Chapter Summaries

Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s reserve team lost its first two matches against Shrek Academy and Godwind Academy while keeping Tie Li off the field. Zhao Tianhe sent the same lineup against Skywater Academy, and the chapter ended as Gu Qi launched an attack at the start of their match.

• Tuo Yu and Zhang Xiaohe expected to beat Shrek Academy without revealing Tie Li, while Tie Li knew Tang San had become a Soul Ancestor.
• Shrek Academy defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s reserve team after Tang San controlled the field and Dai Mubai led the assault.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s reserve team also suffered a crushing loss to Godwind Academy, prompting the spectators to criticize them.
• Zhao Tianhe insisted the team try again without Tie Li and arranged tactics targeting Skywater Academy’s control-type soul master.
• Gu Qi charged at Skywater Academy’s flank after the match began, with Ning Ning’s enhancement supporting him.

Shui Bing'er led the Skywater Team to eliminate Heaven Dou Royal Academy's reserve team, leaving its members facing insults and pressure from the imperial family to win their next match. Tie Li confronted the Elephant Armored Team before their bout and announced that he would fight alone.

• Shui Bing'er froze Gu Qi with her Ice Seal, and the Skywater Team eliminated the rest of the Second Team in fewer than five exchanges.
• Spectators mocked the reserve team for its third consecutive loss, and Zhao Tianhe was ordered to make sure they won the next match.
• Zhao Tianhe named Tie Li for the upcoming bout against the Elephant Armored Team.
• Huyan Li tried to intimidate Gu Qi, but Tie Li stepped forward and made Huyan Li back down with his Soul Power pressure.
• Huyan Li concluded that Tie Li was powerful but decided the Elephant Armored Team could still defeat him if he was not a Soul King.
• Tie Li told Tuo Yu that he would fight the Elephant Armored Team alone and that Tuo Yu could rest.

Wan Li revealed himself as a Level 56 Soul King and overwhelmed Elephant Armored Academy in their match. As Huyan Zhen tried to interfere, Dugu Bo appeared to stop him.

• Huyan Zhen boasted that Huyan Li and Elephant Armored Academy would defeat Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Second Team.
• Wan Li entered the arena alone and shocked the audience by revealing five soul rings and Level 56 strength.
• Wan Li struck the Elephant Armored Team with his Quake Dragon Hammer, blasting members away and nearly injuring the referee with Black Lightning.
• Huyan Zhen secretly urged Huyan Li to use his head soul bone to block Wan Li's next attack.
• Huyan Zhen tried to interfere as Wan Li's attack threatened Huyan Li, but Dugu Bo appeared and confronted him.

Dugu Bo defeated Huyan Zhen after his poison penetrated the Diamond Mammoth’s defenses, while the Heaven Dou Emperor condemned the Elephant Armored Sect’s disruption of the tournament. Dugu Bo then poisoned Salas, but Xue Xing stopped him from killing either man, leaving their fate in imperial hands.

• Huyan Zhen attacked Dugu Bo, but Dugu Bo’s poison seeped into his body and detonated when he used his Eighth Soul Skill, leaving him badly injured and partly petrified.
• The Heaven Dou Emperor ordered Xue Xing to notify Marshal Ge Long, treating Huyan Zhen’s interference as a challenge to the empire.
• Salas tried to restrain Dugu Bo, but Xue Xing and the emperor rebuked him for failing to stop Huyan Zhen and overstepping his authority.
• Dugu Bo revealed that his transformed poisons contained top-tier ice and fire poison, then struck Salas and left him unconscious within three breaths.
• Dugu Bo turned back toward Huyan Zhen, but Xue Xing stopped him from killing the two men because the empire wanted them alive.

Tie Li led the Heaven Dou Royal Team to a decisive victory over Elephant Armored Academy, revealing himself as a Soul King and alarming the other teams. Before their next match against Canghui Academy, Zhao Tianhe warned the team that former Crescent Moon Sect elders might use a multi-person fusion technique.

