Chapter Summaries

Yang Yuan killed Shi Nian, claimed the Soul Bone he left behind, and gave three Soul Bones to Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling. Ning Rongrong kissed his cheek, and Dugu Yan followed with a kiss he could not evade.

• Yang Yuan identified Shi Nian as Canghui Academy’s team leader and killed him with the pressure of his Double Pupil.
• Dugu Yan spotted a Seven-Colored Circular Bone among Shi Nian’s remains, and Yang Yuan claimed the head Soul Bone.
• Back at the academy, Yang Yuan gave Shi Nian’s head Soul Bone to Ning Rongrong, Tang Hao’s Soul Bone to Dugu Yan, and the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone to Ye Lingling.
• Ning Rongrong kissed Yang Yuan’s cheek to thank him, and Dugu Yan kissed him on the lips.

Yang Yuan reassured Ye Lingling that she did not need to repay him for the Soul Bone, then stood guard as she, Dugu Yan, and Ning Rongrong absorbed their gifts. After all three gained Soul Power, Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong sat close to Yang Yuan, and Ye Lingling finished absorbing her Soul Bone to reach Level 50 before finding them together.

• Dugu Yan kissed Yang Yuan as a reward, while Ning Rongrong watched enviously and Ye Lingling felt awkward.
• Yang Yuan told Ye Lingling their bond mattered more than the Soul Bone, and she blushed as her affection for him deepened.
• Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong absorbed their Soul Bones, rising to Levels 54 and 46 respectively.
• Ning Rongrong joined Yang Yuan and Dugu Yan on the sofa, and the two girls pinched his waist while trading jealous gestures.
• Ye Lingling absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, reached Level 50, and found Yang Yuan sitting with Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong before remarking that she had woken up at the wrong time.

Ye Lingling's Mother brought her to thank Yang Yuan for the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, then joked about marrying Ye Lingling to him to repay the debt. At the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, the Heaven Dou Vice Team overwhelmed Canghui Academy in under ten seconds, leaving its members badly injured.

• Ye Lingling's Mother thanked Yang Yuan with a gift and teased Ye Lingling about marrying him to repay the favor, while Ye Lingling blushed and denied taking the suggestion seriously.
• Ye Lingling left with her mother to prepare for her Fifth Soul Ring as the Heaven Dou Vice Team headed to the arena for its match against Canghui Academy.
• The Canghui Team learned that Teacher Shi Nian had disappeared and decided to fight, planning to use their Seven Asura Illusory Realm because Dugu Yan was not competing.
• Ning Rongrong commanded the Heaven Dou Vice Team to attack together, and Yu Feng, Osler, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others struck before Canghui Academy could form its Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• The Heaven Dou Vice Team defeated Canghui Academy in less than ten seconds, leaving its members severely injured but alive.

Tang San rallied the weakened Shrek Team to continue the competition while the Heaven Dou Vice Team faced Elephant Armor Academy. Yang Yuan predicted the match would be over within a minute, and the battle began with Elephant Armor Academy advancing in a tight formation.

• Tang San refused to withdraw from the competition and promised to reclaim what he had lost, rekindling his teammates’ resolve and arranging for Titan to gather herbs for secret medicines.
• Tang San and Yu Tianheng led Shrek Academy through several difficult victories while Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai remained injured.
• Ye Lingling returned to Heaven Dou Academy, where Xue Qinghe received her and sought to recruit her.
• The Heaven Dou Vice Team met Elephant Armor Academy, and Ning Rongrong boosted her teammates as Hu Yanli led his team forward in a compact formation.
• Yang Yuan told Qian Renxue that Elephant Armor Academy’s tactics made them easy targets and predicted the match would last no more than a minute.

The Heaven Dou Vice Team defeated Elephant Armor Academy in twenty-seven seconds, with Yang Yuan’s training and the team’s coordinated attacks overwhelming their opponents. Qian Renxue praised Yang Yuan’s work and privately concluded that Spirit Hall needed a ruler like herself rather than Bibi Dong.

• Ning Rongrong sent the Shi Family Brothers to fight, while Yu Feng, Osler, Zhu Zhuqing, and Meng Yiran charged Elephant Armor Academy.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Osler, and Yu Feng exploited Elephant Armor Academy’s slow formation and broke through its Soul Power defenses.
• The Shi Family Brothers collided with Hu Yanli and another Soul Ancestor, leaving both Elephant Armor Academy fighters badly injured.
• The Heaven Dou Vice Team’s remaining members defeated their opponents, and the referee declared Elephant Armor Academy the winner.
• Yang Yuan and Qian Renxue discussed the twenty-seven-second victory, and Qian Renxue thought Spirit Hall needed a great ruler like herself instead of Bibi Dong.

