Chapter Summaries

Liu Yuer and Xia Feng killed a twenty-thousand-year Mighty Vajra Bear, and Xia Feng absorbed its soul ring to gain the Indestructible Vajra Body. After selling their other spoils at the Heaven Dou Auction, Xia Mu urged Xia Feng to bid on an ancient Dragon Pill.

• Liu Yuer and Xia Feng worked together to defeat the Mighty Vajra Bear, with Xia Feng using his Bloodthirsty Berserk Hurricane Right Leg Bone skill to finish it off.
• Xia Feng absorbed the bear's soul ring and gained the fifth soul skill Indestructible Vajra Body.
• Xia Feng and Xia Mu sorted the hunting spoils, then took the valuable items to the Heaven Dou Auction to sell.
• The auctioneer introduced an ancient Dragon Pill as the first finale item, starting at one million gold soul coins.
• Xia Mu told Xia Feng to bid on the Dragon Pill.

Xia Mu learned of a rare Gemstone-Type Skull believed to be held by a Queen Medusa and arranged for Xia Feng and Liu Yuer to distract the beast. As Xia Feng lured the Queen Medusa away, Liu Yuer carried Xia Mu into the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to seek its Immortal Herbs.

• Xia Feng won a rare Dragon Core at auction, which Xia Mu said his Martial Soul had identified as useful to him.
• Ye Renxin of the Nine-Heart Begonia lineage reached Soul Sage, while Xia Feng and Liu Yuer strengthened their relationship with the Ye Family and consolidated their cultivation.
• Xia Mu told Xia Feng and Liu Yuer about the Queen Medusa and the possible Gemstone-Type Skull she had nurtured, then explained its potential role in a Soul Bone set.
• Xia Mu asked Xia Feng and Liu Yuer to lure the Queen Medusa away so he could enter the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Xia Feng attacked the Jade-Phosphor Seven-Extinction Flowers and fled as the enraged Queen Medusa pursued him.
• Liu Yuer took Xia Mu over the poisonous mist and into the depths of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Xia Mu harvested the immortal herbs and medicine kings from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well before escaping with Liu Yuer and Xia Feng. Back at the Xia Family, he gave his parents herbs to strengthen their martial souls and body, then swallowed the Primordial Unity Immortal Herb to boost his cultivation.

• Liu Yuer left Xia Mu at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and returned to help Xia Feng evade Queen Medusa.
• Xia Mu harvested fifteen peerless immortal herbs and a large supply of nine-grade medicine kings from the well.
• Liu Yuer returned as Queen Medusa approached, and she carried Xia Mu away to reunite safely with Xia Feng before the three left Sunset Forest.
• At the Xia Family, Xia Mu gave Liu Yuer the Black Jade Divine Bamboo and Earth Dragon Golden Gourd, and gave Xia Feng the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Narcissus Jade Flesh Bone.
• Xia Mu swallowed the Primordial Unity Immortal Herb, causing his soul power to grow rapidly and begin transforming into dense liquid soul power.

Xia Mu refined Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, raising his spiritual power to the Spirit Abyss Realm and gaining Fiery Golden Eyes, while Liu Yuer and Xia Feng underwent major Martial Soul evolutions. The family planned to obtain sixth Soul Rings for Liu Yuer and Xia Feng before searching the dangerous Sword Mountain Range for Xia Mu’s ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring.

• Xia Mu refined Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, reached the Spirit Abyss Realm, and cultivated Fiery Golden Eyes.
• Liu Yuer’s Martial Soul evolved into the Super Martial Soul Azure Flood Dragon Sword, and her Soul Power reached level sixty.
• Xia Mu revealed that he had reached level forty and wanted to absorb a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring.
• Xia Feng awakened his twin-arm Martial Soul at Gold Level, gained golden flesh and jade bones, and developed a growing Blood Essence Soul Ring.
• Xia Mu chose a ten-thousand-year Black-Jointed Bamboo King as his target, and Xia Feng proposed searching for one in the dangerous Sword Mountain Range after obtaining their sixth Soul Rings.

Xia Feng and Liu Yuer prepared to hunt powerful soul beasts and sought help from Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin. When they found Dugu Bo dying from soul poison, Xia Mu used the Dragon Core to save him, creating a Poison Dragon Inner Core that could help him become a Titled Douluo.

