Chapter Summaries

Long Yue accepted a fight with Situ Xuan's opponent and said he would challenge Situ Xuan if he won. At the Star Luo Hotel, Xie Xie found Tang Wulin unconscious; Tang Wulin woke with painful memories of Situ Xuan's attack and said he had been on a Tang Sect mission.

• Long Yue accepted the fight and said he would challenge Situ Xuan if he won.
• Xie Xie found Tang Wulin unconscious in the hotel corridor and checked that he was breathing.
• Xie Xie struggled with Gu Yue's accusation that he relied on Tang Wulin, but chose to help him anyway.
• Tang Wulin woke with a severe headache and fought down the violent impulse stirred by his Golden Dragon King bloodline.
• Tang Wulin remembered Situ Xuan choking him and admitted to Xie Xie that he had been carrying out a Tang Sect mission.

After Tang Wulin returned from a Tang Sect mission, memories of being brutally killed triggered a traumatic episode, and Xie Xie helped him recover. Xie Xie told him he had been excluded from the team competition and reported Gu Yue's cruel remarks, leaving Tang Wulin questioning his teammates' actions.

• Tang Wulin recalled being killed and woke from a panic episode with Xie Xie's help.
• Xie Xie told Tang Wulin that he had been missing for nearly a full day and night and had missed the team competition.
• Xie Xie said Xu Xiaoyan had barred him from the team's first match, while Ye Xinglan and Yue Zhengyu had stayed silent.
• Xie Xie reported that Gu Yue had called him Tang Wulin's shadow and said their former companions were not worth staying for.
• Tang Wulin reacted angrily to Gu Yue's words and wondered whether Xu Xiaoyan had really treated Xie Xie that way.

Tang Wulin struggled with his fear and anger toward Situ Xuan while resolving to become stronger, as Xie Xie concealed his true feelings and left without replying to Xu Xiaoyan. After the team won their match, Tang Wulin called Xu Xiaoyan with a strangely cold voice and said he had something to tell everyone.

• Tang Wulin asked Xie Xie whether Situ Xuan was in the waiting area and learned he was with Yuanen Yehui.
• Tang Wulin brooded over Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, and Situ Xuan, then vowed to grow stronger and overcome his fear.
• Xie Xie told Tang Wulin to rest, left the room, read Xu Xiaoyan's message, and chose not to reply.
• Xu Xiaoyan, Xu Lizhi, Ye Xinglan, and Yue Zhengyu left Star Luo Grand Stadium after winning their match, while Xie Xie remained missing.
• Tang Wulin called Xu Xiaoyan, spoke in an unusually flat tone, and said he had something to tell everyone.

Tang Wulin waited for Xu Xiaoyan and the others while struggling to control the Golden Dragon King Bloodline and his growing suspicion of his teammates. As their footsteps reached the door, he had convinced himself that they were challenging his authority, though he could not explain his fear of Situ Xuan.

• Tang Wulin called Xu Xiaoyan and told her to bring Ye Xinglan and the others to Xie Xie's room after nine, saying he felt unwell.
• Xu Xiaoyan grew uneasy about Tang Wulin's voice and wording, and Ye Xinglan and Yue Zhengyu also sensed that his tone seemed to be issuing orders.
• The four teammates took a Soul-Gathering Taxi to the Star Luo Hotel while Xu Lizhi eagerly talked about Tang Wulin's return.
• Alone in Xie Xie's room, Tang Wulin fixated on Xu Xiaoyan's criticism of Xie Xie and imagined that she might challenge his own fitness and authority.
• Tang Wulin recalled his terror of Situ Xuan and his inability to tell his teammates what had happened, then accused them in his thoughts of betraying him.
• As the Golden Dragon King Bloodline's violent emotions surged again, Tang Wulin sat up gasping when he heard footsteps outside the door.

Tang Wulin confronted Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, and Yue Zhengyu about how they had treated Xie Xie during the team match. The argument left the team divided, with Tang Wulin insisting that their actions had humiliated and abandoned their teammate.

• Tang Wulin pretended to be weak in bed as Xu Xiaoyan, Xu Lizhi, Ye Xinglan, and Yue Zhengyu visited him, and Xu Xiaoyan reported that the team had won their match.
• Tang Wulin said Xie Xie had told him how Xu Xiaoyan sent him away from the waiting area and challenged her authority to make that decision.
• Tang Wulin accused Xu Xiaoyan of disregarding Xie Xie's feelings and winning at the cost of humiliating a teammate.
• Tang Wulin criticized Ye Xinglan for greeting Situ Xuan instead of helping Xie Xie, and Ye Xinglan warned him to watch his words.
• Yue Zhengyu urged Tang Wulin to calm down, but Tang Wulin accused him of silently watching as Xie Xie was sent away.

