Chapter Summaries

After absorbing a 30,000-year-old Medusa, twelve-year-old Dugu Ce reached level 42 and revealed how his powerful twin Martial Souls and Spirit Hall upbringing had shaped his life. He warned that Jade Scale Serpent Poison had grown more dangerous in his body and pointed toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as a possible source of a cure.

• Dugu Ce absorbed the Medusa, gained two Soul Power levels, and displayed his four Soul Rings to Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Ce recalled his family’s suffering from Jade Scale Serpent Poison and his plans to use the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well’s Immortal Herbs and Soul Core methods to help Dugu Xuan and Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Ce remembered awakening the Jade Scale Serpent Emperor and Radiant Sacred Dragon Martial Souls, rejecting Yu Yuanzhen’s offer, and joining Spirit Hall as Golden Crocodile Douluo’s disciple.
• Dugu Bo observed that Dugu Ce’s Jade Scale Serpent Emperor surpassed his own, while Dugu Ce explained that dragon blood had made his poison more severe.
• Dugu Ce suggested that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s dragon blood might cure the poison.

Dugu Ce learned that his Serpent Emperor poison and dragon bloodline would destroy him unless a pure Fire Dragon Bloodline could harmonize them, and Golden Crocodile Douluo chose Liu Erlong as the solution. The group prepared to confront the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and avenge Dugu Ce’s family, while Dugu Ce recognized the rare herbs growing around the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

• Dugu Ce told Dugu Bo that he intended to make the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan pay for what it had done to his family.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Dugu Ce showed Dugu Xuan and Golden Crocodile Douluo his four Soul Rings and reported gaining two Soul Power levels after hunting a thirty-thousand-year-old Medusa.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo explained that Dugu Ce’s Serpent Emperor and Radiant Sacred Dragon powers would destroy him within three years without a pure Fire Dragon Bloodline to harmonize them.
• Dugu Xuan recalled how Yu Yuanzhen had injured Dugu Ce’s father, and Dugu Ce vowed to settle the score with the clan.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo named Liu Erlong as the woman whose Fire Dragon Bloodline could help Dugu Ce, and proposed forcing her to marry him.
• Dugu Ce pointed out the herbs near the spring and claimed they matched diagrams of Immortal Grade Herbs that Yue Guan had shown him.

Dugu Ce distributed rare herbs to Dugu Xuan, Dugu Bo, and Golden Crocodile Douluo, helping them improve their strength and health. Dugu Xuan reached Level 90, Dugu Bo rose to Level 93, and Golden Crocodile Douluo broke through to Level 99.

• Dugu Ce gave Dugu Xuan a Ninth-Rank Purple Ganoderma and guided him to refine it to restore his vitality and break through his bottleneck.
• Dugu Ce gave Dugu Bo a Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone to cleanse his body of accumulated poison and repair his foundation.
• Dugu Ce presented Golden Crocodile Douluo with a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, which could help him withstand its medicinal power and reach Level 99.
• Dugu Xuan finished refining the herb and broke through to Level 90, while Dugu Bo refined his herb and advanced from Level 91 to Level 93.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo refined the chrysanthemum and reached Level 99, then thanked Dugu Ce for helping him break through after fifty years.

Golden Crocodile Douluo led Dugu Ce, Dugu Xuan, and Dugu Bo to hunt a Nine Nether Poison Flood Dragon so Dugu Xuan could obtain a powerful ninth Soul Ring. Dugu Ce used a Snow Silkworm Spirit Vine to help the beast break through to a hundred thousand years, and Golden Crocodile Douluo subdued it as the group prepared to claim its Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo promised to help Dugu Xuan obtain a ninth Soul Ring before the group confronted the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Dugu Bo identified a Nine Nether Poison Flood Dragon near the hundred-thousand-year mark in a poisonous pool in Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Ce proposed using his Snow Silkworm Spirit Vine to help the flood dragon break through, hoping its Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone would strengthen Dugu Xuan.
• The group reached the pool, and Dugu Ce released the vine's medicinal fragrance to lure out the flood dragon.
• The flood dragon began evolving, but Golden Crocodile Douluo's pressure forced it down before a red glow revealed that it had reached a hundred thousand years.

