Chapter Summaries

Spirit Hall’s advancing contestants clashed with members of the three major single-attribute clans, who challenged them to a seven-versus-seven match with stakes. The match began as Tie Wu faced Ma Hongjun, whose five-ring Soul King strength and ten-thousand-year soul ring shocked the arena.

• Spirit Hall’s team eliminated opponents on the deserted island and advanced, then stopped in a nearby city to rest.
• At the hotel, members of the three major single-attribute clans insulted Spirit Hall, and a steward accepted their challenge to a match with stakes.
• Tie Wu sensed a powerful flame aura from Ma Hongjun, while the clans chose him and Bai Chenxiang to lead their team.
• The two sides assembled for a seven-versus-seven team soul battle, and Ma Hongjun taunted Tie Wu before the referee started the match.
• Ma Hongjun revealed five soul rings, including a ten-thousand-year ring, stunning the arena.

Ma Hongjun led the three great single-attribute clans to defeat Spirit Hall’s team in the wagered battle, then accepted Yan’s challenge over the soul bone he had won at the Soul Master Tournament. The private one-on-one Soul Battle was arranged under the supervision of two Soul Douluos, with a Soul Sage appointed as referee.

• Tie Wu and Yu Zhi bypassed Ma Hongjun to attack the three great single-attribute clans, but their attacks failed against the agility and defense Soul Masters.
• Ma Hongjun burned Li Jin’s Golden Snake Vines and used his Fifth Soul Skill, Phoenix Meteor Shower, to eliminate several Spirit Hall fighters.
• Ma Hongjun punched Tie Wu off the platform, defeating Spirit Hall’s group.
• Yan arrived, recognized Ma Hongjun, and challenged him to a match, wagering his savings against Ma Hongjun’s tournament soul bone.
• Ma Hongjun demanded that Yan also wager both arms, and Yan accepted.
• Niu Gao and a platinum bishop restrained the opposing groups as the Great Soul Arena arranged a private one-on-one Soul Battle with a Soul Sage referee.

Ma Hongjun defeated Yan in a spirit battle, but a Platinum Bishop intervened before the outcome could be settled and Niu Gao secured the wager. The group then received their final assessment: endure as long as possible in White Flame Valley, where Tie Wu was placed on a relatively safe stone wall.

• Ma Hongjun used Phoenix Burst Strike to break Yan's defenses and seriously injure him, then pressed the attack with Phoenix Fireline.
• The Platinum Bishop interrupted Ma Hongjun's fourth soul skill to protect Yan, and Niu Gao blocked the bishop's Soul Power attack.
• Yan handed over his storage Soul Tool as the wager and left the Great Soul Arena with the Platinum Bishop.
• The group returned to the hotel, rested, and received details of the final assessment in White Flame Valley, where the top performer would receive a guaranteed ten-thousand-year fifth soul ring from Spirit Hall.
• A Spirit Hall steward carried Tie Wu to a relatively safe stone wall in White Flame Valley and told him to remain there until the assessment ended.

Tie Wu ventured deeper into a dangerous cave to gather Fire Essence Grass and used a seven-thousand-year stalk to break through the Waterforce Pill’s restriction, reaching Soul Power Level 44. He found five ten-thousand-year stalks among fire crystals, but the cave continued beyond them, leaving him to consider whether to press on.

• Tie Wu dodged eruptions from cracks linked to underground earth veins and collected increasingly old Fire Essence Grass as he went deeper.
• Tie Wu absorbed a seven-thousand-year Fire Essence Grass, breaking the Waterforce Pill’s restriction and raising his Soul Power Level to 44.
• Tie Wu continued deeper, suffered a magma burn to his left arm, treated the wound, and cautiously moved onward.
• Tie Wu found five ten-thousand-year Fire Essence Grass among crimson crystals, including one with a faint golden pattern.
• Tie Wu prepared to collect the five stalks, then noticed the cave extended farther and wondered whether he should continue.

Tie Wu found and consumed the Red Prison Dragonblood Hibiscus in White Flame Valley, transforming his martial soul and reaching Soul Power level fifty. After returning to Spirit Hall, he faced Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, who recognized the herb’s fragrance.