Tang Wulin confronted the team over Xie Xie being driven out and asserted his authority as captain, leaving Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, and Yue Zhengyu upset with him. After they left, Tang Wulin reassured Xie Xie that he would protect him from being bullied.

• Xie Xie returned with meals, apologized to Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, and Yue Zhengyu, and asked Tang Wulin to stop discussing the dispute.
• Tang Wulin challenged Xu Xiaoyan and the others over how they had treated Xie Xie, then declared that he had final authority over the team.
• Tang Wulin ordered Xu Xiaoyan not to drive out another teammate without his permission, warned Ye Xinglan to stay away from Situ Xuan, and told Yue Zhengyu and Xu Lizhi to speak up when needed.
• Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, and Yue Zhengyu left, with Yue Zhengyu telling Tang Wulin that he had changed.
• Tang Wulin asked Xie Xie why he had made excuses for the others and promised to stand up for him if anyone bullied him.

Tang Wulin resolved to tighten his control over the team while Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, Yue Zhengyu, and Xu Lizhi questioned his behavior. Meanwhile, Xie Xie secretly celebrated his scheme, and Situ Xuan arrived with Yuanen Yehui and Dai Yueyan at an underground fighting arena where Long Yue was waiting.

• Tang Wulin decided that the team had to obey him and vowed to make Situ Xuan pay eventually.
• Xu Xiaoyan broke down in the corridor, and Ye Xinglan said the team would not last; Yue Zhengyu doubted that Tang Wulin was simply hurt.
• Xie Xie secretly smiled over his communicator, then returned to his room.
• Dai Yueyan drove Situ Xuan and Yuanen Yehui to a concealed underground fighting arena and showed them its Thousand Refined Steel construction.
• Dai Yueyan led Situ Xuan and Yuanen Yehui into the main arena, where Long Yue was waiting.

Yuanen Yehui faced Long Yue in a match and used Situ Xuan’s combat training to withstand his powerful opening punch. The fight paused with Long Yue newly wary of her strength and Yuanen maintaining her concentrated Vajra Titan enhancement.

• Situ Xuan declined to watch as Yuanen Yehui and Long Yue prepared to fight, while Dai Yueyan stated the match’s rules.
• Dai Yueyan started the match, and Long Yue charged Yuanen without using a soul skill.
• Yuanen activated Vajra Titan and used the Fist of the North Star stance Situ Xuan had taught her to redirect Long Yue’s punch, taking only one step back.
• Yuanen seized and twisted Long Yue’s fist, then evaded his knee strike as they separated.
• Long Yue questioned how Yuanen controlled her power, while she continued to maintain her concentrated enhancement.

Yuanen Yehui fought Long Yue through his escalating Soul Ring attacks, using the Fist of the North Star to find and disrupt his Secret Acupoints. As Long Yue gathered power to draw her into a lava vortex, Yuanen Yehui watched for the opening created by his strongest attack.

• Long Yue used Mountain and River, but Yuanen Yehui dodged the stone peaks and disrupted his punches by striking his Secret Acupoints.
• Long Yue unleashed River and Swamp, yet Yuanen Yehui redirected the water, weakened his leg sweep, and remained standing after his punch blasted her into a stone peak.
• Long Yue covered the arena with Desert, and Yuanen Yehui closed her eyes, sensed his approach, and interrupted his attack with precise strikes.
• Yuanen Yehui continued attacking Long Yue's Secret Acupoints, briefly disrupting his Soul Power circulation and making him lose composure.
• Long Yue used Volcano to turn the arena into a lava field and trap Yuanen Yehui in a vortex, while she searched his body for an opening as he concentrated his power.

Yuanen Yehui used the Fist of the North Star to defeat Long Yue after he transformed into the Mountain Dragon King. Long Yue knelt before her and asked what technique she had used, and she named it.

