Chapter Summaries

After his fifth Soul Ring, Tie Xiong deepened his bond with the Heaven Breaking Hammer and sensed that he was close to mastering Weapon Soul Avatar. At the Crown Prince’s Residence, the Heaven Dou Royal Team prepared for the Soul Master Tournament, with Tie Xiong offering to train them before the competition began.

• Tie Xiong practiced with the Heaven Breaking Hammer, then cultivated through the night and felt his connection with it strengthen.
• Tie Xiong arrived at the Crown Prince’s Residence, where Qian Renxue and Qin Ming were training the Heaven Dou Royal Team and Bai Chenxiang.
• Dugu Yan and Yu Feng praised the team’s strength, while Tie Xiong said he would save his efforts for the final against the Martial Soul Hall Team.
• Tie Xiong questioned why the tournament’s reward was only one Soul Bone, and Osler blamed him for revealing too much of his strength.
• Yu Tianheng vowed the team would win without relying on Tie Xiong, and Qian Renxue introduced Bai Chenxiang as a level-thirty-six substitute.
• Tie Xiong offered to give the team special training by hammering them.

Tie Xiong trained the Heaven Dou Royal Team and told Qian Renxue he planned to publicly expose Tang Hao to draw him out. He agreed to take Qian Renxue’s place in Bai Chenxiang’s bridal chamber, then returned home and revealed a remarkable Soul Bone for Dugu Yan.

• Tie Xiong defeated the Heaven Dou Royal Team in a controlled sparring session, improving their teamwork while keeping them from serious harm.
• Qian Renxue told Tie Xiong the Great Soul Arena had been expanded to hold one hundred and sixty thousand spectators, and Tie Xiong explained that he intended to reveal Tang Hao’s secrets publicly and force him to appear.
• Qian Renxue asked Tie Xiong to enter Bai Chenxiang’s bridal chamber in his place when she became his secondary consort, and Tie Xiong agreed.
• Tie Xiong returned to the Earl’s Residence and told Dugu Yan he had a Soul Bone powerful enough to serve her until she became a Limit Douluo.
• Dugu Yan opened the box and found a crystal-clear, star-speckled right leg bone whose aura stunned both her and Dugu Bo.

Tie Xiong gave Dugu Yan the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, which raised her to level fifty and granted her flight and self-repair skills. They then went to the Soul Master Tournament opening ceremony, where Tie Xiong saw the enormous golden statue of himself and joined Xue Qinghe in the VIP stands.

• Tie Xiong gave Dugu Yan the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone because its life attributes could help counter her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Venom.
• Dugu Yan absorbed the soul bone over several days, reaching level fifty and gaining flight and self-repair skills.
• Dugu Yan thanked Tie Xiong with a kiss, and he accompanied her and Dugu Bo to the Soul Master Tournament opening ceremony.
• Tie Xiong and Dugu Bo saw the crowds gathered at the Great Soul Arena, where a thirty-meter golden statue of Tie Xiong stood outside.
• Tie Xiong entered the VIP stands, noted the gathering of powerful factions and Title Douluos, and took the seat beside Xue Qinghe.

Tie Xiong delivered a speech at the Soul Master Tournament opening ceremony, displaying his strength and promoting Limit-Breaking Soul Ring Absorption. He began to explain how high-year Soul Rings could accelerate a Soul Master's growth.

• Tie Xiong joined Qian Renxue in the VIP stand and inspected the academy teams, noticing killing intent around Tang San and Dai Mubai and admiring the students from Blazing Fire Academy and Skywater Academy.
• Qian Renxue told Tie Xiong that talented students wanted to meet him after the matches so he could recruit them for the Crown Prince's Residence Soul Master Corps.
• The host introduced Tie Xiong as the youngest Soul King in history and invited him to speak, surprising Tang Xiao, Ning Fengzhi, and the assembled students with his titles and strength.
• Tie Xiong flew to the arena's center using his right-arm Soul Bone and addressed the crowd, urging Soul Masters to keep evolving through Limit-Breaking Soul Ring Absorption.
• Tie Xiong began describing his own growth and promised to use a powerful expert's experience to explain the benefits of high-year Soul Rings.

