Chapter Summaries

Zhi Xin and the female guards summoned the Lord of the Big Dipper to defend Xue Ke against Xue Qinghe’s coup. When the Star Lord’s attack targeted Xue Qinghe, Qian Renxue revealed her Six-Winged Angel form and prepared to counter it.

• Zhi Xin and the female Soul Masters formed the Big Dipper Formation and repelled an attack from She Long and Ci Xue, though many were injured.
• Zhi Xin offered god crystal and summoned a phantom of the Lord of the Big Dipper, who unleashed divine might that collapsed Swan Palace and killed the unconscious Xue Ye.
• Xue Ke vowed to kill Xue Qinghe, while Zhi Xin directed the Big Dipper’s purple pillar of light at the disguised Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue abandoned her Xue Qinghe disguise, activated Angel True Body, and transformed into her golden Six-Winged Angel form.
• Qian Renxue summoned the Angel Holy Sword as the Big Dipper’s attack bore down on her.

Qian Renxue survived the Big Dipper’s attack with help from Snake Spear Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo, then ordered Zhi Xin and the Purple Micro Palace Soul Masters killed after they refused to submit. Just as she prepared to execute Xue Ke, an aged voice offered to legitimize Qian Renxue’s claim to the throne in exchange for sparing Xue Ke.

• Qian Renxue used her Angel Holy Sword and Angel Domain to resist the Big Dipper’s purple pillar, but the attack shattered her domain and gravely wounded her.
• Xue Ke revealed that the crown prince was a woman and an undercover agent from Spirit Hall, causing unrest among the disguised Spirit Hall Soul Masters.
• Snake Spear Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo intercepted the weakened purple pillar and saved Qian Renxue, while the exhausted Zhi Xin and her allies lost their power.
• Qian Renxue offered Zhi Xin a chance to live if she submitted, but Zhi Xin refused, and Qian Renxue ordered the Purple Micro Palace Soul Masters killed.
• At Xue Ke’s request, Qian Renxue revealed her true identity and face, and Xue Ke accepted her impending death.
• An aged voice offered to write an edict passing the throne to Qian Renxue if she spared his only daughter, Xue Ke.

Qian Renxue killed Emperor Xue Ye after he refused to let her take Xue Ke’s life in exchange for an abdication edict. Bi Ji and Zi JI arrived to save the Purple Micro Palace’s guards, and as they struggled against Spirit Hall, City Garrison troops moved to put down the coup.

• Emperor Xue Ye emerged from the ruins and revealed that Qian Renxue had poisoned him and killed Xue Qinghe and Beng, while Xue Xing was under attack.
• Xue Ye offered to abdicate and help Qian Renxue win the empire’s support if she spared Xue Ke, but Qian Renxue refused and beheaded him.
• Xue Ke fainted after witnessing her father’s death, and Qian Renxue prepared to kill her and the others before a purple dragon tail hurled her away.
• Bi Ji and Zi JI revealed themselves as hundred-thousand-year soul beasts from the Purple Micro Palace, and Bi Ji healed the injured female guards.
• Qian Renxue, Snake Spear Douluo, and Porcupinefish Douluo attacked Bi Ji and Zi JI while Spirit Hall troops fought Zhi Xin and the guards.
• City Garrison soldiers arrived, and their commander declared that they would put down Spirit Hall’s coup for the empire.

Marshal Ge Long led the Heaven Dou City Garrison to surround the palace and attack the Royal Guards defending it after Spirit Hall’s coup. Spirit Hall’s powerful Soul Masters inflicted heavy casualties, but the battle continued with neither side yet victorious.

• Xiao Chenyu informed Ge Long that Xue Ye had been poisoned and Spirit Hall had launched a coup, prompting Ge Long to raise the City Garrison in defense of the crown.
• Ge Long assembled nearly three hundred thousand soldiers outside the palace and rallied them to fight for Heaven Dou and its emperor.
• Elder Tianfeng dismissed the threat posed by the City Garrison, while a Royal Guard commander ordered the defenders to man the walls and prepare their weapons.
• Spirit Hall’s five thousand Soul Masters revealed their Martial Souls and Soul Rings as the City Garrison’s vanguard halted and began its assault.
• The City Garrison launched volleys of arrows and siege projectiles, killing many defenders, while Spirit Hall experts destroyed siege engines and slaughtered soldiers climbing the walls.

