden, and helped Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing adapt to the cave’s ice-and-fire soul power. Zhu Zhuqing began undergoing a startling transformation as a new feline form with dragon wings appeared behind her.

• Xiao Yun tested a petal of the Jade Marrow Heavenly Heart Orchid, recorded its detoxifying properties, and stored the remaining flowers.
• Dugu Bo carried Dugu Yan, Xiao Yun, and Zhu Zhuqing through the Bilin Flower Sea on the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, and Xiao Yun neutralized poison mist that corroded Zhu Zhuqing’s sleeve.
• At Dugu Bo’s poison garden, Xiao Yun recognized the Seven Absolutes Heart-Eating Orchid and received permission to collect poisonous herbs for his research and pill-making.
• Xiao Yun promised Dugu Bo a pill formula and three bottles of medicine if he developed a cure for Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison backlash, then gathered specimens from the garden.
• At the cave, Xiao Yun guided Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing in circulating soul power and protected their heart meridians as they adapted to the ice-and-fire energy.
• Zhu Zhuqing opened her eyes with one blue pupil and one red pupil as a dragon-winged feline phantom appeared behind her, shocking Xiao Yun and Dugu Bo.

Xiao Yun stabilized Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul evolution with Immortal Spirit Qi, then accompanied Dugu Bo to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and planted the Blue Silver Emperor there. The chapter ended with Xiao Yun searching Dugu Bo’s cave for earthfire to refine a Body-Fortifying Pill.

• Xiao Yun supplied Dugu Yan with Immortal Spirit Qi, allowing her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul to evolve, while Zhu Zhuqing’s Martial Soul also transformed; he placed both women inside a Five Elements Barrier to stabilize for three days.
• Dugu Bo led Xiao Yun to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Xiao Yun examined its immortal herbs and agreed to give Dugu Bo thirty percent of the pills he refined from them.
• Xiao Yun harvested an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid and planted a special Spirit Grass at the spring’s boundary, where it drew in the well’s energy and began to grow.
• Xiao Yun and Dugu Bo returned to the cave, where Xiao Yun left Dugu Bo to guard Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing and searched the wall for earthfire to refine a Body-Fortifying Pill.

Xiao Yun carved out a pill-refining room in Dugu Bo's Cave Mansion, installed an Eight Trigrams Fire Control Array, and brought out the Shennong Ding. He gathered Ice Jade Spirit Awakening Wood for a medicine cabinet and returned with materials, while Dugu Bo remained fascinated by the array.

• Xiao Yun found an underground fire passage and, with Dugu Bo's permission, carved a smooth room from the cave wall using his sword qi.
• Xiao Yun embedded sixty-four crystals in an Eight Trigrams formation and summoned the Shennong Ding, stunning Dugu Bo with the array and the enormous cauldron.
• Xiao Yun passed safely through the poisonous flowers and found an Ice Jade Spirit Awakening Wood in Sunset Forest.
• Xiao Yun felled the tree, collected its blue crystals, and cut the wood into materials for a medicine cabinet.
• Xiao Yun returned to the Cave Mansion and unloaded the cabinet materials while Dugu Bo continued staring at the Fire Control Array.

Xiao Yun crafted special bottles from soil gathered near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then used them to collect spring water and refine several types of pills. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo receiving three boxes of pills as Xiao Yun’s gift.

• Xiao Yun built a medicine cabinet from Ice Jade Spirit Awakening Wood and asked Dugu Bo to gather soil from beside the springs.
• Xiao Yun used Red Crystal Soil, Blue Frozen Mud, and Chaos Qi from the Shennong Ding to craft twelve bottles of each kind, with spatial arrays inside them.
• Dugu Bo took a pair of bottles and fetched Extreme Yang Hot Spring Water and Extreme Yin Cold Spring Water from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xiao Yun devised formulas and refined Soul Replenishing Pills, Healing Pills, and Detoxification Pills.
• Dugu Bo returned with dinner and found six boxes of pills, and Xiao Yun gave him the three boxes on the right.

Xiao Yun and Dugu Bo shared a meal while discussing the balance of power among Spirit Hall, the empires, and the major sects. Xiao Yun assessed the strengths and weaknesses of each faction, leaving Dugu Bo to reflect on the precarious position of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Heaven Dou Royal Family.

