Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan and Xiao Wuyong claimed the bounty for Ma Xiu’s death, and Xiao Xuan used the reward to plan for his family’s future and search for rare Lone Bamboo. Over the next three years, Xiao Xuan completed three rounds of body refinement and came within one level of Soul Power level twenty.

• Xiao Xuan explained to Xiao Wuyong how he killed Ma Xiu, and his father agreed to claim the credit to protect him.
• Xiao Wuyong brought Ma Xiu’s head to Spirit Hall, where Su Yuntao awarded him five thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Xiao Wuyong gave Xiao Xuan the bounty, and Xiao Xuan planned to invest one thousand Gold Soul Coins in their business and spend five hundred seeking thousand-year Lone Bamboo.
• Xiao Xuan returned to Nuoding Academy after winter break, and three years passed.
• Xiao Xuan synthesized three pieces of Thousand-Year Whale Rubber into supreme-grade Whale Rubber, completed his third round of body refinement, and reached one Soul Power level below twenty.

Xiao Xuan broke through to level 20 Soul Power and traveled to Suotuo City to buy a Hair Crystal before heading to the Star Dou Great Forest for his Second Soul Ring and a synthesis. He left for the forest, while Flender prepared to take Ma Hongjun out to hunt for his Second Soul Ring.

• Xiao Xuan reached level 20 Soul Power and decided to hunt for a thousand-year Power Attack System Soul Beast and find two Thousand-Year Lone Bamboos in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Xuan requested leave from Wang Ping'an, declined his offer to accompany him, and traveled alone to Suotuo City.
• Xiao Xuan recognized Flender in his shop, identified a four-star tabular crystal, and bought it for two hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Xiao Xuan hired a carriage and set out from Suotuo City for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ma Hongjun told Flender that he had reached level 20 Soul Power, and Flender agreed to take him hunting immediately.

Xiao Xuan ventured into the Star Dou Great Forest and harvested two Thousand-Year Lone Bamboos from a remote gorge. He fused them with the Hair Crystal, advancing his Martial Soul to Four-Star Lone Bamboo and gaining the Armor Piercing passive trait.

• Xiao Xuan stocked up on supplies in a town near the Star Dou Great Forest before entering the forest alone.
• Xiao Xuan followed his father's route map to a secluded gorge and found two wild Thousand-Year Lone Bamboos.
• The Lone Bamboos attacked Xiao Xuan, but he cut them down with his Three-Star Lone Bamboo and caught both before their life force faded.
• Xiao Xuan activated Three-in-One Fusion of All Things and fused the bamboos with the Hair Crystal.
• The system upgraded Xiao Xuan's Martial Soul to Four-Star Lone Bamboo and granted it the Armor Piercing passive trait.

After upgrading his Martial Soul, Xiao Xuan searched for a suitable Second Soul Ring and found the Skywater Academy group under attack by three Soul Beasts. He rescued Shui Bing'er from the Space-Rending Moon Wolf and faced the beast as it lunged at him.

• Xiao Xuan completed the four-star upgrade of his Martial Soul and set out to find a Second Soul Ring.
• Xiao Xuan spotted Shui Yuehua, Shui Bing'er, and the Skywater Academy group fighting two armored Soul Beasts and a thirteen- or fourteen-hundred-year-old Space-Rending Moon Wolf.
• Shui Yuehua ordered the students to retreat while Shui Bing'er stayed to help her teacher and fend off the Moon Wolf.
• The Moon Wolf cornered Shui Bing'er and fired a crescent-shaped blade of wind at her.
• Xiao Xuan struck the blade aside with his jade spear and stood between Shui Bing'er and the Moon Wolf.
• The Moon Wolf lunged at Xiao Xuan, who faced it without fear.

Xiao Xuan killed a Space-Rending Moon Wolf and began absorbing its thousand-year Soul Ring while Shui Yuehua and Shui Bing'er guarded him. As the absorption proceeded smoothly, Shui Bing'er recognized Xiao Xuan as a prodigy far beyond her peers.

• Xiao Xuan severed the Space-Rending Moon Wolf's paw, trapped it with his first Soul Skill, and killed it with a spear thrust to its skull.
• Shui Yuehua killed one giant beast, and the surviving Rhinoceros Horn Beast fled after seeing Xiao Xuan defeat the wolf.
• Shui Yuehua checked that Shui Bing'er was unharmed and was shocked to see Xiao Xuan's purple first Soul Ring and his slain thousand-year beast.
• Xiao Xuan asked Shui Yuehua and Shui Bing'er to guard him while he absorbed the Space-Rending Moon Wolf's Soul Ring, and they agreed.
• Xiao Xuan calmly endured the Soul Ring's power as Shui Yuehua watched in astonishment and Shui Bing'er began to feel inadequate beside him.

