Chapter Summaries

Ao Zhan revealed that he knew where the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was, then attacked Tang Chen, Bo Saixi, and Tang San before they could learn more. He sealed Tang San’s Soul Power and sent him off with the Joyous Apes, while Tang Chen became trapped by roots that absorbed his Soul Power and Bo Saixi struggled to break through a barrier.

• Tang San asked Ao Zhan about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but Ao Zhan attacked the three companions before answering further.
• Ao Zhan knocked down Tang Chen, Bo Saixi, and Tang San, then taunted Tang San and summoned more than a dozen Joyous Apes.
• Ao Zhan sealed Tang San’s Soul Power and had the Joyous Apes drag him into the woods as Tang Chen and Bo Saixi reacted in fury.
• Tang Chen charged Ao Zhan with the Asura Magic Hammer, but Ao Zhan’s roots surrounded him and absorbed his Soul Power whenever he struck them.
• Bo Saixi attacked the barrier around Tang San, but it absorbed her sea-blue beam and fired it back out from another part.

Ao Zhan trapped Tang Chen and fought Bo Saixi as Poseidon prepared to take over, while Danielle was overwhelmed by a group of powerful Mystic Beasts. The Rakshasa God took control of Danielle and faced their combined attack with the Rakshasa Demon Scythe.

• Ao Zhan explained that his spatial barrier could not be broken by Bo Saixi, then blasted her away when she challenged him.
• Poseidon and the Asura God began taking over Bo Saixi and Tang Chen, while Ao Zhan left Gu Ningqiu and Shui Bing'er under the protection of Gu Hanche and Gu Yanchen.
• Bear Lord struck Danielle while she was distracted, and the gathered Mystic Beasts attacked her together.
• The Rakshasa God took over Danielle, summoned the Rakshasa Demon Scythe, and faced the Mystic Beasts as the Earth Dragon Turtle shielded them.
• Bear Lord and the other Mystic Beasts unleashed their strongest attacks through the Earth Dragon Turtle's barrier, forcing the Rakshasa God to brace for their Alien Energy.

The Rakshasa God, acting through Danielle, was trapped in a stalemate with the Mystic Beasts, whose Earth Dragon Turtle shielded them from her attacks. As new Divine High Priestesses arrived in Star Dou Forest, the Mystic Beasts fled underground, while Yu Yuanzhen and the three newcomers rushed toward powerful divine forces in the forest’s depths.

• Danielle’s Rakshasa Demon Scythe blocked the Mystic Beasts’ attacks, but the Earth Dragon Turtle’s defense prevented her from defeating them or escaping.
• The Wind God and Fire God sent their High Priestesses toward Star Dou Forest, while the Evil God King appointed Lucifer High Priest and his son successor, and the Destruction God King sent Yu Yuanzhen.
• The Ten Thousand Demon King sensed several Divine High Priestesses approaching and warned the Mystic Beasts.
• The Earth Dragon Turtle used the Earth Burrowing Technique to carry the Mystic Beasts away beneath the ground.
• Yu Yuanzhen met Kane, Kupa, and Lucifer, learned of their divine appointments, and celebrated the Destruction God King’s response to his prayers.
• When Asura and Sea God divine power surged from the forest’s depths and was suppressed by an even stronger force, Yu Yuanzhen, Kane, Kupa, and Lucifer rushed toward it.

The Asura God, controlling Tang Chen and wielding the Asura Magic Sword, fought Ao Zhan while Poseidon controlled Bo Saixi and tried to assist. Ao Zhan sent the Asura God crashing through trees, but the Asura God healed himself and resumed the battle.

• The Asura God summoned the Asura Magic Sword and attacked Ao Zhan, while Poseidon used the Sea God Trident to send water dragons against him.
• Ao Zhan turned Poseidon's water attacks against him, so the Asura God ordered Poseidon to stop and attacked Ao Zhan himself.
• Ao Zhan evaded the Asura God's sword storm and struck his chest with an Alien Energy-charged kick, hurling him through several trees.
• The Asura God drew life force from Slaughter City's blood river to heal himself, then praised Ao Zhan's close-combat skill and criticized the War God in the God Realm.
• The Asura God and Ao Zhan resumed their fight as Poseidon watched, while Gu Yanchen and Gu Hanche's barriers protected Shui Bing'er and Gu Ningqiu from the shockwaves.

