Chapter Summaries

Tang Xiao arranged Tang Yuehua’s marriage to Luo Nan so she would have protection while the Clear Sky Sect withdrew into seclusion after Tang Hao’s actions led to their father’s death and Spirit Hall’s pursuit. On their wedding night, Luo Nan revealed that he had agreed in exchange for Tang Xiao’s promise to help him obtain a powerful eighth soul ring, leaving Tang Yuehua relieved that their marriage was a transaction.

• Tang Xiao told Tang Yuehua that the Clear Sky Sect would retreat into seclusion after Tang Hao injured Qian Xunji and their father died, and insisted she marry Luo Nan for protection.
• Tang Yuehua reluctantly agreed to marry Luo Nan, a twenty-four-year-old with a Golden Sacred Dragon martial soul and rank-seventy-nine Soul Power.
• Tang Xiao held a hurried wedding for Tang Yuehua and Luo Nan, then left to return to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Luo Nan promised Tang Xiao he would protect Tang Yuehua in Heaven Dou City, and Tang Xiao promised to help him obtain an eighth soul ring.
• Tang Yuehua removed her bridal veil and asked Luo Nan why he had agreed to marry someone with rank-nine Soul Power.
• Luo Nan explained that he wanted Tang Xiao’s help obtaining a powerful eighth soul ring, and Tang Yuehua felt relieved to learn their marriage was a straightforward transaction.

After his wedding-night encounter with Tang Yuehua, Luo Nan reflected on his past as Yu Nan, an orphan of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect who hid his second martial soul, the Dark Demon Dragon. The chapter ended with his memories of Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to use him as a test subject for his martial soul theories.

• Luo Nan and Tang Yuehua agreed to act as husband and wife in public while keeping their private lives separate, then spent their wedding night together.
• Tang Yuehua fell asleep exhausted after their encounter, and Luo Nan left her room to smoke alone in the courtyard.
• Luo Nan remembered that he had transmigrated into the world as Yu Nan, an orphan raised by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect.
• At age six, Yu Nan awakened the mocked Luo Sanpao martial soul and concealed his second martial soul, the Dark Demon Dragon.
• Yu Xiaogang approached Yu Nan, claiming they were kindred sufferers and offering to train him using his theories, but Yu Nan recognized that he wanted a test subject.

Luo Nan recalled how Yu Xiaogang’s failed attempt to use him as a test subject led to his expulsion from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and how he survived and trained until Luo Sanpao awakened as the Golden Sacred Dragon. After reaching rank seventy-nine and marrying into Tang Xiao’s family, he sensed the suppressed power of his second martial soul, the Dark Demon Dragon, stirring within him.

• Yu Nan rejected Yu Xiaogang’s proposal, and Yu Xiaogang later persuaded Yu Yuanzhen to expel him from the clan.
• At eight years old, Yu Nan was cast out of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and renamed himself Luo Nan.
• Luo Nan survived on the streets, amassed money, strengthened his body with Whale Rubber, and absorbed dragon-bloodline soul rings beyond the usual limits.
• Luo Nan absorbed a ten-thousand-year Fire-Armored Flying Dragon as his fourth soul ring, awakening Luo Sanpao into the Golden Sacred Dragon.
• Luo Nan reached rank seventy-nine by age twenty-four, and Tang Xiao arranged his marriage to his younger sister.
• Luo Nan returned from his memories and noticed the Dark Demon Dragon’s power stirring in his left palm.

Luo Nan planned to rely on Tang Xiao to help him hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for his eighth Spirit Ring, then spent the night guarding Tang Yuehua. The next morning, Tang Yuehua brought him breakfast and told him that people had begun causing trouble at Moonlight Pavilion.

• Luo Nan decided that obtaining a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and Soul Bone for his eighth Spirit Ring was his priority, and planned to earn Tang Xiao's help by protecting Tang Yuehua.
• Luo Nan returned to the bedroom, checked the courtyard for danger with his spiritual power, and slept beside Tang Yuehua.
• Tang Yuehua brought Luo Nan pastries and tea the next morning, though she was still sore from the previous night's exertions.
• Luo Nan asked whether anyone had been troubling Moonlight Pavilion, and Tang Yuehua confirmed that people had begun stirring up trouble there.

After Tang Yuehua explained that factions in Heaven Dou City were targeting Moonlight Pavilion now that the Clear Sky Sect had withdrawn, Luo Nan agreed to protect her. They arrived to find paid Soul Masters stirring up a crowd outside the pavilion and demanding Tang Yuehua come out.