• Tie Li defeated Huyan Li with his Quake Dragon Hammer, leaving him in a deep coma, and the Heaven Dou Royal Team won the match.
• The news of Tie Li's Soul King rank shocked the other teams, while Feng Xiaotian gained a new insight into his Gale Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes.
• Tie Li returned with the team to their hotel, and the Heaven Dou Royal Team went on to achieve six consecutive victories.
• Zhao Tianhe recognized former Crescent Moon Sect elders among Canghui Academy's staff and warned the team that they might use a multi-person fusion technique.

The Heaven Dou Royal Team faced Canghui Academy, whose Trinity Fusion Skill left most of the team dazed, but Tuo Yu resisted with a hidden head soul bone and disrupted the attack. Canghui’s fusion backlash let Heaven Dou win, and the team later advanced in the rankings while revealing Zhang Xiaohe’s soul bone in another difficult match.

• Tie Li watched from the stands as the Heaven Dou Royal Team faced Canghui Academy, and Tuo Yu prepared for the opponents’ Trinity Fusion Skill.
• Canghui Academy’s three Gem Martial Soul users completed their fusion skill and struck the Heaven Dou team with a spiritual attack, leaving everyone except Tuo Yu dazed.
• Protected by his head soul bone, Tuo Yu resisted the attack and launched a spiritual assault that caused the three fusion-skill users to suffer backlash and collapse.
• Gu Qi and the others recovered, eliminated Canghui Academy’s remaining fighters, and secured the Heaven Dou Royal Team’s victory.
• After the match, Zhi Lin identified Canghui Academy’s vice principal as Shi Nian, and the Heaven Dou Royal Team continued climbing the rankings.
• In a later difficult match, Zhang Xiaohe exposed his soul bone to help the team win.

Tang San and Tie Li were ambushed by Shi Nian, a Soul Saint who trapped them in an illusion and tried to kill them. Tang San and Tie Li found and restrained Shi Nian’s real body, and Tang San launched Yama’s Invitation as Tie Li shattered Shi Nian’s spiritual attack.

• Tang San and Tie Li collected their items from the Strength Clan’s blacksmith shop and realized Shi Nian had trapped them in an illusion.
• Tang San used the Purple Demon Eye to locate Shi Nian’s real body, while Tie Li agreed to restrain him.
• Tie Li attacked Shi Nian with his Quake Dragon Hammer, and Tang San bound Shi Nian with Spiderweb Trap.
• Shi Nian launched a spiritual attack, but Tie Li’s Quake Sound shattered it.
• Tang San delivered Yama’s Invitation to Shi Nian.

Tie Li and Tang San survived their fight with Shi Nian, then exchanged Shi Nian’s Soul Bone for a ten-thousand-year Thunderforging Grass. Tie Li consumed the herb and gained greater affinity with plant-type Soul Beasts in White Ground, leaving him closer to his goal of finding its Thunderstone Mark.

• Tie Li and Tang San watched Shi Nian die after their combined attacks, and Tie Li revealed his External Soul Bone.
• Tie Li found Shi Nian’s seven-colored head Soul Bone and offered it to Tang San in exchange for Thunderforging Grass.
• Tang San gave Tie Li a ten-thousand-year stalk of Thunderforging Grass, and Tie Li explained that he needed it to connect with plant-type Soul Beasts in White Ground.
• Tie Li returned to Heaven Dou City, consumed the Thunderforging Grass, and raised his Soul Power Level from fifty-six to fifty-seven.
• Tie Li briefly sensed the plant-type Soul Beasts in White Ground and concluded that the herb had benefited him more than Shi Nian’s Soul Bone would have.

Tang San told the Shrek team about his encounter with Shi Nian and showed Yu Xiaogang the soul bone he had obtained, while hiding details about Tie Li and Shi Nian’s head soul bone. Meanwhile, the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team and the Blazing Team prepared for their upcoming match, which left both sides wary of the other.

