Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming and Dugu Yan encountered Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun after leaving a jewelry shop, and Dugu Yan struck Dai Mubai when he harassed her. Ma Hongjun summoned his Martial Soul, setting up a confrontation.

• Flender gave Chen Ming the unstable Storage Soul Tool as payment for warning him about its flaw.
• Dugu Yan finished shopping, and the jewelry shop owner warned her and Chen Ming that two predatory Soul Masters were approaching.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun entered the alley after leaving a brothel and fixed their attention on Dugu Yan.
• Chen Ming stepped in front of Dugu Yan and used mental pressure against Dai Mubai, but Dai Mubai mistook it for a headache from drinking.
• Dugu Yan sent Dai Mubai flying with a palm strike, and Ma Hongjun summoned his Martial Soul with Phoenix Possession.

Chen Ming defeated Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai after they harassed him and Dugu Yan, then confronted Flender when the headmaster arrived to defend his students. Flender accused Chen Ming of excessive violence, and Chen Ming stood his ground as the argument continued.

• Chen Ming struck Ma Hongjun after he activated Phoenix Avatar, sending him rolling and spitting blood.
• Dai Mubai attacked Chen Ming, but Chen Ming tripped him and then countered his White Tiger Vajra Transformation with an elbow strike.
• Chen Ming flung Dai Mubai into Ma Hongjun, leaving both students defeated in the alley.
• Ma Hongjun called for Headmaster Flender, who flew out of the shop and shielded the two students.
• Flender blamed Chen Ming for injuring his students, and Chen Ming explained that they had provoked him and tried to harass Dugu Yan.
• Flender dismissed Chen Ming's explanation and questioned why he had hit the students so heavily.

Chen Ming confronted Flender over his defense of Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai, then challenged him to settle the dispute by force. Flender chose to fight, and Chen Ming opened with a powerful beam that Flender narrowly dodged.

• Chen Ming mocked Flender by recalling how the Golden Iron Triangle had fought to protect Liu Erlong and refused to tolerate similar wrongdoing.
• Flender condemned Chen Ming for attacking Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai, while the two injured students acted as though they were near death.
• Chen Ming told Flender he could have killed the students easily and challenged him to fight if he wanted to defend them.
• Flender hesitated because Chen Ming had ties to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Ma Hongjun’s plea moved him to stand up for his disciple.
• Flender prepared to use his First Soul Skill, and Chen Ming rushed forward and fired a dark green beam from his scorpion tail.
• Flender redirected his attack to propel himself out of the beam’s path, and the ray pulverized the ground where he had been standing.

Chen Ming and Flender fought to a stalemate in the city, with Chen Ming’s Soul Power Armor withstanding Flender’s attacks while Flender stayed out of reach in the air. Neither was willing to use destructive attacks that could harm bystanders, and the confrontation remained unresolved as Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai recovered.

• Flender used his Second Soul Skill, but Chen Ming’s Soul Power Armor blocked the wind blades without damaging his clothes.
• Flender circled Chen Ming from a safe altitude and tried to find a way to injure him without killing him, while Chen Ming avoided using attacks that could devastate the city.
• Chen Ming tried to knock Flender from the sky with beams from his tail, but Flender dodged and maintained his distance.
• Dugu Yan contacted Dugu Bo, leaving Chen Ming with the option of calling him in if he chose to kill Flender.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai got back up and prepared a sneak attack, but Flender swept them aside with wind-attribute Soul Power.

Dugu Bo attacked Flender after Dugu Yan and Chen Ming said he had enabled his students’ misconduct. Chen Ming stopped Dugu Bo from killing him, seeking to preserve the events that would bring Tang San to Shrek Academy, and Dugu Bo promised Flender punishment instead of death.

• Dugu Bo arrived and struck Flender down, leaving him severely wounded and unable to move.
• Dugu Bo asked whether Flender had bullied Dugu Yan and Chen Ming, and they denied that it was a misunderstanding.
• Flender recognized Dugu Bo as the Poison Douluo and realized he had advanced to level 92.
• Dugu Bo prepared to crush Flender’s head, but Chen Ming considered how Flender’s death could derail his plans concerning Tang San.
• Chen Ming quietly shared his idea with Dugu Bo, who spared Flender’s life but declared that he would still be punished.

Dugu Bo spared Flender, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun but inflicted lasting injuries that crippled their abilities and altered their futures. After Chen Ming left them with Flender’s bracelet, the three wounded men struggled away together.

