Chapter Summaries

Yu Tianming demonstrated extraordinary physical strength and the first signs of Dragon Transformation while testing his punches at the training grounds. Tie Zhan recognized his potential and offered to teach him the Indestructible Vajra Body, believing Yu Tianming could reach its legendary Golden Body realm.

• Yu Tianming struck the black iron pillar with seventy percent strength, impressing Tie Zhan and the watching students.
• Yu Tianming's second punch, delivered at full strength, led Tie Zhan to judge his physical power to be at the Soul King level.
• Yu Tianming showed faint silver dragon scales on his right arm and bent the pillar with a third punch, leaving a shallow fist imprint.
• Tie Zhan praised Yu Tianming's strength and promised to personally teach him body-tempering techniques.
• Tie Zhan explained the Indestructible Vajra Body's three realms and told Yu Tianming he might become the first person to reach the Golden Body realm.

Yu Tianming began cultivating the Indestructible Vajra Body and reached the beginner stage of copper skin on his right arm in just one hour. That night, he used Dragon Energy to prepare thousand-year whale rubber and made Yu Tianheng swallow it to strengthen his body.

• Yu Tianming decided to try the Indestructible Vajra Body after confirming that it did not conflict with his Martial Soul, bloodline, or Dragon Energy.
• Tie Zhan coated Yu Tianming's arm with Dragon Blood Body Tempering Paste and hammered it until copper skin and dragon-scale patterns appeared.
• Yu Tianming reached the beginner stage on his right arm after three hundred blows and demonstrated that his defense had doubled.
• Yu Tianheng brought Yu Tianming several pieces of thousand-year whale rubber, worried their parents would punish him for buying it.
• Yu Tianming softened the whale rubber with Dragon Energy and forced Yu Tianheng to swallow it; a warm current then spread through Yu Tianheng's body.

Yu Tianming and Yu Tianheng absorbed thousand-year whale rubber and discovered that it strengthened their bodies, so Yu Tianming shared more with Dugu Yan and their companions. Dugu Yan reacted angrily to the rubber’s aphrodisiac reputation but kept her share, saying she would check with her grandfather.

• Yu Tianming explained that whale rubber strengthened the body, and he and Yu Tianheng absorbed a piece while cultivating through the night.
• Yu Tianming found that the rubber’s power resonated with his Dragon Energy and Indestructible Vajra Body, increasing his strength by about ten percent.
• Yu Tianheng woke the next morning and said his physical fitness had improved by sixty or seventy percent.
• Yu Tianming gave six boxes of thousand-year whale rubber to Dugu Yan and their companions and explained its strengthening effects.
• Dugu Yan called Yu Tianming a scoundrel, then clutched her box and said she needed to check with her grandfather.

Yu Tianming shared thousand-year whale rubber with his companions, and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling absorbed theirs overnight with help from Ice Spirit spring water. The next morning, Dugu Bo arrived and discovered Dugu Yan’s strength had increased, prompting him to ask what she had eaten.

• Shi Mo, Osler, Yu Feng, and Yu Tianheng absorbed thousand-year whale rubber, and Yu Tianming asked everyone to keep its value and supply secret until his clan bought more.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling absorbed whale rubber in their dormitory and used Ice Spirit spring water sent by Yu Tianming to cool its heat while they meditated.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling woke with noticeably improved physical strength and went to the dining hall.
• Dugu Bo arrived to visit Dugu Yan, noticed her unusual behavior, examined her wrist, and asked what she had eaten after finding her physical strength had increased by nearly seventy percent.

Dugu Bo confronted Yu Tianming over Dugu Yan taking whale rubber, but relented after she explained its benefits and defended her friend. He gave Yu Tianming a jade pendant representing a favor owed, and Dugu Yan led the group into Heaven Dou City to shop for whale rubber.

• Dugu Yan admitted she had eaten whale rubber, and Dugu Bo erupted in anger until she insisted she had chosen to take it and blocked him from confronting Yu Tianming.
• Dugu Yan explained whale rubber’s effects and Yu Tianming’s help, including how it had improved her physique, and told Dugu Bo that the team and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan knew about it.
• Dugu Bo warned Dugu Yan not to take whale rubber in front of boys, gave her a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and offered Yu Tianming a jade pendant that entitled him to one favor.
• Dugu Bo returned to the cafeteria, gave Yu Tianming the pendant, and left after telling Dugu Yan to return to the academy before dark.
• Dugu Yan invited the group to shop for high-quality whale rubber in Heaven Dou City, while Yu Tianming recognized that Dugu Bo’s favor could help him obtain the immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Yu Tianming and his companions attended the Heaven Dou Grand Auction House, where Dugu Yan bought a ten-thousand-year whale glue for him. Yu Tianming recognized a Jade Spirit Crystal as possibly being Gold of Life and bid on it, but Bishop Salas entered the bidding and intimidated the other buyers.

