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Six-year-old Jiang Baiyu lived in Jiangshui Village with his grandfather, Medicine Elder, and showed extraordinary skill in identifying and using herbs. After Jiang Zheng brought them soul beast meat, he offered to awaken Jiang Baiyu’s martial soul the next day, leaving Jiang Baiyu’s awakening ahead.

• Jiang Baiyu returned from gathering herbs, and the village chief praised his skill and kindness while warning him to stay near the forest’s edge.
• Jiang Baiyu answered Medicine Elder’s questions about herbs, demonstrating how much he had learned over the past six years.
• Medicine Elder recalled how Tang Xiao and Tang Hao had crippled his legs after he discovered Ah Yin’s true form, and how he had taken Jiang Baiyu in afterward.
• Jiang Baiyu told Medicine Elder he believed he could cure his legs, and Medicine Elder asked whether he would still seek revenge if he awakened an ordinary martial soul.
• Jiang Zheng arrived with soul beast meat and said he would help Jiang Baiyu awaken his martial soul the next day.

Jiang Baiyu awakened the Shennong Cauldron, a supreme medicinal support martial soul, and revealed Innate Full Soul Power. Su Wu disclosed his identity as the renowned Medicine King and took Jiang Baiyu away, warning Jiang Zheng to keep their whereabouts secret.

• Jiang Baiyu eagerly went with his grandfather and Jiang Zheng to the village Spirit Hall outpost for his martial soul awakening.
• Jiang Baiyu met the Flame Emperor in a vision, and the Flame Emperor gave him a wisp of mist before sending him back.
• Jiang Baiyu manifested the Shennong Cauldron, whose plant vitality began easing Su Wu's old injuries.
• Jiang Zheng tested Jiang Baiyu and found he had Innate Full Soul Power, then questioned Su Wu about his identity and why he had brought Jiang Baiyu to the village.
• Su Wu revealed his eight Soul Rings and identified himself as the Medicine King, then warned Jiang Zheng to keep his location secret and left with Jiang Baiyu.

Jiang Baiyu learned that Su Wu’s enemy was the Clear Sky Sect and revealed that Tang Hao was hiding in Holy Soul Village, prompting Su Wu to alert Spirit Hall. As Jiang Baiyu studied Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica and discovered his Martial Soul’s healing domain and Pill Flame, Su Wu returned and began teaching him the Herb-Gathering Art.

• Jiang Baiyu promised Su Wu he would stay, then learned that Tang Hao and Tang Xiao of the Clear Sky Sect were Su Wu’s enemies.
• Jiang Baiyu revealed that Tang Hao was in Holy Soul Village, and Su Wu went with Jiang Zheng to inform Spirit Hall that Tang Hao was there.
• Jiang Baiyu studied Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica and discovered its medicinal knowledge and its ability to gather life energy.
• Su Wu returned after notifying Spirit Hall that Titled Douluo would arrive within three days, and he noticed Jiang Baiyu’s life energy easing his leg pain.
• Jiang Baiyu revealed his Shennong Cauldron’s healing domain and Pill Flame, and Su Wu agreed to let him treat his injuries.
• Su Wu taught Jiang Baiyu the Herb-Gathering Art, his family’s method for absorbing Soul Power from heaven and earth.

Jiang Baiyu brewed a medicinal bath with his Shennong Cauldron to heal Su Wu's injuries from the Clear Sky Hammer and Slaughter Domain. Su Wu recovered, advanced to Level 85 Soul Douluo, and his Nine-Jointed Bamboo evolved into the Jade-Green Nine-Jointed Bamboo, leaving him with a path toward Titled Douluo.

• Jiang Baiyu selected Spirit Herbs from Su Wu's Soul Tool bracelet and brewed them with the Shennong Cauldron's Natal Pill Flame.
• Su Wu entered the hot medicinal bath and used its healing power to repair his meridians and purge the murderous aura lodged in his body.
• Jiang Baiyu enveloped Su Wu in the Shennong Cauldron's Life Essence, fully restoring his injuries, vitality, and blood.
• Su Wu broke through his bottleneck and reached Level 85 Soul Douluo.
• Su Wu's Nine-Jointed Bamboo absorbed the medicinal power and evolved into the Jade-Green Nine-Jointed Bamboo.

