Chapter Summaries

Niu Tian reassured the commanders that the Dawn Organization's leader would likely avoid acting openly, while the Sky Screen showed Deidara and Sasori confronting One-Tail Shukaku. The chapter left Deidara facing Shukaku after the beast's ambush killed two of Zhongli Wu's elders.

• Niu Tian argued that the Dawn Organization's leader would avoid using God Level power to evade the God Realm's attention, easing the military tent's fears.
• Shukaku's sandstorm attack caught Zhongli Wu and his group by surprise, killing two elders before they could see their attacker.
• Sasori identified Shukaku's attack and warned Zhongli Wu that the beast could move and see through the sandstorm.
• Zhongli Wu activated his Martial Soul Avatar and tried to counter the storm, but Sasori stopped him from wasting Soul Power.
• Deidara's explosion cleared the sandstorm and revealed Shukaku, who roared at the intruders while Deidara mocked him and demanded compensation for his lost clay.

Sasori confronted the awakened soul remnant of Qingming, the creator of Soul Tools, while Shukaku and the Holy Spirit Cult watched. Sasori challenged Qingming to exchange techniques and ask a question, and Qingming agreed to hear him out.

• Shukaku threatened Deidara, Sasori, Zhongli Wu, and the others with spears of Soul Power, but Sasori called for Qingming before it attacked.
• Qingming emerged from the pyramid, and Zhongli Wu realized he could not sense Qingming’s cultivation level.
• Qingming questioned how Sasori had sensed him, and Sasori explained that he had searched for Qingming’s other soul remnants.
• Sasori said he wanted to exchange Soul Tool techniques and ask Qingming a question, then revealed his blade-tipped puppet tail.
• Qingming recognized Sasori’s puppet Soul Tool technology as forbidden, praised his talent, and agreed to hear his question if it was not dangerous.

Deidara lured Shukaku away by taunting him about a fox, leaving Sasori to face Qingming while the Holy Spirit Cult watched. Sasori asked Qingming where the supposedly continent-destroying Soul Power Cannon was, and Qingming reacted with brief surprise.

• Zhongli Wu confirmed that the Holy Spirit Cult wanted Shukaku, Qingming, and the sealed Demon Beast Moryo.
• Sasori told Deidara to lure Shukaku away, and Deidara flew off on a giant clay bird.
• Deidara taunted Shukaku by calling him less brave than a fox, provoking Shukaku into chasing him across the sand.
• Sasori turned to Qingming and said the nuisance was gone, then offered him the chance to ask a question before they fought.
• Sasori asked Qingming where the Soul Power Cannon, said to be capable of destroying the Douluo Continent in one shot, was, and Qingming briefly showed surprise.

Sasori fought Qingming to force him to reveal the location of the continent-destroying Soul Power Cannon, while learning that Shrike had been given to someone surnamed Xu. Below the pyramid, Zhongli Wu chose to aid Deidara and weaken Moryo’s seal by targeting One-Tail Shukaku.

• Sasori attacked Qingming with poisoned needles, and Qingming used the Dragon Eye Telescopic Sword to block them with three dragon souls.
• Qingming revealed his remaining Soul Tools, including the Peacock Twin Swords, Light Sword, and Infinite Aperture Armor, and told Sasori that Shrike was not with him but had been given to someone surnamed Xu.
• Sasori recognized the surname Xu as belonging to the current ruler of the Sun Moon Empire, then charged Qingming to force him to reveal the Soul Power Cannon’s location.
• Qingming’s dragon souls blocked Sasori’s poison needles, and his Light Sword struck Sasori with a pillar of light that scorched his robe.
• Zhongli Wu decided not to interfere with Sasori and Qingming’s battle and led Nether Douluo and the Holy Spirit Cult elders toward Deidara’s fight against One-Tail Shukaku.

Deidara and Zhongli Wu’s group prepared to fight Shukaku as the Holy Spirit Cult elders arrived to help. Xuan Zi and Du Busi’s group chose to avoid the battle and continue toward Ming Capital, but an unmistakable Evil Soul Master aura stopped them.

• Deidara attacked Shukaku with explosive clay, but its body regenerated from the surrounding sand.
• Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult elders arrived to help Deidara fight Shukaku and released their martial souls.
• Xuan Zi, Du Busi, Huang Jinxu, and the others saw the aftermath of a huge explosion and feared the power of the black sphere that had caused it.
• Xuan Zi and Du Busi agreed to avoid the battle and continue their mission to assassinate Xu Tianran in Ming Capital.
• An Evil Soul Master aura came from the direction of Shukaku, making Xuan Zi and the others realize they were near another threat.

