Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang manipulated Tang San into apologizing and accepting blame, while Ning Wen’s thoughts revealed Xiao Wu’s grim future of sacrificing herself twice for Tang San. Xiao Wu lost her trust in Tang San and moved closer to Ning Wen, determined to choose her own fate.

• Yu Xiaogang pretended to be heartbroken and threatened to sever his bond with Tang San until Tang San panicked, apologized, and accepted the blame.
• Ning Wen watched Yu Xiaogang manipulate Tang San and reflected that Tang San could still be shaped by others.
• Xiao Wu learned through Ning Wen’s thoughts that Spirit Hall had been destroyed and became drawn to the man who could avenge her mother.
• Ning Wen realized Xiao Wu’s future involved sacrificing herself twice for Tang San and having her soul destroyed.
• Xiao Wu suspected Tang San had approached her with ulterior motives, moved closer to Ning Wen, and decided to control her own fate.

Ning Wen openly claimed Xiao Wu as his fiancée in front of Tang San, while the Voice Pack mocked Tang San and spun a theory about Tang Hao orchestrating Xiao Wu’s sacrifice. Xiao Wu asked Tang San to bless their relationship, leaving him heartbroken and unable to object.

• The Voice Pack accused Tang Hao of arranging Xiao Wu’s first sacrifice, and Xiao Wu grew uneasy at the thought that someone was watching her.
• Tang San promised Yu Xiaogang he would remember his teachings and never defy him again.
• Ning Wen took Xiao Wu’s hand and thanked Tang San for looking after her, while silently planning to take the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the Asura God’s position.
• Tang San felt jealous and hurt as Xiao Wu let Ning Wen hold her hand, but he stayed silent because of Yu Xiaogang’s advice.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San to bless her and Ning Wen, and Tang San silently suffered as he watched her choose her fiancé.

Xiao Wu chose to leave with Ning Wen and ended her sworn-sibling bond with Tang San, while Tang San blamed Ning Wen and Tang Hao prepared to intervene. Ning Wen ignored Tang Hao’s killing intent and walked away with Xiao Wu as Tang Hao hesitated over his unusual resolve.

• Xiao Wu told Tang San to bless her and Ning Wen, and rejected Yu Xiaogang’s criticism of her choice.
• Xiao Wu chose to leave with Ning Wen, and Tang San was devastated while Yu Xiaogang hoped their departure would protect Tang San’s cultivation.
• Tang San asked Xiao Wu if she was really leaving, and she told him their sworn-sibling bond was over.
• Tang San blamed Ning Wen for taking Xiao Wu, and Tang Hao secretly aimed his killing intent at Ning Wen.
• Ning Wen took Xiao Wu’s hand and ignored Tang Hao’s killing intent, causing Tang Hao to hesitate at his composure.

Ning Wen and Xiao Wu traveled toward the Sunset Forest, where Tang Hao ambushed them after sensing Xiao Wu’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast identity. Ning Wen defied Tang Hao as he unleashed Divine Slaughter’s Domain, while Ning Wen’s inexplicably boastful inner voice recalled his past clashes with Asura.

• Ning Wen told Xiao Wu they were heading to the Sunset Forest to seek Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang Hao appeared before Ning Wen and Xiao Wu with nine Soul Rings, including a red Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and declared that he would kill them.
• Ning Wen challenged Tang Hao, while Xiao Wu’s fear eased as she believed Ning Wen’s confident words.
• Tang Hao unleashed Divine Slaughter’s Domain to kill Ning Wen without drawing attention to himself or the Clear Sky Sect.
• Ning Wen’s inner voice recalled defeating Asura and complained that the god had surrendered before the beating was finished.

Tang Hao attacked Ning Wen with Divine Slaughter's Domain and a direct strike, but Sword Douluo Chen Xin intervened before the blow landed. Tang Hao and Chen Xin clashed outside Notting City, while Asura God watched from the Divine Realm and chose not to reveal himself to Ning Wen.

• Tang Hao unleashed Divine Slaughter's Domain on Ning Wen, but Ning Wen stood firm, and Asura God noticed the attack from the Divine Realm.
• Tang Hao rushed Ning Wen with a fist, but Chen Xin arrived and stopped him with a sword strike.
• Chen Xin identified Ning Wen as someone protected by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and warned Tang Hao not to attack him.
• Tang Hao summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and attacked Chen Xin, who countered with his Seven Kill Sword.
• Their clash shook the forest outside Notting City, alarming its residents and guards, while Yu Xiaogang and Tang San witnessed the flashes from Notting Academy.

