Recaps

Su Yu distributed flesh from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to help five long-lived Soul Beasts break through to one hundred thousand years. The first, Di Tian’s Golden Eye Black Dragon, survived its Tribulation, and Su Yu arranged for the remaining beasts to attempt their breakthroughs in turn while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recovered under protection.

• Su Yu ordered Di Tian, Xiong Jun, Scarlet King, Myriad Demon King, Bi Ji, and Zi Ji to bring forward clan members with more than seventy thousand years of cultivation, and promised the Myriad Demon King a share despite his clan’s lack of candidates.
• Su Yu cut pieces from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and distributed them among the clans’ chosen Soul Beasts, whose auras strengthened after consuming the flesh.
• Su Yu warned that simultaneous Tribulations could cause the clouds to converge, so Di Tian and the others suppressed their clan members’ cultivation and arranged for them to undergo Tribulations one at a time.
• Di Tian’s Golden Eye Black Dragon underwent the first Tribulation in a valley and emerged injured but successfully advanced to one hundred thousand years.
• Su Yu ordered one Soul Beast to undergo a Tribulation each day, beginning with Bi Ji’s clan member, and tasked Di Tian with choosing ten more candidates for future breakthroughs.
• Su Yu ordered the Fierce Beasts to protect Sky Dream Ice Silkworm while it recovered, and instructed Bi Ji to prepare medicine to restore its vitality.

After five Soul Beasts survived their Heavenly Tribulations, Bi Ji and Zi Ji noticed their cultivation accelerating, and Su Yu concluded that fortune gathering in the Star Dou Great Forest signaled an Auspicious Beast’s imminent birth. He ordered Di Tian to prepare ten more Soul Beasts for breakthroughs, and Di Tian brought the candidates to Su Yu the next morning.

• Five Soul Beasts, including the Emerald Swan and Hell Demon Dragon, survived their Heavenly Tribulations and reached the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast realm.
• Bi Ji and Zi Ji told Su Yu that their cultivation had accelerated, and he confirmed that Di Tian and the other Fierce Beasts had noticed the same change.
• Su Yu attributed the faster cultivation to growing fortune in the Star Dou Great Forest and said an Auspicious Beast was about to be born.
• Su Yu ordered Di Tian to select ten Soul Beasts, predicting that the Auspicious Beast would descend after they reached a hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• Di Tian brought ten selected Soul Beasts to the Core Area, including an eighty-three-thousand-year-old Light Goddess Butterfly, and Su Yu took out Sky Dream Ice Silkworm flesh for them.

The Star Dou Great Forest’s Fortune surged as ten Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were born, and the Lake of Life began gathering immense Soul Power as the Imperial Auspicious Beast’s birth approached. Di Tian and Zi Ji drew Heaven Tribulations to take advantage of the Fortune, while the auspicious beast appeared as a phantom and became a Golden Light Cluster above the lake.

• Ten Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were born in the Star Dou Great Forest, increasing the Soul Power and cultivation speed in the Core Area.
• Da Ming reported that Soul Power around the Lake of Life was rising rapidly, so Su Yu and the others went to investigate.
• Su Yu ordered Da Ming to guard the lakeshore as a golden pillar of light and a clear cry announced the Imperial Auspicious Beast’s imminent birth.
• Su Yu urged Di Tian and Zi Ji to draw Heaven Tribulations while the Lake of Life’s Fortune weakened them, and the two Fierce Beasts flew away to cross their tribulations.
• A phantom of the Imperial Auspicious Beast emerged above the lake, refreshed the minds of the surrounding Soul Beasts, then shrank into a Golden Light Cluster that absorbed Soul Power.

The Imperial Auspicious Beast was born at the Lake of Life and immediately chose Su Yu, falling asleep in his arms. After Di Tian and Zi Ji returned from their tribulations with new breakthroughs, the newborn remained close to Su Yu, and the Star Dou Great Forest’s Soul Power and cultivation conditions improved.

