Chapter Summaries

Cheng Xiao was ambushed at his lodging by soul masters seeking his spirit bone, and his battle against them forced his destructive Dragon Emperor power to erupt. After killing his attackers and escaping, he was watched from the city wall by a figure intrigued by his Twin Martial Souls and thousand-year second soul ring.

• Cheng Xiao returned to his outer-city lodging, sensed the ambush, and killed the first attacker with his Crystal Terror Claws.
• Cheng Xiao fought the attackers while enduring mental assaults, then pursued the mental-type soul master as his enemies closed in.
• Cheng Xiao lost control as the Power of Destruction surged through him, transformed into a Dragon Emperor, and killed the fleeing mental-type soul master.
• Cheng Xiao unleashed Dragon's Fear to paralyze the remaining men, killed them, and fled into the darkness after his destructive possession subsided.
• A figure on the city wall watched Cheng Xiao escape and said they liked his value as a Twin Martial Soul user with a thousand-year second soul ring.

Cheng Xiao woke after being unconscious for a month and learned that Ye Renxin had healed him. Realizing spiritual attacks had exposed a major weakness, he resolved to prioritize obtaining the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.

• Cheng Xiao woke to find Ye Lingling asleep beside him, holding his hand, and she hurried out to fetch Ye Renxin.
• Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, Ye Renxin, and Ye Lingling gathered around Cheng Xiao, who explained that nobles from Moonlight Pavilion had attacked him and that he had killed them all.
• Dugu Yan told Cheng Xiao he had been unconscious for a month, and Ye Lingling explained that his injuries had affected both his body and soul.
• Cheng Xiao recognized that spiritual attacks had overwhelmed him and began considering ways to strengthen his Spiritual Power, including Heart Separation Control and a head soul bone.
• Cheng Xiao decided that obtaining the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew was his most urgent priority.

Cheng Xiao finally went with Dugu Bo and the others to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after Ye Lingling reached level thirty. He began searching for immortal herbs, then suddenly looked up in alarm.

• Cheng Xiao met Ye Lingling, who revealed she had reached level thirty, and they went to tell Ye Renxin.
• Ye Renxin and Dugu Bo agreed to take Ye Lingling to obtain her third soul ring, and Dugu Bo promised to show Cheng Xiao the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The group traveled to Dugu Bo's mountain residence in Sunset Forest and descended into the misty valley.
• Cheng Xiao saw the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and began searching around it for immortal herbs.
• Cheng Xiao suddenly raised his head with a pale face while searching.

Cheng Xiao worked out which immortal herbs he could identify and persuaded Dugu Bo to leave him alone in the valley. After Dugu Bo departed, Cheng Xiao used metal and jade tools to cut the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then summoned his Shadow Soul Beasts to retrieve them.

• Cheng Xiao realized he could not recognize most immortal herbs and decided to identify the distinctive ones first while seeking help with the rest.
• He determined he could recognize or distinguish five herbs, including the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Infernal Delicate Apricot, and Aromatic Silk Beauty, and planned to obtain the three he needed that he could locate.
• Cheng Xiao asked Dugu Bo for permission to pick herbs and requested that Dugu Bo return before sunset, while promising to avoid the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• After Dugu Bo and the others left, Cheng Xiao used a dagger and jade shard to cut the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Cheng Xiao summoned a Heart-Shattering Bee and a Blazing Fire Spirit Kite to retrieve the two herbs.

Cheng Xiao consumed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then plunged into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and lost consciousness. After his friends feared he had died, the springs erupted and Cheng Xiao burst from the water alive.

• Cheng Xiao used more than half his Soul Power to guide the Shadow Soul Beasts and deliver the two immortal herbs to the meeting point of the springs.
• Cheng Xiao ate the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, endured their opposing forces, and plunged into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ye Renxin searched the valley and found Cheng Xiao missing, while Dugu Bo demonstrated that the springs could destroy anything that fell into them.
• Ye Renxin, Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling searched for Cheng Xiao and grieved when he failed to return.
• The mountain shook, the springs grew more extreme and boiled, then Cheng Xiao burst from the water laughing.

Cheng Xiao endured a vision of a blood-red swordsman killing two giant dragons, then absorbed their power after awakening as a larger dragon in a white space. He returned to consciousness in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and surfaced before Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and two others, whose screams left the reason for their shock unresolved.

• Cheng Xiao witnessed a blood-red figure slay two giant dragons with a single sword strike.
• The figure noticed Cheng Xiao's drifting consciousness before a third dragon's roar warned him, and the spatial rift closed.
• Cheng Xiao became a giant dragon in a white space and destroyed the two dragons with the Power of Destruction, absorbing their power.
• Cheng Xiao woke submerged in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and swam to the surface.
• Dugu Yan questioned how Cheng Xiao had survived, while Dugu Bo told him to come ashore before they talked.
• Cheng Xiao climbed onto land, and two people screamed.

