Chapter Summaries

After the eight edicts spread across the continent, Spirit Hall, the major sects, and the nobles weighed how the reforms threatened the old order. In Balak City, Xue Ye accepted Gu Zheng’s plan to challenge Yan Lingji and began gathering forces to claim the Heaven Dou throne.

• Qian Xunji ordered Spirit Hall to watch Yan Lingji closely and investigate the forces behind her, while Ning Yuanqing, Yu Yuanzhen, and Tang Zhen each sent people to monitor Heaven Dou City.
• Nobles furious over the eight edicts began exchanging secret letters and plotting, while some lesser nobles hoped the reforms would give their children new opportunities.
• A scout told Xue Ye and King Kundera that the emperor had abdicated and Yan Lingji had issued eight edicts, prompting Xue Ye to accuse her of seizing his rightful throne.
• Gu Zheng urged Xue Ye to rally nobles and kingdoms in the name of restoring the imperial line, and Xue Ye agreed to pursue the throne.
• Xue Ye ordered Gu Zheng to draft a proclamation and contact Marshal Ge Long, the other kingdoms, and the principalities to assemble forces within a month.

After absorbing Immortal Herbs and Soul Rings, Jiang Ce and the women grew stronger and traveled to the Northern Great Plains to capture Horned Scale Horses for a cavalry force. They gathered more than twenty thousand horses and began leading them toward the Heavenly Strategy Army.

• Snow Maiden completed her first four Soul Rings, Jiang Ce reached level 56 after absorbing his fifth Soul Ring, Xiaomeng reached level 75, Tide Enchantress reached level 65, and Na'er reached level 26 with two self-condensed Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Jiang Ce explained that he planned to capture Horned Scale Horses to form a heavy cavalry force for the Heavenly Strategy Army.
• Xiaomeng, Tide Enchantress, Snow Maiden, and Na'er flew to the Northern Great Plains and located Horned Scale Horse herds, including a super-herd led by a three-thousand-year-old Horse King.
• The women used their Soul Skills and Na'er's Silver Dragon King Bloodline to gather and calm more than twenty-five thousand Horned Scale Horses.
• Na'er led the herd away from populated areas, while the women escorted the horses through the western mountains toward their destination.

Yan Lingji used more than a hundred clones to deduce the Holy Spirit Sword Technique through Sword Twenty-Two in ten days, unleashing sword intent across Heaven Dou Imperial City. After Jiang Ce told her to stop frightening the city, he directed her to prepare for the arrival of twenty thousand Horned Scale Horses and inspect the nearly completed Tyrannical Mechanism Art.

• Yan Lingji created more than a hundred clones with Celestial Fox Nine Thoughts, and they combined shared sword insights and Jiang Ce's knowledge to develop the Holy Spirit Sword Technique through Sword Twenty-Two.
• Yan Lingji's sword intent spread across Heaven Dou Imperial City and formed a gigantic sword above the palace, frightening the city's residents and Soul Masters.
• Yan Lingji merged her clones, absorbed the sword's shadow, and gained a blue flower-shaped mark on her forehead before Jiang Ce asked her to calm the sword intent.
• Yan Lingji explained that Sword Twenty-Three remained beyond her current ability, though she believed the combined insights and her clones' deductions might eventually let her reach it.
• Jiang Ce told Yan Lingji to arrange for the arrival of about twenty thousand Horned Scale Horses and to inspect the nearly completed Tyrannical Mechanism Art.

Yan Lingji tested Jiang Ce’s mass-produced war machines and advanced weapons, including a long-range rifle capable of devastating a target from ten thousand meters away. The chapter ended with Jiang Ce boasting that even Peerless Douluos would be forced to submit.

• Yan Lingji watched Earth-Breaking Three bore through granite and learned it could undermine a city’s defenses.
• Jiang Ce demonstrated a three-stage sword-scabbard weapon that riddled, sliced, and exploded a steel pillar, impressing Yan Lingji with its power against powerful Soul Masters.
• Yan Lingji and Jiang Ce contrasted their assembly-line production of war machines with the Tang Sect’s limited, handcrafted Hidden Weapons.
• Jiang Ce assembled and fired a Barrett at a mountain peak ten thousand meters away, blasting through the granite.
• Yan Lingji asked whether Peerless Douluos would fear the rifle, and Jiang Ce said they would have to grovel at their feet.

Prince Xue Ye gathered a 450,000-strong allied army in Balak and swore to overthrow Yan Lingji, while Kundera, Ning Fengzhi, Qian Xunji, and the Star Luo Emperor each pursued their own interests. The army marched north toward Heaven Dou City as the Star Luo Empire prepared to exploit the coming civil war.

