Chapter Summaries

As the Soul Hunting Squad entered the Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast Zone, Yue Guan revealed that two powerful 100,000-year soul beasts guarded the forest’s Core Region and Hu Liena offered Ye Qingcang a place in Spirit Hall. Ye Qingcang refused, and after Yan and Hu Liena obtained their soul rings, he led the remaining group toward the Core Region.

• After ten days in the Thousand-Year Soul Beast Zone, the Soul Hunting Squad set out for the Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast Zone.
• Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo told the group that a lake in the Core Region was guarded by a 100,000-year Titan Giant Ape and a suspected 100,000-year Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Hu Liena offered Ye Qingcang a guaranteed 100,000-year Ninth Soul Ring and Soul Bone if he joined Spirit Hall after graduating, but he firmly declined.
• Yan killed the soul beast he needed, while Ghost Douluo weakened a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast for Hu Liena to finish off and absorb.
• After Yan and Hu Liena stabilized their new soul rings, Ye Qingcang took command from Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo and led the remaining team toward the Core Region.

Ye Qingcang led the Soul Hunting Squad into the Star Dou Great Forest’s core region and found a Thousand Jun Ant King for his next soul ring. He revealed signs of being a God Trial Taker and insisted on fighting alone, leaving Yue Guan and Gui Mei determined to recruit him.

• Ye Qingcang pushed past the 30,000-, 50,000-, and 70,000-year soul beast zones while Yue Guan warned him about the danger.
• Hu Liena persuaded Yue Guan and the others to keep following Ye Qingcang, and the other academy teams followed Spirit Hall’s group into the core region.
• Ye Qingcang stopped before a male Thousand Jun Ant estimated to be over 90,000 years old, and Yue Guan warned that a 100,000-year Ant Queen and other Ant Kings might be nearby.
• Ye Qingcang summoned a red crystal card and said there were three 90,000-year Thousand Jun Ant Emperors, then refused help and claimed the fight as his own.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei recognized the crystal card and the mark on Ye Qingcang’s brow as signs of a God Trial Taker, and they resolved to win him over.

Ye Qingcang confronted three nearly ninety-thousand-year-old Thousand Jun Ant Kings and demonstrated his overwhelming martial arts while explaining his theories about soul power and Stellar Martial Arts. He sent one Ant King crashing through a rock wall, while the other two and the watching Soul Masters remained to face what came next.

• The three mutated Thousand Jun Ant Kings emerged, and Yue Guan explained that their wings and abilities made them close to Thousand Jun Ant Emperors.
• Ye Qingcang offered the Ant Kings a chance to surrender, then revealed that he could understand their language and criticized humans for refusing to learn about soul beasts.
• As he advanced, Ye Qingcang explained the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Stellar Martial Arts, and his theory that soul power combined bodily energy, meditative energy, and a martial-soul imprint.
• The purple Thousand Jun Ant King attacked, but Ye Qingcang caught its strike and dispersed its force into the surrounding ground.
• Ye Qingcang used Fist Intent and an elbow strike to send the Ant King through a thick rock wall, astonishing the onlookers as Yue Guan and Gui Mei urged the younger Soul Masters to learn from him.

Ye Qingcang demonstrated Stellar Martial Arts and Magnetic Field Martial Arts while fighting three Thousand Jun Ant Kings, explaining how repeated sublimation amplified his speed, strength, and defenses. After overwhelming the ants without summoning his Martial Soul, he entered Magnetic Field Martial Arts and revealed that its power could keep growing with his control.

• Ye Qingcang stopped a charging Purple Thousand Jun Ant King with two fingers, then flung it back into the rubble while explaining how lightning sharpened his reactions and Stellar Martial Arts built strength through repeated sublimation.
• The three Thousand Jun Ant Kings surrounded Ye Qingcang, but he blasted the crimson ant into distant caverns and smashed eyes, resisted ant acid, and gravely injured the green ant with a kick.
• Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Dugu Bo watched Ye Qingcang overpower the three ants without summoning his Martial Soul and wondered how he could expect to defeat a Title Douluo.
• Ye Qingcang entered Magnetic Field Martial Arts, manifested the Four Symbols, and explained that he could command forces from magnetic fields and amplify his speed to 1,440 meters per second and strength to 720,000 kilograms.

