Recaps

Zhao Ming absorbed a twenty-five-thousand-year Flood Dragon Soul Ring, gaining Ultimate Strength for his Steel Whip and a powerful domain skill called Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls. After returning to Heaven Dou City, he and Qian Renxue discovered his Soul Power had risen less than expected, and he summoned his newly evolved Martial Soul to show them.

• Zhao Ming discovered his Steel Whip had evolved into an Ultimate Martial Soul with Ultimate Strength and gained the domain skill Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Zhao Ming and Snake Lance Douluo salvaged the Flood Dragon's corpse and returned to Heaven Dou City after nearly ten days of travel.
• Qian Renxue praised Zhao Ming for absorbing a twenty-five-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring and tested his Soul Power.
• Qian Renxue and Snake Lance Douluo were surprised that Zhao Ming had reached only level forty-three despite absorbing the powerful Soul Ring.
• Zhao Ming summoned his Steel Whip, revealing its silver radiance and heavy aura to Qian Renxue and Snake Lance Douluo.

Zhao Ming explained that his Steel Whip had evolved into a top-tier Martial Soul, giving him greater Soul Power and combat strength but slowing his cultivation after level thirty. Qian Renxue worried about the Angel-like drawback, then gave him a report about rare herbs in the Icebound Forest, while privately deciding he could help her change the balance of Douluo Continent.

• Zhao Ming told Qian Renxue and Snake Lance Douluo that his Steel Whip had evolved, increasing his Soul Power reserves and suppressing strength-focused tool Martial Souls but slowing his cultivation from levels thirty to seventy.
• Qian Renxue recognized the drawback as similar to the Angel Martial Soul and worried about Zhao Ming's future, but reassured herself that his talent, pills, and divine trials would help him overcome it.
• Qian Renxue encouraged Zhao Ming, and he said he was not worried because his Nine-Breath Qi Absorption and pills would offset his slower cultivation.
• Qian Renxue gave Zhao Ming a report about a cold spring in the Icebound Forest where rare ice-attributed spiritual herbs grew, promising to send someone to investigate it further.
• After Zhao Ming left, Qian Renxue privately concluded that his talent and pill-refining art could help her achieve her ambitions and change the balance of Douluo Continent.

Zhao Ming returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, revealed that his third Soul Ring had evolved his Martial Soul and raised him to level thirty-three, then left for a month of training in the Icebound Forest. Ye Lingling worried about him as he departed, and he traveled north with Snake Lance Douluo and two Spirit Hall soul masters toward the forest.

• Zhao Ming showed the Royal Dou Team his three Soul Rings and explained that absorbing an over-limit third Soul Ring had evolved his Martial Soul and brought his Soul Power to level thirty-three.
• Yu Tianheng challenged Zhao Ming to fight again, but Zhao Ming declined because he had returned to request leave for a month of training arranged by the Crown Prince.
• Ye Lingling hurried after Zhao Ming, asked whether his trip would be dangerous, and urged him to return safely; Zhao Ming promised to bring her snow lotuses.
• Zhao Ming left Heaven Dou City the next morning with Snake Lance Douluo and two Spirit Hall soul masters, heading north toward the Icebound Forest.
• Snake Lance Douluo warned Zhao Ming that powerful ice-attributed Soul Beasts lived deep in the Icebound Forest, where some ten-thousand-year beasts could rival Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

Zhao Ming traveled with Snake Lance Douluo, Su Nuan, and Tie Jing toward the Icebound Forest, secretly hoping to find a fire-attribute treasure to advance his cultivation. After Snake Lance Douluo swiftly defeated a Frost Wolf pack, the group continued deeper into the forest.

• At the inn in Northwind Town, the proprietress warned Zhao Ming and his companions that Soul Beasts had grown restless and Frost Wolves had appeared near the forest’s outskirts.
• Snake Lance Douluo studied their route and identified Frost Wolf territory, the Snow Apes’ habitat, and the dangerous Ice Thorn Forest as obstacles on the way to the Cold Spring.
• Zhao Ming considered his true goal: searching for a fire-attribute treasure hidden near the extreme cold, which could help temper his heart for the next stage of Nine-Breath Qi Absorption.
• The next morning, Zhao Ming and the three Soul Masters entered the Icebound Forest in formation and encountered a pack of thirteen Frost Wolves.
• Snake Lance Douluo killed more than half the pack with his Snake Lance techniques, drove the survivors away, and continued leading the group through further Soul Beast attacks.

