Chapter Summaries

Liu Feng traced the Dugu Family’s Jade Scale Serpent mutation to toxin overload caused by generations of Soul Ring choices, leaving Dugu Xin’s Martial Soul dangerously unstable. Dugu Xin refused Liu Feng’s first proposed remedy of stopping cultivation and demanded to hear the other options.

• Liu Feng discovered that the researchers in Dugu Xin’s laboratory were all members of the Dugu Family and realized the family had carefully controlled access to its research materials.
• Liu Feng concluded that the Jade Scale Serpent’s toxin resistance had failed to keep pace with its toxin-producing power, causing the Martial Soul’s regression and risk of backlash.
• Liu Feng advised Dugu Xin to prioritize snake-type Soul Beasts for future Soul Rings and suggested that later generations balance poison-focused Rings with enhancement-type ones.
• Dugu Xin panicked at the possibility that his Martial Soul could backfire and asked Liu Feng about other solutions, learning that they carried dangers.
• Liu Feng presented stopping cultivation as the first option, but Dugu Xin rejected it and demanded to hear every remaining method.

Liu Feng proposed transplanting a Jade Phosphor Serpent’s poison sac into Dugu Xin to contain his Martial Soul toxins, but Dugu Xin rejected the risky surgery. Liu Feng had secretly agitated him to steer him toward other solutions and protect his own plan to obtain the Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Liu Feng suggested transplanting a poison sac from a serpent-type Soul Beast into Dugu Xin to contain his toxins.
• Dugu Xin reacted with alarm, questioned whether the transplant could work, and called it too unreliable and troublesome.
• Liu Feng revealed in his thoughts that he had secretly used harmless additives and the stormy setting to make Dugu Xin more agitated.
• Liu Feng reasoned that Dugu Xin’s rejection of the transplant would make him consider other solutions and leave Liu Feng’s Immortal Herbs plan unobstructed.

Liu Feng proposed a new way to address the poison in Dugu Xin’s Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Soul: condense its poisonous Soul Power into a Snake Core. Dugu Xin agreed that the idea was worth investigating, while Liu Feng planned to use the research to draw in Senior Dugu, Yang Wudi, and the Immortal Herbs.

• Liu Feng suggested that Dugu Xin absorb a detoxifying serpent Soul Ring with healing Soul Masters ready to help, but Dugu Xin objected to the danger and the risk of weakening himself and his family.
• Dugu Xin rejected the earlier proposals as too risky and demanded a more complete solution to the poison affecting his family.
• Liu Feng proposed condensing the poisonous Soul Power into a nonphysical Energy Core resembling a venom sac or bezoar.
• Liu Feng suggested guiding the poisonous Soul Power into a special circulation in Dugu Xin’s lower abdomen to form the Snake Core.
• Dugu Xin decided the idea was worth trying and began researching how to create it, while Liu Feng suggested consulting Senior Dugu.

Liu Feng survived a dangerous cultivation breakthrough after Ah Yin healed the damage caused by clashing fire and water energies. He and Ah Yin then discussed Dugu Xin’s unresolved Martial Soul problem and waited for Dugu Bo to return for help.

• Liu Feng cultivated with the Great Heavenly Circulation Method and reached level 58 Soul Power.
• Sunflower energy overloaded Liu Feng with fire, while the Blue Silver Tree’s flowers drew in water energy and forced the two powers to balance inside him.
• Ah Yin expanded her Blue Silver Domain and used her Fifth Soul Skill, Blue Silver Bloom, to heal Liu Feng’s damaged meridians.
• Ah Yin asked why Dugu Xin had not returned, and Liu Feng said Dugu Bo was likely preparing to solve his son’s Martial Soul problem.
• Liu Feng doubted Dugu Bo could cure the problem and told Ah Yin they would wait for him to come back after hitting a wall.

Liu Feng maneuvered Yang Wudi and Dugu Xin into cooperating on research into Dugu Xin’s unstable Semi-finished Snake Pill. The chapter ended with Liu Feng pleased that Ah Yin’s healing, Yang Wudi’s alchemy, and Dugu Xin’s desperation were converging in his plan.

