Recaps

Tang Hao discovered through Shi Nian’s dream that Tang San was not truly his son, then killed Shi Nian and let Tang San return to the academy with his severed arm. Yu Tianlong and Bi Ji watched the fallout, and Yu Tianlong claimed Shi Nian’s Soul Bone while planning to make Tang San a servant of the Void.

• Tang Hao watched Tang San’s dream and realized that the person inside his son’s body was someone else, while Tang San woke and begged his father to kill Shi Nian.
• Tang Hao killed Shi Nian with one hammer blow, then questioned Tang San, who lied about what he had seen in the dream.
• Tang San rushed to the academy with his severed arm, and Soul Masters reattached it unevenly.
• Tang Hao raged in the woods, vowed to kill Tang San eventually, and went to a brothel to start a new account.
• Yu Tianlong and Bi Ji decided Tang San could become a servant of the Void, and Yu Tianlong retrieved a miniature left arm Soul Bone from Shi Nian’s remains.

Yu Tianlong spent several days at home while the preliminaries and advancement matches concluded, with Shrek Academy qualifying for the finals despite losing the advancement championship to Skywater Academy. He joined the Heaven Dou Empire’s procession to Spirit City, where Qian Renxue confronted him about sneaking bites.

• Yu Tianlong recovered after a night with the women, and Zhu Zhuqing called him a perverted master.
• Shrek Academy finished the preliminaries undefeated, while Tang San secretly used hidden weapons; Elephant Armor Academy struggled, and Tang San crippled most of Canghui Academy’s team.
• Skywater Academy defeated Shrek Academy to win the advancement matches, but Shrek Academy still qualified for the finals.
• Emperor Xue Ye appointed Crown Prince Xue Qinghe as his envoy, and the Heaven Dou Empire’s fifteen teams departed for Spirit City under a Royal Knights escort.
• Spirit Hall barred non-Soul Masters from watching the finals in Spirit City, and the traveling academies kept mostly to themselves.
• Yu Tianlong climbed into Qian Renxue’s carriage, where she accused him of sneaking bites.

Yu Tianlong promised Qian Renxue he would never leave her, then continued toward Spirit City with the procession. When an ambush struck the traveling academies, the Royal Knights defended them from a rain of rocks.

• Qian Renxue pleaded with Yu Tianlong not to leave her, and he hugged her and promised he never would.
• Yu Tianlong learned that Spirit Hall planned to intercept and kill Tang San, but decided not to help him.
• Dai Mubai discussed the Royal Knights’ discipline with Ma Hongjun as the procession traveled toward Spirit City.
• A sinister presence emerged in a narrow mountain pass, and the Royal Knights’ captain warned the procession to stay alert.
• Attackers sent rocks tumbling down both hills, and the five hundred Royal Knights formed a defensive line and knocked the stones aside.

Fifteen Soul Master Academies were ambushed by a coordinated force of roughly fifteen hundred black-clad attackers, including at least thirty Soul Masters above rank fifty. Tang San led Shrek Academy in fighting back, but one enemy broke free of his Blue Silver Grass just as the Shrek students prepared to fire their hidden weapons.

• Flender restrained Liu Erlong and insisted that protecting the students mattered more than charging toward the attackers.
• Thousands of black-clad figures descended from both hills and overwhelmed the academies with coordinated attacks and numerical superiority.
• Flender ordered the Soul Masters to conserve Soul Power and rout the attackers after recognizing the assault was organized.
• Tang San noticed the attackers were unusually well trained, then used Blue Silver Grass to entangle their legs and direct Shrek Academy's response.
• Tang San ordered the Shrek students to cock their hidden weapons, but a three-ring Soul Master broke free of his Blue Silver Grass before Tang San commanded them to fire.

Yu Tianlong offered Qian Renxue Godly Zhuge Crossbows and their blueprints as betrothal gifts, then warned her that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and that Tang Hao had killed her father. Meanwhile, Tang San devastated the attackers with hidden weapons before three powerful black-clad Soul Masters forced him to retreat.

