Recaps

Tian Chen brought Ma Hongjun to Spirit Hall Academy and arranged for him to join the beginner class before seeking Hu Liena for help understanding his Wisdom Skull’s Simulation Soul Skill. The chapter ended with Hu Liena spotting Tian Chen in the corridor and Tian Chen gesturing for her to slip out of class.

• Tian Chen decided to temper his body at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before absorbing his fourth Soul Ring so he could pursue an older one.
• Tian Chen took Ma Hongjun to Spirit Hall Academy and told him to study hard and reach rank ten.
• Tian Chen introduced Ma Hongjun to beginner class teacher Chen Yuyang, who agreed to arrange his enrollment.
• Tian Chen left Ma Hongjun in the beginner class and went to the intermediate classroom to find Hu Liena.
• Hu Liena noticed Tian Chen outside the classroom, and he gestured for her to slip out.

Tian Chen took Hu Liena to a meditation room at Spirit Hall Academy so she could guide his mental power into alignment with his soul power. The two successfully began fusing their mental power, then intertwined it with Tian Chen’s soul power under Hu Liena’s guidance.

• Hu Liena’s teacher dismissed her from class without objection, and Tian Chen invited her to eat with him.
• Tian Chen led Hu Liena to the academy’s meditation rooms and rented a grade-A room.
• Tian Chen explained that he wanted Hu Liena to guide his mental power in aligning with his soul power.
• Hu Liena released her martial soul and began merging her mental power with Tian Chen’s.
• Hu Liena guided their fused mental power as it began intertwining with Tian Chen’s soul power.

After cultivating with Hu Liena, Tian Chen went shopping with her and found a rare piece of thousand-year whale rubber. Hu Liena misunderstood his interest in it and angrily ran to the Pope's Palace, while Tian Chen bought it anyway.

• Tian Chen and Hu Liena finished their Mental Power cultivation, and Hu Liena confronted him about taking a Soul Bone Bibi Dong had intended for her.
• Tian Chen and Hu Liena left Spirit Hall Academy together, drawing curious looks from other students as Hu Liena took his hand and hurried them out.
• Tian Chen spotted a piece of thousand-year whale rubber in a shop and learned the shopkeeper was asking five thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Hu Liena accused Tian Chen of wanting the whale rubber as an aphrodisiac and called him a bastard before running toward the Pope's Palace.
• Tian Chen dismissed Hu Liena's reaction and paid the shopkeeper for the whale rubber.

Tian Chen bought a thousand-year piece of whale rubber, then learned that his grandfather, Tian E, possessed a ten-thousand-year piece. Tian E also revealed that their family branch came from outside the Douluo Continent, leaving Tian Chen to suspect a connection to Sea God Island.

• The shopkeeper recognized Tian Chen's purple-gold card and offered to sell him the whale rubber for only one hundred Gold Soul Coins, but Tian Chen insisted on paying its proper price.
• Tian Chen returned to his family's estate and asked Tian E about whale rubber.
• Tian E showed Tian Chen a piece of ten-thousand-year whale glue that he had obtained by killing a twenty-thousand-year Deep Sea Demon Whale.
• Tian E told Tian Chen that their ancestors' genealogy suggested their family branch was not native to the Douluo Continent and that he had grown up in Vast Sea City.
• Tian Chen suspected their Golden Crocodile King Martial Soul connected their family to Sea God Island, while Tian E said he would explain his theories when Tian Chen was stronger.

Tian Chen consumed thousand-year whale rubber and discovered it could strengthen his physique and raise the age of his next Soul Ring. After cultivating to control its effects, he encountered Zhang Ping outside his room and sent her away.

• Tian E melted the thousand-year whale rubber, and Tian Chen ate it despite its strong fishy taste.
• The whale rubber flooded Tian Chen's body with heat, so he hurried to his room to cultivate while Tian E sent two maids to guard outside.
• Tian Chen used his Mental Power to suppress the whale rubber's effects and estimated that it could raise his next Soul Ring's age by at least five hundred years.
• Tian Chen considered buying more whale rubber in coastal cities rather than risking Tian E's safety on a deep-sea hunt.
• Zhang Ping walked out of Tian Chen's open room and bumped into him; after briefly checking his forehead, she withdrew her hand, and he told her to leave.

