Chapter Summaries

Tang Lan defeated Long Xiaoyao, who had burned his life trying to protect Ye Xishui, just as Ye Xishui completed the Death God Tower’s ultimate attack. Tang Lan faced her God-Slaying Blood Annihilation Cannon by summoning powerful defenses and transforming into his Ancient Dragon form.

• Long Xiaoyao charged Tang Lan with life-burning attacks to keep him from reaching Ye Xishui, but Tang Lan defeated him and sent him crashing into a crater.
• As Long Xiaoyao fell, Ye Xishui completed her buildup in the Death God Tower and fired the Dark Red God-Slaying Blood Annihilation Cannon at Tang Lan.
• Tang Lan judged the cannon powerful enough to threaten him, then summoned Ancient Dragon Body Protection and the Mystic Tortoise Domain.
• Tang Lan activated his first Million Year soul ring and transformed into his fifty-meter Ancient Dragon form as the cannon reached him.

Tang Lan transformed into a Chaos Ancient Dragon and used his defenses to withstand Ye Xishui’s God-Slaying Blood Annihilation Cannon, whose collision created a massive Spatial Black Hole above Dongyang City. He stabilized the catastrophe and then burned away Ye Xishui’s blood-soul attack with Primordial True Flame, leaving the Death God Tower as the remaining threat.

• Tang Lan activated Primordial True Flame and Ancient Dragon's Wrath, boosting his power as a Chaos Ancient Dragon.
• Tang Lan’s Ancient Dragon Phantom and Mystic Tortoise Domain blocked most of Ye Xishui’s God-Slaying Blood Annihilation Cannon, and his scales endured the remainder.
• The collision shattered space above Dongyang City, creating a Spatial Black Hole that sucked in soldiers, defenders, and Evil Soul Masters.
• Tang Lan swept his tail to create a chaos light curtain that calmed the black hole’s suction and halted its expansion.
• Ye Xishui poured the Death God Tower’s remaining power into a Myriad Souls Blood Fiend attack, sending blood-red faces to engulf Tang Lan.
• Tang Lan unleashed Primordial True Flame, which burned the blood souls and their resentful spirits into Void.

Tang Lan overwhelmed Ye Xishui’s attacks and sensed a Ten Million Year existence in the depths of the Endless Sea, while Ye Xishui fled Dongyang City after securing the Holy Spirit Cult’s gathered sacrificial materials. Long Xiaoyao confronted his guilt over serving her and hurried to escape as well.

• Tang Lan unleashed the Chaos Ancient Dragon’s full power, shattered Ye Xishui’s blood attacks, and reflected on how his Million Year Soul Rings and other abilities had let him withstand the Death God Tower.
• Tang Lan sensed an ancient Life Pulse in the depths of the Endless Sea and suspected that a Ten Million Year Soul Beast existed there, making it a possible target for his vacant ninth soul ring.
• Ye Xishui redirected the Death God Tower’s power and fled, having gathered enough blood essence and souls for the Holy Spirit Cult’s plans to pursue evil god inheritances.
• Long Xiaoyao realized that the cult’s goals included god-making sacrifices and that Ye Xishui intended to pursue the God of Calamity while seeking the Evil Dragon God inheritance for him.
• Long Xiaoyao reflected on his crimes and his use of Forget Memory Pills to suppress his guilt, then received Ye Xishui’s order to retreat because Tang Lan had become a Demigod.
• Long Xiaoyao feared Tang Lan might stop him from escaping and used the Blood Shadow Escape technique to flee.

Tang Lan ended the battle for Dongyang City by letting Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao escape, then ordered the city secured and its wounded treated. Ye Xishui fled with the Death God Tower, Long Xiaoyao took the Forget Memory Pill and ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to retreat, and Du Yang mobilized his intelligence team to help reclaim the city.

• Long Xiaoyao used Blood Shadow Escape to flee as Tang Lan chose not to pursue him or Ye Xishui, prioritizing Dongyang City and the investigation of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Tang Lan calmed the spatial disturbances, ordered the battlefield cleared and the wounded treated, and assigned Zhuge Feng to coordinate the aftermath.
• Ye Xishui carried the Death God Tower and its harvested Blood Soul Essence toward a secret base, vowing revenge and planning the next stages of her scheme.
• Long Xiaoyao swallowed the Forget Memory Pill, which blurred and suppressed his recent memories, then ordered the Holy Spirit Cult disciples to abandon Dongyang City and retreat west.
• Du Yang ordered his Dark Scale team to guide the imperial vanguard and Tang Sect forces, secure key locations, and protect civilians as the remaining defenders surrendered or fled.

