Chapter Summaries

Xia Tianling used Golden Halberds Weighing Ten Thousand Jun and Brilliant Bloom to cripple the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, then called on Bibi Dong to finish the fight. Bibi Dong revealed her newly empowered Destruction Demon Scythe and charged the tiger after it tried to flee.

• Xia Tianling unleashed Golden Halberds Weighing Ten Thousand Jun, stunning the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and opening distance between them.
• Xia Tianling struck the tiger’s tail with Brilliant Bloom, but its Evil God's Protection shield endured with many cracks.
• Xia Tianling asked Bibi Dong to take over while he restored his Soul Power through the Wood Domain.
• Bibi Dong revealed that the Rakshasa Demon Scythe had become the Destruction Demon Scythe and showed her powerful Second Martial Soul rings.
• Da Ming restrained Er Ming when Bibi Dong’s aura reached them, while the frightened Dark Demon Evil God Tiger tried to flee.
• Bibi Dong used Eternal Creation against the tiger, then spread her wings and charged after it.

Xia Tianling and Bibi Dong outmaneuvered the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to make it activate the Arena of Life and Death, then Xia Tianling entered the arena with a Flying Sword. The match began with Xia Tianling prepared to face the tiger.

• Bibi Dong overwhelmed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger while steering their fight toward Xia Tianling.
• The tiger tried to trap Xia Tianling in a black hole, but Xia Tianling shattered its defenses with Soul Judgment.
• Xia Tianling revealed that he and Bibi Dong had staged the fight to make the tiger use the Arena of Life and Death.
• Inside the arena, Xia Tianling mounted a system-exchanged Flying Sword, stunning the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• The arena announced that the match would end only when one side died, then began the fight.

Xia Tianling defeated the juvenile Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with his protected Flying Swords and returned to the Star Dou Great Forest with its Life Pearl. He absorbed the pearl, while the Water Fire Dragon King devoured the resulting Soul Shock and shared some of it with the Thunderous Hellvine.

• Xia Tianling blocked the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Dark Demon Evil Lightning with his Flying Sword's barrier, then killed it with the Gengxin Sword Art.
• Xia Tianling returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Bibi Dong imprisoned the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Life Pearl and handed it to him.
• Xia Tianling recovered his Soul Power and swallowed the Life Pearl with his Dawnbreaker Martial Soul.
• The Water Fire Dragon King devoured the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Soul Shock and refined part of it to feed the Thunderous Hellvine's soul.

Xia Tianling absorbed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's bead and spirit ring, survived a strange internal lightning tribulation, and advanced to Soul Emperor. After returning to Spirit Hall, he set out to enter the tournament alone and make a public debut for himself and Spirit Hall.

• Xia Tianling absorbed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's bead, gained Fate Power, and let the system provide Zhou Weiqing with a replacement cheat.
• Xia Tianling endured the Tribulation of Returning to Void, activated his healing abilities, and advanced to level sixty-three Soul Emperor.
• Xia Tianling gained a dark crimson spirit ring with Arena of Life and Death and Attribute Guard, while his Spiritual Power approached the middle stage of the Spirit Domain Realm.
• Xia Tianling spent a day with Old Jack, then traveled to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to compete in the tournament.
• Xia Tianling planned to represent Spirit Hall alone in the Heavenly Dou Empire's competition zone and use the tournament to display Spirit Hall's strength.

Xia Tianling reviewed the tournament’s complicated rules, then spent two months cultivating at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect before attending the Heaven Dou opening ceremony as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son. He met Xue Ye in the VIP room and took a central seat on the rostrum with him.

• Xia Tianling organized the tournament rules and criticized their confusing formats and loopholes.
• Xia Tianling spent the two months before the tournament cultivating in seclusion at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• The Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena hosted the tournament’s opening ceremony before a huge crowd in Heaven Dou City.
• Salas introduced Xia Tianling to Xue Ye in the VIP room, where Xia Tianling and Xue Ye exchanged polite compliments.
• Xia Tianling and Xue Ye took the center seats in the first row of the rostrum, while Salas and Ning Fengzhi sat beside them.

At the tournament opening ceremony, Xia Tianling announced that he would lead a second Spirit Hall team through the preliminaries and offered seven high-quality soul bones as the championship prize. He left Emperor Xue Ye and Prince Xue Xing angered by his maneuver, while Yu Xiaogang watched and resolved to take advantage of Xia Tianling’s participation.

