Chapter Summaries

Su Mo finalized Su Mo Academy’s first class of ten students and declared that they would represent the academy at the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, with only the championship counting as success. After the others departed, Su Mo summoned Poison Douluo to meet him, intending to recruit him.

• The crowd discussed the successful candidates and mocked the Lower Four Sects after none of their disciples passed.
• Su Mo addressed the ten new students and set winning the tournament championship as their goal.
• Xiao Wu escorted the new students to their dormitories as the admissions examination ended.
• Su Mo used voice transmission to ask Poison Douluo to stay, then invited him to tea in the academy pavilion.
• Su Mo prepared to recruit Poison Douluo.

Su Mo recruited Dugu Bo as a professor by promising to cure the poison afflicting him and Dugu Yan. The next morning, Su Mo introduced a magical confidentiality contract to his students before teaching them his self-created Soul Skills.

• Su Mo told Dugu Bo that he had detected the poison in him and Dugu Yan and could resolve it.
• Su Mo proposed sealing the snake venom in a Soul Bone, then offered to create a cultivation method that would let Dugu Bo use the poison to cultivate.
• Dugu Bo agreed to join Su Mo Academy in exchange for treatment for himself and Dugu Yan.
• At the training grounds, Su Mo summoned a golden Soul Power scroll and told his ten students to sign a contract barring them from teaching his Soul Skills to others.
• Feng Xiaotian asked what the scroll was, and the students erupted in surprise when Su Mo explained its binding power.

Su Mo taught Poison Douluo and the ten students the Soul Power Cultivation Method, which Poison Douluo found tripled his cultivation speed. After the students confirmed that Su Mo’s confidentiality contract prevented them from sharing the method, Su Mo began planning tailored training and soul skills for them.

• Poison Douluo asked to learn the Soul Power Cultivation Method, and Su Mo taught it to him as an academy professor.
• Poison Douluo discovered that the method made soul power gather three times faster than his previous Meditation Method.
• Feng Xiaotian, Shui Bing'er, Yu Tianheng, and the other students mastered the method before noon.
• Su Mo had the students test his confidentiality contract, and none of them could explain, write, or demonstrate the method to others.
• Su Mo returned to his office and planned basic Teleportation training and individual soul skills for the students.
• News that Su Mo Academy had completed its enrollment began spreading through the soul master world.

News of Su Mo’s abilities and Su Mo Academy’s selective enrollment spread across the continent, convincing many that he was a true master. Bibi Dong considered killing him but judged the risk too great, while the academy gained a Title Douluo professor.

• Reports of Su Mo recreating Sword Douluo’s soul skills and modifying the Clear Sky Sect’s Great Sumeru Hammer won him widespread recognition as a genuine creator.
• Bibi Dong realized Su Mo’s talent and cultivation were extraordinary, but decided she could not kill him without risking Spirit Hall’s ambitions.
• Yu Yuanzhen praised Tianheng and Tianxin for entering Su Mo Academy and defended Su Mo’s abilities.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s Second Elder lamented that the sect had left before its disciples could take the academy’s assessment.
• Dugu Bo officially joined Su Mo Academy as a professor, drawing the attention of factions across the continent.

Su Mo and Xiao Wu celebrated her eighteenth birthday together in Void Space, while Tang San sought a place on Silves Academy’s tournament team by offering his self-created soul skills. The academy showed interest, but Tang San refused to teach the skills, leaving his admission uncertain.

• Su Mo took Xiao Wu to their prepared wooden house in Void Space, where they bathed and spent the night together while their soul power circulated in a shared cultivation method.
• Tang San trained with his hammer and brooded over Su Mo’s fame and his own slow progress, while Yu Xiaogang brought news that Silves Academy wanted to meet them.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang traveled to Silves Academy, where Vice Dean Sun doubted Tang San’s rank twenty-four Soul Grandmaster level would qualify him for the tournament team.
• Yu Xiaogang presented Tang San’s self-created soul skills, prompting Vice Dean Sun to offer a visiting professorship and discuss Tang San’s admission.
• Tang San refused to teach his skills to the academy, and Vice Dean Sun’s warm response faded.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang faced repeated academy rejections because Tang San would not share his Self-Created Soul Skills with teammates, while Su Mo and Xiao Wu continued their deadly winning streak in Slaughter City. Tang San agreed to learn other sects’ martial skills so Yu Xiaogang could teach them to others, and Su Mo prepared to enter the arena after Xiao Wu’s latest victory.

