Chapter Summaries

Dugu Lin studied the Immortal Herb Catalogue and chose herbs for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to consume at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After Dugu Bo absorbed a spirit bone and purged his poison, he learned which herbs Dugu Lin had selected and agreed to wait before taking a second one.

• Uncle Fu delivered two spirit bones and the Immortal Herb Catalogue on Prince Xue Qinghe's orders, and Dugu Bo summoned Dugu Lin and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo identified the spirit bones while Dugu Lin directed him and Dugu Yan to absorb them and force their poison into the bones.
• Dugu Lin read that the catalogue listed forty-three immortal-grade herbs and ninety-two rare herbs, including many unknown to the original work.
• Dugu Bo emerged after purging his poison into his left leg bone, looking healthier and feeling relieved.
• Dugu Lin chose the Jade Phosphor Seven-Extinction Flower for Dugu Bo and the Earth Dragon Golden Melon for Dugu Yan, then said Dugu Bo should wait a few years before consuming a second herb.

Dugu Lin secured rare Whale Rubber and helped Dugu Yan absorb a powerful Spirit Bone, then revealed the location of a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone. He and Dugu Bo agreed to pursue it in a few years, while the three headed to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to find an immortal herb for Dugu Yan.

• Dugu Lin discussed immortal herbs for Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo, and persuaded his grandfather to prioritize obtaining Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng while trying to recruit Yang Wudi.
• Dugu Bo discovered Dugu Lin knew about the seventy-thousand-year Whale Rubber, caught him trying to escape, and beat him before Dugu Lin obtained the rare material.
• Dugu Yan absorbed the thirty-thousand-year Human-Faced Demon Spider Right Arm Bone, raising her Soul Power from level 16 to level 18.
• Dugu Lin told Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan about the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone hidden near Holy Soul Village, and Dugu Bo agreed to pursue it with him.
• Dugu Bo brought Dugu Lin and Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Lin set out to find the Earth Dragon Golden Melon for his sister.

Dugu Lin and Dugu Bo harvested the rare herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while discussing political marriages and pill-making. They left with a huge stock of medicinal plants, and Dugu Bo planned to recruit the Breaking Clan to help refine them.

• Dugu Lin dug up the Earth Dragon Golden Melon for Dugu Yan, who ate it and began refining its effects.
• Dugu Bo asked Dugu Lin about arranging a childhood betrothal, and Dugu Lin suggested winning over the Dragon-Snake Family while naming Qian Renxue as his preferred match.
• Dugu Lin and Dugu Bo agreed to harvest the herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, leaving their roots and stems behind to regrow.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Lin counted twenty-two harvested immortal herbs and seventy-six precious spiritual medicines, in addition to herbs they had already consumed or left untouched.
• Dugu Bo decided to work on winning over the Breaking Clan and collaborate with Yang Wudi on pill refining.

Dugu Yan resolved the toxin flaw in her Jade Phosphor Snake Emperor, and Dugu Bo strengthened his Soul Power by consuming the Jade Phosphor Seven-Extinction Flower. The family prepared to hunt Soul Rings, leaving Dugu Lin about to test his luck against a mutated Red-tailed Triangle Snake.

• After refining the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, Dugu Yan revealed that her Jade Phosphor Snake Emperor had changed and its lingering toxins were gone.
• Dugu Bo consumed the Jade Phosphor Seven-Extinction Flower and, two days later, reached level 93 Soul Power.
• Dugu Bo finalized the engagement ceremony and date for Dugu Yan and Xue Qinghe in Heaven Dou City.
• After Dugu Yan increased her physical strength with Whale Rubber, Dugu Bo took her and Dugu Lin to a marshland to search for Soul Rings.
• Dugu Bo returned with a mutated Red-tailed Triangle Snake, and Dugu Lin prepared to kill it and gamble on gaining an attribute-enhancing Soul Skill.

Dugu Lin absorbed a nearly 9,000-year Soul Ring, discovered that his Jade Phosphorous Serpent shared half the Soul Power pressure, and gained the Jade Phosphor Red Poison skill. He and Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to Ten Thousand Snake Valley to find her second Soul Ring, where Dugu Bo warned them of the valley’s powerful soul beasts.

