Chapter Summaries

Bai Luo, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang joined Blazing Academy’s convoy to travel to the secret realm in Starfall Forest, while Bai Luo explained why the Heaven Piercing Sword Sect would not escort its disciples. At Blue Tyrant Academy, Yu Xiaogang urged the group to take the risk and pursue the opportunity despite Liu Erlong’s concerns.

• Bai Luo arrived at Blazing Academy with Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang, and Huo Xiaotian asked why the Heaven Piercing Sword Sect’s convoy was absent.
• Bai Luo explained that the Heaven Piercing Sword Sect and Under Heaven Society left disciples to seek opportunities on their own rather than escorting them.
• Huo Xiaotian accepted the explanation and set off with Bai Luo, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang in Blazing Academy’s convoy.
• At Blue Tyrant Academy, Liu Erlong worried that Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Tang San would be in danger in the secret realm.
• Yu Xiaogang argued that they had to seize the opportunity or fall behind their peers, and said he would have taken the risk in his youth.

Bai Luo and the Blazing Academy group reached Snow Phoenix City, where they explored the city and encountered Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar. The chapter ended with Ma Hongjun teasing Oscar about selling sausages beside a popular food cart.

• Liu Erlong stayed silent as Flender and Yu Xiaogang kept Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Tang San at Shrek Academy rather than sending them to the Heaven Piercing Sword Sect or Under Heaven Society.
• Bai Luo traveled with Blazing Academy’s convoy for more than ten days until they reached Snow Phoenix City, where Huo Xiaotian arranged rooms and a day to restock.
• Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Bai Luo explored Snow Phoenix City and ran into Shui Bing’er’s group from Skywater Academy and Dugu Yan’s group from Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Bai Luo greeted Tang San on the food street and learned that Tang San was studying at Shrek Academy; Tang San introduced Ma Hongjun and Oscar to him.
• The group found a busy food cart selling hamburgers, and Ma Hongjun teased Oscar about joining the vendor to sell sausages.

Gadhi trapped park visitors inside an invisible barrier and attacked them with its tentacles. Bai Luo and the others rushed to the park, but their attacks could not break through the barrier.

• Bai Luo bought six hamburgers from Li Ziyang and shared them with his companions.
• Gadhi fired a beam from beneath the park and enclosed it in a transparent barrier.
• Gadhi's tentacles emerged from a hole and seized visitors as people outside fled in panic.
• Bai Luo, Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, Tang San, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun headed toward the park to investigate.
• Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Bai Luo attacked the barrier, but none of their strikes damaged it.

Li Ziyang arrived at the park and transformed into Emperor Knight, breaking the Transparent Barrier and helping the trapped crowd escape. When Gadhi emerged in its enormous true form, Li Ziyang attacked it but was struck by its Destructive Ray and blasted into a house.

• Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, Tang San, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun failed to break the Transparent Barrier, and Tang San found that his crossbow bolt had bent against it.
• Li Ziyang arrived with the Emperor Belt, revealed that he was an Armor Warrior, and transformed into Emperor Knight.
• Li Ziyang broke the Transparent Barrier with a second punch, allowing the trapped crowd to flee.
• Gadhi sent its tentacles after the escaping people, and Li Ziyang entered the park and cut them back with the Aurora Sword.
• Gadhi emerged from underground in its enormous armored form, and Li Ziyang charged at it while the other soul masters hurried toward the park.
• Gadhi fired a Destructive Ray from its horn, striking Li Ziyang and blasting him through the Transparent Barrier into a house.

Gadhi escaped the park and overwhelmed the soul masters of Snow Phoenix City, but Lin Xi and his Pokémon arrived to fight it. Li Ziyang returned in Emperor Armor and used Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation to grow larger than Gadhi, turning the battle in his favor.

• Gadhi blasted Li Ziyang through the Transparent Barrier and escaped the park as Bai Luo led Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Tang San's group away.
• The Master of Martial Soul Branch Hall of Snow Phoenix City and the other soul masters attacked Gadhi, but it brushed off their attacks and badly injured them.
• Lin Xi arrived on Altaria and summoned Garchomp and Salamence, but the Pokémon could only harass Gadhi without seriously hurting it.
• Li Ziyang rose from the rubble in Emperor Armor and used Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation to grow larger than Gadhi.
• Emperor Armor blocked Gadhi's attacks and began giving it a brutal beating as Lin Xi and the others retreated.

Li Ziyang defeated Gadhi, but Lin Xi spared the monster by taming it with a contract. After Snow Phoenix City’s leaders thanked them, the two Reincarnators joined the factions setting out for the secret realm in Starfall Forest.