Yang Yuan’s Heaven Dou Vice Team impressed Skywater Academy after defeating Elephant Armor Academy in under a minute, while Ning Rongrong and Shui Yuer arranged to trade resources. At Shrek Academy, Tang San gave Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai pills that caused intense pain, concealing that one pill would drain some of their future potential.

• Yang Yuan praised the Heaven Dou Vice Team, and Qian Renxue greeted its members warmly before they left the Great Soul Arena.
• Shui Bing’er admitted that Skywater Academy had underestimated the Heaven Dou Vice Team, and Ning Rongrong arranged a resource trade with Shui Yuer.
• Titan delivered Tang San the medicinal herbs he had requested, which Tang San planned to use to make secret medicines for Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai.
• Tang San told Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai that the pills would heal them and increase their Soul Power, with seven days of painful backlash, and they chose to take two each.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai screamed in agony after swallowing the pills, while Tang San concealed that the Soul Power medicine would drain some of their potential.

The Heaven Dou Vice Team defeated Skywater Academy, with Dugu Yan overwhelming Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu's Ice Crystal Phoenix Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The team finished the Preliminary Tournament undefeated, while Shrek Academy unexpectedly joined Skywater, Godwind, and Thunder Academies in the top five.

• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu fused their Martial Souls into an Ice Crystal Phoenix, but Dugu Yan corroded it with her poison and defeated them with a final strike.
• Ye Lingling healed the injured members of Skywater Academy after the match.
• The Heaven Dou Vice Team defeated Blazing Fire Academy, Godwind Academy, and Thunder Academy in succession.
• The Heaven Dou Vice Team finished with twenty-seven victories and entered the Promotion Tournament undefeated.
• Shrek Academy upset Blazing Fire Academy and advanced to the top five alongside Skywater Academy, Godwind Academy, and Thunder Academy.

Shrek Academy dominated its first Promotion Tournament match after its members’ sudden growth in strength. Yang Yuan revealed that Tang San had given his teammates Forbidden Medicine, leaving their foundations damaged, while Tang San believed he had helped them.

• Shrek Academy opened the Promotion Tournament and won its first one-on-one match with ease.
• Yang Yuan told the Heaven Dou Vice Team that Shrek’s strength came from Forbidden Medicine and that Tang San had given it to his teammates.
• Yang Yuan explained that Tang San had used another medicine to limit the damage to his own foundation, while his teammates’ futures could be capped at Soul Emperor.
• Dai Mubai returned after defeating his opponent and credited Tang San for healing him and raising his Soul Power to level 46.
• Ma Hongjun praised Tang San and mocked Zhu Zhuqing and Meng Yiran, while Tang San felt sure his teammates would eventually understand his intentions.

After the first day of the Promotion Tournament, Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang visited Meng Yiran and offered Yang Yuan their rare Dragon Transformation Grass to repay him for guiding her. Yang Yuan returned the herb to Meng Yiran, saying she needed it more for the upcoming finals, leaving her embarrassed in front of her grandparents and teammates.

• Zhu Zhuqing defeated six opponents alone before running out of Soul Power, and Yang Yuan and the others praised and comforted her.
• Meng Yiran volunteered to face the last opponent and easily defeated a Soul Ancestor, impressing her grandparents, Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang decided to give Yang Yuan their family's Dragon Transformation Grass as thanks for helping Meng Yiran grow.
• After the first day of the Promotion Tournament, Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang visited Meng Yiran and presented Yang Yuan with the herb.
• Yang Yuan accepted the jade box, recognized the herb's value, then gave it to Meng Yiran, saying she needed it to improve before the finals.

Meng Yiran used the Dragon Transformation Grass to break through to level forty, while the undefeated Heaven Dou Vice Team continued the Promotion Tournament. Yang Yuan studied Xiao Wu condensing her fourth Soul Ring and appeared to master the method, leaving Xiao Wu wondering whether he had truly learned it.

• Meng Yiran offered Yang Yuan the Dragon Transformation Grass, but he told her to keep it and use it to grow stronger before the Finals.
• Dugu Yan encouraged Meng Yiran to aim for Soul Ancestor, while Zhu Zhuqing worried about becoming the team's only Soul Elder.
• Meng Yiran broke through to level forty and went with Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang to Sunset Forest to hunt for her fourth Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu reached level forty before the Promotion Tournament ended, and Yang Yuan told her to condense her fourth Soul Ring in front of him.
• Yang Yuan used his Double Pupil to analyze Xiao Wu's self-condensation process and remained motionless after she finished, apparently comprehending the method.
• Xiao Wu startled herself by leaning close to Yang Yuan, who flicked her forehead; she then asked if he had learned to condense Soul Rings, and he told her to guess.

