Chapter Summaries

Zhuang Xingyu and Zihan grew closer as the Pure Yang Sacred Leopard Clan prepared for conflict and discussed arranging his betrothal. Meanwhile, Tang San began studying at Nuoding Academy, while his efforts to restore his masculine appearance left him increasingly ape-like.

• Murong Yunxue had Jingxi teach Zhuang Xingyu and Han'er the family's secret code language.
• Zihan felt a deeper bond with Zhuang Xingyu, and he promised her they could take revenge in about five years.
• Li Xuanhua, Murong Yunxue, and Zhuang Jingxi discussed arranging a betrothal for Zhuang Xingyu, suggesting Zihan as a match.
• The Pure Yang Sacred Leopard Clan tightened security, opened its treasure vault, increased cultivation rewards, and sent senior leaders into seclusion.
• Ning Rongrong awakened with Innate Level 9 Soul Power, while Tang San awakened with Level 8, studied under the Grandmaster, and obtained his first soul ring.
• Tang San secretly injected himself with a substance from an Ape Soul Beast to grow a beard and Adam's apple, but his appearance began to resemble an ape.

Over four years, the Pure Yang Sacred Leopard Clan grew powerful while Zhuang Xingyu and Zihan advanced in strength. Zhuang Xingyu left to train and planned to use his teleportation ability to take the Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, leaving the clan behind as Zihan mourned their first long separation.

• Zhuang Xingyu reached Soul Power Level 34, awakened the evolved Life Domain, and gained the ability to restore himself or others to peak condition three times a day.
• Murong Yunxue reached level 89, Zhuang Jingxing became a level 82 Soul Douluo after absorbing Zihan's Spirit Bone, and Zihan reached level 44 at fourteen.
• The Pure Yang Sacred Leopard Clan expanded its forces and territory while concealing much of its strength from outsiders.
• Zhuang Xingyu kissed Zihan's forehead and slipped away to train, while Zihan woke, touched her forehead, and cried at their separation.
• Zhuang Xingyu planned to use his teleportation ability to take the Immortal Herbs and refine them into pills, then later travel to the Heaven Dou Empire for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

Zhuang Xingyu slipped away from his family’s guards and used the Chaos Bead to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest. The bead swallowed the entire well and gave him a strand of Chaos Qi, leaving him with the foundation to create a Creation God position.

• Zhuang Xingyu detected the Seven Core Clan Elders and other family guards following him, then sent a letter asking them to return home before escaping their pursuit.
• After confirming that the guards were gone, Zhuang Xingyu used the Chaos Bead’s teleportation power to arrive at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Zhuang Xingyu prepared to take the well’s medicinal herbs while planning to leave Dugu Bo a cure for his and Dugu Yan’s poison problems.
• The Chaos Bead awakened, formed the embryonic shape of a Chaos World, and swallowed the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Chaos Bead replenished Zhuang Xingyu’s strength with a strand of Chaos Qi, giving him the foundation to create a Creation God position.

After absorbing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well into the Chaos Bead, Zhuang Xingyu gained fortune and discovered powerful treasures within it. He hid in a nearby cave and prepared to absorb sealed God King-level Spirit Bones to grow stronger.

• The Chaos Bead absorbed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, strengthening its functions and making Zhuang Xingyu its master.
• Zhuang Xingyu discovered that obtaining the well had increased his fortune by a third, and reflected on how fortune shaped the struggle among the era’s contenders.
• Zhuang Xingyu used the Chaos Bead to teleport to a concealed cave thirty kilometers away and hid its entrance.
• Zhuang Xingyu found Immortal Herbs, two God King-level Spirit Bones, and Ice Fire Space Stone among the well’s treasures.
• Zhuang Xingyu sealed the Spirit Bones to limit their power and prepared to absorb them while increasing his Soul Power.

Zhuang Xingyu absorbed two God King-level Soul Bones, reaching Soul Ancestor at age ten and gaining powerful abilities. He then trained at the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he refined his Soul Power and planned to bring Zihan there later.

