Chapter Summaries

Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu arrived in Heaven Dou City after a three-month journey and chose to stay at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Lu Xiao hoped to meet Dugu Bo and use the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. After resting at a hotel, they prepared to leave the next morning and begin their stay in the city.

• Du Busi waited three days for Lu Xiao to stabilize after absorbing the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, then traveled south with Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu for three months.
• Lu Xiao warned Xiao Wu to take the Breath-Concealing Pill before they entered Heaven Dou City, and Du Busi slipped away without telling them where he was going.
• Lu Xiao decided that he and Xiao Wu would study at Heaven Dou Royal Academy so he could approach Dugu Bo and help Du Busi reach the ultimate realm.
• Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu checked into Cloud Peak Pavilion, where Xiao Wu sent away an attendant who offered Lu Xiao personal services.
• After dining and resting overnight, Lu Xiao knocked on Xiao Wu's door the next morning, and the two prepared to leave the hotel.

Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu reached Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Xue Beng tried to drive them away, prompting them to defeat him and his nine followers. Lu Xiao revealed that his master was Du Busi before continuing up the mountain, leaving Xue Beng humiliated and brooding.

• Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu climbed toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Lu Xiao reflected on his slower cultivation and the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Xue Beng stopped them and demanded they leave, identifying himself as the fourth prince and insulting them as country bumpkins.
• Lu Xiao seized Xue Beng and beat him while Xiao Wu defeated the nine students who attacked them.
• Lu Xiao told Xue Beng that his master was rank ninety-eight Super Douluo Du Busi, then walked up the mountain.
• Xue Beng watched Lu Xiao leave and angrily dismissed his followers when they asked what to do.

Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where their Soul Power Levels stunned the Education Committee. Lu Xiao agreed to lead the academy’s team in the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, provided the Body Sect owed the empire nothing after winning.

• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin welcomed Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu and showed them around Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Lu Xiao tested at level thirty-six and Xiao Wu at level twenty-five, earning both Heaven Dou Level Student status; the academy left their specialized training to Du Busi.
• Meng Shenji invited Lu Xiao to captain Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s team in the next tournament, with Du Busi overseeing it and the empire covering their cultivation resources.
• Lu Xiao accepted on the condition that the Body Sect would owe Heaven Dou Empire nothing after winning the championship.
• Meng Shenji led Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu to a luxurious private courtyard, and Lu Xiao explained that its comforts were provided because of Du Busi.

Yu Tianheng and the Shi brothers confronted Lu Xiao over his appointment as captain of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team and challenged him. Lu Xiao accepted their challenge together and revealed a shocking Soul Ring configuration, leaving everyone stunned.

• Yu Tianheng learned that Lu Xiao had been appointed captain and set out with the Shi brothers to confront him; Dugu Yan was away visiting Poison Douluo.
• Yu Tianheng and the Shi brothers arrived at Lu Xiao's courtyard before a crowd of curious students and declared that they refused to accept his appointment.
• Lu Xiao held Xiao Wu back and invited all three challengers to attack him together.
• Lu Xiao revealed two thousand-year Soul Rings and one ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, stunning Yu Tianheng, the Shi brothers, and the watching students.
• Lu Xiao proposed that if the three defeated him, they could decide who became captain, but if they lost, they would obey his commands unconditionally.

Lu Xiao defeated Yu Tianheng and the Shi Mo brothers in a three-on-one fight, overwhelming their attacks with his power and Golden Dragon Shakes the Earth. Yu Tianheng accepted the loss and vowed to challenge Lu Xiao again, then collapsed as he left the courtyard.

• Yu Tianheng, Shi Mo, Shi Mo, and Lu Xiao introduced themselves and began their fight, but Lu Xiao broke Yu Tianheng’s Thunder Dragon Claw and punched through the brothers’ Black Tortoise defense.
• Lu Xiao used the Wind of Annihilation to erase Yu Tianheng’s Thunderous Myriad Claws before Yu Tianheng and the Shi Mo brothers tried to surround him.
• Lu Xiao stomped the ground with Golden Dragon Shakes the Earth, forcing the Shi Mo brothers back and suppressing Yu Tianheng’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul until it was released.
• Yu Tianheng and the Shi Mo brothers admitted defeat, and Yu Tianheng promised to fight Lu Xiao again someday.
• Yu Tianheng collapsed unconscious after leaving the courtyard, and the Shi Mo brothers carried him to find Ye Lingling.

Dugu Yan visited Lu Xiao to challenge him for the future captaincy of Heaven Dou Royal Academy's team, but his unusual fragrance disrupted her composure and eased her poison backlash. Their match began with Dugu Yan attacking Lu Xiao with her Jade Phosphorous Serpent abilities, and the chapter left their fight unresolved.

