Chapter Summaries

Luo Nan infiltrated the Heaven Dou Empire’s Treasure Pavilion and stole the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, but a hidden mechanism triggered an alarm and brought the palace guards down on him. Trapped inside, he smashed through the dome and escaped into the night.

• Luo Nan used his Dark Demon Dragon’s concealment to slip into the Treasure Pavilion during the guards’ shift change.
• He bypassed the treasures on the lower floors and took the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from the third-floor display platform.
• Removing the Shroud triggered a hidden gravity-sensing mechanism, setting off the pavilion’s alarm.
• The Royal Imperial Guards surrounded the pavilion, leaving Luo Nan with no clear route out.
• Luo Nan transformed with Dark Demon Dragon possession and smashed through the dome, escaping into the night sky.

Luo Nan tried to escape Heaven Dou Palace under cover of darkness, but Gu Rong intercepted him outside the city. Luo Nan unleashed his first Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Skill and left Gu Rong gravely wounded as he fell into a forest.

• Luo Nan concealed his aura and flew away from Heaven Dou Palace after stealing from the Treasure Pavilion.
• Gu Rong tore open a spatial rift and blocked Luo Nan, demanding that he return what he had taken.
• Luo Nan revealed his Dark Demon Dragon and shocked Gu Rong with his first Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.
• Luo Nan used Dark Heaven-Ripping Claw, shattering Gu Rong’s Bone Dragon defenses and tearing open half his body.
• Gu Rong plunged into a forest outside Heaven Dou City, his survival uncertain.

Luo Nan left Gu Rong gravely wounded, and Ning Fengzhi arrived with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to find him near death. The healers said only Ye Ci and her Nine-Heart Begonia might save him, so Ning Fengzhi ordered Gu Rong taken back to the sect and his life sustained while they sought help.

• Luo Nan withdrew his dark power and fled, vowing to target the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's treasury later.
• Ning Fengzhi found Gu Rong at the bottom of a crater and ordered the accompanying healing Soul Masters to treat him.
• The healers could only suppress Gu Rong's bleeding because his dark wounds resisted their power and had destroyed most of his heart meridians.
• A healer told Ning Fengzhi that only Ye Ci's Nine-Heart Begonia might repair Gu Rong's injuries, and that Gu Rong could otherwise last only three months.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered Gu Rong returned to the sect and commanded its healing Soul Masters to take shifts sustaining his life.

After returning safely from robbing the Imperial Treasury and wounding Gu Rong, Luo Nan spent the night with Tang Yuehua and considered his next move against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Unable to obtain a detailed map through Moonlight Pavilion, he decided to scout the sect himself and planned to visit in a few days.

• Ning Fengzhi told the imperial retainers he would meet Xue Ye and mobilize intelligence networks to find Ye Ci.
• Luo Nan returned to Moonlight Pavilion, where Tang Yuehua welcomed him, and he introduced her to “maglev” and the “Never-Setting Sun.”
• The next day, Luo Nan reflected that he had the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and intended to make the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect pay for Gu Rong’s attack.
• Luo Nan asked Tang Yuehua for a detailed defense map of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but she explained that obtaining one would be difficult and risky.
• Luo Nan told Tang Yuehua not to investigate and decided to scout the sect himself before visiting it in a few days.

Ning Fengzhi and Prince Xue Xing came to Moonlight Pavilion seeking Ye Ci’s help for the critically injured Bone Douluo. Luo Nan arranged for Ye Ci to meet them but made clear that her decision was hers alone, while signaling that he did not want her to help.

• A servant told Luo Nan that Ning Fengzhi and Prince Xue Xing had arrived at Moonlight Pavilion to see him and Tang Yuehua.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Luo Nan and Tang Yuehua to let him meet Ye Ci, hoping she would help save Bone Douluo.
• Luo Nan explained that he would not force Ye Ci to meet or assist Ning Fengzhi, but ordered a servant to invite her.
• Ye Ci arrived with Ye Lingling, and Luo Nan told her that Ning Fengzhi wanted her to personally take action.
• Ye Ci understood Luo Nan’s hidden warning and prepared to handle Ning Fengzhi’s request accordingly.

Ning Fengzhi pleaded with Ye Ci to save a gravely injured member of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but she refused, claiming her health made the attempt impossible. After Ning Fengzhi and Prince Xue Xing left Moonlight Pavilion, Luo Nan questioned Ye Ci about her true condition, and she admitted that her Spirit Origin had been irreversibly damaged by an old ailment.

