Chapter Summaries

Su Fan broke through to level fifty and advanced his Aperture cultivation, then arrived in Star Luo City for the Soul Master Tournament. After Director Chi warned him about Shrek Academy’s strength, Su Fan still insisted on making a name for himself in the competition.

• Su Fan resonated thirty-six pairs of Soul Apertures and Body Apertures, breaking through his half-year bottleneck at level forty-nine and reaching level fifty.
• Su Fan developed the next stage of his Aperture cultivation, using spiritual power to nurture his Nine Apertures and sharpen his senses.
• Two months later, Su Fan and the Dou Ling Royal Academy team arrived in Star Luo City for the Soul Master Tournament.
• At the opening ceremony, Su Fan saw Shrek Academy’s team for the first time and felt determined to compete for the championship.
• Director Chi warned Su Fan that Shrek traditionally fielded at least one Soul Emperor, but Su Fan said he still wanted to make a push in the tournament.

Su Fan studied Shrek's strength and resolved to win the championship with Director Chi's cooperation. After the Dou Ling Team advanced from its group in first place, Su Fan used auctioned Soul Tools to imprint their abilities into his Apertures, gaining confidence for the tournament ahead.

• Director Chi warned Su Fan that Shrek had at least two Soul Emperors, but Su Fan insisted that he could fight one and asked for the director's full cooperation.
• Su Fan watched Huo Yuhao use simulated Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and recognized the Ice Empress's aura.
• The Dou Ling Team advanced directly through the elimination round and finished first in its round-robin group.
• At the auction, Su Fan bought a Soul Paralysis Ray and several Milk Bottles.
• Su Fan imprinted the Paralysis Ray's skill into his Apertures and studied the Milk Bottles, finding stored Soul Power that gave him confidence to win the championship.

Su Fan prepared for the tournament’s strongest opponents by refining the Core Arrays in his apertures, then helped the Dou Ling Team advance to the top eight without taking the field. While studying the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade with Electrolux, he learned how its arrays worked and considered copying their designs into his apertures.

• Su Fan armed his Heavenly Circuit Apertures with soul skills and Soul Tool Core Arrays as he prepared to face Shrek and the Sun Moon Royal Team.
• The Dou Ling Team drew Zhengtian Team in an individual elimination match, and Su Fan let Guzhu Jian and the others compete while he cultivated.
• The Dou Ling Team’s five Soul Kings defeated all seven Zhengtian Team members, who then forfeited the team battle, securing Dou Ling a place in the top eight.
• During the tournament break, Su Fan acquired the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade and gained access to three Fixed Soul Guidance Shells for research.
• Electrolux explained the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade’s Core Arrays and their connection to its soul bone, and Su Fan realized he could reproduce the designs inside his apertures.
• Electrolux described the general principle behind the Fixed Soul Guidance Shells, explaining that their layered Core Arrays combined to produce greater power.

Su Fan and Elder Yi analyzed how Fixed Soul Guidance Shells connected their Core Arrays, while Su Fan prepared to use the principles in the tournament. In the quarterfinal against the powerful Di'ao Team, Su Fan revealed his Space Jump soul skill and turned the team's own attacks against them.

• Su Fan asked Elder Yi to study the connections between the formations inside a Fixed Soul Guidance Shell so he could apply them during the tournament.
• The Dou Ling Team faced the Di'ao Team, whose lineup included a Soul Emperor and six Soul Kings, while Su Fan had reached level fifty without seeking another Soul Ring.
• Su Fan's four Soul Rings, including two genuine Ten-Thousand Year Soul Rings, astonished the Di'ao Captain and the tournament audience.
• Su Fan used his first soul skill, Space Jump, to teleport charging Di'ao Team members into the paths of their teammates' attacks.
• Su Fan called to Guzhu Jian, who sent more than a hundred bamboo swords through Su Fan's Apertures toward the battered Di'ao Team.

