Chapter Summaries

Liu Rengui sent Yue Pengjiu’s Iron Blood Heavy Cavalry into the Sailfish Tribe’s attack, helping turn the battle in Vast Sea City’s favor. He then ordered the navy and its War Beasts to strike, leaving the Sailfish Tribe under pressure from the fleet’s cannons and the Devil Fish’s Sea Fire.

• Liu Rengui ordered the horns sounded, and Yue Pengjiu led five thousand Iron Blood Heavy Cavalry into the Sailfish Tribe’s ranks.
• The Iron Blood Heavy Cavalry punched through the enemy formation repeatedly, fighting alongside the Vast Sea Thousand Jun Guards and helping establish the human army’s advantage.
• Liu Rengui ordered the navy to attack, and enormous warships advanced on the Sailfish Tribe and fired their heavy cannons.
• Liu Rengui ordered the War Beasts released, and the Devil Fish attacked with their Sea Fire soul skill.

The navy and the Sailfish Tribe exchanged powerful soul skills, with the Sailfish Tribe’s counterattacks injuring several War Beasts. After Liu Rengui ordered the signal bell rung, the five great forces deployed their trump-card units, turning the battle’s momentum against the Sailfish Tribe.

• Azure Turtle Crabs struck the Sailfish Tribe with sharp, poisonous pincers while the Sailfish Tribe and its mounts answered with Water Curtain Barriers and Wave Breaker attacks.
• Sailfish soul beasts sent water pillars and spinning blades into the navy’s War Beasts, knocking some aside and wounding others.
• Liu Rengui watched the battle from the Viewing Platform and ordered the agreed signal bell rung.
• Spirit Hall’s Blue Sea Punishment Knight Order, the Great Soul Arena’s Soul Duel Guard Team, Mystic Night Pavilion’s Blood Battle Squad, the Plant Guild’s Magic Plant Masters, and Vast Sea Academy’s Discipline Management Department joined the fight.
• The five great forces led the assault as the Vast Sea Thousand Jun Guards and soul masters followed, the Iron Blood Heavy Cavalry pierced the flanks, and the navy blockaded the rear sea area.

With five Soul Douluo trapping the Calamity Fish Saint Empress, Liu Rengui fired the Heaven Dou Empire’s Demon-Breaking Ballista and wounded her. The Soul Douluo finished her off, and Liu Rengui ordered the human forces to launch their final assault as the battle raged on.

• The five Soul Douluo overwhelmed the Calamity Fish Saint Empress while Ning Chi supported them with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Liu Rengui drew and fired the Demon-Breaking Ballista at the Calamity Fish Saint Empress, piercing her body and badly wounding her.
• Long Zhenrang and the other Soul Douluo seized the opening and continued their attacks until the Calamity Fish Saint Empress collapsed and a black soul ring rose from her body.
• The Calamity Fish Saint Empress’s fall weakened the enemy’s morale as the battle intensified across the battlefield.
• Liu Rengui watched for new threats and ordered his troops to join him in the final assault.

Liu Rengui and the allied forces defeated the Sailfish Tribe’s army, while Xue Bentao and the others pursued the fleeing Calamity Fish Saint King. Inside the Big Dipper Qiankun Formation, Chen Cong overwhelmed Omari Bendt with his Big Dipper Seven Kills, leaving him gravely wounded and nearly out of Soul Power.

• Liu Rengui led the military Reserve Team and the City Lord’s Mansion Soul Masters into battle, helping the allied army defeat the Sailfish Tribe and the remaining Sea Soul Beasts.
• After seeing the Calamity Fish Saint Empress fall, the Calamity Fish Saint King fled toward the deep sea, and Xue Bentao and eight other Soul Douluo pursued it.
• Chen Cong used his seven sword-shadow figures to suppress Omari Bendt inside the Big Dipper Qiankun Formation and revealed that he had been testing him.
• Omari Bendt unleashed Towering Giant Waves, and Chen Cong answered with Big Dipper Seven Kills, Nine Heavens Thunder.
• Chen Cong’s lightning sword destroyed Omari Bendt’s giant wave and struck him, leaving him badly wounded and nearly drained of Soul Power.