• Yu Tianlong told Qian Renxue he had Godly Zhuge Crossbows and blueprints for her, and she agreed to receive them as betrothal gifts when he met her grandfather.
• Yu Tianlong warned Qian Renxue not to attack Tang San because Tang Hao, Tang San’s father, had killed her father, leaving her stunned and asking how he knew.
• Tang San used poisoned needles and other hidden weapons to kill many black-clad bandits around Shrek Academy.
• Three powerful black-clad Soul Masters confronted Tang San, who threw six Mother-Child Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Orbs and retreated with Ning Rongrong’s speed boost.
• Tang San sensed that the three attackers together possessed at least the strength of a Soul Douluo above rank eighty.

Shrek Academy faced a sudden attack by a Soul Douluo and two Soul Saints, while Tang San realized the attackers were targeting him. Qian Renxue ordered the ambush withdrawn, and then organized the Royal Knights to resume their journey.

• Tang San used poisoned needles to stall three powerful attackers before retreating to his companions, and the black-clad forces advanced on Shrek Academy.
• Flender and Liu Erlong fought two Soul Saints while the masked Soul Douluo transformed into a golden eagle and attacked the students.
• Tang San signaled Tai Long and the other students to flee, but the two Soul Kings let them withdraw without interference.
• Qian Renxue proposed capturing Tang San to lure out Tang Hao and force Tang San to make weapons, and Yu Tianlong agreed.
• Qian Renxue sent word through Snake Lance and Pufferfish to Yue Guan, who ordered the attacking Soul Masters to retreat.
• Qian Renxue organized the Royal Knights, restored their formation, and ordered them to continue moving.

After Spirit Hall’s attack, Ning Fengzhi warned Yu Tianlong that Spirit Hall’s strength made a direct confrontation dangerous. Yu Tianlong promised to be careful, though his private ambition was to force his rivals into submission, and Ning Fengzhi remained deeply invested in him because Ning Rongrong loved him.

• Tang San returned to Shrek Academy’s carriage, shaken by the attack and unsure why he had become a target.
• Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, Chen Xin, and Dugu Bo discussed whether Spirit Hall’s attack was meant to draw out Tang Hao or destroy the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yu Tianlong told Ning Fengzhi that he had recognized Spirit Hall’s involvement, and Ning Fengzhi explained that he had kept silent to protect the witnesses.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Yu Tianlong that Spirit Hall greatly outnumbered the forces of the two empires and urged him not to challenge it directly.
• Yu Tianlong promised to avoid doing anything reckless, while privately believing strength would let him settle conflicts on his own terms.

Yu Xiaogang met Pope Bibi Dong after twenty years apart and asked how she had overcome the dangers of cultivating Twin Martial Souls, hoping to help his disciple Tang San. Bibi Dong refused and revealed she had already sent assassins after Tang San, leaving Yu Xiaogang’s request unanswered and his disciple in danger.

• Yu Xiaogang entered Spirit City and used his elder token to gain access to the Pope’s Palace.
• Bibi Dong met Yu Xiaogang, rejected his use of her old name, and told him to address her as Pope or Your Holiness.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Bibi Dong how she had overcome the Twin Martial Souls hurdle so he could guide his disciple, Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang promised Tang San would never oppose Spirit Hall if Bibi Dong shared her knowledge.
• Bibi Dong refused, saying she had already sent people to ambush and kill Tang San along the route taken by the Heaven Dou Empire’s competing teams.

Bibi Dong ordered Yu Xiaogang imprisoned and tortured after he threatened Spirit Hall over Tang San, while the Heaven Dou teams arrived safely in Spirit City. Yu Tianlong explored the city and learned about the Pope’s Palace and the sacred Douluo Hall, as the teams prepared to stay under protection.

• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang that Spirit Hall would eliminate Tang San if he could not be recruited, and Yu Xiaogang threatened to destroy Spirit Hall if Tang San was harmed.
• Bibi Dong recalled Yu Xiaogang’s rejection of her, threatened to torture Liu Erlong, and ordered a guard to take Yu Xiaogang to the dungeon for torture.
• Qian Renxue led the Heaven Dou Empire’s fifteen Soul Master teams into Spirit City after arranging an escort and leaving the soldiers outside its walls.
• Yu Tianlong explored Spirit City and learned that the Pope’s Palace housed the Supreme Pontiff and Elder Hall, while Douluo Hall was the sacred resting place of deceased Titled Douluos.
• Ning Fengzhi stayed near Yu Tianlong to protect him, viewing him as their hope.

As the finals began in Spirit City, Qian Renxue explained the tournament format to Yu Tianlong and the others, who prepared to face the knockout matches. The chapter ended with Dugu Yan and the others discovering that four members of Godwind Academy's lineup had been replaced by fighters from Blazing Fire Academy.

• Qian Renxue visited Yu Tianlong and the others, and Yu Tianlong dismissed the need for tactics, saying they would steamroll their opponents.
• Qian Renxue explained the finals' rounds, byes, and championship format, while Ning Rongrong and the others grew suspicious of her relationship with Yu Tianlong.
• The participating academies gathered at Spirit City's arena, where a red-robed bishop announced the finals and the first-round matchups.
• Yu Tianlong told Ning Rongrong that the small audience and subdued opening might be preparation for the final matches before the Pope's Palace.
• Dugu Yan and the others watched Godwind Academy face Nightshade Academy and were shocked to see four Blazing Fire Academy members in Godwind Academy's lineup.

Godwind Academy's roster change sparked protests, but Spirit Hall allowed it under the rules as the tournament advanced to the top ten. Shrek Academy drew Star Luo Empire Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy, and Dai Mubai revealed the family rivalry behind the match before asking Tang San and the others to help him.

• Godwind Academy defeated its opponent with Huo Wu, Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wushuang, and the other members all above level forty, while academies protested the roster change.
• Liu Erlong explained that Blazing Fire Academy's students had temporarily switched academies through a loophole, and Qian Renxue returned with Spirit Hall's decision not to interfere.
• Yu Tianlong asked Zhu Zhuqing about the immortal herb and Soul Ring she had absorbed, then called her his woman, souring Qian Renxue's expression.
• The first two rounds ended, and the draw matched Shrek Academy against Star Luo Empire Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy and Spirit Hall Academy against Heaven Dou Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Dai Mubai told Tang San that he and Zhu Zhuqing had been raised to compete with their elder siblings for succession in their families, and that the tournament was their chance to defeat them.
• Dai Mubai admitted that Zhu Zhuqing's departure had left him without his intended partner, but asked Tang San and the others to help him because the outcome would decide his future.

Dai Mubai told the Shrek team that his family’s succession contest was a fight for survival, and they rallied behind him before facing Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun. As the semifinal began, the rivals released their Martial Souls, with Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun revealing four Soul Rings each.

• Dai Mubai explained that the losers in his family’s succession contest were killed, and said he had once expected to die before turning twenty-five.
• Tang San, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Tai Long, Jing Ling, Jiang Zhu, and Huang Yuan joined Dai Mubai in declaring they would win.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun arrived with Star Luo Academy, and Zhu Zhuqing told Yu Tianlong she wanted to fight her sister and prove herself.
• Dai Weisi taunted Dai Mubai, while Zhu Zhuyun urged Zhu Zhuqing to return home; Zhu Zhuqing rejected her appeal and accused her of trying to kill her.
• The referee announced that the winner of Shrek Advanced Soul Master Academy’s match against Star Luo Empire Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy would advance to the top six.
• Dai Weisi ordered his team to release their Martial Souls, and he and Zhu Zhuyun each displayed two yellow and two purple Soul Rings.

Shrek Academy was crushed by the Star Luo Team, prompting the crowd to demand an investigation, but Spirit Hall promised a follow-up match to prove whether Shrek had cheated. Ten days later, the Heaven Dou Team and Spirit Hall Academy reached the final, and their teams entered the arena ready to fight.

• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun discovered that none of Shrek's members had reached rank forty, then accused them of using underhanded tactics; Tang San denied it.
• The Star Luo Team defeated Shrek Academy in under three minutes, and spectators accused Shrek of cheating in earlier matches.
• An elder announced that Shrek would fight an additional match after the final as proof, while Spirit Hall supervised the team and forbade them from leaving Spirit City.
• Ten days later, the Heaven Dou Team and Spirit Hall Academy reached the final, with Yu Tianlong's reputation rising after opponents conceded rather than challenge him.
• Yu Tianlong and the Heaven Dou Team shouted that victory was theirs, while Xie Yue vowed that Spirit Hall Academy would win despite the odds and the threat of training in the Lost Tracks Grand Canyon.
• Both teams entered the arena in their uniforms, and the referee ordered them to prepare and release their Martial Souls.

The final match began between Spirit Hall Academy and Heaven Dou Royal Academy, whose five-person team relied on Yu Tianlong’s strength. After Zhu Zhuqing disrupted Hu Liena’s charm and was injured, Yu Tianlong attacked Spirit Hall’s team, prompting Hu Liena and Xie Yue to activate their fusion skill and engulf the Heaven Dou Team in red light.

• The two teams took their positions, and Bibi Dong and Ning Fengzhi discussed the possibility of Yu Tianlong joining the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Hu Liena advanced and tried to charm Heaven Dou’s members, but they shut their eyes and blocked their ears to resist her skill.
• Zhu Zhuqing attacked Hu Liena, and Xie Yue’s blade was deflected; their exchange injured both women, with Zhu Zhuqing taking the worse damage.
• Yu Tianlong called for Ye Lingling to heal Zhu Zhuqing, then donned his Living Biological Armor Panel and sent indiscriminate attacks at Spirit Hall’s team.
• Hu Liena activated her Soul Rings as Xie Yue joined her, and their support member boosted them with golden light.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena collided and released a red sphere of light that covered the Heaven Dou Team.

Spirit Hall Academy’s Xie Yue and Hu Liena trapped the Heaven Dou Team in their Demon Charm Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Yu Tianlong easily sensed and repelled their attacks. The red mist shifted to engulf the Heaven Dou members again, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Zhu Zhuqing struck Spirit Hall Academy’s support Soul Master while the opposing team activated Demon Charm, and Dugu Yan released her fourth Soul Skill to counter the red mist.
• Demon Charm enveloped the Heaven Dou Team, weakening their senses, Soul Power, and movement, while Lin Xia ordered them to protect themselves with Void Armor.
• Yu Tianlong sensed the battlefield through spiritual power and stayed calm as the mist affected Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Yu Tianlong caught Xie Yue and Hu Liena’s Moon Blades with one finger, then flung six Spirit Hall Academy members out of the red mist.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena shifted the red mist and engulfed the five Heaven Dou Team members again.

Yu Tianlong countered Xie Yue’s red-mist Martial Soul Fusion Skill by rescuing Ning Rongrong and the others, then revealed a newly developed Domain of Ice. Bibi Dong halted the match and declared Heaven Dou Royal Academy the winner.

• Xie Yue expanded the red mist across most of the arena and attacked Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling, but Yu Tianlong used his armor panels to pull them out of reach.
• Yu Tianlong fought off Xie Yue’s approach without using a Soul Skill, while Xie Yue continued trying to defeat him inside the red mist.
• Yu Tianlong unleashed the Domain of Ice, covering the arena and Spirit City in frost and summoning a gigantic sword above the battlefield.
• Bibi Dong recognized Yu Tianlong’s domain, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei warned that his move could endanger Xie Yue and the others.
• Bibi Dong stopped the match and announced that Heaven Dou Royal Academy had won.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy defeated Spirit Hall Academy to win the tournament, and Yu Tianlong collected the three Soul Bones. Bibi Dong then summoned Tang San and Yu Xiaogang from the dungeon to make an announcement, leaving the reason unclear.

