Chapter Summaries

After Dugu Bo cleared the poisonous mists around Medusa’s nest, Yu Xiaogang and the others discovered a valley filled with extraordinary medicinal herbs. Yu Xiaogang passed through a curtain of Dendrobium into a deeper garden of red and blue plants, where he spotted something that held his gaze.

• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Xiaogang decided to explore Medusa’s nest, and Dugu Bo used his newly acquired resistance to clear a path through the poisonous mists.
• Yu Xiaogang smelled medicinal herbs and led the group into the valley basin, where they found hundreds-of-years-old Ginseng, Lingzhi, and abundant Snow Lotuses.
• The First Elder told Dugu Bo to seal the way behind them, and the group continued deeper into the valley, discovering increasingly rare medicinal herbs.
• The group reached a curtain of Dendrobium, and Yu Xiaogang slipped through it to find a garden filled with red and blue flowers and plants.
• Yu Xiaogang looked across the garden and became unable to look away.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San recognized the Immortal Grade Herbs and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in the Heavenly Screen, while Yue Guan rushed toward Sunset Forest to claim the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum. The chapter ended with Shrek’s group stunned by Tang San’s revelation that the well held multiple herbs capable of transforming a soul master’s talent.

• Yu Xiaogang recognized the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum in Dugu Bo’s lair and realized that it matched Yue Guan’s Martial Soul.
• Yue Guan urgently ordered Gui Mei to take him to Sunset Forest, and Gui Mei carried him there at high speed.
• Tang San recognized the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and asked Flender to take him to Sunset Forest.
• Tang San explained that the well nurtured Immortal Grade Herbs, including one that could raise Innate First-Level Soul Power to Innate Full Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang pressed Tang San for confirmation, and Tang San said the well contained more than one such treasure.

Yu Xiaogang recognized the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s medicinal herbs as Immortal Grade Herbs, prompting factions across the Douluo Continent to rush toward the Sunset Forest. At Shrek Academy, Tang San explained the herbs’ value and tried to recruit Ning Rongrong by offering a way to evolve her martial soul.

• Yu Xiaogang told Yu Yuanzhen that the herbs around the spring were far more valuable than those outside, identifying them as Immortal Grade Herbs.
• Yue Guan panicked over the treasures while the Breaking Clan, led by Yang Wudi, resolved to travel to the Sunset Forest in hopes of finding Immortal Grade Herbs.
• Tang San urged Flender and the others to seize the herbs, then told Ma Hongjun that the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower could potentially eliminate his Evil Fire.
• Tang San asked Ning Rongrong whether she wanted to know how to evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Ning Rongrong considered Tang San’s claim that the Aromatic Silk Beauty could evolve her family’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, while Tang San grew furious at the prospect of others reaching the Immortal Herbs first. In the Heavenly Screen’s continuing events, Yu Xiaogang identified the Mysterious Thunder Vajra Grass as ideal for Yu Yuanzhen, but the First Elder volunteered to test an herb before the Sect Master consumed one.

• Tang San told Ning Rongrong that the Aromatic Silk Beauty might evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and she decided to send an urgent message to her father and grandfather and head for the Sunset Forest.
• Tang San worried that others would reach the Immortal Herbs before him and vowed inwardly to take them.
• Yu Xiaogang searched the herbs and presented the Mysterious Thunder Vajra Grass to Yu Yuanzhen, explaining how it could strengthen his body and Thunder Attribute.
• Yu Yuanzhen questioned whether the grass’s effects were reliable, and Yu Xiaogang repeated Yue Guan’s warning not to judge treasures by their appearance.
• The First Elder insisted on consuming an herb first to ensure it was safe, and Yu Yuanzhen agreed while signaling Yu Xiaogang to choose a good one for him.

Yu Xiaogang chose a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma for First Elder, who began refining it to overcome his cultivation limit. After offering Lin Lang and Dugu Bo a share of the Immortal Grade Herbs, Yu Xiaogang heard Dugu Bo ask whether he could trust them, and Dugu Bo began revealing his family’s Martial Soul flaw.

• Yu Xiaogang identified the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma as the right herb to raise First Elder’s cultivation limit and help him become a Titled Douluo.
• First Elder harvested and swallowed the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma before sitting down to refine its medicinal power.
• Yu Xiaogang offered Lin Lang and Dugu Bo each a share of the Immortal Grade Herbs, and Lin Lang said he hoped to raise his limit.
• Dugu Bo reconsidered asking for a herb to raise his limit and wondered whether one could solve the flaw in his family’s Martial Soul.
• After Yu Yuanzhen assured Dugu Bo that they could be trusted, Dugu Bo revealed that the Dugu Family’s Jade Phosphor Snake Martial Soul had a fatal flaw.

