Chapter Summaries

Jun Yi kept the Man Faced Demon Spider’s External Soul Bone after Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and he all refused to absorb it. The next day, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing obtained new Soul Rings, and Zhu Zhuqing unexpectedly reached level 40 after the medicinal herbs strengthened her.

• Bone Douluo confirmed that the purple, eight-legged Soul Bone Jun Yi extracted was an External Soul Bone, and Jun Yi explained that his Martial Soul had separated it from the Soul Ring.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing both refused to absorb the External Soul Bone because they feared growing spider legs, and Jun Yi stored it in his System Space.
• Bone Douluo took Jun Yi, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing into the Star Dou Great Forest to find Soul Rings for the girls.
• Ning Rongrong absorbed an eight-thousand-year-old Scale Armor Beast Soul Ring, gained a defensive Soul Skill, and reached level 43.
• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed a three-thousand-year-old Shadow Leopard Soul Ring, gained Netherworld Slash, and rose to level 40 as her accumulated Soul Power broke through its restriction.
• Bone Douluo told Jun Yi that the medicinal herbs he had given Zhu Zhuqing might change the future of her family.

Jun Yi and his companions hunted a Ghost Tiger for Zhu Zhuqing, then encountered the injured Shrek Academy group while leaving the Star Dou Great Forest. Bone Douluo confronted Dai Mubai after he provoked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and began exposing his past.

• Bone Douluo wounded an eight-thousand-year-old Ghost Tiger, and Zhu Zhuqing killed it and absorbed its Soul Ring, gaining the Netherworld Shadow Clone skill and reaching level 42.
• Jun Yi asked the system about recent coincidences, and the system said the major plotlines were bound to happen.
• Jun Yi's group encountered Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar, who were injured and waiting for the missing Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Zhao Wuji explained that the Titan Giant Ape had taken Xiao Wu, and Jun Yi told him that Tang San had asked Bone Douluo for help the previous night.
• Dai Mubai told Zhu Zhuqing that her father had asked him to take her back, but Zhu Zhuqing ignored him and Ning Rongrong mocked him.
• Dai Mubai insulted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, so Bone Douluo released his Soul Rings, intimidated him, and revealed his history and engagement to Zhu Zhuqing.

Bone Douluo exposed Dai Mubai’s weakness as Zhu Zhuqing revealed her rapid rise to Soul Ancestor and rejected their marriage contract. Later, Jun Yi explained that Xiao Wu was safe in the Star Dou Great Forest because she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit who had taken human form.

• Bone Douluo compared Dai Mubai’s level 37 Soul Power unfavorably with Zhu Zhuqing’s talent, and Zhu Zhuqing revealed her four Soul Rings and Soul Ancestor strength.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Dai Mubai that their marriage contract was worthless and that she would not be bound by her family; Ning Rongrong and Jun Yi mocked Dai Mubai’s threats.
• After Jun Yi and his group left, Bone Douluo’s pressure made Dai Mubai collapse, and he vowed to get revenge on Zhu Zhuqing.
• At a restaurant, Ning Rongrong questioned Jun Yi about leaving Xiao Wu behind, and he explained that she was safe from the Titan Giant Ape in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhu Zhuqing guessed that Xiao Wu was not human, and Jun Yi confirmed that she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit who had taken human form to cultivate anew.

Jun Yi, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Bone Douluo discussed Xiao Wu’s identity and the conflict between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts before joking about their rankings as geniuses. Jun Yi returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, intending to use its exchange tournament to build his reputation and impress Qian Renxue.

• Zhu Zhuqing questioned why Xiao Wu had entered the human world as a juvenile Soul Beast, and Jun Yi recalled that Bone Douluo had recognized her identity while secretly protecting him and Ning Rongrong.
• Zhu Zhuqing argued that Soul Masters and Soul Beasts were natural enemies, while Ning Rongrong objected that Soul Beasts had feelings; Bone Douluo supported Zhu Zhuqing’s view.
• Jun Yi lightened the mood by declaring himself the continent’s greatest genius, and Ning Rongrong teased him about his Soul Power before promising to cultivate hard so she would not surpass him.
• Bone Douluo took Ning Rongrong and the others back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Jun Yi returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Jun Yi decided to enter the academy’s exchange tournament to demonstrate his strength, raise his reputation, and possibly impress Qian Renxue.

