Chapter Summaries

Ning Rongrong absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Fourth Soul Ring with Su Wen’s help, opening her Sea of Consciousness. Meanwhile, Lin Dong mastered four basic Soul Skills from the Myriad Laws Tome and faced its next test: merging fire into his spear technique.

• Gu Rong took Ning Rongrong and Su Wen to Sunset Forest, where they captured a stone monster that had just passed ten thousand years.
• Su Wen used his Illusion World to weaken the Soul Tremor as Ning Rongrong absorbed the stone monster’s Soul Ring, and she opened her Sea of Consciousness and gained a black Fourth Soul Ring.
• Su Wen told Ning Rongrong that her opened Sea of Consciousness would make learning his Elemental Control ability easier.
• Over two and a half months, Lin Dong mastered Flame Fist, Fire Burst Technique, Water Ripple, and Earth Spike Strike from the Myriad Laws Tome.
• The Myriad Laws Tome revealed a fifth-page test asking Lin Dong to incorporate fire into his spear techniques, and Lin Dong hoped it would eventually help resolve his weak Martial Soul and Soul Power.

Su Wen’s Myriad Laws Tome led Lin Dong to the Academy in Heaven Dou City, where Su Wen offered a way to address his fragile Martial Soul. Lin Dong joined despite the danger of pursuing a thousand-year First Soul Ring, while Su Wen concealed his Soul Ring abilities from Wang Yuan.

• Su Wen noticed that Lin Dong had mastered four Soul Skills and decided that further guidance would require him to join the Academy.
• After opening the Tome’s sixth page, Lin Dong left Qingyang City with Wang Yuan and traveled toward Heaven Dou City.
• The Myriad Laws Tome guided Lin Dong to the Academy hidden among the Three Illusion Mountains, where he met Su Wen.
• Su Wen warned Lin Dong that his fragile Martial Soul might need a thousand-year First Soul Ring to transform, and Lin Dong agreed to join the Academy.
• Su Wen revealed his five Soul Rings, then used an Illusion to hide their colors and the Academy visit from Wang Yuan.
• Su Wen welcomed Lin Dong to the Academy as its palace master and allowed Wang Yuan to stay under its rules.

Su Wen introduced Lin Dong to the newly founded Academy, its Mountain of Books, and the methods it could offer to support his cultivation. He set Lin Dong the challenge of reaching level ten within two years and absorbing a Thousand Year Soul Ring, then left him to train while Ye Luo Chen continued cultivating on Enforcement Peak.

• Su Wen told Lin Dong that he was the Academy’s second recruited student and showed him the Mountain of Books and Sea of Learning.
• Su Wen explained that Lin Dong could study foundational materials there but would need to develop his own Self-Created Soul Skills beyond the basics in the Myriad Laws Tome.
• Su Wen advised Lin Dong that a First Soul Ring of six or seven hundred years could improve his Martial Soul, then offered methods to help him withstand a Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Lin Dong agreed to try the challenge, and Su Wen assigned him training at Supervisory Peak to reach level ten within two years.
• Su Wen went to Enforcement Peak, where Ye Luo Chen had reached level fifteen after receiving a First Soul Ring close to six hundred years old.

Su Wen prepared Ye Luo Chen to study Self-Created Soul Skills and joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Second Team under Qin Ming’s supervision. As the Soul Master Competition opened, the Royal Fight Team unexpectedly entered the preliminary rounds, drawing the attention of rival academies and leaving Huo Wu wondering why Su Wen was absent.

• Ye Luo Chen’s cultivation advanced rapidly with Su Wen’s methods, and Su Wen gave him a Myriad Laws Tome containing basic Self-Created Soul Skills to study.
• Su Wen explained the Academy’s membership standards and arranged for its students to learn from one another, while leaving their progress in their own hands.
• Qin Ming ordered the Second Team to observe the competition and train alongside the First Team, despite his reluctance to take on the nobles’ favored students.
• The Soul Master Competition opened in Heaven Dou City, where the Royal Fight Team competed in the preliminary rounds instead of saving its strength for later stages.
• Su Wen noticed Shi Nian of Canghui Academy and his Lingering Dream Martial Soul, while Huo Wu searched the Royal Fight Team’s lineup and found Su Wen missing.

