Chapter Summaries

Zhou Chen deflected Qian Renxue’s accusations at the Moon Pavilion, while Tang Yuehua calmed their confrontation and Ode was warned to keep silent. Later, Qian Renxue agreed with the Holy Spirit Church’s Holy Son to help destroy the Clear Sky Sect, declaring that the Xuanyuan Sword—not the Clear Sky Hammer—was the world’s foremost tool martial soul.

• Zhou Chen mocked Qian Renxue for criticizing his relationships while Xue Ye kept a vast harem, leaving her speechless and angering Xue Ke.
• Tang Yuehua used her Noble Ring domain to calm Qian Renxue before she could lose control and risk exposing her identity.
• Qian Renxue and Zhou Chen pretended to reconcile, then she left the Moon Pavilion and threatened Ode for overhearing their dispute.
• Tang Yuehua assured Ode that he would be safe but ordered him to keep everything he had heard and seen secret.
• At the imperial palace, Qian Renxue met the Holy Spirit Church’s Holy Son, who proposed joining forces with Spirit Hall to locate and destroy the Clear Sky Sect.
• Qian Renxue agreed to the plan and named the Xuanyuan Sword as the world’s foremost tool martial soul.

Zhou Chen fought the Clear Sky Sect’s Seventh Elder after he attacked Tang Yuehua, and their battle escalated into a devastating clash above Heaven Dou City. After Zhou Chen defeated the Seventh Elder, Hades ambushed them both, leaving Zhou Chen pierced through the chest as Xue Ke fainted and Purple Micro Palace’s allies watched in horror.

• The Seventh Elder tried to strike Tang Yuehua, so Zhou Chen attacked him and rejected the Third Elder’s request that he apologize.
• Zhou Chen and the Seventh Elder fought inside Moon Pavilion, where Zhou Chen restrained him with Plucking Stars and Seizing the Moon and countered his attacks with Five Emperors Fist.
• The Seventh Elder took the fight into the sky and unleashed Soaring Sky Strike, but Zhou Chen answered with Heaven Annihilating Seal and shattered his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Purple Micro Palace’s experts blocked the resulting shockwave from destroying Heaven Dou City, while Zhou Chen and the badly injured Seventh Elder were left with little strength.
• Hades appeared behind Zhou Chen and the Seventh Elder and pierced both of them through the chest with gray Cross Rapiers.
• Xue Ke fainted into Tang Yuehua’s arms, and Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Bo, and the other Purple Micro Palace experts were horrified to see Zhou Chen wounded.

After waking from a year and a half of unconsciousness, Zhou Chen reunited with his companions and learned that the Purple Micro Palace had amassed enough Gold Soul Coins to fulfill his promise to Gu Yuena. He planned to place Soul Beast Breeding Amplifiers in two forests, while Shui Binger searched the Frozen Forest for a soul ring.

• Zhou Chen explained that his sixth soul skill could regress one enemy to his age for three minutes, but it could be used only once every thirty days and cost Gold Soul Coins.
• Yu Tianmeng told Zhou Chen he had been unconscious for a year and a half, then he reunited with her, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Yu Tianling, and Meng Yiran.
• Zhou Chen thanked the Purple Micro Palace’s supporters and learned Xiao Chenyu had gone to gather intelligence on the Holy Spirit Church.
• Bi Ji and Zi JI reminded Zhou Chen of his promise to Gu Yuena to place Soul Beast Breeding Amplifiers in the Sunset Forest and the Far North Land.
• Yu Tianmeng reported that the Purple Micro Palace held over 370 million Gold Soul Coins, and Zhou Chen planned to place the amplifiers soon.
• Shui Binger traveled to the Frozen Forest to find a suitable soul ring after reaching the Soul Ancestor rank.

Zhou Chen and Bi Ji killed Ye Meijing, then Zhou Chen welcomed Shui Binger and the other six members of Heavenly Water Academy’s team into the Purple Micro Palace. He offered to help Shen Liuyu find a Soul Ring, while a powerful presence awakened beneath the Far North Land.

