Chapter Summaries

Qin Chao learned that Yu Tianheng and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy had defeated Blue Tyrant Academy’s students after provoking them. He rallied the humiliated students and planned to lead them out that afternoon to settle the score.

• Qin Chao returned to Blue Tyrant Academy and asked Teacher Meng why the students were training so quietly.
• Teacher Meng explained that Yu Tianheng had brought a group from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, whose insults had sparked a fight that Blue Tyrant Academy’s students lost.
• Qin Chao learned that Dugu Yan was among the visitors and became eager to meet her so he could eventually contact Dugu Bo.
• Uncle Wang told Qin Chao that ten visitors had come, including the Imperial Fighting Team’s seven members and three younger boys.
• Qin Chao encouraged the dispirited students to win back their pride and announced that they would leave the academy that afternoon to settle the score.

Qin Chao led the Golden Generation and Blue Tyrant Academy students to confront the Heaven Dou Royal Academy over the recent fight, drawing a crowd with a banner and taunting chant. Inside, Qin Ming rebuked Yu Tianheng’s group, but Xue Beng headed out to face the protesters, with Yu Tianheng and the others rushing after him.

• Qin Chao rallied the Blue Tyrant Academy students to chant at Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan outside the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• A growing crowd sided with the Blue Tyrant students and shouted accusations at the academy.
• Qin Ming scolded Yu Tianheng’s group for starting a fight and creating trouble for the academy.
• Yu Tianheng explained that Xue Beng had provoked the fight, while Xue Beng dismissed the protesters as extortionists.
• Xue Beng walked toward the entrance, and Yu Tianheng and the others followed him to face the banner-carrying students.

Qin Chao provoked Xue Beng and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy students into a formal challenge after a confrontation at their gates. Yu Tianheng accepted, and Qin Chao demanded Dugu Yan as the prize if Blue Tyrant Academy won.

• A Blue Tyrant Academy student accused Xue Beng of mocking and attacking them, and Xue Beng responded arrogantly.
• Qin Chao slapped Xue Beng and returned to his group, declaring that nobody could hit his people.
• Yu Tianheng restrained Xue Beng, while Dugu Yan taunted Blue Tyrant Academy and Xue Beng urged the sides to fight.
• Qin Chao formally challenged the Heaven Dou Royal Academy students to a match with injuries and deaths allowed.
• Yu Tianheng accepted the challenge and offered to apologize if his side lost, and Qin Chao demanded Dugu Yan if Blue Tyrant Academy won.

Qin Chao accepted a challenge from Heaven Dou Imperial Academy despite warnings that his team had been badly beaten earlier, and led the Golden Generation to a four-on-seven fight. The chapter ended as the Imperial Fighting Team released their martial souls, with Yu Tianheng displaying his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon power.

• Hu Liena pinched Qin Chao for sounding as if he wanted to marry Dugu Yan, and Qin Chao explained that he only wanted to study her poison.
• Yu Tianheng and the Imperial Fighting Team grew furious over Qin Chao’s remarks about Dugu Yan and agreed to fight Blue Tyrant Academy.
• A battered student and an old farmer warned Qin Chao that the Imperial Fighting Team was powerful, but Qin Chao insisted that his side would win and take the title of number one soul master academy.
• At Heaven Dou Imperial Academy’s training ground, Xue Beng taunted the visitors and urged Yu Tianheng to beat them, while Yu Tianheng led his team onto the arena.
• Xie Yue announced that only four members of the Golden Generation would fight the seven Imperial Fighting Team members, and Yu Tianheng assumed they were seeking a way to back down.
• The Imperial Fighting Team released their martial souls, and Yu Tianheng transformed his right arm with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul.

Qin Chao’s team faced the Imperial Fighting Team in a challenge at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, where the crowd initially praised Yu Tianheng’s all-Soul Elder lineup. The Golden Generation revealed their superior soul rings and abilities, leaving Yu Tianheng’s team wary as Xue Beng urged them to fight; Qin Chao vowed to crush them.

• The Imperial Fighting Team displayed its members’ martial souls and optimal yellow-yellow-purple soul ring configurations, drawing admiration from the spectators.
• The crowd mocked Qin Chao and his companions for not releasing their martial souls, and Qin Chao ordered his team to reveal their strength.
• Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena showed four soul rings each, while Qin Chao displayed three purple rings around his Heaven and Earth Tower.
• The spectators realized Qin Chao’s team had Soul Ancestors and that Qin Chao possessed three Thousand-Year Soul Rings, making Yu Tianheng’s team grow grave.
• Xue Beng urged Yu Tianheng to fight at full strength, and Qin Chao declared that his team would utterly crush their opponents.

