Chapter Summaries

Tang Shuo, abandoned by Tang Hao after awakening a damaged copper mirror with no spirit power, spent years refining it with sunlight and discovered it concealed the Eastern Emperor Bell. As Tang San and Xiao Wu returned to Holy Soul Village, Tang Shuo’s new power awakened on the cliff.

• Tang Shuo recalled how Tang Hao left him behind in Holy Soul Village after Tang San awakened a hammer martial soul, and how Old Jack found and cared for him.
• Tang Shuo discovered that his copper mirror could absorb sunlight and named the power Solar Divine Radiance.
• Tang Shuo absorbed a torrent of sunlight, causing the copper mirror to shatter and reveal the Eastern Emperor Bell as his true martial soul.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived at Holy Soul Village, and Xiao Wu asked why they had come to the poor village.

Tang San returned to Holy Soul Village with Xiao Wu to visit his older brother, Tang Shuo, and offered him money with contempt before leaving. Tang Shuo declared he would become the continent’s strongest soul master, then gave the coins to Old Jack as compensation for the care that had kept him alive.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu found Tang San’s old house empty and learned from Uncle Wang that Tang Shuo lived with Old Jack.
• Tang Shuo came out of Old Jack’s house and greeted Tang San and Xiao Wu without warmth.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu belittled Tang Shuo for having a damaged martial soul and no Soul Power, and Tang San tossed him Gold Soul Coins.
• Tang Shuo declared that he would become the strongest soul master on the continent and surpass Tang San.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu laughed and left the village, while Tang Shuo picked up the coins and gave them to Old Jack in gratitude for taking him in.

After three years of cultivation, Tang Shuo awakened the Eastern Emperor Bell and left Holy Soul Village to become a soul master. Near the Star Dou Great Forest, he rescued Zhu Zhuqing by destroying the Soul Elder pursuing her.

• Tang Shuo rang the Eastern Emperor Bell nine times, fully awakened his martial soul, and achieved Innate Full Soul Power.
• Tang Shuo said goodbye to Old Jack and left Holy Soul Village to hunt soul beasts.
• Near the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang Shuo encountered the wounded Zhu Zhuqing fleeing a man sent to force her to honor a marriage alliance.
• The man in black attacked Tang Shuo, but Tang Shuo summoned the Eastern Emperor Bell and disintegrated him with its Hongmeng Dao Sound.

Tang Shuo rescued the badly wounded Zhu Zhuqing and used his mirror martial soul to heal her. Zhu Zhuqing recovered most of her strength and wondered at the power of his mirror and the bell that had saved her.

• Tang Shuo caught Zhu Zhuqing as she collapsed after the Chaos Bell vanished and carried her to a hidden cave.
• Tang Shuo tore open Zhu Zhuqing's ruined clothes and used strips of fabric to stop her bleeding despite her initial alarm.
• Tang Shuo summoned the Mysterious Light Mirror and healed Zhu Zhuqing's severe wounds with the Great Sun Divine Light.
• Zhu Zhuqing recognized Tang Shuo's strength and asked whether the mirror was his martial soul.
• Tang Shuo confirmed her assumption, and Zhu Zhuqing concluded that the Chaos Bell must be his hidden trump card.

Tang Shuo and Zhu Zhuqing searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable first Spirit Ring, but Tang Shuo rejected the beasts they encountered as too weak. The chapter ended with them facing a three-thousand-year Ghost Shadow Leopard that Zhu Zhuqing warned they could not defeat.

• Zhu Zhuqing offered to help Tang Shuo hunt for a Spirit Ring, and they entered the Star Dou Great Forest together.
• Zhu Zhuqing killed a sixty-year Bloodfang Boar, but Tang Shuo rejected it as too weak for his first Spirit Ring.
• Zhu Zhuqing defeated a five-hundred-year Tortoiseshell Rhino with her first soul skill, Hell Stab, but Tang Shuo rejected it too.
• Tang Shuo revealed that he was level ten and intended to obtain a thousand-year Spirit Ring despite Zhu Zhuqing warning that absorbing one would likely kill him.
• A three-thousand-year Ghost Shadow Leopard emerged from the forest, and Zhu Zhuqing shielded Tang Shuo and urged him to retreat.

Tang Shuo used the Eastern Emperor Mirror to empower Zhu Zhuqing, helping her defeat a three-thousand-year Ghost Shadow Leopard, but he rejected its Spirit Ring as too weak. He and Zhu Zhuqing found two Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, and Tang Shuo effortlessly restrained her as they hid nearby.

