Chapter Summaries

Zhao Ming secured Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin’s agreement to join a pill enterprise backed by the Worship Hall and Angel Lineage, then proposed the Pill Tower as its formal organization. The five founding parties accepted the structure and Zhao Ming’s offer to share ten pill formulas, including the Mysterious Water Pill, while the Angel Lineage and Worship Hall pledged their full support.

• Zhao Ming explained that the pill partnership involved the Worship Hall and Angel Lineage, and Dugu Bo agreed after Ye Renxin described the protection it would provide.
• Zhao Ming brought Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin outside Heaven Dou City to meet Golden Crocodile Douluo and Le Zhengming, and introduced the four elders to one another.
• Zhao Ming proposed the Pill Tower, with five hereditary Permanent Councilor seats and Ordinary Councilors who would pay membership fees for pill purchasing and sales privileges.
• Zhao Ming offered to teach the five founding parties ten basic pill formulas and revealed that the Mysterious Water Pill could raise Innate Soul Power, though each person could take only three.
• Le Zhengming pledged the Angel Lineage’s full support, Golden Crocodile Douluo pledged the Worship Hall’s backing, and Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin agreed to join the Pill Tower.

Ye Renxin publicly revealed his breakthrough to Titled Douluo and announced the founding of Pill Tower with the Dugu Clan, backed by alliances with the Angel Lineage and Spirit Hall's Worship Hall. He introduced Pill Tower's pills and membership plans, and news of the new force spread across the continent.

• Ye Renxin revealed his nine Soul Rings and announced that he had taken the title Begonia and would travel to Spirit City for his coronation.
• Ye Renxin and Dugu Bo announced the alliance between the Ye Clan and Dugu Clan and established Pill Tower, which would refuse sales to fallen Soul Masters and donate thirty percent of its income to the Angel Lineage.
• Le Zhengming pledged the Angel Lineage's alliance with Pill Tower, Dugu Bo brought the Dugu Clan into the force, and Golden Crocodile represented the Worship Hall in forming another alliance.
• Ye Renxin introduced five regular pills and revealed the Mysterious Water Pill, which could increase Innate Soul Power, announcing that only three would be auctioned each month.
• Ye Renxin outlined Pill Tower council membership and its rules against aiding fallen Soul Masters or harming commoners, then returned to the medical hall as news of Pill Tower spread across the continent.

Zhao Ming and the Pill Tower founders established rules for councilors and assigned the Angel Lineage to police corruption. News of the Tower’s founding alarmed Ning Fengzhi and drew Bibi Dong’s attention, leaving the new alliance under scrutiny as Spirit Hall’s internal divisions came into view.

• Zhao Ming proposed permanent and ordinary Pill Tower councilors, with fees and priority access to pills, and the founders approved his plan.
• Zhao Ming asked Le Zhengming to supervise councilors, and Le Zhengming agreed to create an Angel Lineage inspection team to punish violations.
• Ning Fengzhi learned of the Pill Tower’s alliance with the Angel Lineage and realized it exposed a divide between Qian Daoliu’s faction and Bibi Dong’s Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi rejected Gu Rong’s suggestion to kill Ye Renxin and decided to distinguish healing from support abilities, approach the Pill Tower, and seek to buy pills.
• Bibi Dong ordered her intelligence agent to monitor the Pill Tower after learning that Golden Crocodile Douluo and Le Zhengming had publicly allied with it.

Ye Renxin established the Pill Tower’s council, attracting powerful factions with its pills and announcing an auction of rare medicines. Zhao Ming began teaching young Soul Masters to condense Pill Fire so the tower could expand its alchemy supply, and Dugu Yan learned that her poison-based Martial Soul could still produce a suitable fire.

• Ye Renxin posted the Pill Tower’s council requirements, and Yu Luomian and Chen Xin joined on behalf of their sects, followed by Heaven Dou Royal Academy, the Four Element Academies, and other qualified factions.
• Ye Renxin announced an internal auction in half a month featuring Mysterious Water Pills, Body-Strengthening Pills, and Soul-Tempering Pills, and explained the council’s pill prices.
• Zhao Ming began teaching Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, and young Soul Masters from the Angel Lineage and Qian Gu Clan how to condense Pill Fire.
• Dugu Yan asked whether her Jade Phosphorous Poison Dragon Martial Soul could form Pill Fire, and Zhao Ming told her to refine compatible poison beast fire.