• Yu Tianming bought medicinal herbs at Hundred Herbs Pavilion while Dugu Yan shopped with Ye Lingling and then invited the group to the auction.
• Dugu Yan won a deep-sea blue crystal necklace for four hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Dugu Yan bought the ten-thousand-year whale glue for five hundred Gold Soul Coins after Yu Tianming prepared to bid.
• Yu Tianming saw the Jade Spirit Crystal and suspected it might be Gold of Life, so he bid ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Bishop Salas raised the bid to fifteen thousand Gold Soul Coins and revealed himself in the central box, causing the other nobles to lower their paddles.

Yu Tianming joined Ning Fengzhi and Salas in bidding for the Jade Spirit Crystal, then won it after revealing his identity as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s young sect master. Once the crystal arrived, Yu Tianming and Ye Lingling sensed its extraordinary life energy, and he suspected it was the legendary Gold of Life.

• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin appeared at the auction, and Ning Fengzhi bid against Salas for the Jade Spirit Crystal.
• Yu Tianming entered the bidding, and Salas threatened him as the price rose to forty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Yu Tianming revealed himself alongside Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, identified himself as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s young sect master, and bid fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Fengzhi withdrew to give Yu Tianming face, and Salas stopped bidding, allowing Yu Tianming to win the Jade Spirit Crystal.
• Ye Lingling sensed the crystal’s pure life energy, and Yu Tianming suspected it was Gold of Life before storing it in his Storage Soul Tool.

At the auction, Ning Fengzhi bought a three-thousand-year-old ice-attribute Soul Bone, then offered Yu Tianming a jade token while Sword Douluo Chen Xin showed unusual interest in him. That night, Yu Tianming discovered Dugu Yan’s pendant could calm the spirit and used Valstrax’s dragon energy to reveal that the jade spirit crystal was gold of life.

• Ning Fengzhi outbid Salas and bought the ice-attribute Left Arm Soul Bone for nine hundred and fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Yu Tianming a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect jade token, and Chen Xin invited him to visit the sect after remarking that his presence was unusual.
• Yu Tianming left the auction wary of Chen Xin, whose piercing gaze had made him uncomfortable.
• Yu Tianming examined Dugu Yan’s jade pendant and found that it focused the mind and calmed the spirit.
• Yu Tianming enveloped the jade spirit crystal in Valstrax’s dragon energy, melting its outer shell and revealing gold of life as its rich life force made a nearby plant rapidly grow.
• Yu Tianming grasped the gold of life and prepared to refine it.

Yu Tianming absorbed the Gold of Life, transforming his body and Sea of Consciousness and awakening the Eye of Life. By dawn, he had gained extraordinary vitality and healing abilities, while Yu Tianheng had also grown stronger by absorbing the excess life force.

• Yu Tianming summoned a trusted Soul Saint aide to guard him and Yu Tianheng while they cultivated.
• Yu Tianming pressed the Gold of Life to his forehead, and the Valstrax Martial Soul suppressed its immense life force as it spread through his body.
• Yu Tianheng absorbed the life force escaping from Yu Tianming and strengthened his body, Soul Power, and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.
• The Gold of Life transformed Yu Tianming's Sea of Consciousness and formed a pale-gold vertical eye on his forehead.
• After the Gold of Life was fully absorbed, Yu Tianming recognized the Eye of Life's healing power and resolved to absorb a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring after reaching rank twenty.

One year after absorbing the Gold of Life, Yu Tianming broke through to rank twenty and met his friends at the training grounds. He invited Ye Lingling to join him on a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for her second soul ring.

• Yu Tianming reached rank twenty at age seven, and his improved physique let him withstand soul rings over twenty thousand years old.
• Yu Tianming watched Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan spar, then confirmed that he had broken through.
• Ye Lingling gave Yu Tianming a sachet to congratulate him, and Dugu Yan teased her about giving him a decorated one.
• Yu Tianming invited Ye Lingling to travel with him and his grandfather to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for her second soul ring.
• Ye Lingling explained that her Nine Heart Begonia needed a plant-type soul beast with a life attribute, and she accepted Yu Tianming's invitation.

Yu Tianming and Yu Yuanzhen took Ye Lingling to the Star Dou Great Forest, where she obtained a two-thousand-year Soul Ring from a Spirit Charm Seven-Colored Deer. She successfully absorbed it and reached the peak of rank twenty-two, while the group prepared to continue into the forest for Yu Tianming's Soul Ring.

