Chapter Summaries

After three years of daily sign-ins, Lu Xiao reached Level Ninety-nine Limit Douluo just as a Heavenly Dao Sky Screen announced a ranking of the continent’s twenty strongest Martial Souls. At Big Dipper Academy, Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong speculated about their chances before Teacher Li Bai began their combat assessment.

• Lu Xiao received a year of cultivation advancement and a Random Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone Box, then broke through to Limit Douluo.
• A golden Sky Screen appeared across the continent and announced a Martial Soul Ranking whose selected holders would receive Heavenly Dao blessings.
• Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong gathered at the Central Plaza and asked Lu Xiao about the ranking; he told them they would find out in three days.
• Teacher Li Bai began combat training and challenged the three girls to touch his clothes to pass their assessment.
• Ning Rongrong buffed her teammates, Zhu Zhuqing attacked Li Bai’s flank, and Dugu Yan spread Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison to block his retreat.

Li Bai effortlessly defeated Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong in their combat assessment, leaving them impressed by Big Dipper Academy’s mysterious teachers. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi suspected that the continent-wide Martial Soul Ranking was the work of a God-level expert.

• Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong attacked Li Bai with coordinated tactics, but he evaded and countered their strongest moves without summoning his Martial Soul.
• Li Bai outlasted the assessment and told the three women that they had failed because the gap in their strengths was too great.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan reflected on their progress and became more curious about Big Dipper Academy’s powerful teachers.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong examined the Martial Soul Ranking’s sky-spanning Light Screen at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi concluded that the ranking might have appeared because a legendary God-level expert had arrived in the world.

Ning Fengzhi, Spirit Hall, and Qian Daoliu’s enshrined ones reacted to the mysterious Martial Soul Ranking and the Sky Screen’s overwhelming power. After the screen injured Gui Mei and Yue Guan, Qian Daoliu judged its power to be greater than that of the Angel God, while the enshrined ones expected Qian Renxue to rank near the top.

• Ning Fengzhi connected the Sky Screen’s appearance to Ning Rongrong’s disappearance and decided to wait for the ranking while monitoring Spirit Hall and the continent.
• Bibi Dong ordered Gui Mei and Yue Guan to test the Sky Screen, but its golden ripples injured them and cracked Bibi Dong’s shield as she caught them.
• Bibi Dong concluded that the Sky Screen’s power did not come from any known deity in the God Realm and grew more wary of it.
• Qian Daoliu told the enshrined ones that the Sky Screen’s ancient power seemed to stand above even the Angel God.
• Falling Devil Douluo and Thousand Jun Douluo predicted that Qian Renxue’s Six-winged Angel Martial Soul would rank among the top three and hoped she would receive a reward.

Qian Daoliu warned Spirit Hall's enshrined ones that the Martial Soul Ranking and the Golden Sky Screen held unknown variables, while Qian Renxue and the Shrek students considered their chances. The chapter left Qian Renxue confident she would claim a reward and Shrek's students eager to rise in the rankings.

• Qian Daoliu reminded the enshrined ones that Bo Saixi's Sea God Martial Soul and other unknown divine inheritances could rival Qian Renxue's Six-winged Angel Martial Soul.
• Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo told Qian Renxue that the Sky Screen had gravely injured powerful Soul Masters and could not be controlled by any continental force.
• Qian Renxue considered the possibility of stronger Martial Souls but resolved that she would claim the Heavenly Dao Bestowal reward.
• Dai Mubai, Oscar, Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun praised Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer and predicted that the Shrek students' Martial Souls would rank highly.
• Tang San encouraged his companions and said the Shrek Seven Devils would make a name for themselves at the future Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.

After three days of anticipation, the Martial Soul Ranking named Yu Yuanzhen’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon twentieth, shocking the continent because such a renowned Martial Soul ranked lower than expected. Yu Yuanzhen received a major increase in strength and warned his clan that the continent might soon change.

• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang discussed the ranking and expected Tang San and the other Shrek students to place highly.
• After three days, the Sky Screen announced Yu Yuanzhen’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon as the twentieth-ranked Martial Soul and awarded him a Soul Power level and five hundred years to each Soul Ring.
• Yu Yuanzhen broke through from level 95 to level 96 as the reward strengthened his Soul Rings.
• Yu Luomian congratulated Yu Yuanzhen, who ordered the clan to cultivate harder and remain vigilant before entering seclusion.

Bibi Dong received the rewards for ranking nineteenth and eighteenth with her two Martial Souls, breaking through to Limit Douluo and strengthening Spirit Hall’s position. She ordered Gui Mei and Yue Guan to track and recruit or eliminate other ranked Soul Masters, while Qian Daoliu watched the rankings and wondered how Qian Renxue’s Six-winged Angel would fare.

