Chapter Summaries

After Dugu Yan returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with her evolved Jade Scale Dragon and extraordinary strength, her teammates trained harder and the academy granted her special resources. Meng Shenji reported her transformation to Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, who approved the support and quietly took an interest in Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo.

• Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, Yu Feng, Osler, and the Shi Brothers committed to extra training after seeing Dugu Yan's strength.
• Meng Shenji approved a special-grade cultivation resource quota for Dugu Yan, including access to cultivation rooms, priority at the Resource Pavilion, and an additional allowance.
• Yu Tianheng told Dugu Yan he would break through level forty the next day, while she wondered why he had been watching her.
• Meng Shenji visited Crown Prince Xue Qinghe late at night and reported Dugu Yan's Martial Soul evolution, ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring, and rapid advancement.
• Xue Qinghe told Meng Shenji to provide Dugu Yan with resources and not investigate further, then reflected on Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and the Jade Scale Dragon.

Qian Renxue learned that Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul had evolved into the Jade Scale Dragon and decided to have Bibi Dong investigate the opportunity behind it. After receiving Qian Renxue’s letter, Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall outposts in the Tiandou Empire to secretly track Dugu Bo’s recent movements.

• Qian Renxue asked Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo about Dugu Yan’s transformation, and they concluded that Dugu Bo had likely found a rare treasure.
• Pufferfish Douluo suggested capturing Dugu Yan, but Qian Renxue rejected the plan because it could alert Dugu Bo and expose her identity.
• Qian Renxue wrote a letter asking her grandfather and Bibi Dong to investigate Dugu Bo, then sent it with Snake Lance Douluo.
• Three days later, Snake Lance Douluo delivered Qian Renxue’s letter to Bibi Dong at Pope Palace.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall outposts in the Tiandou Empire to investigate Dugu Bo’s whereabouts, contacts, and destinations over the past three months.

At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Bo consumed all his refined pills and used the Nine Nether Divine Dragon Art to absorb their power. He broke through to level ninety-six, then resumed cultivating toward the peak of Titled Douluo and godhood.

• Dugu Bo decided to consume every type of pill he had refined and swallowed them one after another.
• Dugu Bo circulated the Nine Nether Divine Dragon Art to refine the combined medicinal power, strengthening his body toward the Indestructible Diamond Body.
• Dugu Bo's level ninety-four bottleneck broke, and his Soul Power rose through level ninety-five to level ninety-six.
• Dugu Bo tested his newly deepened Nine Nether Power and saw that the Nine Heart Begonia seed was nearing the point of sprouting.
• Dugu Bo continued cultivating and studying the nine dimensions of Nine Nether Power as he pursued level ninety-nine and godhood.

After reaching level ninety-six, Dugu Bo recognized that further advancement required deeper comprehension of his Martial Soul, then traveled to the Xingluo Empire to recruit the struggling Breaking Clan for Nine Nether Hall. He met Yang Wudi and proposed a deal, leaving the clan leader to hear him out.

• Dugu Bo stopped taking pills and focused on comprehending the Nine Nether dimensions as the path from level ninety-six to ninety-seven.
• Dugu Bo chose the Breaking Clan as his first recruitment target, believing its hatred of Spirit Hall, loyalty, and powerful Soul Breaking Spear Martial Soul made it suited to Nine Nether Hall.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Xin and Lin Wan'er he was leaving for the Xingluo Empire, and asked Dugu Xin to stay and protect Yan Yan.
• Dugu Bo traveled around the Star Dou Great Forest, collected a Soul Bone and materials from a twenty-thousand-year Soul Beast, and reached the Breaking Clan's residence.
• Dugu Bo introduced himself to Yang Wudi as the Titled Nine Nether Douluo and said he wanted to discuss a deal; Yang Wudi invited him inside.

Dugu Bo offered to absorb the Breaking Clan into Nine Nether Hall, but Yang Wudi rejected him until Dugu Bo proposed a bet: Yang Wudi would win if he could force Dugu Bo back one step while Dugu Bo only defended. The two prepared to fight before the assembled clan, and Dugu Bo revealed seven black Soul Rings and two red ones.

• Dugu Bo offered Yang Wudi resources and protection in exchange for the Breaking Clan joining Nine Nether Hall, but Yang Wudi refused and insulted him.
• Dugu Bo proposed that Yang Wudi could win by forcing him back one step while Dugu Bo defended without attacking, and Yang Wudi accepted.
• Yang Wudi and Dugu Bo went to the valley clearing as more than a hundred Breaking Clan members gathered to watch.
• Yang Wudi summoned his Soul Breaking Spear and displayed eight Soul Rings as he prepared to fight.
• Dugu Bo summoned the Nine Nether Divine Dragon and revealed seven black Soul Rings and two red Soul Rings, leaving the Breaking Clan members stunned.

