Chapter Summaries

Sasori and Deidara argued over their fight with Shukaku, then revealed that the Dawn Organization had captured Matatabi and hinted at a humanoid statue. Shukaku recognized the statue as the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and realized the organization intended to revive the Ten-Tails.

• Sasori criticized Deidara for failing to weaken Shukaku, and Deidara defended his explosive attacks.
• Shukaku recovered from Deidara's blast, searched the battlefield, and demanded to know where the fighters had taken Qingming.
• Sasori told Shukaku that Qingming's remnant soul had been scattered and invited it to join the Dawn Organization, mentioning that Matatabi had already been captured.
• Deidara teased Shukaku with the prospect of a humanoid statue, prompting Shukaku to remember the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Shukaku recognized the statue as the Ten-Tails' husk, guessed that the Dawn Organization planned to revive the Ten-Tails, and shouted at Sasori and Deidara for controlling such a dangerous creature.

Deidara provoked Shukaku by taunting him about the leader’s mysterious weapon, driving Shukaku to form a Tailed Beast Bomb. Just as Deidara prepared a C3 attack, Shukaku was tripped and his bomb exploded harmlessly in the sky.

• Deidara taunted Shukaku about being afraid of the leader’s weapon and called him a little Shukaku.
• Shukaku lost his temper and gathered a massive Tailed Beast Bomb while Deidara prepared an Explosive Clay C3 and Sasori readied the Kazekage Puppet.
• Shukaku aimed the completed Tailed Beast Bomb at Deidara and Sasori, but something burst from the ground beside his foot and knocked him off balance.
• Shukaku fell onto his back, sending the Tailed Beast Bomb into the sky, where it exploded and tore a huge hole through the clouds.

Sasori used iron sand to disrupt Shukaku’s control over the desert and pin it in place, giving Deidara the opening to launch a close-range attack. Deidara descended on a Clay Bird with a C3 clay doll as Shukaku looked up, unable to react.

• Sasori knocked Shukaku off balance with a black iron sand pillar while Deidara slipped away unnoticed.
• Shukaku sent a gale to reveal Deidara, but Sasori’s iron sand particles interfered with its control over the surrounding sand.
• Shukaku tried to overpower the interference with Soul Power, and Sasori collapsed the pillar into an iron sand tide that buried Shukaku below the chest.
• Deidara dove from the sky on a giant white Clay Bird, holding a C3 clay doll and thanking Sasori for the cover.

Deidara unleashed his C3 clay bomb against Shukaku, producing an enormous blast that frightened Nether Douluo and spectators across the continent. At Shrek Academy, the Seven Devils discussed the Sky Screen’s display and worried about the war’s effect on Dai Hao.

• Deidara dropped a C3 Clay Doll toward Shukaku and detonated it, creating a fireball several thousand meters wide.
• Nether Douluo watched the explosion from the battlefield and feared the destructive power on display.
• People across the Douluo Continent discussed how insignificant Title Douluo seemed beside the Sky Screen’s powerful fighters.
• At Shrek Academy, Gongyang Mo complained about training and shared Chen Zifeng’s water after their group battle.
• Yao Haoxuan, Xixi, and Dai Yueheng discussed the Sky Screen, and Dai Yueheng worried that the Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult might target Dai Hao.

Dai Hao worried about Xuan Zi’s safety as the Alliance’s Title Douluo argued over Sasori’s claims and the value of Qingming’s legacy. He suspected Niu Tian was concealing a source of confidence, then warned the Alliance not to fracture over an unknown remnant soul while their enemies watched.

• Dai Yueheng felt uneasy watching the bloodied Xuan Zi fight, while Ma Xiaotao insisted the elder would be fine and she and Ling Luochen silently recalled an old incident.
• The Alliance’s Title Douluo reacted to Sasori’s talk of world peace, and a Heaven Dou Empire representative clashed with a Dou Ling Empire representative over Soul Engineers and Qingming.
• The Dou Ling Empire representative argued Qingming might help the Alliance and suggested his remnant soul could teach them how to create powerful Soul Tools.
• Dai Hao noticed the gathered leaders’ interest in Qingming’s inheritance and the Soul Power Cannon, and wondered why Niu Tian seemed unmoved by the temptation.
• Dai Hao warned that fighting over Qingming’s unknown remnant soul could divide the Alliance and give the Sun Moon Empire and Dawn Organization an advantage.