• Bi Ji purified Ye Meijing’s remaining blood beads and soul fragments until he died, and Zhou Chen received the Cleanup Master title from the system.
• Zhou Chen thanked Bi Ji, then greeted the Heavenly Water Academy girls and accepted Shui Binger into the Purple Micro Palace.
• Zhou Chen invited Shui Yue'er, Qiu Ruoshui, Gu Qingbo, Yu Hairou, Xue Wu, and Shen Liuyu to join as well, reassuring Xue Wu and Shen Liuyu that they could still represent Heavenly Water Academy in the Soul Master Tournament.
• Shui Binger said Shen Liuyu still needed a suitable Soul Ring, so Zhou Chen offered to find one and told the girls to stay with him.
• In an underground ice cavern in the Far North Land, a pair of diamond-bright eyes opened beneath a frozen basin inhabited by Ice Jade Scorpions.

Zhou Chen brought the Heavenly Water Academy girls to the Far North Land to help Shui Binger obtain her seventh soul ring, while Bi Ji and Zi JI resented his neglect rather than his hunting of soul beasts. An immense Ice Jade Scorpion swarm ambushed the group, and the Ice Empress appeared to confront them.

• Over ten days, Zhou Chen gave the Heavenly Water Academy girls God Crystals and ice cultivation methods, helping them gain strength and bringing Shui Binger to level 70.
• Shui Yue'er fed Zhou Chen a frost fruit, and Xue Wu pointed out that Bi Ji and Zi JI seemed unhappy.
• Zhou Chen learned that Bi Ji and Zi JI were jealous because he had spent his time with the academy girls, then embraced them and promised to pay them more attention.
• Shen Liuyu spotted a huge Ice Jade Scorpion swarm surrounding the group, and Zhou Chen suspected the Ice Empress was behind the attack.
• The Ice Empress arrived in a flash of emerald light and warned the humans that they should not have come.

The Ice Empress attacked Zhou Chen after accusing him of killing her partner, Ye Meijing, and Zhou Chen restrained her before preparing to strike. The Snow Empress arrived to protect the Ice Empress and challenged Zhou Chen with powerful attacks in the Far North Land.

• Zhou Chen told the Ice Empress that Bi Ji had killed Ye Meijing, but the Ice Empress rejected his explanation and unleashed her power.
• Zi JI provoked the Ice Empress by teasing her about her feelings for the Snow Empress, prompting the Ice Empress to attack her.
• Zhou Chen rescued Zi JI and Bi Ji, then restrained the Ice Empress with Plucking Stars and Seizing the Moon.
• The Ice Empress unleashed Frozen Domain, and Bi Ji countered it with Life Domain to protect Shui Binger and the other Heavenly Water Academy girls.
• Zhou Chen drew the Xuanyuan Sword and prepared to strike the Ice Empress, but the Snow Empress blocked his attack with her crystalline sword.
• The Snow Empress attacked Zhou Chen with Emperor Palm: Great Cold Without Snow and Emperor Cold Sky · Snow Dance Shining Sun, invoking her domain over the Far North Land.

Zhou Chen negotiated with Snow Empress after she froze time and space, explaining that he had come to the Far North Land to install a divine artifact that would improve soul beast breeding. Snow Empress agreed to his plan and learned he could help Ice Empress survive her coming heavenly tribulation, then had Ice Empress apologize to him.

• Snow Empress froze time and space, released Zhou Chen, and proposed settling the conflict with her younger sister through negotiation.
• Zhou Chen said he had come at Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena's request and presented the Soul Beast Breeding Amplifier as a divine artifact made by the Goddess of Life.
• Snow Empress explained that Ice Empress had attacked Zhou Chen because Ye Meijing had promised to help her survive her next heavenly tribulation before he died.
• Zhou Chen offered to help Ice Empress survive her tribulation, and Snow Empress ended her domain to restore time and space.
• Ice Empress transformed into human form, embraced Snow Empress, and was told to apologize to Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen planted the Soul Beast Breeding Booster in the Far North, earning Snow Empress and Ice Empress’s gratitude before inviting them to visit the Heaven Dou Empire. A month later, he attended the opening ceremony of the Heaven Dou division of the Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, where the arena filled with spectators and powerful guests.

• Snow Empress scolded Ice Empress for refusing to apologize to Zhou Chen, but Zhou Chen let the matter go and turned their attention to installing the Soul Beast Breeding Booster.
• Zhou Chen planted the booster in the Ice Abyss Rift, and its green light spread across the Far North to enhance the soul beasts’ breeding, growth, and cultivation.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress thanked Zhou Chen, accepted Big Dipper Tokens from him, and declined his invitation to leave the Far North because they had to protect its soul beasts.
• A month later, Zhou Chen attended the opening ceremony of the Heaven Dou Empire division of the Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament at the rebuilt Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena.
• More than five hundred thousand spectators gathered as the imperial family deployed troops and powerful allies to secure the event, which Xue Ye, Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, and Zhou Chen were attending.

