Chapter Summaries

Mu Ye used Little Red to overpower Hu Jie, revealing that his Body Martial Soul cultivation had reached the threshold of a Limit Douluo. He left Hu Jie broken and helpless after condemning him for leading an overwhelming force against a five-ring Soul Master.

• Mu Ye unleashed Little Red’s power and sent Hu Jie crashing through three walls, shattering the arms of his Three-Word Battle Armor.
• Hu Jie sensed Mu Ye’s Body Martial Soul aura rising to the level of a Limit Douluo and realized his assumptions about Mu Ye’s stalled cultivation were wrong.
• Mu Ye struck Hu Jie with Little Red’s thruster-driven leg, breaking both forearms and knocking him into the rubble.
• Mu Ye lifted Hu Jie by the back of his neck and accused him of bringing 120 elites and four Spirit Douluo captains to kill one five-ring Soul Master.
• Mu Ye slammed Hu Jie into the ground, breaking more bones and leaving him embedded in a fresh pit.

Mu Ye crushed Hu Jie with Little Red after declaring that he was avenging his disciple and the Body Sect. As the Offering Hall and Imperial Guard surrounded the street, Li Tianxing confronted the barely conscious Hu Jie and asked what he had done.

• Mu Ye stomped Hu Jie's chest and shattered his armor, then struck him with a powerful punch that left him barely breathing in a crater.
• The Star Luo Empire's Offering Hall arrived under Li Tianxing and encircled the street while the Imperial Guard blocked the exits with three hundred soldiers.
• Li Tianxing surveyed the dead and wounded Tang Sect disciples and learned that a level fifty-four Soul Ancestor had caused the destruction.
• Li Tianxing asked Hu Jie whether he knew what he had done, but Hu Jie could only move his lips without making himself heard.

Situ Xuan left the injured Tang Men disciples behind as Li Tianxing ordered the Imperial Guard to let him pass. He insulted the defeated Hu Jie while Mu Ye recognized the Tang Men elder and loudly denounced his actions in Star Luo City.

• Li Tianxing ordered the Imperial Guard to seal the alley, but told his soldiers to stand down when Situ Xuan approached.
• Situ Xuan walked through the cordon while the injured Tang Men disciples watched without challenging him.
• Situ Xuan reached Little Red and spat at Hu Jie, calling him an old good-for-nothing.
• Mu Ye laughed from inside the mecha, recognized Hu Jie as an old bastard of Tang Men, and roared that he had dared to attack in the Imperial City.

After Mu Ye exposed Hu Jie's role in the ambush on the Sun Moon Federation delegation, Li Tianxing treated the incident as a matter of state and promised an investigation. The chapter ended with Mu Ye warning that he would demand his own justice if the Star Luo Empire's explanation proved inadequate.

• Mu Ye's words revealed that Hu Jie, deputy hall master of the Offering Hall and head of the Tang Sect's Star Luo branch, had led 120 disciples in an ambush beneath the imperial city.
• Li Tianxing ordered his adjutant to record Mu Ye's accusations, while Situ Xuan left the alley and went to Yuanen Yehui.
• Mu Ye confronted Hu Jie and declared that the attack on his disciple was not over, then heard Li Tianxing promise that the Star Luo Empire would investigate.
• Li Tianxing told Mu Ye that En Ci had intervened and that the emperor had ordered a thorough investigation; Mu Ye warned he would collect the explanation himself if it was inadequate.
• Li Tianxing ordered the injured and dead Tang Sect disciples taken away and the Tang Sect branch sealed until the investigation was complete.

After Mu Ye and Situ Xuan rescued Yuanen Yehui and drove off the Tang Sect attackers, they returned to the Star Luo Hotel, where Mu Ye checked Situ Xuan’s injuries. Situ Xuan recognized that Mu Ye had used Hu Jie’s identity and the attack’s location to force the Star Luo Empire to treat the incident as a matter of state.

