Chapter Summaries

Yu Tianming and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan fought off the black-clad attackers, while Yu Wuchen battled their Soul Douluo leader. After the attackers were defeated, Yu Tianming ordered Yu Wuchen to investigate who had sent them.

• Yu Tianming and the clan’s experts killed several attackers as the battle intensified, and Yu Tianming wounded another with his Purple Light Dragon Claw.
• Yu Wuchen used his Thunder Shadow Dragon Martial Soul and poisoned his opponent, but the black-clad Soul Douluo escaped in a cloud of black mist.
• Yu Tianming unleashed Dragon Breath, killing a Soul Emperor and badly burning several Soul Kings.
• The remaining attackers fled, but Yu Tianming and Yu Wuchen killed them as they tried to escape.
• Yu Tianming ordered Yu Wuchen to find out who had sent the attackers.

After Yu Tianming and his companions reached the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, he reassured Ye Lingling that her family background would not affect his feelings for her. The chapter ended with Dugu Yan drawing attention to herself as Yu Tianming and Ye Lingling shared a tender moment.

• Yu Wuchen identified one of the attackers as a former Spirit Hall enforcer, and Yu Tianming vowed that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would not let the attack go unanswered.
• Yu Tianming and his companions arrived at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's grand sect grounds, where the elders and Yu Yuanzhen welcomed them.
• Yu Yuanzhen learned that Spirit Hall had attacked the group and reacted with anger before inviting Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to feel welcome.
• Ye Lingling worried that her family could not compare with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Yu Tianming took her hand and reassured her that he cared nothing for status or background.
• Dugu Yan cleared her throat and pointed out that she was still there as Yu Tianming and Ye Lingling shared a tender moment.

Yu Tianming learned that Spirit Hall’s attack would be answered by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s secret Shadow Dragon Guard, which his grandfather placed under his command. After Yu Yuanzhen teased him about wanting both Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, the two girls playfully took one of his arms each.

• Yu Tianming told Yu Yuanzhen that Spirit Hall had targeted the clan and would not let the attack go unanswered.
• Yu Yuanzhen revealed the Shadow Dragon Guard and appointed Yu Tianming its commander, giving him the black dragon token.
• Yu Tianming admitted he wanted both Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, and Yu Yuanzhen told him Yu Asura would meet him on the rear mountain the next evening.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Yu Tianming that Dugu Yan’s grandfather would visit the sect the next day, and Yu Tianming found Dugu Yan waiting outside the study.
• Dugu Yan teased Yu Tianming about wanting both girls, then linked Ye Lingling’s arm with his and took his other arm herself.

Yu Tianming and his friends shared a lavish banquet, where Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling danced together and got drunk. After Dugu Yan confessed that she and Ye Lingling both liked him, Yu Tianming carried them to their room, where Dugu Yan caught his wrist and told him not to leave.

• Yu Tianming returned to the guest courtyard with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, and Yu Tianheng arranged a lavish banquet for their friends.
• Yu Feng opened aged wine, and the group toasted their friendship before drinking late into the night.
• Dugu Yan invited Ye Lingling to dance, and Yu Tianming watched the two girls perform together.
• After Yu Tianming went to fetch sobering soup, Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling that they both liked him and that she would rather share him with her than with anyone else.
• Yu Tianming helped the drunken guests to bed, then carried Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to their room when they insisted on sleeping together.
• As Yu Tianming laid Dugu Yan on the bed, she grabbed his wrist and told him he was not allowed to leave.

Yu Yuanzhen told Dugu Bo about an Immortal Herb that could cure his poison backlash, and they realized it might grow in Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden. Dugu Yan learned that her grandfather had been suffering in secret and confronted him as Yu Tianming, Ye Lingling, and Yu Yuanzhen left them alone.

• After Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling woke beside Yu Tianming, the girls silently acknowledged their drunken words from the night before.
• Dugu Bo arrived at True Dragon Mountain and reunited with Dugu Yan, while Yu Yuanzhen welcomed him inside.
• Yu Yuanzhen explained that Dugu Bo could fight poison with a stronger toxin or seek an Immortal Herb called Mysterious Nether Dragon Saliva Grass.
• Dugu Bo recognized that the herb’s growing conditions matched the pool in his medicinal garden, where hot and cold springs met.
• Dugu Yan learned that Dugu Bo had long suffered from poison backlash, and Yu Tianming, Ye Lingling, and Yu Yuanzhen left the pavilion to give them privacy.

Yu Tianming proposed that Dugu Bo condense his poisonous Soul Power into a Soul Core to control his poison and stop its backlash. Dugu Bo and Yu Yuanzhen tried compressing their Soul Power, but both failed, leaving Yu Tianming to consider what he knew about Soul Core formation.

