Chapter Summaries

Chen Junting negotiated with Aromatic Silk Beauty over the Tang Sect Secret Manual and the Lovesick Heartbreak Red seed, then learned that the Immortal Herbs might be able to accelerate the flower’s growth by sacrificing their own Primordial Qi. The chapter ended before he decided whether to accept that cost.

• Aromatic Silk Beauty offered Chen Junting another Immortal Herb in exchange for the Tang Sect Secret Manual, but he returned the book and demanded its future cooperation with his research on Dugu Xin’s poison.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty asked Chen Junting to leave the Lovesick Heartbreak Red’s seed behind, and he gave the seed to it to plant in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty estimated that the Lovesick Heartbreak Red would need three hundred years to mature in the well, and Chen Junting asked whether it could mature within three years.
• Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass explained that the Immortal Herbs could infuse the seed with Primordial Qi to speed its growth, but doing so would greatly deplete their own Primordial Qi.

Chen Junting negotiated for the immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Huo Yuhao agreed to take Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass as his Soul Spirit. The group prepared to leave with several other immortal herbs, and Gu Tianchen chose a Void Immortal Mushroom to use later.

• Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass demanded that the second Lovesick Heartbreak Red count as three herbs and that it leave with Huo Yuhao as his Soul Spirit.
• Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass explained that losing its essence left it with less than a thirty percent chance of surviving its next Heavenly Tribulation, and Huo Yuhao accepted its decision to become his Soul Spirit.
• Chen Junting offered Aromatic Silk Beauty and Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid the chance to become Soul Spirits, promising Aromatic Silk Beauty eternal life if it joined Xiao Tian.
• After Youyou pleaded with the herbs to stay, Aromatic Silk Beauty chose to leave with Chen Junting, and Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid agreed to go as well.
• Chen Junting took Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid and Aromatic Silk Beauty, Huo Yuhao bonded with Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, and Gu Tianchen selected a Void Immortal Mushroom but left it behind for future use.

Chen Junting returned to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and prepared to put his teammates through sparring guidance before the Soul Duelling Competition. He revealed that his strength had grown so formidable that the others would be the team's main force, then chose Qin Lan to fight first.

• Ning Tian hosted a picnic for the competition team, where Qin Lan and the others wondered when Chen Junting would return and discussed his strength.
• Chen Junting arrived with Huo Yuhao and Gu Tianchen, then teased Qin Lan about wanting to show off in front of him.
• At the Soul Fighting Arena, Chen Junting assessed his Titled Douluo-level combat strength and decided he would generally not compete, leaving the others to serve as the main force.
• Chen Junting proposed sparring guidance for the upcoming competition, and Xiao Xiao nervously tried to avoid being picked first.
• Qin Lan stepped forward to spare Xiao Xiao from going first, and Chen Junting invited him onto the Soul Fighting Stage.

Qin Lan demonstrated a clone-based variation of Elder Zhang Ming's stealth technique, but Chen Junting countered it with battle-honed intuition and sent him flying. Chen Junting then challenged the remaining students to attack together, and Wu Feng became his first target for brutal guidance.

• Qin Lan explained that he had trained to avoid feeling powerless and revealed that he had adapted Elder Zhang Ming's secret technique with his Soul Skill and Soul Spirit.
• Qin Lan used his fourth Soul Skill to create two clones and attack Chen Junting from three directions, but Chen Junting identified his real body by intuition and struck him flying.
• Chen Junting sent Old Gu, Xiao Tian, Yuhao, Ning Tian, and the others out of the group, then invited the remaining students to attack him together.
• Wu Feng charged Chen Junting with her Red Dragon Flame, but he blocked her strike with the Snow Empress's Soul Bone Skill and advised her to focus her fire abilities.
• Chen Junting kicked Wu Feng off the stage after she cursed at him, then urged the others to come up for guidance.

