Chapter Summaries

Ten-Year Veteran exposed Wang Dong’s disguise during the tournament fight and defeated her with a powerful fusion skill, though a blue barrier softened the blow. The New Tang Sect Academy Team won the Soul Master Tournament, and the players celebrated their rewards while wondering whether Tang San had noticed them.

• Ten-Year Veteran taunted Wang Dong about pretending to be a boy, drawing attention from the Shrek Academy spectators and angering her.
• Wang Dong attacked Ten-Year Veteran with the Clear Sky Hammer, but he endured the strike and prepared his fusion skill.
• Ten-Year Veteran used Twin Martial Soul Fusion Skill: Overlord's Strike; a light-blue barrier protected Wang Dong from the full force, but she was gravely wounded and knocked off the arena.
• Tang Yi confirmed that Tang San could not sense the obscured divine sense, while the players discussed the blue barrier and whether Tang San might detect them.
• Zhou Yi took Wang Dong for treatment, and Xu Jiawei announced that the New Tang Sect Academy Team had won the Soul Master Tournament.

After the tournament, the players exchanged their three championship Soul Bones for low-age Soul Bones for everyone and speculated about what would happen next. Tang Yi issued an emergency quest when they guessed Xuan Zi would hunt them, and the players prepared explosives while Xuan Zi set out to confront them and seize their Tang Sect secrets.

• Star Luo Emperor Xu Jiawei presented the tournament prizes, and the players chose to exchange the three Soul Bones for a low-age Soul Bone for each participant.
• The tournament ended, but the players found their Teleportation Array to the Sect Base disabled and discussed how they might return.
• The players suspected Shrek Academy would retaliate for the tournament and for their claims about being a hidden Tang Sect branch.
• Tang Yi issued the emergency quest Ode to Courage, and the players planned to attack Xuan Zi with Soul Guidance Bombs and C4.
• Xuan Zi told Zhou Yi he would make the players pay for Shrek's losses and humiliation and claim their hidden Tang Sect belongings.

After leaving Star Luo City, the Players waited for Xuan Zi to ambush them, then exposed his disguise and detonated their explosives when he attacked. The blast struck Xuan Zi, but the chapter ended before revealing what happened to him.

• Dai Hao visited Dai Yueheng, then left Zhou Yi with an apology and a message for the still-unconscious Huo Yuhao.
• The Players traveled toward Heaven Dou City and speculated about who might be hunting them as night fell.
• Xuan Zi, disguised as an Evil Soul Master, blocked the Players and demanded their Soul Bones and secrets.
• The Players recognized Xuan Zi and mocked his attempt to disguise a robbery as a legitimate claim.
• When Xuan Zi became enraged and prepared to attack, Ten-Year Veteran ordered the Players to detonate three Level 8 Soul Guidance Bombs and more than twenty C4 charges.

The players completed their mission against Xuan Zi, crippling him and earning a Soul Power increase before logging off for a game update. Tang Yi added new maps and prepared to recruit forty-nine more players, while Xuan Zi returned to Shrek Academy badly injured and Tang Ya headed for the Tang Sect’s former base.

• The explosion left Xuan Zi alive but gravely injured, with an arm and a leg blown off, while the players returned to the Sect Base and received their mission reward.
• The players logged off, discovered that little time had passed in reality, and went looking for food before posting about the game online.
• Tang Yi prepared an update that added the Sun Moon Empire as an open-world map and turned Star Dou Great Forest into an instance dungeon for players to level up in.
• Xuan Zi found Zhou Yi and ordered her to get him treated and take the students back to Shrek Academy, which left Star Luo City the next day.
• Tang Ya left Shrek Academy for the Tang Sect’s former base in Heaven Dou City as the players waited for the update to finish.
• The old players logged back in after the update, and Tang Yi drew forty-nine new players into Douluo Continent.

Old and new players explored the newly opened Sun Moon Empire and Star Dou Great Forest maps, then gathered in the sect plaza to discuss the game and their Martial Souls. A quest appeared for players to welcome Tang Ya, who stood outside the New Tang Sect Stronghold reflecting on whether her parents had been avenged.

• The old players discovered that the Sun Moon Empire and Star Dou Great Forest maps had opened, and Wang Zhongwang realized the forest dungeon was meant to help new players catch up.
• New players appeared in the sect plaza, where Wang Zhongwang and the others explained the game, their tournament title, and ways to level up or obtain Twin Martial Souls.
• Qian Xunji revealed his Dark Angel Martial Soul, while Dong'er showed her Man-Faced Demon Spider Martial Soul.
• A quest asked players to welcome Tang Ya, and Qian Xunji led the new players rushing toward the sect gate.
• Tang Ya stood outside the New Tang Sect Stronghold and wondered whether avenging her parents through someone else's hands counted as revenge; the new players then surrounded her.

