Chapter Summaries

Xiao Heng tested the academy’s Soul Masters to select a team for the Advanced Soul Master Tournament, promising soul bones to those who qualified. After eliminating runners through an endurance test, he left eight candidates competing for five remaining places.

• Xiao Heng gathered students above level thirty Soul Power and split them into support and combat Soul Master groups.
• Xiao Heng announced that only seven students would make the team and promised soul bones to candidates who met his requirements.
• Xiao Heng ordered the students to run without using Soul Power, expelled one who cheated, and added timed eliminations for the slowest runners.
• Ning Fei and a girl in gray passed the support Soul Master test, and Xiao Heng gave them medicinal pills.
• Xiao Heng told the six remaining combat Soul Masters that only five places remained, and they accelerated despite their exhaustion.

Xiao Heng completed his selection of seven prospective Glazed Academy team members, revealed his Soul King strength, and began their training by challenging them to defeat him together. He offered a soul bone to anyone who could injure him, and the seven launched their first coordinated attack as Xiao Heng readied his sword.

• Xiao Heng finalized the five who endured the selection and told the other candidates they could still join by defeating an official team member before the matches.
• Xiao Heng showed the selected youths his five soul rings, confirmed that soul bones would be available, and heard each member introduce themselves, including Xuelian, Feng Jing, Mu Qing, Wang Zi, Zhang Xiaoxiao, Hou Ju, and Ning Fei.
• Xiao Heng learned from their written profiles that Xuelian’s poisonous healing could only weaken opponents, then led the group to the Soul Fighting Arena for training.
• Xiao Heng ordered all seven to attack him together and offered a soul bone to anyone who could injure him.
• The seven activated their martial souls and attacked Xiao Heng with their soul skills, while Xiao Heng infused his sword with Soul Power and gathered a Black Dragon-shaped sword aura.

Xiao Heng put seven youths through a brutal day of team-combat training, then gave each of them a cultivation method and medicinal liquid to aid their recovery and progress. Ning Fengzhi approved Xiao Heng’s plans and granted him broad authority over the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s resources.

• Xiao Heng overwhelmed the seven youths with a sword strike, then taunted them into coordinating their attacks against him.
• Xiao Heng restrained himself during repeated training bouts, pushing the group to improve while the teachers watched and Venerable Wang agreed to fulfill his requests.
• Xiao Heng gave the exhausted youths pills during breaks and ordered supplies for training before continuing the sessions until nightfall.
• Xiao Heng visited each youth’s dormitory and left a new cultivation method and medicinal liquid to accelerate cultivation, strengthen their bodies, and help them recover.
• Ning Fengzhi instructed his subordinate to follow Xiao Heng’s directions and let him allocate the sect’s resources, then celebrated the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s prospects.

Xiao Heng took God's Team to the Great Spirit Arena and forced the seven students to face their first seven-versus-seven death match. They won, but Xiao Heng immediately scheduled another match and planned to push them toward level forty before the tournament.

• Xiao Heng brought the seven students to the Great Spirit Arena and registered them as God's Team for a death match.
• The students hesitated, but Feng Jing and the others filled out their forms and agreed to fight while Xiao Heng watched from behind the glass.
• God's Team reorganized during the battle and killed every opponent, winning their first death match with Ning Feng as the only injured teammate.
• Xiao Heng distributed healing pills, accepted the team's badges and cards, and ordered another death match for the following day.
• Xiao Heng took the team back to the academy, intending to raise all seven students above level forty before the preliminary tournament.

Xiao Heng led the seven members of Before Gods through a week of deathmatches and Soul Power training, then began a second training stage with pills tailored to each of them. He left them with Venerable Wang to take the pills over the next fifteen days, hoping they would endure the side effects and grow stronger.

• Xiao Heng’s team won another deathmatch, then repeatedly depleted and recovered their Soul Power with pills as part of a weeklong training routine.
• Over seven days, the team grew more composed and improved their coordination through daily fights and training.
• Xiao Heng announced the end of the first stage and gave each team member custom pills or liquid, explaining how and when to use them.
• Xiao Heng warned the team that the pills could cause great pain or other side effects, and set the second stage to last fifteen days.
• Xiao Heng asked Venerable Wang to monitor the team and contact him if anything went wrong, then left.

Xiao Heng kept Ling'er as his maid, grew more comfortable with her, and spent nights hunting villains to increase his Soul Power. He returned to Shrek Academy to check on the girls and encountered Ma Hongjun, who hoped Xiao Heng could cure his cultivation-related problem.

