Chapter Summaries

Han Tao tested how the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, Mental Power, and Blue Silver Eye affected perception, then used all three to identify and begin opening acupoints. He discovered that acupoints could store and condense Soul Power, and suspected Soul Power Compatibility could be inherited through bloodlines.

• Han Tao distinguished Physical Perception from Mental Perception and the External Perception granted by Blue Silver Eye.
• He concluded that Physical Perception and opened Eight Extraordinary Meridians were prerequisites for safely opening acupoints.
• Han Tao used Blue Silver Eye to locate acupoints and found that the Eight Extraordinary Meridians contained around a hundred, while the Great Circulation Meditation Method passed through seventeen.
• He guided Soul Power into an acupoint and found that it could store Soul Power, recover through Deep Treatment, expand, and accelerate cultivation.
• Han Tao hypothesized that Soul Power Compatibility gained through cultivation could pass to children and accumulate across generations, shaping powerful bloodline Sects.

Han Tao discovered that his Acupoints could store soul power as additional Soul Power Slots, then continued cultivating until his Blue Silver Grass grew stronger. When adaptation began risking Martial Soul Degeneration, he searched for safer ways to guide its evolution.

• Han Tao had Ye Lingling heal his severely damaged Acupoints, then confirmed that they could store soul power despite being unable to absorb it.
• Han Tao concluded that all one hundred and eight Acupoints could provide additional Soul Power Slots, though using them would cause soul-power losses.
• Five months later, Han Tao's Growth Base had risen to 0.6, and Solitary Bamboo brought it to 0.8, matching a Top Martial Soul.
• Han Tao realized that further adaptation could cause Martial Soul Degeneration as his Blue Silver Grass gained room to decline.
• Han Tao reviewed his records and reasoned that unexplored fields or high-quality traits might guide Blue Silver Grass toward positive evolution, but neither guaranteed safety.

After five months of growth, Han Tao found his soul power and physique strong but his martial soul still lacking, so he chose to adapt Blue Silver Grass to Jade Phosphor Poison. He gave Ye Lingling a book on Jade Phosphorous Serpent poisoning and urged her to broaden her healing studies, leaving her with access to pharmacology books from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Han Tao assessed his increased soul power and physique and decided his martial soul needed a high-quality trait adaptation.
• Han Tao chose Jade Phosphor Poison as the toxin for Blue Silver Grass to adapt to.
• Han Tao thanked Ye Lingling for her help and gave her a book about Jade Phosphorous Serpent poisoning.
• Ye Lingling connected the book's theory to Dugu Yan's Jade Phosphorous Serpent and realized the inherited martial soul toxin could poison her.
• Han Tao explained that the Jade Phosphorous Serpent's advancement through absorbing toxins could go wrong when outside toxins overwhelmed its source poison.
• Han Tao encouraged Ye Lingling to study detoxification and pharmacology, telling her she could read the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's new books.

Han Tao diagnosed Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphor Poison and advised her to strengthen her physique and seek treatment from Ye Lingling. He asked her to pursue pure Jade Phosphor Poison so he could obtain it for his research.

• Han Tao explained that Dugu Yan’s Soul Rings had introduced potent Jade Phosphor Poison into her body and suspected her grandfather had used multiple Immortal Herbs.
• Han Tao said Dugu Yan could suppress the toxicity by absorbing a Soul Ring with Jade Phosphor Poison, and warned that mixing toxins without the right expertise risked dangerous conflicts.
• Han Tao advised Dugu Yan to strengthen her physique and visit Ye Lingling for treatment, while explaining that treatment could heal injuries but not remove accumulated toxins.
• Dugu Yan asked what payment Han Tao wanted, and Han Tao requested pure Jade Phosphor Poison.

Han Tao tested how Blue Silver Grass adapted to Jade Phosphor Poison, then entered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Enlightenment Room to reconsider the martial soul’s essence. He questioned whether adaptation was the whole answer and ended by deciding to start with the Puzzle.

