Recaps

Xu Zi applied to Spirit Hall Academy, but the admissions director doubted his claims that he came from the Sun Moon Continent and possessed a powerful dragon Martial Soul. After Xu Zi revealed its destructive might, the director fled to report him, and a red-robed official arrived.

• Xu Zi submitted his application and told the admissions director that his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon had mutated from his clan’s Sun Martial Soul.
• The admissions director mistook Xu Zi’s home across the ocean for Sea God Island, then mocked his account of the Sun Moon Continent and accused him of insulting the Angel God.
• Xu Zi revealed his dragon Martial Soul, unleashing a purple sun and an overwhelming presence of destruction that left the admissions director trembling.
• The admissions director fled to report Xu Zi, who stayed in the office and began practicing the Imperial Sun Meditation Method.
• The admissions director returned with a red-robed official, who entered and sat across from Xu Zi.

Xu Zi gained admission to Spirit Hall by presenting himself as a foreign noble from the Sun Moon Continent and claiming its Soul Masters had developed the Soul Core Method. The cardinal reported his claims to Pope Bibi Dong, who ordered an investigation into Xu Zi’s origins and possible connection to the Zhang Clan.

• A cardinal welcomed Xu Zi as a foreign envoy and questioned him about his homeland, his journey, and why he chose Spirit Hall.
• Xu Zi said he had come to Douluo to find a dragon-type Soul Beast for his third Soul Ring, and he lied about how many travelers had crossed the sea with him.
• Xu Zi praised Spirit Hall’s fairness and justice, and the cardinal accepted his application and admitted him.
• When the cardinal asked why Xu Zi believed the Sun Moon Continent had more Soul Douluos, Xu Zi claimed it had developed the Soul Core Method, which helped Soul Douluos reach level 90.
• The cardinal submitted a report to Pope Bibi Dong, who ordered Spirit Hall to record the Sun Martial Soul and investigate whether Xu Zi was connected to Heaven Dou’s Zhang Clan.

Xu Zi met with Bibi Dong and offered her the Soul Core Method in exchange for rare Soul Beasts and a Dragon Scale Fruit. After learning the method’s strict risks and limitations, Bibi Dong agreed to consider his requests, beginning with the Golden Crocodile.

• Bibi Dong summoned Xu Zi after reading about the Soul Core Method, and he introduced himself as a student from the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Zi gave Bibi Dong the Soul Core Condensation and Shaping Method, which she learned required at least Soul Saint-level Soul Power and mature spiritual power, with potentially fatal risks if it failed.
• Bibi Dong burned the document, ordered the admissions director who knew of it transferred for confidential instruction, and asked Xu Zi what reward he wanted.
• Xu Zi requested a Golden Crocodile for his third ring, a Tyrant Dragon for his fourth ring, and a Dragon Scale Fruit, explaining that the Golden Crocodile would strengthen his body for the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon’s possession.
• Bibi Dong warned that the Golden Crocodiles belonged to the Second Worship’s family and could lead to trouble at the academy, then accepted Xu Zi’s illustrations of the Tyrant Dragon and Dragon Scale Fruit.

Xu Zi asked Bibi Dong to search for a Tyrant Dragon and showed her his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul. Bibi Dong rewarded him with a Dragon Scale Fruit and arranged for a Golden Crocodile, while Xu Zi resisted his Martial Soul’s urging to consume the fruit before he was strong enough.

• Xu Zi asked Bibi Dong to mobilize Spirit Hall’s forces to find a Tyrant Dragon Soul Beast, and she agreed.
• Bibi Dong revealed a sky-blue Dragon Scale Fruit and gave it to Xu Zi after he confirmed its identity.
• Bibi Dong asked Xu Zi to manifest his Martial Soul, and its purple dragon form nearly exhausted him as his Soul Rings revealed their true colors.
• Bibi Dong sent Yue Guan to obtain a Golden Crocodile from the Elder Hall, specifying an age suited to the third ring’s Golden Configuration.
• Xu Zi sensed that the Dragon Scale Fruit could help his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon hatch, but decided to wait until his body and spirit could withstand its power.

Bibi Dong explained Soul Power attributes to Xu Zi and told him about the Star Crown family’s star-attribute Soul Power. She left him considering how to combine his own light and strength attributes.

