Chapter Summaries

Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing met the Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s leaders, and Yang Yunhai recounted a tailored version of his breakthroughs and Soul Beast hunts. He requested that they join the academy’s first team and challenged its captain, Yu Tianheng, to a solo match.

• Yang Yunhai confessed to Zhu Zhuqing that he had accidentally electrocuted her unconscious while catching fish, and she listened in silence.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, Zhi Lin, and Xue Qinghe arrived at the academy gates and welcomed Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Yang Yunhai told the academy leaders how he had advanced from Rank 21 to Rank 30, while altering details about his Soul Rings and the Soul Beast he hunted.
• The committee members believed Yang Yunhai had consumed a heavenly treasure and considered him worth training at the academy.
• Yang Yunhai asked to join the Heaven Dou Battle Team First Team with Zhu Zhuqing and requested a solo challenge against its captain, Yu Tianheng.

Yang Yunhai joined the Heaven Dou Battle Team with Zhu Zhuqing and asked the Education Committee and Qian Renxue to keep the Thunder Attribute of his Blue Silver Grass martial soul secret. After meeting the team, he prepared to spar with captain Yu Tianheng, and the battle began.

• Yang Yunhai asked the Education Committee to arrange a quiet Blue Silver Grass cultivation ground and keep his martial soul's Thunder Attribute secret, including from the battle team.
• Zhi Lin returned with Qin Ming, who welcomed Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing to the Heaven Dou Battle Team and agreed to the spar.
• Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing met the team members, and Yu Tianheng welcomed them as the captain.
• Yang Yunhai and Yu Tianheng exchanged courtesies, summoned their martial souls, and began their spar when Qin Ming gave the signal.

Yang Yunhai defeated Yu Tianheng in a spar by combining his Blue Silver Grass soul skills, despite having eight fewer soul power levels. After Ye Lingling healed Yu Tianheng, Qin Ming led the team back to the dormitories while the Education Committee members escorted Qian Renxue away.

• Yang Yunhai used his first soul skill to sweep a thorn-covered whip at Yu Tianheng and scattered hidden Parasitic Spores in the dust.
• As Yu Tianheng approached, Yang Yunhai triggered Blue Silver Grass vines beneath and around him, which drained his soul power and restrained him.
• Yu Tianheng used his Thunder soul skills to try to break free, but the vines recovered, cut his skin, and forced Meng Shenji to call a halt.
• Yang Yunhai released Yu Tianheng and apologized, explaining that he was still learning to combine his newly acquired third soul skill with his others.
• Ye Lingling healed Yu Tianheng, and Qin Ming led the team back to the dormitories as the Education Committee members escorted Qian Renxue away.

Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing settled into the dormitory and joined the team for lunch, where Yang Yunhai explained how his Martial Soul evolved and how he developed his vine-control abilities. The team discussed his strength and Qin Ming planned to devise training ideas, before Dugu Yan asked how Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing had met.

• Qin Ming showed Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing their rooms across the hall from each other on the third floor.
• Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing unpacked, then joined the others for lunch and introduced themselves by their preferred names.
• At Yu Tianheng's prompting, Yang Yunhai described drinking Bamboo Shoot Essence, evolving his Martial Soul, and obtaining his third Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yang Yunhai explained how his Parasitism and Drain skills worked together and said he could precisely control eight vines after years of practice.
• Qin Ming said Yang Yunhai's vine control gave him ideas for team training, and Dugu Yan asked Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing how they had met.

Yang Yunhai ate with Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing while considering when to address Dugu Yan’s poisoning and deciding to delay exploring the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Qian Renxue told Ning Fengzhi about Yang Yunhai’s Martial Soul evolution, prompting Ning Fengzhi to investigate the mountains and consider recruiting him.

• Dugu Yan teased Zhu Zhuqing about pursuing Yang Yunhai, but Yang Yunhai said they were only ordinary friends who had known each other for less than half a month.
• Yang Yunhai decided to wait for a suitable opportunity to expose Dugu Yan’s poisoning and postpone visiting the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well until after Bishop Salas returned.
• Qian Renxue told Ning Fengzhi about Yang Yunhai’s Martial Soul evolution and his victory over Yu Tianheng, and Ning Fengzhi sent Sword Douluo to investigate the mountains for more wondrous objects.
• Qian Renxue suggested Yang Yunhai might resent Spirit Hall for mishandling his First Soul Ring, while Ning Fengzhi considered making contact with him for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Qian Renxue asked about Ning Rongrong, and Ning Fengzhi said she had snuck away from home.

