Chapter Summaries

At a ball hosted by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Long Yue befriended Feng Xiaotian and heard him boast about his self-created soul skill. Long Yue concealed his soul bone and recognized that Feng Xiaotian’s talent had led him down the wrong path.

• Ning Rongrong dressed for the ball and asked Ning Fengzhi whether the Divine Realm Empire’s greatest genius, Long Yue, had arrived.
• Long Yue got Feng Xiaotian to call him “Brother Long” and offered to teach him how to win over Huo Wu.
• Feng Xiaotian defended his love for Huo Wu despite their five-year age gap, and Long Yue praised his philosophical explanation.
• Feng Xiaotian revealed his martial soul, Soul Elder level, and self-created skill, Gale Demon Wolf Twelve Consecutive Slashes, while Long Yue shared his own level but hid his soul bone.
• Long Yue realized that Feng Xiaotian’s confidence in his self-created skill had led him to waste his talent and risk taking the wrong path in cultivation.

Long Yue publicly challenged Feng Xiaotian’s devotion to his self-created soul skill, then defeated him with a single punch after Feng Xiaotian’s twelve-slash attack failed to harm him. The other academies still agreed to spar, while the gathered powers of the Douluo Continent prepared to test the Divine Realm Empire’s strongest young fighter.

• Long Yue mocked Feng Xiaotian for neglecting soul-power cultivation and challenged him to a duel without using soul skills.
• Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, Xue Wu, Yu Tianxin, and others debated who should fight Long Yue and whether they could bend the age rules.
• Long Yue announced before the gathered guests that Feng Xiaotian’s cultivation path was wrong, provoking Feng Xiaotian to release his martial soul and attack.
• Feng Xiaotian’s Wind Blade Array broke against Long Yue, and Long Yue withstood his Gale Demon Wolf Twelve Consecutive Slashes before knocking him unconscious with one punch.
• Ning Fengzhi used the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to heal Feng Xiaotian while Sima Lanxiao prepared medicine.
• Huo Wu and Yu Tianheng insisted the sparring continue, as the major powers of the Douluo Continent had gathered to assess Long Yue.

The Divine Realm Empire delegation arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy for an exchange match, while Sima Lanxiao warned Long Yue not to reveal battle armor. Long Yue told him that several divine smiths existed on the Douluo Continent, and the chapter ended as Long Yue challenged his opponents to fight him all at once.

• Sima Lanxiao warned Long Yue not to cause trouble or use battle armor during the match.
• Long Yue told Sima Lanxiao that Tang Hao, Tai Tan, and Lou Gao were divine smiths, prompting Sima Lanxiao to consider recruiting Lou Gao.
• Meng Shenji introduced the seven students selected to spar with Long Yue, including Gu Tianming, who replaced the injured Feng Xiaotian.
• Emperor Xue Ye declared the exchange match underway, and Long Yue challenged all his opponents to fight him at once.

Long Yue faced Gu Tianming in the first round of the wheel battle and shocked the audience by revealing four purple soul rings. As Sima Lanxiao explained the Divine Realm Empire’s soul spirit system, Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang secretly watched with Tang San and concluded that Long Yue had twin martial souls.

• Yu Tianheng chose a wheel battle, and Long Yue declared that he could defeat all seven opponents in succession.
• Gu Tianming of Godwind Academy introduced himself and activated his Sky-Piercing Warhawk martial soul, intending to wear Long Yue down.
• Long Yue released his Mountain Dragon King martial soul and revealed four purple soul rings, stunning the spectators.
• Sima Lanxiao explained that the Divine Realm Empire’s soul spirits, created by Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao, allowed people to obtain thousand-year soul rings.
• Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that Long Yue had twin martial souls.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San watched Long Yue dominate Gu Tianming, while Tang San envied Long Yue’s strength and imagined surpassing him. Long Yue won by knocking Gu Tianming unconscious, and the next match began with Huyan Li entering the arena.

• Yu Xiaogang learned that Blood-Weeping Douluo had four purple and five black soul rings, then took Tang San to Heaven Dou City to observe Long Yue’s matches.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San criticized Long Yue’s choice to add soul rings to his second martial soul while he was still a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor.
• Long Yue reshaped the arena with his first soul skill, trapped Gu Tianming in a stone prison, and endured Gu Tianming’s attacks without injury.
• Long Yue ignored calls to stop, knocked Gu Tianming unconscious, and claimed victory after Gu Tianming refused to concede.
• Yu Tianheng asked Huyan Li to draw out Long Yue’s soul skills, and Huyan Li entered the arena for the next match.

