Chapter Summaries

Su Ran offered Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan three ways to handle the Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison and promised to teach the most powerful method only to his disciples. Dugu Yan accepted him as her teacher, and Su Ran received rewards that included the Poisonous Calamity Art.

• Dugu Yan challenged Su Ran to prove he could cure her and Dugu Bo before she agreed to become his disciple.
• Su Ran described using Heavenly Treasures to remove the poison, storing it in Soul Bones, or drawing it into Soul Rings and refining the body through poison.
• Su Ran harvested several Immortal Grade Flora from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with his poison-tempered hands.
• After Dugu Bo urged her to consider the strength of Su Ran's other disciples, Dugu Yan knelt and asked to learn the Poisonous Calamity Art.
• Su Ran accepted Dugu Yan as his student after she read and accepted the Peach Blossom Token's rules.
• The system registered Dugu Yan as Su Ran's disciple and awarded him Serpent Fist and the Poisonous Calamity Art.

Su Ran introduced Dugu Yan as his sixth disciple and distributed Immortal Grade Flora, including the Lovesick Heartbreak Red. Xiao Wu and the other girls awakened the flower with their blood, leaving Su Ran worried that they all had romantic feelings for him; he then took Dugu Yan to train her in three Ultimate Skills.

• Su Ran welcomed Dugu Yan to Peach Blossom Spring Academy, explained that Dugu Bo had apologized and would serve as a guardian, and gave the students Immortal Grade Flora.
• Su Ran explained that the Lovesick Heartbreak Red responded to true feelings, and Xiao Wu successfully made it fall after remembering both Tang San’s betrayal and Su Ran’s kindness.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Meng Yiran also tested their blood on the flower, which absorbed each offering and convinced them their feelings were genuine.
• Su Ran fled the classroom with Dugu Yan after she noticed that his figure had appeared in the girls’ thoughts, then discouraged her from joining their romantic pursuits.
• Dugu Yan questioned why Su Ran hid his face, and he redirected her attention to training by teaching her Serpent Fist, Dragon Fist, and the Poisonous Calamity Art.

A year after joining Peach Blossom Spring Academy, Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong were caught spying on Su Ran as he trained in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Dugu Yan continued honing her techniques nearby. As the three students began sparring, Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan sensed several people approaching the valley.

• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong spied on Su Ran bathing and training, so he flicked mud at them and ordered them to guard the Herb Garden's outskirts.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu argued with Dugu Yan, who criticized their behavior and praised Su Ran's Poisonous Calamity Art and the skills she had learned at the academy.
• Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan disputed who was older and stronger, then prepared to settle it by sparring with their Basic Ultimate Skills.
• Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan sensed Soul Power fluctuations from several people approaching the valley.

Tang San absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and led the Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Shrek group through Dugu Bo’s poisonous formation in search of treasure. They reached a valley filled with precious herbs, where an unseen voice warned them to leave or face the consequences.

• Tang San absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Cave Spider as his Fourth Soul Ring while Shi Mo, Yu Tianheng, and Dai Mubai also obtained Fourth Soul Rings.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Ma Hongjun and Oscar to train harder, while Ma Hongjun asked to date Ye Lingling so she could help him control his Evil Fire.
• Tang San noticed the orderly poisonous fog around the valley and persuaded the group to investigate what it might be guarding.
• Tang San equipped the group with poison-repelling sachets and pills, and Ma Hongjun used alcohol and Phoenix Fireline to clear their way through the formation.
• The group reached the depths of the poisonous formation, where precious flowers and herbs appeared and an unseen voice ordered them to turn back.

Tang San and the Shrek group encountered Dugu Yan, Xiao Wu, and their Peach Blossom Spring companions at a poisonous herb garden, where they tried to claim its rare plants. Tang San begged Xiao Wu to return, but she rejected him and declared they were strangers; the confrontation ended with Yu Tianheng demanding Dugu Yan apologize to Yu Xiaogang.

