Chapter Summaries

Emperor Xue Ye and Salas competed to influence the tournament’s advancing teams by offering them noble titles and cultivation resources. Xue Ye then announced further rewards for the Promotion Tournament, though Yun Feng had little interest in the promised Spirit Beasts.

• Yun Feng accepted the team’s prize money and suggested taking the others shopping with Zhu Zhuqing and Huo Wu.
• Emperor Xue Ye congratulated the five teams and offered their main and deputy captains viscount titles and the other competitors baron titles, with fiefs assigned after graduation.
• Salas objected to the titles and proposed replacing them with cultivation resources, prompting Xue Ye to promise higher noble ranks and imperial backing to any team that won the tournament.
• Salas fell silent as the students considered the benefits and sensed tension between him and Xue Ye, while Ning Fengzhi watched without commenting.
• Xue Ye announced that the Promotion Tournament’s three top individual performers could choose Spirit Beasts under thirty thousand years as rewards, but Yun Feng was unimpressed.

Emperor Xue Ye tried to draw the Soul Ancestors toward the Heaven Dou Empire with an offer of Spirit Beast hunts, while Yun Feng received Bibi Dong’s orders and decided to visit her. Meanwhile, Tang San lost confidence in Blue Silver Grass and headed to the Star Dou Forest to strengthen his Clear Sky Hammer, unaware that he had missed a letter from Yu Xiaogang.

• Emperor Xue Ye offered to fund Spirit Beast hunts for the Soul Ancestors and urged them to choose the Heaven Dou Empire over Spirit Hall.
• Salas delivered Bibi Dong’s letter to Yun Feng, who grew angry at her demands and decided to go see her in person.
• Xiao Wu confronted Yun Feng for going to dangerous places alone, and he reassured her and the other women before spending the day with them.
• Tang San concluded that Blue Silver Grass was too weak and recalled Tang Hao’s advice to use the Clear Sky Hammer to protect it.
• Tang San gathered his hidden weapons and rushed to the Star Dou Forest to hunt Spirit Beasts, unaware that he had missed Yu Xiaogang’s letter.

Dugu Bo visited Yun Feng at Blue Tyrant Academy and warned that Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation made the tournament difficult to win. After learning Yun Feng could contend with Gu Rong, Dugu Bo explained that Spirit Hall’s elite had powerful reasons to claim the championship reward.

• Dugu Bo told Yun Feng that an old rival had beaten him with reinforcements, despite Dugu Bo’s improved strength from the Immortal Herb.
• Dugu Bo warned Xiao Wu and the others that Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation were exceptionally talented and would compete in the tournament.
• Zhu Zhuqing worried that Spirit Hall would win, but Yun Feng reassured her by reminding her of his strength.
• The women told Dugu Bo that Yun Feng could trade blows with Gu Rong, astonishing him despite Yun Feng being only a Spirit King.
• Dugu Bo revealed that Spirit Hall had made the items originally meant for its Golden Generation the tournament’s championship reward.

Dugu Bo told Yun Feng’s group that Spirit Hall’s tournament team included three members above level fifty, while Salas investigated Tang San’s records and sent a secret letter to Bibi Dong. During the month before the Promotion Tournament, Yun Feng and the women trained and enjoyed themselves; Tang San returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy the day before the tournament, reeking but confident.

• Dugu Bo revealed that Spirit Hall offered three Spirit Bones as the championship prize and described its Golden Generation as three members at levels fifty-one and fifty-two, with the rest of the team at least level forty-five.
• Salas examined Tang San’s Spirit Hall records, found a secret file from fourteen years earlier, and wrote a top-secret letter to Bibi Dong about his discovery.
• Yun Feng spent the month balancing training with outings in Heaven Dou City as Xue Ke, Huo Wu, and the Skywater Academy girls visited him and his group.
• Shui Bing’er asked Yun Feng to arrange friendly matches between Skywater Academy and Blue Tyrant Academy, and he agreed after Liu Erlong glared at him.
• Tang San returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy one day before the Promotion Tournament, smelling foul but looking confident.

Tang San returned to the Promotion Tournament as a level fifty-six Spirit King with five ten-thousand-year rings, while Yun Feng and Blue Tyrant Academy arrived at the Royal Hunting Park. The team settled into its military camp lodgings, where Yun Feng set up his oversized bed.

• Tang San returned from the Star Dou Forest with five ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings and felt awe at Yun Feng’s strength.
• The fifteen Heaven Dou Empire teams gathered at the Royal Hunting Park for the Promotion Tournament, which barred spectators and placed each academy in separate quarters.
• Roxon checked Blue Tyrant Academy’s credentials and escorted Liu Erlong, Yun Feng, and the team into the military camp.
• Yun Feng reflected on the Heaven Dou Empire’s weaknesses and recognized that staging the tournament in the Royal Knights’ camp could motivate the soldiers.
• Blue Tyrant Academy received five barracks, and Yun Feng took the largest one and set down his custom-made oversized bed.