Tang Ya returned to the New Tang Sect, where the players welcomed her and made her a sect NPC. As veteran players began teaching her a fabricated history of the Tang Sect, she accepted their claims, while Huo Yuhao and the others returned to Shrek Academy with Xuan Zi badly injured and Ma Xiaotao safe.

• Tang Ya chose Dong'er to show her around the New Tang Sect, and Dong'er brought her to the sect master's room, turning her into a sect NPC.
• The players formed parties to level up in the Star Dou Great Forest dungeon and complained about the low drop rates and increasingly slow progress.
• Tang Yi added a quest for players to teach Tang Ya the Tang Sect's history, and I Am an Angel told her that Tang San had stolen the sect's manuals and falsely claimed to have founded the Tang Sect.
• Tang Ya believed I Am an Angel's version of history without realizing that the players were influencing her.
• Huo Yuhao and the others returned to Shrek Academy, where Xuan Zi recuperated from losing an arm and a leg, and Ma Xiaotao had avoided capture by the Holy Spirit Cult.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest while players gathered to fight a powerful World Boss, the 3,000-year-old Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear. As the players brought its health down to a third, Huo Yuhao's group arrived at the battle.

• Huo Yuhao admired Wang Dong'er in women's clothes as the group headed to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang Yi enhanced the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear and announced its respawn as a World Boss.
• Several players rushed the Boss and were killed by its golden-blade attack, so the others waited for the main group to assemble.
• Qian Xixi drew the Boss's aggro while Ten-Year Veteran pierced its defenses, and the players coordinated attacks against its wounds.
• The players reduced the Boss's health by two-thirds before Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao arrived after hearing the battle.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao approached the New Tang Sect players to ask about Tang Ya while the players fought the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear. The players defeated the World Boss, and it dropped a Soul Ring Upgrade Card and an External Soul Bone.

• The players warned Huo Yuhao and his companions to stay back from their World Boss fight, then told them Tang Ya was at the New Tang Sect base.
• Huo Yuhao said he would bring the news back to Bei Bei, while the players criticized him for not visiting Tang Ya himself.
• As the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear neared defeat, Qian Xixi handed off its aggro so she could recover.
• I Am an Angel and Ten-Year Veteran used their ultimate attacks to defeat the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear, and Ten-Year Veteran received credit for the final hit.
• The players received experience from the kill, and Qian Xixi reported that the BOSS dropped a Three-Thousand-Year Soul Ring Upgrade Card and an External Soul Bone.

Yan Shaozhe demanded that the players hand over the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear’s External Soul Bone for fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins, but they mocked and refused him. After Yan Shaozhe unleashed his power, the players prepared explosives to fight back, leaving Huo Yuhao’s instincts warning him of danger.

• The players discussed how to distribute the boss drops and agreed to compensate one another with Fate Coins.
• Yan Shaozhe appeared, offered fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins for the External Soul Bone, and was ridiculed by the players.
• The game system confirmed that drops were bound to players and would not disappear if they died.
• Huo Yuhao realized that the drop was probably an External Soul Bone and considered asking Yan Shaozhe for it.
• Yan Shaozhe revealed his Bright Phoenix martial soul and nine Soul Rings after the players insulted him.
• The players brought out a Level 8 Soul Guidance Bomb and C4 as Huo Yuhao’s instincts warned him of danger.

Tang Yi sealed Huo Yuhao’s luck after an explosion devastated the group, leaving Yan Shaozhe gravely injured while Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao survived. The Players revived and auctioned off the spoils, with Qian Xunji winning the External Soul Bone.

• Tang Yi used Luck Points to seal Huo Yuhao’s luck, and the System explained that his already overdrawn luck was rebounding on him.
• The explosion shattered Yan Shaozhe’s Soul Core and crippled his legs, while Wang Dong'er’s Divine Sense protected her, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao from harm.
• Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao helped Huo Yuhao reach the still-living Yan Shaozhe, and the three set out to take him back to the academy, with Huo Yuhao stumbling and dropping him twice.
• After the Players revived, the System introduced a sealed-bid auction, and Transforming Autobot won the Three-Thousand-Year Soul Ring Age Upgrade Card for 14,444 Fate Coins.
• Qian Xunji won the Three-Thousand-Year Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear External Soul Bone with a bid of 150,000 Fate Coins.