Yang Yuan drew in the energy of heaven and earth and successfully condensed his own Seventh Soul Ring, reaching Soul Saint. The ring gave him the divine ability Life and Death Samsara Tribulation Light, while powerful figures gathered at Heaven Dou Academy to witness the disturbance.

• Xiao Wu realized Yang Yuan might have learned to condense Soul Rings himself, then left after he warned her not to wander beyond Heaven Dou Academy.
• Yang Yuan began his breakthrough, drawing immense amounts of energy toward himself and alarming Soul Masters throughout Heaven Dou City.
• Sword Douluo, Dugu Bo, the Heaven Dou Academy Committee Members, and others traced the disturbance to Yang Yuan's cultivation site and gathered nearby.
• The energy formed a Soul Ring that turned blood-red and reached an age of three hundred sixty thousand years.
• Yang Yuan opened his eyes after successfully condensing his Seventh Soul Ring and gained the divine ability Life and Death Samsara Tribulation Light.

Yang Yuan met Sword Douluo and accepted his request for a spar in the Primordial Battlefield. He replicated the Seven Kill Sword, and the chapter ended as his sword intent filled the sky.

• Dugu Bo told the three Committee Members that Yang Yuan’s strength surpassed their expectations, and Sword Douluo’s agreement convinced them Yang Yuan could rival a Titled Douluo.
• Yang Yuan arrived and kept the details of his recent experiment secret.
• Sword Douluo asked Yang Yuan to spar so he could test himself and seek a breakthrough, and Yang Yuan agreed.
• Yang Yuan transported himself, Sword Douluo, and Dugu Bo to the Primordial Battlefield.
• Sword Douluo summoned his Seven Kill Sword and asked Yang Yuan to replicate it, and Yang Yuan answered by conjuring a sword whose qi and intent filled the battlefield.

Yang Yuan fought Sword Douluo, matching his swordsmanship and power before using his Seventh Soul Skill to defeat him. Sword Douluo survived the attack but was badly injured and admitted defeat.

• Sword Douluo and Yang Yuan clashed sword intents and began their duel, with Yang Yuan using his Double Pupil to read and counter Sword Douluo's opening strike.
• Yang Yuan's sword broke through Sword Douluo's sword-energy net, and their clash of soul skills drove Sword Douluo back farther than Yang Yuan.
• Sword Douluo used Calm as Flowing Water against Yang Yuan's Raging Sea Surging Waves, then launched his Seven Kill True Body and Sword Shadow Thrust before Yang Yuan could build momentum.
• Yang Yuan activated his Seventh Soul Skill, Life and Death Samsara Tribulation Light, engulfing Sword Douluo in its power.
• Yang Yuan withdrew the divine ability, leaving Sword Douluo gravely injured and kneeling as he conceded defeat.

Yang Yuan healed Sword Douluo after their battle, and the vitality from his Seventh Soul Ring helped Sword Douluo break through to level ninety-seven. Yang Yuan then revealed to Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo that he had condensed his own 360,000-year Soul Ring, leaving them astonished.

• Dugu Bo wondered when Yang Yuan had absorbed his Seventh Soul Ring and whether it was connected to Xiao Wu.
• Yang Yuan used his Seventh Soul Ring to heal Sword Douluo, and the surge of vitality helped Sword Douluo break through to level ninety-seven.
• Sword Douluo thanked Yang Yuan for helping him glimpse the path forward and overcome his bottleneck.
• Dugu Bo asked about Yang Yuan's Seventh Soul Ring, and Yang Yuan explained that he had experimented with condensing a Soul Ring himself.
• Yang Yuan revealed that his self-condensed Seventh Soul Ring was 360,000 years old and said Xiao Wu had told him Soul Beasts could survive beyond 100,000 years by overcoming tribulations.
• Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo accepted Xiao Wu as the source of the information and were stunned by Yang Yuan's revelation.

Yang Yuan revealed that he had independently condensed a Soul Ring, though the method currently worked only for him, while Qian Renxue grew concerned that he might discover her identity. After the Promotion Tournament, the Heaven Dou Vice Team secured first place, and sixteen teams departed for Spirit City to compete in the Finals.

• Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo asked Yang Yuan how he had condensed a Soul Ring, and he said he had comprehended the process while watching Xiao Wu break through.
• Yang Yuan explained that his method was currently suitable only for himself, and Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo agreed that he should prioritize cultivating his own strength.
• Sword Douluo reported his breakthrough and Yang Yuan’s achievement to Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo, while Snake Lance Douluo told Qian Renxue that Yang Yuan might have noticed him spying.
• Meng Yiran returned to the team at Rank 41, and the Heaven Dou Vice Team won the Promotion Tournament with a perfect record as Shrek Academy forfeited against them.
• Three days after the tournament, Crown Prince Xue Qinghe led sixteen teams and a procession of more than a thousand people from Heaven Dou City toward Spirit City for the Finals.