After the Sky Screen revealed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the Ten-Tails, Xuan Zi urged the military leaders to find the Tailed Beasts and seek their help against the Dawn Organization. Dai Hao tried to contact Matatabi and reached its mental space, where he began explaining his concerns.

• A Title Douluo argued that the Dawn Organization planned to revive the Ten-Tails, while others debated its strength and why the group sought the Tailed Beasts.
• Xuan Zi told the military leaders to locate the Tailed Beasts, warn them of the conspiracy, and seek their help.
• Niu Tian suggested asking Matatabi about the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and Dai Hao left the tent to contact it.
• Dai Hao poured his full focus into Matatabi's red Soul Power and was drawn into a blue mental world.
• Matatabi appeared before Dai Hao and asked why he had urgently contacted it, so Dai Hao began explaining what he had learned.

Dai Hao met Matatabi in her mental world to ask about the Ten-Tails, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and Qingming’s Soul Power Cannon. Matatabi confirmed the Ten-Tails’ danger and warned that pursuing the cannon could provoke mysterious outsiders, before Dai Hao was swallowed by white light.

• Dai Hao told Matatabi about the Sky Screen’s visions of the Dawn Organization targeting Shukaku and asked about the Ten-Tails and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Matatabi confirmed that the Demonic Statue was the Ten-Tails’ husk and said the Sage of Six Paths had warned that the Ten-Tails’ return would destroy the world.
• Dai Hao asked Matatabi where Qingming’s continent-destroying Soul Tool was, and she said she did not know its location.
• Matatabi warned Dai Hao not to seek the Soul Tool because it deterred outsiders, who could turn the world into a lifeless wasteland.
• Matatabi’s mental world distorted and engulfed Dai Hao in blinding white light.

Dai Hao wondered who the outsiders Matatabi had mentioned were after returning from their encounter. On the Sky Screen, Deidara’s C3 blasted Shukaku’s sand body apart, but Sasori realized Shukaku’s Soul Power remained intact and its wounds could be repaired.

• Dai Hao returned to the sand with red Soul Power in his palm and wondered about the outsiders Matatabi had mentioned.
• Deidara’s C3 explosion melted the battlefield and left Shukaku with a severed arm and severe burns.
• Deidara and Sasori emerged from their iron-sand shelter, and Sasori doused Deidara’s burned hands with water.
• Deidara celebrated his attack as the art of the instant, but Sasori dismissed it as a petty trick.
• Sasori sensed that Shukaku’s Soul Power had not weakened and concluded that it could restore its sand body by drawing in nearby sand.

Deidara became enraged when Shukaku regenerated his arm and insulted his bombs, then stayed behind to fight him while Sasori headed for the pyramid. On another battlefield, Zhongli Wu trapped Xuan Zi and revealed several Level 9 Soul Guidance Cannons, leaving Xuan Zi facing an imminent close-range barrage.

• Shukaku regenerated his severed arm, rose from the crater, and furiously taunted Deidara and Sasori.
• Deidara told Sasori to take Zhongli Wu and the others to the pyramid, then landed before Shukaku and prepared a huge lump of explosive clay.
• Sasori left with the Kazekage Puppet, while Deidara faced Shukaku and declared that art was an explosion.
• Zhongli Wu caught Xuan Zi's fist and held him in place as several Level 9 Soul Guidance Cannons appeared behind him.
• Xuan Zi realized Zhongli Wu was a Level 9 Soul Engineer and summoned the phantom of his Godly Taotie Bull Martial Soul.

Zhongli Wu’s ambush with Level 9 Soul Guidance Cannons was thwarted when Du Busi and Xuan Zi intervened, but the two were forced to stop their attack on him when Sasori arrived. Xuan Zi questioned why Sasori had joined forces with the Evil Soul Masters.

• Xuan Zi’s Godly Taotie Bull and Zhongli Wu’s Death God Demon Puppet clashed as Zhongli Wu prepared to fire his Level 9 Soul Guidance Cannons.
• Du Busi struck Zhongli Wu from behind, disrupting the cannons’ charge and destroying them.
• Du Busi and Xuan Zi attacked Zhongli Wu together, but Sasori’s Iron Sand Shower forced them to retreat.
• Sasori appeared in the sky in his true form, and Zhongli Wu recognized him as an ally by his Black Cloak with Red Clouds.
• Xuan Zi sensed no life or evil aura from Sasori and asked why he was helping the Evil Soul Masters.