Yun Feng and Ning Rongrong reunited with Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe before the Promotion Tournament, where Ning Fengzhi announced Rongrong would become the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s heir. The tournament then began at the Royal Knights’ drill ground, with all fifteen teams gathered to watch the opening matches.

• Roxon explained the Promotion Tournament schedule and arrangements to Liu Erlong.
• Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe visited Yun Feng, and Ning Rongrong joined them outside the barracks.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong that the Sect elders had agreed to name her the next Sect Master after she graduated from Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Ning Rongrong teased Ning Fengzhi about his sons, and he left with Xue Qinghe, who gave Yun Feng a meaningful look.
• Xiao Wu said Xue Qinghe seemed strange, while Ning Rongrong confirmed that he was Ning Fengzhi’s disciple.
• The fifteen teams gathered at the Royal Knights’ drill ground as the Promotion Tournament prepared to begin.

Blue Tyrant Academy prepared for the Promotion Tournament, where Yun Feng assigned Huang Yuan, Jing Ling, Tang San, and Xiao Wu to compete. Blazing Fire Academy crushed Fabia Academy, with Huo Wushuang defeating three opponents and Huo Wu defeating four, while Yun Feng remarked that Huo Wushuang was not durable enough.

• Liu Erlong set Blue Tyrant Academy's opening lineup and told the competitors to rotate as needed.
• Xue Ye announced the start of the Promotion Tournament, and Blazing Fire Academy faced Fabia Academy in the first match.
• Huo Wushuang defeated three opponents before his depleted Soul Power led to his defeat, and Yun Feng called him not durable enough.
• Huo Wu defeated four opponents and helped Blazing Fire Academy decisively defeat Fabia Academy.
• Huo Wu returned exhausted but delighted, looking at Yun Feng with open affection, and he smiled in response.

Yun Feng watched Meng Yiran help Exotic Beast Academy narrowly win its match, then saw Blue Tyrant Academy face Bala Academy. Huang Yuan won the opening duel before Yun Feng called him back, and Jing Ling entered the arena to face a higher-level opponent with a Sun Flower Martial Soul.

• Meng Yiran defeated four opponents for Exotic Beast Academy, which eventually won its match by a narrow margin.
• Huang Yuan fought Bala Academy’s first contestant and won after several hundred exchanges.
• When Huang Yuan called out “Next!” Bala Academy’s students rushed toward him, but the referee stopped them and Yun Feng ordered Huang Yuan to withdraw.
• Jing Ling took the field against Bala Academy’s second contestant, a Soul Ancestor whose Sun Flower Martial Soul used poison and physical attacks.

Jing Ling and a Bala Academy fighter were both incapacitated in a poison-filled match, and Xiao Wu secured the round for her team. Blue Tyrant Academy finished the Promotion Tournament undefeated, and the teams prepared to travel to Spirit City for the Grand Finals.

• Jing Ling charged through the poison mist, but Bala Academy’s fighter struck him with poisoned seeds before Jing Ling’s bone spikes pierced the man and incapacitated them both.
• Xiao Wu defeated five Bala Academy fighters in succession, winning the match for her team.
• Xue Ye rewarded the competing academies after the Heaven Dou Empire’s five teams swept their matches.
• Blue Tyrant Academy won all fourteen of its Promotion Tournament matches, with Meng Yiran losing to Yun Feng.
• Xue Ye appointed Crown Prince Xue Qinghe as the empire’s envoy and announced that the fifteen teams would travel to Spirit City for the Grand Finals.
• Spirit Hall moved the Grand Finals to Spirit City, where Pope Hall stood, and prepared a venue for the elimination tournament.

The academies’ convoy traveled toward Spirit City while Bibi Dong continued tormenting Yu Xiaogang and threatened to make him watch his dreams die. As the group took a mountain shortcut, a sinister aura prompted the Royal Knights to raise the alarm.

• More than a thousand competitors set out for Spirit City, and Yun Feng traveled with women from several academies in his carriage.
• Bibi Dong taunted the imprisoned Yu Xiaogang, then threatened to make him watch Tang San and his other dreams fail.
• After Bibi Dong left, a mysterious voice offered Yu Xiaogang help in exchange for something.
• Yun Feng praised the Royal Knights’ discipline and said every soldier who defended their country was great.
• A cold, sinister aura came from the hills beside the convoy’s shortcut, and the Royal Knights’ captain ordered everyone to stay alert.