Long Yue’s Soul Spirits overwhelmed Huyan Li and eliminated him despite his Head Soul Bone, while Sima Lanxiao showcased their power to potential customers. Long Yue then challenged the remaining contestants to face him together.

• Huyan Li asked Long Yue about his second Soul Skill, then attacked after Long Yue answered.
• Long Yue ordered his monkey and cat Soul Spirits to fight Huyan Li, and Sima Lanxiao explained that Soul Spirits could battle alongside their masters.
• Huyan Zhen urged Huyan Li to use his Soul Bone as the Soul Spirits battered him, but the mountain sprite’s Swamp skill trapped him and helped eliminate him.
• Long Yue named the remaining contestants and challenged them to attack him together.

Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, Dugu Yan, Huo Wushuang, and Xue Wu joined forces to challenge Long Yue in a team battle, but his Mountain Dragon King bloodline left them unable to coordinate effectively. As the three dragon-type attackers charged, Long Yue unleashed his martial soul’s bloodline pressure, shocking Yu Yuanzhen and Bone Douluo Gu Rong.

• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin joined Dugu Yan, Huo Wushuang, and Xue Wu onstage to challenge Long Yue together.
• The five young Soul Masters introduced themselves, and the referee began the match.
• Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, Huo Wushuang, and Xue Wu released their martial souls as Xue Wu covered the arena in freezing rain and snow.
• Long Yue remained unaffected by the cold and invited the Heaven Dou Empire team to attack first.
• Huo Wushuang, Yu Tianheng, and Yu Tianxin charged, and Long Yue summoned the Mountain Dragon King’s silhouette and roared, forcing Yu Yuanzhen and Gu Rong to stand as dragon-type Soul Masters felt his bloodline pressure.

Long Yue dominated the arena with his Mountain Dragon martial soul, overpowering the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan’s fighters and eliminating the remaining opponents. Dugu Yan then kissed him after releasing a purple mist, leaving Qian Renxue furious and the watching nobles staring at her.

• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng attacked Long Yue with Blue Lightning Dragon Claw, but he caught the attacks and used Royal Authority to force them to their knees.
• Yu Tianheng tried to fight back with Thunderous Might and Thunderous Wrath, but Long Yue knocked him unconscious with a pat on the head.
• Long Yue sent Xue Wu and Huo Wushuang off the stage, then Dugu Yan approached him and admitted she was interested in him.
• Dugu Yan released a purple mist and kissed Long Yue, making Qian Renxue leap to her feet in anger.
• Ning Fengzhi, Xue Ye, and Prince Xue Xing turned to stare at Qian Renxue.

Long Yue defeated Dugu Yan’s poison attack and swept through the seven opponents in the exchange match. He then challenged Meng Shenji, a Soul Douluo, but Dugu Bo stepped forward to fight him instead.

• Dugu Yan used her Jade Phosphor Purple Poison on Long Yue, but he was unharmed and mocked her before throwing her out of the arena.
• Long Yue completed the exchange match undefeated, then challenged Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Chief Education Commissioner Meng Shenji.
• Long Yue criticized the changed rules and said he wanted to face a Soul Douluo to prove his strength.
• Sima Lanxiao tried to dissuade Long Yue, but Dugu Bo emerged from the crowd and accepted the challenge.

Dugu Bo confronted Long Yue after Long Yue injured Dugu Yan and kissed her, then revealed that he wanted Long Yue as his grandson-in-law. Long Yue invited Dugu Bo and Yanyan to the Spirit Ice Continent, prompting Dugu Bo to challenge him with the pressure of a Titled Douluo.

• Dugu Bo confronted Long Yue, and Sima Lanxiao intervened to stop the dispute from escalating.
• Dugu Bo demanded that Long Yue stay and become his grandson-in-law because he hoped Long Yue’s bloodline would strengthen the Dugu Family.
• Xue Qinghe objected to detaining an envoy, but Xue Ye declared that the Divine Realm Empire’s friends could not be held within Heaven Dou Empire territory.
• Long Yue asked Dugu Bo and Yanyan to come with him to the Spirit Ice Continent, and Xue Qinghe collapsed into his seat after hearing him call her Yanyan.
• Dugu Bo accused Long Yue of arrogance and unleashed the pressure of a Titled Douluo against him.

Long Yue endured Dugu Bo’s escalating Soul Power pressure to prove his strength before the Heaven Dou Royal Academy crowd. Dugu Bo stopped at Titled Douluo level and praised him, leaving Long Yue celebrated as a super genius from Monster Academy.