• Gu Zheng reported that noble forces, Balak troops, and Marshal Haierge's army had brought Xue Ye's coalition to more than 450,000 soldiers, and Xue Ye ordered an oath-taking ceremony before marching on Heaven Dou City.
• Kundera supported Xue Ye's campaign while privately considering how Balak might gain independence or even claim the throne.
• Ning Fengzhi chose to wait and see which side prevailed, while Qian Xunji planned for Spirit Hall to intervene after the conflict weakened its winner.
• The Star Luo Emperor ordered Hu Lie to lead 150,000 troops toward the Heaven Dou border and secretly offered Prince Xue Ye an alliance against Yan Lingji.
• At the parade ground, Xue Ye accused Yan Lingji of usurping the throne and attacking noble traditions, then led 450,000 soldiers in an oath to purge the court and slay the empress.
• Xue Ye, Haierge, and Kundera set the allied army marching north toward Heaven Dou City.

A 450,000-strong allied army reached Heaven Dou City and built a fortified camp, while Jiang Ce’s spies and symbiotes secretly tracked its every move. Yan Lingji planned a nighttime assault from within and without, targeting the army’s command and sowing chaos, and Jiang Ce approved her arrangements.

• Marshal Haierge halted the exhausted army outside Heaven Dou City and ordered it to build a heavily defended camp instead of attacking immediately.
• The Net’s memory-wiped agents and Jiang Ce’s symbiote-controlled birds and animals watched the allied army’s movements and recorded its camp layout for the defenders.
• Yan Lingji, Xiaomeng, the Snow Maiden, and Na'er reviewed the surveillance and prepared a coordinated night attack against the 450,000-man army.
• Yan Lingji assigned Xiaomeng to lead Earth-Breaking Three through tunnels toward the command tent, Mingzhu to unleash the Net’s agents inside the camp, and the Snow Maiden to disrupt the enemy with illusions.
• Jiang Ce approved Yan Lingji’s plan to attack from multiple directions, and Yan Lingji prepared to show the allied army the difference in their strength.

Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin weighed the danger of the sword intent hanging over the imperial palace while the allied army prepared to besiege Heaven Dou City. Yan Lingji’s infiltrators prepared to strike from within the camp, and she gave the order to attack.

• Ning Fengzhi told Chen Xin that the sword intent came from the imperial palace and had remained there since he arrived in Heaven Dou City.
• Chen Xin warned that the sword might let the defenders overcome the allied army, so Ning Fengzhi chose to wait rather than pledge allegiance to either side.
• Thousands of Yan Lingji’s agents, disguised as guards, laborers, and officers, prepared to attack throughout the allied army’s camp.
• Marshal Helge proposed surrounding Heaven Dou City and starving its defenders instead of launching a frontal assault.
• Xiaomeng waited underground on Earth-Breaking Three while Snow Maiden took position outside the city and Yan Lingji sent the order to attack through Jiang Ce’s Venom symbiote link.

The Heavenly Strategy Army infiltrated the Allied Army encampment, killed or captured its leaders, and launched a coordinated assault that routed the 450,000-strong force in less than two hours. As the battle ended, Net agents intercepted spies drawn toward the fires outside Heaven Dou City.

• Assassins emerged through tunnels, eliminated the Allied Army’s outer sentries, and entered the encampment to sabotage supplies and target senior officers.
• Earth-Breaking Three burst into the central command tent, where Xiaomeng used Colorless World to incapacitate Helge and strike down the officers; guards then betrayed and attacked the nobles.
• Xiaomeng knocked Xue Ye and Kundera unconscious, while assassins set fires and spread false reports that the Heavenly Strategy Army had broken into the camp.
• Snow Maiden used the Blue Sea Tide-Rising Flute to confuse the Allied Army as crossbow fire and Horned Scale Horse cavalry attacked its flank and ranks.
• The Allied Army was routed in under two hours, its main-force commanders were captured, and many nobles were killed.
• Net agents knocked out spies who hurried toward Heaven Dou City to investigate the fires and carried them away.

Yan Lingji celebrated the defeat of the 450,000 allied troops with Jiang Ce and the women at the palace, then presided over court the next morning. The ministers still believed Heaven Dou City was under threat, while Yan Lingji’s power punished officials who secretly welcomed her downfall.

• Yan Lingji and Na'er celebrated the victory in the palace as Xue Nu, Xiao Meng, and Chao Nüyao returned from dealing with the allied army.
• Jiang Ce gathered the five women before the throne for a contest involving hundreds of writhing tentacles.
• The next morning, ministers reported that Xue Ye, King Kundera, and Marshal Helger had brought 450,000 troops to the city gates.
• Yan Lingji silenced the court as officials argued over whether to attack the enemy or hold the city.
• A burly earl and a marquis secretly anticipated Yan Lingji's defeat, but each was forced to attack himself.

