Chapter Summaries

After curing the Dugu Family’s poison and helping their martial souls evolve, Yan Zu was welcomed into the family as Dugu Bo’s adopted grandson. He stayed at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to help Dugu Yan prepare for a powerful Fourth Soul Ring and continue his own cultivation.

• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan discovered that the Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison was gone and saw their youthful appearances and vitality restored.
• Dugu Bo thanked Yan Zu and offered to match him with Dugu Yan, but Yan Zu declined after learning she loved Yu Tianheng.
• Dugu Bo adopted Yan Zu as his grandson, and Dugu Yan welcomed him as her little brother.
• Yan Zu urged Dugu Yan to remain at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while he prepared pills and taught her a secret cultivation method to help her obtain a Fourth Soul Ring over ten thousand years old.
• Dugu Bo gave Yan Zu permission to use the valley’s medicinal herbs, and Yan Zu stayed there to test his ideas and advance his cultivation.

Yan Zu refined pills that strengthened Dugu Yan and himself, then gave her the Soul Spirit Contract Secret Art. Dugu Yan learned to form its core rune, and Dugu Bo warned her to hide the technique until she became a Titled Douluo.

• Yan Zu refined Dragon-Patterned Body-Tempering Pills for Dugu Yan, while she began absorbing one in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Yan Zu used body-tempering, life-creation, and mind-calming pills to strengthen his physique and spiritual power, reaching level 50, and modified his Second Soul Skill into Pact of Protection.
• Yan Zu gave Dugu Yan the Soul Spirit Contract Secret Art, and she promised to keep it secret until she could protect it.
• Dugu Yan studied the contract method for ten days and learned to form its core rune.
• Dugu Bo examined Dugu Yan's rune and warned her not to perform a complete Soul Spirit summoning in public before she became a Titled Douluo.

Dugu Yan, Dugu Bo, and Yan Zu searched Sunset Forest for a suitable Soul Beast for Dugu Yan’s fourth ring, but the Jade Water Poison Flood Dragon rejected Yan Zu’s offer of a Soul Spirit Contract. They left it alive and prepared to seek another target.

• Dugu Bo examined Dugu Yan and judged that her physique could withstand a Soul Ring of at least fifteen thousand years, while her spiritual power could handle the mental shock.
• Yan Zu used the Atlas of Mountains and Rivers to locate a Jade Water Poison Flood Dragon in Poison Dragon Pool, and Dugu Bo agreed that its traits suited Dugu Yan.
• The three reached the pool and waited until noon, when the roughly twelve-thousand-year-old flood dragon surfaced.
• Yan Zu tried to communicate and propose a symbiotic contract, but the flood dragon reacted with hostility and attacked him.
• Dugu Bo gravely injured the flood dragon without damaging its foundation, but Yan Zu could not persuade it to accept the contract.
• Dugu Bo advised finding another Soul Beast, and Dugu Yan accepted that they should abandon the unwilling flood dragon.

Dugu Yan formed a Soul Spirit contract with the Jade Dragon Lizard, gaining a powerful Fourth Soul Ring and a new partner called Little Jade Green. Dugu Bo recognized that Yan Zu’s method could change the future of the Soul Master World.

• Yan Zu found a fourteen-thousand-year-old Jade Dragon Lizard, and Dugu Yan invited it to become her Soul Spirit.
• The Jade Dragon Lizard accepted Dugu Yan’s contract and became her black Fourth Soul Ring, raising her Soul Power from rank forty to rank forty-seven.
• Dugu Yan used her Fourth Soul Skill, Poison Dragon's Wrath, to destroy a boulder with a venomous dragon lizard attack.
• Dugu Yan summoned Little Jade Green from her Soul Ring and learned its abilities, including regeneration, mimicry, and fine control assistance.
• Yan Zu warned Dugu Yan to keep the Soul Spirit secret, and Dugu Bo reflected that the contract method might shape the future of the Soul Master World.

Yan Zu sought a fifth Soul Ring and asked the fifty-five-thousand-year-old Mountain-Subduing Spirit Turtle to sacrifice itself willingly, promising to revive it if he became a god. The turtle agreed, and its golden light began to flow toward Yan Zu.

