Chapter Summaries

Ye Yu spent months winning Dugu Yan’s affection while impressing her and Ye Lingling with his knowledge, and he kept Qian Renxue interested by promising new inventions. On Dugu Yan’s birthday, he confessed his love and presented her with research he said could solve her family’s Jade Phosphorous Poison.

• Ye Yu used his knowledge and attentiveness to grow closer to Dugu Yan and impress Ye Lingling, while giving Qian Renxue only a saw design and promising further research.
• After Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling worried about his worsening exhaustion, Dugu Yan grew angry when he continued staying up late.
• Ye Lingling invited Dugu Yan and Ye Yu shopping, then surprised Dugu Yan with a birthday gift.
• Ye Yu led Dugu Yan to a candlelit scene, explained that he had stayed up researching a cure for her Jade Phosphorous Poison, and gave her his notes.
• Ye Yu asked Dugu Yan to become his girlfriend.

Ye Yu cleared up Dugu Yan’s misunderstanding, confessed his love, and won her acceptance before giving her a portrait and his proposed solution to Jade Phosphorous Poison. Ye Lingling watched in heartbreak as Dugu Yan began reviewing the method.

• Ye Yu comforted Dugu Yan, who apologized for misunderstanding his birthday preparations.
• Ye Yu asked Dugu Yan to accept his confession, and she agreed, choosing him for life and asking him to call her Yanyan.
• Ye Lingling watched their embrace and silently grieved that Ye Yu loved Dugu Yan rather than her.
• Ye Yu asked Ye Lingling for the portrait he had prepared, then gave it to Dugu Yan, who kissed him in thanks.
• Ye Yu urged Dugu Yan to check his notebook on resolving Jade Phosphorous Poison for errors, and she began reading it.

Dugu Yan learned that Soul Bones could store the Jade Phosphorous Poison, giving her family a possible cure, and grew closer to Ye Yu. When Dugu Bo returned to Dugu Manor, he found Ye Yu’s lifelike portrait in Dugu Yan’s room and grew suspicious after she came home late and blushing.

• Dugu Yan read Ye Yu’s explanation that Soul Bones could safely store the Jade Phosphorous Poison and thanked him for finding a possible solution for her family.
• Ye Yu told Dugu Yan he had noticed patterns in Soul Bone drops but kept the details from his notebook as a potential bargaining tool with Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Yu parted reluctantly, while Ye Lingling remained silent beside them.
• Dugu Bo returned to Dugu Manor, learned Dugu Yan was at class, and discovered Ye Yu’s lifelike portrait in her room.
• Dugu Yan came home late and told Dugu Bo she had been shopping with Ye Lingling, but her blushing made him suspect something was wrong.

Dugu Bo discovered Dugu Yan was dating Ye Yu and, after investigating his humble background and poor talent, decided Ye Yu was unworthy of her. When he rejected Ye Yu without meeting him, Dugu Yan defended her boyfriend and told her grandfather he did not understand him at all.

• Dugu Bo secretly followed Dugu Yan and learned that Ye Yu was her boyfriend, a commoner with a Blue Silver Grass martial soul and level-one Innate Soul Power.
• After investigating Ye Yu, Dugu Bo dismissed his potential and resolved to separate him from Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo summoned Dugu Yan and told her he did not approve of her relationship with Ye Yu.
• Dugu Yan explained that Ye Yu had found a way to evolve his martial soul and urged Dugu Bo to meet him.
• Dugu Bo rejected her claims and disparaged Ye Yu, prompting Dugu Yan to angrily say that he did not understand Ye Yu at all.

Dugu Bo opposed Dugu Yan’s relationship with Ye Yu, but changed his opinion of Ye Yu after reading his research on curing the Dugu family’s Jade Phosphorous Poison. He still refused to approve the match, and Dugu Yan’s ultimatum left him planning to confront Ye Yu; the next morning, Ye Yu noticed Dugu Yan acting strangely at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Dugu Bo warned Dugu Yan that Ye Yu lacked the talent and strength to protect her, comparing him to Yu Xiaogang, whom he believed had deceived Bibi Dong.
• Dugu Yan defended Ye Yu and revealed that he had found a way to resolve the Dugu family’s Jade Phosphorous Poison, then handed Dugu Bo his notebook.
• Dugu Bo read Ye Yu’s research and admitted that Ye Yu had skill, but still refused to let Dugu Yan be with him.
• Dugu Yan threatened to elope with Ye Yu and harm herself if Dugu Bo hurt or killed him, then left the tea room.
• Dugu Bo decided he would try to persuade Ye Yu to leave Dugu Yan, by offering him benefits or intimidating him.
• The next morning, Ye Yu went to class at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and noticed Dugu Yan acting strangely.

