Chapter Summaries

Long Yun, Hu Liena, and Long You Jing entered the hunting grounds after Salas ordered the royal knights to let them pass. The chapter revealed how Qian Ren Xue and Dugu Bo had arranged Xue Beng’s assassination and framed the Star Luo Empire, then left Long Yun greeting Xue Ye and needling Ning Fengzhi.

• Salas arrived, recognized Long Yun, Hu Liena, and Long You Jing, and ordered the royal knights to stand down.
• Salas escorted Long Yun and the two women through the gate, where they met Xue Ye, Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, and Sword Douluo.
• Long Yun recalled how Qian Ren Xue and Dugu Bo had killed Xue Beng and framed the Star Luo Empire, worsening relations between the two empires.
• Long Yun and Hu Liena greeted Xue Ye, while Long You Jing declined to bow.
• Long Yun greeted Ning Fengzhi as Uncle Ning, making Ning Fengzhi uneasy.

Long Yun and the Spirit Hall group arrived at the Heaven Dou Royal Hunting Ground, where he clashed verbally with Xue Ye before inspecting the Royal Knights’ impressive camp. After Zhu Zhuqing rejected Tang San’s demand that she distance herself from Spirit Hall and learned her family had canceled her engagement, she joined Long Yun and Long You Jing, while Shrek Academy confronted the gap in power between itself and Spirit Hall.

• Ning Fengzhi learned that Long Yun was both the Divine Palace’s Young Master and Spirit Hall’s Saint Child, and Xue Ye welcomed Long Yun’s group to watch the Advancement Tournament.
• Long Yun mocked the idea that Spirit Hall would spy on Heaven Dou’s military secrets, angering Xue Ye, then toured the Royal Hunting Ground with Salas and admired the Royal Knights’ discipline and strength.
• After Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe told Tang San that Long Yun was Spirit Hall’s Saint Child, Tang San treated him as an enemy and urged Zhu Zhuqing to distance herself from Long You Jing and Spirit Hall.
• Zhu Zhuqing rejected Tang San’s request, declared she would compete in the tournament and leave afterward, and learned that Long You Jing had persuaded the Zhu and Dai families to cancel her engagement and leave her alone.
• Ning Fengzhi told Shrek Academy that Hu Liena was level fifty-nine and Long Yun was level thirty-nine, leaving Tang San and the others discouraged about their chances in the tournament.
• Zhu Zhuqing found Long Yun and Long You Jing, and Long Yun asked Salas to arrange a larger residence beside Shrek Academy for the four of them.

Long Yun watched the Continental Elite Soul Master Academy Tournament, assessed Shrek Academy’s strength, and hinted to Ning Fengzhi and Xue Ye that Tang San might be connected to the Clear Sky Sect. He revealed that Spirit Hall would award three Soul Bones to the champions, hoping the news would motivate Tang San to compete in the Finals.

• Long Yun persuaded Zhu Zhuqing to stay with them so she could receive guidance, and she agreed.
• At the tournament, Blazing Academy quickly defeated Fabia Academy, while Dai Mubai and Tang San led Shrek Academy to victory over Barak Academy.
• Hu Liena questioned Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass, and Long Yun raised the possibility that Tang San was connected to the Clear Sky Sect; Ning Fengzhi and Xue Ye denied it.
• Long Yun announced that Spirit Hall would offer three Soul Bones as the tournament’s champion reward, shocking the VIP audience.
• Long Yun told Long You Jing that he had revealed the prize to motivate Tang San to enter the Finals.

Tang San decided to strengthen his Clear Sky Hammer to challenge Spirit Hall Academy for the Three Soul Bones, and secretly absorbed four powerful Ten Thousand-Year Soul Rings, though the conflicting Soul Power worried Grandmaster. After the Advancement Tournament, Long Yun hurried back to Spirit City to expose Yu Xiaogang as he sought a cultivation method for Tang San.

