Chapter Summaries

Lan Tian discovered the remains and legacy of Song Yuan, a Titled Douluo, in a hidden chamber and took three valuable relics. After learning how Song Yuan died, Lan Tian began practicing the Silver Moon Visualization Method while still trapped in the valley.

• Lan Tian entered a secret chamber, bowed to the skeleton inside, and opened three stone cases containing the Soul Tool Compendium, Silver Moon Notes, and Silver Moon Visualization Method.
• Lan Tian stored the relics, promised to preserve and pass on Song Yuan’s legacy, and buried the chamber behind him.
• Lan Tian read that Song Yuan had died from injuries sustained after encountering a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in Sunset Forest.
• Lan Tian studied the Silver Moon Visualization Method and began his first meditation beside the lake.

Lan Tian studied Song Yuan’s Soul Tool Compendium and discovered a way to make a living-being storage Soul Tool, which could let him preserve and transplant immortal herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After climbing out of the valley, he headed for Heaven Dou City to find materials and practice making Soul Tools.

• Lan Tian cultivated with the Silver Moon Visualization Method, sharpening his senses and refining his spiritual power.
• Lan Tian studied Soul Tool Compendium and found the instructions for a living-being storage and energy-supply array.
• Lan Tian realized the Soul Tool could preserve immortal herbs and planned to transplant them from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to his fief.
• Lan Tian memorized and sketched the array’s construction method, then climbed through a crack in the rock wall out of the valley.
• Lan Tian left for Heaven Dou City to search for materials and practice making a Soul Tool.

Lan Tian returned to Heaven Dou City to buy materials for Soul Tool crafting, then went back to his fief and spent three months studying and practicing. He ended the chapter having successfully completed a complex formation diagram on an intermediate material board.

• Lan Tian discovered that his former Soul Tool and its contents had been destroyed in his battle with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, resolving his questions about his missing possessions.
• Lan Tian bought large quantities of Soul Tool materials and tools from Heaven Dou City suppliers at low prices.
• Lan Tian returned to his fief, where Old Ke reported that the medicinal herbs, Nine Heart Begonia, and Blue Silver Grass sea were growing well.
• Lan Tian resumed his cultivation and fief duties while practicing Soul Tool formation diagrams in a courtyard workshop.
• Lan Tian completed a composite formation diagram on an intermediate material board, and it passed the energy conduction test.

After three months of Soul Tool practice and cultivation, Lan Tian successfully crafted his first living storage Soul Tool on his seventh attempt. He planned to use it to preserve an immortal herb from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and began charging it with life energy.

• Lan Tian advanced from Rank 34 to Rank 36, refined his Soul Tool skills, and watched Louise buy the fief's second harvest of medicinal herbs.
• Lan Tian reviewed the living storage design in the Soul Tool Compendium and began crafting a prototype with a low-quality Guiding Stone blank.
• Lan Tian's first six attempts failed because of flaws in the Guiding Stone placement, array engraving, or energy circuit sealing.
• Lan Tian completed a palm-sized living storage Soul Tool on his seventh attempt, and it held a stable cycle of life energy.
• Lan Tian decided the Soul Tool could let him take an immortal herb from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then poured life energy and Sun and Moon Power into it.

Lan Tian returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to retrieve the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and consumed it in the spring without waking Empress Medusa. Its power awakened his Indestructible Vajra Body, and its remaining effects would continue to strengthen him over the next three months.

• Lan Tian prepared a life-energy storage sphere with Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well water, then set out for Sunset Forest.
• Lan Tian crossed the toxic mist with his poison-immune physique and found Empress Medusa still asleep in the basin.
• Lan Tian uprooted the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and preserved it in the sphere.
• Lan Tian entered the spring and swallowed the chrysanthemum, using the water to conceal the surge in his aura.
• Lan Tian awakened the Indestructible Vajra Body and felt his strength increase as the herb's remaining power began to fuse with his body.

Lan Tian reached level forty after refining the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, collected Icefire Spring Water, and secured the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew in his Soul Tool. He left the basin and found a nine-thousand-year-old vine-type Soul Beast to target for his fourth Soul Ring.

