Chapter Summaries

Ning Rongrong brought Xiao Ze and their companions around Nine Treasures City, showing them the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s wealth and shopping at Linglong Pavilion. At the Glazed Chamber of Commerce, she reunited with her Third Brother, Ning Song.

• Ning Rongrong led her friends through Nine Treasures City and explained the sect founder’s faceless statue at the central plaza.
• Ning Rongrong took the women to Linglong Pavilion, where she tried on the Tear of the Star River Necklace with Xiao Ze’s help.
• Ning Rongrong invited the women to choose jewelry, and the group bought items at the pavilion.
• Ning Rongrong and her companions went to the Glazed Chamber of Commerce, where she greeted her Third Brother, Ning Song, and introduced him to the group.

Xiao Ze accompanied Ning Rongrong back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where she revealed that she had reached Soul Elder level and evolved her Martial Soul into the Eight Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda. Ning Fengzhi learned Xiao Ze’s Martial Soul had made the evolution possible and reacted with excitement.

• Ning Rongrong introduced Xiao Ze to Ning Song as her boyfriend, and Xiao Ze gave Ning Song cultivation resources in a Storage Soul Tool.
• Xiao Ze and the group traveled to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Rongrong led them to meet Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong.
• Ning Rongrong told her father she had become a level-thirty-two Soul Elder.
• Ning Rongrong summoned her Eight Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, shocking Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong with its evolution.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Xiao Ze how he had helped Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Ze explained that the result came from the wheat he grew through his Martial Soul.

Xiao Ze impressed Ning Fengzhi with his powerful Martial Soul and offered to sell the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect other improved crops. Ning Fengzhi then revealed the sect’s Inheritance Soul Bones to Ning Rongrong and explained that her evolved Martial Soul made her eligible to receive one.

• Ning Fengzhi praised Xiao Ze’s abilities, and Ning Rongrong showed off her three thousand-year Soul Rings, which Xiao Ze had improved.
• Ning Fengzhi asked to buy Xiao Ze’s rare crops, but Ning Rongrong refused; Xiao Ze offered to sell other improved crops instead.
• Ning Fengzhi took Ning Rongrong to the Ancestral Hall and revealed a secret room containing the sect’s Inheritance Soul Bones.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that the sect had three Inheritance Soul Bones and that Ning Rongrong could receive one because her Martial Soul had evolved.
• Ning Rongrong asked her father to step down so she could claim another soul bone as Sect Master, and Ning Fengzhi refused.

Ning Rongrong chose the Phantom Star Glazed Crown Soul Bone after Ning Fengzhi explained its benefits and life-saving Soul Skill. Meanwhile, Gu Rong challenged Xiao Ze to test whether he could protect Rongrong, and their spar began with Gu Rong unexpectedly halted by one of Qing Lu’s attacks.

• Ning Fengzhi recommended that Ning Rongrong take the sixty-thousand-year Phantom Star Glazed Crown, explaining its Spiritual Power boost, reduced Soul Skill cost, and Starlight Substitute Soul Skill.
• Ning Rongrong accepted the Soul Bone and began absorbing it while Ning Fengzhi considered giving her his own Soul Bone if she later evolved her Martial Soul.
• Gu Rong asked Xiao Ze to spar so he could judge whether Xiao Ze could protect Rongrong, and Xiao Ze agreed.
• Chen Xin arranged an empty training ground, where Gu Rong suppressed his Soul Power to Xiao Ze’s level and the two took their positions.
• Xiao Ze summoned Bean Glazed Tile, Chi Kai, and Qing Lu, then ordered Qing Lu to fire Mung Bean Barrage at Gu Rong.
• Gu Rong smashed the first two energy Mung Beans, but the third struck his fist and stopped his advance.

Xiao Ze sparred with Gu Rong, using Qing Lu and Chi Kai’s coordinated abilities to challenge the Bone Douluo and reveal his formidable combat strength. Ning Rongrong stopped the fight, while Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi recognized that Xiao Ze was difficult to gauge.

• Gu Rong charged Xiao Ze, and Qing Lu and Chi Kai coordinated their attacks to freeze him and damage his bone armor.
• Gu Rong used his third Soul Skill to stun Xiao Ze, but Xiao Ze blocked him with his Eight Spider Lances and entered close combat with a Sword Shield.
• Qing Lu linked her energy to Xiao Ze and fired Tracking Armor-Piercing Energy Beans as Chi Kai’s Battle Intent made Xiao Ze’s attacks increasingly powerful.
• Xiao Ze activated Blood Boil Frenzy, formed twin swords, and struck Gu Rong hard enough to make him block with both hands as the ground beneath him caved in.
• Ning Rongrong arrived and stopped the spar, then Ning Fengzhi asked Chen Xin for his judgment of Xiao Ze, whom Chen Xin called unfathomable.

