Recaps

After completing Ice and Fire Body Tempering, Yang Podi returned to the Breaking Clan and prepared to travel with his grandfathers and allies into the core region of Star Dou Great Forest to seek powerful Soul Beasts. He left with his sister training harder at home and Dugu Bo teasing him about compensating Dugu Yan for his demanding training.

• Yang Podi emerged after three days in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, having completed his Secondary Silver-Level Awakening and strengthened his Soul Bones.
• Yang Podi and Yang Wushuang decided to postpone hunting for a Soul Ring and returned to the Breaking Clan, where Yang Podi trained Yang Tianyue with spear techniques.
• After five days of preparation, Yang Podi set out for the core region of Star Dou Great Forest with Yang Wushuang, his other grandfather, Dugu Bo, and Niu Gao.
• Niu Gao joked about carrying Yang Podi, while Dugu Bo accused him of making Dugu Yan suffer through training and demanded compensation.
• Yang Podi defended his training by pointing to Dugu Yan's rapid progress and predicted that she could reach the high-level Soul Ancestor realm by the next Soul Master Tournament.

Yang Podi and his family entered the core region of Star Dou Great Forest to find his fifth Soul Ring, while Yang Wushuang sought a ninth. After the group poisoned and defeated a seventy-six-thousand-year Two-Headed Gale Demon Wolf for Yang Wushuang, Yang Podi found a rare Soul Bone in its remains and quietly claimed it.

• Yang Podi agreed to seek a strength-type or rare dragon-attribute Soul Beast for a fifth Soul Ring no older than forty thousand years, and five members of his family set out for Star Dou Great Forest.
• The group crossed into the dangerous core region, where they encountered many powerful Soul Beasts and found a thirty-five-thousand-year Diamond Mammoth that Yang Podi rejected.
• Yang Wushuang chose a seventy-six-thousand-year Two-Headed Gale Demon Wolf for his ninth Soul Ring, and the group planned an ambush using Dugu Bo's poison.
• Dugu Bo poisoned the wolf, and Yang Wushuang, Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Dugu Bo surrounded and defeated it with their combined attacks.
• The group moved to a safer location so Yang Wushuang could prepare to absorb the wolf's Soul Ring, while Yang Podi examined the corpse.
• Yang Podi discovered a seventy-six-thousand-year left leg Soul Bone and put it away, leaving Yang Wudi embarrassed by his grandson's crafty behavior.

Yang Podi and his companions hunted Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Yang Wushuang became a Titled Douluo and Yang Podi and Yang Wudi each found a powerful Soul Beast for a new Soul Ring. After defeating the beasts with Dugu Bo’s poison and the elders’ help, Yang Podi absorbed the One-Horned Tyrant Dragon’s Soul Ring and discovered that both corpses had yielded Soul Bones.

• Yang Wushuang absorbed the Gale Demon Wolf’s seventy-six-thousand-year Soul Ring and reached rank 91, while Yang Podi had already taken the beast’s left leg Soul Bone.
• The group encountered Er Ming, the Titan Giant Ape, but Yang Wudi refused Yang Podi’s suggestion that they hunt it for a ninth Soul Ring.
• Yang Podi and Yang Wudi chose the One-Horned Tyrant Dragon and the Vajra Gorilla as their Soul Ring targets, and Dugu Bo secretly poisoned the two beasts during their battle.
• After the exhausted beasts fell, Yang Wudi and Yang Podi began absorbing their Soul Rings while Dugu Bo, Yang Wushuang, and Niu Gao stood guard.
• Yang Podi absorbed the One-Horned Tyrant Dragon’s Soul Ring in eight hours and reached rank 53, while Yang Wudi continued absorbing his own Soul Ring.
• Yang Podi dissected the beasts and found a Left Arm Soul Bone from the One-Horned Tyrant Dragon and a Right Arm Soul Bone from the Vajra Gorilla.

Yang Podi and his companions returned from the Star Dou Great Forest after he staged Yang Wushuang’s death to conceal the Breaking Clan’s growing strength. The fabricated story spread across the continent, prompting Spirit Hall and the major sects to react to Yang Wudi and Niu Gao’s new status as Titled Douluo.

