Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming persuaded Ah Yin to cooperate by promising to protect her family and eventually return her to the Blue Silver Forest. Ah Yin agreed to develop improved forage grass for him, but the work exhausted her, and she explained why she had never deliberately altered the Blue Silver Grass Clan.

• Ah Yin weighed Chen Ming's promises against the danger to her husband, child, and clan, then agreed to cooperate.
• Chen Ming listed dozens of requirements for special forage grass, and Ah Yin agreed to produce grass that grew quickly, yielded well, preserved the soil, and provided nutrition.
• Ah Yin used her Blue Silver Domain to cultivate Blue Silver Grass through repeated growth cycles, selected mutated plants, and crossbred their seeds into a small bag.
• After draining herself with the work, Ah Yin asked Chen Ming for Nutrient Solution and prepared to sleep.
• Chen Ming asked why Ah Yin had not improved her clan, and she explained that forced alteration could reduce adaptability and make Spirit Beast development less likely.

Chen Ming arranged for Ah Yin’s mutant grass seeds to be cultivated and chose Niu Dali, a strong young Spirit Master, to train in his specialized Armor-Clad Technique. Back at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, he began guiding Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, and Ning Rongrong.

• Chen Ming had professionals cultivate Ah Yin’s mutant grass seeds on a small scale so they could observe their growth outside the Blue Silver Domain.
• Chen Ming assessed Niu Dali’s talent and combat abilities, then decided to cultivate him with his specialized Armor-Clad Technique.
• Chen Ming left Holy Soul Village with Niu Dali and Xiao Wu, leaving a prototype Spinning Jenny behind for the villagers.
• Chen Ming arranged for Niu Dali to enroll at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and left Xiao Wu in Dugu Bo’s care.
• Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, and Ning Rongrong waited for Chen Ming at the academy, and he began giving them guidance.

Chen Ming began evaluating Yu Tianxin, Yu Tianheng, and Ning Rongrong to develop meditation methods suited to their Martial Souls, but discovered their grasp of cultivation fundamentals was poor. After teaching them the basics for a week, he switched to separate, tailored sessions so he could study their Martial Souls and Spirit Rings more closely.

• Yu Tianxin, Yu Tianheng, and Ning Rongrong introduced themselves to Chen Ming and agreed to cooperate with his research.
• Chen Ming tested the three on Soul Power, Meridians, and Spirit Master knowledge, then found their answers lacking.
• Chen Ming learned that Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin had forgotten what they had studied, while Ning Rongrong had not taken her lessons seriously.
• Chen Ming spent the first lesson teaching the three basic cultivation fundamentals and estimated they would need at least a month to address their weak foundations.
• After another week of group instruction, Chen Ming arranged separate sessions for Ning Rongrong and the two Yu cousins so he could give tailored guidance and examine their Martial Souls and Spirit Rings.

Ning Rongrong asked Chen Ming how he created the Douluo Mental Method, then began private cultivation lessons under his guidance. After a day of instruction and practice, she reached the temporary limit her Meridians could endure, though her cultivation speed had barely improved.

• Ning Rongrong asked Chen Ming how he had developed a cultivation method that Sword Grandpa and Bone Grandpa could not improve.
• Chen Ming praised Ning Rongrong's talent and learning ability, gave her a score of ninety-eight on her test, and offered to teach her specialized cultivation.
• Chen Ming drew a diagram of Meridian breakthroughs and explained how Ning Rongrong should cultivate her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Power.
• Chen Ming guided Ning Rongrong through cultivation, sensing Soul Power at her Dantian while she gradually overcame her shyness and focused on his instructions.
• After a full day, Ning Rongrong reached the temporary limit her Meridians could endure, but her cultivation speed had not improved significantly.

Ning Rongrong endured an exhausting training session under Chen Ming’s guidance and received medicinal powder to help her recover. After she asked to spend more time with him, Chen Ming let her stay in a spare room at his training grounds, leaving him uneasy about their age difference and growing closeness.

• Ning Rongrong pushed herself through intense cultivation and realized her progress that day far exceeded her usual gains.
• Chen Ming gave Ning Rongrong medicinal powder and instructions to ease her fatigue and strengthen her Meridians.
• Ning Rongrong asked Chen Ming to show her around the academy, but he said he would make time once she improved her cultivation and knowledge.
• Ning Rongrong returned to Chen Ming’s training grounds after the night breeze made her shiver, and asked to stay there.
• Chen Ming offered Ning Rongrong a spare room, food, and a medicinal bath, while privately questioning whether he was raising her or gaining a childhood sweetheart.

