Chapter Summaries

After returning to the Nine Nether Cave Mansion, Dugu Yao and Dugu Bo discussed Xue Qinghe's offer and the political meaning of his token. Dugu Yao kept the token, and the group planned to answer Xue Qinghe the next day while Dugu Yao focused on cultivation.

• Dugu Yao told Dugu Bo that Xue Qinghe had approached the Profound Spirit Pill Sect to buy pills.
• Dugu Bo agreed to sell the pills and reasoned that accepting Xue Qinghe's token could benefit the sect without requiring them to take sides openly.
• Dugu Yao explained that displaying the token before outsiders would make the sect appear aligned with Xue Qinghe.
• Dugu Bo handed the token to Dugu Yao and advised him not to show it unless he faced a problem he could not resolve.
• Dugu Yao, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling returned to their rooms, intending to reply to Xue Qinghe the next day.
• Dugu Yao released Xiangliu to play and began cultivating as his next Soul Power Level breakthrough drew near.

Dugu Yao visited Xue Qinghe to report that his grandfather would help provide pills, then concealed his Soul Power Level when Xue Qinghe asked about it. He left after promising to ask his grandfather whether the Profound Spirit Pill Sect had a Top-grade Spirit Grass suited to a sacred-attribute Martial Soul.

• Dugu Yao arrived at the Crown Prince's Mansion and told Xue Qinghe that his grandfather would not refuse to help and that pills could be purchased from the Profound Spirit Pill Sect.
• Xue Qinghe asked Dugu Yao about his Soul Power Level, and he claimed a soul bone concealed it while describing his talent as ordinary.
• Xue Qinghe asked whether the Profound Spirit Pill Sect had any Top-grade Spirit Grasses, and Dugu Yao said the sect had few and that the known one suited a Snow Swan Martial Soul.
• Xue Qinghe described a subordinate's humanoid beast Martial Soul as having a sacred attribute and offered to pay any price for a suitable Top-grade Spirit Grass.
• Dugu Yao promised to ask his grandfather about the grass, then finished the meal and left the Crown Prince's Mansion with Xue Qinghe escorting him.

Xue Qinghe planned to build her own faction, ordered Snake Lance Douluo to monitor her younger brothers, and considered how to obtain rare spirit grass and pills. A week later, Dugu Yao, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where they passed Yu Tianheng without speaking.

• Xue Qinghe coveted Top-grade Spirit Grass and considered the pills and other resources needed to establish her own faction.
• Xue Qinghe ordered Snake Lance Douluo to monitor her two younger brothers and report their movements.
• Dugu Yao told Dugu Bo about Xue Qinghe’s request, and Dugu Bo decided they would not easily hand over Top-grade Spirit Grass.
• A week later, Dugu Yao, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling traveled to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to report in.
• Yu Tianheng avoided speaking with the group, and they registered their names at the academy office.

Dugu Yao visited Xue Qinghe at the Prince’s Mansion, where Xue asked whether the Profound Spirit Pill Sect had any Top-grade Spirit Grass suited to light-attribute Martial Souls. Dugu Yao claimed there were none available, and the group left after Xue asked him to report any suitable herbs he found in the future.

• Dugu Yao, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling met Xue Qinghe outside the academy, and he invited them to his residence.
• At the Prince’s Mansion, Xue Qinghe asked Dugu Yao whether his grandfather’s medicine garden had suitable Top-grade Spirit Grass.
• Dugu Yao said there were none, but mentioned a few lesser Spirit Grass that might become Top-grade after several years.
• Xue Qinghe accepted the disappointing answer and asked Dugu Yao to notify him if suitable Top-grade Spirit Grass appeared.
• Dugu Yao and the others left the Prince’s Mansion and continued sightseeing in Heaven Dou City, including watching Soul Fighting matches.

Dugu Yao broke through to Soul Power Level 69, then used a Sixth-grade Emperor Breaking Pill to reach level 70 at age twelve. He began stabilizing his new Soul Power with a Second-grade Foundation Building Pill, reflecting that his future cultivation gains would be slower.

• Xiangliu ate more than a dozen Top-grade Spirit Grass, slightly increasing the ages of Dugu Yao’s Soul Rings.
• Dugu Yao’s cultivation raised his Soul Power from level 68 to level 69.
• Dugu Yao swallowed a Sixth-grade Emperor Breaking Pill and refined its medicinal power for two hours, reaching level 70.
• Dugu Yao took a Second-grade Foundation Building Pill to stabilize his Soul Power before sunrise.
• Dugu Yao considered the boosts that had enabled his rapid progress and realized absorbing Soul Rings would now grant much smaller Soul Power increases.