• Lin Xi stopped Li Ziyang from killing Gadhi and offered to tame it, then bound the injured monster with a Beast Taming Contract and captured it in a Poké Ball.
• Yang Lan thanked Li Ziyang and Lin Xi for saving Snow Phoenix City, and Li Ziyang asked him to invite Bai Luo’s group to the meal as well.
• At the Snow Emperor Hotel banquet, Huo Xiaotian invited Li Ziyang and Lin Xi to explore the secret realm in Starfall Forest, and both agreed to go.
• After resting overnight, the factions set out for Starfall Forest with Li Ziyang and Lin Xi riding in Blazing Academy’s carriage.
• During the journey, Li Ziyang explained that the Emperor Armor depended on bloodline, while Lin Xi described how Beast Taming Contracts let humans and Pokémon share benefits.

Bai Luo proposed using Lin Xi’s Beast Taming Contract to let Soul Masters and Soul Beasts coexist and potentially replace Soul Rings, then learned the contract with his companions. After several days of travel, the caravan reached Starfall Forest and found a new market town built to serve the crowds drawn by a nearby secret realm.

• Bai Luo argued that Beast Taming Contracts might prevent Soul Beasts from disappearing and could eventually let Soul Beasts replace Soul Rings, and Lin Xi offered to teach the contract to him and the others.
• Bai Luo quickly learned the Beast Taming Contract, while the other Soul Masters struggled to sense and use spiritual power; he had no way yet to adapt the contract to turn Soul Beasts into Soul Spirits.
• The caravan traveled for four or five days from Snow Phoenix City and arrived at Starfall Forest.
• Huo Xiaotian was astonished to see a large market town beside the forest, and the group learned that the secret realm had drawn so many Soul Masters that the outer forest had been cleared of Soul Beasts.

Huo Xiaotian learned that the secret realm offered rapid cultivation opportunities but required entrants below the Soul King realm to reach level 50 before leaving. Bai Luo, Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Lin Xi entered together and arrived in an unfamiliar forest.

• Huo Xiaotian booked rooms for the Blazing Academy group and gathered information about the secret realm with two teachers.
• Huo Xiaotian told the students that exotic beasts and spiritual herbs could increase Soul Power, some herbs could evolve martial souls, and time flowed differently inside the realm.
• Huo Xiaotian led the group into Starfall Forest the next morning, while Li Ziyang stayed behind and Lin Xi chose to enter.
• Huo Xiaotian's guide brought the group to a mountain with a seven-colored gate, and Huo Xiaotian told the students to continue to the entrance themselves.
• Bai Luo, Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Lin Xi held hands as they entered the gate and were transported together to a peaceful, unfamiliar forest.

Bai Luo, Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Lin Xi explored a secret realm filled with Pokémon and other supernatural beasts, discovering that defeating them granted energy and that guarded spirit herbs could boost or evolve Martial Souls. They continued hunting and collecting herbs to grow stronger, though Bai Luo and the others would need at least a year and a half to reach level 50 and leave the realm.

• Bai Luo, Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Lin Xi entered a peaceful forest and headed deeper into it.
• Lin Xi recognized a giant Caterpie as a Pokémon from his world and told Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang they could fight it.
• Huo Wu defeated Caterpie with Flame Meteor and gained more Soul Power than she would from over ten days of cultivation.
• The group encountered Pokémon and other Exotic Beasts, learning that defeated creatures became energy and that some guarded spirit herbs.
• Bai Luo, Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Lin Xi hunted beasts and gathered spirit herbs, rapidly increasing their abilities.
• Bai Luo, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang still needed at least a year and a half in the secret realm to reach level 50 and leave.

After leaving the secret realm, Bai Luo, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang reunited with Huo Xiaotian and prepared to hunt Soul Rings. Meanwhile, Smaug established a lair on Gathering Cloud Peak and flew toward Hagendas Royal City to plunder it, throwing the city into chaos.

• Bai Luo, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang reached Rank 50, but Lin Xi could not leave the secret realm and urged them to go without him.
• Bai Luo, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang left the secret realm and reunited with Huo Xiaotian, who offered to take them to the Star Dou Great Forest for ten-thousand-year Soul Rings.
• Smaug appeared above Gathering Cloud Peak, complained that Bai Luo had sent it to the Hagendas Kingdom, and carved out a cave for its lair.
• After three days, Smaug finished its cave and flew toward the nearby Hagendas Royal City to steal treasures and princesses.
• Smaug roared as it approached Hagendas Royal City, and the frightened residents panicked and fled.

Smaug rampaged through Hagendas Royal City until the defenders learned it wanted treasure and negotiated to spare the city. After taking gold from the city's factions, Smaug seized Princess Bing Xue and flew away.

