Chapter Summaries

Yang Podi and Yang Zhentian traveled to Star Dou Great Forest to find a suitable soul beast and entered its dangerous mixed region. During their first night there, Yang Podi fell into a horrifying vision of the Breaking Clan being annihilated, then woke the next day after Yang Zhentian carried him away.

• After failing to find a suitable soul beast in Sunset Forest, Yang Podi and Yang Zhentian traveled to Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yang Zhentian warned Yang Podi about the forest's dangers and guided him through its outer region into the mixed region.
• The two camped without a tent, and Yang Podi noticed that the forest had grown unusually quiet during the night.
• Yang Podi was trapped in visions of his past and of Spirit Hall attacking the Breaking Clan, until a Soul Breaking Spear shattered the illusion.
• Yang Podi spat blood and fainted, and Yang Zhentian carried him away; Yang Podi woke at noon the next day in pain and with his mental state badly shaken.

After recovering from the Silver Moon Fox’s spiritual attack, Yang Podi reflected on his lack of experience and discussed the strengths and limitations of the Soul Breaking Spear with Yang Zhentian. They resumed searching the Star Dou Great Forest, but Yang Podi reluctantly passed up a powerful Iron Armored Thorn Dragon that was too old to absorb.

• Yang Zhentian explained that the ten-thousand-year Silver Moon Fox had trapped Yang Podi in an illusion with its powerful spiritual energy and warned him about dangers in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yang Zhentian told Yang Podi that surviving the spiritual attack could strengthen his spiritual power and teach him to respond better to danger, and Yang Podi treated his injuries with spirit herbs.
• Yang Podi asked why the Breaking Clan lacked area-of-effect Soul Skills, and Yang Zhentian compared the Soul Breaking Spear with the lighter Seven Kill Sword and explained the trade-offs between group and single-target attacks.
• After resting for two hours, Yang Podi and Yang Zhentian searched the mixed zone and encountered several suitable strength-type Soul Beasts, including a sixteen-thousand-year Iron Armored Thorn Dragon.
• Yang Podi wanted to follow the Iron Armored Thorn Dragon in hopes of finding a younger one, but Yang Zhentian decided they should search elsewhere, and Yang Podi reluctantly left it behind.

Yang Podi and Yang Zhentian discovered a fierce battle between a Great Strength Vajra Bear and a twelve-thousand-year-old Iron-Feathered Tiger Eagle, and Yang Podi decided he wanted the eagle for his fourth Soul Ring. Yang Zhentian wounded the eagle to mark it, then left with his son while the forty-thousand-year-old bear remained nearby.

• Yang Podi and Yang Zhentian followed the roars of a Great Strength Vajra Bear and an Iron-Feathered Tiger Eagle through the forest.
• Yang Zhentian estimated the Iron-Feathered Tiger Eagle was about twelve thousand years old, and Yang Podi insisted on making it his fourth Soul Ring.
• Yang Zhentian warned Yang Podi that the eagle was too powerful for him, but agreed to track it after Yang Podi promised he could absorb it in two days.
• As the Great Strength Vajra Bear fled and the Iron-Feathered Tiger Eagle pursued it, Yang Zhentian hid along their route and ambushed the eagle with his Soul Breaking Spear.
• Yang Zhentian pierced the Iron-Feathered Tiger Eagle's left shoulder, but it escaped into the sky, and he left the area with Yang Podi.

Yang Podi consumed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to strengthen his body and improve his Soul Breaking Spear Martial Soul, preparing himself to withstand a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. He planned to cultivate for ten days before taking the Gazing Through Autumn Waters Dew, while Yang Zhentian warned him against rushing.