Tang San witnessed Tang Hao flee after two Titled Douluo attacked him, while Jiang Baiyu and Su Wu retrieved the Blue Silver Emperor and her hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone. Jiang Baiyu absorbed the bone and awakened the Blue Silver Emperor, as Qian Renxue prepared to hunt for a Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• She Long and Pufferfish Douluo attacked Tang Hao, who fought back with his Clear Sky Hammer and escaped using Great Sumeru Hammer: Ring Explosion.
• Tang San watched his wounded father flee, swore hatred toward Spirit Hall, and slipped away from the powerful attackers.
• Jiang Baiyu and Su Wu entered a cave behind a waterfall, took the Blue Silver Emperor and her Soul Bone, and escaped to Jiangshui Village.
• Jiang Baiyu absorbed the Soul Bone, gaining flight and Immortality, then used Spirit Awakening to restore the Blue Silver Emperor's awareness.
• Su Wu celebrated Jiang Baiyu's new abilities, then beat him with his Jade-Green Nine-Jointed Bamboo for being disrespectful.
• Snake Lance and Pufferfish Douluo reported their failure to Qian Renxue, who said she would obtain a Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest and pursue revenge on Tang Hao later.

Jiang Baiyu and Su Wu searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable first Soul Ring and encountered Qian Renxue guarded by two Titled Douluo. Jiang Baiyu absorbed a twelve-hundred-year Dragonblood Medicineheart Wood Soul Ring safely and gained its Medicine-Heart Soul Bone.

• Jiang Baiyu rejected several thousand-year Soul Beasts because they did not suit the Shennong Cauldron’s Medicine Dao abilities.
• Su Wu and Jiang Baiyu secretly approached Qian Renxue as she absorbed a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, but Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo discovered them.
• Qian Renxue recognized Su Wu and learned that Jiang Baiyu’s Shennong Cauldron resonated with her angel martial soul, suggesting they could form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Qian Renxue pointed out a wounded Dragonblood Medicineheart Wood, and Jiang Baiyu chose it despite its twelve-hundred-year age.
• Jiang Baiyu awakened the tree’s consciousness, swore to uphold the Medicine Dao, and absorbed its gentle thousand-year Soul Ring without injury.
• The Dragonblood Medicineheart Wood gave Jiang Baiyu its Medicine-Heart Soul Bone, and he told Su Wu that he felt better than ever.

Jiang Baiyu revealed that his thousand-year first Soul Ring had granted him the powerful Hundred Herbs Domain, stunning everyone and prompting Qian Renxue to recruit him into Spirit Hall. He agreed to join after reaching level thirty, while Qian Renxue gave him a feather from her own essence and left for Heaven Dou City with her elders.

• Jiang Baiyu demonstrated his Hundred Herbs Domain, which enhanced allies, suppressed enemies, restored Soul Power, sensed plants, purified harmful energy, and wielded a mind-burning Medicine Flame.
• Su Wu, Snake Lance Douluo, Pufferfish Douluo, and Qian Renxue were shocked by the domain's strength, and Qian Renxue invited Jiang Baiyu to join Spirit Hall.
• Jiang Baiyu agreed to seek Qian Renxue out after reaching level thirty, and Qian Renxue told him to come to Heaven Dou City and join Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Qian Renxue appointed Su Wu an honorary elder, gave Jiang Baiyu a feather from her own essence, and flew back toward Heaven Dou City with Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo.
• Su Wu teased Jiang Baiyu about Qian Renxue, while Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo decided they should tell the Grand Worshipper about her feelings.

Jiang Baiyu revealed the life-bound External Soul Bone he gained from the Dragonblood Medicineheart Wood, and Su Wu warned him to keep it secret. Meanwhile, Tang Hao took Tang San to see his mother, only to find Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Grass had withered to dust, and his uncontrolled grief injured Tang San and brought the cave down.

• Jiang Baiyu showed Su Wu his Medicine-Heart Soul Bone and explained how it strengthened his domain and abilities.
• Su Wu warned Jiang Baiyu that the External Soul Bone could provoke a continent-wide hunt and ordered him to conceal it from everyone.
• Tang San fled through the forest, where he reunited with Tang Hao, who revealed that he was Clear Sky Douluo and that Ah Yin had sacrificed herself as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Tang Hao took Tang San to the waterfall cave and showed him Ah Yin’s withered Blue Silver Grass, which crumbled when Tang Hao touched it.
• Tang Hao lost control of his Soul Power, injured Tang San, and collapsed the cave before pulling his son from the water and swearing to destroy Spirit Hall.