• Yan Zu chose the Mountain-Subduing Spirit Turtle as his fifth Soul Ring target and told Dugu Bo he wanted to negotiate before fighting.
• Yan Zu, Dugu Bo, and Little Jade traveled to Mountain-Subduing Lake, while Dugu Yan stayed hidden at the outskirts.
• Dugu Bo’s Titled Douluo pressure frightened the Mountain-Subduing Spirit Turtle, but Yan Zu calmly communicated with it.
• Yan Zu asked the turtle to sacrifice itself and promised to revive it if he attained godhood.
• Little Jade’s auspicious presence helped reassure the Mountain-Subduing Spirit Turtle, and it agreed to sacrifice itself.
• The Mountain-Subduing Spirit Turtle released its fifty-five thousand years of cultivation as golden motes drifted toward Yan Zu.

Yan Zu gained his Fifth Soul Ring, reached level 55, and watched Little Jade evolve into an Auspicious Beast Qilin that could speak. After testing the new defensive powers of his Mountain-Suppressing Guardian skill, Yan Zu and his companions stayed on Auspicious Peak to consolidate their gains before planning to return to Heaven Dou City.

• Little Jade absorbed the Mountain-Subduing Spirit Turtle's power and evolved into a larger Auspicious Beast Qilin as Yan Zu reached level 55.
• Little Jade spoke for the first time, and Yan Zu explained that their Symbiotic Contract linked their growth; Dugu Bo warned him to keep Little Jade's speech secret.
• Yan Zu revealed his Fifth Soul Skill, Mountain-Suppressing Guardian, which created a defensive domain and powerful Black Tortoise Holy Shields for his allies.
• Dugu Yan tested Poison Dragon's Wrath against Dugu Bo, and the shields reduced its force by more than eighty percent.
• Yan Zu, Dugu Yan, Dugu Bo, and the two Soul Spirits spent a day on Auspicious Peak consolidating their gains before preparing to return to Heaven Dou City.

Yan Zu returned to Heaven Dou City after treating Dugu Bo and his family, and he discussed strengthening his team for the Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament with Dugu Yan. At Blue Tyrant Academy, his worried friends and Liu Erlong welcomed him back, surprised by Little Jade’s growth and Yan Zu’s new fifth Soul Ring.

• Yan Zu told Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan that he had reached level 55 and planned to compete in the Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament.
• Dugu Yan proposed that she and Yu Tianheng join Yan Zu’s team, and Yan Zu agreed to welcome them if they transferred to Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Dugu Yan left to discuss the move with Yu Tianheng, while Yan Zu promised to tell Teacher Liu about the plan.
• Dugu Bo returned home, and Yan Zu headed back to Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Xiao Wu welcomed Yan Zu back and was startled when Little Jade spoke; Liu Erlong and the others then gathered around him.
• Zhu Zhuqing noticed Yan Zu had broken through level fifty, and Yan Zu confirmed that he had obtained his fifth Soul Ring.

Yan Zu returned to Blue Tyrant Academy, revealed Little Jade’s ability to speak and his fifty-five-thousand-year fifth Soul Ring, and discussed recruiting Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng for the tournament team. He gave his companions and Liu Erlong body-tempering pills, and the academy prepared to begin systematic training.

• Yan Zu told Liu Erlong and his companions that Dugu Bo’s poison had been cured, Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul had evolved, and Little Jade had learned to speak, while Liu Erlong warned them to keep Little Jade’s speech secret.
• Yan Zu revealed that his fifth Soul Ring was fifty-five thousand years old and explained that the Mountain-Subduing Spirit Turtle had willingly sacrificed itself after he endured the ring with his strong physique and spiritual power.
• Yan Zu proposed that Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng join Blue Tyrant Academy’s tournament team, and Liu Erlong agreed to seek the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s approval if Yu Tianheng was willing.
• Liu Erlong announced that the team would start systematic training the next day and invited Little Jade to train alongside them.
• Yan Zu distributed Ice and Fire Body-Tempering Pills to Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar, then gave Liu Erlong a Dragon-Patterned Body-Tempering Pill suited to her Fire Dragon Martial Soul.

