Chapter Summaries

Lin Jin prepared Dou Ling Pass for the coming Star Luo invasion, arranging to evacuate nearby villagers and assigning defenses to the 200,000 troops and Soul Master Corps. The chapter left the Soul Master Corps’ deployment underway, with Ye Tianxin leading the support and healing forces.

• Lin Jin ordered Wu Chen to station patrols around the pass and evacuate nearby villages into Dou Spirit City, offering compensation and requiring fair housing and food for them.
• Lin Jin instructed Wu Chen to have Deputy General Zhang Huan prepare a second defense line and guard Dou Spirit City with 30,000 soldiers.
• Lin Jin reviewed the assembled troops and assigned the Blood Blade Army to the east wall, the Atonement Camp to the west wall, and Lei Ke and Wu Chen to defend the city gate.
• Lin Jin ordered Meng Shenji to divide the Soul Master Corps among the city gate, the eastern and western defenses, and the surrounding cliffs.
• Lin Jin appointed Ye Tianxin to lead the support and healing Soul Masters stationed at the rear.

Lin Jin prepared Dou Ling Pass for the Star Luo invasion while Ye Tianxin arrived to heal wounded soldiers and villagers were relocated. Reinforcements from the High-Level Soul Master Academy reached the pass, including Ning Rongrong and Lin Jin’s younger sister Lin Xue, and Lin Jin went out to meet them.

• Ye Tianxin joined the defenders and promised to save wounded soldiers who still had a breath left.
• Lin Jin ordered two hundred thousand troops to their positions as preparations for war began.
• Zhang Huan reported that fifty-six villages and about fifteen thousand people had been relocated, and Lin Jin ordered him to use the remaining compensation to improve their living conditions.
• Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Dugu Bo met Ning Fengzhi’s arriving formation, where Ning Rongrong insisted on joining the battle and Chen Xin agreed to let her go.
• Meng Shenji told Lin Jin that Lin Xue and nearly three thousand teachers and students from the High-Level Soul Master Academy had arrived, so Lin Jin went outside the pass to meet them.

Lin Jin welcomed more than 3,000 volunteer Soul Masters from High-Level Soul Master Academies to Dou Ling Pass and organized them into the defending forces. After reassuring Lin Xue and settling the reinforcements, he prepared for the coming battle with the commanders and declared that Heaven Dou must win.

• Ning Fengzhi told Lin Jin that the emperor had recruited academy teachers and students to reinforce the Southern Territory, and Lin Jin accepted the 3,480-person force.
• Lin Jin warned the volunteers about the dangers of battle, enlisted them as soldiers, and ordered Meng Shenji and Ning Fengzhi to assign them to units and support teams.
• Lin Xue told Lin Jin she had chosen to fight alongside him, and he asked her to promise to return alive.
• At the command hall, Lin Jin reviewed the Soul Masters' assignments and the army's provisions with Ning Fengzhi, Meng Shenji, and Lei Ke.
• Lin Jin declared that keeping the Star Luo Army from crossing the defense line would mean victory, and the commanders joined him in proclaiming that Heaven Dou must win.

Lin Jin and the Heaven Dou army faced Xiao Yeyang’s five-hundred-thousand-strong Star Luo Army at Dou Ling Pass, where an initial catapult volley killed 138 defenders. The next morning, Xiao Yeyang ordered a full assault, and the attack on the pass began.

• Lin Jin rallied the two hundred thousand Heaven Dou defenders as the Star Luo Army displayed its forces outside Dou Ling Pass.
• Xiao Yeyang ordered the Star Luo catapults to fire a test volley, and Lin Jin defended the wall with his Demon Blade while his troops took cover.
• Xiao Yeyang ended the bombardment and ordered his army to camp; Lin Jin learned that 138 defenders had died and ordered care for the wounded.
• The next morning, Lin Jin prepared the defenders while Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Dugu Bo took their positions against the advancing Star Luo forces.
• Xiao Yeyang gave the order to attack, and five hundred thousand Star Luo troops began their assault on Dou Ling Pass.

