Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yi Xian was falsely accused of poisoning a patient and stealing treasure by Mu She and the patient’s wife, who stirred a mob against her. Xiao Yan arrived to protect her and began punishing the crowd according to their culpability, leaving the courtyard engulfed in flames.

• Xiao Yi Xian treated a grievously injured man, but after she returned to rest, his family and a mob burst into the Myriad Medicine Pavilion and accused her of poisoning him.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized that Yang Jinlian and Mu She had staged the accusations to seize treasure, while the crowd’s greed turned many of her former patients against her.
• Xiao Yan appeared in a burst of fire, embraced Xiao Yi Xian, and warned the remaining crowd that they could leave or face the consequences.
• Xiao Yan sealed the courtyard, immobilized Yang Jinlian and Mu She, and exposed the crowd’s actions and intentions with images of flame.
• Xiao Yan assigned punishments according to each person’s guilt, then ignited the courtyard and ordered them to count their sins.

Xiao Yan destroyed the people who had harmed Xiao Yi Xian, then returned to punish the survivors and flew with her to her valley. There, he examined the Woeful Poison Body’s seven-colored mark as Xiao Yi Xian blushed.

• Mu She and Jin Lian begged Xiao Yan for mercy, but he burned them and the others responsible for harming Xiao Yi Xian to ash.
• Xiao Yan returned as a flame incarnation, let the people whose sickness he had cured leave, and ordered the rest to write daily self-criticisms and copy laws for a month.
• Xiao Yan kept the remaining survivors separated behind a flame barrier and left them under his treatment plan.
• Xiao Yan flew with Xiao Yi Xian to her valley and reflected that she had avoided the dark path she took in the original story.
• Xiao Yan examined the short seven-colored mark of Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body as she lay blushing on the bed.

Xiao Yan used Heavenly Flame to suppress the toxins in Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body, but her emotional reaction caused her constitution to awaken and pushed her into a breakthrough. Xiao Yi Xian then turned the treatment into an excuse to help Xiao Yan deal with his fiery energy.

• Xiao Yan used a technique based on the Poison Pill Method to refine and suppress the toxins in Xiao Yi Xian’s body.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s emotions awakened her constitution, producing a new poison and raising her cultivation to the peak of two-star Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s poison spread to Xiao Yan and intensified the fiery energy inside him instead of harming him.
• Xiao Yi Xian teased Xiao Yan, tore his clothes into scraps, and pressed him onto the bed to help him release the Fire Poison.

Xiao Yan entered the Gray Fog Space and found a monk teaching a gloomy newcomer to answer insults and mistreatment with force. After touching the sad sack, Xiao Yan sensed how miserable his life was and decided the monk’s advice was not extreme enough.

• Xiao Yan entered the Gray Fog Space and heard a lively exchange between two newcomers.
• The monk urged the sad sack to curse and fight back against anyone who mistreated him.
• Tang San and Xiao Yan joined the conversation, and the monk continued encouraging the sad sack not to tolerate others’ demands or insults.
• Xiao Yan touched the sad sack, sensed his misery, and said they needed to bring over a more ruthless Third Brother to help him.

Xiao Yan learned about Lu Mingfei’s humiliating life and Tang San Zang’s reincarnation as Golden Cicada, then treated the monk as the group’s most promising patron. The others realized his Buddhist powers might be hard to use, but they still surrounded him jokingly to test whether eating his flesh would grant them benefits.

• Xiao Yan recognized that Lu Mingfei had awakened his memories only the previous night after years of enduring humiliation.
• Xiao Yan learned that Tang San Zang had been protected by Buddha Light, reincarnated as a monk, and retained memories from his lives as Golden Cicada.
• Xiao Yan teased Tang San Zang about answering Tathagata’s trolley problem by smashing the boulder, killing the evildoers, and beating up the questioner.
• Xiao Yan declared Tang San Zang their real Brother Three, while Tang San warned that his Buddhist techniques depended on compatible cultivation and world laws.
• Tang San wondered whether eating Tang San Zang’s flesh would work, prompting the others to surround the monk as he protested and shouted about his Mighty Heavenly Dragon.

Tang San trained Yu Xiaogang and Luo Sanpao on the journey toward Heaven Dou City, strengthening them with exercise and special resources. When Tang San sensed a soul master being hunted in the forest, his Nature Domain revealed a striking woman in black leather.

