Chapter Summaries

Su Wen and the others found the Void Silvermoon Tapir's Illusion Realm and launched a coordinated attack to trap the elusive beast. The chapter ends with Dugu Bo binding the revealed Tapir while Gu Rong's bone spikes pierce it.

• Su Wen sensed an illusion in the sky, and Gu Rong identified it as the Void Silvermoon Tapir's dimensional Illusion Realm.
• Gu Rong unleashed his full strength, pierced the Illusion Realm with his Soul Skills, and exposed the space within it.
• Su Wen spotted the Tapir fleeing, and Dugu Bo petrified it with Medusa's Gaze while Xiao Zhan shattered its stone form.
• Dugu Bo used Time Freeze to immobilize the Tapir, allowing Gu Rong to pierce it with bone spikes.
• Dugu Bo bound the wounded Void Silvermoon Tapir with his snake body.

Su Wen absorbed the Void Silvermoon Tapir’s forty-five-thousand-year Soul Ring and battled its powerful remnant soul while the ring’s energy wrecked his body. He regained control of his Spiritual Power and discovered that a strange energy was entering his Sea of Consciousness through his Martial Soul Space.

• Su Wen killed the Void Silvermoon Tapir with a wind blade and began absorbing its black Soul Ring.
• The Soul Ring’s explosive power tore through Su Wen’s body, while the Void Silvermoon Tapir’s remnant soul attacked his Sea of Consciousness and trapped him in an Illusion.
• Su Wen used the Method of Visualization and the manifested Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to suppress the remnant soul and reclaim control of the Illusion Spirit Eye.
• Dugu Bo reassured Ning Rongrong and the others as Su Wen’s body cracked and bled during the absorption.
• Su Wen guided the Soul Ring’s power into his Martial Soul Space and sensed a strange energy passing through it into his Sea of Consciousness.

Su Wen survived the Void Silvermoon Tapir’s remnant-soul attack and absorbed its Soul Ring, gaining a fifth Soul Skill that let him shuttle between void and reality through an Illusion Realm. After exploring Evil Spirit Island, the group returned to shore and planned to continue their search for Soul Rings for Xiao Zhan and his daughter.

• Su Wen refined the Void Silvermoon Tapir’s remnant soul over two and a half days, strengthening his Illusion Spirit Eye and opening a space connected to all three of his eyes.
• Su Wen explained that the Void Silvermoon Tapir had sealed its Spiritual Power into its Soul Ring and tried to overwhelm him with stored Soul Power, but he survived and completed absorption.
• Su Wen revealed that his fifth Soul Skill inherited the Void Silvermoon Tapir’s Void-Reality Shuttle ability and allowed him to travel between void and reality through an Illusion Realm.
• The group chose to keep exploring the Primeval Forest before leaving Evil Spirit Island, then departed two days later while worrying that Sea Soul Beasts might threaten coastal areas.
• Xiao Zhan said he would warn Huo Tianyang in Blazing Fire City after absorbing his Soul Ring, and the group returned to shore after enduring more Sea Soul Beast attacks.

Xiao Zhan led the group through the Flame Mountain Range to hunt Soul Beasts for Xiao Huo and himself. Xiao Huo absorbed a Soul Ring from an Azure Fire Spirit Beast, leaving the group to pursue Xiao Zhan’s final target, the eighty-thousand-year Flame Overlord.

• Su Wen judged that Xiao Zhan’s cultivation and Spiritual Power made him a strong candidate to absorb the eighty-thousand-year Flame Overlord’s Soul Ring.
• Xiao Zhan guided the group toward the southern branch range and recalled an Azure Fire Spirit Beast he and Huo Tianyang had found years earlier.
• Su Wen spotted signs that the Azure Fire Spirit Beast still lived nearby, and the group searched for three days.
• Xiao Zhan subdued the Azure Fire Spirit Beast, and Xiao Huo finished it with her Emerald Green Flame Lotus.
• Xiao Huo began absorbing the Azure Fire Spirit Beast’s black Soul Ring, while the group prepared to hunt the Flame Overlord.

