Chapter Summaries

The funeral rites for the fallen ended as their families lit the sacrificial fires and gathered their remains. Feng Min chose to become a counsellor at Chang'an Academy to watch over Yan Xiaolai, while Feng Qisheng told her that Chen Zhang had promised to take the boy as his direct disciple.

• Ji Chengjian supported Liu Ruyi as she lit the soul fire for her father, and grieving relatives lit the fires at the other coffins.
• The soul fires consumed the dead, and Chen Clan servants collected the ashes and bones in Ink Crystal Bone Porcelain Urns for their families.
• Feng Min told Feng Qisheng that she had applied to Dean Zhuo to become a counsellor at Chang'an Academy so she could protect Yan Xiaolai.
• Feng Qisheng said the Main Family would compensate the Yan Clan with inheritances and a soul bone, and revealed that Chen Zhang had promised to take Yan Xiaolai as his direct disciple.

Ye Xiuxin confirmed that Zhu Hongzhen could awaken because his Soul Power Seed still functioned, but said Rakshasa God Power had nearly irreversibly damaged the bloodline factors sustaining his martial soul. She outlined a theoretical recovery method involving a matching restorative power and suggested the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well might help after Zhu Hongzhen recovered enough to endure it.

• Feng Qisheng argued that accepting Yan Xiaolai as a disciple would benefit both him and the Main Family, and Feng Min connected the arrangement to Ji Tiantian.
• Ye Xiuxin examined Zhu Hongzhen and confirmed that his functioning Soul Power Seed had preserved his vitality, so he could awaken.
• Ye Xiuxin explained that Rakshasa God Power had destroyed core bloodline factors in Zhu Hongzhen's martial soul, making its restoration almost unsolvable by known medical methods.
• Ye Xiuxin proposed that recovery would require a power capable of countering the destruction, matching the Stone Armor Pig King's attributes, and supplying sustained energy.
• Chen Hong asked about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Ye Xiuxin said its energy might help but required testing after Zhu Hongzhen awakened and recovered enough to bear it.

Xiao Yi’s Sky Azure Vine overwhelmed the entire arena and trapped the six members of Heaven Dou Team. Tang Chen and his teammates combined their defenses and soul skills to halt the vines’ advance and push them back in one area.

• Xiao Yi’s Sky Azure Vine covered the 250-meter stage, leaving the six Heaven Dou Team members trapped in a shrinking space.
• Ling Xinyao cast Ice Prison, buying her teammates two seconds before the vines shattered it.
• Tang Chen used Clear Sky Body Protection while Ning Zhongtian layered a Holy Light Barrier over his shield.
• Xue Shiming unleashed Holy Rain, slowing the Sky Azure Vine with its purification power.
• Bai Tianrui formed a Starlight Barrier and used Stellar Repulsion, while Zhi Xuan activated Verdant Law Domain to strengthen his vines.
• The team’s combined counterattack checked the tide of vines and pushed its boundary back in a small area.

The Heaven Dou Team combined Ling Xinyao’s and Xue Shiming’s ice powers to blast a wide opening through Xiao Yi’s vines, then charged through it. Xiao Yi regrew a three-colored vine barrier as Tang Chen unleashed his trump cards and prepared to attack her at overwhelming strength.

• Ling Xinyao froze the advancing Sky Azure Vines with her secret technique, Three Thousand Miles of Ice Seal.
• Xue Shiming combined Sacred Ice Seal with his frost arm-bone skill, Ten Thousand Miles of Ice Seal, shattering the frozen vines and opening a fifty-meter clearing.
• Tang Chen led the Heaven Dou Team’s charge through the clearing as Xiao Yi raised a new barrier of Life, Meteor, and Sky Azure Vines.
• Tang Chen activated Thunderous Rampage and Might of the World, pushing his attack power near level 75 despite the strain on his body.

Xiao Yi unleashed her Fourth Soul Skill, Silent Extinction Vine Language, against Heaven Dou’s coordinated assault. Tang Chen and his allies broke through several waves, but the relentless destruction ripples overwhelmed them and left Tang Chen and Ning Zhongtian badly wounded.

