Chapter Summaries

Li Chen paid four million gold soul coins to buy Cloudtop Academy a promotion slot in the Soul Master Tournament, then returned to his room and joined Wine Fox, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling in a card game. He told the others the preliminary matches might be fixed and left Dugu Yan realizing that he and Wine Fox had been reading her cards.

• King Haagen-Dazs praised Cloudtop Academy’s team leader while the other academy leaders pretended the purchased promotion slot was legitimate.
• Li Chen produced four million gold soul coins, paid the finance minister, and received an anonymous VIP prepaid card.
• Li Chen returned to his room, where Wine Fox, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling were playing cards.
• Li Chen told Dugu Yan that the royal family and local Spirit Hall had auctioned a promotion slot and urged the team to train for the Promotion Tournament.
• Li Chen and Wine Fox used spiritual power to read the cards as Dugu Yan played landlord and lost the game.
• Dugu Yan realized Li Chen and Wine Fox had been seeing her cards and threatened to tell Grandpa that Li Chen was bullying her.

Li Chen reached level 90, used the Transmutation Table to absorb a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, and planned to control how soul masters obtained Soul Rings. After choosing the Aether MOD, he flew to the Lake of Life to demand protection money from Di Tian but was confronted by Er Ming.

• Li Chen left Wine Fox in charge of the team and traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his ninth Soul Ring.
• Li Chen discovered that the Transmutation Table could convert Soul Rings into crystals, then absorbed a transmuted Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and became a Titled Douluo.
• Li Chen stored crystals containing Hundred-Year, Thousand-Year, and Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings and planned to collect the remaining types before announcing Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• Li Chen selected the Aether MOD and received a system notification that he could choose three MODs from a pool of 100 at level 100.
• Li Chen flew toward the Lake of Life to demand a protection fee from Di Tian, but Er Ming emerged from the forest and blocked his way.

Li Chen seized the Lake of Life, killed Da Ming and Er Ming, and then entered the true Great Ferocious Land to confront Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts. He left them with three choices: pay him protection money, submit to him, or die.

• Er Ming attacked Li Chen, but Li Chen restrained him with wither tentacles that drained his life force.
• Da Ming arrived and surrendered all the soul bones and soul tools he had collected to secure Er Ming's release.
• Li Chen kept his promise only long enough to take the items, then froze time and killed Da Ming and Er Ming, selling their soul rings and taking their soul bones.
• Li Chen searched the bottom of the Lake of Life, then called out for Di Tian; Bi Ji and Xiong Jun heard him in the true Great Ferocious Land, and Di Tian went to meet him.
• Di Tian brought Li Chen through a spatial rift into the Great Ferocious Land, where Li Chen offered the assembled ferocious beasts three choices: pay protection money, submit, or die.

Li Chen subdued Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts, then persuaded them to recognize him as their Venerable Lord and offered them gifts. After their powers began to return, he sent them toward the End portal to gather information, promising that success could help the Silver Dragon King recover.

• Li Chen suppressed the ferocious beasts near the lake, stripping away their soul power and forcing them to collapse under their own bodies.
• Li Chen demanded that Di Tian submit, threatening the beasts and claiming he could change the rules that made them produce soul rings and soul bones.
• Li Chen argued that the Silver Dragon King could not improve the Soul Beast Clan's fate, and Di Tian finally addressed him as Venerable Lord, followed by the other beasts.
• Li Chen gave the beasts Enchanted Golden Apples and Totems of Undying, built a small house, and explained that his suppression would wear off as the world's rules corrected it.
• After the beasts recovered their powers, Li Chen opened an End portal and asked three of them to enter and bring back information.

Di Tian, Xiong Jun, and the Scarlet King entered The End and found themselves falling through a void where their vitality drained away. Di Tian tore open the realm’s spatial barrier to escape, but the three landed before the Ender Dragon, whose overwhelming presence left them unable to resist.

• Li Chen chose Xiong Jun, Di Tian, and the Scarlet King to enter The End and gave them materials to build a return portal.
• Di Tian, Xiong Jun, and the Scarlet King found themselves unable to fly as they fell through a dark void and rapidly lost vitality.
• Di Tian burned his soul power and vitality to tear open the spatial barrier, pulling Xiong Jun and the Scarlet King through the fissure.
• The three continued falling in a region where their vitality no longer drained, then spotted a vast pale-stone island below.
• Di Tian, Xiong Jun, and the Scarlet King were brought before the Ender Dragon, whose bloodline aura overwhelmed them.

Li Chen tested Soul Ring Crystals and Soul Bones on Red Heart Two, Red Heart Three, and four academy students to learn how their abilities were determined. After assigning the students to prepare for the next Soul Master Tournament, he turned to adding Soul Rings to his Second Martial Soul.