• Bibi Dong ordered Gui Mei to distribute drawings of the beast and Dragon Scale Fruit and search for them across the continent.
• Bibi Dong led Xu Zi through the Pope’s Palace and explained that Soul Masters could develop attributes in their Soul Power.
• Xu Zi reasoned that his Soul Power attributes were light and strength, while Bibi Dong described her own darkness and poison attributes.
• Bibi Dong told Xu Zi that a Star Crown family had combined light and earth attributes to create star-attribute Soul Power.
• Bibi Dong confirmed that she wanted Xu Zi to follow the Star Crown family’s example.

Bibi Dong urged Xu Zi to explore blending light and strength, while hinting that he could help Spirit Hall remove the Super Douluos who stood in its way. She then summoned Huang Ying to test him, and Xu Zi accepted the challenge as both a measure of his ability and an obedience test.

• Bibi Dong suggested Xu Zi use the Star Crown Xu Family’s methods to combine light and strength, promising to put his Martial Soul on new Pope Tokens if he became a Super Douluo.
• Xu Zi recognized Bibi Dong’s plan to use him against the six Super Douluos and considered whether the Star Crown Sect’s techniques could improve his Soul Power.
• Bibi Dong told Xu Zi that Golden Birds lived symbiotically with Golden Crocodiles and revealed that Huang Ying, a support Soul Master from a clan subordinate to the Golden Crocodile Family, had a Golden Bird Martial Soul.
• Bibi Dong summoned Huang Ying to the inner hall’s small plaza and challenged Xu Zi to last three exchanges against her, promising to make him a leading figure of the next Golden Generation if he succeeded.
• Xu Zi said he feared hurting Huang Ying, accepted Bibi Dong’s challenge, and leaped onto the Soul Fighting platform.

Xu Zi used his first Soul Skill, Will of Destruction, to defeat Huang Ying’s sound-wave attack during their sparring match. He left the platform unharmed, while Huang Ying collapsed bleeding and called for Bibi Dong.

• Huang Ying introduced herself and challenged Xu Zi, while Xu Zi revealed his Purple Sun Martial Soul and concealed his Soul Rings’ true ages.
• Huang Ying attacked Xu Zi with her first Soul Skill and then amplified its echoes with her third Soul Skill, surrounding him with sound waves.
• Xu Zi briefly entered Martial Soul Possession and activated Will of Destruction, piercing through and destroying Huang Ying’s sound-wave attack.
• Xu Zi saluted Huang Ying, but she collapsed with blood streaming from her eyes, ears, and nose as Xu Zi watched calmly.
• Xu Zi’s strategy turned the destructive will that threatened him into a spiritual blade by pairing it with his Fear Demon Dragon Soul Ring.

Xu Zi defeated Huang Ying in a Soul Fighting match and asked Bibi Dong for a Pope Token as compensation. Bibi Dong explained that one token belonged to the long-lost Heaven Prison Douluo, whose Martial Soul was represented by two blue vines.

• Xu Zi's lingering Soul Skill injured Huang Ying, and Bibi Dong healed her before she left them alone.
• Bibi Dong offered Xu Zi a place as a substitute on the Spirit Hall Team, and he accepted while declining a core role.
• Xu Zi asked Bibi Dong to give him a Pope Token as compensation for the match.
• Xu Zi explained the tokens' history, and Bibi Dong confirmed that five were held by the original Super Douluo or their descendants.
• Bibi Dong revealed that Yue Guan's token had belonged to Heaven Prison Douluo and bore the emblem of two blue vines.
• Bibi Dong rejected the rumor that the vines represented Chrysanthemum Douluo, noting that he had not been born when the six Super Douluo lived.

Bibi Dong explained how Heaven Prison Douluo gained and lost his Azure Thunder Prison Vine Martial Soul and title, while Xu Zi asked for the Heaven Prison Pope Token as a personal goal. After the Golden Crocodile Family sent an unusably old Soul Beast for his third ring, Bibi Dong gave Xu Zi the Pope Token and a storage bracelet, recognizing the need to cultivate her own supporters.