• The little beast broke through the sphere of light, walked across the lake on golden flames, and made the Soul Beasts bow to it.
• The Imperial Auspicious Beast approached Su Yu, touched his hand, and settled into his arms to sleep.
• Di Tian and Zi Ji returned after passing their tribulations, with Di Tian announcing that he had reached nine hundred thousand years.
• The newborn woke at Di Tian’s loud arrival, showed displeasure, and burrowed back into Su Yu’s arms after he soothed it.
• Over the next three days, the Imperial Auspicious Beast clung to Su Yu wherever he went, while the Soul Power throughout the Star Dou Great Forest increased.

Su Yu entered the Silver Dragon Secret Realm with the newborn auspicious beast and reunited with Gu Yuena, whose injuries had healed and whose strength had increased. They disagreed over who would face the four God Kings, but Gu Yuena eventually accepted Su Yu’s plan and asked him to be careful.

• The newborn Three-Eyed Golden Lion stayed close to Su Yu and frightened the other Fierce Beasts away whenever they approached.
• Three days after the auspicious beast’s birth, Su Yu and the little fellow entered the reopened Silver Dragon Secret Realm and found Gu Yuena waiting in the crystal palace.
• Gu Yuena embraced Su Yu and explained that his Essence Blood had healed her injuries and strengthened her; the auspicious beast also readily settled into her arms.
• Gu Yuena argued that she should hold back the four God Kings, but Su Yu insisted she open the passage for Soul Beasts to ascend and release the Golden Dragon King while he faced them.
• Gu Yuena accepted Su Yu’s plan after he promised to return, and his teasing remark about having dragon babies made her blush.

Su Yu told Gu Yuena that the Dragon God Heart was hidden in Dragon Valley and that recovering it could give her strength beyond the God King level. Gu Yuena found the entrance and entered Dragon Valley with Su Yu and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, where she grieved at the sight of the fallen Dragon Clan.

• Su Yu and Gu Yuena arrived at the Lake of Life, where Di Tian and the other Fierce Beasts greeted them.
• Gu Yuena urged the Soul Beasts to cultivate and prepare for the coming battle against the God Realm.
• Su Yu told Gu Yuena that the Dragon God Heart was in Dragon Valley, a hidden space containing the remains of the Dragon Clan.
• Gu Yuena used her bloodline to locate Dragon Valley and opened a portal, then entered with Su Yu and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Gu Yuena saw the countless dragon bones scattered across Dragon Valley and began to weep as she walked deeper into it.

Gu Yuena mourned the fallen Dragon Clan in Dragon Valley, buried their remains, and vowed to restore their glory. The Dragon God’s phantom appeared and condensed into a heart that settled into her palm and began to shrink.

• Gu Yuena recognized the remains of the Mountain Dragon King and the other Dragon Kings scattered across Dragon Valley.
• Overcome with grief, Gu Yuena collapsed in tears, and Su Yu held her as she mourned her fallen kin.
• Gu Yuena vowed that the Dragon Clan would never perish and that the gods would pay for what they had done.
• Using her divine power, Gu Yuena buried the dragon bones while reciting an ancient prayer, then declared that the Dragon Clan’s glory would be rebuilt.
• A phantom of the Dragon God appeared above Dragon Valley, acknowledged Gu Yuena, and condensed into a nine-colored Dragon God Heart.
• The Dragon God Heart fell into Gu Yuena’s palm and began to shrink.

After the Dragon God Heart awakened Gu Yuena’s power, she asked Su Yu to have a child with her so the Dragon Clan and Soul Beast race would have hope for the future. The two spent the night together in the Silver Dragon Secret Realm, then returned to find the Auspicious Beast had caused chaos while searching for them.

• The Dragon God Heart transformed into a pendant, greatly strengthening Gu Yuena and awakening her desire to have a child with Su Yu.
• Gu Yuena told Su Yu she wanted to leave behind a child, and he promised to stay beside her and their child.
• Gu Yuena and Su Yu returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Gu Yuena handed the Auspicious Beast to Bi Ji before taking Su Yu into the Silver Dragon Secret Realm.
• The next day, the Auspicious Beast grew frantic over Gu Yuena and Su Yu’s absence and climbed a crooked tree as Di Tian, Xiong Jun, and the others tried to calm it.
• Gu Yuena and Su Yu emerged from the Silver Dragon Secret Realm, and the Auspicious Beast rushed into Gu Yuena’s arms.

