Chapter Summaries

Bai Chenxiang gained the Hook Return spirit skill from a Wind Slime, which healed her wound after feeding on her blood and chose to follow her. The group discussed using the Ring Expansion Method to pursue Ten Thousand Year fourth spirit rings, leaving Dai Mubai frustrated that he had missed that opportunity as they continued searching for Ma Hongjun's spirit ring.

• Bai Chenxiang named her Third Spirit Skill Hook Return and fed her blood to the Wind Slime, which healed her cut hand.
• Xiao Wu explained soul shock, and Chen Feng said the Ring Expansion Method might let Tang San and the others safely attempt Ten Thousand Year fourth spirit rings.
• Ma Hongjun teased Dai Mubai about being unable to benefit from a black fourth spirit ring, then Dai Mubai beat him after Flender handed him over.
• Chen Feng and Flender reassured Dai Mubai that cultivation and combat ability still mattered, and Dai Mubai put aside his anxiety to continue searching for Soul Beasts.
• Bai Chenxiang released the Wind Slime, but it followed her, so she accepted it as her new companion with the group's approval.

The group encountered a fifty-thousand-year Blazing Arrow Eagle while searching the mountaintop, and Ma Hongjun’s blood drew it away long enough for them to learn it was feeding its chicks. Chen Feng proposed obtaining its soul bone for Ma Hongjun and testing whether it could be converted into a Spirit Ring, then led the group to negotiate with the eagle.

• Flender scouted ahead, then fled back with a fifty-thousand-year Blazing Arrow Eagle pursuing him.
• Ma Hongjun’s phoenix aura attracted the eagle, and Chen Feng used Ma Hongjun’s blood to lure it into taking a container.
• Flender revealed that the eagle had chicks in a nest, and Grandmaster suggested it wanted the blood to feed them.
• Chen Feng proposed obtaining the eagle’s soul bone for Ma Hongjun and using it to test soul-bone conversion into a Spirit Ring.
• Chen Feng explained his previous experiments and his reasons for testing the Blazing Arrow Eagle’s soul bone and the Fire Cloud Rock’s elemental circuit.
• The group reached the eagle’s nest, where Chen Feng called out that they had come to negotiate.

Chen Feng and Tang San helped the Blazing Arrow Eagle create a high-quality Fire Attribute Soul Bone, which Ma Hongjun willingly absorbed and converted into his Third Spirit Skill. The experiment showed that excess Soul Bone energy became Soul Power, and the chapter ended with Ma Hongjun and Bai Chenxiang racing through the air while Oscar dropped out.

• The Blazing Arrow Eagle agreed to provide blood and Soul Power for the experiment in exchange for enough blood to fill its chicks’ wooden jar.
• Chen Feng and Tang San used Ma Hongjun’s Fire Cloud Rock, Tang San’s life force, and the Blazing Arrow Eagle’s energy to create a crimson fifty-thousand-year left arm Soul Bone.
• Chen Feng warned Ma Hongjun that converting the Soul Bone into a Soul Ring could consume it or leave him with a damaged Soul Bone, but Ma Hongjun chose to absorb it.
• Ma Hongjun converted the Soul Bone into a Third Spirit Skill, rose to level thirty-nine, and gained flight and improved flame control; Chen Feng concluded that surplus Soul Bone energy became Soul Power.
• Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Bai Chenxiang began the Nine-Headed Serpent Academy Flying Competition, but Oscar turned back after the other two outpaced him.

Chen Feng and the others tested Ning Rongrong’s defensive spirit skill and learned it made her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda tough enough for ordinary combat, though he advised her to keep prioritizing support while training her fighting skills. After a day of rest, Grandmaster began combat training by ordering Chen Feng and Gu Yue Ling to spar without using their decisive third spirit skills.

• Flender explained to Oscar why his strength lay in supporting teammates rather than competing with Battle Spirit Masters, while Chen Feng considered how Ning Rongrong might strengthen her spirit.
• Ning Rongrong used her third spirit skill on herself and struck her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda against a boulder without damaging it.
• Bai Chenxiang outflew Ma Hongjun after gaining a deeper understanding of the wind, and Ma Hongjun paid the Blazing Arrow Eagle with three containers of blood.
• Chen Feng and Ning Rongrong discovered that her third spirit skill increased her own defense by forty percent and made her pagoda as tough as steel, but Chen Feng told her to focus on support and combat training.
• Grandmaster began combat training and ordered Chen Feng and Gu Yue Ling to spar without using their third spirit skills; they summoned their spirits and started the match.

