Chapter Summaries

Liu Yanyang arrived in Heaven Dou City and planned to approach Dugu Bo through Dugu Yan to gain access to the Immortal Herbs and help cure Dugu Bo’s poison. After discovering Dugu Yan was closely involved with Yu Tianheng, he abandoned that plan and went to Dugu Bo’s residence using Yang Wudi’s name.

• Yang Wudi found Liu Yanyang’s book of medicinal-herb knowledge and began studying it.
• Liu Yanyang reached Heaven Dou City and planned to use Dugu Yan as a way to approach Dugu Bo.
• Liu Yanyang discovered Dugu Yan was with Yu Tianheng and feared she might reveal his knowledge to him and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Liu Yanyang decided to borrow Yang Wudi’s reputation and went to Dugu Bo’s residence with a visiting card.
• Liu Yanyang asked the gate guards to announce that Yang Wudi, Clan Leader of the Breaking Clan, had come to pay respects to Poison Douluo.

Liu Yanyang visited Dugu Bo to propose a medicinal herb trade, but Dugu Bo refused and grew suspicious of him. After Dugu Bo pursued him and failed to find him in an alley, Liu Yanyang escaped and decided he had found a way to persuade him.

• Liu Yanyang introduced himself to Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan as a friend of Yang Wudi, then offered Innate Profound Poison and a Jade Scale Seven Absolute Flower in exchange for a useful medicinal herb.
• Dugu Bo refused the trade, and Liu Yanyang left the gifts behind before departing the residence.
• Dugu Yan asked Dugu Bo about Liu Yanyang, and Dugu Bo warned her to stay away from him before arguing with her over Yu Tianheng.
• Dugu Bo followed Liu Yanyang, who sensed the danger and hid in an alley using Cheng Ying to conceal himself.
• Dugu Bo searched the area but could not detect Liu Yanyang, who remained hidden until dusk and then resolved to find a way to persuade him.

Liu Yanyang revealed his strength to Dugu Bo and offered to cure the poison afflicting Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan in exchange for half of the herbs in Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden. Dugu Bo agreed and carried Liu Yanyang into Sunset Forest, stopping on a hill before reaching the garden.

• Liu Yanyang returned to Dugu Bo’s residence and revealed that he was twelve years old and at the peak of level thirty-eight.
• Dugu Bo attacked Liu Yanyang with Soul Power, but Liu Yanyang summoned his Martial Soul and pressed him to consider his family’s future.
• Liu Yanyang offered to cure Dugu Yan completely and remove most of Dugu Bo’s poison in exchange for half the herbs in the medicinal garden.
• Dugu Bo accepted the arrangement and carried Liu Yanyang toward the garden through Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo stopped on a hill deep in Sunset Forest with Liu Yanyang still in his grasp.

Liu Yanyang accompanied Dugu Bo to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and identified its medicinal treasures, including a flower that could suppress poison. After earning Dugu Bo’s trust, Liu Yanyang stopped him from fetching Yanyan and said there were three ways to treat the Jade Scale Snake Poison.

• Dugu Bo led Liu Yanyang through his poison formation to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Liu Yanyang descended the ravine using his Dragon Roar Spear.
• Liu Yanyang explained that the spring’s opposing forces had helped Dugu Bo survive the Jade Scale Snake Poison and identified the place as a rare treasure land.
• Liu Yanyang pointed out the Aromatic Silk Beauty and explained that it could suppress every toxin, astonishing Dugu Bo.
• Liu Yanyang praised Dugu Bo’s character and said he wanted to be his friend, and Dugu Bo accepted the friendship.
• Dugu Bo prepared to bring Yanyan to the well, but Liu Yanyang stopped him and said there were three possible ways to resolve the Jade Scale Snake Poison.

Liu Yanyang explained several ways to treat the Dugu Clan’s poison and identified a plan to store Dugu Bo’s toxins in his Pill Bead. He then prepared to absorb two poisonous herbs so his blood could help detoxify Dugu Yan.