After a month together, Su Yu and Gu Yuena learned that they were expecting a child. They celebrated the news by the Lake of Life, where Gu Yuena wondered whether their child would be born as a baby or laid as an egg.

• Di Tian and the others told Su Yu and Gu Yuena that the Auspicious Beast had been throwing tantrums while waiting for them, and Gu Yuena soothed it.
• Su Yu received the Investiture of the Gods, which could detect God Position inheritances and collect those whose gods had died.
• A month later, Gu Yuena asked Su Yu why she was not pregnant yet, and he told her to let nature take its course.
• Three days later, Gu Yuena told Su Yu she was pregnant, and he embraced her joyfully and listened against her belly for their baby.
• Gu Yuena realized that dragons laid eggs and worried about how a human and dragon’s child would be born, but Su Yu promised to cherish their child either way.

Su Yu returned to Heaven Dou City with Gu Yuena and their companions after the Star Dou Great Forest settled, while Spirit Hall learned that Evil Soul Masters had massacred four cities. Bibi Dong ordered an investigation and summoned the sects and Heaven Dou Empire representatives to a campaign conference in Spirit City.

• Su Yu and Gu Yuena spent time together in the Star Dou Great Forest as they sensed their child developing, and Di Tian, Zi Ji, and Bi Ji cared for Gu Yuena.
• Su Yu returned to Heaven Dou City with Gu Yuena, the Auspicious Beast, Bi Ji, and Zi Ji as Jiejiao continued to grow under Daji's leadership.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei reported to Bibi Dong that the Spirit Hall Branch Halls in Locke City, Nack City, Far Mountain City, and Leiding City had gone silent and the cities had likely been massacred by Evil Soul Masters.
• Bibi Dong ordered the responsible sub-hall archbishops arrested and sent Yue Guan and Gui Mei to investigate the Evil Soul Masters' expansion.
• Bibi Dong ordered Scarlet Flame to notify the major sects and the Heaven Dou Empire that she would host a campaign conference in Spirit City in three days.

After Spirit Hall’s investigation revealed that Evil Soul Masters had conquered four cities, Bibi Dong gathered the major factions to organize a joint campaign. Su Yu’s appointment as a commander was challenged until he revealed that he was a Titled Douluo with nine Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, leaving the assembly stunned and accepting his authority.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo reported that Locke City, Nack City, Far Mountain City, and Leiding City had fallen to Evil Soul Masters and likely had no survivors.
• Bibi Dong urged the gathered factions to join Spirit Hall in fighting the Evil Soul Masters and pledged Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, ten red-robed bishops, and four hundred Soul Ancestors.
• Prince Xue Xing committed thirty thousand Tiandou soldiers, while Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen pledged disciples and elders from their sects.
• Bibi Dong proposed clearing Nack City, Far Mountain City, and Leiding City before surrounding the Evil Soul Masters’ main base in Locke City, and named Su Yu among the joint commanders.
• The Wind Leopard Sect leader and Yu Yuanzhen objected to Su Yu’s appointment, but Bibi Dong defended his strength and invited him to demonstrate it.
• Su Yu revealed nine red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and the aura of a Titled Douluo, silencing the objections and shocking the assembly.

Bibi Dong finalized the Exorcism Operation against the Evil Soul Masters and later spoke privately with Su Yu, whose refusal to accept her offer as a transaction left their relationship unresolved. The chapter ended with Su Yu asking why she had chosen him to command the operation.

