Chapter Summaries

Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er joined Su Ran's sect as disciples after arriving at Peach Blossom Spring Academy. Their admission brought Su Ran new students and rewards, while Ning Rongrong worried about the growing attention and rivalry surrounding the academy.

• Shui Yue'er and Shui Bing'er arrived at Peach Blossom Spring, while Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian were turned away because they lacked Peach Blossom Invitations.
• Shui Yue'er told Su Ran she wanted to become his disciple and claimed she hoped to learn from him before facing Plant Academy in the finals.
• Ning Rongrong objected to accepting Shui Yue'er, but Wang Sheng and the others defended her after she praised their team.
• Su Ran explained the sect rules and asked the sisters to complete the Peach Blossom Teacher Rite.
• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er kowtowed to Su Ran and formally became his disciples, triggering system rewards for their admission.

Su Ran trained Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and the Plant Academy students in techniques suited to their abilities before sending them back to prepare for the Soul Master Competition finals. Ning Rongrong gave the new disciples a mission to beat Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, or Yu Tianheng if they faced them, and promised generous rewards.

• Su Ran taught Shui Bing'er the Cold Ice Cotton Palm and Heavenly Frost Fist, and taught Shui Yue'er the Flowing Water Fist and Fubo Technique.
• Su Ran corrected Shui Yue'er's distracted practice while Chen Xin praised his teaching and asked about Mu Yunzhu's swordsmanship; Su Ran promised to exchange sword techniques with him after the finals.
• Su Ran summarized the five new students' progress and told them to return to their academies, train hard, and join Peach Blossom Spring Academy after the finals.
• Su Ran explained that he was keeping the new disciples distant because the finals were dangerous and he needed time to cultivate alone.
• Ning Rongrong urged the new disciples to beat Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, or Yu Tianheng if they encountered them in the finals, offering fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins for defeating one and a hundred thousand each for defeating the whole team.

Su Ran's careful coaching helped the Skywater and Plant Academy students prepare for the finals, while his meditative trials left him unable to enter the ninth lifetime. As the convoy neared Spirit City, he worried that lacking a ninth Soul Ring could endanger him and his students, and a woman in green asked whether he feared they would lose.

• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er read Su Ran's cultivation advice and examined the Immortal Grade herbs he had given them.
• The Skywater students admired Su Ran's Peach Blossom Branch, while Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er told Leng Yuehan that they had taken Peach Blossom Spring as their master.
• Yao Zi, Mu Yunzhu, and Mu Yunteng reflected on Su Ran's guidance as they traveled south with his instructions for the finals.
• Su Ran reviewed the eight lifetimes he had experienced in meditation and worried that he could not enter the ninth tribulation or add a ninth Soul Ring before reaching Spirit City.
• During a rest stop in a valley, a woman in green struck her Golden Circlet to ease her headache and asked Su Ran whether he feared his students would lose in the finals.

Su Ran confronted Liu Erlong about Yu Xiaogang’s motives, then Spirit Hall ambushed Peach Blossom Spring Academy in a valley. Su Ran crushed the attackers and faced two Titled Douluo, while Liu Erlong began to doubt Yu Xiaogang; the chapter ended as Su Ran revealed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and warned the intruders to leave.

• Su Ran told Liu Erlong that Yu Xiaogang had gone to Spirit City to seek Spirit Hall’s support and might arrange an ambush against Peach Blossom Spring Academy, but Liu Erlong refused to believe him and chose to stay.
• A rockslide struck the valley, and Chen Xin discovered that the attack was deliberately targeting Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s students.
• Su Ran summoned his Peach Tree martial soul and used its branches to kill or wound dozens of black-clothed attackers, including a Golden Eagle Soul Douluo.
• An orange-yellow-clad Spirit Hall Titled Douluo appeared and tried to recruit Su Ran, while Chen Xin identified another hidden attacker as Spirit Hall’s Little Ghost.
• Ning Rongrong suspected Yu Xiaogang had betrayed the academy, and Liu Erlong began to question him as Su Ran gave the two Titled Douluo three seconds to leave.
• Su Ran’s red soul ring appeared to be a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, shocking the orange-yellow-clad attacker.

