Chapter Summaries

Chen Jin led Blazing Fire Academy onto the stage against Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where the crowd doubted him because he was only rank thirty-seven. Yu Tianheng challenged the choice of captain, but Huo Wushuang acknowledged Chen Jin’s superiority; Yu Tianheng then unleashed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon’s power as the match began.

• Chen Jin spotted Dugu Yan among Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s delegation and resolved to claim the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s treasures before Tang San could reach them.
• The tournament announced Blazing Fire Academy’s opening match against Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and both teams took their places on the stage.
• The host introduced Yu Tianheng as a rank forty-three Battle Soul Ancestor and Chen Jin as a rank thirty-seven Soul Elder, provoking disbelief from the crowd and mockery from Shrek Academy’s Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai.
• Yu Tianheng questioned why Huo Wushuang was not Blazing Fire Academy’s captain, and Huo Wushuang said he was not as good as Chen Jin before yielding the stage to him.
• Yu Tianheng stepped forward and released his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and four Soul Rings, drawing cheers from the spectators.

Chen Jin faced Yu Tianheng and Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s overwhelming lightning attack in the opening match. He revealed the Nine-Heaven Divine Phoenix martial soul and raised a vast golden curtain of flame to meet Yu Tianheng’s Thunderous Might.

• Spectators praised Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s balanced team, while Shrek’s members judged Yu Tianheng a formidable opponent and left to prepare for their own match.
• Ma Hongjun mocked Chen Jin, but Zhu Zhuqing worried as she watched him face the rank-forty-four Yu Tianheng.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Yu Tianheng, while Xue Qinghe kept his attention on Chen Jin.
• Yu Tianheng unleashed his second soul skill, Thunderous Might, sending a destructive net of lightning toward Blazing Fire Academy.
• Chen Jin stepped forward, revealed his yellow, yellow, and purple soul rings, and summoned the Nine-Heaven Divine Phoenix, whose pressure and heat shook the arena.
• As Yu Tianheng intensified his lightning attack, Chen Jin calmly raised one hand and formed an enormous golden curtain of flame across the arena.

Chen Jin erased Yu Tianheng’s second Soul Skill with his flames, shocking the Great Soul Arena and prompting Xue Qinghe to recognize the flames as ultimate fire. As both teams released their Martial Souls, Chen Jin ordered Blazing Fire Academy to stand back and declared that he would face all seven opponents alone.

• Chen Jin’s flames consumed Yu Tianheng’s lightning attack, breaking his second Soul Skill and leaving him injured and shocked.
• The spectators erupted in disbelief, while Xue Qinghe sensed sacred purification in Chen Jin’s flames and identified them as ultimate fire.
• Dugu Yan warned Yu Tianheng that Chen Jin’s flames had purified her poison, and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team prepared to fight seriously.
• Yu Tianheng ordered his team to release their Martial Souls, and Huo Wushuang and the other Blazing Fire Academy members did the same.
• Chen Jin told his teammates to stand back and said he was enough to fight all seven opponents, so Huo Wu persuaded Huo Wushuang to trust him and retreat.

Chen Jin unleashed his third soul skill, Heaven-Burning Purgatory, and engulfed Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s coordinated attack in a golden sea of fire. The flames overwhelmed the team’s defenses and left the arena stunned, while the battle remained unresolved.

• Yu Tianheng ordered Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s seven members to attack Chen Jin together, and they combined lightning, poison, shields, wind blades, a flank strike, and healing.
• Chen Jin activated Heaven-Burning Purgatory, filling the platform with golden flames that consumed the team’s attacks and drained their soul power.
• The flames slowed Osler, blasted Yu Feng away, and evaporated Ye Lingling’s healing light before it could reach her teammates.
• The fire burned away Dugu Yan’s poison and shattered the Black Tortoise barriers of Shi Mo and Shi Mo, injuring both brothers.
• Yu Tianheng watched the team’s abilities fail against Chen Jin’s flames as hundreds of thousands of spectators stood in shock.

