Chapter Summaries

The Soul Hunting Squad entered the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Area, where Yue Guan revealed that Spirit Hall intended to hunt two powerful Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. Hu Liena offered Ye Qingcang a place in Spirit Hall, but he refused; after Hu Liena and Yan obtained their soul rings, Ye Qingcang led the squad toward the core area.

• After ten days in the Thousand Year Soul Beast Area, the Soul Hunting Squad set out for the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Area.
• Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo told the group that two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, a Titan Giant Ape and a suspected Sky Azure Bull Python, lived near the core area's lake.
• Yue Guan promised Ye Qingcang a Hundred-Thousand-Year ninth soul ring and soul bone if he joined Spirit Hall, but Ye Qingcang refused Hu Liena's offer.
• Yan killed a soul beast for his ring, while Guimei brought a weakened ten-thousand-year soul beast for Hu Liena to finish off and absorb.
• After Hu Liena and Yan absorbed their soul rings, Ye Qingcang took command of the group and led it toward the core area.

Ye Qingcang led the Soul Hunting Squad into the Star Dou Great Forest’s core region, where he found three ninety-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant Kings. When he revealed a scarlet crystal card and the mark on his forehead, Yue Guan and Guimei recognized him as a God Trial Taker and resolved that Spirit Hall had to recruit him.

• Ye Qingcang led the group through Soul Beast territories inhabited by beasts over seventy thousand years old, while Yue Guan and the other escorts warned him about the danger.
• Hu Liena urged Yue Guan and Guimei to stay with Blue Tyrant Academy, arguing that they could not abandon the team and that Ye Qingcang was worth recruiting.
• Ye Qingcang stopped before a ninety-thousand-year male Thousand Jun Ant, and Yue Guan warned that its Hundred-Thousand-Year Queen and other Kings could surround them.
• Ye Qingcang said there was no Ant Queen nearby, only three soon-to-be Hundred-Thousand-Year Thousand Jun Ant Emperors, and told the others not to interfere with his battle.
• Ye Qingcang produced a scarlet crystal card, and Yue Guan and Guimei recognized its significance and the red sword mark on his forehead as signs that he was a God Trial Taker.

Ye Qingcang faced three nearly hundred-thousand-year-old Thousand Jun Ant Kings and explained the principles behind his Stellar Martial Path while fighting them. He sent one Ant King crashing through a rock wall with a single elbow, while the other two and the watching soul masters remained poised for the battle to continue.

• The three mutated Thousand Jun Ant Kings emerged to confront Ye Qingcang, and Yue Guan and Guimei urged the others to watch him fight.
• Ye Qingcang offered the Ant Kings a chance to surrender, then revealed that he could understand their language and explained how the Stellar Martial Path differed from Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Ye Qingcang described Soul Power as a blend of bodily and meditative energy imprinted by a martial soul, and explained that depleted bodies and spirits could leave soul masters stuck at bottlenecks.
• The purple Thousand Jun Ant King attacked, but Ye Qingcang dispersed its force into the ground with his palm and struck it more than a hundred meters with an elbow.
• Yue Guan and Guimei assessed Ye Qingcang's force control and fist intent as the observers watched the Ant King crash through a rock wall.

Ye Qingcang demonstrated Stellar Martial Path by overwhelming three ninety-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant Kings without summoning his martial soul, then revealed the immense power of Magnetic Field Martial Path. He left the onlookers stunned as he entered its second amplification, reaching Mach 4 speeds and strength of 720,000 kilograms.

• Ye Qingcang stopped the purple Thousand Jun Ant King's charge with two fingers, then flicked it back into the rubble while explaining how lightning improved his reaction speed.
• Ye Qingcang described how repeatedly perfecting Stellar Martial Path multiplied his strength and speed, and urged the students to build a strong foundation through its first seven chapters.
• Ye Qingcang used Fist Intent to send the crimson Thousand Jun Ant King through several caverns, then struck the purple and green kings, crushing their eyes and injuring them despite their attacks.
• Yue Guan and Guimei watched Ye Qingcang overpower the three ant kings without summoning his martial soul and wondered whether he believed he could now defeat a Titled Douluo.
• Ye Qingcang entered Magnetic Field Martial Path, manifested the Four Symbols and his Primordial Spirit, and explained that its power let him control forces within his magnetic field.
• Ye Qingcang announced that Magnetic Field Martial Path's second amplification raised his speed to 1,440 meters per second and his strength to 720,000 kilograms, leaving the onlookers in awe.

