Chapter Summaries

Ji Hongchen taught Dugu Bo the Soul Core Method, curing the Dugu Family’s toxin problem and earning access to Dugu Bo’s Medicinal Garden. After returning to Heaven Dou City to keep his promise to Ning Rongrong, Ji Hongchen found Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong waiting in her courtyard.

• Ji Hongchen asked Dugu Bo to protect him in exchange for teaching him a family secret art, and Dugu Bo swore to do so if it solved his family’s flaw.
• Dugu Bo brought Ji Hongchen to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Ji Hongchen explained the Soul Core Method.
• Dugu Bo formed a Jade-Green Poison Soul Core, strengthened his toxins, and reached rank ninety-three; he offered Ji Hongchen the Medicinal Garden’s herbs.
• Ji Hongchen declined Dugu Bo’s offer to hunt for his third soul ring because he had promised to hunt for soul rings with Ning Rongrong.
• Ji Hongchen returned to Ning Rongrong’s courtyard, where Chen Xin admired his sword flight and Ning Rongrong greeted him affectionately.
• Gu Rong confronted Ji Hongchen, but Ning Rongrong defended him and Gu Rong silently fumed.

Ji Hongchen met Ning Fengzhi and discussed his possible methods for evolving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and using whale rubber, then joined Ning Rongrong and three Titled Douluos on a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest. There, he recognized a powerful Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff and asked the others to capture it for him, but the beast badly surprised Dugu Bo.

• Ji Hongchen greeted Ning Fengzhi, who approved of him and proposed arranging his engagement to Ning Rongrong.
• Ji Hongchen told Ning Fengzhi he had leads on a second martial soul evolution and awakening the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and explained how whale rubber should be used.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Ji Hongchen five million Gold Soul Coins and suggested that the group hunt soul rings in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ji Hongchen, Ning Rongrong, Ning Fengzhi, Dugu Bo, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong reached the forest, where a Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff roared at them.
• Ji Hongchen asked the three Titled Douluos to capture the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, but Dugu Bo underestimated it and was knocked back by its charge.
• Gu Rong rushed to fight the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff after mocking Dugu Bo.

Ji Hongchen obtained his third soul ring from the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff and condensed his sword dao soul core while absorbing it. After revealing his powerful new soul skill and reaching soul power rank thirty-three, he agreed to continue searching the Star Dou Great Forest for Ning Rongrong’s second soul ring.

• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff knocked Gu Rong aside, then Chen Xin and Ji Hongchen wounded and killed it with their sword skills.
• Ji Hongchen absorbed the beast’s purple soul ring while guiding its soul power into his sword dao soul core prototype, successfully condensing the core.
• Ji Hongchen revealed his third soul skill, Momentum, which stacked sword momentum to increase all his attributes, and announced that his soul power had reached rank thirty-three.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Ji Hongchen and proposed holding an engagement ceremony for him and Ning Rongrong after they returned.
• Ji Hongchen asked the group to keep searching for a comprehensive support soul ring for Ning Rongrong in the Star Dou Great Forest.

After gaining a powerful domain and beginning to study pill refinement, Ji Hongchen attended his engagement banquet, where he met Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, secretly Qian Renxue. Xue Qinghe warmly invited Ji Hongchen to call him elder brother.

• Ning Rongrong acquired her second Soul Skill, which amplified Ji Hongchen’s attributes by at least 50%.
• Ji Hongchen named his third sword Golden Rainbow and discovered that it granted him a Peerless Domain, making him immune to control and boosting his attributes.
• Ji Hongchen reassured Ye Qingxian that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would not treat the Ye Family as an enemy, then borrowed its Herbal Compendium and began practicing pill refinement.
• Ning Rongrong brought Ji Hongchen to the engagement banquet, where he mingled with Heaven Dou nobles.
• Ning Fengzhi introduced Ji Hongchen to Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, who praised his talent and asked him to call him elder brother.

Ji Hongchen continued training and returned to the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, where he faced Yu Tianheng in a highly anticipated match. After Ji Hongchen claimed he could defeat him with one strike, Yu Tianheng prepared to fight.

• Xue Qinghe gave Ji Hongchen a token to contact him at the imperial palace, and Ning Fengzhi gave him a piece of fifty-thousand-year whale glue.
• Xue Qinghe rejected Snake Lance Douluo’s suggestion to eliminate Ji Hongchen, choosing instead to recruit him while securing his position as crown prince.
• Ji Hongchen mastered the Herbal Compendium, continued practicing alchemy, and went to the arena to gain combat experience using Body Technique.
• Dugu Yan recognized Ji Hongchen at the arena and told Yu Tianheng that he was her friend and that her grandfather thought highly of him.
• Yu Tianheng and Ji Hongchen were announced as opponents, and Ji Hongchen said he needed only one strike to defeat Yu Tianheng.

