Chapter Summaries

Yang Podi enrolled at Heaven Dou Royal Academy while the Breaking Clan arranged secret protection for him and Yang Ping'an. Settled into his dormitory, Yang Podi planned to avoid the Soul Master Tournament, help his allies form the second team, and wait until his family was strong enough to deter anyone who might target him.

• Yang Wudi and the elders agreed to send third elder Yang Wuju, a rank 81 Soul Douluo, to secretly protect Yang Podi and Yang Ping'an while allowing them to face ordinary challenges themselves.
• Teacher Li helped Yang Podi collect his student supplies, showed him around Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and left him in a lavish dormitory with his class schedule.
• Yang Podi decided not to participate in the Soul Master Tournament because he feared drawing dangerous attention before his relatives became Titled Douluos.
• Yang Podi planned to join the second team, help Niu Meng, Tai Long, and Bai Xiaofei train, and find two support Soul Masters for the group.
• Yang Podi anticipated that Qin Ming would assemble the first team and looked forward to seeing how he would respond when the second team faced Shrek Academy.
• After reviewing his plans, Yang Podi meditated alone in the dormitory.

Xue Qinghe learned of Yang Podi’s talent and decided to meet him, while Snake Lance Douluo confirmed his strength and raised the possibility of eliminating him. After Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s opening ceremony, Yang Podi was summoned to the board’s building, unsure what awaited him there.

• Meng Shenji told Xue Qinghe that twelve-year-old Yang Podi had reached rank thirty-five and wanted to lead the academy’s Second Team in the next Soul Master Tournament.
• Xue Qinghe approved Yang Podi’s requests, planned to meet him, and ordered Snake Lance Douluo to investigate him.
• Snake Lance Douluo confirmed Yang Podi’s Soul Power was pure and reported that his Innate Soul Power had been rank eight, but suggested eliminating him because the Breaking Clan opposed Spirit Hall.
• Yang Podi and Yang Ping'an trained and attended Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s opening ceremony, where Yang Podi saw Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Sword Douluo Chen Xin.
• Teacher Li told Yang Podi that Xue Qinghe had summoned him to the board’s building, leaving Yang Podi wary of the powerful figures he might face.

Yang Podi met Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy committee members, discussing his cultivation and future tournament plans. After revealing his Soul Breaking Spear and powerful Soul Rings, he left with an invitation to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Yang Podi told Xue Qinghe he would not join the Soul Master Tournament in two years but promised to lead the academy's Second Team in the tournament seven years later, and Xue Qinghe approved his request to select its members.
• Yang Podi described his demanding training routine and said he wore 130 kilograms of weights to build strength.
• Yang Podi told Ning Fengzhi that he aimed to revitalize the Breaking Clan and bring it to greater glory.
• Sword Douluo asked Yang Podi to reveal his Soul Breaking Spear and Soul Rings, then learned that they came from a Qian Jun Ant, a Purple-Eyed Demon Tiger, and a Gold Crocodile King.
• Ning Fengzhi invited Yang Podi to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Yang Podi left the education committee building.

After Yang Podi left Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s education committee, Sword Douluo assessed his exceptional strength, cultivation, and political connections, while Xue Qinghe decided to wait before acting against him. Yang Podi returned to his dormitory and chose to train at Heaven Dou City’s Great Soul Arena, making combat the focus of his cultivation.

• Sword Douluo told Ning Fengzhi and the others that Yang Podi’s over-limit strength Soul Rings, rigorous physical training, and sword intent made him an unusually formidable Soul Elder.
• Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe considered Yang Podi’s ties to the Four Single-Attribute Clans and Dugu Bo, while the education committee members welcomed the prospect of him leading a second team.
• Yang Podi left the meeting worried that Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo had drawn out too much information, but decided Heaven Dou Royal Academy offered him safety for now.
• In the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s carriage, Sword Douluo predicted Yang Podi could be unmatched among Soul Elders if his speed kept pace with his strength; Ning Rongrong dismissed him as someone she would surpass.
• Snake Lance Douluo asked Xue Qinghe whether they should eliminate Yang Podi, but Xue Qinghe chose to wait and see how he compared with other geniuses at the Soul Master Tournament.
• Yang Podi planned his cultivation and chose to train through combat at Heaven Dou City’s Great Soul Arena, while using a mountain-like mimicry environment for his afternoon iron-ball training.

