Chapter Summaries

Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin raced toward Little Lotus Mountain as Zhao Linchuan lured Gu Rong into the heart of a thunderstorm. Zhao Linchuan unleashed the storm’s accumulated lightning on himself, leaving him badly injured but surging with vastly increased Soul Power.

• Ning Fengzhi urged Chen Xin to follow the map to Little Lotus Mountain and stop Gu Rong and Zhao Linchuan, so Chen Xin carried him there at full speed.
• At Little Lotus Mountain, Zhao Linchuan taunted Gu Rong and challenged him to pursue him into the storm’s lightning.
• Zhao Linchuan led Gu Rong to the storm’s core, where twelve kites gathered lightning around a rock anchor.
• Zhao Linchuan shattered the rock, grabbed the lightning-laden chain with an insulating glove, and was engulfed by the returning current.
• Gu Rong laughed as Zhao Linchuan convulsed and suffered severe injuries, but immense, destructive Soul Power began surging through Zhao Linchuan’s body.

Zhao Linchuan survived Gu Rong’s attack and struck back with a devastating Azure Dragon--Falling Devil, leaving Gu Rong badly injured and unconscious. After forcing Gu Rong to choose between life and death, Zhao Linchuan ordered him to deliver an ultimatum to Ning Fengzhi as Chen Xin approached.

• Gu Rong tried to kill the injured Zhao Linchuan, but Zhao Linchuan unleashed Azure Dragon--Falling Devil and shattered Gu Rong’s defenses.
• The explosion hurled Zhao Linchuan through the air and sent Gu Rong crashing into a crater on Little Lotus Mountain.
• Zhao Linchuan landed by the crater and waited for Chen Xin to approach while Gu Rong lay unconscious.
• When Gu Rong woke and threatened him with his approaching reinforcements, Zhao Linchuan shocked his ankle until he agreed that he wanted to live.
• Zhao Linchuan ordered Gu Rong to tell Ning Fengzhi to sign the agreement and send it to Spirit Hall, or the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would be erased.
• Zhao Linchuan detonated the remaining lightning in the twelve kites and chains, directing most of its force into the ground.

Zhao Linchuan left Gu Rong gravely injured and forced the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to consider signing his humiliating agreement. After sending a carrier pigeon, Zhao Linchuan collapsed in a mountain stream, where an Iron Spine Crocodile Dragon attacked him and twelve strange lights burst from his body.

• Zhao Linchuan spared Gu Rong and fled Little Lotus Mountain, intending to use the sect’s hatred and humiliation in his plans.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin arrived, and Chen Xin recognized that Zhao Linchuan had diverted most of the lightning’s force into the earth.
• Ning Fengzhi decided the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had to sign Zhao Linchuan’s agreement and resolved to hasten an alliance among the Upper Three Sects.
• Zhao Linchuan released a carrier pigeon, then lost consciousness and crashed into a mountain stream.
• An Iron Spine Crocodile Dragon approached the unconscious Zhao Linchuan and bit toward him, but twelve rays of light suddenly erupted from his body.

Zhao Linchuan survived a deadly battle and was rescued by fishermen, while Bibi Dong resolved to enter the City of Slaughter to become strong enough to stand beside him. Ghost Charm and Yue Guan followed Zhao Linchuan’s instructions to seek help at the Angel Temple, where Qian Daoliu confronted them.

• Twelve streams of light healed Zhao Linchuan after he killed the Iron Spine Crocodile Dragon, and he drifted unconscious downriver.
• A child spotted Zhao Linchuan in the river, and two fishermen rescued him and carried him to Ah Yin for help.
• Bibi Dong saw that Zhao Linchuan’s life-sign necklace had recovered and resolved to enter the City of Slaughter to gain power.
• Ghost Charm and Yue Guan argued over whether to support Zhao Linchuan before agreeing to face the risk together.
• Qian Daoliu heard their argument outside the Angel Temple and demanded to know their business.

