Chapter Summaries

Yao Yan absorbed the Ten-Thousand-Year Solitary Bamboo's Soul Ring, reached level thirty-three, and demonstrated his powerful new Blue Silver Grass enhancement. As he and Zhu Zhuqing headed out of the forest, he spotted a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear carrying a Jade Phosphorous Serpent and rushed to save the snake.

• Yao Yan explained that his Simulation Soul Skill could create Blue Silver Grass imitations of weapons, then absorbed the Ten-Thousand-Year Solitary Bamboo's Soul Ring while Zhu Zhuqing guarded him.
• Yao Yan broke through to level thirty-three and revealed that his third soul skill greatly increased Blue Silver Grass's toughness, growth, and reproduction.
• Yao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing set off toward Heaven Dou City, with Yao Yan noting that he intended to meet Qian Renxue.
• Yao Yan sensed a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear carrying a Jade Phosphorous Serpent and decided the snake would be useful to him.
• Yao Yan told Zhu Zhuqing to wait behind and rushed toward the bear to save the serpent.

Yao Yan forced the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear to drink Jade Phosphorous Serpent venom so he could develop antibodies for making Detoxification Pills. After returning to the pharmacy with Zhu Zhuqing, Yao Yan found his Medicinal Bath no longer improved his cultivation and decided he needed Whale Rubber to strengthen the prescription.

• Yao Yan healed the Jade Phosphorous Serpent and ordered it to fill a barrel with venom for the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.
• Yao Yan used his Emperor Auspicious Beast aura and the gathered Spirit Beasts to make the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear swallow the venom.
• After the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear recovered, it dragged the Jade Phosphorous Serpent back to its territory while Yao Yan returned to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Yao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing went back to the pharmacy, ate dinner, and prepared their Medicinal Baths.
• Yao Yan realized the Medicinal Bath had stopped improving his cultivation and identified Whale Rubber as the ingredient he needed.

Yao Yan arranged to buy Whale Rubber, which he planned to use to develop a body-tempering pill after learning of its hidden benefits for Soul Masters. When the shipment arrived, he tested a piece and confirmed it accelerated his Soul Power circulation.

• Yao Yan asked Physician Yao about buying Whale Rubber, and Physician Yao arranged to purchase ten hundred-year pieces and two thousand-year pieces.
• Physician Yao misunderstood Yao Yan's reason for buying Whale Rubber, embarrassing Zhu Zhuqing until Yao Yan explained its medicinal potential to her.
• Yao Yan told Zhu Zhuqing Whale Rubber's true effects and began selecting body-tempering herbs for a pill formula.
• Three days later, Wang Xiaobo delivered the Whale Rubber to Spark Pharmacy and thanked Yao Yan for recommending him to the pharmacy's convoy.
• Yao Yan softened a piece of Whale Rubber and swallowed it, then confirmed that it increased the speed of his Soul Power circulation.

Yao Yan refined Whale Rubber and developed a potent Body Tempering Pill, while planning to rely on the Heaven Dou Empire’s Crown Prince for protection when he began selling pills. The chapter ended with him preparing to display the Crown Prince’s portrait in Spark Pharmacy.

• Yao Yan absorbed Whale Rubber and gave some to Zhu Zhuqing, whose intense reaction sent her rushing to the bathroom.
• Yao Yan used the Mountain Smelting Cauldron to create and test a Body Tempering Pill, enduring hours of burning pain as it expelled impurities.
• Over the next three months, Yao Yan perfected three grades of Body Tempering Pill and found that the high-grade version remained too potent for him to withstand fully.
• Wang Xiaobo delivered a package to Spark Pharmacy, and Zhu Zhuqing brought Yao Yan the portrait of the Heaven Dou Empire’s Crown Prince that he had commissioned.
• Yao Yan said he needed the Crown Prince’s protection when his pills went on sale and decided to hang the portrait on the pharmacy’s first floor.