Yang Podi formed the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team with Tai Long, Niu Meng, Bai Xiaofei, and Yang Ping'an for the Soul Master Tournament seven years later. Tai Long, Niu Meng, and Bai Xiaofei agreed to join and began preparing for Yang Podi’s demanding training plan.

• Yang Podi told the four that he had refused to enter the current Soul Master Tournament and planned to lead the academy’s Second Team in the next one.
• Yang Podi urged Tai Long, Niu Meng, and Bai Xiaofei to join, reminding them of their responsibilities as heirs to the Four Single-Attribute Clans.
• Niu Meng, Tai Long, and Bai Xiaofei agreed to join after Yang Podi promised to tailor their training to their abilities.
• Yang Podi set their routine of classes, weighted runs, medicinal baths, and meditation, and planned to have them fight in the Great Soul Arena once they reached rank twenty-five.
• Yang Podi set the goal of reaching Soul Ancestor level within seven years, and the three accepted the challenge.

Yang Podi secured official approval, facilities, and funding to form and train the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team for the Soul Master Tournament seven years later. That evening, Dugu Yan visited him with a veiled, blue-haired friend after hearing that his enrollment had made him famous across the academy.

• Yang Podi met with the education committee, which confirmed his appointment as captain and supervising teacher of the second team and approved his training plans.
• Yang Podi received Training Ground No. 3 and a subsidy for medicinal baths, herbs, and other supplies for the team.
• Yang Podi’s initial roster included Yang Ping'an, Tai Long, Bai Xiaofei, and Niu Meng alongside himself, with control and support members still needed.
• Dugu Yan visited Yang Podi’s dormitory with a quiet girl whose long blue hair and veiled face seemed familiar to him.
• Dugu Yan told Yang Podi that his enrollment and rank 35 Soul Power had made him a celebrity at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Yang Podi welcomed Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling onto the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team for the next Soul Master Tournament, then attended his first Heaven Dou Grade class. The chapter left him seated among the academy’s noble students as they watched the young rank-thirty-five Soul Elder with curiosity.

• Dugu Yan introduced Ye Lingling to Yang Podi, who learned that she was a rank-twenty-five Soul Master with the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul.
• Yang Podi told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that he planned to lead the Second Team in the tournament after the next one and had already recruited five members.
• Dugu Yan proposed that she and Ye Lingling join the team, and Yang Podi welcomed them as its sixth and seventh members.
• Yang Podi saw Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling off, continued meditating, and decided to attend his first Heaven Dou Grade lesson the next morning.
• Yang Podi entered the classroom, chose a seat by himself, and drew curious looks from students who suspected he was the academy’s newly admitted twelve-year-old Soul Elder.

Yang Podi began leading Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s newly formed team, setting strict cultivation and physical training goals and arranging medicinal baths and a redesigned training ground. The team’s obstacle-course training was about to begin under Teacher Li Xiang’s supervision.

• Yang Podi found his morning lessons of little practical use and refused an invitation to join the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team.
• Yang Podi gathered the team at Training Ground No. 3, where Teacher Li Xiang introduced himself as their assistant.
• Yang Podi ordered the team to run fifty kilometers with weights each day, cultivate toward Soul Elder within three years, and later compete in Soul Fighting matches.
• Yang Podi asked Teacher Li Xiang to supervise training and obtain academy funding, then handed him plans to turn the training ground into an obstacle course.
• Tai Long cast training weights, while Ye Lingling watched nervously and Dugu Yan reassured her.

