Chapter Summaries

Bai Lu used Sha Sha’s Tool Martial Soul as a weapon in their match, defeating the opposing team and winning over the crowd. The victory left spectators and powerful Soul Masters marveling at Gu Ziyi’s unconventional idea.

• Bai Lu and Sha Sha announced a supposed Martial Soul Fusion Skill that placed Sha Sha’s Wind Blade Martial Soul in Bai Lu’s hand.
• Bai Lu used the Wind Blade and her speed to swiftly defeat every opponent, earning the Sky Wind Team the victory.
• The audience cheered for Bai Lu and Sha Sha, while Bai Lu realized how much she enjoyed performing before the crowd.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized that the move was not a true Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo confirmed Bai Lu had simply wielded her teammate’s Tool Martial Soul.
• Ning Fengzhi praised the tactic for turning Bai Lu’s speed into offense.

Bai He celebrated Bai Lu’s success in the Soul Master Competition and considered how her fighting style could strengthen the Speed Clan. After Bibi Dong envied Bai Lu’s fame, Gu Ziyi suggested that she learn to use her Twin Martial Souls together, leaving her eager to pursue the idea.

• Bai He praised Bai Lu for using her teammate Sha Sha’s Tool Martial Soul as a weapon and saw it as a possible way to improve the Speed Clan’s combat strength.
• Spectators learned Bai Lu and Sha Sha had not used a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Bai Lu’s unusual fighting style attracted even more attention and imitators.
• Bai Lu’s team was eliminated before the Advancement Tournament, though she had already enjoyed her moment in the spotlight.
• Bibi Dong teased Gu Ziyi for helping his former classmates while giving her no guidance, and he explained that her cultivation was already well supported.
• Gu Ziyi proposed that Bibi Dong learn to use both Martial Souls simultaneously, and she asked how to accomplish it.
• Gu Ziyi told Bibi Dong she would have to discover the method herself by achieving Heart Separation Control.

Gu Ziyi helped Bibi Dong practice controlling two tasks at once as she tried to develop a technique similar to Heart Separation Control. At the Advancement Tournament, he learned that Plant Academy’s absent prodigy, Xiao Tao, was a sixteen-year-old level 44 Soul Ancestor with Innate Full Soul Power.

• Bibi Dong tried drawing a circle and a square at the same time on Gu Ziyi’s palms, then used a Mind-Clearing Talisman and continued practicing.
• The Heaven Dou Imperial Capital preliminary rounds ended, and the Haotian Team, Thunder Team, Skywater Team, Divine Wind Team, and Blazing Fire Team advanced.
• Gu Ziyi and Bibi Dong stayed in the capital until the Advancement Tournament began with all ten teams from the other regions present.
• Gu Ziyi saw the Plant Academy Team lose its first match and overheard two spectators praise their absent Junior Sister Xiao Tao.
• Gu Ziyi asked about Xiao Tao’s talent, and the spectators said she had Innate Full Soul Power.

Gu Ziyi suspected that Xiaotao of Plant Academy was a human transformed from a 100,000-year soul beast and went to investigate with Bibi Dong and their protectors. His evolved eyes revealed the phantom of a Blazing Red Peach around her, confirming his suspicion.

• Gu Ziyi told Bibi Dong that he suspected the academy’s exceptional but competition-shy junior, Xiaotao, was a 100,000-year soul beast transformation.
• Bibi Dong agreed to accompany Gu Ziyi, and he summoned Li Chanfei and She Long to join them.
• Three days later, Gu Ziyi and Li Chanfei used an Invisibility Talisman to sneak into Plant Academy and search for Xiaotao.
• Gu Ziyi focused his spiritual power through his evolved eyes and saw the phantom of a Blazing Red Peach around Xiaotao.

Gu Ziyi ordered Li Chanfei to abduct Xiaotao after identifying her as a 100,000-year soul beast transformation. Once Xiaotao realized her captors intended to take her to Spirit Hall for confirmation, Bibi Dong silenced her, and the group set off with their captive.