Yang Yunhai learned Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s training routine, thanked Zhu Zhuqing for helping her understand her sister, and began experimenting with his third soul skill in a plant-based Simulated Environment. He left off controlling Parasitic Spores as they grew into Vine Armor and writhing tendrils.

• Qin Ming explained the team’s daily training schedule, and Yang Yunhai resolved to train independently rather than share his methods.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Yang Yunhai for helping her understand her big sister’s feelings, and he reassured her before they rested.
• Yang Yunhai received his academy uniform, then accompanied Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Feng to explore the academy’s Simulated Environments.
• Yang Yunhai entered a plant-based environment and began testing how Parasitic Spores could grow into armor and other forms.
• Yang Yunhai grew Vine Armor from the spores and transformed its vines into numerous twisting tendrils.

Yang Yunhai returned to the dormitory with Zhu Zhuqing, where Dugu Yan suffered a painful reaction to the cold. Yang Yunhai tried to sense her condition and obtained poison from her to test whether his second soul skill could absorb it.

• Yang Yunhai walked back to the dormitory with Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan teased them about their date.
• A cold gust made Dugu Yan shudder, and Yu Tianheng explained that she could not tolerate cold because of an old condition.
• Yang Yunhai used his Martial Soul to sense Dugu Yan's wrist but found no obvious way to help her.
• Dugu Yan gave Yang Yunhai a bottle of poison so he could test whether his second soul skill could absorb it.
• Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing ate together, then returned to their rooms to cultivate.

Yang Yunhai and his teammates developed new tactics using his vines and Parasitic Spores, then he inspected the private cultivation site built for him. He decided to move there with Zhu Zhuqing, who agreed to join him and train on the valley’s steep cliffs.

• Qin Ming proposed centering team tactics on Yang Yunhai’s vine control, and Yang Yunhai suggested using Parasitic Spores and vines for offense and defense.
• The team practiced coordinating with Yang Yunhai over the following days while he maintained his regular training schedule.
• An instructor led Yang Yunhai to a secluded valley where the Education Committee had built a Wooden House beside a stream and dense Blue Silver Grass.
• Yang Yunhai told his teammates he planned to move to the private facility to develop his Martial Soul and conduct experiments away from the dormitory.
• Yang Yunhai invited Zhu Zhuqing to train with him by climbing the valley’s steep cliffs, and she agreed to move there with him.
• After morning training the next day, Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing left the dormitory for their new home.

Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing trained together for a week, with him helping her recover and taking care of meals while she gradually adapted to the demanding routine. Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo about Yang Yunhai’s abilities and his possible insight into her poison, leaving Dugu Bo unconvinced but curious about the idea of testing him if he succeeded.

• Yang Yunhai practiced lightning attacks and Blue Silver Grass control while Zhu Zhuqing climbed the cliff until exhaustion, so he treated her injuries and carried her back to the Wooden House.
• Zhu Zhuqing saw Yang Yunhai training and resolved to work harder, then began helping prepare meals as she adapted to their daily training routine.
• After a week, Dugu Yan invited Yu Tianheng to visit Dugu Bo, but he declined, and she went to Heaven Dou City alone.
• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo about Yang Yunhai’s control abilities and his description of a rare bamboo shoot that matched one in Dugu Bo’s herb garden.
• Dugu Yan described Yang Yunhai sensing her wrist and asking for poison, and Dugu Bo dismissed the possibility that he understood poison absorption.
• Dugu Bo agreed to wait for Yang Yunhai to succeed before testing him, while Dugu Yan said she would rather handle the matter herself.

Bibi Dong reviewed Yang Yunhai’s transformation and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to examine him and investigate his background. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo discussed Yang Yunhai’s history and learned that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son, while Qian Renxue invited Ning Fengzhi to help meet Yang Yunhai.

• Salas presented Bibi Dong with a report on Yang Yunhai, and Chrysanthemum Douluo confirmed the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo’s effects and judged Yang Yunhai to have the potential to become a Titled Douluo.
• Bibi Dong sent Ghost Douluo to retrieve a treasure for Chrysanthemum Douluo and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to examine Yang Yunhai and investigate his background.
• Sword Douluo reported that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had found no rare treasure, while Ning Fengzhi recounted Yang Yunhai’s upbringing and speculated about why he had stopped trusting Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo learned that Yu Xiaogang had taken Tang San as his disciple and that Tang San’s father, Tang Hao, was a blacksmith.
• Qian Renxue asked Ning Fengzhi to accompany her to meet Yang Yunhai, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to support her effort to recruit him.

