Chapter Summaries

Tang Feng recovered from his wounds and expelled the poison with medicinal herbs, then Dugu Bo tested his pharmacology by infecting him with Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison. Tang Feng devised a five-element poison treatment and drank the mixture, leaving its effects uncertain.

• Tang Feng used herbs and Soul Power over several weeks to expel the poison, heal his wounds, and raise his Soul Power to level twenty-four.
• Dugu Bo introduced himself as Poison and questioned Tang Feng about his knowledge of pharmacology.
• Dugu Bo gave Tang Feng ten days to neutralize a trace of Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison or remain as fertilizer for his flowers.
• Tang Feng reasoned that a five-element cycle of poisonous herbs could weaken the venom and gathered the ingredients while avoiding the hillside summit.
• Tang Feng ground the four poisonous substances, protected his heart meridians with Clear-Heart Mint Leaf, and swallowed the mixture.

Tang Feng survived Dugu Bo’s innate poison, earned his respect through a debate over poisons and herbs, and realized Dugu Bo was suffering from Martial Soul backlash. After offering him a prescription, Tang Feng was taken to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he saw a spring of opposing waters surrounded by rare immortal herbs.

• Tang Feng spent ten days using five-element poisons to weaken the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison, and Dugu Bo gave him a pill that cleared the remaining poison.
• Tang Feng explained his detoxification method, then debated Dugu Bo about poisonous and medicinal herbs until they became friends over the next half-month.
• While sharing roasted lamb, Tang Feng told Dugu Bo that he suspected he was poisoned, and Dugu Bo revealed his Martial Soul backlash and deadly affliction.
• Tang Feng gave Dugu Bo a prescription that he said could prevent the poison from worsening, though it could not cure him completely.
• Dugu Bo carried Tang Feng to the mountain hollow and showed him the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its many immortal-grade herbs.

Tang Feng offered Dugu Bo two ways to remove the poison in his body, and Dugu Bo chose a treatment that would preserve his poison cultivation. Tang Feng began refining himself in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well so his blood could later be used to make the medicine.

• Tang Feng entered Dugu Bo’s herb garden and promised he could relieve Dugu Bo’s poison and possibly help him break through his cultivation bottleneck.
• Tang Feng explained that taking the infernal delicate apricot and octagonal mysterious ice grass himself would let him make detoxifying pills and medicinal baths for Dugu Bo without sacrificing Dugu Bo’s cultivation.
• Dugu Bo accepted Tang Feng’s plan, and Tang Feng recorded the formulas and asked Dugu Bo to prepare the ingredients while he refined his body.
• Dugu Bo harvested the two immortal herbs with the implements Tang Feng specified, and Tang Feng swallowed them before leaping into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang Feng endured the opposing heat and cold as the spring and herbs repeatedly tore apart and rebuilt his meridians.

Tang Feng completed his ice-and-fire body tempering at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, gained a powerful physique, and helped Dugu Bo cleanse the poison that had plagued him for decades. After a year and a half of cultivation, Tang Feng reached level twenty-eight and mastered eighty-one strikes of the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer; he then chose a Primordial Immortal Herb to raise his Soul Power, but planned to help Dugu Bo improve first.

• Tang Feng emerged from the spring with an ice-and-fire golden body, widened meridians, resistance to poison and extreme temperatures, and a Clear Sky Hammer imbued with ice-and-fire power.
• Tang Feng gave Dugu Bo two hundred drops of his blood and antidote pills, and Dugu Bo confirmed that the treatment was dissolving his accumulated poison.
• Tang Feng and Dugu Bo cultivated at the valley for a year, with Tang Feng raising his Soul Power to level twenty-six while Dugu Bo gradually expelled the poison from his body.
• Tang Feng mastered all eighty-one strikes of the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and broke through to level twenty-eight shortly before turning twelve.
• Dugu Bo finished clearing the toxins from his body and reached the peak of level ninety-two, while Tang Feng identified the Primordial Immortal Herb as his next choice and said he would help Dugu Bo improve first.

