Chapter Summaries

Meng Yiran learned the Vortex Cannon with Li Yue's help, then demonstrated its greater power and poisonous effect. Dragon Duke and Snake Dowager celebrated the new skill's potential for their family, while Xiao Wu praised Meng Yiran.

• Li Yue guided Meng Yiran's Soul Power through the Vortex Cannon's circulation path, though his yang-tainted energy made her feel uncomfortably hot.
• Meng Yiran completed the circulation and fired a Vortex Cannon that toppled a tree and withered it with her Mandala Snake poison.
• Xiao Wu congratulated Meng Yiran and said her Vortex Cannon was stronger than her own.
• Dragon Duke and Snake Dowager urged Meng Yiran to thank Li Yue and rejoiced that their family had gained a transferable Self-Created Soul Skill.

Xiao Wu led Li Yue and the others to a barren mountain where they found a Thunderclap Hellvine beside the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon’s lair. Li Yue explained the rare plant soul beast’s growth and lightning affinity as the group prepared to approach it.

• Xiao Wu led the group through storm clouds toward the thousand-year Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon’s lair, while Li Yue comforted her fear of lightning.
• Meng Shu decided to continue through the thunderstorm and hunt the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
• Li Yue spotted a Thunderclap Hellvine on a scorched mountaintop and explained how it grew by absorbing lightning.
• Xiao Wu questioned how slowly the Thunderclap Hellvine cultivated, and Li Yue described how it could rapidly grow before perishing under excessive lightning.
• Meng Yiran praised Li Yue’s knowledge and admired his achievements in Martial Soul cultivation and theory.

Li Yue and his companions hunted a thousand-year Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon to obtain Yu Xiaogang’s third soul ring. Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Flender crippled the dragon, leaving it unable to escape as they closed in.

• Li Yue and Yu Xiaogang watched the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon feed on the nine-hundred-year Thunderclap Hellvine, and Li Yue realized the dragon had been suppressing its growth by siphoning its lightning.
• Meng Shu prepared to attack the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, while Li Yue asked Flender to guard against its escape.
• Meng Shu used Dragon Bite to sever the dragon’s tail, but the wounded beast spread its wings and fled.
• Flender used Wind Blade to sever the dragon’s wings, sending it crashing into the mountainside.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon struggled to run despite its injuries, and Meng Shu caught up with it.

Meng Shu stopped the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon from escaping, and Yu Xiaogang killed it and absorbed its thousand-year soul ring. His Martial Soul evolved into a miniature dragon, leaving him newly confident as a Soul Elder.

• Flender cut off the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's wings, and Meng Shu used Dragon Bite to cripple it until it could no longer flee.
• Li Yue comforted Xiao Wu as Yu Xiaogang stabbed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon in the heart and drew out its thousand-year soul ring.
• Yu Xiaogang endured the violent soul power and resentment while refining the soul ring, with Flender, Li Yue, and Meng Shu watching anxiously.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo San Pao, which had transformed into a purple miniature Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Luo San Pao to use Dragon Breath, and its lightning-charged blast pierced rock and exploded against the mountain.

Yu Xiaogang celebrated Luo San Pao’s evolution into a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and credited Li Yue and Dragon Duke Meng Shu for helping him. After Luo San Pao swallowed dragon organs, Yu Xiaogang advanced to level thirty-two, while Li Yue wondered whether Yu Xiaogang had previously fed it his own severed penis.

• Flender congratulated Yu Xiaogang on Luo San Pao’s evolution, and Yu Xiaogang thanked Li Yue and Meng Shu for their help.
• Li Yue proposed cooking the dead Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, and Chao Tianxiang began preparing its meat and organs.
• Yu Xiaogang took the dragon whip and eggs from Chao Tianxiang and had Luo San Pao swallow them while he cultivated.
• Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Power rose to level thirty-two, and Flender, Xiao Wu, and Li Yue reacted uneasily to Luo San Pao’s meal.
• Li Yue inferred that Yu Xiaogang had discovered the cultivation effect after feeding Luo San Pao his own severed penis, and wondered whether Ma Hongjun had suffered the same fate.

Chao Tianxiang discovered a rare Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon head Soul Bone, and Li Yue theorized that the beast’s spiritual strength had been enhanced by absorbing lightning from the Thunderclap Hellvine. As Meng Shu, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang coveted the prize, the group grew tense, leaving Xiao Wu afraid that the Soul Bone could spark a deadly fight.