• Dugu Lin absorbed the Mutated Red-tailed Triangle Snake’s Soul Ring and learned his Jade Phosphorous Serpent could share half the pressure, allowing him to reach Level 23.
• Dugu Lin tested his second Soul Skill, Jade Phosphor Red Poison, which corroded a tree and could numb an enemy’s nerves and impair their judgment.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that her second Soul Ring would come from a Phoenix-Tailed Purple Snake King, and Dugu Yan eagerly agreed to pursue it.
• Dugu Bo led Dugu Lin and Dugu Yan to Ten Thousand Snake Valley, where Dugu Lin asked about Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperors and Dugu Bo warned that entering the depths was dangerous.
• Dugu Bo showed them the valley from a cliffside cave and warned that its strongest known soul beast, an over-80,000-year Hell Crimson Spirit Python, could force even him to flee.

Dugu Yan obtained her second and third Soul Rings while Dugu Lin trained under Dugu Bo and met Ye Lingling. Ye Lingling set out to hunt for her first Soul Ring, and Dugu Lin considered the Nine-Heart Begonia's potential for his Spirit Album.

• Dugu Bo returned with a six-thousand-year Phoenix-Tailed Purple Snake, and Dugu Yan absorbed it to gain the Jade Phosphor Purple Poison skill and reach Level 30.
• Dugu Bo brought back a seven-thousand-year Scarlet Two-Headed Snake, which Dugu Yan absorbed to gain the Jade Phosphor Maze Formation skill and reach Level 32.
• Dugu Lin returned to Heaven Dou City and began daily weighted runs, sparring with Dugu Bo, and taking medicinal baths.
• Dugu Yan brought Ye Lingling home, and Dugu Lin recognized her Nine-Heart Begonia Martial Soul as a potential choice for his Spirit Album.
• Ye Lingling told Dugu Yan she was leaving to hunt for a Soul Ring, and Dugu Lin learned that she was seven and had just reached Level 10.

Dugu Bo told Ye Renxin that a rare herb could let Soul Masters obtain stronger early Soul Rings, then tried to secure a childhood betrothal between Dugu Lin and Ye Lingling. The negotiation ended in anger when Dugu Lin revealed that Dugu Bo had also planned a betrothal with Meng Yiran.

• Dugu Lin told Ye Lingling that Dugu Bo could help her obtain a thousand-year first Soul Ring, and Dugu Bo approved of the plan.
• Ye Renxin visited Dugu Manor with Ye Lingling, where Dugu Bo explained that his herb could enable a two-thousand-year first Soul Ring and a five-thousand-year second Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo proposed a childhood betrothal between Dugu Lin and Ye Lingling, but Ye Renxin refused and questioned Dugu Lin's talent.
• Dugu Bo claimed Dugu Lin possessed a rare External Spirit, and Ye Renxin still rejected the betrothal while offering to discuss another condition.
• Dugu Lin arrived and revealed that Dugu Bo had also intended to arrange a betrothal with Meng Yiran, prompting Ye Renxin to accuse him of seeking to make Ye Lingling a concubine.

Dugu Bo negotiated with Ye Renxin to let Ye Lingling stay with him and promised her a thousand-year first spirit ring, while trying to arrange a childhood betrothal with Dugu Lin. Dugu Lin refused the betrothal but named seven women he hoped to pursue, and Dugu Bo agreed to help create opportunities for him.

• Dugu Bo offered to give Ye Lingling a thousand-year first spirit ring if Ye Renxin left her with him, and Ye Renxin agreed to keep the secret.
• Dugu Bo urged Ye Renxin to consider a childhood betrothal between Ye Lingling and Dugu Lin, but Ye Renxin left without making a decision.
• Dugu Lin told Dugu Bo that he did want to marry Ye Lingling but did not want to arrange childhood betrothals, and Dugu Bo agreed to help him spend time with girls instead.
• Dugu Lin named Hu Liena, Shui Bing'er, Huo Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, Ye Lingling, and Qian Renxue as girls he hoped to pursue.
• Dugu Bo recognized Shui Bing'er as Shui Jing's granddaughter and said he could help Dugu Lin pursue Zhu Zhuqing, while Dugu Lin dismissed Ning Rongrong as an option.

