Chapter Summaries

The Chen Residence's defenders fought the Demon Dragon Legion in several simultaneous battles, with Yang Jingxue breaking Yuwen Changtai's frozen domain and Chen Hong gaining the upper hand against Ming Xiangyun. The fights remained underway as Chen Hong prepared to press his advantage against the Dark Nether Douluo.

• Zhuo Qianren and the wounded You Guangzhou fought to a stalemate, with Zhuo using Yan Wufeng's soul bone and speed to evade You's attacks.
• Luo Ping's scythe strikes failed to break through Zhu Hongzhen's steadfast Stone Armor Shield.
• Yang Jingxue countered Yuwen Changtai's Eternal Winter Frozen Earth with her Sun and Moon Shine Together fusion art, pierced his ice walls, and blasted him toward the ground.
• Chen Hong's ice-water Taiji domain analyzed Ming Xiangyun's shadow defenses, corroded his shadow armor, and forced him to retreat.
• Chen Hong announced his counterattack as Ming Xiangyun recognized the danger of the ice-water Taiji.

Chloe Russell, Ning Rui Ting, and the City Patrol Division broke through the Skynet barrier, but Luo Derun detonated it along with the Dark Luo Sky Curtain, unleashing a catastrophic explosion across the Chen Residence. The blast devastated the battlefield, and Yan Wushuang and Yan Chou Long seized the chaos to launch attacks as the smoke swallowed the fighters.

• Ning Rui Ting used his Seven Treasure True Body to amplify Chloe Russell and the Vast Sea Book as the City Patrol Division focused its ballistae on the weakened Skynet.
• Chloe's heavy-water cones and the ballista barrage weakened the barrier until the attack drove through its defensive node.
• Zuo Tinggang arrived, but Luo Derun detonated the Skynet's nodes before he could stop him.
• Chloe raised the Vast Sea Star Ring while Ning Rui Ting formed a glazed dome to shield the fighters from the blast.
• The Skynet and Dark Luo Sky Curtain exploded together, destroying defenses, damaging the Chen Residence, and killing or injuring Soul Masters.
• Amid the shock wave, Yan Wushuang tried to throttle Long Ma, while Yan Chou Long attacked the stalled main branch of Fish Intestine.

Luo Ping and Luo Derun combined their Rakshasa attacks to fatally wound Zhu Hongzhen, then the Scarlet Sect began retreating. Chen Hong tried to stop the escape, but Li Lingfeng and Ming Xiangyun joined forces to break through and vanished into the smoke.

• Luo Ping unleashed his level 96 Rakshasa attack while Luo Derun ambushed Zhu Hongzhen from above, breaking through his defenses and gravely wounding him.
• Luo Derun ordered the Scarlet Sect to withdraw, and its fighters used life-risking techniques to flee in different directions.
• Chen Hong unleashed a hundred ice-and-water jiaolong at Ming Xiangyun as she tried to escape.
• Li Lingfeng and Ming Xiangyun merged into a giant armored form and used a blood-crystal sword to split most of the jiaolong and knock Chen Menglin into a ruin.
• The combined giant form collapsed, and Li Lingfeng and Ming Xiangyun disappeared into the smoke and steam.

Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi fused their powers to unleash Ten Directions Extinction and kill Yan Chou Long, but Chen Xiaojun collapsed from the strain. Xiao Yi held him as the battle ended, with her next move left uncertain.

• Yan Chou Long tore through Fish Intestine's sword energy, badly destroying his right forelimb as he tried to escape.
• Chen Xiaojun commanded Dutian Sword Vine to trap Yan Chou Long, while Yan Wushuang abandoned his nephew and fled through a spatial rift.
• Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi used Soul Piercing Needle and completed their martial soul fusion, creating Ten Directions Extinction around the Sword God Pearl and Void Willow.
• Ten Directions Extinction imprisoned Yan Chou Long in a rule-bound sword formation and annihilated him with six divine sword phantoms.
• Chen Xiaojun coughed blood and collapsed, and Xiao Yi caught him and laid him on the ground as the Willow God Vine swayed behind her.