• Du Gu Fu and Zhu Wuneng mocked Tang Chen’s title, while Zhu Wuneng and Chen Shurui praised Xiao Yi and Chen Xiaojun as peers worthy of the name Might of the World.
• Tang Chen and Ning Zhongtian advanced toward Xiao Yi as Xue Shiming prepared a major attack and his Honghu Avatar dove at her.
• Xiao Yi released Silent Extinction Vine Language, sending waves of destructive ripples against the attackers.
• Tang Chen broke through successive ripples with his hammer techniques, while Ning Zhongtian’s Saint Pagoda Meteor Blast and the avatar’s Sky Splitting Claw cleared several more.
• The remaining ripples overwhelmed Tang Chen, who spat blood and was flung backward, while Ning Zhongtian staggered back after his attack’s recoil.
• Chen Shurui dismissed the trio’s assault as weaker than the charge of over a hundred silver wolves.

Xiao Yi revealed a fourth Martial Soul, the King-ranked Sword Willow Vine, and used its deadly vines alongside her three sword techniques to destroy the Flowing Wind avatar. The revelation stunned the spectators and left the Sword Willow Vine poised to attack Xue Shiming’s true body.

• Xiao Yi slowed the Flowing Wind avatar with the Lesser Cold Sword and struck it with the Lesser Underworld Sword and Lesser Hidden Sword.
• The Sword Willow Vine’s sharp tendrils pierced the avatar, which burst apart into droplets and Spirit Qi.
• The colossal bluish-gold Sword Willow Vine emerged, its sword-like branches targeting Xue Shiming as he gathered light and flame in midair.
• Ji Bingyan, Bo Huaiyu, and the 120,000 spectators reacted in stunned silence to Xiao Yi’s fourth Martial Soul.
• Zhi Xing recognized the Sword Willow Vine as a King Martial Soul and struggled to accept that it had reached that rank.
• Han Yiyu lamented Xiao Yi’s unpredictable fate, while Xuan Qingya remarked that Han had chosen for Ruo Xi; the Sword Willow Vine continued aiming at Xue Shiming.

The Titled Douluos identified the Green-Gold Sword Willow as a Symbiotic Set Martial Soul while its sword-spine vines battered the Chang'an Team’s defenses. As the team struggled to hold back its attacks, a majestic aura of verdant vitality began rising from the ground before them.

• The Ghost King recognized the vines as a possible Symbiotic Set Martial Soul, and Yu Yongyuan agreed that the explanation fit their unusual form.
• Xiao Yicai remarked that the Chen Clan boy with a Sword Sheath Martial Soul and the girl with a vine group Martial Soul were well matched.
• She Yaolei and Qian Gu Hongying discussed how the Chen Clan’s latest monster would increase the pressure on Spirit Hall, with Qian Gu Hongying expecting Bei Ming Xinghai to bear the brunt first.
• The Sword Willow Vine’s sword-spine whips cracked Bai Tianrui’s Star Barrier and sliced apart Zhi Xuan’s Sky Azure Vines, forcing the team to use regeneration and rapid growth to resist.
• Ling Xinyao froze the foremost vines while Ye Zijun’s Nine Heart Begonia healed Bai Tianrui and strengthened his barrier.
• Zhi Xuan spotted a majestic aura of verdant vitality breaking through the ground in front of the Star Barrier.

Xiao Yi revealed the Ageless Evergreen Ivy, a fifth vine in her symbiotic vine-cluster martial soul, and transformed its towering crown into a throne from which she watched the battle below. Her unveiled power and imposing presence left the spectators stunned as the fight continued beneath her.

• Xiao Yi summoned the Ageless Evergreen Ivy, raising a colossal, multicolored vine through the arena and settling atop its crown.
• Yun Yingluo and Chen Yanwu watched the vine, and Chen Yanwu recalled Xiao Yi’s quiet yearning while she played the qin at Shaolin Lake eight years earlier.
• The Ghost King and Yu Yongyuan concluded that the Ageless Evergreen Ivy belonged to Xiao Yi’s set-type symbiotic vine-cluster martial soul, though none of the Titled Douluo recognized it.
• Xiao Yi reshaped the vine’s crown into a five-colored throne and watched as the Sword Willow Vine pursued Xue Shiming while Sky Azure Vines overwhelmed Tang Chen and the others.
• The spectators from Chang'an celebrated Xiao Yi’s display, while Chen Xiaojun relaxed as she finally let go of her restraint.
• Yang Jingxue and Chen Hong remarked on Xiao Yi’s more domineering presence and reflected that she had seemed to hold almost no one in her regard.

