Chapter Summaries

Quan Yi awakened the Scarlet Dragon Eye’s latent power with the Purple Demon Eye, gaining immense underground vision and a powerful mental attack. He surveyed Heaven Dou City and nearby areas before explaining the ability to Huo Wu and reflecting on what he had observed.

• Quan Yi used the Purple Demon Eye to fully activate the Scarlet Dragon Eye and saw through the earth to the mantle and its buried resources.
• Quan Yi expanded his vision across a two-thousand-kilometer area, glimpsing Shrek, a Titled Douluo, the Sea God, and familiar faces.
• Quan Yi stopped using the awakened eye before his gaze could alert anyone, and Huo Wu described the pressure she had felt from it.
• Quan Yi assessed that the Scarlet Dragon Eye had greatly improved his range and penetration while turning the Eye of True Sight into a powerful mental attack.
• Quan Yi told Huo Wu that he had learned Tang San’s Cultivation Method by observing its flow of Soul Power and noted that a Soul Beast Transformation’s ring seemed self-condensed.

Quan Yi explained how Soul Beast Alien Energy and human aura shaped Soul Rings, then reflected on the possibility of creating a Self-Condensed Soul Ring. At the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, the Preliminary Competition began, and Feng Xiaotian’s Soul Emperor strength forced his opponents to concede before their match started.

• Quan Yi explained to Huo Wu why transformed Soul Beasts needed human elements and how a Spirit Master’s aura became part of an absorbed Soul Ring.
• Quan Yi switched his Soul Power back to its usual circulation and told Huo Wu they needed to cultivate before dawn.
• Quan Yi and the others arrived early at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena as the first round of the Preliminary Competition began.
• Feng Xiaotian revealed six Soul Rings on the center arena, astonishing the spectators and drawing Xue Ye’s interest.
• Salas decided to treat Feng Xiaotian as a threat and hinder Godwind Academy’s progress.
• Feng Xiaotian’s opponents conceded before the match began.

Feng Xiaotian showed stronger control of the Wind Element, while Elephant Armor, Skywater, and Thunder teams demonstrated their strength in the tournament. Quan Yi concluded that four of the Five Elemental Academies besides Blazing Fire Academy had the best chances of advancing.

• Feng Xiaotian displayed a new connection to the Wind Element after Godwind Academy's match.
• Elephant Armor Academy's seven Diamond Mammoth Soul Masters pushed their opponents from the field using their strength and defense.
• Shui Bing'er froze all seven opponents with her Ice Phoenix abilities, and Quan Yi observed her performance after Huo Wu teased him about watching Skywater Academy.
• Quan Yi recognized that Shui Bing'er's Third Soul Ring likely came from a Ring Spirit Beast.
• Thunder Team showed its lightning attacks during the second group of matches, and Quan Yi judged it a strong contender for advancement.

Quan Yi persuaded Fire Star Academy to fight Blazing Fire Academy by offering to face all seven opponents alone. Fire Star’s team accepted his challenge and entered the match with renewed fighting spirit.

• Quan Yi reflected on Shrek Academy’s potential and worried that Xiao Wu’s identity might be exposed if the team advanced to the Finals.
• Quan Yi led the Blazing Fire Team into the arena, where the crowd’s cheers overwhelmed Fire Star Academy’s introduction.
• Quan Yi offered to face Fire Star Academy alone if they agreed not to surrender without a fight.
• Fire Star Academy’s members asked their teacher to let them accept the challenge, and he encouraged them to fight.
• The Fire Star Team lit the signal smoke of resistance, and Quan Yi praised their resolve.

Quan Yi faced Fire Star Team after Huo Wu and the Blazing Fire Team withdrew, then appeared ready to fight without summoning his Martial Soul. Fire Star Team launched its disciplined formation and team-wide boosts, leaving the match poised to begin.

• Huo Wu and the Blazing Fire Team stepped down after agreeing in advance to Quan Yi's request, and the referee gave the teams one minute to summon their Martial Souls.
• Fire Star Team formed a compact military array of Fire-attribute Tool Soul Masters, prompting Yu Xiaogang to warn Shrek Academy about their formation and Tang San to explain the danger their flames posed to his Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San and the audience noticed that Quan Yi calmly stretched without summoning his Martial Soul or Soul Rings, and they realized he intended to face Fire Star Team without them.
• Quan Yi told Fire Star Team to begin, and its captain roared a challenge before ordering the team to attack.
• Fire Star Team advanced in formation as its banner bearer activated three Soul Skills that boosted the team's attack, speed, endurance, Fire-attribute power, and morale.

Quan Yi withstood Fire Star Team’s Flame Arrow Rain without injury, revealing extraordinary physical toughness despite being a Tool Soul Master. He then stopped the team captain’s spear attack with one hand and knocked him unconscious, leaving the shield bearers kneeling and their formation exposed.

