Chapter Summaries

Zhu Zhuqing faced off against Zhu Zhuyun as battles continued across the tournament arenas, while Ye Ling teased Qian Renxue and watched Shui Bing'er fight Tang San. Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer when Shui Bing'er's powerful ice attack threatened to overwhelm him.

• Zhu Zhuyun sneered at Zhu Zhuqing and challenged her to rely on Ye Ling against the Star Luo Empire's Royal Family.
• Qian Renxue entered the arena as a Seven-Ringed Soul Sage, and Ye Ling teased her by sniffing the veil he had taken from her.
• Shui Bing'er confronted Tang San, whose Spiritual Power and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track let him evade her first attack.
• Shui Bing'er froze Tang San's Blue Silver King spiderweb, then suppressed him with her Rain of Ice.
• Shui Bing'er unleashed Ice Phoenix Soaring Dance, and Tang San summoned his Clear Sky Hammer, revealing his Twin Martial Souls.

Tang San used his Clear Sky Hammer and powerful Spiritual Power to defeat Shui Bing'er, forcing Vina to concede. Ye Ling brought the unconscious Shui Bing'er to his arena and began treating her severe mental injuries with the Universe Cauldron and a medicinal herb.

• Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer with two Black Spirit Rings, showing that he possessed Twin Martial Souls.
• Tang San broke Shui Bing'er's Ice Phoenix with a hammer strike and a Purple Demon Eye attack, leaving her unconscious from the backlash.
• Vina conceded the match and carried Shui Bing'er off the Battle Arena.
• Ye Ling stopped his teammates from challenging Tang San and moved Shui Bing'er to his own arena.
• Ye Ling used the Universe Cauldron to stabilize Shui Bing'er, then took out an emerald medicinal herb to address her mental injuries.

Ye Ling used Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to treat Shui Bing'er and rebuild her Mental Space, then crushed a Spirit Hall Soul Emperor who tried to interrupt him. He noticed Sea God-like power lingering in victims of Tang San’s spirit and considered using the tournament to strike at Tang San; the Individual Tournament ended as Bibi Dong appeared.

• Ye Ling dripped Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew into Shui Bing'er’s eyes and helped her refine its medicinal power while rebuilding her Mental Space.
• A Spirit Hall Soul Emperor challenged Ye Ling, who crushed his bones with an invisible force and left him gravely injured before Chrysanthemum Douluo intervened.
• Ye Ling sent Shui Bing'er with Vina to the hotel and asked her to hand her over to Ya Li if she was there.
• Ye Ling detected traces resembling Sea God Divine Power in the Mental Spaces of people injured by Tang San’s spirit and resolved to look for a chance to strike at him during the tournament.
• Ju and Gui Douluo announced the end of the Individual Tournament elimination round, and Bibi Dong appeared on the high platform.

Bibi Dong explained the tournament’s single-elimination bracket and oversaw the contestants drawing lots, with Ye Ling choosing first. The draw ended with Ye Ling holding number one, and Bibi Dong invited him to speak before the schedule was posted.

• Bibi Dong announced that the sixty-four contestants would draw numbers and face opponents in reverse order, with winners advancing through the bracket.
• Ye Ling proposed that drawing order be decided by Soul Power, and Bibi Dong accepted his suggestion.
• Ye Ling drew a Wax Pellet from afar while Bibi Dong tried and failed to discern its number; Tang San secretly scanned the pellets and learned Ye Ling’s number.
• Long Aotian, Qian Renxue, Ye Guyi, Ji Juechen, Tang San, and the other contestants drew lots in order of strength.
• Ye Ling revealed that he had drawn number one, while Long Aotian revealed number thirty-four and joked that he would not face Ye Ling until the end.
• Bibi Dong told the contestants to report their names by lot number and asked Ye Ling whether he wished to say anything.

