Chapter Summaries

Flender and the others fought off an ambush of Soul Beasts, but Liu Erlong was poisoned by the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast she killed. Flender realized the attack had been orchestrated by Jiang Ming, who emerged as Liu Erlong’s condition worsened.

• Flender helped Oscar kill an Armed Ape, and Oscar began absorbing its purple Soul Ring.
• Liu Erlong was wounded while fighting three Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, and Flender unleashed his full strength to end the battle.
• Tang San killed the crippled Man Faced Demon Spider and began absorbing its Soul Ring as Oscar continued his own absorption.
• Flender noticed Liu Erlong’s wound spreading an unnatural crimson color, while her breathing and behavior grew increasingly strange.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized that Liu Erlong had been poisoned by the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Flender deduced that humans had arranged the attack.
• Flender called out Jiang Ming, who emerged from behind a tree as Liu Erlong’s condition worsened.

Jiang Ming refused Yu Xiaogang’s plea to save Liu Erlong, leaving Flender to confront the man who had dismissed him as an option. After Jiang Ming vanished, Flender finally attacked Yu Xiaogang, breaking his nose.

• Yu Xiaogang begged Jiang Ming to save Liu Erlong, but Jiang Ming laughed and refused.
• Flender realized Yu Xiaogang had asked their enemy instead of him and erupted in anger.
• Jiang Ming said he had done all he could and disappeared into the darkness.
• Yu Xiaogang swore he would destroy Jiang Ming, then turned back to Flender without checking on Liu Erlong.
• Flender asked Yu Xiaogang if he thought him dead and kicked him in the face, breaking his nose.

Flender beat Yu Xiaogang, broke off their friendship, and carried the unconscious Liu Erlong into the forest. Afterward, Flender learned that Liu Erlong still intended to bear Yu Xiaogang an heir, leaving the two of them in a furious confrontation.

• Flender beat Yu Xiaogang and declared that he was cutting all ties with him.
• Flender carried the unconscious Liu Erlong into the forest, where she washed herself at a hot spring.
• Flender said he would kill himself to atone, but Liu Erlong said the incident had to happen sooner or later and she still needed his help.
• Flender realized Liu Erlong wanted a child for Yu Xiaogang and insisted the child would not take Yu's surname.
• Liu Erlong said she could get rid of the father and keep the child, and Flender called Yu Xiaogang trash.
• Liu Erlong shouted that Flender could not speak about Xiao Gang that way, while Flender pointed out what Yu Xiaogang had said and done.

Flender ended his partnership with Liu Erlong and warned her that Jiang Ming had likely made Yu Xiaogang unable to use martial soul fusion again. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Dugu Yan confronted Yu Tianheng over his weakness and declared she was leaving the Imperial Fighting Team.

• Flender told Liu Erlong he would never form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with her again and that the Golden Sacred Dragon was over.
• Flender warned Liu Erlong that Jiang Ming had likely permanently prevented Yu Xiaogang from using martial soul fusion and that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan might not be able to stop him as he grew stronger.
• Liu Erlong and Flender agreed to return to Tiandou City after Tang San and Oscar obtained their spirit rings, then walked away from each other in silence.
• Dugu Yan told Yu Tianheng that her Jade Phosphor Snake had evolved into the Jade Phosphor Azure Dragon and that she was now an assault-type Soul Ancestor, while he remained a Soul Elder.
• Dugu Yan challenged Yu Tianheng over how the team would divide the three Spirit Bones offered as tournament prizes, then removed her badge and announced she was leaving the Imperial Fighting Team.

Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling left the Imperial Fighting Team after Dugu Yan called out its weakness, while Bibi Dong increased the Soul Master Tournament’s champion reward to five Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones. Bibi Dong intended to use the prize to draw Jiang Ming to Spirit City, where she planned to kill those she blamed for hurting Xiao Gang.

• Dugu Yan announced she was leaving the Imperial Fighting Team, and Ye Lingling removed her badge and chose to follow her.
• Dugu Yan explained that the team lacked offense, and Yu Tianheng could not name a teammate capable of breaking a stalemate if he was restrained.
• Bibi Dong dismissed the failed attempt to kill a Soul Ancestor and ordered the tournament’s champion reward raised from three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones to five.
• Bibi Dong recognized Jiang Ming as a thirteen-year-old level 45 Soul Ancestor who could kill a Soul Saint and decided the reward would lure him to Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong vowed to kill everyone who had bullied Xiao Gang.

After Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling left Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Dugu Bo brought them to Flame Radiance Academy, where Jiang Ming was preparing to compete in the Soul Master Tournament. Now at rank fifty, Jiang Ming learned that a forty-thousand-year-old Void Walker had been found and set out to hunt it for his fifth soul ring.

