Chapter Summaries

Chen Xin intervened when Xue Xing tried to flee, then Tang Xuan ordered Ye Lingling to heal Xue Xing so he could force the prince to serve him. Xue Xing agreed and began swearing an oath of loyalty using Tang Xuan’s detailed written terms.

• Xue Xing tried to escape after realizing Ning Rongrong belonged to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but Chen Xin’s killing intent shattered his bones and stopped him.
• Chen Xin descended to check Tang Xuan’s dislocated arm, and Tang Xuan snapped it back into place while reassuring his grandfather that he had been confident.
• Ning Rongrong demanded that Xue Xing and Xue Beng be killed, but Tang Xuan said he still had use for them and asked Ye Lingling to heal Xue Xing.
• Ye Lingling healed enough of Xue Xing’s injuries for him to stand, and Tang Xuan offered to spare him if he served as his master.
• Xue Xing accepted, and Tang Xuan handed him a written oath barring him from disobeying or harming Tang Xuan and those close to him.

Tang Xuan bound Xue Xing and Xue Beng to him, then ordered Xue Xing to urge Xue Ye to arrange Xue Qinghe’s marriage and heirs to distract her from controlling the Court Hall. After Chen Xin and Dugu Bo explained their encounter the previous night, Tang Xuan suspected that She Long and Ci Xue had recently reached rank 90.

• Xue Xing signed the Humiliating Treaty and swore allegiance to Tang Xuan, who ordered him to encourage Xue Ye to arrange Xue Qinghe’s marriage and heirs.
• Xue Xing made Xue Beng sign the Humiliating Treaty, bringing both men under Tang Xuan’s control.
• Chen Xin told Tang Xuan that he had followed him and Ning Rongrong after Ning Fengzhi became concerned about Tang Xuan’s attitude toward Xue Qinghe.
• Ning Rongrong asked why Chen Xin had not intervened when Dugu Bo confronted Tang Xuan, and Dugu Bo explained that Chen Xin had stopped him outside the academy the previous night.
• Chen Xin said he had sensed a powerful new Titled Douluo, and Tang Xuan concluded that the person was likely She Long or Ci Xue.

Tang Xuan convinced Yu Tianheng to keep Qian Renxue’s identity secret and proposed forming a new Imperial Dou Fighting Team. The group agreed to make Tang Xuan captain, while Yu Tianheng joined despite refusing to call him Big Brother, leaving Dugu Bo suspicious of Yu Tianheng’s relationship with Dugu Yan.

• Tang Xuan warned Yu Tianheng that Qian Renxue’s identity and the failed Nation-Stealing Plan had to remain secret, and Yu Tianheng agreed not to tell anyone beyond his grandfather, Yu Yuanzhen.
• Dugu Bo joked about Yu Tianheng becoming Tang Xuan’s little brother, and Chen Xin defended Tang Xuan as a worthy big brother.
• Ye Lingling proposed that their group form the new Imperial Dou Fighting Team with Tang Xuan as captain, and Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Ning Rongrong, and Tang Xuan assigned the team’s roles.
• Tang Xuan demanded a straight answer, and Yu Tianheng agreed to join while refusing to call him Big Brother because it could complicate his relationship with Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo grew suspicious when Yu Tianheng mentioned seniority, while Tang Xuan refused to help him explain himself.

After four months of cultivation, Tang Xuan reached level 20 and entered Sunset Forest with the Imperial Dou Fighting Team to obtain a Thousand Year Second Soul Ring. The team found an eleven-hundred-year Shadow Demon Tiger, and Yu Tianheng charged at it to protect Tang Xuan and help weaken the beast.

