Chapter Summaries

After Lu Yang, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling benefited from immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the group prepared to return to Heaven Dou City. Dugu Bo invited Lu Yang and Dugu Yan to visit the herb garden again, while Lu Yang considered how to strengthen himself for future cultivation.

• Lu Yang told Dugu Yan that his soul power had reached rank thirty-seven, and Dugu Bo laughed when she regretted giving him an immortal herb.
• Dugu Bo brought back a suitable plant-type soul beast so Ye Lingling could obtain her third soul ring, and Dugu Yan explained that the aromatic silk beauty had given Ye Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia a tentative tenth petal.
• Lu Yang reflected on his growing ties to the people around him and considered seeking more whale rubber and the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to prepare for a ten-thousand-year soul ring.
• The next day, Dugu Bo invited Lu Yang and Dugu Yan to return to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Dugu Yan joked that the herb garden would someday be hers.

Qian Renxue arranged for Lu Yang to enroll at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and secretly planned to use him to build a team that could defeat Spirit Hall Academy in the tournament six years later. Lu Yang accepted the enrollment and learned that Qian Renxue wanted him to join a team led by Qin Ming.

• She Long stopped Lu Yang after he returned to Heaven Dou City and escorted him to Qian Renxue, who asked about his trip and told him to prepare to attend Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Lu Yang wondered why Qian Renxue wanted him at the academy, while she secretly planned to build a championship team around him to thwart Hu Liena and Spirit Hall Academy.
• Lu Yang assessed how the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum had strengthened his body and let him wield more of the Winged Dragon of Ra Martial Soul's power, though he still could not use its full abilities.
• Qian Renxue told Lu Yang that she had completed his enrollment at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and he agreed to attend so he could study alongside Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• Qian Renxue proposed that Lu Yang join a Soul Fighting team led by Qin Ming, a Soul Emperor recommended by the academy's education committee.

Lu Yang enrolled at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and demonstrated his unusual soul rings to its education commissioners. The chapter ended with him entering Heaven Dou Class One, where he reunited with Dugu Yan.

• Lu Yang questioned whether Qin Ming was fit to teach him, and Qian Renxue agreed to let him decide for himself.
• Qian Renxue accompanied Lu Yang to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin welcomed him.
• Lu Yang revealed his three thousand-year soul rings and explained his theory that physical conditioning could help Soul Masters absorb older soul rings.
• Meng Shenji proposed body-tempering classes, and Qian Renxue supported the plan and said Lu Yang would submit his findings to Emperor Father.
• Ci Xue informed Qian Renxue that Lu Yang's soul power had surpassed level thirty-five, while Lu Yang followed Zhi Lin to Heaven Dou Class One and surprised Dugu Yan.

Lu Yang settled into Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Dugu Yan and later Ye Lingling joined him, before the Spirit Hall Academy’s tournament victory prompted Emperor Xue Ye to order a team for the next competition. Lu Yang was selected for Heaven Dou Team One under Qin Ming but reluctantly joined, intending to leave once training began.

• Lu Yang attended class at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Dugu Yan teased him for enrolling without telling her.
• Dugu Yan told Lu Yang that Ye Lingling would enroll soon, and Yu Tianheng watched their friendly exchange with concern.
• Ye Lingling enrolled a few days later and relied on Lu Yang and Dugu Yan for company.
• Spirit Hall Academy won the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament, deepening the two empires’ worries about Spirit Hall.
• Emperor Xue Ye ordered Heaven Dou Royal Academy to prepare a team for the next tournament, and Meng Shenji and his colleagues appointed Qin Ming to lead Heaven Dou Team One.
• Lu Yang, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling were selected for the team, but Lu Yang objected to Qin Ming’s leadership and planned to find a way out of training.

Qin Ming began training Heaven Dou Team One with mandatory laps, but Lu Yang rejected the exercise and walked away with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling. Lu Yang told them he would rather cultivate on his own, and Dugu Yan asked why he never used the academy’s Mimicry Training Grounds.