Tang Hao fought Chen Xin but his old injuries weakened him, and he detonated five Soul Rings to unleash a devastating hammer strike. Chen Xin called on Gu Rong to help defend him, while their protected charge insisted he needed no assistance.

• Tang Hao used the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes and Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer against Chen Xin, but his old injuries flared and Chen Xin drove him back.
• Chen Xin judged Tang Hao for his suspicious role in Ah Yin’s sacrifice, while Xiao Wu and Ning Wen reflected on the events surrounding Tang Hao and the Asura God.
• Tang Hao detonated his first five Soul Rings and swung his enlarged Clear Sky Hammer at Chen Xin.
• Chen Xin called for Gu Rong, who appeared and joined his Soul Power with Chen Xin’s sword intent.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong faltered when their protected charge angrily claimed he needed no help.

Ning Wen watched Chen Xin and Gu Rong join forces to repel Tang Hao after he used Ring Detonation. With the battle over, Ning Wen and Xiao Wu returned to Notting City to rest before traveling the next day.

• Gu Rong arrived to support Chen Xin, and the two launched a combined attack against Tang Hao’s Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao’s Ring Detonation wounded Chen Xin and damaged Gu Rong, but the two Douluo withstood the strike.
• Badly weakened and unwilling to risk dying before destroying Spirit Hall, Tang Hao warned Chen Xin and Gu Rong that he would remember the encounter, then escaped.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong departed, and Ning Wen told Xiao Wu they would rest in Notting City before setting out tomorrow.
• Ning Wen and Xiao Wu walked back into Notting City, pleased that the trip had achieved its purpose.

Xiao Wu asked Ning Wen about the danger of Tang Hao returning, then trusted him enough to let him comb her hair with her mother's wooden comb. After the Voice Pack's boasting spoiled the tender moment, Xiao Wu insisted on sharing the bed with Ning Wen, leaving him to endure its indignant inner complaints.

• Xiao Wu asked whether Tang Hao would return, and Ning Wen reassured her that Grandpa Sword and Grandpa Bone could protect them and that Tang Hao would likely stay away because of Tang San.
• Xiao Wu gave Ning Wen her mother's wooden comb and asked him to brush her hair, remembering her mother's hope that she would entrust her hair to someone she truly loved.
• The Voice Pack boasted about the honor of combing Xiao Wu's hair, ruining the intimate moment and angering her.
• Ning Wen offered to sleep on the sofa, but Xiao Wu insisted that they share the bed and pulled him toward it.
• Xiao Wu smiled as the Voice Pack protested, resolving to snuggle close to Ning Wen.

Ning Wen told Xiao Wu that humans and Soul Beasts might coexist if Soul Masters could obtain Soul Rings without killing Soul Beasts, and the Voice Pack revealed that future Soul Spirit technology offered such a method. Xiao Wu gained hope, but the Voice Pack warned that Soul Spirits later fueled human greed and the Great Star Dou Forest dwindled to less than one percent of its former size.

• Xiao Wu cuddled against Ning Wen, while the Voice Pack complained dramatically about the indignity and Ning Wen told it to be quiet.
• Xiao Wu asked Ning Wen whether Soul Beasts and humans could ever live in peace, recalling her mother's death and Soul Masters hunting in the forest.
• Ning Wen explained that peace might be possible if Soul Masters could obtain Soul Rings without killing Soul Beasts.
• The Voice Pack revealed that Huo Yuhao created Soul Spirit technology, which formed Soul Rings through contracts with Soul Beast souls instead of killing their bodies.
• Xiao Wu brightened at the prospect, but the Voice Pack said Soul Spirits later became objects of human greed and the Great Star Dou Forest shrank to less than one percent of its former size.

Ning Wen comforted Xiao Wu as she questioned the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts, and the Voice Pack described a future Child of Destiny who would fail to save the Soul Beasts. The next day, Ning Wen and Xiao Wu encountered Tang San, who watched them walk away together and bitterly recalled Grandmaster’s words.

• Xiao Wu asked why humans and Soul Beasts had to be enemies, and Ning Wen tried to comfort her while the Voice Pack discussed humanity’s greed and the fate of Soul Beasts.
• The Voice Pack said a future Child of Destiny would fail to protect the Soul Beasts, and Ning Wen promised Xiao Wu that humans and Soul Beasts would one day live in peace.
• Ning Wen and Xiao Wu woke together the next day and left the hotel hand in hand.
• Ning Wen and Xiao Wu passed Tang San on the way to his blacksmith job, but Xiao Wu ignored him.
• Tang San watched them leave and bitterly repeated Grandmaster’s words about women turning their backs on men.

