Chapter Summaries

Rouge Academy faced Elephant Armor Academy in the tournament, where Li Chang'an concealed his strength behind the identity Li Changsheng and sent his teammates into battle. The match began with the Rouge team overwhelming its opponents, while Li Chang'an confronted Huyan Li and Huyan Zhuo and revived an old humiliation.

• Salas worried about Li Chang'an's unpredictable plans, while Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo wondered why Salas kept medicine at hand.
• The Rouge team saw Elephant Armor Academy's enormous contestants, and captain Huyan Li introduced the team before the match began.
• Elephant Armor Academy revealed its powerful defensive martial souls, while Rouge Academy displayed five Soul Ancestors and Li Chang'an posed as a two-ring Great Soul Master with the Tai Bai Sword.
• Li Chang'an assigned Hu Liena to support only, and Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing attacked their opponents with boosts from their teammates.
• Li Chang'an caught Huyan Li's attack, lifted and tossed him, then broke through his defense with the Tai Bai Sword.
• As Huyan Zhuo charged at Li Chang'an, Li Chang'an used Whoever I Look At Poops, and Huyan Zhuo recognized the familiar feeling.

After Rouge Academy defeated Elephant Armor Academy, Canghui Academy’s Shi Nian planned to deal with Li Changsheng, while Rouge Academy continued its winning streak. When their seventh-round opponents forfeited, Liu Erlong took the girls to watch Thunder Academy face Elephant Armor Academy, and Li Chang'an went home to rest.

• Li Chang'an's preparations kept Rouge Academy's girls clear of Huyan Zhuo's foul attack, and the referee ended the match as Elephant Armor Academy fled the arena.
• Canghui Academy watched Rouge Academy's victory with concern, and Shi Nian promised to handle Li Changsheng himself.
• After six preliminary rounds, Rouge Academy had six wins, and the girls prepared for their seventh match against Osello Academy.
• Liu Erlong told Rouge Academy that Osello Academy had forfeited, giving the team an extra day of rest.
• Liu Erlong led the girls to watch Thunder Academy face Elephant Armor Academy, while Li Chang'an returned home to sleep.

Li Chang'an was ambushed by Shi Nian, who trapped him in the Remnant Dream illusion realm to kill him. Li Chang'an fused with and modified the realm, turned it against Shi Nian, and left him dead by his own hand.

• Shi Nian followed Li Chang'an from the Great Spirit Arena and confronted him on a secluded road, intending to kill him for the sake of Canghui Academy's tournament prospects.
• Shi Nian drew Li Chang'an into his Remnant Dream illusion realm and claimed he could control everything within it.
• Li Chang'an's system offered to fuse with and modify Shi Nian's illusion realm for one million points, and Li Chang'an accepted.
• Shi Nian failed to pull Li Chang'an into the illusion as Li Chang'an's immense Mental Power overwhelmed him, and the system completed the realm's modification.
• Li Chang'an used his new illusion realm to make Shi Nian believe his victims had returned for revenge, then caused Shi Nian to strike his own head and die.

Li Chang'an killed Shi Nian, took the Mirage Intellect Head Soul Bone, and burned away the evidence before returning to Rouge Academy. As the qualifiers entered their eleventh round, Liu Erlong briefed the team on the Five Great Element Academies ahead of their match against Blazing Fire Academy.

• Li Chang'an retrieved the soul bone from Shi Nian's remains, burned the body with Ultimate Fire, and returned to Rouge Academy.
• Rouge Academy, Shrek Academy, and the four other Element Academies finished the tenth round undefeated, while Armored Shell Academy fell to five wins and five losses.
• Rouge Academy drew Blazing Fire Academy for the eleventh round, and the two teams' match became the round's main attraction.
• Liu Erlong explained the Extreme and Balanced styles and described the Five Great Element Academies and their backing.
• Li Chang'an recalled possessing Ultimate Lightning, Ultimate Fire, and Ultimate Ice as Liu Erlong warned that the Element Academies would be difficult opponents if he did not fight.

Liu Erlong explained the Extreme and Balanced approaches to Soul Master teams and warned Rouge Academy that Blazing Fire Academy combined specialized roles with powerful fire attacks. As the teams entered the arena, Li Chang'an spotted Huo Wu, Blazing Fire Academy’s level forty-three vice-captain and highest-level member.

