Chapter Summaries

Lu Jun used flying and specialized soul tools to keep Long Aotian at a distance, but Long Aotian countered his tactics and endured his strongest attack. Long Aotian’s stone throw forced the referee to intervene, leaving Lu Jun’s defeat apparent.

• Lu Jun launched himself into the air with his flying soul tool, but Long Aotian leaped after him and stood atop his Invincible Shield, forcing him downward.
• Lu Jun fired rapid-fire cannons at Long Aotian, who blocked the shots and remained unharmed.
• Lu Jun used his Flash Strike Cannon to propel himself sideways and escape Long Aotian’s pressure, then fired a powerful lightning blast at him.
• Long Aotian withstood the lightning by adopting a jade-like defensive stance and threw a chunk of the Competition Platform at Lu Jun.
• The referee declared the match over and blocked the stone, but the impact drove him back and made him cough up blood.

Long Aotian continued the Body Sect’s individual matches, defeating three Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy competitors before Xu Tianzhen stepped forward with her imperial sun martial soul. The duel left both fighters facing off inside her scorching domain as she gathered power for a stronger attack.

• Zheng Zhan took over as chief referee, and Long Aotian defeated Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy’s second and third competitors to claim three consecutive individual victories.
• Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy’s captain, Xu Tianzhen, realized Long Aotian had not requested a team battle and entered the next match despite her teammates’ confusion.
• Xu Tianzhen revealed her sun martial soul and used her fifth soul skill, Radiance Beyond Measure, to bathe the platform in scorching golden-red light.
• Long Aotian remained motionless inside the domain, while Xu Tianzhen gathered energy from the sun and the platform’s heat melted parts of the protective barrier.
• Xu Tianzhen’s sixth soul ring shone as the light contracted into the dark-red sun in her hands, and she unleashed Solar Gaze.

Long Aotian revealed his overwhelming strength and defeated Xu Tianzhen, prompting the Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy to concede the match and the remaining bouts. Xu Tianzhen declared she would pursue him, while Xu Tianran explained that she was his beloved, rebellious younger sister.

• Xu Tianzhen's Solar Gaze gathered her attack around Long Aotian, but he revealed seven soul rings, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and summoned his King Kong Baboon soul spirit.
• Long Aotian absorbed the attack with his Three-Word Battle Armor and offered to spare Xu Tianzhen if she left the platform.
• Xu Tianzhen admitted defeat, declared she would pursue Long Aotian, and conceded the rest of her team's matches.
• The Proud Sword Sect and Heavenly Dragon Sect prepared for their match as the platform was cleaned and repaired.
• Xu Tianran told Ju Zi that Xu Tianzhen was his mischievous younger sister and the Sun Moon Empire's princess.
• Huo Yuhao smiled as he watched from the Body Sect's spectator section.

Bei Bei and Tang Ya discussed how combining Soul Masters with soul tools had become essential to countering the Sun Moon Empire. In the Round-Robin Tournament, Xing Yan of the Heavenly Dragon Sect used a hidden Level Six Soul Tool to counter Wu Yifan’s Green Steel Divine Sword, then declared victory and challenged the Body Sect’s Red Dragon martial artist.

• Bei Bei told Tang Ya that the Original Douluo Continent Three Kingdoms needed time to develop soul tools and battle armor to resist the Sun Moon Empire.
• Wu Yifan of the Proud Sword Sect and Xing Yan of the Heavenly Dragon Sect began their match, and Xing Yan charged forward in his Red Dragon form.
• Wu Yifan unleashed the Green Steel Divine Sword, while Xing Yan blocked his sword energy and then evaded his descending attack.
• Xing Yan fired a concealed Explosive Great Cannon at Wu Yifan’s sword, triggering a massive explosion and claiming victory.
• Xing Yan challenged the Body Sect’s Red Dragon martial artist, boasting that Red Dragons belonged with the Heavenly Dragon Sect.