• Xie Yue and Hu Liena admitted defeat, ending their fusion and allowing Yu Tianlong to dispel his domain.
• The referee declared Heaven Dou Royal Academy the tournament champion, and Bibi Dong presented Yu Tianlong with the three Soul Bones.
• Bibi Dong asked Yu Tianlong about his relationship with Qian Renxue, but he deferred answering until after receiving the rewards.
• After the ceremony, Bibi Dong ordered Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo to bring Tang San and Yu Xiaogang up from the dungeon.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo brought Yu Xiaogang while Ghost Douluo hauled up gagged Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang sneered at Bibi Dong.

Bibi Dong stripped Yu Xiaogang of his honorary elder title and ordered his published theories recalled and banned, while Yu Xiaogang raged at her. She then presented a memory-recording Soul Tool as evidence of his theft, showing his early years at Spirit Hall.

• Yue Guan slapped Yu Xiaogang after he insulted Bibi Dong, who asked him to explain his accusations.
• Bibi Dong announced that Yu Xiaogang was no longer an honorary elder of Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong declared that Yu Xiaogang's books would be recalled and destroyed, and his theories forbidden; Bishop Salas accepted the assignment.
• Yu Xiaogang spat blood in fury, while a woman restrained Liu Erlong and Flender and Yu Tianlong challenged Bibi Dong to provide evidence.
• Bibi Dong activated a memory-recording Soul Tool and showed Yu Xiaogang leaving his clan and arriving at Spirit Hall as a young man determined to study.

The images exposed Yu Xiaogang’s exploitation of Bibi Dong, Liu Erlong, Flender, and Tang San, leaving the witnesses enraged and Yu Xiaogang disgraced. Bibi Dong then asked Tang San to acknowledge his crime, and he protested before she declared that his very birth was a crime.

• The images showed Yu Xiaogang deceiving Bibi Dong to access Spirit Hall’s secrets, then abandoning her when Qian Xunji exposed him.
• Yu Xiaogang pursued Liu Erlong despite knowing she was his cousin, used her and Flender for his research, and fled their planned wedding after publishing his theories.
• The images revealed that Yu Xiaogang’s Ten Core Competencies led Soul Masters to die while pursuing Soul Rings, ruining his reputation, and that he later used Tang San as an experimental subject.
• Liu Erlong tried to kill Yu Xiaogang while Light Feather Douluo restrained and silenced her, and Tang San recalled Yu Xiaogang’s dangerous experiments on him.
• After the images ended, Yu Tianlong and the Heaven Dou Imperial Family stopped objecting, and Bibi Dong asked Tang San to acknowledge his crime.
• Tang San protested that Spirit Hall had humiliated him, and Bibi Dong replied that his very birth was a crime.

Bibi Dong exposed Tang San’s identity and used a Soul Shadow Stone to reveal his past life, turning the assembled powers against him. The chapter ended with Soul Masters rushing to seize the cultivation method that had raised his Innate Soul Power.

• Bibi Dong declared that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and identified his Clear Sky Hammer and Blue Silver Grass as proof.
• When Tang San called for his father, Yu Tianlong and the others laughed, while Bibi Dong produced another Soul Shadow Stone.
• The Soul Shadow Stone showed Tang San’s previous life, including his theft from the Tang Sect and his death by jumping off a cliff before arriving in the Douluo World.
• The images revealed Tang San’s cultivation, his hostility toward Yu Tianlong and Spirit Hall, and his desire to destroy Spirit Hall; a gray-hooded man watched in fury outside Spirit Hall.
• Yue Guan called Tang San an invader, and members of the major powers focused on the Mysterious Heaven Skill before Soul Masters charged at Tang San to claim it.

Tang San offered the Mysterious Heaven Skill to Bibi Dong in exchange for one request, then demanded the right to kill Yu Xiaogang himself. Bibi Dong granted the request and ordered Yue Guan to release Tang San.

