Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Tang San’s wish is fulfilled: the venom damage to his eyes is cured, restoring his normal vision. The process also brings up memories from both his lives, but he cannot clearly make out what he glimpses.
• His Purple Demon Eye has regressed from the second stage to the entry level of the first. Tang San accepts this as a small price for regaining healthy eyes.
• The students are surprised that Tang San’s cost seems mild compared with the severe consequences of earlier wishes.
• As Tang San leaves to care for the injured and weakened Yu Xiaogang, Xu Yuan privately discovers that the Wish-Granting Tree has given him a wisp of Blue Silver Emperor bloodline origin and Tang San’s accumulated cultivation memories.
• Xu Yuan allows the Radiant Sacred Dragon Spear to absorb the bloodline origin. The dragon within the spear consumes it and retreats to digest it.
• Hidden nearby, Tang Hao watches the wish come true and decides he should eventually approach Xu Yuan to inspect the unusual Martial Soul.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang San is relieved and grateful, viewing the loss of Purple Demon Eye progress as a worthwhile trade. He also sees Xu Yuan as someone he may be able to win over and use as an ally.
• Xu Yuan stays playful with Xiao Wu but is privately unsettled by the unexpected gifts and the spear’s hunger. He chooses to trust the weapon’s impulse and let it consume the bloodline.
• Xiao Wu is puzzled that Tang San’s wish cost so little, especially after her own costly experience. She teases Xu Yuan and probes whether his Martial Soul is functioning properly; he brushes her off and urges her to cultivate.
• Tang Hao, watching in secret, becomes intrigued by the Wish-Granting Tree after seeing it fulfill wishes for both Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.

Significant themes

• Wishes and their costs: The chapter emphasizes that the price of a wish is unpredictable, leaving the students unsure how the Tree determines what must be sacrificed.
• Power and opportunity: Tang San accepts a personal loss for a major benefit, while Xu Yuan gains resources that may strengthen him in unexpected ways.
• Fate and hidden connections: The Blue Silver Emperor origin, Tang San’s memories, and the spear’s response suggest deeper links and consequences that the characters do not yet understand.

Plot points and events

• Xu Yuan examines a Spiritual Origin taken from Tang San and discovers it contains the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, including the Purple Demon Eye. It also preserves fragments of Tang San’s memories from both his past life and his time in the Douluo World.
• The memories reveal that Tang San wished for his eyes to return to normal. Xu Yuan concludes that the Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul restored them by drawing on Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline, then took the remaining bloodline origin and his Purple Demon Eye Spiritual Origin. As a result, Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass may no longer carry the Emperor bloodline.
• Xu Yuan uses the Spiritual Origin to absorb the Record’s knowledge and begins cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Skill. His Soul Power purifies and advances from level fourteen to fifteen, helped by a medicinal crystal. He estimates the Purple Demon Eye will reach Micro-Perception in about a week.
• Xiao Wu senses Xu Yuan’s breakthrough and is startled by how quickly he is advancing. Concerned about keeping up—and about his eventual graduation while he still owes her for the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Origin—she recommits herself to training.
• At Nouding Academy, Yu Xiaogang enthusiastically drafts a theory about the Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul, imagining it will bring him fame. Tang Hao arrives outside his window and angrily summons him.

Character developments and interactions

• Xu Yuan becomes more confident in the Wish-Granting Tree’s powers and gains a major cultivation advantage, but chooses to conceal the Record’s other techniques rather than risk exposing himself.
• Xiao Wu moves from surprise to renewed determination, motivated by Xu Yuan’s progress and their unresolved debt.
• Yu Xiaogang remains consumed by his ambition to be recognized for Martial Soul theory. When confronted, he instinctively prepares to defend himself despite his limited strength.
• Tang Hao is shown watching from outside Yu Xiaogang’s office. He dismisses Yu Xiaogang as insignificant and reacts with contempt to his pig Martial Soul.

Significant themes

• Power gained through wishes and sacrifice: Xu Yuan’s gains come from the Wish-Granting Tree exploiting resources already present in Tang San, rather than granting something from nothing.
• Knowledge and concealment: The Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record offers a powerful shortcut, but Xu Yuan recognizes that revealing it could bring danger.
• Ambition and comparison: Xu Yuan’s rapid growth unsettles Xiao Wu, while Yu Xiaogang dreams of fame through his theories.

Plot points and events

• Tang Hao secretly takes Yu Xiaogang to a grove behind Nouding Academy so they can talk without waking Tang San.
• He confronts Yu Xiaogang over reports that Tang San is being treated like a laborer, that Yu Xiaogang taught him to regard a teacher as a father, and that Tang San was nearly blinded during a Soul Ring hunt. Yu Xiaogang denies responsibility.
• Tang Hao permits Yu Xiaogang to teach Tang San, but warns him not to claim the authority of a father. He then challenges Yu Xiaogang to prove he can protect his disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang refuses to fight, explaining that his Martial Soul has undergone a harmful mutation. When pressured, he reveals that his Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, now appears through possession—a consequence of making a wish.
• Yu Xiaogang claims he has studied the Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul and developed a theory that lets people make wishes while keeping their costs manageable. He also says it grants only one wish per month.
• Concerned about the strange consequences of the wish and deciding a fight is not worth the risk, Tang Hao cancels the challenge and takes Yu Xiaogang’s research with him.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Hao begins as an angry, protective father, interrogating Yu Xiaogang and threatening to test him. Once he sees Yu Xiaogang’s unusual transformation and hears about the wish system, he becomes cautious and practical. He remains focused on Tang San’s safety, though he also plans to return to Ah Yin.
• Yu Xiaogang moves from fear and humiliation to renewed confidence when he presents his Martial Soul Theory. He wants recognition for his research and insists it can help Tang San.
• Their interaction shifts from accusation and intimidation to wary negotiation: Tang Hao demands accountability, while Yu Xiaogang defends himself and offers knowledge in exchange for credibility.

