Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming awakened a vision of the Azure Sky Jade Dragons’ history after the fragment reacted to his spirituality. The vision revealed how the Sky Blue Jade Dragon sought to become a Divine Beast, only to be killed by three devastating bolts of lightning, and Chen Ming was left with insight into the fragment’s origin.

• Chen Ming tested the fragment with Soul Power and Spiritual Power, then stirred his own spirituality until it finally reacted.
• Chen Ming realized that emotion, not only calmness, could help develop spirituality and was drawn into a vision of the continent’s past.
• The vision showed how an azure dragon’s fall gave rise to the Azure Sky Jade Dragon clan, which grew close to True Dragons by consuming dragon-tainted creatures and remnants.
• The special Azure Sky Jade Dragon sought Di Tian’s help to survive the Lightning Tribulation, but Di Tian told it to wait for a possible solution.
• The dragon killed several Jade Swans, refined their Life Force into the Essence of Life Gold, and consumed the remaining members of its clan to prepare for the hundred-thousand-year threshold.
• Three bolts of lightning destroyed the dragon’s body and Dragon Soul, leaving its Dragon Pill fused with the Essence of Life Gold.

Chen Ming viewed the Azure Sky Jade Dragon’s past through Spirit Vision and learned that its Dragon Pill had fused with Essence of Life Gold, making it too potent and indestructible for him to use normally. He devised an External Alchemy method and, after sacrificing blood and combining Soul Power with Spiritual Power, formed a faint connection with the Dragon Pill and began meditating with it.

• Chen Ming recovered from the pressure of the Dragon Pill’s memories and concluded that its fused Essence of Life Gold made it unusable through ordinary methods.
• Chen Ming ruled out refining the Dragon Pill inside his body or using it to make medicine because his Soul Power was insufficient and the pill was too hard to cut.
• Chen Ming decided to treat the Dragon Pill as an External Pill and tried to connect with it using his blood, Soul Power, and Spiritual Power.
• Chen Ming finally formed a faint connection with the Dragon Pill, which absorbed the blood in the basin and responded to his Soul Power.
• Chen Ming bandaged his bleeding arm, swallowed medicine, held the Dragon Pill against his chest, and entered meditation.

Chen Ming discovered that the Dragon Pill could store his Soul Power and convert it into Life Force that healed and cleansed his body. His questions about the special mechanics of Martial Souls led him into a strange state where he sensed the laws behind his First Soul Ring, though exploring them carried the risk of being trapped there.

• Chen Ming sensed that the Dragon Pill acted like an external dantian, storing far more Soul Power than he could hold and converting it into Life Force that healed him.
• Chen Ming wondered why the Dragon Pill's Life Force lacked the distinctive quality he sensed in Ye Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia, then speculated that unusual Martial Souls might possess special mechanics beyond raw strength.
• Chen Ming considered the mechanics of famous Martial Souls, Domains, Immortal Herbs, and the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, and felt he had found a new direction for his cultivation.
• Chen Ming entered a peculiar state and sensed two openings connected to manifestations of laws.
• Chen Ming recognized the first opening as the manifestation of his First Soul Ring from the five-hundred-year Bilin Seven Absolute Flower and realized he could explore its ingredients and processes, but might be trapped if he overreached.

After recovering from his exhausting use of the mysterious state, Chen Ming woke to find the Poison System Mimicry Training Ground closed and learned he still had time before his meeting with Qian Renxue. When a noble student attacked him in the cafeteria, Chen Ming countered and pinned him down, then severely injured him with Poison Attribute Soul Power.

• Chen Ming slept for a day and a night, recovered with the Dragon Pill, and stored it safely in his Storage Soul Tool.
• Chen Ming discovered that the Poison System Mimicry Training Ground had been temporarily closed and hurried to the cafeteria to learn the time.
• Chen Ming learned he had slept only a little over a day and thought about his plans for meeting Qian Renxue the next day.
• An unfamiliar soul master deliberately rammed into Chen Ming, but Chen Ming reflected the force and pinned him to the floor.
• The noble student transformed with his lightning-attributed Martial Soul and tried to electrocute Chen Ming, who defended himself and struck him with poisonous Soul Power.
• Chen Ming's poison corroded the student's skin and flesh, forcing him out of Martial Soul Possession and shocking the cafeteria crowd.

Yu Tianheng attacked Chen Ming in the cafeteria after Chen Ming defeated his lackey, and the two traded accusations in front of the students. Yu Tianheng’s role in stirring up rumors about Dugu Yan and arranging the attack was revealed, leaving their confrontation escalating.

