Chapter Summaries

After being disgraced in Heaven Dou City, Yu Xiaogang traveled toward Spirit City on foot but was knocked unconscious and robbed by Hu Liena’s group. Hu Liena recognized him and ordered her companions to strip him, while Yue Guan and Gui Mei confirmed his identity and noted his strange condition.

• Yu Xiaogang left Heaven Dou City at night on foot because he feared a coachman might recognize and rob him.
• Hu Liena’s Spirit Hall carriage approached, and a burly man knocked Yu Xiaogang unconscious.
• Hu Liena ordered Xie Yue and the others to take Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Tools and strip off his clothes, while Gui Mei warned her not to kill him.
• Xie Yue removed Yu Xiaogang’s mask, and Hu Liena was stunned by his appearance.
• Yue Guan examined Yu Xiaogang, confirmed who he was, and observed that he had no Soul Power and appeared severely depleted.

Hu Liena arrived at the Spirit Hall residence in Heaven Dou City late at night to see Qian Ningshuang, who welcomed her and sent her to rest. Qian Ningshuang then faced Qian Renxue’s questions about Hu Liena and the other women in her life, while Gu Yuena struggled with her Soul Contract.

• Hu Liena hurried to the residence with Xie Yue and Yan, then hesitated at the gates while wondering how Qian Ningshuang would receive her.
• Qian Ningshuang stopped sparring with King and Queen, greeted Hu Liena, and suggested she rest after her journey.
• Qian Renxue told Hu Liena that she and Qian Ningshuang were sharing a room, leaving Hu Liena disappointed as she followed them inside.
• Xie Yue tried to convince Yan to give up pursuing Hu Liena, but Yan insisted he would not quit.
• Qian Ningshuang asked Qian Renxue whether she blamed her about Hu Liena, and Qian Renxue questioned her about the other women.
• Gu Yuena curled beneath the blankets, frustrated by her Soul Contract.

Qian Ningshuang assembled Hu Liena’s team for the competition while Hu Liena refocused on proving her strength. Meanwhile, Tang San’s induction ceremony began at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, with several guests attending and Camelot absent.

• Qian Ningshuang and Qian Renxue spoke after a night that left Qian Ningshuang exhausted, and Qian Ningshuang set out with Hu Liena to find teammates.
• Gu Yuena followed Qian Ningshuang, while Rita told Qian Renxue that she did not worry about Hu Liena’s different approach to love and life.
• Qian Ningshuang introduced Hu Liena and the others to Xie Yue, Yan, Li An, and Huo Longguo, then left with Gu Yuena to watch matches.
• Xie Yue urged Hu Liena to win the competition before pursuing her goals, and Hu Liena resolved to show how much stronger she had become.
• Ning Fengzhi held Tang San’s induction ceremony at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Yu Luomian, Salas, and Huyan Zhen attended, but Camelot sent no representative.

After Tang San joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi and the two guardian Douluos assessed the skills and hidden weapons he had offered, while Ning Rongrong asserted her authority over him. The chapter ended with Tang San kneeling to Ning Rongrong and secretly resenting her.

• After leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Huyan Zhen suggested targeting Tang San, but Salas said they should leave the decision to Young Lady.
• Ning Fengzhi sent Ning Rongrong and Tang San away, then discussed Tang San’s Self-Created Soul Skills and hidden weapons with Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo Gu Rong.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong concluded that Tang San had withheld something, and they doubted his claims about the power of his three strongest hidden weapons.
• Ning Fengzhi decided to teach the usable skills to the sect’s Core Disciples and have a batch of hidden weapons forged.
• Ning Rongrong demanded that Tang San address her as Young Sect Master and kneel, and Tang San obeyed while vowing resentment in his heart.

Tang San learned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had placed him at the lowest disciple rank and realized Ning Fengzhi was pressuring him to contribute more. Back at Blue Tyrant Academy, he learned that his team had another match the next day, and the group gathered to discuss it.

• Tang San asked Ning Fengzhi about his sect rank and learned that he was an Outer Sect Disciple who could gain privileges through contributions.
• Tang San discovered Ning Rongrong was a Core Disciple because she was Ning Fengzhi's daughter, while Gu Rong questioned Ning Fengzhi's treatment of Tang San.
• Tang San left knowing he could not break his Martial Soul Oath or oppose the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and considered which inventions and resources he might offer without revealing the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Xiao Wu told Tang San that another match had been scheduled for the next day, and he joined Dai Mubai and the others at Blue Tyrant Academy to discuss their options.

