Chapter Summaries

After two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts retreated, the group was surrounded by swarms of Ironback Rats and Haji Bees. Li Pu used his Bun Thunder to rout the rats and prepared a new airburst version as the bees descended.

• The Red-Armored Earth Dragon and Darkwing Wind Kite retreated, but tremors revealed that thousands of Ironback Rats were approaching from all sides.
• Li Pu stopped Xiao Chengu from reinforcing the group’s defenses and demonstrated his Bun Thunder by bombing the rat swarm.
• Li Pu’s explosions scattered and burned the Ironback Rats until the survivors fled, astonishing Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu.
• A vast Haji Bee swarm arrived overhead, carrying paralyzing stingers and poison powder that disrupted Soul Power.
• Li Pu pulled out green-glowing buns designed to explode in the air and prepared to attack the Haji Bees.

Li Pu used homing Bun Thunders to wipe out the Haji Bee swarm, turning a dangerous battle into a display of firepower. As the spectators marveled at his food-type martial soul, Ning Rongrong found herself wondering whether his explosive buns were more appealing than her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

• Li Pu revealed that his Little Bee Pursuit Buns tracked living creatures and exploded among the Haji Bees.
• Li Pu gave buns to the group, and Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Lin Yue used them to blast the swarm.
• The Haji Bees fled after the group destroyed most of the swarm, leaving charred corpses and Soul Rings behind.
• Bai Ci praised the Bun Thunders for their power and low Soul Power cost, while Ning Rongrong became tempted by the idea of using buns in battle.
• Spectators in the viewing stands marveled at Li Pu's destructive food-type martial soul.

After Li Pu's Bun Thunder wiped out a bee swarm, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect considered recruiting him, while the team noticed that the secret realm's soul beasts appeared in unnatural numbers and uniform age groups. The group continued toward the core region, expecting far greater danger ahead.

• Li Pu's Bun Thunder impressed the tournament spectators, and Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed recruiting him into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Li Pu, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong admired the attack, while Xiao Chengu noticed the bee swarm and earlier rat swarm had unusually high numbers of similarly aged soul beasts.
• Bai Ci agreed that the populations seemed unnatural, and Li Pu wondered whether someone had deliberately raised the beasts for the tournament.
• Gui Mengguan pointed out that soul beasts in the secret realm appeared to be divided into age-based zones, with Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the core region.
• Xiao Chengu warned the group that the deeper they traveled, the more dangerous the secret realm would become, and Li Pu said he could make stronger Bun Thunder.

The surviving contestants fought their way through increasingly dense Soul Beast hordes as they converged on the Valley of Annihilation. Bei Changfeng advanced with ease and collected a wounded Dark Evil Demon Tiger into his Giga Battlenizer.

• Wei Wuyuan defeated an eighty-thousand-year Earthsplit Bear with lightning-charged blows and continued toward the center.
• A silver-clad youth killed a Crimsonflame Mad Lion with a poisoned blade formed from his armor and stored its beast soul.
• A black-clad youth used his fragmenting saber to slice apart a herd of Rock-Armored Giant Rhinoceroses.
• Liu Nan and Xiong Xiaomiao coordinated against a beast tide, clearing the air and ground as they advanced toward the core area.
• Bei Changfeng sent three beast souls ahead to clear his route and collected a wounded seventy-thousand-year Dark Evil Demon Tiger into his Giga Battlenizer.

Bei Changfeng advanced toward the Valley of Annihilation with four beast souls bound inside his staff, while the continent watched young contestants slaughter powerful beasts across the secret realm. The spectators and veteran experts were left wondering whether this extraordinary generation might produce new gods.

• Bei Changfeng absorbed another powerful beast soul into his staff and continued toward the Valley of Annihilation, frightening nearby Soul Beasts into hiding.
• Commoners watching the live broadcast marvelled as young Soul Masters fought beasts far beyond what their ranks should allow.
• Sect leaders and Titled Douluos watched in disbelief as contestants killed Ferocious Beasts and faced Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• Yu Yuanzhen compared the contestants’ feats with the struggles of his own generation and admitted that the younger generation was formidable.
• Two veteran Titled Douluos speculated that the survivors might become Super Douluos or even reach godhood.

The VIP spectators realized the tournament was selecting young Soul Masters with the potential to become gods, and they considered how a future god could reshape the continent’s balance of power. As the surviving contestants converged on the Valley of Annihilation, Qian Xunji declared that the real show was just beginning.