Chen Jin’s golden flames overwhelmed the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team, drawing awe and envy from the spectators. As Yu Tianheng launched his fourth soul skill, Chen Jin summoned the flames into his hand and began to use Phoenix Claw.

• Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and Zhu Zhuqing reacted to Chen Jin’s power, while Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi recognized his flames as approaching ultimate fire.
• Yu Tianheng, badly burned and nearly out of soul power, drew on his remaining strength and unleashed Blue Lightning Divine Dragon Rush.
• The lightning dragon raced toward Chen Jin as spectators believed he could not withstand the attack.
• Chen Jin calmly raised his hand, gathered the golden flames into a vortex, and called out Phoenix Claw.

Chen Jin defeated Yu Tianheng with a golden Phoenix Claw, then faced Dugu Yan’s ambush and poison. He burned away her Jade Phosphorous Bewitching Formation with his Ultimate Fire, leaving Dugu Yan frozen in fear.

• Chen Jin shattered Yu Tianheng’s lightning dragon and struck him off the platform, knocking him unconscious.
• Dugu Yan attacked Chen Jin from behind and engulfed him in her Jade Phosphorous Bewitching Formation.
• Chen Jin remained unharmed inside the poisonous mist as his Ultimate Fire vaporized the poison around him.
• Dugu Yan lunged at Chen Jin with her serpent claws, but he turned and unleashed his third Soul Skill, Heaven-Burning Purgatory.
• Chen Jin’s golden flames consumed the poisonous mist and overwhelmed Dugu Yan’s Martial Soul.

Chen Jin overwhelmed Dugu Yan with his ultimate sacred phoenix fire, neutralized her poison, and defeated her after she tried a lethal sneak attack. He left the arena composed while Dugu Yan, humiliated and weakened, threatened that her grandfather would take revenge.

• Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, and Chen Xin recognized the power of Chen Jin’s ultimate sacred fire, while Tang San was stunned that it had neutralized Dugu Yan’s poison.
• Chen Jin moved behind Dugu Yan, sealed her soul power with phoenix fire, and lifted her off the ground.
• Chen Jin scolded Dugu Yan for her sneak attack and struck her several times in front of the crowd.
• Chen Jin released Dugu Yan and returned to Blazing Fire Academy’s preparation area, while Huo Wu and the Shrek students reacted to his victory.
• Dugu Yan threatened that her grandfather would not forgive Chen Jin, then retreated to Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s section.

Chen Jin led Blazing Fire Academy to victory over Heaven Dou Royal Academy by defeating Dugu Yan’s poison with his third Soul Skill, Heaven-Burning Purgatory. Back at the lounge, Huo Wu teased and flirted with Chen Jin as they discussed the upcoming matches, and he promised to take Blazing Fire Academy all the way.

• Chen Jin defeated Dugu Yan, and the referee declared Blazing Fire Academy the winner.
• Tang San reacted bitterly to Chen Jin overcoming Dugu Yan’s poison, while Ma Hongjun voiced his jealousy and Zhu Zhuqing smiled at Chen Jin.
• Huo Wu checked Chen Jin for injuries, scolded him for striking Dugu Yan, and blushed when he teased her about being jealous.
• Huo Wushuang and the Blazing Fire Academy members praised Chen Jin before Huo Wu led everyone back to the lounge.
• Huo Wu asked Chen Jin about his third Soul Skill and playfully flirted with him as they walked to the lounge.
• Huo Wu asked about the upcoming matches, and Chen Jin promised Blazing Fire Academy would reach the end of the competition.

Chen Jin agreed to have dinner with Huo Wu while Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi discussed the divine quality they sensed in his martial soul. After Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo that Chen Jin had humiliated her, the enraged Poison Douluo demanded to know who Chen Jin was.

