Chapter Summaries

The Martial Soul Hall Second Team defeated the Heaven Dou Second Team, with Tang San brutally beaten and Hu Liena knocked unconscious. Flender accused the victors of breaking the rules, but Xue Ye stopped Salas from intervening and left the dispute to the academy.

• Bai Chenxiang, Yang Pozhu, and Niu Meng beat and humiliated Tang San while Ning Fengzhi reaffirmed his support for Spirit Hall.
• Dugu Yan used her poison to suppress Hu Liena, and the Martial Soul Hall Second Team knocked her unconscious.
• Hu Liena regretted not returning to Spirit Hall after seeing Ning Rongrong's evolved Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and rapid cultivation progress.
• Flender emerged and demanded that the referee disqualify the Martial Soul Hall Second Team over Dai Mubai's injuries.
• Xue Ye told Salas not to interfere and said the academy should handle the complaint itself.

Flender challenged the Spirit Hall Second Team’s victory, but Xie Yue countered his claims and the referee awarded the match to Spirit Hall. After the preliminary rounds ended, the top six teams received awards and qualification certificates, while the Spirit Hall Second Team returned to Spirit Hall and Ning Rongrong stayed in Heaven Dou City.

• Flender accused the Spirit Hall Second Team of breaking the rules, but Xie Yue argued that Tang San’s powerful hammer technique could have been just as dangerous, and the referee declared Spirit Hall the winner.
• Salas publicly insulted Flender over his feelings for Liu Erlong, prompting spectators to recognize and curse Flender.
• The Spirit Hall Second Team defeated Skywater Academy in two minutes, concluding the Heaven Dou City preliminary rounds.
• Xue Ye awarded the top six teams qualification certificates and granted their captains and vice-captains the title of Viscount, with the other participants receiving the title of Baron.
• The Spirit Hall Second Team returned to Spirit Hall instead of competing in the Promotion Tournament, while Ning Rongrong remained in Heaven Dou City at Ning Fengzhi’s request.

During the Elite Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition’s Promotion Tournament, Spirit Hall announced that the champion would receive a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast. Xiao Wu feared the beast was her mother, Ah Rou, while Tang San resolved that he would not kill a transformed Soul Beast, and the tournament began.

• Tang San advanced to rank forty-one after absorbing a 7,000-year Earth Cave Demon Spider, while Xiao Wu held back her cultivation as she waited for Yu Tianheng to break through.
• The sixteen teams gathered at the Royal Hunting Ground for the Promotion Tournament, and Xue Ye criticized Martial Soul Hall Second Team for withdrawing early to go to Spirit City.
• Salas announced that Pope Qian Xunji had offered a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast as the competition’s champion’s reward.
• Xiao Wu trembled and feared that the transformed Soul Beast was her mother, Ah Rou, while Tang San sensed her distress and decided he could not kill a transformed Soul Beast.
• Salas declared that only the champion would receive the reward, then drew lots and began the Promotion Tournament.

Tang Hao challenged Bo Saixi as part of his Top-tier Seventh Trial, hoping to endure against the Sea God Island High Priestess and claim her position. Bo Saixi defeated him with the power of the sea and resolved to delay his completion of the trial.

• Tang Hao reached Rank 97 and cleared the earlier Sea God trials by defeating the Seven Holy Pillar Douluos and hunting Evil Spirit Orcas with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao unleashed his Clear Sky Avatar against Bo Saixi, whose Sea God Martial Soul met his hammer in a clash that neither initially yielded.
• Bo Saixi knocked Tang Hao's hammer aside and turned the surrounding waves back toward him.
• The waves engulfed Tang Hao, destroyed his Clear Sky Avatar, and knocked him unconscious.
• Bo Saixi caught Tang Hao with her Soul Power and decided to delay his trial's completion until Qian Xunfeng underwent the Sea God assessment.

