Chapter Summaries

After a year of recovery, Xia Mu mastered Divine Slaughter's Domain and prepared to seek his sixth Soul Ring. He brought Ling Yuan and Shui Qingwu to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well so they could cultivate there and refine Peerless Immortal Herbs, leaving them poised to begin a dangerous transformation.

• Xia Mu thanked Tang Yuehua and returned to the Xia Family with Ling Yuan and Shui Qingwu after fully refining Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Xia Mu learned that Ling Yuan had reached level fifty-two and Shui Qingwu level forty-one after gaining five Soul Power levels through a year of cultivation together.
• Xia Mu told Ling Yuan and Shui Qingwu about the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and took them to Sunset Forest, where they saw the Xia Family's fortified cultivation grounds.
• Xia Mu instructed Shui Qingwu to take Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and enter the Extreme Cold Yin Spring, while Ling Yuan was to take Infernal Delicate Apricot and enter the Blazing Yang Spring.
• Ling Yuan explained that consuming a Peerless Immortal Herb had evolved her Martial Soul into a Fire Phoenix.

Xia Mu brought Ling Yuan and Shui Qingwu to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to refine Peerless Immortal Herbs, and their joint cultivation triggered an ultimate transformation of their Martial Souls. After three days, both women emerged with Ultimate Martial Souls and sealed innate domain skills, leaving Xia Mu to congratulate them on their potential to become Peerless Douluo.

• Xia Mu gave Shui Qingwu a Peerless Immortal Herb, and Ling Yuan and Shui Qingwu began refining their herbs together in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Liu Yuer told Xia Mu that the Heaven Dou Imperial Family and Spirit Hall were trying to recruit his father, while Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin helped protect the Xia Family.
• Xia Mu and Liu Yuer agreed that the family should avoid joining Spirit Hall and focus on cultivating quietly.
• After three days, Ling Yuan and Shui Qingwu emerged from the well with Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Ice Martial Souls and innate domain skills sealed until rank seventy.
• Ling Yuan teased Xia Mu about having seen them, while Shui Qingwu blushed; Xia Mu then congratulated both women on gaining the potential to become Peerless Douluo.

Xia Mu learned that the immortal herbs had greatly raised Ling Yuan and Shui Qingwu’s Soul Power, then prepared to hunt a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger for his sixth Soul Ring. New intelligence placed the beast in the Icebound Forest, so Xia Mu assembled a powerful team and set out before it could grow stronger.

• Xia Mu explained how Martial Soul quality and Innate Soul Power affected a Soul Master’s potential, and learned that Ling Yuan and Shui Qingwu had each gained five Soul Power levels from the immortal herbs.
• Xia Mu gave Ling Yuan Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue to help Shui Qingwu strengthen her foundation, and Ling Yuan explained its effects to her.
• Half a month later, Shui Qingwu obtained a seventeen-thousand-year Ice Bird Soul Ring, while Ling Yuan gained a thirty-thousand-year Explosive Flame Sparrow Soul Ring and reached level sixty-two.
• Xia Mu revealed that he had spent two months searching for a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as his sixth Soul Ring, hoping to gain its powerful Soul Ring and possibly an External Soul Bone.
• A carrier pigeon brought Xia Mu news that the fifty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had fled to the Icebound Forest after being driven out of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xia Mu and Liu Yuer prepared to pursue the tiger with Ye Renxin, Dugu Bo, Xia Feng, and the Xia Family’s forces before it could grow stronger.

Dugu Bo, Xia Feng, and Liu Yuer battled the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in the Icebound Forest, but it dragged Xia Mu into its Life-and-Death Arena to target the weaker fighter. Xia Mu revealed that his swordsmanship remained powerful without soul skills and faced the tiger in the arena.

• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger searched the Icebound Forest for the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Ginseng King until Xia Feng and four companions confronted it.
• Dugu Bo attacked with his Blazing Sun Poison Domain and Petrifying Ray, but the tiger defended itself and counterattacked with its Evil God Light Blade.
• Xia Feng struck the tiger with his Bull Demon Power Fist, then endured its Dark Demon Evil Thunder with his Indestructible Golden Body.
• Liu Yuer stopped the tiger with her Sword of Time and severely wounded it, prompting it to drag Xia Mu into the Life-and-Death Arena.
• The tiger transformed into a small black cat and threatened Xia Mu, who summoned the Light-Hiding Sword and declared that his swordsmanship did not depend on soul skills.

