Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan explained the power and cost of the Life Devouring Pill, then agreed to take Little Dragon Girl into the human world. At Shrek Academy, Tang San distributed medicinal plants and consumed several rare herbs himself before an old man arrived demanding to see him.

• Xiao Yan told Dugu Bo that the Life Devouring Pill could rapidly raise a Soul Master's power by consuming their remaining lifespan, and Dugu Bo doubted his claims about stronger versions.
• Little Dragon Girl demanded to leave with Xiao Yan, and he agreed after she promised to obey him; Dugu Bo let her go and warned Xiao Yan to keep her from hurting Yanyan at the academy.
• Xiao Yan gave Dugu Bo a Fire Lotus Bottle as protection against Spirit Hall, then flew away with Little Dragon Girl to retrieve Ye Lingling.
• Tang San gave medicinal plants to the Shrek students, while Grandmaster accepted a purple gold jade parrot and Flender refused snow ginseng.
• Tang San consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, fragments of octagonal mysterious ice grass, and a fiery red sunflower, hoping to strengthen his Purple Demon Eye and make his blue silver grass immune to ice and fire.
• An old man arrived at Shrek Academy and demanded that Tang San come out.

Tai Tan confronted Tang San at Shrek Academy, while Xiao Yan and his companions encountered the fleeing Xue Ke outside Heaven Dou City. Xiao Yan stepped in to help her and sent Little Dragon Girl to fight the Three Lecherous Rogues.

• Tai Tan arrived at Shrek Academy with Tai Long and Tai Nuo, declaring that he would test Tang San himself.
• Xiao Yan, Little Dragon Girl, and Ye Lingling traveled toward Heaven Dou City, where Little Dragon Girl complained about walking.
• Xue Ke fled from Bu Le, E Kao, and Tian Ya, then fell and called for help.
• Xue Ke identified herself as Princess of the Heaven Dou Empire and said she had been hunting with Xue Qinghe.
• Xiao Yan recognized Xue Qinghe's name and approached Xue Ke, ignoring the Three Lecherous Rogues' threats.
• Xiao Yan sent Little Dragon Girl to face the three attackers, and she shot toward them in a streak of light.

Xiao Yan rescued Xue Ke and asked Xue Qinghe to secure imperial approval for an academy he planned to establish with Dugu Bo. Xue Qinghe agreed to support the project, provided Xiao Yan let his younger sister join the tournament, and Xiao Yan named the school Jia Nan Academy.

• Little Dragon Girl defeated Bu Le and E Kao, then Xiao Yan killed Tian Ya with Eight Extremes Collapse.
• Xiao Yan escorted Xue Ke to the Royal Hunting Ground, where she reunited with Xue Ye and told him Xiao Yan had saved her.
• Xue Ye sent Xue Qinghe to meet Xiao Yan, who asked for help obtaining approval to establish an advanced soul master academy with Dugu Bo.
• Xue Qinghe agreed to help and gave Xiao Yan a Nine-Stripe Purple Gold Card, asking him to let his younger sister compete in the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament.
• Xiao Yan accepted Xue Qinghe's condition and named the academy Jia Nan Academy.

After leaving the Royal Hunting Ground, Xiao Yan returned to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy and invited the Imperial Fighting Team to join the academy he planned to found. He challenged Yu Tianheng to a three-exchange wager and defeated him in a single move, leaving the team bound by its captain’s promise.

• Xiao Yan declined a personal reward from the Emperor, asking Xue Qinghe to seek approval for the new academy, then flew back to Heaven Dou City.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Imperial Fighting Team’s training grounds, where Xiao Xiao asked him to make more pills and Dugu Yan questioned their relationship.
• Xiao Yan told the team that he and Dugu Bo were founding an advanced soul master academy and invited them to transfer; Dugu Yan agreed to join.
• Yu Tianheng questioned Xiao Yan’s ability to lead an academy, so Xiao Yan wagered that he could defeat him within three exchanges and Yu Tianheng accepted.
• Yu Tianheng unleashed his soul skills, but Xiao Yan’s speed and jade-green flames overwhelmed his attacks, and Xiao Yan stopped his palm half an inch from Yu Tianheng’s throat in a single move.
• Xiao Yan told the defeated Yu Tianheng to keep his promise and join the academy.