• Gu Ziyi told Li Chanfei to knock Xiaotao unconscious and take her away before she could leave the academy.
• Xiaotao woke tied up, denied being a soul beast, and cried as Bibi Dong questioned her.
• Gu Ziyi said their teacher could confirm Xiaotao's identity, making her realize that she would be exposed if taken back.
• Bibi Dong recognized Xiaotao's fear as proof and sealed her mouth with spider silk.
• Gu Ziyi led the group toward Spirit Hall while Li Chanfei carried Xiaotao away.

Xing Dailu came to Spirit Hall seeking Gu Ziyi’s help with her inability to cultivate, while Gu Ziyi brought Xiaotao back and broke through to Rank 40. Xiaotao secretly prepared to use her 100,000-year soul ring and concealed soul to kill him, and a sudden surge of Soul Power interrupted Gu Ziyi as he began to speak.

• Xing Dailu arrived at Pope's Hall seeking Gu Ziyi’s help, and Qian Xunji ordered that she be brought in.
• Gu Ziyi and the others returned with Xiaotao, and Gu Ziyi began cultivating while Bibi Dong, She Long, and Li Chanfei guarded him.
• Xiaotao learned that Gu Ziyi was about to reach Rank 40 and secretly planned to sacrifice her soul ring to kill him.
• Gu Ziyi broke through to Rank 40 and prepared to create another soul ring.
• An enormous burst of Soul Power erupted before Gu Ziyi could continue speaking.

Xiaotao began an irreversible sacrifice to Gu Ziyi, offering a One Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Spirit Bone, but he refused because he relied on self-created Soul Rings and feared the sacrifice’s power. As Xiaotao began to vanish, she revealed she could choose the soul skills she left behind, while Gu Ziyi insisted he did not need her Soul Ring.

• Xiaotao broke free and began sacrificing herself to Gu Ziyi, blasting Bibi Dong, She Long, and Li Chanfei away with the energy surge.
• Bibi Dong, She Long, and Li Chanfei realized the sacrifice could not be interrupted and worried that Gu Ziyi, who was only Rank 40, could not withstand the One Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Gu Ziyi refused to absorb Xiaotao’s sacrificial energy, explaining that Soul Beast Soul Rings would prevent his Self-Created Soul Rings from improving in quality.
• Xiaotao tried to persuade Gu Ziyi to accept the sacrifice, then cursed him and threatened to leave behind her two most useless soul skills.
• As Xiaotao dissolved into peach blossom petals, she made one last appeal, but Gu Ziyi refused and told her all his Soul Rings were condensed by himself.

After Xiaotao gave up trying to kill Gu Ziyi, she sacrificed herself and let him turn her soul bone into a crimson longsword by infusing it with her remaining energy and using Extremely Cold Spring to keep it from burning away. Xiaotao unexpectedly remained conscious and bound to Gu Ziyi through the sword, leaving them both trying to understand what had happened.

• Gu Ziyi told Xiaotao that his soul rings were Self-Created Soul Rings and said Spirit Hall would promote the method, easing her fears for other soul beasts.
• As Xiaotao vanished into petals, she left behind a crimson Right Arm Soul Bone containing her two favorite soul skills and let her sacrificial energy merge into it.
• Gu Ziyi used drops of Extremely Cold Spring to keep the soul bone from burning up as Xiaotao shaped it into a longsword and infused it with all her remaining energy.
• When Gu Ziyi pulled the sword from the ground, Xiaotao spoke from within it and asked why she had survived and become bound to him.
• Gu Ziyi sensed Xiaotao had no intention of harming him and asked her to explain her condition before he answered her questions.

Gu Ziyi refused Xiaotao’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and instead bound her soul bone to himself as a longsword. After naming it Blazing Peach and asking the others to keep its nature secret, he prepared to condense his Fourth Soul Ring.