• Tang San gave Yu Xiaogang a restorative fruit and added deep-sea sunken silver to his training load.
• Tang San fed Luo Sanpao a radish cultivated with Blue Silver Emperor and Thunderlight Sky-Looping Dragon blood essence, then collected the metal from its basket.
• Tang San restored Yu Xiaogang to peak condition with his Everlasting Life soul skill after the run.
• Tang San recalled how he had recruited Yu Xiaogang as his eldest junior brother and devised a plan to develop his Golden Sacred Dragon martial soul.
• Tang San spread his Nature Domain through the forest and sensed a human soul master being pursued.
• Tang San spotted a woman in black leather with a catlike appearance through his domain.

Tang San sensed trouble in the forest and led Yu Xiaogang and Xiao Wu toward it to test their strength. They found Zhu Zhuqing fleeing pursuers with a serious wound, and she feared she would die before escaping.

• Tang San reflected on how soul rings could evolve martial souls and planned to help Yu Xiaogang raise Luo Sanpao into a Golden Sacred Dragon.
• Tang San sensed live targets nearby with his Blue Silver Domain and said the group could use them to test their strength.
• Yu Xiaogang agreed to fight, and Xiao Wu eagerly followed after Tang San gave her a stalk of Blue Silver Emperor.
• Zhu Zhuqing ran through Tiger-Dragon Hill with a bleeding wound while her pursuers closed in, suspecting one of her father's concubines had arranged the attack.

Zhu Zhuqing was rescued from her pursuers when Tang San summoned the forest’s power, but Zhu Qizhen and his two companions attacked anyway. Grandmaster killed one pursuer with his self-created technique, and Xiao Wu launched a kick at Zhu Qizhen.

• Zhu Zhuqing fled from Zhu Qizhen and two Soul Grandmasters until she was nearly exhausted and badly wounded.
• Tang San’s Blue Silver Domain stirred the forest, and he appeared with Grandmaster and Xiao Wu on a platform of Blue Silver Grass to protect Zhu Zhuqing.
• Tang San released the force restraining Zhu Qizhen and his companions, but Zhu Qizhen ordered them to attack again.
• Grandmaster fought alongside Luo Sanpao and killed one Soul Grandmaster with his Eighteen Palms of the Holy Dragon, replenishing his strength through the plants.
• Xiao Wu used Divine Speed and Rabbit Kicks Eagle to attack Zhu Qizhen.

Xiao Wu badly wounded Zhu Qizhen, while Tang San faced Wang Zhen’s attack as Zhu Zhuqing tried to shield him. Tang San revealed his overwhelming power through the Blue Silver Domain and trapped Wang Zhen, leaving the fight poised for his counterattack.

• Xiao Wu shattered Zhu Qizhen’s claws with a powerful kick and sent him crashing into a tree.
• Wang Zhen attacked Tang San with poisoned darts, believing him to be a support-type Soul Master.
• Zhu Zhuqing leapt in front of Tang San and prepared to take the darts with her own body.
• Tang San caught Zhu Zhuqing and activated his Blue Silver Domain, causing the forest’s plants to surge with life.
• Tang San trapped Wang Zhen in Blue Silver Emperors and unleashed the Heaven-Shrouding Great Hand Seal.

Tang San rescued Zhu Zhuqing from an assassination attempt, accepted her into the group, and brought her to Tiger-Dragon Hill to seek a soul ring. As Zhu Zhuqing reached level twenty, Tang San considered how to adapt his Soul Ring Condensation Method and asked her what she wanted for her second ring.

• Tang San used the forest’s power to defeat the assassin and secretly controlled Zhu Qizhen after saving his life.
• Zhu Zhuqing introduced herself, explained that a concubine of her father had likely ordered the attack, and offered to leave after killing Zhu Qizhen.
• Tang San buried Zhu Qizhen as fertilizer and decided to bring Zhu Zhuqing along with Xiao Wu and Grandmaster.
• Four hours later, Tang San led the group to a valley at Tiger-Dragon Hill suited to Zhu Zhuqing’s dark-type feline soul ring and Grandmaster’s light-type dragon soul ring.
• Tang San reflected on how soul rings and soul skills were formed, including his experiments with Xiao Wu’s soul ring condensation.
• Tang San noted that Zhu Zhuqing had reached level twenty and asked what she wanted from her second soul ring.

Tang San explained how soul rings could guide a martial soul’s evolution and discussed possible paths for Zhu Zhuqing’s Hell Spirit Cat. The group also discovered an unusual fifty-thousand-year-old lightning dragon, while Tang San recommended darkness, spirit, and Nine-Lives Cat traits for Zhu Zhuqing.

