Chapter Summaries

Su Chen refused Qian Renxue’s banquet invitation but accepted Skywave Villa as a residence for the Dragon God Team, then prepared to visit Heaven Dou Royal Academy. The chapter ended with the team settled in the villa and Su Chen planning to draw the attention of Heaven Dou’s power brokers.

• Su Chen declined the crown prince’s banquet, and Lin Xiao suppressed his challenge after sensing Su Chen’s terrifying bloodline pressure.
• Lin Xiao offered Skywave Villa on the crown prince’s behalf, and Su Chen accepted while sending a dragon scale to Qian Renxue and promising to visit in three days.
• Lin Xiao escorted Su Chen and the Dragon God Team to Skywave Villa, while disguised administrators reported their arrival to Xue Beng and called off an ambush.
• Su Chen reasoned that Qian Renxue was trying to recruit or investigate him and had placed a wisp of Chaos Ancestral Dragon aura in the scale to test her.
• Su Chen told Ning Rongrong not to contact her father yet and planned to make a stir at Heaven Dou Royal Academy the following morning before visiting Dugu Bo.

Qian Renxue discovered that the dragon qi Su Chen sealed in a scale could provoke her Six-Winged Angel and resolved to recruit him, while secretly arranging for Xue Beng to confront him. The chapter ended with Dugu Yan warning Su Chen that Xue Xing had forced Dugu Bo to guard Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s gate the next morning.

• Lin Xiao reported Su Chen’s strength and delivered his dragon scale token to Xue Qinghe, who ordered the guards to keep their distance from Skywave Villa.
• Qian Renxue touched the scale, and its pure yang dragon qi triggered the Six-Winged Angel’s reaction before she burned the scale to ash.
• Qian Renxue judged Su Chen’s dragon qi equal in grade to her martial soul and learned that Spirit Hall had not secured his allegiance.
• Qian Renxue ordered She Long and Ci Xue to encourage Xue Beng and tell him Su Chen would challenge Heaven Dou Royal Academy the next morning.
• Dugu Yan arrived at Skywave Villa and warned Su Chen that Xue Xing had forced Dugu Bo to guard the academy’s mountain gate.

Su Chen prepared Dugu Yan and his companions for Xue Beng’s planned obstruction at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then arrived at the mountain gates the next morning. Xue Beng confronted the group with his guards and remnants of the Imperial Fighting Team, while Su Chen kept the hidden Yue Guan from intervening.

• Su Chen told Dugu Yan to return to Dugu Manor and wait alone outside the academy gates the next morning, pretending she knew nothing.
• Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, and Xiao Wu learned that Xue Beng planned to block their way, but Su Chen dismissed the threat and spent the night with the four women, whose cultivation and vitality improved.
• Su Chen arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy with the women and met Dugu Yan, who reported that Dugu Bo was waiting in the Education Committee’s hall.
• Su Chen detected Yue Guan concealed in the clouds and ordered him not to interfere unless signaled; Yue Guan agreed.
• Xue Beng led Zhao Lie, Osler, the Shi Brothers, and other Imperial Fighting Team remnants to block the gates, insulted Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, and threatened Su Chen.
• Su Chen’s group reacted angrily as Xue Beng demanded that the women kneel and serve him in exchange for pardoning them.

Su Chen killed Xue Beng at Heaven Dou Royal Academy's gate after seeing through his feigned weakness, then gained a spiritual-power boost and a new dragon technique. Prince Xue Xing ordered his guards to attack Su Chen and the women, while Dugu Bo arrived to defend his granddaughter.

• Su Chen saw through Xue Beng's act and killed him with a single palm strike after shattering Zhao Lie's shield and knocking him aside.
• Su Chen received a thirty-percent increase in intrinsic spiritual power and the Dragon Emperor Annihilation Claw technique as a reward for killing Xue Beng.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong remained devoted to Su Chen, while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling broke their academy plaques and renounced Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Prince Xue Xing arrived with three hundred armored guards, saw Xue Beng's corpse, and ordered his men to shoot Su Chen and the women.
• Dugu Bo's poison mist filled the sky as he shouted that no one would harm his granddaughter.

Dugu Bo arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and found his granddaughter Dugu Yan facing armed guards beside Xue Beng’s corpse. Xue Xing manipulated him into believing Su Chen had controlled Dugu Yan and murdered the prince, and Dugu Bo confronted Su Chen with lethal force as Su Chen stepped forward.

• Dugu Bo struck Xue Xing’s guards with his Soul Ring power after seeing their weapons aimed at Dugu Yan.
• Xue Xing pretended to plead for justice and blamed Su Chen for killing Xue Beng and controlling Dugu Yan.
• Xue Xing claimed Su Chen had planted a seal in Dugu Yan and invoked an old debt to persuade Dugu Bo to kill him.
• Dugu Yan tried to explain that Su Chen had helped her, but Dugu Bo silenced her and suspected she had been brainwashed.
• Dugu Bo threatened Su Chen and engulfed the steps in poison and pressure while Yue Guan held back from intervening.
• Su Chen stepped forward as Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling struggled under Dugu Bo’s pressure.