• Yang Podi gave Dugu Bo the One-Horned Tyrant Dragon soul bone after the group secured three valuable soul bones from their hunt.
• After Yang Wudi finished absorbing the Vajra Gorilla’s soul ring, Yang Podi staged Yang Wushuang’s death and dressed the others as battle survivors, blaming the Titan Giant Ape.
• Yang Wudi carried Yang Wushuang’s bloodied body out of the forest, and witnesses helped spread the false account of the battle and death.
• The Breaking Clan prepared for a funeral while Yang Wudi and Niu Gao declined Spirit Hall’s invitations to receive their titles, saying they would come within five years.
• Bibi Dong refused to help Yang Wudi hunt the Titan Giant Ape and ordered that both Titled Douluo come to Spirit City within five years; the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan also worried about the shift in power.

Yang Podi left Heaven Dou Royal Academy to train alone in Sunset Forest, after arranging for Yang Ping'an and Dugu Yan to oversee his team. He began his trials by killing five mercenaries who tried to rob him, then continued deeper into the forest.

• Yang Podi distributed the two remaining Soul Bones to Yang Wudi and Yang Wushuang, and gave Niu Gao a ten-thousand-year spirit herb as thanks.
• Yang Podi requested three years of leave from the education commissioners, who approved it and kept the Second Team under his charge.
• Yang Podi assigned Yang Ping'an and Dugu Yan to supervise the team's training, said farewell to Ye Lingling, and left Heaven Dou Royal Academy alone.
• Yang Podi entered Sunset Forest to hone his combat and survival skills, knowing he would have to rely on himself.
• Five mercenaries surrounded Yang Podi and tried to rob him, but he killed all of them and continued deeper into the forest.

Yang Podi completed three months of brutal training in Sunset Forest, then traveled to a hidden town to enter Slaughter City. After slaughtering the people in its tavern, he jumped into the entrance despite Yang Wuju’s warning, leaving the Third Elder behind.

• Yang Podi survived three months of combat in Sunset Forest, improving his strength, speed, and spearmanship while Yang Wuju secretly watched over him.
• Yang Podi traveled to Heaven Dou City, commissioned weapons and armor from the Strength Clan, and stocked up on supplies before heading north.
• After searching for half a month, Yang Podi found a hidden town and its tavern, where he drank a Bloody Mary and identified its poisonous ingredients.
• Yang Podi summoned his Soul Breaking Spear and killed everyone in the tavern except the waiter, then ordered the waiter to take him to Slaughter City.
• Yang Wuju appeared and warned Yang Podi about Slaughter City, but Yang Podi jumped into the entrance before the Third Elder could stop him.

Yang Podi entered Slaughter City, defeated its gatekeeper, and headed straight for the Hell Slaughter Arena despite warnings about its dangers. After killing a veteran fighter to secure entry, he won his first arena battle by killing seven of the other nine contestants; the remaining two killed each other.

• Yang Podi entered Slaughter City and defeated the lead knight who tested newcomers, earning token 8868.
• Yang Podi entered the city with the black-veiled woman and learned about its Bloody Mary tribute, lawless inner city, and deadly Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Yang Podi attacked and killed a burly bald man, took his Bloody Mary, and asked the black-veiled woman to register him for an arena match.
• Yang Podi entered the Hell Slaughter Arena with nine other contestants and attacked the nearest fighter with his Soul Breaking Spear.
• Yang Podi killed seven contestants in ten minutes, while the other two died fighting each other.

Yang Podi built a fearsome reputation in Slaughter City while pursuing the hundred-match trial and Divine Slaughter's Domain. After the King of Slaughter tried to recruit and threaten him, Yang Podi forced him to back down by threatening to poison the city, but feared the King might still target him.

• Yang Podi killed more than a hundred attackers, won nine Hell Slaughter Arena matches in one month, and named himself God of Slaughter.
• Yang Wuju told the Breaking Clan that Yang Podi had entered Slaughter City, and Yang Wudi said he trusted his grandson to survive.
• Over a year, Yang Podi won 74 arena matches, developed two spear forms infused with slaughter Qi, and defeated a large group that included Soul Douluos and Soul Saints.
• The King of Slaughter summoned Yang Podi and offered him power in exchange for loyalty, then warned that he controlled access to Hell Road and Soul Skills.
• Yang Podi revealed his knowledge of Bloody Mary's poisons and threatened to release additional toxins, compelling the King of Slaughter to let him continue his trial.
• After Yang Podi left, the King of Slaughter killed the girl in black gauze for questioning him, while Yang Podi worried the King might still try to stop him from obtaining Divine Slaughter's Domain.

