Chapter Summaries

Dugu Yao received Xiangliu’s revised Nine Nether Pill Codex, which contained pill formulas spanning from ordinary grades to god-level Divine Pills. He shared the codex with his family and entrusted it to Dugu Bo, while the rare ingredients needed for its most powerful pills remained out of reach.

• Xiangliu’s voice gave Dugu Yao the Nine Nether Pill Codex and urged him to grow stronger to claim the important Fourth Inheritance.
• Dugu Yao discovered the God-Slaying Pill formula, which could control a god’s life and death, but its million-year ingredients seemed impossible to find.
• The inheritance’s power returned Dugu Yao to his family, and he revealed that the codex could benefit them all.
• Dugu Xin and Dugu Bo examined the codex, and Dugu Bo realized its recipes could transform the Soul Master world and might help him reach the limit Douluo realm.
• Dugu Yao told Dugu Bo to keep the codex because refining high-grade pills required strong spiritual power.

Dugu Bo discovered that the Nine Nether Pill Codex contained pills capable of protecting Soul Masters from the soul impact of powerful Spirit Rings, and decided to refine some before taking Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan to hunt Spirit Beasts. He hurried to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye for ingredients, leaving the family to wait at home.

• Dugu Bo explained that the Seventh-grade Supreme Soul Protecting Pill could prevent the soul impact of a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and might let Dugu Yao obtain one as his Third Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo said other pills could help Dugu Yan obtain an eight- or nine-thousand-year Second Soul Ring, and he described the Nine Nether Pill Codex as a treasure that could help build a powerful sect.
• Dugu Xin was astonished by the pills’ capabilities, while Dugu Bo revealed that the codex contained remedies for Soul Masters at every stage, including Ninth-grade and Divine Pills.
• Dugu Yao teased Dugu Bo about their family eventually having five Titled Douluo, and Dugu Bo proudly declared that he would secure a powerful future for his descendants.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan to wait two days while he gathered herbs and refined pills, then hurried toward Sunset Forest with the Nine Nether Pill Codex.
• Dugu Yao, Dugu Yan, and the rest of the family stayed home, ate lunch in the Reception Hall, and returned to their rooms to refine their Soul Power.

Dugu Bo endured two days of Pill Thunder while refining several powerful seventh- and eighth-grade pills, including pills that could raise Innate Soul Power and restore fatal injuries. He returned to Dugu Manor with the pills as Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan discussed the lightning over Sunset Forest and waited for him.

• Dugu Bo endured Pill Thunder for two days as he refined more than twenty pills, and the lightning further tempered his body.
• Dugu Bo completed the Bone Regenerating Blood Dissolving Pill and stored it with pills including the Meridian Cleansing Pill, Yin Yang Spirit Infusion Pill, and Poria Azure Spirit Pill.
• Dugu Bo considered how the Meridian Cleansing Pill could improve Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan’s future Soul Rings, then left for Dugu Manor with the pills.
• Dugu Yan wondered whether Dugu Bo had caused the storm, and Dugu Yao explained that Pill Thunder tested pills and that ninth-grade Pill Thunder could be deadly.

Dugu Bo gave his family Meridian Cleansing Pills and explained the effects of several pills from the Nine Nether Pill Codex. He revealed the Saint Breaking Pill and introduced the Yin Yang Spirit Infusion Pill, whose extraordinary effects Dugu Yao recognized but Dugu Bo had not yet explained.

• Dugu Bo gathered the family in the Reception Hall and gave them Meridian Cleansing Pills, which cleansed impurities and improved physical and spiritual strength.
• Dugu Yan, Dugu Xin, and Lin Wanqiu washed after the pill expelled impurities, while Dugu Bo and Dugu Yao had none to purge.
• Dugu Bo gave Dugu Xin and Lin Wanqiu Saint Breaking Pills and advised them to save them for Soul Power rank 79, explaining how Foundation Building Pills could stabilize the gained Soul Power.
• Dugu Bo handed Dugu Xin and Lin Wanqiu Eighth-grade Yin Yang Spirit Infusion Pills, and Dugu Yao recognized that they could transform the Soul Master world.
• Dugu Xin impatiently asked Dugu Bo to explain the Yin Yang Spirit Infusion Pill's effects.

