Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiao handled Ye Guyi’s jealousy, then inspected the crowds and security as spectators gathered at the Bird’s Nest Fortress for the tournament. He detected several weak Evil Soul Masters among the crowd, while a noble family plotted to reclaim power after he became a god.

• Ye Guyi confronted Xu Xiao, and Meng Hongchen vouched for him before Ye Guyi let him go with a warning.
• Xu Xiao monitored the newly united Empire for hidden opposition and learned that a noble family hoped to regain power once he left to become a god.
• Spectators traveled to the Bird’s Nest Fortress, which Xu Xiao had built to host tournaments and withstand attacks from powerful Soul Masters.
• Xu Xiao walked through the crowds with Ye Guyi and Meng Hongchen, spotted several Evil Soul Masters, and wondered why Ye Guyi’s Angel Martial Soul could not sense them.

At the Empire’s first Title Douluo Tournament, Xuan Ziwen announced his new soul tool battle armor and arranged an exhibition match to prove its power. Chou Niu Douluo was ordered to face him, while the mysterious Chen Long returned to the gathering.

• Xuan Ziwen introduced his battle armor to the audience and claimed it let an ordinary Title Douluo challenge opponents several ranks higher.
• After the crowd demanded a demonstration, Xuan Ziwen proposed an exhibition match against a Rank 95 Super Douluo.
• Lord ordered Chou Niu Douluo to take the match, and Chou Niu reluctantly stepped forward as Rooster watched.
• Chen Long approached with his Soul Power concealed, sat in Chou Niu Douluo’s former seat, and was welcomed back.

At the exhibition match, Xuan Ziwen and Chou Niu Douluo began fighting, demonstrating Soul Tools and Chou Niu’s immense power. The battle left Chou Niu’s giant axe swinging toward Xuan Ziwen in midair.

• Dragon Douluo and Rooster Douluo discussed Dragon Douluo’s hidden strength before turning their attention to the exhibition match.
• Chou Niu Douluo introduced himself as a Level 95 Assault System Super Douluo with the Savage Divine Ox Martial Soul, while Xuan Ziwen announced his Rank 9 Spirit Craftsman credentials.
• Xuan Ziwen began the match by firing more than twenty cannon shells, but Chou Niu used his Savage Ox True Body to withstand them and charge forward.
• Xuan Ziwen flew above the arena and deployed thirty more cannon emplacements, while Chou Niu smashed the arena and several cannons with his spirit skills.
• Chou Niu split incoming shells with his enormous divine axe and swung the nearly hundred-meter weapon toward Xuan Ziwen.

Xuan Ziwen tested his Rank 9 Soul Tool battle armor in a close-quarters fight with Chou Niu Douluo, then introduced Xu Xiao to address the crowd. Xu Xiao rallied the young people to support the Empire’s coming war against the Demonic Continent and announced the first Title Douluo Grand Tournament.

• Xuan Ziwen’s armor survived Chou Niu Douluo’s attacks, and the two fought for more than fifty moves before Xuan Ziwen was forced back, bloodied.
• Chou Niu Douluo praised Xuan Ziwen and acknowledged his strength, while Xuan Ziwen ended their exhibition match.
• Xuan Ziwen welcomed Xu Xiao, who appeared before the crowd and spoke about the Empire’s future belonging to its young people.
• Xu Xiao warned that monsters from the Demonic Continent threatened the Empire and led the youths in shouting that they would resist.
• Xu Xiao told the youths to cultivate with the Empire’s resources and announced that the first Title Douluo Grand Tournament had officially begun.

Xuan Ziwen explained the tournament format and announced that forty-eight Titled Experts would compete. As the first matches were drawn, Chou Niu and Rooster wagered on how long Goat Douluo’s opponent would last, and Goat headed to Arena One.

• Xuan Ziwen announced that the tournament would have preliminaries, a main competition, and finals, with forty-eight Titled Experts participating.
• Chou Niu reunited with Chen Long, then noticed Goat Douluo among the listed competitors.
• Goat drew the number one match, and Chou Niu and Rooster bet on whether his opponent would last five minutes or more than ten, with Chen Long as witness.
• Xuan Ziwen welcomed the first eight competitors, and Goat removed his cloak and walked toward Arena One as female soul masters cheered for him.

Goat Douluo faced Xian Yu Douluo in a public arena match, where Xian Yu boosted his Soul Power and unleashed a massive wave. Goat left the wave untouched until the last moment, then froze it with his Sixth Soul Skill.

