Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang set aside his advanced light-attribute research and decided to investigate the secrets of Soul Bones by taking one apart. He persuaded Lin Lang to help, but left him questioning why people feared wasting valuable materials more than they wanted to discover the truth.

• Yu Xiaogang considered his progress toward the Light of Spirit and Light of Matter, then decided to focus on studying Soul Bones instead.
• Yu Xiaogang brought out several Soul Bones and resolved to dismantle one, realizing his room lacked the necessary tools.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Lin Lang to accompany him to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's residence and laboratory.
• Lin Lang was shocked when Yu Xiaogang explained that he wanted to take apart a Soul Bone, even after learning they were only Ten-Year Soul Bones.
• Yu Xiaogang argued that curiosity and action had helped him uncover secrets, while fear of wasting precious things kept others from discovering more.

Lin Lang split a Ten-Year Soul Bone so he and Yu Xiaogang could examine its internal structure. Yu Xiaogang suspected it contained formations that produced Spirit Bone Skills, but he still needed to learn how to activate them outside the body or find an absorbable material for reproductions.

• Yu Xiaogang claimed Spirit Bones were ordinary Soul Beast bones with unpredictable mutations, then admitted he had never disassembled one.
• Lin Lang used Martial Soul Possession and his Soul Power to cut the Spirit Bone evenly in half.
• Yu Xiaogang and Lin Lang discovered a dense, layered, spiderweb-like structure inside the bone.
• Yu Xiaogang theorized that the internal structure was a formation that generated Spirit Bone Skills when supplied with Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to study formations and identified the challenge of activating an external Spirit Bone Skill or making a replica the human body could absorb.

Yu Xiaogang studied a Spirit Bone’s internal formation and developed a device that let him use its power without absorbing it. He successfully activated its skill through a wired glove, leaving Lin Lang amazed.

• Yu Xiaogang chose to research using Spirit Bone power outside the body rather than trying to invent absorbable materials.
• Yu Xiaogang and Lin Lang dismantled the Spirit Bone, and Yu Xiaogang spent a week mapping its structure and testing how Soul Power flowed through it.
• Yu Xiaogang identified connection points on the Spirit Bone and linked them to a Soul Power-transmitting metal sphere and glove.
• Yu Xiaogang sent Soul Power through the device and produced a fireball with the Spirit Bone’s skill, stunning Lin Lang.

Yu Xiaogang’s Shrek Academy condemned the external use of Spirit Bones, while Ning Rongrong and auxiliary soul masters recognized their potential. In the Heavenly Screen footage, Lin Lang successfully used a Fire Spirit Skill through Yu Xiaogang’s device, leaving Yu Xiaogang to question why he had not thought more carefully about what he had witnessed.

• Oscar argued that Spirit Bones were too rare for Yu Xiaogang’s discovery to be useful, but Zhu Zhuqing reminded everyone of his research into Artificial Spirit Bones.
• Yu Xiaogang denounced external Spirit Bone devices and Artificial Spirit Bones, then urged Flender to ban students from studying such techniques.
• Ning Rongrong privately dismissed the others’ objections and considered how the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could use its stored Spirit Bones to give its support-type soul masters offensive abilities.
• Yu Xiaogang tested the device’s fireball, determined that its power matched an ordinary Fire Attribute soul master’s First Spirit Skill, and recorded his findings.
• Lin Lang copied Yu Xiaogang’s procedure and used the Fire Spirit Skill despite having a Thunder Attribute, then imagined how useful other Spirit Skills would be in battle.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Lin Lang why he had not figured out the device’s implications after following him for days.

Yu Xiaogang began developing an artificial spirit bone and discussed establishing a second team for Martial Soul Academy’s tournament participation. Bibi Dong offered to join his team.

• Yu Xiaogang explained to Lin Lang that they would imitate a spirit bone’s formations and build an artificial spirit bone from parts made by blacksmiths.
• Yu Xiaogang and Lin Lang brought their blueprints to the Blacksmith Shop, where the blacksmiths forged several parts using metals they supplied.
• Yu Xiaogang and Lin Lang ran into Bibi Dong after leaving the shop, and she asked why he had stopped visiting Martial Soul Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang asked whether the academy would send only one team to the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament and proposed establishing a Second Team.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that his father had assigned him a tournament-related task, and Bibi Dong asked to join his team.

Yu Xiaogang planned to use the Martial Soul Academy's Second Team to research how Spirit Masters' Martial Souls and Spirit Skills could coordinate, while Bibi Dong offered to join. Meanwhile, Qian Xunji learned about Yu Xiaogang's mysterious blacksmith order and decided to let him pursue it, hoping it would waste his talent.