• Liu Yanyang described the risks and effects of consuming the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but Dugu Bo rejected that option because it could strip his Martial Soul of its poison attribute.
• Liu Yanyang proposed using a Soul Bone or the Nine-Rank Dragon Ganoderma to manage the poison, explaining why those options were unsuitable or risky for Dugu Bo.
• Liu Yanyang suggested that Dugu Bo transfer his toxins into his Pill Bead and offered to help circulate the poison through all his meridians, with a Nine Petal Begonia Soul Master and a Human Meridian Diagram needed for the process.
• Liu Yanyang asked Dugu Bo to bring Dugu Yan so he could detoxify her after absorbing the two herbs and using his blood as a medicinal catalyst.
• Dugu Bo cut down the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass with a golden knife and the Infernal Delicate Apricot with a jade blade, then handed both to Liu Yanyang.

Liu Yanyang refined an immortal herb in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, evolving his Martial Soul and reaching level forty before gaining the Fiery Golden Eyes. Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to him, and Liu Yanyang explained her hereditary poison and offered her a Nine-Rank Dragon Ganoderma to evolve her Martial Soul.

• Liu Yanyang swallowed the immortal herb and entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Dugu Bo left to fetch Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo resolved to separate Dugu Yan from Yu Tianheng and worried that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan might covet the Dragon Ganoderma in his garden.
• The Dragon Roar Spear absorbed energy during Liu Yanyang's refinement, evolved from three claws to four, and helped him break through to level forty.
• Liu Yanyang consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and gained the ability to see through illusions with strengthened Spiritual Power.
• Dugu Bo arrived with Dugu Yan, and Liu Yanyang told her she had a hereditary poison and could use the Nine-Rank Dragon Ganoderma to turn her Martial Soul into a dragon.

Liu Yanyang warned Dugu Yan that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect might target the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and urged her to value strength over her relationship with Yu Tianheng. After Dugu Bo chased after his distraught granddaughter, Liu Yanyang made antidote pills and began considering how to obtain his fourth Soul Ring.

• Liu Yanyang challenged Dugu Yan's willingness to give the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Dugu Yan insisted she would share it with Yu Tianheng.
• Liu Yanyang dispersed Dugu Yan's poison and warned that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect could threaten Dugu Bo and exploit Dugu Yan to seize the treasure land.
• Liu Yanyang told Dugu Yan that her future strength could surpass Yu Tianheng's and questioned whether Yu Tianheng loved her or valued her grandfather's influence.
• Dugu Yan broke down and ran away, while Dugu Bo thanked Liu Yanyang for confronting her and went after her.
• Liu Yanyang refined detoxification pills, then watched the sunset and began planning how to obtain his fourth Soul Ring.

Liu Yanyang and Dugu Bo watched Dugu Yan evolve her Jade Scale Snake Martial Soul into a Jade Scale Poisonous Flood Dragon after she consumed the Nine-Rank Dragon Ganoderma. The next day, Dugu Yan absorbed a Soul Ring from a Jade Water Flood Dragon and reached level 42, before a piercing cry drew the three toward a flying Soul Beast.

• Liu Yanyang gave Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan Detoxification Pills, and Dugu Yan's eyes cleared after she took hers.
• Dugu Yan consumed the Nine-Rank Dragon Ganoderma, evolving her Martial Soul and raising her Soul Power to Rank 40.
• Dugu Bo agreed to help Dugu Yan and Liu Yanyang obtain Soul Rings, and the group planned to hunt a Jade Water Flood Dragon for her.
• Dugu Bo caught a Jade Water Flood Dragon, and Dugu Yan absorbed its Soul Ring without difficulty, reaching level 42.
• A piercing cry sounded overhead, and Dugu Bo led Liu Yanyang and Dugu Yan to investigate the flying Soul Beast.

In Sunset Forest, Liu Yanyang witnessed a Golden Feather Scale Eagle kill a powerful Bone-Corroding Profound Snake after it killed the eagle’s child. The wounded eagle sacrificed itself to Liu Yanyang, granting him a black Soul Ring and an External Soul Bone with golden wings.

