Chapter Summaries

Ye Zhilan’s Nine Heart Begonia evolved into the Sacred Heart Immortal Begonia, breaking the Ye Family’s generational curse and bringing her and Yu Yuanchen closer together. Yu Yuanchen then explored the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he found the Ice Fire Dragon Kings’ remains and provoked their furious dragon souls.

• Ye Zhilan awakened at level 70 with an evolved Martial Soul, heightened vitality, physical strength, and the ability to guide plants.
• Ye Zhilan sensed that the curse limiting each generation to two Nine Heart Begonia Soul Masters had vanished, then kissed Yu Yuanchen in gratitude and affection.
• Yu Yuanchen named her evolved Martial Soul the Sacred Heart Immortal Begonia and confirmed that his Ice Fire Body Tempering had succeeded.
• Yu Yuanchen dove to the spring’s bottom and discovered the intertwined skeletons of the Ice Fire Dragon Kings, still containing Divine Power and Law Fragments.
• As Yu Yuanchen reached toward the Ice Blue Dragon Skeleton, both dragon souls emerged and attacked him with furious torrents of divine power.

Yu Yuanchen used the True Dragon Nine Crowns to calm the Ice Fire Dragon King remnants and draw power from their bones to create a God-Bestowed Soul Ring embryo. He escaped the spring with his Ninth Soul Ring, leaving open the possibility of returning to harvest more Dragon Power.

• Yu Yuanchen’s first attempt to approach the dragon bones was repelled by the Ice Fire Dragon King remnants, so he transformed and used his Thunder Sacred Dragon aura to lessen their hostility.
• When the dragon souls still barred his approach, Yu Yuanchen activated Dragon Soul Awakening with the True Dragon Nine Crowns, allowing him to reach the bones.
• Yu Yuanchen drew and refined Dragon Power from both skeletons, using Thunder Power to fuse it into a purple-gold God-Bestowed Soul Ring embryo.
• The dragon souls sensed that Yu Yuanchen was taking power and grew hostile, so he seized the embryo and fled the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Ye Zhilan greeted the unharmed Yu Yuanchen, who identified the embryo as his Ninth Soul Ring and considered returning after the dragon souls had forgotten his aura.

Yu Yuanchen absorbed the Soul Ring Prototype and reached rank 93, becoming a Titled Douluo with two powerful Ninth Soul Skills. He accepted Ye Zhilan’s title of Dragon Emperor Douluo and prepared to help her find her Seventh Soul Ring.

• Yu Yuanchen began absorbing the Soul Ring Prototype while Ye Zhilan guarded him in the valley.
• After three days and nights, Yu Yuanchen emerged with a 400,000-year Ninth Soul Ring and broke through to rank 93.
• Yu Yuanchen discovered that his Ninth Soul Skills were Two Forms Divine Thunder and Dragon King's Judgment.
• Yu Yuanchen assessed his new combat strength and concluded that no one on the continent could threaten his life.
• Ye Zhilan suggested the title Dragon Emperor Douluo, and Yu Yuanchen accepted it.
• Yu Yuanchen took Ye Zhilan’s hand and set out to find her Seventh Soul Ring.

Yu Yuanchen and Ye Zhilan searched Sunset Forest for a suitable Seventh Soul Ring, using Ye Zhilan’s Plant Command to find hidden, powerful plant spirit beasts. They chose and defeated a forty-nine-thousand-year Star-Eating Vine, and Ye Zhilan began absorbing its Soul Ring.

• Yu Yuanchen and Ye Zhilan searched Sunset Forest for a suitable high-level plant spirit beast but found only unsuitable candidates.
• Yu Yuanchen realized the map was incomplete and proposed using Ye Zhilan’s Plant Command to locate plants that resisted her authority.
• Ye Zhilan sensed a powerful hostile presence in a misty valley, where they discovered a nearly forty-nine-thousand-year Star-Eating Vine.
• Yu Yuanchen overwhelmed the Star-Eating Vine with his Thunder Sacred Dragon True Body and weakened it without killing it outright.
• Ye Zhilan killed the dying Star-Eating Vine, and its black Soul Ring formed.
• Yu Yuanchen set up a Thunder Barrier as Ye Zhilan began absorbing the Star-Eating Vine’s Soul Ring.

