Chapter Summaries

Su Yu defeated Xie Yue by trapping him with Wood Release, and Hu Liena won her match before facing Lin Yifeng in the next round. Hu Liena gained the upper hand against Lin Yifeng with her charm and close-combat skills, and their fight remained underway.

• Su Yu used Wood Release vines to bind Xie Yue, and the referee declared him the winner.
• Hu Liena defeated her Gale Wolf King opponent, and the five remaining contestants were Su Yu, Hu Liena, Tuoba Yu, Yan, and Lin Yifeng.
• Su Yu drew a bye while Hu Liena was matched against Lin Yifeng.
• Lin Yifeng used Spear Shadow, but Hu Liena's Demon Fox Charm briefly dazed him and let her evade his attack.
• Hu Liena struck Lin Yifeng with a punch and a sweeping kick, then confronted him as pink light flashed in her eyes.

Hu Liena defeated Lin Yifeng, and Tuoba Yu defeated Yan, setting up a match between Tuoba Yu and Su Yu. Su Yu restrained Tuoba Yu with wooden techniques, but the battle was left hanging when the cracked wooden strips suddenly began writhing.

• Hu Liena used close-combat strikes and the Iron Mountain Lean to defeat Lin Yifeng.
• Tuoba Yu charged through Yan's flames and knocked him off the platform with a powerful punch.
• Su Yu and Tuoba Yu began their match, with Tuoba Yu using his White-Armored Earth Dragon Martial Soul to attack.
• Su Yu bound Tuoba Yu with vines, then used the Thorn Killing Technique to restrict him around the waist.
• Tuoba Yu cracked the wooden restraints with his fists, but the strips suddenly began writhing before he could break free.

Su Yu defeated Tuoba Yu in the Freshman Competition finals and then began his individual match against Hu Liena. He resisted her charm with his Sharingan, trapped her in an illusion, and teased her during their ensuing fight, which ended with Hu Liena protesting that she could not beat him.

• Su Yu restrained Tuoba Yu with Wood Release branches, and the referee declared Su Yu the winner.
• Hu Liena congratulated Su Yu before they entered the arena for the final individual match.
• Hu Liena used Demon Fox Charm, but Su Yu’s One-Tomoe Sharingan turned the mental attack back on her and trapped her in an illusion.
• Su Yu woke Hu Liena from her fantasy of being pampered by a grown-up version of him, leaving her embarrassed.
• Hu Liena charged with close-combat techniques, but Su Yu dodged and playfully slapped her, prompting her to complain that he was bullying her and that she could not defeat him.

Su Yu won the Spirit Hall Freshman Competition and, three years later, returned from training stronger than before. He proposed recruiting Dugu Bo to aid Spirit Hall’s future wars, and Bibi Dong approved his plan to travel to Heaven Dou City to recruit him.

• Su Yu evaded Hu Liena until she gave up, and the referee declared him the Freshman Competition champion.
• Bibi Dong awarded Su Yu the Rising Star Medal, praised Hu Liena’s progress, and congratulated both students.
• Three years passed; Su Yu reached rank twenty-six, gained a three-thousand-year second Soul Ring, and evolved his Sharingan to two tomoe, while Hu Liena became a Soul Grandmaster.
• After returning from his training journey, Su Yu advised Bibi Dong to recruit members of the Lower Four Sects and singled out Dugu Bo for his poison arts.
• Bibi Dong agreed that Dugu Bo could be valuable and approved Su Yu’s request to go to Heaven Dou City to recruit him, then asked whom he planned to take.

Su Yu and Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan traveled to Heaven Dou City to recruit Dugu Bo, while Su Yu explained that Dugu Bo might be suffering from toxins caused by his martial soul. At the end, Ci Xue and Yu Long informed the Second Imperial Prince that Su Yu had arrived and sought to recruit Poison Douluo.

• Bibi Dong refused to accompany Su Yu to Heaven Dou City, advising him to approach Dugu Bo with sincerity and learn his background if he refused.
• Su Yu and Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan traveled to Heaven Dou City and sent a visiting card to Dugu Manor.
• Su Yu told Yue Guan that Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor toxins might have spread through his body and that he could be suppressing them with something.
• Ci Xue and Yu Long told the Second Imperial Prince that Su Yu and Yue Guan had arrived and were seeking to recruit Poison Douluo.