Jiang Baiyu broke through to level thirty and became a Soul Elder, prompting Su Wu to prepare for their search for his third Soul Ring. They set out for the Star Dou Great Forest to find the Azure Origin Ancient Cypress, then planned to go to Heaven Dou City and explore a way to treat the Dugu family's poison.

• Jiang Baiyu used the Hundred Herbs Domain, his Heart of Hundred Herbs soul bone, and the Blue Silver Emperor's help to break through his level-twenty-nine bottleneck and reach level thirty.
• Su Wu recalled how the wounded Nine-Colored Spirit Deer had willingly sacrificed itself to become Jiang Baiyu's five-thousand-four-hundred-year second Soul Ring, granting him the Spirit Deer Nine Seals skill.
• Su Wu teased Jiang Baiyu about exchanging letters with Qian Renxue, then told him it was time to seek his third Soul Ring.
• Su Wu proposed treating the Dugu family's poison in exchange for help with the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Jiang Baiyu agreed to consider it after their trip.
• Jiang Baiyu asked the Blue Silver Emperor to guard the Medicine Garden, then followed Su Wu toward the Star Dou Great Forest to find the Azure Origin Ancient Cypress.

Jiang Baiyu received a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring from the Azure Origin Ancient Cypress, whose essence he willingly accepted. He refused to claim the cypress’s seed as a Soul Bone and replanted it, passing its Daoheart Trial and leaving his Medicine Dao foundation harmonized and firm.

• Jiang Baiyu met the Azure Origin Ancient Cypress at the Spirit Spring, and it willingly gave him its nine-thousand-year essence for his third Soul Ring.
• The cypress advanced its essence, turning Jiang Baiyu’s third Soul Ring into a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and stabilizing his cultivation.
• Su Wu identified the cypress’s seed as a rare treasure comparable to an External Soul Bone and urged Jiang Baiyu to absorb it.
• Jiang Baiyu refused to refine the seed, returned it to the soil beside the Spirit Spring, and nourished it with the Shennong Cauldron’s Medicine Dao essence.
• The cypress’s final trial rewarded Jiang Baiyu with surging wood energy that tempered his third ring and harmonized all three Soul Rings.
• Su Wu praised Jiang Baiyu’s choice and bowed to him, acknowledging that his plant-based Medicine Dao had taken root.

After stabilizing his new Azure Origin Ancient Cypress Soul Ring, Jiang Baiyu used its defensive skill to save Zhu Zhuqing from three assassins. Zhu Zhuqing asked Su Wu to take her as his disciple, but she fainted when Jiang Baiyu revealed his extraordinary Soul Rings, so Su Wu and Jiang Baiyu took her home to recover.

• Jiang Baiyu tested his Azure Jade Barrier and combined it with his Hundred Herbs Domain, impressing Su Wu with its strength.
• Jiang Baiyu protected the injured Zhu Zhuqing from three assassins, and Su Wu drove them away with his Soul Douluo-level power.
• Jiang Baiyu gave Zhu Zhuqing medicine and used his domain and the cypress's calming power to help heal her wounds.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Jiang Baiyu and Su Wu, then asked Su Wu to accept her as a disciple so she could become stronger.
• Jiang Baiyu revealed that he was a ten-year-old Soul Elder with two purple Soul Rings and one black Soul Ring, and Zhu Zhuqing fainted from the shock.
• Su Wu decided to take Zhu Zhuqing home and teach her the Medicine Dao, while Jiang Baiyu carried her back with him.

After Jiang Baiyu and Su Wu rescued Zhu Zhuqing, she recovered at their home and asked Su Wu to accept her as a disciple. She joined Su Wu’s school, met Xiao Lan, and learned the rules she would follow as she healed.

• Zhu Zhuqing woke in Jiang Baiyu and Su Wu’s home and remembered how they had rescued her.
• Jiang Baiyu finished refining healing pills, and Zhu Zhuqing thanked him and Su Wu for saving her.
• Zhu Zhuqing knelt and asked Su Wu to accept her as his disciple, then completed the apprenticeship ceremony and greeted her senior brother, Jiang Baiyu.
• Jiang Baiyu gave Zhu Zhuqing healing pills, and Su Wu introduced her to Xiao Lan in the courtyard’s Medicine Garden.
• Su Wu gave Zhu Zhuqing three Dao Rules and told her to rest until her injuries healed.

After Zhu Zhuqing recovered and strengthened her Soul Power, Jiang Baiyu, Su Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing prepared to leave their mountain home for Heaven Dou City. Before departing, they gave medicine to the villagers and Jiang Baiyu infused the local creek with a faint trace of Life Essence; the three then set out toward a wider world.