Tang Yi watched Huo Yuhao’s Protagonist Halo decline while players completed an escort quest for Princess Vina and prepared to explore the Sun Moon Empire. As they entered the new region, the game announced that Story Mode had begun and the story timeline was advancing.

• Tang Yi monitored Huo Yuhao’s declining Protagonist Halo and considered preventing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion storyline from bringing Wang Qiuer into the story.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao brought the badly injured Yan Shaozhe back to Shrek Academy, where Zhou Yi arranged treatment and Mu En wondered who was targeting the academy.
• I Am an Angel’s party rescued Princess Vina from monkeys in the Star Dou Great Forest and triggered an escort quest.
• The party escorted Vina safely out of the forest and earned substantial experience and Gold Soul Coins.
• High-level players set out to explore the Sun Moon Empire, and the game announced that Story Mode had begun and the story timeline was advancing.

The Players explored Mingdu and triggered a quest involving Ghost Nana, whose parents were being held by the Holy Spirit Cult. After she left the city, I Am an Angel confronted her and offered to help rescue them, but Ghost Nana remained wary.

• The Players discussed an impending time skip and explored Mingdu, then headed toward the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.
• A quest to cleanse a Holy Spirit Cult branch altar appeared when a black-robed woman passed the Players.
• The Players recognized the woman as Ghost Nana and recalled that the cult was controlling her parents' souls.
• After Ghost Nana left the city, I Am an Angel blocked her path and offered to help free her and rescue her parents.
• I Am an Angel revealed his Angel Martial Soul, but Ghost Nana remained suspicious.

Qian Xunji and the other Players reached the Holy Spirit Cult Branch Altar with Ghost Nana and used C4 to draw out its guards. After they failed to defeat the Second Holy Son in one attack, the Players charged inside to begin clearing the altar.

• I Am an Angel persuaded Ghost Nana that the Players had come to eliminate the Evil Soul Masters, and she led them to the branch altar.
• The Players detonated C4 at the entrance, destroyed the gate, and quickly defeated two guards and several investigating Evil Soul Masters.
• The Second Holy Son decided to inspect the disturbance despite the First Holy Son dismissing his concerns about the altar's security.
• The Players attacked the Second Holy Son as he emerged, but their skills only cut his health in half, and he retreated inside.
• Ten-Year Veteran led the Players in a charge into the branch altar as the new Players eagerly followed.

Ten-Year Veteran’s elite squad stormed the Holy Spirit Cult’s deepest chamber and defeated the First and Second Holy Sons, with I Am an Angel’s divine light purifying their summoned undead and trapped souls. After Ghost Nana reunited with her parents’ souls and said goodbye, the souls vanished as the Players gathered.

• Ten-Year Veteran led the elite Players to the branch altar’s deepest chamber, where the First Holy Son summoned undead and skeletons with Ten Thousand Souls Banquet.
• I Am an Angel used Solar Judgment to devastate the summoned creatures and injure both Holy Sons, allowing Ten-Year Veteran to kill the Second Holy Son with a spear strike.
• The First Holy Son summoned spirits with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, but I Am an Angel purified them with her divine light, and the First Holy Son tried to flee.
• Dong’er bound the First Holy Son, and Qian Xunji killed him with his Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear External Soul Bone.
• Ghost Nana saw her parents’ souls among those purified, embraced them, and said goodbye as they vanished into golden light.

The players completed their mission, received the growth-type Soul Tool Human Emperor Banner, and escorted Ghost Nana back to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy. As Huo Yuhao prepared to arrive there as an exchange student, Jing Hongchen planned to welcome the players in person.

• I Am Xiao Jian’s Land Mine killed a fleeing enemy, and the players received the Human Emperor Banner after completing the mission.
• Ten-Year Veteran explained that the banner countered Evil Soul Master soul-collecting tools and stored experience to be shared among all players.
• I Am an Angel announced reaching level 50 and revealed that her fifth Soul Skill was Angel’s Roar.
• Ghost Nana thanked the players, and Ten-Year Veteran asked her to tell an academy teacher that the New Tang Sect would visit the next day.
• The players escorted Ghost Nana to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, where Jing Hongchen planned to welcome them as Huo Yuhao prepared to arrive as an exchange student.