• Li Tianxing watched the crimson Mecha leave and lamented that Hu Jie had provoked Mu Ye and Situ Xuan.
• Situ Xuan carried Yuanen Yehui back to the Star Luo Hotel while Little Red followed, and Mu Ye sent the Mecha to wait on the balcony.
• Mu Ye examined Situ Xuan and confirmed that his injuries were not serious.
• Situ Xuan praised Mu Ye for turning the fight with Hu Jie into a political issue, and Mu Ye punched him for underestimating his intelligence.
• Mu Ye explained that the Body Sect had survived because it relied on brains as well as strength.

Situ Xuan explained that he had anticipated the ambush and called Mu Ye as backup, prompting Mu Ye to promise he would protect his disciple. After leaving Situ Xuan to recover at the hotel, Mu Ye flew Little Red to the Offering Hall to oversee what happened to Hu Jie.

• Mu Ye scolded Situ Xuan for provoking a rank ninety-eight Super Douluo, and Situ Xuan teased him about shouting from inside the Mecha.
• Situ Xuan revealed that he had sensed the attackers after leaving the arena and had deliberately used the ambush to test his physical limits.
• Situ Xuan admitted he had called Mu Ye as insurance, and Mu Ye laughed before promising to hold up the sky if it fell.
• Mu Ye noticed Yuanen Yehui resting in the bedroom, then left Situ Xuan to recover while he went to check on Hu Jie at the Offering Hall.
• Mu Ye boarded Little Red and flew from the Star Luo Hotel toward the Offering Hall.

Mu Ye headed to the Offering Hall, hoping to see how the Tang Sect and Star Luo Empire would react if Hu Jie were brought down under the empire’s laws. Back in the suite, Situ Xuan cared for the secretly awake Yuanen Yehui without confronting her feelings, and left her to sleep before their next day’s plans.

• Mu Ye reflected on the Tang Sect’s influence in the Star Luo Empire and the Sun Moon Federation’s plans against Shrek Academy.
• Mu Ye flew Little Red toward the Offering Hall to observe the situation surrounding Hu Jie.
• Situ Xuan returned to the suite and found Yuanen Yehui resting with bandaged fingers and a treated burn.
• Situ Xuan realized Yuanen Yehui was awake when she stiffened as he adjusted her blanket.
• Yuanen Yehui hid her feelings for Situ Xuan, who dimmed the lamp and told her to sleep.

Situ Xuan and Yuanen Yehui spent a tense night under the same roof while he considered the political consequences of Hu Jie’s arrest. Hu Jie received comfortable treatment in prison but remained consumed by hatred and revenge.

• Yuanen Yehui hid under her blanket, remembered how close Situ Xuan had come to touching her, and struggled to stop thinking about him.
• Situ Xuan overheard Yuanen Yehui’s muttering, then rested while using his semi-hibernation ability to recover from his injuries.
• Situ Xuan considered how Mu Ye’s visit to the Offering Hall might influence Dai Tianling’s decision about Hu Jie and the Tang Sect.
• Hu Jie sat in a well-appointed prison cell as the Offering Hall treated him and the Tang Sect survivors without mistreatment.
• Hu Jie ignored his meal and privately resolved to make Mu Ye kneel, destroy Situ Xuan, and eliminate the Body Sect.

Hu Jie waited in prison, certain that the Star Luo Empire could not afford to punish him because it relied on Tang Sect technology and many imprisoned disciples came from noble families. Dai Tianling and En Ci arrived, and Hu Jie offered new Soul Guidance pulse machine gun production-line technology and research institute admission slots in exchange for the prisoners’ release.

• Hu Jie waited calmly in his cell, convinced that Dai Tianling would have to negotiate because the Tang Sect supported the Star Luo Empire and noble heirs were imprisoned nearby.
• Dai Tianling and En Ci entered the cell after reviewing reports about the destruction in Star Luo City.
• Hu Jie offered the new-generation Soul Guidance pulse machine gun production-line technology and ten Tang Sect Research Institute admission slots if the prisoners were released.
• Hu Jie leaned back and savored his cold tea, confident that the empire would not dare act against him.

Dai Tianling left Hu Jie's cell without deciding how to punish him, caught between Tang Sect influence and pressure from Star Luo nobles. He stopped near the prison exit, facing the two forces that threatened to make him yield.