• Bibi Dong was astonished that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon ranked twentieth, and Gui Mei and Yue Guan doubted their own Martial Souls would make the list.
• The Sky Screen ranked Bibi Dong’s Death Spider Emperor nineteenth, and its reward raised her Soul Power to level 99, making her a Limit Douluo.
• The Soul Devouring Spider Emperor ranked eighteenth, and its reward doubled the quality of Bibi Dong’s Soul Power and increased her Soul Ring ages again.
• Bibi Dong ordered Gui Mei and Yue Guan to watch the ranked Soul Masters, recruit them if possible, and eliminate those who might threaten Spirit Hall.
• Qian Daoliu sensed Bibi Dong’s increased power and killing intent, then chose to watch the rankings and consider the prospects of Qian Renxue’s Six-winged Angel.

The Heavenly Dao ranking placed Gu Rong’s Bone Dragon 17th and Golden Crocodile Douluo’s Golden Crocodile King 16th, granting both powerful rewards. Golden Crocodile Douluo broke through to Limit Douluo, while Bibi Dong was unsettled by how many Martial Souls ranked above them.

• The Heavenly Dao ranked Gu Rong’s Bone Dragon 17th, and its reward raised his Soul Power to Level 96 and strengthened his Soul Rings and spatial control.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin congratulated Gu Rong, while Chen Xin and Gu Rong worried about the ranking’s standards and what lay ahead for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Bibi Dong dismissed the Bone Dragon’s ranking, then reacted with alarm when the Heavenly Dao ranked Golden Crocodile Douluo’s Golden Crocodile King 16th.
• Qian Daoliu encouraged Golden Crocodile Douluo to accept the reward, and the energy raised him from Level 98 to Rank 99, making him a Limit Douluo.

The Seven Killing Sword ranked 15th, shocking Soul Masters across the continent and undermining confidence in even the greatest known Martial Souls. Sword Douluo Chen Xin was left stunned as he wondered what powers could rank above his sword.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo learned that the Golden Crocodile King ranked 16th, while Qian Daoliu worried about how the Six-winged Angel would fare.
• Shrek Academy’s Yu Xiaogang reaffirmed his faith in Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang San resolved to investigate the continent’s hidden powers.
• Qian Renxue ordered Pufferfish and Snake Lance to increase surveillance of the Sky Screen, the Star Luo Empire, and other sects.
• The Sky Screen announced that Chen Xin’s Seven Killing Sword ranked 15th and awarded him increased Soul Power, older Soul Rings, and the Seven Killing Sword Domain.
• Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin reacted with shock to the ranking, and Chen Xin wondered what fourteen Martial Souls could surpass his sword.

Chen Xin received the Heavenly Dao reward for ranking fifteenth, breaking through to Rank 97 and awakening a Sword Domain. The ranking unsettled powerful figures across the continent, who wondered what Martial Souls stood ahead of the Seven Killing Sword.

• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong comforted Chen Xin over his fifteenth-place ranking, and he accepted it as a sign that greater peaks awaited him.
• The Heavenly Dao reward raised Chen Xin to Rank 97, transformed his Soul Rings, and helped him form a Sword Domain.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall’s intelligence network to locate the reward pillars after the Seven Killing Sword’s ranking exceeded her expectations.
• The Worship Hall’s worshippers worried that their Martial Souls might not rank highly, while Qian Daoliu defended the potential of Qian Renxue’s Angel Martial Soul.
• At Shrek Academy, Flender and the students stared in disbelief at the Seven Killing Sword’s fifteenth-place ranking.

After the Seven Killing Sword ranked 15th and Bone Dragon ranked 17th, Yu Xiaogang tried to steady Tang San and the others at Shrek Academy. At Big Dipper Academy, Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong realized that the academy’s teachers and Lu Xiao might possess Martial Souls even more powerful than those ranked above them.

• Zhao Wuji and Yu Xiaogang were shocked that the Seven Killing Sword ranked 15th, while Tang San questioned what the ranking meant for the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San not to let the ranking shake him and told him to wait calmly and prepare.
• Ning Rongrong asked Lu Xiao why Sword Douluo’s and Bone Douluo’s Martial Souls ranked so low, and Lu Xiao told her to focus on the rewards and improving her strength.
• Zhu Zhuqing considered how powerful Li Bai, Zhuang Zhou, and Lu Xiao seemed and suspected that their Martial Souls might surpass the Seven Killing Sword and Bone Dragon.
• Zhu Zhuqing prompted Ning Rongrong to consider where stronger Martial Souls might be, and both girls realized the academy’s people could possess them.

The Sky Screen ranked Dugu Yan’s evolved Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor 14th, awarding her increased Soul Power and a new domain. At Big Dipper Academy, Lu Xiao explained that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the academy’s resources had transformed her Martial Soul.

