Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong reviewed the Soul Master Tournament reports and saw how Su Mo Academy’s success had turned the event into a showcase for Su Mo’s techniques. She then discovered that the Clear Sky Sect had entered the tournament through Star Luo Royal Academy and that Yu Xiaogang had taught Self-Created Soul Skills to Barak Team, leaving her impressed by his ability.

• Bibi Dong read reports on Su Mo Academy’s matches and lamented that restoring the tournament had promoted Su Mo and his Soul Skill instruction.
• Bibi Dong found Clear Sky Sect disciples Tang Zhenyue, Tang Lieshan, and Tang Xiaoyun on Star Luo Royal Academy’s team, where they had qualified undefeated using Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Bibi Dong reviewed the Balak Kingdom results and noticed that Yu Xiaogang led Barak Team, whose members had each learned at least three Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Bibi Dong read the intelligence on Yu Xiaogang and Tang San joining Barak Team, then felt delighted that Yu Xiaogang had proved capable of teaching Self-Created Soul Skills.

After the preliminaries, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang joined the Balak Team in the Heaven Dou Imperial Capital for the advancement matches. Tang San confronted Su Mo Academy’s overwhelming record and tailored Self-Created Soul Skills, then told Flender that he—not Yu Xiaogang—had brought out the techniques used by the Balak Team.

• The Imperial Capital preliminaries ended with Su Mo Academy, Elephant Armor Academy, Blazing Fire Academy, Skywater Academy, and Godwind Academy advancing, while other divisions’ teams arrived for the advancement matches.
• Yu Xiaogang showed Tang San a report detailing Su Mo Academy’s undefeated run, Teleportation and Martial Soul Projection skills, and individually tailored Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Tang San recognized that Su Mo’s tailored techniques surpassed the universal martial arts he had taught the Balak Team, and admitted to himself that he could not create techniques from scratch as Su Mo could.
• Flender excitedly congratulated Yu Xiaogang for supposedly developing the Balak Team’s Self-Created Soul Skills, but Yu Xiaogang clarified that Tang San had brought them out and he had only organized them for others to learn.
• Tang San proudly confirmed to Flender that he had brought out all the Balak Team’s Self-Created Soul Skills.

Flender learned that Tang San had created several Self-Created Soul Skills and persuaded Yu Xiaogang to take Oscar and Ma Hongjun into the Barak Team as substitutes. As rival teams gathered in the imperial capital, reports credited Yu Xiaogang with teaching the skills, though many still considered Su Mo the greater Grandmaster.

• Flender questioned Tang San about his Self-Created Soul Skills, and Yu Xiaogang privately revealed that Tang San was Tang Hao's son and had Twin Martial Souls.
• Flender asked Yu Xiaogang to help Oscar and Ma Hongjun join the Barak Team as substitutes so they could compete and learn Tang San's skills.
• Yu Xiaogang agreed, and Oscar and Ma Hongjun joined the Barak Team as substitute members.
• As other teams arrived in the imperial capital, intelligence about the Barak Team's Self-Created Soul Skills spread among the camps.
• Huyan Zhen and other Soul Masters reacted with surprise to the reports, debated Yu Xiaogang's abilities, and continued to praise Su Mo as the greater Grandmaster.

Su Mo dismissed the Barak Team’s new techniques as Tang San’s work, while Tang San explained why he let Yu Xiaogang take credit and began teaching Swallow Triple Water-Skimming to Oscar and Ma Hongjun. Ma Hongjun quickly grasped the movement’s basics, and Tang San’s techniques remained concealed behind his teacher.

• Xiao Wu told Su Mo that Yu Xiaogang had led the Barak Team to an undefeated kingdom qualifier run by teaching them several Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Su Mo identified the techniques as Tang San’s martial arts and concluded that the Barak Team posed little threat.
• Tang San’s thoughts revealed that he had asked Yu Xiaogang to take credit so his teacher would gain recognition and Tang San could keep his own abilities hidden.
• Tang San demonstrated Swallow Triple Water-Skimming and explained its movements and cultivation method to Oscar and Ma Hongjun.
• Ma Hongjun used his phoenix wings to perform the three turns on his first attempt, impressing Tang San.

Tang San recruited Ma Hongjun and Oscar into the Tang Sect, then both the Su Mo Academy team and the Barak Team dominated their first three promotion-round matches. Tang San’s impressive performance drew attention, and the two teams were set to face each other next.

