Chapter Summaries

After parting from Xiao Wu, Chu Lan tested Tiger Soul’s new soul skill and returned to Heaven Dou City with Xue Beng. Xue Qinghe learned about Chu Lan’s humble origins and connection to Xue Beng, then ordered Snake Lance Douluo to kill him.

• Chu Lan said goodbye to Xiao Wu and invited her to find him at Moonlight Pavilion when she could leave.
• Chu Lan used Nether Transformation to boost Tiger Soul’s speed, attack, and concealment, then transformed it into a blade and armor.
• Xue Xing demanded that Xue Beng obtain the method for making Chu Lan’s powerful weapon, but Xue Beng warned him not to target Chu Lan.
• Xue Qinghe received Salas’s intelligence on Chu Lan and learned that he was close to Xue Beng.
• Xue Qinghe ordered Snake Lance Douluo to kill Chu Lan.

Chu Lan seized the Chicken Talisman during a brief visit to the Jackie Chan Adventures world and discovered it gave him telekinetic powers. Back at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, he met Dugu Yan, bet he would become a Soul Elder within two years, and explained why he was not afraid of her or her grandfather.

• Xue Qinghe ordered Snake Lance Douluo to have Yang Wushuang prepare more poison so Xue Beng would die during a spirit beast hunt, while insisting Chu Lan should be spared and recruited.
• Chu Lan traveled to the Jackie Chan Adventures world, snatched the Chicken Talisman from a laboratory, and vanished before Jade Chan could stop him.
• After returning to the Douluo World, Chu Lan learned the talisman granted telekinetic control and used it to lift himself and everything in his dormitory.
• Chu Lan told Dugu Yan he would become a Soul Elder in two years, and she wagered that he would have to grant one request if he failed.
• Dugu Yan joined Chu Lan at the cafeteria and asked why he was not afraid of her; Chu Lan said he could tell her grandfather did not kill innocents indiscriminately.

Chu Lan returned to Holy Soul Village during his holiday and found Tang San working at a blacksmith’s shop in Nuoding City. He went to the waterfall cave to take Ah Yin, and after Tiger Soul covered the Blue Silver Emperor Juvenile in mist, she responded to Chu Lan’s touch.

• Xue Qinghe ordered Snake Lance Douluo to keep watching Chu Lan as Chu Lan left Heaven Dou City and headed west.
• Chu Lan passed a blacksmith’s shop in Nuoding City and saw Tang San forging iron.
• Chu Lan returned to Holy Soul Village, where Old Jack welcomed him and confirmed that Tang Hao had not returned.
• Chu Lan gave Old Jack gifts for the villagers, then went to the back mountains to search for Ah Yin.
• Chu Lan used the Chicken Talisman to part the waterfall and reveal the cave, then had Tiger Soul envelop Ah Yin in dark purple mist.
• Ah Yin’s branches and leaves swayed and moved closer when Chu Lan reached out to touch her.

Chu Lan retrieved Ah Yin and her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, then raised his cultivation to level twenty-five and joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Heaven Supreme class. After meeting new classmates Yu Tianheng and Ye Lingling, he challenged Yu Tianheng and planned to control him as a subordinate.

• Chu Lan took Ah Yin and her Blue Silver Emperor right leg Soul Bone from the cave, left a message for Tang Hao and Tang San, and departed Holy Soul Village.
• Chu Lan returned to Moonlight Pavilion, showed Tang Yuehua the juvenile Ah Yin, and used Heavenly Creation Dew to raise her cultivation to a hundred years.
• Chu Lan studied medicine for fifteen days and reached level twenty-five, qualifying to join the Heaven Supreme class at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Dugu Yan asserted her authority in class before Qin Ming welcomed Chu Lan and introduced new students Yu Tianheng and Ye Lingling.
• After class, Chu Lan grasped Yu Tianheng’s hand, challenged him to demonstrate the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, and planned to defeat and control him.

Chu Lan defeated Yu Tianheng in a spar with two strikes from the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, then used Tiger Soul’s purple mist on him. Yu Tianheng awoke with a changed gaze as Chu Lan left for lunch with Dugu Yan.

• Dugu Yan refereed as Chu Lan and Yu Tianheng faced off on the training grounds.
• Yu Tianheng activated his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul and attacked with his first Soul Skill, Thunder Dragon Claw.
• Chu Lan revealed a purple Soul Ring and countered with Dragon Appears in the Fields, then Shock the World for a Hundred Miles, sending Yu Tianheng flying and defeating him.
• Chu Lan produced Tiger Soul and enveloped Yu Tianheng in purple mist, causing him to lose consciousness.
• Yu Tianheng woke with a changed gaze, and Chu Lan reassured Dugu Yan before leaving with her for lunch.