Ye Qingcang defeated the three Thousand Jun Ant Kings and revealed the Asura Divine Sword, while Yue Guan and Guimei explained that he was a God Trial Taker. After returning, Ye Qingcang identified himself first as Ye Qingcang and began refining the dying ant kings with Violet’s help.

• Ye Qingcang charged the Thousand Jun Ant Kings, broke the purple king’s front legs, and struck down the crimson king as the others tried to flee.
• Ye Qingcang blinded and suppressed the emerald-green king, but a blood-red sword pierced its shell and pinned it to the ground.
• Yue Guan and Guimei identified the sword as no ordinary martial soul and explained that Ye Qingcang was a God Trial Taker.
• Liu Erlong felt guilty toward Ye Qingcang as others congratulated her, while she regarded Yu Xiaogang as a stranger.
• Ye Qingcang returned with the three dying Thousand Jun Ant Kings, revealed the Asura Divine Sword, and said being a God Trial Taker was only one part of his identity.
• Ye Qingcang placed the ant kings in his Qi and Blood Furnace, and Violet prepared the medicinal ingredients for his refinement.

Ye Qingcang used the Qi and Blood Furnace to refine rare materials and three Thousand Jun Ant Kings into pills, while Liu Erlong explained how the furnace’s third sublimation enabled alchemy. The furnace produced two pills, one marked by a miniature red soul ring and the other encircled by a dragon.

• Ye Qingcang named the immense quantities of rare materials used in the refinement, leaving the onlookers stunned by their value.
• Guimei noticed that the three Thousand Jun Ant Kings had not produced soul rings, and Liu Erlong explained that the Qi and Blood Furnace could refine pills after its third sublimation.
• Liu Erlong described how the furnace extracted and concentrated the essence of medicinal ingredients and other materials, including minerals.
• Ye Qingcang called for a drop of Poison Dragon Blood, and Violet added it to the furnace before eating chocolate to replenish herself.
• Ye Qingcang opened the furnace and revealed a red pill surrounded by a miniature soul ring and a smaller black pill encircled by a giant dragon.

Ye Qingcang absorbed a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, while Dugu Bo accepted Ye Qingcang’s pill and transformed from a Jade Phosphorous Serpent into a Poison Dragon. Dugu Bo pledged to serve Ye Qingcang, and Ye Qingcang’s Soul Ring configuration changed to two black rings and two red rings.

• Ye Qingcang gave Dugu Bo a pill for Bloodline sublimation and began absorbing a Soul Ring himself.
• Ye Qingcang revealed three ten-thousand-year Soul Rings, shocking Hu Liena, Ning Rongrong, Tang San, and the others.
• Yue Guan and Guimei speculated that Ye Qingcang’s ties to Spirit Hall might involve Qian Renxue and the Worship Hall.
• Dugu Bo took the pill and began his Bloodline sublimation after seeing Ye Qingcang’s Soul Rings.
• Ye Qingcang finished absorbing the Soul Ring, and one black Soul Ring became red as a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo evolved into a Poison Dragon, took the name Poison Dragon Douluo, and pledged to serve Ye Qingcang.

Ye Qingcang’s group collected ten-thousand-year soul bones from beasts hunted by Blue Tyrant Academy students, while Yu Xiaogang challenged Ye Qingcang over the hunt’s limits and the soul bone quota. Xiao Wu defended Ye Qingcang and rebuked Yu Xiaogang, leaving the argument unresolved.

• Blue Tyrant Academy students chased a ten-thousand-year Cockscomb Snake while Ye Qingcang stored the twenty-fourth extracted soul bone.
• Violet noted that twelve more soul bones were needed to meet the quota, and Ye Qingcang said the students’ hunting results would decide whether they reached it.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned why only thirty-six soul bones were available for forty-three students and urged Ye Qingcang to expand the hunting area and kill more Soul Beasts.
• Xiao Wu angrily told Yu Xiaogang that Ye Qingcang did not owe him anything and condemned his push to hunt more Soul Beasts.
• Xiao Wu declared that she would support Ye Qingcang even if Liu Erlong and Tang San sided with Yu Xiaogang.

