Chapter Summaries

Xu Hanfeng tested Whale Rubber and confirmed that it strengthened his physique, prompting Dugu Bo and Ye Liuli to secretly secure more for him. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue investigated Xu Hanfeng’s unusual Martial Soul and resolved to bring him into Spirit Hall, by force if necessary.

• Xu Hanfeng cultivated with Whale Rubber, and Dugu Bo confirmed that his physique had improved.
• Ye Liuli and Dugu Bo promised to obtain more Whale Rubber and keep its effects secret.
• Qian Renxue learned about Xu Hanfeng’s village origins, Innate Full Soul Power, and card-summoning Martial Soul, then ordered that he be brought into Spirit Hall even if he refused.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling consumed Whale Rubber and also experienced improvements to their physiques.
• Xu Hanfeng advised Dugu Bo and Ye Liuli to gather Whale Rubber discreetly, then embarrassed himself by suggesting they buy it personally, making the others laugh.

After eight months of cultivation, Xu Hanfeng reached level twenty and agreed to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy. His close affection for Ye Liuli remained clear as the academy’s education committee celebrated his decision.

• Xu Hanfeng reached level twenty after tempering his body for eight months and prepared to obtain his second soul ring.
• Xu Hanfeng received the Star Chains Soul Skill Card and the Void Phantom Right Leg Bone, which he gave to Wu Sido to advance her to 1-star.
• Ya Li told Xu Hanfeng that the three Heaven Dou Royal Academy education committee members had returned, and she persuaded him to meet them.
• Xu Hanfeng teased Ye Liuli in front of the committee members and agreed to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Meng Shenji, Zhi Lin, and Bai Baoshan celebrated Xu Hanfeng’s decision, and Xu Hanfeng held Ye Liuli’s hand and said he would not want to leave while she was there.

Ye Liuli struggled to hide her romantic feelings for Xu Hanfeng while he unlocked and summoned Ling Luochen. After Ma Xiaotao and the others obtained Ten Thousand Year Whale Jelly, Xu Hanfeng consumed it with Ling Luochen’s help, but its intense heat overwhelmed him.

• Ye Liuli blushed and teased Xu Hanfeng, while Meng Shenji and the others left and praised her for keeping him in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xu Hanfeng returned to his room, unlocked Ling Luochen’s Character Card, and summoned her.
• Ma Xiaotao and the others met Ling Luochen, and Xu Hanfeng noted that his characters now made a small team.
• Ma Xiaotao revealed that they had bought Ten Thousand Year Whale Jelly, and Ya Li suggested using Ling Luochen’s Ice Element to help Xu Hanfeng consume it.
• Xu Hanfeng ate the Whale Jelly and was overcome by its searing heat, so Ling Luochen summoned an ice staff and poured Ice Element over him.

Xu Hanfeng absorbed most of the Ten Thousand Year Whale Jelly and traveled with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain soul rings. After Dugu Yan absorbed a venomous snake’s soul ring, Xu Hanfeng revealed that he could turn her into a Character Card to protect and strengthen her, leaving Dugu Bo questioning whether she would still be herself.

• Ling Luochen suppressed the heat in Xu Hanfeng’s body, allowing him to circulate the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill and absorb most of the Ten Thousand Year Whale Jelly.
• Xu Hanfeng left with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan for the Star Dou Great Forest, where he revealed Soul Bone Cards and asked to hunt a soul beast over five thousand years old for his second soul ring.
• Dugu Bo found a venomous snake soul beast of about twenty-seven or twenty-eight hundred years for Dugu Yan, and she absorbed its soul ring.
• Xu Hanfeng told Dugu Bo that Dugu Yan’s poison could be cured by making her one of his Character Cards, which would also let him equip her with soul bones and other items.
• Dugu Bo asked whether Dugu Yan would still be herself as a Character Card, and Xu Hanfeng asked whether he considered Ma Xiaotao and the others real people.