• Dugu Bo took Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling away from Heaven Dou Royal Academy and told them that Jiang Ming had joined Flame Radiance Academy, where Dugu Bo was now vice dean.
• Dugu Yan smiled for the first time since leaving the academy as she compared Jiang Ming’s boastful manner favorably with Yu Tianheng’s.
• A year and a half later, Jiang Ming waited for news of a Space Type Soul Beast after reaching rank fifty and spending half a year searching.
• Dugu Bo told Jiang Ming that a Void Walker at least forty thousand years old had been spotted in the Void-Breaking Mountain Range, with four eggs indicating its age.
• Jiang Ming learned that Xue Qinghe would send the Imperial Guard to help and left with Dugu Bo to hunt the Void Walker for his fifth soul ring.

Bai Yu proposed using a Space Type Soul Beast’s Soul Ring to give the Speed Clan’s Sharp-Tailed Swift Martial Soul offensive power, and Yang Wudi shared information about a powerful candidate. Tai Tan arrived and revealed that his son and grandson had been murdered, leaving the Four Great Clans to agree to investigate after scouting the mountain range.

• Bai Yu proposed taking a new path for the Sharp-Tailed Swift Martial Soul by choosing an unconventional Eighth Soul Ring, and Bai He objected to the risk.
• Yang Wudi told Bai He and Bai Yu about a Space Type Soul Beast over forty thousand years old in the Void-Breaking Mountain Range.
• Bai He welcomed the prospect of a Space Type Soul Ring, and Niu Gao arrived with Tai Tan.
• Tai Tan revealed that his son and grandson had died five years earlier after a conflict at the Heaven Dou Auction House, and he had not found their killer.
• Bai He and Yang Wudi promised to help Tai Tan pursue the blood debt, while Bai He planned to have clansmen scout the Void-Breaking Mountain Range first.

Jiang Ming and Dugu Bo entered the Void Mirror to hunt a Void Walker, but the Four Great Clans arrived and demanded the Soul Beast. As tensions rose over who would claim it, Jiang Ming urged everyone to cripple the Void Walker first.

• Jiang Ming allowed the Four Great Clans to pass the guards and entered the Void Mirror with Dugu Bo.
• Jiang Ming and Dugu Bo located the Void Walker, a huge blue Soul Beast with blade-like forelimbs.
• Bai He, Bai Yu, Tai Tan, Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and three Speed Clan members arrived and found the Void Walker.
• Tai Tan demanded the Soul Beast for the Four Great Clans, but Dugu Bo refused and Jiang Ming insulted Tai Tan and Tang Hao.
• Bai He and Niu Gao doubted Jiang Ming could absorb the Void Walker's soul ring, while Dugu Bo insisted the Soul Beast would not be given to them.
• Jiang Ming proposed that they cripple the Void Walker before deciding who would claim it.

Jiang Ming’s group fought a fifty-thousand-year Void Walker until Yang Wudi and Tai Tan brought it near death. When Bai Yu tried to steal the Soul Beast, Jiang Ming revealed his powerful spatial abilities, helped Dugu Bo petrify Bai Yu, and shifted himself, Dugu Bo, and the Void Walker away.

• Yang Wudi, Tai Tan, Niu Gao, Bai He, and Dugu Bo battled the Void Walker for two hours, with Dugu Bo’s poison restricting its movements.
• Yang Wudi pierced the Void Walker’s chest, and Tai Tan smashed its skull, leaving it on the brink of death.
• Bai Yu rushed to claim the dying Soul Beast while Yang Wudi and Tai Tan blocked Dugu Bo.
• Jiang Ming revealed his rank-fifty Soul Power and four soul rings, then used Spatial Shift to place Dugu Bo in front of Bai Yu.
• Dugu Bo petrified Bai Yu with Medusa’s Gaze, killing him before he could reach the Void Walker.
• Jiang Ming shifted Dugu Bo and the Void Walker beside him, then used Space Shift to disappear with them.

Jiang Ming rescued Dugu Bo and the dying Void Walker from the battle, while Bai Yu was left turned to stone and Tai Tan identified Jiang Ming as the killer of his son and grandson. Jiang Ming and Dugu Bo hid in the Void-Breaking Mountain Range by creating five Poison Arrays, then spotted a concealed crack in a mountain wall.

• Bai He carried the petrified Bai Yu away for treatment as Yang Wudi led the others in pursuit of the Void Walker.
• Tai Tan recognized Jiang Ming as the person responsible for Tai Nuo and Tai Long's deaths and vowed to hunt him down.
• Jiang Ming, Dugu Bo, and the dying Void Walker appeared in a barren forest, where Jiang Ming proposed using Poison Arrays to delay their pursuers.
• Jiang Ming used Space Shift to move himself and Dugu Bo around the mountain range while Dugu Bo created five Poison Arrays.
• Jiang Ming noticed a narrow natural crack in a hidden mountain wall.

