Chapter Summaries

Ouyang Ling learned of the massacre of babies in the Barak Kingdom and organized the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy’s second-team selection for the Soul Master Tournament. In Soto City, Dugu Bo and Gui Mei identified the suspected culprit as Blood Infant Douluo, a Titled Douluo-level Fallen One from the City of Slaughter.

• Ma Hongjun told Ouyang Ling that every family with a baby in the village near the former Shrek Academy had been killed and the babies eaten.
• Ouyang Ling ordered eligible students from several classes to report to the Spirit Duel District in three days for the second-team selection, and included Ma Hongjun, Xiao Ao, and Yu Feng.
• Qin Ming had made Ma Hongjun the second team’s captain and finalized the Imperial Battle Team’s lineup after Yu Feng lost his place to Oslo again.
• Dugu Bo investigated the Soto City and surrounding village massacres and concluded that the Fallen One responsible had cultivation no weaker than his own.
• Gui Mei arrived on Spirit Hall’s behalf and told Dugu Bo that they suspected Blood Infant Douluo, a demon over a hundred years old who had emerged from the City of Slaughter.

Blood Infant Douluo found Xiao Wu in the Star Dou Great Forest but fled after Tang Hao attacked him, then escaped through a Demon Array. After learning news about the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Hao headed for Moon Pavilion to confront Yue Hua, while Bibi Dong sent Blood Infant Douluo back to the forest and plotted with a dark-blue shadow.

• Blood Infant Douluo entered the Star Dou Great Forest and spotted Xiao Wu beside Tang San near Er Ming.
• Tang Hao attacked Blood Infant Douluo, chased him to the forest's outskirts, and struck down a decoy before Blood Infant Douluo escaped through a Demon Array.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu worried that Tang Hao had not returned from his pursuit.
• Tang Hao learned from tavern patrons that the Clear Sky Sect had been involved in recent events and raced toward Heaven Dou City to question Yue Hua at Moon Pavilion.
• Blood Infant Douluo reported his failure to Bibi Dong, who sent him back to the Star Dou Great Forest and declared that she wanted the soul rings of the group there.
• Bibi Dong questioned a dark-blue shadow about the Angel God's territory, and it promised to help her achieve her desires if she restored its physical body.

Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing joined the selection trial for the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy’s second team, where captain Ouyang Ling announced a free-for-all. Ma Hongjun and Yu Feng opened the battle with a combined fire-and-wind attack, aiming to clear the arena.

• Ning Rongrong persuaded Zhu Zhuqing to go shopping, but their teacher interrupted to announce the second-team selection trial.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing agreed to participate together, while Ning Rongrong insisted she would withdraw if Zhu Zhuqing failed to qualify.
• Oscar, Yu Feng, and Ma Hongjun joined the candidates at the Spirit Duel District, where they noticed Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ouyang Ling introduced himself as Imperial Battle Team captain and set a free-for-all selection, with the last seven contestants advancing.
• Ma Hongjun and Yu Feng unleashed their fire and wind soul skills to sweep the Spirit Arena, shielding Oscar behind them.

Ma Hongjun, Yu Feng, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong helped secure places on the second team, then learned they would immediately face Yu Tianheng's group in practice. Elsewhere, Tang Hao visited Moon Pavilion and was reunited with Yue Hua after more than a decade apart.

• Ouyang Ling eliminated inattentive students as Ma Hongjun and Yu Feng's attacks scattered the Spirit Arena contestants.
• Ning Rongrong boosted Ma Hongjun, Yu Feng, and Zhu Zhuqing, while Oscar supplied sausages and Zhu Zhuqing ambushed the other students.
• Ma Hongjun's group of five and Xiu Yuan and Long Tai became members of the second team.
• Ouyang Ling announced that the new team would practice against Yu Tianheng's group of six before celebrating.
• Tang Hao visited Moon Pavilion, where the steward recognized him and let him inside to see Yue Hua.
• Yue Hua greeted Tang Hao when the siblings reunited after more than a decade apart.

Tang Hao returned to Tang Yuehua and accepted the Clear Sky Sect’s punishments, but insisted that Tang San must be allowed to return to the clan. Days later, he began planning to make Tang San stronger while secretly eyeing Er Ming for its Soul Bone.

• Tang Yuehua told Tang Hao the elders’ judgment, and he accepted losing his title, technique, family status, and Soul Bones, but rejected the ban on Tang San returning to the clan.
• Tang Hao revealed Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power, and Tang Yuehua proposed secretly bringing him to the mountain once he could overpower the elders and fulfill their conditions.
• Tang Hao dictated the Grand Sumeru Hammer cultivation methods for Tang Yuehua to record, then left her with his plans to repay the sect and eventually return his Soul Bones.
• Several days later, Tang Hao returned to the Lake of Life, where he eyed Er Ming as a potential source of a Soul Bone and considered arranging its death indirectly.
• Tang Hao told Tang San he would awaken his Blue Silver Grass and intensify his training, while Er Ming sensed danger but dismissed it when nothing happened.