• Tang San recognized a rare herb garden as a possible Treasure Gathering Place and told Flender and Yu Xiaogang its plants could strengthen them.
• Dugu Yan appeared and said the herbs belonged to her teacher, Peach Blossom Spring; the Imperial Dou Team learned she had joined their rival academy.
• Tang San tried to reconcile with Xiao Wu, but she refused to return and said they were strangers, while Ning Rongrong defended her.
• Ning Rongrong threatened Ma Hongjun after he insulted Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan, and Yu Xiaogang ordered the group to take herbs despite Dugu Yan’s refusal.
• Dugu Yan warned Qin Ming against following Yu Xiaogang, and Yu Tianheng summoned his four Soul Rings and demanded that she apologize to his uncle.

Yu Xiaogang challenged Su Ran to a wager tied to the upcoming Soul Master Competition, risking brutal consequences if his team lost. After seeing Dugu Yan’s recovered condition, Ye Lingling wondered whether Su Ran could cure the Nine Heart Begonia’s hereditary flaw, but her teammates suspected she might betray them.

• Yu Tianheng defended Yu Xiaogang, fought Dugu Yan, and was poisoned before Tang San treated his wound.
• Ning Rongrong warned the Shrek group that Su Ran was present, and Yu Xiaogang challenged Su Ran to another wager.
• Su Ran accepted a competition wager: if Yu Xiaogang’s team ranked higher, Su Ran would surrender his herb garden and become Yu Xiaogang’s disciple; if they lost, Yu Xiaogang would suffer severe punishments and their students would serve Peach Blossom Spring Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang explained to Flender and Zhao Wuji that he believed medicinal herbs had given Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s students their advantage, then took Tang San aside for private training.
• Ye Lingling told Qin Ming she wanted to ask Dugu Yan about her restored appearance and poison, hoping to learn whether Su Ran could cure the Nine Heart Begonia’s hereditary flaw.
• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Yu Tianheng, and the others reacted with suspicion when Ye Lingling raised the possibility of seeking Su Ran’s help.

Ye Lingling escaped the Shrek students pursuing her and returned through the poisonous fog to Peach Blossom Spring Academy, where Dugu Yan detoxified her. Su Ran accepted Ye Lingling as his seventh disciple, completing the academy’s seven-person team and gaining Soul Power and Soul Ring rewards.

• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun abandoned their pursuit of Ye Lingling when they ran low on Obstacle-Avoiding Pills, and Qin Ming and Master learned that she had escaped.
• Ye Lingling stumbled into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well severely poisoned and told Su Ran and the others that Yu Tianheng, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun had tried to pressure her into choosing one of them as a boyfriend.
• Su Ran asked Dugu Yan to use her Poisonous Calamity Body to draw the poison from Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan began treating her.
• Ye Lingling asked Su Ran if his offer to solve her Martial Soul inheritance problem still stood and requested to become his disciple.
• Su Ran gave Ye Lingling a Peach Blossom Token and accepted her as his seventh student, completing Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s seven-person Soul Master team.

Su Ran returned to Peach Blossom Spring Academy with Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling, then arranged for Dugu Bo to transplant precious plants into the academy’s Spirit Field. Ning Fengzhi visited to discuss the upcoming Continental Elite Soul Master Competition and learned Su Ran had already registered Peach Blossom Spring Academy, leaving them set to meet in Heaven Dou City.

• Su Ran reunited with his students and praised Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Wang Sheng for their cultivation progress.
• Su Ran gave Dugu Bo boxes of precious flowers, herbs, and seeds to transplant and tend in the academy’s Spirit Field.
• Ning Fengzhi visited, and Ning Rongrong teased him by asking whether he had come to propose marriage for her to Su Ran.
• Ning Fengzhi asked whether Peach Blossom Spring Academy would enter the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition, and Su Ran said he had registered the academy on his way back.
• Ning Fengzhi offered the academy a detached villa in Heaven Dou City, and they agreed to meet there in three days.