Ye Ling revealed the Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Skull as the tournament prize, and Bibi Dong announced the schedule and venue. Meanwhile, Kong Deming, Du Busi, and Leng Yulai found a hidden space near Spirit City containing a blood pool connected to the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Ye Ling displayed a Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Skull as Mending Heaven Pavilion's tournament reward, and Tang San secretly vowed to claim it.
• Bibi Dong gave competitors three days to rest and announced that the official matches would take place at Spirit City Great Soul Arena.
• Ye Ling returned to the hotel with Long Aotian and learned that Kong Deming and the others had not yet returned.
• Kong Deming, Du Busi, and Leng Yulai tracked a Near Level 9 Fixed Soul Guiding Cannon Shell to a hidden space in a canyon southeast of Spirit City.
• The three Titled Douluos entered the dark space, sensed blood and suppressed Spiritual Power, and discovered a blood pool.

Ye Ling joined Leng Yulai, Du Busi, and Kong Deming at the Holy Spirit Cult’s cave, where they found a dangerous Corpse Mountain Blood Sea weapon charging in a Blood Pool. He absorbed the weapon and pool into his Chaos Domain, then went to confront the cultists guarding the site.

• Kong Deming identified the modified Level 9 Fixed Soul Guiding Cannon Shell as Corpse Mountain Blood Sea and warned that severing its connection to the Blood Pool would make it detonate near Spirit City.
• Leng Yulai used the Time-Space Divine Shuttle to bring Ye Ling from Spirit City, where he had been helping Shui Bing'er, to the cave.
• Ye Ling decided to take the Blood Pool and Corpse Mountain Blood Sea into his Chaos Domain to prevent the weapon from exploding and endangering Spirit City.
• Holy Spirit Cult guards noticed Ye Ling absorbing the weapon and attacked, while Du Busi and Leng Yulai flew up to face them and Kong Deming shielded Ye Ling.
• Ye Ling successfully absorbed the Blood Pool and cannon shell, then told Kong Deming to go up and see which Holy Spirit Cult members had been sent.

Ye Ling captured two Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluo, but the cult master’s restrictions killed them before they could reveal the cult’s base. Three days later, the official tournament began, and Ye Ling’s first opponent was Feng Xiaotian.

• Ye Ling and Kong Deming defeated two Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluo and brought them to Ye Ling for questioning.
• The cult master’s Forbidden Curse killed both captives when Ye Ling tried to learn the Holy Spirit Cult’s secrets.
• Ye Ling sent Leng Yulai to investigate the cult’s base, especially Slaughter City, and told her to take the unconscious Shui Bing’er back to Heaven Dou City.
• A Holy Spirit Cult shadow lamented the loss of a treasure, two elders, and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, then decided to contact Zhong Liwu.
• Three days later, Zhu Zhuqing obtained her first Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, and the official tournament opened at Martial Soul Hall’s arena.
• Ye Ling entered the first match against Feng Xiaotian, who thanked him for sending people to treat Huo Wu.

Feng Xiaotian challenged Ye Ling in the Individual Tournament to show Huo Wu his strength, but Ye Ling effortlessly neutralized his attacks and shattered his wings. Feng Xiaotian conceded, while a hidden observer doubted they could avenge Brother Hao.

• Feng Xiaotian told Ye Ling he would fight rather than surrender, hoping to preserve Huo Wu's opinion of him.
• Ye Ling let Feng Xiaotian begin the match, and Feng Xiaotian charged with wind blades that became harmless against Ye Ling.
• Feng Xiaotian used his Soul Skills to fly and launched his self-created Gale Demon Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Strikes.
• Ye Ling flicked Feng Xiaotian's wings aside, then let them strike his body and break into fragments.
• Feng Xiaotian conceded, and a hidden observer concluded they had no way to avenge Brother Hao.

Ye Ling advised Feng Xiaotian to focus on cultivation before Zhu Zhuqing prepared to face her sister Zhu Zhuyun in the tournament. Zhu Zhuqing revealed she had reached Spirit King, gained the upper hand in their opening exchange, and left Dai Weisi concerned about the fight.