• Xiaotao told Gu Ziyi that she had become the sword spirit of the soul bone and could no longer use offensive soul skills against him.
• Gu Ziyi blocked Xiaotao from sensing his emotions, then lifted the restriction when she protested.
• Bibi Dong, She Long, and Li Chanfei arrived, and Gu Ziyi explained that he had refused Xiaotao’s sacrifice and bound her soul bone to himself.
• Li Chanfei confirmed that she could not absorb the soul bone, and Gu Ziyi asked her and She Long to keep its identity secret.
• Gu Ziyi named the soul bone longsword Blazing Peach, stored it in his Soul Tool, and asked the others to guard him while he condensed his Fourth Soul Ring.

Gu Ziyi condensed his fourth self-created soul ring and chose the Immobilization Talisman as his new soul skill. After testing it on Bibi Dong, he believed it could help the team defeat Tang Hao and the Haotian Team.

• Gu Ziyi spent two days condensing his fourth soul ring and chose the Immobilization Talisman from several available soul skills.
• Gu Ziyi emerged with a roughly three-thousand-year purple fourth soul ring, convincing Xiaotao that he had created his soul rings himself.
• Gu Ziyi summoned an Immobilization Talisman and let Bibi Dong test it by sticking it onto herself.
• The talisman immobilized Bibi Dong for two seconds, and Gu Ziyi explained that it could help them defeat Tang Hao and the Haotian Team.

After returning to Spirit City, Gu Ziyi reported his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast encounter and examined the Soul Bone Peach Wood Sword with Qian Xunji. He explained why he would not use the sword in the Soul Master Competition, but remained confident that he and his Senior Sister could win; Qian Xunji then asked his opinion about a Tool Martial Soul being used as a weapon by a teammate.

• Gu Ziyi returned to Spirit City and told Qian Xunji about the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast’s voluntary sacrifice, reassuring his teacher that he had refused its soul ring.
• Qian Xunji examined the Soul Bone Peach Wood Sword, while Xiaotao complained to Gu Ziyi about being kept inside the Soul Tool and resisted calling him Master.
• Gu Ziyi described the sword’s power, including its ability to threaten Soul Emperors and its once-per-charge attack equal to a Titled Douluo’s strike.
• Gu Ziyi told Qian Xunji he would not use the sword in the competition because it counted as a tool and he wanted to keep its soul-bone nature secret.
• Gu Ziyi said his Fourth Soul Skill gave him and his Senior Sister a strong chance to defeat Tang Hao’s Haotian Team, and Qian Xunji encouraged them to claim the championship.
• Qian Xunji asked Gu Ziyi what he thought about a Tool Martial Soul being used as a weapon by a teammate.

Gu Ziyi explained how his advice led Bai Lu to use her teammate’s Tool Martial Soul, then discussed the tactic’s limits and potential with Qian Xunji. After Qian Xunji arranged for the finals to be held at Spirit Hall, the teams gathered in Spirit City and the final round began, with Yu Xiaogang hoping to see Gu Ziyi.

• Gu Ziyi told Qian Xunji that he had suggested Bai Lu use her teammate’s Tool Martial Soul, and Xiaotao reluctantly called him Master.
• Gu Ziyi explained that the tactic was mainly useful for speed-focused soul masters and that powerful Tool Martial Souls could greatly amplify their combat ability.
• Qian Xunji asked Gu Ziyi whether he was confident of winning the competition, and Gu Ziyi said that he was.
• Qian Xunji secured Spirit Hall as the finals venue by offering two Spirit Bones as the championship prize, and thirty-two teams traveled to Spirit City.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived in Spirit City to watch the finals and hoped he would meet Gu Ziyi.

The Soul Master Competition Finals began in Spirit City, where the teams assembled for their introductions. Gu Ziyi noticed several contestants who might be relatives of familiar characters, and the chapter ended as the host began introducing him as the Pope’s disciple.