• Liu Erlong explained how the five elemental academies favored extreme cultivation and how the other four had begun balancing specialized roles within their teams.
• Liu Erlong warned that Blazing Fire Academy’s overwhelming offense could target Rouge Academy’s numerous support Soul Masters, and Muxi blamed herself for not being an attacker.
• Li Chang'an reassured Muxi and led Meng Yiran, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Muxi, Ning Rongrong, and Hu Liena into the arena against Blazing Fire Academy.
• The teams entered the central arena as the crowd cheered, and Liu Erlong’s descriptions identified Huo Wushuang, the Fire Crane twins Huo Yun and Huo Yu, and the team’s support members.
• Li Chang'an saw Huo Wu, Blazing Fire Academy’s level forty-three control-type vice-captain, and felt drawn to her.

Li Chang'an and Rouge Team faced Blazing Fire Academy, whose coordinated opening attack centered on isolating him. Huo Wu trapped Li Chang'an in a four-sided assault, but he remained confident as the attackers unleashed their strongest skills.

• Li Chang'an and Huo Wushuang exchanged taunts before both teams released their martial souls and began the match.
• Blazing Fire Academy's coordinated flames empowered its fighters as Li Chang'an, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing engaged their opponents, supported by Ning Rongrong and Muxi.
• Li Chang'an used the Ultimate Fire in his sword to knock down one of the two agility-attack Soul Masters.
• Huo Wu used her third soul skill, Repelling Fire Ring, to send Li Chang'an, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing away from their opponents.
• Blazing Fire Academy's four attackers surrounded Li Chang'an and launched their third soul skills, while its Support System Soul Masters amplified their attack.
• Li Chang'an smiled at the oncoming assault and asked whether his fire was more authentic than theirs.

Li Chang'an faced Huo Wu’s fourth Soul Skill, a powerful attack fueled by the combined Soul Power of three Blazing Fire Academy members. He walked toward the seven opponents and let her blazing sun strike him, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Li Chang'an’s fiery sword strike knocked down four attackers and weakened the flames of Huo Wu and her teammates.
• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang signaled to each other, and the team’s two auxiliary Soul Masters channeled their power into Huo Wu.
• Huo Wu combined her fourth Soul Skill with their support to form a massive, incandescent fireball that Ning Fengzhi praised for its tightly controlled power.
• Li Chang'an told Rouge Team to hold their ground and advanced alone toward the opposing team.
• Huo Wu sent the blazing sun at Li Chang'an, who made no attempt to dodge or defend himself.

Rouge Academy defeated Blazing Fire Academy after Li Chang'an withstood Huo Wu's flames and revealed his overwhelming control over fire. As the teams left the arena, Feng Xiaotian offered Huo Wushuang an explanation for the loss, and Huo Wu confronted him about wanting to date her.

• Huo Wu's flames faded, revealing Li Chang'an standing unharmed in the arena.
• Huo Wu admitted defeat, giving Rouge Academy its eleventh straight victory and Blazing Fire Academy its first loss.
• Huo Wu glared at Li Chang'an and warned him they would meet again, and he calmly said he would be waiting.
• Xiao Wu and the other girls praised Li Chang'an, while Hu Liena told Ning Rongrong she wanted a chance to fight.
• Feng Xiaotian approached Blazing Fire Academy and argued that their loss came from elemental suppression, not inferior strength.
• Huo Wu asked Feng Xiaotian whether he wanted to date her that badly.

After Huo Wu offered Feng Xiaotian a chance to date her if he defeated the Rouge Team and Li Changsheng, Li Chang'an went out with Ye Lingling for food and reassured her about her future cultivation. The two left together, with Ye Lingling still concerned about reaching level fifty.

• Huo Wu told Feng Xiaotian she would agree to date him if he defeated the Rouge Team and Li Changsheng, then left with Huo Wushuang.
• Feng Xiaotian eagerly accepted Huo Wu's challenge and resolved to prove himself by defeating Li Changsheng.
• After the other girls went to bathe and rest, Li Chang'an asked Ye Lingling to accompany him out for food, and she agreed.
• Ye Lingling told Li Chang'an that her master had reached level fifty-eight with Spirit Hall's help and that she herself had reached level forty-four.
• When Ye Lingling worried about the level-fifty bottleneck, Li Chang'an reminded her he would help her break through, as he had before.

Li Chang'an took Ye Lingling to a night market, where the two shared food and drinks and grew closer. After Ye Lingling drank too much, Li Chang'an carried her back.

• Ye Lingling asked Li Chang'an to keep the sounds from his room down at night, and he apologized awkwardly.
• Li Chang'an brought Ye Lingling to a barbecue stall, where she revealed that she had often eaten at roadside stalls with her master when she was young and poor.
• Li Chang'an and Ye Lingling ordered skewers, dishes, and Shaomai Wine, and Ye Lingling removed her veil to eat.
• Several burly men tried to bother Ye Lingling, but she scared them away by bringing out a Tier-Two Soul Guiding Cannon.
• Ye Lingling drank more Shaomai Wine than Li Chang'an and got drunk, so he carried her back as she rested quietly in his arms.

