Chapter Summaries

Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer used Tao Zuo and a lavish reward to gather Rosette City's hidden Evil Soul Masters at Radiant Wine House for a trap. As the meeting began, Tao Zuo claimed Faceless Lord's authority and unveiled a valuable soul bone to win the attendees' trust.

• Tao Zuo reported that the hidden cells across Rosette City had agreed to attend Faceless Lord's meeting, and Tang Lan rewarded him with a rare companion vine.
• Tang Lan explained to Wang Qiuer that the spiritual plant was bait to make Tao Zuo loyal and draw the city's Evil Soul Masters into the open.
• For three days, Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer maintained their identities while coordinating with Xu Yu and Lin Yanhong and monitoring Tao Zuo's preparations.
• At midnight, hooded guests filled Radiant Wine House, and the staff cleared out ordinary customers before the attendees filed into the grand suite.
• Tao Zuo welcomed the gathered Evil Soul Masters on Faceless Lord's behalf and claimed his master had been sent by the Main Altar to oversee the Bloody Bird Plan.
• Tao Zuo presented three Jade Boxes as proof of Faceless Lord's sincerity and revealed a high-quality soul bone, astonishing the crowd.

Tao Zuo used precious treasures and combat pills to rally the Holy Spirit Cult members in Rosette City behind Faceless Lord and turn them against the supposed traitors responsible for the Beast Tides. The cultists accepted the new mission, and Tao Zuo announced that the Bloody Bird Plan would be postponed.

• Tao Zuo displayed a soul bone, a potent spirit plant, and a Breakthrough Pill, claiming the spirit plant had helped him approach Soul Saint and the pill could help a peak Rank 89 Soul Douluo become a Titled Douluo.
• Tao Zuo told the assembled Evil Soul Masters that traitors were using a Soul Tool to control Soul Beasts and frame the Holy Spirit Cult for the Beast Tides, then offered rewards for finding them.
• The cultists pledged to hunt the traitors, while Tang Lan secretly ordered Tao Zuo to distribute Blood Burning Marrow Solidifying Pills to boost their short-term combat strength.
• Tao Zuo distributed the pills, further winning the cultists' gratitude and devotion to Faceless Lord.
• Tao Zuo announced that Faceless Lord had ordered the Bloody Bird Plan postponed while the cult focused on investigating the traitors and avoiding exposure.

Tang Lan used his Faceless identity to delay the Bloody Bird Plan and win the loyalty of Holy Spirit Cult operatives, then met with Tang Sect officer Su Bai to mobilize the sect’s intelligence network and experimental Soul Beast Lures. The chapter left Tang Lan preparing to redirect the maddened Beast Tides toward remote areas.

• Tang Lan and Tao Zuo persuaded the Evil Soul Masters to delay the Bloody Bird Plan, investigate the Evil Soul Tools, and follow Faceless’s orders.
• Tang Lan explained to Wang Qiuer that he planned to infiltrate and divide the Holy Spirit Cult by using Tao Zuo and its covert network in Rosette City.
• Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer disguised themselves and met Su Bai at Chen's Blacksmith Shop, where Su Bai verified Tang Lan’s high-authority Tang Sect token and pledged obedience.
• Tang Lan ordered Su Bai to secretly investigate the Blazing Flame Chamber of Commerce’s missing branches and General President, including possible links to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Tang Lan directed Su Bai to deploy experimental Soul Beast Lures around Rosette City and use pheromone signals to draw maddened Soul Beast Groups toward remote areas.

Tang Lan ordered Su Bai to use Soul Beast Lures to ease Rosette City's Beast Tide and investigate the people controlling the beasts, while Tao Zuo reported that most Holy Spirit Cult members in the city had pledged loyalty to Faceless. The chapter left Tang Lan with a list of suspected traitors to investigate and orders to discover Vincent's whereabouts and stance.

• Tang Lan instructed Su Bai to secretly deploy Soul Beast Lures against the Beast Tide, test the Soul Tools, and avoid exposing the Tang Sect's identity.
• Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer returned to the Radiant Wine House and moved into a luxurious seventh-floor suite arranged by Tao Zuo.
• Tao Zuo reported that more than ninety percent of the Holy Spirit Cult members in Rosette City had pledged loyalty to Faceless, while the rest were to be watched discreetly.
• Tao Zuo gave Tang Lan a list of more than a dozen suspected traitors, including Ghost Hand and Poison Lady, and Tang Lan ordered him to investigate them without alerting them.
• Tang Lan ordered Tao Zuo to determine whether Vincent remained in Rosette City and why he had not responded to the gathering.