Dugu Xuan killed the 100,000-year Nine Nether Poison Flood Dragon, broke through to Titled Douluo, and took the title Nine Nether Douluo. As he began refining the flood dragon’s right leg Soul Bone, Dugu Ce planned to target Liu Erlong and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, while Dugu Bo asked when Dugu Ce would use the Immortal Herbs he had kept for himself.

• Dugu Xuan killed the Nine Nether Poison Flood Dragon with help from Dugu Ce and Golden Crocodile Douluo, then began absorbing its red Soul Ring.
• Dugu Ce proposed going to Heaven Dou City to take Liu Erlong as bait before attacking the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect at True Dragon Mountain.
• Dugu Xuan emerged with nine Soul Rings, rank 91 Soul Power, an evolved Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Martial Soul, and a condensed Poison Pill.
• Dugu Xuan chose the title Nine Nether Douluo, and Golden Crocodile Douluo retrieved the flood dragon’s 100,000-year right leg Soul Bone and gave it to him.
• Dugu Xuan began refining the Soul Bone as Dugu Bo asked Dugu Ce when he would use the Immortal Herbs he had reserved for himself.

Dugu Ce strengthened his spiritual power with Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew while Dugu Xuan gained new abilities from his hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone. They traveled to Blue Tyrant Academy to confront Liu Erlong, where Dugu Xuan revealed himself as a Titled Douluo.

• Dugu Ce chose to refine Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew before pursuing his grievance at True Dragon Mountain, and his spiritual power rose to the level of a high-level Soul Saint.
• Dugu Bo broke through to peak level ninety-two after gaining insight from his hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone.
• Dugu Xuan revealed the two skills from his hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and the two abilities from his Soul Bone.
• Dugu Ce collected the remaining valuable herbs, and Golden Crocodile Douluo carried the group toward Heaven Dou City.
• Liu Erlong challenged the group for entering Blue Tyrant Academy's restricted area, and Dugu Xuan introduced himself as Nine Nether while displaying his nine Soul Rings.

Dugu Ce and his allies captured Liu Erlong to use her Fire Dragon blood as a catalyst, while claiming Yu Luomian had agreed to help them seize control of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. Flender, Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and the Shrek students arrived as Liu Erlong was bound, leaving them facing Dugu Ce, Dugu Bo, and Golden Crocodile Douluo.

• Dugu Ce told Liu Erlong that he needed her blood to balance the poison in his body, and Dugu Bo sealed her escape routes.
• Liu Erlong learned that Yu Luomian had supposedly agreed to their plan and refused to cooperate, but Golden Crocodile Douluo suppressed her and Dugu Xuan bound her with poison light.
• Flender and Yu Xiaogang heard the disturbance in the rear hills and rushed toward Liu Erlong with the Shrek students.
• Dugu Ce recognized Yu Xiaogang's arrival as an opportunity to make him give up on Liu Erlong.
• Flender and Yu Xiaogang found Liu Erlong bound, and Yu Xiaogang demanded that her captors release her.

Dugu Ce confronted Yu Xiaogang over his failure to defend Dugu Ce’s parents and threatened Liu Erlong as revenge against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Yu Xiaogang refused to sacrifice his Soul Power for her, shattering Liu Erlong’s faith in the man she had waited twenty years for, while Flender urged him to use their trump card.

• Dugu Bo mocked Yu Xiaogang, and Dugu Ce rejected his claim of being an uncle and accused him of standing by while Dugu Ce’s parents were abused.
• Dugu Ce declared that Liu Erlong would be used as a medicinal ingredient and offered to spare her some suffering if Yu Xiaogang crippled his Soul Power and kowtowed before his father’s memorial tablet.
• Tang San challenged Dugu Ce’s treatment of Liu Erlong, but Dugu Bo argued that her ties to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan made her guilty.
• Yu Xiaogang froze and failed to accept Dugu Ce’s demand, leaving Liu Erlong to lose faith in him.
• Flender grabbed Yu Xiaogang and urged him to use the trump card he and Yu Xiaogang still had.