Ye Zhilan absorbed a forty-nine-thousand-year Star-Eating Vine Soul Ring, became a level 72 Soul Sage, and used her new Martial Soul Avatar to tame a mutated Ten-Thousand-Year Star-Eating Vine. She and Yu Yuanchen then headed back to Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well Valley so he could test other ways of drawing power from the God King Dragon Bones.

• Yu Yuanchen watched as the injured Star-Eating Vines devoured their king’s remains and then one another, leaving a single mutated Ten-Thousand-Year Star-Eating Vine that rampaged through the valley.
• Ye Zhilan completed her Soul Ring absorption, broke through to Soul Sage, and reached level 72.
• Ye Zhilan used her Seventh Soul Skill, Sacred Heart Immortal Begonia True Body, to calm and control the mutated Star-Eating Vine.
• Ye Zhilan named the subdued vine Star Eater and stored it in her Storage Soul Tool.
• Yu Yuanchen and Ye Zhilan set off for Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well Valley, where Yu Yuanchen intended to test other methods involving the God King Dragon Bones.

Yu Yuanchen safely siphoned small amounts of God King Dragon Power from the Dragon Bones in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and cultivated there with Ye Zhilan for four months. He discovered that the power and Dragon Soul Awakening were slowly repairing the True Dragon Nine Crowns, and redirected most of his stolen Dragon Power toward restoring them.

• Yu Yuanchen carefully drew small wisps of icy and blazing Dragon Power from the two Dragon Bones without provoking the Dragon King Remnant Souls.
• Yu Yuanchen used the Dragon Power to temper his body and bloodline while Ye Zhilan cultivated and reorganized the valley’s Immortal Herbs.
• Over four months, Yu Yuanchen advanced to the late stages of level 93 and Ye Zhilan reached level 73.
• Yu Yuanchen noticed the Ancient Thunder Dragon King Soul Imprint growing more active and found that the fragments of the True Dragon Nine Crowns had begun to repair themselves.
• Yu Yuanchen began directing more than eighty percent of the Dragon Power toward the True Dragon Nine Crowns and used Dragon Soul Awakening more often to encourage their restoration.

Yu Yuanchen completed the Dragon King's Crown and gained powerful spiritual defenses and the ability to temporarily become a true Thunder Dragon King. Ye Zhilan’s Star Eater became a companion Vine Guard, and the two left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with herbs for their families and sects, heading back to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Yu Yuanchen absorbed the completed Dragon King's Crown, which strengthened his Spiritual Power and granted him Dragon Soul Awakening: Sublimation and Dragon King's Protection.
• Ye Zhilan explained that Star Eater had become her Life-Bound Vine Guard, growing with her cultivation and remaining roughly one major realm weaker.
• Yu Yuanchen reached level 94 while Ye Zhilan advanced to the peak of level 74.
• The two gathered selected Immortal Herbs for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, the Ye Family, and their friends while preserving the valley’s plants.
• Yu Yuanchen and Ye Zhilan left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and flew south toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yu Yuanchen and Ye Zhilan returned to Dragon City with Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, revealing that Ye Zhilan’s Martial Soul had evolved and the Ye Family’s fate might be changing. After Ye Kuan refined the herbs into pills, members of both families gained major breakthroughs, including Ye Kuan reaching the rank 90 bottleneck.

• Yu Yuanchen and Ye Zhilan rested by a stream before returning to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, where their transformed auras astonished the gathered clansmen.
• Yu Yuanchen reassured the elders that Ye Zhilan’s rise to Soul Sage came from a stable, legitimate opportunity, then invited Ye Kuan and Ye Zhilan’s parents to discuss their discoveries.
• Yu Yuanchen revealed Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Ye Zhilan showed that her Nine Heart Begonia had evolved into Sacred Heart Immortal Begonia.
• Ye Zhilan said she sensed the Ye Family’s limit on Nine Heart Begonia possessors might have been broken, while Ye Kuan reported that seven children had awakened Seven Heart Begonia and one had awakened Nine Heart Begonia.
• Yu Yuanchen proposed refining the Immortal Herbs into pills, and Ye Kuan spent a month making them before distributing pills among the Yu and Ye elders.
• The pills strengthened the elders: Yu Boxuan condensed a Soul Core, several others advanced in rank, and Ye Kuan broke through the rank 90 bottleneck, prompting both families to celebrate.

