Chapter Summaries

Moryo, disguised as Xuan Zi, entered Star Luo City's great hall after the court learned that a powerful dark-blue Soul Beast had caused the mountain-destroying attack. He asked Xu Jiawei whether the entire Xu family was in Star Luo City, claiming the answer could affect the war across the continent.

• Xu Jiawei heard that the attack over Star Luo City had been caused by a Soul Beast whose strength might match the Ten Great Fierce Beasts.
• A herald announced Xuan Zi's return, raising the court's hopes, while Xu Jiawei and the two senior officials privately worried that the assassination plan might already have succeeded.
• Moryo entered the hall disguised as Xuan Zi and declined Xu Jiawei's offer of a seat.
• Moryo asked Xu Jiawei whether the entire Xu family was in Star Luo City and said the answer was important to the continental war.

Moryo revealed himself after claiming that he had killed Du Busi and attacked Xu Jiawei in the Star Luo palace. The Star-Shattering Douluo diverted the deadly beam into the sky, and the hall’s other powerful fighters began to protect the emperor.

• Xu Jiawei learned that the assassination plan had failed and that Du Busi and everyone else involved had died.
• Xu Jiawei questioned how Xuan Zi had survived, and Xuan Zi transformed into Moryo and claimed he had killed Du Busi.
• Moryo fired a blood-red beam at Xu Jiawei, and the Star-Shattering Douluo stepped in to block it.
• The Star-Shattering Douluo used his Martial Soul Avatar and Space Power to bend the beam through the palace roof and into the sky.
• The palace’s Titled Douluo and Soul Douluo reacted by activating their Martial Souls and protecting Xu Jiawei.

Moryo, controlling Xuan Zi's body, confronted the Star Luo Empire's leaders in the imperial palace and revealed that Stone Golems had appeared throughout Star Luo City. As the capital fell into chaos, Xu Jiawei and Star-Shattering Douluo blamed the Sun Moon Empire, while Moryo laughed.

• Wang Xian'er confirmed Xu Jiawei was unharmed, restored her youthful appearance, and demanded that Moryo explain its invasion.
• Moryo claimed to be Xuan Zi and said Taotie Douluo and the others were dead, while Xu Jiawei and Star-Shattering Douluo accused it of deception and demanded its surrender.
• Moryo declared that it had surrounded the Star Luo Empire's experts, then unleashed evil Soul Power that revealed Soul Power points appearing throughout Star Luo City.
• Stone Golems erupted from the city's streets, killed a Soul Elder guard, and attacked as Star Luo City descended into chaos.
• Xu Jiawei and Star-Shattering Douluo mistook the Stone Golems for a Sun Moon Empire invasion and prepared to attack Moryo, who burst out laughing.

Moryo faced a combined assault from the Title Douluo and Soul Douluo, while Star Luo City’s defenders fought the Stone Golems. The guards briefly gained confidence after smashing the golems, but learned the creatures could revive when the Soul Emperor adjutant was killed.

• Star-Shattering Douluo and the other soul masters attacked Moryo with nearly a hundred soul skills, and Moryo stood unmoving as it remarked that the world was too bright.
• Stone Golems advanced toward the palace gates as the middle-aged Soul Sage steadied the frightened guards and led a charge with the Soul Emperor adjutant.
• The middle-aged Soul Sage and the guards smashed many Stone Golems, raising the defenders’ morale as they fought for military merit.
• The shattered Stone Golems reassembled, and a stone spear pierced the Soul Emperor adjutant from behind.
• The revived Stone Golems stabbed the Soul Emperor adjutant to death, and the guards’ charge stopped when they saw his body.

The Stone Golems overwhelmed Star Luo City, and a monstrous Evil Soul Master tore through the palace defenders. With the palace sealed inside a purple-black barrier and the imperial forces being crushed, Star-Shattering Douluo proposed that Xu Jiawei and Wang Xian'er help him blast an escape route.

• The five-meter Stone Golem shattered the middle-aged Soul Sage's arm and Martial Soul Avatar, then kicked him into the palace, where an explosion destroyed the palace complex.
• A purple-black sphere appeared over the palace ruins, and the guards outside began to lose their nerve as they suspected the imperial Xu Family had fled.
• Inside the barrier, the corrupted Godly Taotie Bull swallowed soul skills and crushed the Soul Douluos before devouring them.
• Xu Jiawei and Wang Xian'er watched the slaughter from the ruins as Wang Xian'er healed Xu Jiawei's wounds.
• Star-Shattering Douluo told Xu Jiawei that the barrier was meant to prevent escape and proposed that Xu Jiawei and Wang Xian'er transfer their Soul Power to him so he could blast an exit.

