Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Dugu Bo traveled to Heaven Dou City so Xiao Yan could auction his pills, which the auction house tested and accepted for competitive bidding. Afterward, they spotted Ning Fengzhi and Sword Dao Chen Xin, whose attention turned toward the disguised Xiao Yan, and Dugu Bo reassured him as the auction was about to begin.

• Dugu Bo and Xiao Yan flew from Sunset Forest to Heaven Dou City, with Dugu Bo mistaking Xiao Yan's Purple Cloud Wings for an external soul bone.
• Xiao Yan concealed his identity and brought four kinds of pills to the Heaven Dou Auction House for appraisal.
• The appraiser tested the pills, accepted them for auction, and gave Xiao Yan a VIP card with his seat number.
• Xiao Yan and Dugu Bo saw Ning Fengzhi and Sword Dao Chen Xin arrive, and Dugu Bo identified them as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's leader and guardian Douluo.
• Chen Xin sensed Xiao Yan watching him and gave him a cold glance before entering the auction house; Dugu Bo reassured Xiao Yan that they were safe.

Xiao Yan watched his medicines sell at the Heaven Dou auction and saw Ning Fengzhi buy a Foundation Pill, then left to settle his sales. Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin arrived at Xiao Yan’s reception room, leaving him face-to-face with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect leaders.

• Xiao Yan and Dugu Bo took VIP seats at the auction, where Chen Xin studied Xiao Yan and Ning Fengzhi wondered why Dugu Bo accompanied him.
• Dugu Bo explained that the auction house treated its maids as property, and Xiao Yan resolved to distribute Foundation Pills to people who lacked Innate Soul Power.
• The auctioneer sold a young girl to Ning Fengzhi, who said he had bought her because she still had her soul.
• Xiao Yan’s Blood-Coagulating Powder impressed the crowd and sold to Marshal Ge Long for twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• The auctioneer presented Xiao Yan’s Foundation Pill, and Ning Fengzhi bought it for five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Xiao Yan went to settle his auction sales, but Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin entered the reception room instead of auction house managers.

Ning Fengzhi and Spirit Hall learned of Xiao Yan’s pill and began investigating the Soul Hall, while Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to avoid Liu Erlong ended in a humiliating crisis. Yu Luomian caught Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong together, condemned their relationship, and left them facing his response.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Dugu Bo to refine more Foundation Pills, but Dugu Bo explained that Xiao Yan had made them, and Xiao Yan refused to produce more or join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered Sword Douluo to investigate Xiao Yan and the Soul Hall, while Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan to recruit the pill refiner or eliminate him.
• Ma Hongjun’s evil fire erupted again, and Yu Xiaogang suffered through several hours before Liu Erlong comforted him in her room.
• Liu Erlong confessed that she would not let Yu Xiaogang go, and Yu Xiaogang finally gave in until Yu Luomian entered and found them together.
• Yu Luomian condemned their relationship, revealed that Yu Xiaogang’s parents had been close relatives, and dismissed his claims of being a master; Liu Erlong pleaded to remain with Yu Xiaogang as husband and wife in spirit.
• Yu Luomian agreed to grant Liu Erlong’s wish, then looked toward Yu Xiaogang’s lower abdomen.

Yu Luomian disowned Yu Xiaogang and forced him to sever his bloodline after Liu Erlong defended their relationship, leaving the couple devastated. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan refined pills at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, persuaded Dugu Bo to lend his name to a new academy for commoners, and sensed a strange summons from the spring.

• Yu Luomian kicked Yu Xiaogang, but Liu Erlong blocked the attack and was injured.
• Yu Luomian agreed to let Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang stay together, then expelled Yu Xiaogang from the clan and demanded that he end his bloodline.
• Yu Xiaogang used a blade to comply, and Liu Erlong secretly summoned a Healing Soul Master to treat him.
• Xiao Yan refined pills at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, completed a batch, and returned Dugu Bo's Core Pearl.
• Xiao Yan told Dugu Bo he wanted to establish an academy for commoners and compete in the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament, and Dugu Bo agreed to serve as its honorary headmaster in name.
• Xiao Yan sensed a strange summons from deep within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Xiao Yan followed a summoned wisp of emerald flame into the depths of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he discovered two ancient dragon corpses and a yin-yang heavenly flame. The dragons’ spectral souls attacked him, and he fought them off with his fused flames.