Tang Lan chose to investigate Chai Yong, a powerful Holy Spirit Cult deacon suspected of involvement in the Beast Tide, and arranged a staged chance encounter with him in Rosette City. The chapter ended as Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer sat beside Chai Yong at an inn, drawing the attention of the wary patrons.

• Tang Lan examined the suspect list and chose to investigate Chai Yong first after Tao Zuo described the Crimson Tiger as a murderous, unpredictable Rank 92 Titled Douluo.
• Tang Lan told Tao Zuo to investigate the other suspects and provide information about Chai Yong while he handled Chai Yong personally.
• Tang Lan explained to Wang Qiuer that Chai Yong's fearsome reputation could make him an effective suspect and a way to uncover the Holy Spirit Cult's hidden factions and activities.
• Over the next two days, Tao Zuo gathered information on Chai Yong, and Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer planned to approach him through a staged chance encounter.
• During a downpour three days later, Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer entered the Drunk Guest Inn in disguise and sat at the empty table beside Chai Yong.
• The patrons fell silent and watched as Chai Yong's pressure filled the inn and the disguised pair sat near him.

Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer endured Chai Yong’s Titled Douluo pressure without effort, prompting Ding Huo to approach them and reveal his ties to the independent Listen to the Wind Pavilion. Tang Lan arranged a secret meeting with Ding Huo at Dragon Soaring Street that night, while Chai Yong remained wary in the tavern.

• Ding Huo warned Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer to avoid Chai Yong, but they stayed at their table.
• Chai Yong unleashed his Soul Power pressure, yet Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer remained unaffected, astonishing both Chai Yong and Ding Huo.
• Ding Huo joined Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer at their table, and Chai Yong withdrew his pressure rather than risk a confrontation.
• Ding Huo introduced himself as an information broker for the independent Listen to the Wind Pavilion and offered to obtain information for them.
• Tang Lan arranged to meet Ding Huo at the third stone bridge on Dragon Soaring Street at midnight, and Ding Huo left the tavern.

Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer confronted Chai Yong at the inn, where Tang Lan revealed his Titled Douluo strength and forced Chai Yong to retreat. Later that night, the pair headed to a rendezvous on Dragon Soaring Street, where Chai Yong ambushed them and their auras collided.

• Chai Yong harassed Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer at the Drunk Guest Inn and threatened them, especially Wang Qiuer.
• Tang Lan identified Chai Yong as a level 92 Titled Douluo and an outer deacon of the Holy Spirit Cult, then revealed an aura equal to his own.
• Chai Yong backed down rather than fight at the inn, but Tang Lan expected him to seek revenge and planned to use the encounter to investigate his possible link to the Evil Soul Tool.
• Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer finished their meal, returned to the Radiant Wine House, and waited until nightfall before changing their appearances and heading toward Dragon Soaring Street.
• Chai Yong ambushed Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer near the third stone bridge, and the two Titled Douluos unleashed their auras against each other in the empty street.

Tang Lan defeated Chai Yong in a fierce battle but spared him after finding no sign that he carried a Parasitic Soul Tool. Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer then went to meet Ding Huo at the stone bridge to investigate the hidden forces beneath Rosette City and the Southwest Region.

• Wang Qiuer withdrew from the fight as Chai Yong attacked Tang Lan with his Crimson Flame Tiger King Martial Soul Avatar.
• Tang Lan used the Overlord Spear and Ancient Dragon Spirit to overwhelm Chai Yong, breaking his attacks and sending him crashing into a wall.
• Chai Yong unleashed his Crimson Tiger World-Ending Wave, but Tang Lan exploited a flaw in his Soul Power circulation and knocked the attack off course.
• Tang Lan struck Chai Yong again, leaving him badly injured, but chose not to pursue him because he sensed no Parasitic Soul Tool and wanted to avoid alerting the city.
• Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer went to the third stone bridge on Dragon Soaring Street, where Ding Huo arrived shortly after midnight.

Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer met Ding Huo of the Listen to the Wind Pavilion to ask about the Holy Spirit Cult and the Beast Tide. Tang Lan offered a mysterious black metal fragment in exchange for Ding Huo’s further intelligence, and Ding Huo accepted the trade before Tang Lan began explaining how they obtained it.

• Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer met Ding Huo on a bridge, where Ding Huo asked what information they wanted to buy.
• Tang Lan asked whether the Beast Tide near Rosette City was connected to the Holy Spirit Cult, and Ding Huo described a powerful commander Soul Beast and a humanoid black shadow seen near it.
• Ding Huo said the Beast Tide likely involved human interference but reserved his detailed analysis and clues about the shadow for a paid exchange.
• Tang Lan showed Ding Huo a black metal fragment and offered information about its origin and discovery in exchange for more details about the shadow and its possible link to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Ding Huo accepted the exchange, and Tang Lan began recounting how they had obtained the fragment.

Tang Lan revealed that a black metal fragment was part of an Evil Soul Tool designed to parasitically control Soul Beasts, likely enabling the abnormal Beast Tides and implicating the Holy Spirit Cult. Ding Huo shared intelligence about a powerful, purplish-red-glowing figure behind the threat, then tried to withdraw from the matter until Tang Lan warned that his knowledge made him a target too.

• Tang Lan explained that the fragment had been found inside a fifty-thousand-year-old Shadow Leopard and was designed to control Soul Beasts through mental interference and forced conversion of Life Energy.
• Ding Huo recognized the Holy Spirit Cult as the likely force behind the Soul Tool, but Tang Lan warned him to speak quietly in case hidden listeners were nearby.
• Ding Huo described a burly, possibly elderly figure with purplish-red Soul Power, whose strength was estimated at Level Ninety-Five or higher.
• Ding Huo declared the information transaction complete and tried to distance himself and the Listen to the Wind Pavilion from the conflict.
• Tang Lan pointed out that the Holy Spirit Cult could target Ding Huo for knowing the secret, making it unlikely that he could remain uninvolved.

Tang Lan compelled Ding Huo to answer three more questions, then used the first to learn about two possible God Inheritance sites. Ding Huo began detailing their locations and dangers, leaving the temple entrance in the Misfortune Poison Swamp still to be described.

• Tang Lan demanded five additional pieces of information, but Ding Huo angrily negotiated the terms down to three questions and warned he could seek Protection from Listen to the Wind Pavilion.
• Tang Lan asked for the location of a God Inheritance, and Ding Huo consulted his intelligence notebook before naming sites in the Death Desert and the Misfortune Poison Swamp.
• Tang Lan spent two questions to obtain the details of both sites, despite Ding Huo's warnings about their deadly environments.
• Ding Huo explained that the Death Desert inheritance lay beneath the drifting ruins of Sand Sea City in the Shifting Sand Sea, though its entrance and trials remained unknown.
• Ding Huo described the Misfortune Poison Swamp inheritance as lying deep within the Ten Thousand Poisons Cave, beyond dangerous poisonous creatures and caves, near an ancient temple with a rune-covered Stone Gate.

Ding Huo explained the God Inheritance Lands, revealed Dawn’s history, and warned Tang Lan that the Bloody Bird Plan might target several cities. Tang Lan sent warnings and orders before the story shifted to Black Iron City, where the plan had erupted into a bloody catastrophe.

• Ding Huo described the Desert God and God of Calamity inheritance sites, while Tang Lan left his third question owed for the future.
• Ding Huo revealed Dawn’s origins and its rule of neutrality but refused to disclose the identity of its current leader.
• Ding Huo warned Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer that the Bloody Bird Plan might also be underway in Gray Rock City, Iron Forest Fortress, and Hundred Streams Town.
• Tang Lan wrote a warning for Xu Yu and detailed orders for Su Bai, including instructions to investigate the plan’s spread and the God Inheritance Lands.
• Tang Lan sent the warning letter through a trusted attendant and prepared to have Su Bai receive the other letter.
• Black Iron City burned as blood-red birds formed from the blood and gathered into a vast dark-red cloud above the city.

After learning that the Holy Spirit Cult had blood-sacrificed everyone in Black Iron City, Tang Lan vowed to destroy the cult and launched plans to hunt its members and turn its followers against the faction behind the massacre. The story left Tang Lan preparing covert operations while Tao Zuo spread his account among the cult members in Rosette City.