Qian Renxue spotted an Emperor Auspicious Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest and attacked it, believing it would make a powerful fifth Soul Ring. The Scarlet King intervened, effortlessly defeated Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo, and cornered Qian Renxue.

• A month later, Qian Renxue searched the Star Dou Great Forest with Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo for a suitable Spirit Beast.
• Qian Renxue found a wounded sixty-thousand-year Ice Wolf fleeing from a golden Emperor Auspicious Beast and rushed to confront the beast.
• The Ice Wolf self-destructed as Qian Renxue and the Emperor Auspicious Beast closed in, and Qian Renxue decided to kill it for her fifth Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue attacked the Emperor Auspicious Beast with Angel Assault despite Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo warning her to be cautious.
• The Scarlet King emerged to protect the Emperor Auspicious Beast, sent both Titled Douluo flying with one attack, and advanced on the terrified Qian Renxue.

Scarlet King and the Spirit Beasts pursued Qian Renxue while Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo fought to protect her. Yao Yan followed the summoned Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and discovered the battle, where a dying bear revealed a dark gold bone.

• Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo used their soul skills to hold off Scarlet King and help Qian Renxue escape toward Spirit Hall.
• The Emperor Auspicious Beast summoned Spirit Beasts across the Star Dou Great Forest to pursue Qian Renxue.
• Yao Yan sensed the Emperor Auspicious Beast's summons, but the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear abandoned him and charged into the forest.
• Yao Yan followed the bear and discovered Scarlet King battling Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo as Qian Renxue fled amid the Spirit Beast horde.
• An attack by Porcupinefish Douluo killed a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear threatening Qian Renxue, and Yao Yan spotted a dark gold bone inside its corroded arm.

Yao Yan impersonated Di Tian to scatter the Spirit Beast horde and rescue the wounded Qian Renxue. After the Auspicious Beast saw through his disguise and pursued them, Yao Yan escaped with Qian Renxue and took her to Spark Pharmacy for treatment.

• Scarlet King badly burned Porcupinefish Douluo while Snake Lance Douluo failed to help him.
• Yao Yan stole an External Soul Bone from the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and decided to use Di Tian’s aura to scare away the beasts attacking Qian Renxue.
• Yao Yan projected Di Tian’s dragon form and ordered the Spirit Beasts to retreat, but the Auspicious Beast exposed his disguise.
• Yao Yan’s Grass Man grabbed Qian Renxue and fled, and Yao Yan caught her after the Auspicious Beast destroyed the decoy.
• Di Tian ordered the Auspicious Beast to return, allowing Yao Yan to carry Qian Renxue to Spark Pharmacy for treatment.

Yao Yan cared for the injured Qian Renxue and used his remarkable cultivation talent to impress her, while she considered recruiting him. The chapter ended when Zhu Zhuqing burst in with news that something had happened.

• At the Lake of Life, Di Tian warned the beautiful figure to keep the other soul beasts away from Yao Yan and ordered that the Auspicious Beast stay put after its return.
• Yao Yan brought the unconscious Qian Renxue to Spark Pharmacy, treated her wounds, and cooked medicinal cuisine with Zhu Zhuqing.
• When Qian Renxue awoke, Yao Yan fed her, and the two exchanged names while she concealed her identity as the Crown Prince.
• Yao Yan revealed his blue-gold Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, three Soul Rings—including a ten-thousand-year ring—and Soul Power Level 34, astonishing Qian Renxue.
• Zhu Zhuqing rushed into the room and warned Yao Yan that something had happened.

After the beast tide devastated Qingshan Town, Qian Renxue witnessed the wounded and dead, then pledged to mobilize Heaven Dou’s resources for relief. She left to coordinate aid and prevent unrest while Yao Yan continued treating survivors.

