Chapter Summaries

Long Qianming revealed that Xiao Tian, the Dark Sacred Dragon, was his External Martial Soul, then learned that Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er’s Martial Souls had evolved into dragons after eating immortal herbs. He asked them to harvest two poisonous herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Dugu Xin advanced toward them with Su Qing’er’s healing support.

• Long Qianming explained that Xiao Tian was his External Martial Soul and that the Dragon Pattern Spear had been a false image.
• Xiao Tian took an apparent liking to Su Qing'er, prompting Long Qianming to dismiss the dragon before it could bother her further.
• Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er revealed their evolved Jade Phosphorus Dragon and Emerald Dragon Martial Souls, and Long Qianming said his Soul Power had risen to rank twenty-nine.
• Long Qianming asked Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er to harvest the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot, warning them to cut their stems with a jade knife.
• Dugu Xin activated Martial Soul Possession and advanced into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Su Qing'er used Jade Healing to ease his burns, discovering that the skill’s healing effect had doubled to sixty percent.

Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er harvested two poisonous herbs so Long Qianming could temper his body, then continued toward Jialing Pass to find Dugu Bo. Long Qianming began absorbing the herbs’ power in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Dugu Bo reunited with Dugu Xin and mistook Su Qing'er for his daughter-in-law.

• Dugu Xin harvested the infernal delicate apricot and octagonal mysterious ice grass with Su Qing'er's help.
• Long Qianming swallowed the two herbs and plunged into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to endure and neutralize their medicinal power.
• Long Qianming used the herbs’ power to strengthen his fire, water, and cold attributes, causing his physique to resonate with the dragon essence in his body.
• Three days later, Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er encountered Dugu Bo's convoy near Jialing Pass.
• Dugu Bo scolded Dugu Xin for staying away, then called Su Qing'er his daughter-in-law, and she said she had no objections if Dugu Xin agreed.

Dugu Xin told Dugu Bo how Long Qianming cured his Martial Soul backlash and transformed his Jade Phosphorous Serpent into a dragon Martial Soul, prompting Dugu Bo to hurry to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to thank him. Meanwhile, Long Qianming finished tempering his body but discovered his perfected water element caused chaotic kidney Qi, and his attempt to examine the spring’s depths with enhanced spiritual power ended in backlash.

• Dugu Xin showed Dugu Bo his evolved dragon Martial Soul and explained how Long Qianming had cured his backlash and raised his Soul Power.
• Dugu Bo praised Long Qianming and rushed with Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Long Qianming emerged from a day of tempering with an ice-and-fire-resistant, poison-immune body and perfected earth, fire, and water elements.
• Long Qianming suffered pain from chaotic kidney Qi and concluded that he needed a third Soul Ring with dark as its primary attribute and water as its secondary attribute.
• Long Qianming consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, greatly expanded his spiritual sea, and used his enhanced spiritual power to examine the spring.
• Long Qianming's spiritual power was repelled at a depth of 500 meters, causing a painful backlash and forcing him to stop.

Dugu Bo thanked Long Qianming for saving Dugu Xin by kneeling before him, then admired his Dark Sacred Dragon and arranged to lease the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a medicinal garden. The chapter ended with Dugu Xin offering Dugu Bo the earth dragon golden melon that had transformed his Martial Soul.

• Dugu Bo arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er and recognized Long Qianming as the young doctor who had saved his son.
• Dugu Bo knelt and bowed to Long Qianming in gratitude, stunning Long Qianming, Dugu Xin, and Su Qing'er.
• Dugu Bo asked to see Long Qianming's Dark Sacred Dragon, and Long Qianming released the twelve-meter-long Martial Soul for him to inspect.
• Dugu Bo praised the Dark Sacred Dragon's potential and offered two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins to lease the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a medicinal garden.
• Long Qianming accepted Dugu Bo's offer, and Dugu Xin presented his father with the earth dragon golden melon that had transformed his Martial Soul.

Dugu Bo accepted Long Qianming’s advice on strengthening his poison arts and went to seek a suitable Soul Ring for Dugu Xin. While they waited, Dugu Xin challenged Long Qianming to a fight and faced Xiao Tian, who attacked at Long Qianming’s command.

