Vol. 2Tournament and Transformation

Zhou Qing refined Spirit Rings, guided his friends through the Friendly Tournament, and investigated how Soul Rings and bloodlines could change Martial Souls. The volume left Qingzhu Zhu preparing to face Dai Mubai while Zhou Qing pursued research into Martial Soul transformation.

  • Zhou Qing refined his and his friends’ Spirit Rings, helped Xiao Wu awaken her bloodline power, and confronted Yu Xiaogang before Yu Xiaogang left Nuoding Academy.
  • After attackers struck Xiao Manor and the Soul Bone dispute stirred unrest, Zhou Qing organized voluntary matches and became a leader among the students.
  • Zhou Qing guided Qingzhu Zhu around Nuoding City as a tournament formed amid the Soul Bone dispute.
  • Zhou Qing assembled Team Eighteen and assigned unconventional roles before they began their first match against seven Tiger Type Soul Masters.
  • Team Eighteen advanced through the Friendly Tournament as Zhou Qing encouraged new approaches to teamwork and Soul Master cultivation.
  • Qingzhu Zhu absorbed a Shadow Swift Cat Spirit Ring, while Zhu Zhuyun learned of her Martial Soul fusion with Zhou Qing and warned her to keep it secret.
  • Team 18 won its academy tournament matches, and Qingzhu Zhu chose to face Dai Mubai as Zhou Qing and his companions returned to their studies.
  • Zhou Qing investigated Bu Yi’s evolved Martial Soul and began exploring how Soul Rings and bloodlines could transform Martial Souls.
Chapters 103–202 Read from ch. 103

Arc 5Refined Rings and Rising Unrest

Zhou Qing refined his and his friends’ Spirit Rings, helped Xiao Wu uncover her bloodline power, and challenged Yu Xiaogang’s authority before he left Nuoding Academy. As the rumored Soul Bone brought danger to the city, Zhou Qing encouraged the students to settle grudges through voluntary matches and emerged as a leader at the academy.

  • With Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s help, Zhou Qing connected the pathways between his Soul Ring and Martial Soul, then unleashed a powerful Yongchun attack that used little Soul Power.
  • Zhou Qing confronted Yu Xiaogang over his teaching and his treatment of talented students, and Yu Xiaogang left Nuoding Academy after the dean warned him not to pressure Zhou Qing into becoming his disciple.
  • Zhou Qing explained his refined Soul Ring to Tang San and Xiao Wu, and the refinement returned Soft Bone Rabbit bloodline information to Xiao Wu’s body and Martial Soul.
  • Xiao Wu tested her newfound strength by defeating Zhou Qing in a spar, while Tang San later forged a sword blank to help restore Zhou Qing’s confidence.
  • Romanyac sold the Head Soul Bone for one million Gold Soul Coins, but rumors surrounding it spread, and Romantina chose to remain in Nuoding City and teach at the academy.
  • Dales encouraged unrest over the Soul Bone, and masked attackers struck Xiao Manor, killing Sisi and several servants and guards before City Lord Xiao killed them and lost an arm.
  • Zhou Qing recognized Xiao Wu’s golden glow and heat as Bloodline Power and urged her to learn to control its flow, while she continued sparring with him and other students.
  • After learning that City Lord Xiao had absorbed the Soul Bone, Zhou Qing stopped Xiao Wu from attacking Xiao Chenyu and established voluntary playground matches, prompting the teachers to discuss a Soul Fighting Stage.
Chapters 103–127 Summaries Read

Arc 6The Friendly Tournament

Zhou Qing guided Qingzhu Zhu through Nuoding City and helped her find a measure of freedom, while the Soul Bone dispute led to a tournament that drew him and his friends into battle. After assembling a team and assigning unconventional roles, Zhou Qing led them into their first match against seven Tiger Type Soul Masters.