Jun Yi admired the sunset with Ye Lingling before returning to cultivation, then learned that Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s annual student exhibition had become a citywide exchange tournament. Qin Ming invited him to represent the academy’s new students, and Jun Yi realized the competition would be more substantial than expected.

• Jun Yi recited a simple poem about the sunset clouds, amusing Ye Lingling as they watched the sun set together.
• Jun Yi returned to his dorm and cultivated through the night.
• Qin Ming visited Jun Yi the next morning and explained that Heaven Dou Royal Academy held an annual New Student Enrollment Exchange Tournament.
• Qin Ming told Jun Yi that Emperor Xue Ye’s preparations for the next All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament had led the academy to invite students and team members from other Heaven Dou City academies.
• Qin Ming asked Jun Yi whether he would represent Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s new students in the expanded exchange tournament.

Jun Yi agreed to compete in both events at the academy tournament and revealed that his Soul Power had reached level 39 after his martial soul changed. Qin Ming explained how Dugu Yan had defeated Yu Tianheng and how Dugu Bo had poisoned him, then took Jun Yi to train with the team; meanwhile, Ning Rongrong prepared to leave without seeing Jun Yi again.

• Jun Yi agreed to enter both the individual and team competitions, then showed Qin Ming that his Soul Power had reached level 39.
• Qin Ming told Jun Yi that Dugu Yan had injured Yu Tianheng after rejecting him, and that her martial soul had evolved to raise her Soul Power to level 52.
• Qin Ming explained that Dugu Bo had poisoned Yu Tianheng and left him bedridden for a month.
• Jun Yi said that Dugu Bo's medicinal herbs had changed his own martial soul and increased his Soul Power, then agreed to train with Qin Ming's team.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi that she had already sent Jun Yi a letter and did not want to see him before leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Ning Rongrong left for Spirit Hall Academy after writing Jun Yi a supportive farewell letter, while Ning Fengzhi banned Soul Tool forging within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Jun Yi read the letter during training at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Dugu Yan invited him to join the exchange tournament and explained why she had to enter the individual matches.

• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Sword Douluo that she would cultivate hard, then left for Spirit Hall Academy with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Zhu Zhuqing a seven-colored glazed jade token and ordered that Soul Tool forging be forbidden within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Jun Yi read Ning Rongrong's letter, including Zhu Zhuqing's brief message, before Qin Ming called him back to training.
• Jun Yi resumed sparring with Qin Ming while blindfolded and using Observation Haki.
• Dugu Yan embraced Jun Yi and invited him to fill a vacant spot in the exchange tournament, then explained that the academy had required her to enter the individual matches.

Dugu Yan asked Qin Ming to let Jun Yi compete in her place, and he went to consult the education commissioners. As Jun Yi and Dugu Yan discussed why she rejected Yu Tianheng, Ye Lingling misunderstood their closeness as romance, while Dugu Yan inferred that Ye Lingling liked Jun Yi.

• Dugu Yan praised Jun Yi and asked Qin Ming to replace her with him in the competition.
• Jun Yi proposed saving Dugu Yan as a trump card for the team competition, and Qin Ming left to consult the education commissioners.
• Dugu Yan introduced Ye Lingling to Jun Yi, and their comments about poetry and sunsets led to a mutual misunderstanding about each other's feelings.
• Jun Yi asked Dugu Yan why she rejected Yu Tianheng, and she explained that she wanted to focus on becoming a stronger Soul Master.
• Dugu Yan said Yu Tianheng had tried to ambush her after she rejected him, so she broke the bones in his arm; Ye Lingling added that she had refused the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's request to remove his poison.
• Dugu Yan asked Jun Yi whether he had already grown, then flicked her tongue.

