Vol. 1Zhao Mu’s Rise

Zhao Mu and Heibai grew powerful through evolution, Immortal Herbs, and dangerous battles, while Zhao Mu gathered allies and soul powers. The volume ended with Shrek Academy established and a mysterious cloaked figure testing Tang San and Xiao Wu.

  • Zhao Mu and Heibai reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Zhao Mu offered Heibai’s blood to cure Dugu Bo’s poison.
  • Heibai’s blood and lightning transformed Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor into a jade-colored jiaolong.
  • Dugu Yan evolved her Martial Soul into the Calamity Poison Dragon, while Ye Lingling evolved her Nine Heart Begonia with Immortal Herbs.
  • Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo brought three Immortal Herbs to auction for the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone, and Xiao Wu opened the auction.
  • Zhao Mu secured the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone and later helped Heibai absorb it, gaining a shared phantom-claw ability.
  • Heibai killed Medusa at the Temple, allowing Zhao Mu to absorb her 100,000-year Soul Ring and awaken his Body Martial Soul.
  • Tang Hao attacked Zhao Mu, but Heibai seized Tang Hao’s Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone before Dugu Bo rescued Zhao Mu.
  • Heibai absorbed the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and Wujue Stone, giving Zhao Mu his Sixth Soul Ring and raising him to level 70.
Chapters 1–100 Read from ch. 1

Arc 1The Iron-Eating Beast’s Evolution

Zhao Mu and Heibai grew stronger together, reaching the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Zhao Mu used Immortal Herbs to gain new soul rings and offered Heibai’s blood as a treatment for Dugu Bo’s poison. The arc ended with Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor evolving into a jiaolong.

  • Zhao Mu bonded with Heibai, whose consumption of Thunder-Striking Bamboo gave Zhao Mu a thousand-year first Soul Ring and lightning-based abilities.
  • Zhao Mu and Heibai trained until Zhao Mu gained a second thousand-year Soul Ring, then Zhao Mu defeated his father’s challenge and earned permission to leave the Zhao Family.
  • Zhao Mu and Heibai reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Zhao Mu confronted Dugu Bo and offered to cure the poison afflicting him and Dugu Yan.
  • Heibai swallowed Dugu Bo’s Dan Pearl and the paired Immortal Herbs, giving Zhao Mu a third Soul Ring and a new form with fire and water attacks.
  • Heibai ate Earth Dragon Golden Melon fruits and the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, transforming into a powerful fourth form whose roar stirred forces across the continent and beyond.
  • Zhao Mu revealed that he had reached Soul Power Level fifty and offered Dugu Bo two treatment plans using Heibai’s blood, and Dugu Bo chose Martial Soul Evolution.
  • Dugu Bo drank Heibai’s blood as lightning struck his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, which shed its old form and emerged as a jade-colored jiaolong.
Chapters 1–25 Summaries Read

Arc 2Immortal Herbs and the Team

Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling transformed their Martial Souls through Immortal Herbs while Zhao Mu joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy and demonstrated his strength. After leaving the team’s special training, Zhao Mu prepared to auction Immortal Herbs to bid for a powerful External Soul Bone, and the auction began.

  • Dugu Yan evolved her Martial Soul into the Calamity Poison Dragon, reached Soul Power Level 50, and gained a poison-based fifth Soul Ring.
  • Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo became sworn brothers, then Zhao Mu returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Dugu Yan.
  • Zhao Mu defeated the academy team-selection contestants with Heibai’s Thunder Roar and was named the first team’s sole member, while Dugu Yan became captain of the Second Team.
  • Ye Lingling absorbed the Aromatic Silk Beauty and an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, evolving her Nine Heart Begonia and reaching Soul Power Level 45.
  • Zhao Mu defeated Qin Ming with Heibai’s abilities and refused to join the team’s special training.
  • Dugu Yan left with Qin Ming’s team, while Zhao Mu tested his Boil Release Acid Mist against Dugu Bo and learned of a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone at auction.
  • Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo brought three Immortal Herbs to the Heaven Dou Auction House to raise money for the External Soul Bone, and Xiao Wu opened the auction.
Chapters 26–50 Summaries Read

Arc 3The Medusa Temple

Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo pursued a Soul Ring at the Medusa Temple, where Heibai defeated the God of Sin, Medusa, and Zhao Mu gained a 100,000-year Soul Ring, a Soul Bone, and an awakened second Martial Soul. They returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Heibai began preparing for his fifth Soul Ring by eating Immortal Herbs.

  • Zhao Mu sold three Immortal Herbs at auction and secured the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone after Spirit Hall was disqualified for malicious bidding.
  • Dugu Bo and Zhao Mu fended off Yu Luomian and a Spirit Hall ambush, then secretly recovered the Soul Bone after Demon Bear Douluo took their empty Gilded Box.
  • Zhao Mu helped Heibai absorb the Soul Bone, gaining a shared phantom-claw ability, then set out with Dugu Bo to find a Medusa Soul Ring.
  • Zhao Mu and Dugu Bo obtained Meng Yiran’s Sound-Listening and Position-Identifying Technique and trained to navigate the Medusa Temple without sight.
  • At the Temple, Zhao Mu, Dugu Bo, and Heibai fought the Medusas until three fused into a hundred-thousand-year opponent, which the Temple statue transformed into the God of Sin, Medusa.
  • Heibai awakened his killing-intent domain and killed Medusa, allowing Zhao Mu to absorb her 100,000-year Soul Ring while Heibai absorbed her Head Soul Bone.
  • Zhao Mu discovered his Body Martial Soul, gained Time Freeze and Medusa’s Gaze, and awakened the Martial Soul before fleeing with Dugu Bo and Heibai as the Temple collapsed.
  • The trio returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Heibai ate the Nine-Heart Begonia and began devouring other Immortal Herbs for his fifth Soul Ring.
Chapters 51–75 Summaries Read

Arc 4Zhao Mu’s Sixth Ring

Zhao Mu defeated Tang Hao’s ambush, took the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, and gained a powerful Sixth Soul Ring. As Shrek Academy was established, a mysterious cloaked figure tested Tang San and Xiao Wu.

  • Shrek defeated the Imperial Fighting Team, then watched Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan reveal the strength of Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Second Team.
  • Qin Ming brought Shrek to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Zhao Mu defeated the students and teachers who challenged him, and Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhao Wuji chose to stay.
  • Zhao Mu awakened his Body Martial Soul, discovered his Metal Immunity, and began gathering materials to create the Jiuli Yaotian Flag.
  • Tang Hao attacked Zhao Mu to protect Tang San, but Zhao Mu and Heibai fought back, and Heibai seized Tang Hao’s Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
  • Ah Yin removed Medusa’s curse from Tang Hao, but he lost his 100,000-Year Soul Ring and Title Douluo status, while Dugu Bo rescued Zhao Mu.
  • Zhao Mu used Lovesick Heartbreak Red to help Heibai absorb the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, forming a Spirit Bone Fusion Skill.
  • Heibai absorbed the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and Wujue Stone, giving Zhao Mu a Sixth Soul Ring and raising him to level 70, and Zhao Mu then used the Domain of the Wood Emperor to overpower Dugu Bo.
  • Blue Tyrant Academy became Shrek Academy, and a cloaked figure tested Tang San and Xiao Wu with a domain before easily deflecting Tang San’s hidden weapons.
Chapters 76–100 Summaries Read
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