Zhao Ming and his companions reached the Cold Spring, where he spotted a Flame Crystal Flower and learned that Iceheart Flame Jade lay beneath the water. A thirty-thousand-year Extreme Cold Dragon Beast emerged, and Snake Lance Douluo attacked it while Su Nuan boosted and protected the group.

• Tie Jing carved a path through the Ice Thorn Forest, allowing the group to reach the Cold Spring.
• Snake Lance Douluo sensed a powerful Soul Beast sleeping beneath the water and told the others to gather herbs quietly.
• Zhao Ming recognized a Flame Crystal Flower and learned from the Treasure-Dropping Coin that Iceheart Flame Jade lay at the bottom of the spring.
• An Extreme Cold Dragon Beast with three ten-thousand-year markings burst from the water, and Tie Jing used his sixth soul skill to shield his companions with Thorn Armor.
• Su Nuan enhanced Snake Lance Douluo, who transformed into a flaming giant serpent and attacked the Extreme Cold Dragon Beast.

Snake Lance Douluo fought the Extreme Cold Dragon Beast and gained the upper hand with his eighth soul skill. Zhao Ming used the Treasure-Dropping Coin to disrupt the beast's Soul Power, allowing Snake Lance Douluo to seize and kill it.

• Snake Lance Douluo and the Extreme Cold Dragon Beast exchanged attacks, and the beast wounded him before he broke free.
• Su Nuan healed Snake Lance Douluo while he asked Zhao Ming whether his second Martial Soul could affect the beast.
• Snake Lance Douluo used Python's Fury, and his attack overpowered the Extreme Cold Dragon Beast's beam and blasted it into a crater.
• Zhao Ming used the Fortune-Gathering Domain and struck the injured beast's head with the Treasure-Dropping Coin, throwing its Soul Power into chaos.
• Snake Lance Douluo seized the opening, bit the beast's throat, and restrained it until it stopped moving.

Zhao Ming returned from the Icebound Forest with the Iceheart Flame Jade, an Extreme Cold Dragon Beast Soul Bone, and other treasures, then used the jade to complete tempering his heart. He told Qian Renxue he planned to refine Ice Heart Pills and asked her to secure him a quiet place to work.

• Su Nuan treated Snake Lance Douluo after the battle, while Zhao Ming collected the Ice Crystal Horn and Snake Lance Douluo retrieved the Iceheart Flame Jade from the Cold Spring.
• The group gathered spiritual herbs and a left arm Soul Bone from the Extreme Cold Dragon Beast, then returned safely to Heaven Dou City ten days later.
• Zhao Ming reported the expedition to Qian Renxue and entered seclusion to temper his heart with the Iceheart Flame Jade.
• After three days, Zhao Ming completed the heart tempering and felt his physical strength and Bloodline Power steadily increase.
• Zhao Ming told Qian Renxue he intended to refine Ice Heart Pills useful even to Title Douluo and asked her to ensure he would not be disturbed.

Zhao Ming refined Ice Heart Pills and prepared gifts for Qian Renxue, Snake Lance, Su Nuan, and Tie Jing. After Qian Renxue exchanged his ice-attribute Soul Bone for a strength-attribute one, Zhao Ming went to find Snake Lance to give it to him.

• Zhao Ming asked Qian Renxue to exchange his thirty-thousand-year Extreme Cold Dragon Beast Soul Bone for a strength-attribute Soul Bone to thank Snake Lance.
• Zhao Ming arranged to give three Ice Heart Pills each to Su Nuan and Tie Jing, and Qian Renxue confirmed they were loyal to her.
• Zhao Ming refined three successful batches of Ice Heart Pills, producing twenty-seven pills after one batch failed.
• Zhao Ming gave Qian Renxue five pills and set aside three each for Snake Lance, Su Nuan, and Tie Jing, then explained the pills' effects.
• Qian Renxue gave Zhao Ming a thirty-thousand-year strength-attribute left-arm Soul Bone, and Zhao Ming went to the training grounds to find Snake Lance.

Zhao Ming gave Snake Lance Douluo a valuable soul bone and presented Ye Lingling with cultivation pills before studying medicinal herbs with her. After Ye Lingling kissed him and fled in embarrassment, she began cultivating in seclusion, while Zhao Ming arranged for her to take Mysterious Water Pills over time to raise her Innate Soul Power.

