Chapter Summaries

Ye Renxin explained two ways to refine the Azure Jade Bird inner core and revealed the Ye Family’s ring fusion secret art, which could distribute its power among Lu Xuan’s soul rings. Lu Xuan chose to learn ring fusion and began studying its principles, preparing to refine the inner core.

• Ye Renxin described one plan to strengthen Lu Xuan’s first soul ring and Azure Jade Bird soul bone, and another to raise all four soul rings above fifty thousand years.
• Ye Renxin explained that ring fusion could channel the inner core’s energy through Lu Xuan’s first soul ring and distribute it among all his soul rings.
• Ye Renxin revealed the Ye Family’s ring fusion secret art and agreed to teach it to Lu Xuan.
• Lu Xuan imagined combining the power of nine future high-level soul rings into a single soul skill and eagerly asked to learn ring fusion.
• Ye Renxin taught Lu Xuan the method, and Lu Xuan summoned his martial soul and began sensing his soul rings and their connections.

Lu Xuan’s group began their secret plan to poison Tang Hao, sending Tang Yuehua to approach him while Dugu Bo and Zhao Yan hid nearby. Tang Yuehua reunited with her brother in Holy Soul Village and offered to support him and Tang San, but Tang Hao refused, afraid he would drag her down.

• Lu Xuan considered fusing all eighteen soul rings someday, while Dugu Bo chose Zhao Yan, Lu Xuan, and Tang Yuehua to join the secret operation against Tang Hao.
• Lu Xuan sent Tang Yuehua into his Spiritual Space for the journey, while Ye Renxin urged Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan to train harder so they could keep up with him.
• Two days later, the group reached Emperor Soul Village, and Lu Xuan gave Tang Yuehua wine and ordered her to approach Tang Hao and ease his wariness.
• Dugu Bo and Zhao Yan followed Tang Yuehua toward Holy Soul Village while Lu Xuan stayed behind in Emperor Soul Village.
• Tang Yuehua found Tang Hao at his smithy, greeted him as her second brother, and offered to support him and Tang San.
• Tang Hao rejected Tang Yuehua’s offer, saying he would only drag her down.

Tang Yuehua lured Tang Hao away from Tang San and poisoned his wine to seal his Soul Power. Dugu Bo ambushed him at the waterfall, leaving Tang Hao badly wounded and unable to use his Soul Skills.

• Tang Yuehua reminisced with Tang Hao, introduced herself to Tang San as his aunt, and persuaded Tang Hao to drink wine.
• Tang Hao refused to return to the Clear Sky Sect but agreed to take Tang Yuehua to visit Ah Yin’s resting place.
• Tang Hao led Tang Yuehua beyond Holy Soul Village to the waterfall and told her to take Tang San away if the boy showed exceptional talent.
• Tang Hao’s Soul Power failed when he tried to carry Tang Yuehua up the waterfall, and Dugu Bo emerged to confront him.
• Tang Yuehua fled as Dugu Bo attacked with Time Freeze, while Tang Hao failed to detonate his rings and was struck down by the blow.

Dugu Bo and Zhao Yan grievously wounded Tang Hao, who escaped toward Emperor Soul Village before Lu Xuan ambushed him and repeatedly blasted him with [Annihilation Light]. Dugu Bo arrived and poisoned the helpless Tang Hao, while Zhao Yan remained in pursuit of a false trail.

• Dugu Bo used his Ninth Soul Skill to destroy Tang Hao's right arm, and Zhao Yan shattered his left arm with [Ling Yuan Strike].
• Tang Hao fled using his leg soul bones' [Blood Escape], leaving Dugu Bo and Zhao Yan to collect the two fallen soul bones and chase him.
• Lu Xuan saw the armless Tang Hao approaching Emperor Soul Village and ambushed him with [Annihilation Light], striking him repeatedly until he could no longer resist.
• Dugu Bo reached Lu Xuan, checked that he was unharmed, and explained that Zhao Yan had pursued one of Tang Hao's false images.
• Dugu Bo recognized Tang Hao and poured corrosive poison into his wounds, concluding that Tang Hao was dead.