Xia Mu defeated the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, claimed its Evil God Orb, and absorbed its Soul Ring and External Soul Bone. His sixth Soul Ring became a mutated natal Soul Ring that could grow by devouring Soul Beast corpses, leaving everyone astonished.

• Xia Mu countered the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's attacks with the Dugu Nine Swords and beheaded it with Nine Swords as One.
• Xia Mu seized the escaping Evil God Orb and sealed it in an anti-magic box.
• Ye Renxin healed Xia Mu, who then absorbed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Soul Ring.
• Xia Mu manifested and fused with the fifty-thousand-year Evil God Hook, an External Tail Bone, with Dugu Bo's help.
• Xia Mu revealed that his sixth Soul Ring granted Blade of Holy Light and Evil God Protection and could grow by devouring Soul Beast corpses through the Evil God Hook.
• Xia Feng explained that his own fifth Soul Ring also grew, increasing in age with his vitality and blood.

After Xia Mu gained a mutated sixth Soul Ring and reached rank 66, he learned that the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Ginseng King might be hiding in the Icebound Forest. Back in Heaven Dou City, he urged the Xia Family to recruit promising Soul Masters to build its own support network.

• Xia Mu explained that his sixth Soul Ring came from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and attributed its two soul skills and his rapid Soul Power gains to the beast’s connection to a Deity.
• Xia Mu suspected the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had been hunting the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Ginseng King in the Icebound Forest and resolved to find it first.
• The Purple-Rhyme Dragon King Ginseng emerged after Xia Mu and the others left, revealing itself as the Icebound Forest’s hidden overlord and identifying the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well as its path to becoming a Peerless Immortal Herb.
• After returning to Heaven Dou City, Xia Mu gave Xia Feng a list of six Soul Masters he wanted the Xia Family to recruit.
• Xia Feng warned that the listed talents were already established figures, so Xia Mu told him to offer them the best possible terms, prioritizing Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, Ge Long, and Zhi Lin.

After securing Xia Feng’s allegiance to the Heaven Dou Empire, Xia Mu returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where he consumed the Star Luo Spirit Pearl and formed an Ultimate Light Soul Core. The chapter ended with his Light-Hiding Sword transforming into a Radiant Sacred Dragon, astonishing Liu Yuer.

• Xia Feng agreed to serve the Heaven Dou Empire as a guest elder, and Xia Mu left his family to return to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Xia Mu reunited with Ling Yuan, Shui Qingwu, and Liu Yuer, and arranged for Shui Qingwu to travel home with him later for safety.
• Xia Mu urged Ling Yuan and Shui Qingwu to stabilize their cultivation and spar with Liu Yuer to improve their combat skills.
• Xia Mu swallowed the Star Luo Spirit Pearl, which stimulated the Primordial Unity Immortal Herb’s remaining power and raised his Soul Power to level seventy.
• Xia Mu formed an Ultimate Light Soul Core, and his Light-Hiding Sword transformed into a Radiant Sacred Dragon, prompting Liu Yuer to cry out in shock.

Xia Mu revealed that he had reached level seventy and explained Soul Cores to Liu Yuer, helping her condense an Ultimate Fire Soul Core. He then planned a trip to Dragon City and the Icebound Forest to find Ice Extreme Divine Crystal for a cage to trap the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Ginseng King.

• Liu Yuer examined Xia Mu after learning he had advanced to level seventy and found his Soul Power unusually condensed.
• Xia Mu explained Soul Cores and their requirements, then guided Liu Yuer as she condensed an Ultimate Fire Soul Core at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Xia Mu explained that Soul Cores were prototypes of Divine Cores and warned Liu Yuer not to reveal hers.
• Xia Mu announced he would travel to Dragon City and the Icebound Forest, while Ling Yuan teased him about accompanying Shui Qingwu.
• Xia Mu planned to find Ice Extreme Divine Crystal in a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave and use it to make a cage for the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Ginseng King.

