Chapter Summaries

Dugu Bo cured Dugu Yan’s poison, gave her the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, and helped her obtain a fourth soul ring. He then prepared to seek an exceptionally powerful fifth soul ring for Tie Li, though Dugu Yan feared the soul beast would be too strong for him.

• Dugu Yan expelled most of her poison and condensed what remained into her soul bone under Dugu Bo’s guidance.
• Dugu Bo gave Dugu Yan the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, which replenished her depleted body and raised her Soul Power to level forty.
• Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where she found Tie Li cultivating and learned that he would also obtain a soul ring.
• Dugu Yan killed a five-thousand-year Crimson Nether Serpent and absorbed its soul ring, reaching level forty-two while keeping her poison in her soul bone.
• Dugu Bo proposed a Three-Headed Thunder Silver Python with over twenty-five thousand years of cultivation for Tie Li’s fifth soul ring, and Dugu Yan warned that it could kill him.

Tie Li absorbed a twenty-six-thousand-year Three-Headed Thunder Silver Python as his fifth soul ring, despite the risks of exceeding his level. He awakened with level fifty-four Soul Power and a soul skill that briefly gave his Quake Dragon Hammer ultimate lightning, then prepared to demonstrate it to Dugu Bo.

• Tie Li agreed to absorb a Three-Headed Thunder Silver Python over twenty-five thousand years old, while Dugu Yan doubted he could survive it.
• Dugu Bo took Tie Li and Dugu Yan to a lightning-filled valley, subdued the python, and let Tie Li kill it.
• Tie Li absorbed the python's black soul ring, with his wing bone taking in excess energy and easing the strain.
• Tie Li awakened with two yellow, two purple, and one black soul ring, level fifty-four Soul Power, and a fifth skill that granted him ultimate lightning briefly.
• Tie Li summoned his Quake Dragon Hammer and began demonstrating his ten-thousand-year soul skill to Dugu Bo.

Dugu Bo confirmed Tie Li’s Wind Thunder Sect inheritance and told Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s education committee why he had advanced so rapidly, while keeping his Martial Soul’s evolution secret. Tie Li returned to the academy, where Dugu Yan told their teammates he had become a Soul King and explained his inherited resources.

• Tie Li’s enhanced lightning injured Dugu Bo, who praised the soul skill and decided to inform the academy and imperial family about Tie Li’s status.
• Zhi Lin and Zhao Tianhe reported that their search for Tie Li had gone cold near the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Dugu Bo told the education committee that Tie Li bore the Wind Thunder Sect’s Inheritance Mark and had reclaimed the sect’s inheritance, while concealing his Martial Soul evolution.
• Tie Li returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and rested in his dormitory.
• Dugu Yan told her teammates that Tie Li had become a Soul King and attributed his rapid progress to the Wind Thunder Sect’s inherited reserves.
• The Shi Brothers cautioned that Tie Li’s strength alone would not guarantee the Second Team’s success if his teammates failed to improve.

Tie Li returned to Heaven Dou City with Tuo Yu to collect armor forged with Hundred Forging techniques and hoped to meet the Strength Clan and learn the complete Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer. There, he encountered Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing before the blacksmith showed him the finished armor.

• Tuo Yu told Tie Li that Shrek Academy had been forced to leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy and that his family had given him a thousand-year soul bone.
• Tie Li declined to meet the new substitutes and invited Tuo Yu to accompany him to Heaven Dou City to retrieve his armor.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu took Zhu Zhuqing out to eat, and Zhu Zhuqing saw Tie Li and reacted with recognition.
• Tie Li briefly greeted Zhu Zhuqing, then left with Tuo Yu without speaking to Ning Rongrong.
• Tie Li presented his token at the blacksmith shop, where the blacksmith brought out his Hundred Forging inner armor, bracers, and leg guards.

Tie Li persuaded Titan to teach him the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and spent two months improving his forging. At the Strength Clan’s forge, he reunited with Tang San, who had come to work with Tai Long.

