Chapter Summaries

After the Promotion Tournament, rumors spread that Fang Xuan had visited prostitutes, but he had actually gone to Sunset Forest to find Dugu Bo. Fang Xuan tried to steal Dugu Bo’s herbs before revealing that he needed help with something important.

• The Promotion Tournament ended with Imperial Dou Team in first place and Shrek Team in second, while Fang Xuan’s absence from the final match disappointed the audience.
• The Imperial Dou Team speculated that Fang Xuan had gone to visit prostitutes, but Fang Xuan was traveling through Sunset Forest.
• Fang Xuan sneezed into a stream, blamed Yu Tianheng and the others for spreading rumors, then flew to Dugu Bo’s residence.
• Fang Xuan tried to persuade Dugu Bo to give him Immortal Herbs and pulled out a Medicine King, which split in half as they fought over it.
• Fang Xuan said he had come to ask Dugu Bo for help with something important, and Dugu Bo caught him sneaking another herb.

Fang Xuan asked Xue Ye to help prepare for Spirit Hall’s predicted ambush on the journey to Spirit City, and Xue Ye ultimately approved the plan. He promised support from the Heaven Dou Empire and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, then began to offer Fang Xuan a gift.

• Fang Xuan explained his plan to Xue Ye and warned that Spirit Hall might attack the teams traveling to Spirit City, possibly with Titled Douluo.
• Xue Ye questioned Fang Xuan’s claims and challenged him for asking the empire to take such a risk.
• Fang Xuan prepared to leave, but Xue Ye stopped him and said he believed him because Fang Xuan was his son.
• Xue Ye approved the plan and promised elite imperial Soul Masters in disguise, along with support from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Xue Ye told Fang Xuan that he had a gift for him because the journey would be dangerous.

Xue Ye offered Fang Xuan the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, a divine treasure and Heaven Dou Empire national treasure. Fang Xuan initially refused, suspecting a trap, but eventually accepted it after Xue Ye repeatedly insisted.

• Xue Ye revealed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and explained its mysterious origins and immense value to Fang Xuan.
• Fang Xuan recognized the treasure as the Sea God's inheritance artifact and eagerly reached for it, then stopped when he suspected Xue Ye had a hidden motive.
• Xue Ye tried to persuade Fang Xuan that his performance in the Soul Master Competition had earned him the treasure.
• Fang Xuan repeatedly refused the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, while Xue Ye insisted that he take it.
• Xue Ye pleaded with Fang Xuan to accept the treasure, and Fang Xuan finally took it and stored it in his Soul Tool.

Fang Xuan accepted the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and Xue Ye promised to make him a king, hoping he would protect the Heaven Dou Empire and support Xue Qinghe. The next morning, Fang Xuan set out for Spirit City with the ambush plan ready and joined Shrek Academy’s carriage, intending to draw Spirit Hall’s attacks toward them.

• Xue Ye gave Fang Xuan the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and promised to enfeoff him as king if he returned victorious from Spirit City.
• Fang Xuan kept quiet about Qian Renxue replacing Xue Qinghe and agreed that he would repay Xue Ye’s kindness if the emperor continued treating him well.
• Xue Ye told Fang Xuan that he hoped to hear him call him Father someday, and Fang Xuan left, saying that day might come.
• The next morning, fifteen teams departed Heaven Dou City for Spirit City as Fang Xuan’s secret ambush plan awaited Spirit Hall’s attack.
• Fang Xuan insisted that Shrek Academy travel with Heaven Dou Academy and joined Shrek’s carriage, provoking arguments with Tang San, Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, and the others.
• Fang Xuan planned to use Shrek’s students to share the danger and divert Spirit Hall’s attacks away from Heaven Dou Academy.

Fang Xuan tested whether the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud would accept him and awakened the Sea God’s Divine Thought. Before the Sea God could grant his recognition, the Blood Crown unleashed a vast Killing Intent that shattered the phantom, leaving Fang Xuan stunned and the Sea God’s last words unexplained.

• Fang Xuan cut his palm and let his blood fall onto the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud glowed red, and the Sea God’s phantom appeared and declared that Fang Xuan could bear his Vast Sea Power.
• The Blood Crown trembled inside Fang Xuan’s Soul Tool Ring and released one hundred thousand Killing Swords at the Sea God’s phantom.
• The Killing Swords shattered the Sea God’s phantom, which reformed briefly before merging back into the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• The Killing Intent vanished, and the Sea God’s phantom left Fang Xuan with the words, “It was you!!!”