• Bibi Dong named Sony City as the assembly point and forward base, ordered forces to gather there the following day, and gave the operation the name Exorcism Operation.
• After the council dispersed, Bibi Dong arranged supplies for Sony City and went to drink alone at a pavilion outside Spirit City.
• Su Yu joined Bibi Dong, and she reflected that her priorities were strengthening Spirit Hall and pursuing a God Position while rejecting the Rakshasa God's inheritance.
• Bibi Dong asked whether Su Yu liked her face or body and offered herself as repayment, but Su Yu refused to make intimacy a transaction.
• Bibi Dong regained her composure and apologized for being presumptuous, then Su Yu asked why she had wanted him to command the operation.

Su Yu returned to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect after telling Bibi Dong he might be able to help her give up the Rakshasa God's inheritance. When Ning Rongrong and the others insisted on joining his campaign against the Evil Soul Masters, he refused and carried Ning Rongrong to her room, where he began explaining the dangers of the battlefield.

• Su Yu told Bibi Dong he might be able to help her give up the Rakshasa God's inheritance, then left for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Su Yu found Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, Zhu Qing, and Xiao Wu waiting anxiously at the sect and confirmed he would take part in the operation as supreme commander.
• Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, Zhu Qing, and Xiao Wu asked to join the campaign, but Su Yu firmly ordered them to remain at the sect.
• Ning Rongrong turned away and cried after Su Yu refused, and he carried her over his shoulder to her room when she would not discuss it.
• Su Yu placed Ning Rongrong on the bed and began explaining that the Evil Soul Masters and the battlefield posed too many dangers.

Su Yu agreed to let Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, Zhu Qing, and Xiao Wu join the operation after making them promise to obey his orders. In Sony City, he organized the forces for attacks on four cities, but remained uneasy about a possible ambush.

• Ning Rongrong pleaded to accompany Su Yu, and he agreed after she promised to follow his orders.
• Su Yu invited Dugu Yan, Zhu Qing, and Xiao Wu to join the Exorcism Operation and warned them not to act independently.
• The participating forces gathered in Sony City, where Su Yu proposed dividing their troops to attack Locke City, Nack City, Far Mountain City, and Leiding City.
• The commanders accepted Su Yu's plan and prepared to move out, with orders to regroup at Locke City after liberating their assigned cities.
• After everyone left the command tent, Su Yu studied the Locke City marker and remained troubled by the possibility of an ambush.

Su Yu led the assault on Locke City, where he and the allied forces found evidence of a massacre and broke through the city’s defenses. As the army advanced through the streets, a six-ring Evil Soul Master appeared and threatened to eat them alive.

• Su Yu’s force approached Locke City and found scattered bones and corpses filling the moat.
• Su Yu ordered an attack, then used Sky-Tearing Claw to smash a wide breach through the city wall.
• The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples amplified the Soul Masters as they climbed the walls and fought the Evil Soul Masters.
• Su Yu widened the breach and destroyed the gate, allowing the Tiandou army to pour into the city.
• The army advanced through burning streets while Su Yu ordered them to seek high-level Evil Soul Masters.
• A tall, thin man appeared, spat out a finger bone, and revealed six Soul Rings as he threatened to eat the intruders alive.

Su Yu intervened in a chaotic battle, killing a Bloodthirsty Demonic Wolf Evil Soul Master and saving a wounded Soul Master. He then surveyed the battlefield and saw that numerous powerful Evil Soul Masters had appeared.

• A Bloodthirsty Demonic Wolf Evil Soul Master killed a Tiandou soldier and ate his heart before attacking a dual-hammer Soul Master.
• The Evil Soul Master wounded the dual-hammer Soul Master, then used his fifth spirit skill to transform and attack again.
• Su Yu appeared and cut through the Evil Soul Master's blood arrow, then killed him with the Immortal Slaying Array Diagram.
• Su Yu ordered the injured Soul Master to leave the city and find a Healing System Soul Master.
• Su Yu surveyed the battlefield and noticed several powerful Evil Soul Masters with different Martial Souls.

Su Yu and the Tiandou soldiers faced three Soul Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters, whose grotesque powers threatened to devour them. Su Yu protected his allies and trapped the attackers in his Dark Gold Domain, but the three transformed into their Martial Soul Avatars and launched a stronger assault.