• Xia Feng planned to hunt a sixty-eight-thousand-year Armored Rhino, while Liu Yuer remained determined to hunt a sixty-thousand-year Queen Medusa.
• Xia Feng and Liu Yuer decided to recruit Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin to help with their hunt.
• Xia Feng's family arrived at the Dugu Family and found Dugu Bo suffering a severe soul poison backlash.
• Dugu Bo asked Xia Feng to protect Dugu Xin if he ever fell into hardship, and Xia Feng promised to help his sworn brother.
• Xia Mu put the Dragon Core into Dugu Bo's mouth, healing his injuries and raising his soul power from level seventy-one to level seventy-six.
• Xia Mu identified the transformed Dragon Core as a Poison Dragon Inner Core that could let Dugu Bo advance to Titled Douluo.

Xia Feng and Liu Yuer returned from their soul-hunting expedition with sixty-thousand-year sixth rings after Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin helped them. Liu Yuer had also obtained a rare Queen Medusa skull bone, while Xia Mu remained in the Dugu Estate.

• Dugu Bo’s soul poison entered the dragon core and became a life-bound pill pearl, while his martial soul evolved into the Jade-Phosphorus Serpent Emperor.
• Xia Feng and Liu Yuer asked Dugu Bo to help hunt sixty-thousand-year soul beasts, explaining that their earlier soul rings and unusual physiques let them absorb rings beyond ordinary limits.
• Dugu Bo agreed to help and recruited Ye Renxin, then left Xia Mu in the Dugu Family’s care while the group went hunting.
• More than half a month later, Xia Feng and Liu Yuer returned with sixty-thousand-year sixth rings, and Ye Renxin marveled at their success.
• Xia Feng reached level sixty-three and gained Golden Plate Armor, while Liu Yuer reached level sixty-three and gained Time Stop, which could halt enemies or accelerate her.
• Liu Yuer obtained a Queen Medusa skull bone more than sixty thousand years old, and Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin kept its existence secret.

After testing Dugu Bo’s trustworthiness, Xia Mu and his parents traveled to the Sword Mountain Range to hunt a ten-thousand-year Mutated Black-Jointed Bamboo King. Xia Mu absorbed its Soul Ring despite the bamboo forest’s attack, leaving him with a stronger foundation but still limited by his age.

• Xia Mu refused the sixty-thousand-year Medusa skull bone, so Liu Yuer absorbed it and reached level sixty-six.
• Xia Mu judged that Dugu Bo had passed his test, and Liu Yuer decided the family would rest before traveling to Star Luo.
• Xia Feng explained the evolution of Mutated Black-Jointed Bamboo, and Xia Mu used Fiery Golden Eyes to locate a hidden ten-thousand-year bamboo shoot.
• Xia Mu killed the Mutated Black-Jointed Bamboo King, triggering a deadly sword-leaf assault that Xia Feng and Liu Yuer held back with their defenses.
• Xia Mu absorbed the bamboo king’s Soul Ring and crushed its resistance in his sea of consciousness, though he recognized that his age and undeveloped body prevented him from absorbing a stronger ring.

Xia Mu brought his family to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where they cultivated and built a medicinal-herb trade with the Dugu and Ye families. A year later, Liu Yuer returned with a rare Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng.

• After absorbing the Black-Jointed Bamboo King’s Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, Xia Mu reached rank forty-four and gained the Frost Blade Manifestation soul skill.
• Xia Mu, Xia Feng, and Liu Yuer left the Green Jade Sword Bamboo Forest and traveled to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to cultivate.
• Xia Mu replanted Immortal Herb roots and herb seeds, and arranged for seventh-grade spirit herbs to be traded through the Nine-Heart Begonia lineage.
• Over the following year, the Xia, Dugu, and Ye families agreed to trade medicinal ingredients and rare spirit herbs; Dugu Bo, Xia Feng, Liu Yuer, and Dugu Xin all advanced in strength.
• Liu Yuer returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with a jade box and revealed that she had found Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng.

Xia Mu revealed that his family had acquired an immature Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and planned to cultivate it at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. He then went to Slaughter City to pursue the Killing God Domain, where a year and a half of battles led him to develop his swordsmanship and the beginnings of the Dugu Nine Swords.