Tie Xiong publicly recounted the story of Tang Hao and Ah Yin, revealing that their son later met another Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, Xiao Wu. As Tang Hao watched from the crowd and Xiao Wu broke down in tears, Tie Xiong sensed Ah Yin’s hidden spiritual power stirring inside his Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch.

• Tie Xiong told the audience how a gifted sect heir fell in love with a woman who was actually a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and chose her over the Soul Ring and Soul Bone she represented.
• Tie Xiong described how the couple were hunted, and how the woman sacrificed herself during the birth of their child, giving the genius Soul Master a Hundred-Thousand-Year Ninth Soul Ring.
• Tang Xiao warned Tang Hao not to act rashly, while Salas grew angry at Tie Xiong’s account of the former Pope’s defeat.
• Tie Xiong revealed that the couple’s son later met a work-study student who was also a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, sent to avenge her mother.
• Liu Erlong held a sobbing Xiao Wu as Tie Xiong sensed Ah Yin’s leaves stirring with spiritual power inside his Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch.

Tie Xiong exposed Tang Hao’s past and challenged the Clear Sky Sect to a duel to the death over accusations that he had stolen its techniques. After proposing a public study of Soul Power circulation, Tie Xiong discovered that the crowd’s faith had subtly affected his Soul Bones.

• Tie Xiong revealed that Tang Hao’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast identity had been exposed and connected it to Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls, provoking Tang San’s anger.
• Tang Hao urged Tang San to control himself and continue the tournament, while Tang Xiao avoided explaining how to identify Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• Tie Xiong challenged anyone from the Clear Sky Sect, including Title Douluos, to a duel to the death to prove he had not learned its techniques secretly, but Tang Xiao postponed a decision.
• Tie Xiong described his plan to collect Soul Power circulation methods from across the continent and publish research that could help create new Soul Skills.
• As the tournament began, Tie Xiong sensed that the crowd’s cheers had subtly affected his head, right arm, and external leg Soul Bones, confirming that faith could work.

After the tournament preliminaries began, Qian Renxue showed Tie Xiong the strength of her three-thousand-strong Soul Master Corps and gave him authority as its second-in-command. At the corps headquarters, Tie Xiong advised Feng Xiaotian and the gathered students to prioritize cultivation over creating Soul Skills, leaving them to consider his philosophy.

• Tie Xiong and Qian Renxue watched Heaven Dou Royal Academy's second team lose to Thunder Academy after Tang San did not compete.
• Qian Renxue told Tie Xiong that her Soul Master Corps had grown to three thousand members, rivaling Xue Ye's force, and appointed him second-in-command.
• Qian Renxue and Tie Xiong visited the corps headquarters, where Tie Xiong greeted the tournament students and noticed Tang San and Dai Mubai were absent from Thunder Academy's camp.
• Feng Xiaotian asked Tie Xiong about his research into Soul Skills, and Tie Xiong warned that pursuing Self-Created Soul Skills too early could limit his cultivation.
• Tie Xiong urged Feng Xiaotian and the students to focus on raising their Soul Power Levels, arguing that greater strength would make creating Soul Skills easier later.

Tie Xiong presented his theory for improving cultivation methods and helped Qian Renxue recruit students into the Crown Prince's Residence Soul Master Corps. After returning to Blue Tyrant Academy, he found Xiao Wu waiting outside his villa with something to discuss.

• Tie Xiong showed the students a Human Meridian Diagram and proposed developing cultivation methods that could let people train before age six without a Martial Soul.
• Qian Renxue promised to support Tie Xiong's research and invited the students to join the Crown Prince's Residence Soul Master Corps.
• Shui Yue'er, Huo Wu, and Feng Xiaotian volunteered to participate in the research, while Thunder Academy and Elephant Armor Academy stayed silent.
• Qian Renxue showed the students around the headquarters as Tie Xiong helped her recruit them and fielded Shui Yue'er's eager questions.
• Tie Xiong returned to Blue Tyrant Academy that evening and found Xiao Wu waiting outside his villa to discuss something with him.

