Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang failed to get Long Yue’s help evolving Luo Sanpao and considered finding a Heavenly Dragon Horse soul spirit, while Long Yue registered his battle armor at the Spirit Pagoda and met new Monster Academy student Lin San. The chapter ended with Long Yue learning that Lin San was thirteen, level thirty-one, and had passed the academy’s entrance assessment.

• Long Yue told Yu Xiaogang that Bei Bei’s martial soul had evolved after absorbing a ten-thousand-year Heavenly Dragon Horse soul spirit, leaving Yu Xiaogang frustrated by his level-thirty cultivation barrier.
• Yu Xiaogang considered searching the Spirit Pagoda for a Heavenly Dragon Horse soul spirit but realized he still could not absorb one before reaching level thirty.
• Long Yue registered his purple-quality, complete battle armor at the Spirit Pagoda and refused to reveal its abilities, jokingly naming Zhang Geyang in his registration conversation.
• Long Yue met the shy Lin San at the Spirit Pagoda and learned that the thirteen-year-old wind blade martial soul user had reached level thirty-one and recently enrolled at Monster Academy.

Long Yue recruited Lin San to fight Tang San, promising that defeating him would draw challengers and earn Lin San a chance to spar with Long Yue. Meanwhile, Cha Weiwei gave Tang San a private, flirtatious tour of Monster Academy and took him boating, leaving him uncertain about her intentions.

• Long Yue learned that Lin San had joined Monster Academy hoping to fight him and identified him as a battle-obsessed fighter with little reverence for Tang San.
• Long Yue persuaded Lin San to fight Tang San and suggested he invite soul masters across the country to challenge him afterward.
• Lin San agreed to defeat Tang San, believing Tang San stood between him and a match with Long Yue.
• Cha Weiwei told Tang San that his orientation had been arranged especially for him, then teased him when he tried to ask why.
• Cha Weiwei took Tang San's hand and led him toward a boat on Heavenly Spring Pool as he settled into academy life.

Cha Weiwei tried to seduce Tang San during a drinking session, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing watched their awkward advances. Tang San thought of Xiao Wu as Cha Weiwei leaned against him.

• Cha Weiwei took Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing to a bar and encouraged them to drink.
• Dai Mubai put his arm around Zhu Zhuqing, but she slapped his hand away, and he grew angry.
• Cha Weiwei flirted with Tang San, fed him a preserved plum, and leaned against him as she pretended to be drunk.
• Cha Weiwei recalled that she had targeted Tang San because of his reputation and hoped to become his wife.
• Tang San tensed when Cha Weiwei leaned on his arm and thought of Xiao Wu.

Cha Weiwei leaned on Tang San at a bar, provoking her ex-boyfriend Jiang Ci, whose arrival revealed tensions over her future and the Douluo students’ privileged status. Jiang Ci insulted Tang San and told him to return to the Douluo Continent, but Tang San defiantly insisted that he was a Monster Academy student.

• Cha Weiwei pretended to be tired and leaned on Tang San while Dai Mubai watched and teased him.
• A friend told Jiang Ci that Cha Weiwei was drinking with Tang San, and Jiang Ci called her to challenge her explanation.
• Jiang Ci arrived at the bar and accused Cha Weiwei of moving on to Tang San, while she asked whether he was still going to the borderlands.
• Cha Weiwei explained that the Divine Realm Empire required Soul Masters above rank forty to fight in its expansion campaign, while Jiang Ci said some people could serve in rear positions.
• Jiang Ci told Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing to return to the Douluo Continent and accused Tang San of entering Monster Academy through his status.
• Tang San refused to leave and declared that he was a Monster Academy student, prompting Jiang Ci to reject his claim.

Tang San and Dai Mubai faced Lin San in a Soul Fighting Stage match after Monster Academy students questioned Tang San’s right to enroll. Long Yue set the terms: if Lin San lost, Tang San and Dai Mubai could stay, while Tang San would owe the academy a hundred-thousand-year soul bone in the future.

• Jiang Ci challenged Tang San, but Long Yue proposed that the thirteen-year-old Lin San fight Tang San and Dai Mubai instead.
• Cha Weiwei objected to making Tang San repeatedly prove himself, and Long Yue agreed the match would settle the dispute over his admission.
• Long Yue said Tang San would owe Monster Academy a hundred-thousand-year soul bone, and Tang San accepted, believing he could obtain one in the future.
• Dai Mubai questioned why Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing were exempt from the challenge, but Long Yue defended Dugu Yan and Dai Mubai backed down.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai faced Lin San on the Soul Fighting Stage as Long Yue announced the rules, just as Tang San took out his poison darts.