• Dugu Bo stored the earth dragon golden melon after explaining that he feared it would weaken his poison arts, and Long Qianming suggested he obtain a Medusa Soul Ring before eating it.
• Long Qianming advised Dugu Xin to choose a lesser dragon Soul Beast for his fourth Soul Ring, while Dugu Bo went to search for a suitable beast for him.
• Dugu Xin challenged Long Qianming to test the Dark Sacred Dragon Martial Soul, and Su Qing'er agreed to referee.
• Dugu Xin launched his Jade Phosphorus Poison Dragon Claw at Long Qianming, who sent Xiao Tian to fight him.
• Dugu Xin dodged Xiao Tian’s sweeping tail, believing the dragon’s large body made it slow.

Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er tested their new Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Jasper Poison Dragon, against Long Qianming and Xiao Tian. After Dugu Xin trapped Long Qianming in lethal poison mist, Long Qianming emerged unharmed and revealed that he was immune to poison.

• Xiao Tian’s dragon claws overpowered Dugu Xin, but Long Qianming invited Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er to attack together.
• Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er fused their martial souls into the Jasper Poison Dragon and fought Xiao Tian in the air above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xiao Tian used World-Burning Black Flame against the Jasper Poison Dragon’s breath, and the clash broke apart the fusion skill.
• Dugu Xin exploited the opening to engulf Long Qianming and Xiao Tian in his Myriad Poison Mist, then worried that he had turned their spar into a deadly fight.
• Long Qianming walked out of the poison mist unharmed and told Dugu Xin that he was immune to poison.

Dugu Xin absorbed a six-thousand-year Poison Domain Dragon Python Soul Ring while Long Qianming helped Dugu Bo identify herbs. At Spirit Hall, Qian Xunji ordered his plan advanced and Long Qianming watched, while Dugu Bo then took Long Qianming north to hunt for his third Soul Ring in the Frozen Forest.

• Dugu Bo returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, found the area damaged, and brought Dugu Xin a Poison Domain Dragon Python for his fourth Soul Ring.
• Dugu Xin began absorbing the Soul Ring as Su Qing'er stood guard, while Dugu Bo took Long Qianming inside to identify medicinal herbs.
• Qian Xunji read Ling Yuan's report on Bibi Dong's travels, learned about Long Qianming, and ordered Salas to advance Spirit Hall's plan and keep Long Qianming under watch.
• After Dugu Xin absorbed his fourth Soul Ring, Dugu Bo took Long Qianming north toward the Frozen Forest to search for a flying, dark- and ice-affinity Soul Beast with dragon blood.

Long Qianming and Dugu Bo searched the Frozen Forest for a suitable dark-attribute Soul Beast and found a Snow Moon Dragon Eagle family at Zither Ice Cliff. When the adult eagles attacked, Dugu Bo fought to protect Long Qianming, and the battle continued as the female eagle drove his poison away from their young.

• Long Qianming and Dugu Bo searched the Frozen Forest for ten days before learning that a Snow Moon Dragon Eagle lived at Zither Ice Cliff.
• At the cliff, Long Qianming sensed a cave and Dugu Bo warned him that three Snow Moon Dragon Eagles, including one nearing forty thousand years old, were inside protecting their young.
• The male Snow Moon Dragon Eagle attacked, and Long Qianming dodged while Dugu Bo moved to shield him.
• The male eagle used its concealment ability to strike at Dugu Bo, but Long Qianming sensed it and warned him to watch his left.
• Dugu Bo unleashed his Jade Phosphorous Poison Array, and the female Snow Moon Dragon Eagle beat the poison away from the cave to protect her child.

Long Qianming and Xiao Tian fought the Snow Moon Dragon Eagles in the cave while Dugu Bo held off the male outside. Xiao Tian killed the ten-thousand-year female, captured its ice-mutated child, and ate a hidden Dark Moon Dragon Eagle before Dugu Bo returned, shocked by their success.