After Dongyang City was retaken, Tang Lan’s forces helped restore order as news of the Tang Sect’s victory reshaped opinion across the continent. At a postwar meeting, Tang Lan offered every attendee a Soul Bone from the Tang Sect treasury, leaving the assembled leaders stunned.

• Tang Lan placed the captured rebels under the Dou Ling Empire’s authority while Tang Sect and imperial forces spent seven days restoring order and screening prisoners in Dongyang City.
• News spread that the Tang Sect had helped defeat the rebels and driven back Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, prompting powers across the continent to reconsider the Tang Sect and the Dou Ling Empire.
• Tang Lan, Chen Jing, Du Yang, and Tang Sect leaders gathered in the former City Lord’s Mansion to discuss the battle and its aftermath.
• Tang Lan thanked the participants and said the Tang Sect would reward those who had served in the battle.
• Tang Lan announced that everyone present, including Chen Jing and Du Yang, could choose a Soul Bone from the Tang Sect treasury, astonishing the meeting.

Tang Lan rewarded the imperial commanders and other attendees with soul bones, concealing Tang Sect’s ongoing supply from the Soul Beasts. After discussing the recovery of Dongyang City, he ordered Tang Sect to launch a campaign against hidden Evil Soul Master forces across the southeastern Dou Ling Empire.

• Tang Lan explained that Tang Sect had obtained soul bones from ruins, markets, and the recent Beast Tide, then promised each recipient a suitable Ten Thousand Year or better soul bone.
• Chen Jing and Du Yang praised Tang Sect’s generosity, while Zhuge Feng and other leaders privately recognized that Di Tian’s agreement to provide naturally formed soul bones was the real source of Tang Sect’s supply.
• Tang Lan assigned imperial troops and officials responsibility for Dongyang City’s defenses, civil administration, relief, and reconstruction, with Tang Sect providing formations, Soul Tools, and powerful soul masters.
• Tang Lan and Zhuge Feng warned that Holy Spirit Cult remnants and Evil Soul Master strongholds still threatened the region, so Tang Lan ordered Tang Sect to form elite extermination squads and sweep the Empire’s controlled territories.
• The War Soul Hall steward agreed to prepare the squads, while Tang Lan tasked Soul Tool Hall with supplying equipment and Medicine Hall with preparing their medicines and logistical support.

Tang Lan coordinated the Tang Sect’s campaign against the Holy Spirit Cult as the Dou Ling Empire offered the sect autonomy over a vast southeastern territory. Seven days later, Di Tian arrived in Dongyang City to punish the Evil Soul Masters, but Tang Lan told him Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao had escaped after their defeat.

• Tang Lan arranged for imperial forces and officials to support Tang Sect cleansing squads and purge local officials collaborating with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Chen Jing announced that the Dou Ling Empire would grant the Tang Sect permanent autonomous control over roughly one-sixth of its territory, and Tang Lan deferred his decision.
• Tang Lan sent Di Tian an encrypted report about the empire’s offer and the Battle of Dongyang, then stayed in the city to oversee postwar operations.
• Seven days later, Di Tian descended upon Dongyang City in a storm of black clouds and lightning, and Tang Lan met him in the sky.
• Di Tian said he had come to avenge Soul Beasts targeted by Evil Soul Masters, but Tang Lan explained that he had driven back Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao and that both had fled.
• Di Tian vowed to remember Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao and settle the Holy Spirit Cult’s debt in the future.

Tang Lan urged Di Tian to pursue the demigod realm and gave him a Dragon Blood Grass to help purify his bloodline. Di Tian swallowed it without preparation, triggering a violent reaction, so Tang Lan led him away from Dongyang City toward the sea.

• Tang Lan asked Di Tian to seek a breakthrough to the demigod realm so they could protect the continent and their shared interests.
• Tang Lan showed Di Tian a Dragon Blood Grass and explained its potential to purify and evolve dragon bloodlines, citing its benefits to Mu En.
• Di Tian thanked Tang Lan and swallowed the grass before Tang Lan could warn him about its fierce medicinal power.
• The grass ignited Di Tian's bloodline power, causing his body to convulse as dark red and golden energy burst from his scales.
• Tang Lan and Di Tian flew toward the northern sea to keep Di Tian's rampaging power from destroying Dongyang City.