• Bibi Dong recounted Heaven Prison Douluo’s rise, his Azure Thunder Prison Vine Martial Soul, and the Zhi Clan’s return of his Pope Token.
• Xu Zi identified the lightning plant as the Thunderclap Yama Prison Vine and asked Bibi Dong for the Heaven Prison Pope Token.
• Yue Guan delivered the token and a storage bracelet, reporting that the Golden Crocodile Family had offered a twenty-one-hundred-year-old Golden Crocodile for Xu Zi’s third ring.
• Bibi Dong realized the Golden Crocodile Family was challenging her authority within Spirit Hall, while Xu Zi saw the incident as an opportunity for her to seek capable followers.
• Bibi Dong took back the token and bracelet, then offered both to Xu Zi.

Bibi Dong sent Xu Zi to Spirit Hall Academy with a Pope Token and a living-storage bracelet, while ordering an emergency meeting about the Soul Core Method. On the flight there, Xu Zi traded the method to Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan for his clan’s Record of Detailed Explanation of Immortal Treasures.

• Bibi Dong gave Xu Zi the Pope Token and gold bracelet, ordered Yue Guan to take him to the academy, and summoned high-ranking Soul Douluo to an emergency meeting.
• Xu Zi promised Bibi Dong he would keep the Soul Core Method and the day’s events secret, then left the Pope’s Hall with Yue Guan.
• While flying on Yue Guan’s Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum Avatar, Xu Zi introduced himself as a member of the Sun Clan from the Sun Moon Continent and discussed their Martial Souls.
• Yue Guan offered Xu Zi his clan’s Record of Detailed Explanation of Immortal Treasures in exchange for the Soul Core Method, and Xu Zi provided a scroll describing the Soul Core Condensation and Shaping Method.
• Yue Guan handed the record to Xu Zi after reading the Soul Core Method, and both became absorbed in their new texts until they landed at Spirit Hall Academy.

Xu Zi asked Chrysanthemum Douluo about the final unexplained Martial Soul emblem on the Pope Token and learned it belonged to a deceased female Super Douluo of the Cheng family. The emblem depicted a Ton Ant Queen, and Chrysanthemum Douluo left after offering to take Xu Zi to see Ton Ant colonies on a future Soul Hunting Operation.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo handed over his orders at the Spirit Hall Academy, while Xu Zi considered his Pope Token and his next cultivation steps.
• Xu Zi asked Chrysanthemum Douluo whether the token's dark, winged emblem represented a flood dragon or Ghost Douluo's Martial Soul.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo explained that the emblem belonged to a deceased female Super Douluo from the Cheng family, whose hereditary title was Giant Strength Douluo and whose Martial Soul was a Ton Ant Queen.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo showed Xu Zi that Ton Ant Queens and Emperors had black wings and pincer-like mandibles, explaining the emblem's appearance and the grades of Ton Ant Martial Souls.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo promised to take Xu Zi to see Ton Ant colonies during a future Soul Hunting Operation, then departed.

Xu Zi arranged with the cardinal to gather Spirit Hall Academy’s first- and second-team members so he could pursue a place on the team. At his villa, he fed the Golden Crocodile a Dragon Scale Fruit to strengthen it for his third Soul Ring, then rested while planning to continue his Martial Soul transformation and face the plane’s protagonists.

• Xu Zi agreed to the cardinal’s plan to assemble the academy teams at the Soul Fighting Plaza in two days, using his Pope Token to support his standing.
• After the cardinal left, Xu Zi examined the twenty-one-hundred-year Golden Crocodile in his gold bracelet and decided it was too weak for his third Soul Ring.
• Xu Zi fed the Golden Crocodile the Thousand-Year Dragon Scale Fruit Bibi Dong had given him, triggering a violent transformation inside the soul-tool space.
• Xu Zi reflected that his Martial Soul mutation and search for dragon-type Soul Rings were only partly complete, and that Bibi Dong was searching for a Tyrant Dragon.
• Xu Zi resolved to join the academy team and compete against the plane’s protagonists, then fell asleep with the Heaven Prison Pope Token beside him.

Xu Zi explored Spirit Hall Academy and prepared to break through to Soul Elder after the Golden Crocodile’s transformation. Jin Yu confronted him over the Soul Core Method and the Golden Crocodile, but Xu Zi used the Pope Token to block him, and Huang Ying’s warning made Jin Yu suspect Xu Zi came from a powerful imperial family.