• Ning Fengzhi told Shrek Academy that Spirit Hall had offered three Soul Bones as the competition's final rewards, and Grandmaster urged the team not to lose confidence despite Spirit Hall Academy's strength.
• Tang San proposed adding four Soul Rings to his Clear Sky Hammer and using the Seven-in-One Fusion Skill to defeat Spirit Hall Academy; Grandmaster agreed it might work, and Zhu Zhuqing promised to keep the plan secret and cooperate.
• Flender and Liu Erlong took Tang San to Sunset Forest, where he added four Ten Thousand-Year Soul Rings, including a twenty-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring, and rose to the peak of level forty-eight.
• Tang San led Shrek Academy through victories, while Grandmaster worried that conflicting Soul Power from his Twin Martial Souls could endanger him.
• After the Advancement Tournament ended, Long Yun returned to Spirit City with Long You Jing and said he intended to expose Yu Xiaogang, who had gone there seeking a Twin Martial Soul cultivation method for Tang San.

Long Yun returned to Spirit City and arrived as Bibi Dong confronted Yu Xiaogang, who had come to ask for Tang San’s Twin Martial Soul cultivation method. After Long Yun exposed Yu Xiaogang’s relationship with Liu Erlong and attacked him, a powerful Soul Power blast struck Long Yun, while three furious figures rushed toward the hall.

• Long Yun returned to Spirit City and told the Hall Guardian Knights to alert him when Yu Xiaogang arrived with an Elder Token.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Bibi Dong for the Twin Martial Soul cultivation method for Tang San, but Bibi Dong refused because Tang San could become Spirit Hall’s enemy.
• Yu Xiaogang pleaded with Bibi Dong by claiming she still held a place in his heart, and Long Yun entered the hall to challenge him.
• Long Yun revealed that Yu Xiaogang was already with Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang admitted it, devastating Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yu Xiaogang to leave, but Long Yun charged at him and was struck from behind by a powerful blast of Soul Power.
• Three powerful figures rushed toward the Pope’s Palace Main Hall as Long Yun and Yu Xiaogang lay knocked down.

Bibi Dong accidentally gravely wounded Long Yun while trying to protect Yu Xiaogang, and Long You Jing, Du Busi, and He Caitou rushed in to save him. After Long Yun confronted Bibi Dong about choosing Yu Xiaogang over him, they reconciled in tears, while Yu Xiaogang realized Bibi Dong had finally let him go.

• Bibi Dong's attack sent Long Yun flying, but Long You Jing, Du Busi, and He Caitou burst into the hall and intervened.
• He Caitou treated Long Yun with a Silver Cigar while Du Busi threatened Bibi Dong, and Long Yun ordered the others and the Hall Guardian Knights to leave.
• Long Yun asked Bibi Dong why she had attacked him, and he told her he had thought he mattered more to her than Yu Xiaogang.
• Bibi Dong broke down as she realized Long Yun had become more important to her than Yu Xiaogang and that her remaining hope for Yu Xiaogang was gone.
• Long Yun comforted Bibi Dong and let her cling to him as they both wept, while Yu Xiaogang understood that Bibi Dong no longer loved him.

Long Yun comforted Bibi Dong after she broke down, then let her decide whether Yu Xiaogang would live. Bibi Dong ended her attachment to Yu Xiaogang, and Long Yun agreed to spare him for now, though he still intended to kill him if he caused trouble again.

• Long Yun comforted Bibi Dong and reassured her that she had not seriously injured him.
• Long Yun deferred to Bibi Dong on whether to kill Yu Xiaogang, and she asked him to let Yu Xiaogang go this time.
• Bibi Dong told Long Yun she had moved on from Yu Xiaogang and would not stop him from killing Yu Xiaogang in the future.
• Long Yun happily embraced Bibi Dong, while Yu Xiaogang feared for his safety without her protection.
• Long Yun warned Yu Xiaogang not to provoke him again, then pushed Bibi Dong away when he realized his embrace was stirring his desire.

Long Yun and Bibi Dong reconciled after Yu Xiaogang left the Pope’s Palace in humiliation, and Spirit Hall’s elders and enshrinements stood down. Long Yun resumed training as the tournament finals approached, while Tang San and his companions arrived in Spirit City, marking the finals’ opening.