• Quan Yi recognized the War Banner’s morale effect and charged toward Fire Star Team’s front line.
• The flag bearer ordered the archers to unleash Flame Arrow Rain, but Quan Yi stood in the barrage and emerged without a scratch.
• Bishop Salas was shocked to learn that Quan Yi’s body could withstand the fiery arrows, and Quan Yi removed his ruined upper clothing.
• The flag bearer rallied Fire Star Team, and the spearman attacked Quan Yi with Spear Like a Dragon.
• Quan Yi caught the spear tip, dragged the spearman close, and knocked the team captain unconscious with a hand strike to the neck.
• Quan Yi pressed down on the two shield bearers, forcing them to their knees and exposing the teammates behind them.

Quan Yi overpowered Fire Star Academy’s team, turning their own attacks against them and taking control of their weapons and War Banner. He left the flag bearer, Zeng Gong, standing before him and asked his name.

• The Archers fired tracking Spiral Flame Arrows at Quan Yi, who used the Shield Bearers and their shields to knock the arrows back and then knocked the Archers unconscious.
• Quan Yi caught the Swordsmen’s flaming blades, disarmed them, and struck them unconscious with their hilts.
• The flag bearer attacked Quan Yi with his War Banner, but Quan Yi diverted the blow and took the flagpole from him.
• Quan Yi returned the flagpole, asked the flag bearer his name, and learned that he was called Zeng Gong.

Quan Yi defeated Fire Star Academy’s seven Soul Masters without using his Martial Soul or Soul Power, prompting speculation about his extraordinary physical strength and Vitality. After rejoining Blazing Fire Academy, he revealed that he had used the match to test his Dark Gold Sun Dragon Claw’s ability to seize Tool Martial Souls.

• Zeng Gong collapsed under Quan Yi’s pressure and admitted defeat, giving Blazing Fire Academy the victory.
• Flender confirmed that Quan Yi had used no Soul Power, while Tang San deduced that his immense Vitality strengthened his physique.
• Spectators and VIPs were stunned by Quan Yi’s performance as he returned to Huo Wu and the Blazing Fire Team.
• Quan Yi explained that he wanted to impress his family and test his new Weapon Snatching ability.
• Quan Yi’s Dark Gold Sun Dragon Claw could briefly sever and plunder human-usable Tool Martial Souls, though it could not plunder non-implement types such as plant Martial Souls.

Quan Yi reflected on how the Dark Gold Sun Dragon Claw’s elemental imprints might let him control more kinds of Tool Martial Souls, including Plant-type ones. After his match, he reunited with Dugu Bo, discussed Salas’s manipulation of the Tournament draw, and introduced Dugu Bo to Quan Li.

• Quan Yi concluded that devouring Element Thunder Tribulations had left faint elemental law imprints in his Martial Soul, increasing his ability to control elements beyond fire and metal.
• Quan Yi considered mastering Wood-attribute power so he could control Plant-type Tool Martial Souls.
• Dugu Bo praised Quan Yi after the match, and Quan Yi asked why he had missed the previous day’s competition.
• Dugu Bo explained that Salas could rig the draw to make Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s matches look like imperial favoritism, damaging the empire’s credibility.
• Quan Yi invited Dugu Bo to meet his family, and Quan Li welcomed him and thanked him for supporting the family’s younger members.

Quan Li and Dugu Bo became close friends, and Dugu Bo promised Quan Ni an Immortal Herb after her Martial Soul awakening. Quan Yi brought Huo Wu to the Ice and Fire Spring in Sunset Forest, where he began forging with Mystic Iron.

• Quan Li welcomed Dugu Bo as a younger brother, and Dugu Bo offered Quan Ni a suitable Immortal Herb as a return gift.
• Quan Yi ferried the family members who needed to return to Vast Sea City, then brought Huo Wu to the Ice and Fire Spring.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu saw that the thunder tribulation had transformed the center of Sunset Forest into a dense, high-concentration cultivation ground and driven Soul Beasts outward.
• Quan Yi discovered that Elemental Force had made Dugu Bo's Poisonous Barrier even more dangerous, but he crossed it with Ultimate Fire.
• Quan Yi set up his Forging Table, heated a piece of Mystic Iron, and struck it once with his Seven-Colored Mystic Iron Forging Hammer.

Quan Yi used his own music-based forging method to give Dark Iron life and awaken its spirit, forming a close bond with the metal. He began the final forging movement by balancing its elemental energies and drawing in Wood Element.