• Zhi Lin introduced Qin Ming as Heaven Dou Team One’s leader and teacher, and Qin Ming said he only wanted to teach students with the potential to become monsters.
• Qin Ming ordered the students to run laps until he told them to stop, and most of them reluctantly began running.
• Lu Yang refused to train by running, and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling stayed beside him.
• Qin Ming told the three to leave his team, and Lu Yang walked to the stands with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• Lu Yang said he would rather cultivate on his own and urged Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to use the Mimicry Training Grounds.
• Dugu Yan asked Lu Yang why he had never visited a Mimicry Training Ground.

Lu Yang explained why sunlight suited his cultivation better than Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Mimicry Training Grounds, then continued studying pharmacology with Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan. After learning that the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew would not conflict with the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, he sought evidence for the Soul Core method as a bargaining chip for Dugu Bo and considered whether transformed Soul Beasts sealed their power in a similar way.

• Lu Yang told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that sunlight boosted his Soul Power more than the academy’s Mimicry Training Grounds could.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling left the training field, while Lu Yang cultivated alone and Qin Ming resolved to discipline those who disobeyed him once he gained authority.
• After lunch, Lu Yang, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan returned to the Ye Family's Medical Clinic, where Lu Yang continued studying pharmacology and Dugu Yan tested medicinal baths.
• Ye Qingling gave Lu Yang and Ye Lingling an illustrated catalog of Immortal Herbs, and Lu Yang learned that the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew would not conflict with the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Lu Yang decided he needed evidence for the Soul Core method before asking Dugu Bo for the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and wondered whether human-form Soul Beasts sealed their origin power in a way resembling Soul Cores.

Lu Yang sought evidence for his soul core theory and asked Qian Renxue to find Spirit Hall records about soul beasts that had taken human form. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang and Tang San continued to struggle at Nuoding Academy, where resentment toward Yu Xiaogang had grown.

• Lu Yang decided Spirit Hall's records might support his theory and asked Qian Renxue to help him obtain them.
• Yu Long explained that hundred-thousand-year soul beasts retained their origin power in human form, giving them innate full soul power or better.
• Qian Renxue considered whether Lu Yang's research might uncover something useful and thought she could get him the records.
• Yu Xiaogang had stayed mostly inside Nuoding Academy since an attacker broke his leg, and the Spirit Hall branch had failed to find the culprit.
• Tang San's apprenticeship under Yu Xiaogang kept him from classes and isolated him from other students, leading to repeated clashes with Dorm Seven.
• The Nuoding Dean regretted bringing Yu Xiaogang to the academy but felt unable to challenge him because of his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan background.

Qian Renxue learned that Lu Yang had refused to join Heaven Dou Team One and became more curious about his reasons and his new medicinal bath formula. After testing the bath and speaking with Lu Yang, she heard his criticism of Qin Ming’s training and asked about his current Soul Power level.

• Qian Renxue dismissed She Long’s concerns about Qin Ming and sent Ci Xue to deliver Lu Yang’s medicinal bath formula to her grandfather and retrieve books about humanoid soul beasts.
• Qian Renxue tried Lu Yang’s new medicinal bath and offered him a reward, but Lu Yang said he wanted nothing and explained that he had sent most of her earlier money to Windbreath Village.
• Qian Renxue asked Lu Yang why he had refused Qin Ming’s training, and Lu Yang complained that Qin Ming made all the students run around the field for an entire morning.
• Qian Renxue promised not to force Lu Yang into Heaven Dou Team One and asked what level his Soul Power had reached.

Lu Yang revealed his soul power level to Qian Renxue, then went with her to explore Heaven Dou City and met Ning Rongrong and Chen Xin. After returning to his routine, he was summoned by Heaven Dou Academy’s education committee over his withdrawal from the Heaven Dou Team One selection.

