Chapter Summaries

Zhu Zhuqing defeated Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun with her Nine Nether Ghost Cat martial soul, securing Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s victory over Star Luo Royal Academy. She rejected the Star Luo imperial struggle and said she wanted only to stay by her teacher’s side and continue learning and cultivating.

• Zhu Zhuyun and Dai Weisi fused their martial souls into the Hell White Tiger, but Zhu Zhuqing trapped and weakened them with her Ten Palaces of Hell and Yellow Springs Ferry.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed that her martial soul was the Nine Nether Ghost Cat and explained that she no longer needed to borrow the White Tiger’s strength.
• Dai Weisi offered to make Zhu Zhuqing his secondary consort, and Ning Rongrong prepared to strike him before Zhu Zhuqing stopped her.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Zhu Zhuyun she had no interest in fighting for the imperial family and wanted to remain by her teacher’s side, learning and cultivating.
• The referee declared Peach Blossom Spring Academy the winner, while Zhu Zhuyun stood stunned by Zhu Zhuqing’s change.

After the day's matches, Bibi Dong treasured Su Ran's warning note and told Hu Liena and Xie Yue not to expect victory against his students. Ghost Douluo then reported the casualties caused by a weapon he believed Su Ran had supplied to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, leaving Bibi Dong to order action against Tang San and to display the note's maxim in Pope's Hall.

• Bibi Dong found Su Ran's discarded warning note, placed it in a golden box, and told Hu Liena and Xie Yue that they need not fixate on winning against Su Ran's team.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue speculated that Bibi Dong had fallen for Su Ran, while Ghost Douluo warned them not to entertain thoughts of leaving Martial Soul Hall.
• Ghost Douluo reported that seventy-six Soul Masters had been injured or killed in the clash with Peach Blossom Spring Academy's students, and showed Bibi Dong the bullets that had caused most of the casualties.
• Bibi Dong concluded that Su Ran had supplied the bullets to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, blamed Yu Xiaogang for the conflict, and ordered Ghost Douluo to ensure Tang San was not spared.
• Bibi Dong ordered a plaque bearing the words “Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire” to be hung in the center of Pope's Hall.

Su Ran’s students prepared for the elimination matches while their peers remained captivated by his appearance. Skywater Academy and Plant Academy won their matches and advanced to the semifinals, with Mu Yunzhu’s sword technique stunning the spectators; Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s match against Martial Soul Hall Academy remained to be fought.

• Shui Yue'er, Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, and the other students discussed Su Ran, while Chen Xin urged them to rest and focus on the matches.
• Leng Yuehan questioned Shui Yue'er and Shui Bing'er about Su Ran before the day’s matchups were announced.
• Skywater Academy defeated Earth Armor Academy with its Ice Snow Rain Falling martial soul fusion skill and advanced to the semifinals.
• Yao Zi and Mu Yunteng supported Mu Yunzhu as she used the White Ape Sword Technique to overwhelm Wind Sword Sect Academy’s swordsmen.
• Plant Academy defeated Wind Sword Sect Academy and advanced, while Chen Xin recognized the skill and danger behind Mu Yunzhu’s sword technique.

Peach Blossom Spring Academy faced the Martial Soul Hall Academy Team in the tournament semifinals, and its students overwhelmed their opponents with the techniques Su Ran had taught them. Hu Liena and Xie Yue were beaten despite using their fusion skill, leaving Martial Soul Hall defeated and Hu Liena shaken.

• Bibi Dong and the others praised Su Ran's teaching after watching Skywater Academy and Plant Academy compete.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and the rest of Martial Soul Hall Academy prepared to face Peach Blossom Spring Academy, hoping to put up a fight despite expecting a loss.
• Peach Blossom Spring Academy countered Martial Soul Hall's Bewitching Charm by splitting into individual matchups and unleashing the techniques they had trained throughout the year.
• The Peach Blossom Spring students relentlessly overwhelmed the Martial Soul Hall Team until its members begged to forfeit.
• Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan dragged Hu Liena and Xie Yue back into the fray and continued beating them, while Bibi Dong watched in disbelief.

Su Ran’s three disciple teams competed in the grand finals, where Peach Blossom Spring Academy won the championship, Skywater Academy took second place, and Plant Academy finished third. The chapter ended with Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er’s newly learned fusion skill defeating Plant Academy in the final match.

• Pope Bibi Dong and Ning Fengzhi announced the championship rewards, including a replacement Soul Bone and Gold Soul Coins for each champion team member.
• Skywater Academy drew the bye, and Peach Blossom Spring Academy defeated Plant Academy using Basic Ultimate Skills and the Power of the Martial Soul.
• Peach Blossom Spring Academy defeated Skywater Academy in the second match, with Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan overcoming Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er to secure the championship.
• Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er combined their abilities against Plant Academy, whose disciples answered with their own combined skill.
• Skywater Academy won the final match with Ice Snow Rain Falling: Heavenly Phoenix and claimed Runner-up, while Plant Academy took Third Place.