Ghost Charm told Qian Daoliu how Qian Xunji had endangered Zhao Linchuan, Spirit Hall’s newly named Saint Child, and warned that Zhao Linchuan might return seeking revenge. Qian Daoliu confronted and slapped Qian Xunji, who defended his actions as necessary to protect the Angel Clan’s hold on Spirit Hall, leaving Qian Daoliu to weigh his argument.

• Ghost Charm and Yue Guan reported Zhao Linchuan’s talent, his agreement with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Qian Xunji’s role in sending him into danger to Qian Daoliu.
• Ghost Charm warned that Zhao Linchuan resented Qian Xunji and might return to oppose him and Spirit Hall’s upper ranks.
• Qian Daoliu rushed to the Pope’s Palace and demanded to know why he had not been told about Spirit Hall’s Saint Child.
• Qian Daoliu slapped Qian Xunji before he could explain himself, and Qian Xunji admitted fault without resisting.
• Qian Xunji argued that Zhao Linchuan’s union with Bibi Dong could threaten the Angel Clan’s inheritance and control of Spirit Hall, while Qian Daoliu silently considered his defense.

Qian Daoliu accepted Ghost Charm’s argument that Zhao Linchuan could strengthen Spirit Hall and preserve the Angel Family’s influence, then ordered Ghost Charm and Yue Guan to bring him back with a marriage offer. Bibi Dong requested the deadly trials of the City of Slaughter, and Qian Daoliu approved her journey.

• Qian Daoliu ordered Qian Xunji to issue a decree naming Zhao Linchuan the Saint Child, equal in status to the Saintess.
• Ghost Charm urged Qian Daoliu to secure Zhao Linchuan’s loyalty to Spirit Hall through a bond with the Angel Family and a marriage to the Saintess.
• Qian Daoliu questioned Ghost Charm’s loyalty, and Ghost Charm swore his devotion to Qian Daoliu, the Angel Family, and Spirit Hall.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Ghost Charm and Yue Guan to retrieve Zhao Linchuan, promising to arrange his marriage to the Saintess and hunt a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring for him.
• Bibi Dong asked Qian Daoliu to let her undergo life-and-death training in the City of Slaughter, and he agreed to send Ghost Charm and Yue Guan to escort her.

Qian Daoliu secretly arranged safeguards for Bibi Dong’s trial in the City of Slaughter and ordered Ghost Charm and Yue Guan to find Zhao Linchuan. Meanwhile, Qian Xunji failed to prove the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was responsible for Zhao’s disappearance, and Yu Xiaogang’s return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect began with his elder brother striking him.

• Qian Daoliu gave Ghost Charm a token and ordered him and Yue Guan to tell the King of Slaughter that Bibi Dong was the Saintess, while keeping the protection secret from her.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Ghost Charm and Yue Guan to search for Zhao Linchuan and tell him that Qian Daoliu had arranged his match and marriage with Bibi Dong, offering to help him hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Qian Daoliu worried that the God Ancestor and Angel Temple had fallen silent, and hoped Zhao Linchuan and Bibi Dong might someday ascend to support the God Ancestor.
• After escorting Bibi Dong toward the City of Slaughter, Ghost Charm and Yue Guan searched the Douluo Continent for Zhao Linchuan as Qian Xunji questioned Ning Fengzhi about Zhao’s disappearance.
• Ning Fengzhi denied knowing what happened to Zhao Linchuan after he left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Qian Xunji could only impose limited penalties on the sect’s peripheral businesses.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, where Yu Lingfeng slapped him, paid off the coachman, and ordered him to leave without speaking of what he had seen.

Yu Lingfeng took Yu Xiaogang to an isolated old house and showed him a recording of his public humiliation, rejecting his claim that Spirit Hall had framed him. He delivered their father's order barring Yu Xiaogang from the sect, then explained the scandal had spread throughout the academies in the sect's sphere of influence.