• The Sky Screen announced Dugu Yan of Big Dipper Academy in 14th place, citing her Martial Soul’s ice, fire, and mutated poison attributes.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong discussed the ranking and suspected Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul had evolved in Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Yan received three Soul Power levels, strengthened Soul Rings, and a vision of the Ice Fire Poison Miasma Domain.
• Dugu Yan excitedly told Lu Xiao about her ranking, while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing reacted with surprise and envy.
• Lu Xiao explained that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Bo’s decision, and academy resources had helped transform Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul.

The Sky Screen ranked Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer thirteenth, stunning Soul Masters across the continent and unsettling the leaders of several major powers. Bibi Dong ordered an investigation into Tang San, Dugu Yan, Shrek Academy, and Big Dipper Academy as everyone awaited the rankings above them.

• Dugu Bo saw Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor ranking and rejoiced that her time at Big Dipper Academy had given her a limitless future.
• The Sky Screen ranked Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer thirteenth and granted him three Soul Power levels, older Soul Rings, and insight into the Great Sumeru Hammer.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong were shocked by the Clear Sky Hammer’s ranking and questioned who Tang San was and what Martial Souls ranked ahead of it.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to find Tang San and Dugu Yan and investigate Shrek Academy and Big Dipper Academy.
• Qian Daoliu’s confidence in the Six-winged Angel Martial Soul wavered, while Yu Xiaogang was devastated by the ranking.

Tang San was devastated when the Clear Sky Hammer ranked thirteenth, while the Clear Sky Sect debated finding him and the continent reacted to the ranking. The list then placed Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda twelfth and awarded her powerful rewards, leaving her thrilled at Big Dipper Academy.

• Tang San clenched his bleeding hands in shock over the Clear Sky Hammer’s thirteenth-place ranking, and Yu Xiaogang reminded him that he also possessed Blue Silver Grass.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing realized the Clear Sky Hammer’s low ranking showed how formidable Big Dipper Academy and its dean might be.
• Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders discussed the unknown Tang San and decided to wait and watch the rankings before acting.
• The Heavenly Dao Ranking List placed Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda twelfth and awarded her four soul-power levels, older soul rings, a domain, and an Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Ning Rongrong celebrated her ranking and rewards at Big Dipper Academy.

Ning Rongrong received an Aromatic Silk Beauty from the Heavenly Dao reward, evolving her Martial Soul and gaining a Domain, while Dugu Yan also revealed the nature of her new Domain. Lu Xiao assessed both Domains and reminded the students to keep cultivating their own strength.

• Ning Rongrong received an Aromatic Silk Beauty, advanced her Soul Power, gained four thousand-year Soul Rings, and awakened the Glazed Divine Light Domain.
• Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan comforted Zhu Zhuqing, who resolved to cultivate harder despite not receiving a reward.
• Li Bai noticed Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan’s Innate Domains and teased them about bringing new tricks to their next assessment.
• Lu Xiao observed that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda ranked above the Clear Sky Hammer because of its strategic value as an ultimate support Martial Soul.
• Ning Rongrong explained that Glazed Divine Light strengthened her support Soul Skills and weakened enemies’ attributes, while Dugu Yan described her poisonous miasma Domain’s effects.
• Lu Xiao praised both Domains but warned Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan not to rely on them instead of their own cultivation, Soul Skills, and fighting will.

The Martial Soul Ranking revealed that Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was ranked twelfth, prompting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to recognize Big Dipper Academy as the source of her evolution. The Six-winged Angel was then revealed at eleventh place, leaving Spirit Hall alarmed by the unknown powers above it.

• Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin celebrated Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and noticed she was at Big Dipper Academy.
• Ning Fengzhi concluded that Big Dipper Academy had helped Rongrong evolve her Martial Soul, while Chen Xin warned against visiting the mysterious academy rashly.
• Bibi Dong ordered Gui Mei and Yue Guan to investigate Big Dipper Academy and determine whether it possessed a method for Martial Soul Evolution.
• The Ranking List placed Qian Renxue’s Six-winged Angel at eleventh place, identifying it as a God-Tier Martial Soul with 78% development and awarding rewards.
• Qian Daoliu told the enshrined ones that the ranking likely reflected more than Martial Soul quality and power, while they wondered what could rank above the Six-winged Angel.

The Martial Soul Ranking revealed the Sea God in tenth place, deepening fears about the power of the nine entries above it. Bo Saixi and the other factions were left anticipating what the remaining rankings would reveal.