Tian Chen reached Level 40, mastered his Simulation Soul Skill, and helped Ma Hongjun obtain an Earth Fire Lizard Soul Ring that gave him Explosive Flame Breath. When Ma Hongjun's Evil Fire erupted during cultivation, Tian Chen stopped him and decided to seek Dugu Bo and immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Tian Chen broke through to Level 36, then spent a year training his Soul Power and Mental Power until he reached Level 40 and mastered the Wisdom Skull's Simulation Soul Skill.
• Tian Chen helped Ma Hongjun hunt an Earth Fire Lizard, whose Soul Ring gave Ma Hongjun the Explosive Flame Breath Soul Skill.
• Ma Hongjun's Evil Fire began surging dangerously while he cultivated, and Tian Chen interrupted his cultivation.
• Tian Chen checked Ma Hongjun's condition, told him not to cultivate until he returned, and left to arrange a trip to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to find Dugu Bo and obtain immortal herbs.

Tian E told Tian Chen that the Heaven Dou Auction House would auction two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, and the pair planned to take one by force. After discovering Tian Chen had reached Level 40, Tian E set out with him for Heaven Dou City and Sunset Forest so he could obtain his fourth Soul Ring.

• Tian E showed Tian Chen the auction notice for a ten-thousand-year Gale Demon Wolf right arm bone and a thirty-thousand-year Earth Bear left arm bone.
• Tian Chen questioned whether they could outbid the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Tian E implied they would not need to buy the Soul Bone.
• Tian E discovered that Tian Chen had reached Level 40 and decided to help him obtain his fourth Soul Ring in Sunset Forest on the way to Heaven Dou City.
• Tian Chen considered whether to subdue Dugu Bo, thinking that Dugu Yan might be the key to controlling him.
• After the coachman prepared the carriage, Tian E and Tian Chen departed for Heaven Dou City.

Tian Chen and Tian E traveled toward Heaven Dou City, stopping for dinner along the way. Tian E asked about Hu Liena and encouraged Tian Chen to pursue a family, leaving Tian Chen to consider his feelings for her.

• Tian Chen and Tian E set out on a nearly two-thousand-li journey toward Heaven Dou City.
• They stopped near the Silves Kingdom at dusk, where the coachman prepared a campfire meal.
• After dinner, Tian Chen asked Tian E why he had been watching him.
• Tian E asked what was happening between Tian Chen and Hu Liena, whom he had seen lingering near their manor.
• Tian E urged Tian Chen to think about carrying on their family line, and Tian Chen said he understood.

Tian Chen and Tian E reached Sunset Forest to search for a powerful soul beast for Tian Chen’s fourth soul ring, which he hoped would be at least ten thousand years old. Elsewhere in the forest, a frail old Titled Douluo sensed a threat and sent his granddaughter Yanyan into a cave before taking to the air.

• Tian E recalled visiting Heaven Dou City decades earlier, then left Tian Chen’s carriage there and headed with him toward Sunset Forest.
• Tian Chen suggested searching for soul beasts from above, and Tian E carried him into the air while releasing his nine soul rings and pressuring the forest’s beasts.
• Tian Chen considered the risk of absorbing a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring, while Tian E weighed the possibility of his grandson eventually obtaining Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• An old man emerged from a cave near a strange two-colored hot spring with his granddaughter Yanyan, then told her he planned to send her to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• The old man sensed danger, shoved Yanyan back into the cave, warned her not to come out, and flew into the air as a Titled Douluo.

Tian E and Tian Chen discovered the hidden poison formation around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Dugu Bo arrived to defend it. Tian E overwhelmed Dugu Bo and recognized the Medusa's Gaze Head Soul Bone, deciding he would take it for Tian Chen's descendants.

• Tian Chen urged Tian E to investigate the poison formation in the valley, but Dugu Bo's hostile cry announced his approach.
• Tian E lowered Tian Chen to safety and confronted Dugu Bo, whose confidence faltered when he saw Tian E's red Ninth Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo asked whether there was a misunderstanding, but Tian E began the fight and attacked him with a golden crocodile claw.
• Dugu Bo transformed into his emerald serpent Martial Soul Avatar and used Medusa's Gaze to turn Tian E's attack into stone.
• Tian E recognized Dugu Bo's ten-thousand-year Medusa Head Soul Bone and resolved to take it for Tian Chen's descendants.

Tian E overwhelmed Dugu Bo in their fight, but spared him after discovering that Dugu Yan was in the valley. Dugu Bo was left badly injured, while Tian E entered the valley with Tian Chen.

