Chapter Summaries

Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Ice Snow Falling, after Skywater Academy's other team members left the arena. Its enhanced freezing power threatened Tang San's team and even the spectators, while Su Ming protected Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing with his Fourth Spirit Skill.

• Tang San secretly absorbed Soul Power while being treated and prepared to build up more Clear Sky Hammer strikes, but Shui Bing'er knocked him away with her Third Spirit Skill.
• Shui Bing'er sent Skywater Academy's teammates off the arena and revealed that she and Xue Wu would use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Tang San recognized the danger and warned Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng, but Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu activated Ice Snow Falling before they could stop them.
• Ice Snow Falling covered the arena in sharp snow and extreme cold, threatening Tang San's group and freezing some spectators in place.
• Su Ming used his Fourth Spirit Skill to protect Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing, and promised to enhance his teammates if they faced Skywater Academy in the finals.

Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill against Tang San, Yu Tianxin, and Yu Tianheng, freezing all three despite Su Ming helping stabilize the arena shield. After Tang San refused to concede, Shui Bing'er froze him into an ice sculpture, and Doudou announced Skywater Academy's victory.

• Tang San ordered Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng to launch one final attack while he prepared a sixty-strike Clear Sky Hammer blow.
• Shui Bing'er revealed her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul, and the fusion skill's icy power immobilized the three Thunderclap Academy fighters and cracked the arena shield.
• Su Ming sent Soul Power into the shield to stabilize it, while Yu Yuanzhen and Xue Ye exchanged remarks about Su Ming and Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng became trapped in ice, and Shui Bing'er urged Tang San to surrender.
• Tang San refused, so Shui Bing'er increased the fusion skill's power and froze him into an ice sculpture.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that the match be stopped, and Doudou announced Skywater Academy as the winner.

Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu defeated Thunderclap Academy with Ice Snow Falling, then refused Yu Xiaogang’s request to thaw the frozen Tang San and his teammates. After the injured trio were rescued, Su Ming’s group ran into the two elemental academies, and Shui Yue'er eagerly asked whether he had seen the match.

• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu stopped their Martial Soul Fusion Skill after Thunderclap Academy surrendered, and Xue Wu rebuked Yu Xiaogang for expecting Tang San to win.
• Shui Bing'er claimed she could not undo the ice and left the arena with Xue Wu, while Xue Ye welcomed the elemental academies’ strength and Yu Yuanzhen stormed away.
• Yu Xiaogang had Tang San and the other two thawed and treated, but the healer warned that their injuries required them to avoid using Soul Power or Martial Souls during the preliminary rounds.
• Su Ming left the arena with Xiao Wu and the others, then encountered Skywater Academy and Blazing Fire Academy outside.
• Shui Yue'er rushed over to Su Ming and proudly asked whether he had watched Skywater Academy’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Su Ming praised Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu's Martial Soul Fusion Skill before Qian Renxue summoned him to discuss Tang Hao and Tang San. Qian Renxue revealed that she and Bibi Dong planned to attack them after the advancement tournament, on their way to Spirit City.

• Su Ming praised Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu's Martial Soul Fusion Skill as far stronger than Huo Wu's Ring Fusion, while Huo Wu protested.
• Shui Bing'er asked whether Su Ming could withstand their fusion skill, but he gave no direct answer.
• A royal guard summoned Su Ming to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, where Qian Renxue complained that he rarely visited her.
• Qian Renxue told Su Ming that Ghost Douluo had seen Tang Hao and that Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer confirmed he was Tang Hao's son.
• Qian Renxue said she and Bibi Dong planned to strike at Tang Hao and Tang San after the advancement tournament, while they traveled to Spirit City.

