Chapter Summaries

Long Aotian stepped forward to challenge Huo Yuhao, but Chen Junting intervened and faced him in the Individual Elimination Tournament. Their opening exchange revealed their extraordinary realms and Chen Junting’s rare Soul Ring configuration, leaving Long Aotian on guard.

• Long Aotian entered the stage to fight Huo Yuhao, but Chen Junting rose from the Waiting Zone and took his place, prompting Huo Yuhao to withdraw.
• Chen Junting and Long Aotian displayed their realms of Man-Sword Unity and Unity of Heaven and Man, alarming the Sun Moon Empire’s leaders, who discussed killing Long Aotian.
• The referee confirmed the matchup between Chen Junting of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and Long Aotian of the Snow Demon Sect, then started the match.
• Chen Junting opened with two streaks of Sword Qi, and Long Aotian blocked them with a technique that fused his spiritual power, Soul Power, and body with heaven and earth.
• Long Aotian charged with seven Soul Rings, while Chen Junting summoned the Seven Kills Sword and revealed seven rings, including red and orange ones that shocked the spectators.

Chen Junting and Long Aotian fought using combat techniques alone, with Chen Junting winning their second exchange and revealing a sword intent that combined ice, death, and severance. The chapter ended as Chen Junting unleashed a sword strike that fused Severance and Entrapment, and Long Aotian met it with a punch.

• Long Aotian used Unity of Heaven and Man to strike Chen Junting, who answered with the Seven Kills Sword and the Sword Intent of Slaughter, and their attacks collided in a massive shockwave.
• Long Aotian followed with a jade-colored blade strike, but Chen Junting countered with Heavy Sword Without Edge and forced him back.
• Chen Junting changed his sword intent to Frozen Severance, revealing a path of ice that the Snow Empress recognized as his own.
• Zhongli Wu reacted to the death in Chen Junting's sword intent by deciding he was an ideal Holy Son for the Holy Spirit Cult, while Ye Guyi was shocked to sense holiness within that death.
• Chen Junting merged the Sword Intent of Severance with the Sword Intent of Precedence and struck at Long Aotian, who gathered his strength and countered with a punch.

Chen Junting defeated Long Aotian in a decisive clash, then won the remaining individual matches as the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect faced the Snow Demon Sect. Ning Tian defeated Vina in the final bout, giving the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect four points and leaving the Team Battle to decide the overall result.

• Long Aotian unleashed his Second Awakening and Yama God Claw, but Chen Junting countered with his hundred-thousand-year Annihilation skill and won the clash.
• Long Aotian admitted defeat, then recovered with Vina's help while the teams prepared for the remaining matches and the Team Battle.
• Chen Junting defeated two Snow Demon Sect substitutes, then conceded when Vina entered the stage so he could prepare for the Team Battle.
• Ning Tian accepted Chen Junting's request to fight Vina and used Soul Tools to defeat her.
• The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect earned four points in the Individual Elimination Tournament, while the Snow Demon Sect earned none.

The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and Snow Demon Sect began their team battle after the arena was repaired and reinforced. The match opened with Huo Yuhao and Dugu Xin launching area attacks, while Long Aotian tried to disperse Dugu Xin’s poison and the Snow Demon Sect relied on helmets to block spiritual attacks.

• The officials repaired the stage, and both teams prepared, with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect members taking pills to resist Dugu Xin’s poison.
• Zheng Zhan reinforced the arena and announced the start of the team battle between the seven members of each team.
• The Snow Demon Sect formed an attack-focused formation with Long Aotian at the front and Vina protected behind him; its fighters wore helmets designed to block spiritual power.
• The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect placed Huo Yuhao and Dugu Xin at the front, with Chen Junting and Gu Tianchen in the middle and Ning Tian at the rear.
• Huo Yuhao and Dugu Xin released spiritual ripples and poisonous mist, and Long Aotian sent out incandescent airwaves to disperse the poison.

The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect team used Xiao Xiao’s twin martial souls, Gu Tianchen’s spatial abilities, and Ning Tian’s amplification to gain the upper hand against Snow Demon Sect. The chapter ended with Snow Demon Sect surrounded by Void Gates that could redirect their attacks, leaving them trapped beneath Chen Junting’s Myriad Sword Rain.

