Chapter Summaries

Ye Qing saved Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er from three Soul Kings, then offered to help Shui Bing'er fuse with her Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone in exchange for a visit to Skywater Academy's back-mountain ice lake. He learned that the lake held a cache of Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, and Shui Bing'er agreed to lead him there.

• A scar-faced Soul King attacked Ye Qing, but Ye Qing froze him with a flick of his finger.
• Two other Soul Kings fled, and Ye Qing froze them before they could escape the alley.
• Shui Bing'er thanked Ye Qing for saving her and explained that Skywater Academy had bought an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone she could not safely fuse with.
• Ye Qing promised to guide the soul bone's frost through Shui Bing'er's meridians if she took him to the academy's back-mountain ice lake.
• Shui Yue'er mentioned the heavy rocks at the lake's bottom, and Ye Qing recognized them as Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.
• Shui Bing'er agreed to lead Ye Qing to the lake, and he told her to show him the way.

Ye Qing took Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to Skywater Academy’s back mountain and retrieved five Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrows from the frozen lake. He then began treating Shui Bing’er’s Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone backlash, leaving her convulsing under the extreme cold as he pressed Chaos Green Flame against her arm.

• Ye Qing carried Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er past Skywater Academy’s guards to a hidden ice lake in the back mountain.
• Snow Empress confirmed that Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow lay beneath the lake, and Ye Qing dove in to retrieve it.
• Ye Qing emerged with five Ice Marrows and stored them in the Chaos Space, delighting Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
• Shui Bing'er realized the stones she and Shui Yue'er had noticed in the lake were valuable treasures, and Ye Qing promised to resolve the backlash from her soul bone.
• When Shui Bing'er tried to absorb the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, its extreme cold overwhelmed her, and Ye Qing pressed Chaos Green Flame against her arm.

Ye Qing saved Shui Bing'er by helping her fuse a ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, then left before the sisters could learn his name. After returning to Heaven Dou City with Dugu Bo, Ye Qing teased him about visiting Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo secretly followed after him.

• Ye Qing suppressed the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone's violent ice energy and helped Shui Bing'er fuse it successfully, granting her the Ice Explosion Technique.
• Shui Bing'er recovered and learned that Ye Qing had departed without revealing his name, leaving her regretful and grateful.
• The next morning, Dugu Bo questioned Ye Qing about sneaking out, and Ye Qing said he had found an opportunity at Skywater City's auction house.
• Dugu Bo urged Ye Qing to leave for Heaven Dou City because he was worried about his medicinal garden, and they traveled back together.
• Outside Heaven Dou City, Ye Qing teased Dugu Bo about visiting Dugu Yan, then walked away while Dugu Bo secretly followed him.

Ye Qing returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy after half a year away and reunited with the Imperial Fighting Team. He revealed that he had reached level ninety and possessed two hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, declaring himself invincible below Titled Douluo.

• Ye Qing returned to the restricted back mountain, where Dugu Yan joyfully kissed him while the team watched and Dugu Bo secretly fumed from above.
• Dugu Yan asked where Ye Qing had gone, and he said he had visited the Star Dou Great Forest and the Far North to obtain two Soul Rings and a special opportunity.
• The Imperial Fighting Team shared their progress: Dugu Yan had reached level fifty-seven, the Shi Brothers level forty-three, Yu Feng and Osler level forty-two, Ning Rongrong level thirty, and Ye Lingling level forty.
• Ye Qing displayed nine Soul Rings—seven purple and black rings followed by two red hundred-thousand-year rings—leaving the team stunned.
• Ye Qing withdrew his Soul Rings and declared that he was invincible below Titled Douluo.

Ye Qing revealed his overwhelming strength to the Imperial Fighting Team and learned that Qin Ming had resigned after being sidelined as their instructor. He offered to take Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling to hunt for Soul Rings and teased a major surprise, but the team left him alone with Dugu Yan.

• Ye Qing displayed nine Soul Rings and declared that he was invincible below the rank of Titled Douluo, stunning the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Ye Qing asked why Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling had not obtained Soul Rings, and Ning Rongrong explained that Qin Ming had resigned and left Heaven Dou Royal Academy a month earlier.
• Ye Qing realized his leadership had made Qin Ming irrelevant as an instructor and concluded that the butterfly effect had driven Qin Ming away.
• Ye Qing promised to take Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling soul-beast hunting and hinted that he would give everyone a major surprise.
• Yu Feng urged the team to leave immediately, but Osler and the others hurried him away after noticing Dugu Yan's murderous glare, while Ye Lingling led Ning Rongrong away as well.

