Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hai revealed a borrowed power that raised his strength to the Soul Douluo realm and faced Ma Xiaotao despite her pleas to stop. Ma Xiaotao unleashed her Phoenix True Body, and their clash devastated the arena as Jiang Hai’s charge was driven back by a Phoenix Meteor Shower.

• Jiang Hai summoned his Copper Coffin Martial Soul and raised his strength beyond Ma Xiaotao’s, shocking everyone watching.
• Ma Xiaotao realized Jiang Hai was borrowing someone else’s power and demanded to know whose strength he used, but he refused to explain.
• Wang Yan asked Xuan Zi about Jiang Hai’s method, and Xuan Zi warned that the borrowed power could not last.
• Ma Xiaotao activated her Phoenix True Body and charged Jiang Hai with divine fire, while the Heavenly Fiend Douluo summoned his martial soul to withstand the flames.
• Jiang Hai used Ice Mirror to block Ma Xiaotao’s fire, then enlarged his Bronze Coffin with his Tool Soul Avatar and charged skyward.
• Ma Xiaotao answered with her Phoenix Meteor Shower, battering Jiang Hai back down and shattering the arena.

Xu Jiawei protected Star Luo Plaza as Ma Xiaotao and Jiang Hai pushed their duel to its deadliest point. Ma Xiaotao's Divine Fire Fusion seemingly killed Jiang Hai, but his Time's Second Hand reversed time by three seconds and restored him, leaving Wang Yan grim about the battle's outcome.

• Xu Jiawei used Star's Protection to shield the arena and its spectators from the battle's shock waves.
• Jiang Hai emerged from his Bronze Coffin and charged Ma Xiaotao as her Phoenix Meteor Shower weakened.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed Divine Fire Fusion, which pierced Jiang Hai and consumed his life force along with the power within his coffin.
• Ma Xiaotao lost control of her emotions and divine fire when she thought Jiang Hai had died, but Xuan Zi told her he was still alive.
• Time's Second Hand reversed three seconds, restoring Jiang Hai and shocking Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, Ma Rulong, and Xuan Zi.
• Wang Yan watched Jiang Hai recover and grew increasingly worried about the duel.

Jiang Hai defeated Ma Xiaotao and led East Cang Academy to victory in the Soul Fighting Tournament, while powerful observers began to question his use of Evil Soul Master power. After the championship, East Cang rewarded him with the blueprints for the Level 8 Four Symbols Radiance Armor, and Jiang Hai prepared for the trouble he expected to follow.

• Jiang Hai suppressed Ma Xiaotao's final attacks and sent her out of the arena, securing East Cang Academy's championship.
• Hua Cangsheng and East Cang's senior leaders congratulated their students, while Ning Qingdeng vowed that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would protect Jiang Hai even if others called him an Evil Soul Master.
• Ning Qingdeng used the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to heal those on the arena as preparations began for the awards ceremony.
• Hua Cangsheng and Zhen Weiding gave Jiang Hai the blueprints for Zhen Weiding's Level 8 Four Symbols Radiance Armor as his reward.
• Jiang Hai began recovering his Soul Power and considered the threat that might come after his use of Borrow Strength.

The Soul Fighting Tournament’s awards ceremony rewarded Shrek Academy and crowned East Cang Academy, whose members selected soul bones and received noble titles. After the ceremony, Xu Jiawei tried to recruit Jiang Hai by offering him a vast fief and honors for his father, but Jiang Hai rejected him and left.

• Dai Hao presented the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with its third-place prize and Shrek Academy with second place, including the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone.
• Xu Jiawei awarded East Cang Academy one million Gold Soul Coins, three soul bones, additional soul-bone choices, and noble titles with fiefs for its nine members.
• Xu Wenqing, Baozi, Lan Ling'er, and Sun Yunhai declined to choose from the additional soul bones, leaving Jiang Hai, Yun Xiu, Bingqin, Huo Wu, and Feiyan to select them.
• Jiang Hai chose the Verdant Spirit Flame Soul Bone, while Xu Yunxiu, Bingqin, Huo Wu, and Feiyan selected other bones suited to them.
• After the ceremony, Xu Jiawei offered Jiang Hai a position serving Star Luo, one-third of Eastsea Province as a fief, and posthumous honors for his father, but Jiang Hai refused and departed.