• Yu Yuanzhen arrived at the academy and gave Ye Lingling a Thunder Spirit Jade pendant before flying with her and Yu Tianming toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yu Tianming and Yu Yuanzhen advised Ye Lingling that her physique could withstand a two-thousand-year Soul Ring, and she agreed.
• Yu Yuanzhen found a Spirit Charm Seven-Colored Deer fighting a blood-red vine and subdued the deer for Ye Lingling.
• Ye Lingling delivered the final blow and absorbed the deer's purple Soul Ring successfully over two hours.
• Ye Lingling's Soul Power rose to the peak of rank twenty-two, and her Nine Heart Begonia gained a second ring while retaining its area-of-effect group healing skill.

After Yu Tianming and Ye Lingling fled the Titan Giant Ape, Yu Yuanzhen fought the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast to buy them time. He wounded it with his strongest Soul Skill, then escaped while it was distracted.

• Yu Yuanzhen sensed the Titan Giant Ape and transformed to confront it while Yu Tianming carried Ye Lingling into the sky.
• Yu Tianming overloaded his Valstrax thrusters to dodge a boulder and landed with Ye Lingling in a crimson valley, where she healed his injuries.
• Yu Yuanzhen unleashed his Eighth Soul Skill and pierced the Titan Giant Ape's shoulder with the Spear of Thunder.
• Yu Yuanzhen struck the Titan Giant Ape with his Ninth Soul Skill, leaving it with a charred chest wound.
• Yu Yuanzhen used the explosion as cover to flee, and the Titan Giant Ape could not catch him.

Yu Tianming and Ye Lingling were ambushed by a twenty-thousand-year mutant Tyrant Dragon, but escaped its attacks and found its nest. Yu Tianming chose the beast for his next Soul Ring, and Yu Yuanzhen arrived and immobilized it with his pressure.

• Yu Tianming saved Ye Lingling from the Tyrant Dragon’s ambush and evaded its leaps and Dragon Breath.
• Yu Tianming and Ye Lingling discovered the Tyrant Dragon was guarding a nest, then fled into the forest.
• Yu Tianming decided the mutant Tyrant Dragon would make a suitable Soul Ring and waited for Yu Yuanzhen.
• Yu Yuanzhen arrived, followed Yu Tianming back to the valley, and pinned the Tyrant Dragon in place with his pressure.

Yu Tianming absorbed a twenty-thousand-year Tyrant Dragon Soul Ring, overcame its Soul Shock, and achieved Dragon Transformation in both arms. He gained a powerful Dragon Breath Soul Skill that could grow stronger as long as his body could withstand it, leaving Yu Yuanzhen impressed by its potential.

• Yu Yuanzhen let Yu Tianming finish off the wounded Tyrant Dragon, and Yu Tianming began absorbing its twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• The Tyrant Dragon's remnant soul attacked Yu Tianming's Sea of Consciousness, but he used the Eye of Life and Valstrax Martial Soul to suppress and destroy it.
• Yu Tianming completed the absorption, reached the peak of level twenty-four, and transformed both arms with silvery-white dragon scales and claws.
• Yu Tianming told Yu Yuanzhen and Ye Lingling that his second Soul Skill was Dragon Breath, whose power could increase as he supplied it with Soul Power and dragon Qi.
• Yu Tianming demonstrated Dragon Breath, melting a boulder thirty meters away, and explained that its maximum power could be twice as strong at considerable cost.
• Yu Yuanzhen praised the Soul Skill's growth potential and said it might burn mountains and boil seas once Yu Tianming reached the Titled Douluo level.

After Yu Tianming and Ye Lingling returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with their Second Soul Rings, they reunited with Dugu Yan and their friends. Yu Yuanzhen visited Dugu Bo at the Dugu Family residence, where the two discussed Dugu Yan and Yu Tianming’s relationship.

• Yu Tianming confirmed that the Tyrant Dragon had no Soul Bone, and Yu Yuanzhen flew him and Ye Lingling back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Yu Yuanzhen gave Yu Tianming a jade pendant for Dugu Yan, then left to visit the academy’s education commissioners.
• Dugu Yan eagerly accepted the pendant and compared it with Ye Lingling’s matching pendant before Yu Tianheng and the others welcomed the pair back.
• At dinner, Yu Tianming recounted their Soul Ring hunt and their encounter with the Titan Giant Ape, and Yu Tianheng proposed that they apply to advance to the senior academy together.
• Yu Yuanzhen met Dugu Bo at the Dugu Family residence, where Dugu Bo challenged his apparent effort to win Dugu Yan over with a jade pendant, and Yu Yuanzhen insisted that the young couple were a fine match.