• Tang Shuo used the Eastern Emperor Mirror's golden light to blind the Ghost Shadow Leopard and greatly enhance Zhu Zhuqing's strength, speed, senses, and healing.
• Zhu Zhuqing fought the Ghost Shadow Leopard and killed it, then warned Tang Shuo that its three-thousand-year Spirit Ring was too dangerous for a level-ten Soul Master.
• Tang Shuo dismissed the Spirit Ring as lacking and rushed toward a terrifying presence deeper in the forest, with Zhu Zhuqing chasing after him.
• Zhu Zhuqing found a Nether Shadow Serpent and a Blazing Sun Golden Falcon, both Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, in a devastated clearing.
• Tang Shuo covered Zhu Zhuqing's mouth and pinned her to the ground when she attacked him, revealing strength she had not expected from a support-type Soul Master.

Tang Shuo waited for the Blazing Sun Golden Falcon and Nether Shadow Serpent to fight, intending to claim the ten-thousand-year falcon’s soul ring. As the dying falcon unleashed its final attack, Tang Shuo revealed his Martial Soul, Eastern Sovereign Taiyi, and left the falcon terrified and unable to move.

• Tang Shuo told Zhu Zhuqing he planned to hunt a ten-thousand-year soul beast as the Blazing Sun Golden Falcon and Nether Shadow Serpent prepared to fight.
• The Blazing Sun Golden Falcon wounded the Nether Shadow Serpent, but the serpent broke one of its wings and poisoned the other.
• The Blazing Sun Golden Falcon pierced the Nether Shadow Serpent’s skull, killing it, then collapsed from its injuries.
• Tang Shuo rushed toward the dying Blazing Sun Golden Falcon, dodged its scorching gale, and approached within ten meters.
• The Blazing Sun Golden Falcon ignited its remaining soul power for a final attack, but Tang Shuo summoned his Martial Soul, Eastern Sovereign Taiyi, whose sun-and-moon aura crushed the falcon’s power and left it frozen with fear.

Tang Shuo used the Chaos Bell to kill the Blazing Sun Golden Falcon and absorbed its Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, reaching the peak of level eighteen. After Zhu Zhuqing confronted him about his martial soul, she suddenly collapsed from cold poison and clung to him for warmth.

• Tang Shuo annihilated the Blazing Sun Golden Falcon with the Chaos Bell, leaving its Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring behind.
• Tang Shuo absorbed the ring, suppressed the beast's resistance with the Chaos Bell, and gained the Solar Corona Divine Wheel soul skill.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Tang Shuo why he had said his martial soul was a bronze mirror, and he explained that the mirror was only one part of it.
• As Tang Shuo and Zhu Zhuqing prepared to leave, she collapsed, and he caught her as cold poison took hold.
• Zhu Zhuqing pleaded with Tang Shuo to hold her tight because she was freezing.

Tang Shuo used his Solar True Qi to suppress Zhu Zhuqing’s cold poison and promised to help cure it completely before leaving her. He headed toward the Heaven Dou Empire, planning to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well by first making contact with Dugu Yan.

• Tang Shuo let Zhu Zhuqing absorb his Sun True Fire while she unconsciously clung to him and bit his finger during a cold-poison flare-up.
• Zhu Zhuqing woke in Tang Shuo’s arms, apologized in embarrassment, and thanked him for suppressing her cold poison; he promised to find a way to eradicate it.
• Zhu Zhuqing invited Tang Shuo to join her at Shrek Academy, but he called himself a Demon Prodigy and left, saying they would meet again.
• Tang Shuo set out for the Heaven Dou Empire and considered seeking the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but judged confronting Dugu Bo too dangerous with only two strands of chaotic energy left.
• Tang Shuo decided to approach Dugu Bo through his granddaughter Dugu Yan, hoping to demonstrate that his Sun True Fire could counter her poison and earn a chance to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Tang Shuo went to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to find Dugu Yan and entered its new civilian admissions assessment. Bai Baoshan tested Tang Shuo with Soul Power pressure, and the chapter ended as Tang Shuo revealed a deep black spirit ring.

• Tang Shuo learned that Dugu Yan attended Heaven Dou Royal Academy and decided to use the academy's admissions period to get inside.
• Bai Baoshan complained that noble applicants had poor talent and ordered a civilian admissions assessment that ignored family background.
• Bai Baoshan personally oversaw the assessment, but none of the commoner applicants impressed him until Tang Shuo arrived.
• Tang Shuo agreed to endure Bai Baoshan's pressure, remaining steady as the elder increased it from level forty toward level forty-five.
• Tang Shuo's body finally reacted, and a deep black spirit ring rose beneath his feet.

Tang Shuo stunned Bai Baoshan with his Ten-Thousand-Year first Spirit Ring and Eastern Emperor Mirror, earning a place as Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s most honored student. At Shrek Academy, Zhu Zhuqing met Ning Rongrong while Dai Mubai declared he would make Zhu Zhuqing his own.