• The first wave of wounded from the beast tide arrived in Qingshan Town, where grieving families crowded the square and medical services were overwhelmed.
• Qian Renxue discovered that Yao Yan knew her identity, then entered the pharmacy hall and tried to save a mortally wounded young man, but he died.
• Yao Yan stabilized Qian Renxue and urged her to return to Heaven Dou City to summon medical aid, deploy the Royal Knights, and use the treasury to support orphans and the elderly.
• Qian Renxue agreed to carry out Yao Yan’s requests and left for the government office, angered by the officials’ failure to respond.
• Qian Renxue ordered Porcupinefish Douluo to prevent riots and watch that Yao Yan did not exhaust his life force, while Snake Lance Douluo went to Heaven Dou City to gather supplies and request the Angel Legion’s help.

After treating countless beast-tide victims in Qingshan Town, Yao Yan collapsed from exhaustion and warned Zhu Zhuqing that local nobles and merchants would exploit the crisis to block aid and inflate prices. His letters inspired Porcupinefish Douluo to send Soul Masters hauling supplies from Nuoding City, where Su Yuntao led a relief convoy toward Qingshan Town.

• Porcupinefish Douluo imposed martial law in Qingshan Town, executed criminals, and restored order after Qian Renxue departed.
• Yao Yan collapsed after treating the wounded, and Zhu Zhuqing helped him rest while an official arranged for others to take over.
• Yao Yan explained to Zhu Zhuqing that the Hagen Dazs Kingdom and merchants might obstruct relief and raise prices, then gave her two letters for the authorities.
• Porcupinefish Douluo read Yao Yan's message, “Soul Masters pull the carts! Thrust a knife into the heart of the Empire!!” and hurried away to act on it.
• In Nuoding City, Spirit Hall bought up supplies despite merchants' price increases, and Su Yuntao led more than five hundred volunteers carrying aid toward Qingshan Town.

Spirit Hall’s relief convoy won public support as it carried supplies to Qingshan Town, while Yu Xiaogang and Tang San clashed with Nuoding Academy students over Soul Masters serving commoners. In Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue’s actions and Xue Ye’s decision to stall over aid set Hagen Dazs on a path to destruction, and Prince Xue Xing realized the danger too late.

• Spirit Hall’s convoy expanded as citizens and Soul Masters volunteered to help, while Yu Xiaogang condemned Soul Masters pulling carts and Tang San nearly attacked students who mocked him about Yao Yan.
• Royal Knights mobilized in Heaven Dou City after a beast tide struck near Qingshan Town, and the Crown Prince returned to request treasury aid for disaster victims.
• Nobles opposed spending the treasury on commoners, so Qian Renxue had the Royal Knights execute several leading nobles using evidence of their crimes.
• Prince Xue Xing urged Xue Ye to stall, and Xue Ye agreed to wait rather than have the Empire intervene in Hagen Dazs.
• Qian Renxue received orders to cut off the prince’s contact with the king and strip Hagen Dazs of its authority, then secretly acted as the kingdom resisted the Royal Knights.
• After hearing that Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters were pulling supply carts, Prince Xue Xing recognized the threat and urged the King of Hagen Dazs to admit the Royal Knights, but it was too late.

As Spirit Hall healed the people of Qingshan Town, resentment toward the Hagen Dazs Kingdom grew into a kingdom-wide uprising, and Bibi Dong learned that the king had been executed. She ordered Spirit Hall to follow its original plan and protect the rebels from reprisals after the empire suppressed the rebellion.

• Emperor Xue Ye and his aides debated whether to fund relief for the disaster-stricken kingdom, but made no decision and ordered Hagen Dazs to admit the Royal Knights.
• Yao Yan watched the Angel Legion heal injured and sick commoners, while Spirit Hall’s actions won the people’s gratitude and fueled calls to overthrow the kingdom.
• Five nights later, after a noble murdered a commoner and assaulted his wife, an organized group killed nobles, and an uprising spread through Hagen Dazs Royal City and across the kingdom.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Bibi Dong that the King of Hagen Dazs had been executed and rebellion had erupted throughout the kingdom.
• After reading the memorial, Bibi Dong told Chrysanthemum Douluo to follow the original plan and ensure the rebels would not be punished once the empire suppressed the uprising.