Ouyang Ling defeated the second team in a practical battle, and Oscar and Ma Hongjun broke through to level 40. After celebrating at the Sea-Land Heaven Feast, Yu Feng privately knelt before Ouyang Ling and asked to improve too.

• Ouyang Ling defeated the second team, then thawed the frozen students and had Ye Lingling treat them.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun broke through to level 40, prompting Ouyang Ling to arrange a hunt for their soul rings.
• Ouyang Ling treated the academy students to dinner at the Sea-Land Heaven Feast.
• Yu Feng spoke with Ouyang Ling on the balcony after dinner, then knelt and said he wanted to improve too.

Ouyang Ling joined Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Yu Feng on their Soul Beast hunt, explaining that he would save them time in Sunset Forest. After Flander apologized for Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong’s past actions, the group reached the forest’s core region and encountered a familiar woman.

• Yu Feng revealed that he had reached Rank 40 after Ouyang Ling gave his family an immortal herb and access to Tang Sect secret techniques.
• Ouyang Ling explained that he had come to help the group find Soul Beasts, and Flander and Zhao Wuji prepared to escort them into Sunset Forest.
• Flander apologized to Ouyang Ling for Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong’s actions but refused to plead on their behalf.
• Ouyang Ling led the group through Sunset Forest while Flander and Zhao Wuji drove away nearby Soul Beasts with their Soul Sage auras.
• The group reached the forest’s core region and saw a familiar woman, prompting Yu Feng, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun to call out to her.

Ouyang Ling lured Soul Beasts into First-Line Gorge so Flander and Zhao Wuji could hunt safely, then joined Dugu Yan at the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Eyes. There, he refined the Ninth-Grade Dragon Lingzhi with the spring’s opposing energies into a pill for Dugu Yan, whose dangerous effects she was about to endure.

• Dugu Yan led Ouyang Ling, Yu Feng, and the others to First-Line Gorge and explained the dangers of her grandfather’s Poison Arrays.
• Ouyang Ling gave Flander and Zhao Wuji Flying Divine Claws, then used a sachet and his blood to spread a fragrance that attracted Soul Beasts.
• Ouyang Ling and Dugu Yan hurried through the Poison Array and reached the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Eyes, where Dugu Bo confirmed Dugu Yan had reached Rank 40 and gained a thousand-year Poison Dragon Lizard soul ring.
• Dugu Yan agreed to Ouyang Ling’s plan despite its risk of severe pain or death, and he refined the Ninth-Grade Dragon Lingzhi with the spring’s icy and fiery energies into a pill.
• Ouyang Ling handed the pill to Dugu Yan and told her to endure after swallowing it.

Dugu Yan endured a painful evolution that transformed her Jade Phosphor Snake Martial Soul toward a true dragon, while Oscar chose a Green-Pouch Goose for his Soul Ring. The chapter ended with Dugu Yan awakening to her changed form and celebrating her success with Dugu Bo and Ouyang Ling.

• Dugu Yan swallowed the pill, and her Jade Phosphor Snake Martial Soul transformed into a Jade Phosphor Dragon as she endured alternating trials of fire and ice.
• Ouyang Ling watched over Dugu Yan while Dugu Bo turned away, afraid he would intervene if he saw her suffering.
• Yu Feng and Ma Hongjun obtained Soul Rings from a Wind Bird and a Demonflame Fire Condor, leaving Oscar as the last to choose.
• Oscar consulted Ouyang Ling's notebook, chose a Green-Pouch Goose for its likely ability to remove negative effects, and Zhao Wuji captured it for him to absorb.
• Dugu Yan awakened with dragonlike claws and changed Soul Skills, looked at herself in Ouyang Ling's mirror, and excitedly announced that she had succeeded.

Two years later, Tang San completed eighty-one consecutive hammer strikes but admitted he feared he could never catch up to Ouyang Ling. Tang Hao revealed that Blue Silver Grass was Tang San’s mother, then took him to obtain his fourth Soul Ring and awaken the Blue Silver Emperor, while Hu Liena prepared to get her fifth Soul Ring for Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation.

• Dugu Yan renamed her strengthened Martial Soul the Jade Phosphor Dragon Emperor.
• Tang San used the Clear Sky Hammer to blast a waterfall upward and completed eighty-one consecutive swings.
• Tang San told Tang Hao he wanted to abandon Blue Silver Grass and cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer to catch up with Ouyang Ling, so Tang Hao slapped him and ordered him to kneel.
• Tang Hao showed Tang San the Golden-Pattern Blue Silver Grass in a hidden chamber and revealed that it was his mother; Tang San apologized in grief.
• Tang Hao took Tang San to obtain his fourth Soul Ring and evolve his Blue Silver Grass into the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Bibi Dong sent Chrysanthemum Douluo with Hu Liena to the Star Dou Great Forest for her fifth Soul Ring and vowed to meet her rivals at the tournament.