Chen Feng and Gu Yue Ling sparred under the Grandmaster’s combat training, then Chen Feng and Zhu Zhuqing fought a two-on-two match at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena. The match ended with Zhu Zhuqing revealing her new Self-Created Soul Skill, Shadow Strike.

• Chen Feng used Tai Chi Swordplay to frustrate Gu Yue Ling, who nearly grabbed his sword before the Grandmaster stopped her and explained the danger of Chen Feng’s Sharpness skill.
• The Grandmaster taught the students to control their emotions in combat and continued their sparring before sending them to the Great Soul Arena.
• Tang San arranged the students’ team and pair battles, placing Chen Feng and Zhu Zhuqing together for two-on-two matches.
• Chen Feng and Zhu Zhuqing faced a candle-wielding young man and a whip-wielding young woman; Zhu Zhuqing slipped into Chen Feng’s shadow as he charged their opponents.
• Chen Feng cut the young woman’s whip, then broke through the young man’s fireballs unharmed and put his sword to his neck.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed that she could attack directly while using Shadow Escape and named the technique Shadow Strike.

Zhu Zhuqing developed the Self-Created Soul Skill Shadow Strike, while Ning Rongrong and Gu Yue Ling faced the defensive Shi Brothers in a two-on-two spirit fight. Gu Yue Ling identified their shared-damage defense and kept striking until Shi Mo suddenly went numb.

• Chen Feng praised Zhu Zhuqing for comprehending Shadow Strike, which let her attack from Shadow Escape without the strain of Breakthrough Strike.
• Ning Rongrong and Gu Yue Ling began their match against the Shi Brothers, an undefeated duo from Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Gu Yue Ling charged the brothers and discovered that their third spirit skill linked them so they shared damage from attacks.
• The Shi Brothers used Shield Counter to rebound force and urged Gu Yue Ling to surrender, while she continued attacking their shields.
• Gu Yue Ling told Ning Rongrong that the brothers had already lost, then stopped attacking as Shi Mo suddenly felt numb.

Gu Yue Ling won her spirit fight with the Shi Brothers using her Hidden Strength technique, then revealed she had reached level forty and planned to return home to obtain a Soul Beast. Chen Feng suspected she might be the Imperial Auspicious Beast and feared her return could draw the ferocious beasts into a conflict with humans.

• Gu Yue Ling defeated the Shi Brothers by transmitting Hidden Strength through their shields and explained her technique to Ning Rongrong.
• Tang San's team received information about their opponents, won their first team battle, and completed Nine-Headed Serpent's debut at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena with a clean sweep.
• Gu Yue Ling announced that she had reached level forty and planned to go home the next day to find a Soul Beast with her family.
• Chen Feng suspected Gu Yue Ling intended to report the Death Desert events to the ferocious beasts and worried they might abduct him, provoking conflict between humans and Soul Beasts.

Chen Feng arranged to summon powerful allies before Gu Yue Ling left, fearing that the fierce beasts might target him. At the academy gates, Tailong’s father Tainuo confronted Chen Feng over Tailong’s defeat, then proposed a fight to settle the matter.

• Chen Feng wrote Ning Fengzhi a letter about Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul evolution and Bai Xiangxiang’s progress, intending to bring Ning Fengzhi, Bai He, and Niu Gao to Heaven Dou City.
• Gu Yue Ling left the academy, and Chen Feng and his classmates escorted her to Heaven Dou City’s gates.
• Tailong’s father Tainuo confronted him at the academy gates after learning Chen Feng had defeated him.
• Xiao Wu revealed the reason for Tailong’s defeat, and Ning Rongrong showed her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, making Tainuo realize Chen Feng might be connected to Sword Douluo.
• Tainuo proposed that Chen Feng fight him, promising to leave if Chen Feng won.

Chen Feng and Tang San tested a new team tactic against Tainuo, trapping the Spirit King with Blue Silver Grass, fire, poison, and aerial maneuvers before Chen Feng forced him to concede. As Tainuo left, Zhao Wuji stopped him and demanded compensation for the damaged training grounds.