• Zhuang Xingyu activated three domains and absorbed the two Soul Bones together, balancing their conflicting energies with the Nine Provinces Tai Chi Diagram.
• Zhuang Xingyu's Soul Power rose to Level 40, making him the youngest Soul Ancestor, and he gained ice and fire immunities, stronger Spiritual Power, flight, and enhanced combat ability.
• Zhuang Xingyu gained the Innate Ice Fire Yin Yang Flame and the God King-level Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms as Fusion Skills.
• Zhuang Xingyu entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and cultivated at its bottom, gradually becoming immune to its pressure and violent energies.
• Zhuang Xingyu decided he would bring Zihan to soak in the well when he had the chance.

Tang San found the Little Sunflower Manual, which relieved his pain and rapidly raised his Soul Power, but its rituals led him to assault Yu Xiaogang while he slept. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang realizing what Tang San had done and deciding to keep him close to prove his theories.

• Tang San killed A Biao after escaping his restraints, then found the Little Sunflower Manual in a tree hollow and began cultivating it.
• Fourteen nights later, Tang San’s Soul Power had risen and his midnight pain had stopped, though the manual required him to perform a ritual with a man every half month.
• Tang San went to Yu Xiaogang’s room, injected him with Ape Bulge Hormone, and pressed himself on the sleeping teacher.
• Yu Xiaogang woke up aching, and Tang San helped him into bed before Yu Xiaogang continued teaching him about the Purple Faced Demon Spider.
• After Tang San left, Yu Xiaogang realized what had happened and lamented that he had wronged Er Long, but decided he still needed Tang San to prove his theories.

Zhuang Xingyu refined Zhuang Shushen, a Level 96 Puppet who could pass as a human and protect him. He then planned to use the remaining materials to help his family obtain powerful Soul Rings, before turning to pill refinement.

• Zhuang Xingyu used the Ice Fire Space Stone, Ice Fire Spring Water, Aromatic Silk Beauty, and his blood to refine a female Puppet and invent a story that she came from his clan’s hidden branch.
• After several shichen of work, Zhuang Xingyu completed Zhuang Shushen, whose Soul Power reached Level 96 and whose ninth Soul Ring was ninety-five thousand years old.
• Zhuang Xingyu dressed Zhuang Shushen in purple-gold clothes and confirmed that he could control her movements and Soul Skills as easily as a natural extension of himself.
• Zhuang Xingyu decided to feed leftover Ice Fire Space Stone to a ninety-thousand-year Soul Beast to mature it into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for his grandmother’s ninth Soul Ring.
• Zhuang Xingyu planned for his father to obtain Xiao Wu’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone, then considered ways to acquire his own Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Zhuang Xingyu prepared to begin refining pills.

Zhuang Xingyu spent a day refining numerous pills to strengthen the Pure Yang Sacred Leopard Clan and uncovered the secret of Lovesick Heartbreak Red. Before pursuing his fourth soul ring, he left Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan pills that could cure their poison and improve their cultivation.

• Zhuang Xingyu refined pills that could grant elemental abilities, strengthen bodies and Martial Souls, preserve youth, improve cultivation, and enhance Spiritual Power.
• Zhuang Xingyu used the Chaos Bead to discover that Lovesick Heartbreak Red contained a trace of Innate Spiritual Qi, then merged the flower into his Chaos Qi.
• Zhuang Xingyu prepared three Detoxification Pills and three Great Returning Pills for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, intending one of each for Dugu Bo to test.
• Zhuang Xingyu considered how Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan had been failed by Tang San and decided that his help settled his karma with Dugu Bo.
• Zhuang Xingyu concluded that his clan could defend itself if Dugu Bo became an enemy and turned his attention to obtaining his fourth soul ring.

Zhuang Xingyu obtained a sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring from a Lightning Tiger King and gained a complete torso Soul Bone. Before leaving Sunset Forest, he killed a Man Faced Demon Spider and claimed its External Soul Bone, the Eight Spider Lances.

