Chapter Summaries

Xia Tianling revealed his Dawnbreaker identity during the match against Godwind Academy, forcing Feng Xiaotian to abandon his original plan and launch a coordinated attack. The two Agility Attack System Soul Ancestors failed to break Xia Tianling’s defensive shield, while their teammates prepared a large-scale wind-based skill.

• Xia Tianling walked into the air using his self-created Nine Revolutions Heaven-Treading Steps, surprising Godwind Academy and the spectators.
• A fan recognized Xia Tianling as Dawnbreaker, and Xia Tianling confirmed his identity as the Spirit Hall Academy Team captain.
• Huo Wu realized that the opponent she had faced the previous day was her former idol, Dawnbreaker.
• Feng Xiaotian ordered Godwind Academy to begin its Burst tactic, sending two Agility Attack System Soul Ancestors to attack while four teammates prepared a combined skill.
• The two Soul Ancestors unleashed their strongest attacks, but Xia Tianling’s defensive shield blocked them without taking damage.

Xia Tianling defeated the two Soul Ancestors sent to harass him and overwhelmed Feng Xiaotian’s Thirty-Six Consecutive Wind Wolf Slashes. Godwind Academy completed its Death Tornado, leaving Xia Tianling facing the team’s dangerous trump card.

• Xia Tianling turned his wind shield into giant fists, knocking out the Azure Bird Spirit Soul Ancestor and catching the Falcon Spirit Soul Ancestor after striking him unconscious.
• Feng Xiaotian attacked with wind blades and Twin Wolf Possession to buy time for his teammates to prepare their Combined Soul Skill.
• Xia Tianling dodged Feng Xiaotian’s wind blades and countered each of his Thirty-Six Consecutive Wind Wolf Slashes with punches, breaking his wings and knocking him onto the arena.
• Feng Xiaotian’s four teammates completed Death Tornado, a massive vortex of wind blades that rushed toward Xia Tianling as Feng Xiaotian warned him to concede.

Xia Tianling defeated Godwind Academy by dismantling its Death Tornado and forcing the team to surrender, then suggested Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wu might form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Over the next half month, Xia Tianling kept winning as Flender’s pursuit of Liu Erlong made progress in front of Yu Xiaogang.

• Xia Tianling fired cyan arrows into the Death Tornado until its wind blades stalled and the Combined Soul Skill collapsed.
• Xia Tianling stopped six more arrows before the Godwind Team’s members, and the team surrendered; the referee declared Spirit Hall Academy the winner.
• Xia Tianling suggested Feng Xiaotian try to form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Huo Wu, who agreed to try it later.
• Salas told Xia Tianling that the betting houses had refunded wagers on his statistics and suspended betting.
• Xia Tianling spent the following days cultivating and watching matches while opponents often surrendered, extending his winning streak by more than ten victories.
• Flender continued watching matches with Liu Erlong in front of Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong gradually accepted Yu Xiaogang’s deception and softened toward her students.

Xia Tianling faced Skywater Academy in the tournament’s eighteenth round and revealed that he could wield a powerful Water Domain and Ultimate Ice. The match continued as he overwhelmed the Sky Water Girls with ice techniques, while Xue Wu began dancing at the rear of their formation.

• Xia Tianling checked the system records and learned that Liu Erlong had turned against Yu Xiaogang and that Flender had cut ties with him.
• Xia Tianling faced Skywater Academy after the other teams had forfeited their matches, and he and Shui Bing'er introduced themselves before the contest began.
• Shui Yue'er teased Xia Tianling about revealing his level and offered to introduce him to Shui Bing'er, but Xia Tianling said he already liked someone.
• Shui Bing'er used Ice Seal as the Skywater team attacked, but Xia Tianling countered with his Boundless Water Domain and formed armor from Ultimate Ice.
• Xia Tianling blocked the girls' attacks and struck back with ice needles and other ice skills as Xue Wu began dancing at the rear of Skywater Academy's formation.