After the Hagen Dazs Kingdom was suppressed and placed under direct Heaven Dou administration, Nuoding Academy students confronted Yu Xiaogang over insulting them. When Tang San fired hidden sleeve arrows at a student, the dispute turned violent.

• Emperor Xue Ye suppressed the Hagen Dazs rebellion, fined profiteering merchants, and turned the kingdom into a centrally governed province after Qian Renxue proposed the change.
• News of the kingdom’s destruction reached Nuoding City, where students organized to demand that Master Yu be expelled for calling them lowborn trash.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that Mang Tianchi punish the students who had beaten him and Tang San, then insulted the academy’s students as trash compared with Tang San.
• Students overheard Yu Xiaogang’s insult, stormed into the Principal’s Office, and challenged him and Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang defended Tang San’s school ranking, but a student accused Tang San of relying on hidden weapons, so Tang San fired three sleeve arrows at him.

Tang San injured a student with hidden weapons and was beaten by the academy students until a burst of blood-red light drove them back. Su Yuntao ordered Tang San taken away for attempted murder, but Yu Xiaogang revealed a Pope’s Token as Spirit Hall personnel carried him out.

• Tang San shot three hidden weapons at a student, striking his shoulder, and Mang Tianchi ordered teachers to take the injured student to the infirmary.
• Angry students swarmed Tang San and beat him until a burst of blood-red light blasted them away; Xiao Wu rushed to his side.
• Su Yuntao arrived with Spirit Hall personnel, heard the students’ account, and ordered Tang San arrested for attempted murder.
• Su Yuntao dismissed Yu Xiaogang’s claims of being a Martial Soul Hall Elder, while Mang Tianchi gave up trying to shield Tang San after the students threatened to withdraw.
• Yu Xiaogang produced a black token bearing six Martial Soul Hall emblems, and Su Yuntao recognized it as the Pope’s Token.

Yu Xiaogang used the Pope's Token to free Tang San and order the students arrested, but Mang Tianchi turned on him after Yu insulted him and drove him from Nuoding Academy. Su Yuntao then revealed that he knew where Yu's token came from, leaving Yu stunned.

• Su Yuntao recognized the Pope's Token, released Tang San, and treated Yu Xiaogang as a Martial Soul Hall Elder.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered the students arrested, but Mang Tianchi objected and Yu demanded that their parents kneel and apologize.
• Mang Tianchi severed ties with Yu Xiaogang after Yu accused him of supporting him for personal gain and insulted his status.
• Mang Tianchi beat Yu Xiaogang, recounted how he had helped him for years, and expelled him from Nuoding Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Su Yuntao to imprison the students, but Su laughed and said he knew where the token came from.

Su Yuntao exposed Master Yu’s Pope’s Token as a forgery and had him taken away, while Tang Hao watched from the shadows. At Spark Pharmacy, Qian Renxue returned as Xue Qinghe and offered Yao Yan a reward, but was stunned when he asked only for her stamp on a portrait.

• Su Yuntao denounced Master Yu’s Pope’s Token as forged, mocked his claims, and ordered guards to take him away.
• Tang San was carried toward Martial Soul Hall, Xiao Wu was taken along, and Tang Hao smashed a tree before disappearing.
• Yao Yan watched Qingshan Town’s displaced residents depart before Qian Renxue returned and introduced herself again as Xue Qinghe.
• Qian Renxue called Yao Yan brother, chatted with him for three hours, and asked what reward he wanted for his service to the Empire.
• Yao Yan brought out a portrait and asked Qian Renxue to stamp it, prompting her to ask whether he did not want to enter the Prince’s Mansion.

Yao Yan rejected Qian Renxue’s offer of a high position and instead proposed an Imperial Hospital to win the people’s support. Meanwhile, Tang Hao confronted Su Yuntao at the Nuoding City Martial Soul Hall Branch and demanded Yu Xiaogang.

