Chapter Summaries

At the Continental Advanced Soul Master Competition, Ning Fengzhi promoted Heaven Dou Royal Academy and the draw paired them with Shrek Academy. As both teams prepared to fight, Li Xun admitted he had rigged the matchup.

• Xue Qinghe addressed the crowd, and spectators loudly cheered for the Crown Prince.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Heaven Dou Royal Academy, highlighting Li Xun and his daughter, and invited spectators to seek cultivation advice from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo drew the opening match between Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Shrek Academy, prompting Shrek’s members to prepare eagerly to face Li Xun’s team.
• After spectators accused Heaven Dou Royal Academy of getting an easy opponent, Chrysanthemum Douluo swore the draw was fair and offered finalists permission to join the Spirit Hall Saint Palace.
• Once the other teams left the field, Li Xun told Ning Rongrong that he had cheated to ensure Heaven Dou Royal Academy drew Shrek.

Li Xun announced that he would face Shrek’s full team alone to prove the Heavenly Dou Team’s strength and destroy their confidence. The match began with the referee reminding him that it was a team battle, but Li Xun insisted on fighting all seven by himself.

• Li Xun revealed that the tournament organizers, referees, judges, and Crown Prince were all under his influence, so arranging a match had been easy.
• Dugu Yan teased Li Xun about driving away her suitors, while Ning Rongrong jealously clung to him and Zhu Zhuqing urged everyone to focus on tactics.
• Li Xun said he would fight Shrek alone and vowed to crush their confidence and disprove Yu Xiaogang’s Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.
• Tang San chose Tai Long to replace Oscar in the lineup and distributed Oscar’s sausages to the Shrek team before the match.
• When the referee called for both teams to enter the arena, only Li Xun stepped forward and declared that he would fight Shrek’s entire team alone.

Li Xun entered the tournament arena alone to face Shrek, provoking the team and the spectators. As Shrek revealed its Spirit Rings, Li Xun summoned five rings, including two black ones, leaving the arena stunned.

• Li Xun declared that he would fight all of Shrek by himself, and Qian Renxue, Ning Fengzhi, and Chrysanthemum Douluo discussed his confidence and the adjusted match order.
• Tang San and the other Shrek members took Li Xun's challenge as an insult and vowed to make him pay for his arrogance.
• Shrek revealed its Spirit Rings, with Tang San displaying a Ten Thousand Year fourth ring and drawing amazed reactions from the crowd.
• Li Xun walked to the center of the arena and revealed five Spirit Rings: one yellow, two purple, and two black, silencing the entire stadium.

Li Xun revealed his five Spirit Rings in the arena, stunning the spectators, contestants, and VIPs. As Tang San and the others prepared to exploit his limited Spirit Abilities, Li Xun summoned five wooden clones, leaving the match poised to begin.

• Li Xun displayed one yellow, two purple, and two black Spirit Rings, shocking the crowd and revealing that he was a level-fifty Spirit King.
• Yu Xiaogang doubted his long-held theories but convinced himself that Li Xun’s limited Spirit Abilities gave Xiao San and the others a chance to win.
• Qian Renxue rejoiced at Li Xun’s talent, while Chrysanthemum Douluo recognized his potential to become a Super Douluo.
• Dai Mubai resolved to stake everything on defeating Li Xun, and Yu Tianheng and Tang San rallied Shrek’s team to spread out and attack.
• Li Xun used Wood Style, Wood Style Clone Technique, and five wooden statues transformed into copies of him.

Li Xun used Wood Style to fill the Great Soul Arena with trees and electrified vines, trapping Shrek’s team as they tried to escape. After they swallowed Oscar’s flying sausages, Li Xun and his five Doppelgangers prepared to test his Fifth Spirit Ability on them.

• Tang San organized Shrek’s team into an assault formation and ordered them to attack Li Xun.
• Li Xun unleashed Descent of the Tree World, tearing up the arena and breaking apart Tang San’s Blue Silver Vines.
• Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng knocked down the giant trees, but Li Xun reshaped them into surging vines that hemmed Shrek in.
• Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng used their spirit abilities to clear a path while Tang San and the others pushed forward through the tree sea.
• Li Xun replenished the plants and covered the vines with electric thorns, prompting Tai Long to warn the team and urge them to use Oscar’s Rapid Flight Mushroom Sausage.
• Shrek’s team swallowed the sausages, and Li Xun and his five Doppelgangers raised Azure Blue Spears to test his Fifth Spirit Ability.

Li Xun overwhelmed Tang San and the Shrek team with expanding plants and explosive spears, forcing Flender to concede the match. The chapter ended with Li Xun withdrawing his plants as the injured team and spectators surveyed the ruined arena.