• Dugu Bo poisoned Dai Mubai’s meridians, leaving him impotent and gradually changing his temperament.
• Dugu Bo damaged Ma Hongjun’s dantian, reducing his Soul Power and limiting his future cultivation while preserving his evil fire.
• Dugu Bo injured Flender’s lungs and left toxins that intensified his emotions when he became upset.
• Chen Ming returned Flender’s jade bracelet, then left with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.
• Flender struck Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun before his injuries and rage made him faint.
• Dai Mubai helped Flender up and kicked Ma Hongjun, then the three staggered away together.

Dugu Bo led Chen Ming and Dugu Yan into the Star Dou Great Forest to find Dugu Yan's third Soul Ring, teaching them how to survive as they traveled. After several days of practice, they reached a deadly canyon where Dugu family descendants traditionally hunted for Soul Rings.

• Dugu Bo brought Chen Ming and Dugu Yan into the Star Dou Great Forest and let them handle encounters with soul beasts as he taught them along the way.
• Dugu Yan drove off several attacking soul beasts, while Chen Ming killed a ten-year Wind Baboon with a dagger after disabling it with poison.
• Dugu Bo had the two stay awake on their first night, then secretly removed their defenses near dawn so they could experience a soul beast attack firsthand.
• Over the next several days, Dugu Bo guided Chen Ming and Dugu Yan through the forest's regions and taught them to identify and track soul beasts.
• The group entered the mixed ring and reached a canyon filled with venomous serpent soul beasts, a traditional hunting ground of the Dugu family.

Dugu Yan obtained her third Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest while Chen Ming trained against soul beasts and experimented with their abilities. When Chen Ming used his Death Annihilation Poison Realm in the core region, he provoked a huge horde of powerful beasts, and Dugu Bo fled with him and Dugu Yan as a Titan Giant Ape was likely alerted.

• Dugu Yan and Chen Ming sneaked into a gorge, where Dugu Yan killed a roughly 2,300-year-old Jade Phosphorous Serpent and absorbed its Soul Ring.
• After leaving the gorge, Chen Ming asked to train against soul beasts, and Dugu Bo agreed to keep exploring the forest.
• Chen Ming captured Soft Bone Rabbits to study their abilities, found that one could teleport, and experimented with flight and flying-type soul beasts.
• In the core region, Chen Ming fought ten-thousand-year soul beasts and tested his Poison Cloud Technique, Poison Burst Technique, Poison Emperor Possession, and Destruction Death Ray.
• Chen Ming used the Death Annihilation Poison Realm and drew a horde of powerful soul beasts, including two roughly fifty-thousand-year-old Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bears, so Dugu Bo grabbed Chen Ming and Dugu Yan and fled the forest.
• As they escaped, Chen Ming sensed that the horde had alerted a powerful presence likely to be the Titan Giant Ape.

Chen Ming’s Underworld Scorpion domain stirred up the Star Dou Great Forest, prompting Di Tian to investigate and order precautions against surviving Underworld Scorpions. Meanwhile, Dugu Bo brought Chen Ming and Dugu Yan to Spirit City, where two powerful figures approached their inn.

• Soul beasts across the Star Dou Great Forest joined forces to hunt the source of the Underworld Scorpion domain, and several Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts left their territories.
• Demon Spirit investigated for Di Tian, who learned that a human possessed an Underworld Scorpion Soul Ring and ordered Myriad Demon King’s plant-type soul beasts to watch for Underworld Scorpions.
• Di Tian dismissed Chen Ming as unimportant and reflected on the Star Dou Great Forest’s growing strength from the Auspicious Beast and the captured Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Dugu Bo brought Chen Ming and Dugu Yan to Spirit City and checked into an inn prepared for high-ranking soul masters.
• Dugu Bo explained that he had only been at odds with a particular person in Spirit Hall and said they had become half-friends.
• Chen Ming sensed two powerful auras approaching the inn, one resembling the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and the other carrying a trace of deathly energy without any Evil.

Ju Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei visited Dugu Bo, and Yue Guan quickly recognized signs of Dugu Bo’s Poison Skill and Chen Ming’s connection to a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum. Dugu Bo realized his condition may have been apparent to others for years and regretted not seeking help sooner.

• Ju Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei entered Dugu Bo’s room and joined him and Chen Ming for food and drink.
• Yue Guan identified the venomous insect wine as a Biluo City specialty and complained about his past visit there.
• Yue Guan observed that Dugu Bo’s appearance and scent had improved, then guessed that his Poison Skill had advanced to level 92 or 93.
• Dugu Bo learned that Yue Guan had recognized his Poison Skill problem long ago and was shocked by the revelation.
• Yue Guan sensed the lingering aura of a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum in Chen Ming, prompting Dugu Bo to drop his cup.
• Dugu Bo wondered whether asking Yue Guan or Great Enshriner Qian Daoliu for help earlier could have saved his son and ended his suffering.