After Lu Xuan helped Dugu Bo and Zhao Yan kill Tang Hao, he discovered that Tang Hao had hidden the Blue Silver Emperor’s hundred-thousand-year soul bone near his wife’s grave. Lu Xuan and Dugu Bo entered the cave behind the waterfall, where Lu Xuan began using an illusion skill to reach the Blue Silver Emperor’s faint awareness.

• Lu Xuan confirmed Tang Hao was dead, recovered his strength, and let Dugu Bo collect the six soul bones from the corpse.
• Lu Xuan used Azure Jade Spatial Escape to find Zhao Yan, then brought him back to reunite with Dugu Bo.
• Lu Xuan explained that Tang Hao had fled to his wife’s grave and likely left the Blue Silver Emperor’s soul bone there.
• Tang Yuehua revealed that Tang Hao had hidden the soul bone in the cave behind the waterfall, while Zhao Yan stayed to guard her.
• Lu Xuan used Peach-Bamboo Illusory Thought on the Blue Silver Emperor’s surviving essence and began filling her consciousness with memories of events after her sacrifice.

Lu Xuan witnessed the Blue Silver Emperor’s memories of Tang Hao and Tang Yuehua stealing her bloodline and killing Tang San, then recovered her seedling and the hidden soul bone. He decided Tang San could not be killed because the Asura God might possess the unborn child in Ye Qingxian’s belly, and the group headed toward Holy Soul Village to assess the situation.

• In the memory illusion, Tang Hao gave Qian Xunji the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, then planned with Tang Yuehua to transfer the Blue Silver Emperor’s bloodline into their son.
• Tang Yuehua extracted the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline from Tang San, killing him, and she and Tang Hao kept the remaining grass seeds in case they could use them again.
• Lu Xuan ended the illusion, transplanted the Blue Silver Emperor seedling into a jade basin, and told Dugu Bo where to find the hidden hundred-thousand-year soul bone.
• Dugu Bo found the soul bone and kept it for Lu Xuan, then carried Lu Xuan out of the cave with Zhao Yan.
• Zhao Yan proposed eliminating Tang Hao’s family, but Lu Xuan insisted they first check the situation and then warned that Tang San could not be killed.
• Lu Xuan resolved that Tang San had to live until he could face the Asura God, who might otherwise possess Ye Qingxian’s unborn child.

Lu Xuan decided to spare Tang San and manipulate his growth, using an illusion to make him believe he had returned to the Tang Sect. After memorizing the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record from Tang San’s dream, Lu Xuan left Tang Yuehua to watch over him and departed with Dugu Bo and Zhao Yan.

• Lu Xuan told Dugu Bo and Zhao Yan that Tang San’s fortune could lead them to treasures, and proposed using Tang Yuehua to control his upbringing and directing his revenge toward chosen enemies.
• Lu Xuan decided against killing or mind-controlling Tang San because it might alert the Asura God, and instead used his Fourth Soul Skill to cover Holy Soul Village in illusions.
• Lu Xuan made Tang San dream that Master Tang had named him the Tang Sect’s successor and had him copy the complete Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.
• Lu Xuan watched Tang San write the record accurately and memorized its contents while Tang San slept in the real world.
• Lu Xuan ordered Tang Yuehua to stay in Holy Soul Village and look after Tang San, then left with Dugu Bo and Zhao Yan.

After returning to the Ye Family Medical Hall, Lu Xuan and the others began distributing the soul bones taken from Tang Hao and other sources. Lu Xuan assigned several valuable bones to his companions, and the distribution continued as Ye Qingxian received a seventy-thousand-year Right Arm Soul Bone.

• Lu Xuan, Dugu Bo, and Zhao Yan returned safely to the Ye Family Medical Hall, where Dugu Bo urged everyone to distribute the soul bones at once.
• Dugu Bo revealed that he and Zhao Yan had badly wounded Tang Hao before Lu Xuan killed him, shocking the Ye Family.
• Lu Xuan gave Zhao Yan Tang Hao's Head Soul Bone and both leg soul bones to complete his set before he hunted for a ninth soul ring.
• Lu Xuan gave Dugu Xin a Ghost Leopard Left Leg Soul Bone and Ye Renxin a forty-thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Fox Head Soul Bone.
• Lu Xuan gave Dugu Bo Tang Hao's fifty-thousand-year Left Arm Soul Bone, then offered Ye Qingxian a seventy-thousand-year Right Arm Soul Bone, which surprised her.

