Chapter Summaries

Yu Yan negotiated with Dugu Bo, offering to cure his Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison and help Dugu Yan achieve Martial Soul Evolution in exchange for Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden in Sunset Forest. Dugu Bo accepted the deal and asked Yu Yan to explain how he would cure him.

• Dugu Bo questioned Yu Yan’s confidence and asked what he wanted in return for curing the poison and helping Dugu Yan.
• Yu Yan asked for Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden, explaining that he had found its location in Sunset Forest and wanted it for its value to him.
• Dugu Bo pressed Yu Yan to reveal what made the garden valuable, but Yu Yan refused to disclose the secret.
• After a prolonged standoff, Dugu Bo agreed to give Yu Yan the garden if he cured Dugu Bo and helped Dugu Yan achieve Martial Soul Evolution.
• Dugu Bo chose to have Yu Yan treat his Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison first and asked him to explain his method.

Yu Yan convinced Dugu Bo that he could detoxify him by transferring the Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison into Spirit Bones, and Dugu Bo agreed to take him to his medicinal garden. Yu Yan prepared to leave with Dugu Bo for several months, while Jiang Jing agreed to deliver his letter to Xiao Wu.

• Yu Yan explained that a Secret Medicine and medicinal guidance could gradually move Dugu Bo's poison into his Spirit Bones over three to six months.
• Dugu Bo accepted Yu Yan's proposal, offered him three additional requests, and arranged for them to visit the medicinal garden that night.
• Yu Yan told Dugu Yan that Dugu Bo wanted to see her, then told Jiang Jing that he and Dugu Bo had reached an agreement.
• Yu Yan handed Jiang Jing a letter for Xiao Wu and said he might be away for two or three months, or as long as half a year.
• Dugu Bo learned Yu Yan's name from Dugu Yan.

Ning Fengzhi visited Yu Yan with information about dragon-type Soul Beasts with combined ice and fire attributes and introduced him to Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Ning Rongrong. He tried to have Rongrong show Yu Yan around Heaven Dou City, but Yu Yan said he and Dugu Bo would leave that night to fulfill their agreement.

• Ning Fengzhi brought Yu Yan a newly compiled set of Soul Beast records matching his requirements.
• Chen Xin assessed Yu Yan's age and Soul Power, while Ning Rongrong studied him.
• Ning Fengzhi introduced Chen Xin and his daughter, Ning Rongrong, and invited her to show Yu Yan around Heaven Dou City.
• Yu Yan thanked Ning Fengzhi for the information and politely greeted Chen Xin and Ning Rongrong.
• Yu Yan declined Ning Fengzhi's invitation because he had agreed to accompany Dugu Bo and would leave Heaven Dou City that night.

Yu Yan left Heaven Dou City with Dugu Bo and reached the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well in Sunset Forest. After asking Dugu Bo to leave him alone for two days while he prepared the promised detoxification, Yu Yan turned his attention to the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

• Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yan talked about Soul Ring choices before Dugu Bo arrived, and Ning Fengzhi left with Sword Douluo and Ning Rongrong.
• Yu Yan told Dugu Bo that Ning Fengzhi wanted to recruit him but that he had not agreed to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Yu Yan informed Vice Principal Jiang Jing that he was leaving, then traveled with Dugu Bo from Heaven Dou City to Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo brought Yu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and asked him to detoxify him; Yu Yan requested two days alone to prepare.
• After Dugu Bo left to wait in a nearby cave, Yu Yan focused on the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

Yu Yan harvested the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then consumed them in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. Using his Ice and Fire Twin Fish and Little Fish Meditation Method to guide their opposing energies, he achieved Ice-Fire Immunity and fused the medicinal effects into a new state.

• Yu Yan used gold and iron to harvest the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and jade to pick the Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• After the herbs’ opposing auras tempered each other, Yu Yan ate both and leaped into the center of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• As the herbs’ cold and heat ravaged his body, Yu Yan activated the Ice and Fire Twin Fish to help regulate their energies.
• Yu Yan used the Little Fish Meditation Method to absorb the medicinal effects and began developing Ice-Fire Immunity.
• Yu Yan reunited the Ice and Fire Twin Fish, guiding the two medicinal effects to fuse into a new state as the energy around him calmed.

Yu Yan gained ice and fire immunity, strengthened his Martial Soul, and reached level 30 before exploring the depths of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. He then gave Dugu Bo a pill that successfully suppressed the Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison, leaving Dugu Bo thrilled by the result.

