Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue traveled to the Star Dou Forest with Snake Lance Douluo to obtain her fifth Soul Ring. After absorbing a rare Azure Sacred Divine Bird’s ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, she broke through four levels to level fifty-four and began her journey back to Heaven Dou City.

• Qian Renxue told Jiang Nanchen she would be away for about a week, then left with Snake Lance Douluo for the Star Dou Forest.
• After five days of searching, Qian Renxue and Snake Lance Douluo found a twenty-one-thousand-year Azure Sacred Divine Bird.
• Snake Lance Douluo restrained the bird, and Qian Renxue killed it with the Angel Sacred Sword to obtain its Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue absorbed the Soul Ring with help from the remaining medicinal power of the Nine-Turn Sacred Heart Lotus and reached level fifty-four.
• Qian Renxue learned that her fifth soul skill was Sacred Sword, then flew out of the forest and disguised herself as Xue Qinghe before returning toward Heaven Dou City with Snake Lance Douluo.

After a year and a half of cultivation and body tempering, Jiang Nanchen prepared to break through his level-thirty bottleneck and obtain a ten-thousand-year third Soul Ring. Qian Renxue accompanied him toward the Star Dou Forest, where they planned to hunt a suitable Soul Beast.

• Qian Renxue returned to the Crown Prince's Residence and found Jiang Nanchen asleep, then waited for him to wake before leaving him to rest.
• Jiang Nanchen continued cultivating for a year and a half until his Soul Power reached the level-thirty bottleneck.
• Jiang Nanchen completed his body tempering with a medicinal bath and prepared to seek a ten-thousand-year third Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue said Porcupinefish Douluo had scouted the Star Dou Forest and arranged to accompany Jiang Nanchen on the hunt.
• Jiang Nanchen and Qian Renxue departed for the Star Dou Forest by carriage, reviewing their preparations for the Soul Beast hunt along the way.

Jiang Nanchen and Qian Renxue searched the Star Dou Forest for a Soul Beast suited to his Sacred Angel Martial Soul, and Bing Yue helped locate one. After Jiang Nanchen obtained an Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone from a Man Faced Demon Spider, the group found a thirteen-thousand-year Holy Light Skyhawk for his third Soul Ring.

• Qian Renxue, Jiang Nanchen, and Porcupinefish Douluo searched the Star Dou Forest but found no suitable Soul Beast on their first day.
• Bing Yue offered to use her divine sense to help them find a suitable Soul Beast the next day.
• A two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider entered their cave, and Porcupinefish Douluo restrained it so Jiang Nanchen could kill it.
• Jiang Nanchen found an Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone in the demon spider's corpse and stored it without absorbing it.
• Bing Yue located a thirteen-thousand-year Holy Light Skyhawk, and Porcupinefish Douluo subdued it for Jiang Nanchen.

Jiang Nanchen absorbed his third Soul Ring, gained the Angel Roar skill, and returned toward Heaven Dou City while Bing Yue reunited with Di Tian and learned what had happened to the Dragon God. Yu Xiaogang and Tang San also traveled to Heaven Dou City, where Yu Xiaogang boasted that Bibi Dong had once liked him.

• Jiang Nanchen defeated the Holy Light Skyhawk and began absorbing its ten-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Bing Yue struck Di Tian when he appeared behind her, then heard his account of the Dragon God's division and the Silver Dragon King's escape and long recovery.
• Bing Yue told Di Tian that she and Huo Li were remnant souls who had entrusted their hopes of returning to the God Realm to Jiang Nanchen, and Di Tian agreed to look after him if he reached Star Dou.
• Jiang Nanchen finished absorbing the Soul Ring, rose to level thirty-three, and explained that his new third soul skill, Angel Roar, attacked opponents' Spiritual Seas and could stun them.
• Jiang Nanchen, Porcupinefish Douluo, and Qian Renchen returned to Heaven Dou City as Yu Xiaogang and Tang San traveled there too.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that Bibi Dong had liked him when they were young.