After breaking through to level twenty-two and gaining his second Soul Skill, Xiao Xuan traveled with Shui Yuehua and Shui Bing'er to a supply town, where Shui Yuehua offered him a recommendation to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Xiao Xuan was pleasantly surprised by the opportunity, though he had not yet accepted it.

• Xiao Xuan broke through to level twenty-two and gained the Space-Rending Half-Moon Slash Soul Skill from his new Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Shui Bing'er introduced herself to Xiao Xuan, and Shui Yuehua urged the group to leave the bloodied area before more Soul Beasts arrived.
• Shui Yuehua hosted a banquet for Xiao Xuan at a supply town, where the Skywater Academy girls watched him with curiosity.
• After the others left, Shui Yuehua asked about Xiao Xuan's plans after graduating from Notting Junior Academy.
• Shui Yuehua offered to write Xiao Xuan a recommendation to Heaven Dou Royal Academy in gratitude for saving Shui Bing'er, and Xiao Xuan reacted with pleasant surprise.

Xiao Xuan accepted Shui Yuehua’s recommendation letter, returned to his quiet routine, and spent two and a half years preparing for his next Martial Soul advancement. As graduation approached, he avoided Tang San and Xiao Wu, intending to wait until they left the area before seeking Ah Yin’s Soul Bone.

• Shui Yuehua gave Xiao Xuan a recommendation letter for Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Shui Bing'er watched him leave with a wish to meet him again.
• Xiao Xuan returned to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy and asked Xiao Wuyong to search for wild lone bamboo at least two thousand years old.
• Xiao Xuan decided to pursue Ah Yin’s hundred-thousand-year right leg bone only after Tang Hao and Tang San had left the Nuoding area.
• Two and a half years later, Xiao Xuan skipped the graduation banquet to avoid drawing attention before he went to Holy Soul Village.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu searched for Xiao Xuan at the banquet, and Tang San said their futures would soon take different paths.

Xiao Xuan found the cave where Ah Yin was hidden, retrieved the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, and confronted Ah Yin about Tang Hao’s intentions. The system then identified Ah Yin’s degenerated remnant body as a five-star auxiliary material, and Xiao Xuan began transplanting it.

• Xiao Xuan waited until Tang San and Xiao Wu had left before heading to Holy Soul Village and searching the mountain for Ah Yin’s hiding place.
• Xiao Xuan found the cave, located the sealed lead box, and took the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, which the system said was too high-ranked for his next synthesis.
• Ah Yin questioned Xiao Xuan, and he challenged her belief that Tang Hao had hidden her away to protect her, pointing out that her decline could benefit Tang San.
• The system detected Ah Yin’s degenerated remnant body as a five-star auxiliary material, and Xiao Xuan began transplanting her.

Xiao Xuan returned to the Star Dou Great Forest to upgrade his Martial Soul using two wild Lone Bamboo stalks and Ah Yin's true body. After defeating the stalks, he completed the fusion and advanced to a Five-Star Lone Bamboo with life and water attributes.

• Xiao Xuan followed his father's map to a wetland in the Star Dou Great Forest, where he found two Lone Bamboo stalks over two thousand years old, including a mutated Water Spirit Bamboo.
• The two Lone Bamboo attacked Xiao Xuan with branches and water streams, but he used his Second Soul Skill, Space-Rending Half-Moon Slash, to break through their defenses and cut them down.
• Xiao Xuan used Three-in-One Fusion of All Things to combine the two Lone Bamboo stalks and Ah Yin's true body with his Martial Soul.
• The fusion advanced Xiao Xuan's Martial Soul to Five-Star Lone Bamboo and gave it life and water attributes.
• Xiao Xuan considered giving his transformed Martial Soul a new name.

Xiao Xuan developed water-element spear techniques that combined offense and defense, then hunted Man Faced Demon Spiders in search of the Eight Spider Lances. After two days without finding a Soul Bone, he was ambushed by four thousand-year spiders and killed three, while their leader fled.

• Xiao Xuan used his water-attribute spear and intermediate techniques to create powerful attacks and defenses, including Water Wheel Circular Guard and Waterfall Slash.
• Xiao Xuan decided to obtain the Eight Spider Lances before Tang San and his companions arrived, then traveled toward the Man Faced Demon Spider territory.
• Xiao Xuan spent two days killing Man Faced Demon Spiders but found no Soul Bone and wondered whether his early arrival had altered the timeline.
• Four thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spiders ambushed Xiao Xuan with poisonous webs, but his Water Wheel Circular Guard shredded the webs and injured the attackers.
• Xiao Xuan killed three spiders with his spear techniques, and the remaining leader fled into the forest.

