Chapter Summaries

Lin Hai exposed Xiao Wu as a hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit and taught her techniques to hide her soul-beast aura and cultivate faster. After more than ten days in the Illusion Realm, he sent her toward Nuoding Academy with a storage spirit tool and a warning to be careful of anyone surnamed Tang.

• Lin Hai revealed that he knew Xiao Wu's identity and offered to teach her two techniques if she called him bro.
• Xiao Wu challenged Lin Hai to a fight, but he quickly subdued her and made her call him bro.
• Lin Hai taught Xiao Wu the lower volume of the All Spirits Affinity Technique and the Earth-Tier Three Talents Meditation Method, warning her not to share them.
• After more than ten days, Xiao Wu learned to conceal and alter her soul-beast aura and began practicing the Meditation Method.
• Lin Hai gave Xiao Wu a storage spirit tool, told her Nuoding Academy opened that day, and warned her to be careful of anyone surnamed Tang before departing.
• Xiao Wu set off toward Nuoding City, sulking over Lin Hai's sudden departure.

After guiding Xiao Wu to Nuoding City, Lin Hai planned to travel to Sacred Soul Village while she enrolled at Nuoding Junior Spirit Master Academy. Xiao Wu defeated Tang San in Dormitory Seven and became its head.

• Lin Hai recovered his Spiritual Power after maintaining an Illusion Realm, learned why Xiao Wu had left the Star Dou Great Forest, and decided to head to Sacred Soul Village.
• Xiao Wu reached Nuoding City, enrolled at Nuoding Junior Spirit Master Academy, and went to Dormitory Seven.
• Tang San introduced himself as Dormitory Seven's head and prepared to spar with Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu attacked Tang San, defeated him with her close-combat skills, and sent him beneath a bed.
• Tang San conceded and left to find a Treatment Spirit Master, while Xiao Wu became Dormitory Seven's boss.

Lin Hai found Ah Yin in the waterfall cave and brought her into his dantian with the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s help. After Ah Yin took a Bodhi Seed to aid her recovery, she began a painful transformation and collapsed, leaving Lin Hai alarmed.

• Lin Hai entered the waterfall cave, retrieved a Spirit Bone, and found the Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin.
• Lin Hai asked Ah Yin whether she would leave with him, and she held onto his vine to show she agreed.
• Lin Hai asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to bring Ah Yin into his dantian, where it rooted her beside its trunk.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree offered Ah Yin a mature Bodhi Seed, which she snatched and began absorbing.
• Lin Hai arranged for the energy Ah Yin could not absorb to remain in his dantian, then saw her body convulse and wilt from the pain of transformation.

Lin Hai traveled from Nuoding City to Heaven Dou City to find Dugu Bo, but learned Dugu Bo was away and headed for Sunset Forest instead. There, he stumbled into Liu Erlong's battle with an Earth Tyrant Bear and a plant soul beast, and a lightning-charged attack struck at him.

• Lin Hai traveled through Nuoding City without finding Tang San, then reached Heaven Dou City and left letters for Bibi Dong and Hu Liena at the Spirit Hall.
• Lin Hai visited Dugu Manor, learned from a servant that Dugu Bo had left three days earlier, and decided to search for him at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Lin Hai entered Sunset Forest on foot, using All Spirits Affinity to move peacefully among the soul beasts.
• Lin Hai heard Liu Erlong roar out her Fourth Soul Skill, Bloodthirsty Flame, and rushed toward the fight.
• Lin Hai's attempt to hide inside a tree failed because it was an intelligent plant soul beast, whose roots forced him partly out of the ground.
• Liu Erlong's Third Soul Skill, Rage Thunderclap, sent a lightning-wreathed fireball toward Lin Hai and the injured Earth Tyrant Bear.

Lin Hai survived Liu Erlong's Thunderfire Sea attack and continued through Sunset Forest toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He encountered Dugu Bo and revealed that he knew about the poison in Dugu Bo's body, ending with Dugu Bo threatening him.

