Chapter Summaries

Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to search for a suitable Fourth Soul Ring, while Tang San absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring in the Sunset Forest. The chapter ended with a Divine Butterfly sensing something and flying out of the palace beneath the Lake of Life.

• Li Zhexian left Spirit City and met Qian Renxue on the road, then carried her on his horse toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After traveling for a day and a half, Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue entered the forest and searched its perilous middle-to-late regions for a Spirit Beast.
• Tang San successfully absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Cave Demon Spider as his Fourth Soul Ring, and Flender urged him to return to Spirit City for the competition finals.
• Beneath the Lake of Life, a Divine Butterfly sensed something, beat its wings, and flew out of the underground palace.

In the Earth Palace, Divine Butterfly struggled to reach Li Zhexian, the human who had freed her from her fate-bound cocoon, while Di Tian tried to keep her there. After sensing multiple divine auras around Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue, Di Tian watched as Li Zhexian detected its gaze and fled the dangerous forest with Qian Renxue.

• Divine Butterfly and Three-Eyed Golden Lion struck the Soul Power barrier, and Di Tian refused to let them leave before they reached ten thousand years of cultivation.
• Di Tian recognized Divine Butterfly’s bloodline connection to the human who had created her, but warned that humans were difficult to judge and urged her to stay in the Earth Palace.
• Divine Butterfly repeatedly rammed the barrier, remembering how Li Zhexian had severed the fate cocoon that once held her.
• Di Tian formed a water mirror showing Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue in the Gray Mist Forest, then sensed divine auras around both of them and more than one deity around Li Zhexian.
• Li Zhexian sensed an unknown presence watching them, grabbed Qian Renxue’s hand, and ran toward the forest’s outskirts instead of hunting for a Spirit Ring.
• Di Tian told Divine Butterfly to wait until she was stronger, but she kept striking the barrier while Three-Eyed Golden Lion clawed at it.

The Beast God revealed the Calamity Lotus, a divinity-tainted plant whose deadly backlash grew stronger with its number of leaves, and let the Divine Butterfly choose one for her bonded human. Li Zhexian received the nearly twenty-thousand-year twelve-leaf Calamity Lotus and prepared to absorb it.

• The Beast God opened the passage to a cave filled with Calamity Lotuses after the Divine Butterfly rejected several other Spirit Beasts.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion tested a three-leaf Calamity Lotus and suffered a wound from its threefold backlash as it died.
• The Beast God explained the Calamity Lotus's life-ending Spirit Skill and warned the Divine Butterfly about choosing a twelve-leaf specimen for Li Zhexian.
• The Divine Butterfly chose the twelve-leaf Calamity Lotus, and it emerged from the ground before Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Li Zhexian recognized the dying Calamity Lotus as a Rare Beast compatible with his Sword Falcon Spirit Ring, thanked the senior who had sent it, and swung his Azure Lotus Sword at it.

Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue defeated the dying Calamity Lotus, and Li Zhexian risked absorbing its powerful, god-tainted Spirit Ring. After surviving the ordeal, he revealed that his Soul Power had reached level 43 and hinted that his new Spirit Skill was one he hoped never to use.

• The dying Calamity Lotus unleashed a devastating crimson attack, and Li Zhexian and Qian Renxue combined their skills to withstand it.
• A powerful Spirit Ring formed over the withered Calamity Lotus, and Li Zhexian began absorbing it while Qian Renxue guarded him.
• Li Zhexian endured the Spirit Ring's brutal power as his Wine Martial Soul repaired his injuries, and Qian Renxue helped him escape when Spirit Beasts approached.
• At their campsite, Li Zhexian told Qian Renxue his Soul Power had reached level 43 and said he hoped never to use his new Spirit Skill.

Li Zhexian explained that his Fourth Soul Skill, Life Tribulation Rebirth, could greatly strengthen an attack but worsened his near-fatal injuries, prompting Qian Renxue to kiss him before flying away. Li Zhexian continued toward Spirit City, where the tournament’s final day began with the top three about to be revealed.

• Li Zhexian told Qian Renxue that Life Tribulation Rebirth could increase a Soul Skill’s power twelvefold but caused severe injuries to erupt further when used.
• Li Zhexian broke the tense mood by offering Qian Renxue the edible leg of his burnt rabbit.
• Qian Renxue threw herself at Li Zhexian and kissed him beneath the ancient tree, then flew away after telling him there was no danger at the forest’s edge.
• Li Zhexian rode toward home beneath the stars while Qian Renxue followed him from the sky.
• Crowds gathered at God Mountain in Spirit City as the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament’s final day began.

