Chapter Summaries

Zhao Mu and Heibai ate three unidentified golden fruits with the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, triggering a painful transformation in Heibai. The black-red mist dispersed to reveal Heibai with a fiercer appearance and a new marking and collar-like ring.

• Dugu Bo gave Zhao Mu the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and said it could safely be eaten with the golden fruits.
• Heibai ate the three fruits and the chrysanthemum, then suddenly began undergoing a painful change as Zhao Mu felt its effects.
• Zhao Mu feared the food had harmed Heibai, while Dugu Yan worried and Dugu Bo reassured them that the Immortal Herbs were reshaping its body.
• Black-red mist engulfed Heibai and expanded, forcing Dugu Bo to carry Zhao Mu and Dugu Yan away from it.
• The mist dispersed to reveal Heibai with aggressive eye markings, bared fangs, an ancient forehead marking, and a black-red ring around its neck.

Zhao Mu’s Heibai transformed into a fearsome Demon God Iron-Eating Beast, whose roar shook soul beasts across the continent and beyond. The chapter left the Sea God Island guardians preparing for a new variable that could threaten the sea’s peace.

• Heibai’s transformed form overwhelmed Dugu Yan and unsettled Dugu Bo with its aura.
• Heibai roared at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, causing soul beasts throughout Sunset Forest to tremble and submit.
• The Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python sensed the roar in Star Dou Great Forest and worried about Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu felt a sudden fear in Nuoding City, while Tang San promised to protect her.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and sea soul beasts sensed the disturbance, and the Seven Sacred Pillars of Sea God Island lit up.
• Bo Saixi told the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians that Lord Sea God had warned of a continental variable that might disturb the sea, and they vowed to protect its peace.

As Heibai completed his evolution, the disturbance alerted Slaughter City, Spirit Hall, and the God Realm, while Zhao Mu gained a strange fourth Soul Ring. The chapter left off as Dugu Bo pressed Zhao Mu to begin treating him and Yan Yan.

• Tex announced that Slaughter City would stop admitting outsiders and that violators would be executed.
• Qian Daoliu and the golden-armored worshippers discussed a new variable on the continent, while Bibi Dong vowed to oppose the Angel Clan and the God Realm sensed a disturbance connected to slaughter.
• Zhao Mu realized Heibai had lost his demonic gaze and that its trace of demonic charm had been sealed within Zhao Mu's deep-black fourth Soul Ring.
• Zhao Mu examined Heibai's enlarged Fourth Form and considered how to use its improved physical abilities in combat.
• Dugu Bo demanded that Zhao Mu treat him and Yan Yan, and Zhao Mu assured him he could before trailing off with a qualification.

After reaching Soul Power Level fifty, Zhao Mu explained two ways to treat Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul toxins: evolve the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor or suppress the toxins in his Soul Bones. Dugu Bo chose the riskier evolution plan, and the chapter ended with Zhao Mu warning that failure could cost him his life or identity as Poison Douluo.

• Zhao Mu revealed that his Soul Power Level had reached fifty, and Dugu Yan envied his rapid cultivation.
• Zhao Mu described the two treatment plans and explained that Heibai’s blood could provide the medicinal effects needed for either one.
• Dugu Bo considered the risks, while Dugu Yan urged him to choose the safer plan of suppressing the toxins.
• Zhao Mu persuaded Heibai to draw blood from its different forms for the treatments.
• Dugu Bo chose Martial Soul Evolution so he could test how far the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor could advance.
• Zhao Mu asked whether Dugu Bo understood that failure could end the Poison Douluo.

Dugu Bo drank Heibai’s blood to evolve his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Martial Soul, risking his life despite Dugu Yan’s worries. After surviving a lightning-filled transformation, he awakened with a far stronger jiaolong Martial Soul, though it had not become a True Dragon.

• Dugu Bo chose to undergo Martial Soul Evolution and told Dugu Yan to prepare to look after herself if he died.
• Zhao Mu gave Dugu Bo a bottle of Heibai’s blood and told him to drink it.
• Dugu Bo drank the blood, and a storm gathered as lightning repeatedly struck his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.
• The serpent turned gray-white and collapsed, leaving Dugu Bo badly injured, but Zhao Mu stopped Dugu Yan from rushing to him.
• The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor shed its old form and emerged as a jade-colored jiaolong with claws and head bulges but no horns.
• Dugu Bo awoke with a stronger aura and recognized that his Martial Soul had evolved into a jiaolong rather than a True Dragon.

Dugu Bo successfully evolved his Martial Soul and cured his poison, while Dugu Yan chose the dangerous evolution treatment for herself. As heavenly lightning battered her Martial Soul, Heibai took the strikes in Thunder State, and Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent began changing.

