Chapter Summaries

After naming the monster-breeding Underground Palaces Demon Lairs, the three major powers warned the continent and met with local rulers to coordinate a response. Their plans faced resistance over a proposed joint intelligence department, while Heaven Piercing Sword Sect and the Under Heaven Society finished their disciple selections.

• Sword Immortal with Wine judged that the Underground Palaces would breed monsters rather than bring the mysterious Reincarnator to Douluo Continent, and Huo Xiaotian proposed monitoring them and giving them a proper name.
• Sword Immortal with Wine named the monster nests Demon Lairs, and Xue Ye had the findings reported to Spirit Hall and the Star Luo Empire.
• The Heaven Dou Empire, Spirit Hall, and Star Luo Empire issued a warning about Demon Lairs and convened a meeting to plan a continent-wide rapid-response force and intelligence department.
• Representatives of the Various Kingdoms and Duchies resisted the intelligence proposal, while noble lords waited to see which side would prevail.
• Heaven Piercing Sword Sect and the Under Heaven Society completed their selections, and Heaven Piercing Sword Sect recruited several hundred disciples, mostly Outer Sect Disciples.

Bai Luo planned to punish the stubborn royal representatives obstructing his efforts to reshape Douluo Continent. Meanwhile, Dai Mubai, isolated and miserable after his humiliation in Violet Luo City, missed the sect selections and encountered a strange box in an alley.

• Bai Luo saw the kingdoms' and duchies' representatives refuse to cooperate in forming a joint intelligence organization and decided to punish them with a plan of his own.
• Dai Mubai avoided the Heaven Piercing Sword Sect and Under Heaven Society selections because he feared ridicule over the events in Violet Luo City.
• Dai Mubai regretted missing his chance to join the sects and spent his days drinking alone in Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Dai Mubai staggered through an alley after leaving a bar, and a mysterious black-and-white hexagonal box fell from the sky and struck him.

Dai Mubai found a Demon Sealing Box containing five Shadow Guardians, who tempted him with the promise of power and a chance to defeat Dai Weisi. He agreed to cooperate cautiously, while the Guardians began luring him toward helping them gather energy.

• Dai Mubai picked up the strange Demon Sealing Box that had fallen from the sky and suspected it came from a Reincarnator.
• The five Shadow Guardians spoke to Dai Mubai from inside the box and offered to fulfill his desires if he released them.
• Dai Mubai considered burying the box because he feared the Shadow Guardians were evil, but their offer stirred his resentment over repeatedly losing to Dai Weisi.
• Dai Mubai asked whether the Shadow Guardians could give him great power, then agreed to cooperate without releasing them.
• The Shadow Guardians told Dai Mubai they needed energy and planned to lure him into gathering it through simple tasks.

Dai Mubai went to Sunset Forest to find a small but powerful Soul Beast for the Shadow Guardians to transform into a Mutant Beast. He captured a hundred-year Thousand Jun Ant, and the Demon Spirit Stone transformed it into a monstrous creature.

• Dai Mubai left Heaven Dou Imperial City for Sunset Forest to find a suitable Soul Beast for the Shadow Guardians.
• Dai Mubai searched the forest and chose a hundred-year Thousand Jun Ant that matched the Shadow Guardians’ requirements.
• Dai Mubai used his White Tiger Light Wave to distract the Thousand Jun Ant, then rushed in and wounded it with his sword until it could no longer resist.
• Dai Mubai aimed the Demon Sealing Box at the Thousand Jun Ant, and the Shadow Guardians sent a Demon Spirit Stone into its body.
• The Thousand Jun Ant swelled and transformed into a huge, armored Mutant Beast with six arms.

Dai Mubai and the Shadow Guardians created the Thousand Jun Ant Beast, which they sent to Heaven Dou Imperial City to gather energy by slaughtering its people. The monster massacred civilians and killed the soul masters who tried to stop it, remaining unharmed.

• The Shadow Guardians transformed a Thousand Jun Ant with a Demon Spirit Stone and named the resulting monster the Thousand Jun Ant Beast.
• Dai Mubai declined to name any enemies and demanded the power the Shadow Guardians had promised him.
• The Shadow Guardians said they needed energy first, then chose Heaven Dou Imperial City as the Thousand Jun Ant Beast’s target.
• The Thousand Jun Ant Beast leaped from Sunset Forest into Heaven Dou Imperial City and landed on a crowded pedestrian street.
• The Thousand Jun Ant Beast killed fleeing civilians and slaughtered more than a dozen low-level soul masters who attacked it, without suffering any injuries.

A Thousand Jun Ant Beast rampaged through Heaven Dou Imperial City, killing pedestrians and resisting Soul Masters’ attacks. Spirit Hall dispatched Samo and Lin Bo with a force of Soul Masters, who found the beast on Byrne Avenue and launched a coordinated assault to contain it.