Ye Qing and Dugu Yan reunited after his long absence, then spent three days together before returning to the Imperial Fighting Team. Ye Qing led the prepared team to set out for Sunset Forest, while Dugu Yan recovered from their exhausting time together.

• Dugu Yan confronted Ye Qing for disappearing for over half a year, and he carried her to his residence.
• Three days later, Ning Rongrong wondered why Ye Qing and Dugu Yan had been missing, leaving the rest of the team awkwardly silent.
• Ye Qing and a weary Dugu Yan arrived at the training grounds, where the team noticed their condition.
• Ye Qing told the Imperial Fighting Team to pack their gear and set out for Sunset Forest.

Ye Qing used the Aromatic Silk Beauty to draw a massive horde of soul beasts to the team, then lifted everyone into the air so Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling could choose suitable targets. As Ice Empress and Snow Empress confronted the cruelty of the soul-hunting system, a strange multicolored glow appeared in the beast tide.

• Ye Qing summoned the Aromatic Silk Beauty in Sunset Forest, attracting thousands of enraged soul beasts toward the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Ye Qing lifted the team onto Green Lotus Sword Qi and protected them with halos, letting them survey the beast tide safely from above.
• Ice Empress condemned Ye Qing for luring soul beasts to be hunted, and Ye Qing argued that the continent’s laws forced Soul Masters and soul beasts into conflict.
• Snow Empress appeared in the Chaos Space and lamented the bloody order binding humans and soul beasts to opposing sides.
• Ning Rongrong called Ye Qing’s attention to an unusual multicolored glow shining amid the beast tide.

Ye Qing helped Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling obtain Soul Rings beyond the usual limits, then sensed Dugu Bo fighting a Title Douluo and went to intervene. He left an incarnation behind to guard the girls as he took Dugu Yan through a spatial rift toward the battle.

• Ye Qing froze a three-thousand-year Three-Colored Deer and a seven-thousand-year King Flower so Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling could hunt for Soul Rings.
• Ye Qing revealed his nine Soul Rings, frightening the beast tide into retreating, and Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling began absorbing their chosen rings.
• Snow Empress alerted Ye Qing to a clash between Title-ranked experts, including Dugu Bo, several kilometers away in Sunset Forest.
• Ye Qing created an incarnation to guard the girls during their absorption and reassured Dugu Yan that Dugu Bo would be safe.
• Ye Qing took Dugu Yan through a spatial rift toward Dugu Bo's battle, while the Imperial Fighting Team stayed behind to keep watch.

Ye Qing appeared at the battle between Dugu Bo and the Golden Iron Triangle and revealed his nine Soul Rings, including two hundred-thousand-year rings. His overwhelming pressure left Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong terrified and unable to resist.

• Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang used the Golden Sacred Dragon to fight Dugu Bo near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ye Qing arrived with Dugu Yan, recognized the Golden Iron Triangle, and reassured her that Dugu Bo would be fine.
• Ye Qing created an Azure Lotus Avatar to protect Dugu Yan and stepped into the battlefield.
• Liu Erlong challenged Ye Qing, and he revealed three purple, four black, and two red Soul Rings.
• Ye Qing's pressure forced the Golden Sacred Dragon to bow, while Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong stared in terror at his power.

Ye Qing overwhelmed the Golden Iron Triangle with his immense power, forcing Flender to self-destruct to give Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang a chance to escape. Ye Qing protected the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and escaped the blast through a spatial rift with Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo, while Liu Erlong fled with Yu Xiaogang.

• Ye Qing crushed the Golden Sacred Dragon with his Soul Rings and Green Lotus Sword Song, leaving Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender in despair.
• Ye Qing’s sword formation shattered the Golden Sacred Dragon’s barrier and drove the Golden Iron Triangle’s fusion skill to the brink of collapse.
• Flender threw Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang from the dragon’s back, then self-destructed with his Martial Soul and remaining sacred dragon energy to attack Ye Qing.
• Ye Qing sealed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well valley with his reversed Chaos Lotus Prison and opened a spatial rift to escape the blast with Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo.
• Liu Erlong burned her essence blood and Martial Soul bloodline, picked up the unconscious Yu Xiaogang, and fled.

After Flender self-destructed to help Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang escape, Ye Qing and Dugu Bo reunited with Dugu Yan. Dugu Bo offered Dugu Yan a rare fifty-thousand-year soul bone, but she asked Ye Qing whether it suited her, leaving her grandfather jealous and exasperated.