Ning Wen traveled with Xiao Wu toward Sunset Forest, where he planned to address her identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Chen Xin warned Ning Wen about her identity and Tang Hao's pursuit, while Chen Xin and Gu Rong stayed nearby without revealing they could hear Ning Wen's thoughts.

• Ning Wen cultivated during the carriage ride while Xiao Wu grew bored and poked him until he stopped and comforted her.
• Ning Wen and Xiao Wu reconciled, and he kept the reason for their trip to Sunset Forest secret from her.
• Ning Wen considered the danger of Xiao Wu's identity and wondered why Chen Xin and Gu Rong had not acted on what they knew.
• Chen Xin told Ning Wen that Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form and that Tang Hao was pursuing them because of it.
• Ning Wen's arrogant inner voice angered Chen Xin, and Gu Rong urged Chen Xin to remember why they were keeping watch.

Ning Wen remembered the treasures hidden behind the waterfall near Holy Soul Village and turned the carriage back to retrieve them. He climbed into the cave with Xiao Wu, leaving them at its entrance.

• Xiao Wu learned that Lovesick Heartbreak Red could conceal a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's aura, though it required absolute devotion to claim.
• Ning Wen remembered the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and the Blue Silver Emperor's Seed of Life, then ordered the driver to return.
• Ning Wen and Xiao Wu reached Holy Soul Village and made their way into the mountains behind it.
• Ning Wen used his Darkgolden Terrorclaw to climb behind the waterfall while carrying Xiao Wu and found the renovated cave entrance.

Ning Wen and Xiao Wu found Ah Yin, the weakened Blue Silver Emperor, in a hidden cave and learned she still had consciousness. Ning Wen’s thoughts revealed that Tang San was dead, leaving Ah Yin devastated and Xiao Wu stunned.

• Ning Wen led Xiao Wu through a cave and found a Blue Silver Emperor growing beneath a shaft of sunlight.
• Xiao Wu recognized the plant as Ah Yin, Tang San’s mother, and learned she had sacrificed herself to save Tang Hao and Tang San.
• Xiao Wu condemned Tang Hao for leaving Ah Yin in the dark, while Ning Wen suspected Tang Hao had treated her as a tool.
• Ah Yin heard Ning Wen’s thoughts questioning Tang Hao’s motives and began to doubt the excuses she had made for him.
• Ning Wen realized Ah Yin still had consciousness, then thought that Tang San had died, causing Ah Yin’s vitality to falter and Xiao Wu to wonder how she had not known.

Ning Wen’s revelations led Ah Yin to question whether Tang San was her son or an impostor created through the Asura God’s intervention, while Xiao Wu learned how Tang Hao had neglected Tang San and brought Ah Yin toward Spirit City. Ah Yin began to suspect that Tang Hao had deliberately manipulated her, recalling how their lives changed after she revealed she was a transformed Blue Silver Emperor.

• Ning Wen revealed that the Asura God had arranged for Tang San from his previous life to take over the newborn Child of Destiny’s body, shocking Ah Yin and Xiao Wu.
• Ning Wen described how Tang Hao neglected young Tang San, who had to care for his father and might have starved without memories of his previous life.
• Ning Wen explained that Tang Hao only began teaching Tang San after he awakened the Clear Sky Hammer and instructed him to protect the Blue Silver Grass with it.
• Xiao Wu realized Tang Hao had taken the pregnant, transformed Ah Yin toward Spirit City despite its dangers and concluded that she herself was not love-brained.
• Ah Yin reconsidered Tang Hao’s behavior and remembered that Spirit Hall attacked them after she revealed her identity, forcing them to hide and flee for nine years before she was discovered while giving birth.

Ning Wen took the weakened Ah Yin from the cave, intending to restore her and use her to drive a wedge between Tang Hao and Tang San. He also found the Blue Silver Emperor's hundred-thousand-year right leg bone, whose powerful life force filled the chamber.

• The Voice Pack revealed that Tang Hao and Yu Xiaogang had treated Tang San as a tool, leaving Ah Yin devastated and Xiao Wu sympathetic toward him.
• Xiao Wu asked Ning Wen to take Ah Yin with them, and Ning Wen agreed, planning to restore her at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ning Wen carefully lifted Ah Yin and her soil into a special Soul Tool, while the Voice Pack urged him to use her to turn Tang Hao and Tang San against each other.
• Ning Wen found a hidden iron box in the cave wall and opened it to reveal the Blue Silver Emperor's hundred-thousand-year right leg bone.