Dugu Bo and Yue Guan put aside their conversation and raced outside Spirit City to settle matters in another spar. As Chen Ming and Dugu Yan watched, Dugu Bo caught Yue Guan in a deadly poison field with his Ninth Soul Skill.

• Yue Guan realized Dugu Bo had truly poisoned himself and offered that he might have helped cure him if Dugu Bo had admitted defeat earlier.
• Dugu Bo and Yue Guan left the room to spar outside Spirit City, while Ghost Douluo took Chen Ming and Dugu Yan to watch.
• Dugu Bo and Yue Guan summoned their Martial Soul Avatars and exchanged attacks in the forest.
• Dugu Bo used Medusa's Gaze and Time Freeze to immobilize Yue Guan, then activated his Ninth Soul Skill and trapped him in a world of deadly poison.

Dugu Bo defeated Ju Douluo, who then recovered with Ghost Douluo’s help. Ju Douluo asked to take Chen Ming as his disciple, and Dugu Bo considered the benefits before revealing Chen Ming’s Jade Scorpion Emperor Martial Soul and Bilin Seven Absolute Flower secret as he sought a guarantee from Ju Douluo.

• Dugu Bo used his Soul Bone’s defensive power to defeat Ju Douluo, who admitted his loss.
• Ghost Douluo helped Ju Douluo recover while Dugu Yan tended to Dugu Bo’s wounds.
• Ju Douluo asked Dugu Bo to let Chen Ming become his disciple so he could pass on his knowledge and legacy.
• Dugu Bo weighed Ju Douluo’s proposal and decided that Chen Ming might benefit from his teachings and support.
• Dugu Bo had Chen Ming reveal his Jade Scorpion Emperor Martial Soul, and Ju Douluo identified the Bilin Seven Absolute Flower’s poison.
• Dugu Bo told Ju Douluo that Chen Ming had many secrets and asked him for a guarantee before taking Chen Ming as a disciple.

Dugu Bo arranged for Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo to take Chen Ming as their disciple and swear to protect him and Dugu Yan. The two masters learned of Chen Ming’s rare treasures, while their prospects of reaching Rank 95 left Dugu Bo feeling outmatched.

• Ju Douluo agreed to take Chen Ming as his disciple, and Dugu Bo insisted that Ghost Douluo join him in guaranteeing the family’s safety.
• Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo swore to the Angel God not to pry into or reveal Chen Ming’s secrets and to protect Chen Ming and Dugu Yan unless they turned to evil.
• Chen Ming paid respects to Master Yue and Master Gui, then revealed that he had consumed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Star Luo Spirit Pearl and absorbed a Bilin Seven Absolute Flower Soul Ring.
• Ju Douluo was stunned by Chen Ming’s rare treasures and lamented being stuck at Rank 94.
• Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo said they could reach Rank 95 within ten years, while Dugu Bo realized he was the only Titled Douluo present without similar potential.

Chen Ming gave Ju Douluo a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum seed as a gift for becoming his disciple, and Ju Douluo gave him an ornament carved by the Angel God. Touching the ornament drew Chen Ming into a vision of the Auspicious Beast’s death and the Angel God’s rise.

• Chen Ming took a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum seed from Dugu Bo’s Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch and gave it to Ju Douluo.
• Ju Douluo accepted the seed and gave Chen Ming an ornament carved from the skull of a powerful soul beast, saying the Angel God had left holy power within it.
• Chen Ming touched the ornament and saw the Auspicious Beast, born from the soul beasts’ faith and destiny, living as their natural king.
• The Auspicious Beast destroyed a human tribe and later told a Six-Winged Angel that it had forgotten how many settlements it had destroyed.
• The Angel fought the Auspicious Beast for three days, killed it and its companions, absorbed its Soul Ring, and took its head as a trophy.
• The Angel God later carved the Auspicious Beast’s skull into ornaments and gave them to human tribal leaders to mark humanity’s victory over the soul beasts.

After Spirit Vision showed Chen Ming the Angel God's overwhelming strength, he realized the pendant Ju Douluo had given him could help him study divine power and form the basis of his own divine artifact. He kept his discovery to himself, then watched a healing Soul Master treat Ju Douluo, Dugu Bo, and the others.

• Chen Ming recovered from Spirit Vision and recalled the Angel God's devastating battles during her quasi-Titled Douluo stage.
• Chen Ming thanked Ju Douluo enthusiastically for the pendant and recognized that it could bear laws and help him study the Angel God's Divine Power and Power of Faith.
• Chen Ming hung the pendant against his chest without revealing what he had seen.
• Ju Douluo summoned a Life Holy Grail Soul Master, whose Fifth and Sixth Soul Skills fully healed Ju Douluo and Dugu Bo at the cost of twelve-shichen cooldowns.
• Ju Douluo had the Life Holy Grail Soul Master use his remaining healing skills on Ghost Douluo, Chen Ming, and Dugu Yan, despite their lack of injuries, until only his First Soul Ring remained available.