• Tang San offered Ma Hongjun and Oscar Tang Sect membership as the condition for learning his techniques, and both immediately joined.
• The promotion round began as a one-on-one tournament, and Su Mo Academy won its first three matches with standout performances from Yu Tianheng, Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wushuang, Shui Bing'er, and Dugu Yan.
• Tang San swept all seven opponents in Barak Team’s first two matches, then his teammates secured a third victory using his Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Tang San’s skill with Blue Silver Grass and his Self-Created Soul Skills spread through the competing teams, prompting comparisons with Su Mo Academy’s members.
• The Su Mo Team and the Barak Team finished three rounds undefeated and were scheduled to face each other next.

Su Mo Team’s Shui Bing’er faced Tang San as the first contestants in the promotion tournament match against Barak Team. Shui Bing’er’s ice attacks suppressed Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and disrupted his movement, leaving him struggling to recover as the battle continued.

• The promotion tournament match between Su Mo Team and Barak Team drew a packed crowd, including Yu Yuanzhen, who was torn between supporting his grandsons and watching Yu Xiaogang’s team.
• Tang San volunteered to lead Barak Team, and Shui Bing’er stepped forward as Su Mo Team’s first contestant.
• After the referee started the match, Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track while Shui Bing’er chilled the arena and tracked his movements.
• Tang San sent Blue Silver Grass vines toward Shui Bing’er, but she froze them with Mystic Ice Sword Qi and forced him to sever his Soul Power connection to them.
• Tang San rushed into close combat with a thick lash of Blue Silver Grass, but Shui Bing’er froze the vines and struck at him with more sword qi, making him slip on the icy arena floor.

Tang San lost decisively to Shui Bing'er, and Su Mo Academy easily defeated the Barak Team. That night, Yu Xiaogang reconsidered his old advice about Twin Martial Souls and allowed Tang San to cultivate his second Martial Soul.

• Shui Bing'er froze Tang San's arm and leg, defeated him, then stepped down after defeating two more Barak Team members.
• Yu Tianheng and Huo Wushuang defeated the remaining Barak Team members, while Flender worried over Oscar and Ma Hongjun's defeat and regret about not joining Su Mo Academy.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang he wanted to cultivate his second Martial Soul, arguing that Soul Rings now had to be condensed through accumulated Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang realized that waiting to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer offered no advantage in a world without Soul Beasts, admitted his old advice was wrong, and gave Tang San permission to begin whenever he wanted.

Su Mo Academy advanced smoothly through the early finals rounds while Tang San’s Barak Team was eliminated by the Star Luo Team. After recognizing that his second martial soul resembled the Clear Sky Hammer, Tang San learned from Yu Xiaogang that his father, Tang Hao, was a Titled Douluo of the Clear Sky Sect.

• Su Mo Academy won its first-round match, and the Barak Team also advanced.
• Su Mo Academy received a bye into the third round while Feng Xiaotian and his teammates watched the seeded teams compete.
• The Star Luo Team defeated Tang San’s Barak Team with its Clear Sky Sect disciples, and Tang San never revealed his second martial soul.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang why his second martial soul resembled the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that his second martial soul was the Clear Sky Hammer and that his father, Tang Hao, had been a Titled Douluo of the Clear Sky Sect.

Yu Xiaogang revealed Tang Hao’s identity as the Clear Sky Douluo, prompting Tang San to confront his painful memories of being neglected by his father. Yu Xiaogang then asked where Tang San had learned his unusual techniques, and Tang San realized his father may have mistreated him after discovering his secret training.

• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that Tang Hao had gravely wounded Spirit Hall’s previous Pope, Qian Xunji, before hiding with him in Holy Soul Village.
• Tang San recalled Tang Hao’s neglect throughout his childhood and questioned whether his father had ever cared about him.
• Yu Xiaogang wondered where Tang San had learned his Self-Created Soul Skills and Cultivation Techniques, since they were unlike the Clear Sky Sect’s arts.
• Yu Xiaogang asked whether Tang Hao’s treatment of Tang San was connected to those techniques and when Tang San had begun practicing them.
• Tang San realized that Tang Hao had discovered him training without a teacher.

Tang San invited Yu Xiaogang to join the Tang Sect, and Yu Xiaogang accepted. Su Mo Academy advanced through the king-of-the-hill match to face the Star Luo Imperial Team in the final, where both teams opened with their strongest attacks and Su Mo Academy came under heavy pressure.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that he wanted to find his father after the tournament and invited his teacher to help rebuild the Tang Sect.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted Tang San's invitation and vowed to help the Tang Sect flourish.
• Su Mo Academy defeated the Spirit Hall and Star Luo teams in the king-of-the-hill match, earning a direct place in the final.
• The Star Luo Imperial Team defeated the Spirit Hall Team in the semifinal team battle, prompting Bibi Dong to regret the loss.
• In the final, the Star Luo Imperial Team unleashed Hell White Tiger and Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer as Su Mo Academy countered with teleportation and coordinated attacks, but the frontal assault put the academy under intense pressure.