Yu Yuanchen helped Ye Kuan become Begonia Douluo, then felt the Silver Dragon King’s bloodline pressure and recognized that dragon power was eroding his humanity. He resolved to preserve his human heart and pursue the Thunder God inheritance, leaving with renewed determination to face Gu Yuena someday.

• Yu Yuanchen told Yu Boxuan that he had absorbed the restored True Dragon Nine Crowns, and Yu Boxuan praised him and urged him to remember the sect.
• Yu Boxuan led a group to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Ye Kuan killed an eighty-thousand-year Star Ancient Tree, absorbed its Soul Ring, and became Begonia Douluo.
• As the group left the forest, the Silver Dragon King’s gaze suppressed Yu Yuanchen’s bloodline, and he hurried everyone away from the Lake of Life.
• Ye Kuan’s healing fame spread, while Yu Yuanchen suppressed troublemakers who targeted the Ye Family and Begonia Douluo.
• Yu Yuanchen realized that the Ice Fire Dragon King’s power and his own True Dragon bloodline were fostering arrogance and eroding his will, so he resolved to command dragon power with a human heart.
• Yu Yuanchen walked with Ye Zhilan, drew comfort from their ordinary life together, and decided to pursue the Thunder God inheritance and eventually face the Silver Dragon King calmly.

Gu Yuena awakened after sensing the Ice, Fire, and Thunder Dragon Kings’ auras within Yu Yuanchen and planned to investigate him personally. Unaware of her plan, Yu Yuanchen began developing combat methods less dependent on his Dragon bloodline, setting out on a new path of cultivation.

• Gu Yuena sensed the three Dragon Kings’ auras in Yu Yuanchen and recognized the Dragon King's Crown and his refined Ice and Fire powers.
• Di Tian urged Gu Yuena to capture Yu Yuanchen, but Bi Ji warned that his Divine Inheritance could draw the Gods’ attention.
• Gu Yuena decided to create a human avatar with part of her origin and travel to investigate Yu Yuanchen and the Ice Fire Dragon King’s legacy.
• Yu Yuanchen concluded that relying too heavily on his True Dragon Bloodline could leave him vulnerable to suppression and Dragon Nature.
• Yu Yuanchen began studying ways to combine the Five Thunders Orthodox Law with Two Forms Divine Thunder and resolved to train systematically with the Thunder Dragon Spear.
• As Yu Yuanchen started cultivating his new path, Gu Yuena’s human avatar began taking form beneath the Lake of Life.

Yu Yuanchen spent a year refining his Yin and Yang Five Thunders and comprehending Spear Intent while growing closer to Ye Zhilan. Meanwhile, Gu Yuena created a human avatar, arrived in Dragon City, and decided to approach Ye Zhilan to uncover the source of Yu Yuanchen’s Dragon Power.

• Yu Yuanchen integrated his Five Thunders Orthodox Law with his Ninth Soul Skill and advanced his control of Yin and Yang thunder without raising his Soul Power Level.
• Yu Yuanchen comprehended the beginnings of Spear Intent through a year of practicing with the Thunder Dragon Spear.
• Ye Zhilan’s cultivation reached level 77 as she and Yu Yuanchen grew closer through their time together.
• A year earlier, Gu Yuena created a human avatar and entered the human world, where she struggled to understand human customs before learning about Yu Yuanchen.
• Gu Yuena investigated Dragon City, found no trace of the Ice Fire Dragon King’s remains, and decided to approach Ye Zhilan to learn Yu Yuanchen’s secrets.

Ye Zhilan effortlessly defeated and killed an ambushing Soul Emperor with the help of her Star-Eating Vine, revealing its symbiotic bond with her. Shocked by the potential of such contracts to strengthen soul beasts, Gu Yuena abandoned her plan to investigate Yu Yuanchen and decided to approach Ye Zhilan to learn how the bond worked.

• Gu Yuena secretly lured a Soul Emperor into ambushing Ye Zhilan so she could stage a rescue and approach her.
• Ye Zhilan struck the Soul Emperor down with Mountain Splitting Force, then her Star-Eating Vine strangled him to death.
• Gu Yuena recognized the Star-Eating Vine’s bond with Ye Zhilan as a mutually beneficial symbiotic contract that could accelerate a soul beast’s cultivation.
• Gu Yuena imagined that such contracts could help powerful soul beasts grow alongside human soul masters and transform the future of their race.
• After her rescue plan failed, Gu Yuena decided to adopt a new identity and find a natural way to approach Ye Zhilan in the village.