• Lu Yang told Qian Renxue his soul power had reached level thirty-eight, impressing her and She Long.
• Qian Renxue took Lu Yang out into Heaven Dou City, where they ate snacks and went to the Seven Treasure Hotel.
• Ning Rongrong approached Lu Yang and Qian Renxue with Chen Xin, questioned Lu Yang about his background and cultivation, and learned they served as advisers to the crown prince.
• Ning Rongrong told Lu Yang she would visit the Crown Prince's Residence, while Qian Renxue teased him about dealing with the Little Demoness.
• The next day, Lu Yang was summoned to the education committee, where he confirmed to Bai Baoshan that he had withdrawn from the Heaven Dou Team One selection because Qin Ming’s training methods were outdated.

Meng Shenji assigned Lu Yang, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling to Heaven Dou Academy’s second team after they refused Qin Ming’s training. Later, Dugu Bo returned with a Soul Bone for Dugu Yan and the whale glue Lu Yang had requested.

• Zhi Lin and Bai Baoshan disagreed over Qin Ming’s training methods, so Meng Shenji considered the students’ objections and offered Lu Yang a place on the second team with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• Lu Yang accepted as long as the training would not waste his time, and Meng Shenji agreed to direct resources toward the second team while leaving the first team to Qin Ming.
• Dugu Bo returned to the Ye Family’s Medical Clinic and gave Dugu Yan a ten-thousand-year Ghost Poison Jellyfish Right Arm Bone to help her develop a stronger compound poison.
• Dugu Bo told Lu Yang he had brought three pieces of ten-thousand-year whale glue, though none was twenty thousand years old.

Lu Yang proposed condensing soul power into a Soul Power Core, and Dugu Bo recognized similarities to his Poison Pill before leaving to investigate the idea in seclusion. Lu Yang and Ye Lingling prepared medicinal baths with ten-thousand-year whale glue, improving their and Dugu Yan’s physical fitness, while Ye Qingling agreed not to publicize the formula.

• Lu Yang thanked Dugu Bo for helping him obtain ten-thousand-year whale glue and proposed condensing soul power into a crystalline core.
• Dugu Bo warned Lu Yang that attempting the method without precise control could damage his foundation, then showed him the Poison Pill formed when his Martial Soul evolved.
• Dugu Bo left for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to experiment in seclusion, disappointing Dugu Yan, who had hoped he would stay longer.
• Lu Yang and Ye Lingling prepared a medicinal bath with ten-thousand-year whale glue after Ye Qingling approved the formula.
• Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Lu Yang emerged from the baths with improved physical fitness, and Ye Qingling praised the whale glue’s effects.
• Lu Yang asked Ye Qingling not to publicize the formula, and she agreed to keep the Ye Family from promoting it.

Heaven Dou Academy held its annual Soul Fighting exam, where Lu Yang faced Yu Tianheng, who wanted to force him to stay away from Dugu Yan. The fight began after Lu Yang rejected Yu Tianheng’s wager, and Lu Yang recognized the openings in Yu Tianheng’s attack.

• Lu Yang waited for the exam with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, joking with them about the students’ fighting skills.
• The examiner paired Lu Yang with Yu Tianheng, whose hostility toward Lu Yang surprised him.
• Lu Yang and Yu Tianheng announced their Martial Souls and Soul Power levels, revealing that Lu Yang had reached level thirty-eight.
• Yu Tianheng proposed that the loser stay away from Dugu Yan, but Lu Yang mocked the wager and refused.
• Yu Tianheng attacked with his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Possession and Thunder Dragon Claw, leaving his center open for Lu Yang.

Lu Yang defeated Yu Tianheng in Heaven Dou Academy’s assessment, then rebuked Qin Ming for interrupting the match. After the assessment, Lu Yang, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling planned to cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well during the holidays, though Lu Yang first intended to inform the Crown Prince’s Residence.

