Chapter Summaries

Grandmaster Yu explained the tournament rules and format to Shrek Academy, and Flender urged the team to win the preliminaries. At the Heaven Dou City opening ceremony, Shrek was mocked for its uniforms before drawing Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team as its first opponent.

• Grandmaster Yu explained the tournament stages, rules, and qualifying slots, while Dai Mubai asked about accidental deaths in matches.
• Flender told Shrek’s students to focus on winning the preliminaries, and they answered that they were confident.
• Half a month later, Shrek Academy arrived at the Heaven Dou City opening ceremony in its embarrassing green uniforms and drew jeers from the crowd.
• Emperor Xue Ye declared the tournament open, and Ning Fengzhi delivered an address.
• Platinum Bishop Salas drew Shrek Academy against Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team for the opening match, and the Shrek team eagerly prepared to face them.

Shrek Academy crushed Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Second Team in the opening qualifier, publicly humiliating the empire. Tang San then learned about his Clear Sky Sect heritage from Xue Qinghe, while Heaven Dou Team One resolved to focus on winning the championship.

• Tang San led Shrek’s lineup in a one-minute assault that left all seven members of Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Second Team badly injured, and the referee declared Shrek the winner.
• Xue Ye rebuked Prince Xue Xing over the defeat, while the embarrassed Heaven Dou Team One fled to a secluded lounge.
• Ning Fengzhi introduced Tang San to Xue Qinghe, who explained Tang Hao’s background and revealed that Tang San belonged to the Clear Sky Sect and wielded its Clear Sky Hammer.
• Dugu Yan dismissed the second team’s loss and told Heaven Dou Team One to study Shrek while keeping their sights on the overall championship.
• The education committee members encouraged Dugu Yan’s team to move past the defeat and prepare carefully for Shrek.

Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer in a one-on-one fight with Feng Xiaotian, defeating him and shocking the VIP audience. The Heaven Dou qualifiers ended with fifteen teams advancing to Spirit City, while Shrek’s difficult run left Tang San newly resolved to treat Blue Silver Grass as a stepping stone to his second Martial Soul.

• Tang San and Feng Xiaotian agreed to face each other one-on-one in Shrek Academy’s final qualifier match, and Feng’s Demon Wolf Storm pushed Tang San into a desperate corner.
• Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer and used Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer against Feng Xiaotian’s Gale Demon Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes; after their final attacks collided, Tang San won when Feng collapsed first.
• Ning Fengzhi, Salas, and Xue Qinghe were stunned by Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls, while Salas suspected his connection to the Clear Sky Sect and Xue Qinghe considered winning him over.
• The Heaven Dou qualifiers concluded, sending fifteen teams to Spirit City; Shrek had beaten Elephant Armor Academy but forfeited matches after Tang San’s attack left Canghui Academy’s team unconscious and disabled.
• Shrek suffered crushing losses to Blazing Fire Academy and Skywater Academy, and Tang San questioned his Blue Silver Grass until Flender and Grandmaster Yu urged him to treat it as a stepping stone to the Clear Sky Hammer.

The preliminaries ended with Shrek Academy qualifying for the grand finals in fifth place, while Salas discovered that Tang San was a fourteen-year-old Soul Ancestor with twin Martial Souls. In the Far North, Tang Feng and Tang Lie prepared to leave after months of training, but Tang Feng said he wanted to visit Slaughter City again.

• Thunder Academy finished first in the preliminaries, followed by Godwind Academy, Skywater Academy, Blazing Fire Academy, and Shrek Academy; Elephant Armor Academy placed sixth and failed to qualify.
• The academies began a month-long break before the advancement tournament, giving the competitors time to recover and train.
• Salas reread Tang San's Spirit Hall file and was stunned by his age, rank, and twin Martial Souls; he sent a top-secret letter to the Pope.
• After winning a board game against Tang Feng, Tang Lie agreed that they should leave their Far North cave because their killing aura and cultivation had stabilized.
• Tang Feng told Tang Lie he wanted to visit Slaughter City again before they returned, prompting Tang Lie to ask why.