• Xiao Wu secretly slipped into Lu Xiao's bed during the night and slept beside him.
• Dugu Yan arrived in the courtyard to see the person who had beaten Yu Tianheng unconscious, then became flustered as Lu Xiao's fragrance affected her.
• Dugu Yan challenged Lu Xiao to decide who should be the future captain of Heaven Dou Royal Academy's team, and Lu Xiao accepted.
• Lu Xiao revealed his three Soul Rings, while Dugu Yan transformed into her Jade Phosphorous Serpent form and activated her red and blue poisons.
• Dugu Yan lunged at Lu Xiao and covered him with paralytic blue poison, but his Bronze Treasure Light blocked it from touching his skin.

Lu Xiao defeated Dugu Yan by suppressing her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul with his dragon bloodline, then learned from Du Busi that her martial soul’s poison could threaten her cultivation. Lu Xiao revealed that Dugu Bo possessed a treasure-filled blessed place, and Du Busi agreed to lead Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s team in the next Soul Master Tournament.

• Dugu Yan’s attacks and poison failed against Lu Xiao, whose Golden Dragon Ascending to Heaven suppressed her martial soul and left her unable to move.
• Lu Xiao accidentally slapped Dugu Yan while trying to steady her, and she fled the courtyard in embarrassment.
• Du Busi explained that the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul poisoned its inheritor during cultivation and said a soul bone could not safely contain the poison, though a highly compatible External Soul Bone might work.
• Lu Xiao told Du Busi that Dugu Bo possessed a blessed place with heavenly treasures that could help him reach Limit Douluo.
• Lu Xiao said Heaven Dou Royal Academy wanted Du Busi to lead its team in the next Soul Master Tournament, and Du Busi agreed so he could seek treasures to temper Lu Xiao’s bones.

Du Busi and Lu Xiao visited the Ye Family Medical Clinic to trade for two rare medicines, where they encountered Dugu Bo. Ye Hesong agreed to consider the exchange but proposed that his granddaughter be betrothed to Lu Xiao.

• Du Busi learned that the Ye Family Medical Clinic possessed Thousand-Year Dragon Marrow Gel and Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Ginseng, then took Lu Xiao to seek a trade.
• Du Busi and Lu Xiao entered the clinic, and Ye Hesong dismissed his patients before asking why they had come.
• Lu Xiao offered a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, and Ye Hesong led the pair to the rear courtyard, where Dugu Bo was waiting.
• Du Busi revealed his identity and nine Soul Rings, shocking Dugu Bo, who recognized Du Busi's superior strength and poison.
• Du Busi offered a sixty-thousand-year Soul Bone for the two medicines, but Ye Hesong proposed a childhood betrothal between his granddaughter and Lu Xiao instead.

Ye Hesong arranged an engagement between Lu Xiao and Ye Lingling to protect his granddaughter and help Lu Xiao with a dangerous cultivation stage. After Ye Lingling discovered that Dugu Yan’s venom backlash had unexpectedly eased, she took Dugu Yan to find Lu Xiao and learn why.

• Ye Hesong asked Du Busi to protect Ye Lingling and let her decide for herself whether to marry Lu Xiao, and Du Busi agreed on Lu Xiao’s behalf.
• Ye Hesong and Du Busi signed a marriage contract that could be voided if either young person refused, then exchanged two heavenly treasures and a sixty-thousand-year Soul Bone as proof.
• Dugu Yan vented her anger over Lu Xiao’s intimate touch while Ye Lingling comforted her and used the Nine-Hearted Begonia to heal her venom backlash.
• Ye Lingling discovered that Dugu Yan’s toxic filth had thinned by more than half, and Dugu Yan suspected Lu Xiao was responsible.
• Ye Lingling firmly dragged a reluctant Dugu Yan to Lu Xiao’s courtyard to ask him about the change.

Ye Lingling visited Lu Xiao while he underwent a painful medicinal treatment that tempered his torso bones. Afterward, Lu Xiao tried to dismiss an engagement contract, only for Ye Lingling to learn that he was her fiancé.

• Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan arrived at Lu Xiao's courtyard and greeted Du Busi as he prepared a medicinal bath for Lu Xiao.
• Du Busi gave Ye Lingling a prescription after recognizing her name and learning her family had Thousand-Year Dragon Marrow Gel.
• Lu Xiao endured the medicinal power and completely tempered the twelve main bones in his chest, while Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling watched.
• Dugu Yan encouraged Ye Lingling to speak with Lu Xiao, and he led her into his room to discuss what he assumed was the engagement contract.
• Lu Xiao told Ye Lingling she did not need to take the engagement contract seriously, but she was confused until he showed it to her.
• Ye Lingling recognized the signature and Nine-Hearted Begonia aura on the contract and realized Lu Xiao was her fiancé.