Qian Renxue and Ning Fengzhi questioned Yang Yunhai about his origins and warned him that Spirit Hall might contact him, but he reaffirmed his wish to remain independent. During a thunderstorm, Zhu Zhuqing watched Yang Yunhai cultivate by drawing down lightning, and the two grew closer; the chapter ended with Qin Ming announcing plans for the team to test itself in the Great Soul Arena.

• Yang Yunhai told Qian Renxue and Ning Fengzhi that he considered himself an orphan and had no interest in joining a Soul Master Force for now.
• Qian Renxue warned Yang Yunhai that Spirit Hall had learned of his recent progress and might try to contact him.
• During a thunderstorm, Yang Yunhai cultivated by drawing lightning strikes while Zhu Zhuqing watched from the Wooden House.
• After Yang Yunhai coughed and Zhu Zhuqing rushed to him, he embraced her, and she returned the embrace before he carried her inside.
• On April first, Qin Ming told the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team that they would soon fight in the Great Soul Arena and later challenge teams in other Main Cities.

Yang Yunhai visited Spirit Hall, where Chrysanthemum Douluo accepted him as a disciple and discovered that lightning had opened all eight of his extraordinary meridians. Yang Yunhai collected his and Zhu Zhuqing’s subsidies and returned to the academy with new gifts and supplies.

• Yang Yunhai told Zhu Zhuqing he would visit Spirit Hall for their subsidies, then carried her through the forest before leaving for Heaven Dou City.
• At Spirit Hall, Chrysanthemum Douluo offered to teach Yang Yunhai, and Yang Yunhai accepted him as his teacher.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo gave Yang Yunhai a sapphire storage necklace and a jade gourd, then examined his martial soul and tested his abilities.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo discovered that Yang Yunhai’s eight extraordinary meridians were open and praised his healing ability.
• Yang Yunhai declined help for his parents, collected both subsidies, bought sachets and necessities, and headed back to the academy.

Yang Yunhai studied Chrysanthemum Douluo’s herbal records and considered how to cure Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s poison before planning to visit the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After growing closer to Zhu Zhuqing overnight, he told Dugu Yan that he had found a way to treat her old ailment.

• Yang Yunhai read Chrysanthemum Douluo’s illustrated handbook of immortal herbs and rare plants, then considered using the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to help cure Dugu Bo’s poison.
• Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing shared a shy night together after she slipped into his bed, and he later told the team she had sprained her ankle while rock climbing.
• Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing returned to training together the next day, prompting Dugu Yan and their teammates to tease them.
• Yang Yunhai told Dugu Yan that he had found a way to treat her old ailment.

Yang Yunhai explained to Dugu Yan that her inherited illness came from mutated poisons accumulated through her Phosphorus Serpent martial soul and soul rings. He said treating it would be difficult, but the conversation left him considering Ice and Fire Body Tempering as the way to overcome the poison.

• Yang Yunhai claimed he could treat Dugu Yan's condition and invited her to discuss it privately over a meal.
• After Zhu Zhuqing went to wash the dishes, Yang Yunhai explained how Dugu Yan's symptoms and martial soul had led him to suspect poisoning.
• Yang Yunhai said his examination found many kinds of poison that had mixed and mutated inside Dugu Yan, and he suspected the condition had been passed down through her family.
• Yang Yunhai considered Ice and Fire Body Tempering as a way to wear away the poison, then suggested the toxins may have mutated in Dugu Yan's parents' generation.
• Dugu Yan recalled that her father died shortly after absorbing a Spirit Ring, and Yang Yunhai apologized for bringing up the painful memory.

Yang Yunhai explained two possible ways to cure Dugu Yan’s poisoning, though both depended on his cultivation or finding rare materials. Dugu Yan thanked him and said she would notify him if she and her grandfather found suitable items.

• Yang Yunhai said his second soul skill might eventually absorb Dugu Yan’s poison safely, but he would need to reach Soul Sage first.
• Yang Yunhai proposed using powerful opposing cold and heat energies, or blood from someone with a Body of Hundred Poisons Immunity, to strip away the toxins.
• Yang Yunhai explained that the removed poison could be transferred into a Soul Bone before he absorbed it or Dugu Yan expelled it.
• Yang Yunhai said Dugu Yan would also need rare medicinal herbs to restore her damaged body and guard against future poison exposure.
• Yang Yunhai estimated the cure’s chances depended on the materials found, and Dugu Yan thanked him and promised to contact him if she and her grandfather found suitable items.