• Zhao Ming gave Snake Lance Douluo Ice Heart Pills and a thirty-thousand-year strength-attribute soul bone in gratitude for his help.
• Zhao Ming gave Ye Lingling Ice Heart Pills and discussed medicinal herbs with her while they waited for Grandpa Ye.
• Ye Lingling kissed Zhao Ming on the cheek, realized what she had done, and ran from the medical hall in embarrassment.
• Ye Lingling announced that she would cultivate in seclusion at home after the incident.
• Zhao Ming sent Ye Lingling three Mysterious Water Pills, explaining that she would take them a year apart to reach Innate Full Soul Power.

Zhao Ming emerged from seclusion after confirming that the Ice Heart Pill barely improved his cultivation, while his Soul Power reached level forty-four. He visited Ye Lingling after she became a Soul Elder, and she prepared to obtain her third Soul Ring with plans for her future growth.

• Ye Lingling took Zhao Ming's pills, raised her Soul Power to level twenty-nine, and then broke through to Soul Elder at age eleven and a half.
• Zhao Ming spent nearly fifty days in seclusion testing the Ice Heart Pill and found that it did little to improve his cultivation speed; his ultimate attribute slowed him by thirty to forty percent, but he still reached level forty-four.
• Xue Qinghe received a report that Zhao Ming had left and wondered whether he was becoming too close to the Ye Clan.
• Zhao Ming visited Ye Lingling at the Ye Clan Medical Hall and congratulated her on reaching Soul Elder.
• Ye Lingling told Zhao Ming that the Ice Heart Pill greatly increased her cultivation speed and that her grandfather had arranged her third Soul Ring, expected to be around 2,500 to 3,000 years old.
• Zhao Ming told Ye Lingling that further Mysterious Water Pills could eventually raise her Innate Soul Power to Full Soul Power and said she could become the continent's first support-type Title Douluo.

Ye Lingling obtained her third Soul Ring, and the Royal Dou Team won its first team battle. Dugu Yan then suffered a Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison backlash, giving Zhao Ming a chance to pursue entry to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.

• Ye Lingling absorbed a 2,800-year Soul Ring, reached Soul Elder, and became close to Innate Full Soul Power.
• Qin Ming sent the Royal Dou Team into its first official team battle, where they defeated the Ironblood Team without Zhao Ming intervening.
• Dugu Yan collapsed after the battle, and Ye Lingling's Ice Heart Pill temporarily suppressed the poison that was ravaging her body.
• Zhao Ming carried Dugu Yan to the Ye Clan Medical Hall, where Ye Renxin began treating her, while Zhao Ming considered how to gain access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.
• Zhao Ming told Qian Renxue he could cure Dugu Yan's poison, and Qian Renxue considered using the cure to win Dugu Bo's support.

Dugu Bo learned that Zhao Ming had refined the pill suppressing Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison, and Zhao Ming promised he could cure her completely. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo offering Zhao Ming access to his medicinal garden in Sunset Forest in exchange for treating Dugu Yan.

• Dugu Bo returned home and discovered that a pill from Ye Lingling had stabilized Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison.
• Dugu Bo took Dugu Yan to the Ye Clan Medical Hall, where Ye Renxin could not explain the pill because of his Martial Soul Oath.
• Ling Yuan Douluo arrived and protected Zhao Ming, revealing that he was her nephew.
• Zhao Ming admitted that he had refined the pill and identified the symptoms of Dugu Bo’s own Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison.
• Zhao Ming offered to cure Dugu Yan completely if he received the necessary rare herbs.
• Dugu Bo offered Zhao Ming whatever herbs he wanted from his medicinal garden in Sunset Forest.

Zhao Ming entered Dugu Bo’s hidden Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes and identified its rare Immortal Herbs, then explained ways to cure Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s poison while preserving or changing the Jade Phosphorous Serpent lineage. The chapter ended with Zhao Ming offering Dugu Bo three options for dealing with his own poison backlash.

• Zhao Ming and Ling Yuan used Ice Heart Pills to cross Dugu Bo’s poisonous miasma and descend into the valley with him.
• Zhao Ming discovered twenty-one immortal-grade medicinal herbs growing around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.
• Zhao Ming explained that the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot could detoxify Dugu Bo, but would cost him his poison arts.
• Zhao Ming offered to make Ice-Fire Divine Pills to protect Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan while preserving the Jade Phosphorous Serpent lineage, or use herbs to evolve Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul.
• Dugu Bo asked how Zhao Ming could cure his own poison, and Zhao Ming presented three options: Ice-Fire Divine Pills, Soul Core Pills, or Martial Soul evolution.

