Chapter Summaries

Liu Yi used a Love Potion on Liu Erlong, and she fell in love with him after they spent the night together. The next morning, Liu Yi returned to Shrek Academy while Lin Mengyao and the other five continued grueling training at Heaven Dou Royal Academy ahead of the competition.

• Liu Yi gave Liu Erlong a Love Potion disguised as wine, and she drank it before confessing that she found him handsome.
• Liu Erlong and Liu Yi spent the night together, and the system rewarded Liu Yi with a 30,000-year Right Arm Burst Soul Bone and another Love Potion.
• Liu Yi and Liu Erlong returned in the morning, and Liu Erlong dismissed Grandmaster while watching Liu Yi leave.
• Liu Yi returned to Shrek Academy, where Flender and Zhao Wuji were training the Shrek Seven Devils less than three days before the competition.
• Lin Mengyao and the other five carried hundred-jin boulders up and down a mountain without using Soul Power as the Old Man watched.

Liu Yi reunited with his six students after their grueling training, fed them, and explained the tournament rules before naming their anonymous team and its captains. Two days later, the tournament opening ceremony began, and the host introduced Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two, including Liu Yi as the Sword Emperor.

• Old Man told Liu Yi that the students had trained for a full day without food or water, and Liu Yi found them cultivating on the mountaintop.
• Liu Yi cooked a soul beast for Lin Mengyao and the others, then told them to care for their bodies and eat before discussing the tournament.
• Liu Yi explained the tournament rules and said he would compete with the team without serving as its main force.
• Liu Yi named the group Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two, appointed Yang Tianlong captain and Lin Mengyao vice-captain, and said he would take them to the competition in two days.
• At the opening ceremony, the host introduced the twenty-eight teams and announced that Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two included Yang Tianlong and the Sword Emperor Liu Yi.

At the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, Shrek Academy won its opening match, then Liu Yi led Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team One into a hostile matchup against Phoenix Heaven Academy. After provoking their captain, Liu Yi left the fight to Yang Tianlong and the others as the match began.

• Xue Ye opened the tournament, and Ning Fengzhi addressed the participating Soul Masters.
• Salas drew the first-round matchups, pairing Shrek Academy with Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Three and Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team One with Phoenix Heaven Academy.
• Tang San revealed a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring, and the Shrek Seven Devils defeated Heaven Dou Royal Team within one minute.
• Liu Yi flew into the arena on the Seven Kill Sword while the rest of Heaven Dou Royal Team One entered through the passageway.
• Phoenix Heaven Academy's captain mocked Liu Yi's team, and Liu Yi told Yang Tianlong and the others to face them while he sat aside drinking wine.
• The host started the match as the crowd shouted for Phoenix Heaven Academy to take Liu Yi down.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team One crushed Phoenix Heaven Academy in seconds, drawing attention to Liu Yi and his students. After warning the team not to underestimate future opponents, Liu Yi spent time privately massaging Qian Renxue’s sore feet.

• The Phoenix Heaven Academy Captain attacked, but Yang Tianlong shattered his wolf skill, Qi Luo bound the opponents, and Long Yin’s magma attack helped knock them all unconscious.
• The referee declared Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team One the winner, and the crowd cheered for the Sword Emperor.
• Xue Ye learned that Liu Yi had trained the team, while Salas considered recruiting him without knowing Liu Yi’s true connection to Spirit Hall.
• Liu Yi praised the team’s coordination but warned Yang Tianlong that future matches would be harder.
• Qian Renxue entered Liu Yi’s room, complained that both her feet hurt, and asked him to massage them before she had to leave in half an hour.

Liu Yi’s Heaven Dou Royal Team One faced Cang Hui Academy in the preliminary match and won after brutally overwhelming them. The battered Cang Hui students surrendered, leaving their team with little chance to advance.

• Qian Renxue left Liu Yi after spending time with him, and the next day he arrived at the Great Soul Arena with his students.
• Cang Hui Academy mocked Liu Yi and his team, prompting Liu Yi to tell his students not to kill or cripple their opponents.
• Yang Tianlong, Long Yin, and the others attacked Cang Hui Academy, while Lin Mengyao’s control trapped the opposing team in place.
• Shi Nian called for surrender, and Liu Yi ordered his students to stop after Cang Hui Academy’s members had been badly injured.
• The host declared Heaven Dou Royal Team One the winner, securing their twelfth victory, while Xue Ye allowed the match to stand.

After Heaven Dou Royal Team One celebrated its twelfth victory, Liu Erlong reunited with Liu Yi and spent the night with him. The next day, she rejected Grandmaster and left him wondering why she had changed, while the tournament’s thirteenth-round match against Blazing Academy was about to begin.