Zhao Ming trained Pill Tower’s first group of alchemists, and thirty-eight Soul Masters learned to condense Pill Fire while thirty successfully refined common pills. Pill Tower’s first internal auction then began in Heaven Dou City, where Xu Jiayan of the Star Crown Sect drew attention as one of the first-row representatives.

• Zhao Ming taught successive groups of Soul Masters to condense Pill Fire, and thirty-eight of nearly a hundred students succeeded.
• Zhao Ming taught the alchemists five common pill formulas, and thirty of them refined at least one pill within half a month.
• Pill Tower held its first internal auction at its Heaven Dou City headquarters, attended by representatives of more than seventy member factions, including Spirit Hall’s Heiyao.
• Pill Tower seated representatives of five powerful factions in the first row, including Ning Fengyuan, Yu Luomian, Heiyao, Dai Heng, and Xu Jiayan.
• Xu Jiayan, a forty-year-old level eighty-three Soul Douluo of the Star Crown Sect, arrived in a star-patterned dress and attracted attention from the other representatives.

The Pill Tower held its first internal auction, where the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and other major factions purchased rare pills. In Spirit City, Bibi Dong gave Hu Liena pills and a rare Soul Bone, enabling her to reach Innate Full Soul Power and prepare to absorb a Ten Thousand Year fourth Soul Ring.

• Yue Mingyue explained the effects of the Mysterious Water, Body-Strengthening, and Soul-Tempering Pills and opened the auction.
• Ning Fengyuan won the first three pills for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, then withdrew from further bidding.
• Spirit Hall, the Star Crown Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the White Tiger Sect bought the remaining pills.
• Bibi Dong gave Hu Liena a Mysterious Water Pill, a Body-Strengthening Pill, and a Fifty-Thousand-Year Mental Skull, then stood guard while she used them.
• Hu Liena reached Innate Full Soul Power, strengthened her body, and fused with the Mental Skull; Bibi Dong confirmed she could absorb a Ten Thousand Year fourth Soul Ring.

Hu Liena gained full innate soul power and greater strength from Bibi Dong’s pills, while Bibi Dong secretly hoped to use another Mysterious Water Pill to help Yu Xiaogang. Qian Daoliu’s influence among Spirit Hall’s elders and spies remained hidden as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect used auctioned pills to improve their heirs, leaving Ning Fengzhi’s plan to test the limits of Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul underway.

• Hu Liena thanked Bibi Dong for her pills, and Bibi Dong sent her to find Demon Bear Douluo and hunt a Soul Beast for her fourth ring.
• Bibi Dong believed Yue Guan and Gui Mei were still in seclusion, unaware they had reached level ninety-six, pledged loyalty to Qian Daoliu, and left to seek a Dragon Whale for Qian Renxue.
• Bibi Dong decided to obtain another Mysterious Water Pill for Yu Xiaogang, while Heiyao reported Hu Liena’s progress to Qian Daoliu and was promised help reaching Titled Douluo.
• Yu Yuanzhen assigned the Mysterious Water Pill to Yu Luomian, then had Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin fight for the Soul-Tempering Pill; Yu Tianheng won and took it.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Ning Rongrong three pills, raising her innate soul power to level nine and a half, and Gu Rong confirmed she could absorb a thousand-year second Soul Ring.

Ning Rongrong absorbed an eleven-hundred-year Emerald Sparrow Soul Ring and reached Level 24, while Ning Fengzhi learned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could not analyze Pill Tower's pills. After Yu Xiaogang dismissed pills as harmful shortcuts, Tang Hao decided to give Tang San the seven pills he had obtained and brought them to Yu Xiaogang.

• Ning Rongrong killed the Emerald Sparrow, absorbed its Soul Ring, and rose from Level 20 to Level 24.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed the sect's inability to identify or reproduce Pill Tower's pills and resolved to deepen their cooperation with Pill Tower.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that pills were petty tricks and that Soul Masters should cultivate steadily without relying on external aids.
• Tang Hao watched Yu Xiaogang and Tang San leave, reconsidered giving Tang San the seven pills, and decided they could help his son's cultivation.
• Tang Hao entered Yu Xiaogang's dormitory and placed the seven pills on his desk.

