Chapter Summaries

Long Zhanye incapacitated Xuan Ziwen and Shi Xing with mental attacks, then revealed himself above the southern city. As the defenders struggled to hold the line, Long Zhanye unleashed his eighth soul skill, filling the sky above Shrek City with a vast sea of swords.

• Long Zhanye's mental attacks knocked Xuan Ziwen unconscious and badly wounded Shi Xing, stopping the All-Terrain Self-Propelled Artillery units.
• Beibei warned of an enemy attack as Tang Sect members and city soldiers turned their weapons toward Long Zhanye hovering above the southern city.
• Shi Xing forced himself to stand, told Beibei and Xu Sanshi to keep defending the wall, and prepared to face Long Zhanye.
• Long Zhanye surveyed the southern city's weakening defenses and decided to destroy the city and kill its defenders.
• Long Zhanye activated his eighth soul skill, Sovereign Myriad Sword Divine Art, summoning an immense sea of gray-white longswords over Shrek City.
• Shi Xing looked up at the swords and realized the scale of Long Zhanye's attack.

Long Zhanye unleashed a devastating sword formation over South City, killing thousands of defenders and leaving Shi Xing gravely wounded. As Bi Ji led the soul beasts through the shattered defenses, Shi Xing burned his remaining Soul Power and charged at Long Zhanye.

• Long Zhanye summoned a vast sea of gray-white swords that swept across South City and killed more than six thousand defenders.
• Shi Xing used his Space-Time Silver Disk to divert falling swords and protect Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and the others, but his injuries and exhaustion worsened.
• Bi Ji seized the weakened defense line and ordered the soul beasts to pour through breaches in the city wall.
• Shi Xing watched the city fall into chaos, vowed to kill Long Zhanye, and launched himself at him with his remaining Soul Power.

Long Zhanye defeated Shi Xing in Shrek City and revealed that he was one of the brothers Shi Xing had tried to kill five years earlier. Shi Xing lay wounded and recognized his former target as Long Zhanye stood over him.

• Shi Xing attacked Long Zhanye with his Martial Soul Avatar, but the Soul-Absorbing Tablet petrified his right arm.
• Long Zhanye severed Shi Xing's petrified arm with the Demon-Breaking Sword.
• Shi Xing began to unleash his eighth soul skill, but Long Zhanye's Sea Dragon attack interrupted it and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Shi Xing asked Long Zhanye who he was, and Long Zhanye reminded him of the pair of brothers he had intercepted and tried to kill five years earlier.
• Shi Xing recognized Long Zhanye, who confirmed his identity and faced the man who had hunted him down.

Long Zhanye unleashed his Asura Finger and killed Shi Xing, the Title Douluo who had hunted him five years earlier. The battlefield reeled from Shi Xing’s death as Long Zhanye calmly withdrew his power, while Yan Shaozhe remained locked in battle with two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

• Long Zhanye unleashed Divine Slaughter's Domain, summoned his Asura True Body, and pointed its twelve fingers at Shi Xing.
• Long Zhanye’s “One Finger Asura—Heaven and Earth Unbound” drove Shi Xing into the ground and killed him.
• Thunderbolt Beibei and Xu Sanshi stared in shock from the city wall, unable to accept Shi Xing’s death.
• Yan Shaozhe was shaken and wanted to avenge Shi Xing, but kept fighting two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to protect the defensive line.
• Long Zhanye withdrew his domain calmly and identified the attack as Asura Finger, one of the three ultimate techniques he had comprehended in Slaughter City.

Long Zhanye watched Shrek City's defense collapse after killing Shi Xing, then looted Xuan Ziwen's Soul Tools and discovered a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone. As he collected the abandoned Level 8 artillery, he found many Ownerless Soul Rings inside the final unit.

• Long Zhanye raised Shi Xing's severed head, causing the Shrek City Defense Army's morale to collapse, but Yan Shaozhe killed fleeing soldiers and forced the survivors to keep fighting.
• Soul beasts poured into Shrek City as the Sea God Pavilion elders struggled to hold back the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts outside the walls.
• Long Zhanye searched the unconscious Xuan Ziwen's Storage Soul Tools and found a dark-red left arm Soul Bone that he judged to be from a Hundred-Thousand-Year tiger-type soul beast.
• Long Zhanye found over a thousand kilograms of rare metals and numerous Level 8 Soul Tools among Xuan Ziwen's possessions, then stored nearly sixty-one All-Terrain Self-Propelled Artillery units.
• Long Zhanye spotted a glow inside the last artillery unit and discovered many Ownerless Soul Rings within it.

Long Zhanye collected thousands of Ownerless Soul Rings, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring that matched his Soul Bone, and captured the unconscious Xuan Ziwen. As an Undead Army emerged from nine gates and clashed with the Beast Tide outside Shrek City, Long Zhanye recognized Huo Yuhao's aura and flew toward the battle.