Xu Hanfeng offered Dugu Bo a way to manage the poison eroding his and Dugu Yan’s bodies, and Dugu Yan agreed to become Xu Hanfeng’s card so she could eventually be cured. The group then found a Myriad Phenomena Bookworm in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Xu Hanfeng asked Dugu Bo to capture it for him.

• Xu Hanfeng said he could completely cure Dugu Bo’s poison once he reached Soul King or Soul Emperor strength, but recommended storing the poison in soul bones in the meantime.
• Dugu Bo transferred the poison into his soul bones and felt better, while Dugu Yan woke with her third Soul Ring and said her Soul Power had risen by three levels.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that the poison of their Jade Python Martial Soul had caused her parents’ deaths, then explained Xu Hanfeng’s plan to make her a card; Dugu Yan agreed.
• Xu Hanfeng, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Yan traveled deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest and found a Myriad Phenomena Bookworm inside a book embedded in stone.
• Dugu Bo explained that Myriad Phenomena Bookworms were rare, powerful Spiritual Power soul beasts, and Xu Hanfeng asked him to capture it.

Xu Hanfeng absorbed a 5815-year-old Myriad Phenomena Bookworm as his second Soul Ring and discovered that it gave him a new card type instead of a Soul Skill. He also absorbed its External Soul Bone, gained two powerful abilities, and reached level 24.

• Dugu Bo captured the Myriad Phenomena Bookworm, and Xu Hanfeng identified its cultivation as 5815 years before killing it and absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Dugu Yan noticed the creature's silver-white third eye, which Dugu Bo recognized as an External Soul Bone.
• Xu Hanfeng completed absorbing the Soul Ring and found that it let him draw Trap Cards instead of granting a Soul Skill.
• Xu Hanfeng absorbed the Myriad Phenomena Bookworm's third eye, raising his Soul Power to level 24 and granting him Sage's Enhancement and Myriad Phenomena Resonance.

After gaining a soul bone, Xu Hanfeng discovered he could activate another Character Card and summoned Ye Lingtong after returning to Heaven Dou City. He then drew the Soul Sealing Array Trap Card and demonstrated that it could seal a Title Douluo’s soul skill, leaving Dugu Bo unable to use his fifth soul skill while the card remained.

• Xu Hanfeng explained that his soul bone skill let him transfer his amplified abilities to Xiaotao and the others, then revealed he could activate another Character Card.
• Xu Hanfeng, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Yan returned to Heaven Dou City, where Xu Hanfeng summoned Ye Lingtong and the women welcomed her.
• Xu Hanfeng drew a new Permanent Card, the Soul Sealing Array Trap Card, and asked Dugu Bo to test it.
• Dugu Bo attacked Xu Hanfeng with his fifth soul skill, but the Soul Sealing Array sent chains through the serpent phantom and struck Dugu Bo.
• Ye Liuli realized the array had sealed Dugu Bo’s fifth soul ring, and Xu Hanfeng explained that the card could seal soul skills and soul bone skills regardless of the opponent’s strength.

Xu Hanfeng tested a Trap Card that could seal an opponent’s soul skill, then turned Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling into Character Cards. Dugu Yan was successfully summoned back, and Xu Hanfeng used the same method on Ye Lingling.

• Xu Hanfeng explained that the Trap Card could seal one soul skill, prompting concern that it could cripple the Nine Heart Begonia martial soul.
• Xu Hanfeng said Dugu Yan could become a Character Card, but proposed that Ye Lingling go first; Dugu Yan insisted on becoming one despite being reduced to Soul Grandmaster strength.
• Dugu Yan agreed to the transformation and became a Character Card after Xu Hanfeng scanned her with the Douluo Compendium.
• Xu Hanfeng summoned Dugu Yan back, and she said the card contained a comfortable house where she remained conscious.
• Xu Hanfeng used the same method to turn Ye Lingling into a Character Card.