Yu Xiaogang secretly consumed Tang San’s Qi-Consolidation Pills under the excuse of testing them, but the pills could not break his rank-thirty bottleneck. After learning how Hu Liena benefited from Spirit Hall’s pills and feeling neglected by Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue regained her composure and arranged a rare life-force metal as Zhao Ming’s tenth-birthday gift.

• Tang Hao gave Yu Xiaogang seven pills for Tang San, but Yu Xiaogang secretly consumed the Qi-Consolidation Pill and felt his rank-thirty bottleneck loosen slightly.
• Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San the remaining six pills and claimed he had tested them, while Tang Hao watched from the shadows and chose not to confront him.
• Over the next two months, Yu Xiaogang repeatedly ate one or two pills from Tang Hao’s deliveries, but five Qi-Consolidation Pills still did not help him break through rank twenty-nine.
• Hu Liena obtained a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring after taking pills and a Mental Skull, while Spirit Hall gave Mysterious Water Pills to Xie Yue and Yan instead of Yu Xiaogang.
• Qian Renxue resented Bibi Dong’s support for Hu Liena and avoided Zhao Ming for half a month before resolving to rely on herself and her allies.
• For Zhao Ming’s tenth birthday, Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu for a small piece of life-force metal from Life Lake to give him.

Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan celebrated Zhao Ming’s birthday with a home-cooked meal and a pill furnace, while Qian Renxue gave him a priceless piece of Life’s Gold. After she revealed how much he meant to her, Zhao Ming began using the treasure to temper his lungs and resolved to grow strong enough to support her.

• Ye Lingling prepared home-cooked dishes for Zhao Ming’s birthday, and Dugu Yan brought him a finely crafted pill furnace as a gift.
• Zhao Ming celebrated with Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan, then returned to the Crown Prince’s Palace and found Qian Renxue waiting in his courtyard.
• Qian Renxue gave Zhao Ming a piece of Life’s Gold, and he explained its immense life force and value as a treasure for tempering his lungs.
• Qian Renxue said Zhao Ming mattered more to her than the priceless treasure, then left after urging him to cultivate well.
• Zhao Ming resolved to use the Life’s Gold to temper his lungs and become strong enough to stand by Qian Renxue, then began channeling its life force into his meridians.

After completing the Five-Organ Tempering, Zhao Ming gained a transformed body, perfected his Five Elements Cycle, and greatly increased his spiritual power. He discovered that Nine-Breath Qi Absorption might eventually let him condense Soul Rings independently, and planned to reach Soul Emperor before seeking out the little rabbit.

• Zhao Ming spent three days refining Life's Gold, tempering his lungs and growing from about 1.7 meters to 1.85 meters tall while gaining a body that would no longer age.
• Zhao Ming told Qian Renxue he was returning to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes to complete Five-Organ Tempering, and she wished him well.
• Zhao Ming refined the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, tempered his kidneys, and expanded his Spiritual Sea until his spiritual power reached the middle-to-late Spirit Abyss Realm.
• Zhao Ming completed the Five Elements Cycle, causing Nine-Breath Qi Absorption to circulate automatically and cultivate his Soul Power.
• Zhao Ming sensed that he might be able to condense Soul Rings independently, though he had not yet discovered how, and resolved to reach level sixty before seeking out the little rabbit.

Zhao Ming reached level fifty-five after perfecting Nine-Breath Qi Absorption, then returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and explained his sudden growth with his ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring. After studying the Ye, Dugu, and Angel Lineage meditation methods, he told Qian Renxue he planned to develop a method that could open the Extraordinary Meridians and Eight Vessels.

• Zhao Ming cultivated at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, broke through to level fifty-five, and estimated he could reach level sixty within six months.
• Zhao Ming visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where the Imperial Fighting Team was shocked by his height and ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring.
• Zhao Ming asked Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan to lend him their clans' inherited meditation methods, and they agreed without hesitation.
• Zhao Ming studied the Nine-Hearted Begonia and Dugu Clan methods at the Pill Tower headquarters.
• Qian Renxue lent Zhao Ming the Angel Lineage's meditation method and gathered advanced methods from the market at his request.
• Zhao Ming told Qian Renxue that he planned to create a meditation method that could open the Extraordinary Meridians and Eight Vessels for Soul Masters of the Pill Tower, Worship Hall, and Angel Lineage.