• After Dugu Bo left for Heaven Dou City, Xiao Yan prepared a soul-imprinted landmark and used his heavenly flames to dive into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xiao Yan pursued an emerald wisp deeper into the spring until he nearly ran out of strength and turned back.
• The wisp slowed, revealed a glowing vortex, and led Xiao Yan to the enormous corpses of two dragons and a black-and-white heavenly flame.
• Two spectral dragon souls attacked Xiao Yan with magma and ice, but he dodged their strikes using Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Xiao Yan struck the dragon souls with his fused emerald flames, forcing them back and enraging them.

Xiao Yan fused two heavenly flames into a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus to defeat the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s remnant souls. Their souls and remains then formed an egg that hatched into a little girl, who called Xiao Yan “Mommy!”

• Xiao Yan tried to escape the two dragon souls, but their attacks wounded him and drove him to use his last resort.
• Xiao Yan fused the emerald and azure heavenly flames into a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus and hurled it at the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King.
• The explosion destroyed the dragon corpses, while yin-yang flames enveloped the remnant souls and caused them to fuse.
• The fused souls and remains formed an ice-blue-and-crimson dragon egg that rapidly developed into an embryo.
• The egg hatched into a little girl with dragon horns, wings, and mismatched eyes, and she called Xiao Yan “Mommy!”

Xiao Yan escaped the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with the newly reborn dragon girl and named her Xiao Xiao. At the Lake of Life, the Silver Dragon King awakened and ordered Di Tian to retrieve the reborn Ice and Fire Dragon Kings so she could recover faster.

• Xiao Yan carried the dragon girl out of the underground space as his soul power dwindled, leaving the intertwined Yin-Yang Twin Flames behind.
• After reaching the surface, Xiao Yan restored his soul power while the dragon girl bit through and ate a golden medicinal herb.
• The dragon girl tried calling Xiao Yan Mommy, then Papa, and he named her Xiao Xiao.
• A tremor and dragon cry awakened the Silver Dragon King beneath the Lake of Life, prompting Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts to kneel before her.
• The Silver Dragon King told Di Tian that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings had been reborn and sent him to find them with one of her scales.

Xiao Yan made Little Dragon Girl hundreds of pills and left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to sell Foundation Pills in Heaven Dou City. After arranging an auction with Manager Xue, he was confronted near Heaven Dou Royal Academy by Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, who suspected he was the mysterious alchemist.

• Little Dragon Girl complained that the herbs tasted bad, so Xiao Yan refined them into pills for her and made hundreds more before leaving her at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xiao Yan flew to Heaven Dou City and brought more than ten jade bottles of Foundation Pills to the auction house.
• Manager Xue confirmed the pills matched the previous batch and persuaded Xiao Yan to allow two days of publicity before the auction.
• Xiao Yan encountered Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, Huyan Zhen, and Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan at the auction house, then headed toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy to visit Lingling.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan followed Xiao Yan, confronted him near the academy, and asked whether he was the mysterious alchemist who refined Foundation Pills.

Xiao Yan fought Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan after refusing to go to Spirit Hall, and Dugu Bo intervened before Yue Guan could retaliate. Dugu Bo claimed responsibility for the pills to protect Xiao Yan, while Yue Guan remained suspicious and learned that Dugu Bo did not consider himself qualified to teach the boy.

• Yue Guan immobilized Xiao Yan with his Third Soul Skill, but Xiao Yan used Heavenly Flames to break free and dodged Yue Guan’s Fifth Soul Skill.
• Xiao Yan struck Yue Guan with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, badly wounding his face, before Yue Guan unleashed his Seventh and Eighth Soul Skills.
• Dugu Bo arrived, stopped Xiao Yan from fusing two Heavenly Flames, and used Time Freeze and his Jade-Green Pearl to destroy Yue Guan’s Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Dugu Bo claimed that he had refined the pills and rejected Yue Guan’s offer to join Spirit Hall, while Yue Guan threatened consequences and questioned Xiao Yan’s talent.
• Dugu Bo told Yue Guan that he would like to take Xiao Yan as his disciple but was not qualified, leaving Yue Guan astonished.
• Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, and Huyan Zhen sensed the two Titled Douluos and headed toward their location.

