Chapter Summaries

Tang Lan announced a plan to establish free Tang Sect Academies across the Heaven Dou Empire, promising education and cultivation support for commoners. The crowd’s faith empowered him, while Ning Fengzhi remained unsure whether the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could risk backing Tang Lan’s ambitions.

• Tang Lan announced that he and Xue Ye would jointly fund Tang Sect Academies in settlements with more than one hundred residents, offering free literacy and cultivation support.
• Tang Lan explained that ordinary teachers, livestreams, and increased production of hundred-year Soul Spirits would help the academies reach commoners across the empire.
• Commoners celebrated the plan while nobles protested, and their gathered faith flowed toward Tang Lan and was absorbed by the Vast Sea Godly Pupil.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Tang Lan that the plan would anger the nobles and urged him to reconsider, but Tang Lan vowed to spread the academies throughout the world.
• Ning Rongrong and other Tang Sect members praised Tang Lan and offered support, causing Ning Fengzhi to hold back his doubts as Xue Ye quietly left.

Ning Fengzhi offered Tang Lan limited support as Tang Lan used the Tang Li Newspaper and “Ode to Youth” to rally the Heaven Dou Empire and gather Power of Faith. Bibi Dong viewed Tang Sect’s growing influence as a threat and ordered an ambush, but Yue Guan hesitated over the strength of Tang Sect’s elders.

• Ning Fengzhi promised to persuade allied nobles to wait and see, fund the Tang Sect Academy, and provide ten thousand Communication Soul Tools.
• Tang Lan accepted Ning Fengzhi’s help and prepared to make a public show of support for Tang Sect.
• The Tang Li Newspaper spread “Ode to Youth,” prompting people across the Heaven Dou Empire to praise Tang Lan and send him Power of Faith.
• Tang Lan stored the growing Power of Faith instead of using it, anticipating retaliation from those whose interests he had challenged.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan and Guimei to ambush the Heaven Dou team, recruit or kill Tang Lan, and capture Tang Sect’s leadership.
• Yue Guan warned Bibi Dong that he and Guimei could handle Wang Dali and Dugu Bo, but hesitated over the rest of the plan.

Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to ambush Tang Lan, while Heaven Dou nobles obstructed the construction of Tang Sect Academies. Tang Lan answered the nobles’ resistance by prompting a Star Luo Empire recruitment campaign, and Xue Ye issued a decree that cleared the way for academies across Heaven Dou.

• Bibi Dong sent Yue Guan and Guimei to ambush Tang Lan with Snake Lance, Pufferfish, and Demon Bear, ordering them to conceal Spirit Hall’s involvement.
• Heaven Dou nobles delayed academy construction and mistreated Tang Sect personnel, prompting Zhao Wuji to report the obstruction to Tang Lan.
• Tang Lan assured Zhao Wuji that he had made arrangements, then told Xiao Wu and the other women to wait until the next day to see what he would do.
• The Star Luo Empire used the Tang Li Newspaper to invite Tang Lan and Tang Sect to establish academies there, offering resources, citizenship, and protection.
• Alarmed by the Star Luo Empire’s overture, Xue Ye granted Tang Sect Academies royal status and ordered the empire to cooperate, sending Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing to enforce the decree.
• Xue Beng’s forces punished nobles who obstructed the academies, and Tang Sect Academies began spreading throughout the Heaven Dou Empire, including wherever Spirit Hall had a branch.

Tang Lan prepared five Tang Sect members to absorb Ten Thousand Year Fourth Soul Rings, using Soul Seals and Soul Seeds to control the risks. Tailong, Bai Chenxiang, Meng Yiran, and the others began absorbing their rings as Spirit Hall’s expected ambush loomed.

• Spirit Hall ignored Tang Sect Academy’s rise, while Tang Lan suspected Bibi Dong was preparing an ambush for the competing teams.
• Prince Xue Xing delivered five Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts, and Tang Lan confirmed their ages were suitable for Fourth Soul Rings.
• Bai Chenxiang, Meng Yiran, Tailong, and the other two members agreed to proceed, trusting Tang Lan’s plan.
• Dugu Bo suppressed the Soul Beasts, and the five Tang Sect members killed their targets and began absorbing their black Soul Rings.
• Tang Lan protected their minds with Vast Sea Soul Seals and used Soul Seeds and Mental Power to regulate their absorption.