Qian Renxue asked Su Ming how many Titled Douluo Spirit Hall should send to intercept Tang San, and he recommended using four to deal with Tang Hao. After Su Ming explained a plan for the attack, Gui Mei emerged from hiding and asked how Su Ming knew about his Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Qian Renxue told Su Ming that Spirit Hall had planned to send Ju and Gui Douluo but needed more Titled Douluo now that Tang Hao had been exposed.
• Su Ming suggested adding Snake Lance and Pufferfish, then considered the possibility that Tang Hao's injuries had been healed.
• Su Ming proposed having Snake Lance and Pufferfish draw Tang Hao out while Ju and Gui hid and prepared their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Gui Mei appeared from the shadows and asked Su Ming how he knew that he and Moon Guan possessed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Su Ming warned Qian Renxue and Gui Mei that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass could devour Soul Power and bloodline attributes, and Spirit Hall planned to send four Titled Douluo after Tang San and Tang Hao. The preliminaries ended with Thunderclap Academy tied for fourth, while Tang San secretly devoured Soul Masters and reached level fifty.

• Su Ming told Qian Renxue and Gui Mei that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass could devour Soul Power and bloodline attributes, and Qian Renxue linked the claim to missing Soul Masters near Heaven Dou City.
• Qian Renxue explained that Tang Hao had recently attacked Spirit Hall repeatedly, and she and Gui Mei agreed that Spirit Hall would send four Titled Douluo to intercept him and Tang San.
• Su Ming left the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, and Thunderclap Academy used substitutes in its next two matches, losing to Godwind Academy on the final day.
• Thunderclap Academy finished the preliminaries tied for fourth place with Blue Sunshine Academy, while Su Ming considered how the later matchups might unfold.
• Tang Hao secretly brought injured Tang San several Soul Masters to devour, allowing Tang San to break through to level fifty.

After the preliminaries ended, Tang San and his companions set out to train while Ning Fengzhi prepared to travel to Gengxin City with Chen Xin and Su Ming’s help. Su Ming’s diary exposed corruption in Gengxin City’s Spirit Hall branch, prompting Bibi Dong to investigate and begin a purge of Spirit Hall.

• Tang San left Heaven Dou City with Tang Hao for the Blue Silver Grass ancestral land, while Flender and Zhao Wuji took Ma Hongjun and Oscar to Sunset Forest; Dai Mubai revealed that he had reached Level Forty-Seven.
• Ning Fengzhi told Su Ming to protect Ning Rongrong while he and Chen Xin prepared to travel to Gengxin City to meet Lou Gao and commission throwing knives and Soul Tools.
• Su Ming wrote in his diary that he suspected Tang San and the others had recovered from their injuries and described the corruption in Gengxin City’s Spirit Hall branch.
• After reading Su Ming’s diary, Bibi Dong asked a subordinate for a report on the branch and began investigating Spirit Hall’s branches across the land.
• Bibi Dong read the report on Gengxin City, learned that its branch master oppressed commoners and colluded with nobles, and decided to start her purge there.

Su Ming described how Spirit Hall’s mishandling of its attempt to recruit the Blacksmith Association pushed Lou Gao toward Tang San and the Tang Sect. He questioned the circumstances of Lou Gao’s later death while forging the Pear Blossom Rain Needles, and Bibi Dong resolved to replace the Gengxin City branch and improve Spirit Hall’s standing with Su Ming.

• Su Ming explained that Spirit Hall’s Gengxin City branch had alienated Lou Gao and the other blacksmiths with threats and inducements, leaving Tang San an opportunity to recruit Lou Gao using hidden-weapon blueprints.
• Bibi Dong recalled Spirit Hall’s failed attempt to recruit the Blacksmith Association and blamed the Gengxin City branch, deciding to replace it and apologize to the association.
• Bibi Dong considered Su Ming’s blueprints for new offensive and defensive Soul Tools and hoped that improving Spirit Hall’s reputation would help win his support.
• Su Ming recounted that Lou Gao joined the Tang Sect for its hidden-weapon blueprints but resigned as Blacksmith Association president rather than bring the whole association into the sect.
• Su Ming questioned why Lou Gao sacrificed himself to forge the Pear Blossom Rain Needles, noting that Tang Xiao had assisted because Lou Gao lacked the Soul Power to refine the materials.