Yang Podi reached his hundredth victory in the Hell Slaughter Arena after the King of Slaughter arranged a difficult final trial. He killed all nine opponents and was hailed as the new God of Slaughter.

• Yang Podi developed the Nine Soul Breaking Forms as his Soul Breaking Spear absorbed slaughter Qi and turned blood-red.
• After winning twenty-five more matches, Yang Podi reached ninety-nine victories, while the King of Slaughter ordered the strongest warriors chosen for his final trial.
• Yang Podi rested for a month, then entered the packed arena as the King of Slaughter and his enforcers watched.
• The nine opponents attacked Yang Podi in formation, but he used Instant Body Strike to escape their encirclement and kill one of them.
• Yang Podi used Spear Strikes Like a Dragon to kill the armored leader, then slew the remaining opponents with fatal strikes.
• The audience roared and hailed Yang Podi as the God of Slaughter.

After earning one hundred victories, Yang Podi rejected the King of Slaughter’s offer of a free exit and entered Hell Road to complete its trial. He defeated the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat and continued along the perilous path, where an even stronger monster awaited.

• The King of Slaughter announced Yang Podi’s hundredth victory and offered him the title of God of Slaughter, but Yang Podi asked to face Hell Road’s trial instead.
• The King of Slaughter opened Hell Road by sacrificing the spectators, whose blood formed a pattern resembling the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King.
• Yang Podi regained consciousness on an altar above a sea of blood and began crossing the narrow path through Hell Road.
• Yang Podi fought through a vast swarm of Blood Bats, then pierced a hole in their ranks with Ten Thousand Blades Return to One.
• The Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat led a coordinated assault, but Yang Podi killed it with Spear Strikes Like a Dragon and repeated spear strikes before pressing onward.

Yang Podi killed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, escaped the collapsing Hell Road, and gained Divine Slaughter's Domain on both his Soul Breaking Spear and Body Martial Soul. He discovered that the domain's killing aura was dangerously difficult to control, so he set out for the Breaking Clan to seek help.

• Yang Podi fought the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent from the air and killed it with Ten Thousand Blades Return to One, then collected its inner core.
• As Hell Road collapsed, Yang Podi chose not to poison the sea of blood and flew through the exit, where he lost consciousness.
• Yang Podi awakened in a forest with Divine Slaughter's Domain marked on both his Soul Breaking Spear and silver Body Martial Soul.
• Yang Podi lost control when he saw blood, slaughtered a Soft Bone Rabbit, and realized the domain's killing aura threatened to turn him into a creature consumed by slaughter.
• Yang Podi took a Calming Pill and decided to return to the Breaking Clan through the mountains to seek a way to control the killing aura.

Yang Podi encountered Zhu Zhuqing while she was fleeing five members of the Zhu Family and killed all five when they threatened him. He set out for Suotuo City with Zhu Zhuqing following him, and the chapter ended as she learned he belonged to the powerful Breaking Clan.

• Yang Podi reached the Balak Kingdom and wondered whether Shrek Academy had begun its new term.
• Yang Podi hid in the woods when five men pursued Zhu Zhuqing, but she stumbled into his hiding place and the pursuers surrounded them.
• The Zhu Family leader threatened to kill Yang Podi, so Yang Podi attacked and killed all five men with his Soul Breaking Spear.
• Yang Podi calmed himself in a stream, then left the corpses behind as Zhu Zhuqing warned him that the Zhu Family would seek revenge.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked to travel with Yang Podi to Suotuo City, and he agreed after she introduced herself.
• Zhu Zhuqing learned that Yang Podi belonged to the Breaking Clan and recalled the clan's growing power and influence.

Yang Podi watched Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Xiao Wu at the Rose Hotel and Shrek Academy before abandoning his plan to seek Tang San’s other opportunities. He found and killed a two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider in the Star Dou Great Forest, acquired its External Soul Bone, and prepared to return to the Breaking Clan.

• Yang Podi and Zhu Zhuqing reached Suotuo City and stayed at the Rose Hotel, where Zhu Zhuqing saw Dai Mubai arrive with two women.
• Yang Podi watched Tang San and the other applicants take Shrek Academy’s entrance tests, then decided not to risk confronting Tang Hao while he remained nearby.
• Yang Podi traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest and searched for the two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider that had given Tang San the Eight Spider Soul Bone.
• Yang Podi killed the Man Faced Demon Spider with his Soul Breaking Spear and removed an External Soul Bone from its body.
• Yang Podi took medicine to steady his growing murderous aura and set out to return to the Breaking Clan.