Jun Yi gave Dugu Yan a Soul Tool that stored her Jade Phosphor Five Poisons and could release them as an explosive attack. After Dugu Yan named it the Jade Phosphor Poison Pearl, four Heaven Dou Royal Academy students arrived and questioned why Jun Yi was there.

• Jun Yi recalled how Sword Douluo's training had ruined his attempt to seem aloof, and Dugu Yan remarked on the differences between the Upper Three Sects.
• Jun Yi gave Dugu Yan a silver Soul Tool sphere and explained that she could store toxins inside it for use in combat.
• Dugu Yan filled the sphere with her Jade Phosphor Five Poisons, and Jun Yi explained that she should compress the venom to improve its power.
• Dugu Yan tested the sphere, which exploded against a rock and released poison that reduced the rock to ash, then named it the Jade Phosphor Poison Pearl.
• Ye Lingling mistook Jun Yi and Dugu Yan's closeness for romance while Dugu Yan asked Jun Yi to teach her how to use the sphere.
• Four Heaven Dou Royal Academy students arrived and asked Jun Yi why he was there, and he told them he had been waiting for them.

Jun Yi challenged Heaven Dou Team One’s four members after they questioned his place on the team, then overwhelmed them with his strength. He left the fight still attacking Shi Mo, while the remaining teammates were stunned by how easily he had knocked them back.

• Jun Yi reminded Osler that he had joined Heaven Dou Team One and warned that he could raise the dispute with Xue Qinghe.
• Jun Yi called the four members trash and challenged them all to fight him if they could not accept him.
• Dugu Yan assured Ye Lingling that Jun Yi could defeat the four teammates, and the group moved to an open area.
• Jun Yi covered his eyes and knocked Osler out with a single punch, leaving the other three shocked.
• Shi Mo and Shi Mo summoned their Black Tortoise Martial Souls alongside Yu Feng’s blue swift, but Jun Yi struck the brothers and sent them flying.
• Jun Yi knocked Shi Mo back again, leaving him horrified by Jun Yi’s strength.

Jun Yi defeated Shi Mo, Yu Feng, and two other students after they provoked him, and Ye Lingling healed them while Qin Ming investigated the fight. Qin Ming later asked Jun Yi and Dugu Yan to show visiting students around the academy, but Jun Yi refused.

• Shi Mo and Yu Feng attacked Jun Yi, but he evaded their strikes and defeated all four students without using his Martial Soul.
• Jun Yi asked Ye Lingling to heal the injured students, and Dugu Yan questioned why he had hit them so hard.
• Qin Ming arrived, heard Shi Mo explain what happened, and reprimanded the four students for provoking Jun Yi.
• Qin Ming praised Jun Yi's strength and urged him to help the academy win the exchange tournament.
• Qin Ming explained that visiting teachers and students would arrive that afternoon and asked Jun Yi and Dugu Yan to guide them around campus.
• Jun Yi said he was not interested in being a tour guide.

Jun Yi agreed to guide visiting students from Plant Academy, Skywater Academy, and Blazing Fire Academy, while Dugu Yan agreed to join him with Ye Lingling. Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s leaders discussed their hopes for the exchange tournament and the pressure their students could face, leaving Jun Yi and Dugu Yan set to represent the academy.

• Qin Ming named the three academies visiting that day, and Jun Yi enthusiastically volunteered to serve as a guide after hearing which students were coming.
• Dugu Yan agreed to guide the visitors and asked to bring Ye Lingling, who nodded in agreement.
• Qin Ming warned Jun Yi to fight back if anyone provoked or bullied him, and Dugu Yan explained that the academies were rivals.
• Meng Shenji, Zhi Lin, and Bai Baoshan discussed Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s chances of winning, citing Dugu Yan’s increased strength and Jun Yi as a backup.
• Qin Ming reported that Jun Yi and Dugu Yan had agreed to guide the visitors, and the leaders discussed the academy’s poor past tournament results and the pressure facing its students.