• Chen Jin teased Huo Wu, then agreed to have dinner with her after stabilizing his soul power.
• Xue Qinghe asked Ning Fengzhi about Chen Jin's battle, and Ning Fengzhi said Chen Jin's flames were extraordinary and seemed to carry divinity.
• Ma Hongjun dismissed Chen Jin's strength and declared he would go to the Great Soul Arena to prove himself, while Dai Mubai warned him not to be careless.
• Dugu Yan cried out in anger after Chen Jin's defeat of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then left the preparation room in tears.
• Dugu Yan returned to Dugu Bo's manor and told him Chen Jin had broken through her poison and hit her in front of the crowd.
• Dugu Bo's soul power surged as he swore Chen Jin would pay and asked whether he belonged to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Dugu Bo broke into Chen Jin’s room to kill him for injuring Dugu Yan, but Chen Jin stopped him by revealing the poison afflicting his granddaughter and claiming he could cure it. Dugu Bo agreed to return in three days, leaving Chen Jin’s fate dependent on whether he could prove his promise.

• Dugu Bo left to confront Chen Jin after learning that he had injured and humiliated Dugu Yan.
• Chen Jin evaded Dugu Bo’s surprise attack when the rank ninety-two Titled Douluo appeared in his room.
• Dugu Bo prepared to kill Chen Jin, but Chen Jin warned that Dugu Yan would die if Dugu Bo killed him.
• Chen Jin described Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison symptoms and predicted that it would kill her within three years.
• Chen Jin claimed he could cure the poison at a place where ice and fire converged, and Dugu Bo agreed to return in three days.

After a powerful Titled Douluo vanished, Chen Jin used whale rubber to strengthen his Nine Heavens Divine Phoenix Martial Soul and decided he needed much more. He asked Huo Wu where to buy it in bulk, and she pointed him toward the Heaven Dou Grand Trade Association.

• A Titled Douluo's oppressive presence left Chen Jin shaken, and he resolved to gain more strength.
• Chen Jin consumed whale rubber and used its pure yang energy to strengthen his physique and advance his soul power toward rank thirty-five.
• Chen Jin finished cultivating and decided he needed an astronomical quantity of whale rubber to withstand older soul rings.
• Chen Jin found Huo Wu exercising and asked where he could buy whale rubber in large quantities.
• Huo Wu misunderstood Chen Jin's reason for wanting whale rubber, but accepted his explanation that it aided cultivation.
• Huo Wu told Chen Jin that the Heaven Dou Grand Trade Association was his best option for buying whale rubber in bulk.

Chen Jin bought the Heaven Dou Grand Trade Association’s entire stock of whale rubber to strengthen his body for absorbing more Ultimate Fire, while Huo Wu mistook his intentions for a romantic advance. They reached a secluded forest outside Heaven Dou City, where Huo Wu nervously told him to do whatever he wanted.

• Huo Wu offered to take Chen Jin to buy whale rubber, and he agreed, explaining that he needed it to strengthen his body.
• Huo Wu led Chen Jin to the Heaven Dou Grand Trade Association, where the shopkeeper showed them a small piece of whale rubber.
• Chen Jin rejected the small amount and bought the association’s entire stock, which filled three wooden crates.
• Chen Jin said they needed somewhere private so he could absorb the whale rubber without interruption, and Huo Wu took him to a secluded forest outside the city.
• Huo Wu told Chen Jin to do whatever he wanted there, while he remained focused on his cultivation.

Chen Jin used whale rubber to strengthen his body and helped Huo Wu improve her fire-attribute Martial Soul, then continued cultivating as he approached a Soul Power bottleneck. Meanwhile, Ma Hongjun won a Soul Elder-level match at the Great Soul Arena in Heaven Dou City.