Tang Lan took Di Tian out to sea to contain the chaos caused by the Dragon Blood Grass, then used his Ancient Dragon True Body and essence blood to stabilize Di Tian’s bloodline. The essence blood attracted a massive horde of sea beasts, and Di Tian roared in fury as they rushed to seize it.

• Tang Lan led Di Tian away from Dongyang City and contained the boiling sea within his Chaos Domain as Di Tian’s bloodline power ran wild.
• Tang Lan realized the Dragon Blood Grass was violently purging impurities in Di Tian’s bloodline and could damage its foundation, so he decided to intervene.
• Tang Lan transformed into his Ancient Dragon True Body and condensed a drop of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood to help Di Tian control its bloodline.
• Tang Lan urged Di Tian to draw the essence blood into its body, but its radiance lured countless sea beasts toward them.
• Di Tian roared furiously as the sea beasts charged toward the essence blood and its chance to break through.

Di Tian unleashed his Black Dragon Breath to destroy the Sea Soul Beasts pursuing the Ancient Dragon Essence Blood, then swallowed the blood and began a dangerous transformation. After Di Tian entered a Dragon Egg and entrusted Tang Lan with guarding him and the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang Lan carried the egg north to find a safer place.

• Di Tian unleashed a black-flaming Dragon Breath that annihilated the nearby sea beasts and set the seawater ablaze.
• Di Tian swallowed the Ancient Dragon Essence Blood, which soothed the Dragon Blood Grass’s harmful effects and guided his bloodline transformation.
• Di Tian thanked Tang Lan, asked him to guard the Star Dou Great Forest during his breakthrough, and transformed into a giant black Dragon Egg.
• Thousands of Sea Soul Beasts gathered around the Dragon Egg, drawn by Di Tian’s life essence while he could not defend himself.
• Tang Lan shrank the Dragon Egg with Chaos Power, stored it, and flew north to find a secure place for Di Tian’s transformation.

Tang Lan carried Di Tian’s Dragon Egg to a remote glacial continent, placed it in an ice abyss, and sealed the area with a defensive formation so Di Tian could undergo nirvana undisturbed. He returned to Dongyang City, where Sky Sun Douluo had arrived as the Dou Ling Empire’s envoy to reward the victors, and the public commendation began.

• Tang Lan crossed the Far North and chose an isolated glacial continent as a suitable place for Di Tian’s transformation.
• Tang Lan cut a deep fissure into the glacier and sent Di Tian’s Dragon Egg into its ice abyss, where the cold stabilized its transformation.
• Tang Lan established a Chaos Sealing Array around the abyss to hide and protect Di Tian, then returned to Dongyang City.
• Tang Lan learned from Zhuge Feng that Sky Sun Douluo had arrived as the Dou Ling Empire’s royal envoy and met him in the Conference Hall.
• Sky Sun Douluo announced that the empire would reward the soldiers and Tang Sect heroes who fought at Dongyang City, and he led the group to the city tower to proclaim the honors before the troops.

After Dongyang City’s victory, the Dou Ling Empire rewarded the army and granted the Tang Sect autonomous territory, while Tang Lan recognized that the Holy Spirit Cult was also driving rebellions in the Heaven Dou Empire. As the Tang Sect recovered and improved its Soul Tools, news of Tang Lan’s power reached the Sun Moon Empire, where Xu Tianran identified him as a Demigod.

• Sky Sun Douluo announced rewards for the army and granted the Tang Sect seventeen coastal cities and their surrounding territory for autonomous governance.
• Tang Lan concluded that the Holy Spirit Cult was manipulating rebellions in both the Dou Ling and Heaven Dou Empires, and vowed to confront it once the Tang Sect was stronger.
• Tang Lan spent seven days recovering in Dongyang City, visiting its residents and assisting Ding De'er and Qiao Na with Soul Tool research.
• Reports of Tang Lan defeating Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao spread across the continent and reached the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Tianran read the report on Dongyang City and described Tang Lan as belonging to the Demigod realm.