Su Ran announced that Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s students would compete in the All Continent Elite Soul Master Competition as their final assessment for the first stage of training. Ye Lingling learned that her classmates had all reached Soul Ancestor, then went with Su Ran to begin her own instruction.

• Ye Lingling observed the academy’s morning training and scholarly traditions, including Su Ran’s sword practice and the students’ morning reading.
• Su Ran welcomed Ye Lingling as a classmate and announced that classes were suspended so he could discuss the upcoming competition.
• Su Ran told the students he had registered them for the All Continent Elite Soul Master Competition, which would also determine their annual ratings and whether they could advance to the next stage of study.
• Su Ran distributed annual evaluations showing that Ning Rongrong, Wang Sheng, Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan were all Soul Ancestors with scores from 82 to 84.
• Ye Lingling was surprised by how much her classmates had advanced, and Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong encouraged her to follow Su Ran’s training.
• Su Ran dismissed the students and called Ye Lingling to go with him for instruction.

Su Ran revealed two ways to overcome the Nine Heart Begonia’s inheritance flaw and taught Ye Lingling the Nine Revolutions Black Lotus Technique, which could evolve her Martial Soul and protect her descendants. Ye Lingling chose to endure the painful cultivation, and Su Ran gave her additional resources and a self-defense technique to help her train.

• Ye Lingling told Su Ran that the Nine Heart Begonia’s inheritance forced an elder to die whenever a new inheritor was born, and asked if he could solve the problem.
• Su Ran explained that healing-type Immortal Grade Flora could expand the number of inheritors, but the cost made that solution impractical for ordinary families.
• Ye Lingling agreed to Su Ran’s second method despite its severe pain and risk of irreversible damage if she stopped midway.
• Su Ran taught Ye Lingling the Nine Revolutions Black Lotus Technique, which would give her Nine Heart Begonia a destructive companion Martial Soul capable of returning vitality and suppressing its hereditary flaw.
• Su Ran gave Ye Lingling a Nine-Rank Lotus Heart, Silver-Patterned Soul Nurturing Grass, and the Soul Seizing Technique to support her cultivation and help her defend herself.

Su Ran and his students traveled to Heaven Dou City for the Soul Master Competition, where Ye Lingling revealed her new cultivation method and the team prepared for the event. The chapter ended with Peach Blossom Spring Academy receiving its elegant school and team uniforms on the eve of the competition.

• Su Ran left Dugu Bo in charge of Peach Blossom Spring Academy and set out for Heaven Dou City with his students.
• Ye Lingling told her teammates about the Nine Revolutions Black Lotus Method and her goal of mastering the Soul Seizing Technique before the Promotion Tournament.
• Su Ran invited Ye Lingling to his carriage for extra lessons, leaving Ning Rongrong jealous.
• Two days later, the students returned to Peach Garden after shopping and trying on clothes, astonishing Ye Lingling with their teasing of Su Ran.
• Ning Fengzhi's people delivered the Peach Blossom Spring Academy school uniforms and team uniforms, designed by Su Ran, one day before the competition began.

Ning Rongrong reunited with Chen Xin at Peach Blossom Spring Villa and learned he had come to challenge Su Ran to a sword duel. Su Ran accepted Chen Xin’s invitation and prepared to spar with a peach blossom branch.

• Ning Rongrong and the academy students tried on their new uniforms at Peach Blossom Spring Villa.
• Ning Rongrong greeted Chen Xin, who affectionately praised her progress and her evolved Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda.
• Gu Rong revealed that Chen Xin had come to challenge Su Ran after hearing that his swordsmanship matched Chen Xin’s.
• Ning Rongrong objected to Chen Xin challenging her teacher, while Chen Xin explained that he only wanted to compare swordsmanship.
• Su Ran accepted Chen Xin’s challenge, sent Ning Rongrong to safety, and summoned a Peach Blossom Branch for the duel.