• Yao Yan told Qian Renxue he wanted to pursue the highest point of cultivation rather than join the Prince’s Mansion.
• Qian Renxue recommended Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Yao Yan declined for now and explained his plans involving the Breaking Clan and immortal herbs.
• Yao Yan proposed that Qian Renxue gather medical books and establish an Imperial Hospital to treat commoners and gain their loyalty.
• Su Yuntao wrote to Platinum Bishop Salas about Yu Xiaogang and prepared to send the Pope’s Token to Heaven Dou City.
• Tang Hao appeared in Su Yuntao’s office, revealed nine Soul Rings, and demanded Yu Xiaogang, leaving Su Yuntao terrified.

Tang Hao forced Su Yuntao to release Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, while Yao Yan and Qian Renxue worked late on plans for the Imperial Hospital. Yao Yan proposed Yang Wudi as director and offered pills to help recruit him, then asked Qian Renxue to have Salas come see him.

• Tang Hao intimidated Su Yuntao into freeing Tang San and Yu Xiaogang and ordered him to pretend Tang Hao had never been there.
• Su Yuntao arranged treatment and lodging for Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, who decided to remain away from the academy.
• Yao Yan asked Qian Renxue to obtain texts about Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures from the imperial palace.
• Qian Renxue asked Yao Yan to recommend a director for the Imperial Hospital, and he suggested Yang Wudi of the Breaking Clan.
• Yao Yan gave Qian Renxue two bottles of Body Tempering Pills as bargaining chips and asked her to have Salas come see him.

Yao Yan covered up his knowledge of Qian Renxue’s connection to Salas by offering her an improved Medicinal Bath formula and saying he wanted Spirit Hall to promote it. After taking Yao Yan’s Body Tempering Pill, Qian Renxue broke through to level fifty-one and ordered Salas to buy Whale Rubber in bulk, while a rumor about Salas’s impotence spread through Heaven Dou City.

• Yao Yan disguised his slip about Salas by asking Qian Renxue to invite him so Yao Yan could give Spirit Hall his Medicinal Bath formula.
• Qian Renxue left Yao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing after breakfast, then asked Snake Lance Douluo to borrow Elder Moon Pass’s Immortal Grade Treasure Record.
• Qian Renxue received Yao Yan’s letter, read his warnings about the Pill and request for Whale Rubber, and swallowed the Body Tempering Pill.
• Qian Renxue endured the Pill’s intense heat in an icy bath, expelled impurities, and broke through to level fifty-one.
• Qian Renxue ordered Porcupinefish Douluo to have Salas buy as much high-quality Whale Rubber as possible and warned him to treat Yao Yan with respect.
• A rumor that Salas had become impotent spread through Heaven Dou City, and Xue Ye gave him two pieces of ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber as consolation.

Salas met Yao Yan, who identified himself as Xiao Yan, and agreed to help promote his Body-Tempering Medicinal Bath while keeping his identity secret. The bath and the name Xiao Yan spread across the continent, and the chapter ended with the Pope examining a dossier about him.

• Salas received Xiao Yan's invitation and, unable to uncover any information about him, traveled to Qingshan Town.
• Yao Yan confirmed his identity as Xiao Yan and showed Salas the Body-Tempering Medicinal Bath formula, which could greatly increase a Soul Master's cultivation speed.
• Yao Yan and Salas agreed on promotion plans and confidentiality, and Yao Yan asked Salas to buy as much Whale Rubber as possible.
• Salas ordered nationwide Whale Rubber purchases and sent the bath formula to Spirit City for promotion.
• Xue Qinghe's Imperial Hospital decree, Spirit Hall's Whale Rubber purchases, and the medicinal bath's success became major news, spreading Xiao Yan's name across the continent.
• The Pope examined a dossier bearing the name Xiao Yan.