After an unknown force destroyed the Sea God's phantom and ended Fang Xuan's chance to become the Sea God, he suspected his Blood Crown was connected to the Demon Blade · Red Rain. Far away in Spirit City, a seductive girl slaughtered a Soul Emperor in the Demon Prison.

• Fang Xuan failed to awaken the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud after the Sea God's Divine Thought was struck down, and the shroud rejected his blood.
• Fang Xuan recalled the Killing Intent of Demonic Blade · Red Rain and suspected the Blood Crown was connected to it, but the crown gave no response to his Soul Power.
• Fang Xuan stored the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and Blood Crown before flying back to the camp as the army prepared to move on.
• Inside Fang Xuan's Soul Tool, the Blood Crown glowed scarlet and the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud trembled and fled from it.
• In Spirit City's Demon Prison, a seductive girl used a pink beam to stop the Scarred Man before tearing the Soul Emperor apart with her hand.

Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan completed Bibi Dong’s Demon Prison trials and prepared to claim victory in the Soul Master Grand Finals. After reading reports about Tang San and Fang Xuan, Bibi Dong ordered both killed, then rejected Yu Xiaogang when he asked to see her.

• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong that she had killed a Soul Emperor, and Bibi Dong praised her trial performance.
• Xie Yue and Yan arrived with the heads of their defeated Soul Emperors, and Bibi Dong praised the Golden Generation’s strength ahead of the Grand Finals.
• A deacon delivered Salas’s urgent report about Fang Xuan, and Bibi Dong read his report alongside information about Tang San.
• Bibi Dong judged Tang San and Fang Xuan threats to Spirit Hall and ordered their assassinations.
• A Hall Guardian Knight reported that Yu Xiaogang wished to see Bibi Dong, and she ordered him to leave.

Yu Xiaogang came to Spirit Hall seeking Bibi Dong’s secret for surviving the Twin Martial Souls trial so he could help Tang San, but Bibi Dong refused and revealed she had ordered Tang San’s assassination. Their meeting ended with Bibi Dong rejecting their past and destroying the tea set Yu Xiaogang had used.

• Yu Xiaogang entered Spirit Hall carrying the Pope's Order and met Bibi Dong after twenty years apart.
• Bibi Dong mocked Yu Xiaogang for coming to ask for help and recognized that he wanted the Twin Martial Souls secret for Tang San.
• Bibi Dong refused to reveal the secret and said she had ordered Tang San intercepted and killed.
• Yu Xiaogang threatened to destroy Spirit Hall if Tang San died, and Bibi Dong blasted him away and threatened Tang San, Liu Erlong, and his family.
• Yu Xiaogang left to warn Tang San, while Bibi Dong turned the tea set and furniture he had used to ash and said farewell to Xiao Gang.

Mu Hong revived after two years in suspended death and was promoted by Bibi Dong to Platinum Bishop after his Soul Power reached Level Seventy. He revealed that a young boy had killed him and other Spirit Hall experts, leading Bibi Dong to suspect Fang Xuan and prepare to eliminate him.

• Mu Hong shattered his Ice Coffin and awakened, and Bibi Dong explained that she had preserved his body after recognizing his Turtle Breath Technique.
• Mu Hong told Bibi Dong that the technique had kept him alive through two years of recovery and that his Soul Power had risen to Level Seventy.
• Bibi Dong appointed Mu Hong Spirit Hall's new Platinum Bishop, and he swore loyalty to her.
• Bibi Dong questioned Mu Hong about the deaths of Blood Douluo and the other Spirit Hall experts, and Mu Hong said Luo Xuanchen killed Blood Douluo while a young boy killed the others.
• Mu Hong described the boy as fifteen or sixteen and strong enough to kill a Soul King, so Bibi Dong suspected Fang Xuan and asked whether Mu Hong could recognize him again.

Fang Xuan led the Heaven Dou delegation toward Spirit City and avoided a valley he suspected could be an ambush site. After he settled a quarrel with Ning Rongrong and the Shrek group using insults and punches, the army took the rugged mountain road instead.

• The Golden Armored General suggested resting in a valley, but Fang Xuan ordered the delegation to bypass it because it could conceal an ambush.
• Fang Xuan explained that he represented the Heaven Dou Empire and had kept Xue Qinghe in the capital to prevent Qian Renxue from warning Spirit Hall.
• Ning Rongrong confronted Fang Xuan about the rough roads, and he knocked her down with a punch before trading insults with her.
• Dai Mubai, Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar challenged Fang Xuan, but he insulted or punched them into submission.
• Fang Xuan ordered the army to leave the valley behind and continue along the rugged mountain road.