Chen Junting tested Dugu Xin and the others in a brutal training battle, exposing their failed poison strategy and teaching them through each exchange. He ended the session after half an hour and announced that Ning Tian and the other two would face him next, with no restraint.

• Qin Lan and the others coordinated attacks to restrain Chen Junting, but his Soul Spirit Mad King helped him break their formation and stop Huang Chutian's powerful punches.
• Chen Junting froze Huang Chutian, used him to knock Qin Lan aside, and then countered Gao Ming and Dugu Xin's attacks.
• Chen Junting scolded Dugu Xin for not using poison, but Dugu Xin revealed that he had already spread concealed poison that Chen Junting's Aromatic Silk Beauty had neutralized.
• Chen Junting resumed the fight and continued instructing the group until Gu Tianchen removed the defeated fighters from the badly damaged Soul Fighting Stage.
• Chen Junting ended the day's training, told the group to return the next day, and challenged Ning Tian and the other two to attack him together without expecting him to hold back.

Chen Junting visited Tai Yu’s smithy to collect Ji Juechen’s reforged sword, then delivered it and sparred with him in the Stone Forest. After Ji Juechen named the sword “silence,” Chen Junting brought out the Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, to help him reach Soul Saint.

• Chen Junting watched Tai Yu finish reforging Ji Juechen’s Outer-Heaven Meteorite Sword with Extensible Memory Metal and took it to deliver.
• Chen Junting found Ji Juechen training in the Stone Forest and handed him the new sword, which resonated with Ji Juechen’s Martial Soul.
• Chen Junting and Ji Juechen sparred, and Ji Juechen felt satisfied with the sword and named it “silence.”
• Chen Junting asked whether Ji Juechen was close to breaking through to Soul Saint, then opened a Jade Box containing the Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Chen Junting helped Ji Juechen form a Soul Spirit pact with the Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid, raising Ji Juechen’s innate soul power and granting him a red soul ring. He then accompanied Ji Juechen to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s Soul Guidance Research Institute, where Ji Juechen reunited with Jing Ziyan.

• Chen Junting persuaded Ji Juechen to make the Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid his Soul Spirit and prepared the Spirit Pact Array.
• The Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid transferred its power to Ji Juechen, then became his Soul Spirit, leaving him with a red soul ring and a Soul Bone.
• Ji Juechen went with Chen Junting to the Soul Guidance Research Institute after missing Jing Ziyan during their time apart.
• Chen Junting explained the institute’s security as they passed through its guarded doors and entered the laboratory housing the Humanoid Soul Guidance Device.
• Jing Ziyan was delighted to see Ji Juechen, who told her he had come to see her, while Chen Junting urged them to talk and encouraged her to rest.

Chen Junting visited Xuan Ziwen and learned that his research team had proposed developing both Mecha and Battle Armor from their studies of the Humanoid Soul Guidance Device and an existing suit of armor. The Battle Armor concept still faced material and body-fusion problems, and Chen Junting considered whether Artificial Soul Bones could help.

• Chen Junting urged Xuan Ziwen, Elder Lu, and Ziyan to rest, but Xuan Ziwen refused because he wanted to continue researching.
• Xuan Ziwen showed Chen Junting the research data and explained that the Humanoid Soul Guidance Device could become a mobile cannon platform for Mecha.
• Xuan Ziwen proposed tailoring Battle Armor to different Martial Souls and explained that only a few rare metals could bear its load safely.
• Chen Junting suggested asking Elder Tai Yu for help with forging materials, and Xuan Ziwen eagerly accepted the idea.
• Chen Junting wondered whether Artificial Soul Bones could fuse into Battle Armor, but recognized that the method of merging the armor into the body remained unresolved.

Chen Junting and Xuan Ziwen arranged for Jing Ziyan to take a day off, then pushed Ji Juechen to recognize his feelings for her. Ji Juechen confessed, and Chen Junting left them together before proposing increased funding for the A01 Laboratory’s Mecha and Battle Armor research.

