Chapter Summaries

Xu Zi faced the injured Blue Lightning Twin Stars after the rest of his team left the arena, and the Hengxin Combination launched one final attack. Their foot-triggered Dragon's Wrath blasted Xu Zi backward, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin refused to surrender and declared that the Heaven Thunder Team still had the strength to fight.
• Xu Zi challenged his five teammates to face the injured Twin Stars, but they declined to take advantage of their condition and left the arena.
• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng agreed that Yu Tianheng would concede after the next exchange, regardless of who won.
• The Twin Stars attacked Xu Zi together with Blue Lightning Flying Dragon Rush, and Xu Zi shattered Yu Tianxin's Light Defense with a punch.
• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng struck Xu Zi with Dragon's Wrath released through a kick, knocking him backward before he could unleash Will of Destruction.

Xu Zi defeated Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin after a fierce battle in which the Blue Lightning Twin Stars used Dragon Transformation and Dragon's Wrath to nearly overcome him. Spirit Hall Academy Second Team won the final match of the second round, while Xu Zi left impressed by the Blue Lightning Yu family's secret technique.

• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin coordinated attacks that knocked Xu Zi down and tried to carry him out of the Soul Fighting Plaza.
• Xu Zi struck Yu Tianxin with Will of Destruction, then used the returning Purple Sun to knock Yu Tianheng down.
• Xu Zi swung the unconscious Yu Tianxin into Yu Tianheng, defeating both cousins and ending their Dragon Transformations.
• The head referee declared Spirit Hall Academy Second Team the winner of the final match of the second round.

Xu Zi's team defeated the Imperial Fighting Team and Thunder Team, and Ye Lingling's healing revealed the lingering damage caused by his Power of Destruction. Xu Zi admitted he had considered crippling Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin to keep them from telling Shrek about the battle, but had held back; the teams faced off in the plaza.

• Ye Lingling healed Yu Tianxin and treated the injured fighters, while Xu Zi noted that her absence from the match had cost the Thunder Team its best chance against him.
• Ling Yuan Douluo ordered the plaza cleared and suggested delaying the third round until nearly noon the next day.
• Xu Zi's teammates praised him for carrying the second team through the tournament, while Yu Tianheng apologized for keeping Ye Lingling out of the match.
• Ye Lingling discovered that Xu Zi's Power of Destruction lingered in the injuries and resisted ordinary healing, though her life energy could counter it.
• Xu Zi told Yu Tianheng that he had considered crippling him and Yu Tianxin to prevent them from informing Shrek about the battle, but had relented after seeing their fighting spirit.

After defeating the Heaven Thunder Team, Xu Zi advised Yu Tianxin to abandon the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon path and cultivate according to his mutated purple dragon bloodline. He declined his teammates’ invitation to celebrate and left to study information about their next opponents.

• Yu Tianheng promised that neither the Imperial Fighting Team nor the Thunder Team would reveal details of the battle, and Xu Zi accepted his word.
• Ling Yuan Douluo gave Xu Zi information about the Second Team’s next opponents and told him to prepare tactics for the following day.
• Xu Zi told Yu Tianxin that his Martial Soul had irreversibly mutated and that his purple dragon bloodline made the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon path unsuitable.
• Xu Zi advised Yu Tianxin to change his meditation method and seek strength-attribute Soul Rings, with Ton Ants as a last resort.
• Yu Tianxin sensed a new resonance with his mutated bloodline, while Xu Zi left with his teammates and declined their invitation to celebrate so he could study the match schedule.

Xu Zi discussed his twin-souled crown prince brother and the origins and limits of his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul with Ling Yuan. Ling Yuan arranged for him to face the Wind Fire Team in the semifinals, and Xu Zi anticipated exploiting their wind and fire attributes while reaffirming his plan to pursue the strength-attribute path.