• Tang San recounted his encounter with Shi Nian to Flender and the others, and Yu Xiaogang identified the technique that had broken Shi Nian’s soul skill as the Wind Thunder Sect’s Quake Sound.
• Tang San showed Yu Xiaogang the seven-colored soul bone, and Yu Xiaogang advised him to save it and consider exchanging it with Ning Rongrong for her spiritually attributed soul bone.
• Yu Xiaogang wondered why Shi Nian had accepted a ten-thousand-year Thunderforging Grass instead of keeping the soul bone, and suspected that Shi Nian already had a head soul bone or a better option.
• After winning two more matches, the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team learned that it would face the Blazing Team and decided to have Tie Li lead them.
• The Blazing Team worried that the Heaven Dou Royal Academy would field its Soul King, but Huo Wu rebuked her teammates for acting as if they had already lost.

Tie Li led the Heaven Dou Royal Team to defeat the Blazing Team, leaving them close to qualifying for the next round. Meanwhile, Thunderclap Academy’s Lei Ying rejected Yu Tianxin’s suggestion to forfeit their upcoming match, exposing a rift within the team.

• Tie Li’s five soul rings and Quake Dragon Hammer pressured Huo Wushuang and the Blazing Team before the battle began.
• Tie Li blasted three Blazing Team members from the arena, then met Huo Wu’s powered-up attack head-on as Gu Qi moved to finish off Huo Wushuang.
• The Heaven Dou Royal Team defeated the Blazing Team, putting them in a strong position to advance.
• Thunderclap Academy’s teacher asked Yu Tianxin and Lei Ying whether the team should forfeit a match to conserve strength.
• Yu Tianxin proposed forfeiting, but Lei Ying insisted they play and defend their perfect record, creating tension within the team.
• Meng Shenji and Bai Baoshan noted that the Heaven Dou Royal Team was close to qualifying and that only the Thunderclap Team posed a major challenge.

Tie Li and the Heaven Dou Royal Team learned that Shattered Star Team had concealed four Soul Ancestors and defeated them, putting the team's advancement at risk. Tie Li agreed to compete in all three remaining matches to prevent another upset.

• The Heaven Dou Emperor considered recruiting Tie Li into the imperial family rather than supporting the rebuilding of the Wind Thunder Sect.
• The Heaven Dou Royal Team faced Shattered Star Team, which unexpectedly revealed four Soul Ancestors and overwhelmed them.
• Shattered Star Team eliminated Ning Ning and defeated the Heaven Dou Royal Team, leaving them unable to afford another loss.
• Tie Li heard about the defeat and agreed to fight in all three remaining matches.

The Heaven Dou Royal Team prepared to face the undefeated Thunderclap Team, while Lei Ying challenged Yu Tianxin’s authority and decided to confront Tie Li. A Nuo and Feng Yu accompanied Lei Ying to the Heaven Dou Royal Team’s meeting room, recognizing Tie Li as a surviving inheriting disciple of the Wind Thunder Sect.

• Tie Li led the Heaven Dou Royal Team to an overwhelming victory against the Star Moon Team.
• Zhao Tianhe presented information on the Thunderclap Team, whose strongest members included Yu Tianxin and a level forty-eight flying Soul Master.
• Lei Ying argued that the Thunderclap Team should use its full strength against the Heaven Dou Royal Team, and a teacher announced orders to give everything in the match.
• Yu Tianxin left the meeting room after Lei Ying challenged him, and Lei Dong and the others followed.
• Lei Ying set out to visit the Heaven Dou Royal Team and test Tie Li, accompanied by A Nuo and Feng Yu.
• A Nuo and Feng Yu recognized Tie Li’s three Thunderstone marks as proof that he was an escaped inheriting disciple.

Tie Li effortlessly defeated Lei Ying’s provocation and suspected his Soul King strength came from a heavenly treasure. At the tournament match, the Thunderclap Team revealed Lei Ying as another Soul King, and Tie Li charged at him as the battle began.

• Lei Ying challenged Tie Li outside the conference room and attacked with his lightning, but Tie Li’s Black Lightning overwhelmed him and lifted him by the throat.
• Tie Li accused Lei Ying of relying on a heavenly treasure to reach Soul King, then threw him down; A Nuo and Feng Yu helped Lei Ying leave.
• Tie Li told Tuo Yu and the others that Lei Ying belonged to the Thunderclap Team, and Zhao Tianhe recognized their lineup as a championship threat.
• The Thunderclap Team entered the arena without Yu Tianxin, prompting spectators to assume they had conceded, but Lei Ying revealed his five soul rings and Soul King rank.
• The Thunderclap Team’s support Soul Masters boosted Lei Ying, while Tie Li summoned the Quake Dragon Hammer and charged forward with his first and third soul rings activated.