• Chen Junting suggested Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen take a break, but Jing Ziyan initially refused because the Mecha and Battle Armor research was at a critical stage.
• Xuan Ziwen ordered Jing Ziyan to take a day off, and she agreed while Ji Juechen remained oblivious to the opportunity.
• Chen Junting explained that Ji Juechen’s distress when Jing Ziyan was away showed his feelings for her, prompting Ji Juechen to reconsider what his sword practice meant.
• When Jing Ziyan returned, Ji Juechen grabbed her shoulders and asked her to be with him, leaving her overwhelmed with joy.
• Chen Junting and the others left the laboratory, and Chen Junting proposed increasing funding for the A01 Laboratory’s research.

Chen Junting trained the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s young fighters and accompanied them to a briefing about the upcoming All-Continent Youth Soul Master Tournament. Ning Bo Wen warned that the Sun Moon Empire was nearing turmoil and announced that the sect would withdraw its people and assets from Ming Capital.

• Ji Juechen tested his new Sword Intent—Dragon Slayer against Gu Tianchen’s Bone Dragon and agreed to accompany the group to the tournament.
• Ning Tian, Chen Junting, Ji Juechen, and the other participants went to the sect’s main hall after Ning Bo Wen summoned them.
• Ning Bo Wen explained that the tournament was open to sects across the continent and praised the strength of the sect’s thirteen contestants.
• Ning Bo Wen warned that the Sun Moon Empire’s old emperor was gravely ill and Crown Prince Xu Tianran was preparing to act, making the trip to Ming Capital dangerous.
• Ning Bo Wen said Uncle Zhi would lead the team and Elder Yang Zihan would meet them after evacuating from Ming Capital, while the sect’s assets there were already being transferred.

Ning Tian and Chen Junting settled the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect team’s leadership, while Ning Bo Wen weighed the sect’s role in a plot to kill Xu Tianran. The group then departed for the Ming Capital aboard a seventy-thousand-year Titan Griffon.

• Ning Tian and Chen Junting both declined the captaincy, but Chen Junting argued that the sect’s captain should possess its Martial Soul, so Ning Tian became captain and Chen Junting vice-captain.
• Ning Bo Wen ordered Chen Junting’s group to select a young direct disciple with a Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul for the fourteenth team spot.
• Ning Bo Wen agreed that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would support the plot against Xu Tianran if Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui took action, otherwise leaving the decision to Chen Junting.
• The next morning, Chen Junting’s group, Ji Juechen, and Zhiyong gathered to travel to the Ming Capital, while Jing Ziyan stayed behind for her research.
• Chen Junting summoned a seventy-thousand-year Titan Griffon with Di Tian’s Reverse Scale, and Zhiyong steadied and shielded the passengers as they flew toward the Ming Capital.

The Sun Moon Empire expanded the tournament to include Sects and offered valuable Soul Tools, drawing 167 teams. Xu Tianran plotted to seize the throne by eliminating his father and brothers, provoking war, and arranging a powerful heir.

• The Sun Moon Empire opened the tournament to Sects and offered Level 9, Level 8, and Level 7 Soul Tools as prizes, attracting 167 teams.
• Xue Chen reported that the emperor might live for two more years, while Xu Tianran expected him to die within two months.
• Xu Tianran ordered Xue Chen to investigate disloyal generals and arrange his brothers’ deaths during the tournament’s expected chaos.
• Xu Tianran planned to blame the upheaval on the former Douluo Three Kingdoms’ forces and use it to rally the empire for war.
• Xu Tianran ordered Xue Chen to preserve a talented imperial descendant and find an exceptional female soul master, then asked him to invite Mr. Zhongli.

Chen Junting's group unexpectedly met Zhang Lexuan and the Shrek team while descending near Mingdu City. After reuniting, they explained that the Titan Griffon was their planned escape route in case the Sun Moon Empire attacked them on their return journey, then sent it to wait in a nearby mountain.

