Chapter Summaries

The Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team faced Shrek Academy in the tournament’s opening match, with Tang San leading the team despite Xue Qinghe’s warning to go easy. The chapter ended as Tang San revealed his unusual two-purple, five-black Soul Ring Configuration and prepared to defeat Shrek while draining some of their life force.

• Xue Qinghe reminded Tang San to show restraint against Shrek Academy, but Tang San rejected his advice and went to the arena.
• Lin Rong recognized Huang Yuan, Jing Ling, and Jiang Zhu among Shrek’s competitors and sensed that all three had reached Soul Ancestor rank.
• The referee began the match, and Tang San revealed a Soul Ring Configuration of two purple rings and five black rings.
• Xue Qinghe wondered how Tang San had raised his soul ring ages, while Yu Xiaogang left the spirit fighting field before seeing the display.
• Tang San enjoyed the crowd’s reaction and decided to defeat Shrek with dignity while devouring some of their life force.

Tang San used the Dark Blue Silver Emperor to drain the Shrek Academy team during the tournament’s opening match, while his greed made him absorb more life force than necessary. After Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team won, Tang San left to refine the stolen power, and Xue Qinghe continued to conceal his suspicions.

• Tang San covered the arena with Dark Blue Silver Emperor vines and bound the seven Shrek Academy contestants.
• Xue Qinghe recognized the vines’ evil aura, suspected Tang San was a Fallen One, and chose to wait before acting against him.
• Tang San let the vines drain the Shrek contestants’ life force for three minutes, though he repeatedly wanted to absorb more.
• The vines withdrew, revealing the Shrek team collapsed and pale, and the referee declared Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team the winner.
• Tang San told Xue Qinghe that the Shrek team had exhausted themselves struggling against his vines, and Xue Qinghe pretended to accept his explanation.
• Tang San left the Spirit Arena to refine the absorbed life force, expecting his Soul Power Level to break through.

Lin Rong watched the first day of the preliminaries hoping to find another Divine Legacy holder, but Tang San was the only one he discovered. After more than half a month, the rankings showed the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team in first place, with three powerful Soul King teams competing for second through fourth.

• Lin Rong stayed to watch the remaining matches, but found no other Divine Legacy holder among the competing teams.
• The first day’s matches continued until dusk, and Lin Rong concluded that Tang San was the only Divine Legacy holder in the preliminaries.
• The tournament’s ranking rules awarded places according to wins, draws, and head-to-head results, with extra matches required to break certain ties.
• More than half a month into the preliminaries, the undefeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team held first place, while three teams with one loss each fluctuated between second and fourth.
• Star Luo Royal Academy Second Team, Star Crown Sect Second Team, and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Second Team each fielded a Soul King and six Soul Ancestors, and each had lost only to Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team.
• The two empires’ first teams kept their strength hidden, leaving their rivalry to be revealed in the elimination rounds.

Shrek Academy fell to last place in the qualifiers after its weakened members struggled through an exhausting schedule that Flender suspected Yu Xiaogang had arranged. On the final day, Shrek was set to face Spirit Hall Third Team, whose victory would tie it for eighth and earn it a chance to claim the final elimination-round spot.

• Shrek Academy hovered near the bottom of the standings because Tang San's attack had slowed its members' Soul Power recovery.
• Flender mourned the departures of Xiao Ao and Mu Bai, and Liu Erlong tried to comfort him.
• A tournament staff member ordered Shrek Academy to report to another match with little rest, and Flender suspected Yu Xiaogang was behind the unfair schedule.
• After nearly a month of qualifiers, Shrek Academy fell to one hundred eighth place, last among the teams.
• Spirit Hall Third Team prepared to face Shrek in the final official qualifier match, needing a win to tie for eighth place.
• The chapter established that Spirit Hall Third Team had seven powerful Soul Ancestors, while Shrek had only one Soul Ancestor and six Soul Elders.