• Xu Zi returned to his villa, prepared milk tea, and told Ling Yuan about his crown prince brother's Sun and Silver Moon Martial Souls and high Soul Emperor cultivation.
• Xu Zi explained that his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul was an incomplete form created after he consumed unusual fruit and medicine, while keeping its deeper secret to himself.
• Ling Yuan showed Xu Zi the semifinal arrangements and revealed that she had assigned him the Wind Fire Team as an opponent.
• Xu Zi noted that the Wind Fire Team included four core members of the Blazing Fire Team and believed his Purple Sun could absorb their light- and fire-attribute energy.
• Xu Zi resolved to pursue the strength-attribute path and seek the truth about the powerful mother dragon shared by the Dragon God and the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon's ancestor.

Xu Zi reviewed the Wind Fire Team’s lineup and the tournament rankings before realizing that members of the Wind Sword and Fire Leopard Sects were competing for the team. He left to adjust the Spirit Hall Second Team’s preparations for the semifinals.

• Xu Zi read the Wind Fire Team’s profiles and concluded that its four agility attackers were chosen to counter the Spirit Hall Second Team’s slow front line.
• Ling Yuan explained that Star Luo Royal Academy had asked to target Shrek Academy in the semifinals, and Xu Zi recognized that Shrek was concealing its real strength.
• Ling Yuan warned Xu Zi that the Wind Fire Team included Soul Masters from the Wind Sword Sect and Fire Leopard Sect, two of the Seven Great Sects.
• Xu Zi realized all seven great sects had entered the tournament to compete for three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and rushed out to revise his team’s pre-match arrangements.

Xu Zi prepared the Spirit Hall Second Battle Team for its semifinal against the Wind Fire Team, changing their formation to counter the opponents’ speed. The match began with the teams facing off, and Xu Zi’s unexpected front-line position left the Wind Fire Team unsure how to respond.

• Xu Zi reviewed Elder Ling Yuan’s intelligence and the ranking sheet with his teammates, then rallied them to defeat the Wind Fire Team.
• Xu Zi benched the youngest of the three brothers and ordered the other six to spread out freely, with himself in the front row.
• Shrek defeated the Star Luo Royal Team and left the venue, reassuring Xu Zi that they would not learn the Second Team’s match tactics in time.
• Xu Zi led the Spirit Hall Second Battle Team onto the arena to face Feng Xiaotian and the Wind Fire Team.
• Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang were surprised to see Xu Zi at the front and the Second Team arranged in a single line.

Xu Zi led Spirit Hall Academy against Wind Fire Team, using his Purple Sun Martial Soul to absorb Huo Wu’s fire attacks and withstand Huo Lie’s assault. The battle continued with Xu Zi seizing Huo Lie’s claws and forcing them toward Devour the Sun.

• Xu Zi introduced himself as a dual control and support Soul Elder, drawing disbelief from Feng Xiaotian and the spectators.
• At the match’s start, Xu Zi assigned his teammates to engage Wind Fire Team’s attackers and ordered Li Qin to target Li Qin’s Flame Crane opponent.
• Huo Wu sent a fiery shadow behind Spirit Hall Academy’s formation to strike with Repelling Fire Rings, but Xu Zi’s Devour the Sun swallowed the flames.
• Xu Zi blocked Huo Lie’s pounce, then absorbed the fire from Huo Lie and Huo Wu without being burned.
• Xu Zi grabbed Huo Lie’s leopard claws and shoved them toward Devour the Sun.

Xu Zi used his Purple Sun Martial Soul to absorb Huo Lie’s fire Soul Power, then helped Li Qin capture Huo Yun and drain her as well. With power from both Soul Ancestors, Xu Zi expanded Devour the Sun over the arena, where its suction began draining the remaining Wind Fire Team members and left them facing despair.