• Xiao Heng learned the cat-eared girl's name was Zhao Xiaoling, called her Ling'er, and let her stay as his maid.
• Xiao Heng hunted villains in Heaven Dou City for several nights, absorbing their cultivation but gaining only one Soul Power level.
• Ling'er offered to serve Xiao Heng in bed, and he cared for her the following morning.
• Xiao Heng set out for Shrek Academy and met Ma Hongjun, who was taking him to the training grounds.
• Xiao Heng told Ma Hongjun he might be able to cure his problem but asked him to consider what he could offer in return.

Xiao Heng visited Shrek Academy, reunited with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, and learned how their cultivation had advanced before leaving to prepare for the tournament as a rival. He left Zhu Zhuqing with a promise to help her face the Star Luo Empire’s team, while the Grandmaster watched him go, wishing he were his student.

• Xiao Heng watched Shrek’s training, then told the assembled students that he would compete in the tournament for an academy affiliated with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Xiao Heng joined Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others for lunch, while Dai Mubai left after seeing Zhu Zhuqing gravitate toward Xiao Heng.
• Xiao Heng learned that Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing had both surpassed Level 40 and that their Martial Souls had evolved; he gave them cultivation advice and pills.
• Xiao Heng promised to help Zhu Zhuqing deal with the Star Luo Empire’s team and said he might arrange for her to face her personal opponent.
• Xiao Heng noticed Ma Hongjun and the others eavesdropping outside the classroom and recognized that Xiao Wu was a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast, but chose not to intervene.
• Xiao Heng left Shrek Academy, and the Grandmaster watched him go and lamented that Xiao Heng was not his student.

Xiao Heng spent the night in Xue Qinghe’s bed, teasing the disguised Qian Renxue before leaving for Dugu Bo’s residence. There, Dugu Bo warned him that Xue Qinghe might have been involved in the deaths of two princes, but Xiao Heng questioned the source of the accusations and cautioned Dugu Bo against getting involved.

• Xiao Heng visited Xue Qinghe at the Crown Prince’s Mansion and playfully insisted they sleep in the same bed.
• Qian Renxue fell asleep beside Xiao Heng, then learned the next morning that he had left for Dugu Bo’s residence without waking her.
• Dugu Bo summoned Xiao Heng and warned him not to get too close to Xue Qinghe.
• Dugu Bo recounted how the Second and Third Princes had died from what appeared to be poison inflicted through a Soul Master’s martial soul, leaving Xue Qinghe as the greatest beneficiary.
• Xiao Heng challenged Dugu Bo about who had shared the accusations and why, then advised him not to get involved and said the informant could not be trusted.

Xiao Heng finished settling Dugu Bo’s doubts about Xue Qinghe, then spent fifteen days training and strengthening himself and God's Team. After the team reported major gains, he began their third training stage by challenging them to defeat him, but easily repelled their coordinated opening attack.

• Xiao Heng warned Dugu Bo to question why others had shared confidential political matters with him, and Dugu Yan agreed that Dugu Bo should avoid Xue Xing and Xue Beng.
• Xiao Heng dismissed the imperial factional struggle and spent the night eliminating three more evil strongholds.
• Over fifteen days, Xiao Heng and God's Team grew stronger, and the team members endured painful training with the resources he provided.
• Feng Jing, Ning Fei, Zhang Xiaoxiao, Mu Qing, Hou Ju, Wang Zi, and Xuelian reported gains of five to seven Soul Power levels, and Xiao Heng announced the third training stage.
• Xiao Heng ordered God's Team to defeat him, then used Sweep the Eight Directions to break apart their coordinated attacks and leave Wang Zi's shield shattered.
• Xiao Heng told the team to continue, and the seven prepared another attack using the coordination they had built through life-and-death battles.

Xiao Heng led his seven students through grueling training and a forced march to the Star Dou Great Forest, where he began helping them select soul beasts for their fourth soul rings. The group entered the forest at night and prepared to hunt, with Xuelian absorbing a Blue Toad's soul ring and Zhang Xiaoxiao claiming a glowing insect.

• Xiao Heng and the seven fought for two more days before he ordered them to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest without using Soul Power and reach it within five days.
• The group completed the exhausting journey on foot and rested before entering the forest at night.
• Xiao Heng instructed everyone to prepare for battle, spread powder to attract soul beasts, and warned them that over a hundred beasts might appear.
• Dozens of soul beasts gathered, and Xiao Heng used the Flying Sky Divine Claw and his sword to capture and weaken an eight-thousand-year-old Blue Toad for Xuelian.
• Xuelian killed the Blue Toad and began absorbing its purple soul ring while Ning Fei guarded her.
• Xiao Heng cut the wings off a glowing insect for Zhang Xiaoxiao, who enveloped it in flames.

Xiao Heng helped his team absorb suitable soul rings while keeping the surrounding soul beasts at bay, then gave Feng Jing a soul bone that might help him reach level fifty. The team completed their absorptions, and Feng Jing remained one level short of his breakthrough as they prepared to continue toward the tournament.