• Hu Jie warned Dai Tianling that the Star Luo Empire depended on Tang Sect technology and support, then dared Mu Ye to come challenge the Tang Sect.
• Dai Tianling left the cell in silence, and En Ci followed him after giving Hu Jie a cold glance.
• Hu Jie hid his hatred behind a calm expression and vowed to make the Body Sect, Mu Ye, and the young man pay once he was free.
• As Dai Tianling walked through the passage, he considered the nobles demanding the release of their imprisoned relatives and the damage a Tang Sect technology blockade could inflict.
• Dai Tianling stopped twenty steps from the iron door, recognizing the nobles’ demands and the Tang Sect’s technological leverage as two blades pressing against him.

Dai Tianling asked En Ci what the Star Luo Empire should do as it faced the Tang Sect’s technological blockade and political pressure. He reaffirmed his resolve to strengthen the empire, then went to meet Mu Ye, whose visit could offer a way forward.

• Dai Tianling asked En Ci how to respond to the Star Luo Empire’s crisis, and En Ci admitted that even a Limit Douluo could not save the nation alone.
• En Ci vowed to follow Dai Tianling’s decision to the death, and Dai Tianling declared that the Star Luo Empire would grow strong.
• Dai Tianling left the passage with En Ci and went to the Offering Hall reception hall to meet Mu Ye.
• Dai Tianling welcomed Mu Ye warmly and clasped his hand as Mu Ye rose to greet him.

Mu Ye pressed Dai Tianling for the Star Luo Empire’s response to Hu Jie’s attempted assassination of Situ Xuan. Dai Tianling condemned Hu Jie but revealed that Tang Sect’s leaders had threatened extreme retaliation if Hu Jie was declared dead, leaving the empire unwilling to confirm his death.

• Mu Ye sensed that Dai Tianling and En Ci were burdened by trouble concerning Hu Jie.
• Mu Ye demanded to know how the Star Luo Empire would handle Hu Jie’s attack on Situ Xuan, a Sun Moon Federation colonel and visiting delegate.
• Dai Tianling condemned Hu Jie’s crimes and struck the table as he described the attack as heinous.
• Dai Tianling told Mu Ye that Tang Sect’s sect master and deputy sect master had promised compensation but threatened retaliation if Hu Jie was dead.
• Dai Tianling said he could not declare Hu Jie dead because he feared endangering the people of the Star Luo Empire.

Mu Ye weighed his anger over Situ Xuan’s ambush against the danger of confronting the Tang Sect and its two Limit Douluo. He accepted Dai Tianling’s need to protect the Star Luo Empire, but the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Mu Ye suspected Dai Tianling had invented the Tang Sect leaders’ messages to pressure him, though he understood that the Body Sect could not challenge the Tang Sect safely.
• Mu Ye recalled how Situ Xuan’s medicinal bath method had revived the Body Sect and felt indebted to his disciple after the ambush nearly killed him.
• Mu Ye struggled between retaliating for Situ Xuan and protecting the hundreds of people who depended on him as sect master.
• Dai Tianling and En Ci watched as Mu Ye drank his cold tea and asked whether the Tang Sect’s two Limit Douluo had personally sent messages.
• Dai Tianling confirmed the messages, and Mu Ye said he understood that the emperor had to protect the Star Luo Empire and avoid offending the Tang Sect.

Mu Ye declared that the Body Sect would fight every member of the Tang Sect branch in a Death Match, despite Dai Tianling's warning about the Tang Sect's two Limit Douluo. Dai Tianling agreed not to interfere if Mu Ye could face them, and Mu Ye left the reception hall.

• Mu Ye said Hu Jie could live and the captured Tang Sect disciples could be released, but insisted the matter would not end there.
• Mu Ye declared that the Body Sect would fight every member of the Tang Sect branch in a Death Match and ordered Dai Tianling not to stop them.
• Mu Ye's qi and blood erupted, shaking the Offering Hall and making En Ci's martial soul react as En Ci weighed the danger of intervening.
• Dai Tianling told Mu Ye the Star Luo Empire would not object if Mu Ye could face the Tang Sect's two Limit Douluo.
• Mu Ye coldly accepted Dai Tianling's condition and strode out without saluting or saying farewell.

After Mu Ye left, Dai Tianling consulted En Ci about the Body Sect’s proposed Death Match and decided the Star Luo Empire would stay neutral. The next morning, Situ Xuan began training with a Soul Guidance Gravity Device.

