Chapter Summaries

Dai Xiu defeated Dugu Bo after Dugu Bo tried to drive him and his companions away from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Dai Tianfeng emerged after absorbing two Immortal Herbs, and he proposed recruiting Dugu Bo into the Star Luo Empire as Dai Xiu prepared to leave.

• Dugu Bo attacked Dai Xiu to defend the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but Dai Xiu overwhelmed him with his Soul Skills.
• Dugu Bo prepared to use his eighth and ninth Soul Skills when Dai Tianfeng emerged from the well, having absorbed the Infernal Delicate Apricot and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.
• Dai Xiu stopped fighting and warned Dai Tianfeng against taking such risks, while Dugu Bo realized the visitors would leave the medicinal field alone.
• Dai Tianfeng changed clothes and proposed that Dugu Bo join the Star Luo Empire, but Dai Xiu cautioned that Dugu Bo was already a guest elder of the Heaven Dou Empire's imperial family.

Dai Tianfeng revealed that Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul was poisoning him and offered a way to save him. After Dai Xiu purged the poison into Dugu Bo’s Soul Bone, Dugu Bo pledged himself to the Star Luo Imperial Family and planned to bring Yanyan to join them.

• Dai Tianfeng described Dugu Bo’s secret poisoning symptoms and promised that he could cure him.
• Dai Tianfeng proposed transferring the toxins into a Soul Bone, and Dai Xiu and Zhu Na offered to help.
• Dai Xiu guided the poison from Dugu Bo’s body into his Medusa Head Soul Bone over six hours.
• Dugu Bo recovered, pledged loyalty to the Star Luo Imperial Family, and learned they had a poison-attribute Soul Bone for Yanyan.
• Dugu Bo agreed to fetch Yanyan from Heaven Dou City before accompanying Dai Xiu and the others back to the Star Luo Empire.

Dai Tianfeng tried to recruit the Nine Heart Begonia lineage to the Star Luo Empire, offering Dugu Bo a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone and hinting he could help evolve a Martial Soul. After Dugu Bo agreed to try, Dai Tianfeng explored Heaven Dou Imperial City and encountered the reckless fourth prince, Xue Beng, leaving him questioning how the Xue Family had held onto the throne for so long.

• Dai Tianfeng asked Dugu Bo to recruit the Nine Heart Begonia lineage, and Dugu Bo warned that the neutral family might not agree.
• Dai Tianfeng promised Dugu Bo a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone and suggested he might help evolve Dugu Bo's or Dugu Yan's Martial Soul.
• Dugu Bo agreed to try, though he worried about leaving the Nine Heart Begonia mother and daughter vulnerable in Heaven Dou.
• After Dugu Bo left, Dai Tianfeng explored Heaven Dou Imperial City and headed toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy to look for Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• Xue Beng rode recklessly through the street, knocking down pedestrians and charging toward Dai Tianfeng.
• Dai Tianfeng reflected on Xue Beng's conduct and the Xue Family's long hold on the Heaven Dou throne despite its apparent lack of strength.

Dai Tianfeng beat Xue Beng and his followers after Xue Beng demanded compensation for his horse, then considered why he would not expose Qian Renxue’s identity. Xue Beng vowed not to let the humiliation go and sent his followers after Dai Tianfeng while he went to find his imperial uncle.

• Dai Tianfeng killed Xue Beng’s Horned Scale Horse with a punch and knocked Xue Beng to the ground.
• Xue Beng demanded compensation and ordered his followers to attack Dai Tianfeng, who beat them all and warned Xue Beng not to provoke him again.
• Dai Tianfeng left without exposing Qian Renxue’s identity, reasoning that doing so would not stop Spirit Hall and that she still had a role to play.
• Xue Beng’s followers urged him to retaliate, and he sent them after Dai Tianfeng while he went to find his imperial uncle.

Dai Tianfeng confronted Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling at Heaven Dou Royal Academy after Dugu Yan recognized her grandfather’s token in his hand. Their clash ended when Dugu Yan’s deadly poison flared up, and Dai Tianfeng offered his assessment of her condition.

• Dugu Yan spotted Dugu Bo’s token and approached Dai Tianfeng to demand how he had obtained it.
• Dai Tianfeng showed the token and argued that, as a one-ring Soul Grandmaster, he could not have stolen it from a Titled Douluo.
• Dugu Yan sprayed Dai Tianfeng with her paralyzing poison, but it had no effect on him.
• Dai Tianfeng slapped Dugu Yan, explaining that his body was impervious to poison, while teachers and students watched in shock.
• Dugu Yan tried to activate her Martial Soul Possession but collapsed when the deadly poison in her body flared up, and Ye Lingling caught her.
• Dai Tianfeng told Ye Lingling that healing could only relieve Dugu Yan temporarily and could not remove the poison or its source.

Dai Tianfeng warned Dugu Yan that her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul had poisoned her, and Ye Qingxin could only relieve her symptoms. At Dugu Manor, Dugu Bo confirmed that Dai Tianfeng had removed his own poison by transferring it to a Soul Bone, leaving Dugu Yan stunned to learn the warning was true.

• Dai Tianfeng told Dugu Yan that her Martial Soul had poisoned her, but she refused to believe him until her symptoms returned.
• Dugu Bo arrived, and Ye Qingxin used her Nine Heart Begonia to ease Dugu Yan's pain, though she said the symptoms would return unless Dugu Yan stopped cultivating.
• Dugu Bo invited Ye Qingxin to Dugu Manor to discuss the poison, while Dai Tianfeng checked Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan's favorability ratings.
• At Dugu Manor, Dugu Bo made Dugu Yan apologize to Dai Tianfeng and said Dai Tianfeng had saved his life and would save hers too.
• Dugu Bo explained that Dai Tianfeng had transferred his poison into a Soul Bone, and Dugu Yan realized that Dai Tianfeng had been right about her being poisoned.

Dugu Bo urged Ye Qingxin to join the Star Luo Empire for protection, but she hesitated because her bloodline had always stayed neutral. Dai Tianfeng suggested Immortal Herbs might break the Nine Heart Begonia curse, and Ye Qingxin found an ancestor’s account linking a strange flower to the curse’s temporary removal.

• Dugu Bo told Ye Qingxin that he could no longer protect her and Ye Lingling while serving the Star Luo Empire, and urged her to join it.
• Ye Qingxin hesitated, explaining that neutrality had sustained the Nine Heart Begonia bloodline, while Ye Lingling silently reacted to mention of her dead father.
• Dai Tianfeng asked whether Ye Qingxin knew about Immortal Herbs and suggested one might break the Nine Heart Begonia curse.
• Ye Qingxin recalled an ancestor who had escaped the curse and showed his account of consuming a strange flower before his Martial Soul evolved.
• Dai Tianfeng suspected the flower was Aromatic Silk Beauty, but wondered how it could have lifted the curse.