Chapter Summaries

Zhao Ming told Ye Lingling about his parents’ deaths and his wish to learn medicine, prompting her to apologize and offer to introduce him to her grandfather. As they discussed Royal Dou Team training, Zhao Ming privately revealed that he also wanted to learn medicine so he could refine pills and grow stronger against Fallen Soul Masters.

• Zhao Ming said Fallen Soul Masters had massacred his village, killing his parents, and explained that learning medicine would honor his father’s wish.
• Ye Lingling felt guilty for suspecting Zhao Ming and sincerely apologized to him.
• Ye Lingling offered to arrange a meeting between Zhao Ming and her grandfather, who could guide him in medicine.
• Ye Lingling explained the Royal Dou Team’s training arrangements to Zhao Ming as they walked, speaking more warmly than before.
• Zhao Ming privately recalled his father’s kindness and vowed to destroy Fallen Soul Masters, while admitting his real aim in studying medicine was to refine pills.

Zhao Ming considered how to adapt the Taiqing Lineage's alchemy methods to Douluo Continent and sought Ye Lingling's help learning about medicinal herbs. After joining the Royal Dou Team, he earned the other members' respect, and Qin Ming looked ahead to the team's future prospects.

• Zhao Ming compared Douluo's cultivation ranks with the Primordial World's realms and concluded that he needed to study local medicinal herbs before adapting the Taiqing Lineage's alchemy methods.
• Ye Lingling showed Zhao Ming the team's medicinal-bath building and explained how her grandfather's herbal recipe aided recovery.
• Zhao Ming asked to observe Ye Lingling preparing medicine, and she agreed on the condition that he handle nothing carelessly.
• Yu Tianheng welcomed Zhao Ming to the Royal Dou Team after recovering from their spar, while privately considering recruiting him for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yu Feng, Osler, and the Shi Mo brothers showed respect for Zhao Ming, while Dugu Yan watched him with less hostility.
• Qin Ming approved of Zhao Ming's early integration into the team and believed his arrival could help them win the Soul Master Tournament two editions later.

Zhao Ming began studying medicine under Ye Renxin while balancing the Royal Dou Team’s training and his own cultivation. Nearly half a year later, his Soul Power had reached level 36, and on his eighth birthday he prepared to refine pills for the first time.

• Ye Renxin agreed to teach Zhao Ming medicine at the Ye Clan’s medical hall, where Zhao Ming would help treat patients as he learned.
• Ye Lingling worried that Zhao Ming’s ties to the Crown Prince’s Palace meant he had been sent to win over the Ye Clan, but Ye Renxin judged him worth teaching.
• Zhao Ming trained with the Royal Dou Team, studied medicinal baths, and excelled in sparring while concealing much of his strength.
• Zhao Ming studied herbs and medical practice with Ye Renxin and read pharmacopoeias at Heaven Dou Royal Academy whenever he was not at the medical hall.
• Over nearly five months, Zhao Ming cultivated to Soul Power level 36 while presenting himself as level 26, astonishing the academy’s teachers.
• On his eighth birthday, Zhao Ming prepared to attempt pill refinement for the first time.

Zhao Ming completed his Yin-Yang Flame after months of balancing two opposing fires and began refining an Origin-Recovery Pill on his eighth birthday. After many failed attempts, he reached the pill-condensing stage on his nineteenth try, but his excitement destabilized his spiritual power and blew up the cauldron, so he took out another and continued.

• Qian Renxue obtained a sacred Angel Legion flame and a Dark Demon Dragon's beast flame for Zhao Ming to use as balanced Yang and Yin fires.
• Zhao Ming spent three days drawing both flames into his dantian and two months nurturing them until they merged into a powerful Yin-Yang Flame.
• On his eighth birthday, Zhao Ming bought medicine cauldrons and herbs and began attempting to refine an Origin-Recovery Pill inside the Mustard Seed Space.
• Zhao Ming failed more than a dozen times before successfully combining the herbs on his nineteenth attempt and forming a rotating medicinal vortex.
• Zhao Ming's excitement disrupted his spiritual power, causing the cauldron to explode, and he washed up before continuing with a second cauldron.

Zhao Ming successfully refined Origin-Recovery Pills, proving the Taiqing Lineage Alchemy Art could work on Douluo Continent. After testing a pill’s effects and refining batches of pills, he left the Mustard Seed Space with thirty-three Origin-Recovery Pills.

• On his twentieth attempt, Zhao Ming successfully refined three low-grade Origin-Recovery Pills.
• Zhao Ming recovered in the Mustard Seed Space, then refined ten pills in a batch and found that his first dose restored his Soul Power and raised it by roughly half a level.
• After taking another pill and finding it only restored his Soul Power, Zhao Ming continued refining Origin-Recovery Pills from his remaining ingredients.
• Zhao Ming lost one batch when a distraction during pill condensation caused the nearly formed pill to explode.
• Zhao Ming counted thirty-three Origin-Recovery Pills, recovered his strength, and left the Mustard Seed Space.