Huang Jinxu and the others discovered that the Sun Moon Empire’s mysterious Title Douluo were connected to Evil Soul Masters and flew toward the distant battle. As the Sky Screen continued, Xu Tianyuan concluded that the Sasori fighting Qingming was a puppet soul tool, while the real Sasori was likely hidden nearby.

• Huang Jinxu sensed the auras of the Sun Moon Empire’s newly appeared Title Douluo within the Evil Soul Master aura.
• Xuan Zi and Du Busi decided that the group had to investigate the battle site, and ten figures flew toward the sounds of fighting.
• Xu Tianran and the Sun Moon Empire’s soul engineer commanders watched the Sky Screen and reconsidered their understanding of Qingming and Sasori’s soul tool technology.
• Xu Tianyuan observed that Sasori fought at close range without using conventional soul tools and reasoned that Sasori himself was a puppet soul tool.
• Luan Feng and Wang Yiheng considered the implications of Sasori’s disguise, while Liao Mengkai argued that the soul tool technology could benefit the army.

Xu Tianran left for Ming Capital to investigate the Shrike, while the commanders of the four Beast King-class Soul Engineer Regiments were given authority to decide battlefield matters by majority vote. The revelation that an ancient Soul Power Cannon could destroy the continent terrified the allied commanders, and Dai Hao ordered heightened vigilance in the southern waters.

• Xu Tianran assigned battlefield decisions to the commanders of the Imperial Dragon, Evil Monarch, Fire Phoenix, and Dread Claw regiments before flying back to Ming Capital.
• Luan Feng and Xu Tianyuan suspected that the Shrike might have passed to an ancestor of the imperial Xu family, while Liao Mengkai hoped it could lead to a Level 10 Soul Engineer.
• A Heaven Dou Empire Titled Douluo and other commanders in the Star Luo Empire's central command tent panicked at the Sky Screen's account of a Soul Tool capable of destroying the continent.
• Dai Hao looked to Niu Tian for reassurance, but Niu Tian's grave reaction confirmed that even a true god-level being could not dismiss the Soul Power Cannon's threat.
• Dai Hao ordered the troops to strengthen vigilance in the southern waters and report any unusual activity immediately.

At Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen reacted to news of the Soul Power Cannon and Shrike, with Xiao Hongchen imagining what Soul Engineers could achieve. Meng Hongchen then noticed the Sky Screen’s battle footage and was stunned as Qingming unleashed a massive tornado attack against Sasori.

• Students at Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy discussed the Soul Power Cannon’s destructive power and Shrike’s ability to revive the dead.
• Xiao Hongchen speculated that Shrike’s recipient, a person surnamed Xu, might have been an ancestor of the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial family.
• Xiao Hongchen excitedly concluded that the Soul Power Cannon and Shrike showed Soul Engineers could reach heights beyond the limits of their era.
• Meng Hongchen urged Xiao Hongchen to focus on their coursework and become rank-nine Soul Engineers before worrying about future Soul Tools.
• Meng Hongchen spotted something on the Sky Screen and froze, prompting Xiao Hongchen to look at it too.
• In the Sky Screen battle, Qingming used the Peacock Twin Swords to trap Sasori inside a huge tornado surrounded by more than ten smaller whirlwinds.

Qingming destroyed Sasori’s Hiruko puppet with a powerful sword strike and revealed that Sasori’s real body had been hidden inside it. The red-haired Sasori emerged unhurt and defended his confidence in the Soul Tool he had created.

• Qingming completed his charged attack and unleashed an enormous azure sword light that shattered the tornado and tore Hiruko apart.
• Qingming stayed cautious and struck the wreckage again, forcing a black-cloaked figure to leap out and evade him.
• Qingming realized Sasori’s true body had been concealed inside Hiruko and warned him about the risk of hiding within a puppet that could be destroyed.
• Sasori removed his black covering, revealed his youthful red-haired appearance, and said a Soul Engineer would always believe in the Soul Tool he created.

Sasori revealed the Third Kazekage puppet, a human puppet whose abilities he had preserved and enhanced, and attacked Qingming with its mechanical hands. Qingming defended himself against the barrage, while Sasori prepared to unleash another wave.

• Qingming noticed the marked cylinder on Sasori's chest as Sasori introduced his most perfect work.
• Sasori summoned a blue-black-haired puppet and revealed that it was the Third Kazekage, whom he had turned into a human puppet.
• Sasori declared that he pursued eternal art and intended to make Qingming part of his puppet collection.
• Sasori activated the Kazekage puppet's sealing runes, sending mechanical hands equipped with blades, poison needles, and Soul Tool cannons at Qingming.
• Qingming used the Light Sword and Dragon Eye Telescopic Sword to destroy the mechanical hands without letting them reach him.
• Sasori watched the attack fail and activated the Kazekage puppet's runes again.