The Royal Knights and the Spirit Masters from fourteen academies were ambushed by a force of roughly fifteen hundred coordinated bandits, including more than thirty Spirit Masters above level fifty. Tang San found himself overwhelmed by attackers and used his Godly Zhuge Crossbow to inflict heavy casualties.

• Rocks rolled down both hills, and the Royal Knights formed a defensive line while the Spirit Masters advanced through the pass.
• Thousands of black-clad attackers charged down the hills and surrounded the fourteen academies, deliberately avoiding Yun Feng's carriage.
• The bandits coordinated their attacks in groups and used their high-level Spirit Masters to counter the academies' Spirit Skills.
• Tang San realized the attackers were concentrating on him, and his Blue Silver Grass could not hold them back.
• Tang San brought out the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and fired over a hundred bolts, causing heavy casualties among the attackers.

Tang San fought off masked attackers with Hidden Weapons before revealing his Clear Sky Hammer, but three powerful enemies forced him to flee toward Yun Feng. As the battle spread, Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Snake Matriarch Chao Tianxiang joined the defense, and the attackers hesitated to face them together.

• Tang San used the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and Hidden Weapons to kill many attackers, then brought out his Clear Sky Hammer and revealed five ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings.
• A Spirit Douluo and two Spirit Saints blocked Tang San's hammer strike, so he fled to Yun Feng's carriage and taunted them from there.
• Yun Feng refused to intervene and told Tang San to keep training, forcing Tang San to flee again when the three attackers resumed their pursuit.
• Flender and Meng Shenji joined forces to hold off two powerful attackers while other Spirit Masters continued after Tang San.
• Dragon Duke Meng Shu confronted the attackers, and Snake Matriarch Chao Tianxiang backed him as the Spirit Saint in the air weighed the danger of facing their combined attack.

A white-clad masked man arrived to lead the attack on the Heaven Dou Royal Academy group, forcing Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang to retreat while Yun Feng protected Meng Yiran and rescued Ye Lingling. As Tang San neared defeat, Tang Hao finally intervened, prompting the white-clad man to summon Old Ghost.

• The white-clad masked man appeared, overwhelmed Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang with his presence, and drove them to leave with Meng Yiran.
• Meng Yiran urged Yun Feng to flee with her, but he told her to stay beside him, and the white-clad man promised her safety.
• The black-clad assassins attacked the students and teachers indiscriminately, and Yun Feng rescued Ye Lingling at Dugu Yan's request.
• Tang San was badly wounded and nearly out of Soul Power while Tang Hao watched, conflicted over whether to let him die.
• Tang Hao descended and used his hammer to block the attacks on Tang San, and the white-clad man called out to Old Ghost about a big job.

Tang Hao drove away the two Spirit Hall Title Douluo, ending the attack on the convoy, while Tang San and Emperor Xue Ye both collapsed from their injuries and anger. Xue Qinghe restored order, and the convoy continued onward as Flender wondered why the Spirit Hall had sent such powerful forces.

• The white-clad Title Douluo and the shadow withdrew after Tang Hao confronted them, and Tang San collapsed unconscious from his wounds.
• Ye Lingling began healing the injured as Emperor Xue Ye arrived with Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Xue Qinghe.
• Emperor Xue Ye spat blood and fainted from anger, and Ning Fengzhi confirmed that he was not seriously harmed.
• Xue Qinghe organized the surviving Royal Knights and directed the convoy to continue along its original route.
• Flender, badly injured in the battle, suspected that the Spirit Hall had an unusual reason for sending two Title Douluo.

Yun Feng explained why Spirit Hall’s attack on Tang San failed and why the witnesses stayed silent, while Bibi Dong ended the pursuit after hearing Yue Guan and Gui Mei’s report. Bibi Dong then visited the imprisoned Yu Xiaogang and mocked him for believing she would wait for him.

• Inside the carriage, Yun Feng told Zhu Zhuqing and the others that Tang Hao had protected Tang San and explained that the witnesses had concealed Spirit Hall’s involvement to avoid being silenced.
• Yun Feng identified Yue Guan and Gui Mei as Spirit Hall’s Title Douluo and said Tang San’s team would probably be safe in Spirit City.
• Yue Guan recounted the failed mission to Bibi Dong, who ordered him and Gui Mei to let the matter end.
• Bibi Dong went to the Underground Palace, where Yu Xiaogang begged her to kill him, and taunted him about expecting her to wait for him.

Bibi Dong taunted Yu Xiaogang with news of Tang San’s injuries and changed Martial Souls, while Yun Feng revealed his role in Shrek’s downfall. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang vowing to destroy Spirit Hall if Tang San was harmed.

• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang that an assassination force had failed to kill Tang San but had seriously injured him, and claimed Tang San had become a five-ring Spirit King with five ten-thousand-year rings on his hammer Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that Bibi Dong explain how Tang San’s Twin Martial Soul conflict had been resolved, but she refused.
• Yun Feng arrived, and when Yu Xiaogang begged him to free him, Yun Feng slapped him and revealed he had joined Spirit Hall.
• Yun Feng admitted that he had orchestrated the Star Dou Forest attack, dealt with Yu Xiaogang’s brothers, and driven a wedge between Yu Xiaogang and Flender.
• Yu Xiaogang vowed to destroy Spirit Hall if anything happened to Tang San, whom he regarded as a son.

Bibi Dong rejected Yu Xiaogang after he betrayed her ideals, while Yun Feng comforted her and Yu Xiaogang accepted a sinister power that began the Nine Trials. Bibi Dong was drawn toward the Third Rakshasa Trial as the Heaven Dou teams arrived in Spirit City under Xue Qinghe’s escort.

• Bibi Dong condemned Yu Xiaogang for abandoning and betraying her, and Yun Feng took her hand and led her out of the Underground Palace.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted the eerie voice’s power, recovered from his wounds, reached Soul Power level thirty, and began the Nine Trials.
• Yun Feng briefly comforted Bibi Dong before leaving, and a malicious voice influenced her to begin the Third Trial.
• Xue Qinghe arranged an escort of Iron Armor Army soldiers and summoned powerful Spirit Masters as the Heaven Dou teams continued toward Spirit City.
• Xue Qinghe led fifteen Spirit Master teams into Spirit City after leaving the Iron Armor Army and Royal Knights outside, and a Cardinal arranged lodging for the group.

Yun Feng and the Blue Tyrant Academy team explored Spirit City, learned about Douluo Hall, and spent three days preparing for the Grand Finals. As the competition began to approach, Liu Erlong reviewed the elimination format and identified Spirit Hall Academy as their greatest threat.

• Yun Feng and the women toured Spirit City, where Ning Fengzhi explained that Douluo Hall was the sacred resting place of deceased Title Douluos.
• Yun Feng observed Spirit City's safety and prosperity, while the academies from the two empires were housed in separate areas.
• Blue Tyrant Academy rested and cultivated for three days, and Yun Feng visited Bibi Dong and crippled Yu Xiaogang again after noticing hope in his eyes.
• Yun Feng used his Fifth Spirit Ability to cleanse Yu Xiaogang's mind, while Liu Erlong gathered information about rival teams and the competition rules.
• Liu Erlong explained the five-round Grand Finals format, including Blue Tyrant Academy's seeded status, its byes, and the final three-team championship matches.

Yun Feng and his team watched the Grand Finals begin in Spirit City, where Spirit Hall staged the tournament with little ceremony. Heaven Dou Royal Academy then discovered that Godwind Academy’s members had joined Blazing Fire Academy through a loophole, leaving the teams to face off under rules Spirit Hall refused to change.

• Yun Feng told his team that they only needed to keep winning to claim the championship.
• Spirit Hall opened the Grand Finals at a reinforced arena near Pope Hall, and the first two matches ended with quick victories for the stronger teams.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Yun Feng why the Grand Finals seemed quieter than the Preliminary Tournament, and he explained that Spirit Hall was likely saving the spectacle for the final matches.
• Blazing Fire Academy entered its match against Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Feng Xiaotian and three other Godwind Academy students in its lineup.
• Meng Shenji explained that the academies had exploited a loophole allowing registered students to change teams, and Spirit Hall refused to intervene.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy took the arena against the strengthened Blazing Fire Academy, and the referee began the match.

Zhu Zhuqing revealed how her family’s succession rules had made her and her sister enemies, then faced her family’s team in the tournament. The chapter ended as she accused Zhu Zhuyun of ordering the attack that killed Uncle Fu.

• Blazing Fire Academy defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and the first two tournament rounds concluded.
• The draw matched Blue Tyrant Academy against Star Luo Royal Advanced Spirit Master Academy and Martial Soul Hall Advanced Spirit Master Academy against a Star Luo team.
• Zhu Zhuqing told her companions about her family’s deadly succession contest and her escape, while Miaomiao questioned whether power was worth the cost.
• Yun Feng led Blue Tyrant Academy onto the stage, where Zhu Zhuqing confronted Zhu Zhuyun and the man leading the Star Luo team.
• Zhu Zhuqing rejected Zhu Zhuyun as her sister and accused her of sending people after her and killing Uncle Fu.