Chapter Summaries

The finals of the Pan-continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament began, and Skywater Team won its first-round match to earn a chance at three days of rest. Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team then revealed a powerful lineup featuring Yu Tianheng and Ye Lingling, as its members pursued the tournament’s two 100,000-year Soul Bones.

• The tournament opened in Spirit City with thirty-three teams and an elimination format that gave the seeded teams first-round byes.
• Skywater Team easily defeated its first-round opponent, while Godwind Academy beat Longkui Academy with Feng Xiaotian’s Gale Devil Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team took the arena against Blazing Fire Academy with Yu Tianheng and Ye Lingling added to its familiar lineup.
• Qian Renchuan used his Purple Demon Eyes to assess the second team and found that Gu Chen was level 54, while its six Soul Ancestors ranged from levels 42 to 43.
• Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Tang Xiao had arranged for Gu Chen, Tang San, and Yu Tianheng to fight for the two 100,000-year Soul Bones if their team won the championship.

Heaven Dou Second Team crushed Blazing Fire Academy, then defeated the Star Luo Royal Academy Team despite Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing's brutal loss to Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun. As the Spirit Hall Team faced Heaven Dou First Team, Qian Renchuan recognized three people and worried about the challenge his father had given him.

• Heaven Dou Second Team overwhelmed Blazing Fire Academy in less than a minute, and Qian Renchuan considered how he would have to target Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling in a future match.
• Three days later, Heaven Dou Second Team replaced Xiao Wu with Zhu Zhuqing before facing the Star Luo Royal Academy Team.
• Dai Weisi taunted Dai Mubai, who answered that they were enemies and that the family succession remained undecided.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun's purple Hell White Tiger repeatedly broke apart Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing's blue Hell White Tiger, leaving them unconscious and near death.
• Heaven Dou Second Team defeated the Star Luo Royal Academy Team after its remaining members brought down the exhausted purple Hell White Tiger.
• As the Spirit Hall Team took the stage against Heaven Dou First Team, Qian Renchuan recognized three familiar figures and said his father had given him a difficult problem.

Spirit Hall Team overwhelmed its opponent and secured one of the tournament’s final three places, while Qian Renchuan and Skywater Team began preparing to face its formidable members. Three days later, the semifinals began before Pope Palace.

• Spirit Hall Team revealed Tianchen, Qingfeng, and Qian Gu Liuyun alongside Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena, with the new members displaying powerful soul-ring configurations.
• Hu Liena charmed the opposing team, and Xie Yue kicked all seven opponents off the stage in under a minute.
• Qian Renchuan resolved to study tactics with Bing'er and fight for the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, while Skywater Team and Heaven Dou Second Team returned to their hotels to prepare.
• Spirit Hall's behind-the-scenes manipulation determined that Spirit Hall Team, Heaven Dou Royal Academy's second team, and Skywater Team would fill the final three spots.
• Three days later, the semifinals began before Pope Palace, where only the three remaining teams were allowed to attend.

Qian Xunji arrived at the tournament with Ah Yin, Spirit Hall elders, and the leaders of the Upper Three Sects, then announced a great reward for the victor. Qian Renchuan took Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Second Team's refusal to kneel as an insult to his father and resolved to make them apologize in the individual matches.

• Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Second Team entered the third-round contest with Gu Chen, Tang San, Yu Tianheng, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, and Oscar, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing were still recovering from severe injuries.
• Qian Xunji emerged from Pope Palace with Ah Yin, Ju Gui Douluo, Bone Douluo, Tang Xiao, and Ning Fengzhi as the crowd welcomed him.
• Qian Renchuan, Shui Binger, and the rest of Skywater Team knelt, but Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Second Team and its supporters refused to bow before the Pope.
• Qian Renchuan decided to make Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Second Team bow and apologize during the individual matches.
• Qian Xunji promised Spirit Hall's greatest reward to the victor and revealed a 100,000-year Soft Bone Rabbit head soul bone and a 100,000-year Death Spider Emperor right arm bone.

