Chapter Summaries

Xiao Shenghe discovered that the Secret of Symbiosis had awakened his Primordial Sea and begun transforming it into a shared realm with Lu Yao. As their Soul Imprints resonated, a sudden change erupted on the altar outside.

• Xiao Shenghe awoke in a boundless, unfamiliar realm and feared it was not his sea of Spiritual Sense.
• Lu Yao appeared and explained that the Secret of Symbiosis had awakened his Primordial Sea through their linked life essences.
• Lu Yao revealed that her spirituality had seeded the sea and that their bond could eventually create a Symbiosis Domain.
• Xiao Shenghe touched the emerald vortex and sensed the Clouded Deer contract rune, while a faint golden response stirred within his soul.
• Lu Yao confirmed that Xiao Shenghe's soul had answered the connection, and a sudden explosion shook the altar outside.

During the Secret of Symbiosis ritual, Lu Xue unexpectedly appeared in Lu Yao and Xiao Shenghe’s shared sea of consciousness. She warned them that their bond could affect a wider network of symbiosis tied to Lu Yao’s bloodline, then prepared to tell them a story about what they were about to forge.

• Lu Yao recognized Lu Xue, while Xiao Shenghe wondered how the deceased clan leader had appeared in their shared spiritual void.
• Lu Xue examined Xiao Shenghe and then greeted Lu Yao with tenderness and grave concern.
• Lu Xue explained that the depth of their spiritual connection had awakened a bond buried in Lu Yao’s bloodline.
• Lu Xue revealed that their ritual could alter a preexisting symbiosis network connected to Lu Yao, including bonds involving her and Grandpa Xuan.
• Lu Xue insisted they understand the significance of what they were about to forge and began to tell them a story.

Lu Xue revealed that a mysterious ancient force changed the laws of Douluo Continent, trapping Soul Beasts’ souls in Soul Rings, and warned that Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao’s equal symbiotic contract could challenge those laws. Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao accepted the risks together, while Lu Xue began describing the possible reward if their bond succeeded.

• Lu Xue told Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao that Soul Beasts once reincarnated freely, until a mysterious existence changed the world’s laws and turned their souls into Soul Rings.
• Xiao Shenghe realized the Secret of Symbiosis could reverse the fate imposed on Soul Beasts by creating an equal bond between human and beast.
• Lu Xue warned that their contract could provoke a backlash, become a form of bondage, or cause the old and new laws within them to clash.
• Xiao Shenghe said he and Lu Yao would face the risks together, and Lu Yao reached out to support him.
• Lu Xue said a successful symbiosis might let them share life and perhaps glimpse immortality in an age without a God to guide the way.

Lu Xue warned Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao that their Symbiotic Link could challenge the fate of Soul Beasts, but they chose to continue the ritual. It succeeded, awakening Xiao Shenghe's Heaven Soul and raising him to level 24 as the pair began learning the Clouded Deer clan's inherited power.

• Lu Xue told Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao that their bond could offer Soul Beasts another possibility, then vanished after urging them to choose carefully.
• Xiao Shenghe admitted he was afraid, but he and Lu Yao agreed to continue the ritual together.
• Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao completed the Secret of Symbiosis, binding their souls and awakening Xiao Shenghe's Body Martial Soul, Heaven Soul.
• Lu Xuan confirmed the ritual's success and led Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao deeper into the void of Spiritual Sense to learn about the Clouded Deer clan's inherited power.
• Xiao Shenghe told Chen Xin and Gu Rong that the ritual had raised him from level 15 to level 24, while Lu Xuan explained that he had absorbed part of Lu Yao's inherited Soul Power.
• Lu Xuan and Lu Yao assured Chen Xin that the symbiotic bond would not cause backlash and would let them sense and support each other.

Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao traveled with Lu Xuan and Lu Xue toward the Clouded Deer sacred grounds so he could complete his inheritance, stopping at Skyvault Bamboo Forest along the way. There, two hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts challenged their intentions, and Xiao Shenghe defended himself with the Secret of Symbiosis.

