Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan intercepted Tang San before Yu Xiaogang could meet him and offered to take him as a disciple. After revealing his power and explaining how he deduced Tang San had Twin Martial Souls, Fang Yuan was accepted as Tang San’s teacher.

• Fang Yuan stopped Jack and Tang San near Notting Academy, causing them to miss Yu Xiaogang as he entered the gates.
• Fang Yuan recalled that Tang San’s future as the Tang God-King had led to the destruction of his former world, and resolved to guide Tang San himself and pursue immortality.
• Fang Yuan offered to take Tang San as his disciple, then used his six-ring Soul Emperor cultivation to gain entry to Notting Academy.
• Fang Yuan told Tang San he had inferred the existence of his Twin Martial Souls from his Innate Full Soul Power and Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Tang San kowtowed three times and asked Fang Yuan to accept him as his disciple.

After accepting Tang San as his disciple, Fang Yuan enrolled him at Notting Academy and gave him a storage Soul Tool and money. Tang San met the work-study students, then encountered Yu Xiaogang, who wanted to take him as a disciple despite learning he already had a teacher.

• Fang Yuan brought Tang San to the headmaster, completed his enrollment, and secured a promise that the academy would look after him.
• Fang Yuan gave Tang San a storage brooch and two hundred Gold Soul Coins, and Tang San felt deeply moved by his teacher's care.
• Tang San arrived at Dorm Seven, where Xiao Wu had defeated the previous leader and challenged him, but he declined to compete.
• Yu Xiaogang approached Tang San and asked him to become his disciple, but Tang San said he already had a teacher.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted Fang Yuan could not teach Tang San properly and claimed only he could bring out Tang San's talent.

Tang San rejected Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to take him as a disciple, and Fang Yuan arrived to reaffirm his care for Tang San and confront Yu Xiaogang. Yu Xiaogang left enraged and humiliated, while Tang San concluded that he was a con artist.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang to leave after he insulted Fang Yuan and tried to recruit him as a disciple.
• Fang Yuan delivered bedding and a lunchbox to Tang San, then confronted Yu Xiaogang for trying to poach his disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Fang Yuan as an inexperienced student and claimed that only he could guide Tang San’s talent.
• Fang Yuan mocked Yu Xiaogang’s reputation, weak cultivation, and Martial Soul theories in front of the students.
• Fang Yuan accused Yu Xiaogang of inventing or plagiarizing his Soul Ring research, and Yu Xiaogang angrily protested that quoting was not plagiarism.
• Tang San listened to the exchange and decided Yu Xiaogang was a con artist.

Fang Yuan took Tang San from Notting Academy toward Sunset Forest to find a suitable first Soul Ring, explaining that he planned to strengthen the vitality of Tang San's Blue Silver Grass. Along the way, Fang Yuan also intended to seek access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its Immortal Herbs.

• Tang San rejected Yu Xiaogang as his teacher, and Xiao Wu drove Yu Xiaogang away when he tried to recruit her.
• Fang Yuan told Tang San that he would take him to obtain a Soul Ring, and Tang San accepted him as his teacher.
• Fang Yuan chose Sunset Forest over the Soul Hunting Forest and Star Dou Great Forest, while secretly hoping to find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Fang Yuan and Tang San traveled by Spirit Hall carriage to Heaven Dou City, then continued on foot into Sunset Forest.
• Fang Yuan taught Tang San about Soul Beasts and plants as they searched for life-attribute Soul Beasts suited to Tang San's Blue Silver Grass.

Fang Yuan guided Tang San toward developing Blue Silver Grass as a life-focused control martial soul, and Tang San absorbed his first Soul Ring from a Green Wine Bamboo. After testing his new Life Amplification skill, Tang San continued deeper into Sunset Forest with Fang Yuan to search for a treasure land suited to plant growth.

• Fang Yuan explained why life-attribute Soul Rings would strengthen Tang San's Blue Silver Grass and improve his physical condition, and Tang San accepted the proposed path.
• Fang Yuan weakened a roughly four-hundred-year Green Wine Bamboo, and Tang San dealt the final blow and absorbed its yellow Soul Ring.
• Tang San awoke with tougher, more vibrant Blue Silver Grass and learned that his first soul skill was Life Amplification, which boosted strength, toughness, and recovery.
• Fang Yuan told Tang San to practice controlling Blue Silver Grass so he could bind and entangle enemies without relying on a soul skill.
• After eating bamboo tube rice, Fang Yuan led Tang San deeper into Sunset Forest to search for a treasure land suitable for plant growth and future Soul Rings.