Su Mo Academy defeated the Star Luo Team in the tournament finals and claimed the championship, while Xiao Wu accepted the Soul Bones from Bibi Dong. After seeing the academy’s success, Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall Academy to send its best young geniuses to Su Mo Academy’s next recruitment.

• Feng Xiaotian and Yu Tianheng broke the Hell White Tiger’s fusion state, and Su Mo Team defeated the remaining Clear Sky Sect disciples to win the finals.
• Xiao Wu accepted the three Soul Bones from Bibi Dong at the award ceremony, calmly confronting the woman who had killed her mother.
• Spectators and rival leaders praised Su Mo Academy’s fighters and Su Mo’s teaching, while Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang celebrated Meng Yiran’s performance.
• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to select ten Spirit Hall Academy geniuses and send them to Su Mo Academy’s second recruitment.

After Su Mo Academy's tournament victory proved its Self-Created Soul Skill system, Spirit Hall, Clear Sky Sect, and other factions prepared to send young geniuses to its second recruitment. Su Mo later inspected Slaughter City and found the Snowy Swan Kiss accelerating its collapse, while he anticipated Bibi Dong's Ninth Trial.

• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall Academy's geniuses to learn Self-Created Soul Skills at Su Mo Academy so they could match its students.
• Tang Xiao ordered Clear Sky Sect to select five outstanding disciples under twenty for Su Mo Academy's second recruitment, and other major factions followed suit.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu teased each other in the Void Space cabin, then Xiao Wu fell asleep in Su Mo's arms.
• Su Mo teleported to Slaughter City and saw its Fallen Ones attacking each other amid spreading dark red mist and widespread bloodshed.
• Su Mo concluded that the Snowy Swan Kiss was rapidly amplifying Slaughter City's baleful energy and wondered whether Bibi Dong was preparing for her Ninth Trial.

Su Mo watched Slaughter City succumb to the irreversible poison of the Snowy Swan Kiss, then left as Bibi Dong completed her Rakshasa God's Eighth Trial. Bibi Dong gained a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and resolved to kill Su Mo after becoming a god.

• Su Mo observed the poisoned King of Slaughter rampage through Slaughter City and concluded that the city's destruction was inevitable.
• Su Mo reasoned that Bibi Dong could no longer use Slaughter City to begin her final trial and would need a war to gather power.
• Bibi Dong used the Ring Condensation Technique to form a hundred-thousand-year Ninth Soul Ring for her Soul Devouring Spider Emperor.
• Bibi Dong completed the Rakshasa God's Eighth Trial after fully cultivating both martial souls and gathering all her Soul Bones.
• Bibi Dong credited Su Mo's Ring Condensation Technique for helping her progress, then vowed to kill him once she attained godhood.

Bibi Dong discovered that she needed a huge sacrifice to begin the Rakshasa God's Ninth Trial and chose Slaughter City as her source of energy. When she found that most of its Fallen Ones had already died and poisonous baleful energy had transformed the survivors, she abandoned the plan and returned to seek another way.

• Bibi Dong learned that the Rakshasa God had no representative or believers in the lower realm, so she found an ancient formation that could use corpses to fuel the Ninth Trial.
• Bibi Dong traveled to Slaughter City, expecting its many Fallen Ones to provide enough sacrifices.
• Bibi Dong found Slaughter City filled with corpses and dark crimson poisonous mist, with fewer than a tenth of the needed living people remaining.
• Bibi Dong realized the intensified poison had driven the survivors into relentless slaughter and raged over the destruction of her plan.
• Bibi Dong left Slaughter City and returned toward Spirit Hall to search for another place to initiate the Ninth Trial.

Ning Fengzhi’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolved into the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda through Su Mo’s Soul Weapon Fusion method, while Sword Douluo’s Seven Kill Sword also improved. The chapter ended with Ning Fengzhi and the two Douluo recognizing the immense debt they owed Su Mo.