Lin San used his speed and battle armor to break through Tang San and Dai Mubai’s defenses during their arena test. Just as Long Yue declared Dai Mubai defeated, Tang San’s Parasitism ensnared both fighters, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Lin San revealed his three purple soul rings and attacked Dai Mubai while Tang San tried to restrain him with Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San wrapped himself and Dai Mubai in Blue Silver Grass armor and waited for Lin San to attack, while Su Mu’s betting commentary ended with the upperclassmen apprehending him.
• Lin San used his second soul skill to create phantoms, but Tang San identified his real position with Purple Demon Eye and directed Dai Mubai to fire at him.
• Lin San used a battle armor component to accelerate his slash, shattered Dai Mubai’s defenses, and left a bloody mark on his shoulder.
• Long Yue moved to remove the defeated Dai Mubai, but Tang San’s Parasitism suddenly bound Dai Mubai and Lin San, who prepared to counter with wind.

Lin San defeated Dai Mubai and faced Tang San in a prolonged standoff before overcoming his Blue Silver Grass and poison. Tang San revealed his hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone, but Lin San still brought his Wind Blade to Tang San’s lower abdomen, leaving the match’s final outcome unresolved.

• Lin San used his thousand-year soul spirit and Battle Armor components to defeat Dai Mubai, leaving Tang San as his opponent.
• Tang San retreated into his Blue Silver Grass while Lin San meditated to recover Soul Power, and the two held a standoff until Long Yue warned them about time.
• Tang San attacked with Blue Silver Grass, but Lin San cut through it with his Wind Blade and charged at him.
• Tang San used Mysterious Jade Hand and Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon to disrupt Lin San’s blade and trigger Ghost Vine Parasitism, but Lin San escaped with his thousand-year soul spirit.
• Tang San used his Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone’s Healing ability to recover from Lin San’s blade wounds, revealing the Soul Bone to the arena.
• Tang San attacked with seven palm strikes while waiting for his poison to affect Lin San, but Lin San revealed a second Wind Blade and pressed it against Tang San’s lower abdomen.

After losing to Lin San, Tang San confronted Long Yue about his poison and the limits of his Blue Silver Grass martial soul. Long Yue advised him to rely on his Clear Sky Hammer only after reaching the Five-Ring Soul King stage, while Tang San learned that Cha Weiwei was leaving for practical training but would first help them settle into the academy.

• Long Yue declared Tang San the loser, then extracted Tang San's poison from the collapsed Lin San and sent him for medical care.
• Long Yue explained that Tang San's poison was limited by his ability to pierce defenses and that Soul Tools made hidden weapons less reliable.
• Long Yue warned Tang San that his Blue Silver Grass would fall behind among Monster Academy's geniuses and advised him to wait until he became a Five-Ring Soul King before cultivating his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Cha Weiwei took Tang San's hand and told him she was going to take a practical course to earn graduation credits.
• Cha Weiwei assured Tang San she would help the group settle into the academy before leaving.

Tang San sought companionship from Cha Weiwei while Long Yue learned he would join a practical course focused on counterinsurgency on the Spirit Ice Continent. En Ci revealed that the indigenous King Kong tribe possessed a second Diamond-Binding Bracelet, confirming that this was a parallel world rather than their own past.

• Tang San asked Cha Weiwei to let him join her practical course once he became a Soul King, and she said Long Yue would also attend.
• Long Yue refused En Ci’s drink of Deer King essence blood, and En Ci explained that Long Yue would prepare for a practical course against indigenous resistance.
• En Ci showed Long Yue a map of the Divine Realm Empire’s controlled regions and the dangerous northern areas where the empire had not yet ventured.
• En Ci told Long Yue that the King Kong King had united indigenous tribes in resistance, taking the place once occupied by the Green Skull.
• Long Yue learned that the King Kong tribe possessed a second Diamond-Binding Bracelet, another nation-guarding divine artifact identical to the one carried from his world.

En Ci sent Long Yue north to Pale Stone Pass to compete for the Imperial Family’s Diamond-Binding Bracelet, a weapon-devouring artifact that could strengthen his ability to counter tool martial souls. Long Yue left Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing behind and arrived at the war zone to report to General Huang Zhengyang.

• En Ci explained the Diamond-Binding Bracelet’s limits and urged Long Yue to obtain it, warning that Blood-Weeping Douluo was also a contender.
• Long Yue accepted a train ticket and said goodbye to Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing at the Imperial Capital’s West District station.
• Long Yue traveled north through the Big Dipper Mountains, where the empire’s railway crossed terrain once rich with soul beasts.
• Long Yue arrived at Pale Stone Pass, saw soldiers guarding the war zone, and reported for duty under General Huang Zhengyang.