Significant themes

• Parental protection and the limits of a teacher’s authority: Tang Hao distinguishes Yu Xiaogang’s role as Tang San’s teacher from that of a father.
• The costs and risks of wishes: Yu Xiaogang’s mutation makes the Wish-Granting Tree’s consequences tangible, while his theory promises to manage them.
• Strength versus knowledge: Tang Hao questions Yu Xiaogang’s ability to protect Tang San physically, but ultimately values his research.
• Comic contrast: Tang Hao’s fearsome reputation and threats are undercut by his drunkenness and his decision to avoid a potentially embarrassing or dangerous fight.

Plot points and events

• Wang Sheng reaches Soul Power level ten and wants a Hundred-Year First Soul Ring, believing it could improve his prospects of becoming a Soul Elder.
• Despite warnings from Xu Yuan and Xiao Wu that the Wish-Granting Tree’s magic is unpredictable and Soul Hunting is dangerous, Wang Sheng insists on using a Wish Slot.
• Xu Yuan grants Wang Sheng’s wish: to find a suitable Hundred-Year Soul Ring in the Soul Hunting Forest. Wang Sheng feels no obvious change.
• Soon afterward, a teacher announces that Wang Sheng can leave with Director Su, who is already traveling to the forest. Wang Sheng is surprised by the unusually quick opportunity and hurries off.
• Back in the dormitory, Xiao Wu accidentally falls onto Xu Yuan while showing off. Xu Yuan loses some Soul Power and realizes that the Wish-Granting Tree may also fulfill ordinary wishes by consuming his own Soul Power.

Character development and interactions

• Wang Sheng shows ambition and resolve, accepting the risks of wishing because he refuses to settle for a weak First Soul Ring. Xiao Wu and Xu Yuan try to protect him, but ultimately respect his choice.
• Xu Yuan becomes increasingly aware of his growing connection to the Wish-Granting Tree. His discovery that it can grant ordinary wishes at a cost to his Soul Power reveals a new dimension of its ability.
• Xiao Wu acts as a cautious, experienced adviser to Wang Sheng, then shifts into playful, energetic banter with Xu Yuan. She misreads his excitement after the mishap as embarrassment or delight at her closeness.
• Tang San watches the others and privately believes they are foolish for relying on the Wish-Granting Tree without his teacher’s guidance.

Significant themes

• Ambition versus risk: Wang Sheng is willing to gamble for a better future, even when Soul Hunting and wish-making may be dangerous.
• Class and opportunity: A Soul Master’s monthly stipend represents a major step up for a Work-Study Student.
• Power and its price: Xu Yuan’s discovery suggests the Wish-Granting Tree can grant more than formal wishes, but may consume his own Soul Power in exchange.
• Pride and judgment: Tang San’s confidence contrasts with the others’ uncertainty about the Tree’s true potential.

Plot points and events

• Xu Yuan discovers that his Wish-Granting Tree’s new ability, Word Manifestation, can make spoken declarations come true. Its effects range from minor accidents to Xiao Wu ending up asleep in his arms, but the more powerful or implausible the result, the more Soul Power it consumes.
• His cultivation is accelerating: the Mysterious Heaven Skill works exceptionally well with Medicinal Power Crystals, raising him to Soul Power level seventeen and then, over the following month, level nineteen.
• Xu Yuan reflects on the sovereign-like pressure of his Light Sacred Dragon Spear after it absorbs Blue Silver Emperor bloodline essence. For now, he chooses to focus on his support-type first Martial Soul and its powerful abilities rather than cultivating the second.
• Wang Sheng returns from Soul Hunting with a hundred-year Soul Ring, having found a badly wounded Saber-Toothed Tiger. He credits Xu Yuan’s Martial Soul for the opportunity, though the wish appears to have cost him much of his good luck, leaving him in danger during the hunt.
• Tang San says Yu Xiaogang has asked Xu Yuan to reserve next month’s Wish Slot for a powerful expert. Xu Yuan suspects the expert may be Tang Hao and agrees. Tang San boasts about his teacher’s formidable past, though he does not know the expert’s identity.
• After another month of cultivation, Xu Yuan reaches level nineteen. A hoarse voice then summons him to the Back Mountain.

