Chapter Summaries

At the tournament finals ceremony, Star Luo Emperor Dai Lingfeng challenged the Martial Soul Hall Team’s refusal to kneel, but Murong Huai calmly asserted his status as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son. Dai Lingfeng’s pointed question about Ning Fengzhi’s enrollment was defused by Ning Xiuyuan, and the ceremony ended with the announcement of two Spirit Bones as the champion’s prize ahead of the finals.

• Dai Lingfeng addressed the gathered teams, and his attendant rebuked the Martial Soul Hall Team for not kneeling until Gui Mei, Yue Guan, and Dugu Bo revealed their Titled Douluo auras.
• Murong Huai stopped the three elders from escalating the confrontation and introduced himself to Dai Lingfeng as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son.
• Dai Lingfeng recognized Murong Huai as Murong Fuhai’s son and asked whether he intended to impress everyone at the tournament, but Murong Huai said he was only the team’s instructor.
• Dai Lingfeng questioned Ning Xiuyuan about Ning Fengzhi joining the Martial Soul Academy, and Ning Xiuyuan claimed his son was there to pursue someone he loved, embarrassing Ning Fengzhi.
• Dai Lingfeng announced two roughly thirty-thousand-year-old Spirit Bones as the tournament champions’ prize, then concluded his speech before the competitors left to prepare for the finals.

The Martial Soul Hall Team teased Ning Fengzhi about the person he liked, and Murong Huai diverted them from revealing that it was Shu Qingning. Afterward, Ning Fengzhi told Murong Huai how he had fallen for Shu Qingning and realized he needed to confess before the team went their separate ways.

• Qin Tianzhen, Xuan Tianming, and Wu Chuan questioned Ning Fengzhi about his crush and narrowed their guesses to someone on the team.
• Murong Huai jokingly claimed Ning Fengzhi liked Wu Chuan, letting the others avoid naming Shu Qingning in front of everyone.
• Shu Qingning realized Ning Fengzhi liked her and blushed as she wondered whether to accept him.
• Ning Fengzhi thanked Murong Huai and explained that he had fallen for Shu Qingning after she saved him during the Inner Court assessment.
• Murong Huai warned Ning Fengzhi that the team would likely separate after the Elite Tournament, and Ning Fengzhi resolved to take the limited time seriously.

At the Elite Tournament finals, the teams drew matchups, and the Martial Soul Hall Team received a bye into the solo matches. The Star Luo Royal Team then defeated Spear Soul Academy in the opening two-man match.

• Si Yingwei revealed himself as a Title Douluo and explained the finals' three-stage format.
• The team captains drew tokens, and Qin Tianzhen drew the blank token that gave the Martial Soul Hall Team a bye.
• Si Yingwei announced the matchups, and Murong Huai told the Martial Soul Hall Team to observe the other teams' strengths.
• The Star Luo Royal Team sent Dai Zhen and a Ghost Vine soul master to face two members of Spear Soul Academy.
• The Ghost Vine soul master bound and poisoned both opponents, securing the first match for the Star Luo Royal Team.

The Martial Soul Hall Team began its individual challenge match against Skywater Academy, with Xuan Tianming revealing himself as a Soul King and defeating Skywater’s first contestant. Xuan Tianming trapped Qingling with his War Stomp and prepared to attack, leaving the second match unresolved.

• Spear Soul Academy’s instructor rallied the remaining members, but Dai Zhen defeated Sun Yueke and Zhang Chu, and Star Luo Royal Academy advanced.
• Heaven Dou Royal Team defeated Godwind Academy two to one, while Skywater Academy swept Tianxing Academy three to zero.
• The next day’s individual-match draw paired Skywater Academy with the Martial Soul Hall Team and Star Luo Royal Team with Heaven Dou Royal Team.
• Xuan Tianming defeated Skywater Academy’s first contestant with a single earth-element attack after revealing his five Spirit Rings.
• Qingling attacked Xuan Tianming with her speed and water-based skills, but his War Stomp suppressed her and left her unable to escape.