Zhou Chen and his companions attended the Soul Master Tournament opening ceremony, where the Heaven Dou Royal Academy First Team stunned the crowd with its powerful members. The ceremony continued with the beautiful Heavenly Water Academy entering the arena.

• Zhou Chen, Yu Tianmeng, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xue Ke prepared to enter the ceremony after Xue Ye, while the competing women joined their academy teams.
• Host Kou Kou opened the ceremony and introduced the Heaven Dou Empire's teams, including Blazing Fire Academy and its captain, Huo Wushuang, and vice-captain, Huo Wu.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling entered with the Heaven Dou Royal Academy First Team, accompanied by music Yu Tianmeng had brought from Earth.
• Kou Kou revealed that Dugu Yan was a level 75 Soul Saint and Ye Lingling was a level 73 Soul Saint, shocking the spectators.
• Shui Binger and Xue Wu led the Heavenly Water Academy team into the arena as the ceremony continued.

At the Soul Master Tournament opening ceremony, the Heavenly Water Academy girls revealed their extraordinary strength, and Shui Binger’s team drew the crowd’s admiration. Zhou Chen arrived at the VIP platform with Yu Tianmeng, Xue Ke, and Zhu Zhuqing, where Emperor Xue Ye joined them just as the Shrek Academy Team was announced.

• Shui Binger and the Heavenly Water Academy team unleashed their martial souls, revealing six soul emperors and one soul saint and silencing the spectators’ mockery.
• Huo Qitian questioned Shui Lingxin about the team’s strength, while Shui Lingxin admitted she did not know how Shui Binger had advanced so far.
• Yu Tianmeng accused Zhou Chen of helping Shui Binger and her teammates, pinched his ear, then forgave him after he kissed her cheek.
• Yu Tianmeng opened a spatial door and brought Zhou Chen, Xue Ke, and Zhu Zhuqing to the VIP platform, where Zhou Chen recognized Zhang Luo Shen and the other prominent guests.
• Zhou Chen requested three extra seats for the women, and Prince Xue Xing arranged them before Emperor Xue Ye arrived with Qian Renxue.
• Emperor Xue Ye took his seat as Qian Renxue remained standing, and host Kou Kou announced the Shrek Academy Team.

Shrek Academy’s team entered the tournament arena as Zhou Chen exposed and intimidated Platinum Bishop Stanford after he insulted Zhou Chen’s relationships and Ning Rongrong. Emperor Xue Ye officially opened the tournament, leaving the thirty-two teams ready to compete.

• Kou Kou introduced Shrek Academy’s powerful team, including captain Yu Tianling and vice-captain Ning Rongrong, as the crowd speculated about their ties to Zhou Chen.
• Stanford mocked Zhou Chen’s relationships and implied Ning Rongrong had gained her power through them, prompting Xue Ke and Ning Fengzhi to react.
• Zhou Chen reminded Stanford of his cowardly conduct during the battle in Silves City, humiliating him before threatening to kill him in ten moves if he misbehaved.
• Yu Tianling and Ning Rongrong bickered as Shrek’s team assembled; Tang San saw Zhou Chen and reaffirmed his gratitude and loyalty to him.
• After all thirty-two academy teams entered, Xue Ye declared the Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament open.

Zhou Chen delivered an unintentionally boastful motivational speech at the Soul Master Tournament opening, then named Spirit Hall the strongest team and watched Spirit Hall recruit contestants. He left before the first match and met the Heavenly Water Academy girls, who teased him by repeating his speech.

• Zhou Chen told the tournament contestants he was a fifteen-year-old beginner and urged them to fight, earning their admiration while Yu Tianmeng laughed at his clichéd advice.
• Prince Xue Xing shamelessly flattered Zhou Chen to make amends for having offended him, while Ning Fengzhi urged contestants to serve the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Zhou Chen declared the Spirit Hall Team strongest because Hu Liena had reached Rank 80, then admitted she could not defeat him.
• Stanford offered Spirit Hall positions to contestants who joined, angering Emperor Xue Ye, and the drawing paired Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two with Shrek Academy in the first match.
• Zhou Chen left before the match and met Shui Yue'er, Shui Binger, Xue Wu, and Shen Liuyu, who repeated his motivational lines until he felt embarrassed.