• Yu Tianheng activated his Martial Soul and attacked Chen Ming with Lightning Dragon Claw, but Chen Ming dodged and released his fallen opponent.
• Chen Ming condemned Yu Tianheng for attacking a fellow student and questioned whether he intended to silence him, while the students reacted to both men’s Soul Rings.
• Yu Tianheng accused Chen Ming of injuring his clansman and using deadly poison, then watched the unconscious lackey on the ground.
• Yu Tianheng’s lackey was revealed as the subordinate who gathered information and carried out tasks that Yu Tianheng could not do himself.
• Yu Tianheng had arranged for the lackey to provoke Chen Ming after hearing he was the man rumored to be involved with Dugu Yan, but Chen Ming defeated him in one exchange.
• Yu Tianheng regarded Chen Ming’s victory over his lackey as an insult to his own standing and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yu Tianheng’s obsession with Dugu Yan and ambition to become the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s young sect leader led him to stage a confrontation with Chen Ming. Qin Ming arrived to stop the fight, treated the injured student, and left the conflict unresolved.

• Yu Tianheng had pursued Dugu Yan for years, using his clan’s influence to arrange students to compete for her attention and planning to win her over after she obtained her third Soul Ring.
• After hearing that Chen Ming had been holding Dugu Yan in the academy, Yu Tianheng attacked him with Lightning Dragon Claw and waited for Chen Ming to retaliate.
• Qin Ming rushed into the cafeteria and ordered Yu Tianheng and Chen Ming to take their fight to the arena.
• Yu Tianheng blamed Chen Ming for ambushing and poisoning his friend, but Qin Ming suspected Yu Tianheng was behind the incident.
• Qin Ming stabilized the injured student with Soul Power and called over a healing-type student to treat him.

Chen Ming challenged Yu Tianheng to fight in the arena after Qin Ming blamed Yu Tianheng for breaking academy rules. Qin Ming worried that the duel could bring retaliation from either the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan or Poison Douluo.

• A lackey accused Chen Ming of attacking him, but the healer exposed his fainting as a fake and the onlookers laughed.
• Qin Ming warned Yu Tianheng that summoning his Martial Soul and using soul skills against a fellow student violated academy rules, and threatened to involve Meng Shenji.
• Yu Tianheng demanded an explanation and challenged Chen Ming to meet him in the arena.
• Chen Ming mocked Yu Tianheng for challenging a newly enrolled Soul Grandmaster, then accepted and warned him that his family’s poison could be deadly.
• Qin Ming hesitated to stop the fight, fearing the consequences if either Chen Ming or Yu Tianheng was harmed.

Chen Ming and Yu Tianheng faced off in an arena duel, with Yu Tianheng holding the advantage in Soul Power and lightning skills while Chen Ming matched him with exceptional physical strength and poison. The fight remained unresolved as Yu Tianheng’s enhanced lightning attack briefly numbed Chen Ming.

• Meng Shenji refereed the duel and announced Chen Ming as a level twenty-three Soul Grandmaster and Yu Tianheng as a level thirty-two Soul Elder.
• Chen Ming and Yu Tianheng charged at each other, and Chen Ming’s poison mist and scorpion tail met Yu Tianheng’s lightning defenses in their first clash.
• Yu Tianheng blocked Chen Ming’s tail with Lightning Dragon Claw, but the impact numbed his arm and gave Chen Ming an opening to press forward.
• Yu Tianheng activated Wrath of Lightning and Thunderous Fury, then struck Chen Ming with enhanced lightning that numbed him and slowed his movements.

Chen Ming fought Yu Tianheng through a close-quarters battle, using his poison and defensive counters to exploit Yu Tianheng’s need to avoid even a minor wound. Yu Tianheng revealed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s Dragon Transformation, but Chen Ming dodged his attack and unleashed his Second Soul Skill, engulfing the arena in poisonous mist.

• Chen Ming used his tail to recover his balance and counter Yu Tianheng, then fought defensively while threatening him with poison.
• Yu Tianheng retreated from Chen Ming’s Poison Cloud after inhaling a trace of poison and struggling to maintain his condition.
• Yu Tianheng activated Dragon Transformation, boosting his power and firing Lightning Dragon Claw at Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming dodged the attack, while Yu Tianheng’s transformation and Soul Skills left him with only a fraction of his Soul Power.
• Chen Ming released his accumulated poisonous mist across the arena and activated his Second Soul Skill, the Poison Burst Technique.

Chen Ming’s Poison Burst Technique devastated the arena and badly injured Yu Tianheng, prompting the three Education Committee Members to intervene. Bai Baoshan reassured Chen Ming that the committee would protect him, then warned him to be cautious as his talent attracted danger.

