Chapter Summaries

Lu Duzhou became Yue Guan’s student and promised him an Immortal Herb and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone, while revealing his plans involving Spirit Hall and Qian Renxue. Yue Guan warned him about Spirit Hall’s power and advised him to delay giving Qian Renxue an Immortal Herb, leaving Lu Duzhou to ask whether Yue Guan would keep their teacher-student relationship secret for now.

• Lu Duzhou explained that Yue Guan’s Plant-type Martial Soul made him the best teacher for his soil Martial Soul, and Yue Guan accepted him as a student.
• When Yue Guan invited him to join Spirit Hall, Lu Duzhou asked about Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and learned that Yue Guan had none because the Pope kept the ones they had obtained.
• Lu Duzhou offered Yue Guan an Immortal Herb, explained the effects of Immortal Herbs and Whale Rubber, and promised him a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone from a planned hunt with Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo.
• Lu Duzhou proposed that Yue Guan could take the Pope’s throne and revealed his plan to have Dugu Yan marry Qian Renxue, who was disguised as Xue Qinghe, so their child could inherit the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Yue Guan warned Lu Duzhou about Qian Daoliu and the Worship Hall, then advised him to withhold the Immortal Herb, use a Spirit Hall Elder token if pressured, and let Salas verify his identity.
• Lu Duzhou asked whether Yue Guan intended to keep his new student’s identity secret from Spirit Hall.

Lu Duzhou planted Yue Guan’s Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and gained the powerful Diamond Domain, then learned about the Two Elements Stillness Domain and Soul Cores. After Yue Guan left, Lu Duzhou woke Ye Yurou and invited her and Lingling to live with his family for safety.

• Yue Guan gave Lu Duzhou an unregistered card holding one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and a book on spirit medicines, immortal grasses, and Plant Martial Souls.
• Yue Guan planted his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum in Lu Duzhou’s land, boosting Lu Duzhou’s cultivation speed and granting him the Diamond Domain.
• Lu Duzhou asked Yue Guan about the Two Elements Stillness Domain and Soul Cores, and considered using his Diamond and Blue Silver Domains to form complementary dual cores.
• After Yue Guan left, Lu Duzhou healed and awakened Ye Yurou, then told her that Lingling had sought his help and Yue Guan had left after learning about whale rubber.
• Lu Duzhou apologized to Ye Yurou and invited her and Lingling to live with his family so they would be safer.

Lu Duzhou investigated Soul Cores and offered to help Ning Fengzhi and Meng Shu pursue breakthroughs to Title Douluo, while Spirit Hall planned to acquire more Whale Rubber. Meng Shu mistook Lu Duzhou’s offer for a bid to marry Meng Yiran, as Yu Xiaogang also reached a breaking point at Shrek Academy.

• Ye Yurou and Ye Lingling thanked Lu Duzhou after he brought Ye Yurou back safely, and Ye Yurou agreed to live with him and manage his meals.
• Lu Duzhou obtained Dugu Bo’s Dan Bead, studied it alongside Sword Douluo’s Sword Heart and Bone Douluo’s Soul Fire, and proposed that Ning Fengzhi try condensing a Soul Core.
• Yue Guan reported his findings about Whale Rubber and Tang Hao to Bibi Dong, who ordered him and Gui Mei to retrieve ancient Whale Rubber for Nana and the others.
• As news of super-limit Soul Ring absorption spread, Dugu Bo turned visitors away until Meng Shu arrived with Meng Yiran.
• Lu Duzhou offered to help Meng Shu research a breakthrough to Title Douluo, and Meng Shu asked whether he wanted to marry his granddaughter; Yu Xiaogang lost his composure at Shrek Academy.

Yu Xiaogang rejected the report of Dugu Yan absorbing a ten-thousand-year third Soul Ring and convinced the Shrek students that her unusual Soul Rings came from Martial Soul evolution. The chapter ended with Dai Mubai and the others persuaded by him, while Lu Duzhou denied Meng Shu's guess.