Xiao Xuan killed the Man Faced Demon Spider and obtained its Eight Spider Lances, then set out for Heaven Dou City. After his hired carriage led him into a bandit ambush, he killed one robber while a Soul Saint guard and Xiao Xuan defeated the others, leaving Ye Lingling astonished by his strength.

• Xiao Xuan killed the two-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider and claimed its Eight Spider Lances, storing the External Soul Bone in his Soul Tool.
• Xiao Xuan hired a coachman to take him to Heaven Dou City, but the coachman diverted onto a forest path to rob him.
• The coachman revealed that he was working with three bandits, who had surrounded a carriage carrying Ye Nishang and Ye Lingling.
• Xiao Xuan killed the coachman with his bamboo spear as a Soul Saint guard from the Nine Heart Begonia Family struck down two of the bandits.
• Xiao Xuan killed the bandit chief when he tried to flee, and Ye Lingling stared at him in shock.

After helping defeat bandits, Xiao Xuan accepted Ye Nishang’s invitation to travel with her and Ye Lingling to Heaven Dou City. Ye Lingling offered to help him enroll at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and meet the academy’s First Team.

• Ye Nishang thanked the guard for his efforts and praised Xiao Xuan for killing a Soul Ancestor.
• Xiao Xuan explained that he came from a commoner family and wielded a beneficially mutated Blue Jade Bamboo Martial Soul.
• Ye Nishang invited Xiao Xuan to ride with her and Ye Lingling to Heaven Dou City, and he accepted.
• Ye Lingling introduced herself to Xiao Xuan and learned that he planned to enroll at Heaven Dou Royal Academy with a recommendation letter from a Skywater Academy mentor.
• Ye Lingling offered to take Xiao Xuan to the Education Committee and introduce him to the First Team when they reached Heaven Dou City.

Xiao Xuan registered at Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Ye Lingling’s help and met her friend Dugu Yan, who challenged him to demonstrate his bamboo spear. The chapter ended with Dugu Yan eager to test the weapon herself over a meal with Xiao Xuan and Ye Lingling.

• Ye Lingling accompanied Xiao Xuan to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and helped him complete his special-admission paperwork.
• Dugu Yan teased Ye Lingling about bringing Xiao Xuan to the academy, then tested Xiao Xuan’s strength with Soul Power and found he could not be moved.
• Dugu Yan joked about dating Xiao Xuan before declaring him her friend and inviting him to lunch.
• Dugu Yan heard about Xiao Xuan’s bamboo spear from Ye Lingling and asked to test it herself, and Xiao Xuan agreed.

Dugu Yan challenged Xiao Xuan to a spar, but his Blue Jade Spear purified her poisonous Soul Skill and revealed its life-giving power. When Xiao Xuan used that power on Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, it began dissolving the hidden poison in Dugu Yan's body.

• Dugu Yan warned Xiao Xuan about her Jade Phosphorous Serpent venom and unleashed her second Soul Skill, Jade Phosphorous Blue Poison.
• Xiao Xuan stayed inside the poisonous mist, and the Blue Jade Spear released emerald life energy that purified it completely.
• Dugu Yan stopped the match and accused Xiao Xuan of having a Martial Soul that countered her venom, then admitted she had only been teasing him.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling noticed the spear's life energy and asked whether it could heal, and Xiao Xuan confirmed that it could both harm and save people.
• Xiao Xuan sent life force into Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan felt it dissolve some of the hidden poison in her body.

Xiao Xuan discovered that his Blue Jade Bamboo’s life energy could affect Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison more effectively than Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia could. He took Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to Dugu Yan’s secluded residence to examine the poison more closely, where he found that his first treatment had dispersed only a tiny trace.

• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling felt powerful reactions when Xiao Xuan used his Blue Jade Bamboo’s life energy, and Dugu Yan said its healing effect surpassed the Nine Heart Begonia’s.
• Ye Lingling realized Xiao Xuan’s life energy might finally cure Dugu Yan’s serpent poison, and Xiao Xuan offered to treat her.
• Dugu Yan excitedly embraced Xiao Xuan until Ye Lingling stopped her and suggested they go somewhere private.
• Dugu Yan brought Xiao Xuan and Ye Lingling to her secluded residence, where Xiao Xuan asked how much poison his energy had neutralized.
• Dugu Yan said the energy had dispersed only a tiny trace of poison, and Xiao Xuan sent more life energy into her body to examine her condition.