• Dugu Bo checked that Dugu Yan was safe, while Ye Qing explained that Liu Erlong had fled with Yu Xiaogang and Flender had died in his self-destruction.
• Ye Qing and Dugu Bo discussed how the Golden Iron Triangle had been broken and agreed to deal with Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang if they crossed paths again.
• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo that she and Ye Qing had brought Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling to Sunset Forest to hunt soul rings, frustrating her grandfather.
• Dugu Bo revealed a fifty-thousand-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent left leg bone he had obtained after poisoning the serpent that invaded his territory.
• Dugu Bo offered the soul bone to Dugu Yan, but she asked Ye Qing whether it was suitable for her to absorb, prompting Dugu Bo to protest that she did not trust her own grandfather.

Ye Qing explained why Dugu Yan’s fifty-thousand-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent soul bone would make up for her weaknesses, and she began absorbing it. At Blue Tyrant Academy, the gravely wounded Liu Erlong arrived carrying Yu Xiaogang, and she collapsed after begging Tang San to save him.

• Ye Qing told Dugu Yan that the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent soul bone could grant her speed, flight, and aerial combat abilities, and she decided to absorb it.
• Dugu Yan sat down and began fusing with the fifty-thousand-year soul bone while Dugu Bo stood guard.
• Liu Erlong, bloodied and transformed by burning her bloodline, reached Blue Tyrant Academy carrying an unconscious Yu Xiaogang.
• Xiao Wu, Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Zhu Zhuqing rushed to help Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San found that Yu Xiaogang’s meridians and organs were badly damaged and that Liu Erlong’s life force was rapidly fading.
• Liu Erlong begged Tang San to save Yu Xiaogang, then coughed up blood and lost consciousness.

Tang San learned that the attack on Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong was connected to the route he had planned to Sunset Forest, and swore to make whoever harmed them pay. He stabilized Yu Xiaogang and vowed to find immortal herbs to heal both elders.

• Xiao Wu, Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun failed to feed the unconscious Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong Recovery Sausages, while Ma Hongjun smashed a pillar in rage.
• Tang San ordered Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to carry the injured elders to the underground chamber and recalled that he had sent them to investigate the poisonous miasma in Sunset Forest.
• Tang San concluded that Flender was likely dead and swore to kill whoever had harmed the elders, drawing hidden weapons as he left for Sunset Forest.
• In the underground chamber, Oscar’s medicine failed to stop Yu Xiaogang’s convulsions or Liu Erlong’s continuing loss of vitality.
• Tang San used his Mysterious Heaven Skill to protect Yu Xiaogang’s internal organs and promised to find immortal herbs to heal both elders.

Dugu Yan absorbed a Fifty-Thousand-Year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent Left Leg Bone and gained the ability to fly, while Ye Qing returned with her to the Imperial Fighting Team's camp. The team celebrated Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling's breakthroughs before reacting in disbelief to Dugu Yan's new Soul Bone and the story of how Ye Qing found it.

• Dugu Yan fused with the Fifty-Thousand-Year Soul Bone, rose to level fifty-nine, and demonstrated her new flight ability to Dugu Bo and Ye Qing.
• Dugu Yan kissed Ye Qing, prompting Dugu Bo to glare furiously as Ye Qing led her through a void rift back to camp.
• Ning Rongrong reached level thirty-two and Ye Lingling reached level forty-two after absorbing their Soul Rings while the team worried about Ye Qing and Dugu Yan's absence.
• Ye Qing and Dugu Yan returned to camp, and Ye Qing told the team they had found the Soul Bone after two Ten-Thousand-Year soul beasts killed each other.
• The Imperial Fighting Team reacted with shock and envy when Ye Qing revealed that Dugu Yan had absorbed the Fifty-Thousand-Year Soul Bone.

Ye Qing revealed two immortal herbs to the Imperial Fighting Team and explained their benefits. Yu Feng won the agility-type treasure, while the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma remained to be claimed.

• Yu Feng reminded Ye Qing of the surprise he had promised the team, and Ye Qing revealed two immortal herbs.
• Ye Qing explained that Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone suited agility-type soul masters and that Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma could break cultivation bottlenecks and raise Soul Power.
• Ning Rongrong asked why Dugu Yan was not being offered an herb, and Dugu Yan revealed she had already eaten a stronger one and was Ye Qing's fiancée.
• Shi Mo and Shi Mo declined the herbs, leaving Yu Feng and Osler to compete for the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone.
• Yu Feng beat Osler at rock-paper-scissors and claimed the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone.

Ye Qing brought the Imperial Fighting Team into his Heavenly God Realm, where its powerful cultivation energy triggered a transformation in Ning Rongrong's Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda. Ning Rongrong emerged with her martial soul evolved and her Soul Power raised to level thirty-seven.

