Chapter Summaries

Gu Ling searched Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and followed signs of poisonous corrosion to Dugu Bo’s Poison Formation. He used Void Dragon Assault to cross a weak point in the mist and emerged inside the valley, where he saw the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s red and blue lights.

• Gu Ling searched Sunset Forest for three days, using Void Dragon Assault and his Bone Dragon Martial Soul to drive off soul beasts that attacked him.
• Gu Ling found several dead soul beasts marked by potent poison and followed the trail of corrosion deeper into the forest.
• Gu Ling discovered a poisonous mist formation that he suspected Dugu Bo had placed around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Gu Ling mapped the thinner sections of the Poison Formation and used Void Dragon Assault to cross them while minimizing his exposure to the poison.
• Gu Ling emerged beyond the mist and saw the valley illuminated by the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s opposing red and blue lights.

Gu Ling searched the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s Medicine Garden and collected several Immortal Grade Herbs, but Dugu Bo caught him stealing. Gu Ling evaded Dugu Bo’s attacks with Void Dragon Assault until Dugu Bo seized him and found the herbs in his box.

• Gu Ling identified and gathered several Immortal Grade Herbs, leaving the dangerous Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot untouched.
• Dugu Bo discovered Gu Ling in his Medicine Garden and demanded to know why he had taken the herbs.
• Gu Ling used Void Dragon Assault to evade Dugu Bo’s grabs several times.
• Dugu Bo increased his Soul Power, anticipated Gu Ling’s escape, and caught him by the shoulder.
• Dugu Bo took Gu Ling’s box, saw how many herbs he had collected, and angrily confronted him.

Gu Ling used his knowledge of Dugu Bo’s poison and Dugu Yan’s hereditary risk to persuade Dugu Bo to let him attempt a treatment. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo placing his Dan Bead inside Gu Ling as insurance and allowing him to use the Immortal Grade Herbs.

• Dugu Bo caught Gu Ling in his herb garden and threatened to break his legs, but Gu Ling revealed that he knew about Dugu Bo’s poison symptoms.
• Gu Ling told Dugu Bo that the poison was hereditary and warned that Dugu Yan could suffer the same backlash as she grew stronger.
• Gu Ling proposed transferring the poison into Soul Bones rather than purging it, and offered to treat Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan using the garden’s herbs.
• Dugu Bo agreed to trust Gu Ling but made him swallow his Dan Bead, giving Dugu Bo a way to threaten his life.
• Gu Ling swallowed the Dan Bead, and Dugu Bo allowed him to use the Immortal Grade Herbs as long as he did not waste them.

Gu Ling swallowed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then used the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to complete Icefire Body Tempering. After discovering that the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King might lie beneath the springs, he dived down and awakened an ancient response from his Bone Dragon Martial Soul.

• Dugu Bo gave Gu Ling three days to show results and left the valley.
• Gu Ling mixed a bowl of medicinal herbs, then chose to temper his body with the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• The herbs' opposing powers overwhelmed Gu Ling until he entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and endured their alternating tempering.
• Gu Ling emerged with a stronger body and bones that seemed to have benefited his Bone Dragon Martial Soul.
• Gu Ling dived into the springs to search for the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King remains, and his Bone Dragon Martial Soul possessed him as ancient auras stirred below.

Gu Ling discovered the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s remains beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where their residual essences entered his body and transformed his Bone Dragon Martial Soul. He broke through to level forty and gained Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire, then realized the essence had been drawn to him because of his martial soul and the two immortal herbs he had consumed.

• Gu Ling dived to the lakebed and found the enormous icy-blue and scarlet skeletons of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King.
• Gu Ling’s Bone Dragon Martial Soul resonated with the remains, drawing a wisp of each Dragon King’s essence into his body.
• Gu Ling endured the essences’ painful tempering as they balanced with the medicinal energy of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Gu Ling’s Soul Power rose from level thirty-seven to level forty, where it stopped because he lacked a fourth Soul Ring.
• Gu Ling’s Bone Dragon Martial Soul gained Ultimate Ice in his left arm and Ultimate Fire in his right arm.
• Gu Ling concluded that the Dragon King essences had been drawn to his dragon-type martial soul and the aura left by the two immortal herbs.

Gu Ling searched the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' remains for Soul Bones, found none, and collected two broken bones to use as possible weapon materials. After returning to shore, he learned he had spent three days tempering himself, and Dugu Bo demanded the medicine Gu Ling had prepared; Gu Ling ended by proposing terms for treating Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.