Ao Zhan fought off Asura God and Poseidon before defeating the Divine High Priests who arrived to support them. The battle left Gu Hanche wondering whether more gods would send their own High Priests into Douluo Continent.

• Poseidon discovered that a powerful barrier protected Gu Ningqiu and Shui Bing'er, while he and Asura God struggled to gain the upper hand against Ao Zhan.
• The Mystic Beast overlords returned and warned Ao Zhan that several Divine High Priests were approaching; the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings strengthened the barrier around the spectators.
• Kane and Kupa attacked Ao Zhan with wind and fire, followed by Yu Yuanzhen, Danielle, and Lucifer, but Ao Zhan struck them all down in turn.
• Ao Zhan identified the newcomers as the High Priests of Fire God, Wind God, and Evil God King, and remarked that more gods had entered the conflict.
• Gu Hanche worried that additional Divine High Priests could appear and turn Douluo Continent into chaos, while Gu Yanchen insisted they could protect the region.

Gu Yanchen and Gu Hanche dismissed the threat posed by the Divine High Priests as Ao Zhan faced seven gods controlling their bodies. Ao Zhan overwhelmed them in battle and sent the Evil God King flying, while the fight remained underway.

• Gu Yanchen reassured Gu Hanche that the Divine High Priests and their future godhood could not threaten them.
• The Divine High Priests recovered as the Destruction God King, Evil God King, Wind God, Fire God, and Rakshasa God took control of their bodies and confronted Ao Zhan.
• Ao Zhan accepted the seven gods' challenge, while the gods recognized the hidden Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King nearby.
• The gods attacked Ao Zhan with their divine weapons, but he dodged and neutralized their strikes with agile movements.
• Ao Zhan used cyan Alien Energy to knock back the Wind God, Rakshasa God, Fire God, Poseidon, Destruction God King, and Asura God.
• Ao Zhan resisted the Evil God King's malice attacks and kicked him away.

As seven Divine High Priests drew on their gods’ power to fight Ao Zhan, Gu Yuena and Gu Xiaoran reassured the worried onlookers that he would prevail. Gu Yuena created a water mirror so they could watch the battle, which resumed after Ao Zhan protected the Lake of Life.

• The Divine High Priests surged with divine power, and Qian Xunji and the Seven Great Elders headed toward Gu Yuena’s residence as the disturbance spread.
• Gu Yuena explained that the Wind God, Fire God, and Evil God King had joined the original four gods, while Gu Xiaoran said all seven were controlling their high priests and empowering them.
• Qian Renxue and the others worried that Ao Zhan, Shui Bing'er, and Gu Ningqiu were in danger, but Gu Yuena and Gu Xiaoran assured them the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings were guarding them and Ao Zhan could defeat the seven.
• Gu Yuena used a water mirror to show the group the battle in Star Dou Forest.
• Ao Zhan protected the Lake of Life with a Space Barrier, and the Divine High Priests launched their attack.

Ao Zhan used Azure Dragon Seven Mansions—Star God Descent to defeat six of the seven Divine High Priests while sparing the Asura God. After sealing the others, he asked the Asura God why he had chosen Tang San.

• The seven gods unleashed their ultimate attacks against Ao Zhan, but he summoned the Azure Dragon Seven Mansions' Star God and fired Azure Void Annihilation Light.
• The Ice and Fire Dragon Kings contained the resulting shock wave in a barrier, protecting the Star Dou Forest and its Mystic Beasts.
• Ao Zhan overpowered the gods, leaving the Asura God standing while the other six Divine High Priests were gravely wounded and unconscious.
• Ao Zhan sealed the other six's consciousnesses and asked the Asura God why he had chosen Tang San.