After Pang Yanfeng escaped into the shadows, the Chen Clan and Heaven Dou’s factions pursued the fleeing Crimson remnants through the city. Chen Zhang then sealed the battered Chen Residence, leaving it closed off as a newly bereaved household amid the aftermath of the battle.

• Pang Yanfeng crushed Zhu Wuneng and Gao Cuilan’s fused attack, then escaped into a shadow realm after Zhu Changyun bought them time by blocking his claw.
• Chen Hong and the other Chen Clan fighters chased the fleeing Crimson leaders in different directions as Heaven Dou’s forces and noble factions joined the pursuit.
• The city’s crowds, informants, and soul masters obstructed the fleeing Crimson remnants, turning their escape into a dangerous citywide hunt.
• Chen Zhang thanked those who had helped the Chen Clan, declared the residence sealed, and entered with Ning Rui Ting as blue light shut the ruined grounds off from onlookers.

Xiao Yi agreed to attempt to save Zhu Hongzhen from a fatal wound infected with Rakshasa God Power, with Chloe Russell's help. The chapter ended as Xiao Yi began drawing energy from the scarlet enemy corpses to prepare for the treatment.

• Chloe Russell treated Xi Xi's shock injuries and gave her a Sea God Island medicine, judging that she would recover within ten days.
• The healers concluded that Zhu Hongzhen was close to death because Rakshasa God Power was destroying his organs, and Zhu Wuneng rushed to find Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Yi finished treating Chen Xiaojun, then agreed to try to save Zhu Hongzhen after Zhu Wuneng begged her for help.
• Xiao Yi asked for a large wing-room, the enemy corpses, and Chloe Russell's assistance, explaining that she would gather the Rakshasa God Power so Chloe could try to expel it.
• Xiao Yi unfurled her Ageless Evergreen Ivy and began draining energy from the corpses of six Soul Douluo and twelve Soul Saints.

Xiao Yi used the Great Azure Jade Heavenly Mandate Finger, the Xikang Celestial Maiden Flower, and life force drawn from corpses to treat Zhu Hongzhen’s catastrophic wound while Kou Yi purged his Rakshasa baleful energy. The treatment was still a perilous struggle, with Zhu Hongzhen’s body trying to withstand several clashing sources of life force.

• Xiao Yi summoned the divine apparition of Shao Siming and used One Finger—Severing Yin Yang to strengthen Zhu Hongzhen’s failing heartbeat.
• Xiao Yi crushed the Xikang Celestial Maiden Flower’s petals over the wound, suppressing the Rakshasa patterns and prompting new flesh to grow.
• Xiao Yi used Two Fingers—Overturning Life to force Rakshasa baleful energy from Zhu Hongzhen, and Kou Yi purified it with the Vast Sea Book.
• Xiao Yi drew life force from the corpses in the room, then redirected the Evergreen Ivy to Yan Chou Long’s corpse for a stronger supply.
• The combined life forces flooded Zhu Hongzhen’s wounded body, turning his treatment into a dangerous struggle to restore him.

After the Chen Residence explosion, rival underground organizations across Heaven Dou City scrambled to retreat, sever ties, or retaliate against the Scarlet Sect. At dawn, powerful local clans and Titled figures awakened to assess the upheaval, as a wider struggle for the city’s power began.

• Intelligence chiefs at the White Dove Tavern and Bronze Sparrow Terrace ordered their networks to withdraw, destroy records, and prepare escape routes as city patrols and royal guards were expected to purge informants.
• The Iron Rat Gang blamed Pang Yanfeng for its ruined warehouse, while a hidden organization activated its dormant protocol and ordered its agents to disappear for at least a year.
• The Ghost Market issued a bounty on Scarlet Sect members, and the Desert Mother Serpent’s Hu Wu'er ordered supply lines to Scarlet cut off and threatened You Guangzhou.
• Azumonke blamed Ming Xiangyun and Li Lingfeng for ruining his Blood-Brew Feast and issued the Pleasure Decree.
• At dawn, powerful auras awakened across Heaven Dou City as its clans and Titled figures sized up the upheaval and considered how to gain from the changing order.