• Heaven Dou Royal Team One celebrated its twelve victories when Liu Erlong arrived and asked to see Liu Yi.
• Liu Yi took Liu Erlong aside, and she embraced and kissed him before they spent the night together.
• Liu Erlong asked Liu Yi to spend more time with her, and he said he would visit Rongrong when he could.
• At the Great Soul Arena, Liu Erlong refused Grandmaster’s invitation to dinner and left the stands.
• Qin Ming told Zhao Wuji that he had smelled a man's scent on Liu Erlong, and Zhao Wuji told him to keep it secret.
• Dou Dou announced the thirteenth preliminary-round match between Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team One and Blazing Academy as spectators cheered.

Liu Yi revealed his Level 73 strength and hundred-thousand-year soul ring during Heaven Dou Royal Team One’s match against Blazing Academy. He left the arena victorious after shrugging off Blazing Academy’s attacks and defeating the entire team with sword qi.

• The arena audience and officials were stunned when Liu Yi revealed his Seven Kill Sword, Level 73 rank, and hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
• Huo Wushuang urged Huo Wu to surrender, but she refused, and the match began.
• Blazing Academy unleashed coordinated fire attacks, but Liu Yi remained unharmed and emerged calmly from the flames.
• Liu Yi swept the team away with sword qi, leaving Blazing Academy unable to continue fighting.
• The host declared Heaven Dou Royal Team One the winner, and the spectators cheered for the Sword Emperor.

Liu Yi deliberately let Shi Nian lure him into an illusion so he could obtain the Illusion Wisdom Skull Bone for Ning Rongrong, but he killed Shi Nian and an unknown man stole the bone. Back in his room, Liu Yi reflected on the growing threat from the Evil Soul Masters before Ning Rongrong brought him fruit.

• Xue Ye feared Liu Yi had enough backing to take over the Heaven Dou Empire, while Salas decided Liu Yi belonged in Spirit Hall.
• Liu Yi allowed Shi Nian to trap him in an illusion and learned that Shi Nian was an Evil Soul Master ordered to recruit or kill him.
• Liu Yi broke Shi Nian's illusion with his mask and snapped his neck after learning that Shi Nian did not know the Evil Soul Masters' headquarters.
• A black-clothed man appeared, seized the Illusion Wisdom Skull Bone, struck Liu Yi, and vanished after warning him not to reveal all his brilliance.
• Liu Yi returned to his room and worried that the Evil Soul Masters were targeting him, then accepted fruit from Ning Rongrong.

Ning Fengzhi warned Liu Yi that revealing his hundred-thousand-year soul ring had made him a target and urged him to leave the spotlight after the tournament. As threats mounted and Spirit Hall could not fully protect him, Liu Yi accepted that he would face the danger himself, then led Heaven Dou Royal Academy to a perfect promotion-round record.

• Ning Fengzhi told Liu Yi that his exposed talent had attracted dangerous enemies and advised him to seek experience away from the spotlight after the tournament.
• Liu Yi brushed aside Spirit Hall generals who tried to escort him to the Platinum Bishop and went to Qian Renxue's palace.
• She Long and Ci Xue warned Qian Renxue that powerful forces were mobilizing against Liu Yi, and Golden Crocodile Douluo's letter urged her to keep her distance from him.
• Liu Yi overheard Qian Renxue's dispute with her guards, left her room, and concluded that the danger was his tribulation.
• Liu Yi and Heaven Dou Royal Academy completed the promotion rounds with fourteen consecutive victories, and Xue Ye announced the results and assigned Xue Qinghe as the tournament envoy.
• Liu Yi led the teams back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where a gold carriage commissioned by Xue Ye awaited him.

Liu Yi’s convoy was ambushed in a mountain valley, and he used a Pope Token to reveal his status as a Spirit Hall elder. After learning that Bibi Dong had ordered the attack, he killed one of the attackers who tried to report to a higher authority, leaving the rest ready to fight.

• Red leaves, crows, and falling boulders signaled an ambush that trapped Liu Yi’s convoy and crushed many Heaven Dou royal guards.
• Liu Yi told Lin Mengyao and the other academy students to conserve their Soul Power as black-clothed attackers surrounded them from the cliffs and behind.
• Liu Yi displayed the Pope Token given by Qian Daoliu, prompting three Soul Douluo to kneel and acknowledge him as an elder.
• The attackers said that Pope Bibi Dong had ordered the ambush, and Liu Yi commanded them to withdraw to Spirit City.
• One Soul Douluo fled to report to his lord, but Liu Yi pursued and killed him with Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin.
• The Black-Clothed Old Man charged at Liu Yi in fury after the death of his third brother.