• The Titan Griffon halted outside Mingdu City's territory, then panicked as it descended and approached Zhang Lexuan's group.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Sharing to contact Zhang Lexuan, and the Shrek team boarded the Titan Griffon's back.
• Wang Dong'er reunited with Huo Yuhao, while Zhang Lexuan and Beibei greeted Chen Junting and Ning Tian.
• Chen Junting told Zhang Lexuan that he had borrowed the Titan Griffon from Di Tian as protection against a possible Sun Moon Empire ambush.
• Chen Junting instructed the Titan Griffon to wait in a sparsely inhabited mountain, and the two teams continued toward the Ming Capital on foot.

The teams from Shrek Academy and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect registered for the tournament in the Ming Capital, where Chen Junting tasked Huo Yuhao with finding the city's granaries and gunpowder depots. Long Aotian approached Chen Junting but said little, leaving Wu Feng to challenge him as a “big gorilla.”

• Zhang Lexuan recognized the Sun Moon Empire's strength in the Ming Capital and resolved to find a chance to discuss delaying the war with Chen Junting.
• Shrek Academy received priority registration at Mingyue Hotel, while the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect team waited in the lobby.
• Chen Junting asked Huo Yuhao to locate the Ming Capital's granaries and gunpowder depots during the early tournament rounds.
• Chen Junting sensed a powerful young competitor approaching and identified him as Long Aotian.
• Long Aotian stood in front of Chen Junting and greeted him, then fell silent until Wu Feng called him a big gorilla and demanded to know why he was blocking them.

At the tournament registration area, Chen Junting encountered Long Aotian, a powerful and eager fighter who challenged him to a match. Long Aotian departed after promising to face Chen Junting in the Finals, while Ning Tian realized the group was from the Body Sect and suspected it was entering under another sect’s name.

• Vina rebuked Wu Feng after she reacted angrily to being called a gorilla, and then spoke politely with Ning Tian about the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect competing.
• Long Aotian told Chen Junting he wanted to fight him, but Vina stopped him from challenging Chen Junting at the hotel.
• Long Aotian introduced himself as being from the Snow Demon Sect and promised to meet Chen Junting in the Finals; Chen Junting recognized that he had nearly named the Body Sect.
• Ning Tian questioned why a princess and such talented disciples were associated with the Snow Demon Sect, and Chen Junting said the Body Sect was competing under another name.
• A hotel attendant informed Chen Junting’s group that it was their turn to register and invited them to follow.

Chen Junting recognized the hooded leader of the Holy Spirit Cult as Zhang Xuan, the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s wanted Evil Soul Master known as Blood Bear. After learning he had once slaughtered sect members for blood food, Ning Tian and Chen Junting resolved to notify their elders and ensure he would not die easily.

• Chen Junting stopped Huo Yuhao from investigating the black-clad group as they registered for the tournament.
• After the group left, the hooded leader suspected they were from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and continued with his registration under the Cult Master's orders.
• Chen Junting told his companions the black-clad figures were likely Evil Soul Masters and explained how the tournament rules could let the Holy Spirit Cult compete openly.
• Chen Junting recognized the leader as Zhang Xuan, the Blood Bear Soul Douluo wanted by the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect for killing a merchant convoy and using a direct-line disciple as blood food.
• Ning Tian ordered that Second Granduncle be informed, and she and Chen Junting vowed that Zhang Xuan would not die easily.

Wu Feng reported that she had followed the Holy Spirit Cult members, prompting Yang Zihan and Zhiyong to capture Blood Bear Douluo Zhang Xuan. After Xuan Zi discovered that the Holy Spirit Cult had entered the tournament, Zhiyong stopped him from attacking them, saying Zhang Xuan would return.