After emerging naked from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Cheng Xiao explained that two herbs had made him immune to ice and fire, then left the valley with the others. He secretly planned to use the Dragon Kings’ awakened soul remnants to help him master the Dragon Emperor’s power or claim their origins.

• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling turned away when Cheng Xiao emerged naked, and Ye Renxin gave him clothes.
• Cheng Xiao claimed the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass had let him enter the well, then revealed that he was immune to ice and fire.
• Dugu Yan urged Cheng Xiao to join her academy, while Ye Renxin reproached him for worrying everyone and Ye Lingling admitted she had been concerned.
• Cheng Xiao asked Dugu Bo to identify the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, and Dugu Bo pointed out the correct herb.
• As the group left the valley, Cheng Xiao suspected his Dragon Emperor Martial Soul had awakened the Dragon Kings’ remnants and considered using them to forge a dragon body or taking their origins.

Xue Qinghe arranged to favor Cheng Xiao’s family while secretly heading to Sunset Forest, and Cheng Xiao proposed that evolving martial souls and soul beasts could provide Ye Lingling with powerful future healing soul rings. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo realizing Cheng Xiao had correctly guessed that his martial soul’s evolution had let him break through to Titled Douluo.

• Xue Qinghe ordered the Cheng Family to supply whale oil exclusively to the imperial family and sent them money as a reward.
• Xue Qinghe began preparations for closed-door cultivation, transformed into a woman, and left with two subordinates to visit Cheng Xiao in Sunset Forest.
• Cheng Xiao and the others left Dugu Bo’s residence to seek a soul ring for Ye Lingling, and Cheng Xiao suggested that a Blue Silver King could be a future option for her.
• Cheng Xiao explained that soul beasts and martial souls could evolve in rank and quality, citing the Blue Silver King and the Nine Treasure Glazed Pagoda.
• Cheng Xiao guessed that Dugu Bo had broken through to Titled Douluo after his martial soul evolved into the Jade Scaled Snake Emperor, and Dugu Bo was shocked that he was right.

Cheng Xiao explained how Martial Souls could evolve and how evolution might let soul masters reach higher cultivation realms, giving Dugu Yan hope after revealing the Jade Phosphorous Serpent’s flaw. The chapter left Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling with advice to choose their soul rings carefully while Cheng Xiao investigated ways to help them evolve.

• Dugu Bo recalled that his Jade Phosphorous Serpent had evolved into the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor after he obtained a Medusa skull bone, allowing him to break through to level ninety.
• Dugu Yan collapsed after Cheng Xiao’s revelation, and Ye Lingling caught and comforted her.
• Ye Renxin asked whether Martial Soul evolution could let soul masters reach higher realms, and Cheng Xiao explained Peak and Ultimate Martial Souls.
• Dugu Bo asked how to improve Martial Soul quality, and Cheng Xiao described soul rings, soul bones, and rare spiritual treasures as possible methods.
• Cheng Xiao reassured Dugu Yan that he had ideas to explore and urged her and Ye Lingling to choose their soul rings cautiously.

Cheng Xiao explained why Dugu Yan should not evolve until she resolved the poison in her body, then persuaded Ye Renxin to help refine his theories. Two unknown Titled Douluos appeared and tried to lure Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin away, leaving Cheng Xiao and the other juniors in danger as the elders weighed what to do.

• Cheng Xiao warned that Dugu Yan's poison would grow more dangerous if she evolved before treating it, and Ye Renxin praised the logic behind Cheng Xiao's theories.
• Ye Renxin realized Cheng Xiao had deliberately befriended him to gain his support, while Dugu Bo complained that Cheng Xiao had chosen Ye Renxin over him as a master.
• Ye Renxin agreed to help refine Cheng Xiao's theories, and Cheng Xiao considered seeking detailed records from Qian Renxue or Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• A powerful Soul Power pressure came from the forest, and an unknown Titled Douluo challenged Dugu Bo to a poison contest.
• A second unknown Titled Douluo urged them to fight, and Ye Renxin warned that the pair were trying to lure them away from the juniors.
• Cheng Xiao told Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin to go without worrying about the juniors, and said they would alert the elders if anything happened.

Cheng Xiao and the girls stayed inside Dugu Bo’s poison barrier while Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin fought two mysterious Titled Douluo. When a deadly Soul Beast attacked, Qian Renxue appeared to save them, and Cheng Xiao realized she had orchestrated the encounter.