• Ning Fengzhi’s Martial Soul evolved into the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and he celebrated the breakthrough with Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.
• Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo congratulated Ning Fengzhi and credited Su Mo’s Soul Weapon Fusion method for making the evolution possible.
• Sword Douluo revealed that the Seven Kill Sword had become sharper and used less Soul Power after he fused it with a forged sword.
• Bone Douluo envied Sword Douluo’s weapon Martial Soul and resolved to ask Su Mo for a way to evolve his own Martial Soul.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo praised Su Mo’s many achievements and agreed that knowing him was the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s great fortune.

Ning Rongrong saw Ning Fengzhi’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolve into an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda through Su Mo’s Soul Weapon Fusion method and vowed to evolve her own Martial Soul. At Su Mo Academy, all ten students chose to remain, with Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin staying to learn how to create Soul Skills themselves because their contract barred them from sharing what they had learned.

• Ning Rongrong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and saw Ning Fengzhi holding an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda with a newly formed eighth level.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong that Su Mo’s Soul Weapon Fusion method had helped him evolve his Martial Soul, and she said she wanted to evolve her own as soon as possible.
• Ning Fengzhi reached Soul Power Level 80 after his evolution and planned to condense his Eighth Soul Ring before pursuing a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Su Mo asked the ten students whether they would graduate or remain at the academy, and Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, Shui Bing’er, Shui Yue’er, Meng Yiran, Dugu Yan, and Ning Rongrong chose to stay.
• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin also chose to stay and study, explaining that their confidentiality contracts prevented them from sharing the techniques they had learned and that they wanted to create Soul Skills of their own.

Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, where they explained that Su Mo Academy’s confidentiality contract prevented them from teaching its Self-Created Soul Skills to anyone. Students returning to other academies and families reported the same restriction, leaving their relatives disappointed but unable to challenge the contract.

• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin received an enthusiastic welcome from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, whose members hoped to learn their Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin told Yu Yuanzhen and the elders that their signed confidentiality contracts prevented them from teaching the skills by speech, writing, or Soul Power guidance.
• Yu Yuanzhen accepted that the brothers had chosen correctly and told them to continue studying at Su Mo Academy while the clan trained in its own techniques.
• Huo Wu, Shui Yue'er, and Feng Xiaotian returned to their respective academies and reported that they could not pass on the skills they had learned.
• The news of the contracts spread through the students’ families and associates.

Reports of Su Mo Academy’s Secrecy Contract spread across the continent, forcing sects to reconsider whether to send students there. On Sea God Island, Bo Saixi reviewed Su Mo’s achievements and wondered what kind of person he was.

• News spread that students had to sign a Secrecy Contract to learn Su Mo Academy’s Self-Created Soul Skills and could not teach them to others.
• Bibi Dong reconsidered sending gifted students to the academy but still saw value in their studying there.
• Huyan Zhen decided the Elephant Armor Sect would send disciples because their personal strength and victories would benefit the sect.
• Tang Xiao argued that Clear Sky Sect disciples could use the skills themselves after returning, and that preventing the skills from spreading benefited the sect.
• Bo Saixi read intelligence reports about Su Mo’s achievements over the past two years and wondered what kind of person he was.

Bo Saixi traveled from Sea God Island to the continent to ask Su Mo to create Self-Created Soul Skills for Sea Soul Masters. After failing to locate Tang Chen, she reached Su Mo Academy and made her request.

• Bo Saixi considered how Sea God Island needed powerful Soul Skills that could be used by its Sea Soul Masters.
• Bo Saixi searched the continent for Tang Chen but could not find him, though she sensed that he was still alive.
• Bo Saixi traveled to Seven Treasure City and arrived at Su Mo Academy, where Su Mo recognized her as the High Priestess of Sea God Island.
• Bo Saixi asked Su Mo to tailor a set of Self-Created Soul Skills suitable for Sea Soul Masters to cultivate.

Su Mo agreed to visit Sea God Island after Bo Saixi invited him, then traveled with Xiao Wu to the Heaven Dou Imperial Capital to obtain the Sea God's Heart. He traded promises of Soul Skill sets for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and prepared to set out for the island.

• Su Mo agreed to go to Sea God Island after finishing some matters at the academy, and Bo Saixi thanked him.
• Su Mo told Xiao Wu they would first obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, then teleported with her to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
• Su Mo offered Xue Ye Self-Created Soul Skills for the imperial family and the empire's soldiers in exchange for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Xue Ye accepted the offer, gave Su Mo the Sea God's Heart, and arranged for the crown prince to study under him.
• Su Mo promised to instruct the crown prince and teleported away with Xiao Wu, astonishing Xue Ye.