• Yu Lingfeng paid off the coachman, drove Yu Xiaogang to a remote countryside house, and ordered him to get out.
• Yu Lingfeng showed Yu Xiaogang a recording of the incident near the Litang Great Soul Arena, and Yu Xiaogang insisted he had been drugged and framed.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong, and Yue Guan, but Yu Lingfeng said his investigation found they had barely encountered him and did not know his name.
• Yu Lingfeng announced their father's decree forbidding Yu Xiaogang from entering the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect again, though his descendants might later be allowed to join if their Martial Soul mutation restored the family's power.
• Yu Lingfeng told Yu Xiaogang that copies of the recordings had spread through elementary, intermediate, and advanced Soul Master Academies across the sect's sphere of influence.

Yu Xiaogang accepted Yu Lingfeng’s money and vowed to write his Martial Soul Theory book and take revenge on those who humiliated him. Meanwhile, Zhao Linchuan woke in an unfamiliar woman’s room and discovered that his strength had surged to level eighty Quasi-Soul Douluo.

• Yu Lingfeng told Yu Xiaogang that his father had sent him away to preserve his dignity and advised him to live quietly.
• Yu Xiaogang refused to give up his research and asked Yu Lingfeng for support publishing a book about Martial Soul Theory.
• Yu Lingfeng gave Yu Xiaogang a Black Card containing one million Gold Soul Coins and left.
• Yu Xiaogang vowed to use his theories to create a monster, punish his enemies, and find the Black-Clothed Protector.
• Zhao Linchuan woke in an unfamiliar woman’s room and found that his Soul Power had risen to level eighty Quasi-Soul Douluo.

After awakening from a ten-day unconsciousness, Zhao Linchuan discovered the immense power of the Sacred Medicine he had refined and met Ah Yin, who had helped save him. When two men approached the village, Zhao Linchuan hinted that Ah Yin’s true nature might attract danger, leaving her uneasy about whether he had seen through her disguise.

• Zhao Linchuan woke after ten days and realized twelve strands of elemental Origin Power had formed within his heart after he completely refined the Sacred Medicine.
• Ah Yin told Zhao Linchuan that Little Stone and Shi Shan had pulled him from a river before she helped care for him.
• Ah Yin accompanied Zhao Linchuan around the village, where he praised her life-filled Soul Power for helping the crops thrive.
• Zhao Linchuan told Ah Yin he was sixteen years old and had reached level eighty, astonishing her with his cultivation.
• Zhao Linchuan noticed two burly men approaching and warned Ah Yin through a comparison to a treasured ancient tree that beings with sharp sight might covet her.

Zhao Linchuan’s warnings became clear when Tang Hao and Tang Xiao recognized Ah Yin as a shapeshifting soul beast and pursued her. He led Ah Yin into the forest and vowed to protect her, but stopped to face the brothers before they could expose her identity.

• Tang Hao recognized Ah Yin’s true form, and Tang Xiao confirmed it after focusing his Spiritual Power in his eyes.
• Tang Hao and Tang Xiao blocked Ah Yin and Zhao Linchuan, but Zhao Linchuan refused their request for water and questioned Tang Hao about his grandfather’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Tang Hao confirmed the ring’s existence, and Zhao Linchuan provoked the brothers with a taunt about their family bloodline.
• Tang Hao and Tang Xiao summoned their Clear Sky Hammers, and Zhao Linchuan grabbed Ah Yin and fled with her into the forest.
• Ah Yin realized Zhao Linchuan had been warning her about hunters, and he promised to protect her before turning to face the pursuing brothers.

Zhao Linchuan protected Ah Yin from Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, fighting off their attacks with his Crimson Firmament Judgment Sword and suppressing Tang Hao’s domain. The brothers then activated their Clear Sky True Bodies and prepared to continue the battle.

• Tang Hao and Tang Xiao caught up with Zhao Linchuan and demanded that he hand over Ah Yin, but he drew his sword and challenged them.
• Tang Hao attacked with Earth Ant Emperor Slash, but Zhao Linchuan met the strike with Long Rainbow Piercing Sun and forced him back.
• Tang Xiao used Heaven Collapsing Earth Shattering, but Zhao Linchuan dodged the hammer and avoided its devastating impact.
• Ah Yin opened her Blue Silver Domain, but Tang Hao’s Divine Slaughter’s Domain overpowered it until Zhao Linchuan activated World Purifying Flame Domain and drove the white light back.
• Tang Hao and Tang Xiao activated their Clear Sky True Bodies, enlarging their hammers as they faced Zhao Linchuan.

