Chapter Summaries

Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi separately assessed Xuan Hao’s actions at Heaven Dou Royal Academy as signs of a powerful Hidden Family making its move. Xue Ye chose to let Xuan Hao continue, while Ning Fengzhi kept the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect at a distance and refused Ning Rongrong’s request to visit him.

• Xue Ye told Meng Shenji he suspected Xuan Hao represented a Hidden Family probing for allies, and ordered that the Crown Prince let him cause trouble at the academy as long as nobody died.
• Xue Ye judged that the National Treasures he had given away were worth the chance of gaining a future Titled Douluo or the friendship of a powerful Hidden Family.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed whether Xuan Hao’s academy campaign was guided by a Hidden Family amid rising tensions involving Spirit Hall and the empires.
• Ning Rongrong asked Ning Fengzhi to take her to meet Xuan Hao and join the Self-Strengthening Society, but Ning Fengzhi refused because the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had to stay out of the nobles’ conflict.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that the sect would wait until Xue Ye formally asked for help, while Gu Rong tried to comfort the disappointed Ning Rongrong.

Xuan Hao met Dugu Bo, resisted his intimidation with his Dragon Might, and asked for the secret medicinal land in Sunset Forest known as the Mandarin Duck Pot. He offered to exchange a cure for the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Venom backlash affecting Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, leaving Dugu Bo shocked and demanding to know how he learned their secret.

• Xuan Hao organized the Heaven Dou Self-Improvement Association and imposed a packed cultivation schedule on its students.
• Dugu Yan brought Xuan Hao to Dugu Bo's residence, where Dugu Bo threatened him for supposedly kidnapping his granddaughter.
• Xuan Hao's Dragon Might shattered Dugu Bo's serpent phantom and forced the Titled Douluo to withdraw his aura.
• Dugu Bo acknowledged his debt to Xuan Hao and offered to fulfill one request that did not violate his principles or bottom line.
• Xuan Hao demanded Dugu Bo's secret medicinal land in Sunset Forest, including everything in it, and Dugu Bo refused.
• Xuan Hao offered a cure for the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Venom backlash affecting Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, prompting Dugu Bo to demand how he knew about it.

Xuan Hao explained that Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Souls caused an inherited poison defect, then offered a way to manage the toxin and outlined how Martial Souls might evolve. He left Dugu Bo with a new theory: extreme, compatible energy could stimulate a directed mutation and overcome a Martial Soul’s limits.

• Xuan Hao revealed that Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan were suffering from poison caused by their Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Souls and told them Dugu Bo’s son had likely died from the same backlash.
• Dugu Bo admitted through his silence that Xuan Hao’s claims were true, and Dugu Yan asked whether she and her father had been poisoned.
• Xuan Hao clarified that he could suppress or remove the poison for a time, though he could not cure the Martial Soul defect itself.
• Xuan Hao described Martial Soul evolution as a response to intense resonance between compatible energies and argued that even weak Martial Souls could evolve under the right conditions.

Xuan Hao persuaded Dugu Bo to let him use the Yao Pu to treat Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, then arranged to meet them at Heaven Dou Royal Academy the next morning. Back at the hotel, he worried that awakening the Dragon Souls beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well might reveal Na’er's true identity and erase the girl he knew.

• Xuan Hao offered slow and fast ways to treat Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo agreed to give him access to the Yao Pu in exchange for a cure.
• Dugu Bo asked Xuan Hao to protect Dugu Yan if the treatment went wrong, and Xuan Hao agreed.
• Xuan Hao told Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to meet him at Heaven Dou Royal Academy the next morning and said Dugu Yan would need to come with them.
• Back at the hotel, Xuan Hao covered the sleeping Na'er with a blanket and considered his plans for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xuan Hao wondered why the Silver Dragon King had sought him out and why Na'er showed no sign of having a Martial Soul or Soul Power.
• Xuan Hao feared that awakening the Dragon Souls beneath the well might restore the Silver Dragon King's memories and replace the Na'er he knew.

Xuan Hao reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Dugu Bo and took the Octagonal mysterious ice grass and Infernal delicate apricot. After eating both herbs and plunging into the spring, his dragon spirits began absorbing and balancing their powers as an ancient aura erupted from beneath the valley.

• Xuan Hao left Gui Mei behind and traveled with Na'er to meet Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Dugu Bo led Xuan Hao and Na'er through Sunset Forest's poisonous miasma to his treehouse, where Na'er stayed with Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo carried Xuan Hao into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and showed him the rare herbs growing around the pool.
• Xuan Hao identified the Octagonal mysterious ice grass and Infernal delicate apricot, cut them with his tools, and ate both despite Dugu Bo's warning.
• Xuan Hao stripped off his belongings and leaped into the spring, while Dugu Bo watched in shock.
• The golden dragon martial soul shielded Xuan Hao as the silver dragon spirit drew in the spring's ice and fire elements, causing the valley to shake and an ancient aura to surge from below.