Liu Yi fought two Black-Clothed Old Men from Spirit Hall, revealing his hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and using the Seven Kill Sword Domain to weaken them. As one enemy completed his Eighth Soul Skill, a seemingly invisible bear-paw attack appeared beside Liu Yi, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Liu Erlong flew toward Liu Yi, but a black-clothed Spirit Hall fighter blocked her path.
• The Old Man and Second Brother ordered their fighters to attack the students while they joined forces against Liu Yi.
• Liu Yi revealed his hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and activated the Seven Kill Sword Domain, weakening the two Soul Douluo.
• Liu Yi broke Second Brother's vine attack and drove his Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin against both enemies.
• The Old Man unleashed Giant Bear True Form, and its roar knocked out Lin Mengyao and other weaker fighters.
• Liu Yi dodged a massive, nearly undetectable fiery-red bear paw that appeared beside him.

Liu Yi defeated the Old Man and Second Brother with his Golden Saint Dragon, but Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan arrived and demanded to know how he obtained the Pope Token. Yue Guan offered Liu Yi a place in Spirit Hall and threatened to kill him if he refused, while Chen Xin remained unable to come to his aid.

• The Old Man and Second Brother attacked Liu Yi with illusionary giant bears, but Liu Yi summoned the Golden Saint Dragon and drained their Soul Power.
• Yue Guan shattered the Golden Saint Dragon with his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, then sent the Old Man and Second Brother away.
• Yue Guan questioned Liu Yi about the Pope Token, but Liu Yi refused to explain how he got it.
• Yue Guan offered Liu Yi a position as a Spirit Hall elder and warned that Chen Xin was being held off by Old Ghost.
• Yue Guan gave Liu Yi one minute to choose between joining Spirit Hall and dying.

Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo attacked Liu Yi, while Dugu Bo tried to protect him. Liu Yi broke Yue Guan’s barrier and countered his powerful Soul Skills, then unleashed his Head Soul Bone’s second skill as the battle escalated.

• Yue Guan gave Liu Yi a final chance to submit to Spirit Hall, then launched his sixth Soul Skill when Liu Yi refused.
• Dugu Bo arrived and blocked Yue Guan, but Ghost Douluo appeared and attacked Dugu Bo to clear the way for Yue Guan.
• Liu Yi shattered Yue Guan’s Aura Barrier and used his Seven Kill Sword to counter the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum’s assault.
• Yue Guan unleashed his eighth Soul Skill, pinning Liu Yi down with golden pillars as their battle drew the attention of those nearby.
• Liu Yi activated his Head Soul Bone’s second skill, Holy Light, and sent a massive golden blast toward Yue Guan.

Liu Yi defeated Yue Guan but suffered catastrophic injuries and collapsed, prompting the Spirit Hall attackers to retreat. Physicians warned that Liu Yi might not survive, leaving Chen Xin and the others anxiously gathered around him.

• Liu Yi's attack overwhelmed Yue Guan's Ninth Soul Skill, leaving Yue Guan unconscious and sending Liu Yi crashing into the mountainside.
• Liu Yi spat blood and fainted, while Gui Mei carried Yue Guan away and the black-clothed attackers withdrew.
• Dugu Bo and the others found Liu Yi gravely wounded, and Chen Xin took him from Dugu Bo as Ning Rongrong also fainted.
• The group waited outside the tent while Dugu Bo explained that Spirit Hall had targeted Liu Yi and that other academy teams had suffered heavy casualties.
• Physicians reported that Liu Yi's ribs were broken and his organs damaged, and warned that he might not hold on despite his extraordinary resilience.
• Chen Xin entered the tent to hold Liu Yi's hand while the others remained outside.

After Liu Yi was gravely injured in the ambush, Qian Renxue poured her Angel Soul Power into him to save him, while he met Qin Feng in the Inner World. Liu Yi awoke, but Qian Renxue fainted from exhaustion, and he learned that his golden vital blood might be able to revive her.

• Qian Renxue asked Chen Xin to leave so she could treat Liu Yi, then used her Angel Soul Power to heal him.
• In the Inner World, Qin Feng told Liu Yi that he had nearly died and that Qian Renxue was trying to save him.
• Bibi Dong questioned Yue Guan about the ambush, learned of Liu Yi's spiritual energy and the heavy losses, and ordered the others to await the teams' arrival in Spirit City.
• Liu Yi awoke in the tent, but Qian Renxue fainted against him after exhausting her Soul Power.
• After the other Heaven Dou Empire teams departed for Spirit City, Qin Feng told Liu Yi to use his vital blood to treat Qian Renxue, and Liu Yi drew out golden blood.

