Chapter Summaries

Tang Hao detonated several Soul Rings to escape Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo, then staggered into the forest suffering severe backlash and poison. As he searched for a place to recover, he sensed a familiar aura that reminded him of Ah Yin.

• Tang Hao fought off Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo as they worked together to stall him for Spirit Hall reinforcements.
• Tang Hao detonated several Soul Rings and struck the two elders with a devastating blow, then used the recoil to escape.
• Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo survived the attack and concluded Tang Hao would need time to recover from the backlash.
• Jiang Chen watched the aftermath from a spatial rift and silently followed Tang Hao through the forest.
• Tang Hao struggled onward with chaotic Soul Power and a poisoned wound, then sensed an aura that reminded him of Ah Yin.

Tang Hao followed Ah Yin’s life aura into the valley, where she confronted him over imprisoning her and demanded his life in return. Just as her vines were about to crush him, Tang Hao broke free and unleashed his Soul Power.

• Tang Hao chased Ah Yin’s fleeting aura through the forest until it led him to a poisonous valley.
• Tang Hao entered the valley and found Ah Yin in her Blue Silver Emperor form.
• Ah Yin attacked Tang Hao with Blue Silver Grass vines and accused him of keeping her imprisoned for more than a decade.
• Ah Yin wrapped Tang Hao in a grass cocoon and declared that one life would repay another.
• Tang Hao seemed to surrender, but then burst out of the cocoon with his Soul Power surging.

Tang Hao fought Ah Yin’s phantom in the valley, then Dugu Bo intervened and used his newly strengthened poison techniques to trap and weaken him. Tang Hao was left struggling against Dugu Bo’s ninth Soul Skill as the battle continued.

• Tang Hao attacked Ah Yin’s phantom, while she accused him of coveting her Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Dugu Bo arrived, revealed that he had reached rank ninety-four, and challenged Tang Hao.
• Dugu Bo filled the valley with poison mist, which seeped into Tang Hao’s wounds and weakened him.
• Dugu Bo unleashed his ninth Soul Skill, Myriad Poisons Devour the Heart, and swarmed Tang Hao with poisonous creatures.
• Tang Hao struggled to fend off the poison while Dugu Bo mocked him and urged him to beg for mercy.

Tang Hao broke Dugu Bo’s poison array by detonating two Soul Rings, leaving himself gravely weakened. Jiang Chen then challenged him, and their fight escalated as Tang Hao prepared to use his remaining hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.

• Tang Hao detonated two ten-thousand-year Soul Rings and shattered Dugu Bo’s ninth Soul Skill, but the attack left him severely weakened.
• Jiang Chen appeared, mocked Tang Hao, and used Divine Descent before attacking with his Purple Sky Dragon Spear.
• Jiang Chen parried Tang Hao’s strikes, disrupted his Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer with lightning, and exploited his abdominal wound.
• Tang Hao abandoned defense and fought wildly, while Jiang Chen dodged and countered his attacks.
• Tang Hao’s remaining hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring began to blaze as he prepared to unleash its power.

Jiang Chen survived Tang Hao’s final hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring detonation and defeated him in the valley. Tang Hao tried to buy his life with Soul Bones and hidden treasures, but Jiang Chen refused to spare him.

• Tang Hao detonated his final Soul Ring and unleashed Clear Sky Extinction, while Jiang Chen charged forward with the Purple Sky Dragon Spear.
• Jiang Chen survived the clash, and Tang Hao collapsed in the crater, unable to fight after exhausting his Soul Power.
• Jiang Chen healed himself with the Glazed Green Lotus and approached Tang Hao, who asked who he was before accepting that he might die.
• Tang Hao offered Soul Bones, savings, and access to Clear Sky Sect secret vaults in exchange for his life.
• Jiang Chen took Tang Hao’s offered possessions and revealed that killing him would give him everything anyway, leaving Tang Hao furious and helpless.

Jiang Chen revealed his identity to Tang Hao and killed him, then collected his soul bones while Ah Yin reclaimed the power she had given Tang Hao. The group buried Tang Hao, and Jiang Chen planned to tell Tang San that Spirit Hall had killed his father and that Tang Hao had entrusted him to Jiang Chen.