• Yu Xiaogang spotted Xia Tianling speaking with Emperor Xue Ye and silently nursed his hatred.
• After the opening speeches, the draw paired Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Spirit Hall Academy, and Xia Tianling announced that he would lead a second Spirit Hall team in the preliminaries.
• Xia Tianling challenged the audience to admit their resentment over seeded teams and promised the Spirit Hall seeded team would forfeit if his team failed to qualify.
• Xia Tianling offered seven soul bones over fifty thousand years old as the championship prize and said he chose the Heavenly Dou Empire because he considered it stronger than the Star Luo Empire.
• Emperor Xue Ye and Prince Xue Xing realized Xia Tianling had changed the plan and felt furious as the audience cheered his announcement.
• The announcer scheduled Spirit Hall Academy versus Heaven Dou Royal Academy as the first match, and Yu Xiaogang decided to exploit Xia Tianling’s participation.

Xia Tianling faced the Imperial Dou Second Team alone in the tournament’s opening match and defeated all seven members in three seconds without using his Martial Soul or Soul Skills. Xue Ye realized Xia Tianling had chosen to compete in the Heavenly Dou Empire to make the match’s result spread widely.

• Xia Tianling entered the arena alone and told the Imperial Dou Second Team that he could win by himself.
• The Imperial Dou Second Team’s five Assault System Soul Masters charged Xia Tianling, who knocked three of them out with finger flicks.
• Xia Tianling moved past the captain’s metal-ring control skill, shattered the ring, and flicked the captain and support Soul Master out of the arena.
• Xia Tianling sent the remaining lion and black bear Soul Masters flying with two more finger flicks, ending the match in three seconds.
• The audience fell silent, Yu Xiaogang snapped his pen in shock, and Xue Ye realized Xia Tianling had entered the tournament to spread word of his victory.

Xia Tianling easily defeated Imperial Dou Second Team and entered the preliminaries expecting to face Blue Sunshine Academy. He let Blue Sunshine Academy activate its Seven-in-One Spirit Soul Fusion Skill, leaving the match poised for the skill’s first test against him.

• Xia Tianling defeated Imperial Dou Second Team in three seconds without summoning his spirit soul, and Spirit Hall Academy was declared the winner.
• A red-eyed young man watched Xia Tianling and vowed to defeat him and erase his past humiliation.
• Salas told Xia Tianling that Blue Sunshine Academy, led by his sparring partner Ye Zhi Qiu, would be his next opponent.
• Xia Tianling faced Blue Sunshine Academy alone and invited its captain to use the Seven-in-One Spirit Soul Fusion Skill.
• Blue Sunshine Academy’s seven members combined their soul rings and spirit souls into a towering seven-colored pillar of light that engulfed them.

Xia Tianling effortlessly broke Blue Sunshine Academy’s Seven Asura Illusory Realm and secured Spirit Hall Academy’s victory. After the match, Shi Nian thanked him for sparing the team, and Xia Tianling asked after Ye Zhi Qiu.

• Blue Sunshine Academy used its seven-in-one fusion skill to trap Xia Tianling in the Seven Asura Illusory Realm, while Yu Xiaogang watched with intense interest.
• Xia Tianling found the illusion crude and ineffective against his powerful Spiritual Power, then broke free and knocked down the academy’s captain with a forehead flick.
• The captain surrendered, and the referee announced Spirit Hall Academy’s victory as the spectators erupted in cheers.
• Shi Nian respectfully thanked Xia Tianling for showing mercy, and Xia Tianling asked how Ye Zhi Qiu had been.

Xia Tianling's victories spread his fame through Heaven Dou City, and he faced the Elephant Armored Sect's team in the third round of the preliminaries. After meeting Huyan Zhen, he began a match against Huyan Li and six other heavily built opponents.

• Xia Tianling warned Shi Nian not to misuse his Illusion Techniques, prompting Shi Nian to abandon his crooked plans and urge his team to befriend Xia Tianling.
• Xia Tianling's two crushing victories made him a major topic in Heaven Dou City, while Dai Mubai resumed secluded training to pursue another breakthrough before the finals.
• Salas told Xia Tianling that his next opponent was the Elephant Armored Sect and brought him to meet its sect master, Huyan Zhen.
• Huyan Zhen knelt before Xia Tianling and asked him to show mercy and guide his grandson, Huyan Li.
• Huyan Li and the six Academy of Earth team members revealed their martial souls, and the third-round match began.

Xia Tianling used earth-element Self-Created Soul Skills to stop the Elephant Armored Sect’s charge and topple its fighters. He let Huyan Li’s team prepare another attack, promising to demonstrate real defense.