The Star Luo Empire’s Titled Douluos tried to detain Jiang Hai as a suspected Evil Soul Master, while East Cang Academy and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect argued for his release. Jiang Hai admitted to killing the officials named by the empire and revealed his Bronze Coffin, leaving the crowd condemning him.

• Huang Jinxu and other Star Luo Empire Douluos surrounded Jiang Hai and blocked East Cang Academy from leaving, but Hua Cangsheng trapped Cheng Gang in his Landscape Scroll.
• Dai Hao claimed Jiang Hai was suspected of being an Evil Soul Master and threatened Hua Cangsheng, while Ning Qingdeng insisted the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had the right to judge its guest elder.
• Nalan Ruo accused Jiang Hai of assassinating Nangong Ao, Liu Ran, and Du Wei’s family, and Hua Cangsheng released Cheng Gang and withdrew with the other East Cang students.
• Jiang Hai severed his ties with East Cang Academy and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, then admitted killing the people named by Nalan Ruo and using them to cultivate.
• Jiang Hai summoned his Bronze Coffin and unleashed an evil aura, prompting the remaining crowd to denounce him as an Evil Soul Master.

Shrek Academy’s leaders concluded that Jiang Hai was an evil soul master as the Star Luo Empire moved to seize him. Long Xiaoyao appeared, revealed himself as Dragon Emperor Douluo, and carried Jiang Hai away after Emperor Xu Jiawei ordered everyone to let them go.

• Xuan Zi confirmed that Jiang Hai’s martial soul concealed the corpses of many soul masters, and Wang Yan, Huo Yuhao, and the others struggled to accept that he was an evil soul master.
• Nalan Ruo ordered Giant Strength Douluo Cheng Gang to seize Jiang Hai while six other Titled Douluo restrained Ning Qingdeng, Sword Douluo Li Qingfeng, and Bow Douluo Gong Ruxian.
• Cheng Gang’s attack overwhelmed Jiang Hai until Long Xiaoyao appeared and stopped the enormous palm with ease.
• Xuan Zi recognized Long Xiaoyao as Senior Dragon, and Nalan Ruo identified him as Dragon Emperor Douluo.
• Long Xiaoyao took Jiang Hai away, and Emperor Xu Jiawei ordered the Titled Douluo to let them go.

Long Xiaoyao rescued Jiang Hai from Star Luo City and delivered him to Holy Spirit Cult members, who tried to recruit him with promises of power and revenge. Jiang Hai concealed his true plan to infiltrate and destroy the cult, while Shi Youming arranged a dangerous journey to test and pressure him.

• Long Xiaoyao carried Jiang Hai out of Star Luo City, warned him against harming others, and handed him over to seven black-robed figures led by Shi Youming.
• Shi Youming introduced the group as Evil Soul Masters from the Holy Spirit Cult and urged Jiang Hai to join them and help overturn a prejudiced world.
• Jiang Hai rejected the offer, citing his father's death, but hid his real intention to join the cult and destroy it; Shi Youming offered him a disciple token and described the cult's Corpse Vault.
• Shi Youming left Jiang Hai to travel alone to Sun Moon City as a test, then ordered Zhang Ling to spread the news and said the cult would force Jiang Hai to join if he refused.
• Shi Youming asked about Ji Bronze Coffin, whom the cult prioritized capturing, and learned that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect was difficult to infiltrate.

After the Soul Fighting Tournament, the empires and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect moved to find or protect Jiang Hai, while Shrek Academy welcomed its returning team and confronted Ma Xiaotao over his disappearance. The chapter ended with Qian Duoduo identifying Jiang Hai as Ji Bronze Coffin and blaming Xuan Zi for losing a true genius.