Ao Zhan questioned the Asura God about why he had chosen Tang San and Xiao Wu, uncovering that the god could not remember his reason for choosing Tang San and that Xiao Wu’s supposed origins in Star Dou Forest contradicted what its beast overlords knew. The Asura God insisted he had seen Xiao Wu beside the Lake of Life through the Water Mirror Technique, and Ao Zhan concluded that the technique had shown him something false.

• The Asura God admitted he could not remember why he had chosen Tang San, then suggested he had liked Tang San’s soul and sought a vessel for the poison of faith before discovering his affinity for divine power.
• Ao Zhan asked why the Asura God had chosen Xiao Wu, and the Asura God said he had found her in Star Dou Forest beside the Lake of Life.
• Ao Zhan summoned the mystic beast overlords, who told the Asura God that Star Dou Forest had no Ten-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Charm Rabbits and that such a rabbit could not possess Teleportation.
• The Asura God insisted that he had seen Xiao Wu by the Lake of Life through the Water Mirror Technique, and Ao Zhan concluded that the error lay with the technique.
• Ao Zhan asked whether the Asura God would believe he had seen the Dragon God resurrected through the Water Mirror Technique, hinting that the vision of Xiao Wu might not have been real.

Ao Zhan confronted Asura God about the Water Mirror Technique and learned that someone had manipulated its images to influence his choice of Xiao Wu. After Asura God answered Ao Zhan’s final question about the Seven Elemental Gods, Ao Zhan released him and Tang San, leaving the hidden schemer’s identity unresolved.

• Asura God realized that the Water Mirror Technique’s images had been falsified, raising doubts about the security of the God Realm Hub.
• Asura God explained that he chose Xiao Wu to exploit her bonds with the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python, and to improve Tang San’s compatibility with the Asura Divine Position.
• Ao Zhan said he would let Asura God leave because killing his current form would solve nothing, and warned that Tang San had another hidden backer.
• Ao Zhan asked why the Seven Elemental Gods honored the Destruction God instead of the Evil God King, and Asura God answered him.
• Ao Zhan and the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings removed their barriers, and Asura God gathered Tang San and the others and carried them away.

After defeating his enemies, Ao Zhan stayed overnight by Lake of Life with Gu Ningqiu and Shui Bing'er, while new factions rose against Spirit Hall across the continent. Tang San raged over his repeated humiliation as rival powers focused on producing gods capable of challenging Ao Zhan.

• Ao Zhan restored the damaged Star Dou Forest, then spent the night by Lake of Life with Gu Ningqiu and Shui Bing'er.
• A Wind God Sect and a Fire God Sect formed and allied with the World-Destroying Thunder Dragon Sect.
• The City of Sin appeared as a refuge for evildoers, and the Upper Three Sects and Two Great Empires learned that it opposed Spirit Hall alongside Slaughter City.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed an Anti-Spirit Hall Alliance, but Tang Chen, Yu Yuanzhen, and Bo Saixi rejected it and urged their divine inheritors to become gods instead.
• Tang San smashed rocks with his Clear Sky Hammer and lamented the losses and humiliations he had suffered in this life.

After losing his chance to obtain the Immortal Herb in the Star Dou Forest, Tang San took out his frustration on Xiao Wu before turning to his Sea God Trial. The gods arranged identical Soul Master Tournament trials for several divine inheritors, who began preparing to compete.

• Tang San collapsed after venting his anger, and Xiao Wu approached him, worried.
• Tang San accused Xiao Wu of failing to comfort him, berated her, then apologized and reconciled with her.
• Tang San reviewed his Sea God Trial, which required him to clear the Continental Soul Master Tournament Preliminary Tournament for a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, with extra rewards for clearing the Grand Finals.
• Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Yu Tiankuo, and the Fire God, Wind God, and Evil God King inheritors received matching tournament trials and began cultivating intensely.
• Asura God, Rakshasa God, Sea God, Evil God King, Destruction God King, Wind God, and Fire God discussed the trials in Evil God King's divine palace.