Dugu Bo helped Ye Lingling strengthen her body with Whale Rubber, and Ye Renxin realized she might be able to break the Nine-Heart Begonia clan’s Soul Ring limit. The chapter ended with Dugu Yan and Xue Qinghe’s engagement banquet underway, as Dugu Lin worried that Yan had fallen for Qian Renxue.

• Dugu Bo gave Ye Lingling Whale Rubber, and Dugu Lin’s appearance left her blushing and flustered.
• Ye Renxin examined Ye Lingling and found her body strong enough to absorb a two-thousand-year Soul Ring, then urged her to cultivate and break the clan’s curse.
• Ye Renxin found Ye Lingling a two-thousand-year Lone Bamboo Soul Ring and learned that Dugu Yan was to be engaged to Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Ye and Dugu Bo toasted at Dugu Yan and Xue Qinghe’s engagement banquet, while Dugu Yan blushed under Qian Renxue’s gaze.
• Dugu Lin wondered whether Dugu Yan had truly fallen for Qian Renxue.

At the celebration of Dugu Yan’s marriage alliance with Xue Qinghe, the Third Prince Xue Haicang was reported dead from Jade Phosphor Snake Poison, drawing suspicion toward Dugu Bo. Qian Renxue argued that the poison was part of a scheme against Dugu Bo and Xue Qinghe, while Xue Luochuan realized the plot might target him next.

• Dugu Lin considered possible suitors for Dugu Yan while Dugu Bo and Ning Fengzhi exchanged congratulations at the celebration.
• A eunuch announced that the Third Prince, Xue Haicang, had died, and Emperor Xue Ye demanded to know how it happened.
• The eunuch reported that Xue Haicang had been poisoned with Jade Phosphor Snake Poison, causing the hall to suspect Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Lin pointed out that Dugu Bo would not use poison in a way that left evidence, and Dugu Bo argued that he had no motive to kill a prince.
• Prince Xue Xing established that the poison was ordinary and readily obtainable, while Qian Renxue urged Emperor Xue Ye to investigate a framing attempt against Dugu Bo and Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Luochuan realized that the scheme might be coming for him.

After the Third Prince was poisoned, Xue Luochuan feared he would be blamed and tried to shape the investigation, while Dugu Bo and Dugu Lin concluded that Qian Renxue was responsible. They decided to wait, confident that Dugu Bo’s strength and his new alliance with Qian Renxue would protect them.

• Xue Luochuan reasoned that he would become a suspect regardless, so he resolved to keep the Third Prince’s case unresolved and make Dugu Bo’s guilt seem established.
• Xue Luochuan offered to investigate the Third Prince’s death, but Xue Qinghe urged Emperor Xue Ye and the Empress to visit the dead prince first.
• Emperor Xue Ye went to see the Third Prince and ordered that Dugu Bo be escorted back to his residence while promising to clear his name.
• At Dugu Residence, Dugu Yan asked whether Dugu Bo had killed the Third Prince, and Dugu Bo denied it, calling the death an imperial-family struggle.
• Dugu Lin told Dugu Bo that Qian Renxue had almost certainly killed the Third Prince and advised him to do nothing but wait.
• Dugu Bo accepted Dugu Lin’s reasoning, and Dugu Lin shifted the conversation to his sister’s future husband.

Dugu Lin warned Dugu Bo that Dugu Yan might fall for Qian Renxue, prompting Dugu Bo to seek suitable boys for her and decide to take Feng Xiaotian as his disciple. They discussed plans to arrange a betrothal for Dugu Lin and prepare for future cultivation and alliances.

• Dugu Lin told Dugu Bo that Dugu Yan had secretly watched Qian Renxue and blushed, and Dugu Bo panicked at the possibility that she liked women.
• Dugu Lin named Oscar, Feng Xiaotian, Xie Yue, and Yan as talented young men, and Dugu Bo chose Feng Xiaotian as a potential disciple.
• Dugu Bo planned to bring Feng Xiaotian to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and see whether he and Dugu Yan could develop feelings for each other.
• Dugu Bo planned to arrange Dugu Lin's childhood betrothal to Meng Yiran with a Ninth-Grade Dragon Ganoderma as the gift, and Dugu Lin considered how it might improve her Martial Soul.
• Dugu Bo planned to contact the Speed Clan and Breaking Clan, acquire whale gelatin, trade the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, study alchemy with the siblings, and wait for Xiao Wu to appear.