Li Zhexian arrived just before forfeiting the Imperial Dou Team’s match and defeated Dai Mubai in an instant. He then lifted Dai Mubai by the neck and greeted Pope Bibi Dong, leaving the arena stunned.

• Bibi Dong appeared before the tournament crowd with two Title Douluo who had previously tried to assassinate Li Zhexian.
• Dai Mubai volunteered to lead Shrek’s individual battle and called out Li Zhexian, while Xiao Wu clung to Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong watched the Imperial Dou Team sadly.
• As the referee prepared to declare Li Zhexian absent, Li Zhexian arrived on a sword and accepted Dai Mubai’s challenge.
• Li Zhexian struck before Dai Mubai could finish activating his skill, then raised him by the neck after pointing his sword at Dai Mubai’s throat.
• Li Zhexian greeted Pope Bibi Dong while holding Dai Mubai aloft.

Li Zhexian confronted Bibi Dong after defeating Dai Mubai, while the Pope calmed the crowd and announced Spirit Bone rewards for the tournament victor. Li Zhexian threw Dai Mubai from the arena and called for his next opponent.

• Li Zhexian held the defeated Dai Mubai while Imperial Dou’s team defended his disrespect toward Bibi Dong, and Shrek prepared Tang San to face him next.
• Bibi Dong silenced the crowd, praised the young competitors, and revealed three Spirit Bones as the prize for the ultimate victor.
• Li Zhexian told Dai Mubai that he had never been worth his notice and hurled him off the arena.
• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, Oscar, and the others helped Dai Mubai up as he reeled from humiliation, while Li Zhexian called for his next opponent.

Tang San challenged Li Zhexian in the Spirit Master tournament, unleashing his Blue Silver Grass and Clear Sky Hammer after revealing a ten-thousand-year fourth Spirit Ring. The fight ended with Li Zhexian stopping Tang San’s devastating hammer strike bare-handed and questioning the weapon’s reputation.

• Tang San entered the arena and revealed four Spirit Rings, including a ten-thousand-year fourth ring, drawing a brief reaction from the crowd.
• Tang San trapped Li Zhexian inside a Blue Silver Cage and rushed in with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Li Zhexian’s sword aura shattered the cage before Tang San could land his attack.
• Tang San brought the Clear Sky Hammer down with overwhelming force, cracking the arena floor.
• Li Zhexian caught the hammerhead with one hand, unharmed, and asked Tang San whether the Clear Sky Hammer was all it had to offer.

Li Zhexian overwhelmed Tang San, severing his Eight Spider Lances and defeating him after Tang San added a Spirit Ring to his Clear Sky Hammer and attacked at the cost of his future potential. Shrek withdrew from the Individual Battle, and Li Zhexian challenged Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation by calling for the next opponent.

• Li Zhexian caught Tang San’s full-strength Clear Sky Hammer strike with one hand, then revealed his Sword Bone and cut off all eight of Tang San’s Spider Lances with four Azure Lotus Swords.
• Tang San added a Spirit Ring to his Clear Sky Hammer and unleashed Heavy as Ten Thousand Juns, but Li Zhexian stopped the hammer with his sword and struck Tang San with Thunder Ash Birth.
• A referee shielded Tang San from Li Zhexian’s lightning sword attack, then carried the badly injured Tang San off the arena.
• Li Zhexian’s Thunder Sword Intent revived the Blue Silver Grass across the shattered arena, and Yu Xiaogang announced Shrek’s withdrawal from the Individual Battle.
• Li Zhexian pointed his Azure Lotus Sword at Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation and called for the next opponent.

Li Zhexian won the individual battle after Spirit Hall's Golden Generation forfeited, and Bibi Dong recognized him as a major threat to Spirit Hall. The story left the teams preparing for the dusk battle, where Hu Liena planned to lead an attack on him.

• Li Zhexian challenged Spirit Hall's Golden Generation after defeating Shrek, while Yu Xiaogang admitted that he had misjudged Li Zhexian and told his students to pursue him as a goal.
• Shui Bing'er predicted that the Golden Generation would forfeit the individual battle and try to defeat Li Zhexian in the team battle.
• Hu Liena announced Spirit Hall's forfeit, then planned for the Golden Generation to hold back Imperial Dou's other members and surround Li Zhexian.
• Li Zhexian called Hu Liena useless as she left, and Bibi Dong declared him the individual battle champion and scheduled the team battle for dusk.
• Bibi Dong considered Li Zhexian's talent and connections a threat to Spirit Hall's ambitions, and her killing intent toward him reached a new peak.