Character developments and interactions

• Xu Yuan grows more confident in his abilities but recognizes their limits: Word Manifestation is potent yet costly, and obtaining another hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring would be unrealistic. He remains cautious about developing his second Martial Soul.
• Wang Sheng gains a major boost in status and confidence after becoming a Soul Master with a hundred-year Soul Ring. He openly reveres Xu Yuan and contrasts his success with Xiao Chenyu’s weaker ten-year Soul Ring.
• Xiao Chenyu is stunned and resentful when Wang Sheng surpasses him, revealing how much he measures worth through rank and privilege.
• Tang San uses his connection to Yu Xiaogang to secure the next Wish Slot. His pride in his teacher’s reputation is clear, even though he does not know whom Yu Xiaogang intends to bring.
• Xiao Wu remains close to Xu Yuan, sleeping in his arms after his wish—though the text frames this as another crossing of their usual boundary.

Significant themes

• Power and its price: Word Manifestation can reshape events, but demands Soul Power; Wang Sheng’s wish also seems to consume his luck.
• Fortune, merit, and status: Wang Sheng’s success unsettles the noble students, especially Xiao Chenyu, challenging assumptions that wealth or social rank guarantees strength.
• Ambition tempered by realism: Xu Yuan dreams of another extraordinary Soul Ring but recognizes that his earlier one was exceptional.
• Reputation and hidden power: Tang San’s confidence in Yu Xiaogang’s connections foreshadows a major figure whose identity remains concealed.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Xu Yuan meets the disheveled Tang Hao in the back mountains of Nuoding Academy. Tang Hao reveals himself as a Titled Douluo, displaying his nine Soul Rings—including a red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring—to intimidate and impress Xu Yuan.
• Tang Hao says he came to test Xu Yuan’s Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul. He offers Xu Yuan a future place beside his descendant and promises that Xu Yuan’s family could become a subordinate clan of the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xu Yuan privately recognizes the offer as a plan to bind his family to the sect for generations, and doubts the value of the Clear Sky Sect’s protection.
• Tang Hao’s old injuries briefly make him cough, but he dismisses the concern and asks to see the Martial Soul.
• Xu Yuan summons the towering, luminous Wish-Granting Tree and warns that granting a wish may come with a small price. Confident in his strength, Tang Hao ignores the warning.
• Tang Hao wishes for his hidden injuries to be healed so he can endure the full force of Ring Detonation. As the Tree’s light envelops him, Xu Yuan’s consciousness is drawn into a mysterious white space, where he witnesses the healing process begin.

Character developments and interactions

• Xu Yuan maintains a respectful outward manner while privately staying wary of Tang Hao’s motives and the risks of the wish. He is anxious that the price could damage Tang Hao or interfere with his plans.
• Tang Hao is proud of his strength and convinced he can control any danger the Martial Soul poses. His desire for revenge against Spirit Hall drives him to seek healing, while his enthusiasm for the Clear Sky Sect reveals his ambition to recruit Xu Yuan and bind his descendants to the sect.
• Their interaction is marked by Tang Hao’s commanding offers and confidence, contrasted with Xu Yuan’s cautious politeness and skepticism.

Significant themes

• Power and confidence: Tang Hao’s Titled Douluo status leads him to believe no cost can seriously threaten him.
• The price of wishes: Xu Yuan’s warning foreshadows that the Tree’s gift may carry consequences.
• Ambition and obligation: Tang Hao frames sect membership as protection and honor, while Xu Yuan sees the possibility of generations of service.
• Revenge: Tang Hao’s wish is motivated by his determination to make Spirit Hall pay.

Plot points and events

• Xu Yuan uses the Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul to examine and treat Tang Hao’s severe internal injuries: displaced, scorched organs; damaged meridians; and stagnant blood and toxins.
• The Martial Soul converts energy into the Mysterious Heaven Skill’s inner energy—but instead of spending its own power, it drains Tang Hao’s Soul Rings. His first eight rings are reduced to Ten-Year rings, while his Hundred-Thousand-Year ring is also stripped of its power. Their original colors return afterward, but not their strength.
• The treatment “repairs” Tang Hao’s body in disastrous ways: some meridians are joined incorrectly, several are left disconnected, and the stagnant blood and toxins are spread throughout his meridian network, including into his brain.
• Tang Hao wakes feeling restored and declares his return, unaware of the damage to his Soul Rings and body. His Titled Douluo pressure overwhelms Xu Yuan.
• Believing he has recovered without losing Soul Power, Tang Hao announces that he will ambush two Spirit Hall Titled Douluo, Chrysanthemum and Ghost, and leaves before Xu Yuan can explain.

Character developments and interactions

• Xu Yuan moves from curiosity to alarm as he realizes the Wish-Granting Tree is interpreting the healing wish literally and recklessly. He is relieved when Tang Hao leaves, fearing the consequences of discovery.
• Tang Hao regains confidence and is eager for revenge, but remains oblivious to the consequences of his treatment. His gratitude and praise for Xu Yuan’s Martial Soul contrast sharply with the hidden damage.
• The Wish-Granting Tree is revealed as powerful but dangerously literal: it fulfills wishes by exploiting loopholes, with little regard for whether the result is truly beneficial.
• Xu Yuan and Tang Hao’s exchange is marked by dramatic irony: Tang Hao praises the “successful” treatment while Xu Yuan knows his body may fail at any moment.