• Lan Tian discovered that the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum had raised his Soul Power from level thirty-six to level forty and strengthened his body.
• Lan Tian collected Icefire Spring Water in his Blue Silver Grass vines and placed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew in his Soul Tool.
• Lan Tian left the basin while Empress Medusa remained asleep and transferred the spring water into bottles outside.
• Lan Tian entered Sunset Forest to find a suitable Plant-type Soul Beast, deciding to avoid a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring to conceal his strength.
• Lan Tian sensed a nine-thousand-year-old vine-type Soul Beast in a valley and chose it as the target for his fourth Soul Ring.

Lan Tian subdued a nine-thousand-year Black Jade Entwining Dragon Vine and absorbed its soul ring. He gained a meridians-type External Soul Bone, evolved his martial soul into the Blue Silver King, and awakened the King's Domain as he reached Soul Ancestor.

• Lan Tian approached the Black Jade Entwining Dragon Vine and tried to soothe it with life energy, but it attacked him.
• Lan Tian endured the vine’s strikes with his Indestructible Vajra Body, then damaged its main stalk and restrained it with Blue Silver Grass.
• Lan Tian used Endless Life to calm the vine before absorbing its nine-thousand-year Soul Power.
• Lan Tian gained the fourth soul skill, Ink Dragon Entanglement, and a meridians-type External Soul Bone.
• Lan Tian’s Blue Silver Grass evolved into the Blue Silver King, awakening the Blue Silver Domain: King's Domain, and he reached Soul Ancestor.

After absorbing his fourth soul ring, Lan Tian reached level 43 and concluded that choosing compatible, life-oriented plant soul rings was the right path. He awakened and tested Blue Silver Domain: King's Domain, then returned with renewed confidence that he could become a Titled Douluo.

• Lan Tian stabilized his Soul Power and discovered that absorbing the Black Jade Entwining Dragon Vine had raised him from level 40 to level 43.
• Lan Tian decided to keep choosing compatible plant-type soul rings with life attributes rather than follow what he considered Tang San and Yu Xiaogang’s mismatched approach.
• Lan Tian reflected that he was thirty-five and felt his vitality had greatly increased, potentially allowing him to live another hundred years even at level 43.
• Lan Tian awakened Blue Silver Domain: King's Domain and found that it enriched nearby plants, strengthened his perception and recovery, and let him control plants without additional Soul Power.
• Lan Tian returned from the trip, confident that his gains and improved aptitude could lead him to the Titled Douluo realm and perhaps immortality.

After absorbing the Black Jade Entwining Dragon Vine, Lan Tian found and preserved its still-living rootstock, then traveled to Heaven Dou City to buy materials for a living-storage Soul Tool and a close-combat weapon. He returned to the estate and completed a larger Soul Tool for the Nine Heart Begonia, leaving its transplant and his weapon’s construction for later.

• Lan Tian sensed life beneath the withered vines, dug up the surviving rootstock, and stored it safely in his Soul Tool.
• Lan Tian traveled to Heaven Dou City and gathered a limited set of materials for a living-storage Soul Tool, along with steel and mixed metals for a triangular military spike.
• Lan Tian returned to the estate, checked that the Nine Heart Begonia was healthy, and began crafting its new container.
• Lan Tian completed and tested a square silver-blue Soul Tool large enough to hold the Nine Heart Begonia and its roots.
• Lan Tian went to sleep planning to transplant the Nine Heart Begonia the next day and forge his weapon afterward.

Lan Tian transplanted the Nine Heart Begonia into a Soul Tool and forged and tested a Soul Tool Tri-edged Military Spike. With both tasks complete, he planned to continue cultivating and absorb his remaining medicinal treasures over the coming months.

• Lan Tian carefully dug up the Nine Heart Begonia and settled it inside his large Soul Tool, confirming that it adapted to the new environment.
• Lan Tian forged a Tri-edged Military Spike from high-strength steel and engraved energy-conduction formation diagrams onto it.
• Lan Tian tested the spike on a tree stump, finding that it pierced cleanly and left scorch marks and cracks when charged with Soul Power.
• Lan Tian stored the finished weapon and considered how deeper formation-diagram knowledge could help him forge stronger Soul Tool weapons.
• Lan Tian planned to absorb the remaining power of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, then consume the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew after three months.