Jiang Nanchen ran into Tang San and Yu Xiaogang in Heaven Dou City, easily defeated Tang San, and revealed that he was already a Soul Elder with an extraordinary third Soul Ring. After learning they had attacked him, Qian Renxue struck both men and left them reeling.

• Jiang Nanchen wandered away while the carriage was being repaired and ran into Tang San and Yu Xiaogang at a corner.
• Tang San attacked Jiang Nanchen, but Jiang Nanchen blocked his palm strike with one finger and punched him flying.
• Jiang Nanchen revealed his Soul Elder cultivation and his yellow, purple, and black Soul Rings, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned.
• Qian Renxue arrived and asked Jiang Nanchen whether Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had caused trouble.
• After Jiang Nanchen told her Tang San had attacked him, Qian Renxue slapped Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, sending them flying.

Jiang Nanchen returned to the Crown Prince's Residence, where Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling visited to remind him about the academy tournament. He revealed his ten-thousand-year third Soul Ring, won their bet, and left them eager to learn how he could help them absorb ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Rings.

• Qian Renxue and Jiang Nanchen returned to the Crown Prince's Residence, where Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were waiting for him.
• Dugu Yan told Jiang Nanchen the academy's quarterly tournament was a month away, and she and Ye Lingling guessed the age of his third Soul Ring.
• Jiang Nanchen revealed his ten-thousand-year third Soul Ring, shocking Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling and winning their bet to be called Brother Nanchen.
• Jiang Nanchen offered to help Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling absorb ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Rings, and Dugu Yan promised to call him Grandpa if he could do it.
• Dugu Bo sneezed while tending his medicinal herbs and wondered who was talking about him.

Jiang Nanchen explained that purified Whale Rubber and medicinal baths could strengthen the body enough to raise the Soul Ring limit. Ye Lingling raided her family’s treasure vault for supplies and returned to the Crown Prince’s Residence, where Jiang Nanchen began refining the Whale Rubber.

• Jiang Nanchen told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that body tempering with immortal herbs and Whale Rubber could help them absorb ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Rings.
• Ye Lingling went to her family’s residence while her mother was away and took more than a dozen boxes of Whale Rubber and several boxes of herbs from the treasure vault.
• Ye Lingling returned to the Crown Prince’s Residence and laid the supplies out for Jiang Nanchen and Dugu Yan.
• Jiang Nanchen used Sacred Flame to purify the Whale Rubber and explained that its life energy and medicinal baths could strengthen their bodies against Soul Ring backlash.

Jiang Nanchen shared purified Whale Rubber with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, teaching them how it could temper their bodies and help them break Soul Ring age limits. He and Qian Renxue discussed securing Whale Rubber supplies and recruiting the four single-attribute sects, while Sea God Island remained a dangerous long-term goal.

• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling promised to keep Jiang Nanchen's Whale Rubber method secret, then ate the purified Whale Rubber and began cultivating.
• Qian Renxue revealed that she had been secretly buying Whale Rubber across the continent, and Jiang Nanchen advised her to control its supply at Vast Sea City.
• Jiang Nanchen suggested controlling the waters around Sea God Island for access to the highest-quality Whale Rubber, but Qian Renxue judged the island too dangerous to approach for now.
• Jiang Nanchen advised Qian Renxue to recruit the Strength Clan, Breaking Clan, Speed Clan, and Defense Clan, and she planned to investigate how to win them over.

Jiang Nanchen helped Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling strengthen their bodies with a medicinal bath while Yu Yuanzhen urged Yu Tianheng to defeat him and pursue Dugu Yan. The chapter ended with Qian Renxue asking Jiang Nanchen whether she should move against Yang Wudi of the Breaking Clan.