• Ning Rongrong gave the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma to Ye Lingling, who gratefully accepted it.
• Ye Qing revealed that the immortal herbs were only a welcome gift and summoned a nine-colored pearl that transported the Imperial Fighting Team into his Heavenly God Realm.
• Ye Qing explained that the Heavenly God Realm had different laws and far purer energy, and the team tested how quickly they could cultivate there.
• Ning Rongrong's Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda appeared on its own and absorbed descending nine-colored divine radiance, enclosing her in a cocoon of light.
• The cocoon shattered, and Ning Rongrong announced that her martial soul had absorbed its third soul ring and her Soul Power had risen five levels to level thirty-seven.

Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda evolved into the legendary Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda after Ye Qing’s intervention, breaking her sect’s level eighty limit. She agreed to keep Ye Qing’s Heavenly God Realm and immortal herbs secret while claiming her evolution came from herbs in Sunset Forest.

• Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul evolved into a nine-story Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda, and Ye Qing stopped her from impulsively kissing him as Dugu Yan watched.
• Ning Rongrong explained that the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda could hold nine Soul Rings and let her surpass the limit that had long restricted her sect.
• The Emperor Team celebrated Ning Rongrong’s transformation and recognized Ye Qing as the one who had enabled the miracle.
• Ning Rongrong asked Ye Qing whether she could tell her father about her evolved Martial Soul, and he allowed her to share the transformation while forbidding her from revealing his secrets.
• Ning Rongrong promised to say she had found herbs in Sunset Forest and to keep all details about Ye Qing and the Heavenly God Realm secret.

Ye Qing returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy after sending the Imperial Fighting Team into secluded cultivation, then accepted Qian Renxue’s invitation to the Crown Prince’s Residence. Qian Renxue failed to gauge his strength and reopened the Blackwind Stockade slave-trafficking case, revealing that more than a dozen noble factions were implicated.

• Ye Qing ordered the Imperial Fighting Team to cultivate in seclusion in the Heavenly God Realm and returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy alone.
• Ye Qing told the education committee that the others had entered seclusion, then learned that Crown Prince Xue Qinghe had invited him to meet.
• Ye Qing went to the Crown Prince’s Residence, where Qian Renxue secretly probed his spiritual strength and found that she could not perceive it.
• Qian Renxue asked Ye Qing about the Blackwind Stockade case and said her year-long investigation had uncovered more than a dozen noble factions involved in slave trafficking.

Ye Qing rejected Xue Qinghe’s attempt to recruit him into a campaign against corrupt nobles and refused to use his friendship with Dugu Bo to intervene. After Ye Qing left, Qian Renxue and her elders admitted they could not see through him or uncover his true background.

• Ye Qing challenged Xue Qinghe to deal with the noble families himself instead of asking a commoner to take action.
• Xue Qinghe claimed Prince Xue Xing’s influence made it too dangerous for him to confront the nobles directly.
• Ye Qing recognized that Xue Qinghe was trying to use him to test his connection to Dugu Bo and draw the Title Douluo into the dispute.
• Ye Qing refused to influence Dugu Bo and left the hall, telling Xue Qinghe to approach him directly if he wanted his help.
• Qian Renxue asked the Snake Dragon Douluo and Ci Xue whether they had discerned Ye Qing’s background.
• The Snake Dragon Douluo and Ci Xue said they could not see through Ye Qing, and Ci Xue revealed that his spiritual probe vanished before reaching him.

Qian Renxue ordered She Long and Ci Xue to secretly eliminate noble families involved in slave trafficking and frame Prince Xue Xing. Meanwhile, Ye Qing told Ice Empress and Snow Empress that Qian Renxue was the Pope’s daughter and revealed the three rank-ninety-nine Peerless Douluo, leaving the two Far North rulers shocked by humanity’s hidden strength.

• She Long and Ci Xue argued that Ye Qing’s concealed aura came from a Soul Tool or soul skill, and Qian Renxue ordered them not to kill him because she wanted to tame him.
• Qian Renxue ordered She Long and Ci Xue to wipe out Heaven Dou noble families involved in slave trafficking and plant evidence implicating Prince Xue Xing.
• Ye Qing left the Crown Prince’s Residence and told Ice Empress and Snow Empress that Xue Qinghe was actually Qian Renxue, the Spirit Hall Pope’s daughter and an Angel God inheritor.
• Ye Qing revealed that Qian Daoliu was a rank-ninety-nine Peerless Douluo protecting Qian Renxue, and that she possessed a God-Level Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
• Ye Qing named Qian Daoliu, Tang Chen, and Bo Saixi as the three rank-ninety-nine Peerless Douluo, leaving Ice Empress and Snow Empress stunned.