• Xu Zi surveyed Spirit Hall Academy, recalled how Dragon Scale Fruit and his Soul Rings had left him stuck at rank 30, and headed back to check on the Golden Crocodile.
• Xu Zi encountered Huang Ying and Jin Yu outside the special-grade residential area, where Jin Yu revealed he wanted Xu Zi to visit the Golden Crocodile Family and discuss cultivation methods.
• Xu Zi refused to hand over the Soul Core Method, citing Bibi Dong’s decree, and displayed the Pope Token when Jin Yu threatened to force him.
• Jin Yu tried to seize Xu Zi’s bracelet and reclaim the Golden Crocodile, but Huang Ying stepped between them and called Jin Yu her cousin.
• Huang Ying reminded Jin Yu that Xu Zi came from the Sun Moon Continent and had a Sun Martial Soul, leading Jin Yu to suspect his family ruled a powerful empire.

Xu Zi challenged Jin Yu to a fight at Spirit Hall Academy’s Soul Fighting Plaza, wagering the Soul Core Method, then revealed that the Golden Crocodile he had transformed with a Dragon Scale Fruit had become a Dark Golden Crocodile Dragon. He began fighting the restrained beast to obtain his third Soul Ring, but the creature remained alive and dangerous.

• Xu Zi challenged Jin Yu to fight the next morning with the Soul Core Method as the stake, and Jin Yu accepted, believing Xu Zi intended to lose.
• Xu Zi examined the Golden Crocodile transformed by the Dragon Scale Fruit and named its new form the Dark Golden Crocodile Dragon.
• Xu Zi used Soul Hunting Beast Traps to restrain the Dark Golden Crocodile Dragon, then activated his Dragon and Sun Martial Soul Possession.
• Xu Zi struck the restrained beast with a destructive dragon punch, knocking it unconscious and judging its age to be nearly four thousand years.
• The Dark Golden Crocodile Dragon woke and struggled against its restraints, so Xu Zi attacked with his First Soul Skill, Will of Destruction, and raised both fists to continue fighting.

Xu Zi devoured the Dark Golden Crocodile Dragon, then absorbed its four-thousand-year Soul Ring and broke through to level 34. As the ring settled, he sensed the beast’s golden bloodline energy awakening within him.

• Xu Zi used Martial Soul Materialization and his second Soul Skill, Purple Dragon Devours the Sun!, to swallow the Dark Golden Crocodile Dragon before his sixty-second possession limit expired.
• Xu Zi showed the Heaven Prison Pope Token to the instructors drawn by the rooftop disturbance, then rested until his strength recovered and his Martial Soul digested the beast into pure energy.
• Xu Zi stopped the Martial Soul’s energy feedback and took the Dark Golden Crocodile Dragon’s four-thousand-year Soul Ring to his bedroom to absorb it.
• The Soul Ring strengthened Xu Zi’s body and raised his cultivation from level 30 to level 34 before settling into his third ring slot.
• Xu Zi sensed familiar golden energy from the Dark Golden Crocodile Dragon’s bloodline inside his body and recognized that its power remained to be claimed.

Xu Zi absorbed the Dark Golden Crocodile Dragon’s Soul Ring and body essence, reaching level 37 and gaining a stronger physique with traces of the Golden Bloodline. After heading out to eat, he met Ling Yuan, who came to question him about his wagered fight with Jin Yu and tested him with Soul Pressure.

• Xu Zi used his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon’s feedback to absorb the Dark Golden Crocodile Dragon’s essence, advancing from level 34 to level 37 while strengthening his body.
• The Golden Bloodline merged into Xu Zi’s limbs and meridians, and he found that his Martial Soul Possession no longer had a time limit apart from limits imposed by Soul Power or injury.
• Xu Zi tested his defense with a punch to his own chest and judged his physique to have reached the pinnacle of the Soul Ancestor level.
• Xu Zi went to the Spirit Hall Academy food street for supper, where Ling Yuan arrived and sat down with him.
• Ling Yuan asked Xu Zi about his wagered fight with Jin Yu and the Soul Core Method; after Xu Zi insisted he had a good chance of winning, Ling Yuan released Soul Pressure to test him.

Xu Zi endured Ling Yuan Douluo’s escalating Soul Pressure, revealed that he had absorbed a 2,100-year Golden Crocodile as his third Soul Ring, and formed a secret alliance with her. The next morning, they arrived at Spirit Hall Academy’s Soul Fighting Plaza, where a bishop prepared to announce the Pope’s decree to the academy’s tournament teams.