• Han Tao refined Dugu Yan’s toxin into concentrated Jade Phosphor Poison and tested increasingly strong dilutions on Blue Silver Grass.
• Han Tao used Blue Silver Eye to observe the grass’s rising poison resistance and declining activity and hardness as the poison damaged it.
• Han Tao used Ye Lingling’s healing and the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone’s Martial Soul Origin to strengthen Blue Silver Grass’s resistance, but concluded that stronger poisons were needed for further evolution.
• Han Tao deliberately failed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s theory test and entered the Enlightenment Room to challenge his previous belief that adaptation was Blue Silver Grass’s essence.
• Han Tao reconsidered Blue Silver Grass’s powerful perception and decided to begin with the Puzzle.

Han Tao realized the Blue Silver King’s essence was command and perception, which let him direct other Blue Silver Grass to adapt and copy their best traits. He planned to cultivate Blue Silver Grass toward Immortal Herb traits and asked Ning Fengzhi for a place to accelerate plant growth, leaving the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a possibility despite the Poison Barrier around Sunset Forest.

• Han Tao connected the Aromatic Silk Beauty’s ability to command spiritual things with the Blue Silver King’s authority over Blue Silver Grass.
• Han Tao concluded that he could direct other Blue Silver Grass to adapt, perceive their useful traits, and copy those traits into himself.
• Han Tao decided to cultivate Blue Silver Grass toward Immortal Herb traits and gather the best traits into his Martial Soul.
• Ning Fengzhi entered the Little Black Room and encouraged Han Tao to follow his chosen path, offering money and resources.
• Han Tao asked for a place where plants could grow faster, and Ning Fengzhi named the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well despite the Poison Barrier around Sunset Forest.

Ning Fengzhi offered Han Tao a way to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well by developing a Jade Phosphor Poisonous Barrier Soul Skill, but Han Tao rejected the proposed route because his existing Soul Rings did not suit it. With funding from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Han Tao began targeted Blue Silver Grass cultivation aimed at producing either ultimate poison or resistance to poison.

• Ning Fengzhi explained that Han Tao could obtain a poisonous-barrier Soul Skill from a Jade Phosphor Seven Absolute Flower and use it to cross the barrier around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ning Fengzhi showed Han Tao a book describing Blue Silver Grass's inherited Soul Skills, including its fourth Soul Skill, Blue Silver Poisonous Barrier, and the Soul Beasts that could provide Jade Phosphor Poison.
• Han Tao judged the book's poison-centered cultivation system useful but declined to follow it because his first three Soul Rings were not poison attribute.
• Ning Fengzhi offered Han Tao research funding and warned him not to spend it on entertainment; Han Tao accepted.
• Han Tao drew funds from Master, established a Blue Silver Grass cultivation base on the sect's rear mountain, and bought thirty-seven hundred-year Blue Silver Grass plants.
• Han Tao split the plants into two groups and began cultivating them toward the Seven Absolute Jade Phosphor Flower's ultimate poison and Aromatic Silk Beauty's poison-countering ability.

Han Tao began a second cultivation phase, testing whether Blue Silver Grass could adapt to multiple toxins, but Jade Phosphor Poison caused the four-poison combination to fail. He went to Yang Wudi to learn about mixed toxins, where Yang Wudi warned him that studying mixed pharmacology required innate talent.

• After thirty Blue Silver Grass plants died, Han Tao identified two evolutionary branches and decided to continue his research with stronger samples.
• Han Tao bought sixty hundred-year Blue Silver Grass plants and tested Tang San's toxin-based Soul Ring configuration, producing Four Poison Blue Silver Grass that could tolerate four toxins.
• Han Tao tried adding Jade Phosphor Poison to a sequence of snake-related toxins, but the combination exploded and failed.
• Han Tao visited Yang Wudi to ask about mixed toxins, and Yang Wudi warned him not to study mixed pharmacology without Spiritual Sense.