Ye Lingling learned that she and Lu Xiao were bound by a marriage contract, then asked him about curing Dugu Yan’s toxin backlash. After Lu Xiao promised to take Xiao Wu around Heaven Dou City, Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan spent the night awake, each troubled by thoughts of him.

• Ye Lingling discovered her marriage contract with Lu Xiao and, after stumbling into his arms, said she needed time to consider the matter.
• Lu Xiao told Ye Lingling he could resolve Dugu Yan’s toxin backlash with rare heavenly treasures, and suggested that Poison Douluo might possess them.
• Ye Lingling relayed Lu Xiao’s offer to Dugu Yan, and the two women left together.
• Xiao Wu confronted Lu Xiao about Ye Lingling, but he tickled her until she surrendered and invited her to explore Heaven Dou City the next day.
• Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu went to sleep together, while Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan lay awake thinking about him and his promise to cure Dugu Yan.

Xiao Wu and Lu Xiao went shopping in the imperial city, where Lu Xiao knocked Tai Long flying after he tried to intimidate them. Tai Long returned with his father, Tai Nuo, and the two pursued Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu.

• Xiao Wu and Lu Xiao visited a hairpin shop, where Tai Long approached Xiao Wu and ordered Lu Xiao to leave.
• Tai Long tried to shove Lu Xiao aside, so Lu Xiao punched him and sent him crashing through fruit stalls.
• Lu Xiao bought Xiao Wu a butterfly hair clip, and they continued shopping while Tai Long vowed to fetch his father.
• Tai Long returned to the shop with Tai Nuo, who questioned the owner and learned which way Lu Xiao had gone.
• Tai Nuo and Tai Long hurried after Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu, while the shop owner mocked their muscles.

Tai Nuo confronted Lu Xiao over Tai Long’s injuries, but Lu Xiao defeated him with a single punch after unleashing his Titan Snow Demon power. Tai Nuo was left badly injured and threatened to call his own father.

• Tai Long brought his father, Tai Nuo, to confront Lu Xiao, who admitted injuring Tai Long for harassing Xiao Wu.
• Tai Nuo attacked Lu Xiao, but Lu Xiao broke his arm in a direct punch.
• Tai Nuo released his Strength Ape martial soul and boosted his strength with three soul skills, while Lu Xiao stopped Xiao Wu from joining the fight.
• Lu Xiao revealed his three soul rings and used Titan Body to merge with the Titan Snow Demon’s power.
• Tai Nuo activated his fifth soul skill and attacked, but Lu Xiao’s punch shattered his arm and ribs and sent him crashing into a wall.
• Tai Nuo told Lu Xiao he would call his own father, while Tai Long stood beside him, too frightened to speak.

Lu Xiao called Titan after defeating Tai Nuo and Tai Long, but Du Busi intervened when Titan tried to recruit him into the Strength Clan. Titan swore the clan’s loyalty to Lu Xiao, who learned that Du Busi intended to use the clan’s strength when founding the Body Sect.

• Lu Xiao told Tai Nuo to summon his father, Titan, after defeating Tai Nuo and Tai Long.
• Titan arrived, examined his injured son, and challenged Lu Xiao to withstand his pressure or join the Strength Clan.
• Du Busi appeared and beat Titan after he tried to recruit Lu Xiao, then demanded that Titan choose between the clan’s destruction and swearing loyalty to Lu Xiao.
• Titan swore allegiance to Lu Xiao on behalf of the Strength Clan, and Tai Nuo and Tai Long knelt as well.
• Lu Xiao asked Du Busi why he accepted Soul Masters with other martial souls, and Du Busi explained that the Strength Clan would provide muscle for the future Body Sect.

Lu Xiao arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Xiao Wu and Du Busi to begin training the tournament team, where Ning Rongrong reunited with Lu Xiao and enrolled as a student. Sword Douluo Chen Xin challenged Du Busi to a fight, while Ning Rongrong demonstrated her strength as a support-type Soul Master.

• Lu Xiao and Xiao Wu dressed in academy uniforms and went with Du Busi to meet the Heaven Dou team for training.
• Du Busi gave Meng Shenji a list of rare treasures to obtain and took charge of the assembled students.
• Ning Rongrong hurried to Lu Xiao, embraced him, and arrived with Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin.
• Chen Xin challenged Du Busi, and the two Title Douluo flew into the sky to fight.
• Ning Fengzhi entrusted Ning Rongrong to the academy, and she revealed her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and two soul rings.
• Meng Shenji accepted Ning Rongrong into the academy with the highest Tiandou-level student privileges.