Tang San wagered that Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong’s Golden Sacred Dragon could withstand a Titled Douluo for a minute to secure Liu Erlong’s release and Shrek Academy’s safety. As they began the fusion, Liu Erlong’s faltering Soul Power threatened their chances.

• Tang San challenged Golden Crocodile Douluo and Dugu Bo to a bet, offering Shrek Academy’s submission if the Golden Sacred Dragon failed to last a minute.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized Golden Crocodile Douluo as a Level 98 Peak Douluo and pleaded with him not to join the bet.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo declined to fight personally and told Dugu Ce to let Dugu Bo test the Golden Sacred Dragon.
• Dugu Ce agreed to the wager, and Dugu Xuan released Liu Erlong from the Soul Power chains.
• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong began forming the Golden Sacred Dragon, but Liu Erlong’s Soul Power faltered as she looked at Yu Xiaogang with sorrow.

Yu Xiaogang summoned the Golden Sacred Dragon and challenged Dugu Bo, believing the fusion skill could defeat him. Dugu Bo revealed he had reached Level 93 and countered the dragon’s attack, while Yu Xiaogang ignored warnings to conserve their strength.

• Yu Xiaogang urged Liu Erlong to channel her Soul Power, and she helped transform Luo Sanpao into the Golden Sacred Dragon.
• Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Xiao Wu celebrated the fusion skill, while Dugu Bo mocked it as a counterfeit dragon.
• Dugu Bo revealed his Level 93 Soul Power, shocking Flender and forcing Yu Xiaogang back under the pressure.
• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Flender’s warnings and ordered the Golden Sacred Dragon to attack Dugu Bo instead of holding out for one minute.
• Dugu Bo used his Jade Phosphorous True Form, and his poisonous fog collided with the Golden Sacred Dragon’s breath as Yu Xiaogang boasted and kept attacking.

Dugu Bo defeated Yu Xiaogang’s Golden Sacred Dragon after Yu Xiaogang recklessly burned the origins of himself, Flender, and Liu Erlong. Liu Erlong chose to honor her bet and leave with Dugu Ce, while Flender collapsed and Yu Xiaogang was left bald and broken.

• Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor sent the Golden Sacred Dragon flying, but Yu Xiaogang forced it to burn the trio’s Soul Power Origins for a desperate counterattack.
• Dugu Bo used his eighth Soul Skill, Time Stasis, to freeze and shatter the Golden Sacred Dragon, dropping Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong onto the lawn.
• Yu Xiaogang lay bloodied and bald as Dugu Ce declared the bet over and told Liu Erlong to keep her promise.
• Liu Erlong rejected Yu Xiaogang, saying he was selfish and undeserving of her, and walked toward Dugu Ce.
• Flender spat blood and fainted before he could finish speaking.

After Flender was left near death by Yu Xiaogang’s fusion skill, the Shrek Academy group fractured, and Liu Erlong rejected their attempt to merge with Blue Tyrant Academy. Dugu Xuan demanded that Yu Xiaogang stay, while Golden Crocodile Douluo and Dugu Ce decided Xiao Wu should be killed.

• Ma Hongjun blamed Yu Xiaogang for draining Flender’s life force, and Tang San threatened him, splitting Shrek Academy into opposing sides.
• Liu Erlong agreed to go with Dugu Ce and ended her relationship with Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San revealed that Flender had brought Shrek Academy to Blue Tyrant Academy to merge with it and gain access to the tournament.
• Liu Erlong refused the merger and ordered Shrek Academy to leave Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Dugu Xuan stopped Tang San from taking Yu Xiaogang away, while Golden Crocodile Douluo identified Xiao Wu as a hundred-thousand-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit.
• Dugu Ce told Golden Crocodile Douluo to kill Xiao Wu immediately rather than keep her captive for a future Soul Ring.

Gold Crocodile Douluo sensed a deadly force protecting Tang San and, on Dugu Ce’s advice, spared both Tang San and Xiao Wu. After the Shrek group left, Liu Erlong agreed to go with Dugu Xuan, who revealed that her Fire Dragon bloodline was needed to help Dugu Ce overcome his poison and transform his martial soul.