Lan Tian confronted the Evil Tiger Gang after its twenty riders arrived to seize his fief, confident that his strength as a level forty-three Soul Ancestor was enough to stop them. He attacked the gang’s riders, leaving the bandit chief and the remaining men to face him.

• Old Ke warned Lan Tian that the Evil Tiger Gang was approaching and urged him to flee or seek reinforcements.
• Lan Tian ordered the workers to shelter in the granary and went alone to meet the riders at the fief’s gate.
• The bandit chief demanded the fief, silver, and medicinal herbs, boasting that he had killed several barons.
• Lan Tian asked how many nobles the gang had killed, then charged past the chief and attacked the riders.
• Lan Tian knocked one rider from his horse, struck another unconscious, and disarmed and felled a third.

Lan Tian defeated the Evil Tiger Gang’s nineteen One-Ring Soul Masters, then overcame the two Soul Grandmasters who joined the bandit leader’s attack. After revealing his four Soul Rings as a Soul Ancestor, he faced the desperate leader’s final strike.

• Lan Tian swiftly knocked down the bandit leader’s nineteen One-Ring Soul Masters and stopped one fleeing survivor with a thrown blade.
• The bandit leader and two Soul Grandmasters attacked Lan Tian together, but Lan Tian charged through their assault and incapacitated both Soul Grandmasters.
• The bandit leader’s saber missed Lan Tian, and he realized his opponent was a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor when Lan Tian revealed his yellow, yellow, purple, purple Soul Rings.
• Lan Tian declared that the bandit leader would pay for killing three Barons, and the leader charged with a desperate slash.
• Lan Tian met the bandit leader’s attack head-on with his right fist infused with Sun and Moon Power.

Lan Tian defeated the bandit chief with his fourth soul skill and killed him after the nine ink dragons crushed his body. He ordered Old Ke and the workers to bury all twenty bandits as fertilizer and keep the massacre and his breakthrough secret, then returned to the courtyard as the territory settled back into calm.

• Lan Tian tested his Indestructible Vajra Body by meeting the bandit chief’s saber strike with his fist, disarming and knocking him down.
• Lan Tian summoned nine ink dragons with his fourth soul skill and crushed the bandit chief’s bones before throwing him to the ground.
• Lan Tian killed the barely living bandit chief with his Tri-edged Military Spike and called Old Ke out of the granary.
• Lan Tian ordered Old Ke and the workers to bury all twenty corpses in the medicinal garden and warned them not to reveal the deaths or his breakthrough.
• Old Ke and the workers buried the corpses beneath the northern slope while Lan Tian washed his weapon and returned to the courtyard.

Three months after the Evil Tiger Gang was defeated, Lan Tian kept the estate quiet while cultivating, tending his herbs, and improving his Soul Tool skills. He prepared to consume the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew that evening.

• Lan Tian found that the buried Soul Masters had made the northern slope exceptionally fertile, while Old Ke and the workers continued to keep the incident secret.
• Lan Tian told Old Ke not to mention the matter again and explained that he kept his Spirit Hall registration at Three-Ring Soul Elder to avoid scrutiny of his rapid cultivation.
• Old Ke reported that Miss Louise planned to visit for the next herb harvest and wanted Lan Tian to save her the finest batch.
• Lan Tian practiced engraving array diagrams and cultivated the Silver Moon Visualization Method, increasing his spiritual range and control over the Blue Silver King vines.
• Lan Tian took out the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew at night, ready to consume it after its three months of nourishment.

Lan Tian consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, reaching level 44 and awakening the beginner-stage Blue Silver Eye. He began studying the Silver Moon Visualization Method to advance the eye technique further.

• Lan Tian activated a concealment array and consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
• The herb expanded his spiritual perception to five hundred paces and raised his Soul Power to level 44.
• Lan Tian awakened the Blue Silver Eye and learned that its current stage was beginner.
• He tested the eye technique’s ability to perceive plant life and energy patterns in his territory.
• Lan Tian returned inside and studied the Silver Moon Visualization Method to pursue the minor achievement stage.