Zhao Linchuan defeated Tang Hao and Tang Xiao with quicklime and beat Tang Hao when he refused to give up his claim on Ah Yin. After Tang Xiao proposed keeping Ah Yin captive, Zhao Linchuan sent her to wait safely by a stream and prepared to silence the brothers.

• Zhao Linchuan blinded Tang Hao and Tang Xiao with quicklime, forcing them to drop their Clear Sky True Bodies and writhe in agony.
• Zhao Linchuan withdrew his World Purifying Flame Domain, called Ah Yin to his side, and asked Tang Hao whether he still wanted her.
• Zhao Linchuan cut Tang Hao's neck and struck him repeatedly with his sword's flat when Tang Hao threatened revenge.
• Tang Xiao proposed keeping Ah Yin captive until Tang Hao could claim her Soul Ring, offering Zhao Linchuan her Soul Bone.
• Zhao Linchuan rejected the proposal and told Ah Yin to go wait safely by a stream; Tang Hao struggled to stop her.

Zhao Linchuan drugged Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, defeated them through their ensuing fight, and threatened to expose them if they spread rumors about Ah Yin. He offered to take Ah Yin somewhere safe, then revealed his sword and seven Soul Rings as she questioned his intentions.

• Zhao Linchuan knocked Tang Hao and Tang Xiao down and forced each to swallow a potent beast-version drug.
• Zhao Linchuan planted Recording Stones, then the drug drove Tang Hao and Tang Xiao into a frenzied fight that ended with both badly battered.
• Zhao Linchuan collected the Recording Stones and threatened to spread their recordings if the brothers revealed Ah Yin's identity.
• At the stream, Ah Yin admitted she had watched what happened with Blue Silver Grass, and Zhao Linchuan teased her before warning that the Clear Sky Sect knew she existed.
• When Ah Yin questioned whether Zhao Linchuan meant to keep her captive, he denied wanting her Soul Ring or Soul Bone and revealed his Azure Lightning sword and seven Soul Rings.

Zhao Linchuan revealed his Twin Martial Souls to Ah Yin and took her deeper into Sunset Forest to protect her, while Tang Hao and Tang Xiao plotted revenge. Over seven days together, Ah Yin grew increasingly attached to Zhao Linchuan and wished she could be the person he would risk everything to protect.

• Zhao Linchuan told Ah Yin that he knew her identity but cared only that she had saved him, then insisted she leave with him before pursuers arrived.
• Tang Hao vowed to avenge his humiliation, and he and Tang Xiao decided to tell their father about the hundred-thousand-year Shapeshifting Soul Beast and recover the Recording Stones.
• After finding their clothes and Soul Tools missing, Tang Hao and Tang Xiao washed in a stream, stole coarse clothing from a village, and fled toward the Clear Sky Sect.
• Zhao Linchuan and Ah Yin traveled deeper into Sunset Forest and shared stories about their pasts and lives.
• Ah Yin's admiration for Zhao Linchuan deepened into jealousy and a desire to keep him close.

Zhao Linchuan confronted Dugu Bo after the Poison Douluo killed a Medusa, revealing that the Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison was destroying Dugu Bo’s family. The chapter ended with Zhao Linchuan proposing that Dugu Bo control the poison, and Dugu Bo urgently asking how.

• Dugu Bo prepared to claim the Medusa’s Soul Bone and Soul Ring after killing it, but Zhao Linchuan and Ah Yin approached through the poisonous miasma.
• Dugu Bo offered Zhao Linchuan the Soul Bone to secure his own safety, but Zhao Linchuan refused and said he was interested in Dugu Bo and his clan’s fate.
• Zhao Linchuan revealed that the Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison afflicted Dugu Bo, his son, and his daughter-in-law, threatening the family’s survival.
• Dugu Bo broke down over his inability to save his family, calling their suffering the curse of their Martial Soul.
• Zhao Linchuan proposed that Dugu Bo control the poison instead of suppressing it, and Dugu Bo demanded to know how.