• Flender brought Yu Xiaogang information about Over-Limit Soul Ring Absorption, and Yu Xiaogang declared the report about Dugu Yan impossible.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed Dugu Yan's Martial Soul evolution and unusual Dragon-type Soul Rings had fooled people into believing she possessed a ten-thousand-year third Soul Ring.
• Dai Mubai asked about Dugu Yan's purple Soul Rings, and Yu Xiaogang explained them away as a special feature of her Martial Soul and Soul Beast.
• The chapter described Oscar's Pink Bubble Sausage, which could make targets hallucinate but could also affect Oscar and his allies.
• The chapter described Ma Hongjun's plant-derived Soul Rings and the awkward, risky effects of his Phoenix Fire Star and Whirlfire Phoenix skills.
• Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and the others accepted Yu Xiaogang's explanation, while Lu Duzhou hurriedly denied Meng Shu's guess.

Lu Duzhou secured Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang’s alliance and began researching Soul Cores, Martial Soul Fusion Skills, and pills. He planned to recruit Tai Tan and Yang Wudi for alchemy research, while Tang San agreed to help and prepared to approach the clans abandoned by the Clear Sky Sect.

• Lu Duzhou asked Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang to form an alliance and teach Dragon Snake Strike, and they agreed.
• Dugu Bo accepted the honorary dean position at Beast Academy, while Meng Yiran began training with Dugu Yan and the others.
• After more than a month of research, Lu Duzhou found that his Soul Energy and control were insufficient for his work.
• Lu Duzhou discussed Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and pill-making with Tang San, who agreed to support the research.
• Lu Duzhou identified Tai Tan and Yang Wudi as potential collaborators, and Tang San promised to approach them despite his guilt over the Clear Sky Sect’s past abandonment of their clans.

Lu Duzhou secured cooperation with the Bai Family and brought Tang San to meet Tai Tan, then arranged a joint journey to the Star Luo Empire to pursue alchemy research and new partnerships. Meanwhile, Yue Guan and Gui Mei killed a powerful Dragon Whisker Whale and discovered a Soul Bone.

• Lu Duzhou used Whale Rubber to establish a partnership with Bai Baoshan, who agreed to support Alchemy Furnace research in exchange for a share of the pills and sales.
• Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer and named Tang Hao as his father, prompting Tai Tan to kneel and greet him as Young Master.
• Lu Duzhou proposed that Tai Tan help forge an Alchemy Furnace, and the group planned to recruit Lou Gao and seek Yang Wudi’s pill-refining help.
• Lu Duzhou and Dugu Bo decided to lead everyone to the Star Luo Empire to meet potential partners, including the Payne Family, and search for a Mental Plant Soul Master.
• Five days later, the group left Heaven Dou City while Yue Guan and Gui Mei killed a fifty-thousand-year-old Dragon Whisker Whale and found a Soul Bone.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei recovered a fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone and an Inner Core before Yue Guan learned Lu Duzhou had gone to the Star Luo Empire. There, Dugu Bo explained the group’s purpose to Emperor Dai Yunfei, and Lu Duzhou offered the Payne Family three slots to plant their Martial Souls in exchange for a condition.

• Gui Mei found a fifty-thousand-year Dragon Whisker Whale Torso Bone and handed it to Yue Guan, then discovered an Inner Core and sent that to Lu Duzhou as well.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei decided to return after killing more than a dozen Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber beasts, but Yue Guan learned Lu Duzhou and Dugu Bo had gone to the Star Luo Empire and returned to Spirit City.
• At a banquet, Dugu Bo told Emperor Dai Yunfei that the group had come to acquire Plant Soul Masters’ Martial Souls and study medicine refinement.
• Lu Duzhou visited the Payne Family, and Matthew Payne offered to gather its younger Plant Soul Masters to use Lu Duzhou’s Land Martial Soul.
• Lu Duzhou offered the Payne Family three slots and said he had one condition, which Matthew invited him to explain.

Lu Duzhou chose Qiao Anna from the Payne Family to serve him for ten years and gave her a Ninth Grade Purple Zhi to strengthen her Martial Soul. After her potential improved, she planted her Phantom Dream Flower in his land, and he promised to help her become a Title Douluo within twenty years.

• Lu Duzhou asked Matthew to provide candidates with Innate Soul Power of level four or higher and selected Qiao Anna for ten years of service.
• Qiao Anna agreed to serve Lu Duzhou after confirming that the arrangement was not a Marriage Alliance.
• Lu Duzhou explained that he needed Qiao Anna's Mental Soul Skill and gave her a Ninth Grade Purple Zhi to raise her potential.
• Qiao Anna ate the herb, broke through to Soul Power level 37, and felt her Martial Soul's origin more than double.
• Lu Duzhou promised Qiao Anna she could become a Title Douluo within twenty years, and she planted her Phantom Dream Flower in his land.

