Chapter Summaries

The Heaven Dou Second Team faced Heaven Dou Team One in the final preliminary match after Tang San and Yu Xiaogang chose to field their full lineup of Soul Ancestors. The second team coordinated its attacks to remove Bai Xiaofei and Ning Heng, leaving Heaven Dou Team One in a dire position as the battle continued.

• The Heaven Dou Second Team defeated Godwind Academy and finished the preliminaries undefeated, while Heaven Dou Team One entered the final match with one loss.
• Tang San persuaded Yu Xiaogang to field Heaven Dou Team One’s full main lineup, including Tai Long and Ning Heng, against the second team.
• Both teams began with coordinated attacks, and the second team’s fighters held their ground despite Tai Long being overwhelmed and Ning Heng’s support keeping Heaven Dou Team One in the fight.
• Yang Ping'an struck Bai Xiaofei while Niu Meng blocked the opposing fighters, and Dugu Yan’s poison then forced Heaven Dou Team One to struggle without its aerial counter.
• Yang Ping'an and his teammates attacked Tang San’s group, while Yang Tianyue brought down Ning Heng and Yang Yuxuan held Yu Tianheng back.
• With Bai Xiaofei and Ning Heng out of the match, Heaven Dou Team One lost its main restraint and support, leaving Yu Xiaogang unsure whether his team could still win.

Heaven Dou Team One fought the Heaven Dou Second Team, but Ye Lingling’s unexpected offensive power and the second team’s coordination overwhelmed Tang San’s side. Heaven Dou Team One was eliminated without taking a single opponent down, leaving Ning Fengzhi intrigued by Ye Lingling’s abilities.

• Tang San trapped the Heaven Dou Second Team with Blue Silver Cage, but Yang Ping'an, Niu Meng, and Ye Lingling quickly broke free, and Ye Lingling revealed a powerful attack that injured Xiao Wu.
• Yang Ping'an held off Tang San, Yu Tianheng, and Tai Long while Ye Lingling healed her teammates; Niu Meng, Yang Tianyue, and Yang Yuxuan defeated Dai Mubai.
• Dugu Yan and Niu Meng pressured Yu Tianheng while Yang Tianyue, Yang Yuxuan, and Niu Kui overwhelmed Tai Long, knocking him out of the arena.
• The Heaven Dou Second Team surrounded Yu Tianheng and defeated him, then knocked Tang San off the arena while he was carrying Xiao Wu, wiping out Heaven Dou Team One.
• Ning Fengzhi watched Ye Lingling’s offensive abilities with intense interest, considering how similar techniques might strengthen the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

The Heaven Dou qualifiers ended with the Heaven Dou Second Team undefeated and the top six teams advancing, while Yang Podi’s hidden strength drew attention at the awards ceremony. Xue Ye granted titles and promised further rewards to recruit the competitors, as tensions with Spirit Hall continued to rise.

• The Heaven Dou Second Team finished first, followed by Skywater Academy and Heaven Dou Team One, and the top six teams qualified for the advancement tournament.
• After the final match, the injured Heaven Dou Team One members recovered, while Tang San looked dispirited and seemed hateful.
• At the awards ceremony, Yang Ping'an told Huo Wu that Yang Podi was much stronger than he was, prompting speculation that the captain was another Soul King.
• The ceremony revealed Yang Tianyue had reached rank thirty-nine, and she gained renown alongside Yang Ping'an and Tang San as one of the region’s leading young talents.
• Xue Ye awarded titles to the qualifying teams’ captains and vice-captains and promised further titles, imperial support, and Soul Beasts as rewards, drawing objections from Salas.
• Yang Podi watched the growing conflict between the empire and Spirit Hall but chose not to get involved.

Yang Podi arranged a month of gravity-pressure training for the Second Team while Tang San and Yu Xiaogang analyzed their defeat and planned training for Heaven Dou Team One. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi visited Ye Renxin to seek the secret of Ye Lingling’s Self-Created Soul Skill, and began to suspect Yang Podi had devised it.

• Yang Podi took the Second Team to the Breaking Clan and summoned Niu Mang to create graduated gravity pressure across the plum blossom stakes for their training.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang reviewed Heaven Dou Team One’s decisive loss, identifying the Second Team’s precise Soul Power control, coordination, and Ye Lingling’s offensive skill as key factors.
• Yu Xiaogang planned a month of combat training against Liu Erlong, while Tang San asked to train alone in seclusion.
• Yang Podi explained that the gravity training required a powerful Soul Master and medicinal baths, then chose to pursue a more extreme training environment himself.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo offered Ye Renxin lavish gifts in exchange for Ye Lingling’s Self-Created Soul Skill, but Ye Renxin said she had likely learned it while training with the Second Team.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo wondered whether Yang Podi had devised Ye Lingling’s skill.

