Chapter Summaries

Qian Chongling let Ning Rongrong leave to obtain her Third Soul Ring and accepted Ning Fengzhi's payment to reduce the others' punishment to seven more days of work. A message then warned that Yan and Hu Liena had suffered disastrous injuries in the City of Eternal Night secret realm, prompting Qian Chongling to prepare to return.

• Qian Chongling told Ning Fengzhi that he and the unconscious Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo could leave, while the seven young people had to keep working for damaging his shop.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Qian Chongling to let Ning Rongrong leave because she had reached rank thirty, and Qian Chongling agreed.
• Ning Fengzhi offered ten million Gold Soul Coins, so Qian Chongling reduced the others' remaining work from a potential life sentence to seven days.
• Qian Chongling received a message that Yan was unconscious and Hu Liena was deranged after their failed attempt at the City of Eternal Night secret realm.
• Qian Chongling checked his system's spatial inventory and found portraits of Yan and Hu Liena.

Qian Chongling learned that Bibi Dong had two injured soul-trial participants’ souls and promised to restore them, then watched the Shrek party’s hunt for Tang San’s soul ring take an unnatural turn. Tang San absorbed a conveniently weakened Man Faced Demon Spider, and Qian Chongling noticed a strange sea-blue light forming within its soul ring.

• Qian Chongling told Bibi Dong that he had the stripped souls of the unconscious and mad participants and would treat them when he returned.
• Flender led the Shrek party into the Star Dou Great Forest, where Oscar obtained his Third Soul Ring from a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.
• A Mist Dragon Wolf King ambushed the party, scattering its members and leaving Tang San and Xiao Wu to encounter the injured Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Tang San killed the exhausted Man Faced Demon Spider and absorbed its two-thousand-year-old soul ring.
• Qian Chongling spotted a glimmer of sea-blue light forming inside the Man Faced Demon Spider’s soul ring and cursed Poseidon.

Tang San absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s soul ring and gained the Eight Spider Lances, while Qian Chongling recognized the Sea God’s divine power behind the gift. When Meng Shu threatened Tang San over the stolen soul beast, Flender tried to deter him by revealing the powerful families and figures connected to the Shrek students.

• Tang San absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s soul ring in under three hours and gained the Eight Spider Lances.
• Qian Chongling realized the Sea God had arranged Tang San’s external soul bone and decided not to interfere with the plan against the Asura God.
• Meng Shu arrived with Snake Granny and Meng Yiran, then demanded that Tang San either join their clan or surrender an arm.
• Flender arrived with Shrek’s students and privately warned Meng Shu that Oscar, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dai Mubai had powerful connections.
• Flender told Meng Shu that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son, and warned him that Tang Hao would retaliate if Tang San were harmed.

Meng Shu withdrew after learning Tang San was Yu Xiaogang’s disciple, while Xiao Wu claimed she had reached Soul Elder by absorbing a rabbit soul ring. Back at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Sword Douluo explained that his domain and swordsmanship had been neutralized by his opponent.

• Flender told Meng Shu that Tang San was Yu Xiaogang’s disciple, and Meng Shu and Snake Granny reacted with disgust.
• Meng Shu refused to let Meng Yiran challenge Tang San again and took her away, calling Tang San filthy.
• Flender told Tang San to wait for his father to explain why Meng Shu had changed his attitude.
• Xiao Wu told Tang San she had broken through to level thirty and absorbed a roughly fifteen-hundred-year-old rabbit soul ring, and the group began their return journey.
• Qian Chongling flew back to Spirit Hall after watching the encounter.
• Sword Douluo told Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo that his Seven Kill Domain had been rendered ineffective and his opponent had anticipated his sword strikes.

Ning Fengzhi identified the old man who had overpowered Sword Douluo as Qian Chongling, the legendary Blood Pope of Spirit Hall. Sword Douluo recounted how Qian Chongling had humiliated his great-grandfather six hundred years earlier, leaving Bone Douluo skeptical.

• Sword Douluo confirmed that his Seven Kill Domain had been changed into a domain with no effect, and Ning Fengzhi grew visibly shaken.
• Ning Fengzhi named Qian Chongling as the man who had strung up and beaten Sword Douluo.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that Qian Chongling had been Spirit Hall's only Saint Emperor, the Blood Pope, and a feared butcher known to the two great empires.
• Sword Douluo reacted with fear and disbelief at the thought that Qian Chongling was still alive after at least fifteen hundred years.
• Sword Douluo told Bone Douluo that his great-grandfather Chen Qi had once challenged Qian Chongling and been beaten despite using his Seven Kill Sword and domain.
• Bone Douluo doubted the story and asked Ning Fengzhi what had frightened him so badly.

Ning Fengzhi brought Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s hidden archive to reveal the history behind the massacre that weakened the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. He showed them a record of Qian Chongling and Spirit Hall, warning that it contained answers to the empires’ and sects’ actions.