The gods ordered their inheritors to prepare for the Soul Master Tournament, while Asura suspected someone had tampered with the God Realm Hub. Ao Zhan concluded that Poseidon might be hiding secrets and went to Qian Xunji to discuss the tournament, though he had no intention of competing.

• The Asura God, Destruction God, and other gods ordered their inheritors to train hard for the Soul Master Tournament so their sides would not lose to their rivals.
• After returning to his temple, the Asura God wondered who had altered the Water Mirror Technique and decided to use the tournament to draw the hidden plotter out.
• Ao Zhan reasoned that Poseidon, rather than Asura, might be the one hiding secrets, and planned to test Bo Saixi during the tournament.
• Ao Zhan visited Qian Xunji and said he had come to ask about the approaching tournament, not to participate himself.

Ao Zhan arranged for the Super Beast Team and Tian Yao’s team to enter the Soul Master Tournament, and added two spirit bones to its prizes. As the tournament opened, impoverished empires and sects hoped to profit from it, only to learn that Spirit Hall would take eighty percent of the revenue.

• Ao Zhan told Qian Xunji that he would lead Tian Yao and the others through the Heaven Dou Empire qualifiers while the Super Beast Team entered separately.
• Qian Xunji named three hundred thousand year spirit bones as prizes, and Ao Zhan added the Sky Azure Bull Python Right Arm Bone and the Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Bone.
• Ao Zhan mobilized the Super Beast Team, and the Soul Master Tournament opened with five hundred thousand year spirit bones on offer.
• The Two Great Empires and the soul master sects hoped to earn money from the tournament after their finances had been devastated by the war and Spirit Hall’s demands.
• The major powers learned that Spirit Hall, which had covered most of the tournament’s costs, would claim eighty percent of its revenue.

The Heaven Dou division of the Soul Master Tournament drew huge crowds, many of whom supported Spirit Hall and looked coldly on its rivals. When Ao Zhan arrived with the Super Beast Team and Tian Yao’s group, the spectators erupted in cheers, enraging Tang Chen, Yu Yuanzhen, Xue Ye, and Tang San.

• Spirit Hall divided tournament profits among the Great Soul Arena and other factions while hoping to absorb the arena if its backers challenged it.
• Spectators filled the Great Soul Arena in Heaven Dou City, and teams arrived to mixed reactions, with Spirit Hall-associated teams receiving enthusiastic cheers.
• Tang Chen, Bo Saixi, Yu Yuanzhen, Kupa, Kane, Lucifer, and Danielle arrived with several teams, including Shrek Team, whose Xiao Wu concealed her Soul Beast aura.
• The crowd fell silent for Tang Chen and the other powerful arrivals, prompting them to consider punishing the spectators.
• Ao Zhan arrived with the Super Beast Team and Tian Yao’s group, and the crowd loudly cheered for Spirit Hall and called for its rivals to be defeated.
• Tang San seethed at Ao Zhan and the cheering spectators, while Xue Ye was angered that his subjects welcomed Spirit Hall so warmly.

The Soul Master Tournament began as Ao Zhan warned the seven Limit Douluo not to challenge his group, while Huo Linfei publicly provoked Tang San. The chapter left Tang San furious and hoping to face Huo Linfei in a match.

• Gu Ningqiu joined Tian Yao's team, and Tian Yao promised to deal with Tang San during the match.
• Ao Zhan threatened the seven Limit Douluo, who stayed silent and let his group enter the Great Soul Arena.
• Shui Bing'er led the Three Element Teams into the arena and told Shui Yue'er that Ao Zhan had no reason to respect his defeated opponents.
• Huo Linfei mocked Tang San in front of the crowd, and Tang San vowed to make him lose if they met in the tournament.
• Yu Xiaogang grew angry at Huo Linfei's insults, and a middle-aged woman comforted him.