Su Fan used his Aperture-leap ability to overwhelm the Di'ao Team and advance to the semifinals. After the draw paired his team against the Sun Moon Royal Team, he admitted their chances were uncertain and prepared to rely on his teammates' full cooperation.

• Wang Dong explained that absorbing Soul Rings beyond one's level strengthened Su Fan's Martial Soul, while Wang Yan noted the extraordinary range and control of his Apertures.
• Su Fan and Guzhu Jian attacked the Di'ao Team for two and a half minutes, using Apertures to redirect opponents and sword strikes until Guzhu Jian ran out of Soul Power and the team could no longer fight.
• Su Fan's team advanced to the semifinals, and two days later the final four were set as the Shrek Team, the Sun Moon Royal Team, the Star Luo Team, and the Dou Ling Team.
• The draw matched the Dou Ling Team against the Sun Moon Royal Team and the Star Luo Team against the Shrek Team, leaving Su Fan's teammates worried about facing the powerful Soul Engineers.
• Su Fan told Director Chi that he had a fifty-fifty chance and urged his six teammates to cooperate with him fully.

Su Fan secured the Body Sect’s support and agreed to join after the tournament, while asking for help with Soul Hunting and a chance to study Soul Tools at Mingde Hall. In the semifinal against the Sun Moon Royal Team, their anti-Space Jump field blocked his direct spatial tactics, and the battle began with both teams launching their planned attacks.

• Su Fan recognized a Body Sect elder, agreed to join the sect after the tournament, and asked for support in hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and studying at Mingde Hall.
• The elder said Du Busi was already on his way to Star Luo City and agreed to bring Su Fan’s requests to the Sect Master.
• Su Fan and the Dou Ling Team faced the Sun Moon Royal Team in the semifinal, where Xiao Hongchen’s team activated devices that blocked spatial interference across their side of the arena.
• Su Fan sent Guzhu Jian’s bamboo swords through Apertures to attack the Sun Moon Royal Team from above as Ma Rulong and several teammates charged forward.
• Xiao Hongchen and his teammates formed artillery platforms and released one hundred and eight Soul Cannons.

Su Fan unleashed his fourth soul skill, Evil Spirit Mirror Annihilation, against the Sun Moon Royal Team after the Dou Ling Team began losing the battle of attrition. He used the mirror’s shattering force to destroy the opposing team’s Milk Bottles, leaving the match poised to continue without their recovery tools.

• Xiao Hongchen’s Soul Cannons overwhelmed Guzhu Jian’s bamboo swords, while Qian Yuan and Su Fan’s teleportation tactics helped the Dou Ling Team hold off Ma Rulong and the others.
• Guzhu Jian ran low on Soul Power, and the Dou Ling Team began using Milk Bottles as the Sun Moon Royal Team brought out their own.
• Su Fan activated his fourth soul skill, Evil Spirit Mirror Annihilation, and spread its solidifying mirror surface across the Sun Moon Royal Team’s side of the arena.
• Su Fan shattered the mirror and destroyed the Milk Bottles held by Xiao Hongchen and the other Sun Moon Royal Team members, then broke their replacement bottles as well.

Su Fan used his spatial Soul Skills to turn Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill against Ma Rulong, securing the Dou Ling Team’s victory in the 7v7 battle. The semifinal continued, and Elder Ma considered whether the Sun Moon Royal Team could recover in the next match.

• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, nearly out of Soul Power, prepared to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill while Ma Rulong considered using the Sword of Judgment.
• Su Fan trapped Ma Rulong inside Heaven Sealing Earth Locking and activated Evil Spirit Mirror Annihilation as Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen unleashed Red Dust Attachment.
• Ma Rulong used the Sword of Judgment to protect himself, but the shattering mirror and the siblings’ attack left him collapsed and the siblings exhausted.
• The Dou Ling Team defeated the Sun Moon Royal Team in the 7v7 battle, securing second place in the tournament.
• Elder Ma considered the upcoming 2-2-3 Team Battle and weighed whether Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen could still compete.