Spirit Hall Third Team won the final qualifier match in ten seconds, and the first round of the play-ins began. Spirit Hall Third Team and the Four Elements Academy Combined Team won their matches, leaving Sea God Academy Team Two versus Azure Brilliance Academy Team to decide the final first-round result.

• Spirit Hall Third Team defeated Shrek Team in ten seconds, breaking the tournament record and qualifying for the play-ins.
• The six play-in teams drew lots, pairing Spirit Hall Third Team with Plant Academy Team, Four Elements Academy Combined Team with Exotic Beast Academy Team, and Sea God Academy Team Two with Azure Brilliance Academy Team.
• Spirit Hall Third Team's captain revealed he had broken through to Soul King, and Spirit Hall Third Team defeated Plant Academy Team after more than twenty minutes.
• Four Elements Academy Combined Team overcame Exotic Beast Academy Team by exploiting their opponents' familiar techniques and using their own multi-element combinations.
• Sea God Academy Team Two and Azure Brilliance Academy Team remained to fight the final match of the first round.

Azure Brilliance Academy defeated Sea God Academy Team Two and advanced to the playoffs’ second round. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang ordered Ghostly to kill Flender and Liu Erlong, but Ghostly captured them and revealed his dislike of Yu Xiaogang instead.

• Azure Brilliance Academy used its improved Seven-in-One Spirit Skill Fusion Technique to defeat Sea God Academy Team Two and advance.
• Yu Xiaogang watched Shrek Academy’s carriages leave Spirit City and ordered Ghostly to kill Flender and Liu Erlong.
• Ghostly stopped the carriage carrying Flender and Liu Erlong, then abducted them while the rest of Shrek Academy watched in dismay.
• In a desolate wilderness, Ghostly told Flender and Liu Erlong that he had let them go because he disliked Yu Xiaogang and they posed no threat to Spirit Hall.
• Liu Erlong questioned how Ghostly would explain sparing them to Yu Xiaogang, given Yu’s closeness to the Pope.

Ghostly spared Flender and Liu Erlong, then deceived Yu Xiaogang about the failed attempt to capture them. At the spirit arena, Lin Rong arranged a response to Spirit Hall Third Team’s favorable match draw, and Four Elements Academy’s leader approached the referee just before the match began.

• Ghostly told Flender and Liu Erlong to leave, and Liu Erlong realized Yu Xiaogang had ordered their deaths while Flender silently vowed revenge.
• Ghostly told Yu Xiaogang that Tang Hao had intervened, and Yu Xiaogang dismissed Tang Hao and imagined both him and Tang San kneeling at his feet.
• The draw placed Spirit Hall Third Team against a weakened Azure Brilliance Academy Team before their match against Four Elements Academy Combined Team.
• Lin Rong sent a voice transmission to Mu Feng and Shi Nian, and the two deans agreed to his plan.
• As the preparation period neared its end, Four Elements Academy’s leader quietly spoke to the referee and confirmed that he was sure.

The Azure Brilliance Academy Team advanced when Four Elements Academy forfeited, leaving Spirit Hall Third Team needing a win against their Seven-in-One Asura Illusory Realm. The illusion trapped Spirit Hall Third Team in a vision of Pope's Palace, where its members knelt before Bibi Dong and faced her order to execute them.

• Four Elements Academy forfeited, giving Azure Brilliance Academy Team the match and three points.
• Spirit Hall Third Team's captain admitted he could not confidently break the Asura Illusory Realm, and the team prepared to fight Azure Brilliance Academy at full strength.
• Azure Brilliance Academy's seven members fused their Soul Skills and filled the arena with the seven-colored Asura Illusory Realm.
• Spirit Hall Third Team found themselves inside Pope's Palace, where Guang Yue ordered them to kneel before Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong ordered the kneeling Spirit Hall Third Team members dragged away and beheaded.

Ghostly killed the Spirit Hall Third Team in the Asura Illusory Realm, allowing the Azure Brilliance Academy Team to win the preliminary playoffs and claim an elimination-round spot. As teams gathered in Spirit City for the tournament's next stage, Yun Gui arrived with Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Team One.

