Chapter Summaries

Xue Ye publicly knelt before Qian Cheng to protect the Heaven Dou Empire and secured Xue Beng’s life by offering a treasury ransom. Qian Cheng then headed to inspect Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Qin Ming was disciplining the team after its challenge against Slime Academy.

• Xue Ye and the Heaven Dou Empire’s officials knelt to greet Qian Cheng, and Xue Beng feared the Pope’s judgment.
• Xue Ye slapped Xue Beng and knelt with him before Qian Cheng, who agreed to spare Xue Beng in exchange for a treasure from the imperial treasury.
• Meng Shenji explained that the Third Prince was leading Heaven Dou Royal Academy against Slime Academy, prompting Qian Cheng to request an inspection of the academy.
• Xue Ye arranged for the First and Second Princes to accompany Qian Cheng to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Qin Ming scolded Xue Haicang, Yu Tianheng, and the Shi brothers for disobeying his orders during the match, then left the training grounds.

After their defeat, the Imperial Dou Team suspected Qin Ming had favored Slime Academy, and Meng Shenji confirmed that Qin Ming’s former Shrek Academy had changed its name. Qian Cheng visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy, examined Xue Haicang’s peacock spirit, and learned that the team blamed Qin Ming for their loss.

• Yu Feng, Shi Mo, and Osler questioned Qin Ming’s conduct after the match, and Osler said he had seen Qin Ming’s expression turn ugly when the team fought back.
• Yu Tianheng told the team not to spread unproven accusations, but Xue Haicang pointed out that Qin Ming had graduated from Shrek Academy.
• Meng Shenji arrived with Zhi Lin, Xue Ye, Xue Luochuan, Xue Qinghe, and Qian Cheng, then confirmed that Shrek Academy had become Slime Academy.
• Qian Cheng asked Xue Haicang to release his spirit and asked whether his peacock-like spirit could use Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Xue Haicang told Qian Cheng that the Imperial Dou Team had lost because Qin Ming interfered, and Qian Cheng asked Meng Shenji whether someone at Heaven Dou Royal Academy was working against his own side.

After Slime Academy defeated the Imperial Dou Team, Qian Cheng and Emperor Xue Ye arranged for Qin Ming to answer for allegedly sabotaging Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Meng Shenji began questioning Qin Ming about why he had restricted the Imperial Dou Team’s attacks.

• Meng Shenji questioned members of the Imperial Dou Team, grew furious, and apologized to Qian Cheng for their disgraceful conduct.
• Qian Cheng asked how Heaven Dou Royal Academy dealt with traitors, and Emperor Xue Ye ordered Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin to bring Qin Ming and Slime Academy back.
• Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin falsely told Qin Ming that Xue Ye wanted to meet Slime Academy’s students, then led the group to the Education Committee hall.
• Qin Ming and the others found Qian Cheng seated while Xue Ye stood nearby, and Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San trembled upon recognizing the Spirit Hall Pope.
• At Qian Cheng’s signal, Meng Shenji questioned Qin Ming about forbidding Xue Haicang and Yu Tianheng from using their fourth soul skills and warning them not to hit Slime Academy too hard.

After Meng Shenji accused Qin Ming of favoring Slime Academy, Flender and Liu Erlong backed Qin Ming and confronted the Heaven Dou Royal Academy committee members. Yu Xiaogang joined them in unleashing the Golden Iron Triangle’s combined power, transforming Luo Sanpao into a giant golden dragon and leaving Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin wary.

• Meng Shenji questioned Qin Ming’s loyalty to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Qin Ming admitted the academy paid his salary.
• Flender offered to take Qin Ming to Blue Tyrant Academy, while Liu Erlong and the students supported the move and challenged Meng Shenji.
• When Meng Shenji threatened to stop them from leaving, Flender and Liu Erlong formed the Golden Iron Triangle with Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong channeled their sixteen soul rings into Luo Sanpao, transforming it into a twenty-meter golden dragon.
• Yu Xiaogang declared that the dragon’s power could contend with a Titled Douluo, then asked Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin whether they would let the group leave.

Emperor Xue Ye offered Qian Cheng the rights to a city in exchange for punishing Yu Xiaogang, and Qian Cheng accepted. He drove Slime Academy from the hall but ordered Qin Ming to stay, where Meng Shenji struck him.