• Zhuang Xingyu set out with Zhuang Shushen to hunt a sixty-thousand-year Lightning Tiger King for his fourth Soul Ring.
• Zhuang Shushen nearly killed the Lightning Tiger King with her seventh Soul Skill, and Zhuang Xingyu finished it before absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Zhuang Xingyu endured the Lightning Tiger King's soul attack and absorbed the ring, gaining Lightning Five Consecutive Strikes, advancing to level 45, and breaking through to the Jade Clarity Fourth Layer.
• Zhuang Xingyu found a complete sixty-thousand-year torso Soul Bone but decided to keep it for his family rather than absorb it himself.
• Zhuang Xingyu spotted and killed a two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider, then took the External Soul Bone, the Eight Spider Lances.

Zhuang Xingyu absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s External Soul Bone, which he renamed the Eight Meridians Divine Spear, and left pills and a warning for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan. He then planned to return to his clan with the Blue Silver Emperor soul bone and outlined future schemes against Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the Haotian clan.

• Zhuang Xingyu absorbed and refined the External Soul Bone, tested its poison, and destroyed the remaining traces of the Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Zhuang Xingyu hid three Great Returning Pills and three Detoxification Pills with a note for Dugu Bo, explaining the poison affecting him and Dugu Yan and offering a way to cure and strengthen them.
• Zhuang Xingyu decided to return to his clan with the pills and the Blue Silver Emperor Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, while postponing his plan to kill the Blue Silver King.
• Zhuang Xingyu planned to force Tang San to absorb ten-year soul rings and spirit bones, believing the process would avoid triggering his luck protection.
• Zhuang Xingyu planned to capture Xiao Wu, use her soul ring and spirit bone to strengthen his grandmother, and later kill Tang Yuehua and Tang Hao once his clan was strong enough.

Dugu Yan gained a potent poison-based third soul skill, and Dugu Bo saw her off at Heaven Dou Royal Academy before returning to Sunset Forest. There, he found his hot spring replaced by a deep lake and confronted six people he suspected of trespassing, preparing to attack them.

• Dugu Bo helped Dugu Yan obtain a 1,480-year poison serpent soul ring, and she gained the Bioluminescent Purple Poison skill.
• Dugu Yan demonstrated her new poison, which rapidly harmed nearby plant soul beasts, and Dugu Bo praised its strength.
• Dugu Bo advised Dugu Yan about Yu Tianheng and told her to seek help from Old Ma or Prince Xue Xing if trouble arose.
• Dugu Bo returned to Sunset Forest and discovered that the hot spring in his valley had become a vast, deep lake.
• Dugu Bo detected six people hiding behind a stone pillar, mistook their arrival as a possible threat from a powerful opponent, then grew confident after seeing their low Soul Power and prepared to attack them.

Huangfu Ruiyao and her companions entered Dugu Bo’s dwelling in search of medicine, but he attacked them, killing most of the group and driving her toward a deadly abyss. The chapter revealed the Huangfu Family’s hidden history as Zhuang Xingyu sensed an opportunity near Dugu Bo’s dwelling and headed toward it.

• Huangfu Ruiyao offered Dugu Bo Gold Soul Coins, then used a stored Titled Douluo attack to break through his defenses and flee with her companions.
• Dugu Bo recovered and killed four stragglers, while Huangfu He sacrificed herself to distract him so Huangfu Ruiyao could escape.
• Dugu Bo killed Huangfu He, wounded Huangfu Ruiyao with his Sixth Soul Skill, and assumed she had died after falling into the abyss.
• The chapter revealed that Huangfu Ruiyao belonged to the hidden Huangfu Family, whose three Titled Douluo guarded a clan sealed away by a barrier, and that the family held the Clear Sky Sect responsible for a massacre ten years earlier.
• Zhuang Xingyu sensed a disturbance and an opportunity near Dugu Bo’s dwelling, then headed there.

Zhuang Xingyu watched Dugu Bo leave an injured woman at the bottom of a cliff, then found a natural formation guarding the descent. When the Chaos Bead revealed a fragment of its lost origin below, Zhuang Xingyu broke the formation and flew down toward it.