Ge Long ordered the City Garrison to keep attacking the palace after executing Kalo for urging surrender, while Xue Ke and the female Soul Masters held off Spirit Hall’s forces inside. As Zi JI struggled against Qian Renxue and two Titled Douluos, Qian Renxue revealed that Qian Daoliu and Spirit Hall’s Seven Great Offerings were confronting the expected reinforcements.

• Ge Long rejected Kalo’s proposal to surrender, beheaded him, and ordered the City Garrison to fight until the last drop of blood was shed.
• Xue Ke joined the battle beside Zhi Xin, and their coordinated attack helped drive the exhausted Spirit Hall Soul Masters into retreat.
• Zi JI struck Qian Renxue with a powerful punch, but Snake Spear Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo counterattacked and forced Zi JI into a difficult fight.
• Qian Renxue mocked Xue Ke’s hope for reinforcements, and Xue Ke warned that Yu Tianmeng would come from Shrek Academy.
• Qian Renxue revealed that her grandfather, Qian Daoliu, was leading Spirit Hall’s Seven Great Offerings against the reinforcements, shocking Xue Ke.

Qian Renxue tried to kill Xue Ke, but Xue Shan intervened and revealed that he had become a Titled Douluo before fighting Qian Renxue. At Shrek Academy, Yu Tianmeng faced Golden Crocodile Douluo while Spirit Hall attacked the weakened Purple Micro Palace forces, and she learned that other Worships might have arrived.

• Qian Renxue attacked Xue Ke as Zi JI, Zhi Xin, and the guards tried to stop her, but Xue Shan appeared and blocked the Angel Holy Sword with his feather sword.
• Xue Shan revealed that he had secretly become a Titled Douluo and had killed Spirit Hall’s Ninth Elder, then learned from Xue Ke that Emperor Xue Ye was dead and charged at Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue and Xue Shan clashed as Spirit Hall and Heaven Dou forces fought over the palace.
• At Shrek Academy, Yu Tianmeng, Dugu Bo, and a Clear Sky Sect elder remained in a standoff with Golden Crocodile Douluo while Spirit Hall’s forces attacked the academy.
• Yu Tianmeng asked Golden Crocodile Douluo whether Spirit Hall’s other Worships had arrived, and he confirmed that she had guessed correctly.

Yu Tianmeng and her allies clashed with Golden Crocodile Douluo as Spirit Hall attacked Purple Micro Palace’s allies across Heaven Dou City. The chapter ended with a mysterious Gray-Clothed Man confronting the Clear Sky Sect with the sacred sword Measure Heaven.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo revealed that Qian Daoliu and the other Offerings were attacking the Clear Sky Sect, the Ye Family, and the Meng Family, prompting Yu Tianmeng, Dugu Bo, and a Clear Sky Sect elder to attack him.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo blocked the three attackers and held the advantage against them.
• At the Ye Residence, Marx and Ye Yinzhu fought alongside Da Ming and Er Ming against Thousand Jun Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo, while a Spirit Hall Soul Douluo prepared to assassinate Ye Yinzhu.
• Wang Sheng and Qin Ming led reinforcements to the Meng Residence, where Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang used their Dragon Serpent Strike to resist Spirit Hall’s Third Offering.
• Ning Rongrong and Lin Yang helped Bone Douluo defend the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Fort against Spirit Hall’s forces and the Royal Guards.
• A Gray-Clothed Man carrying the sacred sword Measure Heaven arrived alone to attack the Clear Sky Sect.

Qian Daoliu attacked the Clear Sky Sect after learning that Tang Chen had died, killing the sect members who remained behind and confronting Tang Xiao. The chapter leaves Tang Xiao trapped in Qian Daoliu’s perfected Angel Domain as Qian Daoliu prepares to kill him.