• Huo Wu warned Huo Lie that Xu Zi’s second Soul Skill devoured flames, but Xu Zi seized Huo Lie and absorbed his fire-attribute Soul Power despite his resistance.
• Xu Zi knocked the weakened Huo Lie unconscious, while Li Qin caught Huo Yun when she flew down to help her brother.
• Xu Zi and Li Qin forced Huo Yun into the purple-black death star, eliminating the second Wind Fire Team member.
• After absorbing Soul Power from two Soul Ancestors, Xu Zi expanded Devour the Sun into a vast disc above the arena.
• The solar disc began draining the flames and Soul Power of Huo Wushuang, the Fire Shadow, and the Godwind Academy fighters, pushing the remaining Wind Fire Team members toward despair.

The Wind Fire Squad fought desperately against Xu Zi’s Spirit Hall Second Team, and Huo Wu’s two-stage Blazing Sun attack freed her allies and left Xu Zi’s side reeling. Feng Xiaotian awakened their Wind Fuels the Fire fusion skill, but Xu Zi revealed that he had been charging up an attack of his own as a dragon lunged from the Purple Sun.

• Xu Zi spotted Huo Wu’s hidden fire energy and sent Li Qin to attack her, while he struck Feng Xiaotian with Will of Fire and helped bury him beneath a rock wall.
• Huo Wu fused her rings and unleashed Blazing Sun, blasting Li Qin away before compressing the fire energy and charging Xu Zi.
• Huo Wu’s second explosion knocked Xu Zi and several teammates down and cleared the rocks from Feng Xiaotian, after which she collapsed from exhaustion.
• Feng Xiaotian caught Huo Wu and activated the Wind Fuels the Fire fusion skill, gaining enough power to contend with a Five-Ring Soul King.
• Xu Zi revealed that he had been charging his own attack and distracting the Wind Fire Squad as a dragon’s head emerged from the Purple Sun and lunged at Feng Xiaotian.

Xu Zi revealed the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon’s true form and overwhelmed Feng Ji and Feng Xiao, leaving Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wushuang as the Wind Fire Squad’s remaining fighters. Huo Wushuang, despite being suppressed by Xu Zi’s dragon aura and fire-countering power, forced himself to activate his fourth Soul Ring.

• Feng Xiaotian’s fiery tornado blocked the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon’s bite, but Xu Zi ordered his teammates to hold Feng Xiaotian while he faced Huo Wushuang, Feng Ji, and Feng Xiao.
• Feng Ji and Feng Xiao attacked Xu Zi with their Wind-Chasing Swords, and he caught both blades before transforming into the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon.
• Xu Zi shattered Feng Ji’s sword and punched him away, then blocked Feng Xiao’s two Soul Skills and knocked him down with a rising punch.
• Feng Xiaotian broke free from the Spirit Hall Second Team’s encirclement and saw that Xu Zi had defeated both Wind-Chasing Sword Soul Masters.
• Huo Wushuang struggled against the dragon’s suppression and Xu Zi’s counter to fire Soul Power, but he forced himself to activate his fourth Soul Ring.

Xu Zi’s Spirit Hall Second Team defeated most of the Wind Fire Team and forced Feng Xiaotian to land for a duel. Feng Xiaotian unleashed his self-created Gale Demon Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes, while Xu Zi focused on studying the technique.

• Xu Zi knocked Huo Wushuang out with his Purple Sun and drained his fire-attribute Soul Power to replenish himself.
• Xu Zi pointed out that Feng Xiaotian’s flight depended on Soul Power, then offered to count the match as a draw if Feng Xiaotian landed and defeated him.
• Feng Xiaotian accepted after Xu Zi’s Purple Sun began drawing fire-attribute Soul Power from him, and Xu Zi sent his five teammates to the arena’s edge.
• Feng Xiaotian used Twin Wolf Possession and launched his Gale Demon Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes against Xu Zi.
• Xu Zi endured Feng Xiaotian’s rapid attacks while studying the self-created technique and its movements.

Xu Zi studied Feng Xiaotian’s Gale Demon Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes by enduring the attack, then withstood its final blow with his Purple Gold Dragon Body. He urged Feng Xiaotian to surpass his limit, and Feng Xiaotian began a new attack: Gale Demon Wolf-Forty-Five Consecutive Slashes.