Dugu Bo explained that the Jade Phosphor Snake Martial Soul poisoned its own users, threatening the Dugu Family’s lives as their cultivation grew. Yu Xiaogang proposed the Earth Dragon Golden Melon as a way to change the martial soul’s attribute, then asked to examine Dugu Bo’s condition before he decided what to do.

• Dugu Bo told Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Xiaogang that the Jade Phosphor Snake’s poison accumulated in its users and that Dugu Xin had recently faced a life-threatening buildup.
• Dugu Bo explained that neutralizing the poison would strip his family of the strength their Poison Technique provided.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Bo resolved to protect Dugu Yan after regretting that he had not known about the treasures there in time to save Dugu Xin.
• Yu Xiaogang suggested the Earth Dragon Golden Melon could give Dugu Bo’s martial soul the Earth Attribute and enhance his physical strength, but would make the family’s inherited Poison Technique obsolete.
• Dugu Bo considered the cost of abandoning his ancestors’ cultivation experience, and Yu Xiaogang advised him to keep the herb as a backup plan and asked to examine his condition.

Yu Xiaogang examined Dugu Bo and learned how his Jade Phosphor Snake Martial Soul produced and accumulated multiple toxins. Comparing the poisoned Soul Masters of the Dugu Family with unaffected Jade Phosphor Snake Soul Beasts, he suspected Spirit Rings might explain the difference.

• Yu Xiaogang examined Dugu Bo’s body and found deadly toxins accumulated throughout it.
• Dugu Bo explained that each Spirit Ring let his Jade Phosphor Snake Martial Soul produce a new toxin, and he confirmed that he had tried converting the toxins back into Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang reasoned that Jade Phosphor Snake Soul Beasts must have an unknown way to store toxins that the Dugu Family’s Martial Soul users lacked.
• Yu Xiaogang considered the differences between Soul Beasts and Soul Masters and wondered whether Spirit Rings allowed Jade Phosphor Snakes to store their toxins.

Yu Xiaogang investigated whether an emptied Spirit Ring could store Soul Power after a Soul Beast’s power had been absorbed. He discovered that he could charge the ring, draw the stored Soul Power back, and activate its Spirit Skill using that stored energy.

• Yu Xiaogang considered whether Spirit Rings remained useful after their original power had been absorbed.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Little Dragon and his Spirit Rings to test his idea while Yu Yuanzhen, Lin Lang, and Dugu Bo kept their distance.
• Yu Xiaogang continued pouring Soul Power into his First Spirit Ring without activating its skill until a cracking sound came from the ring.
• Yu Xiaogang discovered that the ring could return stored Soul Power to him and that he could control the flow.
• Yu Xiaogang activated his First Spirit Skill using the Soul Power stored in the ring and declared that he had discovered another world-shaking secret.

Yu Xiaogang discovered that absorbed Spirit Rings could store Soul Power and replenish a Soul Master’s reserves, potentially doubling their total Soul Power. After he demonstrated the method to Yu Yuanzhen, Dugu Bo, and Lin Lang, the discovery caused an uproar in the Dark World.

• Yu Xiaogang finished his research and told Yu Yuanzhen, Dugu Bo, and Lin Lang that the Douluo Continent was about to change.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Spirit Rings could store Soul Power, just as they had before being absorbed.
• Yu Xiaogang demonstrated storing his Soul Power in a Spirit Ring and restoring his body’s reserves to full.
• Yu Xiaogang showed that soul skills consumed the Spirit Ring’s stored Soul Power first, which could later replenish his own reserves.
• Yu Yuanzhen, Dugu Bo, and Lin Lang realized Soul Masters could carry multiple backup reserves, and Yu Xiaogang’s discovery caused an uproar in the Dark World.

Bone Douluo confirmed that Spirit Rings could store Soul Power and release Spirit Skills without consuming the power in his body. Ning Fengzhi realized that stronger Spirit Rings would widen the gap between soul masters and worried about the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s future.

• Ning Fengzhi urged Bone Douluo to test Yu Xiaogang’s discovery, and Bone Douluo stored Soul Power in his First Spirit Ring.
• Bone Douluo felt something break, then sensed Soul Power flow back from his Spirit Ring into his body.
• Bone Douluo tested his Spirit Skills with and without Ning Fengzhi’s amplification and confirmed that stored Soul Power did not reduce their effects or consume his bodily Soul Power.
• Bone Douluo concluded that his First Spirit Ring could store only a small amount, and Ning Fengzhi inferred that higher-year Spirit Rings would store more.
• Ning Fengzhi worried that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s rank limit and two missing Spirit Rings would threaten its standing as the foremost Support Martial Soul.

