Chapter Summaries

Long Qianming and Dugu Bo searched the Lost Track Grand Canyon for a suitable Soul Beast, using immortal herbs and Xiao Tian’s dragon might to draw powerful beasts toward them. A Bone Dragon and a Dark Wood Dragon Beast joined forces to attack, leaving Long Qianming to face the Dark Wood Dragon Beast while Dugu Bo confronted the Bone Dragon.

• Dugu Bo agreed to help Long Qianming find a Soul Ring and traveled with him to the Lost Track Grand Canyon.
• After searching for hours, Long Qianming used Ninth Grade Ginseng Kings and Xiao Tian’s dragon might to lure powerful Soul Beasts into Dugu Bo’s poisonous barrier.
• A fifty-thousand-year Bone Dragon arrived, and Long Qianming secretly resolved to make it his Sixth Soul Ring someday.
• A twenty-thousand-year Dark Wood Dragon Beast appeared and exchanged roars with the Bone Dragon before the two agreed to attack Long Qianming and Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo activated his Martial Soul Avatar and said he would hold off the Bone Dragon while Long Qianming faced the Dark Wood Dragon Beast.

Long Qianming and Dugu Bo used the Ninth Grade Ginseng King to turn the Bone Dragon and Dark Wood Dragon Beast against each other, then joined the fight. The Dark Wood Dragon Beast was killed, while Long Qianming asked Dugu Bo to help imprison the exhausted Bone Dragon so he could make it a Soul Ring.

• Long Qianming baited the two dragon Soul Beasts with a Ninth Grade Ginseng King, provoking them to fight each other.
• The Dark Wood Dragon Beast and Bone Dragon exchanged attacks, leaving both badly injured before the Bone Dragon pursued the ginseng king.
• Dugu Bo and Xiao Tian attacked; Dugu Bo reclaimed the Ninth Grade Ginseng King while Xiao Tian killed the Dark Wood Dragon Beast.
• Dugu Bo turned the Bone Dragon’s wing to stone with Medusa’s Gaze, causing it to fall when its Soul Power ran low.
• Long Qianming stopped Dugu Bo from killing the Bone Dragon and asked him to help imprison it for a future Soul Ring.

Long Qianming and Dugu Bo imprisoned the weakened Bone Dragon in a pit surrounded by Inextinguishable Black Flame, leaving it trapped and burning. Long Qianming then absorbed the Dark Wood Dragon Beast’s twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring, and Dugu Bo waited to hear what his fourth Soul Skill could do.

• Long Qianming had Xiao Tian knock out the Bone Dragon, then carried it and the Dark Wood Dragon Beast’s corpse to a cave with Dugu Bo.
• Long Qianming chose a fifty-meter pit, where Xiao Tian laid unignited Inextinguishable Black Flame beneath the ground and Long Qianming chained the Bone Dragon in place.
• Dugu Bo used his Soul Bone Skill to petrify the Bone Dragon’s limbs, tail, head, and key bones, then rested after exhausting his spiritual power.
• Xiao Tian ignited the black flames around the pit, trapping the Bone Dragon as it awoke and struggled unsuccessfully to extinguish them.
• Long Qianming absorbed the Dark Wood Dragon Beast’s twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring with Xiao Tian’s help, completing the process in less than four hours.
• Dugu Bo asked Long Qianming about the effects of his fourth Soul Skill.

Long Qianming revealed the power of his Fourth Soul Skill, Black Dragon Corrosion, and helped Dugu Bo secure the Bone Dragon cave before returning to the Heaven Dou Empire. A month later, the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament began, and Yu Xiaogang prepared Plant Academy to face Three Rivers Academy, underestimating Ye Huang and his team.

• Long Qianming told Dugu Bo that Black Dragon Corrosion could weaken enemies, and Dugu Bo praised its strength and promised to protect him.
• Dugu Bo warned that Spirit Hall might discover the imprisoned Bone Dragon, so he and Long Qianming trapped the cave with poison, flames, and a boulder before leaving the Lost Track Grand Canyon.
• A month later, the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament opened in the Häagen-Dazs Duchy, where the Duke announced a forty-thousand-year Soul Bone as the champion's reward.
• Yu Xiaogang instructed Mu Kongkong and Plant Academy's other members to target Three Rivers Academy's strongest attackers, control, and auxiliary fighters.
• Plant Academy's members predicted a quick victory over Three Rivers Academy, while Yu Xiaogang privately resented Ye Huang for leaving Plant Academy.