• Ning Fengzhi begged Ye Ci to use her Nine-Heart Begonia to save the injured member of his sect.
• Ye Ci coughed blood and claimed that using her Soul Power to heal him could kill her, so she refused to help.
• Prince Xue Xing accepted Ye Ci's refusal and escorted Ning Fengzhi and the others out of Moonlight Pavilion.
• After the visitors left, Luo Nan asked Ye Ci why her condition seemed far worse than her age and healing Spirit explained.
• Ye Ci admitted that her Spirit Origin had suffered irreversible damage after she repeatedly used her healing abilities to save the gravely injured.

Ye Ci revealed that an ambush had damaged her Nine-Heart Begonia origin and left her slowly dying, so Luo Nan offered to heal her in exchange for her and Ye Lingling’s loyalty. Ye Ci refused the cure for herself and asked Luo Nan to save Lingling instead, but Luo Nan reassured her and presented a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma to restore her foundation.

• Ye Ci told Luo Nan that a Soul Master she had saved ambushed her, damaging her martial soul origin and preventing her cultivation from advancing.
• Luo Nan realized he could use an Immortal Herb to heal Ye Ci and asked her and Ye Lingling to join his faction in return.
• Ye Ci refused to use the treasure on herself and asked Luo Nan to save Ye Lingling and help her break the Nine-Heart Begonia’s inheritance limit.
• Luo Nan said he had already prepared an opportunity for Ye Lingling and showed Ye Ci a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma suited to repairing her damaged origin.

Luo Nan admitted to Prince Xue Xing that he had crippled Gu Rong and killed Yu Yuanzhen, then explained how to keep Gu Rong alive but permanently unconscious. Prince Xue Xing agreed to use the royal family’s influence to help sustain Gu Rong’s condition and weaken the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Ye Ci accepted Luo Nan’s Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma and began absorbing its medicinal power while Tang Yuehua watched over her.
• Luo Nan confronted Prince Xue Xing, who had followed him in disguise to ask whether he had crippled Gu Rong.
• Luo Nan admitted that he had crippled Gu Rong and killed Yu Yuanzhen, shocking Prince Xue Xing with the extent of his power.
• Luo Nan explained that Gu Rong should be kept barely alive and unconscious so the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would be forced to spend its resources treating him.
• Luo Nan told Prince Xue Xing to find miracle doctors and arrange a complicated treatment that would keep Gu Rong alive without letting him wake.

Luo Nan enlisted Prince Xue Xing to monopolize the ingredients needed to keep Gu Rong alive and drain the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s wealth. After Ye Ci recovered from the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma and swore loyalty to Luo Nan, he asked her to create a costly prescription that would keep Gu Rong alive but prevent him from waking or recovering.

• Luo Nan told Prince Xue Xing to monopolize the prescription’s rare ingredients and make Ning Fengzhi pay repeatedly to keep Gu Rong alive.
• Prince Xue Xing agreed to carry out Luo Nan’s scheme and left.
• Ye Ci appeared restored to health and knelt before Luo Nan to thank him for saving her.
• Ye Ci swore to serve Luo Nan after the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma restored her martial soul’s origin and revived her stagnant Soul Power.
• Luo Nan asked Ye Ci to devise a prescription that would keep Gu Rong alive but prevent his recovery, requiring exceptionally rare and expensive treasures.
• Ye Ci agreed to help Luo Nan use the prescription against his enemy.

Ye Ci created an extremely costly prescription that would keep Gu Rong alive but leave him comatose and dependent on the medicine for life. Prince Xue Xing presented it to Ning Fengzhi, who realized the treatment would drain the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s wealth.

• Ye Ci told Luo Nan she needed two days to prepare a life-sustaining prescription, and Luo Nan agreed.
• Ye Ci gave Luo Nan the Nine-Turn Life-Sustaining Prescription, explaining that it would keep Gu Rong alive but cause agonizing unconsciousness and fatal backlash if stopped.
• Luo Nan praised the prescription and secretly delivered it to Prince Xue Xing, who hurried to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s residence.
• Ning Fengzhi despaired after the healers he had gathered failed to treat Gu Rong, whose injuries resisted healing Soul Power.
• Prince Xue Xing presented the prescription to Ning Fengzhi as the result of his efforts and urged him to consider Gu Rong’s importance to the sect.
• Ning Fengzhi calculated that the ingredients and healing experts would cost tens of millions of Gold Soul Coins each year.

