Chapter Summaries

With Ao Zhan sealing the forest in a Space Barrier, the Super Beast Team fought Poseidon, who was controlling Tang San's body and sought to capture one of them as leverage. Long Jian stopped Poseidon's waves, and Ye Lingyun blocked his illusory Trident with the Cloud Bat Super Beast, leaving Poseidon stunned.

• Ao Zhan trapped the forest in a Space Barrier and encouraged the Super Beast Team to fight Poseidon.
• Huo Linfei struck Poseidon with Fire Cloud Art, interrupting his howl and prompting him to realize Ao Zhan had sealed his escape.
• Poseidon spread his Sea God Domain and unleashed waves, but Long Jian froze and shattered them with his ice techniques.
• Poseidon formed an illusory Trident and sent it toward Long Jian, whom he saw as a serious threat.
• Ye Lingyun transformed with the Cloud Bat Super Beast and blocked the Trident with a shield, leaving Poseidon astonished.

Poseidon poured his power into Tang San to attack Ye Lingyun, but Ye Lingyun’s defense held while Feng Yao and the Super Beast Team overwhelmed Tang San. Furious after losing control of Tang San, Poseidon went to confront the Food God, unaware that the Rakshasa God inside the temple had turned murderous.

• Poseidon attacked Ye Lingyun with a powerful beam, but Ye Lingyun merged with the Cloud Bat Shield and stopped it.
• Feng Yao struck Poseidon with Flash Spirit Art, forcing him to defend through Tang San’s hands and ruining their Meridians.
• The Super Beast Team unleashed further attacks, causing Tang San’s body to collapse and forcing Poseidon to relinquish control.
• Enraged at being defeated by Ao Zhan’s students, Poseidon blamed the Food God and went to the Rakshasa God Temple to confront him.
• Poseidon cursed outside the temple while the Rakshasa God inside stopped eating and revealed killing intent.

Poseidon caused a commotion outside Rakshasa’s Divine Temple while demanding the Food God, prompting Rakshasa to confront him and accuse him of challenging Asura’s authority. Asura arrived and crushed Poseidon under his divine pressure, leaving him terrified and unable to speak.

• Rakshasa emerged from her Divine Temple and rebuked Poseidon for shouting outside it, warning that his behavior could be seen as a challenge to Asura.
• Poseidon claimed he had come only for the Food God and apologized to Rakshasa, while the Nine-Colored Goddess and Food God questioned his motives and mocked his reputation.
• Poseidon grew furious at the Food God and summoned the Sea God Trident from Bo Saixi, threatening him for slander.
• Asura appeared behind Poseidon and forced him to the ground with his God King pressure.
• Asura accused Poseidon of threatening his subordinate and defying both him and Rakshasa, then increased the pressure until Poseidon could not speak.

Asura God punished Poseidon for attacking outside the Rakshasa God Temple and used the confrontation to expose the forces protecting him. Poseidon lost an arm, and Asura God left him vulnerable to the Divine Realm’s judgment.

• Asura God pinned Poseidon down and threatened to kill him as the gods watched.
• Goddess of Life and Destruction God King concluded Poseidon had provoked Asura God by attacking outside Rakshasa's temple.
• Evil God King realized Asura God, Rakshasa, and Food God had set a trap to corner Poseidon and draw out the power behind him.
• Asura God struck Poseidon with the Asura Magic Sword and severed one of his arms.
• Asura Divine Power kept Poseidon's wound from healing, leaving him one-armed.

Asura God severed Poseidon’s arm and forced him to explain why he had confronted Food God, while Rakshasa God and Food God denied any wrongdoing. Asura God arranged for others to help Tang San but refused to send Danielle, leaving Poseidon battered and unable to press the issue.

• Asura God cut off Poseidon’s arm, and the other Gods realized Poseidon had lost his backing.
• Asura God demanded Poseidon explain why he had come to find Food God, and Poseidon described his successor’s injuries and his complaint that Food God had not helped.
• Rakshasa God and Food God said they had been occupied managing Rakshasa Divine Temple and had not known what was happening below.
• Asura God arranged for Tang Chen, Shao Xin, and Bo Saixi to go help Tang San.
• Poseidon suggested sending Danielle and Rakshasa’s High Priestess, but Asura God and Rakshasa God threatened him until he dropped the subject.

Poseidon urged the other gods to send their High Priestesses to rescue Tang San, and the gods prepared to descend their consciousnesses. In the forest, Ao Zhan and the Super Beast Team waited for them, while Ao Zhan privately knew Asura God had abandoned Tang San and wanted him dead.

