Chapter Summaries

Shi Yueyi defeated Blazing Fire Academy and Godwind Academy while teaching their Soul Masters about Martial Souls, self-created abilities, elemental control, and Spiritual Power. As she carried the defeated teams off the arena, a Soul Power breakthrough and a scream came from another match, prompting a cheer that their team now had a Soul King.

• Shi Yueyi immobilized the seven opponents by restricting their Soul Power and explained how Martial Souls, soul rings, and Soul Skills worked.
• Shi Yueyi told Feng Xiaotian that his Gale Demon Wolf Consecutive Slash was his own achievement and urged Huo Wu to explore her Body Martial Soul.
• Shi Yueyi demonstrated control over water as an attribute, and the seven opponents chose to surrender so they could keep listening to her lesson.
• Shi Yueyi began to explain how to cultivate Spiritual Power, then stopped and swept the seven opponents off the arena with a torrent of water.
• A violent Soul Power surge came from another arena, followed by a scream and a cheer that a teammate had broken through to become a Soul King.

Shi Yueyi welcomed Blazing Fire Academy and Godwind Academy into Spirit Hall, approved Slime Engineering Academy’s request to hunt soul rings, and discussed Spirit Hall’s expanding work. Two days later, Tang San returned as a Soul King with a fifth soul ring on both martial souls, but his Clear Sky Hammer’s ring sequence left him furious at the Rakshasa God as he faced Four Symbols Academy.

• After his match, Tang San nearly drained an opposing Soul Elder to death while trying to summon the Sea God’s power, and Qian Renxue recorded the incident with her Spiritual Power.
• Huo Wu and Feng Xiaotian confirmed their academies and families would join Spirit Hall, and Shi Yueyi gave them the first volume of the Martial Soul Grand Compendium.
• Elder Sea Turtle told Shi Yueyi that Slime Engineering Academy had requested permission to hunt soul rings, and she approved the trip while discussing Tang San’s next soul ring with him.
• Two days later, Tang San returned at Soul King level fifty-three with a fifth soul ring on both the Blue Silver Grass and Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San resented the Rakshasa God’s fixed soul-ring sequence and grew hostile toward Four Symbols Academy, his opponents in the battle for the final six.

Tang San fought Four Symbols Academy in the tournament and grew furious when Yang Bubai mocked his threats and the team disrupted his planned Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The match remained unresolved as Tang San spent nearly all his Soul Power unleashing the third form of the Sea God Thirteen Forms.

• Yang Bubai asked Tang San whether he was Tang Hao's descendant, and Tang San denied it before attacking with his Blue Silver Overlord Spear.
• Yang Bubai countered Tang San's spear techniques and sent him flying, while Tang San used two soul skills to imitate part of the Sea God Thirteen Forms.
• Four Symbols Academy's auxiliary Soul Ancestor disrupted Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing's Martial Soul Fusion Skill with her Phantom Nine Bells, and Bai Chenxiang carried her out of Ma Hongjun's attack range.
• Yang Bubai mocked Tang San as a member of the Buried Love Family, and Tang San became enraged when he could not understand the insult.
• Tang San roared and used nearly all his remaining Soul Power to unleash the third form of the Sea God Thirteen Forms, No Return.

Tang San’s No Return attack forced Hu Yan-zhen to intervene and left Tang San’s right arm badly injured. Shi Yueyi offered the Shrek team a choice between withdrawing for treatment or continuing without restoring Tang San’s arm, and the team chose to continue after Spirit Hall declared her its Pope Successor.

• Tang San used No Return against Four Symbols Academy, but Hu Yan-zhen shielded the opponents, and Tang San’s right arm was blown apart by the attack’s cost.
• Shi Yueyi healed the other injured fighters but left Tang San’s arm unrepaired as punishment for the attack.
• Yu Xiaogang protested Shi Yueyi’s decision and was struck down twice, while Flender apologized and argued that Tang San had lost control.
• Shi Yueyi gave the Shrek team the choice to withdraw for Tang San’s treatment or continue the tournament with his arm unrepaired.
• Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong confirmed that Shi Yueyi could speak for Spirit Hall, and Qian Daoliu announced that she was the Pope Successor.
• Tang San chose to continue competing, and Shi Yueyi noted that Spirit Hall’s right arm bone had kept his bones from cracking.

