Chapter Summaries

Ning Bei brought Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he showed Dugu Bo his Soul Beast-summoning ability and gave him a sixty-thousand-year Soul Bone. He then told Dugu Yan that he had a gift for her too.

• Dugu Yan asked Ning Bei how he could summon so many Soul Beasts, and he explained that his Martial Soul let him raise and command them.
• Ning Bei used the Pill Pagoda’s alchemy fragrance to shield himself and Dugu Yan from the poisonous mist as they entered the valley.
• Dugu Yan showed Dugu Bo her fourth Spirit Ring, a five-thousand-four-hundred-year Mandala Snake ring, and Ning Bei demonstrated his summoned Soul Beasts.
• Ning Bei offered Dugu Bo a sixty-thousand-year Ghost-Faced Scorpion Left Arm Bone, and Dugu Bo accepted after Ning Bei suggested he could repay the favor by helping him in the future.
• Ning Bei turned to Dugu Yan and told her that he had a share for her too.

Ning Bei gave Dugu Yan a Spirit Bone, then tested his four Soul Beast partners against Gu Rong and learned how powerful they had become. He spent the following year cultivating within the sect, reaching age twelve as Ning Rongrong turned four.

• Ning Bei gave Dugu Yan the Right Leg Bone of a fifty-thousand-year Crystal Earth Dragon Lizard, and she and Dugu Bo went into seclusion with it.
• Ning Bei asked Gu Rong to test A Bao, A Zhu, Yao Yao, and Chang'e in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Private Forest.
• Gu Rong found that A Bao's enhanced Heaven Splitting Claw could shatter his Soul Power barrier, while Chang'e healed A Bao after Gu Rong counterattacked.
• Gu Rong praised the Soul Beasts' abilities, and Ning Bei later shared the battle results with Ning Fengzhi.
• Ning Bei spent the next year cultivating, making Elixirs, nourishing Soul Beasts, and tending Immortal Herb seedlings; he and Ning Rongrong reached ages twelve and four.

After a year of cultivation and business growth, Ning Bei attended an auction and bought a rare Phantom Dream Butterfly to raise in the Pill Pagoda. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue learned about the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s talent-boosting medicinal liquid and ordered Snake Lance to find a way to obtain it.

• Ning Bei’s Soul Power reached level 56, A Bao became a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and the other beasts in the Pill Pagoda continued to grow.
• Qian Renxue examined a sample of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s medicinal liquid and told Snake Lance to find a way to acquire it.
• Ning Bei visited an auction in Seven Treasure City, where Ya Fei presented a hundred-year Phantom Dream Butterfly.
• Ning Bei outbid the nobles with an offer of 30,000 Gold Soul Coins and won the butterfly, hoping to raise its illusion abilities in the Pill Pagoda.

Ning Bei brought the Phantom Dream Butterfly to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and tested her illusion ability, then named her Xiao Die and added her to his Soul Beast team. He left Xiao Die to cultivate inside the Pill Pagoda after introducing her to A Zhu, whose predatory instincts frightened the tiny butterfly.

• Ning Bei watched a noble buy the Thousand-Year Left Arm Soul Bone for 700,000 Gold Soul Coins and saw mercenaries follow him from the auction house.
• Ning Bei arranged for the Merchant Guild to deliver the Phantom Dream Butterfly to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, then explained to Ning Fengzhi that he wanted to develop her abilities for battle.
• Ning Bei coaxed the timid Phantom Dream Butterfly out from beneath his bed with the Pill Pagoda's fragrance and learned that she understood his words.
• Ning Bei asked the butterfly to use her illusion ability, dismissed the figures she created, and named her Xiao Die.
• Ning Bei summoned A Zhu, whose approach terrified Xiao Die, then stopped A Zhu and returned both Soul Beasts to the Pill Pagoda separately.

Two years after gaining the Phantom Dream Butterfly, Ning Bei helped Ning Rongrong awaken her Spirit and prepared to obtain his sixth Soul Ring. The chapter ended with Ning Bei, Ning Fengzhi, Sword, and Bone setting out for the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Soul Beast of at least 40,000 years.