• Ma Hongjun and Yu Feng tried to fly above Li Xun’s plants, but the vines grew into dense nets that threatened to seal the sky.
• Li Xun struck Dai Mubai, Yu Tianheng, and Tai Long with lightning-charged spears, pinning them to the arena wall.
• Tang San trapped Li Xun and his Wood Style Doppelgangers with Blue Silver Cage, but Li Xun detonated six spears and blasted Tang San with lightning, cold, and heat.
• Thorn-covered vines bound Ma Hongjun and pierced him as he struggled to escape, prompting Flender to concede the match and rescue Tang San.
• Li Xun withdrew his plants after the referee stopped the match, leaving the arena shattered as Flender checked on Ma Hongjun.

After Li Xun swiftly defeated Shrek in the opening match, Yu Xiaogang struggled to accept the loss while Ye Lingling treated the injured students. Tang San questioned whether his Soul Ring choices and Yu Xiaogang’s advice had been wrong, then remembered that his strongest Martial Soul was the Clear Sky Hammer.

• Ma Hongjun, Yu Feng, Dai Mubai, Yu Tianheng, and Tai Long lay injured after Li Xun’s victory, and Ye Lingling began treating them.
• Yu Xiaogang wondered whether he had misjudged Li Xun’s talent, then blamed Tang Hao for not advising him earlier about Tang San’s future.
• Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia stabilized the Shrek students, and Tang San regained consciousness with severe lightning injuries.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang whether he had chosen the wrong Soul Ring, pointing out how Li Xun’s plants had overwhelmed his Blue Silver Grass.
• Yu Xiaogang defended his teachings and reminded Tang San that his true concern should not be Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San recalled that the Clear Sky Hammer was his strongest Martial Soul, though his father and Yu Xiaogang had warned him to keep it secret.

Li Xun led Heaven Dou Royal Academy to a crushing victory over Shrek, then told his teammates they could handle most of the remaining Preliminary Competition matches without him. Qian Renxue felt the crowd’s acclaim awaken her ambition for true power, while the defeated Shrek team encountered a taunt on their way out.

• After Shrek left the arena, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and the Heavenly Dou Team celebrated Li Xun’s victory and teased one another.
• Li Xun told Yang Qianjun and the Shi Mo brothers to handle the upcoming Preliminary Competition matches against weaker teams.
• Qian Renxue announced Heaven Dou Royal Academy as the winner and felt the spectators’ cheers give her a new understanding of kingship and power.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo noticed Qian Renxue’s aura had changed as he watched her listen to the crowd.
• As the defeated Shrek group headed for the exit, someone taunted them as the champions with no rivals.

After Shrek’s defeat, Ye Lingling healed Tang San but could not restore Ma Hongjun’s severed fingers. Tang San recovered enough to question Yu Xiaogang’s advice and ask to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer instead of Blue Silver Grass.

• Shi Nian mocked Shrek’s defeat and said Canghui Academy could surrender rather than risk injuries against Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Flender pressed Ye Lingling to reattach Ma Hongjun’s severed fingers, but she insisted her Nine Heart Begonia could not regenerate them.
• Ye Lingling healed Tang San’s lightning injuries, while Xiao Wu blamed herself for not joining the match.
• Tang San secretly rose from bed after Ye Lingling left, then told Yu Xiaogang he was mostly recovered.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang whether he could switch to cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer, reflecting on his defeats by Li Xun and the limits of Blue Silver Grass.

Tang San argued that he should cultivate his Clear Sky Hammer, and Yu Xiaogang left to investigate the risks of Twin Martial Soul cultivation. Xiao Wu volunteered to compete despite the danger, while Li Xun faced Feng Xiaotian at the tournament.

• Tang San urged Yu Xiaogang to let him cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer, arguing that Blue Silver Grass was holding back his growth.
• Yu Xiaogang reconsidered his advice and said he would leave to learn more about the risks of cultivating Twin Martial Souls.
• Xiao Wu asked Yu Xiaogang to let her compete while Heng Lao and the others recovered, accepting the danger posed by Titled Douluo in Heaven Dou City.
• Li Xun competed with the Heavenly Dou Team as most opponents surrendered, and Feng Xiaotian declared that Godwind Academy would not lose to him.
• Li Xun recognized Feng Xiaotian and said he had heard his story.

Li Xun faced Feng Xiaotian and the Godwind Academy team, whose strategy was built around countering Li Xun’s Vines. Li Xun revealed the Vines’ true reach and trapped most of the arena, while Feng Xiaotian charged into them with his Gale Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes.