Lu Duzhou gained the Phantom Dream Sea Soul Skill and prepared to leave Star Luo City with Qiao Anna, who said goodbye to Zhu Zhuqing. In Gengxin City, Tang San knelt before Yang Wudi to apologize for Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect, but Yang Wudi remained furious, and Lu Duzhou intervened.

• Lu Duzhou learned that Phantom Dream Sea could boost his spiritual perception and strengthen his spiritual power, and he told Qiao Anna to prepare to leave with him.
• Qiao Anna visited Zhu Zhuqing, promised to return for her once she grew strong enough, and urged her niece to rely on herself.
• Lu Duzhou and his group left Star Luo City for Gengxin City, where he brought Tang San to meet Yang Wudi.
• Tai Tan revealed that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son, prompting Yang Wudi to turn away in anger over the Clear Sky Sect’s betrayal and the deaths in his family.
• Tang San knelt and said he did not seek forgiveness, while Tai Tan also knelt and defended him, further angering Yang Wudi.
• Lu Duzhou warned Yang Wudi that Dugu Bo might lose his temper if he refused to cooperate.

Lu Duzhou persuaded Yang Wudi to join a joint alchemy project by offering him the Aromatic Silk Beauty, and Yang Wudi agreed to cooperate and set aside his grudge against Tang San. The next day, Lu Duzhou, Tai Tan, and Tang San visited Lou Gao to discuss their plans.

• Lu Duzhou explained his alchemy research plan and invited Yang Wudi to contribute the Yang Family's medicine-refining knowledge alongside other researchers.
• Yang Wudi accepted Lu Duzhou's offer after negotiating to borrow the Aromatic Silk Beauty for fifty years, and agreed to bring his family’s herbs and books to Pano City.
• Lu Duzhou and Tang San asked Yang Wudi not to blame Tang San for the previous generation’s feud, and Yang Wudi agreed to treat him as Dugu Bo Your Excellency’s student rather than Tang Hao’s son.
• Tang San became more resentful of Tang Hao as he reflected on the hardships and neglect he had endured.
• The next day, Lu Duzhou, Tai Tan, and Tang San visited Lou Gao at the Blacksmith Association, where Lou Gao asked whether they had come to reveal the secret of the ten-thousand-year third ring.

Lu Duzhou recruited Lou Gao to make Alchemy Furnaces and returned to Heaven Dou City, where Ning Rongrong advanced and Yue Guan introduced him to Gui Mei. After turning down a fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone, Lu Duzhou declared that he intended to become a god.

• Lu Duzhou offered Lou Gao the secret of Whale Rubber in exchange for manufacturing Alchemy Furnaces, and Lou Gao agreed.
• Lu Duzhou and his companions returned to Heaven Dou City, where Ning Rongrong gained a five-thousand-four-hundred-year Second Soul Ring and reached Soul Power Level twenty-three.
• Yue Guan introduced Lu Duzhou to Gui Mei, and the two listened as Lu Duzhou explained his Soul Core and medicinal pill research.
• Yue Guan gave Lu Duzhou a Dragon Whisker Whale Inner Core and offered him its fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone, but Lu Duzhou refused the Soul Bone as unsuitable.
• Lu Duzhou declared that he intended to become a god, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei promised to support him.

Lu Duzhou gave Dugu Yan a fifty-thousand-year Dragon-type Soul Bone, which awakened a powerful amplification skill and raised her Soul Power to Level 40. After advancing Soul Core research, he helped Meng Shu and Ning Fengzhi successfully condense Soul Cores, with Ning Fengzhi breaking through to Rank 80 and pledging the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei left Lu Duzhou with the fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone, and Yue Guan used Lu Duzhou’s Mixed Yuan Immortal Herb to break through to Level 96.
• Lu Duzhou gave the Soul Bone to Dugu Yan to make amends for becoming Yue Guan’s student, and Dugu Yan fused with it despite Dugu Bo’s surprise.
• Dugu Yan gained the Dragon Whale Overlord Body skill, reached Level 40, and agreed to wait until Lu Duzhou was ready before they hunted for Soul Rings together.
• Lu Duzhou continued researching Soul Cores with Xiao Wu’s suggestions, but Ning Fengzhi and Meng Shu both failed their first attempts to condense one.
• Meng Shu succeeded on his second attempt, and Ning Fengzhi later succeeded on his third attempt and broke through to Rank 80.
• Ning Fengzhi pledged that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would firmly support Lu Duzhou.