Tang San and the Lanba Team faced Spirit Hall’s Yao Mei Team despite their exhaustion, expecting another crushing defeat. Tang San’s spiritual attack quickly incapacitated Hu Liena, and he realized the Golden Generation was weaker than he had expected in this life.

• Tang San learned that forfeiting would cost the Lanba Team ten points, so they agreed to face the Yao Mei Team despite the mismatch and their fatigue.
• At the match, Tang San recognized Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan as Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation and planned to stall rather than seek victory.
• Hu Liena used her first Spirit Ring, but Tang San’s spiritual assault overwhelmed her and knocked her out.
• Tang San charged the panicked Yao Mei Team, while Dan Bing rolled across the ground after Tang San sprayed venom in his face.

Tang San believed he had defeated the Yao Mei Team, but the match had been an illusion that made him attack his own Lanba Team. He realized the Yao Mei Team remained unharmed and faced their mocking stares as the chapter ended.

• Tang San attacked the Lanba Team members while spectators mistook the scene for a strange tactic, then charged into battle against the Yao Mei Team.
• Tang San defeated Yan, mutilated Trancy, and struck down Xie Yue before confronting Li An.
• Tang San killed and repeatedly hacked apart the smiling figure of Li An, then expected the referee to declare his victory.
• The referee announced that the Yao Mei Team had won, and Tang San saw that its members were unharmed while the Lanba Team lay injured behind him.
• Tang San tried to break through the illusion, but the Yao Mei Team laughed at him and Li An still stood smiling.

Sword Douluo Chen Xin explained that Li An’s Staff of Sin had amplified Tang San’s emotions during the match, then announced that he would personally train the team using a method obtained from Spirit Hall. He left Tang San facing a question about whether he would take the training seriously.

• Chen Xin explained that Li An’s Staff of Sin had magnified Tang San’s emotions after Hu Liena’s Charm weakened his mind, causing his violent loss of control.
• Chen Xin stopped the team from dwelling on Tang San’s actions and said he would personally oversee their training; Zhu Zhuqing chose to remain, while Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng sat back down.
• Chen Xin revealed that the training method came from Spirit Hall and that the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had traded away more than a hundred agents and its future intelligence network to obtain it.
• Chen Xin urged Ning Rongrong to take the training seriously and reminded her of the lives sacrificed to secure the method.
• Chen Xin told Tang San that the sect had opened its true gates to him and asked whether he would commit to the training.

Tang San explained three methods to Sword Douluo Chen Xin, who recognized them as a degraded version of the Paladin system and gave Tang San a month to organize them. Qian Ningshuang also learned that Li An’s Martial Soul would amplify dark thoughts temporarily, with its aftereffects lasting about half a year.

• Tang San agreed to reveal three methods after Chen Xin questioned him, then described Spirit Souls as contracts that could become Spirit Rings and help Spirit Masters exceed their limits.
• Tang San explained Battle Armor and Artificial Spirit Bones, and Chen Xin recognized that the methods resembled Paladin abilities with key processes omitted.
• Tang San swore a Martial Soul Oath that his methods were genuine, and Chen Xin accepted the oath and gave him one month to organize them.
• Qian Ningshuang asked Li An about his Martial Soul’s effect on dark thoughts, and he said the amplification would not last long but its aftereffects would persist for around half a year.

Sword Douluo Chen Xin explained Qian Renxue’s extraordinary power and used her as a contrast to criticize Tang San’s arrogance. He took over Tang San’s education and left him with his self-made Sea God Mask cut in half.

• Chen Xin explained that the Qian Family ruled Spirit Hall and that Qian Renxue was its young Title Douluo heir with a golden-ringed Seraphim Martial Soul.
• The group reacted with shock to Qian Renxue’s age, strength, and Martial Soul as Chen Xin described her abilities.
• Chen Xin told the students to forget Shrek’s teachings and criticized Tang San’s hypocrisy, scheming, and arrogance.
• Chen Xin slashed Tang San’s mask and ordered him to stop wearing masks and show his face openly.
• Chen Xin demanded that everyone look at Tang San’s face, while Tang San silently stared at his split Sea God Mask and trembled.