Ye Zijun healed Heaven Dou’s wounded team as Xue Shiming summoned and empowered the Honghu Sacred Beast to attack Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi answered with the Silver Wolf True King, and the two colossal beasts began battling above the arena.

• Ye Zijun used her Nine Heart Begonia to heal Tang Chen, Ning Zhongtian, Bai Tianrui, and Zhi Xuan while they struggled with their humiliation.
• Xue Shiming combined his soul skills into the Honghu Sacred Beast and used Heaven Feather Awakening to raise its power to level 77.
• The Honghu Sacred Beast shattered the Sword Willow Vine’s attacks and launched two enormous cross-shaped blades of sacred light at Xiao Yi’s throne.
• Xiao Yi opened a rift and summoned the Silver Wolf True King, which destroyed the Honghu’s sacred-light attack with Moonlight Rending Sky.
• The Silver Wolf True King and the Honghu Sacred Beast clashed in the sky above the arena.

Xiao Yi activated the Ancient Vine Barrier, empowering the vines and restoring Soul Power across the arena as Heaven Dou struggled to hold its defensive line. The teams became trapped in a brutal stalemate of relentless attacks and rapid regeneration.

• Zhou Yi and Jin Xin identified the Banished Immortal’s silver wolf as a Howling Moon Silver Wolf Remnant Spirit summoned from a Soul Bone, while Bai Tianrui lamented that Oldest had used the powerful move.
• Zhi Xuan, Ling Xinyao, Ye Zijun, Tang Chen, and Ning Zhongtian fought to keep Heaven Dou’s formation intact as the vines pressed in.
• Xue Shiming arrived above the Star Barrier and used golden feathers of light to push back the Sword Willow Vines, easing the pressure on Heaven Dou’s formation.
• Xiao Yi raised her hand and spread the Ancient Vine Barrier across the arena, restoring Soul Power and strengthening vine-type skills.
• The barrier intensified the vines’ growth and attacks, forcing Heaven Dou’s fighters to defend against waves that regenerated faster than they could destroy them.

Xiao Yi and the Silver Wolf True King destroyed Xue Shiming’s Honghu Sacred Beast, leaving him badly injured as the Heaven Dou Three Heroes struggled to withstand the vines. Xue Shiming then joined forces with Tang Chen and Ning Zhongtian, beginning a coordinated counterattack.

• Xiao Yi’s Moon White Light Pillar severed Honghu’s wing, and the Silver Wolf True King shattered it before Honghu’s entire energy structure collapsed.
• Xue Shiming suffered severe backlash from Honghu’s destruction, and Ye Zijun used her Nine Heart Begonia to heal him enough to stand again.
• The vines tightened around Tang Chen and Ning Zhongtian as the Heaven Dou team’s barrier began to crack.
• Xue Shiming told Bai Tianrui, Zhi Xuan, and Xin Yao to hold the vines for three breaths, then called Tang Chen and Ning Zhongtian to join him.
• Tang Chen and Ning Zhongtian placed their bloodied hands on Xue Shiming’s shoulders, and their three auras connected as one.

Ling Xinyao, Zhi Xuan, and Bai Tianrui fought to hold back the vine formation while Xue Shiming launched his sacred attack against Xiao Yi’s Azure-Gold Sword Willow. Xiao Yi’s support skill restored and strengthened the vine, which shattered Ling Xinyao’s ice seal and struck at the flaming Swan Goose.

• Ling Xinyao broke the vines around her ankles as Bai Tianrui used Star River Stasis Ring to absorb the formation’s attacks, draining his Soul Power.
• Zhi Xuan unleashed Sky Azure Diamond Drill to tear through the vine wall, but the drill was destroyed and he collapsed; pink-white light reached him and Bai Tianrui, easing their injuries.
• Ling Xinyao used Ice Radiance Ring to amplify Three Thousand Miles of Ice Seal, freezing the Azure-Gold Sword Willow and its branches.
• Xue Shiming invoked Honghu Sacred Punishment: Thunderfall Heavenly Conquest, bringing his empowered Swan True Form and Sacred Flame down upon the battlefield.
• Xiao Yi used Drifting Willow Catkin on the frozen Sword Willow, which broke free and resisted the flames; its branches lunged at the Swan Goose’s wings.