• Dugu Bo left after Dugu Yan insisted that Yu Tianheng be spared, while Tang Xuan decided to wait before raising the Mandarin Duck Pot with him.
• Over four months, Tang Xuan cultivated to level 20 as Xue Qinghe stayed occupied by tensions over a possible war between the Star Luo Empire and Heaven Dou Empire.
• Tang Xuan told the Imperial Dou Fighting Team he would seek a Thousand Year Soul Beast for his Second Soul Ring, and Qin Ming reluctantly agreed to accompany him.
• The group encountered an eleven-hundred-year Shadow Demon Tiger in Sunset Forest, and Yu Tianheng struck it with Thunder Dragon Claw before Tang Xuan could attack.
• Dugu Yan boosted Yu Tianheng with Jade Phosphor Red Poison, and he charged at the Shadow Demon Tiger.

The Imperial Dou Fighting Team defeated a thousand-year Shadow Demon Tiger through coordinated tactics, then gathered to protect Tang Xuan as he prepared to absorb its Spirit Ring. Tang Xuan began absorbing the ring with his teammates’ encouragement, aiming to achieve a Thousand-year Second Ring.

• Ning Rongrong strengthened Yu Tianheng, and he overpowered the Shadow Demon Tiger before Ye Lingling healed his wounds.
• Dugu Yan blocked the tiger’s escape with poison, and she and Yu Tianheng wore it down until it could no longer fight.
• Tang Xuan killed the defeated Shadow Demon Tiger and prepared to absorb its newly formed purple Spirit Ring.
• Qin Ming, Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling surrounded Tang Xuan with protection and support as he began absorbing the ring.

Tang Xuan survived absorbing a Thousand-year Second Soul Ring, reaching level 23 and gaining the Soul Skill Sky Rend, which doubled the damage of his next attack and could enhance other skills. As the group prepared to return to the academy, black wings emerged from his back, prompting Yu Tianheng to suspect he had gained an external spirit bone.

• Tang Xuan endured the Shadow Demon Tiger's Soul Power after a powerful Momentum suppressed it, then completed his Soul Ring absorption after three days and three nights.
• Ning Rongrong rushed to Tang Xuan when he awoke, and he reassured her that he felt well and had advanced to level 23.
• Tang Xuan revealed Sky Rend, a Buff Skill that doubled his next attack's damage and could affect Soul Skills and Self-Created Soul Skills.
• As the group started back to the academy, Tang Xuan collapsed and convulsed while fist-sized bulges formed beneath his shoulder blades, and Ye Lingling's healing could not help him.
• A pair of black, metal-like wings emerged from Tang Xuan's back, and Yu Tianheng suspected they were an external spirit bone.

Tang Xuan revealed that the wings he had gained were an External Soul Bone, and the team prepared to return so he could seek Chen Xin’s help with its incomplete fusion. He also noticed Dugu Yan’s worsening condition and asked her to invite Dugu Bo to meet him, hoping to find a way to treat her poison.

• Tang Xuan explained that his wings were a rare External Soul Bone, which could retract into his body and whose abilities he had not yet fully discovered.
• Qin Ming gave Tang Xuan and Ning Rongrong time off to return home, and Yu Tianheng remarked that Tang Xuan had gained the treasure by risking his life to absorb a Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Dugu Yan explained that her pale complexion came from expending her natal venom and said her darkening pupils signaled deeper cultivation.
• Tang Xuan suspected Dugu Yan’s poison was worsening, asked her to summon Dugu Bo, and planned to seek a treatment at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Tang Xuan returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Ning Rongrong and revealed his Thousand-year Second Soul Ring and Mysterious Wing Soul Bone. After learning that a mysterious force had made the ground sink during his Spirit Ring absorption, Chen Xin identified it as the budding form of a Talent Domain.

• Tang Xuan and Ning Rongrong left the Imperial Dou group and traveled by carriage back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tang Xuan showed Chen Xin, Ning Fengzhi, and Bone Douluo his Second Soul Ring and Mysterious Wing Soul Bone, shocking them with his External Soul Bone.
• Bone Douluo asked who had seen Tang Xuan's Soul Bone, and Tang Xuan assured him that only the trusted Imperial Dou Fighting Team members knew about it.
• Ning Rongrong described how the ground had sunk while Tang Xuan absorbed his Spirit Ring, prompting Tang Xuan to question what had caused it.
• After Tang Xuan described the surge of Momentum he had felt, Chen Xin concluded that his Mental Power and Sword Momentum had combined to create the budding form of a Talent Domain.

