Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xiao and others reacted to the White World’s Xiao Xiao developing her Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute as an attack martial soul, while Yu Xiaogang criticized the choice. Zhou Yi began a combat assessment at Qingdi Soul Master Academy, and Wu Yun drew the students into an illusion.

• Xiao Xiao and Mu En were shocked that the Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute followed the power attack path, while Yu Xiaogang declared Xiao Xiao’s development ruined.
• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong discussed Xiao Xiao’s future, and Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Zhu Zhuqing privately dismissed Yu Xiaogang’s teaching.
• Zhou Yi finished hearing the students’ introductions and announced a baseline combat assessment using an illusion overseen by Elder Wu Yun.
• Wu Yun recognized her White World counterpart as a respected Titled Douluo and resented God King Tang for the suffering that had led her to become an Evil Soul Master.
• Zhou Yi distributed Spirit Conversion Helmets, and the students, including Tang Wutian, Huo Yutong, and Xiao Xiao, put them on.
• Wu Yun summoned her martial soul and used her spiritual power to draw the students into her illusion.

Zhou Yi and Wu Yun began Qingdi Soul Master Academy’s illusion combat test, summoning Soul Beasts suited to each student’s strength. Tang Wutian effortlessly defeated several powerful century Soul Beasts, and Zhou Yi ordered stronger opponents for him as Xiao Xiao faced her own test.

• Zhou Yi used the Spirit Conversion Helmet and a monitoring screen to observe the students in their forest illusions, while viewers in the Black World admired the White World’s technology and compared its academy favorably with Shrek Academy.
• Zhou Yi asked Wu Yun to send each student seven or eight century Soul Beasts, with weaker opponents for Huo Yutong and powerful ones for Tang Wutian.
• Tang Wutian summoned his Blue Silver Life Tree and used its spreading, rapidly healing roots to strangle the attacking century Soul Beasts without relying on his stronger offensive abilities.
• Zhou Yi praised Tang Wutian’s martial soul and skill combination, then asked Wu Yun to send him several thousand-year Soul Beasts.
• Xiao Xiao calmly summoned her Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute as Gale Demon Wolves, Ghost Leopards, and Datura Snakes approached, leaving her Black World counterpart anxious about how she would fight with an auxiliary-type martial soul.

The Comparison Video showed Xiao Xiao using her Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute and Second Spirit Ability to kill seven or eight century Soul Beasts in moments, disproving Yu Xiaogang’s claim that an instrument martial soul could not excel in the Power Attack Department. Xiao Xiao was astonished by her future self’s strength, while Yu Xiaogang angrily insisted the video was fake.

• Yu Xiaogang claimed Xiao Xiao would fail the illusion trial and argued that a musical instrument martial soul was unsuitable for the Power Attack Department.
• The video showed Xiao Xiao summon the Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute and activate her Second Spirit Ability, Wind Phoenix Whirlwind Slaughter Song.
• Xiao Xiao’s sound-and-wind azure phoenixes struck the attacking century Soul Beasts, killing seven or eight of them within moments.
• Xiao Xiao was shocked to see her future self’s strength and realized that musical instrument martial souls could be powerful in the Power Attack Department.
• Yu Xiaogang angrily rejected what he had seen and blamed the illusion on a flaw in Zhou Yi’s soul skill used by Wu Yun.