Qin Chao captured Yu Feng with the Heaven and Earth Tower, while Hu Liena’s charm left the Imperial Fighting Team stunned and opened the way for Xie Yue and Yan to attack. The team’s defense broke apart, and Xie Yue’s Moon Blades met Yu Tianheng’s lightning claw.

• Qin Chao used the Heaven and Earth Tower’s suction to pull Yu Feng out of the air and imprison him inside it.
• Xue Beng tried to rally the spectators by insisting Yu Tianheng and Dugu were still the Imperial Fighting Team’s mainstays.
• Hu Liena charmed the Imperial Fighting Team members, freezing them when they looked into her eyes.
• Yan charged the Shi brothers and knocked them away, clearing a path for Xie Yue.
• Xie Yue attacked Yu Tianheng with his twin Moon Blades, and Yu Tianheng formed a lightning claw to counter them.

Qin Chao used the Heaven and Earth Tower and Yan’s magma to isolate and disable members of the Imperial Fighting Team while Xie Yue prepared his Self-Created Soul Skill. As Yu Tianheng unleashed Thunderclap Fury and charged the tower, Xie Yue emerged in the form of his Full Moon, ready to face him.

• Qin Chao trapped Osler inside the Heaven and Earth Tower and sent him to fight Xie Yue.
• Qin Chao used Yan’s Magma Surge to stop the Shi Brothers’ spinning attack and roast them inside their shells.
• Yu Tianheng activated Thunderclap Fury, kicked the Shi Brothers away, and charged toward the tower holding Osler and Xie Yue.
• Qin Chao recalled the Heaven and Earth Tower before Yu Tianheng’s attack could strike Xie Yue.
• The tower vanished, revealing Osler defeated and Xie Yue transformed into the enormous white disc of his Full Moon skill.

Qin Chao countered Dugu Yan’s poison and knocked out Ye Lingling, securing the Golden Generation’s victory over the Imperial Fighting Team. Dugu Yan admitted defeat and wondered how Qin Chao had controlled the battle so perfectly.

• After Yu Tianheng was badly wounded, Dugu Yan unleashed her poisonous mist, threatening the fighters and spectators alike.
• Qin Chao gave the spectators an aromatic silk beauty for protection, then used liquor mixed with realgar and his allies’ flames to neutralize the poison.
• Qin Chao explained that realgar countered the serpent venom, while Dugu Yan hurried to Yu Tianheng’s side and mourned his injuries.
• Qin Chao knocked Ye Lingling unconscious before she could heal Yu Tianheng, leaving the Imperial Fighting Team unable to recover.
• Dugu Yan admitted defeat and attributed Qin Chao’s victory to his extraordinary control of the battlefield.

After Blue Tyrant Academy defeated the Heaven Dou Imperial Team, Yu Tianheng accepted the loss and promised to apologize. Qin Chao then demanded Dugu Yan as part of their wager, but the misunderstanding over his interest in her serpent poison left everyone shocked.

• Blue Tyrant Academy's commoner students cheered Qin Chao and his team for defeating the noble students.
• Qin Chao asked Ye Lingling to heal the injured Heaven Dou Imperial Team members, and she restored them with her Nine Heart Begonia martial soul.
• Yu Tianheng accepted the defeat, bowed to Blue Tyrant Academy, and promised to bring his teammates to apologize the next morning.
• Qin Chao reminded Yu Tianheng that their wager included Dugu Yan, prompting Yu Tianheng and his teammates to prepare to fight.
• Qin Chao explained that he only wanted to study Dugu Yan's Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison, leaving Dugu Yan questioning her own charm.

Qin Chao revealed that Dugu Yan and her grandfather were suffering from Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison and said he had a possible cure, though he needed to test it first. Dugu Yan agreed to bring her grandfather to Blue Tyrant Academy, while planning to surprise Qin Chao with his identity as Poison Douluo.

• Osler and Yu Tianheng realized they had misunderstood Qin Chao's interest in Dugu Yan's venom and withdrew their hostility.
• Qin Chao described Dugu Yan's poisoning symptoms and warned that the toxins could worsen and cause severe suffering.
• Yu Tianheng comforted Dugu Yan, and Qin Chao said he had a way to treat the poison but needed rare ingredients.
• Qin Chao suggested testing his method on Dugu Yan's grandfather, whose poisoning was more severe than hers.
• Dugu Yan agreed to contact her grandfather and bring him to Blue Tyrant Academy, intending to reveal that he was Poison Douluo.