• Li Chen left Fang Beast at the Lake of Life to contact him when the explorers returned from The End, then teleported to Origin Village.
• Li Chen helped Red Heart Two and Red Heart Three reach level 10 and absorb hundred-year Soul Rings, discovering that they gained the Quick Sense and Stockpiling skills.
• Li Chen tested a librarian Villager and learned that Villagers had fixed Soul Skills regardless of their Soul Rings, while Red Heart Two and Red Heart Three gained Berserk from thirty-thousand-year Soul Bones.
• Li Chen had Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, Ling Feng, and Wang Sheng absorb Soul Rings and Soul Bones, finding that their Soul Skills suited their Martial Souls and that Liu Long gained Healing instead of Berserk.
• Li Chen told the four students to cultivate for the next Soul Master Tournament, then prepared to add Soul Rings to his Second Martial Soul.

After reaching level 99, Li Chen gained world permission and learned that raising Douluo Star’s level was the only way to reach level 100. He began experimenting with merging the Nether into the world, hoping to develop new dimensions and create an underworld.

• Li Chen absorbed two 900,000-year Soul Bones and nine Soul Rings, reaching level 99 and gaining the attention of the world's will.
• The world's will granted Li Chen level 2 permission, and his management panel showed that the Divine Realm controlled Douluo Star’s rules and that Tang San and Qian Renxue had abnormal fortune.
• Li Chen learned that he could not change the world’s rules, but his Command Block could make Soul Skill durations permanent and toggle them freely.
• The world's will explained that Li Chen was bound to Douluo Star and could raise its level by developing new dimensions, supporting more living consciousnesses, or interacting with other worlds.
• Li Chen entered the Nether to investigate merging it with the Overworld, sensed a reaction from a Nether Star, and built a maximum-level netherite base beneath a Beacon.

After testing a Nether Beacon, Li Chen returned to Heaven Dou City and prepared Dugu Yan for the tournament while an unexplained spacetime fluctuation suggested that another player had arrived. He later replaced several of his Soul Rings, discovering that the new rings could accept commands he had previously been unable to set.

• Li Chen found that the Nether Beacon had no special effect, returned to the Overworld, and sent Villagers to build the Reincarnation Hall in the Nether.
• In Heaven Dou City, Li Chen told Dugu Yan to defeat Canghui Academy and gave her a Shulker Box to help her reach level 50; he also unlocked inventory access for his companions.
• A spacetime fluctuation appeared as Li Chen unlocked the last inventory, but his search revealed no sign of the possible new player.
• Li Chen gave Dugu Yan a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, then spent the night with Wine Fox working on a Douluo Kill game.
• Li Chen changed his age through his permissions, detached his second, fifth, and sixth Soul Rings, and replaced them with 900,000-year rings.
• Li Chen tested the replacement Soul Rings and found he could enter commands for custom teleportation, targeted killing, and granting permissions.

Ju Zi arrived in Spirit City and accepted an old woman’s offer of shelter while seeking information. At the Promotion Tournament, Dugu Yan faced Canghui Academy’s Deng Ren as Li Chen and Wine Fox worked on a Douluo Kill skill.

• Ju Zi was transported from the Sun Moon Empire’s border ruins to Spirit City and studied its layout and wall reliefs.
• An old woman offered Ju Zi a place to stay, and Ju Zi followed her to the woman’s home to gather information.
• Shi Nian investigated Cloudtop Academy before its match against Canghui Academy and suspected someone was concealing the team’s information.
• Li Chen and Wine Fox discussed renaming a Douluo Kill skill to “Heavenly Descent of the Jade Scales” while Dugu Yan prepared to fight.
• Deng Ren summoned his level 43 Meteoric Iron Greatsword, and Dugu Yan revealed her five soul rings and level 51 Jade Netherworld Python.

Dugu Yan revealed that she was a fifteen-year-old Soul King and led Cloudtop Academy to victory over Canghui Academy. As the VIPs considered Cloudtop Academy’s unusual strength and possible connections, Li Chen left the tournament early with his team, while Shi Nian encouraged his defeated students.

• Dugu Yan displayed her fifth Soul Ring, impressing Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, Salas, and her proud grandfather Dugu Bo.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized Wine Fox from the Heaven Dou Auction House and recalled that Sword Douluo Chen Xin could not fathom her cultivation.
• Dugu Yan knocked Deng Ren out of the arena, and Canghui Academy conceded the match, giving Cloudtop Academy the first victory of the Promotion Tournament.
• Li Chen handed Dugu Yan water, explained why Canghui Academy had conceded, and led Cloudtop Academy away before the remaining matches.
• Shi Nian watched Li Chen leave and urged his seven discouraged students not to lose heart after their first defeat.

Shi Nian accepted Li Chen’s offer to join Cloudtop Academy after Li Chen revealed he knew Shi Nian’s secrets and promised him a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone. Soon afterward, Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, visited to investigate the academy, and Li Chen challenged her probing before she defended it as her duty as crown prince.