• Long Qianming sent Xiao Tian into the cave to attack the female Snow Moon Dragon Eagle while Dugu Bo dragged the male down, causing the ice platform to shatter.
• The female resisted Xiao Tian, but he burned it with World-Burning Black Flame and killed it with Space-Rending Claw, taking its heart and leaving a black soul ring.
• Xiao Tian attacked the female's roughly four-thousand-year-old child, and Long Qianming used Dragon Whisker Needles to stop it from self-destructing and render it unconscious.
• Xiao Tian brought out a third Snow Moon Dragon Eagle, a Dark Moon Dragon Eagle, and ate it after Long Qianming gave permission, then fell asleep.
• Dugu Bo returned to the cave and learned that Long Qianming and Xiao Tian had killed the adult eagles and subdued the child, leaving him astonished at their strength.

Long Qianming absorbed the ten-thousand-year Snow Moon Dragon Eagle's Soul Ring as his Third Soul Ring, with Xiao Tian defeating the beast's remnant soul in his sea of consciousness. Afterward, Dugu Bo gave him the Soul Bone the eagle had dropped, and Long Qianming realized the eagle had concentrated most of its soul into it in a final attempt to kill him.

• Long Qianming refused to absorb a younger Snow Moon Dragon Eagle's Soul Ring and chose the ten-thousand-year female instead, despite Dugu Bo's warning.
• Long Qianming absorbed the female Snow Moon Dragon Eagle's Soul Ring while Xiao Tian's body grew stronger and its dragon form attacked and dispersed the beast's remnant soul.
• A patterned black-and-blue right arm Soul Bone emerged from the dead Snow Moon Dragon Eagle, and Dugu Bo stored it while Long Qianming continued absorbing the ring.
• After six hours, Long Qianming completed the absorption and reported that his Soul Power had risen by five levels and his Third Soul Skill boosted speed and attack by 150% for five minutes.
• Dugu Bo handed Long Qianming the Snow Moon Dragon Eagle's right arm Soul Bone, and Long Qianming realized the beast had poured most of its soul into the bone to try to kill him.

Long Qianming sold Xue Rou the chance to absorb a mutated Snow Moon Dragon Eagle for one million Gold Soul Coins, though it yielded no Soul Bone. After Xue Rou absorbed its Soul Ring, Long Qianming recognized her Condensed Water Flying Luan Martial Soul and wondered whether she was Shui Bing'er’s mother.

• Long Qianming stored the Ten Thousand Year Snow Moon Dragon Eagle Soul Bone and corpse, then prepared to kill the surviving juvenile until Dugu Bo noticed acquaintances approaching.
• Xue Wuqing and Xue Rou arrived, and Xue Wuqing mistook Long Qianming for Dugu Bo’s son before learning who he was.
• Xue Rou asked for the juvenile Snow Moon Dragon Eagle, and Long Qianming offered it for one million Gold Soul Coins because it might yield a Soul Bone.
• Xue Wuqing agreed to the price and gave Long Qianming a one-million-Gold-Soul-Coin card, then urged Xue Rou to absorb the beast’s Soul Ring.
• Xue Rou killed the juvenile and absorbed its Purple Soul Ring while Dugu Bo and Xue Wuqing talked and Long Qianming cultivated.
• Xue Rou’s Condensed Water Flying Luan appeared, but the beast produced no Soul Bone; she demanded a partial refund, and Long Qianming refused.

Long Qianming declined Xue Wuqing’s offer to join Skywater Academy and left for Godwind Grand Canyon to train his spear arts and pursue rank 40. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang broke through to rank 20 Soul Power and prepared to obtain his second Soul Ring, convinced his Martial Soul would transform.

• Xue Wuqing invited Long Qianming to join Skywater Academy, but Long refused, saying he preferred a quiet life.
• Xue Rou teased Long Qianming and asked whether he found her beautiful, and he bluntly called her average.
• Dugu Bo and Long Qianming parted near Godwind City after Long announced he would train in Godwind Grand Canyon and seek rank 40.
• Yu Xiaogang broke through the rank 20 Soul Power bottleneck after nine months of cultivation.
• Yu Xiaogang declared that he was the foremost theorist and believed Luo Sanpao would transform into a powerful dragon Martial Soul after he obtained a second Soul Ring.

