Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming harvested the Golden-Blooded Earth Dragon’s heart and gained strength from a meal made with its meat and rare herbs. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he discovered that absorbing starlight increased his Spiritual Power, then left with Dugu Bo to handle matters outside before returning to cultivate.

• Chen Ming used Dugu Bo’s jade tools to remove the Earth Dragon’s heart and preserve it in a container.
• Chen Ming and Dugu Bo cooked and ate Earth Dragon meat with rare medicinal herbs, bringing Chen Ming’s Soul Power to rank 27.
• Chen Ming observed the Star Luo Spirit Pearl absorbing starlight and imitated it, discovering that Star Power enhanced Spiritual Power and spirituality.
• Chen Ming recorded his insights, absorbed Chaos Qi, and planned to turn the area into a Poison System Mimicry Training Ground.
• Chen Ming packed an Eight Petal Immortal Orchid in Dugu Bo’s Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch, and they left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Chen Ming returned to Biluo City with Dugu Bo, who welcomed Chen Ming’s grandfather and second uncle as family and approved of the match between Chen Ming and Dugu Yan. Dugu Bo explained the relationship to the Chen family, while Dugu Yan remained at home recovering from her poison.

• Chen Ming and Dugu Bo arranged medicine for Dugu Yan, who avoided taking an Immortal Herb and was expected to need about half a year to control her poison.
• Dugu Bo took Chen Ming to Biluo City so he could visit his grandfather, Chen Shijie, and second uncle, Chen Tianyun.
• Chen Ming stepped out of Dugu Bo’s carriage and greeted Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun, leaving them astonished by his return and closeness with the Poison Douluo.
• Dugu Bo greeted Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun as family and brought them into his carriage to talk.
• Dugu Bo visited the Chen family estate and told Chen Shijie and Chen Tianyun that Chen Ming had helped Dugu Yan, that she had developed feelings for him, and that he approved of their match.

Chen Ming secured the Chen Family’s standing by marrying Dugu Yan and helping his relatives with rare herbs before leaving Biluo City with Dugu Bo. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he spent months treating Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan and reached level 30, preparing to absorb his third Soul Ring.

• Dugu Bo confirmed Chen Ming’s marriage to Dugu Yan, and Chen Shijie welcomed him into the Chen Family and showed him the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower cave.
• Chen Ming gave Chen Tianyun an Eight Petal Immortal Orchid and supplied herbs that raised Chen Shijie’s Soul Power and extended his lifespan.
• Dugu Bo left Biluo City with several Bilin Seven Absolute Flowers and Chen Ming, raising the Chen Family’s standing in the city.
• Dugu Bo took Chen Ming and Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he made a safe place for Dugu Yan to live.
• Chen Ming spent three months treating Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, studying the Immortal Herbs, and raising his Soul Power to level 30.

Chen Ming and Dugu Bo searched Sunset Forest for a suitable third Soul Ring, focusing on three powerful poison-attribute Soul Beasts. After failing to find a Man Faced Demon Spider, they found a Phantom Scorpion nest but postponed taking its youngest member and moved on to Chen Ming’s third choice.

• Chen Ming considered the Man Faced Demon Spider, Phantom Scorpion, and Jade Gecko as candidates for his third Soul Ring, while deciding against a Ten Thousand Year ring for now.
• After preparing Dugu Yan’s medicine and checking her condition, Chen Ming left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Dugu Bo to search for a Soul Beast.
• Chen Ming and Dugu Bo searched likely Man Faced Demon Spider territory for several days but found none.
• Chen Ming and Dugu Bo located a Phantom Scorpion nest led by a Fifty Thousand Year Scorpion King, with a roughly seven-thousand-year-old scorpion among its five younger members.
• Dugu Bo judged the nest too dangerous to raid while the youngest scorpion was guarded, so he temporarily gave up and took Chen Ming to inspect his third choice.

Chen Ming and Dugu Bo found a wounded Man Faced Demon Spider while traveling toward the Jade Sky Dragon's territory, and Chen Ming chose to test it as a possible Soul Ring. Chen Ming poisoned the Spider Emperor, but it attacked him with renewed violence.

• Chen Ming and Dugu Bo found slain Soul Beasts bearing the marks of a Man Faced Demon Spider and tracked it to its hunting ground.
• They found the Man Faced Demon Spider torturing a Gale Wolf leader, then watched it absorb the wolf's Life Force and Soul Power to heal its wounds.
• The Man Faced Demon Spider recovered enough to target Chen Ming and Dugu Bo, but Chen Ming stopped Dugu Bo and chose to fight it himself.
• The Man Faced Demon Spider lunged at Chen Ming, who evaded it after activating his Martial Soul.
• Chen Ming wrapped the Man Faced Demon Spider in his dark green Poison Cloud, burning its carapace and provoking a more violent attack.