After consolidating the Soul Power gained from pills overnight, Dugu Yao reached Level 70 at age twelve, shocking his family and friends at breakfast. He reassured Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that they should keep working hard, though he admitted surpassing him was nearly impossible.

• Dugu Yao finished consolidating his Soul Power and arrived for breakfast at Level 70.
• Dugu Bo noticed Dugu Yao’s breakthrough, and everyone in the Reception Hall reacted with shock at the existence of a twelve-year-old Soul Sage.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling compared their progress with Dugu Yao’s and felt they could never catch up to him.
• Dugu Yao encouraged Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to keep cultivating and said that surpassing him was basically impossible.
• Dugu Bo and Lin Wanqiu reflected on how far Dugu Yao had surpassed their own cultivation at his age.

Dugu Yao received his seventh inheritance, the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda, which could condense Soul Rings and spare Soul Masters from hunting Spirit Beasts. He recognized its value to the Profound Spirit Pill Sect but knew they would need to keep it secret until they were strong enough to protect it.

• Dugu Yao began communicating with the Otherspace while the gathered guests waited to learn about his seventh inheritance.
• Xiangliu Yao returned to the inheritance palace with Xiangliu and reflected on his earlier visit there.
• The ancient voice welcomed Xiangliu Yao and revealed the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda, whose Soul Ring age began at about thirty thousand years and could increase over time.
• Xiangliu Yao learned that the pagoda let Soul Masters condense Soul Rings without hunting Spirit Beasts and considered how the Profound Spirit Pill Sect could use it.
• Xiangliu Yao recognized the pagoda's immense value and considered keeping it hidden until the sect had enough strength to protect it.

Dugu Yao revealed that his seventh inheritance was the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda, a treasure that let Soul Masters gain compatible Soul Rings without hunting Spirit Beasts. The Profound Spirit Pill Sect recognized its world-changing value and decided it must be kept secret to avoid drawing the major powers’ hostility.

• Dugu Yao returned from the Otherspace and told his family that his latest inheritance offered him little personal benefit.
• Dugu Yao brought out the small golden Mysterious Yellow Pagoda and explained that it was the treasure from his seventh inheritance.
• Dugu Yao explained that the pagoda could create personally compatible Soul Rings and Soul Skills without hunting Spirit Beasts, but it did not increase a Soul Master’s Soul Power Level.
• Dugu Bo warned that the pagoda’s value could make the major factions target the Profound Spirit Pill Sect, so it must never be exposed.

Dugu Yao explained the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda’s limits and growth potential, and the Profound Spirit Pill Sect agreed to keep it hidden. He placed the pagoda in the Nine Nether Cave Mansion, where it expanded into a towering nine-story structure, and led everyone inside to explore it.

• Dugu Xin, Ye Lingyu, and the others agreed that the Profound Spirit Pill Sect had to conceal the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda to avoid attracting powerful enemies.
• Dugu Yao explained that the pagoda could help certain soul masters condense Soul Rings up to around thirty thousand years old, but that it could not benefit him or Yanyan and might benefit Lingling.
• Dugu Yao revealed that the pagoda’s Soul Ring age limit increased by one year each year without an upper limit, making it a potential sect treasure for future generations.
• Dugu Yao brought the others to the rear courtyard and placed the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda inside the Nine Nether Cave Mansion.
• The pagoda expanded into a golden, nine-story structure nearly a hundred meters tall, and Dugu Yao led the others inside.

Dugu Yao explored the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda with the others and learned how its empty floors could help soul masters condense Soul Rings. From the ninth floor, he surveyed Nine Nether Cave Mansion and reflected on the Profound Spirit Pill Sect’s resources and future challenges, leaving its growing foundations poised for development.

• Dugu Yao explained that the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda could help condense Soul Rings, change size through an incantation, and serve as a sturdy weapon.
• Dugu Yao and the others climbed through the pagoda’s floors and looked out from the ninth floor over Nine Nether Cave Mansion.
• Dugu Yao saw the Medicine Garden, its Immortal Herbs, and the red and blue Guardian Beast Souls resting on the Wondrous Stone.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that Nine Nether Cave Mansion was circular and that anyone walking straight would eventually return to their starting point.
• Dugu Yan admired the Medicine Garden as Dugu Yao considered the sect’s strong resources, weaker lower-level soul masters, and the upheaval expected in more than a decade.