• Tie Wu ventured deeper into White Flame Valley and found the immortal-grade Red Prison Dragonblood Hibiscus among the flame crystals.
• Tie Wu consumed the herb and endured a month of painful cultivation as fiery energy tempered him and his Flame Wolf martial soul.
• Tie Wu reached Soul Power level fifty, and his martial soul transformed into the Holy Flame Gray Wolf.
• Spirit Hall deacons failed to find Tie Wu and listed him as missing, but a deacon later discovered him as he emerged from a cave.
• Tie Wu returned to Spirit Hall in time for the assessment rewards, where Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan asked whether he had consumed the Red Prison Dragonblood Hibiscus.

Tie Wu was recognized by Chrysanthemum Douluo for his talent and gained the chance to obtain a fifth soul ring, while Tie Li advanced through an assessment in the Lightning Pool. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Wu saved Tie Wu from the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound, leaving him facing the dying beast.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo confirmed that Tie Wu had consumed the Red Prison Dragonblood Hibiscus and praised his talent after seeing his Holy Flame Gray Wolf Martial Soul.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo ordered Spirit Hall to take Tie Wu to the Star Dou Great Forest the next day to obtain his fifth soul ring.
• Tie Li completed seven steps in the Lightning Pool, earning a reward that raised his soul bones' age to eighteen thousand years.
• Xiao Wu ordered the Titan Giant Ape to severely wound the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound and save Tie Wu from its attack.
• Xiao Wu warned Tie Wu to leave the Star Dou Great Forest, and he vowed to repay her before turning toward the dying Three-Headed Red Demon Hound.

Tie Wu absorbed the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound’s soul ring and unusual head soul bone, then returned to Spirit Hall and drew the attention of Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo. He began a fight with Xie Yue to test his strength, and their clash was still underway.

• Tie Wu killed the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound and absorbed its fifteen-thousand-year soul ring, reaching Soul Power Level fifty-four.
• Tie Wu absorbed the beast’s head soul bone, which made three flame-wreathed heads grow from his own and strengthened his Holy Flame Gray Wolf martial soul.
• Tie Wu left the Star Dou Great Forest and gave Spirit Hall an account of the deaths of the seven deacons; Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo chose not to press him.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo praised Tie Wu’s potential, while Ghost Douluo proposed sending him to Death Canyon to compare him with Xie Yue’s group.
• Xie Yue challenged Tie Wu in a Soul Fighting Arena, and the two released their martial souls and fought as Soul Kings.
• Tie Wu’s three-colored flames clashed with Xie Yue’s Moon Blades, and their battle continued.

Tie Li completed the Lightning Pool’s forty-nine-step trial, raising his Soul Power Level to sixty-nine and his leg Soul Bones to sixty thousand years while gaining a third pair of bone wings. A second trial then began, pitting him against a lightning humanoid whose Quake Sound and amplified power made it a dangerous opponent.

• Tie Wu used stacked Inferno Rings against Xie Yue’s Full Moon, then feigned exhaustion and conceded without revealing his head Soul Bone.
• Tie Li’s leg Soul Bones reached thirty thousand years as he continued cultivating in the Lightning Pool and improved his affinity with lightning.
• After seven months of training, Tie Li advanced through forty-nine steps of the Lightning Pool, enduring increasingly powerful lightning beasts and reaching level sixty-nine.
• The trial’s reward raised Tie Li’s leg Soul Bones to sixty thousand years and caused a third pair of bone wings to emerge from his External Soul Bone.
• A humanoid lightning creature appeared in a Soul Fighting Arena and attacked Tie Li with a powerful, complete Quake Sound.
• Tie Li clashed with the creature and activated four amplification Soul Skills, but its own strength was amplified to match his.

Tie Li fought a series of lightning humanoids and acquired complete methods for several of the Thunder Dragon Six Sounds, discovering a flaw in his earlier cultivation. Meanwhile, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing prepared to flee the Star Luo Empire, while Dai Weisi confronted Zhu Zhuyun after she poisoned Dai Mubai.