Lu Xuan assigned the remaining soul bones and laid out plans to cultivate the Blue Silver Emperor, trade surplus soul bones, and publicize whale rubber’s benefits. Ye Lingling declined the Blue Silver leg bones, preferring to seek water-attribute soul bones and leave the pair for Ye Renxin and Ye Qingxian.

• Lu Xuan gave Ye Qingxian a Right Arm Soul Bone to keep for her future child, while reserving the Blue Silver Emperor and Blue Silver King leg bones for his cultivation plans.
• Lu Xuan proposed trading Tang Hao’s Torso Bone and the Thousand Jun Ant Right Arm Bone for resources and having Ye Renxin publicize whale rubber’s ability to strengthen bodies and raise soul-ring absorption limits.
• Dugu Bo said he would negotiate soul-bone trades with the major factions after absorbing his own soul bone.
• Lu Xuan led Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan out of the secluded chamber so the elders could absorb their soul bones without disturbance.
• Ye Lingling refused the Blue Silver leg bones, saying she wanted six water-attribute soul bones and believed the pair suited Ye Renxin and Ye Qingxian better.

After absorbing Soul Bones, Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin stood close to breakthroughs, so Dugu Bo took Lu Xuan to trade for treasures in the Heaven Dou Imperial Family Treasury. Lu Xuan spotted an Azure Jade Bird among the treasury’s jade ornaments.

• Dugu Bo emerged from the secret chamber at rank 97, while Ye Renxin completed his Soul Bone absorption and stood on the verge of advancement.
• Dugu Bo decided to visit the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, and Lu Xuan joined him, offering spirit herbs in exchange for treasures so they could preserve their Soul Bones.
• Dugu Bo and Lu Xuan arrived at the palace, where Dugu Bo presented Tang Hao's Seventy Thousand Year Torso Bone to Emperor Xue Ye as a trade offer.
• Xue Ye led them into the imperial treasury, where Lu Xuan searched the collection and found an Azure Jade Bird among the jade ornaments.

Lu Xuan and Dugu Bo inspected the Heaven Dou Imperial treasury and negotiated with Xue Ye over Dugu Bo’s soul bones. After Lu Xuan offered Xue Ye an immortal herb that could help him reach Soul Sage, Xue Ye turned to Dugu Bo for advice.

• Lu Xuan and Dugu Bo recognized two Azure Jade Birds in the vault as valuable living treasures but hid their interest from Xue Ye.
• Dugu Bo criticized the vault’s offerings and offered his seventy-thousand-year Torso Bone and a twenty-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant Right Arm Soul Bone in trade.
• Xue Ye offered up to fifty vault treasures for the Torso Bone, then added two thirty-thousand-year leg soul bones to the deal.
• Lu Xuan saw that Xue Ye wanted to break through to Soul Sage and offered him an eight-rank purple zoysia that could help him reach that realm and improve his foundation.
• Xue Ye stared at the immortal herb in surprise and asked Dugu Bo what he thought.

Lu Xuan and Dugu Bo traded an Eight-Rank Purple Zoysia to Xue Ye for a treasury of treasures, then planned to seek further trades with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Ye Renxin warned that both sects would be difficult and potentially dangerous to deal with.

• Dugu Bo explained that the Eight-Rank Purple Zoysia had helped him break through to Titled Douluo, and Xue Ye offered his entire treasury for it.
• Dugu Bo gave the zoysia to Xue Ye, while Lu Xuan took a small portion of the treasury as a deposit and secretly left an Azure Jade Bird sensing mark behind.
• Lu Xuan considered Qian Renxue's plans for taking over the Heaven Dou Empire but decided to remain uninvolved unless Spirit Hall provoked him.
• Lu Xuan and Dugu Bo left the imperial treasury and returned to the Ye Family Medical Hall, where Dugu Bo handed Ye Renxin the Soul Bones they had obtained.
• Dugu Bo announced that he would next visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to seek more trades, and Ye Renxin warned him that both sects were formidable.

