Chapter Summaries

Dugu Yang killed a Thousand Year Level Man Faced Demon Spider using his poison immunity and Jade Phosphor Death. After Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling praised him, Qin Ming revealed himself as their hidden protector.

• Dugu Yang used Poison Burst Technique to expose the Man Faced Demon Spider's abdomen and wound it with his Dragon Claws.
• The Man Faced Demon Spider tried to retreat, but Jade Phosphor Death spread through its wound and killed it.
• Dugu Yan embraced Dugu Yang and celebrated his victory, while Ye Lingling praised his strength.
• Dugu Yang sensed someone hiding in the canopy and called them out.
• Qin Ming revealed himself and explained that he had been assigned to protect the students and had watched Dugu Yang kill the spider.

Yu Tianheng challenged Dugu Yang to a Soul Battle after learning he had killed a Thousand Year Man Faced Demon Spider. Dugu Yang defeated him with one strike, leaving Yu Tianheng to confront the immense gap between them.

• Qin Ming warned Yu Tianheng against challenging Dugu Yang after pointing out the Thousand Year Man Faced Demon Spider Dugu Yang had killed.
• Yu Tianheng released his Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and attacked Dugu Yang with Thunder Dragon Claw.
• Dugu Yang blocked Yu Tianheng's attack, then charged through his Thunderbolt and shattered his shoulder with a Dragon Claw.
• Yu Tianheng admitted defeat, devastated by how far Dugu Yang surpassed him.

After defeating Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yang’s group advanced to the finish line and set an ambush for Osler’s team, which had already collected ten Crystal Cards. The chapter ended with Dugu Yan poisoning Osler and Dugu Yang confronting Yufeng as the team demanded their cards.

• Dugu Yang defeated Yu Tianheng, and Shi Mo and Shi Mo handed over their team’s Crystal Card.
• Qin Ming provoked Yu Tianheng into recovering his resolve, and Yu Tianheng rejoined the trial with Shi Mo and Shi Mo.
• Dugu Yang’s group reached the finish-line route and waited for another team to pass.
• Osler’s team approached with ten Crystal Cards, having gathered them through lucky encounters with defeated teams.
• Dugu Yan ambushed Osler with a poison arrow, and Dugu Yang placed a hand on Yufeng’s shoulder as Dugu Yan demanded the Crystal Cards.

Dugu Yang’s group robbed Yufeng’s team of their Crystal Cards and won first place in the New Student Trial. After the awards, Qin Ming told Zhi Lin that Dugu Yang had killed a Thousand Year Man Faced Demon Spider and possessed a Ten Thousand Year Third Soul Ring, leaving Zhi Lin stunned.

• Dugu Yang poisoned Yufeng, forcing him to surrender his team’s ten Crystal Cards, while Osler’s team surrendered and kept two cards.
• Dugu Yang’s group took first place, Osler’s team placed second, and Yu Tianheng’s team placed third.
• After the award ceremony, Qin Ming asked Zhi Lin about Dugu Yang, and Zhi Lin revealed that Dugu Yang was eleven years old and had reached Soul Power level 39.
• Zhi Lin explained that Dugu Yang’s Martial Soul was the Jade Phosphor Flood Dragon, an evolved form of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent.
• Qin Ming told Zhi Lin that Dugu Yang had killed a Thousand Year Man Faced Demon Spider alone and possessed a Ten Thousand Year Third Soul Ring, shocking Zhi Lin.

Qin Ming and Zhi Lin planned to build Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s tournament team around Dugu Yang, while Dugu Yang reached rank 40 and asked Dugu Bo to help him obtain a Jade Phosphor Snake King Spirit Ring. Dugu Bo returned to Heaven Dou City and learned of Dugu Yang’s choice, though he misunderstood why Dugu Yang wanted that Soul Beast.

• Qin Ming and Zhi Lin concluded that Dugu Yang’s talent could give Heaven Dou Royal Academy a chance to challenge Wuhun Academy and assigned Qin Ming to form a seven-person team around him.
• After seven days of training, Dugu Yang broke through to rank 40 and requested leave to obtain his Fourth Soul Ring.
• Dugu Yang sent word to Dugu Bo, who quickly returned to Heaven Dou City and praised him for reaching rank 40 before his twelfth birthday.
• Dugu Yang told Dugu Bo he wanted a Jade Phosphor Snake King Soul Ring between twenty thousand and thirty thousand years old.
• Dugu Bo wondered what Spirit Skill Dugu Yang sought, unaware that Dugu Yang wanted the Soul Beast itself rather than a particular skill.