Shrek Academy tested Yu Xiaogang’s discovery that Spirit Rings could store Soul Power, while the Heaven Screen showed how the parallel Yu Xiaogang first revealed the ability to his father. The chapter left Yu Xiaogang in the White World lamenting that the secret had become public, but noting that he had later developed other clan-exclusive discoveries.

• Shrek Academy members tested storing Soul Power in their Spirit Rings and confirmed that Soul Skills drew on the stored reserves first.
• Zhao Wuji compared the Dragon God Douluo’s discoveries with Yu Xiaogang’s work, and Flender struggled to defend his friend.
• Yu Xiaogang brooded over his envy of his parallel self and wished his negative emotions could increase his Soul Power.
• Yu Yuanzhen and two others followed Yu Xiaogang’s instructions, activated their Spirit Rings’ storage function, and verified his discovery.
• Yu Yuanzhen tried storing Soul Power in his Ninth Spirit Ring, failed after investing seventy percent of his reserves, and concluded the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan should keep the discovery among its upper ranks.
• In the White World, Yu Xiaogang regretted that the Heaven Screen had exposed the secret and said he had later researched other things exclusive to his clan.

Dugu Bo discovered that the poison accumulated in his body could not be stored in his Spirit Rings and feared his family could not be saved. Yu Xiaogang explained that each Spirit Ring could only store the single poison it produced, and Dugu Bo successfully stored that poison in his First Spirit Ring.

• Dugu Bo and Lin Lang tested their Spirit Rings’ new Soul Power storage functions and gained greater respect for Yu Xiaogang.
• Dugu Bo tried to store his accumulated poison in his Spirit Rings, but it could not enter, leaving him despairing for his family.
• Dugu Bo pleaded with Yu Xiaogang for help, and Yu Xiaogang explained that mixed poison could not enter a Spirit Ring that produced only one kind of poison.
• Dugu Bo used his First Spirit Ring to produce its own poison and successfully stored it inside the ring, believing his family’s descendants were saved.

Dugu Bo resolved how to store his family’s toxins after Yu Xiaogang explained that his Spirit Rings worked like separate compartments in a palette. The First Elder then broke through to Level Ninety after consuming an herb, leaving the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan with a second potential Titled Douluo.

• Dugu Bo stored different toxins in his Spirit Rings and thanked Yu Xiaogang for helping him solve the Dugu Family’s Martial Soul problem.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that returning mixed toxins to a Spirit Ring was like putting mixed paint back into its original compartment, contaminating it.
• Yu Yuanzhen and the others sensed the First Elder releasing Titled Douluo-level Soul Power and realized he had likely broken through.
• The First Elder opened his eyes, confirmed he had reached Level Ninety, and said he needed only one Spirit Ring to become a Titled Douluo.
• Yu Yuanzhen celebrated the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan gaining its second Titled Douluo and anticipated that the clan would grow stronger.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan changed course to seek Immortal Grade Herbs, while Yu Xiaogang became determined to obtain the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma and break through. He decided to ask Bibi Dong for help and also wrote to his father.

• The Second Elder argued that the clan should pursue Immortal Grade Herbs instead of spirit bones because the herbs would draw less competition and could help Yu Yuanzhen and the First Elder.
• Yu Yuanzhen agreed to seek the Immortal Grade Herbs first, trusting Yu Xiaogang's judgment on the Heavenly Screen.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San whether the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma could help him break through, and Tang San confirmed it suited him.
• Yu Xiaogang imagined using the herb to advance his cultivation and surpass his Parallel World self.
• Yu Xiaogang decided the First Elder would not give him the herb and chose to ask Bibi Dong for help.
• Yu Xiaogang wrote Bibi Dong a letter recalling their past relationship and requesting help, then wrote another letter to his father.

After the First Elder broke through to Titled Douluo, Yu Xiaogang explained how to refine the Mysterious Thunder Vajra Grass and revealed that Spirit Rings could store Soul Power. The First Elder began unlocking his Spirit Rings and planned to return to the clan later to surprise the other elders.

• The First Elder celebrated his breakthrough, then urged Yu Yuanzhen to take the Mysterious Thunder Vajra Grass.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Yu Yuanzhen that refining the herb would cause discomfort as its lightning power tempered his body, and Yu Yuanzhen swallowed it before settling down to refine it.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Lin Lang and Dugu Bo whether they would refine herbs or continue unlocking their Spirit Rings, prompting the First Elder to ask what unlocking meant.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Spirit Rings could store Soul Power, and the First Elder confirmed the discovery after Lin Lang and Dugu Bo vouched for it and he pinched himself.
• With Yu Xiaogang's guidance, the First Elder unlocked his first Spirit Ring and eagerly started on his second and third, imagining the clan's future and planning to surprise the other elders when he returned.