Dugu Bo explained that Yin Yang Spirit Infusion Pills could raise Innate Soul Power, and he, Dugu Xin, and Lin Wanqiu took them. The pills boosted their Soul Power Levels, while Dugu Bo warned that refining a Ninth-grade Pill would expose him to deadly Pill Thunder.

• Dugu Bo told Dugu Xin and Lin Wanqiu that Yin Yang Spirit Infusion Pills could raise Innate Soul Power to a maximum of level ten, but would not affect Dugu Yan or Dugu Yao.
• Dugu Xin and Lin Wanqiu took the pills, and Dugu Bo took one as well because his Innate Soul Power was below level ten.
• Dugu Bo's Soul Power Level rose to 93, and he explained to Dugu Yao that raising Innate Soul Power also increased a soul master's current Soul Power Level.
• Dugu Xin and Lin Wanqiu awoke at Soul Power Level 75, each having gained two levels, and Dugu Xin celebrated his progress toward becoming a Soul Fighting Douluo.
• Dugu Bo said Ninth-grade Pills could not be refined safely because their Nine-Colored Pill Thunder would strike with the power of a level 99 Limit Douluo.

After two months of rapid cultivation, Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan prepared to hunt for Soul Rings, and Dugu Bo tested their physical strength. Dugu Yao proved he could withstand pressure corresponding to a 19,000-year Soul Ring, while Dugu Yan began her own test.

• Dugu Bo, Dugu Xin, and Lin Wanqiu had each gained several Soul Power levels from the pills over two months.
• Dugu Bo announced that he would take Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan to Sunset Forest after testing their physical strength.
• Dugu Yao endured pressure up to level 52, leading Dugu Bo to say he could absorb a 19,000-year Third Soul Ring.
• Dugu Xin applauded Dugu Yao and noted that his Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill gave him a major advantage over other Soul Elders.
• Lin Wanqiu encouraged Dugu Yan to take her turn, and Dugu Yan asked Dugu Bo to test her pressure tolerance up to level 45.

Dugu Yan tested her physical strength under Dugu Bo’s pressure and endured up to Level 44, falling short of Dugu Yao’s Level 45 result. Dugu Bo reassured her that a Fourth-Grade Soul Guard Pill would let her absorb an eight-thousand-year Soul Ring, then took both siblings to hunt Spirit Beasts.

• Dugu Bo increased the pressure on Dugu Yan from Level 30 to Level 43, where her Three-Phase Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Soul appeared to help her endure.
• Dugu Yan collapsed under Level 44 pressure, so Dugu Bo stopped the test and said she could safely absorb a 7,800-year Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo explained that the Fourth-Grade Soul Guard Pill could help Dugu Yan absorb an eight-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Dugu Yao reminded Dugu Yan that his Level 45 strength came from three Immortal Herbs, and Dugu Yan accepted that she already surpassed other Soul Masters her age.
• Dugu Bo carried Dugu Yan and Dugu Yao away to hunt Spirit Beasts while Dugu Xin and Lin Wanqiu waited at home.

Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan to Gale Canyon to hunt wind-attributed Jade Mist Azure Gang Serpents for their next Soul Rings. After entering the serpents’ cave, they searched for an eight-thousand-year beast for Dugu Yan and a nineteen-thousand-year beast for Dugu Yao.

• Dugu Bo explained that Gale Canyon’s wind-attributed Spirit Beasts could give Dugu Yao’s Xiangliu a wind-aligned third head and strengthen the Soul Skills of Dugu Yan’s Three-Phase Jade Phosphor Serpent.
• Dugu Bo led Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan to Gale Canyon and protected them from its blade-like winds.
• Dugu Bo warned Dugu Yan not to touch the sharp, wind-eroded stones scattered across the canyon floor.
• Dugu Bo found the cave where he had previously seen a nineteen-thousand-year Jade Mist Azure Gang Serpent and led the others inside.
• Dugu Bo, Dugu Yao, and Dugu Yan ignored weaker Spirit Beasts and continued searching the cave for serpents of the desired ages.

