Chapter Summaries

Han Yu reached Level 50 at age twelve after refining an Immortal Herb, while Gu Rong broke through to the peak of Level 96. As Gu Rong proudly took Han Yu to the main hall, Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin tried to hide news of Ning Rongrong's involvement with Oscar from them.

• Han Yu recalled his past life, learned his parents' heritage explained his twin Sacred Dragon Martial Souls, and refined the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to reach Level 50.
• Han Yu sensed that Gu Rong had broken through after refining the Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid and waited outside his dwelling.
• Ning Fengzhi showed Chen Xin a report that Ning Rongrong had left for Shrek Academy and become involved with Oscar, and they resolved to keep the news from Gu Rong and Han Yu.
• Gu Rong emerged having reached the peak of Level 96, and Han Yu congratulated him.
• Gu Rong discovered Han Yu had reached Level 50 and took him to the main hall, eager to show off his grandson to Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi.

Gu Rong revealed that he had reached peak Rank 96 and that Han Yu had reached Rank 50, but Han Yu confronted Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin about Ning Rongrong’s closeness to Oscar at Shrek Academy. After Ning Fengzhi admitted she had been confused and defended her, Han Yu rejected their excuses and challenged Chen Xin, who unleashed his sword intent and Soul Power pressure against him.

• Gu Rong showed Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin that he had reached peak Rank 96, while Han Yu revealed that he had reached Rank 50.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin said Ning Rongrong was training outside and suggested leaving her undisturbed while Chen Xin helped Han Yu hunt for his fifth Soul Ring.
• Han Yu questioned Ning Fengzhi about Ning Rongrong’s closeness to Oscar, and Ning Fengzhi admitted she had been confused and deceived.
• Han Yu accused Ning Fengzhi of making excuses for Ning Rongrong and rejected the idea that she could provoke him without consequence.
• Han Yu challenged Chen Xin’s defense of Ning Rongrong and insisted that his dignity mattered too.
• Chen Xin grew furious and pressed his Titled Douluo Soul Power and sword intent down on Han Yu, threatening to teach him respect for his elders.

Gu Rong shielded Han Yu from Chen Xin and revealed that he had reached peak Rank 96. After Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin dismissed the humiliation Han Yu had suffered, Han Yu annulled his engagement to Ning Rongrong and left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Gu Rong, leaving Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin behind.

• Gu Rong blocked Chen Xin’s attack on Han Yu and overwhelmed his sword intent with his peak Rank 96 Soul Power.
• Ning Fengzhi asked how Gu Rong had grown so powerful, but Gu Rong refused to explain and said they should discuss Ning Rongrong and Han Yu instead.
• Han Yu told Ning Fengzhi that his parents had sent him to the sect to be fostered, not to become a live-in son-in-law, and annulled his engagement to Ning Rongrong.
• Chen Xin tried to stop Han Yu, but Gu Rong threatened him and declared that the engagement was over.
• Gu Rong took Han Yu toward the Star Dou Forest, while Ning Fengzhi stopped Chen Xin from pursuing them and admitted their actions had driven Han Yu away.

After breaking off his engagement to Ning Rongrong, Han Yu persuaded Gu Rong to leave the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with him. They headed for the Star Dou Forest to obtain Han Yu’s fifth Soul Ring, then planned to recruit allies in Heaven Dou City and build a rival faction.

• Ning Fengzhi decided to send someone to Shrek Academy to bring Ning Rongrong back and make her apologize to Han Yu.
• Han Yu told Gu Rong he wanted to leave the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and explained that Ning Fengzhi treated him as a tool for Ning Rongrong.
• Gu Rong chose to leave with Han Yu, threw away his Elder Token, and used a spatial rift to take them away from the sect.
• On the road to the Star Dou Forest, Han Yu said they would seek his fifth Soul Ring before going to Heaven Dou City to recruit talented people with immortal herbs.
• Gu Rong agreed to support Han Yu as he set out to build a faction that could challenge the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Han Yu and Gu Rong entered the Star Dou Forest to find Han Yu a forty-thousand-year darkness- or spatial-attribute soul ring. After encountering the Titan Giant Ape on its way to retrieve a transformed Soft Bone Rabbit, they chose not to interfere and continued their hunt, where Han Yu spotted a two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider.

• Han Yu told Gu Rong he wanted a forty-thousand-year soul ring, and Gu Rong agreed to help him find one despite the danger.
• Gu Rong sensed a violent hundred-thousand-year aura, and Han Yu identified it as the Titan Giant Ape heading to retrieve a transformed Soft Bone Rabbit.
• Han Yu explained that the rabbit was with Shrek Academy and might be protected by the Sky Azure Bull Python, so Gu Rong could not safely attack them.
• Han Yu proposed keeping the rabbit alive as a future weapon against Shrek Academy and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Gu Rong agreed to continue their hunt.
• Han Yu and Gu Rong entered the mixed zone, where Han Yu noticed a roughly two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider.