• Zhang Xiaoxiao and the others chose suitable soul beasts and absorbed their soul rings while Xiao Heng guarded them.
• Xiao Heng killed a silent black crow before it could strike Feng Jing and found a thousand-year right arm soul bone in its body.
• Xiao Heng offered Feng Jing the soul bone in exchange for forfeiting his share of the tournament rewards, and Feng Jing accepted it.
• Feng Jing absorbed the soul bone, but its power and the remaining medicinal energy raised his Soul Power only to one level below fifty.
• Zhang Xiaoxiao, Monkey, Mu Qing, Wang Zi, Ning Fei, and Xuelian completed their soul ring absorptions, while Xiao Heng told everyone to keep watch as he rested.
• Feng Jing explained how he obtained the soul bone, and the others teased him until he agreed to provide three days' worth of meals.

Xiao Heng and the seven Glazed Academy students faced the Black Wolf Bandits as the group’s final training trial. After Xiao Heng killed Black Wolf, he forced the surviving bandits to fight the students, and the battle left the middle-aged second leader charging at Ning Fei and Xuelian.

• Xiao Heng sensed approaching enemies, and Mu Qing identified them as Black Wolf’s bandits led by the Soul Emperor Black Wolf.
• Xiao Heng killed Black Wolf with one sword strike and ordered the seven students to kill the remaining bandits as their fourth training stage.
• The students fought the bandits with coordinated attacks, while Xiao Heng blocked the survivors’ escape and forced them to return to battle.
• The students’ teamwork, Xuelian’s control, and Ning Fei’s support helped them kill bandits, but the middle-aged leader drove Feng Jing back and charged toward Ning Fei and Xuelian.
• Zhang Xiaoxiao struck the middle-aged leader with a firebird, but a Colorful Tiger phantom leaped from the flames toward Ning Fei.

After surviving Xiao Heng’s final life-or-death training, the seven Glazed Academy students recovered and prepared for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Competition. The tournament’s Heaven Dou division opened with the team arriving at the Great Spirit Arena, where their confidence and playful banter eased their nerves.

• The seven defeated the Black Wolf Bandits after Xiao Heng intervened to save them, then returned to the academy injured and completed their fourth stage of training.
• Xiao Heng gave the team thirteen days to rest before the tournament, while his medicines helped them recover and continue training.
• Feng Jing reached level fifty-one, and the team’s Soul Power levels were recorded on the day before the tournament.
• Xiao Heng and the seven entered the renovated Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena in Glazed Academy uniforms as spectators admired them.
• Hou Ju joked about winning the championship and attracting girls, and he and Wang Zi bickered until the team laughed and relaxed.

Xiao Heng led Glazed Academy into the tournament, where its first match was scheduled for the next day. After Ning Fengzhi promised the team a spirit bone each if they won the championship, Xiao Heng and Tang San acknowledged that their teams would meet as rivals.

• Xiao Heng led Glazed Academy onto the battle platform, and Emperor Xue Ye declared the tournament open.
• Salas drew the lots, pairing Glazed Academy with Oakland Academy and Shrek Academy with Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team.
• Xiao Heng told his teammates that Shrek Academy was strong enough to defeat its first opponent but weaker than their team, and Shrek went on to win its match.
• Ning Fengzhi met Glazed Academy outside the arena and promised each team member a spirit bone if they won the championship.
• Ning Rongrong greeted Xiao Heng and then reunited with her father, while Ning Fengzhi spoke with the Shrek team.
• Xiao Heng and Tang San shook hands and agreed to meet on the battle platform as opponents.

Xiao Heng and Ning Fengzhi agreed to offer Tang San Distraction Control only in exchange for his Hidden Weapon manufacturing methods. After Little Grass warned that bringing people to the Battle Through the Heavens world was dangerous, Xiao Heng chose to focus on cultivation and killed Shi Nian after catching him abducting a girl.

• Xiao Heng advised Ning Fengzhi to trade Distraction Control to Tang San for the manufacturing methods of his Hidden Weapons, and Ning Fengzhi agreed.
• Xiao Heng told Ning Fengzhi he had reached level sixty-two, concealing that he had already obtained his next soul ring.
• Little Grass warned Xiao Heng against bringing people to the Battle Through the Heavens world and said he could return to kill the beings in the sky after reaching Dou Sheng or Dou Zun.
• Xiao Heng decided to cultivate, then followed Shi Nian after seeing him use his power to lure a girl away from a stall.
• Shi Nian's mental attack failed against Xiao Heng's Spiritual Power, and Xiao Heng killed him, absorbed his Soul Power, and dissolved his corpse.