After Dugu Bo protected Xiao Yan from Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, the two discussed Spirit Hall’s interest in Xiao Yan’s Foundation Pills and considered recruiting the Breaking Clan to build their own faction. Xiao Yan returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and gave Dugu Bo a powerful Fire Lotus Bottle before Dugu Bo departed, while Xue Qinghe recognized a familiar fire-attribute trace at the battle site.

• Dugu Bo drove Yue Guan away and explained to Xiao Yan that Spirit Hall wanted the Foundation Pills and might kill him if he refused to join.
• Xiao Yan resolved to establish Soul Hall with Dugu Bo and asked about medicine-making clans, prompting Dugu Bo to describe the Breaking Clan and its leader, Yang Wudi.
• At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Dugu Bo teased Xiao Yan about marrying Dugu Yan, then introduced Xiao Yan to his granddaughter.
• Xiao Yan gave Dugu Bo a miniature Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus Bottle to help him escape powerful opponents, and Dugu Bo returned to Sunset Forest.
• Xiao Yan went with Dugu Yan to find Ye Lingling and the rest of their companions, while Xue Qinghe and Huyan Zhen inspected the battle site.
• Xue Qinghe sensed a familiar fire-attribute aura in a shattered stone and realized that Xiao Yan had been involved.

Xiao Yan returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and gave Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan pills intended to strengthen or evolve their martial souls, while asking them to keep his role in refining the Foundation Pills secret. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Bo found Xiao Xiao eating herbs from his Medicine Garden and discovered she was powerful enough to stop him with two fingers.

• Xue Qinghe examined a scorched stone fragment, concealed his suspicions from Huyan Zhen, and left with the imperial guards after Huyan Zhen departed with his clansmen.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Yu Tianheng and went to the pavilion, where Ye Lingling was tending flowers; he gave her an Aromatic Silk Barrier-Breaking Pill, and she began cultivating after taking it.
• Dugu Yan arrived, and Xiao Yan gave her a Jade Phosphorus Calamity-Breaking Pill and five Foundation Pills for the Imperial Fighting Team, instructing her to credit Dugu Bo for the pills.
• After three hours, Xiao Yan realized he had left Xiao Xiao at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well without warning Dugu Bo, and he hurried to check on them.
• Dugu Bo found Xiao Xiao eating herbs from his Medicine Garden, learned that she was Xiao Yan's daughter, and tried to take an herb from her.
• Xiao Xiao caught Dugu Bo's hand between two fingers and warned him that she might eat him if he kept shouting.

Xiao Yan returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found Little Dragon Girl had punched Dugu Bo after he tried to stop her from eating medicinal herbs. After explaining her ancient dragon origins and discussing his plans for the Soul Hall, Xiao Yan left for Heaven Dou City, while Ning Rongrong waited at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for her father to return.

• Dugu Bo poisoned Little Dragon Girl, but she recovered and punched him hard enough to knock him down.
• Xiao Yan arrived, called Little Dragon Girl his daughter, and persuaded her to stop fighting Dugu Bo while she continued eating herbs.
• Xiao Yan explained that Little Dragon Girl was an ancient dragon reborn from a remnant soul beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then gave Dugu Bo a Wound Recovery Pill.
• Dugu Bo discussed Little Dragon Girl's strength, Xiao Yan's plans for the Soul Hall, and the Breaking Clan's combat ability with him.
• Xiao Yan left for Heaven Dou City to check on Yanyan and Lingling and visit the auction house.
• At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Rongrong complained to Bone Grandpa that her father had not returned, then heard him arrive.

