Chapter Summaries

After Tang Hao seized the Water of Life, Ning Liu apologized to the auction guests and promised compensation, then reflected on his weakness as the auction resumed. The system punished him for the failed lot by limiting the next three auctions to nine items, while the Body Tempering Formula went up for bidding.

• Tang Hao left the auction house, and Chen Xin, Xu Jiushi, Tang San, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang reacted to his overwhelming strength and the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Ning Liu apologized to the guests and announced that the Seven Treasures Auction House would pay the Water of Life's owner five million Gold Soul Coins in compensation.
• Ning Liu told Ning Rongrong that their lack of strength, not the lost money, was the real lesson of the attack, and Chen Xin agreed.
• The system announced that Ning Liu would be limited to listing nine items at each of the next three auctions because the Water of Life failed to sell.
• Doudou resumed the auction and introduced a Body Tempering Formula that could slightly improve a child's chance of gaining more Innate Soul Power at martial soul awakening.

The Body Tempering Formula and a Wugan City academy sold at auction, earning Ning Liu five million five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins through the system. Doudou then introduced a mysterious Soul Skill Imprint Scroll, whose ability to copy and release a Soul Elder-level skill sparked intense interest as bidding began.

• The Peerless Dragon Snake couple bid two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for the Body Tempering Formula, and Doudou sold it to VIP Room 3.
• A merchant bought the operating rights and campus site of Primary Soul Master Academy in Wugan City for three hundred and fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Liu received five million five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins in system returns and continued thinking about Tang Hao’s power.
• Doudou revealed the Soul Skill Imprint Scroll, which could copy, store, and activate one soul skill from a Soul Elder or a lower-level soul master.
• Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Flender considered the scroll’s potential, while Doudou suggested it might lead to higher-level or mass-produced skill scrolls.
• Doudou set the Soul Skill Imprint Scroll’s starting price at one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and opened bidding.

Tang San won the Soul Skill Imprint Scroll for 150,000 Gold Soul Coins, while Ning Liu received ten intermediate scrolls through the system. The next auction item, Soul Ring Fusion Liquid, ignited fierce bidding after Doudou revealed that it could raise the absorption age limit for soul rings of a thousand years or below by thirty percent.

• Tang San bid 150,000 Gold Soul Coins for the Soul Skill Imprint Scroll, and Doudou declared it sold.
• Ning Liu received ten intermediate Soul Skill Imprint Scrolls from the system as a hundredfold return.
• Doudou explained the usual soul ring absorption age limits and introduced the Soul Ring Fusion Liquid.
• Doudou revealed that the liquid improved absorption efficiency for soul rings of a thousand years or below and raised their absorption age limit by thirty percent.
• Flender regretted not bidding for the earlier Relic Map as the crowd reacted excitedly to the liquid.
• Doudou opened bidding at 100,000 Gold Soul Coins, and bidders quickly raised offers to 150,000.

The auction’s ninth item, Soul Ring Fusion Liquid, sparked fierce bidding before Ning Rongrong won it for three million Gold Soul Coins. Ning Liu received an advanced version through his system, and the auction ended by unveiling Yu Xiaogang’s Manuscript of Spirit Cultivation Essentials as its grand finale.

• Flender suggested the basic Soul Ring Fusion Liquid might help Tang San absorb a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, but Yu Xiaogang warned that its protection against soul-will impact was unknown.
• Prince Xue Xing considered whether the liquid could help Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, while Tang San resolved to bid for it and offered one million Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Rongrong asked Ning Liu to help her obtain the liquid for her Third Soul Ring, then bid three million Gold Soul Coins and won after Tang San withdrew.
• Ning Liu’s system rewarded him with an advanced Soul Ring Fusion Liquid that raised the absorbable age limit by fifty percent for soul rings up to one hundred thousand years.
• Doudou revealed Yu Xiaogang’s Manuscript of Spirit Cultivation Essentials as the auction’s grand finale.

Ning Liu’s auction of Yu Xiaogang’s manuscript ended with Dragon Duke Meng Shu buying it for ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, triggering a system event that would spread the theories across the continent. The system began generating a return multiplier and announced a ten-thousandfold return.

• The crowd mocked the manuscript’s one-Gold-Soul-Coin starting price and argued over Yu Xiaogang’s theories.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized his long-lost manuscript and worried that readers might misunderstand its incomplete theories, while Tang San abandoned his plan to bid.
• Dragon Duke Meng Shu bid ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, intending to copy and sell the manuscript and let his clan’s juniors study it.
• Doudou closed the auction after no one raised the bid, and Ning Rongrong asked Ning Liu whether the manuscript was worth its price.
• Ning Liu’s system announced that the Dragon Snake Family’s mass distribution would spread the theories, with potential gains and risks for soul masters, then began generating a return multiplier.