Yang Podi and the others began intense training before registering for soul fights at the Great Soul Arena in Heaven Dou City. Yang Podi won his first match decisively, defeating the rank-thirty-eight King of Strength without using a Soul Skill.

• Yang Podi, Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Yang Ping'an, Niu Meng, Tai Long, and Bai Xiaofei completed exhausting weighted training and recovered in medicinal baths.
• Teacher Li Xiang took Yang Podi, Yang Ping'an, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling to the Great Soul Arena, where they registered and chose fighting titles and team combinations.
• Yang Podi bet ten thousand Gold Soul Coins on his victory and entered his first match against the rank-thirty-eight King of Strength.
• Yang Podi wounded King of Strength with a spear thrust, pierced his shoulder with a ranged attack, and knocked him unconscious with a final sweep.
• The crowd erupted in cheers after Yang Podi defeated King of Strength without using a Soul Skill.

Yang Podi dominated three Soul Fights, then returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and began a harsher training regimen for his group. The chapter ended with Yang Podi, Yang Ping'an, and the others starting fifty kilometers of weighted obstacle running under Teacher Li Xiang's supervision.

• Yang Podi defeated his first opponent, and Yang Ping'an and Dugu Yan also won their one-on-one Soul Fights.
• Yang Podi and Ye Lingling quickly defeated the Iron Hammer Brothers, then Yang Podi and Dugu Yan won another two-on-two match in under three minutes.
• Teacher Li Xiang struggled to assess Yang Podi's brief fights, and Yang Podi retrieved a wager card holding over fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Yang Podi reviewed his battles, then he and Yang Ping'an skipped class the next morning to cultivate in a mimicry environment.
• Yang Podi found Training Ground Three remodeled with obstacles and ordered the group to run fifty kilometers with their previous weights.
• Yang Podi began the weighted obstacle run, Yang Ping'an and the others followed, and Teacher Li Xiang supervised them.

Yang Podi led the others through three months of weighted obstacle training, improving their fitness and Soul Power while earning a purple-gold Soul Fighting medal through an undefeated run. As he prepared to leave the arena, an attendant invited him to meet with the person in charge.

• Yang Podi put the group through demanding weighted obstacle runs, followed by medicinal baths and evening Soul Fighting.
• Yang Podi promised regular rest days, and the group continued training for three months until everyone had adapted and gained a Soul Power rank.
• Dugu Yan reached Rank 30, Yang Podi reached Rank 36, and the others also advanced as their physical fitness improved.
• Yang Podi earned a purple-gold Soul Fighting medal after nearly three hundred matches without using a Soul Skill, making him a celebrated Soul Elder at the arena.
• An attendant invited Yang Podi to the office to speak with the person in charge of the Heaven Dou City Great Soul Arena.

Yang Podi agreed to fight a high-level Soul Ancestor in a special match at the Heaven Dou City Great Soul Arena. The match was announced for ten days later, and the Breaking Clan reacted with alarm as Yang Wudi sent Yang Zhentian to check on him.

• Jackson invited Yang Podi to fight a Soul Ancestor in a special match and offered him unrestricted betting privileges as long as he did not deliberately lose.
• Yang Podi accepted, while Teacher Li Xiang warned him about the strength of a high-ranking Soul Ancestor and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling offered their support.
• Yang Podi asked Teacher Li Xiang to notify the Breaking Clan, and Dugu Yan promised to invite her grandfather to watch the match.
• The Great Soul Arena announced that White Horse Silver Spear, a rank thirty-six Soul Elder, would fight Heavenly Elephant Invincible, a rank forty-eight Soul Ancestor, in ten days.
• The match drew widespread attention, with most spectators betting on Heavenly Elephant Invincible, while the Breaking Clan was shocked by Yang Podi's challenge.
• Yang Wudi ordered Yang Zhentian to visit Heaven Dou Royal Academy and check on Yang Podi.