After Tang San denied his ties to Spirit Hall and called Shi Yueyi his mother, he fainted and woke in his Spiritual Sea, where Tang Hao confronted him. Tang Hao revealed that the Rakshasa God had revived him as a Great Priest for Tang San’s trials, leaving father and son at odds.

• Tang San claimed Spirit Hall had forced a ten-year spirit bone on him to ruin his future, but a spectator challenged his account.
• Shi Yueyi flew away with her Blue Silver Emperor Spirit Bone, and Tang San shouted “Mom”; she rejected him, and he fainted after spitting blood.
• Tang Hao’s soul repeatedly struck Tang San in his Spiritual Sea and condemned him for denying their relationship and calling Shi Yueyi his mother.
• Tang Hao admitted he had long suspected Tang San was not truly his son, but had accepted him because he showed some filial devotion and awakened Twin Martial Souls.
• Tang Hao revealed the Rakshasa God had revived him as a level-ninety-nine Great Priest whose role was to put Tang San through trials.
• Tang San accused the Rakshasa God of turning father against son, and the god replied that other inheritors had endured similar family betrayals.

Tang San learned that the Rakshasa God had chosen him for his selfishness and that Tang Hao would oppose him in the trial, though he would sacrifice himself if Tang San succeeded. In the God Realm, the Rakshasa God and Asura God discussed their competing plans for Tang San and grew suspicious after he used a technique resembling the Sea God's No Return.

• The Rakshasa God told Tang San that Bibi Dong had rebelled against her trial and revealed that Tang Hao had become the Great Priest because Tang San came from another world.
• Tang Hao warned Tang San that he would try to stop him in the trial and take over his body if Tang San died, but would sacrifice himself to open the gate to godhood if Tang San succeeded.
• The Asura God confronted the Rakshasa God for revealing too much, and they discussed the need for two souls to bear Tang San's two god positions after Xiao Wu's capture disrupted Asura's plan.
• The Asura God decided to activate a backup plan, while the King of Slaughter briefly regained clarity in Slaughter City.
• The Rakshasa God told the Asura God that Tang San had used a weakened technique resembling the Sea God's No Return, and the gods agreed that Tang Hao should watch him for clues.

Tang San restored his right arm by devouring rabbit-type soul beasts and reached level fifty-three, while Shi Yueyi and Qian Renxue discussed artificial soul rings and plans to build Qian Renxue’s reputation. On the day of the final, the teams were led to Douluo Hall instead of Pope’s Palace, where Tang San saw bronze statues and Tang Hao reacted violently.

• Tang San devoured ten hundred-year rabbit-type soul beasts, restored his right hand, and broke through to level fifty-three.
• Shi Yueyi told Qian Renxue that Tang San’s flesh was not entirely human and explained her research into how soul rings were created.
• Qian Renxue used Chaos Qi to demonstrate a possible way to create soul rings, and Shi Yueyi proposed transforming the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after the tournament.
• Shi Yueyi revealed that she wanted to credit Qian Renxue’s Angel God status with discovering the technique to strengthen her public reputation.
• The teams and their teachers arrived before Douluo Hall for the opening ceremony, where Tang San saw bronze statues and Tang Hao went berserk.

At the Spirit Hall tournament opening ceremony, Bibi Dong and Shi Yueyi explained why the Sea God Island Titled Douluo statues knelt outside Douluo Hall and honored the predecessors who had defended the continent. As the crowd bowed in remembrance, Tang Hao raged inside Tang San’s Spiritual Sea and ordered him to stand straight.