• Smaug attacked Hagendas Royal City, burning buildings and killing soul masters while their attacks failed to harm it.
• Smaug demanded treasure, and the Royal Chief Consecrated negotiated with it on behalf of the Hagendas King.
• The Hagendas King gathered the city's major families and factions to contribute gold for Smaug.
• Smaug repeatedly threatened the factions until they gave it nearly all the treasure they could provide.
• As it departed with the gold, Smaug declared that treasure included humans and seized Princess Bing Xue.

After Smaug abducted Princess Bing Xue, the Hagendas King issued a continent-wide Dragon Slaying Order offering her rescuer the chance to become his son-in-law. Huo Xiaotian brought Bai Luo and Huo Wushuang to Hagendas Royal City, where powerful factions and their young representatives had begun gathering.

• The Hagendas King used the gantz Black Ball to issue a Dragon Slaying Order, promising that whoever rescued Bing Xue could become the Imperial Son-in-Law, subject to further discussion with him.
• Huo Xiaotian, Bai Luo, and Huo Wushuang learned of the order in the market town outside Starfall Forest and decided to travel to Hagendas Royal City after hunting Soul Rings.
• Huo Xiaotian and his group teleported to Hagendas Royal City, where they encountered Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, Yu Yuanzhen, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and others.
• A soul master from the Hagendas Royal City Spirit Hall Branch asked the gathered visitors to leave the crowded hall, and they were escorted to the Royal Welcome Hotel.

Dai Mubai arrived in Hagendas Royal City to join the Dragon Slaying Order operation and sought help from Star Luo elder Dai Tianchen after hotel guards turned him away. He defeated Dai Lingkong in a duel, earning a place with Dai Tianchen’s party at the meeting with the Hagendas King.

• Dai Mubai came to Hagendas Royal City, hoping to gain support and status by rescuing the princess.
• Hotel guards refused Dai Mubai entry to the Royal Welcome Hotel because he was a young Soul Ancestor traveling alone.
• Dai Tianchen recognized Dai Mubai and agreed to let him fight Dai Lingkong for a place in the operation.
• Dai Mubai revealed his mutated black tiger martial soul and defeated Dai Lingkong, who was also a Soul Ancestor.
• Dai Tianchen left Dai Lingkong behind and took Dai Mubai and Zhu Wanying to the royal palace for the meeting with the Hagendas King.

The factions carried out their plan to lure Smaug away from his lair so their youths could rescue Bing Xue. Feng Xingyun and Feng Bailong provoked Smaug by stealing his gold, and the ambushers froze the dragon over the forest with the Two-Yin Stillness Domain.

• The Hagendas King agreed that the factions would send powerful experts to subdue Smaug while their young members competed to rescue Bing Xue and become his Imperial Son-in-Law.
• Feng Xingyun and Feng Bailong flew to Smaug's lair on Gathering Cloud Peak while the other factions waited in the forest.
• Feng Xingyun and Feng Bailong found Bing Xue silently tending Smaug and signaled for her to hide.
• The pair stole Smaug's gold coins, waking him and provoking him to chase them out of the cave.
• Feng Xingyun and Feng Bailong lured Smaug over the forest, where two fighters cast the Two-Yin Stillness Domain and froze him in midair.

The Dragon Slaying Order forces battered Smaug and continued fighting after he broke free, while the competing youths raced and fought their way up Gathering Cloud Peak to rescue the princess. Feng Xiaotian, Xie Yue, Chen Lan, Huo Wushuang, Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, Dai Mubai, and Li Xingyun reached the summit.

• The attackers struck Smaug with powerful Soul Skills, breaking his scales and inflicting numerous injuries and abnormal conditions.
• Smaug shattered the Two Extremes Stillness Domain, causing Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo to suffer backlash, then unleashed Dragon Breath as the Titled Douluo and other Soul Masters fought to restrain him.
• Xie Yue, Chen Lan, Yu Tianheng, Huo Wushuang, Li Xingyun, Feng Xiaotian, Dai Mubai, and the other youths began climbing Gathering Cloud Peak by flying or scaling its steep cliff.
• The climbers ambushed one another, and the flight-system Soul Masters were targeted until Feng Xiaotian evaded his attackers and reached the summit.
• Xie Yue, Chen Lan, Huo Wushuang, Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, Dai Mubai, and Li Xingyun also reached the summit.

Six contenders reached Gathering Cloud Peak and fought over access to Princess Bing Xue, while Dai Mubai secretly arranged to trap her inside Smaug's cave. The chapter ended with the cave entrance buried under rubble, leaving Bing Xue isolated and Dai Mubai's scheme underway.