Fang Yuan led Tang San to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo’s poisonous miasma made the mountain dangerous. Fang Yuan revealed that his first soul skill, As Before, could reverse recent harm and instantly remove the poison, then continued toward the treasure land with Tang San.

• Fang Yuan located the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and led Tang San to the bare mountain surrounding it.
• Tang San recognized the poisonous mist as Jade Phosphor Snake Poison and warned Fang Yuan about the danger.
• Fang Yuan brought Tang San into the poisonous mist, and Tang San began to suffer from the toxin.
• Fang Yuan activated his first soul skill, As Before, repeatedly undoing the poison’s effects on Tang San.
• Tang San admired Fang Yuan’s detoxifying ability, and Fang Yuan reflected on how As Before had served him as a healing skill before he became a lone wolf.

Fang Yuan and Tang San crossed Dugu Bo’s poisonous miasma and reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo confronted them. Fang Yuan prepared to fight the Poison Douluo to establish equal footing for a deal, and revealed three Soul Rings as the battle began.

• Fang Yuan repeatedly restored himself and Tang San with As Before as they climbed through the Jade Phosphor Snake Poison miasma.
• Fang Yuan shielded Tang San from a powerful presence at the summit and identified the elderly man as Dugu Bo, offering to make a deal.
• Dugu Bo assumed the intruders had come with ill intent and transformed into his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Martial Soul Avatar.
• Fang Yuan charged Dugu Bo instead of retreating, saying that Dugu Bo was the challenger.
• Fang Yuan revealed three Soul Rings—one yellow and two purple—which descended onto his back.

Fang Yuan activated Incomplete Freedom Transformation and gained enough power to challenge Dugu Bo, a Level 91 Title Douluo. After shrugging off Dugu Bo’s poison and overpowering his serpent form, Fang Yuan faced Dugu Bo’s furious renewed attack.

• Fang Yuan merged Attitude, Mutation Gu, and Adaptation Gu into the fusion Soul Skill Incomplete Freedom Transformation.
• Dugu Bo tested Fang Yuan with a powerful stream of poison, but Fang Yuan blocked it with his bare hand without injury.
• Dugu Bo struck Fang Yuan with the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor’s tail, but Fang Yuan’s punch disrupted his Soul Skill and injured him.
• Fang Yuan grabbed the serpent’s head and hammered it with three blows before Dugu Bo broke free.
• Dugu Bo lunged at Fang Yuan again, releasing poison from his scales as their fight continued.

Fang Yuan restored his power repeatedly with As Before, overcoming Dugu Bo’s strongest attacks until Dugu Bo surrendered and agreed to let him and Tang San gather herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. The chapter ended with Fang Yuan claiming every Immortal Herb growing there.

• As Fang Yuan’s temporary enhancement faded, he used As Before to restore himself and sustain his Blood Battle Cloak.
• Dugu Bo struck Fang Yuan with Time Freeze and Medusa’s Gaze, but Fang Yuan erased both effects with As Before.
• After realizing Fang Yuan could recover without limit, Dugu Bo returned to human form and asked to make peace.
• Dugu Bo led Fang Yuan and Tang San through a cave to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and offered them herbs.
• Fang Yuan surveyed the Immortal Herbs and declared that he wanted them all.

Fang Yuan revealed that Dugu Bo and his descendants suffered from Martial Soul poison backlash and promised a way to treat it in exchange for access to the herbs. Tang San proposed containing the poison in a Soul Bone, but admitted that exceeding the bone’s capacity could cause worse backlash.

• Dugu Bo threatened to destroy the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well if Fang Yuan tried to monopolize it.
• Fang Yuan described Dugu Bo’s poison-backlash symptoms, and Dugu Bo admitted the problem and offered him any herbs if he could cure it.
• Fang Yuan asked Tang San to suggest a method for alleviating Dugu Bo’s poison backlash.
• Tang San proposed using medicinal herbs to guide the poison into a Soul Bone, and Fang Yuan confirmed the method was feasible.
• Fang Yuan asked Tang San about the method’s drawbacks, and Tang San warned that a Soul Bone could overflow and cause more severe backlash.

Tang San explained two ways to address Dugu Bo’s poison backlash, but Fang Yuan offered a third approach: altering the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul through guided mutation. Dugu Bo accepted Fang Yuan’s offer to refine pills that could cure him and his granddaughter while strengthening their Martial Souls.