• Bibi Dong and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect leaders reacted with alarm to the Six-winged Angel ranking eleventh and suspected Big Dipper Academy was connected to the top-ranked Martial Souls.
• Qian Renxue received five Soul Power levels, two God-bestowed Soul Bones, and a new five-ring configuration, then considered why her Martial Soul had ranked so low.
• Bo Saixi warned the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians that the Sea God might not rank among the top three, despite their initial confidence.
• The Sky Screen announced the Sea God Martial Soul, held by Bo Saixi, in tenth place and granted her several rewards, including a Divine Skill and a Demigod Artifact.

The Martial Soul Ranking revealed Zhuang Zhou of Big Dipper Academy in ninth place, granting him powerful rewards for his Northern Darkness Kun. The revelation alarmed powerful factions across the continent, while Zhuang Zhou remained enveloped in golden light at Big Dipper Academy.

• The ranking named Zhuang Zhou’s Northern Darkness Kun ninth and awarded him three Soul Power Levels, older Soul Rings, a hundred-thousand-year God-given Torso Bone, Dreamlike Freedom, and Kunpeng Extreme Speed.
• Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin discussed the Martial Soul’s abilities and raised their assessment of Big Dipper Academy and Zhuang Zhou’s threat.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to investigate Zhuang Zhou and Big Dipper Academy, declaring that the academy must be destroyed if its power could not be controlled.
• Di Tian reported the Northern Darkness Kun’s abilities to his Liege, who ordered the Star Dou Great Forest’s inhabitants to watch Big Dipper Academy without provoking it.
• Bo Saixi reflected on the Northern Darkness Kun’s purification and spatial traversal abilities as Zhuang Zhou lay atop a phantom Kunpeng within Big Dipper Academy.

Zhuang Zhou’s Northern Darkness Kun powers stunned the students, and the Sky Screen revealed Lu Bu’s Sky Halberd as the eighth-ranked Martial Soul, able to ignore every form of defense. The revelation heightened the continent’s fear of Big Dipper Academy as Lu Bu received his rewards and displayed his overwhelming strength.

• Zhuang Zhou merged the Dreamlike Freedom Domain and Kunpeng Extreme Speed into his body, then used the Kunpeng phantom to fade into the Void and resume sleeping.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan marvelled at Zhuang Zhou’s abilities and wondered about his Soul Power Level.
• The Sky Screen ranked Lu Bu’s Sky Halberd eighth, revealing its defense-ignoring power and granting him Soul Power, Soul Ring, Soul Bone, Domain, and combat skill rewards.
• Gu Rong, Chen Xin, and Ning Fengzhi feared the Sky Halberd’s attack, while Bibi Dong considered bringing Big Dipper Academy under control or eliminating it.
• Lu Bu received the Golden Light Pillar’s baptism as his Soul Power and Soul Rings transformed, and his Asura Battlefield Domain spread across the plaza.

Lu Bu revealed his overwhelming strength and nine Soul Rings, while Cai Wenji and Sikong Zhen arrived at Big Dipper Academy after Cai Wenji obtained her Ninth Soul Ring. The students learned that Cai Wenji had become a Titled Douluo and that Sikong Zhen had helped her defeat a Life-attribute Soul Beast close to a hundred thousand years old.

• Lu Bu showed off his Sky Halberd and nine Soul Rings, and Lu Xiao silenced his laughter by threatening to send him to chop firewood.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan learned that Lu Bu was a Titled Douluo with seven Black and two Red Soul Rings.
• Cai Wenji and Sikong Zhen arrived at the plaza, where the girls greeted their teachers respectfully.
• Cai Wenji revealed her nine Soul Rings and explained that Sikong Zhen had accompanied her to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain her Ninth Soul Ring.
• Cai Wenji said she and Sikong Zhen had encountered and defeated a Life-attribute Soul Beast close to a hundred thousand years old.

The Heavenly Dao ranked Cai Wenji’s Life Reincarnation Qin seventh and Sikong Zhen’s Nine Heavens Divine Thunder sixth, granting them powerful rewards. Their revelations further stunned the continent and left Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan wondering whether Big Dipper Academy would claim the remaining top six spots.

• The Heavenly Dao ranked Cai Wenji’s Life Reincarnation Qin seventh and awarded her three Soul Power levels, stronger Soul Rings, Soul Bones, a Divine Skill, and Healing Divine Water.
• Cai Wenji explained that the Healing Divine Water could revive the recently dead and heal even severe physical and Divine Soul wounds.
• The continent’s factions focused on the six remaining ranking spots and questioned whether Big Dipper Academy would continue to dominate.
• The Heavenly Dao ranked Sikong Zhen’s Nine Heavens Divine Thunder sixth and rewarded him with increased power, a domain, a Soul Bone, and a Divine Skill.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan recognized Sikong Zhen as a Titled Douluo and marveled at his Martial Soul’s strength.