• Jiang Nanchen told Qian Renxue that the Strength Clan could not be recruited because Tai Tan might defect to Tang Hao.
• Jiang Nanchen prepared medicinal baths for Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, and they absorbed the herbs and Whale Rubber to improve their physiques and meridians.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Yu Tianheng to defeat Jiang Nanchen in the academy tournament so Dugu Yan would favor him, while planning to secure a marriage alliance with her.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling thanked Jiang Nanchen for the results of the medicinal bath and returned to their cultivation.
• Qian Renxue summoned Jiang Nanchen and asked whether it was feasible to target Yang Wudi of the Breaking Clan at Immortal Cave Mountain.

Jiang Nanchen advised Qian Renxue to win over the Breaking Clan by defeating Yang Wudi first, then offering him an Immortal Herb and cooperation. Qian Renxue’s two Titled Douluo subdued Yang Wudi at the clan’s mountain gate, leaving him kneeling and injured.

• Jiang Nanchen explained that Yang Wudi’s resentment toward the Clear Sky Sect and interest in medicine could be used to secure his cooperation.
• Qian Renxue agreed to visit the Breaking Clan with Jiang Nanchen and ordered Porcupinefish Douluo to act as soon as they arrived.
• Qian Renxue, Jiang Nanchen, Porcupinefish Douluo, and Snake Lance Douluo traveled to the Breaking Clan’s mountain gate.
• Yang Wudi rejected Qian Renxue’s offer to recruit the Breaking Clan into her service.
• Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo attacked Yang Wudi and defeated him, leaving him kneeling with blood at the corner of his mouth.

Qian Renxue recruited Yang Wudi by offering him an Immortal Herb, and he agreed to serve her after reflecting on Clear Sky Sect’s neglect of his clan. After Jiang Nanchen won first place at Heaven Dou Academy and began cultivating in seclusion, he wondered whether the Fire Dragon King martial soul could strengthen the Sacred Angel.

• Jiang Nanchen gave Yang Wudi an Immortal Herb, and Yang Wudi recognized its value and agreed to join Qian Renxue.
• Yang Wudi advised Qian Renxue that the Speed Clan and Defense Clan could likely be recruited with respect and resources, while Tai Tan’s Strength Clan would be difficult to win over.
• Qian Renxue urged Yang Wudi to absorb the Immortal Herb and promised help finding a suitable Soul Ring when the time came.
• In the carriage, Qian Renxue praised Jiang Nanchen for helping recruit Yang Wudi and offered him medicinal herbs, but Jiang Nanchen said most were of limited use.
• Jiang Nanchen won first place in the Heaven Dou Academy competition by defeating Yu Tianheng in the final, then began cultivating and turned away Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• In a secret chamber, Jiang Nanchen wondered whether the Fire Dragon King martial soul could increase the Sacred Angel’s power.

Jiang Nanchen reached Soul King and obtained his fifth Soul Ring in the Star Dou Forest, where the Silver Dragon King’s awakening caused a terrifying disturbance. As he and Porcupinefish Douluo fled the core region, they heard a group chasing someone nearby.

• Jiang Nanchen broke through to Soul King, and Porcupinefish Douluo took him to the Star Dou Forest to seek a fifth Soul Ring.
• Jiang Nanchen and Porcupinefish Douluo found a fifty-thousand-year Blazing Sacred Dragon, with Di Tian secretly helping arrange a suitable Soul Beast.
• Porcupinefish Douluo wounded the Blazing Sacred Dragon, and Jiang Nanchen killed it and began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• The Silver Dragon King’s awakening shook the forest and released overwhelming pressure, while Bing Yue shielded Jiang Nanchen as he continued absorbing the ring.
• Jiang Nanchen finished absorbing the Soul Ring and reached level 53; after learning the Silver Dragon King had awakened, he and Porcupinefish Douluo fled the core region.
• Jiang Nanchen and Porcupinefish Douluo heard shouts from a group pursuing someone, and an angry voice demanded to know who was blocking their way.