• Fang Yuan taught Tang San to explain the risks of his proposed treatments and let Dugu Bo choose, and Tang San described using two opposing poisonous herbs to neutralize poison at the cost of losing poison arts.
• Dugu Bo weighed Tang San’s two methods and favored storing the poison in Soul Bones because it would preserve his strength, though it would only treat the symptoms.
• Fang Yuan offered a lasting cure that could preserve or increase Dugu Bo’s strength, then explained that changing the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul could eliminate the poison backlash.
• Fang Yuan demonstrated his Mutation Gu Soul Skill on an herb and explained that, with refined pills, it could guide a Martial Soul toward a favorable evolution.
• Dugu Bo agreed to let Fang Yuan refine pills for himself and his granddaughter, promising to help Fang Yuan in the future.

Fang Yuan had Tang San undergo Ice-Fire Golden Body Tempering at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while selecting herbs for his own cultivation. Tang San began the tempering in the spring, and Fang Yuan prepared to refine pills from two other herbs.

• Dugu Bo left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after preparing Fang Yuan's alchemy tools and agreeing on how they would stay in contact.
• Fang Yuan told Tang San to consume the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then temper his body in the spring to gain resistance to ice, fire, and poison.
• Tang San offered the herbs to Fang Yuan, but Fang Yuan said he had other herbs better suited to him, and Tang San agreed to proceed.
• Fang Yuan harvested the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, and Tang San swallowed them before plunging into the meeting waters of the springs.
• Fang Yuan picked the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma as ingredients for refining pills.

Fang Yuan refined a Pill that greatly strengthened his body, while Tang San completed the Ice-Fire Golden Body Tempering and discovered his martial soul had improved. Fang Yuan noticed an unexplained ice-and-fire presence within Tang San, then began refining medicine for Dugu Bo and his granddaughter.

• Fang Yuan used the Yang Spring and rare herbs to refine a Pill, swallowed it, and absorbed its medicinal potency to strengthen his body to a level comparable to a Soul Sage using a Martial Soul Avatar.
• Tang San emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after completing his tempering, and Fang Yuan gave him time to dress and recover.
• Tang San told Fang Yuan that his Blue Silver Grass had become resistant to ice, fire, and poison, while some of the immortal herbs' potency remained in his meridians.
• Fang Yuan sensed a small but unusually powerful pair of ice-and-fire energies within Tang San and, unable to identify them, set the mystery aside.
• Fang Yuan sent Tang San to cultivate nearby, gathered herbs for Dugu Bo and his granddaughter, and began refining their medicine beside the Yang Spring.

Fang Yuan used a Pill and his mutation soul skill to help Dugu Bo evolve his Martial Soul and overcome its toxic backlash. Dugu Bo emerged as a stronger Title Douluo with an Azure Dragon Martial Soul, while Fang Yuan remained near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, poised to seek a soul ring.

• Dugu Bo returned and took the Pill Fang Yuan prepared for him, then refined its medicinal power.
• Fang Yuan used his mutation soul skill on Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Soul, enclosing him in a cocoon as it began to mutate.
• While Dugu Bo's mutation proceeded, Fang Yuan reflected that his cultivation had reached the threshold of level seventy and that he could not leave for long.
• Dugu Bo emerged from the cocoon with renewed vitality and broke through to level ninety-four.
• Dugu Bo said the mutation had ended his Martial Soul's toxic backlash while preserving his poison arts and transforming his serpent into a legendary Azure Dragon.

After helping Dugu Bo assess his mutated martial soul, Fang Yuan left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to seek his seventh soul ring. He defeated a seventy-thousand-year-old White-Eyed Demon Tiger King, whose soul ring appeared as the chapter ended.

• Fang Yuan identified Dugu Bo’s martial soul as an Azure Poison Flood Dragon and explained that he could help Dugu Bo’s granddaughter mutate hers safely.
• Dugu Bo hurried off to fetch his granddaughter, while Fang Yuan warned him not to bring her into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Fang Yuan told Tang San to stay at the well, then went into Sunset Forest to hunt for his seventh soul ring.
• Fang Yuan found a seventy-thousand-year-old White-Eyed Demon Tiger King and transformed with his second, third, and fourth soul rings.
• The White-Eyed Demon Tiger King tried to flee and then fight back, but Fang Yuan punched its head into the ground, and a black soul ring emerged.

