Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong watched Yu Xiaogang receive Qian Daoliu’s approval to travel with his counterpart, and her hatred of Qian Xunji and jealousy of her counterpart intensified. In the parallel world, Yu Xiaogang bid farewell to the Second Team, while Flender asked to join his journey.

• Bibi Dong saw Qian Daoliu approve Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong’s journey, then spiraled into hatred and destructive thoughts driven by Rakshasa Divine Power.
• Bibi Dong packed her bags without telling her teacher, relying on the Grand Pontiff’s approval to leave Spirit City with Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to the Second Team’s training grounds and told Xu Xiaoxing, Jiang Lanlan, and the others that he was leaving to travel the continent.
• The Second Team members wished Yu Xiaogang well as they accepted that they could not keep pace with him.
• Flender asked Yu Xiaogang to let him come along, hoping to keep benefiting from their Martial Soul Fusion Skill and repay Yu Xiaogang’s kindness.

Yu Xiaogang agreed to let Flender join his travels after learning that Flender sincerely valued the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s support. Flender’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill strengthened Yu Xiaogang’s ranged form, leaving Yu Xiaogang to wonder whether another partner could strengthen his melee form.

• Yu Xiaogang reflected on Flender’s cunning nature and his efforts to repay the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan for its investment.
• Flender asked to travel with Yu Xiaogang and said he would rather risk death on an adventure than die as an ordinary soul master caught in another battle.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Flender that the journey could be dangerous, then accepted his decision to come along.
• Yu Xiaogang considered how Flender’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill enhanced Little Dragon and his Dragon-Man Form, while leaving his Dragon Form largely unchanged.
• Yu Xiaogang speculated that a Power Attack System soul master with a close-combat Beast Martial Soul might strengthen his melee form through another Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Shrek Academy discussed the Parallel World’s Martial Soul Fusion Skills as Liu Erlong eagerly imagined her counterpart’s future with Yu Xiaogang. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong secretly left Spirit City with Yu Xiaogang, and Qian Xunji discovered too late that his disciple had gone with him.

• Flender questioned Yu Xiaogang about the different forms of their Martial Soul Fusion Skills, and Yu Xiaogang explained that Luo Sanpao’s incomplete Second Awakening required the others’ power to restore his proper form.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to obtain the Crimson Blood Amber in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well so he could change his fate.
• Liu Erlong anticipated that her Parallel World counterpart would fall in love with Yu Xiaogang and imagined them winning her father’s approval.
• Bibi Dong announced that she was entering seclusion, left a letter for Qian Xunji, and secretly met Yu Xiaogang after leaving Spirit City.
• Qian Xunji learned half a month later that Bibi Dong had left with Yu Xiaogang, then roared his fury at Yu Xiaogang in Spirit Hall.

In Swell City, Yu Xiaogang bought an unusual ring recovered from the sea and discovered an inscription inside it meant “key.” He decided to investigate whether it could lead to a hidden treasure.

• Yu Xiaogang traveled to Swell City with Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei as companions and protectors.
• At a market stall, Yu Xiaogang found a skull-shaped ring among the seller’s overseas wares and asked about its origin.
• The stall owner said fishermen had pulled the ring and other strange objects from the sea, and Yu Xiaogang bought the ring and several items for three Gold Soul Coins.
• Yu Xiaogang showed Bibi Dong the marks engraved inside the ring and identified their meaning as “key.”
• Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong became interested in the possibility of a treasure and decided to investigate the ring.

While preparing to leave Swell City for Vast Sea City, Yu Xiaogang learned that adults had been vanishing from nearby villages and suspected Fallen Soul Masters were responsible. He and Bibi Dong recognized that the disappearances would be difficult to investigate, while Yu Xiaogang reflected that Spirit Hall was overlooking the support and vigilance of ordinary people.

• Yu Xiaogang planned to travel to Vast Sea City and then visit Sea God Island with a letter from Qian Daoliu for Bo Saixi.
• Yu Xiaogang overheard shoppers discussing adults disappearing from villages around Swell City and suspected Fallen Soul Masters were abducting them.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned the shoppers about the disappearances after Bibi Dong showed her Spirit Hall identification.
• Yu Xiaogang explained his suspicions to Bibi Dong, and she agreed that investigating the case would be troublesome.
• Yu Xiaogang reflected that Spirit Hall could better protect commoners by recognizing their support and using local residents to help uncover crimes.