• Bibi Dong asked to join Yu Xiaogang's Second Team, arguing that her presence would help him recruit talent and study Spirit Master coordination at the Martial Soul Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang confirmed Bibi Dong had guessed his research plans, and she playfully grabbed and kneaded his face while Lin Lang watched.
• Bibi Dong asked about Yu Xiaogang's blacksmith order, but he kept the Artificial Spirit Bone project secret and promised to surprise her later.
• After Bibi Dong returned to the Spirit Hall and Yu Xiaogang went back to organize his research data, Qian Xunji obtained the blacksmith blueprints.
• Qian Xunji dismissed the strange components as a wasteful distraction and ordered his people to let Yu Xiaogang continue, hoping he would neglect his talent.

Yu Xiaogang assembled a large Artificial Spirit Bone from parts forged by a Spirit City blacksmith and tested whether it could transform Soul Power into a Spirit Skill. It successfully produced an orange-red fireball, while Qian Xunji regretted overlooking Yu Xiaogang’s research.

• Qian Xunji raged at his past self for dismissing Yu Xiaogang’s work, while Dragon Scale Douluo recalled advising Yu Xiaogang against it.
• Yu Xiaogang collected the custom-forged metal parts from the Blacksmith Shop and paid the owner.
• Yu Xiaogang assembled the parts in his laboratory, with Lin Lang watching.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that the Artificial Spirit Bone could convert Soul Power into a Spirit Skill like a real Spirit Bone.
• Yu Xiaogang connected the device to his Soul Power and activated it, producing an orange-red fireball and proving the Artificial Spirit Bone worked.

After Yu Xiaogang’s Artificial Spirit Bone worked, Ning Rongrong argued that it could help Support System Spirit Masters defend themselves and accused Yu Xiaogang of tailoring the students’ training and Spirit Ring plans to the Elite Tournament and Tang San’s success. Flender allowed Ning Rongrong and Oscar to study Artificial Spirit Bones, while the others began doubting Yu Xiaogang’s advice.

• Ning Rongrong cheered when Yu Xiaogang’s Artificial Spirit Bone successfully used a spirit skill, and Tang San considered whether its technology could improve his Tang Sect Hidden Weapons.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Ning Rongrong against researching Artificial Spirit Bones, and Flender, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar joined in urging her to focus on cultivation.
• Ning Rongrong argued that Artificial Spirit Bones could give Support System Spirit Masters like her and Oscar a way to fight back, causing Oscar and the others to reconsider their opposition.
• Yu Xiaogang challenged Ning Rongrong by citing the Elite Tournament’s rules, but she accused him of planning the students’ training and Spirit Rings around winning the tournament and making Tang San shine.
• Flender permitted Ning Rongrong and Oscar to study Artificial Spirit Bones as long as they did not neglect cultivation, while the students began to doubt Yu Xiaogang’s advice.

Yu Xiaogang tested how different metals affected artificial spirit bones and dissected genuine spirit bones to study their structures. His discoveries suggested he could combine structures to create new Spirit Bone Skills, while Lin Lang realized artificial spirit bones resembled Soul Tools.

• Yu Xiaogang explained that artificial spirit bones needed metals chosen for both their Soul Power efficiency and cost.
• He tested an artificial spirit bone made from another metal and found it produced only a fist-sized fireball with the same amount of Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang had Lin Lang dismantle several spirit bones while he recorded and compared their internal structures.
• Yu Xiaogang found that shared structures served common functions, while attribute-specific structures converted Soul Power into the corresponding attribute.
• Yu Xiaogang considered combining structures to design new Spirit Bone Skills, and Lin Lang recognized the artificial spirit bones as similar to a Soul Tool.

Yu Xiaogang learned from Lin Lang that Soul Tools came from an ancient civilization and that dismantling them ruined them, then considered researching their technology. He focused on the gems attached to Soul Tools and examined his own simple Storage Soul Tool belt.

• Lin Lang told Yu Xiaogang about Soul Tools such as Soul Power-driven carriages and ships, and devices that produced flames.
• Lin Lang explained that Soul Tools dated from an ancient age and were now unearthed, leading Yu Xiaogang to suspect civilization had restarted after a great war.
• Lin Lang said attempts to dismantle and replicate Soul Tools left them as scrap metal, though their attached gems and jade ornaments remained valuable.
• Yu Xiaogang wondered whether the gems were essential components, and Lin Lang said all the Soul Tools he had seen had them.
• Yu Xiaogang thanked Lin Lang and removed his simple Storage Soul Tool belt, which had a single gem set into it.