• Ghostly transformed the arena into an execution ground in the Asura Illusory Realm and decapitated the seven members of Spirit Hall Third Team.
• After the illusion vanished, Spirit Hall rescue personnel found the seven players too badly injured to compete, and the referee awarded the match to Azure Brilliance Academy Team and Spirit Hall Third Team's next match to Four Elements Academy Combined Team by forfeit.
• The rankings placed Azure Brilliance Academy Team first in the playoffs and eighth overall, while Four Elements Academy Combined Team placed ninth and Spirit Hall Third Team tenth.
• Lin Rong reviewed the standings and considered why he had arranged for Four Elements Academy Combined Team, rather than Canghui Academy, to enter the elimination rounds.
• After the preliminaries ended, teams traveled to Spirit City for the elimination rounds, which were scheduled to begin two months later.
• Yun Gui arrived in Spirit City with Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Team One and settled them at the Seven Treasure Chamber of Commerce.

Lin Rong reviewed intelligence about the tournament teams and the Divine Legacies their members might have obtained. He suspected Dai Mubai carried the Envy inheritance and identified Xiong Lai and Yi Shuihan as possible successors to the Sloth and Emotion inheritances, leaving their abilities to be confirmed at the competition.

• Yun Gui told Lin Rong that Star Luo Royal Academy First Team had yet to reach Spirit City and that Dai Mubai had defeated his brother Dai Weisi in a succession struggle three months earlier.
• Lin Rong concluded that Dai Mubai had inherited the Envy God Seat, explaining that he had concealed his Soul Emperor strength until the tournament registration deadline approached.
• Lin Rong reviewed the known successors to Divine Legacies and noted that the Sloth and Gluttony successors remained uncertain.
• Lin Rong saw Xiong Lai's Sloth Martial Soul in the materials and suspected that he had obtained the God of Sloth's inheritance.
• Lin Rong read about Yi Shuihan of the Eat Drink Team and suspected that the Kitchen Knife Martial Soul user had inherited the God of Emotion's legacy; he planned to look for Rong Nianbing's eight Divine Artifact-level knives at the competition.

Lin Rong reviewed the suspected Divine Legacy inheritors before attending a grand auction hosted by Spirit Hall and several factions. The auction’s rarest creature was revealed as a Light Goddess Butterfly, whose identity someone in a private box had guessed immediately.

• Lin Rong identified Tuoba Sheng as a possible Earth God inheritor and Li Cang as a possible God of Speed inheritor, while the gluttony inheritor remained unknown.
• Spirit Hall and several factions held a grand auction seven days before the tournament’s elimination rounds, with Star Crown Sect providing the auctioneer.
• A bidder in VIP Room Thirteen won a fourteen-thousand-year head soul bone for ten million Gold Soul Coins after an Elephant Armor Sect bidder stopped at seven million.
• The auctioneer introduced a rare hundred-year soul beast as the thirty-sixth item, and a woman in a private box correctly called it a Light Goddess Butterfly.
• The auctioneer uncovered the cage and revealed the blue Light Goddess Butterfly to the audience.

At the auction, a blue-haired girl exchanged a ten-thousand-year Torso Bone for a hundred-year Light Goddess Butterfly, intending to use it to create a growth-type spirit ring. Lin Rong inferred that she had a way to overcome the usual limits on spirit ring age and ordered an investigation into the people in Box Eighteen.

• The auctioneer explained the Light Goddess Butterfly's rarity and opened bidding at five million Gold Soul Coins, with priority for an equivalent spirit bone.
• Xue Qinghe recalled how Qian Renxue had obtained a thousand-year Light Goddess Butterfly as her third soul ring and gained the Angel Descent skill.
• In Box Eighteen, Shiyu told Brother Yan she would use the butterfly and the Butterfly God's inheritance to create a growth-type Seventh Soul Ring.
• Brother Yan gave Shiyu a ten-thousand-year Torso Bone, and she used it to win the butterfly through the spirit bone's priority bidding right.
• Lin Rong explained to Yun Gui that Shiyu's plan suggested a power beyond ordinary spirit ring limits, possibly tied to the Butterfly God, and told Yun Gui and Ning Fengzhi to identify the people in Box Eighteen.