Tang Lan successfully helped five Soul Masters obtain powerful Ten Thousand Year Fourth Soul Rings, while five Spirit Hall Titled Douluo prepared an ambush aimed at him and the Tang Sect. The chapter ended with Snake Lance Douluo setting out to confront Tang Lan.

• Tailong, Bai Chenxiang, Jiang Zhu, Huang Yuan, and Meng Yiran each revealed their new Fourth Soul Skills and soul levels after successfully enduring Tang Lan's protection.
• Bai He reconsidered the Speed Clan's tradition of hunting the same type of Soul Beast for every ring after seeing Bai Chenxiang's Overclocking ability.
• Meng Yiran demonstrated her Snake Demon skill's fire, poison, and ice attacks, impressing the onlookers with their destructive power.
• Yue Guan, Guimei, Snake Lance, Spiky Pufferfish, and Magic Bear gathered with over a hundred Spirit Hall High Soul Masters to ambush Tang Lan and his allies.
• The five Titled Douluo assigned opponents and tactics, and Snake Lance Douluo She Long went to meet Tang Lan.

Yue Guan’s group prepared to ambush Tang Lan’s procession, but Tang Lan anticipated the attack and let Dugu Bo incapacitate everyone below Titled Douluo with poison. The Titled Douluo remained standing, leaving Tang Lan and his allies ready to face them.

• Yue Guan received word that the Heaven Dou team would reach the ambush point in two hours and ordered the Spirit Hall Soul Masters to block reinforcements and keep everyone from escaping.
• Tang San warned Tang Lan that Spirit Hall was acting suspiciously, and Tang Lan sent him ahead with scouts while telling Xiao Wu and the others to prepare their True Martial Seven Intercept Formation against Titled Douluo.
• Tang Lan monitored Spirit Hall’s messages through his Communication Soul Tool and sent several messages of his own as the procession entered One Line Sky Canyon.
• Spirit Hall Soul Masters attacked the procession from the front and rear, but the Heaven Dou soldiers quickly formed defensive lines.
• Dugu Bo released poison across the canyon, knocking out the Spirit Hall Soul Masters, Heaven Dou soldiers, and competing teams below Titled Douluo, then told Tang Lan he was too exhausted to fight.

Tang Lan confronted Spirit Hall’s five Titled Douluo while waiting for his father, and Tang Hao arrived to attack Yue Guan and Guimei. As She Long charged Tang Lan, Xiao Wu and the others used a coordinated array and revealed copied Soft Bone Charm Rabbit Martial Souls and Divine Slaughter’s Domains to weaken him.

• Cixue, Xiong Mo, and She Long entered Dugu Bo’s poison barrier while Yue Guan and Guimei stayed hidden to prepare their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Tang Lan faced the three attackers and revealed that he knew Spirit Hall had come for him, then stalled until Tang Hao arrived.
• Tang Hao unleashed Haotian True Body against Yue Guan and Guimei, who answered with Two Extremes Stillness Domain as Xiong Mo, Cixue, and She Long attacked.
• Xiao Wu and six companions formed an array and used their combined power, support from Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu’s Titan Giant Ape Right Arm Bone to trap She Long’s Snake Lance.
• Zhu Zhuqing struck She Long and used a Copy Mirror Image Sausage, then Xiao Wu and the others revealed matching Soft Bone Charm Rabbit Martial Souls and stacked Divine Slaughter’s Domains to weaken him.

Xiao Wu and the others trapped She Long in a coordinated aerial combo while Wang Dali and Tang Lan held off Cixue and Xiong Mo. She Long was engulfed by Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai’s Crimson Flame attack, but the chapter left his fate uncertain because killing a Titled Douluo was not easy.