• Tie Li defeated the Quake Sound humanoid, then overcame the Sound Penetration and Collapse Sound humanoids to obtain their complete cultivation methods.
• Tie Li battled the humanoid wielding Void Sound for two hundred rounds and obtained the complete Control Sound method, leaving him severely drained.
• Dai Mubai survived a poisoning attempt with Tang San's antidote and decided with Zhu Zhuqing to escape the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Mubai secretly contacted Flender and the others while making arrangements to leave without Dai Weisi discovering them.
• Dai Weisi bound Zhu Zhuyun in an underground palace and accused her of poisoning Dai Mubai, while Zhu Zhuyun demanded to know who he really was.

Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing reunited with Flender and Ning Rongrong, then learned that Oscar was missing, Ma Hongjun had been taken by Fallen Soul Masters, and Liu Erlong was injured. Meanwhile, Tie Li absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year torso soul bone, reached Soul Power Level seventy, and entered the first Thunder God Nine Trials challenge.

• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing reunited with Flender, Ning Rongrong, Zhao Wuji, and Chen Xin inside Heaven Dou Empire territory.
• Flender and Ning Rongrong told Dai Mubai that Tang San was absent, Oscar had gone to the Far North, and Ma Hongjun's Evil Fire had caused serious trouble.
• Flender's group returned to Shrek Academy and found Liu Erlong injured after two Fallen Soul Masters had broken in and taken Ma Hongjun.
• Chen Xin identified the intruders' cold, evil Soul Power and suggested Ma Hongjun's martial soul was connected to their interest in him.
• Tie Li completed the Thunder God Mark by absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Thunder Spirit Dragon torso soul bone, and his Soul Power reached level seventy.
• Tie Li activated the Thunder God Nine Trials and entered the Land of Thunder Evolution as the mist around the Lightning Pool began to dissipate.

Tie Li entered the Land of Thunder Evolution and began fighting an endless succession of thunder beasts as he tried to survive for a year. Meanwhile, Tie Wu and Yan’s rivalry erupted into a duel in Death Canyon, where Tie Wu revealed a powerful Self-Created Soul Skill.

• Yu Xiaogang discovered in his clan’s archives that the Wind Thunder Sect had once been the Thunder God Sect, and considered seeking more records at Spirit Hall while searching for a solution to Ma Hongjun’s evil fire.
• Tie Li killed a thunder tiger thunder beast with his Quake Dragon Hammer and gained five hundred years of age for his left leg soul bone, but another beast immediately emerged.
• In Death Canyon, Tie Wu accused Yan of letting Gale Demon Wolves attack him, and Xie Yue warned Yan not to repeat the behavior as they prepared to enter Dark Valley.
• Yan attacked Tie Wu with a flaming rock, and the two entered Martial Soul Possession and began fighting while Xie Yue and the hidden Douluo watched.
• Tie Wu blocked Yan’s fifth soul skill with a spiral shield of tricolored flames, transformed it into a Three-Headed Red Demon Hound, and sent it charging at Yan.

Tie Wu defeated Yan with his Self-Created Soul Skill and was sent to the Spirit Hall Temple in Heaven Dou City as punishment. Chrysanthemum Douluo clashed with Dugu Bo outside the city, and Dugu Bo returned to the imperial palace determined to refine his poison pill and regain the advantage.

• Tie Wu badly wounded Yan with Skyfire Transformation, forcing Yan to abandon the trip to Dark Valley and return to Spirit Hall.
• Spirit Hall elders blamed Tie Wu for injuring Yan and assigned him to the Spirit Hall Temple in Heaven Dou City; Chrysanthemum Douluo accepted the decision.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo escorted Tie Wu to Heaven Dou City, then left after handing him to the Platinum Bishop.
• Dugu Bo intercepted Chrysanthemum Douluo outside the city, and their clash ended with both Title Douluo departing after their attacks shook the area.
• Dugu Bo told Prince Xue Xing that Chrysanthemum Douluo had likely come without a mission, then resolved to refine his poison pill after suffering a small loss.