• Gu Ling searched both Dragon Kings' remains for Soul Bones, found none, and concluded their energy had sustained the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Gu Ling collected an ice-blue and a crimson broken Dragon King Bone, intending to have them forged into a sword.
• Gu Ling surfaced after his three-day body tempering and stored the two bones in his Soul Tool.
• Dugu Bo arrived and asked where Gu Ling had been for the past three days, then demanded the promised medicine.
• Gu Ling presented the strange-looking medicinal liquid and said he would not treat Dugu Bo or Dugu Yan for nothing.

Gu Ling persuaded Dugu Bo to serve as his bodyguard for a year in exchange for curing the poison afflicting him and Dugu Yan. After Dugu Bo drank Gu Ling’s medicine, its unpleasant side effects gave way to reduced symptoms, and Gu Ling left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well having reached Soul Power level forty.

• Gu Ling asked Dugu Bo to protect him for one year, and Dugu Bo agreed on the condition that Gu Ling truly cure him and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo drank Gu Ling’s medicine and spent the night vomiting and suffering from diarrhea.
• Over the following days, Dugu Bo’s poisoning symptoms eased, and he began to believe Gu Ling knew how to treat him.
• Gu Ling and Dugu Bo left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after Gu Ling completed his cultivation gains and reached Soul Power level forty.
• Gu Ling told Dugu Bo he needed a fourth Soul Ring and asked him for help.

Gu Ling and Dugu Bo searched Sunset Forest for a suitable Fourth Soul Ring until they found a thirteen-thousand-year Spatial Demon Dragon. As Dugu Bo weakened it, the beast dragged Gu Ling into an isolated space, leaving Dugu Bo unable to sense or reach either of them.

• Gu Ling pressured Dugu Bo into guarding him while they searched Sunset Forest for a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast.
• Gu Ling rejected several candidates because he wanted a Soul Beast suited to his Bone Dragon Martial Soul.
• Gu Ling chose a thirteen-thousand-year Spatial Demon Dragon, and Dugu Bo attacked it while leaving it alive for Gu Ling to finish.
• The wounded Spatial Demon Dragon used its spatial power to drag Gu Ling into an Independent Space.
• Dugu Bo realized the Spatial Demon Dragon had trapped Gu Ling somewhere he could not enter or sense.

Gu Ling was trapped in the Spatial Demon Dragon’s sealed space, where his abilities were suppressed, but the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King auras from his bone armor frightened the beast and weakened its control. He killed the wounded Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast and emerged with Dugu Bo, who questioned how he had survived.

• Dugu Bo searched for a way into the Spatial Demon Dragon’s Independent Space while Gu Ling realized he could neither escape nor move at full strength inside it.
• The wounded Spatial Demon Dragon attacked Gu Ling, but the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King auras emerged beside him and made the beast tremble in fear.
• Gu Ling used Void Dragon Assault to get behind the Spatial Demon Dragon and struck its wounds with Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire, killing it.
• The sealed space shattered, returning Gu Ling and the Spatial Demon Dragon’s corpse to Sunset Forest with a black Soul Ring floating above it.
• Dugu Bo examined the corpse and asked Gu Ling how he had killed the thirteen-thousand-year Soul Beast, and Gu Ling claimed he had simply landed a few more hits.

Gu Ling absorbed the Spatial Demon Dragon’s thirteen-thousand-year Soul Ring as his Fourth Soul Ring, enduring the violent Soul Power with the strength gained from the Immortal Grade Herbs. He gained the Fourth Soul Skill Reincarnation Deadland and trapped Dugu Bo in a private space that suppressed his abilities.

• Gu Ling dismissed Dugu Bo’s warnings and began absorbing the Spatial Demon Dragon’s Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo guarded Gu Ling as the Soul Ring’s Soul Power battered his body for several hours, repeatedly checked by his vitality and the aura of ice and fire.
• Gu Ling successfully gained a black Fourth Soul Ring and became a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor.
• Gu Ling activated Reincarnation Deadland and transported himself and Dugu Bo into a dim, isolated space.
• Dugu Bo discovered that Reincarnation Deadland suppressed his Soul Power circulation, strength, speed, reactions, and spiritual perception.

Gu Ling tested his Reincarnation Deadland soul skill against Dugu Bo, then returned with him to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Shrek Academy was being driven away. As the Shrek group left, Gu Ling noticed that Zhu Zhuqing was missing.