Su Ran used Tai Chi Swordplay to counter Sword Douluo Chen Xin’s Seven Kill Sword Qi as the two began their match at Peach Blossom Spring Villa. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang arranged Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s teams for the upcoming competition and ordered the second team to investigate the Peach Blossom Spring Team.

• Ning Rongrong told the students that her Grandpa Jian, Chen Xin, was a Super Douluo above Level Ninety-Five, and the students gathered to watch him compare swords with Su Ran.
• Chen Xin challenged Su Ran, who met his Seven Kill Sword with Tai Chi Swordplay and deflected its attacks with the technique’s yielding force.
• Xiao Wu recognized that Tai Chi boxing and swordplay shared the same principles, while Gu Rong observed that Chen Xin’s sword qi could not reach Su Ran.
• Yu Xiaogang assigned Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s first team to the seeded route and ordered the second team to test the Peach Blossom Spring Team’s strength during the Preliminaries.
• Flender reported seeing a white-robed Elder enter Peach Blossom Spring’s district and a brilliant sword light erupt, leading Yu Xiaogang to suspect Chen Xin had challenged Su Ran.
• Yu Xiaogang told the main team to train and watch every Peach Blossom Spring match, then kept the second team behind to plan its tactics.

After losing a sword exchange to Su Ran, Chen Xin grew eager to challenge his Tai Chi Sword again, while Su Ran laid out Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s tournament strategy. The students left determined to win the preliminaries, and Ning Rongrong tried to turn each victory into a kiss from Su Ran.

• Chen Xin admitted that he had broken the rules by cutting Su Ran’s Peach Blossom Branch and acknowledged that Su Ran’s Tai Chi Sword had defeated his sword technique.
• Chen Xin said Su Ran’s skill reignited his passion for swordsmanship, then challenged Gu Rong to single combat for teasing him during the duel.
• Su Ran instructed Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s students to compete in the preliminaries without their taught secret techniques and cultivation methods, and to limit their support to one of Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling unless necessary.
• Su Ran warned that losing the preliminaries would cost him his bet against Yu Xiaogang, prompting the students to vow they would win.
• Ning Rongrong asked Su Ran to kiss her for every match the team won, and Xiao Wu asked whether she could receive a wet kiss too.

The All Continent Elite Soul Master Competition opened in Heaven Dou City, where Peach Blossom Spring Academy drew the attention of its rivals and Ning Fengzhi hinted that he supported an unnamed contender. The first-round draw matched Heaven Dou Royal Academy against Peach Blossom Spring Academy.

• Peach Blossom Spring Academy entered the Great Soul Arena, where Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek students watched and discussed the team's strength and their plans to defeat it.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong taunted the Shrek students, provoking angry replies from Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Yu Tianheng, and Yu Xiaogang.
• Emperor Xue Ye officially opened the competition, and Ning Fengzhi praised Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team One while saying he favored another team to win the championship without naming it.
• Platinum Bishop Salas drew the first-round matchups, pairing Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Peach Blossom Spring Academy.

Peach Blossom Spring Team began its first preliminary match against Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team and stunned the arena with five Soul Ancestors who each had a Ten-Thousand-Year Fourth Soul Ring. Their display left the VIP guests and Yu Xiaogang’s group questioning the team’s strength and their chances of winning.

• Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling eagerly prepared to face Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team, while Su Ran told his students to perform normally.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team followed the tactics its teacher had provided and planned to target Ye Lingling or Meng Yiran, while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling retreated to the back without summoning their Martial Souls.
• Wang Sheng, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and Xiao Wu revealed their Martial Souls and black Fourth Soul Rings, shocking the arena audience and the VIP guests.
• Ning Fengzhi told Xue Ye that Peach Blossom Spring Team was trained by his friend and warned Salas by revealing that Rongrong was its commander; Xue Ye asked to meet Su Ran after the competition.
• Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and the others watched the five Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings in disbelief, and Yu Xiaogang tried to reassure them by pointing out that two members had stayed out of the fight.