• Yang Zhentian assured Yang Podi that the Iron-Feathered Tiger Eagle could be tracked and that the nearby area was safe.
• Yang Podi took the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum from his pocket-watch Soul Tool and consumed it before cultivating for about five hours.
• Yang Podi's body grew stronger, and Yang Zhentian explained that the improved quality of his Soul Breaking Spear raised his cultivation limit.
• Yang Podi noticed faint signs of a second awakening in his Body Martial Soul, but his Martial Soul had not awakened a second time.
• Yang Zhentian cautioned that Yang Podi still needed to overcome soul shock before absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Yang Podi said he would digest the chrysanthemum's effects for ten days before consuming the Gazing Through Autumn Waters Dew, knowing he had little time to prepare for the future.

Yang Podi absorbed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, greatly strengthening his body and spiritual power. He tested his new spiritual attack on Yang Zhentian, whose defense stopped it without harm.

• Yang Podi spent sixteen days absorbing the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, bringing his body’s tolerance close to rank 60.
• Yang Podi consumed Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and gained sharper perception and silver eyes that could sense Soul Power and see details clearly.
• Yang Podi examined his Body Martial Soul and noticed its silver eyes looked mismatched with its body, though the Martial Soul had also grown stronger.
• Yang Zhentian judged Yang Podi’s spiritual power to have surpassed Soul King level, and the two agreed to test its strength.
• Yang Podi released two spiritual spear gleams from his eyes, but Yang Zhentian’s invisible defense stopped them and they dissipated.

Yang Podi and Yang Zhentian tracked the injured Iron-Feathered Tiger Eagle with a Person-Seeking Bee while discussing how to hide from trackers. After waiting near its mountain nest for a day and a half, they saw the nearly healed eagle return.

• Yang Zhentian praised Yang Podi’s mental attack as peak Soul King strength and agreed that Yang Podi could likely absorb a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Yang Zhentian revealed he had bought a living-storage Soul Tool for 1.1 million Gold Soul Coins, and Yang Podi suspected he had used the coins Yang Podi had lost.
• Yang Zhentian released a Person-Seeking Bee with the Iron-Feathered Tiger Eagle’s scent, and he and Yang Podi followed it toward a mountain.
• Yang Zhentian explained that Aura-Concealing Grass, powerful presences, scarlet fire stones, or a Soul Beast corpse could help evade tracking.
• Yang Zhentian and Yang Podi hid near the summit for a day and a half, then watched the badly injured Iron-Feathered Tiger Eagle return almost fully healed.

Yang Zhentian ambushed and killed a twelve-thousand-year-old Iron-Feathered Tiger Eagle so Yang Podi could attempt to absorb its Soul Ring. Yang Podi survived the difficult absorption and gained an External Soul Bone, the Tiger Eagle Wings.

• Yang Zhentian explained that noon was the best time to attack the Iron-Feathered Tiger Eagle and waited until it slept in its nest.
• Yang Zhentian wounded the Iron-Feathered Tiger Eagle with his Soul Breaking Spear and killed it before it could escape or self-destruct.
• Yang Podi killed the dying Iron-Feathered Tiger Eagle and began absorbing its black Soul Ring despite the danger of its twelve-thousand-year age.
• Yang Podi endured the Soul Ring’s pressure, overcame the Iron-Feathered Tiger Eagle phantom in his mind, and completed the seven-hour absorption.
• Yang Podi’s back split open, revealing the External Soul Bone known as the Tiger Eagle Wings.

After absorbing his ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring and Tiger Eagle Wings, Yang Podi tested his new abilities and practiced flying under Yang Zhentian’s supervision. He left the Star Dou Great Forest at rank forty-five with a powerful new attack and a valuable External Soul Bone.

• Yang Podi revealed his Tiger Eagle Wings, and Yang Zhentian recognized them as a rare, high-quality External Soul Bone.
• Yang Podi explained and demonstrated his fourth Soul Skill, Tiger's Roar Breaks a Thousand Armies, which locked onto targets and launched boosted Soul Breaking Spears.
• Yang Podi showed that he could summon two spears at once and combine the skill with other Soul Skills; he also reported reaching rank forty-five.
• Yang Podi described the wings’ flight and speed-boosting abilities, and Yang Zhentian warned him to keep them secret.
• Yang Podi practiced flying for three days while Yang Zhentian watched over him, then they left the Star Dou Great Forest and returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Yang Podi confessed his feelings to Ye Lingling and revealed that two immortal herbs could cure the flaw in her Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul. Ye Lingling found hope in the Breaking Clan’s inherited book, while Yang Podi urged her to keep the herbs’ existence secret as he planned to find them.