• Yu Yan completed his transformation from the Immortal Herbs, gaining ice and fire immunity, a strengthened Ice and Fire Twin Fish Martial Soul, and level 30 Soul Power.
• Yu Yan explored the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well until he reached his limit at roughly 4,500 meters, marked the depth, and returned to shore.
• Yu Yan gathered young herbs and prepared a Secret Medicine to suppress Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison.
• Dugu Bo arrived two days later, inspected and swallowed Yu Yan's pill, then confirmed that it suppressed his poison.
• Dugu Bo stored some of his poison in a Spirit Bone and howled with excitement when he felt the poison's harm lessen.

Yu Yan traded knowledge about Whale Rubber and his Soul Ring concealment technique with Dugu Bo, who helped assess the age Yu Yan could safely absorb for his Third Spirit Ring. Dugu Bo judged that Yu Yan could absorb a ring below ten thousand years, and Yu Yan prepared to obtain it.

• Yu Yan asked Dugu Bo to help him obtain his Third Spirit Ring, then revealed that his concealed second Soul Ring was roughly 4,500 years old.
• Dugu Bo gave Yu Yan the Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch in exchange for an explanation of how Whale Rubber could increase Soul Ring age limits.
• Yu Yan told Dugu Bo how Whale Rubber and Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng could help Dugu Yan raise the age of her second Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo asked Yu Yan to teach him the Hidden Edge Secret Technique, and Yu Yan agreed to provide it after obtaining his Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo assessed Yu Yan's physique and concluded that he could safely absorb a Soul Ring below ten thousand years.

Yu Yan chose a nearly ten-thousand-year-old Sun-Moon Dragon Blood Tree for his Third Spirit Ring, and Dugu Bo found and subdued one for him. After Yu Yan consumed a fruit from the tree, he absorbed its Soul Ring successfully by sunset.

• Yu Yan told Dugu Bo he wanted to hunt a Sun-Moon Dragon Blood Tree for his Third Spirit Ring.
• Dugu Bo searched Sunset Forest for half a day and found a suitable tree just under ten thousand years old.
• Dugu Bo poisoned the Sun-Moon Dragon Blood Tree, and Yu Yan killed it with his Mystic Ice Chains.
• Yu Yan found and ate a red-and-blue fruit in the tree's trunk before beginning to absorb its nearly black purple Soul Ring.
• Yu Yan absorbed the Soul Ring successfully as the sun set, while Dugu Bo watched closely.

After absorbing the Sun-Moon Dragon Blood Tree's Soul Ring, Yu Yan gained new Ice Fish and Fire Fish skills, made more Secret Medicine for Dugu Bo, and cultivated at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. Xiao Wu received Yu Yan's letter and decided to visit Star Dou Forest, leaving the story with her setting out with Wu Xue.

• Yu Yan learned the effects of his new Ice Fish and Fire Fish Soul Skills, while Dugu Bo witnessed his Soul Rings and said he believed Yu Yan's account.
• Dugu Bo took Yu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, then returned to his cave as Yu Yan gathered herbs and refined enough Secret Medicine for half a month.
• Yu Yan observed that his Ice and Fire Twin Fish had grown and developed small horns as they began transforming into Flood Dragons.
• Dugu Bo collected the Secret Medicine and left, pondering how ordinary ingredients had produced such an effective pill.
• Yu Yan cultivated at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where its energy greatly accelerated his progress.
• Xiao Wu received Yu Yan's letter from Vice Principal Jiang Jing, decided to visit Star Dou Forest, and set out with Wu Xue the next morning.

Yu Yan tested the powerful auxiliary Martial Soul Fusion Skill Sun and Moon Shine Together: Eternal Tribulation, then began brewing medicine to help Dugu Yan evolve her Martial Soul. As the medicine simmered, Dugu Yan thanked him and wrestled with her grandfather’s suggestion that she marry him.

• Yu Yan discovered that Sun and Moon Shine Together: Eternal Tribulation could cleanse negative statuses, convert them into benefits, and grant a target Twin Blessing, though using it required an embarrassing spirit incantation.
• More than half a month after leaving, Dugu Bo returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with Dugu Yan and asked Yu Yan to prepare the Crystal Dragon Blood Ginseng medicine for her.
• Yu Yan used Dugu Bo’s medicinal cauldron to brew the Crystal Dragon Blood Ginseng with Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma and other herbs while Dugu Bo cleared poison from his body.
• Dugu Yan thanked Yu Yan for helping her family, and Yu Yan accepted her thanks, ending their awkward conversation.
• Dugu Yan recalled that Dugu Bo had asked whether she had feelings for Yu Yan and suggested that she marry him; she had said she needed time to think.

Yu Yan refined a medicinal block that helped Dugu Yan evolve her Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Soul into the Jade Blood Jade Dragon. Dugu Yan revealed her changed First Spirit Skill, Blood Jade Corrosive Claw, and demonstrated it on an ice wall.