Dugu Bo brought Feng Xiaotian to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and offered to take him as a disciple. After Feng Xiaotian fell in love at first sight with Dugu Yan and saw how far her cultivation surpassed his, he accepted, though Dugu Bo set him a punishing goal of reaching level fifty within five years.

• Dugu Bo revealed that he had captured and poisoned Feng Xiaotian to bring him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then offered to make him his disciple.
• Feng Xiaotian summoned his Gale Two-Headed Wolf Martial Soul and showed that he was twelve years old, level twenty-four, with Innate Full Soul Power.
• Dugu Yan revealed her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, level thirty-two Soul Power, and a purple second Soul Ring, leaving Feng Xiaotian awestruck and smitten with her.
• Feng Xiaotian bowed and accepted Dugu Bo as his master, who warned him to cultivate diligently.
• Dugu Bo demanded that Feng Xiaotian reach level fifty in five years or have both legs broken, and insisted he could do it with his master's guidance.

Dugu Bo set Feng Xiaotian a demanding cultivation goal and brought him into the Dugu family, where Dugu Lin and Dugu Yan made him their junior brother. Dugu Bo then agreed to give Feng Xiaotian a future thirty-thousand-year hurricane-attribute Spirit Bone, while Dugu Lin wondered if Feng Xiaotian’s family knew he had been taken.

• Dugu Bo ordered Feng Xiaotian to raise his Soul Power by twenty-six levels in five years and told Dugu Lin and Dugu Yan to test his character.
• Dugu Lin revealed that he was six years old, had Level 24 Soul Power, and possessed a thousand-year first Soul Ring, shocking Feng Xiaotian.
• Dugu Lin threatened to poison Feng Xiaotian if he did not reach Level 28 within a year, and Dugu Yan had him call her Senior Sister.
• Dugu Yan took Feng Xiaotian to explore Dugu Bo’s secret herb garden while Dugu Lin told Dugu Bo about a future hurricane-attribute right leg Spirit Bone suited to Feng Xiaotian.
• Dugu Bo decided the thirty-thousand-year Spirit Bone would be his gift to Feng Xiaotian and said he had left a note for Feng Xiaotian’s family.

Dugu Lin and Feng Xiaotian began a private one-on-one soul battle, testing their skills and unusual Martial Souls. Dugu Lin won by using the Jade Phosphorous Serpent and poison, leaving Feng Xiaotian unconscious.

• Dugu Yan explained to Feng Xiaotian that Dugu Lin's Jade Phosphorous Serpent was a conscious External Spirit that could eat and sleep.
• Dugu Lin and Feng Xiaotian agreed to train with a one-on-one soul battle while Dugu Yan warned them not to get hurt.
• Dugu Lin and the Jade Phosphorous Serpent attacked Feng Xiaotian, who used Twin Wolf Possession and Wind Blade Formation to press his advantage.
• The Jade Phosphorous Serpent threw Dugu Lin clear of the wind blades, then disappeared when Dugu Lin retracted it and reappeared at his side.
• Dugu Lin released Jade Phosphor Red Poison, weakening Feng Xiaotian before knocking him unconscious.

After defeating Feng Xiaotian with his poison, Dugu Lin told him to prioritize Soul Power over technique and Self-Created Soul Skills. Meanwhile, Feng Xiaotian’s clan searched for him as events in the Heaven Dou Empire settled and Dugu Bo received compensation for the third prince’s death.

• Dugu Lin revived Feng Xiaotian with an antidote, then explained that overwhelming Soul Power and strength had let him defeat Feng Xiaotian’s superior techniques.
• Feng Xiaotian accepted Dugu Lin’s advice to focus his cultivation on increasing Soul Power rather than developing Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Dugu Yan joined Dugu Lin and Feng Xiaotian for meditation, and Feng Xiaotian watched the Jade Phosphorous Serpent eat snake meat before falling asleep.
• Feng Xiaotian’s clan searched for him while Dugu Bo continued training his grandchildren and disciple at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The uproar over the third prince’s death subsided, Xue Luochuan was punished, Xue Qinghe’s succession as crown prince was considered, and Dugu Bo received a ten-thousand-year power-type leg Spirit Bone.