Su Ran defeated and severely wounded Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo after they ambushed his academy’s students, then sent Bibi Dong a warning. With the finals approaching, Ning Fengzhi and the other allies arranged protection for Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s students in Spirit City.

• Su Ran unleashed his Eighth Soul Skill, Shake Down Sun, and drove Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo into retreat after they attacked his group in the valley.
• Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo delivered Su Ran’s warning to Bibi Dong, while Master blamed them for acting on their own and Bibi Dong ordered them to recover.
• Master warned Bibi Dong that Peach Blossom Spring Academy was a dangerous finals opponent and left Pope’s Hall, while Bibi Dong watched him go.
• Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Snake Grandma offered to protect Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s students at the Seven Treasure Grand Hotel.
• Su Ran said Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo could no longer threaten the students, and Ning Fengzhi pledged the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support.

At the Soul Master Competition finals, Su Ran’s students entered the elimination rounds while Yu Xiaogang questioned Liu Erlong about Peach Blossom Spring Academy and denied involvement in its ambush. Plant Academy then upset Blazing Fire Academy using techniques learned from Su Ran, and the chapter ended with Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu asking to learn Mu Yunteng’s Acupoint Sealing Technique.

• Yu Xiaogang questioned Liu Erlong about Su Ran’s cultivation method and Peach Blossom Spring Academy, then left when she could not answer whether he had been involved in the ambush.
• Su Ran drew Fire Leopard Academy as Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s first opponent and said the team would receive a bye in the second round if it won.
• Bibi Dong watched the teams and, after seeing Liu Erlong emerge from a meeting with Yu Xiaogang, privately accused him of having a new lover.
• Peach Blossom Spring Academy defeated Fire Leopard Academy, then Su Ran and her students stayed to watch the other matches.
• Yao Zi, Mu Yunteng, and Mu Yunzhu used their improved techniques to defeat Blazing Fire Academy, with Mu Yunteng immobilizing Huo Wu through the Acupoint Sealing Technique.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu asked Su Ran to teach them the Acupoint Sealing Technique, and Su Ran explained that it could seal the body’s airflow, blood, tendons, and bones.

Skywater Academy faced the Heaven Dou Royal Team in a closely watched elimination match, with Shui Bing'er leading a carefully planned opening against Tang San and his teammates. The chapter ended with both teams testing each other’s defenses as Shui Bing’er chose to conserve her team’s strength and drain the opposing team’s Soul Power.

• The tournament advanced to the Round of 16, where Plant Academy defeated the Star Luo Lionheart Team and qualified for the quarterfinals.
• Master Yu Xiaogang warned the Heaven Dou Royal Team to watch Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, then planned to counter Skywater Academy’s fusion Soul Skill with the Shi Mo brothers’ defenses.
• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er recognized the Heaven Dou Royal Team as enemies of their teacher and prepared to fight without holding back.
• The two teams announced their members and Soul Power levels, and Su Ran noticed that Tang San’s stated Soul Power was wrong.
• Skywater Academy formed its Fish Scale Formation and launched Shui Bing'er's Ice Seal, but Tang San and the Shi Mo brothers countered with Blue Silver Cage and Tortoise Shields.
• Shui Bing'er ordered her team to fall back and defend, reasoning that the Heaven Dou Royal Team would spend more Soul Power countering her low-cost Ice Seal.

Tang San’s team tried to break Skywater Academy’s defenses, but Shui Yue’er turned the fight with a newly mastered water technique, and Skywater Academy answered their fusion attack with a stronger three-person fusion. The Heaven Dou Royal Team’s main fighters were defeated, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned as his team faced elimination.