Yan Zu guided Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Oscar, and Liu Erlong through three stages of pills that strengthened their bodies, foundations, and spiritual power. They then took the powerful Universe Creation Pills to begin risky Martial Soul evolutions, with Yan Zu and Little Jade guarding them as the pills’ creation power surged into their Martial Soul Origins.

• Yan Zu had everyone take body-tempering pills under Little Jade’s Auspicious Domain, and their physiques and Soul Power improved, with Liu Erlong reaching level eighty.
• After seven days of rest, everyone took Life-Creation Pills that repaired hidden injuries and strengthened their vitality, meridians, and cultivation potential.
• Seven days later, everyone took Universe Mind-Calming Pills, which heightened their spiritual power and improved their individual abilities.
• Ten days later, Yan Zu warned the group that Universe Creation Pills could trigger unpredictable Martial Soul evolutions, but Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Oscar, and Liu Erlong chose to take them.
• Little Jade deployed the Auspicious Domain at full strength as the pills’ creation power erupted and surged into everyone’s Martial Soul Origins.

The Universe Creation Pill and Little Jade’s Auspicious Domain helped Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, Liu Erlong, and Ning Rongrong evolve their Martial Souls and grow stronger. After they thanked Yan Zu, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong threw themselves into his arms, leaving him flustered.

• Xiao Wu’s Soft Bone Rabbit evolved into the Moonlight Jade Rabbit, granting her moonlight-enhanced abilities and raising her Soul Power to level fifty.
• Zhu Zhuqing’s Hell Spirit Cat evolved into the Star Netherworld Spirit Cat, gaining starry-sky abilities and short-distance spatial jumps.
• Oscar’s Sausage Martial Soul became the Creation Food Cauldron, allowing him to make more powerful sausages in greater numbers.
• Liu Erlong’s Fire Dragon evolved into the Scarlet Flame Dragon King, raising her to level eighty and strengthening her flames and dragon-type suppression.
• Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda broke its limit and became the Ten Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, improving her support abilities.
• The five thanked Yan Zu for helping them evolve, and Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong embraced him while Oscar watched approvingly.

Yan Zu made plans for the team to adapt to their evolved Martial Souls, obtain Soul Rings, and secretly study the Soul Spirit Contract Method. The chapter ended with Xiao Wu warning him not to hurt her or her companions, joking that she would have Da Ming and Er Ming capture him as her bandit chief’s bride.

• Liu Erlong decided to confront Tai Tan and the Strength Family after obtaining her Eighth Soul Ring, while Yan Zu asked to have Dugu Bo stand by.
• Yan Zu arranged a month of adaptation training, Soul Ring preparations, and a letter to Ning Rongrong’s father requesting protection and Sword Douluo’s help.
• Yan Zu gave the group copies of the Soul Spirit Contract Method and explained how Soul Spirits could grow, fight alongside their hosts, and help them form Soul Rings without hunting another Soul Beast.
• Yan Zu and his companions agreed to keep the recent Martial Soul evolutions and the contract method secret.
• Xiao Wu thanked Yan Zu for the Soul Spirit Contract, then teased him about Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing before threatening to make Da Ming and Er Ming capture him as her bandit chief’s bride.

Yan Zu visited Dugu Bo’s residence, where Dugu Yan apologized for Yu Tianheng’s refusal to join Blue Tyrant Academy and his suspicion that she had romantic feelings for Yan Zu. Dugu Yan decided she and Yu Tianheng might not suit each other and left determined to recruit another top Soul Master.

• Yan Zu arrived at Dugu Bo’s residence with Little Jade and greeted Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Yan arrived in tears and apologized after Yu Tianheng rejected the invitation to Blue Tyrant Academy and accused her of favoring Yan Zu.
• Dugu Yan explained that Yu Tianheng had ignored her reasons for inviting him, including Yan Zu’s kindness and Blue Tyrant Academy’s potential.
• Dugu Bo criticized Yu Tianheng, while Yan Zu tried to reassure Dugu Yan and offered to explain the misunderstanding.
• Dugu Yan said Yu Tianheng’s reaction had made her question their relationship and vowed to bring another top Soul Master to Yan Zu’s team.