Yu Xiaogang reached rank 20 and persuaded Dean Yu to take him to Sunset Forest for a dark-attribute Soul Ring. There, a mutant purple snake killed the Fire Shadow Earth Dragon Bear and poisoned Yu Xiaogang, while Dean Yu struck the escaping snake down with lightning.

• Yu Xiaogang told Dean Yu he had reached rank 20 and requested a second Soul Ring in Sunset Forest.
• Yu Xiaogang convinced Dean Yu that Luo Sanpao needed a dark-attribute lesser dragon Soul Beast rather than a lightning-attribute one.
• After Yu's eldest brother approved, Dean Yu and Yu Xiaogang traveled to Sunset Forest and found a roughly 750-year-old Fire Shadow Earth Dragon Bear.
• A purple, single-horned mutant snake strangled the dragon bear before Yu Xiaogang could claim its Soul Ring.
• The snake filled the cave with poisonous mist, leaving Yu Xiaogang dazed, as Dean Yu used his second Soul Skill to strike the escaping beast down.

Yu Xiaogang absorbed a mutant snake Soul Beast’s Soul Ring and gained a hypnosis skill, though he was disappointed by its limitations. After returning to Thunder Academy, he secretly left to prove his theories to the world.

• Yu Xiaogang chose the dying mutant snake Soul Beast for Luo Sanpao’s second Soul Ring despite Dean Yu’s concerns about its age.
• Yu Xiaogang endured six hours of severe pain before successfully absorbing the Soul Ring and gaining a hypnosis-type skill.
• Dean Yu praised the skill and offered Yu Xiaogang clan business duties in Heaven Dou City or work as a teaching assistant, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to follow his father’s arrangements.
• Yu Xiaogang and Dean Yu returned to Thunder Academy, where Dean Yu went to report to the clan.
• Yu Xiaogang left the academy secretly at night, intending to prove that his theories would guide the future of the Soul Master World.

Yu Xiaogang traveled to the Häagen-Dazs Duchy hoping to refine his theories and become an academy teacher, but Haagen-Dazs Advanced Soul Master Academy rejected and mocked him. At Plant Academy, Dean Mu Chun welcomed him as a specially appointed teacher and asked him to help the academy win a tournament advancement spot.

• Yu Xiaogang arrived at Haagen-Dazs Advanced Soul Master Academy and announced that he wanted to teach rather than enroll as a student.
• The admissions teachers mocked Yu Xiaogang’s low Soul Power and dismissed his claim that his theoretical knowledge qualified him to teach.
• Yu Xiaogang left in anger, and his failed interviews at other academies ended with guards turning him away.
• Mu Chun greeted Yu Xiaogang at Plant Academy and explained that he had seen Yu Xiaogang’s research at Thunder Academy.
• Mu Chun appointed Yu Xiaogang as a specially appointed teacher and asked him to help Plant Academy win the advancement-round spot at the Soul Master Tournament three years later.

Yu Xiaogang joined Plant Academy and met its two rank-thirty students, Mu Kongkong and Ye Huang, before taking them to the Soul Hunting Forest to find their third Soul Rings. He questioned whether plant Soul Beasts were the right choice for Mu Kongkong’s Ghost King Vine.

• Mu Chun welcomed Yu Xiaogang to Plant Academy, and Yu Xiaogang promised to train a team capable of reaching the finals within three years.
• Mu Chun introduced his grandson Mu Kongkong and Ye Huang, who had both reached rank thirty at age fifteen.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned Ye Huang about his Purple Bamboo Leaf Martial Soul, and Ye Huang said it had no special effects beyond being sharp, light, and thin.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to recommend third Soul Rings for Mu Kongkong and Ye Huang, and Mu Chun agreed to let him lead the hunt.
• Yu Xiaogang, Mu Chun, Mu Kongkong, and Ye Huang entered the Soul Hunting Forest, where Yu Xiaogang said plant Soul Beasts were not the best choice for Mu Kongkong's Ghost King Vine.