Tang Hao explained why Tang San needed to cultivate his Blue Silver Grass before adding soul rings to his Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang San recommitted himself to studying it. Meanwhile, Yang Podi recruited the awakened Shi Nian as an outer elder of the Breaking Clan by offering him a rare flower and a dangerous assignment, while keeping him under watch.

• Tang Hao told Tang San that cultivating Blue Silver Grass first would let him add powerful soul rings to his Clear Sky Hammer later and avoid the danger of twin martial souls rejecting each other.
• Tang San promised to study his Blue Silver Grass, and its affinity with him grew as he trained in the mimicry environment.
• Yang Podi confronted the recovering Shi Nian and offered him an outer elder position in the Breaking Clan in exchange for the Ten-Thousand-Year Illusory Spirit Flower and a list of targets to eliminate.
• Shi Nian accepted the assignment to kill the listed criminals, and Yang Zhentian removed the restriction on his soul power, revealing his Titled Douluo strength.
• Yang Wudi ordered an elder to follow Shi Nian and kill him if he made any suspicious moves.

Yang Podi arranged for Shi Nian to join the Breaking Clan under a plan that would bind him to them, then led the Heaven Dou Second Team into the advancement tournament. Ye Lingling stunned the spectators by defeating two Soul Ancestors in drawn-out matches, while the team continued to win.

• Yang Podi persuaded Yang Wudi and Yang Zhentian to use the ten-thousand-year Illusory Spirit Flower to secure Shi Nian's future loyalty to the Breaking Clan.
• After a month of training, Yang Podi brought the Heaven Dou Second Team to the advancement tournament and told them to focus on improving rather than winning.
• Yang Tianyue, Niu Kui, and Niu Meng each won their opening matches against Barak Academy and left the stage, while Yang Yuxuan lost his match.
• Ye Lingling defeated Yang Yuxuan's opponent by dodging, using her Self-Created Soul Skill, and healing herself, then Dugu Yan won two consecutive matches with her poison.
• On the second day, Ye Lingling defeated a rank forty-two Soul Ancestor after fighting for over an hour, using her agility and healing to outlast him.

Heaven Dou Second Team continued its undefeated run, and Yang Tianyue broke through to Soul Ancestor during her bout against Yu Tianheng. As the match against Heaven Dou Team One continued, Niu Meng left the arena after winning, leaving Dugu Yan and Yang Ping'an to face the remaining opponents, including Tang San.

• Ye Lingling repeatedly won matches for Heaven Dou Second Team, and her Soul Power rose to level forty-nine during the advancement tournament.
• Yang Tianyue fought Yu Tianheng in the twelfth round and broke through to level forty during their battle, though she ultimately lost.
• Yu Tianheng lost his next bout to Ye Lingling after exhausting much of his Soul Power, while Niu Kui and Yang Yuxuan exchanged victories with Bai Xiaofei.
• Niu Meng defeated Ma Hongjun but left the platform despite having Soul Power remaining, keeping Heaven Dou Second Team's planned order intact.
• Yang Podi told Yang Ping'an that the match would test him against powerful opponents, and Yang Ping'an prepared to face Tang San.

Heaven Dou Second Team defeated Heaven Dou Team One after Dugu Yan and Yang Ping'an broke through to new Soul Power ranks during their fights. The team’s victory left spectators questioning Yu Xiaogang’s teaching and wondering about Yang Podi’s strength.

• Niu Meng left the arena, and Dugu Yan defeated Dai Mubai after a prolonged fight before breaking through to rank fifty.
• Dugu Yan and Tai Long knocked each other out, and Tai Long’s blow left Dugu Yan’s newly advanced Soul Power completely exhausted.
• Yang Ping'an defeated Xiao Wu using the Soul Breaking Spear Technique, though he spent much of his stamina and Soul Power.
• Tang San fought Yang Ping'an with his Blue Silver Grass and Clear Sky Hammer, but Yang Ping'an countered his final Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer strike with Ring Fusion.
• The referee declared Heaven Dou Second Team the winner, and Yang Ping'an broke through to rank fifty-two as spectators praised Yang Podi’s training and questioned Yu Xiaogang’s ability.