• Ning Tian amplified her teammates as Xiao Xiao fused her soul rings and used both martial souls to restrain Snow Demon Sect, but Long Aotian broke free and Xiao Xiao suffered backlash.
• Long Aotian shielded his teammates from Dugu Xin’s poison and Chen Junting and Gu Tianchen’s attacks, then fought Gu Tianchen’s Bone Shield in midair.
• Chen Junting and Gu Tianchen thwarted Snow Demon Sect’s attempt to reach Ning Tian by sending Jiang Yixi, Chen Yu, and Wang Yanfeng back through Void Gates.
• Ning Tian fused her soul rings to strengthen Chen Junting and Gu Tianchen, while Chen Junting controlled the Myriad Sword Rain and Snow Demon Sect underwent its Second Awakening.
• Gu Tianchen opened multiple Void Gates around Snow Demon Sect, and Chen Junting sent his swords through them, trapping the team in a formation that would redirect their attacks back at them.

Chen Junting defeated Long Aotian in the tournament, and the Snow Demon Sect conceded to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. After the match, Xu Tianran vowed to bring the continent’s young talents under his rule, while Zhongli Wu promised that the Holy Spirit Cult would dominate the later rounds.

• Chen Junting unleashed a four-sword attack that overwhelmed Long Aotian, while Vina used her Wail of the Banshee to intervene and Long Aotian admitted defeat.
• Chen Junting redirected two slashes through Gu Tianchen’s Void Gate and struck Zheng Zhan’s defensive Soul Guidance Device, but Zheng Zhan declared Long Aotian eliminated and the match continued.
• Vina conceded the match, and Zheng Zhan announced the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s victory and its nine points against the Snow Demon Sect’s zero.
• Vina thanked Ning Tian, while Long Aotian challenged Chen Junting and Gu Tianchen to spar again after he reached Soul Douluo.
• Xu Tianran criticized the Sun Moon Empire’s younger generation and vowed to make the continent’s outstanding youths submit or die; Zhongli Wu promised the Holy Spirit Cult would send three Soul Saints after the Top Eight were decided.

After the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect defeated the Snow Demon Sect, Ning Tian and Chen Junting celebrated their victory and discussed the tournament’s next matches. Ye Guyi then confronted them about recruiting a Bone Dragon Martial Soul user, but Ning Tian demanded that Ye apologize to the sect’s ancestors and Gu Tianchen, leaving Ye Guyi confused.

• The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s team returned to the hotel, and Ning Tian and Chen Junting decided their main team would sit out the next six matches.
• Ning Tian celebrated the sect’s acclaim with Chen Junting, and the two kissed before the team went to the Cafeteria.
• Xu Jiujiu congratulated the sect, while Vina argued that the Snow Demon Sect was distinct from the Body Sect; Xu Jiujiu said Star Luo would forfeit against the Holy Spirit Cult to protect its next generation.
• Ye Guyi met Chen Junting and Ning Tian in a meeting room and clarified that she had used his token only to enter the hotel, not to join the sect.
• Ye Guyi asked whether the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect recruited Evil Soul Masters because it had a Bone Dragon Martial Soul user, and Ning Tian demanded an apology to the sect’s ancestors and Gu Tianchen.

Chen Junting explained the history behind Ye Guyi’s mistaken accusations, and Ye Guyi apologized to Ning Tian before agreeing to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. The tournament round robin ended with the top eight teams decided, including Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy taking first place after Holy Spirit Cult conceded.

• Chen Junting told Ye Guyi about Bone Douluo Gu Rong and Gu Tianchen, prompting her to reconsider how she judged Evil Soul Masters and apologize to Ning Tian.
• Ye Guyi accepted Ning Tian’s offer to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and received a Storage Soul Tool and an identification token bearing an Angel mark.
• Ye Guyi asked Chen Junting how his concealed death aura could contain a Sacred Attribute, and he answered that the pure death of life was sacred.
• The round robin ended with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, Shrek Academy, Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and another Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineer Academy placing first in their groups.
• Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy reached the top eight, while Heavenly Dragon Sect suffered severe losses and Yu Tianlong remained unconscious.
• Holy Spirit Cult conceded its match against Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, allowing the latter to take first place in its group.

