Chapter Summaries

After a hundred thousand years of slumber, Yao Xuan awakened as an Ancestral Dragon whose power shook the Douluo Continent. He sensed Tang San near Holy Soul Village and vowed to stop him, while Gu Yuena emerged from the Lake of Life and knelt before Yao Xuan.

• Yao Xuan awakened in the Star Dou Great Forest, and his immense aura terrified the soul beasts and stirred the Lake of Life.
• Yao Xuan's casual movement caused earthquakes across the continent, alarming Bibi Dong, Bo Saixi, and Tang Chen.
• Yao Xuan realized his slumber had made him stronger than a God King and sensed Tang San near Holy Soul Village.
• Yao Xuan condemned Tang San and declared that he would not allow him to become a god.
• Gu Yuena emerged from the Lake of Life, and Di Tian, Xiong Jun, Bi Ji, and Zi JI welcomed her.
• Gu Yuena sensed Yao Xuan's superior Dragon Clan aura and involuntarily knelt in his direction.

Gu Yuena begged the awakened Ancestral Dragon Yao Xuan to save the Soul Beast Clan, but he refused to help unless he chose to after enjoying the mortal world. After Yao Xuan killed Xiong Jun with a glance, Gu Yuena accepted his demand that she become his maid in exchange for the possibility of aid.

• Gu Yuena and the other Soul Beasts knelt before Yao Xuan and pleaded for him to save their clan.
• Yao Xuan said he cared little about the Soul Beasts and might help only if he was in a good mood after traveling the mortal world.
• Xiong Jun insulted Yao Xuan, who killed him instantly with an overwhelming pressure.
• Gu Yuena asked how the Soul Beast Clan could earn Yao Xuan's help, and he demanded that she serve as his maid.
• Gu Yuena overcame her hesitation, knelt, and agreed to become Yao Xuan's maid and obey his commands.

Yao Xuan bestowed a drop of Ancestral Dragon Blood on Gu Yuena, healing her injuries and restoring her to the First-Level God realm. After taking human form, he left Gu Yuena and the Ferocious Beasts captivated by his appearance.

• Yao Xuan released a drop of blood that filled the Douluo Continent's sky with nine-colored light before he condensed it into a crystal.
• Gu Yuena swallowed the Ancestral Dragon Blood while Di Tian, Bi Ji, Zi JI, and the other Ferocious Beasts bowed beneath its bloodline pressure.
• The blood expelled the Asura Divine Power from Gu Yuena, healed her injuries, and restored her strength to the First-Level God realm.
• Yao Xuan took human form and descended before Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena admired Yao Xuan's handsome appearance aloud, breaking the Ferocious Beasts out of their reverie.

Yao Xuan left the Star Dou Great Forest with Gu Yuena and traveled to Nuoding City, where he spotted the transformed soul beast Xiao Wu. He had Gu Yuena bring Xiao Wu to their table, leaving Xiao Wu alarmed that her identity had been discovered.

• Gu Yuena apologized for her disrespect, and Yao Xuan told her to call him Master in private and Brother Xuan in public.
• Yao Xuan warned Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts to remain at the Lake of Life, then left the forest with Gu Yuena.
• Yao Xuan and Gu Yuena entered Nuoding City, secured legal identities, and ate at a luxurious restaurant.
• Yao Xuan recognized Xiao Wu as a transformed hundred-thousand-year soul beast, and Gu Yuena confirmed her aura.
• Yao Xuan instructed Gu Yuena to bring Xiao Wu over, so she used spatial power to transport Xiao Wu to their table.
• Xiao Wu found herself before Yao Xuan and Gu Yuena and feared they had discovered she was a soul beast.

Yao Xuan and Gu Yuena took Xiao Wu in and brought her to Nuoding Academy, where Yao Xuan arranged her admission and planned to use her Soul Beast aura as bait. The next afternoon, Old Jack and Tang San arrived at the academy, and Tang San aimed a hidden Sleeve Arrow at the gatekeeper after he insulted and shoved Old Jack.

• Gu Yuena comforted Xiao Wu after learning that her parents had gone missing, and Yao Xuan agreed to let her travel with them.
• Gu Yuena invited Xiao Wu to stay with them, introduced herself and Yao Xuan, and the three ate together.
• Yao Xuan told Gu Yuena not to conceal Xiao Wu's Soul Beast aura, suggesting they use it to draw out hostile Soul Masters.
• Yao Xuan brought Xiao Wu and Gu Yuena to Nuoding Academy, altered the staff's memories, and arranged their academy identities and Xiao Wu's admission.
• Old Jack brought Tang San to the academy the following afternoon, where the gatekeeper mocked them and shoved Old Jack to the ground.
• Tang San drew his hidden Sleeve Arrow and aimed it at the gatekeeper, while Yao Xuan decided to punish him.