• Chao Tianxiang found a crystal-like head Soul Bone while carving up the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, and Meng Shu pulled it from the beast’s brain.
• Flender exclaimed at the discovery, and Li Yue explained that the dragon’s powerful bloodline and resentment might have helped it produce a Soul Bone.
• Li Yue speculated that the dragon’s daily exposure to the Thunderclap Hellvine’s lightning had strengthened its spiritual power and led to a head Soul Bone.
• Meng Shu clutched the Soul Bone as he, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang stared at it with longing, while Meng Yiran admired Li Yue.
• Xiao Wu grasped Li Yue’s hand and feared that the others might fight over the Soul Bone and kill them in the process.

Yu Xiaogang asked Meng Shu to give him the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon head soul bone, but Meng Shu planned to kill him and Flender rather than surrender it. Li Yue redirected Meng Shu’s attention to the soul bone’s potential benefits for his Dragon Head Crutch, leaving Meng Shu eager to claim it and Flender relieved.

• Yu Xiaogang argued that his evolved Martial Soul and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan connections made him the right person to absorb the soul bone.
• Meng Shu secretly decided to kill Yu Xiaogang and Flender, then abduct Li Yue, Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun into his clan.
• Li Yue sensed Meng Shu’s killing intent and warned him that the soul bone would benefit his Dragon Head Crutch more than Yu Xiaogang’s Martial Soul.
• Meng Shu accepted Li Yue’s reasoning and looked at the soul bone with excitement.
• Flender felt relieved that Li Yue had intervened after recognizing Meng Shu’s intent to kill him and Yu Xiaogang.

After Yu Xiaogang evolved his Martial Soul, Dragon Duke Meng Shu kept the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon skull bone and went into the palace to refine it. Yu Xiaogang seethed over losing the soul bone while Li Yue accepted Meng Shu’s choice, and Meng Yiran apologized to Li Yue for her family taking so much from him.

• Flender stopped Yu Xiaogang from asking Meng Shu for the soul bone, and Meng Shu dismissed them before entering his palace to refine it.
• Yu Xiaogang bitterly mourned the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon skull bone, while Flender tried to console him and Chao Tianxiang promised them honored-guest status.
• Li Yue outwardly comforted Yu Xiaogang and privately welcomed Meng Shu receiving the bone, which deepened Meng Shu’s karma.
• Meng Yiran apologized to Li Yue, believing the soul bone should have gone to him after he had helped her family.

Meng Shu refined the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon head spirit bone and gained the ability to transform his Dragon Head Crutch into a flying dragon. Yu Xiaogang watched in bitter resentment as Meng Shu’s new power surpassed his own Martial Soul evolution.

• Li Yue reassured Meng Yiran that the spirit bone was best suited to Meng Shu, while Xiao Wu and Ma Hongjun tried to ease the tension.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo San Pao, but told Flender and Chao Tianxiang he only wanted to look at his evolved Martial Soul.
• Meng Shu emerged from the palace with a transformed Dragon Head Crutch and demonstrated its Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon spirit bone skill.
• Meng Shu used his seventh spirit ring to turn the crutch into a giant dragon and celebrated his newfound ability to fly.
• Yu Xiaogang compared Meng Shu’s powerful dragon to his small Luo San Pao and angrily accused Meng Shu of plagiarizing him.

Li Yue collected blood from the slain Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and warned Meng Shu not to fly during the thunderstorm before heading to the mountaintop. He found the Thunderclap Hellvine thriving in the lightning, delighted that the dragon that had stolen its power was dead.

• Yu Xiaogang suppressed his hatred under Meng Shu's intimidation while Chao Tianxiang continued taking apart the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
• Li Yue asked Chao Tianxiang for dragon blood, and she filled his waterskin while privately feeling guilty about her family's plans for him.
• Meng Shu offered to fly Li Yue to the mountaintop, but Li Yue warned him that the metal Dragon Head Crutch could attract lightning.
• Li Yue reached the mountaintop and saw the Thunderclap Hellvine absorbing lightning and celebrating the dragon's death.
• The Thunderclap Hellvine recalled how the dragon had stolen its accumulated lightning power, leaving it with only nine hundred years of cultivation.

Li Yue gave the Thunderclap Hellvine the blood of a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, and the plant absorbed it as it prepared to break through to a thousand years of cultivation. Li Yue suspected that strengthening its body with nourishment could help prevent it from destroying itself as it grew stronger.