• Shi Nian visited Cloudtop Academy and asked Li Chen about the offer to become its vice dean.
• Li Chen promised Shi Nian a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and demonstrated his knowledge of Shi Nian’s Martial Soul, Soul Bone, and future Seven-in-One Fusion Skill.
• Shi Nian agreed to join Cloudtop Academy after the tournament and after settling his affairs at Canghui Academy.
• Wine Fox asked whether Li Chen would eventually recover or invest in her, and Li Chen called her an important asset he would neither sell nor recover.
• Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, visited Cloudtop Academy to investigate how it had attracted and developed exceptional students.
• Li Chen urged Qian Renxue to focus on cultivation, and she replied that showing concern for the empire’s talents was part of her duty as crown prince.

Li Chen rejected Ning Fengzhi’s offer of cooperation, claiming no power was qualified to work with him unless the entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect joined him. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue ordered Li Chen and Cloudtop Academy watched, while Ning Fengzhi sought answers about the strange power afflicting Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.

• Dugu Bo gave Li Chen an invitation from Ning Fengzhi to meet after the tournament’s next matches, and Li Chen accepted.
• Qian Renxue considered eliminating Li Chen but decided against it and ordered an agent to monitor his movements and report on him daily.
• Ning Fengzhi told Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo that he planned to sound out Li Chen, hoping to learn whether Cloudtop Academy knew how to address their condition.
• Zheng Fei’s opponent conceded before their promotion tournament match, and Li Chen skipped the day’s matches.
• Ning Fengzhi visited Li Chen and offered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support to Cloudtop Academy.
• Li Chen said no power was qualified to cooperate with him unless Ning Fengzhi brought his entire sect to join him, and Ning Fengzhi refused to risk the sect on one man’s words.

Ning Fengzhi asked Li Chen how to counter a power that consumed its host’s vitality and soul power, but Li Chen refused to help without an offer that interested him. At the tournament, Cloudtop Academy entered the losers’ bracket and Wine Fox effortlessly repelled the Star Luo Team’s Hell White Tiger before Dugu Yan and the others attacked.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Li Chen about the power draining its host, and Li Chen said he knew of it but found nothing in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect worth trading for his knowledge.
• Cloudtop Academy and Star Luo Royal Academy both chose the losers’ bracket, leaving Spirit Hall Academy to advance automatically to the winners’ bracket final.
• Wine Fox agreed to fight the Star Luo Team and entered the arena with Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Zheng Fei, and the others.
• The Star Luo Team’s Dai Family youth and Zhu Family girl unleashed their Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Wine Fox used wind to push the Hell White Tiger back toward the Star Luo Team, and Dugu Yan and the others launched their attack.

Cloudtop Academy defeated Star Luo Royal Academy after Dugu Yan restrained the Hell White Tiger and Wine Fox blocked its final attack. After Ye Lingling healed the defeated team, Li Chen took Wine Fox to find Ju Zi, a person he believed should not be in this world.

• The young man from the Dai Family drove the Hell White Tiger through Dugu Yan's poison mist and launched a final beam at Ye Lingling.
• Wine Fox appeared in front of Ye Lingling and blocked the beam with a thin wall of wind, after which the Hell White Tiger collapsed and its two wielders lost consciousness.
• Zheng Fei and the other Cloudtop Academy fighters defeated Star Luo's remaining members, and the referee declared Cloudtop Academy the winner and finalist.
• Ye Lingling healed the Star Luo Team, and the referee announced that Cloudtop Academy would face Spirit Hall Academy in the grand final the next day.
• Li Chen told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that he and Wine Fox were going to find someone, then led Wine Fox toward Ju Zi's alley.

Li Chen found Ju Zi, who had arrived from another world, and persuaded her to leave with him so she could seek revenge on the White Tiger Duke. He brought her to the hotel and introduced her to the Cloudtop Academy group, where Dugu Yan began welcoming her.

• Li Chen told Ju Zi that he knew her identity and her history, then asked whether she wanted to return to her original world and take revenge.
• Ju Zi said she wanted revenge, spoke with the old woman she had been staying with, and left with Li Chen after receiving her blessing and some flatbread.
• Li Chen considered that Ju Zi might have come from a parallel world and that she could open a path to the world of Peerless Tang Sect.
• Li Chen brought Ju Zi to the hotel, where Dugu Yan questioned him about bringing back a child and then invited Ju Zi to join the card game.
• Ju Zi told Dugu Yan her name and confirmed that her martial soul was an orange, and Dugu Yan introduced herself and Ye Lingling.