Plant Academy faced Three Rivers Academy in the first match of the preliminary division, where Ye Huang’s unexpected tactics and powerful bamboo-leaf skills overwhelmed their opening attacks. The chapter ended as Ye Huang launched thousands of sharpened leaves at Plant Academy’s seven members.

• The host introduced Plant Academy and Three Rivers Academy, and Dugu Xin warned his teammates not to underestimate Ye Huang and his team.
• Ye Huang made a dramatic entrance, drawing spectators’ support and provoking Yu Xiaogang’s resentment over his past decision to reject Ye Huang.
• After the match began, four Three Rivers Academy members walked off the stage, leaving Ye Huang and two teammates to face Plant Academy.
• Mu Kongkong and Plant Academy attacked Ye Huang, but Ye Huang used Vajra Dance while his healer amplified his Soul Power, breaking through their vines and injuring their attacker.
• Ye Huang strengthened his bamboo leaves with Edge of the Leaf and unleashed Ten Thousand Flying Flowers at Plant Academy’s seven members.

Ye Huang led Three Rivers Academy to defeat Plant Academy with his Ten Thousand Trees, Flying Flowers skill, forcing Yu Xiaogang to concede the match. Three Rivers celebrated its victory as spectators mocked Yu Xiaogang over his past expulsion and poor reputation.

• Yu Xiaogang expected Plant Academy's defenses and hidden skills to withstand Ye Huang's attack, but the purple-gold bamboo leaves broke through their barriers.
• Four Plant Academy members fled the stage while Mu Kongkong and two teammates used their Ghost King Cage, which shattered under the assault.
• Yu Xiaogang conceded the match, and Ye Huang withdrew his skill after Mu Kongkong and the other two control-type Soul Masters were knocked unconscious.
• A Plant Academy member accused Ye Huang of betraying the academy, and Ye Huang replied that he had chosen an academy better suited to him.
• Three Rivers Academy celebrated its victory as spectators praised Ye Huang and mocked Yu Xiaogang for being expelled from Häagen-Dazs Academy.

After Plant Academy’s crushing loss to Three Rivers Academy, Yu Xiaogang blamed Ye Huang and reassured his team while clinging to his Martial Soul Mimicry Theory. Mu Chun regretted letting Yu Xiaogang train the students but, under pressure from investors, allowed him to lead two more matches and arranged an assistant teacher; Yu Xiaogang returned to find himself unwelcome and took Mu Kongkong away from special training.

• Yu Xiaogang left the Great Soul Arena blaming Ye Huang and Three Rivers Academy, then told his defeated team that Three Rivers Academy would lose future matches without its auxiliary support.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned whether his theory was wrong, then dismissed his doubts and ordered the team to return for further training before the losers’ bracket matches.
• A man watched Yu Xiaogang leave and said he had located “Young Master Yu” and completed the clan leader’s task.
• Mu Chun regretted letting Ye Huang go and having his grandson absorb a Gold Devouring Ant Soul Ring, while teachers demanded that Yu Xiaogang be replaced.
• Mu Chun agreed to let Yu Xiaogang lead two more matches and arranged an assistant teacher, despite the teachers’ protests and pressure from investors.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to Plant Academy feeling unwelcome and took Mu Kongkong away, disregarding the planned special combat training.

Three Rivers Academy secured first place in its division, while Plant Academy's weaknesses led to three consecutive losses and last place. At the clan hall, Yu Xiaogang refused to admit fault and decided to leave the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to prove his theories.

