Chapter Summaries

Su Ming’s Star Tree Giant withstood Zheng Tian Academy’s fire and spiritual attacks before Ye Wuqing destroyed it with explosive golden leaves. The Star Tree Spirit then entered Su Ming, restoring his Soul Power and revealing an even more terrifying form as he prepared to strike Ye Wuqing.

• Su Ming summoned his Star Tree Giant, and Yu Mengdi’s holy flames and Shangguan Can’s spiritual attack failed to harm it.
• Ye Wuqing used explosive golden leaves and his fifth soul skill, Sky Dance, to destroy the Star Tree Giant, while Su Ming defended himself with Invincible Shields.
• The Star Tree Spirit emerged from the fallen giant, prompting Wang Yan to conclude that Soul Spirits could assist Soul Masters in battle.
• The Star Tree Spirit entered Su Ming, and the starlight restored his Soul Power, making his aura more oppressive than before.
• Su Ming gathered the power of Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Light, and Dark into his fist and prepared to unleash Supreme Wave Fist on Ye Wuqing.

Su Ming used a devastating punch and rapid Soul Power recovery to defeat Zheng Tian Academy, establishing himself as the tournament’s biggest dark horse. After the Sun Moon Royal Team advanced to the quarterfinals, Yan Shaozhe discussed tactics for their match against Di'ao Academy and considered Xu Sanshi’s awakened bloodline.

• Su Ming unleashed Supreme Wave Fist, using his Soul Core and the Domain of Chaos’s Elemental Power to eliminate two Soul Kings and four Soul Ancestors.
• Yan Shaozhe recognized that Su Ming had condensed a Soul Core and explained the attack’s strength, while Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao reacted to his feat.
• Su Ming rapidly recovered his Soul Power, and Yu Mengdi conceded, giving the Sun Moon Royal Team the victory.
• Zheng Tian Academy forfeited the Individual Battle two days later, and the Sun Moon Royal Team advanced to the quarterfinals against Di'ao Academy.
• Wang Yan proposed using Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill against Su Ming if needed, and Yan Shaozhe asked Xu Sanshi about his bloodline awakening.
• Xu Sanshi said he could awaken his bloodline, and Yan Shaozhe approved a possible tactic involving him and Huo Yuhao before promising Wang Yan access to the Inner Court Book Library.

Su Ming and the Sun Moon Royal Team defeated Di'ao Academy and advanced to the semifinals, where they faced the Star Luo Royal Team. Xiao Hongchen exploited the weaknesses in the Star Luo team’s Soul Tools, leaving Xu Jiawei desperate as the match continued.

• Su Ming used the Supreme Wave Fist to eliminate Di'ao Team's Soul Emperor captain, and Ma Rulong, Xiao Hongchen, and the others eliminated three more Soul Kings to secure victory.
• Di'ao Academy tested Ma Rulong in an individual match before surrendering, sending the Sun Moon Royal Team to the semifinals.
• The Sun Moon Royal Team drew the Star Luo Royal Team, which chose to fight rather than surrender in Star Luo City.
• Xu Jiujiu enhanced the Star Luo Royal Team with her Star Lock Technique and Star Shine Technique, and her teammates charged with Soul Tools taken from Mingde Hall.
• Xiao Hongchen targeted the weaknesses of the Star Luo Royal Team's Soul Tools with different rays while Su Ming stopped a close-combat Soul Engineer.
• As the Star Luo team's Soul Tools were destroyed, Xu Jiawei gripped his chair and shouted for the fighting to stop.

The Sun Moon Royal Team defeated the Star Luo Royal Team, and Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Academy advanced to the finals. As both sides prepared for the final, Shrek planned to target Su Ming while Evil Soul Masters plotted to capture him.