• Grandmaster explained that inherited soul-ring formulas suited ordinary soul masters, while Tang San’s nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-year rings showed that individual constitution and martial-soul strength changed what was possible.
• Tang San described three ways to evolve a martial soul: follow a related higher creature, develop an existing trait to its extreme, or add a compatible attribute, while Xiao Wu considered how those paths applied to herself.
• Tang San and Grandmaster examined a cave’s traces and identified its inhabitant as a likely mutated, roughly fifty-thousand-year-old lightning dragon that radiated light.
• When Zhu Zhuqing asked about her soul rings, Tang San advised preserving and developing her Hell Spirit Cat’s darkness affinity, potentially adding ghost or netherworld traits and evolving toward the Nine-Lives Cat.

Tang San planned Zhu Zhuqing’s and Xiao Wu’s fighting styles, then found an eight-hundred-year-old Nekomata that perfectly suited Zhu Zhuqing and taught her the Ring Condensation Method. The group approached the cat to negotiate, but it reacted fearfully until Xiao Wu calmed it and became Tang San’s interpreter.

• Tang San suggested Zhu Zhuqing develop a shadow-attribute Netherworld Nine-Tails Cat path, and she eagerly accepted his advice.
• Tang San proposed a melee marksman style and possible moon-rabbit path for Xiao Wu, then sensed an eight-hundred-year-old Nekomata that matched Zhu Zhuqing’s needs.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu taught Zhu Zhuqing the Ring Condensation Method, explaining how she could communicate with the Nekomata and form a Soul Ring without killing it.
• Tang San brought the group to the Nekomata, but it hissed at them and resisted his attempts to communicate through the Blue Silver Domain.
• Xiao Wu used her status as a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast to calm the Nekomata, then soothed it with catnip and prepared to translate Tang San’s offer.

Tang San helped Zhu Zhuqing form a soul ring by joining her with the Nekomata, which sacrificed half its essence and gained renewed vitality from Tang San’s care. Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the essence and emerged with an unusually powerful soul ring, a second tail, and a shadow-related ability that she began examining with Tang San, Grandmaster, and Xiao Wu.

• Tang San used the Ring Condensation Method to link Zhu Zhuqing and the Nekomata, while the Nekomata agreed to give her a portion of its essence.
• Tang San helped the Nekomata transfer its essence to Zhu Zhuqing, leaving one of its tails nearly transparent and weakening its aura.
• Tang San named the cat Xiao Er, then replenished its strength with plant vitality, soul power, blood essence, and herbs.
• Zhu Zhuqing finished absorbing the essence and formed a deep-yellow soul ring with roughly eight hundred and fifty years of energy.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed that her Hell Spirit Cat had gained a second, partly illusory tail and shadow-like properties, then said she could blow up her tail to block damage.

Zhu Zhuqing explained the new abilities she gained from Nekomata Xiao'er’s soul ring, and Tang San discovered a possible path toward soul ring fusion. After preparing to explore another cave on Tiger-Dragon Hill, the group set out with Grandmaster drawn toward the Thunder God Dragon.

• Zhu Zhuqing described how she could dissipate a soul ring to become partly spirit and shadow, survive attacks, recover, and unleash an enhanced soul skill.
• Zhu Zhuqing demonstrated Shadow Ambush, then used her first soul skill from within a shadow and strengthened it with stored power.
• Tang San and Grandmaster realized that Zhu Zhuqing’s soul skills could work together through Shadow Ambush, and Tang San praised the soul ring choice.
• Tang San connected Zhu Zhuqing’s Ring Dissipation to soul ring fusion and began theorizing how he could combine rings through shared attributes.
• Grandmaster agreed to explore another cave because the Thunder God Dragon there stirred something in him, and Tang San invited a nearby soul beast to come along.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang entered a cavern to investigate a powerful dragon Soul Beast, while Yu Xiaogang resolved to test Tang San’s dangerous Soul Ring removal method. The dragon spoke into their minds before Tang San could approach it, leaving both men stunned.

• Tang San left Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing outside the cavern and entered with Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang found golden crystals with traces of lightning and light power, prompting Yu Xiaogang to reveal his determination to undergo the Soul Ring removal method.
• Tang San warned Yu Xiaogang that the procedure could kill or cripple him, but Yu Xiaogang insisted he would rather risk everything than keep living in frustration.
• Yu Xiaogang headed deeper into the cavern, then stopped when Tang San pointed out that the Soul Beast might kill him before the procedure began.
• The Soul Beast spoke into Tang San and Yu Xiaogang’s minds, saying it could not bear to slap such a courageous human dead.

Tang San met the Holy Radiance Thunder God Dragon and negotiated for its essence and help with Yu Xiaogang’s mutation. He then helped Yu Xiaogang remove his and Luo Sanpao’s soul rings, and the chapter ended with their auras stabilizing.