Qingming struggled to preserve his remnant soul as Sasori unveiled the Kazekage Puppet’s Magnet Release and attacked with iron sand. The chapter ended with Qingming using four Soul Tools to form a barrier that drained the Soul Power from the surrounding iron sand.

• Qingming realized that Sasori’s endless Mechanism Hands were depleting his remnant soul’s limited Soul Power.
• Sasori revealed the Kazekage Puppet’s Magnet Release and formed huge iron-sand wings.
• The Kazekage Puppet fired Iron Sand Giant Cones, and Qingming dodged most of them but suffered two holes in his remnant-soul body.
• The Kazekage Puppet attacked with an Iron Sand Giant Palm, and Qingming blocked it with the Peacock Twin Swords before the palm collapsed into a tide of iron sand.
• Qingming summoned four Soul Tools to create a prismatic barrier that drained the Soul Power from the iron sand touching it.

Qingming appeared to be crushed when Sasori compressed him inside a sphere of iron sand, but he escaped by leaving the Infinite Aperture Armor behind as a decoy. Sasori realized he had been tricked just as Qingming’s sand technique opened a vast pit beneath him.

• Qingming stopped resisting Sasori’s iron sand and stood quietly behind a barrier maintained by his four Soul Tools.
• Sasori surrounded Qingming with iron sand and used Magnet Release: Sand Binding Funeral to crush the sphere and break the barrier.
• Sasori found only the damaged Infinite Aperture Armor in the iron sand, while Qingming and his other three Soul Tools had vanished.
• Sasori realized Qingming had used the armor to fool his senses and began preparing to retreat.
• The sand beneath Sasori swirled into a massive quicksand vortex, then split open into a deep vertical pit.

Qingming trapped Sasori in a wind barrier and attacked him with the Light Sword, but the Kazekage Puppet blocked most of the strike. As the clash shook the Undersea Desert, Shukaku charged toward the battlefield and Deidara pursued it.

• Qingming used the Peacock Twin Swords to create a deep pit and a wind barrier that cut Sasori off from the Kazekage Puppet.
• Qingming attacked Sasori with the Light Sword, but the Kazekage Puppet broke through the barrier to protect him.
• The Kazekage Puppet blocked Qingming's sword beam with a black cone and a massive iron-sand cube, allowing Sasori to evade the weakened strike.
• Deidara heard the clash and turned his attention back to Shukaku, intending to finish their fight quickly.
• Shukaku charged toward Sasori and Qingming's battlefield, and Deidara followed on his White Clay Giant Bird while trying to draw Shukaku back.

Deidara pursued Shukaku as the beast raced toward Qingming, while Zhongli Wu led the Holy Spirit Cult elders after them. Xuan Zi and Du Busi’s group was caught in Shukaku’s sand wave, then set off in pursuit after sensing Evil Soul Masters nearby.

• Deidara taunted Shukaku from the White Clay Giant Bird, but Shukaku ignored him and ran faster toward Ning He.
• Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult elders to follow Shukaku, fearing retaliation if he survived.
• Xuan Zi and Du Busi failed to sense what was happening ahead because dense Soul Power interfered with their perception.
• Shukaku charged past Xuan Zi, Du Busi, and the other Title Douluo, burying them in a powerful wave of sand as he continued toward Qingming.
• Xuan Zi recognized the passing auras of Evil Soul Masters, and he and Du Busi led the Title Douluo in pursuit.

Qingming faced Sasori’s trump-card attacks, a black iron-sand cone and a rectangular prism, while his Soul Power dwindled. After escaping the giant pit and realizing Sasori may have been holding back, Qingming watched the weapons fly past him toward Sasori.

• Sasori revealed his enormous black iron-sand cone and rectangular prism and declared that he would finish Qingming.
• The Kazekage Puppet poured out Soul Power, reinforcing the weapons as the cone struck the pit floor and the prism smashed into Qingming’s sword-shield.
• Qingming dodged the cone and blocked the prism, but the impacts fractured the giant pit and left him with little room to move.
• Qingming raced toward the pit’s opening as Sasori repeatedly attacked him with the two iron-sand weapons.
• The weapons emerged from the pit at greater speed, then unexpectedly ignored Qingming and flew toward Sasori.

Sasori defeated Qingming with his Magnet Release Secret Art, Iron Sand World Method, pinning him in an immense forest of iron spikes until his remnant soul began to dissipate. Before vanishing, Qingming refused to reveal the Soul Power Cannon’s location and asked Sasori why he wanted it and sought to unseal the Demon Beast Moryo.

