Chapter Summaries

Lin Jiang killed the Soul Masters who attacked, then declared Xiao Wu his disciple and promised her the protection of the King's Hall. Xiao Wu accepted his offer, leaving Tang San relieved as she joined Lin Jiang’s side.

• Lin Jiang used his Third Soul Skill, Divine Radiance: Creation, to erase the charging Soul Masters and their attacks.
• Lin Jiang declared Xiao Wu innocent, took her as his disciple, and warned everyone against harming her.
• Xiao Wu accepted Lin Jiang’s outstretched hand after Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing encouraged her to join them.
• Lin Jiang helped Xiao Wu to her feet, and the system confirmed her acceptance as his direct disciple and raised his cumulative Divine Power to Level 7.
• Tang San felt relieved that Xiao Wu was under Lin Jiang’s protection and focused again on obtaining the Heavenly Ranking reward.

Tang San was ranked sixth on the Heavenly Ranking and received a reward that strengthened his Soul Rings, while Yu Xiaogang demanded that Lin Jiang honor their Arena Pact. The ranking then placed Ning Rongrong fifth, revealing her God-tier Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and level 35 cultivation at age twelve.

• The Heavenly Ranking named Tang San sixth for his Twin Martial Souls, Innate Full Soul Power, and combat skills, prompting his shock and Yu Xiaogang's disbelief.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized Tang San's Blue Silver Grass as the Blue Silver Emperor and wondered what talents the top five possessed.
• The ranking reward increased Tang San's Soul Ring ages by 600 years, turning his three rings purple and strengthening him.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Lin Jiang to send someone from King's Hall to fight Tang San under their Arena Pact, while Flender privately judged Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing as potential mediocrities.
• The Heavenly Ranking named Ning Rongrong fifth, revealing her God-tier Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and level 35 cultivation at age twelve; her Soul Rings gained 700 years, and she complained to Lin Jiang that she was only fifth.

Ning Rongrong’s evolved Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda placed fifth on the Heavenly Ranking, and Zhu Zhuqing’s God-tier Shore Spirit Cat placed fourth. Yu Xiaogang insisted that Tang San’s arena opponent have lower Soul Power than his Level 31, and Lin Jiang sent a young girl from King's Hall, leaving Yu Xiaogang confident Tang San would win.

• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong learned that Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul had evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and celebrated her fifth-place ranking.
• Zhu Zhuqing was named fourth on the Heavenly Ranking with a God-tier Shore Spirit Cat and Level 37 Soul Power at twelve years old, then received the reward that increased her Soul Ring ages by 800 years.
• Flender regretted losing Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, while Yu Xiaogang was shaken that they ranked above Tang San and had advanced so quickly.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that King's Hall send a fighter below Tang San’s Level 31 Soul Power for their agreed arena challenge.
• Lin Jiang sent a petite girl from King's Hall to face Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang assumed she would be easy to defeat.

The Heavenly Ranking revealed Sun Quan as third, with twin martial souls, Innate Level 20 Full Soul Power, and a divine artifact reward, shocking the assembled factions. Sun Quan and Cao Cao watched the revelation from a boat, where they reflected on their past rivalry and reunion through The Venerable One’s power.

• Tang San invoked the arena rules and challenged the girl, who refused to back down.
• The Heavenly Ranking named Sun Quan third and revealed his twin martial souls, Innate Level 20 Full Soul Power, a thousand-year increase to all his Soul Rings, and the Lightning Dagger.
• Yu Xiaogang rejected the ranking’s revelation as impossible, while Xue Qinghe was shaken by another person possessing Innate Level 20 Full Soul Power.
• The factions and Spirit Hall Academy’s Xie Yue and Yan reacted with awe and dismay to the King's Hall’s talent and power.
• Sun Quan and Cao Cao sensed the ranking’s announcement while fishing together, and Cao Cao praised Sun Quan’s achievement.
• Sun Quan and Cao Cao discussed how they had once faced each other in war and now shared a boat after The Venerable One reunited them.

Sun Quan received the Heavenly Dao’s blessing, which strengthened his Soul Rings and gave him the Lightning Dagger. The Heavenly Ranking then revealed Ao Yin of King's Hall as its second-ranked talent, with four God-tier Martial Souls and innate level forty Soul Power, leaving the continent stunned.

• Sun Quan’s first yellow Soul Ring transformed into a purple one, and he accepted the Lightning Dagger from the Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Ranking announced Ao Yin as second place, revealing his four God-tier Martial Souls and innate level forty Soul Power.
• The Heavenly Dao permanently increased the age of Ao Yin’s existing and future Soul Rings by two thousand years and bestowed the Endless Battle Blade.
• Yu Xiaogang collapsed as Ao Yin’s talent shattered his confidence in his theories about Martial Souls.
• Bibi Dong dropped her scepter in the Pope’s Palace and murmured in disbelief at Ao Yin’s four Martial Souls and innate Soul Power.