Qin Chao toured Blue Tyrant Academy with Yu Tianheng, then refused to visit Dugu Bo in Sunset Forest unless Dugu Yan’s grandfather changed his attitude. He sent Dugu Yan a note and befriended Yu Tianheng, expecting Dugu Bo to come to him instead.

• Yu Tianheng apologized to Qin Chao on behalf of the Imperial Fighting Team and said Dugu Yan had contacted her grandfather about Qin Chao’s claims regarding Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison.
• Qin Chao guided Yu Tianheng and the others around Blue Tyrant Academy, impressing Yu Tianheng with his knowledge and strengthening their mutual respect.
• Dugu Yan arrived alone and told Qin Chao that Dugu Bo expected him to go to Sunset Forest to meet him.
• Qin Chao declined to visit Dugu Bo unless the old man changed his attitude, prompting Yu Tianheng to plead for Dugu Yan and promise the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s support.
• Qin Chao gave Dugu Yan a note for Dugu Bo and chose to befriend Yu Tianheng instead of accepting the sect’s promise.
• Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan left, while Qin Chao expected Dugu Bo to read the note and come seek him out.

Dugu Bo deciphered Qin Chao’s note as a proposal to store the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison in Soul Bones and went to meet him. Qin Chao faced Dugu Bo’s intimidating test without showing fear, leaving their first battle of wits unresolved.

• Dugu Yan gave Dugu Bo Qin Chao’s note, and Dugu Bo realized it proposed condensing poison into Soul Bones, though he remained unsure how to transfer the poison already in his blood.
• Dugu Bo agreed to visit Qin Chao after Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng vouched for him, and the three left the Sunset Forest.
• Qin Chao meditated the next morning and estimated that he was close to reaching rank forty before noticing Dugu Bo in his room.
• Qin Chao recognized Dugu Bo and called Dugu Yan his sister-in-law, provoking Dugu Bo to unleash his pressure and challenge his composure.
• Qin Chao restrained his fear and held his ground as he and Dugu Bo tested each other’s confidence in an unresolved standoff.

Qin Chao convinced Dugu Bo that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could help suppress the poison afflicting him and Dugu Yan, and offered to develop an antidote there. Dugu Bo agreed to take Qin Chao to the spring, while teasing him about his interest in Dugu Yan.

• Dugu Bo challenged Qin Chao's plan to redirect the poison into a Soul Bone, and Qin Chao explained that he first needed to lower the poison's concentration.
• Qin Chao described the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Dugu Bo realized it was the herb garden he already owned.
• Qin Chao warned that the spring could only suppress the poison temporarily and said he was eighty percent confident he could formulate an antidote using nearby herbs.
• Dugu Bo agreed to take Qin Chao to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and threatened him against any betrayal.
• Dugu Bo suspected Qin Chao wanted to court Dugu Yan, and Qin Chao urged him to take them to the spring quickly.

Qin Chao negotiated with Dugu Bo for time and safety to prepare an antidote at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Dugu Bo accepted the terms and gave Qin Chao his core bead as a safeguard, then left him to work for half a month.

• Qin Chao admired the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Dugu Bo warned him not to damage the medicinal plants growing there.
• Qin Chao explained why he needed assurances of safety and asked to stay in the valley alone for half a month before treating Dugu Bo nightly.
• Qin Chao also asked Dugu Bo to spare him and his companions after treatment, and Dugu Bo promised to honor the agreement if Qin Chao cured him and Yan Yan.
• Dugu Bo made Qin Chao swallow his Jade Phosphorous Serpent emperor core bead, which would explode inside Qin Chao if Dugu Bo died.
• Qin Chao asked to keep the useful bead as payment, but Dugu Bo refused and left him to prepare the antidote.

After Dugu Bo left, Qin Chao harvested several rare herbs and consumed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, enduring a night in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as he absorbed their power. He emerged much stronger and discovered a new ability in the Heaven and Earth Tower.

• After Dugu Bo left, Qin Chao harvested the rare herbs around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, including the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Qin Chao summoned his Taotie martial soul, cut down the Infernal Delicate Apricot, and used his Heaven and Earth Tower to draw in the two poisonous herbs.
• Qin Chao ate the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to withstand their opposing powers.
• Qin Chao endured the pain through an entire night until he absorbed the herbs’ medicinal power and emerged from the well.
• Qin Chao found that he had grown taller and stronger and that his soul power had surpassed rank forty, likely reaching rank forty-six or forty-seven.
• Qin Chao tested the Heaven and Earth Tower and watched it uproot and absorb a sturdy tree, revealing a new ability.

Qin Chao discovered that the immortal herbs had given his Heaven and Earth Tower freezing and scorching powers, and that his Taotie Martial Soul could breathe fire and ice. Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan arrived after hearing his roar and caught him naked, leaving Qin Chao cursing them after they departed.