Jiang Ming began absorbing the Void Walker’s fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring while Dugu Bo guarded him. Meanwhile, Yang Wudi and the other clan heads followed false poison arrays and found nothing, leaving Tai Tan furious and the search unresolved.

• Jiang Ming killed the Void Walker and began absorbing its black Soul Ring as Dugu Bo promised to protect him.
• A Speed Clan Soul Saint led Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Tai Tan to a poisonous mist array they believed Dugu Bo had set up.
• Yang Wudi made antidote pills, and the group searched the first poison array but found it empty.
• Tai Tan argued with Yang Wudi over the false lead, and Niu Gao stopped them from turning on each other.
• The group followed a report to a second poison array, but after searching it, Yang Wudi found it empty as well.

Yang Wudi, Tai Tan, and Niu Gao searched five empty Poison Arrays for six hours while Jiang Ming completed his fifth Soul Ring in a hidden valley. Dugu Bo protected him from the Speed Clan’s approaching scouts, killing the first squad as the other teams reported back.

• Yang Wudi and Tai Tan rejected splitting up to search the Poison Arrays, agreeing with Niu Gao that Dugu Bo and Jiang Ming could ambush them individually.
• The three Soul Douluo searched all five Poison Arrays for six hours, finding only empty woodland and poisonous mist.
• Yang Wudi sent more than twenty Speed Clan soul masters in five teams to scout the remaining valleys.
• Dugu Bo watched over Jiang Ming as the dark blue glow around him intensified and his fifth Soul Ring neared completion.
• Dugu Bo released poison at the first Speed Clan squad, melting its captain and wiping out the squad.
• Four squads returned to Yang Wudi without finding anything, but the southeast squad had not returned.

Yang Wudi, Tai Tan, and Niu Gao attacked Dugu Bo while Jiang Ming absorbed a Soul Ring inside the Poison Array. Dugu Bo’s venom suddenly backfired, leaving him gravely wounded as Yang Wudi aimed to finish him.

• Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Tai Tan tracked Dugu Bo to the southeast and confronted him over the Strength Clan’s dead.
• The three Soul Douluo fought Dugu Bo while the Speed Clan failed to breach the Poison Array protecting Jiang Ming.
• Dugu Bo’s stored venom erupted after his exertion, leaving him unable to defend himself properly.
• Yang Wudi pierced Dugu Bo’s chest with the Soul-Breaking Spear, and Tai Tan and Niu Gao struck him in succession.
• Yang Wudi aimed his spear at Dugu Bo’s heart as Dugu Bo called out to Jiang Ming for help.

Jiang Ming emerged after absorbing the fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring and confronted Tai Tan, Yang Wudi, and Niu Gao. He used his External Soul Bone to evade Tai Tan’s attack and sever his arm, then faced Yang Wudi’s counterattack.

• Jiang Ming appeared beside the wounded Dugu Bo and revealed that he had finished absorbing the Soul Ring.
• Jiang Ming moved himself and Dugu Bo into the Jade Phosphorus Poison Array as Tai Tan’s punch struck the ground.
• Jiang Ming let Tai Tan’s fist pass through him, then cut off Tai Tan’s left arm with his sword.
• Yang Wudi intercepted Jiang Ming’s follow-up strike and kicked Tai Tan out of danger while the Speed Clan treated his wound.
• Jiang Ming identified his power as an External Soul Bone over fifty thousand years old and declared that his Space Origin Martial Soul could defeat any other type.
• Yang Wudi attacked Jiang Ming with a barrage of Soul-Breaking Spear strikes.

Jiang Ming used his space abilities to overwhelm Yang Wudi and Niu Gao, then killed the wounded Tai Tan. He turned toward the two surviving clan leaders and declared that they were next.

• Jiang Ming phased through Yang Wudi's spear strikes and cut through Niu Gao's defenses with a sword attack that ignored defense.
• Yang Wudi and Niu Gao attacked together, but Jiang Ming used Space Shift to evade them and appear beside Tai Tan.
• Jiang Ming crushed several Speed Clan members with Space Compression as they tried to protect Tai Tan.
• Tai Tan attacked Jiang Ming with his remaining strength, but Jiang Ming cut off his head with the Void Blade and killed him.
• Yang Wudi and Niu Gao froze in shock as Jiang Ming turned on them and said they were next.

Jiang Ming slaughtered many fleeing Speed Clan members after killing Tai Tan, while Yang Wudi and Niu Gao escaped. He returned to the injured Dugu Bo, who urged him to hunt down the survivors, but Jiang Ming stayed to care for him.

