Chapter Summaries

Xue Qinghe ordered Porcupinefish Douluo to secretly monitor Mo Li after her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul reacted to him, suspecting he might threaten her disguise and plan. Mo Li kept his abilities hidden under the Titled Douluo’s surveillance until the watcher’s visits dwindled, as the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Tournament began in Heaven Dou City.

• Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo reported that they had found little about Mo Li beyond his brief stay at an orphanage and Liu Erlong taking him to Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Xue Qinghe revealed that her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul had stirred when she encountered Mo Li and ordered Porcupinefish Douluo to watch him rather than risk an assassination.
• Mo Li sensed a powerful presence near his residence, avoided sparring with Liu Erlong, and kept his Soul Rings and abilities concealed.
• Ye Lingling continued visiting Mo Li while Dugu Yan visited less often and focused on training to reach level thirty.
• Mo Li noticed that the Titled Douluo watched him less frequently, while the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Tournament began in Heaven Dou City.

Mo Li learned that Yu Tianheng had brought Heaven Dou Royal Academy students to Blue Tyrant Academy to challenge them while Liu Erlong was away. After Heaven Dou Royal Academy won the second round, Yu Tianheng prepared to continue the confrontation.

• Mo Li sensed no sign of the hidden Titled Douluo and noted that his Soul Power had risen to level twenty-four while he stayed at Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Jiang Zhu told Mo Li that Yu Tianheng had brought a group to the academy, and Mo Li hurried with her to the training grounds.
• A Heaven Dou Royal Academy student defeated a Blue Tyrant Academy student, and Yin Shu conceded the round to prevent further injuries.
• Yu Tianheng searched the crowd for Mo Li, then prompted a burly student to take the next round.
• Qin Yan questioned Yu Tianheng's motives, and Yu Tianheng defended the challenge by repeating the lesson that those who did not dare cause trouble were useless.

Yu Tianheng and Qin Ming discussed the grudge behind Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s exchange match against Blue Tyrant Academy, while Blue Tyrant’s teachers struggled against their opponents’ underhanded tactics. Dong Yan stepped forward to face Fang Yue, and the two prepared to fight.

• Yu Tianheng told Qin Ming that Blue Tyrant Academy’s dean was related to his clan and said he wanted revenge on Mo Li and the academy for past insults.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy used its eliminated second team in the exchange match, and its stronger fighters defeated Blue Tyrant Academy’s first two competitors.
• Yin Shu and the other teachers considered conceding rather than risking further injuries to their students.
• Dong Yan volunteered despite being twenty-nine, and Yin Shu allowed him to compete.
• Dong Yan and Fang Yue revealed their Martial Souls and Soul Rings as they prepared to battle.

After Dong Yan and Fang Yue fought to a draw, Blue Tyrant Academy’s students erupted with outrage and renewed fighting spirit. Yu Tianheng challenged Mo Li to come forward, and Mo Li answered with a mocking remark as the confrontation escalated.

• Dong Yan refused to surrender, and he and Fang Yue were both badly injured in their final collision, leaving the match a draw.
• Blue Tyrant Academy’s students cheered Dong Yan and grew furious at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Yu Tianheng seethed over the unexpected outcome.
• Yu Tianheng volunteered for the next match and announced his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and thirty-third-level Soul Power.
• When Blue Tyrant Academy’s students asked to fight, Yu Tianheng demanded that Mo Li face him instead.
• Mo Li joined Yin Shu after learning about the earlier matches and realizing Yu Tianheng had deliberately called him out.
• Mo Li mocked Yu Tianheng for becoming even more shameless, and Yu Tianheng’s fury intensified.

Mo Li ignored warnings from the teachers and faced Heaven Dou Royal Academy after Yu Tianheng challenged him. He chose the team’s first fighter as his opponent and quickly defeated the Azure Sparrow Soul Elder, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Mo Li told the teachers he would settle his grudge with Yu Tianheng and stepped onto the stage despite Yin Shu’s warnings.
• Jiang Zhu reassured Yin Shu that Mo Li had asked them not to worry, while both academies watched the confrontation.
• Mo Li asked Yu Tianheng to save their match for last, then chose the opponent who had fought first.
• The Azure Sparrow Soul Elder attacked Mo Li from the air, but Mo Li released a black light and subdued him.
• When the light faded, Mo Li stood holding the unconscious Soul Elder by the throat.