• Tian E dismissed Dugu Bo’s threat and launched a combined Soul Skill and Right Arm Soul Bone attack to seize his Medusa Head Soul Bone.
• Dugu Bo used Space-Time Solidification, but Tian E’s attack broke through it almost unharmed.
• Dugu Bo transformed into his Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor form and met the attack head-on to protect Dugu Yan and the valley.
• Tian E sensed Dugu Yan in the valley and reduced the force of his attack, though it still smashed Dugu Bo into a mountainside.
• Tian E told Tian Chen that Dugu Bo was alive and that he no longer planned to kill him, then carried Tian Chen into the valley.

Tian Chen and Tian E reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Tian Chen recognized the Immortal Herbs he had long sought. After Tian E sent Tian Chen and Dugu Yan away together, he offered to cure Dugu Bo and his granddaughter's poison.

• Tian E carried Tian Chen through Dugu Bo's poison formation and found Dugu Bo recovering from their fight.
• Dugu Bo thanked Tian E for sparing him, then led Tian E and Tian Chen into the valley to see his granddaughter.
• Tian Chen recognized the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and excitedly told Tian E something about the Immortal Herbs.
• Dugu Yan reunited with Dugu Bo, and Tian E introduced Tian Chen before sending the two youngsters to walk around together.
• Tian E told Dugu Bo that he could cure the poison afflicting him and Dugu Yan.

Tian Chen and Dugu Yan encountered a thousand-year Six-Headed Bright Lizard after Dugu Bo’s poison array was damaged, and Tian Chen killed it with his Soul Bone and Soul Skill. A ten-thousand-year Thorn Dragon with spatial abilities then appeared before the exhausted Tian Chen.

• Tian Chen and Dugu Yan strolled through the valley until movement in the grass alerted them to danger.
• A Six-Headed Bright Lizard attacked with venom, and Tian Chen carried Dugu Yan out of its path.
• Tian Chen told Dugu Yan to warn his grandfather and Dugu Bo that their earlier battle might have damaged the poison array, and she hurried away.
• Tian Chen used Earth Array Thrust and his Third Soul Skill to kill the Six-Headed Bright Lizard, exhausting much of his Soul Power.
• A ten-thousand-year Thorn Dragon appeared through a spatial ripple in front of Tian Chen.

Tian Chen reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and secured a fifteen-thousand-year Thorn Dragon as a possible fourth Soul Ring. He had Tian E harvest the octagonal mysterious ice grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, swallowed both herbs, and jumped into the springs as their effects took hold.

• Tian Chen followed the Thorn Dragon toward the valley, hoping to claim the spatial Soul Beast as his fourth Soul Ring.
• Tian E and Dugu Bo appeared at the valley entrance, and Tian E sent Dugu Bo away to repair his poison formation.
• Tian E nourished Tian Chen's meridians and showed him the incapacitated Thorn Dragon near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tian Chen asked Tian E to cut the octagonal mysterious ice grass with refined iron and dig up the Infernal Delicate Apricot with jade.
• Tian Chen swallowed the two herbs while their effects were suppressed, stripped off his clothes, and leaped into the meeting point of the cold and hot springs.

Tian Chen endured the violent clash of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot while absorbing their power in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After emerging safely, he decided to give Dugu Yan the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, leaving Dugu Bo’s detoxification to be resolved later.

• Tian Chen swallowed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then submerged himself in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as Tian E anxiously watched over him.
• Dugu Bo returned to the valley, saw Tian Chen absorbing the herbs, and reassured Dugu Yan that he was still alive.
• After a day of cultivation, Tian Chen opened his eyes and surfaced, startling Dugu Yan before Tian E handed him clothes.
• Tian Chen told Tian E that he had been fine in the spring, then considered how his blood could help neutralize Dugu Bo’s poison.
• Tian Chen walked toward the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, intending to leave the Immortal Herb for Dugu Yan.