Ye Qingcang defeated the three Thousand Jun Ant Kings and revealed the Asura God Sword, leading Yue Guan and Gui Mei to identify him as a God Trial Taker. After confirming his identity, he began refining the dying kings in his Qi and Blood Furnace with Violet’s help.

• Ye Qingcang pursued the Thousand Jun Ant Kings, broke the Purple King’s forelegs, and blinded and incapacitated the Green King when it tried to protect its brothers.
• The Asura God Sword pierced the Green Thousand Jun Ant King and pinned it to the ground before Yue Guan and Gui Mei could intervene.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei explained that the Angel God had existed and declared Ye Qingcang a God Trial Taker because of his divine weapon and abilities.
• Ye Qingcang returned with the three defeated kings, pulled the Asura God Sword free, and confirmed to Ning Rongrong that he was a God Trial Taker.
• Ye Qingcang placed the dying kings into his Qi and Blood Furnace, and Violet began preparing the ingredients he needed for the refinement.

Ye Qingcang and Violet completed an alchemical process using rare treasures and three ninety-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant Kings. They produced two pills, one marked by a miniature spirit ring and the other encircled by a dragon.

• Ye Qingcang named huge quantities of rare ingredients for the pill, leaving the gathered Soul Masters astonished and Yu Xiaogang envious.
• Gui Mei noticed that the three Thousand Jun Ant Kings had not produced spirit rings, and Liu Erlong explained that the Qi and Blood Furnace’s third sublimation let it refine pills.
• Liu Erlong explained that pills could combine and concentrate the essence of many kinds of materials, including minerals.
• Ye Qingcang called for one drop of Poison Dragon Blood, and Violet added it to the furnace while eating chocolate spirit cuisine.
• Ye Qingcang opened the furnace and revealed a red pill with a miniature spirit ring and a small black pill encircled by a giant dragon.

Ye Qingcang absorbed a 100,000-Year Spirit Ring and transformed one of his ten-thousand-year rings into another 100,000-Year Spirit Ring, shocking those who watched. Dugu Bo took Ye Qingcang’s pill, evolved from a Jade Phosphor Serpent into a Poison Dragon, and pledged to serve him.

• Ye Qingcang gave Dugu Bo a bloodline-ascension pill, then began absorbing a 100,000-Year Spirit Ring while Dugu Bo weighed whether to take the offer.
• Ye Qingcang’s three black spirit rings stunned Hu Liena, Ning Rongrong, Tang San, Shui Bing’er, and the others, while Yue Guan and Gui Mei speculated about his ties to Spirit Hall and Qian Renxue.
• After seeing Ye Qingcang’s spirit rings, Dugu Bo swallowed the pill and began his bloodline ascension.
• Ye Qingcang completed his absorption, and one of his black ten-thousand-year spirit rings turned red, giving him a second 100,000-Year Spirit Ring.
• Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphor Serpent evolved into a Poison Dragon, and he declared himself Poison Dragon Douluo and pledged to serve Ye Qingcang.

Ye Qingcang and the Blue Tyrant Academy students hunted Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts to gather soul bones, while Yu Xiaogang challenged the limits of their hunt and the allocation of its rewards. Xiao Wu confronted Yu Xiaogang and declared her support for Ye Qingcang.

• Ye Qingcang stored the twenty-fourth extracted soul bone as Violet noted that twelve more were needed to meet the quota.
• Ning Rongrong reflected on the vast wealth Blue Tyrant Academy earned from spirit cuisine, soul tools, and soul bones.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned why the quota of thirty-six soul bones would leave seven of the forty-three students without one.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Ye Qingcang to treat everyone equally and expand the hunting area, but Ye Qingcang and Violet ignored him.
• Xiao Wu berated Yu Xiaogang for meddling and affirmed that she would support Ye Qingcang.