Xiao Xuan explained that Dugu Yan needed a stronger physique before he could safely remove the Jade Phosphor Serpent venom embedded in her bone marrow, and recommended thousand-year Whale Rubber. After Dugu Yan swallowed it with Ye Lingling's support, her meridians and bones began transforming, and she hurried off to wash away the filth expelled from her body.

• Xiao Xuan told Dugu Yan that life energy could not fully remove the venom until her physique, meridians, and bones had been strengthened.
• Xiao Xuan recommended Deep Sea Whale Rubber, and Dugu Yan arranged to obtain a piece at least a thousand years old.
• Xiao Xuan melted the Whale Rubber and fed it to Dugu Yan, who struggled with its taste but swallowed it.
• Dugu Yan was overwhelmed by the Whale Rubber's searing energy, so Xiao Xuan restrained her and told her to guide it with Soul Power.
• Ye Lingling used her Nine Heart Begonia to support Dugu Yan as her meridians and bones transformed and impurities seeped from her body.
• Dugu Yan awoke to find herself covered in foul grime and rushed into the bathroom to wash and change.

After Xiao Xuan tempered Dugu Yan’s body and removed more than half of her poison, she asked him to help her grandfather when he returned. On the first day of the new term at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Xiao Xuan found spear manuals in the library and fused them into a perfected advanced spear art with Embryonic Spear Intent.

• Dugu Yan found her meridians and bones strengthened after the Whale Rubber treatment and asked Xiao Xuan to remove more poison.
• Xiao Xuan used his Soul Power to treat Dugu Yan, removing more than half of the poison from her body.
• Dugu Yan asked Xiao Xuan to examine her grandfather’s poisoning, and Xiao Xuan agreed to help.
• Xiao Xuan attended classes on the first day of term at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then went to its library to study combat manuals.
• Xiao Xuan read two intermediate spear arts and the advanced Nine Revolutions Rushing Thunder Spear Art, then fused the manuals into a perfected advanced spear art and Embryonic Spear Intent.

Xiao Xuan spent several days studying martial arts manuals before Dugu Yan took him to meet her grandfather, Dugu Bo. Dugu Yan revealed that Xiao Xuan had come to cure Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphor Poison, leaving the startled Poison Douluo demanding an explanation.

• Xiao Xuan studied spear and staff techniques in the Heaven Dou Academy library and decided to use the Nine Revolutions Rushing Thunder Spear Art as material for a future synthesis.
• Dugu Yan found Xiao Xuan in the library and told him that her grandfather, Dugu Bo, had returned to the city.
• Xiao Xuan left the library with Dugu Yan, and their arm-in-arm walk prompted rumors among the academy students.
• Yu Tianheng heard that Dugu Yan was with a new student and tried to dismiss the gossip as a misunderstanding.
• Dugu Yan brought Xiao Xuan to Dugu Manor, where he formally greeted Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo that Xiao Xuan had come to rid him of his accumulated poison, and Dugu Bo reacted with disbelief.

Dugu Bo confirmed that Xiao Xuan had removed most of the poison from Dugu Yan and asked him to examine his own decades-old affliction. Xiao Xuan found he could not treat Dugu Bo with his current methods, but described a spirit herb that could help; Dugu Bo recognized it in his secluded garden in Sunset Forest and set off with Xiao Xuan and Dugu Yan to find it.

• Dugu Bo checked Dugu Yan and confirmed that most of the poison in her body was gone, then thanked Xiao Xuan and promised to repay him.
• Dugu Yan urged Dugu Bo to let Xiao Xuan examine him, and Xiao Xuan found the poison in Dugu Bo's organs too deep for his current methods to remove.
• Xiao Xuan explained that a spirit herb could protect Dugu Bo's heart meridian and channels while he treated the poison.
• Dugu Bo recognized Xiao Xuan's description and revealed that a matching plant grew beside a spring in his secluded garden in Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Xiao Xuan set off for Sunset Forest.

Xiao Xuan brought Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he identified an Immortal Herb and explained how it could help Dugu Bo turn his serpent poison into a weapon. After giving Dugu Yan the Eight Spider Lances and winning Dugu Bo’s permission to use the valley’s plants, Xiao Xuan approached the spring and spotted two herbs he intended to use.

• Dugu Bo flew Xiao Xuan and Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest.
• Xiao Xuan identified the Aromatic Silk Beauty and explained how a Soul Bone could hold Dugu Bo’s serpent poison without costing him his cultivation.
• Xiao Xuan gave Dugu Yan the Eight Spider Lances, and Dugu Bo accepted them on her behalf and swore friendship with Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan asked to use the valley’s medicinal plants to temper his body, and Dugu Bo gave him free rein over the garden.
• Despite Dugu Bo’s warning about the dangerous spring, Xiao Xuan approached it and found the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.