Ye Yu learned that Dugu Bo opposed his relationship with Dugu Yan because of Ye Yu’s weak martial soul and talent. After Dugu Yan returned home, Ye Yu met Dugu Bo and argued that he could evolve his martial soul, but Dugu Bo offered money or benefits to make him leave her.

• Ye Yu guessed that Dugu Bo had returned and learned about his relationship with Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan confessed that Dugu Bo opposed their relationship and vowed to stay with Ye Yu, but Ye Yu comforted her and asked her to go home.
• Dugu Bo secretly overheard Dugu Yan’s plan to make their relationship irreversible and reacted with indignation.
• Ye Yu called out to Dugu Bo near his home, and Dugu Bo revealed himself before accepting Ye Yu’s invitation to talk privately.
• Dugu Bo acknowledged Ye Yu’s sincerity and his method for resolving the Jade Phosphorous Poison, but rejected the relationship because Ye Yu’s martial soul and talent were too weak.
• Ye Yu said he had found the Method of Martial Soul Evolution, but Dugu Bo dismissed his claim and offered money or benefits for him to leave Dugu Yan.

Ye Yu refused Dugu Bo’s offer to leave Dugu Yan and stood firm despite Dugu Bo’s Soul Power pressure. He proposed a three-year bet to earn Dugu Bo’s approval, and Dugu Bo accepted him as a registered disciple so he could observe him.

• Ye Yu rejected Dugu Bo’s offer, insisting that his feelings for Dugu Yan were genuine and that he would not leave her.
• Dugu Bo pressured Ye Yu with his Soul Power, but withdrew it when Ye Yu refused to yield.
• Ye Yu proposed that he and Dugu Yan keep their relationship private and that he leave her if he failed to evolve his Martial Soul and earn Dugu Bo’s approval within three years.
• Dugu Bo accepted the bet, then agreed to take Ye Yu as a registered disciple and observe him.
• Ye Yu bowed to Dugu Bo and paid his respects as his new master.

Ye Yu brought Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to Sunset Forest to test his theory that killing a high-bloodline spirit beast with intense resentment could improve the chance of a soul bone drop. Dugu Yan killed a six-hundred-year Sky Demon Scorpion with grenades, and Ye Yu waited to see whether his plan would work.

• Dugu Yan reached Rank 20, so Dugu Bo, Ye Yu, and she went to Sunset Forest to find her a second soul ring.
• Ye Yu explained that a powerful, high-bloodline venomous spirit beast could improve the chance of obtaining a soul bone or External Soul Bone.
• Dugu Bo found a six-hundred-year Sky Demon Scorpion, and Dugu Yan attacked it while Ye Yu held Dugu Bo back from intervening.
• After pretending to struggle against the scorpion, Dugu Yan threw three grenades Ye Yu had given her and blasted the Sky Demon Scorpion to death.
• Ye Yu hoped the scorpion's resentment at being killed by a seemingly weak human would increase the chance of a soul bone drop.

Dugu Yan absorbed the Sky Demon Scorpion’s soul ring and gained its external spirit bone, the Sky Demon Scorpion Tail Hook. On the way home, Ye Yu told Dugu Bo that he planned to strengthen his body with Whale Rubber so he could absorb a thousand-year first soul ring.

• Dugu Yan defeated the Sky Demon Scorpion, then began absorbing its soul ring while Dugu Bo watched anxiously.
• Dugu Yan endured the painful absorption and grew a scorpion tail, successfully gaining the Sky Demon Scorpion Tail Hook.
• Ye Yu celebrated with Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo began to acknowledge Ye Yu’s knowledge and asked about his Spirit Ring Origin Completion Evolution Theory.
• Ye Yu explained that he wanted a thousand-year first soul ring for his Blue Silver Vine and believed body strengthening could make it possible.
• Ye Yu revealed Whale Rubber’s body-strengthening effects to Dugu Bo and explained that its aphrodisiac properties were only a side effect.

Ye Yu told Dugu Bo he wanted to develop a body-strengthening medicine from Whale Rubber, and Dugu Bo offered the herbs in his garden in return for Ye Yu’s help to the Dugu Family. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Ye Yu discovered several immortal herbs, including Ink Jade Divine Bamboo, and told Dugu Bo they could evolve Martial Souls.

• Ye Yu explained that he planned to combine Whale Rubber with life-force-rich and cold-natured herbs to make a stronger medicine without side effects.
• Dugu Bo offered Ye Yu free access to his herb garden and asked him to share the medicine with Dugu Yan if he succeeded.
• Dugu Bo led Ye Yu and Dugu Yan through his poison formation to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ye Yu recognized many rare herbs around the well, including Aromatic Silk Beauty, Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Infernal Delicate Apricot, and Ink Jade Divine Bamboo.
• Ye Yu told Dugu Bo that immortal herbs could help some Martial Souls evolve, and Dugu Bo asked him to find one that could evolve the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul.