Bibi Dong confronted the Worship Hall over its interference with Qian Renxue’s Angel God Trial. Meanwhile, Li Zhexian’s team faced Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation in the finals, where he stood alone against Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena as their first attacks engulfed him.

• Bibi Dong entered the Worship Hall, summoned her Poison Spider phantoms, and demanded to know why its members were obstructing her plans for Qian Renxue.
• Li Zhexian led his team into the finals against Spirit Hall, and Yu Tianheng warned that the other six teammates would need to defeat their opponents and support him against the Golden Generation.
• The match began, with Spirit Hall’s four Soul Ancestors engaging Li Zhexian’s teammates while Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena attacked him together.
• Hu Liena used her Charm skill, but Li Zhexian’s sword qi forced her to shut her eyes and narrowly dodge his strike.
• Xie Yue sent out clones and a storm of crescent blades as Yan unleashed lava attacks that swallowed Li Zhexian’s figure.

Li Zhexian emerged unharmed from Yan’s lava attack and overwhelmed Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan with his sword qi. As the Golden Generation unleashed their Demon Charm fusion skill, Li Zhexian answered with his Third Soul Skill, Azure Lotus Twelve Calamities, trapping all three inside a sword formation.

• Li Zhexian walked out of the lava unharmed, blocked Xie Yue’s Moon Blades, and drove him back with Invisible Qi Swords.
• Yan raised a Shield of Blazing Rock to protect Xie Yue, but Li Zhexian’s sword qi shattered it and left the Golden Generation at a disadvantage.
• Li Zhexian revealed his three Spirit Rings and advanced on Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan as Yu Tianheng challenged them to use their full strength.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue activated their Demon Charm Martial Soul Fusion Skill, sending a crimson tide toward Li Zhexian.
• Li Zhexian used his Third Soul Skill, Azure Lotus Twelve Calamities, to trap Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan in a formation of twelve Azure Lotus Swords.

Li Zhexian shattered the Golden Generation’s attacks, crippled Yan, and eliminated him despite the Pope watching. He then charged at Xie Yue, while Bai Baoshan worried about getting Li Zhexian and the Imperial Dou Team safely back to Heaven Dou City.

• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan broke Li Zhexian’s Sword Formation with their combined attacks, but all three emerged badly wounded.
• Yan attacked Li Zhexian, who shattered his lava arm with a punch and severed it at the shoulder.
• Li Zhexian pierced Yan’s remaining arm with a qi sword and nailed him to the wall, eliminating him.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue attacked Li Zhexian, but four Azure Lotus Swords blocked them and drove them back.
• As Li Zhexian lunged at Xie Yue, Bai Baoshan worried about defying the Pope, while Osler defended Li Zhexian’s actions.

Li Zhexian defeated the remaining members of Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation, breaking Xie Yue’s Moon Blade and driving Hu Liena from the arena. The match continued under Bibi Dong’s orders, while her preparations for something after the match were ready to begin.

• Bibi Dong rejected the Platinum Bishop’s suggestion to intervene and confirmed that preparations for after the match were complete.
• Li Zhexian shattered one of Xie Yue’s Moon Blades, wounded him with a qi sword, and eliminated him.
• Hu Liena attacked Li Zhexian in fury, but he froze and destroyed her fox-tail attack before knocking her off the arena.
• Li Zhexian reminded Hu Liena that she had once bullied and humiliated his friend, then kicked her from the arena to finish a paid job.
• Shui Yue'er, Shui Bing'er, Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian celebrated Li Zhexian’s victory, then fell silent as they considered Bibi Dong’s reaction.

Li Zhexian and the Imperial Dou Team won the tournament, and Spirit Hall hosted a banquet to celebrate. As Li Zhexian watched Chrysanthemum Douluo at the mountain pass, news of his victory spread to Heaven Dou City, where a Storyteller began recounting an embellished version of the final.

• The last two Martial Soul Hall Team members fled the arena, leaving the Imperial Dou Team as the only team standing.
• Bibi Dong announced Li Zhexian as the individual champion and the Imperial Dou Team as the team battle champions, and Li accepted three Spirit Bones.
• Spirit Hall held a banquet for the tournament participants and selected spectators, while Li noticed Chrysanthemum Douluo at the mountain pass.
• Soul Masters from Heaven Dou City recorded the celebrations and sent their account to a Storyteller, as the victory news spread through the imperial capital.
• The Storyteller performed an exaggerated account of Li Zhexian defeating Martial Soul Hall's seven fighters and ended by promising the next installment.

At the banquet after the Soul Master Competition, Bibi Dong offered Li Zhexian a place as Spirit Hall’s youngest elder, but he refused. As Li Zhexian prepared to leave, Bibi Dong stopped him and confronted him about the deaths of seventeen Spirit Hall Deacons, whose wounds bore sword intent like his.