• Dugu Bo and Liu Yanyang found a Golden Feather Scale Eagle fighting a Bone-Corroding Profound Snake over forty thousand years old, and recognized the eagle as a likely hybrid Soul Beast.
• The Golden Feather Scale Eagle pierced the snake’s vital spot and killed it, then collapsed beside its corpse.
• Liu Yanyang found the eagle’s dead child and brought its body to the wounded parent, which mourned over it.
• The Golden Feather Scale Eagle sacrificed itself to Liu Yanyang, giving him a black Soul Ring and six-meter golden wings as an External Soul Bone.
• Liu Yanyang explained that his new Soul Bone increased his flight speed, then teased Dugu Bo that his next Soul skill would astonish him.

Liu Yanyang demonstrated his powerful fourth soul skill, then visited his parents’ graves before learning that Salide was targeting Skywater Academy students on behalf of the Papal Palace. He disguised himself and entered Salide’s hotel suite, where he confronted the cruel young man.

• Liu Yanyang explained that his fourth soul skill, Self-Sacrifice, could pierce even powerful defenses but left him weakened afterward.
• Liu Yanyang gave Dugu Bo the Aromatic Silk Beauty and Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to take to Yang Wudi, then left to visit his parents’ graves.
• Liu Yanyang mourned at his parents’ tomb and vowed to destroy the City Lord’s Manor of Extreme North City once he reached Soul Emperor.
• Liu Yanyang overheard that Salide had tried to abduct a Skywater Academy student and was plotting to provoke conflict between the Elemental Academies and the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Salide ordered his subordinate to seize a core Skywater Academy member, and Liu Yanyang appeared in his suite, asking whether he had ever experienced death.

Liu Yanyang killed Salide and lured the Soul Emperor pursuing him into the Extreme North Land, where he recovered intelligence about the Heaven Dou Empire. He reunited with Shui Xinrou and Shui Bing'er, then learned Shui Bing'er had surpassed Rank 30.

• Liu Yanyang killed Salide, then escaped the City Lord's residence as a Soul Emperor pursued him.
• Liu Yanyang led the Soul Emperor to the Extreme North Land and used three Snow Wing Ice Eagles to create an opening to kill him.
• Liu Yanyang retrieved the Soul Emperor's Storage Soul Tool and found a report for the Heaven Dou Empire's royal family, a defense map of Extreme North City, and a map of the Extreme North Land's outskirts.
• Shui Xinrou and Shui Bing'er found Liu Yanyang in the forest, and Shui Bing'er greeted him awkwardly after noticing their matching rings.
• Liu Yanyang explained what had happened, reassured Shui Xinrou about the growing conflict between Spirit Hall and the empires, and asked whether she and Shui Bing'er had come to obtain Soul Rings.

Liu Yanyang led Shui Xinrou and Shui Bing'er to the northeastern outskirts of the Extreme North Land, where they found Soul Beasts suitable for Shui Bing'er’s next Soul Ring. Shui Bing'er absorbed a Condensing Water Flying Luan’s ring and gained ice-blue wings, while the White Phoenix escaped.

• Liu Yanyang revealed his External Soul Bone and level 43 Soul Power, then flew with Shui Xinrou and Shui Bing'er toward the northeastern outskirts of the Extreme North Land.
• The group encountered a wounded Condensing Water Flying Luan with an ancestral bloodline and a pursuing White Phoenix, which Liu Yanyang identified as suitable Soul Beasts for Shui Bing'er and her fifth ring.
• Liu Yanyang overcame the Condensing Water Flying Luan’s Half Domain and pinned it down, while Shui Xinrou fought the White Phoenix and Shui Bing'er supported Liu Yanyang.
• Shui Bing'er used her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul to suppress the Condensing Water Flying Luan, killed it, and began absorbing its purple Soul Ring.
• Shui Xinrou reported that the White Phoenix had escaped after restoring its injuries with an innate ability, and she and Liu Yanyang guarded Shui Bing'er through the night.
• After absorbing the Soul Ring, Shui Bing'er manifested ice-blue wings, then withdrew them and changed clothes while Liu Yanyang turned away awkwardly.