• Liu Yuer showed Xia Mu the five-thousand-year-old Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, and he decided to grow it at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well until it became an immortal herb.
• Xia Mu told Liu Yuer he planned to enter Slaughter City, hunt for his fifth soul ring, and seek opportunities to advance her Azure Flood Dragon Sword; Liu Yuer agreed to take him there.
• Xia Mu arrived at Slaughter Town, drank the Bloody Mary, and entered Slaughter City after secretly preparing to purge its toxins with the Aromatic Silk Immortal Herb.
• A year and a half later, Xia Mu had earned the name Sword Demon and adopted the identity of Dugu Qiubai after fighting his way through Slaughter City.
• Xia Mu studied the four realms of swordsmanship, neared his hundredth victory, and continued refining the Dugu Nine Swords through battle.

Xia Mu defeated Tang Hao with a single sword, then won a hundred consecutive arena matches and entered Hell Road. There, he killed the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King and gained its External Soul Bone, the Dark Gold Bat Wings.

• Tang Hao challenged Xia Mu, but Xia Mu pierced his lung with the Light-Hiding Sword and left him severely injured.
• Xia Mu won a hundred consecutive battles in the Hell Slaughter Arena and refused the King of Slaughter's offer to become a guest elder.
• The King of Slaughter opened Hell Road, and Xia Mu entered the trial grounds.
• Xia Mu lured the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King with Drunken Dragon Grass and killed it while it was drunk.
• Xia Mu absorbed the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King's Soul Ring and obtained the External Soul Bone, Dark Gold Bat Wings.

Xia Mu gained the Dark Gold Bat Wings, killed the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent, and escaped the Slaughter City with the Slaughter God Domain. He returned to Heaven Dou City after nearly two years away and learned that his family had moved and his allies had grown stronger.

• Xia Mu absorbed the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King’s external soul bone and fifth soul ring, reaching level fifty-seven and gaining the Myriad Swords Returning to the Sect soul skill.
• Xia Mu used his clones and sword skill to kill the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent, took its inner core, and stored its remains.
• Xia Mu crossed the blood sea, left the Slaughter City with the Slaughter God Domain, and discovered that his external soul bone had fully fused with him.
• Xia Mu returned to the empty Xia Family residence and learned from Feng Yansha that Xia Feng had become a Soul Sage and the family had moved beside the Dugu Family.
• Feng Yansha told Xia Mu that Dugu Bo had gained an eighth soul ring and a right arm bone from an eighty-thousand-year Rock-Splitting Python, raising his soul power to level eighty-four.

Xia Mu returned home after two years away and gave Liu Yuer the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s inner core, which transformed her Martial Soul into the Ultimate Fire Crimson Sky Sword and raised her to level seventy-five. After revealing his External Soul Bone, Xia Mu planned to visit the Dugu Family with the serpent’s remains for Grandpa Dugu.

• Feng Yansha told Xia Mu that Dugu Bo had reached Soul Douluo and gained an eighty-thousand-year Soul Ring, while Xia Feng had advanced to level seventy.
• Xia Mu learned Liu Yuer had refused to obtain her seventh Soul Ring while waiting for him, then hurried home and reunited with her.
• Xia Mu gave Liu Yuer the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s inner core and explained that refining it could transform her Martial Soul.
• Liu Yuer refined the inner core, awakening the Crimson Sky Sword with Ultimate Fire and reaching level seventy-five.
• Xia Mu revealed his External Soul Bone to Liu Yuer and said he would visit Grandpa Dugu with the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s remains.

Xia Mu visited the Dugu Estate and gave Dugu Bo and Dugu Xin rare medicinal treasures, including gifts intended for Feng Yansha, while earning Dugu Bo’s allegiance. He revealed his extraordinary Soul King cultivation, and Dugu Bo explained that even Clear Sky Douluo Tang Chen had vanished after entering Slaughter City.