Ji Hongchen defeated Yu Tianheng with one sword strike, then spent a year refining pills with a perfect success rate. After emerging from seclusion, he went to find Dugu Bo and prepare for work at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Dugu Bo quietly considered how to bring him closer to Dugu Yan.

• Ji Hongchen defeated Yu Tianheng in one strike, earning the Great Soul Arena title of Sword Lord and praise from Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi.
• Ning Fengzhi offered Ji Hongchen the sect’s rare ores, and Ji Hongchen taught Chen Xin the basics of Sword Flight.
• After a year in seclusion, Ji Hongchen reached level thirty-four and completed one hundred successful pill refinements in one hundred attempts.
• Ji Hongchen told Ning Rongrong he was leaving to prepare a surprise for her, then went to the Ye Family Pharmacy to meet Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan brought Ji Hongchen to the Dugu Family residence, where Dugu Bo noticed her bashful demeanor and secretly planned to catch Ji Hongchen off guard.

At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Ji Hongchen refined several immortal herbs into pills, helping Dugu Bo advance and strengthening his own spiritual power. After consuming a pill made from two deadly herbs, Ji Hongchen tempered a golden body and gained immunity to ice, fire, and poison.

• Ji Hongchen explained the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss’s toxin-amplifying properties and refined three Snow-Colored Swan Pills, which he gave to Dugu Bo.
• Ji Hongchen gave Dugu Bo aromatic silk beauty and urged him to refine a pill at the spring, where Dugu Bo broke through to rank ninety-four.
• Ji Hongchen refined Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew into pills, consumed two, and increased his spiritual power.
• Ji Hongchen refined the eight-petal immortal orchid and the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot into pills.
• Ji Hongchen consumed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Pill, broke through to rank thirty-five, and gained a golden body that made him immune to ice, fire, and poison.

After reaching Rank 39, Ji Hongchen returned to Ning Rongrong and gave her an Aromatic Silk Pill, evolving her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. He then took Rongrong to meet Ning Fengzhi, who was considering Ji Hongchen’s proposal to gather auxiliary soul masters.

• Ji Hongchen refined the Aromatic Silk Beauty into one top-grade pill and two lesser pills, then absorbed several pills to strengthen his cultivation.
• Half a month later, Ji Hongchen reached Rank 39, and he told Dugu Bo that he liked Dugu Yanzi but would wait until he was strong enough to support the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda before making a commitment.
• Ji Hongchen returned to Ning Rongrong and gave her the top-grade Aromatic Silk Pill, which evolved her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong thanked Ji Hongchen enthusiastically, and he said they should take two remaining pills to Ning Fengzhi as a surprise.
• Ning Fengzhi considered Ji Hongchen’s proposal to bring auxiliary soul masters together under the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Ji Hongchen helped Ning Rongrong evolve her martial soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, prompting Ning Fengzhi to evolve his own and rename the sect. Ning Rongrong absorbed an eighty-thousand-year skull bone and gained a powerful support skill.

• Ning Rongrong showed Ning Fengzhi that her martial soul had evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and credited Ji Hongchen.
• Ji Hongchen explained that his research had produced pills that could evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Ning Fengzhi evolved his martial soul into the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda after taking one.
• Ji Hongchen asked Ning Fengzhi to give Ning Rongrong the sect’s eighty-thousand-year spiritual head soul bone, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to rename the sect the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Sword Douluo led Ji Hongchen and Ning Rongrong to the treasury, where Ning Rongrong absorbed the skull bone and reached rank twenty-eight.
• Ning Rongrong gained the Radiant Blessing soul bone skill, which reduced soul power consumption, increased recovery and spiritual power, and boosted all attributes.

Ji Hongchen returned to Nuoding City with Ning Rongrong and gave Xiao Chenyu a pill to help him advance, then visited Nuoding Academy. Yu Xiaogang confronted Ji Hongchen and demanded an explanation for his martial soul's second awakening.

• Ji Hongchen invited Ning Rongrong on a trip and brought Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo along for protection.
• Ji Hongchen learned Xiao Chenyu had graduated and taken on city lord duties, then gave him a pill meant to help him reach at least Soul King level.
• Xiao Chenyu told Ji Hongchen that Yu Xiaogang had become obsessed with researching martial soul second awakenings and had knocked himself out while studying his martial soul's stench.
• Ji Hongchen and Ning Rongrong arrived at Nuoding Academy, where students recognized Ji Hongchen as its youngest Soul Grandmaster.
• Yu Xiaogang pushed through the crowd, blocked Ji Hongchen, and demanded that he explain his second awakening.

Yu Xiaogang tried to obtain Ji Hongchen’s martial soul second-awakening method and claimed Ji Hongchen’s martial soul was defective, but Ji exposed his mistake. Tang San then challenged Ji to a bet, with Xiao Wu’s debt and Tang San’s jealousy adding to the confrontation.