Xu Hanfeng learned what was needed to advance his companions’ star ratings and unlocked Na’er as a new character. While the others welcomed Na’er, he accompanied Tang Ya as she tried to turn absorbed life force into a Life Energy Cluster, but they could not preserve the energy.

• Xu Hanfeng learned that advancing to One Star required a Permanent Soul Bone Card made from a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, while Two-Star advancement also required a second Soul Bone Card and special conditions.
• Xu Hanfeng scanned a first-time target and unlocked Na’er, who appeared and agreed to call him little brother.
• Ma Xiaotao and the others welcomed Na’er, and Ya Li noticed Tang Ya quietly leading Xu Hanfeng out of the room.
• Tang Ya absorbed life force from flowers in the Ye Family garden and tried to extract it from her Blue Silver Grass.
• Xu Hanfeng and Tang Ya found that the extracted Life Energy vanished when it touched the ground and could not be stored with tools.

Xu Hanfeng and Tang Ya experimented with compressing Life Energy into a cluster, but Tang Ya's Spiritual Power ran out before she could finish. The girls then discussed their special requirements, and Xu Hanfeng advised Wu Sido on switching between her Martial Souls.

• Xu Hanfeng and Tang Ya discovered that Soul Power could hold Life Energy in a bowl, while Tang Ya used Spiritual Power to gather and cage it.
• Tang Ya tried compressing the Life Energy in her Sea of Consciousness with a silver warhammer, but her focus failed and the energy dispersed.
• Ma Xiaotao, Ning Tian, and Wu Sido arrived, and the girls discussed their special requirements for advancement.
• Xu Hanfeng told Wu Sido to practice separate Soul Power circuits and repeatedly switch between her White Tiger and Hell Spirit Cat in her Sea of Consciousness.

Xu Hanfeng visited Dugu Bo’s herb garden and discovered Immortal Herbs that could transform Ye Liuli’s Martial Soul. After she consumed the Sacred Healing Begonia, her Nine Heart Begonia evolved into the Nine Heart Sacred Healing Begonia, leaving the Ye Family with no more Nine Heart Begonias.

• Xu Hanfeng traveled to Dugu Bo’s herb garden in Sunset Forest with Ye Liuli and learned that the valley held many Immortal Herbs.
• Xu Hanfeng identified the Sacred Healing Begonia and told Ye Liuli it might evolve her Nine Heart Begonia.
• Ye Liuli consumed the Sacred Healing Begonia, and its power transformed her Martial Soul into the Nine Heart Sacred Healing Begonia.
• Ye Liuli told Xu Hanfeng that her Martial Soul had lost its former limitations and that the Ye Family would have only Sacred Healing Begonias from then on.

Xu Hanfeng and Dugu Bo absorbed Immortal Herbs, while Xu Hanfeng strengthened his Spiritual Power and physique. He planted the Blue Silver Emperor at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and revealed how he had found her, leaving Ye Liuli and Dugu Bo questioning Tang Hao’s treatment of his wife.

• Ye Liuli said her Soul Power had reached level eighty, and Xu Hanfeng gave Dugu Bo the Nether Poison Dragon Kui to refine into a Poison Pill.
• Dugu Bo absorbed the herb, reached level ninety-four, and said the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor’s venom had grown stronger.
• Xu Hanfeng consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, more than doubling his Spiritual Power, then ate a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and reached level thirty.
• Xu Hanfeng considered refining the Dragon Blood Bone Forging Ganoderma with two other Immortal Herbs into a Dragon Blood Body Tempering Pill.
• Xu Hanfeng planted the Blue Silver Emperor at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and told the group he had taken her and her Soul Bone from Tang Hao.
• Xu Hanfeng said he had found the Blue Silver Emperor in a dark stone chamber behind a waterfall, prompting Dugu Bo to question how she could be there if she had sacrificed herself.

Xu Hanfeng tempered his body in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with two Immortal Herbs, then planned to seek out Yang Wudi to refine a pill that might let him absorb an unusually powerful third Soul Ring. The group gathered herbs, strengthened the well’s defenses, and left with Xu Hanfeng thinking of the Ice Fire Dragon King.