Wu Yifan defeated Xing Yan with the Greensteel Sword’s hidden sixth skill, but Yu Tianlong then overwhelmed the Proud Sword Sect and secured the team’s victory. The next day, Huo Yuhao faced the mysterious Mingyu Sect in the second round, where a vampire-bat martial soul user named A De began his match against him.

• Wu Yifan used Shell Shedding to strike Xing Yan down, giving the Proud Sword Sect the first match against the Heavenly Dragon Sect.
• Yu Tianlong revealed his pure-blooded Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul and defeated three Proud Sword Sect opponents in succession, forcing the sect to concede.
• Huo Yuhao said he would fight in the Body Sect’s upcoming matches, and Wu Feng teased him about his jealousy.
• The mysterious Mingyu Sect captain directed a cutting pressure at Huo Yuhao in the rest area, but it vanished before reaching him.
• A De revealed his vampire-bat martial soul and transformed as the first Individual Knockout match against Huo Yuhao began.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Sea God Trident on the competition platform.

Huo Yuhao used his Sea God Trident and mental control to defeat A De, then kept him as bait while the Body Sect advanced in the tournament. That night, Huo Yuhao learned that the next soul-engineering round would end in a potentially lethal fight using newly crafted weapons.

• Huo Yuhao evaded A De's attacks and used his mental power to make him leave the arena and sit with the Body Sect, securing the match victory.
• The Mingyu Sect captain attacked Huo Yuhao, but Zheng Zhan stopped her and ruled her match a forfeit; Huo Yuhao then forfeited the next match so Long Aotian could compete.
• Huo Yuhao told Wu Feng that he was keeping A De as bait to draw out powerful figures, while Long Aotian went on to defeat the Mingyu Sect's remaining opponents.
• The Body Sect refused to return A De when the Mingyu Sect demanded him, and mysterious powerhouses approached the Mingyu Sect to offer help rescuing him.
• At the Green Hotel, Chen An told Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian that the next round would pair soul engineers to craft weapons in four hours, then test them in fights where contestants could die.

Huo Yuhao entered a Soul Engineer tournament match against Gao Dalou, a self-taught craftsman whose precise work impressed him. As Gao Dalou began forging a Core Array, Huo Yuhao selected rare metals and materials that made number ninety-six suspect he was attempting Fusion Forging.

• Huo Yuhao told Chen An to bet one million Gold Soul Coins on him one minute before his match.
• Huo Yuhao met numbers ninety-six and ninety-eight in the VIP lounge, then learned he would face number forty-eight.
• The head referee began the matches, and Huo Yuhao faced Gao Dalou on the Competition Platform.
• Gao Dalou carved a Core Array from star silver steel in fifteen minutes and told Huo Yuhao he had taught himself because he could not afford academy tuition.
• Huo Yuhao selected blazing sun iron, sunken silver, heavenly star iron, universal catalyst, and powdered heavenly moon essence, leading number ninety-six to identify his method as Fusion Forging.

Huo Yuhao stunned the soul engineers by forging several rare metals with his bare hands, creating spirit alloys and divine foundation metal. As the competition neared its end, he finally began crafting a Soul Tool, shaping the metal into a tiny Carving Knife.

• Huo Yuhao used palm strikes to complete hundred refinement on sunken silver and heavenly star iron, then fusion-forged them into spirit-bearing star silver.
• Huo Yuhao fusion-forged blazing sun iron and gold crystal, then combined the resulting metals in a Spirit Forging that produced a four-metal alloy.
• Huo Yuhao watched Gao Dalou craft with his ranked family Carving Knife while the other soul engineers finished and submitted their Soul Tools.
• Number Ninety-Six completed a level five Soul Tool in two hours, and his opponent abandoned his own work after seeing it.
• When Gao Dalou asked why he had not started crafting, Huo Yuhao shaped the golden divine foundation metal into a tiny Carving Knife and began.

Huo Yuhao defeated Gao Dalou in a soul-tool match by evading and redirecting his vibration cannon, then used his Bloodclot Carving Knife to incapacitate him. Afterward, Huo Yuhao took Gao Dalou and Ning Tian to a bar, where he asked whether Gao Dalou wanted to learn about forging.