• Xiao Yun and Dugu Bo checked on Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan as their martial souls continued evolving.
• Dugu Bo led Xiao Yun to a cliffside meal and asked for his views on the Spirit Master World.
• Xiao Yun said Spirit Hall had become the dominant power by investing in common-born soul masters, while Heaven Dou's noble rule and huge army threatened its future.
• Xiao Yun judged that the Clear Sky Sect retained strength but had lost growth potential, and that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's arrogance and weak successors put it at risk.
• Xiao Yun warned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect might decline without successors to Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, and Dugu Bo recognized why it maintained close ties with the Heaven Dou Royal Family.

Xiao Yun explained the strength and history of Sea God Island and the City of Slaughter to Dugu Bo. He revealed that the City of Slaughter was the Asura God's inheritance ground, leaving Dugu Bo to wonder who had begun its trial.

• Xiao Yun assessed the Lower Four Sects and said the Seven Great Sects relied mainly on the Upper Three Sects.
• Dugu Bo identified Sea God Island and the City of Slaughter as two other powerful forces, and Xiao Yun described Sea God Island's eight Titled Douluo and its level 99 high priestess, Bo Saixi.
• Xiao Yun told Dugu Bo that Bo Saixi and the Seven Sacred Pillars had repelled a Spirit Hall attack led by several Titled Douluo.
• Dugu Bo described the City of Slaughter as a prison where Soul Power was suppressed, and Xiao Yun pointed out that Tang Hao and Bibi Dong had emerged from it with Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Xiao Yun revealed that the City of Slaughter was the Asura God's inheritance ground and that someone had begun the Asura God Trial.

After warning Dugu Bo about Tang Chen and the City of Slaughter, Xiao Yun returned to the Vast Wilderness World and collected White Jade Capital’s accumulated resources. His summons produced two new Mythic War Spirits, Bi Fang and King Peacock, leaving them to learn about their new home.

• Xiao Yun warned Dugu Bo that Tang Chen had been controlled by a Soul Beast and that the City of Slaughter would be unsuitable for him.
• Xiao Yun returned to Dugu Bo’s cave, found the women’s Martial Souls still evolving, and entered the Vast Wilderness World.
• Tu Yaoyao reported White Jade Capital’s progress and explained that Lord experience accumulated for only one day while Xiao Yun was away.
• Xiao Yun collected the available resources, reached Lord Level 46, and used his Advanced Summoning Contracts.
• Xiao Yun summoned the Mythic War Spirits Bi Fang and King Peacock, then asked Tu Yaoyao to brief them on the Vast Wilderness World.

Xiao Yun spent his treasure-hunt keys on rewards and resources, then used his gains to strengthen his War Spirits. After synthesizing Legendary War Spirit Fragments, he obtained a new Mythic War Spirit, Lion Camel Lord Qing Shi.

• Xiao Yun assigned Bi Fang to his main War Spirits and King Peacock to guard the Kunlun Divine Palace, then bought supplies and went treasure hunting.
• Xiao Yun drew fifty Legendary War Spirit Fragments several times from the Normal Treasure Hunt Pavilion and collected substantial gold, Spiritual Power, equipment, and treasure-hunting points.
• Xiao Yun spent two Advanced Treasure Hunt Keys on rewards but received no Wish Cubes, then saved his remaining four keys.
• Xiao Yun raised Chu Ying'e and Xuan Yinghua to level 140 and Yingzhao to level 130.
• Xiao Yun chose a Legendary Fate Token for Feng Hou Divine Monarch, then synthesized his Legendary War Spirit Fragments into Fate Tokens for Meow Fairy and Dian Mu and the new Mythic War Spirit Qing Shi.

Xiao Yun strengthened his War Spirits and pushed the Tower of Trials to the 189th floor before being stopped by powerful puppets. He then used his new progress to unlock and clear higher Nightmare dungeon tiers, collecting resources and equipment.

• Xiao Yun welcomed the Azure Lion, upgraded Feng Hou, and assigned Bounty Missions to his War Spirits.
• Xiao Yun completed his sect trial and guild Sacred Beast attempts with his War Spirits, earning Gold Coins, Honor Coins, and other rewards.
• Xiao Yun upgraded the Nine Heavens Profound Maiden, Rain Master Divine Monarch, and Nuwa Saint Zixuan, then advanced the Tower of Trials to the 189th floor before repeated defeats forced him to stop.
• Xiao Yun claimed milestone rewards, equipped Saint Zixuan with the Phoenix Set, and used the War Spirit Fragments he had obtained.
• Xiao Yun cleared Nightmare Tier 2 and Tier 3 of the Spiritual Power Dungeon, then swept the available Nightmare tiers of the Gold Coin, War Spirit, Magic Treasure, and other dungeons for rewards.