Chapter Summaries

After recovering from his confinement, Fang Mo received a pass to spar at the Spirit Hall Preparatory Training Camp, where he met Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan. His first combat test against Yan began, and Fang Mo revealed his humanoid Martial Soul, startling everyone with its oppressive aura.

• Bibi Dong gave Fang Mo access to the combat training ground and warned him not to reveal his second Martial Soul.
• Fang Mo arrived at the training ground and recognized Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan among the trainees.
• The instructor announced that Fang Mo would take a combat test, and Yan volunteered to spar with him.
• Yan summoned his Flame Lord Martial Soul and challenged Fang Mo to show his own.
• Fang Mo summoned a humanoid darkness Martial Soul, and its cold, oppressive aura silenced the arena.

Fang Mo revealed his unusually powerful first Soul Ring and defeated Yan with Shadow Erosion, earning a place in the Cultivation Group. Watching from the training ground entrance, Qian Renxue recognized his Martial Soul as the phantom that had spoken to her beneath the Silver-Leaf Wutong.

• Fang Mo revealed a first Soul Ring that the instructor estimated was at least five hundred years old.
• Fang Mo used Shadow Erosion to suppress Yan, then stopped when the instructor called the test; Yan accepted him as a serious opponent.
• The instructor assigned Fang Mo to the Cultivation Group pending a later placement review.
• Fang Mo admitted to Spirit Dong'er that he had held back because he wanted future allies among Bibi Dong's trusted fighters.
• Qian Renxue followed the familiar aura to the training ground and recognized Fang Mo's Martial Soul as the phantom she had encountered beneath the Silver-Leaf Wutong.

Qian Renxue realized Fang Mo’s Martial Soul could manifest the mother she longed to see and decided to get close to him. Bibi Dong revealed her plan to acquire Whale Rubber and use it to strengthen Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters and consolidate her power, while the Elder Hall began questioning Fang Mo’s identity.

• Qian Renxue recognized the phantom as a version of her mother manifested by Fang Mo’s Martial Soul and decided he was her only way to see the phantom again.
• Bibi Dong told Fang Mo that her trade caravans were secretly buying Whale Rubber throughout the coastal regions and that she had improved its medicinal use.
• Bibi Dong planned to use Whale Rubber to strengthen Fang Mo and Spirit Hall’s core Soul Masters, and told Fang Mo to focus on cultivation.
• Bibi Dong warned Fang Mo that the Elder Hall had begun questioning his identity, while Qian Daoliu remained watchful.
• Spirit Dong'er reflected that Bibi Dong had missed opportunities in her previous life, then observed that things were different because someone was now standing beside her.

Fang Mo confirmed Qian Renxue’s suspicion that his Martial Soul was connected to the person who had spoken with her beneath the Silver-Leaf Wutong tree, and he reassured her that her mother felt guilty and cared for her. As their relationships improved, Qian Renxue joined Fang Mo and the Golden Generation at the training grounds.

• Qian Renxue confronted Fang Mo about his Martial Soul, and he admitted that it was the same spirit she had seen and that it shared an aura with Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue asked to see the spirit again, and Fang Mo agreed but warned that its condition was unstable and that someone was following her.
• Fang Mo continued sparring with Yan, who challenged him daily, and Yan began reviewing their fights with him despite his complaints.
• Fang Mo grew closer to Xie Yue and Hu Liena, while Qian Renxue began visiting the training grounds and gradually blended in with their group.

Bibi Dong consolidated control of Spirit Hall, while Qian Renxue grew closer to Fang Mo and reached level thirty. Qian Renxue visited Fang Mo at night to seek Spirit Dong'er’s advice about her third Soul Ring.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei pledged themselves to Bibi Dong, and Qian Daoliu’s silence helped the Pope take full control of Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue told Fang Mo that her grandfather had withdrawn her guards because he believed she was safe with him.
• Fang Mo told Qian Renxue that Whale Rubber had helped Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena advance to level twenty.
• Qian Renxue revealed that she had reached level thirty and asked Fang Mo to arrange a secret meeting with Spirit Dong'er for Soul Ring advice.
• Qian Renxue arrived at Fang Mo’s room that night, and Fang Mo entered his Sea of Consciousness to tell Dong'er she was there.