Dugu Yan absorbed an eight-thousand-year Jade Mist Azure Gang Serpent Soul Ring and gained the Triple Miasma Breath Soul Skill. Dugu Bo then found the hidden nineteen-thousand-year serpent in the depths of the karst cave and attacked it.

• Dugu Bo identified an eight-thousand-year Jade Mist Azure Gang Serpent and captured it for Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan used a Fourth-Grade Soul Guard Pill, absorbed the serpent’s Soul Ring, and gained Triple Miasma Breath.
• Dugu Bo explained the serpent’s three abilities as the group continued searching for a ten-thousand-year specimen.
• Dugu Bo warned Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan that the nineteen-thousand-year serpent was hiding nearby in the cave’s depths.
• Dugu Bo spotted the serpent coiled around a stalactite, shielded Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan, and charged at it with his Jade Phosphor Poison Dragon Martial Soul.

Dugu Yao absorbed a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring from the Jade Mist Azure Gang Serpent and gained the Hurricane Fierce Poison Formation. He reached Soul Power Level 37, while Dugu Bo celebrated his grandchildren’s extraordinary growth.

• Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphor Poison Dragon Emperor defeated the Jade Mist Azure Gang Serpent and brought it to Dugu Yao.
• Dugu Yao woke Xiangliu and ordered it to kill the serpent, then absorbed its Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring with the help of a Supreme Soul Protecting Pill.
• Dugu Yan asked whether her Third Soul Ring could be ten-thousand-year, and Dugu Bo said she could absorb one but not a high-age ring like Dugu Yao’s.
• Dugu Yao gained the Hurricane Fierce Poison Formation, which created a poisonous hurricane within two hundred meters and formed 190 venom blades.
• Dugu Yao’s Soul Power reached Level 37, and Dugu Bo praised both grandchildren as his little monsters.

Dugu Yao had Xiangliu devour the Jade Mist Azure Gang Serpent and awaken its wind-attribute third head, Little Wind, before returning home with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan. After the family discussed the children’s new Soul Skills and cultivation levels over lunch, Dugu Bo explained how pills from the Nine Nether Pill Codex could boost their Soul Power and began planning to establish a sect.

• Dugu Yao had Xiangliu eat the Jade Mist Azure Gang Serpent’s corpse, awakening its third head as the wind-attribute Little Wind.
• Little Wind demonstrated its poisonous wind, and Dugu Yao learned that his Soul Power had reached level 37 while Dugu Yan had reached level 26.
• Dugu Bo carried Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan back to Dugu Manor, where the family welcomed them and shared lunch.
• Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan described their new Soul Skills, and Dugu Bo explained that pills in the Nine Nether Pill Codex could raise and stabilize their Soul Power.
• The family returned to their rooms to cultivate, while Dugu Bo began planning for the establishment of a sect.

Dugu Bo established the Profound Spirit Pill Sect and secured partnerships with powerful factions to sell its pills and protect the new sect. As Dugu Xin and Lin Wanqiu struggled through the demanding recruitment process, the sect accepted fewer than twenty new members.

• Yu Tianheng left Heaven Dou Royal Academy and devoted himself to cultivating at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan after failing to approach Dugu Yan or Dugu Yao.
• Dugu Bo refined a large stock of low-grade First-grade Pills and established partnerships with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Heaven Dou and Star Luo royal families, and Spirit Hall in exchange for shares of future pill revenue.
• Dugu Bo chose the town where his family lived as the sect's location and hired the Defense Clan to construct its buildings.
• Dugu Bo founded the Profound Spirit Pill Sect, and Dugu Xin and Lin Wanqiu screened prospective members for good temperament and clean backgrounds.
• Dugu Xin complained that fewer than twenty soul masters had qualified that day, while Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan massaged him and Lin Wanqiu.