Yu Luomian learned that Yu Xiaogang resented Yu Tiankuo for exposing flaws in his martial soul theories, and Yu Yuanzhen silently abandoned Yu Xiaogang while keeping the family’s decision private. At the tournament, the opening speeches ended and the first-round matchups were drawn, including Shrek Academy against Golden Academy.

• Liu Erlong reassured Yu Xiaogang that Tang San could defeat Huo Linfei, unaware that Yu Xiaogang had become a eunuch and that Yu Yuanzhen had abandoned him.
• Yu Luomian concluded that Yu Xiaogang’s hostility toward Yu Tiankuo came from seeing soul rings that contradicted his theories, and Yu Tianheng confirmed Yu Xiaogang had protested that they were impossible.
• Yu Luomian told Yu Yuanzhen about Yu Xiaogang, and Yu Yuanzhen decided the Yu Clan and World-Destroying Thunder Dragon Sect would not help him, though they kept the decision secret.
• The master of ceremonies invited the seven Limit Douluo and Salas to speak, while Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, Xue Xing, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo were excluded.
• The master of ceremonies drew the preliminary round matchups, pairing Shrek Academy with Golden Academy and Super Beast Academy with Fierce Beast Academy.

The Super Beast Team easily defeated Fierce Beast Academy in the tournament’s opening match. Huo Linfei, Tai Lei, and Ye Lingyun then hurried to meet their grandparents and Dean Ye, where Old Jack teased Huo Linfei about his habit of offending people.

• Gu Ningqiu and Tian Yao were delighted when the draw matched the Golden Team against Tang San’s team in the first round.
• The Super Beast Team faced Fierce Beast Academy, whose members resented Spirit Hall and struggled to obtain soul rings.
• Ye Lingyun sent Fierce Beast Academy’s captain flying, and the Super Beast Team won easily through the difference in their martial soul grades.
• After the match, Tian Yao told Huo Linfei, Tai Lei, and Ye Lingyun that their family members had arrived with Ao Zhan.
• Ye Lingyun reunited with Dean Ye, then Huo Linfei greeted Old Jack, who scolded him for offending classmates and teammates in Spirit City.

Old Jack scolded Huo Linfei over his supposed insults, then learned that Huo Linfei had only mocked Spirit Hall’s enemies. As the tournament’s first round continued, Shrek Academy faced the Golden Academy, and Tai Long charged at Qian Yang in rage after hearing that the Angel Legion had killed his family.

• Old Jack questioned Huo Linfei, and Ao Zhan explained that Huo Linfei had only offended enemies such as Tang San.
• Tai Lei arrived and reunited with Old Man Tai as Skywater Academy won its match.
• Yu Tiankuo led Thunder Academy to victory, and the Wind God, Fire God, and Evil God teams also won their matches.
• Shrek Academy and Golden Academy entered the arena amid cheers for Spirit Hall, while Tang Chen and his companions seethed in the VIP section.
• Qian Yang taunted Tai Long about the Angel Legion killing his family, and Tai Long rushed at the Golden Team as the match began.

The Golden Team overwhelmed Shrek Team in the arena, targeting its members with coordinated attacks. Tang San broke free from Su Yurou’s ice and bound Tian Yao’s golden crocodile form, but Tian Yao made it flare with dangerous energy.

• Qian Yang knocked Tai Long back, while Tian Yao cut through Tang San’s Sea God Kelp and the Golden Team’s fighters engaged Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu.
• Qi Kuang confronted Zhu Zhuqing, who attacked him while recalling how Dai Mubai’s desertion had ruined her hopes of becoming Star Luo Empress.
• Gu Ningqiu countered Xiao Wu’s teleportation and battered her, provoking Tang San to threaten the Golden Team.
• Su Yurou froze Tang San with an Ice Arrow, and Tian Yao attacked him in her golden crocodile form after cutting apart his kelp.
• Tang San broke out of the ice, dodged Tian Yao’s charge, and bound the crocodile’s jaws with Sea God Kelp, but Tian Yao made the bound form blaze with dangerous energy.