Zhao Ming presented Qian Renxue with his newly refined Origin-Recovery Pills, shocking her with their ability to restore Soul Power and slightly boost cultivation. Qian Renxue promised to supply him with ingredients, urged him to keep pill refining secret, and resolved to secure his loyalty to Spirit Hall.

• Zhao Ming brought his finished Origin-Recovery Pills to Qian Renxue at the Crown Prince's Palace.
• Qian Renxue tasted a pill and found that it restored about ten percent of her Soul Power while slightly raising her Soul Power Level.
• Zhao Ming explained that the cultivation boost worked only for a first-time user and said he hoped to improve the pills' recovery effect for powerful Soul Masters.
• Qian Renxue praised Zhao Ming, promised to obtain any ingredients he needed, and warned him to keep his pill refining secret.
• After Zhao Ming left, Qian Renxue considered the pills' potential and resolved to bind him firmly to Spirit Hall.

Zhao Ming spent a year advancing his alchemy and growing close to Ye Lingling, while keeping his powerful pills secret. He and Qian Renxue concealed the pills from Spirit Hall, leaving Zhao Ming free to continue cultivating and refining them.

• Zhao Ming gave Origin-Recovery Pills to Ye Lingling and Ye Renxin, who recognized their importance and swore a Martial Soul oath with Ye Lingling to protect their source.
• Zhao Ming and Ye Lingling grew close through studying medicinal knowledge and sharing his alchemy discoveries.
• Over the year, Zhao Ming refined more than a dozen kinds of pills, including Body-Strengthening, Soul-Tempering, Realm-Breaking, and Mysterious Water Pills.
• Zhao Ming kept the pills' existence secret from nearly everyone, while Qian Renxue chose not to report his alchemy to her grandfather or Bibi Dong.
• Zhao Ming was pleased that Qian Renxue had kept the secret and worked harder at cultivation and alchemy.

After a year focused largely on alchemy, Zhao Ming reached Soul Power level forty and decided to seek a fourth Soul Ring in Star Dou Forest. He arrived with Snake Lance Douluo and used the Treasure-Dropping Coin to choose a suitable ring, leaving its soul skill to fate.

• Zhao Ming reflected that alchemy had slowed his cultivation and resolved to focus more on Soul Power after reaching level forty.
• Zhao Ming told Qian Renxue he wanted to hunt for a fourth Soul Ring around thirty thousand years old, and she arranged for Snake Lance Douluo to protect him.
• Snake Lance Douluo carried Zhao Ming by air to a town outside Star Dou Forest, where they rested before entering the forest.
• Zhao Ming made a wish to the Treasure-Dropping Coin for a fourth Soul Ring between twenty-five and thirty thousand years old and let it choose the soul skill, consuming more than half the accumulated fortune.

Zhao Ming and Snake Lance Douluo followed the Treasure-Dropping Coin to a lake in Star Dou Forest, where they encountered a powerful Flood Dragon with twelve water droplets that formed a suppressive domain. Zhao Ming identified the beast as his intended third Soul Ring and asked Snake Lance Douluo to restrain it while he dealt with the droplets.

• Zhao Ming and Snake Lance Douluo followed the Treasure-Dropping Coin through Star Dou Forest to a lake in the mixed zone.
• Snake Lance Douluo released his Martial Soul and Title Douluo pressure, provoking a roar from the Soul Beast beneath the lake.
• A blue-black Flood Dragon with a single horn and twelve floating water droplets emerged from the lake.
• The twelve droplets formed a domain that suppressed Zhao Ming’s Soul Power, spiritual power, and movement, then attacked him and Snake Lance Douluo.
• Snake Lance Douluo defended against the droplets while Zhao Ming warned him not to kill the Flood Dragon, which he wanted for his third Soul Ring.
• Zhao Ming asked Snake Lance Douluo to suppress the Flood Dragon and keep it from escaping while he handled the droplets.

Zhao Ming and Snake Lance Douluo destroyed the Flood Dragon’s Water Bead Domain and killed the twenty-five-thousand-year soul beast. Zhao Ming absorbed its soul ring as his fourth and left the Steel Whip gleaming with silver radiance.

• Zhao Ming used the Treasure-Dropping Coin to knock down the Flood Dragon’s water beads while Snake Lance Douluo shattered them, breaking the Water Bead Domain.
• Snake Lance Douluo activated his Martial Soul Avatar and battled the Flood Dragon over the lake as Zhao Ming watched for an opening.
• Zhao Ming used Netherworld Soul Lock to restrain the Flood Dragon for half a second, allowing Snake Lance Douluo to pierce its vital point.
• Zhao Ming finished off the dying Flood Dragon with his Steel Whip and drew its black soul ring toward himself.
• Zhao Ming completed the absorption of his fourth soul ring in less than two hours, and silver radiance appeared across the Steel Whip.

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.