Chapter Summaries

Dugu Feng defeated Feng Ling, Feng Li, and Ning Rongrong with his Jade Phosphor Purple Poison, then accepted Ning Rongrong as class leader after she endured having the Nine-Section Emerald coil around her hand. Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin watched from above, and Ning Fengzhi ordered closer attention to the Dugu Family.

• Dugu Feng’s poison mist overwhelmed Feng Ling and Feng Li after their Light Sword attack missed, and they admitted defeat.
• Ning Rongrong also conceded the match, but insisted Dugu Feng still had to let his snake circle her hand before she would accept him as leader.
• Ning Rongrong endured the Nine-Section Emerald coiling around her hand, and Dugu Feng acknowledged her as class leader before returning to the students.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin observed from the air, and Ning Fengzhi said Rongrong needed to learn to build her own alliances.
• Sword Douluo Chen Xin suspected Dugu Feng was already suffering from toxins, and Ning Fengzhi told him to keep a closer eye on the Dugu Family.

After Dugu Feng won a two-on-one duel, Dugu Yan confronted him in the dining hall over his conduct and his family’s reliance on her grandfather. Their argument ended with Dugu Yan leaving with Ye Lingling, where she explained her resentment and revealed she had no interest in Yu Tianheng.

• Feng Ling and Feng Li vowed to challenge Dugu Feng again after losing their duel, and Ge Ying took Dugu Feng and their classmates to eat.
• Dugu Feng noticed Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling watching him in the dining hall.
• Dugu Yan accused Dugu Feng of causing trouble and warned that her grandfather would not protect him if he angered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Dugu Feng addressed Dugu Yan as his cousin and invited Ye Lingling to eat with them, but Ye Lingling led Dugu Yan away to a private room.
• Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling that she resented Dugu Feng’s branch for relying on her grandfather’s status, then said she was too focused on her lonely grandfather to date Yu Tianheng.

Dugu Feng trained in the Simulated Cultivation Field, trying to strengthen his hand meridians so he could fire Jade Phosphor Purple Poison like a sword. He also linked his Pill Bead with his two Nine-Section Emeralds to speed their growth.

• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling left the cafeteria, while the students misunderstood Dugu Feng's clash with Dugu Yan as a quarrel between siblings.
• Ge Ying warned Dugu Feng that his cousin and Ning Rongrong had many admirers, then led the class to the Simulated Cultivation Field.
• Dugu Feng concealed himself behind Purple Poison Fog and inspected his slowly growing Pill Bead.
• Dugu Feng fed the Pill Bead to his two Nine-Section Emeralds and ordered them to grow stronger and learn to fly, then gave them food.
• Dugu Feng repeatedly circulated Jade Phosphor Purple Poison through his hand meridians, injuring and repairing them as he trained to fire poison from all ten fingers.

Dugu Feng relentlessly trained his poison technique and hand meridians, while Ning Rongrong pushed Feng Ling and Feng Li to prepare for a challenge against him. After strengthening himself with Whale Rubber and the Pill Beads, Dugu Feng learned that the Elephant Armor Sect was investigating Hu Yanlie’s disappearance, but the Holy Dragon Sect’s silence remained unexplained.

• Dugu Feng cultivated without stopping, while Ning Rongrong ordered Feng Ling and Feng Li to master Sword Control Flight and challenge him within three months.
• Dugu Feng praised the brothers’ determination as he left the Simulated Cultivation Field, and Ning Rongrong immediately forced them back to training.
• Dugu Feng swallowed a small piece of Whale Rubber and used the Pill Beads’ energy to strengthen his body and the meridians in his hands.
• Old Scorpion entered Dugu Feng’s dormitory, mistook his flushed appearance and the Whale Rubber’s scent for evidence of a private affair, then warned him that Hu Yan Zhen was investigating Hu Yanlie’s disappearance.
• Dugu Feng asked Old Scorpion about the Holy Dragon Sect, which had shown no reaction to losing one Soul Sage and two Soul Emperors nearly three months earlier.

Dugu Feng suspected that Bibi Dong planned to expand Spirit Hall’s control over the Great Soul Arena and use the Elephant Armor Sect against its allies. He began preparing for his second spirit ring by eating fried scorpions, then returned to his relentless cultivation as a student.