• Chen Ming’s Poison Burst Technique struck Yu Tianheng, and Meng Shenji used Void Nightmare to shield him from most of the blast.
• The explosion destroyed the arena, while Bai Baoshan and Zhi Lin blocked the flying debris and the watching students panicked.
• Bai Baoshan found Chen Ming largely unharmed, while Yu Tianheng suffered fractures and internal injuries; Meng Shenji took him for treatment.
• Bai Baoshan led Chen Ming away and urged him to seek the committee’s help instead of keeping trouble to himself.
• Bai Baoshan promised the committee would handle any fallout with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and warned Chen Ming to guard against people with ulterior motives.

Chen Ming met Qian Renxue, disguised as Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, at the Seven Treasures Wine House, where she tried to startle him with a teleportation trick. Chen Ming saw through the trick, and an accidental second teleport left Qian Renxue embarrassed while the men behind the stunt realized they had botched it.

• Chen Ming arrived early at the Seven Treasures Wine House to meet Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.
• Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, welcomed Chen Ming and arranged for a man in black to appear through a spatial skill.
• Chen Ming calmly deduced that Spirit System and Space-Type Soul Masters were assisting the stunt.
• Qian Renxue praised Chen Ming's observation, but the man in black unexpectedly reappeared without being summoned.
• Qian Renxue sent the man out through the door, and he confronted his two companions downstairs for triggering the second teleportation by mistake.

Qian Renxue tested Chen Ming’s knowledge and political loyalties while trying to recruit him, after giving him a valuable Dragon Pill. Chen Ming left the banquet without committing to her, but expressed a balanced view of the Heaven Dou Empire’s relationship with Spirit Hall.

• Qian Renxue asked Chen Ming about his Thousand Year Second Soul Ring, rumors about Dugu Yan, and the Dragon Pill she had sent him.
• Chen Ming thanked Qian Renxue for the Dragon Pill and recognized that she had offered it to help him gain Dugu Bo’s favor and draw him into her service.
• Qian Renxue probed Chen Ming about his background and academy life, while he deflected her questions without revealing crucial information.
• Qian Renxue hinted that she wanted Chen Ming as a subordinate, but he delayed deciding, citing the rumors at the academy while saying he held a favorable impression of Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.
• At the banquet, Qian Renxue asked Chen Ming about the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall, and he said the empire should cooperate with Spirit Hall while preserving its independence.

Chen Ming’s uncompromising views on punishing corrupt nobles impressed Qian Renxue, who decided to keep him under observation and help protect him from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Snake Lance suspected Chen Ming had noticed his hidden presence and resolved to investigate him secretly.

• Chen Ming told Qian Renxue that corrupt nobles should be punished or removed and their power transferred to more cooperative successors.
• Qian Renxue was struck by Chen Ming’s radical principles and considered whether he might be suited to Spirit Hall.
• After the banquet, Qian Renxue decided to observe Chen Ming and recruit him, believing he would never side with Prince Xue Xing.
• Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance to quietly help Chen Ming if the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan targeted him, while ensuring Chen Ming knew the Crown Prince had intervened.
• Snake Lance suspected Chen Ming had detected him in hiding and decided to investigate Chen Ming, considering taking him as a nominal disciple if his suspicion proved true.

Chen Ming kept refining the Dragon Pill while awaiting Dugu Bo, who arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy in a fury after hearing that Dugu Yan had become involved with Chen Ming. Dugu Bo stormed toward Chen Ming’s room, leaving the confrontation about to begin.

• Chen Ming returned to the academy and secluded himself to refine the Dragon Pill and strengthen his body.
• Five nights after meeting Qian Renxue, Chen Ming sensed a powerful Titled Douluo rushing toward him and put away the Dragon Pill.
• Dugu Bo, recovering from a failed breakthrough that had badly injured him, entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy to surprise Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo heard rumors that Dugu Yan had found a wild man and poisoned several people who spread the gossip.
• The three Education Committee Members confirmed Dugu Yan’s involvement with Chen Ming, prompting Dugu Bo to charge toward Chen Ming’s courtyard and smash through its gate.

Dugu Bo confronted Chen Ming over his relationship with Dugu Yan, but Chen Ming’s strength and potent poison won the elder’s respect. When Chen Ming explained how he had stabilized Dugu Yan’s Soul Power and suppressed her poison, Dugu Bo ordered him to come along.

• Dugu Bo attacked Chen Ming with poisonous mist, but Chen Ming’s poison absorbed and assimilated it.
• Dugu Bo tested Chen Ming’s poison and Soul Power, then knocked him back after pushing him close to his limit.
• Dugu Bo recognized Chen Ming’s talent, powerful Martial Soul, and potent poison despite remaining stern about his relationship with Dugu Yan.
• Chen Ming explained that he had found Dugu Yan suffering from a failed breakthrough and poison backlash, then stabilized her Soul Power and took her to the school clinic.
• Dugu Bo reacted sharply to Chen Ming’s account and told him to come with him.