Dugu Xin and Dugu Yao discussed the Profound Spirit Pill Sect’s recruitment and future growth, while Ning Fengzhi assessed Dugu Bo’s pill business and his Whale Rubber discovery. The chapter ended with Chen Xin confirming that a sect disciple had successfully absorbed a Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his Second Soul Ring using Dugu Bo’s method.

• Dugu Xin told Dugu Yao that only a little over a hundred suitable Soul Masters had joined the Profound Spirit Pill Sect and warned that academies and major powers would compete for future graduates.
• Dugu Xin said the sect’s supply of pills gave it an advantage and would help it grow.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Dugu Bo’s pills and his strategy of sharing profits with powerful factions, then asked Chen Xin and Gu Rong whether they could discover how to make them.
• Chen Xin said the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had identified the Spirit Gathering Pill’s ingredients but had not figured out its refining method.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Chen Xin whether Dugu Bo’s method could let a Soul Master’s first Soul Ring reach a thousand years.
• Chen Xin confirmed that a sect disciple who had consumed Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue successfully absorbed a Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his Second Soul Ring.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall assessed Dugu Bo’s soul-ring method and pill-making knowledge, both of which could strengthen their power. Spirit Hall’s leaders prepared eight-year-old Qian Renxue for her future mission to infiltrate the Heaven Dou Imperial Family and seek Dugu Bo’s pill-refining method.

• Gu Rong and Chen Xin praised the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Thousand-Year First Soul Ring method, while Chen Xin worried Dugu Bo might share it with rival factions.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that Dugu Bo was trustworthy and that the sect had paid generously for the method and other benefits.
• Qian Daoliu and the worshippers discussed Dugu Bo’s pills, noting that Spirit Hall knew their ingredients but not how to make them.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Renxue to seek Dugu Bo’s pill-making method after she replaced Xue Qinghe, and to win Dugu Bo over if she could not obtain it.
• Azure Luan advised Qian Renxue to begin by befriending Dugu Bo’s grandchildren, Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan, and she vowed to succeed.

Ye Lingyu brought his daughter, Ye Qingxian, and granddaughter, Ye Lingling, to Profound Spirit City to join Dugu Bo’s sect and secure their protection. Dugu Bo warmly welcomed his old friend and invited the family into Dugu Manor for a meal.

• Ye Lingyu arrived in Profound Spirit City with Ye Qingxian and Ye Lingling, hoping to join Dugu Bo’s sect and protect his family.
• Dugu Xin hurried to tell Dugu Bo that his old friend Ye Lingyu had arrived.
• Dugu Bo went out to greet Ye Lingyu and welcomed Ye Qingxian and Ye Lingling.
• Dugu Bo invited the family into Dugu Manor for drinks, and Dugu Xin arranged food and wine.

Dugu Xin introduced Ye Lingyu, Ye Qingxian, and Ye Lingling to the family, and the two households shared a warm reunion. Dugu Yao realized Ye Lingyu might die when Ye Lingling awakened her Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul and considered whether Dugu Bo could refine a dangerous Ninth-grade Resurrection and Soul Returning Pill in time to save him.

• Dugu Xin introduced Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan to his grandfather’s friend Ye Lingyu, Ye Qingxian, and Ye Lingling.
• The families shared a meal as Dugu Bo and Ye Lingyu reminisced, Lin Wanqiu and Ye Qingxian bonded, and Dugu Yan played with Ye Lingling.
• Dugu Yao recalled that only two Nine Heart Begonia wielders could exist in one era and realized Ye Lingyu might have two years left once Ye Lingling awakened her Martial Soul.
• Dugu Yao considered the Resurrection and Soul Returning Pill as a way to save Ye Lingyu, but knew refining it required surviving Nine-Colored Pill Thunder beyond Dugu Bo’s current strength.