• Xue Ye fell silent as Huyan Zhen flattered Salas, while the battle between Xia Tianling and the Elephant Armored Sect began.
• Huyan Li led his seven teammates in a coordinated charge, but Xia Tianling slowed them with a Self-Created Soul Skill.
• Xia Tianling shook the arena with Earthquake Technique, making all seven Elephant Armored Sect members fall and drawing astonishment from the spectators.
• Spectators rushed to bet that Xia Tianling’s martial soul had the Earth Attribute, and the odds quickly shifted.
• Xia Tianling invited Huyan Li to use his full strength, and Huyan Li and two Soul Ancestors activated their Fourth Spirit Skills to cover themselves in diamond-like armor.

Xia Tianling defeated Elephant Armored Academy by weakening the force of their attacks and turning their momentum aside with a flexible barrier. After Huyan Li conceded, Xia Tianling demonstrated how force could miss its target to explain the principle behind his technique.

• Huyan Li and the other six members of Elephant Armored Academy charged Xia Tianling with their Crushing Strike, but he weakened their falls with Gravity Spell and deflected them with a soft earthen barrier.
• Xia Tianling repaired the damaged arena floor with Quicksand Spell and Solidification Spell, then Huyan Li conceded the match.
• The referee declared Spirit Hall Academy the winner, while Huyan Zhen and Salas praised Xia Tianling's strength.
• Huyan Li followed Xia Tianling after the match and asked him to explain how the soft barrier had overcome the hard attack.
• Xia Tianling demonstrated with a stone slab and parchment that the men's force could miss its target, then tore the paper himself by gripping it with both hands.

Xia Tianling taught Huyan Li how to redirect an opponent’s force, then watched Flender reunite with Liu Erlong during the tournament. The chapter left Flender speaking coldly about Yu Xiaogang as Liu Erlong leaned on his shoulder, while Yu Xiaogang watched in anguish.

• Xia Tianling showed Huyan Li how dodging and redirecting force could lessen the impact of an attack.
• After the tournament’s first six rounds, Xia Tianling recalled finding Flender secretly meeting Liu Erlong during the match against Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Flender told Liu Erlong that Shrek Academy was gone and that he now taught at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Liu Erlong invited Flender to become dean of Blue Tyrant Academy and offered to rename it Shrek, but Flender hesitated to accept the academy she had built.
• Liu Erlong leaned on Flender and asked why Yu Xiaogang had not sought her out in twenty years, while Yu Xiaogang sat behind them, distressed.
• Flender told Liu Erlong that perhaps there had never been a place for her in Yu Xiaogang’s heart.

Flender told Liu Erlong that Yu Xiaogang had become selfish and endangered his students, then showed her books proving that the theories Yu Xiaogang claimed as his own were already common knowledge. Liu Erlong broke down after realizing Yu Xiaogang had deceived them, while Flender held her and blamed him for ruining their lives and students.

• Flender tested whether Yu Xiaogang would approach Liu Erlong, then left with her when Yu Xiaogang made no move.
• In a private room, Flender recounted Yu Xiaogang's actions involving Dai Mubai and Tang San.
• Flender showed Liu Erlong library books documenting the theories Yu Xiaogang had claimed to have researched himself.
• Liu Erlong realized Yu Xiaogang had passed off existing knowledge as his own and wept as Flender comforted her.

Xia Tianling faced Blazing Fire Academy alone in the first match of the eighth round, while the crowd expected him to extend his winning streak. He revealed powerful flames and a Fire Domain that suppressed his opponents, leaving Blazing Fire Academy stunned as the match continued.

• Xia Tianling entered the arena to face Blazing Fire Academy, whose formation was led by Huo Wushuang and included the Level Forty-Three Control System Soul Ancestor Huo Wu.
• Huo Wushuang challenged Xia Tianling, and the referee ordered both sides to release their Martial Souls and begin the match.
• Blazing Fire Academy launched a coordinated attack, with its support students gathering sparks to strengthen the team's flames.
• Xia Tianling answered with purple and white flames, startling Blazing Fire Academy and the spectators.
• Xia Tianling unleashed Blazing Fire Roar and the Fire Domain, suppressing Blazing Fire Academy's flames and making its Martial Souls seem to submit.

Xia Tianling used his Flame Domain and powerful fire techniques to overwhelm the Blazing Academy team. He eliminated Huo Wushuang and the Fire Leopard Soul Master, then countered the Fire Crane Soul Masters and left them badly hurt.

