Chapter Summaries

Yang Yunhai defeated Yu Tianheng in the Great Soul Arena, then his team struggled in Team Competitions without his control before improving through experience. Qin Ming ended the first stage of training and announced a three-day break before the team traveled to other cities, and Dugu Yan invited Yang Yunhai to her home.

• Yang Yunhai trapped Yu Tianheng in reinforced vines and won their individual match as spectators watched.
• Ye Lingling treated Yu Tianheng, while Chrysanthemum Douluo worried the public defeat would deepen the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's resentment toward Yang Yunhai.
• Yang Yunhai watched his teammates lose a Team Competition, and Qin Ming concluded that the team needed to develop without relying on his control.
• Over the following days, the team lost more matches than it won at first, then improved its coordination; with Yang Yunhai competing, the team crushed its opponents.
• Qin Ming announced three days off before the team traveled to Spirit Arenas in other Main Cities, and Dugu Yan invited Yang Yunhai to visit her home.

Dugu Yan invited Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing to visit Dugu Bo, hoping Yu Tianheng would come and improve his standing with her grandfather, but Yu Tianheng refused. Yang Yunhai explained his suspicions to Zhu Zhuqing and reassured her that Dugu Bo would protect them, leaving Zhu Zhuqing moved by Yang Yunhai’s efforts for their future.

• Yang Yunhai accepted Dugu Yan’s invitation to visit Dugu Bo, but Yu Tianheng declined to go with them.
• Dugu Yan concealed her disappointment that Yu Tianheng had refused, while Ye Lingling accompanied her back to their room.
• Yang Yunhai wondered why Dugu Yan had wanted Yu Tianheng to come and judged that Yu Tianheng had missed her hint.
• Yang Yunhai told Zhu Zhuqing that Dugu Yan had been poisoned and explained that she likely hoped the visit would help repair her relationship with Yu Tianheng.
• Zhu Zhuqing worried that Yu Tianheng might retaliate against Yang Yunhai, but Yang Yunhai reassured her that Dugu Bo would protect them.

Dugu Bo arranged for Dugu Yan to train with Yang Yunhai and Zhu Zhuqing, offering his Medicine Garden and protection in return. That night, Chrysanthemum Douluo visited Yang Yunhai and complained that the Pope had ordered him to reconcile with Dugu Bo.

• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo about the team's upcoming tour and her progress toward transferring her toxins into her Soul Bone.
• Dugu Bo asked Yang Yunhai to let Dugu Yan train with him and Zhu Zhuqing, promising his Medicine Garden and protection in return.
• Yang Yunhai accepted, and Dugu Yan trained with him and Zhu Zhuqing that afternoon before returning to her dormitory alone.
• Yin'e sensed someone entering the mountain valley late at night, and Yang Yunhai recognized the visitor as Chrysanthemum Douluo.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Yang Yunhai that the Pope had ordered him to make peace with Dugu Bo because of Yang Yunhai's involvement with Dugu Bo and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yang Yunhai explained Dugu Bo’s old feud with Chrysanthemum Douluo and argued that they should reconcile and recruit Dugu Bo into Spirit Hall. He gave Chrysanthemum Douluo two immortal herbs, including one suited to his Martial Soul and another that could improve the Ghostly Martial Soul of his Martial Uncle.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo recounted how he caught Dugu Bo stealing from his Medicine Garden while Dugu Bo desperately searched for a cure for his son, beginning their long-running feud.
• Yang Yunhai urged Chrysanthemum Douluo to turn their hostility into friendship and said he had approached Dugu Yan to befriend Dugu Bo and recruit him into Spirit Hall.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo said he had agreed to reconcile with Dugu Bo because Yang Yunhai needed protection after offending the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yang Yunhai revealed that Dugu Bo had several unrecognized immortal herbs and presented Chrysanthemum Douluo with a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Yang Yunhai showed Chrysanthemum Douluo an immortal-grade Grievance Bell Grass, which Chrysanthemum Douluo said could advance his Martial Uncle’s Ghostly Martial Soul, and gave it to him.