Zhao Linchuan taught Dugu Bo how to refine his poison into a Poison Core and gave him Soul Bones to protect his son and daughter-in-law, securing Dugu Bo’s gratitude and help guarding the herb garden. Zhao Linchuan and Ah Yin entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, where Ah Yin recognized its many Immortal Herbs and wondered why they seemed muddleheaded.

• Zhao Linchuan explained that Dugu Bo could condense the Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison in his body into a Poison Core.
• Dugu Bo begged Zhao Linchuan for a way to save his son and daughter-in-law, and offered to become his master in return.
• Zhao Linchuan gave Dugu Bo two Thousand-Year Arm Soul Bones to contain the couple’s toxins and asked him to watch over the herb garden.
• Dugu Bo thanked Zhao Linchuan and began absorbing the Medusa Skull Soul Bone and Soul Ring.
• Zhao Linchuan and Ah Yin entered the inner gorge of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, where Ah Yin recognized numerous Immortal Herbs.
• Ah Yin wondered why the plants in the gorge, despite its rich spiritual energy, seemed muddleheaded.

Zhao Linchuan helped Ah Yin choose and absorb Immortal Herbs in the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eyes valley, while collecting herbs and preparing shelter for her. After Ah Yin broke through to level fifty, he offered to teach her how to gain an Ice Fire Immunity Golden Body, and they wagered a condition on whether it would work.

• Zhao Linchuan told Ah Yin to choose Immortal Herbs for herself and discovered that even the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew had little effect on him.
• Ah Yin chose the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, and Zhao Linchuan gave her a Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone to absorb with it.
• While Ah Yin cultivated, Zhao Linchuan harvested the valley’s other Immortal Herbs, tested the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eyes, and built her a wooden house.
• The next morning, Ah Yin finished cultivating and announced that she had reached level fifty.
• Zhao Linchuan offered Ah Yin the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, claiming they could grant her an Ice Fire Immunity Golden Body.
• Ah Yin accepted a wager: if the method worked, she would owe Zhao Linchuan one condition; if it failed, he would owe her one.

Ah Yin refined her body at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eyes and gained immunity to ice and fire, then chose to spend the night with Zhao Linchuan. Three mornings later, Zhao Linchuan left the cabin while Ah Yin stayed behind to cultivate and make medicinal pills.

• Following Zhao Linchuan's instructions, Ah Yin swallowed the paired Immortal Herbs and entered the core of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes to temper her body.
• Ah Yin emerged from the spring with a strengthened body and immunity to water and fire, then rushed to the cabin after realizing her clothes had burned away.
• Zhao Linchuan told Ah Yin to stay in the valley for safety and arranged for Dugu Bo to bring her supplies.
• Ah Yin asked Zhao Linchuan to stay with her, and he carried her into the cabin, where he promised to protect her regardless of her identity.
• Three mornings later, Zhao Linchuan left, while Ah Yin told him she was refining medicinal pills according to his instructions.

Zhao Linchuan stole the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from the Heaven Dou royal palace and discovered Crown Prince Xue Ye secretly wearing dragon robes while waiting for the emperor to die. Xue Xing burst into the side hall with urgent good news, leaving Xue Ye’s ambition and secret at risk of exposure.

• Ah Yin began condensing her Fifth Soul Ring at the Ice Fire Spring Eye, following Zhao Linchuan’s instructions to use the Blue Silver Emperor’s origin power.
• Zhao Linchuan flew to Heaven Dou City to retrieve the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, avoiding the dangerous Ice and Fire Dragon King soul bones for now.
• Zhao Linchuan infiltrated the palace and stole the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud while the emperor’s guards were diverted.
• Zhao Linchuan spotted Xue Xing entering a secluded hall and followed him, where he saw Xue Ye secretly wearing dragon robes and complaining about the emperor’s control of the military seal.
• Xue Xing burst into the hall and announced that he had tremendous good news, startling Xue Ye.