• Vice Dean Sun rejected Tang San’s application to Silves Academy because Tang San would not share his Self-Created Soul Skills with his teammates.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San visited four more academies, which rejected Tang San after learning he would not teach his skills to the team.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang whether he had to reveal his skills to be accepted, then agreed to learn other sects’ martial skills so Yu Xiaogang could teach them.
• Su Mo woke Xiao Wu before their match at the Hell Slaughter Arena, and they traveled to Slaughter City together.
• Xiao Wu defeated nine Fallen Ones in less than four breaths, earning her thirty-sixth consecutive victory.
• Su Mo praised Xiao Wu’s speed, and then prepared to fight in the next match.

Su Mo returned from Slaughter City and taught his students advanced cultivation methods tailored to their Martial Souls. After promising Ning Rongrong she could eventually learn the Great Sumeru Technique, he left to finish developing a cultivation method for Poison Douluo.

• Su Mo defeated every opponent in the Hell Slaughter Arena with one sword strike, then teleported with Xiao Wu back to Su Mo Academy.
• Su Mo divided the students by Martial Soul type and gave Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran an advanced cultivation method for Tool Martial Souls.
• Su Mo taught Huo Wu the Tool Martial Soul method and gave the seven Beast Martial Soul students individually tailored Martial Soul Resonance Methods.
• Su Mo told the students to cultivate in the morning, practice Teleportation in the afternoon, and spar in the evening before he taught them attack-type Self-Created Soul Skills in a month.
• Ning Rongrong asked to learn an attack skill, and Su Mo said he could teach her the Great Sumeru Technique after she mastered her current training.
• Su Mo checked that the students were cultivating correctly, then returned to his room to finish developing Poison Douluo's cultivation method.

Su Mo developed the Jade Phosphorous Poison Art, which allowed Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to control their Martial Soul venom and escape its backlash. Dugu Yan began cultivating the technique and resolved to remember Su Mo’s kindness, while Dugu Bo regretted that she was already with Yu Tianheng.

• Su Mo imparted his newly created poison cultivation art to Dugu Bo, who tested it and successfully tamed his snake venom.
• Dugu Bo named the technique the Jade Phosphorous Poison Art and went to teach it to Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan memorized the technique from her grandfather and quickly reached its beginner stage.
• Dugu Yan discovered that she could control her venom and improve her cultivation with the art, then thanked Su Mo through her promise to remember his kindness.
• Dugu Bo regretted that Dugu Yan was already with Yu Tianheng, and she reminded him that Su Mo already had Xiao Wu.

After Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul backlash was cured, Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin reflected on how much Su Mo had accomplished for the academy and its students. They compared him with their uncle Yu Xiaogang and resolved to make the most of their chance to study at Su Mo Academy.

• Yu Tianxin congratulated Yu Tianheng on Dugu Yan’s recovery, and Yu Tianheng credited the dean, Su Mo.
• Yu Tianheng listed Su Mo’s achievements and told Yu Tianxin that joining Su Mo Academy had been an incredible stroke of luck.
• Yu Tianxin said the academy’s training methods had restored his confidence that he could eventually become a Title Douluo.
• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng questioned their former admiration for their uncle Yu Xiaogang, comparing his eleven years at Spirit Hall’s Creation Institute with Su Mo’s accomplishments.
• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng agreed to keep their criticism private and focus on training, with Yu Tianheng concluding that joining Su Mo Academy was wonderful.

After Su Mo and Xiao Wu won one hundred consecutive matches in the Hell Slaughter Arena, the King of Slaughter offered them a chance to stay, but they refused and entered the Hell Road. They began the trial together, facing a cavern full of blood-red bats.

• Su Mo and Xiao Wu completed their hundredth consecutive victories and sensed something awakening beneath the arena.
• The King of Slaughter appeared and offered them honorary status in Slaughter City, but Su Mo and Xiao Wu refused because they wanted to leave.
• The King of Slaughter sacrificed the Fallen Ones in the stands to open the Hell Road.
• Su Mo took Xiao Wu's hand and leaped into the fissure, landing on a narrow path above boiling magma.
• Su Mo drew the Blood Shadow Sword and charged down the Hell Road with Xiao Wu as blood-red bats watched them.

Su Mo and Xiao Wu fought their way along Hell Road, defeated its final guardian, and took the serpent’s inner core. Before leaving, Su Mo dropped a Snowy Swan Kiss into Slaughter City’s lava to amplify the poison in its air and destroy the city, preventing Bibi Dong from using it for her ninth Rakshasa trial.