• Long Zhanye searched the artillery units and gathered their thousands of Ownerless Soul Rings.
• Long Zhanye found a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring in the thirty-seventh unit and reunited it with the matching left arm Soul Bone.
• Long Zhanye stripped Xuan Ziwen of his belongings and took him captive to deliver to Hall Master Hongchen.
• Long Zhanye spotted an Undead Army advancing from the northwest and saw nine gates and a reddish-gold vertical eye summoning it.
• Long Zhanye recognized Huo Yuhao's aura behind the army and flew toward the northwest as the undead fought the attacking spirit beasts.

Long Zhanye summoned three thousand Chaos Soldier Puppets and used them to crush Huo Yuhao’s undead army. He confronted Huo Yuhao over the Ming Capital explosion, leaving Huo Yuhao speechless and ashamed after exposing his role in the deaths of civilians.

• Long Zhanye revealed that his Secret Spirit Bone Left Arm could summon three thousand Soul Saint-level Chaos Soldier Puppets, each formed from a refined soul beast.
• Long Zhanye sent the Puppets to slaughter the undead pouring from Huo Yuhao’s nine gates, rapidly clearing the army and advancing to the gates.
• Huo Yuhao froze at the sight of three thousand opponents of his own level as Long Zhanye approached and taunted him.
• Huo Yuhao accused Long Zhanye of exploiting Shrek City’s crisis and refusing to help civilians under siege.
• Long Zhanye blamed Huo Yuhao for planning the Ming Capital explosion and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, leaving Huo Yuhao unable to answer.

Huo Yuhao lured Long Zhanye, his three thousand Puppets, and Ye Guyi into the Undead Semi-Plane, then sealed the gates and declared that they were trapped in his world. Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi explored the plane and found an endless, lifeless wasteland filled with wandering undead.

• Long Zhanye condemned Huo Yuhao for the Ming Capital explosion, his tournament cheating, and the civilians killed in his attack, while Huo Yuhao prepared a plan to escape through the Undead Gates.
• Huo Yuhao entered an Undead Gate, and Long Zhanye led his three thousand Puppets and Ye Guyi through the gates in pursuit.
• The nine Undead Gates closed behind them, and Huo Yuhao revealed that he had trapped them inside the Undead Semi-Plane.
• Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi surveyed the vast, desolate realm, where barren mountains and cracked earth stretched beneath unchanging twilight.
• Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi encountered countless mindless undead creatures wandering through the lifeless plane.

Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi explored the seemingly endless space Huo Yuhao controlled, but found no way out. They established a foothold on a barren mountain and continued searching, with no sign of Huo Yuhao or an exit.

• Ye Guyi killed hundreds of Undead Creatures but received no Faith Power, leading her to conclude they were not evil spirits in the traditional sense.
• Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi flew for three days and nights without finding a boundary, then retraced their route for another three days and returned to their starting point.
• Long Zhanye reasoned that Huo Yuhao had created or controlled the space and had closed its entrance, while reassuring Ye Guyi that the Undead Creatures posed little threat.
• Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi made a bare mountaintop their temporary foothold, with Long Zhanye investigating the surroundings and Ye Guyi guarding it.
• Over the following days, Long Zhanye found no exit or trace of Huo Yuhao, leaving them trapped in the desolate space.

Huo Yuhao ended the Beast Tide by threatening Di Tian with the Star Dou Great Forest’s luck, then led a Spirit Soul experiment with the surviving elders and fierce beasts. Meanwhile, Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi discovered that their month of cultivation in the Undead Semi-Plane had brought no growth, and Long Zhanye vowed to escape and kill Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao forced Di Tian to withdraw the soul beasts by threatening to destroy the Star Dou Great Forest’s luck, ending the Beast Tide after both sides suffered massive losses.
• Huo Yuhao and the surviving Sea God Pavilion elders joined Di Tian and the other fierce beasts to conduct the Spirit Soul experiment in the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Area.
• Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi concluded that they could escape the Undead Semi-Plane only through overwhelming power or help from outside, so they stopped trying to break out and cultivated.
• After a month, Long Zhanye realized that the half-plane lacked the energy needed for cultivation, leaving his and Ye Guyi’s Soul Power unchanged.
• Long Zhanye comforted the despairing Ye Guyi and vowed to get them out of the half-plane and kill Huo Yuhao.

Trapped with Ye Guyi in a half-plane where they could neither cultivate nor escape by force, Long Zhanye began taking Sun Moon Empire pills despite their dangerous long-term effects. He entered deep meditation to refine their power, while Ye Guyi stayed anxiously by his side.