Yang Podi prepared for his high-profile Soul Fighting match against Heavenly Elephant Invincible, drawing attention from major factions and his worried parents. After learning Ring Fusion from Yang Zhentian, he arrived at the packed arena and bet all his savings on his own victory as powerful spectators gathered.

• Xue Qinghe and Snake Lance Douluo assessed Yang Podi's abilities and expected his match with Heavenly Elephant Invincible to be fierce, while Huyan Zhen voiced confidence in the Elephant Armor Sect's fighter.
• Yang Podi's parents visited him at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Niu Jinfeng worried about his opponent and Yang Zhentian approved of his decision to fight.
• Yang Podi asked Yang Zhentian to teach him Ring Fusion, and his father explained the Breaking Clan technique and warned him to use it only in a desperate situation.
• Yang Podi trained and cultivated for ten days while Yang Zhentian taught him Ring Fusion, then the academy students accompanied him to the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Yang Podi bet 5.6 million Gold Soul Coins on his own victory as Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Bo, Huyan Zhen, Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Spirit Hall representatives gathered to watch.

Yang Podi faced the much larger Heavenly Elephant Invincible in a Soul Fighting match, relying on agile spearwork to overcome his opponent’s powerful defense and strength. He defeated the Soul Ancestor and left the arena as the crowd celebrated his victory.

• Yang Podi and Heavenly Elephant Invincible summoned their Martial Souls and began the match.
• Yang Podi dodged Heavenly Elephant Invincible’s punches and wounded him with repeated spear thrusts.
• Heavenly Elephant Invincible used Crushing Kill and Bronze Wall Iron Rampart, but Yang Podi continued to injure him.
• Heavenly Elephant Invincible boosted his strength with Mammoth Great Strength and grabbed Yang Podi’s spear, but Yang Podi pierced his shoulder with Qian Jun's Strength.
• Yang Podi swept Heavenly Elephant Invincible off the platform and won the match.

After defeating Huyan Zhen’s fighter, Yang Podi collected his winnings and faced his parents’ shock at the amount he had earned. Meanwhile, Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi assessed his strength and considered how to deal with the Breaking Clan, while Ning Rongrong planned to visit him again.

• Yang Podi received six Gold Soul Coin cards from Jackson after his victory, representing nearly 30 million Gold Soul Coins in winnings and payment.
• Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Dugu Bo praised Yang Podi, and he returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with his parents and teammates.
• Yang Podi admitted to his parents that he had won 30 million Gold Soul Coins through betting, and they each took ten million to keep safe for him.
• Xue Qinghe asked Snake Lance Douluo to assess Yang Podi, learned that he could fight like a Soul King and had produced spear light, and ordered continued surveillance.
• Sword Douluo told Ning Fengzhi that Yang Podi was likely stronger than he had shown and might be a skilled swordsman; Ning Fengzhi decided the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect should avoid making enemies of the Breaking Clan.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi she would visit Heaven Dou Imperial City Academy and find Yang Podi next time.

Yang Podi’s team continued punishing daily training while Dugu Yan and Yang Ping'an struggled in the Great Soul Arena. When Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Ning Rongrong visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy, they saw the team’s weighted obstacle runs and learned how intense and consistent the training had been.

• Dugu Yan reached level 30 and became a Soul Elder, but she and Yang Ping'an soon lost match after match at the Great Soul Arena.
• Xue Qinghe asked Meng Shenji about Yang Podi’s team and learned its seven members, their Soul Power levels, and their daily training schedule.
• Meng Shenji led Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Ning Rongrong to Training Ground Three, where they watched the team run weighted obstacle courses.
• Li Xiang explained that the trainees carried about thirty kilograms, with Yang Podi running roughly sixty kilometers and the others about fifteen kilometers each afternoon.
• Ning Fengzhi reconsidered sending Ning Rongrong to the academy, while Ning Rongrong asked why Battle Soul Masters trained this way.
• Sword Douluo praised the regimen for improving strength, speed, and agility, and wondered who had devised it.