The three teams began the individual elimination match for a place in the championship battle, with two hundred-thousand-year soul bones offered as the prize. After Qian Renchuan defeated Xie Yue, Tang San challenged him and insulted the Angel Spirit, leaving Qian Xunji to respond calmly as the match was about to begin.

• Qian Xunji announced that the champion team would receive two hundred-thousand-year soul bones and explained the elimination match format.
• Xie Yue and Qian Renchuan opened the match, and Qian Renchuan used his Blue Silver Grass and Eight Spider Lances to force Xie Yue to concede.
• Tang San entered the arena and summoned his Clear Sky Hammer without soul rings.
• Tang San declared that one hammer strike would defeat Qian Renchuan and called the Angel Spirit worthless trash beneath the Angel God statue.
• Tang Xiao apologized for Tang San’s words, and Qian Xunji said the young man’s sharp edges would be worn down through experience.

Tang San built up the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer against Qian Renchuan, expecting to defeat him with a decisive blow. Qian Renchuan took to the air, struck Tang San from behind, and beat him while the Clear Sky Hammer fell away.

• Tang San smashed Qian Renchuan’s Blue Silver Grass Vines as he charged the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer to forty-nine strikes.
• Qian Renchuan summoned his Two-Winged Angel martial soul and flew above Tang San as Tang San launched his attack.
• Qian Renchuan dodged the Clear Sky Hammer, circled behind Tang San, and drove his elbow into Tang San’s head.
• Ghost Douluo knocked the falling Clear Sky Hammer away before it could crash into Pope Palace Square.
• Qian Renchuan slapped Tang San repeatedly in midair, leaving him bloodied and furious as Tang Xiao watched.

Qian Renchuan brutally defeated Tang San in the tournament match, while Tang Xiao and the others could only watch until Yu Xiaogang surrendered. After Xiao Wu rushed to Tang San, Ah Yin and Qian Renchuan turned their attention toward her, and Yu Xiaogang interrupted the next match before Hu Liena could face Qian Renchuan.

• Qian Renchuan slapped Tang San repeatedly, then forced him to his knees and broke his legs as Tang Xiao protested that the match had become murder.
• Qian Renchuan forced Tang San to bow his head against the ground until Yu Xiaogang surrendered, after which Qian Renchuan released the badly injured Tang San.
• Xiao Wu teleported to Tang San, and Ah Yin decided she would stop protecting Xiao Wu and make her a soul ring for Xiaoxue.
• Qian Renchuan planned to break Xiao Wu's legs and force the Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Second Team to bow, while Hu Liena prepared to test her Charm ability against him.
• Yu Xiaogang stood up again before Hu Liena entered the arena and asked for the match to wait, looking toward Qian Xunji.

Yu Xiaogang challenged Qian Xunji by exercising Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Second Team's right to forfeit the individual matches, but Qian Xunji allowed the match to continue. Hu Liena then used her Charm abilities against Qian Renchuan, who resisted them and restrained her with Blue Silver Grass Vines.

• Yu Xiaogang cited his team's right to surrender and announced that Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Second Team would forfeit the first half of the finals.
• Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo welcomed the surrender, while Qian Xunji accepted Yu Xiaogang's right to choose and ordered the match to continue.
• Hu Liena entered the arena and used her fourth Soul Skill to Charm the spectators and contestants below Soul Sage rank.
• Qian Renchuan remained unaffected by Hu Liena's Charm and sent two Blue Silver Grass Vines toward her.
• Hu Liena used her fifth Soul Skill, Thousand Fox Charms, but Qian Renchuan's Blue Silver Grass Vines wrapped around her.

Qian Renchuan battled Qingfeng, the Spirit Hall Team’s flying Azure Phoenix Divine Bird Soul Master, and used the Blue Silver Domain to restrict his opponent while fighting in the air. The chapter ended as Qingfeng launched his fifth soul skill, a sound-infused hurricane, at Qian Renchuan.