• Yang Wudi told Liu Feng that his attempts to develop Myriad Beast Liquid had failed and asked for more Myriad Grass Liquid, offering to pay extra.
• Yang Wudi revealed that Dugu Xin’s condition was worsening and offered the Yang Family’s resources; Liu Feng insisted on seeing Dugu Xin first.
• Dugu Xin showed Liu Feng his Semi-finished Snake Pill, whose poison mist corroded the laboratory and harmed nearby creatures before Dugu Xin recalled it.
• Liu Feng proposed stabilizing the Snake Pill when Dugu Xin formed his Seventh Soul Ring and unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar, with Ah Yin assisting the research.
• Dugu Xin agreed to Liu Feng’s plan to involve Yang Wudi as a poison countermeasure, despite fearing the Breaking Clan would learn about his condition.
• Liu Feng left the laboratory satisfied that Ah Yin, Yang Wudi, and Dugu Xin were becoming part of his plan.

Liu Feng negotiated with Yang Wudi for Myriad Grass Liquid in exchange for an antidote for Dugu Xin and access to the Breaking Clan’s herbal knowledge. After receiving Yang Wudi’s herbal tome, Liu Feng searched its records of Immortal Herbs and wondered why two particular herbs were missing.

• Liu Feng offered Yang Wudi Myriad Grass Liquid in exchange for preparing an antidote to suppress the poisons inside Dugu Xin.
• Liu Feng also negotiated access to the Breaking Clan’s herbal knowledge, and Yang Wudi arranged for the clan’s herbal tomes to be sent to him.
• Teacher Bennett returned to Plant Academy to secure additional Myriad Grass Liquid, and the academy approved using supplies originally set aside for sale.
• One month later, Liu Feng gave Yang Wudi a gourd of Myriad Grass Liquid under a six-month delivery agreement lasting five years, and Yang Wudi handed over a comprehensive herbal tome.
• Liu Feng searched the tome’s section on Immortal Herbs and wondered why it had no records of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass or Infernal Delicate Apricot.

Liu Feng and Ah Yin studied Dugu Xin’s unstable Snake Core and considered using the Self-Condensed Soul Ring method to create a Poison-type core. As their research began, Liu Feng and Ah Yin revealed their Blue Silver True Body Martial Soul Fusion Skill before Dugu Xin.

• Liu Feng told Ah Yin that Dugu Xin’s failed Snake Core could serve as a test subject for adapting the Self-Condensed Soul Ring method.
• Liu Feng and Ah Yin met Dugu Xin at Laboratory No. 2, where his uncontrolled toxins and deteriorating condition worried them.
• Dugu Xin gave Liu Feng his written Snake Pill Condensation Technique, and Ah Yin observed that forcing poison into a core was damaging his meridians.
• Liu Feng recognized similarities between Snake Core condensation and Self-Condensed Soul Rings, while he and Ah Yin silently agreed that the methods might be combined.
• Liu Feng and Ah Yin activated the Blue Silver True Body Martial Soul Fusion Skill, producing a powerful figure that astonished Dugu Xin.

Liu Feng used his Martial Soul Fusion with Ah Yin to study Dugu Xin’s Snake Core, enduring its poison and recording its toxin patterns over a month of experiments. He proposed that Dugu Xin test a plan to condense the Snake Core into a Soul Core, leaving the next experiment about to begin.

• Liu Feng fused with Ah Yin’s Martial Soul, sensed the surrounding Blue Silver Grass and Soul Power, and prepared to study Dugu Xin’s Snake Core.
• Dugu Xin released the Snake Core, and Liu Feng used Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Domain to withstand its toxins while pouring Soul Power into it.
• After hours of testing, Liu Feng stopped when his Martial Soul Fusion neared collapse, recorded what he had learned, and arranged to continue the next day.
• Liu Feng, Ah Yin, and Dugu Xin continued their experiments for thirty days, as Liu Feng gradually mapped the Snake Core’s toxin pathways.
• Liu Feng teased Dugu Xin about helping test his plans and proposed that he try controlling the Snake Core with only his Seventh Soul Ring.
• Ah Yin suggested starting with the gentlest plan, while Liu Feng’s notes revealed his original idea to condense the Snake Core into a Soul Core.