Tang San visited the Blue Silver Forest, where the Blue Silver King helped awaken his Blue Silver Emperor and grant him a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. After Tang Hao revealed the Clear Sky Sect’s situation and vowed revenge, Tang San proposed joining Spirit Hall, leaving his father stunned.

• Tang San followed his bloodline’s summons into the Blue Silver Forest and met the Blue Silver King.
• The Blue Silver King called on the forest’s Blue Silver Grass to help Tang San awaken his Blue Silver Emperor and condense a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Tang San noticed Tang Hao’s hidden injuries, and Tang Hao assured him he would survive until Tang San grew up.
• Tang Hao explained the pressure the Heaven Dou Empire had put on the Clear Sky Sect and insisted that he alone was to blame.
• Tang Hao and Tang San agreed that they must avenge their grievances against the Heaven Dou Empire and others.
• Tang San announced that he wanted to join Spirit Hall, shocking Tang Hao.

Chrysanthemum Douluo and Hu Liena were ambushed by three powerful Qianjun Ant Emperors in the Star Dou Great Forest and tried to escape. After Yue Guan stayed behind to hold them off, Hu Liena was attacked by a Man-Faced Demon Spider, but a flash of blue light appeared as she neared defeat.

• Three Qianjun Ant Emperors surrounded Yue Guan and Hu Liena, and Yue Guan used his chrysanthemum attack to cover their escape.
• The Qianjun Ant Emperors pursued them underground and repeatedly attacked, preventing Yue Guan from fleeing quickly while carrying Hu Liena.
• Yue Guan set Hu Liena down and told her to head for the forest's outskirts while he held off the three beasts.
• Hu Liena fled alone and encountered a Man-Faced Demon Spider nearing ten thousand years of cultivation.
• The spider poisoned and overwhelmed Hu Liena until a blue light suddenly flashed toward her.

Tang San carried out his plan to enter Spirit Hall by rescuing Hu Liena from a Man-Faced Demon Spider and introducing himself as Tang Yin. Hu Liena invited him to join Spirit Hall, and Yue Guan arrived as she accepted him.

• Tang San used Blue Silver Grass to hold back the nearly ten-thousand-year Man-Faced Demon Spider and treated Hu Liena's poisoned wound before carrying her out of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Wu watched Tang San leave with Hu Liena while Tang Hao decided to let his plan proceed and spared Chrysanthemum Douluo to avoid disrupting it.
• The next day, Hu Liena thanked Tang San in a tavern and invited him to join Spirit Hall after he claimed to be the sixteen-year-old Soul Ancestor Tang Yin.
• Tang San accepted Hu Liena's invitation, and Yue Guan entered the tavern and heard her account of how Tang San had rescued her.

Tang Yin challenged Bibi Dong for a place on Spirit Hall’s team, while events in Heaven Dou City advanced Qian Renxue’s growing control and Ouyang Ling’s plans. The Pillar of Goodness finally began to glow, though its full activation remained uncertain.

• Tang Yin showed Bibi Dong his Ten-Thousand-Year fourth soul ring and agreed to earn a place on the Spirit Academy team by winning the approval of more than half its members.
• Bibi Dong considered whether Tang Yin might be Tang San but found no sign that he had disguised his identity.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing became Soul Elders, Dugu Yan returned with her evolved Jade Phosphor Dragon Emperor martial soul, and the two Heaven Dou teams improved their coordination.
• Emperor Xue Ye became gravely ill from the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss, leaving Qian Renxue to take control and advance reforms across the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Ouyang Ling saw a faint white glow appear on the Pillar of Goodness, signaling that it had activated.

Ouyang Ling called in Luo Sea God Dragon’s promise and received the Sea Dragon Cannon after Luo summoned it from the Pillar of Goodness. He tested its power, learned its limits, and received it as a mark fused into his body.

• Ouyang Ling confronted Luo Sea God Dragon with a memory of his promise to give him the Sea Dragon Cannon.
• Luo Sea God Dragon activated the Pillar of Goodness and summoned the Sea Dragon Cannon.
• Ouyang Ling transformed into the Ultimate Sea God Dragon, took up the cannon, and fired a water-dragon blast that the Pillar of Goodness erased.
• Luo Sea God Dragon explained that the cannon could unleash one attack per day comparable to a non-god-level being’s full-force strike, though Ouyang Ling could not yet use its true power.
• Luo Sea God Dragon dissolved the cannon into starlight, which fused into Ouyang Ling as a mark on his right hand.