• Quan Yi refined Dark Iron by sensing its vibrations and guiding it with rhythmic hammer strikes.
• The Dark Iron gained life, became a Little Black Ball, and willingly returned to the Forging Table for the next stage.
• Quan Yi taught the Little Black Ball his understanding of the world through music, completing Spirit Awakening without losing its soul.
• Quan Yi activated his Scarlet Dragon Horns and Scarlet Dragon Eye, then gathered Ice, Fire, and Gold elements to balance the Dark Iron.
• After the Dark Iron's aura became peaceful, Quan Yi drew in Wood Element and prepared to infuse it.

Quan Yi infused Dark Iron with Ultimate Wood and Ultimate Wind, bringing it to five Ultimate Attributes. As the Elemental Imprints filled the metal and joined into a unified whole, he sensed that a Lightning Tribulation was about to begin.

• Quan Yi drew Wood Element from Sunset Forest into the Dark Iron, transforming its Wood Elemental Imprints into Ultimate Wood.
• Huo Wu felt the greedy vitality of Ultimate Wood retreat when she circulated Fire Element Soul Power, and Quan Yi confirmed that the metal now held four Ultimate Attributes.
• Quan Yi asked Huo Wu to provide Ultimate Wind, and she tamed the raging wind into Cyan Feathers.
• Quan Yi infused the metal with Ultimate Wind and carved channels through the Ultimate Gold to keep the fifth attribute from disrupting the others.
• The Elemental Imprints filled the Dark Iron, joined into one, and alerted Quan Yi that a Lightning Tribulation was coming.

Quan Yi forged a five-colored metal infused with five Ultimate Attributes, triggering an unprecedented Ultimate Thunder Tribulation over Sunset Forest. As the Beast Beasts fled and Huo Wu offered to help, Quan Yi insisted on facing the tribulation himself.

• Quan Yi's Ultimate Wood combined with four other Ultimate Attributes to summon a five-colored Tribulation Cloud above the Poisonous Barrier.
• Powerful Soul Beasts sensed the tribulation and fled, setting off a Beast Tide across Sunset Forest.
• Huo Wu recognized the cloud's destructive aura and warned that the Ultimate Thunder Tribulation could destroy everything nearby.
• Quan Yi welcomed the tribulation, and the Dark Iron he had hammered revealed a will and transformed into a five-colored being resembling him.
• Quan Yi transformed into his Dark Gold Yang Dragon Martial Soul Avatar as a miniature flying dragon appeared beside him.
• Huo Wu flew toward Quan Yi and offered their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Quan Yi told her to trust him and let him face the tribulation alone.

Huo Wu took the Dragon and Phoenix Heart and used her full power to control the Soul Beasts in Sunset Forest while Quan Yi faced the Lightning Tribulation. Her blazing white light put the beasts to sleep and concealed the Tribulation Cloud, leaving the forest and Heaven Dou City in eerie calm.

• Huo Wu gave Quan Yi the Dragon and Phoenix Heart to wear, then agreed to calm the Beast Tide while warning she would disperse the Tribulation Cloud if his life was threatened.
• Huo Wu flew above the Tribulation Cloud and activated her Soul Skills, Phoenix Bone Armor, and Martial Soul Second Awakening.
• Huo Wu used Spiritless Fire and Shadow Domain to immobilize the disturbed Soul Beasts across Sunset Forest, but controlling tens of thousands caused her pain.
• Huo Wu channeled Spiritless Fire through the Dragon and Phoenix Heart, releasing a white light that covered the region and illuminated Heaven Dou City without the crowd noticing.
• The Soul Beasts fell asleep, and the Tribulation Cloud's spreading light disappeared beneath the Void White Sun.

Quan Yi endured the first two strikes of the Five-Colored Lightning Tribulation while studying how its Ultimate Elements formed. The strikes began transforming his Dark Gold Yang Dragon Martial Soul from dual attributes into multiple elements.

• Quan Yi watched the Heaven and Earth Laws transform ordinary elements into Ultimate Elements as the tribulation cloud gathered.
• After fifteen minutes, the first bolt of five-colored lightning struck Quan Yi and ravaged his Dark Gold Yang Dragon body with Ultimate elemental forces.
• Quan Yi absorbed the lightning's gold and fire while his body received the Seals of ice, wind, and wood, and Xiao Jin and Xiao Hong endured the pain while absorbing elements.
• The second bolt struck soon after, liquefying Quan Yi's scales and spreading white, green, and cyan elemental streams across his body.
• Quan Yi sensed his Martial Soul beginning to evolve into multiple elements as wind, ice, and Wood infused his dragon body.

Quan Yi struggled to endure the Ultimate Thunder Tribulation as he completed the Five Elements Imprint and shared a trace of lightning with the Mystic Iron Little Dragon. After surviving the third bolt, he faced a fourth strike powerful enough to threaten his limits.