• Ning Fengzhi led Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo into the sect’s Ancestral Temple and revealed the concealed passage beneath Ning Ze’s spirit tablet.
• Ning Fengzhi guided Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo through the archive’s hidden chambers, explaining that its records held secrets of the empires and the Three Upper Sects.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed a book containing the sect’s records of Qian Chongling and said it explained the empires’ support for Spirit Hall and the Upper Three Sects’ wariness of it.
• Ning Fengzhi showed Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo the book titled “Complete History of Spirit Hall” and told them to believe its account, however absurd it seemed.

Ning Fengzhi showed Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo a record of Spirit Hall’s divine origins and the terrifying history of Qian Chongling. They learned that Qian Chongling had once killed twenty-five Titled Douluo without injury, and Ning Ze had warned the sect to avoid Spirit Hall while he lived.

• Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo read that the Angel God founded Spirit Hall and that the Qian Family descended from him.
• The two elders saw a painting depicting Qian Chongling as a blood-soaked killer and asked Ning Fengzhi if it showed the man they had met.
• Ning Fengzhi confirmed that the painting showed Qian Chongling eight hundred years earlier and urged them to continue reading.
• Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo read Qian Chongling’s profile, including his domains and his suspected Demigod-level cultivation.
• The record stated that Qian Chongling killed twenty-five Titled Douluo at Heaven Ridge Mountain without being injured.
• Ning Ze warned future sect masters to keep the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect far from Spirit Hall while Qian Chongling lived.

Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo identified the mysterious wielder of the Sword Divine Domain as Qian Chongling, then read Ning Ze’s account of Qian Chongling’s massacre of a coalition of Titled Douluo. After surviving and punishing the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Qian Chongling’s continued existence left Ning Fengzhi and the others weighing whether to change their plans concerning Tang Hao.

• Ning Fengzhi explained that the altered effects of the Sword Divine Domain led him to recognize Qian Chongling, while Bone Douluo struggled to understand the domain’s power.
• Ning Ze’s account described how Qian Chongling avenged Bai Jingyu by massacring a marquis’s mansion and killing Heaven Dou Emperor Xue Jing before the court.
• Twenty-five Titled Douluo from the empires and sects confronted Qian Chongling at Heaven Ridge Mountain, where his four domains killed or drove mad most of them.
• Qian Chongling used the Sword Divine Domain to redefine matter and energy, killing several Titled Douluo instantly and preventing one from self-destructing.
• Qian Chongling resumed the slaughter, killed Tang Jie, spared Ning Ze, and reduced the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi decided to stick to the original plan regarding Tang Hao, and Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo agreed.

Qian Chongling returned to Spirit Hall Academy and treated Yan and Hu Liena after hearing how they were injured during the Aurora City trial. He left the infirmary after inviting Bibi Dong to the outdoor pool.

• Qian Chongling entered the infirmary and found Hu Liena tied to a pillar and Yan unconscious in a hospital bed.
• Tianyu explained that the Aurora Hunter’s enchanting voice disrupted Hu Liena, and Yan was eliminated while protecting her before Hu Liena was struck down; Tianyu and Bai Jie then defeated the monster.
• Qian Chongling tapped Yan between the eyebrows and said he would wake the next day, then slapped Hu Liena twice and restored her to consciousness.
• Qian Chongling left the infirmary and quietly asked Bibi Dong to join him at the outdoor pool.

Qian Chongling taught the Inner Court students to judge a series of increasingly monstrous acts, revealing that the fictional-sounding Soul Master was a real person they might face in the upcoming tournament. He dismissed the class after encouraging them to punish the man without killing him, while Hu Liena privately worried about the betrayal described in one of his questions.

• Qian Chongling questioned the students about a Soul Master who responded to minor slights with extreme violence, and the class condemned his behavior.
• Qian Chongling described the Soul Master's slaughter of a City Lord's household and a Saintess's betrayal of the Pope, prompting Hu Liena to state that the Saintess deserved execution and family extermination.
• Qian Chongling revealed that the Soul Master became a god, tore his daughter's soul in half, and committed other atrocities, shocking the students.
• Qian Chongling asked what the students would do if they encountered the Soul Master in the upcoming tournament, and they threatened to make him suffer.
• Hu Liena feared she might somehow become the Saintess in the scenario, while Qian Chongling reminded the class that they could torment the Soul Master as long as they did not kill him, then dismissed them.

Qin Ming oversaw training for the Imperial Fighting Team at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and urged its members to improve their teamwork for the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament. The team ended practice with Xue Haicang and Yu Tianheng still bickering over their rivalry and martial soul fusion skill.