• Ye Ling told Feng Xiaotian to spend less time pursuing Huo Wu and focus on cultivation, then left the arena.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Ye Ling she would face Zhu Zhuyun that day and intended to settle their grudge.
• Zhu Zhuqing stepped onto the Battle Arena and revealed five Soul Rings, including a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, shocking Zhu Zhuyun.
• Zhu Zhuyun attacked first, but Zhu Zhuqing vanished and countered with Netherworld Shadow Strike, forcing Zhu Zhuyun back.
• Dai Weisi judged that Zhu Zhuyun was outmatched and declared Zhu Zhuqing the most outstanding woman of the Zhu Family.

Zhu Zhuqing defeated her elder sister Zhu Zhuyun but spared her, saying that killing her closest kin was nothing to be proud of. Afterward, Dai Weisi demanded that Zhu Zhuqing marry him to preserve the Zhu Family’s standing, and she angrily refused.

• Dai Mubai watched Zhu Zhuqing’s five rings in disbelief as Zhu Zhuyun attacked her with Nether Hundred Claws.
• Zhu Zhuqing countered Zhu Zhuyun’s attacks, destroyed her clones with Nine Lives Nether Slash, and left her unable to fight.
• Zhu Zhuyun asked why Zhu Zhuqing had not killed her, and Zhu Zhuqing replied that killing her closest kin was not worth being proud of.
• Ye Ling praised Zhu Zhuqing, who explained that Zhu Zhuyun was trapped by the family’s succession rules.
• Dai Weisi told Zhu Zhuqing to marry him to preserve the Zhu Family’s position, and Zhu Zhuqing angrily rejected him.

Ye Ling intervened when Dai Weisi tried to pressure Zhu Zhuqing into marrying him, then spared Dai Weisi after Xu Jiujiu and Zhu Zhuqing pleaded. Later, Ye Ling followed an anonymous invitation alone and discovered that Zhu Zhuyun had summoned him.

• Dai Weisi used the Zhu Family and Star Luo Royal Family to pressure Zhu Zhuqing, but she said she belonged to the Mending Heaven Pavilion and was Ye Ling’s maid.
• Ye Ling slapped Dai Weisi and lifted him into the air, but released him after Xu Jiujiu and Zhu Zhuqing pleaded for mercy.
• Xu Jiujiu dragged the injured Dai Weisi away while Dai Mubai and others regretted that Dai Weisi had survived.
• After the first day of matches, Ye Ling received an unsigned invitation and decided to follow its location alone despite Zhu Zhuqing’s concern.
• At dusk, Ye Ling arrived at the outskirts of Spirit City and found Zhu Zhuyun waiting in the forest.

Zhu Zhuyun asked Ye Ling to help her gain power, status, and strength after losing to Zhu Zhuqing and falling out of favor with Dai Weisi. She offered herself in exchange, but Ye Ling left her waiting as he weighed his decision.

• Zhu Zhuyun told Ye Ling that Dai Weisi wanted to cast her aside and that she feared losing her inheritance and status.
• Zhu Zhuyun explained why she trusted Ye Ling and Mending Heaven Pavilion more than Spirit Hall or other forces.
• Ye Ling said he had helped Zhu Zhuqing voluntarily, leaving Zhu Zhuyun frustrated and unwilling to accept that Zhuqing had paid no price.
• Zhu Zhuyun removed her night suit and offered herself to Ye Ling in exchange for his help, dismissing her engagement to Dai Weisi.
• Ye Ling examined Zhu Zhuyun but did not act, saying he might not like taking the initiative.

Ye Ling and Zhu Zhuyun became intimate, after which Ye Ling let her absorb his powerful essence blood and refined it with his Universe Cauldron. Zhu Zhuyun woke with her Soul Power past Level 50 and asked whether good behavior could earn further rewards.