• Dugu Feng reasoned that Spirit Hall might be seeking the Clear Sky Sect’s vacant share of the Great Soul Arena and could use the Elephant Armor Sect to destroy another power, so he warned Old Scorpion that the Dugu Family needed to be careful.
• Old Scorpion served Dugu Feng fried poisonous scorpions to help him grow accustomed to venom before absorbing his second spirit ring, and Dugu Feng ate the whole plate without feeling ill.
• Old Scorpion gave Dugu Feng a large pouch of fried scorpions and offered to help him choose and hunt a Scorpion Spirit Beast for his second ring.
• Dugu Feng considered choosing an Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion and cultivated, using the Whale Dragon’s energy and the scorpion poison to strengthen his body and fill his Pill Bead.
• Dugu Feng began student life by keeping a low profile, skipping many classes, and spending most of his time cultivating in his dormitory or at the Simulated Cultivation Field.

Dugu Feng faced Ning Rongrong and the Feng brothers in another Soul Arena challenge, with valuable goods added to the stakes. After they showed off their Sword Control Flight, he attacked with his newly developed Jade Phosphor Twelve Fingers, leaving the duel’s outcome unresolved.

• Feng Ling and Feng Li challenged Dugu Feng on behalf of their class, and Dugu Feng proposed stakes including Gold Soul Coins, rare armor, whale blubber, and serpent gallbladders.
• Ning Rongrong accepted the stakes, and the four announced their Martial Souls and Soul Power levels before the match began.
• Ning Rongrong used her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to support Feng Ling and Feng Li as they flew above the arena with their Sword Control Technique.
• Dugu Feng entered Martial Soul Possession and fired twelve poison rays from his hands, shattering the brothers’ Light Swords.
• Feng Ling and Feng Li frantically raised more Light Swords to block Dugu Feng’s next volley as purple and blue attacks clashed above the arena.

Dugu Feng defeated Feng Ling, Feng Li, and Ning Rongrong with his poison techniques, leaving Dugu Yan shocked by how different his abilities were from her own. That night, Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo about the battle, and his cheerful reaction turned grave.

• Dugu Feng's Jade Phosphor Twelve Fingers overwhelmed Feng Ling and Feng Li's sword formation, while poison fog incapacitated them and Ning Rongrong.
• Dugu Feng used his Nine-Section Emeralds to draw the toxins from Feng Ling, Feng Li, and Ning Rongrong after they admitted defeat.
• Ning Rongrong promised to pay Dugu Feng the stakes and vowed to cultivate until she could defeat him.
• Dugu Yan watched Dugu Feng leave and decided to ask her grandfather why his poison techniques were so powerful.
• Dugu Yan described the soul battle to Dugu Bo, whose expression grew grave as he listened.

Dugu Bo explained to Dugu Yan that the Jade Phosphorous Serpent’s poison threatened its users and that he had chosen a safer cultivation path than the Poison Cultivator Branch. At the ancestral hall, Dugu Shuo recounted the family’s history and urged Dugu Feng to fulfill their ancestors’ ambition of creating a Seven-Colored Poison Pill.

• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that poison flare-ups had killed her parents, threatened him, and would eventually threaten her too.
• Dugu Bo explained that Dugu Feng’s branch cultivated powerful poison at the cost of suffering earlier, deadlier Poison Attacks, while he had resisted their ancestor’s doctrine and reached Titled Douluo.
• Dugu Yan embraced Dugu Bo and promised to cultivate hard and stay by his side.
• Dugu Shuo told Dugu Feng that Dugu Hai had ordered the family to pursue Tyrant Poison and that Dugu Bo’s Soul Fighting match had damaged Dugu Hao’s martial soul.
• Dugu Shuo urged Dugu Feng to realize Dugu Hao’s dream by condensing a Seven-Colored Poison Pill, while Dugu Feng questioned whether the plan could truly work.

Dugu Feng learned more about the Seven-Colored Poison Pill, ate five-thousand-year Whale Rubber, and spent months cultivating while Ning Rongrong’s group kept their distance. At seven and rank sixteen, he accompanied Dugu Shuo to investigate the royal family’s poisonings, which Dugu Feng connected to Xue Qinghe.