• The Thousand Jun Ant Beast survived attacks from more than a dozen Soul Masters on Greenwood Avenue and continued its rampage as crowds fled.
• Survivors alerted the Heaven Dou Imperial City Martial Soul Temple, and a steward reported the threat to Platinum Bishop Salas.
• Salas ordered Red-Clothed Bishops Samo and Lin Bo to lead Soul Masters against the monster while he remained at the temple.
• The Thousand Jun Ant Beast moved to Byrne Avenue, where it impaled a pedestrian amid wreckage and injured civilians.
• Samo, Lin Bo, and the accompanying Soul Masters summoned their Martial Souls, unleashed Soul Skills, and trapped the beast in a cage of vines.

The Thousand Jun Ant Beast escaped Spirit Hall’s cage and burrowed into Heaven Dou Imperial City, where it began attacking pedestrians. Prince Bing Yang sent Uncle Xu to stop it, and Uncle Xu struck the beast hard enough to embed it in a house wall.

• The Thousand Jun Ant Beast raised earthen walls to block Samo, Lin Bo, and the Spirit Hall Soul Masters’ attacks, then burrowed away, leaving traces for Samo to follow.
• The Thousand Jun Ant Beast emerged on a busy street in Heaven Dou Imperial City, frightening the pedestrians and drawing the attention of Bing Yang and Uncle Xu.
• Bing Yang urged Uncle Xu to drive the beast away, and Uncle Xu agreed despite being unable to gauge its strength.
• The Thousand Jun Ant Beast charged into the crowd and began slaughtering people, prompting Uncle Xu to summon his Icefield Snow Bear Martial Soul and attack.
• Uncle Xu’s ice armor withstood the beast’s arm spikes, and his punch sent it crashing into a house wall.

The Thousand Jun Ant Beast revealed that its strength and defense far exceeded the nobles’ expectations, seriously injuring Uncle Xu and killing Bing Yang. Xi Wei rallied the royal representatives’ guards to form a joint defense as they prepared to fight the beast.

• Bing Yang and the other nobles mocked the Thousand Jun Ant Beast after Uncle Xu punched it into a wall, but Uncle Xu realized it was unharmed.
• The Thousand Jun Ant Beast battered Uncle Xu with its fists, overwhelmed his Ice Armor, and sent him flying while he vomited blood.
• The Thousand Jun Ant Beast charged toward Bing Yang, punched through his guards, and killed him by crushing his heart.
• Xi Wei urged the nobles’ guards to work together, and they formed a Soul Master battle formation to face the Thousand Jun Ant Beast.

The royal and noble guards, joined by Spirit Hall and Five Element Academy Soul Masters, cornered the Thousand Jun Ant Beast in Heaven Dou Imperial City. After its escape attempts failed, the gathered Soul Masters killed it and confirmed its death.

• Control System Soul Masters bound the Thousand Jun Ant Beast, allowing Strong Attack and Agile Attack Soul Masters to wound it.
• The injured beast used its Earth Escape Art to burrow underground, but an Earth Demon Bull Soul Master's War Stomp blasted it back to the surface.
• The Thousand Jun Ant Beast tried to leap into the sky, but the Soul Masters pulled it down and bound it again.
• Spirit Hall Soul Masters led by Samo and Lin Bo, along with Soul Masters from the Five Element Academy, arrived to reinforce the defenders.
• The gathered Soul Masters attacked the restrained Thousand Jun Ant Beast until it died, then confirmed it had no signs of life.

Dai Mubai learned that the Thousand Jun Ant Beast had killed Prince Bing Yang, making him fear the consequences of his alliance with the Shadow Guardians. Determined to become strong enough to take his brother’s place, he accepted their power and began a painful transformation.

• After the Thousand Jun Ant Beast died, the Demon Spirit Stone flew away and entered the Demon Sealing Box beneath Dai Mubai’s clothes.
• The Shadow Guardians told Dai Mubai that the stone held energy gathered by the beast and offered to use it to strengthen him.
• Back in Heaven Dou Imperial City, Dai Mubai heard that the Thousand Jun Ant Beast had killed Prince Bing Yang and feared the Hagendas Kingdom would retaliate if his involvement were exposed.
• Dai Mubai returned to his hotel and asked the Shadow Guardians to make him stronger.
• The Demon Sealing Box enveloped Dai Mubai in dark purple light, transforming his body and changing his Evil Eye White Tiger martial soul.

Dai Mubai accepted the Shadow Guardians’ power, which raised his Soul Power and evolved his Martial Soul, and agreed to help them create more Mutant Beasts. After the Thousand Jun Ant Beast’s attack, Qian Renxue convinced the royal representatives of the Various Kingdoms and Duchies to reconsider joining a continental alliance against Demon Lairs.