• Dugu Bo tested Long Yue by concentrating Soul Power pressure on him, while the spectators watched anxiously.
• Bone Douluo Gu Rong explained that Long Yue’s Mountain Dragon King was a noble, powerful Martial Soul, and Ning Fengzhi said its strength also depended on its wielder.
• Long Yue remained standing as Dugu Bo raised the pressure to the level of a Titled Douluo, despite his strain as a Soul Ancestor.
• Dugu Bo ended the test, acknowledged Long Yue’s achievement, and declared him unrivaled among the continent’s geniuses.
• The crowd erupted, and Long Yue announced his name and proclaimed himself a super genius from the Divine Realm Empire’s Monster Academy.

Long Yue won Dugu Yan’s affection and revealed to Dugu Bo that he wanted to build his own faction to oppose Tang San, whose heroic image in the Divine Realm Empire made killing him directly politically impossible. He offered Dugu Bo a way to solve the Dugu Family’s poison problem.

• Dugu Bo pressed Long Yue to answer whether he liked Dugu Yan, and Long Yue said that he did.
• Long Yue admitted that he wanted to build a team he could control and said he intended to kill Tang San and destroy his heroic reputation.
• Long Yue explained that the Divine Realm Empire revered Tang San, so simply killing him would make Long Yue appear to be a villain.
• Long Yue decided to bring Tang San among the empire’s people so they could see his true nature for themselves.
• Long Yue told Dugu Bo he could solve the poison problem caused by the Dugu Family’s cultivation technique.

Long Yue persuaded Dugu Bo that soul bones and the Divine Realm Empire’s medical expertise could help manage his poison, then recruited him to eliminate the Strength Clan. After the empires signed an equal treaty, Dugu Bo poisoned the Strength Clan’s well and went into hiding with Dugu Yan, while rumors spread about who had carried out the attack.

• Long Yue explained how Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan could contain their toxins in soul bones and urged Dugu Bo to seek treatment in the Divine Realm Empire.
• Dugu Bo agreed to help Long Yue destroy the Strength Clan, and Long Yue told him Spirit Hall had massacred the Defense Clan in Longxing City.
• Sima Lanxiao and Xue Ye signed the Heaven Dou City Treaty, establishing equal diplomatic relations and opening trade between the empires.
• Dugu Bo poisoned the Strength Clan’s well and left the estate, expecting the deaths to be discovered by the following day.
• Dugu Bo took Dugu Yan to hide in the Herb Garden, and news of the Strength Clan’s poisoning stirred rumors across Heaven Dou City.

Long Yue, Qilin Douluo Tong Yu, and Joander traveled toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to register and retrieve immortal herbs for the Divine Realm Empire. Along the way, Long Yue learned how the allotments were assigned and discussed Emperor Dai Tianling’s effort to bring the Spirit Pagoda under imperial control.

• Long Yue questioned why Joander was accompanying them, and Joander explained that he was registering the immortal herbs and retrieving those the emperor required.
• Joander told Long Yue that Emperor Dai Tianling had selected the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum for the future Crown Prince, while Princess Dai Yun'er would receive the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew using the Spirit Pagoda's allotment.
• Joander revealed that Imperial Preceptor En Ci had given Long Yue his allotment, leaving Long Yue with two immortal herb allotments.
• Joander explained that Emperor Dai Tianling had been stripping Zhang Geyang of authority in the Spirit Pagoda since contact with its headquarters was lost.
• Long Yue suggested that the Spirit Pagoda could vote on its allotment, allowing the local faction loyal to the emperor to outnumber Zhang Geyang's faction and transfer the herb to the emperor.

Long Yue explained how Emperor Dai Tianling used quotas and factional rivalries to keep Zhang Geyang and the Spirit Pagoda in check over the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s Immortal Herbs. Long Yue chose two poisonous herbs, recognizing that his teacher En Ci had arranged for him to take them.

• Long Yue said the empire needed to support a powerful Spirit Pagoda figure against Zhang Geyang, and Joander identified the branch’s third-ranking member, a Level 95 Super Douluo surnamed Xu, as a suitable candidate.
• Long Yue and Joander explained that claiming the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as imperial property would unite the Spirit Pagoda and great clans against Emperor Dai Tianling, while Qilin Douluo Tong Yu offered to guard it.
• Long Yue praised Emperor Dai Tianling’s quota system, noting that the emperor still controlled who received herbs and the order in which they chose.
• Long Yue listed the imperial family’s, Worship Hall’s, and Monster Academy’s slots, then chose the octagonal mysterious ice grass and the infernal delicate apricot after realizing En Ci had guided his choice.