• Qingfeng entered the match, and Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo discussed the strength and history of his grandfather, Azure Phoenix Douluo.
• Qian Renchuan attacked Qingfeng with Blue Silver Grass Leaves, but Qingfeng flew out of reach and swept away his ricocheting leaves with Hurricane Tornado.
• Qingfeng fired rapid sonic light orbs at Qian Renchuan, who evaded them with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track as Shui Yuer worried that Qingfeng countered his fighting style.
• Shui Binger explained that she and Qian Renchuan planned to take control of the air and defeat Qingfeng first, while the rest of the Skywater Team endured Spirit Hall’s attacks.
• Qian Renchuan used the Two-Winged Angel and Blue Silver Overlord Spear to fight Qingfeng in midair, gradually slowing him by infusing their clashes with the Blue Silver Domain.
• Qingfeng enlarged his Azure Phoenix Divine Bird form and launched his fifth soul skill, Hurricane Howl, at Qian Renchuan.

Qian Renchuan survived Qingfeng’s attack and returned to the match, while Flender was mistaken for the teacher who defied the Pope and beaten to death by a mob of Spirit Hall Soul Masters. The chapter left Tang San injured and Flender dead, with the attackers escaping before the Spirit City Enforcement Team arrived.

• Qian Renchuan pierced Qingfeng with his Blue Silver Overlord Spear, then survived the counterattack and halted his fall using his wings and Soul Power.
• Ghost Douluo tried to catch Qian Renchuan, but Qian Renchuan warned him not to interfere and flew back toward Papal Square.
• Flender, Xiao Wu, Ye Lingling, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Tang San descended Pope Mountain to return to their hotel and treat Tang San.
• Spirit Hall Soul Masters mistook Flender for the teacher who had defied the Pope and attacked him in a crowd.
• Ma Hongjun charged at Flender’s attackers and was kicked away, while Oscar called for the Spirit City Enforcement Team.
• The attackers scattered when the enforcement team arrived, leaving Flender dead and unrecognizable.

Ma Hongjun learned that Flender had died and that Spirit Hall would not punish his killers, while Qian Renchuan continued his one-against-seven run in the tournament. Exhausted, he faced Tianchen and opened their battle with a Blue Silver Overlord Spear strike as Tianchen prepared to counter.

• Ye Lingling tried to heal Flender but declared that his injuries were fatal, and Spirit Hall’s enforcement team refused to investigate because Flender had offended the Pope.
• Ma Hongjun grieved over Flender’s body and threatened Spirit Hall after its enforcers ordered him to remove the corpse.
• Qian Renchuan defeated Qian Gu Liuyun and Yan, bringing his consecutive victories to seven and impressing the Spirit Hall audience.
• Gu Chen realized that Qian Renchuan had been far stronger than he had assumed, while Qian Renchuan assessed Tianchen’s powerful Golden Crocodile King martial soul.
• Tianchen challenged Qian Renchuan to a one-against-seven match, and Qian Renchuan attacked the Golden Crocodile King’s eyes before launching a strengthened Blue Silver Overlord Spear.
• Tianchen activated his sixth soul ring and reinforced his tail to meet Qian Renchuan’s spear.

Qian Renchuan lost to Tianchen, whose Golden Crocodile King was too powerful for him to defeat directly. Shui Binger then used the match rules and a carefully concealed plan to knock Tianchen out of bounds, winning for Skywater Team.

• Qian Renchuan’s Blue Silver Overlord Spear wounded Tianchen but failed to defeat him, and Ah Yin restored Qian Renchuan’s strength.
• Qian Renchuan told Shui Yuer and the other Skywater Team members to attack Tianchen one by one to drain his Soul Power before Shui Binger took the stage.
• Tianchen easily defeated five Skywater Team members, then overwhelmed Shui Binger’s Ice Phoenix in close combat.
• Shui Binger used the Ice and Snow Storm to lift Tianchen’s Golden Crocodile King, then struck him from beneath with her Fifth Soul Skill and sent him out of bounds.
• Qian Renchuan celebrated as Shui Binger’s plan secured the victory for Skywater Team.

The Skywater Team defeated the Spirit Hall Team in the individual elimination matches and advanced to the championship, while Yu Xiaogang’s group learned that Flender had been killed. Qian Xunji then ordered a scheme to lure the Titan Giant Ape to Spirit City during the tournament’s award ceremony.