Han Yu killed a Man Faced Demon Spider and obtained its External Soul Bone, then absorbed a 43,000-year Shadow Evil God Dragon and reached level 54. As he and Gu Rong headed out of the Star Dou Forest, they encountered Zhao Wuji, Tang San, and Ning Rongrong.

• Han Yu killed the Man Faced Demon Spider and claimed the Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone, while Gu Rong celebrated his grandson’s fortune.
• Gu Rong found a Shadow Evil God Dragon estimated to be 43,000 years old and brought it to Han Yu as a candidate for his fifth Soul Ring.
• Han Yu absorbed the Shadow Evil God Dragon’s black Spirit Ring without difficulty and advanced to level 54.
• Han Yu revealed his fifth Soul Skill, Shadow Dragon God Transformation, which doubled all his attributes, prevented spatial lock-on, and gave his attacks a devouring effect.
• Han Yu and Gu Rong started toward the outskirts of the Star Dou Forest, where they encountered Zhao Wuji, Tang San, and Ning Rongrong.

Gu Rong rejected Ning Rongrong, announced that he had left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and departed the Star Dou Forest with Han Yu. The Shrek group confronted Ning Rongrong about her engagement and her use of Oscar, then set off to search for Xiao Wu themselves.

• Ning Rongrong asked Gu Rong to rescue Xiao Wu and forgive Han Yu, but Gu Rong coldly refused her and Han Yu denied coming to apologize.
• Gu Rong announced that he had left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and would support Han Yu, then left with him without helping the Shrek group.
• Ning Rongrong wondered whether Gu Rong had learned she used Oscar to provoke Han Yu, while Oscar and the others questioned her about her engagement.
• Oscar realized Ning Rongrong had used him as a shield, and Ning Rongrong admitted she had initially approached him to anger Han Yu.
• Dai Mubai reminded the group that Xiao Wu was still missing, so Zhao Wuji and Tang San prepared to follow the Titan Giant Ape's trail.

After Tang San rushed after the Titan Giant Ape, Oscar rejected Ning Rongrong’s apology and followed the others, leaving her in tears. Han Yu and Gu Rong then encountered Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang, and Han Yu offered them immortal herbs in exchange for joining his future sect.

• Tang San ate Oscar’s Flying Mushroom Sausage and flew after the Titan Giant Ape, while Zhao Wuji ordered the others to follow.
• Oscar told Ning Rongrong that he would no longer pursue her, and she followed the group despite Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun’s rebukes.
• Gu Rong and Han Yu met Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang as Meng Yiran absorbed a Soul Ring.
• Han Yu asked Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang to bring their family and Exotic Beast Academy into his future sect.
• Han Yu offered the Dragon and Snake Duo two supposed immortal herbs, claiming they could help them reach level ninety and level seventy.
• Meng Shu asked whether Han Yu was truly willing to give them the herbs, and Han Yu demanded their loyalty in return.

Han Yu founded the Ling Tian Sect by persuading Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang to join with their family and academy, giving them Immortal Herbs to aid Meng Shu’s breakthrough. He then set out with Gu Rong for Heaven Dou City to detoxify Dugu Bo and bring him under the sect’s command.

• Han Yu offered Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang Immortal Herbs in exchange for their family and Exotic Beast Academy joining his sect, and they swore to follow him.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang explained their decision to Meng Yiran, who reluctantly greeted Han Yu as Sect Master.
• Han Yu named his new sect the Ling Tian Sect, and Gu Rong agreed to serve as its Great Elder.
• Han Yu told Meng Shu to return to the academy and prepare for secluded cultivation, then departed with Gu Rong deeper into the Star Dou Forest.
• Han Yu announced that he and Gu Rong would go to Heaven Dou City to detoxify Dugu Bo and bring him into the Ling Tian Sect.

Han Yu absorbed the Eight Spider Lances while teaching Gu Rong the Soul Core Method, which loosened Gu Rong’s bottleneck at rank ninety-seven. The two then visited Dugu Bo in Heaven Dou City, where Dugu Bo demanded to know what Han Yu wanted.

• Han Yu explained the Soul Core Method to Gu Rong and taught him its chant and circulation route.
• Han Yu absorbed the Eight Spider Lances overnight while Gu Rong began cultivating a rudimentary Soul Core.
• Han Yu awakened with the Eight Spider Lances fused to him, and Gu Rong reported that his rank-ninety-seven bottleneck had loosened.
• Gu Rong and Han Yu went to Dugu Bo’s residence and summoned him outside with Gu Rong’s Titled Douluo pressure.
• Dugu Bo questioned why Gu Rong had come and demanded to know what Han Yu wanted from him.