• Dugu Bo urged Dugu Yan to take the Mysterious Nether Dragon Saliva Grass so her Martial Soul could evolve and spare her from poison backlash.
• Yu Tianming proposed that Dugu Bo condense his poisonous Soul Power into a Soul Core, which might control the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison and improve his cultivation.
• Dugu Bo and Yu Yuanzhen agreed to attempt condensing Soul Cores, despite having no certainty it would work.
• Yu Yuanzhen's Soul Power went out of control during compression, forcing him to stop after he was injured.
• Dugu Bo also failed to compress his violent poisonous Soul Power, and Yu Tianming recalled details about Soul Core formation.

Yu Tianming helped Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo form Soul Cores safely, curing Dugu Bo’s poison backlash and strengthening both men. After Dugu Bo promised Yu Tianming access to the medicinal garden’s Immortal Herbs and urged him to treat Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling well, a disciple announced that Platinum Bishop Salas and Spirit Hall would arrive the next day.

• Yu Tianming suggested that Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo condense their Soul Cores outside their bodies before guiding them into their dantians.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo successfully formed and absorbed their Soul Cores, stabilizing their power and boosting their cultivation.
• Dugu Bo’s poison backlash vanished, his Soul Power rose to rank 92, and Yu Yuanzhen felt his bottleneck loosening.
• Dugu Bo thanked Yu Tianming and offered him any Immortal Herbs in the medicinal garden except the Mysterious Nether Dragon Saliva Grass.
• Dugu Bo told Yu Tianming to treat Dugu Yan well, and Yu Tianming promised to care for both Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• A Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan disciple reported that Platinum Bishop Salas would bring Spirit Hall representatives to visit at noon the next day, and Yu Tianming suspected they wanted the Whale Rubber.

Yu Tianming learned about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s hidden Shadow Dragon Guard and ordered it to gather intelligence on Spirit Hall. The next day, Salas arrived at the clan’s gate, where Yu Yuanzhen welcomed him with suspiciously unusual tea.

• Yu Yuanzhen ordered the clan to prepare for Salas’s visit, while he and Dugu Bo hinted at a plan to embarrass the Spirit Hall bishop with a new poison.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling about the Shadow Dragon Guard, and Yu Tianming went to meet its commander, Yu Asura.
• Yu Asura reported that all thirty-six Shadow Dragon Guard members had assembled, and Yu Tianming ordered intelligence on Spirit Hall branches and its ten most gifted Soul Masters under twenty.
• The next day, Salas arrived at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan with Spirit Hall knights and deacons, and Yu Yuanzhen welcomed him with dark green tea.
• Salas eyed the unusual tea warily and delayed accepting it.

Salas visited the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to seek a partnership with Spirit Hall over Whale Rubber, but Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo rejected his demands and secretly poisoned him. Salas left in a dizzy, feverish state, while the clan refused to reconsider Spirit Hall’s proposal.

• Dugu Bo pressured Salas to drink tea while Yu Yuanzhen used the clan’s Heavenly Thunder Stones to make him stumble and lose face.
• Salas drank several cups of tea after Yu Yuanzhen tasted it first, then met Yu Tianming, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling.
• Salas proposed that Spirit Hall purchase Whale Rubber and partner with the clan, but Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo refused and threatened him with their power.
• Yu Tianming dismissed Salas, whose vision blurred as Dugu Bo’s A Moment of Spring Night poison took effect.
• Salas hurried out with the Spirit Hall deacons, nearly collapsed, and ordered them to leave immediately.

Dugu Bo’s poison caused Salas to publicly attack a male deacon, forcing Spirit Hall’s party to flee in disgrace. Dugu Bo then led the others to his herb garden in Sunset Forest, where they reached the legendary Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Salas hallucinated that a male deacon was a beautiful woman and attacked him until the other deacons restrained and knocked him unconscious.
• Dugu Bo revealed that his poison, “A Moment of Spring Night,” had caused Salas’s behavior, and Yu Tianming predicted Spirit Hall would punish him.
• Dugu Bo and Yu Yuanzhen decided to visit the herb garden to address Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison and examine the Immortal Herbs.
• Dugu Bo guided Yu Yuanzhen, Yu Tianming, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan through his poisonous formation in Sunset Forest.
• The group arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Yu Tianming recognized it with excitement.

Dugu Yan consumed the Mysterious Nether Dragon Saliva Grass and evolved her Jade Phosphorous Serpent into a Jade Phosphorous Poison Dragon, gaining control over her poison and reaching rank thirty. Dugu Bo offered the gathered Immortal Herbs to Yu Tianming and his companions, and Yu Tianming chose an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid for Ye Lingling.

