Chapter Summaries

Dugu Bo awoke in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to find Qian Daoliu, Chen Hong, and Spirit Hall’s Super Douluo Dream Team surrounding him. As the group explored his treasure land, Golden Crocodile Douluo found a golden plant that Chen Hong identified as the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd.

• Dugu Bo woke to Qian Daoliu and seven other powerful Spirit Hall figures, then froze in shock at their presence.
• Chen Hong asked the Super Douluo to let Dugu Bo recover while they explored the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Qian Daoliu explained that Chen Hong had led the group to the secluded treasure land using information Tang San had provided.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo found a golden, dragon-patterned plant and called Chen Hong over to identify it.
• Chen Hong identified the plant as the immortal herb Earth Dragon Golden Gourd.

Chen Hong proposed a deal over the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, offering to protect Dugu Bo’s ownership of its herbs in exchange for the Spirit Hall elders taking control of the site itself. Qian Daoliu agreed that the well was more valuable than the herbs, leaving Golden Crocodile Douluo to consider Chen Hong’s reasoning.

• Chen Hong recalled Tang San’s two demands in exchange for information about the immortal herbs: lessons in Soul Ring cultivation for him and Xiao Wu, and ten drops of Mental Primordial Liquid.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo asked for the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd, and Qian Daoliu left the decision to Chen Hong.
• Chen Hong told Golden Crocodile Douluo to ask Dugu Bo, prompting Dugu Bo to stop pretending to be unconscious and face the Spirit Hall elders.
• Chen Hong proposed that Dugu Bo keep the Rare and Exotic Herbs while the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well itself became the Spirit Hall elders’ private territory.
• Qian Daoliu endorsed Chen Hong’s view that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was the most precious part, while Golden Crocodile Douluo pondered his reasoning.

Chen Hong spared Dugu Bo by letting him choose whether to share the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s immortal herbs, then used his Sage Soul Art on the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd. The gourd absorbed a vast amount of soul power, confirming Chen Hong’s theory that enhanced plants could grow a hundred times faster there.

• Qian Daoliu accepted Chen Hong’s proposal, and Dugu Bo offered the immortal herbs and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to win the Spirit Hall elders’ friendship and spare his life.
• Chen Hong soothed Dugu Bo and then touched the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd, imprinting it with his First Soul Art, Sage.
• The Earth Dragon Golden Gourd showed a faint consciousness and began drawing soul power into a pale golden vortex.
• Qian Daoliu explained that the well’s conflicting hot and cold soul power could cause cultivators to suffer a deviation or die, while plants could endure the environment.
• Chen Hong concluded that Sage could affect immortal herbs and make plant life in the well grow a hundred times faster than outside.

Chen Hong explained that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well might accelerate plant growth a hundredfold, but Ice Fire Wind periodically damaged plants’ intelligence and prevented them from becoming Soul Beasts. He asked the Titled Douluo to wait a year while he tried to awaken the immortal herbs, leaving open the prospect of Spirit Masters gaining access to their power.

• Chen Hong told the gathered Titled Douluo that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could theoretically make plants grow a hundred times faster, while noting that plants there struggled to develop intelligence.
• Chen Hong questioned Dugu Bo about seasonal phenomena, and Dugu Bo explained that Ice Fire Wind swept through the valley every two or three years.
• Chen Hong concluded that Ice Fire Wind regularly destroyed plants’ developing intelligence, explaining why the valley’s immortal herbs had not become Plant Soul Beasts.
• Chen Hong said he had twice guided Soul Beasts into the White Realm within a year and urged the Titled Douluo to leave the immortal herbs alone for a year while he tested whether he could awaken them.

Chen Hong explained his Soul Beast Cultivation Studies and used it to account for why the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well contained immortal herbs but no Plant Soul Beasts. After he said the theory still needed research, Qian Daoliu and the Elder Hall pledged Spirit Hall’s support for his work there.