Zhou Chen realized that Spirit Hall had supplied Canghui Academy's captain with a spirit bone, and suspected the team planned to target Heavenly Water Academy. As the match began, Canghui Academy unleashed a seven-in-one Martial Soul combination skill, leaving Shui Binger's attack facing a sudden multicolored pillar of light.

• Ning Fengzhi warned Zhou Chen that Platinum Bishop Stanford seemed to be plotting something, and Yu Tianmeng suspected he intended to target Heavenly Water Academy.
• Zhou Chen overheard Canghui Academy's captain mention a spirit bone from Spirit Hall and learned from Ning Fengzhi that the team had concealed its strength and might use illusions.
• Zhou Chen searched the original novel for details about Canghui Academy while Shui Binger and her team prepared to face them.
• Canghui Academy formed a heptagonal ring and revealed seven gemstone Martial Souls as the match began.
• Shui Binger attacked with her sixth soul skill, Phoenix Plume's Aura, but Canghui Academy's captain activated a seven-in-one Martial Soul combination skill that formed a huge seven-colored pillar of light.

Canghui Academy trapped Heavenly Water Academy in its Seven Shura Illusion, which was strengthened by a Spirit Hall soul bone. Shui Binger resisted the illusions with her Water Dragon King head soul bone, but after incapacitating her teammates, she faced Canghui Academy’s combined attack alone.

• Canghui Academy engulfed the arena in the Seven Shura Illusion, leaving Heavenly Water Academy’s members disoriented despite Shui Binger’s attempt to counter it by closing their eyes and ears.
• Zhou Chen explained that Canghui Academy’s technique was a Seven-in-One Combination Skill, not a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and revealed that the team’s captain possessed a Spirit Hall-given Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull.
• Inside the illusion, Shui Binger used Phoenix Frost Shield and Ice and Snow Dance, but her attacks failed to locate Canghui Academy’s hidden members.
• The captain used the Wisdom Skull to intensify the illusions, causing Qiu Ruoshui to collapse and Shui Yue’er to attack Xue Wu, while Shui Binger remained protected by her million-year Water Dragon King head soul bone.
• Shui Binger knocked her six teammates unconscious to keep them from killing one another, and Canghui Academy’s seven members then fired a combined seven-colored attack at her.

Shui Binger survived Canghui Academy’s ambush, killed its seven members, and exposed Spirit Hall’s role in the plot. After Shi Nian attacked her and Zhou Chen killed him, Zhou Chen confronted Stanford as Zhu Zhuqing, Chen Xin, Xue Ye, and other powerful allies took positions against him.

• Canghui Academy’s team used the Shura Rainbow Light to wound Shui Binger and planned to kill her unconscious teammates, believing Spirit Hall would protect them.
• Shui Binger revealed that she had used Dragon God Revival to heal herself and lure the Canghui members out, then froze them to death with Eternal Freeze, shattering the illusion.
• Shi Nian attacked Shui Binger, and Zhou Chen crushed him with Plucking Stars and Seizing the Moon.
• Zhou Chen accused Stanford of supplying Canghui Academy with a soul bone and plotting against Shui Binger, while Stanford challenged him over the tournament deaths.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Chen Xin confronted Stanford, and Ning Fengzhi, Xue Ye, and other allies rallied behind Zhou Chen as Spirit Hall’s experts approached.

Zhou Chen confronted Stanford after the Platinum Bishop led Spirit Hall’s forces into a confrontation with Purple Micro Palace, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Although Stanford begged for mercy, Zhou Chen’s allies subdued him, and Xiao Chenyu executed him at Zhou Chen’s order.

• Stanford questioned whether Zhou Chen and his allies dared oppose Spirit Hall, then begged for mercy when Zhou Chen pointed out that Bi Bi Dong might abandon him.
• Stanford revealed that a Longevity Pill Zhou Chen had sold helped him regain his vitality and break through to become a Titled Douluo, enraging Zhou Chen.
• Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi urged Zhou Chen to spare Stanford, but Zhou Chen attacked him with the Xuanyuan Sword.
• Stanford retaliated with his Blood Soul Axe, but Zhu Zhuqing intercepted his attack, and Purple Micro Palace’s experts overwhelmed Stanford and killed his attendants.
• Stanford begged Zhou Chen to spare his life, and Zhou Chen appeared to agree before Xiao Chenyu beheaded him.