• Tainuo agreed to fight five students without Dai Mubai after learning their ranks, and Tang San selected a lineup based on Chen Feng's suggestion.
• Tang San ensnared Tainuo in Blue Silver Grass while Ma Hongjun set it alight and Meng Yiran added poison, but Tainuo's fourth spirit skill scattered the flames and smoke.
• Chen Feng used his speed to point his sword at Tainuo, who conceded and accepted defeat.
• Xiao Wu blamed Tailong's family for the ruined training grounds, and Tailong followed Tainuo to discuss compensation.
• Zhao Wuji blocked Tainuo and demanded one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for the damage, prompting Tainuo to protest that it was robbery.

Gu Yue Ling returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, reached level forty, and discussed Chen Feng’s research into obtaining Soul Rings and Soul Bones without killing Soul Beasts with Di Tian. Di Tian warned that Spirit Hall and entrenched human interests threatened Chen Feng, and urged Gu Yue Ling to help protect him; the chapter ended with Di Tian wondering whether the elemental gods might support the Soul Beasts.

• Zhao Wuji pressured Tainuo into paying thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins for the damaged training ground, then handed the money to Flender, who revealed the academy had spent only a few thousand on repairs.
• Gu Yue Ling entered the Star Dou Great Forest, where Soul Beasts treated her with deference, and returned to the core region to meet Di Tian.
• Gu Yue Ling told Di Tian about Chen Feng’s research, and Di Tian warned that it challenged human interests and could put Chen Feng in danger.
• Di Tian told Gu Yue Ling to protect Chen Feng when she could and suggested helping him become powerful enough to reach level ninety-nine.
• Gu Yue Ling identified Xiao Wu as a likely transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, but Di Tian said the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python could not oppose Spirit Hall.
• Di Tian explained how Soul Masters’ hunting of Soul Beasts became accepted practice and said gods stood behind Spirit Hall, though the elemental gods might be more sympathetic.

Gu Yue Ling asked Di Tian about divine factions that might aid the Soul Beasts, while Chen Feng's group faced Tai Tan after Zhao Wuji defeated Tainuo. Bai Chenxiang's connection to Tai Tan defused the confrontation, and Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived at the academy as reinforcements.

• Gu Yue Ling asked Di Tian about the old elemental gods and possible allies against Spirit Hall, and he told her about the Sea God’s faction and the Extreme North.
• Gu Yue Ling said she would seek out the Extreme North and asked Di Tian to find a strength-focused dragon Soul Beast to help her condense a Soul Ring.
• Tai Tan arrived at Nine-Headed Serpent Academy with Tainuo and Tailong, intending to confront Chen Feng’s group over Tainuo’s defeat and lost Gold Soul Coins.
• Bai Chenxiang recognized Tai Tan and revealed that she was a Soul Elder, prompting Chen Feng to invite Tai Tan inside and explain that Bai He and other allies were on their way.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived at the academy, where Ning Rongrong greeted Gu Rong and Flender welcomed them.

Ning Fengzhi learned that Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul had evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and thanked Chen Feng for helping her and Bai Chenxiang with immortal herbs. Chen Feng brought Tang San to meet the Four Clans, where his identity as Tang Hao’s son prompted Tai Tan to kneel and Niu Gao to storm out over his grudge against the Clear Sky Sect.

• Ning Fengzhi arrived with Bai He and Niu Gao, and Tai Tan explained his earlier clash with the younger generation, drawing teasing from his old friends.
• Chen Feng explained that immortal herbs had brought about Ning Rongrong and Bai Chenxiang’s changes, and Ning Fengzhi recognized Rongrong’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed that Chen Feng and Ning Rongrong get engaged, embarrassing Rongrong, while Bai He thanked Chen Feng for Bai Chenxiang’s herb.
• Chen Feng arranged for the elders to help with the group’s combat training, then asked Tang San if he wanted to meet the Four Clans.
• Tang San told the Four Clans that his father was Tang Hao, and Tai Tan knelt to greet him as the Young Master.
• Niu Gao rejected the reunion and left, while Bai He explained that Niu Gao still resented the Clear Sky Sect for abandoning the clans.