Cloudtop Academy won the grand final after Wine Fox defeated Spirit Hall Academy alone, and Li Chen announced that Heaven Beyond Heaven would take control of Douluo Star and regulate all Soul Rings. He revealed himself and Wine Fox as level ninety-nine Peerless Douluos before teleporting the team away, leaving Spirit Hall and the spectators stunned.

• Wine Fox carried Cloudtop Academy's six teammates off the arena and defeated Spirit Hall Academy, winning the championship for Cloudtop Academy.
• Bibi Dong presented the ten-thousand-year Soul Bone to Li Chen, who sold it and announced Cloudtop Academy's open admissions and teacher recruitment.
• Li Chen declared that Heaven Beyond Heaven would control Douluo Star and distribute all Soul Rings, drawing laughter and disbelief from the crowd.
• Li Chen revealed nine nine-hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings and his level ninety-nine strength, while Wine Fox also revealed herself as a level ninety-nine Peerless Douluo.
• Qian Daoliu confronted Li Chen and sensed the Angel God's aura, but Li Chen reiterated his declaration and teleported Cloudtop Academy away.
• Bibi Dong left to reconsider her plans, while the spectators struggled to accept the presence of three additional level ninety-nine Peerless Douluos and Heaven Beyond Heaven's claim.

Yu Xiaogang mistook Cloudtop Academy’s teacher recruitment notice for a personal invitation and traveled there to claim a position. At the academy gates, a Soul Emperor rejected his claim and threw him aside.

• Yu Xiaogang read Cloudtop Academy’s recruitment notice and decided its no-rank requirement had been written for him.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San he would secure a teaching position and promised to arrange Tang San’s admission after three years.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang to write him a letter after arriving at Cloudtop Academy.
• After a week of travel, Yu Xiaogang reached Sword City and went straight to Cloudtop Academy’s gates instead of joining the teacher recruitment queue.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed he was the Grandmaster and threatened to have the gatekeeper fired, so the Soul Emperor threw him to the ground and scattered his belongings.

Yu Xiaogang applied to Cloudtop Academy, claiming his martial soul theories made him worthy of a special position, but Dean Li Chen and Vice Dean Shi Nian rejected him as unqualified. After Yu Xiaogang threatened the academy, Shi Nian trapped him in an illusion, and Li Chen ordered that he be kept alive for research into his Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline.

• Yu Xiaogang entered Cloudtop Academy and told the Soul Emperor applicants that its special recruitment route had been created for him, but they recognized him as the Grandmaster who claimed common knowledge as his own.
• At the vice dean's office, Yu Xiaogang presented his theories to Shi Nian, who declared him unqualified while Greed assessed him.
• Li Chen arrived and challenged Yu Xiaogang to explain his ten core competencies, then rejected him after Yu Xiaogang could not answer whether his own martial soul was worthless.
• Yu Xiaogang threatened the academy, so Shi Nian used an illusion that left him terrified and stumbling against the wall.
• Li Chen told Shi Nian not to kill Yu Xiaogang yet because his Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline still had research value.

After soul beasts across the continent stopped producing soul rings, Spirit Hall debated whether to fight Heaven Beyond Heaven, while other factions considered how to respond. The Star Crown Sect chose to relocate to Sword City, Bo Saixi sought answers from the Sea God, and the factions received invitations to discuss the continent’s future.

• Yue Guan confirmed that soul beasts no longer left soul rings when they died, and Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to sound out other factions before deciding whether to fight or negotiate with Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• After observing the stars all night, Xu Yun ordered the Star Crown Sect to move to Sword City within three days, declaring that Heaven Beyond Heaven had become the rule governing the world.
• Sea Dragon Douluo and the other Sacred Pillar Douluos reported the loss of soul rings to Bo Saixi, who entered Sea God Hall to seek an answer from Lord Sea God.
• The Emerald Merchant Guild invited all factions to a meeting on Douluo’s future, as some factions considered resistance while others followed the Star Crown Sect in yielding or joining Heaven Beyond Heaven.

Xu Yun joined Li Chen’s forces and accepted a mission to subjugate the Gengxin City Blacksmith Association. Meanwhile, Wine Fox took the Blue Silver Emperor and confronted Tang Hao, whose all-out hammer strike she stopped in midair.

• Xu Yun signed Li Chen’s contract without asking about its terms and agreed to bring the Star Crown Sect’s children to Cloudtop Academy.
• Li Chen sent Xu Yun to subjugate the Gengxin City Blacksmith Association, with Lou Gao as the key target, and Xu Yun promised to finish in ten days.
• Wine Fox found the Blue Silver Emperor in a cave near Holy Soul Village, took the lead box and uprooted the plant.
• Tang Hao arrived and challenged Wine Fox, who revealed nine hundred-thousand-year soul rings and wounded him with a strike of Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Wind.
• Tang Hao detonated all nine soul rings and swung his Clear Sky Hammer at Wine Fox, but she halted it with a raised hand.