• Dugu Bo confirmed that his poison was completely cured and his Soul Power had risen two levels, making him a level ninety-three Title Douluo.
• Dugu Yan rejected Dugu Bo’s safer treatment plan and drank Heibai’s blood to attempt her own Martial Soul evolution.
• Heavenly lightning struck Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent, injuring it and making Dugu Yan spit blood.
• Zhao Mu urged Heibai to protect Dugu Yan, and Heibai entered Thunder State to block the next lightning strike.
• Heibai punched at another bolt of lightning, while residual electricity tormented Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent and turned its jade-green body grayish-white.

Heibai absorbed Heavenly Lightning while Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent evolved into a Jade Phosphorous Jiao, curing its flaw and raising her Soul Power to level forty. Dugu Bo refused to let Zhao Mu leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and after Dugu Yan rejected his marriage proposal, he proposed that Zhao Mu become his sworn brother instead.

• Heibai absorbed much of the Heavenly Lightning, and Zhao Mu’s First Soul Ring changed from purple to silver-purple as Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul evolved.
• Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent became a Jade Phosphorous Jiao, resolving its flaw and raising her Soul Power Level from thirty-five to forty.
• Zhao Mu said he would leave after fulfilling his promise, but Dugu Bo refused to let him go because he knew about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo offered Zhao Mu freedom and protection if he married Dugu Yan and swore upon his Martial Soul, but Dugu Yan objected because she already liked Yu Tianheng.
• After Dugu Yan firmly rejected the match, Dugu Bo proposed that Zhao Mu become his sworn brother.

Dugu Bo became Zhao Mu’s sworn elder brother and promised to protect Zhao Mu and Dugu Yan as they grew stronger. As Dugu Bo planned to help Dugu Yan obtain her fourth Soul Ring, she worried that developing as a Power Attack System soul master would leave her existing poison-based soul skills unsuited to her evolved Martial Soul.

• Dugu Bo proposed sworn brotherhood, and after Dugu Yan objected, he and Zhao Mu performed a simple ceremony and became sworn brothers.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that Zhao Mu’s rare talent could help protect her in the future and said he would safeguard them both and recommend Zhao Mu to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Dugu Bo invited Zhao Mu to accompany him and Dugu Yan while she hunted for a fourth Soul Ring, hoping the trip would develop Zhao Mu’s combat abilities.
• Dugu Bo argued that Dugu Yan’s evolved Jade Phosphorous Jiao should follow the Power Attack System and gain a Soul Ring that strengthened her body.
• Dugu Yan explained that her first three Soul Rings granted poison-based skills and asked whether developing as a Power Attack System soul master meant she would have to abandon them.

Dugu Yan insisted on pursuing poison and chose to absorb the dangerous Snowy Swan Kiss as her fourth Soul Ring, despite Dugu Bo’s warnings. As Dugu Yan sat down to absorb it, Zhao Mu reassured Dugu Bo that her Jade Phosphorous Three Poisons could be controlled, and Dugu Bo questioned Zhao Mu’s apparent maturity.

• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo she wanted to remain a Control System Poison Soul Master, and he agreed to help her find a suitable fourth Soul Ring.
• Zhao Mu explained that Soul Rings could be condensed from energy-rich substances, then suggested Snowy Swan Kiss as an option for Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo warned that Snowy Swan Kiss could amplify toxins hundreds or thousands of times and refused to let Dugu Yan use it.
• Dugu Yan persuaded Dugu Bo to bring out Snowy Swan Kiss, then swallowed it to absorb it as a Soul Ring while Heibai watched.
• Dugu Bo’s venom grew stronger after contact with Snowy Swan Kiss, and Zhao Mu told him Dugu Yan’s curable poisons could be controlled.
• Dugu Bo challenged Zhao Mu’s claim to be seven or eight years old after Zhao Mu advised elders to leave decisions to the younger generation.

After absorbing the Snowy Swan Kiss, Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul evolved into the Calamity Poison Dragon, and her Soul Power reached Level 50. Dugu Bo and Zhao Mu were left stunned by her transformation and sudden rise to Quasi-Soul King.

• Dugu Bo admitted that Dugu Yan needed to forge her own path, and she finished absorbing the Snowy Swan Kiss.
• Dugu Yan’s fourth Soul Ring amplified her Jade Phosphor Purple Poison enough to corrode a cliff, but then the ring and her poison went out of control.
• Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Jiao Martial Soul transformed into a purple-scaled true dragon, which she named the Calamity Poison Dragon.
• Dugu Yan explained that her evolved Martial Soul controlled poison exceptionally well, and Dugu Bo discovered that her Soul Power had reached Level 50.