Xia Mu and his companions visited Dragon City, where Shui Qingwu introduced them to her friend Nan Boer, whose mutated Rouge Dragon martial soul caught Xia Mu’s interest. Xia Mu discovered a hidden Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave beneath Nan Boer’s home and had Shui Qingwu harvest its Ice Marrow and Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, which he needed for his plan to hunt the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Ginseng King.

• Xia Mu asked Shui Qingwu about Rouge Dragon martial souls, and she told him that her friend Nan Boer possessed a mutated one.
• Shui Qingwu reunited with Nan Boer and explained how Ling Yuan’s Fire Phoenix martial soul helped suppress her cold illness.
• Xia Mu used his Fiery Golden Eyes to find a hidden Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave beneath Nan Boer’s courtyard.
• Xia Mu explained the cave’s Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow and Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, then asked Shui Qingwu to harvest them.
• Shui Qingwu entered the cave to gather the treasures, while Xia Mu planned to use the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals to prepare for hunting the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ninth-Grade Ginseng King.

Xia Mu lured the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King into a trap using the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, which transformed into a Peerless Immortal Herb after mating with it. The ginseng king agreed to spare the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and its offspring, then sacrificed itself to Xia Mu, leaving him with surging Soul Power.

• Shui Qingwu cleared the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave and agreed to bring Nan Boer to Heaven Dou City with Xia Mu.
• Xia Mu and Xia Feng went to the Icebound Forest and used the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng as bait to lure the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King.
• After half a month, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ginseng King entered the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal cage and mated with the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, helping it become a Peerless Immortal Herb.
• The ginseng king asked Xia Mu to spare the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng until their offspring were born, and Xia Mu agreed.
• The Hundred-Thousand-Year Purple-Rhyme Dragon Emperor Ginseng sacrificed itself to Xia Mu, greatly increasing his Soul Power.

Xia Mu gave the Purple-Rhyme Dragon Emperor Ginseng’s remains to his mother and its hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone to his father, helping both of them grow stronger. The family then prepared to hunt the newly awakened hundred-thousand-year Thousand-Jin Ant Emperors before their power stabilized.

• Xia Mu gave Liu Yuer the Purple-Rhyme Dragon Emperor Ginseng’s remains, and she refined it to break through to Soul Douluo.
• Xia Feng absorbed the ginseng’s hundred-thousand-year left leg bone, became a Quasi-Soul Douluo, and gained Earth Release and a healing technique.
• Xia Mu told his parents that two Thousand-Jin Ant Emperors in the Star Dou Great Forest had recently reached a hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• Xia Mu and his parents agreed to lure the Thousand-Jin Ant Emperors apart and hunt them before they grew stronger.
• Xia Mu revealed that his hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring had raised his Soul Power to level seventy-seven, and Xia Feng eagerly claimed the Soul Ring as his target.
• Xia Mu, Xia Feng, and Liu Yuer left the core region of the Icebound Forest.

Shui Qingwu persuaded her mother, Shui Miaoyin, to let her leave Dragon City with Xia Mu, while Shui Miaoyin accepted his gifts and told her daughter she could return home anytime. At the Xia residence, Xia Mu welcomed six new recruits with Ten-Thousand-Year Medicine Kings, whose effects left them astonished.

• Shui Qingwu insisted that she wanted to cultivate with Ling Yuan and follow Xia Mu, and Shui Miaoyin reluctantly gave her blessing after accepting his gifts.
• Xia Feng told Xia Mu that Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, Ge Long, Zhi Lin, Bai Baoshan, and Meng Shenji had agreed to join the Xia Family.
• Xia Mu welcomed the six recruits and distributed Ten-Thousand-Year Medicine Kings tailored to their needs.
• Zhi Lin consumed a Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng King and gained four Soul Power ranks.
• Xia Mu gave Bai Baoshan and Meng Shenji Ginseng Kings, Chao Tianxiang a Purple Lingzhi, and Meng Shu and Ge Long Dragon Lingzhi that might evolve their Martial Souls.

After Xia Mu rewarded six new Xia Family members, Meng Shu’s Martial Soul mutated and Xia Mu advised Ge Long on developing his Golden Yazi. Xia Mu and his parents then set out for the Star Dou Great Forest, where they planned to exploit a conflict between two Thousand-Jin Ant Emperors.

