Chapter Summaries

Ye Tian helped Qian Renxue draft a Douluo Alliance proclamation while explaining why he had to leave Heaven Dou City. After receiving Bibi Dong’s agreement to help revive Xiao Wu’s mother, he avoided Xiao Wu and reaffirmed that he would not change sides.

• Bo Saixi told Ye Tian that Snow Woman ruled the Far North, but Ye Tian believed Gu Yuena could help him gather the treasures needed to revive Xiao Wu’s mother.
• Qian Renxue told Ye Tian that she had purged Snow Star Prince’s faction from Heaven Dou City, and Ye Tian advised her not to worry about the fugitive prince or Xue Lanlan.
• Ye Tian gave Qian Renxue his proposal for a Douluo Alliance, and she recognized that it could unite Heaven Dou, Spirit Hall, and other forces under a peacekeeping banner.
• Qian Renxue embraced Ye Tian and asked him not to leave, but he insisted that he had to go so she could preserve her rule and he could take the blame for cooperation with Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong wrote that she would give up a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring to help revive Xiao Wu’s mother, and Bo Saixi teased Ye Tian after reading the letter.
• Bo Saixi told Ye Tian that Xiao Wu had come looking for him, but Ye Tian chose to wait until her mother was revived before seeing her and said he would not change sides.

Ye Tian and Xiao Wu went to the Dou Spirit River on what seemed like a farewell outing, while Dai Mubai and his allies prepared to assassinate Ye Tian. After meeting a seller of hallucinogenic “Immortal Spirit Fruit,” Ye Tian began telling Xiao Wu the peddler’s story, which ended with another tax collector arriving to demand money for a new palace.

• Xiao Wu invited Ye Tian to explore Heaven Dou City, and Bo Saixi joined them to protect him.
• Dai Mubai ordered his agents to act against Ye Tian, while Ning Rongrong revealed she had not told Xiao Wu about the mission; their allies discussed the Soul Douluo and Titled Douluo assigned to the assassination.
• At the Dou Spirit River, Ye Tian stopped Xiao Wu from smelling a mineral hallucinogen that a peddler sold as “Immortal Spirit Fruit.”
• The peddler explained that he gathered the substance from Man-Eating Flowers in Sunset Forest and defended selling it as a way to survive; Ye Tian and Xiao Wu left him behind.
• Ye Tian began recounting the peddler’s life as a farmer burdened by taxes, ending with a collector demanding a new construction tax for the Emperor’s palace.

Ye Tian explained to Xiao Wu how nobles and taxes impoverished commoners, and admitted that he planned to cooperate with Spirit Hall, prompting Xiao Wu to end their friendship despite her lingering care for him. When Toma and other assassins attacked, Bo Saixi defeated Toma, and Xiao Wu chose to protect Ye Tian before leaving; Ye Tian then planned to hide in the imperial palace and revive Xiao Wu’s mother as soon as possible.

• Ye Tian described how rising taxes and noble exemptions drove commoners into poverty, and Xiao Wu realized this was why he wanted to cooperate with Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Wu tearfully said she could no longer be Ye Tian’s friend, though she promised to let him go once if they met on a battlefield.
• Bo Saixi rescued Ye Tian from Toma’s spear attack, while Toma and four masked Soul Douluos surrounded them.
• Xiao Wu denied helping the assassins and chose to stand with Ye Tian, despite Dai Mubai urging her to leave.
• Bo Saixi revealed her identity, destroyed Toma with Sea God Judgment, and the other assassins fled.
• Xiao Wu said farewell and left, while Ye Tian decided to return to the imperial palace for safety and hasten his plan to revive her mother.

Ye Tian rejected Qian Renxue’s offer to retaliate against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and warned that Qian Daoliu’s return could trigger a conflict within Spirit Hall. When Ning Fengzhi urged Qian Renxue to unite against Spirit Hall, Ye Tian challenged his arguments and defended Spirit Hall’s outreach to commoners.

• Ning Fengzhi learned that the assassination attempt on Ye Tian had failed, and he considered approaching Xue Qinghe instead of trying another attack.
• Qian Renxue told Ye Tian that Qian Daoliu had returned and might clash with Bibi Dong, so Ye Tian decided to leave and prevent Spirit Hall from falling into internal conflict.
• Ning Fengzhi met Qian Renxue with Ye Tian present and urged her to resist Spirit Hall, citing the late emperor’s wishes and the danger of the empire’s destruction.
• Ye Tian challenged Ning Fengzhi to name Spirit Hall’s crimes, then argued that commoners’ hardship and the nobles’ inherited privilege undermined Ning Fengzhi’s claims of justice.
• Ye Tian explained that Spirit Hall had grown powerful by awakening commoners’ martial souls and supporting them, while Ning Fengzhi admitted inwardly that the other sects had only considered doing the same because Spirit Hall had done it first.