Xuan Tianming faced Skywater Academy captain Chu Qing'er in the decisive third round, trading increasingly powerful attacks with the level fifty-two Soul King. Their strongest techniques collided in a storm that filled the arena, leaving the winner unknown.

• After Skywater Academy lost two rounds, Chu Qing'er entered the platform and challenged Xuan Tianming.
• Chu Qing'er froze Xuan Tianming with Ice Seal and struck him with her Ice Crystal Sacred Sword, but he got back up and charged with stone gauntlets.
• Xuan Tianming broke free of Chu Qing'er's second Ice Seal with Tyrant Ox Heaven Rush and sent her flying, damaging her sword.
• Chu Qing'er summoned an Ice Tiger Clone and coordinated attacks with it, cutting Xuan Tianming's hands and trapping him between the tigers and her sword.
• Xuan Tianming unleashed Tyrant Ox Divine Might, dispersing the ice tigers and knocking Chu Qing'er back.
• Chu Qing'er and Xuan Tianming launched their fifth and fourth Soul Skills, respectively, and their giant tiger and tyrant ox collided in a storm as referee Si Yingwei raised a protective barrier.

Xuan Tianming defeated Chu Qing'er as the Martial Soul Hall Team advanced, while Dai Lingfeng and his ministers plotted to seize Martial Soul Hall's firearm technology. The chapter ended with Dai Lingfeng ordering Zhu Xuanye to arrange a scheme during the final team battle.

• Xuan Tianming defeated Chu Qing'er, and Skywater Academy forfeited its remaining matches to enter the Loser's Bracket.
• Dai Zhen single-handedly defeated the Heaven Dou Royal Team, and the championship team battle was scheduled for three days later.
• Dai Lingfeng reviewed a report confirming Martial Soul Hall's powerful firearms and asked his ministers how the empire should respond.
• Mu Zunyun proposed trading Martial Soul Hall members for the weapons' manufacturing methods, and Zhu Xuanye suggested framing a team member for killing an imperial official.
• Dai Lingfeng approved Zhu Xuanye's plan to replace Si Yingwei as referee and ordered him to make arrangements for the final.

Zhu Xuanye coerced Sun You into poisoning Tang Hao before the finals team battle, where the Martial Soul Hall Team revealed a lineup far stronger than the Star Luo Royal Team expected. The chapter ended with the crowd stunned by the opposing team’s seven Soul Kings and two Soul Emperors.

• Zhu Xuanye threatened Sun You and ordered him to put a pale blue liquid into Tang Hao’s drink, using Sun You’s family as leverage.
• At the Star Luo Royal Team’s dinner, Sun You secretly poured the liquid into Tang Hao’s wine, and Tang Hao drank it.
• Zhao Xuanqing opened the team match, and Tang Hao’s Soul Emperor cultivation drew cheers from the spectators.
• The Martial Soul Hall Team revealed that all seven members had at least five Spirit Rings, stunning the Star Luo Royal Team and the crowd.
• Qin Tianzhen and Bibi Dong each displayed six Spirit Rings, revealing that the Martial Soul Hall Team had two Soul Emperors.

The Martial Soul Hall Team and Star Luo Royal Team began their finals battle, revealing the Martial Soul Hall Team’s unprecedented lineup of five Soul Kings and two Soul Emperors. Xuan Tianming smashed through Star Luo’s defenses but accidentally charged off the platform, and Tu Zhanyue then used her soul skills to pin most of Star Luo’s fighters to the ground.

• The Martial Soul Hall Team revealed five Soul Kings and two Soul Emperors, while Ning Fengzhi’s Soul King rank impressed Ning Xiuyuan and Gu Rong.
• Tang Hao and Qin Tianzhen clashed as both teams’ auxiliary soul masters enhanced their fighters.
• Xuan Tianming broke through Star Luo’s defensive barriers with Ning Fengzhi’s support, scattering the team’s formation.
• Xuan Tianming failed to stop his charge and ran off the platform, embarrassing himself and prompting laughter from the spectators.
• Tu Zhanyue covered the Star Luo Royal Team with Black Abyssal Heavy Water and crushed most of its members to the ground.