Ning Rongrong experienced the powerful effects of Chen Ming’s Medicinal Bath and nourishing meals, then found herself increasingly enthusiastic about cultivation under his guidance. She begged to join Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng’s lessons, but Chen Ming refused because studying the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul required privacy.

• Ning Rongrong endured Chen Ming’s Medicinal Bath and felt her Soul Power flow more smoothly and her meridians grow tougher.
• The next morning, Chen Ming gave Ning Rongrong a small serving of medicinal meat soup, which left her energetic and eager to train.
• Chen Ming took Ning Rongrong jogging, then guided her cultivation, and she finished the second day wanting more lessons.
• Ning Rongrong begged to sit in on Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng’s lessons, but Chen Ming refused to let her observe their Martial Soul study.

Ning Rongrong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and told her family about her growing feelings for Chen Ming, while her elders decided to let the relationship develop on its own. Chen Ming trained Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng, learned more about their clan’s Dragon Transformation, and prompted the brothers to seek money for his pills.

• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi, Sword Grandpa, and Bone Grandpa about her experiences with Chen Ming and showed how much she liked him.
• After Ning Rongrong left, the three elders decided to stay out of the matter and let the two young people grow closer naturally.
• Chen Ming trained Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng through lessons, sparring, medicinal baths, and meals, and the cousins quickly noticed gains in strength and endurance.
• While sparring with the brothers, Chen Ming concluded that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s Dragon Transformation depended on its bloodline and considered asking Ah Yin and Xiao Wu about his theory.
• Chen Ming showed Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng his Large and Small Soul Ascension Pills, and the brothers hurried home to ask their grandfather for money to buy them.

Chen Ming questioned Ah Yin about whether Beast Kings could leave human bloodlines and concluded that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan might descend from a powerful dragon Beast King. He planned to investigate the clan’s lightning-wreathed mountain territory for clues about its origins.

• Chen Ming asked Ah Yin when the last Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragons disappeared, and she recalled hearing of a powerful Beast King but had never encountered one.
• Chen Ming asked whether a two-hundred-thousand-year Beast King could leave descendants with humans, and Ah Yin said she did not know.
• Chen Ming considered Wolf Bandits and Dragon Maidens as examples of beings with human and Spirit Beast ancestry.
• Chen Ming suspected that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan descended from a powerful dragon Beast King through an immoral union.
• Chen Ming planned to consult ancient records about the Spirit Beasts that had once inhabited the clan’s lightning-shrouded mountain range.

Chen Ming refined his Spirit Skills and cultivation while preparing to obtain a fourth Spirit Ring. He completed a temporary Dragon Spear from the Single-Horn Tyrant Dragon’s horn and set his sights on a Blazing Winged Wyvern, leaving to pursue a Spirit Beast whose kind had been driven to distant Volcano Islands.

• Chen Ming studied the Blue Silver Emperor’s flight and recovery skills, assessed his Spirit Ring limits, and developed his Dragon Transformation techniques.
• Chen Ming tempered the Single-Horn Tyrant Dragon’s horn with his Martial Soul Origin until it became a translucent golden short staff.
• Chen Ming merged the horn with his Martial Soul to form a temporary Dragon Spear that granted him a ten-percent attribute boost and extended some of his Spirit Skills.
• Chen Ming chose to seek a Blazing Winged Wyvern for his fourth Spirit Ring to complete his light-and-fire attributes.
• Chen Ming reviewed the Blazing Winged Wyverns’ history as powerful, grudge-holding sky rulers, whose surviving groups had fled to Volcano Islands near the continent.

Chen Ming returned to Spirit Hall, where Qian Daoliu warned him about the dangers of associating with transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and spoke of his unwillingness to reignite the conflict surrounding the Blue Silver Emperor. Chen Ming then sought a fourth Spirit Ring from a Blazing Winged Wyvern on Volcano Island, and Qian Daoliu agreed to help only if another Titled Douluo accompanied them.

• Chen Ming returned to the Worship Hall after arranging for Ning Rongrong, Yu Tianheng, and Yu Tianxin to visit their sects and speaking with Xiao Wu and Dugu Bo.
• Qian Daoliu warned Chen Ming that transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and their Soul Bones could endanger him and those around him.
• Qian Daoliu said he would let the Blue Silver Emperor’s death settle the old conflict between Spirit Hall and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Chen Ming told Qian Daoliu he wanted to hunt a fourth Spirit Ring, and Qian Daoliu checked him for damage after learning he was already level forty at eleven.
• Chen Ming chose to hunt a Blazing Winged Wyvern on Volcano Island despite Qian Daoliu’s warning about the conflicting attributes and the island’s hazards.
• Qian Daoliu accepted Chen Ming’s decision but insisted that another Titled Douluo accompany them.