Chen Ming killed the Man Faced Demon Spider after it attacked him, then the dying beast turned its remaining web shots on Dugu Bo. Dugu Bo effortlessly blocked them, and the spider died in a burst of rage, leaving behind a purple Soul Ring.

• The Man Faced Demon Spider targeted Chen Ming as prey and fired a venomous web at him.
• Chen Ming split the web with his tail, dodged the spider's charge, and struck its abdomen with his Poison Palm.
• Mortally wounded, the Man Faced Demon Spider fired its two remaining webs at Dugu Bo, who erased them with his Soul Power and revealed his nine Soul Rings.
• The Man Faced Demon Spider cursed Dugu Bo, then exploded from rage and died, leaving a purple Soul Ring.
• Chen Ming and Dugu Bo exchanged baffled glances as Chen Ming examined the spider's corpse.

Chen Ming found a rare Head Soul Bone in the dead Man Faced Demon Spider but decided not to absorb it, and he and Dugu Bo continued toward the Jade Sky Dragon territory. There, they discovered that the ten-thousand-year Jade Sky Dragons had died and a tiny scorpion had taken their place.

• Chen Ming found a Blood River Treasure Head Soul Bone in the Man Faced Demon Spider, and Dugu Bo advised him to save it for a better opportunity.
• Chen Ming rejected the spider's Soul Ring because its age and abilities were unsuitable, then collected a few remains from the spider and left the Gale Wolves behind.
• Chen Ming and Dugu Bo entered the Poison Swamp, where the toxic environment made their Soul Power more active.
• Dugu Bo noticed that Jade Sky Dragons near the swamp's outskirts were unusually young and prepared to protect Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming and Dugu Bo ventured deeper and found the several ten-thousand-year Jade Sky Dragons dead, with a tiny-looking scorpion in their place.

Dugu Bo recognized the creature in the Jade Sky Dragon nest as a rare Underworld Scorpion, a legendary calamity beast with terrifying power. Chen Ming eagerly wanted its Soul Ring, and Dugu Bo prepared to fight it.

• Dugu Bo spotted a compact scorpion absorbing death aura from a mountain of slain Jade Sky Dragons.
• Dugu Bo identified it as an Underworld Scorpion, and Chen Ming recalled the legends of the calamity beasts and their near-extinction.
• Dugu Bo explained that the scorpion had killed several Jade Sky Dragons, including a nearly forty-thousand-year-old leader, despite having less than ten thousand years of cultivation.
• Dugu Bo said he could handle the scorpion at its current age and asked Chen Ming whether he wanted its Soul Ring.
• Chen Ming said he wanted it, and Dugu Bo told him to hide while he beat the scorpion half to death.

Dugu Bo and Chen Ming killed the legendary Underworld Scorpion so Chen Ming could absorb its Soul Ring. During the absorption, Chen Ming entered a law-formed world divided between the familiar Douluo World and an unfamiliar power.

• Dugu Bo used his Martial Soul Avatar, Time Stop, and Medusa's Gaze to control the Underworld Scorpion before battering it into the rock wall.
• Dugu Bo trapped the Underworld Scorpion with Death Coil and crushed its shell, preventing it from healing through its Poison Attribute domain.
• Chen Ming pierced the weakened Underworld Scorpion's head, detonated poison inside its body with Poison Burst Technique, and killed it.
• Chen Ming began absorbing the Underworld Scorpion's Soul Ring and gradually subdued its powerful death-infused Soul Power.
• Chen Ming entered a law-formed world where he sensed the laws of the Douluo World in the green region and an unfamiliar power in the deep purple region.

Chen Ming absorbed the Underworld Scorpion’s Soul Ring by letting the Douluo World transform its unfamiliar power into a Soul Skill, strengthening his connection to the world in the process. He emerged with the devastating Death Annihilation Poison Realm and a faint connection to the world’s will.

• Chen Ming discovered that the Underworld Scorpion’s power was divided between familiar Soul Skills and chaotic, unfamiliar knowledge, then dragged the raw knowledge into the Douluo World to be organized.
• As Chen Ming transported more of the unfamiliar power, the Douluo World began replenishing his Soul Power with Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, leaving Dugu Bo astonished.
• After a day and night, the Douluo World absorbed the purple portion and formed a new domain-type Soul Skill from the Underworld Scorpion’s power.
• Chen Ming examined Death Annihilation Poison Realm, which drained Soul Power, Spiritual Power, and Life Force before killing weakened targets, and realized why the Underworld Scorpion had been hunted.