Ning Rongrong told Xiao Ze that Ning Fengzhi had given her a sixty-thousand-year Head Soul Bone, then joined him in his room for the night. The chapter ended with her sneaking beneath Xiao Ze’s blanket and cuddling him.

• Xiao Ze pulled Ning Rongrong away from sparring with Gu Rong, and Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin teased Gu Rong about her protecting Xiao Ze.
• Ning Rongrong led Xiao Ze and the others to her house and explained that Ning Fengzhi had given her a sixty-thousand-year Head Soul Bone that raised her Soul Power by five levels.
• Ning Rongrong playfully bit Xiao Ze’s abdomen, and the two flirted as evening fell.
• Ning Rongrong sneaked into Xiao Ze’s room after he went to bed and climbed beneath his blanket to cuddle him.

Xiao Ze negotiated with Ning Fengzhi to exchange Heart Separation Control for crops that could evolve Martial Souls and increase Soul Ring ages. He demonstrated a pill that concealed Soul Ring ages, though Chen Xin warned that powerful Spiritual Power could see through it.

• Xiao Ze asked Ning Fengzhi to trade Heart Separation Control, explaining that he wanted his Summoned Beasts to learn it.
• Ning Rongrong offered to teach Xiao Ze the technique, but Ning Fengzhi refused to let her give away the sect’s secret.
• Xiao Ze offered Martial Soul-evolving crops and crops that could raise the first two Soul Rings of Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo to Thousand Years, and Ning Fengzhi accepted the deal.
• Ning Fengzhi worried that others might notice the Soul Ring changes, so Xiao Ze revealed that he could refine pills to conceal their ages.
• Xiao Ze swallowed a pill and changed his visible Soul Ring colors; Chen Xin and Bone Douluo could not see through the disguise, though Chen Xin said powerful Spiritual Power or a Limit Douluo could.

Ning Rongrong took charge of teaching Xiao Ze and the others the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Heart Separation Control after they returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. She demonstrated the technique with three Glazed Tile Beads, leaving everyone impressed by her precise control.

• Ning Fengzhi gave Xiao Ze the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Heart Separation Control manual, and Ning Rongrong insisted on teaching him as Teacher Rongrong.
• Ning Fengzhi sent Xiao Ze and Ning Rongrong back, and they returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy that afternoon with the women.
• Ning Rongrong offered to teach Heart Separation Control to Suihua and the others, allowing them to learn the sect’s secret technique under the condition that they did not share it.
• Xiao Ze summoned his twelve great generals at the training grounds while Ning Rongrong fetched cultivation supplies.
• Ning Rongrong explained that Heart Separation Control developed multitasking and precise control over Soul Power and Spiritual Power, then demonstrated by guiding red, blue, and gold Glazed Tile Beads along different paths.

Xiao Ze and the others practiced Ning Rongrong’s Heart Separation Control, while Suihua’s rapid progress prompted Ning Rongrong to train harder. Three days later, Xiao Ze visited Old Wang to commission a crown for Ning Rongrong’s birthday.

• Xiao Ze tried controlling three Glazed Tile Beads but lost control, and Ning Rongrong demonstrated Heart Separation Control by performing several tasks at once.
• Ning Rongrong made Xiao Ze, Suihua, and the others practice, and Suihua nearly mastered using one mind for three tasks in an afternoon.
• Ning Rongrong left to break through her Four Orifice Heart of Constancy after Suihua’s progress surprised her.
• Xiao Ze continued his studies and cultivation, adding Heart Separation Control to his routine.
• Three days later, Xiao Ze asked Old Wang to make a crown for Ning Rongrong’s birthday and said she would be his future first wife.

Xiao Ze prepared a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda cake and commissioned Old Wang to forge a crown as Ning Rongrong’s birthday gifts. On Rongrong’s birthday, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling helped her dress for Xiao Ze’s surprise.

• Xiao Ze asked Old Wang to forge a crown for Ning Rongrong and paid him with Spirit Grass and Spirit Medicine.
• Xiao Ze rented a pastry shop and made a nine-tier cake shaped like the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Old Wang finished the Mithril crown, and Xiao Ze praised its design before taking it with him.
• Two days later, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling brought Ning Rongrong her princess dress and told her Xiao Ze had prepared a surprise.