Ning Fengzhi introduced Tang San to Xue Haicang, Heaven Dou's crown prince, whose cool attitude made Tang San suspect that Qian Renxue had replaced him. Ning Fengzhi confirmed that the substitution was possible, and Tang San left believing Spirit Hall's infiltration plan was proceeding.

• Tang San reasoned that Tang Hao could qualify to succeed Bo Saixi as Sea God's High Priestess, though Bo Saixi would treat him as a tool rather than spare him.
• Ning Fengzhi met Xue Haicang at the Grand Drill Ground and introduced him to Tang San.
• Xue Haicang reacted coldly after learning Tang San was Tang Hao's son and left after asking where Ning Rongrong was.
• Tang San asked whether Qian Renxue had replaced Xue Haicang, and Ning Fengzhi said it was possible while explaining the imperial family's interest in the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San concluded that Qian Renxue had replaced Xue Haicang and believed Spirit Hall's plan was progressing.

Tang San convinced Tang Xiao to let him add Soul Rings to his Clear Sky Hammer, explaining that he planned to secure Ah Rou’s sacrifice and later revive her as a god. After the Promotion Tournament, Tang Xiao took him to the Star Dou Great Forest while the teams prepared to travel to Spirit City for the finals.

• Tang San told Tang Xiao he wanted to add Soul Rings to his Clear Sky Hammer and believed the competition’s transformed soul beast was Xiao Wu’s mother, Ah Rou.
• Tang San explained that he intended to persuade Ah Rou to sacrifice herself to him and said a god could later revive her and alter Soul Rings.
• Tang Xiao agreed to take Tang San to the Star Dou Great Forest after the Promotion Tournament so he could obtain suitable Soul Rings.
• Heaven Dou Second Team won all sixteen Promotion Tournament matches and took first place, pleasing Xue Ye.
• Xue Ye appointed Crown Prince Xue Haicang as the empire’s envoy to the finals, and the teams prepared to depart for Spirit City.
• On the final day before departure, Tang Xiao took Tang San to the Star Dou Great Forest without telling Yu Xiaogang.

The Heaven Dou Empire delegation arrived in Spirit City, where Hu Liena wrestled with regret about leaving and Bibi Dong struggled to comfort her. Tang San reunited with Tang Yuehua and told her that Spirit Hall had destroyed the Clear Sky Sect, shattering the hope she had held for fourteen years.

• The Heaven Dou Empire delegation arrived in Spirit City and settled into its assigned hotel ahead of the competition.
• Hu Liena walked through Spirit City and regretted leaving, while Bibi Dong watched her distress from the shadows.
• Tang Xiao and Tang San reached Spirit City after obtaining a Soul Ring, and Tang San went to Moonlight Pavilion to meet Tang Yuehua.
• Tang San revealed that his father was Tang Hao, and Tang Yuehua welcomed him as her nephew.
• Tang San told Tang Yuehua that Spirit Hall had destroyed the Clear Sky Sect, and she collapsed in grief over the truth and her years of helping Spirit Hall.

Tang San comforted Tang Yuehua about the Clear Sky Sect and privately planned its revenge against Spirit Hall. After revealing that he had added three Soul Rings to the Clear Sky Hammer to save Xiao Wu’s mother, he prompted Yu Xiaogang to disclose Xiao Wu’s identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit.

• Tang San guessed that Spirit Hall had deceived Tang Yuehua and promised to repay it for the Clear Sky Sect’s humiliation, but she warned him that Spirit Hall had more than twenty Title Douluo.
• Tang San privately reviewed his plan to destroy Spirit Hall with help from his great-grandfather, Ning Fengzhi, and the Asura God inheritance.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned Tang San’s rapid cultivation, and Tang San revealed three Soul Rings on his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San explained that he had sacrificed the advantages of his Twin Martial Souls to help save Xiao Wu’s mother, moving Xiao Wu and the others.
• Yu Xiaogang told the team that Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit and that the transformed Soul Beast offered as the competition prize was likely her captured mother.