• Ning Bei persuaded Ning Rongrong to accept that she would likely awaken the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and promised she could support him in battle.
• Ning Bei helped Ning Rongrong awaken the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and she tested at Innate Soul Power Rank Nine.
• Ning Bei reached level 60 while several of his Soul Beasts advanced, including the Man Faced Demon Spider and Demon Eye Magic Tree reaching ten-thousand-year cultivation.
• Xue Qinghe became Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire, and the Third Prince died; Ning Bei suspected Qian Renxue was responsible.
• Three days after Rongrong's awakening, Ning Bei departed with Ning Fengzhi, Sword, and Bone for the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his sixth Soul Ring.

At the Star Dou Great Forest, Ning Bei and the others encountered Xiao Wu, a newly transformed hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit, and chose to recruit her into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect rather than take her spirit ring. After Xiao Wu revealed her hatred of Spirit Hall over her mother's death, Ning Bei began testing whether the Pill Pagoda could conceal her.

• Gu Rong warned Ning Bei to keep a low profile while searching for soul beasts, and Chen Xin went ahead as Ning Bei summoned three Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts for protection.
• Drawn by the Pill Pagoda's fragrance, Xiao Wu appeared before Ning Bei, Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and the three soul beasts; Gu Rong's Titled Douluo aura frightened her into tears.
• Ning Bei persuaded Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong to spare Xiao Wu and let her join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, promising that his Pill Pagoda could make her a companion.
• Xiao Wu said Spirit Hall had killed her mother to create a spirit ring, and Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong identified the culprits as Ghost Douluo and Bibi Dong.
• Ning Bei summoned the Pill Pagoda and demonstrated its use by placing A Bao inside, then prepared to see whether Xiao Wu could enter it too.

Ning Bei absorbed a nearly forty-thousand-year-old Pure Water Mystic Turtle Soul Ring while a Beast Tide threatened his companions, and Di Tian drove the beasts away. After Ning Bei revealed he had obtained an Elixir suited to healing Soul Beasts, Di Tian took him to meet the Silver Dragon King.

• Ning Bei tested the Pill Pagoda by storing transformed Soul Beast Xiao Wu inside, then hid her there as he and his companions left the area.
• Chen Xin found and killed a Pure Water Mystic Turtle, and Ning Bei began absorbing its Soul Ring as the group prepared to defend him.
• The Silver Dragon King sensed the Pill Pagoda's aura, while Di Tian learned Ning Bei had arrived and came to investigate.
• A Beast Tide surrounded Ning Bei's group, but Di Tian appeared and scattered the Soul Beasts with his roar.
• After absorbing the Soul Ring, Ning Bei told Di Tian about the Primal Chaos Bone Forming Pill, and Di Tian took him to the Silver Dragon King.

Ning Bei gave the Silver Dragon King a Primal Chaos Bone Forming Pill, which proved powerful enough to help her recover over several hundred thousand years. After Di Tian brought him back to the lake, Ning Bei discussed the Ten Thousand Demon King's evolved bloodline and showed the gathered beasts how much his companions had grown.

• Ning Bei gave the Silver Dragon King a Primal Chaos Bone Forming Pill, and she said that enough pills could restore her completely in several hundred thousand years.
• Di Tian urged Ning Bei to make more pills, but the Silver Dragon King defended him and asked Di Tian to bring him back when he reached Soul Saint.
• Di Tian brought Ning Bei above the lake, where Zi Ji and Scarlet King questioned whether he could help the Silver Dragon King.
• Ning Bei asked the Ten Thousand Demon King about the herb that had changed his bloodline, and the elder said he had eaten a Blue-Purple Herb when he was young.
• Ning Bei released his four beasts, and the Ten Thousand Demon King and Bear Lord praised Yao Yao's and A Bao's rapid growth.
• Bi Ji complained that Chang'e had the lowest cultivation, and Ning Bei promised to give her more care with his Pill Pagoda.

Ning Bei left the Star Dou Great Forest with several young Soul Beasts and encountered Qian Renxue and Spiky Porcupine Douluo while heading back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Qian Renxue trapped him and demanded the formulas for his elixirs, while Ning Bei discreetly spread pill fragrance over Spiky Porcupine.