• Wu Feng arrived late to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect meeting and revealed that she had followed a group of Holy Spirit Cult members after seeing their favorable hotel accommodations.
• Chen Junting scolded Wu Feng for recklessly following an Evil Soul Master, then heard her account as the sect discussed its competitors and the tournament format.
• At the hotel’s top-floor meeting, Yan Feng asked Zhang Xuan whether they should kill the person who had followed them, but Zhang Xuan refused to risk disrupting their plan to hunt geniuses in the arena.
• Yang Zihan and Zhiyong used poisonous mist and Azure Sky Vines to capture Zhang Xuan in his room without alerting the other Holy Spirit Cult members.
• Xuan Zi appeared and learned that the Holy Spirit Cult members would compete in the tournament, but Zhiyong stopped him from attacking them and said Zhang Xuan would return.

Chen Junting had Electrolux turn Blood Bear Douluo Zhang Xuan into an Abomination and hide a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shell inside him as a weapon against the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire. Yang Zihan warned Chen Junting to keep Electrolux’s Necromancy secret, and she made clear that any outsider who witnessed it would have to be killed.

• Zhiyong and Yang Zihan brought the beaten Zhang Xuan to Chen Junting, who confirmed that no one else had noticed their capture except Xuan Zi.
• Chen Junting summoned Electrolux, who transformed Zhang Xuan into an Abomination and gave Chen Junting control over his body and soul.
• Chen Junting asked Electrolux to make Zhang Xuan’s destruction more powerful, then supplied a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shell named Tai'a to place inside him.
• Electrolux enlarged Zhang Xuan’s body, implanted Tai'a in his chest, and returned him to normal size without leaving visible changes.
• Zhiyong took Zhang Xuan away, while Yang Zihan warned Chen Junting to conceal the Necromancy and said an outsider who saw it would have to be killed.

Chen Junting joined a secret meeting of powerful figures from the Three Great Empires to discuss stopping the Sun Moon Empire’s war plans. He rejected Xu Jiujiu’s proposal to assassinate Xu Tianran and revealed a daring alternative, leaving the gathered elders shocked.

• The Nine Treasures Team protested the new no-height-limit rule, and Chen Junting confirmed Huo Yuhao had prepared Flying Soul Guidance Devices for the team.
• Chen Junting traveled to a Star Luo Empire stronghold in Ming Capital, where Zhang Lexuan, Xu Jiujiu, Xuan Zi, Du Busi, and other powerful figures discussed assassinating Xu Tianran.
• The gathering learned that Heavenly Sun Douluo was Dou Ling’s only representative and that Elder Xu had died; the group also assessed the Holy Spirit Cult’s powerful allies.
• Chen Junting argued that assassinating Xu Tianran could fail and strengthen the Sun Moon Empire’s justification for war, then outlined an alternative plan involving Ming Capital’s granaries and gunpowder depots.
• Xu Jiujiu was dumbstruck by Chen Junting’s plan and exclaimed that he had some nerve.

Chen Junting and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect arrived at the tournament after Ning Tian drew a bye, and they surveyed the Sun Moon Empire’s imposing preparations. The chapter left Yan Feng intrigued after Wu Feng provoked the Holy Spirit Cult and Gu Tianchen stepped in to protect her.

• Chen Junting returned to the hotel with Gu Tianchen after escorting Zhang Lexuan and Xu Jiujiu, and Gu Tianchen complained that Xu Jiujiu had tried to recruit him.
• Ning Tian told Chen Junting that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had drawn a bye, then nestled in his arms.
• The tournament began on the plains outside the Ming Capital, where the Sun Moon Empire had assembled a vast venue, protective barriers, and Soul Guidance Screens.
• Ning Tian and Chen Junting worried that the Sun Moon Empire’s strength could threaten the Three Great Empires if their generation could not buy enough time for the Soul Spirit Method to mature.
• Wu Feng complained that the Holy Spirit Cult was seated beside them, provoking Yan Feng; Gu Tianchen stepped in front of her, and Yan Feng withdrew while welcoming the tournament’s new intrigue.