Mo Li revealed his strength to defeat Wang Qing and protect Blue Tyrant Academy’s reputation, then challenged Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second fighter. He began battling Li Xuan, whose Silver Spear he narrowly failed to seize.

• Mo Li defeated Wang Qing, a Soul Elder, and the spectators were shocked by his Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Mo Li decided that revealing his talent would protect him from Qian Renxue while preventing Blue Tyrant Academy from being humiliated.
• Yu Tianheng dismissed Mo Li’s victory as a trick, but Li Xuan was ordered to enter the arena for the second round.
• Mo Li identified himself as a level-twenty-four Soul Grandmaster, alarming Li Xuan, who was a level-thirty-four Battle Soul Elder.
• Li Xuan attacked with his Silver Spear’s first Soul Skill, and Mo Li dodged the thrust and reached for the shaft before Li Xuan pulled it away.

Mo Li defeated Li Xuan by overpowering his spear and severing his connection to his Martial Soul, then challenged Yu Tianheng. Their fight began after Yu Tianheng insulted Blue Tyrant Academy and its head, Liu Erlong.

• Mo Li met Li Xuan's spear attacks with his fists and forced Li Xuan to unleash his second and third Soul Skills.
• Mo Li smashed Li Xuan's spear images, seized his spear, and engulfed it in black flames, severing Li Xuan's connection to his Martial Soul.
• Mo Li knocked Li Xuan out of the fight and rebuked the teacher surnamed Li for criticizing his roughness.
• Mo Li challenged Yu Tianheng, who insulted Blue Tyrant Academy and dismissed Liu Erlong as an illegitimate daughter.
• Mo Li and Yu Tianheng entered Martial Soul Possession, and their black flames and lightning collided in the arena.

Mo Li faced Yu Tianheng and revealed his second Soul Skill, Soul Burn, to counter Yu Tianheng’s lightning attacks. He used a ghostly movement technique to strike Yu Tianheng from behind, leaving the battle unresolved as Yu Tianheng flew forward.

• Mo Li and Yu Tianheng exchanged blows, and Yu Tianheng realized Mo Li matched his physical strength.
• Yu Tianheng activated Dragon Transformation and charged at Mo Li with his Thunder Fury and Thunderbolt Soul Skills.
• Mo Li used Soul Burn to repel Yu Tianheng’s lightning attacks and burn his shoulder.
• Yu Tianheng trapped Mo Li in his Thunder Force Field and swung his dragon arm at him, but Mo Li appeared behind him.
• Mo Li struck Yu Tianheng in the back, sending him flying forward.

Mo Li defeated Yu Tianheng and drove the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team away after they challenged Blue Tyrant Academy. Meanwhile, Dugu Yan broke through to level thirty and reunited with her grandfather, Dugu Bo.

• Mo Li used his speed to repeatedly kick the unconscious Yu Tianheng, condemning his conduct and defending Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Yin Shu and the other teachers shielded Mo Li as Qin Ming and the teacher surnamed Li threatened the academy.
• Mo Li sent Yu Tianheng back to Qin Ming and taunted the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team before they left in defeat.
• Qin Ming carried the injured Yu Tianheng toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan while the teacher surnamed Li took the rest of the team back.
• Dugu Yan broke through to level thirty while cultivating among poisonous plants in a mimetic cultivation room.
• Dugu Bo returned, praised Dugu Yan's progress, and embraced her as she told him she had missed him.

Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo about the Jade Phosphor Snake Spirit’s poison backlash and Mo Li’s possible insight into it. Dugu Bo agreed to meet Mo Li at Blue Tyrant Academy without harming him, while Dugu Yan returned to the academy and waited anxiously.

• Dugu Bo congratulated Dugu Yan on reaching the level-thirty bottleneck and prepared to take her to Sunset Forest for her Third Soul Ring.
• Dugu Yan asked about the Jade Phosphor Snake Spirit, and Dugu Bo revealed that its poison had killed generations of their family and was already affecting her.
• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo that Mo Li might know a way to overcome the poison backlash and recounted how she had met him.
• Dugu Bo decided to visit Mo Li at Blue Tyrant Academy, and Dugu Yan made him promise not to harm Mo Li or anyone else.
• Dugu Yan failed to convince Dugu Bo to let her accompany him and returned to the academy as Dugu Bo departed alone.