Star Luo launched a massive assault on Dou Ling Pass, and Xiao Yeyang sent the White Tiger Legion and the Four Sons of the Royal Banner into battle. Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Poison Douluo Dugu Bo faced two opponents each as the fighting escalated.

• Star Luo bombarded Dou Ling Pass with stones and arrows, then sent infantry against the walls, where defenders fought them with rolling stones, logs, and fire oil.
• Xiao Yeyang ordered the first formation of the White Tiger Legion to advance and assigned Long Qi, Tiger Banner, Bear Banner, and Que Qi to confront Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Dugu Bo.
• Long Qi summoned a Dark Giant Dragon with the Dark Giant Dragon Banner, while Tiger Banner summoned a Blazing Flame Fierce Tiger to attack Chen Xin from two sides.
• Chen Xin fought Long Qi and Tiger Banner together, parrying their dragon and flame attacks without giving ground.
• Que Qi and Bear Banner reached the West Wall and attacked Dugu Bo with an Azure Flame Phoenix Sparrow and a Dark Gold Giant Bear.

Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo Chen Xin struggled against Star Luo’s Titled Douluo until Ning Fengzhi boosted them with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. The Star Luo fighters retreated, while Ye Tianxin healed Heaven Dou’s wounded and Xiao Yeyang ordered the army to withdraw.

• Que Qi and Bear Banner wounded Dugu Bo with Soul Fire and Dark Gold Giant Bear attacks, while he fought back with his poisonous Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Avatar.
• Long Qi and Tiger Banner gained ground against Sword Douluo Chen Xin and waited for Dugu Bo to fall so they could overwhelm him together.
• Lin Jin ordered Ning Fengzhi to support both battles, and Ning Fengzhi’s buffs strengthened Sword Douluo and restored Dugu Bo’s ability to fight effectively.
• Dugu Bo forced Bear Banner back, while Ning Fengzhi’s amplification let Chen Xin drive Long Qi and Tiger Banner into retreat.
• Ye Tianxin healed the wounded Heaven Dou soldiers, and Xiao Yeyang ordered the entire army to retreat.

Xiao Yeyang ordered the Star Luo Army to retreat after its first assault on Dou Ling Pass failed, then learned the Four Sons of the Royal Banner could use a four-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill called Death Barrier. Long Qi said it could kill anyone caught inside, but required ten uninterrupted breaths to form and at least three thousand Soul Masters to protect the four of them.

• Lin Jin ordered the Heaven Dou defenders to count casualties, replenish supplies, reinforce the walls, and prepare for a possible night assault.
• Dai Weisi questioned Xiao Yeyang's retreat, and Xiao Yeyang explained that Ye Tianxin's healing and the Star Luo Army's heavy losses made pressing the attack unwise.
• Dai Mubai said the Star Luo Army needed to kill or exhaust Sword Douluo, Poison Douluo, Ning Fengzhi, and Ye Tianxin before making another charge.
• Long Qi revealed that the Four Sons of the Royal Banner could perform the four-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill Death Barrier, which he claimed would kill every living being within it.
• Long Qi explained that the Death Barrier took at least ten breaths to deploy without interference and required at least three thousand Soul Masters to hold off Sword Douluo and Poison Douluo.

Xiao Yeyang agreed to send five thousand Soul Masters to hold back Sword Douluo and Poison Douluo while the Four Sons of the Royal Banner used their Death Barrier at Dou Ling Pass. Inside the pass, Lin Jin and Ning Fengzhi recognized the danger but knew nothing about how the skill worked, leaving the defenders uncertain about the coming attack.

• Long Qi persuaded Xiao Yeyang that sacrificing Soul Masters to kill Sword Douluo and Poison Douluo was necessary to capture Dou Ling Pass.
• Xiao Yeyang agreed to attack in three days, committing five thousand Soul Masters to hold the two Titled Douluo for ten breaths and calling on the Netherworld Assassins if Ning Fengzhi and Ye Tianxin stayed out of the Death Barrier.
• Lin Jin left Lei Ke and Wu Chen in command on the city wall and went to check on Ning Fengzhi and Ye Tianxin at the Medical Camp.
• Ning Fengzhi told Lin Jin that Xiao Yeyang would likely concentrate on eliminating him, Sword Douluo, Poison Douluo, and Ye Tianxin.
• Lin Jin and Ning Fengzhi discussed the Four Sons of the Royal Banner's Death Barrier, but they knew neither its conditions nor how to stop it.