Xiao Huo revealed that her Fifth Soul Skill, Azure Spirit Fire Seed, came from a secret art Xiao Zhan had developed to turn a Martial Soul’s abilities into Soul Skills. After the group killed an eighty-thousand-year Flame Overlord, Xiao Zhan began absorbing its Soul Ring to pursue the art’s next stage.

• Xiao Huo told Xiao Zhan and the others that her Fifth Soul Skill was Azure Spirit Fire Seed, which let her condense the Azure Spirit Fire into a fire seed.
• Xiao Zhan explained his secret art and, drawing on Su Wen’s classification, described how Soul Skills could originate from either a Soul Ring or a Martial Soul.
• Su Wen recognized that Xiao Zhan hoped to develop his Martial Soul’s abilities into Soul Skills, potentially making his next Soul Skill condense a fire seed.
• Dugu Bo, Gu Rong, and Xiao Zhan fought the Flame Overlord while Ning Rongrong boosted them, and they killed the eighty-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Xiao Zhan sat beside the Flame Overlord’s corpse and drew its Soul Ring toward his Fire Demon Tome to begin absorbing it.

Xiao Zhan absorbed the 80,000-year Flame Overlord’s Soul Ring and discovered a torso Soul Bone, which Gu Rong and Dugu Bo agreed he should keep. After absorbing it, he met Huo Tianyang in Blazing Fire City and invited him to join Su Wen’s planned Academy, leaving Huo Tianyang puzzled about why Su Wen wanted to establish a force.

• Xiao Zhan spent half a month absorbing the Flame Overlord’s Soul Ring and gained an Eighth Soul Skill that condensed Core Flames.
• Xiao Zhan cut open the Flame Overlord’s corpse and found a complete torso Soul Bone; Gu Rong and Dugu Bo gave it to him to absorb alongside the Soul Ring.
• Xiao Zhan absorbed the Soul Bone, then arrived with Su Wen and the others in Blazing Fire City five days later.
• Xiao Zhan visited Huo Tianyang at Blazing Fire Academy, showed that he had broken through to Soul Douluo, and told him about possible Sea Soul Beast trouble near Eastsea City.
• Xiao Zhan invited Huo Tianyang to join Su Wen’s Academy, describing it as a force for researching and spreading Soul Master theory, similar to Spirit Hall before Qian Xunji became Pope.

Xiao Zhan recruited Huo Tianyang to join Su Wen's planned Academy after Huo Tianyang agreed to come aboard once he handed over Blazing Fire Academy. Su Wen showed Xiao Zhan the Academy's Mountain of Books and Sea of Learning, leaving him stunned by their ability to store and share knowledge.

• Xiao Zhan explained the Academy's purpose and its planned cooperative relationship with major powers, and Huo Tianyang agreed to join after finding a successor at Blazing Fire Academy.
• Xiao Zhan revealed that the Academy was still in its founding stage and had no territory, prompting Huo Tianyang to suspect he had been tricked into joining too early.
• Xiao Zhan told Su Wen that he had recruited Huo Tianyang, and Su Wen asked him to invite more friends to help establish the Academy before the Soul Master Competition.
• Su Wen showed Xiao Zhan the Sea of Learning, where spiritual power could retrieve knowledge from stored books, and the Mountain of Books, which held basic theories for scholars.

Su Wen explained his Mountain of Books and Sea of Learning technique to Xiao Zhan, then reflected on how his new spatial abilities could form the basis of a World in the Book. After returning to Heaven Dou City, he went with Gu Rong and Ning Rongrong to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi asked whether Su Wen had come about the Academy.

• Xiao Zhan worried that Su Wen's Mountain of Books and Sea of Learning might endanger his Fifth Soul Skill's Illusion Realm, but Su Wen explained that it was built from Spiritual Power and his Illusion abilities.
• Su Wen told Xiao Zhan that the knowledge-transfer technique worked especially well because Xiao Zhan had strong Spiritual Power, and Xiao Zhan reminded him not to neglect cultivation.
• On the journey back, Su Wen considered combining Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, and Space to develop a World in the Book as his future core combat method.
• Su Wen reflected that the Void Silvermoon Tapir's soul ring had improved his spatial affinity and his perception of himself and the surrounding space.
• Five days later, Gu Rong, Ning Rongrong, and Su Wen returned to Heaven Dou City; Ning Fengzhi was shocked to learn that Ning Rongrong's Third Soul Ring was six thousand five hundred years old.
• After hearing about Whale Rubber's effects, Ning Fengzhi considered buying it and asked Su Wen whether he had come to discuss the Academy.