Chu Lan drew Dugu Yan’s jealousy by choosing to sit with Ye Lingling, while Dugu Bo’s illness worsened during the rain at his valley retreat. At the Crown Prince’s Palace, Xue Qinghe considered using a clash with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to get close to Chu Lan, who continued studying medicine at Moonlight Pavilion.

• Chu Lan teased Dugu Yan about his golden dragon, then left her to sit across from the lonely Ye Lingling, making Dugu Yan snap her chopsticks in anger.
• Dugu Yan visited Dugu Bo at his secluded valley and refused to explain what had upset her, while Dugu Bo worried over her and sent her back to the academy.
• Rain began falling in the valley, and Dugu Bo’s condition worsened as he moved toward the strange pool split between ice and fire.
• Xue Qinghe learned that Chu Lan had defeated Yu Tianheng and considered using a likely response from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to stage a rescue and approach him.
• Chu Lan accidentally spoiled a medicine mixture while studying the Medicine Canon, then beckoned Tang Yuehua over to help him.

Chu Lan provoked Dugu Yan by moving Ye Lingling beside her, then brought up the painful truth about Ye Lingling’s Nine-Heart Begonia martial soul. After class, Dugu Yan confronted Chu Lan over his behavior, and he dodged her slap and ran as she chased him.

• Chu Lan carried Ye Lingling and her chair to the seat beside Dugu Yan, provoking Dugu Yan with a joke about the two of them being the school’s prettiest girls.
• Qin Ming began class before Dugu Yan could strike Chu Lan, and Ye Lingling quietly apologized to both of them.
• After class, Dugu Yan ordered the other students out and demanded to know why Chu Lan had moved Ye Lingling beside her.
• Chu Lan explained that only two Nine-Heart Begonia inheritors could exist at once and that one had to die for another to inherit the martial soul, prompting Ye Lingling to leave angrily.
• Dugu Yan blamed Chu Lan for reminding Ye Lingling of painful memories, but Chu Lan called it psychological therapy and defended his decision to seat her beside Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan tried to slap Chu Lan for provoking her, but he dodged and ran while she chased him.

Chu Lan apologized to Ye Lingling through Dugu Yan, then used his Interdimensional Travel and briefly appeared in a world where he encountered Wang Ye. Back in his own world, he headed for Moonlight Pavilion, while Tang Xiao grew concerned that Tang Yuehua had sent no news for a year.

• Chu Lan asked Dugu Yan to apologize to Ye Lingling and shamelessly proposed a date as repayment.
• Dugu Yan brought Ye Lingling lunch, explained Chu Lan had meant to provoke her out of grief, and reassured her that her family’s sacrifice was not her fault.
• Chu Lan traveled briefly to a cave at Wudang, startled Wang Ye, and vanished when his five-second visit ended.
• Chu Lan celebrated visiting a world resembling his original one and flew toward Heaven Dou City, hoping to collect the other eleven talismans.
• Tang Xiao told the Clear Sky Sect elders that Tang Yuehua had sent no news for a year and proposed secretly sending an outer sect disciple to Moonlight Pavilion to investigate.

Tang Xiao visited Tang Yuehua at Moonlight Pavilion and confirmed she was safe before returning to the Clear Sky Sect. Chu Lan found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest, where he bargained with Dugu Bo for access to its herbs, then provoked Dugu Bo by threatening to withhold a cure.

• Tang Xiao secretly entered Tang Yuehua's room, checked that she was unharmed, and left after urging her to write to the sect.
• Chu Lan found the miasma-covered valley in Sunset Forest and discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo appeared and asked Chu Lan whether he recognized the plants growing there.
• Chu Lan negotiated half the rights to use the valley and permission to harvest its herbs, and Dugu Bo agreed.
• Chu Lan began digging up herbs for himself and Dugu Yan, then threatened not to detoxify Dugu Bo if he kept interrupting.
• Dugu Bo's expression turned threatening as he fixed his emerald eyes on Chu Lan.

Chu Lan revealed that Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s poison could be cured with the Ice-Fire Immortal Herbs and the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well. After tempering their bodies together, Chu Lan emerged with Dugu Yan in his arms, enraging Dugu Bo.

• Chu Lan stabilized the poison in Dugu Bo’s body and explained that the Ice-Fire Immortal Herbs could cure Dugu Yan.
• Chu Lan consumed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, strengthening his vitality and opening his Conception Vessel.
• Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and told her about the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison.
• Chu Lan combined the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, gave half to Dugu Yan, and jumped with her into the pool.
• After completing Ice-Fire Body Tempering, Chu Lan emerged at noon holding Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo demanded that he let her go.

Chu Lan detoxified Dugu Yan and teased her while Dugu Bo watched from a distance. After Dugu Bo saw that his granddaughter had recovered, Chu Lan explained that he could only offer a temporary antidote for the poison in Dugu Bo’s body and proposed using Dugu Bo’s Natal Poison Pill as the practical solution.