Sasori revealed his true appearance to Zhongli Wu and warned him to leave the battlefield, then led him toward the Pyramid Seal. Du Busi, Xuan Zi, and several fighters pursued or stayed behind, leaving the battle to continue as Shukaku and Deidara fought amid a sandstorm.

• Sasori told Zhongli Wu that his youthful appearance was real and urged him to come to the Pyramid Seal, warning that staying could leave him without a corpse.
• Zhongli Wu followed Sasori, while Du Busi chased them and Xuan Zi followed after warning Du Busi to beware of a trap.
• The departing leaders overlooked the fighters still battling, and Nether Douluo abandoned Huang Jinxu to pursue Zhongli Wu.
• Huang Jinxu turned back to help a Star Luo Empire colleague besieged by Evil Soul Masters, while other empire fighters also stayed to aid their comrades.
• Shukaku and Deidara continued fighting through a vast sandstorm as explosions sent pillars of sand into the air.

Deidara tried to finish preparing C4 Karura while Shukaku attacked him through the sandstorm. Shukaku buried him beneath a massive dune and began crushing the sand around him with Sand Waterfall Imperial Funeral.

• Deidara dodged Shukaku’s sand attacks while keeping his hands clasped and chewing Explosive Clay to prepare C4 Karura.
• Deidara realized Shukaku had stopped the surrounding sand from closing in and suspected it was preparing a trap.
• Shukaku sealed Deidara inside a prison of four towering sand waves with Quicksand Waterfall Flow, burying him beneath a huge dune.
• Shukaku sensed Deidara had survived with only superficial injuries and used Sand Waterfall Imperial Funeral to make the dune tremble and crack.

Deidara outmaneuvered Shukaku with a clay clone and emerged in a colossal clay form, surviving Shukaku’s attacks. The chapter ended with Deidara revealing a stitched scar across his chest as he prepared to retaliate.

• Shukaku crushed the sand into a deep quicksand pit and buried the apparent Deidara ten thousand meters underground.
• Shukaku turned away after sensing no movement, but the real Deidara burst from beneath the ground and knocked Shukaku aside with a giant clay body.
• Deidara revealed that he had used Subterranean Voyage to evade the sand attacks and planted a clay clone to distract Shukaku.
• Shukaku attacked the giant clay Deidara with Sand Scattershot, but the projectiles barely damaged him.
• Deidara tore off his clothes and revealed a thick stitched scar across his chest.

Deidara revealed the dangerous mouth sewn into his chest and unleashed C4: Garuda against Shukaku. Shukaku charged and struck the giant figure, but its attack passed through, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Deidara tore open the stitching on his chest, revealing a huge mouth that filled Shukaku with fear.
• Deidara released countless invisible C4 clay particles that drifted through the air and entered Shukaku's body.
• Shukaku, unable to identify the danger, charged at the enlarged Deidara to destroy it.
• Shukaku formed a giant sand spear and stabbed it through the enlarged Deidara's chest, but felt no resistance.
• Shukaku swept its hands upward and sliced the enlarged Deidara vertically in half.

Deidara trapped Shukaku with the microscopic bombs from C4 Karura, then unleashed his C0 self-destruction. The expanding blast engulfed Shukaku, who screamed as the combined attacks overwhelmed him.

• After Shukaku scattered the white mist, Deidara appeared behind him and swallowed explosive clay with the mouth on his chest.
• Deidara's body began to crack, and Shukaku fled in terror, but Deidara's hand seals froze him in place.
• The microscopic bombs planted inside Shukaku detonated, disintegrating his body as he used soul power and sand to resist.
• Deidara announced that he still had C0 as his body dissolved and the black sphere in his chest reached its limit.
• Deidara detonated C0, and its expanding pillar of white light engulfed Shukaku, whose scream was overwhelmed by the combined attacks.

Sasori and Zhongli Wu waited for the seal on the pyramid to weaken while Xuan Zi and Du Busi remained trapped nearby. A destructive white light appeared on the horizon, leaving the fighters who saw it overwhelmed by dread and convinced there was no escape.