• Goat Douluo failed to recognize Xian Yu Douluo until Xian Yu reminded him that Goat had once offered him cultivation advice.
• Xuan Ziwen started the match after Goat and Xian Yu introduced themselves and their Soul Power Levels.
• Xian Yu used his Eighth Spirit Skill, Deep Sea Blessing, to draw in seawater and temporarily raise his Soul Power beyond the Super Douluo bottleneck.
• Xian Yu unleashed his Ninth Spirit Skill, Overturning Seas and Rivers, and sent a towering wave crashing toward Goat.
• Goat raised his hand and used his Sixth Soul Skill, Ice Seal, freezing the enormous wave and its droplets in midair.

Goat Douluo defeated Xian Yu Douluo in their arena battle after breaking his water-net attack with his icy Martial Soul Avatar. Goat Douluo returned to the resting area, where the Zodiac Generals celebrated him as a hidden divine gaze watched them.

• Xian Yu Douluo used his Ninth Spirit Skill to raise enormous waves, but Goat Douluo transformed into a giant antelope with his Seventh Spirit Skill.
• Xian Yu Douluo turned the waves into a vast water net, but Goat Douluo pierced and shattered it with icy strikes.
• Xian Yu Douluo conceded, thanked Goat Douluo for letting him fight at full strength, and promised to train for a rematch.
• Goat Douluo returned to the resting area, where Chou Niu, Chen Long, and Rooster praised his strength and his progress toward Extreme Ice Attribute.
• An unseen observer watched the Zodiac Generals, and the gaze carried divine power.

The second round of preliminaries began, and Dragon Douluo and Chou Niu Douluo quickly defeated their opponents to advance. Dragon’s match ended with Xuan Mu Douluo conceding after a devastating attack, while Chou Niu knocked out a defensive Title Douluo.

• Xuan Ziwen announced the second round and revealed that Chou Niu and the other Zodiac fighters were among those selected to compete.
• Xu Xiao explained to Meng Hongchen that he had arranged for the four fighters to compete early so they could practice their team coordination sooner.
• Rooster reminded Chou Niu that he had lost their bet, and Goat learned that they had wagered on his match.
• Dragon Douluo told Xuan Mu Douluo to attack, then pierced his World Tree and Martial Soul Avatar with a single blast.
• Xuan Mu conceded, and Xuan Ziwen declared Dragon the winner of Arena Two and a qualifier for the main tournament.
• Chou Niu punched his Level 92 opponent unconscious, prompting a spectator to demand a refund.

Rooster revealed his time-attribute martial soul as he fought Illusionary Fox Douluo in the preliminaries. After freezing and shattering Illusionary Fox’s illusions, Rooster appeared behind him with a dagger at his neck, leaving the match’s outcome imminent.

• Spectators gathered to watch Rooster face level 92 Illusionary Fox Douluo on Arena No. 1.
• Illusionary Fox created more than twenty lifelike copies and attacked Rooster, but Rooster evaded their strikes with his Fourth Soul Skill, Time Decay.
• Illusionary Fox unleashed his Eighth Spirit Skill, Reverse Illusion Kill, forming a massive tornado around Rooster.
• Rooster used his Fifth Soul Skill, Time Seal, to freeze the tornado and shattered Illusionary Fox’s illusions one by one.
• Illusionary Fox retreated to open the distance, while Meng Hongchen tried to get Xu Xiao to reveal where he had found Rooster.
• As Illusionary Fox prepared to use his Ninth Spirit Skill, Rooster appeared behind him and pressed a dagger against his neck.

After Ye Guyi sensed a faint presence of the Angel God, Xu Xiao accompanied her to investigate its location beneath a lake. They evaporated the lake and broke through an ancient wall, leaving them poised to enter the hidden site.

• Xu Xiao left the preliminaries after receiving a message, while Meng Hongchen stayed to watch the matches.
• Ye Guyi stabilized her rank 96 Soul Power and told Xu Xiao that she had sensed the Angel God, who had urged her to leave him.
• Xu Xiao decided to accompany Ye Guyi to the location she had been given, and they secretly left Ling Hai City for a forest near the former border between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Dou Ling Empire.
• Xu Xiao searched the lake with his Spiritual Power, but Ye Guyi concluded that the site might lie underground after ten thousand years of change.
• Xu Xiao used his Fire Element Control to evaporate the lake, then punched through its bed; Ye Guyi shattered an ancient wall, and they entered the hidden passage together.

Xu Xiao and Ye Guyi explored the ruined Angel Temple and found a message about Qian Renxue’s shattered divine position and the inheritance she left behind. When they touched the stone slab together, it released golden light and began rewinding time around them, leaving both unconscious.