• Niu Gao stopped Yang Wudi from fighting Jiang Ming, and Yang Wudi ordered the Speed Clan members to flee while he held Jiang Ming back.
• Jiang Ming pursued the fleeing Speed Clan members, killing them with his sword and Space abilities as they scattered through the valley.
• Niu Gao convinced Yang Wudi to escape, and the two fled while some Speed Clan survivors vanished into the forest.
• Jiang Ming chose not to pursue Yang Wudi and Niu Gao because Dugu Bo was injured and he wanted to eliminate every survivor later.
• Jiang Ming returned to the poison formation, where Dugu Bo urged him to hunt down the fleeing clansmen, but Jiang Ming stayed to care for him.

Jiang Ming and Dugu Bo planned to return later and wipe out the Strength, Speed, and Defense Clans, while Yang Wudi and Niu Gao reached the Speed Clan camp with news of Tai Tan’s death. Bai He learned that Jiang Ming’s spatial powers had made the three Soul Douluos’ attacks useless.

• Jiang Ming told Dugu Bo they would wait for Dugu Bo to recover before attacking the three clans, and proposed visiting them during the tournament’s one-month break to deliver hell money.
• Jiang Ming used his spatial ability to take Dugu Bo away from the corpse-filled valley, leaving Tai Tan’s head behind.
• Yang Wudi and Niu Gao returned to the Speed Clan camp with fewer than half their force, and Bai He demanded to know what had happened and where Tai Tan was.
• Yang Wudi told Bai He that Tai Tan was dead, and Niu Gao explained that Jiang Ming had killed him in two strikes and that they had barely escaped.
• Bai He rejected the account as impossible, but Niu Gao described Jiang Ming’s Space Martial Soul, Void Form, and External Soul Bone, which had defeated their attacks and bypassed Tai Tan’s defenses.

Bai He, Yang Wudi, and Niu Gao planned to unite their clans and seek shelter in Star Luo Imperial City after realizing they could not withstand Jiang Ming and Dugu Bo separately. At Flame Radiance Academy, Dugu Bo began entertaining students with an account of his battle against the clan leaders.

• Bai He learned from Yang Wudi that Jiang Ming's External Soul Bone and spatial abilities made the Speed Clan's speed and attacks ineffective, and he feared for Bai Yu.
• Bai He regained his composure and agreed with Yang Wudi that the three clans should gather rather than risk being defeated one by one.
• Yang Wudi proposed asking Dai Tianfeng to mediate, betting Dugu Bo would not dare slaughter people in Star Luo Imperial City.
• Bai He assigned Yang Wudi to contact the Breaking Clan, Niu Gao to gather the Defense Clan, and ordered the Speed Clan to prepare to leave for the imperial city.
• At Flame Radiance Academy, Dugu Bo recounted the strength of Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Tai Tan to a crowd of students, and a boy asked whether he had fought all three alone.

Dugu Bo defended his strength while recovering from his injuries, then learned that Jiang Ming had promised him two Soul Bones if their team won the tournament. At Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang prepared his students for the tournament’s opening in three days, confident they could claim the championship and its five Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones.

• Dugu Bo bragged to students that he could have defeated the three Soul Douluo if he had not been unlucky and distracted by his poison flaring up.
• Dugu Yan called out Dugu Bo for boasting, while Ye Lingling urged him to rest and take his medicine.
• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo that Jiang Ming had promised him two of the five Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones if their team won the championship.
• At Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang watched the students train and assessed their ranks, noting Ma Hongjun’s rapid growth to rank thirty-nine.
• Yu Xiaogang announced that the tournament would begin in three days and that five Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones were the prizes.
• Yu Xiaogang declared his confidence in the Shrek team and predicted Ma Hongjun would break through before the finals, giving them four Soul Ancestors.

Flender warned the Shrek Seven Devils that Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation included three rank-fifty-three Soul Kings and Jiang Ming, leaving the group shaken. On Shrek Academy’s back mountain, Tang Hao revealed Xiao Wu’s identity as a juvenile humanoid Soul Beast and showed her a glowing branch.

• Flender warned the Shrek Seven Devils about the strength of Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation and Jiang Ming, and the students admitted they hoped Jiang Ming could not enter the competition.
• Ma Hongjun said Jiang Ming’s actions had helped him control his evil fire, then challenged Dai Mubai to face Jiang Ming if he thought himself strong.
• Tang Hao descended before Xiao Wu with nine Soul Rings, including a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, and told her he had not come to kill her.
• Tang Hao confronted Xiao Wu about her claim that she had taken human form to avenge her mother, Bibi Dong, and questioned what she had done during eight years at the academy.
• Tang Hao said he had not come to discuss Xiao Wu’s revenge and took out a faintly glowing branch with dark-blue leaves and golden veins.