Tang San asked Sword Douluo Chen Xin about the Second Miss of the Qian Family, whose existence had stirred his instinct to identify and eliminate her. Chen Xin revealed that she had proposed a theory challenging the foundations of Spirit Master combat, and Tang San recognized its implications as a perspective he thought belonged to gods.

• Tang San asked Chen Xin for the Second Miss of the Qian Family’s name and appearance, but Chen Xin said they were unknown.
• Chen Xin said the Second Miss’s talent might surpass Qian Renxue’s and that she had proposed influential ideas about the Spirit Master combat system.
• Chen Xin explained that the Second Miss believed Spirit Masters were controlled by their Martial Souls and should instead learn to control them.
• Tang San realized the theory challenged a cultivation system built entirely around Martial Souls and concluded that its perspective belonged to gods.

Sword Douluo Chen Xin explained that a Spirit Master controlled their Martial Soul as a tool and that Soul Power, not the Martial Soul, was their true foundation. He demonstrated an expanded application of Soul Power and directed the students to study methods for shaping it and tempering the body.

• Chen Xin asked the Lanba Academy students to consider how much combat strength they would retain if their Martial Souls were exchanged or vanished.
• Tang San answered that Soul Power was the foundation distinguishing Spirit Masters from ordinary people, and Chen Xin agreed.
• Chen Xin explained the first proposed method of increasing combat strength: expanding the applications of Soul Power.
• Chen Xin shaped unaligned Soul Power into a stable humanoid figure and revealed its meridian network to the students.
• Chen Xin explained that Soul Power could be used to temper the body and shaped or released for attacks, then pointed the students to the demonstrated methods.

Chen Xin challenged Tang San and Xiao Wu over their attitudes and past cultivation, then taught the students methods for developing Soul Power and attributes. He left them with the demanding goal of creating complete sets of Self-Created Soul Skills.

• Chen Xin argued that body tempering mattered more than rapid advancement and called Tang San out for gaining fewer than fifteen levels during six years at Nuoding Academy.
• Tang San blamed his slow progress on scarce resources and making a living, but Chen Xin accused him of neglecting cultivation because of Xiao Wu.
• Chen Xin warned Xiao Wu to consider the consequences of her actions and reminded her that she was not at home.
• Yu Tianheng asked whether shaping externally released Soul Power amounted to a Self-Created Soul Skill, and Chen Xin confirmed it did.
• Chen Xin taught the students to develop their attributes as primary strengths and urged them to create unique sets of Self-Created Soul Skills.

Chen Xin explained the meridian-based methods for creating Self-Created Soul Skills and struck down Tang San after Tang San accused Spirit Hall of paying blood debts to develop them. Walter then told Salas and Huyan Zhen that the methods had been deliberately leaked to expose spies and asked whether they wanted to become Paladins.

• Chen Xin taught the Lanba Academy students how meridians could be used to create Self-Created Soul Skills and warned them about dangerous pathways and combinations.
• Tang San implied that Spirit Hall had sacrificed countless lives to develop the meridian theory, and Chen Xin slapped him and rebuked him for hypocrisy.
• Chen Xin resumed training the students, explaining that the three methods could be practiced at the same time.
• Salas and Huyan Zhen questioned Walter about why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan knew the methods, and Huyan Zhen offered to attack them.
• Walter revealed that Spirit Hall had deliberately leaked the document to purge spies and that the theory and Paladins both came from Shuang'er.
• Walter asked Salas and Huyan Zhen whether they wanted to become Paladins, and they hesitated over the vows and restrictions.

Salas chose to become a Paladin, while Huyan Zhen chose wealth and accepted that the Elephant Armored Sect would be dismantled. Qian Renxue gave them the secret Taixu Sword Qi teachings, which they recognized as knowledge beyond the mortal world.

• Salas agreed to become a Paladin after Walter explained that Paladins would take precedence and traditional Spirit Masters would eventually be eradicated.
• Huyan Zhen chose to remain a wealthy man, accepting the risks of serving Spirit Hall and asking Walter to care for the Elephant Armored Sect.
• Walter told Huyan Zhen that all sects would be dismantled, but offered to take his son as a disciple; Huyan Zhen agreed to swear a Martial Soul Oath of secrecy.
• Walter prepared Salas's Oath Emblem, and Qian Renxue arrived as he finished forging it.
• Qian Renxue transmitted the Taixu Sword Qi teachings to Salas and Huyan Zhen, who studied its five essences and realized it was beyond the mortal world.