Liu Erlong stopped Yu Xiaogang from confronting Ye Qingcang, and Ye Qingcang explained that the soul-bone rewards were only for students who had enrolled through the proper channels. After Yu Xiaogang and Tang San left, Ye Qingcang asked Zhu Zhuqing to stay and advised her to reconsider her view of the Star Luo Empire’s royal struggles.

• Liu Erlong grabbed Yu Xiaogang and dislocated his wrist when he tried to challenge Ye Qingcang.
• Tang San came to Yu Xiaogang’s aid, but Xiao Wu and Yu Xiaogang both rejected his intervention.
• Ye Qingcang clarified that students who joined through the back door were not eligible for the soul-bone rewards, and Yu Xiaogang left with Tang San.
• Ye Qingcang dismissed the onlookers but told Zhu Zhuqing to stay behind.
• Ye Qingcang advised Zhu Zhuqing not to judge her sister too harshly and urged her to think more deeply about the Star Luo Empire’s royal struggles.

Ye Qingcang warned Zhu Zhuqing that Dai Mubai might have betrayed her, but she rejected his advice, while Ning Rongrong guessed the danger and boldly pursued a chance to get to know him. After distributing thirty-six ten-thousand-year Soul Bones to Blue Tyrant Academy students, Ye Qingcang recruited Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and others from Spirit Hall for a favor at their next destination.

• Zhu Zhuqing angrily rejected Ye Qingcang's advice about her sister and left, while Ning Rongrong realized Dai Mubai might have betrayed Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ye Qingcang described six tiers of friendship to Ning Rongrong, who admitted she liked him and insisted he give her a chance to understand him.
• Ye Qingcang promised Ning Rongrong an immortal herb and an opportunity to get to know him, then ordered Violet to recall the squads and prepare to distribute the Soul Bones.
• Ye Qingcang gave all thirty-six ten-thousand-year Soul Bones to Blue Tyrant Academy students, who collected them and began absorbing them.
• Ye Qingcang gave Yue Guan a Soul Bone as payment and a deposit for a favor, and Yue Guan accepted and agreed that Spirit Hall would depart with Blue Tyrant Academy the next morning.

Ye Qingcang led the academies and Spirit Hall through the Sunset Forest to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where they found a vast collection of immortal herbs. He revealed that the dragon soul beneath the twin springs was the greatest treasure, and moved toward it with his bracelet removed.

• Shui Feng, Huo Lie, and Feng Wuji joined Ye Qingcang's group because they saw friendship with him as safer and more advantageous than making him an enemy.
• Ye Qingcang's party traveled through Sylvis Kingdom and entered the Sunset Forest using Dugu Bo's route map.
• Yue Guan excitedly recognized and caressed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, then marveled at the many immortal herbs surrounding it.
• Ye Qingcang identified the dragon soul beneath the twin springs as the most precious treasure and walked toward the springs after removing his bracelet.

Ye Qingcang summoned the shattered souls of the Fire Dragon King and Water Dragon King from the springs and forced them to become spirits in his bracelet. He then laid out rules for choosing the immortal herbs, reserved several herbs, and called Hu Liena aside to help him with something.

• Ye Qingcang drew the Fire Dragon King and Water Dragon King’s souls from the springs, and both Dragon Kings submitted to his threat and entered his bracelet.
• Dugu Bo and Liu Erlong rose after the Dragon Kings’ submission, while Ye Qingcang announced that each person would have ten minutes to seek an immortal herb that resonated with them.
• Ye Qingcang named Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong’s herbs, reserved the Apricot of Blazing Fire and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass for Qian Renxue, and offered herbs to Yue Guan and Gui Mei.
• Ye Qingcang barred Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai from choosing herbs, and Dai Mubai objected before Ye Qingcang dismissed his protest.
• Ye Qingcang plucked the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and asked Hu Liena to come with him because he needed her help.