Dugu Yan described how her evolved Calamity Poison Dragon Martial Soul let her convert consumed toxins into Soul Power without risking a poisonous backlash. Zhao Mu then proposed that her fifth Soul Ring should improve how she delivers poison, leading him to suggest a wide-area Poison Explosion Technique.

• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo and Zhao Mu that consuming poisonous medicines could raise her strength, and that she could control the toxins in her body safely.
• Zhao Mu warned Dugu Yan not to grow overconfident in her poison, and she hinted that her poison had already failed to affect him.
• Dugu Bo asked Zhao Mu and Dugu Yan about their fifth Soul Rings; Zhao Mu said he wanted to identify the Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before choosing his own.
• Dugu Bo asked Zhao Mu for advice on Dugu Yan’s fifth Soul Ring, and Zhao Mu explained that her current methods of delivering poison were too limited.
• Zhao Mu suggested that Dugu Yan seek a wide-area attack to cover her poison’s weaknesses, proposing a Poison Explosion Technique.

Dugu Yan gained a fifth Soul Ring from an Explosive Fruit, giving her explosive poison attacks, while Zhao Mu and Heibai sparred with Dugu Bo at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After Zhao Mu accidentally killed Dugu Bo’s Nine-Section Jade with silver claw-like slashes, he examined the strange power in his own Soul Power.

• Zhao Mu explained how explosive attacks could spread Dugu Yan’s poison, and Dugu Yan chose an Explosive Fruit near the Fire Spring for her fifth Soul Ring.
• Dugu Yan endured the absorption and gained a red fifth Soul Ring, then demonstrated how her eight explosive spheres spread Jade Phosphor Purple Poison.
• Zhao Mu and Dugu Yan cultivated at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Dugu Bo sparred with them, and Zhao Mu tested Heibai’s enlarged Demon God Form and Water Severing Wave.
• Dugu Bo secretly sent a Nine-Section Jade to bite Zhao Mu, but Zhao Mu instinctively released five slashes that cut the snake apart.
• Dugu Bo demanded compensation for his dead Nine-Section Jade, then asked how Zhao Mu had cut through its steel-hard body; Zhao Mu reproduced the silver claw marks and wondered about the power behind them.

After Zhao Mu used a claw technique to kill a Nine-Section Jade, he and Dugu Bo settled on the explanation that Zhao Mu had developed the combat move himself, then cooked and ate the snake with Dugu Yan. After Dugu Bo suggested combining Heibai’s transformations, Zhao Mu decided to test the idea and bribed Heibai with Thunder-Striking Bamboo to join him in the clearing.

• Zhao Mu suspected his claw strike was a simplified Nine Yin Bone-Clawing Skill, but told Dugu Bo it was a combat technique he had developed himself.
• Zhao Mu persuaded Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to share the poisonous Nine-Section Jade, while Heibai was sent away to eat bamboo.
• Dugu Bo prepared Nine-Section Jade soup, and the three of them ate while Heibai sulked nearby and snapped his Thunder-Striking Bamboo.
• After eating, Dugu Bo asked Zhao Mu whether he had tried using soul skills simultaneously to fuse Heibai’s transformations.
• Zhao Mu woke Heibai and offered him Thunder-Striking Bamboo to persuade him to practice in the clearing.

Zhao Mu tested fusing Heibai’s forms, discovering that the combinations strengthened Heibai and that the Demonic Rhyme Seed reacted to a three-form fusion. He left the experiment planning to develop elemental properties further, while learning that fused forms consumed Soul Power at a sharply increasing rate.

• Zhao Mu fused Heibai’s Thunder Form and Diamond Form, creating a black-and-white form that combined lightning control with a near-indestructible body and increased its power by twenty percent.
• Zhao Mu’s Fourth Soul Ring lit up, and he fused the Demon God Form with the other two forms, producing a stronger, larger Heibai and a brief thirty-percent power increase.
• Zhao Mu sensed that the Demonic Rhyme Seed might have grown stronger after the fusion, then dispelled the combined form.
• Dugu Yan asked Zhao Mu about the fused form, and Dugu Bo correctly guessed that its greater strength came with increased Soul Power consumption.
• Zhao Mu explained that two-form fusion doubled Soul Power consumption while three-form fusion used roughly four times as much, and he decided to focus on single or two-form combinations.
• Zhao Mu concluded that Heibai’s training should next explore elemental properties, including lightning, earth, water, and fire.

Zhao Mu returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Dugu Yan after Dugu Bo advised him to attend school. After enrolling with letters of introduction from Prince Xue Xing and Dugu Bo, Zhao Mu explored the academy and entered its Mimicry Cultivation Grounds, where he and Dugu Yan heard a fierce battle nearby.