• Sasori confirmed to Zhongli Wu that Shukaku would be dealt with when the markings on the pyramid disappeared, while Xuan Zi and Du Busi cursed from their iron-sand restraints.
• A sudden breeze made Sasori, Zhongli Wu, Xuan Zi, and Du Busi sense an immense threat near Deidara and Shukaku's battle.
• Huang Jinxu and the other Titled Douluos killed an Evil Soul Master and moved to attack the remaining enemies, but a fierce gale halted them.
• Huang Jinxu and the other fighters saw a rapidly expanding white pillar of destructive light approaching from the horizon.
• An elderly Titled Douluo from the Heaven Dou Empire gave up hope of escape as another Titled Douluo urged him to run.

The Sky Screen showed Deidara’s C0 explosion erase Huang Jinxu and the other fleeing Title Douluo, leaving the leaders watching in shock at the attack’s enormous scale. Outside Shrek City, Di Tian continued seeking a way inside and noticed Jiang Nannan’s group leaving for the Star Dou Great Forest, with Xu Sanshi pleading for her forgiveness.

• Deidara’s C0 blast caught and erased Huang Jinxu and the other Title Douluo as they tried to flee.
• The Sky Screen revealed the explosion’s immense three-pointed luminous form, and the military tent’s high-ranking viewers reacted with fear and disbelief.
• Niu Tian worried that the Dawn Organization had at least seven members capable of overwhelming attacks.
• Di Tian judged that Shukaku was probably finished after the strike, then continued considering how to enter Shrek City without endangering Xiao Xiao or provoking other forces.
• Di Tian noticed Jiang Nannan’s group preparing to leave for the Star Dou Great Forest while Xu Sanshi followed her, pleading for forgiveness.

Di Tian noticed Mu En’s aura in Beibei and secretly followed his group, while Xu Tianran became intrigued by the Sky Screen’s destructive power. In the Sky Screen, Zhongli Wu prepared to release the Demon Beast Moryo’s seal after Sasori warned that Moryo’s consciousness might still remain.

• Jiang Nannan threatened to report Xu Sanshi for disrupting the team, while Beibei tried to smooth things over.
• Di Tian sensed Mu En’s aura in Beibei and began secretly following Beibei’s group toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xu Tianran watched the Sky Screen’s pillar of light and resolved that the Sun Moon Empire had to seize the initiative.
• Sasori told Zhongli Wu to hurry and explained that Moryo’s power might still possess a consciousness.
• Zhongli Wu hesitated at the warning, then decided to proceed with releasing the seal, considering how Moryo might fit into the Holy Spirit Cult.

Zhongli Wu tried to probe the seal beneath the Sandy Pyramid, but his contact awakened Moryo, who emerged and confronted him. Moryo revealed that it needed a body to survive and asked Zhongli Wu to offer his own.

• Zhongli Wu sent his Evil Soul Master aura into the Sandy Pyramid, but an unseen resistance slowed his efforts.
• Zhongli Wu saw a huge blood-red eye in his mind, and the ground cracked as magma erupted around the pyramid.
• Moryo broke free from the Sandy Pyramid and seized control of Zhongli Wu, asking whether he had undone the seal.
• Zhongli Wu appealed to Moryo for help by explaining the Holy Spirit Cult's goal of overthrowing the light Soul Masters.
• Moryo said its true body had been destroyed and asked Zhongli Wu to offer his body so it could survive, while Zhongli Wu concealed his refusal.

After breaking free, Moryo chose Xuan Zi as his future vessel and offered to awaken his Taotie bloodline in exchange for his allegiance. The chapter ended with Du Busi stunned as Xuan Zi faced an offer that could make him a Limit Douluo.

• Moryo spared Zhongli Wu and decided to choose a vessel from among Sasori, Xuan Zi, and Du Busi.
• Moryo recognized Sasori as Qingming's descendant or disciple, but Sasori insulted him, ended his deal with Zhongli Wu, and fled toward Deidara's self-destruction.
• Moryo focused on Xuan Zi, lifted him with purple-black Soul Power, and identified his Taotie bloodline and suppressed devouring power.
• Moryo offered to awaken Xuan Zi's true power and help him become a Limit Douluo if Xuan Zi pledged allegiance and served as his vessel.
• Du Busi stopped struggling and stared in disbelief as Moryo targeted Xuan Zi instead of him.