The Players visited Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, where Jing Hongchen welcomed them and they scattered to explore, with several seeking Orange. Huo Yuhao arrived as an exchange student, and Qian Xixi and Ten-Year Veteran received a quest to stop Xuan Ziwen from becoming his mentor.

• Jing Hongchen welcomed the Players and praised their victory over Shrek Academy, but Qian Xixi and I Am an Angel challenged him over the tournament deaths.
• Ghost Nana tried to guide the Players around campus, but they wandered off, and Qian Xunji found Orange and shared her coordinates with the others.
• Jing Hongchen received Huo Yuhao and the other Shrek exchange students, including He Caitou, at the academy.
• Huo Yuhao went to report to Xuan Ziwen and encountered Ghost Nana, Qian Xixi, and Ten-Year Veteran.
• Qian Xixi and Ten-Year Veteran unlocked a limited-time quest to prevent Xuan Ziwen from becoming Huo Yuhao's mentor.

The Players tried to stop Huo Yuhao from impressing Xuan Ziwen during an aptitude test at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy. They used a Bad Luck Talisman on Huo Yuhao, causing him to fail the final step twice as Xuan Ziwen grew suspicious.

• The Players discussed how to interfere with Huo Yuhao's test, while Xuan Ziwen prepared to assess his Soul Engineer aptitude.
• Qian Xixi and Huo Yuhao exchanged hostile words as the Players gathered to watch the test.
• The Players found the Bad Luck Talisman in the shop, and Qian Xixi spent 10,000 Fate Coins to use it on Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao failed to inscribe the Soul Guidance Magic Circle at the final step, despite his skilled technique.
• Huo Yuhao tried the test again and failed at the same step, prompting Xuan Ziwen to suspect something was wrong.

Huo Yuhao failed Xuan Ziwen’s soul-tool assessment and left, while Qian Xixi and Ten-Year Veteran completed their quest and received Zhuge Divine Ballistas. Ten-Year Veteran gave one to Xuan Ziwen, hoping to gain future benefits and undermine Huo Yuhao’s chances; Xuan Ziwen admired the design as the players departed.

• Huo Yuhao failed to carve a working magic circle, and Xuan Ziwen dismissed him from the assessment.
• Qian Xixi and Ten-Year Veteran received two Zhuge Divine Ballistas, experience, and Gold Soul Coins for completing their quest.
• The players noticed Orange had disappeared and speculated that she had gone to a classroom or laboratory.
• Ten-Year Veteran decided to use a Zhuge Divine Ballista as a gift for Xuan Ziwen, partly to hinder Huo Yuhao.
• Xuan Ziwen inspected the ballista, praised its design, and asked Ten-Year Veteran whether he was a soul engineer.
• Ten-Year Veteran and Qian Xixi left without explaining their remark about someone being swindled.

Huo Yuhao went to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy’s laboratory to investigate why his magic circle inscriptions kept failing, but he ended up fighting Wang Shaojie after being insulted. The laboratory was left in disarray as Players watched, and Agile Dog in the Mountains approached Orange.

• Huo Yuhao went to the student laboratory and tried repeatedly to inscribe Soul Guidance Magic Circles, but each attempt failed.
• Ghost Nana brought Ten-Year Veteran and Qian Xixi to the laboratory, where they noticed Orange and discussed Huo Yuhao’s expected confrontation with Wang Shaojie.
• Wang Shaojie insulted Huo Yuhao as an illegitimate son, and Huo Yuhao challenged him, starting a fight.
• Qian Xixi livestreamed the fight, while the Players discussed Huo Yuhao’s bad luck and watched the brawl damage the laboratory.
• Agile Dog in the Mountains approached Orange and asked her to treat him to an orange, startling her.

Huo Yuhao used Sovereign's Might against Wang Shaojie, but the players' Bad Luck Talisman made him fall flat on his face and turned the fight into a spectacle. Xuan Ziwen ordered Huo Yuhao and Wang Shaojie to repair the lab and pay for the damage, while the players left Orange with offers of help.

• Agile Dog in the Mountains and Wang Zhongwang tried Orange's oranges and praised their taste as players gathered to watch Huo Yuhao and Wang Shaojie fight.
• Huo Yuhao used Sovereign's Might and sent Wang Shaojie flying, then glared at the players.
• Huo Yuhao took one step forward and fell flat on his face, prompting the players, Orange, and Keke to laugh.
• Xuan Ziwen arrived, blamed Huo Yuhao and Wang Shaojie for the damaged lab, and ordered them to restore it and pay for repairs.
• The players left the fight alone and asked Orange for oranges, with I Am an Angel offering her help.