Tang Feng returned to Slaughter City with Tang Lie to investigate the summons drawing his Clear Sky Hammer toward the sea of blood. After diving in, he absorbed its slaughter origin, resisted the Rakshasa God’s resentment, and caught the Asura God’s attention as a potential inheritor.

• Tang Feng told Tang Lie that the sea of blood had called to his Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang Lie agreed to return with him to Slaughter City.
• Tang Feng and Tang Lie entered Slaughter City, where their Divine Slaughter’s Domain let them bypass its restrictions and descend into Hell Road.
• Tang Feng plunged into the sea of blood, and his Divine Slaughter’s Domain protected him as the Clear Sky Hammer began absorbing its killing aura.
• The Clear Sky Hammer drew out Tang Feng’s Ice and Fire Origin Qi, and the three powers fused as his body and Martial Soul underwent a powerful transformation.
• The Rakshasa God’s resentment attacked Tang Feng’s mind, but he defeated it with his will and emerged spiritually stronger.
• The Asura God observed Tang Feng’s evolution and resistance to the resentment, deciding that he might be the inheritor he had sought.

Tang Feng absorbed the Slaughter Origin Qi beneath the sea of blood, evolving his Clear Sky Hammer and creating the inheritable Clear Sky Domain. After Tang Feng and Tang Lie prepared to leave Hell Road, the King of Slaughter appeared and blocked their way.

• The Asura God watched Tang Feng's progress and decided to wait to see whether he could reach the god through his own opportunities.
• The King of Slaughter searched Slaughter City for Tang Feng and Tang Lie, then sensed Slaughter City's killing presence weakening and rushed toward Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Tang Feng emerged from the sea of blood with an evolved Clear Sky Hammer, stronger Flame Dragon Wings, and a new Clear Sky Domain that included the Clear Sky Assault skill.
• Tang Feng told Tang Lie that the Clear Sky Domain had become an inheritable Innate Domain, and Tang Lie urged him to start a family before they turned to leave.
• The King of Slaughter descended into Hell Road and threatened to kill Tang Feng and Tang Lie, while Tang Lie challenged him to a fight.

Tang Feng and Tang Lie fought the King of Slaughter in Hell Road and forced the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King out of his body. The King of Slaughter lost consciousness before he could recognize the two wielders of the Clear Sky Hammers.

• Tang Lie and Tang Feng combined their domains and Clear Sky Hammers to battle the King of Slaughter, who fought them with his wings and bare hands.
• The King of Slaughter summoned a Clear Sky Hammer and then the Asura Demon Sword, overwhelming the pair with his power.
• Tang Lie and Tang Feng coordinated their strongest attacks, with Tang Lie using Nothingness to evade a sword strike while Tang Feng landed Clear Sky Assault.
• Clear Sky Assault forced the wounded Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King out of the King of Slaughter, and Tang Feng knocked it unconscious, bound it, and stored it in the Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse.
• The King of Slaughter's eyes cleared, and Tang Lie recognized him as his Eldest Uncle before the injured man collapsed into the sea of blood.

Tang Feng and Tang Lie freed Tang Chen from the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, and Tang Chen explained how he had been corrupted and told them of the Clear Sky Sect’s defeat and Tang Hao’s disappearance. Near death and bound by an old promise, Tang Chen entrusted the Clear Sky Token and the sect’s future to Tang Feng, then named Battle Asura the new ruler of Slaughter City.

• Tang Feng used a seventh-grade dragon ganoderma while Tang Lie supplied Soul Power to revive Tang Chen.
• Tang Chen recounted how Rakshasa corruption and the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King had turned him into the King of Slaughter until Tang Feng’s attack gave him a chance to expel the parasite.
• Tang Lie told Tang Chen that Spirit Hall had attacked the Clear Sky Sect after Tang Hao’s wife sacrificed herself, forcing the sect to withdraw from the world, and that Tang Hao had never returned or helped.
• Tang Chen condemned Tang Hao for abandoning the sect, then gave the Clear Sky Token to Tang Feng and entrusted him with the sect’s future because his own body was failing.
• Tang Chen led Tang Feng and Tang Lie to the dark hall and declared Battle Asura the new ruler of Slaughter City, ordering Blood Wing to obey him.