• The chief referee and the other referees discussed Huo Yuhao's forging ability and considered recruiting him and Gao Dalou.
• Gao Dalou fired his Level 4 Vibration Cannon, but Huo Yuhao dodged its blast and advanced toward him.
• Huo Yuhao split Gao Dalou's next vibration shell with his carving knife, and its effects left Gao Dalou unable to continue, giving Huo Yuhao the win.
• Huo Yuhao collected his reward and left the Green Hotel with Gao Dalou and Ning Tian, while Chen An kept the chief referee from learning more about Huo Yuhao's identity.
• Huo Yuhao paid the bar waiter to arrange a private room and asked Gao Dalou whether he wanted to learn about forging.

Huo Yuhao recruited Gao Dalou, a miserly Level 5 Soul Engineer, by offering him rare materials and access to battle armor and mecha techniques; Gao revealed his family’s Blood Condensation Carving Knife and clues linking his father’s death to the Xishui Alliance. The Body Sect and Holy Spirit Sect then faced off in the tournament, and Huo Yuhao met Jili in the opening bout.

• Gao Dalou explained that poverty had prevented him from advancing as a Soul Engineer, though his refusal to sell any of his creations had also kept him poor.
• Huo Yuhao offered Gao rare materials and instruction in battle armor and mecha production in exchange for making soul tools for the northern army, and Gao agreed to join him.
• Gao revealed that his Blood Condensation Carving Knife worked only for his family’s heirs, and he shared that his father had worked for the Xishui Alliance before dying under mysterious circumstances.
• Gao told Huo Yuhao that senior Xishui Alliance members possessed Three-Word Battle Armor forged by someone who seemed to come from another world.
• The Body Sect and Holy Spirit Sect arrived for their highly anticipated match, while Xu Tianran and the Black-Clothed Man discussed the uncertain outcome.
• Huo Yuhao entered the opening bout against Jili, who asked his name, and Huo Yuhao replied that he was the man who would kill him.

Huo Yuhao defeated and devoured Jili during the Body Sect’s first individual bout against the Holy Spirit Sect. A second Holy Spirit Sect fighter, Wang Xiaolei, then entered the arena to face him.

• Jili threatened Huo Yuhao before the match, and Huo Yuhao revealed a simulated Blue Silver Emperor martial soul as the bout began.
• Jili transformed with his Brain-Eating Beast martial soul and attacked Huo Yuhao with his claws and tongue while Bei Bei explained the beast’s abilities and weakness.
• Huo Yuhao caught Jili’s tongue, trapped him inside a cocoon of Blue Silver Emperor vines, and stabbed him with eight spider legs until he was devoured.
• The referee declared Huo Yuhao the winner and announced Jili’s death, while the Black-Clothed Man recognized Huo Yuhao as one of their kind.
• Wang Xiaolei stepped onto the platform as the Holy Spirit Sect’s next fighter, and Huo Yuhao prepared to face him.

Huo Yuhao battled Wang Xiaolei, a skeletal evil soul master from the Holy Spirit Sect, and resisted his spirit-based attacks with Sea God's Light and World-Ending Thunder Flame. As Wang Xiaolei unleashed his domain-like abilities, Huo Yuhao revealed a silver cylinder and announced his Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles.

• Huo Yuhao began the second match against Wang Xiaolei, whose skeletal claws seized his feet and vines.
• Huo Yuhao shattered the claws with Sea God's Light, but Wang Xiaolei trapped him in Evil Frost and attacked with his fifth soul skill, Death Whip.
• Huo Yuhao broke free with World-Ending Thunder Flame and damaged Death Whip, while Wang Xiaolei revealed his skeletal body and unleashed Death Withering.
• Huo Yuhao pressed the attack, causing Wang Xiaolei to use Death Guard and Sea of the Dead to bolster his abilities.
• Huo Yuhao produced a silver cylinder and announced that he would show Wang Xiaolei the power of his Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles.