Yu Xiaogang investigated the disappearances around Swell City and suspected a cunning Fallen Soul Master was targeting both villagers and traveling caravans. After reviewing Spirit Hall records, the group found the caravan disappearances clustered around one village and decided to investigate there.

• Yu Xiaogang questioned residents in nearby villages and learned that adults had vanished intermittently for months.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Swell City's heavy traffic could have allowed caravan disappearances to go unnoticed, and Bibi Dong resolved to eliminate the Fallen Soul Masters.
• Bibi Dong led the group to the Spirit Hall branch, where Yue Guan and Gui Mei helped them review reports of missing caravans.
• Yu Xiaogang marked the caravan disappearance sites on a map and found they clustered around the same village.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to investigate the village and considered whether a group was responsible or someone could control other people's Martial Souls.

Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei approached Snake Plum Village after sensing a strong evil aura. They discovered that the villagers were moving corpses, and the group prepared to enter the village despite the danger ahead.

• Yu Xiaogang sensed evil in Snake Plum Village and judged that the Fallen Soul Masters there were below Titled Douluo level.
• Bibi Dong, Yu Xiaogang, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei set out for the village, where Gui Mei identified a passing villager as a soulless corpse.
• Yu Xiaogang spoke to another corpse, which answered normally and directed the group to the village chief for food.
• Bibi Dong recoiled at the villagers' unnatural behavior, and Yue Guan reassured her with stories of unusual soul skills.
• The group continued toward Snake Plum Village, knowing they might face a whole village of moving corpses.

Yu Xiaogang and his companions investigated the seemingly ordinary Snake Plum Village and discovered that Fallen Soul Masters had slaughtered its residents. After pretending to succumb to drugged chicken soup, they were carried underground, where a black-robed man prepared to absorb their souls.

• Yu Xiaogang and the others followed Old Martin to his home after Gui Mei confirmed that Snake Plum Village's residents had been killed and turned against more victims.
• Yue Guan, Yu Xiaogang, and Gui Mei detected medicinal herbs in the food's aroma, but Yue Guan tasted the dishes and signaled that they were safe.
• Old Martin served drugged chicken soup, and the group secretly neutralized or concealed its effects while pretending to drink it.
• Yue Guan pretended to collapse, and Yu Xiaogang and the others acted as if the drug had overcome them, prompting Old Martin to reveal his murderous intent.
• Old Martin's family carried the group underground through a hidden passage, where a black-robed man said he would absorb their souls to increase his strength.

Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei exposed a Fallen Soul Master’s attempt to drug and capture them. Little Dragon’s holy light overwhelmed the Soul Saint, leaving him helpless.

• Yue Guan woke up after being drugged, and the Fallen Soul Master revealed his plan to extract the group’s souls.
• The Fallen Soul Master explained that he sought revenge on the Spirit Hall for slaughtering his clan thirty-two years earlier.
• Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong revealed they had been pretending to be incapacitated, while Yue Guan and Gui Mei stood ready to stop the Fallen Soul Master.
• Little Dragon appeared and summoned the Judgment Angel, whose holy light suppressed the Fallen Soul Master’s Martial Soul and Soul Power.
• The Fallen Soul Master collapsed, unable to resist the holy light.

After Yu Xiaogang defeated a Fallen Soul Master, he and his companions searched the man’s belongings and examined his research notes. Yu Xiaogang discovered the Fallen Soul Master’s corpse-control technique and then found another item that made his eyes widen.

• Flender explained how the Holy Attribute and the Angel Martial Soul could absolutely suppress Fallen Soul Masters, while Ning Rongrong recounted a Qian Family Titled Douluo’s fatal victory over more than ten enemies.
• Tang Hao recognized Snake Plum Village and remembered visiting it with his elder brother, then thought of Ah Yin.
• Yu Xiaogang and his companions searched the defeated Fallen Soul Master and his Storage Soul Tool while Gui Mei took him away for interrogation.
• Yu Xiaogang read the Fallen Soul Master’s notes and learned that his corpse-control ability was a Self-Created Soul Skill that could command several hundred people, though with less precision.
• Yu Xiaogang compared the technique to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Distraction Control Secret Method, then found another item that made his eyes widen.