Lu Xuan and Dugu Bo delayed visiting the Upper Three Sects until their allies finished absorbing Soul Bones, but Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived at the Ye Family Medical Hall seeking the seventy-thousand-year Torso Bone. Dugu Bo and Lu Xuan received them, leaving negotiations poised to begin.

• Lu Xuan advised Dugu Bo to delay visiting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan until Zhao Yan and Dugu Xin finished absorbing their Soul Bones.
• Ning Fengzhi learned that Dugu Bo had taken the Torso Bone back after discussing a trade with Xue Ye, then set out for the Ye Family Medical Hall with Gu Rong.
• Lu Xuan and Dugu Bo prepared to meet Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong while Ye Renxin urged them to avoid killing and giving Spirit Hall an excuse to intervene.
• Dugu Bo greeted Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong in place of Ye Renxin, and the four entered the main hall to talk over tea.

Dugu Bo negotiated with Ning Fengzhi to trade his seventy-thousand-year Torso Bone for a fifty-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider leg Soul Bone and other treasures. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s vault, Lu Xuan began choosing what would make up the difference in value.

• Ning Fengzhi offered a Man Faced Demon Spider leg Soul Bone and invited Dugu Bo and Lu Xuan to select additional treasures at the sect.
• Dugu Bo agreed to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Lu Xuan.
• The group inspected the vault, where Lu Xuan noticed two Gem-type Soul Bones suited to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that the sect’s elders kept Soul Bones they received, even after their deaths.
• Dugu Bo asked Lu Xuan whether anything had caught his eye, and Ning Fengzhi encouraged him to choose treasures to cover the trade’s remaining value.

Lu Xuan traded with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, taking jewelry, Gold of Life, and Soul Bones while Dugu Bo declined Ning Fengzhi’s invitation to join the sect. After the group returned to Heaven Dou City, Dugu Bo reached level 98, and Xue Ye’s successful breakthrough prompted Prince Xue Xing to seek treasures for a trade of his own.

• Lu Xuan selected jewelry for Yanyan and Lingling, quietly gathered Gold of Life, and took inferior Soul Bones from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s vault.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Dugu Bo to join the sect, but Dugu Bo refused and left with Lu Xuan.
• Dugu Bo absorbed a Fifty Thousand Year Poison-Attribute Soul Bone and broke through to level 98, while Dugu Xin and Ye Renxin absorbed Soul Bones to strengthen their cultivation.
• News spread that Xue Ye had reached the Soul Sage Realm, and he delivered the remaining agreed-upon treasures to Dugu Manor.
• Xue Ye asked to buy another Immortal Herb, but Dugu Bo refused because he lacked treasures of equal value.
• Prince Xue Xing began searching for Soul Bones and rare treasures, but Dugu Bo no longer offered him favors.

After Dugu Bo completed his soul-bone set, he prepared to help Zhao Yan obtain a ninth soul ring while the others resumed training. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Lu Xuan planted the Blue Silver Emperor and discussed Dugu Yan’s cultivation and his plans for future soul rings for Ye Lingling.

• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan did not visit, and Lu Xuan sacrificed inferior soul bones before giving Ye Lingling an Azure Jade Bird wing soul bone and Dugu Bo an Azure Jade Bird leg soul bone.
• Dugu Bo absorbed the leg soul bone, completed his soul-bone set, and agreed to take Zhao Yan to hunt for a ninth soul ring while urging Dugu Xin to train toward level 90.
• Ye Lingling broke through to level 40, Lu Xuan approached level 50, and Dugu Yan remained at level 38 as the group resumed cultivation.
• Lu Xuan planted the Blue Silver Emperor at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and reassured Dugu Yan that he had prepared a soul beast for her fourth soul ring.
• Lu Xuan considered future life-attribute soul rings for Ye Lingling and planned to nurture the Blue Silver Emperor to a hundred thousand years before asking her to sacrifice herself.