Zhao Ming used the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes’ Immortal Herbs to refine six batches of powerful pills, including five Ice-Fire Divine Pills. After giving Dugu Bo pills to help him and Dugu Yan, Zhao Ming was left with access to the herb garden and its medicinal ingredients.

• Zhao Ming gathered supplementary herbs and refined the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot into five Ice-Fire Divine Pills.
• Zhao Ming refined Dragon Transformation Pills, Soul Core Pills, Phoenix Flame Pills, Golden Body Pills, and Holy Light Pills over three days and nights.
• Dugu Bo asked for pills for himself and Dugu Yan, and Zhao Ming gave him two Ice-Fire Divine Pills, a Soul Core Pill, and a Dragon Transformation Pill.
• Zhao Ming recommended that Dugu Yan take the Dragon Transformation Pill first and that Dugu Bo choose a detoxification method after considering his options.
• Dugu Bo offered Zhao Ming the herb garden, reserving a small plot for poisonous herbs, then left to help Dugu Yan detoxify.

Zhao Ming refined pills at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, evolving Ling Yuan Douluo’s Blazing Spirit Kite into a Blazing Fire Phoenix and his Steel Whip into a Super Martial Soul. He returned to Heaven Dou City and gathered Ye Renxin and Ye Lingling at the medical hall, where he began presenting them with pills.

• Zhao Ming gave Ling Yuan Douluo a Phoenix Flame Pill, and she refined it beside the fire spring while Zhao Ming took a Golden Body Pill and an Ice-Fire Divine Pill.
• Zhao Ming completed the Ice-Fire Tempered Body, rose from level forty-four to level forty-seven, and watched his Steel Whip evolve into a Silver Whip.
• Ling Yuan Douluo’s Blazing Spirit Kite evolved into a Blazing Fire Phoenix, and her Soul Power rose from level ninety-one to the peak of level ninety-three.
• Zhao Ming and Ling Yuan Douluo flew to Heaven Dou City, where she stayed hidden while he went to the Ye Clan Medical Hall.
• Zhao Ming asked Ye Renxin to close the medical hall and summon Ye Lingling, then placed three pills on the table for them.

Zhao Ming gave Ye Lingling and Ye Renxin pills that removed the Nine-Hearted Begonia curse and could help Ye Renxin become a Title Douluo, then brought Qian Renxue pills to strengthen her and her allies. Afterward, he reviewed his gains from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes and began consolidating his cultivation.

• Zhao Ming explained that the Soul Core Pill could help Ye Renxin condense a Soul Core and break through to Title Douluo, while the Holy Light Pill and Golden Body Pill could remove Ye Lingling's curse and improve her cultivation.
• Ye Renxin pledged the Ye Clan's service to Zhao Ming, and Ye Lingling took the Holy Light Pill, which expelled the curse, raised her to level thirty-five, and gave her Nine-Hearted Begonia a Purification skill.
• Ye Renxin swallowed the Soul Core Pill to begin refining it, while Zhao Ming left the Ye Clan Medical Hall and headed to the Crown Prince's Palace.
• Zhao Ming gave Qian Renxue Holy Light Pills, Golden Body Pills, and Soul Core Pills, and she accepted them and considered giving a Soul Core Pill to her grandfather.
• Zhao Ming returned to his courtyard, reviewed the pills he had used and retained, noted that his Martial Soul had evolved into the Silver Whip and his Soul Power had risen to level forty-seven, then began consolidating his cultivation.

Qian Daoliu received Qian Renxue’s report on Zhao Ming’s pills and saw Holy Light Pills evolve three Angel Soul Masters’ Martial Souls. After forming two Soul Cores and loosening his bottleneck, he summoned Yue Guan and Gui Mei and presented them with Golden Body Pills.

• Qian Renxue sent Qian Daoliu a letter praising Zhao Ming’s alchemy and included several pills for him to distribute.
• Qian Daoliu gave three Angel Soul Masters Holy Light Pills, which evolved their Two-Winged Angels into Four-Winged Holy Angels and greatly increased their Soul Power.
• Qian Daoliu took a Soul Core Pill and formed a sacred Soul Power Soul Core and a Spatial Soul Core, loosening the bottleneck that had held him at the Limit Douluo level.
• Qian Daoliu summoned Yue Guan and Gui Mei and explained that the Golden Body Pills before them had been refined from the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone.
• Yue Guan recognized the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum’s aura in the pill and realized it could help his Martial Soul evolve.