Wang Xian'er and Xu Jiawei helped Star-Shattering Douluo prepare to escape, but Moryo spotted them and charged in before they could finish. Moryo revealed that Xu Jiawei was its target because an ancestor of the Xu family had devoured its flesh and blood.

• Wang Xian'er and Xu Jiawei transferred their Soul Power to Star-Shattering Douluo as Moryo noticed their escape plan.
• Moryo caught and drained a Title Douluo who tried to sneak up on it, then rode the Godly Taotie Bull toward the ruins.
• Moryo exposed the three’s hiding place, and Xu Jiawei offered it ten times the reward to stop its attack.
• Moryo rejected Xu Jiawei’s offer, declared that Xu Jiawei was its target, and confronted him as the two Douluos moved to protect him.
• Moryo told Xu Jiawei that his Star Crown Martial Soul had been strengthened by the Yin-Yang Escape Technique and revealed that an ancestor of the Xu family had devoured its flesh and blood.

Moryo attacked Xu Jiawei, Wang Xian'er, and Star-Shattering Douluo, overcoming their defenses and draining the Super Douluo to rebuild his body. After killing Wang Xian'er, he confronted Xu Jiawei and declared that the Star Luo Empire would not survive.

• Moryo sent the Godly Taotie Bull charging at the three, and Star-Shattering Douluo trapped it with his ninth soul skill.
• Star-Shattering Douluo realized Moryo had vanished and warned Xu Jiawei and Wang Xian'er to watch their surroundings.
• Xu Jiawei cast Star Protection, but Moryo broke through it and seized Star-Shattering Douluo by the face.
• Moryo drained Star-Shattering Douluo into a husk and blasted Xu Jiawei and Wang Xian'er into the rubble.
• Moryo pulled Wang Xian'er toward him and refined her into a dried corpse.
• Moryo told Xu Jiawei he had personally experienced the ancestor's consumption of his flesh and blood, then threatened the Star Luo Empire's existence.

Moryo devoured Xu Jiawei and slaughtered the surviving experts in the Star Luo imperial palace, while footage of the massacre intensified unrest in Star Luo City. Xu Jiawei, still alive in the present, learned that angry civilians had surrounded the palace and that the major families were not coming to help.

• Moryo drained Xu Jiawei to death, learned where the Xu clan lived, and decided to seek out Xu Jiujiu at Shrek Academy.
• Moryo slaughtered the surviving Soul Douluo and Title Douluo in the palace, leaving a mountain of drained corpses and wiping out most of the Star Luo Empire’s experts.
• People across the Douluo Continent reacted in fear to the Sky Screen footage, and many associated the controlled Xuan Zi with Evil Soul Masters.
• Star Luo City’s civilians and ordinary Soul Masters surged around the imperial palace and Xu clan residences, furious that the Xu family had apparently abandoned them during the attack.
• Xu Jiawei asked Cheng Gang why the palace was surrounded, and Cheng Gang explained that the major families had failed to send aid.

After the Sky Screen revealed Moryo’s massacre, Xu Jiawei opened Star Luo City’s gates while the Sun Moon Empire’s commanders prepared an attack. Moryo followed a white snake to the Xu family compound, where Orochimaru was waiting for it.

• Xu Jiawei ordered Star Luo City’s gates opened so people could enter and leave freely.
• Xuan Zi watched the Sky Screen portray him slaughtering Star Luo’s experts and felt the crew’s fearful stares.
• Xu Tianyuan persuaded the Sun Moon Empire’s commanders to attack the Mingdou Mountain Range at dawn, with Wang Yiheng and Liao Mengkai supporting the plan.
• Moryo declared its intent to consume the Xu family and Xu Jiujiu to create a body capable of holding God Level power.
• A small white snake led Moryo to the Xu family compound, where giant snakes restrained the family and Orochimaru waited to confront it.

Orochimaru confronted Moryo and proposed trading the Xu Family captives for Moryo’s body-refinement and soul-transfer methods. As Moryo demanded equal information, Orochimaru began to reveal something by altering his face, leaving Moryo startled by what it saw.

• A Xu Family disciple mistook Moryo for Shrek Academy reinforcements and begged it to avenge his family, but Orochimaru stopped Moryo from taking him by claiming him as prey.
• Orochimaru told Moryo that his goal was Moryo itself, then introduced himself and asked for its methods of refining and possessing bodies in exchange for the Xu Family captives.
• Orochimaru’s snakes tightened around the captives, while Moryo unleashed its Soul Power and accused Orochimaru of threatening it.
• Orochimaru denied threatening Moryo and said they were each seeking what they needed, but Moryo insisted that a trade required equal information.
• Orochimaru covered his face and manipulated something beneath his hair; when he looked up, Moryo paused at the sight of his unchanged left half-face.