• Chen Hong explained how Soul Power absorption, dissipation, cultivation, bloodline, and environment affected the growth of Soul Beasts and Spirit Masters.
• Chen Hong said his ability and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s environment could combine to produce a hundredfold growth speed, though the plants still could not become Plant Soul Beasts.
• The Titled Douluo questioned Chen Hong about Soul Beast Cultivation Studies, while Dugu Bo listened in confusion.
• Chen Hong declined to share his unfinished theory and said further research at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was needed.
• Qian Daoliu and the Elder Hall promised to support Chen Hong’s research, and Qian Daoliu asked for the first manuscript as a keepsake.
• Dugu Bo silently wondered how Chen Hong had won the strongest Douluo faction’s support so easily.

Chen Hong secured Dugu Bo’s agreement over the remaining immortal herbs and explained why he refused to take them by force. While investigating the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Qian Daoliu, Chen Hong fused a drop from each spring and proposed an experiment.

• Chen Hong won over the Douluo Dream Team with his research, then helped arrange for Dugu Bo to keep the remaining immortal herbs and receive offspring plants from transformed Immortal Herb Soul Beasts.
• Chen Hong told Golden Crocodile Douluo that he would not seize renewable herbs from Dugu Bo, saying he kept his courage for the strong and mercy for the weak.
• Qian Daoliu raised a theory about Soul Power absorption and dissipation as Chen Hong probed the Fire Spring with Psychic Power and found that its water affected his mind.
• Chen Hong collected drops from the Fire Spring and Ice Spring, carefully fused them, and produced a clear droplet with dense Soul Power fluctuations.
• Chen Hong offered Qian Daoliu a chance to make a sacrifice for science.

Chen Hong successfully created Soul Power Primordial Liquid by carefully reacting the Ice and Fire spring water, while Qian Daoliu’s attempt to copy the process caused an explosion. Qian Daoliu promised not to act recklessly again and told Chen Hong to reach level thirty so they could hunt for his Third Soul Ring in Sunset Forest.

• Qian Daoliu drank a drop of Soul Power Primordial Liquid and compared its energy to that of an ordinary One-Ring Soul Master.
• Qian Daoliu forcibly combined water from the Ice Spring and Fire Spring, triggering an explosion that left him with frost and burns while Chen Hong stayed unharmed.
• Chen Hong explained that he had carefully controlled the reaction to produce Soul Power Primordial Liquid and warned Qian Daoliu about the risks of experimenting in the volatile environment.
• Qian Daoliu admitted he had oversimplified the process, and Chen Hong offered to write instructions on Elemental Reactions for him.
• Qian Daoliu urged Chen Hong to use the liquid to reach level thirty, then said he would take him to Sunset Forest to hunt for his Third Soul Ring.

Chen Hong refined Soul Power Primordial Liquid at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and explained how the valley could enter a stable era. His deductions led Qian Daoliu to a breakthrough idea for creating a Soul Core, while a later passage followed Mu En reflecting on the hardships faced by ancient Spirit Masters.

• Chen Hong reasoned that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s energy intake limited how quickly its visitors could refine Soul Power Primordial Liquid, and he planned to stabilize the valley by matching that rate.
• Chen Hong refined Soul Power Primordial Liquid beside the springs while Qian Daoliu watched and tried to learn his method.
• Chen Hong deduced that sufficiently dense Soul Power might siphon Heaven and Earth Soul Power, and suggested that Soul Power condensed like a soul bone could avoid reacting with external energy.
• Qian Daoliu realized that compressing Soul Power could create a Soul Core.
• Mu En lamented that ancient Titled Douluo had struggled against powerful soul beasts and challenged Di Tian to spar.

After reaching level thirty at fourteen, Chen Hong prepared to leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Qian Daoliu to hunt for his third Soul Ring. Qian Daoliu arranged protection for the valley while pursuing a new breakthrough: condensing a Soul Crystal Core within his body.