The Dou Ling Team defeated the Sun Moon Royal Team in the team battle, but Su Fan’s powerful abilities were now exposed. He planned to use the 2-2-3 format’s match order to avoid Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and the chapter left the outcome of the opening two-on-two uncertain.

• Elder Ma refused to give up after the Sun Moon Royal Team lost the team battle, while Wang Yan and Huo Yuhao reflected on Su Fan’s dangerous trump cards.
• Su Fan recovered his Soul Power and told Director Chi that the Dou Ling Team could still win by exploiting Ma Rulong’s inability to compete and avoiding Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.
• Su Fan assigned Guzhu Jian and Qian Yuan to the first two-on-two match, planning to use their lineup to keep Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen out of the way.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen stayed off the arena when Guzhu Jian and Qian Yuan appeared, but Elder Ma judged that another Sun Moon Royal Team pairing could defeat them.

Su Fan led the Dou Ling Team past the Sun Moon Royal Team by revealing that he had copied Meng Hongchen’s Ice Toad Poison, securing a place in the finals against Shrek. He prepared a new trump card before the final, whose match order was determined by drawing lots.

• Guzhu Jian and Qian Yuan defeated the Sun Moon Royal Team’s substitute and agility-attack Soul Engineer, while the Dou Ling Team surrendered the second two-versus-two match.
• In the three-versus-three match, Su Fan used Ice Toad Poison copied from Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Feng concealed it with the Mystery Pearl, overwhelming the Sun Moon Royal Team.
• Xuan Zi identified Su Fan’s ability as Imprint and explained its connection to the Silver Hero Beast, while the Sun Moon Royal Team realized it had lost the semifinal.
• The Shrek Team and Dou Ling Team advanced to the finals, and Su Fan told Guzhu Jian and the others to focus on their condition while he handled the match.
• Su Fan continued constructing a line in his body based on the Fixed Soul Guidance Shell’s Core Arrays, hoping to turn the power of his Heavenly Circuit Apertures into a trump card.
• Su Fan and Huo Yuhao drew lots at the finals venue to determine the order of the individual elimination match, 2-2-3 Team Battle, and team battle.

The Shrek Team and Dou Ling Team began their final, with Ma Xiaotao confident that Shrek’s strength and Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection Sharing would secure victory. Su Fan unleashed the power of his Aperture-Opening Dao, startling Shrek and forcing Ma Xiaotao to take him seriously as the battle began.

• The host introduced Shrek and Dou Ling as the finalists while the defeated Sun Moon Royal Team watched from the preparation area, where Xiao Hongchen blamed bad luck for their loss.
• Ma Xiaotao told Su Fan and his teammates to surrender, but Su Fan insisted that neither side could know the winner before fighting.
• At the referee’s command, both teams released their soul rings, and Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng charged toward Su Fan’s team.
• Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection revealed thirty-six points of intense Soul Power within Su Fan, and Tian Meng warned that the energy could reach Soul Saint-level might.
• Su Fan announced that he had opened the Aperture-Opening Dao and created the path of Martial Dao, then released the power gathered in his apertures.
• After Huo Yuhao relayed Tian Meng’s warning, Ma Xiaotao began taking Su Fan seriously and activated three of her soul rings.

Su Fan unleashed an overwhelming burst of power with his four soul skills, injuring Ma Xiaotao and breaking through Dai Yueheng’s defense as he continued firing punches across the arena. His display stunned the spectators, while Du Busi learned that Su Fan had Imprinted the muscular man’s eighth soul skill, Kirin Arm.