Han Tao asked Yang Wudi why Jade Phosphor Poison could not fuse with other poisons, and learned that ultimate poisons might fuse through a point of balance. After taking isolating poison and Whale Rubber to strengthen his physique, Han Tao surpassed 100 physique points and considered how far he was from safely absorbing stronger Soul Rings.

• Han Tao showed Yang Wudi his book on inherited Soul Skills, and Yang Wudi explained that Other Shore Flower and Seven Absolute Jade Phosphor might fuse because of an unknown balance point.
• Han Tao left the medicinal materials room and saw Ning Tian take toxin-blocking medicine, then noticed Ning Tian's transformation had begun after he ate the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Han Tao returned to Yang Wudi and took two portions of isolating medicine before swallowing Whale Rubber to strengthen his physique.
• Han Tao ran around the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect while his Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone helped refine the Whale Rubber's medicinal power.
• Han Tao's physique reached 100 points, and he judged that his level-50 physique goal was still above 125 while deciding against absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring because his Mental Power was weak.

After reaching rank 40, Han Tao went with Sword Douluo to Sunset Forest to find a Jade Phosphor Flower soul ring. There, he considered combining several thousand-year rings into one, then began comparing soul beast strength to investigate how power changed after ten thousand years.

• Han Tao reached rank 40 after four months of cultivation and recorded his progress, while setting aside Acupoint training.
• Han Tao asked Ning Fengzhi for help hunting a soul ring, and Ning Fengzhi sent Sword Douluo to accompany him.
• In Sunset Forest, Han Tao told Chen Xin he wanted a seven-to-nine-thousand-year Jade Phosphor Flower, while Chen Xin advised him to choose one no older than five thousand years.
• Han Tao corrected Chen Xin about the difference between a Jade Phosphor Flower and a Soul Beast, and the two eventually found an 8,000-year Jade Phosphor Flower.
• Han Tao considered absorbing three nine-thousand-year soul rings together to avoid Mental Impact, then compared Jade Phosphor Flower strength to investigate the power jump beyond ten thousand years.

Han Tao studied Soul Beast growth and chose two Jade Phosphorous Flowers whose combined Soul Ring ages would yield a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. He succeeded in fusing their rings, but Fortune’s coordinated tricks triggered Soul Vibration, leaving him facing a deadly crisis.

• Han Tao concluded that Soul Beasts first tempered their Soul Power quality between 10,000 and 16,000 years, then increased their Soul Power and Mental Power quantities.
• Han Tao selected Jade Phosphorous Flowers aged 6,600 and 9,400 years, and Chen Xin wounded both so Han Tao could safely shoot them with his bow.
• Han Tao drew in both Soul Rings at once, aiming for a combined age of 10,000 years and preparing to abandon the second ring if the process became dangerous.
• A neurotoxin briefly dazed Han Tao and stopped him from releasing the second Soul Ring, while Nutrient Solution had raised the other flower’s age by one year.
• The rings fused into a black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, triggering Soul Vibration; Han Tao woke from the daze and realized Fortune had arranged the danger through multiple small factors.

Han Tao used the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring’s Soul Vibration to split his Mental Power and complete the first stage of Cluster Convergence, while Sword Douluo rescued him and Ye Lingling healed his injuries. Han Tao returned his main consciousness to his body and began assessing the dangers of the method, with two portions of his spirit still depleted.

• Sword Douluo used his Seven Kill True Body to suppress the Jade Phosphorous Flower Soul Ring’s Soul Vibration, but Han Tao suffered severe physical injuries.
• Han Tao asked Sword Douluo to withdraw his aura, then used the Soul Vibration to divide his Mental Power among his third soul ring, Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, and Martial Soul.
• Sword Douluo carried Han Tao back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi assessed his condition and called Ye Lingling to treat him.
• Ye Lingling healed Han Tao’s bodily injuries as his main consciousness remained merged with his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Han Tao returned his Mental Power to his mind, regained control of his body, and identified the risks of leaving consciousness outside the body and the depletion of split spirit.