Tang Chen entrusted Tang Feng with the Great Sumeru Hammer and the Clear Sky Sect’s future before leaving for Sea God Island. Tang Feng and Tang Lie studied and cautiously tested Ring Detonation, then returned to Heaven Dou City after completing their trials in Slaughter City.

• Tang Chen appointed Blood Wing to manage Slaughter City and gave Tang Feng the Great Sumeru Hammer technique, explaining Ring Detonation’s power and risks.
• Tang Chen asked Tang Feng to visit Bo Saixi, return him to the Clear Sky Sect’s ancestral grounds, and bring back his Soul Bones before departing toward the eastern horizon.
• Tang Feng shared the technique with Tang Lie, and the two studied its dangers while traveling home.
• Tang Lie detonated a hundred-year Soul Ring in the wilderness and destroyed a small hill with his hammer, then warned Tang Feng not to attempt the technique until his physique was strong enough.
• Tang Feng and Tang Lie arrived in Heaven Dou City and headed for the Strength Clan’s estate.

Tang Feng and Tang Lie returned to Heaven Dou City and learned that the Four Great Single-Attribute Clans had nearly finished building the Clear Sky Sect’s new headquarters on Cloud Mist Mountain. After surveying the fortress, Tang Feng reunited with Third Elder Tang Ming and the four clan chiefs, ready to discuss the sect’s future.

• Tang Feng and Tang Lie entered the Strength Clan estate, where Tai Nuo told them the four clan chiefs had moved most of their people to the nearly completed headquarters on Cloud Mist Mountain.
• Tai Nuo explained that Tai Long had competed in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament for Shrek Academy and reached the finals, prompting Tang Feng to consider visiting familiar friends in Heaven Dou City.
• Tang Feng asked Tai Nuo to take them to Cloud Mist Mountain, and the three traveled there by carriage.
• Tang Feng and Tang Lie inspected the headquarters’ formidable gates, layered defensive walls, traps, moat, courtyards, training platform, and summit hall.
• Tang Ming and the four clan chiefs arrived at the council hall, where Tang Feng greeted them respectfully.

Tang Feng and Tang Lie returned from Slaughter City with Divine Slaughter's Domain, and the Clear Sky Sect revealed its growing strength and plans to reopen its gates. Tang Feng then led the elders toward a hidden chamber to unveil a mysterious gift for Yang Wudi.

• Tang Feng told the elders that he and Tang Lie had completed Slaughter City's final trial and obtained Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Niu Gao and Tai Tan explained that Spirit Hall had failed to uncover the Clear Sky Sect's presence, while the Heaven Dou Imperial Family had granted land and funding to the four clans.
• The elders reported the sect's cultivation breakthroughs, including Tang Xiao reaching peak level 97, Xiao Jian reaching at least level 46, and Tai Tan breaking through to level 90.
• Tang Feng called for the Clear Sky Sect to reopen its gates, and Tang Lie agreed to arrange the return in two months.
• Tang Feng promised Yang Wudi a grand gift and followed Niu Gao into a concealed underground chamber with the elders.

Tang Feng presented Yang Wudi with a captured Hundred-Thousand-Year Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, and Yang Wudi absorbed its Soul Ring with Tang Feng’s help. After twenty-four hours, Yang Wudi emerged as a Titled Douluo at the peak of level ninety-two.

• Tang Feng released the dying Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King and urged Yang Wudi to claim its Soul Ring.
• Yang Wudi killed the beast with nine spear thrusts, and a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone appeared.
• Yang Wudi gave the Head Soul Bone to Tang Feng and began absorbing the Soul Ring.
• As the Soul Ring’s blood fiend Qi and resentment threatened Yang Wudi, Tang Feng used his Clear Sky Domain and Soul Power to guide the dangerous energy.
• After twenty-four hours, Yang Wudi completed the absorption and became the first Soul Breaking Spear Titled Douluo, reaching the peak of level ninety-two.

Yang Wudi became a Titled Douluo after receiving a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and named himself Soul Breaking Douluo. Tang Feng then absorbed the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King's Head Soul Bone, greatly increasing his spiritual power and gaining two new abilities, before planning to visit Heaven Dou City.