Huo Yuhao killed Wang Xiaolei with the Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles, helping the Body Sect win three individual matches against the Holy Spirit Sect. The team battle began with Huo Yuhao and Xu Tianji facing five remaining opponents, led by the monstrous Lu Genggeng.

• Huo Yuhao unleashed the Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles and killed Wang Xiaolei, while a golden pillar prevented Zheng Zhan from reaching the fight in time.
• Huo Yuhao declared that the Body Sect had won three individual matches and chose to proceed directly to the team battle, frustrating Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng's attempt to concede the whole match.
• Zheng Zhan scheduled the team battle for fifteen minutes later, and Huo Yuhao asked Xu Tianji to join him.
• Huo Yuhao and Xu Tianji entered the platform to face the Holy Spirit Sect's five remaining fighters: Lu Genggeng, Yan Feng, Tang Dai, Gu Yu, and Mo Yan.
• After Zheng Zhan began the match, Lu Genggeng released his martial soul and transformed into a huge, poisonous abomination that charged toward the Body Sect's side.

The Holy Spirit Sect revealed its powerful battle armor and launched a coordinated attack against Huo Yuhao, but he seized Gu Yu and used spiritual force to turn him against his teammates. Yan Feng and Lu Genggeng then trapped Huo Yuhao with their soul skills and prepared to strike him with a massive poisonous bite.

• Xu Tianran decided he would prevent the Holy Spirit Sect from winning the championship because its members would provoke outrage among the empire’s people and ministers.
• Yan Feng, Gu Yu, and Mo Yan revealed their powerful martial souls and soul ranks as the Holy Spirit Sect’s members equipped two-word battle armor.
• Huo Yuhao used Blue Silver Emperor vines to drag Gu Yu underground, then shattered his mind with spiritual force and made him attack his own teammates.
• Yan Feng identified Huo Yuhao as the one controlling Gu Yu while Lu Genggeng leapt into the air and released poisonous mist.
• Yan Feng froze Huo Yuhao’s Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles with his dragon breath, then trapped Huo Yuhao with Burial Ground and Bone Claw Cage as Lu Genggeng dragged him close.
• Lu Genggeng opened a huge soul-power mouth lined with poisonous fangs and prepared to bite Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao and Xu Tianji turned the fight against Yan Feng’s Evil Soul Masters, using illusions and Xu Tianji’s fate-erasing ability to kill Tang Dai and Gu Yu. The battle remained unresolved as Huo Yuhao recognized Mo Yan as a possible abyssal creature.

• Yan Feng transformed into his Bone Dragon True Body and attacked Huo Yuhao while Lu Genggeng charged, but Huo Yuhao struck Lu Genggeng with Eight Extremes Collapse, Hidden Force.
• Gu Yu’s spatial illusion confused Yan Feng into attacking Lu Genggeng, then made Huo Yuhao appear to survive Yan Feng’s Destruction’s Sigh while Lu Genggeng vanished.
• Huo Yuhao asked Xu Tianji to use River of Destiny, and Xu Tianji severed the fate-lines connected to the Evil Soul Masters, badly injuring Yan Feng and killing Tang Dai and Gu Yu.
• Huo Yuhao noticed that Mo Yan had escaped harm and suggested that he was an abyssal creature.

Huo Yuhao’s Bone Dragon King helped him annihilate the Holy Spirit Sect’s team, making the Body Sect famous across the continent and provoking Ye Xishui’s fury. That night, Huo Yuhao placed a massive bet on himself and pressured Chen An to obtain rare metals in exchange for a cultivation pill.