• The chubby Evil Soul Master used his belly mouth to suck in and swallow several Tiandou soldiers.
• Su Yu shielded his group with the Immortal Slaying Array Diagram and destroyed the venom attack with his Sky-Tearing Claw.
• Su Yu unleashed the Dark Gold Domain, slowing the three Evil Soul Masters’ soul power and movements.
• The three Evil Soul Masters activated their Martial Soul Avatars, transforming into a devouring sphere, a blood crocodile, and a giant python.
• The chubby Evil Soul Master’s avatar used its Eighth Soul Skill to devour rubble, weapons, and corpses.

Su Yu killed three Soul Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters in Locke City, then ordered the troops to rest briefly. Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Prince Xue Xing reported that the nearby cities had been nearly empty, leaving the forces to suspect the Evil Soul Masters had gathered their main strength in Locke City.

• Su Yu used Sky-Tearing Claw to destroy an Evil Soul Master's devouring Martial Soul Avatar and kill him.
• Su Yu unleashed Dragon God Claw, crushing the Tyrannical Blood Crocodile and Blood Fiend Underworld Python and killing their masters.
• Su Yu ordered everyone to rest for ten minutes and remain alert for danger deeper inside Locke City.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Prince Xue Xing arrived and reported that Nack City, Far Mountain City, and Leiding City had held only small numbers of low-level Evil Soul Masters.
• Su Yu concluded that the Evil Soul Masters had withdrawn and concentrated their strength in Locke City, though his group had also encountered few enemies there.

Su Yu and his forces discovered that Evil Soul Masters had gathered in Locke City's Spirit Hall Branch Hall to conduct a massive blood sacrifice using the residents of four cities. Su Yu ordered his troops to attack, leaving the chapter poised for battle.

• Prince Xue Xing withdrew with eight thousand soldiers to wait outside the city while Su Yu, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo advanced with the remaining forces.
• Su Yu noticed the lack of corpses in Locke City and suspected that the missing residents had been taken to the Spirit Hall Branch Hall.
• Su Yu ordered the Soul Masters to enter the branch hall and the soldiers to guard every exit.
• Su Yu and the others entered the branch hall and discovered nearly a hundred Evil Soul Masters sacrificing corpses in a pit to strengthen those inside it.
• An elderly Soul Master identified the ritual as a blood sacrifice that had consumed the life force of at least ten thousand people over roughly half a month.
• Su Yu ordered everyone to kill every Evil Soul Master and leave none alive.

Su Yu, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei attacked the Evil Soul Masters gathered around a blood pit, where Lord Blood Fiend and his followers were absorbing power. Eleven Soul Douluo emerged to fight them, and after Su Yu blocked the first wave of attacks, he told the two Douluos to handle the others while he faced Wrath Crow, Soul Eater, and Ghost Devourer.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei attacked the Evil Soul Masters while Su Yu sent the four Immortal Swords across the battlefield.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei struck the blood pit, interrupting the Evil Soul Masters' absorption, and Su Yu killed one who leaped out.
• Lord Blood Fiend ordered Wrath Crow, Soul Eater, and Ghost Devourer to lead the others against the attackers.
• Eleven Soul Douluo revealed their Martial Souls and launched poison and blood-based attacks at Su Yu, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei.
• Su Yu used the Immortal Severing Barrier to block the attacks and said he would handle the three leaders while Yue Guan and Gui Mei fought the rest.

Su Yu and the two Douluo elders fought the Evil Soul Masters, while Wrath Crow, Soul Eater, and Ghost Devourer unleashed their Martial Soul Avatars to battle Su Yu. Su Yu trapped them in his Immortal Slaying Array, and the three were already suffering serious injuries.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan attacked the Evil Soul Masters while Ghost Douluo Gui Mei restrained the Soul Douluos with Ghostly Chains.
• Wrath Crow, Soul Eater, and Ghost Devourer activated their Martial Soul Avatars and surrounded Su Yu.
• Su Yu activated his Immortal Slaying Array Master Martial Soul Avatar, spreading the array across a five-hundred-meter radius.
• Su Yu used the Immortal Severing Barrier to block the trio’s attacks and the Demon Slaying Barrier to trap them with flying swords.
• The flying swords pierced Wrath Crow’s wings and wounded Soul Eater’s abdomen, destabilizing both Martial Soul Avatars.