• Xia Mu reunited with Dugu Bo and presented him with a Ten-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Dragon Lingzhi to advance his martial soul.
• Xia Mu produced the remains of a Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent and explained how Dugu Bo could use them with the herb to evolve his martial soul and turn his toxins into nourishment.
• Dugu Bo vowed to follow Xia Mu and knelt to show his gratitude, but Xia Mu helped him up and called him family.
• Xia Mu gave Dugu Xin a Ten-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Purple Lingzhi and offered Feng Yansha a Ten-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Ginseng King to restore her aptitude.
• Xia Mu revealed that he was a level fifty-seven Soul King at age twelve, with a thousand-year second ring and a ten-thousand-year fourth ring.
• Dugu Bo told Xia Mu that Slaughter City was rumored to hold a god’s inheritance and that Clear Sky Douluo Tang Chen had entered it and never returned.

Xia Mu learned that Ye Renxin hoped to marry Ye Ziyi into the Xia Family and agreed to discuss the proposal after returning from a trip. In Sunset Forest, he encountered Ling Yuan fleeing a furious ninety-thousand-year Blazing Sun Golden Crow Emperor, and the chapter ended with him urging her to run.

• Dugu Bo told Xia Mu that Ye Renxin wanted to arrange a marriage between Ye Ziyi and Xia Mu, and Xia Mu recognized the proposal as a way for the Ye Family to secure support.
• Xia Mu said he would discuss the matter with Ye Renxin after returning from his trip, then left the Dugu Family.
• Dugu Bo scolded Dugu Xin for delaying having children, but Feng Yansha arrived and Dugu Bo went to refine the Ten-Thousand-Year Medicine King.
• Xia Mu flew toward the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and encountered Ling Yuan, a Blazing Academy student fleeing a soul beast.
• Xia Mu identified the pursuer as a ninety-thousand-year Blazing Sun Golden Crow Emperor whose child Ling Yuan had killed, then told her to run.

Xia Mu brought Ling Yuan, who was fleeing a ninety-thousand-year Blazing Sun Golden Crow Emperor, to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where Xia Feng and Liu Yuer drove the beast away. Ling Yuan then despaired over losing the Blazing Golden Bird soul ring she needed to begin her planned career with Spirit Hall.

• As Xia Mu and Ling Yuan fled through the forest, she explained that her soul-hunting squad had scattered when the Blazing Sun Golden Crow Emperor appeared after she killed its offspring.
• Xia Mu led Ling Yuan to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and called for Xia Feng and Liu Yuer, who arrived and recognized the pursuing beast as a ninety-thousand-year Blazing Sun Golden Crow Emperor.
• Xia Feng and Liu Yuer activated their Martial Soul Avatars and attacked the beast together, forcing it to flee.
• Ling Yuan thanked Xia Feng and Liu Yuer, and Xia Mu explained that she had graduated from Blazing Academy and was hunting for her fourth soul ring.
• Ling Yuan remembered the Blazing Golden Bird soul ring and tried to return for it, but Xia Mu stopped her as she revealed that losing it had ruined her plans to join Spirit Hall as a purple-robed bishop.

Xia Mu helped Ling Yuan absorb a soul ring, then persuaded her to join the family he was building by showing her the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and offering her an immortal herb. Ling Yuan evolved her Martial Soul into a Fire Phoenix, and the chapter ended with her resolving to pursue Xia Mu despite learning he would soon have a fiancée.

• Xia Mu, Liu Yuer, and Ling Yuan traveled to the Blazing Sun Golden Crow's nest, where Ling Yuan absorbed the Blazing Golden Bird's soul ring and reached level forty-one.
• Xia Mu offered Ling Yuan a place on his team and brought her to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, convincing her to join.
• Xia Mu gave Ling Yuan a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, which she refined and used to evolve her Martial Soul into a Fire Phoenix.
• Ling Yuan became embarrassed after Xia Mu saw her during the transformation, and Xia Mu gave her Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue as compensation.
• Xia Mu told Ling Yuan that the Ye Family of Heaven Dou planned a marriage alliance with his family, and Ling Yuan decided she still had a chance to pursue him.

Xia Mu agreed to an engagement with Ye Ziyi and gave the Ye Family two Immortal Herbs. Ye Ziyi’s Martial Soul transformed into Sacred Heart Begonia, breaking the Nine-Heart Begonia clan’s curse and leaving the family with hope for its future.

