Chapter Summaries

Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing revealed the Dark Nether Tiger fusion skill, then Hu Liena and Xie Yue unveiled Spirit Hall’s second fusion skill, Enchantress. Enchantress engulfed Tianshui Academy’s team in red mist and prepared to attack.

• Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing formed the Dark Nether Tiger, whose power surpassed Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu’s Falling Ice and Snow.
• Hu Liena told Shui Bing'er that Spirit Hall had another Martial Soul Fusion Skill and urged Xie Yue to reveal it.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue fused into Enchantress, shocking the arena and the watching factions.
• Enchantress’s red mist engulfed Tianshui Academy’s five members and disrupted their perception.
• Enchantress dismissed its previous opponents as too weak, then merged into the mist and prepared to attack.

Lin Ye’s Dark Nether Tiger Slash overwhelmed Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu’s Falling Ice and Snow, while the Enchantress attacked Tianshui Academy’s other teammates inside the red mist. Shui Bing’er refused to give up and called on Xue Wu to counterattack.

• The Enchantress wounded Tianshui Academy teammates in the red mist, suppressing their senses and leaving them unable to locate their attacker.
• Lin Ye’s Dark Nether Tiger launched Dark Nether Tiger Slash at Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu as they maintained Falling Ice and Snow.
• Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu poured their power into the fusion skill, but Lin Ye’s slash tore through it and injured them.
• Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu tried Ice Ring Armor and Repulsion Aura, but the slash shattered their defenses and struck them again.
• Shui Bing’er rejected defeat and told Xue Wu to take the initiative and attack.

Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu unleashed Tianshui Academy's strongest attack against the Dark Nether Tiger, but Zhu Zhuqing's Invincible Golden Body left it completely unharmed. Shui Bing'er was left exhausted and devastated as Lin Ye acknowledged that the Ice Phoenix might otherwise have injured them.

• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu compressed their remaining Soul Power to form a gigantic Ice Phoenix.
• Lin Ye told Zhu Zhuqing to let the Ice Phoenix strike and show Tianshui Academy the gap in their strength.
• Shui Bing'er sent the Ice Phoenix charging at the Dark Nether Tiger with her strongest attack.
• Zhu Zhuqing activated Invincible Golden Body, turning the Dark Nether Tiger gold as the Ice Phoenix crashed into it.
• The mist cleared to reveal the Dark Nether Tiger entirely unharmed, while Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu collapsed from exhaustion.
• Shui Bing'er questioned how they could use an attack-immune Spirit Skill, and Lin Ye admitted her strike might have injured them without it.

Spirit Hall defeated Tianshui Academy in the tournament final, and Shui Bing'er surrendered after her exhausted team was overwhelmed. The referee declared Spirit Hall the champions as the arena erupted in celebration.

• Enchantress emerged from the red mist after knocking out Tianshui Academy's five remaining fighters, leaving only Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu standing.
• Shui Bing'er accepted that Tianshui Academy could not win and surrendered to the Dark Nether Tiger.
• The referee announced Spirit Hall as the match winner and champions of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament.
• Shui Bing'er helped Xue Wu leave the arena while their teacher carried away the unconscious teammates.
• Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing released the Dark Nether Tiger, and Hu Liena and Xie Yue ended Enchantress's fusion skill as the Spirit Hall team celebrated.

Bibi Dong presented three Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Bones as the reward for the Spirit Hall Team’s overwhelming tournament victory and formally declared the competition over. Lin Ye and his teammates left the arena to return to the Papal Palace, while rival teams worried about Spirit Hall’s power.

• Bibi Dong appeared in the arena and revealed three Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Bones, prompting the crowd to marvel at the prizes.
• Bibi Dong declared that the Soul Bones belonged to the Spirit Hall Team because it had won the championship, and spectators speculated that Lin Ye would receive one.
• Bibi Dong announced the tournament’s conclusion, then returned to the Papal Palace after giving Lin Ye a gentle look.
• As spectators departed, the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team leader warned Yu Tianheng to avoid Spirit Hall, while Dai Feng hurried the Star Luo Royal Academy team to leave Spirit City.
• Lin Ye told his teammates to head back, and Hu Liena reminded them to report to Bibi Dong before they celebrated.
• Lin Ye took Zhu Zhuqing’s hand and led the team toward the Papal Palace.