• Jiang Hai kept the tracking token from the Holy Spirit Cult and wondered what consequences his choices would bring to Star Luo City and the world.
• Ning Qingdeng ordered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to withdraw from the world and sent Li Qingfeng to find Jiang Hai and protect him if he refused to return.
• Xu Jiawei ordered Dai Hao and Nalan Ruo to search for Jiang Hai and bring him back, while the Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires also began investigating him.
• Yan Shaozhe welcomed Shrek Academy's returning team, praised its reserve members, and ordered Ma Xiaotao into seclusion for failing to bring back her junior brother.
• Qian Duoduo confronted Ma Xiaotao about Jiang Hai's identity, and her reaction convinced him that Jiang Hai was Ji Bronze Coffin.

After learning that Jiang Hai had left Shrek Academy to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Cult, its leaders prepared to investigate the sect while Zhang Lexuan found his farewell letter and soul-tool research. Jiang Hai traveled with Xue Linglong, planning to reach level 40 and obtain his fourth soul ring before going to the Sun Moon Empire.

• Ma Xiaotao revealed that Jiang Hai was Grandmaster Ji Bronze Coffin, had disguised himself as an evil soul master, and intended to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Yan Shaozhe called for a Sea God Pavilion meeting and ordered secret investigation of the Holy Spirit Cult, while Xuan Zi offered to lead the Sun Moon Empire exchange delegation.
• Ma Xiaotao showed Zhang Lexuan where Jiang Hai had hidden a box beneath Sea God Lake; Zhang found his farewell letter and a book of soul-tool research.
• Zhang Lexuan decided to search for Jiang Hai and bring him back if he was willing, but told Ma Xiaotao to remain at Shrek Academy.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong traveled away from Star Luo City, and Jiang Hai planned to cultivate to level 40 before heading to the Sun Moon Empire.

Jiang Hai consulted Xue Linglong about his fourth Soul Ring and learned about a dangerous route through the Far North to the Sun Moon Empire. At his father’s grave in Pinghai City, they encountered Zhang Lexuan, who had become a Titled Douluo.

• Xue Linglong advised Jiang Hai to seek an ice-attribute Soul Ring and recommended a thirty-thousand-year Extreme Ice Miasma Bug in the Far North’s Extreme Ice Valley.
• Xue Linglong revealed that a Polar Ice Orchid in the valley could conceal her true form, and Jiang Hai promised to help her obtain it.
• Jiang Hai told Xue Linglong he would delay traveling to the Far North until he reached level 40 and completed another task.
• Jiang Hai visited his father Jiang Tian’s grave and explained how his father had died while trying to fund his Martial Soul awakening.
• Xue Linglong sensed someone approaching, revealed her adult form and three black Soul Rings, and met Zhang Lexuan.
• Jiang Hai introduced Xue Linglong to Zhang Lexuan and recognized Zhang as a Titled Douluo.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong crossed the Far North toward the Sun Moon Empire after spending three quiet months in Pinghai City, where Jiang Hai reached level 40 and studied soul tools. They reached the Far North’s middle region, and Xue Linglong mapped their route toward Extreme Ice Valley, though the worsening cold threatened to challenge even their ultimate fire and ice.

• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong settled in Pinghai City after Zhang Lexuan returned to Shrek Academy, and they spent three months there undisturbed.
• Jiang Hai broke through to level 40, consolidated his cultivation, charged Time's Second Hand, and studied the Four Symbols Radiance Armor blueprints.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong left Pinghai City and traveled north through the Far North, avoiding detection as they headed toward the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xue Linglong's soul power grew more active in the Far North, and she neared another breakthrough after reaching level 33 in Pinghai City.
• Xue Linglong told Jiang Hai they had reached the Far North's middle region and could reach Extreme Ice Valley in about ten more days before continuing to Tianbei City.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong raced toward the Extreme Ice Valley as a catastrophic blizzard swept across the Far North. At the valley, Xue Linglong asked Jiang Hai to use his Ultimate Fire to open a safe entrance for the fleeing soul beasts.

• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong hurried northwest toward the Extreme Ice Valley after sensing that a powerful blizzard was approaching.
• The Extreme Cold Storm engulfed the region, and Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong fled alongside the fleeing soul beasts.
• A Polar Yak attacked them, but Xue Linglong subdued it with her Snow Empress aura, and they rode it toward the valley.
• At the Extreme Ice Valley, Xue Linglong explained that Jiang Hai's Ultimate Fire could open a passage through the dangerous miasma for the soul beasts.
• Jiang Hai agreed and rose into the sky with his flames blazing as Xue Linglong summoned the Far North's wind and snow around her.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong traveled into the Extreme Ice Valley with the Polar Yak, which Xue Linglong named Little Ox, while Jiang Hai searched for an Extreme Ice Miasma Bug. Near the valley’s heart, they discovered that its king had devoured the other bugs and was close to becoming a fifty-thousand-year soul beast, leaving them to attack before it completed its breakthrough.

• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong entered the Extreme Ice Valley on the Polar Yak as the blizzard struck, and the yak shielded them from the falling ice and snow.
• Xue Linglong accepted the Polar Yak’s decision to travel with them and named it Little Ox, while Jiang Hai meditated to restore his depleted soul power.
• Little Ox carried them deeper into the valley for days; Jiang Hai searched for Extreme Ice Miasma Bugs, and Xue Linglong reached level 34.
• Xue Linglong grew concerned when they reached the Middle Section without encountering any Extreme Ice Miasma Bugs, so she urged Little Ox to hurry toward the valley’s heart.
• A strange cry sent the cold miasma surging at Jiang Hai and froze Little Ox into an ice sculpture; Xue Linglong identified the king of the Extreme Ice Miasma Bugs and said they had to kill it while it was weakened.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong encountered the Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King as it neared a breakthrough, ruining their plan to obtain a bug’s soul ring. Xue Linglong wounded it with Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Peerless, and Jiang Hai joined the fight, but he was injured after reopening its wound.

• Xue Linglong realized the nearly fifty-thousand-year-old Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King was the only bug left in the valley, making it impossible for Jiang Hai to absorb its soul ring as his fourth.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong flew into the cold miasma as the bug king’s spiritual cries cracked their Ice Mirror, and they saw it feeding on the Polar Ice Orchid.
• Xue Linglong transformed and struck the bug king with Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Peerless, cutting its shell and forcing it to retreat.
• The bug king unleashed Doppelganger Phantom Kill, and its exploding duplicates shattered Xue Linglong’s Ice Mirror before Jiang Hai’s Bronze Coffin blocked the ice tide.
• Jiang Hai caught up to the bug king and punched its sword wound open, but its claw blades struck him with soul power and left him injured.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong defeated the fifty-thousand-year Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King inside the Bronze Coffin, but Jiang Hai could not absorb its Soul Ring. Xue Linglong revealed that the King’s molted shell could greatly strengthen him, potentially letting him absorb a powerful fourth Soul Ring.

• Xue Linglong used Command of the Ice and Snow Lord and Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Peerless to attack the Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King, but it escaped death with Three-Second Molt and emerged stronger.
• The Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King wounded Xue Linglong, so Jiang Hai pulled her into the Bronze Coffin and sealed them inside with the beast.
• Jiang Hai’s ultimate divine fire overwhelmed the King’s ice attribute, and he and Xue Linglong fought it until Jiang Hai punched through its head and killed it.
• Jiang Hai realized he could not absorb the King’s Soul Ring and had spent much of the energy stored in the Bronze Coffin.
• Xue Linglong explained that the molted shell held accumulated nutrients and could strengthen Jiang Hai’s soul power, vitality, and body, possibly enabling him to absorb a fourth Soul Ring over thirty thousand years old.

Jiang Hai refined the Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King's cicada slough as Xue Linglong cultivated the Polar Ice Orchid. The slough transformed Jiang Hai's body and raised his first soul ring to black, and he tested his new strength by cracking a Profound Ice Cliff.

• Xue Linglong told Jiang Hai the cicada slough was useless to her, and he stored it in the Bronze Coffin before recovering his strength.
• Xue Linglong dispelled the cold miasma in Little Ox and refined the Polar Ice Orchid while the yak stood guard.
• Jiang Hai began refining the cicada slough, enduring alternating waves of freezing cold and burning pain as it remade his body.
• Excess power from the slough entered Jiang Hai's Hundred-Year Diamond Tiger King's soul ring, which grew from yellow through purple and became black.
• Jiang Hai completed his transformation, rose into the air, and struck a Profound Ice Cliff, splitting it with a deep crack.