• The Star Luo Royal Team fought the Sun Moon Royal Team for half an hour, but its Soul Tools were destroyed; He Caitou explained why copying the enemy's customized Soul Tools would not work.
• Xiao Hongchen said he would study Core Arrays suited to himself, and Su Ming told Meng Hongchen that changes in Soul Tool technology made this a good time to rethink their foundations.
• The semifinals ended with Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Academy advancing to the final, which would feature a team battle, individual elimination, and a Two-Two-Three Match without breaks.
• Yan Shaozhe assigned Shrek's fighters and planned to weaken Su Ming during the team battle so the team could gain an advantage in the later matches.
• Evil Soul Masters received orders to watch Su Ming and capture him for his Spiritual Metal, while Su Ming assured Elder Ma he could handle Shrek's expected focus on him.
• Elder Ma advised Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to save their Martial Soul Fusion Skill for the Two-Two-Three Match.

During the final’s Team Battle, Shrek Academy targeted Su Ming with Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s Golden Road, which deprived him of his Martial Soul. Su Ming countered by using Spiritual Power and a Soul Power fusion to unleash powerful abilities, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Heavenly Fiend Douluo confirmed the final’s consecutive match format and barred substitutions between matches.
• Su Ming recognized Shrek’s lineup of Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xu Sanshi as a plan to take him out of later matches.
• Xu Sanshi awakened his Black Tortoise bloodline and used his evolved Fourth Soul Skill to teleport Su Ming in front of him.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong used Golden Road to deprive Su Ming of his Martial Soul while Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, and Ling Luochen launched their strongest attacks.
• Su Ming used Spiritual Power to trigger a Purple Soul Ring and fuse Soul Power despite his deprivation.
• Su Ming summoned the seven elements with Element Storm and activated Domain of Chaos without using Soul Rings.

Su Ming survived Shrek Academy’s attempt to strip his Martial Soul and used the Domain of Chaos to turn their attacks against them. He returned to the Sun Moon Royal Team as their Soul Cannons struck, leaving Shrek’s formation in ruins and gaining new insight into Soul Power.

• Su Ming used the seven elements in the Domain of Chaos to disrupt Ling Luochen’s ice attack and absorb much of Ma Xiaotao’s phoenix flames.
• Su Ming unleashed Element Harmony, expanded the Domain of Chaos across half the arena, and returned to the Sun Moon Royal Team’s side.
• Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng’s redirected attacks hit Ling Luochen and Huo Yuhao as Xiao Hongchen’s Soul Cannons struck Shrek’s unguarded formation.
• Su Ming sat down to recover and, guided by Electrolux, realized that losing his Martial Soul had let him sense Soul Power’s traits directly.
• Xu Sanshi regretted teleporting Su Ming into Shrek’s formation, while Wang Yan and Yan Shaozhe recognized that their strategy had failed.

Ma Rulong used the Sword of Judgment to drive Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire out of control, forcing Yan Shaozhe to break into the arena and stop her. Xu Jiawei awarded the match to the Sun Moon Royal Team, and Su Ming proposed changing Shrek Academy’s tournament rewards as a penalty.

• With Shrek’s team badly injured, Ma Xiaotao launched her Phoenix Meteor Shower, and Su Ming told Ma Rulong to use his trump card without worrying about the cost.
• Ma Rulong wielded the Level 8 Soul Tool Sword of Judgment and fought Ma Xiaotao, whose Evil Fire erupted into black flames under its Dark Element.
• Yan Shaozhe broke the arena’s Soul Barrier, stopped Ma Xiaotao, and sealed her Soul Power, while Elder Ma warned that a Level 9 Soul Cannon was aimed at the city.
• Xu Jiawei declared the Sun Moon Royal Team the winner, and Elder Ma challenged the fairness of Shrek’s intervention.
• Su Ming suggested revoking Shrek Academy’s rewards, then proposed shifting the rewards down one place instead, prompting Xu Jiawei to consider the offer.

Su Ming confronted Yan Shaozhe after Shrek Academy intervened in the tournament, demanding both punishment and compensation. Yan Shaozhe accepted the loss of Shrek’s rewards but angrily rejected Su Ming’s further demands as Ma Xiaotao groaned in pain.