The revelation that Ao Yin possessed four God-tier Martial Souls and Innate Level Forty alarmed powerful factions across the continent and left everyone wondering what secrets King's Hall still held. In King's Canyon, Tang San began fighting the little girl, whose counterattack drove him back despite his Mysterious Jade Hands.

• The Pope ordered Tuoba Xi summoned and demanded that Spirit Hall investigate Ao Yin, whom he feared could affect the continent's future and the ownership of divine positions.
• Qian Daoliu speculated that Ao Yin's four unified God-tier Martial Souls might represent the projection or agent of a supreme being, while Qing Luan Douluo wondered if he was the Child of the Era.
• Bo Saixi reacted with shock and vigilance to Ao Yin's Four-Born Martial Soul and Innate Level Forty, which she thought might approach the realm of a demigod.
• Across the continent, factions and Soul Masters were stunned by Ao Yin, and they turned their attention toward King's Hall and the still-unrevealed top name on the Heavenly Ranking.
• Tang San attacked the little girl with Blue Silver Entanglement, but she dodged the vines and struck him with Shu Overturns Thousand Mountains.
• Tang San blocked the blow with his Mysterious Jade Hands, but its force numbed his arms and drove him back seven or eight steps.

The little girl overwhelmed Tang San with her shape-changing Martial Soul and trapped him with a binding Soul Skill as the crowd realized she might possess Twin Martial Souls. As the Heavenly Ranking announced King's Hall in first place, she unleashed Arrows Falling Like Stars and struck Tang San with a storm of black arrows.

• Tang San revealed the Clear Sky Hammer, but the little girl changed her weapon into several forms and matched his attacks.
• Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to evade, but the little girl transformed her weapon into a bow and trapped him with Bow Shattering the Heavens.
• The crowd suspected that the little girl's weapon transformations were switches between Twin Martial Souls.
• The Heavenly Ranking proclaimed King's Hall as its first-place entry while the little girl prepared another attack.
• The little girl fired Arrows Falling Like Stars, filling Tang San's escape routes with arrows and drawing blood.

Chi Cha defeated Tang San and was revealed as the Heavenly Ranking’s first, with five Martial Souls, Innate Soul Power level 50, and a divine artifact. As the continent reeled, Qian Renxue approached Lin Jiang with a gift from the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.

• Chi Cha overwhelmed Tang San with Black Light Arrows, leaving him unconscious and securing victory.
• The Voice of Heaven’s Way announced Chi Cha’s five Martial Souls, maximum Innate Soul Power, Heavenly Ranking title, Soul Ring enhancement, and Divine Artifact, Dawn of the Benevolent.
• Soul Masters across the continent reacted with shock, while Lin Jiang privately recognized Chi Cha as the hero he had summoned and knew she had ten Soul Rings.
• Qian Renxue regained her composure and decided to approach Lin Jiang on behalf of herself and the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qian Renxue and her maid carried a rosewood treasure box toward Lin Jiang as onlookers watched.

Xue Qinghe offered Lin Jiang a Sixty-Thousand-Year Torso Soul Bone and an imperial banquet invitation, but Lin Jiang refused the banquet and invited Qinghe to visit King's Hall. As Lin Jiang returned to the hall with Xiao Wu and the others, Erming and Da Ming raced through the forest to protect Xiao Wu, only to encounter a mysterious figure near the hall.

• Xue Qinghe presented Lin Jiang with a Sixty-Thousand-Year Torso Soul Bone and invited him to a banquet at the imperial palace.
• Lin Jiang accepted the Soul Bone, declined the banquet, and told Xue Qinghe that Qinghe could visit King's Hall.
• Lin Jiang dismissed the gathered factions and returned to King's Hall with Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and Xiao Wu.
• Erming and Da Ming charged through the forest toward King's Hall after learning Xiao Wu was there, determined to protect her.
• A figure in light azure leather armor appeared before Erming and Da Ming as they approached the hall.

Kai confronted the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts Da Ming and Er Ming at King's Hall and revealed the full power of his Destruction Demon Armor. After Kai withstood their attacks, Da Ming and Er Ming trapped him in their overlapping domains, and Kai prepared to resist their suppression.