• Chen Hong completed his cultivation breakthrough and celebrated reaching level thirty at fourteen.
• Qian Daoliu compared Chen Hong's growth with the Spirit Hall Saintess and explained that his progress relied on Soul Wine, herbs, and improvements to his constitution.
• Qian Daoliu told Chen Hong they had to leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well so he could hunt for his third Soul Ring.
• Qian Daoliu and Chen Hong agreed to keep the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well secret, while Spirit Hall's elders arranged rotating guards for the valley.
• Inspired by Chen Hong's theory that Soul Power was fragments of rules, Qian Daoliu decided to try condensing a Soul Crystal Core within himself.

Chen Hong advised Qian Daoliu on how to pursue a Soul Power Core, then distributed information about the immortal herbs found in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. The chapter ended with Qian Daoliu questioning why Chen Hong was offering him the Star Luo Spirit Pearl when it seemed better suited to Chen Hong’s uncle.

• Chen Hong suggested that Qian Daoliu use soul bones as a reference and compress Soul Power within a Divine Rune framework to form a crystal core, potentially developing it into a Soul Core.
• Qian Daoliu praised Chen Hong’s connected theories, while Chen Hong said he needed to return and make Philosopher’s Stones.
• Spirit Hall’s Super Douluo elders and Dugu Bo gathered at Chen Hong’s Fu Peak, where Chen Hong agreed to turn Dugu Bo’s Ten-Thousand-Year Jade Scale Seven Absolutes Flower into a Plant Soul Beast.
• Chen Hong recommended the Star Luo Spirit Pearl, which refined and compressed Soul Power, as a suitable aid for Qian Daoliu’s Soul Power Core research.
• Qian Daoliu asked why Chen Hong was offering him the Star Luo Spirit Pearl when its compatibility seemed better suited to Chen Hong’s uncle with the Seven Star Sword Martial Soul.

Qian Daoliu declined the Star Luo Spirit Pearl as a shortcut for condensing a Soul Power Core, preferring to forge a path others could follow, but accepted some Star Grass to ease his cultivation. He urged Chen Hong to save the pearl for Ning Quan, and Chen Hong’s Affection Level toward Qian Daoliu increased.

• Qian Daoliu refused to use the Star Luo Spirit Pearl to condense his Soul Power Core, saying his experience should guide later generations.
• Qian Daoliu reflected that he could now challenge Tang Chen and hoped to master Ring Explosion and advance through a Soul Power Core.
• Qian Daoliu asked Chen Hong for Star Grass while declining the more precious immortal herb.
• Qian Daoliu recommended that Chen Hong give the Star Luo Spirit Pearl to Ning Quan, whose Seven Star Sword might surpass Sword Douluo Chen Xin.
• Chen Hong thanked Qian Daoliu on Ning Quan’s behalf, and Qian Daoliu’s Affection Level rose to Respect (0/1000).

Chen Hong joined Qian Daoliu’s group on a hunt for a Third Soul Ring and explained his unusual, evolving Martial Soul. He chose a Cave Demon Spider for a dangerous experiment, prompting an angry warning from the soul beast race in a record from a later era.

• Qian Daoliu’s group left Dugu Bo, Light Feather Douluo, and Mighty Lion Douluo to guard the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before escorting Chen Hong through Sunset Forest.
• Chen Hong told the Titled Douluo that he expected his Third Soul Skill to be mental-type and wanted to use the ring to research his Martial Soul.
• Chen Hong requested a soul beast around twenty thousand years old, and Qian Daoliu’s group surrounded a Black 1 Realm Cave Demon Spider.
• Chen Hong unleashed Divine Flame Amaterasu and the Divine Soul Annihilation Melody on the immobilized Cave Demon Spider, beginning a forbidden forced-sacrifice experiment.
• A later-era record quoted warnings from the soul beast race that Chen Hong had insulted the Dragon God and threatened peace between humans and soul beasts.