• Ning Rongrong rebuked Yu Xiaogang for demanding Ji Hongchen’s research, and Ji slapped Yu twice after he threatened her and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tang San arrived and defended Yu Xiaogang, who offered to take Ji Hongchen as his disciple and claimed he could repair Ji’s supposedly defective martial soul.
• Ji Hongchen summoned his Jinghong Sword, disproving Yu Xiaogang’s claim and leaving Yu stunned and resentful.
• Tang San challenged Ji to a bet for the second-awakening method and an apology, but Ji refused and called Yu Xiaogang trash.
• Xiao Wu greeted Ji Hongchen, who demanded repayment of three hundred million Gold Soul Coins; her playful response made Tang San jealous.
• Tang San challenged Ji again, demanding that Ji stop pestering Xiao Wu and accept Yu Xiaogang as his master if Tang won, and Ji proposed that he could take any one thing of Tang’s if he won.

Ji Hongchen defeated Tang San, while Yu Xiaogang explained away Ji Hongchen’s strength as the result of twin martial souls and reassured Tang San about his future. As Ji Hongchen took Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu to find a treasure, Tang Hao pursued him but was confronted by Dugu Bo and Jian Chen Xin.

• Tang San attacked Ji Hongchen with Blue Silver Entanglement, but Ji Hongchen cut through it and struck Tang San with sword qi, knocking him unconscious.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Ji Hongchen of murder, then carried Tang San away without paying the wager; in the infirmary, he concluded Ji Hongchen had twin martial souls and encouraged Tang San to focus on his Blue Silver Grass.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu argued over Ji Hongchen, who took both girls on the Jinghong Sword to find a treasure.
• Tang Hao chased after Ji Hongchen in a rage, but Dugu Bo stopped him and mocked him by asking where his wife was.
• Jian Chen Xin arrived and challenged Tang Hao by asking what would happen if he joined Dugu Bo.

Ji Hongchen took Ah Yin, the Blue Silver Emperor, from Tang Hao’s hidden cave and brought her to Suotuo City. After revealing that he knew Xiao Wu was a soul beast, he promised to protect her, and she accepted his reassurance.

• Jian Chen Xin joined Dugu Bo to confront Tang Hao, who withdrew after being warned not to interfere with Ji Hongchen.
• Ji Hongchen entered the cave behind the waterfall and uprooted Ah Yin, then took a hidden wooden box and left a replacement Blue Silver Grass plant behind.
• After reaching Suotuo City, Ji Hongchen explained Ah Yin’s identity to Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu asked whether soul beasts deserved to die, and Ji Hongchen told her he would not hurt a soul beast who was his friend.
• Ji Hongchen told Xiao Wu that he knew her true identity and promised to protect her, and she threw herself into his arms and thanked him.

Ji Hongchen protected Xiao Wu after Jian Chen Xin and Dugu Bo discovered her identity, then went shopping with Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong. In Suotuo City, he struck Ma Hongjun for insulting the girls and faced Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun’s attack, which his fire immunity nullified.

• Ji Hongchen asked Jian Chen Xin and Dugu Bo not to attack Xiao Wu or expose her identity, and they agreed to respect his choice.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu both stayed close to Ji Hongchen, and the next day the girls agreed to go shopping together.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun went to Suotuo City, visited a pleasure house, and then spotted Ji Hongchen with Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong.
• Ma Hongjun insulted the girls, so Ji Hongchen slapped him twice and sent him flying.
• Dai Mubai confronted Ji Hongchen as Ma Hongjun used Phoenix Fire Line, but Ji Hongchen extinguished the flames and declared his constitution made him immune to fire.

Ji Hongchen maimed Ma Hongjun after Ma Hongjun attacked him, while Dai Mubai fled and Shrek Academy’s teachers prepared to retaliate. That evening, Ji Hongchen took Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu to compete in soul fighting matches.

• Ji Hongchen severed Ma Hongjun’s root with a sword strike, and Dai Mubai threatened him before retreating with Ma Hongjun.
• Ning Rongrong dismissed Dai Mubai as a coward, and Ji Hongchen invited her to join him in soul fighting matches; Xiao Wu asked to join too.
• Dai Mubai brought Ma Hongjun to Flender and claimed Ji Hongchen had attacked him without provocation.
• Shao Xin confirmed Ma Hongjun’s injury could not be healed, and Flender assembled Zhao Wuji, Li Yusong, and Lu Qibin to confront Ji Hongchen.
• Ji Hongchen fought soul matches with Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu, forming the teams Nine Swords Unmatched and Sword Dance in the Mortal World.

Ji Hongchen and his companions were ambushed by Flender and the others, and Ji Hongchen unleashed his three swords to kill Lu Qibin and cripple Zhao Wuji before exhausting himself. Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo arrived to protect him, while Flender tried to avert their wrath by claiming the attackers belonged to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.