Peach Blossom Spring Academy crushed the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team in the opening match, prompting a dispute over the injuries and the competition rules. Yu Xiaogang admitted defeat, the referee awarded Peach Blossom Spring the win, and the team received achievement rewards.

• The Peach Blossom Spring Team overwhelmed the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team, with Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Wang Sheng, and Meng Yiran incapacitating their opponents.
• Flender, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang reacted to the team’s strength, while Tang San wondered how his life might have changed if Su Ran had taught him.
• The opposing supervisor protested that Peach Blossom Spring had tried to kill the Second Team, but Ning Rongrong and Su Ran defended the team’s conduct before the referee.
• Yu Xiaogang conceded defeat and left with Tang San and Dai Mubai after Su Ran challenged him over the fairness of the competition.
• The referee declared Peach Blossom Spring Academy the winner, and the system awarded Su Ran and Wang Sheng achievement rewards.

Peach Blossom Spring Academy drew attention after its team defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Tang San and his teammates recognized the threat and resolved to keep training. Wang Sheng and Xiao Wu reunited with their former classmate Xiao Chenyu, who was invited to visit Peach Blossom Spring Villa and learned about Su Ran’s influence on Wang Sheng.

• Other academy teams, including Skywater, Blazing Fire, and Godwind, took notice of Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s powerful students and masked teacher Su Ran.
• Xiao Chenyu called out to Tang San outside the arena, but Tang San did not recognize him and left with his teammates to cultivate.
• Xiao Chenyu recognized Wang Sheng and Xiao Wu, and Wang Sheng invited him to catch up after leaving the arena.
• Xiao Chenyu asked how Wang Sheng had become so powerful, and Wang Sheng credited his teacher, Su Ran, for teaching and training him.
• Su Ran invited Xiao Chenyu to Peach Blossom Spring Villa, where Wang Sheng explained the academy’s motto and praised his teacher.

Yu Xiaogang pushed Tang San to share his secret skills with the team and imposed brutal extra training to prepare them for Peach Blossom Spring Academy. Meanwhile, Wang Sheng encouraged Xiao Chenyu to seek out Su Ran as a teacher, leaving Xiao Chenyu considering a new future.

• Yu Xiaogang revised the team's training schedules, urged Tang San to teach his secret skills, and promised to pass Su Ran's artifacts and arts to him in return.
• Tang San reluctantly agreed to do his best to teach his teammates.
• Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and the others complained as they carried heavy loads through exhausting training, while Yu Tianheng ordered them to continue.
• Xiao Chenyu reminisced with Wang Sheng about their past and admitted he envied Wang Sheng's life at Peach Blossom Spring Academy.
• Wang Sheng invited Xiao Chenyu to become Su Ran's disciple, and Xiao Chenyu wavered as he imagined a different future.

Xiao Chenyu asked Su Ran to take him as a disciple, explaining that strength would give him and those he cared about the right to choose. After Xiao Chenyu proved he would endure the hardship and obey the academy’s rules, Su Ran accepted him and began his Wolf Martial Soul’s evolution route.

• As Su Ran prepared a meal for his students, Xiao Chenyu knelt before him and asked to become his disciple, while Wang Sheng admitted he had encouraged him.
• Su Ran questioned Xiao Chenyu about his reasons for seeking strength, and Xiao Chenyu said he wanted his family and friends to gain fairness and freedom of choice.
• Su Ran gave the girls pills that could increase their Soul Ring Age and led Xiao Chenyu to the rooftop for a test.
• Su Ran showed Xiao Chenyu Ye Lingling enduring the painful cultivation of the Nine Revolutions Black Lotus and warned him that his own path would bring hardship and strict rules.
• Xiao Chenyu vowed to endure the pain, accepted the Peach Blossom Token, and became Su Ran’s disciple.
• The system recorded Xiao Chenyu’s Wolf Martial Soul and Level 19 Soul Power, rewarded Su Ran with Hungry Wolf Fist, and set Xiao Chenyu’s evolution route toward Immortal God Killing Wolf.