• Huo Yuhao revealed the Bone Dragon King and used it to kill Yan Feng and Mo Yan, completing the Holy Spirit Sect team’s annihilation.
• Ye Xishui restrained her anger on the tournament dais, then left with Feng Ling after threatening the Body Sect; Xu Tianran cautioned Jing Hongchen against criticizing the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Huo Yuhao warned Zhang Peng not to seek revenge, and Zhang Peng left with the reserve Evil Soul Masters as spectators celebrated the Body Sect’s victory.
• At the Green Hotel, Huo Yuhao gave Chen An thirty million Gold Soul Coins to bet on him and demanded an update on acquiring rare metals.
• Huo Yuhao promised Chen An a promotion and a pill that could improve his cultivation if he obtained the metals and kept their deal secret.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated a pill that advanced Chen An's cultivation and secured his help in obtaining rare metals. At the competition, the draw paired Huo Yuhao with Number Ninety-Eight, and Huo Yuhao challenged him to wager their lives.

• Huo Yuhao gave Chen An a pill that purified his soul power and helped him reach the threshold of Soul Emperor.
• Chen An agreed to secretly procure Huo Yuhao's requested rare metals and told him the competition rules and prizes.
• Huo Yuhao told Number Ninety-Eight he had bet thirty million Gold Soul Coins on himself, provoking the other man.
• The draw paired Huo Yuhao, listed as Number Sixty-Six, against Number Ninety-Eight, while Number Ninety-Six and Number Eighty-Eight each drew a Level 5 Soul Engineer.
• Huo Yuhao proposed that he and Number Ninety-Eight wager their lives, making Number Ninety-Eight uneasy.

Huo Yuhao tricked Number 98 into publicly wagering their lives, then began the ten-hour soul tool crafting match while hiding his true plan. Six hours into the contest, Number 98 had finished four Level 5 soul tools, while Huo Yuhao had yet to present a single completed piece.

• Huo Yuhao offered his spirit-forged golden carving knife as a stake, and Number 98 accepted the life-or-death wager after mistaking Huo Yuhao's feigned nerves for weakness.
• Number 98 announced the wager publicly, and the Xishui Alliance's three judges declared it binding as the gamblers placed their bets.
• The six soul engineers began the ten-hour match, and Huo Yuhao quickly shaped multi-faceted demon gold with his bare fingers.
• Number 98 focused on crafting with his Dark Azure Dragon Carving Knife while the spectators rested and the match continued through the night.
• After three hours Number 98 had completed two soul tools, and after six hours he had completed four Level 5 soul tools while Huo Yuhao had finished none.
• Huo Yuhao continued assembling mysterious components, leaving the judges and spectators unaware of what he was preparing.

Huo Yuhao completed two unusual soul tools in the final moments of the ten-hour crafting contest, while Number Ninety-Eight remained confident he had prepared a countermeasure. The judges began inspecting Huo Yuhao’s work to decide whether he qualified for the combat round.

• Number Ninety-Eight watched Huo Yuhao assemble components into a soul tool and hurriedly crafted another tool of his own.
• After nine hours, Huo Yuhao paused to recover his focus while the other soul engineers finished their work.
• With fifteen minutes remaining, Huo Yuhao rapidly assembled the components into one large and one small soul tool.
• Huo Yuhao finished both tools just before time ran out, and Number Ninety-Eight frowned at their unusual design.
• A Jin announced the contest’s end, and the judges approached Huo Yuhao first to inspect his soul tools and determine whether he could continue.

The judges approved Huo Yuhao’s unusual bomb-like soul tool, while the tournament’s powerful observers discussed his talent and the stakes behind the event. After two lopsided combat matches, Huo Yuhao’s showdown with Number Ninety-Eight was set as the grand finale.

• The Forging Emperor and Flame Emperor praised Number Sixty-Six’s intricate soul tool, and the Nether Thunder Douluo discussed his disciples and the tournament’s profits.
• The judges confirmed Huo Yuhao’s soul tool was a bomb, while Number Ninety-Eight believed his Invincible Shield would counter it.
• The head judge announced that every contestant’s soul tools would be tested in combat and warned that fighters would bear responsibility for injuries or deaths.
• Number Ninety-Six defeated Number Thirty-Seven in five minutes, and another Level 5 Soul Engineer quickly lost to a Level 6 opponent.
• The tournament’s final match was announced as Huo Yuhao versus Number Ninety-Eight.