Xiao Wu sought an Immortal Herb from Tie Xiong to become stronger, and Tie Xiong took her upstairs, using her former bond with Tang San as a reason to torment him. The next morning, Xiao Wu consumed half a Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, gained seven Soul Power levels, and began cultivating toward greater strength and freedom.

• Xiao Wu asked Tie Xiong for medicine to increase her cultivation speed and said she no longer cared what happened to Tang San.
• Tie Xiong offered an Immortal Herb on the condition that she become his, then carried her upstairs before she could answer.
• The next morning, Tie Xiong left Xiao Wu half a Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and explained that it could greatly improve her Soul Power.
• Xiao Wu ate the ginseng and raised her Soul Power from level forty-two to level forty-nine.
• Xiao Wu resumed cultivating, hoping to reach the Soul Emperor level and conceal her identity.

Tie Xiong fought Yang Wudi to improve his practical combat ability and learned to draw closer to a Weapon Soul Avatar through their battle. After defeating Yang Wudi, Tie Xiong received healing from Ye Lingling.

• Tie Xiong challenged Yang Wudi to a spar in Blue Tyrant Academy's reinforced Soul Fighting Arena.
• Tie Xiong and Yang Wudi exchanged fierce attacks, with Yang Wudi's Soul Breaking Spear forcing Tie Xiong to adjust his strikes.
• As the battle continued, Tie Xiong realized Yang Wudi's Weapon Soul Avatar concentrated his power into the spear and began integrating himself more deeply with his Heaven Breaking Hammer.
• Tie Xiong used his spiritual power to form a towering Heaven Breaking Hammer phantom and overcame Yang Wudi's spear techniques.
• After another half hour, Tie Xiong struck Yang Wudi down, and Ye Lingling healed both of them with her Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul.

Tie Xiong spent half a month fighting powerful Soul Masters to refine his strength, while Ye Lingling improved her healing and spiritual control. After Blazing Fire Academy lost to Thunder Academy, Huo Wu sought Tie Xiong’s advice on how to defeat Tang San and his team.

• Tie Xiong fought Yang Wudi, Dragon Duke and Snake Granny, and the three education committee members, then arranged to spar with each of them regularly.
• Ye Lingling treated Tie Xiong and practiced Heart Separation Control as he urged her to develop her spiritual power.
• Tie Xiong continued fighting five powerful opponents every day for half a month to master his domains, Soul Skills, and Weapon Soul Avatar.
• Blazing Fire Academy lost to Thunder Academy, whose team included Yu Tianxin, Lei Dong, Lei Tian, Dai Mubai, and Tang San.
• Huo Wu visited Tie Xiong and described Tang San’s Ten-Thousand-Year fourth Soul Ring and powerful Clear Sky Hammer, asking how she could defeat him.

Tie Xiong explained to Huo Wu that Tang San’s unusual Blue Silver Grass might drain Soul Power and that his apparent Soul Skills came from a set of cultivation techniques. Huo Wu left resolved to cultivate harder, while Tie Xiong focused on reaching Soul Emperor so he could join Sister Xue in destroying the Clear Sky Sect.

• Huo Wu told Tie Xiong that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass drained Soul Power and resisted her flames, and Tie Xiong suspected Tang San had gained a devouring ability.
• Tie Xiong challenged Huo Wu’s understanding of Tang San and explained that Tang San’s movement, eye, and body techniques gave him abilities beyond his visible Martial Souls.
• Huo Wu realized Tang San’s techniques were not necessarily Soul Bone skills and asked whether weapon Martial Souls were all so powerful.
• Tie Xiong told Huo Wu not to obsess over a temporary defeat and urged her to aim for Soul Saint before thirty; Huo Wu said she would reach at least Soul Douluo by the time he became a Title Douluo.
• Huo Wu thanked Tie Xiong and left to cultivate, while Tie Xiong resolved to reach Soul Emperor and join Sister Xue in destroying the Clear Sky Sect.