Ye Qingcang asked Hu Liena, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei to persuade Bibidong to reconcile with her daughter, then revealed the truth behind their estrangement. Hu Liena was left reeling after learning the daughter was born from Bibidong’s abuse by the former Pope, Qian Xunji.

• Ye Qingcang asked Hu Liena to persuade Bibidong, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei refused the request at first.
• Hu Liena pressed Yue Guan and Gui Mei to explain why Bibidong had a daughter, but they warned her not to ask.
• Ye Qingcang urged Yue Guan and Gui Mei to hear his story and keep the immortal herbs as gifts, and they agreed to listen.
• Ye Qingcang explained that Bibidong had rejected the former Pope’s demand to leave her lover or bring him into Spirit Hall.
• Ye Qingcang revealed that Qian Xunji had forced Bibidong to bear his child, and that Bibidong later killed him and mistreated her daughter; Hu Liena was stunned.

Xiao Wu learned that the Lovesick Heartbroken Red required sincere love to be picked, and Tang San’s failed attempt shattered her trust in him. She picked it herself by following her feelings for Ye Qingcang, leaving Tang San stunned.

• Tang San explained the Lovesick Heartbroken Red’s legend, powerful effects, and requirement that its picker shed heart’s blood out of genuine love.
• Xiao Wu worried that she could not meet the herb’s requirement, while Tang San offered to try picking it and she handed it to him.
• Violet disrupted Tang San’s emotions, causing the herb to repeatedly bloom and wither until he gave up.
• Feng Xiaotian questioned Tang San’s fickle feelings, and Xiao Wu concluded that his love for her was not real.
• Xiao Wu spilled her heart’s blood onto the herb, which bloomed and released its stone base as Tang San watched in disbelief.

Tang San’s attempt to reclaim Xiao Wu ended in rejection, while immortal herbs triggered extraordinary breakthroughs and Spirit evolutions among the assembled geniuses. Ye Qingcang then asked Hu Liena to persuade Bibi Dong to repair her relationship with her daughter, and Hu Liena agreed to help.

• Xiao Wu rejected Tang San and told him their bond was only their former friendship, while Dai Mubai and Yu Xiaogang stopped Tang San from pursuing her.
• Ning Rongrong absorbed the Aromatic Silk Beauty, advanced to level forty, and evolved her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Shui Bing'er became a true Ice Phoenix at level forty-five, Huo Wu awakened her Spirit as the Eastern Lord at level forty-three, and Xie Yue awakened his Spirit as Waning Moon at level fifty-three.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei marveled at the geniuses transformed by Ye Qingcang’s immortal herbs and at his willingness to let them choose freely.
• Ye Qingcang asked Hu Liena to persuade her teacher to mend her relationship with her daughter, and Hu Liena accepted his request and shook his hand.

Ye Qingcang said farewell to the academies’ students and learned that Yu Xiaogang had offered Xiao Wu to Spirit Hall in exchange for power and influence. Gui Mei warned him of the betrayal, and Ye Qingcang planned to use Yu Xiaogang before killing him, while hinting that the scheme could also pressure Bibidong to acknowledge her daughter.

• Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, and Shui Bing'er thanked Ye Qingcang for his kindness and left with their academy groups.
• Ning Rongrong kissed Ye Qingcang and celebrated her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, then discussed visiting Ning Fengzhi with him.
• Ye Qingcang explained to Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu that Lovesick Heartbroken Red could not define a person's feelings.
• Gui Mei secretly met Ye Qingcang and revealed that Yu Xiaogang had offered Xiao Wu and other prizes to Spirit Hall in return for eliminating Ye Qingcang and claiming his work.
• Ning Rongrong condemned Yu Xiaogang, while Ye Qingcang said he would kill him after making use of him as leverage against Bibidong.

Ye Qingcang refined the remaining immortal herbs and drained the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to advance his Stellar Martial Arts through its Fourth Sublimation. He completed the first four chapters, began but could not finish the fifth, and left the onlookers convinced that the younger generation would revere him.