Liu Erlong stopped Yu Xiaogang from confronting Ye Qingcang and injured his wrist when he challenged her. After Ye Qingcang clarified that spirit bones were reserved for students who enrolled through the proper channels, Yu Xiaogang and Tang San left, and Ye Qingcang asked Zhu Zhuqing to stay so he could advise her about her sister and the Star Luo Empire’s royal struggles.

• Liu Erlong grabbed Yu Xiaogang and dislocated his wrist after he pointed at her and ignored her warning.
• Tang San rushed over, but Yu Xiaogang stopped him and told him to leave with him; Xiao Wu rebuked Tang San for defending Yu Xiaogang.
• Ye Qingcang explained that only students who enrolled by paying credits qualified for the spirit bone benefits, and Yu Xiaogang led Tang San away.
• Ye Qingcang dismissed the onlookers but asked Zhu Zhuqing to stay behind.
• Ye Qingcang used an alchemical array to draw in the returned ten-thousand-year Cockscomb Snake and urged Zhu Zhuqing to reconsider her view of her sister and the Star Luo Empire’s royal struggles.

Ye Qingcang warned Zhu Zhuqing about her sister but she rejected his advice, while Ning Rongrong realized Dai Mubai had betrayed Zhu Zhuqing and boldly expressed interest in Ye Qingcang. He distributed thirty-six Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones to Blue Tyrant Academy students and recruited Yue Guan, Guimei, and Spirit Hall companions for a journey departing the next morning.

• Zhu Zhuqing angrily rejected Ye Qingcang's advice about her sister and left, while Ning Rongrong inferred that Dai Mubai had betrayed Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Rongrong told Ye Qingcang she wanted to be his friend and openly proposed getting to know him as a possible lover; he promised her an immortal herb and a chance after their return.
• Ye Qingcang ordered Violet to recall the teams and stop hunting once the thirty-six soul bones were ready.
• Ye Qingcang distributed one Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone to each of thirty-six Blue Tyrant Academy students according to their rankings and Soul Power Levels.
• Ye Qingcang gave Yue Guan a plant-type soul bone as payment and a deposit for a favor, and Yue Guan agreed that he, Guimei, and others from Spirit Hall would depart with Blue Tyrant Academy the next morning.

Ye Qingcang led the academies and Spirit Hall into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where they discovered a vast collection of immortal herbs. He revealed that the dragon souls beneath the twin springs were the true prize and moved toward them, while Yue Guan and Tang San gaped at the flowers.

• Shui Feng, Huo Lie, and Feng Wuji joined Ye Qingcang's group because they feared the consequences of opposing him and hoped to secure his friendship.
• Ye Qingcang's group traveled through the Silves Kingdom and entered Sunset Forest using Dugu Bo's complete route map.
• Yue Guan recognized the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and enthusiastically admired it and the other immortal herbs.
• Ye Qingcang said the dragon souls at the bottom of the twin springs were the greatest treasure and crossed the flowers toward the springs.

Ye Qingcang used the bracelet of the Nine Sons of the Dragon to summon the shattered souls of the Fire Dragon King and Water Dragon King, then forced them to become artifact spirits. He laid out rules for distributing the immortal herbs, reserved several for specific people, and called Hu Liena aside for help.

• Ye Qingcang harvested the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, then used the bracelet to draw the Fire Dragon King and Water Dragon King from the springs.
• The Dragon Kings resisted Ye Qingcang's demand to serve him, but after he struck them with the Asura Divine Sword, they fled into the bracelet's Ya Zi and Chi Wen beads.
• Ye Qingcang announced that people would have ten minutes each to seek resonance with the immortal herbs and choose only one herb if they resonated with several.
• Ye Qingcang assigned the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to Xiao Wu and the Aromatic Silk Beauty to Ning Rongrong, offered herbs to Yue Guan and Guimei, and excluded Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai from choosing.
• Dai Mubai objected to the allocations, but Ye Qingcang declared that his strength made him the arbiter of fairness and then called Hu Liena aside to help him.