Tian Chen gave Dugu Yan the narcissus jade muscle bone and explained how to consume it, while persuading Dugu Bo that Spirit Hall records had taught him about the immortal herbs and the cure for their poison. He then killed the fifteen-thousand-year Thorn Dragon and began absorbing its Soul Ring in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Tian Chen dug up the narcissus jade muscle bone and instructed Dugu Yan to eat its petals, suck its stamens, and use Soul Power to absorb it.
• Dugu Bo grabbed Tian Chen and demanded to know how he recognized the immortal herbs, then accepted Tian Chen's claim that he had read about them in an ancient Spirit Hall book.
• Dugu Bo urged Dugu Yan to consume the herb, and she began eating its petals while Tian Chen prepared to absorb the Thorn Dragon's Soul Ring.
• Tian Chen killed the fifteen-thousand-year Thorn Dragon with a dagger, and its black Soul Ring formed without causing Soul Shock.
• Tian Chen entered the junction of the spring waters, released his Martial Soul, and began absorbing the Thorn Dragon's Soul Ring as Tian E stood guard.

Tian Chen absorbed the Thorn Dragon’s ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, raising his Soul Power to rank forty-two and gaining a teleportation skill that could carry others. He revealed his age and new ability to Dugu Bo and Tian E, while Dugu Yan continued absorbing the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone.

• Tian Chen absorbed the Thorn Dragon’s Soul Ring in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as Tian E watched over him and Dugu Yan absorbed the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone.
• After six hours, Tian Chen completed the absorption and emerged with four Soul Rings: one yellow, two purple, and one black.
• Tian Chen told Dugu Bo that he was twelve years old and a rank-forty-two Soul Ancestor, leaving Dugu Bo stunned by the comparison with Dugu Yan.
• Tian Chen demonstrated his fourth Soul Skill, teleporting behind Tian E, then carried his grandfather a hundred meters away with him.

Tian Chen found and retrieved a ten-thousand-year Thorn Dragon left leg bone, but set it aside because its likely teleportation skill overlapped with his fourth Soul Skill. As Tian Chen prepared the Thorn Dragon meat, Tian E hinted that he should consider Dugu Yan.

• Tian Chen considered whether his transformed body could withstand higher-quality Soul Bones and decided to search the Thorn Dragon's corpse.
• Tian E detected a Soul Bone in the Thorn Dragon's left leg and pointed it out to Tian Chen.
• Tian Chen retrieved the crystalline left leg bone, recognized its spatial fluctuations, and stored it without absorbing it because its likely skill duplicated his fourth Soul Skill.
• Tian Chen began preparing the Thorn Dragon meat while Tian E set out a grill and ordered Dugu Bo to fetch firewood.
• With Dugu Bo gone, Tian E asked Tian Chen what he thought of Dugu Yan.

Tian Chen rejected Tian E’s suggestion that he pursue Dugu Yan for the sake of continuing the family line, then shared grilled Thorn Dragon meat with his grandfather. After Dugu Yan finished absorbing the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone and thanked Tian Chen, the three ate together by the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Tian Chen brushed off Tian E’s suggestion of a union with Dugu Yan and focused on preparing Thorn Dragon meat.
• Tian Chen grilled the meat, and he and Tian E ate dozens of jin while Dugu Bo waited beside Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan finished cultivating and woke to the smell of the barbecue.
• Tian E warmly offered Dugu Yan a skewer, and she sat beside Tian Chen to eat.
• Dugu Yan thanked Tian Chen for saving her and giving her the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, which had raised her Soul Power to the rank-thirty bottleneck and improved her aptitude.
• Tian Chen told Dugu Yan she owed him nothing, and she ate quietly while gazing toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Dugu Yan reached rank thirty and left with Dugu Bo to obtain her third Soul Ring while Tian Chen absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's right palm bone. The Soul Bone triggered a mutation in Tian Chen's Golden Crocodile King Martial Soul, and Tian E recognized that an old clan record might be true.

• Dugu Yan asked Dugu Bo to take her to hunt for her third Soul Ring, and Tian E welcomed her as his granddaughter.
• After Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan left, Tian Chen began absorbing the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's right palm bone.
• The Soul Bone's intense heat and pain overwhelmed Tian Chen until he activated his first and second Soul Skills for protection.
• Tian Chen's Golden Crocodile King Martial Soul mutated, strengthening his scales and lengthening his claws as the Soul Bone fused successfully.
• Tian E watched the change and wondered aloud whether the clan genealogy's record was true.

Tian Chen absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone and discovered its powerful claw attack, while Tian E warned him to preserve his virginity until he turned fifteen. Dugu Yan began absorbing a thousand-year Purple Poison Python Soul Ring, and Tian Chen obtained Dugu Bo’s Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse to gather Immortal Herbs.