Ning Fengzhi withdrew into seclusion after Ye Tian’s arguments weakened his resolve, while Shrek Academy searched for a new leader against Spirit Hall. Flender bailed out Ma Hongjun and Oscar, who revealed that Evil Soul Masters were pursuing a divine inheritance, and Oscar reunited with Dai Mubai and Xiao Wu while worrying about seeing Ning Rongrong.

• Ning Fengzhi told Sword Douluo that Ye Tian had nearly persuaded him and entered seclusion to seek a solution.
• Grandmaster proposed that the Star Luo Emperor lead the forces opposing Spirit Hall, but Flender was called to bail out two Shrek students arrested at the Drunken Fragrance Inn.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji discovered that the arrested men were Ma Hongjun and Oscar, who said they had infiltrated the inn and overheard Evil Soul Masters discussing a God of Slaughter inheritance.
• Flender decided to return to Shrek Academy and discuss the information with Dai Mubai, Ning Rongrong, and the others.
• Dai Mubai welcomed Oscar and Ma Hongjun, encouraged Oscar to face Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu caught Ma Hongjun hinting at a secret.

When Shrek Academy learned Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing were in danger during devil training in Sunset Forest, Xiao Wu agreed to seek Ye Tian’s help despite their estrangement. Ye Tian allowed Xiao Wu and Liu Erlong into the palace, while Qian Renxue accompanied him to meet them and showed open hostility toward Xiao Wu.

• Ma Hongjun and Oscar warned Dai Mubai and the others that Evil Soul Masters had gathered in Sunset Forest, where Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing were leading devil training.
• Dai Mubai proposed trading information about the God of Slaughter’s divine inheritance to Ye Tian, and the group urged Xiao Wu to approach him.
• After Liu Erlong appealed to her concern for her friends, Xiao Wu agreed to find Ye Tian, and Liu Erlong offered to go with her.
• Steward Yu reported Xiao Wu and Liu Erlong’s arrival at the palace, and Qian Renxue ordered the Imperial Guards to kill them before Ye Tian stopped her.
• Ye Tian went to meet Xiao Wu, and Qian Renxue insisted on accompanying him in a revealing dress intended to make Xiao Wu back off.

Ye Tian refused Liu Erlong and Xiao Wu’s request to rescue Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, but secretly planned to seize them and eliminate the Evil Soul Masters in Sunset Forest. As Ye Tian and Bo Saixi prepared to leave, their banter turned to his mysterious wife, whose identity he kept hidden.

• Liu Erlong and Xiao Wu asked Ye Tian to send troops to Sunset Forest and save Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, while revealing the Evil Soul Masters’ search for the God of Slaughter’s inheritance.
• Ye Tian rejected their request, saying he had no interest in divine inheritance and would not help people who had tried to assassinate him.
• After Xiao Wu and Liu Erlong left, Ye Tian told Qian Renxue he would act against the Evil Soul Masters and capture Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to gain leverage over their families.
• Ye Tian planned to use a Hot Air Balloon bearing Shrek Academy’s name to locate the group, and Bo Saixi offered to protect him as Qian Renxue stayed behind to handle kingdom affairs.
• On the way out of the imperial palace, Ye Tian defused the tension between Qian Renxue and Bo Saixi, then avoided revealing his wife’s identity when Bo Saixi asked about her.

Ye Tian and Bo Saixi tracked the Evil Soul Masters poisoning Sunset Forest’s beasts and joined Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing near their mountain encampment. After healing Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Tian proposed using the women as bait while he and Bo Saixi ambushed the Evil Soul Masters, whose altar was their real objective.

• Ye Tian and Bo Saixi discovered that Crimson Mist was driving soul beasts south toward Heaven Dou City, then attacked the Evil Soul Master squads spreading the poison.
• Ye Tian and Bo Saixi followed smoke to Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, who had been protecting junior students from Evil Soul Masters.
• Ye Tian set aside his grudge against Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, gave Zhu Zhuqing a medicinal pill, and asked them to help draw the Evil Soul Masters away from their mountain encampment.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing revealed that the Evil Soul Masters had built a massive altar in a valley south of the mountain.
• Ye Tian explained that he and Bo Saixi would feint against the altar while the Evil Soul Masters responded to the students as bait, then defeat them when they rushed back.
• Bo Saixi revealed that she was a level ninety-seven-and-a-half Super Douluo, shocking Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.