Yu Xiaogang showed Bibi Dong the Soul Power Gun No. 1 he had developed by modifying Artificial Spirit Bone components. After demonstrating its many different attacks, he left Bibi Dong astonished by the weapon's capabilities.

• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang she had secured approval to establish the Martial Soul Academy Second Team after appealing to Qian Daoliu.
• Yu Xiaogang took Bibi Dong to his laboratory garden to show her his new creation, Soul Power Gun No. 1.
• Yu Xiaogang loaded a magazine and fired a stream of water that punched through a target.
• Yu Xiaogang switched magazines and demonstrated attacks including lightning, fire, light beams, wind blades, shock waves, and a poisonous spiderweb.
• Bibi Dong stared at the Soul Power Gun in amazement and asked what it was.

Bibi Dong learned that Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Power Gun was a multi-purpose Attack Soul Tool and tried it herself. After he taught her how to channel Soul Power into it, she fired a seed that rapidly grew into vines and trapped the target.

• Bibi Dong examined Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Power Gun and learned it was a multi-purpose Attack Soul Tool.
• Yu Xiaogang teased Bibi Dong about her intelligence and reminded her of ways he had helped her expand the uses of Spider Web Restraint.
• Bibi Dong chose a magazine and tried to fire the gun, but it did not work because she did not know how to channel Soul Power into it.
• Yu Xiaogang showed Bibi Dong where to feed in her Soul Power and how to fire the gun.
• Bibi Dong shot a green seed that grew into vines and completely wrapped the target, leaving her wondering how powerful the gun’s other attacks were.

Bibi Dong tested Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Power Gun and learned that its development required costly research. They went to the remote training ground assigned to the Martial Soul Academy Second Team, where Yu Xiaogang eagerly decided to keep the run-down site and turn its building into a base; the chapter ended with him, Bibi Dong, and Little Dragon cleaning it while Lin Lang relaxed on the roof.

• Bibi Dong tested the Soul Power Gun, praised its abilities, and asked Yu Xiaogang how he had developed it.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that the gun itself was inexpensive to make, but the preliminary research demanded a great deal of sacrifice.
• Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong went to the Martial Soul Academy Second Team’s remote, neglected training ground.
• Bibi Dong offered to ask Grandpa Grand Pontiff for a different site, but Yu Xiaogang refused and decided the location was perfect.
• Yu Xiaogang found cleaning tools and recruited Bibi Dong and Little Dragon to clean the dusty two-story building.
• Lin Lang basked on the roof while Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong, and Little Dragon noisily worked inside.

Yu Xiaogang reviewed Martial Soul Academy’s student roster to recruit members for the Second Team and became interested in Xu Xiaoxing’s Flower Stamen Bird Martial Soul. He searched the records for another specific candidate, leaving Bibi Dong puzzled by his choice.

• Bibi Dong obtained the academy’s detailed student roster with the Pope’s token, and Yu Xiaogang began reviewing it for potential teammates.
• Yu Xiaogang studied Xu Xiaoxing’s Flower Stamen Bird abilities and considered how the unusual but weak Martial Soul might be useful to his team.
• Bibi Dong came downstairs, saw Yu Xiaogang searching the records, and questioned what a Flower Stamen Bird could do.
• Yu Xiaogang found the candidate he had been looking for and exclaimed that he had not expected the person to be there.

Yu Xiaogang selected Jiang Lanlan, Xu Xiaoxing, and Tian Qingqing for a team built around support skills that could be stacked together. He explained how the two support Spirit Masters could boost each other repeatedly, while Tian Qingqing restored their Soul Power, leaving Bibi Dong convinced the strategy could work.

• Yu Xiaogang found Jiang Lanlan’s file and identified her as a Level 33 Support System Spirit Master with a flute Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang selected files for Jiang Lanlan, Xu Xiaoxing, and Tian Qingqing, a Level 36 Food System Spirit Master whose Raisin Martial Soul restored Soul Power.
• Bibi Dong wondered whether a team with two support members and a food specialist could deal enough damage, then imagined herself and Yu Xiaogang sweeping the field with stacked boosts.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Xu Xiaoxing and Jiang Lanlan could repeatedly boost each other, amplifying their own attributes and the strength of their support skills.
• Bibi Dong pointed out that the pair would run out of Soul Power, and Yu Xiaogang showed her that Tian Qingqing could restore it, completing the team’s strategy.