• Xu Xiao used his Double Pupil to read the weathered inscription explaining that Qian Renxue built the Angel Temple after her divine position shattered and that only an Angel Martial Soul could activate her inheritance.
• Ye Guyi defended the Angel God’s goodness when Xu Xiao warned that the inheritance might be a trap.
• Xu Xiao persuaded Ye Guyi to touch the stone slab with him, and they pressed their hands against it together.
• After the slab remained inert for several breaths, it burst into golden light and made the surroundings appear to return to their former glory.
• Xu Xiao and Ye Guyi watched time race backward through the temple until they lost consciousness.

Xu Xiao and Ye Guyi watched Qian Renxue’s memories as she confronted Heaven Dou nobles who used Angel God believers as bait. Qian Renxue faced an impossible choice between surrendering her Soul Power and trying to save the remaining civilians, while Xu Xiao and Ye Guyi could not intervene.

• Xu Xiao and Ye Guyi realized they were witnessing Qian Renxue’s memories after seeing her emerge to confront the men who were abusing Angel God believers.
• Manager Zhang attacked the captive civilians, killing more than half of them and forcing Qian Renxue to fight while protecting the survivors.
• Qian Renxue battled Manager Zhang, while Xue Bao and the Imperial Uncle demanded that she seal her Soul Power or watch the civilians die.
• Ye Guyi tried to attack Xue Bao but her sword passed through him, confirming that she and Xu Xiao could not affect the memory.
• Xue Bao moved toward the remaining civilians as Qian Renxue remained trapped between surrender and risking their lives.

Qian Renxue and Xu Xiao watched a memory of Qian Renxue’s past before she began testing Ye Guyi’s love for Xu Xiao. The test left them watching Xu Xiao, as an Angel Temple bishop, refuse to abandon his post for Qian Renxue, even after she confessed that she liked him.

• A bloodstained man strangled Xue Bao to death, and Qian Renxue killed Pointy-headed Imperial Uncle with a sword.
• Manager Zhang self-destructed, killing everyone nearby and blasting Qian Renxue away, while Xu Xiao noticed the dying people seemed relieved.
• Xu Xiao and Ye Guyi appeared beneath a statue of the first Angel God, where Qian Renxue confronted Guyi about bringing him along and questioned her devotion.
• Qian Renxue showed Guyi a memory of Xu Xiao serving as an Angel Temple bishop and asked him to leave with her.
• Xu Xiao told Qian Renxue he would not leave because he had sworn to remain and pray for the Angel God, then invited her to stay with him.

Xu Xiao and Qian Renxue fell in love in the dream world, but her fading Divine Sense brought their time together to an end. Xu Xiao used an Angel God Statue Fragment to preserve her, learning it could sustain her for only five years.

• Qian Renxue tested Xu Xiao's devotion, and he vowed to oppose even a god to protect her before she accepted his love.
• Xu Xiao and Qian Renxue spent their days together, while Guyi realized Qian Renxue's incomplete Divine Sense was nearing its end.
• Qian Renxue faded as the dream world crumbled, and she revealed that she knew Xu Xiao had never lost his memories.
• Xu Xiao used an Angel God Statue Fragment to draw Qian Renxue and the remaining specks of light into it, preserving her Divine Sense.
• The system reported that the fragment could sustain Qian Renxue for five years, and Xu Xiao resolved to make that time count.

Xu Xiao recognized the Faceless Monster among the Titled Douluo Grand Tournament finalists and arranged for her to face politically unreliable experts. He imposed a new rule allowing contestants to fight to the death, then the main tournament began with Mad Intent Douluo ordered into the first match.

• Xu Xiao and Guyi returned from the inheritance chamber, and he told her to focus on secluded cultivation instead of asking about Qian Renxue.
• Twenty-eight Titled Douluos qualified for the main tournament, and Xu Xiao identified the disguised Faceless Monster on the roster.
• Xu Xiao told Xuan Ziwen to keep Empire Titled Douluos away from the Faceless Monster and assign her opponents among the ambiguous experts.
• Xuan Ziwen announced that contestants could fight at full strength and would not be punished for deaths, prompting cheers and objections from the crowd.
• Xuan Ziwen opened the main tournament and announced Mad Intent Douluo versus Moxin Douluo as the first match, and Mad Intent stepped onto the arena despite resenting the Empire.

Moxin Douluo killed Kuanyi Douluo in the tournament arena after he discovered the match was a plot to eliminate Title Douluos. The match ended with the other contestants wary of Moxin and Xuan Ziwen publicly urging them not to kill.

