Chapter Summaries

Lan Hong defeated Yu Tianheng again at the Great Soul Arena, then went shopping for materials and books related to Soul Tools. He encountered Ning Rongrong, who demanded the gemstone in his hand.

• Yu Tianheng challenged Lan Hong again, confident that his training would let him overcome his previous defeat.
• Lan Hong endured Yu Tianheng’s attacks until his opponent weakened, then defeated him with Purple Snow Flurry, Purple Flowers Cover the Ground, and Clouds Disperse Mist Vanishes.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling watched Yu Tianheng’s defeat, and Dugu Yan decided to wait for a chance to fight Lan Hong herself.
• Lan Hong left the arena to shop for supplies and continue researching how to recreate Soul Tools with Lan Mao.
• Ning Rongrong approached Lan Hong and demanded the gemstone he was holding.

Lan Hong and Lan Mao completed their first offensive Soul Tool, and Lan Hong returned to the Great Soul Arena, where Dugu Yan challenged him. Their fight began with Lan Hong nearly defeating her in one strike, and Dugu Yan responded by activating her spirit skills.

• Ning Rongrong bought Lan Hong’s scratched amethyst, and Sword Douluo Chen Xin sensed sword intent in it and asked to keep it.
• Lan Hong and Lan Mao completed an arrow-firing Soul Tool powered by Soul Power, and Lan Hong resolved to focus on raising his Soul Power Level.
• Dugu Yan went to the Great Soul Arena with Ye Lingling and challenged Lan Hong under her alias Jade Phosphor.
• Lan Hong accepted Dugu Yan’s challenge, and she claimed she would make him taste defeat.
• Lan Hong’s opening sword strike cut a lock of Dugu Yan’s hair, so she activated her Jade Phosphor Red Poison and Jade Phosphor Blue Poison spirit skills.
• As Dugu Yan prepared her Third Spirit Skill, Lan Hong struck again with his Purple Cloud Sword.

Lan Hong defeated Dugu Yan by turning her poison mist against her, then spent a year cultivating and researching Soul Tools while avoiding attention. At level 39, he began planning to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and considered how to escape Dugu Bo if necessary.

• Lan Hong used his sword technique to gather Dugu Yan's poison mist and hurl it back at her, knocking her from the Soul Fighting Stage and poisoning her with her own attack.
• Ye Lingling healed Dugu Yan's injuries, and Dugu Bo detoxified her at Dugu Manor; Dugu Yan refused his offer to avenge her defeat and vowed to do it herself.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy the next day, where Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng trained harder after losing to Lan Hong.
• Lan Hong spent the next year at Heaven Dou Royal Academy in obscurity, reaching level 39 while sparring with Hong Mao and researching Soul Tools.
• Brother Cat proposed that Lan Hong summon Purple Crystal Cloud after reaching level 40 as a means of escaping most Titled Douluo.
• Lan Hong pieced together a theory about the fall of Soul Guiding civilization and concluded he needed greater strength before spreading Soul Tools.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy began selecting its next teams after its poor tournament results, while Lan Hong quietly prepared to advance his rank. After Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling complained about Qin Ming’s training, Lan Hong warned them about the risks, prompting Dugu Bo to intervene with the coach and committee members.

• Xue Ye reprimanded the Heaven Dou Royal Academy committee members over their tournament results, then approved their plan to select and train new teams with Qin Ming as the first team’s coach.
• Lan Hong continued preparing to challenge rank forty and encountered Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, who were exhausted from running while carrying stones.
• Lan Hong warned Dugu Yan that poorly managed weighted running could cause lasting harm and suggested medicinal baths and asking Dugu Bo to verify the danger.
• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo about Lan Hong’s warning, and he confirmed it, arranged medicinal baths, and decided to confront the committee members about Qin Ming’s training.
• Lan Hong left Heaven Dou Royal Academy and headed away from Heaven Dou City to find a secluded place.