• Dugu Bo demanded that Chu Lan put Dugu Yan down, then left after Chu Lan teased him about his threat.
• Chu Lan descended with Dugu Yan, gave her his robe, and changed clothes while she dressed behind a screen.
• Dugu Yan teased Chu Lan about seeing her body, and Chu Lan said he wanted to take responsibility but warned her that he was not a good man.
• Dugu Bo returned and joyfully confirmed that Dugu Yan’s eyes and hair had returned to normal after her poison was removed.
• Chu Lan explained that detoxifying Dugu Bo like Dugu Yan could reduce his cultivation, offered to make a temporary antidote, and identified Dugu Bo’s Natal Poison Pill as the most practical solution.

After treating Dugu Bo and helping Dugu Yan and himself grow stronger, Chu Lan returned to Moonlight Pavilion and learned Tang Xiao had visited. He then crossed into another world, where Tiger Soul revealed the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Seven Great Limits Blade Technique, leaving him eager to master it.

• Chu Lan used immortal herbs and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to help Dugu Yan reach level thirty-nine and raise his own Soul Power to level thirty-nine after absorbing a Sacred Nether White Tiger Soul Ring.
• Chu Lan returned to Moonlight Pavilion, where Tang Yuehua told him Tang Xiao had visited while he was away, and Chu Lan ordered her to avoid arousing her brother's suspicions.
• Chu Lan crossed into another world and appeared in an ice palace before five ice coffins.
• Touching the ice caused Chu Lan to witness visions of Chi You, Tiger Soul, and seven devastating blade arts, which were branded into his consciousness as the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Seven Great Limits Blade Technique.
• Chu Lan returned to Moonlight Pavilion and began practicing the newly revealed blade technique with Tiger Soul.

Chu Lan and Dugu Yan kept their rapid cultivation hidden, but their classroom antics led to a day out with Ye Lingling. Two months later, Chu Lan reached level forty-one and went with Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo to the Star Dou Great Forest, where he began fighting a ten-thousand-year Thunderlight Raging Tiger for his fourth Soul Ring.

• Chu Lan rejected Dugu Yan’s invitation to shop, then asked her to leave him alone during class; when she shouted at him, Qin Ming sent them both to stand at the back.
• Dugu Yan stomped on Chu Lan’s foot and later invited Ye Lingling to join them for a meal and a walk through Heaven Dou City.
• Two months later, Chu Lan and Dugu Yan reached level forty-one, and Dugu Bo escorted them into the Star Dou Great Forest to find Chu Lan a fourth Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo subdued a ten-thousand-year Thunderlight Raging Tiger, and Chu Lan summoned Tiger Soul and transformed it into a blade.
• Chu Lan attacked the weakened tiger with a move he called “Shatter Mountains and Overturn Peaks.”

Chu Lan absorbed a ten-thousand-year Thunderlight Raging Tiger Soul Ring and gained unlimited-use Teleportation, then continued traveling with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan. Two years later, Xue Qinghe learned that Xue Beng had gathered powerful allies around Chu Lan and ordered Snake Lance Douluo to kill him.

• Chu Lan absorbed the Thunderlight Raging Tiger's Soul Ring despite the risk of Soul Shock, reaching level forty-two and gaining Teleportation.
• Chu Lan demonstrated his new Soul Skill by teleporting himself and Dugu Yan behind Dugu Bo, then the three set off to continue their journey.
• Two years later, Xue Qinghe learned that Xue Beng had gone to Sunset Forest for his second Soul Ring and ordered Snake Lance Douluo to eliminate him.
• Pufferfish Douluo reported that Yu Tianheng called Chu Lan his master and that Dugu Yan also seemed to follow Chu Lan.
• Xue Qinghe reviewed the intelligence and realized that Xue Beng had the support of Chu Lan, Dugu Bo, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Prince Xue Xing.

After Xue Beng disappeared, Chu Lan suspected Xue Qinghe had killed him and went to confront the Crown Prince. Their private meeting ended with Xue Qinghe shaken by Chu Lan’s knowledge of his true identity.

• Xue Xing visited Moonlight Pavilion to report that Xue Beng had gone missing after leaving for Sunset Forest.
• Tang Yuehua suspected Xue Qinghe had arranged Xue Beng’s disappearance to secure his position as Crown Prince.
• Chu Lan and Tang Yuehua went to the Crown Prince’s Palace to meet Xue Qinghe privately.
• Chu Lan asked Xue Qinghe whether he had killed Xue Beng and warned him against summoning his protector.
• Chu Lan revealed that he knew Xue Qinghe’s true identity, leaving Xue Qinghe visibly alarmed.