Chen Cong defeated Omari Bendt with his Big Dipper Seven Kills sword technique, while Leona Rhodes struggled against Long Ma and Zuo Tinggang. Leona used his Dark Water Sky Curtain to force a possible escape route through Long Ma’s Thunder Sea Dragon Tornado.

• Omari Bendt unleashed Secret Ocean Heart, but Chen Cong struck it with Big Dipper Seven Kills, Heroic Sword Po Jun and won the clash.
• Omari Bendt’s body collapsed, and Chen Cong withdrew his formation, exhausted by the battle.
• Leona Rhodes’s Darkness Domain was broken by Long Ma’s Demon Breaking Domain, so Leona turned and fled.
• Long Ma trapped Leona inside his Thunder Sea Dragon Tornado, where lightning drained his strength and life force.
• Leona raised a Dark Water Sky Curtain to shield himself from the tornado and rushed toward a powerful suction as his barrier neared its limit.

Leona Rhodes struggled to escape Long Ma and Zuo Tinggang, but their attacks left him trapped and badly wounded. As Long Ma unleashed his strongest technique, an opening appeared in Zuo Tinggang’s Water Prison.

• Leona Rhodes fled the battlefield after escaping the thunder sea dragon waterspout, but Long Ma and Zuo Tinggang pursued him as he ran toward the Banner Tribe’s backup forces.
• Long Ma summoned his Sea Dragon Spirit Shatter while Zuo Tinggang attacked with Heaven Duck Feather Shattering Slash, forcing Leona Rhodes to dodge and transform into his Extreme Speed Sailfish Martial Soul True Body.
• Leona Rhodes smashed through Zuo Tinggang’s first wave of wind blades, but denser attacks cut him badly and left him too weakened to escape.
• Zuo Tinggang trapped Leona Rhodes inside a Water Prison as Long Ma prepared and unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill, Thunder Sea Annihilation.
• Long Ma’s sea dragon descended toward Leona Rhodes, and an opening appeared in the Water Prison.

Bo Xian'er rescued Leona Rhodes from Long Ma's fatal attack and pressed him to reveal who had arranged the Banner Tribe's assault on the Heaven Dou Empire. Leona agreed to speak after Bo Xian'er and Zuo Tinggang assured him she could represent the empire, and he named the Crimson Church.

• Long Ma's Thunder Sea Annihilation nearly killed Leona Rhodes until Bo Xian'er's beam of light erased the attack and saved him.
• Long Ma and Zuo Tinggang recognized Bo Xian'er as Sea God Island's High Priest and greeted her with respect.
• Bo Xian'er asked Leona who had masterminded the attack on the Heaven Dou Empire and threatened the Banner Tribe if he refused to answer.
• Leona asked whether Bo Xian'er could make decisions for the Heaven Dou Empire, and Zuo Tinggang confirmed that she could represent it.
• Leona Rhodes revealed that the Crimson Church was behind the attack.

Bo Xian'er learned that the Crimson Church had pushed the Sailfish Tribe to attack the Heaven Dou Empire as part of a wider plot against both great empires. After sending Zuo Tinggang and Long Ma to investigate Vast Sea City, she pressed Leona Rhodes for more information and turned to the Calamity Fish.

• Leona Rhodes revealed that the Crimson Church had persuaded the Sailfish Tribe to attack the Heaven Dou Empire, while the tribe also sought to expand into the Northwest Sea Area.
• Leona Rhodes explained that the Crimson Church had threatened the Sailfish Tribe's Supreme Elder by threatening to end trade with the tribe.
• Bo Xian'er assigned Zuo Tinggang to report the Crimson Church's involvement and warned that its observers might be watching the battle in Vast Sea City.
• Zuo Tinggang and Long Ma flew to Vast Sea City to investigate.
• Bo Xian'er offered to reduce the Sailfish Tribe's losses if Leona Rhodes disclosed the Crimson Church's plans, and he said it intended to overthrow the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires with help from other powers.
• Bo Xian'er asked Leona Rhodes how he had tamed the Calamity Fish.