Ye Qingcang asked Hu Liena, Yue Guan, and Guimei to persuade Bibi Dong to reconcile with her estranged daughter. He revealed the truth behind Bibi Dong’s past, leaving Hu Liena stunned as she learned why her teacher had hidden her daughter from Spirit Hall.

• Ye Qingcang asked Hu Liena to persuade Bibi Dong to make peace with her daughter, and Yue Guan and Guimei recognized the taboo he was referring to.
• Guimei and Yue Guan initially refused, while Hu Liena pressed them to explain what had caused Bibi Dong and her daughter to fall out.
• Ye Qingcang told them to hear the whole story and urged Yue Guan and Guimei to keep the immortal herbs he had offered as gifts.
• Hu Liena guessed that Bibi Dong had chosen to marry her lover and that her daughter’s actions had caused her father’s death.
• Ye Qingcang revealed that Bibi Dong had chosen to break up with her lover, and that Pope Qian Xunji had forced her to bear his child before Bibi Dong killed him.
• Ye Qingcang explained that Bibi Dong had taken out her resentment on her daughter, even forcing her to call Bibi Dong her sister, and Hu Liena was left speechless.

Xiao Wu learned how to pluck the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and discovered that Tang San could not do so, while her own heartblood made the herb bloom. She rejected the idea that she and Tang San were meant to be together, leaving her bond with Ye Qingcang as the source of her sense of security.

• Dugu Bo suspected that Xiao Wu’s Lovesick Heartbreak Red could conceal her Soul Beast aura, and the others gathered to inspect it.
• Tang San explained the herb’s powers and said that only someone with complete sincerity for a beloved could pluck it with a drop of heartblood.
• Xiao Wu hesitantly let Tang San try, but Violet stirred his emotions and caused the flower to repeatedly bloom and wither.
• Feng Xiaotian questioned whether Tang San knew whom he loved, shattering Xiao Wu’s remaining hope in him.
• Xiao Wu sprayed her own heartblood onto the herb, made it bloom and release its stone, and told Tang San that they were not destined to be together.

Tang San’s jealousy over Xiao Wu’s feelings escalated into a confrontation with Yu Xiaogang, but Ning Rongrong’s and other geniuses’ immortal-herb transformations drew everyone’s attention. Ye Qingcang then asked Hu Liena to help persuade her teacher to reconcile with her daughter, and she accepted his trust.

• Tang San accused Xiao Wu of betraying him, but Xiao Wu rejected him and warned him to let their relationship end as it was.
• Dai Mubai and Yu Xiaogang tried to stop Tang San from confronting Xiao Wu, while Tang San turned his anger toward Yu Xiaogang.
• Ning Rongrong evolved her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and reached Soul Power Level forty.
• Shui Bing'er became a true Ice Phoenix, Huo Wu awakened her Eastern Lord Martial Soul, and Xie Yue’s Moon Blades evolved into flying weapons.
• Yue Guan and Guimei reflected on Ye Qingcang’s ability to gather and support so many geniuses with immortal herbs.
• Ye Qingcang asked Hu Liena to persuade her teacher to repair her relationship with her daughter, and Hu Liena agreed to try.

After distributing immortal herbs, Ye Qingcang earned the gratitude of several academies and watched Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu grow closer to him. Guimei then warned him that Yu Xiaogang had offered Spirit Hall Xiao Wu in exchange for power and influence, leaving Ye Qingcang intent on using Yu Xiaogang before eventually killing him.

• Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, and Shui Bing'er thanked Ye Qingcang and promised to repay his help before their academy groups departed.
• Ning Rongrong celebrated her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, kissed Ye Qingcang, and invited him to meet her father and elders; she then teased Xiao Wu about him.
• Ye Qingcang explained that the Lovesick Heartbreak Red could not prove someone’s character or devotion, and he led Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu into the woods to speak privately with Guimei.
• Guimei revealed that Yu Xiaogang had offered Xiao Wu’s 100,000-year soul ring and soul bone to Spirit Hall and proposed taking Ye Qingcang’s martial path and alchemy for the organization.
• Guimei promised to conceal Yu Xiaogang’s proposal for now, while Ye Qingcang said Yu Xiaogang would eventually be killed after serving as a useful pawn.