• Li Zhexian’s friends gathered around him at the banquet, and Yan approached to drink with him before threatening that he would die with regrets.
• Bibi Dong invited Li Zhexian to join Spirit Hall as an elder, but he calmly refused.
• After the feast ended, Bibi Dong called Li Zhexian back as he was leaving with his friends.
• Bibi Dong said that a master swordsman had killed six Soul Kings and eleven Soul Ancestors near the Wind Gathering Mountains, and that most of the victims bore sword intent identical to Li Zhexian’s.

At the banquet, Bibi Dong confronted Li Zhexian over the deaths of seventeen Spirit Hall deacons, while Qian Renxue revealed that Spirit Hall targeted him because she admired him. As Bibi Dong ordered the pair seized, Dugu Bo appeared amid a cloud of poison to intervene.

• Bibi Dong displayed the bodies of seventeen slain deacons and demanded that Li Zhexian explain their deaths.
• Li Zhexian said Spirit Hall had sent assassins after him, and Bibi Dong pressed him to explain why.
• Qian Renxue arrived, declared that Spirit Hall had tried to kill Li Zhexian because she admired him, and took his hand.
• Bibi Dong ordered Ghost Charm Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo to capture Li Zhexian when Qian Renxue tried to leave with him.
• Tens of thousands of Jade Scale Snakes blocked the two Title Douluos, and Dugu Bo emerged from the poisonous mist to condemn Spirit Hall.

Dugu Bo, Yu Yuanzhen, and Chen Xin arrived one after another to protect Li Zhexian from Spirit Hall, while Bibi Dong suppressed the first two. Chen Xin then revealed that another hidden Title Douluo was present, and the blind Wind Sword appeared to protect Li Zhexian.

• Dugu Bo and Yu Yuanzhen confronted Spirit Hall and called for Li Zhexian to be protected.
• Bibi Dong released her nine Spirit Rings and suppressed Dugu Bo and Yu Yuanzhen, allowing Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo to attack Li Zhexian.
• Chen Xin appeared before Li Zhexian and stopped Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo with his sword intent.
• Ghost Douluo attacked Chen Xin while Chrysanthemum Douluo tried to get around him, but Chen Xin called out to someone hidden nearby.
• Wind Sword emerged from the gathered cyan airflow and declared that he had come to protect Li Zhexian.

Feng Bailong arrived to protect Li Zhexian, bringing the number of Title Douluo on his side to four, but Bibi Dong renewed the attack and turned the plaza into a battlefield. As Li Zhexian and his friends fought back, Xiao Wu released an aura that made all seven battling Title Douluo freeze and look toward her.

• Feng Bailong revealed that he had become a Title Douluo and joined Dugu Bo, Yu Yuanzhen, and Chen Xin in protecting Li Zhexian.
• Feng Bailong praised Chen Xin and Li Zhexian’s swordsmanship, and Chen Xin approved of his claim that Li Zhexian deserved a share of the world’s swordsmanship.
• Bibi Dong manifested her Spider Emperor phantom, ordered Spirit Hall to seize Li Zhexian, and sent Ghost Douluo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and reinforcements into battle.
• Qian Renxue, Zhu Zhuqing, Li Zhexian’s friends, and the academy teams fought the Spirit Hall forces while Li Zhexian used his swords to protect them.
• Xiao Wu clung to Zhu Zhuqing until Zhu Zhuqing broke free to block a sneak attack on Li Zhexian, and Xiao Wu’s aura made the seven Title Douluo stop and turn toward her.

Bibi Dong exposed Xiao Wu as a transformed Spirit Beast and ordered her and Li Zhexian captured, igniting a battle between seven Title Douluo and forcing the gathered teams to defend themselves. Tang San rejected Xiao Wu, while Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong stood by her as Li Zhexian fought through the Spirit Hall attackers and revealed a mysterious crimson-patterned Spirit Ring.

• Bibi Dong attacked, and Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo met her assault while Chen Xin wounded Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo as they tried to reach Li Zhexian.
• Bibi Dong declared that Xiao Wu was a transformed Spirit Beast and ordered her and Li Zhexian captured, drawing the attention of the Spirit Masters below.
• Tang San denied knowing Xiao Wu was a Spirit Beast, withdrew from her, and turned away despite her tearful appeal.
• Zhu Zhuqing promised to stand by Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong joined her while Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling supported their allies with enhancements and healing.
• Li Zhexian cut down five Spirit Hall Spirit Masters with the Azure Lotus Sword, and a deep crimson-patterned Spirit Ring rose beneath his feet.