Yan Zu secured Dugu Bo’s help with a future Soul Hunting trip while the Blue Tyrant Academy team trained with their evolved Martial Souls. Dugu Yan persuaded Ye Lingling to visit the academy and meet Yan Zu.

• Yan Zu asked Dugu Bo to lead the group on a Soul Hunting trip in a month, and Dugu Bo agreed to join them.
• Yan Zu gave Dugu Bo several pills before leaving for the Blue Tyrant Academy with Little Jade.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar practiced the abilities of their evolved Martial Souls as Liu Erlong watched.
• Liu Erlong told the students to begin studying the Soul Spirit Contract Method, and they asked whether Yan Zu had returned.
• Dugu Yan visited Ye Lingling and invited her to join a team where she could develop her potential and find support.
• Ye Lingling agreed to visit the Blue Tyrant Academy with Dugu Yan the next morning.

Yan Zu welcomed Ye Lingling to Blue Tyrant Academy as the team's new Healing System Soul Master. Dugu Yan's claim that Yan Zu was her sworn little brother sparked jealous protests from Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong, who continued arguing over their closeness to him.

• Dugu Yan arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy with Ye Lingling and introduced her as the team's new Healing System Soul Master.
• Liu Erlong welcomed Ye Lingling, while Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar offered to train and work with her.
• Dugu Yan affectionately called Yan Zu her little brother, prompting Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong to object.
• Dugu Yan explained that Poison Douluo had accepted Yan Zu as his god-grandson, making her his sworn big sister.
• Yan Zu confirmed the relationship and explained that Poison Douluo had accepted him after Yan Zu helped cure his poison.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong insisted that they should be Yan Zu's big sisters because they had known him longer and were closer to him.

Ye Lingling joined Blue Tyrant Academy’s training and learned the Soul Spirit Contract Method alongside the team. Ning Rongrong then revealed that her martial soul had become a Ten Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, leaving Ning Fengzhi overwhelmed with joy at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s broken inheritance limit.

• Yan Zu welcomed Ye Lingling to the team after calming Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong’s jealousy over Dugu Yan’s teasing.
• Ye Lingling joined training, where her Nine Heart Begonia healed the team’s injuries, while Yan Zu taught everyone the Soul Spirit Contract Method.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived at Liu Erlong’s courtyard with Chen Xin and Gu Rong to meet Ning Rongrong and hear her important news.
• Ning Rongrong summoned a Ten Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Chen Xin and Gu Rong confirmed that it had ten levels.
• Ning Fengzhi broke down laughing and crying with joy, while Ning Rongrong rushed to him in fear that she had done something wrong.

Ning Fengzhi thanked Yan Zu for helping Ning Rongrong evolve her Martial Soul into the Ten Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, then arranged for Sword Douluo Chen Xin to protect her and join Yan Zu's group on a Soul Hunt in a month. Back at Blue Tyrant Academy, Yan Zu planned to take Xiao Wu home the next day so she could condense her Fifth Soul Ring and he could strengthen his parents with pills.

• Little Jade used her Auspicious Domain to calm Ning Fengzhi after he reacted emotionally to Ning Rongrong's Ten Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi that Yan Zu had helped her evolve her Martial Soul, and Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong bowed to thank him.
• Yan Zu asked Chen Xin to protect Ning Rongrong at Blue Tyrant Academy and accompany the group on a Soul Hunt in a month; Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin agreed.
• On the carriage ride home, Ning Fengzhi told Gu Rong he would not ask Yan Zu to help him break through his own Martial Soul bottleneck, because preserving their trust mattered more than demanding further favors.
• Chen Xin remained at Blue Tyrant Academy while the others resumed training, and Yan Zu told Xiao Wu he planned to take her home the next day to condense her Fifth Soul Ring and give pills to his parents.