• The VIP spectators compared the contestants’ feats with Tang Chen’s past achievements and concluded that the tournament was choosing potential future gods rather than ordinary champions.
• Yu Yuanzhen and the Clear Sky Sect’s grand elder reflected on how the young contestants surpassed the geniuses of earlier eras, while the grand elder wondered whether this generation would finish Tang Chen’s path.
• Ning Fengzhi considered how a god’s allegiance could alter the continent’s power balance and watched Li Pu, Xiao Chengu, and Lin Yue with confidence in their chances.
• The small and medium-sized sect leaders counted themselves fortunate that their disciples had survived to witness the core zone, while others mourned fallen geniuses.
• A sect leader asked Qian Xunji how many contestants would survive the final stage in the Valley of Annihilation, and Qian Xunji said their survival depended on their abilities and that the real show had just begun.
• The spectators watched as the surviving young Soul Masters converged on the black-mist-shrouded Valley of Annihilation.

The tournament’s final battleground, the Valley of Annihilation, was revealed as a deadly wasteland of thunder, clashing elemental forces, and chaotic gravity. As the audience feared for the remaining contestants, the first figure reached the valley’s entrance.

• The host announced that seventeen teams remained and introduced the Valley of Annihilation as the tournament’s final battleground.
• The aerial Soul Tool showed the valley’s storm-covered, barren terrain and its violent elemental currents and unstable gravity.
• Spectators and sect masters reacted with alarm, judging that even powerful soul masters would struggle to survive there.
• Yu Yuanzhen warned that the valley’s lightning, shifting elements, astral winds, and high Soul Power consumption made every step perilous.
• The first figure stopped at the boundary between the black mist and the thunderclouds outside the valley.

Bei Changfeng, Wei Wuyuan, and the other surviving competitors gathered at the Valley of Annihilation, where a barrier prevented anyone from entering until all 368 arrived. The Big Fat Sheep Squad was the last team to reach the entrance, but the restriction had not yet opened.

• Bei Changfeng reached the valley first, tested the lightning-veined barrier, and waited after it repelled his attack.
• Wei Wuyuan arrived with an incompletely absorbed Soul Ring and joined Bei Changfeng in waiting outside the barrier.
• Xiao Chengu, Lin Yue, and their companions arrived and concluded that the barrier would lift once all survivors gathered.
• More competitors arrived, including two figures both identified as Tang San, who faced each other across the crowd.
• Lazy Goat and the Big Fat Sheep Squad arrived last, and Lazy Goat wondered why everyone was still waiting outside.

The teams reached the Valley of Annihilation, where forfeiting could no longer save anyone and only the last three surviving teams would clear the tournament. Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing withdrew, while Xiao Wu promised Tang San a chance to be her trial boyfriend if he reached the top three, leaving him fired up to fight.

• The tournament announcer warned that forfeiting inside the Valley of Annihilation would not trigger rescue and that only three surviving teams would advance.
• Xiao Chengu and Li Pu warned Ning Rongrong that she would endanger the team if she entered, and she agreed to withdraw with Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Bai Shang urged Zhu Zhuqing not to enter, and she agreed to leave with the others.
• Xiao Wu promised Tang San a chance to be her trial boyfriend if he reached the top three, and Tang San vowed to make it.
• Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Wolf forfeited and disappeared in beams of white light.

Lazy Goat refused to withdraw from the finals despite his teammates’ fears and the contempt of other contestants. Wei Wuyuan warned Tang San not to provoke him, while spectators and Title Douluo debated whether Lazy Goat’s luck could carry him through Valley of Annihilation.

• Da Zhuang, Xiao Shi, and A Yun urged Lazy Goat to withdraw, but he insisted on entering Valley of Annihilation to fulfill his promise to the dean.
• Da Zhuang and the others agreed to let Lazy Goat continue and reminded him to turn into a cloud if he could not win.
• Native contestants mocked Lazy Goat’s weak strength, while Wei Wuyuan warned Tang San and others not to provoke him and to help him if possible.
• Spectators outside criticized Lazy Goat for risking his life, but Chen Xin, Ning Fengzhi, and another Title Douluo suggested his progress might lead to a surprising result.

The contestants entered the Valley of Annihilation and were scattered across its dangerous terrain as the tournament’s final stage began. While spectators placed bets and watched from across the continent, the first lightning strike heralded the start of the hunt.