Gu Yuena, posing as Gu Yue of the hidden Myriad Beast Sect, approached Ye Zhilan to discuss her symbiotic bond with Star Eater and proposed cooperation to develop a way for humans and Soul Beasts to grow together. Ye Zhilan agreed to bring the proposal to her family and sect, then hurried back to Dragon City with Gu Yuena’s token to report the encounter.

• Gu Yuena waited openly for Ye Zhilan at the village entrance and introduced herself as Gu Yue of the Myriad Beast Sect.
• Gu Yuena revealed that she had observed Ye Zhilan’s bond with Star Eater and offered valuable rewards for the method behind it.
• Ye Zhilan explained that the bond had formed by chance and that she did not know how to reproduce it.
• Gu Yuena proposed that the Myriad Beast Sect cooperate with Ye Zhilan’s family and sect to research a path of mutual growth between humans and Soul Beasts.
• Ye Zhilan said she needed approval from her family and sect elders, and Gu Yuena arranged to visit them in half a month.
• Gu Yuena gave Ye Zhilan a sect token, and Ye Zhilan canceled her free clinic to return to the sect and tell Yu Yuanchen and her grandfather.

Ye Zhilan and Yu Yuanchen persuaded the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to begin cooperation talks with Gu Yuena’s Myriad Beast Sect over the Way of Beast Taming. After the clan agreed to meet in half a month, Gu Yuena chose Bi Ji and Scarlet King to represent her, hoping the alliance could open a path for humans and Soul Beasts to coexist.

• Ye Zhilan told Yu Yuanchen about Gu Yuena’s offer to trade and cooperate on researching Beast Taming.
• Yu Yuanchen judged that the Myriad Beast Sect wanted Ye Zhilan’s method but had reasons to avoid using force, and he supported making contact.
• Yu Boxuan, Ye Kuan, and the clan’s other leaders agreed to preliminary talks, and Ye Zhilan sent the sect’s reply to Gu Yuena.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan strengthened its defenses and gathered records on Soul Beasts and Beast Taming ahead of the meeting.
• After receiving the reply, Gu Yuena called on Bi Ji and Scarlet King to represent her at the negotiations in half a month.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan negotiated an alliance with the Myriad Beast Sect to study a new Way of Beast Taming. The Beast Taming Research Institute was planned near Dragon City, with Ye Zhilan leading its work and Yu Yuanchen overseeing its security.

• Bi Ji and Scarlet King arrived at the council hall, revealing themselves as powerful Fierce Beasts representing the Myriad Beast Sect.
• Bi Ji proposed sharing Soul Beast knowledge, conducting joint research, and supporting each other with resources, while Yu Boxuan insisted the research site be near Dragon City.
• Yu Boxuan, Bi Ji, and Scarlet King agreed to establish the Beast Taming Research Institute eighty li west of Dragon City and signed a preliminary cooperation agreement.
• After the envoys left, Yu Yuanchen assessed their strength and warned that the alliance brought both opportunity and risk.
• Yu Boxuan appointed Ye Zhilan to lead the institute and ordered Yu Yuanchen to oversee its secret construction and security.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Myriad Beast Sect established a secret research institute, where Ye Zhilan and Gu Yuena made an early breakthrough in forming Soul Beast contracts. Meanwhile, Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen reached Level 92 and developed powerful new techniques, but both were decisively defeated by Yu Yuanchen in Dragon City.

• Yu Yuanchen led the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan in building a hidden research institute, and Ye Zhilan assembled a research team.
• Bi Ji and Scarlet King brought research materials and ten Soul Beasts to the institute, where Gu Yuena joined as a resident researcher.
• Ye Zhilan and Gu Yuena developed an initial Soul Power Resonance Contract that enabled stable preliminary connections between Soul Masters and certain Soul Beasts.
• Qian Daoliu reached Level 92, obtained a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, and created the Sky Dome Sacred Sword, while Tang Chen reached Level 92 and developed the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes and an early Great Sumeru Hammer.
• Qian Daoliu challenged Yu Yuanchen and was driven into the ground by Yu Yuanchen's thunder techniques.
• Tang Chen challenged Yu Yuanchen and was overwhelmed even after using the Great Sumeru Hammer, leaving both challengers defeated.