Ye Qingcang refined the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s immortal herbs and spring water into a pill, then used it to advance his Stellar Martial Path through its fourth sublimation. His transformation left the observers in awe, though he could not complete the fifth chapter for lack of resources.

• Ye Qingcang asked whether anyone else had yet to try the opportunity, and no one answered.
• Ye Qingcang ordered Violet to collect the immortal herb seeds and explained that cultivation methods differed from combat methods.
• Ye Qingcang refined the earth veins, nearly a thousand immortal herbs, and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s spring water into a patterned pill, then swallowed it.
• Ye Qingcang completed the fourth blood sublimation, Ten Thousand Tides Temper the Golden Body, and his muscles gained the strength to negate impacts below the speed of sound.
• Ye Qingcang demonstrated the Python Finch Fist and advanced its techniques through Dragon Luan and Dragon-Phoenix, completing the first four chapters of his path.
• Ye Qingcang could not finish the fifth chapter without more resources, and Yue Guan declared that the younger generation would revere him for ages.

Ye Qingcang and the four academies returned to Heaven Dou City after parting from Spirit Hall, while he explained how connections and hidden plans had shaped their journey. As the Heaven Dou Palace Change approached, he declared that it was time for Heaven Dou to change masters.

• Yue Guan and Guimei parted ways with Ye Qingcang and let Hu Liena stay with him, while Yan continued trying to win her affection.
• Ye Qingcang reflected on his gamble against the Asura God and why he had entered Slaughter City to eliminate Tang San’s path to divine support.
• Blue Tyrant Academy, Skywater Academy, Blazing Fire Academy, and Godwind Academy returned to Heaven Dou City and split up outside the city.
• Ye Qingcang showed Violet his messages with Qian Renxue, and Violet realized he had planned the apparent chance encounters with the other academies.
• Ye Qingcang told Violet that the final undercurrent was coming and that Heaven Dou was about to change masters.

Ning Fengzhi visited Heaven Dou City in secret after learning that Xue Qinghe had concealed Blue Tyrant Academy’s Soul Tool research and infiltrated the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s local branch. He concluded that Xue Qinghe was preparing a coup to force the Emperor to abdicate and identified Ye Qingcang as the key to his disciple’s plans.

• Ning Fengzhi angrily reviewed reports revealing that Xue Qinghe had secretly contacted Blue Tyrant Academy and hidden its Soul Tool research from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Chen Xin rebuked Ning Fengzhi for underestimating Xue Qinghe and pointed out that the Heaven Dou City branch had been infiltrated.
• Ning Fengzhi reasoned that Xue Qinghe had deliberately led Ning Rongrong to discover the branch’s problems so that she would summon her teacher to Heaven Dou City.
• Ning Fengzhi concluded that Xue Qinghe intended to force the Emperor to abdicate, though Chen Xin questioned why the Crown Prince would risk a coup when he could simply wait for the throne.
• Ning Fengzhi identified Ye Qingcang, creator of Stellar Martial Path and Soul Guidance Technology, as the lifeline of Xue Qinghe’s plans.

Hu Liena told Bibi Dong about Ye Qingcang’s strength, divine status, and gifts, then revealed she knew about Bibi Dong’s past. Bibi Dong ordered Hu Liena and the others confined, while a woman in the Divine Realm secretly altered a jade plaque to test them with more malice.

• Hu Liena explained that Blue Tyrant Academy had been safe in Sunset Forest and admitted that many geniuses there surpassed her.
• Hu Liena identified Ye Qingcang as an Asura God Test Taker and described his age, abilities, soul rings, soul bones, and gifts to Spirit Hall’s team.
• Bibi Dong examined Hu Liena’s immortal herb and agreed to meet Ye Qingcang during the Soul Master Competition.
• When Bibi Dong realized Hu Liena knew about her past, she nearly killed her, then ordered Hu Liena, Yue Guan, Guimei, and Xie Yue confined until shortly before the competition.
• A woman in black gauze watched from the Divine Realm and altered a jade plaque to subject them to further malice.