Moryo and Orochimaru negotiated over body-refinement and soul-possession techniques, but Moryo betrayed Orochimaru during the exchange. Orochimaru escaped by emerging from his old body and drew his Kusanagi Sword, and both prepared to continue fighting.

• Moryo and Orochimaru bargained over the techniques, agreeing that Moryo would devour one third of the Xu clan members before handing over the soul-possession method.
• Moryo drained the vitality and Soul Power from the captives, then tossed Orochimaru a scroll containing only a blank sheet.
• Moryo stabbed Orochimaru in the abdomen and began draining him, declaring that they had never been able to cooperate.
• Orochimaru emerged unharmed from his withered body and pulled the Kusanagi Sword from his mouth, forcing Moryo to retreat.
• Orochimaru declared their deal over and commanded the surrounding snakes to attack.

Moryo attacked Orochimaru with enormous dragon heads formed from Purple-Black Soul Power after poisoning the Xu Family clansmen ruined its plans for them. One dragon head carried Orochimaru into the sky, where it shattered unexpectedly before Moryo detonated it.

• Orochimaru ordered the giant snakes to bite the Xu Family clansmen, killing them with venom and enraging Moryo.
• Moryo poured Purple-Black Soul Power into the ground, summoning a dragon head that burst from beneath the ruins and attacked Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru enlarged a snake head to clash with the dragon head, then used the Kusanagi Sword to cut it apart.
• A second dragon head emerged beneath Orochimaru, clamped onto his waist, and carried him high into the sky.
• Moryo prepared to detonate the dragon head, but it shattered before Moryo activated the explosion.

Orochimaru attacked Moryo, but their battle devastated Star Luo City without either gaining the upper hand. Moryo recognized Manda as a being from Ryuchi Cave and revealed its ancient hatred of the Three Sacred Grounds before summoning a powerful monster phantom.

• Orochimaru struck at Moryo from above, then spun his blade through Star Luo City and split the city with a massive ravine.
• Moryo reappeared behind Orochimaru and knocked him into the ground, but a giant purple snake tail then forced Moryo to retreat into the sky.
• Manda emerged as a giant horned snake with Orochimaru standing on its head and demanded doubled offerings in exchange for helping him.
• Moryo identified Manda as a member of Ryuchi Cave and accused the Three Sacred Grounds of helping humans stop its ancient conquest.
• Moryo summoned a purple-black monster phantom with dozens of dragon heads, and Manda warned Orochimaru that escaping would be difficult.

Orochimaru and Manda fought Moryo and its many-headed monster while waiting for Orochimaru’s subordinate to prepare a reverse summoning. Once it was ready, they tried to disengage, but Moryo moved to stop them.

• Orochimaru learned through a small white snake that the reverse summoning would take time, so he and Manda held off Moryo.
• Moryo unleashed volleys of Soul Power beams, which Manda dodged while Orochimaru cut through those that threatened them.
• Orochimaru attacked Moryo with the Kusanagi Sword, and the two fought at high speed as Manda battled the many-headed monster.
• Manda coiled around the monster and bit its central neck, provoking wild attacks that damaged the ruins and Star Luo City.
• Orochimaru learned the reverse summoning was ready and told Manda they needed to break away, but Moryo heard them and charged to stop them.

Orochimaru trapped Moryo in the Ten Thousand Snake Formation, but Moryo destroyed it and survived. Orochimaru escaped after directing Moryo toward Shrek and a pair of extraordinary eyes, leaving Moryo poised above the ruined Star Luo City.

• Moryo attacked Orochimaru, but Orochimaru blocked its sword thrust with the Kusanagi Sword and secretly had a snake bite Moryo.
• Orochimaru unleashed the Ten Thousand Snake Formation, which swallowed Moryo and its purple-black monster before rising more than a thousand meters into the sky.
• Snakes rained down across Star Luo City, spreading panic among its already beleaguered residents.
• Moryo broke out of the snake formation with a devastating explosion, destroying thousands of snakes and raining blood over the city.
• Orochimaru and Manda escaped by reverse summoning after Orochimaru told Moryo to seek out Shrek and its extraordinary pair of eyes.
• Moryo repeated Orochimaru’s words about Shrek and the eyes, then turned its gaze toward the devastated city below.

Moryo began absorbing the surviving people in Star Luo City as the Sky Screen showed the aftermath of Orochimaru’s attack. In Star Luo City, Xu Jiawei’s subjects fled through the opened gates, while Jing Hongchen entered a Soul Tool-filled basement in Virtue Hall.