• Tian Chen regained consciousness after absorbing the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone and found that his strength and physical constitution had improved.
• Tian Chen tested the bone’s dark gold claws, carving five deep furrows into the ground, and Tian E warned him not to lose his virginity before age fifteen.
• Dugu Bo returned with Dugu Yan and an unconscious fifteen-hundred-year Purple Poison Python for her Third Soul Ring.
• Dugu Yan killed the Purple Poison Python and began absorbing its Soul Ring while Tian Chen watched her Martial Soul Possession.
• Tian Chen asked Dugu Bo for his Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse, received it, and turned his attention to the Immortal Herbs around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Tian Chen collected several Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before Dugu Yan completed her breakthrough to Soul Elder. Tian E then offered Dugu Yan a rare Sea Viper left arm Soul Bone, which she initially resisted accepting.

• Tian Chen harvested the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and several other Immortal Herbs, storing them in Dugu Bo's Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse.
• Dugu Yan finished absorbing her Third Soul Ring and advanced to the Soul Elder realm.
• Dugu Yan reminded Tian E that he had promised her a present, and he gave her a sandalwood box containing a gray-blue left arm Soul Bone.
• Tian E revealed that the Soul Bone came from a Sea Viper with around twenty thousand years of cultivation, and Dugu Bo urged Dugu Yan to accept it.
• Dugu Yan closed the box and said she did not deserve the precious gift, but Tian E pressed it into her hands and Dugu Bo told her to accept.

Tian Chen prepared blood-based antidotes for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, then learned from Dugu Bo which powerful figures would attend the Heaven Dou auction. Tian E remained determined to claim the two Soul Bones being auctioned.

• Tian E gave Dugu Yan the Sea Viper Soul Bone, and Tian Chen borrowed Dugu Bo's cave to prepare antidotes.
• Tian Chen added a drop of his blood to medicines for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, knowing the limited supply could cure Dugu Yan but only ease Dugu Bo's poison.
• Tian Chen returned as Dugu Yan began absorbing the Soul Bone, and Tian E said they would return to Heaven Dou City after she finished.
• Tian E asked Dugu Bo who would attend the Heaven Dou auction, and Dugu Bo named several powerful Soul Masters and Ning Fengzhi.
• Tian E reacted to Huyan Zhen's attendance and affirmed that he intended to take both auctioned Soul Bones.

Dugu Yan absorbed the Sea Viper Soul Bone and gained a Soul Power level, after which Tian E took her and Tian Chen toward Heaven Dou City to set up an opportunity for his grandson. Meanwhile, Qin Qiang and Huo Wushuang encountered a dangerous Soul Beast in Sunset Forest and retreated; they were left heading back toward the city.

• Dugu Yan absorbed the twenty-thousand-year Sea Viper Soul Bone, raising her Soul Power from Level 32 to Level 33.
• Dugu Yan thanked Tian E, who invited her to stroll around Heaven Dou City and carried her and Tian Chen away despite Tian Chen’s suspicions.
• Tian E’s presence sent the Soul Beasts in Sunset Forest fleeing and disrupted the hunts of Soul Masters there.
• Qin Qiang and Huo Wushuang encountered a King of the Earth with nearly five thousand years of cultivation while searching for Huo Wushuang’s third Soul Ring.
• Qin Qiang attacked the King of the Earth with his fourth Soul Skill to buy time, then fled with Huo Wushuang toward Heaven Dou City.

Tian Chen, Tian E, and Dugu Yan arrived in Heaven Dou City, where Tian E left the two young Soul Masters to explore together. Before departing, he told Tian Chen that his clan’s bloodline awakening required opposite-sex Soul Masters as sacrifices, leaving Tian Chen troubled as he set off with Dugu Yan.

• Tian E brought Tian Chen and Dugu Yan to Heaven Dou City and led them toward its gate.
• Tian Chen asked Dugu Yan about her Soul Power, and she said she had reached level thirty-three after receiving an Immortal Herb and Tian E’s Soul Bone.
• Tian E worried that Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorus Snake Martial Soul was less suitable for Tian Chen’s bloodline awakening than Hu Liena’s Demon Fox Martial Soul.
• Tian E paid the entry fee and then pretended to have urgent business so Tian Chen and Dugu Yan would explore the city together.
• Tian E told Tian Chen through voice transmission that his clan’s bloodline awakening involved opposite-sex Soul Masters called sacrifices, and Tian Chen went with Dugu Yan after putting aside his worries.