• Yang Wudi named himself Soul Breaking Douluo and revealed that his ninth Soul Skill could unleash blood bats and give him nine chances to survive fatal damage.
• The elders celebrated Yang Wudi's breakthrough with a feast and wine, then fell asleep in the reception hall.
• Tang Feng returned to his secluded house and began absorbing the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King's Head Soul Bone.
• Tang Feng overcame the Bat King's resentment with his Clear Sky Domain and absorbed the soul bone's power into his Sea of Consciousness.
• Tang Feng's spiritual power increased at least fivefold, and he gained the Bloodthirsty Demonic Sound and Nine-Headed Soul Devouring Chains abilities.
• Tang Feng planned to obtain a Sixth Soul Ring of up to eighty thousand years once Grandpa returned, then headed down the mountain to visit Heaven Dou City.

Tang Feng visited Dugu Manor with Yang Wudi, reunited with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, and invited Ye Qingxin and Dugu Bo to join the Clear Sky Sect as it prepared to emerge from seclusion. He learned where Shrek Academy was and set out to visit his friends there.

• Tang Feng and Yang Wudi arrived at Dugu Manor, where Dugu Bo welcomed them and revealed that he had reached rank ninety-five.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling arrived with Ye Qingxin, and Dugu Yan described her team’s prospects for the Soul Master Tournament finals in Spirit City.
• Tang Feng agreed to help Ye Lingling obtain her Fifth Soul Ring and warned Dugu Bo to protect Dugu Yan during the journey to the finals.
• Tang Feng invited Ye Qingxin to become an elder when the Clear Sky Sect emerged from seclusion in two months, and Ye Qingxin accepted.
• Tang Feng invited Dugu Bo to join the sect, revealed it had nine Titled Douluos and nine Soul Douluos, and agreed with the elders to keep the news quiet until the finals ended.
• Dugu Yan told Tang Feng that Shrek Academy was in the east of Heaven Dou City, and Dugu Bo recalled that he had once humiliated its members at Prince Xue Xing’s request.

Tang Feng visited Shrek Academy and reunited with Oscar, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong, drawing surprise and suspicion from the academy’s leaders and guests. Flender invited everyone to another place to talk, while Dai Mubai grew increasingly hostile toward Tang Feng.

• Tang Feng left Dugu Bo, Yang Wudi, and Ye Qingxin discussing poison and detoxification and went alone to Shrek Academy.
• At a meeting, Flender announced that Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing had reached level forty and would soon go hunting for their fourth soul rings.
• A guard told the meeting that Tang Feng had arrived, surprising Oscar, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong and provoking hostility in Dai Mubai and Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang Feng reunited with Ning Rongrong, Oscar, and Zhu Zhuqing in the lobby, while Tai Long pretended not to know him.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Tang Feng’s cultivation, astonishing the Shrek members and prompting Xue Qinghe to reassess him.
• Flender invited the group to talk elsewhere, and Dai Mubai clenched his fists after seeing Tang Feng exchange a glance with Zhu Zhuqing.

Tang Feng challenged Yu Xiaogang’s authority over Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing’s Soul Ring choices, proposing a wager that Yu Xiaogang lost by overlooking the mental shock from a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring’s lingering soul remnants. He then invoked the wager to ask Flender to let him take his friends to obtain their Soul Rings.

• Ning Fengzhi introduced Tang Feng to Crown Prince Xue Qinghe while keeping Tang Feng’s background vague.
• Flender explained that Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing needed their fourth Soul Rings and that Shrek Academy had plans to obtain them.
• Tang Feng offered to accompany Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing, but Yu Xiaogang rejected his involvement in the academy’s arrangements.
• Tang Feng argued that Soul Masters should have a say in their own Soul Ring choices, and Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing supported him.
• Tang Feng wagered that Yu Xiaogang could not answer a question about absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, and Yu Xiaogang accepted.
• Yu Xiaogang named greater energy and physical strain as the main difference, overlooking the mental shock from lingering soul remnants, so Tang Feng asked Flender to honor the wager.