After saving Qian Renxue with his blood, Liu Yi reached Spirit City and reunited with his friends at the tournament. He caught Bibi Dong’s attention and agreed to help Shrek Academy’s students improve their coordination, with something more still to tell them.

• Liu Yi weakened from giving Qian Renxue his Origin Blood Essence, while Qin Feng lent him Soul Power until Qian Renxue recovered.
• Liu Yi took Qian Renxue to Spirit City, where the guards admitted him after he showed the Pope Token.
• Liu Yi reunited with Ning Rongrong, Chen Xin, and the others at Shrek Academy’s quarters as Qian Renxue returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s side.
• Qin Feng warned Liu Yi that Bibi Dong had consumed a powerful Titled Douluo and possessed the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
• Liu Yi winked at Bibi Dong, whose heart raced when she saw him, and he later agreed to help Shrek Academy’s students improve their coordination.

Liu Yi decided to leave after the tournament and pursue dangerous training, including Slaughter City, despite his companions’ concerns. In Pope’s Hall, Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong for ordering the attack on Liu Yi and warned that she would oppose her to protect him, while Bibi Dong resolved to stop Liu Yi from growing stronger.

• Liu Yi told Flender and the others that he planned to train elsewhere after the tournament, considering Slaughter City and the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Liu Erlong and Flender warned Liu Yi that Slaughter City was exceptionally dangerous, but Liu Yi said he wanted to obtain the Killing God Domain and destroy Hell Road so Tang San could not claim it.
• Dai Mubai suggested that Liu Yi train at sea, while Ning Rongrong clutched Liu Yi’s arm and Zhu Zhuqing watched them silently.
• Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong in Pope’s Hall and threatened Gui Mei and Yue Guan over their attack on Liu Yi.
• Qian Renxue told Bibi Dong that she loved Liu Yi and would protect him, warning that they would become enemies if Bibi Dong attacked him again.
• Bibi Dong let Qian Renxue leave and vowed to prevent Liu Yi from growing stronger and make his allies pay.

Qian Renxue confronted the Grand Elders over their failure to protect Liu Yi, then left without finding Qian Daoliu. The next morning, Liu Yi joined Shrek for the tournament match against Heaven Dou Royal Academy and announced that he would face them alone.

• Qian Renxue stormed into the Elder Hall, demanded to see Qian Daoliu, and told Golden Crocodile Douluo to tell him that the matter was not over.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo told the other Grand Elders to let the matter rest and privately acknowledged Liu Yi's potential to become the next Pope.
• Liu Yi woke beside Liu Erlong, and the two later arrived at the competition grounds with Flender and Grandmaster.
• Bibi Dong presented three soul bones as prizes and announced that the teams would compete for places in the finals.
• Shrek and Heaven Dou Royal Academy entered the arena for their match, and Liu Yi told his teammates to stand aside so he could train them alone.

Liu Yi overwhelmed Shrek Academy in the tournament final, defeating Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Oscar before the team surrendered. Heaven Dou Royal Team One advanced to the championship match the next morning.

• The Shrek Seven Devils attacked Liu Yi with their Soul Skills, but he emerged unharmed from Ma Hongjun’s magma strike.
• Liu Yi rushed Dai Mubai, interrupted Zhu Zhuqing’s attack, and struck Dai Mubai hard enough to injure him.
• Liu Yi broke Tang San’s Blue Silver Cage and knocked him unconscious with a punch.
• Liu Yi slammed Oscar into the arena floor, then spared Ma Hongjun and addressed Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu.
• Shrek Academy surrendered, and the hosts declared Heaven Dou Royal Team One the winner and announced the championship match for the next morning.

Liu Yi told Flender that Tang San had killed a student during Liu Yi’s Soul Saint breakthrough, and Flender agreed to investigate before acting. The next morning, Liu Yi faced Spirit Hall Academy’s Golden Generation in the tournament final and shattered their opening attacks with one sword strike.

• Liu Yi told Flender and Liu Erlong that Tang San had killed a student with hidden weapons, and Liu Erlong wanted to kill him immediately.
• Liu Yi stopped Liu Erlong from acting without evidence, while Flender promised to investigate and expel Tang San if the accusation proved true.
• The next morning, Liu Yi entered the tournament final against Spirit Hall Academy’s Golden Generation as both sides’ supporters cheered.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Bewitching Phantom, while Yan attacked Liu Yi with his Magma Surge soul skill.
• Liu Yi used his first soul skill, Break, to send Bewitching Phantom flying and shatter Yan’s fourth soul skill, leaving Yan stunned.