Su Ming questioned whether Tang San had arranged Lou Gao’s death to keep the secrets of the three great Hidden Weapons to himself, and decided to recruit Lou Gao before Tang San could. He also criticized the future use of unrestricted Soul Tools in tournaments, then hoped Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo could reach Lou Gao first.

• Su Ming reasoned that Tang Xiao’s presence and strength made Lou Gao’s death in the furnace suspicious, and speculated that Tang San had secretly arranged it to silence him.
• Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, and the other women considered Su Ming’s theory plausible, given Tang San’s reluctance to share his techniques and Lou Gao’s inexplicable death.
• Su Ming resolved to recruit Lou Gao with Soul Tool blueprints, hoping to save him from the fate he had suffered before.
• Su Ming described how future tournaments allowed Soul Tools and Hidden Weapons, and argued that unrestricted equipment made competitions unfair.
• Su Ming noted that Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo had gone to Gengxin City and planned to recruit Lou Gao, perhaps even the Blacksmith Association, after the tournament.

Su Ming learned that Ah Yin had persuaded the Blue Silver Kings to seal the Blue Silver Ancestral Land and refuse to help Tang San awaken his bloodline. When Tang Hao and Tang San entered the land anyway, Su Ming watched as they prepared to discover the truth about Tang San’s supposed 100,000-year-old Soul Bone.

• Ah Yin told Su Ming that the Blue Silver Kings had sealed the Blue Silver Ancestral Land and would not help Tang San awaken his bloodline.
• Tang Hao brought Tang San to the Star Dou Great Forest, where an invisible seal blocked their way.
• Tang Hao decided to break through the seal, and Ah Yin realized he would destroy a trace of her power for Tang San’s sake.
• Tang Hao led Tang San into the Blue Silver Ancestral Land and asked the Blue Silver King to awaken Tang San’s bloodline.
• Tang Hao told Tang San to reveal his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and his supposed 100,000-year-old Blue Silver Grass Right Leg Bone, while Su Ming anticipated Tang San’s reaction to the truth about it.

Tang San discovered that his Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone had become a hundred-year-old Soul Bone, leaving him and Tang Hao bewildered. With the Blue Silver King absent, Tang San failed to awaken his bloodline and left with Tang Hao to seek a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beast.

• Tang San revealed his Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, and its Hundred Thousand Year aura vanished, revealing it was only a hundred years old.
• Tang Hao and Tang San wondered whether the Soul Bone had been switched, while Su Ming laughed and Ah Yin felt glad Tang San was suffering.
• Tang Hao searched the Blue Silver Ancestral Land for the Blue Silver King, but found no sign of him.
• Su Ming returned to planning special training for his team as Tang San and Tang Hao waited a day and night without finding the Blue Silver King.
• Tang San left with Tang Hao to find a suitable Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beast before the promotion matches ended.

Tang San escaped the Titan Giant Ape, obtained a Fifth Soul Ring in Sunset Forest, and returned to the promotion matches at level Fifty-Three. After Blazing Fire Academy defeated Thunderclap Academy by forfeit, Feng Xiaotian challenged Su Ming over Huo Wu, who arrived and angrily confronted him.

• Tang Hao fought the Titan Giant Ape but retreated with Tang San when he could not defeat it without using dangerous techniques.
• Tang Hao took Tang San to Sunset Forest, where Tang San obtained a Cave Demon Spider Soul Ring and absorbed Soul Beasts until he reached level Fifty-Three.
• Su Ming monitored Tang San with his drone and reached level Fifty-Eight while deciding to deal with Tang San after the tournament.
• Thunderclap Academy forfeited its match against Blazing Fire Academy, and spectators mocked Thunderclap Academy and Feng Xiaotian for surrendering to Huo Wu.
• Feng Xiaotian challenged Su Ming to a duel and demanded that the loser stay away from Huo Wu.
• Huo Wu arrived and angrily told Feng Xiaotian that her affairs were none of his business.