• Tang Hao accepted that Jiang Chen would not spare him and asked to see his face, so Jiang Chen removed his mask and revealed himself.
• Jiang Chen taunted Tang Hao and pierced his heart with the Purple Sky Dragon Spear, killing him.
• Jiang Chen looted Tang Hao's six soul bones, setting aside the Clear Sky Sect inheritance bones for Tang San and keeping the others.
• Ah Yin reclaimed most of the Soul Power she had sacrificed to Tang Hao from his corpse.
• Jiang Chen buried Tang Hao, took the Clear Sky Sect token, and proposed a false account of Tang Hao's death to give Tang San.

After burying Tang Hao, Jiang Chen returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and broke through to level forty-seven while Ah Yin guarded him. Ah Yin then transferred the Ice and Fire Dragon King’s power through her soul body, helping Jiang Chen reach level fifty.

• Jiang Chen defended his embellished account of Tang Hao’s death, and Ah Yin offered to explain it if Tang Hao learned the truth.
• Jiang Chen carried Ah Yin to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and meditated, breaking through the bottleneck at level forty-seven.
• Ah Yin offered to filter the Ice and Fire Dragon King’s power through her soul body so the Sky Watcher would not notice its transfer.
• Ah Yin passed the crystal’s power into Jiang Chen, and he rapidly advanced to level forty-nine.
• Ah Yin steadied Jiang Chen with her golden light, and he shattered the level-fifty barrier.

Jiang Chen learned that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ Million-Year Soul Bones lay in an inheritance hall and that absorbing them directly would be too dangerous. Ah Yin began transferring their power to him in small portions, leaving him with the first portion and a process expected to take about three hundred days.

• Ah Yin revealed the entrance to the inheritance hall beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Jiang Chen followed her inside.
• Ah Yin explained that the hall contained the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s Million-Year Soul Bones, but Jiang Chen could not absorb them directly without risking death.
• Ah Yin proposed absorbing small portions of the Soul Bone power herself and transferring them to Jiang Chen gradually.
• Ah Yin drew a tiny portion of power from the Fire Dragon King Soul Bone and gave the resulting crimson crystal to Jiang Chen.
• Ah Yin said the first portion could raise Jiang Chen’s Soul Power by a level, but completing the process would require roughly three hundred days.

Jiang Chen absorbed dragon power crystals to strengthen his body, then left for Star Dou Forest to find a suitable fifth Soul Ring. He spotted a ten-thousand-year Ink-Scaled Venom Lizard in a swamp and prepared to investigate.

• Jiang Chen swallowed a dragon power crystal and used the Glazed Green Lotus to absorb its scorching power, improving his physical condition.
• Jiang Chen warned Ah Yin not to exhaust herself while helping him absorb crystals and asked her about nearby suitable Soul Beasts.
• Over ten days, Jiang Chen refined one crystal each day until his body reached its limit, though his Soul Power remained at level fifty.
• Jiang Chen decided to search Star Dou Forest for a fifth Soul Ring and flew there alone using his Dragon Wings.
• Jiang Chen scanned the forest with his Glazed Divine Eyes and spotted a ten-thousand-year Ink-Scaled Venom Lizard resting in a swamp.

Jiang Chen hunted dragon-blooded soul beasts to feed his Nine Heavens Dragon Wings, which evolved after consuming an Iron-Armored Dragon Crocodile. He gained retractable dragon scales and claws on his arms, and his wings became faster and more maneuverable.

• Jiang Chen killed a forty-thousand-year-old Ink-Scaled Venom Lizard and let his Nine Heavens Dragon Wings devour its blood energy and Soul Power.
• Jiang Chen spent half a day hunting several dragon-blooded soul beasts, strengthening the patterns and Wing Blades of his Dragon Wings.
• Jiang Chen killed an Iron-Armored Dragon Crocodile and fed its blood energy to his Dragon Wings, triggering their evolution.
• Jiang Chen discovered that he could summon and retract dark-gold dragon scales and claws on his arms.
• Jiang Chen tested his evolved wings and found that their maneuverability had improved and their speed had increased by at least twenty percent.

Jiang Chen discovered and fought a giant, poisonous python in the Star Dou Forest, using Divine Descent and the Purple Sky Dragon Spear to injure it. He activated his dragon transformation and prepared to test the Red Lotus Karma Fire against the beast.