Dugu Bo fled as the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King appeared at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, awakening Gu Yuena’s sealed memories as Na’er. Gu Yuena revealed her plan to use Xuan Hao’s Dragon God Bloodline to restore the Dragon God and instructed the Dragon Kings to guide him without exposing her identity.

• Dugu Bo escaped Death Valley as the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King emerged before Xuan Hao.
• Gu Yuena awakened as Na’er, put Dugu Yan to sleep, and sealed the valley from outside observation.
• Di Tian arrived and rejoiced at finding the Dragon Souls and Dragon Bones, while the Dragon Kings respectfully greeted Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena explained that Xuan Hao’s complete Dragon God Bloodline could help her release the Golden Dragon King and restore the Dragon God.
• Gu Yuena told the Dragon Kings to claim they wanted to train Xuan Hao as their successor and to keep her identity secret.
• Gu Yuena returned to her child form and pretended to faint as Di Tian left.

After absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, Xuan Hao was dragged into the depths of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and met the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King, who chose him to inherit their legacy. They planned to reside within him and test his character before granting him their full power, while Na'er remained asleep by the shore.

• Xuan Hao found Na'er asleep beside the shore, surrounded by docile elements and the Silver Dragon Spirit, and wondered whether she was the Silver Dragon King herself.
• Xuan Hao transplanted Ah Yin beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone in the spring.
• Three days later, a powerful force dragged Xuan Hao to the bottom of the spring, where he encountered the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King.
• The Dragon Kings offered Xuan Hao their legacy and insisted that his Golden Dragon Martial Soul and Silver Dragon Spirit made him the Dragon Clan's hope.
• The Ice Dragon King explained that the Dragon Kings would test Xuan Hao before granting him power to pursue godhood, and Xuan Hao accepted their cautious approach.

Xuan Hao made a deal with the Ice Dragon King to revive her after he became a god, and the Dragon Kings prepared to use his soul bones as vessels for their power. After discovering that Na'er’s story about reaching the valley did not add up, Xuan Hao pretended to believe her and continued acting as her brother.

• The Ice Dragon King admitted that she wanted Xuan Hao to become a god and revive her, and they agreed to help each other.
• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King decided to infuse their essence into Xuan Hao’s two hundred-thousand-year soul bones as temporary vessels for their souls and power.
• Xuan Hao woke Na'er and questioned how she had reached the valley, doubting her claim that she had fainted from fear.
• Xuan Hao suspected Na'er was the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena, but hid his suspicions and played along with her story.
• Na'er watched Xuan Hao leave and remarked that he was very smart.

Xuan Hao returned to the tree house with Na'er after flying out of Dugu Bo’s Medicine Garden, where she had survived three days near the Ice and Fire pool. He told Dugu Bo that he had awakened something beneath the pool, and Dugu Bo suspected it was a True Dragon Remnant Soul.

• Xuan Hao used his Dragon Wings and Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone Skill to fly Na'er back to the tree house.
• Dugu Yan reunited with Na'er and learned that she had been in the valley near the Medicine Garden for three days.
• Dugu Yan fired a signal flare, and Dugu Bo returned from his search to find Na'er safe with Xuan Hao.
• Xuan Hao told Dugu Bo that an earthquake had occurred because he awakened something sleeping beneath the Mandarin Duck Pot.
• Dugu Bo connected the earthquake and the bloodline suppression he had felt to a legendary Ancient True Dragon and wondered why the Dragon Soul had awakened for Xuan Hao.

Xuan Hao brought Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the Ice Dragon King offered to refine their Martial Souls and help Dugu Bo achieve Dragon Transformation. When she demanded they swear lifelong allegiance to Xuan Hao, he refused to force his friends into servitude and left Dugu Bo deeply moved by his respect.

• Xuan Hao persuaded Dugu Bo to bring Dugu Yan to meet the Dragon Kings beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Ice Dragon King agreed to refine Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Martial Soul and grant it True Dragon Qi, but demanded that Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan acknowledge Xuan Hao as their master.
• Dugu Bo refused to become Xuan Hao’s servant, even if that meant remaining uncured.
• Xuan Hao told the Ice Dragon King that he valued Dugu Bo as a friend and would not accept forced loyalty.
• The Ice Dragon King withdrew her demand, and Dugu Bo was deeply touched by Xuan Hao’s defense of him.

The Ice Dragon King began treating Xuan Hao with the Dragon Blood Ganoderma while preparing to transform Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s Martial Souls and cultivation. The chapter ended with her forcing Dragon Soul Power into the pair, whose agonized screams rang through the valley.