• The Ten Thousand Demon King described an Immortal Herb, and Ning Bei promised to watch for it.
• Scarlet King entrusted Ning Bei with a three-headed puppy, which Ning Bei accepted and stored away.
• Di Tian sent Ning Bei out of the Star Dou Great Forest, and Ning Bei gave him two Primal Chaos Bone Forming Pills for the Silver Dragon King.
• Ning Bei summoned A Bao and headed toward the forest exit as Qian Renxue and Pufferfish entered the forest to hunt for her Fifth Spirit Ring.
• Qian Renxue recognized Ning Bei and ordered Spiky Porcupine Douluo to stop him, then demanded the formulas for his elixirs.
• Ning Bei negotiated with Qian Renxue while silently spreading pill fragrance over Spiky Porcupine.

Ning Bei used a medicinal scent to draw a tide of soul beasts onto Spiky Porcupine and escaped with the injured Qian Renxue. After revealing that he knew her Xue Qinghe identity, he proposed an alliance to help her unify the continent, leaving her questioning who Spirit Hall’s true enemy was.

• Ning Bei’s medicinal fragrance attracted dozens of powerful soul beasts, leaving Spiky Porcupine surrounded while Ning Bei and A Bao attacked Qian Renxue.
• A Bao broke through Qian Renxue’s Angel’s Guard and sent her flying, then carried her away with Ning Bei as Spiky Porcupine fought off the beast tide.
• Ning Bei had Yao Yao bind Qian Renxue and told her he knew she was disguised as Xue Qinghe.
• Ning Bei proposed helping Qian Renxue unify the continent in exchange for Spirit Hall leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect alone.
• Ning Bei suggested Spirit Hall’s real enemy was not the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, prompting Qian Renxue to identify the Clear Sky Sect as the enemy connected to her father’s death.

Ning Bei revealed to Qian Renxue that the Angel God had fallen and that Tang Hao’s son was the Asura God’s chosen successor, then persuaded her to strengthen her forces and gave her cultivation medicines. After parting from Qian Renxue, Ning Bei returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and described his new elixirs, leaving its leaders eager to use them to raise the sect’s strength.

• Ning Bei told Qian Renxue that the Angel God had fallen, she was the Angel God’s reincarnation, and Tang Hao’s son was protected as the Asura God’s successor.
• Ning Bei urged Qian Renxue to build up her forces, showed her his six Soul Rings, and gave her Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and Mind Awakening Pills.
• Ning Bei and Qian Renxue agreed to keep their brotherly public relationship and parted ways outside the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ning Bei returned to Seven Treasure City and told Ning Fengzhi and the two elders about six elixirs he could produce, including pills that could help Soul Masters break through major cultivation bottlenecks.
• Ning Bei’s cultivation stood at level 62 after absorbing the Pure Water Mystic Turtle Soul Ring, and he planned to reach level 69 before using the Imperial Zenith Pill.

Ning Bei brought Xiao Wu to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and introduced her to Ning Rongrong. After a one-sided Soul Battle and a tour of Rongrong’s room, Xiao Wu settled in happily, leaving the two girls on friendly terms.

• Ning Bei summoned Xiao Wu from the Pill Pagoda and brought her to meet Chen Xin and the others at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Bei introduced Xiao Wu to Ning Rongrong, and the girls argued over who should be the older sister.
• Ning Bei proposed a Soul Battle to settle the argument and secretly arranged for Rongrong to have the Hurricane Hunting Falcon help her.
• The Hurricane Hunting Falcon easily dodged Xiao Wu’s attack and knocked her down, prompting Xiao Wu to give up the fight.
• Xiao Wu explored Rongrong’s room, enjoyed its clothes and snacks, and agreed to call her Sister Rongrong.

Ning Bei visited Dugu Yan after becoming a Soul Emperor, then went with Dugu Bo to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to find an herb for Yao Yao. Yao Yao consumed the Carved Leaf Purple Immortal Violet and began absorbing it; after seven days, it finally stirred.