Lu Duzhou prepared to strengthen his allies and set out for the Star Dou Great Forest, while Tang San traveled with Tang Hao to awaken his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline. The Blue Silver King confirmed Tang San’s heritage, leaving him to face the revelation that he was not fully human.

• Ning Fengzhi agreed to invest in Lu Duzhou’s plans, and Lu Duzhou set a ten-day deadline for his allies to condense Soul Cores before their trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang San told Lu Duzhou that Tang Hao was taking him to obtain a Soul Ring and meet his mother, but Lu Duzhou declined to go with him.
• Dugu Bo successfully condensed a Soul Core, containing his poison and loosening his bottleneck, while Lou Gao and Tai Tan completed an Alchemy Furnace for pill research.
• After Chen Xin and Gu Rong condensed their Soul Cores, Lu Duzhou left Heaven Dou City with Chen Xin, Dugu Bo, Ning Fengzhi, Dugu Yan, and Xiao Wu.
• Tang Hao brought Tang San to a forest near Holy Soul Village, where Tang San connected with the Blue Silver Grass and found the Blue Silver King.
• The Blue Silver King told Tang San that he carried the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, confirming that he was the child of Tang Hao and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Tang San awakened his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, gained a self-condensed ten-thousand-year Third Soul Ring, and learned that his mother had left the forest nearly twenty years earlier. Tang Hao led him to a hidden chamber behind a waterfall, where they found it empty, leaving Tang San demanding to know where his mother was.

• The Blue Silver King revealed that Tang San carried the sole Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and asked him to protect the Blue Silver Grass Clan, which he agreed to do.
• The Blue Silver Grass Clan’s gathered power awakened Tang San’s bloodline, transformed his appearance, and strengthened his first two Soul Rings.
• Tang San condensed a Third Soul Ring equivalent to one from a Fifteen Thousand Year Soul Beast, raising his Soul Power to level thirty-five.
• The Blue Silver King told Tang San that his mother had left nearly twenty years earlier and had never returned.
• Tang San left the forest after seven days and asked Tang Hao where his mother was.
• Tang Hao led Tang San through a waterfall to a hidden stone chamber, found it empty, and erupted in anger as Tang San demanded to know where his mother had gone.

Tang Hao and Tang San discovered that Ah Yin and her soul bone had vanished, prompting a bitter confrontation before Tang Hao agreed to investigate Spirit Hall and provide Tang San with resources. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Dugu Yan absorbed a new Soul Ring and used an Immortal Herb to evolve her Martial Soul into a True Dragon.

• Tang Hao told Tang San that Ah Yin and her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone had disappeared, and blamed Spirit Hall for taking them.
• Tang San confronted Tang Hao about how he had cared for Ah Yin, and Tang Hao struck him before explaining that the cave had been the safest place to protect her.
• Tang Hao agreed to investigate Spirit City and hunt Demon Whales for Tang San, who demanded Whale Rubber and promised to become a Soul King within three years.
• Lu Duzhou's group entered the Star Dou Great Forest to find Soul Rings, while Xiao Wu returned ahead of them to reunite with Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Dugu Yan killed a twenty-three-thousand-year Dragon Blood Soul Beast, absorbed its Soul Ring, and reached level forty-three.
• Dugu Yan ate the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, evolved her Jade Phosphorous Flood Dragon into an emerald-green True Dragon, and reached level forty-six.

Xiao Wu explained to Da Ming and Er Ming why she supported Lu Duzhou’s group hunting Soul Beasts, and convinced them that human power offered their best chance to survive and take revenge. Meanwhile, Lu Duzhou’s group found a seventy-thousand-year Diamond Tiger for Ning Fengzhi, with Chen Xin preparing to face it.

• Er Ming questioned why Xiao Wu had not stopped the humans hunting Soul Beasts, and Xiao Wu argued that Soul Beasts also preyed on one another and that she would not betray Lu Duzhou, who had promised to help avenge her Mother.
• Xiao Wu described the relative strength of human Title Douluo and vicious beasts, then told Da Ming and Er Ming that Soul Beasts had been barred from becoming gods since the Dragon God’s death.
• Er Ming asked whether Lu Duzhou could take him to the God Realm, and Xiao Wu said she could not promise that but would ask her Big Brother about other options.
• Da Ming and Er Ming agreed to follow Xiao Wu’s guidance, unaware that Lu Duzhou had not known she had won them over.
• After searching for more than a month, Lu Duzhou’s group found a seventy-thousand-year Diamond Tiger suitable for Ning Fengzhi, and Chen Xin faced the imposing Soul Beast.