• Gu Ling trapped Dugu Bo in the Reincarnation Deadland, and Dugu Bo failed to break the space with his attacks.
• Gu Ling explained that only powerful spatial abilities or killing him could let someone escape, then dismissed the space and hurried with Dugu Bo toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Gu Ling and Dugu Bo arrived to find Dai Mubai fighting Xue Beng and other Heaven Dou Royal Academy students.
• Prince Xue Xing brought Dugu Bo to confront Shrek Academy, and Dugu Bo's pressure helped drive Flender, Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and the others away.
• Gu Ling watched Shrek Academy leave and realized Zhu Zhuqing was not with them.

Gu Ling prepared medicine for Dugu Yan after explaining that the Jade Phosphor Serpent Venom was harming her, and she drank it despite its awful smell. Zhu Zhuqing, having left Shrek Academy after Yu Xiaogang blamed and sought to expel her, enrolled at Heaven Dou Royal Academy because Gu Ling was there.

• Dugu Bo brought Gu Ling to Dugu Yan and urged him to treat her toxin backlash.
• Gu Ling explained that the Jade Phosphor Serpent Venom in Dugu Yan’s body was gradually harming her, and Dugu Bo confirmed the problem ran in their family.
• Gu Ling prepared a reduced-dose batch of medicine, and Dugu Yan drank it after Dugu Bo assured her it worked.
• Yu Xiaogang blamed Zhu Zhuqing for Shrek’s defeat and demanded she leave the team, so Zhu Zhuqing left before he could formally expel her.
• Zhu Zhuqing traveled to Heaven Dou City and enrolled at Heaven Dou Royal Academy after passing its assessment.

Zhu Zhuqing left Shrek Academy after Yu Xiaogang blamed her for the team’s loss and joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Gu Ling helped her enter the Imperial Fighting Team. The team welcomed her after learning that Yu Tianheng had also left the academy.

• Gu Ling ran into Zhu Zhuqing and learned that she had left Shrek Academy after Yu Xiaogang targeted her over the loss to the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Ye Lingling told Gu Ling that Teacher Qin and Yu Tianheng had left Heaven Dou Royal Academy, leaving the Imperial Fighting Team short-handed.
• Gu Ling proposed that Zhu Zhuqing fill the vacancy, and she agreed to try out for the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Zhu Zhuqing passed a simple assessment and became a member of the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Gu Ling introduced Zhu Zhuqing to Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Yu Feng, Osler, and the Shi Mo brothers as their new teammate.

After Zhu Zhuqing joined the Imperial Fighting Team, Gu Ling became its captain and discovered that his Bone Dragon and Zhu Zhuqing’s Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul could resonate and might form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. He decided to give his remaining Immortal Grade Herbs to Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling before the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.

• Zhu Zhuqing left Shrek Academy and joined the Imperial Fighting Team, whose members welcomed her.
• The team chose Gu Ling as its new captain after Yu Tianheng left, with Dugu Yan and the others agreeing he was best suited for the role.
• Gu Ling and Zhu Zhuqing sensed their Soul Power resonating during a sparring session, and the effect grew stronger when they released their Martial Souls.
• Gu Ling recognized that their Bone Dragon and Hell Spirit Cat might be compatible enough to develop a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Gu Ling recalled his remaining Immortal Grade Herbs and decided to give suitable ones to Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling before the tournament.

Gu Ling gave Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan three Immortal-grade Herbs suited to them and guided Zhu Zhuqing through refining the Narcissus Jade Flesh Bone. Zhu Zhuqing rose from level thirty-two to level thirty-nine, while Ye Lingling’s Nine-Heart Begonia responded to the Aromatic Silk Beauty.

• Gu Ling brought Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan aside and gave them the Narcissus Jade Flesh Bone, Aromatic Silk Beauty, and Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, respectively.
• Gu Ling explained how to refine the herbs, and Zhu Zhuqing consumed hers first while the others watched.
• Zhu Zhuqing followed Gu Ling’s guidance as the herb’s medicinal power cleared her meridians and raised her Soul Power through several levels.
• Zhu Zhuqing reached level thirty-nine, then tested her improved speed and bodily control before thanking Gu Ling.
• Ye Lingling picked up the Aromatic Silk Beauty, and her Nine-Heart Begonia responded by blooming in her palm.

Ye Lingling absorbed Aromatic Silk Beauty, reached level forty, and discovered that her Nine-Heart Begonia’s healing had improved. Dugu Yan then absorbed the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid and rose to level forty-five, while Gu Ling planned a trip to Sunset Forest to find Ye Lingling a Fourth Soul Ring.

