Chapter Summaries

Long Qianming and Lou Gao killed the Black Flame Earth Dragon Python, and Long Qianming prepared to absorb its purple Soul Ring. Lou Gao warned him that the python was over 1,400 years old, but Long Qianming claimed his external Martial Soul would help him withstand the pressure.

• The Black Flame Earth Dragon Python killed the Black Flame Dragon Bear and began swallowing its corpse, but it sensed Long Qianming and attacked him.
• Lou Gao used his Soul Saint pressure to injure the python, then urged Long Qianming to pursue it.
• Long Qianming and Xiao Tian chased the fleeing python, and Xiao Tian struck one of its back wounds with Space-Rending Claw.
• Xiao Tian blinded the python, and Lou Gao dispersed the Soul Power it had gathered to self-destruct.
• Long Qianming fired a Level 3 Soul Guidance Ray into the python's head, killing it and producing a purple Soul Ring.
• Lou Gao cautioned Long Qianming about absorbing a Soul Ring from a 1,400-year-old Soul Beast, and Long Qianming said his external Martial Soul would protect him.

Long Qianming absorbed the Black Flame Earth Dragon Python’s thousand-year Soul Ring, gaining three Soul Power levels and the growth-type Second Soul Skill World-Burning Black Flame. He tested its power on Lou Gao and melted the elder’s shield, leaving its true strength clear.

• Lou Gao praised Long Qianming’s External Martial Soul and guarded him as he absorbed the Black Flame Earth Dragon Python’s Soul Ring.
• As Long Qianming absorbed the ring, Xiao Tian underwent a dramatic mutation, growing longer and slimmer and developing black scales and dragon-like features.
• Three hours later, Long Qianming awoke with three more Soul Power levels and learned that his Second Soul Skill let Xiao Tian unleash black flames fueled by Darkness Qi.
• Long Qianming initially refused Lou Gao’s request to test the flames on him, warning that they were dangerous, but Lou Gao insisted.
• Xiao Tian spat black flames at Lou Gao’s shield, and the flames quickly melted it into molten iron.

Long Qianming tested his black flames against Lou Gao’s Ruyi Soft Armor, then agreed to keep his abilities hidden and returned with Lou Gao toward Gengxin City. Meanwhile, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan celebrated Yu Yuanzhen’s rise to rank 92, and Yu Xiaolie awakened the clan’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, leaving Yu Yuanzhen hopeful about his Innate Soul Power.

• Long Qianming’s black flames damaged Lou Gao’s Ruyi Soft Armor, so Lou Gao warned him that powerful factions might target him for his thousand-year second ring and External Martial Soul.
• Long Qianming asked Lou Gao to keep his secrets, and Lou Gao agreed before the two set out for Gengxin City after Long Qianming collected the two lesser dragon Soul Beast corpses.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan held a celebration for the hundredth day since Yu Yuanzhen reached rank 92, with Tang Zhen and Ning Yuanze among the visiting leaders.
• Yu Yuanzhen watched Yu Xiaolie enter the Martial Soul Awakening formation, expecting the resources he had provided to produce an exceptional result.
• Yu Xiaolie awakened the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, and Yu Yuanzhen expected him to have at least rank-eight Innate Soul Power.

Yu Xiaolie awakened the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul with level seven Innate Soul Power, disappointing Yu Yuanzhen and drawing mockery from other sects. At Thunder Academy, Yu Xiaogang broke through to level nineteen Soul Power while remaining isolated from his classmates.

• Yu Xiaolie awakened the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and tested at level seven Innate Soul Power, not the Innate Full Soul Power the spectators had expected.
• Yu Yuanzhen praised Yu Xiaolie and urged him not to lose confidence, while privately regretting his sons' disappointing awakenings and thinking Yu Xiaogang was likely dead.
• Yu Xiaolie overheard visiting Soul Masters mock his talent and vowed to punish anyone who insulted him or the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• The awakening ceremony produced no one with level eight Innate Soul Power, while a junior from Yu Luomian's branch achieved the highest result at level seven-point-five.
• Yu Xiaogang broke through to level nineteen Soul Power at Thunder Academy, where his strong exam results earned him resources but his Luo Sanpao Martial Soul and Soul Skill left him socially isolated.