The advancement round ended with Heaven Dou Second Team in first place, and Yang Podi warned Xue Qinghe about a powerful Spirit Hall Soul Emperor while securing Mount Aermo. Ning Fengzhi sought Yang Podi’s self-created soul skill, but their negotiations ended with Ning Rongrong volunteering to learn it from him at the Breaking Clan.

• Heaven Dou Second Team finished first in the advancement round, followed by Heaven Dou Team One and Godwind Academy, and the teams prepared to travel to Spirit City.
• Dugu Bo and Yang Zhentian took Dugu Yan and Yang Tianyue to obtain Soul Rings, and both returned to the academy two days later.
• Yang Podi told Xue Qinghe about a blonde Soul Emperor he had seen hunting a Soul Ring with two Titled Douluos, and Xue Qinghe confirmed that Mount Aermo had been approved for him.
• Snake Lance Douluo relayed the Pope’s request for Xue Qinghe to compete in the finals, but Xue Qinghe refused and warned that the Breaking Clan was under his protection.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Yang Podi to share the self-created soul skill he had taught Ye Lingling, and Yang Podi demanded that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect stop interfering in his conflicts with other powers.
• Ning Rongrong volunteered to go to the Breaking Clan to learn the skill, but Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo left with her before deciding whether to agree.

On the journey to Spirit City, Yang Podi used Shi Nian’s dream ability to learn Tang San’s secret techniques and obtained the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record for the Breaking Clan. After the procession arrived, Bibi Dong rejected Yu Xiaogang’s request for the Twin Martial Souls cultivation method and threw him out of the Pope’s Palace, while the tournament finals were set to begin the next day.

• Yang Podi traveled to Spirit City with the two teams, his family, and Shi Nian, who had joined the Breaking Clan as an outer elder.
• Yang Podi arranged for Shi Nian to draw Tang San into dreams, where Yang Podi secretly observed and recorded Tang San’s techniques and hidden weapons.
• Yang Podi gave the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record to Yang Wudi, told him to keep it secret, and secured Shi Nian’s vow of silence.
• After twenty days, the procession arrived in Spirit City without being ambushed, while Yu Xiaogang had traveled ahead alone.
• Bibi Dong refused Yu Xiaogang’s request for the Twin Martial Souls cultivation method and threw him out of the Pope’s Palace.

Yang Podi and the teams arrived in Spirit City for the grand finals, where Yang Wudi and Niu Gao received Titled Douluo investitures and Pope Tokens that marked their clans as independent powers. Yang Podi vowed to win the championship, and after the first round, his team drew the newly combined Divine Wind Team, making him suspect Spirit Hall wanted to test him.

• Yang Podi observed Spirit City's imposing defenses, Soul Master patrols, and sacred buildings before his group settled into a hotel.
• Yang Wudi and Niu Gao returned from receiving their Titled Douluo investitures with Pope Tokens, which Yang Podi recognized as Bibi Dong's attempt to position their clans against the Upper Three Sects.
• Li Xiang explained the grand finals' elimination format, and Yang Podi declared that he would compete from the team's first match and wanted the championship above all.
• The first round eliminated half the teams, while the Heaven Dou region sent four teams onward and Godwind Academy and Blazing Fire Academy competed together as the New Divine Wind Team.
• The Heaven Dou Second Team drew the New Divine Wind Team in the second round, and Yang Podi suspected Spirit Hall had arranged the matchup to test his strength.

Yang Podi led the Heaven Dou Second Team to a crushing victory over the New Divine Wind Team, revealing himself as a nineteen-year-old level-sixty-seven Soul Emperor with an unprecedented ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring. His performance alarmed the watching powers, while Ning Fengzhi considered sending Ning Rongrong to study with the Breaking Clan and Qian Renxue realized Yang Podi had surpassed her.

• Yang Podi revealed his level-sixty-seven Soul Emperor cultivation and six Soul Rings, including a ten-thousand-year fourth ring, shocking the arena.
• Yang Podi defeated all seven members of the New Divine Wind Team in two minutes, knocking out Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang among the others.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo praised Yang Podi’s talent and strength, and Ning Fengzhi decided to send Ning Rongrong to study with the Breaking Clan.
• Qian Renxue recognized that Yang Podi had surpassed her Soul Power and cursed him for concealing his true level.
• A beautiful man in golden armor among Spirit Hall’s people reacted with shock after seeing Yang Podi compete.

Yang Podi led the Heaven Dou Second Team to a swift victory over Star Luo Royal Academy, defeating the Hell White Tiger with his sixth Soul Skill. After the match, Chrysanthemum Douluo approached him and asked to speak privately, while other teams worried that Yang Podi’s skill could counter their own trump cards.

• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San wondered how Yang Podi had absorbed a Ten Thousand Year fourth Soul Ring, and Tai Long said Yang Podi had trained his body relentlessly since childhood.
• Yang Podi’s Heaven Dou Second Team drew Star Luo Royal Academy, whose lineup included Dai Weisi, Zhu Zhuyun, and their Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun formed the Hell White Tiger, but Yang Podi’s Golden Lion Heaven-Roaring Break stripped away its enhancements and left them gravely wounded and unconscious.
• Yang Podi defeated Star Luo Royal Academy’s five remaining members in under a minute, securing the match for the Heaven Dou Second Team.
• Sword Douluo warned Ning Fengzhi that Yang Podi’s skill could counter support effects and Martial Soul Fusion Skills, while Hu Liena and Xie Yue feared it could counter theirs.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo appeared, sniffed Yang Podi, and asked to speak with him privately; meanwhile, Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang about the Golden Lion King Soul Ring behind Yang Podi’s skill.

Yang Podi discussed Immortal Herbs and the Breaking Clan’s survival with Chrysanthemum Douluo before returning to the tournament. As the final three teams gathered before the Pope’s Palace, Bibi Dong appeared, singled out Yang Podi and Tang San, and then ordered the crowd to rise.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo invited Yang Podi to become his disciple, but they instead discussed Immortal Herbs, the Breaking Clan, and how it could preserve itself.
• Yang Podi returned to the arena, where the Heaven Dou Second Team won the fourth round and advanced alongside Heaven Dou Team One and the Spirit Hall Team.
• The three teams assembled before the Pope’s Palace for the fifth round, and Yang Podi noticed a veiled, golden-haired competitor among the Spirit Hall substitutes.
• Bibi Dong emerged from the Pope’s Palace with Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, Sword Douluo, Ning Fengzhi, Yang Wudi, and Niu Gao.
• Bibi Dong’s pressure fell upon Yang Podi and Tang San, but Yang Podi stood firm and Tang San resisted before Bibi Dong addressed them and told the kneeling crowd to rise.

At the finals, Heaven Dou Team One forfeited the morning match, then defeated Spirit Hall in the afternoon after Tang San used a Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill to unleash the Clear Sky Hammer's Tool Soul Avatar. The upset left Qian Renxue furious, as Yang Podi anticipated the championship match the next day.

• Bibi Dong displayed the three Soul Bones offered as the championship prize and announced the morning individual elimination tournament.
• Yang Podi entered the arena first, prompting Yu Xiaogang to forfeit the morning match for Heaven Dou Team One and Bibi Dong to have Spirit Hall concede as well.
• Bibi Dong asked Yang Podi how he had absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, and he credited a singular velvet sky chrysanthemum he had found in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• In the afternoon match, Tang San and Heaven Dou Team One combined their Soul Power to unleash the Clear Sky Hammer's Tool Soul Avatar and defeat Spirit Hall's stronger lineup.
• Yang Podi noticed Tang San's body was strained by the attack and saw Qian Renxue glare resentfully at Bibi Dong after Spirit Hall's defeat.

Yang Podi won the tournament final by avoiding Tang San’s Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill until its immense Soul Power cost left Heaven Dou Team One severely injured. Heaven Dou Second Team was declared champion, while Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation recognized that they could have used the same tactic against Tang San.

• Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong argued over Spirit Hall’s defeat, and Bibi Dong later asked Chrysanthemum Douluo whether the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum could explain Yang Podi’s strength.
• Heaven Dou Team One began the final by trapping Heaven Dou Second Team and preparing its Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill again.
• Yang Podi threatened to disrupt the skill, then sent his six teammates out of the arena rather than risk their involvement.
• Tang San completed the fusion and wielded a Clear Sky Hammer Tool Soul Avatar, but Yang Podi revealed his silver wings and stayed beyond Tang San’s reach.
• Tang San’s team weakened as the fusion consumed their Soul Power; his hammer throw missed Yang Podi, and Yu Xiaogang eventually called for a concession.
• Tang San withdrew the Clear Sky Hammer, leaving all seven teammates collapsed and badly injured, and the referee named Heaven Dou Second Team the champion.

After the Heaven Dou Second Team won the tournament, Ning Fengzhi’s support exposed Xiao Wu as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Bibi Dong ordered her capture. Tang Hao appeared to rescue Xiao Wu and Tang San, leaving Yang Podi and the others to watch Spirit Hall fail to stop him.