Lan Hong reached level 40, condensed Spirit Rings for Hong Mao and Lan Mao, and tested the newly summoned Purple Crystal Cloud before returning to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. There, Dugu Bo confronted Qin Ming over training he believed damaged the students’ foundations, and revealed that Qin Ming himself had suffered lasting injuries from his former teacher’s methods.

• Lan Hong condensed Hong Mao’s fourth Spirit Ring and gained Divine Doctor Dou Dou’s Rain Flower Sword inheritance, including his medical skills.
• Lan Hong helped Lan Mao condense a second Spirit Ring, then summoned and piloted Purple Crystal Cloud, testing its speed and Sky Feather Scatter before landing when its energy ran low.
• Dugu Bo visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy and told the three committee members that Qin Ming’s stone-carrying training could damage students’ foundations.
• The committee members summoned Qin Ming, who defended the training method as one taught by his former teacher.
• Dugu Bo examined Qin Ming and said his foundation had already been damaged, making it uncertain whether he could reach Soul Fighting Douluo; Qin Ming was left stunned.

Lan Hong began practicing medicine in Heaven Dou City while Qin Ming recovered from Dugu Bo’s punishment and returned to coaching the Heaven Dou Royal Team. After witnessing the city’s indulgence and hearing of a slave auction, Lan Hong resolved to grow stronger and protect the innocent.

• Dugu Bo poisoned Qin Ming for a day, then the committee members revised the Heaven Dou Royal Team’s training and Qin Ming resumed his duties.
• Xue Qinghe questioned Lan Hong on the way to the academy, then learned from the committee members why Dugu Bo had visited.
• Lan Hong gathered herbs, disguised himself as an old man, and treated more than twenty patients at a Heaven Dou City stall for one Silver Soul Coin per consultation.
• Lan Hong heard about slaves being auctioned at the Heaven Dou Grand Auction House and told Lan Mao he wanted to grow stronger and oppose injustice.
• Dugu Yan thanked Lan Hong in the library for his training advice, which had helped improve her team’s training.

Lan Hong used silver needles to suppress Dugu Yan’s poison and explained that her martial-soul poison would keep worsening until it killed her. He proposed that she gamble on the dangerous Gathering Poison into Pill method, and she agreed as he began examining how to separate her Soul Power from the poison.

• Dugu Yan collapsed from a poison outbreak, and Lan Hong used silver needles to draw out black blood and ease her symptoms.
• That night, Lan Hong told Dugu Yan that her poison was hereditary and would grow worse as she cultivated, despite his ability to suppress its outbreaks.
• Lan Hong described Gathering Poison into Pill as a possible way to contain her poison, though its previous practitioner had died.
• Dugu Yan agreed to gamble on the method, and Lan Hong examined her meridians and found that her Soul Power had fused with the poison.

Lan Hong treated Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul Poison and arranged to meet Dugu Bo, hoping to trade his knowledge for help becoming stronger. Dugu Bo tested Lan Hong’s nerve at their first meeting, and Lan Hong boldly entered the manor’s main hall.

• Lan Hong used Rain Flower True Qi and silver needles to gather Dugu Yan’s toxins into a vortex, but accidentally poisoned himself and had to take a Detoxification Pill.
• Dugu Yan thanked Lan Hong and agreed to introduce him to Dugu Bo, who she hoped might help Lan Hong grow stronger and later be cured of his own poison.
• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo that her Martial Soul Poison had been cured, and he recognized that someone exceptional had helped her.
• Dugu Bo agreed to receive Lan Hong at a feast after hearing that he had cured Dugu Yan and wanted to meet him.
• At Dugu Manor, Dugu Bo suddenly tried to grab Lan Hong and challenged him, but Lan Hong dodged and confidently walked toward the main hall.

Lan Hong struck a bargain with Dugu Bo, offering help with his poison in exchange for access to the treasured grounds in Sunset Forest. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Lan Hong refined a pill from rare herbs and swallowed it before entering the spring’s energy to temper his body.

