Chapter Summaries

Tianlin defeated Yu Tianheng in their sparring match by using Icefire God Sealing to weaken and seal Yu Tianheng’s Soul Power and second Soul Ring. Yu Tianheng admitted defeat, and both fighters ended the match.

• Tianlin escalated the fight with Seven Kill Swordplay as he and Yu Tianheng traded powerful attacks.
• Yu Tianheng used his second soul skill, Thunderous Might, and began to overpower Tianlin in a contest of Soul Power.
• Tianlin withdrew his Icefire God Sealing attack, then blocked Thunderous Might with Frezing Snow and counterattacked.
• Tianlin wounded Yu Tianheng and explained that Icefire God Sealing had sealed about seven levels of his Soul Power.
• Yu Tianheng found that his second Soul Ring was also sealed, admitted defeat, and withdrew his Martial Soul.

Tianlin defeated Yu Tianheng in a Soul Fight, while Ye Lingling collected her winnings from Osler. Qin Ming arranged more matches to build the nine students’ reputations, and the group was officially named the Royal Fight Team.

• Tianlin defeated Yu Tianheng, who admitted defeat after recognizing that he could not win.
• Ye Lingling demanded 400,000 Gold Soul Coins from Osler for losing the bet, and he agreed to sign an IOU.
• Tianlin revealed that he and Gu Ran had backed Ye Lingling’s bet, leaving Osler convinced they had tricked him.
• Qin Ming arranged Soul Fights for the other students, and the nine-person group gained a reputation across Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Meng Shenji increased the nine students’ cultivation resources, and their team was named the Royal Fight Team.

After a year of training, Jun Tianlin and the Royal Fight Team had grown much stronger, while Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s first team remained poorly prepared for the upcoming tournament. During a sparring session, the Royal Fight Team overwhelmed them, leaving the academy’s leaders pessimistic about its chances.

• Jun Tianlin reached rank 26, learned alchemy, and mastered the second and third forms of the Seven Kill Swordplay while the other Royal Fight Team members also advanced.
• The Royal Fight Team regularly sparred with Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s first team, whose three low-level Soul Ancestors and four high-level Soul Elders struggled against them.
• Jun Tianlin and Yu Tianheng combined fire and lightning in the Demon Sword Skill, Sword Qi Burning Thunder, while Dugu Yan’s venom blocked the first team’s escape.
• The Royal Fight Team blasted Heaven Dou’s first team into a soot-covered mess, and Jun Tianlin taunted them about the skills he had not used.
• The first team’s captain begged to stop training, Meng Shenji lamented their performance, and Zhi Lin left, declaring that Heaven Dou Royal Academy would be mocked by Star Luo Royal Academy at the tournament.

After Dugu Yan collapsed following the match, Tianlin suspected her poison was beginning to overwhelm her, despite the healer’s claim that she had merely overused her martial soul. Dugu Bo arrived and reunited with his recovered granddaughter, while Tianlin recognized that her poison needed to be treated soon.

• Meng Shenji praised the Royal Fight Team and said they would be Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s hope in six years.
• Dugu Yan grew dizzy after training, collapsed, and lost consciousness as Yu Tianheng and the team rushed to help her.
• Meng Shenji sent Dugu Yan to the infirmary, where a healing-system Soul Saint restored her to consciousness and said she had overused her martial soul.
• Tianlin suspected Dugu Yan’s poison had begun to backlash and decided that detoxifying her could not be delayed.
• Dugu Bo arrived after Zhi Lin fetched him, comforted Dugu Yan, and thanked the Royal Fight Team before eyeing Tianlin, Ye Lingling, and Yu Tianheng.

Tianlin drew Dugu Bo away from the academy and revealed that he knew about Dugu Bo’s worsening poison symptoms. He used the Holy Spirit Pearl and a secret method to ease the poison, leaving Dugu Bo amazed by Tianlin’s abilities.

• Dugu Bo mocked Yu Tianheng for losing to Tianlin, but recognized Yu Tianheng’s composure and considered him worthy of Dugu Yan.
• Tianlin asked Dugu Bo to speak privately and took him to a lake outside the academy.
• Tianlin described Dugu Bo’s secret poison symptoms, prompting Dugu Bo to seize him before Tianlin persuaded him that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect meant no harm.
• Tianlin offered to remove Dugu Bo’s poison, and Dugu Bo agreed to keep the matter secret if Tianlin could prove his claim.
• Tianlin summoned the Holy Spirit Pearl and used its Holy Breath Barrier alongside instructions from the Jade Balance Herb Classic to suppress Dugu Bo’s poison.

Tianlin suppressed Dugu Bo’s poison and persuaded him to take him to his home, where he planned to study poison and cure Dugu Bo and his granddaughter. The two reached the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, and Tianlin explained its value as one of the Three Great Treasure Troves of Medicine.