Qian Daoliu strengthened Qian Renxue’s supporters and traveled to Heaven Dou City to help her refine Zhao Ming’s pills. The pills raised her power and began evolving her Seraphim, and Qian Daoliu planned to find holy or light-attribute Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to complete its transformation.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei swore loyalty to Qian Renxue, took Golden Body Pills from Qian Daoliu, and rose from Rank 95 to Rank 96.
• Qian Daoliu retrieved the Hundred-Thousand-Year Golden Earth Dragon Torso Bone and used his Spatial Soul Core to travel instantly to Heaven Dou City.
• Qian Renxue welcomed Qian Daoliu and insisted on continuing her undercover mission, then asked him to guard her while she took Zhao Ming’s pills.
• Qian Renxue’s Holy Light Pill turned her Seraphim’s six wings gold and manifested incomplete seventh and eighth wings, while her Golden Body Pill strengthened her body.
• Qian Renxue’s Soul Power rose from Rank 62 to Rank 67, and Qian Daoliu planned to find her holy or light-attribute Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts so her Martial Soul could evolve further.

Qian Renxue brought Qian Daoliu to meet Zhao Ming, whose Treasure-Dropping Coin absorbed Angel God Divine Power and fortune from the Angel Lineage. The coin formed its second Soul Ring, granting Zhao Ming the Honesty Authority and giving Qian Daoliu the possibility of inheriting the Contract God Godhood.

• Qian Renxue told Qian Daoliu about Zhao Ming's pills, his accomplishments, and the people he had helped, and Qian Daoliu gave her the Hundred-Thousand-Year Golden Earth Dragon Torso Bone.
• Qian Renxue led Qian Daoliu to Zhao Ming's courtyard, where Qian Daoliu sensed Zhao Ming's extraordinary abilities and asked to see his second Martial Soul.
• Zhao Ming summoned the Treasure-Dropping Coin, which drew Angel God Divine Power and fortune from Qian Daoliu and condensed a golden second Soul Ring.
• Zhao Ming gained two Soul Power levels and the Honesty Authority, which let him see through lies and could later let him enforce Martial Soul Oaths and contracts.
• Qian Daoliu discovered a seed of Contract God Godhood within himself and thanked Zhao Ming for giving him a new path toward becoming a god.

Qian Renxue gave Zhao Ming the Hundred Thousand Year Golden Earth Dragon King Torso Bone, and he absorbed its Earth Power to temper his spleen, reach Rank 50, and prepare to obtain his fifth Soul Ring. After two days of cultivation, Zhao Ming learned that Dugu Bo had arrived and went to meet him.

• Qian Daoliu gave Zhao Ming a storage Soul Tool filled with rare herbs and ores before returning to Spirit City after a private talk with Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue gave Zhao Ming the Golden Earth Dragon King Torso Bone, which he accepted because its Earth Power suited his spleen tempering.
• Zhao Ming spent two days absorbing the Soul Bone's essence, completing his spleen tempering and breaking through to Rank 50, though the bone became half-ruined.
• Zhao Ming considered seeking a strength-attributed Soul Beast for his fifth Soul Ring but decided to wait until Snake Lance Douluo finished refining the Golden Body Pill.
• After cultivating for two more days, Zhao Ming sensed Dugu Bo's arrival and went to meet him at the reception hall, where Qian Renxue left them to talk.

Zhao Ming learned that Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul had evolved into a Flood Dragon-type Martial Soul and named it the Jade Phosphorous Poison Dragon. After Ye Renxin broke through to level ninety, Zhao Ming, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Dugu Bo, and Ye Renxin set out for the Star Dou Forest to obtain Soul Rings.

• Dugu Bo brought Zhao Ming to Dugu Manor and told him that Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul had evolved after she took the Dragon Transformation Pill.
• Ye Lingling reported that Ye Renxin had condensed a Soul Core and broken through to level ninety, leaving him one Soul Ring away from becoming a Title Douluo.
• Zhao Ming revealed his four Soul Rings to Dugu Bo and Ye Lingling, then identified Dugu Yan’s evolved Martial Soul as a Flood Dragon and named it the Jade Phosphorous Poison Dragon.
• Zhao Ming arranged for the group to travel to the Star Dou Forest so Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and he could obtain Soul Rings while Ye Renxin pursued his ninth Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue agreed to Zhao Ming’s trip, and the next morning the group departed Heaven Dou City in the Dugu Clan and Ye Clan carriages.