• Xu Hanfeng warned Dugu Bo and Ye Liuli that the Blue Silver Emperor had not recovered, and Ye Liuli urged him to keep her secret until he was strong enough.
• Xu Hanfeng swallowed the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and endured the opposing forces of ice and fire as he circulated the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill.
• Xu Hanfeng emerged with greatly strengthened flesh, meridians, and bones, and estimated that his physique had nearly reached twenty thousand years.
• Xu Hanfeng asked Dugu Bo about pill refiners, learned that Yang Wudi could refine pills, and proposed using the Dragon Blood Bone Forging Ganoderma to prepare for a third Soul Ring exceeding thirty thousand years.
• Dugu Bo gave Xu Hanfeng a Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch, and everyone collected herbs while Dugu Bo fortified the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with poison.
• As the group left, Xu Hanfeng looked back at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and thought of the Ice Fire Dragon King.

After activating Character Cards for Jiang Nannan and Wu Feng, Xu Hanfeng traveled with Dugu Bo and Ye Liuli to meet the Breaking Clan’s Yang Wudi and ask him to refine pills from immortal herbs. Yang Wudi eagerly agreed, but Xu Hanfeng’s warning about his poor relationship with the Clear Sky Sect left everyone puzzled.

• Xu Hanfeng introduced Jiang Nannan and Wu Feng, while Ma Xiaotao teased him about the women accompanying him.
• Xu Hanfeng asked Ye Liuli where the Breaking Clan was and decided to seek its help in refining pills.
• Dugu Bo and Ye Liuli brought Xu Hanfeng to the Breaking Clan’s residence, where Yang Wudi agreed to hear him out.
• Xu Hanfeng showed Yang Wudi three immortal herbs, and Yang Wudi knelt and eagerly accepted the task of refining pills to strengthen the body.
• Xu Hanfeng told Yang Wudi that he had a poor relationship with the Clear Sky Sect, confusing everyone because he had barely met its members.

Xu Hanfeng convinced the Breaking Clan, Dugu Bo, and Ye Liuli to join his new Dawn Pavilion, declaring his plan to survive the coming continental turmoil and eventually gain influence in Spirit Hall. Yang Wudi then refined the three Immortal Herbs into seven Crimson Gold Pills, leaving the group with a new source of power.

• Xu Hanfeng explained that the growing threat from Spirit Hall and the weakened empires made it necessary to establish a force for self-preservation.
• Yang Wudi accepted Xu Hanfeng as his lord after learning that Xu Hanfeng's martial soul could empower his summoned Soul Masters to reach Title Douluo level.
• Dugu Bo and Ye Liuli agreed to join, and Xu Hanfeng named their organization Dawn Pavilion.
• Xu Hanfeng said he would challenge the Five Elemental Academies to gain fame and eventually become Spirit Hall's Holy Son.
• Yang Wudi studied the three Immortal Herbs and refined them into seven Crimson Gold Pills.

Yang Wudi refined pills for Xu Hanfeng, who rewarded the Breaking Clan with rare resources before setting out with Dugu Bo to find his third Soul Ring. Xu Hanfeng defeated the Phantom Moon Star Fox’s mental resistance and absorbed its 35,697-year Soul Ring, but collapsed immediately afterward.

• Yang Wudi gave Xu Hanfeng seven refined pills, and Xu Hanfeng supplied the Breaking Clan with Spirit Herbs and Elixirs.
• After taking Dragon Blood Body Tempering Pills for seven days, Xu Hanfeng improved his physique and traveled with Dugu Bo to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xu Hanfeng chose a suitable Phantom Moon Star Fox, and Dugu Bo captured it after overcoming its illusions and attacks.
• Xu Hanfeng used the Six-barreled Small Soul Cannon to kill the Phantom Moon Star Fox and began absorbing its 35,697-year Soul Ring.
• Xu Hanfeng fought the Soul Beast’s mental attacks in his Sea of Consciousness, destroyed its lingering consciousness, and absorbed the Soul Ring before collapsing.