• Tianlin used his self-created Suppressing Poison Method to ease Dugu Bo’s suffering, then admitted he had concealed how he learned about Dugu Bo’s condition.
• Dugu Bo promised to do three things for Tianlin if he cured him and his granddaughter, and agreed to take Tianlin to his home for treatment.
• Tianlin arranged a half-year leave from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, informed Xue Qinghe he would study poison, and said goodbye to the Royal Fight Team.
• Dugu Bo took Tianlin to his home in Sunset Forest, where Tianlin recognized the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tianlin explained that the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well was one of the Three Great Treasure Troves of Medicine and made rare plants grow far faster.

Tianlin asked Dugu Bo for permission to use the herbs at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well and prepared to help him detoxify. After consuming two Immortal Herbs, Tianlin forged a Water and Fire Impervious Golden Body and reached Level 29.

• Tianlin asked Dugu Bo to let him choose and use the herbs, and requested three Alchemy Furnaces and ordinary medicinal ingredients.
• Dugu Bo agreed, warned Tianlin about the dangerous herbs and Soul Beasts, and told him to call him Old Monster.
• Tianlin harvested the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then consumed them together.
• Tianlin absorbed the herbs' power in the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well and used the spring water to refine it.
• Dugu Bo returned and found Tianlin missing, but Tianlin emerged from the spring alive with a Water and Fire Impervious Golden Body.
• Tianlin summoned the Demon Suppressing Sword, and Dugu Bo was astonished when Tianlin's Soul Power showed he had reached Level 29.

Tianlin demonstrated his Ultimate Ice, Ultimate Fire, and External Soul Bone to Dugu Bo, then showed how his Holy Spirit Pearl could offset the slow cultivation caused by ultimate attributes. Impressed and tempted by Tianlin’s offer to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Dugu Bo agreed to consider it while Tianlin stayed for half a year.

• Tianlin used Icefire God Sealing, forcing Dugu Bo to defend himself with his Serpent Python Heavenly Shield, and revealed that his ice and fire powers had become ultimate attributes.
• Tianlin struck Dugu Bo with Golden Flame Soul Burn through his External Soul Bone, briefly tormenting Dugu Bo’s soul.
• Dugu Bo warned Tianlin that ultimate attributes would slow his cultivation, especially between levels thirty and seventy.
• Tianlin activated the Holy Breath Barrier, and Dugu Bo discovered that it increased meditation speed enough to offset the cultivation drawback.
• Tianlin invited Dugu Bo to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and promised to help him reach Super Douluo; Dugu Bo said he would think it over.

Tianlin continued curing Dugu Bo’s poison at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo’s health and Soul Power improved under Tianlin’s treatment and meditation method. As Tianlin refined a Nine Rank Purple Golden Pill and offered Dugu Bo other treasures, Dugu Bo decided he would join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and rely on Tianlin in his old age.

• After a month of treatment, Dugu Bo’s hair began turning gray-white as his poison faded, and his Soul Power rose to level ninety-two.
• Dugu Bo questioned Tianlin about his meditation method, but Tianlin kept its origins secret and continued treating him with medicine and poison-guiding techniques.
• Tianlin explained that he was refining a Nine Rank Purple Golden Pill from Nine Rank Purple Ganoderma, and Dugu Bo asked for one.
• Tianlin showed Dugu Bo a Snake Scale Fruit that could evolve into an Ice Fire Snake Scale Fruit, but Dugu Bo chose to save it for Dugu Yan.
• Tianlin offered Dugu Bo a Purple Golden Pill and another gift in return for using the herbs at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo asked whether he could spend his remaining years at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Tianlin promised to care for him.

Tianlin completed five Purple Golden Pills, began refining the Mending Heaven Pills, and broke through to Soul Power Level thirty. He asked Dugu Bo to help him find a powerful wind-attributed Soul Beast for his Third Spirit Ring, and Dugu Bo led him toward a dangerous candidate in Sunset Forest.

• Tianlin and Dugu Bo retrieved five successful Purple Golden Pills and one weaker pill from the Alchemy Furnace.
• Tianlin gave Dugu Bo a pill and began refining Mending Heaven Pills using the Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• After sixty days, Tianlin reached Soul Power Level twenty-nine, and Sword Douluo Chen Xin left satisfied with his progress.
• Tianlin broke through to level thirty and asked Dugu Bo to find him a five-to-six-thousand-year wind-attributed Soul Beast.
• Dugu Bo agreed to take Tianlin to a ferocious Soul Beast in a western Sunset Forest canyon.