• Xue Qinghe advised Emperor Xue Ye to ask Qian Cheng to intervene, and Xue Ye offered him the rights to a city.
• Qian Cheng accepted the offer, slapped Yu Xiaogang out of his martial soul fusion state, and sent him crashing into a pillar.
• Qian Cheng threatened Slime Academy with death unless they left, and Yu Xiaogang led the group out.
• Qian Cheng ordered Qin Ming to remain, and Meng Shenji pressured him for betraying the empire.
• Qin Ming defended his actions, and Meng Shenji slapped him into a pillar.

Qin Ming died after Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin defeated him, and Flender was forced to leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy without his body. Emperor Xue Ye then fawned over Qian Cheng and invited him to a banquet.

• Meng Shenji arrested Qin Ming for treason and, with Zhi Lin, beat him nearly to death when he resisted.
• Qin Ming died in Flender's arms, declaring that he had no regrets about serving Slime Academy.
• Xue Haicang ordered Qin Ming's corpse thrown into a mass grave and provoked Flender, while Emperor Xue Ye threatened Slime Academy with overwhelming military force.
• Yu Xiaogang and Ma Hongjun stopped Flender from attacking, and Flender led Slime Academy out of the hall, planning to retrieve Qin Ming's body later.
• After Slime Academy left, Emperor Xue Ye respectfully invited Qian Cheng to a banquet, and Qian Cheng agreed.

Qian Cheng told Qian Renxue about Tang Hao’s living child and waited with the Heart of the Sea God for the bait to take. Poseidon’s divine sense appeared and demanded the crystal back, while his memories revealed that he had planned for Tang San to inherit both the Sea God and Asura God positions.

• Qian Renxue questioned Qian Cheng about bringing a city back from Heaven Dou City, and he said Xue Ye had given it to him.
• Qian Cheng told Qian Renxue that Tang Hao’s child was alive and consumed by revenge against Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue asked why the Heart of the Sea God had not attracted anything, and the crystal suddenly lit up.
• Poseidon’s divine sense emerged from the Heart of the Sea God and commanded Qian Cheng to return it.
• Poseidon recalled recognizing Tang San as Asura God’s chosen successor and plotting to make him inherit both divine positions.

Poseidon awakened and discovered that the Heart of the Sea God was no longer in the Heaven Dou Empire's treasury, then confronted Qian Cheng. Qian Cheng overwhelmed Poseidon, branded his soul to control him, and left him humiliated and forced to recognize Qian Cheng as his master.

• Poseidon appeared before Qian Cheng and demanded reverence, but Qian Cheng mocked his arrogance and mentioned what had happened eight hundred years earlier.
• Poseidon attacked Qian Cheng with a Sea God's Trident, but Qian Cheng caught him by the throat and revealed that he had crushed the souls of two Rank 1 Gods.
• Qian Cheng placed a soul brand on Poseidon and forced him to kneel.
• Qian Cheng introduced himself as Qian Cheng and slapped Poseidon twice, ordering him to address his master respectfully.

Qian Cheng forced Poseidon’s divine-sense avatar to submit, questioned him about the Sea God Trials, and then destroyed him. In the God Realm, the true Poseidon discovered he could not see into the mortal world and discussed investigating the incident with the Asura God.

• Qian Cheng compelled Poseidon’s divine-sense avatar to call him Master and explain which Sea God Trials he could initiate.
• After mocking Poseidon’s hope of being spared, Qian Cheng destroyed the divine-sense avatar in front of Qian Renxue.
• Poseidon sensed his avatar’s disappearance at the Sea God Temple and found the mortal world hidden behind gray fog.
• Poseidon told the Asura God that his avatar had lost contact, and the Asura God advised him to have his High Priest investigate and save Tang Chen.

The Asura God dismissed Tang Chen as a pawn and allowed Poseidon to handle the Angel God's inheritance through the usual procedures. In Spirit City, Qian Renxue secured agreement from the gathered leaders to revise the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition rules.

• The Asura God told Poseidon that Tang Chen was only a pawn, then approved handling the Angel God's inheritance according to usual procedures.
• Poseidon left the Asura God Temple and flew toward the Angel God Temple.
• Representatives from the Upper Three Sects and the two great empires gathered in the Papal Hall, where Qian Renxue arrived to lead the meeting.
• Qian Renxue proposed abolishing the three seeded teams' byes, and Dai Weisi accepted the change.
• Qian Renxue proposed consolidating the subsidiary states into the Heaven Dou and Star Luo divisions and assigning Spirit Hall's team to the Heaven Dou Division; Dai Tianfeng and Prince Xue Xing agreed.
• Qian Renxue set sixteen finals slots for each division, and Ning Fengzhi said the revised schedule would be manageable.