• The host introduced the Heaven Dou Royal Team, and Gu Ziyi wondered whether Ning Shuangjiang was Ning Rongrong’s mother or aunt.
• The Star Luo Empire Team entered, and Gu Ziyi grumbled about how many contestants were aunts to familiar characters, including Dai Nisa, Dai Mubai’s aunt.
• Tang Hao spotted Gu Ziyi and Bibi Dong entering with the Martial Soul Hall Team and looked forward to confronting them.
• The host introduced the Martial Soul Hall Team’s members, while other teams compared their strength with Tang Hao’s Haotian Team.
• Yu Xiaogang focused on Bibi Dong, but the host announced Gu Ziyi as the disciple of the Martial Soul Hall Pope before revealing her information.

The tournament host revealed that Gu Ziyi had reached Soul Ancestor Level 40 despite having Innate Soul Power Level 1, leaving Yu Xiaogang and the crowd in disbelief. The host then introduced Bibi Dong as the Martial Soul Hall Team’s final member, and her Soul King Level 52 shocked the venue; Yu Xiaogang ended by treating Gu Ziyi’s achievement as proof that he too could surpass Level 30.

• The host announced Gu Ziyi as a Level 40 Soul Ancestor with a Talisman Martial Soul, and the screens confirmed his information.
• Yu Xiaogang broke down when he learned Gu Ziyi had surpassed the Level 30 barrier despite Innate Soul Power Level 1, while the crowd and Tang Hao reacted with disbelief.
• The host introduced Bibi Dong as the Martial Soul Hall Team’s final member and the hall’s Saintess.
• The screens revealed that Bibi Dong was a fifteen-year-old Level 52 Soul King, stunning the audience.
• Yu Xiaogang assumed Bibi Dong was cultivating both of her martial souls and criticized that approach, then reframed Gu Ziyi’s achievement as evidence that he could also break through Level 30.

After the first round of the Finals, Gu Ziyi and Bibi Dong taunted Tang Hao, who was stopped from attacking by Tang Yuehua. Tang Yuehua and Bai Lu later discussed Gu Ziyi, and the chapter ended as Martial Soul Hall Team prepared to face Divine Wind Team in the second round.

• The first round of the Finals concluded with fifteen matches, and Haotian Team won its match.
• The second-round draw paired Martial Soul Hall Team with Divine Wind Team, while Haotian Team and Star Luo Empire's top-ranked team received byes.
• Tang Hao confronted Gu Ziyi and Bibi Dong, but Tang Yuehua used her domain to calm him and apologized on his behalf.
• Tang Yuehua asked Bai Lu about Gu Ziyi, and Bai Lu reflected on her own feelings for him.
• After a day of rest, Martial Soul Hall Team and Divine Wind Team took the stage for the second round's opening match.

During the match, spectators noticed that Gu Ziyi’s martial soul and soul rings had changed, while Yu Xiaogang grew jealous and convinced himself Gu Ziyi’s progress came from a heavenly treasure. Gu Ziyi supported the Martial Soul Hall Team to victory, then used his Purification Talisman on his teammates, startling the arena.

• Gu Ziyi summoned his Talisman Martial Soul and revealed yellow, yellow, yellow, and purple soul rings, surprising the spectators who remembered his first ring as white.
• Yu Xiaogang suspected a heavenly treasure had evolved Gu Ziyi’s martial soul and soul rings, then became so jealous that he vomited blood.
• Yu Xiaogang recovered and told himself that Gu Ziyi’s breakthrough did not count as a feat of his own ability, while he would still break through Rank 30 by his own strength.
• Gu Ziyi cast his Mind-Clearing Talisman and Golden Light Talisman on his teammates, then watched from the back as Bibi Dong led the Martial Soul Hall Team to victory.
• After the match, Gu Ziyi used his Purification Talisman on his teammates, leaving the spectators wide-eyed.

After Gu Ziyi used his Purification Talisman, the teams drew their matchups for the next round, setting the Martial Soul Hall Team against the Heaven Dou Royal Team. At Clear Sky Sect, Tang Wei learned that Gu Ziyi had become a Level 40 Soul Ancestor and considered arranging a marriage for Tang Yuehua and Bai Lu.