• Tie Li presented Yang Wudi’s token to Titan and asked to learn the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Titan agreed to teach Tie Li, then discovered that he already had impressive forging skills.
• Tie Li studied forging with Titan for two months, correcting his hammering technique and practicing in his own room.
• Tai Long brought Tang San to the Strength Clan’s forge so Tang San could work on delicate mechanisms.
• Tie Li and Tang San recognized each other, and Tie Li explained that he had come to learn forging techniques.

Tie Li returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy after learning Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, and the Education Committee agreed to shelter him while warning him to hide his Wind Thunder Sect identity from Spirit Hall. Dai Mubai then arrived with a crowd to confront Tie Li over Zhu Zhuqing, leaving Tie Li challenging Dai Mubai’s claim that she was his woman.

• Titan told Tie Li to study Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer on his own, and Tie Li left the blacksmith shop after three more days.
• The Education Committee let Tie Li stay at the academy but withheld the Wind Thunder Sect’s ancestral grounds until he was strong enough to reclaim them.
• Zhao Tianhe warned Tie Li that Spirit Hall might not know his identity and explained that the Heavy Thunder Sect disciples’ injuries had likely prompted Boliya to leak information.
• Dai Mubai gathered Ma Hongjun, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and other students and marched to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to confront Tie Li.
• Tie Li met Dai Mubai at the academy entrance, denied touching his woman, and reminded him that he had rescued Zhu Zhuqing when Dai Mubai was nowhere to be seen.

Tie Li challenged Dai Mubai to a duel at Heaven Dou Royal Academy after Dai threatened him over Zhu Qing. Tie Li revealed that he had reached Soul King and defeated Dai effortlessly without summoning his Martial Soul, leaving Shrek Academy humiliated as Ning Rongrong grew curious about his strength.

• Dai Mubai attacked Tie Li, but Xiao Wu stopped them from fighting at the academy entrance and suggested they settle things in the Soul Fighting Arena; Tie Li and Dai agreed that the loser would stay away from Zhu Qing.
• At the arena, Dai Mubai revealed his four soul rings, and Tie Li stunned the spectators by displaying five, including a black ring.
• Tie Li fought with six lightning-wreathed chains instead of summoning his Martial Soul and destroyed Dai Mubai's White Tiger Meteor Shower.
• Tie Li struck Dai Mubai three times, broke through his defenses, and injured him badly enough that Ning Rongrong had to heal him.
• Tie Li told Dai to stay away from him, and Dai's Shrek Academy group left in disgrace while Yu Feng and Osler went to report Tie Li's strength to their boss.
• Ning Rongrong decided to investigate Tie Li's capabilities after seeing how drastically his strength had increased.

Ma Kaisi investigated the disappearance of Bishop Boliya and the Soul Emperors from Thunderclap City's Main Martial Soul Hall, while Ning Fengzhi planned to use Wind Thunder Sect disciples at Shrek Academy to test Tie Li. Tie Li's cultivation was interrupted when Xue Qinghe arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy to meet him.

• Ma Kaisi learned that Boliya's trail had vanished near Heaven Dou City and found an envelope in his room mentioning the Heavy Thunder Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong that Tie Li was the Wind Thunder Sect's inheritor disciple and planned to send two Wind Thunder Sect core disciples to Shrek Academy to test him.
• Tie Li continued researching Self-Created Soul Skills and practicing the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Zhao Tianhe told Tie Li that the crown prince wanted to see him and brought him to the Education Committee.
• Xue Qinghe spoke with the three committee members about Shrek Academy before Tie Li entered and recognized her as an unfamiliar face.

Tie Li received valuable information about the Wind Thunder Sect from Xue Qinghe, then accompanied Bai Baoshan to an imperial auction in Heaven Dou City where factions had gathered for a spirit bone. A clash between Huyan Zhen and the Crescent Moon Sect disrupted their meal, leaving the two sects at odds.