Tang Xuan asked Chen Xin to use Soul Pressure to complete his fusion with the Mysterious Wing Soul Bone, awakening its flight ability and Teleportation skill. The discovery that his sword’s Black Hole Attraction might involve Space Power left Chen Xin and the others wondering how Tang Xuan had overlooked its importance.

• Tang Xuan asked Chen Xin to test his resistance with Soul Pressure so he could fully fuse with the Mysterious Wing Soul Bone.
• Chen Xin steadily raised the pressure until Tang Xuan’s Mysterious Iron Heavy Sword emerged and his Soul Bone began to fuse.
• At level 35 Soul Pressure, Tang Xuan’s black wings appeared, and he flew around the hall with the now fully fused Soul Bone.
• Tang Xuan demonstrated that the Soul Bone’s skill was Teleportation, which moved him ten meters at a cost of nearly a third of his Soul Power.
• Chen Xin questioned how a Shadow Demon Tiger Soul Bone could grant Teleportation, and Tang Xuan recalled that his sword’s Black Hole Attraction might be Space Power.

Tang Xuan returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy after training aerial combat with his Mysterious Wing Soul Bone and reached Rank 24. He took Dugu Bo to a secluded ravine and hinted that toxins could be poisoning him, leaving Dugu Bo waiting for an explanation.

• Tang Xuan trained aerial combat with Chen Xin and Gu Rong for seven days, and his Soul Power rose to Rank 24.
• Tang Xuan flew Ning Rongrong back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Dugu Bo was waiting for him.
• Tang Xuan sent Ning Rongrong to cancel her leave and warned Dugu Bo that he had saved his life.
• Dugu Bo took Tang Xuan to a secluded ravine after suspecting the boy knew a dangerous secret about him.
• Tang Xuan asked whether toxins could kill their user, implying Dugu Bo's own poisons might be harming him.

Tang Xuan revealed that Dugu Bo’s poison was harming him and offered to help cure him, prompting Dugu Bo to take him to a dangerous medicinal site. After Tang Xuan said goodbye to Ning Rongrong, he and Dugu Bo departed for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Tang Xuan told Dugu Bo that he knew about the poison in Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, then offered to help treat them.
• Dugu Bo promised Tang Xuan any conditions he wanted and invited him to inspect a nearby extreme environment filled with potent medicinal herbs.
• Tang Xuan told Dugu Bo he needed to inform Ning Rongrong first, while Dugu Bo mistakenly thought Chen Xin was nearby protecting him.
• Tang Xuan asked Qin Ming for leave to study poison with Dugu Bo, and he reassured Ning Rongrong before leaving.
• Tang Xuan revealed his Mysterious Wing Soul Bone, and Dugu Yan explained that she had kept it secret from outsiders.
• Ning Rongrong hugged Tang Xuan goodbye, and Tang Xuan flew away with Dugu Bo.

Tang Xuan discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and used its Immortal Grade herbs to withstand its extreme energies and strengthen his body. He gave Dugu Bo a method to purge his poison through a Soul Bone, then prepared to detoxify Dugu Yan as well.

• Tang Xuan recognized the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and told Dugu Bo it could cure the poison afflicting him and Dugu Yan.
• Tang Xuan gathered the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, swallowed them, and spent the night cultivating in the meeting point of the springs.
• Tang Xuan explained that the herbs’ medicinal power had helped him survive the Well and could make his blood a catalyst for detoxification.
• Tang Xuan gave Dugu Bo instructions to brew medicine with his blood and gradually force the poison into his fifty-thousand-year head Soul Bone.
• Tang Xuan explained that Soul Bones could withstand greater power as their owners grew stronger.