• Jiang Chen harvested valuable scales and bone spurs from the Iron-Armored Dragon Crocodile and stored them in the Green Lotus Pendant.
• Jiang Chen found a giant python in a gorge and realized its colorful moss was poisonous bait.
• The python attacked Jiang Chen with poisonous mist and its powerful tail, but he dodged and spotted a raised scale near its head.
• Jiang Chen activated Divine Descent and pierced the python's injured spot with the Purple Sky Dragon Spear.
• Jiang Chen activated dragon transformation, formed the Red Lotus Karma Fire over his fist, and charged at the python.

Jiang Chen killed a fifty-thousand-year giant python and absorbed its dragon blood with his Nine Heavens Dragon Wings. He then discovered a badly damaged, sixty-thousand-year plant-type soul beast whose aura seemed to boost the Soul Power in its surroundings.

• Jiang Chen burned away the giant python’s poisonous mist and battered it with his Karma Fire Fist and Eight-Armed Demon Dragon Fist.
• Jiang Chen struck the python’s vital wound with the Thunder-Fire Twin Fiends, killing it after blasting it into the canyon wall.
• Jiang Chen let his Nine Heavens Dragon Wings devour the python’s blood energy, then dispersed its fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring because its poison attribute did not suit his Martial Soul.
• Jiang Chen found a multicolored lotus in the rubble and seized its vines when it attacked his wrist.
• Jiang Chen used his Glazed Divine Eyes to identify the lotus as a plant-type soul beast at least sixty thousand years old, surrounded by an aura that increased the local Soul Power concentration by more than thirty percent.

Jiang Chen defeated the sixty-thousand-year Seven-Colored Lotus and began absorbing its black Soul Ring. As its life force surged through his meridians, the outcome of the absorption remained unknown.

• Jiang Chen decided to challenge the Seven-Colored Lotus and absorb it as a Soul Ring.
• The Seven-Colored Lotus attacked him with seven-colored threads and vines, but Jiang Chen countered with his flames and Dragon Wings.
• Jiang Chen activated Divine Descent and battered the lotus’s barrier with eight Red Lotus Karma Fire attacks.
• Jiang Chen shattered the barrier with a combined fire-and-lightning strike, then destroyed the Seven-Colored Lotus’s pistil.
• Jiang Chen absorbed the lotus’s energy through his Nine Heavens Dragon Wings and drew its sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring into his body.
• The Soul Ring’s life force flooded Jiang Chen’s meridians as he began absorbing it.

Jiang Chen absorbed the Glazed Green Lotus's sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring, subdued its lingering spirit, and gained a healing domain Soul Skill that raised him to level fifty-three. At the Crown Prince Residence, Xue Qinghe learned that Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo had failed to capture Tang Hao, though they brought back bloodstained cloth from the battle.

• Jiang Chen resisted the Glazed Green Lotus's soul attack and used Glazed Suppression to overpower its phantom.
• The Glazed Green Lotus swallowed the defeated spirit, completing Jiang Chen's fifth Soul Ring after two hours of absorption.
• Jiang Chen discovered that Green Lotus Domain healed allies, weakened certain enemy Soul Skills, revived plants, and raised his Soul Power from level fifty to fifty-three.
• Xue Qinghe received Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo, who reported that Tang Hao escaped after detonating his Soul Rings and injuring them.
• Snake Lance Douluo gave Xue Qinghe scorched, bloodstained cloth recovered from the battle site.

Xue Qinghe questioned who had revealed Tang Hao’s hiding place, while Tang Yuehua grew alarmed when he missed their meeting and sent word to the Clear Sky Sect. Jiang Chen returned to Blue Tyrant Academy after three days away, revealing a new fifth Soul Ring and level fifty-three cultivation.

• Xue Qinghe learned that Tang Hao was badly injured and wondered whether the mysterious informant also knew his current hiding place.
• Tang Yuehua, concerned when Tang Hao failed to arrive, sent a secret letter to the Clear Sky Sect and ordered a discreet search near the abandoned houses outside Heaven Dou City.
• Ning Rongrong complained that Jiang Chen had left the team without training or guidance, and Jiang Chen returned to the arena after being gone for three days.
• Jiang Chen told the team he had visited Sunset Forest and revealed his ten-thousand-year fifth Soul Ring and level fifty-three strength.

Jiang Chen gave Tang San two Soul Bones and promised to introduce him to someone who could answer his questions. Later, Zhu Zhuqing visited Jiang Chen at night for more body tempering, leaving her close to a breakthrough to level forty-five.