• Tang San ordered Dai Mubai, Yu Tianheng, and Ma Hongjun to attack while he held off Skywater Academy’s other members, but Shui Bing’er froze the attackers and repelled Tang San’s and Ma Hongjun’s support.
• Shui Yue’er used Flowing Water Fist to redirect Dai Mubai’s light wave through water-covered ground, where Yu Tianheng’s lightning paralyzed Shi Mo and Shi Mo and the redirected attack knocked them back.
• Skywater Academy’s other members pressed their advantage, while Yu Xiaogang realized Shui Yue’er had learned the decisive technique from Su Ran.
• Tang San called for a Trinity Fusion Skill, and Dai Mubai, Yu Tianheng, and Ma Hongjun formed the One-Eyed Fiery Thunder Dragon Tiger.
• Shui Bing’er, Shui Yue’er, and Xue Wu completed Ice Snow Rain Falling and unleashed Frost Breath, freezing and blasting apart the Fiery Thunder Dragon Tiger.
• Frost Breath knocked Dai Mubai, Yu Tianheng, and Ma Hongjun out of the fight, leaving Yu Xiaogang to shout that Xiao San’s team could not lose.

Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer and powerful Soul Bones after Shrek’s teammates fell, but Shui Bing’er and Skywater Academy combined their abilities into a seven-person fusion that countered his hammer with ice and water. Tang San was blasted out of the arena, leaving Yu Xiaogang’s plans exposed and Shrek’s first match lost.

• Tang San told Oscar to restore him with sausages and leave the field, then revealed his Eight Spider Lances, a right leg Soul Bone, and his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Bibi Dong realized Yu Xiaogang had asked her about cultivating Twin Martial Souls to help Tang San attach Soul Rings to his second Martial Soul.
• Su Ran recognized that Skywater Academy had formed a seven-person fusion centered on Shui Bing'er, whose Ice Phoenix surged beyond Level 70 strength.
• Tang San charged Shui Bing'er with his Clear Sky Hammer, but she used an ice river to soften his attacks and drain his Soul Power.
• Shui Bing'er froze Tang San and blasted him into a pillar outside the arena, leaving him injured and defeated.

Skywater Academy defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy with its powerful fusion skill, leaving Yu Xiaogang’s team eliminated and its members gravely injured. Yu Xiaogang tried to evade his bet with Su Ran by appealing to Spirit Hall Academy, but Su Ran confronted him over Liu Erlong and had Ye Lingling use True Words on him.

• Skywater Academy used Ice Snow Rain Falling to defeat Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Spirit Hall healers found Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Tianheng near death with their Martial Souls damaged.
• Ning Rongrong and the other senior sisters healed Skywater Academy and mocked Yu Xiaogang’s team for losing in the top sixteen.
• Yu Xiaogang broke down over the defeat, then remembered his bet and hoped Spirit Hall Academy could still help him win.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed the Martial Soul Hall Team were his students, but Xie Yue and Hu Liena denied studying under him, while Ning Rongrong and Wang Sheng condemned his excuse.
• Su Ran confronted Yu Xiaogang about pressuring Liu Erlong to join Peach Blossom Spring, and Ye Lingling used Soul Seizing Technique: True Words to put him into a soul-lost state.

Yu Xiaogang confessed that he had planned to exploit Liu Erlong and use her to steal Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s secrets, devastating her. After Su Ran’s wager was settled, Yu Xiaogang was left gravely mutilated, and Bibi Dong challenged Su Ran without proof that he had attacked.

• Ye Lingling’s Soul Seizing Technique forced Yu Xiaogang to reveal his plans to use Liu Erlong and potentially have her kidnap Peach Blossom Spring students.
• Liu Erlong heard Yu Xiaogang’s confession and realized his feelings for her had been a means to exploit her.
• Su Ran invoked the wager after Yu Xiaogang’s team lost, and Yu Xiaogang’s legs and tongue were severed as the system judged the wager.
• The system awarded Su Ran Soul Ring Age enhancement points, Soul Bone draws, and rewards for leading his disciples to the quarterfinals.
• Bibi Dong confronted Su Ran over Yu Xiaogang’s injuries, but Su Ran denied attacking him and she had no evidence against him.

Su Ran faced Bibi Dong at Pope’s Hall over his bet with Yu Xiaogang, but Golden Crocodile intervened on behalf of the Elder Hall. Su Ran accepted Golden Crocodile’s invitation to meet someone, leaving the students in Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin’s care.

• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin sided with Su Ran as Bibi Dong prepared to use her Martial Soul Power.
• Golden Crocodile arrived and declared Su Ran a guest of the Elder Hall, stopping Bibi Dong from interfering.
• Golden Crocodile revealed that he was Spirit Hall’s Second Worship and invited Su Ran to meet someone, promising not to harm his Teacher.
• Su Ran accepted the invitation and entrusted the girls’ safety to Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin.

Qian Renxue invited Su Ran to join Elder Hall and help Spirit Hall unify the Two Great Empires, but he refused and challenged her to consider the human cost of conquest. Moved by his words, she asked him to accept her as his disciple and teach her how to govern the continent and its people.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo escorted Su Ran to Angel Garden, where Qian Renxue introduced herself and thanked him for his teaching and abilities.
• Qian Renxue offered Su Ran the position of Chief Academic Elder and presented the Angel Token to invite him to lead and train Spirit Hall’s soul masters.
• Su Ran refused to join Spirit Hall and warned Qian Renxue that unification would bring bloodshed without answering how the continent should be governed afterward.
• Qian Renxue acknowledged that Su Ran’s questions had awakened her to problems Spirit Hall needed to consider.
• Qian Renxue asked Su Ran to accept her as his disciple and teach her how to govern the continent, build an enduring empire, and care for its people.

Qian Renxue asked Su Ran to remove his mask, prompting him to realize that confronting his own life and identity was the Ninth Tribulation standing between him and the Titled Realm. As he began a powerful breakthrough beneath the Peach Tree, Qian Renxue guarded his enlightenment and called him her teacher.

• Su Ran offered to teach Qian Renxue a cultivation path better than the one she followed, but she said she would consider becoming his disciple and asked to see his face.
• Qian Renxue reflected on her years of disguise and urged Su Ran to stop hiding behind his mask and return to being himself.
• Su Ran realized that his Ninth Tribulation concerned his present life and his ability to face himself as a teacher, and he began breaking through beneath the magnolias.
• Qian Renxue stood guard over Su Ran's enlightenment and told Golden Crocodile Douluo not to let anyone enter or leave, startling him by calling Su Ran her teacher.

Su Ran broke through to Level 94, gained powerful new Soul Rings, and removed his mask after reaching a state of True Self of Freedom. Inspired by their conversation, Qian Renxue formally became his disciple and pledged to cultivate by his side.

• Qian Daoliu learned that Qian Renxue had called the young Su Ran her Teacher, while Golden Crocodile Douluo described Su Ran's accomplishments.
• Su Ran completed his breakthrough beneath the Magnolia Tree, reaching Level 94 and displaying nine Soul Rings, including one marked with gold.
• Su Ran thanked Qian Renxue for guiding his insight into True Self of Freedom and removed his mask, revealing his face.
• Qian Renxue was overwhelmed by Su Ran's appearance and told him she would become his disciple and cultivate beside him.
• Qian Renxue knelt and formally acknowledged Su Ran as her Teacher, asking him to call her Xue'er.

Su Ran accepted Qian Renxue as his fourteenth disciple, then learned that the Soul Master Competition semifinals had been moved to Spirit City. When Ning Rongrong’s team reached Pope’s Hall for its match, they discovered that Martial Soul Hall had concealed the venue change from Peach Blossom Spring Academy, apparently hoping to force the team to forfeit.

• Su Ran accepted Qian Renxue as his disciple, gave her a Peach Blossom Token, and received system rewards for taking her on.
• Su Ran learned that two days had passed and that the quarterfinals were over; Worship Golden Crocodile told him the semifinals had been moved to Spirit City.
• Qian Renxue asked Worship Golden Crocodile to mobilize elders in case anyone from Pope’s Hall acted against Su Ran.
• While Su Ran was away, Ning Rongrong led Peach Blossom Spring Academy through the quarterfinals and drew Martial Soul Hall Academy for the semifinal promotion round.
• Ning Rongrong and the team arrived at Pope’s Hall, where Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin realized that the other academies were missing and suspected a trap.
• Yao Zi, Mu Yunzhu, Mu Yunteng, Shui Yue'er, Shui Bing'er, Xue Wu, and Leng Yuehan reported that Martial Soul Hall had sent Peach Blossom Spring Academy to Pope’s Hall while changing the venue for the other teams.