Long Yue and his companions reached Sunset Forest and discovered that Dugu Bo had been living at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Long Yue revealed his plan to keep the well out of the emperor’s control, leaving Joander rejecting a proposal for joint development.

• Long Yue, Joander, and Tong Yu found a sulfurous hot spring in Sunset Forest, where Dugu Bo emerged from the bushes.
• Dugu Bo pretended that Long Yue had not known his hiding place, while Long Yue concealed their plan to protect the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well from imperial control.
• Joander realized that Dugu Bo owned the well and questioned the Tang Sect’s account of Tang San discovering it by chance.
• Long Yue offered Dugu Bo either a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone for ownership or a joint arrangement recognizing the Dugu Family’s work maintaining the well.
• Joander rejected joint development because the emperor wanted the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as his private domain.

Long Yue, Joander, Tong Yu, and Dugu Bo reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and agreed that Dugu Bo would negotiate its ownership with the emperor. Long Yue harvested the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot and ate them, leaving the others astonished.

• Dugu Bo led Long Yue, Joander, and Tong Yu into the valley and showed them the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo allowed them to take some immortal herbs and asked to meet the emperor to discuss the well’s ownership.
• Dugu Bo revealed he had left a letter about the well in Heaven Dou City and had a friend in Spirit Hall.
• Long Yue identified the aromatic silk beauty, then harvested the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot.
• Long Yue combined and ate the two extreme herbs, astonishing Joander.

Long Yue absorbed the immortal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ souls helped his Mountain Dragon bloodline evolve. After he reached level fifty and left with Joander and Dugu Bo, Tai Tan confronted them over the Strength Clan’s destruction, and Long Yue’s role in luring him there became clear.

• Long Yue endured the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s power as the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ souls drew close to his Mountain Dragon King bloodline and passed power into him.
• Long Yue’s bloodline evolved, and after cultivating for an unknown time, he emerged with the medicinal power still taking effect.
• Joander said he had collected the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum and the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, while Long Yue revealed he had reached level fifty and strengthened his martial soul.
• Long Yue and his companions said farewell to Tong Yu, who stayed behind at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and left with Joander, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Yan.
• Tai Tan confronted Dugu Bo in Sunset Forest over the Strength Clan’s destruction, and Long Yue introduced Tai Tan and Joander to each other.
• Tai Tan recognized Long Yue and accused him and Dugu Bo of conspiring together after learning the Divine Realm Empire was involved.

Tai Tan confronted Dugu Bo and the others over the poisoning that killed most of the Strength Clan, including his son and grandson. Long Yue tried to redirect his anger toward Spirit Hall, but Tai Tan discovered Dugu Bo’s poison and attacked, leaving Dugu Bo to shield Long Yue as Joander prepared a Level 7 Soul Tool.

• Tai Tan accused Joander and Dugu Bo of responsibility for the Strength Clan’s deaths and revealed that the poison had killed more than four hundred clan members, including Tai Nuo and Tai Long.
• Dugu Bo admitted he could not handle Tai Tan’s direct assault, while Joander suggested retreating to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Long Yue asked whether Tai Tan’s entire family had died, then claimed Spirit Hall and Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan had killed Niu Gao and the Defense Clan.
• Tai Tan caught Dugu Bo releasing poison and attacked, prompting Dugu Bo to transform into his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Avatar and meet Tai Tan’s Great Strength Gorilla Martial Soul Avatar.
• Dugu Bo dodged Long Yue’s warning and revealed Joander behind him with a Level 7 Thunder Heavy Cannon.

Long Yue, Joander, and Dugu Bo killed Tai Tan, wiping out the Strength Clan, and discussed Long Yue’s plan to weaken the Tang Sect for the empire’s sake. They rejoined the Divine Realm Empire’s Diplomatic Mission with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, while Joander agreed to report Long Yue’s reasoning to His Majesty.

• Joander fired a Level 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell at Tai Tan, leaving him badly burned and paralyzed by lightning.
• Long Yue trapped Tai Tan in the earth and attacked him, while Dugu Bo petrified him with his Ten-Thousand-Year Medusa Head Soul Bone skill.
• Long Yue crushed Tai Tan’s stone body and told Joander he wanted to prevent the Tang Sect from threatening the empire.
• Joander agreed to tell His Majesty what Long Yue had said and recognized Long Yue’s strength and political judgment.
• Joander, Long Yue, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Yan caught up with the Divine Realm Empire’s Diplomatic Mission, where Sima Lanxiao welcomed the Dugu Family pair.