• Qin Ming stopped the Imperial Fighting Team's sparring session and asked whether they were tired of fighting their own teammates.
• Xue Haicang and Yu Tianheng argued about their cultivation gap and Yu Tianheng's dragon transformation.
• Xiao Yan, Osler, and the Shi Mo brothers teased the pair about their bickering and fusion skill.
• Qin Ming quieted the team and told Yu Tianheng and Xue Haicang to improve their coordination because their martial soul fusion skill would be key to winning the tournament.

Qin Ming arranged an extensive Soul Fighting Tournament tour to give the Imperial Fighting Team real combat experience. The team agreed to his rules and was told to meet again in three days before beginning the trip.

• Qin Ming explained that combat experience and awareness mattered most in battle and announced that the team would train by fighting in Soul Fighting Tournaments.
• Qin Ming planned a route from Heaven Dou City through medium-sized cities to Suotuo City and ordered several members to earn Silver Soul Badges.
• Qin Ming told the team not to deliberately kill opponents unless facing teams known for killing, and forbade Yu Tianheng and Xue Haicang from using fourth soul skills against lower-ranked opponents.
• Qin Ming prohibited Yu Tianheng and Xue Haicang from revealing their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and they accepted all his rules.
• Qin Ming gave the team three days off and told them to gather at nine in the morning three days later.

Yu Dashi scolded Tang San for absorbing a Soul Ring beyond the age limit, then invented a theory that Zhu Zhuqing had twin Martial Souls and had sacrificed her future by adding Soul Rings early. Tang San embraced the idea of saving his second Martial Soul’s Soul Rings until later, but was surprised when Yu Dashi said as many as three Titled Douluos could still match him.

• Tang San found Yu Dashi waiting on the dormitory roof, where Yu Dashi rebuked him for risking his life by absorbing a 2,000-year Soul Ring.
• Tang San pointed out that Zhu Zhuqing had a purple Second Soul Ring, but Yu Dashi insisted she must have twin Martial Souls and was already Level 36.
• Yu Dashi claimed Zhu Zhuqing had advanced quickly by adding Soul Rings to both Martial Souls, sacrificing the chance to save stronger rings for later.
• Tang San agreed that he should wait until reaching the Titled Douluo level before adding Soul Rings to his second Martial Soul, imagining nine black rings.
• Yu Dashi predicted that Tang San could become nearly unmatched, but said up to three Titled Douluos might still rival him.

Yu Dashi took charge of Shrek Academy’s training, but his orders met resistance from Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong. After Yu Dashi insulted Zhu Zhuqing’s teacher, she attacked him and revealed that her teacher was the Rouge Pavilion’s master, the level 99 Sky Roc Excellency, leaving the teachers and students stunned.

• Yu Dashi told Tang San that another twin martial soul wielder had reached the Titled Douluo level, then departed.
• Flender introduced Yu Dashi as the students’ new instructor, and Yu Dashi ordered them to run ten round trips carrying stones.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong refused the run, and Ning Rongrong offered the others weighted wristbands.
• Yu Dashi tried to recruit Zhu Zhuqing by claiming she had wasted her twin martial soul talent, then insulted her teacher.
• Zhu Zhuqing attacked Yu Dashi with her second and third soul skills, but Flender stopped her before the strike landed.
• Zhu Zhuqing threatened the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan unless Yu Dashi apologized, and revealed that her teacher was the Rouge Pavilion’s master, the level 99 Sky Roc Excellency.

After Yu Xiaogang apologized to Zhu Zhuqing and canceled the running lessons, Ning Rongrong learned that Zhu Zhuqing’s unusual soul-ring strength came from body training and that her martial soul had evolved using a rare herb. Ning Rongrong hurried to tell the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect about the remaining pill, leaving negotiations between the sect and the Rouge Pavilion to their leaders.

• Yu Xiaogang apologized to Zhu Zhuqing, who ignored him and left; he then canceled the running lessons, and Flender told the others to keep the confrontation quiet.
• Ning Rongrong reasoned that Zhu Zhuqing’s Thousand-Year second soul ring had led Yu Xiaogang to wrongly assume she had twin martial souls, then went to their shared dormitory with grilled fish.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Ning Rongrong that body-tempering baths and fist techniques had let her absorb an older soul ring, but said her teacher held the prescription and controlled access to the techniques.
• Ning Rongrong asked what the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would need to offer for the method, and Zhu Zhuqing pointed out that their leaders would have to negotiate.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed that her Moonshadow Demon Cat had evolved after she and her senior sister took pills refined from clear radiance moonshadow grass, with one pill remaining.
• Ning Rongrong rushed off to alert her father, Grandpa Sword, and Grandpa Bone, while Zhu Zhuqing watched her go and said, “Mission accomplished”; two Messenger Eagles flew in opposite directions carrying messages.