Yang Yunhai told Chrysanthemum Douluo that he had consumed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, strengthening the trust between them. He then gave his teacher a booklet of new Soul Master theories and observations about the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo praised Yang Yunhai for offering him the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and asked whether any immortal herbs had suited him.
• Yang Yunhai said he had consumed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, and Chrysanthemum Douluo recognized their combined effects.
• Yang Yunhai explained that he had discovered Dugu Yan's poison and proposed using ice and fire to counter it, which led him to Dugu Bo's herbs.
• Yang Yunhai credited Chrysanthemum Douluo's medicinal teachings for helping him save Dugu Bo, and Chrysanthemum Douluo proudly accepted the credit.
• Yang Yunhai handed Chrysanthemum Douluo a booklet about secondary development of Soul Skills, Self-Created Soul Skills, and the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

Yang Yunhai confided in Chrysanthemum Douluo about his dealings with Dugu Bo and kept his remaining secrets to himself. Back at the Wooden House, he grew closer to Yin'e while deciding to postpone lightning cultivation until it was safer.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo read Yang Yunhai's Self-Created Soul Skill theory and promised to keep it secret from outsiders, including Spirit Hall.
• Yang Yunhai told Chrysanthemum Douluo that he had shared the effects of the remaining poisonous immortal herbs with Dugu Bo to repay his kindness.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo praised Yang Yunhai, then left to consider how to deal with Dugu Bo and consume his own immortal herb.
• Yang Yunhai asked Yin'e to keep their conversation secret from Zhuqing and decided to wait until after the tour matches to resume drawing lightning.
• Yang Yunhai explained kissing to Yin'e, and she eagerly agreed that she wanted to stay with him forever.
• Near dawn, Yin'e asked Yang Yunhai for a kiss; he kissed her, and Zhu Zhuqing blushed, pinched his waist, and went back to sleep.

Dugu Bo confronted Chrysanthemum Douluo, mistaking him for an assassin sent after Yang Yunhai, but they agreed to settle their decade-long feud in a fair duel. Chrysanthemum Douluo’s newly strengthened Martial Soul shattered Dugu Bo’s expectations, and the fight ended with Dugu Bo freezing time to stop a powerful attack.

• Dugu Bo intercepted Chrysanthemum Douluo and wrongly accused him of coming on Bibi Dong’s orders to kill Yang Yunhai.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Dugu Bo argued over their long-running feud, then agreed to fight at Level 91 and end their grievances afterward.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo revealed that consuming the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum had raised his Soul Power to Level 96 and greatly strengthened his Martial Soul.
• Dugu Bo attacked in his Martial Soul Avatar, but Chrysanthemum Douluo’s Golden Stamen Overflowing Rosy Clouds damaged it and left Dugu Bo injured.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo fired Myriad Zhangs of Flowing Light, and Dugu Bo used Time Freeze to halt the beam and the spreading ripple.

Chrysanthemum Douluo defeated Dugu Bo in a spar and reached level 96, while Yang Yunhai’s team continued its training tour without him taking part in the group match. Back in Spirit City, Chrysanthemum Douluo told Bibi Dong how Yang Yunhai had cured the Dugu Clan’s inherited poison and drawn Dugu Bo closer to Spirit Hall.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo countered Dugu Bo’s soul skills, overwhelmed him with his ninth soul skill, and forced him to admit defeat.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo revealed that he had reached level 96, while Dugu Bo left vowing to win their next match.
• Qin Ming led Yang Yunhai and the team through their first touring competition in Sol City, keeping Yang Yunhai off the field for training purposes.
• After the team completed its Sol City training, it departed for Xilu City on its planned route around the duchies near Heaven Dou City.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo met with Bibi Dong and explained that Yang Yunhai’s poison-transfer method was curing Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s inherited poison.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Bibi Dong that Yang Yunhai had helped alienate Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, making them likely recruits for Spirit Hall.

Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo discussed Xiao Hai’s gifts and Spirit Hall’s political interests, then weighed whether to interfere with Dugu Bo’s apparent plan to match Xiao Hai with Dugu Yan. Chrysanthemum Douluo decided not to intervene, while Ghost Douluo offered to take Zhu Qing as his disciple.

• Bibi Dong praised Xiao Hai’s work and dismissed Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo showed Ghost Douluo the Grievance Bell Grass and Xiao Hai’s booklets, and they agreed to keep the herb’s source secret for now.
• Ghost Douluo reasoned that Dugu Bo might want Xiao Hai to marry Dugu Yan to preserve the Dugu bloodline and bind Dugu Bo to Spirit Hall.
• Ghost Douluo warned that interfering could damage their standing with Bibi Dong and Xiao Hai’s prospects, so Chrysanthemum Douluo abandoned the idea of warning Xiao Hai.
• Ghost Douluo offered to train Zhu Qing as his disciple, and Chrysanthemum Douluo approved.

Yang Yunhai won a cross-rank match and received a Purple Gold Badge for setting a Great Soul Arena record. After his team won its competition, Qin Ming announced their return journey, while Yang Yunhai considered how to warn Xiao Wu about the danger of Dugu Bo.

• Yang Yunhai defeated a level 42 Soul Ancestor as a level 32 Soul Elder, earning enough points for a Purple Gold Badge and prompting Yu Tianheng to reflect on their growing gap.
• Yang Yunhai joked with his teammates about his winning bets, then sat out as Qin Ming's team won its competition.
• Qin Ming told the team they would travel to Suotuo City, continue to Silves City, and then return to Heaven Dou City for a visit home.
• Yang Yunhai worried that Dugu Bo might discover Xiao Wu's identity in Suotuo City and considered finding a way to warn her before Dugu Bo could capture her.
• The Great Soul Arena manager presented Yang Yunhai with his Purple Gold Badge and settled his winnings under his registered name, Blue Silver Control Specialization.

Yang Yunhai warned Dugu Bo that Tang Hao was likely in Suotuo City, reasoning that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and innate full soul power pointed to Twin Martial Souls and a powerful, possibly nonhuman mother. Dugu Bo agreed to be cautious, then continued cultivating before the team departed for the Balak Kingdom.

• Dugu Bo watched the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s agents and chose not to confront them, intending to protect Yang Yunhai and Dugu Rong while avoiding a premature conflict.
• Yang Yunhai secretly visited Dugu Bo and said Tang Hao was likely in Suotuo City because Tang San was there and had once been his roommate.
• Yang Yunhai connected Tang San’s innate full soul power and Blue Silver Grass to possible Twin Martial Souls, while Dugu Bo suspected Tang San’s mother had been a powerful hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• Yang Yunhai warned that Tang Hao might secretly guard Tang San and become wary of Dugu Bo, who promised to remain careful in Suotuo City.
• After Yang Yunhai left, Dugu Bo reflected on his growing caution and continued absorbing the Nine Rank Purple Ganoderma’s medicinal power.
• The next day, Yang Yunhai and the others left Slofael City with the Heaven Dou Battle Team’s carriage and headed toward the Balak Kingdom.

At the Suotuo City Great Spirit Arena, Yu Xiaogang accepted a team battle against a powerful visiting squad after learning its Blue Silver Grass vice-captain could challenge Tang San. The opponent’s roster revealed its captain was Yu Tianheng, leaving Yu Xiaogang surprised as the teams prepared to meet.

• Tie Long and Tie Hu met Xiao Wu and Tang San at the arena, where they continued to follow the Shrek team as unofficial members.
• A supervisor told Yu Xiaogang that a visiting team had defeated the Berserker Team and included an undefeated level 32 Blue Silver Grass Soul Elder with a Purple Gold Badge.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted the proposed team battle, insisting that the visiting team’s Blue Silver Grass vice-captain take the field against Tang San.
• The supervisor arranged the teams’ preparations, and Yu Xiaogang read the opponent’s roster and saw that its captain was Yu Tianheng.