• The six finished cultivating, gaining Soul Power, and Meng Shu’s Martial Soul mutated into the Silver Dragon Treasure Staff with a materialized dragon soul.
• Xia Mu praised Meng Shu’s new Martial Soul and advised Ge Long to seek golden-bloodline Soul Beasts to strengthen his Golden Yazi.
• Xia Mu promised the six that the Xia Family would provide their Soul Rings and Soul Bones, while Xia Feng warned them not to betray the family.
• Xia Mu, Xia Feng, and Liu Yuer reached a soul-hunting town near the Star Dou Great Forest and prepared for a months-long hunt.
• Liu Yuer explained that two Thousand-Jin Ant Emperors had become rivals, and the group considered sowing discord to defeat them separately.

Xia Feng killed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Thousand-Jin Ant Emperor, gained its Soul Ring and left arm Soul Bone, and reached level eighty-six. Xia Mu captured Xiao Wu’s father, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Lightning Rabbit Emperor, who agreed to sacrifice himself to protect Ah Rou and Xiao Wu.

• Xia Feng defeated the Thousand-Jin Ant Emperor after powering up with Bloodthirsty Berserk, while Xia Mu noticed its companion had held back and hoped to devour it.
• Xia Feng absorbed the dead ant emperor’s left arm Soul Bone and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, gaining two skills from each and reaching level eighty-six.
• A transformed soul beast revealed himself, but Xia Mu identified and trapped him with his Slaughter Domain.
• Xia Mu recognized the man as Xiao Wu’s father and threatened his wife and child, prompting him to surrender and offer himself for Xia Feng’s mother’s Soul Ring.
• Xia Mu sealed Xiao Wu’s father’s Soul Power and dispersed the Slaughter Domain as a red beam shot into the sky.

After Liu Yuer absorbed the Lightning Rabbit Emperor’s sacrifice, she gained new powers and reached level eighty-five. As the family left the Star Dou Great Forest, they encountered Zhu Qingyue fleeing Star Luo Empire pursuers, and Liu Yuer killed the men who tried to seize her.

• Liu Yuer absorbed the Lightning Rabbit Emperor’s right leg bone and gained two eighth Soul Skills, two Soul Bone skills, and enough Soul Power to reach level eighty-five.
• Xia Mu watched the remaining Thousand-Jin Ant Emperor devour its dead counterpart, expecting it to become a future ninth Soul Ring for Xia Feng.
• Zhu Qingyue fled black-clad pursuers sent by the Star Luo Empress and tried to use Xia Mu, Xia Feng, and Liu Yuer to escape.
• Xia Mu subdued Zhu Qingyue and refused to hand her over unless the Star Luo men defeated the three of them.
• A black-clad man attacked, and Liu Yuer used the One-Character Lightning Sword to kill the pursuers in a single strike.

After Xia Mu rescued Zhu Qingyue and brought her to Heaven Dou City, he learned that Tang Hao had been waiting to challenge him. Tang Hao arrived at the Xia Residence seeking revenge, and Xia Mu prepared to kill him.

• Xia Mu refused Zhu Qingyue's request to leave and declared she would be his maid, but Liu Yuer offered to shelter her in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xia Feng gathered the spoils, and the group traveled to Heaven Dou City, where Zhi Lin told Xia Mu that Tang Hao had been seeking him.
• Xia Mu encouraged Zhi Lin to cultivate, promising him a great opportunity if he reached Soul Sage.
• Tang Hao arrived at the Xia Residence and challenged Xia Mu, saying he wanted revenge for the sword strike that had left him bedridden.
• Xia Mu opened the gate, and he and Tang Hao declared their intent to kill each other.

Tang Hao’s attempt to kill Xia Mu was stopped by Tang Xiao, and both men resolved to deal with the other’s family after gaining greater strength. A year later, Xia Mu reached level eighty and encountered the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King, who offered to help him in hopes he would protect the True Dragon Clan.

• Tang Xiao pulled Tang Hao away from Xia Mu and explained that killing him would provoke the Xia, Ye, and Dugu families and endanger the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Hao abandoned his immediate attempt but vowed to destroy the three families once he became a Titled Douluo, while Xia Mu likewise planned to destroy the Clear Sky Sect after reaching that level.
• Xia Mu decided to reveal the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well’s secrets to the Ye and Dugu families so they could grow stronger.
• Over the following year, Qian Daoliu stepped down as Pope, established the Worship Hall, and prepared to begin the Angel God Trial as Qian Xunji took over Spirit Hall.
• Xia Mu reached level eighty at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King appeared and offered to help him because of his Radiant Sacred Dragon Martial Soul.
• The two Dragon Kings asked Xia Mu to protect the True Dragon Clan if he became a god, unaware that the Silver Dragon King was still alive.