• Su Mo and Xiao Wu slew the vampire bats, whose remains merged into a Three-Headed Bat King, then destroyed it with their swords.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu reached the end of Hell Road, where Su Mo told Xiao Wu to fall back and dodged the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s beams.
• Su Mo injured and killed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent with the Blood Shadow Sword, then retrieved its crimson inner core.
• Su Mo took Xiao Wu toward the exit and dropped his Snowy Swan Kiss into the lava river, intending to magnify Slaughter City’s poison and destroy the city.
• Su Mo resolved that Slaughter City should be destroyed so Bibi Dong could not use it for her ninth trial, and considered how evil soul masters should be controlled in the future.

After escaping Slaughter City, Su Mo and Xiao Wu gained Divine Slaughter’s Domain, and Su Mo went to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to collect a new sword. He revealed that Soul Weapon Fusion let his Martial Soul permanently evolve by absorbing a weapon’s essence, leaving Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo stunned.

• Su Mo established that future Soul Master criminals would have their cultivation crippled before imprisonment, then left Hell Road with Xiao Wu after the Snowy Swan Kiss merged into the lava.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu discovered that they had both received Divine Slaughter’s Domain for clearing Slaughter City.
• Su Mo teleported with Xiao Wu to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to collect the sword he had commissioned from Ning Fengzhi.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that Lou Gao and his disciples had forged the sword from Deep Sea Silver and meteoric iron, and Su Mo merged his Blood Shadow Sword Martial Soul with it.
• Sword Douluo asked whether the fusion was connected to Su Mo’s Martial Soul Evolution, and Su Mo explained that his Martial Soul absorbed weapon essence to evolve permanently.
• Su Mo recounted how successive weapon fusions had transformed his Broken Sword and said the new sword should last until he became a Title Douluo.

Su Mo explained Soul Weapon Fusion and showed Ning Fengzhi how the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda might evolve. Ning Fengzhi fused his martial soul with a gemstone pagoda, successfully creating an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

• Su Mo explained that his martial soul could absorb weapon materials and advised Ning Fengzhi to forge an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda from high-quality gemstones.
• Su Mo taught Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Soul Weapon Fusion, then teleported away with Xiao Wu.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo agreed to test Su Mo's method, and Ning Fengzhi had an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda forged.
• Ning Fengzhi used Soul Weapon Fusion in the Martial Arts Arena, and his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda absorbed the gemstone pagoda's essence and evolved into an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Xiao Wu broke through to level eighty while Su Mo began teaching his academy students Self-Created Soul Skills tailored to their martial souls and fighting styles. The chapter ended as Huo Wu eagerly waited to learn what skill Su Mo had designed for her.

• Xiao Wu reached level eighty as Su Mo guided her cultivation and told her she would need to gather Soul Power to condense her Eighth Soul Ring.
• Su Mo ended Teleportation as the academy students’ main lesson and began giving them individualized Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Su Mo taught Yu Tianheng Thunder Nine Strikes, Yu Tianxin Three Thousand Thunder Steps, and Dugu Yan Thousand Poison Devouring Hand.
• Su Mo gave Meng Yiran the Ba Serpent Spear Art, refined Feng Xiaotian’s consecutive slashes, and taught Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er separate water-based skills.
• Su Mo taught Huo Wushuang Fire Dragon Fist, and Huo Wu stepped forward to ask for her own skill.

Su Mo taught Huo Wu Flame Emperor's Dance and gave Ning Rongrong the Great Sumeru Technique, then began developing a new soul skill called Martial Soul Projection. He tested it with Poison Douluo and Bone Douluo as he refined the technique.

• Su Mo taught Huo Wu Flame Emperor's Dance, a domain-type skill that combined defense, attrition, and control.
• Su Mo gave Ning Rongrong the Great Sumeru Technique, which let her compress Soul Power and enlarge her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to strike enemies.
• Poison Douluo watched Su Mo teach the students and decided not to question his extraordinary abilities.
• The students practiced their new skills the next morning, and Ning Rongrong smashed her enlarged pagoda into the training ground.
• Su Mo asked Ning Fengzhi to teach him Distraction Multi-Control, then began researching Martial Soul Projection with Poison Douluo as his test subject.
• Su Mo later brought Bone Douluo in to help test and refine Martial Soul Projection.