• Xue Qinghe gave Tie Li a list of the Wind Thunder Sect's core disciples and offered him help, while Tie Li tried to avoid revealing too much about himself.
• Three days later, Xue Qinghe invited Tie Li to an imperial auction whose finale would be a spirit bone, and Bai Baoshan agreed to accompany him.
• Bai Baoshan took Tie Li to a luxurious hotel in Heaven Dou City, where they ate before the auction.
• Huyan Zhen burst into the hotel after striking a Crescent Moon Sect elder, then spared the elder after Bai Baoshan urged him to value harmony.
• Bai Baoshan gave the injured elder medicine, and he and Tie Li left with the remaining food after the disturbance.

Tie Li repelled Blazing Academy’s attempt to test him, then accompanied Bai Baoshan to a quiet pavilion where an elderly tea master showed him a domain-like state. Bai Baoshan brought Tie Li to Heaven Dou Auction, where he met Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, and Sword Douluo.

• A Blazing Academy student deliberately collided with Tie Li, who sent him flying with his physical strength alone.
• Blazing Academy’s leading teacher attacked Tie Li, but Tie Li’s Black Lightning overwhelmed the teacher’s flames until Bai Baoshan stopped him.
• Godwind Academy students mocked Blazing Academy after Bai Baoshan and Tie Li left.
• Bai Baoshan took Tie Li to a pavilion, where Tie Li became immersed in the elderly man’s tea-making and experienced a domain-like state.
• Bai Baoshan brought Tie Li to Heaven Dou Auction, where Tie Li met Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, and Sword Douluo.

The Heaven Dou Auction showcased powerful items while Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe discussed the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and a Soul Bone suited to Ning Rongrong. When Ten Thousand Year Blood Essence came up for auction, Tang San revealed he hoped to combine it with rare spiritual herbs to help the group reach Soul Power Level forty within two years.

• Xue Qinghe told Ning Fengzhi that the final Soul Bone came from a fifteen-thousand-year White Spirit Wolf and suited mental or support-type Soul Masters, prompting Chen Xin to suggest it for Ning Rongrong.
• The auction opened with a Godly Zhuge Crossbow, and Ning Fengzhi explained to Xue Qinghe that Tang San had made it.
• Tie Li recognized the high quality of the Ice Glaze Armor forged in Gengxin City when it appeared as the eighth auction item.
• The auctioneer presented Ten Thousand Year Blood Essence as the sixteenth item, describing its potential to accelerate Soul Power cultivation severalfold.
• Tang San asked Grandmaster whether they could pool their Gold Soul Coins to buy the Blood Essence and explained that combining it with rare spiritual herbs could help them all reach Soul Power Level forty within two years.

Tang San and his companions won Ten Thousand Year Blood Essence at auction after Chen Xin’s Titled Douluo pressure silenced a bidder who had insulted them. Tie Li and Bai Baoshan left with an auction prize of their own, but thirteen figures surrounded them after they exited the auction house.

• Tang San explained that he planned to share an immortal-grade spiritual herb with his companions, and Ning Rongrong promised to secure the Ten Thousand Year Blood Essence they needed.
• Ning Rongrong bid extravagantly for the Ten Thousand Year Blood Essence, and Ma Hongjun cursed at a Soul Saint who challenged her.
• Chen Xin released his Titled Douluo aura and forced the auction hall into silence, allowing the Shrek group to obtain the Ten Thousand Year Blood Essence.
• The auctioneer revealed a ten-thousand-year White Spirit Wolf head soul bone, and Huyan Zhen and Ning Fengzhi competed over it.
• Bai Baoshan left the auction early with Tie Li, who had won a special soul beast fang, but thirteen figures surrounded them outside.

Tie Li fought off three Soul Emperors after escaping the ambush and returned to Bai Baoshan with a token linked to the Yu Family. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin headed to Shrek Academy to give Ning Rongrong a soul bone, while considering whether she would keep it or give it to Tang San.