Yang Podi reluctantly took responsibility for Ning Rongrong while Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe were away, but her antics disrupted the team’s training and left him overwhelmed. She continued stirring up trouble at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where the story left Yang Podi frazzled by the chaos.

• Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi asked Yang Podi and his team to look after Ning Rongrong, and Yang Podi reluctantly agreed.
• Ning Rongrong persuaded the team to go shopping in Heaven Dou City, where she teased Yang Podi about Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling and even suggested visiting a brothel.
• Yang Ping'an told Yang Podi that Tai Long was about to duel boys who had teased Ning Rongrong, and Teacher Li Xiang intervened to settle the dispute.
• Ning Rongrong changed the training ground’s mud pits and pools to keep the girls clean, claiming she knew Yang Podi liked Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• Ning Rongrong repeatedly distracted the team with duels, gossip, and skincare, and she dubbed Yang Podi the “Cold-Faced Great Demon King.”

After a year of training, Yang Podi and his teammates had grown stronger and were ready to begin Soul Fighting, while Yang Podi considered his fourth Soul Ring. He swallowed fifty-thousand-year whale rubber to strengthen his body, and its fiery effects began spreading through him.

• Ning Rongrong left after eight days, and Yang Podi restored the training facilities and thrashed the six teammates to refocus them.
• Yang Podi introduced rock climbing, iron-ball pushing, and weighted swimming, and the team trained through the following year.
• Yang Podi reached level 40, while Dugu Yan reached level 34, Ye Lingling level 29, Tai Long and Bai Xiaofei level 25, Niu Meng level 26, and Yang Ping'an level 33 after obtaining a Soul Ring.
• The team began preparing for evening Soul Fighting, while Yang Podi planned to seek a fourth Soul Ring below ten thousand years old and postpone Ice and Fire Body Tempering and consuming the Gazing Through Autumn Waters Dew.
• Yang Podi heated a fifty-thousand-year piece of whale rubber and swallowed it, causing intense heat to spread through his body as his Soul Power surged against the level 40 bottleneck.

After consuming whale rubber, Yang Podi lost control of his desires, and Ye Lingling entered his room and tried to heal him. They spent the night together, and the chapter ended with Yang Podi vowing to break the Nine Heart Begonia Clan’s curse.

• Yang Podi suffered an intense reaction to the whale rubber and tried to restrain himself in the bath.
• Ye Lingling broke into Yang Podi’s room and used her Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul to heal him, worsening his impulses.
• Yang Podi lost control and pulled Ye Lingling into his arms; they later woke together in his disordered room.
• Yang Podi promised to take responsibility, while Ye Lingling said she had chosen to stay and explained the Nine Heart Begonia Clan’s limit of two living Soul Masters at a time.
• Yang Podi vowed to break the clan’s curse, and Ye Lingling left after asking for time to consider what had happened.

Yang Podi considered how to help Ye Lingling and left Heaven Dou Royal Academy to hunt for his fourth Soul Ring. He and Yang Zhentian planned to search Sunset Forest, while Yang Podi remained concerned about the Breaking Clan attracting attention as its elders approached Titled Douluo level.

• Yang Podi cleaned his dorm and decided to wait until after the Soul Master Tournament before using immortal herbs to address Ye Lingling's Martial Soul defect.
• Ye Lingling avoided Yang Podi for several days, and she told Dugu Yan that keeping her distance would protect him from the Nine Heart Begonia Clan's fate.
• Yang Podi left Heaven Dou Royal Academy and returned to the Breaking Clan with Yang Zhentian to prepare for his fourth Soul Ring.
• Yang Podi asked for a strength-type Soul Beast under ten thousand years old, and Yang Zhentian confirmed that his improved body could withstand such a Soul Ring.
• Yang Podi learned that his relatives were nearing level 90, and Yang Zhentian explained that the clan was concealing their strength to avoid drawing suspicion.
• Yang Podi agreed to search Sunset Forest first, though he preferred the more dangerous Star Dou Great Forest.