• Su Ming explained that he had let Xu Sanshi teleport him so he could experience having his Martial Soul stripped, and that he had defeated Ling Luochen without using his prepared Invincible Shields.
• Su Ming and Electrolux’s plan to lure Tang San’s divine power into a trap failed because Tang San did not interfere with the match.
• Su Ming accused Yan Shaozhe of breaking tournament rules, and the audience joined in criticizing Shrek’s intervention.
• Yan Shaozhe agreed that Shrek’s rewards would pass to the next teams, relieving Xu Jiawei and delighting the Star Luo Royal Team and Di'ao Team.
• Su Ming demanded that Shrek also compensate the other academies, and Yan Shaozhe angrily refused as Ma Xiaotao groaned in his arms.

Su Ming forced Shrek Academy to compensate its potential opponents after Yan Shaozhe intervened in the match, dealing a major blow to Shrek's standing. He then chose to fight the individual elimination matches alone, and Wang Yan arranged Shrek's lineup to try to wear him down.

• Su Ming warned Yan Shaozhe that the Sun Moon Empire would retaliate if Shrek made the first move, then demanded one Soul Bone for each of fifteen teams as compensation.
• Yan Shaozhe accepted the demand and took Ma Xiaotao back to the preparation area, where Teacher Li examined her condition.
• Su Ming asked Elder Ma to handle the remaining matches, forfeited the 2-2-3 Battle Strategy, and volunteered to fight first in the individual elimination matches.
• Su Ming allowed Shrek Academy to readjust its lineup, then sat on the arena to recover while Wang Yan ordered Bei Bei to exhaust him and planned the remaining fighters.
• Teacher Li offered to help Chen Zifeng, Dai Yueheng, and Ling Luochen recover, while Yan Shaozhe used his Soul Power to suppress Ma Xiaotao's condition.

Su Ming continued fighting the Shrek team alone, defeating Bei Bei and Xixi with barrages of golden fist light while secretly replenishing his Soul Power. Ling Luochen then covered the arena in Ice Mist to wear him down, and Su Ming answered with fist light that fused light and fire as the match continued.

• Su Ming borrowed and sealed more power from his other selves before beginning his match against Bei Bei.
• Bei Bei's golden lightning attacks failed to stop Su Ming's fist light, and Su Ming heavily injured him until Wang Yan conceded.
• Xixi tried to interrupt Su Ming while he absorbed Soul Power from a Milk Bottle, but Su Ming eliminated her with a storm of golden fist light.
• Wang Yan sent Ling Luochen out to drain Su Ming's Soul Power and force him to use his Ten Thousand Year Soul Skill.
• Ling Luochen filled the arena with Ice Mist, and Su Ming responded with fist light infused with both light and fire.

Su Ming defeated Dai Yueheng with a powerful Soul Power boost, then quickly eliminated He Caitou. As Shrek's team prepared to send Wang Dong, she revealed she had a trump card that might turn the match around.

• Dai Yueheng charged Su Ming with several White Tiger Soul Skills, but Su Ming shattered an illusory Purple Soul Ring and unleashed Supreme Vibration Fist.
• Su Ming's seven-colored fist radiance overwhelmed Dai Yueheng's White Tiger Destruction Kill and left him unconscious, deepening Wang Yan's despair.
• Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng wondered what Su Ming's Martial Soul was and how he could borrow Soul Power from heaven and earth.
• Su Ming remarked on He Caitou's Cigar Martial Soul and asked about his Soul Guide Technology, then quickly eliminated him after the match began.
• Wang Dong offered to fight next and told Wang Yan she had a trump card, while Huo Yuhao wondered why she had never mentioned it.

Wang Dong used Tang San's Sea God Power against Su Ming, but Electrolux stopped Tang San's divine consciousness from taking over Su Ming. While fighting Chen Zifeng, Su Ming learned to borrow power from heaven and earth, and his Soul Power began to surge.

• Wang Yan asked to replace Shrek's contestant, and Su Ming agreed when he saw Wang Dong waiting to enter.
• Wang Dong invoked the Sea God's Blessing and trapped Su Ming with the Unfixed Wind Waves, but Electrolux blocked Tang San's divine power from invading Su Ming.
• Su Ming endured Wang Dong's Father God's Light and struck her down, leaving himself badly injured as Chen Zifeng entered the arena.
• Chen Zifeng attacked Su Ming from a distance with the tracking Soul Chasing Sword while Su Ming asked Electrolux to analyze Wang Dong's Sea God technique.
• After Electrolux guided him through a failed attempt, Su Ming tried borrowing power from heaven and earth again, and his Soul Power aura began to swell.