• Ye Qingcang asked whether anyone else had yet to try, then told Violet to preserve the immortal herb seeds and instructed the Blue Tyrant Academy students about Stellar Martial Arts.
• Violet collected the seeds while Ye Qingcang refined the earth veins and nearly a thousand remaining immortal herbs into a pill, then swallowed it and drained the spring eyes.
• Ye Qingcang endured the Fourth Sublimation as his blood and muscles transformed, and Violet explained the changes to his body and Qi and Blood Furnace.
• Ye Qingcang demonstrated the Python Sparrow Fist as it advanced through its forms, completing the first four chapters of Stellar Martial Arts.
• Ye Qingcang began the fifth chapter but ran out of energy, and Yue Guan declared that the younger generation would revere him.

After the academies returned to Heaven Dou City, Ye Qingcang explained how his connections and hidden plans shaped the recent events. Violet discovered that he had arranged the apparent chance encounters, and Ye Qingcang announced that the Heaven Dou Palace Coup had begun.

• Spirit Hall parted ways with the four academies, and Hu Liena stayed with Ye Qingcang while Yan continued trying to win her over.
• The four academies returned to Heaven Dou City and separated outside the city.
• Ye Qingcang reflected on Blue Tyrant Academy’s ties to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family and how those connections protected Liu Erlong and him.
• Ye Qingcang showed Violet Qian Renxue’s reply, and Violet found evidence that he had arranged their encounters with Spirit Hall and the other academies.
• Ye Qingcang declared that Heaven Dou needed a new master as the Heaven Dou Palace Coup began.

Ning Fengzhi traveled secretly to Heaven Dou City after learning that Xue Qinghe had hidden Blue Tyrant Academy’s Soul Tool research and its ties to the Crown Prince. He concluded that Xue Qinghe was preparing a palace coup and identified Ye Qingcang as the key to challenging his disciple’s plans.

• Ning Fengzhi angrily reviewed intelligence revealing that Xue Qinghe had secretly contacted Blue Tyrant Academy, whose Soul Tools could kill a Soul Saint.
• Chen Xin criticized Ning Fengzhi for underestimating Xue Qinghe and pointed out that Ning Rongrong lacked the political skill to uncover the truth alone.
• Ning Fengzhi reasoned that Xue Qinghe had deliberately arranged for Rongrong to discover the secrets and prompt him to come to Heaven Dou City.
• Ning Fengzhi concluded that Xue Qinghe intended to launch a palace coup, though he and Chen Xin could not understand why the Crown Prince would risk it.
• Ning Fengzhi named Ye Qingcang, founder of Stellar Martial Arts and Soul Guidance Technology, as the lifeline of Xue Qinghe’s plans.

Hu Liena told Bibidong about Ye Qingcang’s strength, divine test, and gifts to Spirit Hall, then revealed that he had told her about Bibidong’s past. Bibidong ordered the four returnees confined while deciding to meet Ye Qingcang, as a woman in the Divine Realm secretly altered a jade tablet to test her.

• Bibidong questioned Hu Liena and the others about their delayed return, and Hu Liena explained that they had met Blue Tyrant Academy’s well-protected hunting party.
• Hu Liena said Ye Qingcang was a fifteen-year-old Asura God Test Taker who had defeated three Thousand Jun Ant Kings, created Stellar Martial Arts and alchemy, and given immortal herbs to the group.
• Bibidong agreed to meet Ye Qingcang during the Soul Master Competition, but grew suspicious when she learned Blue Tyrant Academy was based in Heaven Dou City.
• Hu Liena revealed that Ye Qingcang had told her about Bibidong’s past and pleaded for her brother, prompting Bibidong to suppress her anger and spare Xie Yue.
• Bibidong sent Hu Liena, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Xie Yue to confinement, then said she would meet Ye Qingcang herself.
• A black-gauzed woman in the Divine Realm altered a jade tablet and declared that she wanted to see how often Bibidong could overcome malice.