Tie Wu clashed with Dai Mubai in Heaven Dou City and accepted a public wager match at the Great Soul Arena. As the fighters took the stage, Yu Xiaogang recognized Tie Wu and judged Dai Mubai had less than a thirty percent chance of winning.

• Tie Wu and two Spirit Hall soul masters encountered Shrek Academy students, and Dai Mubai challenged Tie Wu after their groups traded insults.
• Tie Wu proposed that the loser admit to being a dog, kneel, and shout “Grandpa” three times, and Dai Mubai accepted.
• The Great Soul Arena promoted the wager match, drawing Spirit Hall deputy hall master Wu Ersi, Prince Xue Beng, Ning Fengzhi, and Shrek’s teachers and students.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to Shrek Academy and joined the audience after failing to find a solution to Dai Mubai’s evil fire.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized Tie Wu as a Holy Flame Gray Wolf martial soul owner whose talent rivaled Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation, and estimated Dai Mubai’s chance of victory at under thirty percent.

Tie Wu used his explosive-flame soul bone and skills to gain the upper hand against Dai Mubai in their Soul Battle. After Flender suggested delaying payment of their verbal wager, Tie Wu knocked Dai Mubai unconscious and secured victory.

• Yu Xiaogang identified Tie Wu as an assault-type Soul Master whose explosive-flame soul bone greatly enhanced his Holy Flame Gray Wolf martial soul.
• Tie Wu and Dai Mubai exchanged close-range attacks, and Tie Wu's flames steadily injured Dai Mubai despite his slight strength disadvantage.
• Dai Mubai struck Tie Wu with his second and fourth soul skills, but Tie Wu used Skyfire Transformation and Flame Clone to evade the attacks.
• Tie Wu hit Dai Mubai with his Inferno Rings and Heavy Flame Rupture Strike, leaving him severely injured and barely standing.
• Flender proposed delaying the verbal wager, while Dai Mubai refused to concede and tried to provoke Tie Wu.
• Tie Wu saw through Dai Mubai's provocation, appeared behind him, and knocked him unconscious.

After losing the soul battle, Dai Mubai rejected the wager and secretly met Ma Hongjun, who tempted him with the power of ultimate evil. Dai Mubai agreed to seek that power, and when his disappearance was discovered, Flender and the others searched the Spirit Hall Temple, where Wu Ersi accused them of trying to evade the wager.

• Flender asked to delay the wager while Dai Mubai recovered, but Wu Ersi announced that Spirit Hall would come to Shrek Academy in three days to collect.
• After waking, Dai Mubai insisted the verbal wager did not count and left alone to meet Ma Hongjun outside Heaven Dou City.
• Ma Hongjun revealed he had become a Soul Emperor and urged Dai Mubai to pursue the power of ultimate evil, citing the widening gaps between Dai Mubai, Zhu Qing, and Third Brother.
• Dai Mubai agreed to seek a deity's attention and obtain the power of ultimate evil.
• When Dai Mubai disappeared, Flender asked Ning Rongrong to seek Chen Xin's help, and the group went to the Spirit Hall Temple.
• Wu Ersi accused Flender's group of staging the search to evade the wager, while Flender realized Dai Mubai had never been there.

Tie Li completed the first Thunder God trial, evolved his External Soul Bone, and absorbed the God-Bestowed Soul Ring while pushing it toward one hundred thousand years. The chapter ended as the ring turned blood-red and strengthened his Thunder God Domain.

• Tie Li defeated a powerful thunder beast that absorbed his Black Lightning and recovered from devastating damage.
• Tie Li used his fifth Soul Skill to destroy the beast, and the reward triggered the evolution of his bone wings into a fourth pair.
• Tie Li passed the first Thunder God trial and gained five percent Thunder God affinity and a God-Bestowed Soul Ring.
• Tie Li released his Soul Bones to strengthen his body and began absorbing the ring, enduring severe pain as it reached a hundred-thousand-year age.
• The blood-red Soul Ring enhanced Tie Li's power and Thunder God Domain.

