Chapter Summaries

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.

Xu Zi led the Spirit Hall Second Team into a match against Skywater Academy, surprising Shui Bing'er and the spectators by revealing himself as the team’s level 37 Support System captain. The teams released their Martial Souls, and the match began with attention fixed on Xu Zi’s Purple Sun.

• Xu Zi instructed the Spirit Hall Second Team to rush Skywater Academy’s Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu and promised he could counter their ice attacks.
• Xu Zi stepped forward as captain, introduced himself as a level 37 Support System Soul Elder, and startled Shui Bing'er and the spectators.
• At Shrek’s villa, the team and their teacher discussed whether Xu Zi’s role concealed another strategy, while the blue-black-haired youth doubted the Spirit Hall team could beat Skywater’s Ice Phoenix if it held back.
• Both teams released their Martial Souls, and Xu Zi’s Purple Sun rose behind the Spirit Hall team, drawing the attention of the arena.
• The referee started the match.

Xu Zi used his Purple Sun to melt Skywater Team’s ice-based strategy and turn the battle in Spirit Hall Second Team’s favor. Shui Yue’er and Gu Qingbo were captured and beaten unconscious, while the teams resumed their advance.

• Shui Bing'er drew on Xue Wu’s Soul Power to freeze the charging Spirit Hall Second Team and prepare Skywater Team’s counterattack.
• Shui Yue'er, Gu Qingbo, and the three Power Attack System members launched an assault across the icy ground.
• Xu Zi expanded his Purple Sun, melting the ice and disrupting the Skywater Team’s charge.
• Li Qin and the Dragon Pattern Staff brothers knocked Shui Yue'er and Gu Qingbo into the Spirit Hall Second Team’s encirclement and beat them unconscious.
• Xu Zi ordered his six teammates to maintain formation and continue attacking.

Xu Zi and the Spirit Hall Second Team gained the upper hand against the Skywater Team, but Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu unleashed Ice and Snow Drifting and froze most of the opposing team. Xu Zi stepped into the ice tornado and challenged them to reveal the full power of their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Xu Zi's Purple Sun melted and weakened the Skywater Team's ice defenses, while Shui Bing'er ordered her teammates to retreat.
• Xu Zi directed his team to scatter, and Huang Su knocked Shen Liuyu unconscious as the Dragon Pattern Staff brothers and Li Qin attacked the remaining Skywater members.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu unleashed Ice and Snow Drifting, freezing the three Dragon Pattern Staff brothers and encasing Li Qin in ice.
• Xu Zi's team and the Skywater Team returned to a more balanced position, and Shui Bing'er admitted she had underestimated Xu Zi.
• Xu Zi walked through the ice tornado and challenged Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu to use the full power of their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Shui Bing'er unleashed Skywater Team's Ice Phoenix Martial Soul Fusion Skill against Xu Zi and the Spirit Hall Second Team's last two members. Xu Zi broke through its icy tornado and baited the Ice Phoenix's attention before the Purple Sun reappeared behind it, revealing a pair of dragon eyes.

• Shui Bing'er acknowledged that she had underestimated Xu Zi and transformed the icy pillar into a glowing egg that unleashed a powerful tornado.
• Xu Zi used the Purple Sun to smash the egg down, then took Tuoba She and Huang Su's armor and rock and broke apart the icy tornado.
• The egg hatched into an Ice Phoenix, and Shui Bing'er said she had waited to break out of its shell because Xu Zi had injured A Wu.
• The Ice Phoenix attacked Xu Zi, Tuoba She, and Huang Su with eight ice cones, breaking their defenses and knocking Tuoba She and Huang Su backward.
• Xu Zi distracted Shui Bing'er by drawing her attention upward, and the Purple Sun appeared behind the Ice Phoenix with a pair of purple-gold dragon eyes inside it.

Xu Zi used his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon to defeat Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu's Ice Phoenix, then revealed that both women had survived. The match ended with Dean Shui reunited with her daughter and Xue Wu, while Ling Yuan Douluo confronted Xu Zi over his silence.

• Xu Zi materialized the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon and used Purple Dragon Swallows the Sun to devour the Ice Phoenix.
• The Ice Phoenix vanished into the Purple Sun, leaving the spectators to fear that Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu had been killed.
• Dean Shui rushed onto the field and demanded to know where her daughter was, but Ling Yuan Douluo restrained her.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu fell out of the Purple Sun alive, and Xu Zi covered them with white cloths.
• Dean Shui embraced Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu after they recovered, while Ling Yuan Douluo warned Xu Zi they would talk later.

Xu Zi led the Spirit Hall Second Team to victory over Skywater and advanced to the next round. Afterward, Huang Ying invited him to a meal and began thanking him for joining the team because she had begged him.

• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang about the purple-haired captain’s weapon-and-beast Martial Soul, and Yu Xiaogang explained its weakness and helped Shrek devise a close-combat strategy.
• Ling Yuan melted the ice covering the arena, and the referees declared the Spirit Hall Second Team the winner and advanced them to the next round.
• Xu Zi told Shi Xing to lead the team in the next match, then left the venue and returned to Spirit Hall Academy.
• Huang Ying met Xu Zi at the academy’s back gate and invited him to eat at a familiar little shop.
• Huang Ying told Xu Zi she wanted to thank him because she knew he had joined the second team after she begged him.

Xu Zi shared a meal with Huang Ying, who nearly agreed to take him out before Zhang Ping interrupted them and reminded her of the next match. Ling Yuan then told Xu Zi that the schedule had changed, leaving his second team set to face the newly formed Heaven Thunder Team.

• Huang Ying explained her family ties to Huang Su and thanked Xu Zi for keeping him on the second team, while Xu Zi let her believe he had done it for her sake.
• Huang Ying fed Xu Zi a meatball, and he encouraged her to pursue singing alongside cultivation.
• Zhang Ping interrupted their meal to remind Huang Ying that the academy's first match against the Star Luo Division's runners-up was the next day.
• Huang Ying declined Xu Zi's invitation to explore the Holy City because her family supported the Golden Crocodile Family and would object to her associating with him.
• Ling Yuan arrived and told Xu Zi that Blazing Fire Academy had joined forces with Godwind Academy and the Heaven Dou Royal Team had joined Thunder Academy.
• Xu Zi learned that his second team would face the Heaven Thunder Team, which included Yu Tianxin, Yu Tianheng, and Dugu Yan.

Xu Zi shared a meal with Huang Ying, who explained why she could not be seen with him in public, but their conversation was interrupted by Ling Yuan. Ling Yuan revealed that the second team would face the newly formed Heaven Thunder Team the next day.

• Huang Ying assumed Xu Zi had joined the second team because her plea had persuaded him not to displace her, and Xu Zi let her keep that impression.
• Huang Ying fed Xu Zi a meatball and discussed her family's constraints and her wish to pursue singing.
• Zhang Ping interrupted their meal to remind Huang Ying about the team's meeting before its match against the Star Luo Division's runner-up.
• Huang Ying said her family would oppose her spending time with Xu Zi because it supported the Golden Crocodile Family.
• Ling Yuan brought Xu Zi the updated match schedule and explained that Blazing Fire had formed the Wind Fire Team while six Heaven Dou Royal Team members had joined Thunder Academy.
• Xu Zi learned that his second team would face the Heaven Thunder Team the next day.

Xu Zi arranged the tournament schedule to keep Shrek from seeing him use the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon against the Heaven Thunder Team. After learning the team’s roster, he prepared to face the Blue Lightning Twin Stars in the final match of the day.

• Ling Yuan told Xu Zi that several teams had merged or withdrawn, and he asked to face the Heaven Thunder Team in the last match while scheduling Shrek against the Star Luo Royal Team second.
• Xu Zi left Huang Ying and, after Ling Yuan had helped consolidate his Soul Power, woke to Shi Xing reporting that the Heaven Thunder Team combined fighters from the Heaven Dou Royal Team and the Thunder Team.
• Xu Zi assured Shi Xing that he had prepared a battle plan, promised that Shi Xing would fight beside him, and said he would choose the other five team members later.
• Ling Yuan gave Xu Zi a detailed roster identifying Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin as the Blue Lightning Twin Stars and listing the other Heaven Thunder Team members.
• Xu Zi said he was fortunate to have won Ling Yuan over because her help with the schedule made it possible for him to use Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon possession.

Xu Zi led the Spirit Hall Second Team against the Heaven Thunder Team after confirming their opponents knew little about their abilities. The teams collided amid lightning and poison, and the chapter ended as the Spirit Hall frontliners broke through Dugu Yan’s poisonous mist and met the enemy’s front line.

• Ling Yuan Douluo told Xu Zi that Shrek and several other teams had left, and Xu Zi assigned six teammates to fight while keeping Li Qin in reserve.
• Xu Zi led the Spirit Hall Second Team onto the field, where Yu Tianheng and the Heaven Thunder Team prepared to target him with an aerial strike.
• The referee began the match, and both teams revealed their dragon-themed Martial Souls and charged.
• Dugu Yan empowered the Heaven Thunder Team with poison, while Lei Dong and Yu Tianxin laid down lightning attacks.
• Tuoba She and another defender absorbed the lightning, and Xu Zi’s Purple Sun weakened Dugu Yan’s poisonous mist.
• The Spirit Hall Second Team’s frontliners pushed through the mist and clashed with the Heaven Thunder Team’s front line.