Lin Jin and the defenders prepared for the Star Luo Army’s expected assault, fearing the Netherworld Clan would assassinate their support Soul Masters. On the third day, Xiao Yeyang launched an attack on the pass, and a five-thousand-strong Soul Master Legion targeted Chen Xin and Dugu Bo.

• Lin Jin warned that the Four Sons of the Royal Banner might conceal a Martial Soul Fusion Skill and that the Netherworld Clan could target the defenders’ support Soul Masters.
• Lin Jin proposed that Ning Fengzhi amplify Chen Xin so he could kill one of the Four Sons, while Dugu Bo held off interference with poison.
• Lin Jin arranged protection for the support Soul Masters, but the Star Luo Army spent two days drilling before sounding its war drums at dawn on the third day.
• Lin Jin ordered the defenders to follow their plan as Xiao Yeyang commanded a large force to attack the pass.
• The five-thousand-strong Soul Master Legion split into two groups, sending three thousand toward Chen Xin and two thousand toward Dugu Bo.

Xiao Yeyang committed five thousand Soul Masters to pin down Sword Douluo and Poison Douluo while the Four Sons of the Royal Banner unleashed their four-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The Death Barrier trapped Chen Xin, Dugu Bo, Ning Fengzhi, and Ye Tianxin, and its beasts attacked them as they struggled to survive.

• Xiao Yeyang ordered the White Tiger Legion and Netherworld Army to press the attack once the Four Sons completed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• The Four Sons of the Royal Banner sacrificed their blood, bones, souls, and bodies to form the Four Symbols—Death Barrier around Chen Xin, Dugu Bo, Ning Fengzhi, and Ye Tianxin.
• Chen Xin and Dugu Bo failed to break through the descending barrier, while Ning Fengzhi and Ye Tianxin supported the group from within.
• The Long Qi commanded the four giant beasts to use Death Strangling, forcing the trapped fighters into a desperate battle.
• Chen Xin told Ning Fengzhi to conserve his Soul Power and focus on defense as the barrier absorbed attacks and strengthened.

Lin Jin fought through Star Luo's forces outside the Death Barrier while the trapped Ning Fengzhi and his companions waited for a chance to break free. As Lin Jin's Divine Slaughter's Domain evolved into its second stage, the Slaughter Asura, he unleashed the Asura Whirlpool Killing Array on the enemy Soul Masters.

• Ning Fengzhi, Dugu Bo, Sword Douluo, and Ye Tianxin endured the Death Barrier's attacks while waiting for Lin Jin to help them from outside.
• Lin Jin transformed with his War God True Body and led Meng Shenji and the Royal Soul Master Corps against the Soul Masters surrounding the barrier.
• Xiao Yeyang sent White Tiger Legion and Netherworld Army Soul Masters, including Hell White Tigers, to attack Lin Jin.
• Lin Jin unleashed his Extreme Blade and Divine Slaughter's Domain, weakening his enemies and cutting down their forces as their blood strengthened his domain.
• After the Divine Slaughter's Domain evolved into the Slaughter Asura, Lin Jin activated its domain skill, the Asura Whirlpool Killing Array.

Lin Jin slaughtered the Star Luo Empire soldiers with his evolved domain, then tore open the Death Barrier so Sword Douluo and Poison Douluo could break it from within. The barrier shattered, and Sword Douluo emerged to confront the Four Sons of the Royal Banner.