• Yang Podi accepted the three championship Soul Bones and declined Bibi Dong’s offer to join Spirit Hall, saying he planned to lead the Breaking Clan to Mount Aermo.
• Ning Fengzhi’s support caused Silver Spirit Grass to fly from Xiao Wu, alerting the Titled Douluos to her identity as a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Bibi Dong ordered Xiao Wu seized, but Tang San, Tai Long, Bai Xiaofei, Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong stood between her and Spirit Hall’s forces.
• Bibi Dong, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo attacked, while Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong fused their Martial Souls into a golden dragon to defend the group.
• Tang Hao arrived and battled Bibi Dong and the two Titled Douluos, then struck toward the Pope’s Palace as he prepared to escape with Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Tang Hao fled with Tang San and Xiao Wu while Yang Podi restrained Yang Wudi and Niu Gao from intervening, and Bibi Dong chose not to pursue.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Yang Podi received a marquis title and distributed Soul Bones and Immortal Herbs to his allies in the Breaking Clan. The four recipients began absorbing their treasures under the families’ protection, while Dugu Bo jokingly demanded that Yang Podi take responsibility for exposing Dugu Yan to him.

• The Heaven Dou teams returned to the imperial palace, where Emperor Xue Ye awarded Yang Podi the title of Champion Marquis and granted him a vast fief, while the others received noble titles and residences.
• Heaven Dou Second Team applied to Crown Prince Xue Qinghe for graduation, then the group gathered in the Breaking Clan’s secret chamber to distribute the tournament’s Soul Bones.
• Yang Podi gave Soul Bones to Yang Ping'an, Niu Meng, Yang Tianyue, and Dugu Yan, including an External Soul Bone that Dugu Yan’s grandfather Dugu Bo worried was too valuable to give away.
• Yang Podi revealed Immortal Herbs, which Yang Wudi and Yang Wushuang distributed to Niu Meng, Yang Ping'an, Yang Tianyue, and Dugu Yan, warning that the herbs’ effects could attract dangerous attention.
• The four absorbed their Soul Bones and Immortal Herbs over two days; when Dugu Yan’s External Soul Bone sprouted spider legs and tore her clothes, Dugu Bo covered her and accused Yang Podi of needing to take responsibility.

After the four young Soul Masters grew stronger from absorbing Soul Bones and Immortal Herbs, Yang Podi argued that the clans should move to Mount Aermo and exploit Spirit Hall’s hidden plans. He proposed selling five secret manuals while framing the Clear Sky Sect, and the chapter ended with him predicting that Prince Xue Xing would soon call in Dugu Bo’s favor for Prince Xue Beng.

• Yang Ping'an, Dugu Yan, Niu Meng, and Yang Tianyue improved their Soul Power and abilities after absorbing their treasures, with Yang Tianyue's spiritual power reaching the Soul Emperor level.
• Yang Podi argued that Tang Hao could survive his injuries and that Spirit Hall had deliberately held back its strength, so the clans needed to move to Mount Aermo within a year.
• Yang Podi proposed printing and secretly selling five secret manuals to raise money and leave clues framing a Clear Sky Sect traitor, hoping to intensify conflict between Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Yang Podi explained that greater chaos would give the clans time to develop, and Yang Wudi asked Dugu Bo whether he would move to Mount Aermo with them.
• Dugu Bo said he could not leave until he repaid Prince Xue Xing, and Yang Podi predicted that Xue Xing would soon use the favor for Prince Xue Beng.

Xue Qinghe’s rumors framed Xue Beng as an ambitious prince colluding with Spirit Hall, deepening the rift within the imperial family. Yang Podi and Yang Wudi planned the Breaking Clan’s preparations for a looming crisis, while Yang Podi told Ye Lingling that the clan would relocate to Mount Aermo after the duel.

• Yang Beng defended his contact with Spirit Hall to Prince Xue Xing, while both wondered who had arranged the assassination attempts against him.
• Xue Ye questioned the reports implicating Xue Beng, and Xue Qinghe smiled over the benefits he had gained by pushing his rival into the spotlight.
• Yang Podi urged Yang Wudi to have Yang Zhentian absorb the clan’s Soul Bones, sell some levels of the Mysterious Heaven Skill, and strengthen promising elders.
• Yang Podi and Yang Wudi agreed to prioritize preparations for Yang Wudi and Niu Gao’s duel against Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo before relocating the clans to Mount Aermo.
• Yang Podi told Ye Lingling the clans would move to Mount Aermo for safety and asked her to persuade her grandfather to consume the Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng King.