Chapter Summaries

Xiao Wu received a branch and leaves from Tang Hao that could conceal her identity from all but a nearby Title Douluo. Six days later, Shrek Academy arrived at the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament in ridiculed uniforms, and its members tried to turn the crowd’s mockery into resolve.

• Tang Hao told Xiao Wu to keep the branch and leaves close, and she sensed their ancient Blue Silver Grass aura before he disappeared.
• Xiao Wu pressed the leaves to her chest, relieved that they would help hide her identity in Spirit City.
• Tiandou City filled with spectators awaiting the tournament opening ceremony, and teams from several academies drew cheers as they arrived.
• Shrek Academy entered in garish green uniforms bearing advertisements, prompting the crowd to laugh and mock the team and Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Oscar, and Yu Xiaogang urged the team to ignore the jeers and prove its strength, while Tang San privately vowed revenge.
• A lazy voice came from behind Shrek Academy.

Jiang Ming confronted Yu Xiaogang and exposed Tang San’s past as a thief who had jumped from a cliff in his previous life, leaving Tang San terrified and vowing revenge. Flender openly challenged Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, then walked away from them toward the Soul Fighting Arena.

• Jiang Ming arrived at the Soul Fighting Arena with the Flame Radiance Academy team and told Yu Xiaogang he was their team leader.
• Jiang Ming taunted Tang San by recounting his past-life theft, cliff jump, and reincarnation, then promised him a gift at the Soul Master Tournament.
• Tang San reacted with shock and killing intent, but told Xiao Wu and the others that Jiang Ming had lost his mind.
• Flender accused Tang San of reacting as if Jiang Ming had spoken the truth, while Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong defended Tang San and rebuked Flender.
• Flender turned away and headed for the arena, while Tang San silently vowed to kill everyone once his divine art was complete.

Jiang Ming asked Xue Qinghe to put pressure on Shrek, while the tournament’s opening ceremony featured a public clash between Ning Fengzhi and Salas over Shrek’s strength. The draw paired Shrek Academy against Skywater Academy, whose ice-elemental fighters could counter Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass.

• Jiang Ming met Xue Qinghe in the VIP room and asked him to increase the pressure on Shrek, and Xue Qinghe agreed.
• At the opening ceremony, Ning Fengzhi named Shrek Academy as his favored team because his daughter attended it.
• Salas mocked Ning Fengzhi’s judgment and argued that Shrek’s two Soul Ancestors could not match the stronger academies, prompting Ning Fengzhi to challenge him to let the matches decide.
• Salas drew the first-round matchups, pairing Shrek Academy with Skywater Academy.
• Dai Mubai and Oscar joked about facing Skywater Academy’s girls, but Flender warned that their three Soul Ancestors and ice-elemental martial souls could counter Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass, silencing the team.

Shrek Academy decided to forfeit its opening match against Skywater Academy to preserve its strength and avoid exposing its trump cards. As Skywater waited on the arena, no one from Shrek appeared.

• Yu Xiaogang argued that Skywater Academy and Blazing Fire Academy countered Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and recommended forfeiting Shrek’s first match.
• Dai Mubai objected and Tang San suggested cultivating another ability, but Yu Xiaogang refused and made the final decision to forfeit.
• The tournament announced Purple Star Academy versus Elephant Armored Academy, followed by Flame Radiance Academy versus Blazing Fire Academy; Huo Wu and her teammates dismissed Flame Radiance as an easy opponent.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team narrowly defeated Canghui Academy in the first match.
• Skywater Academy took the stage for its match against Shrek, but Shrek’s contestants did not appear even after two minutes.

Shrek Academy withdrew from its first match against Skywater Academy, humiliating Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and the team in front of the arena. The chapter ends with Tang San silently brooding over the mockery and the shame of conceding without a fight.

• Skywater Academy's Shui Yue'er, Xue Wu, and teammates mocked Shrek Academy for failing to appear, while Shui Bing'er declared that they had won by forfeit.
• The referee warned Shrek Academy to take the stage, and the arena crowd questioned whether the team had been frightened off.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Shrek Academy to withdraw, and the referee declared Skywater Academy the winner.
• The crowd ridiculed Shrek Academy and Ning Fengzhi, while Salas taunted Ning Fengzhi in the VIP seats.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to the rest area overwhelmed by humiliation, and Tang San sat quietly, inwardly seething over the withdrawal.

Jiang Ming led Flame Radiance Academy onto the arena to face Blazing Fire Academy after Shrek Academy forfeited its match. He angered Huo Wu by offering to fight her without summoning his Martial Soul, and the referee started the match.