Heaven Thunder Team and Spirit Hall Second Team clashed in a battle shaped by lightning, poison, and the Holy Dragon Sect’s arrival. As Dugu Yan stalled Spirit Hall’s advance, Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin prepared a dragon transformation.

• Yu Tianheng’s Thunder Dragon Claws struck Tuoba She, but the Holy Dragon Sect’s defense let him withstand the attack.
• The Dragon Pattern Staff brothers pushed back the Shi brothers, while Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng helped hold Spirit Hall’s charge.
• Yu Tianheng and Shi Xing fought evenly until the purple sun burned away the poison and empowered Shi Xing, shifting the battle in Spirit Hall’s favor.
• Yu Tianxin called for Yu Tianheng to act, and both brothers retreated as the Shi brothers were nearly overwhelmed.
• Dugu Yan used her Jade Phosphor Serpent venom to halt Spirit Hall’s front line, while Xu Zi watched lightning surge behind her and announced, “Dragon, transformation.”

As Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin completed Dragon Transformation, the Heaven Thunder Team recovered its footing, but Xu Zi’s Purple Sun threatened their exposed back line. Lei Dong and Lei Tian revealed their trap at the last moment, snaring the Purple Sun in a lightning web and sending Lei Tian diving toward Xu Zi.

• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin completed Dragon Transformation, and Xu Zi recognized a trace of the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon’s bloodline in Yu Tianxin.
• Shi Xing attacked Dugu Yan and Lei Dong, but Yu Tianxin returned to the fight and helped the Heaven Thunder Team’s three frontliners hold off the Spirit Hall Second Team.
• Yu Tianheng’s Dragon Transformation let him withstand Shi Xing’s flames and drive him back, while Xu Zi waited for Dugu Yan and Lei Dong to be left exposed.
• The Purple Sun plunged toward Dugu Yan and Lei Dong, but Lei Dong revealed Lei Tian hiding above it and activated his fourth Soul Skill to trap it in a lightning web.
• Lei Dong called for Lei Tian to attack Xu Zi, and Lei Tian transformed into blue lightning and dived toward him with his talons extended.

Xu Zi used his combined Martial Soul’s dragon-like possession to turn Lei Tian’s ambush against him and send him out of the arena. The Heaven Thunder Team’s attack faltered as the battle continued with Shi Xing already eliminated.

• Lei Tian attacked Xu Zi while Lei Dong raised the lightning nets and Dugu Yan spread her poison over the Spirit Hall Second Team’s front line.
• Yu Tianheng’s assault and the lightning web overwhelmed Shi Xing, eliminating him from the match.
• Yu Tianxin ordered Lei Tian to attack the Spirit Hall fighters from behind, but Lei Tian did not respond as a new Purple Sun rose behind him.
• Xu Zi revealed that he had endured Lei Tian’s strikes while preparing his Martial Soul Possession, then used purple-gold dragon claws to break Lei Tian’s arms and throw him outside the arena.
• The dragon might from Xu Zi’s transformation stunned the arena, while Ling Yuan noted that representatives from Heaven Dou, Star Luo, and Seven Treasure had already left.

Xu Zi’s Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon overwhelmed the Heaven Thunder Team, but the injured Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng joined together in the Hengxin Combination and refused to surrender. The fight remained unresolved as the brothers declared that Heaven Thunder could still fight.

• Xu Zi’s dragon transformation suppressed the Beast Martial Soul Masters, and he directed the battered Spirit Hall Second Team to support him while he faced Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng.
• Xu Zi broke through Lei Dong’s lightning net, crippled Yu Tianxin with one punch, then knocked Lei Dong out and smashed the Shi Brothers’ Black Tortoise Shields.
• Dugu Yan attacked Xu Zi with her poison, but he stopped her, knocked her unconscious, and threw her toward Ye Lingling.
• Yu Tianheng unleashed Dragon’s Wrath, but Xu Zi endured the lightning and broke his shin before Yu Tianxin struck Xu Zi with another Dragon’s Wrath.
• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng bound their injuries together in the Hengxin Combination and told the head referee that the Heaven Thunder Team could still fight.

Xu Zi defeated the Blue Lightning Twin Stars after a fierce battle in the Soul Fighting Plaza. The referee declared Spirit Hall Academy Second Team the winner, while Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin collapsed from their injuries.

• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng combined their Dragon's Wrath attacks and knocked Xu Zi down, then tried to carry him out of the plaza.
• Xu Zi struck Yu Tianxin with Will of Destruction, and his returning Purple Sun knocked Yu Tianheng aside.
• Xu Zi swung Yu Tianxin into Yu Tianheng, leaving both cousins defeated and unable to stand.
• The head referee announced Spirit Hall Academy Second Team's victory, and the team cheered.