Tang Feng gave Dugu Bo two Dragon Snake Fruits and harvested the valley’s immortal herbs before consuming the Primordial Immortal Herb. Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul evolved into the Jade Phosphorus Poison Dragon and his Soul Power rose to the peak of rank ninety-three, while Tang Feng’s own cultivation surged past the rank-thirty bottleneck.

• Tang Feng explained that the Dragon Snake Fruits could strengthen Dugu Bo and his granddaughter, eliminate the danger of poison backlash, and potentially evolve their Martial Souls.
• Dugu Bo offered Tang Feng his granddaughter’s hand in marriage, but Tang Feng declined, citing his age, wish to cultivate, and Clear Sky Sect identity; Dugu Bo gave him the Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse and permission to take herbs.
• Tang Feng carefully harvested more than twenty immortal herbs and other valuable medicinal plants, preserving their roots and medicinal properties.
• Tang Feng consumed the Primordial Immortal Herb, which fused the ice and fire powers within him and broke his rank-thirty bottleneck despite his lack of a Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo absorbed a Dragon Snake Fruit, evolving his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor into the Jade Phosphorus Poison Dragon and advancing from rank ninety-two to the peak of rank ninety-three.

Tang Feng and Dugu Bo left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after Dugu Bo gained immense benefits from two Immortal Herbs, then traveled into Sunset Forest to find a fire-attribute strength-type Soul Beast for Tang Feng. Tang Feng began fighting a roughly 5,500-year-old Lava Berserk Bear in Molten Fire Valley, but the battle left him badly strained while the bear remained powerful.

• Dugu Bo gained strength and vitality from the Dragon Snake Fruit, then received the Blood Swan Kiss from Tang Feng to amplify his poison.
• The next morning, Tang Feng and Dugu Bo left the valley and searched Sunset Forest for a suitable Soul Beast for Tang Feng's Clear Sky Hammer.
• Dugu Bo led Tang Feng to Molten Fire Valley, where they found a roughly 5,500-year-old Lava Berserk Bear.
• Tang Feng attacked the bear with his first two Soul Skills and the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, but its lava-tempered hide and strength blunted his blows.
• After an hour of fighting, Tang Feng unleashed the fifty-fifth strike against the bear's compressed lava bomb, yet the bear survived with only scorched wounds.

Tang Feng defeated the Lava Berserk Bear with Dugu Bo’s help, absorbed its Soul Ring, and gained the Lava Purgatory Hammer skill, reaching level thirty-six. He and Dugu Bo set out for Heaven Dou City so Tang Feng could contact his sect and visit his maternal grandfather, and there Tang Feng met Dugu Yan.

• Dugu Bo paralyzed the Lava Berserk Bear with his poison, and Tang Feng delivered the final blow and killed it.
• Tang Feng absorbed the bear’s five-thousand-five-hundred-year Soul Ring, reached level thirty-six, and gained the Lava Purgatory Hammer skill.
• Tang Feng told Dugu Bo he wanted to contact his sect and visit his maternal grandfather, Yang Wudi, at the Breaking Clan’s residence.
• Dugu Bo agreed to escort Tang Feng, and they traveled to Heaven Dou City and arrived at Dugu Manor.
• Dugu Bo introduced Tang Feng to his granddaughter, Dugu Yan, who thanked him for helping cure her and Dugu Bo’s poison.

Tang Feng toured Heaven Dou City with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, then recognized the hidden value of a whale rubber lot at the Heaven Dou Auction House. The three left after the auction, and Tang Feng asked Dugu Bo to help him get a weapon forged so he could fight without revealing his Martial Soul.

• Dugu Bo took Tang Feng and Dugu Yan around Heaven Dou City, where Tang Feng marveled at the bustling streets and the lavish Heaven Dou Auction House.
• At the auction, Tang Feng ignored several lots until he examined the ten-thousand-year whale rubber and deduced that it could strengthen sinews and bones when properly treated.
• Dugu Bo won the whale rubber for five thousand Gold Soul Coins and handed it to Tang Feng, who studied it closely.
• After the auction, Dugu Yan paid for a meal at a Soul Beast meat barbecue restaurant, and Tang Feng spotted an old-fashioned smithy on the way out.
• Tang Feng asked Dugu Bo to help him have a weapon forged so he could fight without revealing his Martial Soul, and Dugu Bo agreed it was sensible.

