Chapter Summaries

Tang Lan assessed the dangers of besieging Dongyang City and told Wen Yun to prepare while he made his own plans to disrupt the Holy Spirit Cult. He then reassured Wang Qiuer that Shrek Academy was joining the Tang Sect’s alliance and revealed that his strength had reached the level of a Demigod.

• Tang Lan warned Wen Yun that Dongyang City’s defenses, rebel forces, and the allied army’s stretched supplies could make a direct siege costly and dangerous.
• Tang Lan predicted that the Holy Spirit Cult would strike before the encirclement was complete and said the allies should create trouble for the enemy rather than only react.
• Tang Lan ordered Wen Yun to monitor Dongyang City and coordinate intelligence and logistics, while withholding his specific plan.
• Tang Lan explained to Wang Qiuer that the Holy Spirit Cult was divided and that Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao might be involved in the battle.
• Tang Lan told Wang Qiuer that Shrek Academy had allied with the Tang Sect and sent a powerful force led by Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, Cai Meier, and Qian Duoduo.
• Tang Lan said he had reached the level of a Demigod and was confident he could face Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, even if they fought him together.

Tang Ya and the Tang Sect’s core members arrived in Vast Sea City after Huo Yuhao’s intelligence revealed that the situation near Dongyang City was worsening. They reported that nearly ninety percent of the sect’s strength was mobilizing for the coming battle, then gathered with Tang Lan to celebrate and discuss the threat.

• Ding De'er and Qiao Na brought Tang Ya, Ma Xiaotao, Xiao Xiao, Tang Wutong, Jiang Nannan, Long Yao, and Lu Xin'er to Tang Lan and Wang Qiuer’s suite.
• Tang Ya explained that the group had traveled ahead on Long Yao’s Azure Flood Dragon and Poison Dragon after receiving Huo Yuhao’s warning, while the main force would arrive over the next few days.
• Ma Xiaotao said Tang Sect had committed nearly ninety percent of its available core strength to the Dongyang City battle, leaving the rest to guard its headquarters and branches.
• Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan reported that Tang Sect had over thirty thousand registered soul master disciples, including roughly ten thousand core members at Soul Grandmaster rank or above.
• Tang Lan welcomed the group, called for a banquet, and raised a toast to Tang Sect and the coming victory.
• During the gathering, Ma Xiaotao credited the Crimson Sun Fire Lotus with stabilizing her martial soul, while Lu Xin'er reported unusual developments in the southwestern Soul Beast Forest.

After a night of prewar planning in Vast Sea City, Tang Lan reviewed the Tang Sect's detailed battle preparations and learned they had been devised largely by the newly recruited Zhuge Feng. Tang Lan went to meet him, and Zhuge Feng looked up in surprise as the group arrived at his study.

• Tang Lan and his companions discussed the coming battle at Dongyang City through the night before dispersing to rest.
• Tang Ya, Ma Xiaotao, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Nannan presented Tang Lan with detailed deployment orders and contingency plans for the Tang Sect's forces.
• Tang Ya and the others explained that Zhuge Feng, a Level 87 Soul Douluo with Wind and Brain Martial Souls, had led the planning and recruited several powerful allies, including Phantom Douluo.
• Tang Lan decided to visit Zhuge Feng, and Tang Ya, Ma Xiaotao, Xiao Xiao, Jiang Nannan, Wang Qiuer, and Wen Yun accompanied him to the manor where he was working.
• Tang Ya knocked on Zhuge Feng's study door, and he looked up from his documents in astonishment.

Zhuge Feng revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult had annihilated his secluded family, and explained that he had joined the Tang Sect to seek revenge. Tang Lan accepted his motives and promised the sect would eventually confront the cult, then produced a strange plant with six eye-like organs and a huge toothed mouth.

• Tang Lan and the Tang Sect’s core members met Zhuge Feng in his study, and Tang Lan asked about his background and why he had joined.
• Zhuge Feng explained that his ancestors had hidden the Zhuge Family from the Soul Master World for thousands of years to avoid political conflicts.
• Zhuge Feng revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult had attacked the family’s hidden home about half a year earlier, killing its members and leaving him and a few others as survivors.
• Zhuge Feng admitted that he had joined the Tang Sect to gain the strength and allies needed to avenge his family, and Tang Lan accepted him and promised the sect would fight the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Tang Lan produced a bizarre plant with a storm-like disc, six eye-shaped organs, and a giant mouth lined with sharp teeth.