After Tang San broke a front tooth in a fall, Yu Xiaogang intervened, helped him and Old Jack, and recognized Tang San as a possible Twin Martial Soul wielder. Yu Xiaogang privately asked Tang San to become his disciple, and Tang San reacted with shock when Yu Xiaogang deduced his secret.

• Tang San slipped, fell onto a protruding stone, and broke his front tooth, while Yao Xuan watched with satisfaction.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived, scolded the guard for accusing Old Jack and Tang San of forging the certificate, and took Tang San to a clinic for treatment.
• Yu Xiaogang verified Tang San's certificate and concluded that his Blue Silver Grass and innate full Soul Power meant he must have Twin Martial Souls.
• Yu Xiaogang privately asked Tang San to take him as his teacher, and Tang San asked what he could learn from him.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed his Martial Soul theories let him deduce that Tang San had Twin Martial Souls, prompting Tang San to tense and aim a Sleeve Arrow at Yu Xiaogang's throat.

Yao Xuan confronted Yu Xiaogang after Tang San accepted him as his teacher, exposing Yu Xiaogang’s flaws and mocking the pair. Tang San defended his teacher, and Yao Xuan challenged them to make a bet.

• Tang San recognized Yu Xiaogang’s deduction about his twin martial souls, accepted him as his teacher, and performed the formal kowtow ceremony.
• Yao Xuan told Gu Yuena and Xiao Wu that Tang San was this era’s protagonist, but stopped Gu Yuena from killing him and brought them to intercept Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.
• Yao Xuan shoved Yu Xiaogang and mocked him as a fraud with weak innate soul power and a useless martial soul.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Yao Xuan of slander and urged Tang San to ignore him, while Tang San reaffirmed his faith in Yu Xiaogang.
• Yao Xuan laughed at Tang San and Yu Xiaogang’s confidence and challenged them to make a bet.

Yao Xuan wagers that Xiao Wu will defeat Tang San in a public match after six months of training, with Yu Xiaogang agreeing to humiliating terms for either side’s loss. Yao Xuan has Gu Yuena take Xiao Wu as her disciple, while he plans to punish Yu Xiaogang that night.

• Yao Xuan challenged Yu Xiaogang to a six-month wager: Xiao Wu and Tang San would fight publicly, and the loser’s side would face a humiliating penalty.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted, confident that Tang San would become a Soul Master before the match, then demanded that Yao Xuan and Gu Yuena kowtow if Tang San won.
• Yao Xuan accepted Yu Xiaogang’s added terms and recorded their agreement with a homemade Soul Tool.
• After Yu Xiaogang left with Tang San, Yao Xuan told Gu Yuena he planned to make Yu Xiaogang a eunuch and ruin his reputation rather than kill him.
• Yao Xuan asked Gu Yuena to train Xiao Wu so she could defeat Tang San through her own abilities.
• Gu Yuena made Xiao Wu her disciple, and Xiao Wu performed the formal bow to her new master.

Xiao Wu began training with Gu Yuena, but Tang Hao arrived at Nuoding Academy and tried to seize her after recognizing her as a newly transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Gu Yuena easily stopped him and trapped him in an elemental cage, leaving Tang Hao unable to escape.

• Gu Yuena encouraged Xiao Wu to train hard, and Yao Xuan promised her a mysterious gift if she defeated Tang San.
• Tang Hao arrived at Nuoding Academy, recognized Xiao Wu as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and tried to capture her for Tang San.
• Gu Yuena shattered Tang Hao's Soul Power attack with a cold snort and freed Xiao Wu from his pressure.
• Tang Hao summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and Soul Rings, but Gu Yuena's presence overwhelmed him and disrupted his Soul Power.
• Gu Yuena gathered seven-colored elemental power and trapped Tang Hao in a barrier, which bounced him back when he tried to escape.

Tang Hao unleashed his strongest Clear Sky Hammer attack against Gu Yuena’s Seven-Colored Barrier, but it failed and the rebound left him badly wounded. He knelt and begged for mercy, yet Yao Xuan ordered Gu Yuena to kill him slowly and record it as a future coming-of-age gift for Tang San.

• Tang Hao activated his Clear Sky True Body and Divine Slaughter's Domain, then struck the Seven-Colored Barrier with his Heaven-Splitting Earth-Cracking Hammer.
• Gu Yuena’s barrier remained unshaken, and its rebound threw Tang Hao against the opposite side, leaving him injured and coughing blood.
• Tang Hao knelt and begged Gu Yuena to spare him, citing his connection to the Clear Sky Sect and its sect master, Tang Xiao.
• Yao Xuan told Gu Yuena to kill Tang Hao slowly and filmed him with a Recording Soul Tool for Tang San to watch on his coming-of-age day.
• Gu Yuena attacked Tang Hao with seven-colored Elemental Power as his wounded body left him unable to escape, and he wet himself in terror.