• Liu Erlong's Thunderfire Sea struck Lin Hai and the Earth Tyrant Bear, but Lin Hai survived with minor burns while the bear was left near death.
• A student killed the Earth Tyrant Bear and began absorbing its soul ring as Liu Erlong and Yin Shu apologized to Lin Hai.
• Lin Hai introduced himself, accepted Liu Erlong's offer to replace his ruined clothes, and headed toward the forest's Core Zone.
• After nearly two hours, Lin Hai found the poisonous fog surrounding the valley's opposing ice and fire auras and walked through it unharmed.
• Dugu Bo confronted Lin Hai, who pointed out that the valley's ice and fire auras could suppress Dugu Bo's poison.
• Dugu Bo attacked with poison and threatened Lin Hai, who identified him as Poison Douluo.

Lin Hai diagnosed Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison as the result of an incomplete Martial Soul transformation and proposed that the Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could stop the backlash. Dugu Bo revealed his family’s Martial Soul history, and Lin Hai began to explain an important limitation of the proposed cure.

• Lin Hai teased Dugu Bo, identified his poison symptoms, and persuaded him to promise three requests in exchange for treatment.
• Lin Hai concluded that the Jade Phosphorous Serpent’s backlash came from an incomplete beneficial mutation in Dugu Bo’s bloodline.
• Dugu Bo explained that his grandfather had the Mandala Snake Martial Soul, his grandmother had the Jade Phosphorus Scorpion, and his father’s Martial Soul had mutated into the Jade Phosphorous Serpent.
• Lin Hai reasoned that other Martial Soul mutations could also carry hereditary limitations, then examined the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Lin Hai said the Immortal Herbs could resolve the poison backlash for Dugu Bo and his granddaughter and might help her Martial Soul evolve, but warned that one point needed clarification.

Lin Hai harvested rare herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after Dugu Bo proposed that he marry Dugu Yan to overcome the Jade Phosphorous Serpent bloodline’s curse in their descendants. He transplanted the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, Aromatic Silk Beauty, and other herbs into his dantian, then gave Bodhi Seeds to the two Immortal Herbs through the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• Dugu Bo told Lin Hai that he would betroth Dugu Yan to him, believing their children could inherit Lin Hai’s stronger martial soul and escape the Jade Phosphorous Serpent’s backlash.
• Lin Hai agreed to begin gathering herbs and asked to keep the mature medicinal plants beyond those needed for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s pills, and Dugu Bo gave permission.
• Lin Hai harvested herbs around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but set aside the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and Aromatic Silk Beauty for transplantation.
• Lin Hai moved the two Immortal Herbs and the roots, stems, and seeds of the other herbs into his dantian Small World beside the Bodhi Ancient Tree and Ah Yin.
• Lin Hai gave two Bodhi Seeds to the Bodhi Ancient Tree to deliver to the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and Aromatic Silk Beauty.

Lin Hai used the Bu Yuan Cauldron to devise a plan for refining the Immortal Herbs and spiritual medicines into pills, then searched for a source of Soul Power to fuel the process. When the Bodhi Ancient Tree refused to share its energy, Lin Hai learned it grew by drawing nourishment from time.

• The Lovesick Heartbreak Red accepted the Bodhi Seed, while the Aromatic Silk Beauty could not open its mouth to take one.
• Lin Hai used the Bu Yuan Cauldron to compare three pill-refinement plans and chose one after several hours of simulation.
• Lin Hai let blood for the refinement and found that Ah Yin's evolution was still underway, leaving him without enough Soul Power to complete the pills.
• Lin Hai considered drawing energy from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well but worried that disturbing it might attract the Divine Realm's attention.
• Lin Hai asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to share its Soul Power, but it refused because it needed energy to grow and nourish a Bodhi Seed each year.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree explained that it grew by using time as nourishment, astonishing Lin Hai.