Su Ran rejected Pope Bibi Dong’s gifts after Peach Blossom Spring Academy won the competition, then led the champion, runner-up, and third-place students away with new rewards from the system. Outside Spirit City, Flender abandoned Yu Xiaogang after berating him, and Tang Hao appeared to confront him over how he had raised Xiao San.

• Pope Bibi Dong awarded Peach Blossom Spring Academy three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and offered Su Ran an exclusive token, but Su Ran refused the token and gave Chen Xin three peach branches containing sword intent.
• Su Ran led the students out of Pope's Hall and received system rewards for their championship, runner-up, and third-place finishes, including increased soul power and an upgraded Glory Master's Crown.
• Bibi Dong admired Su Ran as he left and told Hu Liena she believed he was playing hard to get.
• Flender told the wheelchair-bound Yu Xiaogang that Shrek Academy had fallen apart and he would take him back to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, then kicked and abandoned him after Yu Xiaogang reacted angrily.
• Yu Xiaogang despaired over his ruined plans until Xiao San appeared, and Tang Hao angrily confronted him for what he had done to his son.

Dugu Yan and the students returned safely to Peach Blossom Spring Academy after the Soul Master Competition, where Dugu Bo learned that Su Ran had also come back unharmed. Seeing Su Ran without his mask, Dugu Bo was stunned and decided Yan'er should try to win him over.

• In a nightmare, Tang Hao beat Yu Xiaogang, ended their teacher-student relationship, and demanded the return of his Pope's Edict.
• Dugu Bo tended the academy's rare plants and credited Su Ran's poison-core method with improving his health and raising his Soul Power to rank 93.
• Dugu Yan returned from the competition, reassured Dugu Bo that Su Ran and the students were safe, and told her grandfather not to touch her head or bring up her former relationship.
• Dugu Bo visited Su Ran and was shocked to see his handsome face without a mask.
• Dugu Bo thought Yan'er should win Su Ran over, and Su Ran stood up and called the students to assemble.

After Peach Blossom Spring Academy won the Soul Master Competition, Su Ran thanked his students and reminded them that the championship was only a milestone in their training. He awarded each of the seven disciples a Soul Bone and left them facing a new stage of growth.

• Dugu Yan hurried away from Grandpa Dugu Bo's matchmaking advice and joined the Core Disciples beneath the Peach Blossom Tree.
• Su Ran bowed to thank his seven students for helping him grow, and the students knelt to honor his teaching.
• Su Ran told the champions that the competition was only a phased assessment and urged them to keep training until they could surpass him.
• Su Ran gave Ning Rongrong a thirty-thousand-year Sky-Rending Right Arm Bone and Zhu Zhuqing a Shadow Wings External Soul Bone.
• Su Ran awarded Xiao Wu, Wang Sheng, and Dugu Yan Soul Bones suited to their abilities and training needs.
• Su Ran praised Meng Yiran's support during the competition and gave her a Spirit-Connecting Left Arm Bone, then gave Ye Lingling the Life and Death Reversal Double Bone.

After returning to Peach Garden Academy, Su Ran’s seven disciples resumed cultivation and improved their skills and soul power with their new soul bones. He assessed their progress and prepared to teach them Grandmaster-Level Ultimate Skills, with several disciples nearing the point where they could begin.

• The seven students distributed the competition’s soul bones, with Ning Rongrong receiving the Head Spirit Soul Bone and Zhu Zhuqing receiving the Chasing Wind Leg Bone; they gave the remaining bones to the academy for future students.
• The disciples returned to their routines: Wang Sheng and Ye Lingling trained at the academy gate, while the others sought Su Ran’s guidance in their cultivation.
• Su Ran reviewed the seven disciples’ cultivation panels and noted Ning Rongrong’s progress, including her strengthened Inch Strength after absorbing two soul bones.
• Su Ran told his disciples that Grandmaster-Level Ultimate Skills would be far more demanding than their current training and outlined which students were close to beginning them.
• Su Ran planned to train his seven Core Disciples toward mastery before the students from Skywater Academy and Plant Academy came to report in.

Su Ran summoned Ning Rongrong to the martial arts arena and taught her the Indestructible Vajra skill after her Golden Bell Shield advanced. The chapter ended with Su Ran demonstrating its three realms, his body shining like gold as the watching students stared in amazement.