Yu Tianheng accepted Xiao Wu’s identity as a hundred-thousand-year transformed Soul Beast, and they embraced as Tang San watched in fury. Three days later, the finals narrowed the field to four teams preparing for the semifinals.

• Yu Tianheng accepted Xiao Wu’s feelings after learning she was a Soul Beast, and Xiao Wu joyfully embraced him.
• Tang San watched Yu Tianheng and Xiao Wu together in a jealous rage, while Flender advised him to let Xiao Wu pursue her happiness.
• The finals began with thirty-four teams and a five-round elimination format.
• After the early rounds, three Spirit Hall teams and Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team advanced to the semifinals.
• Dugu Yan had become a Soul King, and the other Spirit Hall Team members had advanced by two levels except for Ning Rongrong and Yu Shuirou.

At the final round of the tournament, Qian Daoliu appeared as the Pope and presented a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast as Spirit Hall’s greatest reward. The sight of the prisoner left Tang Xiao shaken, while Spirit Hall’s hostility toward Xiao Wu grew.

• Qian Daoliu, disguised as Qian Xunji, emerged from Pope Hall with Bibi Zhu, Ghost Douluo, Sword Douluo, and Ning Fengzhi.
• Spirit Hall’s followers knelt before the Pope, while Heaven Dou Second Team and several others remained standing or reacted angrily to Ning Rongrong and Bai Chenxiang kneeling.
• Qian Daoliu addressed the finalists and promised Spirit Hall’s greatest reward to the tournament’s victor.
• Qian Daoliu revealed a prison cart containing a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Ghost Douluo eagerly recognized Xiao Wu as a potential target.
• Tang Xiao saw the soul beast in the cart and was overcome with shock and grief.

Tang San and Tang Xiao recognized Ah Yin, who had been revived and imprisoned by Spirit Hall, and Tang San reunited with his mother at the cage. Chrysanthemum Douluo revealed that Ah Yin could still be sacrificed for a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, leaving the gathered Soul Masters coveting her value.

• Tang Xiao and Tang San recognized Ah Yin when Spirit Hall displayed her in a cage before Pope Hall.
• Xiao Wu sensed that Ah Yin was a hundred-thousand-year transformed soul beast, while Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun recognized her as Tang San's mother from their previous life.
• Tang San rushed to Ah Yin and reunited with her, and she recognized him through his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo said Spirit Hall had revived Ah Yin and could still sacrifice her for a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Ning Fengzhi and the other Soul Masters realized Ah Yin could be repeatedly harvested, while Chrysanthemum Douluo tossed Tang San back to the Heaven Dou Second Team.

At the finals, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor was announced as the championship prize, prompting Tang San to vow to rescue his mother. Yu Xiaogang forfeited Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Second Team’s chance to enter the championship directly, leaving the team to face Martial Soul Hall Second Team in the afternoon semifinal.

• Gui Mei revealed that the transformed soul beast was the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor and explained the value of her soul ring, soul bone, and Blue Silver Domain.
• Yu Xiaogang realized Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass was the Blue Silver Emperor and regretted that Tang San had already spent three soul rings on his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Qian Daoliu announced that the three teams would compete in an individual elimination match, with the winning team advancing directly to the championship battle.
• Yu Xiaogang asked to forfeit Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Second Team’s chance in the morning match, and Qian Daoliu accepted his decision.
• Martial Soul Hall First Team defeated Martial Soul Hall Second Team after the latter deliberately held back, setting up an afternoon semifinal between the two losing teams.
• Tang San vowed to win the competition and rescue his mother as he left Pope Mountain.