Han Tao discovered that a Spiritual Body attached to a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone could avoid Mental Power loss, while merging with his martial soul gave him the ability to modify its traits. He used this power to raise his Blue Silver Eye soul ring to 9,900 years and began weighing ways to strengthen his Mental Power before his cultivation countdown killed him.

• Han Tao found that his Spiritual Body lost Mental Power more slowly when attached to his Blue Silver Eye soul ring, and stopped losing it when attached to his 100,000 Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
• Han Tao discovered that merging a Spiritual Body with Blue Silver Grass gave him the ability to add, remove, back up, and modify martial soul traits.
• Han Tao learned that he could transfer energy from the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and dead Blue Silver Grass soul rings to increase the age of his Blue Silver Grass soul ring.
• Han Tao transferred 5,500 years of Soul Power age from the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, raising his third soul ring from 1,100 years to 9,900 years.
• Han Tao identified the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and stronger Mental Power as priorities, then considered four possible ways to slow his approaching death.

Han Tao sought a way to stop his Mental Power from declining by strengthening his martial soul and raising his Soul Ring Age. He traveled to Sunset Forest with Sword Douluo to test his Blue Silver Poisonous Barrier, leaving his attempt to condense its toxins with new data.

• Han Tao decided to pursue all four ways of treating Mental Weakness and adapt Four Poison Blue Silver Grass and Blood Sandalwood Flower onto his martial soul.
• Han Tao raised his Growth Base to 0.9 and planned to strengthen his Blue Silver Poisonous Barrier soul ring by absorbing same-origin Jade Phosphorous Flower soul rings.
• Manager Ning told Han Tao that the sect leader was unavailable, so Sword Douluo, Chen Xin, escorted him to Sunset Forest.
• Han Tao tested his Blue Silver Poisonous Barrier on a three-thousand-year Jade Phosphorous Flower and recorded the soul skill's effects.
• Sword Douluo used Soul Power Suppression to condense the poisonous barrier's gaseous toxins into liquid and then solid form, and Han Tao noted that they spread again when the pressure was removed.

Han Tao developed a poison-arrow combat system and discovered that his lack of combat experience left him vulnerable despite his theoretical strength. After asking Sword Douluo to weaken a Jade Phosphorous Flower, Han Tao killed it and absorbed its energy into his Fourth Soul Ring.

• Han Tao tested how cold affected Jade Phosphor Poison and devised jade arrowheads to carry the toxin, while noting the weapons’ material and accuracy limitations.
• Han Tao formed a combat system using Blue Silver Eye, Blue Silver Poisonous Barrier, a bow, and poison, then tested it on a Jade Phosphorous Flower.
• The flower dodged Han Tao’s arrow and poisoned his arm; Han Tao recognized that he lacked combat experience and could not reliably defeat even a three-thousand-year soul beast.
• Han Tao asked Sword Douluo Chen Xin to weaken the flower, then shot and killed it after Sword Douluo’s strike left it critically injured.
• Han Tao absorbed the flower’s energy into his Fourth Soul Ring and felt increased pressure, though the ring showed little visible change.

Han Tao investigated why his Tri-Color Jade Phosphor Flower soul ring could not exceed 49,999 years, then tested its stronger poison barrier in Sunset Forest. After obtaining maps from Ning Fengzhi, he planned ways to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well through the poisonous inner ring.

• Han Tao raised his Fourth Soul Ring to 49,999 years, then determined its limit came from a transformation he could not yet understand rather than its structure.
• Han Tao studied the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and concluded that its ability to assimilate same-lineage soul power was beyond his current understanding.
• Han Tao tested his stronger Blue Silver Poisonous Barrier, recorded its increased power and cost, and surveyed the middle region of Sunset Forest.
• Han Tao asked Ning Fengzhi for maps of Sunset Forest, and Ning Fengzhi gave him an incomplete map with a route to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well along with a complete map.
• Han Tao considered flying over the inner ring, wearing Cold Jade armor, or traveling underground, and favored the underground route.