• Shui Binger and Tianchen defeated the Spirit Hall Team, earning the Skywater Team a place in the championship match and sending Spirit Hall to face Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two.
• Ma Hongjun confronted Yu Xiaogang over Flender’s death, but Dai Mubai, Gu Chen, and Ning Rongrong persuaded him that Spirit Hall was to blame.
• Qian Xunji sent Ghost Leopard Douluo to deliver a secret letter to Thunder Douluo of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Qian Xunji ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to lure the Titan Giant Ape to Spirit City by telling it that Xiao Wu was competing in the tournament finals.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo left for the Star Dou Great Forest, while Qian Xunji looked forward to the spectacle.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Second Team used Tang San's Purple Demon Eyes to counter Hu Liena, then began a Seven-in-One Fusion Skill against the Spirit Hall Team. The fusion empowered Gu Chen as the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, and Tianchen charged to meet him.

• Yu Xiaogang led Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Second Team to Pope Mountain for the semifinal, with Tang San's injuries healed by Ye Lingling and Oscar.
• The Spirit Hall Team looked down on Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Second Team, which planned to rely on Dugu Yan's poison against them.
• Hu Liena tried to charm Gu Chen, but Tang San rebounded her spiritual attack with his Purple Demon Eyes before switching places with Gu Chen.
• Ning Rongrong and Oscar began a Seven-in-One Fusion Skill, passing Ning Rongrong's nine-colored power through Dugu Yan, Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Yu Tianheng.
• Yu Tianheng struck Gu Chen, who transformed into the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor and gained immense Soul Power without receiving Ning Rongrong's halo.
• Tianchen charged Gu Chen, and their collision sent Hu Liena flying backward.

Gu Chen led Heaven Dou Second Team against the Spirit Hall Team using Ning Rongrong’s Seven-in-One Fusion Skill and his Soul Devouring Spider Emperor True Body, but the opposing team’s attacks overwhelmed them. After Dugu Yan’s poison was dispersed and Demon Charm trapped the team, Gu Chen used Black Hole to poison support Soul Master Xu Yu, leaving the battle unresolved as Tianchen attacked him.

• Oscar sustained Ning Rongrong’s fusion skill while Gu Chen transformed into the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor and shielded Heaven Dou Second Team from Spirit Hall’s ranged attacks.
• Tianchen, Qian Gu Liuyun, and Yan struck Gu Chen with powerful Soul Skills, while Xie Yue and Qingfeng targeted the team’s rear support members.
• Gu Chen ordered the team to disperse and execute Plan Two; Tang San moved to intercept Xie Yue, and Yu Tianheng countered Qingfeng’s sonic light bullet.
• Dugu Yan unleashed her Green-Scaled Poison, but Qingfeng swallowed the poisonous mist with his Doomsday Wind Orb before Hu Liena and Xie Yue activated Demon Charm.
• Gu Chen changed into his Bone Dragon form, used Black Hole to appear behind Xu Yu, then poisoned him with spider spears and returned to defend against Tianchen’s attack.

Gu Chen forced the Spirit Hall Team to surrender by threatening Xu Yu with poison, leaving Qian Renchuan determined to crush Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two in the next match. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo revealed that Xiao Wu had been exposed, prompting the Titan Giant Ape to rush toward Spirit City to save her.

• Demon Charm overwhelmed Tang San, while the Spirit Hall Team knocked Ning Rongrong, Yu Tianheng, Oscar, and Dugu Yan from the arena and left Xiao Wu badly wounded.
• Gu Chen trapped Xu Yu with his poison and Black Hole, forcing Tianchen to surrender rather than risk the Spirit Hall member's death.
• Ah Yin cured Xu Yu, and the crowd looked to Qian Renchuan to defeat Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two in the next day's match.
• The Titan Giant Ape fought Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo near the Lake of Life, holding a slight advantage over the two Titled Douluo.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told the Titan Giant Ape that Xiao Wu had been exposed in Spirit City, and the Titan Giant Ape set out to save her.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two faced Skywater Team in the tournament final, but Qian Renchuan revealed precise control over Blue Silver Grass and overwhelmed them with a barrage of attacks. Tang San watched in shock as Qian Renchuan’s skill made him question his own abilities.