The Heaven Dou Battle Team and Shrek Team prepared for their upcoming match, with Yang Yunhai agreeing to face Tang San and Zhu Zhuqing requesting a place in the lineup. After both teams studied their opponents and planned their strategies, Tang San took charge of Shrek’s battle arrangements, leaving both teams ready to fight.

• The manager told Qin Ming that the Shrek Team had requested Yang Yunhai take the field, and Yang Yunhai agreed to the match.
• Qin Ming reprimanded Dugu Yan for underestimating Shrek, and Zhu Zhuqing asked to compete so she could settle something she had to face.
• Yang Yunhai proposed an offensive lineup, and Dugu Yan reasoned that Shrek would likely field both of its support Soul Masters; Qin Ming approved the team’s selection and ordered them not to seriously injure their opponents.
• Yu Xiaogang showed Shrek the Royal Fight Team’s roster, and Tang San asked about Dugu Yan’s poison-based control before suggesting that Ma Hongjun use fire and realgar liquor against her.
• Ning Rongrong urged Shrek to target Ye Lingling, and Tang San rallied the team before asking Yu Xiaogang to let him arrange their battle lineup.

The Shrek Team and Royal Fight Team entered the Soul Arena for their team battle as their members sized one another up. Yang Yunhai considered how to shake Ning Rongrong’s loyalty to Shrek and resolved that defeat could serve as a warning.

• Dou Dou introduced the Shrek Team and the Royal Fight Team, highlighting their captains, martial souls, and records.
• Both teams entered the arena, and Ma Hongjun leered at Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling.
• Yang Yunhai and the Royal Fight Team noticed Ma Hongjun’s behavior, while Zhu Zhuqing thought it matched Xiao Hai’s description of him.
• Oscar warned Ma Hongjun to watch himself, and Tang San and Xiao Wu reacted with disapproval.
• Yang Yunhai reflected on why Ning Rongrong followed Tang San and considered using a defeat to make her question the Shrek Team.

Dai Mubai confronted Zhu Zhuqing before the Soul Arena match, but she rejected their former engagement and identified Yang Yunhai as the man who had saved her. As both teams summoned their Martial Souls, Dugu Bo recognized Xiao Wu as a transformed hundred-thousand-year-old Soul Beast.

• Dai Mubai accused Zhu Zhuqing of betraying him, and she said the woman he knew had died while being hunted in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained that she had broken free of her family and imperial obligations, while Yang Yunhai confirmed that he was the man she had chosen.
• Yang Yunhai warned Dai Mubai against provoking opponents recklessly, and Dai Mubai threatened him before the match began.
• Both teams took their formations and summoned their Martial Souls as the spectators cheered.
• Dugu Bo sensed Xiao Wu's unusual aura and realized she was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Dugu Bo watched Shrek Academy and speculated that Yu Xiaogang had chosen Tang San to prove his theories and gain fame through the upcoming All-Continent Soul Master Competition. He decided to build his strength before acting, while Tang Hao examined Yang Yunhai’s altered Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul as the match began.

• Dugu Bo inferred that Tang San and the transformed soul beast beside him were close, and wondered whether Tang Hao had accepted her and found a way to conceal her aura.
• Dugu Bo criticized Yu Xiaogang’s lack of practical training and dismissed his Martial Soul theories as flawed and obvious.
• Dugu Bo concluded that Yu Xiaogang had taken Tang San as a disciple to use his talent to prove his teaching ability at the upcoming All-Continent Soul Master Competition.
• Dugu Bo chose to wait, digest the medicinal power in his body, and consume the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd before confronting Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao studied Yang Yunhai’s dark cyan Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and wondered whether soul rings had caused its change.
• Host Dou Dou announced the start of the match.

The Shrek Team opened with a planned attack, but Yang Yunhai pulled the Royal Fight Team out of Tang San’s trap and coordinated a counterattack with venom and wind. Tang San and Ma Hongjun burned away the poison with Realgar Liquor and fire, leaving Yu Feng questioning their use of an outside item.