Significant themes

• Literal wish fulfillment and unintended consequences: A wish can technically be granted while producing a disastrous result.
• Appearance versus reality: Tang Hao looks and feels restored, but his Soul Rings and body are in worse condition.
• Power and recklessness: Tang Hao’s confidence and strength let him overlook warning signs—and head straight into another dangerous fight.

Key plot points and events

• Xu Yuan tosses a Gold Soul Coin and uses his Word Manifestation ability to determine whether Tang Hao will return to settle their score. The ability activates, consuming nearly all of Xu Yuan’s Soul Power, and the coin lands face up: Tang Hao will not return.
• Xu Yuan is startled that a level-nineteen Soul Master could successfully predict the fate of a Titled Douluo. He suspects the Wish-Granting Tree’s changes to Tang Hao’s body—spreading his stagnant blood and toxins into his meridians, possibly even those in his brain—have made Tang Hao unusually vulnerable.
• Relieved, Xu Yuan returns to Dorm Seven and goes to bed. He tells Xiao Wu that a powerful visitor came to see him, then reveals that the visitor was a Titled Douluo.
• Xiao Wu panics at the thought of a Titled Douluo nearby and crawls under Xu Yuan’s blanket, feeling safer close to him.
• Trying to express gratitude, Xiao Wu says she will protect Xu Yuan. When Xu Yuan suggests she would give her life for him, she admits she would rather not die.
• Xiao Wu asks Xu Yuan whether hunting Soul Beasts is cruel. He points out that he can reach level twenty by absorbing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring within him, while she would need to kill a Soul Beast to advance.
• Meanwhile, Tang Hao leaves Fasinuo Province carrying the Clear Sky Hammer.

Character developments and interactions

• Xu Yuan is relieved by the prediction but recognizes that Tang Hao’s condition may be far worse than expected. He remains pragmatic and teasing, especially in his banter with Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu reveals how deeply her fear of Titled Douluos is rooted in her identity as a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. She also shows gratitude and protectiveness toward Xu Yuan, though she is unwilling to sacrifice her life.
• Their relationship is affectionate and playful: Xiao Wu calls herself his “Sister,” envies his rapid cultivation, and seeks comfort beside him; Xu Yuan responds with jokes and treats her like a pillow.
• Tang San is absent, apparently staying with Yu Xiaogang, whose explosive Soul Skill remains a source of Xiao Wu’s mockery.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: A Titled Douluo’s immense strength does not prevent his body from being dangerously compromised.
• Fear, trust, and protection: Xiao Wu’s instinctive fear contrasts with the safety she feels near Xu Yuan, while her offer to protect him shows their growing bond.
• The ethics of cultivation: Xiao Wu’s question about Soul Beast hunting highlights the moral tension between Soul Masters’ advancement and the lives of Soul Beasts.
• Chance versus control: Xu Yuan’s coin toss offers reassurance, but the extraordinary cost and uncertain limits of his ability underline how little certainty he truly has.

Key plot points and events

• Tang Hao reaches Barak City after traveling all night and storms the Spirit Hall Main Hall, where Cardinal Warren and his forces confront him.
• Though outnumbered, Tang Hao is not there to attack the hall itself. He is deliberately drawing out Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, whom he blames for their role in the events six years earlier.
• The two elders arrive. Tang Hao reveals his identity as Clear Sky Douluo, recalling how he once used Ring Detonation to cripple Pope Qian Xunji and wound the three Titled Douluo who pursued him.
• Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo release their Martial Souls and attack with their ninth Soul Skills. Tang Hao responds with his Clear Sky Hammer and detonates his four lowest Soul Rings.
• As he charges into their attacks, Tang Hao suddenly senses that something is wrong—but the chapter ends before the outcome is revealed.

Character developments

• Tang Hao is confident, confrontational, and consumed by a desire for revenge. He believes his healed injuries and enhanced body make him strong enough to face the two elders, and he intentionally lets himself be surrounded.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo initially dismiss Tang Hao as trapped, but recognizing him makes them cautious. They attack together rather than risk the lengthy preparation required for their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Cardinal Warren and the Spirit Hall forces shift from threatening the intruder to reacting with fear when they learn who Tang Hao is and see his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

Significant themes

• Revenge and the past: Tang Hao frames the confrontation as repayment for the events of six years ago.
• Pride and power: Both sides boast of their strength, but Tang Hao’s deliberate baiting suggests he believes he controls the encounter.
• Risk and hubris: His excitement and confidence lead him to charge directly into two powerful attacks, while his sudden sense that something is wrong hints that his plan may not unfold as expected.

Character interactions

• Tang Hao mocks Warren’s warnings and dismisses the threat of the two elders.
• He challenges Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo to remember him, then identifies himself as the Clear Sky Douluo.
• The two elders coordinate their ninth Soul Skills against him, while Tang Hao counters with Ring Detonation and advances to strike them.