Dugu Yang and Dugu Bo went to the Star Dou Forest to hunt a twenty-thousand-year Jade Phosphor Snake King for Dugu Yang’s fourth Spirit Ring. After a week without finding one, they used Snake Saliva Incense to lure nearby snakes, and Dugu Bo hinted that the Dragon Blood Transforming Flood Dragon Pill had been developed.

• Dugu Yang and Dugu Bo entered the Star Dou Forest’s Core Zone to find a Jade Phosphor Snake King.
• After a week of searching and driving away other powerful soul beasts, Dugu Bo proposed using Snake Saliva Incense to draw out the Snake King.
• Dugu Yang agreed and suggested lighting the incense near the southern cliff cave where they had found a Jade Phosphor Snake King’s shed skin.
• Dugu Bo lit the Snake Saliva Incense and gave Dugu Yang a detoxification pill, but Dugu Yang said his Poison Body Adaptation made him immune to its effects.
• Dugu Bo lamented that Dugu Yan could not gain Poison Body Adaptation, then hinted that they had developed another way to address the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul’s flaw.
• Dugu Yang asked whether the Dragon Blood Transforming Flood Dragon Pill had been successfully developed.

Dugu Bo and Dugu Yang used the Snake Saliva Incense to lure out a Jade Phosphor Snake King, then captured it and brought it to a safer location. Dugu Bo battered the thirty-thousand-year snake nearly to death and left it for Dugu Yang to handle.

• Dugu Bo revealed that he had developed the Dragon Blood Transforming Flood Dragon Pill, though it still needed testing before Yanzi could take it.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yang drew numerous snake spirit beasts with the Snake Saliva Incense, and the beasts began fighting one another.
• Dugu Bo spotted a thirty-thousand-year Jade Phosphor Snake King and, after Dugu Yang warned him to stop the incense, transformed into the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor to capture it.
• Dugu Bo carried Dugu Yang and the captured snake far from the disturbance, then beat the Jade Phosphor Snake King nearly to death and told Dugu Yang it was his turn.

Dugu Yang killed the wounded Jade Phosphor Snake King and absorbed its Thirty-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, choosing Jade Phosphor Poison Pill as his fourth Soul Skill. The skill unexpectedly let him condense a Poison Pill—an Embryonic Soul Core—though his cultivation fell from around level 43 to level 41.

• Dugu Yang injected Jade Phosphor Death into the wounded Jade Phosphor Snake King, killing it before it could attack him.
• Dugu Yang absorbed the Snake King's Spirit Ring while Dugu Bo guarded him.
• Dugu Yang chose the Jade Phosphor Poison Pill Soul Skill, hoping its ability to solidify energy would help him condense a Soul Core.
• Dugu Bo watched Dugu Yang's cultivation plunge from around level 43 to level 41 after the fourth Spirit Ring formed.
• Dugu Yang reassured Dugu Bo and spat out a soybean-sized Poison Pill, which was actually an Embryonic Soul Core.

Dugu Yang demonstrated how his Poison Pill could create Poison Mist, including the colorless, odorless Invisible Hand, and discussed its strengths and limitations with Dugu Bo. After becoming a Four-ring Soul Ancestor and returning to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Dugu Yang encountered Qin Ming, who noticed his breakthrough.

• Dugu Yang explained that his Fourth Soul Ring let him turn his Poison Pill into Poison Mist, while Dugu Bo praised the technique.
• Dugu Yang showed Dugu Bo Invisible Hand, a colorless, odorless Mixed Poison that could paralyze weaker enemies but lacked lethal strength.
• Dugu Yang considered combining Invisible Hand with Jade Phosphor Death, though he had not yet managed to fuse them successfully.
• Dugu Yang absorbed the Jade Phosphor Snake King's Spirit Ring, became a Four-ring Soul Ancestor, and returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy as Dugu Bo left to finish the Dragon Blood Transforming Flood Dragon Pill.
• Qin Ming met Dugu Yang outside the academy, sensed his stronger aura, and asked whether he had broken through; Dugu Yang confirmed it.

Dugu Yang challenged Qin Ming’s pride in Shrek Academy, then investigated an uncharted island filled with mutated Poison Soul Beasts. When Dugu Yan reached level 30, she and Dugu Yang set out for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye so she could obtain her third Soul Ring.

• Qin Ming told Dugu Yang that Shrek Academy’s graduates all became influential, but Dugu Yang argued that a school admitting geniuses should not claim credit for their success.
• Qin Ming began doubting the value of Shrek Academy’s teaching methods, and Dugu Yang left him to think it over.
• Dugu Yang searched nautical charts and sailing logs for the island from the Emerald Poison Dragon’s memories, but could not locate it and vowed to find it once he could protect himself at sea.
• Dugu Yan broke through to level 30 before the first semester ended, and Dugu Yang told her he had already requested leave.
• Dugu Yang and Dugu Yan left the academy and headed toward Sunset Forest, planning to go to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye for her third Soul Ring.