Dugu Bo took Chen Ming from the poisonous mist to his residence, claiming he needed to question him in private. In a hidden chamber beneath his quiet room, Chen Ming recognized serious errors in Dugu Bo’s prized meridian diagrams while Dugu Bo assumed he could not understand them.

• Dugu Bo pulled Chen Ming from the poisonous mist and hurried him toward his residence, assuring the three Education Committee Members that Chen Ming would not be harmed.
• Dugu Bo carried Chen Ming through Heaven Dou City to his residence, where he told the head butler to watch Dugu Yan and keep her from learning he had returned.
• Dugu Bo led Chen Ming into a secret chamber beneath his quiet room, filled with herbs, Soul Beast specimens, books, and meridian diagrams.
• Chen Ming noticed that the meridian diagrams contained major mistakes and missing details, while Dugu Bo praised them as rare treasures and said Chen Ming could not understand them.

Chen Ming explained to Dugu Bo how he had calmed Dugu Yan’s Soul Power, revealing that he combined Soul Power and Spiritual Power. Dugu Bo doubted the possibility until Chen Ming demonstrated the fused power, leaving him confronted with a technique he had never encountered.

• Dugu Bo asked Chen Ming to recount what happened when Dugu Yan’s Soul Power went berserk, and Chen Ming described calming it without mentioning everything that followed.
• Dugu Bo questioned how Chen Ming had managed it, then learned Chen Ming had been level twenty-three and had broken through to level twenty-four afterward.
• Chen Ming explained that he combined Soul Power and Spiritual Power, but Dugu Bo insisted the two forces could not be combined.
• Dugu Bo challenged Chen Ming to demonstrate, and Chen Ming produced a weak but unmistakable power that contained both Soul Power and spiritual will.

Chen Ming demonstrated a technique that fused Soul Power and Spiritual Power, leaving Dugu Bo stunned when it suppressed a Titled Douluo’s Soul Power. Dugu Bo recovered, decided to test the technique against Ju Huaguan, and began viewing Chen Ming as a suitable future grandson-in-law.

• Chen Ming explained that maintaining his Soul Power and Spiritual Power fusion exhausted him.
• Dugu Bo touched Chen Ming’s palm and felt his own Soul Power scatter under the technique’s pressure.
• Dugu Bo recognized the sensation from Qian Daoliu’s power and realized it came from a special realm rather than the Six-winged Angel Martial Soul.
• Chen Ming wondered why his Soul Power had a shock effect, while Dugu Bo struggled to recover from his disbelief.
• Dugu Bo decided to test whether Ju Huaguan knew the technique and reassessed Chen Ming as a potential grandson-in-law.

Chen Ming told Dugu Bo how his family’s Bilin Seven Absolute Flower and Jade Scorpion inheritance had led to his Martial Soul’s evolution, giving Dugu Bo new ideas for treating his family’s poison-afflicted Martial Souls. Dugu Bo then drew out some of his own poison and asked Chen Ming to sense whether it was the toxin he had felt in Dugu Yan.

• Dugu Bo warmly called Chen Ming his grandson and promised to keep the Chen Family’s secret confidential.
• Chen Ming described his family’s history, the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower, and how absorbing its Soul Ring alongside the Jade Scorpion’s had completed his Martial Soul evolution.
• Dugu Bo realized Chen Ming’s account offered possible ways to alleviate or cure the Dugu Family’s Martial Soul problem.
• Dugu Bo called Chen Ming a lucky star and proposed that he become Dugu Yan’s husband or Dugu Bo’s disciple.
• Dugu Bo forced some of his painful, bone-deep poison outward and asked Chen Ming whether it matched the toxin he had sensed in Dugu Yan.

Chen Ming examined Dugu Bo’s poison and realized it was a powerful, living force formed from poison, Soul Power, and Life Force. Dugu Bo understood the Jade Phosphorous Serpent lineage’s secret, but his emotional outburst triggered the poison again, leaving Chen Ming to fight to keep him alive.

• Chen Ming examined Dugu Bo and explained how his innate poison had fused with Soul Power and Life Force into an extraordinary power.
• Chen Ming compared Dugu Bo’s condition to a vessel raising a Gu King, and Dugu Bo realized this explained his poison, his lineage, and his breakthrough at the extreme cold-and-heat treasure land.
• Dugu Bo laughed uncontrollably, released his Soul Power, and damaged the basement while Chen Ming protected himself with the Dragon Pill.
• Dugu Bo stopped his Soul Power and collapsed as the poison inside him surged, nearly killing him.
• Chen Ming positioned Dugu Bo cross-legged and used the Dragon Pill, Soul Power, and Spiritual Power to stabilize him and suppress the poison.