• Tang San offered to hand over his knowledge from another world if Bibi Dong granted him one request, while Yu Tianlong refused to surrender the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.
• Bibi Dong agreed, then killed those who tried to attack Tang San and silenced the factions that opposed her decision.
• Tang San asked to kill Yu Xiaogang, and Bibi Dong warned him that the act would stain his name for ten thousand years.
• Yu Xiaogang pleaded with the God of Wrath for help, but the god cut off contact and Yu Xiaogang turned to Bibi Dong for mercy.
• Bibi Dong granted Tang San's request and told Yue Guan to release him.

Tang San tortured Yu Xiaogang to death in Spirit Hall, then learned that an anger entity had passed his first trial but offered no help to escape. When Bibi Dong demanded the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Tang San turned to accuse Yu Tianlong, but Qian Renxue had Light Feather Douluo call for Tang San’s execution.

• Tang San beat Yu Xiaogang with the Clear Sky Hammer, repeatedly waking him to continue the torture.
• After an hour, Tang San smashed Yu Xiaogang’s head and killed him, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• An anger entity told Tang San he had passed its first trial and had resolved his Twin Martial Souls’ drawback, but refused to help him survive.
• The entity revealed that Yu Xiaogang had also agreed to a task to kill Tang San, and Tang San realized he still faced Spirit Hall’s threat.
• Bibi Dong demanded the Mysterious Heaven Skill, and Tang San prepared to implicate Yu Tianlong, but Light Feather Douluo requested that Tang San be executed immediately.

Tang Hao appeared to rescue Tang San after Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to capture him, then confronted the Pope and Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluos. He unleashed his Clear Sky Hammer against the Pope’s Palace, leaving the attack poised to strike.

• Qian Renxue sealed Tang San’s mouth, and Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to take him down.
• Tang Hao appeared and told Yue Guan to leave Tang San alone, prompting Bibi Dong to reveal her strength and her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Tang Hao recognized the danger of fighting Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall’s forces but decided to intervene after considering the Mysterious Heaven Skill and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Bibi Dong summoned reinforcements while Tang Hao revealed his own Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and challenged her.
• Tang Hao enlarged his Clear Sky Hammer and swung it toward the Pope’s Palace as Bibi Dong shouted for him to stop.

Tang Hao struck at Spirit Hall, rescued Tang San, and escaped after clashing with seven powerful figures, giving Lin Xia a way to locate Ah Yin. After Spirit Hall issued orders against Tang San and the Clear Sky Sect, Yu Tianlong’s group prepared to leave and divided the recovered Soul Bones.

• Bibi Dong and six others met Tang Hao’s hammer strike, and Tang Hao escaped with the unconscious Tang San after warning Bibi Dong that he would settle his debts with Spirit Hall.
• Yu Tianlong sensed Tang San moving away and realized he could use the Void’s power to pinpoint Ah Yin’s location.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to declare Tang San an invader from another world and demand that the Clear Sky Sect hand him over, then allowed the gathered factions to leave.
• Bi Ji healed the injured, and Hu Liena challenged Yu Tianlong to a future fight before he left Spirit Hall.
• Yu Tianlong gave Zhu Zhuqing the agility Soul Bone and Ning Rongrong the wisdom Soul Bone, while keeping the fire-attribute Soul Bone in reserve.

Yu Tianlong learned that Bi Ji had collected Soul Bones, while Shrek’s graduates made plans to go their separate ways. Tang San woke beside Tang Hao, who concealed his disgust and questioned him about the eight years he had been abandoned.

• Yu Tianlong apologized to Bi Ji for assuming she should have told him about her Soul Bones, then later explained to the girls that Bi Ji was a Soul Beast.
• Yu Tianlong emerged the next day confident in his greatly increased strength.
• Flender asked the Shrek graduates about their plans, and Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun each chose a different path, leaving Shrek finished.
• Tang San woke beside Tang Hao and a woman, and Tang Hao warned him that Spirit Hall and other Soul Master factions were hunting him.
• Tang San knelt to call Tang Hao his father, and Tang Hao asked whether he resented being abandoned for eight years.
• Tang San could not answer Tang Hao’s question about why he did not hate him.