Lin Hai used the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to refine pills in the Bu Yuan Cauldron, secretly retrieving two million-year Spirit Bones with the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s help. Dugu Bo swallowed a pill that cured his Martial Soul backlash and began to break through his stagnant cultivation.

• Lin Hai persuaded the Bodhi Ancient Tree to conceal the spring’s disturbance, lower the Bu Yuan Cauldron into the pool, and retrieve the cauldron and two Spirit Bones after refining.
• Lin Hai waited seven days with Dugu Bo, then explained that his blood neutralized the herbs’ toxicity and that the cauldron refined pills automatically.
• The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well churned, but the Bodhi Ancient Tree suppressed the disturbance and returned the cauldron and Spirit Bones to Lin Hai.
• Lin Hai gave Dugu Bo a taiji-shaped pill and warned him to swallow it whole because its two halves worked together.
• Dugu Bo swallowed the pill, and its medicinal power drew away his accumulated toxins, eased his backlash, and caused his Soul Power to rise.

After Lin Hai cured Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul backlash and raised his strength, Dugu Bo tried to set him up with Dugu Yanyan. Lin Hai then had the Bodhi Ancient Tree retrieve two powerful Spirit Bones and wondered whether his Bu Yuan Cauldron could refine them.

• Dugu Bo finished refining the Elixir Pill, reached rank ninety-three, awakened the Jade Phosphorus Domain, and thanked Lin Hai for saving him and the Dugu Family.
• Lin Hai explained how the Elixir Pill’s ingredients strengthened Dugu Bo’s poison, defenses, and Pill Core, then gave him a matching pill for Dugu Yanyan.
• Dugu Bo returned the Jade Bottle and hurried off to bring Yanyan to Lin Hai, encouraging him to make the most of the opportunity.
• Lin Hai asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree how to retrieve Spirit Bones from his Dantian Space, and the tree said he needed the Inkstone of No Return to do it himself.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree extracted an ice-blue Spirit Bone and a fire-attribute Spirit Bone from Lin Hai, prompting him to consider whether Bu Yuan Cauldron could refine them.
• Lin Hai reconsidered whether Ah Yin’s source essence could let Bu Yuan Cauldron refine a 160,000-year Blue Silver Emperor Spirit Ring Pill, but avoided testing it near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while the Dragon Souls remained restless.

Lin Hai met Dugu Yan after Dugu Bo brought her to the Sunset Forest, and the two quickly grew comfortable with each other. Dugu Yan agreed to sit with Lin Hai beneath a tree before taking the Elixir Pill.

• Lin Hai decided to keep the two Spirit Bones and planned to refine them later on the journey or remain in the forest longer.
• Dugu Bo returned with Dugu Yan and introduced her to Lin Hai, whom he had praised during their journey from Heaven Dou City.
• Lin Hai and Dugu Yan exchanged introductions, and his joke about her name made her laugh.
• Dugu Bo left to consolidate his cultivation, leaving Lin Hai and Dugu Yan alone together.
• Lin Hai invited Dugu Yan to sit beneath an ancient tree, and she placed her hand in his and went with him.

Lin Hai told Dugu Yan the story of The Return of the Condor Heroes, drawing her into an affectionate closeness while Dugu Bo stabilized his cultivation. As dusk turned to night, Dugu Yan asked Lin Hai for the Elixir Pill to evolve her Martial Soul, and he began warning her against staying up late.

• Lin Hai revealed to Dugu Yan that he was the Pope's disciple and began telling her a story about Yang Guo and Li Mochou.
• Dugu Yan became captivated by Lin Hai's tale, and over two hours she gradually nestled into his embrace.
• Dugu Bo finished stabilizing his cultivation and found Dugu Yan leaning against Lin Hai as she excitedly praised the Divine Condor.
• Dugu Bo teased Dugu Yan about her close discussion with Lin Hai, and she blushed before asking Lin Hai for the Elixir Pill.
• Lin Hai questioned whether she wanted to begin a night battle, then started warning her that staying up late was bad for her.