• Tang Yuehua told Luo Nan that the Clear Sky Sect's retreat had left her vulnerable to factions seeking to curry favor with Spirit Hall by seizing Moonlight Pavilion and capturing her.
• Luo Nan promised to accompany Tang Yuehua and back her up against anyone who tried to target her.
• Luo Nan teased Tang Yuehua about whether she needed help walking, embarrassing her as she hurried out of the room.
• Half an hour later, Luo Nan and Tang Yuehua arrived by carriage near Moonlight Pavilion in central Heaven Dou City.
• A group of Soul Masters outside the pavilion accused it of selling faulty goods and teaching improper arts, while a growing crowd listened and repeated rumors about Tang Yuehua.

Luo Nan recognized that the trouble outside Moonlight Pavilion was a staged attempt to draw out Tang Yuehua and test whether she had powerful protection. He stepped out and unleashed his Golden Sacred Dragon might, making clear that Moonlight Pavilion was under his protection.

• Tang Yuehua tried to confront the people spreading rumors about Moonlight Pavilion, but Luo Nan stopped her and pointed out suspicious signs among the troublemakers.
• Luo Nan explained that the disturbance was bait for an ambush and a test of whether the Clear Sky Sect still protected Tang Yuehua.
• Tang Yuehua asked Luo Nan what they should do, and he left the carriage to answer the challenge with force.
• Luo Nan released his level seventy-nine Soul Power and Golden Sacred Dragon might, forcing the troublemakers to their knees.
• Luo Nan declared Moonlight Pavilion his protected territory, and the crowd recognized him as Golden Scale Blood Butcher Luo Nan.

Luo Nan killed the leader of a gang attacking Moonlight Pavilion and drove off the remaining troublemakers. He publicly claimed Tang Yuehua as his woman, causing Heaven Dou City's major powers to abandon plans to target her, while the students inside Moonlight Pavilion remained shaken.

• Luo Nan kicked the burly gang leader through a wall, killing him, and the other troublemakers fled.
• Tang Yuehua addressed the crowd and defended Moonlight Pavilion's reputation as a legitimate institution.
• Luo Nan put his arm around Tang Yuehua and declared that she was his woman and Moonlight Pavilion was his territory.
• News of Luo Nan's declaration spread across Heaven Dou City, and the major powers dropped their plans to target Tang Yuehua.
• The noble students inside Moonlight Pavilion remained frightened by the violence and Luo Nan's killing intent.

Luo Nan demanded compensation from Tang Yuehua for helping protect Moonlight Pavilion, then forced her into a humiliating encounter in her office. The chapter ended with Tang Yuehua exhausted and in tears while Luo Nan composed himself.

• Tang Yuehua reassured Moonlight Pavilion's students and instructors that the pavilion was safe, then returned to her office after a day of work.
• Luo Nan asked Tang Yuehua for tangible compensation, and she told him she was too tired and unwell for another ordeal.
• Luo Nan proposed that Tang Yuehua use her hands, lips, or feet as compensation, and she resisted his suggestions.
• Luo Nan grabbed Tang Yuehua's ankle, removed her heels, and forced her into a humiliating encounter.
• Tang Yuehua slumped on the sofa in tears after Luo Nan dirtied her face and made her wash it, while he straightened his clothes and tossed her a towel.

Tang Yuehua explained that her mutated Ruyi Ring martial soul had trapped her at level nine, and Luo Nan believed an Immortal Herb could break the shackle. He proposed a bet that he could help her absorb her first Spirit Ring within a year, and Tang Yuehua accepted.

• Tang Yuehua told Luo Nan that her Ruyi Ring had granted her the Noble Ring domain but locked her Soul Power at level nine.
• Luo Nan concluded that an Immortal Herb from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well could reshape her martial soul, but decided he needed to grow stronger before confronting Dugu Bo.
• Luo Nan assured Tang Yuehua that he could resolve her martial soul flaw, but she dismissed his claim as arrogant boasting.
• Luo Nan bet that he could help Tang Yuehua break through level nine and absorb her first Spirit Ring within a year, demanding a suggestive reward if he won.
• Tang Yuehua accepted the bet and asked what Luo Nan would demand if he lost.

Luo Nan asked Tang Yuehua to procure Whale Rubber, explaining that he planned to use it to strengthen his body before absorbing a high-year Spirit Ring. After reaching the level eighty bottleneck, he began consuming top-grade Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber for a painful final enhancement.