• Quan Yi focused on keeping his liquefied Dragon Body together while the Ultimate Gold and Ultimate Fire within him were absorbed by two little dragons.
• Quan Yi routed a weakened thread of five-colored lightning through his Dragon Body to the Mystic Iron Little Dragon, making it suffer but easing his burden.
• Huo Wu watched anxiously from above the Tribulation Cloud and prepared to intervene as Quan Yi braced for the third bolt.
• Quan Yi endured the third bolt by using his Mental Power to stop his body from trembling and cycling corroded metal inward, completing the Five Elements Imprint across more than half his body.
• The Mystic Iron Little Dragon grew stronger from the lightning, while Quan Yi's body became battered and filled with undigested Five-Colored Golden Slurry.
• The fourth bolt struck at thirty percent greater power than the third, pushing Quan Yi closer to his tolerance limit.

Quan Yi used his Scarlet Dragon Horns to absorb the Gold and Fire elements from the Five-Colored Gold Liquid, reducing the danger of his transformation as he endured the fourth Thunder Tribulation. With most of his body slipping beyond his control, he activated Spirit Turtle Shedding Shell.

• Quan Yi decided to endure the Thunder Tribulation to test his limits and complete the Mystic Iron Little Dragon's forging.
• Quan Yi activated Fire Prohibition, using his Scarlet Dragon Horns to absorb Gold and Fire energy from the Five-Colored Gold Liquid.
• The fourth Thunder Tribulation struck Quan Yi, causing immense pain and accelerating the loss of control over his body.
• Quan Yi abandoned his attempt to comprehend the Heaven and Earth Laws and focused on maintaining his output to the Mystic Iron Little Dragon.
• With nine-tenths of his body out of control, Quan Yi activated Spirit Turtle Shedding Shell as his dragon horns flared with energy.

Quan Yi endured the fifth Lightning Tribulation with help from the Flame Dragon King and Old Turtle, then recovered with Spirit Turtle Shedding Shell. After the tribulation passed, he reunited with Huo Wu and finished absorbing the Five-Colored Gold Liquid.

• Quan Yi used Spirit Turtle Shedding Shell, drawing on the Scarlet Dragon Horns after the skill’s energy cost exceeded what he could supply himself.
• The Flame Dragon King and Old Turtle lent their Mental Power to the Scarlet Dragon Horns, helping Quan Yi absorb the remaining Five-Colored Gold Liquid and reduce his out-of-control body to one tenth of its volume.
• Quan Yi resisted the fifth Lightning Tribulation, comprehended the Heaven and Earth Laws, and transmitted Thunder to the Mystic Iron Little Dragon as both endured the lightning.
• After the Tribulation Cloud dispersed, Huo Wu checked on Quan Yi, who reassured her and let her stroke his head.
• Huo Wu frightened the Mystic Iron Little Dragon, and Quan Yi soothed her before changing back into human form, catching her, and kissing her.

Quan Yi showed Huo Wu how the expanded Dark Gold Yang Dragon Armor carried elemental patterns that let him sense and wield Ultimate Ice, Wind, and Wood. He demonstrated an Ice Storm and summoned a wooden enclosure, leaving Huo Wu amazed by the power of his five Ultimate Attributes.

• Huo Wu noticed Quan Yi's Martial Soul had spread across much of his body and proposed calling it Dark Gold Yang Dragon Armor.
• Quan Yi explained that the armor's elemental patterns heightened his perception, then released Ultimate Wind from its cyclone pattern.
• Quan Yi combined Ultimate Wind and Ultimate Ice into a lethal Ice Storm, which Huo Wu recognized as a fusion technique.
• Quan Yi activated the Wood pattern, causing thick trunks to rise and enclose them.
• Quan Yi explained that he could command existing plants and empower them with higher elements, leaving Huo Wu awed by his mastery of five Ultimate Attributes.

Quan Yi discovered that the Thunder Tribulation had awakened Ultimate Thunder within his Martial Soul, making it stronger and more destructive than his other elemental imprints. He tested its power and realized he had gained the tribulation’s purifying properties as well as its ability to restrain evil, leaving him eager to explore its uses in forging.

• Huo Wu noticed a new blue lightning pattern on Quan Yi’s chest, and Quan Yi discovered it contained the aura of the Thunder Tribulation.
• Quan Yi gathered the lightning into his hand, named the attack “Thousand Birds,” and pierced a stone pier with a spear of compressed thunder that melted the rock.
• Quan Yi realized the Five-Colored Thunder Tribulation had contained six attributes, including the hidden Ultimate Thunder, and explained that its lightning surpassed ordinary lightning.
• Quan Yi identified Ultimate Thunder’s stronger destructive power, its ability to restrain evil, and its inherited tribulation-baptism effect, which he thought could aid metal forging.