Leona Rhodes explained to Bo Xian'er that taming calamity fish over ten thousand years old required a Sacred Object kept in his clan’s ancestral land. After the Vast Sea Allied Forces defeated the calamity fish and Sea Soul Beasts, the survivors celebrated, then confronted the enormous human and coastal losses; Chen Xiaojun and his companions mourned the fallen while reflecting on what the battle had taught them.

• Leona Rhodes refused Bo Xian'er's request to share the calamity fish taming method and explained that older calamity fish needed a Sacred Object's blessing.
• Xue Bentao, Long Zhenrang, and the other warriors dragged the Calamity Fish Saint King’s corpse across the sea as the Vast Sea Allied Forces cheered their victory.
• Liu Rengui learned that the battle had killed tens of thousands of ordinary soldiers and caused heavy losses among the main forces, while Sea Soul Beast attacks devastated the coastline.
• Xi Xi, Xiao Yi, Chen Xiaojun, and their companions rested among the ruins, mourned the fallen warriors, and reflected on how the battle had strengthened their abilities.

Oriental Dragon and Li Lingfeng assessed the Chen Clan’s growing strength and the Crimson Church’s past losses while watching the battle in Vast Sea City. Meanwhile, Long Ma and Zuo Tinggang deduced that Crimson Church scouts were observing from Seashore Mountain and set out to search its highest peak.

• Oriental Dragon and Li Lingfeng noted Chen Cong’s formidable sword formation, the improved equipment, and the Chen Clan’s three Titled Douluo.
• Oriental Dragon recalled how underestimating the Chen Clan fifty years earlier had cost the Crimson Church several Titled Douluo and weakened its position in the Holy War.
• Oriental Dragon and Li Lingfeng discussed the uncertain fate of Chen Zixiu, the young Chen Clan fighter, and the threats posed by Soul Fighting City and other major forces.
• Long Ma asked Zuo Tinggang where the Crimson Church scouts were likely positioned, and Zuo Tinggang identified Seashore Mountain as the best vantage point.
• Long Ma and Zuo Tinggang decided to check Seashore Mountain’s highest peak first.

Oriental Dragon and Li Lingfeng fled when Long Ma and Zuo Tinggang arrived, but Zuo Tinggang detected them with Void Insight. Oriental Dragon escaped into a forest and began a fierce pursuit against the two Titled Douluo.

• Long Ma and Zuo Tinggang arrived at Seashore Mountain, prompting Oriental Dragon and Li Lingfeng to split up and flee.
• Zuo Tinggang used Void Insight to locate both fugitives, and Chen Cong pursued the invisible Li Lingfeng.
• Long Ma and Zuo Tinggang chased Oriental Dragon as he used soul skills and fled into a dense forest.
• Oriental Dragon ambushed Long Ma with an Ice Attribute attack, then turned invisible and continued evading his pursuers.
• Long Ma and Zuo Tinggang tracked Oriental Dragon through the forest, closing in from both sides.

Oriental Dragon fought Zuo Tinggang through the forest, but Zuo Tinggang’s speed and strength let him break through Oriental Dragon’s frost defenses and wound him. Oriental Dragon gathered the surrounding frost to prepare a powerful counterattack as their battle reached its crucial moment.

• Oriental Dragon used Phantom Avatar to escape Long Ma, but Zuo Tinggang intercepted him and accused him of being a Crimson Church spy.
• Oriental Dragon attacked with Frost Blade and Wall of Sighs while Zuo Tinggang countered with Heaven Duck Feather Shattering Slash and Blue Duck Giant Strength.
• Zuo Tinggang’s boosted speed and strength gave him the upper hand, and he shattered Oriental Dragon’s ice wall with Wing Flapping and knocked him backward.
• Oriental Dragon rose with blood at his mouth, drew frost from the surroundings, and prepared to unleash a powerful attack.

Oriental Dragon used his Ice and Snow law domain to strengthen his frost attacks and pressure Zuo Tinggang. Zuo Tinggang survived Oriental Dragon’s Frozen Ice Dragon’s Wrath with Water Prison, and the two continued their battle through the forest.