• Luo Nan and Tang Yuehua made a one-year wager about breaking through the level ten bottleneck.
• Luo Nan asked Tang Yuehua to buy large quantities of top-grade Whale Rubber, and she initially mistook his request for a pursuit of an aphrodisiac.
• Luo Nan explained that specially processed Whale Rubber could strengthen a Soul Master's body and help him withstand a high-year Spirit Ring.
• Half a month later, Tang Yuehua had gathered three chests of Whale Rubber, including several top-grade Ten-Thousand-Year pieces.
• Luo Nan reached the level eighty bottleneck and swallowed melted Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, enduring its violent effects on his body.

Luo Nan finished strengthening his body with premium Whale Rubber and prepared to hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Tang Xiao agreed to join him, and Luo Nan revealed their target was an Earth-Armored Giant Dragon he had found in the Star Dou Forest.

• Tang Yuehua entered the secret chamber and asked Luo Nan to teach her how he absorbed Whale Rubber, but he refused and exposed her plan to pass the method to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Luo Nan spent nearly a month absorbing all the premium Whale Rubber Tang Yuehua had gathered, greatly increasing his physical strength.
• Tang Xiao arrived at Moonlight Pavilion and expressed admiration for Luo Nan's restrained but powerful aura.
• Luo Nan told Tang Xiao he intended to obtain a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, and Tang Xiao agreed to go with him despite the danger.
• Luo Nan named the Earth-Armored Giant Dragon he had discovered in a hidden valley of the Star Dou Forest as their target.

Luo Nan and Tang Xiao entered the Star Dou Forest to hunt a newly ascended Hundred-Thousand-Year Earth-Armored Giant Dragon. Their battle began in a hidden valley, where Luo Nan’s Golden Sacred Dragon weakened the beast’s gravity field and Tang Xiao drove it back, leaving the fight underway.

• Luo Nan and Tang Xiao traveled to the hidden valley where the Earth-Armored Giant Dragon lived.
• Tang Xiao attacked the sleeping beast with his Clear Sky Hammer, but its earth-yellow barrier withstood the blow.
• The Earth-Armored Giant Dragon unleashed a gravity field and fired an earth-yellow beam at Tang Xiao.
• Luo Nan summoned his Golden Sacred Dragon and used Sacred Dragon Roar to weaken the gravity and strengthen himself and Tang Xiao.
• Tang Xiao fought the beast head-on while Luo Nan and the Golden Sacred Dragon searched for an opening, and cracks appeared in the dragon’s scales.

Luo Nan and Tang Xiao killed the Earth-Armored Giant Dragon, and Luo Nan absorbed its Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and Right Arm Bone. He reached level eighty-four, leaving with his first Spirit Bone and a major increase in power.

• Luo Nan burned the Earth-Armored Giant Dragon's wound with Sacred Dragon Golden Flame, allowing Tang Xiao to smash its skull with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Luo Nan finished the wounded beast and began absorbing its Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring despite the deadly strain.
• Luo Nan endured the Spirit Ring's energy and soul shock, absorbed it, and rose to level eighty-one.
• The Earth-Armored Giant Dragon's Hundred-Thousand-Year Right Arm Bone emerged, and Luo Nan absorbed it.
• Luo Nan's level climbed from eighty-one to eighty-four.

After gaining a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and Soul Bone, Luo Nan returned to Heaven Dou City and comforted Tang Yuehua after Tang Xiao left without seeing her. He later traveled to Sunset Forest, where he reached Dugu Bo’s poisonous barrier on the way to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

• Luo Nan’s Soul Power rose to level eighty-four, and Tang Xiao warned him to protect Tang Yuehua before returning to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Luo Nan told Tang Yuehua that her elder brother had left without visiting, and he comforted her as she mourned his departure.
• Tang Yuehua pushed Luo Nan away when he mentioned their wager and insisted she would not lose.
• Luo Nan spent half a month consolidating his strength, then left Heaven Dou City for Sunset Forest.
• Luo Nan found the mountain surrounded by poisonous miasma and recognized Dugu Bo’s Green Phosphorus Poison Array.

Luo Nan broke through the Green Phosphorus Poison Array and entered the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where he harvested immortal herbs and consumed an Earth Dragon Golden Melon. After his power surged to rank eighty-six, Dugu Bo attacked him, but Luo Nan’s Gravity Domain crushed the poison and forced Dugu Bo down.

• Luo Nan used Golden Dragon Sacred Flame to burn a passage through the poison array and entered the valley containing the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Luo Nan identified and harvested the immortal herbs surrounding the well, then found and ate an Earth Dragon Golden Melon.
• The Earth Dragon Golden Melon strengthened Luo Nan’s Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline and body, raising his soul power from rank eighty-four to rank eighty-six.
• Dugu Bo arrived in his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor avatar and attacked Luo Nan with his deadly poison.
• Luo Nan activated his Gravity Domain, suppressed Dugu Bo’s poison, and forced Dugu Bo’s giant body toward the ground.