Long Yue visited Huang Zhengyang at Pale Stone Pass and saw his Red-Grade Mecha, then joined the officers in the temporary fortress command room. Huang Zhengyang explained that the Imperial Preceptor had forbidden the division from helping Long Yue directly and announced their mission to defeat King Kong King and his tribe within three days.

• Long Yue met Huang Zhengyang, commander of the Empire's First Mecha Division, and the two greeted each other warmly.
• Long Yue asked to see a God Level Mecha, and Huang Zhengyang showed him the empire's Red-Grade Mecha and discussed his Black-Grade Mecha, Despair Scythe.
• Huang Zhengyang brought Long Yue to the temporary fortress and introduced him to the officers as the Monster Academy's Dragon King.
• Huang Zhengyang told Long Yue that the Imperial Preceptor had ordered the division not to help him directly.
• Huang Zhengyang announced that the division had three days to defeat King Kong King and his indigenous tribe.

Huang Zhengyang planned to send Long Yue alone into King Kong territory to kill the King Kong King and disrupt the indigenous alliance. Long Yue revealed he was already a One-Word Battle Armor Master, but the mission remained pending as the officers learned how young and talented he was.

• Huang Zhengyang explained that the Empire planned to push the indigenous people farther north and said Long Yue would infiltrate the King Kong Tribe to kill its Soul Douluo leader, the King Kong King.
• Monster Academy alumni objected that Long Yue was too young and weak for the mission, and Huang Zhengyang said they could wait for Blood-Weeping Douluo Chu Tiange if Long Yue could not complete it.
• Long Yue thanked the officers for their concern and declared that he could handle the mission because he was already a One-Word Battle Armor Master.
• The officers reacted with astonishment when they learned Long Yue was only thirteen, then discussed Monster Academy’s demanding battle armor graduation requirements and the hardships its students endured.

Long Yue proposed infiltrating King Kong King’s territory and coordinating an attack with Huang Zhengyang’s Mecha forces. After meeting scouts from the Flower Cat Tribe, he changed his plan and tried to persuade them to help him reach King Kong King by describing what surrender to the Divine Realm Empire would mean for them.

• Long Yue laid out a plan to infiltrate King Kong King’s tribe and draw its forces into a coordinated assault with Huang Zhengyang’s troops.
• Huang Zhengyang agreed to position troops downstream and attack at the agreed time.
• Long Yue traveled through the Barren Mountains and encountered three Indigenous patrolmen from the Flower Cat Tribe.
• The patrol leader said his tribe would surrender rather than risk fighting the Divine Realm Empire.
• Long Yue threatened the scouts and explained the different fates awaiting Indigenous People who surrendered, then considered how to use them to reach King Kong King.

Long Yue persuaded Cat One and his brothers to guide him into the King Kong Tribe, where he posed as Joander, an envoy seeking peace talks. After overpowering Wild Gorilla, he was escorted to meet the King Kong King.

• Long Yue offered Cat One, Cat Two, and Cat Three positions and influence in exchange for taking him to the King Kong King, and Cat One agreed.
• Cat One led Long Yue into the King Kong Tribe and introduced him to Wild Gorilla as an envoy from the Divine Realm Tribe.
• Long Yue identified himself as Joander, a Third-Rank Councilor, and demanded to negotiate directly with the King Kong King.
• Wild Gorilla attacked Long Yue, but Long Yue caught his hand and forced him to his knees without using his martial soul or soul rings.
• The King Kong King's guards arrived, and Long Yue followed them to the king's tent.

Long Yue killed the King Kong King in his tent and seized the Diamond-Binding Bracelet, using his One-Word Battle Armor to overcome the Soul Douluo’s defenses. As the tribesmen gathered to confront him, a fire and an attack by Divine Realm forces threw the camp into chaos.

• Long Yue entered the King Kong King’s tent to discuss peace, but the king demanded recognition of his King Kong Empire and a border at Pale Stone Fortress.
• Long Yue attacked the King Kong King with Mountain Dragon Terrorclaw and activated his One-Word Battle Armor, which raised his strength enough to overpower the king.
• The King Kong King used his Martial Soul Avatar to protect himself, but Long Yue pierced his skull and killed him, then took the Diamond-Binding Bracelet.
• Long Yue trapped the king’s personal guards in a marsh and buried them, then warned the assembled indigenous leaders not to move or he would exterminate their tribes.
• A fire erupted around the tribe’s perimeter, and people cried out that Divine Realm tribesmen had broken in.