After Spirit Hall won the tournament, Bibi Dong distributed the three Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Bones to Hu Liena, Lin Ye, and Zhu Zhuqing. The chapter ended as Bibi Dong called Zhu Zhuqing forward to receive the final and oldest Soul Bone.

• Lin Ye led the group to the Papal Palace, where Bibi Dong praised their tournament performance and sent Xie Yue and Yan to collect their rewards.
• Bibi Dong awarded Hu Liena a fifty-thousand-year Head Soul Bone suited to her Demon Fox Martial Soul and Spiritual Power.
• Bibi Dong gave Lin Ye a fifty-thousand-year right arm bone that could enhance his strength and defense, and told him to absorb it that night.
• Bibi Dong reminded Lin Ye that Spirit Hall's future rested on him, and Lin Ye promised to devote himself to cultivation.
• Bibi Dong called Zhu Zhuqing forward to receive the final Soul Bone, the highest-quality and oldest of the three.

Bibi Dong gave Zhu Zhuqing a sixty-thousand-year Soul Bone, which she absorbed alongside Lin Ye in their dormitory. Lin Ye reached level 57, while Zhu Zhuqing reached level 49 and teased him by refusing to reveal her new Soul Bone skill unless he begged.

• Bibi Dong gave Zhu Zhuqing a sixty-thousand-year agility-type left leg bone and told all three disciples to absorb their Soul Bones that night.
• Hu Liena hurried back to her room with her Head Soul Bone, while Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing returned to their dormitory to absorb theirs.
• Lin Ye finished absorbing his right arm bone after three hours, gained much greater strength, and broke through to level 57.
• Zhu Zhuqing finished absorbing her left leg bone an hour later and gained three levels, reaching level 49.
• Zhu Zhuqing demanded that Lin Ye beg before she would reveal her new Soul Bone skill, and Lin Ye refused to give in.

Lin Ye coaxed Zhu Zhuqing into revealing her left leg Soul Bone skill, Netherworld Thousand Shadows Step, and she demonstrated it on Spirit Hall’s back mountain. He was astonished to learn that it let her cross a thousand meters with each step and carry one other person, leaving him praising her greatly enhanced ability to escape danger.

• Lin Ye pretended to lose interest in Zhu Zhuqing’s Soul Bone skill until she grabbed him and demanded that he beg her to explain it.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed that her left leg bone’s skill was called Netherworld Thousand Shadows Step and dragged Lin Ye to the back mountain to demonstrate it.
• Zhu Zhuqing activated the skill while holding Lin Ye’s hand, and they instantly moved from the clearing to trees a thousand meters away.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained that for one minute, each step crossed a thousand meters and she could bring one other person along.
• Lin Ye realized that Netherworld Thousand Shadows Step combined with her Invincible Golden Body made Zhu Zhuqing exceptionally difficult to catch or kill, and he praised her.

Lin Ye demonstrated the destructive power of his right arm soul bone skill, Dark Evil Heaven-Splitting Palm, to Zhu Zhuqing in the rear mountain. After the strike left a huge palm-shaped crater and alerted Spirit Hall’s patrol guards, they fled before being caught.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked Lin Ye about his right arm soul bone skill, and he revealed it was called Dark Evil Heaven-Splitting Palm.
• Lin Ye unleashed the skill, summoning a giant palm of evil aura and blackish-purple lightning that smashed into the clearing.
• Zhu Zhuqing saw the enormous crater and praised the skill’s power as Lin Ye acted as if the result were merely acceptable.
• Lin Ye sensed Spirit Hall guards approaching and worried that Bibi Dong would scold him for causing the destruction.
• Zhu Zhuqing used Netherworld Thousand Shadows Step to grab Lin Ye and escape before the guards arrived.

Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing escaped the back mountain after testing her new movement skill, then returned to their dormitory. After Zhu Zhuqing bathed and went to bed, Lin Ye kissed her and teased her for acting cold about her Soul Bone skill.

• Spirit Hall guards found a hundred-meter palm-shaped crater crackling with lightning and were stunned by its destructive power.
• Zhu Zhuqing used Netherworld Thousand Shadows Step to carry Lin Ye several kilometers back to their dormitory in five seconds.
• Lin Ye praised Zhu Zhuqing’s speed and joked that he would rely on her if he faced danger again.
• After they returned to the dormitory late at night, Zhu Zhuqing bathed while Lin Ye waited in bed.
• Lin Ye pinned Zhu Zhuqing down and kissed her until she stopped resisting and wrapped her arms around his neck.
• Lin Ye released Zhu Zhuqing and teased her about acting cold when he had asked about her Soul Bone skill.

Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing spent the night together after teasing and making up, then reported their Soul Bone results to Bibi Dong. Zhu Zhuqing revealed her new escape skill, and Bibi Dong stopped Lin Ye before he could explain his own, saying she already knew it.

• Zhu Zhuqing accused Lin Ye of taking advantage of her after she had helped him, but Lin Ye teased her until she turned away in a huff.
• Lin Ye wrapped Zhu Zhuqing in his arms, apologized, and the two fell asleep together.
• The next morning, Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing went to the Papal Palace and reported that they had fully absorbed their Soul Bones.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Bibi Dong that her Soul Power had risen three levels to the peak of level 49 and that her Netherworld Thousand Shadows Step could teleport her and one other person up to a thousand meters per step for one minute.
• Bibi Dong praised Zhu Zhuqing’s new skill, then interrupted Lin Ye as he began describing his right arm Soul Bone skill and said she already knew it.

Lin Ye admitted that he had caused the enormous palm print on Spirit Hall’s back mountain while testing his newly absorbed Soul Bone, and Bibi Dong forgave him. She then sent him to meet Grand Consecrator Qian Daoliu, who praised Lin Ye’s Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Martial Soul and five Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings.

• Bibi Dong confronted Lin Ye about the hundred-meter palm print on the back mountain, and he admitted he had made it while testing his Soul Bone skill.
• Bibi Dong told Lin Ye to test his abilities at a training ground next time, then ordered him to visit Qian Daoliu in the Hall of Consecration.
• Lin Ye wondered why Qian Daoliu had summoned him and worried that the Grand Consecrator might suspect his Martial Soul, but he went to meet him.
• Lin Ye entered the Hall of Consecration and greeted Qian Daoliu beneath the Angel God statue.
• Qian Daoliu examined Lin Ye and praised his Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Martial Soul and five Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings.

Qian Daoliu ordered Lin Ye to join the Heaven Dou front lines and build military prestige, with Bibi Dong’s approval. Lin Ye accepted after recognizing the mission’s opportunities, but worried Tang Hao might attack him on the journey; Qian Daoliu assured him he had already made preparations.

• Qian Daoliu praised Lin Ye, then explained that he had summoned him to undertake a mission.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Lin Ye to go to the Heaven Dou front lines, fight in the army, and quickly earn military prestige.
• Lin Ye inferred that the mission would help Qian Renxue gain control of Heaven Dou’s military, and learned that Bibi Dong also supported sending him.
• Lin Ye accepted the mission, deciding that battle offered a chance to grow stronger and use his Devour skill.
• Lin Ye raised the danger of Tang Hao attacking him on the way, and Qian Daoliu assured him that he had already considered Tang Hao and made preparations.

Qian Daoliu prepared extraordinary protection for Lin Ye before sending him to the front lines, assigning Golden Crocodile Douluo to guard him and giving him a token containing three of his sword-qi strikes. Lin Ye left the Worship Hall grateful and confident that he could survive the mission.

• Qian Daoliu warned that Tang Hao would die if he showed himself, then acknowledged the danger posed by Tang Hao’s Grand Sumeru Hammer and Ring Detonation.
• Qian Daoliu revealed that Golden Crocodile Douluo would secretly protect Lin Ye on the front lines, leaving Lin Ye stunned by the level 98 Peak Douluo’s assignment.
• Qian Daoliu placed three strands of his peak sword qi into Lin Ye’s token, explaining that each could block and counterattack one life-threatening strike.
• Lin Ye thanked Qian Daoliu, promised to fulfill his mission, and left the Worship Hall with the token.

Lin Ye learned that Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu had arranged for him to train on the Heaven Dou Empire front lines, with three Titled Douluo protecting him. He and Zhu Zhuqing departed Spirit City at dawn, beginning their journey to the battlefield.

• Lin Ye returned to Zhu Zhuqing and showed her the token containing three peak sword energies from Qian Daoliu.
• Bibi Dong confirmed Lin Ye would go to the front lines and assigned Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to protect him openly, while Golden Crocodile Douluo would support him covertly.
• Bibi Dong told Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing to use the battlefield to improve their coordination and ordered them to depart the next morning.
• Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing arrived at the plaza, where Chrysanthemum Douluo waited with guards and explained that Ghost Douluo was concealed nearby.
• Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing boarded the carriage, and the escort set out from Spirit City toward the front lines.