After defeating Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team, Mo Li met with Dugu Bo, who demanded to know how Mo Li could cure the poison backlash afflicting him and Dugu Yan. Mo Li held back the details and ended by promising that he could reliably cure the Jade Phosphor Snake poison.

• Mo Li fended off the academy teachers’ questions about his strength by crediting Sister Erlong, then headed back through the forest.
• Mo Li found Dugu Bo waiting at a stone table and cautiously approached him.
• Dugu Bo demanded to know where Mo Li learned about the poison backlash and how to resolve it, while threatening him when Mo Li refused to answer freely.
• Mo Li reasoned that Dugu Bo had already chosen to hear him out and used the poison cure as leverage.
• Dugu Bo pressed Mo Li to explain how to stop the poison backlash in his and Dugu Yan’s bodies, and Mo Li declared that he could reliably cure it.

Mo Li persuaded Dugu Bo that he could help control the poison affecting him and Dugu Yan by finding medicinal herbs near the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. Dugu Bo believed him and carried him toward the site, while Qian Renxue learned of Mo Li’s strength and wondered why Dugu Bo had sought him out.

• Dugu Bo questioned Mo Li about his relationship with Dugu Yan, then listened as Mo Li explained the Jade Phosphor Snake Spirit’s poison and described the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Mo Li said medicinal herbs near the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well could detoxify Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo offered him a reward if he succeeded.
• Dugu Bo recognized Mo Li’s description of the place where he cultivated and carried him away toward Sunset Forest.
• Qian Renxue heard that Mo Li had defeated Yu Tianheng and other fighters, and she suspected his mysterious bird Martial Soul was divine-level.
• Qian Renxue wondered why Dugu Bo had gone to see Mo Li, while Dugu Bo flew Mo Li over Sunset Forest without telling him their destination.

Mo Li reached the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with Dugu Bo and spent two days identifying its Immortal Herbs. When Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan arrived, Mo Li greeted them with one piece of good news and one piece of neither-good-nor-bad news.

• Dugu Bo brought Mo Li to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and told him to find herbs that could cure their toxin backlash.
• Mo Li urged Dugu Bo to delay Dugu Yan's Third Soul Ring, promising he could also greatly improve her strength, and Dugu Bo agreed to return with her in two days.
• Mo Li identified and recorded the Immortal Herbs around the well, including the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, which he planned to absorb.
• Mo Li found the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, which he planned to give Dugu Bo in exchange for curing the toxin backlash.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan arrived, and Mo Li said he had one piece of good news and one piece of neither-good-nor-bad news.

Mo Li offered Dugu Yan the Earth Dragon Golden Melon to cure the Jade Phosphor Snake poison, then revealed a second method that could also free Dugu Bo from its backlash. After Mo Li negotiated permission to harvest herbs, Dugu Yan prepared to absorb the plant while Dugu Bo chose to pursue the second method.

• Mo Li retrieved the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, and Dugu Yan begged Dugu Bo to take it so he would no longer suffer from the poison’s backlash.
• Mo Li revealed that he had another method, and explained that Dugu Bo could slowly force the poison into a Spirit Bone to contain it.
• Mo Li asked for medicinal herbs as a reward, and Dugu Bo agreed to let him choose fifteen plants from the garden.
• Mo Li told Dugu Bo to protect Dugu Yan while she absorbed the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, then went to gather herbs.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan he would pursue Mo Li’s Spirit Bone method and urged her to absorb the herb.

Mo Li watched Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphor Snake evolve into the Golden Scale Flood Dragon and promised to help Dugu Bo cure his poison. After arranging further treatment and passing Dugu Yan herbs and instructions for Ye Lingling, Mo Li prepared to take two Immortal Herbs and cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

• Mo Li returned from gathering Immortal Herbs and watched as the Earth Dragon Golden Melon transformed Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul and purged her poison.
• Dugu Bo confirmed that Dugu Yan’s poison was gone, and Mo Li identified her evolved Martial Soul as the Golden Scale Flood Dragon.
• Dugu Bo offered Mo Li three favors in return for treating his poison, and Mo Li advised him to find Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber to raise Dugu Yan’s next Soul Ring absorption limit.
• Mo Li arranged to cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and gave Dugu Yan two Immortal Herbs and usage instructions for Ye Lingling.
• Dugu Bo left with Dugu Yan, while Mo Li prepared to take the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.