After absorbing the White-Eyed Demon Tiger King's Soul Ring, Fang Yuan discovered that his seventh Soul Skill had changed his Martial Soul and revealed a vast internal space. He kept the tiger's Soul Bone in storage, leaving his plans for a full set of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones unresolved.

• Fang Yuan extracted a white right arm Soul Bone from the White-Eyed Demon Tiger King's corpse and stored it instead of absorbing it.
• Fang Yuan absorbed the tiger's Soul Ring as his seventh Soul Ring and activated his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Fang Yuan discovered that his Sovereign Immortal Embryo Martial Soul could fuse with any other person's Martial Soul without restrictions.
• Fang Yuan entered his Martial Soul's newly revealed internal space and saw five regions and nine heavens spanning five hundred million mu.

After his seventh soul ring restored the Supreme Immortal Aperture, Fang Yuan tested its ability to store objects and planned to recruit people to develop it. He returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and began using his Mutation soul skill to change Dugu Yan’s martial soul.

• Fang Yuan explored the restored Supreme Immortal Aperture and found its time flowed about sixty times faster than the outside world.
• Fang Yuan stored the White-Eyed Demon Tiger King's corpse in the aperture, then moved it into his storage soul tool.
• Fang Yuan decided to find people willing to live in the aperture and help develop it into a self-sustaining world.
• Fang Yuan returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo introduced his granddaughter Dugu Yan and asked him to mutate her martial soul.
• Dugu Yan took Fang Yuan’s Pill, activated her martial soul, and Fang Yuan used his third soul skill, Mutation, as emerald-green air began circling her body.

Fang Yuan harvested the herbs around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and confirmed that Dugu Yan's martial soul had successfully mutated into an Azure Dragon, ending the poison backlash that threatened her and Dugu Bo. With his goals achieved, Fang Yuan prepared to leave, but Dugu Bo asked how old he was.

• Fang Yuan told Dugu Bo that Dugu Yan's mutation had stabilized, then went to gather herbs while Dugu Bo guarded her.
• Fang Yuan transplanted all the herbs around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well into his Supreme Immortal Aperture, leaving Dugu Bo furious at the barren landscape.
• Dugu Yan released her martial soul, and Fang Yuan confirmed that it had become a genuine Azure Dragon; Dugu Bo insisted it was an Extreme Azure Dragon.
• Dugu Bo rejoiced that the mutation had ended the poison backlash for both him and Dugu Yan, sparing his granddaughter the fate of his children.
• After achieving his goals, Fang Yuan said he was leaving, and Dugu Bo asked how old he was.

Fang Yuan revealed that he was only nineteen, stunning Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan with his extraordinary cultivation. Dugu Bo proposed that Fang Yuan marry Dugu Yan, but Fang Yuan refused because she was only fifteen and insisted they wait until she was eighteen.

• Fang Yuan corrected himself and told Dugu Bo that he was nineteen, leaving Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan shocked.
• Dugu Bo praised Fang Yuan's talent and warned that his age and strength could provoke a struggle among the continent's powers.
• Dugu Bo asked Fang Yuan what he thought of Dugu Yan's looks and proposed that they marry.
• Dugu Yan grew angry when Fang Yuan objected to the match, while Fang Yuan explained that she was too young.
• Fang Yuan said they should wait until Dugu Yan was eighteen, and she accepted his claim that this was a custom from his hometown.

Fang Yuan and Tang San left Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan and returned to Notting City, where Tang San registered as a soul master. At the Spirit Hall, Tang San reunited with Su Yuntao, while Fang Yuan rebuffed Sisi and Su Yuntao lost some of his admiration for her.

• Fang Yuan and Tang San departed from Heaven Dou City, and Dugu Bo warned Fang Yuan to seek his help whenever needed.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that she might have missed her chance with Fang Yuan, and she regretted not acting sooner.
• Fang Yuan and Tang San returned to Notting City and went to the Spirit Hall branch to register Tang San as a soul master.
• Tang San recognized Su Yuntao, introduced Fang Yuan as his teacher, and reminded Su Yuntao that he had awakened Tang San's martial soul in Holy Soul Village.
• Sisi tried to ingratiate herself with Fang Yuan, but he declined her help and took Tang San to the registration office.
• Sisi asked Su Yuntao about Fang Yuan and Tang San, but Su Yuntao said he did not know where they lived and left to finish his work.