• Dugu Feng left the Ancestral Hall after discussing the Seven-Colored Poison Pill with his father and shared a meal with Little Snake, who served him five-thousand-year Whale Rubber.
• Little Snake offered to buy Dugu Feng a Catwoman, believing he needed an outlet after eating Whale Rubber, but Dugu Feng insisted he ate it to strengthen his body for absorbing a higher-age Spirit Ring.
• Dugu Feng observed that Ning Rongrong, Feng Ling, and Feng Li stopped provoking him, and Ning Rongrong delivered the stakes from their duel.
• Nearly half a year passed, and Dugu Feng turned seven, reached Soul Power rank sixteen, and gathered the energy of his two pill beads to fifty-four points.
• Dugu Shuo took Dugu Feng to the palace to examine the royal family for poison, explaining that the Second and Third Princes had died from poisoning in consecutive years.
• Dugu Feng connected the princes’ deaths to the period when Xue Qinghe had poisoned them, according to what Dugu Bo had told Tang San.

Dugu Feng accompanied Dugu Shuo to the palace to examine the royal family, while suspecting Qian Renxue was plotting against Xue Ye. During the examination, Dugu Feng sensed that Xue Ye had been poisoned, putting his family at risk of drawing the Spirit Hall’s hostility.

• Dugu Feng recalled that Xue Ye would eventually be poisoned by Yang Wushuang, a traitor of the Breaking Clan who served the Spirit Hall.
• Dugu Feng and Dugu Shuo entered the palace and met Xue Ye, Prince Xue Xing, Xue Beng, Xue Ke, and Qian Renxue disguised as Xue Qinghe.
• Dugu Shuo examined Prince Xue Xing, Qian Renxue, Xue Beng, and Xue Ke but detected nothing unusual.
• As Dugu Shuo examined Xue Ye, Dugu Feng’s Pill Bead reacted to him, revealing that Xue Ye had been poisoned.
• Dugu Feng worried that the poison and Qian Renxue’s plans could bring the Spirit Hall down on the Dugu Family.

Dugu Feng learned that the Dugu Family possessed a secret force of Nine Heavens Centipede Spirit Masters while Dugu Shuo investigated the poisoning of Xue Ye. They concluded that a powerful enemy might target the family during the upcoming Six Great Families Resolution.

• Dugu Shuo confirmed that Xue Ye was poisoned, though he told the court that the emperor was healthy, and Qian Renxue gave Dugu Feng a Crown Prince Token.
• Qian Renxue privately decided the Dugu Family had to disappear and hoped the Elephant Armor Sect and Yang Wushuang would not disappoint her.
• Dugu Shuo brought Dugu Feng to the hidden cavern beneath the ancestral memorial tablet and revealed the family's concealed Nine Heavens Centipede Spirit Masters.
• Dugu Shuo explained that Xue Ye had been poisoned with Mixed Poison and reasoned that the enemy had a powerful expert behind them, possibly backed by the Star Luo Dai Family or Spirit Hall.
• Dugu Feng warned that the enemy might attack the Dugu Family during the Six Great Families Resolution, which involved both the Dai Family and Spirit Hall.

Dugu Shuo prepared the Dugu Family for the Six Great Families Resolution, suspecting Spirit Hall and its allies were behind a poison expert threatening them. As the delegation gathered to travel to Suotuo City, Hu Yan Zhen arrived with a formidable Elephant Armor Sect contingent, and Dugu Feng suspected they intended harm.

• Dugu Shuo summoned Old Nine and ordered him to secretly investigate the poison expert, then told Old Nine and Little Nine that they and the Nine Heavens Centipede martial soul users would obey Dugu Feng if he was absent.
• Dugu Feng warned Dugu Shuo that Spirit Hall might use the Six Great Families Resolution and allies such as the Holy Dragon Sect and Elephant Armor Sect to make a move.
• Dugu Shuo and his companions prepared to leave for the resolution in Suotuo City, where representatives of the Ge Family and the Dugu Family gathered outside Heaven Dou City.
• Hu Yan Zhen arrived with thirteen other Elephant Armor Sect members and said that his sect and Thunder Academy would represent the Five Element Alliance.
• Hu Yan Zhen praised Dugu Feng's talent, while Dugu Feng suspected the Elephant Armor Sect had come with hostile intentions.