• Dugu Yan asked Zhao Mu for combat techniques, and he advised her to use poisoned darts and throwing knives, which she practiced until her aim improved.
• Dugu Yan decided to return to Heaven Dou Royal Academy for its school team, and Dugu Bo urged Zhao Mu to attend the academy with her.
• Zhao Mu and Dugu Yan returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where the Director of Academic Affairs first doubted Zhao Mu's age and Soul Power before recognizing the letters from Prince Xue Xing and Dugu Bo.
• The Director arranged a private dormitory and free meals for Zhao Mu, who settled in and later toured the academy with Dugu Yan.
• Zhao Mu and Dugu Yan entered the Mimicry Cultivation Grounds, where they heard the sounds of an intense battle.

Dugu Yan brought Zhao Mu to meet the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team and insisted that everyone call him Grandpa because he was her grandfather Dugu Bo’s sworn brother. The chapter ended with Zhao Mu silently taking in the awkward introductions after Yu Tianheng finally addressed him as Grandpa.

• Yu Tianheng and the others stopped their battle when Dugu Yan returned with Zhao Mu.
• Dugu Yan ordered Yu Feng, Yu Tianheng, and the rest of the group to call Zhao Mu Grandpa.
• Dugu Yan explained that Zhao Mu was Dugu Bo’s sworn brother, leaving the team shocked.
• Ye Lingling and the Shi Brothers called Zhao Mu Grandpa, followed by Osler and Yu Feng.
• Dugu Yan pressured Yu Tianheng until he reluctantly called Zhao Mu Grandpa.

Zhao Mu continued cultivating his elemental attributes at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before joining Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s team selection tournament. The tournament began as a large free-for-all, and the chapter ended as the participants summoned their Martial Souls and the arena erupted into combat.

• Zhao Mu explored the Mimicry Cultivation Environment and planned to strengthen his water, fire, earth, and lightning attributes through focused cultivation.
• Zhao Mu skipped classes at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Dugu Yan later told him she had signed him up for the academy team selection.
• Dugu Yan and Zhao Mu arrived at the crowded Soul Fighting Arena, where Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhilin announced a new free-for-all selection format.
• Meng Shenji started the tournament, and the participants summoned their Martial Souls while the Education Committee members watched from the stands.

Zhao Mu entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s selection match and ended the standoff by revealing his extraordinary Soul Rings and using Heibai’s Thunder Roar to knock out every other contestant. The instructors were left to decide how to choose a team when Zhao Mu was the only student still standing.

• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhilin discussed Zhao Mu and Dugu Yan while watching the contestants gather in the arena.
• Zhao Mu weighed the risks of his skills and chose Thunder Roar as the safest way to compete without seriously hurting his classmates.
• Zhao Mu revealed four unusually colored Soul Rings, shocking the contestants and the instructors, who suspected his Soul Power might truly be level fifty.
• Zhao Mu activated Thunder Roar, and Heibai’s lightning-enhanced roar knocked every other contestant unconscious, including Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhilin realized Zhao Mu was the only student left standing and considered holding another round to select teammates for him.

After Zhao Mu became the sole member of Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s first team, he learned that Ye Lingling’s family might possess records of Immortal Herbs. Three days later, the second-team selection began, and Dugu Yan prepared to make her comeback.

• Meng Shenji declared that Zhao Mu would form the first team alone and that the academy would hold a separate selection for its second team.
• Yu Tianheng overheard students gossiping about Zhao Mu’s victory and regretted losing his chance to join the first team.
• Dugu Yan complained to Zhao Mu about his attack, while Zhao Mu asked Dugu Bo about books on Immortal Herbs.
• Dugu Yan said Ye Lingling’s family might have a comprehensive Medicinal Herb Illustration Guide, giving Zhao Mu a possible lead.
• A young man in the Crown Prince’s Residence studied intelligence about Zhao Mu and wondered whether he was the variable his grandfather had mentioned.
• Three days later, the second-team selection began, and Dugu Yan quietly prepared to make her return performance.

Dugu Yan overwhelmed the Second Team selection tournament with her enhanced poison, then hurried to detoxify the fallen students. Meanwhile, Zhao Mu continued training his elemental abilities, and Dugu Yan brought Ye Lingling to his dormitory.

• Dugu Yan revealed her Calamity Poison Dragon and unusual Soul Rings before releasing potent poison that incapacitated every other participant, including Yu Tianheng.
• Meng Shenji ranked the contestants by the order they fell and named Dugu Yan captain of the Second Team.
• Dugu Yan rushed to detoxify the poisoned students as the academy committee finalized the team candidates, including Yu Tianheng and other members of the original Heaven Dou Team.
• Zhao Mu trained his water and fire attributes at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the academy's Mimicry Cultivation Grounds, strengthening Heibai's attacks.
• Dugu Yan brought Ye Lingling to Zhao Mu's dormitory.