Qin Ming learned that Heaven Dou Royal Academy was under pressure to defend its seeded spot in the upcoming tournament, and the committee members welcomed him into their plans. At the academy gates, Jun Yi met Blazing Fire Academy’s headmaster and Huo Wu, who challenged him to a Soul Fight.

• Bai Baoshan and Zhi Lin explained that poor tournament results and pressure from other academies and the imperial family threatened Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s seeded spot.
• Qin Ming encouraged Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin to trust that Xue Qinghe would eventually abolish the rule admitting only nobles.
• Meng Shenji praised Qin Ming’s ability and ideals, then invited him to welcome the arriving academies.
• Jun Yi struggled to find a fitting uniform, then went with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to the academy gates.
• Meng Shenji introduced Huo Yao, headmaster of Blazing Fire Academy, to Jun Yi.
• Huo Wu called Jun Yi ordinary and challenged him to a Soul Fight.

Jun Yi clashed with Huo Wu when Blazing Fire Academy arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then met the captains and students of Skywater Academy and Plant Academy. He led the three groups on a campus tour after asking Shui Bing'er and Mu Yunteng to keep their students together, while Huo Wu questioned his different treatment of Blazing Fire Academy.

• Huo Yao apologized for Huo Wu's temper, and Jun Yi arranged for Blazing Fire Academy to wait for the other academies before touring the campus.
• Huo Wu objected to waiting, but Jun Yi told Huo Wushuang that the group could either wait or explore on its own.
• Shui Bing'er arrived and traded barbed remarks with Huo Wu before the deans of Skywater Academy and Plant Academy joined the gathering.
• Meng Shenji introduced Jun Yi to the two deans, then left with them to discuss the exchange tournament.
• Jun Yi began the campus tour and asked Shui Bing'er and Mu Yunteng to keep their students together, prompting Huo Wu to challenge his friendliness toward the other academies.

Jun Yi apologized to Blazing Fire Academy’s Huo Wushuang after Huo Wu confronted him, then helped Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling show the visiting students around. He joked with Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er about his cultivation, while Huo Wu watched from nearby and grew increasingly furious.

• Huo Wu demanded an explanation from Jun Yi, and Huo Wushuang apologized on her behalf before asking her to behave.
• Jun Yi accepted the apology and asked Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to lead the academy tour, promising Ye Lingling a reward afterward.
• Dugu Yan showed the visitors around campus while Jun Yi joined Skywater Academy’s group and asked Shui Bing’er for her impression of the academy.
• Shui Yue’er introduced herself to Jun Yi, who pretended to be a Titled Douluo and teased her when she asked about his cultivation level.
• Shui Bing’er called out Jun Yi and Shui Yue’er for their increasingly strange conversation, then smiled when they acted innocent.
• Huo Wu watched Jun Yi chatting with Skywater Academy and grew angrier.

Jun Yi’s claims about his powerful connections and encounter with the Pope left the visiting academy students stunned and silent. He explained Spirit Hall Academy’s visiting-student system, then recounted how he had entered the Papal Palace, ending with Shui Yue’er asking whether the Pope was pretty.

• Huo Wu sarcastically challenged Jun Yi over treating Skywater Academy better than Blazing Fire Academy, and Jun Yi said Skywater had been his first choice because it did not admit male students.
• Jun Yi named Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo as witnesses to his choice, leaving the students aware of his powerful connections and silencing Huo Wu.
• Dugu Yan asked whether Heaven Dou Royal Academy was not good enough for Jun Yi, and he said he had refused the Pope’s invitation to enroll at Spirit Hall Academy for the sake of his current academy.
• Jun Yi explained Spirit Hall Academy’s visiting-student arrangement to Shui Yue’er, while Shui Bing’er described its tuition rules and its offer to recruit outstanding visiting students.
• Dugu Yan led the group to a garden, where Jun Yi recounted his journey to the Papal Palace and meeting the Pope, and Shui Yue’er quietly asked whether the Pope was pretty.