• Flender watched the Shrek Academy members react to their forfeit, while Jiang Ming, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling prepared for their match.
• Jiang Ming led Flame Radiance Academy onto the arena against Blazing Fire Academy, where Huo Wu recognized Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• Tang San revealed that Jiang Ming had defeated the Dragon Duke and Serpent Lady, prompting Ning Rongrong to protest his participation before Flender explained that team leaders could compete.
• Huo Wu taunted Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, and Jiang Ming challenged her by offering to fight without summoning his Martial Soul.
• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang grew furious at Jiang Ming's offer, and the referee started the match.

Jiang Ming faced Blazing Fire Academy’s seven Soul Masters alone and without summoning his Martial Soul, while Salas and Ning Fengzhi wagered a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone on the outcome. He dodged the team’s first attacks and struck Huo Wushuang hard enough to drive him back, then vanished again as Huo Yun and Huo Yu’s fire dragons collided.

• Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and the rest of Flame Radiance Academy’s team left Jiang Ming alone on the platform as Blazing Fire Academy released their Martial Souls.
• Jiang Ming said he would fight without using his Martial Soul and claimed Soul Saints were too weak to do what he intended.
• Salas bet Ning Fengzhi a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone that Jiang Ming would win, and Ning Fengzhi accepted the wager against him.
• Huo Wu ordered Huo Chui and Huo Jun to support Huo Wushuang and Huo Lie, then Huo Wushuang charged Jiang Ming with his Soul Skills.
• Jiang Ming vanished from Huo Wushuang’s attack and struck him with a palm, sending him staggering backward.
• Huo Wu sent Huo Yun and Huo Yu to attack together, but Jiang Ming vanished as their fire dragons crashed into each other.

Jiang Ming overwhelmed Blazing Fire Academy without summoning his Martial Soul, defeating most of its team and forcing Huo Wu to unleash her strongest skill. He stood between Huo Wu and her incoming attack, formed a silver longsword, and swept it toward the orb.

• Jiang Ming used Space Tear to knock Huo Yun and Huo Yu unconscious while avoiding their vital areas.
• Huo Wu called for the team’s coordinated attack, but Jiang Ming defeated Huo Wushuang and Huo Lie with two more Space Tear strikes.
• Huo Wu charged and launched Huo Wu Radiant Sun at Jiang Ming after he gave her time to gather its power.
• Jiang Ming used Space Shift to grab Huo Wu and place them both in the path of her attack, then released her and formed a silver longsword.
• Jiang Ming gently swept the sword toward the incoming orb.

Jiang Ming defeated Huo Wu and Blazing Fire Academy alone without summoning his Martial Soul, leaving the arena celebrating his victory. Yu Xiaogang then challenged the result, accusing Jiang Ming of using a forbidden weapon and demanding that he be declared the loser.

• Jiang Ming split Huo Wu Radiant Sun with a silver sword gleam, and the referee declared Flame Radiance Academy the winner.
• The crowd celebrated Jiang Ming's victory while Salas reminded Ning Fengzhi to deliver the promised ten-thousand-year soul bone to Heaven Dou Temple.
• Yu Xiaogang rose from Shrek's section and declared that the match should not count, demanding that Jiang Ming be declared the loser.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Jiang Ming of using a sword in violation of tournament rules, and the referee and spectators considered whether the silver blade was a weapon or Soul Tool.

After Huo Wu identified Jiang Ming’s power as a Spirit Bone skill, Yu Xiaogang doubled down on his cheating accusation. Jiang Ming revealed his External Soul Bone and kicked Yu Xiaogang across the venue, while Tang San and the others stayed seated; Shrek’s pride in its academy was shaken.

• Huo Wu rebuked Yu Xiaogang for accusing Jiang Ming of cheating, explaining that he had used a Spirit Bone skill.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted Jiang Ming could not have a Spirit Bone and demanded proof, despite the crowd mocking his ignorance.
• Jiang Ming revealed the Void Blade, an External Soul Bone, and told Yu Xiaogang that Dugu Yan had taken one from Tang San.
• When Yu Xiaogang called the situation unfair, Jiang Ming kicked him across the floor.
• Dai Mubai stopped Tang San from rushing to Yu Xiaogang, warning that Jiang Ming was waiting to kill anyone who intervened.
• Tang San sat back down as the Shrek students watched in fear and shame.