Ning Rongrong returned home, where Ning Fengzhi gave her a Foundation Pill and learned about Tang San’s hidden weapons and Shrek Academy. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan witnessed Ye Lingling’s martial soul evolve into a poison-wielding healing ability, and Dugu Yan awoke after absorbing her pill.

• Ning Fengzhi reunited with Ning Rongrong and gave her a Foundation Pill, a Sand-in-the-Eye, and a Silent Sleeve Arrow.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi and Sword Dao Chen Xin that Tang San made the hidden weapons, and Ning Fengzhi decided to meet him about a possible order.
• Ning Rongrong described Dai Mubai’s bullying and Shrek Academy’s training and claims, then said she planned to withdraw and attend Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed that Ning Rongrong could leave Shrek Academy but said he wanted to return there first to meet Tang San.
• Xiao Yan found Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan still absorbing their pills, and Ye Lingling’s martial soul evolved into a purple-gold begonia that could heal, remove negative conditions, and poison enemies.
• Dugu Yan opened her eyes after absorbing the Jade Phosphorus Calamity-Breaking Pill.

Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling gained evolved martial souls and stronger abilities after taking Xiao Yan's pills, while Tang San traveled with Shrek to Sunset Forest. Tang San followed dropped petals of an octagonal mysterious ice grass to a mountain hollow above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and began descending into it.

• Dugu Yan's Jade Phosphorous Serpent evolved into the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, and her soul power rose to level forty-eight.
• Ye Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia evolved into the Sacred Heart Begonia, granting her a domain that strengthened allies and weakened enemies; Xiao Yan warned her and Dugu Yan to keep the secret from others.
• Ma Hongjun reached level thirty, so Grandmaster, Flender, Liu Erlong, Tang San, and Ma Hongjun set out for Sunset Forest to obtain his third soul ring.
• Tang San found petals of octagonal mysterious ice grass while marking the campsite and followed them toward the mountain above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang San used his Eight Spider Lances to descend the cliff toward the hot spring below.

Tang San entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to gather rare herbs, but Little Dragon Girl burned his hand when he tried to take one of hers. Dugu Bo caught Tang San stealing herbs and seized him for his External Soul Bone, while Flender, Grandmaster, and Liu Erlong rushed toward the Poison Formation to find him.

• Tang San entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, recognized its rare medicinal herbs, and planned to use them to counter Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames.
• Little Dragon Girl emerged from the spring and burned Tang San's hand when he tried to take the infernal delicate apricot from her.
• Tang San began digging up other herbs, but Dugu Bo arrived and confronted him over stealing from the Medicine Garden.
• Grandmaster used Luo Sanpao to track Tang San, and Flender spotted Dugu Bo's Poison Formation as the group followed the trail.
• Liu Erlong blasted open the Poison Formation with Heaven-Piercing Flame, and the Golden Iron Triangle hurried toward the valley.
• Dugu Bo grabbed Tang San, overwhelmed his Eight Spider Lances, and knocked him unconscious while declaring that he would take the External Soul Bone.

Dugu Bo captured Tang San and the Golden Iron Triangle, but Little Dragon Girl effortlessly broke their Golden Sacred Dragon fusion and left them at his mercy. Dugu Bo tortured the four prisoners, then learned Tang San might have Twin Martial Souls and be the son of a powerful man, yet decided to kill them and hide the bodies.

• Grandmaster, Flender, and Liu Erlong arrived as Dugu Bo held the dying Tang San, and their Golden Iron Triangle fusion transformed Luo Sanpao into a Golden Sacred Dragon.
• Little Dragon Girl summoned the Golden Sacred Dragon through her Ice and Fire Dragon Kings bloodline and dissolved it, leaving the Golden Iron Triangle badly injured and powerless.
• Dugu Bo bound Tang San and the three others to crosses, sewed Grandmaster's mouth shut, and whipped them while they tried to take one another's punishment.
• Dugu Bo forced Tang San to choose which captive he would spare, but Flender warned that Tang San's father was someone Dugu Bo could not afford to offend.
• Flender revealed that Tang San had Twin Martial Souls, and Dugu Bo recognized the possibility that he was the son of the man who had once attacked the Supreme Pontiff.
• Dugu Bo dismissed the warning and prepared to kill the captives, destroy their bodies, and escape detection.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as Dugu Bo prepared to kill Tang San and the Golden Iron Triangle, and intervened to save his younger brother. After Dugu Bo let the group leave, he asked Xiao Yan to explain how he and Tang San were biological brothers despite having different surnames.