Chen Ming traveled with Azure Luan Douluo and Qian Renfeng to the Oceanic Volcanic Archipelago to find a suitable Blazing Winged Wyvern for his fourth Spirit Ring. They found a healthy wyvern over sixteen thousand years old, leaving Chen Ming with a strong candidate to hunt.

• Qian Daoliu assigned Azure Luan Douluo to accompany Chen Ming, while Qian Renfeng came along as his bodyguard.
• Chen Ming and the others flew to the volcanic archipelago, where eruptions and earthquakes made travel hazardous.
• The group found a pack of Blazing Winged Wyverns and observed their coordinated hunting and care for vulnerable members.
• After searching elsewhere, Azure Luan Douluo found a well-developed Blazing Winged Wyvern a little over sixteen thousand years old.

Chen Ming absorbed a roughly sixteen-thousand-year-old Blazing Winged Wyvern Spirit Ring as his fourth ring, overcoming its spiritual remnant and suppressing its fire-dragon energy. As the ring’s fire and light attributes merged with him, all four elemental powers in his eyes began to clash, while the Mountain Dragon’s power and Metal Nature helped contain them.

• Azure Luan Douluo crippled a Blazing Winged Wyvern, and Chen Ming chose it for his fourth Spirit Ring.
• Chen Ming killed the wyvern, and Azure Luan Douluo warned him that absorbing its high-age Spirit Ring could be dangerous.
• Chen Ming explained that his Spiritual Power could withstand the ring’s lingering remnant, while Azure Luan Douluo and Qian Renfeng prepared to intervene if necessary.
• Chen Ming absorbed the Spirit Ring, shattered the wyvern’s spiritual remnant, and subdued its fire-dragon energy with his superior bloodline.
• As the fire and light attributes merged into Chen Ming, his right eye glowed crimson and his water-and-darkness-altered left eye lit up, causing all four attributes to clash.

After absorbing his fourth Spirit Ring, Chen Ming awakened a powerful eye technique and learned that his new Spirit Skill, Dragon Dance, could repeatedly boost his attack and speed at increasing physical cost. He infused his temporary Dragon Spear with a trace of fire attribute and expected a more complete transformation soon.

• Chen Ming's absorbed attributes fused into eye techniques that improved his vision and let him ignite a distant spot by consuming Soul Power and Spiritual Power.
• Chen Ming finished absorbing the fourth Spirit Ring, reaching about level 43 Soul Power, and demonstrated Dragon Dance, which boosted his attack and speed by 50% per use, up to six stacks.
• Azure Luan Douluo listened as Chen Ming explained that Dragon Dance's later stacks placed increasing strain on his body, with the fourth stack at his normal limit.
• Chen Ming used his temporary Dragon Spear to absorb a trace of Fire Dragon bloodline origin from the Blazing Winged Wyvern's corpse, giving the weapon a faint fire attribute.

Chen Ming returned to Spirit Hall after obtaining the Loop, where Golden Crocodile Douluo prepared to risk everything in seclusion to break through to Limit Douluo. Qian Daoliu rewarded Chen Ming with a Soul Bone, which Chen Ming passed to Qian Renfeng, leaving Qian Renfeng deeply grateful and increasingly devoted to him.

• Chen Ming returned to Spirit Hall and showed Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo his condition after the hunt.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo entered death seclusion, determined not to leave unless he broke through to Limit Douluo.
• Qian Daoliu gave Chen Ming a ten-thousand-year Swift-Moving Wind-Chasing Left Leg Bone as a reward.
• Chen Ming gave the Soul Bone to Qian Renfeng, who accepted it with solemn gratitude.
• Qian Renfeng decided that if Chen Ming ever competed with Qian Renxue for the position of Pope, he would support Chen Ming.

Chen Ming returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to temper his body with its two Immortal Herbs. After eating them, he fell into the spring as its water boiled and a dragon’s roar shook the area.

• Chen Ming found that Xiao Wu’s cultivation had reached level 33 after she ate leaves from the Blue Silver Emperor and trained under his strict supervision.
• Chen Ming left Heaven Dou City with Dugu Bo and returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well in Sunset Forest.
• Chen Ming sensed that the spring’s energy resonated with his Martial Soul and prepared to consume the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Chen Ming used metal scissors and a jade shard to harvest the two herbs, ate them, and fell into the spring as their energy erupted.
• Dugu Bo watched the pool boil and heard a spiritual dragon’s roar that nearly forced him to his knees.