After four months of cultivation, Lu Xuan reached Level 49, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling reached Level 40, and Zhao Yan returned as a Titled Douluo with a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone. Dugu Bo revealed that they had encountered a powerful flame lord, which Lu Xuan considered as a possible Soul Ring for his second Martial Soul.

• Lu Xuan advanced to Level 49 while Dugu Yan broke through to Level 40 and decided to save the jade phosphorus seven-absolute flower for her fifth Soul Ring.
• Ye Lingling continued cultivating and healing the Tree of Life and Blue Silver Emperor, which were flourishing but still too young to absorb.
• Zhao Yan returned with a hundred-thousand-year ninth Soul Ring and Torso Soul Bone, reaching the Titled Douluo realm at Level 95.
• Dugu Bo told Lu Xuan that a flame lord had attacked them during their hunt and that its flames had countered his jade phosphorus poison.
• Lu Xuan considered the flame lord a potential Soul Ring for his second Martial Soul once he reached the Titled Douluo level.
• Lu Xuan said he had been scouting Sunset Forest but had not found suitable Soul Beasts for himself, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling.

Lu Xuan and the others agreed to postpone Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling’s fourth Soul Rings while he cultivated toward Level 50, then Lu Xuan returned to seclusion. After he left, the girls told their elders they wanted to travel with him once he became a Soul King.

• Lu Xuan said his fifth Soul Ring target, a Mirror Shadow Beast, was in the Frozen Forest, and proposed helping Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling find their fourth Soul Rings in Star Dou Forest first.
• Ye Lingling suggested traveling to the Frozen Forest with Lu Xuan, and Dugu Yan backed her plan to delay their Soul Rings so they could spend time with their families.
• Lu Xuan agreed to cultivate until he reached Level 50, transported Dugu Bo, Zhao Yan, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling to Heaven Dou City, then returned alone to his cultivation site.
• Ye Renxin asked the girls whether they were plotting something, and they explained that they wanted to travel and gain experience with Lu Xuan after he became a Soul King.
• Dugu Bo advised Dugu Yan to wait until she became a Soul Emperor, but Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling argued that Lu Xuan’s strength and spatial abilities would keep them safe.

Lu Xuan broke through to Level 50 at age ten and prepared to take the Nine-Flower Jade Dew Pill, asking Ye Renxin to guard him in case its power became dangerous. Ye Renxin agreed, and Lu Xuan hoped the pill might make him a ten-year-old Soul Emperor.

• After a month of secluded cultivation, Lu Xuan absorbed the remaining medicinal power of the divine black jade bamboo and broke through to Level 50.
• Lu Xuan decided to take his Nine-Flower Jade Dew Pill, but first traveled to Heaven Dou City to ask his master, Ye Renxin, to oversee him.
• At the Ye Family Medical Hall, Lu Xuan reunited with Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan and explained that he wanted Ye Renxin to guard him while he took the pill.
• Ye Renxin arrived and praised Lu Xuan as a ten-year-old Quasi-Soul King.
• Lu Xuan said he might become a ten-year-old Soul Emperor.

Lu Xuan swallowed his Nine-Flower Jade Dew Pill at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Ye Renxin guarded him and Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan watched. The pill dramatically strengthened Lu Xuan’s Soul Power, body, and spiritual power, then triggered startling changes in his Martial Souls as heaven and earth’s Spirit Energy gathered around him.

• Lu Xuan brought Ye Renxin, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then replenished his strength while the two girls cultivated nearby.
• Ye Renxin agreed to guard Lu Xuan as he took the pill, while Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan watched from the nearby wooden cabin.
• Lu Xuan swallowed the Nine-Flower Jade Dew Pill, and its medicinal power surged through his body, raising his Soul Power from Level 50 by an estimated seven or eight levels and greatly strengthening his physique and spiritual power.
• Lu Xuan’s Divine Black Jade Bamboo Flute Martial Soul shone with extraordinary radiance, leading Ye Renxin to suspect it had reached god-tier status.
• Silver and golden light erupted around Lu Xuan as his Body Martial Soul completed its Silver Second Awakening and its origin was tempered.
• The Spirit Energy above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well began boiling and churning as it gathered around Lu Xuan.