• Lu Qibin trapped Ji Hongchen in his Star Luo Formation, and Flender demanded that Ji Hongchen cut off his arms.
• Zhao Wuji attacked Ji Hongchen, while Ning Rongrong amplified Ji Hongchen’s strength with her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ji Hongchen activated his armor, sword core, and domain, then unleashed his Ten Thousand Swords technique and killed Lu Qibin.
• Ji Hongchen’s sword qi severed Zhao Wuji’s arm, leaving Ji Hongchen drained and barely able to stand.
• Flender moved to kill Ji Hongchen, but Sword Douluo stopped him and Dugu Bo shielded Ji Hongchen.
• Flender presented a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect token and offered compensation, hoping the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would spare them.

Dugu Bo forced Flender and Shrek Academy to pay for their attack, while Ji Hongchen revealed his unusual sword abilities and prepared to break through in Suotuo City. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Er Ming attacked Ji Hongchen’s group to rescue Xiao Wu, and Ji Hongchen said he wanted Er Ming’s soul ring but was seeking a way to spare him.

• Dugu Bo beat Flender and Li Yusong, killed Li Yusong, and forced Flender to hand over Shrek Academy’s savings before warning him not to return.
• Ji Hongchen showed Sword Douluo that his three swords were separate martial souls, then decided to stay in Suotuo City to break through.
• Ji Hongchen reached level forty and searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable soul beast when Xiao Wu sensed that Er Ming was approaching.
• Er Ming charged at Ji Hongchen’s group to free Xiao Wu, but Jian Chen Xin and Dugu Bo struck him with their strongest soul skills.
• Xiao Wu stopped Er Ming from fighting and pleaded with Ji Hongchen to spare him, while Ji Hongchen admitted he wanted Er Ming’s soul ring and claimed he was seeking a way to get the best of both worlds.

Ji Hongchen persuaded Xiao Wu and Er Ming to trust his plan to help them become divine beasts, then absorbed a ten-thousand-year soul ring and gained the Sun-Piercer sword. He revealed that its Fourth Soul Skill could break soul skills and domains, and the chapter ended with him concealing the divine power and Flesh-and-Blood Battle Armor inheritance he had also gained.

• Ji Hongchen convinced Er Ming to become his future soul ring by promising to resurrect him as a divine beast after reaching godhood, and Er Ming agreed.
• Ji Hongchen gave Er Ming pills for himself and Da Ming, then continued hunting soul beasts with Xiao Wu.
• Ji Hongchen killed a Jade-Eyed Golden-Clawed Spider and absorbed its ten-thousand-year soul ring after four hours.
• Ji Hongchen gained the golden Sun-Piercer sword and explained that it could attack an opponent's source and life essence.
• Ji Hongchen used Sun-Piercer's Fourth Soul Skill, Break, to shatter Jian Chen Xin's Seven Kill Domain, claiming the skill could even break a god's domain.
• Ji Hongchen also gained a trace of divine power and an inheritance for Flesh-and-Blood Battle Armor, but kept these gains to himself.

Ji Hongchen returned to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect for resources, then brought Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to stay at his home while they cultivated. He began teaching Ye Lingling pill refining, and she resolved to pursue her feelings for him despite Dugu Yan liking him.

• Dugu Bo felt urgency about Dugu Yan’s one-sided love for Ji Hongchen and considered using his old methods to bring them together.
• Ji Hongchen visited the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi gave him fifty million Gold Soul Coins and the sect’s collected metals and minerals.
• Dugu Yan welcomed Ji Hongchen and Dugu Bo home, and Ji Hongchen gave her a pill to help her withstand the soul shock of a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo suggested Dugu Yan stay at Ji Hongchen’s home while he cultivated, and Ji Hongchen invited Ye Lingling along as well.
• Ji Hongchen taught Ye Lingling to refine pills, and she resolved not to give up on him even though Dugu Yan liked him.

Ji Hongchen joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy alongside Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu, after Dugu Yan used ten-thousand-year whale glue to seduce him. The academy’s commissioners welcomed the prodigies and assigned Ji Hongchen to its First Team to prepare for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament.

• Dugu Yan pretended to suffer from the effects of ten-thousand-year whale glue and seduced Ji Hongchen, then woke pleased that she had become his first lover.
• A few days later, Ji Hongchen agreed to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu.
• Bai Baoshan, Meng Shenji, and Zhi Lin reviewed the newcomers’ files and decided to prepare for their arrival and notify the Crown Prince.
• Meng Shenji welcomed Ji Hongchen at the Education Committee Hall and invited him to join the academy’s First Team, and Ji Hongchen accepted.
• Meng Shenji introduced Ji Hongchen and his companions to Qin Ming, who promised to train them.