Chapter Summaries

Long Zhanye intervened to save Zhongli Wu from Ning Rongrong and challenged the Nine-Colored Goddess over her right to obstruct mortal paths to godhood. After their battle escalated, Long Zhanye killed Ning Rongrong with the Yin Yang Chaos Bird’s defense-piercing strike and captured her divine soul.

• Long Zhanye used the Sea God Helmet to restore Zhongli Wu and blocked Ning Rongrong’s attack with his Twin God of Strength Hammers.
• Long Zhanye confronted Ning Rongrong over her interference in the mortal world and attacked her, forcing her back despite her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda barrier.
• Long Zhanye unleashed his Yin-Yang Life and Death Reincarnation Domain, clashing with Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasure Divine Light.
• Ning Rongrong overwhelmed Long Zhanye with her divine power, but the Yin Yang Chaos Bird’s gray blade ignored her defenses and severed her head.
• Long Zhanye took Ning Rongrong’s divine tool and origin divine power, then trapped her divine soul in his Destruction Undead Domain.

After Long Zhanye killed the Nine-Colored Goddess and rescued Zhongli Wu, Zhongli Wu asked the Body Sect to shelter the defeated Evil Soul Masters. In the Divine Realm, Tang San and the God of Destruction clashed over the killing, while Tang San revealed he had sent the Phoenix God and a thousand Heavenly God Hunters to retrieve Xiao Qi and punish Long Zhanye.

• Long Zhanye explained that he had saved Zhongli Wu because the Evil Soul Master’s path was no less worthy than anyone else’s, and Zhongli Wu vowed to pursue that path again someday.
• Zhongli Wu asked to join the Body Sect and begged Long Zhanye to shelter the Evil Soul Masters, while the other three Holy Sons knelt with him.
• Tang San, Ji Dong, Lie Yan, and the God of Destruction discussed the Nine-Colored Goddess’s death and Long Zhanye’s role in saving Zhongli Wu.
• The God of Destruction challenged Tang San over secretly sending the Nine-Colored Goddess to the Douluo Continent and urged him to answer to the original Asura God.
• Lie Yan warned Tang San that he could not see the Douluo Continent through the God of Destruction’s barrier, and Tang San said he had sent the Phoenix God and a thousand Heavenly God Hunters to retrieve Xiao Qi and teach Long Zhanye a lesson.

The Phoenix God Ma Hongjun arrived with a thousand Heavenly God Hunters and challenged Long Zhanye, while the hunters attacked the Body Sect to retrieve Tang Wutong. The sect’s soul engineers repelled them with powerful defenses and weapons, but the hunters regrouped and prepared to break through the barrier.

• Ma Hongjun descended with a thousand Heavenly God Hunters and ordered them to bring Tang Wutong back as he confronted Long Zhanye.
• Long Zhanye refused to surrender, and Ma Hongjun attacked him with a phoenix-shaped pillar of fire that Long Zhanye blocked with his Twin God of Strength Hammers.
• Kong Deming raised the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier to stop the hunters from reaching Tang Wutong, and a linked Silver Moon Divine Light Wave killed three hunters.
• The hunters surrounded the Body Sect and attacked, but Kong Deming’s soul engineers used four Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons to kill 103 hunters and injure more than 240.
• The hunters’ leader survived with a crack in his divine armor and ordered the remaining hunters to focus their attacks on one point and break through the barrier.

Long Zhanye and the Body Sect fought off the hunters as Ma Hongjun's phoenix divine fire devastated the Holy Spirit Empire and battered the sect's defenses. Long Zhanye faced Ma Hongjun in a close-quarters duel, while the battle around them continued to threaten the Body Sect.

• The hunters concentrated their attacks on Kong Deming's Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier, while Long Zhanye summoned three thousand divine puppets to attack them.
• Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Domain destroyed a third of the puppets, but Long Zhanye used Ning Rongrong's Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to block the flames and enraged Ma Hongjun by revealing he had Ning Rongrong's head.
• Ma Hongjun unleashed ten pillars of phoenix fire, routing the Body Sect's Soul Engineers and setting the Holy Spirit imperial grounds ablaze; Long Zhanye's puppets stopped some of the attacks, and his ice walls contained the fire.
• Du Busi ordered the Body Sect to evacuate, but Long Zhanxuan led its younger disciples in a counterattack as Long Zhanye gave divine tools to Vina and Kong Deming and summoned an army of undead.
• Long Zhanye used spatial power to engage Ma Hongjun at close range, and after several exchanges, Ma Hongjun had lost eleven wing feathers and suffered a gash on his left arm.

Long Zhanye used the True Phoenix bloodline and creation power to suppress Ma Hongjun, then struck him down with an imitation of the Asura Demon Sword’s Asura Judgment. Ma Hongjun survived by using Nine-Turn Nirvana, while Long Zhanye, weakened after fighting two Second-Level Gods, prepared to end the battle quickly.

• Long Zhanye’s ice and fire dragon attacks froze one of Ma Hongjun’s wings and wounded the other.
• Long Zhanye revealed the crystalline-gold True Phoenix phantom, which suppressed Ma Hongjun’s bloodline and weakened his phoenix flames.
• Ma Hongjun attacked with phoenix claws, but Long Zhanye blocked them with the Twin God of Strength Hammers and revealed a sword resembling the Asura Demon Sword.
• Long Zhanye unleashed Asura Judgment, splitting Ma Hongjun in two, but Ma Hongjun used Nine-Turn Nirvana to reform in flames.
• Long Zhanye realized his divine power was running low and gathered what remained to finish the fight quickly.

Long Zhanye's divine puppets and the Body Sect's strongest fighters confronted the invading gods while Long Zhanye battled Ma Hongjun in the sky. Ma Hongjun set the Holy Spirit Empire and the Body Sect ablaze, and Zhongli Wu burned his vitality to launch one final attack.

• Long Zhanye's six hundred-odd divine puppets self-destructed, killing more than six hundred hunters, while the Body Sect's powerful fighters gathered to face the surviving invaders.
• Ma Hongjun and Long Zhanye traded divine skills, and Long Zhanye detonated his eighteen Soul Rings to overpower Ma Hongjun briefly before the Phoenix God regained the advantage.
• Long Zhanye survived Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Meteor Shower with Medusa's Despair, broke free using Dragon God's Claw, and tried to flee.
• Ma Hongjun threatened Long Zhanye's loved ones and set the Holy Spirit Empire and the Body Sect ablaze, forcing Long Zhanye to stop and look back.
• Zhongli Wu's attack failed against Ma Hongjun, so he burned his vitality and unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill, Death God Descends.