Yu Xiaogang learned that his younger brother Yu Xiaolie had awakened the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul with rank-seven innate Soul Power, and resolved to travel the continent after reaching rank twenty. Meanwhile, Long Qianming returned to Gengxin City, where Bibi Dong arrived for the Stone Appraisal Conference.

• Yu Xiaogang discovered that ordinary white radishes helped Luo Sanpao conserve Soul Power and strengthen his first Soul Skill, and he hoped Yu Xiaolie would awaken the same Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang learned that Yu Xiaolie had awakened the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul with rank-seven innate Soul Power, leaving him devastated and convinced he would face humiliation if he returned to the clan.
• Yu Xiaogang renewed his resolve to develop his theories, decided to travel the continent after reaching rank twenty, and returned to cultivation and training.
• Long Qianming and Lou Gao returned to Gengxin City after half a month of travel, and Long Qianming began forging lessons while keeping his shop open.
• Bibi Dong arrived in Gengxin City at rank thirty-nine to visit the Blacksmith Association and see the Stone Appraisal Conference, attracting attention from the city's blacksmiths.

Bibi Dong visited a busy hotel in Gengxin City, where medicinal dishes delighted her so much that she ate two golden set meals and worried about her weight. She then hurried to Longxing Medical Hall to see the young miracle doctor, where Long Qianming was overwhelmed by a long line of patients.

• Bibi Dong entered a crowded hotel and ordered the golden set meal after a server praised its beauty-nourishing benefits.
• Bibi Dong heard diners discuss the renowned young physician at Longxing Medical Hall and considered recruiting him into Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong devoured five medicinal dishes, while Ling Yuan secretly watched her and then indulged in the same food herself.
• Bibi Dong realized she had eaten two golden set meals, belched, paid her bill, and hurried across the street to Longxing Medical Hall.
• Long Qianming treated the clinic's many patients while Si Kai helped remove cups after Patient Twenty-Three's final treatment.

Bibi Dong visited Long Qianming’s clinic to recruit him for Spirit City and discovered he was the young man she had once helped. Long Qianming tried to repay her and send her away, but she climbed back into the clinic and offered to help so he could not refuse her again.

• Si Kai helped Long Qianming manage the clinic’s patients during the busy stone appraisal convention.
• Bibi Dong visited after the clinic closed and offered to recommend Long Qianming for a place in Spirit City, but he tried to turn her away.
• Bibi Dong recognized her gold hairpin when it fell from Long Qianming’s clothes, and she realized he was the aloof young man she had helped years earlier.
• Long Qianming offered Bibi Dong the hairpin and twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins, then shoved her out and shut the clinic doors.
• Bibi Dong vaulted over the courtyard wall and returned to the clinic, where she offered to help with its tasks so Long Qianming could not refuse her again.

Bibi Dong asked to help at Long Qianming’s clinic, explaining that she trusted him and wanted to see more of the continent, and the two agreed to remain friends. After sharing powerful medicinal food and settling Bibi Dong into a guest room, Long Qianming considered how to protect his secrets while she stayed with him.

• Bibi Dong told Long Qianming she wanted to help because he was her first friend and she trusted him, and Long Qianming accepted her offer.
• Long Qianming and Bibi Dong affirmed their friendship and agreed to help each other.
• Bibi Dong tasted Long Qianming’s medicinal food and was shocked when it boosted the circulation of her Soul Power.
• Long Qianming showed Bibi Dong a clean guest room and left her basic medical books to study before she began helping at the clinic.
• Long Qianming decided to conceal his Martial Soul from Bibi Dong and adjust his nighttime Soul Hunting Plan, while considering using his Dragon Pattern Spear as a disguise.