Zhao Ming led Dugu Bo, Ye Renxin, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling into the Star Dou Forest to find Soul Rings, while using the Treasure-Dropping Coin to seek a powerful fifth Soul Ring for himself. Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling both reached Rank 43 after obtaining suitable Soul Rings, and the group prepared to search for Zhao Ming’s next.

• Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin affirmed their debts of gratitude to Zhao Ming as the group traveled six days to the Star Dou Forest.
• Zhao Ming wished for a power-type Soul Beast over fifty thousand years old with a bloodline as powerful as a Titan Giant Ape, spending nearly half the Treasure-Dropping Coin’s accumulated fortune.
• Dugu Yan killed an eight-thousand-year Silver Armored Flying Dragon and absorbed its Soul Ring, gaining the Elemental Amplification skill and rising from Rank 40 to Rank 43.
• Dugu Bo found a Sacred Sun Tree suitable for Ye Lingling and a seventeen-thousand-year Jade Spirit Snake that could serve as Dugu Yan’s fifth Soul Ring.
• Ye Lingling absorbed the Sacred Sun Tree’s Soul Ring, rose from Rank 40 to Rank 43, and put away its right arm Soul Bone after Zhao Ming advised her not to absorb it.
• With both girls’ Soul Rings secured, Dugu Bo turned the group’s attention to finding Zhao Ming’s Soul Ring.

Zhao Ming and his companions encountered a sixty-thousand-year Golden Flying Dragon in the Star Dou Forest's core area, and it singled him out for attack. Zhao Ming survived with Intangibility and countered using his luck-based abilities, but his strike could not penetrate the dragon's defenses, leaving their fight unresolved.

• A powerful pressure drove nearby Soul Beasts to flee, and Dugu Bo recognized the approaching creature as a Golden Flying Dragon nearly sixty thousand years old.
• The Golden Flying Dragon attacked Zhao Ming, but he used Intangibility to let its claw and tail pass through him unharmed.
• Zhao Ming urged Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ye Renxin to retreat while he kept the dragon occupied, and Dugu Bo led the others away.
• Zhao Ming activated Fortune Authority, causing the charging Golden Flying Dragon to cramp and crash, then used Netherworld Soul Lock to restrain its soul.
• Zhao Ming struck the dragon's head with his Silver Whip, but the blow barely marked its scales and broke the soul restraint.
• The enraged Golden Flying Dragon pursued Zhao Ming into the air, but his Intangibility continued to foil its attacks.

The Silver Dragon King sensed that Zhao Ming wielded a complete law independent of the God Realm and ordered Di Tian to help him and seek an alliance. As Zhao Ming neared exhaustion fighting the Golden Flying Dragon, Dugu Bo returned, was badly injured by the dragon, and Di Tian revealed himself.

• The Silver Dragon King sensed Zhao Ming’s wealth-related law and judged that he could become an independent God King.
• The Silver Dragon King summoned Di Tian and ordered him to help Zhao Ming obtain the Golden Flying Dragon’s Soul Ring and try to win him over.
• Zhao Ming continued evading the Golden Flying Dragon with Intangibility until his Soul Power and spiritual power were nearly depleted.
• Dugu Bo returned and attacked the Golden Flying Dragon with his Martial Soul Avatar, but the dragon struck him through trees and nearly shattered his avatar.
• Di Tian emerged from a spatial rift, criticized Dugu Bo’s reckless attack, and turned his attention to Zhao Ming.

Di Tian subdued the Golden Flying Dragon and allowed Zhao Ming to obtain its sacrificial Soul Ring, which raised Zhao Ming’s Soul Power to level fifty-four. After Di Tian left, Zhao Ming explained his intervention to Dugu Bo as the work of a transformed Soul Beast, and the two discussed the mysterious man’s immense strength.

• Di Tian forced the Golden Flying Dragon to kneel with his bloodline pressure and offered it to Zhao Ming.
• Zhao Ming asked the Golden Flying Dragon to sacrifice itself and preserve its soul, promising to revive it after becoming a god.
• The Golden Flying Dragon sacrificed itself, and Zhao Ming absorbed its mutated black-and-gold Soul Ring, reaching Soul Power level fifty-four.
• Di Tian gave Zhao Ming a scale that would let him summon Di Tian when he needed another Soul Ring, then disappeared.
• Dugu Bo checked on Zhao Ming and asked why Di Tian had helped them.
• Zhao Ming claimed Di Tian was likely a transformed Soul Beast, and Dugu Bo judged him stronger than Bibi Dong.