• Dugu Bo prepared to kill the bound Tang San and the Golden Iron Triangle, but Xiao Yan arrived after hearing dragon roars nearby.
• Xiao Yan recognized Tang San, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang, scolded Tang San for stealing herbs, and defeated him when Tang San attacked.
• Xiao Yan knocked out Yu Xiaogang's teeth with the Black Ruler, but Liu Erlong broke free and struck Xiao Yan to stop him from further injuring Grandmaster.
• Liu Erlong sent up the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's signal, and Xiao Yan asked Dugu Bo to spare Tang San while leaving the others' fate to him.
• Dugu Bo decided to release the Golden Iron Triangle and Tang San, who was unconscious, and Flender and the others hurried away with him.
• Dugu Bo mentioned Tang Hao and asked how Xiao Yan and Tang San could be biological brothers despite their different surnames.

Xiao Yan learned from Dugu Bo about Tang Hao’s past with Spirit Hall and the possibility that his mother was connected to blue silver grass, while Tang Hao privately confessed his guilt over Ah Yin’s sacrifice. The chapter ended as Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong arrived at Shrek Academy to meet Tang San and Dai Mubai.

• Xiao Yan told Dugu Bo about his childhood, Tang Hao’s treatment of him, and his life at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Dugu Bo explained Tang Hao’s ties to the Clear Sky Sect and the battle in which he defeated Spirit Hall’s Qian Xunji, then suggested Xiao Yan investigate blue silver grass to learn about his mother.
• Flender and Grandmaster rested with the unconscious, injured Tang San before leaving Sunset Forest and deciding to seek Tang Hao’s help.
• Tang Hao visited Ah Yin’s resting place, admitted he had schemed to obtain her hundred-thousand-year soul ring, and vowed to avenge her against Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong arrived at Shrek Academy, and Dai Mubai went out to meet them.

Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo Gu Rong arrived at Shrek Academy seeking Tang San, but Gu Rong attacked Dai Mubai for bullying Ning Rongrong. Flender arrived after Dai Mubai was badly injured, and Ning Fengzhi then asked where Tang San was.

• Dai Mubai and Oscar met Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong at the academy gates, where Gu Rong recognized Dai Mubai as the one who had bullied Rongrong.
• Gu Rong pinned Dai Mubai down with his pressure and injured him, while Zhao Wuji and the other Shrek teachers attacked to rescue him.
• Gu Rong repelled the teachers and kicked Dai Mubai, shattering many of his bones and damaging his meridians.
• Flender arrived and confronted Gu Rong, but accepted Ning Fengzhi's apology without voicing his anger.
• Ning Fengzhi told Flender that he had come to meet Tang San and asked where Tang San was.

Tang San recovered with Ning Fengzhi’s help, then gave the Shrek Five Monsters snow ginseng and promised them rare herbs from Dugu Bo’s Medicine Garden. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Xiao Yan completed a dangerous pill and revealed that the Life Devouring Pill could raise a Soul Elder to the Soul King realm at the cost of years of life.

• Ning Fengzhi healed the unconscious Tang San with his Seven-Colored Glazed Tile Pagoda and asked Flender to send Tang San to meet him after waking.
• Xiao Wu rushed to Tang San, and he woke and reassured her while Flender concealed what had happened in Sunset Forest.
• Tang San gave the Shrek Five Monsters snow ginseng and described the immortal herbs he intended for each of them, blaming Dugu Bo for taking the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xiao Yan’s Medicine Cauldron cracked and exploded as he refined a pill, but he caught the pill and finished forming it with a cauldron of emerald flames.
• Dugu Bo arrived after sensing the pill’s energy, and Xiao Yan named it the Life Devouring Pill and explained that it traded a user’s remaining life force for a rise from Soul Elder to Soul King.