• Poseidon asked the other gods to send their High Priestesses, and the Destruction God King, Evil God King, Fire God, and Wind God agreed to help because Tang San was Asura God's inheritor.
• Asura God told the gods that Tang San was bound in a forest southwest of Spirit City, warned them Ao Zhan might be there, and said Poseidon would pay any compensation.
• The gods began contacting their High Priestesses to prepare their descents, and Poseidon followed them.
• Ao Zhan's team kept Tang San and two others tied to a tree after he removed the Space Barrier, and Ao Zhan said the gods would likely come before the next match.
• Ao Zhan told his students that Asura God might still have some hope for Tang San, but privately knew Asura God had abandoned him and had only ever intended to use him as a receptacle for the Poison of Faith.

Ao Zhan confronted the gods who had taken control of their priests and high priests, swiftly humiliating Poseidon when he demanded the captives’ release. The Food God negotiated respectfully and offered Poseidon’s treasures as payment, leaving Poseidon protesting that the bargain unfairly targeted him.

• Ao Zhan noticed the gods arriving from Spirit City in the bodies of Tang Chen, Bo Saixi, Lucifer, Yu Yuanzhen, Shao Xin, Kane, and Kupa; Danielle was absent.
• Poseidon demanded that Ao Zhan release his successor and the Food God’s successor, but Ao Zhan kicked him into a crater and struck him with Azure Lightning.
• The Food God respectfully asked Ao Zhan to release the three captives, but Ao Zhan refused to free them without a price.
• The Food God offered to let Ao Zhan make any demand of Poseidon and pointed out that Poseidon had many rare treasures.
• Poseidon objected that the Food God was exposing his wealth and making him pay even though the Food God’s successor was also captive.

Ao Zhan demanded Poseidon's Sea God Trident as payment for the captives, and Poseidon resisted until Asura God warned him that Ao Zhan's powerful backer could threaten the Divine Realm. The gods recognized the danger, leaving Poseidon cowed and the trident still at stake.

• Food God demanded that Poseidon pay to ransom Tang San and the others, and Asura God agreed that Poseidon should bear the cost.
• Poseidon pointed out that Ao Zhan held the captives, but Ao Zhan agreed to the deal and demanded Poseidon's Sea God Trident.
• Poseidon refused to surrender the trident, so Ao Zhan shocked him with Azure Lightning and threatened to kill him in the Divine Realm.
• Asura God severed his connection with Tang Chen, slapped Poseidon, and warned him that Ao Zhan's backer had already battered the Divine Realm with an Azure Dragon.
• Poseidon fell silent, while the other gods understood that provoking Ao Zhan could bring another Azure Dragon to destroy the Divine Realm.

Ao Zhan forced Poseidon to trade the Sea God's Thirteen Halberds for Tang San and the others, then warned the Super Beast Team not to underestimate the Evil God Team. He planned to destroy Shrek Academy and kill Tang Chen and Bo Saixi after the tournament.

• Poseidon apologized to Ao Zhan but refused to surrender the Sea God Trident, so Ao Zhan demanded the Sea God's Thirteen Halberds instead.
• Poseidon gave Ao Zhan the Sea God's Thirteen Halberds in exchange for Tang San and the others, and Ao Zhan released them.
• Poseidon and the Food God left with Tang San, Dai Mubai, Oscar, Asura God, and the others.
• Ao Zhan told Huo Linfei that he would collect the rest of his debt after the tournament by destroying Shrek Academy and killing Tang Chen and Bo Saixi.
• Ao Zhan warned the Super Beast Team to prepare carefully for their upcoming match against the Evil God Team, despite Huo Linfei's confidence in Ye Lingyun's Cloud Bat Shield.

Huo Linfei was punished by Feng Yao and Ye Lingyun before the Super Beast Team faced the Evil God Team in the Grand Finals. Lu Mingfei revealed his Twin Martial Souls and began unleashing the Evil God Team's trump card.

• Ao Zhan ordered Feng Yao and Ye Lingyun to teach Huo Linfei a lesson, and they pinned him until he admitted his mouth had gotten him into trouble.
• Ao Zhan sent the Super Beast Team back to rest before their next Grand Finals match.
• The Super Beast Team faced the Evil God Team, and Lu Mingfei revealed his second Martial Soul, the Evil God King, stunning the spectators and angering Tang San.
• Ao Zhan recognized that Lu Mingfei's trump card involved a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill and watched Seven Sins for signs of something more.
• Lu Mingfei absorbed the malice of the Evil Domain and activated the Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Divine Authority of the Evil Abyss: All Evil Returns to the Void.

Lu Mingfei and Seven Sins unleashed their combined powers, transforming the battlefield into a contest against Feng Yao. Their display prompted Flender to ask whether Tang San could perform a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, exposing that Tang San could not balance or combine his two Martial Souls.