Tie Xiong mastered the Earth Domain and attended Qian Renxue’s secondary-consort investiture, where he openly challenged Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen over the Clear Sky Sect’s role in attacks on Heaven Dou City. Ning Fengzhi denied there was proof against the sect, leaving Tie Xiong’s accusation unresolved.

• Tie Xiong formed the Earth Domain by combining Earth Power from his soul skills and hammer, then judged his strength superior to that of an ordinary Title Douluo.
• Qian Renxue prepared to take a secondary consort, and Tie Xiong dressed up and went to the Crown Prince’s Residence with Liu Erlong.
• At the residence, Tie Xiong greeted Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and the others, then dismissed interest in the tournament championship.
• Tie Xiong accused the Clear Sky Sect of destabilizing the fight against Spirit Hall and asked Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen what they planned to do.
• Ning Fengzhi argued that the Clear Sky Sect was essential against Spirit Hall and said there was no proof its members had attacked Heaven Dou City.

Tie Xiong urged Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen to abandon the Clear Sky Sect and proposed that Ning Rongrong marry Xue Qinghe to strengthen their alliance. Qian Renxue arrived as the others considered the proposal, while a flustered Ning Rongrong fled to Bai Chenxiang’s room.

• Tie Xiong declared that he would either be killed by the Clear Sky Sect or destroy it, and suggested Dai Mubai’s ties to Tang San might point to a plot against the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Tie Xiong proposed that Ning Rongrong marry Xue Qinghe, arguing that the match would unite the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family against Spirit Hall.
• Ning Rongrong blushed and ran out after realizing the others were considering the match, while Ning Fengzhi weighed its political benefits against the Clear Sky Sect’s offer.
• Qian Renxue entered and learned that Tie Xiong had raised the subject of Ning Rongrong’s marriage; she privately resented his meddling but reassured Ning Fengzhi.
• Ning Rongrong went to Bai Chenxiang’s room in the Crown Prince’s Residence to talk.

Tie Xiong secretly spent the night with Bai Chenxiang after her wedding to Xue Qinghe, then cultivated his newly formed Earth Domain. Three days later, Thunder Academy won the Promotion Tournament, and Xue Ye appointed Xue Qinghe as the Heaven Dou Empire’s envoy to the Grand Finals in Spirit City.

• Ning Rongrong and Bai Chenxiang discussed Bai Chenxiang’s marriage and Ning Rongrong’s uncertain prospects for choosing a husband.
• Qian Renxue arranged for Tie Xiong to remain at the Crown Prince’s Residence, and Tie Xiong secretly entered Bai Chenxiang’s bedroom that night.
• Tie Xiong left Bai Chenxiang’s room at midnight and cultivated his Earth Domain and Earth Power in his courtyard.
• Tie Xiong saw Bai Chenxiang again the next day, and three days passed as the Promotion Tournament concluded.
• Thunder Academy won all fourteen matches, and Xue Ye named Xue Qinghe the Heaven Dou Empire’s envoy to the Grand Finals in Spirit City.

Tie Xiong prepared with Dugu Bo for a possible attack by the Clear Sky Sect, then departed for Spirit City with Qian Renxue’s large tournament procession. He suspected Qian Renxue knew that he had uncovered both of her identities, leaving their unspoken secret close to being exposed.

• Tie Xiong and Dugu Bo reviewed intelligence about the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Clear Sky Sect, and Tie Xiong warned Dugu Bo to follow his instructions if the sects attacked.
• Tie Xiong told Dugu Bo that Tang San could counter poison and that the Clear Sky Sect would likely prepare against Dugu Bo’s abilities.
• Tie Xiong spent the night with Xiao Wu, who reflected on her growing strength and her changing feelings toward him.
• Qian Renxue led nearly four thousand people, including tournament teams, Royal Knights, and Soul Masters from the Crown Prince’s Residence, toward Spirit City.
• Qian Renxue told Tie Xiong by voice transmission that four Title Douluos were traveling with the procession, and Tie Xiong wondered whether she knew he recognized both her identities.

Dai Mubai and Tang San planned to use the Clear Sky Sect and Tang Hao’s support to advance their ambitions, while Zhu Zhuqing lost faith in Dai Mubai and chose to return to the carriage. Tie Xiong overheard their plans and sensed that a confrontation was near as the convoy approached Spirit City.