• Qin Chao tested the Heaven and Earth Tower’s new freezing and scorching effects, then burned the trapped tree to ash with his Soul Skill.
• Qin Chao summoned his Taotie Martial Soul, whose roar made nearby Soul Beasts bow, and discovered that he could breathe fire and ice.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan rushed to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after hearing the roar and found Qin Chao dancing naked.
• Dugu Yan became furious after seeing Qin Chao, while Dugu Bo covered her eyes and scolded him for being naked.
• Qin Chao argued that Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan had invaded his privacy, and Dugu Bo left with his granddaughter after mocking him.
• Qin Chao realized Dugu Bo’s insult after they had gone and shouted curses after them.

After six months at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Qin Chao cured Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan of their poison and prepared to leave. During a farewell drinking party, Dugu Bo realized Qin Chao was from Spirit Hall and unleashed his killing intent.

• Qin Chao treated Dugu Bo for six months, expelling the poison into his Soul Bone and helping him advance two levels.
• Dugu Bo repeatedly urged Qin Chao to marry Dugu Yan, but Qin Chao joked that he wanted a vast harem.
• Qin Chao told Dugu Bo he planned to leave after curing him and Dugu Yan, whose poison had already been completely removed.
• At their farewell drinking party, Dugu Bo told Qin Chao that Bibi Dong had tried to recruit him and later sent Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to kill him.
• Dugu Bo suspected Qin Chao belonged to Spirit Hall, surged with Soul Power, and made Qin Chao reach for his Soul Tool in alarm.

Qin Chao and Dugu Bo discussed how Chrysanthemum and Ghost’s past pursuit had been a calculated warning from Spirit Hall, then became sworn brothers. After learning Dugu Bo had unknowingly served as part of Bibi Dong’s plan to protect Qian Renxue, Qin Chao considered how to bring him onto Spirit Hall’s side.

• Dugu Bo revealed that Chrysanthemum and Ghost had deliberately spared him, and Qin Chao deduced that their pursuit had been ordered to punish and warn him rather than kill him.
• Qin Chao worked out that Spirit Hall had steered Dugu Bo toward Prince Xue Xing, whose position could help destabilize the imperial succession if Qian Renxue’s cover was exposed.
• Dugu Bo offered to become family with Qin Chao, and the two became sworn brothers after Qin Chao agreed.
• A system notification told Qin Chao that he had seized the protagonist halo and gained 100 luck points.
• After Dugu Bo carried him to his room, Qin Chao reflected that Dugu Bo had unknowingly been Bibi Dong’s safeguard for Qian Renxue and considered recruiting him to Spirit Hall.

Dugu Bo gave Qin Chao a Wishful Treasure Pouch and a protective suit before learning that Qin Chao planned to leave Heaven Dou City for a special academy. Qin Chao invited Dugu Bo to visit the school, and Dugu Bo agreed, earning Qin Chao another system reward.

• Dugu Bo gave Qin Chao a Wishful Treasure Pouch stocked with herbs from his garden.
• Qin Chao presented Dugu Bo with a protective suit made from Giant Elephant soul beast material.
• Qin Chao told Dugu Bo that he and his companions would soon leave Heaven Dou City for a special academy.
• Dugu Bo agreed to visit the academy after Qin Chao suggested he might find a promising student to take as a disciple.
• The system told Qin Chao that he had gained 10 points of Luck Value for seizing protagonist halo.

Qin Chao brought Dugu Bo and his companions to Shrek Academy, where the shabby grounds surprised them and Dugu Bo’s arrival alarmed the teachers. After Qin Chao explained that Dugu Bo meant no harm, Flender began showing them around, and Qin Chao left Li Yusong bewildered by naming him the future “Blind Douluo.”

• Qin Chao returned to Shrek Academy with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and Dugu Bo, and the group was surprised by the academy’s dilapidated appearance.
• Li Yusong recognized Qin Chao, then panicked when Qin Chao introduced Dugu Bo as the Poison Douluo and Dugu Bo displayed his nine Soul Rings.
• Flender, Liu Erlong, Zhao Wuji, Lu Qibin, and Shao Xin rushed out and prepared to defend the academy against Dugu Bo.
• Qin Chao explained that Dugu Bo was his sworn elder brother and had come to tour the academy, so Flender welcomed him and led the group inside.
• Liu Erlong questioned Qin Chao about his connection to Dugu Bo, and Qin Chao told her he had done Dugu Bo a great favor.
• Qin Chao told Li Yusong that he could become a Titled Douluo named the Blind Douluo, then hurried away.