Xia Mu received the Water and Fire Dragon Kings’ divine Soul Bones and Fire Dragon King Soul Ring, then swallowed the Evil God Orb to form Yin-Yang Complementary Twin Soul Cores and transform his Body Martial Soul. After everyone benefited from the Divine Power at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Xia Mu offered to help them hunt Soul Beasts.

• The Fire Dragon King and Water Dragon King gave Xia Mu their divine-grade Soul Bones and sacrificed themselves, leaving him the Fire Dragon King’s Soul Ring as they asked him to revive them after he became a god.
• Xia Mu refined the Soul Bones and Soul Ring, raising his Soul Power to level ninety, then swallowed the Evil God Orb and formed an Ultimate Dark Soul Core alongside his Ultimate Light Soul Core.
• The Divine Power around the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well transformed Xia Mu’s Body Martial Soul and gave everyone a chance to improve their cultivation.
• After a day of meditation, Dugu Bo reached level ninety, Ye Renxin became a Soul Douluo, Liu Yuer and Xia Feng reached level ninety, and Ge Long advanced to level fifty.
• Xia Mu revealed that he had reached level ninety-six and could contend with an ordinary Peerless Douluo, then offered to hunt Soul Beasts for everyone and help Dugu Bo obtain a stronger ninth Soul Ring.

Xia Mu revealed that the Water and Fire Dragon Kings had sacrificed themselves to him and showed his unprecedented Soul Ring configuration. After helping Ge Long, Bai Baoshan, and Meng Shenji obtain stronger Soul Rings, he led Dugu Bo to seek the Nine-Jointed Emerald Snake Emperor in Sunset Forest.

• Xia Mu told Ye Renxin he knew of an eighty-five-thousand-year plant-type Soul Beast and could make it sacrifice itself as Ye Renxin’s eighth Soul Ring.
• Xia Mu explained that two divine beasts had sacrificed themselves to him in exchange for his promise to revive them after becoming a god, then revealed his nine Soul Rings, including million-year eighth and ninth rings.
• Ge Long, Bai Baoshan, and Meng Shenji each announced a breakthrough, and Xia Mu set out with them to hunt Soul Beasts while his parents guarded the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Xia Mu helped the three absorb Whale Glue and obtain stronger Soul Rings; Ge Long also gained a ten-thousand-year right arm Soul Bone, while Bai Baoshan and Meng Shenji gained none.
• Xia Mu and Dugu Bo reached a swamp in Sunset Forest, where Dugu Bo warned that the over-ninety-three-thousand-year Nine-Jointed Emerald Snake Emperor ruled Snake Island and had venom deadly even to a Titled Douluo.

Xia Mu forced the Nine-Jointed Emerald Snake Emperor to consume a Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Silkworm, triggering her hundred-thousand-year tribulation, then killed her with his Ninth Soul Skill. Dugu Bo finished the frozen beast, leaving him with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and a rare Gemstone-Type Skull to claim.

• Dugu Bo explained the Nine-Jointed Emerald Snake Emperor’s strength and why the Sunset Forest had few Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, while Xia Mu recalled his mother’s Crimson Sky Sword could suppress serpents.
• Xia Mu, Dugu Bo, and Ye Renxin flew to Snake Island, where Xia Mu tossed the Nine-Jointed Emerald Snake Emperor a Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Silkworm.
• Xia Mu threatened the serpent with his Radiant Sacred Dragon Martial Soul Avatar and Ninth Soul Skill, so she swallowed the Snow Silkworm and survived her hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation.
• The Nine-Jointed Emerald Snake Emperor challenged Xia Mu, but his Ninth Soul Skill froze her despite her Serpent Emperor’s Blessing.
• Dugu Bo petrified the frozen serpent with his Eighth Soul Skill and crushed her with his second Soul Skill, revealing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and a Gemstone-Type Skull.