• Bai Baoshan was shocked by Tang Shuo’s Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and tested him with Soul King pressure, which the Eastern Emperor Mirror’s golden flames dispelled.
• Tang Shuo released a trace of the ancient divine might of Eastern Sovereign Taiyi, forcing Bai Baoshan to retreat and reconsider his power.
• Bai Baoshan learned that the Eastern Emperor Mirror also had healing effects and named Tang Shuo Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s most honored student.
• At Shrek Academy’s admissions line, Zhu Zhuqing thought of Tang Shuo and found the other applicants unimpressive by comparison.
• Dai Mubai told Tang San and Xiao Wu that he had taken a liking to Zhu Zhuqing and would make her his own, while Zhu Zhuqing looked at him with disgust.
• Zhu Zhuqing met Ning Rongrong, passed the first registration round with her, and followed her toward Oscar’s Recovery Sausages.

Dai Mubai warned Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing away from Oscar’s sausages, then tried and failed to invite the girls to dinner. Zhu Zhuqing thought of Tang Shuo as her goal, while Tang Shuo explored Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and found Ye Lengleng struggling to save a medicinal garden.

• Dai Mubai stopped Ning Rongrong from eating Oscar’s sausage and asked Oscar to demonstrate his martial soul incantation, disgusting the girls.
• Dai Mubai apologized and offered to treat the girls to dinner, but Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong rejected him.
• Zhu Zhuqing recalled Tang Shuo’s strength and kindness, then told Ning Rongrong she aimed to catch up to him.
• Tang Shuo completed enrollment at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and began exploring, intending to find Dugu Yan and reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang Shuo encountered Ye Lengleng beside a garden of withering spirit herbs that she had been unable to nourish with her Nine-Heart Begonia.

New student Tang Shuo told Ye Lengleng that sunlight, not healing soul power, could revive the dying spirit herbs and asked her to introduce him to Dugu Yan in exchange. Ye Lengleng agreed to his condition and watched as he prepared to try his method.

• Ye Lengleng worried over the dying spirit herbs until Tang Shuo approached and explained they lacked sunlight energy rather than life force.
• Tang Shuo claimed he could revive at least eighty percent of the herbs, and Ye Lengleng doubted him.
• Tang Shuo asked Ye Lengleng to introduce him to Dugu Yan if he saved the herbs, adding that he might help solve one of her major troubles.
• Ye Lengleng teased Tang Shuo for liking Dugu Yan but promised to play matchmaker if he revived the herbs.
• Tang Shuo walked to the herbs and raised his right hand to begin.

Tang Shuo demonstrated that his Eastern Emperor Mirror could revive and rapidly ripen spirit herbs, impressing Ye Lingling. Before she could take him to meet Dugu Yan, they learned that Dugu Yan had suffered a Jade-Scale Serpent Poison backlash, and Ye Lingling rushed to help her at the Mimicry Training Ground.

• Tang Shuo used Great Sun Divine Light to revive the dying spirit herbs and ripen them nearly to maturity, shocking Ye Lingling.
• Tang Shuo asked Ye Lingling to take him to Dugu Yan, and she teased him about being eager to see her friend before agreeing.
• A female student reported that Dugu Yan had been overcome by her Jade-Scale Serpent Poison after sparring with Yu Tianheng.
• Ye Lingling hurried with Tang Shuo to the Mimicry Training Ground, where they found Dugu Yan curled up in pain.
• Ye Lingling summoned her Nine-Heart Begonia beside Dugu Yan and urged her to hold on.

Dugu Yan endured a painful flare-up of her Jade-Scale Serpent Poison, and Tang Shuo offered to suppress it and help her and her grandfather if she took him to meet the old man. Dugu Yan rejected him, though she privately admitted that he had correctly identified the poison’s agony.

• Ye Lengleng used her Nine-Heart Begonia to heal Dugu Yan, but the light intensified Dugu Yan’s pain before the flare-up subsided.
• Dugu Yan explained that her growing soul power strengthened the Jade-Scale Serpent Poison and caused painful backlash.
• Ye Lengleng teased Dugu Yan about Tang Shuo, who had watched her suffer, while Dugu Yan blushed in embarrassment.
• Tang Shuo said he could temporarily suppress Dugu Yan’s poison and offered to eradicate the poison in her and her grandfather if she took him to meet her grandfather.
• Dugu Yan dismissed Tang Shuo’s offer, and he left after warning that the backlash would worsen and saying he would charge for helping her.

Dai Mubai tried to court Zhu Zhuqing, but she rejected him, while Zhu Zhuqing continued to long for Tang Shuo. At Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, Dugu Yan suffered another painful poison flare-up, and Ye Lengleng proposed seeking Tang Shuo’s help.