• Wei Wuyuan challenged Tang San to face him inside the valley, and Tang San entered after Xiao Wu disappeared into the restriction.
• The restriction scattered the contestants across the valley’s stone paths and floating islands, where they prepared to fight without forming new alliances.
• Lazy Goat landed alone on a floating island, found red fruit, and settled into a sheltered hollow to snack.
• Spectators across the continent crowded around viewing screens and betting stalls, wagering on contestants including Tang San, Wu Luqian, Su Wang, and Lazy Goat.
• The contestants held back as thunder sounded overhead, then the first thick pillar of purple lightning crashed down.

Bei Changfeng unleashed an army of over a hundred powerful Soul Beasts into the valley, forcing the finalists to fight the overwhelming horde. Nangong Mu and Wu Luqian demonstrated their formidable powers, while Su Wang began to draw Zangetsu against an attacking Darkwing Vulture.

• Bei Changfeng summoned more than a hundred Soul Beasts, including over a dozen Hundred-Thousand-Year Ferocious Beasts, and sent them charging across the valley.
• Nangong Mu absorbed a Yin-Yang Twin Dragon Beast into his Divine Demon Armament and cut down several beasts with his dragon spear.
• Wei Wuyuan knocked away a Thunder-Horned Elk and marveled at Nangong Mu's armor.
• Wu Luqian split Demon Blade Thousand Edges into ten million fragments and minced a group of charging Soul Beasts.
• Su Wang drew Zangetsu partway from its sheath and sent blade energy toward a diving Darkwing Vulture.

Su Wang, Dai Yuanyue, Cai Ling, and Ning Zhou revealed powerful abilities while fighting the Soul Beasts in the Valley of Annihilation. Their displays left the observers stunned as the tournament battle continued.

• Su Wang killed a Darkwing Vulture with Zangetsu and immobilized and crushed four Soul Beasts with spiritual power and rocks.
• Dai Yuanyue charged into the valley, smashed three Fifty-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, and used his divine White Tiger bloodline to frighten the beast tide.
• Emperor Dai Yutian recognized Dai Yuanyue as his fourth son and celebrated the discovery of his powerful White Tiger Martial Soul.
• Cai Ling revealed a seven-colored dragon phantom as Hong Kou attacked Wu Luqian with seven ribbons of light, which clashed with his blade fragments.
• Ning Zhou used the Void, Element, and Energy seals of his Holy Spirit Puni Martial Soul to dissolve a Hundred-Thousand-Year Jade Phosphorus Venom Python.

Xu Zhou repelled Tang San’s poisoned crossbow attack with holy power, while Ji Yi released dozens of powerful Soul Beasts from his twelve-level pagoda and threw the finals battle into further chaos. The spectators were stunned, and Qian Gujue urged Ghost to summon undead Soul Beasts of his own.

• Tang San fired sixteen poison-coated bolts at Xu Zhou, but Xu Zhou’s golden shield melted them and rebounded holy light that wounded Tang San.
• He Xi tried to heal Tang San, but the lingering holy power scattered most of her healing Soul Power.
• Ji Yi opened his twelve-level pagoda and released forty or fifty powerful Soul Beasts, creating a second beast tide opposite Bei Changfeng’s.
• The spectators and tournament viewers reacted with shock as Ji Yi’s Soul Beasts joined the battle and the odds shifted.
• Qian Gujue urged Ghost to use the Undead Jade Seal to release undead Soul Beasts and match the other contestants’ displays.

A gray-robed fighter wielded a Ten Thousand Souls Banner to harvest the dead and overwhelm the battlefield, drawing outrage from spectators and the attention of Gui Mengguan. As Tang San moved toward the outskirts amid the chaos, Gui Mengguan finally prepared to confront the rival soul collector.

• Oupai and Qian Gujue urged Gui Mengguan to release the powerful souls he had collected, but he hesitated.
• A gray-robed man raised a Ten Thousand Souls Banner and absorbed the lingering souls of dead Soul Beasts and Soul Masters, then sent the gathered spirits into battle.
• Gui Mengguan recognized the banner and resented its wielder for collecting souls and strengthening his forces in the same way he did.
• Wei Wuyuan cursed the Evil Soul Master, while Xu Zhou watched him warily and Tang San used the commotion to edge toward the outskirts with He Xi.
• Spectators argued over whether the banner's wielder was an Evil Soul Master, and bookmakers struggled to account for the new contender.
• Gui Mengguan declared that the Ten Thousand Souls Banner was inferior to the Human Emperor Banner and the Investiture List, then prepared to act.