• Qian Daoliu entered the Clear Sky Sect and killed the gatekeepers and the disciples who rushed to stop him.
• Qian Daoliu cut down the second-generation disciples’ attacks, killed several Soul Douluo, and pursued the survivors until Tang Xiao appeared.
• Qian Daoliu revealed that Tang Chen had died on Sea God Island and claimed his death freed him from his old promise to stay away from the sect.
• Tang Xiao said he had sent the Clear Sky Sect members away and challenged Qian Daoliu to fight.
• Qian Daoliu unleashed his Angel Holy Sword, severed the mountain, and trapped Tang Xiao inside his Angel Domain.

Xue Ke rallied the battered City Garrison by vowing to stand firm before the imperial battle standard, and the army launched a desperate assault on the palace walls. Elder Tianfeng slaughtered many attackers but found himself overwhelmed by their relentless advance.

• Xue Ke refused to leave the battlefield and planted the Heaven Dou Imperial Family's battle standard, declaring that she would not retreat.
• Xue Ke's speech lifted the City Garrison's morale, and officers volunteered to lead the vanguard while Ge Long let them go.
• Elder Tianfeng learned that Spirit Hall's forces had suffered heavy losses as the City Garrison brought its remaining siege engines forward.
• An elderly Swan Soul Saint led the charge, and Elder Tianfeng mortally wounded him; the officer hurled his sword at the wall and died shouting for the empire.
• The City Garrison answered with a massive volley and surged toward the palace walls, killing the Royal Guards commander and forcing Elder Tianfeng to unleash several Soul Skills against the attackers.

The Heaven Dou Empire’s City Garrison overwhelmed Spirit Hall’s forces at the palace, while Xue Ke refused to retreat and the empire’s experts held off a decapitation strike. Spirit Hall’s surviving leaders fled after the palace walls fell, and the victorious soldiers acclaimed Xue Ke as queen.

• City Garrison soldiers attacked without retreating, unnerving Elder Tianfeng and forcing Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters back despite their superior strength.
• Ye Xingyun proposed that Spirit Hall’s three Titled Douluo and other experts attack the command center and kill Ge Long and Xue Ke.
• Xue Shan intercepted Elder Tianfeng and Ye Xingyun, while Xiao Chenyu and the Purple Micro Palace fighters engaged the other Spirit Hall experts.
• Xue Ke refused Ge Long’s advice to withdraw, declaring that she would not retreat from the royal battle flag.
• The City Garrison captured the palace walls after a day of fighting, and the surviving Spirit Hall forces retreated when their coup failed.
• The soldiers gathered around Xue Ke and cheered, “Long live Her Majesty the Queen!”

Xue Ke accepted the army’s acclaim and became empress, then ordered the City Garrison to seize the palace and hunt down Qian Renxue. Qian Renxue abandoned the failed coup and escaped, while Xue Ke found her challenge on Swan Palace’s wall just as a thunderous crash approached from the horizon.

• Ge Long persuaded the hesitant Xue Ke to take the throne, and she accepted the soldiers’ cries and ordered them to seize the palace and slay the traitors.
• Qian Renxue saw the City Garrison pouring into the palace and ordered She Long to rally Spirit Hall’s forces, but he returned to report that their allies and Qian Daoliu were tied down or missing.
• Qian Renxue concluded that the coup was lost, ordered Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters to withdraw, and escaped Heaven Dou City with She Long and Porcupinefish Douluo.
• Xue Ke entered Swan Palace, thanked Bi Ji and Zi JI for their help, and learned that Qian Renxue had left a blood-written challenge on the wall.
• A deafening crash rolled toward Swan Palace from the horizon as Xue Ke’s fury over the imperial family’s losses grew.

Zhou Chen returned to Heaven Dou City and intercepted Qian Daoliu after the elder killed Tang Xiao and headed to aid Qian Renxue. Their battle escalated into a clash of powerful sword strikes and techniques, and Zhou Chen prepared another attack as Qian Daoliu remained standing.