Tie Li used the Thunder Dragon Six Sounds’ Quake Sound to break through the Thunderclap Team’s attacks and defeat Lei Ying. With Lei Ying and the Thunder Gold Elephant Soul Master eliminated, Tie Li turned toward the remaining opponents.

• Lei Ying used Thunderstorm Meteor Shower while a Thunder Gold Elephant Soul Master shielded him, and the attack eliminated several Heaven Dou Royal Team members, including Ning Ning.
• A Thunderclap Team agility-attack Soul Master knocked Jue Dun off the arena, leaving only Gu Qi and Tuo Yu alongside Tie Li.
• Tie Li’s Quake Dragon Hammer shattered the Thunder Gold Elephant Soul Master’s defense, and Ning Fengzhi and Meng Shenji explained the soul-injuring effect of Thunder Dragon Six Sounds.
• Tie Li’s Quake Sound crushed the lightning vines and broke Lei Ying’s Thunder Armor despite the control and support Soul Skills.
• Lei Ying’s Lightning Flame failed to harm Tie Li, who struck Lei Ying unconscious and prepared to face the remaining opponents.

Tie Li and Gu Qi eliminated Thunderclap Team’s remaining fighters without Tie Li using his Fifth Soul Skill, while Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer and defeated Feng Xiaotian with the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes’ Piercing Technique. When Platinum Bishop Wu Fuxun tried to interfere, a domineering Clear Sky Hammer aura confronted him from an unknown source.

• Tie Li sent Thunderclap Team’s control-system Soul Ancestor off the arena, and Gu Qi eliminated its last remaining fighter after Tie Li pressured him into exposing an opening.
• Spectators recognized Tie Li’s Wind Thunder Sect markings and speculated that Spirit Hall had supplied him with a seventy-thousand-year Dark Thunder Demon Dragon Left Arm Soul Bone as a stepping stone for the Golden Generation.
• Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer during Shrek Team’s match against Divine Wind Team, shocking the audience and prompting Ning Rongrong to ask about his connection to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed that he had plotted against the Four Single-Attribute Clans and intended to use Tang San’s appearance to draw out the Clear Sky Sect.
• Feng Xiaotian announced his Gale Demon Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes, but Tang San defeated him with the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes’ Piercing Technique.
• Wu Fuxun recognized Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer and technique and prepared to interfere, but an unknown source released a domineering Clear Sky Hammer aura against him.

Tang Lie revealed the Clear Sky Sect’s power at Shrek Academy as Tang San won his match, while Tang Hao tried to atone to the sect and was stopped by its elders. Tie Li’s team defeated the Fireworks Team, and the Skywater Team faced the Shattered Star Team for the final promotion-tournament spot.

• Tang Lie’s nine Soul Rings frightened Wu Fuxun, while Tang San’s victory with the Clear Sky Hammer earned Tang Lie’s approval and made Xiao Wu clutch the Lovesick Heartbreak Red warily.
• Tang Hao offered to sacrifice his Soul Bones, body parts, and two Soul Rings to atone, but the Clear Sky Sect elders stopped him and told him to help repay the sect’s losses instead.
• Tang Xiao reassured himself that the elders would not abandon Tang Hao, while the Clear Sky Sect considered how it would return to the Soul Master world.
• Tie Li led his team to defeat the seven Soul Elders of the Fireworks Team and secure advancement to the promotion tournament.
• The Skywater Team faced the Shattered Star Team for the last qualifying place, and Shui Bing’er’s team prepared to use its Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

The Skywater Team defeated the Shattered Star Team with Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while the Heaven Dou Emperor rewarded the five qualifying teams and privately tried to recruit Tie Li. During the month before the promotion round, Yang Wudi agreed to treat Tang Hao, and Tang San continued training with the Clear Sky Sect as its disciples joined Shrek under false names.

• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er used Drifting Ice and Snow to defeat the Shattered Star Team, qualifying Skywater Team for the next round.
• The Heaven Dou Emperor awarded the five qualifying teams and rebuffed Wu Fuxun’s objection to the added noble titles.
• The Heaven Dou Emperor offered Tie Li protection and a fifty-thousand-year lightning-attribute soul bone, and Tie Li accepted.
• Yang Wudi examined Tang Hao’s grave injuries and agreed to treat him with Dugu Bo’s help, while refusing to return to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Lie praised Tang San’s progress with the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes and questioned him about his movement and eye techniques.
• Three Clear Sky Sect disciples joined Shrek’s roster under false names and trained alongside its members.

Ma Hongjun’s evil fire grew more violent as his martial soul mutated, while the Heaven Dou Royal Team arrived at the Royal Hunting Grounds for the advancement tournament. Shrek Team opened the tournament by defeating Barak Team with a Clear Sky Hammer disciple, leaving the other teams aware that the Clear Sky Sect stood behind Shrek.

• Dai Mubai questioned Ma Hongjun about his increasingly frequent evil-fire flare-ups, and Ma Hongjun blamed them on his rising Soul Power Level.
• Ma Hongjun walked through Heaven Dou City, where his gaze turned cold and sinister as his martial soul mutated toward a more violent extreme.
• Bai Baoshan and Zhao Tianhe brought the Heaven Dou Royal Team to the Royal Hunting Grounds, where the team settled in before the tournament began.
• Zhao Tianhe arranged the Heaven Dou Royal Team’s lineup against Fabia Academy, placing Gu Qi first and Tie Li last.
• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang appeared with Godwind Academy, and the other Heaven Dou division teams failed to have the change reported successfully.
• Shrek Team sent out a Clear Sky Hammer disciple who overwhelmed Barak Team’s captain and secured the match after exhausting his Soul Power against several opponents.

Tie Li’s Heaven Dou Royal Team advanced through the early matches with little effort, while Lei Ying showed the qualifying teams the strength of a Soul King. As Heaven Dou Royal Team faced Skywater Team, Tie Li sent Gu Qi out first and planned to enter second; Gu Qi then struggled under Shui Bing’er’s martial soul suppression.

• Lei Ying defeated Meng Yiran and the rest of Beast Academy Team by himself, displaying his five Soul Rings and overwhelming strength.
• Gu Qi and Tuo Yu won Fabia Academy Team’s match without Tie Li needing to fight.
• Over the next few days, Gu Qi and Tuo Yu handled Heaven Dou Royal Team’s opponents, while Shrek Academy and Thunderclap Team also advanced.
• Tie Li told the pressured Gu Qi that he would enter second against Skywater Team, and Gu Qi agreed.
• Shui Bing’er faced Gu Qi first and used the Ice Phoenix’s suppression to keep him from displaying his full strength.

Tie Li entered the arena as the Heaven Dou Royal Team’s second fighter and used his Quake Dragon Hammer to overpower Shui Bing’er, leaving the Skywater Team unsure whether to continue. As the fight unfolded, Yu Xiaogang suspected Tie Li’s martial soul had evolved through a Dragon Core connected to the Wind Thunder Sect, a discovery that might relate to his own failed martial soul mutation.

• After Gu Qi was eliminated, Tie Li entered the arena and revealed that he was a Soul King with a Quake Dragon Hammer martial soul.
• Shui Bing’er’s Ice Seal briefly slowed Tie Li, but his Black Lightning broke through her control.
• Tang Lie explained the Quake Dragon Hammer’s connection to the Wind Thunder Sect, and Yu Xiaogang suspected Tie Li had acquired a Dragon Core that could have evolved his martial soul.
• Tie Li shattered Shui Bing’er’s Ice Ring Armor with one hammer strike and sent her flying into her teammates’ arms.
• The Skywater Team urged Shui Bing’er to forfeit, but she struggled to accept withdrawing after Tie Li injured her captain.