Yang Wudi challenged Dugu Bo to prove the Breaking Clan’s strength, but Dugu Bo effortlessly defended against his Soul Skills. Yang Wudi unleashed his strongest attack, the Destruction Spear, and the chapter ended as he charged at Dugu Bo.

• Yang Wudi used his first three Soul Skills against Dugu Bo, who dodged every attack without striking back.
• Yang Wudi’s Armor Shredder could not pierce Dugu Bo’s body, and his Soul Breaking Roar failed to affect Dugu Bo’s mind.
• Dugu Bo destroyed Yang Wudi’s Sky Breaking Strike with a thread of Nether Qi from one finger.
• Yang Wudi activated his Martial Soul Avatar and launched his strongest attack, the Destruction Spear, at Dugu Bo.

Dugu Bo defeated Yang Wudi in combat and medicine refining, winning Yang Wudi’s wholehearted concession. Yang Wudi agreed that the Breaking Clan would join the Nine Nether Hall, but asked what the clan would gain from the alliance.

• Dugu Bo caught Yang Wudi’s full-force spear strike with one hand, leaving Yang Wudi injured and defeated.
• Yang Wudi admitted his loss in combat but challenged Dugu Bo to prove himself in medicine refining.
• Yang Wudi refined three Barrier Breaking Pills from the Breaking Clan’s treasured ingredients.
• Dugu Bo refined six pills in less than a quarter of an hour, and Yang Wudi judged their medicinal effects superior.
• Dugu Bo explained that he had used the Nine Nether Power innate to his Martial Soul, and Yang Wudi accepted the Breaking Clan’s defeat.
• Yang Wudi agreed to join the Nine Nether Hall and asked Dugu Bo what the Breaking Clan would gain.

Dugu Bo cured Yang Wudi’s Pill Poison and promised that Nine Nether Hall would eventually help the Breaking Clan seek justice from the Clear Sky Sect. Yang Wudi agreed to bring his entire clan into Nine Nether Hall, and every clan member chose to relocate with him in three months.

• Dugu Bo gave Yang Wudi a pill that purged the Pill Poison from his body and eased his pain.
• Dugu Bo promised Yang Wudi a chance to seek justice from the Clear Sky Sect once Nine Nether Hall was strong enough.
• Yang Wudi knelt and pledged to lead the Breaking Clan into Nine Nether Hall.
• Dugu Bo arranged for the Breaking Clan to relocate in three months and told Yang Wudi to call him Nine Nether Douluo or Hall Master.
• Yang Wudi explained the clan’s dire situation and Nine Nether Hall’s offer of support to his clansmen.
• All of the Breaking Clan’s members chose to follow Yang Wudi and prepare to relocate.

Yang Wudi led the Breaking Clan from the Xingluo Empire to join Nine Nether Hall, bringing their people and medicinal herbs to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Their arrival left Yang Wudi stunned by the valley’s extraordinary resources and the opportunity it offered his clan.

• Yang Wudi sold or gave away the Breaking Clan’s assets, distributed the proceeds among its members, and prepared their medicinal herbs for the move.
• Yang Wudi told the clan that joining Nine Nether Hall meant cooperation, not servitude, and that they must preserve the Breaking Clan’s independence.
• Yang Wudi led more than a hundred clan members along a safe route to the Tiandou Empire and, after a month of travel, reached the outskirts of Sunset Forest.
• Yang Wudi led the procession through the forest for two days and arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo welcomed them to Nine Nether Hall.
• Dugu Bo showed Yang Wudi the clan’s new wooden houses and explained the valley’s springs and Immortal Herbs, leaving Yang Wudi alarmed by its immense resources.

Dugu Bo gave Yang Wudi the Nine Nether Divine Dragon Art, secretly embedding power in it that would gradually make its cultivators trust and revere him. Yang Wudi proposed recruiting Niu Gao and the Defense Clan to help expand Nine Nether Hall, and Dugu Bo considered the possibility.

• Dugu Bo gave Yang Wudi a jade tablet containing the Soul Power Refining Chapter and Body Refining Chapter, and Yang Wudi accepted him as his superior.
• Yang Wudi cultivated the Nine Nether Divine Dragon Art and quickly felt his strength improve, unaware that Dugu Bo had secretly embedded a subtle influence in the technique.
• Dugu Bo's hidden power gradually bound cultivators to him through growing trust and faith rather than direct control.
• Yang Wudi told Dugu Bo that Niu Gao and the Defense Clan could help build Nine Nether Hall's base.
• Dugu Bo recognized Niu Gao's strength and construction skills, then asked Yang Wudi whether he could persuade him to join.