Prince Xue Xing persuaded Ning Fengzhi to spend a fortune on medicine to keep Gu Rong alive, while Luo Nan left Heaven Dou City after learning of a hundred-thousand-year dark dragon Soul Beast in the deep sea. Before heading to the Endless Ocean, Luo Nan traveled toward the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, wary that Di Tian might be following him.

• Prince Xue Xing offered Ning Fengzhi a twenty percent discount on medicinal ingredients, and Ning Fengzhi vowed to buy the medicine needed to save Gu Rong.
• Tang Yuehua showed Luo Nan intelligence locating a terrifying hundred-thousand-year dark dragon Soul Beast about three thousand nautical miles east of Vast Sea City.
• Luo Nan told Tang Yuehua to manage Moonlight Pavilion while he pursued the Soul Beast, and he left Heaven Dou City through a secret tunnel.
• Luo Nan searched the area outside the city for Di Tian's aura, then traveled toward Sunset Forest and the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Luo Nan prepared to hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in the Endless Ocean, while Bibi Dong learned of his journey and set out to intercept him. After reaching Vast Sea City, Luo Nan began gathering information about a sea monster in the waters ahead.

• Luo Nan told Dugu Bo to seal the routes to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with the Green Phosphorus Snake Poison Array, then return to Heaven Dou City and oversee Moonlight Pavilion.
• Bibi Dong received a report that Luo Nan had likely headed toward a Hundred-Thousand-Year Dark Attribute Dragon Soul Beast and suspected he might possess Twin Martial Souls.
• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo to accompany her to Vast Sea City so she could claim the Soul Beast and kill Luo Nan.
• Luo Nan arrived in Vast Sea City after nearly ten days of travel and went to the Sea God's Breath tea house to collect information.
• Luo Nan heard that a sea monster had paralyzed an eastern trade route and caused more than a dozen merchant ships to disappear, then asked the owner, Old Bao, what was happening.

Luo Nan traveled from Vast Sea City to find the legendary Nether Sea Dragon Beast, riding his Golden Sacred Dragon across the sea. When the beast ambushed him, Luo Nan answered with his fifth Soul Skill, Sacred Dragon Golden Flame.

• The tea house owner warned Luo Nan that a black dragon had destroyed a mercenary group and killed a Title Douluo, leaving the sea route deserted.
• Luo Nan decided to fly east on his Golden Sacred Dragon rather than seek a ship.
• Luo Nan summoned the Golden Sacred Dragon from the cliffs outside Vast Sea City and flew toward the marked sea region.
• After about three hours, Luo Nan reached a dark, stormy stretch of ocean, where a huge vortex and destructive dragon's might erupted.
• The nearly hundred-meter Nether Sea Dragon Beast launched itself at Luo Nan and his Golden Sacred Dragon.
• Luo Nan used his fifth Soul Skill, Sacred Dragon Golden Flame, and fired a golden pillar of fire at the beast.

Luo Nan and the Golden Sacred Dragon battled the Nether Sea Dragon Beast, using light-based attacks to wear down the immense dark beast while Luo Nan hid in the night. Luo Nan then launched a lethal strike at its vulnerable reverse scale, but the chapter ended as the beast twisted desperately to evade.

• The Nether Sea Dragon Beast endured the Sacred Dragon Golden Flame and lunged at Luo Nan, who dodged its attack and transformed with his Martial Soul Avatar.
• The Golden Sacred Dragon unleashed its Dragon Earth-Shaking Claw, and Luo Nan concealed himself with his Dark Demon Dragon martial soul while the two beasts fought.
• The Golden Sacred Dragon used its Sacred Dragon Roar, Golden Dragon Sacred Flame, and Firmament Star-Shattering Strike to injure and suppress the Nether Sea Dragon Beast.
• Luo Nan emerged from the beast's blind spot and attacked its neck's reverse scale with his Dark Heaven-Ripping Claw.
• The Nether Sea Dragon Beast desperately twisted its body to evade Luo Nan's strike.

Luo Nan killed the 180,000-year Nether Sea Dragon Beast and absorbed its Soul Ring and torso bone, greatly strengthening his Dark Demon Dragon. The new power shattered the balance between his light and dark forces, and he faced a dangerous internal backlash.

• Luo Nan struck the Nether Sea Dragon Beast's wound with Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder, paralyzing it and knocking it unconscious.
• Luo Nan and the Golden Sacred Dragon carried the beast to an uninhabited island, where Luo Nan killed it with Dark Heaven-Ripping Claw.
• Luo Nan smoothly absorbed the beast's 180,000-year Soul Ring and gained a torso bone.
• Luo Nan awakened with immense new power and displayed two red Soul Rings on his Dark Demon Dragon Martial Soul.
• Luo Nan's light and dark forces fell out of balance, triggering a brutal struggle within his body.