Yu Yuanzhen offered Dugu Bo an alliance with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and a way to investigate his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison backlash, and Dugu Bo agreed to become a guest elder. The chapter ended with Dugu Yan accepting that Yu Tianming might have other women but admitting she still liked him.

• Dugu Bo warned Yu Yuanzhen that he would punish Yu Tianming if the boy mistreated Dugu Yan.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Dugu Bo that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan could help resolve his venom backlash and proposed a deeper alliance between their families.
• Yu Yuanzhen gave Dugu Bo an ancient bamboo scroll about poison backlash, and Dugu Bo found that it offered a new direction for his research.
• Dugu Bo agreed to become a guest elder of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while warning Yu Yuanzhen not to use Dugu Yan.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Dugu Yan he would have Yu Tianming take her to visit the clan, and Dugu Yan said she knew she was not the only one but still liked him.

Yu Tianming and the others advanced to Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s advanced academy, where the committee assigned Tie Zhan to continue teaching them. Zhou Yin challenged Tie Zhan’s students to a seven-on-seven match, and Yu Tianheng accepted, leaving the teams set to face each other the next afternoon.

• Yu Tianheng told Dean Su that all eight students had reached the Soul Grandmaster realm and requested advancement to the advanced academy.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin placed the eight in a special class, kept Tie Zhan as their teacher, and granted them the academy’s highest training resources.
• Tie Zhan set daily training and warned the students to strengthen their weaknesses, while Yu Tianming reported progress in the Indestructible Vajra Body.
• Zhou Yin confronted Tie Zhan and proposed a seven-on-seven match between their students at Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena the next afternoon.
• Yu Tianheng accepted the challenge, and Tie Zhan predicted Zhou Yin’s students would suffer defeat.

Yu Tianming and Tie Zhan’s team faced Zhou Yin’s students in an internal Heaven Dou Royal Academy contest, stunning the arena with their powerful Soul Rings. Yu Tianming revealed a ten-thousand-year second Soul Ring and led his team to crush their opponents, ending with Ming Yunze blasted off the platform.

• Tie Zhan and Zhou Yin brought their teams to the Great Soul Arena and confirmed their lineups for the contest.
• Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, the Shi Mo brothers, and Yu Feng revealed thousand-year second Soul Rings, shocking the spectators and Zhou Yin’s team.
• Yu Tianming released his Valstrax Martial Soul and displayed a black ten-thousand-year second Soul Ring, leaving the arena in stunned silence.
• After the referee began the match, Yu Tianheng and the others quickly defeated Zhou Yin’s students, leaving only Ming Yunze standing.
• Yu Tianming scattered Ming Yunze’s Phantom Mist and struck him with Dragon Energy cannon blasts, sending him off the platform and into a pillar.

Yu Tianming’s overwhelming victory revealed his ten-thousand-year second Soul Ring, prompting major powers to investigate the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s use of whale rubber. Yu Yuanzhen learned that rival factions were racing to buy it, but remained confident because his clan had already secured most of the supply.

• Yu Tianming defeated Ming Yunze without using a Soul Skill, and his teammates and teacher rebuked Ming Yunze and Zhou Yin after the match.
• News of Yu Tianming’s ten-thousand-year second Soul Ring spread through Heaven Dou City, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect discovered that he and his companions had bought aged whale rubber.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered an investigation into Yu Tianming, his companions, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan after learning about their whale rubber purchases.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to buy and study whale rubber and instructed Gui Mei to watch Yu Tianming and assassinate him if an opportunity arose.
• Yu Yuanzhen received reports that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Spirit Hall, and other powers were seeking whale rubber, but said his clan already controlled most of the supply.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall reacted to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan monopolizing old whale rubber, while Yu Tianming and his companions traveled back to the clan. Their journey was ambushed by powerful black-clad attackers, and Yu Tianming killed a Soul King as the battle began.

• Ning Fengzhi decided to visit the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan after learning it had bought up the older whale rubber, while Bibi Dong ordered Salas to demand a purchase and threatened force if refused.
• Yu Tianming, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Yu Tianheng, and their companions departed for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan in two carriages.
• A group of black-clad attackers ambushed the carriages on a mountain road, and Yu Wuchen and the clan escorts fought back.
• Yu Tianming told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to stay inside the carriage, then released his Valstrax Martial Soul and charged into the fight.
• Yu Tianming pierced a black-clad Soul King's chest with his dragon claw and killed him.