Fang Xuan led the escort through remote paths and prepared for an ambush, which proved to be a massive Spirit Hall attack. As the battle raged, he organized the defenders and killed four Soul Kings, but the enemy force remained overwhelming.

• Fang Xuan traveled in a palanquin and kept the troops on alert while Ning Rongrong complained about him; he pushed her out of the path of an assassin’s killing strike and killed the attacker.
• The Golden Armored General formed the imperial troops to face nearly two thousand Black Robe Killers, and the fighting spread across the mountain pass.
• Flender recognized the attackers as Spirit Hall forces, while Liu Erlong charged into their ranks and slaughtered dozens of them.
• Fang Xuan ordered the defenders into formations, and the academies organized their counterattacks as students adapted to the battlefield.
• Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng led their teams against the strongest attackers, while Tang San and Dugu Yan used hidden weapons and poison to kill many enemies.
• Four Soul Kings rushed Fang Xuan, but he immobilized and cut them down with his Blue Emperor Killing Array, stunning the Black Robe Killers.

Fang Xuan was nearly killed by Lor Diarra during a battle between the Heaven Dou Empire’s Soul Master Legion and Spirit Hall, but Dugu Bo intervened and saved him. Dugu Bo lured Chrysanthemum Douluo into an ambush by Chen Xin and Gu Rong, who tore off Chrysanthemum Douluo’s arms and defeated him.

• Fang Xuan killed five Black Robe Killers with Thunder Dragon Flash before Lor Diarra attacked him in his Golden Eagle Martial Soul Avatar.
• Fang Xuan’s Blue Emperor Killing Array barely restrained Lor Diarra, and Lor Diarra badly injured him with a single strike.
• Fang Xuan used Cycle of Rebirth Divine Light to heal himself, but Lor Diarra prepared to attack again before Dugu Bo arrived and wounded him.
• Dugu Bo moved to kill Lor Diarra, but Chrysanthemum Douluo blocked the attack and confronted him.
• Dugu Bo provoked Chrysanthemum Douluo into pursuing him beside a carriage, where Chen Xin and Gu Rong sprang out and tore off Chrysanthemum Douluo’s arms.

Fang Xuan’s ambush left Chrysanthemum Douluo badly wounded but alive, and Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Dugu Bo confronted him. Ghost Douluo arrived to protect Chrysanthemum Douluo, leaving five Titled Douluo facing off as the chapter ended.

• Fang Xuan’s plan helped Dugu Bo, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo ambush Chrysanthemum Douluo, severing both his arms but failing to kill him.
• Dugu Bo taunted Chrysanthemum Douluo, while Sword Douluo warned him that the Heaven Dou Empire’s delegation was under their protection.
• Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Dugu Bo released their auras to overwhelm Chrysanthemum Douluo, but Ghost Douluo arrived and blocked their pressure.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo took comfort in Ghost Douluo’s arrival, and the two stood against Dugu Bo, Bone Douluo, and Sword Douluo.
• The five Titled Douluo faced one another in the air, stunning the onlookers with the rare gathering.

At Sky Summit, Dugu Bo, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo fought Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo until Ning Fengzhi brokered a truce to avoid provoking Spirit Hall. Fang Xuan disagreed with sparing the enemy, but the delegation continued its journey and reached Spirit City ten days later for the Soul Master Grand Finals.

• Dugu Bo and Chrysanthemum Douluo clashed in their Martial Soul Avatars while Bone Douluo and Ghost Douluo fought nearby.
• Sword Douluo ambushed Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo, then joined Bone Douluo and Dugu Bo to overpower them.
• Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo unleashed the Two Extremes Stillness Domain, but Ning Fengzhi stopped the battle and proposed a truce.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo accepted the truce and withdrew with their assassins, while Fang Xuan questioned Ning Fengzhi’s decision to let them go.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that sparing Spirit Hall’s forces would reduce the danger of their upcoming visit to Spirit City, and the delegation arrived there ten days later.

Heaven Dou Academy arrived at the Soul Master Grand Finals after an ambush delayed their journey, drawing jeers for their ragged appearance. When a purple-robed noble youth mocked the team at their rest area, Fang Xuan punched him and sent him flying.

• The Soul Master Grand Finals began in Spirit City with thirty-two teams competing in a single-elimination format.
• Fang Xuan and Heaven Dou Academy arrived shortly before the competition after traveling day and night following an ambush.
• Spectators mocked Heaven Dou Academy and other teams from the Heaven Dou Empire for arriving dusty and disheveled.
• A group of purple-robed students blocked Heaven Dou Academy's rest area, and their leader insulted the team and urged them to withdraw.
• Fang Xuan punched the noble youth in the face, breaking his nose and knocking him away.