Chen Hong failed to make the Ten-Thousand Year Demonic Spider willingly sacrifice itself, so he killed it with his soul-destroying Soul Art and absorbed its Soul Ring. His mysterious Psychic Martial Soul Phantom refined the ring, raising him from Soul Power Level thirty to level thirty-four, and the chapter ended as the ring reappeared in his hand and his expression changed.

• Chen Hong concluded that he could not trigger the Ten-Thousand Year Demonic Spider's Forced Sacrifice and explained to Qian Daoliu why he believed he could safely absorb its Soul Ring.
• Chen Hong used his Psychic Power and Soul Art to shatter the spider's soul and kill it, causing its black Soul Ring to appear.
• Chen Hong touched the Soul Ring, and an invisible Psychic Martial Soul Phantom swallowed and refined it.
• Chen Hong's Soul Power rose from level thirty to level thirty-four over half an hour.
• Chen Hong summoned the black Soul Ring into his palm, and his expression suddenly changed.

Chen Hong discovered that his third soul skill, Mental Contract, trapped him in a contract with himself until Qian Daoliu broke the effect with a mental attack. Back in Suotuo City, Chen Hong returned to his research lab with a rare Head Soul Bone and other materials, ready to investigate his martial soul and new skill.

• Chen Hong activated his third soul ring, became bound by his own Mental Contract, and asked Qian Daoliu to interrupt the effect.
• Qian Daoliu struck Chen Hong with Mental Power, freeing him, and Chen Hong explained that his skill could bind and punish a target's Soul Body but was not yet developed enough to use on others.
• Qing Luan Douluo found a Ten-Thousand-Year Head Soul Bone in the dead Demonic Spider, and Chen Hong accepted it.
• Qian Daoliu escorted Chen Hong back to Suotuo City, where Chen Hong learned that Flender, Liu Erlong, and the Shrek Seven Devils had gone to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Chen Hong returned home, saw the mermaid Kelly flee into the water, and went to his Research Lab, where he gathered his trip's gains and a Space Stone full of Spirit Hall archives.

Chen Hong studied the Ten Thousand Year Head Soul Bone, then completed version 1.6 of the Suotuo Mental Network with Huang. He left Huang building a rewards and ranking system for the Soul Skill Database while he reviewed his own profile and Contract ability.

• Chen Hong used Soul Power Primordial Liquid and examined the Soul of the Hunt Head Soul Bone, learning that its Hunt Sensing skill projected everything in range into his mind.
• Chen Hong entered the Suotuo Mental Network with Huang and finished compiling its system framework.
• The Suotuo Mental Network announced version 1.6, adding Soul Master profile and Soul Skill templates along with the Soul Skill Database.
• Chen Hong instructed Huang to create an Honor Roll that rewarded useful Soul Skill information and penalized misleading submissions.
• Chen Hong viewed his Mental Power Virtual Panel and reflected on how his Contract and Sublime Virtue abilities affected others.

Chen Hong spent half a month studying Spirit Hall’s Martial Soul records and developed a new theory about the origins of Martial Souls. He concluded that he himself had no Martial Soul and suspected the truth lay beyond the heavens.

• Chen Hong examined the Soul of the Hunt Soul Bone and considered using its sensing ability as a plugin for the Suotuo Mental Network.
• Chen Hong left the Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone with Huang before beginning an intensive review of Spirit Hall’s archives.
• Chen Hong and Huang organized and absorbed the records Qian Daoliu had sent, while Chen Hong missed the Sea Soul Ship’s launch ceremony.
• Chen Hong classified Martial Souls as originating from soul beasts or the body, then reasoned that humans predated Transformed Soul Beasts.
• Chen Hong concluded that he had no Martial Soul and looked toward the starry sky, muttering about the Milky Way and Lan Jia.