Tang San learned that Bai He was his great-uncle, while Chen Feng persuaded Niu Gao not to blame Tang San for the Clear Sky Sect’s past abandonment of the Four Clans. The chapter ended with Ning Fengzhi explaining that he intended to let the clans meet Tang Hao openly, helping win their loyalty through sincerity.

• Bai He told Tang San that his sister was Tang San’s grandmother, making Bai He his great-uncle and Bai Chenxiang his cousin.
• Tang San agreed to arrange for Tai Tan and Bai He to meet Tang Hao, and Flender offered Tai Tan a place at the academy.
• Chen Feng acknowledged Niu Gao’s resentment toward the Clear Sky Sect and persuaded him that Tang San was not to blame for its past actions.
• Niu Gao praised Ning Fengzhi’s leadership and asked Chen Feng how he would prepare against future threats; Chen Feng described gathering intelligence and sowing conflict within Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi told Gu Rong that the clans’ meeting with Tang Hao should be encouraged as an open demonstration of sincerity, helping secure the Min and Yu Clans.

Tang San learned from Chen Feng that the Four Clans chiefly resented the Clear Sky Sect for abandoning them, not Tang Hao for fighting Spirit Hall. Tang San chose Flender to escort him to Sunset Forest, where Tang Hao later reunited with the clan chiefs and explained that Spirit Hall had targeted his wife, Ah Yin.

• Chen Feng explained that the Four Clans’ lasting resentment came from the Clear Sky Sect abandoning them, and Tang San realized his targets also included the order behind the Hunting Ring Method.
• Tang San decided to ask Flender to escort him to Sunset Forest rather than rely on Tai Tan, and Flender agreed.
• Flender returned with Tang San and Tang Hao to meet Bai He, Tai Tan, and Niu Gao.
• Tang Hao told the clan chiefs that Qian Xunji had pursued him because Ah Yin was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had taken human form.
• Bai He, Tai Tan, and Niu Gao told Tang Hao that he had been right to defend Ah Yin and that the Clear Sky Sect had wronged both him and the Four Clans.

Tang Hao approved Bai He and Niu Gao joining the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Tai Tan following Tang San, while the clans planned to contact Yang Wudi. Chen Feng and Ning Fengzhi announced Chen Feng’s engagement to Ning Rongrong to Xue Qinghe, prompting Qian Renxue to suspect Chen Feng’s identity; Ning Fengzhi later insisted the engagement was serious and would happen immediately.

• Tang Hao told Bai He and Niu Gao that he had already permitted Chen Feng to recruit them, and Tai Tan agreed to follow Tang San instead of Tang Hao.
• Niu Gao and Bai He decided to contact Yang Wudi about joining them at their upcoming clan gathering.
• Ning Fengzhi introduced Chen Feng to Xue Qinghe and announced that Chen Feng and Ning Rongrong would become engaged; Xue Qinghe said he saw Rongrong only as a younger sister.
• After Ning Fengzhi and Chen Feng left, Qian Renxue told Ci Xie that Chen Feng might be the same person as the renowned Biological Pioneer and said suspicion was enough to justify watching him.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that he had announced the engagement to prevent Xue Qinghe from pursuing Ning Rongrong, then told Chen Feng the engagement was serious and would happen immediately.

Gu Yue Ling returned to the academy as a Soul Ancestor with a Ten Thousand Year fourth Spirit Ring, demonstrating its power and explaining the risks of using Chen Feng’s Ring Expansion Method. Chen Feng confirmed she was the Imperial Auspicious Beast and wondered why the fierce beasts had not acted, until Gu Yue Ling asked whether he knew about the Extreme North.

• Ning Fengzhi made a quiet verbal agreement with Chen Feng, while Chen Feng and the Nine-Headed Serpent Team endured special training against Gu Rong and three Spirit Douluo.
• Gu Yue Ling returned, revealed her black fourth Spirit Ring, and demonstrated how its Golden Dragon Heads could strike like weapons or be launched at targets.
• Gu Yue Ling explained that the Ring Expansion Method prevented spiritual shock but that absorbing a Ten Thousand Year ring still required exceptional physical strength and communication with the Soul Beast.
• Chen Feng connected Gu Yue Ling’s fourth Spirit Skill and other clues to Wang Qiu'er and concluded that Gu Yue Ling was the Imperial Auspicious Beast.
• Chen Feng considered why the fierce beasts had not responded to his achievements, and Gu Yue Ling unexpectedly asked if he knew about the Extreme North.