An ordinary boy with a system containing thousands of Technology Trees tried to advance technology on Douluo Continent despite having no Soul Power, but famine and an Evil Soul Master cut his life short. The story ended by contrasting his failure with Huo Yuhao’s later rise, before the author added a note about writing the side story after watching a match.

• The boy was born to a poor farming family, awakened a hoe martial soul without Soul Power, and began learning smithing after his parents died.
• He built a crude steam engine, discovered that the continent lacked essential resources, and turned to electricity, creating a small hand-cranked generator.
• At age ten, he fled famine with a group of refugees, but a level 98 Evil Soul Master massacred them and killed him.
• The Evil Soul Master crushed the boy’s generator, and the army later melted his steam engine prototype into molten iron.
• Nineteen hundred years later, Huo Yuhao was born, created Soul Spirits, revived the Tang Sect, and ascended to godhood.

Xia Tianling defeated Skywater Academy in the tournament, overcoming Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu's Ice Snow Drifting with a technique that pulverized their Ice Phoenix. After the match, Shui Bing'er asked how he had learned their skill by watching it once.

• Xia Tianling froze and threw two Skywater Academy Soul Elders out of the arena, while Shui Yue'er helped the remaining teammates withdraw.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Ice Snow Drifting, and trapped Xia Tianling in a blizzard of cutting snowflakes.
• Xia Tianling endured the first stage of Ice Snow Drifting with his replenishing Ice Crystal Battle Armor and urged Shui Bing'er to use the skill's second stage.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu summoned a giant Ice Phoenix, but Xia Tianling formed a sphere of rapidly moving ice crystals that pulverized it.
• Skywater Academy surrendered, and Xia Tianling caught Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu safely before the referee declared Spirit Hall Academy the winner.
• Shui Bing'er asked Xia Tianling how he could use Ice Snow Drifting after seeing it once.

After defeating Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu, Xia Tianling invited the Sky Water Girls to dinner and used the gathering to build ties with Skywater Academy. The girls learned that Xia Tianling and Zhu Zhuqing were exceptionally young yet powerful, while Shui Yue'er remained determined to match her sister with him.

• Xia Tianling explained that he had copied Shui Bing'er's simpler ice techniques and had prepared a chair for her and Xue Wu before they nearly collapsed.
• Shui Yue'er tried to set Xia Tianling up with Shui Bing'er, but he said he already liked Zhu Zhuqing; Shui Bing'er froze Yue'er in embarrassment.
• Xia Tianling invited the Sky Water Girls to dinner, and their teacher approved the outing before leaving them at the Spirit Hall Sanctuary.
• Shui Bing'er and the other girls enjoyed Xia Tianling's cooking, and their relationship with him grew closer.
• Xia Tianling told the girls that thirteen-year-old Zhu Zhuqing was a level forty-five Soul Ancestor and that he was fourteen, leaving them stunned.
• Shui Yue'er muttered that older women gained a gold brick and insisted that Shui Bing'er still had a chance with Xia Tianling.

Xia Tianling recruited Skywater Academy graduates for Spirit Hall by offering them work in singing, dancing, and music, then planned to form a girl group to expand Spirit Hall’s cultural influence. Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu remained hesitant, while Xia Tianling saw the performance group as the next step in his broader effort to build a distinct Spirit Hall culture.

• Xia Tianling asked the Skywater Academy girls about their plans after graduation, and they described a range of uncertain career ideas.
• Shui Bing'er explained that Skywater Academy required every student to master at least one artistic skill, commonly singing or dancing.
• Xia Tianling invited the girls to work for Spirit Hall in artistic roles and promised generous benefits, including help obtaining future soul rings.
• Most of the girls eagerly accepted Xia Tianling’s offer, while Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu hesitated.
• After the girls left, Xia Tianling planned to form a performance group and use it to spread Spirit Hall’s cultural influence.

Xia Tianling’s long-term plan to weaken the empires through Spirit Hall’s growing support for commoners continued as the preliminaries reached their final match. He faced Thunder Academy captain Yu Tianxin, whose team was determined to defeat him, and the match began with Yu Tianxin angrily challenging him.