• Kuanyi entered the arena planning to concede after ten minutes, but Moxin trapped him in her domain and attacked.
• Kuanyi fought back with his Spirit Skills, but Moxin’s power overwhelmed him and her Evil Demon nature was exposed when his soundwave attack injured her.
• Kuanyi realized the tournament rules had been altered to enable the Empire to kill Title Douluos through a borrowed blade, then begged Moxin for mercy and offered intelligence.
• Moxin rejected Kuanyi’s offer, drained some of his life essence, and pierced his heart with her heel.
• Xuan Ziwen confirmed Kuanyi’s death, announced Moxin as the winner, and reminded the contestants to avoid killing when possible.

Xu Xiao arranged for Sword Demon Douluo and Demon Slaying Douluo to face each other, exposing the revenge that bound them. They fought over the slaughter of Demon Slaying’s family, and Sword Demon seized an opening with his Sword Light skill.

• A Support System Soul Douluo reported that Sword Demon’s recovered body had lost more than half its life essence, while Xu Xiao reviewed the men’s histories and arranged their match.
• Demon Slaying recognized Sword Demon as the killer of his family, and Sword Demon admitted he had murdered them and vowed to kill him to erase his past.
• Sword Demon and Demon Slaying announced their Martial Souls and Soul Power Levels, then exchanged attacks as Demon Slaying blocked a sword aura and struck with his Coiling Dragon Staff.
• Sword Demon revealed that he had taken Demon Slaying’s grandfather’s strength-enhancing Spirit Bone and used its power to hold up the giant staff.
• The pair clashed across the arena, and Sword Demon dodged Demon Slaying’s staff strikes before using his Third Spirit Skill, Sword Light, to blind him.

Xu Xiao exposed Sword Demon Douluo’s crimes to the spectators and planned to use the duel’s outcome to either recruit Demon Slaying Douluo or destroy Sword Demon. As Sword Demon unleashed his sword phantoms, Demon Slaying Douluo remembered his grandfather’s teaching and struck with a self-created soul skill, splitting the sky.

• Sword Demon Douluo attacked Demon Slaying Douluo’s eyes, while spectators condemned Sword Demon after learning of his past crimes.
• Meng Hongchen asked Xu Xiao whether he had arranged for people to reveal Sword Demon’s history, and Xu Xiao explained how he would benefit whether Demon Slaying won or died.
• Demon Slaying Douluo blocked Sword Demon’s attack with the Coiling Dragon Body Protection Spirit Bone Skill, prompting Sword Demon to unleash Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin.
• Sword Demon taunted Demon Slaying Douluo and invoked the memory of his grandfather, but Demon Slaying recalled his grandfather’s lesson and merged with his apparition.
• Demon Slaying Douluo charged upward with his Coiling Dragon Staff and used the self-created soul skill Pillar Supporting the Heavens, splitting open the sky.

Demon Slaying Douluo defeated Sword Demon Douluo and joined Xu Xiao’s group after receiving treatment. The next match began between Goat Douluo and Yu Potian, whose Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon heritage stirred Beibei and whose domain clashed with Goat’s as the chapter ended.

• Demon Slaying Douluo killed Sword Demon Douluo, avenging his grievance, and Xu Xiao arranged for him to receive treatment before he joined their group.
• Xuan Ziwen introduced Goat Douluo and Yu Potian, revealing that Yu Potian’s family had preserved the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul in hiding for ten thousand years.
• Beibei recognized Yu Potian as a fellow clansman and struggled to contain his excitement in the stands.
• Goat Douluo and Yu Potian announced their Soul Power Rank 95 titles and unleashed their domains, setting extreme frost against tyrannical lightning.

Goat Douluo battled Thunder Dragon Douluo, whose lightning domain and martial soul initially seemed to give him the advantage. Goat Douluo’s Extreme Cold Slash pierced the thunder domain and wounded Thunder Dragon Douluo, but the fight was left unresolved as Thunder Dragon Douluo prepared his ninth spirit skill and then suddenly stiffened.

• Xu Xiao explained to Meng Hongchen that he supported the even betting odds to preserve civilians’ confidence in the Sun Moon Empire’s top fighters.
• Thunder Dragon Douluo’s domain suppressed Goat Douluo’s ice and snow domain, but Goat Douluo used Ice Seal to force an opening.
• Thunder Dragon Douluo countered Goat Douluo’s advancing ice with Dragon Roar and grew confident that his speed and lightning attacks would secure victory.
• Goat Douluo struck with Extreme Cold Slash, cutting through Thunder Dragon Douluo’s lightning dragons and cleaving his domain before wounding his shoulder.
• Thunder Dragon Douluo activated True Dragon’s Wrath and summoned nine thunder dragons, but his body suddenly stiffened before they could attack.