• Oriental Dragon unleashed his Ice and Snow law domain, freezing the surroundings and strengthening his attacks against Zuo Tinggang.
• Oriental Dragon used Dance of Frozen Ice to encircle and restrain Zuo Tinggang, then attacked him from behind with Frozen Ice Dragon’s Wrath.
• Zuo Tinggang formed a Water Prison that blocked most of Oriental Dragon’s strike, but Oriental Dragon broke through and knocked him away.
• Oriental Dragon fled through the woods, and Zuo Tinggang pursued him as they continued exchanging attacks.

Long Ma joined Zuo Tinggang against Oriental Dragon, and the two sides unleashed powerful ninth and eighth soul skills in a battle that devastated the forest. Zuo Tinggang’s enormous Heaven Duck Vast Body bore down on Oriental Dragon, who gathered his power to face the attack.

• Long Ma arrived to support Zuo Tinggang, and his Sea Dragon martial soul helped drive Oriental Dragon onto the defensive.
• Oriental Dragon unleashed his eighth soul skill, Ice and Snow Great Storm, engulfing Long Ma and Zuo Tinggang in a freezing blizzard.
• Long Ma answered with his ninth soul skill, Thunder Sea Annihilation, and his lightning-charged Sea Dragon phantom clashed with the storm.
• While Long Ma and Oriental Dragon fought, Zuo Tinggang used Void Insight to watch for an opening, then activated his ninth soul skill, Heaven Duck Vast Body.
• Zuo Tinggang transformed into a 250-meter Heaven Duck and sent a massive tornado toward Oriental Dragon, who gathered Soul Power to counter him.

Oriental Dragon fought Long Ma and Zuo Tinggang until Chen Cong arrived and severed his left arm with a surprise attack. As the three Titled Douluo prepared to finish him, Oriental Dragon triggered Ice Burst Star Shatter with his severed arm, unleashing a chain of explosions across the battlefield.

• Oriental Dragon's Icebound World clashed with Zuo Tinggang's Heaven Duck Vast Body as Long Ma joined the fierce battle.
• Chen Cong arrived and struck Oriental Dragon with Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin Universe Throw, shattering his shield and cutting off his left arm.
• Chen Cong recognized Oriental Dragon as a participant in the ambush on the Chen Clan, and Oriental Dragon admitted it.
• As Chen Cong, Long Ma, and Zuo Tinggang closed in, Oriental Dragon used his severed left arm to trigger Ice Burst Star Shatter.
• The explosion spread through the surrounding frost qi and ice domain, sending a powerful shockwave toward all three attackers.

Oriental Dragon escaped from Chen Cong, Long Ma, and Zuo Tinggang by using his Blood Burning Burst Escape soul skill, and the three decided not to pursue him. After returning from the battle, the allied army began recovering and dividing the vast spoils of war.

• Oriental Dragon activated Blood Burning Burst Escape and vanished into the distance, leaving a trail of red marks.
• Zuo Tinggang identified Oriental Dragon's right leg bone as a soul bone of at least fifty thousand years, and Long Ma and Chen Cong discussed the Crimson Church's wealth and influence.
• Chen Cong explained that the Soul Douluo he pursued had escaped through a river, and Zuo Tinggang concluded the group they fought had not expected to be discovered.
• Chen Cong and Zuo Tinggang decided against pursuing Oriental Dragon, reasoning that his injuries and soul skill's side effects had greatly weakened him.
• The three returned, and the allied army spent the following days treating the wounded, repairing the city, reorganizing troops, and distributing rewards.
• The factions negotiated over the spoils, including more than a hundred thousand Sea Soul Beast corpses, rare high-level materials, and the Sailfish Tribe's weapons and armor.

The forces negotiated how to divide the spoils from the battle, while Hua Rubing secured valuable rewards for the Great Soul Arena. As Chen Xiaojun recovered, Chen Cong brought him the Calamity Fish Ancient King’s soul bone, and Chen Xiaojun offered it to his granduncle.