• Long Yue activated his sixth Soul Ring, Wrath of the Mountain Dragon King, and his transformed body crushed Yuanen Yehui beneath its gravitational pressure.
• Yuanen Yehui used her fourth Soul Ring, Titan Giant, to strengthen herself and rush beneath Long Yue’s descending fist.
• Yuanen Yehui struck Long Yue’s Secret Acupoints with North Star Hundred Rending Fists, disrupting his Soul Power and making him collapse to his knees.
• Despite her injuries and exhaustion, Yuanen Yehui stood over Long Yue and told him his fists were not fast enough.
• Long Yue asked what fist technique she had used, and Yuanen Yehui answered, “Fist of the North Star.”

Yuanen Yehui defeated Long Yue but collapsed from her injuries, and Situ Xuan carried her away while praising her performance. Long Yue recognized the weakness in his Mountain Dragon King body and resolved to recover and become stronger.

• Yuanen Yehui collapsed after the fight, and Situ Xuan caught her and carried her from the arena.
• Situ Xuan told Long Yue that his Mountain Dragon King body left his chest exposed before his punch landed, and advised him to keep thirty percent of his strength in reserve.
• Long Yue admitted that Yuanen Yehui had seized the opening in his defenses after Wrath of the Mountain Dragon King erupted.
• Situ Xuan carried Yuanen Yehui through the city, praised her, and listened as she vowed to become strong enough to stand by his side.
• Long Yue named Situ Xuan's technique Fist of the North Star and vowed to recover, grow stronger, and not lose next time.

After the Tang Sect’s operation at Tianxing Grand Theater left thirty-two elite disciples crippled, Hu Jie demanded to know who Situ Xuan was. Learning that Situ Xuan was the Body Sect Master’s personal disciple and Young Sect Master stirred painful memories of Hu Jie’s own departure from the Body Sect, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Hu Jie confronted the surviving disciples over the disastrous Tianxing Grand Theater operation, which had cost Deng Yang and thirty-one others their Soul Power.
• A Tang Sect disciple reported that Situ Xuan studied at Sun Moon Academy and had been sent by the Sun Moon Federation on a return visit to the Star Luo Empire.
• The disciple revealed that Situ Xuan was the personal disciple of the Body Sect Master and the Body Sect’s Young Sect Master.
• Hu Jie recalled that he had once been a Body Sect disciple before leaving for the Tang Sect, and he silently absorbed the news.

After learning that Situ Xuan had crippled thirty-two Tang Sect disciples, Hu Jie ordered the branch’s Soul Fighting Hall to prepare a night attack. The Tang Sect force planned to surround Situ Xuan outside the Star Luo Hotel before dawn.

• A disciple reported that Situ Xuan was a level-fifty-four Soul Ancestor with a Body Martial Soul and five black soul rings.
• Hu Jie declared that the Tang Sect would not tolerate the losses and vowed to kill Situ Xuan.
• Hu Jie summoned the branch’s 120-member Soul Fighting Hall and ordered them to prepare their Soul Tools.
• Hu Jie identified the Star Luo Hotel as Situ Xuan’s lodging and ordered the force to assemble nearby in one hour.
• Tie Long assigned squads to seal the streets, attack from the front, ambush from rooftops, and remain with Hu Jie.

Hu Jie led 120 Tang Sect elites to ambush Situ Xuan, while Situ sensed the danger and called Mu Ye and Dai Yueyan for backup. As Situ continued toward the Star Luo Hotel with Yuanen Yehui, Mu Ye watched the streets from the hotel suite.

• Hu Jie organized the covert operation “Sweeping Dust” and set out with 120 Tang Sect elites to kill Situ Xuan on his way back to the Star Luo Hotel.
• Situ Xuan sensed killing intent as he walked with Yuanen Yehui, then called Mu Ye and warned him that someone intended to harm him.
• Dai Yueyan assured Situ Xuan that the Star Luo Imperial Family was uninvolved and dispatched the Offering Hall to respond.
• Situ Xuan told Yuanen Yehui that the threat no longer mattered, and Mu Ye stood watching Central Avenue from the Star Luo Hotel suite.

After Situ Xuan warned that someone intended to harm him, Mu Ye prepared to rush to his disciple’s aid in Little Red, while Dai Yueyan realized the threat could spark a war and contacted his father. The chapter ended with Dai Yueyan telling Dai Tianling that something had happened.