Xiao Yan defeated Yu Tianheng and recruited the Imperial Fighting Team for his new academy, while Tang San’s group awakened from their herbs and Tang San met Tai Tan. As Xiao Yan’s academy began recruiting in Heaven Dou City, Little Dragon Girl knocked Tai Long unconscious, drawing Tai Tan’s attention.

• Xiao Yan defeated Yu Tianheng, persuaded the Imperial Fighting Team to join his future academy, and arranged for them to buy ingredients for pills.
• Tang San and the other Shrek students awakened with increased soul power, while Tang San reached level 40 and Xiao Wu nervously avoided his Purple Demon Eye.
• Tai Tan learned that Tang San had a twin brother named Tang Yan, now called Xiao Yan, and was left confused by Tang San’s claims about his brother.
• Xiao Yan posted a recruitment notice for Jia Nan Academy in Heaven Dou City, offering successful teachers and instructors a Foundation Pill and Soul Recovery Pills.
• Tai Long leered at Ye Lingling, so Little Dragon Girl struck him unconscious with a Diamond Bodhi, prompting Tai Tan to turn toward them angrily.

Little Dragon Girl fought Tai Nuo and then Tai Tan in Heaven Dou City, revealing two powerful dragon souls before a black-robed young man intervened. At Shrek Academy, Grandmaster told Tang San about his father’s past and prepared to take him to the Frozen Forest for his fourth soul ring.

• Tai Nuo confronted Little Dragon Girl over Tai Long, but she caught his wrist and proved far stronger than she appeared.
• Tai Nuo used his soul skills against Little Dragon Girl, but she dodged his attacks and broke both his arms with a punch.
• Tai Tan stopped Little Dragon Girl from attacking Tai Nuo, but her ice-blue and crimson dragon souls shattered his martial soul and forced him back.
• A black-robed young man arrived, pulled Little Dragon Girl aside, and challenged Tai Tan for attacking her.
• Tang San learned from Grandmaster that Grandmaster had known his background and that Tang Hao had given him an Elder Token.
• Grandmaster encouraged Tang San to continue cultivating and planned to take him to the Frozen Forest the next day for an ice-attribute soul ring.

Xiao Yan learned that Tai Tan served Tang Hao and that a strange flame had descended on the day Xiao Yan was born, leading him to suspect the Fallen Heart Flame was tied to his martial soul. After returning to Jia Nan Academy to prepare pills, he learned indirectly that Dugu Bo was facing Chrysanthemum Guan and Old Ghost at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Xiao Yan stopped Tai Tan from attacking and learned that Tai Tan recognized him as Tang Hao’s son and his young master.
• Tai Tan explained that twenty-three strange flames had fallen across the continent when Xiao Yan was born, including a colorless flame that reached Spirit City’s Elder Hall and accelerated cultivation.
• Xiao Yan connected the colorless flame to the Fallen Heart Flame and left with Ye Lingling and Little Dragon Girl for Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy, thanked the Imperial Fighting Team members, and began refining pills for them.
• Dugu Bo, strengthened by Xiao Yan’s Poison Pill Method and pills, confronted eight approaching figures, including Chrysanthemum Guan and Old Ghost.

Dugu Bo confronted Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, using Xiao Yan’s Poison Pill Method to fight them after Spirit Hall demanded he join. When Ghost Douluo wounded him, Dugu Bo used Xiao Yan’s Fire Lotus Bottle, leaving Ghost Douluo engulfed in flames and Chrysanthemum Douluo rushing to save him.

• Dugu Bo emerged near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and rejected Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan’s demand to join Spirit Hall.
• Dugu Bo’s poisonous mist incapacitated most of Spirit Hall’s fighters, and he ambushed Chrysanthemum Douluo while Ghost Douluo watched.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo unleashed their martial soul avatars and fought Dugu Bo together; Ghost Douluo struck Dugu Bo and sent him crashing through trees.
• Dugu Bo used his ninth soul skill to draw the two Douluos’ attention, then threw Xiao Yan’s Fire Lotus Bottle at Ghost Douluo.
• The Fire Lotus Bottle exploded into a vast blue-green blaze, engulfing Ghost Douluo as Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan rushed toward him.