Chen Hong sacrificed himself by using the Lost Star Chart to destroy the Insectoid Civilization’s planetary behemoth, but the relic triggered a dimensional collapse that sent him to a new world. He awoke as a newborn in White Cloud Village on Douluo Continent, unsure of who he was.

• The mechanic colonel refused the Arc of Immortality survivors’ pleas and activated a makeshift space warp array, revealing that his name was Chen Hong.
• Chen Hong explained that the Lost Star Chart could function as a Suicidal Space Oscillator and carried it into the unstable warp drive.
• The spatial collapse destroyed the Flesh and Blood Planet and caused Super Civilizations across the universe to react to the Dimensional Star Chart.
• Chen Hong opened his eyes in White Cloud Village on Douluo Continent, where his new parents celebrated his birth.

After deciphering clues about his Psychic Power, Chen Hong developed a theory about how bloodline, soul, and mind shaped Martial Souls, then made Philosopher’s Stones and emerged from a month of research. He learned that the Two Great Empires had shown interest in the Technology Guild’s Topaz-Class Sea Soul Ship but declined to buy it at Chen Lin’s price, while secretly investing more in their own shipyards.

• Chen Hong reflected on the Tis Swarm Mother Empress and concluded that his Psychic Power might be related to her, though he still did not know his origins.
• Chen Hong reasoned that Martial Souls were influenced by bloodline, soul, and mind, and began outlining his Theory of Martial Soul Origins.
• Chen Hong crafted sixty Philosopher’s Stones over three days and noted that his Third Soul Skill let him sense and manipulate Mental Bodies.
• Chen Hong left his Research Lab after nearly a month, visited Ning Lu, and was roughed up by his worried mother.
• Chen Lin offered Topaz-Class Battleships to the Two Great Empires for one hundred million New Soul Coins each, but they declined and secretly increased investment in their own shipyards.

After mermaid Kelly left Chen Hong a coded message, Chen Hong discussed the upcoming Youth Soul Master Competition and his plans to disappear for a while. He then returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well Valley with Qian Daoliu, who shared his progress refining Soul Power and received Chen Hong’s compilation of Spirit Hall’s martial soul records.

• Mermaid Kelly left Chen Hong a letter containing a black dot, which he matched to a page in the Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms and stored away.
• Chen Hong joked to Ning Lu that eight hundred swordsmen planned to kidnap Chen Lin, prompting Chen Lin to complain about Chen Hong’s long periods of isolation.
• Chen Lin asked Chen Hong about the Youth Soul Master Competition, and Chen Hong said he would attend the finals and visit Spirit Hall’s library.
• Chen Hong told Chen Lin and Ning Lu that he would soon disappear to arrange experiments in a place he considered completely safe.
• Qian Daoliu brought Chen Hong to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well Valley and explained that refining Soul Power into crystals was progressing slowly but showed promise.
• Chen Hong gave Qian Daoliu Martial Soul Classification, a book he had compiled from Spirit Hall’s records on martial souls.

Chen Hong installed Philosopher’s Stones beneath the immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Qian Daoliu considered the risks of developing offensive Soul Tools. The Withered and Flourishing Vine then evolved into a Purple Realm Plant Soul Beast, the Withered and Flourishing Tree.

• Chen Hong explained that the Philosopher’s Stones could power themselves for about a week and asked the guardians to recharge them regularly.
• Mighty Lion Douluo, Light Feather Douluo, and Dugu Bo competed over how often they would inspect and recharge the stones.
• Qian Daoliu asked whether offensive soul skills could become Soul Tools, and Chen Hong questioned whether weapons would offer benefits beyond escalating battles.
• Qian Daoliu decided that offensive Soul Tools could be developed after Spirit Hall became great again, and everyone helped Chen Hong arrange all sixty stones.
• Chen Hong planted the Withered and Flourishing Vine near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and nourished it with Soul Power Primordial Liquid.
• The Withered and Flourishing Vine advanced into a Purple Realm Plant Soul Beast and grew into the Withered and Flourishing Tree.