Tang Xuan showed Dugu Bo a way to treat his family’s poison, and Dugu Bo grieved for his lost son and daughter-in-law before thanking him. Tang Xuan accepted Dugu Bo’s living-storage Soul Tool and sent him to seek a Soul Bone for Dugu Yan, while Dugu Bo mistakenly assumed Tang Xuan was courting her.

• Tang Xuan explained a feasible way to counter the Dugu family's poison, and Dugu Bo mourned his dead son and daughter-in-law.
• Dugu Bo promised Tang Xuan help in return, then gave him a blue Soul Tool that could store living things.
• Tang Xuan told Dugu Bo to refine the medicine or find Dugu Yan a Soul Bone worth at least ten thousand years.
• Tang Xuan suggested Dugu Bo ask Xue Xing about the promised Soul Bone, and Dugu Bo wondered whether Tang Xuan was willing to give it up for Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo tried to match Tang Xuan with Dugu Yan, but Tang Xuan insisted they were only friends and threatened to tell her.
• Dugu Bo awkwardly denied matchmaking and left the bottom of the cliff.

Tang Xuan reached level 26 after three months of intense training at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and prepared to return to the academy. Before leaving, he gave Dugu Bo a Ninth-grade Dragon Ganoderma and explained why he feared the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, leaving Dugu Bo to consider the flower’s curse.

• Tang Xuan raised his level to 26 through underwater body tempering and nightly meditation, while Dugu Bo recovered from his poison and reached rank 92.
• Tang Xuan gave Dugu Bo a Ninth-grade Dragon Ganoderma, which Dugu Bo first wanted to save for Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo tried to persuade Tang Xuan to consider Dugu Yan, but Tang Xuan refused and said he was not interested in her.
• Dugu Bo asked why Tang Xuan had left the Lovesick Heartbreak Red untouched, and Tang Xuan called it the King of Immortal Herbs and described its curse.
• Tang Xuan said he would not give the flower to anyone unless they were among those closest to him, because he did not want them to suffer its trials of separation and death.

Tang Xuan confronted his fear that the Lovesick Heartbreak Red would bring suffering to someone he cared about, then returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Dugu Bo. He reunited with Ning Rongrong and promised gifts that could help the Imperial Dou Fighting Team reach Soul Elder.

• Dugu Bo told Tang Xuan that the Lovesick Heartbreak Red did not cause suffering but could preserve its owner's life through hardship, and identified Tang Xuan's fear for the woman he had chosen to receive it.
• Tang Xuan took the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and flew toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Dugu Bo hurried after him to ask how to consume the Ninth-grade Dragon Ganoderma.
• Dugu Bo caught up with Tang Xuan at the academy and learned that he could eat the Ninth-grade Dragon Ganoderma directly.
• Ning Rongrong embraced Tang Xuan after his three-month absence, and he promised to take her with him wherever he went.
• Tang Xuan told the Imperial Dou Fighting Team that his gifts were not Soul Bones but could help every member break through to Soul Elder.

Tang Xuan distributed Immortal Grade herbs to the Imperial Dou Group, promising to improve their cultivation and address flaws in their Martial Souls. Ning Rongrong successfully plucked the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, leaving Tang Xuan staring at her in silence.

• Tang Xuan gave Yu Tianheng the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and explained how to consume it, and Yu Tianheng went aside to absorb it.
• Tang Xuan gave Ye Lingling the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid, saying it could improve her cultivation and might break the Nine Heart Begonia's flaw, and she went to absorb it.
• Tang Xuan gave Dugu Yan the Narcissus Jade Marrow Bone to replenish her body after her toxins were purged, and she went to absorb it.
• Dugu Bo took the Lovesick Heartbreak Red from Tang Xuan's pouch and explained its plucking condition to Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Rongrong thought of her feelings for Tang Xuan, offered her heart's blood, and plucked the Lovesick Heartbreak Red.
• Ning Rongrong told Tang Xuan she had plucked the flower, and Tang Xuan stared at her without focus.