• Lu Mingfei fused his Evil God King and Evil Scepter Martial Souls, becoming an Evil God King and evolving his Evil Domain into the Malice Divine Domain.
• Feng Yao unleashed the White Tiger Martial Soul’s light and pressure, pushing back the darkness and forcing Lu Mingfei to recognize him as a serious threat.
• Seven Sins summoned seven Original Sin Puppets and formed the Seven-in-One Spirit Skill Fusion Technique, Seven Original Sins Array, channeling its power into Lu Mingfei’s seven Original Sin Gems.
• Lu Mingfei gained enough power to challenge a level 93 Titled Douluo, though the strain on his body and the risk of mental corruption limited how long he could sustain it.
• Huo Linfei praised Lu Mingfei’s Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill while mocking Tang San, drawing the spectators’ attention to Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls.
• Flender asked Tang San whether he could use a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Tang San was unable to answer affirmatively because he had never learned to balance and unite his Martial Souls.

Tang San admitted he could not perform a self-fusion Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Feng Yao and Feng Ying began their own fusion as Lu Mingfei and Seven Sins tried to stop them. The chapter left the fusion nearly complete, with Ye Lingyun's Cloud Bat Shield blocking Lu Mingfei's Sin Spear and enduring their renewed attacks.

• Tang San failed to answer Flender's question and privately blamed Flender and Lu Mingfei for humiliating him.
• Feng Ying and Feng Yao activated Super Beast Armed and summoned Wild Leopard Beast and Tiger Roar Beast to begin a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Feng Yao and Feng Ying's fusion released sword energy that dispelled Lu Mingfei and Seven Sins' malice and original sin.
• Lu Mingfei launched the Sin Spear at the fusion, but Ye Lingyun transformed into Cloud Bat Shield and shattered it with his defense.
• As Feng Yao and Feng Ying neared completion, Lu Mingfei and Seven Sins attacked Cloud Bat Shield to try to interrupt them.

Feng Yao and Feng Ying used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Heavenly Origin Sword, to defeat the Evil God Team after its strongest attacks failed to break Ye Lingyun’s Cloud Bat Shield. The Super Beast Team won the tournament match, while the Golden Team remained eager to learn Super Beast Armed and asked Ao Zhan why they could not use it.

• Feng Yao and Feng Ying formed the Heavenly Origin Sword, whose Sword Intent wore away the Evil God Team’s malice and black flames.
• The Evil God Team unleashed Original Sin Divine Punishment and Lu Mingfei’s attack against the Cloud Bat Shield, but Ye Lingyun’s shield held firm.
• The Heavenly Origin Sword struck the Evil God Team and severely injured every member, securing the Super Beast Team’s victory.
• Tian Yao questioned whether her Golden Skyline could break the Cloud Bat Shield, while Qi Kuang asked what Super Beast Armed was.
• Zhu Tianlin’s report about Lu Mingfei’s Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill shocked Dai Tianfeng, who wondered whether the Star Luo Imperial Family could produce someone able to use the Hell White Tiger alone.
• At the Pope Palace, Ao Zhan told Tian Yao and the Golden Team that they could not use Super Beast Armed, and they demanded to know why.

Ao Zhan explained why people native to the Douluo Continent could not use Super Beast Armed and compared it to Martial Soul Avatar. The Golden Team learned that Gu Ningqiu had long been able to use her Martial Soul Avatar, leaving them stunned by her hidden strength.

• Ao Zhan explained that Super Beast Armed was exclusive to his previous world, while people from the Douluo Continent could only reach the Arming form.
• Ao Zhan compared Super Beast Armed to Martial Soul Avatar and said people could activate their avatars before rank seventy by achieving resonance with their martial souls.
• Ao Zhan revealed that Gu Ningqiu could already use her Martial Soul Avatar, shocking the Golden Team.
• Gu Ningqiu explained that she had retained her cultivation as the Emperor Auspicious Beast and could return to her original Three-Eyed Golden Lion body.
• Tian Yao shook Gu Ningqiu for keeping her strength secret, and Gu Ningqiu said she had stayed quiet to spare the team's pride.

Spirit Hall's draw set Shrek up for a future confrontation with one of the strongest teams, while the fourth-round battle between the Martial Soul Hall Team and the Golden Team began. Gu Ningqiu's golden flames overpowered Yan's fire as the match unfolded.

• Tang Chen, Bo Saixi, and Shrek's allies questioned Shrek's string of easy draws, while Danielle and Lucifer suspected Spirit Hall was setting them up for despair.
• Danielle prepared to abandon Ma Hongjun if necessary, unaware that the Rakshasa God had already given up on him.
• Spirit Hall's elders and worshippers watched Shrek celebrate their draw, expecting their hopes to collapse in the final round.
• The Martial Soul Hall Team and the Golden Team entered their Arming forms and began fighting.
• Dugu Yan's poisonous mist was halted by Qian Yang's Angel Domain, then Yan sent a wave of fire at the Golden Team.
• Gu Ningqiu answered with golden flames that overcame Yan's attack and began pushing it back toward him.