Bibi Dong studied Long Qianming’s acupuncture chart and medicinal ingredient catalog, then began learning the clinic’s medicines from him. She mistakenly tasted dried flying squirrel droppings and spat them out, while Ling Yuan decided not to interrupt her stay at the clinic.

• Bibi Dong studied the chart’s 1,081 acupoints and wondered how Long Qianming had mastered their connections to the human body.
• Bibi Dong browsed a catalog of more than three hundred dried medicinal ingredients and decided to ask Long Qianming about them the next day.
• Ling Yuan considered Bibi Dong’s cultivation and Long Qianming’s mysterious background, but chose to let Bibi Dong remain at the clinic and learn from him.
• Long Qianming prepared breakfast, then introduced Bibi Dong to the medicinal ingredients in the clinic’s large medicine cabinet.
• Bibi Dong recognized the flying squirrel droppings from the catalog, tasted them dry, and spat them out after Long Qianming explained they were not meant to be eaten on their own.

Long Qianming taught Bibi Dong about medicinal ingredients, gave her a Heart-Clearing Art, and opened the medical hall with her help. Four months later, Bibi Dong broke through to rank 40 and hurried to tell Long Qianming, who refused to get out of bed.

• Bibi Dong learned that the flying squirrel droppings she had eaten were rat droppings and retched after Long Qianming revealed they had also been in her flatbread.
• Bibi Dong gave Long Qianming her herb books after making him promise not to use disgusting ingredients in his medicinal cuisine, and he eagerly studied them.
• Long Qianming gave Bibi Dong the Heart-Clearing Art, then the two opened Longxing Medical Hall and treated patients who mistook them for a couple.
• After four months, Bibi Dong broke through to rank 40 Soul Power and went to tell Long Qianming, but he said he was not awake yet.

Long Qianming took Bibi Dong to hunt a Seven Poison Demon Spider for her fourth Soul Ring, explaining why its attributes and species suited her Martial Soul. He trapped the spider in its cave with hidden undying flames, leaving Bibi Dong to prepare to finish it off before it escaped.

• Bibi Dong asked Long Qianming to help her hunt a five-thousand-year Soul Beast for her fourth Soul Ring, and he agreed to take her to one after sunrise.
• Ling Yuan secretly followed them, prepared to intervene if Long Qianming and Bibi Dong could not handle the Soul Beast.
• Long Qianming led Bibi Dong to a forest and revealed that a roughly 4,700-year-old Seven Poison Demon Spider was the ideal match for her dark, poisonous spider Martial Soul.
• Long Qianming warned Bibi Dong to kill the spider quickly if it emerged from the cave, then threw lit fire strikers inside.
• Hidden undying flames engulfed the cave, and the trapped Seven Poison Demon Spider screamed as Bibi Dong wondered whether it would die before she could claim its Soul Ring.

Long Qianming and Bibi Dong killed a Seven Poison Demon Spider, and Bibi Dong began absorbing its Purple Soul Ring at a cave base. While Long Qianming stood guard, Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er arrived with Dugu Xin gravely poisoned, and Long Qianming rescued them from attacking Mandala Snakes before demanding they leave his territory.

• Long Qianming lured the Seven Poison Demon Spider from its cave, and Bibi Dong restrained and wounded it while he blasted it with his Soul Guidance Ray.
• Bibi Dong delivered the killing blow, and Long Qianming took the spider's corpse and Soul Ring to a safe cave base.
• Bibi Dong began absorbing the Purple Soul Ring as Long Qianming sensed an approaching intruder and hid in a tree.
• Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er approached the cave, with Dugu Xin weakened by poison from his inherited Martial Soul.
• Five Mandala Snakes attacked Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er, but Long Qianming killed the two largest with his Soul Guidance Ray and Dragon Pattern Spear.
• Long Qianming demanded that Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er leave his territory, and Su Qing'er pleaded for shelter so Dugu Xin could recover.