• Ning Bei told Dugu Yan that he had become a Soul Emperor and gave her a Spirit Battle Pill made by his Sixth Soul Ring.
• Ning Bei asked Dugu Bo to take him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to find a poisonous herb that could help his Soul Beast evolve.
• Ning Bei found the Carved Leaf Purple Immortal Violet and identified it as a deadly plant poison that could raise the life level of plants.
• Ning Bei summoned Yao Yao and gave it the herb, and Yao Yao swallowed it before rooting itself to absorb its medicinal power.
• Dugu Bo questioned Ning Bei about his knowledge of the herb, and Ning Bei claimed that a five-hundred-thousand-year Demon Eye Magic Tree had entrusted Yao Yao to him.
• After seven days of absorption, Yao Yao finally stirred as Ning Bei, Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo waited.

Ning Bei tested Yao Yao’s stronger poison while Qian Renxue confirmed with Qian Daoliu that the Angel God might have fallen and warned him about Tang Hao’s connection to the Asura God. The chapter leaves Qian Renxue cultivating toward her alliance with Ning Bei as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect held another Spirit Awakening Ceremony.

• Dugu Bo tested Yao Yao’s poison and found it dangerous even to those below the Titled Douluo level.
• Qian Renxue returned to Spirit City and asked Qian Daoliu whether he had received a revelation from the Angel God.
• Qian Renxue told Qian Daoliu that the Angel God might be gone and that Tang Hao and his descendants could be backed by the Asura God.
• Qian Renxue revealed that Ning Bei was an ally who could predict Tang Hao and his son’s future paths, while Qian Daoliu agreed not to act prematurely and planned to investigate Ning Bei.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect held its semiannual Spirit Awakening Ceremony, producing no children with innate Soul Power above level five.
• Ning Bei supplied Qian Renxue with cultivation items, and she reached level 53 before asking to spar with the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear; Ning Bei refused.

Tang San arrived at Notting Academy with the village chief, where Yu Xiaogang intervened and accepted him as a disciple after identifying his Twin Martial Souls. As Yu Xiaogang explained Spirit Rings and advised him not to attach any to his second martial soul before reaching Titled Douluo, Tang San grew convinced that his new teacher was exceptionally knowledgeable.

• The gatekeepers mocked Tang San’s spirit certificate and shoved the village chief, but Yu Xiaogang confirmed the certificate was genuine and took Tang San into Notting Academy.
• Tang San followed Yu Xiaogang and, after learning he could teach him about martial souls, knelt and asked to become his disciple.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that he possessed Twin Martial Souls, and Tang San accepted him as his teacher.
• Tang San asked why his Soul Power had stopped increasing, and Yu Xiaogang explained that he needed a Spirit Ring.
• Tang San described feeling chest tightness and as if he had lost something important, and Yu Xiaogang attributed it to his Twin Martial Souls.
• Yu Xiaogang advised Tang San to wait until reaching Titled Douluo before attaching Spirit Rings to his second martial soul, and Tang San admired his knowledge.

Ning Bei continued strengthening his allies while spending time with Xiao Wu, then celebrated Dugu Yan's breakthrough to Soul King and tested her new poison skill. The test exposed how far she still had to go to protect him, and the chapter ended with the two teasing each other over a Nightglow Spirit Bone.

• Ning Bei cultivated his soul beasts and planned to build a force of Titled Douluo-level fighters before the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect faced danger.
• Dugu Yan visited Ning Bei and told him she had reached Soul King and gained the Plague Poison Explosion skill from a Ten-Thousand-Year Swamp Poison Turtle.
• Ning Bei introduced Xiao Wu to Dugu Yan as a genius with Innate Full Soul Power, and Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong exchanged knowing glances.
• Ning Bei took Dugu Yan to the Private Forest to test her skill on the Demon Eye Magic Tree, but her poison had no effect and she complained that he was cheating.
• Ning Bei kissed Dugu Yan to comfort her, then lured her back with the promise of a Nightglow Spirit Bone, prompting her to bite him when she realized his trick.

