Chapter Summaries

Jia Youcai defeated a Black-Clad Soul Emperor whose body was infused with mysterious dark-red power, then continued with Yan Lingzhuo to a remote ice city. They entered the city and noticed its hushed streets and glowing ice sculptures depicting fanatical figures.

• Jia Youcai restrained the Black-Clad Soul Emperor with Blue Silver Grass, then evaded his final attack using his Sky-Rending Wings.
• Jia Youcai killed the Black-Clad Soul Emperor with Fallen Heaven Soul-Rending Slash, and the enemy's body crumbled into ash.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo found no clues among the remains and left five trapped guards behind in the snow.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo concealed their auras, entered the ice city, and observed its quiet trade and faintly glowing ice sculptures.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo discovered that Ze Lan Kingdom’s people were drawn to the temple’s pale golden influence, then were arrested as suspected outsiders and taken to the Re-education Institute. Inside, Jia Youcai felt the crystals in its corridor forcibly disrupting his Soul Power.

• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo observed townspeople worshipping golden-lit ice sculptures and buying goods associated with the temple.
• A peddler with unusually golden eyes offered Jia Youcai Heart-Cleansing Dew, and Jia Youcai led Yan Lingzhuo away.
• A patrol captain accused them of being suspected foreign Soul Masters or resistant spies and ordered guards to bind them.
• Jia Youcai urged Yan Lingzhuo not to resist as the guards escorted them through the city to the Re-education Institute.
• The guards shoved Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo into the institute, where Jia Youcai felt the golden crystals disrupting his Soul Power.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo broke free from their restraints and defeated the two gray-robed figures guarding a sealed door. After subduing the escorts, they watched the heavy door open by itself, revealing another passageway.

• A gray-robed figure probed Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo’s consciousness, but Jia Youcai’s power overwhelmed him and shattered his shackle.
• Jia Youcai summoned a black sword and killed the probing figure, while Yan Lingzhuo broke her restraints with flames.
• Jia Youcai bound and gagged the guards with Blue Silver Grass, and Yan Lingzhuo burned the second gray-robed figure to ash.
• Jia Youcai used a paralytic mist to put the guards to sleep and laid them in a corner.
• Yan Lingzhuo’s flames could not affect the sealed metal door, which then opened by itself to reveal a wider passageway.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo entered a hidden hall called Between Silence, where Ling Tianjue identified a threatening seed within Jia Youcai and attacked him. Jia Youcai was badly injured but retaliated with a storm of black feathers.

• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo passed through the doors and discovered a vast hall with a golden-lit figure seated at its center.
• Ling Tianjue introduced himself, revealed an Overlord Spear and eight soul rings, and said Jia Youcai's soul contained a seed that threatened him.
• Ling Tianjue attacked Jia Youcai with overwhelming speed, shattering his black spear and sending him crashing across the floor.
• Yan Lingzhuo tried to rush to Jia Youcai, but Jia Youcai warned him to stay back.
• Jia Youcai unleashed his Corrosive Feather Blade, sending thousands of black feathers toward Ling Tianjue.

Jia Youcai’s God Slaying Demon Sword was disrupted when his consciousness was dragged into a vision of Lord of Annihilation Erebonos, allowing Ling Tianjue to defeat him. Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo then used Spirit Fusion to summon Sacred Flame Godzilla and confront Ling Tianjue.

• Jia Youcai’s God Slaying Demon Sword overwhelmed Ling Tianjue’s Army-Sweeping strike, but Jia Youcai’s consciousness was pulled into a void and confronted by Lord of Annihilation Erebonos.
• Ling Tianjue seized the opening to shatter the weakened God Slaying Demon Sword and send Jia Youcai flying.
• Jia Youcai switched to the Godzilla Martial Soul and asked Yan Lingzhuo to use Spirit Fusion with him.
• Yan Lingzhuo and Jia Youcai fused their powers of rebirth and destruction, summoning Sacred Flame Godzilla.
• Sacred Flame Godzilla roared at Ling Tianjue, who trembled in disbelief at its power.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo’s Sacred Flame Godzilla unleashed the Crimson Lotus Burst, breaking Ling Tianjue’s defenses and leaving him gravely wounded. They fled the ruined hall, while Jia Youcai wondered about Ling Tianjue’s strength and concluded that the Soul Douluo could not be from the Ze Lan Kingdom.