• The Ice Dragon King explained that she could transform Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s Martial Souls by fusing Dragon Origin into them, without using Immortal Herbs.
• The Ice Dragon King ordered Xuan Hao to enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then learned that he had a Ten Thousand Year Dragon Blood Ganoderma.
• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King refined the Ganoderma into medicinal liquid and forced Xuan Hao to absorb it in the spring.
• The Ice Dragon King told Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan she would transform their Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Souls into Jade Phosphorous Poison Dragons and teach them to form Dragon Pearl Inner Cores.
• The Ice Dragon King sent Dragon Soul Power into Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, and both screamed in pain.

After half a month in seclusion, Xuan Hao emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with enhanced spirit bones and a growing ten-thousand-year Dragon Blood Soul Ring. He learned that Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo had evolved their Martial Souls, while Na'er awakened a Silver Dragon Martial Soul, leaving Xuan Hao uncertain whether she was truly the girl he knew or Gu Yuena in disguise.

• Xuan Hao emerged from the well with improved spirit bones and a Growth Spirit Ring that granted him the Golden Dragon Berserk Domain, which doubled his strength, defense, and speed.
• Na'er told Xuan Hao that Dugu Yan had consumed an Earth Dragon Golden Melon and evolved into a Jade Phosphorous Poison Dragon, while Dugu Bo's Martial Soul became the Jade Phosphorous Dragon Emperor.
• Na'er revealed that Sister Bing had helped awaken her Silver Dragon Martial Soul, which manifested with seven elemental lights and a yellow Soul Ring.
• Xuan Hao wondered whether Na'er was still herself or whether Gu Yuena was pretending to be her, then reassured Na'er that her Martial Soul was beautiful.

Xuan Hao and Na'er cultivated at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while the Dragon Kings slumbered within his Soul Bones. Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan returned transformed by their Martial Soul evolutions, and the group headed back to Heaven Dou City, where Xuan Hao urged Dugu Yan to train with her grandfather.

• Ah Rou told Xuan Hao that the Ice Dragon King's aura had strengthened her remnant soul, though she was still frightened of her powerful roommate.
• Dugu Bo returned with his Martial Soul evolved into the Jade Phosphorous Dragon Emperor, his Soul Power at Level Ninety-Two, and his toxins forming a controllable dragon pearl.
• Dugu Yan revealed that her evolved Jade Phosphorous Poison Dragon had raised her Soul Power to Rank 33 and changed her first two Soul Skills.
• Xuan Hao brought Na'er and Dugu Yan back to Heaven Dou City with Dugu Bo after their long stay at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Yan asked to stay at the hotel with Na'er, but Xuan Hao told her to go home with Dugu Bo and learn to adapt to her new dragon-based fighting style.

Xuan Hao returned to the Heaven Dou Royal Hotel after half a month away, having reached rank 42 and gained a ten-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring. He refused the Pope’s urgent order to return to Spirit City after Yue Guan and Ghostly Shadow warned that Bibi Dong suspected he was aligning with Xue Qinghe and the Elder Hall.

• Dugu Bo teased Dugu Yan about her feelings for Xuan Hao as he escorted her away from the hotel.
• Yue Guan and Ghostly Shadow confronted Xuan Hao over his disappearance and his failure to report back to Spirit City.
• Xuan Hao revealed his rank 42 cultivation and four Soul Rings, including a ten-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring, and said Dugu Bo had become his ally.
• Yue Guan delivered Bibi Dong’s order for Xuan Hao to return to Spirit City, but Xuan Hao refused because he feared being punished for running away.
• Yue Guan and Ghostly Shadow explained that Bibi Dong knew about Xuan Hao’s activities at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and might suspect he was joining forces with Xue Qinghe.

Xuan Hao learned that Blue Tyrant Academy students had beaten Heaven Dou Royal Academy students and seized the chance to stir up a major confrontation. He ordered the entire academy to gather for a mass march, leaving Dugu Yan to assemble the students.

• Xuan Hao flew to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Na'er, thinking about how to prove his loyalty to Bibi Dong and provoke Qian Renxue into attacking him.
• Dugu Yan told Xuan Hao that students from the academy had been beaten, then brought him to the training ground to hear what happened.
• An injured student explained that Blue Tyrant Academy students had attacked them after mocking their exhausting morning run and taking advantage of their weakened state.
• Xuan Hao recognized the incident as an opportunity to cause a public stir and ordered Dugu Yan to gather every student at the academy.
• Xuan Hao claimed that a large group was needed to defend the academy's honor, and Dugu Yan went to assemble the students.

Xuan Hao rallied more than five hundred Heaven Dou Royal Academy students to confront Blue Tyrant Academy over an attack on their classmates. He reached the academy, demanded its students come out, and blasted its gates and entrance plaque apart with his Golden Dragon Roar.