Dugu Bo survived the Fire Lotus Bottle’s explosion and saved Chrysanthemum Douluo from Ghost Douluo’s heavenly-flame wounds before returning to tell Xiao Yan what happened. Xiao Yan spent a quiet night with Ye Lingling, then learned the Crown Prince had arrived at the academy.

• Dugu Bo endured the Fire Lotus Bottle’s explosion while Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but the azure flames continued to burn Ghost Douluo.
• Dugu Bo gave Chrysanthemum Douluo a Mystic Water Pill to save Ghost Douluo, then fled Sunset Forest.
• Xiao Yan visited Ye Lingling at the hut, saw her unmasked face, and gave her several bottles of pills he had refined.
• Dugu Bo arrived at dawn and told Xiao Yan that the Fire Lotus Bottle had nearly killed Ghost Douluo because Xiao Yan’s heavenly flames countered his yin-aligned Martial Soul.
• An academy staff member told Xiao Yan that the Crown Prince had come to the academy.

Xiao Yan welcomed Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Sword Douluo Chen Xin to Jia Nan Academy, where Ning Rongrong joined after leaving Shrek Academy. Meanwhile, Xue Qinghe secretly ordered a subordinate to stop Bibi Dong from targeting Dugu Bo, but Bibi Dong decided to go to Heaven Dou City herself before receiving a letter from there.

• Dugu Bo warned Xiao Yan that Xue Qinghe might be tied to the mysterious deaths of two princes, but Xiao Yan said he would stay out of the Imperial Family's struggles.
• Xiao Yan met Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Sword Douluo Chen Xin at the academy, and Ning Fengzhi asked him to take Ning Rongrong in as a student.
• Xiao Yan warned Ning Fengzhi that joining Jia Nan Academy could bring Ning Rongrong into conflict with Spirit Hall, and Ning Fengzhi said the academy had the Imperial Family's protection.
• After leaving the meeting, Xue Qinghe ordered the Man in Black to tell Bibi Dong not to trouble Dugu Bo and said he would handle the pills himself.
• In Spirit City, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan reported that Dugu Bo had defeated their force and gravely injured Old Ghost with a Fire Lotus Bottle, prompting Bibi Dong to decide to go to Heaven Dou City.
• A Papal Hall Knight announced that a letter had arrived from Heaven Dou City for Bibi Dong to review personally.

Bibi Dong received Qian Renxue’s warning to leave Dugu Bo alone, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect discussed Xiao Yan and Tang San. At Frozen Forest, Tang San refused Grandmaster’s recommended ice-attribute soul ring and asked to choose his own.

• Bibi Dong lashed out at the messenger who delivered Qian Renxue’s warning, then let him and Chrysanthemum Douluo leave and regretted sending Xiao Xue to Heaven Dou City.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Xiao Yan and hoped Rongrong would bind him to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while he and the elders rejected killing Tang San and agreed the Upper Three Sects should stand together.
• Xiao Yan left his pill-making hut to check on Jia Nan Academy’s enrollment and noticed the academy’s azure flame badges resembled his Green Lotus Core Flame.
• At Frozen Forest, Grandmaster recommended a six-thousand-year-old Frost Demon Snake for Tang San’s fourth soul ring, claiming it would strengthen his Entanglement and help counter Xiao Yan’s heavenly flames.
• Tang San shook his head and asked Grandmaster to let him choose his fourth soul ring himself.

Tang San risked his life to absorb a ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Demon Spider as his fourth soul ring, and the Asura God secretly intervened when he began to fail. Tang San survived the crisis, while Xiao Wu faced an unexpected visitor at Shrek Academy.

• Tang San rejected Grandmaster’s warning and insisted on absorbing the Ice Jade Demon Spider’s ten-thousand-year soul ring to grow stronger and defeat Xiao Yan in the upcoming tournament.
• Tang San used the Eight Spider Lances to drain the dying spider before absorbing its black soul ring, but the energy overwhelmed him and caused him to bleed and convulse.
• The Asura God sensed Tang San’s life-threatening crisis and sent a beam of red light to help him, allowing Tang San to survive the most dangerous stage of absorption.
• Flender and Grandmaster believed Tang San had reached the soul power conversion stage, and Grandmaster rejoiced that his disciple might make him famous.
• Xiao Wu worried that refusing to compete would hurt Shrek Academy and disappoint Tang San, until an unknown voice confronted her about being a juvenile soul beast living among humans.