Tang Feng commissioned a custom staff, sent word to his family that he was safe, and planned to visit his maternal grandfather, Yang Wudi. Back at Dugu Manor, he tested Whale Rubber, discovered how it could strengthen the body, and began preparing it for Dugu Yan.

• Tang Feng commissioned a three-hundred-jin Ruyi Jingu Bang and accepted Dugu Bo’s amethyst card to pay the deposit.
• Tang Feng met his aunt Tang Yuehua at Moonlight Pavilion, gave her a letter for his grandfather, and said he planned to visit Yang Wudi.
• Tang Feng tested increasing doses of Whale Rubber on five Soft Bone Rabbits and determined that three grains of rice were their safe limit.
• Tang Feng swallowed a fist-sized dose of Whale Rubber and refined it in an ice bath, expelling impurities and strengthening his body.
• Dugu Bo examined Tang Feng and concluded that Whale Rubber could improve Soul Masters’ constitutions and raise their Soul Ring absorption limits.
• Dugu Bo planned to give Dugu Yan thousand-year Whale Rubber after her Martial Soul evolved into the Jade Qilin Poison Dragon and her Soul Power rose to level thirty-seven.

Tang Feng gathered whale rubber and sent his aunt Tang Yuehua back to the Clear Sky Sect with his findings and supplies. After setting out for the Star Luo Empire with Dugu Bo, Tang Feng’s survival and research reached the sect, where the elders received his delivery.

• Tang Feng and Dugu Bo bought up the whale rubber in Heaven Dou City and divided their large stock between them.
• Tang Feng gave Tang Yuehua a ring of whale rubber and a letter explaining how it could improve Soul Masters’ constitutions and cultivation, and she agreed to deliver them to the Clear Sky Sect herself.
• Tang Feng collected his custom-made Ruyi Jingu Bang and paid the smith for the weapon.
• Tang Feng and Dugu Bo departed for the Star Luo Empire after Dugu Bo said goodbye to Dugu Yan.
• Tang Yuehua reached the Clear Sky Sect, where Tang Xiao learned that Tang Feng was alive and had become a Soul Elder, then called the five elders to an urgent meeting.
• Tang Yuehua gave Tang Lie the ring and letter Tang Feng had entrusted to her, telling him that their contents were vital to the sect.

Tang Feng’s whale rubber strengthened the Clear Sky Sect’s disciples and elders, while he and Dugu Bo traveled toward Longxing City. On the journey, Tang Feng devised three early forms for a staff technique and reached the Breaking Clan’s city.

• Tang Lie delivered Tang Feng’s letter and whale rubber to Tang Xiao, who ordered the sect’s core disciples to gather and use it.
• The core disciples improved their constitutions and foundations, and several broke through their Soul Ancestor bottlenecks; Tang Xiao’s group rewarded Tang Feng with a thirty-thousand-year strength-type Soul Bone.
• Tang Xiao distributed ten-thousand-year whale glue among himself, the five elders, and four Soul Douluo disciples, and Tang Lie advanced from rank eighty-eight to rank eighty-nine.
• Tang Feng and Dugu Bo traveled through the Balak Kingdom toward Longxing City, stopping to rest in Suotuo City.
• While resting at the hotel, Tang Feng developed rough concepts for the staff forms Thousandfold Waves, Break Formation, and Protect Mountains and Rivers.
• Ten days later, Tang Feng and Dugu Bo reached Longxing City, where Tang Feng learned the Breaking Clan’s location.

Tang Feng reunited with his grandfather Yang Wudi at the Breaking Clan estate after ten years apart, while Dugu Bo befriended Yang Wudi before leaving to settle an old score. Tang Feng gave Yang Wudi an aromatic silk beauty and began presenting him with a second immortal herb, the ink jade divine bamboo.