Ye Yu consumed an Ink Jade Divine Bamboo Shoot and evolved his Blue Silver Vine Martial Soul into the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine. The change impressed Dugu Bo and delighted Dugu Yan, while Ye Yu sensed his evolved Martial Soul might have another ability.

• Ye Yu told Dugu Bo that the garden held no immortal herb able to evolve the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul, but the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid could improve Dugu Yan's cultivation talent.
• Dugu Bo urged Ye Yu to choose an herb first, and Ye Yu selected an Ink Jade Divine Bamboo Shoot suited to his Martial Soul.
• Ye Yu refined the shoot's medicinal potency with the Inner Elixir Method, improving his constitution and transforming his Blue Silver Vine into a tougher, crystal-clear vine with golden veins.
• Ye Yu named his evolved Martial Soul the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine and tested its strength by forming a crystal spear that plunged into the ground.
• Ye Yu sensed another special ability in the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine and released silver-blue light that spread across a ten-meter radius.

After Ye Yu’s Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine awakened the Blue Silver Domain, Dugu Bo agreed to his relationship with Dugu Yan and accepted him as family. Ye Yu gave Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo immortal herbs to consume, and Dugu Yan reached level 30, prompting Dugu Bo to prepare to help her obtain her third spirit ring.

• Ye Yu discovered that his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine had awakened the Blue Silver Domain, which Dugu Bo recognized as an innate domain.
• Dugu Bo explained innate domains to Dugu Yan, then agreed to let her be with Ye Yu and warned Ye Yu to take good care of her.
• Ye Yu gave Dugu Yan the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid and recommended the Nine-grade Purple Ganoderma to Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo consumed their immortal herbs and meditated as their cultivation increased.
• Dugu Yan reached level 30, and Dugu Bo prepared to help her hunt for her third spirit ring.

Ye Yu helped Dugu Yan obtain her third Spirit Ring, then used the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to temper his body with the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot. After nearly a year, he completed the process and awakened to further changes in his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine martial soul.

• Dugu Bo asked Ye Yu for more grenades, but Ye Yu said he had used all three he had made.
• Dugu Bo helped Dugu Yan kill a Stone Poison Underworld King Snake, and she gained her third Spirit Skill, Jade Phosphorus Ash Poison.
• Ye Yu harvested the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then swallowed portions of both and entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo watched over Ye Yu as he repeatedly consumed the herbs and underwent Ice Fire Body Tempering for nearly a year.
• Ye Yu completed the tempering and summoned his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine, whose thicker vines bore scarlet-red and icy-blue patterns.

After completing the Ice Fire Body Tempering, Ye Yu decided to delay consuming two more immortal herbs and asked Dugu Bo to help him obtain his First Spirit Ring. In the Star Dou Great Forest, they found a five-thousand-year Undying Grass, and Ye Yu began absorbing its Spirit Ring.

• Ye Yu found that the Ice Fire Body Tempering had strengthened his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine but had not evolved it, and he chose to postpone consuming the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Narcissus Jade Marrow Bone.
• Dugu Bo returned, agreed to help Ye Yu hunt a Spirit Ring, and took him to the Star Dou Great Forest after learning Ye Yu wanted a life-affinity Plant Spirit Beast.
• After seeing Ye Yu withstand a sharp stone with barely a mark, Dugu Bo agreed that he could attempt a five-thousand-year Spirit Ring.
• Ye Yu and Dugu Bo searched the forest's inner region for more than ten days before finding a five-thousand-one-hundred-year Undying Grass.
• Dugu Bo burned away the Undying Grass's roots with his Jade Phosphorous Poison Fire, and Ye Yu smashed its remaining body until a deep-purple Spirit Ring appeared.

With Dugu Bo’s help, Ye Yu absorbed a five-thousand-year Undying Grass Spirit Ring, gained the First Spirit Skill Undying Rooting, and reached level twenty. He and Dugu Bo continued searching the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable second Spirit Ring and found a rare Starlight Tree.

• Ye Yu used the Inner Elixir Method to absorb the Undying Grass’s five-thousand-year Spirit Ring, enduring the torrent of Soul Power and strengthening his body.
• Ye Yu discovered that his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine had grown roots and gained the First Spirit Skill Undying Rooting, which absorbed nutrients to produce Soul Power and life force while granting rapid growth and recovery.
• Dugu Bo tested Undying Rooting and struggled to escape Ye Yu’s relentlessly growing vines, then praised the skill’s power.
• Ye Yu found that his cultivation had reached level twenty after absorbing his first Spirit Ring, so he raised his second-ring target to seven thousand years.
• After nearly half a month of searching, Ye Yu and Dugu Bo found a Starlight Tree that had cultivated for more than seven thousand three hundred years.