Ji Xiang recounted the Crimson Church’s attack on the Chen Residence and the Imperial Court’s reaction, then Ji Hongming revealed why Tian Tian’s Clan Recognition with the Chen Clan had been accepted. The Ji family learned that Tian Tian had Twin Martial Souls, including the Seven Kill Sword, and that the Bright King had forced the Ji Clan to submit.

• Ji Xiang told the Ji family that eight Titled Your Majesties of the Crimson Church had attacked the Chen Residence, and Ji Hongming said Ming Xiangyun escaped through the Shadow World.
• Ji Xing reported that the Imperial Court was in uproar and that the emperor would punish the Three Sentinels after the attack.
• Ji Hongming warned that the incident could fuel a political shake-up and asked whether Tian Tian’s Clan Recognition had been settled.
• Ji Rui revealed that Tian Tian had Twin Martial Souls, and Ji Xiang identified her second martial soul as the Seven Kill Sword.
• Ji Xing explained that Tian Tian’s grandfather was Chen Yu, and Ji Hongming said Sword Hero Douluo had once visited the Ji family’s old residence.
• Ji Hongming revealed that the Bright King, not merely Sword Hero Douluo, had forced the Ji family to accept Tian Tian’s connection to the Chen Clan.

The Ji Clan learned that Tian Tian used the name Chen Duling alongside her original surname and wondered which Chen Clan member had killed the Netherworld Douluo. Two days later, Luo Derun and Luo Ping hid on Monkey Mountain after escaping pursuit, while Luo Derun feared for the Holy Sect subordinates they had lost.

• Ji Xiang told the Ji Clan that the Chen Clan had given Tian Tian the name Chen Duling without replacing her original name, and Ji Xing approved of the arrangement.
• Ji Hongming asked Ji Xiang which member of the Chen Clan had killed the Netherworld Douluo at the Chen Residence.
• Luo Ping said he and Luo Derun had evaded Chen Hong, Chen Menglin, and Zhuo Qianren after three days of pursuit by waking old beasts in Sunset Forest.
• Luo Derun warned Luo Ping not to turn back and fight the three Titled Douluo, and they discussed whether Li Lingfeng and other Holy Sect members had escaped.
• Luo Derun worried that his Soul Douluo and Soul Sage subordinates had been killed during the battle at the Chen Residence.

Yuwen Changtai was killed by the Heaven Dou Empire’s forces, while the other surviving leaders of the failed assault fled or hid. Luo Derun and Luo Ping lamented their losses and realized the operation had gone disastrously wrong.

• Yang Jingxue, Zuo Tinggang, Han Yiyu, and Shui Rong cornered and killed Yuwen Changtai at Coiling Dragon Hills, stopping his attempt to self-destruct.
• Han Yiyu and Shui Rong recognized that Yuwen Shang would inherit the Frost Legion and likely seek revenge.
• You Guangzhou staggered through the Shadow World with a grievous wound from Ghost King, while Mo Tiancheng’s attack had also nearly caught him.
• Li Lingfeng escaped through Heaven Dou City’s sewers and hid in the filth after freezing his wounds.
• At Monkey Mountain, Luo Derun and Luo Ping discussed their losses, including Zhu Hongzhen and Yan Chou Long, and blamed the failed mission on bad intelligence.

Luo Derun and Luo Ping discussed the Chen Clan’s unusual powers and Zhu Hongzhen’s likely survival before Cheng Wenge, Ding Daoheng, and Xia Ruxin confronted them. The Chen Clan’s Four Generals had all become Titled Douluo and prepared to settle their old and recent blood debts, while Luo Derun challenged whether they could defeat him and Luo Ping.

• Luo Ping and Luo Derun suspected Chen Zixiu and Chen Yu might still be alive and able to expel God Power, then decided to report what they had learned.
• Luo Derun revealed that his scythe had struck Zhu Hongzhen’s Middle Soul Nest and said Zhu was unlikely to survive.
• Cheng Wenge appeared above the valley and confronted Luo Derun after sixty years.
• Ding Daoheng arrived, demanding repayment for the Luori Gorge and Chen Clan blood debts.
• Xia Ruxin emerged among Phantom Cherry blossoms, and Luo Derun recognized the three as members of the Chen Clan’s Four Generals, all now Titled Douluo.
• Luo Derun challenged the three generals’ ability to defeat him and Luo Ping, citing their levels and his own strength as a level 96 Super Douluo.