• Zhuang Xingyu watched Dugu Bo attack a young woman but chose not to intervene, reasoning that neither side had any connection to him.
• Zhuang Xingyu wondered why Dugu Bo left without checking whether the woman had survived, and suspected she might have valuable treasures.
• Zhuang Xingyu used the Chaos Bead to discover a Bewildering Formation and Killing Formation on the cliff, then learned that a fragment of the Chaos Bead's origin lay below.
• Zhuang Xingyu recalled Puppet Zhuang Shushen and flew down the cliff on his ruler.
• Zhuang Xingyu entered the formations, used the Primordial Merit Domain to deflect attacks, and maneuvered the formation into destroying its own core.
• Zhuang Xingyu broke both formations and continued toward the bottom of the cliff.

Zhuang Xingyu rescued the injured Huangfu Ruiyao, discovered her Hidden Clan identity, and recovered the Chaos Bead’s lost origin power at the cliff’s base. The Yin Yang Law awakened Huangfu Ruiyao’s Extreme Yin Profound Body, and their uncontrolled union left her healed and at level fifty while Zhuang Xingyu reached level forty-seven.

• Zhuang Xingyu found Huangfu Ruiyao alive with a valuable head Spirit Bone, immobilized her, and briefly treated her injuries rather than kill her for the treasure.
• Zhuang Xingyu inspected Huangfu Ruiyao’s Storage Ring, found a token bearing the name Huangfu Ruiyao and the Five Elements Qilin crest, and returned the ring.
• Zhuang Xingyu carried Huangfu Ruiyao to the cliff’s base and followed the Chaos Bead’s guidance to recover its lost origin power from a black stone.
• The Chaos Bead repaired a crack and activated the Yin Yang Law, causing Zhuang Xingyu to lose control as the law circulated through him.
• Huangfu Ruiyao’s Extreme Yin Profound Body awakened and compelled her to join with Zhuang Xingyu, after which her injuries healed and both gained Soul Power levels.
• Huangfu Ruiyao reached level fifty, Zhuang Xingyu reached level forty-seven, and Huangfu Ruiyao fell asleep.

Huangfu Ruiyao woke after Zhuang Xingyu rescued her and helped her survive the awakening of her Extreme Yin Profound Body, then found the treasure map she had been seeking. She planned to recruit him to help retrieve a divine object from a Secret Realm, while keeping her own intentions hidden.

• Huangfu Ruiyao woke healed, discovered her Soul Power had reached level 50, and realized what had happened between her and Zhuang Xingyu.
• Huangfu Ruiyao gave Zhuang Xingyu Gold Soul Coins and valuables, insisting he forget their encounter, but he refused the payment.
• A token from Huangfu Ruiyao's Storage Ring reacted to a rocky crevice, leading her to a map made from Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Iron Ox Hide.
• Huangfu Ruiyao confirmed the map led to a Secret Realm containing the divine object she needed and decided to invite Zhuang Xingyu to help her retrieve it.

Zhuang Xingyu, traveling under the name Lin Yuanqi, agreed to help Huangfu Ruiyao reach a Secret Realm after she promised him a share of its treasures. They entered the realm and began fighting its sword-shadow defenses as they advanced toward the golden palace.

• Zhuang Xingyu accepted Huangfu Ruiyao's offer to cooperate in the Secret Realm and returned the Gold Soul Coins and gold items she had given him.
• Huangfu Ruiyao climbed the cliff using a Spirit Bone skill, while Zhuang Xingyu revealed his evolved Eight Meridians Divine Wings and flew to the top.
• Zhuang Xingyu and Huangfu Ruiyao followed the Treasure Map to a river, where the map transformed into a key and opened the Secret Realm entrance.
• The pair entered the Secret Realm, found a golden palace surrounded by rare flowers, and prepared to overcome its defenses together.
• A halo from the palace turned the flowers and grass into sword shadows, and Zhuang Xingyu and Huangfu Ruiyao fought back with their skills.

After Zhuang Xingyu and Huangfu Ruiyao defeated the sword shadows, his Human Skin Mask fell and she learned that Lin Yuanqi was not his real name. They opened the palace, where Huangfu Ruiyao revealed that its sealed treasure came from her ancestor, the Five Elements Qilin Sword God, and offered Zhuang Xingyu the other treasures in exchange for help finding something.