A dark-blue shadow realized that Ultimate Goodness Power had begun awakening and resolved to cautiously support Bibi Dong while pursuing his own plans. In the Divine Realm, the Goodness God-King and Evil God-King detected a powerful force of goodness on the Douluo Plane and watched Ouyang Ling, curious about the source of his power.

• The dark-blue shadow sensed that the corrosive power he had left on the Pillar of Goodness had weakened, signaling that Ultimate Goodness Power was awakening.
• The shadow decided to support Bibi Dong and target the Ultimate Sea God Dragon, but resolved to proceed cautiously because Bibi Dong might turn against him if she learned his true nature.
• The Goodness God-King detected a powerful force of goodness in the Douluo Plane and told the Evil God-King it belonged to a human.
• The Goodness God-King suggested that she and the Evil God-King visit the Douluo Plane, and he eagerly agreed.
• The Goodness God-King showed scenes from the Douluo Plane, and the two God-Kings saw Ouyang Ling display his talent.
• The Evil God-King and Goodness God-King praised Ouyang Ling's potential but wondered where his power of goodness had come from.

The God of Kindness decided she wanted to pass on her divine position and persuaded the God of Evil to search for a successor so they could leave the Divine Realm together. In the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace, Qian Renxue revealed that the Lovesick Heartbroken Red had bloomed for her love for Ouyang Ling, and they acknowledged their feelings and kissed.

• The God of Kindness told the God of Evil she no longer wanted to be a God King and proposed Ouyang Ling as a possible successor.
• The God of Evil asked the God of Kindness to help search the lower realms for someone worthy of inheriting his position, and she agreed while leaving her aura on Ouyang Ling.
• Ouyang Ling promised Qian Renxue he would win the tournament and defeat Spirit Hall's Golden Generation, despite their strong lineup and martial soul fusion skill.
• Qian Renxue revealed that the Lovesick Heartbroken Red had bloomed because she loved Ouyang Ling, and said her feelings had begun before he stopped calling her Sister.
• Ouyang Ling embraced Qian Renxue, called her Xue'er, and kissed her while Serpent Spear Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo guarded the entrance.

Heaven Dou Imperial Academy rallied its two tournament teams and reviewed the rules before the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament began. Ouyang Ling’s confidence reassured the Education Committee, which left the championship hopes resting on him.

• Meng Shenji rallied the academy students and declared that Heaven Dou Imperial Academy would aim for the championship.
• Yu Feng joked with Ma Hongjun and the second team until Ouyang Ling revealed that Spirit Hall had three Soul Kings.
• Xue Qinghe confirmed Spirit Hall’s strength, while the Imperial Battle Team declared they were certain to win.
• Meng Shenji explained the tournament’s age, team-size, and conduct rules, then dismissed everyone to prepare.
• The Education Committee kept Ouyang Ling behind and asked whether he could win and break through to Soul King; he answered yes.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two attended the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament’s opening ceremony and drew Blue Tyrant Academy as its first opponent. The chapter ended with Blue Tyrant Academy’s furious-looking leader glaring at them.

• Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s teams entered the arena, where Feng Xiaotian told Ouyang Ling he hoped to face the Imperial Fighting Team in the finals.
• Crown Prince Xue Qinghe declared the tournament open, and Ning Fengzhi predicted that Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Imperial Fighting Team would win.
• Salas drew the first-round matches and paired Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team Two with Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Ouyang Ling reminded Yu Feng that Blue Tyrant Academy was Liu Erlong’s school, and Yu Tianheng explained that his aunt’s departure would not close it.
• Yu Feng noticed Blue Tyrant Academy’s leader glaring at them and asked who the gorilla was.

Ouyang Ling learned that the Strength Clan had targeted his team because of its ties to Tang Hao, then coordinated with Qian Renxue to use the coming match as grounds to move against the clan. He entered the arena in place of Ma Hongjun and provoked Blue Tyrant Academy by declaring he would fight without using his martial soul.

• Ouyang Ling explained the Strength Clan's connection to Tang Hao and told his teammates to have Ye Lingling replace Oscar so she could keep their opponents from being crippled or killed.
• Ouyang Ling met Qian Renxue and explained that a forceful victory over the Strength Clan could give her a justifiable reason to act against them.
• Ouyang Ling and Ye Lingling entered the match against Blue Tyrant Academy in place of Ma Hongjun and Oscar, and Ning Fengzhi and Salas reacted to Ouyang Ling's presence.
• Tai Long vowed to avenge the young master, while Yu Feng mocked him before the match began.
• Tai Long and the other students summoned their martial souls, but Ouyang Ling stayed still and declared he would not need his martial soul to defeat them, enraging Tai Long.