• Dai Mubai approached Zhu Zhuqing with roses and confessed his feelings, but she rejected him and Ning Rongrong led her away.
• Ning Rongrong warned Zhu Zhuqing about Dai Mubai’s playboy reputation, while Zhu Zhuqing thought of Tang Shuo and wished she could see him again.
• Dai Mubai asked Tang San why Zhu Zhuqing disliked him, and Tang San advised him to change his behavior and be sincere.
• Dai Mubai accepted Tang San’s advice but vowed to win Zhu Zhuqing over.
• Dugu Yan suffered a severe poison flare-up, and Ye Lengleng’s Nine-Heart Begonia could not ease her pain.
• Ye Lengleng urged Dugu Yan to find Tang Shuo, hoping he could help her.

After Dugu Yan’s serpent poison caused unbearable pain, she swallowed her pride and begged Tang Shuo for help. He used the Eastern Emperor Mirror’s Great Sun Divine Light to suppress the poison temporarily, then explained why it had worsened and warned that he had treated only the symptoms.

• Dugu Yan endured a violent poison flare and told Ye Lingling to take her to Tang Shuo.
• Ye Lingling brought the collapsing Dugu Yan to Tang Shuo, who insisted that Dugu Yan ask him for help herself.
• Dugu Yan grabbed Tang Shuo’s clothes and pleaded with him to save her.
• Tang Shuo summoned the Eastern Emperor Mirror and used its Great Sun Divine Light to drive the poison from Dugu Yan’s body temporarily.
• Tang Shuo told Dugu Yan that her rapidly increasing cultivation had made her Jade-Scale Serpent Poison stronger while her resistance had not kept pace.

Tang Shuo agreed to escort Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to Ye Haitang for help stabilizing Dugu Yan’s serpent poison, in exchange for her poison and Ye Lingling’s healing. He began preparing to cultivate the Myriad-Poison Fiend Legs, leaving with the women after purchasing deadly poisons in Heaven Dou City.

• Tang Shuo told Dugu Yan that he needed Dugu Bo’s cooperation to solve her serpent poison, but Dugu Yan explained that her grandfather was away traveling.
• Ye Lingling proposed taking Dugu Yan to her mother, Ye Haitang, to stabilize the poison until Dugu Bo returned, and asked Tang Shuo to escort them.
• Tang Shuo agreed on the condition that he receive Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison and Ye Lingling’s treatment instead of Gold Soul Coins.
• Tang Shuo privately planned to use Dugu Yan’s poison and Ye Lingling’s healing to cultivate the Myriad-Poison Fiend Legs while postponing his search for Dugu Bo and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling accepted Tang Shuo’s terms, and Dugu Yan paid him a consultation fee.
• Tang Shuo went to Heaven Dou City’s largest medicinal ingredients market and bought several deadly poisons.

Xue Qinghe noticed Tang Shuo buying poisons and connected him to the student who had cured Dugu Yan, while Tang Shuo traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain ingredients for forging his Myriad-Poison Fiend Legs. There, Qian Renxue became surrounded by poisonous creatures and released her Six-Winged Angel power to fight them.

• Xue Qinghe saw Tang Shuo leaving a medicine shop with many poisons and suspected he was the student who had cured Dugu Yan.
• Tang Shuo returned to his dormitory and prepared to seek the remaining toad and spider poisons needed for his Myriad-Poison Fiend Legs.
• Tang Shuo set a Black Jade Ant trap in a toxic swamp to lure a Nine-Heart Toad.
• Qian Renxue searched the forest for the Moonlight Glazed Stamen and wandered into the swamp.
• Qian Renxue was beset by poisonous creatures and unleashed the sacred power of her Six-Winged Angel.

Tang Shuo found Qian Renxue battling a swarm of poisonous creatures in the Corrosive Poison Marsh and rescued her just as a giant python ambushed her. He shielded her with the Eastern Emperor Bell, and the chapter left them together in a muddy pit, with Qian Renxue staring at him in shock.

• Tang Shuo sensed Qian Renxue’s angel martial soul draw the swamp’s poisonous creatures toward her and rushed to investigate.
• Tang Shuo found Qian Renxue fighting the endless swarm with her six golden wings and holy light.
• Several poisonous creatures breached Qian Renxue’s defenses, and a blue-green giant python ambushed her while she prepared a powerful attack.
• Tang Shuo used his Solar Corona Divine Wheel to destroy the poisonous creatures and grabbed Qian Renxue as the python attacked.
• Tang Shuo protected Qian Renxue with the Eastern Emperor Bell and plunged with her into a mud pit, where she recognized him in stunned silence.