• Zhu Zhuqing finished recovering, improved her Soul Power and medicine skills, and agreed with Su Wu to travel to Heaven Dou City with Jiang Baiyu.
• Jiang Baiyu arrived, and the three decided to leave their mountain home so they could pursue new opportunities and help Zhu Zhuqing escape her Star Luo Empire pursuers.
• Su Wu, Jiang Baiyu, and Zhu Zhuqing prepared medicinal herb packets and distributed them to the village elders and other villagers before departing.
• Jiang Baiyu gathered the Blue Silver Emperor into the Shennong Cauldron and infused Jiangshui Creek with Life Essence to benefit the village and its living creatures.
• Jiang Baiyu, Su Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing left their courtyard and set off for Heaven Dou City.

Jiang Baiyu helped Jiang Zheng break through to Soul King, then spent time with Zhu Zhuqing and encountered Tang San and Xiao Wu in Notting City. After considering whether to eliminate Tang San, he changed his mind and left for Heaven Dou City with Su Wu and Zhu Zhuqing.

• Jiang Baiyu used his life energy to break Jiang Zheng through level fifty and into Soul King.
• Jiang Baiyu introduced his disciple Zhu Zhuqing to Jiang Zheng, and Mi Ya took the visitors shopping while Jiang Zheng and Su Wu went to hunt a Soul Ring.
• Jiang Baiyu spotted Tang San and Xiao Wu shopping and recognized them, while Tang San briefly noticed Jiang Baiyu.
• Jiang Baiyu considered eliminating Tang San but changed his mind after the Blue Silver Emperor curled a vine around his finger.
• Three days later, Jiang Baiyu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Su Wu said goodbye to Mi Ya and left for Heaven Dou City.

Jiang Baiyu, Su Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing arrived in Heaven Dou City, settled into a lavish suite paid for by Qian Renxue, and went exploring. After Jiang Baiyu spotted two familiar girls but chose not to approach them, the group entered an auction to inspect a ten-thousand-year-old Whale Rubber.

• Jiang Baiyu, Su Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing entered Heaven Dou City, where Su Wu recalled his past and his old love, Ye Suxin.
• The three checked into the Rose Hotel’s luxurious top-floor suite, which Qian Renxue had paid for, and Jiang Baiyu planted the Blue Silver Emperor in a flowerpot.
• While exploring, Jiang Baiyu spotted two familiar girls across the street but continued on without speaking to them.
• The group found an auction advertising ten-thousand-year-old Whale Rubber, and Jiang Baiyu asked Su Wu to go inside with him.
• When the attendants requested proof of wealth, Su Wu revealed his Soul Douluo pressure, prompting them to apologize, offer gifts, and escort the group to a private room.

Jiang Baiyu, Su Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing attended a high-grade auction where rare treasures drew fierce bids from powerful factions. The Medicine King's Notes sold for a fortune, and Crown Prince Xue Qinghe won the final lot, Ten-Thousand-Year Deep-Sea Giant Whale Rubber, for three million Gold Soul Coins.

• Jiang Baiyu won the Dew-Condensing Purple Lingzhi for two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and the Ice Silkworm Silk Cloth for two hundred and seventy thousand after Zhu Zhuqing admired it.
• Ning Fengzhi bought the Gale Instant-Shadow Boots for three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and later bid eight hundred thousand for the Moonlight Stone.
• Su Wu recognized his own Medicine King's Notes on the stage and angrily objected to being treated as dead, but the Pharmacist Association won them for nine hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Prince Xue Xing and Ning Fengzhi competed for the Ten-Thousand-Year Deep-Sea Giant Whale Rubber until Crown Prince Xue Qinghe bid three million.
• Prince Xue Xing yielded to Xue Qinghe, and Ning Fengzhi stepped aside after Xue Qinghe addressed him as Teacher, leaving the crown prince as the winning bidder.

After the auction, Jiang Baiyu reunited with Qian Renxue, who had been disguised as Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, and gave him the ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber. They tested the resonance between their martial souls outside Heaven Dou City and revealed the powerful Shennong Angel Sacred Form, leaving their Titled Douluo guards stunned.