• Lan Hong demonstrated that he could identify poisons, impressed Dugu Bo, and gave him a Detoxification Pill that suppressed his toxins.
• Dugu Bo agreed to let Lan Hong gather herbs at his treasured grounds, and Dugu Yan accompanied them to Sunset Forest.
• Lan Hong kept pace with Dugu Bo, recognized the concealed poison formation, and entered it with a Poison Evasion Pill.
• Dugu Bo showed Lan Hong the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and warned him about its dangerous ice and fire energy.
• Lan Hong harvested rare herbs, refined a red-and-blue pill, swallowed it, and hovered above the spring as its energy began to enter his body.

Lan Hong cultivated at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, revealing his true appearance, Twin Martial Souls, and far greater strength than he had claimed. After reaching level forty-eight, he promised to help cure Dugu Bo’s poison and stayed at the treasure land with Dugu Yan, who learned he was only eleven.

• Lan Hong endured three days of ice and fire cultivation, reaching level forty-eight while Lan Mao and Hong Mao cultivated beside him.
• Dugu Yan recognized the purple sword among Lan Hong’s four swords as the weapon used by Young Master Purple Mist, revealing that Lan Hong had injured her at the Great Soul Arena.
• Lan Hong’s four swords were tempered in the well, and his Spirit Rings changed to red, blue, purple, and green.
• Lan Hong told Dugu Bo he could suppress the poison with pills and hoped to cure it completely once he became a Soul Saint; Dugu Bo let him select herbs and promised Dugu Yan would stay with him.
• Lan Hong confirmed he was a Soul Ancestor and disclosed that he was eleven years old, astonishing Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo left for Heaven Dou City to request leave for Dugu Yan, while Lan Hong resumed cultivating and Dugu Yan joined him.

Lan Hong used the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to advance his Amber Divine Eye and then asked Dugu Bo to test his strength in a spar. He forced Dugu Bo to use his Martial Soul Avatar, demonstrating power enough to challenge some Soul Saints.

• Dugu Bo praised Lan Hong’s discipline and urged Dugu Yan to cherish him, but she rejected the suggestion and went to sleep.
• Lan Hong absorbed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, raised his Spiritual Power, and formed the embryonic mark of a Heavenly Eye.
• Lan Hong learned that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had reduced his companions’ Soul Power consumption and helped one recover some strength.
• Lan Hong asked Dugu Bo for guidance and fought him beside a lake using the Changhong Sword and Ice Soul Sword.
• Lan Hong’s Twin Swords Combination shattered Dugu Bo’s Serpent Celestial Shield, forcing him to use his Martial Soul Avatar to block the attack.

After reaching level 50, Lan Hong refined a pill that raised Dugu Yan’s strength and transformed her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul into a Seclusive Dragon. He planned to return to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to read, refusing Dugu Yan’s suggestion that he join the Heaven Dou Royal Team.

• Lan Hong reached level 50, condensed his Fifth Spirit Ring, and changed it from white to yellow by tempering the Thunderclap Sword in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Lan Hong refined a pill using Earth Dragon Golden Melon and Nine-grade Purple Ganoderma, then offered it to Dugu Yan after explaining its risks.
• Dugu Yan swallowed the pill and, after a day of cultivation, reached level 40; Lan Hong advised her to stabilize her Soul Power before absorbing a Spirit Ring.
• Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul evolved into a Seclusive Dragon, and she thanked Lan Hong for helping her.
• Lan Hong returned to Xue Zhi’s appearance and said he would go back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to read instead of joining the Heaven Dou Royal Team.

Lan Hong kept a low profile while Dugu Yan advanced to Soul Ancestor and became captain of Heaven Dou Royal Team’s First Team, drawing Qian Renxue’s interest in winning over Poison Douluo. While gathering herbs, Lan Hong was confronted by Sword Douluo Chen Xin, but escaped using Crystal Cloud Wings and left Chen Xin doubting his judgment.