• Zhuang Xingyu and Huangfu Ruiyao coordinated their attacks to shatter the sword shadows and restore the Secret Realm to peace.
• Huangfu Ruiyao noticed Zhuang Xingyu's Human Skin Mask had fallen, and they challenged each other over the secrets they had withheld.
• Huangfu Ruiyao used a token and secret technique to open the palace gates, revealing a treasure-filled hall lit by Jade Marrow Treasure Beads.
• Zhuang Xingyu noticed that the palace carvings resembled decorations from a tomb and found a Shangqing Level seal on the central jade box.
• Huangfu Ruiyao identified the sealed treasure as an opportunity left by her ancestor, the Rank 1 God Five Elements Qilin Sword God, and offered Zhuang Xingyu the other treasures if he helped her find something after they left.

Zhuang Xingyu and Huangfu Ruiyao looted a collapsing Secret Realm and escaped Sunset Forest, while Huangfu Ruiyao silently vowed revenge for her companions. After they settled at an inn, she reminded Zhuang Xingyu of his oath to find medicine for her injuries and revealed a family barrier treasure.

• Zhuang Xingyu swore to have his family search for medicine to treat Huangfu Ruiyao’s internal injuries, and they agreed he could take the treasures.
• Zhuang Xingyu collected the Spirit Bones and stripped the hall of its treasures and materials while Huangfu Ruiyao helped him.
• Zhuang Xingyu and Huangfu Ruiyao escaped the Secret Realm before it collapsed, and Huangfu Ruiyao bowed toward the direction Huangfu He and the others had gone, silently swearing vengeance.
• Zhuang Xingyu guided Huangfu Ruiyao out of Sunset Forest, and they rented rooms at a nearby inn for the night.
• Huangfu Ruiyao visited Zhuang Xingyu and reminded him of his promise to find medicine, then raised a family barrier to prevent others from spying on them.

Huangfu Ruiyao sought Zhuang Xingyu’s help after her mother’s Soul Power reversed and left her near death. Zhuang Xingyu diagnosed the cause and gave her the pills to cure her, then asked her to share knowledge of her Hidden Clan and ancient cultivation methods.

• Huangfu Ruiyao told Zhuang Xingyu that her mother had been unconscious for a month after her Soul Power reversed, and that clan healers believed she had only three months to live.
• Zhuang Xingyu examined Huangfu Ruiyao and realized that both she and her mother had Extreme Yin Profound Bodies, whose hidden danger caused the reversal at age forty-eight.
• Zhuang Xingyu explained two ways to treat her mother and ruled out using Marital Rites, instead recommending a Detoxification Pill and half a Phoenix Transformation Pill.
• Huangfu Ruiyao offered her valuables to pay for the medicine, but Zhuang Xingyu gave her the pills for free, honoring his promise to help her.
• Zhuang Xingyu asked Huangfu Ruiyao to tell him about her Hidden Clan, ancient continental secrets, and past cultivation methods.

Huangfu Ruiyao told Zhuang Xingyu about her clan’s history, the Dongfang Family, and the ancient cultivation systems. Zhuang Xingyu agreed to reveal his identity and explain the current state of the continent over wine.

• Huangfu Ruiyao explained how the Huangfu Family’s Secret Realm worked and how internal conflict, a lost treasure map, and outside enemies led to the clan’s collapse.
• Huangfu Ruiyao recounted how she and five clansmen were pursued by Dugu Bo after she stayed behind searching for treasure to help her mother.
• Zhuang Xingyu considered whether his actions had contributed to the deaths, then decided not to dwell on the matter.
• Huangfu Ruiyao described the Dongfang Family and said ancient Douluo Continent had once used Body Refining Cultivation and Soul Tool Civilization alongside Soul Ring cultivation.
• Huangfu Ruiyao offered to write down her clan’s records about the lost cultivation systems and asked Zhuang Xingyu to reveal his true identity.
• Zhuang Xingyu warmed wine and agreed to tell Huangfu Ruiyao about himself and the continent’s current state.