• Bai Baoshan held back five Soul Sages and eight Soul Emperors so Tie Li could escape, but three Soul Emperors broke away to pursue him.
• Tie Li used his Quake Dragon Hammer and Black Lightning to kill the three Soul Emperors, then two observers identified his lightning as resembling the Dark Thunder Demon Dragon's corrosive trait.
• Tie Li returned unharmed and gave Bai Baoshan a token taken from one of the Soul Emperors; Bai Baoshan recognized it as belonging to the Yu Family.
• Bai Baoshan took Tie Li out of Heaven Dou City after a brief clash of Soul Power caused the city's troops to increase their presence.
• Chen Xin shielded Ning Fengzhi during a confrontation involving Huyan Zhen, three Soul Douluos, and a Title Douluo, then Ning Fengzhi proposed visiting Shrek Academy to give Ning Rongrong a soul bone.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed whether Ning Rongrong would absorb the soul bone or give it to Tang San, and Ning Fengzhi said either choice would turn out well.

Tie Li forged a lightning-infused dagger and broke through to Soul Power Level fifty-five, while Seventh Master Ning secretly pursued a ritual involving slaughtered towns and planned to release fallen soul masters. After signs of Spirit Hall’s investigation appeared, Zhao Tianhe told Tie Li to leave the academy temporarily with the Second Team.

• Tie Li forged the soul beast skull and special fang into a lightning-infused dagger, and his Soul Power Level advanced to fifty-five.
• Shrek Academy defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Second Team in a Soul Fighting match, while two students searched the opposing team for an inheritance disciple.
• Seventh Master Ning discussed Ning Ning’s potential and directed an accomplice to release imprisoned fallen soul masters to divert attention from the killings in nearby towns.
• The imprisoned fallen soul masters proclaimed that their ritual had succeeded and that their supposed savior would rescue them.
• Zhao Tianhe warned Tie Li that Spirit Hall was investigating Boliya’s disappearance and told him to leave the academy temporarily with the Second Team.

Tie Li and the academy team arrived in Crescent Moon City to train with the Crescent Moon Sect, where city lord Yue Yin challenged them to a spar with his disciple Ji Yu. Ji Yu chose Tie Li as his target, but first faced Gu Qi, and the chapter ended as he rapidly closed in on the airborne Soul Master.

• Tie Li told Tuo Yu he would not compete in the Soul Master Tournament, though Tuo Yu assumed he would join the team later.
• Bai Baoshan brought the students to Crescent Moon City so they could learn joint combat techniques and practice coordinating with the Crescent Moon Sect.
• Yue Yin welcomed Bai Baoshan's group to the City Lord's Mansion and asked whether his disciple could enroll at the academy.
• Yue Yin introduced Ji Yu, a nineteen-year-old level forty-two Soul Ancestor with a Moon Wolf martial soul, and proposed a spar.
• Ji Yu insisted on fighting Tie Li, so Gu Qi challenged him first and activated his flying martial soul.
• Ji Yu leaped through the air toward Gu Qi, startling him with his speed.

Gu Qi defeated Ji Yu in a daytime duel, but Ji Yu used the moonlight-enhanced power of his Moon Wolf Martial Soul to win their rematch and seriously injure him. Tie Li stayed behind to care for Gu Qi, then faced two hostile figures who came to defend Ji Yu.

• Gu Qi defeated Ji Yu during the banquet, and Ji Yu later returned to the western courtyard demanding another match.
• With his Moon Wolf Martial Soul strengthened by moonlight, Ji Yu defeated Gu Qi and wounded him badly.
• Ji Yu challenged Tie Li next, but Tie Li subdued him with black lightning and had him thrown out of the courtyard.
• Tie Li stayed behind to care for Gu Qi, and two unfriendly figures confronted them, with the taller man declaring he would not let anyone bully his junior brother.

Tie Li fought Yue Yin’s two disciples, overpowering their attacks with the Quake Dragon Hammer until they used a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to withstand his Thunder Fall. Yue Yin then questioned Tie Li about the Wind Thunder Sect’s secret art, Thunder Dragon Six Sounds, and Tie Li admitted he did not know it.