• Yu Xiaogang sent Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two to face Skywater Team with Dai Mubai replacing Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing still recovering.
• Qian Renxue appeared outside Pope Palace and fixed her attention on Xiao Wu, whom she recognized as a possible source of her eighth Soul Ring.
• Both teams revealed unusual formations, and Tang San entered the match carrying only his Clear Sky Hammer because his Blue Silver Grass had been suppressed.
• At the start of the final, Qian Renchuan unleashed Blue Silver Grass Leaves and Vines against all seven opponents with precise control.
• Ning Rongrong, Oscar, and Tang San were pierced by the Leaves, while Tang San froze instead of using Wild Cloak Dance and marveled at Qian Renchuan’s skill.

Qian Renchuan overwhelmed Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two with a precisely controlled ten-second barrage of Blue Silver Grass Leaves, leaving Tang San, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar badly wounded. Ning Fengzhi surrendered to save Ning Rongrong, while Qian Xunji and Qian Renxue waited for the Titan Giant Ape and watched Xiao Wu.

• Qian Renchuan struck all seven members of Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two with Blue Silver Grass Leaves, quickly taking out the support members and Tang San.
• Qian Renchuan stopped before killing anyone, but Tang San, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar collapsed with severe bleeding after less than ten seconds of attacks.
• Gu Chen, Yu Tianheng, and Dai Mubai prepared to continue fighting until Qian Renchuan warned them that their wounded teammates could die.
• Ning Fengzhi surrendered on behalf of Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two, and his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda stopped the trio's bleeding.
• Ah Yin used her martial soul to help close Tang San, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar's wounds, while Qian Xunji waited for the Titan Giant Ape and Qian Renxue eyed Xiao Wu.

Tang San awoke after Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two’s defeat, and Skywater Academy claimed the tournament championship and its Soul Bone rewards. As Qian Renchuan distributed the prizes, a massive surge of Soul Power approached from Star Dou Great Forest, and Qian Xunji announced that the delivery had arrived.

• Tang San woke and learned from Xiao Wu that their team had surrendered after the Skywater Team injured him, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar.
• Demon Subduing Douluo punished Tianchen, Qian Gu Liuyun, and Qingfeng for their defeat and ordered them to train in Lost Trail Grand Canyon with the Spirit Hall Team.
• Qian Xunji declared Skywater Academy the champion, and Qian Renchuan accepted the two Soul Bones as the team’s representative.
• Shui Binger chose the Death Spider Emperor Right Arm Bone, while Qian Renchuan kept the Pink Light Head Soul Bone.
• Qian Xunji and the other Spirit Hall Soul Masters sensed a surge of Soul Power from Star Dou Great Forest, and Qian Xunji said the delivery had arrived.

The Titan Giant Ape Er Ming attacked Spirit City after sensing Xiao Wu, and Qian Xunji turned its arrival into a pretext to move against Xiao Wu and the Clear Sky Sect. As Titled Douluo gathered in Papal Square, Tang Xiao and Tang Hao rejected Qian Xunji’s accusations, and the standoff edged toward battle.

• Er Ming leaped toward Spirit City and clashed in midair with Ju Gui Douluo, then roared that he would kill anyone who hurt Xiao Wu.
• Qian Xunji ordered Qian Renxue to cripple Er Ming and make him her Eighth Soul Ring, while Ah Yin flew out to protect him.
• Tang San shielded Xiao Wu as Qian Xunji summoned Pufferfish, Lingyuan, Demon Bear, and Snake Lance to Papal Square.
• Bone Douluo, Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and Qian Renchuan gathered allies and prepared for a confrontation as the square filled with Titled Douluo.
• Qian Xunji accused Xiao Wu, Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and Tang San of conspiring with Soul Beasts against humanity, and Tang Xiao and Tang Hao angrily challenged his claim.