Su Chen used his Delusion-Breaking Divine Pupils to expose Dugu Bo’s fatal Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor poison and claimed he was the only one who could save him. As Dugu Bo panicked, Dugu Yan stood between him and Su Chen, revealing that her Martial Soul and aura were transforming into a true dragon.

• Su Chen used his crimson-gold vitality to shield the women and Dugu Yan from Dugu Bo’s poison mist.
• Su Chen saw that Dugu Bo’s poison had spread through his body and mocked him for threatening others while near death.
• Su Chen described Dugu Bo’s symptoms, revealed his visits to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and said he had only three years to live.
• Dugu Bo lost his murderous intent, while Xue Xing urged him to kill Su Chen and was thrown aside by Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Yan stepped in front of Su Chen, activated her Martial Soul, and revealed its transformation toward a true dragon.

Dugu Bo confirmed that Su Chen had cured Dugu Yan’s hereditary serpent poison and transformed her Martial Soul, then turned against Xue Xing and severed his ties with Heaven Dou Royal Academy. He invited Su Chen to speak privately on the rear mountain, where the chapter left them heading to a secluded chamber.

• Dugu Bo examined Dugu Yan and confirmed that her meridians had been restored, her poison removed, and her Martial Soul transformed.
• Xue Xing urged Dugu Bo to kill Su Chen, but Dugu Bo struck him and declared that Xue Beng had deserved to die for insulting Dugu Yan and Su Chen.
• Dugu Bo ended his ties with Heaven Dou Royal Academy and ordered the imperial guards and other onlookers off the mountain.
• Dugu Bo apologized to Su Chen, thanked him for saving Dugu Yan, and invited him to speak privately on the rear mountain.
• Su Chen agreed to go alone with Dugu Bo after telling the others to wait outside, while Dugu Yan warned her grandfather not to harm him.

Su Chen persuaded Dugu Bo to trade access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well Medicine Garden for a cure to his poison and help advancing his cultivation. After arranging protection for the women, Su Chen left with Dugu Bo for Sunset Forest.

• Dugu Bo begged Su Chen to cure his poison and free the Dugu Family from its backlash.
• Su Chen explained that he could temporarily seal Dugu Bo’s poison in his Head Soul Bone, then fully cure him using medicine from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Su Chen offered to cure Dugu Bo, help him break through the level ninety-two bottleneck, and find Dugu Yan Soul Bones in exchange for unrestricted access to the garden’s spirit medicines.
• Dugu Bo accepted the deal, and Su Chen received a reward for winning him over and cutting Tang San off from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Su Chen told the five women to return to Skywave Villa and asked Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan to protect them.
• Dugu Bo carried Su Chen toward Sunset Forest, while Su Chen planned to gather the garden’s medicines.

Dugu Bo took Su Chen to his secluded medicinal garden and tested whether he could withstand the Jade Phosphorous Ten Thousand Poisons Grand Formation. Su Chen walked into the fully activated poison formation unharmed and continued toward the mountainside, leaving Dugu Bo stunned.

• Dugu Bo brought Su Chen to the hidden medicinal garden and doubted whether the twelve-year-old could truly cure his poison.
• Dugu Bo challenged Su Chen to cross the Jade Phosphorous Ten Thousand Poisons Grand Formation without his protection.
• Su Chen refused assistance and demanded that Dugu Bo activate the formation at full power.
• Dugu Bo unleashed a sea of Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison, which melted the surrounding stone and sent venomous snakes lunging at Su Chen.
• Su Chen’s Pure Yang Dragon Fire burned up the poison snakes, while his ten thousand poisons immunity physique absorbed the miasma as nourishment.
• Su Chen strode deeper into the formation and asked Dugu Bo if that was all he had.

Su Chen reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found its full garden of immortal herbs, which he planned to use to strengthen himself and his companions. Ignoring Dugu Bo’s warning, he uprooted the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot and swallowed both raw.

• Su Chen burned a path through Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Ten Thousand Poisons Grand Formation with Pure Yang Dragon Fire, convincing Dugu Bo of his power to cure the poison in his marrow.
• Su Chen and Dugu Bo reached the summit and discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, surrounded by numerous rare immortal herbs.
• Su Chen identified the herbs with his Divine-Grade Pharmacology Compendium and Delusion-Breaking Divine Pupils, then resolved to claim them for his plans.
• Su Chen descended to the boundary between the two springs, where his Ancestral Dragon Indestructible Body endured the opposing ice and fire forces.
• Su Chen used Dragon Emperor Annihilation Claw to uproot the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot despite Dugu Bo’s warning.
• Su Chen chewed and swallowed both poisonous herbs raw as frost and flames spread along his arms.