• The Thunderclap Hellvine understood Li Yue and begged him not to kill it.
• Li Yue offered the Thunderclap Hellvine the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's blood, and it eagerly accepted because the two soul beasts were enemies.
• Li Yue poured the dragon blood over the Thunderclap Hellvine's roots, and the system announced that it now owed karmic debt.
• The Thunderclap Hellvine absorbed the blood and began preparing to endure lightning strikes and break through to a thousand years of cultivation.
• Meng Shu praised Li Yue's Martial Soul Feeding Theory, while Li Yue considered how nourishment might strengthen the Thunderclap Hellvine's body.

Li Yue explained Thunderclap Hellvine’s self-destruction flaw and offered ways to overcome it, earning a great karma from the soul beast. He then asked Thunderclap Hellvine to follow him so he could provide food and training.

• Thunderclap Hellvine absorbed lightning while Li Yue explained that its body would eventually fail to withstand the compressed lightning power.
• Li Yue proposed that Thunderclap Hellvine abandon its body and become an elemental soul beast, but it refused to give up its vines.
• Li Yue suggested strengthening its body through eating soul beast flesh and blood and exercising, and Thunderclap Hellvine accepted that approach.
• The system told Li Yue that Thunderclap Hellvine owed him a great karma for teaching it how to resolve its flaw.
• Li Yue asked Thunderclap Hellvine to follow him, offering to provide food and teach it how to train.

Li Yue persuaded the Thunderclap Hellvine to accompany him, then drew out some of its lightning power to support his cultivation and temper his body. The Hellvine welcomed the life energy he supplied, while Meng Shu discovered Li Yue’s External Soul Bone and became even more determined to bring him into his family.

• The Thunderclap Hellvine quickly agreed to follow Li Yue and begged him not to kill it for its soul ring.
• Li Yue explained that he wanted to study how the Hellvine drew lightning and stored its power, and considered using lightning to forge artificial soul rings and strengthen his body.
• Li Yue used the Solitary Bamboo Staff, Rapid Growth, and the Bei Ming Hand to draw a small amount of lightning power from the nine-hundred-year Hellvine into his tanzhong acupoint.
• The lightning power passed through the staff with life energy, and Li Yue noticed that his External Soul Bone had begun to grow.
• The Thunderclap Hellvine relished the warmth of the life energy, while Meng Shu recognized Li Yue’s External Soul Bone and resolved to bring him back to his family.

Li Yue used lightning from the Thunderclap Hellvine to temper his body and discovered that it could strengthen the life energy of his Lone Bamboo soul ring. He left with a promising way to improve the ring and a plan to pursue lightning-based body tempering while keeping his self-created soul ring research secret.

• Li Yue explained to Meng Shu that his Solitary Bamboo Staff was an External Soul Bone with a healing and plant-growth skill, and Meng Shu marveled at his luck.
• Li Yue told Meng Shu that he intended to temper his body with the Thunderclap Hellvine’s lightning, then activated his Mysterious Jade Body while Meng Shu stood guard.
• Li Yue gathered lightning power in his tanzhong acupoint and drew his first soul ring there to absorb it.
• The Lone Bamboo soul ring absorbed the destructive lightning without losing its life aura, which instead grew stronger.
• Li Yue realized that a Thunderclap Hellvine second soul ring could complement the Lone Bamboo ring by drawing on lightning from the sky while the first drew on power from the earth.

Li Yue discovered that nurturing the Solitary Bamboo Soul Ring inside the Solitary Bamboo Left Palm Bone let Lone Bamboo absorb Thunderclap Hellvine’s power more effectively. He had Thunderclap Hellvine repeatedly strike Lone Bamboo with lightning so it could grow stronger, leaving the vine exhausted and increasingly afraid of Li Yue.

• Li Yue moved the Solitary Bamboo Soul Ring from his Tanzhong acupoint into the Solitary Bamboo Left Palm Bone, strengthening the ring and awakening Lone Bamboo.
• Li Yue controlled Lone Bamboo as it rooted into the rocky soil and absorbed the earth’s strength without piercing Thunderclap Hellvine.
• Li Yue ordered Thunderclap Hellvine to summon lightning so Lone Bamboo could be reborn through thunder.
• Thunderclap Hellvine struck Lone Bamboo with increasingly powerful bolts, but Li Yue’s jade-colored Soul Power protected it and helped it recover.
• Li Yue repeatedly demanded more lightning strikes, while Thunderclap Hellvine grew frightened and struggled to keep summoning them.