Wrath Crow, Soul Eater, and Ghost Devourer combined their Martial Souls into the Nether Blood Beast to fight Su Yu. Su Yu trapped and destroyed the beast with his Four Symbols Killing Array, leaving the three Evil Soul Masters dead as Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo finished off their own opponents.

• Wrath Crow, Soul Eater, and Ghost Devourer formed the Nether Blood Beast through a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• The Nether Blood Beast attacked Su Yu with a blood-colored shock wave, but Su Yu blocked it with his Immortal Severing Barrier.
• Su Yu fused the powers of his four Immortal Swords into a Four Symbols Killing Array and trapped the Nether Blood Beast.
• Su Yu tightened the array and destroyed the beast, killing Wrath Crow, Soul Eater, and Ghost Devourer.
• Su Yu turned to Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, who had each defeated two Evil Soul Masters.

Blood Fiend activated the Blood Food Gourd Gold Array and absorbed the blood energy of the dead, rapidly approaching rank ninety-nine. After he crushed Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo’s Ninth Soul Skills, he attacked Su Yu, who met his fist with Four Swords Unity; their clash left the battle unresolved.

• Su Yu’s Four Immortal Swords killed the remaining Evil Soul Masters, and Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo joined him at the blood pit.
• Blood Fiend revealed that he had used the others’ deaths to absorb their power and activated the Blood Food Gourd Gold Array across the Spirit Hall Branch Hall.
• The array converted the corpses into blood energy, driving Blood Fiend’s power past rank ninety-eight as Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo attacked him with their Ninth Soul Skills.
• Blood Fiend’s Blood Demon crushed both Ninth Soul Skills and blasted Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo backward.
• Blood Fiend sent the Blood Demon’s giant fist toward Su Yu, who fused the Four Immortal Swords with Four Swords Unity and clashed with it.

Blood Fiend broke through to the ninety-ninth level and fought Su Yu while Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo led the survivors toward safety. As Blood Fiend unleashed his clones and destructive beams, Su Yu summoned a Void Singularity and prepared to strike.

• Blood Fiend used the last of the blood in the pit to break through to the Ninety-Ninth-Level Peerless Douluo realm.
• Su Yu held back Blood Fiend's giant fist and told Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to evacuate the survivors, then cut down a tentacle aimed at them.
• Blood Fiend transformed into his Blood Demon True Body and attacked Su Yu with claws and tentacles, but Su Yu defended himself with his four Immortal Swords.
• Blood Fiend created three clones and fired four Blood Demon Death Rays at Su Yu, who blocked them with the Immortal Slaying Array Master barrier.
• Su Yu activated Four Symbols Returning to the Void—World Destruction and formed a Void Singularity that frightened Blood Fiend.

Su Yu fought Blood Fiend in the Spirit Hall Branch Hall, surviving his explosive blood techniques but taking heavy damage. After Blood Fiend vanished, Ju and Ghost Douluo entered the ruined hall, with Su Yu's fate left unclear.

• Blood Fiend unleashed his Endless Blood Sea and Blood Sea Burning Heaven soul skills, but Su Yu's Void Singularity gradually devoured the burning blood flames.
• Blood Fiend detonated the blood sea, forcing Su Yu to abandon the Void Singularity and defend himself with a four-colored shield.
• Su Yu used the Immortal Slaying Sword to cut off Blood Fiend's head, but Blood Fiend reattached it with his blood and declared that he could survive as long as one drop remained.
• Blood Fiend surrounded Su Yu with exploding blood droplets and bombarded him for ten minutes until his barrier dissipated and his figure vanished.
• Ju and Ghost Douluo rushed into the barrier after it disappeared and found the Spirit Hall Branch Hall reduced to ruins.