Tang Lan gifted Zhuge Feng a Ninety Thousand Year Six-eyed Wind Soul Sunflower, gaining the strategist’s sworn loyalty. Zhuge Feng then outlined a layered plan for attacking Dongyang City, with the discussion turning to how Tang Sect forces should counter the Holy Spirit Cult’s strongest fighters.

• Tang Lan explained that the Six-eyed Wind Soul Sunflower was a purified Demonic Plant with powerful Wind and Mental attributes, valued at more than Ninety Thousand Years.
• Tang Lan gave the immortal treasure to Zhuge Feng, who accepted it and swore complete loyalty to the Tang Sect after Tang Lan described how to divide and absorb its essence safely.
• Tang Lan asked Tang Ya, Qiu'er, Wen Yun, and the others to leave so he could privately discuss the attack on Dongyang City with Zhuge Feng.
• Zhuge Feng proposed using the Dou Ling Empire’s three hundred thousand troops for the frontal siege while organizing Soul Masters into layered special combat units.
• Zhuge Feng assigned elite Soul Saint and Soul Douluo squads to destroy key defenses and recommended Titled Douluo escorts for them.
• Zhuge Feng proposed forming Titled Douluo combat groups to intercept and restrain powerful Holy Spirit Cult fighters away from the main battlefield.

Tang Lan ordered an early night march on Dongyang City before the full Dou Ling Empire army could assemble, using the Imperial Sword to compel reluctant commanders to obey. By dawn, the forces had surrounded the city and begun a coordinated plan to draw defenders east while assigning the western assault to General Chen Jue and the imperial soul master corps.

• Tang Lan and Zhuge Feng finalized the siege plan, including using the Tang Sect’s new large-scale siege Soul Tools and isolating the Holy Spirit Cult’s Titled Douluo.
• After seven days of preparation, Tang Lan decided not to wait for the remaining imperial forces because the rebels were strengthening Dongyang City’s defenses.
• Tang Lan used the Imperial Sword to assert his authority as Imperial Chancellor and ordered the assembled troops to march on Dongyang City that night.
• The imperial army reached Dongyang City before dawn, and Tang Lan assigned one hundred thousand troops to feint at the eastern gate and smaller forces to contain the southern and northern gates.
• Tang Lan assigned General Chen Jue’s eighteen thousand troops and more than two thousand imperial soul masters to attack the western gate, shocking both commanders.

Chen Jue’s force waited outside Dongyang City’s west gate while Tang Sect engineers revealed three Giant Soul Cannons and explained their immense power and costly ammunition. After the general assault began, two volleys blasted open the gate, leaving Chen Jue’s troops poised to attack through the breach.

• Chen Jue led eighteen thousand soldiers and two thousand Imperial Soul Masters to hide in the forest outside Dongyang City’s west gate, following Tang Lan’s orders to await a signal.
• A Tang Sect Soul Engineer explained that the three Giant Soul Cannons could devastate a gate but consumed a High-grade Soul Stone with each shot.
• When signal flares announced the assault, Chen Jue fired a scarlet signal flare, and Tang Sect operators uncovered and prepared the cannons.
• The three cannons’ first volley severely damaged the west gate, while defenders panicked atop the walls.
• After the operators replaced the spent Soul Stones, a second volley collapsed the gate and opened a breach in the wall.
• Chen Jue and his troops stared in shock as his subordinate announced that the gate had been breached.

Chen Jue’s forces breached Dongyang City’s west gate while the imperial army’s attacks elsewhere drew rebel reinforcements away. Tang Sect Zhuge Soul Crossbows suppressed the defenders, and Zhuge Feng ordered Chen Jue to prepare concealed Soul Tool Triggered Thunder along the routes leading to the gate.

• Chen Jue led eighteen thousand imperial soldiers and two thousand Soul Masters through the west gate after the Giant Soul Cannon blasted it open, while attacks at the other gates pinned down the rebels.
• Tang Lan’s feint made the east gate appear to face a much larger imperial force, drawing rebel troops and attention away from the west.
• Tang Sect disciples fired Zhuge Soul Crossbows at defenders on the west wall, weakening their counterattack and helping Chen Jue’s troops secure the breach and sections of the wall.
• Chen Jue reported the west gate’s capture to Tang Lan, whose address shifted from National Teacher to Chancellor after witnessing the Tang Sect’s weapons.
• Zhuge Feng ordered Chen Jue to select five hundred elite soldiers and work with twenty Tang Sect disciples to plant concealed Soul Tool Triggered Thunder on routes used by rebel reinforcements.