Before the Soul Master Grand Finals, Fang Xuan's Heaven Dou Academy team clashed with Dai Weisi's Star Luo Royal Academy team, whose members boasted greater strength but whose captain provoked his rivals. Their teachers stopped the teams from fighting, leaving Fang Xuan and Dai Weisi to settle matters on the Competition Ground as the match approached.

• Star Luo Royal Academy students accused Fang Xuan's group of attacking one of their members and threatened war between the empires.
• Dai Weisi introduced himself as Star Luo Royal Academy's captain and vowed to crush Heaven Dou Academy, while Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuyun traded insults.
• Fang Xuan judged Dai Weisi, Zhu Zhuyun, and their teammates to be powerful Soul Ancestors, then prepared to attack them.
• The two teams' teachers intervened and ordered them to settle their rivalry in the tournament instead of fighting privately.
• Dai Weisi mocked Heaven Dou Academy and warned Fang Xuan he would crush them, while Fang Xuan calmly entered the rest area to prepare for the Grand Finals.

The first round of the Soul Master Grand Finals matched Heaven Dou Royal Academy against Star Luo Royal Academy, and Dai Weisi provoked Fang Xuan with boasts and insults. Fang Xuan answered with a single devastating slash that defeated the entire Star Luo Team, leaving the venue stunned.

• A Red Robe Cardinal announced that Heaven Dou Royal Academy would face Star Luo Royal Academy in the first match of the Grand Finals.
• Fang Xuan reacted to Dai Weisi's taunts and led the Imperial Dou Team onto the arena, promising to beat him badly.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun mocked Fang Xuan and the Heaven Dou Empire, then declared they would defeat the Imperial Dou Team in one minute or forfeit.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Hell White Tiger, and charged with their five teammates.
• Fang Xuan stopped his teammates and unleashed a combined attack that shattered the Hell White Tiger and severely injured the entire Star Luo Team with one slash.

Fang Xuan defeated the Star Luo Royal Team with one slash, giving Heaven Dou Academy a decisive victory and stunning the tournament crowd. As the other teams reacted, Feng Xiaotian proposed an alliance with Huo Wu, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing began telling Shrek Academy about their backgrounds.

• Fang Xuan wiped out Dai Weisi, Zhu Zhuyun, and the Star Luo Royal Team with a single slash, and the referee announced Heaven Dou Royal Academy as the winner.
• The crowd celebrated Fang Xuan's victory, which was expected to boost Heaven Dou's prestige and morale against the Star Luo Empire.
• Huo Wu despaired at how far Fang Xuan had surpassed her, and Feng Xiaotian suggested that their two academies join forces to defeat him.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing watched the defeated Star Luo team being carried away and lamented that they had lost the chance to face Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun themselves.
• Tang San questioned Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing about their connection to the Star Luo team, and they agreed to tell Shrek Academy about their backgrounds.

Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing learned that defeating Fang Xuan could serve as a substitute for defeating Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun, while Tang San urged Shrek to unite against him. At the competition ground, Hu Liena chose Fang Xuan as a target, and Yan and Xie Yue prepared to challenge him on Spirit Hall’s behalf.

• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing’s royal betrothal and the Star Luo Empire’s deadly succession struggle were explained to the Shrek group.
• Tang San persuaded Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing to focus their resentment on Fang Xuan, and the Shrek group promised to defeat him together.
• Hu Liena watched Fang Xuan and decided that his strength and appearance made him a worthy target.
• Yan grew jealous of Hu Liena’s interest in Fang Xuan and boasted that he could defeat him in one move.
• Xie Yue cautioned Yan not to underestimate Fang Xuan, then joined him in viewing Fang Xuan as a stepping stone for Spirit Hall.

Fang Xuan reviewed his progress and decided to go to Slaughter City after the tournament so he could grow stronger by hunting powerful opponents. As the top teams prepared for the finals, Hu Liena appeared in his room and offered him special service.

• Spirit Hall Team eliminated Skywater Academy in under a minute, while Chihuo Academy forfeited its first-round match after secretly merging with Godwind Academy.
• Fang Xuan relaxed in the contestants’ quarters, confident that Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Poison Douluo were guarding against Spirit Hall.
• Fang Xuan vowed to win the three Soul Bones awarded in the Grand Finals, especially the sixty-thousand-year Wisdom Skull.
• Fang Xuan checked his status and was shocked that reaching the next level required six hundred thousand Soul Power Value; he planned to go to Slaughter City after the tournament to hunt powerful foes.
• Hu Liena appeared on Fang Xuan’s balcony, approached him in translucent pink gauze, and offered him special service.