Cheng Wenge and his allies ambushed Luo Derun and Luo Ping in a narrow valley, trapping them with a coordinated assault. As Luo Derun recognized Xia Ruxin’s forest prison as an illusion concealing a lethal trap, the battle’s outcome remained unresolved.

• Cheng Wenge revealed that he had predicted Luo Derun and Luo Ping’s escape route through Monkey Mountain toward Toske Province.
• Luo Ping realized the group was stalling for time and urged Luo Derun to retreat.
• Cheng Wenge, Ding Daoheng, and Xia Ruxin launched a coordinated attack with an azure hawk, a flaming giant, and a forest illusion.
• Luo Derun and Luo Ping countered with their demon scythes, and their attacks collided with the three allies’ powers in the valley.
• Luo Derun sensed that the forest cage and Xia Ruxin’s clones were illusions created by a hidden ancient cherry tree, and felt its lethal roots closing around him.

Luo Derun broke through Xia Ruxin’s illusion with his blood-miasma domain, but the Three-Eyed Magic Ape transformed and stopped his escape. The Magic Ape Emperor revealed its connection to Zhang Xiaofan and closed in on the wounded Luo Derun alongside Cheng Wenge, Ding Daoheng, and Xia Ruxin.

• Luo Derun unleashed his ninth soul skill, corroded the Forest Burial Array, and charged for the southern mountain pass.
• A small gray spirit monkey transformed into a forty-meter-tall Three-Eyed Magic Ape and struck Luo Derun with a crushing fist.
• Luo Derun’s Cross Light Slash wounded the ape but shattered, and the blow hurled him back into the collapsing blood miasma and forest illusion.
• Cheng Wenge ordered the others to surround Luo Derun as Ding Daoheng and Xia Ruxin helped close the encirclement.
• Luo Derun recognized the Magic Ape Emperor as the Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey that had accompanied Zhang Xiaofan, and the emperor warned that he would not see the next sunrise.

Zhang Xiaofan and the Chen Clan’s Titled experts cornered and killed Luo Derun and his nephew in Monkey Mountain. After ordering the battlefield erased, Chen Hong drew Zhuo Qianren aside to explain the Chen Clan’s hidden strength.

• Luo Derun used Supreme Demonic Arcana: Break Limit to regain Level 97 power, but Zhang Xiaofan appeared on the Magic Ape Emperor’s shoulder and suppressed him with Level 98 pressure.
• Zhuo Qianren, Chen Hong, and Chen Menglin arrived as the Chen Clan’s experts and the Magic Ape Emperor surrounded Luo Derun and his nephew from six directions.
• The group killed Luo Derun and his nephew, and Zhang Xiaofan contained Luo Derun’s Rakshasa God Power before it could devastate the valley.
• Chen Menglin reflected that the Chen Clan had finally recovered part of its debt to the Crimson Luo Family, while Zhuo Qianren realized the pursuit had helped complete the trap.
• Zhang Xiaofan ordered the group to erase all traces of the battle so the Crimson Church would not learn what had happened.
• Chen Hong quietly led Zhuo Qianren aside and began explaining the Chen Clan’s concealed strength.

Four days after the attack on the Chen Residence, Chen Xiaojun woke from his injuries and learned what had happened while he was unconscious. Zhu Wuneng revealed that their great-grandfather had survived but lost his Stone Armor Pig King martial soul forever.

• Chen Xiaojun woke in the Chen Residence and learned that most of the family’s adults were away and the younger generation had gone to the tournament arena.
• Zhu Wuneng told Chen Xiaojun that Xiao Yi had exhausted herself using Life Force to help the injured, then slept for three days before waking weak but safe.
• Zhu Wuneng reported that more than sixty people in the residence had died, including thirteen from Chang'an Academy and six from Five Mountains Academy.
• Zhu Wuneng recounted that the Grand Elder, Grandpa Meng Lin, and Dean Zhuo had pursued the attackers, while other leaders and relatives had returned to help secure the residence.
• Zhu Wuneng told Chen Xiaojun that their great-grandfather was alive, but the divine power from the scythe had annihilated the origin of his Stone Armor Pig King martial soul, leaving it impossible to awaken again.