Han Yu recruited Dugu Bo into Ling Tian Sect by offering to cure the poison afflicting him and his granddaughter, Dugu Yan. Dugu Bo accepted, and Han Yu explained a temporary treatment before ordering him to bring Dugu Yan back.

• Han Yu revealed that he knew about Dugu Bo's poisoned body and Dugu Yan's worsening condition, then offered to cure them if Dugu Bo joined Ling Tian Sect.
• Dugu Bo accepted Han Yu's offer and bowed to him as the sect master after receiving a medicinal catalyst that eased his symptoms.
• Dugu Bo asked why Han Yu and Gu Rong had left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Han Yu explained that he wanted to establish a faction with power of its own.
• Han Yu told Dugu Bo to guide his poison into a Soul Bone to relieve the backlash temporarily and promised to choose a Soul Bone to remove Dugu Yan's poison.
• Han Yu ordered Dugu Bo to go to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and bring Dugu Yan back.

After Gu Rong and Han Yu left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to establish the Ling Tian Sect, Ning Fengzhi ordered Ning Rongrong confined for half a year. Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to meet Han Yu, who revealed symptoms of her poison as she resisted joining his sect.

• Dugu Bo hurried to retrieve Dugu Yan while Han Yu warned him to keep her transfer secret from the Heaven Dou Imperial Family and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Ning Fengzhi learned that Gu Rong and Han Yu had left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and established the Ling Tian Sect, while Chen Xin reacted with anger and disbelief.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered an investigation, cautioned the sect against making enemies of Gu Rong and Han Yu, and confined Ning Rongrong for half a year.
• Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan from Heaven Dou Royal Academy to meet Han Yu and Gu Rong, and she rejected the order to join the Ling Tian Sect.
• Han Yu described Dugu Yan’s pain during rainy weather, burning meridians during cultivation, and slowing Soul Power growth.

Han Yu recruited Dugu Yan by revealing that the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison would kill her and Dugu Bo, then gave her a soul bone to contain her poison. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Han Yu began treating Dugu Bo while Gu Rong guarded the valley.

• Han Yu told Dugu Yan that she and Dugu Bo were at risk of dying from the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison, and she agreed to obey him if he cured them.
• Han Yu gave Dugu Yan a thousand-year snake-type right arm bone and instructed her to force her poison into it before they traveled to Sunset Forest.
• The next morning, Dugu Yan reported that she had transferred her poison into the soul bone and that her burning meridians had recovered.
• Han Yu, Gu Rong, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Yan reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Han Yu entered seclusion and assigned Dugu Yan to cultivate nearby.
• Han Yu used the Jade Green Spirit Vine and Snow Silkworm Flower to protect Dugu Bo's heart meridians and consciousness, then guided the poison toward his head soul bone as Gu Rong guarded the treatment.

Han Yu cured Dugu Bo’s poison and taught him the Soul Core Condensation Method, winning his loyalty to the Ling Tian Sect. He then began an Ice and Fire Golden Body Refinement at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, leaving Dugu Bo and Gu Rong alarmed as the Immortal Herbs’ power erupted through his body.

• Dugu Bo expelled the toxins from his body, broke through to level ninety-two, and pledged his life to the Ling Tian Sect.
• Han Yu taught Dugu Bo the Soul Core Condensation Method, and Dugu Bo vowed to serve him loyally.
• Gu Rong urged Han Yu to pursue Dugu Yan for the sect’s benefit, but Han Yu said he had more pressing matters.
• Han Yu announced that he would use the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, the Infernal Delicate Apricot, and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for Ice and Fire Golden Body Refinement.
• Despite Dugu Bo’s warning that the spring could kill even a Titled Douluo, Han Yu swallowed both Immortal Herbs, and their opposing powers erupted through his body as Dugu Bo rushed to save him.

Han Yu plunged into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and completed his Ice and Fire Golden Body after the Water and Fire Dragon Kings secretly tempered him with the spring’s power. He emerged unharmed at level 57, leaving Dugu Bo stunned.

• Han Yu ignored Dugu Bo’s warning and leaped into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as Gu Rong watched.
• The Light Sacred Dragon and Dark Sacred Dragon appeared around Han Yu, and Gu Rong revealed that they were his twin supreme Martial Souls.
• Deep beneath the spring, the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King sensed Han Yu’s bloodlines and agreed to secretly help him refine his body.
• The Dragon Kings transformed the spring’s violent energy into gentle red-and-blue streams that tempered Han Yu and completed his Ice and Fire Golden Body.
• Han Yu emerged unharmed at level 57, and Gu Rong checked on him while Dugu Bo marveled at his strength and rapid cultivation.