After the tournament ended, Jiang Ming confronted Ning Rongrong and Bone Douluo Gu Rong in a dark alley. Gu Rong attacked with his sixth soul skill, and Jiang Ming opened a spatial vortex to meet the rain of Bone Spikes.

• Xue Ye ended the day's matches and announced that team leaders would draw the next day's schedule separately.
• Jiang Ming stopped Ning Rongrong and Gu Rong in an alley, then cut off a lock of Ning Rongrong's hair with a silver flash to show how easily he could have killed her.
• Gu Rong unleashed his nine Soul Rings and attacked Jiang Ming with bone spikes, but Jiang Ming vanished and reappeared atop a wall.
• Ning Rongrong and Gu Rong saw Jiang Ming's five Soul Rings, including three Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, and realized he had become a Soul King.
• Gu Rong used his sixth soul skill, White Bone Hell, to bombard Jiang Ming with Bone Spikes, and Jiang Ming opened a silver vortex with Spatial Shift.

Jiang Ming used his spatial abilities to redirect Gu Rong and Chen Xin’s attacks toward Ning Rongrong, forcing Gu Rong to protect her while fighting. The chapter ended with Gu Rong discovering that Jiang Ming had completely stripped away his Spatial Ability as he tried to escape with Ning Rongrong.

• Gu Rong’s Bone Spikes reappeared beside Ning Rongrong, but Chen Xin arrived and destroyed them with a sword strike.
• Gu Rong attacked Jiang Ming from behind with his Eighth Soul Skill, but Jiang Ming evaded him and cracked his bone spear with the Void Blade.
• Chen Xin unleashed Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect, and Jiang Ming redirected the attack toward Ning Rongrong, whom Gu Rong shielded with Bone Dragon True Body.
• Gu Rong and Chen Xin realized they could not fight freely while Ning Rongrong was in danger, so Gu Rong tried to take her away.
• Gu Rong’s Spatial Ability failed completely, and Jiang Ming warned him that he would not let them leave.

Jiang Ming used Void Form to let Gu Rong and Ning Rongrong escape while Chen Xin fled, then considered waiting until his spatial power could cover the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect before destroying it. At the sect, Ning Fengzhi learned that Jiang Ming’s abilities made him difficult to kill and proposed using Bibi Dong’s connection to Yu Xiaogang to lure him into a trap.

• Jiang Ming became intangible with Void Form, allowing Gu Rong to escape with Ning Rongrong while Chen Xin fled into the night.
• Jiang Ming decided not to pursue them and planned to wait until he gained his sixth Soul Ring before wiping out the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Rongrong returned to the sect furious that Gu Rong and Chen Xin had failed to kill Jiang Ming, and Gu Rong explained that Jiang Ming could escape too easily.
• Gu Rong and Chen Xin told Ning Fengzhi about Jiang Ming’s Space Shift, defense-ignoring Void Blade, and immense strength, then Gu Rong suggested eight high-level Title Douluo could seal off space around him.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed luring Jiang Ming into a trap by exploiting Bibi Dong’s connection to Yu Xiaogang and her desire to avenge his humiliation.

Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong plotted to help Spirit Hall trap Jiang Ming, believing the risk of provoking him was acceptable. Jiang Ming answered by taking Ning Rongrong and killing the two Soul Douluo assigned to protect her, leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with a warning that he would collect the rest of his debt later.

• Ning Fengzhi argued that Bibi Dong had added two Spirit Bones to the tournament reward to lure Jiang Ming into Spirit City, and proposed helping Spirit Hall trap him.
• Chen Xin warned that Jiang Ming could retaliate if he escaped, but Ning Fengzhi said Spirit Hall would bear the first blow.
• A message appeared on a painting in the council hall, saying Jiang Ming had found Ning Rongrong and was collecting interest.
• Jiang Ming sent two severed heads into the hall, and Gu Rong identified them as the Eighth Elder and Ninth Elder, who had been guarding Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Fengzhi realized Jiang Ming had taken Ning Rongrong and left a warning that he could return to collect the rest of his debt.

After the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect failed to stop Jiang Ming, Ning Fengzhi ordered a search for him while keeping Chen Xin and Gu Rong close. Thirty li outside Heaven Dou City, Jiang Ming confronted the captive Ning Rongrong and cut off both her legs and her right hand.

• Ning Fengzhi ordered a search across Heaven Dou City and asked Chen Xin and Gu Rong to stay by his side.
• Jiang Ming kept Ning Rongrong bound in an abandoned village and removed the rag from her mouth.
• Ning Rongrong threatened Jiang Ming with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and he slapped her twice while explaining her sect had attacked him first.
• Jiang Ming used the Void Blade to sever both of Ning Rongrong's legs and her right hand.