The Star Luo Royal Team summoned the Hell White Tiger, but Ning Fengzhi injured it with his Spiral Maru before Bibi Dong engaged it. As Ning Fengzhi, Shu Qingning, Tu Zhanyue, and Wu Chuan attacked Sun You, Zhu Xuanye triggered a mysterious energy inside him, causing Sun You to explode and engulf the team in a massive blast.

• Shu Qingning eliminated three Star Luo Royal Team Soul Ancestors, prompting Dai Zhen to use his White Tiger Demon God Transformation and fuse with Zhu Xianyue into the Hell White Tiger.
• Ning Fengzhi struck the Hell White Tiger's claw with a Spiral Maru, and Wu Chuan healed Ning Fengzhi and Shu Qingning with platinum cigarettes.
• Bibi Dong trapped the Hell White Tiger in her Blood Soul Evil Domain and attacked it with her poisonous spiders while the others turned on Sun You.
• Wu Chuan destroyed Sun You's Ghost Vines, and Shu Qingning and Tu Zhanyue knocked him down before Ning Fengzhi and Wu Chuan joined the assault.
• Zhu Xuanye crushed an energy sphere, causing Sun You to swell and explode, engulfing the four attackers in the blast.

Sun You’s forbidden Blood Explosion Art grievously injured Ning Fengzhi, Tu Zhanyue, and two others, prompting Murong Huai to demand answers from the Star Luo Emperor. The confrontation escalated into a standoff, and Dai Lingfeng summoned the imperial Ten Attendants to seize Murong Huai.

• Sun You’s explosion left Ning Fengzhi, Shu Qingning, Tu Zhanyue, and another fighter badly injured, while Sun You died.
• Murong Huai and Ning Xiuyuan helped stabilize the wounded, and Yue Guan warned that Tu Zhanyue’s shattered martial soul put her life at risk.
• Murong Huai ordered the injured taken to Spirit Hall and Ye Xuanqiu for treatment, and Gu Rong opened a Space Gate to carry them from Star Luo City.
• Murong Huai pointed his sword at Dai Lingfeng and demanded an explanation, while Ning Xiuyuan accused the imperial family of using its Blood Explosion Forbidden Art.
• Dai Lingfeng ordered his guards to seize Murong Huai, but Murong Huai revealed his seven Spirit Rings, including a hundred-thousand-year ring, and fought back.
• Dai Lingfeng summoned the Ten Attendants, including seven Spirit Douluos and three Title Douluos, one of whom was a Super Douluo.

Murong Huai fought the Star Luo imperial family's Ten Eunuchs and revealed a spatial sword skill that erased two Title Douluos. The remaining Super Douluo fled as the onlookers realized the scale of Murong Huai's power.

• Ning Xiuyuan recognized the Star Luo imperial family's Ten Eunuchs, and seven Soul Douluos attacked Murong Huai on the emperor's command.
• Murong Huai killed five of the seven Soul Douluos and left the other two barely alive.
• Three Title Douluos intervened, and two of them charged Murong Huai.
• Murong Huai unleashed his sixth soul skill, Lone Edge Crossing Calamity, Void Drifting, Chasing the Current, and exiled the two Title Douluos and the two surviving Soul Douluos into a spatial fissure.
• Dai Lingfeng and the remaining Super Douluo watched in terror, and the Super Douluo turned and fled.

Golden Crocodile Douluo arrived in Star Luo City, exposed Zhu Xuanye’s plot against the Martial Soul Hall team, and prevented him from being silenced. The confrontation was interrupted when Tang Hao collapsed from a delayed poison, and the chapter ended with Tang Xiao demanding to know what Tang Hao had eaten.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo defeated the Ten Attendants’ last leader and brought the injured Zhu Xuanye before Dai Lingfeng.
• Zhu Xuanye confessed that he had conspired with the Ten Attendants, but Dai Lingfeng killed the attendant who tried to implicate him and ordered Zhu Xuanye to take his own life.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo stopped Zhu Xuanye from killing himself and challenged Dai Lingfeng’s attempt to control the situation.
• Tang Hao suddenly vomited blood and collapsed, and Tang Zhan discovered that poison was corrupting Tang Hao’s martial soul.
• An imperial physician identified the poison as gouwen, which Tang Hao had apparently taken the previous night, and Tang Xiao demanded to know what Tang Hao had eaten.