Su Ming accepted Feng Xiaotian’s challenge and easily defeated him, draining nearly all his Soul Power with the Wood Dragon. Feng Xiaotian fainted, and Su Ming assured Huo Wu that he had suffered no lasting harm.

• Feng Xiaotian challenged Su Ming, and Huo Wu laughed at his demand for a fight.
• Su Ming revealed his disguised fifth Soul Ring and caught Feng Xiaotian with a wooden hand.
• Feng Xiaotian’s Wind Blade Array barely damaged the wooden hand, and Su Ming mocked his strength and urged him to train more.
• Su Ming summoned the Wood Dragon and drained Feng Xiaotian’s Soul Power until he fainted.
• Su Ming told Huo Wu that Feng Xiaotian had only fainted from Soul Power Consumption and had not been injured.

Su Ming fought Huo Wu and revealed the immense power of his Wood Golem Technique, leaving her stunned when her strongest attack failed to shake it. The chapter ended with the wooden humanoid catching Huo Wu's Huowu Blazing Sun in its palm.

• Su Ming and Huo Wu left Feng Xiaotian behind, expecting his teammates to find him.
• Huo Wu asked Su Ming for a one-on-one fight, and he led her to an empty arena.
• Su Ming tested Huo Wu's Resisting Fire Ring with Thorn Technique, and she deflected the Wood Thorns.
• Su Ming summoned his Wood Human, a towering wooden humanoid coiled with a Wood Dragon, and Huo Wu's Resisting Fire Ring could not move it.
• Huo Wu used Ring Fusion to unleash Huowu Blazing Sun, but the Wood Human caught the fireball in its palm.

Su Ming defeated Huo Wu in their duel by catching her fireball with a Wood Dragon and blocking it with a wooden shield. Afterward, he kissed her, and Huo Wu accepted becoming his girlfriend despite worrying about the other women in his life.

• Huo Wu used her Fourth Spirit Skill, but Su Ming's Wood Dragon caught the fireball and hurled it back at her.
• Su Ming rescued Huo Wu from the attack and blocked it with Wood Style: Ranking Technique, leaving the shield unscathed.
• Huo Wu admitted she would train harder to beat Su Ming, and he proposed that the loser agree to one condition.
• Su Ming explained that he challenged Feng Xiaotian partly because he saw him as a romantic rival and wanted him to stop approaching Huo Wu.
• Su Ming kissed Huo Wu, and she accepted that she was his girlfriend despite feeling uneasy about Xiao Wu, Rongrong, and his other women.

After Su Ming received rewards that strengthened his Soul Rings and Huo Wu gained the Explosion Attribute, the academies prepared to travel to Spirit City for the Grand Finals. Su Ming publicly humiliated Feng Xiaotian for breaking his promise to stay away from Huo Wu, leaving Huo Wu blushing at his declaration that she was his woman.

• Su Ming's first three Soul Rings rose to fifty thousand years, increasing his Soul Power to the peak of level fifty-nine and strengthening his Soul Skills.
• Huo Wu received the Explosion Attribute as the most-mentioned female protagonist and considered how it might affect her Soul Skills.
• Xue Ye announced that the Grand Finals would be held in Spirit City and that Xue Qinghe would lead the delegation.
• Xue Qinghe indicated to Su Ming that their preparations were ready, and the academies boarded the empire's carriages for the journey.
• Feng Xiaotian approached Huo Wu despite their agreement, and Su Ming warned him in public to stay away from her.
• Feng Xiaotian was humiliated before the nearby academies, while Huo Wu blushed at Su Ming calling her his woman.