• Three Rivers Academy finished first in the winners' bracket and was set to face Haagen-Dazs Advanced Soul Master Academy for a place in the final.
• Plant Academy lost three matches after rival teams exploited its weaknesses, and its reputation, staff, students, and financial support declined.
• Mu Kongkong blamed Yu Xiaogang for ruining the team and resented the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan for refusing to apologize or compensate the academy.
• Yu Yuanzhen questioned Yu Xiaogang about his conduct at Plant Academy, but Yu Xiaogang defended his theories and blamed the students' temperaments and his lack of teaching experience.
• Yu Xiaogang declared that he would leave the clan, and Yu Yuanzhen said he would allow it if Yu Xiaogang's mother agreed.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted the prospect of leaving and resolved to perfect his theories and become the continent's Grandmaster of theory.

Yu Xiaogang left the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and headed toward Heaven Dou City, while Long Qianming returned to the qualifier finals and helped Häagen-Dazs Academy devise a way to defeat Three Rivers Academy. The teams entered the arena, confident in their plan to use poison and healing to overwhelm their opponents.

• Yu Xiaolie rejoiced as Yu Xiaogang left the clan, expecting to gain his resources and the clan leader position.
• Yu Xiaogang endured the disciples' mockery, then rested outside the clan and decided to head to Heaven Dou City to watch the qualifiers.
• Long Qianming and Dugu Bo arrived at the finals, where Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er learned that Long Qianming had reached Soul Ancestor at around level 44.
• Long Qianming explained that Dugu Xin could use Myriad Poison Mist against Ye Huang, whose Purple Bamboo Leaves would create a breeze to spread the poison.
• Long Qianming said Su Qing'er's healing output could protect the team from the indiscriminate poison, and Teacher Wang ordered the team to follow the plan without revealing more strength.
• Dugu Xin and the Häagen-Dazs Academy team entered the arena, determined to defeat Three Rivers Academy quickly.

Häagen-Dazs Academy faced Three Rivers Academy in the preliminary final, where Dugu Xin’s poison and his team’s counterattacks overcame Ye Huang’s strategy. The match ended with Three Rivers Academy conceding, giving Haagen-Dazs Advanced Soul Master Academy the final advancement-tournament place.

• Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er revealed dragon Martial Souls, shocking the audience and increasing Ye Huang’s concern about facing four Soul Ancestors.
• Ye Huang organized Three Rivers Academy’s defense, and both teams tested each other’s control skills without launching a full attack.
• Ye Huang expanded a vortex of purple-gold bamboo leaves, while Dugu Xin ordered his teammates to retreat and filled the arena with poisonous mist.
• The poison incapacitated Ye Huang and most of his team, while Dugu Xin and his teammates destroyed Three Rivers Academy’s incoming bamboo-leaf attack.
• Three Rivers Academy’s leader conceded after six members fell unconscious, and the announcer declared Haagen-Dazs Advanced Soul Master Academy the final qualifier.

After Häagen-Dazs Academy won its qualifier, Long Qianming broke through another Soul Power level and accepted a position as the team’s assistant coach. At the advancement tournament in Heaven Dou City, he arranged the team’s opening lineup against Blazing Fire Academy.

• Long Qianming broke through another Soul Power level, and he declined Teacher Wang’s invitation to join the team as a contestant, choosing instead to serve as assistant coach.
• Long Qianming and the Häagen-Dazs Academy team arrived at the Royal Hunting Ground, where the Royal Legion commander described Clear Sky Academy’s strength and Tang Hao’s undefeated record.
• Teacher Wang told the team that the top two advancement tournament finishers would receive byes in the finals and asked Long Qianming to arrange their match lineup.
• Long Qianming selected Bai Ming to face Blazing Fire Academy first and advised him to use his control abilities to exhaust Huo Wujin’s Soul Power rather than fight head-on.

Bai Ming faced Huo Wujin of Blazing Fire Academy in the first advancement-match duel and used his Glazed Zither to overwhelm him with sound waves. Huo Wujin revealed the Ring Fusion technique, leaving Bai Ming and his teammates in danger as the match continued.

• Tang Hao mocked the other academy teams, angering their competitors and several spectators, including Ning Yuanzhe and Xue Ye.
• Long Qianming encouraged Bai Ming before Bai Ming entered the platform to face Huo Wujin.
• Huo Wujin attacked with fireballs and boosted his speed and strength, but Bai Ming countered and unleashed Six-Fingered Zither Demon.
• Huo Wujin endured Bai Ming’s soul-scouring sound waves, then fused his yellow and purple Soul Rings to concentrate their power in his horn.
• Long Qianming recognized Huo Wujin as Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu’s father and watched anxiously as Ring Fusion progressed.