After abandoning his attempt to create a meridian cultivation method, Zhao Ming focused on cultivation and broke through to level sixty, becoming a Soul Emperor. He planned to go to Notting City to study Tang San’s Mysterious Heaven Skill, then encountered Dugu Bo, who had reached level ninety-five through alchemy and eagerly offered him a poison pill.

• Zhao Ming concluded that he needed to study Tang San’s Mysterious Heaven Skill to understand meridian cultivation, and planned to visit Notting City after reaching level sixty.
• Zhao Ming stopped researching a new method and spent five months cultivating, advancing from level fifty-five to level sixty and becoming a Soul Emperor.
• Zhao Ming emerged from his alchemy room and found Dugu Bo testing a potent poison pill made from Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison and other poisonous ingredients.
• Dugu Bo’s experiments with poison pills had helped him break through to level ninety-five, making him a Super Douluo.
• Dugu Bo offered Zhao Ming one of his new poison pills, but Zhao Ming refused and told him to save it for his enemies.

Zhao Ming convinced Dugu Bo to travel to Notting City to capture Xiao Wu, a hundred-thousand-year transformed soul beast protected by Tang Hao. After Dugu Bo exposed his interest in Xiao Wu, Tang Hao confronted him and threatened to kill him unless he left.

• Zhao Ming told Dugu Bo that a hundred-thousand-year transformed soul beast lived in Notting City and that Tang Hao protected her.
• Zhao Ming warned Dugu Bo about Tang Hao's lingering injuries and the Clear Sky Sect's Grand Sumeru Hammer and Ring Detonation, and Dugu Bo agreed to go without Ye Renxin.
• Zhao Ming and Dugu Bo arrived in Notting City and spotted Tang San and Xiao Wu leaving Spirit Hall's Notting Branch Hall.
• Dugu Bo recognized Xiao Wu as a hundred-thousand-year transformed soul beast and released his martial soul's aura, prompting Tang Hao to intervene with overwhelming pressure.
• Tang Hao revealed his Clear Sky Hammer and nine soul rings, including a red one, then gave Dugu Bo three breaths to leave Notting City or die.

Dugu Bo and Tang Hao took their battle outside Notting City to protect its residents, leaving Zhao Ming alone with Tang San and Xiao Wu. Zhao Ming defeated Tang San’s attempt to escape and memorized the circulation route of Mysterious Heaven Skill, then stopped the pair and faced Xiao Wu’s demand to know what he wanted.

• Dugu Bo recognized Tang Hao’s internal injuries, accepted his challenge, and followed him beyond Notting City to fight.
• After the Titled Douluos left, Tang San attacked Zhao Ming with Hidden Weapons, but Zhao Ming’s Vajra Body repelled them unharmed.
• Tang San grabbed Xiao Wu and fled using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, while Zhao Ming pursued them with Emerald Feather Protection.
• Zhao Ming used Illusion-Breaking to observe and memorize the circulation route of Mysterious Heaven Skill as Tang San ran.
• Zhao Ming pulled Tang San and Xiao Wu back with the Silver Whip, and Xiao Wu stood protectively before Tang San and asked what Zhao Ming wanted.

Zhao Ming tried to kill Tang San, but Asura God intervened and offered him a God-Given Soul Ring and Soul Bone in exchange for sparing Tang San and Xiao Wu. Zhao Ming accepted the bargain and left, while Asura God repaired Tang San's Martial Soul and erased the witnesses' memories.

• Zhao Ming used Netherworld Soul Lock to immobilize Xiao Wu, then struck Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer and shattered it, leaving Tang San badly injured.
• Asura God brought Zhao Ming into a blood-red space and offered him a God-Given Soul Ring and Soul Bone if he spared Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Zhao Ming accepted the gifts and promised not to attack Tang San again unless Tang San provoked him.
• Asura God restored Tang San's damaged Martial Soul and erased Tang San's and Xiao Wu's memories of Zhao Ming before his divine thought dissipated.