Xue Shiming, Ning Zhongtian, and Tang Chen unleashed their combined Thunderfall Heavenly Conquest against Xiao Yi, while the Silver Wolf True King defended him from the devastating attack. The wolf was destroyed protecting its master, and the remaining lightning slurry turned toward a cluster of strange purple vines.

• Ning Zhongtian transformed Xue Shiming's sacred flames into molten glazed slurry, which burned through the Sword Willow Vine's branches.
• Xue Shiming sent the Honghu diving at the vine throne as Tang Chen infused its glazed slurry with destructive thunder.
• The three Heaven Dou heroes unleashed Thunderfall Heavenly Conquest, raining over a hundred streams of lightning slurry toward Xiao Yi.
• The Silver Wolf True King blocked the attack and used Moon Wolf Guardian, but the lightning slurry overwhelmed and destroyed it as it protected Xiao Yi.
• The remaining thirty streams of lightning slurry veered toward dozens of dark-purple, segmented vines that had emerged from the arena.

Xiao Yi’s Thunder Hell Vine absorbed the Heaven Dou team’s sacred lightning and drained Tang Chen’s power before unleashing a devastating attack. Ning Zhongtian took over the formation’s core and raised a Glazed Sacred Domain to shield the team, but the lightning steadily forced its barrier inward.

• Yu Yongyuan and the Yu Family disciples recognized Xiao Yi’s Thunder Hell Vine as a natural counter to lightning.
• The vines devoured the Sacred Thunder Slurry and drained Tang Chen through his connection to the Swan True Form, forcing Xue Shiming to sever the link.
• Xiao Yi unleashed her Fifth Soul Skill, Ninefold Purple, and hundreds of dark-purple lightning beams struck Heaven Dou’s formation.
• The lightning shattered Bai Tianrui’s Star River barrier, leaving him injured beside the fallen Zhi Xuan.
• Ning Zhongtian shifted the formation’s core to himself and raised the Glazed Sacred Domain, but the lightning pressed its shrinking barrier toward Heaven Dou’s team.

The Heaven Dou Three Heroes strengthened the Glazed Sacred Domain by combining their soul skills, while Xiao Yi unleashed her Thunder Realm Combination Skill against it. The shield endured the initial assault by channeling part of the lightning into the earth, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Xue Shiming and Ning Zhongtian incorporated Swan Holy Rain and Still Water into the Glazed Sacred Domain, making its barrier tougher and pushing back the lightning tide.
• Xiao Yi activated her Thunder Forest Soul Bone Skill, combining its descending lightning with the Thunder Hell Vine’s attack to compress the barrier.
• Tang Chen poured Initial Yang Force into Ning Zhongtian, helping the shield become a complete Glazed Water Strong Shield.
• Xiao Yi formed the Five Thunders Peak · Hell Thunder Realm and sent three tribulation lightning bolts crashing into the shield.
• The Glazed Water Light Screen conducted and dispersed part of the destructive current into the earth as it resisted the attack.

The Titled Douluo watching Xiao Yi’s battle identified her Thunder Hell Vine soul bone as a potential Saint King-level treasure, while Xiao Yi’s second Thunder talisman began breaking through the Glazed Water Light Screen. The experts then discovered that an unknown formation was drawing lightning-attribute spirit qi toward the arena and strengthening all lightning attacks.

• The Ghost King and Venerable Lei Xing linked Xiao Yi’s lightning soul skills and martial soul to the Thunder Hell Vine, and Yu Yongyuan estimated her soul bone had surpassed fifty thousand years and could reach Saint King Level.
• Xiao Yi formed a second ancient Thunder talisman and sent three bolts of tribulation lightning into the Thunder Forest.
• The fourth, fifth, and sixth bolts battered the Glazed Water Light Screen, leaving it cracked and unable to fully repair itself.
• Qinghuang Sword Monarch and Zuo Tinggang sensed an abnormality in the arena, and the Titled Douluo used probing techniques to reveal a vast, unfamiliar formation.
• Venerable Lei Xing recognized that the formation was drawing lightning-attribute spirit qi toward the stage and strengthening the lightning attacks.