• Xu Zi let Feng Xiaotian’s thirty-six slashes hit him so he could learn the technique’s method of accelerating without resistance.
• Feng Xiaotian’s first thirty-five slashes stripped away Xu Zi’s amethyst scales, but Xu Zi challenged him to hurt him within twenty breaths or concede victory to the Wind Fire Team.
• Xu Zi activated his third Soul Skill, Purple Gold Dragon Body, and stopped Feng Xiaotian’s thirty-sixth slash with his dragon horns.
• Feng Xiaotian conceded defeat, but Xu Zi said the attack was not his limit and urged him to surpass himself.
• Feng Xiaotian drew strength from Huo Wu and launched Gale Demon Wolf-Forty-Five Consecutive Slashes.

Xu Zi defeated Feng Xiaotian in a fierce one-on-one match, securing the Spirit Hall Second Battle Team’s place in the grand final. After the victory, Xu Zi looked ahead to facing Shrek and Tang San.

• Feng Xiaotian unleashed his fourth Soul Skill and attacked Xu Zi with the Gale Demon Wolf Forty-Five Consecutive Slashes.
• Xu Zi endured the first forty-four strikes with his Purple Gold Dragon Body, then materialized the Purple Sun and hurled it at Feng Xiaotian’s final slash.
• Feng Xiaotian admitted defeat, and Xu Zi supported him while explaining how his Self-Created Soul Skill had faltered.
• The referee announced the Spirit Hall Second Battle Team’s victory and advancement to the grand final, prompting the crowd and teammates to celebrate.
• Xu Zi handed Feng Xiaotian to a healing-type Soul Master and looked toward Ning Fengzhi, anticipating his meeting with Shrek and Tang San.

Xu Zi hunted a wounded five-thousand-year Golden Crocodile in the Golden Forest and absorbed it to form his third Soul Ring, breaking through to Soul Elder. After Blazing Fire Academy cut him from the tournament team, he prepared to leave the academy behind and continue toward Martial Soul Holy City and Spirit Hall.

• Xu Zi ambushed and devoured the wounded Golden Crocodile, which the Golden Crocodile Family's young master had been pursuing for his fourth Soul Ring.
• Huo Wushuang told Xu Zi that the merged Wind Fire Team had no place for him, and Xu Zi said he would leave the team.
• Xu Zi absorbed the Golden Crocodile's energy, formed a five-thousand-year third Soul Ring, and advanced six ranks beyond the rank-30 bottleneck.
• Xu Zi recalled that he had come from the Sun Moon Empire, mutated his Sun Martial Soul into the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon, and joined Blazing Fire Academy to reach Martial Soul Holy City and Spirit Hall.
• Dean Huo invited Xu Zi to stay at the academy for a future tournament, but Xu Zi refused and revealed that he had already obtained his third Soul Ring.

Xu Zi led the Spirit Hall Second Team into the finals, then was summoned by Bibi Dong, who praised his strength and gave him the secret technique Tool-Beast Conversion. He left with the technique and a gray ring containing the Tyrant Dragon, while Bibi Dong alluded to Snake Lance Douluo’s eventual return to Spirit Hall.

• Xu Zi’s team celebrated reaching the finals, and Huo Lie demanded his sister back before Xu Zi released Huo Yun from his Purple Sun Martial Soul.
• Huo Wu asked why Xu Zi had fought at the front of the team, and he explained that Soul Masters could cultivate beyond the system suggested by their Martial Souls.
• Xu Zi promised Huo Wu that he would defeat Shrek’s Control System Soul Master, then went to a feast with his teammates.
• Ling Yuan told Xu Zi that Bibi Dong had summoned him, and she escorted him to Pope Hall.
• Bibi Dong praised Xu Zi’s combat strength and gave him the secret technique Tool-Beast Conversion on behalf of an unnamed Spirit Hall elder.
• Bibi Dong said Gui Mei had returned with the Tyrant Dragon and gave Xu Zi a gray ring.