• Ye Lingling absorbed Aromatic Silk Beauty and advanced from level thirty-seven to level forty, stopping at the bottleneck until she obtained a Fourth Soul Ring.
• Ye Lingling sensed that her Soul Power had become purer and her Nine-Heart Begonia had evolved, and her healing quickly eased Gu Ling’s bruised wrist.
• Dugu Yan absorbed the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid and reached level forty-five, though she found her newly strengthened Soul Power harder to control.
• Gu Ling told Dugu Yan that she still needed treatment for her original condition and planned to consult her grandfather about adjusting it.
• Gu Ling and Ye Lingling agreed to prepare for a trip to Sunset Forest to find Ye Lingling a suitable Fourth Soul Ring, while Dugu Yan warned that guarding her during absorption could be dangerous.

Gu Ling and Ye Lingling traveled to Sunset Forest to seek Dugu Bo’s help with her Fourth Soul Ring and continue treating his and Dugu Yan’s toxins. They found fresh signs of other visitors, while Tang San and his teachers were also searching the forest for his Fourth Soul Ring.

• Dugu Yan gave Gu Ling and Ye Lingling antidotes for the Medicine Garden’s poisonous mist and asked Gu Ling to tell Dugu Bo that she had reached level forty-five.
• Gu Ling and Ye Lingling set out for Sunset Forest after preparing carefully; Ye Lingling emphasized that they should retreat together if danger arose.
• Near the Medicine Garden, Gu Ling found fresh footprints and damaged bushes, then changed course to investigate who had passed through.
• Tang San reached level forty and entered Sunset Forest with Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang to find a suitable Fourth Soul Ring.
• As Tang San prepared to eat, dirt bounced beside the tree roots and a low roar sounded from the forest, prompting Flender to raise his head.

Tang San was separated from Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong when a fleeing herd of soul beasts caused a slope to collapse beneath him. After finding his way through an underground channel into a hidden valley, he discovered the legendary Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• A ten-thousand-year Ironclad Earth Dragon drove a herd of soul beasts through the group’s camp, and Liu Erlong confronted it while Tang San headed for higher ground.
• The slope beneath Tang San collapsed, and he fell into a dark fissure despite trying to stop himself with his Blue Silver Grass and Eight Spider Lances.
• Flender and Liu Erlong began clearing the rubble while Yu Xiaogang called for Tang San, who answered from below but could not climb back through the unstable passage.
• Tang San used his Purple Demon Eyes to find a dry underground water channel, then carefully passed a poisonous exit by using his Eight Spider Lances to absorb the poison.
• Tang San emerged into a hidden valley and recognized its two-colored hot spring and unusual herbs as the legendary Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well described in the Tang Sect’s Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.

Tang San gathered herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and argued that the naturally growing plants were free for the taking. Gu Ling and Ye Lingling caught him in Dugu Bo’s medicine garden, and Gu Ling prepared to fight when Tang San refused to return the herbs.

• Tang San hesitated to use his signal tube, then began harvesting medicinal herbs from the spring’s edge.
• Tang San found signs that someone had already collected herbs and used the nearby medicine platform, but convinced himself the garden’s natural treasures were not anyone’s property.
• Gu Ling and Ye Lingling arrived and caught Tang San putting herbs into his medicine pouch; Gu Ling identified the place as Dugu Bo’s medicine garden and demanded he put them down.
• Tang San argued that Dugu Bo could not claim naturally grown herbs, while Gu Ling and Ye Lingling pointed out the garden’s facilities and fresh medicinal dregs.
• Gu Ling admitted Dugu Bo had personally permitted him to take some herbs, but Tang San accused him of using Dugu Bo’s name to seize his find.
• Gu Ling told Ye Lingling to step back, summoned bone armor, and advanced on Tang San, declaring he would deal with both Tang San and the herbs.

Gu Ling overwhelmed Tang San in a fight over the herbs, revealing a Ten Thousand Year Fourth Soul Ring and leaving Tang San injured. Tang San summoned Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang, then accused Gu Ling of stealing his herbs.

• Gu Ling revealed his Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and used his spatial attacks and Bone Armor to overpower Tang San.
• Tang San fought back with his Spider Lances, Hidden Weapons, and Spider Web Restraint, but Gu Ling broke through his defenses and pinned him down.
• Gu Ling took Tang San's medicine pouch and handed it to Ye Lingling, who healed Gu Ling's arm.
• Tang San escaped behind a rock and fired a signal flare to summon help.
• Flender and Liu Erlong brought Yu Xiaogang into the valley, where Tang San pointed at Gu Ling and said he had stolen his herbs.