Qian Renxue demonstrated her strength to Qian Daoliu and received the Angel Nine Trials, which could let her become the next Angel God. Qian Chongling revealed that inheriting the divine seat required a top-tier eight-trial recipient to sacrifice themselves, and Qian Renxue refused to accept that either of her loved ones might die.

• Qian Renxue attacked Qian Daoliu with Lie Yan Judgment, but he caught her flaming sword unharmed.
• Qian Daoliu praised Qian Renxue for clearing the ordinary levels of all three secret realms and explained her family's connection to the Angel God.
• The Angel God Statue's sword enveloped Qian Renxue in golden light, and nine screens appeared before her as the Angel Nine Trials.
• Qian Chongling appeared and told Qian Renxue that passing the trials would make her the next Angel God, but a person with the top-tier eight trials would have to sacrifice themselves.
• Qian Renxue realized that Qian Daoliu or Qian Chongling might have to die for her inheritance and cried that she did not want it.

Qian Chongling persuaded Qian Daoliu to let him make the sacrifice for Qian Renxue’s Angel God inheritance, assuring them he would survive because of his immense power and another deity’s trials. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong sent the Seven-Star Team into the City of Ruin to fight its boss and strengthen their Soul Rings.

• Qian Daoliu insisted that he should sacrifice himself instead of Qian Chongling, but Qian Chongling challenged him to explain how he would stop him.
• Qian Daoliu argued that Qian Chongling was more valuable to Spirit Hall and that he could not let his elder sacrifice himself.
• Qian Chongling revealed that he would survive the sacrifice and hinted that he had been chosen for another deity’s divine nine trials, which Qian Daoliu believed belonged to a God King.
• Qian Daoliu accepted Qian Chongling’s decision, and Qian Renxue was relieved that neither elder would die while she pursued the Angel God’s divine seat.
• Bibi Dong told the Seven-Star Team to defeat Bainoshu, the City of Ruin’s Ordinary Level boss, and keep grinding the trial to make their first Soul Rings black.

The Seven-Star Team entered the City of Ruin without studying Bainoshu’s skills and quickly faced her overwhelming magic. Bainoshu eliminated the team’s four attackers, then trapped Hu Liena, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling in her Extreme Ice Feast.

• The Seven-Star Team chose to enter the City of Ruin without reading the information on Bainoshu’s skills.
• Hu Liena sensed Bainoshu’s formidable power as the team formed up and attacked her.
• Bainoshu blocked Tianyu and Bai Jie’s strongest strikes with an Ice Wall, while Hu Liena was injured by her mental power.
• Bainoshu used Annihilation Black Hole and Heavenly Thunder to eliminate Tianyu, Bai Jie, Yan, and Xie Yue.
• Bainoshu cast Extreme Ice Feast beneath Hu Liena, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling, enveloping the three women.

The Seven-Star Team learned how powerful Bainoshu was and began preparing to challenge her again, while the Shrek group continued their soul-fighting training. The chapter ended with Qin Ming deciding to take the victorious Imperial Fighting Team to Suotuo City for a friendly match against Shrek.

• Bainoshu defeated Tianyu, Bai Jie, Yan, and Xie Yue, then froze Hu Liena, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling and forced them out of the secret realm.
• Hu Liena explained that Bainoshu’s Mental Power had caused her backlash, and Tianyu opened a report revealing Bainoshu’s formidable abilities and strength.
• The Seven-Star Team complained about Bainoshu’s power and the secret realm’s higher difficulty levels, then began planning how to break her defenses and defeat her.
• The Shrek group spent a month training at the Suotuo Great Soul Arena, where Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong earned thirty consecutive two-versus-two victories.
• Xue Haicang led the Imperial Fighting Team to victory in Silves City, and Qin Ming decided to bring them to Suotuo City to challenge the Shrek Team.

Yu Dashi agreed to pit the Shrek Team against the undefeated Imperial Fighting Team, then learned from Ning Rongrong that their opponents were stronger than he had realized. Tang San rallied Shrek before the teams prepared to meet, while Qin Ming ordered the Imperial Fighting Team to hold back and avoid seriously injuring their opponents.

• Manager Ao offered Yu Dashi and the Shrek Team payment to fight the Imperial Fighting Team, and Yu Dashi accepted.
• The Shrek Team studied the Imperial Fighting Team's dossier, and Ning Rongrong revealed Xue Haicang's powerful Snow Eagle, Bai Yan's healing and boosts, and the Black Tortoise twins' formidable defense.
• Yu Dashi spat tea across Tang San's face after Ning Rongrong said the Heavenly Fragrance Furnace could surpass the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Tang San rallied the discouraged Shrek members.
• Xue Haicang and Yu Tianheng dismissed the Shrek Team's dossier, but Qin Ming reprimanded them and ordered the team not to use their fourth soul skills or Martial Soul Fusion Skill or seriously injure their opponents.