• The Shadow Guardians’ power brought Dai Mubai to Soul Power level 30 and evolved his Evil Eye White Tiger into a black, dark-purple-patterned Martial Soul.
• Dai Mubai accepted the Shadow Guardians’ plan to have Mutant Beasts help him obtain a Soul Ring in Sunset Forest, but learned they had no cultivation techniques or martial arts.
• After the Thousand Jun Ant Beast was eliminated, imperial Soul Masters escorted the royal representatives and nobles back to the Royal Welcome Hotel.
• Qian Renxue apologized for the attack and reminded the representatives that Demon Lairs could pose an even greater danger than the Thousand Jun Ant Beast.
• The royal representatives changed their minds about a joint intelligence organization and planned to persuade their kings to support it.

Dai Mubai and the Shadow Guardians created two powerful Mutant Beasts and planned to unleash them on Sunset City instead of Heaven Dou Imperial City. Meanwhile, Bai Luo sent his new avatar, Kei Kurono, to Heaven Dou Imperial City, where the gate guards mistook him for a Reincarnator.

• Dai Mubai returned to Sunset Forest, subdued a thousand-year Ghost Tiger, and the Shadow Guardians transformed it into the Demonic Tiger Beast.
• With the Demonic Tiger Beast's help, Dai Mubai obtained a thousand-year Adamant Tiger Soul Ring and gained the Black Tiger Vajra Transformation Soul Skill.
• Dai Mubai and the Demonic Tiger Beast defeated a ten-thousand-year Three-Headed Black Dragon, which the Shadow Guardians transformed into the powerful Black Dragon Beast.
• The Shadow Guardians decided not to attack Heaven Dou Imperial City and agreed to target Sunset City instead.
• Bai Luo sent his new avatar, Kei Kurono, to Heaven Dou Imperial City, where guards approached him and asked whether he was a Reincarnator.

Kei Kurono, a Reincarnator from a technological world under alien attack, sought cooperation with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family in exchange for cultivation techniques. Qian Renxue brought him to meet Lei Lin so they could examine his advanced self-replicating technology.

• Kei Kurono told a city guard he wanted to cooperate with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, and the guard hurried to inform Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue met Kei Kurono at the city gate, introduced herself as Xue Qinghe, and took him by carriage to a teahouse before rival factions could recruit him.
• Kei Kurono explained that he wanted cultivation techniques to help his world resist aliens and offered technology and assistance against hostile Reincarnators in return.
• Qian Renxue questioned whether his world's technology could be reproduced on Douluo Continent, and Kei Kurono claimed an alien-made device could manufacture goods independently.
• Qian Renxue brought Kei Kurono to meet Lei Lin outside the New Development Zone so Lei Lin could assess the device he planned to demonstrate.

Kei Kurono demonstrated the Gantz Fully Automatic Production Line to Lei Lin and Qian Renxue, revealing its ability to manufacture powerful weapons from soil. Qian Renxue prioritized the Gantz Satellite and Gantz Black Ball for their teleportation capabilities, and Kei Kurono agreed to make them by the next day.

• Kei Kurono explained to Lei Lin that the production line could manufacture products from soil without other raw materials, though he did not know how it was powered.
• Kei Kurono set up the production line in a secluded clearing and demonstrated it printing a large black sphere.
• Kei Kurono showed Lei Lin and Qian Renxue the Gantz weapons and described their capabilities, including the Gantz Black Ball's limited spatial teleportation.
• Kei Kurono explained that the production line could make only a limited number of weapons before it needed time to recharge.
• Qian Renxue asked Kei Kurono to manufacture the Gantz Satellite and Gantz Black Ball first, and he said they would be ready the next day.
• Kei Kurono was assigned lodging in the New Development Zone, and Qian Renxue said she would visit him again tomorrow.

Qian Renxue inspected Kei Kurono’s completed gantz Black Balls and gantz Satellites, then arranged a gathering in Heaven Dou Imperial City to introduce the equipment to the continent’s major factions. The representatives assembled at the Heaven Dou Royal Welcome Hotel, where Qian Renxue prepared to demonstrate the weapons.

• Qian Renxue visited Kei Kurono and Lei Lin at the New Development Zone, where Kei showed her the gantz Automatic Production Line.
• Kei Kurono used the production line to make gantz Black Balls and a gantz Satellite, then stored them in his spatial device.
• Kei Kurono launched a gantz Satellite and demonstrated that it could remotely transport people using the gantz Black Balls.
• Qian Renxue reported the equipment to Xue Ye and invited the continent’s major factions to a meeting in Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Representatives from the major factions gathered outside the Heaven Dou Royal Welcome Hotel as Qian Renxue prepared to demonstrate the gantz equipment.

Qian Renxue unveiled the gantz Satellite and gantz Black Ball, demonstrating that they could launch into the sky and teleport people over long distances. The demonstration ended with an urgent report that monsters were ravaging Sunset City and that the city needed immediate aid.

