Chapter Summaries

Li Qinglian learned that Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and Holy Maiden were traditionally paired as future pope and consort, and Qian Renxue teased him about their potential relationship. Their conversation was interrupted when Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan spotted Qian Renxue in Xue Qinghe’s disguise sitting intimately with Li Qinglian.

• Qian Renxue asked Li Qinglian to explain how emotions and physical cultivation affected the path to godhood, and he confirmed her interpretation.
• Qian Renxue explained Spirit Hall’s tradition of pairing the Holy Son and Holy Maiden, leaving Li Qinglian to realize Qian Xunji had arranged his appointment with her in mind.
• Li Qinglian pointed out that Hu Liena, not Qian Renxue, was Spirit Hall’s current Holy Maiden, and he reflected on the conflict between Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong.
• Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan entered the tavern, saw Qian Renxue disguised as Xue Qinghe sitting closely with Li Qinglian, and suspected they had witnessed a compromising secret.

Li Qinglian teased Qian Renxue until she admitted she missed him and considered him her husband. Qian Renxue accepted that Hu Liena might also be part of Li Qinglian’s life, while he worried about the Goddess of Life’s reaction.

• Li Qinglian embraced Qian Renxue, and the Heaven Dou Team mistook the Crown Prince’s closeness with him for a scandal and hurried away.
• Qian Renxue scolded Li Qinglian for ruining her reputation, but blushed when he made a suggestive metaphor about their relationship.
• As they walked through Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue confessed that she had missed Li Qinglian and called him her husband.
• Li Qinglian mentioned Hu Liena, and Qian Renxue said she could accept sharing him with her.
• Li Qinglian reflected on Qian Renxue’s interest in his status and worried about how the Goddess of Life would react to her feelings.

After Qian Renxue gave Li Qinglian the keys to a quiet residence in Heaven Dou City, he considered how he might be taking Tang San’s fortune. At the residence, Dugu Yan attacked him, then questioned his interest in women and posed seductively; Li Qinglian told her she seemed too sickly for his taste.

• Qian Renxue gave Li Qinglian the keys to a residence in Heaven Dou City and left.
• Li Qinglian mused that his romantic ties might be taking fortune from Tang San, then went to inspect the residence.
• Dugu Yan ambushed Li Qinglian with a venomous attack, but he dodged and restrained her wrist.
• Dugu Yan recognized Li Qinglian from a fight six years earlier and teased him about his attraction to women and Qian Renxue.
• Dugu Yan posed seductively, and Li Qinglian said her figure was passable but he did not like sickly women.

Li Qinglian told Dugu Yan that the poison in her body would kill her within three years, then subdued her when she attacked. After he offered to help, Dugu Yan left to ask her grandfather, Dugu Bo, about the poison.

• Li Qinglian warned Dugu Yan that her Jade Scaled Snake Venom would overwhelm her life force within three years.
• Dugu Yan summoned her Martial Soul and attacked Li Qinglian with poison mist, but his Death Domain drained the poison of its potency.
• Dugu Yan charged at Li Qinglian, who dodged her bite and spanked her until she stopped struggling.
• Li Qinglian explained that the poison had invaded Dugu Yan's internal organs and offered to help if Dugu Bo came to see him.
• Dugu Yan decided to ask Dugu Bo about the poison and left the courtyard while Li Qinglian watched her go.

Li Qinglian considered using Dugu Bo as an ally and wondered whether he could claim the treasures and herbs of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Dugu Yan confronted her grandfather about her poisoned condition, and Dugu Bo learned that Li Qinglian might be able to save her.

• Li Qinglian reflected that he could cure Dugu Yan’s poison and make Dugu Bo a useful ally.
• Li Qinglian considered whether the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well held treasures left by the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King, or could be moved into his Dragon Abyss Realm.
• Dugu Yan arrived at Dugu Bo’s residence and demanded to know whether she truly had only three years left to live.
• Dugu Bo fell silent, confirming Dugu Yan’s suspicions about the poison in her body.
• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo that Li Qinglian had diagnosed her and said he had a way to help her.
• Dugu Bo wondered whether Li Qinglian could cure Dugu Yan and resolved that saving her would be worth giving his life.

Li Qinglian broke through to Level Forty-Two and planned to develop everyday Soul Tools while bathing. Dugu Yan rushed in to tell him her grandfather had arrived, but caught him naked in the tub and fled in embarrassment.