The God of Destruction observed Su Ming’s Soul Fighting Tournament match and discovered that he had created Forging Faith and could use God Invocation. Su Ming found that the technique let him draw seemingly endless Soul Power from heaven and earth, while Electrolux sensed that the new deity watching him carried Destruction’s aura.

• The God of Destruction projected his divine sense into Star Luo City and found that an unknown power prevented him from observing Su Ming directly.
• The God of Destruction watched Su Ming through nearby spectators and recognized him as a native with a deep connection to the Douluo Plane who had created a new kind of Faith.
• Tang San withdrew his Sea God Faith after realizing Su Ming had traced its divine power to Faith, and he decided to focus on Huo Yuhao and the Tang Sect instead.
• Su Ming used God Invocation to merge with his Forging Faith and replenish his Soul Power through a new method of borrowing strength from heaven and earth.
• Electrolux told Su Ming that a deity with an aura of Destruction had noticed him, and Su Ming was relieved by the news.

Su Ming defeated Chen Zifeng by briefly engraving arrays onto the Soul Chasing Sword, securing the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s championship over Shrek. He then forged an alloy before the crowd, gained a surge of Forging Faith, and broke through his Soul Power bottleneck.

• Su Ming disrupted Chen Zifeng’s control of the Soul Chasing Sword with temporary Core Arrays, causing the sword to pierce Chen Zifeng and completing his one-against-seven victory.
• Xiao Hongchen realized Su Ming had adapted the principle behind his ability to create temporary Soul Tools, while the Shrek team faced the shame of its defeat.
• Xu Jiawei announced the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy as champion, and spectators began to reconsider their reverence for Shrek Academy.
• Su Ming set up a forging table and successfully fused Sinking Silver and Magic Silver in a single attempt, astonishing the crowd and the watching blacksmiths.
• Su Ming absorbed the abundant Forging Faith into his Sea of Consciousness, and his Soul Power bottleneck broke through.

Su Ming reached level forty and revealed Spiritual Alloy Forging to a huge audience, prompting the Blacksmith Association and Mingde Hall to prepare for expansion and reform. He then left for the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for his fourth Soul Ring, intent on developing his Main Body, Soul Power, and Elemental Control together.

• Su Ming broke through to level forty and considered seeking a fourth Soul Ring worth forty or fifty thousand years.
• Su Ming arranged for the Blacksmith Association to begin building branches and developing the cities that had won auction slots.
• Jing Hongchen selected four cities for Mingde Hall branches and began organizing a nationwide reform that separated forging blanks from Soul Engineer work.
• Su Ming finished the commissioned Thousand Forgings First Grade metals and left the Sun Moon Royal Team for the Star Dou Great Forest with Eight Arms Douluo and Du Busi.
• Su Ming resolved to make his present self bear the past and future selves while cultivating his Main Body, Soul Power, and Elemental Control.

Su Ming sought a Soul Beast capable of replicating Martial Souls, and the God of Destruction learned that only one Mirror Shadow Beast remained on Douluo Continent. After searching Star Dou Great Forest for more than half a month, Su Ming and Du Busi considered looking for it in Ice Seal Forest.

• Su Ming asked Du Busi about Soul Beasts that could replicate Martial Souls, and Du Busi mentioned Mirror Shadow Beasts.
• The God of Destruction questioned the God of Change, who listed several similar Soul Beasts and revealed that a male Mirror Shadow Beast lived in Ice Seal Forest.
• The God of Change explained that Oscar had killed the last female Mirror Shadow Beast ten thousand years earlier, leaving the frightened male unable to reproduce easily.
• Su Ming, Du Busi, and Eight Arms searched Star Dou Great Forest, while Eight Arms warned that provoking a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast could damage the Body Sect's relationship with the Soul Beast Clan.
• Du Busi proposed searching Ice Seal Forest for the Mirror Shadow Beast Oscar had encountered, and Su Ming wondered whether it could have survived there undetected.