Ye Lingyu brought Ye Qingxian and Ye Lingling to Dugu Bo, asking to join the Profound Spirit Pill Sect so they would be protected after he died from the Nine Heart Begonia curse. Dugu Bo welcomed them and named Ye Lingyu the sect’s Great Elder, while keeping his possible method of resurrection to himself.

• Dugu Bo sent Dugu Yao, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling away so he could speak privately with Ye Lingyu and Ye Qingxian.
• Ye Lingyu explained that Ye Lingling’s awakening of the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul would kill him, and asked Dugu Bo to shelter his daughter and granddaughter.
• Dugu Bo welcomed Ye Qingxian and Ye Lingling into the Profound Spirit Pill Sect and promised to protect them after Ye Lingyu’s death.
• Dugu Bo appointed Ye Lingyu Great Elder, and Ye Lingyu joked with him about the impressive position.
• Lin Wanqiu tried to comfort Ye Qingxian, while the children played together outside the Reception Hall and Ye Lingling grew less timid around Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan.

Ye Lingyu joined Dugu Bo’s Profound Spirit Pill Sect as its Great Elder, drawing independent Soul Masters to Profound Spirit City. Yu Yuanzhen recognized that his attempt to use Yu Tianheng to court Dugu Yan had alienated Dugu Bo, and told his grandson to focus on cultivation instead.

• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan that Ye Lingyu had become the Profound Spirit Pill Sect’s Great Elder and invited him to live at Dugu Manor.
• Dugu Bo held a day-long banquet celebrating Ye Lingyu’s arrival, and independent Soul Masters began flocking to Profound Spirit City.
• Yu Yuanzhen lamented that Dugu Bo had founded his own sect and concluded that the special pills’ distribution had excluded the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan in retaliation.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked Yu Tianheng why Dugu Yan had rejected him, then admitted that sending him to approach her had made his intentions too obvious.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Yu Tianheng to stop deliberately seeking out Dugu Yan and Dugu Yao and devote himself to cultivation.

Dugu Yao reached Soul Power Level 39 while Dugu Yan advanced to level 29, and the siblings took Ye Lingling out to explore the rapidly growing Profound Spirit City. Dugu Yao realized that Dugu Bo had likely partnered with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect by offering knowledge about absorbing Soul Rings beyond the usual age limit.

• The Profound Spirit Pill Sect recruited disciples and sold pills across the empires, while Dugu Bo, Dugu Xin, and Lin Wanqiu focused on refining pills that middlemen resold at inflated prices.
• Ye Lingling grew more cheerful at Dugu Manor and called Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan out to play.
• Dugu Yao reached Soul Power Level 39, and Dugu Yan reached level 29 as they prepared to use pills to advance further.
• Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan took Ye Lingling into Profound Spirit City, where Dugu Yan admired how much it had grown.
• Dugu Yao concluded that Dugu Bo had likely traded knowledge about exceeding Soul Ring age limits for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's support in building the sect and city.

Dugu Yao and Dugu Yan used pills to reach Soul Power Level 40 and Level 30 before the age of seven. Dugu Yao entered the Otherspace and received Xiong Shen’s fourth inheritance: a fragment of the Nine Nether Cave Mansion.

• Dugu Yan took a Second-grade Foundation Building Pill and raised her Soul Power to Level 30, while Dugu Yao used a Third-grade Profound Breaking Pill to reach Level 40 and stabilized his Soul Power with another pill.
• Dugu Bo, Dugu Xin, and Lin Wanqiu marveled at the children’s levels and predicted they could become Titled Douluo in their twenties.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yao to receive Xiong Shen’s fourth inheritance before they went to Sunset Forest to hunt Soul Beasts.
• Dugu Yao entered the Otherspace with Xiangliu and Little Liu, then reached the Five Emperors Platform.
• Xiong Shen granted Dugu Yao a fragment of his former Nine Nether Cave Mansion, and Dugu Yao recognized it as a fragment of a blessed land.