• Su Ran praised Xiao Chenyu's progress in the Hungry Wolf Fist and encouraged him and Wang Sheng to keep working hard.
• Su Ran called Ning Rongrong out of class, prompting Xiao Wu, Meng Yiran, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan to secretly follow them.
• Ning Rongrong puckered up for a kiss, but Su Ran struck her on the head and scolded her for setting a poor example.
• Su Ran explained that Ning Rongrong's Golden Bell Shield was nearing mastery and offered to teach her its corresponding ultimate skill.
• Su Ran demonstrated the Indestructible Vajra's Bronze Body, Silver Body, and golden final realm before Ning Rongrong and the spying students.

Su Ran demonstrated the Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill and taught Ning Rongrong its cultivation, then began teaching Zhu Zhuqing the Nine Yin White Bone Claw. Liu Erlong watched Su Ran from afar while Dugu Bo wondered whether she had fallen for him.

• Su Ran demonstrated Heaven Splitting with a punch that blasted a long path through the clouds, astonishing Ning Rongrong and the other disciples.
• Dugu Bo and Liu Erlong witnessed Su Ran's display; Liu Erlong's Golden Circlet tightened painfully, and she told Dugu Bo that he was wrong about the reason for her pain.
• Dugu Bo suspected that Liu Erlong's feelings had shifted to Su Ran and worried that his granddaughter Dugu Yan faced rivals at the academy.
• Su Ran taught Zhu Zhuqing the Nine Yin White Bone Claw and explained that she should strike decisively at an enemy's weakness rather than focus on killing by piercing the brain.

Su Ran trained his disciples in Grandmaster Level Ultimate Skills while Tang San struggled with defeat and self-doubt. The chapter ended with Tang Hao ordering Tang San to resume hammer training beneath a waterfall.

• Su Ran explained how each disciple could develop their Grandmaster Level Ultimate Skill, and Xiao Wu struggled with the complexity of Marquis Wu's Mystical Gate.
• The Core Disciples began grueling training at Peach Blossom Spring Academy, including magnetic obstacle drills for Zhu Zhuqing and Meng Yiran and body tempering for Ning Rongrong.
• Tang San questioned his strength after losing to Skywater Academy and failing to overcome its Ice Phoenix.
• Tang Hao reassured Tang San that his martial souls held power he had yet to unlock, then ordered him to practice the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and Haotian Nine Absolutes beneath a waterfall.

Leng Cishuang, dean of Skywater Academy and mother of Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, arrived at Peach Blossom Spring Academy to investigate the teacher her family had praised. After she damaged the academy’s Peach Blossom Array, Wang Sheng recognized the sisters’ Peach Blossom Tokens and led the group inside to meet Su Ran.

• Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and their Skywater Academy companions arrived at Peach Blossom Spring Academy with Leng Cishuang and Leng Yuehan.
• A Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect patrol warned the group to turn back, but Leng Cishuang said she had come to see Su Ran and continued into the peach forest.
• The Peach Blossom Array looped the group back to their starting point, and Leng Cishuang summoned her Ice Phoenix to break through the grove.
• The array’s defenders threatened the intruders, but Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er showed their Peach Blossom Tokens, causing the branches to settle.
• Wang Sheng met the group, explained that the tokens would let them pass through the array, and invited them to follow him to Su Ran.

Wang Sheng showed Leng Cishuang and the two sisters around Peach Blossom Spring Academy, where Leng Cishuang challenged Xiao Wu’s Five Elements Eight Trigrams Peach Blossom Array and was badly beaten. After meeting Su Ran, Leng Cishuang changed her mind about the academy and asked to stay as his disciple, leaving Leng Yuehan and the sisters stunned.

• Wang Sheng explained that the damaged Peach Blossom Array was Xiao Wu’s training ground and warned that even a Soul Douluo might not escape it.
• Leng Cishuang entered the array to test it, but its shifting terrain and chained attacks overwhelmed her until the training session ended.
• Xiao Wu explained that the array required knowledge of its rules and weak points, while Leng Cishuang emerged muddy and burned, finally convinced by its power.
• Wang Sheng led Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er into the academy and showed them the rooms prepared for them as disciples.
• After changing clothes and meeting Su Ran, Leng Cishuang asked whether she could stay at Peach Blossom Spring Academy too, shocking Leng Yuehan and the sisters.

Su Ran welcomed Leng Cishuang to Peach Blossom Spring Academy, where her admiration for him stirred her daughters and nieces’ jealousy. Five former Skywater Academy students then asked to join, and Su Ran offered them places as Registered Disciples with limited direct instruction.