After Zhu Xuanye’s plot to poison Tang Hao was exposed, Bibi Dong cured him while Murong Huai demanded compensation from the Star Luo Empire. The emperor refused to cede cities, and Murong Huai prepared to force the issue.

• Tang Xiao learned Sun You had served Tang Hao wine, and an imperial physician identified the poison as gelsemium.
• Murong Huai took a bottle of gelsemium from Zhu Xuanye and gave it to Tang Xiao as proof, prompting Tang Zhan to attack Zhu Xuanye for the antidote.
• Murong Huai asked Bibi Dong to save Tang Hao, and Tang Zhan agreed to her terms; Bibi Dong absorbed the poison into her Death Spider Emperor.
• Murong Huai demanded compensation from Dai Lingfeng, who offered Spirit Bones and Gold Soul Coins, but Murong Huai also insisted on three cities and three treasury treasures.
• Dai Lingfeng refused to cede the cities, so Murong Huai raised his sword as Golden Crocodile unleashed his Peak Douluo aura.

Murong Huai forced Dai Lingfeng to compensate Spirit Hall and searched the Star Luo Empire treasury, where he found two halves of a lost Soul Tool manual. The Star Luo Empire lost the Clear Sky Sect’s support, while Murong Huai prepared to take the manual back for Spirit Hall to decipher.

• Dai Lingfeng agreed to surrender one city, thirty million Gold Soul Coins, five soul bones, and three treasury treasures rather than fight Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong cured Tang Hao’s poison, and Tang Zhan took Tang Hao and Tang Xiao away after severing the Clear Sky Sect’s ties with the Star Luo Empire.
• Murong Huai escorted Dai Lingfeng to the imperial treasury while Golden Crocodile stayed outside to guard Bibi Dong and the others.
• Murong Huai found two halves of a book containing Soul Tool illustrations and blueprints, recognized it as a lost crafting manual, and decided to take it for Spirit Hall to study.
• Heavenly Condemnation told Murong Huai that there was something he might be interested in.

Murong Huai found a god-linked scythe and a transforming navigational Soul Tool in the Star Luo royal treasury, then left for Spirit Hall with his companions and the rewards he had demanded. After the humiliation, Dai Lingfeng ordered witnesses silenced, and Shuo Ying had a thousand guards massacred to keep the events secret.

• Murong Huai uncovered a cracked black scythe whose vision revealed a powerful first-class god, then discovered a Soul Tool disguised as a model ship.
• Dai Lingfeng gave Murong Huai five Spirit Bones, thirty million Gold Soul Coins, and a city deed, and Murong Huai warned him not to target Spirit Hall.
• Murong Huai reunited with Golden Crocodile and the others, learned that Zhu Xuanye’s ashes had been scattered, and departed Star Luo City for Spirit Hall.
• Dai Lingfeng raged in the imperial study and ordered Shuo Ying to prevent the guards at the Great Soul Arena from revealing what had happened.
• Shuo Ying assembled a thousand unarmed guards and left them to be shot by archers surrounding the garrison.

In Spirit City, Qian Xunji honored the returning Martial Soul Hall Team with Soul Bones and medals before Qian Daoliu emerged from seclusion as a level ninety-nine Limit Douluo. Qian Daoliu began appointing the Seven Great Worships and named Murong Chayue Second Worship.

• The Star Luo Empire announced the Martial Soul Hall Team as the tournament champions, prompting celebrations in Spirit City.
• Qian Xunji awarded the seven team members five Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, Purple Record Medals, and the lifelong title of Martial Soul Hall Seven Stars for their achievements.
• Qian Daoliu entered the Pope Palace after breaking through to the level ninety-nine Limit Douluo realm, and the assembled officials welcomed him.
• Qian Daoliu announced that Murong Chayue would become Second Worship, equal in status to the Pope and Grand Worship within Martial Soul Hall.
• Murong Chayue accepted the appointment and took the first seat to Qian Daoliu’s right.