Tang Lan and seven allies infiltrated Dongyang City’s City Lord’s Mansion while the Tang Sect and Dou Ling Empire attacked the city. The Ten Thousand Soul Douluo decided to use the Soul Refining Furnace to launch the Bloody Bird Plan against the invading army, as Tang Lan’s group entered the mansion unnoticed.

• Tang Lan ordered Chen Jue to mark the planted devices and fortify the captured western wall, then led seven allies into Dongyang City toward the City Lord’s Mansion.
• The Black Crow Douluo reported the four-gate assault, the western breach, and the estimated five hundred thousand enemy troops to the Ten Thousand Soul Douluo.
• The Ten Thousand Soul Douluo ordered the Black Crow Douluo to reinforce the defenses, then went to his secret chamber and retrieved the Soul Refining Furnace.
• The Ten Thousand Soul Douluo planned to use the furnace’s stored sacrificial energy and Dongyang City as the basis for a Bloody Bird Plan against the invading forces.
• Tang Lan’s group changed into servants’ and guards’ clothes, entered the City Lord’s Mansion through a side door, and scattered among its frightened occupants.

Tang Lan and his allies discovered that Ten Thousand Soul Douluo was preparing a massive blood-sacrifice ritual using the Soul Refining Furnace and the people fighting around Dongyang City. To avoid a dangerous direct assault, Tang Lan disguised himself as Long Xiaoyao and prepared to exploit the Holy Spirit Cult consecrator’s authority.

• The City Lord's Mansion chief steward ordered guards and servants to maintain martial law while the battle outside Dongyang City continued.
• A powerful evil aura erupted from deep within the estate, and Tang Lan recognized it as energy from Ten Thousand Soul Douluo's activated Soul Refining Furnace.
• Tang Lan deduced that Ten Thousand Soul Douluo intended to use Dongyang City and its hundreds of thousands of defenders and attackers as sacrifices for the Bloody Bird Plan.
• Tang Lan used a Chameleon Mask and simulated Dark Dragon Qi to disguise himself as Long Xiaoyao.
• Tang Ya and the others realized Tang Lan planned to use Long Xiaoyao's standing in the Holy Spirit Cult to approach Ten Thousand Soul Douluo and interfere with the ritual.

Tang Lan disguised himself as Long Xiaoyao and diverted attention toward Dongyang City's east gate while the Imperial Army feigned retreat at the west gate. The Dou Ling Empire Soul Master Corps infiltrated the western district to install Tang Sect formation bases, and Commander Du Yang coordinated their deployment as doubts about the formation remained.

• Tang Lan ordered Tang Ya, Wang Qiuer, and Ma Xiaotao to accompany him disguised as Long Xiaoyao, while Yan, Xian, and two instructors remained concealed in the City Lord's Mansion.
• Long Xiaoyao questioned the mansion guards, learned that the east gate faced the fiercest fighting, and left for the frontline with his attendants.
• Chen Jue followed Tang Lan and Zhuge Feng's orders as the Imperial Army staged a retreat from the west gate, drawing rebel attention away from the infiltrating Soul Masters.
• The Dou Ling Empire Soul Master Corps scattered through the western district and secretly planted Soul Trapping Great Formation bases at assigned locations.
• Commander Du Yang monitored reports from his deputies as they placed formation bases, while his doubts about the formation's claimed effects persisted.

Du Yang activated the 386 Soul Trapping formation bases across Dongyang City, causing purple energy to weaken the defenders while leaving the Dou Ling Empire army and Tang Sect forces unaffected. As the city’s gates began to fall, Ten Thousand Soul Douluo rushed toward the eastern battlefield, shocked by the formation’s effects.

• Du Yang received Zhuge Feng’s orders and kept his squads hidden until the signal to activate the formation arrived.
• After a crimson flare signaled the final plan, Du Yang ordered all 386 formation bases activated in sequence, and purple streams of Soul Power formed a dark cloud above Dongyang City.
• Purple energy snowflakes fell across the city, weakening the defenders’ bodies and Soul Power while having no effect on the imperial army or Tang Sect forces.
• The imperial army broke through defenses at the eastern, western, southern, and northern gates as the rebels’ resistance collapsed.
• Ten Thousand Soul Douluo sensed the defenders’ sudden weakness, realized the Tang Sect was likely responsible, and rushed toward the eastern battlefield.