At the Advancement Competition opening ceremony, Su Wen stayed off the Royal Fight Team’s lineup while Xue Qinghe praised his research and cultivation. Hu Yan Zhen hinted that Su Wen possessed Soul Bones, leaving the VIPs considering what that meant as the competition began.

• The academy assigned substitutes to both teams, and Su Wen accepted his place on the Second Team without concern.
• Xue Ye opened the competition and announced imperial rewards and noble titles for successful participants.
• Hu Yan Zhen asked why Su Wen was absent, and Bai Baoshan explained that Su Wen would compete in the final round.
• Xue Qinghe told Xue Ye that Su Wen’s research had advanced his cultivation and described him as a scholar who turned knowledge into power.
• Hu Yan Zhen indirectly suggested that Su Wen’s many abilities could not be traced to ordinary Soul Ring skills, leading the VIPs to infer that Su Wen had Soul Bones.
• Xue Ye grew displeased at Hu Yan Zhen’s hint, Prince Xue Xing considered coveting the Soul Bones, and Ning Fengzhi worried because Su Wen possessed several.

Su Wen watched the Soul Master Competition while assessing its fighters, then followed Tang San to confront Shi Nian, who was preparing to hunt him. Su Wen wounded Shi Nian with a surprise attack, and Shi Nian revealed his seven Soul Rings as the fight began.

• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong warned the spectators not to target the Soul Bone the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had given Su Wen, while Hu Yan Zhen concealed his anger over the Soul Bones he had surrendered.
• The Royal Fight Team defeated Tian Yuan Academy in the tournament’s opening match, and Su Wen later brought Ye Luo Chen and Lin Dong to study how competitors used their Soul Skills.
• On the fifth day, Su Wen followed Tang San and drew Tang Hao’s attention while waiting for Shi Nian to appear.
• Shi Nian trapped Tang San in an illusion, but Su Wen confronted him instead, prompting Tang Hao to leave and check on Tang San.
• Su Wen struck Shi Nian with a wind blade, cutting his right arm, and Shi Nian revealed three yellow, two purple, and two black Soul Rings.

Su Wen escaped Shi Nian after stealing the Soul Bone that Shi Nian dropped, then copied its Illusion Space skill and considered finding Ning Rongrong a better Soul Bone. A week later, rumors about Su Wen possessing a Soul Bone spread, and he told Dugu Bo how he had obtained it.

• Su Wen used Void Shuttle to escape after collecting Shi Nian’s blood, while Shi Nian failed to find him and turned his attention back to Tang San.
• After Tang Hao killed Shi Nian, Su Wen used spatial power to take Shi Nian’s Head Soul Bone before Tang Hao could claim it, angering Tang Hao and Tang San.
• Su Wen used his External Avatar to fuse the Soul Bone and copy its Illusion Space skill, deciding it was not the best Soul Bone for Ning Rongrong.
• A week later, Dugu Bo beat Hu Yan Zhen over rumors that Su Wen had a Soul Bone, though Hu Yan Zhen denied spreading them.
• Su Wen explained to Dugu Bo that he had copied Shi Nian’s Martial Soul and used a further development of Illusion World to take the Soul Bone from a distance.
• As the Preliminary Competition neared its end, someone asked Hu Yan Zhen why he looked so wretched.

After the Preliminary Competition, Shrek advanced to the next round despite having no Soul Ancestors, while Su Wen watched the teams prepare for the Advancement Competition. He arrived at the Royal Hunting Ground with Ning Fengzhi, Lin Dong, and Ye Luo Chen, but admitted he would not reach rank sixty in time to compete as a Soul Emperor.