• Long Yun warned Yu Xiaogang to stay away from Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to sever their past ties.
• Yu Xiaogang emerged from the hall and faced Qian Daoliu and the gathered elders and enshrinements, who ordered him to leave and warned him not to return.
• Yu Xiaogang left in disgrace, vowing to destroy Spirit Hall and repay the humiliation he had suffered.
• Long Yun assured the elders and enshrinements that he was fine and that his relationship with Bibi Dong remained unchanged, and a healing-type Titled Douluo restored his injuries.
• Long Yun trained while preparing for the finals, and Tang San and the others arrived in Spirit City seven days later.

Grandmaster returned to Shrek Academy without learning Bibi Dong’s Twin Martial Soul cultivation method, but promised he was developing his own solution and urged the team to defeat Spirit Hall Academy. The Finals began after three days of rest, and Shrek’s match against Blazing Academy was set as the next contest after two one-sided opening matches.

• Tang San asked Grandmaster where he had been, and Grandmaster explained that he had sought help from Bibi Dong but had drawn a clear line with her.
• Grandmaster told Tang San he had not learned how to cultivate Twin Martial Souls, but said he had a conjecture he hoped to verify.
• Grandmaster rallied Shrek Academy to cooperate and make defeating Spirit Hall Academy their goal, and the students agreed.
• Bibi Dong told Spirit Hall Academy’s seven-member team to win the championship and promised Long Yun he would be crowned Saint Child if he succeeded.
• The Finals began after the academies rested for three days, and Shrek Academy drew Blazing Academy for its first match.
• The first two matches ended quickly in decisive victories, prompting Hu Liena to complain that they were boring.

Shrek Academy defeated Blazing Academy in the tournament, while Long Yun and Spirit Hall Academy prepared to make their first appearance in the second round. The chapter ended with Long Yun leading his team toward the stage as the arena watched them.

• Yan dismissed the other tournament teams until Long Yun pointed out Shrek Academy and its level forty-nine Tang San as a team worth watching.
• Tang San, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Tai Long, Jing Ling, Huang Yuan, and their teammates faced Blazing Academy, with Zhu Zhuqing quickly taking out its support soul masters.
• Shrek Academy used Tang San's Blue Silver Grass and coordinated attacks to overwhelm Blazing Academy and win the match; Tang San and Long Yun exchanged challenging looks afterward.
• Skywater Academy defeated Thunder Academy by using Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu's Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Shrek Academy and Heavenly Azure Academy received byes in the second round.
• Before Spirit Hall Academy's first match, Long Yun rallied Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, Ding Can, and the other teammates to show the audience their strength.
• Long Yun led Spirit Hall Academy toward the Competition Stage in their white uniforms as the watching teams turned their attention to them.

Spirit Hall Academy faced Godwind Academy in the tournament’s second round, and both teams released their Martial Souls. Long Yun’s three Soul Rings, including a black ring at Level 39, shocked the arena as the match was about to begin.

• Ning Fengzhi, Flender, and the Shrek group assessed Spirit Hall Academy’s formidable Soul Power Levels as its members entered the stage.
• Long Yun greeted Feng Xiaotian, whose Godwind Academy team overcame its discouragement and resolved to fight with dignity.
• Godwind Academy released its Martial Souls, and Long Yun called on his teammates to do the same.
• Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena revealed their powerful Martial Souls, with Hu Liena’s Nine-Tailed Divine Fox suppressing Godwind Academy’s Martial Souls.
• Ding Can, Zuo Junbo, and Zhu Zhitong released their Martial Souls, then Long Yun transformed and revealed a black third Soul Ring that left the arena stunned.

Long Yun revealed an unprecedented Soul Ring configuration, shocking the spectators and unsettling even Tang San and Grandmaster. He then overwhelmed Feng Xiaotian and his teammates, leaving Godwind Academy to concede the match.