Yu Xiaogang explained why Heaven Dou Second Team had forfeited the individual matches, and Tang San and his teammates reaffirmed their resolve to rescue Ah Yin. In the semifinal, both teams began preparing a Seven-in-One Fusion Skill, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Yu Xiaogang said he had forfeited the individual matches to conserve the team's strength and steady Tang San, whose mother Ah Yin had been captured by Spirit Hall.
• Tang San apologized for treating Ah Yin as a competition prize, and Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Xiao Wu pledged to help rescue her.
• Heaven Dou Second Team arrived at Pope Mountain, where Tang San signaled Ah Yin that he would save her and saw Spirit Hall First Team members join their opponents.
• When the referee began the semifinal, both teams formed circles and channeled Soul Power toward their central members, apparently preparing Seven-in-One Fusion Skills.
• The teams formed lines facing each other as Ning Rongrong and Yu Shuirou, then Ning Xiaoyu and Oscar, began channeling their powers.

Ning Xiaoyu and Ning Rongrong helped their teams execute opposing Seven-in-One Fusion Skills, transforming Yu Tianheng into a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and Tian Yue into a Golden Crocodile King. Tian Yue overpowered Yu Tianheng and pinned him to the ground.

• Oscar and Ning Xiaoyu used Ring Fusion to channel Heaven Dou Second Team's Soul Power toward Yu Tianheng, while Yu Shuirou helped Ning Rongrong channel Spirit Hall Second Team's power toward Tian Yue.
• Both teams activated Seven-in-One Fusion Skills, astonishing the spectators.
• Yu Tianheng transformed into a nearly seven-meter Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, and Yu Xiaogang urged him to cripple Spirit Hall Second Team's members.
• Tian Yue transformed into a Golden Crocodile King larger than Yu Tianheng's dragon and charged at him.
• Tian Yue bit Yu Tianheng's neck, seized his wings, and used her strength to pin him down as Yu Xiaogang watched in disbelief.
• Tian Yue began a Death Roll.

During the team battle, Tian Yue brutally defeated Yu Tianheng while Tang San broke away from Heaven Dou Second Team’s fusion skill and struck Ning Rongrong and Yu Shuirou with his Clear Sky Hammer. Ning Rongrong survived but suffered an irreparable arm injury, and both teams’ fusion skills collapsed.

• Tian Yue tore flesh from Yu Tianheng’s neck, pinned him down, and beat him until he could no longer fight.
• Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to leave Heaven Dou Second Team’s Seven-in-One Fusion Skill and hurled his Clear Sky Hammer at Ning Rongrong and Yu Shuirou.
• The Clear Sky Hammer knocked Ning Rongrong and Yu Shuirou unconscious, and Sword Douluo caught Ning Rongrong.
• Sword Douluo found that Ning Rongrong’s left arm was shattered beyond treatment, leaving her permanently disabled.
• Tang San’s departure caused Heaven Dou Second Team’s fusion skill to dissolve, while Spirit Hall Second Team’s fusion skill also collapsed shortly afterward.

Tang San faced the Martial Soul Hall Second Team after Ning Fengzhi condemned him for injuring Ning Rongrong, but Ning Xiaoyu refused to support him and the team was defeated. Tang San suffered severe burns, and the Martial Soul Hall Second Team won the semifinal as the referee declined to punish Tang San for his injury to Ning Rongrong.

• Ning Fengzhi angrily confronted Tang San over Ning Rongrong's injuries, and Tang San feigned remorse while saying he would save his mother and have her treat Rongrong.
• Tang San attacked Dugu Yan with the Clear Sky Hammer, but Yan and Tian Yue countered him, and Ning Xiaoyu withdrew her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda rather than support him.
• Dugu Yan controlled Hu Liena, Qiangu Liuyun knocked Xiao Wu out of the arena, and the Martial Soul Hall Second Team sent Dai Mubai and Oscar flying off the arena.
• Tian Yue restrained Tang San while Yan struck him with Flying Sand and Wild Flame, leaving him badly burned and disfigured.
• Ah Yin wept and struggled to reach Tang San, while Tang Xiao saw his defeat and turned his killing intent toward Xue Haicang.
• The referee ruled that Tang San's burns counted as retribution for Ning Rongrong's fractured hand, declined to pursue the rule violation, and declared the Martial Soul Hall Second Team the semifinal winner.