Tianlin and Dugu Bo lured and killed a five-thousand-year Gale Golden Winged Eagle so Tianlin could absorb its spirit ring. As Tianlin began absorbing it, Dugu Bo silently vowed to protect him, while Tianlin realized his body could withstand far more than he had expected.

• Dugu Bo explained that they would use a Soft Bone Rabbit to lure out a Gale Golden Winged Eagle suited to Tianlin.
• A roughly five-thousand-five-hundred-year-old Gale Golden Winged Eagle descended for the rabbit, and Dugu Bo trapped it in his Jade Scale Bewildering Array.
• Dugu Bo weakened the eagle with his Giant Python Strength ability, and Tianlin killed it with Icefire God Sealing.
• Dugu Bo released the Soft Bone Rabbit, and Tianlin began absorbing the eagle's spirit ring as Dugu Bo vowed to become his guardian.
• Tianlin endured the spirit ring's force without pain and realized his physical limit was higher than he had estimated.

After absorbing his third spirit ring, Tianlin chose Feng Shui Circulation, a powerful skill that nullified buffs and abnormal states within its barrier. Dugu Bo helped him recognize how Heart Separation Control could overcome the skill’s inability to distinguish allies from enemies, and Tianlin set out to learn it after returning to the sect.

• Tianlin finished absorbing the five-thousand-five-hundred-year spirit ring and chose to combine its wind attribute with water to create Feng Shui Circulation.
• Tianlin reached the Soul Elder realm and told Dugu Bo that he expected to attempt a ten-thousand-year fourth spirit ring.
• Tianlin demonstrated Feng Shui Circulation, which canceled Dugu Bo’s Giant Python Strength and could nullify states other than a Martial Soul Avatar.
• Tianlin explained that the barrier drained his Soul Power and affected his teammates as well as his enemies.
• Dugu Bo reminded Tianlin that Heart Separation Control could let him direct the barrier precisely, and Tianlin decided to ask Uncle Ning for its cultivation method.

Tianlin gave Dugu Bo a weakened Snow-Colored Swan Kiss to use as a poison-amplifying weapon, then left the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well with him and returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After visiting his parents and giving them Nine Rank Purple Golden Pills, Tianlin and Dugu Bo reached the sect gates.

• Tianlin finished refining Black Tortoise Golden Pills for the Shi Brothers and learned that Dugu Bo had advanced to rank ninety-three.
• Tianlin gave Dugu Bo a cultivated Snow-Colored Swan Kiss and explained that its petals, corolla, and stamens amplified poison threefold, fivefold, and tenfold.
• Tianlin gathered a few more herbs, and he and Dugu Bo left the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tianlin returned to Seven Treasure Village and gave Jun Tianhai and Mo Lan Nine Rank Purple Golden Pills.
• Tianlin and Dugu Bo entered Seven Treasure City and arrived at the gates of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Tianlin returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Dugu Bo, who agreed to join as its fourth elder under a promise of freedom and support for his granddaughter. Dugu Bo departed to settle his long-standing feud with Chrysanthemum Douluo, while Ning Fengzhi prepared to reward Tianlin for recruiting him.

• Tianlin brought Dugu Bo to the sect and introduced him as its future fourth elder.
• Ning Fengzhi welcomed Dugu Bo and confirmed the sect would honor Tianlin's promises, including supporting Dugu Bo's granddaughter and her marriage to Yu Tianheng.
• Dugu Bo agreed to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as an idle Guest Elder and postponed his welcoming ceremony until after settling a personal matter.
• Dugu Bo left to fight Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo wished him victory and promised to drink with him afterward.
• Tianlin told Ning Fengzhi and the others that he had persuaded Dugu Bo with the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss and one of Dugu Bo's promised favors.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Tianlin for recruiting a Titled Douluo and invited him to the Main Hall to receive a reward.

Tianlin returned to the Seven Treasure Great Hall and received a sixty-thousand-year Soul Bone from Ning Fengzhi. He distributed precious immortal herbs and pills to the sect’s elders and family, leaving Yin Yang absorbing a pill that might help him become a Titled Douluo and the others preparing to improve their abilities.

• Ning Fengzhi gave Tianlin a sixty-thousand-year Gale Demon Wolf right leg Soul Bone, and Tianlin accepted it after Chen Xin encouraged him.
• Tianlin gave Yin Yang a Nine Rank Purple Golden Pill that might help him break through to Titled Douluo, and Yin Yang swallowed it to absorb its medicinal power.
• Tianlin gave Bone Douluo an Earth Dragon Golden Gourd suited to his Martial Soul, and Bone Douluo asked Tianlin to call him Grandpa Bone before going to absorb it.
• Tianlin gave Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong Mending Heaven Pills that could evolve their Martial Soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Tianlin gave Chen Xin a Primal Chaos Immortal Herb that could greatly increase his Soul Power, astonishing Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin.