Liu Feng and Dugu Xin spent months refining a way to restructure the Snake Core into an independent Soul Power core. Their hundredth experiment succeeded, purifying Dugu Xin’s poison and giving him hope of reaching the Soul Saint Realm.

• Yang Wudi continued researching Myriad Grass Liquid with the rare herbs supplied to Exotic Beast Academy.
• Liu Feng and Ah Yin helped Dugu Xin endure repeated dangerous experiments to reshape his Snake Core.
• Liu Feng redesigned the Soul Power Loop and told Dugu Xin to guide the core naturally rather than force it.
• Dugu Xin stabilized the Snake Core, which absorbed the poison from his body and became an independent poison-type Soul Core.
• Dugu Xin thanked Liu Feng and said the purified Martial Soul could let him break through to the Soul Saint Realm at level 70.

Liu Feng and Ah Yin cultivated their Great Pure Yang Qi Method and Great Pure Yin Qi Method, combining sunlight and moonlight through Martial Soul Resonance. After surviving a painful clash of extreme energies, Liu Feng sensed his Level Sixty threshold nearing, and the pair began another day of dual cultivation.

• Liu Feng and Ah Yin used the morning sun and Blue Silver Grass to help Liu Feng break through his Level Fifty-Nine Soul Power Barrier, while Dugu Xin continued drawing poison from his bone marrow below.
• Liu Feng endured a day of Yang Flame cultivation, then transferred the excess energy to Ah Yin and refined the returned power as his barrier grew stronger.
• Ah Yin cultivated under the full moon and sent extreme-cold power through their resonance, causing their energies to clash and their Martial Souls to fuse into a Blue Silver Tree bearing sun and moon markings.
• At dawn, the Blue Silver Tree shattered, and Ah Yin healed Liu Feng as they refined their new Great Pure Yang Qi Method and Great Pure Yin Qi Method.
• Liu Feng estimated that he might reach Level Sixty in about three months, around the time Dugu Xin broke through to Soul Saint.
• On the third morning, Liu Feng and Ah Yin began another day of dual cultivation, exchanging Soul Power through their fused Martial Souls.

After three months of refining their Dual Cultivation, Liu Feng broke through to level 60 alongside Dugu Xin, and their breakthroughs set off a wave of Soul Beast roars. The academy’s leaders forgave their disruption, and everyone celebrated at a banquet.

• Liu Feng and Ah Yin perfected their cultivation rhythm, allowing him to endure the Yin-Yang energy as his Soul Power grew stronger.
• Liu Feng broke through the level 60 bottleneck, and Dugu Xin broke through at the same time on another mountain peak.
• Soul Beasts across Exotic Beast Valley and the Star Dou Great Forest roared in response to the breakthroughs, alarming Ah Yin and Liu Feng.
• Liu Feng and Dugu Xin apologized to Dean Meng Shu for causing the commotion, and Meng Shu forgave them after Bennett and Yang Wudi spoke up.
• Meng Shu invited everyone to enjoy the academy’s feast, and the group celebrated the breakthroughs together.

Liu Feng explained how he evolved his Blue Silver Grass into a Blue Silver Tree and arranged to hunt a Cold Moon Lotus with Ah Yin and Dugu Xin. After traveling to Moon Lake in Sunset Forest, the trio began searching for the lotus while watching for the powerful Soul Beasts guarding the lake.

• At a banquet, Liu Feng explained that his Martial Soul evolved by choosing Soul Rings corresponding to plant parts and combining the fruit and seed stages through a Cold Moon Lotus lotus seedpod.
• Dugu Xin agreed to join Liu Feng and Ah Yin on a Soul Hunt in three days, and the group discussed Yang Wudi's research into Myriad Grass Liquid.
• Liu Feng and Yang Wudi discussed how Yang Wudi's future medicinal research could benefit his family and the Clear Sky Sect without causing excessive competition between the academies.
• Three days later, Liu Feng, Ah Yin, and Dugu Xin set out for Moon Lake in Sunset Forest to hunt Liu Feng's Cold Moon Lotus before searching for Dugu Xin's Soul Beast.
• After reaching Moon Lake, Ah Yin detected powerful water-type Soul Beasts guarding it, while Liu Feng searched for the Cold Moon Lotus and Dugu Xin prepared to fight.