Tang Hao revealed to Xiao Wu that Tang San’s mother, Ah Yin, had been a hundred-thousand-year soul beast who sacrificed herself to save him, then persuaded Xiao Wu to stay with Tang San. In the Frozen Forest, Tang San gained a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring and demonstrated Frost Prison just as a strange white gale descended.

• Tang Hao confronted Xiao Wu, revealed his identity as Tang San’s father, and admitted he had once planned to kill her for her soul ring and soul bone.
• Tang Hao told Xiao Wu how Ah Yin had sacrificed herself to save him from Spirit Hall, and Xiao Wu vowed she would likewise sacrifice herself for Tang San if necessary.
• Tang Hao asked Xiao Wu to leave Tang San and return to the Star Dou Great Forest, but changed course after she declared her devotion and departed without seeing Tang San.
• Tang San completed his absorption of the Ice Jade Demon Spider’s ten-thousand-year soul ring and discovered a soul bone in its corpse.
• Tang San revealed his fourth soul skill, Frost Prison, trapping Grandmaster, Flender, and Liu Erlong in a Blue Silver Grass cage.
• A sudden darkness and freezing white gale swept over Tang San and the others, while icy white flames flickered in the sky.

Tang San survived a snow dragon storm, found and absorbed a ten-thousand-year ice-attribute soul bone, while Xiao Yan reached soul power level 48 and traveled with Ye Lingling and Little Dragon Girl to Holy Soul Village. Little Dragon Girl sensed a faint soul beast nearby, and a gold-marked Blue Silver Grass stirred in a hidden chamber beneath a waterfall.

• Tang San crawled toward a bone-white flame during the storm, then hid in the snow as the Titan Snow Demon King passed and stomped him into the ground.
• After the storm cleared, Tang San found a ten-thousand-year soul bone in the Ice Jade Demon Spider's head and absorbed it under Grandmaster, Flender, and Liu Erlong's protection.
• Xiao Yan awoke from cultivation at Jia Nan Academy with his soul power at level 48 and told Ye Lingling he wanted to visit Grandpa Jack in Holy Soul Village.
• Xiao Yan and Ye Lingling left the academy, bringing along Little Dragon Girl after she insisted on joining them, and reached Holy Soul Village after nearly three days of travel.
• Little Dragon Girl sensed a faint soul beast presence near the village, while gold-marked Blue Silver Grass stirred inside a hidden chamber beneath a waterfall.

Xiao Yan returned to Holy Soul Village, reunited with Old Jack, and gave him pills that could awaken his soul power and extend his life. After Old Jack began absorbing them, Xiao Yan followed Little Dragon Girl’s lead to a secluded waterfall where she sensed a powerful plant soul beast, and he heard an unusual sound nearby.

• Xiao Yan returned to Holy Soul Village with Ye Lingling and Little Dragon Girl and visited his abandoned home, where he found everything unchanged since Tang Hao’s departure.
• Old Jack welcomed Xiao Yan and his companions, shared a meal with them, and learned that Xiao Yan had reached the Soul Ancestor realm.
• Xiao Yan offered Old Jack a Mystic Origin Pill and an Azure Nether Longevity Pill, and Old Jack swallowed them before sitting down to cultivate.
• Little Dragon Girl told Xiao Yan she sensed a high-level plant soul beast southeast of the village, so the three left to investigate.
• Little Dragon Girl led Xiao Yan and Ye Lingling to a secluded waterfall, where Xiao Yan felt he had visited before and then heard an unusual sound from nearby woods.

Xiao Yan found Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor in a hidden cave and took her from the unsuitable place, discovering a hundred-thousand-year soul bone in a concealed box. Ah Yin began doubting Tang Hao’s long absence, while Tang Hao sensed that the box had been opened and rushed toward Holy Soul Village.

• Xiao Yan and his companions found a cave behind a waterfall after Little Dragon Girl drove off the surrounding soul beasts and smashed through a stone door.
• Xiao Yan recognized the gold-patterned Blue Silver Emperor as unusually familiar, and Ah Yin recognized him as one of her sons and responded to him.
• Ah Yin agreed to leave the cave with Xiao Yan, who carefully dug her up and placed her in a jade bottle for transplanting.
• Ah Yin’s thoughts turned to Tang Hao’s neglect and absence, leaving her afraid that her suspicions about him might be true even as she chose to trust him.
• Ah Yin revealed a hidden black box, and Xiao Yan opened it to find a blue-gold right leg soul bone that seemed to be over a hundred thousand years old.
• Tang Hao sensed that the soul imprint on the box had been broken, feared something had happened to Ah Yin, and hurried toward Holy Soul Village.