Qian Renxue announced expanded Spirit Master Competition rules and extravagant rewards, including a Humanoid spirit beast’s Spirit Ring, while Sea God Poseidon ordered Bo Saixi to recover the missing Heart of the Sea God from the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Qian Renxue told the gathered leaders that Spirit Hall would award five soul bones over fifty thousand years old and three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones recovered from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Qian Renxue raised the competition age limit to under thirty and opened participation to young Spirit Masters affiliated with sects as well as academy teams.
• Shui Hanyan offered the champion team an additional Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring from the Humanoid spirit beast at Slime Academy.
• Poseidon told Bo Saixi that the Heart of the Sea God had been lost in the Heaven Dou Empire and ordered her to investigate secretly and recover it.

Bo Saixi learned from Poseidon that Tang Chen was in mortal danger and suspected Qian Daoliu and Spirit Hall were responsible. She summoned the Sea God Seven Holy Pillar Douluo and ordered Sea Dragon Douluo and Seahorse Douluo to investigate Spirit Hall for the missing inheritance artifact.

• Poseidon told Bo Saixi that Tang Chen was trapped in the continent’s most dangerous place and that his life was at risk.
• Bo Saixi concluded that Qian Daoliu had stolen the Heart of the Sea God and imprisoned Tang Chen in Spirit Hall, then summoned the Seven Holy Pillar Douluo.
• The Seven Holy Pillar Douluo gathered at the Sea God Temple, where Bo Saixi revealed that a divine artifact of the Sea God’s inheritance had gone missing in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Bo Saixi sent Sea Dragon Douluo and Seahorse Douluo to Spirit Hall to find Qian Daoliu, whom she suspected of stealing the artifact.

Bo Saixi ordered Sea God Island to prepare for a confrontation with Spirit Hall, while Spirit Hall’s extraordinary competition rewards drew academies into the tournament and alarmed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. At Shrek Academy, Tang San learned that the three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones were the remains of his mother and Xiao Wu’s two relatives, and erupted in fury at Spirit Hall.

• Bo Saixi ordered the Seven Holy Pillars Douluo to mobilize Sea God Island’s Sea Spirit Masters and warned them not to underestimate Spirit Hall.
• News of Spirit Hall’s competition rewards spread across the continent, prompting academies to pursue a place in the tournament.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo recognized the Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone as Ah Yin’s remains and decided that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would participate.
• Yu Xiaogang told the Shrek Six Monsters that the championship prizes included seven high-level Soul Bones, three of them Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Tang San realized the three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones were the remains of Ah Yin, Da Ming, and Er Ming, and swore vengeance against Spirit Hall.

Tang San struggled with an unexplained burden as Ning Rongrong announced she had to return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, leaving their team short two members. Half a month later, Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo entered Spirit City, where Seahorse Douluo grabbed a child after a minor collision and drew the anger of nearby people.

• Tang San suppressed his Red-Eye Buff and left to get some air, while Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Zhu Zhuqing worried about his recent distraction.
• Ning Rongrong told Yu Xiaogang and the others that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had selected her for its Spirit Master Competition team and ordered her to return.
• Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo arrived in Spirit City and mocked its size, its people, and the way Spirit Masters interacted there.
• Seahorse Douluo identified Papal Hall and started toward it, but stopped when a little boy accidentally bumped into him.
• Seahorse Douluo lifted the frightened boy by the neck and threatened him, prompting vendors and customers to condemn him for bullying a child.

Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo caused a disturbance in Spirit City, injuring Lor Diarra and threatening a child until Spirit Hall’s elders arrived. The Sea God Island pair challenged Qian Daoliu to come out and threatened to tear down the Papal Hall.

• Seahorse Douluo intimidated the crowd with his Titled Douluo aura and refused to fear even Qian Daoliu while holding a little boy.
• Lor Diarra arrived with Spirit Hall soul masters and confronted Seahorse Douluo, who threw the boy into the air and kicked Lor Diarra when he tried to catch him.
• Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo released their auras, overwhelming Lor Diarra and knocking the boy unconscious before a vendor checked that he was alive.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei arrived and confronted the two Sea God Island Douluo.
• Sea Dragon Douluo mocked Spirit Hall and called for Qian Daoliu to appear, threatening to tear down the Papal Hall.