Lin Hai stayed with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, built himself an ice house, and revealed his Spirit Ring Pill to them. The grandfather and granddaughter were stunned, and Lin Hai asked whether the blood from Dugu Bo’s Nether Tiger was still available.

• Lin Hai asked Dugu Bo to reconcile with Yue Guan after their next fight, then created an ice house for himself.
• The next morning, Lin Hai called for Dugu Yan to take her medicine, and she told him breakfast was ready.
• Dugu Bo said he had killed a thousand-year Nether Tiger, and Lin Hai asked whether its blood was still there.
• Lin Hai explained his Spirit Ring Pill to Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan and warned them to keep it secret.
• Lin Hai showed his four pale-blue spirit rings, shocking Dugu Yan, then asked again about the Nether Tiger’s blood.

Lin Hai waited as Dugu Yan spent half a month refining the Elixir Pill, while Dugu Bo gathered the soul-beast fluids on Lin Hai’s list. Dugu Yan’s Soul Power surged to rank thirty-nine, and when her new Martial Soul appeared, Lin Hai recognized it as Queen Medusa.

• Lin Hai collected the black tiger pelt, meat, and organs, then watched Dugu Yan begin refining the Elixir Pill with Dugu Bo beside her.
• When Dugu Yan showed no signs of evolving by dusk, Lin Hai told Dugu Bo the process would take time and gave him a list of soul beasts whose blood or fluids to collect.
• Dugu Bo left to gather the requested materials while Lin Hai planned to use a future favor to separate him from Prince Xue Xing’s uncle-nephew pair and win his allegiance for Spirit Hall.
• Dugu Yan meditated for half a month as Lin Hai used Old Bodhi Tree to sustain her, and her aura eventually stabilized after her Soul Power rose to rank thirty-nine.
• Dugu Yan awakened, summoned her evolved Martial Soul, and Lin Hai identified it as Queen Medusa.

After Dugu Yan awakened her Medusa martial soul, she challenged Lin Hai, but their fight turned into an intimate encounter that Dugu Bo interrupted. Dugu Bo tested Lin Hai with Soul King pressure, which Old Bodhi Tree quietly countered, and the chapter ended with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan heading to prepare dinner.

• Dugu Yan awakened the Medusa martial soul and attacked Lin Hai, who used Earth Style to pull her underground.
• Lin Hai and Dugu Yan kissed until Dugu Bo arrived and pulled them out of the soil.
• Lin Hai claimed that he and Dugu Yan loved each other and could not resist, prompting Dugu Bo to slap him and test his strength with Soul King pressure.
• Old Bodhi Tree protected Lin Hai from Dugu Bo's pressure, leaving Dugu Bo unable to overpower him.
• Lin Hai reminded Dugu Bo that Dugu Yan was hungry, and Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

Lin Hai helped Dugu Yan obtain her third and fourth spirit rings after her Martial Soul evolved into the Beauty Serpent, while he and Old Bodhi Tree agreed on a way to limit its viewing of his surroundings. The chapter ended with Dugu Yan testing her new sealing skill on Lin Hai, who evaded its effects, and asking Dugu Bo to help her test it instead.

• Lin Hai protested to Old Bodhi Tree about its ability to watch his surroundings, and they agreed he could seal off the Dantian Space once he reached level fifty and refined the Inkstone of No Return.
• Dugu Bo and Lin Hai learned that Dugu Yan's evolved Beauty Serpent Martial Soul had awakened the Seal ability, and Lin Hai refined an eight-thousand-year Spirit Ring Pill for her.
• Dugu Yan absorbed the pill and gained a six-thousand-five-hundred-year third spirit ring, reaching level forty and obtaining Ten Thousand Poisons Seal.
• After tests showed Dugu Yan could absorb a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring, Lin Hai refined a thirteen-thousand-year Spirit Ring Pill, and she gained an eleven-thousand-year fourth spirit ring, reaching level forty-five and obtaining Spirit Snake Seal.
• Dugu Yan used Spirit Snake Seal on Lin Hai, but his Evasion Technique, Burial, left him unaffected, so he suggested she test the skill on Dugu Bo.