• Su Wen copied Canghui Academy’s Seven Gem Martial Souls and gained the ability to cast the Seven Shura Illusion Realm.
• Shrek qualified for the Advancement Competition after finishing among the top five, while the Royal Fight, Blazing Fire, and Divine Wind teams also advanced.
• Xue Ye explained that the Advancement Competition would take place at the Royal Hunting Ground and outlined the later Grand Finals format.
• Dai Mubai broke through during the competition, so Shrek detoured to Sunset Forest to obtain his Fourth Soul Ring.
• Su Wen agreed to bring Lin Dong and Ye Luo Chen to watch the Advancement Competition, and he traveled to the Royal Hunting Ground with Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong.
• Su Wen told Ning Fengzhi he would not break through to rank sixty in time and considered choosing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s soul ring for his Sixth Soul Ring.

Su Wen planned to establish an academy and sought Spirit Hall’s support through Salas. After hearing that the academy would share its research and had an extraordinary roster of elders, Salas stared at Su Wen in shock.

• Su Wen planned to cultivate toward Soul Saint and condense a Soul Core before Rank Seventy, especially if his Sixth Ring came from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Ning Fengzhi advised Su Wen to tell Salas about the academy before announcing it at the finals, so Spirit Hall could prepare.
• Salas warned Su Wen that visiting him openly could draw suspicion, but Su Wen said he had come to discuss the academy.
• Su Wen told Salas that Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, Ning Fengzhi, Poison Douluo, and Xiao Zhan would serve as the academy’s honorary or official elders.
• Su Wen explained that the academy would not be an independent power and would share its research with members from any sect or force, leaving Salas stunned.

Su Wen defended his plan to establish an open Academy that would make soul cultivation knowledge accessible, despite Salas warning that most soul masters would never seek it out. He also proposed a Soul Tool Hall, leaving Salas to report the Academy and its request for Spirit Hall support to the Pope.

• Salas argued that most soul masters would not study theory and that Su Wen's Academy could not reach them.
• Su Wen said the Academy would give striving soul masters access to knowledge without forcing them to study, and revealed that the Crown Prince had approved it.
• Salas agreed to report the Academy and Su Wen's request for Spirit Hall support to the Pope, whose decision would determine the outcome.
• Su Wen described the Academy's three research halls and proposed adding a Soul Tool Hall.
• Salas dismissed Soul Tool research as impractical because the technology had been lost, while Su Wen argued that Soul Tools could expand the combat options of different soul master types.

Su Wen sought Spirit Hall support for his Academy and discussed its political benefits with Xue Qinghe and Xue Ye. Grandmaster then visited to ask for cultivation insights, but Su Wen said their real conflict stemmed from Tang San.

• Su Wen asked Salas to report his request for Spirit Hall research materials on Soul Tools to the Pope, and Salas agreed reluctantly.
• Xue Qinghe visited Su Wen, heard that Salas had initially approved the Academy, and asked about Su Wen’s secret trump card, which Su Wen declined to reveal.
• Xue Qinghe told Xue Ye about the Academy, and they agreed that adapting early to its changes could strengthen the Royal Family’s position.
• Su Wen considered how to win Spirit Hall’s support and planned to reveal his exceptional Soul Ring configuration at the Grand Finals.
• Grandmaster visited Su Wen, admitted that he had misjudged him, and asked for insights on Soul Power cultivation.
• Su Wen rejected Grandmaster’s framing of their past clashes and said the root of their conflict was Tang San.

Su Wen confronted Tang Hao over his parents’ deaths and rejected Yu Xiaogang’s claim to the title of Grandmaster. After the month-long Advancement Competition ended without helping Su Wen break through to rank sixty, Tang San challenged him over his treatment of Yu Xiaogang.