Häagen-Dazs Academy defeated Blazing Fire Academy after Dugu Xin won six bouts in succession, following Huo Wujin’s victory over Bai Ming. After the day’s matches, Long Qianming asked Dugu Xin to introduce him to Huo Wujin.

• Huo Wujin defeated Bai Ming with his fused Soul Rings, and Su Qing'er treated Bai Ming’s injuries.
• Dugu Xin defeated the exhausted Huo Wujin, and the two agreed they hoped to fight fairly another time.
• Dugu Xin defeated Huo Xiong and Blazing Fire Academy’s remaining fighters using his dragon armor, poison, and poison mist, securing Häagen-Dazs Academy’s victory.
• Skywater Academy defeated the Barak team, while Tang Hao defeated the Silvers Team single-handedly for Clear Sky Academy.
• Long Qianming told his team to conserve their strength for Godwind Academy and asked Dugu Xin to introduce him to Huo Wujin; Dugu Xin agreed.

Long Qianming asked Huo Wujin to teach him Ring Fusion and agreed to prove his strength in a spar. He defeated Huo Wujin with one spear strike, leaving the promised secret manual within reach.

• Long Qianming privately asked Huo Wujin to share the Ring Fusion technique, hoping to adapt it for Xiao Tian.
• Huo Wujin said Ring Fusion was an innate talent but offered to teach Long Qianming if he could defeat him and help with a favor.
• Long Qianming and Huo Wujin went to a wasteland outside Heaven Dou City to spar as their academy teams watched.
• Huo Wujin activated his Martial Soul and charged, while Long Qianming waited with his Dragon Pattern Spear.
• Long Qianming launched his spear and detonated its dark Qi, blasting Huo Wujin away and making him spit blood.

Long Qianming defeated Huo Wujin with his self-created spear skill and received the Fire Luan Clan’s Ring Fusion manual. He refused Huo Wujin’s request to represent the clan in the Hundred Sects Grand Competition, but accepted the manual after making clear that he would neither join the clan nor compete.

• Long Qianming defeated Huo Wujin with one strike, and Huo Wujin realized Long Qianming had held back from killing him.
• Huo Wujin gave Long Qianming the Fire Luan Clan’s Ring Fusion manual and asked him to represent the clan in the Hundred Sects Grand Competition two years later.
• Huo Wujin explained that the Fire Leopard Sect had suppressed the Fire Luan Clan and threatened to annex its lands and resources.
• Long Qianming refused to compete, saying that doing so would bring danger from the Fire Leopard Sect and its allies.
• Huo Wujin pressed the manual on Long Qianming, who accepted it while warning that he would not join the clan or compete and would not be bound by the gift.

Long Qianming studied Ring Fusion, mastered a version that could fuse up to six Soul Rings, and brought the Häagen-Dazs Team to face Clear Sky Academy in the advancement tournament final. Dugu Xin challenged Tang Hao in a single bout, and the chapter ended as Dugu Xin’s Jade Phosphorus Dragon blocked Tang Hao’s hammer strike and fired a beam at him.

• Long Qianming read the Ring Fusion manual and worried that his Soul Rings might not meet its requirements.
• The Häagen-Dazs Team won four consecutive matches and advanced to the final, while Clear Sky Academy defeated Elephant Armor Academy again.
• Long Qianming mastered Ring Fusion for up to six Soul Rings and resolved to seek the Clear Sky Sect’s Ring Detonation manual when he was strong enough.
• At the Royal Hunting Ground, Long Qianming proposed that the final be decided in one bout between Dugu Xin and Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao charged through Dugu Xin’s poison mist and unleashed his Fourth Soul Skill, Titan’s Hammer.
• Dugu Xin used Jade Phosphorus Breath to block Tang Hao’s hammer projection and fire a beam of energy at him.