Di Yao visited Chen Junting after breaking through to rank 70 and revealed that she intended to remain in the human world while pursuing a way to save the Soul Beast race. She condensed a soul ring as Chen Junting observed, and he believed he had learned how to create Self-Condensed Soul Rings.

• Di Yao arrived at Chen Junting's room, and he recognized that she had broken through to rank 70.
• Di Yao asked how Chen Junting had discovered her identity, and he explained that her behavior had made it apparent to people at the academy.
• Di Yao said she did not plan to return to Star Dou Forest and explained that she had come to find a way to save the Soul Beast race.
• Chen Junting asked Di Yao to condense a soul ring so he and Electrolux could study the process.
• Di Yao used her Golden Dragon bloodline to condense a black soul ring and reached rank 71.
• Chen Junting concluded that he had learned enough from the process to understand how to create Self-Condensed Soul Rings.

Zhongli Wu used the Blood Pool to strengthen Yan Feng and two other disciples after the Holy Emperor answered his prayer. The Holy Emperor healed Ye Xishui, learned of powerful beastkind presences in the Star Dou Forest and the sea, and sent an invisible ripple toward the Demon Queen outside the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Zhongli Wu ordered Yan Feng and two disciples to enter the Blood Pool so their cultivation could rise and they could help carry out the Holy Spirit Cult's plan.
• The Holy Emperor answered Zhongli Wu's prayer, empowered the three disciples, and helped their Martial Souls fuse into the phantom of an Evil Dragon.
• Ye Xishui arrived, explained the sect's lack of progress by blaming Shrek Academy and other forces, and received treatment from the Holy Emperor.
• The Holy Emperor sensed a terrifying power within Ye Xishui and then detected a powerful beastkind presence in the sea.
• The Demon Queen appeared outside the Holy Spirit Cult, said its Grand Sect Master was looking for her, and then felt a sudden pressure that quickly vanished.

Xu Tianran ordered Zhongli Wu to assassinate nobles and frame the Three Great Empires, while reserving his Fifth Imperial Younger Brother for himself. As the Top Eight tournament began, Chen Junting, Gu Tianchen, and Huo Yuhao investigated the sudden massacre of nobles and suspected Xu Tianran was behind it.

• Xu Tianran gave Zhongli Wu a list of nobles and his brothers to kill, ordered him to leave evidence implicating the Three Great Empires, and claimed his Fifth Imperial Younger Brother for himself.
• The Top Eight bracket was set, with Shrek Academy facing Dio Soul Engineer Academy and the other teams assigned their matchups.
• Shrek students taunted Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy over its Round Robin result, which the Holy Spirit Cult had handed to it.
• Chen Junting, Gu Tianchen, and Huo Yuhao learned that nobles linked to the Ordinary Alliance had been massacred and that the Xishui Alliance and Aodu Chamber of Commerce were exploiting its weakness.
• Shangguan Weier told them that rumors blamed them for the killings, and Chen Junting recognized that the dead nobles' ties to the imperial princes pointed toward the culprit.
• Chen Junting asked Gu Tianchen and Huo Yuhao to investigate the nobles' estates with him the next day.

Chen Junting investigated the bloodied courtyard and realized Xu Tianran had framed the Star Luo Empire to justify a future war. After learning Xu Tianran planned to assassinate the princes but spare Xu Tianhe, Chen Junting decided to use the scheme to his own advantage.

• Chen Junting, Huo Yuhao, and Gu Tianchen secretly entered Minister Wang Hao’s courtyard and found a bloodstained scene and a torn Star Luo flag.
• Chen Junting concluded that Xu Tianran had planted evidence to blame the Star Luo Empire and warned Huo Yuhao that exposing the frame-up would fail.
• Chen Junting asked Blood Bear Douluo Zhang Xuan to investigate the Holy Spirit Cult and Xu Tianran’s plans, then waited for news.
• Zhang Xuan reported that Xu Tianran planned to target all the princes with the Three Great Empires’ forces while sparing the Fifth Prince, Xu Tianhe.
• Chen Junting learned that Xu Tianhe was a fourteen-year-old Soul Elder with rank-seven innate Soul Power and the Purple Blazing Sky Dragon Martial Soul, then resolved to turn Xu Tianran’s plan against him.