Ye Tian and Bo Saixi attacked the God Altar in Blood Valley, where Ye Tian suspected both the God of Slaughter and the Rakshasa God were involved. Bo Saixi confronted Tang Chen, whose body had been possessed by a Lich King, and the battle began as she accused him of changing.

• Ning Rongrong stopped Zhu Zhuqing from attacking the Evil Soul Masters’ camp, insisting that they protect the Shrek students and draw the enemy’s attention as Ye Tian had requested.
• Ye Tian sensed Death Qi around the altar and suspected the Rakshasa God was involved alongside the God of Slaughter; he revealed that he had brought something powerful enough to destroy two altars.
• Bo Saixi damaged the altar and drew a crowd of more than a thousand Evil Soul Masters, while Ye Tian disguised his aura and blended into them.
• Tang Chen appeared, and Ye Tian realized the Lich King had taken control of his body; Bo Saixi confronted Tang Chen, who blamed her and attacked with Death Qi.
• Bo Saixi suppressed Tang Chen’s four black pillars with Uncertain Wind Wave and accused him of launching a Beast Tide that endangered Heaven Dou City; Tang Chen summoned a Nine-Headed Bat Martial Soul Avatar.

Ye Tian infiltrated the Evil Soul Masters’ altar by pretending to be a formation expert and was allowed to repair its damaged charging array. While Tang Chen fought Bo Saixi outside, Ye Tian secretly redirected the altar’s energy and planted a bomb on the fifth floor.

• Tang Chen revealed his Nine-Headed Bat form, activated his Bloodthirsty State, and attacked Bo Saixi as the Evil Soul Masters worshipped him.
• Ye Tian slipped through the distracted crowd and convinced guardian Feng to take him to Right Elder by claiming he could repair the altar’s damaged formation.
• Right Elder activated the altar’s defensive formation and sent Ye Tian and Feng to repair the charging system on the fifth floor.
• As they climbed, Feng told Ye Tian that the Evil Soul Masters were gathering souls to summon the God of Slaughter’s inheritance after Tang San destroyed the City of Slaughter.
• Ye Tian redrew the damaged formation patterns, secretly redirected their energy circuits, and planted a powerful bomb in a corner of the fifth-floor room.

Ye Tian escaped the altar after planting Rocket warheads, while Bo Saixi withdrew from her evenly matched battle with Tang Chen. The warheads detonated in Blood Valley as the Bat King fled, after he killed Right Elder to recover his strength.

• Ye Tian repaired the Charging Array, then left the altar after Right Elder took credit for the repair.
• Bo Saixi and Tang Chen fought to a standstill, and Bo Saixi retreated to meet Ye Tian in the forest.
• Ye Tian revealed that he had planted Rocket warheads in the altar, and he and Bo Saixi fled Blood Valley before the blast.
• The Bat King returned to the altar, discovered his injuries, and killed Right Elder to drink his blood and recover.
• The Rocket warheads exploded across Blood Valley as the Bat King tried to escape the altar.

Ye Tian and Bo Saixi searched the ruins of Blood Valley and recovered the demon core needed to revive Xiao Wu's Mother. At Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue faced devastating civilian losses from the Beast Tide and rejected officials' demands to dismiss Ye Tian, ordering the impeachment's signatories expelled instead.

• Ye Tian explained that his rocket strike had likely wiped out the Evil Soul Masters in Blood Valley, then went with Bo Saixi to search for the King of Slaughter's remains and demon core.
• Bo Saixi used her spiritual power to locate treasure beneath the ruined altar, blasted open the rubble, and found the ancient demon core; Ye Tian stored it, completing the materials needed to revive Xiao Wu's Mother.
• Bo Saixi asked Ye Tian to cook for her in return for her help, and they set off for Heaven Dou City.
• Qian Renxue learned that the seventh Beast Tide attack had killed fifty or sixty thousand civilians outside the city, despite the army suffering fewer than two thousand casualties.
• Ning Cheng presented a joint memorial demanding Ye Tian's dismissal, and Minister of Finance Lu Hai joined the appeal, warning that Ye Tian would make the empire Spirit Hall's puppet.
• Qian Renxue refused to dismiss Ye Tian and ordered everyone named in the memorial stripped of office and expelled from Heaven Dou City; Luo Feng arranged for Ning Cheng and Lu Hai to be removed.