Bi Bi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to avoid provoking Purple Micro Palace after Zhou Chen's forces killed Bishop Stanford, then learned from Hu Liena that Zhou Chen had helped her cultivate. In a hidden chamber, she examined the diary of Ye Wuhen, a transmigrator she had killed, and the chapter ended as she began recalling what she had discovered in it.

• Bi Bi Dong ordered Spirit Hall's leaders to restrain themselves around Purple Micro Palace and monitor its movements after Stanford was killed.
• Hu Liena confirmed that Zhou Chen had helped her cultivate but refused to reveal his method to Bi Bi Dong.
• Bi Bi Dong let Hu Liena leave, then entered a concealed chamber containing Ye Wuhen's preserved head and diary.
• Bi Bi Dong recalled how she had discovered Ye Wuhen's diary after he joined Spirit Hall and pursued her.

Bi Bi Dong studied Ye Wuhen’s diary and found a possible shortcut to becoming the Rakshasa God in the City of Slaughter. As Zhou Chen watched Shrek Academy face Heavenly Water Academy, Xiao Chenyu revealed that Bi Bi Dong had already departed for the City of Slaughter with a formidable force.

• Bi Bi Dong recalled how she had killed Ye Wuhen after discovering his diary and considered ways to gain power before Zhou Chen and Tang San could threaten her.
• Bi Bi Dong realized she could seek the Rakshasa Divine Sense and the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King in the City of Slaughter, where Tang Chen had been possessed.
• Bi Bi Dong decided to lead Spirit Hall’s elite experts to the City of Slaughter and kill Tang Chen.
• Three days later, Zhou Chen watched Shrek Academy battle Heavenly Water Academy at the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena, while Xuan Lie, Flander, and Liu Erlong watched from the VIP platform.
• Xiao Chenyu told Zhou Chen that Bi Bi Dong had headed for the City of Slaughter with fifteen Titled Douluo, thirty Soul Douluo, and more than a hundred Soul Saints.

Bi Bi Dong led Spirit Hall into the City of Slaughter to kill its ruler, using her Slaughter God Domain to nullify the city's restriction on spirit abilities. As Spirit Hall's forces began overwhelming the city's defenders, Tang Chen learned of the invasion and showed fear.

• Zhou Chen learned that Bi Bi Dong was heading to the City of Slaughter and left the VIP section, while Yu Tianmeng, Zhu Zhuqing, and Liu Erlong followed.
• Three days later, Bi Bi Dong and Hu Liena destroyed the tavern concealing the entrance, and Spirit Hall's forces razed the town before entering the underground passage.
• Bi Bi Dong led Spirit Hall into the City of Slaughter, where its Enforcement Team confronted them and warned that outsiders could not use spirit abilities.
• Bi Bi Dong unleashed the Slaughter God Domain, allowing Spirit Hall's fighters to use their spirit abilities, then attacked the Enforcement Team alongside the other Spirit Hall powerhouses.
• The Slaughter King, Tang Chen, learned that Spirit Hall had invaded and that Bi Bi Dong's domain had removed the city's suppression, and his attendant sensed that he was afraid.

Bi Bi Dong led Spirit Hall in an assault on the City of Slaughter, confronting its ruler, the Slaughter King, who was revealed as the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King. After his domain suppressed Spirit Hall’s soul skills, Bi Bi Dong launched a counterattack, and the chapter ended as she prepared a powerful strike against him.

• The Slaughter King explained that Spirit Hall had attacked because the City of Slaughter had supplied the Holy Spirit Church with Blood Soul Masters and broken its old agreement with Spirit Hall.
• Bi Bi Dong and Spirit Hall’s forces devastated the City of Slaughter’s Enforcement Team, leaving the Death Knight badly wounded before the Slaughter King appeared.
• Bi Bi Dong identified the Slaughter King as the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King and said she wanted his Million-Year Soul Ring, prompting him to unleash a domain that suppressed Spirit Hall’s soul skills.
• Bi Bi Dong bound the Slaughter King with Death Spider Web Restraint and attacked with several soul skills, but he escaped and killed more than twenty Spirit Hall experts within his domain.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and more than a dozen Titled Douluo restrained the Slaughter King, allowing Bi Bi Dong to charge at him with her sixth Soul Eating Spider Emperor skill, Eternal Creation.