• Xia Tianling continued laying groundwork to spread Spirit Hall’s influence and ideas among commoners across Douluo Continent.
• After Xia Tianling defeated Sky Water Girls, Spirit Hall merchandise sales and discussion surged, with booklets about its policies and recruitment reaching commoners.
• Xue Ye read the booklets and realized Spirit Hall was competing with Heavenly Dou Empire for people, but he felt unable to stop it.
• Thunder Academy entered the final preliminary match with its strongest lineup, led by Yu Tianxin, and planned to overwhelm Xia Tianling with lightning-fast attacks.
• Yu Tianxin said he would defeat Xia Tianling to prove he was stronger than Yu Tianheng, and Xia Tianling questioned his reasoning.
• The referee started the match between Spirit Hall Academy and Thunder Academy.

Thunder Academy launched a coordinated lightning assault that trapped Xia Tianling, but he absorbed every attack and rose above the arena on a throne of thunder. As Ning Fengzhi predicted the match’s outcome, Xia Tianling prepared to unleash Heavenly Punishment.

• Lei Dong spread a lightning net across the arena and imprisoned Xia Tianling in his Spirit Binding Ring while Thunder Academy’s members charged and fired their skills.
• Yu Tianxin and the other Thunder Academy fighters unleashed a barrage of lightning attacks, expecting Xia Tianling to be defeated or lose his footing.
• Xia Tianling let every attack strike him, absorbing the lightning and shattering Lei Dong’s Spirit Binding Ring.
• Xia Tianling rose into the air and formed a massive throne of lightning beneath himself, leaving Yu Tianxin stunned.
• Ning Fengzhi told Xue Ye that the match’s outcome was decided, and Gu Rong explained that lightning was Xia Tianling’s strongest attribute.
• Xia Tianling calmly declared, “Heavenly Punishment.”

Xia Tianling defeated Thunder Academy to finish the qualifiers undefeated and secure Spirit Hall Academy’s first-place ranking. At the awards ceremony, Xue Ye offered noble titles to the advancing students, while Xia Tianling allowed the ceremony to proceed.

• Xia Tianling overwhelmed Thunder Academy with controlled Thunder Spears, knocking out Yu Tianxin and his teammates without seriously injuring them.
• The host announced Spirit Hall Academy’s victory, marking Xia Tianling’s twenty-eighth consecutive win and the end of the qualifiers.
• The final rankings placed Spirit Hall Academy first, Godwind Academy second, Thunder Academy third, and Blazing Fire Academy and Skywater Academy tied for fourth.
• Xia Tianling joined the top teams onstage as Xue Ye and the other officials handed out qualifying credentials and prize money.
• Xue Ye offered viscount titles to the eight advancing team representatives and baron titles to their teammates, while Salas did not intervene.

At the competition ceremony, Xue Ye offered rewards to attract the academies’ strongest students, but Xia Tianling countered with Spirit Hall’s recruitment offer. The students were left eager to register with Spirit Hall, while Xue Ye departed humiliated.

• Xue Ye promised noble titles, royal academy status, funding, and soul beasts to students who excelled in the ranking tournament.
• Xia Tianling asked Blue Sunshine Academy captain Zhang Yong about his plans after graduation and invited him to join Spirit Hall.
• Xia Tianling offered graduates Spirit Hall assignments, generous treatment, help obtaining future soul rings, and possible soul bone rewards for outstanding contributions.
• The students erupted in excitement, and Xia Tianling directed interested applicants to register at the Spirit Hall Sanctuary one week later.
• Xue Ye left in embarrassment after Spirit Hall’s offer overshadowed his own, and the academy teachers recognized the recruitment drive as a contest between the Empire and Spirit Hall.

Yu Xiaogang schemed to use the upcoming war and the academy tournament to restore his reputation while Flender and Liu Erlong grew closer. Flender visited Xia Tianling to report Yu Xiaogang, but his guess that Xia was Spirit Hall’s Holy Son prompted two Titled Douluo to threaten him.