• Yu Yuanzhen identified the Mysterious Nether Dragon Saliva Grass growing beside the cold spring, and Dugu Bo plucked it for Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan swallowed the herb and endured the transformation as her Jade Phosphorous Serpent grew into a powerful dragon.
• Dugu Yan awoke with a Jade Phosphorous Poison Dragon Martial Soul, fully controlled poison, and rank thirty Soul Power.
• Dugu Bo offered Yu Tianming and Yu Yuanzhen their choice of Immortal Herbs, and Yu Tianming asked to choose one for Ye Lingling.
• Yu Tianming selected an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid for Ye Lingling, judging it well suited to her Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul.

Yu Tianming chose to swallow the infernal delicate apricot and octagonal mysterious ice grass together, trusting his Valstrax Martial Soul and Dragon Energy to withstand their opposing forces. As the herbs tempered his body, his dragon roar awakened two ethereal dragon souls deep beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Ye Lingling swallowed the eight-petal immortal orchid, which strengthened and purified her constitution and lent her Nine Heart Begonia a silver radiance.
• Yu Yuanzhen selected the earth dragon golden melon and Purple Blood Dragon Ginseng for Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianming, while Dugu Bo swallowed the primordial immortal herb.
• Yu Tianming declined the dragon herbs and told Yu Yuanzhen he would seek the crystal blood dragon ginseng held by the Speed Clan instead.
• Yu Yuanzhen swallowed the Purple Blood Dragon Ginseng, leaving the earth dragon golden melon for Yu Tianheng.
• After Dugu Bo and Ye Lingling began absorbing their herbs, Yu Tianming swallowed the infernal delicate apricot and octagonal mysterious ice grass together.
• Yu Tianming's Valstrax Martial Soul roared as the herbs' fire and ice forces tempered his body, awakening two ethereal dragon souls beneath the well.

Yu Tianming absorbed the immortal herbs with the aid of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s remnant souls, gaining an Ice and Fire Golden Body and reaching rank thirty. The Dragon Kings contacted him in his Sea of Consciousness and offered to help him ascend to godhood.

• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King awoke after sensing the supreme dragon bloodline of Yu Tianming’s Valstrax Martial Soul.
• The two Dragon Kings decided to help Yu Tianming absorb the ice and fire powers to build goodwill before asking for his aid.
• The Dragon Kings’ powers stabilized Yu Tianming’s absorption, granting him strong resistance to ice, fire, and poison while raising his Soul Power to rank thirty.
• Yu Tianming told Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo he would stay to stabilize his cultivation, then spoke with the Dragon Kings in his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King revealed that they wanted to help Yu Tianming ascend to godhood.

The Ice and Fire Dragon Kings told Yu Tianming about the Dragon God’s defeat and the Soul Beast Clan’s oppression, asking him to seek a path forward for them if he gained influence in the Divine Realm. Yu Tianming accepted their offer of aid, and they began transferring their source power into his arms to help him absorb their sealed Soul Bones.

• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King recounted how the Divine Realm’s human gods defeated the Dragon God, killed many dragons, and imposed Heavenly Tribulations on Soul Beasts.
• The Dragon Kings asked Yu Tianming to fight for the Soul Beast Clan’s future if he could one day gain influence in the Divine Realm.
• Yu Tianming swore to seek a viable path for the dragon race and Soul Beast Clan if he reached the pinnacle of the Divine Realm.
• The Dragon Kings proposed sealing their Soul Bones for Yu Tianming to absorb and placing wisps of their souls within them so he could call on their help.
• Yu Tianming accepted the proposal, and the Dragon Kings sent cold and hot streams of source power into his right and left arms.

Yu Tianming absorbed the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King Soul Bones while Ye Lingling and Yu Yuanzhen finished absorbing their Immortal Herbs. Yu Yuanzhen evolved his Martial Soul and broke through to level ninety-six, then led the group toward the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for third Soul Rings.

• Yu Tianming absorbed the Ice Dragon King Right Arm Soul Bone and Fire Dragon King Left Arm Soul Bone with the Dragon Kings' help, while keeping their soul fragments secret.
• Yu Tianming told Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo that he had reached level thirty and planned to hunt for a Soul Ring after Yu Yuanzhen and Ye Lingling finished absorbing their herbs.
• Ye Lingling completed absorbing the eight-petal immortal orchid, reached level thirty, and strengthened her Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul.
• Yu Yuanzhen's Purple Blood Dragon Ginseng evolved his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul into the Purple Blood Thunder Dragon and broke his level ninety-five bottleneck, raising him to level ninety-six.
• Yu Yuanzhen agreed to accompany Yu Tianming and Ye Lingling to hunt for their third Soul Rings, and the group left the Sunset Forest for the Star Dou Great Forest.

Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo helped Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling obtain suitable Soul Rings in the Star Dou Great Forest before leading the group deeper in search of a powerful dragon-type Soul Beast for Yu Tianming. They found a forty-thousand-year Gale Thunder Winged Dragon, and Yu Yuanzhen attacked it as it tried to evade his lightning claw.

• Dugu Bo killed a four-thousand-year Two-Headed Poison Flood Dragon, and Dugu Yan absorbed its Soul Ring to reach rank thirty-three and gain Poison Dragon Blood Light.
• Yu Yuanzhen wounded an Azure Spirit Vine, which Ye Lingling killed and absorbed; her Soul Power rose by two ranks, making her a Support System Soul Elder.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo led the group into the forest’s core, where they sensed a powerful dragon-type Soul Beast with wind and lightning attributes.
• The group found a Gale Thunder Winged Dragon standing over a rhinoceros-type Soul Beast’s corpse, and it attacked them with wind blades and lightning.
• Yu Yuanzhen shattered the dragon’s attacks and formed a purple-blood lightning claw, but the Gale Thunder Winged Dragon dodged at tremendous speed.

Yu Tianming absorbed a forty-thousand-year Gale Thunder Winged Dragon Soul Ring with Yu Yuanzhen’s help and became a Soul Elder. He gained the enhancement-type Soul Skill Extreme Dragon Wind and Thunder Transformation, which greatly increased his attributes.

• Yu Yuanzhen subdued the Gale Thunder Winged Dragon and left Yu Tianming to deliver the killing blow.
• Yu Tianming killed the wounded dragon with his Dragon Breath Soul Skill, forming a forty-thousand-year black Soul Ring.
• Yu Tianming absorbed the Soul Ring, suppressing its violent energy with his Valstrax Martial Soul and Dragon Energy.
• Yu Tianming reached the peak of rank thirty-four and became a Soul Elder.
• Yu Tianming revealed that his Third Soul Skill, Extreme Dragon Wind and Thunder Transformation, increased all his attributes by three hundred percent and his speed by an additional one hundred percent.

Yu Tianming tested his new Extreme Dragon Wind and Thunder Transformation, discovering that its immense boosts made his speed and defense overwhelming. He drove off a ten-thousand-year Golden-Plumed Eagle and remained in control of the skies.

• Yu Tianming activated Extreme Dragon Wind and Thunder Transformation, and Yu Yuanzhen, Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling were stunned by its power.
• Yu Tianming tested the skill by racing through the sky at extreme speed, while Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo watched.
• A ten-thousand-year Golden-Plumed Eagle attacked Yu Tianming, but his wind-and-thunder protection stopped its claws.
• Yu Tianming pursued the eagle and battered it with close-range strikes, overpowering its speed and attacks.
• Yu Tianming pierced the Golden-Plumed Eagle with a Valstrax spear wing, and the wounded eagle fled into the forest.

After testing his enhanced aerial abilities, Yu Tianming traveled with Yu Yuanzhen to Flying Feather City to seek the Speed Clan’s crystal blood dragon ginseng. They arrived at the clan’s residence, where Bai He cautiously welcomed them and asked why they had come.

• Yu Tianming described how his Extreme Dragon Wind and Thunder Transformation strengthened his attributes and protected him during combat.
• Yu Tianming asked Yu Yuanzhen to take him to the Speed Clan, and Yu Yuanzhen sent Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling back to the sect.
• Yu Tianming and Yu Yuanzhen raced toward Flying Feather City, with Yu Yuanzhen offering flight advice along the way.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Tianming reached the Speed Clan’s residence and announced their visit to Bai He.
• Bai He welcomed Yu Yuanzhen with formal courtesy and asked what had brought him to the Speed Clan.

Yu Yuanzhen forced Bai He to trade the Speed Clan’s Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng for three pieces of thousand-year whale rubber and one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, then returned with Yu Tianming to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Yu Tianming began absorbing the herb under his grandfather’s protection, and its dragon bloodline power awakened in response to his Valstrax martial soul.

• Yu Yuanzhen demanded the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng from Bai He and offered three pieces of thousand-year whale rubber and one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins in exchange.
• Bai He accepted the trade under pressure, and Yu Tianming confirmed that the ginseng Yu Yuanzhen received was genuine.
• As they left Flying Feather City, Yu Tianming defended his grandfather’s heavy-handed methods and considered the threat posed by the Soul Hunting Operation and the mole Yu Luomian.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Tianming returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and entered the sect master’s secluded cultivation chamber.
• Yu Tianming opened the jade box and began absorbing the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, whose dragon bloodline power responded to his Valstrax martial soul.