• Long Yun's Thousand-Year Second Soul Ring and Ten Thousand-Year Third Soul Ring stunned the VIPs, Xue Qinghe, and the Shrek team.
• Grandmaster struggled to accept that Long Yun's Soul Rings contradicted his research, while Tang San suggested Long Yun might have Twin Martial Souls.
• Long Yun charged Feng Xiaotian and battered him with punches, overpowering him even after Feng Xiaotian used enhancement skills.
• Hu Liena incapacitated six Godwind Academy members with her Fourth Soul Skill, and Yan and Xie Yue knocked them down.
• Feng Xiaotian conceded the match, acknowledged Long Yun's strength, and left the stage with his fallen teammates.

Spirit Hall Academy crushed Godwind Academy, then Long Yun overwhelmed Star Luo Royal Academy, while Shrek Academy regained its confidence and advanced. The chapter ended with both royal academies eliminated and the empires weighing whether to target Long Yun.

• Hu Liena trapped Godwind Academy's six members in an illusion, allowing Spirit Hall Academy to defeat them decisively.
• Grandmaster and Flender encouraged the shaken Shrek team by reminding them of Tang San's second martial soul and their secret weapon.
• The tournament's third-round bye went to Skywater Academy after Godwind Academy's elimination and the reshuffling of rankings.
• Long Yun and Spirit Hall Academy drew Star Luo Royal Academy, while Shrek Academy drew Heaven Dou Royal Academy; both royal academies were eliminated.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun used Hell White Tiger, but Long Yun destroyed it without using a soul skill and remained unharmed.
• The two empires considered eliminating Long Yun but hesitated to risk provoking Spirit Hall.

Long Yun’s reforms strengthened Spirit Hall’s reputation among the people, while Shrek Academy and Spirit Hall Academy advanced to the tournament’s top three alongside Heavenly Azure Academy. At the opening ceremony, Shrek’s refusal to kneel before Bibi Dong sparked a confrontation, and Long Yun challenged Flender’s excuse as inadequate respect for the Pope.

• Long Yun’s reforms punished Spirit Hall officials who abused commoners and improved the organization’s standing among the people.
• Shrek Academy defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Spirit Hall Academy and Heavenly Azure Academy also advanced to the top three.
• Bibi Dong, Long Yun, and Hu Liena emerged from the Pope’s Palace for the tournament ceremony as the gathered crowd knelt.
• The Shrek Six Monsters, Tai Long, Grandmaster, Flender, and Liu Erlong remained standing, prompting a red-robed bishop to accuse them of insulting the Pope and Spirit Hall.
• Flender apologized and claimed Shrek had believed Bibi Dong did not care about formalities, but Long Yun argued that a formal occasion demanded proper respect.

Long Yun used Shrek Academy’s failure to bow to the Pope as a pretext to humiliate the team and seize Yu Xiaogang’s Spirit Hall token, though Bibi Dong postponed punishment until later. Bibi Dong revealed three Soul Bones as the championship prize, and Heavenly Azure Academy and Shrek Academy forfeited the individual competition to save their strength for the afternoon match.

• Long Yun denounced Shrek Academy for failing to show respect to Bibi Dong, and Spirit Hall’s members joined his protest.
• Yu Xiaogang presented a Six-Pointed Star Token to plead for Shrek, but Long Yun challenged its origins and Yue Guan took it from him.
• Bibi Dong told Long Yun to record Shrek’s offense for later, then congratulated the top three teams and announced three Soul Bones as the championship prize.
• A red-robed bishop announced the top-three tournament rules, and Heavenly Azure Academy and Shrek Academy forfeited the individual competition to compete for a place in the Finals.

Shrek Academy prepared to face Spirit Hall Academy in the Finals while Tang San looked forward to confronting Spirit Hall. As the match day began, fifteen Titled Douluo arrived before Pope’s Palace, stunning the assembled guests.