Xiao Ze surprised Ning Rongrong with a birthday celebration, a hairpin, and a specially made cake. Ning Rongrong delighted in the gifts and dessert, then playfully smeared cream on Xiao Ze’s face as everyone shared the cake.

• Ning Rongrong came downstairs in her Starry Sky Dress and found the hall transformed into a starry birthday scene.
• Xiao Ze wished Ning Rongrong a happy birthday and gave her a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Hairpin, which she activated with Soul Power.
• Xiao Ze led Ning Rongrong to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Cake, and she cut it and praised its taste.
• Ning Rongrong shared the cake with Xiao Ze, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and the other women, who all enjoyed it.
• Ning Rongrong smeared cream on Xiao Ze’s face and asked him to let her play with him.

Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling’s Martial Souls evolved after Xiao Ze helped the women prepare, and Ye Lingling broke down in relief as the Nine Hearts Begonia’s curse disappeared. The chapter ended when Zhu Zhuqing and Meng Yiran’s Martial Souls appeared, signaling that their evolutions were beginning too.

• Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphor Serpent evolved into a Jade Phosphor Flood Dragon, and Dugu Bo contained its power with a Soul Power barrier.
• Dugu Yan confirmed her Martial Soul had evolved, and Dugu Bo praised Xiao Ze for helping her.
• Ye Lingling’s Nine Hearts Begonia evolved into a nine-colored lotus with a Glassy Heart, and she clung to Xiao Ze in tears of relief as its curse disappeared.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Meng Yiran’s Martial Souls appeared, prompting Dugu Bo to realize their evolutions were starting as well.

Dugu Bo visited the group to give Dugu Yan a thirty-thousand-year soul bone after breaking through to Rank 94. After the girls’ Martial Soul Evolutions, Ye Lingling described her expanded healing abilities, while Meng Yiran demonstrated her improved nine-headed Myriad Snake Scepter; Zhu Zhuqing’s evolved Martial Soul had become a cat-eared humanoid.

• Zhu Zhuqing’s Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul evolved into a humanoid cat girl, while Meng Yiran’s Serpent Cane grew nine heads.
• Dugu Bo said he had broken through to Rank 94 after fighting a Poison Marrow Beast in Star Dou Great Forest and had obtained a Left Arm Bone.
• Dugu Yan enthusiastically accepted the thirty-thousand-year soul bone and left with Dugu Bo to absorb it.
• Xiao Ze asked Ye Lingling about her evolved Martial Soul, and she explained that it could heal severe injuries, restore Soul Power, remove Negative Statuses, and regenerate severed limbs.
• Meng Yiran explained that her soul skills had grown stronger and demonstrated her nine snake heads moving independently.

Ye Lingling returned to Ye Mansion and told Ye Qingli that her Martial Soul had evolved, freeing the Nine Hearts Begonia from its old limitations. Ye Qingli celebrated the news and promised to give Ye Lingling something she had been keeping for her.

• Ye Lingling left Xiao Ze and the others to tell her mother about her Martial Soul Evolution.
• Xiao Ze told Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and Zhu Zhuqing that he planned to cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well until he reached Soul Ancestor, which could take at least half a year.
• Dugu Yan emerged from absorbing her soul bone and said she had gained four levels of Soul Power.
• Ye Lingling rushed to Ye Mansion, showed Ye Qingli her evolved Nine Hearts Begonia, and explained that it no longer had its old limitations.
• Ye Qingli celebrated the change, offered to buy Xiao Ze a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone in gratitude, and said it was time to give Ye Lingling something she had saved for her.

Ye Qingli showed Ye Lingling three Ye Family heirlooms, including a fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone and two mysterious items. The hairpin bonded with Ye Lingling, and Ye Qingli gave her all three treasures and prepared to help her absorb the Soul Bone.

• Ye Qingli led Ye Lingling into a hidden room and revealed three heirlooms stored beneath the floor.
• Ye Qingli explained that the Life Crystal Torso Bone could only be absorbed by someone who had resolved the Nine Hearts Begonia Martial Soul's side effects, and described its powerful healing effects and Life Rebirth skill.
• Ye Lingling touched the Green Jade Hairpin, causing its black and white begonia flowers to release opposing lights before the hairpin entered her hair and drained most of her Soul Power.
• Ye Qingli gave Ye Lingling the seed, hairpin, and Life Crystal Torso Bone, and Ye Lingling planned to ask Xiao Ze and her friends about the mysterious items.
• Ye Qingli took Ye Lingling to absorb the Soul Bone.