Ten Thousand Soul Douluo activated the Soul Refining Furnace, unleashing a blood mist that devoured soldiers and Soul Masters from both sides. As the east gate fell into chaos, Sha Ran attacked him, and Ten Thousand Soul Douluo countered with a ghostly assault.

• Ten Thousand Soul Douluo rushed toward the east gate, but Long Xiaoyao appeared with three attendants and rebuked him for the failing defenses.
• Ten Thousand Soul Douluo distrusted Long Xiaoyao and activated the Soul Refining Furnace to unleash a spreading blood mist.
• The blood mist dissolved flesh and tore out souls indiscriminately, killing fighters from both sides and disrupting the siege.
• Abhorrence Douluo condemned Ten Thousand Soul Douluo as the blood mist began to spread farther.
• Sha Ran attacked with Sandstorm Grasp, but Ten Thousand Soul Douluo escaped with Phantasmal Shadows and retaliated with Hundred Ghosts Night Parade.

Sha Ran, Dongfang Gu, and Wu Wei struggled against the Ten Thousand Soul Douluo until Tang Lan, disguised as Long Xiaoyao, arrived and trapped him with spatial compression. The Ten Thousand Soul Douluo pleaded for his life and revealed that his soul-harvesting was meant to open “that door.”

• The Ten Thousand Soul Douluo's soul attacks bypassed Sha Ran's Sand Barrier, but Dongfang Gu used his Soul Umbrella to reflect them.
• The Ten Thousand Soul Douluo unleashed his Ten Thousand Ghosts Shroud the Sky, Soul Body Virtualization, and Martial Soul Avatar, threatening soldiers with waves of ghosts.
• Tang Lan, disguised as Long Xiaoyao, appeared above Dongyang City and used spatial compression to crush the ghosts and pin the Ten Thousand Soul Douluo.
• The Ten Thousand Soul Douluo mistook Tang Lan for Long Xiaoyao and pleaded for mercy, claiming loyalty and revealing that he had gathered souls to open “that door.”

Tang Lan, disguised as Long Xiaoyao, captured the Holy Spirit Cult’s three elders and ordered Dongyang City’s defenders to surrender. Their confusion let the Dou Ling Empire and Tang Sect break through the eastern gate and pour into the city.

• Tang Lan learned that the Holy Spirit Cult’s Bloody Bird Plan was meant to open a mysterious door, so he imprisoned Ten Thousand Soul Douluo to question him later.
• Abhorrence Douluo and Nightmare Douluo arrived at the eastern gate and were swiftly sealed in spatial cages by Tang Lan.
• Tang Lan announced himself as Long Xiaoyao and ordered the Holy Spirit Cult members and city defenders to surrender to the Tang Sect and Dou Ling Empire.
• Sha Ran and the allied commanders exploited the defenders’ confusion, and the imperial army overwhelmed the eastern wall.
• Giant Soul Cannons shattered the eastern gate, and the Dou Ling Empire’s main force charged into Dongyang City.

As the imperial army took Dongyang City, Ye Xishui and the real Long Xiaoyao arrived and confronted Tang Lan, who revealed his Ancient Dragon Martial Soul and overwhelmed Long Xiaoyao in their first clash. Long Xiaoyao recognized Tang Lan’s power might have reached the divine threshold, then transformed and unleashed his Eternal Night Dragon Domain while Ye Xishui prepared to rescue the trapped elders.

• The real Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui arrived at Dongyang City, and Long Xiaoyao accused Tang Lan of impersonating him before attacking.
• Tang Lan dropped his disguise and summoned his Ancient Dragon Martial Soul to meet Long Xiaoyao’s full-force dragon claw.
• The collision devastated the area and killed hundreds of soldiers and Soul Masters, while Long Xiaoyao was forced back by Tang Lan’s superior power.
• Long Xiaoyao judged that Tang Lan might have touched the divine threshold and told Ye Xishui to free Ten Thousand Soul and the others or attack Tang Lan’s allies.
• Long Xiaoyao transformed into his Dark Sacred Dragon form and spread the Eternal Night Dragon Domain across the sky.