• Moryo used a powerful suction force to pull hundreds of surviving people toward it in Star Luo City.
• Xu Jiawei watched the Sky Screen reveal that Orochimaru had controlled the Xu family, giving him an explanation for why they had not fought the foreign enemy.
• The people outside the imperial palace reacted to Orochimaru’s strange powers and debated whether to keep protesting or leave.
• Cheng Gang announced that Xu Jiawei had opened Star Luo City’s gates, prompting many people to flee.
• Jing Hongchen watched the Sky Screen with killing intent, then walked into a basement lined with precise Soul Tools.

Jing Hongchen visited the unconscious Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, then examined Orochimaru’s powerful Banana Leaf Fan and considered its possible ancient origins. When he learned Xu Tianran had arrived in person, Jing Hongchen suspected the regent might be after the fan.

• Jing Hongchen saw Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen still unconscious and vowed to avenge them against Orochimaru.
• Jing Hongchen examined the Banana Leaf Fan and marveled that it could unleash five ultimate attributes.
• Jing Hongchen wondered whether Orochimaru’s weapons came from ancient ruins or were supplied by Sasori.
• A Virtue Hall disciple told Jing Hongchen that Xu Tianran had arrived and wanted to see him.
• Jing Hongchen suspected Xu Tianran might have come for the Banana Leaf Fan, whose value could be beyond measure.

Jing Hongchen protected the Banana Leaf Fan and answered Xu Tianran’s questions about it. Xu Tianran then asked what he thought of the Three Sacred Grounds, leaving Jing Hongchen recalling the creatures shown on the Sky Screen.

• Jing Hongchen resolved to protect the Banana Leaf Fan, then went to meet Xu Tianran in Virtue Hall.
• Xu Tianran questioned Jing Hongchen about the disturbance in Ming Capital and the fan Orochimaru had given Xiao Hongchen.
• Jing Hongchen admitted that the fan was probably an ancient Soul Tool, though he said it was only a conjecture.
• Xu Tianran privately focused on finding Shrike, which he believed could revive people.
• Xu Tianran asked Jing Hongchen what he thought of the Three Sacred Grounds, and Jing Hongchen recalled the three giant creatures shown on the Sky Screen.

Xu Tianran questioned Jing Hongchen about the Hongchen Family’s possible connection to the Three Sacred Grounds, while Jing Hongchen struggled to make sense of the clues. At the Mingdou Mountain Range, Dai Hao and Xuan Zi reported that Shukaku had agreed to cooperate, and Xuan Zi revealed enough Tailed Beast power to reach Level 99.

• Xu Tianran asked Jing Hongchen whether the Hongchen Family had ties to Mount Myoboku, but Jing Hongchen denied knowing about it before the Sky Screen appeared.
• Xu Tianran privately suspected Jing Hongchen was hiding a connection, while Jing Hongchen left to focus on waking Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.
• Xuan Zi and Dai Hao left the fleet and flew to the military camp at the Mingdou Mountain Range after learning what the Sky Screen had revealed.
• Niu Tian gathered Du Busi and other Titled Douluo on a peak and asked Dai Hao and Xuan Zi how their meeting with Shukaku had gone.
• Dai Hao reported that Shukaku had agreed to work with them and given Soul Power to Xuan Zi, who unleashed Tailed Beast power and astonished the assembled Titled Douluo by reaching Level 99.
• Du Busi glared at Xuan Zi in furious envy, unaware that Xuan Zi was not as confident as he appeared.

Xuan Zi sensed that Niu Tian was far more powerful than he appeared, while the leaders gathered to discuss the Three Sacred Grounds and how to find them. A proposal to investigate families with snake, toad, and slug martial souls pointed to the Hongchen Family and raised new questions about Orochimaru’s motives.

• Xuan Zi sensed an overwhelming gap between himself and Niu Tian despite their shared rank of ninety-nine.
• Niu Tian urged the gathered leaders to avoid treating Mount Myoboku and Shikkotsu Forest as enemies, since the Sky Screen showed the sacred grounds had opposed Moryo and could be approached.
• The Xuanming clan leader proposed searching for the Three Sacred Grounds by investigating families whose martial souls resembled snakes, toads, and slugs.
• A speaker identified the Hongchen Family’s toad martial soul, prompting the leaders to suspect Orochimaru had targeted Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen because of a connection between their family and Mount Myoboku.
• A Heaven Dou Empire Title Douluo named the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Jade Phosphor Snake Family as prominent snake- or dragon-type martial soul families.