Qian Renxue’s first Angel God examination ordered her to exile Qian Cheng, prompting him to reveal that the Angel God had fallen and that an impostor occupied the temple. As Qian Renxue struggled to absorb the revelation, Qian Daoliu confronted Sea God Island’s visitors and swiftly battered Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo.

• Qian Renxue told Qian Daoliu and Qian Cheng that her first examination required her to declare Qian Cheng a sinner and exile him.
• Qian Cheng explained that the Angel God had fallen long ago and that a different entity now occupied the Angel God Temple, leaving Qian Renxue shocked and Qian Daoliu grim.
• A Titled Douluo’s provocation drew Qian Cheng, Qian Daoliu, and Qian Renxue out to meet the visitors.
• Seahorse Douluo mocked Qian Daoliu, while Sea Dragon Douluo warned that his arrival would change things.
• Qian Daoliu appeared and slapped Seahorse Douluo into the ground, then struck Sea Dragon Douluo through a stone wall despite his protest about the agreement between Sea God Island and Spirit Hall.

Qian Daoliu confronted Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo after they accused him of stealing the Sea God's Relic, while Qian Cheng revealed their earlier provocation. Qian Cheng ordered their powers destroyed and their bodies displayed as a warning, and the chapter left the two disgraced prisoners being paraded through Spirit City as residents pelted them with filth.

• Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo accused Qian Daoliu of stealing the Sea God's Relic and demanded that he apologize to Bo Saixi.
• Qian Daoliu admitted to taking the relic on behalf of Qian Cheng, while Qian Cheng recounted how the two Sea God Island Douluos had provoked him.
• Qian Cheng ordered Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo stripped of their martial souls and Soul Power, then turned into statues as a warning.
• Qian Daoliu carried out the punishment, and the crippled Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo were paraded through Spirit City in prison carts.
• Spirit City's residents cursed the prisoners and pelted them with rotten vegetables and eggs.

Qian Daoliu staged Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo’s public execution in Spirit City, where the battered prisoners refused to submit. He had them cast in molten iron, and the chapter ended as Sea Dragon Douluo was struck with the first ladleful.

• Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo cursed Qian Daoliu from their prison cart as the crowd attacked them with stones and filth.
• The guards dragged the wounded Sea Horse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo before Qian Daoliu in the central square, where they defied him and vowed that Sea God Island would retaliate.
• Qian Daoliu declared the two men criminals and announced their execution, prompting the crowd to cheer for their deaths.
• Qian Daoliu ordered his soul masters to cast Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo in molten iron.
• A soul master poured molten iron onto Seahorse Douluo’s shoulder, leaving him screaming in agony.
• Another soul master poured molten iron onto Sea Dragon Douluo’s chest.

Qian Daoliu executed Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo by encasing them in molten iron, while Qian Cheng rallied Spirit Hall to launch an expedition against Sea God Island. Qian Cheng assigned defenders to remain in Spirit City and prepared to lead the other Elders and soul masters to Sea God Island.

• Qian Daoliu ordered molten iron poured over Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo until they died, then had their iron shells carried to the Papal Hall plaza as a warning.
• Qian Cheng appeared in the plaza and described the injuries and destruction Seahorse Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo had caused in Spirit City.
• Spirit City's residents demanded justice, and Qian Cheng asked them to join an expedition to Sea God Island; the crowd roared its support.
• Qian Cheng ordered Golden Crocodile Douluo and Qingluan Douluo to defend Spirit City while he selected five other Elders and additional soul masters for the expedition.
• Qian Cheng led the assembled soul masters in declaring their intent to level Sea God Island and raise the might of Spirit Hall.

Qian Cheng led a Spirit Hall fleet toward Sea God Island to destroy the Sea God's inheritance ground, while the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and his queen hid from the fleet in fear. On Sea God Island, Bo Saixi gathered its forces and summoned the Demon Soul Great White Sharks to announce an expedition against Spirit Hall.

• Qian Cheng ordered the fleet to sail straight through the Demon Whale Sea Area and told Qian Renxue that Sea God Island held a God's inheritance they intended to destroy.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King sensed Qian Cheng's overwhelming power and persuaded the Deep Sea Demon Whale Queen to stay hidden beneath the sea.
• The fleet passed through the Demon Whale Sea Area without the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King or his queen surfacing to challenge it.
• Bo Saixi gathered more than thirty thousand Sea God Island Soul Masters at the Raging Wave Despair and summoned Xiao Bai and the Demon Soul Great White Sharks.
• Bo Saixi announced an expedition against Spirit Hall, and Xiao Bai recalled the Spirit Hall attack that had killed many of her clansmen.