Yu Xiaogang argued that Ye Huang should strengthen his Purple Bamboo Leaf Martial Soul with an animal-type Soul Ring, pointing to a Mandala Snake as a suitable example. Ye Huang refused and insisted on absorbing a bamboo Soul Ring, leaving the group to continue searching while excluding him from their conversation.

• Yu Xiaogang presented his Martial Soul Mimicry Theory and claimed an animal-type Soul Ring could improve Ye Huang’s Purple Bamboo Leaf Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang spotted a two-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake and praised its toughness and venom as potential benefits for Ye Huang.
• Ye Huang rejected the Mandala Snake and demanded a Soul Ring from a bamboo Soul Beast instead.
• Mu Chun and Mu Kongkong sided with Yu Xiaogang and urged Ye Huang to accept the animal-type Soul Ring.
• Mu Chun led the group onward, and Ye Huang felt cold-shouldered as the others searched for bamboo Soul Beasts without including him in their conversation.

Mu Kongkong absorbed a Gold Devouring Ant Soul Ring and gained an armor-forming Ghost Vine skill, while Ye Huang continued searching for a suitable bamboo Soul Ring. After a fruitless day, the group urged Ye Huang to choose between a fifteen-hundred-year Purple Bamboo and Lone Bamboo.

• Yu Xiaogang identified a fifteen-hundred-year Gold Devouring Ant as a suitable third Soul Ring for Mu Kongkong, but Ye Huang objected and Mu Kongkong insisted on choosing it.
• Mu Chun trapped and burned the Gold Devouring Ant colony, killing the ants and weakening the chosen ant until Mu Kongkong delivered the final blow.
• Mu Kongkong absorbed the purple Soul Ring and gained Ant Devouring Vine Armor, which strengthened his Ghost King Vine and could form armor on his body.
• The four searched the Soul Hunting Forest for a suitable bamboo-type Soul Beast for Ye Huang but found none of the kinds they wanted.
• Mu Chun suggested Ye Huang absorb a fifteen-hundred-year Purple Bamboo or Lone Bamboo instead.

Ye Huang left Plant Academy after rejecting Yu Xiaogang’s advice and learning that Yu Xiaogang would lead his class and team. Meanwhile, Long Qianming spent two and a half years training in Godwind Grand Canyon and finally attacked the source of a force-four hurricane with his spear.

• Ye Huang refused Yu Xiaogang’s suggestion to absorb an animal-attribute Soul Ring, and the two argued until Mu Chun and Mu Kongkong separated them.
• After learning Yu Xiaogang would become his homeroom teacher and team leader, Ye Huang submitted a withdrawal request and left Plant Academy despite Mu Chun’s efforts to persuade him.
• Long Qianming repeatedly tried to advance against the winds in Godwind Grand Canyon, using his spear to create a windless zone and train his body and spear techniques.
• Over two and a half years, Long Qianming developed the Art of Borrowing Force to Control the Wind and learned to run against the powerful gusts.
• Long Qianming sent his Dragon Pattern Spear into the birthplace of a force-four hurricane, then snapped his fingers and commanded it to explode.

Long Qianming completed three self-created Soul Skills after reaching rank forty, then asked Dugu Bo to help find a rare darkness-and-wood draconic Soul Beast for his fourth Soul Ring. Dugu Bo warned that the creature might only be found in the dangerous Lost Track Grand Canyon, but Long Qianming insisted on going there.

• Long Qianming used his offensive Soul Skill to extinguish a force-four hurricane, then tested his defensive and wind-riding movement skills and declared all three complete.
• Long Qianming told Dugu Bo that he had reached rank forty two months earlier but delayed getting a Soul Ring to finish his techniques.
• Dugu Bo told Long Qianming that Tang Hao was a rank-fifty-four Soul King and a leading contender in the Soul Master Tournament.
• Long Qianming asked Dugu Bo to help him obtain a fourth Soul Ring from an animal-type draconic subspecies Soul Beast with darkness as its primary attribute and wood as its secondary attribute.
• Dugu Bo warned Long Qianming that the Soul Beast might be nearly impossible to find, and Long Qianming chose to search the dangerous Lost Track Grand Canyon.