• Xuan Hao told the assembled Heaven Dou Royal Academy students that Blue Tyrant Academy had beaten members of the Heaven Dou Self-Improvement Association and roused them to seek revenge.
• Xuan Hao led more than five hundred students through Heaven Dou City toward Blue Tyrant Academy, alarming the city guards but passing through the gates without resistance.
• Xuan Hao halted his followers outside Blue Tyrant Academy and demanded that the students who had attacked his people, along with the academy's other geniuses, come out.
• Xuan Hao rejected a teacher's offer to investigate the incident and warned that he would retaliate according to the rules of the Spirit Master World.
• Xuan Hao unleashed his Golden Dragon Roar, shattering Blue Tyrant Academy's iron gates, nearby walls, and entrance plaque.

Xuan Hao confronted Liu Erlong at Blue Tyrant Academy after her students beat up his people, provoking her into a wager and a fight. He revealed his Golden Dragon Possession without showing his Soul Rings, leaving Liu Erlong stunned by his Martial Soul’s suppression and powerful Soul Power.

• Yu Tianheng warned Xuan Hao that Liu Erlong was his aunt and had a fierce temper, but Xuan Hao refused to back down.
• Liu Erlong arrived at the ruined academy gate and demanded to know who had smashed it, and Xuan Hao admitted he was responsible.
• Xuan Hao challenged Liu Erlong to fight over her students’ attack on his people, and she agreed to discipline him with three punches.
• Xuan Hao rejected Liu Erlong’s three-punch limit and wagered that he would take her surname if he lost; Liu Erlong countered that Blue Tyrant Academy would be his if she lost.
• Xuan Hao activated his Golden Dragon Possession, and Liu Erlong sensed its Martial Soul suppression and Soul Power above level forty.

Xuan Hao defeated Liu Erlong in their fight for Blue Tyrant Academy, using his soul skills and Dream’s Other Shore to leave her unconscious. The academy’s ownership was at stake, and Xue Qinghe arrived to find Liu Erlong beaten and Xuan Hao standing over the ruins.

• Xuan Hao enhanced himself with the Golden Dragon Body and Golden Dragon Berserk Domain, then stunned Liu Erlong with Golden Dragon Roar and struck her into a crater.
• Xuan Hao used Dream’s Other Shore to make Liu Erlong see Yu Xiao Gang, then beat her until she lost consciousness.
• Xuan Hao declared that Blue Tyrant Academy belonged to Xuan, prompting cheers from Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s students.
• Xue Qinghe arrived with the Royal Imperial Guards, saw Liu Erlong unconscious, and was stunned that Xuan Hao had defeated her.
• A Blue Tyrant Academy teacher appealed to Xue Qinghe to punish Xuan Hao for wrecking the gates and injuring Liu Erlong.

Xuan Hao pressured Xue Qinghe to make Blue Tyrant Academy honor its wager, while Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong arrived and discovered how much Xuan Hao had grown. Xue Qinghe warned that his march with hundreds of Soul Masters could look like rebellion, and Xuan Hao answered with a pointed joke about executing his clan.

• Xue Qinghe challenged Xuan Hao over surrounding Blue Tyrant Academy and beating its dean, but Xuan Hao insisted the academy was his after Liu Erlong lost their bet.
• Xuan Hao threatened that refusing to enforce the bet would mean Xue Qinghe looked down on the noble students, putting her under pressure from the assembled crowd.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived with Ning Rongrong, who rushed to embrace Xuan Hao and explained that the sect had tracked his return.
• Ning Fengzhi sensed that Xuan Hao had reached above level forty in less than a month, while Xuan Hao returned the conversation to the wager.
• Xue Qinghe warned Xuan Hao that marching nearly five hundred Soul Masters through the capital could appear to be an attempt at rebellion, and Xuan Hao joked about her executing his whole clan.

Xuan Hao defended his actions to Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi, then forced Liu Erlong to honor their bet and hand over Blue Tyrant Academy. After claiming the academy, he ordered the students to return to training instead of seeking revenge.

• Xuan Hao insisted that his attack on Liu Erlong had been a civilized exchange and teased Xue Qinghe about being concerned for her.
• Ning Fengzhi healed Liu Erlong, who woke up confused and furious when she remembered Xuan Hao had defeated her.
• Xuan Hao taunted Liu Erlong about reneging on their bet, and she publicly conceded that Blue Tyrant Academy belonged to him.
• Ning Fengzhi suggested they leave the crowded street, while Xuan Hao sent the Heaven Dou Royal Academy students back.
• Xuan Hao declared the former Blue Tyrant Academy students his subordinates and ordered everyone to double their training instead of seeking revenge.