Su Wen planned the Academy’s headquarters and organizational structure with Ning Fengzhi, then explored how to connect the Mountain of Books and Sea of Learning across the continent. He realized a continent-wide Virtual World might require Book Pages at Academy branches in hundreds or thousands of cities, leaving him concerned about the immense Soul Power cost.

• Su Wen accepted Ning Fengzhi’s proposed Academy site near Heaven Dou City and outlined its research halls, administrative departments, Mission Hall, and school.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to provide personnel and helped refine the Academy’s management structure, including its Supervisory Department.
• Su Wen went to the Academy site as construction began and considered how to connect the Mountain of Books and Sea of Learning across the continent.
• Su Wen rejected Blue Silver Grass as an unreliable transmission medium and wondered whether Book Pages could serve as the foundation for a continent-wide Virtual World.
• Su Wen realized that maintaining Book Pages at branches across the continent could consume enormous amounts of Soul Power.

Su Wen realized that building a branch-wide Mountain of Books and Sea of Learning would consume more Soul Power than he could sustain, so he sought a way to make the pages absorb outside energy. He asked Xiao Zhan for his Core Flame technique and permission to copy Xiao Huo's Martial Soul, leaving the matter dependent on her agreement.

• Su Wen concluded that branch Academies would need to maintain their own Mountain of Books and Sea of Learning by supplying energy to the fixed book pages.
• Su Wen connected the plan to Xiao Zhan's Core Flame ability and returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to ask for his technique.
• Xiao Zhan explained that his Core Flame condensation relied on his Eighth Soul Skill and could not be learned as a technique alone.
• Su Wen asked to copy Xiao Huo's Martial Soul and revealed his Fourth Soul Skill's copying ability to Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Zhan warned Su Wen to keep the copying skill discreet and said he could copy Xiao Huo's Martial Soul if she agreed.

Su Wen discussed new fire-seed techniques with Xiao Zhan, then used what he learned to develop a connected illusion space for his Virtual World. He left to seek information about several soul beasts, preparing for further training.

• Su Wen asked Xiao Huo for a drop of blood and copied her Azure Lotus Biyu Fire Martial Soul.
• Su Wen shared ideas with Xiao Zhan about combining fire seeds and using them to draw on the power of heaven and earth.
• After returning to Three Illusion Mountains, Su Wen developed a Book Page illusion that could draw on external energy and connect to another page.
• Su Wen decided formations could extend the connection between Book Pages and began considering how to study them.
• Su Wen asked Ning Fengzhi for information on Ten Thousand Year Star Fruit Trees, Illusion Spirit Foxes, and Stone Monsters.
• Ning Fengzhi told Su Wen about a Nine Thousand Years Star Fruit Tree and Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Foxes in the Star Dou Great Forest, but had no information on Stone Monsters.

Su Wen traveled to Star Dou Great Forest to test his Soul Ring Replacement Method, using a two-thousand-year Star Fruit Tree as his first trial. After destroying his First Soul Ring and stabilizing his Martial Soul, he found that guiding the new Star Fruit Tree Soul Ring into the vacant slot was possible but painfully slow.

• Su Wen told Xiao Zhan and Dugu Bo he planned to travel, then set out from Heaven Dou City for Star Dou Great Forest rather than risk searching Sunset Forest for a high-age Stone Monster.
• Su Wen entered Star Dou Great Forest near Starfall Village and found a two-thousand-year Star Fruit Tree guarded by three Iron Rhinoceroses, which fled from his Soul Power pressure.
• Su Wen killed the Star Fruit Tree with a Rasengan and summoned its purple Soul Ring.
• Su Wen detonated his First Soul Ring and its origin, using his other Soul Rings and Third Soul Skill to keep his Martial Soul from collapsing.
• Su Wen guided the Star Fruit Tree Soul Ring Origin toward the vacant slot and sensed it slowly merging despite resistance, but realized the process could take months.