After the group toured the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda, they tested Dugu Yao’s seventh Soul Ring and discovered its age limit was an astonishing seventy-five thousand years. Dugu Bo and the others wondered what form Dugu Yao’s seventh Soul Skill would take, while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling teased each other about keeping up with their cultivation.

• Dugu Bo began planning how the Profound Spirit Pill Sect could develop the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda once its younger generation grew stronger.
• The group returned to the Reception Hall and tested Dugu Yao’s seventh Soul Ring, finding its age limit was seventy-five thousand years.
• Dugu Yao wondered what Soul Skill his unusual External Martial Soul would gain from its seventh ring.
• Dugu Bo said they would need to adjust their requirements for Spirit Beasts and wondered whether Dugu Yao’s seventh Soul Skill would be a Martial Soul Avatar.
• Dugu Yan lamented how ordinary she felt beside Dugu Yao, and Ye Lingling encouraged her to focus on cultivation instead of comparing herself to him.
• Dugu Yan thanked Ye Lingling for motivating her and vowed not to let her surpass her.

Dugu Bo took Dugu Yao to the Star Dou Great Forest to find a roughly seventy-five-thousand-year-old Holy Light Winged Serpent for his seventh Soul Ring. They reached the nearby town and prepared to enter the forest the next morning, while Dugu Bo cultivated and Dugu Yao reflected on his grandfather’s growing strength.

• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yao left the Nine Nether Cave Mansion and headed for the Star Dou Great Forest to find a suitable light-attributed serpentine Spirit Beast.
• Dugu Bo explained that they were seeking a Holy Light Winged Serpent and that Dugu Yao’s unusual External Martial Soul made his seventh Soul Skill impossible to predict.
• Dugu Bo flew Dugu Yao to the town closest to the Star Dou Great Forest, where they checked into an inn and planned to enter the forest the next morning.
• Dugu Bo drank with Dugu Yao at a tavern, then returned to the inn and cultivated with the Nine Nether Poison Scripture.
• Dugu Yao watched Dugu Bo cultivate and believed that Immortal Herbs, pills, and his million-year Soul Bones would eventually help him reach Limit Douluo.

Dugu Bo and Dugu Yao entered the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Spirit Beasts and advanced into its inner region. They searched for suitable Spirit Beasts while Dugu Yao kept an eye out for the lake where the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape were said to live.

• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yao left the inn early and entered the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Spirit Beasts.
• Dugu Bo's aura drove the lower-cultivation Spirit Beasts away, and the pair continued through the outer region toward the inner region.
• A ten-thousand-year Blazing Vajra Bear fled in fear after sensing Dugu Bo's strength.
• Dugu Yao surveyed the forest and considered how difficult it would be to locate the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape near a lake.
• Dugu Bo searched for the habitat of the Spirit Beasts they needed as the pair explored deeper into the forest.

Dugu Bo and Dugu Yao searched the Holy Light Winged Serpent's canyon for a seventy-five-thousand-year Spirit Beast, spending a night and much of the next day without finding one. At sunset, Dugu Bo sensed a fast-moving Holy Light Winged Serpent more than seventy thousand years old and took Dugu Yao to investigate.

• Dugu Bo led Dugu Yao into the canyon that housed the Holy Light Winged Serpents, and they passed over a roughly thirty-thousand-year serpent.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yao camped overnight as nearby Spirit Beasts watched from a distance, deterred by Dugu Bo's aura.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yao searched through the following day, encountering powerful Spirit Beasts but no Holy Light Winged Serpent of the age they sought.
• Dugu Bo sensed a Holy Light Winged Serpent over seventy thousand years old about seven hundred meters away and carried Dugu Yao toward it.

Dugu Bo subdued a seventy-four-thousand-year-old Holy Light Winged Serpent for Dugu Yao’s seventh Soul Ring. After Dugu Yao killed it and began absorbing its Soul Ring, Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphor Poison Dragon Emperor guarded him against nearby Spirit Beasts.

• Dugu Bo blocked the fleeing Holy Light Winged Serpent and identified it as a suitable seventy-four-thousand-year-old Spirit Beast for Dugu Yao.
• Dugu Bo used the Jade Phosphor Poison Dragon Emperor and his Corrosion skill to capture and badly injure the serpent.
• Dugu Bo urged Dugu Yao to deliver the final blow before the serpent died on its own.
• Dugu Yao awakened Xiangliu, which poisoned the serpent to death and allowed its Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring to form.
• Dugu Yao took the Supreme Soul Protecting Pill and began absorbing the Soul Ring as the Jade Phosphor Poison Dragon Emperor guarded him from other Spirit Beasts.