After the third auction, Ning Liu received Tang Sect cultivation techniques, five ranks of Soul Power, and a card that could awaken a martial soul. He reached rank fifty-seven, then activated the card and entered a cocoon of light as something began awakening within him.

• The system awarded Ning Liu the Mysterious Heaven Skill, the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, five Soul Power ranks, and a Martial Soul Awakening Selection Card for his auction’s commendable evaluation.
• Ning Liu studied the Tang Sect techniques and resolved to carry their secret arts forward, while deciding that a power-attack martial soul would best complement his Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda.
• Sword Douluo left to watch for trouble, Ning Rongrong went to the auction handover, and Ning Liu sent Xu Jiushi to guard the room while he cultivated.
• Ning Liu claimed the Soul Power reward and used the Mysterious Heaven Skill to guide it through his body, raising his Soul Power to rank fifty-seven.
• Ning Liu activated the Martial Soul Awakening Selection Card with a drop of blood, and seven-colored light enveloped him in a cocoon as something awakened inside him.

Ning Liu awakened the Empty Dream Sword as his Second Martial Soul, absorbed the Rending Sky Sabre-toothed Tiger Left Arm Bone, and rose to Soul Power rank sixty. Afterward, Li An reported that a female guest was still lingering in a private room at the Seven Treasures Auction House.

• Ning Liu chose the mysterious central Martial Soul and awakened the Empty Dream Sword, whose sword intent caught Sword Douluo Chen Xin’s attention.
• Ning Liu decided to research Twin Martial Souls before adding a Soul Ring and chose to absorb the Rending Sky Sabre-toothed Tiger Left Arm Bone.
• The Empty Dream Sword subdued the Soul Bone’s violent energy, allowing Ning Liu’s Soul Power to rise to rank sixty.
• Xu Jiushi brought Li An to Ning Liu, and Li An reported that a female auction guest had refused to leave her private room.

Xiao Wu tried to control Ning Liu and persuade him to arrange a safe escort to the Star Dou Great Forest, but he broke free and proposed that she marry him instead. After Xiao Wu admitted a Titled Douluo was hunting her, Ning Liu revealed that he knew she was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

• Xiao Wu feared the Titled Douluo in the auction hall would expose her identity and decided to use Ning Liu as leverage to get an escort to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ning Liu entered Xiao Wu's private room, and she used Teleportation and Charm to restrain him and ask the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to protect her.
• Ning Liu released his Soul Power and knocked Xiao Wu's scorpion braid away, leaving her shocked by his strength.
• Ning Liu teased Xiao Wu by proposing that she marry him, and she said she might agree if he protected her from the Titled Douluo hunting her.
• Ning Liu told Xiao Wu he knew she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had transformed and begun cultivating as a human.

Ning Liu stopped Xiao Wu from killing herself and offered her a role caring for a true dragon egg and managing a planned Soul Beast Forest near Suotuo City. Xiao Wu accepted and followed him, uncertain but feeling safer in his company.

• Ning Liu hinted that Xiao Wu’s hundred-thousand-year soul ring and Soul Bone would be valuable, prompting her to draw a dagger and try to kill herself.
• Ning Liu disarmed Xiao Wu and revealed that he had no intention of killing her, then showed her a Fire Element True Dragon Egg.
• Ning Liu asked Xiao Wu to hatch the egg and offered her leadership of a Soul Beast Forest he planned to establish near Suotuo City.
• Ning Liu told Xiao Wu that another hundred-thousand-year soul beast was already under his command, and Xiao Wu agreed to stay and help him.
• Ning Liu teased Xiao Wu by asking what offspring a human and a transformed hundred-thousand-year soul beast might have, then invited her to follow him out of the private room.

Ning Liu protected Xiao Wu from Sword Douluo by revealing that she had agreed to marry him, while Sword Douluo let them leave for the Soul Hunting Forest. Meanwhile, Tang San struck a weapons deal with Prince Xue Xing, and Dugu Bo broke through to rank ninety-three before agreeing to accompany the prince to the palace.

• Sword Douluo confronted Xiao Wu, but Ning Liu shielded her and Xiao Wu claimed she had agreed to marry him, persuading Sword Douluo to let them go.
• Ning Rongrong arrived looking for Ning Liu, admitted her feelings to Sword Douluo, and followed him to a Quiet Room to hear what he needed to tell her.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that he had agreed to supply Prince Xue Xing with Zhuge Crossbows and a simplified weapon in exchange for Gold Soul Coins and rare metals.
• Flender agreed to find spirit herbs for Tang San after Yu Xiaogang urged him to treat helping Tang San as an investment.
• Dugu Bo finished absorbing the Crimson Tail Golden Ring Snake Left Arm Bone, reached rank ninety-three, and agreed to go with Prince Xue Xing to the palace.