Dugu Bo and Dugu Yang revealed that Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul could be cured by evolving it into the Jade Flood Dragon. Dugu Yan learned that Dugu Yang’s blood made the remedy possible and was overcome with relief, while Dugu Bo explained the danger Dugu Yang had faced when absorbing the Spirit Bone that evolved his Martial Soul.

• Dugu Yang brought Dugu Yan through Sunset Forest to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, where Dugu Bo celebrated her breakthrough to Quasi-Soul Elder.
• Dugu Bo presented Dugu Yan with a Dragon Blood Transforming Flood Dragon Pill and admitted that her father had died from Jade Phosphor Snake Poison.
• Dugu Yan revealed that she had already guessed her Martial Soul’s drawback and had hidden her fears to spare Dugu Bo worry.
• Dugu Yang explained that his Jade Phosphor Flood Dragon Martial Soul’s poison resistance inspired a method to evolve Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul and cure its drawback.
• Dugu Yan wept with relief and thanked Dugu Yang, while Dugu Bo said the method depended on Dugu Yang’s blood and recalled the danger he had faced absorbing the Emerald Poison Dragon Right Arm Spirit Bone.

Dugu Bo explained that Dugu Yang’s blood had helped create a pill to awaken the dragon bloodline in Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul, and outlined a plan to evolve it into a Jade Flood Dragon. He led Dugu Yan out of the Mountain Valley to receive the Flood Dragon Spirit Ring he had prepared for her.

• Dugu Bo revealed that Dugu Yang had spent over two years providing blood for the Dragon Blood Transforming Flood Dragon Pill, and Dugu Yan apologized for blaming him for being absent.
• Dugu Bo explained that the pill would awaken Dugu Yan’s dragon bloodline, while multiple Flood Dragon or other dragon-bloodline Spirit Rings could help evolve her Martial Soul into a Jade Flood Dragon.
• Dugu Yang considered the Earth Dragon Golden Melon as a possible way to strengthen their dragon bloodlines, but he had not dared to absorb it because of its earth attribute and uncertain effects.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that Spirit Bone Poison Concentration could preserve her life if the Flood Dragon Transformation Method failed, though it might limit her future.
• Dugu Bo said he had already prepared Dugu Yan’s third Spirit Ring and led her out of the Mountain Valley to meet the soul beast.

Dugu Yan used the Dragon Blood Transforming Flood Dragon Pill and absorbed a thirteen-hundred-year Black Scale Poison Flood Dragon Spirit Ring, becoming a Three-ring Soul Elder. She hinted that the pill had given her a valuable benefit beyond the Spirit Ring, though she did not reveal what it was.

• Dugu Yang told Dugu Yan that Dugu Bo had captured a thirteen-hundred-year Black Scale Poison Flood Dragon for her Spirit Ring.
• Dugu Bo freed the badly wounded Flood Dragon, and Dugu Yan killed it with Fleeting Beauty.
• Dugu Yan swallowed the Dragon Blood Transforming Flood Dragon Pill and described its warmth spreading through her body as her blood began to boil.
• Dugu Yan absorbed the Flood Dragon's purple Spirit Ring and successfully became a Three-ring Soul Elder.
• Dugu Bo searched the corpse for a Spirit Bone but found none, and Dugu Yan said her gains were still no less valuable before releasing her Martial Soul.

Dugu Yan tested her mutated arm and revealed the effects of her Third Soul Ring, Poison Swamp Cage, as Dugu Yang and Dugu Bo assessed her progress. Back at the Mountain Valley, Dugu Yang examined the Immortal Grade Spirit Grass at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye while still deciding which one to absorb.

• Dugu Yan showed Dugu Bo and Dugu Yang that her mutated right arm was stronger, better protected, and equipped with sharp claws.
• Dugu Bo encouraged Dugu Yan to cultivate harder so she could eventually evolve her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul into a Jade Flood Dragon Martial Soul.
• Dugu Yan used Poison Swamp Cage on Dugu Yang, who tested how its swamp slowed, bound, and poisoned those caught within it.
• Dugu Bo praised the practical soul skill but noted that its slow spread could let prepared opponents escape.
• Dugu Yang returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye and considered its Immortal Grade Spirit Grass, still undecided about which plant to consume.

Dugu Yang considered which Immortal Grade Spirit Grass suited him, deciding to save Snowy Swan Kiss until he obtained Ultimate Poison. Dugu Yan told him Qin Ming planned to form a team for the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament after next, and they promised to pursue the championship together.