• Su Fan linked and drove the power of thirty-six Apertures, then struck Ma Xiaotao’s full-power attack with a devastating fist that sent her flying and left her severely injured.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that Su Fan’s first strike had surpassed Ma Xiaotao’s attack, while Ma Xiaotao struggled to her feet despite her wounds.
• Dai Yueheng used four soul skills to counter Su Fan’s next punch, but Evil Spirit Mirror Annihilation shattered both the space along its path and Dai Yueheng’s attack.
• Su Fan continued firing powerful punches, revealing that his Apertures could sustain repeated bursts and leaving Xiao Hongchen and Yan Shaozhe astonished.
• Du Busi asked the muscular man which soul skill Su Fan had Imprinted, and the man confirmed it was his eighth soul skill, Kirin Arm.

Su Fan used his fist-light to suppress the Shrek team, then turned the explosions’ effects on space into a stronger barrier with his fourth Soul Skill. As he charged Ma Xiaotao, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s Golden Road was reflected back at them.

• Su Fan’s fist-light overwhelmed Dai Yueheng and pinned down the Shrek members, while Ma Xiaotao remained outside the barrage.
• Chi Hengyu urged his teammates to act, and Guzhu Jian and the others unleashed their Soul Skills while Wang Yan predicted Su Fan would soon exhaust his Soul Power.
• Su Fan revealed that his fist-light explosions had prepared the surrounding space, then used his fourth Soul Skill, Evil Spirit Mirror Annihilation, to form a powerful Space Barrier.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the danger and Wang Dong joined him to unleash Splendor in Decay, Golden Road.
• The Space Barrier reflected Golden Road back at Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong as Su Fan charged toward Ma Xiaotao.

Su Fan used his spatial techniques to reflect Huo Yuhao’s Golden Road onto Dai Yueheng, then defeated Ma Xiaotao despite injuring himself. After healing his meridians, he eliminated Xixi and joined his teammates in overwhelming the remaining Shrek fighters.

• Huo Yuhao’s reflected Golden Road stripped Dai Yueheng of his Martial Soul and dissolved his Soul Power.
• Ma Xiaotao charged Su Fan again, but his powerful fist-light badly wounded her and left her unable to continue.
• Su Fan used Holy Healing Art to repair his meridians and Apertures after the strain of his attacks.
• Su Fan opened the Space Barrier and struck Xixi with a fist-light, eliminating her.
• Guzhu Jian and the others surrounded Ling Luochen, Chen Zifeng, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong, suppressing them six against four.
• Su Fan looked toward Dai Yueheng as the Shrek Team’s remaining members faced his teammates.

Su Fan defeated Shrek Team in the team battle by overpowering Dai Yueheng, drawing attention to his Aperture Method and its role in his strength. After recovering, he was asked by Director Chi how the method worked, then asked the referee whether conceding the next match would allow the individual elimination matches to begin immediately.

• Dai Yueheng tried to delay Su Fan with his White Tiger skills, but Su Fan rapidly replenished his Soul Power with a Milk Bottle and knocked him out of the arena.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong realized their team had no chance and conceded the team battle to preserve their strength for later matches.
• The audience and Shrek's staff focused on Su Fan's Apertures, while Yan Shaozhe explained that Su Fan had created them with Soul Power and used them to claim a Body Martial Soul.
• During the intermission, Su Fan recovered with Milk Bottles and told Director Chi that the Aperture Method let his Apertures unleash his full strength.
• At the start of the 2-2-3 Team Battle, Su Fan asked the referee whether conceding would let the individual elimination matches begin immediately.

After the Dou Ling Team conceded the 2-2-3 Team Battle, Su Fan faced Shrek in the individual elimination matches. He defeated Shrek’s fighters one by one, leaving only the still-injured Ma Xiaotao to take the stage.

• Xu Jiawei accepted Su Fan’s proposal to begin the individual elimination matches, and the Dou Ling Team conceded the team battle.
• Wang Yan planned for Chen Zifeng and Ling Luochen to delay Su Fan until Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng recovered, but Yan Shaozhe urged the team to fight without pressure.
• Bei Bei awakened his bloodline and asked Su Fan about the Aperture Method; Su Fan promised to explain it after the tournament, then knocked Bei Bei out with two punches.
• Xu Sanshi used Black Tortoise Displacement, but Su Fan escaped through an Aperture and defeated him; Su Fan then eliminated Xixi, Ling Luochen, and Chen Zifeng.
• Dai Yueheng delayed Su Fan for ten minutes before being defeated, and the injured Ma Xiaotao stepped onto the stage unwillingly.