• Gold Crocodile Douluo felt a terrifying threat when he considered killing Tang San, then told Dugu Ce that Tang San seemed untouchable.
• Dugu Ce suspected a god was protecting Tang San and urged Gold Crocodile Douluo to spare both Tang San and Xiao Wu until he found a divine inheritance of his own.
• Dugu Ce told Gold Crocodile Douluo that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud could lead him to the Sea God’s Nine Trials.
• Gold Crocodile Douluo let Tang San, Xiao Wu, Yu Xiaogang, and the Shrek group leave Blue Tyrant Academy, while Yu Xiaogang vowed to make a comeback through Tang San.
• Liu Erlong agreed to leave with Dugu Xuan, who revealed that her exceptional Fire Dragon bloodline was needed for Dragon-Serpent Resonance to cure Dugu Ce’s poison and transform his Serpent Emperor Martial Soul into a true dragon.

Liu Erlong agreed to help Dugu Ce evolve his Martial Soul after learning that Yu Luomian had traded her away for power, and she demanded Yu Luomian’s death in return. The group set out for Heaven Dou Royal Academy to bring Dugu Yan and capture Yu Tianheng, while Dugu Ce wondered about their relationship.

• Dugu Xuan promised Liu Erlong freedom if she helped Dugu Ce overcome his snake venom backlash and evolve his Martial Soul, and she agreed.
• Liu Erlong asked Dugu Ce what Yu Luomian had demanded for teaching him the secret technique, and Dugu Ce revealed Yu Luomian wanted the Dugu Family to help him lead the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Liu Erlong demanded that Dugu Ce kill Yu Luomian after his evolution, and Dugu Ce accepted her condition.
• The next morning, Dugu Bo decided to bring Dugu Yan from Heaven Dou Royal Academy and capture Yu Tianheng so he could witness the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s downfall.
• As the group flew toward the academy, Dugu Ce wondered whether Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng had any relationship, noting that they were not a couple in this world.

Dugu Bo and Dugu Xuan seized Yu Tianheng at Heaven Dou Royal Academy to settle the Dugu family's blood feud with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. The education committee tried to stop them, but Dugu Xuan revealed his overwhelming strength and Golden Crocodile Douluo's presence forced them to stand down.

• Dugu Bo bound Yu Tianheng and struck him after Dugu Yan rejected him and Dugu Ce named the debt owed by Yu Yuanzhen.
• Liu Erlong joined Dugu Ce, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Yan as they prepared to take Yu Tianheng to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin arrived to stop Dugu Bo, then recognized Dugu Xuan as the supposedly dead genius of the Dugu Family.
• Dugu Xuan revealed his rank-ninety-two cultivation and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, shocking the education committee and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo rejected Meng Shenji's plea to spare Yu Tianheng, while Dugu Yan and Dugu Ce warned the committee not to interfere.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo's aura kept the committee from acting, and Dugu Bo knocked Yu Tianheng unconscious and carried him away.

Dugu Ce led the Dugu family and Golden Crocodile Douluo to True Dragon Mountain to confront the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and demand repayment for past grievances. Yu Yuanzhen emerged to face them, and Dugu Xuan challenged him over the harm done to the Dugu family.

• Dugu Bo explained to Dugu Yan that Dugu Ce’s medicine had cured his poison and helped him break through, while Golden Crocodile Douluo had become Ce’s master.
• Dugu Ce and his family set out for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect with the unconscious Yu Tianheng, intending to force Yu Yuanzhen to surrender a secret technique and repay their debts.
• Dugu Ce sent Liu Erlong ahead to challenge the sect, and she called Yu Yuanzhen out at the gates of True Dragon Mountain.
• Dugu Bo revealed the unconscious Yu Tianheng to the sect’s disciples, and Dugu Ce declared that they had come to wipe out the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
• Yu Yuanzhen appeared and accused Liu Erlong of joining outsiders against her own sect, but she rejected his claim and vowed to collect the Dugu family’s debt.
• Dugu Xuan confronted Yu Yuanzhen, revealed his survival and Level 92 strength, and vowed to make the sect pay for what it had done to his son.