• Qian Daoliu killed Tang Xiao, and Zhou Chen discovered the death before intercepting him on the road to Heaven Dou City.
• Zhou Chen and Qian Daoliu recognized each other, exchanged threats, and began fighting with their giant swords.
• Zhou Chen detonated his restored golden soul ring and struck Qian Daoliu with successive Xuanyuan Sword attacks, finally forcing him to retreat and spit blood.
• Zhou Chen trapped Qian Daoliu with the Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Finger, but Qian Daoliu broke free with Angel's Roar.
• Zhou Chen unleashed the remaining fingers and the Great Desolate Imprisoning Sky Hand, then formed the five seals of the Emperor Seal Technique into the Ancient Emperor Seal.

Zhou Chen and Qian Daoliu traded devastating attacks, but both recovered and Zhou Chen restored his destroyed soul rings. Zhou Chen then trapped Qian Daoliu in a strange subspace, where Qian Daoliu discovered that his body had returned to youth.

• Zhou Chen's Five Emperors Seal clashed with Qian Daoliu's ninth soul skill, Angel Glory, creating a brief black hole that swallowed light and sound.
• Qian Daoliu spat blood, but both he and Zhou Chen rapidly healed their injuries.
• Zhou Chen mocked Qian Daoliu's offer to end the fight and used the system to restore his six golden soul rings.
• Zhou Chen's golden beam pierced Qian Daoliu's shield, after which a silver doorway appeared and pulled Qian Daoliu into a subspace.
• Qian Daoliu found himself in the subspace and realized his body had shrunk and his wrinkled skin had become smooth and youthful.

Zhou Chen used Equality of All Living Things to reduce Qian Daoliu to his fifteen-year-old strength, then killed him with the Xuanyuan Sword’s Universe Shattering technique. As the Angel God descended in golden wings, the god demanded Qian Daoliu’s remnant soul for the godhood inheritance.

• Zhou Chen used Equality of All Living Things to revert Qian Daoliu’s age, soul power, and Soul Rings to their fifteen-year-old state while keeping his own strength unchanged.
• Zhou Chen launched the Xuanyuan Sword’s Universe Shattering technique, and Qian Daoliu was unable to escape the attack.
• The enormous Xuanyuan Sword shattered Qian Daoliu’s Measure Heaven sword and crushed him to dust.
• Golden divine wings emerged from the shattered space around the crater, and Zhou Chen recognized the Angel God’s divine power.
• The Angel God appeared and told Zhou Chen that Qian Daoliu’s remnant soul was needed for the godhood inheritance.

The Angel God claimed Qian Daoliu’s remnant soul and warned Zhou Chen that other gods might not respect the rules separating gods and mortals. Qian Renxue abandoned the coup and returned to Spirit City, while the historical account described Xue Ke’s rise as the Scarlet Empress.

• The Angel God descended, took Qian Daoliu’s remnant soul, and warned Zhou Chen about other gods before returning to the Divine Realm.
• Zhou Chen set off for Heaven Dou City to check on Tian Meng, Xue Ke, and the others.
• Qian Renxue learned that her grandfather’s fate was uncertain and ordered Snake Lance and Porcupinefish Douluo to return with her to Spirit City.
• The historical account recounted how Xue Ke resisted Qian Renxue’s coup, became empress, and declared war on Spirit Hall.
• Xue Ke purged Qian Renxue’s followers and attacked Spirit Hall’s branches, earning the later title Scarlet Empress.

After six years of reforms, Zhou Chen and Xue Ke had prepared the Heaven Dou Empire to reclaim its breakaway kingdoms while Spirit Hall’s leaders pursued divine inheritances. The Silves Kingdom offered to help, and Yu Tianmeng revealed that Zhou Chen would soon become a father.