• Su Bai reported that Evil Soul Masters had activated the Bloody Bird formation in Black Iron City, killing nearly everyone there, including Tang Sect operatives and disciples.
• Tang Lan erupted in fury, then declared that the Holy Spirit Cult must be destroyed.
• Tang Lan ordered Su Bai to form elite hunting squads and secretly target confirmed Holy Spirit Cult Evil Soul Masters and their collaborators across the southwestern border.
• Tang Lan told Tao Zuo that a rogue faction had sacrificed Black Iron City to open the Bloodthirsty God trial gateway and would eventually sacrifice cult members in other cities as well.
• Tang Lan ordered Tao Zuo to spread this account in Rosette City and rally the cult members behind Faceless Lord to purge the supposed traitors.

Tang Lan’s fabricated warning turned Holy Spirit Cult members in Rosette City against the Black Iron City sacrificers, while Tang Sect squads joined the purge. After learning that Ten Thousand Soul Douluo had carried the collected sacrificial energy toward Dongyang City, Tang Lan issued the Tang Sect’s highest-level Evil Extermination Order to ambush him and seize or destroy his vessel.

• Tao Zuo spread Tang Lan’s claim that Holy Spirit Cult traitors planned to sacrifice their own members, prompting Rosette City cultists to hunt the Black Iron City sacrificers.
• Tang Sect squads led by Su Bai and the cultists’ purge teams inflicted heavy losses on Evil Soul Masters around Black Iron City.
• Tao Zuo reported that Ten Thousand Soul Douluo had collected the sacrificial energy and likely headed northwest toward Dongyang City.
• Tang Lan ordered Tang Sect affiliates and elders to gather near Dongyang City and eliminate Ten Thousand Soul Douluo, while Su Bai formed a special operations team to scout and prepare ambushes.
• Su Bai transmitted the top-secret Evil Extermination Order, beginning the covert mobilization of Tang Sect forces across the northwest.

Tang Lan’s order mobilized Tang Sect forces across many cities to surround Dongyang City and hunt Ten Thousand Soul Douluo. As Shrek Academy received Tang Lan’s warning about the Holy Spirit Cult, its leaders discussed the Tang Sect’s growing power and the benefits Mu En and Xuan Zi had gained from Tang Lan’s gifts.

• Tang Sect allies across multiple cities received Tang Lan’s highest-priority order and dispatched Soul Douluo and other experts toward Dongyang City to kill Ten Thousand Soul Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and He Caitou endorsed Tang Lan’s operation, viewing it as both vengeance for Black Iron City and a chance to disrupt the Holy Spirit Cult and demonstrate the Tang Sect’s strength.
• Shrek Academy received Tang Lan’s confidential warning about Holy Spirit Cult infiltration and a Soul Tool that could control soul beasts and create Beast Tides.
• Xuan Zi praised Tang Lan’s abilities and explained that the Earth Vein Exquisite Ginseng had strengthened his martial soul and loosened his cultivation bottleneck.
• Mu En revealed that Tang Lan’s Ninth-grade Dragon Blood Ganoderma had healed his old injuries, restored his cultivation path, and transformed his Light Sacred Dragon martial soul.

Mu En proposed that Shrek Academy abandon its traditional neutrality and form a strategic alliance with the Tang Sect against the Holy Spirit Cult. The Sea God Pavilion voted unanimously to approve the alliance and prepare to support the operation in Dongyang City.

• Mu En said his strength had surpassed its former level and that he now had a greater than seventy percent chance of overpowering Long Xiaoyao.
• Mu En argued that Shrek Academy could no longer remain neutral amid the Holy Spirit Cult’s growing threat and should ally with the Tang Sect.
• Xuan Zi supported Mu En’s proposal, citing the danger of the Holy Spirit Cult and Shrek’s founder’s precedent for taking sides.
• The Pavilion Elders and core members voted unanimously in favor, with every voter raising a red plaque and none opposing or abstaining.
• Mu En formally established Shrek Academy’s strategic alliance with the Tang Sect, assigned Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er to coordinate, and ordered the Academy to support the operation against the Ten Thousand Soul Douluo in Dongyang City.

Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect mobilized their networks and forces to strike at the Holy Spirit Cult in Dongyang City, while Xu Sanshi committed the Dou Ling Empire’s troops to the campaign. The chapter ended with Yun Su questioning whether his costly intervention was worth it.