Jiang Nanchen reached Soul King and obtained his fifth Soul Ring in Star Dou Forest, where the Silver Dragon King’s awakening shook the forest. As Jiang Nanchen and Porcupinefish Douluo fled the disturbance, they encountered a group pursuing someone.

• Jiang Nanchen broke through to the Soul King realm, then traveled to Star Dou Forest with Porcupinefish Douluo to find a fifth Soul Ring.
• Jiang Nanchen found a fifty-thousand-year Blazing Sacred Dragon, killed it with Porcupinefish Douluo’s help, and began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• The Silver Dragon King awakened in the forest’s core, unleashing a dragon roar and immense pressure; Bing Yue shielded Jiang Nanchen so he could continue absorbing the ring.
• Jiang Nanchen completed the absorption and reached level 53, while Bing Yue explained that the Silver Dragon King had caused the disturbance.
• Jiang Nanchen and Porcupinefish Douluo headed for the forest’s outskirts, but approaching shouts revealed a group chasing someone and demanding that they move aside.

Jiang Nanchen crippled Zhu Zhuqing after she refused to serve him, then left her to seek out Dai Mubai. He returned to Heaven Dou Academy to prepare for the tournament, while Qian Renxue approved of his actions and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling thanked him for helping them grow stronger.

• Jiang Nanchen shattered Zhu Zhuqing's Golden Core and destroyed her cultivation, then allowed her to leave and settle her personal affairs.
• After Jiang Nanchen and Porcupinefish Douluo departed, Zhu Zhuqing decided to seek out Dai Mubai and struggled toward the forest's edge.
• Jiang Nanchen returned to the Crown Prince's Residence and then headed to Heaven Dou Academy to train with his team.
• Porcupinefish Douluo reported the events to Qian Renxue, who accepted Jiang Nanchen's decision to cripple Zhu Zhuqing and let her go.
• At the academy, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling praised Jiang Nanchen for helping them break through to Soul Ancestor and thanked him for the Soul Bones and training he had provided.

Jiang Nanchen crippled Zhu Zhuqing’s cultivation after she refused to pledge loyalty, leaving her to seek refuge with Dai Mubai. He returned to Heaven Dou Academy to prepare his team for the Empire Academy Grand Competition, where Dugu Yan proposed a sparring match.

• Jiang Nanchen destroyed Zhu Zhuqing’s Golden Core and scattered her Soul Power, leaving her without cultivation or a Martial Soul.
• Jiang Nanchen and Porcupinefish Douluo left Zhu Zhuqing alive in the Star Dou Forest, and she decided to find Dai Mubai for refuge.
• Porcupinefish Douluo reported what happened to Qian Renxue, who allowed Jiang Nanchen to act as he wished.
• Jiang Nanchen went to Heaven Dou Academy, where Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling thanked him for helping them break through to Soul Ancestor with Soul Bones and other resources.
• Dugu Yan suggested a match with Jiang Nanchen to test the gap between their strength.

Jiang Nanchen crippled Zhu Zhuqing’s cultivation after she refused to pledge loyalty, then let her seek refuge with Dai Mubai. He returned to Heaven Dou Academy to prepare his team for the tournament, while Qian Renxue approved of his decision.

• Jiang Nanchen destroyed Zhu Zhuqing’s Golden Core and martial soul, leaving her powerless, then departed with Porcupinefish Douluo.
• Zhu Zhuqing decided to seek out Dai Mubai and struggled toward the edge of the Star Dou Forest.
• Porcupinefish Douluo reported the events to Qian Renxue, who accepted Jiang Nanchen’s actions and judged Zhu Zhuqing unlikely to cause trouble.
• Jiang Nanchen went to Heaven Dou Academy, where Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling discussed their breakthroughs and thanked him for helping them with Soul Bones and cultivation methods.
• Dugu Yan teased Jiang Nanchen about their closeness and called him Brother Nanchen, while he kept the source of the Soul Bones secret.