• Yu Xiaogang watched Liu Erlong and Flender together and planned to use the Imperial Dou Team’s Seven-in-One Fusion Spirit Ability to defeat Xia Tianling’s team.
• Liu Erlong encouraged Blue Tyrant Academy’s students to seek Spirit Hall assessments after graduation, while Flender arranged to take her to the tournament finals.
• Flender left the academy and visited Xia Tianling at the Spirit Hall Sanctuary in Heaven Dou City to report Yu Xiaogang for plagiarizing Spirit Hall’s theories.
• Xia Tianling questioned why Flender had approached him, and Flender guessed that he was Spirit Hall’s Holy Son based on his authority and influence.
• Elder Ju and Elder Ghost released killing intent against Flender, and Xia Tianling told them to withdraw their pressure.

Xia Tianling offered Flender and Liu Erlong a place in Spirit Hall in exchange for reorganizing Blue Tyrant Academy and helping him publicly ruin Yu Xiaogang. He explained that Liu Erlong’s academy and commoner-focused education were valuable to Spirit Hall’s plans.

• Xia Tianling revealed that he knew about Flender and Liu Erlong’s grievances with Yu Xiaogang, while Yue Guan appeared and rebuked Flender for trying to use the Holy Son.
• Xia Tianling offered to help expose Yu Xiaogang if Flender and Liu Erlong joined him and Blue Tyrant Academy became Spirit Hall Academy, with its graduates working for Spirit Hall.
• Xia Tianling gave Flender three days to discuss the offer with Liu Erlong, and Flender hurried back to Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Ghost Douluo questioned the value of recruiting Flender and Liu Erlong, so Xia Tianling explained Liu Erlong’s achievements and Blue Tyrant Academy’s potential as a source of commoner talent.
• Xia Tianling concluded that widespread education would help Spirit Hall develop talent and advance social transformation.

Xia Tianling agreed to help Liu Erlong ruin Yu Xiaogang’s reputation in exchange for Blue Tyrant Academy, then assigned Liu Erlong and Flender roles in its reorganization. The chapter left Flender humbled and set to become Liu Erlong’s assistant at the renamed Spirit Hall Academy Advanced Branch.

• Liu Erlong agreed to hand Blue Tyrant Academy to Xia Tianling in return for revenge on Yu Xiaogang.
• Xia Tianling promised Liu Erlong and Flender that Yu Xiaogang would face public disgrace at the finals.
• Xia Tianling appointed Liu Erlong dean of the Spirit Hall Academy Advanced Branch and told her to remain at the academy.
• Xia Tianling berated Flender for Shrek Academy’s poor teaching record and accused him of wasting talented students.
• Xia Tianling assigned Flender to assist Liu Erlong with academy administration and forbade him from teaching.

Xia Tianling spent a month cultivating and preparing for the ranking tournament, where Spirit Hall Academy entered the Heavenly Dou Empire region. As the tournament began, he watched other teams compete while the rivals he had defeated in the preliminaries drew attention to him.

• Xia Tianling focused on cultivation while discussing Blue Tyrant Academy's merger and overseeing Spirit Hall merchandise sales.
• Fifteen teams gathered at the Royal Hunting Grounds for the Heavenly Dou Empire ranking tournament, and Spirit Hall allies learned about Xia Tianling's strength.
• Xia Tianling arrived at the grounds and imagined building a huge cavalry force equipped with Godly Zhuge Crossbows.
• The ranking tournament began at the Royal Knights' drill ground with a one-on-one round-robin format and Xue Ye watching from the stands.
• Xia Tianling learned that Spirit Hall Academy would face Plant Academy in its first round and watched the matches as Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, Feng Xiaotian, Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and Yu Tianxin looked toward him.

Xia Tianling faced Plant Academy in the ranking matches and used Ultimate Fire to sweep through its members, whose plant-based abilities could not withstand the flames. Plant Academy’s fire-resistant final Soul Ancestor entered the arena, while Tang San gave up on learning from the match.