• Tang Feng and Dugu Bo arrived at the Breaking Clan estate, and Yang Wudi recognized Tang Feng by the dragon-patterned pendant and welcomed his grandson home.
• Tang Feng told Yang Wudi about his experiences over the past ten years, including how Dugu Bo had saved him from Spirit Hall.
• Dugu Bo and Yang Wudi bonded over poison, medicines, and pill refinement during five days of conversation and feasting.
• Dugu Bo left for Spirit City to settle an old score, then planned to return to Heaven Dou City to see Yanyan.
• Tang Feng presented Yang Wudi with an aromatic silk beauty, which moved Yang Wudi to tears.
• Tang Feng revealed a length of ink jade divine bamboo and asked Yang Wudi if he recognized the immortal herb.

Tang Feng gave Yang Wudi the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo, helping him transform his Soul Breaking Spear and break through his cultivation bottleneck. Yang Wudi then began secretly using whale rubber to strengthen the Breaking Clan’s elites.

• Yang Wudi recognized the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo, and Tang Feng urged him to consume it and guarded him as he refined it.
• After an hour, Yang Wudi’s Soul Breaking Spear had transformed, his Soul Power rose three levels to level eighty-four, and he believed he could become a Titled Douluo within five years.
• Tang Feng and Yang Wudi vowed to avenge their family against Spirit Hall, then Tang Feng explained whale rubber’s body-tempering effects and urged secrecy.
• Yang Wudi gathered twenty Breaking Clan elites, gave them whale rubber, and instructed them to melt it, swallow it, and refine its effects in ice barrels.
• The elites consumed the whale rubber, and its fierce medicinal power began flushing impurities from their bodies.

Over the year Tang Feng trained with the Breaking Clan, developed his staff techniques, and reached level forty. After using Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to greatly strengthen his mental power, he planned to obtain his Fourth Soul Ring and train in the Star Dou Great Forest, while postponing his attempt to reconcile the clans with the Clear Sky Sect.

• Tang Feng spent a year refining his staff techniques, sparring with the Breaking Clan’s disciples, cultivating Soul Power, and learning pill refinement from Yang Wudi.
• Tang Feng reached level forty and considered choosing a Fourth Soul Ring that could help compensate for his weakness in speed.
• Tang Feng used Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to expand his Sea of Consciousness and strengthen his mental power enough to withstand the impact of a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Tang Feng decided to skip the Four Single-Attribute Clans’ upcoming gathering and attend their next gathering in Heaven Dou City after gaining more strength and influence.
• Tang Feng told Yang Wudi he had reached level forty and asked him to help obtain his Fourth Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang Feng asked to remain in the forest afterward and train alone against Soul Beasts, leaving Yang Wudi torn between concern for his safety and support for his growth.

Tang Feng trained in Star Dou Great Forest, fighting Soul Beasts and learning that he needed greater speed to handle agile opponents. After a month, he and Yang Wudi found a ten-thousand-year Scarlet Flame Pterosaur in the volcanic belt.

• Tang Feng left the Breaking Clan estate with Yang Wudi and entered Star Dou Great Forest to train on its outskirts.
• Tang Feng killed a two-thousand-year Crocodile-Toothed Beast using his Golden Cudgel and the Thousandfold Waves technique.
• A three-thousand-year Wind Shadow Leopard wounded Tang Feng before escaping, leading him to resolve to find a Soul Ring that could improve his speed.
• Tang Feng spent a month fighting Soul Beasts and honing his survival and combat skills alongside Yang Wudi.
• Tang Feng detected a powerful Soul Beast in the volcanic belt, and he and Yang Wudi hid as a ten-thousand-year Scarlet Flame Pterosaur descended from the clouds.

Tang Feng and Yang Wudi killed a twelve-thousand-year-old Scarlet Flame Pterosaur, and Tang Feng absorbed its Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. The beast also gave him an External Soul Bone in the form of dragon wings, leaving Yang Wudi asking whether Tang Feng felt any discomfort.