• Dugu Bo enclosed Cheng Xiao, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan in a poison barrier before he and Ye Renxin left to confront the two Titled Douluo.
• A wounded Ten-Thousand-Year Two-headed Demonic Wolf charged through the poison barrier and attacked the three juniors.
• Cheng Xiao noticed someone lurking outside the barrier and stopped himself from summoning the Shadow Soul Beast, raising Ye Renxin’s signal device instead.
• Qian Renxue appeared with six angel wings, and Cheng Xiao recognized her and suspected she had arranged the attack as a chance to meet him.
• Qian Renxue killed the Two-headed Demonic Wolf with her Divine Fire sword and offered a hand to the fallen Ye Lingling.

Qian Renxue approached Cheng Xiao and the two girls after saving them, then offered him access to Spirit Hall records when she learned about his martial soul theories. When their hands touched, their martial souls resonated, startling both of them and leaving Qian Renxue determined to avoid further contact or a fusion skill.

• Qian Renxue met Cheng Xiao, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling in Sunset Forest, and Dugu Yan persuaded her to stay with them.
• Qian Renxue befriended Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, who told her about Cheng Xiao’s strength and theoretical knowledge.
• Cheng Xiao described his theories on martial soul evolution and ultimate martial souls, prompting Qian Renxue to offer him access to Spirit Hall’s records through a token.
• When Cheng Xiao and Qian Renxue touched hands as he accepted the token, their martial souls resonated, and Qian Renxue fled in alarm.
• Cheng Xiao realized the Shadow Monarch had resonated with Qian Renxue’s Six-winged Angel, while Qian Renxue decided to avoid him and never use a martial soul fusion skill with him.

Platinum Bishop Salas learned that Spirit City was demanding progress on the case involving Cheng Xiao and decided to arrest him himself. Meanwhile, Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin returned to find the three youngsters safe and realized a woman had deliberately lured them away, leaving them alarmed about what she had done.

• Salas hid a woman beneath his desk when Gu Mo arrived with news that nobles were demanding answers over seven soul masters’ deaths.
• Gu Mo informed Salas that Bishop Harris had asked for help investigating the same case and that Spirit City had sent an inquiry because Salas had made no progress.
• Salas discovered both reports concerned Cheng Xiao, ordered his arrest, and killed the woman before leaving to pursue him.
• Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin returned after their opponents withdrew and learned from Dugu Yan that a woman had entered the poisonous mist while they were away.
• Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin realized the woman had arranged the diversion to lure them away and sternly asked the three youngsters what she had done.

Cheng Xiao concealed the token from Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin, then explained Qian Renxue’s approach as a Martial Soul resonance. After Ye Lingling obtained her third soul ring, Cheng Xiao returned to Moonlight Pavilion, where a Platinum Bishop confronted him and declared that he had been exposed.

• Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan recounted their encounter with the mysterious woman while keeping the token secret as Cheng Xiao had instructed them.
• Cheng Xiao told Ye Renxin and Dugu Bo that the woman had approached him because their Martial Souls resonated, and Ye Renxin warned him to stay alert.
• Dugu Bo helped the group obtain an eleven-hundred-year-old Hundred-Life Flower Vine soul ring for Ye Lingling.
• The group returned to Dugu Bo's residence, then Cheng Xiao went to Moonlight Pavilion while Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan headed to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• A Platinum Bishop and a group of Spirit Hall soul masters confronted Cheng Xiao outside Moonlight Pavilion and ordered him to come with them.

Salas tried to arrest Cheng Xiao, but Xue Qinghe and then Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin intervened, forcing Salas to flee. After the confrontation, Xue Qinghe ordered Snake Lance Douluo and Stingray Douluo to ask his grandfather to have Salas transferred.

• Salas surrounded Moonlight Pavilion and ordered his men to seize Cheng Xiao over reports that he had killed Soul Masters and might be a Fallen One.
• Xue Qinghe arrived and tried to stop Salas, but Salas rejected his intervention and drove back the Crown Prince's guards with his Soul Power.
• As Spirit Hall's Soul Masters attacked, Dugu Bo's toxic mist swept them away, and Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin came to Cheng Xiao's aid.
• Cheng Xiao pretended to be an innocent child targeted by Salas, while Dugu Bo threatened Salas and drove him from the scene after a brief clash.
• Ye Renxin healed the poisoned bystanders, and Dugu Bo grabbed Cheng Xiao and took him away as Xue Qinghe withdrew.
• Back at the Crown Prince's Mansion, Xue Qinghe ordered Snake Lance Douluo and Stingray Douluo to ask his grandfather to have Salas transferred.

Cheng Xiao revealed that his Dragon Emperor Martial Soul overwhelmed his will and body, then tested how long he could endure Martial Soul Possession. Ye Renxin’s healing let him last longer, and Cheng Xiao left determined to awaken the dragon souls fully.