• Tang San arrived at Douluo Hall with Ma Hongjun and recognized the statues of Tang Hao, Bo Saixi, and several Sea God Island Titled Douluo.
• Bibi Dong appeared with Shi Yueyi and used an unseen force to stop Spirit Hall’s people from kneeling to her.
• Bibi Dong explained that the ceremony honored the predecessors who had sacrificed for the Soul Master world.
• Shi Yueyi said the Sea God Island Titled Douluo had attacked the continent and tried to free Slaughter City’s criminals before Spirit Hall stopped and executed them.
• Bibi Dong warned that the continent still had enemies, and Xie Yue, Yu Tianheng, and the gathered spectators bowed toward Douluo Hall.
• Tang Hao shouted at Tang San to stand up straight and not kneel.

At the Spirit Hall tournament ceremony, Tang San and his companions refused to kneel in respect to Douluo Hall’s forebears, despite warnings from Oscar and Tang Hao. Bibi Dong ordered them to kneel and kowtow for a day, leaving them humiliated as the finals were postponed.

• Shi Yueyi announced that Spirit Hall’s Saintess would pay respects to Douluo Hall’s forebears, and she knelt before the hall.
• Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the others refused to kneel, while Shi Qingshan and Du Xinyi knelt and Du Xinyi pleaded for the forebears’ blessing.
• Tang Hao urged Tang San to stay standing, and Bibi Dong noticed an aura in his mind connected to the Rakshasa God Trial.
• A red-clad bishop forced Yu Xiaogang to kneel, and Bibi Dong ordered those who had refused to kneel to remain on their knees for a day and postponed the finals.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo forced Yu Xiaogang to kneel again, and eleven members of the group were made to shuffle toward Douluo Hall while repeatedly kowtowing.

Tang San and the others endured Spirit Hall’s punishment before the final three teams began the tournament’s individual matches. After Bibi Dong revealed Xiao Wu’s captivity as the seventh soul bone, Tang San resolved to stay calm, while Slime Engineering Academy forfeited the morning matches and Yu Xiaogang was struck down for interrupting the proceedings.

• Tang San, Tang Hao, and their companions spent twelve shichen kneeling and kowtowing before Douluo Hall under Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost’s watch, while Qian Renxue burned the Sea God’s imprisoned consciousness.
• Ye Renxin healed the group’s injuries but left their forehead marks as reminders of their atonement, and the final three teams prepared to compete.
• Bibi Dong presented six soul bones and showed an image of Xiao Wu, explaining that the captured hundred-thousand-year soul beast would become the seventh soul bone and that Spirit Hall wanted to preserve her soul ring.
• Tang San fought to hide his anger and focus on the tournament as Slime Engineering Academy drew a bye and Spirit Hall’s Soul Ancestor forfeited against Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• After Tang San advised Grandmaster, Yu Xiaogang tried to interrupt the match, but a red-robed bishop struck him down; Yu then declared Slime Engineering Academy’s voluntary forfeit and was struck again.

Bibi Dong granted Slime Engineering Academy and Heaven Dou Royal Academy's forfeits, sending them to the afternoon semifinals while Spirit Hall Team advanced directly to the final. Shi Yueyi faced Tang San's Shrek lineup and unleashed overwhelming pressure, leaving them suspended above the team as she ordered them to kneel.

• Bibi Dong suppressed Liu Erlong and accepted Slime Engineering Academy's forfeiture of the individual matches.
• Shi Yueyi announced that Heaven Dou Royal Academy would also forfeit its individual matches and advance to the losers' bracket semifinals.
• Tang San told Shrek's lineup to save the Seven-in-One fusion skill for the final as they prepared to face Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Shi Yueyi confronted Tang San on the stage and revealed three black and three red soul rings.
• Shi Yueyi's pressure darkened the Shrek members' vision, and she appeared above them and commanded, "Kneel!"

Shi Yueyi used lightning to paralyze Shrek and reshape the arena into a Thunder Pool while Ye Lingling healed Shrek and Ning Rongrong and Oscar supported Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Tang San rallied Shrek into a Seven-in-One formation and prepared to attack with his Clear Sky Hammer as Shi Yueyi called for Ning Rongrong to increase her enhancement.