• Lu Xuan explained that Xiao Shenghe had to complete the final Inheritance Imprint at the Clouded Deer sacred grounds, and Chen Xin and Gu Rong stayed behind.
• Xuan Zi led the others toward Skyvault Bamboo Forest, where Lu Xuan described its Soul-Power-rich bamboo and the two overlords living there.
• The Skyvault Bamboo King and the Tigerfang Blazing Panda confronted the group, and Lu Xue and Lu Xuan explained Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao's Secret of Symbiosis.
• The Tigerfang Blazing Panda accused Xiao Shenghe of plotting to take what he wanted and lunged at him despite his assurances.
• Xiao Shenghe fused his Soul Power with Lu Yao's to form a shield that withstood the Panda's attack, surprising the beast.

Xiao Shenghe offered to form Symbiotic Contracts with the Skyvault Bamboo King and Tigerfang Blazing Panda, and they agreed to consider it if he passed their tests. He began the Skyvault Bamboo King’s trial with Lu Yao’s support, leaving the outcome undecided.

• Xiao Shenghe explained the Secret of Symbiosis and offered to contract with the Skyvault Bamboo King and Tigerfang Blazing Panda.
• The two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts agreed to consider contracts if Xiao Shenghe passed their tests: enduring the Skyvault Bamboo King’s pressure for fifteen minutes and taking three strikes from the Tigerfang Blazing Panda without hurting him.
• Lu Xuan and Lu Xue warned Xiao Shenghe to rely on his Symbiotic Link with Lu Yao and retreat if he could not endure the trials.
• Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao entered the bamboo forest and began the Skyvault Bamboo King’s trial, resisting its immense Soul Power pressure through their Symbiotic Power.
• Xiao Shenghe unfolded his Heaven Soul Martial Soul, whose silver-and-jade aura resisted the pressure and began absorbing blue-gold Soul Power.

Xiao Shenghe passed the Skyvault Bamboo King's endurance trial and faced the Tigerfang Blazing Panda's three-strike test. He blocked its full-force third strike with Symbiosis: Protection, leaving the panda stunned but his trial's outcome still unconfirmed.

• Xiao Shenghe endured the Skyvault Bamboo King's Soul Power pressure for a quarter-hour while Lu Yao supported him, and the king declared that he had passed.
• The Tigerfang Blazing Panda challenged Xiao Shenghe to withstand three strikes, and Xiao Shenghe chose to begin without resting.
• Xiao Shenghe blocked the panda's first strike with Symbiotic Power, then took a glancing hit from its stronger second strike and bled.
• Xiao Shenghe merged his Soul Power with Lu Yao's and used Symbiosis: Protection to withstand the panda's full-strength third strike.
• The Tigerfang Blazing Panda staggered back and stared in disbelief after Xiao Shenghe caught its third strike.

Xiao Shenghe passed the trials of the Tigerfang Blazing Panda and Skyvault Bamboo King and signed a Symbiotic Contract with them, greatly increasing his power. Lu Xuan began the Inheritance Imprint ceremony using the million-year-old Skyvault Bamboo, whose light enveloped Xiao Shenghe.

• The Tigerfang Blazing Panda confirmed that Xiao Shenghe had passed, and the Skyvault Bamboo King agreed to become his symbiotic partner.
• Xiao Shenghe collapsed from exhaustion, and Lu Yao, Lu Xuan, and Lu Xue helped him recover while the two Soul Beasts shared their Soul Power with him.
• The Skyvault Bamboo King and Tigerfang Blazing Panda signed a Symbiotic Contract with Xiao Shenghe, raising his Soul Power from level 24 to level 26 and changing his Heaven Soul Martial Soul.
• The Skyvault Bamboo King welcomed Xiao Shenghe as an honored guest, and Lu Xuan announced that they could begin the Inheritance Imprint.
• Lu Xuan activated the million-year-old Skyvault Bamboo, and a pillar of blue-gold light enveloped Xiao Shenghe as the ceremony began.

Xiao Shenghe completed the Inheritance Imprint, evolving his Martial Soul into the Symbiotic Heaven Soul and reaching Level 30 Soul Elder. After learning about his new bonds with two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits, the group prepared to travel to their next destination.

• Xiao Shenghe fused the Clouded Deer inheritance with his Symbiotic Power and Soul Spirits, evolving his Martial Soul and rising to Level 30.
• Lu Xuan confirmed Xiao Shenghe’s Inheritance Imprint had succeeded, and Xiao Shenghe thanked Lu Xuan and Lu Xue for their help.
• The Skyvault Bamboo King and Tigerfang Blazing Panda pledged to support Xiao Shenghe, who promised to help them in return.
• Xiao Shenghe and the others left the bamboo forest and told Chen Xin and Gu Rong about his two Soul Spirit contracts.
• Lu Xuan, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong agreed to head to their next destination.