• Shrek Academy defeated Heavenly Azure Academy in the losers' bracket team battle and advanced to the Finals.
• Grandmaster planned the match against Spirit Hall Academy with Tang San and the others, who resolved to win.
• Bibi Dong and Long Yun discussed their plans to kill Tang Hao and Tang San, and Long Yun assured her neither would leave Spirit City.
• Shrek Academy and Spirit Hall Academy prepared for the Finals, while Hu Liena reminded Yan to let Long Yun take the spotlight at his Saint Child coronation.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Xue Qinghe, and Dugu Bo watched more than a dozen crimson-robed elders arrive, and Chen Xin identified them as fifteen Titled Douluo.

Spirit Hall revealed fifteen Titled Douluo at the Finals, leaving Ning Fengzhi, Tang San, and the other guests shocked by its strength. Before the first match began, Long Yun confronted Tang San and declared that he would not leave Spirit City alive.

• Ning Fengzhi and the Shrek team reacted with alarm as fifteen Titled Douluo gathered before the Pope's Palace.
• Bibi Dong arrived with Long Yun and her attendants, and the assembled guests saluted her before the Finals began.
• Long Yun told Hu Liena and the others that he had broken through to Rank 40, then joined Spirit Hall Academy as the contestants entered the stage.
• Long Yun challenged Tang San and questioned why he had dared to come to Spirit City despite Spirit Hall's hostility toward the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San stayed silent as Dai Mubai defended him, and Long Yun warned that Tang San would not leave Spirit City alive before the competition ended.

Shrek Academy used a Seven-in-One Fusion Skill to channel their combined Soul Power into Tang San, who revealed his Clear Sky Hammer and four black Soul Rings. Long Yun and Spirit Hall Academy charged to meet them while Long Yun began draining the Shrek members’ Soul Power to weaken the fusion.

• Tang San and his teammates formed a circle around Ning Rongrong and Oscar and began gathering their Soul Power for a powerful technique.
• Long Yun recognized Shrek Academy’s Seven-in-One Fusion Skill, while the spectators and Spirit Hall Academy’s fighters grew wary.
• The gathered Soul Power passed through the Shrek members and converged in Tang San, who summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and revealed four black Soul Rings.
• Long Yun urged Hu Liena, Yan, Xie Yue, and the others to prepare, then charged alongside Yan and Xie Yue toward Tang San’s group.
• Long Yun activated his Soul Devouring skill and drained Soul Power from the six Shrek members supporting Tang San as Zhu Zhitong’s boosts aided the Spirit Hall attackers.

Long Yun and the Spirit Hall team fought Tang San, whose Seven-in-One Fusion Skill gave him the strength of a Clear Sky Hammer Soul Sage. Long Yun escaped Tang San’s hammer with his External Soul Bone wings, but Tang San then threatened Yan, and Xie Yue attacked to protect their formation.

• Long Yun used Godking's Wrath and Massacre in All Directions, but Tang San shattered his axe attack with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San swung an enlarged Clear Sky Hammer at Long Yun, who narrowly escaped by flying upward with his Wings of the Azure Sky.
• Tang San recognized Long Yun’s wings as an External Soul Bone, while Bibi Dong, Ning Fengzhi, and Yu Xiaogang reacted to the revelation.
• Yan used Magma Surge to threaten Tang San’s formation, but Tang San hurled the Clear Sky Hammer at him.
• Yan retreated from the incoming hammer, and Xie Yue activated Sorrow of the Crescent Moon, sending Moon Blades toward Tang San and his companions.

Tang San's Tortoise Shield endured Xie Yue's Moon Blades, while Yan used powerful boosts and Hu Liena's Crystal Barrier to knock Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer aside. With Tang San exposed, Long Yun launched his Noxian Guillotine, leaving the attack's outcome unresolved.

• Tang San activated his ten-thousand-year Tortoise Shield, which withstood Xie Yue's Fifth Soul Skill despite sustaining numerous scratches.
• Yan combined several Soul Skills with Zhu Zhitong's amplification and Hu Liena's Crystal Barrier to charge Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer head-on.
• Yan's punch knocked the Clear Sky Hammer away, and he staggered back with only a painful arm and no serious injuries.
• Long Yun saw Tang San's hammer fly aside, seized the opening, and unleashed his Third Soul Skill, Noxian Guillotine, with his Divine Axe.