The Dugu Family’s convoy neared Suotuo City, where the Holy Dragon Sect joined them, and the two Nine-Section Emeralds rapidly grew stronger through the Pill Bead. The journey turned dangerous when Ge Ying was suddenly poisoned, leaving Dugu Shuo to examine him.

• Dugu Feng reflected on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s ties to the Five Element Alliance while cultivating during the journey.
• After half a month, Dugu Feng saw that the Nine-Section Emeralds had surpassed the Thousand-Year Soul Beast threshold and the Pill Bead’s energy had reached fifty-five.
• Old Scorpion warned Dugu Shuo that the Holy Dragon Sect was waiting ahead, and the convoy met Tuo Ba Xi and continued toward Suotuo City with growing tension.
• Ge Ying suddenly screamed and collapsed with blue-black skin and bulging veins, prompting Ge Long to ask Dugu Shuo for help.
• Dugu Shuo activated Martial Soul Possession and used four-colored light to examine Ge Ying’s condition.

Dugu Shuo saved Ge Ying from a poison attack and suspected Spirit Hall was framing the Dugu Family to provoke conflict within the convoy. Dugu Feng urged his family to counter the plot with poison, while they prepared for a possible betrayal by the Elephant Armor Sect.

• Dugu Shuo used multicolored energy to suppress Ge Ying’s poison, then explained that several toxins had been mixed and could be triggered by the poisoner’s Soul Power.
• Tuo Ba Xi accused the Dugu Family of poisoning Ge Ying, while Hu Yan Zhen and Yu Luo Mian offered their carriages for inspection.
• Ge Long said he believed the Dugu Family was innocent and refused to pursue the accusation, and Dugu Shuo returned to his carriage with his companions.
• Dugu Shuo told his family he had identified the poison and that Tuo Ba Xi’s arrival had triggered it, prompting Old Snake and the others to call for poisoning their enemies in return.
• Dugu Shuo suspected Spirit Hall was behind the plot and predicted another poisoning would prompt the Holy Dragon Sect and Elephant Armor Sect to attack.
• Dugu Feng urged Dugu Shuo to counter the hidden poisoner with poison, reasoning that Spirit Hall was not yet ready to openly crush the Dugu Family.

Dugu Shuo unleashed the Dugu Family’s Tyrant Poison, then held it back while the Elephant Armor Sect tried to lure him into an ambush. He approached the poisoned Hu Yan Hong under the watch of armed Soul Masters, leaving the planned attack poised to begin.

• Dugu Shuo combined toxins from the clan’s Soul Masters to unleash Tyrant Poison and encouraged Dugu Feng to cultivate the technique.
• Hu Yan Zhen gave his men antidote pills and ordered Hu Yan Hong to pretend to be poisoned so they could ambush Dugu Shuo.
• Hu Yan Hong and people in the Thunder Academy and Holy Dragon Sect carriages screamed, prompting Yu Luo Mian and the sect leaders to suspect the Dugu Family.
• Dugu Shuo denied that his family had used poison and sent Old Scorpion to treat Thunder Academy’s poisoned members.
• Dugu Shuo approached Hu Yan Hong’s carriage as Hu Yan Zhen and the armed Elephant Armor Sect Soul Masters waited to attack.

The Dugu Family and the Elephant Armor Sect faced off as Elephant Armor Sect members collapsed from a hidden poison. Hu Yan Zhen died after charging Dugu Shuo, leaving the convoy wary and unsure who had poisoned them.

• Dugu Shuo approached Hu Yan Hong, while Hu Yan Ming and four more Elephant Armor Sect members collapsed from the poison.
• Old Snake and Dugu Feng loudly challenged the unseen poisoner as the remaining Elephant Armor Sect members fell, leaving only Hu Yan Zhen standing.
• Hu Yan Zhen accused Dugu Shuo of poisoning his people, crushed his Antidote Pills, and charged him with Infinite Diamond.
• Old Snake stopped his tail strike when Hu Yan Zhen turned blue-black and died, bringing the Elephant Armor Sect's death toll to fourteen.
• Dugu Shuo pretended to wonder who had poisoned the sect, while Yu Luo Mian and the other witnesses grew afraid to act.