Lan Tian discovered that the Nine Heart Begonia had grown to 1,400 years old and considered the possibility of cultivating it into a hundred-thousand-year soul ring. He set aside those distant ambitions and returned to his daily training and work.

• Lan Tian examined the Nine Heart Begonia and found that its age had doubled to 1,400 years in three months.
• Lan Tian considered how a hundred-thousand-year Nine Heart Begonia might strengthen him, but acknowledged that reaching level ninety-eight remained far beyond his current level forty-four.
• Lan Tian resolved to focus on cultivating the flower, training his Blue Silver Eye and Silver Moon Visualization Method, improving his Soul Tool crafting, and gathering herbs.
• Old Ke told Lan Tian that the black horses were thriving, and Lan Tian said to keep them.
• Lan Tian finished breakfast and went to the Blue Silver Grass sea to begin his spiritual power training.

Louise returned with news that Lan Tian’s herbs had sold out and demand was growing, so she proposed leasing nearby wasteland to expand production. Lan Tian agreed to pursue the lease, and the chapter ended as he and Louise rode to Nuoding City to negotiate with the city lord.

• Louise returned and told Lan Tian that his herbs had sold out quickly and merchants across the continent wanted more.
• Louise proposed that Lan Tian lease up to five thousand mu of nearby wasteland from the Empire to expand his herb fields and Blue Silver Grass cultivation.
• Lan Tian agreed that the annual rent was affordable and arranged to meet City Lord Alfred with Louise the next day.
• Louise warned Lan Tian that medicine shops in Heaven Dou City were asking about the herbs’ source, and Lan Tian agreed to keep his cultivation operation secret.
• Lan Tian prepared a land-leasing proposal, and he and Louise rode toward Nuoding City to meet the city lord.

Lan Tian and Louise secured a one-hundred-year lease on five thousand mu of wasteland around Lan Tian’s fief, expanding the foundation of his medicinal herb business. They left with the signed contract and planned to organize the land’s development and hire workers.

• Lan Tian and Louise visited City Lord Alfred and proposed leasing five thousand mu of wasteland for one hundred years.
• Lan Tian offered five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins upfront, and Alfred approved the lease and signed the contract.
• Lan Tian signed the contract, gaining management of the land and priority to renew when the lease expired.
• Lan Tian told Alfred he would hire at least seven hundred workers, while Louise offered to calculate suitable staffing and wages.
• Lan Tian and Louise surveyed the connected wasteland, then headed back to tell Old Ke about the work ahead.

Lan Tian hired workers and organized the expansion of his fief onto five thousand mu of leased land. The workers began preparing to build walls and cultivate the land in coordinated sections.

• Old Ke registered workers who had arrived from nearby villages, and Lan Tian told them to work honestly and keep the fief’s private matters confidential.
• Louise proposed a wage plan for seven hundred workers, and Lan Tian approved it.
• Lan Tian assigned five teams to build a two-meter-high wall around the leased land and place marker stakes along its boundaries.
• Lan Tian ordered stone plaques reading “Baron Lan’s Leased Land” at the section entrances.
• Louise suggested plowing each section as soon as its wall was completed, and Lan Tian arranged for wall construction and planting to proceed in parallel.

Lan Tian completed the estate’s new walls and used Soul Tool plows to speed up cultivation across the five thousand mu of land. With planting and plow production running smoothly, he prepared to return to the Icefire Basin for more immortal herbs.

• Old Ke reported that workers had completed the walls around the new land ahead of schedule.
• Lan Tian developed a Soul Tool plow and trained ten workers to assemble it.
• Lan Tian deployed two hundred plows across the estate, where the workers began turning and planting the land in stages.
• Louise observed the plows and told Lan Tian that the tools could change farming across the continent.
• Lan Tian checked that the Nine Heart Begonia had grown to 1,867 years old and confirmed it remained healthy.
• Lan Tian studied his Sunset Forest map and decided he could safely return to the Icefire Basin for its remaining immortal herbs.