After absorbing the Underworld Scorpion’s Soul Ring, Chen Ming gained a powerful new Soul Skill, improved his body and Martial Soul, and reached level 33. Dugu Bo dismantled the Scorpion’s corpse but found no Soul Bone, until Chen Ming returned with a top-grade Ten Thousand Year Left Leg Bone.

• Chen Ming absorbed the Underworld Scorpion’s Soul Ring, raised his Soul Power to level 33, and gained both physical improvements and poison-and-death attributes in his Martial Soul.
• Chen Ming described his new Soul Skill to Dugu Bo, who envied its power and lamented his own Ninth Soul Skill.
• Dugu Bo collected and dismantled the Underworld Scorpion’s corpse, but found no Soul Bone.
• Chen Ming searched the Jade Sky Dragon corpses and presented Dugu Bo with an intact, top-grade Ten Thousand Year Left Leg Bone.

Chen Ming found a twenty-thousand-year Jade Sky Dragon Left Leg Bone and gave it to Dugu Bo, whose new defensive Soul Skill helped cover a major weakness. After returning to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, they found Dugu Yan lonely and frustrated from being left behind, and Chen Ming agreed to accompany her and Dugu Bo to Heaven Dou City once she could leave.

• Chen Ming found a twenty-thousand-year Left Leg Bone in a Jade Sky Dragon corpse and persuaded Dugu Bo to absorb it.
• Dugu Bo gained the Jade Phosphor Sky Light Shield, a powerful defensive barrier, and his Life Force increased as he neared Rank 94.
• Chen Ming and Dugu Bo returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well without encountering any Soul Beasts.
• Dugu Yan rushed to Chen Ming and complained that she had been alone for more than ten days.
• Chen Ming comforted Dugu Yan and agreed to join her and Dugu Bo on a trip to Heaven Dou City after her poison was removed and she absorbed her third Soul Ring.

Chen Ming inspected the immortal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found that the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew had absorbed medicinal essence from a grafted lingzhi, confirming his plan to nourish it with other herbs. He considered using a rare Crimson Ice Toad from the Extreme North Land to aid his research into ice, fire, and poison, but recognized that finding one would be exceptionally dangerous.

• Chen Ming found that the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew had drained the grafted lingzhi and sensed that its origin had grown stronger.
• Chen Ming checked the Star Luo Spirit Pearl and judged that he was nearing the point where he could refine its fruit into his Soul Core.
• Chen Ming reviewed his research on the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Aromatic Silk Beauty, Blood Swan Kiss, Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Chen Ming recalled that the Crimson Ice Toad possessed ice, fire, and poison attributes and might help him strengthen his poison while studying ice and fire.
• Chen Ming concluded that obtaining a Crimson Ice Toad in the perilous Extreme North Land would be difficult and that he would need suitable teammates to attempt it.

Chen Ming and Dugu Yan successfully awakened their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Poison Emperor, and tested its strength against Dugu Bo. Their battle began with Dugu Bo stopping and overpowering the fused scorpion’s attack.

• Chen Ming and Dugu Yan fused into a giant Jade Scorpion Emperor and discovered that it could barely make a sound.
• Dugu Bo assessed their fusion as comparable to a Soul Emperor and teased Dugu Yan about the Jade Phosphorous Serpent’s small role in it.
• Chen Ming and Dugu Yan challenged Dugu Bo to test their fusion, and Dugu Yan attacked him with the scorpion’s extended, poison-coated tail.
• Dugu Bo dodged the tail and met the fused scorpion’s charge with one hand, then used his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor to force it several steps backward.

Chen Ming and Dugu Yan tested their Martial Soul Fusion Skill against Dugu Bo, whose poison attacks proved ineffective against the fused Jade Scorpion emperor. Dugu Bo defeated them with close combat, and Chen Ming left the fight noting the fusion’s weaknesses as well as its considerable strength.

• Chen Ming expanded the Death Annihilation Poison Realm, draining Dugu Bo’s Soul Power and Life Force while Dugu Bo’s poison failed to harm him.
• Dugu Bo activated Dragon Power and his Jade Phosphor Sky Light Shield, then struck the Jade Scorpion emperor with a powerful uppercut.
• The blow disoriented Chen Ming and Dugu Yan, disrupting their synchronization and causing their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to collapse.
• Dugu Bo caught Dugu Yan and Chen Ming, and Dugu Yan complained that he had bullied them by using Soul Bone skills.
• Chen Ming identified the fused form’s slow reactions and need for synchronization, while judging that its domain and Poison Burst Technique could let him contend with some Soul Saints.