Lin Hai left the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well after helping Dugu Yan grow stronger and sharing a kiss with her. After refining a 160,000-year Blue Silver Emperor Spirit Ring Pill in Sunset Forest, he returned to Heavens Dou City and sent letters and a pill to his allies.

• Dugu Yan realized Lin Hai had raised her to Level 45, thanked him, and kissed him before playfully striking him for teasing her.
• Lin Hai left the Ice House the next morning after leaving Dugu Yan an Earth-Tier Meditation Method, then traveled alone through Sunset Forest to refine pills and seek rare soul beasts.
• Lin Hai emerged from Sunset Forest with a 160,000-year Blue Silver Emperor Spirit Ring Pill and considered finding a powerful soul beast to create pills for Bibi Dong.
• Lin Hai returned to Heavens Dou City and wrote to Bibi Dong, promising to prepare nine Spirit Ring Pills exceeding one hundred thousand years for her.
• Lin Hai wrote to Hu Liena and Yue Guan, and sent Hu Liena an Elixir Pill made with the Immortal Grade Heavenly Fox Sacred Heart Grass.

Lin Hai refined a powerful pill that raised his Soul Power to level 56, then absorbed Flame Water Jade as his fifth Soul Ring and gained potent Life-based healing skills. Afterward, he explored Heaven Dou City, where he met the young Ning Rongrong.

• Lin Hai sent three letters and an Elixir Pill away, then swallowed a Soul Power-enhancing pill while the Bodhi Ancient Tree protected him.
• After more than a day of refining the pill, Lin Hai reached level 56 and chose Flame Water Jade for his fifth Soul Ring.
• Lin Hai absorbed Flame Water Jade and gained skills that could rapidly restore him, heal severe injuries, and potentially resurrect the dead.
• Lin Hai postponed his trip to the Star Dou Great Forest and went sightseeing in Heaven Dou City.
• Ning Rongrong approached Lin Hai, introduced herself, and learned that she could call him Brother Hai.

Lin Hai met Ning Rongrong in Heaven Dou City, then used Dream Weaver to learn the location of the Ye Family residence. He infiltrated Ye Lingling’s room at night and prepared to take a drop of her blood while altering her dream.

• A Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect guard urged Ning Rongrong to return home, and Lin Hai secretly searched the guard’s memories with Dream Weaver.
• Ning Rongrong invited Lin Hai to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect before leaving with her guard.
• Lin Hai reflected on the growing power of Spirit Hall and decided not to visit Qian Renxue, choosing Ye Lingling as his target instead.
• Lin Hai learned the location of the Ye Family residence from a restaurant waiter’s memories and waited until nightfall.
• Lin Hai entered Ye Lingling’s room, warped her dream into a desert chase, and synchronized a Soul Power spike with a cactus thorn to prick her fingertip.

Lin Hai collected Ye Lingling’s blood, refined it into Nine Heart Begonia Martial Spirit Pills, and left Heaven Dou City for the Star Dou Great Forest. His ocarina melody caught Tang Yuehua’s attention, and on the road he read replies from his teacher, Hu Liena, and Yue Guan.

• Lin Hai physically collected a dozen drops of Ye Lingling’s blood, healed her fingertip, and refined the blood into Nine Heart Begonia Martial Spirit Pills.
• After spending several days with Dugu Yan, Lin Hai left Heaven Dou City in his House Carriage, bound for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lin Hai considered naming his healing method the Life Technique and played a mournful melody on his ocarina as the carriage crossed the city.
• Tang Yuehua heard the unfamiliar instrument and melody, studied Lin Hai’s carriage as it passed, and wondered about its mysterious owner.
• After leaving the city, Lin Hai read letters from his teacher, Hu Liena, and Yue Guan, each responding to his plans and travels.