Su Mo developed Martial Soul Projection with Bone Douluo and Poison Douluo, then taught it to seven students with Beast Martial Souls. He also taught Meng Yiran and Huo Wu the Artifact Control Technique, leaving Su Mo Academy’s students to train for the Continental Elite Tournament seven months away.

• Bone Douluo and Poison Douluo repeatedly practiced separating their Martial Souls until they developed Martial Soul Projection.
• Su Mo taught Martial Soul Projection to Feng Xiaotian, Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, Huo Wushuang, and Dugu Yan.
• The seven students successfully projected their Martial Souls, though Shui Yue'er struggled to keep hers stable.
• Su Mo explained that Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and Huo Wu could not use Martial Soul Projection because they had tool Martial Souls.
• Su Mo demonstrated and taught Meng Yiran and Huo Wu the Artifact Control Technique, which used Spiritual Power to control a separated Martial Soul at a distance.
• Su Mo looked ahead to the Continental Elite Tournament, seven months away, expecting Su Mo Academy to surprise the continent.

Seven months after its founding, Su Mo Academy entered the Heaven Dou City Qualifiers of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament. Su Mo confidently predicted his team would win the championship, and the draw paired them against Canghui Academy in the first round.

• The tournament began in the Heaven Dou Imperial Capital, with Emperor Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, Salas, and Su Mo watching from the VIP section.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Su Mo Academy, while Salas probed Su Mo about his confidence and cultivation; Su Mo said he had reached Level eighty-five and expected to approach Salas's strength within a year.
• Xue Ye and Salas addressed the assembled spectators before the chief referee announced the qualifiers' single round-robin format, with the top five teams advancing.
• The first-round draw matched Su Mo Academy against Canghui Academy, drawing attention and mixed predictions from the crowd.

Su Mo Academy made its first official appearance against Canghui Academy in the Heaven Dou City Qualifiers. The team overwhelmed their opponents within moments, leaving all seven Canghui Academy members on the ground.

• Xiao Wu told Su Mo Academy to finish the match within ten minutes and warned the team not to embarrass Brother.
• Su Mo Academy chose its seven fighters by playing rock-paper-scissors, while Canghui Academy prepared a defensive formation.
• Both teams released their Martial Souls, revealing that Su Mo Academy had six Soul Ancestors and one Soul Elder against Canghui Academy's four Soul Ancestors and three Soul Elders.
• After the referee started the match, Feng Xiaotian, Yu Tianxin, Huo Wushuang, Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, Dugu Yan, Meng Yiran, and Huo Wu attacked in coordination and broke Canghui Academy's formation.
• Su Mo Academy knocked all seven Canghui Academy members to the ground within a few breaths.

Su Mo Team defeated Canghui Academy decisively using individually tailored Self-Created Soul Skills, drawing admiration from the spectators and the students’ families and clans. The match ended with Su Mo Academy’s reputation soaring and everyone envying its students.

• The referee declared Su Mo Academy the winner after all seven Canghui Academy fighters were unable to stand.
• Spectators marveled that Su Mo Team had used Teleportation and tailored Self-Created Soul Skills without activating their Soul Rings, and many wished to join Su Mo Academy.
• The deans of Blazing Fire Academy and Skywater Academy exchanged approving smiles over their former students’ decision to join Su Mo Academy.
• Yu Yuanzhen celebrated Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin’s performance and judged Su Mo to be unfathomable.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang praised Meng Yiran’s performance and the Teleportation skill Su Mo had taught her.
• Su Mo Academy’s victory spread its reputation and left other forces and spectators envious of its students.

Su Mo Academy dominated the preliminary round, winning every match with tailored Self-Created Soul Skills and advancing in first place. Their success transformed the Soul Master world’s view of cultivation, and the ten students stood at the forefront of a growing movement to develop Self-Created Soul Skills.

• Su Mo Academy defeated every opponent in the round-robin tournament, often ending matches within minutes through coordinated attacks and Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Spectators compiled a list of the ten students’ many skills, recognizing that Su Mo had given each student a complete combat system.
• Su Mo Academy finished the preliminaries undefeated and advanced in first place while its students began practicing new skills.
• The deans of Blazing Fire Academy and Skywater Academy, Yu Yuanzhen, and Ning Fengzhi praised Su Mo Academy’s methods and their impact on Soul Master education.
• Soul Masters and major groups began studying and funding Self-Created Soul Skills, while Su Mo’s cultivation philosophy gained widespread influence.