Tang Feng exposed Yu Xiaogang’s mistake about Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, then faced Dai Mubai’s challenge when he tried to leave with Zhu Zhuqing and Oscar. Tang Feng defeated Dai Mubai effortlessly without using his Martial Soul, leaving the training grounds stunned.

• Flender explained that Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings retained a beast’s consciousness, humiliating Yu Xiaogang and prompting Tang San to prepare for a possible attack.
• Dai Mubai blocked Tang Feng from taking Zhu Zhuqing away, and Tang Feng mocked him about the twin sisters he had been with at the Rose Hotel.
• Flender encouraged Dai Mubai and Tang Feng to settle their private dispute in a one-on-one Soul Fighting match, and Tang Feng accepted.
• Dai Mubai activated his White Tiger Martial Soul and Soul Skills, but Tang Feng stopped his attacks with his bare hands.
• Tang Feng seized Dai Mubai by the neck and threw him out of the fighting area, defeating him without using his Martial Soul or Soul Rings.

Tang Feng defeated Dai Mubai’s attempted sneak attack and left Shrek Academy with Zhu Zhuqing and Oscar. At Dugu Manor, he confirmed he was the Clear Sky Sect’s young sect master, welcomed Oscar into the sect, and offered Zhu Zhuqing support when she was ready.

• Dai Mubai attacked Tang Feng from behind with a Sleeve Arrow and Godly Zhuge Crossbow, but Tang Feng deflected every bolt with the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
• Flender demanded Dai Mubai apologize, but Zhu Zhuqing stopped Tang Feng from retaliating, and Tang Feng left after insulting Dai Mubai.
• Tang Feng, Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar left Shrek Academy while unidentified pursuers followed them, whom Tang Feng suspected belonged to Xue Qinghe.
• Tang Feng brought Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing to Dugu Manor and explained that he was close friends with Dugu Bo.
• Tang Feng confirmed he was the Clear Sky Sect’s young sect master, promised Oscar a place in the sect, and offered Zhu Zhuqing its support; Zhu Zhuqing said she wanted to resolve her family matters herself first.

Tang Feng brought Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing to Cloud Mist Mountain, where they met Clear Sky Sect elders and learned the sect was preparing to return to the Soul Master World. In Heaven Dou City, Xue Qinghe suspected Tang Feng was connected to the Clear Sky Sect and ordered closer surveillance of Dugu Manor.

• Tang Feng introduced Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing to Yang Wudi, Dugu Bo, and Ye Qingxin, then arranged to help them hunt soul rings in Sunset Forest.
• Tang Feng and Yang Wudi led Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing out of Heaven Dou City and flew to the Clear Sky Sect's secret base on Cloud Mist Mountain.
• Xue Qinghe suspected Tang Feng might be a Clear Sky Sect disciple, ordered his subordinates to monitor Dugu Manor, and decided to prioritize investigating Tang San.
• Tang Feng brought Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing into the sect's new mountain base and explained that its direct disciples would soon move there before the sect announced its return.
• Tang Feng introduced Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing to Third Elder Tang Ming and his grandfather, Tang Lie, and Tang Ming welcomed them as friends of the sect.

Tang Feng welcomed Tang Jian, Oscar, and Zhu Zhuqing, then gave them whale rubber and distributed powerful Soul Bones to help them grow stronger. The chapter ended as Tang Feng prepared to give Oscar a fifty-thousand-year Illusion Head Soul Bone.

• Tang Lie told Tang Feng that the sect had agreed to relocate and return to the world in one month, and Tang Feng arranged for the group to meet at Sunset Forest the next day.
• Tang Feng reunited with Tang Jian and introduced him to Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Tang Feng gave the three young Soul Masters ten-thousand-year whale rubber to absorb, and they returned with improved physical abilities.
• Tang Feng gave Tang Jian a forty-thousand-year strength-type Right Arm Bone, which Tang Jian accepted excitedly.
• Tang Feng persuaded Zhu Zhuqing to accept a forty-thousand-year darkness and extreme-speed Right Leg Bone.
• Tang Feng showed Oscar a roughly fifty-thousand-year Illusion Head Soul Bone.