• Li Qinglian broke through to Level Forty-Two and confirmed that his Eight Spider Lances had fully fused with his body.
• Li Qinglian bathed while considering designs for practical Soul Tools and a Soul Tool research program for Spirit Hall.
• Dugu Yan burst into Li Qinglian's room to announce that her grandfather had arrived and found him bathing naked.
• Li Qinglian challenged Dugu Yan for barging in and peeking at him, and she ran outside, flustered.

Li Qinglian faced Dugu Bo’s Titled Douluo pressure and used Pure Heart Eyes to expose the severe poison damaging his body. Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan knelt and begged Li Qinglian to save them, offering their loyalty in return.

• Gu Yuena teased Li Qinglian after Dugu Yan saw him bathing, and Dugu Yan apologized to him for calling him a pervert.
• Dugu Bo arrived at the courtyard and pressed Li Qinglian with his poisonous Titled Douluo aura while Dugu Yan protested.
• Li Qinglian used Pure Heart Eyes to see Dugu Bo’s poisoned organs and warned that exerting more soul power would worsen the backlash.
• Dugu Bo withdrew his pressure, knelt before Li Qinglian, and begged him to save himself and Dugu Yan in exchange for his loyalty.
• Dugu Yan knelt beside her grandfather and pleaded with Li Qinglian to save them, offering whatever he wanted.

Li Qinglian used his Eight Spider Lances to absorb the poison accumulated in Dugu Bo, turning it into energy that evolved his two Thousand-Year Soul Rings into Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings. After absorbing only a fifth of the poison, he warned Dugu Bo that removing the rest could temporarily lower his cultivation, but would free him from the poison that had kept him from fighting at full power.

• Li Qinglian helped Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan rise, then revealed his Eight Spider Lances and warned Dugu Bo that absorbing his poison might hurt.
• Li Qinglian siphoned Dugu Bo's accumulated poison while using his Life Heart to protect Dugu Bo's vital meridians and his Death Divine Tree to devour the poison's energy.
• Li Qinglian's two Thousand-Year Soul Rings evolved into Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, leaving him with four black Soul Rings after he absorbed about twenty percent of Dugu Bo's poison.
• Dugu Bo asked whether Li Qinglian had evolved his Soul Rings by devouring the poison, and Li Qinglian confirmed it and explained that absorbing the rest might temporarily reduce Dugu Bo's cultivation to level ninety.
• Dugu Bo realized that losing the accumulated poison would let him fight without restraint, while Dugu Yan watched Li Qinglian's four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings in shock.

Li Qinglian cured some of Dugu Bo’s poison and deduced that he possessed a place capable of suppressing it. Dugu Bo pledged the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to Li Qinglian, where Gu Yuena appeared and was stunned by the Dragon Kings’ resting place.

• Li Qinglian told Dugu Bo that his accumulated poison should have killed him and inferred that he had access to a sacred place that suppressed it.
• Dugu Bo revealed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and offered it to Li Qinglian as a pledge of allegiance.
• Dugu Bo led Li Qinglian to the well in Sunset Forest, where Li Qinglian sensed two powerful auras beneath its opposing springs.
• The Dragon Abyss Ring trembled, and Gu Yuena appeared as a phantom, staring at the well in shock.
• Li Qinglian sent Dugu Bo away and ordered him to keep Gu Yuena’s appearance secret; Dugu Bo left wondering whether Li Qinglian had a connection to the heavens.

Gu Yuena explained that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well formed from the remains of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King, whose dragon marrow and souls still lay at its depths. Li Qinglian sought to use their remains to strengthen his human body, and the chapter left him considering how to overcome humanity’s physical frailty.

• Gu Yuena identified the valley as the burial ground of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King and recounted how the Dragon God’s madness destroyed the Dragon Clan’s peak-era power.
• Gu Yuena explained that the two Dragon Kings’ remains formed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while their dragon marrow and souls still slumbered beneath it.
• Li Qinglian asked whether the Dragon Kings’ remains were still in the spring, and Gu Yuena confirmed that their core treasures remained there.
• Li Qinglian asked Gu Yuena for the Dragon Kings’ treasures so he could improve himself, and she recognized his interest.
• Li Qinglian explained that his human body let him absorb advantages from other races, but also left him physically frail and vulnerable to powerful opponents.