Gu Yuena crushed Tang Hao to death after he attacked Xiao Wu, and Yao Xuan extracted Tang Hao’s soul to punish him in the Eighteen Levels of Hell. Tang Hao endured a hundred rounds in Tongue-Pulling Hell before falling into the next level, where the chapter left him facing further torment.

• Gu Yuena tightened her elemental power around Tang Hao, broke his soul bones, and crushed him to death while a Recording Soul Tool captured everything.
• Gu Yuena asked Yao Xuan for praise, and he promised that Tang San would receive a similar coming-of-age gift in the future.
• Yao Xuan used his Ancestral Dragon power to extract Tang Hao’s soul and conjure a miniature version of the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• Yao Xuan sent Tang Hao’s soul to Tongue-Pulling Hell, where underworld judges tortured him and restored his body after each punishment for a hundred rounds.
• The floor shattered beneath Tang Hao, and his soul fell into the next level, where he looked around in terror.

Tang Hao endured the punishments of the Underworld’s hells, repeatedly healed and forced to suffer each torment a hundred times. After completing the final level, he was sent back to tongue-pulling hell, where Yao Xuan’s power began another endless cycle.

• The Judges of the Underworld cut off Tang Hao’s fingers and toes, healed him, and repeated the punishment a hundred times.
• Tang Hao fell into iron tree hell, where blades pierced him repeatedly before he was healed and dropped onto the tree again a hundred times.
• Tang Hao was subjected to steamer, copper pillar, and other hell punishments, each followed by healing and repetition.
• After Tang Hao completed the final level, he was transported back to tongue-pulling hell and faced the start of another cycle.

Yao Xuan secretly entered Yu Xiaogang’s dormitory with Gu Yuena and used his power to trap Yu Xiaogang in a nightmare where Qian Xunji brutally punished him. Yu Xiaogang woke in bed after wetting himself, leaving his humiliation to be discovered.

• Gu Yuena admired Yao Xuan’s power as he punished Tang Hao, and Xiao Wu thanked him for rescuing her.
• Yao Xuan urged Xiao Wu to train hard so she could defeat Tang San, and she vowed to win their fight in six months.
• After Xiao Wu fell asleep, Yao Xuan took Gu Yuena to Yu Xiaogang’s dormitory and explained that public humiliation would wound him most.
• Yao Xuan sent Ancestral Dragon power into Yu Xiaogang’s mind, making him dream that Qian Xunji had caught him pursuing Bibi Dong.
• In the nightmare, Qian Xunji beat Yu Xiaogang, broke his limbs, and crushed him between the legs, while Yu Xiaogang wet his bed in reality.

Yao Xuan secretly recorded Yu Xiaogang wetting the bed and spread the footage throughout Nuoding Academy, humiliating him as the “Grand Wetter.” Yu Xiaogang tried to regain his confidence by training Tang San, while Yao Xuan planned to sabotage Tang San’s upcoming soul hunt.

• Yao Xuan recorded Yu Xiaogang after he wet the bed in his sleep, then returned to his room with Gu Yuena.
• Yu Xiaogang woke, burned his soiled bedding and clothes, and headed to Nuoding Academy believing nobody knew what had happened.
• Students mocked Yu Xiaogang as the “Grand Wetter” after recordings of him wetting the bed appeared in every classroom.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that he had tried to seize the recording Soul Tools and reassured him that he still respected him.
• Yu Xiaogang resumed training Tang San and planned to take him on a soul hunt in a month.
• Yao Xuan decided to give Tang San a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo as his Soul Ring instead of a Mandala Snake.

Yao Xuan opened Xiao Wu's meridians and gave her a cultivation art tailored to her, helping her grow stronger. A month later, Yu Xiaogang took Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest, where they encountered a Mandala Snake that Tang San considered fighting.

• Yao Xuan opened Xiao Wu's eight extraordinary meridians, cleansing her body and improving her control over soul power.
• Yao Xuan passed Xiao Wu the Jade Rabbit Art, and Gu Yuena expressed envy before Yao Xuan reminded her of the precious blood drop he had given her.
• Over the next month, Xiao Wu trained with Yao Xuan and Gu Yuena, reached the soul master realm, and formed her first soul ring herself.
• Yu Xiaogang secretly led Tang San from Nuoding Academy toward the Soul Hunting Forest and taught him about soul beasts during the journey.
• Yu Xiaogang's Luo Sanpao repelled a pack of Netherworld Wolves, but a nearly four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake appeared near their camp after nightfall.
• Yu Xiaogang said the Mandala Snake might suit Tang San's first soul ring but warned that he could not defeat it, while Tang San considered using his hidden weapons and Tang Sect techniques to fight it.