Xu Tianran judged that the Holy Spirit Cult remained useful despite its losses and assured Luo Xiang that he had plans to control or discard it. Seeing the other empires weakened by unrest, he ordered Ju Zi to begin the Shining Sun plan and launch the Sun Moon Empire’s full-scale offensive.

• Xu Tianran explained that Ye Xishui’s Death God Tower offered temporary, unstable power and that Tang Lan’s survival showed its limits.
• Luo Xiang asked whether the Sun Moon Empire should continue cooperating with the Holy Spirit Cult, and Xu Tianran said he would keep using it to weaken rival states.
• Xu Tianran told Luo Xiang that he expected to achieve a major breakthrough and could deal with the Holy Spirit Cult if it turned against the Empire.
• Xu Tianran ordered Luo Xiang to tell Ju Zi to execute the highest stage of the Shining Sun plan and prepare the Empire for a full-scale offensive.
• Luo Xiang accepted the decree, promised to place the Northern Army on combat readiness, and left to carry out Xu Tianran’s orders.

Ju Zi assessed the fragile cooperation among the four border armies against the Holy Spirit Cult’s Beast Tides and decided the Sun Moon Empire should exploit its rivals’ internal crises with a surprise attack from Three Forks. Just as she prepared to send her proposal to Xu Tianran, an urgent messenger arrived.

• Ju Zi recalled how a young Tang Sect Titled Douluo had rescued her from berserk Soul Beasts, heightening her concern about the sect.
• After a massive Beast Tide forced the Sun Moon, Heaven Dou, Dou Ling, and Star Luo armies to cooperate, the Holy Spirit Cult continued causing disorder along their borders.
• Ju Zi concluded that rebellions had weakened the Heavenly Soul and Dou Ling border forces and decided to urge Xu Tianran to launch a surprise attack from Three Forks.
• The next morning, as Ju Zi prepared to send her secret proposal to Mingdu, one of Xu Tianran’s trusted messengers rushed into the command post.

Ju Zi rejected Xu Tianran’s slower plan and prepared a lightning raid with the three hundred thousand troops on the eastern front. The assault began under cover of darkness, catching the Heaven Dou Empire’s North Wind Legion in disarray as the chapter ended with Sun Moon forces cutting into its camp.

• A messenger delivered Xu Tianran’s order to assemble forces and seize the Three Forks region within seven days, but Ju Zi insisted the three hundred thousand troops already at the border could take it within three.
• Ju Zi requested urgent supplies and summoned her commanders to plan a three-day offensive, assigning units precise roles against the Heavenly Soul, Dou Ling, Star Luo, and Holy Spirit Cult threats.
• Ju Zi concealed the attack preparations behind a return to routine, then sent encrypted orders to commanders across the eastern front on the second night.
• Three hundred thousand Sun Moon Empire troops moved out under cover of darkness, and signal flares triggered coordinated attacks across the Three Forks region.
• More than one hundred thousand troops struck the Heaven Dou Empire’s North Wind Legion from several directions, using rotating sawtooth formations to break up and encircle its defenses.

Ju Zi’s surprise offensive broke through the Heaven Dou Empire’s northern defenses and devastated the Star Luo Empire’s forward positions, while leaving the Dou Ling Empire and Tang Sect untouched. At dawn, she judged the operation had succeeded despite possible enemy informants and prepared for the next phase.

• The Sun Moon Empire’s sawtooth assault tore through the Heaven Dou Empire’s North Wind Legion defenses, while Ju Zi’s southern forces bombarded and showered poisoned and flaming arrows on the Star Luo Empire’s Western Iron Wall Legion.
• Ju Zi used close combat against Heaven Dou’s disrupted formations and long-range Soul Tools against Star Luo’s fortified positions, forcing both armies to abandon their forward defenses.
• Heaven Dou’s defenders retreated toward their second line after leaving more than twenty thousand dead, while Star Luo pulled back after suffering more than fifteen thousand casualties and a failed countercharge.
• At dawn, Sun Moon Empire forces held more than half of the northern camp and occupied the ruined southern forward positions, while the eastern Dou Ling Empire and Tang Sect forces remained untouched.
• From a captured watchtower, Ju Zi said the sudden operation had prevented informants from relaying the full battle plan in time for Heaven Dou and Star Luo to prepare effective defenses.