Huo Wu clashed with Li Chang'an outside the arena, but chose to leave rather than start a fight with Rouge Academy. Rouge Academy then faced Canghui Academy on the main stage as the crowd anticipated another win, while Huo Wu remained furious in the rest area and the match began.

• Huo Wu deliberately bumped Li Chang'an, who steadied her when she lost her balance and challenged her, prompting the two academies to tense up.
• Huo Wu stopped Huo Wushuang from confronting Li Chang'an and dragged him away, disappointing Canghui Academy, which had hoped the teams would fight.
• Li Chang'an remarked to the Canghui Academy captain that he must have wanted them to fight before both teams entered the arena to loud cheers.
• The commentator predicted that Rouge Academy would win against Canghui Academy, angering both Canghui Academy and Blazing Fire Academy.
• Huo Wu blamed Feng Xiaotian for failing to defeat Rouge Academy, while Huo Wushuang told him that Li Chang'an had rammed into her.
• The Rouge Academy and Canghui Academy match began, and the competitors released their martial souls and Soul Rings.

Li Chang'an prepared Rouge Academy for its match against Canghui Academy and received a warning from Feng Xiaotian, who wanted to keep Li from losing before Divine Wind Academy faced him. The two teams took the field, where Canghui Academy’s hostile members appeared ready to avenge their missing teacher.

• Li Chang'an warned Rouge Academy that Canghui Academy had been concealing its strength and told the teammates to be careful.
• Feng Xiaotian visited Rouge Academy, encouraged them to defeat Canghui Academy, and warned Li Chang'an that they had seemed to hold back against Divine Wind Academy.
• Feng Xiaotian told his teammates he was supporting Rouge Academy so Li Chang'an would not be defeated before Feng could challenge him and win Huo Wu’s affection.
• Rouge Academy and Canghui Academy entered the arena for the third round, and Canghui Academy's seven members watched them with hostility, believing their teacher had been killed by Li Chang'an.

Rouge Academy faced Canghui Academy, whose apparently weak lineup concealed a coordinated team of gemstone martial souls. As Canghui Academy began a powerful formation technique and its members vanished inside a pillar of light, Xue Ye wondered whether it was a Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Technique.

• Li Chang'an warned Rouge Academy to stay alert and held his team back despite the spectators' impatience.
• Canghui Academy's captain moved to the center of a practiced hexagonal formation, and all seven members revealed gemstone martial souls.
• Canghui Academy's captain and the other six raised their gemstones and activated their fourth and third soul rings.
• Seven beams of colored light merged into a huge pillar that enveloped the formation and made Canghui Academy's members disappear.
• Xue Ye wondered aloud whether Canghui Academy had performed a Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Technique.

Canghui Academy trapped Rouge Academy in its seven-person Seven Shura Illusion Realm, but Li Chang'an recognized its weakness and countered with a stronger illusion. Canghui’s team collapsed, leaving Li Chang'an standing and Rouge Academy victorious.

• Ning Fengzhi judged Canghui Academy’s ability to be a powerful fusion skill, though not a true Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Technique, and spectators watched the seven control-type Spirit Masters unleash it.
• Canghui Academy’s Seven Shura Illusion Realm engulfed the arena, prompting the crowd and other teams to fear that Rouge Academy had been defeated.
• Li Chang'an told Canghui Academy that its illusion was weaker than Shi Nian’s Nightmare and used his own illusion skill against them.
• Canghui Academy’s members recognized the illusion as stronger than Shi Nian’s, then all seven fell bleeding and groaning when the light vanished.
• Li Chang'an remained standing while the other Rouge Academy members sat down to appear exhausted.

After Rouge Academy defeated Canghui Academy’s seven-person fusion technique, the team faced a joint investigation over the opponents’ catastrophic injuries. Li Chang’an dismissed the threat, but the organizing committee’s representatives arrived at the academy.

• Li Chang’an told the other academies that Rouge Academy had used a seven-person fusion technique, not the legendary Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Technique.
• Canghui Academy reported that its seven members had lost their ability to think and demanded punishment for Rouge Academy.
• The Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall formed a special investigative team and sent two healing-type Soul Sages to treat Canghui Academy’s members, but the treatment failed.
• Back at the academy, Liu Erlong and the others worried that Li Chang’an had gone too far, while he insisted the incident was not their fault.
• Xiao Mao reported that people from the organizing committee had arrived.