At the auction, the Star Crown Sect bought Spirit Hall’s star-attribute Torso Bone for fifty million Gold Soul Coins, and the Benti Sect’s fifty-thousand-year ice-attribute Right Leg Bone became the grand finale. Lin Rong recognized it as an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone and ordered his side to bid for it, while the price climbed to one hundred million Gold Soul Coins.

• Ning Fengzhi told Lin Rong that Spirit Hall’s finale lot was a forty-thousand-year Soul Bone and the Benti Sect’s grand finale was a fifty-thousand-year Right Leg Bone.
• The Star Crown Sect elder in Box Three won Spirit Hall’s star-attribute Torso Bone with a fifty-million-Gold-Soul-Coin bid, and Lin Rong asked Ning Fengzhi to investigate whether the payment revealed an alliance.
• The auctioneer revealed the Benti Sect’s ice-attribute Right Leg Bone, which Lin Rong recognized as coming from an Ice Jade Scorpion and ordered his side to pursue regardless of the price.
• Bidders drove the Right Leg Bone’s price upward, and the Benti Sect members in Box Two celebrated as the auction reached one hundred million Gold Soul Coins.

Lin Rong won the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone and arranged for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to demand compensation from the Benti Sect. As the elimination rounds approached, the Benti Sect compensated several major factions, while the Sea God Empire remained isolated but protected by Bo Saixi’s presence.

• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect outbid its rivals with one hundred million Gold Soul Coins for the Right Leg Bone, making Dai Mubai jealous and prompting Xue Qinghe to refrain from competing.
• Lin Rong identified the Right Leg Bone as an Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone and instructed Ning Fengzhi to make a restrained, symbolic complaint to the Benti Sect.
• Lin Rong left the auction alone using spatial power, and the major forces suppressed news of the soul bone incident to protect the tournament’s reputation.
• The Benti Sect paid compensation under pressure, and Ning Fengzhi divided it among the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Spirit Hall, the Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire, the Star Crown Sect, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• The major factions excluded the Sea God Empire from the settlement, but they avoided openly isolating it because Bo Saixi had accompanied Chen Haitian to Spirit City.

The elimination matches began with the eight great powers unveiling twenty-one Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones as the tournament prizes. Lin Rong watched as the three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones were revealed and considered their origins and relative value.

• The host announced that the tournament prizes included three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and eighteen other rare Soul Bones.
• Representatives of the eight great powers opened the twenty-one Lead Boxes while powerful spirit masters suppressed the Soul Bones’ magnetic fields.
• Spirit Hall revealed a Light Attribute Hundred Thousand Year Right Arm Bone from a Light Unicorn.
• Benti Sect revealed a dual-attribute Hundred Thousand Year Left Leg Bone from Xiao Bai, making Bo Saixi visibly angry.
• Star Crown Sect revealed a dual-attribute Hundred Thousand Year head Soul Bone, which Xu Xuchen had seized but now had to present as a prize.
• Lin Rong watched from the stands and reflected that Star Crown Sect had provided the best-positioned Soul Bone, while Benti Sect had provided the lowest-aged one.

The elimination stage began after the Soul Bones were displayed, and Tang San drew Number One for Heaven Dou Royal Team Two. The matching team was revealed to be Star Luo Royal Academy's second team, setting up the first match.

• The Soul Masters watching the twenty-one Soul Bones regained their senses after the Lead Boxes were closed, and the master of ceremonies announced the rewards and elimination-stage rules.
• Representatives from the twenty-eight non-seeded teams drew lots, with Tang San pulling Number One for Heaven Dou Royal Team Two.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect drew Number Seven, while the Four Elements Academy drew Numbers Four, Nine, and Twelve without matching numbers.
• Dai Mubai ordered Star Luo Royal Academy's second team to win its Number One match or face punishment under imperial military law.
• Xue Qinghe congratulated Tang San on drawing Number One and asked him to take care of the match.