Su Fan faced Ma Xiaotao in the final collision and used his Heavenly Circuit Apertures to force back her Phoenix Meteor Shower. Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire erupted, and Su Fan met her black phoenix attack with his Kirin Arm as their attacks collided.

• Ma Xiaotao entered the arena and unleashed her Phoenix Meteor Shower against Su Fan.
• Su Fan linked his inner and outer Apertures, using Soul Power and Core Arrays to drive Ma Xiaotao’s meteors back into the sky.
• Xiao Hongchen recognized that Su Fan’s linked Apertures replicated the effects of a Fixed Soul Guidance Shell.
• Ma Xiaotao stopped suppressing her Evil Fire, turned her flames black, and launched Phoenix Cloud-Piercing Strike.
• Su Fan activated Ultimate Sublimation and charged upward with his Kirin Arm as Ma Xiaotao’s black phoenix descended.

Su Fan defeated Ma Xiaotao in the tournament final, and Shrek’s leaders blamed him when her Evil Fire corruption worsened. Du Busi protected Su Fan, and the Dou Ling Team was declared champion before receiving three Soul Bones.

• The energy clash ended with Su Fan standing and Ma Xiaotao falling from the sky, while Yan Shaozhe broke the arena barrier and rushed to her side.
• Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi accused Su Fan, but Su Fan condemned Shrek for Ma Xiaotao’s corruption and called her a potential Evil Soul Master.
• Du Busi arrived and shielded Su Fan, declaring that Su Fan was a disciple of the Body Sect; Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe then took Ma Xiaotao away from the city.
• Xu Jiawei announced the Dou Ling Team as tournament champions, and Director Chi handed Su Fan the team’s three Soul Bones.

After the tournament, Su Fan graduated from Dou Ling Royal Academy and joined the Body Sect, which promised to help him hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring in the Sun Moon Empire. Before that hunt, Du Busi revealed the sect planned to intercept the Sun Moon Royal Team for a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo, leaving Su Fan alarmed at the prospect of absorbing its Soul Ring.

• Director Chi agreed to handle Su Fan's graduation after learning he had joined the Body Sect.
• Du Busi told Su Fan he could obtain a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, but they would travel to the Sun Moon Empire after a short delay.
• Du Busi proposed hunting a suitable Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in the Jingyang Mountain Range rather than an Evil Eye Tyrant.
• After leaving Star Luo City, Su Fan learned the Body Sect first planned to intercept the Sun Moon Royal Team and seize its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.
• Du Busi suggested Su Fan might absorb the embryo's Soul Ring if its seal was broken, but Su Fan knew he could not withstand Snow Empress's Soul Ring.

After the Sun Moon Royal Team escaped the Body Sect’s ambush, Du Busi took Su Fan to the Jingyang Mountain Range to search for a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. They found the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor, who summoned his pack and warned them to leave, while preparing to use an unknown ability.

• The Sun Moon Royal Team evaded the Body Sect’s pursuit and continued toward Ming Capital with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.
• Du Busi ended the chase, and Su Fan learned that the team had used Soul Tools to mislead pursuers and an eighth-grade Fixed Soul Guidance Shell to repel them.
• Du Busi brought Su Fan to the Jingyang Mountain Range, where they searched for more than half a month before finding a Mithril-rich valley inhabited by Silver Moon and Gold Wolves.
• After three days of searching Silver Moon Valley, Du Busi and his group located the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor.
• The Silver Moon Wolf Emperor surrounded Du Busi’s group with more than a hundred Gold Wolves and warned them to leave, while preparing a powerful killing move.