Su Qing'er brought the poisoned Dugu Xin into Long Qianming’s cave, where she used her new healing skill but could only slow the poison. Long Qianming and Bibi Dong treated Dugu Xin together, and Long Qianming revealed that the poison was Martial Soul poison that he could alleviate but not suppress.

• Long Qianming let Su Qing'er enter the cave after she revealed her Jade Snake Martial Soul.
• Su Qing'er used her Third Soul Skill, Jade Healing, on Dugu Xin as Bibi Dong finished absorbing her Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong caught Su Qing'er as she began to collapse and told her that Long Qianming might be able to save Dugu Xin.
• Long Qianming examined Dugu Xin and asked Bibi Dong to use Soul Power to slow his Qi and blood while he inserted eight silver needles and cut his fingertips to drain poisonous blood.
• Long Qianming temporarily checked the poison and told Su Qing'er that Dugu Xin suffered from Martial Soul poison, which he could alleviate but not suppress.

After saving Dugu Xin, Long Qianming traced the cause of his Jade Phosphorous Snake Martial Soul poison to his clan’s inherited habit of absorbing snake-type Soul Rings. He could only alleviate the poison for now, but the possibility of Martial Soul evolution offered a potential path forward as Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er joined him and Bibi Dong.

• Dugu Xin awoke and thanked Long Qianming and Bibi Dong for saving him and Su Qing'er, promising a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Dugu Xin explained that his family’s Martial Soul poison had afflicted his father and killed his sister, and that his own symptoms began after absorbing a thousand-year Nine-Section Jade Soul Ring.
• Long Qianming deduced that generations of absorbing snake-type Soul Rings had accumulated snake origin in the Dugu clan, with the Nine-Section Jade triggering Dugu Xin’s poisoning.
• Bibi Dong recognized that Long Qianming’s explanation raised the possibility of Martial Soul evolution, while Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er listened in shock.
• Long Qianming admitted he could not cure Dugu Xin and warned that the poison would flare again within ten days, but offered to shorten the attacks.
• Bibi Dong invited Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er to return to the clinic with them, and both pledged to help Long Qianming in the future.

Long Qianming brought Bibi Dong, Dugu Xin, and Su Qing'er back to Gengxin City, where he planned to treat Dugu Xin’s remaining poison. Bibi Dong shared the details of her new Thorn Spider Armor skill, while Long Qianming’s careful distance left her frustrated.

• Long Qianming arranged a carriage for the weakened Dugu Xin and rode beside Bibi Dong as they returned to Gengxin City.
• Long Qianming worried that Bibi Dong might be harmed by absorbing the Seven Poison Demon Spider’s Soul Ring, and she reassured him.
• Bibi Dong told Long Qianming that her Fourth Soul Skill, Thorn Spider Armor, formed black-and-purple armor that defended her and reflected poisonous damage.
• Long Qianming praised the skill and reassured Bibi Dong that its appearance did not matter, but he pulled away as she tried to get closer.
• After reaching Longxing Medical Hall, Long Qianming gave Bibi Dong a prescription and asked her and Su Qing'er to prepare ingredients so he could alleviate Dugu Xin’s poison.

Long Qianming and Bibi Dong spent twelve hours removing the Martial Soul poison from Dugu Xin’s bones, and Su Qing’er helped them recover afterward. Dugu Xin invited Long Qianming to travel with his family to Heaven Dou City to treat his father, and Bibi Dong encouraged him to go.