Ye Tian returned to Heaven Dou City with Bo Saixi and explained that Evil Soul Masters had caused the Beast Tide, then helped Qian Renxue devise a plan to lure the soul beasts back to Sunset Forest. Qian Renxue also revealed that her grandfather wanted her to inherit the Angel God, but she learned the inheritance would cost him his life and feared refusing it might leave Spirit Hall vulnerable to rival gods.

• Ye Tian and Bo Saixi returned to Heaven Dou City as Ning Cheng and Lu Hai were being removed from office, and Ye Tian learned Ning Cheng had been stripped of his position for impeaching him.
• Qian Renxue welcomed Ye Tian back and heard that Evil Soul Masters had used Pink Poison Mist to provoke the soul beasts; Ye Tian said he and Bo Saixi had already dealt with the Evil Soul Masters.
• Ye Tian proposed using food and the army to guide the soul beasts back toward Sunset Forest, and Qian Renxue agreed to put the plan into action with Bo Saixi's help.
• Qian Renxue told Ye Tian that her grandfather had urged her to inherit the Angel God, and Ye Tian revealed that the inheritance's guide would die.
• Qian Renxue refused to let her grandfather sacrifice himself, while Ye Tian suggested he might want her to inherit godhood because other factions could soon produce gods and threaten Spirit Hall.

Ye Tian traveled to Barak with Bo Saixi to arrange an alliance between Heaven Dou and Spirit Hall, where Gu Yuena reunited with him and pledged to stay by his side. Bibi Dong arrived for the historic meeting, while Spirit Hall branch hall master Zha Teer warned Ye Tian that poor etiquette could jeopardize the negotiations.

• Qian Renxue refused to inherit a godhood, and Ye Tian said he would leave Heaven Dou City to help bring about an alliance with Spirit Hall.
• Ye Tian and Bo Saixi traveled to Barak, where word spread that Bibi Dong and Heaven Dou's new State Preceptor would soon meet.
• Gu Yuena arrived at the Barak Spirit Hall Branch, embraced Ye Tian, and agreed to stay by his side even though he intended to marry Bibi Dong.
• Ye Tian promised Bo Saixi and Gu Yuena that they could travel across the continent with him after it was unified.
• Bibi Dong arrived in Barak to a grand welcome, and Zha Teer warned Ye Tian that improper etiquette could cause the negotiations to fail.

Ye Tian met Bibi Dong in the Barak Kingdom, where she revealed her plan to invade the Star Luo Empire and destroy the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Ye Tian offered his family background as a justification for war, and the chapter left Bibi Dong and Ye Tian considering Dai Ya’s claim as a rallying banner.

• The king of Barak welcomed Bibi Dong and offered a banquet, while she summoned Ye Tian to accompany her to the temporary palace.
• Bibi Dong dismissed the servants and asked Ye Tian whether he had proposed the alliance plan, expressing concern that it would damage his reputation.
• Bibi Dong unveiled her plan to gather troops in the Balak Kingdom and attack Star Luo City, but said she lacked a righteous reason to begin the war.
• Ye Tian revealed that his father had served as a guard captain for the Star Luo Empire’s former crown prince and that his sister, Dai Ya, was the prince’s daughter.
• Bibi Dong suggested that Ye Tian impersonate the prince’s orphaned son and claim the Star Luo throne, but Ye Tian rejected the idea and said Dai Ya’s identity alone could justify raising an army.

At Morning Court, the Star Luo Emperor learned that Spirit Hall’s alliance with Heaven Dou was likely and faced growing military and financial pressure. He ultimately ordered the relocation of three million people north of the Heaven Soul Mountain Range, and Dai Weisi volunteered to lead the effort.

• Wei Hong told the Star Luo Emperor that Heaven Dou’s alliance with Spirit Hall was likely and that the Clear Sky Sect was willing to ally with Star Luo.
• The Star Luo Emperor refused to fund relief for typhoon-stricken provinces because the treasury had been spent on military preparations.
• The Minister of Military Affairs proposed withdrawing the northwestern army to the Heaven Soul Mountain Range, but Zhao Wenzhuo objected that the retreat would abandon three million citizens.
• The Star Luo Emperor decided to abandon the northern lands but ordered the citizens there to be relocated or resettled in nearby cities.
• Dai Weisi volunteered to lead the relocation effort.