• Yang Podi returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and reunited with his companions, then visited Ye Lingling’s dorm that evening.
• Dugu Yan teased Yang Podi before leaving him alone with Ye Lingling.
• Yang Podi confessed that he had liked Ye Lingling for a long time, but she said their clans and her duty to carry on the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul made a relationship seem impossible.
• Yang Podi explained that Aromatic Silk Beauty and Lovesick Heartbreak Red could cure the flaw in Ye Lingling’s Martial Soul.
• Yang Podi showed Ye Lingling the Breaking Clan’s inherited book, and she was moved by its illustrations and regained hope.
• Yang Podi asked Ye Lingling not to tell anyone about the herbs, warning that revealing their existence could put her and her clan in danger.

Yang Podi rejected Chen Jinshui’s invitation to join the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team and later met Xue Qinghe, who sought the Breaking Clan’s service. Yang Podi agreed only if Xue Qinghe became emperor, leaving him unsure whether Xue Qinghe’s warning about future danger was advice or a threat.

• Chen Jinshui invited Yang Podi to join the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team as a substitute, but Yang refused.
• When Chen Jinshui threatened to force him onto the team, Yang Podi restrained him with one hand and made him leave.
• Xue Qinghe met Yang Podi alone by the academy lake and asked him to serve him.
• Yang Podi said the Breaking Clan would cooperate only if Xue Qinghe became emperor and treated the clan like brothers.
• Yang Podi teased Xue Qinghe about needing treatment and an heir, prompting Xue Qinghe to leave in embarrassment.
• Yang Podi wondered whether Xue Qinghe’s warning about the Breaking Clan’s future was a reminder or a threat.

After returning to the academy, Yang Podi found that Ning Rongrong had started a rumor that he was secretly in love with Ye Lingling. When he confronted her, he pulled Ye Lingling into his arms, leaving everyone stunned.

• Xue Qinghe assessed Yang Podi's strength and talent with Snake Lance Douluo and decided he wanted to recruit him despite the Breaking Clan's history with Spirit Hall.
• Ning Rongrong teased Yang Podi about acting warmer toward Ye Lingling and demanded he accept her as part of the academy team.
• The next day, the team treated Yang Podi strangely, and Yang Ping'an told him Ning Rongrong had spread a rumor that he loved Ye Lingling but was afraid to confess.
• Yang Podi confronted Ning Rongrong, who defended the rumor by pointing out that he had been away for over a month and seemed to fit her claims.
• Yang Podi pulled Ye Lingling into his arms in front of Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan, stunning them.

Yang Podi declared his love for Ye Lingling, confronted Ning Rongrong, and sealed their relationship with a kiss by the lake. Back at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi restrained Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo from retaliating and chose to watch as the Four Single-Attribute Clans grew stronger.

• Yang Podi embraced Ye Lingling in public, told her he had been away to hunt for a Soul Ring, and promised not to leave her again.
• Yang Podi warned Ning Rongrong not to spread rumors or disrupt his team's training, then left with Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan.
• By the academy lake, Yang Podi held Ye Lingling's hand, removed her veil, and kissed her.
• Ning Rongrong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and complained to Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo that Yang Podi had bullied her.
• Ning Fengzhi showed Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo a letter describing Ning Rongrong's actions, and they abandoned their plans to confront Yang Podi.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed that Niu Gao had reached rank 89 and Yang Wudi rank 88, and decided the sect should let Spirit Hall worry about the clans' potential breakthroughs.