After absorbing the Nether Sea Dragon Beast’s 180,000-year spirit ring and spirit bone, Luo Nan suffered a dangerous clash between his opposing Twin Martial Souls and barely stabilized them. Still injured and weakened on the isolated island, he was found by Bibi Dong.

• Luo Nan’s Golden Sacred Dragon and Dark Demon Dragon powers clashed, severely injuring him and nearly tearing his body apart.
• Luo Nan spent hours using his Soul Power and spiritual strength to suppress the two forces and restore their balance.
• Luo Nan found that his Soul Power remained at level ninety-five because the Dark Demon Dragon had consumed the energy from the spirit ring and bone.
• Luo Nan decided to avoid using the Dark Demon Dragon Martial Soul, then took medicine and prepared to heal his injuries.
• Bibi Dong arrived on the island and spotted the weakened Luo Nan beside the Nether Sea Dragon Beast’s corpse.

Bibi Dong attacked Luo Nan while he was weakened, but he overpowered her despite his injuries and spared her. As Luo Nan left to recover, Bibi Dong decided to seek another way to fulfill the Rakshasa God Trial’s demand that she conquer him: the chamber.

• Bibi Dong attacked Luo Nan, believing his fight against the beast had left him vulnerable.
• Luo Nan used his Golden Sacred Dragon martial soul to repel Bibi Dong and defeat her with his Dragon Earth-Shaking Claw.
• Luo Nan spared Bibi Dong and warned her to return to Spirit City as he left to stabilize his martial souls.
• Bibi Dong recalled the Rakshasa God Trial and decided she would conquer Luo Nan by means other than a direct fight.

Bibi Dong drugged and overpowered Luo Nan to complete her Rakshasa God trial, but he escaped into the sea before she could kill him. After recovering from his injuries on an uninhabited island, Luo Nan returned to Heaven Dou City, where Tang Yuehua welcomed him with concern.

• Bibi Dong crushed an aphrodisiac bottle over Luo Nan, leaving him unable to resist as she forced him to endure her revenge.
• After the Rakshasa God announced that her Second Trial was complete and granted her ten percent affinity, Bibi Dong prepared to kill Luo Nan.
• Luo Nan used the last of his strength to leap into the sea and escape, while Bibi Dong abandoned the pursuit.
• Luo Nan reached an uninhabited island, hid in a cave, and spent seven days stabilizing his injuries and suppressing his conflicting Martial Soul powers.
• Half a month later, Luo Nan returned to Moonlight Pavilion in Heaven Dou City, and Tang Yuehua hurried to support him and ask what had happened.

Luo Nan discovered that the Dark Demon Dragon's growing power had made it impossible to balance his light and dark Martial Souls, so he decided to seek Di Tian's help despite the likely cost of sharing the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. After arranging protections and giving his disciples instructions, he secretly left Heaven Dou City for the Star Dou Forest.

• Luo Nan recovered from his injuries and found that his Golden Sacred Dragon and Dark Demon Dragon powers violently rejected each other, threatening to destroy him.
• Luo Nan decided to ask Di Tian for help and resolved to negotiate shared access to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well in exchange for its Dragon King remains.
• Luo Nan told Tang Yuehua he was going to the Star Dou Forest, then ordered Dugu Bo to protect Moonlight Pavilion and monitor the royal family and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Luo Nan told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to delay obtaining their first soul rings and continue tempering their bodies until he returned.
• Luo Nan left Heaven Dou City alone under cover of night.

Luo Nan reached the heart of the Star Dou Forest to seek Di Tian and address the conflict between his Twin Martial Souls. After Luo Nan drove off the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor brothers, Di Tian appeared and explained that the powerful dark soul ring had disrupted the balance between Luo Nan’s light and dark powers.

• Luo Nan arrived in the heart of the Star Dou Forest and was confronted by the three Thousand Jun Ant Emperor brothers.
• Luo Nan released the pressure of his nine Spirit Rings, forced the ants to the ground, and ordered them to leave.
• Luo Nan waited on a boulder, expecting Di Tian to notice his aura and come to him.
• Di Tian emerged from the darkness and told Luo Nan he had anticipated his return.
• Di Tian explained that Luo Nan’s powerful dark soul ring had strengthened the Dark Demon Dragon martial soul and triggered its resistance to the Golden Sacred Dragon’s light power.