As Spirit Hall prepared to wage war against the Star Luo Empire, Ye Tian proposed using the empire’s typhoon-stricken eastern provinces to spark rebellion and attack from the rear. He planned to lead the operation with his Heavenly Strategy Army, while Bibi Dong advanced from the south, and prepared to return to Spirit City with Gu Yuena.

• Bibi Dong and Ye Tian reviewed reports of typhoon damage in the eastern provinces and the Star Luo Empire’s preparations for war.
• Bibi Dong took Ye Tian to the Silves Kingdom, where he inspected Spirit Hall’s hundred thousand troops and declined to command them.
• Ye Tian proposed pressuring the Star Luo Empire’s northern forces while inciting rebellion in its eastern provinces, and Bibi Dong agreed to let him lead the effort with Gu Yuena as his assistant.
• Ye Tian and Bibi Dong arranged military affairs and returned to the Balak Kingdom, deciding that Qian Renxue should focus on consolidating her power in Heaven Dou.
• Ye Tian told Gu Yuena to return to Spirit City with him and explained to Bo Saixi, Hai Bo Nu, and Xiao Bai that war was about to begin.

Ye Tian returned to Spirit City, reunited with Dai Ya, and persuaded her to join an uprising in the Star Luo Empire’s Eastern Province. He then secured Spirit City’s reserve armor for the mission, leaving with preparations underway to arm the rebellion.

• Ye Tian returned to Spirit City and learned from Zhou Long that Dai Ya had been worried about him.
• Ye Tian reunited with Dai Ya, told her that revenge against the Star Luo Imperial Family was possible, and convinced her to make her identity public in the Eastern Province.
• Gu Yuena promised to protect Ye Tian and Dai Ya, and Dai Ya learned that Ye Tian and Gu Yuena were together.
• Ye Tian asked Gui Mei about Spirit City’s armory and learned it held roughly twenty thousand sets of armor.
• Ye Tian explained his plan to spark an uprising in the Eastern Province, and Gui Mei agreed to have the armor loaded onto wagons for him.

Ye Tian returned to Eastsea City and organized ships, provisions, troops, and medical support for an expedition against the Star Luo Empire. At a planning meeting, the group chose Tianxing Port as their landing point and learned that its harbor was guarded by two powerful Soul Guidance Cannons.

• Ye Tian returned to Butterfly Farm, where Chen Jian reported that warships, transport vessels, and 2.1 million shi of provisions had been prepared.
• Thirteen told Ye Tian that the Heavenly Strategy Army troops at Sea Soul Valley and Pearl Island were ready, and Ye Tian ordered the division heads, Purple Pearl, and Li Haitian to attend a meeting.
• After Zhou Long warned that the forces lacked medicine, Ye Tian ordered East Sea School students and village doctors to gather at the farm and prepare healing pills.
• Ye Tian met Li Haitian, Li Jiuchuan, and Purple Pearl at the Farm Courtyard and thanked Purple Pearl for bringing her ships.
• Ye Tian identified Tianxing Port in Tianxing Province as the expedition's destination, and Li Haitian warned that two Soul Guidance Cannons guarded the harbor from nearby mountains.

Ye Tian’s fleet defeated Zhu Yi’s Star Luo Empire patrol with its long-range howitzers and pursued the survivors to Tianxing Port. After withdrawing from the Soul Guidance Cannons’ range, Ye Tian prepared to destroy the port’s hillside defenses, but Gu Yuena vanished to deal with them herself.

• After a month and a half at sea, Ye Tian’s fleet encountered Zhu Yi’s sixteen-ship patrol in Star Luo waters, and Ye Tian ordered the left-wing fleet to attack.
• The Heavenly Strategy Army’s howitzers sank an escort ship and battered Zhu Yi’s fleet, forcing the survivors to flee toward Tianxing Port as Zhou Long led the pursuit.
• Zhu Yi reached Tianxing Port with only six of his thirteen ships and ordered its two Soul Guidance Cannons to fire, but both shots missed the pursuing fleet.
• Ye Tian withdrew the fleet from cannon range and planned to destroy the hillside emplacements before attacking the port.
• Gu Yuena emerged from the cabin, recognized the cannons as the obstacle, and disappeared with her silver-white spear before Ye Tian could stop her.