• Li Xun accepted Feng Xiaotian’s challenge, and the two introduced themselves before the match began.
• Feng Xiaotian had his teammates escort him into the air while they formed a wind vortex to disrupt Li Xun’s abilities.
• Li Xun sent more than a hundred massive Vines up to the arena ceiling, enclosing the Godwind Academy team and much of the arena.
• The Godwind Academy members tried to escape by cutting through the Vines, but Li Xun made the plants twist together and close around them.
• Feng Xiaotian flew into the rotating Vines, slashing through them as he worried about losing the match in front of Huo Wu.

Li Xun defeated Feng Xiaotian’s team by trapping them in a tightening mass of Vines, then learned Yu Xiaogang was traveling to Spirit City. After considering how the Pope Decree could block Yu Xiaogang’s entry to Spirit Hall, Li Xun realized Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer could expose a dangerous loophole involving Qian Renxue.

• Shui Bing'er judged that Feng Xiaotian could not break through Li Xun’s Vines, while Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang watched anxiously.
• Li Xun reinforced the Vines until Feng Xiaotian and his teammates were trapped, and Feng Xiaotian surrendered.
• The referee declared Heaven Dou Royal Team the winner, and Li Xun advised Feng Xiaotian to focus on cultivation and seek him out at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect if he wanted another challenge.
• Shui Bing'er told Shui Yue'er that Skywater Academy might still win using its fire-and-ice counters or reveal its trump card.
• Aunt Xue told Li Xun that Yu Xiaogang had hired a carriage to travel to Spirit City, and Li Xun considered how the Pope Decree could keep him out of Spirit Hall.
• Li Xun realized Tang San’s future use of the Clear Sky Hammer could make Qian Renxue suspect the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect knew about it.

Li Xun considered how Spirit Hall had tacitly allowed Tang Hao to escape and warned Qian Renxue that her grandfather might have had reasons to spare him. The chapter left Qian Renxue questioning whether Tang Hao had truly been responsible for her father's death.

• Li Xun reasoned that Qian Daoliu had allowed Tang Hao to escape to protect Spirit Hall and Qian Renxue, while Tang Hao took the blame for Bibi Dong.
• Li Xun sent Sword Douluo to deliver letters to Salas and carry out instructions concerning people who had worked with him.
• Li Xun told Qian Renxue that he had learned Tang Hao's whereabouts but withheld the location to protect the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and avoid alerting their enemy.
• Qian Renxue insisted she would prepare thoroughly to kill Tang Hao, but Li Xun asked why Qian Daoliu had let him escape after he used Ring Burst.
• Li Xun suggested Qian Xunji's death might not have been caused mainly by Tang Hao, and Qian Renxue wondered whether someone else had actually killed her father.

Li Xun set events in motion by encouraging Qian Renxue to investigate Tang Hao’s whereabouts, while Yu Xiaogang tried to use a Pope Decree to enter Pope Palace. The guards questioned his identity and held him outside as they sought a superior’s approval.

• Li Xun told Qian Renxue he did not want Tang Hao’s whereabouts to come from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and she agreed to ask Qian Daoliu before seeking Li Xun’s help.
• Li Xun left after helping Qian Renxue with her work and thought that Grandmaster Xiaogang had arrived in Spirit City.
• Yu Xiaogang presented the Pope Decree at Pope Palace, but the guards demanded proof of his identity and questioned whether the token was genuine.
• Yu Xiaogang identified himself as Yu Yuanzhen’s son and revealed his pig Martial Soul and two yellow Soul Rings to prove it.
• The guards doubted Yu Xiaogang’s claim because his Soul Power was only Level twenty, and one guard took the Pope Decree inside to consult a superior while Yu Xiaogang waited.

Yu Xiaogang failed to regain his confiscated Pope Decree or reach Bibi Dong, so he settled in an inn near Pope Palace to wait for her. At the Soul Master Competition, Li Xun agreed to let his teammates train while he stayed in reserve, as Tang San began considering using the Eight Spider Lances to absorb life force and increase his soul power.

• A guard told Yu Xiaogang that Spirit Hall had classified his Pope Decree as a forgery and would return it only if its owner came to retrieve it.
• Yu Xiaogang was barred from entering Spirit Hall, then rented a room overlooking Pope Palace so he could wait for Bibi Dong.
• Li Xun agreed to stay back and cover Zhu Zhuqing and the others in their upcoming match, while hinting that he had prepared a gift for Shrek.
• Tang San’s team defeated its final opponent, and Tang San worried that his Blue Silver Grass and soul power left him unable to defeat Li Xun.
• Tang San recalled that the Eight Spider Lances had increased his soul power by absorbing life force and considered hunting evil Spirit Beasts to grow stronger.