Xiao Yan gave the blue-gold soul bone to Ye Lingling, then burned the cave where it had been hidden before planting Ah Yin at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Tang Hao found the remains and believed Ah Yin had died, while Xiao Yan stopped himself from testing his life spirit flame on her after sensing her fear.

• Xiao Yan gave the blue-gold right leg soul bone to Ye Lingling, who absorbed it and reached level fifty.
• Xiao Yan left the cave with Ye Lingling and burned its contents, then headed toward Sunset Forest after sending Ye Lingling and Little Dragon Girl back to Jia Nan Academy.
• Tang Hao found Ah Yin’s charred remains and the missing soul bone, grieved over her apparent death, and vowed to avenge her by destroying Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Yan planted Ah Yin at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then stopped when he sensed her fear of his life spirit flame.

Xiao Yan used the Life Spirit Flame to help Ah Yin grow, then broke through to level fifty and retrieved the Yin-Yang Twin Flames and two dragon cores from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. While refining the flames, he glimpsed Ah Yin’s memories of Tang Hao, the newborn Tang San and Xiao Yan, and a soul taking over one infant’s body before a murderous force severed his connection.

• Xiao Yan used the Life Spirit Flame to help Ah Yin grow, sensed her warmth, and suspected she was connected to his origins.
• Xiao Yan entered seclusion in Dugu Bo’s cave and reached soul power level fifty after two days.
• Xiao Yan dived into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, retrieved the Yin-Yang Twin Flames, and found two dragon cores among dragon remains.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Yin-Yang Twin Flames to refine them and spread his soul power through Sunset Forest, connecting with the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Xiao Yan saw Ah Yin sacrifice herself beside the injured Tang Hao as Spirit Hall surrounded them, and witnessed a foreign soul enter one of the newborn infants.
• A terrifying murderous aura destroyed Xiao Yan’s soul connection with Ah Yin, and he awoke in the cave convinced the vision was real.

After learning Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and Six Harmonies Wandering Body Ruler, Xiao Yan tested his new abilities in Sunset Forest. He activated the secret art against Dugu Bo, whose shock grew as Xiao Yan's power surged past level sixty and an illusory sixth soul ring appeared.

• Xiao Yan recovered from his vision of Tang Hao's battle and resolved to search for his mother, then received the secret arts Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and Six Harmonies Wandering Body Ruler.
• Xiao Yan cultivated overnight, confirmed he had reached the Soul King realm, and reviewed how the two secret arts worked.
• Xiao Yan practiced Rending Flame with his Black Ruler, then met Dugu Bo, who told him Xue Qinghe had brought a woman to the academy seeking him.
• Xiao Yan asked Dugu Bo to test his strength and used Green Lotus Transformation to pierce Dugu Bo's emerald barrier.
• Xiao Yan activated Myriad Beasts Transformation, causing his aura to rise beyond level sixty and an illusory black sixth soul ring to appear, astonishing Dugu Bo.

Xiao Yan demonstrated the immense power and bodily cost of the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations, while Tang San returned to Shrek Academy with a new group-control Soul Skill. At Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Yan met Xue Qinghe and his sworn sister Xiao Xue, unaware that the crown prince was actually Qian Renxue in disguise.

• Xiao Yan used all three transformations to reach the Soul Saint realm temporarily, manifested his Tool Soul Avatar, and then withdrew the power after suffering backlash.
• Xiao Yan told Dugu Bo that the secret technique required a fire-attribute Martial Soul and flame, and promised to give him a Douluo Pill when it was ready.
• Tang San returned to Shrek Academy with a black fourth Soul Ring and demonstrated his Frost Prison, which could trap groups and obscure their vision.
• Tang San declared that his new Soul Skill would help Shrek win the tournament, but he remained uncertain whether it could defeat Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan arrived at Jia Nan Academy's reception hall and met Xue Qinghe and Xiao Xue, while Qian Renxue's history of replacing the real Xue Qinghe was revealed.