• Gu Ziyi's Purification Talisman cleaned the Martial Soul Hall Team, drawing admiration from female spectators and scornful speculation from Tang Hao and Tang Xiao.
• The teams drew lots, matching the Martial Soul Hall Team against the Heaven Dou Royal Team while the Star Luo Empire Team avoided the Haotian Team.
• Tang Xiao regretted not killing Gu Ziyi earlier and worried that Tang Yuehua might regret their separation.
• Bai He told Tang Wei that Bibi Dong and Gu Ziyi had entered the competition and that Gu Ziyi had reached Soul Ancestor Level 40.
• Tang Wei regretted not dealing with Gu Ziyi and discussed finding Tang Yuehua a suitable husband, then asked about Bai Lu's age.
• Bai He offered to betroth Bai Lu to Tang Xiao, but Tang Wei said they should ask Bai Lu what she wanted.

The Martial Soul Hall Team faced the Heaven Dou Royal Team in the final match of the third round, while Dugu Bo watched his son compete. Yue Guan revealed that he had become a Titled Douluo and questioned whether Dugu Bo and his son were suffering from their own Snake Venom, leaving Dugu Bo shocked.

• The Haotian Team, Star Luo Empire Team, and Thunder Team won the first three matches of the round.
• Dugu Xin and Ning Shuangjiang vowed that the Heaven Dou Royal Team would defeat Bibi Dong and Gu Ziyi, while Bibi Dong welcomed the challenge.
• Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Sword Douluo discussed the Martial Soul Hall Team's strength and Gu Ziyi's support from the audience seats.
• Yue Guan approached Dugu Bo, revealed that he had broken through to Titled Douluo, and challenged him to spar.
• Dugu Bo argued that Dugu Xin's Snake Venom could threaten the Martial Soul Hall Team, but Yue Guan pointed out that Bibi Dong's poison was just as formidable.
• Yue Guan asked whether Dugu Bo and Dugu Xin had been poisoned by their own martial souls, and Dugu Bo reacted with shock.

Dugu Xin’s poison failed against Gu Ziyi’s Purification Talismans, and Bibi Dong’s team quickly overwhelmed the Heaven Dou Royal Team. Ning Shuangjiang launched a surprise attack on Gu Ziyi but was trapped with him in Bibi Dong’s Death Spiderweb Cage, where she revealed her resentment over his help to Tang Yuehua.

• Dugu Bo denied being poisoned by his own martial soul, but Yue Guan saw through him and laughed.
• Dugu Xin’s poisonous mist overpowered Bibi Dong’s, but Gu Ziyi’s Purification Talismans kept the team safe from it.
• Dugu Xin drew Bibi Dong away from the rear before she defeated him and knocked out the Heaven Dou Royal Team’s support-type soul master.
• Ning Shuangjiang used her Repelling Ice Ring to clear a path and charge at Gu Ziyi, prompting Bibi Dong to raise a Death Spiderweb Cage beneath him.
• Ning Shuangjiang crashed into Gu Ziyi before the cage closed, leaving them trapped together; Gu Ziyi restrained her hands as she accused him of helping Tang Yuehua and harming the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Ning Shuangjiang revealed that she had tried to punish Gu Ziyi for helping Tang Yuehua awaken her support abilities, which threatened the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. When Ning Shuangjiang tried to attack him during their struggle, Gu Ziyi interrupted her soul skill with a kiss, and she chased him off the arena as the Martial Soul Hall Team was declared the winner.

• Sword Douluo explained to Ning Fengzhi that Ning Shuangjiang had tried to teach Gu Ziyi a lesson for helping Tang Yuehua cultivate.
• Gu Ziyi blamed the Clear Sky Sect for copying the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, but Ning Shuangjiang held him responsible.
• Ning Shuangjiang tried to use her Ice Armor soul skill on Gu Ziyi, and he interrupted her by kissing her.
• Bibi Dong withdrew her Death Spiderweb Cage and stopped protecting Gu Ziyi after seeing him kiss Ning Shuangjiang.
• Gu Ziyi fled the arena, and Ning Shuangjiang chased after him, eliminating the Heaven Dou Royal Team and securing the Martial Soul Hall Team's victory.