• Bibi Dong prepared the medicinal ingredients and helped Long Qianming draw poison from Dugu Xin’s organs and bones, pausing to recover her Soul Power with medicinal food.
• Long Qianming and Bibi Dong continued the painful treatment through the night until Dugu Xin’s Martial Soul poison was completely cleared.
• Su Qing’er brought Dugu Xin herbal medicine and used her Jade Healing skill to ease Long Qianming’s and Bibi Dong’s exhaustion.
• Long Qianming advised Dugu Xin to take medicinal ingredients regularly and limit his Soul Skills to delay future poison outbreaks.
• Dugu Xin invited Long Qianming to accompany his family to Heaven Dou City and help treat his father, Dugu Bo.
• Bibi Dong urged Long Qianming to accept the invitation and develop his medical skills in Heaven Dou City.

Long Qianming prepared to leave Gengxin City for Heaven Dou City, while Bibi Dong returned to Spirit City and parted from him. After a three-month journey with Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er, Long Qianming detoured into Sunset Forest to search for medicinal herbs and investigate the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Long Qianming agreed to travel north to Heaven Dou City with Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er after settling his affairs.
• Su Qing'er teased Bibi Dong about her feelings for Long Qianming, but Bibi Dong declined to join them and chose to return to Spirit City.
• Long Qianming escorted Bibi Dong outside Gengxin City, gave her medicinal herbs, and embraced her before she rode away.
• Long Qianming said goodbye to Lou Gao and the others, then set off north with Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er the next day.
• After three months, the trio reached the outskirts of Sunset Forest, where Long Qianming led them inside to search for herbs and investigate the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Long Qianming led Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er through the poisonous Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flowers in search of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. They found the hidden valley, where Long Qianming revealed that its power could suppress Dugu Xin's poison.

• Long Qianming recognized the Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flowers and gave Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er Breaking Clan antidote pills before entering the poisonous field with them.
• Dugu Xin offered to accompany Long Qianming because his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul could resist some of the poison, and Su Qing'er insisted on staying with them.
• After their antidote supplies dwindled, Long Qianming led the group up a cliff and into a cave through the poisonous mist.
• The three emerged into a sunken valley containing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and countless Immortal Herbs.
• Long Qianming explained the well's properties and told Dugu Xin that its power could suppress his poison, which Dugu Xin confirmed he already felt.

Long Qianming found herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well that could cure Dugu Xin’s Martial Soul poison and help Su Qing’er’s Martial Soul evolve. After Dugu Xin and Su Qing’er consumed their herbs, their Martial Souls began transforming into dragon-like forms.

• Long Qianming led Dugu Xin and Su Qing’er through the medicinal herbs and explained that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well favored poison-type Soul Masters but made Su Qing’er uncomfortable.
• Long Qianming harvested an earth dragon golden melon for Dugu Xin and explained that it could cure his Martial Soul poison and transform his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul.
• Dugu Xin gave Long Qianming his Purple Gold Hundred Treasure Bag, and Long Qianming gave Su Qing’er a Jade Dendrobium that could strengthen her and help her Jade Snake Martial Soul evolve.
• Dugu Xin and Su Qing’er ate their immortal herbs and began absorbing their energy while Long Qianming examined the other medicinal plants and summoned Xiao Tian to eat the golden melon rind.
• Dugu Xin’s and Su Qing’er’s Martial Souls manifested and began growing dragon legs, changing into dragon heads, and developing horns.

Long Qianming harvested the Nine-Grade Dragon Ganoderma and shared it with Xiao Tian, enduring a painful transformation as Xiao Tian evolved into a Dark Sacred Dragon. Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er completed their Martial Soul Evolutions and discovered a possible Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Xiao Tian then reached for them until Long Qianming ordered it to stop.

• Long Qianming harvested the Nine-Grade Dragon Ganoderma and gave most of it to Xiao Tian, keeping two taels for himself.
• Xiao Tian and Long Qianming endured painful transformations as they absorbed the ganoderma’s dragon essence.
• Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er completed their Martial Soul Evolutions, gaining Soul Power and discovering an affinity that might indicate a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er saw that Xiao Tian had become a Dark Sacred Dragon and found Long Qianming encircled by its body.
• Xiao Tian reached out to seize Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er, and Long Qianming commanded it to stop.