Ning Liu renamed the Soul Hunting Forest Seven Treasures Forest and brought Xiao Wu there to meet the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Xiao Jin, then had Xu Jiushi build her a secluded home. The chapter ended when Ning Liu and Xiao Wu encountered a tearful Ning Rongrong outside the auction house.

• Ning Liu placed the renamed Seven Treasures Forest under Li An's jurisdiction and ordered him to restrict access to its core zone.
• Ning Liu brought Xiao Wu and Xu Jiushi into the forest to meet the Golden-Eyed Void-Tearing Tiger, named it Xiao Jin, and instructed it to protect Xiao Wu.
• Xu Jiushi used his Soul Power to shape a valley, fill a lake, and build three stone houses for Xiao Wu.
• Ning Liu told Xiao Wu to prepare her belongings and return the next day to cultivate in the forest.
• Ning Liu and Xiao Wu found Ning Rongrong crying outside the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Auction House, and the two girls recognized each other.

Ning Liu sent Xiao Wu into the Seven Treasures Forest and learned that Heaven Dou had invaded Star Luo, but he kept the upcoming auction on schedule. He then read the system’s book, discovering that it revealed the fates and futures of Tang San, Xiao Wu, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Spirit Hall.

• Ning Rongrong confronted Xiao Wu over Ning Liu, and Ning Liu declared that he wanted both women.
• Ning Liu escorted Xiao Wu to the Seven Treasures Forest, gave her an emergency signal, and arranged for Xiao Jin to protect her.
• Li An reported that Heaven Dou had stationed a million troops on the Star Luo border and captured two major towns.
• Ning Liu told Li An to proceed with the auction as planned despite the approaching war.
• Ning Liu opened the book titled “Douluo Continent” and learned about Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the future of the major factions.

After learning about the future from Douluo Continent, Ning Liu decided to build his own power and grow strong enough to change it. He set out with Sword Douluo and Ning Rongrong to investigate an immortal herb sanctuary, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing left Shrek Academy to return to the Star Luo Empire.

• Ning Liu resolved to protect the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, establish a force of his own, and pursue godhood, beginning by recruiting the four single-attribute clans.
• Ning Liu ordered Li An to find the Strength Clan, Defense Clan, Speed Clan, and Breaking Clan chiefs and invite them to Suotuo City with a promise of martial soul evolution and a chance to become Titled Douluo.
• Ning Liu asked Sword Douluo Chen Xin to accompany him to an ancient ruin rumored to contain immortal herbs, bringing Ning Rongrong to obtain her Third Soul Ring and himself to obtain a soul ring.
• Ning Liu revealed that he had reached level sixty, astonishing Chen Xin, then took Ning Rongrong with them to begin the journey.
• At Shrek Academy, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing told Flender they were leaving to return to the Star Luo Empire after the Heaven Dou Empire attacked it, and Flender gave them ten thousand Gold Soul Coins for the journey.

Tang San discovered that his Blue Silver Grass could devour the vitality of spirit medicines, helping him break through to rank thirty-three. After learning that Xiao Wu had disappeared and his other companions had left, he agreed to travel with Yu Xiaogang and Flender to Heaven Dou City to test whether his Martial Soul could absorb energy from soul beasts.

• Tang San devoured several Thousand Year Spirit Medicines with his Blue Silver Grass and broke through to rank thirty-three.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that Xiao Wu had disappeared, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing had returned to the border, and the Peerless Dragon Snake couple had taken Oscar away.
• Tang San described his Martial Soul's vitality-devouring ability, and Yu Xiaogang proposed that it might absorb energy from soul beasts.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San told Flender about the discovery, and Flender agreed to help test the theory.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed moving Shrek Academy to Heaven Dou City, and Tang San agreed to go while the academy searched for Xiao Wu.

Flender sold Shrek Academy’s property and left for Heaven Dou City with Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Ma Hongjun, while the old teachers stayed behind. In Sunset Forest, Ning Rongrong began absorbing a powerful third soul ring, and Dugu Bo headed there intending to test the value of an immortal herb at auction.