• Kai stood guard over the rear mountain region of King's Hall and warned Da Ming and Er Ming that trespassers would die.
• Da Ming attacked Kai with Azure Annihilation Divine Thunder while Er Ming raged at him.
• Kai invoked “Wielding the Sword of Despair... Clad in the Fallen” and manifested his Destruction Demon Armor: True Body Descends.
• Kai met Da Ming's lightning with a single armored punch and dispersed it without suffering damage.
• Da Ming activated Slowness Domain while Er Ming activated Gravity Control Domain, combining their powers to suppress Kai.
• Kai looked at his armored hands and declared that his soul, not just his edge, had been tempered.

Kai unleashed his Destruction Domain and defeated Da Ming and Er Ming, forcing the two soul beasts to retreat and report to Di Tian. He resumed patrolling, thinking of Shou Yue and the meal he hoped to eat.

• Kai's Destruction Domain shattered Da Ming and Er Ming's domains and empowered his own abilities.
• Kai used Blade Storm to break the soul beasts' joint defense and send them crashing through the forest.
• Da Ming sensed that Xiao Wu was unharmed and decided to retreat with Er Ming to report the battle to Di Tian.
• Kai let his armor and domain fade, then resumed his patrol route.
• Kai paused to think about what Shou Yue might prepare for the meal and realized he was hungry.

Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to King's Hall for treatment, where she reunited with Ye Lingling and learned of Lin Jiang's extraordinary abilities. Meanwhile, after Tang San was defeated, Di Renjie declared Yu Xiaogang guilty of challenging King's Hall's authority and ordered him taken to the execution ground.

• Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to meet Lin Jiang, who recognized that the Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison was threatening her life and sent her to Bian Que for treatment.
• Ye Lingling reunited with Dugu Yan and, at Lin Jiang's suggestion, went with her to the side hall, telling her about Lin Jiang's feats.
• At the arena, Shrek Academy watched Tang San lie unconscious after being defeated by the petite Five Martial Souls genius.
• Two soldiers woke Yu Xiaogang and dragged him before Di Renjie, who accused him of undermining the arena's fairness and disrespecting the Hall Master.
• Di Renjie declared Yu Xiaogang deserved death and ordered the soldiers to take him to the execution ground as Shrek Academy watched in terror.

Di Renjie executed Yu Xiaogang and ordered Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances stripped after Tang San lost in the arena. As Flender and Zhao Wuji fled the canyon with the gravely wounded Tang San, a mysterious man carrying a Clear Sky Hammer appeared in their path.

• Di Renjie declared Yu Xiaogang guilty of disrupting the hall’s order and had him executed by beheading.
• Di Renjie ordered the enforcers to claim Tang San’s spoils of battle, and two Super Soldiers forcibly tore the Eight Spider Lances from his back.
• Zhao Wuji caught Tang San, and Flender and Zhao Wuji fled King’s Canyon with him as the Shrek group followed.
• The group stopped in the forest, where a hooded man holding a Clear Sky Hammer emerged and silently regarded Tang San.

Tang Hao rescued the unconscious Tang San and vowed revenge on Lin Jiang, while Qian Renxue visited Lin Jiang disguised as Xue Qinghe to probe King's Hall’s intentions. Lin Jiang said he would stay out of the continent’s power struggles, then hinted that he knew Qian Renxue’s true potential, leaving his meaning unfinished.

• Tang Hao revealed himself as the Clear Sky Douluo, took Tang San from Zhao Wuji, and vowed to repay his son’s injuries a thousandfold.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji led the others after Tang Hao, hoping to avenge Tang San and Shrek’s humiliation.
• Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, visited Lin Jiang in King's Hall and tested his attitude toward the Heaven Dou Empire and other factions.
• Lin Jiang said he had no interest in political conflicts and had established King's Hall for peace and quiet.
• Qian Renxue asked why Lin Jiang had said she was fated with him, and he began hinting at her true aptitude before the chapter ended.

Lin Jiang exposed Qian Renxue’s identity and Six-winged Angel Martial Soul, prompting her to shed her Xue Qinghe disguise. He invited her to join King’s Hall whenever she chose, and she left planning to visit again.

• Lin Jiang told Qian Renxue that he knew her Martial Soul was the Six-winged Angel and addressed her as the Young Master of Spirit Hall.
• Lin Jiang promised to keep her secret and urged her to return to her original appearance.
• Qian Renxue dismissed her disguise Soul Skill and revealed her true appearance.
• Lin Jiang said her political duties in Tiandou had held back her cultivation and offered her a place at King’s Hall.
• Qian Renxue thanked Lin Jiang, confirmed his neutral stance toward Spirit Hall, and left saying she would visit again.

Qian Renxue concealed Lin Jiang’s offer of guidance while telling Ning Fengzhi that the King's Hall would remain neutral, and Hu Liena approached its barrier to try entering. Meanwhile, Magic Bear Douluo worried that Gui Bao had been gone for days without returning from Spirit Hall.