Long Yue helped the Divine Realm Empire’s forces defeat the King Kong Tribe by sowing panic in its camp, while securing safety for the Flower Cat Tribe. After the Blood-Weeping Douluo arrived, he recognized Long Yue’s Diamond-Binding Bracelet and examined the artifact.

• Cat One, Cat Two, and Cat Three set fire to the King Kong Tribe’s camp and spread the false alarm that the Divine Realm Tribe had attacked.
• Long Yue killed three tribal leaders and the fleeing Flower Cat brothers gathered their people at the King Kong King’s command tent.
• The Divine Realm Empire’s Soul Guidance Mecha Corps arrived, encircled the camp, and routed the indigenous forces.
• Long Yue asked the mecha forces to spare the Flower Cat Tribe, and he received an update on the empire’s campaign from a purple mecha.
• The Blood-Weeping Douluo arrived and recognized the Diamond-Binding Bracelet as the genuine Nation-Protecting Divine Artifact.
• Long Yue let the Blood-Weeping Douluo examine the bracelet and drew him aside to discuss it.

Long Yue lent the Diamond-Binding Bracelet to Blood-Weeping Douluo, who refused to intervene in Long Yue’s affairs. In the Imperial Capital, Yu Xiaogang worked at the Spirit Pagoda and studied pill knowledge, hoping it might help him break through his cultivation bottleneck.

• Blood-Weeping Douluo returned the Diamond-Binding Bracelet and told Long Yue he would not get involved.
• Long Yue offered to lend Blood-Weeping Douluo the bracelet, and Blood-Weeping Douluo accepted it with delight.
• Yu Xiaogang finished his shift at the Spirit Pagoda and read pill education materials on the crowded bus home.
• Yu Xiaogang reconsidered his old belief that pills were unorthodox after learning about the Imperial Capital’s pill industry and its potential to help him break through level twenty-nine.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to his apartment, where a note marked the Zhi District Heavenly Pill Commercial Street.

Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San to lend him money for pills that might help him break through level 29, and Tang San agreed to meet him despite Cha Weiwei’s objections. The chapter ended with Cha Weiwei flirting with Tang San and suggesting he take her as his teacher.

• Yu Xiaogang called Tang San and asked to borrow at least five hundred thousand for pills, and Tang San agreed to speak with him face-to-face.
• Cha Weiwei called Yu Xiaogang a parasite for asking an eight-year-old student for money, but Tang San defended his teacher.
• Tang San reflected on how En Ci supported Long Yue and regretted that Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao had taught him so little about Soul Masters.
• Cha Weiwei told Tang San that she could teach him and offered to become his teacher because she was a One-Word Battle Armor Master.
• Cha Weiwei moved close to Tang San and draped her legs over his, leaving him blushing and flustered.

Tang San met Yu Xiaogang at a café to discuss Yu Xiaogang’s request to borrow five hundred thousand for pills, while Cha Weiwei insisted on accompanying him. Tang San refused to fund the pills, and Yu Xiaogang argued he could rely on a free soul spirit promised by the Emperor.

• Cha Weiwei teased Tang San about going with him to the Douluo Continent, then said she would join him when he spoke with Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San arrived late at a café by Star Luo Lake, where Yu Xiaogang had been waiting to ask him for money.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that many pills in the Zhi District were defective and overpriced, and explained that he needed his money for his own cultivation and training.
• Yu Xiaogang pleaded for the five hundred thousand, saying pills were his only hope of breaking through level 29, while Tang San refused to prioritize Yu Xiaogang’s needs over his own.
• Yu Xiaogang argued that he could use the Emperor’s promise of a free soul spirit, leaving Tang San speechless.

Tang San ended his relationship with Yu Xiaogang after paying him five hundred thousand Divine Realm Credits, while Cha Weiwei defended Tang San and escorted him away. Yu Xiaogang left determined to prove himself and went to a pill shop to buy pills that could help him break through level thirty.

• Cha Weiwei confronted Yu Xiaogang and accused him of exploiting Tang San, while Tang San said Yu Xiaogang had helped him but also had selfish motives.
• Tang San put five hundred thousand Divine Realm Credits on the table, and Cha Weiwei told Yu Xiaogang that accepting the money meant he must not contact Tang San again.
• Yu Xiaogang took the money, and Tang San called him “Gangzi,” declared their master-disciple bond severed, and left with Cha Weiwei.
• Yu Xiaogang vowed to make his Radiant Sacred Dragon famous and left the café, unaware that a waiter had secretly filmed their confrontation to sell to the media.
• Yu Xiaogang went to a pill shop in Zhi District, where the shopkeeper recognized him and asked who had referred him.