• Dai Mubai told Zhu Zhuqing he intended to gain his family’s recognition beyond the Soul Master Tournament, and Zhu Zhuqing gave up on him and returned to the carriage.
• Tang San promised to help Dai Mubai defeat his elder brother and inherit the throne, while Dai Mubai reaffirmed his commitment to Tang San and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San told Dai Mubai that Tang Hao and Tang Xiao would soon act against Tie Xiong, and both men anticipated Tie Xiong’s death.
• Tie Xiong overheard Tang San and Dai Mubai, suspected Ning Fengzhi had allied with Tang Xiao, and noted that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was equipping its forces with Godly Zhuge Crossbows.
• After two more days of travel, Tie Xiong and Poison Douluo stepped out of their carriage as a sinister voice announced that the Pope had sent people to welcome the Heaven Dou Empire’s participating students.

Tie Xiong secretly left the convoy to track Clear Sky Sect’s leaders, planning to ambush them before dawn. At the sect’s camp, Tang Hao and Tang Xiao discussed their plan to kill Tie Xiong and Dugu Bo and prepare Tang San for the sect’s future.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo arrived to welcome the competition convoy on the Pope’s orders, and Qian Renxue directed him to stay with the Martial Soul Holy Hall carriages.
• After the convoy stopped for the night, Tie Xiong used his Earth Domain to search the surrounding area and detected seven powerful figures fifty miles east.
• Tie Xiong moved closer to the figures and waited ten miles from their camp, intending to attack when their guard weakened before dawn.
• Tang Hao and Tang Xiao discussed how Yu Xiaogang’s plan had brought Chrysanthemum Douluo to the convoy and concluded Spirit Hall would not interfere with their attack on Tie Xiong and Dugu Bo.
• Tang Xiao told Tang Hao to take Tang San and Dai Mubai into seclusion after the attack, and revealed he planned to move half the sect’s clansmen to the Star Luo Capital.

Tang Xiao and Tang Hao prepared to kill Tie Xiong, but Tie Xiong launched a sudden attack at dawn, targeting Lieyang Douluo. The chapter ends as his domain and Soul Bone skills strike the Clear Sky Sect elders and his hammer descends toward the tent.

• Tang Xiao planned for seven Title Douluos to attack Tie Xiong and Dugu Bo together, while Tang Hao looked forward to the battle and considered preparing Tang San and Dai Mubai for Slaughter City.
• At dawn, Tie Xiong appeared in a golden pillar of light and used his Weapon Soul Avatar to bring the Heaven Breaking Hammer down toward Lieyang Douluo's tent.
• Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and four Clear Sky Sect elders rushed out to stop Tie Xiong, but his domain slowed and constrained them.
• Tang Hao countered the domain with Divine Slaughter's Domain, but Tie Xiong unleashed Titan Sky Breaking, sending a powerful air wave into all six Title Douluos.
• Tie Xiong activated Golden Extreme Divine Light as his hammer continued falling toward Lieyang Douluo's tent.

Tie Xiong ambushed Clear Sky Sect and killed Lieyang Douluo with a single hammer strike, then escaped as Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and the remaining elders pursued him. While fleeing, Tie Xiong discovered that Lieyang Douluo’s Clear Sky Hammer source essence had entered his Heaven Breaking Hammer and begun increasing its weight.

• Tie Xiong used his Earth Domain and Golden Extreme Divine Light to disrupt Lieyang Douluo’s defensive skills, then smashed him into the ground with one blow.
• Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and the four other elders attacked Tie Xiong, but he used the impact to flee west with only minor injuries.
• The four elders recovered Lieyang Douluo’s ruined corpse while Tang Hao and Tang Xiao continued pursuing Tie Xiong.
• Tie Xiong sensed Lieyang Douluo’s pure Clear Sky Hammer source essence inside his Heaven Breaking Hammer and realized it was making the weapon heavier.
• Tie Xiong decided the discovery could help him forge his hammer into a divine weapon and declared that he and Clear Sky Sect were now enemies.