Gu Ningqiu revealed her overwhelming strength against the Shrek team, then transformed into her Three-Eyed Golden Lion form to counter Hu Liena and Xie Yue’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Her transformation drew greedy attention from Tang San, Tang Chen, and Bo Saixi, while Xiao Wu developed a murderous intent toward her.

• Gu Ningqiu blocked Hu Liena and Xie Yue’s attacks unharmed after defeating Yan with her golden flames.
• Gu Ningqiu, Qian Yang, and Tian Yao charged through Dugu Yan’s poisonous mist and struck Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue, while Yang Dingtian and Bai Chenxiang followed up.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Demon Charm, and released a red mist domain that weakened their opponents.
• Gu Ningqiu transformed into her Three-Eyed Golden Lion form, and her aura and golden flames kept Demon Charm’s domain at bay.
• Tang San, Tang Chen, and Bo Saixi watched Gu Ningqiu with greed, while Xiao Wu resolved to kill her and hide her murderous intent.

The Golden Team fought the Martial Soul Hall Team as Gu Ningqiu overwhelmed Demon Charm and the fighters clashed across the arena. Yan was eliminated, and Tian Yao broke Dugu Yan’s Protective Energy, but Ye Lingling healed her before the fight continued.

• Gu Ningqiu transformed into her Three-Eyed Golden Lion form and battered Demon Charm while the other fighters engaged in aerial and weapon battles.
• Yan rushed to help Demon Charm, but Qi Kuang exploited his distraction and knocked him out of the fight.
• Dugu Yan attacked Qi Kuang with poison, but Tian Yao blocked it with a Golden Crocodile image and struck Dugu Yan with energy blades.
• Tian Yao broke Dugu Yan’s Protective Energy and knocked her out of her Arming form.
• Ye Lingling used her Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul to heal Dugu Yan’s injuries.

The Golden Team defeated the Martial Soul Hall Team, and Feng Yao then led the Super Beast Team to crush the White Tiger Team. Shrek also won its match, settling the top three before the championship battle three days later.

• Gu Ningqiu and the Golden Team defeated the Martial Soul Hall Team, while Liu He and Qiangu Bowen won their individual fights.
• Feng Yao challenged the White Tiger Team alone, caught Dai Li's White Tiger Intense Light Wave, and mocked its power.
• Feng Yao knocked down the White Tiger Team with his roar and martial soul suppression, then defeated them with White Tiger Meteor Shower as spectators cheered him as the White Tiger War God.
• Shrek won its match, ending the fourth round and confirming the top three teams ahead of the championship battle three days later.
• Shrek's team celebrated reaching the final three and looked forward to the tournament's generous spirit bone prizes.

Tang San proposed that Shrek forfeit the individual tournament and save its strength for the losers' bracket match, while Ao Zhan decided the Super Beast Team would do the same. Ao Zhan then carried Gu Ningqiu to his room, where they became intimate.

• Tang San urged Shrek to forfeit the individual tournament and focus on the losers' bracket match to secure a place in the top two.
• Flender and the Shrek team accepted Tang San's strategy for the fifth round.
• Ao Zhan told the Super Beast Team and Golden Team that Huo Linfei's team would forfeit the individual tournament and enter the losers' bracket match.
• Tian Yao and Gu Ningqiu protested that they wanted to face Shrek, but Ao Zhan refused to change his decision and told Tian Yao to practice using his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Ao Zhan carried Gu Ningqiu to his room, where they became intimate.

The Soul Master Tournament Grand Finals began before the Pope Palace, where Pope Qian Xunji arrived with Spirit Hall elders and several powerful figures. Tang San was stunned to see Gu Xiaoran, the Golden Dragon King, among them, while Shrek refused to bow to the Pope.

• The Super Beast Team, Golden Team, Shrek Team, and other tournament teams gathered before the Pope Palace for the final match.
• Twelve Spirit Hall elders assembled at the palace entrance and announced Pope Qian Xunji’s arrival.
• Qian Xunji emerged in full ceremonial attire as the crowd and most teams bowed or knelt before him.
• Ao Zhan, Qian Renxue, Gu Yuena, Gu Xiaoran, and Snow Empress followed Qian Xunji out of the palace.
• Tang San recognized Gu Xiaoran as the Golden Dragon King and wondered how she had escaped the Divine Realm’s Forbidden God Land.
• The Imperial Fighting Team and Shrek Team refused to bow, while several other teams offered Qian Xunji a respectful bow.