Fang Mo told Qian Renxue about the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and proposed that she and the Golden Generation use its Immortal Herbs to strengthen themselves. After Spirit Dong'er urged him to protect Qian Renxue, he prepared to take the group there before Tang San could claim its opportunities.

• Qian Renxue asked Spirit Dong'er for advice about obtaining her third Soul Ring, and Dong'er directed her to Fang Mo.
• Fang Mo told Qian Renxue about the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and explained that its Immortal Herbs could strengthen Soul Masters and raise the age limit of their Soul Rings.
• Fang Mo proposed that Qian Renxue, Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena visit the well after they were ready, and Qian Renxue agreed.
• Spirit Dong'er told Fang Mo to protect Qian Renxue before her phantom vanished.
• Qian Renxue thanked Fang Mo and left, while Fang Mo resolved to claim the well's opportunities for Spirit Hall.

Fang Mo asked Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan about finding an Immortal Herb that could preserve and strengthen Spirit Dong'er, the remnant soul inside his Martial Soul. Yue Guan identified the Azure Soul-Condensing Orchid as a possible solution in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and agreed to help harvest it, though Fang Mo said he had his own path to power.

• Fang Mo reviewed his notes about Sunset Forest and decided to seek an herb that could repair and condense Spirit Dong'er's soul.
• Fang Mo visited Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan at night and asked whether the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well held an herb that could help a Remnant Soul take physical form.
• Yue Guan consulted his travel notes and explained that the Azure Soul-Condensing Orchid could stabilize a remnant soul and help it become semi-corporeal, but harvesting it risked a backlash against the harvester's soul.
• Fang Mo asked Yue Guan to guide the harvest, and Yue Guan agreed.
• Yue Guan asked whether Fang Mo wanted Immortal Herbs for himself, and Fang Mo said he had his own cultivation path and did not need them to increase his Soul Ring age.

Fang Mo and Spirit Hall’s powerful group set out for Sunset Forest to find the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and its Immortal Herbs. As their journey began, Fang Mo wondered whether the site and its guardian, Dugu Bo, remained as they had in the original story.

• Fang Mo asked Chrysanthemum Douluo to seek ordinary Immortal Herbs that could strengthen his bones and tendons, while leaving the best resources for others; Chrysanthemum Douluo promised to look for an Earth-Spring Golden Lotus.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo realized that Fang Mo’s request explained why Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation had delayed their Soul Rings and why Bibi Dong had arranged the trip.
• Before departure, Qian Renxue thanked Fang Mo for caring for her and her mother, and Fang Mo reassured her that her presence and well-being already comforted Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong led six Title Douluo and Fang Mo, Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan out of Spirit City toward Sunset Forest.
• During the carriage ride, Fang Mo considered whether Dugu Bo still guarded the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and told Qian Renxue that it lay beyond a poisonous mist deep in the forest.

Fang Mo and Bibi Dong’s group crossed the poisonous miasma into the Sunset Forest valley and discovered the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well surrounded by rare Immortal Herbs. Chrysanthemum Douluo began assessing the plants, but the group had not yet confirmed the valley was safe or started harvesting.

• Bibi Dong assigned positions and ordered the group to advance cautiously through the poisonous miasma.
• The group emerged into the valley and saw the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and countless rare Immortal Herbs.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan was overwhelmed to have found the place he had searched for for forty years.
• Fang Mo recognized the valley from the original story and noted that its Medusa inhabitant had fled from the Title Douluo.
• Bibi Dong ordered everyone not to touch anything until the valley was confirmed safe, then tasked Yue Guan with assessing the Immortal Herbs.
• Yue Guan surveyed the plants and reported that their number and quality exceeded his expectations.

Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan assigned the Immortal Herbs to Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall’s younger generation, while Fang Mo declined them in favor of herbs for his physique and a Biluo Soul-Condensing Orchid for the Remnant Soul within his Martial Soul. Yue Guan harvested the chosen herbs, including the Azure Soul-Condensing Orchid, and left Fang Mo’s hope within reach.

• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to distribute the Immortal Herbs, and Yue Guan gave the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to himself after she refused it.
• Yue Guan assigned the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid to Bibi Dong, the Infernal Delicate Apricot to Yan, the Aromatic Silk Beauty to Qian Renxue, the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to Hu Liena, and the Star-Moon Ganoderma to Xie Yue.
• Fang Mo declined the precious Immortal Herbs, explaining that he wanted herbs to strengthen his physique and a Biluo Soul-Condensing Orchid for the Remnant Soul within his Martial Soul.
• Yue Guan began carefully harvesting the Immortal Herbs and placed them in jade boxes.
• Yue Guan picked the Azure Soul-Condensing Orchid from a crack in the rocks.