  • Zhou Qing advised Qingzhu Zhu to respect Dai Mubai’s choice to flee, and she hired him to guide her around Nuoding City.
  • Zhou Qing took Qingzhu Zhu and Xiao Wu to capture a Light Firefly, then told Xiao Wu that nobles and commoners usually had to yield to reality.
  • Zhou Qing concluded that changing Douluo Continent would require overthrowing its three major powers, but questioned whether he had the courage to oppose everyone.
  • Zhong Dingxiu announced a seven-versus-seven tournament, and Zhou Qing joined with Tang San, Xiao Wu, Wang Sheng, Qingzhu Zhu, Romantina, and Mo Hen.
  • Dai Weisi challenged Dai Mubai to compete, and Dai Mubai realized he had treated Zhu Zhuqing more as an asset than someone he loved.
  • Zhou Qing analyzed the team’s first opponents and assigned his teammates unconventional combat roles before the match began.
  • Qingzhu Zhu and Tang San attacked an opponent’s ankle, Romantina’s Spiritual Impact enabled Mo Hen to knock down a Soul Grandmaster, and Wang Sheng knocked another unconscious.
Chapters 128–152 Summaries Read

Arc 7The Shadow Swift Cat

Team Eighteen advanced through the Friendly Tournament as Zhou Qing’s ideas reshaped how his companions viewed teamwork and Soul Master cultivation. Qingzhu Zhu obtained a speed-focused first Spirit Ring, while Zhu Zhuyun learned of her Martial Soul fusion with Zhou Qing and warned her to keep it secret.

  • Team Eighteen defeated Team Twenty, and Wang Sheng told Zhou Qing he wanted to continue as a Soul Master without disappointing the Work-Study Students who looked up to him.
  • Su Yuntao learned that Sisi had died shielding City Lord Xiao, and Zhou Qing urged him to consider changing the noble systems through Spirit Hall.
  • Team Eighteen defeated Dai Mubai after he confronted Zhou Qing over Qingzhu Zhu, and the Star Luo royals kept the embarrassing fight out of public view.
  • Zhou Qing and Qingzhu Zhu’s Martial Souls fused while they cultivated, and Qingzhu Zhu reached the level-ten Soul Power bottleneck.
  • Team Eighteen defeated Team Six and advanced, while Zhou Qing and Tang San considered the barriers commoner Soul Masters faced in pursuing education and resources.
  • Zhou Qing advised Qingzhu Zhu to develop the Hell Spirit Cat’s speed rather than its dark attribute, and recommended a Shadow Swift Cat for her first Spirit Ring.
  • Zhu Zhuyun learned that Qingzhu Zhu and Zhou Qing had fused their Martial Souls and warned her to keep the secret hidden to protect him.
  • Qingzhu Zhu absorbed the Shadow Swift Cat’s Spirit Ring, reached level eleven, and demonstrated a sustained-acceleration skill to Zhu Zhuyun.
Chapters 153–177 Summaries Read

Arc 8Trials and Transformations

Team 18 won the academy tournament matches, and Qingzhu Zhu chose to confront Dai Mubai as Zhou Qing and his companions returned to their studies. Zhou Qing then investigated Bu Yi’s evolved Martial Soul and began exploring how Soul Rings and bloodlines could transform Martial Souls.

  • Qingzhu Zhu evaded Zhu Zhuyun in a forest chase and defended her speed-focused Soul Ring choice, while Zhou Qing and Tang San fused their Martial Souls into a restorative Blue Silver domain.
  • Team 18 defeated Team Twenty-Five and Team Thirty, and Bu Yi accepted a teaching position at Nuoding Academy with Bu Liu and Bu Qi.
  • Qingzhu Zhu declined Dai Weisi’s offer to travel with his team and decided to face Dai Mubai, while Zhou Qing distributed the tournament winnings and attended a victory banquet where City Lord Xiao and Dales announced a Friendly Tournament.
  • Dai Weisi’s Star Luo Royal Academy Team defeated Yu Tianheng’s substitutes in three minutes, prompting Meng Shenji to suspect that a hidden spiritual skill coordinated the Star Luo fighters.
  • At Nuoding Academy, Zhou Qing pursued his research while Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina focused on their own studies and training.
  • Bu Yi’s Third Spirit Ring transformed her Martial Soul into an Elemental Fire Fox, and she described how its energy gathered into a core before changing her Martial Soul.
  • Xiao Wu told Zhou Qing that Soul Beasts could refine special substances with Soul Power to alter their bloodlines, and Zhou Qing remembered entering the Star Dou Great Forest’s core region and never returning.
Chapters 178–202 Summaries Read
Volume 2 of 12