Liu Feng, Dugu Xin, and Ah Yin found a vast Cold Moon Lotus Colony in Moon Lake and endured its hallucinogenic Moon Mist with Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Domain. After identifying a 25,000-year-old lotus as a potential Soul Beast for Liu Feng, they prepared to draw it out.

• Liu Feng explained how the Cold Moon Lotus Colony produced Moon Mist and how its Moonlight Water could be used to nourish the spirit.
• The dense Moon Mist caused Liu Feng and Dugu Xin to see terrifying hallucinations, but Ah Yin dispelled them with her Blue Silver Domain.
• The three uncovered more than a thousand Cold Moon Lotuses and spotted a powerful leader with fluctuations near fifty thousand years.
• Liu Feng insisted he could absorb a Soul Ring from a Cold Moon Lotus under 30,000 years old despite Dugu Xin’s warnings.
• Dugu Xin located a lotus around 21,000 years old, while Ah Yin found one around 25,000 years old; Liu Feng chose Ah Yin’s target and asked her to clear a path so they could bring it over.

Liu Feng, Ah Yin, and Dugu Xin watched the Azure Water Flood Dragon battle the Bone Rotting Crocodile in Moon Lake and discovered that the Cold Moon Lotus Leader was controlling the crocodile with Moon Mist. The flood dragon lured its enemy away and attacked the lotus leader, but a Cold Moon Lotus sacrificed itself to shield the leader, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Liu Feng identified the Azure Water Flood Dragon and Bone Rotting Crocodile as powerful poisonous Soul Beasts fighting over the Cold Moon Lotus King.
• Ah Yin noticed the Bone Rotting Crocodile's glowing eyes, and Dugu Xin realized the Cold Moon Lotus Leader had used Moon Mist to control it.
• The Bone Rotting Crocodile wounded the Azure Water Flood Dragon, bit off half its tail, and gained healing from the Cold Moon Lotus Leader.
• The Azure Water Flood Dragon lured the Bone Rotting Crocodile away, then turned and fired an Energy Ball at the Cold Moon Lotus Leader.
• A Cold Moon Lotus with more than twenty thousand years of cultivation shielded the leader and was destroyed, leaving a dim Black Soul Ring as Ah Yin prepared to act.

Liu Feng and Ah Yin took advantage of the battle between the Azure Water Flood Dragon and the Cold Moon Lotus colony to kill the wounded dragon and secure Soul Rings for Dugu Xin and Liu Feng. After Ah Yin uprooted Liu Feng’s chosen Cold Moon Lotus, Liu Feng noticed something strange about its petals and found sticky purple liquid on them.

• The Azure Water Flood Dragon’s poison devastated the Cold Moon Lotus colony, and the Bone Rotting Crocodile broke free of the lotus’s control and fled before the dragon and the colony badly wounded each other.
• Ah Yin trapped the dying Azure Water Flood Dragon and hurled it ashore, where Dugu Xin killed it with his sword and poison, then began absorbing its fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• While Dugu Xin absorbed the ring, Ah Yin flew to the lake and uprooted the approximately twenty-five-thousand-year Cold Moon Lotus Liu Feng had chosen.
• Liu Feng examined the lotus and noticed its petals looked abnormal; he found warm, sticky purple liquid clinging to his fingertips.

Liu Feng rejected the mutated Twin Cold Moon Lotus because its powerful Yin Attribute Energy would unbalance his Martial Soul, and he and Ah Yin waited by Moon Lake while Dugu Xin absorbed a Soul Ring. They helped the Golden Iron Triangle defeat a Golden Feather Eagle, then Flender began absorbing its twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring as Dugu Xin continued his own breakthrough.

• Liu Feng explained that absorbing the Twin Cold Moon Lotus would disrupt the balance between the yin and yang flowers of his Blue Silver Tree, so Ah Yin returned it to Moon Lake.
• Ah Yin heard a battle approaching, and Liu Feng and Ah Yin prepared to defend Dugu Xin while he absorbed his Soul Ring.
• A wounded Golden Feather Eagle and the pursuing Golden Sacred Dragon arrived; Liu Feng recognized the dragon as the Golden Iron Triangle and told Ah Yin to stop the eagle.
• Ah Yin struck the Golden Feather Eagle's wounded wing with her Blue Silver Overlord Spear, allowing the Golden Sacred Dragon to kill it.
• Flender introduced Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong, then asked Liu Feng and Ah Yin to watch over them while he absorbed the eagle's Soul Ring.
• Flender began absorbing the Golden Feather Eagle's twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring as Dugu Xin's Soul Power vortex churned nearby.