Dugu Bo sent Yang Wudi to invite Niu Gao and the Defense Clan to join Nine Nether Hall, offering resources, protection, and rare pills. After hearing Yang Wudi’s account and considering the Defense Clan’s struggles, Niu Gao was left alone with the offer, still undecided.

• Dugu Bo gave Yang Wudi three Singular Velvet Pills and instructed him to invite Niu Gao without revealing Nine Nether Hall’s cultivation technique.
• Yang Wudi traveled alone to the Defense Clan’s Construction Workshop in Qingyan Town and was welcomed by Niu Gao.
• Yang Wudi explained how Dugu Bo had brought the Breaking Clan into Nine Nether Hall and offered the Defense Clan the same techniques, resources, and protection.
• Niu Gao questioned whether joining would leave his clan vulnerable to abandonment like the Clear Sky Sect had done to them.
• Yang Wudi presented the pills and left the choice to Niu Gao, who remained seated with the jade bottle after he departed.

Yang Wudi offered Niu Gao a place for the Defense Clan in Nine Nether Hall, along with resources and protection, and Niu Gao traveled to Sunset Forest to meet Dugu Bo. He reached Dugu Bo's hidden valley and found the once-aged Old Poisoner transformed into a youthful, imposing man.

• Yang Wudi showed Niu Gao a Singular Velvet Pill and promised the Defense Clan would receive the same support as the Breaking Clan if it joined Nine Nether Hall.
• Niu Gao weighed the offer against the Defense Clan's worsening fortunes and his resentment of the Clear Sky Sect for abandoning the Four Affiliated Clans.
• Niu Gao set out from Qingyan Town with two attendants, left them outside Sunset Forest, and followed Dugu Bo's map into the forest alone.
• Niu Gao discovered a valley filled with strange springs and Immortal Herbs, then heard Dugu Bo call it his backyard.
• Niu Gao saw the transformed Dugu Bo and questioned whether the imposing black-robed man was really the Old Poisoner he remembered.

Dugu Bo offered Niu Gao medicine and a place in the Nine Nether Hall, but Niu Gao distrusted him and demanded a test of strength before deciding. Dugu Bo accepted, and Niu Gao prepared to pit his strongest defense against Dugu Bo’s power.

• Dugu Bo described the Defense Clan’s hardships and gave Niu Gao three pills as a gift while asking him to join the Nine Nether Hall.
• Niu Gao said he did not trust Dugu Bo, and Dugu Bo told him to judge the Nine Nether Hall by seeing how the Breaking Clan had fared.
• Niu Gao decided to test Dugu Bo’s ability to break his defense, making the Defense Clan’s allegiance depend on the result.
• Niu Gao challenged Dugu Bo to use his strongest soul skill against Niu Gao’s strongest defense, and Dugu Bo agreed.
• Niu Gao entered the valley’s open ground, removed his outer robe, and summoned his Plate Armor Giant Rhinoceros Martial Soul.

Dugu Bo demonstrated how Nine Nether Power bypassed Niu Gao’s formidable defenses and forced him to endure severe pain. Niu Gao demanded another test, but Dugu Bo’s Grasp of the Underworld cracked his armor and sent the corrosive power flooding into his body again.

• Niu Gao summoned his Plate Armor Giant Rhinoceros Martial Soul and activated his strongest defensive skill against Dugu Bo’s Nine Nether Power.
• Dugu Bo’s power seeped through Niu Gao’s shield and corroded him from within, but Niu Gao remained standing.
• Dugu Bo intensified the corrosion with five streams of Nether Qi, then withdrew the power after Niu Gao endured it.
• Niu Gao asked Dugu Bo to attack him again, insisting he had not been prepared the first time.
• Dugu Bo used Grasp of the Underworld to trap Niu Gao, cracked his armor, and sent Nine Nether Power surging into his body.

Dugu Bo defeated Niu Gao and secured the Defense Clan’s allegiance to Nine Nether Hall. After sensing Dugu Yan was in danger, he arrived through the Gate of Nine Nether and found her under attack, leaving him facing the fleeing assailant.

• Dugu Bo defeated Niu Gao with Grasp of the Underworld, and Niu Gao pledged the Defense Clan’s loyalty to Nine Nether Hall.
• Dugu Bo gave Niu Gao three months to settle the clan’s affairs in the Xingluo Empire before relocating to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo sensed Dugu Yan’s distress through the spiritual mark he had left in her Sea of Consciousness and opened the Gate of Nine Nether.
• A black-clad attacker ambushed Dugu Yan on the road outside Heaven Dou City and tried to seal her Soul Power while Ye Lingling fled for help.
• Dugu Bo appeared, checked that Dugu Yan was safe, and turned toward the fleeing attacker.