• Yang Wudi fought the Scarlet Flame Pterosaur and shattered its left wing with his eighth Soul Skill, Annihilation.
• Tang Feng struck the pinned Scarlet Flame Pterosaur between the brows with his Clear Sky Hammer, killing it.
• Tang Feng absorbed the Scarlet Flame Pterosaur's Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and overcame its remnant soul in his Sea of Consciousness.
• A scarlet-gold light burst from the beast's remains and forced a pair of dragon wings to grow from Tang Feng's back.
• Tang Feng discovered that he could use and retract the wings, and Yang Wudi asked whether he felt any discomfort.

Tang Feng learned the powers of his Flame Dragon Wings and Flame Dragon Soul-Chasing Break, then parted from Yang Wudi to begin training in the Star Dou Great Forest. He found a hidden cave behind a waterfall and settled there as his new base.

• Tang Feng explained that the Flame Dragon Wings boosted his attributes and speed, while Yang Wudi warned him to keep the rare External Soul Bone secret.
• Tang Feng described his ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Skill, Flame Dragon Soul-Chasing Break, and Yang Wudi recognized its tracking attack and burning effects from their earlier battle.
• Tang Feng told Yang Wudi he planned to train in the forest before returning to the Clear Sky Sect, and Yang Wudi urged him to stay cautious and send word when safe.
• After Yang Wudi left, Tang Feng searched the Star Dou Great Forest and, three days later, found a waterfall with a concealed rock ledge suitable for a hideout.
• Tang Feng carved a chamber behind the waterfall, laid medicinal powder around it, and began using it as his home and training base.

Tang Feng defeated a sixteen-thousand-year Ghost Shadow Leopard and found its left leg Soul Bone, but stored it because its darkness and speed attributes did not suit him. Later, he secretly followed an injured Canghui old man with a Head Soul Bone and approached him as he tried to recover.

• Tang Feng lured the Ghost Shadow Leopard into attacking and killed it with his Fourth Soul Skill and Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Feng discovered a Ghost Shadow Leopard Left Leg Bone, judged that it did not match his attributes, and stored it without absorbing it.
• Tang Feng spotted a Canghui old man fighting a twenty-five-thousand-year unicorn and saw him use a Head Soul Bone Skill to escape.
• Tang Feng followed the exhausted old man and offered help after he stopped beneath a tree to recover.

Tang Feng killed Shi Nian and took his illusion skull bone, then reflected on a year of dangerous training in the Star Dou Great Forest and his plans concerning Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the future Shrek Seven Devils. He remained focused on growing stronger and deciding whether to recruit or oppose them.

• Tang Feng shattered Shi Nian's Nightmare Abyss illusion, killed him with the Ruyi Jingu Bang, and took his illusion skull bone.
• Tang Feng recounted his year of training in the Star Dou Great Forest, during which he fought over two hundred battles, gained two other Soul Bones, and advanced to the peak of rank forty-six.
• Tang Feng completed the second form of his Sea-Calming Staff Technique, developed the third form, and reflected on how battle had strengthened his Soul Power and combat instincts.
• Tang Feng considered whether to ally with or eliminate the future Shrek Seven Devils, while weighing the benefits and consequences of capturing Xiao Wu for his grandfather's ninth Soul Ring.

Tang Feng rescued the wounded Zhu Zhuqing from three clan pursuers and sheltered her in his cave behind a waterfall while she recovered. After her injuries healed and Tang Feng reached level forty-eight, he decided it was time to leave.

• Zhu Zhuqing fled three Zhu clan Soul Masters, but they cornered and wounded her before Tang Feng intervened.
• Tang Feng killed the Soul Ancestor and both Soul Elders, then carried the unconscious Zhu Zhuqing to his cave and treated her wounds.
• Zhu Zhuqing woke two days later, thanked Tang Feng, and stayed in the cave to recover while he continued training.
• Zhu Zhuqing introduced herself after her injuries had mostly healed and learned that the cave was behind a waterfall in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Half a month later, Zhu Zhuqing had fully recovered and Tang Feng reached level forty-eight, then said it was time to leave.