Gui Mengguan used the Undead Jade Seal to seize control of the dead souls gathered by Sun Tao’s Ten Thousand Souls Banner and summon three powerful soul generals. As Dai Yuanyue and Hong Kou held off the beast-tide controllers, the battle in the valley shifted toward a more balanced confrontation.

• Gui Mengguan’s Undead Jade Seal drew dead souls away from Sun Tao’s Ten Thousand Souls Banner, severing his control and absorbing nearly half the souls he had collected.
• The jade seal summoned three disciplined soul generals, while Bei Changfeng discovered that it had also drained the souls stored in his Giga Battlenizer.
• Dai Yuanyue blocked Bei Changfeng from reaching Gui Mengguan and fought him with the bloodline power of his divine beast White Tiger.
• Hong Kou used her seven-colored ribbon to prevent Ji Yi from intervening, leaving him unable to control the beast tide freely.
• With the beast-tide controllers occupied and their forces weakened, the contestants intercepted the beasts and the valley’s battle shifted into opposing sides.

Wu Luqian and Su Wang destroyed Sun Tao’s Ten Thousand Souls Banner, freeing its undead to join Gui Mengguan’s jade seal. As the fighters faced a newly revealed Shadow Army led by Jin Benhe, Xu Zhou prepared to confront the masked ninja forces.

• Su Wang disrupted Sun Tao’s control with a mental attack, allowing Wu Luqian to break the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and defeat him.
• The banner’s freed undead surged into Gui Mengguan’s Undead Jade Seal.
• Xu Zhou detected Jin Benhe hiding in the northern shadows and called him out.
• Jin Benhe summoned nearly a hundred shadow soldiers, prompting the combatants to pause and assess the new threat.
• Xu Zhou recognized the shadow troops as Japanese ninja devils, ignited his soul rings, and prepared to fight them.

Xu Zhou annihilated Jin Benhe and his Shadow Army with overwhelming holy power. The valley battle continued, with Bei Changfeng and Dai Yuanyue clashing while Hong Kou pressed Ji Yi’s twelve-layered tower.

• Xu Zhou used his holy seals to dissolve the Shadow Army’s attacks and scatter the darkness around Jin Benhe.
• Xu Zhou struck Jin Benhe with a pillar of holy light, destroying his shadow substitutes and melting his left arm.
• Xu Zhou used the Sixth Seal: Eternity to purify Jin Benhe and the remaining marks of the Shadow Army into golden dust.
• The fighting resumed across the valley as Bei Changfeng battled Dai Yuanyue and Hong Kou’s ribbons strained Ji Yi’s tower.

Tang San pursued the injured Tang San and He Xi, but Chen Hui intervened to protect the brother he believed was the real one. As Chen Hui struggled to hold off Tang San, Tang San chose to stay rather than flee, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Tang San chased Tang San and He Xi toward a rocky crevice and blocked their escape with Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San confronted Tang San over his lies about his mother and attacked with the Black Jade Overlord Spear.
• Chen Hui sprang out from behind the rocks and blocked Tang San’s spear, declaring that he would protect his brother from the impostor.
• Chen Hui revealed that he was a level sixty-six Soul Emperor and fought Tang San while Tang San retreated to recover.
• Tang San unleashed Overlord Spear Nine Absolutes, caving in Chen Hui’s shield and forcing him to one knee, but Chen Hui refused to yield.
• Tang San considered whether to leave, then decided to stay as Chen Hui continued to hold off Tang San.

Tang San used Divine Slaughter's Domain to disarm and strike down Chen Hui, but a youth with a steel-coil martial soul smashed Chen Hui into the mountain wall. With the obstruction cleared, Tang San pursued Tang San, leaving the arena focused on their duel.

• Chen Hui blocked Tang San and vowed to defend him, but Tang San’s killing intent stunned him long enough for Tang San to knock away his shield and strike him.
• A youth wielding a steel-coil martial soul hurled a massive coil into Chen Hui, leaving him unconscious and badly injured.
• The youth urged Tang San to stop wasting time on other contestants and fight Tang San, drawing cheers from the arena and spectators.
• Tang San nodded to the youth in thanks, spread his Wind-Thunder Wings, and raced after the fleeing Tang San.