Chen Xin fought Du Busi in a fierce duel, using his sword skills to break through Du Busi’s poison techniques. The battle ended with Chen Xin exhausted but alive, and Du Busi cleared the poison from his body while urging him to return after a breakthrough.

• Du Busi praised Chen Xin’s attack and summoned the Hell Poison Dragon Drill with his sixth soul skill.
• Chen Xin used Myriad Swords Return to the Sect to hold back the poison dragon, then unleashed his sword domain and split it apart with One Sword Shatters the Vault of Heaven.
• Du Busi launched Yellow Spring Green Star Fall, and Chen Xin transformed into his Seven Kill True Body to shatter the poison orb with his ninth soul skill.
• Chen Xin ran out of strength and thanked Du Busi for giving him the chance to test his sword dao.
• Du Busi dispelled the poison in Chen Xin’s body and told him to return for another fight after breaking through.
• Chen Xin vowed to challenge Du Busi again once his sword dao reached completion.

After Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin left Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Du Busi tested Lu Xiao against Qin Ming to demonstrate the captain’s strength. Lu Xiao overwhelmed Qin Ming with his physical power and Sky-Ripping Claw, leaving Qin Ming badly pushed back.

• Chen Xin told Ning Fengzhi that he planned to enter seclusion after sensing an opportunity to break through, and Ning Fengzhi instructed Ning Rongrong to focus on cultivation at the academy.
• Meng Shenji introduced Qin Ming to Du Busi as a candidate assistant instructor, and Du Busi explained that only seven students could compete in the tournament.
• Du Busi ordered Qin Ming to fight Lu Xiao so the students could see their captain’s abilities.
• Qin Ming opened with Blazing Wolf Claw, but Lu Xiao stopped his attack with a punch that dispersed much of Qin Ming’s flame Soul Power.
• Lu Xiao used Sky-Ripping Claw to split Qin Ming’s Blazing Roar wall of fire and drove Qin Ming back more than ten meters with the strike.

Lu Xiao defeated Qin Ming in the Soul Fighting Platform match, then Du Busi began special training by making the group withstand and advance through his Soul Power pressure. Lu Xiao endured escalating pressure until his Body Martial Soul emerged, and Du Busi prepared to test his true limit.

• Lu Xiao defeated Qin Ming, who conceded the match, and Ye Lingling healed them with her Nine-Hearted Begonia.
• Du Busi announced special training and set a challenge: the group had to touch him while he released Soul Power pressure.
• Lu Xiao, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan began the challenge, while Yu Tianheng, Yu Feng, and Osler joined them.
• Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling released their Martial Souls to withstand the pressure, while Yu Feng and Osler stopped after five steps and Yu Tianheng, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan stopped after eight.
• Du Busi increased the pressure on Lu Xiao alone, but Lu Xiao took two more steps without summoning his Martial Soul.
• As Du Busi raised the pressure again and Lu Xiao reached his limit, Lu Xiao's Body Martial Soul emerged on its own.

Lu Xiao endured Du Busi’s crushing pressure and briefly awakened Golden Dragon Dragonification before collapsing from exhaustion. As he recovered in a medicinal bath, Yu Yuanzhen learned of his abilities and ordered Liu Erlong to contact him, while Yu Luomian denied any connection to Lu Xiao.

• Lu Xiao awakened Golden Dragon Dragonification under Du Busi’s pressure and advanced to within two meters of him before collapsing.
• Du Busi vanished after ordering the students to rest for seven days, and instructors carried the exhausted students away.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong worried over Lu Xiao as he recovered in a medicinal bath; Du Busi said he would wake on the morning of the third day.
• Yu Yuanzhen read Yu Tianheng’s urgent letter and wondered whether Lu Xiao was connected to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yu Luomian denied knowing Lu Xiao, and Yu Yuanzhen ordered him to have Liu Erlong contact Lu Xiao.
• An urgent letter was sent from Sky Dragon Mountain.

Lu Xiao awakened after three days and agreed to help Dugu Bo find Immortal Herbs to resolve the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison's backlash. Dugu Bo led Lu Xiao, Du Busi, and Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well in Sunset Forest.

• Lu Xiao awakened with his Golden Dragon Bloodline fully roused, and Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong welcomed him with relief.
• Dugu Bo visited with Dugu Yan and asked Lu Xiao for help resolving the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison's backlash.
• Lu Xiao said he needed Immortal Herbs, and Dugu Bo offered access to his herb garden in exchange for Lu Xiao's help.
• Lu Xiao told Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong that he and Du Busi would be away, then set off with Du Busi, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo led the group through Sunset Forest's poisonous miasma to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.