Lu Xuan led Xiao Shenghe, Lu Yao, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong toward Mistveil Valley to investigate a clue about the Secret of Symbiosis. They reached a clearing in the valley and found Rock Giant Rhinos fighting a pack of Windblade Foxes.

• Lu Xuan told the group their next destination was Mistveil Valley, where ancient Soul Beast clans might hold a clue about the Secret of Symbiosis.
• Xiao Shenghe sensed that his bond with the Skyvault Bamboo King and Tigerfang Blazing Panda had strengthened, and he briefly used power borrowed from both Soul Spirits.
• Lu Xuan warned the group that Mistveil Valley's fog could cause illusions and guided them through it with a ribbon of Soul Power.
• Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao sensed sounds of fighting ahead, and Lu Xuan decided the group should investigate.
• The group emerged into a clearing and saw Rock Giant Rhinos battling a pack of Windblade Foxes.

Xiao Shenghe used his Symbiotic Power to stop a fight between the Rock Giant Rhino and Windblade Foxes and heal an injured Jadeleaf Butterfly. After learning that a fishy, corrosive smell had spread from the Netherworld Swamp following a tremendous noise, the group set out to investigate.

• Lu Xue, Gu Rong, and Xiao Shenghe identified a foul smell that was driving the Rock Giant Rhino and Windblade Foxes into a frenzy.
• Xiao Shenghe used the Skyvault Bamboo King's power to calm the Soul Beasts and heal the injured Jadeleaf Butterfly.
• The Jadeleaf Butterfly told Xiao Shenghe that a tremendous noise had come from the Netherworld Swamp before the smell spread and nearby Soul Beasts grew aggressive.
• Lu Xuan decided the group should investigate the Netherworld Swamp for the source of the smell and possible clues to the Secret of Symbiosis.
• Xiao Shenghe, Lu Yao, Lu Xuan, Lu Xue, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong headed north as the mist and fishy smell grew stronger.

Xiao Shenghe and his companions entered the Netherworld Swamp and fought a ten-thousand-year Corrupt Poison Tentacle Monster. Xiao Shenghe discovered a strange black energy inside it and tried to draw it out, but the energy began corroding his Soul Power.

• Lu Xue gave the group Purifying Poison Pills as they approached the corrupt poison’s source in the heart of the swamp.
• A Corrupt Poison Tentacle Monster attacked the group, and Chen Xin cut through its tentacles while Gu Rong searched for and dragged its body from the mud.
• Gu Rong bound the ten-thousand-year monster with Bone Vines, and Xiao Shenghe attacked it with Lu Yao’s help.
• Xiao Shenghe found foreign black energy inside the monster and reached into its wound to extract it.
• The black energy corroded Xiao Shenghe’s Symbiotic Power, and Lu Yao offered to help him.

Lu Xuan's group removed Soul-Eroding Corrupt Miasma from a Corrupt Poison Tentacle Monster and continued into the Netherworld Swamp, where the miasma had driven the hundred-thousand-year Netherworld Poison Dragon into a frenzy. The group fought back with their combined powers, but the dragon continued its attack.

• Lu Yao, Xiao Shenghe, the Skyvault Bamboo King, and the Tigerfang Blazing Panda helped suppress the Corrupt Poison Tentacle Monster's miasma, and Chen Xin purified it with his sword energy.
• Lu Xuan identified the evil energy as Soul-Eroding Corrupt Miasma, and Lu Xue connected it to the supposedly extinct Soul-Eroding Demon Spider.
• The Corrupt Poison Tentacle Monster died after the miasma was removed, and Lu Xuan urged the group onward to find its source.
• The Netherworld Poison Dragon attacked the group with black poison, and Lu Xuan, Xiao Shenghe, and Lu Yao helped Chen Xin and Gu Rong defend against it.
• Chen Xin wounded the dragon's tail, then Gu Rong, Lu Xuan, Lu Xue, Xiao Shenghe, and Lu Yao joined the fight as the frenzied dragon kept attacking.

Xiao Shenghe and his companions purified the Netherworld Poison Dragon, which revealed that the Soul-Eroding Corrupt Miasma came from the Soul-Eroding Cave. At the cave’s barrier, Xiao Shenghe began purifying the Black Chains and found a weak point at their core.

• Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao, aided by the Skyvault Bamboo King and Tigerfang Blazing Panda, purified the Netherworld Poison Dragon’s Soul-Eroding Corrupt Miasma.
• The Netherworld Poison Dragon told Xiao Shenghe and his companions that the corruption came from a powerful evil aura in the Soul-Eroding Cave and offered to guide them there.
• The Netherworld Poison Dragon led the group through the swamp to the cave, where they found an entrance sealed by Black Chains and a powerful barrier.
• Jian Chenxin’s sword beam failed to break the barrier, and Gu Rong detected solidified miasma and spatial power in its chains.
• At Lu Xuan’s suggestion, Xiao Shenghe combined his Symbiotic Power with the powers of his Soul Spirits to purify the barrier’s miasma.
• Xiao Shenghe found a weak point at the barrier’s core node.

Jian Chenxin, Xiao Shenghe, and their allies destroyed the barrier around the Soul-Eroding Cave and confronted the powerful figure behind the Soul-Eroding Corrupt Miasma. The dark figure attacked with overwhelming force, and the group prepared to use Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao’s Symbiotic Power to weaken him by purifying the miasma within him.

• Xiao Shenghe purified the miasma around the barrier’s central node while Jian Chenxin shattered it with a golden sword strike.
• A dark figure emerged from the Soul-Eroding Cave and revealed that he had created the Soul-Eroding Corrupt Miasma to turn the Star Dou Great Forest’s Soul Beasts into servants.
• The dark figure targeted Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao for their Clouded Deer’s Secret of Symbiosis and Xiao Shenghe’s two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits.
• Lu Xue raised a vine screen against the dark figure’s miasma tentacles, and Gu Rong reinforced it with golden-lit Bone Vines.
• Jian Chenxin attacked the dark figure, but his strikes failed to overcome the figure’s defenses, and he judged the enemy to be at least a Peak Douluo.
• Lu Xuan directed Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao to purify the miasma inside the dark figure while the others kept him occupied, but the figure unleashed a barrage of tentacles and mental interference.

Lu Xuan and his allies defeated Mo Chen by purifying the Soul-Eroding Corrupt Miasma that sustained his power. After learning that Mo Chen had shared its cultivation method with people in Spirit Hall, they killed him, leaving the wider threat unresolved.

• Lu Xue shielded everyone from the dark figure’s whispers as Lu Xuan, Jian Chenxin, and Gu Rong pinned him down with their attacks.
• Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao combined their powers into a purifying beam that stripped away the dark figure’s miasma and revealed him as a weakened old man.
• Gu Rong stopped the old man from killing himself, and Lu Xue probed his memories to identify him as Mo Chen, the Corrosive Poison Douluo.
• Lu Xue revealed that Mo Chen had planned to control Soul Beasts and take revenge on Spirit Hall, while Mo Chen warned that he had passed on the miasma’s cultivation method to people there.
• Jian Chenxin killed Mo Chen, and the miasma in the Soul-Eroding Cave began to dissipate as the Netherworld Poison Dragon thanked the group.

Lu Xuan’s group was ambushed by three Spirit Hall Titled Douluo while traveling toward Deer Valley, and a fierce battle broke out. Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao helped neutralize Poison Thorn Douluo’s poison, but the fight was still underway as Xiao Shenghe held back the eager Tigerfang Blazing Panda.

• Lu Xue estimated that the group would reach Deer Valley in three days, while Jian Chenxin and Gu Rong warned that Spirit Hall might be tracking them.
• Xiao Shenghe sensed Spirit Hall members ahead, and Lu Xuan arranged for Jian Chenxin and Gu Rong to meet them head-on while he and Lu Xue flanked them.
• Shadow Douluo Ye Jingfeng, Soul-Locking Douluo Li Qianhun, and Poison Thorn Douluo Granny Hu Du surrounded the group and demanded the Secret of Symbiosis and the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit inside Xiao Shenghe.
• Jian Chenxin attacked Ye Jingfeng, Gu Rong entangled Li Qianhun’s chains, and Lu Xue shielded the group from Granny Hu Du’s poison mist.
• Xiao Shenghe and Lu Yao combined their Symbiotic Power to dispel the poison, allowing Lu Xuan to wound Granny Hu Du as the battle intensified.
• Xiao Shenghe stayed back with Lu Yao while the Tigerfang Blazing Panda stirred eagerly within his soul, and he asked it to wait.