After defeating Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen, Yu Yuanchen invited them to drink and discussed their ambitions for reaching godhood. He proposed that they publicly share the Soul Core Condensation Method, while Tang Chen found a path toward creating his own God Position through forging.

• Yu Yuanchen defeated Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen, and the two renewed their resolve despite the loss.
• Yu Yuanchen invited Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen to drink beneath the moon, where they discussed their ambitions and Yu Yuanchen revealed that he had obtained a God Position inheritance.
• Yu Yuanchen explained the paths to godhood and proposed that the three publicly share the Soul Core Condensation Method to benefit Soul Masters and gather faith.
• Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen agreed that sharing the method could aid their future cultivation and pursuit of godhood.
• Yu Yuanchen urged Tang Chen to build faith by advancing forging, and Tang Chen eagerly embraced the idea of creating a God of Forging path.
• Yu Yuanchen, Qian Daoliu, and Tang Chen formed a preliminary alliance around their shared plan and distinct paths to godhood.

After Tang Chen invited Yu Yuanchen and Qian Daoliu to his wedding, Yu Yuanchen began developing a way to wield his Thunder Sacred Dragon Avatar’s power without transforming into a giant dragon. He discovered that his Martial Soul resisted his control, then achieved a complete fusion with it and began to embody a Humanoid True Dragon.

• Tang Chen invited Yu Yuanchen and Qian Daoliu to his wedding, prompting Yu Yuanchen to consider marrying Ye Zhilan.
• After Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu departed, Yu Yuanchen resolved to refine his Thunder Sacred Dragon True Body so he could use its power in human form.
• Yu Yuanchen’s first attempts to restrain his Martial Soul Avatar’s transformation failed, and he realized the Thunder Sacred Dragon Martial Soul had its own instinctive will.
• Yu Yuanchen entered his Martial Soul Origin with his Spiritual Power and confronted the proud Thunder Sacred Dragon phantom.
• Yu Yuanchen connected his will to the Martial Soul with Thunder True Essence and endured its resistance until it accepted him.
• Yu Yuanchen successfully drew on his Seventh Soul Ring while remaining human, with the power of the Humanoid True Dragon beginning to take shape.

Yu Yuanchen emerged from seclusion at Level 95 and developed a new armored combat form by combining his Martial Soul Avatar, Dragon Transformation Secret Method, and Thunderous Armament. He proposed to Ye Zhilan, and their families agreed to arrange their wedding after Tang Chen’s wedding.

• Yu Yuanchen broke through to Level 95, reached the Half-Step Spirit Domain Realm, and refined his Humanoid True Dragon state.
• Yu Yuanchen combined the Dragon Transformation Secret Method with Thunderous Armament to create and name Martial Soul True Body Possession.
• After thirty-five days of seclusion, Yu Yuanchen reunited with Ye Zhilan at the Beast Taming Research Institute and proposed to her.
• Ye Zhilan accepted Yu Yuanchen’s proposal, and he told Yu Boxuan and Yu Mingfeng he wanted to marry her.
• Yu Boxuan agreed to visit the Ye Family and arrange a wedding date after Tang Chen’s wedding, while Yu Yuanchen returned to cultivating ahead of the Seven Sects Selection.

Over four years, Yu Yuanchen perfected the Martial Way, reached Level 98, and entered the Spirit Domain Realm as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan prospered. With the Seven Sects Selection set for Spirit City in three months, he declared that the clan would accept the title of Number One Sect Under Heaven or take it by force.

• Yu Yuanchen completed a heritable nine-grade Martial Way system and reached the Law Integration into Body realm while his soul power rose to Level 98.
• Ye Zhilan reached Level 85, formed a symbiotic contract with the seventy-thousand-year Demon Eye Demon Tree Demon Pupil, and gained her eighth soul ring and the Immortal Begonia Domain.
• Spirit Hall announced that the first Seven Sects Selection Conference would be held in Spirit City three months later.
• Yu Boxuan asked Yu Yuanchen how the clan should respond, and Yu Yuanchen said they would accept the title of Number One Sect Under Heaven or claim it themselves.
• Yu Yuanchen advised the clan to let Spirit Hall establish order while they focused on perfecting the Martial Way, promoting soul cores, and gathering strength for his goal of becoming a god.