• Tie Li refused to fight Yue Yin’s two disciples one at a time and faced both five-ring Soul Kings together.
• Tie Li used enhanced Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer strikes to shatter their attacks and break the short, fat soul master’s defensive shield.
• Tie Li unleashed Thunder Fall, but the two disciples fused their Moonstone and Moon Rabbit Martial Souls to block the hammer.
• Yue Yin appeared, revealed he had allowed the challenge to test Tie Li, and asked why Tie Li had not used Thunder Dragon Six Sounds.
• Tie Li told Yue Yin he did not know the secret art, prompting Yue Yin to question how he could possess the Wind Thunder Sect’s Inheritance Mark without learning it.

Tie Li told Zhao Tianhe about his conflict with Yue Yin’s disciples, while Yue Yin investigated the evil aura on them and suspected trouble in White Mist Valley. Yue Yin then tested Tie Li’s Martial Soul and discovered that his Quake Dragon Hammer had an ultimate lightning attribute.

• Tie Li told Zhao Tianhe that Yue Yin had taken his two disciples away, while concealing the evil aura and the Thunder Dragon Six Sounds.
• The Second Team returned after losing every match to Crescent Moon Sect disciples whose identical Martial Souls enabled a powerful fusion technique.
• Yue Yin learned that his disciples had entered White Mist Valley after hearing frequent soul beast screams and suspected they had encountered something dangerous there.
• Yue Yin ordered his disciples to stay in the City Lord’s Mansion and reflected on the missing Wind Dragon lineage disciples and the secret of the Lightning Pool.
• Yue Yin took Tie Li away and asked him to demonstrate his Martial Soul, then recognized the Quake Dragon Hammer’s exceptional lightning affinity when Tie Li revealed his ultimate lightning attribute.

Yue Yin taught Tie Li the Wind Thunder Sect’s Thunder Dragon Six Sounds, showing him how to use lightning frequencies to create a devastating vibrational attack. After ten days in a secret chamber, Tie Li emerged having grasped the different lightning frequencies.

• Tie Li unleashed four soul skills and forced Yue Yin to defend himself against his ultimate lightning, after which Yue Yin explained how lightning frequencies related to Tie Li’s Quake Dragon Hammer.
• Yue Yin demonstrated a vibrational attack using an ordinary lightning pearl, injuring Tie Li and explaining the potential of the Thunder Dragon Six Sounds.
• Yue Yin took Tie Li to a secret chamber filled with lightning-attributed materials and told him to sense their different frequencies.
• Tie Li studied the lightning frequencies and realized that the Thunder Dragon Six Sounds combined them around the frequency of his own lightning to create a vibrational attack.
• Tie Li emerged from the chamber on the tenth day with a sphere of chaotic Black Lightning in his palm, and Yue Yin praised his progress.

Tie Li trained with Yue Yin to master the Quake syllable of the Thunder Dragon Six Sounds, but their practice was interrupted by a wounded Spirit Hall deacon warning of organized fallen soul masters. Yin Yan confronted them with his Nether Domain Pearl, unleashing an army of captured souls against Yue Yin.

• Yue Yin took Tie Li from the waterfall to the river, where Tie Li spent two months learning to control lightning frequencies underwater and began mastering the Quake syllable.
• Tie Li demonstrated the Quake syllable's destructive power with a hammer strike that sent vibrations through the surrounding space.
• A badly wounded Spirit Hall deacon emerged from the bushes and told Yue Yin and Tie Li that an organized group of fallen soul masters had used an evil ritual to give ordinary people the strength of low-level soul masters.
• Yue Yin decided to bring the deacon to Crescent Moon City, but Yin Yan appeared and revealed his fallen soul master aura.
• Yin Yan summoned the Nether Domain Pearl's captured souls, including four Soul Saint-level figures, seven Soul Emperors, and three damaged ten-thousand-year soul beasts.
• Yue Yin activated his Martial Soul Avatar and attacked Yin Yan.