• Yu Yan finished refining the medicinal block and told Dugu Bo to let it cool before Dugu Yan consumed it.
• Dugu Yan ate the medicinal block and absorbed its potency as a three-colored eggshell formed around her and her Martial Soul.
• The eggshell shattered, revealing Dugu Yan's evolved Jade Blood Jade Dragon Martial Soul and her transformed appearance.
• Dugu Yan told Yu Yan and Dugu Bo that her life-type Martial Soul focused on direct assault and that her First Spirit Skill had changed.
• Dugu Yan activated Blood Jade Corrosive Claw and cut deep marks into an ice wall Yu Yan created.

Yu Yan helped Dugu Yan evolve her Martial Soul and spent half a year cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, developing pills and the deadly Seven-Colored Iridescence poison. By the end, Yu Yan had reached Soul Power Level 39, Dugu Yan had reached level 26, and Dugu Bo planned to try concentrating his Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison into his Inner Core.

• Dugu Yan explained that her Blood Jade Corrosive Claw drained Soul Power and vitality and petrified wounds, while Dugu Bo praised the skill and her evolved Martial Soul.
• Dugu Bo took Dugu Yan to obtain a thousand-year second Soul Ring, and Yu Yan replanted the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng roots near the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Yu Yan asked Dugu Bo to obtain the Breaking Clan's Herb Manual, then used it to identify more herbs and successfully refined a cultivation pill and the forbidden poison Seven-Colored Iridescence.
• Dugu Bo took a bottle of Seven-Colored Iridescence after judging it more terrifying than his Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison.
• Over half a year, Dugu Bo moved most of his poison into his Spirit Bones, Yu Yan reached level 39, and Dugu Yan reached level 26.
• Yu Yan suggested that Dugu Bo concentrate his remaining poison into his Inner Core, and Dugu Bo agreed to try while asking Yu Yan for more Secret Medicine.

Yu Yan consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and gained golden, night-vision eyes before preparing to break through to level 40. After reaching the breakthrough, he told Dugu Bo that he planned to hunt a Vortex Ice-Light Dragon in the Far North for his fourth Spirit Ring.

• Yu Yan made Dugu Bo a supply of Secret Medicine, then harvested the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew while preserving its roots.
• Yu Yan consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and gained golden eyes that let him see clearly at night and perceive his surroundings in greater detail.
• Yu Yan told Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan he planned to use medicine to reach level 40 so Dugu Bo could help him obtain a fourth Spirit Ring.
• Dugu Bo helped Yu Yan refine medicine while Dugu Yan cultivated, and Yu Yan reached level 40 by evening.
• Yu Yan named the Vortex Ice-Light Dragon in the Far North as his target, then gave Dugu Bo a book describing the Soul Beast.

After leaving Sunset Forest, Yu Yan traveled with Dugu Bo to the Far North to obtain a Fourth Spirit Ring from a Vortex Ice-Light Dragon. They reached the volcanoes where the Soul Beast lived and prepared to search for one close to thirty thousand years old.

• Yu Yan left the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan after spending more than half a year there.
• Dugu Bo dropped Dugu Yan off at her family residence in Heaven Dou City, then carried Yu Yan north to the Far North.
• Yu Yan admired the Far North but could not explore its center because his Soul Power Level was too low.
• Yu Yan used a map to guide Dugu Bo toward the volcanic habitat of the Vortex Ice-Light Dragon.
• Yu Yan requested a Vortex Ice-Light Dragon aged between twenty-five thousand and thirty thousand years, and Dugu Bo agreed to look for one near thirty thousand.

Dugu Bo helped Yu Yan hunt a nearly thirty-thousand-year-old Vortex Ice-Light Dragon, using Medusa’s Gaze to cripple it before Yu Yan delivered the final blow. Yu Yan began absorbing its black Soul Ring and faced the dragon’s resentful remnant soul in his spiritual space.

• Dugu Bo released his Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor and attacked the Vortex Ice-Light Dragon with poison, but the dragon weakened the toxin with its ice-fire energy.
• Dugu Bo used Medusa’s Gaze to petrify the dragon’s attacks and body, then pierced it with the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor’s tail.
• Dugu Bo threw the wounded dragon before Yu Yan, who killed it with Blazing Dragon Roar and drew out its black Soul Ring.
• Yu Yan began absorbing the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, guiding its violent Soul Power through his meridians with the Little Fish Meditation Method.
• The Vortex Ice-Light Dragon’s remnant soul attacked Yu Yan in his spiritual space, and he steadied his mind as he endured its waves of Soul Tremor.

Yu Yan defeated the Vortex Ice-Light Dragon and absorbed its nearly thirty-thousand-year Soul Ring, advancing to Soul Power level 44 and gaining two new Soul Skills. After collecting the dragon’s useful materials, he left the Far North and headed back toward Exotic Beast Academy in Ice Soul City.