Yang Yunhai explained a treatment for Dugu Yan’s poison, and she hurried to tell Dugu Bo about it. Convinced that the method might work, Dugu Bo agreed to meet Yang Yunhai and bring him to his Medicine Garden.

• Yang Yunhai and Dugu Yan agreed that curing her poison could help their team win the Soul Master Competition, and Dugu Yan left to consult Dugu Bo.
• Yang Yunhai showed Zhu Zhuqing new iron-ball exercises to strengthen her body, and they promised to face the future together.
• Dugu Yan rushed to Dugu Manor and told Dugu Bo about Yang Yunhai’s proposed treatment using extreme cold and heat.
• Dugu Bo recognized that his Medicine Garden met nearly all the treatment conditions and decided to take Dugu Yan to meet Yang Yunhai.

Dugu Bo decided to test Yu Tianheng’s sincerity by asking the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan for a Soul Bone to help cure Dugu Yan’s poison. He and Dugu Yan arrived in the valley and found Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing training, where Yang Yunhai stopped to greet them.

• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan he would take Yang Yunhai to inspect items in his collection that might help cure her poison.
• Dugu Bo decided to ask Yu Tianheng to seek a Soul Bone from his clan and use the request to judge whether he would stand up for Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo explained his concerns about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and said Yu Tianheng needed to prove he could protect Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo arrived at the valley and saw Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing dragging logs uphill as training.
• Yang Yunhai stopped, untied the rope from his waist, and walked with Zhu Zhuqing to greet Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo.

Yang Yunhai examined Dugu Bo’s poison and assessed the soul bones needed to contain the toxins in both Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan. Dugu Bo planned to take Yang Yunhai to inspect his collection that night and arrange his leave from the academy.

• Dugu Bo asked Yang Yunhai to examine the poison in his body, and Yang Yunhai found it more potent than Dugu Yan’s but suppressed by a special energy.
• Yang Yunhai warned that soul bones had limits and estimated that Dugu Bo needed at least a ten-thousand-year soul bone while Dugu Yan needed one of at least five thousand years.
• Dugu Yan worried about the cost and rarity of the soul bones, while Dugu Bo said he would not accept the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan refusing to provide one for her.
• Dugu Bo invited Yang Yunhai to inspect soul bones in his collection that night and said he would ask Qin Ming to grant Yang Yunhai leave from the academy.

Yang Yunhai joined Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan for dinner, then accompanied them to meet Yu Tianheng about obtaining a Soul Bone for Dugu Yan’s treatment. The chapter ended with Yu Tianheng promising to ask his clan for one, while Yang Yunhai wondered if his friend was a fool.

• Yang Yunhai invited Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to dinner, where he discussed medicine with Dugu Bo and learned from his advice.
• Dugu Bo asked Qin Ming to let Yang Yunhai accompany him to treat Dugu Yan, then went to speak privately with Yu Tianheng.
• Dugu Bo told Yu Tianheng that Dugu Yan’s treatment required a Soul Bone of at least five thousand years.
• Yang Yunhai explained how the Soul Bone would help contain the toxins in Dugu Yan’s body and hinted that Yu Tianheng should support her.
• Yu Tianheng solemnly promised to write to his clan and ask for a Soul Bone, leaving Yang Yunhai stunned by how directly he responded.

Dugu Bo asked Yu Tianheng to secure resources from his clan for Dugu Yan’s treatment, but Yu Tianheng said he would write home instead of making a strong case in person. Dugu Bo left angry with Yang Yunhai, who fell asleep during their flight and woke after they arrived.

• Dugu Bo ended his discussion with Yu Tianheng and told Dugu Yan to stay at the academy while he and Yang Yunhai confirmed the treatment worked.
• Dugu Yan urged Yu Tianheng to cultivate harder after describing Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing’s training, and Yu Tianheng said he would write to his clan for a five-thousand-year power-type Soul Bone.
• Dugu Yan reassured Yu Tianheng and kissed his cheek before leaving him to write the letter.
• Dugu Bo angrily criticized Yu Tianheng for failing to argue for more support for Dugu Yan, while Yang Yunhai tried to defend him.
• Dugu Bo carried Yang Yunhai away from the academy, and Yang Yunhai fell asleep before waking when he hit the ground at their destination.