Qian Renxue arranged to meet someone while disguised as Xue Qinghe, and Su Yu visited Dugu Bo to invite him to join Spirit Hall. The meeting turned hostile when Su Yu claimed Dugu Bo was poisoned, prompting Dugu Bo to seize him.

• Qian Renxue first refused to arrange a meeting, then told She Long and Ci Xue to arrange one for the next few days.
• Dugu Bo received Su Yu’s visiting card and agreed to meet him at his residence the following day at noon.
• Su Yu and Chrysanthemum Douluo met Dugu Bo, whose Soul Power and poisonous aura sparked an exchange of threats between the two Titled Douluos.
• Su Yu invited Dugu Bo to join Spirit Hall, but Dugu Bo refused and told him to leave.
• Su Yu suggested that Dugu Bo was suffering from poison, and Dugu Bo seized him by the collar as Chrysanthemum Douluo threatened to intervene.

Su Yu stopped Dugu Bo from attacking by revealing that he knew about the poison afflicting him and his family, then negotiated a partnership with the Poison Douluo. Dugu Bo agreed to let Su Yu choose herbs from his garden if he cured them, and Su Yu began explaining the cause and possible treatment of the poison backlash.

• Su Yu described Dugu Bo’s painful symptoms and warned that his toxins had spread throughout his body.
• Dugu Bo attacked Su Yu, but stopped when Su Yu said he could cure the poison and revealed that Dugu Bo’s son and granddaughter were also afflicted.
• Su Yu offered Dugu Bo a place in Spirit Hall, treatment for his family, and academy studies for his granddaughter in exchange for learning how Dugu Bo became a Titled Douluo.
• Dugu Bo explained that a pool in Sunset Forest had suppressed his toxins and offered Su Yu anything he wanted from the garden if he cured the family.
• Su Yu outlined two treatment methods and said Dugu Bo’s poison cultivation technique was the main cause of the backlash.

Su Yu explained that Dugu Bo could transfer the toxins in his body into a Soul Bone, with Yue Guan helping develop medicine for the process. Dugu Bo led them to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Yue Guan recognized the aromatic silk beauty, an immortal herb that could counter poisons.

• Su Yu told Dugu Bo that storing his toxins in a Soul Bone could protect his body, and Yue Guan offered to help create medicine for the transfer.
• Dugu Bo took Su Yu and Yue Guan through his poison formation in Sunset Forest and led them down into the valley.
• Su Yu and Yue Guan discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, surrounded by rare medicinal plants.
• Yue Guan recognized the aromatic silk beauty as a legendary immortal herb and hurried toward it.

Su Yu and Dugu Bo explored a garden of rare immortal herbs with Yue Guan, who was overwhelmed by the sight of his Martial Soul’s matching herb. Su Yu discovered the legendary Chaos Twin-Life Grass, but Yue Guan asked him to give up the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum.

• Yue Guan recognized the aromatic silk beauty as an exceptionally rare immortal herb, while Dugu Bo dismissed his excitement.
• Su Yu urged Yue Guan and Dugu Bo to continue exploring the garden, and Yue Guan hurried ahead.
• Yue Guan found the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum and reacted with deep emotion.
• Su Yu spotted the Chaos Twin-Life Grass, which could evolve the two Martial Souls of a Soul Master with Twin Martial Souls.
• Yue Guan bowed to Su Yu and asked him to give him the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum.

Su Yu and Yue Guan agreed to conceal the immortal herbs from Spirit Hall and chose several to take, while arranging herbs and Soul Bones to treat Dugu Bo's family. The chapter ended with Yue Guan preparing Dugu Bo's antidote as the two Douluo bickered.

• Yue Guan pleaded with Su Yu for the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, explaining its importance to his Martial Soul and asking that the immortal herbs be kept from Spirit Hall's consecrators.
• Su Yu agreed to conceal the herbs and selected the Nine-Grade Dragon Ganoderma and Earth Dragon Golden Melon for Dugu Bo's family, advising Dugu Bo to leave the latter for his granddaughter.
• Su Yu told Dugu Bo that Yue Guan could prepare an antidote potion and that Dugu Bo needed Soul Bones for his granddaughter and son; Dugu Bo went to find them.
• Su Yu packed the Chaos Twin-Life Grass for Bibi Dong, the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew for himself, the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid for Hu Liena, and the Ghost Immortal Grass for Ghost Douluo.
• Yue Guan returned with medicinal herbs and explained how they would purge Dugu Bo's accumulated poison, then began preparing the potion while Dugu Bo grudgingly moved aside and traded insults with him.