Jiang Ming left Ning Rongrong mutilated in a ruined village outside Heaven Dou City and forced her to crawl back if she wanted to live. As the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect searched for her, Ning Rongrong dragged herself outside and was found by the rescuers.

• Jiang Ming left Ning Rongrong with her legs and right arm severed, telling her to crawl back to Heaven Dou City or die.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to search the surrounding villages, forests, and abandoned mines while Chen Xin and Gu Rong tried to reassure him.
• Ning Rongrong, terrified and losing blood, decided she wanted to return home and admit she had been wrong to provoke Jiang Ming.
• Hearing hoofbeats, Ning Rongrong dragged herself out of the ruined house and called for help.
• Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples found Ning Rongrong and rushed to stop her bleeding.

After Jiang Ming severed Ning Rongrong’s limbs, she was brought back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi and the two Title Douluo confronted the damage and the danger of pursuing Jiang Ming. They chose to endure until the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament finals in Spirit City, where Ning Fengzhi planned to trap him.

• Ning Rongrong collapsed after asking a nearby disciple to take her home, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s healers treated her severed limbs.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong considered killing Jiang Ming, but Ning Fengzhi warned that leaving the sect would expose its disciples to attack.
• Ning Fengzhi said Ning Rongrong’s limbs had been recovered, while Chen Xin explained that reattaching them might leave her meridians damaged and her cultivation impaired.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin named Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring as possible ways to restore Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Fengzhi told Chen Xin and Gu Rong to endure until the tournament finals in Spirit City, where he planned to lure Jiang Ming into a trap.

Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin accepted that they could only hope to trap Jiang Ming when he appeared in Spirit City, while Gu Rong left in bitter silence. At the Heaven Dou Grand Hotel, Shui Bing'er’s group decided to face Jiang Ming at the tournament as a chance to test their strength, even if they lost.

• Ning Fengzhi argued that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and their allies should wait to ambush Jiang Ming in Spirit City rather than chase him.
• Gu Rong went outside to get some air, and Chen Xin told Ning Fengzhi that Rongrong’s setback might help her grow.
• Shui Bing'er asked the others how they felt after seeing Jiang Ming’s strength, and Huo Wu admitted he seemed impossible to catch up to.
• Xue Wu suggested Shui Bing'er use a honey trap on Jiang Ming, so Shui Bing'er froze her in a block of ice.
• Feng Xiaotian insisted he wanted to fight Jiang Ming, and Shui Bing'er explained that the tournament rules made him a powerful sparring partner who could teach them their limits.
• Shui Bing'er and the others agreed to go all out against Jiang Ming when they faced Flame Radiance Academy and treat the match as a learning opportunity.

Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu looked forward to Thunderclap Academy facing Flame Radiance Academy, while Shrek argued over how much strength to conserve for its match against Godwind Academy. Jiang Ming and Yu Tianxin began their match, and Jiang Ming stunned the arena by revealing five Soul Rings, including three black ones.

• Shui Bing'er checked the schedule and learned Flame Radiance Academy would face Thunderclap Academy, then released Xue Wu from Ice Seal.
• At the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, spectators jeered at Shrek, and the team learned Ning Rongrong could not compete.
• Tang San proposed fielding the strongest available fighters, but Yu Xiaogang insisted on conserving strength and sending Jing Ling and Huang Yuan instead.
• Jiang Ming faced Yu Tianxin as Thunderclap Academy unleashed its lightning Martial Souls and Soul Rings.
• Jiang Ming released five Soul Rings, including three black ones, leaving the arena stunned before the crowd erupted.

Jiang Ming incapacitated Thunderclap Academy’s team and taunted Yu Xiaogang over their injuries. He left Yu Xiaogang facing the crowd’s suspicion and contempt.

• Jiang Ming broke the right arms of two Thunderclap Academy Soul Elders and dropped them to the ground.
• Jiang Ming used spatial techniques to defeat four more members, leaving six of Thunderclap Academy’s seven fighters unable to continue.
• Jiang Ming compressed Yu Tianxin’s lightning attack into a thin sheet, then grabbed Yu Tianxin and broke his right arm.
• Jiang Ming addressed Yu Xiaogang as Gangzi and accused him of benefiting from his nephew’s suffering.
• Yu Xiaogang denied the accusation, but the crowd regarded him with suspicion and contempt.