Yang Podi gave the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team a break to watch the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament, then urged them to train toward winning the next one. As the tournament continued, he and Ye Lingling grew closer, and he bought two valuable Storage Soul Tools at auction.

• Yang Podi reached level forty-eight, while his teammates made progress and Niu Gao broke through to become a Titled Douluo.
• Yang Podi chose not to enter the tournament with his team and instead let them watch the Heaven Dou region qualifiers.
• The qualifiers ended with Skywater, Thunder, Godwind, Blazing Fire, and Elephant Armor Academies taking the top five places, while the Second Team ranked far down.
• Yang Podi told his teammates that future champions would need Soul Ancestors or stronger and urged each of them to reach at least level forty-three before the next tournament.
• Yang Podi and Ye Lingling went shopping together throughout the tournament, and he bought two Storage Soul Tools for over a million Gold Soul Coins.

Yang Podi explained whale rubber’s benefits to Ye Lingling, helped her consume a ten-thousand-year piece, and arranged custom weapons while she recovered. After the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team’s tournament defeat, the academy began rebuilding its team under Qin Ming.

• Yang Podi explained whale rubber’s effects to Ye Lingling and revealed that his fourth soul ring was ten thousand years old.
• Yang Podi melted ten-thousand-year whale rubber for Ye Lingling, who consumed it and woke the next day with improved physical strength and rank thirty-three soul power.
• Yang Podi advised Ye Lingling to keep whale rubber’s benefits secret and promised to prepare some for his companions.
• Yang Podi commissioned a Soul Breaking Spear and a sword from the Strength Clan, then continued cultivating at the academy.
• The Heaven Dou Royal Academy team was eliminated in the second round while the Star Luo Royal Team won the tournament, prompting Xue Ye to put Xue Qinghe in charge of the academy.
• The education committee chose Qin Ming to lead the rebuilt Heaven Dou Royal Academy team.

Yang Podi challenged Qin Ming’s attempt to recruit members from his second team, arguing that his training had greatly improved them and that they were committed to competing together. The commissioners confirmed the second team would remain intact, while Qin Ming accepted that he would need to recruit elsewhere.

• Meng Shenji introduced Qin Ming as the first team’s teacher and Yu Tianheng as its captain, then explained that they wanted to recruit members from Yang Podi’s second team.
• Yang Podi objected, citing his agreement with the Crown Prince to lead the second team and his goal of winning the tournament five years later.
• Yang Podi listed his students’ Soul Power ranks and said he expected them to become Soul Ancestors, while he would reach the Soul King realm by the tournament.
• Qin Ming and Yu Tianheng were astonished by the team’s rapid progress, and Yang Podi insisted the members would not leave his team.
• Meng Shenji suggested that Qin Ming recruit from the academy’s other eligible students and assured Yang Podi that the second team’s membership would not change.

Qin Ming failed to recruit students from Yang Podi’s team, while Yang Podi’s members reaffirmed their loyalty and committed to winning the next Soul Master Tournament. Qin Ming formed the Heaven Dou Royal Academy First Team from talented students, and Yang Podi’s relationship with Ye Lingling continued to grow closer.

• Qin Ming asked the education committee to let him recruit Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, but Meng Shenji and the other committee members doubted either would leave Yang Podi’s team.
• Yang Podi’s private medicinal formulas and ingredients from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well remained secret parts of his students’ training.
• Yang Podi gathered his six teammates and told them that the First Team had tried to poach members; Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Yang Ping'an, and the others all declared they would stay.
• Yang Podi forbade the team from withdrawing and set winning the next Soul Master Tournament as their goal, hoping the victory would help the Four Single-Attribute Clans rise.
• Qin Ming assembled the Heaven Dou Royal Academy First Team from students including Yu Tianheng, Osler, Shi Mo, Yu Feng, an Azure Vine Soul Master, and a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Master.
• Yang Podi and Ye Lingling grew increasingly close, and Ye Lingling became more cheerful and took more initiative with him.