Su Yu found and safely stored a Holy Light Spirit Mango suited to Qian Renxue, then consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and awakened his Two-Tomoe Sharingan as his soul power surged to level 30. He ate leaves from the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot to begin refining the Ice and Fire Golden Body, and plunged into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to endure their clashing powers.

• Su Yu discovered the Holy Light Spirit Mango, confirmed it was ripe, and stored it for Qian Renxue.
• Su Yu consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, which transformed his Sharingan and gave him three tomoe.
• Su Yu's soul power rose from level 26 to level 30, reaching the barrier before Soul Elder.
• Su Yu picked leaves from the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot and ate them together.
• Su Yu plunged into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as the herbs' opposing cold and heat rampaged through his body.

After emerging from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with his Sage Body transformed, Su Yu tested his Wood Release and created a forest. He returned to find Chrysanthemum Douluo treating Dugu Bo with a potion, whose painful effects were intensified by a secret ingredient.

• Su Yu recovered from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and learned that his Sage Body had broken through, greatly increasing his vitality and recovery.
• Su Yu used Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Trees to create and control a forest about twenty meters across, then released it.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo persuaded Dugu Bo to drink a potion made from immortal herbs, adding mind-calming grass juice to lessen its bitterness.
• Dugu Bo suffered severe pain as the potion stirred up his accumulated snake venom, and Chrysanthemum Douluo instructed him to guide the toxins into his soul bone.
• Su Yu questioned Chrysanthemum Douluo, who admitted he had added soul-piercing grass powder to make the treatment more painful and speed Dugu Bo's response.

Dugu Bo purged the poison that had plagued him for decades, broke through to level 92, and began absorbing a nine-grade dragon ganoderma to advance further. Su Yu then told Chrysanthemum Douluo that he had reached level 30 and could obtain his Third Soul Ring.

• Dugu Bo recovered from the medicine’s pain as it channeled his poison into his Soul Bone, and Chrysanthemum Douluo’s treatment restored his meridians and purified his soul power.
• Dugu Bo thanked Su Yu and Chrysanthemum Douluo, promising to repay their favor.
• Dugu Bo broke through to level 92 after the poison’s removal, then accepted Su Yu’s nine-grade dragon ganoderma and began absorbing it.
• Su Yu told Chrysanthemum Douluo that he had broken through to level 30 after eating a Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and could now obtain his Third Soul Ring.

Su Yu insisted that his third Soul Ring should be ten thousand years old, citing his strengthened body and Spiritual Power as protection. After seeing his two existing thousand-year Soul Rings, Dugu Bo was shocked by Su Yu’s extraordinary cultivation.

• Su Yu told Chrysanthemum Douluo that he wanted a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for his third Soul Ring, and Chrysanthemum Douluo warned him about the deadly risks.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo agreed to discuss the plan with Dugu Bo and seek a relatively mild Soul Beast after Dugu Bo finished his breakthrough.
• Dugu Bo broke through to Level 93 after eating the Nine-Grade Dragon Ganoderma.
• Su Yu told Dugu Bo he had reached level thirty and wanted a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, prompting Dugu Bo and Chrysanthemum Douluo to warn him against it.
• Su Yu revealed his two purple Soul Rings, and Dugu Bo realized that both his first and second Soul Rings were thousand-year ones.

Su Yu convinced Dugu Bo that his physique could withstand a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, and Dugu Bo agreed to help him find one in Sunset Forest. Dugu Bo brought Su Yu and Yue Guan to a newly ten-thousand-year Crimson Flame Tiger, which remained ready to fight after Dugu Bo poisoned and injured it.

• Dugu Bo accepted Su Yu’s claim that he could absorb a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring as his third ring and offered to help him find one.
• Su Yu asked for a tiger-type Soul Beast, so Dugu Bo took him and Yue Guan on the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor to a Crimson Flame Tiger’s cave.
• Dugu Bo struck the cliff beside the cave, provoking the Crimson Flame Tiger to charge out and attack.
• The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor bit the tiger’s hind leg and poisoned it, then flung it into the cliff.
• The injured Crimson Flame Tiger struggled back to its feet and continued glaring at Dugu Bo.