• Sacred Flame Godzilla unleashed the Crimson Lotus Burst, engulfing Ling Tianjue in a devastating inferno.
• Ling Tianjue used his Overlord True Body, a desperate enhancement, and his strongest defensive ability, but the inferno shattered his shield and severely wounded him.
• Sacred Flame Godzilla dispersed, revealing Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo, who chose not to attack Ling Tianjue again.
• Yan Lingzhuo carried the weakened Jia Youcai away from the ruins on her fire wings.
• Jia Youcai reflected on Ling Tianjue’s power and concluded that the Soul Douluo was not from the Ze Lan Kingdom.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo fled to a border town to recover and planned to travel to Artifact Spirit Hall, suspecting Ling Tianjue came from there. Ze Lan pursuers found them at the inn, forcing them to escape into an alley where Royal Guards surrounded them.

• Jia Youcai decided to go to Artifact Spirit Hall, and Yan Lingzhuo took him to a secluded inn in a border town to rest and recover.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo kept a low profile while replenishing their Soul Power, but Prince Lannuo and a poison-skilled Soul Saint led Royal Guards to their room.
• Yan Lingzhuo shielded Jia Youcai as the pursuers broke into the room, and the two escaped through a window into the back alley.
• Prince Lannuo and the Soul Saint pursued them while Royal Guards sealed off both ends of the alley and the surrounding rooftops, trapping Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo.

Jia Youcai unleashed his Dark Energy against Prince Lannuo’s pursuers, devastating the Zelan soul masters and turning to confront Prince Lannuo and the white-robed old man. He ordered them to leave, while both men faced him in shock and fury.

• Jia Youcai used Dark Curtain: Devour to absorb the attacks aimed at him from behind and above.
• Jia Youcai struck with a dark shockwave that killed one Soul King and several Soul Ancestors and left a Soul Emperor and another Soul King near death.
• Jia Youcai charged the remaining Soul Kings, while Prince Lannuo and the white-robed old man attacked him; Jia Youcai blocked their attacks with another dark curtain.
• Jia Youcai punched through a fleeing Soul King and ordered Prince Lannuo and the white-robed old man to get lost.

Prince Lannuo and the white-robed old man invoked a sinister divine power and transformed into Martial Soul Avatars to attack Jia Youcai. Jia Youcai overwhelmed their assault and destroyed Prince Lannuo’s purple-gold flood dragon, leaving the fate of both enemies unresolved.

• Prince Lannuo and the white-robed old man used pale golden divine power to transform into the Purple-Patterned Giant Sword True Body and Hundred-Legged Ghost True Body.
• Jia Youcai activated his Fallen Angel True Body and blocked the pair’s coordinated attack with his demonic sword and wings.
• Prince Lannuo unleashed Purple Flood Dragon Sky-Splitting Slash while the white-robed old man filled the alley with poisonous mist and Ghost Shadows.
• Jia Youcai used Fallen Sky Soul Severing Slash to cut through the purple-gold flood dragon’s head and destroy its spiritual will and Soul Power core.

Jia Youcai killed the white-robed old man with his God Slaying Demon Sword and escaped with Yan Lingzhuo. After taking shelter from a storm, he considered visiting someone’s home as a way to approach Artifact Spirit Hall.

• Jia Youcai used his God Slaying Demon Sword to split the Hundred-Legged Ghost True Body and the white-robed old man in two.
• Jia Youcai ignored the remaining Soul Masters, then flew away with Yan Lingzhuo.
• Yan Lingzhuo urged Jia Youcai to land and rest, and the two set up camp in a woodland clearing.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo shared roasted Soul Beast meat before a heavy storm forced them into their tent.
• Jia Youcai reasoned that the rain could hide their tracks and considered visiting someone’s home to gain access to Artifact Spirit Hall.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo visited Chen Shixuan to learn about the Overlord Spear Soul Master they had encountered. After identifying him as the vanished Ling Tianjue and warning that the Power of God controlled his consciousness, they accompanied Chen Shixuan to the Artifact Spirit Hall to report the matter.

• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo found Chen Shixuan's home and were welcomed by his mother.
• Jia Youcai asked Chen Shixuan about an Artifact Spirit Hall Soul Master with an Overlord Spear martial spirit.
• Chen Shixuan identified the vanished Soul Master as Ling Tianjue, who had left the hall about ten years earlier.
• Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo revealed that they had clashed with Ling Tianjue in the Ze Lan Kingdom and believed the Power of God controlled his consciousness.
• Chen Shixuan decided to report the danger to the Hall Master and led Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo into the Artifact Spirit Hall.

Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo reported signs of corruption in missing Ling Tianjue to Vice Hall Master Luo Shuo, who ordered an urgent, confidential investigation in the Ze Lan Kingdom. They met Elder Yue Gang, who reacted with alarm to the news and asked them to explain what had happened.

• Chen Shixuan brought Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo to Vice Hall Master Luo Shuo and relayed their news about Ling Tianjue.
• Jia Youcai described Ling Tianjue's corrupted power and cautioned that he could not confirm it was the Power of God.
• Luo Shuo issued a confidential deployment order for Elder Yue Gang to investigate in the Ze Lan Kingdom with Chen Shixuan, Jia Youcai, and Yan Lingzhuo.
• Yan Lingzhuo reminded Jia Youcai that he knew Yue Gang from the Coral Islands, where they had encountered Guang Lianxi.
• Yue Gang read Luo Shuo's order, recognized the seriousness of the situation, and demanded that Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo explain their news.

Yue Gang led Jia Youcai, Yan Lingzhuo, Chen Shixuan, and Guang Lianxi to Ze Lan City aboard the Sky-Rending Falcon. After sensing a strange, cloyingly sweet aura and seeing the city’s fanatical citizens, Yue Gang and Jia Youcai pressed toward the royal palace, where his Titled Douluo pressure overwhelmed the guards.

• Yue Gang accepted the transfer order and summoned Guang Lianxi to prepare for urgent travel.
• Yue Gang took the group aboard the Sky-Rending Falcon and flew for a day and a night to Ze Lan City.
• Yue Gang landed the Sky-Rending Falcon east of the city and sensed a cloyingly sweet aura in the capital.
• Yue Gang ordered Yan Lingzhuo, Chen Shixuan, and Guang Lianxi to guard the flying Soul Tool while he and Jia Youcai headed for the royal palace.
• Yue Gang and Jia Youcai passed through crowds of fanatical commoners and encountered a Soul Emperor officer and soldiers near the palace.
• Yue Gang unleashed his Titled Douluo pressure, leaving the officer and soldiers unable to stop them.

Yue Gang and Jia Youcai broke into the Zelan Royal Palace, forcing King Lan Jue to order Ling Tianjue awakened with Destruction Divine Power to stop them. Lan Jue prepared to flee with the kingdom’s core inheritance while abandoning the city’s reserves.

• Yue Gang and Jia Youcai reached the palace gates, and Yue Gang smashed them open after the guards refused to respond.
• Yue Gang and Jia Youcai advanced through the palace, brushing aside its frightened guards and Soul Masters.
• Lan Jue learned from the National Teacher that the Destruction Divine Power reserves were less than one-third complete, and Prince Lannuo warned that Yue Gang had entered the palace.
• Lan Jue ordered the National Teacher to awaken Ling Tianjue’s seed and send him to confront the intruders with all the Destruction Divine Power available.
• Lan Jue told Prince Lannuo to flee with the core inheritance vessel, abandoning the city’s reserves and pouring them into Ling Tianjue to delay Yue Gang and Jia Youcai.

Yue Gang confronted Ling Tianjue in the plaza and used his Monster Suppressing Pagoda to overwhelm him with demon spirits. Ling Tianjue resisted and manifested his Martial Soul Avatar, leaving the two enormous forms facing off as Yue Gang renewed his assault.

• Ling Tianjue attacked Yue Gang with his Overlord Spear, but Yue Gang blocked him and unleashed Myriad Demons Paying Respects.
• The Demon Spirit Legion swarmed Ling Tianjue, whose spear tore through many spirits but gradually lost momentum under their relentless attacks.
• Yue Gang strengthened the Monster Suppressing Pagoda’s suppression and used his Seventh Spirit Ability to manifest its true form.
• Ling Tianjue answered by manifesting his own Martial Soul Avatar as a giant armored figure, and the two colossal forms clashed across the plaza.
• Yue Gang fired soul-suppressing light and sent out more armored demon spirits to attack Ling Tianjue.

Yue Gang sealed Ling Tianjue inside the Monster Suppressing Pagoda with his eighth spirit ability, Reincarnation Seal, and told Jia Youcai the seal should hold for several months. Inside the tower, the Lord of Annihilation Erebonos awakened Ling Tianjue’s Destruction Divine Power, and Yue Gang suddenly spat blood outside.