Dugu Shuo approached the Holy Dragon Sect after the Elephant Armor Sect was poisoned, but Tuo Ba Xi’s Spirit Hall backer, Elder Guimei, arrived and confronted him. Dugu Shuo blamed the Breaking Clan and accused the Dai and Zhu Families, while Guimei challenged his explanation.

• Dugu Feng urged Dugu Shuo to treat the poisoned Soul Master from the Holy Dragon Sect after the Elephant Armor Sect members died.
• Tuo Ba Xi called for help, while Tuo Ba Yan swallowed an antidote, pretended the poison was worsening, and fled.
• Dugu Shuo continued toward the Holy Dragon Sect’s carriage as Tuo Ba Xi and the other Soul Masters feared he would poison them.
• Elder Guimei appeared, shielded the Holy Dragon Sect with a barrier, and stopped Dugu Shuo from approaching.
• Dugu Shuo blamed the Breaking Clan for the poison and accused the Dai and Zhu Families of seeking to monopolize the benefits left by the Clear Sky Sect’s withdrawal.
• Guimei challenged Dugu Shuo’s claim and sent a shadow pressing toward him.

Yu Yuanzhen intervened when Guimei attacked Dugu Shuo, then joined Dugu Shuo and Ge Long in opposing Spirit Hall’s plans for the Six Great Families Resolution. Dugu Feng realized Yu Yuanzhen had publicly exposed his father’s role in eliminating the Elephant Armor Sect, and ended the night inspecting the poison’s effects.

• Dugu Shuo transformed into his Martial Soul Avatar to resist Guimei’s attack until Yu Yuanzhen arrived and blocked it.
• Guimei withdrew with the Holy Dragon Sect, while Tuo Ba Xi and the others left after saluting Yu Yuanzhen.
• Yu Yuanzhen thanked Dugu Shuo and confirmed that the Elephant Armor Sect had betrayed the Five Element Alliance, revealing their cooperation against it.
• Yu Yuanzhen, Dugu Shuo, and Ge Long agreed not to yield to Spirit Hall at the Six Great Families Resolution, and Old Scorpion detoxified the poisoned Thunder Academy member.
• Dugu Feng examined the Elephant Armor Sect’s remains and observed that his father’s poison was turning them into black water.

Dugu Feng absorbed Tyrant Poison into his Nine-Section Emeralds, then discovered the pill beads had nearly reached their toxin capacity and began cultivating to evolve them. Meanwhile, Yu Luo Mian complained to Yu Yuanzhen about the clash with the Elephant Armor Sect and the Dugu Family, and Yu Yuanzhen urged him to cultivate harder.

• Dugu Feng returned to the carriage and found Dugu Shuo recovering from Tyrant Poison’s backlash while praising the sensation of using it.
• Dugu Shuo urged Dugu Feng to strengthen his body and meridians so he could challenge a thousand-year Spirit Ring.
• Dugu Feng sensed that his pill beads’ energy had risen from fifty-five to eighty-six and realized their remaining capacity could hold Soul Power and physical energy, but not more toxin.
• Dugu Feng ate fried scorpions and Whale Rubber, drank Serpent Blood, and cultivated to fill his pill beads.
• Yu Luo Mian complained that Yu Yuanzhen had not warned him about the Elephant Armor Sect and the Dugu Family, and Yu Yuanzhen rebuked him for his slow cultivation.

Yu Yuanzhen considered Bibi Dong’s growing power and hoped to bring the Dugu Family into an alliance with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Dugu Feng’s convoy reached Suotuo City, where he eyed the Great Soul Arena and its profits as the group entered the Six Great Families’ private upper floor.

• Yu Yuanzhen urged Yu Luo Mian to spend time with his daughter and thought that Yu Xiaogang’s disciple Tang San might be important.
• Yu Yuanzhen hoped Dugu Shuo would eventually seek his help and that Dugu Yan would be won over by Tian Heng.
• Dugu Feng greeted Ge Ying after his recovery, and Ge Ying reflected on the Dugu Family’s strength and the danger of making them enemies.
• Dugu Feng’s convoy traveled to Suotuo City and saw its extensive military camps and imposing defenses.
• Dugu Feng and the others entered the Suotuo City Great Soul Arena, where Dugu Feng worried that Spirit Hall might claim the Clear Sky Sect’s former share of its profits.
• The group went to the Great Soul Arena’s top floor, the Six Great Families’ living and viewing area.