Yang Podi encountered Shrek Academy and Canghui Academy at a restaurant in Suotuo City, where he drove off Canghui’s team leader after the man confronted him. Ning Rongrong revealed Yang Podi’s identity and strength to the stunned Shrek students, while Yang Podi went to rest and planned to return home.

• Yang Podi ordered vegetable dishes and watched as tensions grew between Shrek Academy and Canghui Academy.
• Ning Rongrong recognized Yang Podi, caught up with him, and asked him to help her against Canghui Academy.
• When Canghui’s team leader confronted Yang Podi, Yang Podi seized him by the throat and threw him out of the restaurant, causing the Canghui students to leave.
• Ning Rongrong asked to join Yang Podi’s team, and he said she could come if she wanted.
• After Yang Podi left to rest, Zhu Zhuqing told the Shrek group that he had killed five people pursuing her, and Zhao Wuji said Yang Podi had defeated the Canghui team leader in one move.
• Ning Rongrong told Shrek that Yang Podi was a seventeen-year-old member of the Breaking Clan who had reached level thirty-five by age twelve.

Yang Podi returned to the Breaking Clan with his slaughter Qi dangerously difficult to control, then isolated himself for a year to master it through quiet living and study of Buddhist and Taoist texts. After his murderous aura faded and his Soul Power rose to rank 60, he left the mountain retreat, resolved to regain strength and shape his own fate.

• Yang Podi returned to the Breaking Clan, where Yang Wudi recognized that his Divine Slaughter's Domain and slaughter Qi had become difficult to control and proposed seeking help from Tang Yuehua.
• Yang Podi refused to involve the Clear Sky Sect and asked his family to prepare a secluded house with books, paper, and pens; he also asked Yang Zhentian to notify his teammates at Heaven Dou Royal Academy that he was safe.
• Yang Podi moved into the mountain house alone and spent his days tending plants, reading, and copying the Bodhi Verse, the Heart Sutra, and the Tao Te Ching instead of cultivating.
• Nearly a year later, Yang Podi's deadly presence had vanished, his state of mind had become calm, and his Soul Power had risen two ranks from 58 to 60.
• Yang Podi left his peaceful retreat, deciding that he needed strength to avoid being at another's mercy.

The chapter recounted how events at Shrek Academy diverged after Yang Podi took the Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Bone, while the Breaking Clan grew stronger and cultivated closer ties with Dugu Bo. Yang Podi and his elders chose to reconcile with Spirit Hall by accepting investiture during the Soul Master Tournament finals.

• Tang San missed the Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Bone, and Shrek Academy later defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy in a Soul Fighting that left both teams badly injured.
• Qin Ming arranged for Shrek Academy's students to study at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, unaware that Yang Podi had already secured the second team's tournament slot.
• Yang Zhentian and Yang Podi's mother reached the Titled Douluo realm, Yang Tianyue reached level 33, and the Breaking Clan expanded its ranks and influence.
• Yang Wudi and Dugu Bo developed a method for transferring toxins into Soul Bones, healing Dugu Xin's injuries and removing the hidden danger in his Martial Soul.
• Yang Podi, Yang Wudi, and Niu Gao agreed that the Breaking Clan would accept investiture from Spirit Hall during the tournament finals as a signal of reconciliation.

Yang Podi returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy after three years away, reunited with his teammates and Ye Lingling, and enrolled his younger sister Yang Tianyue. Yang Tianyue’s arrival drew attention and trouble, while Prince Xue Beng’s attempt to pursue her ended in Dugu Yan poisoning him and his companions; Xue Beng then sought advice from Prince Xue Xing.

• Yang Podi returned to the academy with Yang Tianyue, enrolled her, and found that his teammates had made strong progress in cultivation.
• Yang Podi introduced Yang Tianyue to the team and discussed preparing for the tournament, including a future training trip to the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Yang Podi and Ye Lingling reunited privately and shared stories about the three years they had spent apart.
• Yang Tianyue’s talent and appearance made her popular at the academy, and Dugu Yan poisoned Prince Xue Beng and his companions when they tried to surround her and confess their feelings.
• Prince Xue Beng asked Prince Xue Xing for help getting revenge and considered asking for Yang Tianyue’s hand, but Prince Xue Xing warned him not to provoke the Breaking Clan or Dugu Bo.