• Flender sold Shrek Academy’s land and buildings to Li An, then gave Zhao Wuji and the other old teachers money and a way to contact him with news of Xiao Wu.
• Ma Hongjun joined Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San on the journey to Heaven Dou City, where Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San about the risks of his Blue Silver Grass’s Predation trait.
• Ning Liu persuaded Sword Douluo that Ning Rongrong could absorb a nearly four-thousand-five-hundred-year Azure Feather Gale Eagle soul ring with help from her immortal herb and Soul Ring Fusion Liquid.
• Xu Jiushi subdued the Azure Feather Gale Eagle, Sword Douluo knocked it unconscious, and Ning Rongrong killed it and began absorbing its purple soul ring.
• Dugu Bo left the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace for Sunset Forest and decided to take an inconspicuous immortal herb to the Seven Treasures Auction House for appraisal and a trial auction.

Ning Rongrong absorbed her third Soul Ring, gained a powerful Soul Skill and an External Soul Bone, and agreed to send the bone to Ning Liu’s Auction House. Ning Liu’s group found Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden, where Ning Liu claimed the territory as his own and called on Sword Douluo and Xu Jiushi to fight.

• Ning Rongrong absorbed a 4,500-year Soul Ring, gained the Azure Feather Gale skill, and rose to Soul Power level 35.
• The Azure Feather Gale Eagle left behind an External Soul Bone that Ning Liu named Gale Light Wing, and Ning Rongrong agreed to arrange its auction through Li An.
• Ning Liu led his group through Sunset Forest to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo confronted them and attacked with poison.
• Ning Liu blocked Dugu Bo’s attack with his Spirit Charm Star Luo Ring and declared that the medicinal garden belonged to him now.
• Ning Liu called on Sword Douluo and Xu Jiushi, who prepared to face Dugu Bo.

Ning Liu claimed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well from Dugu Bo, then revealed that he could cure the poison afflicting Dugu Bo and his granddaughter, Dugu Yan. Dugu Bo offered to betroth Dugu Yan to Ning Liu if he saved her.

• Dugu Bo found himself outmatched by Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Xu Jiushi, whose Black Tortoise Domain suppressed him.
• Ning Liu persuaded Dugu Bo to surrender the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well by explaining that he had occupied the treasure without understanding its value.
• Dugu Bo tried to leave, but Ning Liu stopped him and offered him an opportunity.
• Ning Liu revealed that Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan suffered from inherited poison and that Dugu Yan would not live past thirty.
• Ning Liu promised to cure them, and Dugu Bo offered to give his life and betroth Dugu Yan to him in exchange for saving her.

Ning Liu persuaded Dugu Bo to pledge loyalty by promising to cure Dugu Yan, then led the group to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He entered the spring to temper his body, leaving Ning Rongrong terrified as Dugu Bo urged everyone to let him face the trial.

• Ning Liu rejected Dugu Bo’s offer to marry Yanyan and demanded his loyalty in exchange for curing the poison afflicting Dugu Bo and his granddaughter.
• Dugu Bo agreed to serve Ning Liu if he could save Yanyan, and the group went to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ning Liu identified several immortal herbs and announced that he would use the spring’s dual energies to temper his body.
• Ning Liu stepped into the boundary between the icy and fiery springs, enduring intense pain as his Mysterious Heaven Skill resisted the forces.
• Ning Rongrong begged Sword Douluo to pull Ning Liu out, but Dugu Bo stopped him and insisted Ning Liu face his chosen trial.

Ning Liu completed his body tempering at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then used the system to store the entire spring, its surrounding land, and its immortal herbs. He announced an auction of three hundred-thousand-year spirit medicines and an External Soul Bone, drawing the attention of powerful factions across the continent.

• Ning Liu emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well stronger after enduring a night of body tempering.
• Ning Liu stored the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the surrounding land, and its immortal herbs in the system space.
• Ning Liu gave Ning Rongrong several hundred-thousand-year spirit medicines and an External Soul Bone for Li An to prepare for auction.
• Ning Liu set out for Suotuo City with Ning Rongrong, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Xu Jiushi, while Dugu Bo went to fetch Dugu Yan.
• News of the auction spread across the continent, prompting factions and powerful figures to head for Suotuo City and the Star Luo and Heaven Dou Empires to suspend their border conflict.

Ning Liu met with the four clan chiefs in Suotuo City and proposed that the Four Great Clans join the Seven Treasures Auction House. The chiefs’ discussion of their declining fortunes and past grievances ended with Yang Wudi demanding directness and Ning Liu making his offer.

• Bai He, Titan, Niu Gao, and Yang Wudi discussed their clans’ worsening circumstances and speculated about why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had summoned them.
• Bai He and Niu Gao considered whether joining the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could provide the clans with protection and resources.
• Titan mentioned Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect, prompting Yang Wudi to angrily condemn them for abandoning the four clans.
• Ning Liu entered with Xu Jiushi and respectfully praised each clan’s martial soul.
• Yang Wudi demanded that Ning Liu state his purpose directly, and Ning Liu proposed recruiting the Four Great Clans into the Seven Treasures Auction House.