Li Yue used lightning to strengthen his Lone Bamboo Soul Bone and raise its soul ring to the millennium level. Meng Shu marveled at Li Yue’s achievement and resolved to keep him connected to the Meng Family.

• Li Yue summoned a bamboo forest and called lightning down upon the Lone Bamboo entwined with the Thunderclap Hellvine.
• The Thunderclap Hellvine absorbed the lightning and evolved from a hundred-year soul beast into a millennium soul beast.
• Li Yue gathered the summoned bamboo into the central Lone Bamboo and used Soul Power to strengthen his Solitary Bamboo Left Palm Bone.
• Li Yue revealed his Lone Bamboo soul ring, which had changed from bright yellow to violet and become a millennium soul ring.
• Meng Shu praised Li Yue’s achievement and imagined raising his own soul rings, while planning to bring Li Yue into the Meng Family.

Li Yue returned from the mountain with the Thunderclap Hellvine after advancing his soul ring, then joined Xiao Wu and the others for a feast made from Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. After dinner, Xiao Wu took him to wash up and warned Meng Yiran to keep her promise not to fall for him.

• Li Yue descended from the mountain carrying the subdued Thunderclap Hellvine, which believed he might become a god.
• Xiao Wu anxiously welcomed Li Yue back and threw herself into his arms, while Meng Yiran felt relieved to see him safe.
• Li Yue and the others ate a feast prepared by Snake Dowager Chao Tianxiang, and Xiao Wu and Li Yue especially enjoyed the dragon liver.
• Xiao Wu took Li Yue to wash up and cautioned Meng Yiran against developing feelings for him.
• Meng Yiran promised Xiao Wu she would not pursue Li Yue, then invited Xiao Wu to share her room for the night.

Xiao Wu kept Meng Yiran away from Li Yue and spent the night with him, while Meng Yiran watched and dreamed helplessly. In the morning, Meng Yiran left determined to win Li Yue and make him happy herself.

• Xiao Wu refused Meng Yiran's request to share a bed and waited for Li Yue to finish bathing.
• Li Yue emerged from the bathroom, and Xiao Wu pulled him back inside after catching Meng Yiran staring at him.
• Xiao Wu and Li Yue returned with kiss marks on his face, neck, and hands, making Meng Yiran feel excluded.
• Meng Yiran dreamed that she was bound and forced to watch Xiao Wu with Li Yue.
• Meng Yiran woke, saw Li Yue's kiss marks, and resolved that she alone could bring him happiness.

Meng Yiran asked Meng Shu to take Li Yue home, and Meng Shu agreed to seize him and arrange their marriage. Meng Yiran also asked him to bring Xiao Wu, whom she wanted to marry Li Yue as his junior wife.

• Meng Yiran pleaded with Meng Shu to take Li Yue home because she could no longer bear seeing him with Xiao Wu.
• Meng Shu agreed, explaining that he had already planned to abduct Li Yue and could use his new flying soul skill to bring him home quickly.
• Meng Yiran asked to marry Li Yue as soon as they brought him back, and Meng Shu agreed to hold a grand wedding.
• Meng Yiran asked Meng Shu to bring Xiao Wu too so she could marry Li Yue alongside her as the junior wife, and Meng Shu agreed to everything.

Li Yue woke up to Xiao Wu's affection, ate Snake Dowager Chao Tianxiang's breakfast, and went outside to check on the Thunderclap Hellvine. The chapter left Li Yue tending to the vine, which proudly revealed that it had innate intelligence.

• Xiao Wu woke Li Yue with kisses and tried to keep him in bed, but Meng Yiran entered with breakfast and interrupted them.
• Meng Yiran served Li Yue and Xiao Wu a lavish breakfast prepared by Chao Tianxiang, then left without explaining her strange behavior.
• Li Yue and Xiao Wu ate Snake Dowager's cooking, and Li Yue wished he could keep eating it after they finished hunting a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul ring for their teacher.
• After freshening up, Li Yue found Chao Tianxiang watering the Thunderclap Hellvine with dragon blood and learned its cultivation had reached a thousand years.
• Li Yue greeted the Thunderclap Hellvine and asked whether it slept, and the vine declared that it possessed innate intelligence and could sleep.