Dugu Ce and his allies crushed Yu Yuanzhen’s resistance at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, aided by Yu Luomian’s betrayal, and forced him to reveal the forbidden Dragon Lair’s location. They opened the chamber with Yu Yuanzhen’s blood, and a powerful dragon aura and thunderous might surged out.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo overwhelmed Yu Yuanzhen, while Dugu Ce demanded the Dragon Transformation secret art and Yu Yuanzhen refused.
• Yu Luomian revealed that he had sent the sect’s hardliners away and sided with Dugu Ce in exchange for becoming the next sect master.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo smashed Yu Yuanzhen into the ground, and Dugu Xuan struck him in revenge for his son’s death.
• Dugu Yan threatened Yu Tianheng, forcing Yu Yuanzhen to reveal that the secret art was in the forbidden Dragon Lair, which required a past sect master’s bloodline to open.
• Yu Luomian led Dugu Ce’s group to the Dragon Lair, where Dugu Yan cut Yu Yuanzhen’s hand and his blood opened the stone door.

Dugu Ce and his allies destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, killed Yu Luomian, and claimed its wealth and Soul Bones. Dugu Ce planned to establish a Dugu Family sect on True Dragon Mountain and take the sect’s place among the continent’s pinnacle powers.

• Dugu Ce took the Dragon Transformation secret art and Soul Bones from the sect’s secret chamber while Yu Yuanzhen begged him to spare Yu Tianheng.
• Dugu Bo unleashed poison over True Dragon Mountain, and Golden Crocodile Douluo crippled Yu Yuanzhen as Liu Erlong rejected Yu Luomian’s pleas for mercy.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo killed Yu Luomian, and Dugu Ce ordered the slaughter of the remaining Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect members.
• Dugu Bo reported that he had also killed the villagers at the mountain’s foot to prevent the Yu Family’s bloodline from surviving.
• Dugu Xuan reported that the Dugu Family had seized eight Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and the sect’s riches, and Dugu Ce declared they would build their own sect on True Dragon Mountain.

Dugu Ce named his new sect the Dragon-Serpent Sect and prepared to undergo Dragon Snake Harmony with Liu Erlong to suppress the poison threatening his life. As their painful ritual began in the Dragon Lair’s secret chamber, Dugu Xuan and Golden Crocodile Douluo waited outside.

• Dugu Ce agreed to cooperate with Liu Erlong on the condition that Blue Tyrant Academy remain independent, and he promised to keep the unconscious Yu Tianheng as a hostage.
• Dugu Ce named his new sect the Dragon-Serpent Sect, and Golden Crocodile Douluo offered to secure it a vacant Upper Three Sects seat.
• Dugu Ce told Golden Crocodile Douluo he would seek the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud through Qian Renxue after completing Dragon Snake Harmony.
• Liu Erlong warned Dugu Ce that the ritual would be agonizing and cost her a Soul Power rank, but she agreed to proceed.
• Dugu Ce and Liu Erlong joined hands as her fire attribute guided his icy and fiery poisonous energies through his meridians, while Dugu Xuan and Golden Crocodile Douluo kept watch outside.

Dugu Ce and Liu Erlong completed the final stage of Dragon Snake Harmony, allowing Dugu Ce’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor to evolve into the Calamity Sacred Dragon. Liu Erlong left with medicinal herbs to restore her strength, while Dugu Ce’s poison markings vanished and a dark-golden dragon pattern appeared.

• Liu Erlong told Dugu Ce that only a genuine union of yin and yang could transfer her Fire Dragon origin and avert his death.
• Dugu Ce and Liu Erlong completed the final stage of Dragon Snake Harmony as Dugu Xuan waited outside the chamber.
• Dugu Ce’s Martial Soul evolved into the Calamity Sacred Dragon, his Soul Power rose to rank forty-five, and his Soul Rings grew stronger.
• Liu Erlong accepted an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid and a Purple Spirit Ganoderma from Dugu Ce as compensation for losing her origin and Soul Power.
• Liu Erlong left the mountain, while Dugu Ce’s poison markings disappeared and a dark-golden dragon pattern appeared across his chest.