Li Qinglian learned that the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s dragon marrow and souls lay beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but Gu Yuena refused to help unless he agreed to be her little man. Left to find another way, Li Qinglian suspected the two immortal herbs beside the springs were keys to the Dragon King Burial Grounds.

• Gu Yuena teased Li Qinglian about taking advantage of the Dragon Clan and told him the Dragon Kings’ marrow and souls lay one thousand meters beneath the springs.
• Li Qinglian begged Gu Yuena to teach him how to reach them, but rejected her offer to help if he became her little man.
• Gu Yuena withdrew into the Dragon Abyss Realm, privately growing irritated that Li Qinglian might prefer the Goddess of Life.
• Li Qinglian examined the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and realized he could not withstand its depth, pressure, and clashing elemental forces.
• Li Qinglian noticed the ice and fire immortal herbs beside the springs and concluded they might be natural keys to the Dragon King Burial Grounds.

Li Qinglian realized the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s opposing energies could complement the Life and Death Origins within him, and chose to temper himself by absorbing its two supreme immortal herbs. As he endured their forces, Gu Yuena recognized that the sanctuary confirmed his path and considered an alliance with his possible future power.

• Li Qinglian concluded that the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass occupied the yin and yang positions of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Li Qinglian told Gu Yuena he would retrieve the dragon kings’ treasures himself to earn their recognition, and she warned him he could not survive the depths unaided.
• Li Qinglian touched both immortal herbs and neutralized their extreme cold and heat with his Death Origin.
• Li Qinglian sat between the springs and absorbed both herbs, using his Death Tree and Life Heart to withstand their clashing forces as they tempered his body and soul power.
• Gu Yuena realized the well’s balance of ice and fire affirmed Li Qinglian’s path of harmonizing life and death, then weighed the value of allying with him.

Dugu Bo explained to Dugu Yan why he believed Li Qinglian was destined for greatness and encouraged her to pursue him. After forging his Ice-Fire Golden Body, Li Qinglian dived deeper into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and sensed two ancient auras below, but the depths remained hidden from his Pure Heart Eyes.

• Dugu Yan asked Dugu Bo why Li Qinglian could cultivate unharmed in the deadly spring, and Dugu Bo said Li Qinglian's abilities were beyond ordinary understanding.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that Spirit Hall had named Li Qinglian its Holy Son when he was six because of his exceptional potential, and he encouraged her to seize any chance to be with him.
• Li Qinglian awoke after his icy and fiery energies reached equilibrium and sensed that his Martial Soul had begun to change.
• Li Qinglian tested his resilience, then dove into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where his new golden body withstood the alternating cold and heat.
• At around two hundred meters deep, Li Qinglian sensed two ancient auras below and activated his Pure Heart Eyes, but darkness prevented him from seeing them clearly.

Li Qinglian explored the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and confirmed that the Dragon Marrow existed, but decided to strengthen his body before trying to obtain it. After Dugu Yan dressed to attract his attention, his blunt evaluation angered her.

• Li Qinglian sensed the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s Dragon Souls and concluded that their Dragon Marrow was real.
• Li Qinglian surfaced after diving two hundred meters, bleeding from ruptured capillaries, and decided to use the well to train his body before seeking the Dragon Marrow.
• Dugu Yan worried over Li Qinglian’s injuries, then asked whether he liked her revealing outfit.
• Li Qinglian praised Dugu Yan’s long legs and slim waist but rated her looks second-rate, making her furious.
• Dugu Yan asked how Li Qinglian rated Qian Renxue, and he called her first-rate but short of the very best.

Dugu Yan boldly offered herself to Li Qinglian after he saved her grandfather, and he agreed to pursue a relationship with her. When they returned to Dugu Residence together, Yu Tianheng was waiting with flowers and was stunned to see her holding Li Qinglian's arm.

• Dugu Yan told Li Qinglian she wanted to be with him as repayment for saving Dugu Bo, despite his warning that his other love interests were powerful.
• Dugu Yan clung to Li Qinglian's arm, and he accepted her offer.
• Yu Tianheng waited at Dugu Residence with flowers, hoping to win Dugu Yan and strengthen his standing in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yu Tianheng saw Dugu Yan walking arm in arm with Li Qinglian and froze in shock.
• Dugu Yan recognized Yu Tianheng and asked why he was there.

Dugu Yan rejected Yu Tianheng and chose to stay with Li Qinglian, explaining that Yu Tianheng had never been the one she truly wanted. Yu Tianheng challenged Li Qinglian to prove himself, and Li Qinglian tried to reason with him.