Mo Li took the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then tempered his body in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well for half a month. He emerged with an Ice and Fire Golden Body, an evolved Peering at Heaven and Earth, and a new understanding that brought the second stage of the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Art within reach.

• Mo Li took the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot together and plunged into the boundary between the Ice and Fire Pool waters.
• Mo Li endured half a month of cultivation and body tempering in the pool while studying the second stage of the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Art.
• Mo Li emerged with a body resistant to ice, fire, and poison, strong enough to absorb a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Mo Li took Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, which enhanced his spiritual power and evolved Peering at Heaven and Earth.
• Mo Li realized that transforming extreme yin and yang with the pool water could soon let him break through to the second stage of the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Art.

Mo Li began treating Dugu Bo’s poison, easing most of his symptoms but warning that the cure was not complete. Dugu Bo offered to take Mo Li as his disciple, but Mo Li refused, and Dugu Bo left with plans to return in a week.

• Mo Li used the Dragon Ganoderma Leaf and spent half a day channeling Soul Power through Dugu Bo to suppress his accumulated poison.
• Dugu Bo said the discomfort had eased by seven or eight tenths, and he helped Mo Li recover after the treatment left him drained.
• Dugu Bo praised Mo Li’s hidden abilities and revealed that Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had both benefited from the herbs and advanced in Soul Power.
• Dugu Bo learned Mo Li was not from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and asked him to become his disciple, but Mo Li declined.
• Mo Li said he would stay for another week, and Dugu Bo agreed to return then.

Mo Li continued cultivating the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Art beneath the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, while Liu Erlong returned to Blue Tyrant Academy with the team after their top-eight tournament finish. Liu Erlong learned that Mo Li had been taken away by Poison Douluo half a month earlier and reacted in alarm.

• Mo Li descended deeper into the pool, stopped where the pressure grew too strong, and entered cultivation; three days later, a rune-covered black cocoon surrounded him.
• Liu Erlong led the Blue Tyrant Academy Team back to a jubilant welcome after the team placed in the tournament's top eight.
• Liu Erlong praised the students for earning the result and told captain Chen Yi to make sure the team rested.
• Yin Shu told Liu Erlong that Mo Li had defeated Yu Tianheng and two other Soul Elders when Heaven Dou Royal Academy's second team came to bully them.
• Liu Erlong asked where Mo Li was, and Yin Shu revealed that Poison Douluo had taken him away half a month earlier.

Liu Erlong learned that Mo Li had gone with Dugu Bo to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and rushed to find him. After hearing from Dugu Yan and Ye Lingleng about Mo Li’s work curing Dugu Bo’s poison and repairing their Martial Souls, she traveled with them into Sunset Forest, still fearing for Mo Li’s safety.

• Liu Erlong left the Blue Tyrant Academy after Yin Shu told her that Dugu Bo had taken Mo Li.
• Liu Erlong confronted the Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s leaders during their ceremony and asked Dugu Yan where Mo Li was.
• Dugu Yan told Liu Erlong that Mo Li was with Dugu Bo, and Ye Lingleng thanked Mo Li for curing the flaws in her and her mother’s Martial Souls.
• Dugu Yan agreed to guide Liu Erlong to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and Ye Lingleng went with them.
• Liu Erlong, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingleng raced through Sunset Forest and reached the mountain range near the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Liu Erlong rushed to Dugu Bo’s mountain to find Mo Li and fought Dugu Bo when he refused to let her see him. The battle ended with Dugu Bo agreeing to release Mo Li after he finished helping him, and Dugu Yan arrived as the confrontation paused.

• Liu Erlong hurried to the mountain summit after Dugu Yan said Mo Li and her grandfather were inside.
• Dugu Bo confronted Liu Erlong and said Mo Li had chosen to stay and help him, but Liu Erlong refused to leave without seeing Mo Li.
• Liu Erlong transformed into her Crimson Dragon True Body and attacked Dugu Bo, who answered with his nine Soul Rings and a green beam.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling raced toward the summit after hearing the battle, fearing Liu Erlong might be hurt and Mo Li might turn against Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo and Liu Erlong fought until the summit was badly damaged; Dugu Bo then withdrew his Soul Rings and said he would let Mo Li go after he finished helping him.
• Dugu Yan reached the summit and called out to Dugu Bo and Liu Erlong.