• Zhu Zhuyun approached Ye Ling, and the two became intimate in the forest.
• Ye Ling offered Zhu Zhuyun his dark golden essence blood, explaining that it had helped her younger sister improve.
• Zhu Zhuyun absorbed too much essence blood and nearly lost control of the energy within her.
• Ye Ling used his Universe Cauldron to refine the essence blood and strengthen Zhu Zhuyun until dawn.
• Zhu Zhuyun woke to find her Soul Power had surpassed Level 50, then asked Ye Ling for more rewards if she kept behaving.

Ye Ling spent the night with Zhu Zhuyun and promised to deal with Dai Weisi before she left Spirit City. He returned to Mending Heaven Pavilion, where Zhu Zhuqing suspected he had been with a woman from her family.

• Ye Ling told Zhu Zhuyun that he would give her what she wanted and deal with Dai Weisi before she left Spirit City.
• Zhu Zhuyun departed after asking Ye Ling to remember her, and Ye Ling headed back to Spirit City.
• Du Busi and Kong Deming worried when Ye Ling failed to return overnight, but the Ice Empress assured them he was safe.
• Ye Ling returned to the hotel and apologized to Kong Deming and Du Busi for cutting off contact.
• Zhu Zhuqing recognized the scent of a Zhu Family woman on Ye Ling and asked where he had spent the night, but he evaded her and shut himself in his room.

After earning the hidden achievement "First Blood," Ye Ling claimed a summoning card and chose Zhang Peng, a Titled Douluo, to support his plans in the Star Luo Empire. During the competition break, Zhu Zhuyun asked Ye Ling to cripple Long Aotian, Dai Weisi’s opponent, rather than kill him.

• Zhu Zhuqing wondered whether Zhu Zhuyun had left Ye Ling a letter and why he had stayed away all night, but she did not guess what had happened.
• Ye Ling asked the system about the achievement reward, claimed an Ordinary Titled Douluo Summoning Card, and selected Zhang Peng from five candidates.
• Ye Ling summoned Zhang Peng, gave him a tracking Soul Tool, and instructed him to hide until summoned; he considered sending him to the Star Luo Empire.
• After the first round ended, Spirit Hall announced a three-day break before the round of thirty-two.
• Zhu Zhuyun met Ye Ling during the break and asked him to make Long Aotian unable to perform as a man, avoiding the upheaval that killing him would cause.

Ye Ling warned Zhu Zhuyun that the Star Luo Royal Family was negotiating with the Holy Spirit Cult and assigned Zhang Peng to protect her while she worked to undermine the Royal Family. Three days later, as Ye Ling walked with Zhu Zhuqing toward the round of sixteen, Zhu Zhuqing questioned his recent absences before Zhu Zhuyun appeared.

• Zhu Zhuyun told Ye Ling that her family knew the Star Luo Royal Family was negotiating with the Holy Spirit Cult, confirming Xu Jiujiu's intelligence.
• Ye Ling reassured Zhu Zhuyun and summoned Zhang Peng, a Level 95 Scorpion Tiger Douluo, to protect her and obey her orders.
• Ye Ling revealed that Xu Jiujiu was also part of Mending Heaven Pavilion, then spent time alone with Zhu Zhuyun.
• Three days later, Zhu Zhuqing questioned Ye Ling about his frequent absences as they headed to the round of sixteen at Spirit Hall Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Zhu Zhuyun called out to Ye Ling and Zhu Zhuqing from ahead of them.

The Top Sixteen round began, setting Ye Ling against Ye Guyi and Long Aotian against Dai Weisi. Xu Jiujiu and Zhu Zhuyun worked together to push Dai Weisi into the match, while Qian Renxue warned Ye Guyi to beware of Ye Ling.