Yang Podi visited Ye Lingling’s family and met her grandfather, Ye Renxin, the patriarch of the Nine Heart Begonia Clan. After Yang Podi promised to find the immortal herbs that could cure Lingling’s Martial Soul, Ye Renxin fell silent.

• Ye Lingling told Yang Podi that her grandfather wanted to meet him, and Yang Podi agreed to visit her family during the break.
• Yang Podi prepared a Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng King as a gift and traveled with Ye Lingling to the Nine Heart Begonia Clan compound.
• Ye Lingling introduced Yang Podi to her grandfather, Ye Renxin, and the two men discussed their families’ medical knowledge.
• Ye Renxin asked whether Yang Podi sincerely wanted to be with Ye Lingling and whether he knew about the Nine Heart Begonia Clan’s curse.
• Yang Podi promised to find Lovesick Heartbreak Red and Beautiful Silk Tulip to cure Lingling’s Martial Soul and assured Ye Renxin he would keep her safe.

Yang Podi visited Ye Lingling’s family, then returned to the Breaking Clan after reaching rank fifty to discuss obtaining his Fifth Soul Ring. He learned that both his grandfather and second grandfather had become Titled Douluos, leaving the clan worried that their sudden rise in strength would draw hostile attention, and he offered to share an idea with them.

• Ye Renxin accepted Yang Podi’s Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng King to keep for Ye Lingling, and Yang Podi later left the Ye residence with her.
• Yang Podi continued cultivating and broke through to rank fifty shortly before turning fourteen and a half.
• Yang Podi returned to the Breaking Clan and told Yang Zhentian that he had reached rank fifty and needed to discuss his Fifth Soul Ring.
• Yang Zhentian revealed that Yang Podi’s grandfather had become a Titled Douluo a month and a half earlier and his second grandfather had just broken through as well.
• Yang Zhentian explained that the clan was keeping a low profile because other powers and Spirit Hall might fear or target it if its two new Titled Douluos became known.
• Yang Podi said he had an idea, and Yang Zhentian told him to wait until they could discuss it with both grandfathers.

In the Breaking Clan’s secret chamber, Yang Podi proposed ways for Yang Wushuang to hide his newly revealed Titled Douluo strength, then urged his family to consider hunting a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast. The discussion ended with Yang Podi handing over his Blood Swan Kiss to his medicine-obsessed grandfathers, while realizing Yang Zhentian had helped set him up.

• Yang Podi suggested that Yang Wushuang fake his death and hide at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, in another faction’s secret grounds, or overseas.
• Yang Wushuang chose to hide at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Yang Wudi explained why Yang Zhentian and his wife could keep their strength undiscovered by staying low-profile.
• Yang Podi asked whether Yang Wudi and Yang Wushuang would hunt the Titan Giant Python, but Yang Zhentian said they lacked the physique to absorb a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Yang Podi revealed that he had the Blood Swan Kiss and claimed it could help them kill the Soul Beast, prompting Yang Wudi to demand a look at it.
• Yang Podi retrieved the Blood Swan Kiss from his room and gave it to Yang Wudi and Yang Wushuang, then realized Yang Zhentian had used the conversation to set him up.

Yang Podi traveled with Yang Wushuang to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to absorb the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, hoping to strengthen his body and awaken his body Martial Soul. After consuming both herbs and entering the spring, he endured alternating extremes of heat and cold until he began to lose consciousness.

• Yang Podi insisted on absorbing the two dangerous immortal herbs, and Yang Wudi and Yang Wushuang agreed that Yang Wushuang would escort him to the well.
• Yang Wushuang secretly took Yang Podi to Sunset Forest and opened the concealed entrance to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Yang Wushuang harvested the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, and Yang Podi swallowed both herbs.
• Yang Podi endured alternating waves of extreme cold and heat as the herbs' powers spread through his body and External Soul Bones.
• Yang Podi jumped into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the spring's powers joined the herbs' effects and he gradually lost consciousness.