Liu Feng and Ah Yin were interrupted by the arrival of a Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng pursued by Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and a Speed Clan elder. When Tang Hao asked them to help capture it, Liu Feng refused and urged him to let the Soul Beast go, bringing the standoff to the brink of violence.

• Ah Yin sensed a powerful presence approaching Moon Lake, and Liu Feng and the others prepared for a fight.
• A Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng fled onto the Cold Moon Lotus as Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and a Speed Clan elder pursued it.
• Liu Feng recognized the ginseng as a rare and potentially valuable Soul Beast while Dugu Xin continued absorbing his Soul Ring.
• Tang Hao asked Liu Feng and Ah Yin to prevent the ginseng from escaping, but Liu Feng told him to spare it.
• Tang Hao reacted to Liu Feng's refusal by gathering power in his Clear Sky Hammer.

Ah Yin and Liu Feng fused their Blue Silver Martial Souls and battled Tang Hao and Tang Xiao at Moon Lake. Ah Yin unleashed her Endless Life Blue Silver Heaven and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Skill, and her Blue Silver Overlord Spear began forcing Tang Xiao’s Ninth Soul Skill backward.

• Ah Yin and Liu Feng fused into one figure, and Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Overlord Spear struck Tang Hao hard enough to send him flying.
• Tang Xiao charged Ah Yin and challenged her, but her spearwork suppressed his Clear Sky Hammer technique.
• Ah Yin opened the Endless Life Blue Silver Heaven domain, draining Tang Xiao while replenishing her own strength.
• Ah Yin used her Hundred Thousand Year Ninth Soul Skill, All Rivers Flow into the Sea, to gather elemental energy into a gigantic Blue Silver Overlord Spear.
• Ah Yin’s spear collided with Tang Xiao’s Thousand Mountains Shattering Destruction hammer and steadily drove him backward.

Ah Yin and Liu Feng’s fused attack severely wounded Tang Xiao, but Bai He rescued him before the Blue Silver Overlord Spear struck. As the battle paused, the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng sacrificed itself to Liu Feng, leaving the Clear Sky Sect’s group to watch their prey become his opportunity.

• Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Overlord Spear overwhelmed Tang Xiao, and Bai He pulled him clear while being wounded by the spear’s lingering energy.
• Tang Xiao told Bai He to ambush the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng while he and Tang Hao held Ah Yin back.
• Ah Yin and Liu Feng separated after their fusion, and Liu Feng’s Blue Silver Tree Martial Soul disappeared as his Soul Power waned.
• The Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng sensed Liu Feng’s level-sixty Soul Power and lack of a Soul Ring, then sacrificed itself to him.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized the sacrifice, while Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, Bai He, and Liu Erlong watched the Soul Beast’s energy form a Black Soul Ring around Liu Feng.

Liu Feng completed the sacrifice of the 80,000 Year Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, gaining an 80,000-year Soul Ring and a Soul Bone as the Tang Hao Brothers and Bai He prepared to seize it. Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong’s Golden Sacred Dragon helped hold them off until Liu Feng finished absorbing his rewards, and the factions parted peacefully.

• Liu Feng endured the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng’s sacrifice as its remaining power formed a Soul Bone in his left arm.
• Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Bai He prepared to fight over Liu Feng’s emerging Soul Bone, while Ah Yin protected him with her Blue Silver Emperor vines.
• Flender arrived with Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong, and the three summoned their Golden Sacred Dragon Martial Soul Fusion Skill to strengthen Ah Yin’s defense.
• Liu Feng completed his absorption of the Soul Ring and Soul Bone, then persuaded the gathered Soul Masters to stand down.
• Tang Xiao apologized to Ah Yin and Liu Feng before leaving with Tang Hao and Bai He, and Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong departed afterward.