Ning Bei returned Dugu Yan to Sunset Forest, then visited Qian Renxue to deliver Elixirs and discuss his plans against Tang San and Bibi Dong’s moves. As Ning Bei left the Crown Prince Residence, an unseen dark figure watched him and disappeared.

• Ning Bei woke beside Dugu Yan, teased her about their night together, and then escorted her back toward Sunset Forest after breakfast with Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu.
• Ning Bei visited Qian Renxue at the Crown Prince Residence and gave her the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and Mind Awakening Pills he had saved.
• Ning Bei told Qian Renxue that he had arranged a plan involving his Phantom Dream Butterfly to surprise Tang San.
• Qian Renxue warned Ning Bei that Bibi Dong seemed to be moving against the Lower Four Sects, and Ning Bei said he expected to avoid a clash with her.
• Ning Bei gave Qian Renxue a Spirit Battle Pill that could raise a Soul King’s Soul Power by one level, then left the residence after dinner.
• A dark figure watched Ning Bei leave the Crown Prince Residence and then vanished.

Bibi Dong ambushed Ning Bei on the road after learning he knew Qian Renxue’s identity, but Ning Bei summoned Di Tian to protect him. Di Tian defeated Bibi Dong and sealed her Soul Power, leaving Ning Bei alone with the captured Pope.

• Bibi Dong appeared from the forest and threatened to kill Ning Bei to keep Qian Renxue’s identity secret.
• Ning Bei summoned Di Tian with Di Tian’s scale and warned him that Bibi Dong had a resurrection skill granted by a hundred-thousand-year Death Spider Emperor.
• Bibi Dong attacked Di Tian with her spider form and Fifth Spirit Skill, but her poisonous spikes failed to harm him.
• Di Tian transformed into a giant black dragon, defeated Bibi Dong, and sealed her Soul Power.
• Di Tian left Bibi Dong in Ning Bei’s hands, and the two stared at each other in a scene that reminded them of an earlier encounter in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Ning Bei captured Bibi Dong and used his knowledge of the Rakshasa inheritance to convince her that she might be a pawn in the Asura God's plan. He offered her pills to protect and cleanse her soul, and Bibi Dong took the Soul Cleansing Pill.

• Bibi Dong asked Ning Bei to let her go, but he bound her and teased her about secretly visiting Qian Renxue.
• Ning Bei threatened to tell Qian Renxue about her visit, then released Bibi Dong when she agreed to hear what he knew.
• Ning Bei explained that the Rakshasa God might be serving the Asura God's plan and that Bibi Dong's soul pollution could be evidence she was being manipulated.
• Bibi Dong despaired at the possibility of becoming a mindless pawn, but Ning Bei offered her a Soul Nourishing Pill and a Soul Cleansing Pill as a solution.
• Bibi Dong drank the Soul Cleansing Pill, whose medicinal power surged toward her soul.

Ning Bei helped Bibi Dong drive out some of the Rakshasa God’s soul power, but a seal and Yao Yao’s toxin left her unable to move, so he carried her toward Heaven Dou City. On the way, he challenged her beliefs about Yu Xiaogang and warned that he would one day come to Spirit Hall with Tang Hao’s token to ask about cultivating Twin Martial Souls.

• Bibi Dong thanked Ning Bei after his method drove out part of the Rakshasa God’s soul power, and Ning Bei suggested she use a Soul Nourishing Pill later.
• Bibi Dong revealed that she had no Soul Power and could not break the Black Dragon’s seal, so Ning Bei proposed another way to help her.
• Ning Bei discovered Yao Yao’s paralyzing toxin had left Bibi Dong unable to stand, and he carried her toward Heaven Dou City.
• Bibi Dong asked whether the Asura God and Rakshasa God had influenced her past relationships, and Ning Bei said the gods were likely behind her teacher’s role in her meeting Yu Xiaogang.
• Ning Bei criticized Yu Xiaogang’s treatment of women and his theories, then told Bibi Dong that Yu Xiaogang had taken Tang Hao’s son, the Asura God’s heir, as his disciple.
• Ning Bei warned that Yu Xiaogang would eventually come to Spirit Hall with Tang Hao’s token to ask Bibi Dong about cultivating Twin Martial Souls, leaving her cold and suspicious.