• Xiao Wu used Titan’s Leap and the Shadow Sluggish Divine Claw to launch She Long into the air, where Shui Bing’er and the others stripped away his protective Soul Power with repeated throws.
• Wang Dali repelled Cixue’s poison and struck him back, while Tang Lan forced Xiong Mo to retreat with an ordinary hammer blow.
• Xiao Wu activated her Martial Soul Avatar and, with her avatars, battered She Long through successive stages of the Explosive Kill Eight Stage Throw.
• Xiong Mo’s Ninth Soul Skill and Demon Bear Avatar were suppressed as Tang Lan’s domain and hammer attacks kept him from aiding She Long.
• Xiao Wu hurled She Long toward Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai’s formations, whose Crimson Flame Destruction Kill engulfed him in explosions.

Tang Lan and his allies killed She Long and captured Yue Guan and Guimei after defeating Spirit Hall’s forces. Though Tang Hao worried that the deaths of five Titled Douluo would provoke an all-out war, Tang Lan refused to abandon revenge and offered Yue Guan and Guimei an opportunity before the chapter ended.

• Shui Bing'er struck She Long with her 220,000-year Soul Bone skill, freezing him and his Two-Headed Snake in an iceberg as the others celebrated his apparent death.
• Tang Hao confronted Yue Guan and Guimei, recalling how their Martial Soul Fusion Skill had forced Ah Yin to sacrifice herself.
• Yue Guan warned Tang Hao and Tang Lan that Spirit Hall’s powerful Worship Hall would retaliate, and Tang Hao hesitated over the risk of war.
• Tang Lan released the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and told it to eat She Long, then laughed off Yue Guan’s threat that Spirit Hall would destroy the Tang Sect and Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Hao urged Tang Lan to consider the lives a war would cost, and Tang Lan said Yue Guan and Guimei would die but offered them an opportunity.

Tang Lan and Tang Hao defeated Spirit Hall’s Yue Guan and Guimei, avenging Tang Hao’s wife, then forced Xiong Mo and Cixue to choose between serving as Tang Sect spies or becoming prey. The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger began its tribulation, while Tang Lan offered the two Titled Douluo a chance to let one of them leave.

• Yue Guan failed to contact Spirit Hall with his Communication Soul Tool, and Tang Lan revealed that he had disabled it.
• Xiong Mo and Cixue attacked Yue Guan and Guimei, while Guimei shielded Yue Guan and tried to sacrifice himself to save him.
• Tang Lan stopped Guimei’s self-destruction and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger trapped him in its Death Arena, then emerged with Guimei’s soul bone.
• Yue Guan charged the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, but Tang Hao killed him with a Clear Sky Hammer strike, avenging his wife.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger swallowed Yue Guan and triggered its five-hundred-thousand-year tribulation.
• Tang Lan demanded that Xiong Mo and Cixue become Tang Sect spies or feed the tiger, then allowed them to decide which one would leave.

Tang Lan forced Xiong Mo and Cixue to join the Tang Sect and planted safeguards to prevent them from betraying it. After sending them back to Spirit Hall with a cover story, he farmed a thunder tribulation and considered how to keep advancing toward Titled Douluo.

• Cixue and Xiong Mo agreed to join the Tang Sect, and Tang Lan clarified that it had no connection to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Lan planted Life Spirit Hearts and Soul Seeds in both men, making betrayal trigger an attack that drained their strength and life force.
• Xiong Mo proposed telling Bibi Dong that an unknown powerhouse had killed She Long, and Tang Lan supplied images to help them describe the supposed enemy.
• Tang Lan sent Xiong Mo and Cixue back to Spirit Hall while the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger devoured the masked enemies and Tang Lan entered the thunder tribulation.
• Tang Lan absorbed the 500,000-year thunder tribulation, rose to level 82, and considered using fierce beasts' blood sacrifices to advance further.

Tang Lan gained a stronger Emperor Sword ability, while Dugu Bo and Wang Dali planned to form a True Martial Seven Intercept Formation for Tang Sect. In Spirit City, Bibi Dong questioned Xiong Mo and Cixue about the woman who attacked them, and Qian Daoliu recognized her portrait as someone from his past.

• Tang Lan gave Tang San the dark right leg soul bone after warning him about its dark attribute, then let him try to absorb it; Tang San again suffered a disastrous reaction.
• Tang Lan gave the roughly thirty-thousand-year Dark Star Stealth Right Leg Bone to Jing Ling and received a reward that let Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain instantly condense the Emperor Sword.
• Dugu Bo and Wang Dali discussed forming the True Martial Seven Intercept Formation with five Tang Sect members and potentially Xiong Mo and Cixue.
• Bibi Dong questioned Xiong Mo and Cixue about the unknown woman who had killed three elders and a hundred High Soul Masters, then went to the Worship Hall after hearing the woman reminded Xiong Mo of Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu saw the portrait and realized he had known the woman a century earlier.