Ye Yu absorbed the Starlight Tree’s Spirit Ring, reached level thirty, and gained the Starlight Absorption skill. He and Dugu Bo found a ten-thousand-year Thunderclap Netherworld Vine, which Dugu Bo weakened so Ye Yu could claim it as his third Spirit Ring.

• Ye Yu absorbed the Starlight Tree’s Spirit Ring, strengthening his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine and gaining the Starlight Absorption skill.
• Ye Yu’s cultivation rose to level thirty, and he chose a ten-thousand-year Spirit Beast for his third Spirit Ring.
• Ye Yu and Dugu Bo found a Thunderclap Netherworld Vine about ten thousand five hundred years old in a canyon.
• Dugu Bo immobilized and weakened the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine with his spirit skills.
• Ye Yu killed the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine, and a black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring formed above it.

Ye Yu absorbed the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine’s ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring, gaining a strange spear-shaped External Soul Bone and a new Spirit Skill. After reaching level forty at thirteen, he continued searching the Star Dou Great Forest with Dugu Bo and found a twenty-thousand-year Earth Vein Purple Ganoderma.

• Ye Yu endured the Thunderclap Netherworld Vine’s violent Soul Power and soul shock as his injuries repeatedly healed, strengthening his body.
• A dark-purple spear-shaped External Soul Bone emerged from Ye Yu’s spine, and he named it the Thunderclap Netherworld Spear.
• Ye Yu tested his new Tribulation Ascension Spirit Skill and named the spear’s lightning ability Bite of Thunder.
• Ye Yu discovered that his Soul Power had reached level forty, astonishing Dugu Bo, who decided to find him another Spirit Beast.
• After nearly a week of searching the Star Dou Great Forest, Ye Yu and Dugu Bo found a twenty-thousand-year Earth Vein Purple Ganoderma.

Ye Yu absorbed a twenty-thousand-year Earth Vein Purple Ganoderma soul ring and gained the Earth Vein Connection skill, reaching level forty-seven. He and Dugu Bo prepared to return to Heaven Dou Imperial City after Ye Yu learned to conceal his soul rings and aura.

• Dugu Bo immobilized and weakened the Earth Vein Purple Ganoderma so Ye Yu could kill it with Tribulation Ascension.
• Ye Yu absorbed the Ganoderma’s soul ring, endured its Soul Power, and further strengthened his body.
• Ye Yu discovered the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine had gained the Ganoderma’s resilient growth traits and named its fourth spirit skill Earth Vein Connection.
• Ye Yu tested at level forty-seven, and Dugu Bo prepared to take him back to Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Ye Yu learned to disguise his soul rings and conceal his aura with the Blue Silver Domain.

After returning to Heaven Dou Imperial City, Ye Yu reunited with Dugu Yan and learned that Yu Tianheng had been pursuing her and insulting his strength. Ye Yu planned to conceal his Level 47 cultivation at the academy, and the chapter ended as Ye Lingling asked whether he had obtained a soul ring.

• Ye Yu returned to Dugu Manor with Dugu Bo, bathed, and slept until dusk.
• Dugu Yan returned home, learned Ye Yu was back, and rushed to embrace him; Ye Yu told her his cultivation had reached Level 47.
• Dugu Yan told Ye Yu that Yu Tianheng had pursued her and that students had urged her to leave Ye Yu because of his Blue Silver Grass martial soul and low innate soul power.
• Ye Yu decided to conceal his fourth soul ring and present himself as a Level 31 Soul Elder, and Dugu Yan agreed that revealing his true level could attract trouble.
• The next morning, Ye Yu and Dugu Yan waited for Ye Lingling outside the Nine Heart Begonia Family's residence, where Ye Lingling asked if he had obtained his soul ring.

After a year of cultivation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Ye Yu returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy as a Soul Elder with an evolved Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine. He confronted Yu Tianheng’s supporters and challenged the students who had mocked and harassed him, leaving to settle things on the training field.

• Ye Lingling learned that Ye Yu had become a Soul Elder and evolved his martial soul again, and she congratulated him despite her sadness that he was with Dugu Yan.
• Ye Yu, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and entered their third-year intermediate class, where Yu Tianheng and the other students watched Ye Yu arrive.
• A student mocked Ye Yu’s background and cultivation while praising Yu Tianheng, so Ye Yu struck the student across the face with his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine.
• Yu Tianheng objected to Ye Yu hitting the student, but Ye Yu accused him and the class of pursuing Dugu Yan and belittling him.
• Ye Yu challenged everyone who considered him weak to face him on the training field, then left with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.