Chen Xiaojun learned how badly Chang'an’s fighters had been injured and that Xiao Yi had gone to compete despite her fragile condition. As Chang'an faced Heaven Spirit Academy with only eight wounded fighters left, the chapter ended with the team’s chances looking grim.

• Chen Xiaojun told Zhu Wuneng to conceal his grief until their great-grandfather awoke, asked whether his mother had been sent a letter, and learned that she was being contacted in Fasinuo.
• Chen Xiaojun learned that Xiao Yi had gone to the arena after waking from a three-day sleep, but he let her compete despite his anger and worry.
• Zhu Wuneng reported that Chang'an’s remaining fighters were badly injured, that He Qiang and You Wei had withdrawn from the roster, and that Seventh Young Master and Eighth Young Master had filled the gaps.
• Zhu Wuneng recounted Chang'an’s losses and hard-fought victories against Qing Lin Academy, Shui Yue Academy, and Coastal Academy, describing how the battles had further injured You Chu, Wencai, and Shi Feiyang.
• Spectators discussed Chang'an’s depleted roster and the threat posed by Heaven Spirit Academy’s Baxia martial soul fusion, while betting odds strongly favored Heaven Spirit.

Xiao Yi led Chang'an into its match against Heaven Spirit Academy despite her weakened condition, while observers recognized that her concealed soul power had reached rank 59. After Chen Zhang urged her to stop holding back, she unleashed the Meteor Vine, forcing Heaven Spirit's fighters back before Gui Ran and Fang Yirong combined their powers to summon Baxia and withstand her assault.

• Xiao Yi emerged with Chen Mu and the others, drawing a relieved roar from Chang'an's supporters despite signs that she had not fully recovered.
• Zhu Wuxin and Chen Yanwu worried about Xiao Yi's health, while Xue Jiqing saw through her self-seal and discovered she was rank 59.
• Xiao Yi assigned her teammates their opponents and declared that she would handle Heaven Spirit's Baxia.
• Heaven Spirit Team charged, and Xiao Yi summoned the Meteor Vine and unleashed its Silent Extinction Vine Language, hurling several opponents backward.
• Gui Ran and Fang Yirong joined their Soul Power and manifested Baxia, which held its ground against the surging vines.

Xiao Yi revealed her second Martial Soul, a King Martial Soul, and used a sevenfold Sky Azure Cage to trap Baxia. The cage held firm despite Baxia’s immense strength, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Spectators recognized Xiao Yi’s second Martial Soul and marveled at its power and rarity.
• Ji Bingyan, Zhan Ruoxi, and Bo Huaiyu reacted to Xiao Yi finally revealing her Twin Martial Souls.
• Xiao Yi activated Life Force Awakening and Moon Marks, raising her Soul Power to level 63, then used her modified Second Soul Skill, Sky Azure Cage.
• Seven layers of Meteor Vine burst from the arena floor and pierced and bound Baxia across its shell, limbs, neck, tail, and stone base.
• Baxia snapped one vine while struggling, but the cage’s vines regenerated and restrained it again.

Xiao Yi used her Eye of the Five Elements to analyze Baxia and defeat the Martial Soul Fusion Skill with successive seals. After Gui Ran and Fang Yirong fell unconscious and Su Ningxia attacked the Heaven Spirit Team’s Support Soul Master, Zhong Weiyun conceded the match.

• Xiao Yi analyzed Baxia’s body and energy structures with her Eye of the Five Elements.
• Xiao Yi used Drifting Willow Catkin and the Body Immobilization Spell to create an opening against Baxia.
• Xiao Yi cast Five Elements Ban Yuan to seal Baxia’s body, then used Nine Palaces Seal God to suppress its soul.
• Baxia disintegrated, and Gui Ran and Fang Yirong fell unconscious on the arena.
• Su Ningxia charged the Heaven Spirit Team’s Support Soul Master as Chen Mu and the others pressed the remaining fighters.
• Zhong Weiyun raised his arm and conceded the match.