Chen Junting’s group stopped the attack on Xu Tianhe and revealed that Xu Tianran was crippled and unable to father children. Chen Junting secured Xu Tianhe’s cooperation in a plan involving Xu Tianran, then bound Bloodthirsty Douluo Yang Yuan to protect him, while the next target was the Fifth Prince.

• The Fourth Prince’s mansion was sealed off, and Evil Soul Masters killed its defenders and the Fourth Prince before Chen Junting captured their Soul Guidance Barrier and moved on.
• Chen Junting, Elder Xuan, and Zhiyong confronted Xu Tianhe at the Fifth Prince’s mansion after capturing a Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Master.
• Chen Junting told Xu Tianhe that the other princes were dead and revealed that Xu Tianran was crippled and a eunuch who could not have children.
• Chen Junting proposed that Xu Tianhe lend Xu Tianran his seed as part of a plan, and Xu Tianhe agreed to cooperate.
• Xu Tianhe signed Chen Junting’s contract, and Chen Junting made Bloodthirsty Douluo Yang Yuan his devoted servant and ordered him to keep Xu Tianhe alive.

Xu Tianran and Zhongli Wu maneuvered over the fate of Xu Tianhe and the Holy Spirit Cult’s role in the coming matches, while both men considered how to gain leverage over the other. As the tournament semifinals began, Huo Yuhao’s intelligence gathering revealed targets beneath Mingdu, and the city focused on the day’s two major matchups.

• Xu Tianran agreed to let the Holy Spirit Cult guard Xu Tianhe, then asked Zhongli Wu about the sect’s chances against the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• After Zhongli Wu left, Xu Tianran revealed his anger and ambition, while Zhongli Wu concluded that they needed to seize a fatal weakness of Xu Tianran’s and left Xu Tianhe’s fate to Bloodthirsty Douluo Yang Yuan.
• The Holy Spirit Cult’s two Soul Saint fighters had forced Long Aotian to fight desperately in the Top Eight match against the Snow Demon Sect before he conceded defeat without serious injuries to his teammates.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed the locations of the Mingdu Armory and Mingdu Granary, while Chen Junting received enough information to act on the military warehouses’ approximate locations.
• The Top Four semifinals began with Shrek Academy facing Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the morning and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect facing the Holy Spirit Sect in the afternoon.

Di Yao led Shrek to victory over Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, while Xu Tianran pressured Jing Hongchen to capture her and threatened to use Meng Hongchen instead. The semifinal between the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and the Holy Spirit Cult began, and Dugu Xin faced Jili, who used a special Soul Tool to counter his poison.

• Di Yao defeated Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with a single strike, prompting curses from disappointed spectators and angering Xu Tianran.
• Xu Tianran told Jing Hongchen he wanted Di Yao captured as his future Crown Princess and suggested Meng Hongchen could serve as a substitute consort.
• Di Yao challenged Chen Junting to a one-on-one fight, and Chen Junting accepted before warning the Holy Spirit Cult that their team would hear its funeral song.
• Zhongli Wu planned to capture Chen Junting and Gu Tianchen alive, but Yan Feng secretly intended to devour them and ignored his teacher's orders.
• Dugu Xin entered the Individual Elimination Tournament against Jili, whose Soul Tool shielded him from the poison mist; Jili attacked with an Abyssal Maw and a tongue strike, which Dugu Xin blocked with his Eight Spider Spears.

Xiao Xiao faced Wang Xiaolei in the Individual Elimination Tournament and revealed a powerful fusion of her martial souls, defeating him in under a minute. Her unprecedented technique stunned the venue and left Xuan Zi lamenting Shrek Academy’s lost chance to claim her.

• After Dugu Xin killed Jili, the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect sent Xiao Xiao to face the Holy Spirit Cult’s Wang Xiaolei.
• Wang Xiaolei used his bone claws and Evil Frost against Xiao Xiao, but her Invincible Barrier blocked the attack.
• Xiao Xiao fused the Nine Phoenixes Auspicious Flute and Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron, summoning nine phoenixes and nine cauldrons.
• Wang Xiaolei unleashed his Whip of Death, but Xiao Xiao’s cauldrons destroyed it and purified the wronged souls within it.
• Xiao Xiao formed a nine-colored Great Cauldron and crushed Wang Xiaolei, ending the match in under a minute.
• Spectators recognized the attack as a possible Self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Xuan Zi regretted that Shrek Academy had lost the chance to recruit Xiao Xiao.