During a tour of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Jun Yi praised the Pope and encouraged the visiting students to aim for the tournament finals, then waited for a sparring match that never came. After revealing his Soul Power had reached rank thirty-nine, he agreed to fight Shui Bing'er, and the two stepped onto the arena.

• Jun Yi praised the Pope’s beauty and told Shui Yue’er that the tournament finals would be held in Spirit City, where the Pope would attend.
• Dugu Yan led the visiting students around Heaven Dou Royal Academy and brought them to the training grounds.
• Jun Yi waited for Huo Wu to challenge him, but the Blazing Fire Academy and Plant Academy students did not request a fight.
• Jun Yi told the Skywater Academy students that his Soul Power was rank thirty-nine, surprising Shui Bing’er and the others.
• At Shui Yue’er’s suggestion, Shui Bing’er asked Jun Yi to spar, and they walked onto the arena.
• Huo Wushuang noticed the pair and speculated that Skywater Academy was testing Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s strength.

Jun Yi and Shui Bing'er began their spar, revealing that Jun Yi had reached level 39 at only twelve years old. After testing each other’s ice control and defenses, Shui Bing'er launched her Ice Seal at Jun Yi, who began gathering Cold Qi to respond.

• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang watched Jun Yi face Shui Bing'er and assessed the stakes of the exchange competition.
• Shui Bing'er summoned her Ice Phoenix and introduced herself as a level 39 control-type Soul Master.
• Jun Yi revealed that he was also level 39, shocking the visiting academy students, and expanded his ROOM space around them.
• Jun Yi attacked with ice spikes, which Shui Bing'er blocked with her Ice Ring Armor before countering with a pillar of ice.
• Jun Yi cut through the incoming Cold Qi, charged Shui Bing'er, and shattered her ice shield with a punch.
• Shui Bing'er retreated and used her First Soul Skill, Ice Seal, to send nearly a hundred ice spikes toward Jun Yi as he gathered Cold Qi in his palm.

Jun Yi defeated Shui Bing'er in a spar by using his ice control to overcome her Soul Skills and bind her with ice chains. The students were stunned by his strength, while Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling that Jun Yi had helped make her medicinal herb possible.

• Jun Yi explained that he had formed his ice shield through control of the ice element rather than a Soul Skill.
• Shui Bing'er used her Repelling Ice Ring and Ice Seal, but Jun Yi let the cold pass through him before breaking her ice spikes and binding her with ice chains.
• Jun Yi released Shui Bing'er and won the spar, leaving her and the watching students surprised by his strength.
• Huo Wu doubted that anyone from Blazing Fire Academy could defeat Jun Yi after seeing how easily he beat Shui Bing'er.
• Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling that Jun Yi had played a part in obtaining the medicinal herb that raised Ye Lingling's Soul Power.
• Jun Yi and Shui Bing'er returned to the spectator seating, where several students stared at Jun Yi eagerly.

After defeating Shui Bing'er, Jun Yi explained how spiritual power could help Soul Masters develop their Martial Souls, then waited with the academies for their teachers to finish meeting. Shui Yue'er invited him to visit Skywater Academy, and the chapter ended with her teasing him about staring at her stockings.

• Shui Yue'er and the Skywater Academy students questioned Jun Yi about his ice control, and he explained that spiritual power helped refine and develop a Martial Soul.
• Jun Yi declined to reveal his personal spiritual-power training method, and Shui Yue'er invited him to visit Skywater Academy in exchange for his explanation.
• Plant Academy and Blazing Fire Academy did not challenge Jun Yi, and Dugu Yan led everyone to the meeting room to wait for their teachers.
• Shui Yue'er asked Jun Yi why he had looked at her stockings, and he admitted that he thought they looked nice.
• Shui Bing'er judged Jun Yi to be a straightforward little lecher after hearing their conversation.