After gathering the Immortal Herbs, Fang Mo told Bibi Dong that the phantom within his Martial Soul was her future self, who would die defeated and regret her choices. Bibi Dong accepted his explanation and let him help the phantom absorb an herb; in Fang Mo’s Spirit Sea, the phantom began to take shape.

• Yue Guan handed the gathered Immortal Herbs to Bibi Dong, who distributed them and led the group to an open area outside Sunset Forest to absorb them.
• Bibi Dong asked Fang Mo who the person within his Martial Soul was, and Fang Mo revealed that she was Bibi Dong’s future self, reborn as his Martial Soul after dying defeated.
• Fang Mo explained that the future Bibi Dong regretted letting hatred blind her and failing to face Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong allowed him to help her absorb the Immortal Herb.
• Fang Mo summoned Dong’er’s phantom inside his tent and released the pale-blue soul essence from the jade box onto her.
• As the essence enveloped the phantom, her blurry outline, face, eyes, and long hair gradually became clearer.

Fang Mo successfully stabilized Dong'er’s soul until it could be touched, giving Qian Renxue hope that she would one day embrace her mother. After the group recovered from absorbing the Immortal Herbs, Bibi Dong prepared to secure the area while they sought their next Soul Rings.

• Fang Mo confirmed that Dong'er’s soul had become tangible, and Qian Renxue tearfully thanked him for making it possible for her mother to touch her.
• Fang Mo promised Qian Renxue that Dong'er would embrace her when she fully awakened, while Bibi Dong watched them from the shadows.
• Yan, Xie Yue, Hu Liena, Qian Renxue, and Fang Mo emerged after resting and described the changes brought by their Immortal Herbs.
• Bibi Dong assessed the group’s Soul Ring needs, noting that Qian Renxue needed a third ring, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan needed second rings, and Fang Mo had not yet reached level twenty.
• Bibi Dong ordered Golden Crocodile and Snake Lance to help seal off the area within fifty li and kill any trespassers.

Bibi Dong sent Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and Fang Mo into the forest to hunt Soul Rings without direct help, while secretly observing them. Fang Mo split from the others, hunted soul beasts to grow stronger, and reached level twenty, leaving him ready to seek a second Soul Ring.

• Bibi Dong assigned target soul beasts and hunting grounds to Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, while telling Fang Mo to choose his own target.
• Fang Mo and the other four entered the forest and split up; Fang Mo headed north alone.
• Fang Mo used Dark Hidden Erosion and the Rakshasa Scythe to hunt and devour soul beasts.
• Fang Mo reached level twenty, and his first Soul Ring's age rose to eight hundred years.
• Bibi Dong secretly watched Fang Mo's rapid progress, while Spirit Dong'er knew he was being observed but did not tell him.

Fang Mo hunted an eighteen-hundred-year Shadow-Devouring Python to obtain a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, with Spirit Dong'er helping him overcome the danger. He successfully absorbed the ring as Pope Bibi Dong watched from hiding.

• Fang Mo and Dong'er reached a Shadow-Devouring Python nest in the northern Sunset Forest, where Dong'er sensed an eight-hundred-year python and an eighteen-hundred-year one.
• Fang Mo chose the older python, and Dong'er agreed to help him survive absorbing its soul ring despite the risks.
• Fang Mo lured the pythons out and Dong'er used Rakshasa Divinity to interrupt the eighteen-hundred-year python's Shadow Stealth.
• Fang Mo killed the Shadow-Devouring Python with the Rakshasa Scythe and summoned its purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• As Fang Mo absorbed the ring, Dong'er balanced its scorching power with her own, allowing him to complete the absorption.
• Pope Bibi Dong watched Fang Mo succeed and worried that he had nearly suffered another accident.

Fang Mo gained his second soul ring and the Shadow Soul Devour skill, then rushed to help Qian Renxue and her companions fight a five-thousand-year Radiant Sky Deer. The group defeated the beast, and Qian Renxue claimed the final blow as its purple soul ring appeared.