After recovering from absorbing his third Soul Ring, Xu Hanfeng reached level 35 and discovered that his new Soul Skill could create Martial Soul Fusion Skills between compatible Character Cards. He helped Ya Li and Ye Lingling unlock their 92%-compatible fusion, Sacred Healing Prayer Light, and watched them demonstrate its healing and disruptive effects.

• Xu Hanfeng woke after three days unconscious and learned that exhausting his Spiritual Power had nearly put him in danger.
• Xu Hanfeng drew a level-five Soul Power Shield card, then revealed that his new Soul Skill could enable Martial Soul Fusion Skills between compatible people.
• Xu Hanfeng used the Douluo Compendium to find that Ya Li and Ye Lingling had the highest compatibility, at 92%.
• Ya Li and Ye Lingling received memories of their Martial Soul Fusion Skill and demonstrated Sacred Healing Prayer Light, a wide domain that healed and restored allies while stunning and slowing enemies.

Over the year, Xu Hanfeng grew stronger and gathered his allies before setting out to challenge the Five Elemental Academies and attract Spirit Hall’s attention. The group reached Blazing Academy, where Principal Huo Yaoyang agreed to receive their challenge.

• Xu Hanfeng reached level 39, gained several soul bones and skills, and gave Na'er the Hundred Thousand Year Silver Dragon Inverse Scale Skull.
• Xu Hanfeng met Meng Hongchen, who told him that the women were ready to challenge the Five Elemental Academies.
• Ma Xiaotao proposed displaying the group’s strength openly, and Xu Hanfeng agreed to stop hiding their power.
• Xu Hanfeng and the others traveled to Blazing City and announced their challenge to Blazing Academy.
• After hearing about the visitors from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Principal Huo Yaoyang told the staff to let them in.

Xu Hanfeng challenged Blazing Academy, where his extraordinary soul-ring configuration shocked Huo Yaoyang, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang. He easily gained the upper hand against Huo Wushuang, and Huo Yaoyang recognized that the fight was not yet over.

• Xu Hanfeng entered Blazing Academy and accepted Huo Yaoyang's invitation to fight its students.
• Huo Wushuang challenged Xu Hanfeng, who revealed a Level 39 cultivation and a thousand-year second soul ring and ten-thousand-year third soul ring.
• Huo Wushuang used his Martial Soul Possession and third soul skill to attack Xu Hanfeng.
• Xu Hanfeng summoned the Dark Demonic Sword and repelled Huo Wushuang's attack with Butterfly God's Light.
• Huo Yaoyang judged that Huo Wushuang could not win, while Xu Hanfeng said Sister Xiao Tao should fight him next.

Xu Hanfeng’s summoned Ma Xiaotao defeated Huo Wushuang, then Ye Lingling healed him before Huo Wu challenged Wu Feng. Wu Feng overwhelmed Huo Wu, while Huo Yaoyang began hoping Xu Hanfeng would join Blazing Academy; the match remained unfinished as Huo Wu used her third soul skill.

• Ma Xiaotao used her Phoenix skills to defeat Huo Wushuang, who surrendered, then asked Xu Hanfeng for a reward.
• Xu Hanfeng summoned Ye Lingling to heal Huo Wushuang, and Ye Lingling suggested Huo Wu ask Xu Hanfeng about his summons.
• Huo Wu challenged Xu Hanfeng, and Wu Feng stepped forward to fight her.
• Wu Feng’s fire skills countered Huo Wu’s first and second soul skills and left her completely suppressed.
• Xu Hanfeng told Huo Yaoyang the academy still did not know his true strength, prompting Huo Yaoyang to hope he would join Blazing Academy.
• Huo Wu used her third soul skill, Resisting Fire Ring.