Su Yu began absorbing the ten-thousand-year Soul Ring of a Crimson Flame Tiger after Dugu Bo killed it and Su Yu finished it off. He endured the Ring’s power with the help of his Sage Body and Wood Release, then subdued the Tiger’s soul within his spiritual world, leaving the absorption at a critical turning point.

• Dugu Bo used his sixth Soul Skill to bring down the Crimson Flame Tiger, and Su Yu and Yue Guan emerged from the woods.
• Su Yu killed the dying Tiger with Wood Release and began absorbing its black Soul Ring.
• The Soul Ring’s violent power tore through Su Yu’s body, but his Sage Body and Wood Release repaired the damage and kept him alive.
• Inside Su Yu’s spiritual world, the Tiger’s soul attacked with flames, but Su Yu blocked them with Wood Release: Hōbi Technique and bound it with Deep Forest Emergence.
• Su Yu overwhelmed the Tiger’s remaining consciousness with Spiritual Power, making its resistance within the Soul Ring fade.

After absorbing the Crimson Flame Tiger’s essence, Su Yu advanced to Soul Power Level thirty-three and raised his external soul bone to five thousand years. Back at Spirit Hall, he fought and captured Qian Renxue, who had attacked him disguised as Xue Qinghe.

• The Crimson Flame Tiger’s essence broke Su Yu through the level-thirty limit to Soul Power Level thirty-three and strengthened his external soul bone to five thousand years.
• Su Yu, Dugu Bo, and Yue Guan returned to Heaven Dou City, where Yue Guan went with Dugu Bo to help his family while Su Yu returned to Spirit Hall.
• At night, Qian Renxue disguised as Xue Qinghe ambushed Su Yu and claimed she had come to kill him.
• Su Yu recognized Qian Renxue despite her disguise, teased her, and fought back as their soul power clashed.
• Su Yu used Wood Release: Tree Binding Eternal Burial to bind Qian Renxue in a tree, then accused her of impersonating a prince and demanded to know who had sent her.

Su Yu teased Qian Renxue after catching her disguised as Xue Qinghe, then flirted with her after she changed back. He kissed her cheek, and she tried to leave but nearly fell, leaving him to catch her again.

• Su Yu restrained the disguised Qian Renxue with Wood Release and teased her by touching her chest through the Angel God Armor disguise.
• Su Yu released her, and Qian Renxue let her disguise fade to reveal her true appearance.
• Su Yu reminded Qian Renxue that she had called him a friend, then held her wrist and teased her as she blushed and protested.
• Su Yu kissed Qian Renxue on the cheek, making her jump back and angrily call him shameless.
• Qian Renxue turned to leave, caught her foot on a pebble, and Su Yu reached out to steady her.

Su Yu gave Qian Renxue a Holy Light Spirit Mango suited to her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, and she grew warmer toward him as she accepted it. After he teased her about a reward and reassured her that Dugu Bo had given him the herb freely, Su Yu leaned close and Qian Renxue accidentally kissed his cheek.

• Su Yu teased Qian Renxue by calling her Sister Xue'er, and she denied being his sister while blushing.
• Su Yu gave Qian Renxue a Holy Light Spirit Mango, explaining that it could nourish her Martial Soul Origin and harmonize its sacred and fire attributes.
• Qian Renxue thanked Su Yu and accepted the gift, then refused his request for a reward.
• Qian Renxue worried that Dugu Bo had harmed Su Yu and checked him for injuries after he said the Poison Douluo had given him the herb.
• Su Yu leaned toward Qian Renxue while she examined his cheek, and she accidentally kissed him on the cheek.

Su Yu gave Qian Renxue the Holy Light Spirit Mango, which helped her strengthen her cultivation and break through to level forty. After absorbing it, Qian Renxue returned to her Xue Qinghe disguise and left for court, while the two exchanged concerned farewells.

• Qian Renxue blushed after brushing Su Yu, and he teased her before apologizing and giving her the Holy Light Spirit Mango.
• Su Yu persuaded Qian Renxue to absorb the herb in Spirit Hall's cultivation room, where he could watch over her.
• Qian Renxue absorbed the Holy Light Spirit Mango as a six-winged Angel Phantom appeared behind her and guarded her.
• Qian Renxue completed the absorption, broke through two Soul Power levels to reach level forty, and felt a stronger connection to her Martial Soul.
• Qian Renxue changed back into Xue Qinghe's appearance and left for court after urging Su Yu to take care and stay safe.