• Ning Rongrong boosted Dai Mubai and Xiao Wu while Oscar made a Flying Sausage for Tang San.
• Tang San launched his Spider Web Restraint toward the Royal Fight Team, but Yang Yunhai pulled Yu Tianheng, Osler, and Zhu Zhuqing out of its path.
• Yang Yunhai directed Yu Feng to stir up the vines with wind as Dugu Yan sprayed venom across them.
• Dai Mubai fired his White Tiger Light Wave, but Yu Tianheng’s Thunder Dragon Claw broke through and the gale carried venom toward Shrek.
• Ma Hongjun blasted the dragon claw apart, and Tang San’s Realgar Liquor combined with Ma Hongjun’s flames to evaporate the poisonous mist.
• Yu Feng questioned the use of alcohol in the Soul Arena, and Dai Mubai defended it.

Tang San spotted the opposing team’s powder trap and led Shrek into the air to bypass it. The teams maneuvered around Yu Feng’s wind attack as both sides prepared to protect their back lines.

• Dugu Yan ordered her team to attack Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, and Yu Tianheng led the charge with his teammates.
• Tang San noticed white powder scattered across the battlefield and warned Shrek that it was likely a Soul Skill trap.
• Tang San decided the team had to fly over the powder, and Oscar supplied Flying Sausages while Ning Rongrong boosted Tang San.
• Yu Tianheng ordered his team to fall back and told Yu Feng to stall Shrek while Yang Yunhai conserved his strength.
• Yu Feng unleashed Rising Winds and Swirling Clouds, but Tang San led Shrek around the broad windstorm at high speed.

The Shrek team pressed its attack while Yang Yunhai protected Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling with Blue Silver Grass that withstood fire and a combined assault. Yu Feng brought down Tie Long, and the battle left both teams facing a dangerous contest as their Soul Power and flight time ran low.

• Tang San’s Spider Web Restraint blocked Yu Tianheng’s retreat, but Yang Yunhai’s barbed vines cut through several of Tang San’s vines before losing ground to the larger mass.
• Yu Tianheng charged through the vines with Thunder Dragon Claw while Yu Feng pursued, Tie Long intercepted him with a tracking hammer, and Ma Hongjun raised a wall of fire across the route.
• Yang Yunhai warned Dugu Yan not to waste her Soul Power, then used Parasitic Spores to form protective vine flowers around himself, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling; the vines endured Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun’s combined attack without burning.
• Yu Feng struck Tie Long repeatedly with Wing Blades, sending him falling, while Yu Tianheng tore through the fire wall and Tang San dived after the retreating opponents with his Eight Spider Lances.
• Xiao Wu assigned the Shrek team’s next attacks, Dai Mubai charged Dugu Yan, and Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Ning Rongrong revealed that their Soul Power was nearly exhausted.

Tang San’s team and the Heaven Dou Royal Team fought fiercely, but Xiao Wu was poisoned after her Charm affected Yang Yunhai. As Yang Yunhai restrained the opposing team, Tang San attacked with poisoned hidden weapons, provoking outrage from Dugu Bo and the spectators.

• Xiao Wu used Teleport and Charm on Yang Yunhai, but Dugu Yan’s poisonous mist hit her as she fell, and Tang San treated her with a Detoxification Sausage.
• Tang San used Parasitic Seed to bind Yu Tianheng and his teammates, while Yang Yunhai activated his own spores to free them and redirect the vines.
• Dai Mubai struggled against Yu Tianheng and the approaching Osler, while Yang Yunhai’s control of the vines disrupted both teams’ attacks.
• After treating Xiao Wu, Tang San threatened the opposing team and threw hidden weapons at Yang Yunhai and Dugu Yan, despite Yang Yunhai binding the fighters.
• Yang Yunhai pulled Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling behind cover after they were struck, and Dugu Yan revealed the weapons were poisoned, enraging Dugu Bo and the spectators.