• Ling Yuan increased her Soul Pressure to test Xu Zi, but he resisted it through his Sun Martial Soul’s heat resistance and his strengthened physique.
• Xu Zi told Ling Yuan that he had absorbed a 2,100-year Golden Crocodile as his third Soul Ring, shocking her and prompting her to ask to see his Soul Rings.
• Ling Yuan accompanied Xu Zi to his residence, and the two spent the night together while agreeing to keep their relationship and his disclosures from the Pope.
• Xu Zi and Ling Yuan agreed to conceal their relationship until Xu Zi became a Soul Saint and to keep their private information confidential until he chose to reveal it.
• Xu Zi and Ling Yuan went to the Soul Fighting Plaza, where Spirit Hall Academy’s first and second teams gathered as a bishop prepared to relay the Pope’s decree.

Xu Zi was ordered to join Spirit Hall Academy’s first team, but its members resisted until Ling Yuan arrived to enforce the Pope’s decree. Xu Zi then fought Jin Yu to demonstrate his strength, leaving Jin Yu battered on the Soul Fighting Plaza floor.

• Xu Zi introduced himself to Spirit Hall Academy and displayed the Heaven Prison Pope Token before the cardinal announced that he would replace a member of the Spirit Hall Team.
• Sun Chuantao, Zhang Ping, Li Kai, and the other team members objected to the decree, but Ling Yuan arrived and ordered them to comply.
• Jin Yu came to the plaza, and Xu Zi’s teammates learned that the two had agreed to a wagered fight; Jin Yu dismissed their complaints and agreed to face Xu Zi.
• Xu Zi revealed that he had reached level 36 after absorbing his third Soul Ring and consuming the Dragon Scale Fruit, while Jin Yu prepared to fight at level 49.
• Jin Yu possessed his Golden Crocodile Martial Soul, but Xu Zi transformed into his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon form and smashed through Jin Yu’s defense.
• Xu Zi hurled Jin Yu to the ground, leaving the fight’s outcome in his favor as the onlookers watched.

Xu Zi defeated Jin Yu in a wagered Soul Fighting match, silencing Spirit Hall Academy’s first team and drawing the attention of the Golden Crocodile Family. He chose to join the second team as its main captain, then began reviewing its members to decide whom to replace.

• Xu Zi knocked Jin Yu unconscious in three moves, and Ling Yuan subdued Jin Yu’s six attendants when they charged him after the match.
• The cardinal examined Jin Yu, confirmed his injuries were not life-threatening, and had him carried away for treatment.
• Xu Zi challenged the first team to question his strength, but Sun Chuantao and Zhang Ping avoided confronting him.
• Ling Yuan and the cardinal advised Xu Zi to join the first team, but he declared that he would become the second team’s main captain.
• The cardinal began introducing the second team’s members and their powerful family connections as Xu Zi considered whom to replace.

Xu Zi became captain of Spirit Hall Academy’s second team, removed the three commoner substitutes under a four-ring strength requirement, and kept the seven connected regular members. Ling Yuan Douluo then took him to Martial Soul Holy City to meet the Pope and discuss the morning’s events.

• The cardinal introduced the second team’s ten members and explained the powerful connections behind its seven regulars, while Xu Zi ordered all three lower-level commoner substitutes removed.
• When two substitutes protested, Xu Zi used the Pope Token to impose a four-ring requirement, allowing them to return only if they broke through or defeated one of the team members.
• Xu Zi explained that he would serve as a substitute and take the stage against strong opponents, and the cardinal agreed to revise the roster.
• Ling Yuan Douluo carried Xu Zi from Spirit Hall Academy to Martial Soul Holy City to see the Pope and discuss his fight with Jin Yu and the team’s reorganization.
• As they flew over the city toward Douluo Mountain, Xu Zi considered how continental drift might explain the legend that Douluo Mountain had once stood at the continent’s center.

Xu Zi told Bibi Dong how he had waited in Heaven Dou Imperial City for a Dragon Scale Fruit to mutate his Sun Martial Soul into the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon. Bibi Dong believed his account and revealed a Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Scale Fruit, leaving Xu Zi startled.