• Sasori used the Kazekage Puppet to make a black cone and rectangular prism collide, releasing the Magnet Release Secret Art: Iron Sand World Method.
• Qingming fought the expanding iron needles with his Light Sword, Peacock Twin Swords, and Dragon Eye Telescopic Sword, but the needles broke through his defenses and pinned him in place.
• Sasori approached after the iron sand stopped spreading, and Qingming began to dissipate as golden motes drifted from his injured remnant-soul body.
• Qingming acknowledged Sasori’s strength, but Sasori demanded the Soul Power Cannon’s whereabouts and threatened to search for Qingming’s other remnant souls.
• Qingming declined to answer and asked Sasori why he wanted the Soul Power Cannon and intended to unseal the Demon Beast Moryo despite the danger.

After Qingming vanished without revealing the Soul Power Cannon’s location, Sasori headed toward the pyramid, but Shukaku ambushed him with a barrage of Wind Release attacks. Sasori survived behind an iron sand defense, yet his instincts warned him of extreme danger as he tried to take to the air.

• Qingming disappeared, and Sasori collected the three Soul Tools he left behind.
• As Sasori walked toward the pyramid where Moryo was sealed, Shukaku charged in and fired a barrage of Drilling Air Bullets.
• Sasori used the Kazekage Puppet and iron sand to form a spherical defense and countered with iron sand needles.
• Shukaku’s Air Bullets broke through the needles and battered Sasori’s sphere until the attack ended, leaving the defense cracked and damaged.
• Sasori sensed danger, tried to fly upward for a better view, and felt something strange throughout his body.

Sasori realized Shukaku had tricked him and was about to crush him from above, but Deidara intercepted the attack with an explosive Clay Dragon. The blast engulfed the battlefield, while the Holy Spirit Cult members watched from a distance and Zhongli Wu still had not found Moryo.

• Sasori sensed the suspicious silence and discovered Shukaku falling toward him from above after using its Air Bullets as a distraction.
• Sasori formed a massive Iron Sand shield with the Kazekage Puppet, but he knew it could not withstand Shukaku’s impact.
• Deidara flew in on his Clay Bird and sent a Clay Dragon crashing into Shukaku, detonating it in a gigantic explosion.
• Ming Lei Douluo and Nether Douluo questioned the scale of Deidara’s attack as the Holy Spirit Cult watched from ten li away.
• Zhongli Wu stared at the distant mushroom cloud and realized he had still not seen Moryo.

Xuan Zi and Du Busi ambushed Zhongli Wu as he moved to join Deidara and Sasori's battle against Shukaku, while Huang Jinxu and the other Title Douluo attacked the Holy Spirit Cult. Zhongli Wu confronted the two Super Douluo and prepared to fight, believing he could use his hidden abilities and Soul Tools to his advantage.

• Zhongli Wu tried to fly toward the battle, but Xuan Zi and Du Busi burst from the ground and struck him into the sand.
• Huang Jinxu, Cheng Gang, and the other Title Douluo ambushed the Holy Spirit Cult, forcing its members to retreat toward Zhongli Wu.
• Zhongli Wu stood up injured and recognized Xuan Zi and Du Busi as leading experts of the opposing forces.
• Du Busi and Xuan Zi demanded to know why the Holy Spirit Cult had gathered there and how it was connected to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Zhongli Wu concluded that Xuan Zi and Du Busi might be concealing their source of information and taunted them for launching a sneak attack.

Xuan Zi and Du Busi confronted Zhongli Wu, who provoked Du Busi by invoking his dead brother and Du Busi's alliance with Shrek Academy. Meanwhile, Deidara and Sasori emerged unharmed from the C2 explosion, and Deidara teased Sasori about holding back as Shukaku survived the blast.

• Xuan Zi warned Du Busi that Zhongli Wu knew their identities and might know their fighting styles, but they decided they had to hold the Evil Soul Masters back for the army's safety.
• Zhongli Wu taunted Du Busi about working with Shrek Academy, whose Mu En had killed Du Busi's elder brother, and Du Busi angrily defended his brother before attacking him.
• Du Busi's attack prompted Zhongli Wu to prepare for a fight against him and Xuan Zi.
• Deidara, Sasori, and the Kazekage Puppet emerged from a shelter hidden inside the Clay Bird as the C2 explosion collapsed around them.
• Deidara noted that the blast had not broken through Shukaku's defenses and asked whether Sasori had defeated Qingming; Sasori silently nodded.
• Deidara teased Sasori for relying on the Kazekage Puppet instead of using his full strength and Hundred Puppet Manipulation.