• Su Wen told Yu Xiaogang that he considered him an enemy because he was Tang San’s teacher, then declared his hatred for Tang Hao and vowed to kill him.
• Tang Hao entered Su Wen’s tent, and Su Wen accused him of causing his parents’ deaths and warned that Dugu could retaliate against Tang San and the Clear Sky Sect; Tang Hao promised to face Su Wen after he became a Titled Douluo.
• Su Wen drove Yu Xiaogang out of the tent and told him to stop calling himself Grandmaster, angering Liu Erlong and Tang San.
• Su Wen continued cultivating while observing the Advancement Competition, and Lin Dong and Ye Luo Chen learned from the battles as teams displayed their individual abilities.
• The Advancement Competition ended after a month, but Su Wen remained just short of rank sixty; Tang San stepped forward and accused him of disrespecting Yu Xiaogang by relying on his higher Soul Power Level.

Su Wen mocked Tang San and Shrek over their chances of reaching the later rounds of the Grand Finals, then revealed that the Martial Soul Hall Team had three Soul Kings, including two capable of a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Tang San and the other teams were left shaken by the lineup.

• Su Wen dismissed Tang San's challenge, and Tang San vowed to face him in the Grand Finals and prove his strength.
• Su Wen pointed out that Shrek might not advance far enough to meet Royal Fight Team Two, given the competition format and Shrek's relatively low soul power.
• Ma Hongjun declared that Shrek could reach the top three and eventually contend for the championship.
• Su Wen told Ma Hongjun and the gathered teams that the Martial Soul Hall Team had three Soul Kings, two of whom had mastered a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Ma Hongjun and the other teams were stunned by the Martial Soul Hall Team's strength.

Su Wen criticized Shrek’s failure to develop Ma Hongjun and Oscar, then invited the assembled soul masters to seek help from his Academy. In Spirit City, Yu Xiaogang used his Elder Token to request Su Wen’s registration information from Bibi Dong and asked how to add Soul Rings to Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls, but Bibi Dong warned him against cultivating the second martial soul.

• Su Wen told Ma Hongjun that his martial soul had a problem and said Shrek had failed to draw out Oscar’s potential.
• Su Wen invited soul masters who had cultivation difficulties to seek answers at the Academy he established.
• The group reached Spirit City without an assassination attempt, and Yu Xiaogang visited Bibi Dong in Pope’s Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang used his Elder Token to request Su Wen’s soul master registration information, and Bibi Dong agreed to provide it.
• Yu Xiaogang asked how to attach Soul Rings to Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls, and Bibi Dong advised him not to cultivate the second martial soul.

Bibi Dong gave Yu Xiaogang information about Su Wen’s Soul Rings and Soul Skills, which Yu Xiaogang studied while seeking a way to cultivate Twin Martial Souls. Su Wen arrived in Spirit City with Ning Rongrong and discovered that they could vaguely sense the Faith Power around the Angel Divine Statue.

• Bibi Dong instructed Chrysanthemum Douluo to give Yu Xiaogang information about Su Wen’s four Soul Rings and Soul Skills.
• Yu Xiaogang analyzed Su Wen’s Soul Ring combinations and wondered how to uncover Bibi Dong’s methods for cultivating Twin Martial Souls.
• Su Wen arrived in Spirit City with Ning Rongrong and resolved to avoid Bibi Dong while viewing Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo as enemies to kill.
• Su Wen noticed that he and Ning Rongrong could vaguely sense Faith Power around the Angel Divine Statue, possibly because of their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Su Wen and Royal Fight Team Two faced Shrek Academy in the second round of the Soul Master Competition after both teams drew widespread attention. The chapter ended with Su Wen reassuring his teammates that they would not need to fight, though they were left confused.

• Su Wen reflected on Yu Xiaogang accessing his Spirit Hall records and noted that he had falsified much of his information to protect himself.
• The Grand Finals began in Spirit City, where Shrek defeated Thousand Clouds Academy and eight Heaven Dou Empire teams advanced compared with seven from Star Luo Empire.
• Royal Fight Team and Star Luo Royal Team received second-round byes, while the draw matched Royal Fight Team Two against Shrek Academy.
• Ma Hongjun taunted Su Wen after the matchup was announced, and the teams were scheduled to fight on the third day of the round.
• After Tang San revealed his Eight Spider Lances in Shrek's previous match, Ning Rongrong joked that Team Two should stay back and cheer.
• Su Wen agreed with Ning Rongrong and told his teammates they would be safe as long as they did not attack him from behind, leaving them baffled.

