Chapter Summaries

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.

Zhao Ming revealed that his fifth soul skill, Strength Control, could multiply his strength through continuous stacking, then led the group to the Blue Silver Forest to find a suitable ninth Soul Ring for Ye Renxin. There, the Blue Silver King sensed the Blue Silver Emperor seed Zhao Ming carried and asked whether they had seen his Emperor.

• Zhao Ming told Dugu Bo that Strength Control could theoretically stack his strength a thousandfold, though his current body could withstand only about a hundredfold increase.
• After the group returned safely, Ye Renxin decided to settle for a plant-type Soul Beast in the Sunset Forest for his ninth Soul Ring, but Zhao Ming promised he knew a better place.
• Zhao Ming used the Treasure-Dropping Coin to awaken the Blue Silver Emperor seed's response and guide the group toward the Blue Silver Grass Clan's ancestral land.
• After two days of travel, Zhao Ming and the others reached the Blue Silver Forest, where an ancient voice welcomed the seed's aura and Zhao Ming identified its speaker as the clan's guardian.
• The group met the Blue Silver King in the forest's core, where he asked whether they had seen his Emperor, and Zhao Ming recognized that he meant Ah Yin.

Zhao Ming returned the Blue Silver Emperor’s seed to the Blue Silver King, who created a growing ninth Soul Ring for Ye Renxin. After Ye Renxin gained a powerful healing and revival skill, he and Dugu Bo formed an alliance between their clans, leaving Zhao Ming to congratulate them.

• Zhao Ming showed the Blue Silver King the Blue Silver Emperor’s seed and asked him to help Ye Renxin obtain a ninth Soul Ring.
• The Blue Silver King gathered the forest’s life force to create a blue-and-gold Soul Ring that could grow stronger over time, and Ye Renxin absorbed it successfully.
• Ye Renxin gained the ninth Soul Skill Life Rebirth, which healed injuries, restored Soul Power, and could revive someone who had died within the past hour if their soul remained intact.
• Zhao Ming and Dugu Bo reasoned that Ye Renxin’s new skill expanded the Nine-Hearted Begonia’s healing power rather than breaking its lineage rule.
• Ye Renxin proposed an alliance between the Ye Clan and the Dugu Clan, and Dugu Bo agreed to join forces with him.
• Zhao Ming congratulated the two elders, who credited him with helping their families reach this point.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Zhao Ming consolidated his new strength and reunited with Qian Renxue, then proposed a plan to sell pills under the protection of the Ye Clan, Dugu Clan, Worship Hall, and Angel Lineage. Qian Renxue agreed the plan needed consideration and decided to seek Qian Daoliu’s approval.

• Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin agreed to formalize an alliance between their clans as the group returned to Heaven Dou City.
• Ye Lingling thanked Zhao Ming before leaving, and he returned to the Crown Prince's Palace to cultivate and practice Strength Control.
• Qian Renxue returned late, heard Zhao Ming’s account of the soul hunt, and was startled that he had reached Soul King at level fifty-four before age ten.
• Zhao Ming proposed openly selling several pills, including the Sky-Pill, through Ye Renxin and Dugu Bo, with the Worship Hall and Angel Lineage taking shares for protection.
• Qian Renxue recognized that Zhao Ming wanted the Worship Hall and Angel Lineage to shield the pill business, and said she would ask Qian Daoliu for instructions.

Qian Renxue sent a proposal to Qian Daoliu for Worship Hall and the Angel Lineage to take shares in Zhao Ming’s pill business. Qian Daoliu agreed to support the plan, which would publicly distinguish Worship Hall from Spirit Hall, and dispatched representatives to Heaven Dou City.

• Snake Lance Douluo thanked Zhao Ming for the Golden Body Pill, which raised him to Rank 93 and repaired the flaw in his fifth Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue wrote to Qian Daoliu proposing that Worship Hall and the Angel Lineage take shares in Zhao Ming’s pill business.
• Zhao Ming explained to Qian Renxue that the Angel Lineage’s foundation lay in Worship Hall, separate from Pope Palace and Bibi Dong’s faction.
• Snake Lance Douluo delivered Qian Renxue’s letter to Qian Daoliu, who recognized that the proposal would publicize Spirit Hall’s internal division and weaken Bibi Dong’s authority.
• Qian Daoliu summoned Le Zhengming and Golden Crocodile Douluo and ordered them to represent the Angel Lineage and Worship Hall in Heaven Dou City, supporting the pill business.

Qian Daoliu sent Golden Crocodile Douluo and Le Zhengming to Heaven Dou City to support Qian Renxue and cooperate with Zhao Ming’s pill business. After they agreed on the partnership, Zhao Ming told Ye Renxin about the deal, and Ye Renxin urged him to address Dugu Bo’s grievances with Spirit Hall.

• Qian Daoliu gave Le Zhengming the Angel Token and ordered him and Golden Crocodile Douluo to support Qian Renxue and follow her and Zhao Ming’s arrangements.
• Qian Renxue and Zhao Ming met Golden Crocodile Douluo and Le Zhengming outside Heaven Dou City, where Le Zhengming questioned Qian Renxue about her cultivation progress.
• Zhao Ming presented the pill business’s profit-sharing contract, and Golden Crocodile Douluo and Le Zhengming accepted the arrangement for Worship Hall and the Angel Lineage.
• Zhao Ming visited Ye Renxin and explained the partnership, and Ye Renxin approved while advising him to speak with Dugu Bo about his past conflict with Spirit Hall.
• Zhao Ming and Ye Renxin set out for the Dugu Clan the next morning.