Tang Xuan gave Ning Rongrong Lovesick Heartbreak Red and shared Immortal Herbs with Qin Ming and the others, who refined them and awakened with powerful improvements. Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul transformed into the legendary Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, while Tang Xuan was still refining an Immortal Herb.

• Dugu Bo revealed that Tang Xuan had hesitated to give Ning Rongrong Lovesick Heartbreak Red because he feared he could not protect her, and Ning Rongrong began refining it.
• Tang Xuan gave Qin Ming a Crested Phoenix Sunflower, and Qin Ming accepted it and started absorbing its medicinal power.
• Tang Xuan began consuming Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew while Dugu Bo stood guard over everyone refining their Immortal Herbs.
• Qin Ming awakened at level 60 with a much stronger flame, followed by Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling, whose Nine Heart Begonia had gained the ability to restore Soul Power.
• Ning Rongrong awakened with a nine-tiered, nine-colored Martial Soul and confirmed it was the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

After consuming the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, Ning Rongrong gained powerful abilities and renewed hope that she could keep pace with Tang Xuan. Tang Xuan revealed that the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew had completed his Sword Momentum, and he ended the chapter by manifesting a mysterious Talent Domain.

• Ning Rongrong told Dugu Bo that the Lovesick Heartbreak Red had raised her to level 20, strengthened her body and Mental Power, concealed her aura, and awakened a bloodline that could subdue plant-type Spirit Masters.
• Dugu Bo tried to inspect Ning Rongrong with his Soul Power, but her body repelled him and forced him back.
• Ning Rongrong embraced Tang Xuan and said she now had a chance to reach Titled Douluo and stay by his side; Tang Xuan comforted her.
• Tang Xuan used his completed Sword Momentum to immobilize Yu Tianheng with a single gaze, naming the technique Mountain River Suppression.
• Tang Xuan snapped his fingers, summoned the Mysterious Iron Heavy Sword, and released a mysterious fluctuation that Dugu Bo identified as a Talent Domain.

Tang Xuan explained his Profound Heavy Domain and prepared with his companions to hunt for Spirit Rings in three days. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, he revealed that Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul had evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and gave Ning Fengzhi an Immortal Herb that could evolve his own; Ning Fengzhi pledged the sect’s support to Tang Xuan.

• Tang Xuan described how the Profound Heavy Domain slowed movement and Soul Power while crushing everyone within its range.
• Qin Ming announced that the group would go Soul Hunting in three days, and Tang Xuan left with Ning Rongrong to visit her family.
• Yu Tianheng said he wanted Dragon Wings so he could fly with Dugu Yan, prompting Dugu Bo to approach him with killing intent.
• Tang Xuan gave Immortal Herbs to Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong and explained their effects, including Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul evolution.
• Ning Rongrong revealed her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Ning Fengzhi identified the Aromatic Silk Beauty that could evolve his Martial Soul.
• Ning Fengzhi promised that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would support Tang Xuan unconditionally.

Tang Xuan gave Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong immortal herbs that transformed their cultivation and martial souls. After they concealed their breakthroughs, Tang Xuan and Ning Rongrong planned to leave the next day to help their companions obtain Spirit Rings, with Chen Xin joining them.

• Tang Xuan explained the effects of the Primal Chaos Immortal Herb and Ink Jade Divine Bamboo, and Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin began absorbing their gifts.
• After five or six hours, Gu Rong broke through to level 96, while Chen Xin reached level 98 and Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong’s martial souls evolved into Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagodas.
• Tang Xuan warned them to keep their breakthroughs and evolutions secret, and Chen Xin said he had contained the aura so no one else would know.
• Tang Xuan told Chen Xin that he and Ning Rongrong would leave the next day because the Imperial Dou Fighting Team needed Spirit Rings.
• Tang Xuan invited Chen Xin to accompany them, and Ning Rongrong asked him to find her the best Spirit Ring.