Plot points and events

• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo overwhelm Tang Hao with their combined attacks. Tang Hao is shocked that his Ring Detonation seems to have yielded almost no power.
• As the pair prepare their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Two Forms Stillness Domain, Tang Hao detonates his remaining five rings. He discovers that the Wish-Granting Tree had secretly replaced the strength of his Soul Rings with weak white rings: their destruction gives him almost no power.
• Tang Hao tries to fight on with his Slaughter Domain, but his accumulated injuries and brain bleeding trigger a stroke. He collapses before he can finish speaking.
• The Two Forms Stillness Domain freezes him, and Spirit Hall’s red-robed bishops attack. The Douluo brothers find him incapacitated and discuss taking him to Spirit City.
• Concerned that Tang Hao could remain dangerous—and eager to gain Soul Bones that might help them grow stronger—Ghost Douluo proposes cutting off Tang Hao’s right arm and left leg. Chrysanthemum Douluo understands and carries out the plan.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Hao goes from confident, defiant combatant to helpless victim, realizing too late that his Soul Rings have been tampered with. His old injuries ultimately defeat him more decisively than his opponents do.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo is initially astonished by his apparent strength, then mocks Tang Hao once the deception is revealed. He follows Ghost Douluo’s reasoning and acts on the plan to take Tang Hao’s limbs.
• Ghost Douluo remains wary and calculating. He recognizes the danger Tang Hao may still pose and sees an opportunity to claim valuable Soul Bones.
• The two Douluos work with practiced coordination, but their uncertainty over whether to hand Tang Hao to Bibi Dong or Qian Daoliu shows they are navigating Spirit Hall’s competing authorities.

Significant themes

• Deception and hidden costs: Tang Hao’s wish appears free, but it has secretly stripped away the true power of his Soul Rings.
• Decline and vulnerability: His injuries, age, and illness undermine his reputation and strength at a critical moment.
• Cruel opportunism: The Douluos turn a victory into a chance for personal advancement, while Tang Hao is unable to defend himself.
• Irony and mockery: Tang Hao’s grand declaration of Clear Sky Douluo strength is immediately undercut by his collapse—and by Chrysanthemum Douluo’s joke about his “cute” hammer.

Plot points

• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo bring the captured, unconscious Tang Hao to Spirit City, where they learn Pope Bibi Dong is in seclusion. They take him to the Worship Hall and present him to Great Enshrined Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu’s fury at Tang Hao’s role in his son Qian Xunji’s death briefly resurfaces, but he decides not to kill him, fearing that doing so might provoke Tang Chen at a dangerous time for Qian Daoliu’s plans for Qian Xue.
• Instead, Qian Daoliu orders Tang Hao sent to Slaughter City and has his remaining leg removed. He rewards Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo by promising to teach them for a month, giving them hope of advancing beyond Level 95.
• Tang Hao survives his catastrophic injuries, though his Soul Power falls to Level 50 and he begins suffering severe neurological symptoms. When he briefly wakes in Slaughter City, he blames Yu Xiaogang and Xu Yuan.
• The King of Slaughter, threatened by Tang Hao’s Divine Slaughter’s Domain, orders his last arm cut off and calls for a citywide “Slaughter City Kill Order.” His subordinate Terror Knight Scott mishears this as a “Torture Order” and announces a bounty that encourages residents to torment Tang Hao rather than kill him quickly. Tang Hao becomes known as Slaughter City’s only “Crawling Wretch.”
• Elsewhere, Xu Yuan reaches Level 20.

Character developments and interactions

• Qian Daoliu shows that vengeance is secondary to protecting his long-term plans: he restrains his anger and chooses imprisonment and mutilation over killing Tang Hao.
• Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo gain both recognition and an opportunity for valuable instruction from Qian Daoliu.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo questions Qian Daoliu’s decision but cannot challenge his authority.
• The King of Slaughter treats Tang Hao as a dangerous rival and seeks to exploit the chance to eliminate him. Terror Knight Scott, trying to interpret his master’s order, turns it into an even crueler ordeal through a comic misunderstanding.
• Tang Hao, stripped of his limbs and power, remains alive but is reduced to helplessness and rage.

Significant themes

• Vengeance versus strategy: Qian Daoliu suppresses personal hatred to avoid jeopardizing a larger plan.
• Cruelty and survival: Tang Hao’s extraordinary endurance keeps him alive through punishment that should be fatal.
• Power and opportunity: Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo’s advancement depends on access to the knowledge of stronger cultivators.
• Dark comedy amid brutality: Scott’s mistaken “Torture Order” transforms an attempt at execution into a drawn-out, sadistic spectacle.

Plot points and events

• After reaching Level 20, Xu Yuan uses the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring Source taken from Tang Hao’s ninth Soul Ring to unlock a second Soul Skill for his Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul.
• Both of his Soul Rings rise to roughly seven hundred years, and his Soul Power reaches Level 23, aided by the Medicinal Power Crystal and changes from awakening his second Martial Soul.
• His new skill, Everlasting Vitality, lets him heal and regenerate—even regrow a severed limb if he has enough Soul Power—and absorb life force and Soul Power from nearby Blue Silver Grass.
• From Back Mountain, Xu Yuan uses Purple Demon Eye to observe Tang San cultivating. He then practices Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon and Mysterious Jade Hand, considering how his new healing ability might help strengthen his body.
• Xu Yuan plans to find the Blue Silver Emperor’s hidden body and Soul Bone. Using Word Manifestation, he declares that his spear will point toward Ah Yin’s location; it indicates northwest of Nuoding City.
• He tests his Light Sacred Dragon Spear and discovers its manifested Radiant Sacred Dragon can fly while carrying him. He decides not to search for Ah Yin until he reaches Level 30, when he also hopes to acquire a third Soul Ring.
• Xu Yuan expects that finding a suitable third Soul Ring will require a trip to a major hunting ground such as the Star Dou Great Forest, Sunset Forest, or Far North.