• Ye Renxin proposed a lasting marriage alliance, and Xia Mu agreed to an engagement with Ye Ziyi, with their wedding to wait until he turned eighteen.
• Ye Renxin learned Xia Mu was only twelve and was astonished by his strength as a high-level Soul King.
• Xia Mu gave Ye Renxin an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid as the Xia Family’s bride price and gave Ye Ziyi an Aromatic Silk Beauty as her engagement gift.
• Ye Renxin explained that the Nine-Heart Begonia clan’s curse meant one person had to die whenever another was born, and he urged Ye Ziyi to consume the Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• After refining the herb, Ye Ziyi’s Nine-Heart Begonia mutated into Sacred Heart Begonia with Ultimate Wood and Ultimate Light attributes, and Ye Renxin declared the clan’s curse broken.

Ye Ziyi discovered that her Sacred Heart Begonia had gained Ultimate Wood and Ultimate Light, and she and Xia Mu awakened a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. After Ye Renxin advanced through an Immortal Herb, he took Ye Ziyi to the Dugu Family, where Dugu Bo revealed that his Martial Soul had mutated into a Three-Headed Fierce Yang Serpent.

• Ye Ziyi told Ye Renxin that her Sacred Heart Begonia had gained Ultimate Wood and Ultimate Light, and she and Xia Mu formed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Ye Ziyi reached level forty, and Xia Mu urged Ye Renxin to take the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid; it raised Ye Renxin to level seventy-five and improved his aptitude.
• Ye Renxin took Ye Ziyi and Xia Mu to the Dugu Family, where Dugu Xin explained that he and Feng Yansha had gained Soul Power from medicinal kings while Dugu Bo remained in seclusion.
• Dugu Bo emerged and explained that refining the Nine-Grade Dragon Lingzhi and the remains of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent had transformed his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor into a Three-Headed Fierce Yang Serpent.

After Dugu Bo and the others revealed their breakthroughs, Xia Mu went to Moonlight Pavilion with Ling Yuan to suppress the killing intent and other negative effects they carried. There, Ling Yuan sensed a resonance with Shui Qingwu, raising the possibility of another Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Dugu Bo said the Nine-Grade Dragon Lingzhi and Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent remains had raised him to level eighty-five, and Dugu Xin and Dugu Shasha reported reaching levels sixty and fifty.
• Ye Renxin said he and Ye Ziyi had also benefited from Xia Mu's help, and he joined Dugu Bo's planned hunt in Sunset Forest to find Soul Beasts for Dugu Xin, Dugu Shasha, and Ye Ziyi.
• Xia Mu told Ye Renxin and Dugu Bo that he would take Ling Yuan to Moonlight Pavilion, where Tang Yuehua's Noble Domain could suppress their negative effects.
• Xia Mu paid Tang Yuehua twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins to use her Noble Domain, and she recognized the killing intent around him and the violent Soul Power within Ling Yuan.
• Ling Yuan sensed a Martial Soul resonance with Shui Qingwu, who introduced herself as a member of the Tianshui Clan of Dragon City.

Xia Mu discovered that Ling Yuan and Shui Qingwu’s Fire and Ice Phoenix martial souls were undergoing dangerous trials that could lead to ultimate martial souls through Ninefold Nirvana. He persuaded Shui Qingwu to join his team so she and Ling Yuan could cultivate together, leaving the two women bound to face their trials side by side.

• Ling Yuan introduced herself and Xia Mu to Shui Qingwu, and Xia Mu recognized that Shui Qingwu was Shui Bing’er’s mother because they shared the Condensed Water Luan martial soul.
• Shui Qingwu and Ling Yuan realized their Ice and Fire Phoenix martial souls were reacting to each other, and Shui Qingwu explained that her accumulated cold energy periodically caused her intense pain.
• Xia Mu explained that Phoenix martial souls underwent dangerous nirvanas, and that surviving nine could transform them into ultimate martial souls.
• Xia Mu told Ling Yuan and Shui Qingwu that cultivating together could help them survive their trials, while Ling Yuan worried about her accumulating evil fire.
• Ling Yuan encouraged Shui Qingwu to join Xia Mu’s team, and Shui Qingwu agreed so she could cultivate with Ling Yuan and escape her suffering.