• Lin Jin unleashed the Asura Whirlpool Killing Array and killed nearly five hundred Star Luo Empire Soul Masters within its three-hundred-meter radius.
• Lin Jin stared down Xiao Yeyang, then struck the Death Barrier with the Demon Blade but failed to break it.
• Inside the barrier, Sword Douluo sensed Lin Jin's evolved domain and joined Poison Douluo and Ning Fengzhi in preparing a counterattack.
• Ning Rongrong and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Direct Disciples amplified Lin Jin, who used Titan Sky-Tearing Claw to tear five cracks in the barrier.
• Sword Douluo and Poison Douluo struck the cracks from within, shattering the Death Barrier and injuring the Four Sons of the Royal Banner.
• Sword Douluo Chen Xin rushed out of the shattered barrier and confronted the Four Sons of the Royal Banner.

Lin Jin’s forces repelled the Four Sons of the Royal Banner, killing Tiger Banner and capturing the badly wounded Bear Banner. After the survivors fled, Lin Jin ordered the captives’ heads displayed on the city gate as a sacrifice to the banner.

• Chen Xin broke the Four Sons’ retreat with his sword attack, but they used the strike to flee.
• Dugu Bo swept Tiger Banner and Bear Banner into the checkpoint wall, leaving Tiger Banner apparently dead and Bear Banner gravely injured.
• Long Qi ordered Que Qi to flee with him rather than return for their brothers, and Dugu Bo let them go because he had exhausted his strength.
• Dugu Yan and the Royal Soul Masters pulled Bear Banner and the unconscious Tiger Banner from the wall and handed them over to Meng Shenji.
• Lin Jin ordered the captives’ heads cut off and hung on the city gate, and Bear Banner threatened him by invoking Spirit Hall and the Pope.
• Lin Jin gave the order to kill them.

Lin Jin's forces defeated Spirit Hall at Dou Ling Pass, while the survivors reported his terrifying strength to Bibi Dong. As Bibi Dong considered Lin Jin a threat to Heaven Dou's fall, she prepared to send Long Qi and Que Qi on further missions.

• Lin Jin ordered Bear Banner executed, and Lei Ke had the heads of the two captured Titled Douluo displayed to rally the Heaven Dou army.
• Xiao Yeyang and Dai Mubai sat shaken by the massacre, their hands trembling as they wondered whether Lin Jin could really be only a Soul Sage.
• Long Qi and Que Qi arrived at Pontiff Hall and recounted how Lin Jin had slain nearly a thousand Soul Masters, broken the Death Barrier, and helped capture Tiger Banner and Bear Banner.
• Bibi Dong told Long Qi he had done his best, said Tiger Banner and Bear Banner could remain in Heaven Dou for now, and sent Long Qi and Que Qi away to rest before more missions.
• Bibi Dong reflected that Xiao Xue had found a good man, but vowed Heaven Dou must fall and Lin Jin must die.

Qian Renxue read Lin Jin’s victory report as Heaven Dou celebrated holding Dou Ling Pass, while Star Luo struggled to find a way to break through. With the Star Luo Emperor demanding the pass fall within ten days, Long Qi revealed that Heaven Dou’s emperor Xue Qinghe was actually Spirit Hall’s Saintess, Qian Renxue.

• Qian Renxue read the report of Lin Jin’s victory and looked south toward Dou Ling Pass with renewed hope.
• Lin Jin ordered Wu Chen to report the casualties and prepare the army to reinforce and resupply the pass.
• Xiao Yeyang studied the defenses for a week, then learned from Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai that the Star Luo Emperor demanded Dou Ling Pass be breached within ten days.
• Long Qi told Xiao Yeyang that Bibi Dong had sent no new Titled Douluo but had revealed that Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue, Spirit Hall’s Saintess.

Xiao Yeyang learned that Xue Qinghe was actually Spirit Hall’s Qian Renxue and ordered the truth spread to weaken Heaven Dou’s defenders. After a Star Luo envoy announced the claim at Dou Ling Pass, Lin Jin killed him and tried to reassure the shaken soldiers.