Chen Feng discussed going to the Extreme North for his fourth Soul Ring, and Gu Yue Ling, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing wanted to join him. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi approached Yang Wudi to propose a medicine-making partnership between the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Breaking Clan.

• Gu Yue Ling asked about the Extreme North, and Chen Feng explained that he might travel there at level forty to obtain his fourth Soul Ring.
• Gu Yue Ling, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing asked to accompany Chen Feng, while Oscar helped end the discussion.
• Yang Wudi arrived in Heaven Dou City for the gathering of the Four Clans, where Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong represented the Min Clan and Yu Clan.
• Ning Fengzhi clarified that he wanted to do business with the Breaking Clan rather than recruit it into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Yang Wudi whether the Breaking Clan could make safe, strengthening medicine for Support System Spirit Masters.

Ning Fengzhi secured the Breaking Clan’s cooperation by offering Yang Wudi a profitable arrangement that could gradually draw the clan into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Meanwhile, Chen Feng watched the Heaven Dou Royal Team reveal a disciplined formation and a devastating poison-and-lightning tactic, while identifying their new archer, Tang Ying, as a likely hidden combat asset.

• Ning Fengzhi offered Yang Wudi a plot near the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, facilities, and access to herbs in exchange for the Breaking Clan producing medicines there, and Yang Wudi accepted the proposal.
• Yang Wudi and Ning Fengzhi negotiated the details of their partnership while Chen Feng and his companions continued their two-month Combat Training.
• Chen Feng watched the Heaven Dou Royal Team and identified their archer, Tang Ying, whose Purple Splendor Bow suggested he was a powerful secret weapon despite not fighting in the match.
• The Heaven Dou Royal Team formed a compact defensive formation, with Tang Ying and Ye Lingling protected in the center and rear.
• Dugu Yan spread controlled Poison Water across the battlefield, then Yu Tianheng electrified it, producing poisonous gas that incapacitated the opposing team.
• Ye Lingling used her healing ability to protect her teammates from the gas, and the Heaven Dou Royal Team won without difficulty.

After analyzing the Heaven Dou Royal Team’s tactics, Chen Feng and Tang San devised ways for the Hydra Team to counter their poison, lightning, and defensive formation. The teams were then moved into level-forty group battles, setting up an imminent clash between them.

• Chen Feng recognized the Heaven Dou Royal Team’s strategy as Substitute Guard Poison and analyzed how Dugu Yan’s Poison Water and Yu Tianheng’s lightning created poisonous vapor.
• Chen Feng and Tang San planned to use dry Blue Silver Grass as a barrier against the Poison Water and lightning, and considered having Bai Chenxiang airlift Gu Yue Ling into the enemy’s back row.
• Grandmaster raised the Hydra Team’s group-battle opponents to level-forty teams, and the Hydra Team adapted as it pursued Golden Spirit Fighting Team status.
• The Hydra Team and Heaven Dou Royal Team approached a group Spirit Fighting battle, and Ma Hongjun excitedly anticipated defeating Heaven Dou City’s strongest team.

The Hydra Team and the Heaven Dou Royal Team began a close team battle, with Dugu Yan’s poison and the Shi Brothers’ defense slowing Chen Feng’s side. Xiao Wu faced Tang Ying’s deceptive arrows, while Gu Yue Ling knocked out Osler and charged toward the opposing backline before poison and an arrow halted her advance.

• Ma Hongjun teased Xiao Wu about her past recklessness, and she challenged him to a fight before the team battle began.
• Both teams revealed matching lineups of two Soul Ancestors and five Soul Elders, while Tang Ying recognized Xiao Wu and prepared to face her.
• Tang San spread plants across the field as Dai Mubai and Gu Yue Ling engaged the opposing front line, and Dugu Yan turned her Poison Water red to strengthen Yu Tianheng.
• Chen Feng fought the Shi Brothers’ shared defense while Xiao Wu and Tang Ying entered an archer standoff after he used false energy arrows to conceal his real ones.
• A hidden plant tripped Osler, allowing Gu Yue Ling to knock him unconscious and charge the backline, where Dugu Yan’s poison and Tang Ying’s arrow stopped her as Bai Chenxiang arrived overhead.