• Dai Tianling raged over Mu Ye’s departure and asked En Ci what he thought of the Body Sect’s Death Match.
• En Ci explained that Mu Ye was seeking a way to answer for his disciple while showing that the revived Body Sect would not fear the Tang Sect.
• Dai Tianling ordered a letter prepared for the Tang Sect, then declared that the Star Luo Empire would help neither side and would let them fight.
• En Ci picked up the shattered calligraphy painting and carefully removed the broken glass from its frame.
• Situ Xuan stood on his balcony at dawn and activated a Soul Guidance Gravity Device that applied twenty times standard gravity.

Situ Xuan trained rigorously inside a twenty-times-gravity field, relying on his Six-Turn Golden Body to recover from the strain. Yuanen Yehui woke and saw him working out on the balcony.

• Situ Xuan exercised under twenty times gravity, beginning with stretches and moving through squats, lunges, and kicks.
• Situ Xuan focused on circulating his qi and blood as his body endured the pressure and healed from his previous injuries.
• Situ Xuan increased his pace, turning his movements into a continuous fist routine.
• Yuanen Yehui came out of the bedroom and saw Situ Xuan training in the morning light.

Yuanen Yehui watched Situ Xuan train under twenty times gravity and struggled to look away from his exposed physique. Situ Xuan completed his Six-Turn Golden Body training but realized that reaching Seven-Turn Myriad Phenomena required insight into nature, then noticed Yuanen Yehui staring at him.

• Yuanen Yehui woke and became captivated by Situ Xuan's physique as he trained on the balcony.
• Situ Xuan completed his body-tempering exercise under twenty times gravity and reflected that he had reached the Six-Turn Golden Body.
• Situ Xuan concluded that further gravity training would not lead to Seven-Turn Myriad Phenomena, which required insight into nature.
• Situ Xuan turned off the Soul Guidance Gravity Device, ended the gravity field, and saw Yuanen Yehui staring at his chest.

Yuanen Yehui shared an awkward morning with Situ Xuan before Mu Ye told him that Hu Jie could not die and that he had arranged a Death Match with the Tang Sect branch. Situ Xuan reassured his master, suppressed his fury toward the Tang Sect, and headed out as the individual matches began.

• Yuanen Yehui blushed after greeting Situ Xuan, and he told her to wash up and come down for breakfast before the individual matches.
• Mu Ye called Situ Xuan and explained that the Tang Sect had warned Dai Tianling that killing Hu Jie could provoke them and endanger both the Star Luo Empire and the Body Sect.
• Mu Ye said he had arranged a Death Match between the Body Sect and the Tang Sect branch and would cripple Hu Jie.
• Situ Xuan told Mu Ye that it was not his fault, then silently fought down his rage toward the Tang Sect.
• Situ Xuan reminded Yuanen Yehui not to be late and left as spectators gathered at Star Luo Grand Stadium for the individual matches.

Situ Xuan entered the Star Luo Empire tournament arena for his third-round individual match, drawing wary attention from everyone around him. His opponent, a saber-wielding young man whose sheath bore the character "Tang," arrived and studied him.

• Situ Xuan entered the crowded waiting area, where the other contestants instinctively left an empty space around him.
• The staff called Situ Xuan for his third-round match in Arena Twenty-Four, and he opened his eyes and headed to the arena.
• Situ Xuan stepped onto the stage and waited without warming up or looking toward his opponent's entrance.
• A lean young man carrying a long saber marked with the character "Tang" entered the stage and measured Situ Xuan with his gaze.

Situ Xuan faced a young Tang Sect disciple in the arena and asked whether he had joined the Tang Sect. When the match began, Situ Xuan crossed the distance instantly and struck him down with a single punch.

• The referee called the contestants to their positions, and Situ Xuan asked the young man whether he had joined the Tang Sect.
• The young man confirmed that he was a Tang Sect disciple and prepared to draw his blade as the referee started the match.
• Situ Xuan vanished across the arena before the young man could draw his blade and punched him in the face.
• The young man flew into the arena barrier, fell motionless, and died as Situ Xuan stood over him.