The Heaven Dou Royal Team faced the Blazing Fire Team, which had absorbed Feng Xiaotian and another Godwind Academy member after their team suffered losses. Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing bypassed the front line and defeated Huo Wu and the Blazing Fire Team’s two Support Soul Masters with poison, leaving Dugu Yan to offer them treatment.

• Feng Xiaotian explained that injuries and losses had led him to transfer from Godwind Academy to the Blazing Fire Team.
• The Blazing Fire Team opened the match with fire-based buffs and a charge by Huo Wushuang, while Li Xun told his team to adapt freely.
• Dugu Yan asked Zhu Zhuqing to take her to the Blazing Fire Team’s Support Soul Masters, and Huo Wu repelled them with her Repelling Fire Ring.
• Dugu Yan used her Crimson Flame Fire Velvet to release poisonous smoke, weakening Huo Wu and the two Support Soul Masters.
• Zhu Zhuqing struck Huo Wu off the arena, and the two Support Soul Masters collapsed before Dugu Yan offered to neutralize their poison.

The Heavenly Dou Team defeated the Blazing Fire Team without suffering any losses, while Shi Nian decided to target Shrek and later lured Yu Tianheng into an illusion in the wilderness. The chapter ended with Shi Nian leaving the woods after killing Yu Tianheng, only to hear an unseen person mock him.

• The Shi Mo brothers eliminated a Blazing Fire Team member and pressured Feng Xiaotian, while Yang Qianjun forced Huo Wushuang to concede after four teammates had been eliminated.
• Li Xun teased Ning Rongrong after the match, and Shi Nian watched the Heavenly Dou Team before deciding to focus on Shrek instead.
• Yu Tianheng left the Shrek group alone, while Dai Mubai bitterly reflected on how he and Ma Hongjun had suffered while Yu Tianheng remained unharmed.
• Shi Nian trapped Yu Tianheng in an illusion outside Heaven Dou City and revealed that he intended to kill him.
• Shi Nian emerged from the woods after killing Yu Tianheng, and an unseen voice mocked him for having a perverted hobby.

Dugu Bo killed Shi Nian after discovering that he had a Head Spirit Bone and had violated the Empire’s newly revised laws. The next day, Shrek faced Canghui Academy, whose Seven-in-One Fusion Technique trapped Tang San and his teammates in an illusion while Li Xun explained how it differed from his and Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul Fusion Technique.

• Dugu Bo confronted Shi Nian, who tried to justify killing a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan heir as a matter for the clan to judge.
• Dugu Bo attacked Shi Nian, cited the Empire’s newly revised laws, and discovered a Head Spirit Bone.
• Tang San and the Shrek team searched for their missing companions but headed to the arena when their match against Canghui Academy was about to begin.
• Canghui Academy formed a hexagram and unleashed a Seven-in-One Fusion Technique that filled the arena with light and trapped Shrek in an illusion.
• Li Xun explained to Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing that Canghui’s technique was a weaker illusion than his own Martial Soul Fusion Technique, which could recreate real events and their possible branches.
• Tang San and the others remained inside Canghui Academy’s illusion.

Tang San and the other Shrek members were trapped in Canghui Academy’s illusion, which forced them to relive painful memories. Tang San broke through the illusion and devastated the Canghui Team, ignoring their surrender as his Eight Spider Lances drained their life force.

• Tang San relived the Tang Sect’s accusations and watched an illusion of Bu Le capturing Xiao Wu, while Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun were haunted by their own painful memories.
• Li Xun and Ning Rongrong remarked that Canghui Academy’s illusion left its victims able to move, unlike their own Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Tang San recognized the illusion, used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and charged toward the Canghui Team with his Eight Spider Lances.
• Tang San pierced and pursued the Canghui members, pinning them to the arena and absorbing their life force as the illusion shattered.
• Canghui Academy conceded, but Tang San ignored their assistant team leader’s demand to release the fallen students.

Tang San poisoned the Canghui Team and secretly drew life force from them while claiming he was detoxifying them. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang tried to reach Bibi Dong about the Pope Decree, paid a guard to pass along his message, and waited uncertainly for help.

• Tang San retracted his Eight Spider Lances after the referee and Flender warned him, claiming he had been detoxifying the Canghui Team.
• Xiao Wu told Liu Erlong that the illusion had shown her Tang San and her mother dying, and Liu Erlong led the Shrek group off the stage.
• Healing-type Soul Masters failed to cure the Canghui students, so Tang San agreed to remove the poison and secretly absorbed their life force with his Eight Spider Lances.
• Li Xun left the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena with Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong, saying the definition of Evil Soul Masters needed to be expedited.
• Yu Xiaogang asked a Spirit Hall guard to pass a message to Bibi Dong and gave him seventy Gold Soul Coins, then waited until night without seeing him return.