Shui Bing'er revealed her powerful new soul skills and fused her Ice Phoenix Wing soul bone, while Liu Yanyang accompanied her back to Skywater City. The next day, they went to Skywater Academy for the Five Elements Academy Internal Competition, where their arrival drew attention.

• Shui Bing'er told Shui Xinrou that her Soul Power Level had reached 36 and described her Frost Domain and Ice Phoenix Wing skills.
• Shui Xinrou used soul power pressure until the Ice Phoenix Wing fully fused with Shui Bing'er, and Liu Yanyang warned her to hide the conspicuous soul bone.
• Shui Xinrou invited Liu Yanyang to stay in Skywater City and meet the Five Elements Academy students, and he agreed.
• Shui Yue'er greeted Shui Xinrou and Shui Bing'er at the Shui Mansion, recognized Liu Yanyang, and showed her interest in him.
• After resting, Liu Yanyang met Shui Bing'er and went with her to Skywater Academy to watch the Internal Competition.
• Shui Bing'er and Liu Yanyang entered the crowded academy together, prompting someone to ask her who he was.

Shui Bing'er rejected Yu Tianxin's advances and explained to Liu Yanyang that she had no relationship with him. Liu Yanyang warned that Yu Tianxin was maneuvering for clan power, then accompanied Shui Bing'er around Skywater Academy, where they encountered Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian.

• Yu Tianxin apologized to Shui Bing'er and offered to show Liu Yanyang around, but Shui Bing'er angrily insisted he use her full name and left with Liu Yanyang.
• Shui Bing'er told Liu Yanyang that Yu Tianxin had been pestering her and that they were not even ordinary friends, then blushed when she realized she was holding Liu Yanyang's hand.
• Liu Yanyang said Yu Tianxin wanted to use Shui Bing'er to gain the support of the elemental academies and revealed that Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan had broken up.
• Liu Yanyang warned Shui Bing'er that Yu Tianxin would soon ask him to beat him up and ominously said the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had little time left.
• Liu Yanyang and Shui Bing'er encountered Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian by the Cambang River, where Huo Wu called Liu Yanyang the pretty boy Shui Bing'er had brought back.

Liu Yanyang was accused of being Shui Bing’er’s lover after Yu Tianxin’s public advances sparked rumors, and he silenced Huo Wu with his killing intent. At Skywater Academy’s exchange match, the gossip followed him into the arena, where he settled in beside Shui Bing’er and prepared to answer insults with his fists.

• Huo Wu insulted Liu Yanyang for not confronting Yu Tianxin, and Liu Yanyang knocked her down with his Spiritual Power and killing intent before leaving with Shui Bing’er.
• Shui Bing’er apologized to Liu Yanyang and praised his character while the two spoke alone in a pavilion.
• Xue Wu and the Skywater Team accused Liu Yanyang of abandoning Shui Bing’er after giving her a token of love, but he explained that the Soul Tool had repaid her for saving his life.
• Shui Bing’er stopped the girls from confronting Liu Yanyang and led the Skywater Team toward the exchange match.
• Students from the Five Elemental Academies spread rumors and insults about Liu Yanyang when he entered the arena with the Skywater Team.
• Liu Yanyang sat beside Shui Bing’er and closed his eyes, expecting that he might have to use his fists to deal with his accusers.

At the Five Elements Academy Exchange Tournament, Yu Tianxin accused Liu Yanyang of threatening Shui Bing'er and challenged him to leave Skywater Academy if he lost. Liu Yanyang accepted Yu Tianxin’s duel, and both revealed their Soul Power levels and martial spirits before the fight began.

• The tournament opened as the Deans of the Five Elemental Academies took their seats, and Liu Yanyang avoided drawing Bibi Dong’s attention.
• Yu Tianxin publicly accused Liu Yanyang of plotting to deceive Shui Bing'er and called on the students to condemn him.
• Liu Yanyang held Shui Bing'er close and mocked Yu Tianxin, while Shui Xinrou declined to intervene.
• Yu Tianxin asked Liu Yanyang to fight, with the loser barred from setting foot in Skywater Academy again, and Liu Yanyang accepted.
• Yu Tianxin revealed his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial spirit and three Soul Rings, while Liu Yanyang summoned the Dragon Roar Spear and revealed four Soul Rings.