Xiao Yi's Feng Hou Qimen formation secretly weakened and targeted the Heaven Dou Team as her Five Thunder Talismans battered their failing defense. The team endured the fourth volley, but Ling Xinyao and Zhi Xuan collapsed, leaving Ye Zijun barely able to treat their worst injuries.

• Qinghuang Sword Monarch and Ji Hongming recognized the sophistication of Xiao Yi's array as her Feng Hou Qimen formation enveloped the battlefield.
• Xiao Yi's formation gathered thunder energy and weakened the Heaven Dou Team through its linked Earth, Man, Heaven, and Deity plates.
• The third Five Thunder Talisman struck the Glazed Water Light Screen, carving deep gouges into its already damaged surface.
• Ling Xinyao and Zhi Xuan lent their remaining Soul Power to Xue Shiming and Tang Chen as Xiao Yi formed a fourth Five Thunder Talisman.
• The fourth volley hit the Heaven Dou Team's barrier, and Ling Xinyao and Zhi Xuan collapsed after exhausting themselves.
• Ye Zijun used her remaining strength to heal their worst wounds.

The Heaven Dou Team’s Glazed Water Light Screen collapsed under Xiao Yi’s lightning, leaving the team battered, but Ye Zijun used the Nine Heart Begonia’s Holy Healing Art to restore the Heaven Dou Three Heroes before falling into a coma. As strange frost spread across Ye Zijun and Ning Zhongtian discovered hidden lightning in his body, Xiao Yi declared herself the King.

• The fifteenth tribulation lightning shattered the Glazed Water Light Screen, and the combined attacks of Thunder Forest and Ninefold Purple left the Heaven Dou Team badly injured.
• Ye Zijun used Holy Healing Art to heal the Heaven Dou Three Heroes, then collapsed into a coma as frost spread across her back and neck.
• Ling Xinyao demanded that Chen Xinyi explain what she had done to Ye Zijun, and Xiao Yi replied that she would draw the frost away.
• Ning Zhongtian forced hidden purple-black lightning from his spine, and Xue Shiming accused Xiao Yi of secretly implanting foreign energy in their bodies.
• Xiao Yi answered Xue Shiming with a maxim and proclaimed, “I am the King!”

Xiao Yi explained how her Feng Hou Qimen technique used Shang Men to disrupt Ning Zhongtian’s control of the Glazed Sacred Domain and weaken Ye Zijun’s healing. Her declaration that she was king stirred debate and reflection among the spectators and dignitaries.

• Xiao Yi used Shang Men’s hidden corrosion to target Ning Zhongtian’s defensive control and Ye Zijun’s healing, tailoring its effects to their surroundings and vulnerabilities.
• Xiao Yi remained seated on her vine throne as she declared, “The innate commands the heavens; through the changes of the heavens, I become king!”
• Jin Xin praised Xiao Yi’s dramatic words, while Zhou Yi dismissed his political interpretation.
• Prince Xue Jiqing and Qinghuang Sword Monarch considered the meaning of Xiao Yi’s declaration as a principle of controlling the changes of Heaven and Earth.
• Xiao Yicai and Ghost King were both moved by the words, but understood their promise of mastery and control according to their different pursuits.

Xue Shiming questioned how much Soul Power Xiao Yi had left, and spectators hoped her exhaustion might give Heaven Dou Team a chance. Though Xiao Yi had less than twenty percent of her Soul Power remaining, her vines abruptly resumed their assault, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xue Shiming asked Xiao Yi how much Soul Power she had left after her sustained attacks.
• Spectators debated whether Xiao Yi’s Soul Power had been depleted, while Zhu Wuneng called Xue Shiming’s question foolish because Xiao Yi was known as the Strongest Turret.
• Xiao Yi remained silent as her Thunder Hell Vine reopened its flower buds and locked its destructive aura onto the arena.
• The Sword Willow Vine attacked Heaven Dou Team with its strands while the Sky Azure Vine, Life Vine, and Meteor Vine drove their roots beneath the ground.
• Three enormous vine bodies burst up from the scorched arena floor.