Tang Lan fought Long Xiaoyao above Dongyang City while Ye Xishui tried to free Ten Thousand Soul Douluo, only to find that Tang Lan had replaced his broken prison with four stronger spatial prisons. Ye Xishui joined Long Xiaoyao in attacking Tang Lan, who summoned the Dragon Soul Overlord Spear and prepared to face them both.

• Long Xiaoyao transformed into the Dark Sacred Dragon and clashed head-on with Tang Lan, while Ye Xishui watched their battle.
• Ye Xishui summoned the Blood Soul Demon Puppet and struck the spatial prison holding Ten Thousand Soul Douluo until it broke.
• Tang Lan immediately sealed Ten Thousand Soul Douluo inside four layered spatial prisons, leaving Ye Xishui unable to free him or the other captives.
• Ye Xishui abandoned her rescue attempt and joined Long Xiaoyao in attacking Tang Lan with the Blood Soul Demon Puppet.
• Tang Lan met their pincer attack without retreating and summoned the Dragon Soul Overlord Spear.

Tang Lan neutralized Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao’s coordinated attack with his Ancient Dragon Domain, but Ye Xishui then summoned the Death God Tower and gained power approaching the Demigod realm. As its blood-and-soul-draining domain spread across the battlefield, Zhuge Feng ordered the forces to retreat and prepare the Spirit Guard Formation.

• Tang Lan used Genesis of Chaos to blunt Ye Xishui’s Blood Soul Demon Puppet and Long Xiaoyao’s Dark Sacred Dragon, then shattered the sword aura and struck back the dragon’s tail.
• Ye Xishui concluded that Tang Lan was too dangerous to leave alive and summoned the Death God Tower with a blood-and-soul sacrifice ritual.
• The Death God Tower spread its death and Blood Fiend domains across Dongyang City, empowering Ye Xishui until her aura neared the Demigod realm.
• Long Xiaoyao recognized the Death God Tower as a near-Tenth-Rank Soul Tool, likely transformed using the intact corpse and remnant soul of Sky Que Sect’s Old Sect Leader.
• Zhuge Feng determined that the tower was draining the blood, souls, and life force of everyone in range, then ordered a full retreat and the creation of the Spirit Guard Formation.

The Death God Tower’s power killed the soldiers who disobeyed the retreat order, while the Spirit Guard Array sheltered the withdrawing Imperial forces. Ye Xishui prepared a devastating strike against Tang Lan, who answered with his full demigod strength, and the Death God Tower raised a blood-red barrier just before impact.

• Most Imperial soldiers and Tang Sect disciples retreated as a formation unit established the Spirit Guard Array outside Dongyang City.
• Some Imperial commanders and soldiers defied Zhuge Feng’s order and charged back into the city to avenge their fallen comrades.
• The Death God Tower’s power caused the disobedient troops and even some powerful Soul Masters to explode from within, prompting the remaining soldiers to flee toward the Spirit Guard Array.
• Ye Xishui drew strength from the deaths and began gathering the Death God Tower’s strongest attack against Tang Lan.
• Tang Lan unleashed the Dragon Soul Overlord Spear’s Ancient Dragon Pierces the Void, summoning a colossal golden dragon to attack the tower.
• The Death God Tower condensed its blood-red domain into a massive barrier to meet Tang Lan’s strike.

Tang Lan stopped the ancient dragon phantom from breaching Ye Xishui’s barrier, then confronted Long Xiaoyao over his loyalty to her and her slaughter of millions. Long Xiaoyao attacked in a furious final form, but Tang Lan pierced his defenses and left him gravely wounded, while Ye Xishui continued preparing the Death God Tower’s strike.

• Tang Lan’s ancient dragon phantom battered Ye Xishui’s blood-red barrier but failed to break through it.
• Long Xiaoyao placed himself between Tang Lan and the Death God Tower to buy Ye Xishui time to prepare her attack.
• Tang Lan challenged Long Xiaoyao over helping Ye Xishui slaughter innocents and invoked their former brother Mu En, shaking Long Xiaoyao with memories of their past.
• Long Xiaoyao unleashed his Dark Sacred Dragon True Body’s ultimate form and charged Tang Lan with a devastating assault.
• Tang Lan pierced Long Xiaoyao’s dragon claw and Dark Dragon Scale Armor with a single spear strike, leaving a wound that Chaos Power prevented from healing.