Ning Fengzhi absorbed the Diamond Tiger’s Soul Ring while Chen Xin and Dugu Bo helped Lu Duzhou kill the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. Lu Duzhou absorbed its Soul Ring and gained control of the Evil God Pearl, emerging with new powers and feeling stronger than ever.

• Chen Xin and Dugu Bo subdued the Diamond Tiger, and Ning Fengzhi killed it and began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Chen Xin found the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and Lu Duzhou asked Dugu Bo to help kill it so he could claim its Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo and Chen Xin restrained and wounded the tiger while Lu Duzhou swallowed it with Stomach of the Earth, killing it and absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Lu Duzhou endured the tiger’s remnant soul and evil energy, then completed the Soul Ring absorption and discovered the Evil God Pearl within him.
• Lu Duzhou gained control of the Evil God Pearl and manifested Fallen Black Wings and the Evil God Spike as Dugu Bo asked if he was all right.

Lu Duzhou gained the Evil God Domain and Devour Demon Domain, raising his Soul Power to Level 47, while Ning Fengzhi demonstrated his new Eighth Soul Skill. The group returned to Heaven Dou City with Xiao Wu, who told Lu Duzhou about Da Ming and Er Ming's request.

• Lu Duzhou's Evil God Pearl granted him the Evil God Spike and the Evil God Domain, while his Fourth Soul Ring gave him the Devour Demon Domain and a major increase in strength.
• Ning Fengzhi used his Eighth Soul Skill, Adamantine Force, on Lu Duzhou and explained its powerful, long-lasting amplification.
• Lu Duzhou revealed that he had reached Level 47, and Dugu Yan celebrated his growth and promised to cultivate diligently and protect him.
• Dugu Bo urged the group to leave the Soul Beast forest, and a few days later they met Xiao Wu in a nearby town and returned to Heaven Dou City.
• Xiao Wu told Lu Duzhou about Da Ming and Er Ming's request.

Lu Duzhou returned to Heaven Dou City, arranged plans for soul-beast allies and pill research, and promised Tang San he would find his missing mother. The chapter left Tang San relying on Lu Duzhou to reunite him with her.

• Lu Duzhou told Xiao Wu that Da Ming and Er Ming could become his Soul Rings and be revived in the God Realm, and Xiao Wu planned to persuade them once he reached rank 50.
• Lu Duzhou and the others returned to Heaven Dou City, where Ning Rongrong reunited with Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin before agreeing to stay with her family for a few days.
• Ye Yurou reported that the Soul Replenishing Pill had been successfully refined with a forty-percent success rate, while research on the Spirit Awakening Pill continued.
• Lu Duzhou told Ye Yurou to focus on refining the Spirit Awakening Pill and said he would handle pill sales and raw materials, including talks with Xue Qinghe.
• Tang San told Lu Duzhou that Tang Hao had taken him to the Blue Silver Forest, where his mother had disappeared, and Lu Duzhou promised to find her.

Lu Duzhou gained insight into Yin and Yang Two Instruments after experiencing Yue Guan and Gui Mei’s Two Extremes Stillness Domain, then learned Qian Renxue planned to marry Dugu Yan. After Xue Ye issued the marriage decree, Xue Beng tried to drug Dugu Yan, but his attempt failed when she revealed her evolved martial soul.

• Lu Duzhou told Yue Guan he had gained a fifty-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring and reached Soul Power Level forty-seven, then experienced the Two Extremes Stillness Domain with Gui Mei.
• Lu Duzhou practiced Tai Chi after returning home and sensed a subtle change in the Ice and Fire Power within his body.
• Qian Renxue told Lu Duzhou that Xue Ye had agreed to her marriage with Dugu Yan, and she later secured an imperial marriage decree.
• Xue Beng asked Prince Xuexing to help him stop the marriage, and Prince Xuexing invited Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to his manor.
• Xue Beng drugged Dugu Yan’s tea with an aphrodisiac made from Whale Rubber, but she resisted it and revealed her Jade Phosphorous Dragon martial soul.
• Dugu Yan kicked Xue Beng to the ground, while he realized her martial soul had evolved into a True Dragon and begged her not to kill him.