Han Yu gave Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan Immortal Herbs to strengthen their cultivation and transform Dugu Yan’s talent, then began refining Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to improve his mental power. Dugu Bo reached the peak of Rank 92, while Dugu Yan finished refining her herb with a transformed appearance.

• Han Yu gave Dugu Bo the Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma and let him keep the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone for Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan thanked Han Yu, then began refining their herbs as Han Yu explained how to consume them.
• Han Yu told Gu Rong he had prepared an Earth Dragon Golden Melon for his father and another Immortal Herb for his mother.
• Han Yu consumed Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and entered cultivation to improve his mental power.
• Dugu Bo finished refining the Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma and reached the peak of Rank 92.
• Dugu Yan finished refining the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, and her skin and bearing were transformed.

Han Yu, Dugu Bo, Gu Rong, and Dugu Yan left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to find Dugu Yan a fourth spirit ring in the Sunset Forest. Dugu Yan began absorbing a 5,500-year Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent’s ring, and the chapter ended with the energy settling safely into her body.

• Dugu Yan reached the level forty bottleneck after refining the immortal herb, while Han Yu’s mental power rose from Soul Emperor level to Soul Douluo level.
• Han Yu suggested hunting a poisonous or paralyzing snake spirit beast for Dugu Yan’s fourth ring, and the group searched the Sunset Forest.
• Han Yu detected a roughly 5,500-year Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent, and Gu Rong went ahead and captured it.
• Dugu Yan killed the serpent and began absorbing its purple spirit ring as Dugu Bo watched anxiously.
• Han Yu reassured Dugu Bo that the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone had strengthened Dugu Yan’s meridians, and her furrowed brows gradually relaxed as the ring’s energy grew docile.

Dugu Yan gained a powerful fourth soul skill and joined the Ling Tian Sect alongside Dugu Bo, while Han Yu planned to recruit Ye Lingling from Heaven Dou Royal Academy. The chapter ended with Han Yu and Dugu Yan preparing to visit the academy the next morning.

• Dugu Yan stabilized her fourth soul ring, reached level forty-six, and gained the crowd-control skill Ghost-Faced Soul-Confusing Miasma.
• Han Yu returned to the Ling Tian Sect with Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Gu Rong, then appointed Dugu Bo chief elder and tasked him with stabilizing his cultivation and protecting the sect with Poison Arrays.
• Han Yu ordered Dugu Yan to return to Heaven Dou Royal Academy while concealing her recovery and increased Soul Power.
• Han Yu revealed that he planned to recruit Ye Lingling of the Nine Heart Begonia lineage, and Dugu Yan offered to introduce them.
• Han Yu told Dugu Yan to consolidate her cultivation overnight, and they agreed to leave for Heaven Dou Royal Academy the next morning.

Han Yu visited Ye Lingling at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and offered to break the Nine Heart Begonia’s restriction in exchange for her loyalty to the Ling Tian Sect. Ye Lingling agreed to follow him and learned his proposed solution required a soul-ring-guided Martial Soul mutation, though she could not test it until she reached level forty.

• Dugu Yan led Han Yu to Ye Lingling in the academy’s Back Mountain and told her Han Yu had cured her poison and helped her break through.
• Han Yu offered to free Ye Lingling and the Ye Family from the Nine Heart Begonia’s limit of only two Soul Masters existing at once.
• Dugu Yan backed Han Yu’s claim by telling Ye Lingling that he had also cured Poison Douluo and helped him advance.
• Ye Lingling agreed that she and the Nine Heart Begonia family would follow Han Yu if he could break the curse.
• Han Yu explained that a rare plant-type soul beast and specific medicinal herbs could guide Ye Lingling’s Martial Soul to mutate and remove the restriction.
• Ye Lingling noted that she was only level thirty-five and would need another year or two before she could absorb her fourth soul ring and test Han Yu’s method.

Han Yu gave Ye Lingling a Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma to help her reach level forty, then confronted Xue Beng when the prince harassed him and the two women. Han Yu exposed his awareness of Xue Beng’s feigned wastrel act and left the prince terrified after effortlessly defeating his lackeys.

• Han Yu gave Ye Lingling a Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma and promised to help her hunt a soul beast once she reached level forty.
• Xue Beng arrived with his lackeys, jeered at Han Yu, and ordered them to attack him.
• Dugu Yan stood up to Xue Beng, but Han Yu told her to stand down and sent the lackeys flying with his aura alone.
• Han Yu hinted that he saw through Xue Beng’s disguise and said even Xue Ye would not dare speak to him that way.
• Xue Beng trembled as Han Yu faced him, unable to conceal his fear.