Yu Xiaogang read how the Fallen Soul Master developed a Soul Pill that later became a weaker Soul Power Vortex, then examined the dying man's vortex and discovered its exceptional recovery and Soul Power quality. Gui Mei and Yue Guan inspected it too and were shocked by its potential.

• Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong learned from the Fallen Soul Master's notes that absorbed souls formed a Soul Pill, which weakened into a Soul Power Vortex as he cultivated.
• The notes revealed that the Fallen Soul Master slaughtered civilians around Swell City to strengthen his Soul Pill and that his vortex had begun solidifying after he reached the Soul Sage stage.
• Yu Xiaogang examined the dying Fallen Soul Master and sensed that his Soul Power Vortex continuously restored high-quality Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Gui Mei to inspect the vortex, and Gui Mei realized its extraordinary benefits.
• Yue Guan examined the vortex and, like Gui Mei, was stunned by the advantage it could give a soul master in battle.

Yu Xiaogang examined a Fallen Soul Master's solidifying Soul Power Vortex and connected it to his conjecture that Spirit Bones were Soul Beasts' power cores. He began considering whether human Soul Masters could form similar cores to overcome the barrier to becoming Titled Douluo.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei saw the Fallen Soul Master's Soul Power Vortex forming a solid core, and Yu Xiaogang explained that the Fallen Soul Master's Martial Soul had enabled it.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled Ah Rou confirming that a Soul Beast's power core condensed from soul power and became a Spirit Bone after death.
• Ah Rou explained that Soul Beasts with condensed cores could cross the Hundred-Thousand-Year threshold once their strength reached it, while others had to wait for their cores to form.
• Yu Xiaogang wondered whether human Soul Masters could condense their own power cores and thereby ensure a breakthrough to Titled Douluo.

Yu Xiaogang studied a Fallen Soul Master's half-formed power core and developed a plan for humans to condense their own Soul Cores, which he believed could make becoming a Titled Douluo inevitable. After discussing the method with Yue Guan and Gui Mei, the group renamed it the Soul Core method, while Tang Hao regretted burning the Fallen Soul Master's notes decades earlier.

• Yu Xiaogang's conjecture that condensing a human soul power core could guarantee a breakthrough to Titled Douluo shocked soul masters across the continent.
• Tang Hao remembered killing the Fallen Soul Master decades earlier and burning his cultivation notes, then bitterly regretted losing the method they might have contained.
• Yu Xiaogang studied the Fallen Soul Master's half-formed Soul Power Core and combined his observations with the man's notes to devise a way to condense one from scratch.
• Yu Xiaogang chose to consult Yue Guan and Gui Mei before attempting the method, while Bibi Dong listened and recorded their discussion.
• Bibi Dong objected to preserving the Fallen Soul Master's name through the term Soul Pill, and Yu Xiaogang proposed calling the method Soul Core.

Yu Xiaogang and the others returned to the surface and found the village dead, then encountered Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and a beautiful woman. Yu Xiaogang recognized the woman as a 100,000-Year Transformed Soul Beast, though the others remained unaware.

• Yu Xiaogang, Yue Guan, Bibi Dong, and Gui Mei left the secret chamber and found the villagers dead, so Yue Guan proposed gathering and burning their bodies.
• Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and a woman arrived after sensing living people, and both men reacted angrily to the Spirit Hall group.
• Tang Xiao moved in front of the woman when he noticed Yu Xiaogang staring at her, while Bibi Dong studied her with curiosity.
• Yu Xiaogang used his knowledge of elemental particles and transformed Soul Beasts to identify the woman as a mature 100,000-Year Transformed Soul Beast.

Tang San learned from the Heavenly Screen that his mother was a transformed soul beast and concluded that Spirit Hall had hunted his parents, fueling his desire for revenge. The video then continued with Tang Hao confronting his fear of Yu Xiaogang after recalling his earlier defeat.

• Tang San inferred that the woman beside Tang Hao was his mother and vowed to uproot Spirit Hall.
• Flender warned Zhao Wuji to keep Tang San's background secret, while Xiao Wu wondered about the transformed soul beast who had traveled with the Clear Sky Sect.
• People across Douluo Continent connected Tang Hao's alleged collusion with a soul beast to his relationship with Ah Yin.
• Clear Sky Sect elders blamed Ah Yin for the sect's disgrace, and Tang Xiao could only sit in anger and despair.
• Tang Hao recalled his past with Ah Yin, then turned his guilt into renewed hatred for Spirit Hall.
• Tang Hao trembled as he remembered Yu Xiaogang defeating him and realized he feared facing him again.