Martial Soul Hall appointed several powerful elders as Worship Hall offerings before formally investing Murong Huai as its Holy Son. The chapter ended with the entire hall and its guards saluting him in recognition of his rank.

• Qian Daoliu appointed Golden Crocodile, Xiao Qingmei, Murong Fuhai, Azure Luan, and Jinlun as the Third through Seventh Offerings of the Worship Hall.
• Qian Xunji recounted Murong Huai’s accomplishments and announced his formal investiture as Holy Son.
• Murong Huai entered the Pope Palace, where Qian Daoliu welcomed him and Murong Fuhai, Xiao Qingmei, Murong Chayue, and Qian Xunji presented him with the Holy Son’s regalia.
• Qian Daoliu gave Murong Huai a golden longsword and declared that the Holy Son ranked below only himself, the Pope, and the Second Worship.
• The offerings, elders, attendees, and palace guards saluted Murong Huai as the Holy Son of Martial Soul Hall.

Murong Huai learned that the seemingly worthless Xili City was a vast former frontier fortress beside a huge metal ore vein, and planned to claim it alongside his territory in the Cangwu Desert. He also showed Murong Zhige an ancient book about soul-tool crafting, then agreed to visit the Dragon Spine Mountain Range within three years.

• Murong Huai discovered that Dai Lingfeng had compensated him with remote Xili City, which seemed nearly abandoned and strategically worthless.
• Murong Zhige explained that Xili City had once been the Xili Empire’s capital and was a huge fortress beside a metal ore vein stretching through a mountain range.
• Murong Huai realized he could claim the ore-rich mountains together with the Cangwu Desert territory promised by the Primordial Desert-Splitting Viper.
• Murong Zhige identified Murong Huai’s ancient book as the Soul Tool Refined Crafting Record and suggested investigating the descendants of Xu Qingxue for help deciphering it.
• Murong Zhige asked Murong Huai to return to the Dragon Spine Mountain Range to master the great techniques, and Murong Huai promised to go within three years.

Murong Huai visited the Star Dome Factory and ordered Mo Heng to turn Xili City into a heavily fortified industrial stronghold. After Mo Heng revealed his steam-powered excavator, Murong Huai encouraged him to build loaders and excavators to dig a canal to the city.

• Murong Huai visited Mo Heng's underground factory and learned that the Ministry of Works had developed CNC machines, steam engines, and weapons.
• Murong Huai ordered Mo Heng to transform Xili City into a war fortress, providing craftsmen, soldiers, ore, and one billion Gold Soul Coins.
• Mo Heng proposed digging a canal through Cangwu Desert to supply Xili City with water instead of laying an underground pipeline.
• Mo Heng showed Murong Huai a steam-powered excavator built with tracked propulsion and a mechanical digging arm.
• Murong Huai suggested using petroleum as fuel and adding a large shovel to make a loader, and Mo Heng promised to build loaders and excavators for the canal project.

Murong Huai completed thousands of industrial blueprints and received Xu Senyu’s translation of an ancient Soul Tool manual. He then led a team to a basin near Spirit City to search for petroleum, leaving Yue Guan and Gui Mei digging a deep shaft.

• Murong Huai spent half a month drawing blueprints for engines, vehicles, and petroleum refining, then ordered Yue Guan to deliver them to Mo Heng.
• Xu Senyu presented Murong Huai with his translation of the ancient Soul Tool Refined Crafting Record, which described formations and methods for crafting more than a hundred Soul Tools.
• Murong Huai set out with Ghost Flower Snake, two others, and several hundred people to search for petroleum in a basin about three hundred kilometers from Spirit City.
• Murong Huai used his Ultimate Gold to probe underground and chose a spot for Yue Guan to dig.
• Yue Guan drilled nearly a thousand meters into the ground with his fifth Soul Skill while Gui Mei removed the excavated soil and continued digging below.