Dugu Bo rescued Dugu Yan from a shadow guard sent by Gui Mei and transformed the guard into a Nine Nether Undead. After learning of Gui Mei’s monthly trip to Black Mountain Ridge, Dugu Bo took Yan Yan home and waited for a chance to act.

• Dugu Bo subdued the shadow guard, read his memories, and learned Gui Mei had ordered him to capture Dugu Yan to study her Martial Soul Evolution.
• Dugu Bo corrupted the shadow guard with Nine Nether Power, turning him into a Nine Nether Undead who called himself Zhao Hei.
• Dugu Bo decided against attacking Gui Mei in Spirit City, fearing Spirit Hall’s retaliation and the destruction of the newly founded Nine Nether Hall.
• Zhao Hei told Dugu Bo that Gui Mei secretly cultivated alone at Black Mountain Ridge on the fifteenth of each month.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan to stay home from the academy for now and left with her and Zhao Hei.

Gui Mei suspected that Dugu Bo had caused Zhao Hei to disappear and began considering other ways to capture Dugu Yan. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Bo used Zhao Hei’s memories to learn Gui Mei’s habits, assigned Zhao Hei to guard Dugu Yan, and planned to confront Gui Mei at Black Mountain Ridge.

• Gui Mei waited three days for Zhao Hei to return, suspected Dugu Bo had killed or captured him, and decided to change his approach to reaching Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo read Zhao Hei’s memories and learned that Gui Mei cultivated at Black Mountain Ridge on the fifteenth night of each month.
• Dugu Bo judged that Gui Mei would keep targeting Dugu Yan and ordered Zhao Hei to secretly protect her, including when she returned to the academy.
• Dugu Bo planned to visit Black Mountain Ridge and settle accounts with Gui Mei.

As Dugu Bo prepared to ambush Spirit Hall elder Gui Mei at Black Mountain Ridge in three days, Yang Wudi’s cultivation advanced rapidly under the Nine Nether Divine Dragon Art. Dugu Xin learned of his father’s plan but was told he was not yet strong enough to help.

• Yang Wudi told Niu Gao that his cultivation had reached level eighty-two and that Dugu Bo’s technique could take him to level eighty-five within a year.
• Dugu Bo counted down the days until Gui Mei’s next visit to Black Mountain Ridge and resolved to kill or cripple the level-ninety-five Titled Douluo.
• Dugu Bo considered the Nine Nether Power’s advantage over Gui Mei’s dark attribute and kept his two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring skills as hidden trump cards.
• Dugu Xin asked whether Dugu Bo needed help, and Dugu Bo told him he was too weak to face Gui Mei.
• Dugu Bo reassured Dugu Xin that he had grown stronger and urged him to keep cultivating until they could fight together.

Dugu Bo ambushed Gui Mei while he cultivated alone on Black Mountain Ridge, using his evolved Nine Nether power to overwhelm him. Gui Mei escaped the dragon’s jaws badly injured but remained ready to fight.

• Dugu Bo waited until Gui Mei’s cultivation left him vulnerable, then attacked with Grasp of the Underworld.
• Gui Mei dodged the dragon claw, recognized Dugu Bo’s transformed Martial Soul and Soul Rings, and tried to escape using Ghost Shadow: Thousand Layers.
• Dugu Bo unleashed Nine Nether Dragon Devour, trapping Gui Mei’s many shadows and forcing him to use Nether Explosion to break free.
• Gui Mei fled toward Spirit City, but the Nine Nether Divine Dragon caught and swallowed him.
• Gui Mei burned his Soul Core to escape the dragon’s jaws, landed severely injured, and faced Dugu Bo with killing intent.

Dugu Bo defeated and killed Gui Mei at Black Mountain Ridge, then revived him as a Nine Nether undead. Gui Mei returned to Spirit City to lure Yue Guan into a trap, leaving Dugu Bo preparing to add another Titled Douluo to Nine Nether Hall.

• Gui Mei unleashed his ultimate attack, but Dugu Bo used Dragon God Transformation to shatter his scythe and leave him mortally wounded.
• Gui Mei died in the crater after warning Dugu Bo that Spirit Hall would seek revenge.
• Dugu Bo used Nine Nether Power to revive Gui Mei as an undead with a mutated Nether Ghost Shadow Martial Soul.
• Gui Mei accepted Dugu Bo as his Hall Master and agreed to lure Yue Guan to Black Mountain Ridge.
• Dugu Bo told Gui Mei to claim an ancient ruin held a treasure that could improve a Martial Soul and bring Yue Guan there in three nights.