• Zhou Chen considered striking Spirit Hall before Bi Bi Dong and Qian Renxue completed their divine inheritances, while reflecting on the empire’s expanded armies and reforms.
• Yu Tianmeng brought Zhou Chen news that the Silves Kingdom had pledged allegiance and sent three hundred thousand troops toward the Barak Kingdom’s border.
• Yu Tianmeng realized Zhang Luo Shen had joined Zhou Chen’s family, then learned Zhang wanted Xue Ke to preserve the Silves Kingdom’s succession in exchange for loyalty.
• Yu Tianmeng said Yan Zi, Ling Ling, and Zhu Zhuqing were nearly three months pregnant, and Zhou Chen celebrated the news that he would become a father.
• Xue Ke slept over her memorials in the Imperial Study while the Magic Guidance Camp, Divine Machine Camp, and royal Soul Master Offering Legion guarded the palace.

Yu Tianmeng brought Xue Ke news that Zhang Luo Shen had agreed to send 300,000 Silves troops against the Barak Kingdom. Xue Ke prepared for the coming Battle of Barak, with Zhang Luo Shen’s forces set to advance on Barak City.

• Yu Tianmeng arrived at the Imperial Study and was recognized by Bai Baoshan as Space Douluo, while the palace guards stood down.
• Bai Baoshan told Yu Tianmeng that Xue Ke had just fallen asleep, but Xue Ke soon came out of the study, woken by the commotion.
• Yu Tianmeng gave Xue Ke a letter reporting that Zhang Luo Shen had agreed to send 300,000 troops from Silves to support the empire against Barak.
• Xue Ke celebrated that Zhang Luo Shen had agreed after hearing Zhou Chen’s name, and Yu Tianmeng said Zhang Luo Shen would lead the attack on Barak City.

Xue Ke and Yu Tianmeng discussed Zhang Luo Shen’s planned attack on Barak City, and Xue Ke confirmed the city’s proximity to the Silves border. She ordered Marshal Ge Long to activate the Thunderclap Plan and attack in seven days.

• Yu Tianmeng explained to Xue Ke that Barak City lay on the border between the Balak Kingdom and the Silves Kingdom, making an attack difficult to avoid once war began.
• Xue Ke asked Zhi Xin to bring a map of the Balak Kingdom and learned that Barak City was less than a hundred li from the Silves border.
• Xue Ke ordered Zhi Xin to issue Marshal Ge Long an edict activating the Thunderclap Plan and launching the attack in seven days.

Xue Ke ordered Ge Long to activate the Thunderclap Plan and attack the rebellious kingdoms in seven days. As Tiandou’s million-strong army prepared to march, Zhang Luo Shen led Silves troops into Balak territory, relying on her aunt Zhang Ling Yun, a newly ascended Titled Douluo, to help tie down Kundera’s forces.

• Xue Ke ordered Zhi Xin to issue Ge Long an Imperial Decree activating the Thunderclap Plan and setting the attack for seven days later.
• Ge Long gathered the empire’s commanders in Notting City and announced the decree, prompting the generals to prepare for war.
• Three days later, Zhang Luo Shen led Silves’ 300,000 troops across the border into Balak territory.
• Zhang Luo Shen asked Zhang Ling Yun whether they could defeat Kundera, and Zhang Ling Yun reminded her that their goal was to tie down Balak while Ge Long’s million-strong army carried out the main campaign.

Zhang Luo Shen ordered the Silves army to launch a rapid assault on Barak City, and its cavalry surprised the unprepared defenders of Soslak Fortress. As the fortress fell under attack, Zhang Luo Shen asked Zhang Ling Yun to join the battle.

• Zhang Ling Yun told Zhang Luo Shen that Ge Long had likely become a Titled Douluo and described the Heaven Dou Empire's formidable experts.
• Zhang Luo Shen ordered the Silves cavalry and infantry to advance without stopping until they reached Barak City.
• The Silves Kingdom's army crossed the border and caught Soslak Fortress's thirty thousand defenders completely unprepared.
• Duke Akbar rushed to the walls, panicked at the attacking army, and shouted incoherent orders to defend the fortress.
• Zhang Luo Shen told Zhang Ling Yun that it was her turn to act.