Su Ming faced questions from the girls after Huo Wu left with him, while Yu Xiaogang traveled to Spirit Hall to seek Bibi Dong’s help with Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls. He arrived carrying an old Elder Token, which Spirit Hall’s guards treated as fake and used to beat him.

• Feng Xiaotian watched Huo Wu leave with Su Ming and realized their relationship was real.
• Su Ming returned to the carriage, where Ning Rongrong and the other girls questioned him about Huo Wu; he claimed she had become his woman after their match.
• Yu Xiaogang reached Spirit Hall after ten days of travel and presented Tang Hao’s Elder Token to the guards at Pope’s Palace.
• The guards recognized Yu Xiaogang’s token as an obsolete fake and beat him despite his angry protests.
• Bibi Dong came out of Pope’s Palace, saw Yu Xiaogang bruised, and was pleased that he had been taught a lesson.
• The chapter explained that Bibi Dong had ordered new Elder Tokens made after Su Ming criticized the old tokens for bearing Upper Three Sects symbols and granting authority without verifying the bearer.

Bibi Dong rejected Yu Xiaogang’s demand for her Twin Martial Soul cultivation notes, which he wanted for Tang San, and confronted him over raising a disciple tied to Spirit Hall’s enemies. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong recalling Su Ming’s mocking diary entry about Yu Xiaogang’s ambitions.

• Bibi Dong dismissed Yu Xiaogang’s complaint about Spirit Hall’s guards and invited him into the Pope’s Palace to settle old accounts.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Bibi Dong for her notes on cultivating Twin Martial Souls for Tang San.
• Bibi Dong pointed out that Tang San was connected to Spirit Hall’s enemies, but Yu Xiaogang promised that Tang San would never oppose Spirit Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang called Bibi Dong “Dong’er,” and she struck him with Soul Power before ordering him to address her as His Excellency the Pope.
• Bibi Dong rejected Yu Xiaogang’s appeal to their past and remembered Su Ming’s diary mocking Yu Xiaogang for wanting to ascend to the God Realm.

Bibi Dong confronted Yu Xiaogang over his past romance with her and his plans to marry Liu Erlong, using Spirit Hall’s records to expose his lies. She tortured him as he confessed, then asked why he had dared pursue her despite his weak strength and status.

• Bibi Dong shot Yu Xiaogang through both shoulders after he addressed her informally, then ordered him to call her Your Excellency the Pope.
• Bibi Dong showed Yu Xiaogang a record of his plans to secretly marry Liu Erlong, and he claimed they had fallen in love after she comforted him.
• Bibi Dong challenged Yu Xiaogang’s claim that he had not recognized Liu Erlong’s Martial Soul, then shot through his right leg when he persisted.
• Yu Xiaogang admitted he had suspected Liu Erlong came from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan but had not realized she was his second uncle’s daughter.
• Bibi Dong shot through Yu Xiaogang’s left leg even after he told the truth, then asked how he had dared pursue her despite his lack of strength.

Yu Xiaogang confessed to Bibi Dong that he had pursued her to live off her, and Bibi Dong reflected on her past and her unresolved suspicions about Qian Xunji. She then revealed that Tang San would likely die on the road to Spirit City and said she planned to kill Tang Hao too, leaving Yu Xiaogang terrified and confused.

• Yu Xiaogang admitted that he had targeted Bibi Dong in Spirit Hall and pretended to be a victim so she would sympathize with him.
• Bibi Dong recalled her former feelings for Yu Xiaogang, reconsidered Qian Xunji's motives, and suspected a larger scheme behind what had happened to her.
• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang that Tang San would probably die on the road to Spirit City and that she intended to kill Tang Hao as well.
• Yu Xiaogang protested that Tang San was his disciple, but Bibi Dong struck him and dismissed their past relationship.
• Bibi Dong said Liu Erlong had once thrown Yu Xiaogang out of Blue Tyrant Academy, leaving him wondering why both women had turned against him.