Shrek Academy’s teachers and students arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Prince Xue Xing tried to block their admission after Xue Beng was beaten. The groups agreed that Shrek’s seven students would compete with the first team for tournament places, and the newcomers headed to watch the second team train.

• Yang Podi dismissed the news of Xue Beng’s poisoning and learned that Shrek Academy had arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Shrek’s students clashed with Xue Beng at the academy entrance and beat him, prompting the education committee to receive the group.
• Prince Xue Xing objected to Shrek’s admission, but Meng Shenji defended the students and said he would leave the matter to the crown prince and Emperor Xue Ye.
• Yu Xiaogang learned that the second team’s tournament slot had already been assigned, so the academy arranged for Shrek’s seven students to compete with the first team for its remaining places.
• The academy let Yu Xiaogang assist Qin Ming and assigned Shrek’s teachers to help manage the first team.
• Ning Rongrong led the Shrek group to Training Ground Three to watch the second team train, despite Qin Ming’s warning that its practices were closed to outsiders.

Yu Xiaogang met Yang Podi at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team’s training ground and failed to persuade him to accept a supervising teacher. As Yang Podi prepared for a Soul Ring hunt, the Shrek group learned about his strength and the Breaking Clan, while Shrek’s arrival at the academy began causing disputes.

• Ning Rongrong brought the Shrek group to watch the Second Team train, where Yu Xiaogang learned that Yang Podi designed and led its demanding training.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Yang Podi to let him supervise the Second Team, but Yang Podi refused and told Qin Ming to keep the First Team from interfering.
• After the groups parted, Qin Ming told Yu Xiaogang that Yang Podi had reached rank thirty-five at twelve and had built the Second Team himself.
• Flender explained the Four Single-Attribute Clans and the Breaking Clan’s strength, shocking Yu Xiaogang with news that Yang Wudi had become a Titled Douluo.
• Yang Podi waited for preparations to hunt Soul Rings in the Star Dou Great Forest while the Shrek students encountered serious disputes at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

The Shrek students struggled with distractions at Heaven Dou Royal Academy while Yang Podi traveled with Dugu Bo and his family to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Rings. There, they encountered a young woman with two Titled Douluo bodyguards, and Yang Podi recognized her as a Spirit Hall heir before the group withdrew.

• Flender urged Yu Xiaogang to leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy because its temptations were disrupting the Shrek students' training, but Yu Xiaogang refused to take Tang San away.
• Dugu Bo took Yang Podi to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Niu Gao, Yang Zhentian, Niu Jinfeng, and Yang Wushuang joined them to hunt Soul Rings.
• After searching the forest's Core Circle for five days, the group found a dead twenty-thousand-year Flame Lion King beside a golden-haired woman and two middle-aged men.
• One of the men attacked the group, and Niu Gao blocked his spear before Dugu Bo confronted him; Yang Podi then persuaded everyone to leave without fighting.
• Yang Podi deduced that the woman was an Angel Clan heir with a Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and that her companions were Titled Douluo, identifying her as Spirit Hall's surviving scion.

Qian Renxue prepared to absorb the Blazing Lion King's Soul Ring while Yang Podi's group kept their encounter with her secret and searched for Soul Rings. They poisoned an eighty-thousand-year-old Diamond Mammoth and defeated it, leaving its Soul Ring available for Yang Podi's mother, Niu Jinfeng.

• Qian Renxue learned that the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team was approaching an all-Soul-Ancestor lineup and prepared to absorb the Blazing Lion King's Soul Ring.
• Yang Podi warned his family and companions not to reveal Qian Renxue's identity, and they agreed to avoid further trouble with Spirit Hall.
• Yang Podi's group found an eighty-thousand-year-old Diamond Mammoth and chose it as a suitable Soul Beast for Niu Jinfeng.
• Yang Zhentian poisoned the leaves the Diamond Mammoth ate, and the group tracked it for five days until it grew weak.
• Yang Podi's group attacked the weakened mammoth, and Niu Gao held it back before the others brought it down.

Niu Jinfeng became the Breaking Clan’s fourth Titled Douluo after absorbing the Diamond Mammoth’s Soul Ring, and Yang Podi gained an eighty-thousand-year Golden Lion King Soul Ring and a Head Soul Bone. Back at the Breaking Clan, Yang Podi warned his family that Spirit Hall might attack the major powers within five to ten years, leaving Yang Wudi troubled by the threat.