Qian Daoliu suspected that Bo Saixi had come to the mainland because Tang Lan had begun the Sea God Inheritance, and he urged Bibi Dong to hold back while arranging for Qian Renxue to begin the Angel Inheritance. Tang Lan arrived at Spirit City with the Heaven Dou team, refused Bibi Dong’s summons, and Ning Fengzhi warned him that he should not have come.

• Bibi Dong demanded revenge for Spirit Hall’s losses, but Qian Daoliu identified Bo Saixi as the level 99 High Priest of Sea God Island and told Bibi Dong not to act until he verified his suspicions.
• Qian Daoliu suspected Tang Lan had obtained the Sea God Nine Trials and wrote to Qian Renxue, believing she needed to begin the Angel Inheritance.
• Tang Lan arrived in Spirit City with the Heaven Dou team, where Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin greeted him and Prince Xue Xing stayed behind with the army.
• A Spirit Hall soul master summoned Tang Lan to the Papal Hall, but Tang Lan refused and told Bibi Dong to come see him herself.
• Tang Lan blasted the messenger away with Mental Power and soul power, then received Chen Xin’s praise for his technique.
• Ning Fengzhi told Tang Lan that he should not have come to Spirit City.

Tang Lan entered Spirit City despite the danger, and he hinted to Ning Fengzhi that he planned to overturn Spirit Hall rather than merely secure a place for the Tang Sect Academy. Ning Fengzhi considered whether the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect should join him, while the possibility of the Clear Sky Sect emerging remained unresolved.

• Tang Lan followed Ning Fengzhi into Spirit City as onlookers debated whether the Tang Sect could stand against Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong concluded that Tang Lan was an Evil Soul Master and decided that the Tang Sect could not be allowed to challenge Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Tang Lan that Spirit Hall could kill him and seize the Tang Sect, but Tang Lan stayed calm and said Spirit Hall's prestige would decline.
• Tang Lan told Ning Fengzhi that the continent's order was due for change and urged the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to prepare.
• Ning Fengzhi considered whether Sea God Island and the Tang Sect could defeat Spirit Hall, and wondered if Tang Lan could kill its Peerless Douluo.
• Ning Fengzhi wondered whether the Clear Sky Sect was finally preparing to emerge.

Tang Sect Academy’s First Team drew the Star Luo Royal Team in the Elite Competition finals, and Tang Lan sent Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing to face them alone. As Pope Bibi Dong arrived, the two sides prepared to settle their old grudge in the arena.

• Spirit Hall announced that Tang Sect Academy’s First Team would face the Star Luo Royal Team, while Spirit Hall Academy would face the Heaven Dou Royal Team.
• Tang Lan told Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing to fight the Star Luo Royal Team while he and the others watched from the seats.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Tang Lan not to let anyone die, but Tang Lan gave no answer.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing entered the arena and faced taunts from Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun.
• Pope Bibi Dong appeared as the assembled crowd greeted her.

At the Elite Competition, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing revealed evolved Martial Souls that suppressed their elder siblings’ spirits, then stunned the arena with their extraordinary Soul Rings. Bibi Dong questioned Tang Lan about how they had obtained such power, leaving everyone waiting for his answer.

• Bibi Dong ordered both teams to reveal their Martial Souls and Soul Rings, and Dai Weisi’s team showed four yellow and purple rings apiece.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing summoned evolved Martial Souls that visibly suppressed Dai Weisi’s and Zhu Zhuyun’s spirits.
• Xiong Mo questioned Tang Lan, and Ning Fengzhi explained that Tang Lan had trained the pair and applied his Martial Soul evolution theories to them.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun planned to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Dai Mubai revealed five rings and Zhu Zhuqing revealed six, including two 100,000 Year Soul Rings.
• Bibi Dong asked Tang Lan how Zhu Zhuqing and Shui Bing’er had obtained their 100,000 Year Soul Rings, and the audience awaited his explanation.

Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing faced the Star Luo Royal Team, and Dai Mubai decisively defeated Dai Weisi before overpowering Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun’s Hell White Tiger. The chapter ended with the Star Luo siblings’ fusion skill nearly collapsing beneath Dai Mubai’s Indestructible Divine Skill.

• Bibi Dong asked Tang Lan how he had obtained two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, but Tang Lan refused to answer and said he would write about it in the Tang Sect Encyclopedia.
• Dai Weisi refused to surrender and attacked Dai Mubai, whose White Tiger Flame Light Wave overwhelmed him and whose close-quarters fighting continued to dominate him.
• Zhu Zhuqing used her Shadow Avatar to restrain Dai Weisi’s teammates, while Zhu Zhuyun challenged Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing to a Hell White Tiger contest.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun fused into the Hell White Tiger and charged Dai Mubai, who held it back with his transformed powers, Crimson Flame Destruction Kill, and Soul Bone chains.
• Dai Mubai activated the Indestructible Divine Skill, broke the stalemate, and smashed the Hell White Tiger into the ground, nearly making it disperse.

Zhu Zhuqing defeated Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun with Thunder Shadow Flash, and Dai Mubai declared that he had never wanted the Star Luo Empire's throne. He left the throne to Dai Weisi, then explained that he and Zhu Zhuqing had understood the circumstances surrounding their escape all along.

• Dai Mubai gave Zhu Zhuqing the chance to fight, and she sliced through the God-level Netherworld White Tiger's attack and defeated Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun.
• The referee declared Tang Sect Academy the winners, and Dai Weisi offered Dai Mubai the Star Luo Empire's inheritance.
• Dai Mubai said he had never wanted the throne and explained that he had left because his family forced him to compete for it.
• Zhu Zhuqing rejected the Zhu Family and joined Tang Lan onstage, while Dai Mubai explained that she was the Sect Master's woman.
• Dai Mubai told Dai Weisi that he wanted to pursue the pinnacle of soul masters and would leave the Star Luo Empire to him.
• Dai Mubai revealed that he and Zhu Zhuqing had realized their escape from the Star Luo Empire had been too fortunate to be mere coincidence.

Xie Yue and Hu Liena used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to defeat Heaven Dou Royal Team, while Tang Lan healed Dugu Yan and rewarded Dugu Bo with cultivation methods. Ning Fengzhi then warned Tang Lan that he might be unable to compete in the upcoming match.

• Spirit Hall Academy Team sent only Xie Yue and Hu Liena to face Yu Tianheng and the other six members of Heaven Dou Royal Team.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena revealed their five-ring Soul King levels and fused their martial souls into Enchanting Demon, whose red mist overwhelmed the opposing team.
• Enchanting Demon defeated all seven Heaven Dou Royal Team members, and Dugu Bo carried the injured Dugu Yan to Tang Lan for healing.
• Dugu Yan described how the red mist weakened her senses and abilities, then left to support Yu Tianheng.
• Tang Lan offered Dugu Bo cultivation methods to teach selected juniors, and Dugu Bo thanked him before following Dugu Yan.
• Ning Fengzhi told Tang Lan that new information suggested he might be unable to take the field.

Tang Lan faced Bibi Dong’s attempt to force him out of the Elite Competition and to cast suspicion on his rapid cultivation. He revealed that he was a Soul Douluo, leaving Bibi Dong poised to accuse him of being an Evil Soul Master.

• Ning Fengzhi worried that Tang Lan’s team could not compete, while Tang Lan remained confident in their strength.
• Xiong Mo summoned Tang Lan to meet Bibi Dong, who questioned his studies on Sea God Island and his religious beliefs.
• Tang Lan challenged Bibi Dong to explain whether Spirit Hall treated nonbelievers as heretics, then resisted her attempt to remove him from the competition.
• Bibi Dong argued that Tang Lan’s level threatened the competition’s balance and asked him to reveal his cultivation.
• Tang Lan displayed eight soul rings and revealed that he had reached Soul Douluo level, shocking the spectators.
• Bibi Dong suggested that Tang Lan’s rapid cultivation might be intolerable to the world, preparing to label him an Evil Soul Master.