Gu Rong, Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Elder Yin Yang absorbed the pills and herbs Tianlin had prepared for them in the Seven Treasure Great Hall. Ning Fengzhi awakened with a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, while Chen Xin’s Soul Power surged to level ninety-seven and continued rising.

• Gu Rong awakened first, reached level ninety-six, and found that his Bone Dragon had evolved into an Earth Bone Dragon.
• Ning Fengzhi awakened at level eighty and discovered that his martial soul had become the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, prompting him to thank Tianlin through tears.
• Tianlin explained that Chen Xin and Eagle Douluo were still absorbing their powerful medicines, then helped Elder Yin Yang use the pill to pursue a breakthrough.
• Chen Xin’s Soul Power spread beyond his control, and Gu Rong and Ning Fengzhi sensed that he had reached level ninety-seven with his power still increasing.
• Spies and other Soul Masters outside the Seven Treasure Great Hall felt Chen Xin’s overwhelming Soul Power but could not enter to investigate.

Chen Xin and Yin Yang completed their breakthroughs, greatly increasing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s strength. Ning Fengzhi and Tianlin decided to conceal most of the sect’s gains, and Ning Fengzhi announced Yin Yang’s advancement to the disciples.

• Chen Xin awakened at the middle stage of level ninety-eight, while Gu Rong reached the peak of level ninety-six and saw his martial soul evolve.
• Tianlin realized that protecting the sect required strengthening its elders and members, not relying only on his own cultivation.
• Yin Yang broke through to level ninety and thanked Tianlin for helping him overcome his long-standing bottleneck.
• Tianlin advised Ning Fengzhi to conceal the sect’s breakthroughs, and Ning Fengzhi proposed attributing the heavenly phenomenon to Yin Yang’s advancement.
• Ning Fengzhi gathered the disciples and announced that Yin Yang had become a Titled Douluo.

Ning Fengzhi announced that Yin Yang had become a Titled Douluo and prepared to help him and himself obtain ninth and eighth Soul Rings. Meanwhile, Dugu Bo fought Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan in Sunset Forest, where his unexpectedly powerful assault left Yue Guan astonished.

• Ning Fengzhi revealed Yin Yang’s breakthrough to the sect and ordered two additional chairs built in the Seven Treasure Great Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Yin Yang departed for the Star Dou Great Forest, while Sword Douluo stayed to guard the sect.
• Tianlin began absorbing his sixty-thousand-year-old Soul Bone as Ning Rongrong quietly watched beside him.
• Dugu Bo met Yue Guan in Sunset Forest to settle their old grudge, and Yue Guan opened with his Fifth Soul Skill, Gathering of Cold Essence.
• Dugu Bo used Jade Scale Bewildering Array to obscure Yue Guan’s vision, then struck from behind and pressed him back with a relentless assault.
• Yue Guan realized Dugu Bo was fighting with the full strength of a Titled Douluo and wondered how he was suppressing his deadly poison.

Dugu Bo used his strengthened poison to gain the upper hand against Chrysanthemum Douluo, but Ghost Douluo intervened and turned the fight against him. Dugu Bo struggled to defend himself as he considered his next move.

• Dugu Bo and Chrysanthemum Douluo clashed with their Martial Soul Avatars, and Dugu Bo’s poison began corroding Yue Guan’s Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Dugu Bo explained that he had deliberately used their soul-skill stalemate to overcome the chrysanthemum’s poison resistance and weaken Yue Guan’s Martial Soul.
• A giant Ghost Hand struck between the combatants, interrupting Dugu Bo’s advantage and allowing Ghost Douluo to appear beside Yue Guan.
• Ghost Douluo attacked Dugu Bo at high speed, forcing him onto the defensive as he realized he could not withstand both Douluo if Yue Guan recovered.

Dugu Bo used the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss to amplify his Ninth Soul Skill and overpower Yue Guan and Gui Mei. He spared the two Spirit Hall Titled Douluo in exchange for two Soul Bones, then watched them flee.

• Yue Guan recognized the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss and warned Gui Mei to retreat from Dugu Bo’s spreading poison.
• Dugu Bo amplified his Jade Scale Divine Light with the flower, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei countered with their Ninth Soul Skills.
• Dugu Bo’s poison overwhelmed their attacks and badly corroded Yue Guan’s Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Gui Mei and Yue Guan used the Two Extremes Forbidden Domain to hold back the poison and offered to concede, but Dugu Bo refused to stop until Gui Mei warned him about ambushes and his granddaughter’s safety.
• Dugu Bo agreed to spare them if they provided two Soul Bones within a month, and the two Spirit Hall Douluo fled after swearing to comply.