Luo Nan revealed his overwhelming strength to Dugu Bo, then explained the poison backlash harming Dugu Bo and his granddaughter, Dugu Yan. He proposed using a poison-attribute Spirit Bone to absorb the poison, leaving Dugu Bo with a possible solution to their condition.

• Luo Nan displayed his eight spirit rings, including a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, and Dugu Bo recognized him as Golden Scale Blood Butcher Luo Nan.
• Dugu Bo yielded the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, but Luo Nan stopped him and described the symptoms of his Green Phosphorus Snake Emperor Poison backlash.
• Dugu Bo pleaded for Luo Nan to save Dugu Yan, who had inherited the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul, and Luo Nan confirmed he had a way to help.
• Luo Nan explained that the poison accumulated as their cultivation rose and suggested transferring it into a poison-attribute Spirit Bone.

Luo Nan explained how Dugu Bo could store his clan’s poison in a Spirit Bone, then kept the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well’s immortal herbs for himself and used them to forge an Ice and Fire Golden Body. He emerged with control over ice and fire and Soul Power at the level ninety bottleneck.

• Luo Nan told Dugu Bo that his clan could avoid poison backlash by transferring toxins into Spirit Bones, though Dugu Bo’s treatment would be painful and prolonged.
• Dugu Bo thanked Luo Nan and hurried away to find a suitable Spirit Bone and try the method.
• Luo Nan decided not to reveal that consuming the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot could detoxify and transform Dugu Bo, since he had claimed the herbs for himself.
• Luo Nan harvested and swallowed both immortal herbs, then entered the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and endured its powers while refining his body and Golden Sacred Dragon Martial Soul.
• Luo Nan emerged with an Ice and Fire Golden Body, gained control over ice and fire, and raised his Soul Power to the level ninety bottleneck.

After gaining strength and spiritual power at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Luo Nan returned to Moonlight Pavilion and helped Tang Yuehua overcome the flaw in her martial soul. Tang Yuehua broke through to level ten, and the chapter ended with Luo Nan claiming their wager while discovering her musical talents.

• Luo Nan took Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, greatly increasing his spiritual power, then returned to Heaven Dou City.
• Luo Nan told Tang Yuehua he had found a way to solve her martial soul defect and gave her an Aromatic Silk Beauty immortal herb.
• Tang Yuehua absorbed the herb, cleansed her body of impurities, and broke through her level-nine Soul Power limit to reach level ten.
• Tang Yuehua embraced and kissed Luo Nan in gratitude, but Luo Nan sent her to bathe before entering the bathroom to fulfill their wager.
• Luo Nan discovered that Tang Yuehua could play instruments including the harp, piano, and flute.

After Luo Nan helped Tang Yuehua break through her martial-soul shackles and obtain her first spirit ring, she began cultivating at level fifteen. Luo Nan then considered hunting the Sky Azure Bull Python for his ninth spirit ring and realized he needed more strength or another advantage before facing it and the Titan Giant Ape.

• Tang Yuehua awoke with Soul Power at level ten and asked Luo Nan to help her obtain a spirit ring.
• Luo Nan took Tang Yuehua to the Star Dou Forest, where she absorbed a Light Spirit Deer’s spirit ring and rose to level fifteen.
• Tang Yuehua celebrated becoming a soul master and later thanked Luo Nan at Moonlight Pavilion.
• Luo Nan weighed hunting the Sky Azure Bull Python for his ninth spirit ring but feared facing it alongside the Titan Giant Ape.
• Luo Nan realized he had forgotten something and became excited about a possible new plan.

Luo Nan traveled to Holy Soul Village to steal Ah Yin’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, using his Dark Demon Dragon martial soul to evade Tang Hao. He found the hidden cave behind the waterfall and took the lead box containing the Spirit Bone, leaving the Blue Silver Emperor behind.

• Luo Nan recalled that Ah Yin’s Spirit Bone was hidden in a cave behind a waterfall near Holy Soul Village and planned to steal it without alerting Tang Hao.
• Luo Nan told Tang Yuehua he would be away for a few days, then left Heaven Dou City under cover of night.
• Luo Nan reached Holy Soul Village and used his Dark Demon Dragon martial soul to conceal his presence as he climbed through the waterfall.
• Luo Nan entered the cave and found the regrown Blue Silver Emperor beside an ancient lead box.
• Luo Nan ignored the Blue Silver Emperor’s hostile spiritual warning and stored the lead box in his Storage Spirit Tool.