• Ling Tianjue swept the Overlord Spear through the Demon Spirit Legion, scattering its spirits with a crescent of light.
• Yue Gang used Nine Nether Purgatory to trap and weaken Ling Tianjue, then unleashed Reincarnation Seal to pull him and the Overlord Spear into the Monster Suppressing Pagoda.
• Yue Gang told Jia Youcai that Ling Tianjue was isolated in a silent, timeless space and that the seal could last several months.
• Erebonos spoke to Ling Tianjue in the sealed space and reignited his dormant Destruction Divine Power.
• Ling Tianjue’s Destruction Divine Power dissolved the sealing runes and began devouring the power sustaining the tower’s sealed space.
• Yue Gang suddenly spat blood and staggered as the disturbance struck him outside the pagoda.

Ling Tianjue broke free of Yue Gang’s sealing skill, reached Rank 90, and formed a blood-red hundred-thousand-year ninth soul ring. He left Ze Lan City devastated after draining its people’s Soul Power and life essence to strengthen the ring.

• Ling Tianjue shattered the Monster Suppressing Pagoda’s Reincarnation Seal from within, forcing Yue Gang and Jia Youcai to retreat.
• Ling Tianjue emerged in Destruction Battle Armor, broke through to Rank 90, and formed a blood-red hundred-thousand-year ninth soul ring.
• Civilians across Ze Lan City began losing their Soul Power and vitality as energy flowed through the ice sculptures into a formation beneath Ling Tianjue.
• Ling Tianjue absorbed the city’s stolen energy and life essence to fill and strengthen his new soul ring.
• The energy surge killed one-third of Ze Lan City’s people and left many survivors near death, while Ling Tianjue’s power and hunger for destruction grew.

Ling Tianjue trapped Yue Gang and Jia Youcai inside his ninth spirit ability, Overlord's Conquest, and sent an army formed from Ze Lan City's stolen Soul Power against them. Yue Gang and Jia Youcai resisted the charge, while Ling Tianjue prepared a fatal attack from behind the advancing horde.

• Ling Tianjue's power grew as the will of Lord of Annihilation Erebonos increasingly eroded his consciousness.
• Ling Tianjue activated Overlord's Conquest, trapping Yue Gang and Jia Youcai in a blood-colored barrier filled with Soul Power shadows of Ze Lan City's victims.
• Ling Tianjue mounted a Destructive Energy warhorse and ordered the army of shadows to charge Yue Gang and Jia Youcai.
• Yue Gang used Eternal Mountain River Suppression to raise a mountain-and-river barrier, while Jia Youcai transformed into his Godzilla Martial Soul Avatar.
• The charging army battered Yue Gang's barrier until it cracked, as Ling Tianjue aimed his Overlord Spear at Yue Gang and waited for the defense to fail.

Ling Tianjue grievously wounded Yue Gang, but Yan Lingzhuo arrived and fused with Jia Youcai to restore Sacred Flame Godzilla. Their Super Explosion Ion Ray broke open the blood-red barrier, allowing Yue Gang to carry the exhausted pair out before it sealed again.

• Ling Tianjue struck Yue Gang with a destructive spear attack that pierced his left shoulder and severely weakened him.
• Yan Lingzhuo entered the barrier and fused with Jia Youcai, restoring Sacred Flame Godzilla.
• Sacred Flame Godzilla fired its Super Explosion Ion Ray at the barrier and blasted open an escape hole.
• The fusion ended, and Yue Gang carried the exhausted Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo through the shrinking opening.
• The three escaped as the blood-red barrier closed behind them.

Yue Gang and the others fled Ling Tianjue, while Guang Lianxi and Chen Shixuan arrived to cover their retreat and restore their strength. As Ling Tianjue broke through Guang Lianxi’s barrage, Jia Youcai stepped in to protect her and activated his Atomic Crystal Wall spirit bone skill.

• Yue Gang led Jia Youcai and Yan Lingzhuo out of the barrier, but Ling Tianjue spotted them and pursued on his warhorse.
• Guang Lianxi arrived with Chen Shixuan and slowed Ling Tianjue with a barrage of light arrows.
• Chen Shixuan used Buddha Light Shines Everywhere to heal the group, then Yue Gang told him to prioritize Jia Youcai’s recovery.
• Chen Shixuan used Crossing Tribulation and Returning Spring to rapidly restore Jia Youcai’s Soul Power while Yan Lingzhuo caught her breath.
• Ling Tianjue charged at Guang Lianxi after she weakened, and Jia Youcai moved in front of her and activated Atomic Crystal Wall.