• Yu Tianheng confronted Dugu Yan after seeing her cling to Li Qinglian, but Dugu Yan said she had never liked him and refused to let go of Li Qinglian.
• Dugu Yan explained that Yu Tianheng’s pursuit was entangled with interest in her grandfather, while Li Qinglian had saved them from their poison.
• Yu Tianheng accused Dugu Yan of stringing him along, and she countered that he had pursued her instead of Ye Lingling for his own reasons.
• Yu Tianheng threw down his roses, summoned his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul, and demanded to know whether Li Qinglian was worth Dugu Yan’s choice.
• Li Qinglian stopped Dugu Yan from intervening and urged Yu Tianheng to move on and seek a suitable match elsewhere.

Yu Tianheng challenged Li Qinglian after becoming enraged over Dugu Yan’s affection for him. Li Qinglian repelled Yu Tianheng’s first punch with his bare strength, and as Yu Tianheng charged again with his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon transformation, Li Qinglian met him with another punch.

• Dugu Yan teased Yu Tianheng by calling Li Qinglian “Brother Qinglian,” deepening Yu Tianheng’s anger and jealousy.
• Yu Tianheng challenged Li Qinglian to a fight and threw the first punch when Li Qinglian did not respond.
• Li Qinglian met Yu Tianheng’s punch bare-handed, forcing him back several steps without using his Martial Soul or Soul Rings.
• Yu Tianheng released all three Soul Rings and transformed his right arm into a dragon claw before charging at Li Qinglian.
• Li Qinglian infused his body with Soul Power and struck Yu Tianheng’s dragon claw with a second punch.

Li Qinglian defeated Yu Tianheng with two punches, then explained to Dugu Yan that his usual detoxification method would cost her cultivation. He proposed that she instead condense a poison soul core, which could clear her meridians and turn her venom into a source of strength.

• Li Qinglian sent Yu Tianheng flying and left him unconscious, while Dugu Yan watched in shock.
• Dugu Yan clung to Li Qinglian and arranged for a servant to notify the academy so Lingling and the others could collect Yu Tianheng.
• Dugu Bo watched Dugu Yan with Li Qinglian and considered the possibility that her closeness to him might benefit her future.
• Li Qinglian warned Dugu Yan that detoxifying her with the Eight Spider Lances would likely cost her at least two cultivation ranks.
• Li Qinglian explained that Dugu Yan could instead condense a poison soul core, which would contain her toxins and improve her cultivation and combat power.

Li Qinglian explained his Soul Core Theory to Dugu Yan and revealed that her inherited poison made her an unusually promising candidate for early experimentation. Dugu Yan learned that he had considered her a research subject when he agreed to let her stay, leaving her exasperated by his blunt honesty.

• Dugu Yan asked what she should do after learning about Soul Cores, and Li Qinglian said she was not yet strong enough to condense one and that he would try it first.
• Li Qinglian explained that a Poison Soul Core could turn Dugu Yan’s inherited poison into a strength and potentially raise her cultivation and improve her Martial Soul.
• Dugu Yan worried that Soul Core Theory was a Spirit Hall secret, but Li Qinglian told her he had devised it himself and distinguished his private research from Spirit Hall’s affairs.
• Dugu Yan asked whether Li Qinglian had let her stay because she could serve as a research subject, and he admitted that he had considered using her for experiments.
• Dugu Yan complained that Li Qinglian’s honesty was both what girls liked about him and his greatest flaw.

Li Qinglian admitted that absorbing Dugu Bo’s poison would strengthen his Soul Rings, while Dugu Yan accepted his unequal treatment and climbed onto his lap to embrace him. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Yu Tianheng’s teammates mistook his depleted state for overindulgence, but Ye Lingling said she could not help him.

• Dugu Yan guessed that Li Qinglian wanted to absorb the poison in her grandfather’s body, and he confirmed it could raise the age of his Soul Rings above twenty thousand years.
• Dugu Yan said she was glad Li Qinglian treated her differently and climbed onto his lap, asking whether she was more proactive than Qian Renxue.
• Dugu Yan rested her forehead against Li Qinglian’s and asked him to hold her because she feared the moment would disappear.
• Yu Feng, Osler, and the Shi brothers suspected Yu Tianheng had overindulged himself, and he angrily denied it.
• Ye Lingling examined Yu Tianheng and said she could not help with his condition.