Su Ming communicated with the Snow Empress inside the Platform of Deification and questioned her about Mirror Shadow Beasts. After learning that she had seen two in the Extreme North Land, he and Du Busi decided to search the Ice Seal Forest first.

• Su Ming asked Du Busi to let him examine the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo through the Platform of Deification rather than release it.
• With Electrolux helping him intercept the Snow Empress's Mental Fluctuations, Su Ming established communication and tried to bargain with her.
• Su Ming claimed to know about the Ice God's inheritance, then asked the Snow Empress whether she had seen any Mirror Shadow Beasts.
• The Snow Empress said she remembered two Mirror Shadow Beasts in the Extreme North Land, one with twenty thousand years of cultivation and another with about fifty thousand.
• Su Ming reported the information to Du Busi, who decided to search the Ice Seal Forest before traveling to the Extreme North Land.

Su Ming found the Mirror Shadow Beast in the Extreme North and used its Martial Soul to copy others. With Electrolux's help, he planned to build additional Body and Elemental Control Martial Souls from borrowed power, Evil Martial Souls, and a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast Embryo, while his growing influence caused the Dou San era to break away from the lower reaches of the Time River.

• Su Ming and Du Busi found the Mirror Shadow Beast on an island in the Ice Sea, and Su Ming used his Fourth Soul Skill, Copy, on it.
• Su Ming explained to Electrolux that he wanted to separate the bodily and spiritual portions of his Borrowed Power and condense them into additional Martial Souls.
• Electrolux agreed to help use the Lich, Blood Mosquito, and Skeleton Evil Martial Souls as materials for a Body Martial Soul, and Su Ming accepted the differences from a pure Body Martial Soul.
• Su Ming proposed using the Life Origin of the hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast Embryo to lay the foundation for an Elemental Control Martial Soul.
• As Su Ming's influence in the Dou Er era grew, the Dou San era broke away from the lower reaches of the Time River.

Su Ming stabilized the separating Dou San future by reviewing major figures and historical events that could serve as anchors, while the God of Destruction’s interference threatened the timeline. After the world’s collapse-like tremor passed, Su Ming offered Mu Ye a shortcut to overcoming his cultivation bottleneck and showed him information about Ji Juechen.

• Su Ming reasoned that the Dou San future could separate from the Time River once its changes became impossible for the river to correct.
• After the God of Destruction disrupted the future, Su Ming reviewed major figures, organizations, the Abyss, and Dragon Valley to stabilize the timeline.
• The tremor alarmed Gu Yue, Yun Ming, and the Dragon Valley Dragon Soul, who each wondered what had caused the world to seem on the verge of collapse.
• Mu Ye questioned Su Ming for deleting his browsing history during the crisis, and Su Ming insisted that he had been saving the world.
• Su Ming told Mu Ye he had found a shortcut for his cultivation problem and showed him Tang Sect records about Ji Juechen.

Su Ming showed Mu Ye how Ji Juechen’s Entering the Sword with Soul could guide him toward fully fusing Little Red with his mecha. After Mu Ye left to study the method, Zhen Hua decided to investigate whether Soul Spirits could be used to create a new kind of Forging, and Su Ming offered to seek research materials from the Spirit Pagoda.

• Su Ming explained that Ji Juechen’s cultivation path was about entering the sword with his soul, prompting Mu Ye to reconsider how Little Red and his mecha were fused.
• Mu Ye realized he needed to forge the mecha into one whole and let a Soul Spirit become its inner spirit through overlapping fusion rather than parallel fusion.
• Zhen Hua and Su Ming discussed why Ji Juechen’s sword had not transformed and what a Soul Spirit and metal would need to achieve Soul Forging or Heavenly Forging.
• Mu Ye decided to study Ji Juechen’s path and ultimate techniques in seclusion, while Zhen Hua worried that the idea could reshape Forging.
• Su Ming explained that the method would require an exceptional Soul Spirit and costly Spirit Forged Metal, easing Zhen Hua’s concerns.
• Zhen Hua chose to research Artificial Soul Forging Metal, and Su Ming offered to ask Zhang Tianyang whether the Spirit Pagoda could provide Soul Spirits close to ten thousand years old.