Character development and interactions

• Xu Yuan grows stronger and more confident, gaining a powerful regenerative skill and exploring the capabilities of his second Martial Soul. He continues to rely on careful planning, choosing to delay a dangerous expedition until he is stronger.
• His brief observation of Tang San underscores their parallel cultivation paths, though Xu Yuan now watches from a concealed distance.
• Xu Yuan’s thoughts about Tang Hao and other “generous” sources of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings reveal his darkly humorous outlook on the rare opportunities behind his rapid advancement.

Significant themes

• Growth through cultivation and experimentation: Xu Yuan tests how new powers can improve his existing techniques and physical resilience.
• Power, healing, and natural life force: Everlasting Vitality connects regeneration to the Blue Silver Emperor’s life energy.
• Ambition tempered by caution: Xu Yuan pursues extraordinary power and the Soul Bone, but waits until he is better prepared.
• Resource scarcity: His next major challenge is finding a suitable Soul Ring rather than simply gaining strength.

Key plot points and events

• At the end of the month, Xu Yuan breaks through to Soul Power Level 24, again astonishing Xiao Wu with his rapid cultivation. She suspects he may be using a dangerous shortcut, but he insists he simply works hard.
• While they argue in bed, Xu Yuan finds two golden crystals beneath the covers. Xiao Wu explains that Liu Long gave them to her as gifts after asking her to keep Wang Sheng from challenging the noble students.
• Xu Yuan recognizes the crystals as Thousand-Year and Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, rare materials that can help increase Soul Power. Xiao Wu had selected them without knowing their value; she also reveals a smaller, roughly Hundred-Year piece.
• Xu Yuan proposes using the Whale Rubber to raise their Soul Power without side effects. He calls it a secret recipe and persuades Xiao Wu to keep it confidential.
• The two head into Nuoding City to rent a room and use the Whale Rubber. Xiao Wu supplies the Gold Soul Coins and asks the other Work-Study Students to excuse their absence.
• Wang Sheng misunderstands the situation, believing Whale Rubber is used as an aphrodisiac. When Tang San hears that Xiao Wu and Xu Yuan have gone to get a room with it, he realizes the implications and is startled.

Character developments

• Xu Yuan shows both extraordinary cultivation speed and quick knowledge of valuable resources. He eagerly turns the discovery into an opportunity for further training, while disguising his plan as a “secret recipe.”
• Xiao Wu remains carefree and impulsive, but she is perceptive enough to question Xu Yuan’s progress. Her random choice of valuable Whale Rubber highlights her luck and her unfamiliarity with human-world treasures.
• Wang Sheng has gained status as a Soul Master and is still associated with the Work-Study Students’ tensions with noble students; his misunderstanding adds comic tension.
• Tang San is briefly composed when he first hears the news, then visibly reacts once he understands what “getting a room” might suggest.

Significant themes

• Effort versus shortcuts: Xu Yuan lectures Xiao Wu against shortcuts, then immediately rationalizes using the Whale Rubber as an opportunity rather than a compromise.
• Knowledge and luck: Xu Yuan recognizes the crystals’ value, while Xiao Wu acquires them by chance.
• Comedy through misunderstanding: The phrase “get a room,” combined with Wang Sheng’s belief about Whale Rubber, creates a suggestive but misleading situation.
• Unequal resources: The crystals reveal that Nuoding’s noble families may still possess valuable inherited treasures.

Character interactions

• Xu Yuan and Xiao Wu tease and challenge each other over cultivation, with Xiao Wu’s concern giving way to excitement when she hears about the proposed method.
• Xiao Wu treats the Work-Study Students as her followers, casually asking them to arrange her absence and report back to Liu Long.
• Wang Sheng and Tang San become the audience for the rumor, with Wang Sheng’s interpretation setting up Tang San’s shocked reaction.

Plot points and events

• Xu Yuan explains that Whale Rubber, a substance from devil whales’ brains, can strengthen a Soul Master’s bones and meridians. He claims the rare material must be prepared with a medicinal decoction before it is absorbed.
• Xiao Wu pumps a bellows to melt three pieces of Whale Rubber—aged one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand years—while Xu Yuan relaxes and teases her about protecting him.
• Xu Yuan says the hundred-year piece is useless to him and proposes splitting the two older pieces. He prepares herbs from the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, claiming the decoction will suppress Whale Rubber’s aphrodisiac effects.
• When Xiao Wu questions how Xu Yuan can trust a method he has never tested, he realizes she has a point. He decides to try the treatment himself first, telling her to seek help if something goes wrong.
• Xiao Wu follows him into the room to watch over him. Their preparations become awkwardly comic as she notices Xu Yuan has grown taller after gaining Soul Rings and catches herself peeking while he changes.
• Xu Yuan gets into the tub wearing his remaining clothes and begins consuming the softened Whale Rubber with the decoction.