• Dugu Yan consolidated her Soul Power, absorbed her fourth Spirit Ring, and returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy as a Soul Ancestor with an evolved Seclusive Dragon martial soul.
• Xue Qinghe praised Dugu Yan, appointed her captain of Heaven Dou Royal Team’s First Team, and later told She Long he planned to befriend her to win over Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Yan complained to Lan Hong about Xue Qinghe’s attention, while Ye Lingling questioned her about her closeness to Lan Hong.
• Lan Hong went to Sunset Forest to gather herbs and sensed an attack of sword intent, then recognized his attacker as Sword Douluo Chen Xin.
• Chen Xin challenged Lan Hong to take his sword strikes, but Lan Hong used Crystal Cloud Wings to flee, leaving Chen Xin unsure whether he had mistaken Lan Hong for a sword wielder.

Lan Hong left Heaven Dou City with Dugu Yan to return to Nuoding City, discussing his ambition to free Soul Masters from dependence on Spirit Rings. In the Balak Kingdom, they found an eerily empty town, and Lan Hong discovered a pit full of corpses drained of their essence, energy, and spirit.

• Sword Douluo Chen Xin sensed Lan Hong's sword intent in Sunset Forest, but Lan Hong escaped before Chen Xin could question him.
• Lan Hong visited Dugu Bo to say farewell and explained that he wanted to return to the villagers who had raised him.
• Dugu Bo arranged for Dugu Yan to travel with Lan Hong, and Lan Hong changed his appearance before they left Heaven Dou City.
• On the journey, Lan Hong told Dugu Yan he wanted to end the Soul Master system's dependence on Spirit Rings, though he claimed he was joking.
• Lan Hong and Dugu Yan reached an empty town in the Balak Kingdom, where Lan Hong found a pit of corpses drained of their essence, energy, and spirit.

After finding an entire town slaughtered by Fallen Ones, Lan Hong pursued the killers into the Star Dou Great Forest with Dugu Yan and ambushed their group. The Fallen Ones discovered the attack, and Lan Hong fled with one of them in pursuit.

• Lan Hong found traces showing that at least four Fallen Ones had slaughtered the town, cremated the victims, and told Dugu Yan he would hunt them down.
• Dugu Yan insisted on joining Lan Hong, who revealed Howling Sky and used it to transform into the Flame Chariot before driving toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lan Hong tracked five Fallen Ones—a group with two Soul Saints, two Soul Emperors, and one Spirit King—and followed them into the forest with Dugu Yan.
• Lan Hong and Dugu Yan waited until night, then attacked the group with Purple Smoke Scatter and Jade Phosphor Purple Poison; Lan Hong killed the watchman with one sword strike.
• The Fallen Ones' boss used his Red-striped Toad to swallow the smoke and poison, discovered that Fifth had died, and ordered the others to kill Lan Hong.
• Lan Hong fled, but the second brother of the Fierce Five Tigers pursued him with his Black Feather Crow martial soul.

Lan Hong and his martial souls defeated the Fierce Five Tigers, then he recovered and continued gathering herbs with Dugu Yan in the Star Dou Great Forest. Their outing was interrupted when a leather-clad girl fled from masked pursuers, and Lan Hong recognized her as someone he had been expecting.

• Lan Hong fought the Black Feather Crow Soul Saint while Hong Mao killed two of the Fierce Five Tigers’ Soul Emperors and then defeated their eldest brother, who had a Red-striped Toad martial soul.
• Lan Mao fired the Flame Chariot at the Black Feather Crow Soul Saint, killing him and destroying his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Lan Hong recovered his Soul Power, reunited with Dugu Yan, and found a Spatial Soul Tool on the eldest tiger’s corpse.
• The next day, Lan Hong taught Dugu Yan to identify medicinal plants while they gathered herbs on the Star Dou Great Forest’s outskirts.
• A leather-clad girl with a feline martial soul ran past Lan Hong and Dugu Yan, pursued by masked figures, and Lan Hong recognized her.