• Qian Renxue introduced the gantz Satellite and gantz Black Ball after explaining that Firearms would not be enough to face future disasters.
• Kei Kurono used a storage device to produce the equipment, and Qian Renxue explained that the satellite could locate places where black balls enabled long-range teleportation.
• Kei Kurono prepared another gantz Satellite, and it launched into the sky as the crowd watched in amazement.
• A blond Soul Master volunteered to test the black balls, and Qian Renxue's equipment teleported him from one ball to the other.
• The Star Luo Imperial Family's representatives worried about the strategic danger of the teleportation technology but recognized that the factions needed to unite.
• A guard reported to Qian Renxue that monsters were slaughtering and destroying Sunset City, which urgently requested aid.

After the Demonic Tiger Beast and Black Dragon Beast attacked Sunset City, Qian Renxue organized a gantz Black Ball teleportation operation to send reinforcements from Heaven Dou Imperial City. Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and the other Soul Masters arrived outside the city and rushed in to confront the destruction.

• Qian Renxue stopped the gathered factions from traveling to Sunset City on foot and sent Gu Rong ahead with a gantz Black Ball.
• The Demonic Tiger Beast and Black Dragon Beast rampaged through Sunset City, overpowering the local Soul Masters and forcing them to evacuate civilians from a distance.
• Dai Mubai watched the attack and resisted the Shadow Guardians' attempts to persuade him to become a Mutant Beast.
• Gu Rong reached Sunset City, set down the gantz Black Ball, and enabled the reinforcements in Heaven Dou Imperial City to teleport to him.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived with the Soul Masters and led them into Sunset City, with Gu Rong and the others following.

Bone Douluo Gu Rong and the assembled soul masters killed the Demonic Tiger Beast and drove the Black Dragon Beast from Sunset City. Ning Fengzhi noticed a Purple Crystal Stone vanish from the tiger beast’s corpse and feared that Reincarnators were creating the monsters, meaning the danger could return.

• Gu Rong arrived in Sunset City and attacked the Demonic Tiger Beast and Black Dragon Beast with Bone Dragon's Thorns.
• Yu Luomian and the other soul masters joined the assault, overwhelming the Demonic Tiger Beast and killing it while the Black Dragon Beast suffered only minor injuries.
• Ning Fengzhi saw a Purple Crystal Stone rise from the Demonic Tiger Beast's corpse and vanish, recalling that a similar stone had disappeared after a monster died in Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• The Black Dragon Beast fled toward the mountain forests, attacking Sunset City as it escaped and forcing its pursuers to stop and protect the civilians.
• Ning Fengzhi told Yu Luomian and the others that Reincarnators might be creating the monsters using Purple Crystal Stones and warned that more monsters could appear.

After the Sunset City attack, Ning Fengzhi warned Qian Renxue that the monsters were linked to anomalous Reincarnators, while Dai Mubai and the Shadow Guardians planned their next move. Seeing the Shadow Guardians’ growing power, Bai Luo decided to open secret realms to strengthen the younger generation of Douluo Continent.

• Ning Fengzhi told Qian Renxue that the monsters from Heaven Dou Imperial City and Sunset City shared a Purple Crystal Stone and might have been created by the same Reincarnator or organization.
• Qian Renxue reported the threat to Xue Ye and urged him to warn the Star Luo Empire and Spirit Hall.
• Dai Mubai and the Shadow Guardians decided to move to a city in one of the Various Kingdoms and Duchies, where fewer powerful people could interfere.
• Dai Mubai demanded that the Shadow Guardians strengthen him in return for helping them find a new place to operate.
• Bai Luo concluded that the Mutant Beasts made the evil faction too powerful and decided to use the Gate to Myriad Realms Secret Realm to strengthen Douluo Continent’s younger generation.

A seven-colored gate appeared in Starfall Forest, drawing soul masters into a secret realm that barred anyone above its strength limit. News of the opportunity spread through the Hagendas Kingdom and eventually reached major powers, who prepared to send their people there after Hegemon, Dugu Qiubai, and the Sword Immortal with Wine assured them it was safe.

• A radiant gate descended into Starfall Forest and formed a seven-colored entrance that pulled eligible soul masters into the secret realm.
• Soul masters who exceeded the realm’s strength limit were rejected, and some stayed behind to wait for entrants while others went to report the discovery.
• Factions across the Hagendas Kingdom rushed toward Starfall Forest to claim the secret realm’s benefits, throwing the kingdom into turmoil.
• Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, and others asked Hegemon, Dugu Qiubai, and the Sword Immortal with Wine whether the secret realm was a trap.
• Hegemon, Dugu Qiubai, and the Sword Immortal with Wine said the realm was likely created by a righteous Reincarnator, and Ning Fengzhi and the others prepared to send people to it.