Character developments and interactions

• Xu Yuan is confident and mischievous, using his supposed expertise to get Xiao Wu to do the hard work. But her challenge exposes that his knowledge is untested, and he accepts the risk by going first.
• Xiao Wu is eager to improve her Soul Power and reluctantly tolerates Xu Yuan’s teasing. She is also attentive and protective: despite her irritation, she follows him to make sure he is safe. Her curiosity about his changing appearance adds a playful, flirtatious edge to their exchanges.
• Their relationship is built around affectionate bickering, mock threats, and mutual concern. Xu Yuan calls Xiao Wu a “silly rabbit,” while she complains about his laziness and watches over him anyway.

Significant themes

• Trust and risk: Xiao Wu’s question highlights the danger of acting on unverified knowledge; Xu Yuan must test his own advice.
• Power and sacrifice: Improving one’s abilities requires effort and carries uncertainty, even when the reward may be substantial.
• Comedic intimacy: Teasing, embarrassment, and concern bring Xu Yuan and Xiao Wu closer while keeping the scene lighthearted.

Plot points

• Xu Yuan refines half of Xiao Wu’s Thousand-Year Whale Glue, strengthening his body and raising the age of Soul Rings he can safely absorb, though it does not increase his Soul Power.
• Xiao Wu guards the remaining Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue to ensure they split it fairly. After refining the Thousand-Year portion, she reaches Soul Power level 15.
• Xiao Wu and Xu Yuan later divide and refine the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue. The process lasts until nightfall.
• At the academy, Tang San waits for Xiao Wu and Xu Yuan, then remembers to bring food to Yu Xiaogang, who has been hiding in his office since the explosion in the square.
• Yu Xiaogang asks to use Xu Yuan’s Wish Slot again and announces that he and the Dean will go to the Star Dou Great Forest the next day to find his third Soul Ring. He invites Tang San to join them.

Character developments and interactions

• Xu Yuan is tempted to take extra Whale Glue but decides against it, partly because he has already taken Xiao Wu’s Hundred Thousand-Year Soul Ring. He advises Xiao Wu about the benefits of the Ten-Thousand-Year portion.
• Xiao Wu is excited by her breakthrough and remains wary of Xu Yuan’s motives, insisting on controlling the Whale Glue and splitting it equally.
• Tang San continues to care for Yu Xiaogang, bringing him food. He notices the likely lingering effects of the Mandala Snake’s venom but does not openly confront his teacher about them. He also questions why Yu Xiaogang relies on his own theories rather than the Wish-Granting Tree.
• Yu Xiaogang appears healed but remains withdrawn. He plans to pursue a third Soul Ring based on his own research and hopes it may reverse his Martial Soul’s harmful mutation. He dismisses the possibility that the Wish-Granting Tree could understand his Martial Soul better than he does.

Significant themes

• Ambition and self-reliance: Yu Xiaogang’s faith in his theories drives him to seek a solution through his own expertise.
• Power gained through shortcuts: The Whale Glue gives Xiao Wu a quick breakthrough and helps Xu Yuan improve his physical limits.
• Trust and fairness: Xiao Wu’s suspicion of Xu Yuan makes their agreement to divide the rare treasure a point of tension.
• Pride versus humility: Yu Xiaogang’s absolute confidence contrasts with Tang San’s practical suggestion to use the Wish-Granting Tree.

Summary

• Xu Yuan advances in cultivation: At dawn, the medicinal power and Thousand-Year Soul Rings transform Xu Yuan’s two Soul Rings from yellow to purple, raising him to Soul Power Level 25. Strengthened by Whale Rubber, his body and meridians withstand the change.
• He tests his second Soul Skill: Xu Yuan uses Everlasting Vitality to drain life force from Blue Silver Grass within a hundred meters. The skill rapidly restores and boosts him, but leaves the grass wilted. While channeling the resulting Soul Power, he maps a new network of shallow meridians and uses it to optimize Mysterious Jade Hand. The technique gives his skin a smooth, jade-like toughness, though Xu Yuan recognizes that this is only a preliminary improvement and hopes to refine it further in the Blue Silver Forest.
• Xiao Wu joins him for a spar: After she finishes absorbing Whale Rubber, Xu Yuan asks her to test his limits. Their exchange surprises Xiao Wu: despite being a Support System Soul Master, he can match her strength and speed. Her grappling technique eventually pins them together, but his newly toughened skin resists her holds. Xu Yuan declares defeat, then breaks the impasse by biting her leg; she jumps away, embarrassed and flustered.

Character developments and interactions

Xu Yuan grows more confident in his abilities, experimenting with his Soul Skill and techniques while carefully noting their limits. Xiao Wu is startled by how much stronger and more attractive he appears, and her pride is wounded when she cannot overpower him. Their teasing spar shows their competitive, playful closeness.

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes growth through experimentation, the value and limits of power, and the risks of drawing strength from others: Xu Yuan’s skill boosts him by consuming the surrounding grass’s life force. It also contrasts his technical, analytical approach with Xiao Wu’s instinctive physical fighting.