Lan Hong rescued Zhu Zhuqing from Zhu Zhuyun’s pursuers, then questioned whether she would defy the Star Luo Royal Family and left her after she refused. He continued his journey, learned Xiao Wu and Tang San had left Nuoding City, and returned to Cat King Village, where Old Cat Grandpa recognized him.

• Lan Hong intervened when Zhu Zhuyun and her group pursued Zhu Zhuqing, defeating several attackers and forcing Zhu Zhuyun to retreat.
• After Zhu Zhuqing fainted, Lan Hong had Dugu Yan treat her wounds and waited for her to wake.
• Lan Hong questioned Zhu Zhuqing about the heir-selection rules and whether she dared resist the Star Luo Royal Family; her answer disappointed him.
• Lan Hong escorted Zhu Zhuqing out of the Star Dou Great Forest and parted ways with her.
• Lan Hong reached Nuoding City, learned Xiao Wu and Tang San had graduated and left, then headed to Cat King Village.
• Old Cat Grandpa recognized Lan Hong when he returned to the village.

Lan Hong returned to Cat King Village to visit Old Cat Grandpa, then traveled with Dugu Yan to Suotuo City to find Xiao Wu. They bought several items from Flender and ended the chapter waiting for Lan Hong’s friend at the Rose Hotel.

• Lan Hong visited Old Cat Grandpa, gave him medicine and supplies, and spent several days visiting the villagers with Dugu Yan.
• Lan Hong and Dugu Yan left Cat King Village and headed for Suotuo City so Lan Hong could see a female friend.
• In Suotuo City, Lan Hong and Dugu Yan discussed Shrek Academy’s reputation and admissions standards.
• Lan Hong recognized Flender at his shop, bought damaged Soul Tools and a Crystal Plate, and paid him one hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Lan Hong brought Dugu Yan to the Rose Hotel to wait for his friend, leaving Dugu Yan wondering why they were there.

Lan Hong watched Xiao Wu defeat Dai Mubai at the Rose Hotel while Zhu Zhuqing confronted the truth about her fiancé’s cowardice. After Zhu Zhuqing broke down and Dugu Yan comforted her, Lan Hong asked whether she dared to resist the Star Luo Royal Family and the empire.

• Zhu Zhuqing arrived at the Rose Hotel and asked Lan Hong whether she could change her answer to his earlier question.
• Dai Mubai demanded the last room and challenged Xiao Wu and Tang San, but Xiao Wu fought him alone.
• Lan Hong secretly advised Xiao Wu to target the area beneath Dai Mubai’s ribs, and Xiao Wu shattered his barrier and hurled him to the ground.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San secured rooms after the manager produced two keys.
• Lan Hong explained that Dai Mubai was the Star Luo Empire’s third prince, had abandoned Zhu Zhuqing, and had given up trying to defeat his older brother Dai Weisi.
• Zhu Zhuqing cried over Dai Mubai’s betrayal, Dugu Yan comforted her, and Lan Hong asked whether she dared to resist the Star Luo Empire.

Lan Hong accepted Zhu Zhuqing as his disciple and secretly reunited with Xiao Wu, advising her to use a future trip to the Star Dou Great Forest to escape Tang Hao. The next morning, Lan Hong took Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan to Shrek Academy to show them what it was like.

• Zhu Zhuqing chose to become Lan Hong's disciple and agreed to risk his experimental cultivation methods for a chance to grow stronger.
• Lan Hong repaired a damaged Soul Tool and then sneaked into Xiao Wu's room to meet her while avoiding Tang Hao.
• Lan Hong told Xiao Wu to wait for a planned trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Da Ming and Er Ming could help her escape Tang Hao's control.
• Tang San brought Xiao Wu Crystal Carrots, but she dismissed him and shut the door.
• Lan Hong woke Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing the next morning and led them to Shrek Academy.