After completing the Thunder God Mark and raising his Soul Power to level seventy-four, Tie Li began the second trial, which required him to climb thirty-six mountains and endure lightning tribulations. He defeated ten Thunder Nether Werewolves on the first mountain and continued toward its summit, while Nuer Si wondered whether the old guardians had lost their wisdom and considered the clan’s future.

• Tie Li completed the Thunder God Mark, gained a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, and returned to the Lightning Pool to rest for three days.
• Tie Li entered the second trial, where his seventh Soul Ring, Quake Dragon Hammer power, and External Soul Bone were sealed as he was tasked with climbing thirty-six mountains and enduring a lightning tribulation on each.
• Tie Li encountered Nuer Si and learned that he had to defeat ten Thunder Nether Werewolves to pass the first mountain’s guardian clan.
• Tie Li defeated the ten Thunder Nether Werewolves using his hammer and self-created Soul Skills, then received permission from Nuer Si to continue uphill.
• Nuer Si watched Tie Li leave and worried that time had eroded the guardians’ wisdom, before reconsidering whether his clan needed a successor.

Tie Li advanced through the mountain trial, gaining insight into Soul Core cultivation from the lightning tribulations and discovering human Soul Masters among the clans. On the seventeenth mountain, its people allowed him to pass directly and revealed that their descendants had been normal humans for five hundred years.

• Tie Li survived the first mountain's lightning tribulation, absorbed its vital energy, and advanced to Soul Power Level seventy-five.
• Tie Li defeated Bai Miao's ten challengers on the second mountain, including the six-ring Soul Emperor Bai Jiao, then climbed to the summit and endured another lightning tribulation.
• Tie Li continued across the mountains, studying the formation of each lightning tribulation and wondering how he would settle the Soul Masters he might bring back to the Douluo Continent.
• On the seventeenth mountain, an elderly Soul Douluo told Tie Li he could pass without a test because the descendants born there had been normal humans for five hundred years.
• The elderly man and three companions revealed their powerful Martial Souls and soul rings, including the Twin-Winged Thunder Tiger.

Tie Li continued his trials through the mountains, gaining a Soul Power level before reaching the twenty-third mountain and facing Thunder Fang. Their battle escalated as Tie Li’s ultimate Black Lightning overwhelmed Thunder Fang’s lightning attacks, leaving the Title Douluo to decide whether to intervene.

• Tie Li told Thunder Tiger he did not know how to take the clan away, then continued toward the mountain peaks.
• Tie Li comprehended the lightning tribulation on the seventeenth mountain, absorbed pure vitality, and rose from Soul Power level seventy-five to seventy-six.
• At the twenty-third mountain, Tie Li encountered a Title Douluo with the Thunder Demon Lion Emperor martial soul and was ordered to defeat Thunder Fang to pass.
• Tie Li and Thunder Fang fought, and Tie Li’s ultimate Black Lightning suppressed Thunder Fang’s lightning martial soul and dispersed his thunder beast.
• Thunder Fang unleashed his eighth soul skill, Thousand Falling Lightning Bolts, as Tie Li pressed his attack, while the Title Douluo hesitated over whether to stop the battle.

Tie Li used the Thunder God Domain to defeat Thunder Fang and continued climbing the lightning mountains, while Dai Mubai absorbed his sixth soul ring and received the Power of Supreme Evil’s instruction to go to the Star Dou Great Forest. He met with Gil and the other Fallen Soul Masters, who prepared to decide who would accompany him.

• Tie Li activated the Thunder God Domain, defeated Thunder Fang, and was allowed to proceed to the mountaintop.
• Tie Li began comprehending the lightning tribulations and had completed twenty-three of the thirty-six mountains.
• Dai Mubai absorbed his sixth soul ring, reached level sixty, and learned that the Power of Supreme Evil wanted him to go to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Dai Mubai warned a hostile young Fallen Soul Master not to test his patience before setting out with the others.
• At a rundown inn, Dai Mubai told Gil and the gathered Fallen Soul Masters about the instruction, and they began discussing who would accompany him.