• Lu Yang defeated Yu Tianheng without using his Martial Soul and threw him from the Soul Fighting platform.
• Qin Ming criticized Lu Yang, but Meng Shenji defended the match and Qin Ming returned to his seat under the education commissioners’ disapproving gazes.
• Yu Tianheng later won his second match decisively, while Dugu Yan impressed the education commissioners by revealing her evolved Martial Soul.
• Yu Tianheng resolved to train and challenge Lu Yang again so he could win Dugu Yan’s affection and gain Dugu Bo’s support.
• After the assessment, Lu Yang, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling planned to cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well during the holiday.
• Lu Yang planned to return to the Crown Prince’s Residence first and inform them before joining Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.

Lu Yang left Heaven Dou City with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling for Sunset Forest, while Qian Renxue chose to trust him and stop monitoring him. The group arrived at the forest and met Dugu Bo, who agreed to take them to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Qian Renxue decided not to send anyone to watch Lu Yang, believing he deserved more trust after giving her the medicinal bath formula.
• Lu Yang, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling discussed a visiting card from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and postponed answering until they returned to Heaven Dou City.
• The three reached Sunset Forest and entered it, planning to visit Dugu Bo at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before beginning their training.
• Dugu Bo appeared and scolded Dugu Yan for entering the forest with only two other Soul Elders, but relaxed when she revealed the Dugu Family butler was escorting them.
• Dugu Bo agreed to lead Dugu Yan, Lu Yang, and Ye Lingling inside.

Lu Yang and his companions began secluded cultivation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo shared his Soul Core insights and allowed Lu Yang to take the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew. Refining the herb unexpectedly sent Lu Yang into deep meditation, and he remained unconscious far beyond the planned seclusion period.

• Dugu Yan, Lu Yang, and Ye Lingling began cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Dugu Bo brought them food.
• Dugu Bo shared the Soul Core insights he had gained during more than half a year of seclusion, and Lu Yang considered how to prepare for condensing one.
• Lu Yang asked Dugu Bo for the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to strengthen his Mental Power before attempting a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring as his fourth ring.
• Dugu Bo let Lu Yang choose the herb, and Lu Yang returned with it despite Dugu Yan teasing him about raiding the medicinal garden.
• Lu Yang began refining the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and unexpectedly entered deep meditation as the Winged Dragon of the Sun's Divine Sense slowly fused with his Mental Power.
• Lu Yang eventually awoke after remaining in deep meditation far beyond the period he had planned for secluded cultivation.

After nearly half a year in Deep Meditation, Lu Yang awakened at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with his Sea of Consciousness partly fused with the Winged Dragon of the Sun’s divine consciousness. He decided to return to Heaven Dou City before seeking a fourth Soul Ring, concerned about the people who had been left wondering where he was.

• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling watched Lu Yang as energy ripples spread through the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Dugu Bo arrived to inspect him.
• The Winged Dragon of the Sun appeared above Lu Yang, its cry shook the well and poisonous barrier, and Lu Yang explained that his Martial Soul had not evolved before withdrawing it.
• Lu Yang told Dugu Yan that his physique and strength had improved, but kept the initial fusion between his Sea of Consciousness and the Winged Dragon of the Sun’s divine consciousness secret.
• Dugu Yan reminded Lu Yang that he had been meditating for nearly half a year, and he realized he needed to let everyone in Heaven Dou City know he was safe.
• Lu Yang decided to return to Heaven Dou City before searching for a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for his fourth Soul Ring, possibly traveling to the Calamity Mountains in the Star Luo Empire.

Lu Yang returned to Heaven Dou City and reached rank forty after deep meditation, so Qian Renxue approved his trip with She Long to the Calamity Mountains for a suitable fourth soul ring. They arrived after a long journey and headed deeper into the dangerous volcanic region in search of a Heavenlight Blazing Sun Vulture.