Bibi Dong followed Yu Xiaogang’s plan to keep Peach Blossom Spring Academy from the semi-finals, hoping to clear the way for the Martial Soul Hall Team. Just before the deadline, Su Ran arrived in person with the academy’s allies, revealed his unmasked face, and stunned the arena as he declared that he would compete.

• Yu Xiaogang urged Bibi Dong in a blood-written letter to manipulate the tournament and eliminate Peach Blossom Spring Academy by forfeiting its match.
• As the five-minute deadline neared, the Martial Soul Hall Team and the other advancing teams waited while Yu Xiaogang celebrated what he believed was Su Ran’s elimination.
• Su Ran used Spatial Shift to appear in the arena with Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, the Mu Yunteng sisters, Ning Fengzhi, and Chen Xin.
• Su Ran announced that he would represent Peach Blossom Spring Academy against the Martial Soul Hall Team, displaying nine Soul Rings and his unmasked appearance.
• Bibi Dong and the spectators became entranced by Su Ran, while Yu Xiaogang recognized him, fell from his wheelchair, and vomited blood.

Su Ran returned to the competition arena and revealed that he had registered as a nineteen-year-old contestant, prompting Pope Bibi Dong to verify his age. After confirming he met the age requirement, Bibi Dong had Martial Soul Hall Academy forfeit rather than face him.

• Su Ran appeared before the Peach Blossom Spring Academy students, renewing their hopes and drawing admiration from the crowd.
• Su Ran showed the host that his name appeared on the roster as a contestant, and the host questioned whether a nine-ring Titled Douluo could be nineteen.
• Bibi Dong dismissed Yu Xiaogang from Spirit City and ordered the return of his Pope's Edict before personally examining Su Ran's bones.
• Su Ran stopped Bibi Dong when her examination became improper, and she confirmed that he was under twenty.
• Bibi Dong declared that Martial Soul Hall Academy would surrender rather than continue against Su Ran.

After exposing Pope's Hall's manipulation of the quarterfinals, Su Ran demanded fair competition, and Bibi Dong agreed to a rematch and offered compensation. The rematch began with Peach Blossom Spring Academy facing Star Luo Royal Academy, while Qian Renxue regretted that her plan to rescue Su Ran and win his affection had fallen apart.

• Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and the other Peach Blossom Spring Students confronted Bibi Dong for interfering with the competition and objected to her surrender.
• Su Ran accused Pope's Hall of changing the venue and obstructing his students, then proposed either letting Peach Blossom Spring Academy compete or redoing the quarterfinals by fair lot.
• Plant Academy supported Su Ran, and Bibi Dong accepted a quarterfinal rematch, apologized, and promised compensation and increased rewards for the teams.
• The teams returned to the arena, where Skywater Academy and Plant Academy members learned that Su Ran was Peach Blossom Spring Academy's teacher, not a student.
• The rematch draw gave byes to Plant Academy and Spirit Hall Academy and matched Peach Blossom Spring Academy against Star Luo Royal Academy first.
• Qian Renxue regretted that Bibi Dong had not started a fight, ruining her plan to rescue Su Ran and make him indebted to her.

Zhu Zhuqing faced her sister Zhu Zhuyun and Dai Weisi in the Star Luo Royal Academy match, determined to challenge the marriage alliance that had controlled her fate. With her teammates’ support, she chose to fight them alone and revealed her transformed Nine Nether Ghost Cat martial soul.

• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun mocked Zhu Zhuqing over her broken ties with Dai Mubai and threatened to report him to the Star Luo Emperor.
• Wang Sheng, Ning Rongrong, and the Peach Blossom Spring Academy team defended Zhu Zhuqing and promised to help her claim control of her own destiny.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked to fight Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun alone, while her teammates agreed to hold off the rest of the Star Luo Royal Academy team.
• Zhu Zhuqing invoked the Nine Nether Ghost Cat, whose aura made Zhu Zhuyun feel bloodline suppression, and summoned the Yama Pagoda with four Soul Rings.
• Zhu Zhuqing declared that she could defeat the Hell White Tiger without relying on another person and activated Ten Palaces of Hell, Black Rope Great Hell.