• Jiang Chen gave Tang San a left leg Soul Bone and a right arm Soul Bone, but refused to explain where he had gotten them.
• Jiang Chen told Tang San he would take him to meet someone who could answer many of his questions, though he did not reveal who it was.
• Zhu Zhuqing approached Jiang Chen at night and asked him to temper her body again.
• Jiang Chen used his Glazed Green Lotus to temper Zhu Zhuqing with flames at eighty percent strength for half an hour.
• Zhu Zhuqing sensed that her meridians had widened, her Soul Power circulated faster, and her level-forty-four bottleneck had nearly loosened.

After Zhu Zhuqing finished tempering, Jiang Chen returned to his dormitory and was visited by a drunken Liu Erlong, who asked him to help Yu Xiaogang. Jiang Chen agreed on the condition that Yu Xiaogang come beg him himself.

• Zhu Zhuqing struggled to thank Jiang Chen, but he teased her and sent her back to rest after her tempering.
• Liu Erlong arrived at Jiang Chen's dormitory after learning about his physique-tempering Soul Skill from Ning Rongrong.
• Liu Erlong asked Jiang Chen to see whether Yu Xiaogang could still improve, and Jiang Chen explained that tempering could not fix his innate Martial Soul mutation.
• When Jiang Chen jokingly suggested Liu Erlong offer herself in exchange, she agreed and reached for her collar, startling him into clarifying that he had been joking.
• Jiang Chen said he would help Yu Xiaogang if Yu Xiaogang came to beg him in person.

Jiang Chen told Liu Erlong that Yu Xiaogang needed to seek him out himself if he wanted help, and she left hoping Xiao Gang would not disappoint her. In the back mountains, a masked man told Yu Xiaogang that Tang Hao had died after escaping a battle with two Spirit Hall Title Douluo, then immobilized him when he lunged forward.

• Jiang Chen said he would decide whether to help Yu Xiaogang only after Yu Xiaogang came to speak with him, and Liu Erlong left to find him.
• Liu Erlong waited outside Jiang Chen’s room and privately hoped Xiao Gang would not let her down.
• Yu Xiaogang waited in the back mountains for Tang Hao, but a masked man appeared and told him Tang Hao was dead.
• The masked man said Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo had wounded Tang Hao, who later died when his injuries flared up.
• Yu Xiaogang rejected the news and lunged at the masked man, who stopped him with an unseen force.

A masked man tried to control Yu Xiaogang, but a golden power within him repelled the attack and revealed a dormant Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline. Yu Xiaogang left to investigate the man and whether the Clear Sky Douluo was truly dead, while Liu Erlong reflected on Jiang Chen's challenge to make Yu Xiaogang ask for help.

• The man in black immobilized Yu Xiaogang and tried to manipulate his memories and take his secrets.
• A golden light burst from Yu Xiaogang's chest, burned the man in black, and broke his control.
• The man in black identified Yu Xiaogang's dormant Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline and urged him to awaken it.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned how the stranger knew his family history and set out to confirm whether the Clear Sky Douluo was dead.
• At Blue Tyrant Academy, Liu Erlong thought about Jiang Chen's demand that Yu Xiaogang come beg him for an opportunity.

Liu Erlong wondered why Jiang Chen had recoiled from her the previous night, while Jiang Chen and his companions watched the Black-Clad Team face Blazing Fire Academy at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena. The Black-Clad Team’s leader caught Huo Wu’s fire attack barehanded, revealing a strange power that left Tang San uncertain.

• Liu Erlong examined her reflection and concluded that Jiang Chen had treated her like an explosive because he preferred younger women like Zhu Zhuqing.
• Jiang Chen told Xiao Wu that a drunken woman had blocked his dormitory door, and Tang San reported that the Sacred Mark Cult’s bone token had been carved within the past three months.
• Tang San said the Black-robed Soul Saint’s branch altar was likely near the border between the two empires and noted that the Imperial Fighting Team’s new members would compete.
• Jiang Chen, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing went to watch Blazing Fire Academy’s match against the Black-Clad Team, registered as Shadow Academy.
• Huo Wu attacked the Black-Clad Team’s leader with a fireball, but he stopped it with his palm, crushed the flames, and tossed them into a scorched pit.