• Niu Jinfeng absorbed the Diamond Mammoth’s Soul Ring, reached rank 91, and became the Breaking Clan’s fourth Titled Douluo.
• After searching for seven days, Yang Podi and the others found an eighty-thousand-year Golden Lion King, surrounded it, and killed it.
• Yang Podi absorbed the Golden Lion King’s Soul Ring over two days, and Niu Gao and Dugu Bo recognized that he had Divine Slaughter’s Domain.
• Yang Podi found a golden Head Soul Bone while dissecting the Golden Lion King and kept it for later consideration.
• After returning to the Breaking Clan, Yang Podi urged his family to strengthen their Titled Douluo quickly and warned that Spirit Hall might attack the major powers within five to ten years.
• Yang Wudi questioned whether Spirit Hall would attack the Breaking Clan without cause.

Yang Podi convinced Yang Wudi to avoid provoking Spirit Hall and assessed the changes from his sixth Soul Ring before returning to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. There, he found the team unsettled by Tang San’s growing ties to the major sects and Yu Xiaogang’s proposed appointment as leader.

• Yang Podi warned Yang Wudi that Spirit Hall could target the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and argued that the Four Single-Attribute Clans were being pushed into a dangerous conflict; Yang Wudi planned to accept Spirit Hall’s investiture with Niu Gao.
• Yang Podi reached level sixty-three after absorbing the Golden Lion King Soul Ring, gained Golden Lion Heaven-Roaring Break, and noted improvements to his Soul Breaking Spear, External Soul Bones, and Body Martial Soul.
• Yang Podi learned that Tai Long had lost to Tang San, Tai Nuo had been defeated, and Tai Tan had recognized Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer and ordered Tai Long to acknowledge him as young master.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo visited Tang San, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect ordered five hundred sets of hidden weapons while promising Tang San its support.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed leading the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team with Tang San and his companions, leaving the team anxious as they awaited Crown Prince Xue Qinghe’s decision.
• Yang Podi resolved that he would not let Yu Xiaogang join without his approval and wondered whether Sword Douluo might discover Xiao Wu’s identity during the Soul Master Tournament.

Yang Podi reassured the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team amid rumors and academy pressure, then shifted the group from physical conditioning to Soul Power training. As the Soul Master Tournament approached, news of Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation, lavish prizes, and the Breaking and Defense Clans’ investiture stirred tensions across the Soul Master world.

• Yang Podi told the team that their unity and improvement mattered more to him than tournament rewards, and said he would disband the team rather than accept an imposed leader or training method.
• Yang Podi ended weighted obstacle runs for everyone except Yang Tianyue and ordered the others, especially Tai Long and Bai Xiaofei, to focus on meditation and breakthrough to higher ranks.
• Yang Podi considered the team’s loyalties and planned to take them to Sunset Forest later for life-and-death training.
• News spread that Pope Bibi Dong had named Spirit Hall’s elite disciples the Golden Generation and that the tournament finals would be held in Spirit City, with three Soul Bones over thirty thousand years old as prizes.
• Yang Wudi and Niu Gao announced they would travel to Spirit City to receive their Titled Douluo investiture, while challenging Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo over their past feud.
• Spirit Hall dismissed the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team as factions debated the tournament, while the team remained out of public view.

Yang Podi rejected Yu Xiaogang’s proposal to merge Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s teams, insisting that he would lead his own team according to its established arrangements. He also rejected appeals to join forces against Spirit Hall, leaving Xue Qinghe to decide whether Yang Podi’s team could remain unchanged.

• Xue Qinghe summoned Yang Podi to a meeting with Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, Ning Rongrong, the academy committee members, Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San to discuss Spirit Hall’s strong tournament team.
• Yang Podi said his second team expected to have two Soul Kings and argued that its members’ years of coordination mattered more than combining it with the first team.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed merging the teams and training them for a year, but Yang Podi refused and declared that he required absolute obedience from his team and would rather withdraw than accept unwanted changes.
• Ning Fengzhi urged Yang Podi to consider the Upper Three Sects’ alliance against Spirit Hall, while Yu Xiaogang argued that the Breaking Clan owed the Clear Sky Sect and should remember its hatred of Spirit Hall.
• Yang Podi insisted that the Breaking Clan had severed ties with the Clear Sky Sect and would no longer risk its lives for others; he told Xue Qinghe he would keep leading the second team or apply for early graduation.