• Chen Jin melted whale rubber with his Nine-Heaven Divine Phoenix flames and absorbed its pure yang energy to temper his body.
• Chen Jin offered Huo Wu some whale rubber, and she realized he had bought it for cultivation rather than as a tonic for affairs between men and women.
• Huo Wu absorbed the whale rubber and followed Chen Jin's guidance, strengthening the flames of her Fire Shadow Martial Soul.
• Chen Jin absorbed more whale rubber as his inherited phoenix memories surfaced and his Soul Power neared the bottleneck between ranks thirty-four and thirty-five.
• Ma Hongjun defeated his opponent in under three minutes in a Soul Elder-level solo match at the Great Soul Arena.

Ma Hongjun gloated over his strength and vowed to prove he was the true phoenix, while Huo Wu’s whale-rubber overdose left her overwhelmed by heat and clinging to Chen Jin. Chen Jin broke through to level forty, mastered the second turn of the Nine-Turn Nirvana Art, and awakened the Phoenix God’s Wings.

• Ma Hongjun mocked Chen Jin as a traitor and declared that he would prove himself the real phoenix at the All-Continent Elite Tournament.
• Huo Wu’s body reacted to the whale rubber’s intense yang energy, and she approached Chen Jin while he meditated.
• Huo Wu clung to Chen Jin and begged him to help with the heat, while he tried to regulate her energy without interrupting his cultivation.
• Chen Jin focused on breaking through the level-thirty-four bottleneck and rose to the peak of level forty, completing the second turn of the Nine-Turn Nirvana Art.
• Chen Jin awakened his second divine ability, Phoenix God’s Wings, which could enable flight and unleash fiery feathers.

Chen Jin purged the whale rubber’s effects from Huo Wu with his Nine-Heaven Divine Phoenix flame, and she recovered with improved cultivation and a stronger Fire Shadow Martial Soul. After Huo Wu thanked him and teased him as a pervert, Chen Jin reflected on his growing strength and looked forward to facing Tang San and the others in the tournament; he then straightened Huo Wu’s clothes before they headed back.

• Chen Jin used his Nine-Heaven Divine Phoenix pressure and Ultimate Fire to dispel the whale rubber’s influence on Huo Wu.
• Huo Wu realized the pure yang energy had stabilized her level-forty soul power and strengthened her Fire Shadow Martial Soul, then thanked Chen Jin.
• Huo Wu asked whether Chen Jin had done anything while she was affected, and she called him a pervert when he replied calmly.
• Chen Jin considered his level-forty peak, his second-turn Nine-Turn Nirvana Art, and the prospect of meeting Tang San and the others at the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Huo Wu asked Chen Jin to fix her crooked clothes, and he fastened them properly before they left.

After Ma Hongjun’s seventh consecutive victory left Heaven Dou Royal Academy unable to find another Soul Elder to challenge him, Xue Qinghe sought out Chen Jin, believing his Nine-Heaven Divine Phoenix could defeat the Shrek student. Chen Jin and Huo Wu encountered Xue Qinghe on the way back to their lodgings, where he introduced himself as the crown prince.

• Chen Jin and Huo Wu left the forest together, and Huo Wu said she would tell her brother about Chen Jin’s breakthrough.
• Ma Hongjun defeated a Heaven Dou Royal Academy student, then mocked the crowd after the arena found no matching opponent for him.
• Xue Qinghe grew concerned about Shrek Academy’s dominance and decided Chen Jin could suppress Ma Hongjun.
• Chen Jin and Huo Wu teased each other as they walked toward Blazing Fire Academy’s lodgings.
• Xue Qinghe waited beneath the trees, approached Chen Jin and Huo Wu, and introduced himself as the crown prince of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Xue Qinghe recruited Chen Jin to fight Ma Hongjun at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, agreeing to pay him ten thousand Gold Soul Coins and provide ten-thousand-year whale glue. Chen Jin faced Ma Hongjun and revealed the Nine-Heaven Divine Phoenix, and the chapter ended as Ma Hongjun launched his attack.