• Tang San heard the Holy Radiance Thunder God Dragon speak and entered the cavern with Yu Xiaogang to meet it.
• The dragon explained its origins and lack of hostility toward humans, while Tang San proposed a mutually beneficial deal.
• Tang San secured a portion of the dragon’s essence and arranged for it to help Yu Xiaogang explore his mutated Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul.
• Tang San led Yu Xiaogang to a glowing pool and began helping him strip away his and Luo Sanpao’s soul rings.
• Tang San used Everlasting Life to keep Yu Xiaogang alive as he removed Luo Sanpao’s soul ring, and both of their auras eventually stabilized.

Tang San watched the Grandmaster absorb the Holy Radiance Thunder God Dragon’s power, transforming Luo Sanpao and advancing the Golden Sacred Dragon Training Plan. The Grandmaster and Luo Sanpao began to emerge from their transformation as Tang San considered his next moves in the Star Dou Great Forest and against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Tang San confirmed that the Grandmaster was directing most of the Holy Radiance Thunder God Dragon’s power into Luo Sanpao to complete the martial soul’s transformation.
• Tang San considered how the Grandmaster’s evolution could help him gain influence over the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and prepare for the Soul Hunting Plan.
• Tang San asked the Holy Radiance Thunder God Dragon about the hundred-thousand-year soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest and learned that many had been inactive.
• The Holy Radiance Thunder God Dragon explained that outsiders could not enter his cave unless he allowed them in.
• The Grandmaster’s soul ring turned pale purple as golden light enveloped him, and Luo Sanpao’s shell cracked while a dragon’s cry rang through the cave.

Yu Xiaogang completed his Martial Soul Evolution, becoming younger and more confident as Luo Sanpao transformed into a golden sacred dragon. Days later, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang entered Sunset Forest to face Dugu Bo, while Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing stayed behind in Heaven Dou City.

• Yu Xiaogang thanked Tang San for his rebirth, then sparred with him and emerged from the cave with a bruised face.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing were surprised by Yu Xiaogang’s transformation, and Tang San decided it was time to leave.
• Tang San sent Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing to Heaven Dou City before heading toward Sunset Forest with Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang saw an enrollment advertisement for Blue Tyrant Academy and refused to enter Heaven Dou City, so he went ahead as Tang San’s scout.
• Tang San reflected on the love triangles involving Tang Hao, Ah Yin, Tang Xiao, Liu Erlong, Frank, and Yu Xiaogang.

Tang San arrived at Sunset Forest with Grandmaster and confronted Dugu Bo, demonstrating that he could withstand and manage Dugu Bo’s poison. He proposed curing the poison inherited by Dugu Bo’s family, then began tracing its cause to generations of repeated soul ring combinations; Dugu Bo realized the pattern might explain his family’s deaths.

• Tang San used his Blue Silver Domain to locate the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then flew there with Grandmaster.
• Tang Hao surprised Dugu Bo with a slap, and Dugu Bo learned that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son.
• Tang San deliberately entered Dugu Bo’s poisonous light and used Everlasting Life to neutralize, suppress, and endure portions of the poison.
• Tang San offered to evolve Dugu Bo’s martial soul and cure the poison affecting his bloodline in exchange for access to the medicinal garden and three favors.
• Grandmaster explained how soul rings could alter a martial soul and bloodline, while Tang San connected the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor’s repeated soul ring combinations to the family’s inherited poison.
• Dugu Bo confirmed that his family had used mostly fixed soul ring combinations, then realized the pattern might explain why his relatives had died young.

Tang San explained that Dugu Bo's family poison came from a worsening soul-ring configuration passed down through the bloodline, and offered at least five ways to cure it. As Dugu Bo led them to a cave to talk, Tang San reunited with Tang Hao and teased him alongside Yu Xiaogang, who had become a Golden Sacred Dragon Soul Master.

• Tang San explained to Dugu Bo how his family's soul-ring choices had intensified their poison and caused generations of backlash.
• Tang San offered Dugu Bo at least five ways to cure the martial soul poison, and Dugu Bo led the group to a cave outside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang San greeted Tang Hao after three years apart, then introduced Yu Xiaogang as Tang Hao's nominal disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang bowed to Tang Hao, who welcomed him and promised to beat Tang San for making him suffer.
• Tang San teased Tang Hao by asking Yu Xiaogang whom he would save if Tang Hao and Tang San fell into water, so Yu Xiaogang retreated with Luo Sanpao.
• Tang Hao admired Yu Xiaogang's Golden Sacred Dragon and thought of their shared grievance against Qian Xunji.