• Yu Yan waited until the Vortex Ice-Light Dragon’s remnant soul weakened, then defeated it with the Ice and Fire Twin Fish.
• Yu Yan absorbed the ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, advanced from level 40 to level 44, and gained the Thousand Abyss Cold Current Array and Ashen Abyss Piercing Arrow Soul Skills.
• Dugu Bo told Yu Yan that the Vortex Ice-Light Dragon had produced no Spirit Bone, and Yu Yan accepted the loss.
• Yu Yan had Dugu Bo remove the dragon’s Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison, then harvested and stored useful materials from its corpse.
• Dugu Bo flew Yu Yan out of the Far North and returned him to Heaven Dou City.
• Yu Yan declined Dugu Bo’s invitation to stay and rode toward Exotic Beast Academy in Ice Soul City.

On his return to Exotic Beast Academy, Yu Yan tested his Fourth Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Cold Radiance Heaven-Punishing Sniper Arrow, and witnessed its immense destructive power. He reunited with Xiao Wu in the academy library, where she greeted him joyfully and scolded him for staying away so long.

• Yu Yan tested Cold Radiance Heaven-Punishing Sniper Arrow in a remote mountain range, using it to pierce a mountainside and blast apart a large section of the mountain.
• Yu Yan returned to Exotic Beast Academy the next morning and searched for Xiao Wu at their residence, but she was not there.
• Yu Yan found Xiao Wu reading in the library and used his golden eyes to try to see through her identity, but he could not identify her as a Soul Beast.
• Xiao Wu noticed Yu Yan watching her, recognized him after checking twice, and rushed over to embrace and punch him.
• Yu Yan apologized for his long absence and told Xiao Wu that he had brought back a valuable treasure for her from his deal with Dugu Bo.

Yu Yan returned to their residence with Xiao Wu and gave her the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, an Immortal Herb that recognized her after she focused on her love for him. Xiao Wu consumed it to raise her Soul Power, while Yu Yan reflected on her growth and her intention to reveal her identity as a human transformed from a Soul Beast.

• Yu Yan told Xiao Wu that consuming two Immortal Herbs had raised his Soul Power from level 29 to level 44, then explained their effects.
• Yu Yan gave Xiao Wu the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and told her to consume it only if it recognized her.
• Xiao Wu thought of Yu Yan, offered the flower a drop of heart's blood, and gained its recognition.
• Xiao Wu swallowed the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and Yu Yan stood guard as golden-red light surrounded her.
• Yu Yan recalled that Xiao Wu had gained a ten-thousand-year Third Spirit Ring with Teleportation, while Xiao Wu had decided to tell him she was a human transformed from a Soul Beast.

Xiao Wu consumed Lovesick Heartbreak Red and underwent a dramatic evolution, gaining the Taiyin Profound Rabbit Martial Soul and a moon-colored second Soul Ring. She revealed her new abilities to Yu Yan after confirming her gains.

• Lovesick Heartbreak Red raised Xiao Wu's Soul Power to level 40, while Moonlight Energy from her second Soul Ring and Yu Yan's Crescent Moon Herbs fueled her Martial Soul's transformation.
• Xiao Wu's Soft Bone Rabbit evolved into the Soft Bone Rabbit Emperor, then completed its transformation into the Taiyin Profound Rabbit with the Taiyin Majesty domain.
• The remaining medicinal power changed Xiao Wu's second Soul Ring into a bright moon-colored ring and advanced her from the juvenile stage to the mature stage, concealing her Soul Beast identity.
• Xiao Wu gained Moon God Possession, which enhanced her control of Moonlight Energy and granted Soul Power conversion and healing through Taiyin Jade Dew.
• Xiao Wu told Yu Yan that her gains were enormous and began explaining her new abilities.

After gaining a domain and other benefits from Lovesick Heartbreak Red, Xiao Wu revealed to Yu Yan that she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast transformed into a human. Yu Yan accepted her secret and learned more about her Self-Condensed Soul Rings, while Xiao Wu explained that absorbing moonlight with him had given her a new ability.

• Yu Yan reminded Xiao Wu to think about obtaining her Fourth Spirit Ring after learning about her gains from Lovesick Heartbreak Red.
• Xiao Wu brought up the story of Tang Hao and Ah Yin, then confessed that she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast transformed into a human.
• Yu Yan calmly rejected the idea of killing Xiao Wu for her Spirit Ring and Soul Bone, and told her not to reveal her identity to others.
• Xiao Wu explained her remaining gains, including Self-Condensed Soul Rings, making Yu Yan envious of her ability to choose Spirit Skills.
• When Yu Yan questioned how Xiao Wu could use Moonlight Possession despite being a Soft Bone Rabbit, Xiao Wu said she had developed the ability by absorbing Moonlight Energy while spending time with him.