• Fang Mo absorbed an eighteen-hundred-year second soul ring, advanced to level twenty-three, and learned Shadow Soul Devour.
• Fang Mo saw a golden signal flare and hurried toward Qian Renxue and the others, while Dong'er sensed that Qian Renxue was not injured.
• Fang Mo found Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan exhausted and battling a five-thousand-year Radiant Sky Deer.
• Fang Mo weakened the deer with Shadow Erosion and Shadow Soul Devour, striking its hind leg with the Rakshasa Scythe.
• Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan coordinated their attacks with Fang Mo to bring the deer down.
• Qian Renxue delivered the final blow, and the Radiant Sky Deer left behind a purple soul ring edged with gold.

Fang Mo returned to Spirit City with Bibi Dong after gathering soul rings, then learned that she had secretly watched him and ordered Sunset Forest sealed off. As Fang Mo recovered, Bibi Dong summoned him and said she wanted to talk to Dong'er.

• Qian Renxue absorbed a five-thousand-year soul ring and advanced to rank thirty-three, while Fang Mo learned that his own rapid cultivation required a week of rest.
• Fang Mo spoke with Dong'er, who warned that Bibi Dong had watched him devour soul rings and advised him to recuperate after returning to Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong led the group back to Spirit City and designated Sunset Forest a highest-level restricted area guarded by two Title Douluo.
• Fang Mo rested for two weeks as ordered, then met Bibi Dong in her study, where she told him she wanted to talk to Dong'er.

Bibi Dong asked to meet the future version of herself within Fang Mo’s Martial Soul, and the two spoke privately while Fang Mo waited outside. Afterward, both Bibi Dong and Dong’er seemed changed, and Qian Renxue appeared at Fang Mo’s door that night.

• Bibi Dong told Fang Mo she wanted to learn what her future self had experienced, and Dong’er agreed to meet her on the condition that Fang Mo stay away.
• Fang Mo waited in the rear garden while Bibi Dong and Dong’er spoke privately in the study.
• Bibi Dong emerged visibly affected, and Dong’er returned to Fang Mo’s Spirit Sea exhausted without explaining their conversation.
• Bibi Dong brought Fang Mo medicinal food herself, while Dong’er remained silent after she left.
• Qian Renxue knocked on Fang Mo’s door that night.

Qian Renxue asked Fang Mo to help her see Mother and let her sleep beside her, admitting she feared being alone and wanted the comfort to be real. Dong'er overcame her resistance to having Fang Mo present and agreed to let them both come to her.

• Qian Renxue visited Fang Mo late at night and asked him to help her see Mother.
• Qian Renxue told Fang Mo she wanted to sleep beside Mother because she had never done so and feared waking from another dream alone.
• Qian Renxue asked Mother if she could sleep with her together with Fang Mo.
• Dong'er initially refused because Fang Mo's adult soul made her uncomfortable sharing a bed with her daughter.
• Dong'er remembered Qian Renxue's past loneliness and agreed to let both Qian Renxue and Fang Mo come up.

Fang Mo helped Qian Renxue reunite with her mother, Dong'er, by summoning Dong'er's increasingly tangible soul body. The chapter ended with Qian Renxue lying between them, holding both their hands as she cried quietly.

• Qian Renxue asked Fang Mo to share her bed with her and said she would return after washing up.
• Qian Renxue came back in sleepwear, and Fang Mo summoned Dong'er from the Spirit Sea.
• Dong'er and Qian Renxue reunited, calling each other “Xue'er” and “Mother.”
• Qian Renxue invited Fang Mo onto the bed, and Dong'er made room for him.
• Qian Renxue lay between Dong'er and Fang Mo, held their hands, and silently cried.

Qian Renxue accidentally called Fang Mo and Dong'er her Dad and Mom, then hid in embarrassment as the three struggled to recover. After she fell asleep between them, Dong'er tenderly held her close and whispered good night.

• Qian Renxue said she was happy to be sleeping between Dad and Mom, then panicked and claimed she had been sleep-talking.
• Fang Mo and Dong'er blushed and argued over the fanfiction memories in Fang Mo's mind while Qian Renxue hid beneath the blanket.
• Qian Renxue fell asleep holding Fang Mo's wrist and Dong'er's arm.
• Dong'er watched Qian Renxue with tenderness, drew her closer, and gently brushed her hair as Qian Renxue murmured that she liked this version of her mother.
• Fang Mo closed his eyes and heard Dong'er softly say good night.