Su Chen swallowed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then plunged into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to temper his body with their power and the spring’s extremes. After hours of silence left Dugu Bo convinced he was dead, Sunset Hill suddenly began to shake.

• Dugu Bo saw Su Chen swallow the two deadly herbs and rushed to stop him, but Su Chen warned him away and leaped into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Su Chen endured the spring’s freezing and scorching forces as they tore through his body, then awakened his Chaos Ancestral Dragon bloodline to suppress and harness them.
• Su Chen used the clash of ice and fire to rebuild his meridians, muscles, and bones, while his Dark-Gold Dragon Spider Spears absorbed the spring’s powers and became imbued with Ice-Fire Dragon Emperor Poison.
• Dugu Bo waited on the shore for more than four hours and concluded that Su Chen had died, but Sunset Hill suddenly began to quake.

Su Chen emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after breaking through to rank forty-three, gaining a god-level ice-fire cultivation technique, an evolved external soul bone, and three black Soul Rings. He discovered the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King's remains beneath the spring, then demanded Dugu Bo's Wishful Treasure Pouch as payment for treatment.

• Su Chen used the Immortal Herbs' power to break through from rank forty to rank forty-three and stored the remaining energy for when he obtained his Fourth Soul Ring.
• The system evolved Su Chen's cultivation technique and external soul bone and increased the ages of all his Soul Rings, turning all three black.
• Su Chen sensed the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King's remains at the bottom of the spring and decided to deal with the garden and Dugu Bo before absorbing them.
• Su Chen shot out of the spring and returned to shore, leaving Dugu Bo stunned by his survival and three black Soul Rings.
• Su Chen told Dugu Bo to hand over his Wishful Treasure Pouch as his consultation fee.

Su Chen used his ice-and-fire dragon astral force to purge the poison that had afflicted Dugu Bo for twenty years, leaving Dugu Bo cured and on the verge of advancing to level ninety-two. Overwhelmed by Su Chen’s aid, Dugu Bo pledged the Dugu Family’s allegiance to him.

• Dugu Bo gave Su Chen his Wishful Treasure Pouch, and Su Chen promised to clear the poison from his bones.
• Su Chen had Dugu Bo hold aromatic silk beauty petals under his tongue, sit cross-legged, and release the Soul Power of his Medusa Head Soul Bone.
• Su Chen used four Dragon Emperor Spears and his ice-and-fire dragon astral force to drive Dugu Bo’s poison into the Medusa Soul Bone and restore his meridians.
• Dugu Bo discovered that his pain and internal poison were gone, his Soul Power bottleneck had loosened, and his Soul Bone had grown more potent.
• Dugu Bo knelt before Su Chen and pledged the Dugu Family’s allegiance to him.

Su Chen won Dugu Bo’s loyalty, harvested nearly every rare herb at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and upgraded his divine pupils by consuming the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew. After claiming the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and receiving a further power boost, he saw the Water and Fire Dragon Kings’ remains flare beneath the spring and plunged into its depths.

• Dugu Bo submitted to Su Chen after Su Chen cured his lifelong poison affliction, and Su Chen promised to help him advance further if he served loyally.
• Su Chen uprooted the garden’s top-grade immortal herbs and stored them in the Wishful Treasure Pouch, leaving only young companion poisonous herbs and ordinary plants behind.
• Su Chen consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, evolving his Delusion-Breaking Divine Pupils into the Ancient Truth-Severing Dragon Divine Pupils.
• Su Chen offered his Ancestral Dragon heart’s blood to the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, which detached itself from the Wujue Stone and flew into his hand.
• The Water and Fire Dragon Kings’ remains erupted with azure and scarlet light beneath the spring, and Su Chen ordered Dugu Bo to guard the entrance before diving into the depths.

Su Chen descended to the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and discovered the remains of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King, whose bodies had created the two springs. Their awakened remnants attacked him, but his Chaos Ancestral Dragon bloodline overwhelmed them, leaving the dragon spirits trembling in reverence.

• Dugu Bo guarded the mountain hollow while Su Chen plunged into the depths of the spring.
• Su Chen reached the hundred-thousand-foot abyss and found the intertwined skeletons of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King.
• The dragon kings’ remnants awakened and attacked Su Chen with their divine consciousness.
• Su Chen summoned his Chaos Ancestral Dragon Dharma Form, and the dragon spirits’ hostility gave way to reverence and devotion.

Su Chen devoured the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King's origin essence, gaining a God Emperor foundation, a fifty-thousand-year fifth Soul Ring, and reaching level 52. As Dugu Bo witnessed the divine upheaval above, Su Chen prepared to continue his plans with Little Scumbag.

• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King submitted to Su Chen, gave him their origin essence, and vanished into its light.
• Su Chen swallowed the Dragon Kings' essence, reshaping his Chaos Ancestral Dragon Martial Soul and forging a foundation for reaching level 100 without bottlenecks.
• Su Chen broke through to level 50, condensed a fifty-thousand-year fifth Soul Ring, and reached level 52 while gaining the Ice-Fire Dragon Emperor Annihilation Storm.
• Dugu Bo clung to a rock as the mountain shook and the spring erupted in nine-colored water, sensing divine power rising from its depths.
• The Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King skeletons crumbled into motes, and Su Chen said his show with Little Scumbag was only beginning.

Su Chen returned from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a level-fifty-two Soul King with a fifth black Soul Ring, having taken the herbs and the Dragon Kings’ legacy. He reached Skywave Villa with Dugu Bo, who had submitted to him, and prepared to help the others break through while the imperial city remained under martial law.

• Su Chen emerged from the spring with five black Soul Rings and level-fifty-two Soul Power, and Dugu Bo prostrated himself before him.
• Su Chen told Dugu Bo to return with him to Heaven Dou Imperial City after confirming he had taken everything worthwhile from beneath the pool.
• Su Chen and Dugu Bo flew past the city’s guards as Yue Guan reported that Xue Xing had tried to surround Skywave Villa but the women inside were safe.
• Su Chen ordered Yue Guan and Dugu Bo to guard the villa and kill any members of the Imperial Family who entered without permission.
• Xiao Wu greeted Su Chen at the villa, and Dugu Yan learned that Su Chen had cured Dugu Bo’s poison and gained his allegiance.
• Su Chen entered the inner hall with Xiao Wu and instructed Dugu Bo to guard the courtyard while he prepared to enter seclusion.

Su Chen gave five peerless immortal herbs to Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan, then used a spirit-gathering array to protect their transformations. As they began cultivating, he received a secret letter from Xue Qinghe warning that Xue Xing planned to encircle Skywave Villa at dawn and inviting Su Chen to meet alone.

• Su Chen distributed immortal herbs suited to each woman's Martial Soul and explained their effects.
• Su Chen activated a spirit-gathering array, and the five women consumed their herbs and began transforming.
• Su Chen left the inner hall and reflected that the Dragon God Team would soon be ready for the upcoming tournament.
• Dugu Bo delivered a sealed secret letter from Xue Qinghe to Su Chen.
• Su Chen read that Xue Xing would attack Skywave Villa at dawn with Imperial Family Worship Hall support and three thousand Imperial Knights, and that Xue Qinghe invited him to meet at Star-Plucking Tower.

After Xiao Wu and the other women emerged stronger from absorbing immortal herbs, Su Chen defeated the imperial guardian Shi Qing with one strike when Prince Xue Xing led the Heaven Dou Royal Knights to Skywave Villa. With Dugu Bo declaring the villa under Su Chen’s protection, Su Chen left for the Star-Picking Tower and reached its highest floor.

• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling emerged from the hall with greatly increased cultivation after absorbing immortal herbs.
• Prince Xue Xing surrounded Skywave Villa with three thousand Heaven Dou Royal Knights and ordered Shi Qing to kill Su Chen and everyone inside.
• Su Chen used his fifth soul skill, Ice-Fire Dragon Emperor Annihilation Storm, to destroy Shi Qing’s Martial Soul Avatar and severely wound him, scattering the knights’ formation.
• Dugu Bo announced that he served Su Chen and threatened the Heaven Dou imperial clan if it attacked the villa again.
• Su Chen ordered Dugu Bo to guard the villa, then walked through the retreating soldiers and reached the closed door at the top of the Star-Picking Tower.

Su Chen exposed Qian Renxue’s identity and bargained with her for protection from Xue Ye and Xue Xing and a tournament entry token. Their agreement was interrupted by news that Emperor Xue Ye had collapsed after Xue Xing reported Shi Qing’s injuries and Dugu Bo’s defection.

• Su Chen saw through Qian Renxue’s disguise and destroyed her probing Soul Power while She Long and Ci Xue prepared to intervene.
• Qian Renxue ordered She Long and Ci Xue to stand down, then confronted Su Chen about whether Bibi Dong had sent him.
• Su Chen demanded that Qian Renxue suppress Xue Ye and Xue Xing and provide a Special Approval Golden Token for his Dragon God Team.
• Qian Renxue agreed to his terms, and Su Chen received a system reward for securing the Independent Seed Team privilege.
• An attendant reported that Emperor Xue Ye had collapsed after Xue Xing brought the gravely wounded Shi Qing to the palace and reported Dugu Bo’s defection.