• The Imperial Dou Team watched the ranking matches, mainly to observe Xia Tianling, and noted that the duchy and kingdom academies were weaker than the top Heaven Dou teams.
• Xia Tianling, roused from sleep, faced Plant Academy’s level forty-one Vine Spirit Soul Ancestor and burned through his vine shield with Ultimate Fire.
• The Vine Spirit contestant surrendered, and Xia Tianling cooled him with a Rainfall Technique before going on to win six consecutive rounds against Plant Academy.
• Plant Academy’s teacher sent its remaining members to exhaust Xia Tianling, but Xia Tianling’s Soul Power recovered faster than he could spend it.
• Plant Academy’s final Soul Ancestor, whose Blazing Thorns Martial Soul resisted fire, stepped onto the stage as Tang San concluded there was nothing useful to learn from Xia Tianling’s flames.

Xia Tianling defeated Plant Academy by burning the Blazing Thorns Spirit Master's attacks, then controlling his opponent's martial soul with the Verdant Myriad Revival Wooden Domain. Spirit Hall Academy was declared the winner, and Xia Tianling returned to his seat as the competition continued.

• The Blazing Thorns Spirit Master attacked Xia Tianling with thorn growths and Thorn Rain, but Xia Tianling burned them away with Ultimate Fire and blocked the spikes with a Flame Shield.
• After the Blazing Thorns Spirit Master demanded a fight without fire, Xia Tianling revealed his wood-element abilities and summoned the Verdant Myriad Revival Wooden Domain.
• Xia Tianling took control of the Blazing Thorns, binding their owner with his own martial soul and forming a cage around him while Tang San and the spectators watched.
• The Plant Academy teacher surrendered, and Xia Tianling released the Blazing Thorns Spirit Master's martial soul before gently pushing him out of the arena.
• The announcer declared Spirit Hall Academy the victor over Plant Academy, and Xia Tianling returned to his reclining chair.

Xia Tianling won the ranking match against the Imperial Dou Team, leaving Tang San’s teammates suspicious after he used several of Tang San’s spirit skills. Later, Xia hosted a meal at Spirit Hall’s camp, where Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Skywater Academy’s Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er arrived; he and Vice Dean Shui reached a temporary agreement about the sisters and Skywater graduates joining Spirit Hall for experience.

• Xia Tianling defeated the Imperial Dou Team, and its members questioned Tang San after Xia used spirit skills with the same names as his.
• Yu Xiaogang urged the Imperial Dou Team to stay united and avoid internal conflict.
• Xia Tianling set up his luxurious wilderness camp and served a meal cooked with help from Spirit Hall’s staff, drawing attention from nearby academies.
• Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan entered Spirit Hall’s camp and joined Xia’s meal, followed by several girls from Skywater Academy and Vice Dean Shui.
• Vice Dean Shui discussed Shui Bing’er, Shui Yue’er, and Skywater Academy’s graduates with Xia Tianling, and they reached a temporary agreement for Shui Bing’er to gain experience at Spirit Hall before returning to become dean.

Xia Tianling secured Spirit Hall’s recruitment and investment arrangements with Skywater Academy, then dominated the tournament’s ranking rounds as rival teams repeatedly surrendered. He traveled ahead to Spirit City with Skywater Academy and powerful companions, where the finals were being prepared for an unprecedented public audience.

• Xia Tianling and Vice Dean Shui agreed that Spirit Hall could recruit Skywater Academy graduates and provide resources in exchange for purchasing priority, while Shui Bing'er remained at the academy.
• Xia Tianling’s Balak Kingdom opponent surrendered, and teams including Huo Wu’s and Xue Ye’s feared his strength and worried about Spirit Hall’s growing influence.
• Over the half-month ranking rounds, Xia Tianling won all fourteen matches despite appearing only once, while Feng Xiaotian led Godwind Academy to second place.
• Xia Tianling sent Skywater Academy ahead with Spirit Hall’s group, then flew toward Spirit City with Ghost Douluo and several powerful allies, intending to deepen Spirit Hall’s hold over the academy.
• Spirit Hall opened the finals to common spectators and sold a limited number of expensive presale tickets to nobles; Xia Tianling returned to Spirit City in two days while practicing spatial spells.