• Shi Yueyi descended on Shrek with Ten Thousand Thunders Burial, scattering the team while Ye Lingling’s healing prevented serious injuries.
• Shi Yueyi spread lightning across the arena and through Shrek’s meridians, paralyzing them as Ning Rongrong and Oscar supported Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Oscar threw sausages toward Shrek, but Shi Yueyi intercepted them and triggered the lightning in Tang San and his teammates, widening their meridians.
• Tang San shifted Shrek into a Seven-in-One formation, summoned his five-ring Clear Sky Hammer, and vowed to defeat Shi Yueyi.
• Shi Yueyi called for Ning Rongrong to increase the enhancement on Tang San.

Tang San unleashed the Seven-in-One Fusion Skill and a fully empowered Clear Sky Hammer against Shi Yueyi, but she outmaneuvered him and struck through the hammer’s defenses. The battle left Tang San bleeding and humiliated as Shi Yueyi dismissed him as a toy.

• Tang San and his teammates completed their fusion skill, forming a giant Clear Sky Hammer powered by Tang San and Tang Hao’s Spiritual Power.
• Tang San and Tang Hao declared that generations of Clear Sky Hammers would strike down Popes, and Tang San charged Shi Yueyi with the massive hammer.
• Shi Yueyi activated her partially fused Dragon God Armor and used lightning-fast movements to crack the Haotian True Body while evading Tang San’s attacks.
• Tang San’s hammer swing missed Shi Yueyi, and Yue Guan intercepted its force before it could endanger the arena.
• Shi Yueyi sent lightning through the crack in the hammer and struck Tang San between the brows, making him bleed.
• Shi Yueyi called Tang San stupid and compared him to a toy beside the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

Shi Yueyi invaded Tang San’s Spiritual Sea with the Thunder God Bloodline while fighting him in the arena, then used his attempt to activate Batwing Reincarnation to reach his hidden memories. Tang San was overwhelmed and thrown out of the arena, while Shi Yueyi began absorbing his memories.

• Shi Yueyi sent a Thunder Dragon into Tang San’s Spiritual Sea, interrupting Tang Hao’s control of Tang San.
• Tang San resumed fighting Shi Yueyi despite the damage to his Spiritual Sea, while Shi Yueyi attacked him both inside and outside his mind.
• Shi Yueyi shattered Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer and provoked him into forming the thought of using Batwing Reincarnation.
• Tang Hao destroyed the Thunder Dragon, but Shi Yueyi released a tide of lightning that seized Tang San’s thought and attacked his hidden memories.
• Shi Yueyi began absorbing Tang San’s memories, and Tang San convulsed before being flung out of the arena.

Shi Yueyi defeated Tang San and the Shrek team in the semifinal, after which Spirit Hall kept them in the city for treatment and the awards ceremony. The championship final began with Shi Yueyi and Qian Renxue facing each other alone, leaving the crowd and Shrek stunned.

• Shi Yueyi defeated Tang San with her lightning attack, but Tang San recovered enough to reveal that he had been pretending and pleaded with Yu Xiaogang to return to Nuoding City.
• Ye Renxin and Chrysanthemum Douluo treated the injured Shrek team, explaining that Tang San’s forced use of the Tool Spirit True Body had strained his Spiritual Power and affected his mind.
• The tournament finals arrived, with the audience expecting Shi Yueyi to dominate Spirit Hall Academy’s team.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy sent only Shi Yueyi onto the stage, and Spirit Hall Academy responded by sending only Qian Renxue.
• Shi Yueyi and Qian Renxue recognized that they had both anticipated the other’s solo entrance, while the Shrek group reacted in fright.

Qian Renxue challenged Shi Yueyi in the tournament, revealing her angelic power and matching Shi Yueyi in a spectacular battle. Their fight continued with neither gaining the upper hand as their attacks began tearing open space.

• Qian Renxue appeared on the competition platform, surprising the Shrek group and prompting Tang San to realize Xue Qinghe was still in the stands.
• Qian Renxue asked the referee to leave and announced she would suppress her strength to Shi Yueyi's level.
• Qian Renxue activated her Angel Power while Shi Yueyi summoned the Mountains and Rivers Scroll and attacked with her Thunderclaw.
• Qian Renxue and Shi Yueyi exchanged increasingly powerful attacks, drawing Sword Douluo's attention when their clashes began affecting space.
• Shi Yueyi's lightning dragon and Qian Renxue's golden-red sword-light dragon collided as the battle continued.