• Shrek Academy activated its defenses and intelligence network, prepared supplies, and sent elite instructors and Inner Courtyard disciples north to support the Tang Sect’s campaign in Dongyang City.
• The Tang Sect issued a summons to former students and allies across the continent, ordering them to hinder the Holy Spirit Cult and support the operation by any means available.
• After learning of Black Iron City’s massacre and the forces gathering against Dongyang City, Xu Sanshi ordered three hundred thousand troops and five thousand soul masters to march toward the northwest.
• Xu Sanshi asked Yin Hong to accompany the expedition and help contain Ten Thousand Soul Douluo and destroy the evil artifact, and Yin Hong accepted.
• Yun Su asked Xu Sanshi whether committing so many troops and sending Yin Hong was worth it for the Tang Sect’s information and the people killed in the southwest.

Yun Su warned Xu Sanshi that the Tang Sect could become a threat and questioned the risks of sending forces to Dongyang City, but Xu Sanshi argued that Tang Lan’s support was vital to the Dou Ling Empire’s survival. Yun Su accepted the alliance as necessary, urged Xu Sanshi to preserve his Tang Sect Elder ties, and heard that he had secretly strengthened the Imperial City’s defenses.

• Yun Su cautioned Xu Sanshi against trusting Tang Lan too much and warned that the Tang Sect might pursue its own ambitions once the Holy Spirit Cult was weakened.
• Xu Sanshi explained that the Dou Ling Empire faced threats from the Heaven Dou Empire, the Holy Spirit Cult, and internal enemies, and that Tang Sect aid had helped the Empire endure.
• Xu Sanshi defended the Dongyang City operation as necessary to weaken the Holy Spirit Cult and strengthen the alliance, while promising to make secret precautions against the Tang Sect.
• Yun Su warned that the Holy Spirit Cult might attack the Imperial City and seize Xu Sanshi while the Empire sent its elites away.
• Yun Su acknowledged the Tang Sect’s past support and advised Xu Sanshi to retain his Tang Sect Elder identity as a bond and political channel.
• Xu Sanshi promised to maintain his ties with Tang Lan and revealed that he had secretly adjusted the Imperial City’s defenses using Mystic Nether Sect forces and imperial consecrators.

Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer left Rosette City after seeing how Xu Yu had used a diverted river to hold back the Beast Tide, then traveled north toward Dongyang City. They reached Vast Sea City and met Wen Yun, the Tang Sect’s powerful local branch head, at its Sea Sky Restaurant command post.

• Xu Yu showed Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer the wide river channel he had dug to slow the Beast Tide and protect Rosette City.
• Tang Lan told Xu Yu he was heading north to help encircle the Holy Spirit Cult, and Xu Yu vowed to defend Rosette City while asking him to avenge its dead.
• Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer shed their disguises, flew north, and arrived at Vast Sea City the following morning.
• Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer entered Vast Sea City disguised as merchants and followed the Tang Sect’s signals to Sea Sky Restaurant.
• Wen Yun welcomed Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer, introduced herself as the Vast Sea City branch head, and revealed that she was a level-ninety water-attributed Soul Douluo.

Tang Lan reunited with Wen Yun, the Tang Sect’s powerful intelligence chief in Vast Sea City, and learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had amassed a huge army in Dongyang City. The chapter ended with Tang Lan preparing to face the fortified city with an allied force expected to exceed five hundred thousand, while the enemy had gathered at least two hundred thousand troops and thousands of Soul Masters.

• Wen Yun told Tang Lan how Tang Ya had saved her, helped her break through Rank 80 with an immortal herb, and brought her into the Tang Sect.
• Wen Yun escorted Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer to a luxurious suite in the Sea Sky Restaurant, where Wang Qiuer grew jealous of Wen Yun’s charms and Tang Lan’s wandering glances.
• Tang Lan redirected the conversation to Dongyang City, and Wen Yun reported that at least fifty thousand rebels and Evil Soul Masters had reinforced the city in the past ten days.
• Wen Yun estimated that Dongyang City held at least two hundred thousand rebel troops and more than five thousand Soul Masters, with stronger hidden experts likely present.
• Tang Lan concluded that the Holy Spirit Cult intended to defend Dongyang City and its secret scheme, and vowed to confront them with the allied forces gathering against them.