During the journey to Spirit City, Yang Yuan warned his companions that Shrek’s rapid growth had cost its members some potential, while Yu Tianxin considered how this could benefit him. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang arrived at the Palace of the Pope with a Pope’s Token and demanded to see the Pope.

• Shui Bing'er, Shui Yuer, Feng Xiaotian, Yu Tianxin, and the others visited Yang Yuan for guidance, and he offered advice without taking Shui Yuer’s Gold Card.
• Yang Yuan said Shrek Academy’s treasures had slightly damaged its members’ potential, and Yu Tianxin privately considered what that could mean for his chances of leading his clan.
• In Shrek’s carriage, Oscar and Dai Mubai discussed Oscar’s recent breakthrough and credited Tang San’s Secret Medicine.
• Yu Xiaogang presented the Pope’s Token to the knights outside the Palace of the Pope, who knelt and greeted him as an Elder.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered the knights to take him to see the Pope.

Yu Xiaogang visited Bibi Dong to ask how she had resolved the conflict between her Twin Martial Souls, hoping to help Tang San. After Bibi Dong revealed that Spirit Hall had sent people to attack Tang San and Yang Yuan, Yu Xiaogang threatened to destroy Spirit Hall, and she drove him from the council hall.

• Yu Xiaogang met Bibi Dong in the council hall and asked her to call him by their old familiar names, but she insisted he address her as the Pope or Your Excellency.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Bibi Dong how she had resolved the conflict between her Twin Martial Souls so he could help his disciple, Tang San.
• Bibi Dong rejected his request, saying Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and had a blood feud with Spirit Hall; Yu Xiaogang defended Tang San and revealed that Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Poison Douluo Dugu Bo had killed Tang Hao.
• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang that she had sent people to target Tang San and Yang Yuan along the Heaven Dou Empire team’s route.
• Yu Xiaogang vowed to destroy Spirit Hall if Tang San was harmed, and Bibi Dong ordered him out before blasting him from the hall.

Yang Yuan detected an ambush in the gorge and stopped the Heaven Dou Empire's competition convoy. Chrysanthemum Douluo and two other powerful Spirit Hall figures appeared and declared that Tang San and Yang Yuan were their targets.

• Yang Yuan sensed an ambush ahead, left his carriage, and ordered the Knight Commander to halt the convoy and form a defensive line.
• Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo Chen Xin sensed the hidden attackers and suspected Spirit Hall was behind the ambush.
• Ning Fengzhi and Qian Renxue arrived, and both reacted angrily to the possibility that Spirit Hall had targeted Yang Yuan.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo, a gaunt man in black, and a burly man in black armor appeared above the gorge.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo recognized Dugu Bo, postponed their old grudge, and announced that Tang San and Yang Yuan were his targets.

Spirit Hall's three Titled Douluo prepared to kill Yang Yuan and Tang San, but Qian Renxue and the tournament teams stood in their way. As the attackers were about to strike, Qian Jun Douluo and Falling Devil Douluo arrived and overwhelmed them with their pressure.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo identified Tang San and declared that he and Yang Yuan had to die, while Shrek's group distanced themselves from Tang San.
• Qian Renxue stepped in front of Yang Yuan, and the Heaven Dou Vice Team and other academy teams joined her in opposing Spirit Hall.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Magic Bear Douluo prepared to attack Yang Yuan and Tang San, but Yang Yuan stopped Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo from intervening.
• Qian Jun Douluo and Falling Devil Douluo appeared and forced Chrysanthemum Douluo and the other two to falter under their pressure.

Thousand Jun Douluo punished Chrysanthemum Douluo and his companions for attacking the competition teams, then offered Yang Yuan an eighty-thousand-year Soul Bone as compensation. When Tang San demanded equal compensation, Thousand Jun Douluo crushed him beneath his pressure and warned him to behave.

• Thousand Jun Douluo ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Charm, and Demon Bear back to Spirit Hall to await punishment for their attack.
• Thousand Jun Douluo apologized to the competition teams, and he and Falling Devil Douluo realized Sword Douluo Chen Xin had broken through to level 97.
• Thousand Jun Douluo gave Yang Yuan an eighty-thousand-year Dark Gold Dragon Left Arm Bone as compensation, and Yang Yuan accepted it.
• Tang San demanded to know why he received no compensation despite being named as an assassination target.
• Thousand Jun Douluo forced Tang San face-down onto the ground with his pressure, then warned him to behave himself.