At Martial Soul Academy, Xu Xiaoxing received an invitation to join the academy’s Second Team and set out to find it. She and two other invited students confirmed the invitation was genuine when Bibi Dong appeared at the team’s training ground.

• Yu Xiaogang dismissed the idea of endlessly amplifying Support System abilities, easing Flender and Ning Rongrong’s concerns.
• Xu Xiaoxing received an invitation to join the Martial Soul Academy Second Team and was persuaded by the promise of possible one-on-one guidance from a Soul Douluo.
• Xu Xiaoxing met Jiang Lanlan and Tian Qingqing on the way, and the three discovered that they had all received invitations.
• Xu Xiaoxing, Jiang Lanlan, and Tian Qingqing found the Second Team’s remote, shabby-looking training ground and hesitated to enter.
• Bibi Dong arrived, confirming to the three students that the invitation was genuine.

Bibi Dong recruited Xu Xiaoxing, Jiang Lanlan, and Tian Qingqing for the Martial Soul Academy Second Team and promised powerful instructors. At the training field, she tested Yu Xiaogang’s hypothesis that one support soul master could boost another, and the results showed it worked.

• Bibi Dong welcomed Xu Xiaoxing, Jiang Lanlan, and Tian Qingqing and confirmed that Soul Douluos would teach the Second Team.
• Bibi Dong explained that the team currently consisted only of herself and its unseen captain, then invited the three to test a hypothesis.
• Bibi Dong had Xu Xiaoxing and Jiang Lanlan take turns boosting each other while she recorded their performance.
• Bibi Dong saw that Jiang Lanlan performed better when Xu Xiaoxing boosted her after receiving Jiang Lanlan’s boost, confirming the hypothesis.

Bibi Dong supervised Xu Xiaoxing and Jiang Lanlan as they discovered that Support System soul masters could stack their enhancements, while Tian Qingqing supplied raisins to restore their Soul Power. Tian Qingqing asked whether Bibi Dong feared the trio would defect to the First Team, but Bibi Dong calmly declared she was not easy to fool.

• Bibi Dong confirmed that Jiang Lanlan’s second enhancement increased her speed and told Xu Xiaoxing and Jiang Lanlan to enhance each other.
• Xu Xiaoxing and Jiang Lanlan stacked their enhancements until their speed surpassed the average of Martial Soul Academy’s Agility Attack System soul masters.
• Jiang Lanlan and Xu Xiaoxing remembered Tian Qingqing and asked her to help them continue by restoring their Soul Power with raisins.
• Xu Xiaoxing and Jiang Lanlan praised Tian Qingqing and formed a team with her before using the raisins to keep stacking their speed.
• Tian Qingqing asked Bibi Dong whether she feared the trio would join the First Team, then assured her they would not defect.
• Bibi Dong said she was not easy to fool.

Xu Xiaogang brought Lin Fei to meet the Second Team, whose support Soul Masters were testing their stacked enhancements. Lin Fei’s attribute-converting Martial Soul made him a natural main attacker for the team, which still needed a Healing System teammate.

• Xu Xiaoxing and Jiang Lanlan tested their growing enhancements, and Xu Xiaoxing celebrated that she would no longer be dismissed as a useless pretty face.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived with Lin Fei and confirmed that the enhancements were working as intended.
• Lin Fei introduced himself as a Level 31 Power Attack System Battle Soul Master with the Guiyi Gloves Martial Soul, which could convert his attributes into one chosen attribute.
• Xu Xiaoxing and Jiang Lanlan recognized that Lin Fei could use their accumulated boosts as the team’s main attacker.
• Yu Xiaogang said the Second Team had six members and still needed a Healing System teammate, while he planned to study combinations and transformations of soul skills.

Ning Fengzhi recognized that Yu Xiaogang’s Support combination could threaten the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s dominance, though it had different strengths and weaknesses from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. As the team prepared to test Lin Fei’s enhanced combat power and learn Yu Xiaogang’s strength, Yu Xiaogang agreed to fight.

• Ning Fengzhi explained that Yu Xiaogang’s Support combination could challenge the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda retained an advantage in sudden battles.
• Powers across the Douluo Continent began seeking Support Soul Masters who could enhance their own attributes.
• Bibi Dong proposed an internal battle to test Lin Fei’s stacked attributes and establish the authority of Yu Xiaogang and herself as team leaders.
• Xu Xiaoxing, Jiang Lanlan, and Tian Qingqing asked Yu Xiaogang to demonstrate his strength, and Lin Fei watched with curiosity.
• Yu Xiaogang considered the combination’s weaknesses and agreed to the battle.