Yan Zu and Xiao Wu left Blue Tyrant Academy for Nuoding City, while Ning Rongrong remained under Sword Douluo Chen Xin’s protection because of her evolved Ten Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. They reached Yan Zu’s home two days later and were warmly reunited with Yan Hu and Su Qing.

• Yan Zu got Liu Erlong’s permission to take Xiao Wu home for a few days, and she warned them to travel carefully and return before the Soul Hunt in Sunset Forest.
• Ning Rongrong pouted because she could not join them, but Yan Zu and Zhu Zhuqing explained that leaving the academy would put her at risk; she asked Yan Zu to bring her regards and promised gifts from his parents.
• The next day, Yan Zu and Xiao Wu said farewell to their companions and flew away from Blue Tyrant Academy on Little Jade.
• During the two-day journey, Yan Zu and Xiao Wu recalled their years together and talked about how Yan Hu and Su Qing had treated Xiao Wu like family.
• Little Jade landed outside Nuoding City, and Yan Zu and Xiao Wu went to the family courtyard, where Yan Hu and Su Qing rushed out to welcome them home.

Yan Zu helped his parents strengthen their bodies, advance their cultivation, and evolve their Martial Souls, while Xiao Wu gained her Fifth Soul Ring. After Yan Hu and Su Qing obtained their Fourth Soul Rings, the family prepared to return to Five Souls Village.

• Yan Zu gave Yan Hu and Su Qing a series of pills that raised their Soul Power to level forty and evolved their Martial Souls into the Mountain-Shaking Mountain-Splitting Axe and Golden-Veined Green Grain.
• Xiao Wu condensed a fifty-seven-thousand-year Fifth Soul Ring, reached level fifty-four, and gained Invincible Golden Body.
• Yan Hu and Su Qing chose to return to Five Souls Village, and Yan Zu agreed to help them obtain their Fourth Soul Rings first.
• Yan Hu absorbed an eighty-one-hundred-year Diamond Tiger Soul Ring, reached level forty-four, and gained Heavy Axe Earth-Splitting Slash.
• Su Qing absorbed a seventy-six-hundred-year Ivy Soul Beast Soul Ring, reached level forty-three, and gained Green Grain Sweet Dew Rain.
• The family returned to their home in Nuoding City and packed to move back to Five Souls Village.

Yan Zu returned to Five Souls Village with Xiao Wu and his parents, then set out alone to find Ah Yin and prevent Tang San from awakening his Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline. He found Ah Yin imprisoned behind the waterfall and began restoring her with Little Jade’s power.

• Yan Hu trained talented village youths, while Su Qing opened a free clinic and taught villagers improved farming methods.
• Yan Zu decided not to kill the Blue Silver King unless no other option remained, and resolved to visit Ah Yin first.
• Yan Zu rode Little Jade to Holy Soul Village, found Tang Hao’s smithy abandoned, and followed the mountain stream to the waterfall.
• Yan Zu passed through the waterfall, entered the hidden chamber, and found Ah Yin weakened in the form of Blue Silver Grass.
• Yan Zu asked Little Jade to help Ah Yin, and its auspicious energy restored her leaves and strengthened her life force.

Yan Zu discovered a sentient Blue Silver Grass and a powerful Soul Bone in a secret chamber, then learned in Holy Soul Village that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son. Back home, Xiao Wu recognized the grass as Ah Yin, and Yan Zu prepared to use Plant Growth Liquid to help her recover.

• Yan Zu found a sentient Blue Silver Grass and a translucent blue-gold Soul Bone in the secret chamber, then carried the grass away.
• Yan Zu visited Old Jack in Holy Soul Village and learned about Tang San’s Innate Full Soul Power, his difficult childhood, and his father Tang Hao.
• Yan Zu returned to Five Souls Village and showed the Blue Silver Grass to Xiao Wu, who recognized it as Aunt Ah Yin.
• Ah Yin responded to Xiao Wu, and Xiao Wu grieved over her condition after Yan Zu explained where he had found her.
• Yan Zu placed Ah Yin in the room and took out Plant Growth Liquid to try to help her recover.