Ning Wen absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor's Hundred-Thousand-Year Right Leg Bone, gaining four levels of Soul Power, healing, and flight abilities. The next day, Tang Hao went to the mountain behind Holy Soul Village after sensing that something was wrong and thinking of Ah Yin's hidden remains and Soul Bone.

• Ning Wen absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor's Hundred-Thousand-Year Right Leg Bone while Xiao Wu watched.
• Ning Wen gained four levels of Soul Power and the healing and flight skills, then demonstrated how quickly he could heal a wound.
• Ning Wen flew with Xiao Wu out of the waterfall cave, and Xiao Wu blushed as she leaned closer to him.
• Tang Hao arrived at Holy Soul Village and went to the mountain behind it, troubled by a growing sense that something precious had gone missing.
• Tang Hao remembered hiding Ah Yin's Blue Silver Grass form and her Soul Bone behind the waterfall as her final gifts to him and Little San.

Tang Hao discovered that Ah Yin and the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone had been stolen, then vowed to hunt down the thief. Three days later, Ning Wen and Xiao Wu entered the Sunset Forest in search of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where a pack of One-Eyed Demon Wolves ambushed them.

• Tang Hao found Ah Yin and the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone missing from the stone chamber behind the waterfall.
• Tang Hao searched the mountain, destroyed the surrounding forest in his rage, and vowed to find and kill the thief.
• Ning Wen and Xiao Wu arrived at the Sunset Forest, where Ning Wen recalled that the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King had fallen there.
• Ning Wen and Xiao Wu ventured deeper into the forest toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dozens of One-Eyed Demon Wolves emerged from the bushes and surrounded Ning Wen and Xiao Wu.

Ning Wen summoned the Asura Armor and destroyed a pack of One-Eyed Demon Wolves, revealing strength far beyond his apparent rank. After meeting Dugu Yan, he left her baffled by the Voice Pack, while Dugu Bo secretly watched and wondered about Ning Wen’s origins.

• Ning Wen summoned the Asura Armor and Asura Purgatory Blade, then slaughtered the attacking One-Eyed Demon Wolves while Xiao Wu watched in shock.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong observed from hiding and recognized that Ning Wen’s power and defense exceeded those of an ordinary Soul Elder.
• Ning Wen reassured Xiao Wu after the battle, while Dugu Yan arrived, saw the wolf corpses, and questioned how his second Soul Ring could be a Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Dugu Yan introduced herself and called Ning Wen a little brat, prompting him to give his name and the Voice Pack to angrily insult her.
• Dugu Bo watched Ning Wen from the forest and wondered whether the boy belonged to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Dugu Yan tried to locate the voice she heard in her mind.

Ning Wen’s mocking inner voice exposed how Tang San would exploit Dugu Bo’s ignorance of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and leave him infamous after the Battle of Jialing Pass. Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan were shaken by the revelations about their family’s lost opportunities and grim future.

• Ning Wen’s inner voice revealed that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well held Immortal Herbs that could cure the Jade Phosphorous Serpent’s flaws and help Dugu Bo grow far stronger.
• Dugu Bo realized that the medicinal garden he had guarded contained opportunities he had never recognized, and that Tang San would take them for himself.
• Ning Wen’s inner voice described how Dugu Bo would poison Jialing Pass during the Battle of Jialing Pass, killing tens of thousands and earning lasting infamy.
• Dugu Yan was devastated to hear that her grandfather would be remembered as a mass killer, while Xiao Wu expressed disbelief at humanity’s cruelty.

Dugu Bo learned that Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Xue Beng had used him and later blamed him for poisoning a city, prompting him to vow revenge on Xue Beng and the Heaven Dou Empire. Dugu Yan invited Ning Wen and Xiao Wu to visit her grandfather, bringing Ning Wen closer to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Xiao Wu worried that Dugu Bo might expose her identity.

• Dugu Bo reacted with horror to learning that his future poison nearly destroyed a city and ended the Dugu Family’s bloodline, then swore to kill Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.
• Ning Wen’s inner voice revealed that Xue Beng had supported Yu Xiaogang’s poison plan before later erasing Dugu Bo’s contributions and condemning him.
• Dugu Bo vowed to kill Xue Beng and threatened to attack Heaven Dou Imperial City if the empire stood in his way.
• Ning Wen’s inner voice described even more ruthless ways to use poison, leaving Dugu Yan, Dugu Bo, Xiao Wu, and Ning Wen’s companions stunned.
• Dugu Yan invited Ning Wen and Xiao Wu to meet her grandfather, and Ning Wen accepted because he wanted access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xiao Wu grew anxious about meeting Poison Douluo, but Ning Wen reassured her that Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo could protect her.