Key plot points and events

• Xu Yuan and Xiao Wu return to the dormitory. Xiao Wu is enjoying candied hawthorn Xu Yuan bought as an apology for biting her.
• Xiao Wu proposes letting Xu Yuan manage her monthly stipend, hoping she can get treats whenever she wants. Xu Yuan suspects she plans to spend freely without keeping track.
• Asked about the Whale Rubber, Xiao Wu hints that it left her feeling refreshed and “incredible,” and that her Soul Power has reached Level 16. She also complains that Xu Yuan was lazy while she worked, leading the dormitory to misunderstand her meaning.
• Tang San tells Xu Yuan that Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang wants to see him. Yu arrives with the academy’s Dean and boasts that his theories helped Tang San reach Level 13 and will make him powerful despite his Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
• Yu challenges Wang Sheng to fight Tang San so Tang San can demonstrate the value of Yu’s teachings. Wang Sheng accepts, confident enough to test himself after obtaining a hundred-year Soul Ring.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Wu is increasingly comfortable with Xu Yuan, trusting him with her money and openly teasing—and complaining about—him. Her improvement to Level 16 excites her.
• Xu Yuan remains skeptical of Xiao Wu’s financial plan and annoyed when she makes him look bad in front of the dormitory.
• Tang San feels jealous of Xu Yuan and Xiao Wu’s growing closeness, though he frames his interest in Xiao Wu as wanting a “little sister.” He also remains fiercely loyal to Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang returns undeterred by his previous failure and tries to restore his standing by presenting Tang San’s progress as proof of his theories.
• Wang Sheng is willing to challenge Tang San, while the Dean’s polite enthusiasm masks private doubts about Yu Xiaogang’s advice.

Significant themes

• Pride and reputation: Yu Xiaogang tries to overcome public embarrassment by staging a demonstration of his theories.
• Jealousy and belonging: Tang San’s inward frustration reveals his longing for companionship and family-like bonds.
• Trust and teasing: Xiao Wu’s reliance on Xu Yuan is paired with playful suspicion and banter.
• The gap between claims and results: Yu Xiaogang’s confidence contrasts with others’ skepticism, setting up the duel as a test of his methods.

Yu Xiaogang confidently explained why Tang San would defeat Wang Sheng and ordered him to fight without moving, relying only on Blue Silver Entanglement. Tang San revealed a revolting, foul-smelling Blue Silver Grass martial soul, leaving the dormitory retching as Wang Sheng realized it seemed to have inherited only a terrible stench.

• Wang Sheng announced his War Tiger martial soul and Level 11 strength, revealing its hundred-year soul ring.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed Tang San had three advantages and declared that he could not lose to Wang Sheng.
• Xu Yuan questioned Yu Xiaogang’s claims about control system soul masters, while Xiao Wu dismissed them as hot air.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Tang San to stand still and use his first soul skill, stopping him from relying on Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Tang San revealed his decayed, foul-smelling Blue Silver Grass martial soul, and Yu Xiaogang said it had not inherited the venomous python’s toxicity.
• Wang Sheng realized that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass appeared to have inherited only an unbearable stench.

Yu Xiaogang watched Tang San struggle to control his poisoned Blue Silver Grass during a spar with Wang Sheng, while Tang San blamed his failures on the martial soul's weakness. The Soul Ancestor dean stopped the match before Wang Sheng could defeat him, and Yu Xiaogang left convinced that Tang San needed more training.

• Yu Xiaogang claimed Tang San's Blue Silver Grass had inherited resilience from the Corrosive Swamp Venomfang Python, and the Soul Ancestor dean silently doubted the result.
• Yu Xiaogang told Wang Sheng to attack first, then instructed Tang San to use Blue Silver Entanglement, but the slow strands repeatedly failed to catch Wang Sheng.
• Tang San realized his Blue Silver Grass responded too slowly and blamed its poor performance on the martial soul rather than the poison corroding it.
• Tang San followed Yu Xiaogang's directions, dodged Wang Sheng's attacks, and ended up trapped in a corner as Wang Sheng prepared another Saber-Toothed Charge.
• The Soul Ancestor dean intervened and ended the spar before Wang Sheng could strike Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang blamed Tang San's poor showing on insufficient training and planned to cut into his forging time to give him a streamlined combat routine.

Yu Xiaogang paid Xu Yuan to make a wish about restoring his damaged lower appendage, then left with Tang San and the dean for the Star Dou Great Forest. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong learned Tang Hao had been captured and began searching for the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone he had taken, ending with the cardinal naming the Clear Sky Sect as its hiding place.

• Yu Xiaogang gave Xu Yuan three hundred Gold Soul Coins and wished for his damaged lower appendage to become hard again during the upcoming soul hunt.
• The dean realized Yu Xiaogang owed him five hundred Gold Soul Coins and would need him to cover the travelers’ expenses.
• Xu Yuan warned Xiao Wu that ten-thousand-year whale glue was difficult to obtain, then gave her money to ask noble students to search for it.
• A cardinal reported to Bibi Dong that Chrysanthemum and Ghost had captured Tang Hao and taken him to the Worship Hall, where Qian Daoliu rewarded them.
• Bibi Dong asked where Tang Hao would hide the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and the cardinal answered that it was in the Clear Sky Sect.