Chen Ming revealed that he was twelve years old, already at level 40, and wanted a Crimson Ice Toad Soul Ring from the Extreme North Land. Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo agreed to take him there, while Dugu Bo was to return to Heaven Dou City with Dugu Yan.

• Chen Ming showed Ju Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Dugu Bo the Crimson Ice Toad entry and said he needed its Soul Ring to improve his Soul Power and Martial Soul.
• Chen Ming revealed that he had reached level 40 and displayed his Scorpion Emperor-level Martial Soul with three Soul Rings, astonishing Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo.
• Chen Ming said he was twelve years old, and Dugu Bo explained how his diligence and training had brought him this far.
• Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo decided to request leave from Pope Hall and take Chen Ming to the Extreme North Land.
• Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo decided that Dugu Bo should take Dugu Yan back to Heaven Dou City instead of joining their trip.

Chen Ming traveled to the Extreme North Land with Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo to obtain a Soul Ring, but after a blizzard he found a rare Ice Jade Scorpion instead of the Crimson Ice Toad he had sought. The two Titled Douluo proposed that he absorb the scorpion’s Soul Ring, and Chen Ming weighed the idea as he considered its ultimate ice attribute.

• Bibi Dong granted Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo leave and gave them coats made from Ten Thousand Year seal hide for their journey.
• Dugu Bo took Dugu Yan to Heaven Dou City, while Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo escorted Chen Ming toward the Extreme North Land.
• The group waited out a blizzard in an Ice Bear’s nest, then explored the frozen plains after the storm passed.
• Chen Ming searched for a Crimson Ice Toad for more than ten days before spotting a roughly ten-thousand-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion.
• Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo suggested Chen Ming absorb the Ice Jade Scorpion’s Soul Ring, and Chen Ming considered the scorpion’s ultimate ice attribute.

Chen Ming considered whether to absorb an Ice Scorpion Soul Ring while Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo prepared to hunt the ten-thousand-year Soul Beast. Ghost Douluo lured it into a valley and crippled several of its limbs, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Chen Ming weighed the benefits of an Ice Scorpion Soul Ring against his plans to balance ice and fire.
• Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo, both newly advanced to Rank 95, agreed to hunt the Ice Scorpion and chose a nearby valley for the ambush.
• Ghost Douluo enraged the Ice Scorpion and lured it into the valley, where it charged despite sensing a trap.
• The Ice Scorpion raised ice pillars to attack Ghost Douluo, but he dodged them without using a Soul Ring.
• Ghost Douluo split into several afterimages and crippled four of the Ice Scorpion's legs, forcing its tail to droop.

The Ice Scorpion unleashed a desperate Ice Explosion Technique that caused the canyon and surrounding ice plains to collapse, forcing Ju Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Chen Ming to shelter together. After they emerged, the rare Crimson Ice Toad burst from beneath the ice, furious and radiating ice, fire, and poison.

• The Ice Scorpion attacked indiscriminately with random ice pillars, while Ghost Douluo dodged them and Ju Douluo shielded himself and Chen Ming.
• The Ice Scorpion recognized the two Titled Douluo and, rather than accept being hunted, began a suicidal attack that drew on its life force.
• Ju Douluo pierced the Ice Scorpion's brain, but its Ice Explosion Technique triggered a chain reaction that collapsed the surrounding ice plains.
• Ghost Douluo and Chen Ming lent Ju Douluo their power as the three sheltered beneath his shield until the explosions stopped.
• Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo cleared the ice above them, and the Crimson Ice Toad erupted from underground, revealing itself as Chen Ming's target.

Chen Ming, Ju Douluo, and Ghost Douluo encountered a strangely mutated Crimson Ice Toad that devoured an Ice Scorpion and healed itself with a mix of ice and fire Soul Power. After restraining it, Chen Ming examined its oversized eyes as the likely cause of its madness.

• The Crimson Ice Toad swallowed an Ice Scorpion despite the scorpion piercing its mouth and tearing through its body.
• The toad used a strange life force formed from ice and fire Soul Power to heal its wounds, then attacked Chen Ming and the two Titled Douluos.
• The Crimson Ice Toad repeatedly fired unstable ice-fire beams, injuring itself while Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo dodged.
• Ghost Douluo drove the toad into the ice, and Ju Douluo restrained it and severed most of its spine.
• Chen Ming examined the creature and found that its eyes were about three times larger than those of an ordinary Crimson Ice Toad.