Shi Yueyi and Qian Renxue escalated their final-round battle, unleashing their domains and overwhelming powers until the arena and spectators were endangered. After the clash ended with both still standing, Qian Renxue asked Shi Yueyi to cook chicken pot stew for her.

• Shi Yueyi and Qian Renxue exchanged dragon-shaped attacks, and Shi Yueyi’s right arm was badly wounded by Qian Renxue’s Sword of Holy Light.
• Shi Yueyi summoned lightning and drew on her true Body Martial Soul as Qian Renxue unleashed her Angel Domain; Shi Yueyi answered with her Serene Night Domain.
• The spectators and Spirit Hall elders reacted with shock as the battle’s collisions consumed the surrounding natural energy and forced the elders to reinforce the arena’s barriers.
• After nearly a quarter of an hour, Shi Yueyi and Qian Renxue collided and rebounded apart as the clouds cleared.
• Qian Renxue said she was hungry and asked Shi Yueyi to make chicken pot stew.

Shi Yueyi and Qian Renxue drew in the final, so Bibi Dong declared Spirit Hall Academy and Heaven Dou Royal Academy joint champions. As Spirit Hall brought Xiao Wu forward, she called for Tang San to save her, but the bishop holding her told her that her Third Brother had not won and could not save her.

• Shi Yueyi and Qian Renxue agreed to call their final match a draw after explaining that they had both reached the limits of the tournament’s level-seventy restriction.
• Bibi Dong declared two champions and named Spirit Hall Academy and Heaven Dou Royal Academy joint first-place winners, leaving second place vacant.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo returned with thirteen reward trays and brought Xiao Wu and a dark-skinned boy to the VIP seats.
• Xiao Wu recognized Tang San and cried for him to save her, while Tang San could not promise that he would.
• The red-robed bishop holding Xiao Wu told her that Tang San had not won the championship and could not save her.

Shi Yueyi exposed Xiao Wu and Er Ming as Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast reincarnations and offered Xiao Wu as a tournament prize. Tang San agreed to let Tang Hao take control of his body, but his hopes of rescuing Xiao Wu collapsed when Ning Rongrong awarded her to Ye Lingling.

• Xiao Wu protested that Tang San could not lose, and Shi Yueyi slapped her and revealed that she had defeated him.
• Tang Hao offered to take control of Tang San's body so they could rescue Xiao Wu, and Tang San reluctantly agreed.
• Bibi Dong revealed that Xiao Wu and Er Ming were reincarnations of the Soft Bone Rabbit and Titan Giant Ape, and Shi Yueyi offered Xiao Wu as a prize.
• Ning Rongrong asked Xiao Wu about her Soul Skills, then awarded her to Ye Lingling, while Oscar refused to oppose Ning Rongrong's choice.
• Ye Lingling accepted Xiao Wu, and Shi Yueyi ordered Xiao Wu to sacrifice herself to Ye Lingling.

Shi Yueyi forced Xiao Wu to approach Ye Lingling as a sacrifice, while Tang San and Tang Hao joined forces to resist Spirit Hall. As the Golden Iron Triangle attempted their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Qian Renxue and Shi Yueyi invoked the Dragon Kings’ power, and Shi Yueyi ordered them to turn into pigs.

• Shi Yueyi made Xiao Wu walk toward Ye Lingling, but Tang San tried to stop her with Spider Web Restraint and Xiao Wu evaded it with Teleportation.
• Tang Hao completed his preparations and temporarily joined with Tang San, whose aura suppressed Xiao Wu and prompted Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo to withdraw.
• Qian Renxue ordered Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo to break Yu Xiaogang’s remaining fingers and teeth after he challenged Spirit Hall.
• Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang began their Golden Iron Triangle Martial Soul Fusion Skill, believing Luo Sanpao could become the Golden Saint Dragon.
• The Water Dragon King dismissed their attempt to draw on Dragon Clan power, and Shi Yueyi shouted, “Turn into a pig!”