Lin Ye and Chrysanthemum Douluo discussed how Lin Ye would establish authority at the Heaven Dou front lines, then realized their unusually smooth journey was likely a trap. As their convoy entered a narrow gorge, a landslide ambush began, and Chrysanthemum Douluo rushed out to meet it.

• Lin Ye told Chrysanthemum Douluo he planned to win the army's respect through decisive victories, and Chrysanthemum Douluo warned him about the complicated military factions.
• The convoy traveled for two days, leaving Spirit Hall's sphere of influence as the landscape grew desolate.
• Lin Ye and Chrysanthemum Douluo agreed that Tang Hao's absence was suspicious and suspected he was waiting for an ideal ambush site.
• The convoy stopped when guards reported a landslide blocking the road, and boulders began crashing down from both sides of the gorge.
• Several guards' Soul Power barriers broke under the falling rocks, and Chrysanthemum Douluo appeared outside the carriage in midair.

Lin Ye’s group confronted Tang Hao in a canyon, where Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo trapped him with their Two Extremes Still Domain. Tang Hao realized a Second Consecrator was about to attack, but the chapter ended before the strike.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo used Golden Stamens Flooding the Rosy Clouds to slice apart the boulder rain blocking the road.
• Tang Hao descended from the clouds, confronted Lin Ye, and activated his Haotian Avatar to attack him with a colossal hammer.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo prepared to block Tang Hao, but Lin Ye revealed that another ally was present.
• Ghost Douluo appeared and directed Chrysanthemum Douluo to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill while the Second Consecrator handled the attack.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo unleashed Two Extremes Still Domain, freezing Tang Hao and the canyon around him.
• Tang Hao recognized the domain that had once helped lead to A Yin’s sacrifice and feared the attack of the Second Consecrator.

Golden Crocodile Douluo rescued Lin Ye by striking Tang Hao, who fled after being badly injured. Lin Ye and his companions resumed their journey toward the Heaven Dou Empire’s front line, where Zhu Zhuqing planned to gain combat experience and improve their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo struck Tang Hao while the Two Extremes Still Domain held him, sending him crashing through hills and leaving him seriously injured.
• Tang Hao fled into the mountain forest, and Golden Crocodile Douluo stopped Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo from pursuing him.
• Lin Ye thanked Golden Crocodile Douluo, then reassured Zhu Zhuqing that Tang Hao had been trapped when he was struck.
• The group boarded the carriage and continued toward the Heaven Dou Empire, while Lin Ye encouraged Zhu Zhuqing to train on the battlefield.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Lin Ye for treating her well, and the two embraced as Chrysanthemum Douluo left the carriage roof to avoid watching them.
• The group traveled peacefully through several cities, and Tang Hao did not reappear.

Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing reached the Heaven Dou Empire’s frontline camp after Chrysanthemum Douluo explained that Bibi Dong wanted Spirit Hall to openly support Heaven Dou against Star Luo. Meanwhile, Tang San worried that Tang Hao had not returned from trying to assassinate Lin Ye.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Lin Ye that Bibi Dong wanted him to reveal his identity as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and explained Spirit Hall’s plan to defeat Star Luo before taking Heaven Dou.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo departed, leaving Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing to approach the military camp.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked whether revealing Lin Ye’s identity would put him in danger, and Lin Ye said they needed to establish their authority.
• At Shrek Academy, Tang San told Yu Xiaogang he feared something had happened to Tang Hao, who had left to seek a chance to assassinate Lin Ye.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang waited anxiously for Tang Hao to return from his mission to kill Lin Ye, and Yu Xiaogang tried to convince Tang San that his father would prevail. When a Shrek Academy teacher announced that Tang Hao had returned, they celebrated—until he clarified that Tang Hao was the one who had suffered a disaster.

• Tang San worried that Tang Hao was in danger inside Spirit Hall, while Yu Xiaogang concealed his own fear and insisted Tang Hao would defeat Lin Ye.
• Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San by recounting Tang Hao's past feats, and Tang San regained confidence and waited for his father's victory.
• A terrified Shrek Academy teacher burst into the room and announced that Tang Hao had returned.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang assumed Tang Hao had killed Lin Ye and celebrated his safe return.
• The teacher clarified that something had happened to Tang Hao, leaving Tang San and Yu Xiaogang stunned.