• Xia Tianling revealed his Flame Domain, shocking the spectators and VIPs, then challenged Huo Wushuang and his teammates to attack.
• Xia Tianling summoned two Vermilion Birds to block the team's fire attacks and struck Huo Wushuang with a flaming Miao Dao.
• Xia Tianling kicked the Fire Leopard Soul Master out of Martial Soul Possession, then overcame Huo Wu's Repelling Fire Ring with True Dragon Hegemony Body and knocked Huo Wushuang and the Fire Leopard Soul Master out of the arena.
• The Fire Crane Soul Masters shattered one Vermilion Bird and attacked Xia Tianling from four directions, but he defended himself with Walls of Flames.
• Xia Tianling reshaped the Walls of Flames into a ring and blasted both Fire Crane Soul Masters, combining extreme cold and heat to leave them in agony.

Xia Tianling defeated Huo Wu and Blazing Fire Academy by countering Huo Wu’s Blazing Sun Dance with a weakened version of Buddha’s Fury Lotus. He stood unharmed on the arena’s only intact patch and told the referee that Spirit Hall would compensate for the damage.

• Xia Tianling repaired the cracked arena while Huo Wu and her teammates regrouped, and Huo Wu realized how much his power had disrupted their martial souls.
• Huo Wu used her Blazing Sun Dance, combining the Soul Power of two support teammates to form a blazing white sun aimed at Xia Tianling.
• Xia Tianling created a small seven-colored fire lotus and sent it into the sun, causing Huo Wu’s attack to collapse and vanish.
• Xia Tianling snapped his fingers, detonating the lotus and knocking Blazing Fire Academy’s remaining five members out of the arena without seriously injuring them.
• The explosion melted most of the arena floor, and Xia Tianling asked the referee to announce the result and said Spirit Hall would pay for the damage.

Xia Tianling defeated Blazing Fire Academy without using his Spirit Soul and left Huo Wu shaken by revealing that he knew about her Ring Fusion Skill. Huo Wu challenged Feng Xiaotian to defeat Xia Tianling if he wanted to date her, leaving Godwind Academy to face the prospect of challenging him.

• The referee declared Spirit Hall Academy the winner after Xia Tianling single-handedly defeated Blazing Fire Academy with precise flame control.
• Huo Wu struggled to understand the gap between her strength and Xia Tianling’s, and he praised her before quietly telling her he looked forward to her Ring Fusion Skill in the finals.
• Feng Xiaotian arrived with Godwind Academy and promised to avenge Huo Wushuang, while insisting that Xia Tianling had won because fire happened to suit him.
• Huo Wu asked Feng Xiaotian if he wanted to date her, then said she would agree if he defeated Xia Tianling and left with Huo Wushuang.

Xia Tianling used his tournament fame to expand Spirit Hall’s influence and deliberately provoke its rivals, then arranged for his next match to be against Godwind Academy. Feng Xiaotian, convinced a victory would win Huo Wu’s affection, approached Xia Tianling before their match.

• Huo Wu gave Feng Xiaotian a chance to prove himself, and Feng Xiaotian vowed to defeat Xia Tianling and win her over.
• Salas reported that Xia Tianling’s marketing plan had made him famous, and Xia Tianling ordered Spirit Hall merchandise to be sold across the Heavenly Dou Empire.
• Xia Tianling told Salas that Spirit Hall wanted to provoke dissatisfaction among its rivals, then ordered him to arrange a match against Godwind Academy.
• Feng Xiaotian celebrated the draw against Xia Tianling, believing it was his chance to become famous and marry Huo Wu.
• The teams gathered in the competitors’ rest area, where Xia Tianling lounged in a recliner and Feng Xiaotian walked over to speak with him.

Xia Tianling met Feng Xiaotian before their match, revealing that he knew about Feng Xiaotian’s self-created soul skill and his feelings for Huo Wu. As the ninth-round showdown began, Godwind Academy fielded a flying lineup designed to counter Xia Tianling, who still had not revealed his martial spirit.

• Feng Xiaotian introduced himself to Xia Tianling and declared that he hoped to defeat him in the arena.
• Xia Tianling identified Feng Xiaotian’s abilities and guessed that Huo Wu had promised to be his girlfriend if he won.
• The audience gathered for the final match between Xia Tianling and undefeated Godwind Academy, while Huo Wu said Feng Xiaotian’s chances of winning were extremely low.
• Feng Xiaotian led Godwind Academy’s seven members in releasing their martial spirits and taking to the air.
• Xia Tianling recognized Godwind Academy’s flying lineup as a deliberate counter to his strengths and welcomed the start of the match.