• After the auction ended, Xue Qinghe invited Jiang Baiyu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Su Wu to a private viewing room.
• Jiang Baiyu recognized Qian Renxue beneath her Xue Qinghe disguise, and she revealed herself before affectionately greeting him.
• Qian Renxue gave Jiang Baiyu the ten-thousand-year deep-sea Whale Rubber and offered to find more for him.
• Qian Renxue and Jiang Baiyu went to a secluded woodland outside Heaven Dou City with Snake Lance and Pufferfish to test their origins' resonance.
• Jiang Baiyu and Qian Renxue combined their martial souls and transformed into the Shennong Angel Sacred Form, astonishing everyone present.

Jiang Baiyu and Qian Renxue achieved the Shennong Angel Sacred Form, a powerful fusion that granted them an attack skill and a defensive healing domain. After the fusion ended, Jiang Baiyu collapsed from Soul Power exhaustion, and Qian Renxue took Zhu Zhuqing aside to talk before the two women returned to the Rose Hotel.

• Jiang Baiyu and Qian Renxue joined their souls and revealed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Shennong Angel Sacred Form.
• Qian Renxue demonstrated Heavenly Light Dust-Cutting, while Jiang Baiyu and Qian Renxue explained Myriad Woods Rejuvenation and its healing domain and defensive barrier.
• Su Wu urged them to end the fusion when it began to dim, and the pair returned to their separate forms with their souls still faintly connected.
• Jiang Baiyu spat blood and collapsed, and Su Wu determined that the fusion had strained his meridians but that he would recover after sleeping.
• Qian Renxue handed Jiang Baiyu to Su Wu and spoke privately with Zhu Zhuqing, then the two women returned and Qian Renxue announced they were leaving for the Rose Hotel.

Jiang Baiyu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Su Wu arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where the Education Committee welcomed them and learned Su Wu had reached Soul Douluo rank. The chapter ended with Meng Shenji turning to Jiang Baiyu and Zhu Zhuqing to welcome them.

• Jiang Baiyu woke at the Rose Hotel and learned Qian Renxue had sent an admission letter to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Jiang Baiyu saw Zhu Zhuqing had stayed by his side while he was unconscious, and the three prepared to leave for the academy.
• Su Wu led Jiang Baiyu and Zhu Zhuqing up the mountain to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where a guard escorted them to the Education Committee.
• Meng Shenji introduced Bai Baoshan and Zhi Lin, then asked Su Wu about his strength and disappearance.
• Su Wu revealed his Jade-Green Nine-Jointed Bamboo martial soul and level-eighty-six Soul Douluo rank, and explained his feud with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Meng Shenji offered Su Wu a teaching position, and then addressed Jiang Baiyu and Zhu Zhuqing as the students praised by the Crown Prince.

Jiang Baiyu and Zhu Zhuqing demonstrated their extraordinary talent to Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Education Committee, and Jiang Baiyu revealed Soul Rings far beyond what the committee expected. The committee members recovered from the shock with help from his Fast-Acting Heart Pills and Shennong Cauldron, then sent the youngsters to the Academic Affairs Office.

• Zhu Zhuqing introduced herself and revealed that she was nine years old, had level twenty-two Soul Power, and possessed the Hell Spirit Cat martial soul.
• Jiang Baiyu revealed his Shennong Cauldron and announced that he was a nine-year-old Soul Elder at level thirty.
• Jiang Baiyu gave the committee members Fast-Acting Heart Pills before revealing a purple thousand-year Soul Ring and a black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Meng Shenji and Bai Baoshan fainted from the shock, while Su Wu and Jiang Baiyu checked on them and used the Shennong Cauldron’s life force to restore them.
• Zhi Lin gave Jiang Baiyu an authorization letter and academy map, then asked him for more pills; after Jiang Baiyu left, the committee members admitted that they had briefly pretended to remain unconscious.

Jiang Baiyu, Su Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing enrolled at the royal academy, where Xue Beng attacked Zhu Zhuqing and was stopped by Xue Qinghe. Xue Qinghe confined Xue Beng to his residence, then showed Jiang Baiyu and Zhu Zhuqing their adjoining courtyards before leaving to handle palace affairs.

• Jiang Baiyu and Su Wu reassured Zhu Zhuqing that the two committee members had only pretended to faint, then encouraged her to study medicinal herbs.
• The registrar enrolled Jiang Baiyu and Zhu Zhuqing and learned that Jiang Baiyu was nine years old and already level thirty; an attendant then escorted them toward their private courtyards.
• Xue Beng tried to seize Zhu Zhuqing and declare her his Princess Consort, so she scratched his hand and Jiang Baiyu struck him in the face with a cauldron.
• Xue Qinghe arrived, rebuked Xue Beng, and ordered him to stay at his Prince's Residence for the next few days.
• Xue Qinghe checked that Jiang Baiyu and Zhu Zhuqing were unharmed and showed them their adjoining courtyards, each with a Medicine Garden, before departing.