• Leng Cishuang visited Su Ran at Peach Blossom Spring Academy, and her warm, admiring behavior toward him unsettled Shui Yue'er, Shui Bing'er, and Leng Yuehan as they watched.
• Su Ran declined to hire Leng Cishuang but welcomed her as a guest, and she gave him a Phoenix Ring while declaring that she and her daughters would trouble him in the future.
• Wang Sheng told Su Ran that five other members of the Skywater team wanted to meet him and join the academy.
• Xue Wu, Qiu Ruoshui, Shen Liuyu, Yu Hairou, and Gu Qingbo asked to become Su Ran’s students.
• Su Ran offered the five places as Registered Disciples, explaining that they would mostly study on their own until they could be considered for promotion.

Su Ran accepted Xue Wu, Qiu Ruoshui, Gu Qingbo, Yu Hairou, and Shen Liuyu as Registered Disciples at Peach Blossom Spring Academy. Chen Xin visited after breaking through in swordsmanship and warned Su Ran that Pope Bibi Dong might target him, leaving Su Ran prepared to defend the academy.

• Su Ran reviewed the five Skywater Academy students’ talents and accepted them as Registered Disciples after they agreed to join Peach Blossom Spring Academy.
• Wang Sheng showed Xue Wu and the others their dormitory and explained the academy’s rules, including that senior sisters sometimes fought over Teacher.
• Chen Xin arrived with wine and thanked Su Ran, declaring him his Sword Dao Master after using Su Ran’s teachings to reach a new realm.
• Chen Xin recounted how his Unfettered Sword Kill had forced Pope Bibi Dong back when she tried to seize the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Hell Revolvers.
• Chen Xin warned Su Ran that Bibi Dong might target him, and Su Ran said the academy would not submit to coercion.

Su Ran gathered his core students and explained that Ye Lingling needed to use her Nine Revolutions Black Lotus to devour life force from evildoers to improve her martial soul and protect her clansmen. He chose the City of Slaughter as her new trial ground.

• Su Ran reached Level 95 Soul Power as his disciples advanced in their cultivation, and he continued guiding the academy’s students.
• Su Ran praised his seven core students for their progress and told them to continue training in their Grandmaster Ultimate Skills.
• Su Ran explained that Ye Lingling’s Nine Revolutions Black Lotus needed to devour life force to improve her Nine Heart Begonia and relieve its cost to her clansmen.
• Ye Lingling worried that absorbing life force would violate the academy’s rule against harming the innocent, and Su Ran urged her to target evildoers instead.
• Su Ran named the City of Slaughter as Ye Lingling’s new trial ground.

Su Ran agreed to take Ye Lingling, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu to the City of Slaughter for training, while warning them of its dangers. The group planned to leave in three days, and Dugu Yan and Meng Yiran stayed behind to cultivate at the academy.

• Ye Lingling resolved to enter the City of Slaughter to cultivate the Withered Glory Life and Death Great Art, and Su Ran agreed to accompany her.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked to join the trip, and Su Ran accepted after hearing her reasons for seeking a domain and further training.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu also insisted on going, while Wang Sheng chose to stay and guard the schoolhouse.
• Su Ran told Dugu Yan and Meng Yiran to remain at the academy with Wang Sheng, promising to arrange specialized training if they made progress.
• Su Ran chose Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ye Lingling for the expedition and set their departure for three days later.

Su Ran brought Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu to Slaughter Town to enter the City of Slaughter. After Ye Lingling killed several attackers with her Nine Revolutions Black Lotus, Su Ran revealed his own Black Lotus and led the group through the tavern floor into the passage beneath the city.

• Su Ran ignored the attendant’s warning and led his disciples to a tavern in Slaughter Town.
• When Villains surrounded the group, Su Ran told Ye Lingling to drain their life force with her Nine Revolutions Black Lotus.
• Ye Lingling weakened the attackers, and Su Ran used his own Black Lotus to kill the two who escaped her grasp.
• Su Ran broke through the tavern floor, and he and the four disciples fell into a passage leading to the City of Slaughter.
• Su Ran led the disciples out of the passage as a voice welcomed them to the City of Slaughter, where Slaughter Knights guarded the city gate.

Su Ran and his four disciples defeated Terror Knight Scott and the Slaughter Knights, earning entry into the City of Slaughter. After warning them about the city’s human-blood customs and scarce food, Su Ran led the group inside and faced the inner city’s Black and Red Palace.

• Scott ordered Su Ran and his disciples to kill one another or challenge the Enforcement Team, so Su Ran’s four disciples fought the charging Slaughter Knights while he stepped back.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, and Ye Lingling defeated the knights using their martial power and physical techniques, then forced Scott to grant them entry tokens.
• The five received City of Slaughter identity tokens numbered 9529 through 9533 and entered through the city gates.
• Su Ran explained that Bloody Mary was human blood and warned his disciples to preserve their humanity and store warhorse meat against food shortages.
• A female guide welcomed the group, but Su Ran declined her help and stared toward the Black and Red Palace in the inner city.