Li Chang'an and Liu Erlong met with organizing committee representatives Ning Fengzhi and Salas to investigate Canghui Academy’s complaint about the Rouge Team. Salas announced that the opponents’ injuries came from martial-soul backlash, clearing the Rouge Team, and left Liu Erlong wondering why Spirit Hall had been so reasonable.

• Li Chang'an reminded Ning Rongrong to let the investigation proceed normally, then joined Liu Erlong and Xiao Mao in welcoming Ning Fengzhi and Salas.
• Ning Fengzhi and Salas led the investigation delegation into the academy, and both chose to sit opposite Li Chang'an’s group rather than take the seats of honor.
• Salas explained that Canghui Academy had protested after all seven of its competitors became idiots, and Li Chang'an jokingly admitted the Rouge Team had struck too hard.
• Salas announced that the Canghui team’s condition resulted from backlash from their martial souls and had nothing to do with the Rouge Team.
• Ning Fengzhi left with Ning Rongrong and Gu Rong, while Liu Erlong questioned Li Chang'an about Spirit Hall’s unexpected reasonableness.

Rouge Academy returned to its winning ways after forfeiting two matches, and the preliminaries narrowed to a final-round showdown with Heaven Water Academy over their rankings. As both teams entered the arena, Shui Binger prepared to lead her team against Li Chang’an and Rouge Academy.

• Rouge Academy forfeited two matches to let its injured members rest, then resumed its winning streak as the preliminaries approached their final round.
• The leading teams’ standings established the six qualifiers, while Rouge Academy’s final match against Heaven Water Academy would decide which team took third place.
• Feng Xiaotian visited Rouge Academy to encourage Li Chang’an, prompting Xiao Wu to question why he kept repeating himself.
• Shui Binger warned Heaven Water Academy’s members not to underestimate Rouge Academy and urged them to give their all despite already qualifying.
• Heaven Water Academy and Rouge Academy entered the arena together for the final match of the preliminaries, drawing an excited crowd.

Rouge Academy and Heaven Water Academy began their final qualifier match, revealing Heaven Water Academy’s powerful lineup and Shui Binger’s formidable ice-based control. After Shui Binger froze several opponents, Li Chang'an broke free by coating his sword in ice, leaving her stunned that he also possessed an ice attribute.

• Rouge Academy and Heaven Water Academy entered the central arena for the final match of the qualifiers.
• Li Chang'an and Shui Binger introduced themselves as their teams took formation and revealed their soul rings.
• Shui Binger froze Li Chang'an, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong with her first soul skill, while her second skill armored Heaven Water Academy’s front line against Meng Yiran’s green mist.
• Li Chang'an shattered his own ice prison, then freed Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing with his sword.
• Shui Binger questioned how Li Chang'an could possess an ice attribute too.

Shui Binger and Xue Wu unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Ice Snow Drifting, against Rouge Academy. Li Chang'an and Zhu Zhuqing answered with a Martial Soul Fusion Skill of their own, and the two formidable creations faced off as the chapter ended.

• Xue Wu summoned dark clouds and freezing rain while Shui Binger used Ice Seal to hinder Rouge Academy's fighters.
• Li Chang'an ordered his team to attack, and Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing broke through their opponents' ice armor before Shui Binger forced Rouge Academy back with an icy ring.
• Shui Binger and Xue Wu joined together to unleash Ice Snow Drifting, sending a deadly snowstorm toward Rouge Academy.
• Li Chang'an sent everyone but Zhu Zhuqing off the arena, then used Omni-Martial Soul Link to form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with her.
• A towering figure appeared from Li Chang'an and Zhu Zhuqing's fusion as Shui Binger's Ice Phoenix took shape, and the two creations faced each other.

Li Chang'an and Zhu Zhuqing defeated Shui Binger and Xue Wu in a destructive clash of Martial Soul Fusion Skills, concluding the preliminary rounds in Heaven Dou City. Rouge Academy advanced to the promotion rounds, and Xue Ye began addressing the academy representatives at the awards ceremony.

• Li Chang'an and Shui Binger clashed with their ice-based Martial Soul Fusion Skills, destroying the arena and leaving Li Chang'an standing while Shui Binger conceded defeat.
• Li Chang'an explained that his Ice-Fire Immunity protected him from energy-form attacks but not physical restraints, and offered to help Shui Binger improve her Martial Soul.
• The referee confirmed the match result, and the preliminary standings placed Rouge Academy third, Shrek Academy and Blazing Fire Academy tied for fourth, and Heaven Water Academy fifth.
• Li Chang'an and Meng Yiran represented Rouge Academy at the ceremony, where the six advancing academies received qualification certificates and ten thousand Gold Soul Coins each.
• Xue Ye began congratulating the student representatives and lingered on Li Chang'an before speaking.