Chen Ming absorbed the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ Dragon Qi at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, transforming his body and Martial Soul and awakening a spiritual third eye with powers of creation and time. Through the third eye, he witnessed how the dragons’ remains shaped the continent, Sunset Forest, and the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

• The Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ dormant Dragon Qi surged into Chen Ming and consumed the medicinal effects of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• The Dragon Qi reforged Chen Ming’s body and strengthened his Martial Soul as water, fire, earth, darkness, and light converged within him.
• Water and darkness gathered in Chen Ming’s left eye, while fire and light gathered in his right eye, and their cycles created a spiritual third-eye mark linked to temporal power.
• Chen Ming saw a vision of an ancient giant dragon whose body became the land and formed a new continent.
• Chen Ming witnessed the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ corpses fall into a forest, nourish it, and remain hidden underground as their energy transformed it into Sunset Forest and created the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Chen Ming was reforged by the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and gained a Dragon Spear as a second Martial Soul, imprinted with traces of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings. He emerged transformed and demonstrated that he could use it alongside his Holy Dragon Martial Soul.

• The Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well's power transformed a golden thread from Chen Ming's possessions into a Dragon Spear connected to his bloodline and Martial Soul.
• Red and blue energy from fragments of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' Dragon Souls entered the spear and altered its appearance.
• Chen Ming adapted to the pool's power, completed his transformation, and used the water to rise above the spring.
• Dugu Bo watched Chen Ming emerge taller and denser, then struggled to understand how he had gained what seemed to be an independent Martial Soul.
• Chen Ming wielded the Dragon Spear, entered Martial Soul Possession, and summoned his Holy Dragon Martial Soul alongside it without conflict.

Chen Ming explained how his Holy Dragon and Dragon Spear Martial Souls could share Spirit Rings and might eventually allow him to develop a self Martial Soul Fusion Skill. After Dugu Bo cautioned him about the dangers of Twin Martial Souls, Chen Ming stored a massive quantity of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well’s water inside the Dragon Spear, giving him a deadly weapon against powerful enemies.

• Chen Ming described how his complementary Martial Souls could be summoned together, share Spirit Rings, and potentially form a self Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Dugu Bo was shocked to learn Chen Ming had a second Martial Soul, and Chen Ming explained that the Dragon Spear had become one after his body absorbed the power of a powerful Dragon Clan being.
• Chen Ming told Dugu Bo that his path depended on his unique preparation and could not be replicated by other Spirit Masters.
• Dugu Bo warned Chen Ming to be careful because cultivating Twin Martial Souls carried great risks, and Chen Ming believed his Martial Souls were compatible enough to avoid those problems.
• Chen Ming used the Dragon Spear to store energy equivalent to roughly one cubic meter of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well’s water.
• Chen Ming recognized that he could use the stored spring water to cultivate or inject it into enemies, killing even a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

After completing his transformation at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Chen Ming assessed his greatly increased spiritual power and refined abilities, then named his evolved Martial Soul the Seven Luminaries Dragon Emperor. He left the chapter stronger and still in the well, planning to master his changes before seeking another Spirit Ring while avoiding the Dragon Clan.

• Chen Ming's Soul Power reached level 50, and his spiritual power rose to roughly 60 units, nearing the peak of the Spirit Sea Realm.
• Chen Ming tested his Dragon Spear and found that it drew on elemental energies, complementing his dragon Martial Soul's physical strength.
• Chen Ming spent several days familiarizing himself with his transformed Martial Soul, which gained the Ultimate Fire and Extreme Water attributes and the ability to absorb matching energies.
• Chen Ming discovered that his strengthened wings could help him fly at speeds approaching or briefly exceeding the sound barrier.
• Chen Ming named his Martial Soul the Seven Luminaries Dragon Emperor for public use and the AI Dragon Emperor as its grand name.
• Chen Ming considered how his growing value to the Dragon Clan could put him at risk from Di Tian and kept away from the Star Dou Forest.

The Silver Dragon King questioned Di Tian about recent events in the Star Dou Forest and decided to send a humanoid creation into the human world to investigate. She shaped it from Life Gold, one of her scales, and a preserved piece of the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Grade Ginseng King, but it still lacked spirituality.

• The Silver Dragon King summoned Di Tian and learned that humans had hunted a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast.
• She reprimanded Di Tian for allowing Spirit Beasts to transform and ordered him to kill any that did so in the future.
• Di Tian reflected that Spirit Beasts had little hope of surviving the Heavenly Tribulation and that the Silver Dragon King had become disconnected from their plight.
• Di Tian reported that human cultivation had advanced and that more humans were entering the Star Dou Forest to hunt Spirit Beasts.
• Suspecting the human world might hold a threat or opportunity for the Dragon Clan, the Silver Dragon King decided to extend her awareness there.
• She formed a nearly human-shaped embryo from Life Gold, one of her scales, and half of a preserved Ginseng King, but it lacked a spark of spirituality.