Chen Ming absorbed the Star Luo Spirit Pearl and formed his first Soul Core, which raised his Soul Power from level 34 to level 40 but nearly tore apart his meridians. He then used the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to strengthen his body, leaving his Soul Core faintly golden and touched by Gold Nature.

• After preparing to leave, Chen Ming absorbed the Star Luo Spirit Pearl into his middle dantian and formed a Soul Core.
• The new Soul Core drew in vast energy, raising Chen Ming from level 34 to level 40 and pushing his meridians close to rupture.
• Dugu Bo helped Chen Ming recover and carried him to the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum when Chen Ming asked for it.
• Chen Ming ate the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and guided its power to open his Eight Extraordinary Meridians and forge an Indestructible Vajra Body.
• The Soul Core absorbed the chrysanthemum’s remaining Gold Nature, giving it a faint golden hue and making Chen Ming’s Soul Power carry a hint of immortality.

After consuming the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Chen Ming’s body and Spiritual Power reached levels comparable to those of a Titled Douluo, and he discovered he could form powerful Soul Power Armor. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo learning that his Spiritual Power was too low to turn his Poison Pill into a Soul Core and asking Chen Ming to find a way to cultivate it.

• Chen Ming tested his newly materialized Soul Power and realized his body had transformed after consuming the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Chen Ming assessed his Spiritual Power and found it had reached roughly the level of a Titled Douluo, while he still lacked two Soul Cores.
• Dugu Bo tested Chen Ming’s Soul Power Armor and found it took Soul Power at the Soul Douluo level to destroy it.
• Chen Ming told Dugu Bo that his Soul Core let him maintain the armor indefinitely as long as he did not use Soul Skills.
• Dugu Bo asked whether his Poison Pill could become a Soul Core, but Chen Ming said Dugu Bo’s Spiritual Power was insufficient.
• Dugu Bo swallowed his Poison Pill and asked Chen Ming to develop a method for cultivating Spiritual Power.

Dugu Bo took Dugu Yan and Chen Ming on the road to the Star Dou Great Forest, where he trained them by attacking bandit strongholds. After Chen Ming’s ruthless massacre unsettled them, they stopped in a major city to recover, and Chen Ming spotted an unusual shop while Dugu Yan shopped.

• Dugu Bo led Dugu Yan and Chen Ming along detours through small cities and brought them to raid bandit strongholds.
• Dugu Yan hesitated when bandits surrendered, while Chen Ming killed the attackers and hunted down everyone hidden in the stronghold.
• Chen Ming poisoned and destroyed the entire bandit stronghold, alarming Dugu Bo and worrying Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo ended the training and kept Dugu Yan and Chen Ming in a major city while they tried to persuade Chen Ming to rest.
• Dugu Yan took Chen Ming on an extensive shopping spree as Dugu Bo withdrew to his room.
• Chen Ming stepped aside while Dugu Yan browsed a jewelry shop and noticed an unusual shop in a corner.

Chen Ming entered Flender’s strange shop and examined an ancient Storage Soul Tool that Flender claimed was a bargain. He recognized that the tool was dangerously unstable, while Flender pressed him to buy it for 9,998 Gold Soul Coins.

• Chen Ming noticed the shop’s sign displayed the symbols of the Clear Sky Sect, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and went inside out of curiosity.
• Flender recognized Chen Ming’s fine clothes and bearing and assumed he was a wealthy noble from Heaven Dou City.
• Chen Ming told Flender he was only looking around, and Flender eagerly showed him a bracelet-shaped Storage Soul Tool.
• Chen Ming tested the tool and discovered its large storage space was unstable and could collapse with repeated use.
• Flender claimed the Storage Soul Tool was worth 20,000 Gold Soul Coins and offered it to Chen Ming for 9,998.

Chen Ming exposed the instability of Flender’s Storage Soul Tool, prompting Flender to abandon his sales pitch and invite him to Shrek Academy. Chen Ming refused because he attended Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then bought several broken Soul Tools from Flender for 500 Gold Soul Coins, with the Board Crystal Gold added as a bonus.

• Chen Ming warned Flender that the Storage Soul Tool was unstable and could collapse, and Flender confirmed the danger by repeatedly testing it.
• Flender invited Chen Ming to join Shrek Academy after wondering how he had identified the Storage Soul Tool’s flaw so quickly.
• Chen Ming declined Flender’s invitation, explaining that he was a student at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Flender gave Chen Ming more accurate descriptions of his shop’s wares, while still quoting him high prices.
• Chen Ming selected several broken Soul Tools and negotiated their price down from 1,024 to 500 Gold Soul Coins.
• Flender added the Board Crystal Gold to the purchase, and Chen Ming paid with a 1,000 Gold Soul Coin card, receiving five bags of coins in change.