• Cheng Xiao admitted that he had killed the Soul Ancestors and claimed they had ambushed him, but Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin did not believe his story.
• Cheng Xiao explained that his Martial Soul possession destroyed his will and strained his body, then revealed the Dragon Emperor.
• Dugu Bo sensed the Dragon Emperor’s destructive aura and watched the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor tremble before it.
• Cheng Xiao discovered that his body could endure Martial Soul Possession longer than before and suspected the dragon souls had strengthened him.
• Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin watched Cheng Xiao transform through dragonification as he tested his limit, and Ye Renxin used the Nine Heart Begonia to ease his pain and restore his awareness.
• Cheng Xiao learned that Ye Renxin’s healing could help him endure for about a quarter of an hour and decided that would be enough.

Cheng Xiao used Dugu Bo’s favor to secure permanent cultivation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Dugu Bo regretted missing the chance to make him a disciple. In Spirit City, Bibi Dong received a message from Little Xue and questioned her motives for requesting Salas’s transfer.

• Cheng Xiao asked Dugu Bo to honor his favor by letting him cultivate permanently at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Dugu Bo reluctantly agreed.
• Ye Renxin praised Cheng Xiao for being honest, then left to study the acupoint chart Cheng Xiao had given him.
• After Ye Renxin left, Dugu Bo lamented losing the chance to take Cheng Xiao as his disciple and decided to encourage his granddaughter Yan Yan to grow closer to him.
• A golden phantom told Bibi Dong that Little Xue wanted Salas transferred from the Spirit Hall branch in Heaven Dou City.
• Bibi Dong rejected Little Xue’s authority to dictate the Pope’s Palace’s affairs and wondered whether she was eager to replace her as Pope.

Bibi Dong transferred Salas away after Qian Renxue warned that his interference in Heaven Dou City was provoking her. Meanwhile, rumors cast Cheng Xiao as Spirit Hall’s hidden Saint Son, and his visit to consult Spirit Hall’s records only strengthened the suspicion.

• Bibi Dong recalled Salas to Spirit City and appointed Harris as the new Platinum Bishop in Heaven Dou City.
• Xue Ke told Cheng Xiao that people believed he was Spirit Hall’s Saint Son, but Cheng Xiao denied it and went to borrow books.
• Cheng Xiao showed Gu Mo the token Qian Renxue had given him, and Gu Mo recognized it and escorted him into Spirit Hall’s records.
• Spirit Hall’s soul masters saw Gu Mo treat Cheng Xiao respectfully and became convinced that the Saint Son rumor was true.

Cheng Xiao completed a theory on Martial Soul evolution with Ye Renxin and Ren Xue, and the work was published in the Spirit Hall Theory Journal. Yu Xiaogang read it, rejected its claims, and began writing a rebuttal while pushing Tang San to train harder.

• Cheng Xiao gave Ye Renxin the completed manuscript, and Ye Renxin agreed to lend his name to it alongside Cheng Xiao and Ren Xue.
• Cheng Xiao and Ye Renxin sent copies of their theory to Heaven Dou City, Spirit City, and the Star Luo Empire.
• Yu Xiaogang watched Tang San train at Rank 29 and believed he would soon break through to Rank 30 under harsher training.
• Yu Xiaogang read the new theory in the Spirit Hall Theory Journal and grew furious at its claims about Martial Soul evolution and aberration.
• Yu Xiaogang saw Ye Renxin and Cheng Xiao listed as authors, decided Cheng Xiao had deceived Ye Renxin, and started drafting a rebuttal.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Tang San to add ten kilograms and run five kilometers, then resumed writing his plan to expose Cheng Xiao.

Cheng Xiao acquired a living-storage Soul Tool at the Heaven Dou Auction House and received a mysterious nine-ring artifact from Qian Renxue, who had outbid Ning Rongrong for it. Ning Rongrong tried to buy it from Cheng Xiao afterward, but Xue Qinghe arrived and apologized for her behavior.

• Xue Qinghe endorsed Cheng Xiao's theory, drawing attention to it, while Ning Fengzhi discussed its implications for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and learned Ning Rongrong had gone missing again.
• Cheng Xiao attended the Heaven Dou Auction House with Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan, where he bought a Soul Tool that could store living creatures and keep plants fresh.
• Cheng Xiao recognized something unusual about a nine-ring artifact from a Sea Soul Beast, and Ye Lingling competed with Ning Rongrong to buy it before Cheng Xiao stopped her.
• Qian Renxue outbid Ning Rongrong at five hundred ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, then arranged for the artifact to be delivered to Cheng Xiao.
• Ning Rongrong confronted Cheng Xiao and demanded to buy the artifact, but he refused and criticized her for acting entitled.
• Xue Qinghe arrived, rejected Ning Rongrong's account, and apologized to Cheng Xiao and the others for her behavior.