• Long Qi told Xiao Yeyang that Qian Renxue had impersonated Xue Qinghe and betrayed Spirit Hall by remaining on Heaven Dou’s throne.
• Xiao Yeyang ordered agents to spread the news across Heaven Dou and instructed an envoy to shout it beneath Dou Ling Pass.
• The next day, a Star Luo envoy told the garrison soldiers that Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue, a Spirit Hall spy and usurper.
• Lin Jin ordered the soldiers to shoot the envoy, but the claim had already stirred doubt among the defenders.
• Lin Jin called the claim a Star Luo rumor and asked the soldiers whether they believed him or the enemy.

Qian Renxue faced a furious crowd in Heaven Dou City and admitted she was Spirit Hall’s Saintess and had killed Crown Prince Xue Qinghe. She explained that former Emperor Xue Ye knew the truth but still passed the throne to her, leaving the empire to judge her revelation.

• Lin Jin steadied the army at Dou Ling Pass, and his commanders and soldiers declared their trust in him and the Emperor.
• Star Luo spread the news that Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue, causing unrest across Heaven Dou and prompting two neutral kingdoms to declare independence.
• Qian Renxue read Lin Jin’s letter urging her to face the truth, then decided to address the people herself.
• Qian Renxue went before the crowd outside the Imperial Palace and admitted her identity, her Spirit Hall ties, and her murder of Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.
• Qian Renxue said she had made a promise to Xue Ye, who knew her secret and still passed the throne to her.

Qian Renxue revealed that she was Spirit Hall’s Saintess and had killed Xue Qinghe, but explained that former emperor Xue Ye had knowingly entrusted her with the throne because he believed she would protect Heaven Dou. The citizens accepted her as their emperor, and she announced she would personally lead an Imperial Expedition to Dou Ling Pass.

• Qian Renxue told the crowd that Xue Ye had passed her the throne because he trusted her to protect Heaven Dou and its people.
• Qian Renxue confessed that she was the Saintess of Spirit Hall, had killed Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, and had been undercover for ten years, while pledging to remain emperor and defend the empire.
• A white-haired old man said he trusted Qian Renxue because Xue Ye had trusted her, and a young mother pointed to the improvements her family had experienced under her rule.
• The crowd began cheering for Qian Renxue and Heaven Dou, and she thanked them for their trust.
• Qian Renxue announced that she would personally lead an Imperial Expedition to Dou Ling Pass and vowed not to return while the enemy remained.

Qian Renxue’s Imperial Expedition restored morale at Dou Ling Pass, while Xiao Yeyang secured a vast coalition army and secretly planned to destroy both Heaven Dou and the Four Great Kingdoms. The chapter ended with Star Luo preparing to bring the entire continent under its rule.

• Lin Jin learned that Qian Renxue was leading an Imperial Expedition to Dou Ling Pass and ordered the news shared throughout the camp.
• The soldiers at Dou Ling Pass rallied behind Qian Renxue and Lin Jin, while Lin Jin recognized that Qian Renxue had come to fulfill her promises to Xue Ye and Heaven Dou.
• Xiao Yeyang learned that Qian Renxue’s expedition had strengthened the defenders’ morale, but argued that her arrival would leave her trapped if Dou Ling Pass fell.
• Envoys from the Four Great Kingdoms offered 520,000 troops in exchange for dividing Heaven Dou’s territories after the pass was taken.
• Xiao Yeyang told Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai to request 200,000 more Star Luo troops, intending to use the Four Great Kingdoms’ armies and then conquer their kingdoms.

Qian Daoliu learned that Bibi Dong had exposed Qian Renxue’s identity and confronted her in Pontiff Hall. He accused Bibi Dong of betraying her daughter, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Xiao Yeyang ordered Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai to send a secret letter requesting troops, while Long Qi watched.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo told Qian Daoliu that Qian Renxue had publicly admitted her identity and announced an expedition to defend Dou Ling Pass.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo blamed Bibi Dong for leaking Qian Renxue’s identity to Xiao Yeyang through Long Qi and Que Qi.
• Qian Daoliu went to Pontiff Hall and asked Bibi Dong whether she had exposed Qian Renxue; Bibi Dong admitted that she had.
• Qian Daoliu condemned Bibi Dong for forcing Qian Renxue into a desperate position and told her that she had betrayed her daughter.