Jiang Hai gained a ten-thousand-year first soul ring and a greatly strengthened body after refining the Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King's cicada husk, then absorbed the beast's fifty-thousand-year soul ring as his fourth. Xue Linglong finished refining the Polar Ice Orchid, concealing her soul beast aura, and watched Jiang Hai's fourth soul ring settle into place.

• Jiang Hai's first soul ring evolved into a ten-thousand-year ring, transforming Diamond Body into the powerful Iceflame Diamond Transformation and strengthening his physique, vitality, and aptitude.
• Jiang Hai began absorbing the Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King's fifty-thousand-year soul ring, using the Bronze Coffin's four coffin casings to refine its energy.
• Xue Linglong finished refining the Polar Ice Orchid, gained three soul-power levels, and lost the detectable trace of her soul beast aura.
• Xue Linglong saw Jiang Hai absorb the Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King's soul ring and wondered whether his Bronze Coffin was a god-level martial soul.
• Jiang Hai's fourth black soul ring settled into place, and his soul power began to rise.

Jiang Hai emerged from the Extreme Ice Valley at Level 44 with a new Mystic Ice Coffin and the Nine-Lives Cicada Molt skill, then traveled with Xue Linglong toward the Sun Moon Empire. After leaving their Polar Yak behind, they continued on foot toward a town in the snowy frontier.

• Jiang Hai learned that his fifth coffin, the Mystic Ice Coffin, could refine corpse attributes, and that his fourth soul skill, Nine-Lives Cicada Molt, let him shed negative conditions through up to nine clones.
• Xue Linglong praised Jiang Hai for surviving the absorption of the fifty-thousand-year Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King, and Jiang Hai declared that they would head to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong crossed the Extreme Ice Valley on the Polar Yak and reached the Sun Moon Empire's northern frontier after about half a month.
• Xue Linglong worried that human expansion was shrinking the soul beasts' habitat, while Jiang Hai urged her to focus on their present journey and the possibility of opening a path to survival if they became gods.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong decided not to bring the ten-thousand-year Polar Yak into human territory, bid it farewell, and set out toward a nearby town.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong rested in the Sun Moon Empire and learned how its Soul Guidance Flying Vehicles and materials science were advancing. They continued south toward Mingdu, aiming to enter the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy before confronting the Holy Spirit Cult, while Xue Linglong used the journey to deepen her experience of human life.

• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong entered the Men Sen Tavern in the Ice Fortress, where the patrons stared at Xue Linglong and their conversations revealed developments across the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jiang Hai learned that Soul Guidance Flying Vehicles had become coveted in Sun Moon City and that the empire planned to build the Douluo Continent's first Soul Guidance Train track.
• After resting for a day, Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong traveled south, and Xue Linglong warned that the Sun Moon Empire's growth could threaten Soul Beasts if it ruled the continent.
• Jiang Hai told Xue Linglong he would delay going to the Holy Spirit Cult and instead seek admission to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to study advanced Soul Tools.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong continued toward Mingdu while exploring the empire, with Xue Linglong treating the journey as a chance to understand and integrate into human society.

Three months after leaving the Far North, Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong arrived in Mingdu and were astonished by its enormous, soul-powered cityscape. They hired Xiao Dang to guide them to the Eight Treasures Tower, and Jiang Hai recognized Mingdu’s shared flying vehicles as his own invention.

• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong reached Mingdu after three months of travel and marveled at the vast city and its soul guidance technology.
• Jiang Hai estimated Mingdu could hold at least thirty million people, while Xue Linglong noted that its size and crowds made it easy for transformed soul beasts to hide.
• Jiang Hai suggested finding a guide at the docks, where Xiao Dang offered to lead them around the city.
• Jiang Hai promised Xiao Dang five gold coins to guide them to the Eight Treasures Tower, and they introduced themselves to each other.
• Xiao Dang explained that shared flying vehicles were a popular way to travel around Mingdu, and Jiang Hai realized they were his soul guidance flying vehicles.