• Xue Qinghe asked Chen Jin to defeat Ma Hongjun for the Heaven Dou Empire, and Chen Jin agreed in exchange for ten thousand Gold Soul Coins and ten-thousand-year whale glue.
• Huo Wu clarified that Chen Jin wanted the whale glue for body-tempering, while Chen Jin hinted that Xue Qinghe might not be a man.
• Ma Hongjun taunted the Heaven Dou City spectators at the Great Soul Arena until Chen Jin appeared as his challenger.
• Ma Hongjun insulted Chen Jin and Huo Wu, and Chen Jin fired back by mocking Ma Hongjun's visits to brothels.
• Ma Hongjun summoned his Evil Fire Phoenix and used his third Soul Skill, Phoenix Wings Soaring, to dive at Chen Jin.
• Chen Jin revealed his Nine-Heaven Divine Phoenix and sacred golden flames, causing Ma Hongjun's Evil Fire to tremble.

Chen Jin revealed his Phoenix God martial soul and defeated Ma Hongjun in the Soul Fighting Arena, leaving Shrek Academy stunned. After Chen Jin crushed Ma Hongjun’s strongest attack and hurled him from the platform, Yu Xiaogang and the others were left bewildered by Chen Jin’s power.

• Ma Hongjun attacked Chen Jin with Phoenix Wings Soaring, but Chen Jin revealed his Nine-Heaven Divine Phoenix and melted the attack with golden flames.
• Chen Jin identified his martial soul as the Phoenix God after Ma Hongjun demanded to know what it was.
• Ma Hongjun launched Phoenix Roaring Sky Strike, but Chen Jin emerged unharmed and countered with Phoenix Claw.
• Chen Jin’s Phoenix Claw shattered Ma Hongjun’s attack and blasted him off the platform, leaving him severely injured.
• Xue Qinghe admired Chen Jin’s power, while Huo Wu celebrated his victory and Tang San and Yu Xiaogang struggled to understand it.

Chen Jin crippled Ma Hongjun and publicly accused Shrek Academy of covering up Ma Hongjun’s assaults on commoner women, turning the arena against them. Dai Mubai challenged Chen Jin and opened the fight with his full-strength White Tiger Meteor Shower.

• Chen Jin used ultimate fire to destroy Ma Hongjun’s lower body and damage his martial soul, leaving him crippled.
• Yu Xiaogang condemned Chen Jin, but Chen Jin exposed Ma Hongjun’s crimes and accused Shrek Academy of shielding him.
• The spectators turned against Shrek Academy, while Zhu Zhuqing remained indifferent to Dai Mubai and Huo Wu praised Chen Jin.
• Dai Mubai leaped onto the platform and challenged Chen Jin after the arena condemned Shrek Academy.
• Dai Mubai activated his White Tiger possession and unleashed his Fourth Soul Skill, White Tiger Meteor Shower, at Chen Jin.

Chen Jin defeated Dai Mubai with his Phoenix God's Wings, then rejected Tang San and Yu Xiaogang's accusations by recalling how Shrek Academy had treated him. After leaving the arena, he met Huo Wu in the passage, where she eagerly asked to learn his ability and offered to do anything in return.

• Chen Jin summoned his Phoenix God's Wings and burned through Dai Mubai's White Tiger Meteor Shower, defeating him with a single attack.
• Tang San tried to heal Dai Mubai, but the golden flame in his meridians resisted his Mysterious Heaven Skill and injured him.
• Tang San accused Chen Jin of cruelty, and Chen Jin recounted Ma Hongjun's and Dai Mubai's past treatment of him and Tang San's failure to intervene.
• Yu Xiaogang condemned Chen Jin, who dismissed him, declared the battle was only collecting interest, and promised to meet Shrek Academy at the Elite Competition.
• Tang San wondered how Chen Jin's power and Martial Soul had changed so drastically and felt a growing sense of danger.
• Huo Wu met Chen Jin in the passage, asked to learn his golden-wing ability, and offered to do anything if he taught her.