Yu Xiaogang weighed the Immortal Grade Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then asked Little Dragon to help him choose. Little Dragon detected another herb buried underground near the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, leaving Yu Xiaogang eager to uncover it.

• The First Elder, Dugu Bo, and Lin Lang began activating their Spirit Rings' Soul Power storage function while Yu Xiaogang considered the herbs.
• Yu Xiaogang ruled out talent-enhancing herbs and compared options that could strengthen his mental power or physique, grant immunity to ice and fire, or require the Lovesick Heartbreak Red's recognition.
• Yu Xiaogang rejected the Earth Dragon Golden Melon because its Earth Attribute might alter his light attribute.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Little Dragon and asked which herb it would choose.
• Little Dragon sniffed around, pointed near the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, and indicated that another herb lay underground.

Yu Xiaogang and the First Elder excavated beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, uncovering a hidden chamber whose aura affected them and Little Dragon. Inside, they found red crystals and piles of ancient Soul Beast skeletons, revealing the source of the crystals’ vital energy.

• Yu Xiaogang asked the First Elder to help dig for an Immortal Grade Herb that Little Dragon sensed underground, and Lin Lang and Dugu Bo later joined them.
• The group uncovered a huge rock and, after finding a hollow space behind a stone wall, dug around it to locate a weak point.
• The First Elder carefully chipped through the wall, which contained red crystals formed from Soul Power, vital energy, and other substances.
• When the passage opened, a dense aura made the First Elder and Yu Xiaogang’s vital energy churn, while Little Dragon eagerly inhaled it.
• Yu Xiaogang sent a ball of light into the chamber, revealing red-crystal-covered walls and piles of skeletons that had belonged to ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts.

Yu Xiaogang and the First Elder explored a secret chamber filled with Soul Beast remains and discovered two extraordinary pieces of Crimson Blood Amber. Yu Xiaogang explained their nature and suspected the remains had greatly enhanced their effects, leaving them with a treasure potentially comparable to Immortal Grade Herbs.

• Yu Xiaogang persuaded the First Elder to enter the chamber with him, and Little Dragon eagerly followed the vital energy inside.
• Little Dragon sensed a treasure and led Yu Xiaogang and the First Elder through increasingly dense Soul Beast remains.
• They found two palm-sized pieces of crimson amber, and the First Elder felt his Martial Soul strongly drawn to them.
• Yu Xiaogang identified the treasure as Crimson Blood Amber and explained how Soul Beast blood and plant-Soul-Beast resin transformed over time.
• Yu Xiaogang concluded that the many powerful Soul Beasts that had died nearby had nourished the amber, making its effects potentially comparable to Immortal Grade Herbs.

Yu Xiaogang discovered that two pieces of Crimson Blood Amber emitted unusual orange-red and icy-blue light, leading him to realize that Soul Beasts could grow far beyond the recorded hundred-thousand-year level. He concluded that ancient and ocean-dwelling Soul Beasts might have reached immense ages, and reconsidered what had destroyed the expedition his father once described.

• Yu Xiaogang examined the warm and cold Crimson Blood Amber and found that their unusual traits suggested they came from Soul Beasts older than a hundred thousand years.
• He infused Soul Power into the amber, which glowed orange-red and icy-blue instead of the recognized Spirit Ring colors.
• Yu Xiaogang confirmed to the First Elder that the pieces were genuine Crimson Blood Amber, and they considered whether Soul Beasts had levels beyond those commonly known.
• Yu Xiaogang realized that Soul Beasts could continue increasing their age and strength after reaching a hundred thousand years, despite records treating them as a single category.
• He concluded that some ancient Soul Beasts, especially those in the ocean, might have reached several hundred thousand years.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled his father's story of an expedition wiped out in the Star Dou Great Forest and suspected its members had encountered an exceptionally old Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Yu Xiaogang’s speculation that Soul Beasts could live far beyond a hundred thousand years shocked the people watching the Heavenly Screen and made Xiao Wu recall her mother’s fear of hidden powers in the Star Dou Great Forest. Beneath the Lake of Life, unseen beings noticed that they had been detected and discussed a new god, an Ice Silkworm, and the Ice and Fire Spring.

• Yu Xiaogang told the First Elder that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts might continue growing older, leaving both of them wondering where the continent’s most powerful beasts had gone.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang discussed whether records of older Soul Beasts had been erased, while Tang San considered pursuing a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring with his second Martial Soul.
• Xiao Wu recalled her mother warning that the Star Dou Great Forest held terrifying existences, and realized that even her mother had feared and obeyed them.
• Da Ming and Er Ming sensed that something was watching them as they watched the Heavenly Screen.
• Beings in a special space beneath the Lake of Life discussed being noticed, a possible new god, and absorbing the Ice Silkworm’s energy before falling silent when asked about the Ice and Fire Spring.