After Spirit Hall moved to seize Xiao Wu and the Shrek team, Bibi Dong arrived to protect them. Yu Xiaogang then exposed Bibi Zhu as a hundred-thousand-year Death Spider Emperor serving as a Spirit Hall Elder.

• Ye Lingling healed some of Yu Tianheng and Tang San’s injuries, but ran out of Soul Power before she could do more.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Yue Guan and Gui Mei to take down the Shrek members, and they rushed toward Xiao Wu.
• A woman with a Death Spider Emperor Martial Soul repelled Yue Guan and Gui Mei, then revealed herself as Bibi Dong and called Qian Daoliu her teacher.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Qian Xunji of hypocrisy and revealed that Bibi Zhu was a Death Spider Emperor whose cultivation exceeded one hundred thousand years.

Yu Xiaogang accused Bibi Zhu of being a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, while Bibi Dong and others challenged Spirit Hall over its treatment of transformed soul beasts. As everyone waited for Bibi Zhu to reveal her Soul Rings, Qian Daoliu dismissed the demand and defended her status as Spirit Hall’s reclusive genius and youngest elder.

• Tang Xiao held back from attacking Qian Renxue, while Chrysanthemum Douluo angrily rejected Yu Xiaogang’s accusation about Bibi Zhu.
• Qian Renxue wanted to confront Yu Xiaogang and the impostor, but Qian Xunji stopped her and told her to watch and learn.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Bibi Zhu of being a soul beast, and Ah Yin supported him after sensing a soul beast aura from her.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo argued that Bibi Zhu could not be a transformed soul beast, but Yu Xiaogang claimed soul beasts over two hundred thousand years old could take human form.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that Bibi Zhu reveal her nine Soul Rings, leaving Chrysanthemum Douluo and Bibi Zhu uncertain how Qian Daoliu would respond.
• Qian Daoliu dismissed the confrontation as a farce and challenged Yu Xiaogang and the unknown Title Douluo’s right to question Bibi Zhu.

Qian Daoliu challenged Yu Xiaogang’s claim that Bibi Dong loved him by questioning his reputation and scrutinizing his Martial Soul theories. Yu Xiaogang’s explanation of Twin Martial Souls was exposed as shallow, leaving Bibi Dong humiliated and Spirit Hall in control of the argument.

• Yu Xiaogang declared that he and Bibi Dong were lovers, and Bibi Dong bashfully affirmed her affection for him.
• Qian Daoliu challenged Yu Xiaogang’s worthiness by bringing up his relationship with Liu Erlong and asked Ning Fengzhi to assess his theories.
• Ning Fengzhi called Yu Xiaogang’s first theory common knowledge and said he had not proved its claims about Twin Martial Souls.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo explained that Twin Martial Souls could result from inheriting equally strong Martial Soul bloodlines from both parents.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo cited Spider Emperor Elder and Tang San as examples, mocking Yu Xiaogang for failing to derive the explanation despite knowing about them.

Qian Daoliu released Ah Yin's Soul Power, allowing her to break out of her cage and heal Tang San, but he stopped them from embracing. After noticing the poisonous Soul Rings on Tang San's Blue Silver Grass and sensing a familiar aura from Bibi Dong, Ah Yin accused her of killing the Blue Silver King.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo challenged Yu Xiaogang's claims by explaining Spirit Hall's theory about Twin Martial Souls and mocking Yu Xiaogang's supposed wisdom.
• Qian Daoliu lifted the seal on Ah Yin's Soul Power, and she tore apart her iron cage with Blue Silver Grass vines.
• Ah Yin rushed to Tang San, but Qian Daoliu blocked their reunion with a Soul Power barrier.
• Ah Yin used her Blue Silver Emperor's healing power to restore Tang San's burned body and hair.
• Ah Yin noticed the poisonous Soul Rings on Tang San's Blue Silver Grass, blamed Yu Xiaogang for his cultivation, and accused Bibi Dong of killing the Blue Silver King.