Ye Lingling returned to the villa after her Martial Soul evolved and offered Xiao Ze her family’s Seed of Life as thanks. The God of Agriculture identified it as a seed of the Life Tree and explained its immense potential, leaving Xiao Ze and the others realizing how valuable it was.

• Ye Lingling returned to the villa in high spirits and told Xiao Ze that her mother would give him a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone as thanks for helping her.
• Ye Lingling explained that the hairpin she wore was one of the Ye Family’s three inherited treasures, and that all three treasures had been entrusted to her after her Martial Soul problem was resolved.
• Ye Lingling took a box from her Soul Tool, and the God of Agriculture recognized its contents as the Seed of Life, the seed of the Life Tree.
• The God of Agriculture urged Xiao Ze to obtain the seed, explaining that cultivating a Life Tree could grant him the status of Child of Nature and a chance to become Douluo Star’s plane lord.
• Ye Lingling offered the seed to Xiao Ze, and he identified it as the Seed of Life and warned Dugu Yan not to handle it carelessly.

Xiao Ze explained the value of Ye Lingling’s Seeds of Life and identified her hairpin as a spiritual Demigod Artifact left by a Deity. He demonstrated the terrifying power of his own artifact, leaving the women awed and Ye Lingling hopeful about her hairpin’s potential.

• Ye Lingling gave Xiao Ze her Seeds of Life because she did not know how to cultivate them, and he accepted them.
• Xiao Ze removed Ye Lingling’s Jade Hairpin and explained that it was a Deity’s Demigod Artifact that had recognized her as its master.
• Xiao Ze told Ye Lingling that the hairpin might lead her to a Deity’s Inheritance Ground and give her a chance to Become a God.
• Xiao Ze revealed his Fertility Hoe as a Demigod Artifact, and its aura overwhelmed the women until he put it away.
• Xiao Ze reassured Ye Lingling that her hairpin could become powerful because it was compatible with her.

Xiao Ze went to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to temper his body with its opposing icy and fiery energies. After enduring several hours of alternating torment, he emerged stronger and found Ning Rongrong watching him.

• Xiao Ze arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Ning Rongrong and the others, and told Dugu Bo he planned to cultivate there.
• Xiao Ze swallowed two Pills and entered the well to forge his body, while Dugu Bo warned him about the danger.
• The cold spring froze Xiao Ze and the fire spring burned him, repeatedly breaking down and rebuilding his body as Ning Rongrong and the others watched over him.
• After several hours, Xiao Ze emerged with jade-like skin and a stronger physique, then realized he was naked and hurried to put on clothes.
• Ning Rongrong blushed and told Xiao Ze to get dressed, privately thinking about what she had seen.

Xiao Ze and Ning Rongrong discussed their plans after the Soul Master Tournament, including seeking divine inheritance and visiting Sea God Island. Several months later, Xiao Ze mastered Ice Fire Body Forging, and the group’s cultivation and Xiao Ze’s alchemy had advanced.

• Xiao Ze told Ning Rongrong they might search for divine inheritance grounds or travel to Sea God Island, where they would need the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Xiao Ze emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after several months with Ice Fire Body Forging mastered, level forty Soul Power, and a body strong enough to rival a Soul Emperor.
• Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and Zhu Zhuqing increased their Soul Power, while the group’s Soul Bone and Soul Ring ages also rose.
• Xiao Ze advanced his Alchemy and learned to combine crop effects into powerful Pills, while Ye Lingling learned to make Pills as well.

Xiao Ze entered the hidden space beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and met the Dragon Souls of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings. The God of Agriculture revealed that he had once been a Supreme God King, and the Dragon Kings turned their attention to Xiao Ze.

• Xiao Ze told Ning Rongrong that his Ice Fire Body Forging had reached major completion, then agreed to explore the bottom of the well instead of accompanying her to obtain a Soul Ring.
• Xiao Ze explained to Ning Rongrong, Dugu Bo, and the others that the well was the burial site of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, and they waited for him on the shore as he descended.
• Xiao Ze crossed a barrier into an independent space and saw the enormous skeletons of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings.
• The God of Agriculture emerged from Xiao Ze, prompting the Dragon Kings' souls to appear and question him about his origin and strength.
• The God of Agriculture explained that his God Realm had been destroyed in a war and that he had been a Supreme God King, while the Dragon Kings asked whether he intended to revive through Xiao Ze.