Tang Hao defeated Dugu Xin in the advancement round, securing first place for Clear Sky Academy while Häagen-Dazs Academy took second. As Long Qianming prepared to enter seclusion, he joined Dugu Bo and urged him to seek a position as a Heaven Dou Revered Elder to protect the Dugu Family from the coming turmoil.

• Tang Hao used his Fifth Soul Skill and Void Absolute to break Dugu Xin’s arms and overwhelm him, prompting Long Qianming to concede the match.
• Su Qing’er healed Dugu Xin, and Clear Sky Academy took first place while Häagen-Dazs Academy finished second in the advancement round.
• Long Qianming told Dugu Xin and Su Qing’er that he would skip the trip to Spirit City and enter seclusion to improve his strength.
• Dugu Bo met Long Qianming near Sunset Forest and took him toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, explaining that he needed help resolving a matter.
• Long Qianming warned Dugu Bo that a major conflict among Soul Masters and sects was approaching and suggested he contact Xue Hui about becoming a Heaven Dou Revered Elder.

Long Qianming successfully tested Ring Fusion on Xiao Tian, discovering that the Dark Sacred Dragon could use both Soul Skills while consuming less Soul Power and gaining a Soul Beast’s presence. Dugu Bo became an honored retainer of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, while Qian Xunji ordered the Reclusive Elimination Plan to begin.

• Long Qianming showed Dugu Bo the medicinal herbs he had cultivated at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and demonstrated Ring Fusion on the practice ground.
• Long Qianming fused his first two Soul Rings and sent the resulting ring into Xiao Tian, causing the Dark Sacred Dragon’s presence to surge.
• Xiao Tian used its first and second Soul Skills together to destroy a boulder, and Long Qianming found that the skills consumed half as much Soul Power.
• Dugu Bo returned to Heaven Dou City, where Xue Ye contacted him and he became an honored retainer of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Qian Xunji ordered Salas and the two elders to begin the Reclusive Elimination Plan, sending them toward the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire.

Qian Xunji warned Bibi Dong that Spirit Hall would face harsh training if it lost the tournament, while she looked forward to competing against Tang Hao and seeing Long Qianming. On the journey to Spirit City, the Blazing Fire Academy convoy was ambushed, and Huo Shu discovered that the attackers belonged to the Fire Leopard Sect.

• Qian Xunji threatened Bibi Dong and her team with three years of training in the Lost Track Grand Canyon if they lost the tournament.
• Dugu Bo escorted Dugu Xin and the others toward Spirit City while Long Qianming continued cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Huo Shu sensed danger as the Blazing Fire Academy convoy crossed wooded hills, and thirty black-robed Soul Masters surrounded them.
• Huo Shu fought to protect Huo Wujin and Huo Feng while the attackers targeted them and battled the Royal Guard.
• Huo Wujin and Huo Feng fired distress signals, and Huo Shu recognized the attackers as members of the Fire Leopard Sect when their leader revealed himself as Huo Yanshan.

Huo Yanshan’s ambush killed four young Fire Luan disciples and a promising Soul Emperor, but Huo Wujin and Huo Feng escaped with help from the Elephant Armor Sect and Fire Luan reinforcements. After retreating, Huo Yanshan reported to Chrysanthemum Guan, who punished his force for failing to kill Huo Wujin and Huo Feng.

• Huo Shu’s team fought Huo Yanshan’s forces, and four young disciples sacrificed themselves while Huo Wujin, Huo Feng, and Xiao Xiong fled.
• The Elephant Armor Sect arrived, killed the pursuing Soul Kings, and helped protect Huo Wujin and his companions until Fire Luan Clan reinforcements arrived.
• Huo Yanshan set the forest ablaze and escaped with his remaining subordinates before the Fire Luan Clan and Elephant Armor Sect could catch them.
• Huo Shu gathered the dead and returned to Blazing Fire City as the survivors vowed to make the Fire Leopard Sect pay.
• Huo Yanshan told Chrysanthemum Guan that he had completed his mission, but Chrysanthemum Guan accused him of failing to kill Huo Wujin and Huo Feng.
• Chrysanthemum Guan crushed the thirteen Soul Kings under Titled Douluo pressure while Huo Yanshan and the five Spirit Hall Soul Emperors remained standing.