Chu Lan revealed that he knew Xue Qinghe’s true identity and demanded the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud in exchange for discussing a deal. More than ten days later, Dugu Yan told Chu Lan that Xue Beng had disappeared and might be dead.

• Xue Qinghe demanded to know how Chu Lan had uncovered his identity, but Chu Lan refused to explain and wrote Qian Ren Xue’s name on the table.
• Chu Lan demanded the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud as compensation for killing Xue Beng and gave Xue Qinghe one month to deliver it to Tang Yuehua.
• Chu Lan left with Tang Yuehua, while Xue Qinghe ordered Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo to withdraw their surveillance and obtain the treasure.
• Xue Qinghe reflected that Chu Lan’s Soul Power seemed to be at least Soul Ancestor level, despite Chu Lan having been a one-ring Soul Master three years earlier.
• More than ten days later, Dugu Yan told Chu Lan that Xue Beng had disappeared and might already be dead.

After Heaven Dou Palace’s treasury was looted and Xue Beng remained missing, Xue Ye considered Spirit Hall a possible culprit and questioned whether Chu Lan would serve the empire. Xue Qinghe ordered Snake Lance Douluo to bring Chu Lan to him, and Snake Lance found Chu Lan at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• More than ten days after Xue Beng disappeared, thieves looted Heaven Dou Palace’s treasury, and Xue Ye placed Heaven Dou City under martial law.
• Xue Xing suggested the thieves had already left the city, while Xue Qinghe blamed Spirit Hall for the robbery and raised the possibility that it had taken Xue Beng.
• Xue Ye asked Xue Xing about promising recruits and Chu Lan, and Xue Xing described Chu Lan’s connections and doubts about his loyalty to the royal family.
• After learning that Xue Ye knew about Chu Lan and Tang Yuehua’s visit, Xue Qinghe suspected his palace staff were spying on him and ordered Snake Lance Douluo to bring Chu Lan to him.
• Snake Lance Douluo found Chu Lan at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and summoned him privately; Chu Lan sent Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling back before heading toward Heaven Dou City.

Chu Lan rejected Xue Qinghe’s fake Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and left their deal unresolved. Three months later, Chu Lan and Dugu Bo reached the Star Dou Great Forest’s core zone to search for Chu Lan’s fifth Soul Ring, where they encountered Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bears.

• Chu Lan examined the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud Xue Qinghe presented, recognized it as a fake, canceled their agreement, and demanded that Xue Qinghe reveal his true form if he failed to obtain the real treasure.
• Xue Qinghe realized the fake had come from the treasure vault, suspected Xue Ye had the real Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and smashed the fake in fury.
• Three months later, Chu Lan and Dugu Bo entered the Star Dou Great Forest’s core zone to search for a powerful Soul Beast for Chu Lan’s fifth Soul Ring.
• Chu Lan and Dugu Bo heard a roar and found two male Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bears fighting near a female bear.
• Chu Lan identified the bears in his Encyclopedia of Soul Beasts and told Dugu Bo to fight them, but Dugu Bo snatched the book and began reading it himself.

Chu Lan and Dugu Bo subdued two Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bears, and Chu Lan killed them to claim the stronger bear’s Soul Ring. After absorbing it and gaining his fifth Soul Skill, Chu Lan and Dugu Bo found four glowing spots on the bears’ remains.

• Dugu Bo poisoned the forty-thousand- and forty-five-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bears until they fell unconscious, while Chu Lan prepared to kill them both.
• Chu Lan used Tiger Soul to slash through the bears’ insides, killing them and producing two black Soul Rings.
• Chu Lan absorbed the forty-five-thousand-year Soul Ring, gained the fifth Soul Skill Space-Shattering Slash, and reached level fifty-two.
• Dugu Bo used Jade Phosphorous Divine Light to destroy the bears’ flesh, leaving their skeletons behind as Chu Lan vomited.
• Chu Lan and Dugu Bo noticed four spots of brilliant dark-golden light on the bears’ bones and realized they might be Soul Bones.

Chu Lan and Dugu Yan fused with the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Soul Bones, and Dugu Yan reached level fifty. As they traveled toward Star Dou Great Forest to find her fifth Soul Ring, Chu Lan encouraged her to aim for godhood.

• Dugu Bo chose the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s left and right arm bones for Dugu Yan, leaving Chu Lan the two palm bones.
• Chu Lan and Dugu Yan fused with their Soul Bones over three days, and Dugu Yan broke through to level fifty.
• Chu Lan told Dugu Yan she could become a level ninety-nine Titled Douluo or even a god, and urged her to keep working hard.
• Dugu Bo decided to take Dugu Yan to Star Dou Great Forest for her fifth Soul Ring, and Chu Lan joined them.
• Chu Lan flew toward Star Dou Great Forest with Dugu Yan on Tiger Soul and asked about the abilities of her new Soul Bones.