Su Wen successfully replaced and fused his soul rings with stronger rings in the Star Dou Great Forest, while refining his method for changing their origins. He left the forest planning to study devouring soul beasts and life energy as ways to overcome the need for matching soul-beast species.

• Su Wen replaced his First Soul Ring with a two-thousand-year Star Fruit Tree ring and confirmed the method worked.
• He replaced his Second Soul Ring with a five-thousand-year Three-Eyed Illusion Spirit Fox ring, then continued testing the process.
• During two and a half months in the Star Dou Great Forest, Su Wen replaced his First Soul Ring with a nine-thousand-year Star Fruit Tree ring and his Second Soul Ring with a fifteen-thousand-year ring.
• Su Wen refined Soul Ring Replacement into Source Fusion and reasoned that studying devouring soul beasts might reveal what determines a soul ring's age.
• He considered whether life energy could substitute for soul-beast origins, then left the Star Dou Great Forest with a markedly changed aura.

After cultivating in Starfall Village, Su Wen reached Level 56 and decided to recruit Ye Luo Chen, a child with Innate Full Soul Power and a Star Sword martial soul. When a Spirit Hall deacon promoted the academy and training his faction could offer, Su Wen revealed a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda token and claimed he could place Ye Luo Chen under Sword Douluo.

• Su Wen rested in Starfall Village, noticed its abundant starlight, and spent nearly a month cultivating there.
• Su Wen broke through to Level 56 and calculated that replacing his Stone Monster Soul Ring could help him reach Level 59 before the Soul Master Competition.
• Su Wen learned that Ye Luo Chen had awakened a Star Sword martial soul with Innate Full Soul Power and went to the Ye Family to recruit him.
• Deacon Chang Yuan explained that Spirit Hall's Prairie Fire City Sub-Hall Master intended to take Ye Luo Chen as a disciple and offer him a place at Spirit City Soul Master Academy.
• Su Wen showed a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda token and asked whether he could have Ye Luo Chen cultivate under Sword Douluo.

Su Wen recruited Ye Luo Chen to train under Chen Xin, then continued his travels and reached Qingyang City. There he discovered Lin Dong, a young spear fighter with a weak five-element martial soul, battling another youth.

• Su Wen showed Chang Yuan his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect token and offered Ye Luo Chen the chance to train under Sword Douluo Chen Xin.
• Ye Luo Chen accepted Su Wen's offer, and Su Wen arranged for Chen Xin to guide his cultivation and first soul ring.
• Su Wen softened a thousand-year piece of Whale Rubber with flame and gave it to Ye Luo Chen to swallow.
• After leaving Starfall Village, Su Wen spent two and a half months recording the terrain as he traveled.
• In Qingyang City, Su Wen heard people mock Lin Dong's poor talent and watched him fight a youth whose Blazing Flame Lion martial soul gave him a soul-power advantage.

Lin Dong struggled with his weak Five Elements Martial Soul until the Myriad Laws Tome appeared within him, while Su Wen traveled to Sunset Forest to hunt stone monsters. At Shrek Academy, Grandmaster learned that Dai Mubai still could not break through to Soul Ancestor.

• Su Wen praised Lin Dong’s talent for creating Soul Skills but noted that his weak Five Elements attributes limited their power.
• Lin Dong trained relentlessly with his Five Elements Spear, and Su Wen watched as he gradually improved his control.
• A book struck Lin Dong unconscious; when he awoke, he found the Myriad Laws Tome inside his lower abdomen and learned it could manifest recorded Soul Skills by consuming soul power.
• Su Wen returned to Heaven Dou City, heard Dugu Bo’s warning about the three powerful stone monsters, and traveled alone to Sunset Forest’s Rocky Area.
• At Shrek Academy, Grandmaster asked Dai Mubai about his cultivation, and Dai Mubai admitted he still could not break through to Soul Ancestor.