• Long Zhanye took out pills that could raise Soul Power but risked solidifying it and blocking future advancement to Title Douluo.
• Ye Guyi scattered the pills and warned Long Zhanye that taking them could ruin his cultivation, but he insisted it was their only chance to escape and that he had a plan.
• Ye Guyi hugged Long Zhanye and pleaded with him not to wager his future, while he promised he would turn the medicine's drawbacks into benefits.
• Over the next few days, Long Zhanye swallowed enormous doses of the pills, endured their violent effects, and entered deep meditation.
• Ye Guyi remained beside Long Zhanye, watching anxiously and pacing around him as he meditated.

Long Zhanye’s prolonged medicine use raised his Soul Power to rank eighty-five but solidified it, while Medusa announced that he had passed the Fallen Poison trial. He absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year Six-Winged Demon Tiger Soul Ring, which raised him to rank eighty-seven and loosened his solidified Soul Power, while Ye Guyi absorbed the matching soul bone and reached rank seventy-three.

• After a year of meditation and taking medicine, Long Zhanye’s Soul Power rose from level eighty-two and a half to level eighty-five and became solidified.
• Medusa announced that Long Zhanye had passed the Fallen Poison trial and received ten percent Sin Affinity.
• Long Zhanye brought out his Qilin Arm, a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and a dark-red left-arm soul bone, then gave the soul bone to Ye Guyi because he already had a left-arm soul bone.
• Long Zhanye absorbed the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring into his second Martial Soul and learned it came from a Six-Winged Demon Tiger.
• The soul ring raised Long Zhanye’s Soul Power to rank eighty-seven and loosened its solidification, while Ye Guyi absorbed the soul bone and reached rank seventy-three.

Trapped in the Undead Semi-Plane, Long Zhanye discovered that Ye Guyi was pregnant with twins, and a week later they welcomed a boy and a girl. Their children gave Long Zhanye a renewed determination to escape, and he promised Ye Guyi that the real show was only beginning.

• Long Zhanye told Ye Guyi they still lacked the strength to leave the half-plane, then used his Double Pupil to discover two lives in her abdomen.
• Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi realized they were expecting twins and shared their joy as the children neared birth.
• A week later, Ye Guyi gave birth to a boy and a girl, and Long Zhanye held the boy while Ye Guyi held the girl.
• Long Zhanye admitted he had not chosen names for the children and felt guilty that they had been born in the barren semi-plane.
• Long Zhanye resolved to escape for his family and told Ye Guyi that the real show had only just begun; she guarded him and the children as he cultivated.

Long Zhanye spent months cultivating to condense a second Soul Core inside his heart, enduring a dangerous transformation while Ye Guyi guarded him and the children. He completed the Heart Soul Core and demonstrated a new power that fused Soul Power and Mental Power.

• Long Zhanye meditated for a month as a vast Soul Power storm formed around him, while Ye Guyi struggled to approach.
• Long Zhanye used his Mental Power to compress the storm into his heart, enduring eighty-one more waking cycles without food, water, or sleep as Ye Guyi watched over him and the children.
• On the eighty-second day, Long Zhanye formed a pale-red sphere at the center of his heart and released a blazing ring of Soul Power.
• Long Zhanye discovered that his Soul Power and Mental Power had fused into a new energy and destroyed a distant mountaintop with an invisible giant hand.
• Long Zhanye announced that his second Soul Core was complete.

After a year and a half trapped in the Undead Semi-Plane, Long Zhanye completed his second soul core and discovered that his Double Pupil could perceive the plane’s hidden energy and connect to Huo Yuhao’s senses. He realized the semi-plane was part of Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness and began investigating the link for a way to escape.

• Long Zhanye formed his Heart Soul Core, greatly improving his soul power capacity, circulation, and recovery while remaining at rank eighty-seven.
• Long Zhanye opened his Double Pupil and saw countless faintly glowing energy particles throughout the Undead Semi-Plane.
• Long Zhanye released his Soul Power and Mental Power, sensed the aura of Douluo Continent, and realized he could perceive the outside world but could not leave the plane.
• Long Zhanye used his connection to see and hear Huo Yuhao in the Sea God Pavilion, where Huo Yuhao was thinking about Spirit Souls and the Spirit Pagoda.
• Long Zhanye concluded that the Undead Semi-Plane was maintained by Huo Yuhao and began meditating to explore their connection for a chance to break free.