Glazed Academy dominated the tournament and entered the top four undefeated, while Xiao Heng reached level seventy-nine after absorbing Shi Nian’s Soul Power. On the eve of the decisive match against Shrek Academy, he offered to cure Ma Hongjun’s evil fire in exchange for joining the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Ma Hongjun agreed.

• Xiao Heng collected Shi Nian’s soul bone, left the unconscious girl safely at a hotel, and gained four Soul Power levels from Shi Nian’s refined energy, reaching level seventy-nine.
• Glazed Academy overwhelmed Oakland Academy in its opening match, and the spectators celebrated its seven fighters’ overwhelming strength.
• Bibi Dong received a report on Glazed Academy’s powerful members and its mysterious captain, Xiao Heng.
• Glazed Academy won its subsequent matches, including against the Five Elemental Academies, and entered the top four undefeated.
• Flender brought Ma Hongjun to Xiao Heng before Glazed Academy’s match against Shrek, asking him to cure Ma Hongjun’s evil fire.
• Xiao Heng offered to cure Ma Hongjun if he joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as a core disciple and accepted the duty of protecting it, and Ma Hongjun agreed.

Xiao Heng examined Ma Hongjun’s mutated phoenix martial soul and promised to find a way to repair its flaw, while Shrek Academy prepared a battle plan for the next day’s match against Glazed Academy. The chapter ended with the match still ahead and Xiao Heng undecided about competing.

• Xiao Heng examined Ma Hongjun’s martial soul and discovered that its mutation had left it with a flaw.
• Xiao Heng said he had a possible solution involving the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and a fire-attribute Magic Core, but needed two days to study how to combine them.
• Flender and Ma Hongjun left after Xiao Heng declined their offer of a celebration and warned Flender to prepare for the next day’s match.
• Flender and the Grandmaster assigned the Shrek Seven Devils a battle plan, with Tang San set to fight first and use the Eight Spider Lances.
• Flender said Shrek Academy should surrender immediately if Xiao Heng entered the match, while the Grandmaster urged the team to exploit Glazed Academy’s possible carelessness.
• Xiao Heng considered whether to compete, believing the match’s outcome would be decided the next day.

Glazed Academy’s Feng Jing defeated Shrek Academy’s Tang San in the first duel of their promotion match. Tang San was carried from the arena, while Glazed Academy took the lead.

• Xiao Heng assigned Glazed Academy’s lineup and warned his teammates that he expected them to win without his intervention.
• Emperor Xue Ye announced the match, and both teams sent out their first fighters: Feng Jing and Tang San.
• Feng Jing attacked from the air as Tang San filled the arena with Blue Silver Grass and tried to form a Blue Silver Cage.
• Tang San used his Eight Spider Lances to block Feng Jing’s golden spiral and nearly struck him, but Feng Jing avoided the blow.
• Feng Jing overwhelmed Tang San with repeated attacks, and Grandmaster conceded the duel.
• The host declared Feng Jing the winner of the first round, and Shrek Academy rushed to help the badly injured Tang San.

Glazed Academy defeated Shrek Academy to win first place in the Heaven Dou Empire Selection Tournament, and Xiao Heng led his team into the celebrations. After the team enjoyed a night out, they dispersed to rest.

• Dai Mubai and Feng Jing fought to a draw, while Mu Qing defeated Ma Hongjun and Xiao Wu before Zhu Zhuqing narrowly defeated Zhang Xiaoxiao and Hou Ju defeated Zhu Zhuqing.
• Grandmaster conceded for Shrek Academy, and Emperor Xue Ye announced Glazed Academy as the tournament's first-place team.
• Salas warned that the finals were still ahead, while Emperor Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi discussed Spirit Hall's growing power and the empire's dependence on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Xiao Heng congratulated Grandmaster and Ma Hongjun after the match, then Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing joined Xiao Heng's team as they left to celebrate.
• Xiao Heng treated the team to food and entertainment, while Ning Rongrong rode on his back and Hou Ju embarrassed himself by calling Zhu Zhuqing his sister-in-law.
• The group celebrated until deep into the night, then rented rooms and went to rest.

Xiao Heng prepared Glazed Academy for the tougher finals in Spirit City and traveled with the Heaven Dou Empire delegation. As the large convoy passed halfway along its route, he warned his teammates that an attack might be coming.

• Xiao Heng told Glazed Academy to rest and cultivate before departing, then warned them that the finals could include Soul Ancestors, Soul Kings, and powerful fusion skills.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Sword Douluo to protect the teams on their journey while Bone Douluo stayed behind to guard the sect, and the two elders bickered over Xiao Heng.
• Xue Qinghe led the Heaven Dou Empire’s fifteen teams and their escort toward Spirit City, with Xiao Heng, Dugu Bo, and Sword Douluo traveling in his carriage.
• After the convoy had covered more than half the journey, Xiao Heng warned Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and his team to protect themselves if disturbances occurred ahead.