• Hua Rubing negotiated with the other forces and won the Great Soul Arena a generous share of the spoils, including the Calamity Fish Saint Empress’s corpse and two high-age soul bones.
• After several days of negotiations, the forces reached an agreement to divide the spoils according to contribution and strength while considering future cooperation.
• Chen Cong visited Chen Xiaojun as he recovered from severe meridian damage and told him the Calamity Fish Ancient King had left behind a soul bone.
• Chen Cong showed Chen Xiaojun the seventy-thousand-year-old Calamity Fish Ancient King’s left arm bone, and Chen Xiaojun offered it to Chen Cong for the clan’s benefit.
• Chen Cong refused to take Chen Xiaojun’s spoils of war, but Chen Xiaojun insisted that he accept the soul bone as a filial offering.

Chen Xiaojun chose between two powerful left arm soul bones after Chen Cong tested his judgment and composure. Chen Cong praised his reasoning but corrected his assessment of the Raging Wave Tear Blade soul bone, while considering Chen Xiaojun a potential successor in the Chen Clan’s theoretical research.

• Chen Cong presented the Raging Wave Tear Blade Left Arm Bone, a nearly seventy-thousand-year-old soul bone, and asked Chen Xiaojun to choose between it and the Calamity Fish Ancient King Left Arm Bone.
• Chen Xiaojun chose the Calamity Fish bone, explaining that its attributes and species matched him better while the other bone suited Chen Cong more.
• Chen Xiaojun recognized that Chen Cong had also tested whether he could stay objective instead of choosing based on his earlier intention to offer the Calamity Fish bone to him.
• Chen Cong revealed that the Raging Wave Tear Blade bone had a strong mental attribute as well as a water attribute, and Chen Xiaojun accepted that his assessment had been incomplete.
• Chen Cong considered Chen Xiaojun a rare talent in soul master theory and intended to make him his successor in that field.

Chen Xiaojun absorbed the seventy-thousand-year Calamity Fish Ancient King Left Arm Bone while still recovering from his injuries, and its power healed and strengthened him. His third soul ring nearly mutated into a ten-thousand-year ring before he halted its advancement, and the chapter ended with his Soul Power reaching the high stage of level 37.

• Chen Cong urged Chen Xiaojun to absorb the Calamity Fish Ancient King Left Arm Bone immediately, explaining that its power could help restore his injured body.
• Chen Xiaojun absorbed the soul bone, enduring pain as its energy merged with his Soul Power and Nine Yang Divine Skill and changed his left arm.
• Chen Xiaojun's Fish Intestine Sword resonated with the soul bone, and his third soul ring began to mutate toward ten thousand years.
• Chen Cong used Starry Sword Eyes to observe the mutation, while Chen Xiaojun redirected its advancing power into the soul bone and his body.
• Chen Xiaojun completed the absorption, recovered from his injuries, and reached the high stage of level 37; Chen Cong recognized the soul bone's exceptional value.

Chen Cong explained how Chen Xiaojun’s Sword God Pearls had interacted with his Soul Bone to mutate his Third Soul Ring and strengthen his abilities. They discussed how his combined skills and the Chen Clan’s inheritances could rival or surpass the Tang Clan’s Ring Detonation, and Chen Xiaojun promised to raise his Third Soul Ring to ten thousand years when he grew stronger.

• Chen Cong said the Sword God Pearls had absorbed the Dao Rhyme of the Soul Bone’s inscriptions, causing the Soul Bone and Third Soul Ring to advance together.
• Chen Cong explained that objects with Dao Rhyme could accelerate the Sword God Pearls’ growth and urged Chen Xiaojun to explore ways to evolve them into a Super Martial Soul.
• Chen Xiaojun described how his Third Soul Ring’s Triple Strike gained Water and Fire damage and how his Left Arm Bone skill, Ruthless Water and Fire, could boost attacks by 150% or add a 200% burst to each strike.
• Chen Cong calculated that Chen Xiaojun’s burst could rival the Tang Clan’s Great Sumeru Hammer Ring Detonation and could exceed tenfold amplification with the five Chen Clan inheritances.
• Chen Xiaojun promised Chen Cong that he would try to raise his Third Soul Ring to ten thousand years when he was stronger.