Long Zhanye discovered that the Undead Semi-Plane let him sense and influence Huo Yuhao through his Sea of Consciousness, then spent years learning Huo Yuhao’s secrets and abilities. After seeing Huo Yuhao grow into a Soul Douluo and establish a new Spirit Soul system, Long Zhanye decided he was ready to leave the semi-plane.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sensed a powerful Mental Power scan Huo Yuhao’s entire Sea of Consciousness and warned that its source seemed stronger than a Super Douluo.
• Long Zhanye withdrew his power in the Undead Semi-Plane and realized its connection to Huo Yuhao let him sense and potentially influence him.
• Long Zhanye excitedly told Ye Guyi that he had found a way for them to escape and become stronger, though she believed he had gone mad.
• Over the following years, Long Zhanye observed Huo Yuhao stop the Star Dou Great Forest Beast Tide, establish the Spirit Soul system and Spirit Pagoda, and gain new Spirit Souls and abilities.
• Long Zhanye learned about Huo Yuhao’s battles, family history, and rise to Soul Douluo, then concluded he had seen all of Huo Yuhao’s secrets and it was time to leave.

Long Zhanye decided to turn the undead of the Undead Semi-Plane into Beast Spirits so Huo Yuhao could not reclaim them through Necromancy. After refining a hundred thousand undead, he set his sights on the Undead Ice Bear King, hoping to claim its rank-ninety-five strength.

• Long Zhanye realized he could use Necromancy to control the undead, but chose to kill and refine them into Beast Spirits to prevent Huo Yuhao from taking them back.
• Long Zhanye sent Ye Guyi and the children to safety, then ordered three thousand Chaos Soldier Puppets to slaughter the undead while he refined their remains.
• Over several days, Long Zhanye refined more than a hundred thousand undead into Beast Spirit Beads and stored them in three Soul Guidance Staffs.
• Long Zhanye spotted the Undead Ice Bear King and judged that his Mental Power and Soul Power core would let him defeat the mindless creature.

Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi escaped the Undead Semi-Plane after Long Zhanye defeated and refined the Undead Ice Bear King, then used Huo Yuhao’s weakened state to open the exit. Outside, Huo Yuhao was left near death after Long Xiaoyao forced him to stab himself nine times, while Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi rushed toward freedom with their children.

• Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi spent six days fighting the Undead Ice Bear King, and Long Zhanye finally killed it and refined it into a Beast Spirit.
• Long Zhanye sensed that Huo Yuhao was in danger and decided to wait until Huo Yuhao’s Mental Power weakened before trying to escape with Ye Guyi and their children.
• In Heaven Dou City, Long Xiaoyao overwhelmed Huo Yuhao, but Tang Wutong intervened and tried to flee with him before Long Xiaoyao trapped them in his domain.
• Long Xiaoyao held Tang Wutong hostage and forced Huo Yuhao to stab himself nine times, leaving him gravely wounded and near death.
• Long Zhanye used his knowledge of Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness to open the Undead Semi-Plane’s gate, then hurried toward it with Ye Guyi and their children.

Long Zhanye used a Puppet disguised as Xuan Zi to trick Long Xiaoyao into handing over the Dragon Pill and escape with Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong. Long Xiaoyao pulled them back to Heaven Dou City, exposed Long Zhanye, and demanded his name and master.

• Long Zhanye hid Ye Guyi and her children in his Storage Belt, then used a Puppet to impersonate Xuan Zi while disguising himself as a Shrek Academy student.
• Fake Xuan Zi asked Long Xiaoyao to release Huo Yuhao, and Long Xiaoyao explained that he was honoring Mu En's final wish by giving Huo Yuhao the Dragon Pill.
• Long Xiaoyao gave the Dragon Pill to fake Xuan Zi, who took the unconscious Tang Wutong and barely living Huo Yuhao and fled with Long Zhanye.
• After flying two hundred li toward the Body Sect, Long Zhanye was seized by Long Xiaoyao's dark energy and brought back to Heaven Dou City.
• Long Xiaoyao's pressure shattered the Puppet and revealed Long Zhanye, whom he questioned about his name and master.

Long Zhanye used his identity as Kong Deming’s disciple to bargain with Long Xiaoyao for Huo Yuhao and the Dragon Pill. After Long Xiaoyao refused to let him leave with either, Long Zhanye threatened Huo Yuhao’s life and secured a perilous challenge, leaving the two to face off within a hundred-meter boundary.

• Long Zhanye revealed that he was Kong Deming’s disciple, prompting Long Xiaoyao to ask why he had come.
• Long Zhanye said he wanted to take the dying Huo Yuhao and described their relationship as both enemy and friend.
• Long Xiaoyao offered Long Zhanye the choice of leaving Huo Yuhao and the Dragon Pill behind or staying forever, then refused to let him take either even after Long Zhanye invoked Kong Deming.
• Long Zhanye challenged Long Xiaoyao to a fight, but Long Xiaoyao dismissed the challenge and summoned a Black Dragon Phantom.
• Long Zhanye clamped his hand around Huo Yuhao’s neck and threatened to kill him, forcing Long Xiaoyao to offer a contest: Long Zhanye had to escape a hundred-meter radius within the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Long Zhanye accepted Long Xiaoyao’s challenge, with Huo Yuhao and the Dragon Pill at stake.