Yu Xiaogang provoked Tang Xiao and Tang Hao while confronting them in Snake Plum Village, hoping to test Ah Yin, whose identity as a transformed 100,000-Year Soul Beast remained hidden from the Tang brothers. The chapter left Tang Xiao charging at Yu Xiaogang after he revealed his 100,000-Year sixth Soul Ring, while Ah Yin reacted with anger and grief.

• Tang Xiao questioned Yu Xiaogang and his companions about the corpses in Snake Plum Village, and Yu Xiaogang refused to explain.
• Yu Xiaogang taunted Tang Xiao about Tang Hao's past defeat and challenged him to fight.
• Tang Xiao flew into a rage and charged at Yu Xiaogang with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed his sixth Soul Ring was a 100,000-Year Soul Ring, shocking Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and Ah Yin.
• Ah Yin showed anger and grief at the sight of Yu Xiaogang's 100,000-Year Soul Ring.

Ah Yin revealed her Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul and healed Tang Xiao as he fought Yu Xiaogang. Yu Xiaogang ended the clash with a mental blast, while Tang Hao’s fear of him became unmistakable.

• Ah Yin summoned her Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul, whose life force strengthened and healed Tang Xiao as he fought Yu Xiaogang.
• Ah Yin held back from joining the fight directly, then noticed Tang Hao was pale, trembling, and apparently afraid of Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang grew tired of fighting and hurled a Mental Blast at Tang Xiao, Ah Yin, and Tang Hao.
• The blast badly hurt Tang Xiao and Ah Yin, while Tang Hao’s legs gave out and he collapsed to the ground.

The Heavenly Screen showed Tang Hao collapsing in fear when he saw Yu Xiaogang again, shocking viewers who had expected him to recover from his defeat. Yu Xiaogang realized his Mental Overdrive might leave defeated opponents unable to face him again.

• Viewers across the continent criticized Tang Hao after the Heavenly Screen showed him collapse, while Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect denounced the footage as slander.
• In the footage, Tang Xiao and Ah Yin rushed to Tang Hao, but Ah Yin found nothing physically wrong with him.
• Yu Xiaogang realized Tang Hao’s collapse might have been caused by the lingering effects of his Mental Overdrive from their earlier battle.
• Yu Xiaogang considered that opponents who had been defeated by his mental attack might break down whenever they encountered him again.

In the Dark World, Shrek Academy learned that Yu Xiaogang’s Mental Overdrive could leave a permanent weakness in anyone it defeated. Yu Xiaogang discovered that his spiritual power now restrained Tang Hao’s, and wondered if he could use the skill to weaken every powerhouse on Douluo Continent.

• Flender and the others were stunned by the lasting effect of Yu Xiaogang’s Self-Created Soul Skill, while Yu Xiaogang lamented that his Parallel World self had defeated Tang Hao.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to examine Tang Hao, who refused at first but agreed after Ah Yin urged him to accept help.
• Tang Xiao demanded that Yu Xiaogang swear he would not harm Tang Hao during the examination, and Yu Xiaogang swore upon his Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang found no physical problem with Tang Hao but sensed that Tang Hao’s spiritual power fled from his own.
• Yu Xiaogang realized that Mental Overdrive marked defeated opponents with a spiritual weakness that made them susceptible to his restraint.

Yu Xiaogang explained that Tang Hao’s fragile mental state had made him vulnerable to Mental Overdrive, then considered whether to reveal Ah Yin’s identity and claim her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone. He decided to leave her alone for now, while Ah Yin remained unaware that she had narrowly avoided exposure.

• Yu Xiaogang told Tang Xiao and Ah Yin that Tang Hao’s weak mental state had worsened the effects of his mental attack and advised them to strengthen Tang Hao’s mental power.
• Tang Xiao and Ah Yin relaxed after Yu Xiaogang explained Tang Hao’s condition, while Tang Xiao struggled to offer him thanks.
• Yu Xiaogang watched Ah Yin care for Tang Hao and reflected on her feelings for the Tang brothers and the age gap between her and them.
• Yu Xiaogang weighed the value of taking Ah Yin’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone against the risks and his reluctance to share her identity with Spirit Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to let Ah Yin roam freely for now, and she remained unaware that she had narrowly escaped having her identity exposed.