• Qian Renxue left the King's Hall and wondered whether Lin Jiang’s guidance could help her advance toward becoming a Titled Douluo and inheriting the Angel Godhood.
• Qian Renxue told Ning Fengzhi that Lin Jiang would not intervene in the continent’s conflicts, hiding his personal offer to guide her; Ning Fengzhi took comfort in Rongrong’s bond with the King's Hall.
• Hu Liena arrived with Yue Guan and Gui Mei, told them to wait, and walked toward the barrier to try her luck.
• Magic Bear Douluo wondered why Gui Bao had not returned from Spirit Hall and considered whether he had been delayed or given another task.

After learning that Yu Xiaogang had been executed by Lin Jiang, Bibi Dong devoured Ghost Leopard Douluo to fuel her Rakshasa power and attempted to break through to Rank 99. The chapter then shifted to the Lake of Life, where an unnatural wave of extreme cold shattered the ancient calm.

• Magic Bear Douluo left the VIP room to reunite with Yue Guan and Gui Mei, unaware that Ghost Leopard Douluo was being consumed in Bibi Dong’s bedchamber.
• Bibi Dong read a report that Yu Xiaogang had been executed after provoking Lin Jiang in King's Canyon and swore vengeance on King's Hall and the continent’s other powers.
• Bibi Dong used a dark formation to drain Ghost Leopard Douluo’s life and Soul Power, completely devouring his body and soul.
• Bibi Dong absorbed Ghost Leopard Douluo’s energy and drove her peak Rank 98 power toward the Rank 99 breakthrough.
• An extreme cold swept over the Lake of Life, freezing the lake’s edges and the silver mist.

The Snow Empress and Ice Empress confronted Di Tian over the Heavenly Ranking’s exposure of Soul Beast territories and the danger humans posed to their race. After the Snow Empress revealed that Little White had died in a Heavenly Tribulation, Di Tian appeared and welcomed her growing anger toward humans.

• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress arrived at the Lake of Life, where Di Tian challenged them for entering the Star Dou Core Circle.
• The Snow Empress told Di Tian that the Heavenly Ranking had exposed the Star Dou Great Forest and the Extreme North Land to humans.
• The Ice Empress warned that humans would hunt Soul Beasts for their Soul Rings and Soul Bones, while the Snow Empress predicted the race could face extinction.
• The Snow Empress explained that Little White, the Ice Bear King she had raised, had died during the tribulation required to reach three hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• The Snow Empress condemned the unfair fate of Soul Beasts, and Di Tian emerged from the lake, laughing that she had finally understood the need to abandon peaceful coexistence.

Di Tian learned that Kai had defeated Da Ming and Er Ming, so he shifted the Soul Beast tide’s target from Spirit Hall to King’s Hall. At King’s Hall, Lin Jiang rejected Spirit Hall’s offer of friendship but invited Hu Liena to join his faction.

• Da Ming and Er Ming reported that Kai had stopped them from retrieving Xiao Wu and badly wounded Er Ming.
• Di Tian declared that the Soul Beast tide would target King’s Hall and vowed to make Lin Jiang pay in blood.
• Hu Liena visited Lin Jiang on behalf of Spirit Hall and offered friendship and cooperation.
• Lin Jiang said King’s Hall would not take sides in Spirit Hall’s conflicts.
• Lin Jiang praised Hu Liena’s talent and invited her to join King’s Hall.

Hu Liena rejected Lin Jiang’s offer to become his disciple after he criticized Bibi Dong, then the Heavenly Ranking announced Bibi Dong’s breakthrough to level 99 and her promotion to third place. The ranking also reported Golden Crocodile Douluo and Tang Xiao dead, leaving Lin Jiang troubled by Bibi Dong’s new divine artifact and the news of Golden Crocodile Douluo’s death.

• Lin Jiang offered to take Hu Liena as his disciple but warned that Bibi Dong would ruin her.
• Hu Liena angrily defended Bibi Dong, refused Lin Jiang’s offer, and left King’s Hall.
• The Heavenly Ranking announced that Bibi Dong had reached level 99, passed the eighth Rakshasa Trial, and risen to third place, earning a Hundred Thousand Year torso Soul Bone, stronger Soul Rings, and the Cloud Seal Instrument.
• Hu Liena celebrated Bibi Dong’s breakthrough, while Lin Jiang reacted with concern to the Cloud Seal Instrument.
• The Heavenly Ranking confirmed Golden Crocodile Douluo and Tang Xiao dead and promoted Qian Jun Douluo and Falling Devil Douluo to nineteenth and twentieth place.