Five years later, Dugu Bo reached Rank 95 and reunited with Dugu Yan and Dugu Lin, who had been spending time with Ye Lingling. He criticized their slow cultivation, then prepared to take Dugu Lin to obtain his fourth Soul Ring while Feng Xiaotian stayed behind to watch over Dugu Yan.

• Dugu Bo broke through to Rank 95 after five years of cultivation near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo found Dugu Yan, Dugu Lin, and Ye Lingling shopping, and sent Dugu Lin back to cultivate after Dugu Yan embraced him to avoid a scolding.
• Dugu Lin said he had reached Rank 40 and defended his progress by pointing to his exceptional control over his Soul Power, Soul Rings, and Soul Skills.
• Dugu Bo decided to supervise Dugu Lin's cultivation after he returned from obtaining his fourth Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Lin prepared to leave to hunt for a Soul Ring, while Feng Xiaotian promised to look after Dugu Yan.

Dugu Lin watched Yu Xiaogang arrange his meeting with Tang San, then joined Dugu Bo outside the city after they captured Xiao Wu. Dugu Bo revealed that they intended for Xiao Wu to sacrifice herself to Dugu Lin, and Xiao Wu realized her identity had been exposed.

• Dugu Lin watched Yu Xiaogang intervene at the academy gate and lead Tang San inside.
• A child told Dugu Lin to meet Dugu Bo outside the city, and Dugu Lin hurried to their agreed courtyard.
• Dugu Lin found Xiao Wu unconscious and confirmed that Dugu Bo had captured her near the city gate.
• Dugu Bo woke Xiao Wu and revealed his Title Douluo identity, demanding that she sacrifice herself to Dugu Lin.
• Xiao Wu realized the two men knew she was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and began to fear for her life.

Dugu Lin and Dugu Bo terrorized Xiao Wu with threats to cook her, trying to force her to sacrifice herself and surrender her Soul Ring. After Xiao Wu refused to yield, Dugu Lin offered to keep Spirit Hall from discovering the Lake of Life and hunting Da Ming and Er Ming, leaving Xiao Wu shocked that he knew their names.

• Dugu Lin and Dugu Bo pretended to prepare Xiao Wu as a meal, frightening her until she fainted.
• Dugu Lin woke Xiao Wu and threatened her with a knife, but she still refused to sacrifice herself.
• Dugu Lin asked whether Xiao Wu would turn back into a rabbit after death, and she pleaded that she would remain human.
• Dugu Lin gave up the pretense of eating her and said he still wanted her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Dugu Lin threatened to reveal the Lake of Life to Spirit Hall unless Xiao Wu sacrificed herself, warning that Da Ming and Er Ming could be hunted by Bibi Dong.
• Xiao Wu stared at Dugu Lin in shock when he named Da Ming and Er Ming.

Dugu Lin and Dugu Bo failed to make Xiao Wu willingly sacrifice herself, then set out to retrieve Ah Yin and her hundred-thousand-year soul bone. They found the Blue Silver Emperor in a cave behind a waterfall and tried to turn her against Tang Hao, leaving her leaves trembling.

• Xiao Wu resisted Dugu Lin’s threats about Da Ming, Er Ming, and Di Tian, so Dugu Bo poisoned her unconscious and put her in the Ruyi Treasure Sack.
• After learning Tang San had left for the Hunting Soul Forest, Dugu Lin and Dugu Bo traveled toward Holy Soul Village to find Ah Yin.
• Dugu Lin used a map to locate a waterfall near Holy Soul Village, and Dugu Bo carried him through it to the hidden cave.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Lin found the Blue Silver Emperor growing in the cave and speculated that Tang Hao had deliberately kept her in a place with little sunlight.
• Dugu Lin and Dugu Bo suggested that Tang Hao had pursued Ah Yin’s hundred-thousand-year soul ring, and her leaves trembled as they spoke.