• Situ Xuan told Mu Ye that someone intended to harm him, and Mu Ye’s blood and vitality surged with fury.
• Mu Ye summoned Little Red, entered the God-Rank Mecha, and blasted through his suite’s window toward Central Avenue.
• Dai Yueyan considered the consequences of an attack on Situ Xuan, including the possibility of war between the Star Luo Empire and the Sun Moon Federation.
• Dai Yueyan called Dai Tianling and told him that something had happened.

After Dai Yueyan reported that someone planned to attack Situ Xuan, Dai Tianling ordered En Ci to protect the Sun Moon Federation guest and stop the assailants. Situ Xuan left the injured Yuanen Yehui behind and ran toward the attackers, sensing more than a hundred people ahead.

• Dai Yueyan told Dai Tianling that Situ Xuan had reported an attempt on his life in Star Luo City.
• Dai Tianling summoned En Ci and ordered him to stop anyone targeting the distinguished guest, without holding back.
• En Ci accepted the decree and vanished from the Imperial Study.
• Situ Xuan set Yuanen Yehui on roadside steps and told her he would return after dealing with the danger.
• Situ Xuan ran toward the attackers using his physical strength and detected at least one hundred and twenty people ahead, including several powerful auras.

Situ Xuan charged into the Tang Sect Soul Fighting Hall’s concentrated attack and emerged uninjured, revealing his Six-Turn Golden Body and transformations. As four Spirit Douluo captains attacked him from all sides, he began Eight Extremes Heaven · Eighth Form—Star Fall.

• Situ Xuan accelerated toward the alley as the Tang Sect elites unleashed a coordinated barrage of soul skills.
• Situ Xuan charged straight through the attacks and emerged without a wound, with Flowing Fire Feathers and Black Tiger Malevolent Qi manifesting around him.
• The Tang Sect’s four Soul Fighting Hall captains, all eight-ring Spirit Douluos, attacked Situ Xuan from four directions.
• Situ Xuan spread his Blazing Feather Garment, turned its flames brilliant white, and invoked Eight Extremes Heaven · Eighth Form—Star Fall.

Situ Xuan broke through the Tang Sect formation with Meteor Assault, then chanted to awaken the second stage of his Roaring Forest Black Tiger Transformation. The four Spirit Douluo survived his charge as he faced them in his newly transformed state.

• Situ Xuan used Sword Flash to cut through the attacks of four Spirit Douluo and charged into the Tang Sect formation.
• Situ Xuan unleashed Meteor Assault, tearing through the alley and devastating the formation of one hundred and twenty Tang Sect disciples.
• Situ Xuan emerged at the far end of the alley while the four injured Spirit Douluo climbed out of the rubble.
• Situ Xuan chanted as Malevolent Qi gathered and Black Tiger Xuan Sha fused more deeply with his Body Martial Soul.
• Situ Xuan entered Roaring Forest Black Tiger Transformation: Second Stage, with tiger markings, amber eyes, dark crimson flames, and all five black soul rings lit.

Situ Xuan tore through the Tang Sect disciples in the alley, but four Spirit Douluo equipped with Battle Armor launched a coordinated attack against him. He withstood their opening assault and struck back, while the battle remained unresolved.

• Situ Xuan killed Tang Sect disciples with his martial arts as the survivors tried to restrain him with Soul Skills.
• The four Spirit Douluo equipped themselves with two Two-Word and two Three-Word Battle Armor sets, raising their Soul Power to the level of Title Douluo.
• The four attacked Situ Xuan in a practiced formation, striking from the front, right, above, and left.
• Situ Xuan blocked their blows, resisted the woman's poison, and counterattacked, damaging her armor and forcing the middle-aged man back.
• The short, fat man charged at Situ Xuan again with even greater speed.

Situ Xuan was badly wounded while fighting the Tang Sect attackers, then revealed he had been waiting for Hu Jie. Mu Ye arrived in Little Red and shattered Hu Jie’s attack, leaving the rank ninety-eight Super Douluo injured in a pit.

• Situ Xuan struck the short, fat man through a wall with a full-force punch.
• The tall, thin man hit Situ Xuan with a wind-pressure shockwave, sending him through a wall and breaking his ribs.
• Hu Jie attacked the injured Situ Xuan with his Ninth Soul Skill, a powerful energy wave.
• Little Red appeared between Situ Xuan and Hu Jie, shattered the energy wave, and punched Hu Jie into the ground.
• Mu Ye told Hu Jie he had attacked his disciple and must be tired of living, while Hu Jie pulled himself from the pit with cracked armor and bloodied lips.