The Asura God King intervened to stop Zhao Ming from killing Tang San, then suffered the Evil God King's judgment for violating Divine Realm law. In the Goodness God Temple, the Kindness God King explained why the punishment was justified and worried over what might happen to the Divine Realm if she ever left.

• The Asura God King reflected that Zhao Ming had agreed to end his feud with Tang San after receiving a God-Given Soul Ring and God-Given Soul Bone.
• The Evil God King's Judgment Scales struck the Asura God King with judgment lightning and warned him that another violation would cost him his position as a God of Law Enforcement.
• The Goddess of Life sympathized with the Asura God King, but the Kindness God King explained that Tang San had not begun the Asura God Trial and was not officially his successor.
• The Kindness God King warned the Goddess of Life that Destruction was too inflexible to protect her from schemes, then reassured her that she was not actually leaving the Divine Realm.
• The Kindness God King wondered whether the Divine Realm could manage without her, then set aside the question and asked the Goddess of Life for more tea.

After Dugu Bo recovered from his fight with Tang Hao, he accompanied Zhao Ming to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes so Zhao Ming could absorb his God-Given Soul Ring. Zhao Ming raised it to 115,000 years, reaching level 64 and shocking Dugu Bo with his unprecedented sixth Soul Ring.

• Dugu Bo bragged that he had proved himself stronger than Qian Xunji by keeping Tang Hao on the defensive, while Zhao Ming let him enjoy the boast.
• Zhao Ming gave Dugu Bo a blood-red bead that could produce a Soul Bone suited to its user, and Dugu Bo planned to save it for Dugu Yan.
• After recovering for two days, Dugu Bo flew Zhao Ming from Fasno City to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes in Sunset Forest.
• Zhao Ming shattered the God-Given Soul Ring bead and guided the white ring onto his Silver Whip Martial Soul.
• The ring changed from white to red and stopped at 115,000 years when Zhao Ming reached his body's limit, raising his Soul Power to level 64.
• Dugu Bo stared in disbelief at Zhao Ming's yellow, purple, black, black, black, and red Soul Rings and called him a monster.

After gaining two powerful Hundred Thousand Year Soul Skills, Zhao Ming returned to Heaven Dou City and spent a month refining his Soul Power. At the Pill Tower, he discovered a Clear Sky Sect elder buying pills in bulk and followed him into a secluded alley, where the elder noticed him.

• Zhao Ming explained that Silver Whip Sky-Piercing Strike ignored and shattered defenses, while Silver Whip Body Protection gave him extreme durability at the cost of Soul Power and access to his whip.
• Dugu Bo carried Zhao Ming back to Heaven Dou City, where Qian Renxue welcomed him and heard about his new Soul Skills and four-level advance.
• Zhao Ming secluded himself for a month to stabilize his Soul Power, then returned to the bustling Pill Tower.
• A black-robed Titled Douluo tried to buy pills in bulk, but Ye Qiao'er enforced the Pill Tower's purchase limits despite his pressure.
• Zhao Ming recognized the visitor's Clear Sky Hammer aura, followed him from the Pill Tower, and heard him call out from a secluded alley.

Zhao Ming confronted Tang Fangrui, the Clear Sky Sect’s fifth elder, after following him from the Pill Tower. He overcame Tang Fangrui’s attacks and killed him in the alley, leaving the Clear Sky Sect without its Level 91 Titled Douluo.

• Zhao Ming confronted Tang Fangrui and revealed that he knew the old man was a Titled Douluo from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Fangrui unleashed his Soul Power pressure and attacked Zhao Ming with his Clear Sky Hammer, but Zhao Ming weakened the strike with his Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and countered with his silver whip.
• Tang Fangrui questioned Zhao Ming’s domain and Martial Soul suppression, and Zhao Ming claimed his silver whip surpassed the Clear Sky Hammer in grade.
• Enraged by Zhao Ming’s remarks about Tang Chen, Tang Fangrui used Clear Sky True Body and his ninth Soul Skill, Clear Sky Annihilation Strike.
• Zhao Ming used the Treasure-Dropping Coin to sever Tang Fangrui’s connection to his hammer, then locked him with Netherworld Soul Lock and killed him with Silver Whip Sky-Piercing Strike.