• Zhu Zhuyun greeted Ye Ling, prompting Zhu Zhuqing to wonder about their suddenly close relationship.
• Ye Ling learned Ye Guyi was his opponent and ordered Long Aotian to make Dai Weisi unable to father children.
• Dai Weisi considered surrendering but agreed to fight after Xu Jiujiu reminded him that refusing could endanger his position as crown prince.
• Zhu Zhuyun thanked Xu Jiujiu for helping ensure Dai Weisi entered the arena, and Xu Jiujiu questioned Zhu Zhuyun's connection to Ye Ling.
• Qian Renxue cautioned Ye Guyi about Ye Ling, and Ye Guyi teased her by asking whether he had teased Qian Renxue too.

Ye Ling faced Ye Guyi in the tournament’s second-round opening match, where her powerful Angel Martial Soul and advanced soul skills failed to overpower him. He opened a Spatial Rift and took both of them into his Chaos Space, leaving the spectators unable to see where they had gone.

• Ye Ling and Ye Guyi silently acknowledged each other before beginning their match, while Bibi Dong hoped Ye Ling would kill Ye Guyi because she hated Angel Martial Souls.
• Ye Guyi revealed herself as a seven-ring Soul Sage with an unusually powerful soul-ring configuration and attacked Ye Ling with her Angel Sacred Sword.
• Ye Ling caught Ye Guyi’s Angel Sacred Sword between two fingers, but she strengthened herself with several soul skills and pulled it free.
• Ye Guyi fused with her Martial Soul Avatar and struck at Ye Ling, who opened a Spatial Rift that swallowed them both.
• Inside Ye Ling’s Chaos Space, Ye Guyi saw unconscious black-robed soul masters as Ye Ling asked whether she had come to kill her master.

Ye Guyi told Ye Ling that she had received the Angel God's Eighth Trial and was helping Qian Renxue with her trials. After Ye Ling sent her back to the arena, he arranged for Long Aotian to cripple Dai Weisi, then disappeared alongside Zhu Zhuyun, leaving the chapter with the two alone in the Star Luo contestants' lounge.

• Ye Guyi explained that Qian Daoliu had brought her into Douluo Hall, where she received the Angel God's Eighth Trial to accompany Qian Renxue through her trials.
• Ye Ling guessed that the Angel God had fallen and warned Ye Guyi that Bibi Dong might target her, while Ye Guyi said Qian Renxue was undergoing her Fifth Trial.
• Ye Guyi teased Ye Ling about flirting with Qian Renxue, and Ye Ling struck her so she could return to the arena without revealing their meeting.
• Qian Renxue caught Ye Guyi, and the referee declared Ye Ling the winner of the first round.
• Ye Ling told Long Aotian to make Dai Weisi permanently lose his ability without killing him or letting him surrender, then disappeared as Zhu Zhuyun also left the spectators' area.
• Ye Ling and Zhu Zhuyun ended up alone in the Star Luo Empire contestants' lounge, where she asked him to go somewhere else.

Long Aotian defeated Dai Weisi by striking his crotch with a blade of compressed air, leaving the Star Luo team to rush him away for treatment. Hidden with Ye Ling, Zhu Zhuyun chose to stay with him rather than visit her injured fiancé, and the chapter left her anticipating an early return to the Star Luo Empire.

• Dai Weisi activated his White Tiger Martial Soul and Third Soul Skill while Long Aotian stood calmly without summoning his Martial Soul.
• Bibi Dong and other powerful spectators recognized Long Aotian's unity of Spiritual Power and Soul Power, while Dai Weisi felt only an overwhelming pressure.
• Long Aotian slashed at Dai Weisi, whose attempt to dodge sent the compressed-air blade into his crotch and left him screaming in pain.
• Xu Jiujiu conceded the match and ordered Dai Weisi taken away for treatment.
• Ye Ling teased Zhu Zhuyun about her injured fiancé, and she chose to remain with Ye Ling and said they would likely return to the Star Luo Empire early.