• Ling Yuan Douluo brought Xu Zi to Pope Hall, where Bibi Dong asked whether the wager match had been canceled.
• Xu Zi explained that he had defeated Jin Yu with close-range attacks, and Bibi Dong confirmed that his third Soul Ring came from a 2,100-year-old Golden Crocodile.
• Xu Zi summoned his Martial Soul and displayed his yellow, yellow, and purple Soul Rings, convincing Bibi Dong that he had surpassed the recorded Golden Configuration limit.
• After Ling Yuan reported on the wager match, Bibi Dong dismissed her and confronted Xu Zi about his time in Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Xu Zi admitted he had spent three years seeking a Dragon Scale Fruit to induce his Sun Martial Soul to mutate, then revealed that he had awakened the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon.
• Bibi Dong produced a Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Scale Fruit, and Xu Zi recognized it with surprise.

Bibi Dong offered Xu Zi a Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Scale Fruit, but he asked her to keep it until after the tournament so he could avoid risking his control and missing the matches. She also told him Spirit Hall had located a Tyrant Dragon Soul Beast and sent Ghost Elder to capture it, giving Xu Zi hope that he could evolve his Martial Soul.

• Bibi Dong showed Xu Zi the Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Scale Fruit, whose power stirred the dragon within his Purple Sun and threatened to overwhelm him.
• Xu Zi declined to consume the fruit before the tournament and asked Bibi Dong to keep it until after the grand finals.
• Bibi Dong warned Xu Zi against consuming ten-thousand-year whale glue or forcing himself on women, and Xu Zi dispelled the mild poison in her fragrance with Light-Fire Soul Power.
• Bibi Dong told Xu Zi that Spirit Hall had traced the Tyrant Dragon Soul Beast to a cave in the Star Luo Empire, where it lived among the remains of dragon-type Soul Beasts.
• Bibi Dong said she had dispatched Ghost Elder to capture the Tyrant Dragon, and Xu Zi rejoiced because its body and Unyielding Dragon Soul could help evolve his Martial Soul.

Xu Zi cultivated his Sun Martial Soul’s new Light-Fire Soul Power and used intimacy with Ling Yuan Douluo to help solidify his cultivation. He partially revealed the Sun Moon Empire’s strength and its device-based fighting style, but withheld further details.

• Xu Zi finished cultivating and resolved to condense his Light-Fire Soul Power in a suitable environment.
• After spending the night with Ling Yuan Douluo and using ten-thousand-year whale glue, Xu Zi found his Soul Power nearly solidified.
• Ling Yuan pressed Xu Zi to reveal his identity and explain what could protect her if the continents went to war.
• Xu Zi admitted he belonged to the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial family and said its overall Soul Master strength exceeded Heaven Dou and Star Luo combined.
• Xu Zi explained that Sun Moon Soul Masters relied on devices and that their level-nine devices were still under development, then refused to reveal more.

The Soul Master Tournament ranking matches began, and Xu Zi prepared Spirit Hall’s second team to face Skywater Academy. The chapter ended with Ling Yuan Douluo giving him detailed information about their opponents.

• The participating teams gathered at Douluo Mountain’s Soul Fighting Plaza, where the ranking match pairings were announced.
• Xu Zi confirmed that Spirit Hall’s second team had no objections to facing Skywater Academy, then planned to lead the team himself.
• Blazing Fire Academy withdrew, giving Shrek Academy a direct advance and finishing the tournament with thirty-three teams.
• The ranking matches began, and Ling Yuan Douluo brought Xu Zi Salas’s information on the Skywater Team.

Xu Zi arranged the Spirit Hall Academy Second Team’s lineup and tactics for its ranking match against Skywater Academy, keeping Shi Xing out because of the opponents’ ice and water abilities. The match began as icy mist rose from Skywater’s entrance, leaving the teams about to face off.

• Xu Zi reviewed Skywater Academy’s roster and concluded that its coordination and captain-and-vice-captain Martial Soul Fusion Skill gave it an advantage over the Second Team.
• Xu Zi benched Shi Xing and assigned Li Qin, Tuoba She, Huang Su, and the three brothers roles to contain Skywater’s fighters and disrupt its fusion skill.
• Xu Zi said he would provide support while concealing his strength, then arranged the six fighters in two rows with himself behind them.
• The Spirit Hall Academy Second Team entered the arena, drawing brief whispers from the judges when they noticed Shi Xing was absent and Xu Zi was positioned among the stronger fighters.
• A thin icy mist rose from the steps on Skywater Academy’s side as the match was about to begin.