• Feng Xiaotian, Chen Lan, and Li Xingyun reached Gathering Cloud Peak first, then the other contenders arrived and faced off near Smaug's cave.
• Xie Yue proposed targeting Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin because they had moved together, and the other six injured them until they withdrew from the summit.
• Bing Xue heard the fighting and peeked out of the cave as the remaining six turned their attention to Feng Xiaotian, the only contender who could fly.
• Feng Xiaotian flew above the others and dodged their Soul Skills, while Dai Mubai urged everyone to attack him and told Bing Xue to hide deeper in the cave.
• Dai Mubai deliberately sent attacks into the cave roof, causing rubble to block the entrance and isolate Bing Xue so he could pursue his plan to eliminate the others and claim her hand.

Dai Mubai revealed his plan to kill the others and summoned the Ghost Leopard Beast and Gale Eagle Beast, who quickly overwhelmed the fighters at Gathering Cloud Peak. Li Ziyang arrived as the Emperor Knight, and the Shadow Guardians warned Dai Mubai to flee.

• Dai Mubai sealed the cave entrance, revealed his connection to the Mutant Beasts, and ordered the Ghost Leopard Beast and Gale Eagle Beast to attack everyone.
• The Ghost Leopard Beast wounded Xie Yue, Chen Lan, and Huo Wushuang, while the Gale Eagle Beast tore off Feng Xiaotian’s Wind Wings.
• Li Ziyang descended onto the summit, and Huo Wushuang recognized him as the Emperor Knight.
• The Shadow Guardians identified Li Ziyang as the Mutant Beasts’ nemesis and urged Dai Mubai to escape with the Black Dragon Beast.

Dai Mubai fled Gathering Cloud Peak after his Mutant Beasts delayed Li Ziyang, while Li Xingyun rescued Princess Bing Xue. After Smaug escaped the joint assault, Dai Mubai was exposed as a collaborator with the evil faction, and Dai Tianchen called for a continent-wide warrant against him.

• Dai Mubai sent the Ghost Leopard Beast and Gale Eagle Beast after the wounded Xie Yue and the others, then escaped on the Black Dragon Beast summoned from his Demon Sealing Box.
• Li Ziyang defeated and sealed the two Mutant Beasts, then brought the injured Xie Yue and the others down Gathering Cloud Peak; Li Xingyun rescued Princess Bing Xue, who developed feelings for him.
• Smaug broke free from the major forces' assault and fled badly wounded, while Ning Fengzhi and the others concluded that killing him would require help from even stronger experts.
• Li Xingyun returned to Hagendas Royal City with Bing Xue and the others, and Ning Fengzhi congratulated the Hagendas King on the princess's rescue.
• Xie Yue and the others reported Dai Mubai's ties to the evil faction, and Dai Tianchen denounced him and urged the factions to issue a warrant for his arrest.

Demon Lairs across the Douluo Continent erupted simultaneously, unleashing hordes of demonic creatures that besieged cities and overwhelmed the limited support forces. Qian Renxue equipped civilians with mass-produced armor, weapons, and firearms, while the Heaven Dou Imperial City and New Development Zone held off their attacks.

• After Dai Mubai was exposed as connected to the Shadow Guardian and declared a traitor, forces across the continent issued wanted notices for him.
• Demon Lairs across the continent released demonic qi and swarmed nearby cities with powerful creatures, forcing the cities to request help through gantz Black Balls.
• The eight-thousand-member rapid-response force could not support every city at once, so it prioritized capitals and strategically important locations.
• Qian Renxue ordered cities with gantz Black Balls to send able-bodied young men to the New Development Zone, where they received armor, weapons, firearms, and brief training before returning home.
• The Heaven Dou Imperial City withstood attacks from several Demon Lairs using its Soul Masters, Royal Knights, and advanced equipment.
• Qian Renxue's fortified New Development Zone repelled a smaller demonic tide with its defending troops and Soul Masters.

The Demonic Tide overwhelmed Douluo Continent, killing nearly half its population as most cities lacked the forces to defend themselves. Amid the chaos, the Blood God Society and Oni Tribe seized territory by offering protection in exchange for labor and blood, while other hostile forces exploited the disaster.

• Most cities fell to the Demonic Tide, and nearly half of Douluo Continent’s population died despite Qian Renxue distributing weapons and armor to cities with gantz Black Balls.
• The Blood God Society conquered the Heaven Frost Duchy and gathered survivors into protected cities, where humans had to work and donate blood for the Youquan Blood Demon.
• Muzan Kibutsuji ordered the Oni Tribe to stop hiding and defend cities, persuading desperate humans to become Oni and bringing border regions of the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire under Oni control.
• Dai Mubai and the Shadow Guardian helped demonic creatures breach cities and gathered energy, while the fleeing Smaug plundered treasure during the destruction.