• Dugu Yang rejected Earth Dragon Golden Melon as too risky and decided Snowy Swan Kiss would be better saved until he possessed Ultimate Poison.
• Dugu Yang considered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye's herbs and other Immortal Grade Spirit Grasses before pulling himself away from their appeal.
• Dugu Yan told Dugu Yang that Teacher Qin Ming planned to form a seven-person team for the tournament after next.
• Dugu Yan declared that she and Dugu Yang would represent Heaven Dou Royal Academy and win the championship, and Dugu Yang promised to work hard and lead her there.

Dugu Yang arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s training ground and challenged seven of Qin Ming’s promising students at once to sharpen his combat skills. Qin Ming arranged the fight, though he doubted Dugu Yang could win.

• Dugu Yang entered the training ground, where Yu Tianheng and the other reserve team members stopped sparring to watch him.
• Qin Ming scolded the students for losing focus, then welcomed Dugu Yang and excused his late arrival.
• Dugu Yang asked to spar with the students, explaining that he wanted to train his combat skills.
• Dugu Yang insisted that Qin Ming send seven students to fight him, and Qin Ming warned that they would not hold back.
• Qin Ming went to arrange the match as Dugu Yang privately declared that his confidence came from his strength.

Qin Ming provoked the Heaven Dou Royal Academy students by revealing that Dugu Yang planned to fight all seven of them alone. The spar began with both sides ready to fight, leaving Dugu Yang facing the team that would represent their academy in the next-next tournament.

• Qin Ming told the students that Dugu Yang intended to challenge all seven of them, angering those who felt insulted.
• Dugu Yan and the others recognized Dugu Yang as the challenger, while Yu Tianheng demanded a one-on-one fight.
• Qin Ming said Yu Tianheng could fight Dugu Yang alone only if he first led the team to defeat him.
• Qin Ming laid out the sparring rules, and the seven students took their positions against Dugu Yang.
• Dugu Yang studied the team's formation as Dugu Yan and the others prepared to fight seriously.

Dugu Yang faced the Heaven Dou Royal Team alone and overwhelmed their coordinated attacks with his Dragon Transformation. As he struck at Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianheng was left unable to dodge.

• Dugu Yang revealed his four Spirit Rings, including two Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings, while Yu Tianheng rallied the shaken Heaven Dou Royal Team.
• Dugu Yang charged the team, but Shi Mo and Shi Mo blocked his first punch with their Tortoise Shell Shields as Yu Tianheng struck him with Thunder Dragon Claw.
• Dugu Yang activated his Dragon Transformation, shrugged off the lightning attack, and broke Shi Mo's Black Armor Shield with a punch.
• Yu Tianheng attacked Dugu Yang with his dragon-transformed right arm, but Dugu Yang caught it with his left, kicked him off balance, and swung his claws toward Yu Tianheng's face.

Dugu Yang overwhelmed the Heaven Dou Royal Team as Dugu Yan took command and coordinated the others against him. He broke through their formation to target Ye Lingling, but Dugu Yan intercepted him, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Osler and Yufeng rescued each other from Dugu Yang’s attacks while Ye Lingling healed Shi Mo, restoring the team’s balance.
• Dugu Yan rebuked Yu Tianheng and took command, ordering Yu Tianheng and Shi Mo to restrain Dugu Yang while Osler and Yufeng attacked from the side and above.
• Dugu Yang repelled the four attackers, then charged toward Ye Lingling and knocked aside Shi Mo when he tried to block the way.
• Dugu Yan trapped Dugu Yang in Poison Marsh Prison and struck him with Ice Snake Shadow, but Dugu Yang resisted its effects and pushed forward despite Yu Tianheng’s attack.
• Dugu Yan blocked Dugu Yang’s path and punched at him, but he caught her fist and told her she was still far from matching him.

Dugu Yang poisoned Ye Lingling with Invisible Hand, then used his Soul-Eating Leech Mixed Poison to drain the Heaven Dou Royal Team’s Soul Power and gain the upper hand. As he attacked the Shi Mo brothers, he blasted Yu Tianheng and Osler with the Poison Burst Technique, leaving the team in peril.

• Dugu Yan and the team kept Dugu Yang at bay, but Ye Lingling suddenly collapsed after being poisoned by Invisible Hand.
• Dugu Yang released Soul-Eating Leech, which rapidly drained the team’s Soul Power and made it difficult for them to control.
• Dugu Yang struck Shi Mo twice, knocking him down as Dugu Yan called for the others to cover him.
• Yu Tianheng and Osler attacked Dugu Yang, but he detonated poison on them with the Poison Burst Technique, injuring both.