• Lu Yang returned to the Ye Family residence, then told Qian Renxue that his soul power had reached rank forty and demonstrated his Winged Dragon of the Sun martial soul.
• Lu Yang chose a fire- and light-attribute soul beast for his fourth soul ring, preferably a Heavenlight Blazing Sun Vulture, and She Long explained that it lived in the Calamity Mountains of the Star Luo Empire.
• Qian Renxue agreed to let She Long take Lu Yang to the Calamity Mountains, though she could not leave Heaven Dou City to accompany them.
• After resting for two days, Lu Yang and She Long traveled to the Calamity Mountains, where She Long's Titled Douluo aura drove off attacking soul beasts.
• Lu Yang and She Long pressed deeper into the mountains as Lu Yang searched for the vulture, whose innate soul skill he hoped to obtain.

Lu Yang and She Long found and hunted a Heavenlight Blazing Sun Vulture for Lu Yang’s fourth Soul Ring. As Lu Yang absorbed its unusually powerful ring, the Winged Dragon of the Sun destroyed the vulture’s remnant soul, and Lu Yang began imprinting his chosen Soul Skill.

• Lu Yang and She Long waited near the Lie Yan Vultures’ cliffs and spotted a golden-tailed Heavenlight Blazing Sun Vulture flying toward the mountains’ outskirts.
• She Long attacked the vulture, but it evaded his first strike, healed its leg, and fought back using its aerial advantage.
• She Long struck the vulture with his sixth Soul Skill, brought it down, and pinned its wing while Lu Yang killed it.
• She Long warned Lu Yang that the vulture’s Soul Ring seemed to be at least fifteen thousand years old, but Lu Yang began absorbing it with confidence.
• The vulture’s remnant soul attacked Lu Yang in his Sea of Consciousness until the Winged Dragon of the Sun appeared and shattered it with the Winged Dragon’s Cry.
• Lu Yang felt the chance to choose his own Soul Skill and began imprinting the fourth Soul Skill he had designed.

Lu Yang emerged from absorbing his fourth Soul Ring, whose skill combined powerful Ultimate Fire attacks with Soul Power recovery. After returning to Heaven Dou City, he went back to Heaven Dou Academy, where its two Soul Fighting Teams prepared to spar, leaving Dugu Yan eager to punish Yu Tianheng for pestering her.

• Lu Yang tested his fourth Soul Skill, Sunshine Pervades All, and saw it scorch the ground while restoring Soul Power.
• She Long brought Lu Yang back to Heaven Dou City, where Ci Xue explained that Bibi Dong had learned of Martial Soul Evolution and wanted Qian Renxue to obtain its method from Lu Yang.
• Lu Yang returned to the Crown Prince's Residence, noticed hostile or strange looks from people around him, and stayed alert despite Qian Renxue's unchanged manner toward him.
• Lu Yang returned to Heaven Dou Academy, reassuring Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin that he had not abandoned the second team.
• Meng Shenji and the others arranged a seven-on-seven spar between the academy's two teams before Qin Ming took the first team to its next training stage.
• Lu Yang learned that Yu Tianheng had angered Dugu Yan by pestering her, while Dugu Yan considered poisoning Lu Yang and Ye Lingling for agreeing with him.

Dugu Yan led the Second Team against Yu Tianheng’s First Team, but Lu Yang’s strength and Ye Lingling’s healing turned the match around. After the First Team’s members fell or conceded, Yu Tianheng insisted on fighting and was caught in Lu Yang’s explosive attack.

• Dugu Yan captained the Second Team and faced Yu Tianheng’s First Team in a Soul Fighting match.
• Yu Tianheng attacked the Second Team while Osler and Yu Feng gained the upper hand against their opponents.
• Dugu Yan’s poisonous mist forced Yu Feng and Osler back, and Lu Yang struck Yu Tianheng with a punch.
• Ye Lingling healed the Second Team as Lu Yang knocked Yu Feng out of the arena and blasted the First Team’s defenders and support members.
• Osler conceded, but Yu Tianheng refused to accept defeat and challenged Lu Yang again.
• Lu Yang’s Blazing Sun Shakes the Earth detonated against Yu Tianheng’s lightning, engulfing him in fiery rain as Osler fled the arena.