Heaven Dou Royal Team Two faced Star Luo Royal Team Two in the first elimination-round match, with Tang San standing against a stronger team alone. After the match began, Tang San sent his teammates off the arena and prepared to meet Star Luo’s attack himself.

• The teams revealed their lineups, showing Star Luo Royal Team Two had three Soul Kings and four Soul Ancestors against Tang San’s Soul Saint and six Soul Elders.
• Star Luo’s captain ordered his team to ignore Heaven Dou’s other members and focus their attacks on Tang San rather than risk admitting defeat.
• Tang San told his six teammates to leave the arena as soon as the match began, and they reluctantly agreed.
• When the referee started the match, Tang San whipped all six teammates off the stage with Dark Blue Silver Emperor vines.
• Star Luo’s six attackers rushed Tang San and launched long-range attacks, while he prepared to strike back without using his vines’ devouring ability.

Tang San used Bat Wing Samsara to defeat Star Luo Second Team, leaving its members gravely injured, and Dai Mubai ordered them abandoned when they could not be healed. Ye Lingling followed the stretchers to a mass grave, killed the men carrying them, and began treating the seven survivors.

• Tang San struck all seven members of Star Luo Second Team at the chest with concealed weapons, paralyzing them, and the referee declared Heaven Dou Royal Team Two the winner.
• A healing-type Soul Emperor said the injured could not be saved without a highly skilled Nine-Hearted Begonia soul master, and Dai Mubai ordered them dragged away.
• Ye Lingling noticed the seven being carried out and left the arena to follow them to a mass grave outside Spirit City.
• Ye Lingling killed the men who had brought the seven to the grave, then used begonia petals to treat the survivors and restore their ability to speak.

Ye Lingling repeatedly offered the injured Star Luo Second Team a chance to pledge loyalty, while Lin Rong’s order left their fate hanging on one final answer. Meanwhile, the tournament continued as Sea God Team prepared to face Benti Sect Second Team, with Chen Haitian’s divine inheritance drawing attention.

• Ye Lingling left the mass grave after Star Luo Second Team failed to answer whether they would serve her, then returned to the Soul Arena as Azure Brilliance Academy defeated Spirit Hall Team Two with its Asura Illusory Realm.
• Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling that Azure Brilliance Academy’s three Skull Soul Bones had strengthened the fusion technique and eliminated Spirit Hall’s all-Soul King team.
• At noon, Ye Lingling again offered to save Star Luo Second Team, but they begged for help instead of giving the answer she wanted, and she left them under the blazing sun.
• Lin Rong’s order gave Star Luo Second Team one final chance to answer that night before Ye Lingling killed them to prevent the incident from being revealed.
• Lin Rong watched Sea God Team face Benti Sect Second Team, judging Benti Sect likely to win despite Chen Haitian being the inheritor of Sea God.
• Du You taunted Chen Haitian for hiding his martial soul and soul rings, and Chen Haitian replied that Du You would see them when the match began.

Chen Haitian revealed his Ocean Martial Soul and used the Sea God Team’s Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill to freeze all seven members of the Benti Sect Second Team. With the opponents trapped in ice, a Sea God Team Soul King stepped forward to finish the match.

• Chen Haitian transformed the arena into an ocean, and Du You’s team used Soul Power to stand on its surface.
• Chen Haitian revealed his Ocean Martial Soul and Rank seventy-five Soul Saint strength, leaving Du You shaken by the gap in their power.
• Two twin Soul Kings joined Chen Haitian to perform a Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill, creating a moon that rose from the sea.
• Chen Haitian’s Moonlight Heavenly Frost froze all seven members of the Benti Sect Second Team into ice sculptures.
• A Sea God Team Soul King attacked the frozen opponents with his fifth Soul Skill, Sword Shadow Shattering Ice Slash.