Su Wen revealed himself as a sixteen-year-old Soul King with an extraordinary Soul Ring configuration during the match against Shrek Academy. He declared that his teammates would not participate and challenged all seven Shrek members alone.

• Su Wen brought his five teammates onto the arena to face Shrek Academy, whose lineup included Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun.
• When the match began, spectators and Yu Xiaogang were stunned to see Su Wen's five Soul Rings, including a thousand-year second ring and ten-thousand-year fourth ring.
• Ning Rongrong teased the silent Shrek team, while Su Wen's teammates withdrew their martial souls and let him take the lead.
• Su Wen announced that his teammates would stay out of the fight and challenged all seven Shrek members to attack him.
• Su Wen taunted Ma Hongjun and invited Shrek to make the first move as Tang San and Dai Mubai faced his pressure.

Su Wen dominated Shrek’s challenge, demonstrating his overwhelming strength and Space Shuttle ability before the tournament crowd. As his display deterred most onlookers from targeting him, Illusion Spirit Eye detected one remaining intense threat within the Star Luo Royal Team.

• Su Wen’s teammates withdrew to the Arena Platform’s edge, leaving him to face Shrek alone.
• Tang San attacked with Eight Spider Lances and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, while Dai Mubai activated Martial Soul Possession and Ma Hongjun fired phoenix flames at Su Wen’s teammates.
• Su Wen blocked Ma Hongjun’s attack, then used a Flame Rasengan to badly injure him and leave Fire Poison in his wounds.
• Oscar gave Ma Hongjun a sausage to help him recover, and Ma Hongjun realized Su Wen could use Space Shuttle to appear and return almost instantly.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized Su Wen’s display as a warning that he could protect himself, and Su Wen sensed that one intense threat remained within the Star Luo Royal Team.

Su Wen crushed Tang San and the Shrek Seven, then used his strength as a Soul King to press Bibi Dong to consider his academy’s request. Royal Fight Team Two advanced to the semifinals, where Royal Fight Team forfeited to them and then conceded its match against Martial Soul Hall Team.

• Su Wen defeated Tang San and the Shrek Seven with his Heavenly Book attacks, overwhelming the Hell White Tiger and leaving Tang San at his limit.
• Su Wen looked to Bibi Dong after the victory, and she weighed his earlier appeal while recognizing his extraordinary strength.
• Royal Fight Team Two advanced through the third and fourth rounds, joining Martial Soul Hall Team and Royal Fight Team in the semifinals.
• Dugu Yan led Royal Fight Team to forfeit its individual elimination match against Royal Fight Team Two to preserve their condition.
• Su Wen told Yu Tianheng that Royal Fight Team need not exhaust Martial Soul Hall Team, and Royal Fight Team immediately conceded their team match.
• Yan blamed Su Wen for the concession and resented his attitude despite acknowledging his talent.

Su Wen faced Martial Soul Hall Team alone after Royal Fight Team Two's other members withdrew, and revealed the Heavenly Book's domain and Ning Rongrong's ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring. Xie Yue and Hu Liena prepared to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to break through his domain.

• Royal Fight Team conceded, and the other five members of Royal Fight Team Two jumped from the Arena Platform at the start of the final match.
• Yan attacked Su Wen with four Soul Skills, while Su Wen lifted Ning Rongrong into the air on a Heavenly Book page.
• Ning Rongrong revealed her evolved Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring, shocking Bibi Dong and the spectators.
• Su Wen spread the Heavenly Book's pages across the Arena Platform and formed a domain of mountains, rivers, fire, and wind that trapped Yan.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena abandoned their other tactics and prepared to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to break Su Wen's domain.