Su Wen replaced his Third Soul Ring with the ring of a twenty-thousand-year Stone Monster and investigated the unusual rock its corpse left behind. With two months remaining before the competition, he returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and sought a place on the team, while learning that Ning Rongrong had also reached Level 40.

• Grandmaster urged Dai Mubai, Tang San, and the others to cultivate during their final three months before the Soul Master Competition, stressing Tang San's need to reach level thirty-nine.
• Su Wen killed a twenty-thousand-year Stone Monster in Sunset Forest and used his Soul Ring Replacement Method to fuse its soul ring into his Third Soul Ring.
• The Stone Monster's corpse transformed into a strange, soul-power-rich rock, which Su Wen took back to Heaven Dou City to study.
• Su Wen suspected that the rock was connected to how the Stone Monster Tribe produced descendants, possibly through the influence of its three Stone Monsters over fifty thousand years old.
• Su Wen returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and asked about the competition, noting that his strength made his substitute position seem questionable and that Ning Rongrong had reached Level 40.

Su Wen arranged to transfer himself and Ning Rongrong to Royal Fight Team Two while the Royal Fight Team pursued the competition without them. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, he supported Ning Rongrong’s attempt to absorb a Ten Thousand Year Fourth Soul Ring, then realized their growing compatibility might be leading to a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Su Wen asked Qin Ming to transfer him and Ning Rongrong to Team Two, and Qin Ming secured approval while arranging a direct recommendation for them to the finals.
• Qin Ming transferred Team Two’s captain and vice-captain to the Royal Fight Team as substitutes so its members could gain experience advancing through the competition.
• Su Wen visited Ning Fengzhi and promised he could help Ning Rongrong withstand the Soul Tremor from a Ten Thousand Year Fourth Soul Ring.
• Ning Rongrong entered the hall, rushed to Su Wen, and noticed he seemed different; Su Wen identified their mutual attraction as a possible precursor to a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Ning Fengzhi and the two Titled Douluo reacted with surprise as Su Wen speculated that his and Ning Rongrong’s increasing compatibility had made the fusion skill possible.

Su Wen and Ning Rongrong successfully used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, creating a nine-story tower that greatly amplified Ning Rongrong’s support abilities and generated the Forbidden Law Domain. The domain could suppress movement and analyze, weaken, and prevent repeated Soul Skills, but using it left both of them drained.

• Ning Fengzhi urged Su Wen and Ning Rongrong to practice their newly sensed Martial Soul Fusion Skill and learn its effects before they obtained more Soul Rings.
• Su Wen held Ning Rongrong as their Soul Power resonated, and the two fused into a nine-story tower surrounded by glowing book pages.
• The tower’s first floor empowered Ning Fengzhi with a support effect twice as strong as Ning Rongrong’s alone.
• Golden light spread across the martial hall, where Gu Rong and Chen Xin found that it hindered movement and weakened Soul Skills, including support abilities.
• Su Wen explained that the Forbidden Law Domain allowed each Soul Skill to take effect only once and rapidly dispersed it; the fusion then ended with both Su Wen and Ning Rongrong exhausted.

Su Wen and Ning Rongrong tested their powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Ning Fengzhi discussed its risks and Rongrong’s next Soul Ring. The chapter ended with Ning Fengzhi agreeing to take Rongrong to hunt a Ten Thousand Year Fourth Soul Ring.

• Ning Fengzhi warned Su Wen not to reveal the Forbidden Law Domain, while Ning Rongrong celebrated being able to support him.
• Su Wen told Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong that the academy had moved them to the second team and given it the Heaven Dou Empire’s guaranteed spot.
• Su Wen revealed that he was level fifty-eight and expected to reach level fifty-nine within two months, then said the competition might not pressure him enough to reach level sixty.
• Bone Douluo secretly kicked Su Wen after he complained that the Soul Master Competition would not challenge him.
• Ning Fengzhi chose a defensive Fourth Soul Skill for Ning Rongrong and said she should strengthen her physique; Su Wen explained she could not learn his Mountain Flipping Seal.
• Ning Fengzhi offered to take Ning Rongrong to hunt a Ten Thousand Year Fourth Soul Ring, and she eagerly asked if he would let her absorb it.