Jiang Baiyu and Zhu Zhuqing joined Skyreach Class and met the members of the Imperial Fighting Team. Their instructor, Qin Ming, began a lesson about Martial Souls.

• Jiang Baiyu and Zhu Zhuqing trained at dawn, then went to report to Skyreach Class.
• The students welcomed the two newcomers and helped them find seats.
• Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, the Shi Brothers, Yu Feng, and Osler introduced themselves as the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Jiang Baiyu and Zhu Zhuqing revealed their Martial Souls and Soul Power levels, surprising their older classmates.
• Yu Tianheng welcomed the newcomers, and Qin Ming arrived to teach a lesson about Martial Souls.

Qin Ming presented a theory that Soul Rings reshape a Martial Soul’s Origin, so Soul Masters should choose rings suited to their Martial Soul rather than simply seeking the greatest age. His lesson left Skyreach Class considering how the theory might guide their cultivation and even enable Martial Soul evolution.

• Qin Ming taught that Martial Soul Origins resonated with the world and could be nourished through Mimicry Cultivation.
• Jiang Baiyu connected Qin Ming’s ideas to the divine patterns and Soul Beast auras absorbed by his Shennong Cauldron, while Zhu Zhuqing recognized that shadowy environments suited her Hell Spirit Cat.
• Yu Tianheng confirmed that his clan prescribed specific Soul Beasts for early rings and described an uncle whose Martial Soul weakened after choosing an unapproved ring.
• Qin Ming argued that a Soul Ring altered a Martial Soul Origin, with the first ring strongly influencing its development, and shared how his Forest Wolf ring had weakened his flames.
• Jiang Baiyu asked whether repeated dragon-type rings could evolve a snake Martial Soul into a dragon-type one, prompting Dugu Yan to consider whether that path could help resolve her poison.
• Qin Ming admitted he could not confirm the hypothesis, and the students applauded his theory.

After Qin Ming’s theory about Martial Soul Origin prompted the students to reconsider how they chose Soul Rings, Jiang Baiyu approached Dugu Yan about her family’s poison and revealed that it could not harm him. He challenged the Imperial Fighting Team alongside Zhu Zhuqing, and they agreed to fight at the academy’s Arena the next day.

• After Qin Ming left, the students discussed how his Martial Soul Origin theory could improve Soul Ring choices, and several went to consult their families or train.
• Jiang Baiyu asked Dugu Yan whether Qin Ming’s theory could work, and she recalled that a Sub-Dragon Soul Ring had strengthened her grandfather’s scales.
• Jiang Baiyu asked Dugu Yan about her family’s poison, and she grabbed his wrist when she realized he knew their secret.
• Dugu Yan discovered that her poison had not harmed Jiang Baiyu, who briefly revealed the ancient aura and vitality of the Shennong Cauldron.
• Jiang Baiyu challenged the Imperial Fighting Team, and Zhu Zhuqing offered to fight beside him.
• Yu Tianheng agreed to a match between Jiang Baiyu and Zhu Zhuqing and the entire Imperial Fighting Team at the academy’s Arena the following day.

Jiang Baiyu discovered that the Shennong Cauldron’s true path encompassed farming as well as medicine, helping him break through to level thirty-one and rethink which Soul Beasts he should choose for future Soul Rings. As he and Zhu Zhuqing prepared to face the Imperial Fighting Team, he reassured her that he could fight without revealing his ten-thousand-year Soul Skill, then hurried her toward the cafeteria.

• Jiang Baiyu read the Shennong Book and realized that the Shennong Cauldron embodied agriculture and the nurturing of life.
• Jiang Baiyu absorbed the vitality of the training grounds and advanced to level thirty-one, then decided to seek future Soul Rings from Soul Beasts aligned with farming and life cycles.
• Zhu Zhuqing worried that she and Jiang Baiyu could not overcome the Imperial Fighting Team’s powerful combination of attack, defense, control, and support.
• Jiang Baiyu told Zhu Zhuqing he was trying to win without revealing his ten-thousand-year Soul Skill, and Zhu Zhuqing said she wanted to get stronger.
• Jiang Baiyu took Zhu Zhuqing by the hand and ran with her toward the cafeteria, and she smiled as she agreed that they were famous.