Han Tao reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found Ning Rongrong there, where she explained that her physique could not keep pace with the power gained from multiple Immortal Herbs. As Han Tao recognized his own spiritual limitation, he asked why Ning Rongrong had chosen to consume so many Immortal Herbs.

• Han Tao abandoned his attempt to fly over Sunset Forest’s Poison Barrier and dug underground until he reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ning Rongrong warned Han Tao to keep the Lovesick Heartbreak Red away, explaining that she had already resolved her Immortal Herb conflicts and toxicity through pharmacology.
• Ning Rongrong explained that her physique could not withstand the rapid growth of her Soul Power and spirit, so she had come to suppress the Immortal Herbs’ effects.
• Han Tao reflected that his own spirit limited him and recognized both their predicaments as shackles imposed by fortune.
• Han Tao asked Ning Rongrong why she had eaten so many Immortal Herbs.

Ning Rongrong explained why she had absorbed multiple Immortal Herbs to contain Snow Swan Kiss, leaving her with a physique too weak to handle their intense medicinal power. Han Tao proposed using soul bones to ease the strain, then revealed that Spirit Hall had prepared three soul bones for the National Elite Soul Master Competition.

• Ning Rongrong recalled that Snow Swan Kiss's power spread through the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, so she absorbed the Immortal Herbs rather than risk their destruction.
• Ning Rongrong told Han Tao that Nine Leaves Purple Ganoderma and Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower had been corrupted into deadly poison, and that Nine Leaves Purple Ganoderma was meant for Ning Fengzhi.
• Han Tao suggested Whale Rubber and the Heaven Dou Meditation Method to strengthen Ning Rongrong's physique, but she could not use either without processing the Immortal Herb's power.
• Han Tao concluded that soul bones could raise Ning Rongrong's physique, Soul Power, and spirit together, reducing the strain on her body.
• Ning Rongrong said the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could assemble a set of Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, and Han Tao revealed that Spirit Hall had prepared three soul bones for the National Elite Soul Master Competition.

Han Tao recruited Ning Rongrong to help him win the National Elite Soul Master Competition and obtain the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull, then showed her how much he had grown. As they examined the Blue Silver Grass Poison Attribute Path, Ning Rongrong identified a deeper design for its evolution, and Han Tao asked how to achieve it.

• Han Tao asked Ning Rongrong to join the Soul Master Competition and told her the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull was his target.
• Han Tao summoned his martial soul, revealing that he had become a rank 42 Soul Ancestor, while Ning Rongrong had reached rank 54.
• Han Tao planted Blue Silver Grass around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and explained why he had adopted the Four Poison Blue Silver Grass route.
• Ning Rongrong examined the book on inherited soul skills and said its Blue Silver Grass Poison Attribute Path had been altered from the fourth soul ring onward.
• Ning Rongrong described the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a model for combining ultimate ice, ultimate fire, and Seven Absolute Jade Phosphor Poison, then Han Tao asked how to achieve the Poison Attribute Path.

Ning Rongrong outlined a dangerous plan for Han Tao to evolve his martial soul by combining toxins with Blue Silver Grass, then helped expose the spider-toxin route hidden in his Four Poison Blue Silver Grass. Han Tao recognized that he could use his Martial Soul Body ability to copy this newly revealed evolutionary direction.

• Ning Rongrong advised Han Tao to strengthen Blue Silver Grass with his fourth and Fifth Soul Rings before recreating the Manasa Zhuhua poison, and described using Mandala poison, Sea Viper Snake venom, and Nether Force.
• Han Tao concluded that multiple toxins could be combined with Blue Silver Grass and Jade Phosphor Poison, but admitted the process was too complex for him to attempt immediately.
• Ning Rongrong examined Han Tao's Four Poison Blue Silver Grass, called its development path flawed, and planted it between the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Han Tao observed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well stripping away the Mandala Snake and Ghost Vine toxins while refining the spider toxin into the grass's new core.
• Han Tao identified the result as a Dark Blue Silver Grass evolution route based on spider toxin, then decided he could copy the route using his Martial Soul Body ability.