Tang San killed a Mandala Snake and believed he had absorbed its Soul Ring, but Yao Xuan secretly knocked him unconscious and forced a ten-year solitary bamboo Soul Ring onto his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul instead. Tang San woke believing he had reached the Soul Master realm, then reacted with shock when he summoned his Martial Soul.

• Tang San used his hidden weapons and abilities to kill the Mandala Snake after it overwhelmed Yu Xiaogang and Luo Sanpao.
• Tang San decided not to silence Yu Xiaogang, and the Mandala Snake's yellow Soul Ring appeared after it died.
• Yao Xuan used his Divine Sense to knock Tang San and Yu Xiaogang unconscious, then made a ten-year solitary bamboo fall onto Tang San and guided its white Soul Ring onto his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Tang San's cultivation broke through as the solitary bamboo Soul Ring merged with his Martial Soul.
• Tang San woke the next morning believing he had absorbed the Mandala Snake Soul Ring and reached the Soul Master realm, then summoned his Blue Silver Grass and reacted in shock.

After accidentally absorbing a ten-year Solitary Bamboo soul ring instead of the Mandala Snake’s, Tang San vented his fury, rescued Yu Xiaogang, and later told him how the strange fusion had happened. Yu Xiaogang proposed that Tang San had unconsciously absorbed the bamboo ring while the snake venom had numbed him.

• Tang San discovered that his first soul ring was a ten-year Solitary Bamboo ring, then snapped and crushed the bamboo in anger.
• At Nuoding Academy, Yao Xuan, Gu Yuena, and Xiao Wu watched Tang San’s furious outburst on a soul tool and laughed at him.
• Tang San blamed the unconscious Yu Xiaogang for the disastrous hunt, kicked him, then used the Mysterious Heaven Skill to treat his poisoning.
• After Yu Xiaogang remained unconscious for three days, Tang San stayed to care for him until he woke.
• Yu Xiaogang asked whether Tang San had fused with the Mandala Snake ring, and Tang San revealed his white ten-year ring instead.
• Yu Xiaogang suggested the snake venom had numbed Tang San while he unconsciously absorbed the Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo ring.

Tang San revealed that his first soul skill was Blue Silver Pole Vault, and Yu Xiaogang tried to encourage him despite its limitations. Six months later, Xiao Wu and Tang San arrived at Nuoding Academy for the wager’s decisive battle, with the academy watching as Yao Xuan reminded Yu Xiaogang of his public humiliation.

• Yu Xiaogang encouraged Tang San to develop his first soul skill, and Tang San demonstrated Blue Silver Pole Vault by extending Blue Silver Grass into a pole and vaulting through the air.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang discussed using the pole to improve his jumping and combat, while Tang San considered combining it with hidden weapons.
• After six months of Gu Yuena’s training, Xiao Wu arrived with Yao Xuan at Nuoding Academy’s field for the decisive battle against Tang San.
• Teachers and students gathered to watch, mocking Yu Xiaogang and recalling the wager that required him to admit he was a Fake Grandmaster if Tang San lost.
• Tang San promised Yu Xiaogang he would win, then Yao Xuan brought up Yu Xiaogang’s bedwetting incident and said he would soon have to admit he was a fraud.

Xiao Wu and Tang San began their match, with Tang San using hidden stone weapons and Xiao Wu relying on her higher rank and speed. After Tang San’s stones hurt her, Xiao Wu activated the Jade Rabbit Art and charged at him, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Yao Xuan encouraged Xiao Wu by promising her a mystery gift if she defeated Tang San.
• Tang San revealed his rank twelve Blue Silver Grass martial soul and white soul ring, while Xiao Wu revealed her rank fourteen Soft-Boned Charming Rabbit martial soul and yellow soul ring.
• Director Su started the battle, and Xiao Wu rushed at Tang San while he used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to evade her.
• Tang San threw stones from Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges using hidden weapon techniques, striking Xiao Wu with three stones infused with the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Xiao Wu activated the Jade Rabbit Art, increased her speed, dodged Tang San’s next volley, and closed in on him as a red glow spread over her body.

Xiao Wu used Waist Bow to throw Tang San into a pile of dog shit, humiliating him in front of the academy. Enraged and unable to defeat her with his usual methods, Tang San secretly prepared his Silent Sleeve Arrow.

• Tang San used Blue Silver Pole Vault to leap away, but Xiao Wu caught him with Waist Bow and launched him toward a pile of dog shit.
• Tang San landed face-first in the pile, mistook it for mud, and realized he had gotten dog shit in his mouth.
• The students laughed at Tang San, while Yao Xuan and Gu Yuena enjoyed Xiao Wu’s humiliating attack.
• Xiao Wu taunted Tang San and looked to Yao Xuan for approval, while Tang San swore revenge and secretly cocked his Silent Sleeve Arrow.