Liu Yanyang defeated Yu Tianxin with a single strike at the Soul Arena, then decided to leave Skywater City the next morning. Late that night, Shui Bing'er came to him and asked whether he would listen to her story.

• Shui Xinrou told the deans that Liu Yanyang was seventeen, and Hu Yan Zhen dismissed his earlier plan to report him to the Papal Palace.
• Yu Tianxin attacked Liu Yanyang, who pierced Yu Tianxin's claw and struck him off the platform, winning the match.
• Liu Yanyang apologized to Shui Bing'er for acting on his own, but she told him not to blame himself.
• Shui Bing'er invited Liu Yanyang to a social gathering, but he declined and said he would leave Skywater City the next morning.
• After returning to Shui Mansion, Liu Yanyang reflected on the unfolding conflict between the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Spirit Hall.
• Shui Bing'er visited Liu Yanyang late at night, led him to a secluded spot by the lake, and asked him to hear her story.

Shui Bing'er told Liu Yanyang how loneliness shaped her childhood and how he made her feel understood, then asked him to be together. Liu Yanyang accepted, and the two revealed their relationship to Shui Xinrou and Shui Yue'er.

• Shui Bing'er recounted losing her father and second mother, the pressure of caring for her family, and how Liu Yanyang had treated her like an ordinary child.
• Shui Bing'er told Liu Yanyang she understood his loneliness and asked him to be together, and Liu Yanyang agreed and embraced her.
• A blue-clad woman watched Liu Yanyang and Shui Bing'er fall asleep together by the lake, then quietly left.
• The next morning, Liu Yanyang and Shui Bing'er told Shui Xinrou they were together, and Shui Xinrou supported them.
• Shui Yue'er discovered the couple holding hands and reacted in disbelief as Liu Yanyang confirmed their relationship.

Liu Yanyang visited Skywater Academy with Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, where he met the Skywater Team and fought them to test their abilities. After defeating the team, he told Shui Bing'er he could help her mother break through to Soul Douluo.

• Shui Bing'er brought Liu Yanyang and Shui Yue'er to Skywater Academy, where she cleared up the Skywater Team's suspicions about her relationship with Liu Yanyang.
• Liu Yanyang learned the Skywater Team members' Soul Power Levels and considered helping them advance with medicinal herbs before a future tournament.
• Xue Wu challenged Liu Yanyang to fight the team, and he quickly defeated the six girls who attacked him.
• Shui Bing'er used her Frost Domain and Repulsion Light against Liu Yanyang, but he concealed himself with Cheng Ying and embraced her from behind to end the fight.
• On the way home, Liu Yanyang learned Shui Xinrou was Level 79 and promised Shui Bing'er he could help her break through to Soul Douluo.

After spending a month with Shui Bing'er, Liu Yanyang brought Shui Xinrou to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to help her break through. Shui Xinrou reached Soul Douluo and Yang Wudi reached level 80, and Liu Yanyang prepared to take them to the Star Dou Great Forest for eighth Soul Rings.

• Liu Yanyang left Shui Mansion with Shui Bing'er after a month together, and they traveled with Shui Xinrou toward Heaven Dou City.
• Liu Yanyang led Shui Xinrou to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where they met Dugu Bo and Yang Wudi.
• Liu Yanyang gave Shui Xinrou an Extreme Ice Profound Grass and urged Yang Wudi to absorb the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Dugu Bo said he had reached level 92 and secured the Nine Petal Begonia Family's agreement, while Liu Yanyang warned that Spirit Hall's Pope would bring trouble.
• Shui Xinrou broke through to Soul Douluo, and Yang Wudi advanced to level 80 after absorbing their herbs.
• Liu Yanyang proposed that the group head to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek suitable eighth Soul Rings for Shui Xinrou and Yang Wudi.