Qian Renxue reflected on her feelings for Qian Ningshuang and found her younger sister asleep in their room. They teased and cherished one another, while an adult outside the courtyard left without delivering a birthday gift.

• Qian Renxue left Walter after greeting him and considered why the Taixu Sword Qi had been shared with their people.
• Qian Renxue found Qian Ningshuang asleep in their room and reflected on her devotion to her sister.
• Qian Ningshuang woke and took Qian Renxue's hand, and Qian Renxue teased her with a kiss near her ear.
• The sisters gazed at each other and recalled Qian Renxue once telling Qian Ningshuang she was the only treasure worth trading everything for.
• An adult hesitated outside the courtyard, withdrew a gift, and left.

The Lanba Team faced the Zaun Team, whose members provoked Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun before the match. After seeing that six opponents had white first Spirit Rings, the Lanba Team prepared to overwhelm them, while Li Sushang and Ji Honglie watched from a private room; the fight had not yet begun.

• The Zaun Team insulted Tang San and Xiao Wu, and Tang San struggled to hold back his anger until the referee called the teams to prepare.
• Tang San recalled the Lanba Team's recent losses to Spirit Hall teams and their rise to ninth place after the arena increased their match frequency.
• Xiao Wu laughed at the Zaun Team's six white first Spirit Rings and threatened to tear the female Spirit Master's mouth apart.
• Tang San and the Lanba Team prepared to attack, confident they could defeat the Zaun Team by strength alone.
• Li Sushang asked Ji Honglie to predict the outcome, and he said they should watch the match rather than guess.

Qian Ningshuang finished training and was abducted by someone familiar to her, whom she later called Evil Dragon. The next morning, she ignored her sister’s arrival and decided to skip her promised trip with Tian Yao to the Spirit Fighting Arena.

• Qian Ningshuang ended her training by fighting herself and went to her room, dreading sleep despite feeling mentally exhausted.
• Someone familiar to Qian Ningshuang covered her mouth and dragged her away, leaving her unable to resist.
• The next morning, Qian Ningshuang thought about how Evil Dragon had followed after the first encounter.
• Qian Ningshuang’s sister kicked open the door, but Qian Ningshuang pulled the blanket over her head and decided to skip the Spirit Fighting Arena with Tian Yao.

The Lanba Team was caught off guard by the Zaun Team’s coordinated assault, leaving Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing to fight while most of their teammates were incapacitated. Dai Mubai activated White Tiger Vajra Transformation and faced a berserk opponent who attacked without regard for injury.

• Ning Rongrong watched confidently as the Zaun Team blocked Lanba’s opening attacks, but a weasel-like Spirit Master rushed her and knocked her out with yellow gas.
• The Zaun Team’s captain charged through the Lanba fighters while another opponent grabbed Yu Tianheng, Ma Hongjun, and Xiao Wu, leaving Yu Tianheng unconscious and the others badly burned.
• Tang San chose to stall his opponent while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing fought the separated Zaun members, as the Lanba Team fell to three active fighters.
• Dai Mubai praised the white-ring Soul Elders’ performance, then activated White Tiger Vajra Transformation and challenged the Zaun Team’s blade-wielding Spirit Master.
• The berserk blade wielder attacked Dai Mubai without defending himself, while a teammate thrust a long spear at Dai Mubai’s chest.

Dai Mubai was wounded in a brutal fight against two Zaun Team members, and the referee suspended the match while Paladins carried the injured fighters away. After Tang San objected to the match continuing, the referee rejected his protest, leaving Tang San alone against three Zaun Team members.

• Dai Mubai struggled to stop two Zaun Team Spirit Masters who kept attacking despite their injuries and showed no fear of death.
• Dai Mubai remembered the violence and fear that had shaped him, then subdued the blade-wielding Spirit Master while dodging the other fighter's spear.
• The spear pierced Dai Mubai's abdomen, and the referee suspended the match as Paladins rushed in to treat and remove both critically injured fighters.
• Tang San asked the referee to declare the Zaun Team defeated for violating the rules, but the referee said the match would continue because no one had died.
• Tang San accepted the referee's decision and faced the remaining Zaun Team members alone, bitterly blaming Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing for being eliminated.