Bibi Dong gave Xu Zi the ring containing a ten-thousand-year Tyrant Dragon, which he had long sought as a powerful Soul Beast for his martial soul. That night, Xu Zi studied the Tool-Beast Conversion secret skill and prepared to absorb the Tyrant Dragon as his fourth Soul Ring before facing Shrek in the finals.

• Bibi Dong explained that Gui Mei had captured a male Tyrant Dragon with more than ten thousand years of cultivation and gave Xu Zi its ring.
• Xu Zi realized he could absorb the Tyrant Dragon without using Dragon Scale Fruit to increase its cultivation, and Bibi Dong told him to collect the fruit after the tournament.
• Xu Zi studied the Tool-Beast Conversion secret skill on the villa rooftop and devised a plan to counter Shrek's Seven-in-One Fusion Skill.
• Xu Zi entered the ghost-faced storage ring with his spiritual power and saw the wounded, sleeping Tyrant Dragon inside.
• Xu Zi withdrew his spiritual power, stood, and raised a crimson-purple sun as he prepared to absorb his fourth Soul Ring.

Xu Zi refined a ten-thousand-year Tyrant Dragon, choosing to risk absorbing its soul ring despite the threat of its unyielding dragon soul. The Tyrant Dragon’s body was reduced to pure energy and its soul ring appeared, leaving Xu Zi to face the danger of absorption.

• Ling Yuan watched over Xu Zi as he used his martial souls and second soul skill to refine the Tyrant Dragon.
• Xu Zi considered the Tyrant Dragon’s exceptional strength, devouring ability, growth potential, and unyielding dragon soul, which could overwhelm him if it resisted.
• Xu Zi weighed taking an agility-attack ring for the next day’s tournament finals against absorbing the Tyrant Dragon ring to strengthen his future potential.
• Xu Zi declared his resolve to his Imperial Brother and focused on refining the Tyrant Dragon’s body.
• Xu Zi destroyed the Tyrant Dragon’s impurities and excess matter, leaving pure energy as a pale black soul ring rose from it.

Xu Zi absorbed the ten-thousand-year Tyrant Dragon’s refined essence, reaching level 40 and condensing a Strength Attribute Dragon Core. He then entered his Purple Sun Martial Soul to prepare the Tyrant Dragon’s Soul Ring for his next configuration.

• Xu Zi abandoned thoughts of tomorrow’s match and used his two divine-grade Martial Souls to refine the Tyrant Dragon’s body into pure essence.
• Xu Zi absorbed the essence, strengthening his body and reaching level 40 after four hours.
• Xu Zi discovered that he had condensed a Strength Attribute Dragon Core, storing more than half the Tyrant Dragon’s Soul Power inside it.
• Xu Zi kept the Dragon Core unabsorbed because he had another use for it.
• Xu Zi cast his spiritual consciousness into the Purple Sun Martial Soul and found the Tyrant Dragon’s pale black Soul Ring sheltered from the surrounding will of destruction.

Xu Zi confronted the Ten-Thousand-Year Tyrant Dragon Soul Ring and persuaded its soul to dwell in the Tyrant Dragon’s inner core, while the dragon offered loyalty to the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul. The Tyrant Dragon accepted its only viable refuge, becoming Xu Zi’s first pseudo Soul Spirit.

• Xu Zi summoned the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul to pressure the unyielding Tyrant Dragon Soul Ring into revealing its soul.
• The Tyrant Dragon soul formed from the Soul Ring’s resentment and told Xu Zi it would not submit to a human, but would offer loyalty to the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon.
• The Tyrant Dragon explained that it recognized the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon as an original source of the dragon race, while Xu Zi suspected its lingering consciousness was the source of the Will of Destruction.
• Xu Zi left the Purple Sun Martial Soul and offered the Tyrant Dragon its strength-attribute Dragon Core as a temporary dwelling until he could cultivate a Sea of Consciousness.
• Xu Zi explained his plans for his remaining Soul Rings, and the Tyrant Dragon realized it had no choice but to accept the Dragon Core or be destroyed by the Purple Sun.