Wu Feng revealed a temporary form of Ultimate Fire and killed Liu Yuan, prompting the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to forfeit the remaining individual matches and advance to the team battle. With only three minutes to prepare, Chen Junting kept several exhausted fighters off the field as the team match was about to begin.

• After Xiao Xiao defeated her opponent, Blood Bear Douluo ordered Yan Feng to send Liu Yuan up as a sacrifice, and Yan Feng chose him as the weakest member.
• Wu Feng unleashed her blazing power against Liu Yuan's blood thorns, briefly raised her Martial Soul to the level of Ultimate Fire, and killed him with her Scarlet Flame Dragon Head.
• Ning Tian forfeited the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's remaining individual matches, and the referee moved the tournament directly to the team battle.
• After Chen Junting noticed Xu Tianran and Zhongli Wu had influenced the shortened recovery period, Ning Tian and Chen Junting decided Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Dugu Xin would not fight in the next match.
• Zheng Zhan called both teams to the stage as the team battle was about to begin.

Chen Junting and Huo Yuhao led the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect into battle against the Holy Spirit Cult, using an extreme-ice domain and a devastating Ice Blast Technique to destroy much of the enemy formation. As the blast subsided, Chen Junting sensed someone might have survived and sent a killing strike into the ruins.

• Zheng Zhan began the match between the four Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect fighters and the seven Holy Spirit Cult members.
• Chen Junting told Huo Yuhao to summon the Ice Empress and prepare to use the Ice Blast Technique.
• Huo Yuhao and Chen Junting unleashed the Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain, freezing the arena and its fighters.
• Ice Emperor froze Lu Genggeng, while Gu Tianchen trapped the Evil Soul Masters in an ice-covered Bone Prison and a Void Gate sent Lu Genggeng into the enemy group.
• The ice around Lu Genggeng and the Bone Prison exploded, shattering the cage and battering the Holy Spirit Cult’s Invincible Barrier.
• Chen Junting sensed a threat in the ruins and launched a sharp killing strike toward them.

Yan Feng survived Huo Yuhao’s Ice Blast Technique by sacrificing his teammates and fusing three martial souls into a Three-Headed Evil Dragon. The dragon attacked Ning Tian, and Gu Tianchen protected her with an Invincible Barrier as the chapter ended.

• Yan Feng used Invincible Barriers to shield Tang Dai, Gu Yu, and Lu Huan from the Ice Blast Technique, then devoured their life force with Burial Ground.
• Yan Feng trapped himself and the remaining two teammates inside a Bone Claw Cage to survive the explosion.
• Yan Feng used Han Xu and Wang Jingwei as sacrifices and fused their martial souls with his Bone Dragon Avatar to create a Three-Headed Evil Dragon.
• The Three-Headed Evil Dragon launched a combined Dragon's Breath at Ning Tian, and Gu Tianchen blocked it with his Soul Bone Skill, Invincible Barrier.

Chen Junting used Ning Tian’s amplification to unleash the Seven Kills Avatar and destroy the Three-Headed Evil Dragon with a thunder-infused sword strike. The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect won the lower-bracket semifinals, while Zhongli Wu left in fury after the Holy Spirit Cult’s fighters were wiped out.

• Ning Tian amplified Chen Junting, who activated his Seven Kills Avatar and brought his power to the level of a Super Douluo.
• Chen Junting shattered the Three-Headed Evil Dragon’s barrier and severed one of its horns, forcing it to retreat into the sky.
• Chen Junting entered Unity of Heaven and Man and summoned heavenly thunder to strengthen his sword.
• Chen Junting’s thunder-wreathed strike obliterated the Three-Headed Evil Dragon, destroying its body and spirit.
• Zhongli Wu blamed the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s opponents for their failure, rejected Xu Tianran’s offer to punish them, and departed.
• Zheng Zhan announced that the Holy Spirit Cult Team had been completely wiped out and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had won the lower-bracket semifinals.