After the allied army’s crushing defeat, Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin tried to understand how Yan Lingji had outmaneuvered it. Yan Lingji confronted Ning Fengzhi over the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s neutrality, and the chapter ended as Chen Xin began to speak.

• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed the defeat of the 450,000-strong allied army and concluded that Yan Lingji had anticipated its every move.
• Yan Lingji arrived at the teahouse with Na'er, startling Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin by appearing undetected.
• Yan Lingji challenged Ning Fengzhi for waiting to see who would win before pledging the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support.
• Ning Fengzhi admitted he had intended to wait and see, then offered the sect’s service to Yan Lingji.
• Chen Xin began to address Yan Lingji, saying he had something he wanted to tell her.

Yan Lingji revealed her overwhelming swordsmanship to Chen Xin, then forced Ning Fengzhi to choose between submitting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to the Heaven Dou Empire or seeing it destroyed. Ning Fengzhi chose submission, leaving Chen Xin convinced the sect’s survival depended on obeying her.

• Chen Xin challenged Yan Lingji’s pressure on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and she revealed that the sword intent over Heaven Dou Imperial City belonged to her.
• Chen Xin attacked with the Seven Kill Sword, but Yan Lingji’s casual sword strike broke through his defenses and forced him to admit defeat.
• Yan Lingji ordered Ning Fengzhi to incorporate the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into the Heaven Dou Empire or face destruction, requiring the sect to accept imperial authority and submit its disciples to assessment and recruitment.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to submit, and Yan Lingji promised the sect would retain its treatment as long as it followed her orders.
• After Yan Lingji left with Na'er, Chen Xin told Ning Fengzhi that submission might be the sect’s only chance to survive.

Yan Lingji defeated Chen Xin in a swordsmanship contest and forced Ning Fengzhi to submit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to the Heaven Dou Empire. Ning Fengzhi accepted imperial jurisdiction, leaving Chen Xin to warn that the sect’s survival depended on obeying Yan Lingji.

• Chen Xin challenged Yan Lingji after questioning her pressure on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and she revealed the sword intent that had alarmed him in Heaven Dou City.
• Chen Xin attacked with the Seven Kill Sword, but Yan Lingji’s nameless sword qi broke through his defenses and forced him to admit defeat.
• Yan Lingji gave Ning Fengzhi the choice of submitting the sect to imperial jurisdiction or having it destroyed, citing his wait-and-see conduct during the allied army’s attack.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to submit, and Yan Lingji ordered the sect to provide its Merchant Guild channels and let its disciples undergo assessment and recruitment by the Heavenly Strategy Army.
• After Yan Lingji left with Na'er, Chen Xin told Ning Fengzhi that submission was likely the sect’s only way to survive.

After learning that Yan Lingji’s army had destroyed a 450,000-strong coalition, Spirit Hall and Clear Sky Sect leaders reassessed her growing power. Yan Lingji discovered a concealed Star Luo army and dispatched cavalry to attack it.

• Qian Xunji received reports of the coalition’s destruction and ordered Bibi Dong to visit Heaven Dou City and investigate Yan Lingji.
• Tang Zhen learned of the defeat, sent letters to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, and ordered surveillance of Heaven Dou City.
• Marshal Hu Lie’s 150,000-strong Star Luo army received news of the coalition’s defeat and began an immediate retreat.
• Yan Lingji used a bird parasitized by Jiang Ce to locate the Star Luo army’s mountain camp.
• Yan Lingji ordered the Heavenly Strategy Army’s Fifth and Seventh Battalions, including three thousand cavalry, to attack the Star Luo army.

Tide Enchantress arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after Sword Douluo Chen Xin admitted that she had defeated him in one move and placed the sect under the Heaven Dou Empire. She confronted Bone Douluo when he tried to resist, then used Yan Lingji’s soul skills to immobilize him.

• Ning Fengzhi told Bone Douluo that Chen Xin had lost to a woman in one move and that the sect now belonged to the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Chen Xin stopped Bone Douluo from leaving to challenge the woman, explaining that a spiritual restriction prevented him from disobeying her orders.
• Ning Fengzhi began slapping himself after thinking resentfully of Yan Lingji, and Tide Enchantress entered the hall.
• Bone Douluo insulted Tide Enchantress and attacked her after seeing her six black soul rings.
• Tide Enchantress unleashed Yan Lingji’s soul skills and left Bone Douluo unable to move.

Tide Enchantress overpowered Bone Douluo, defeated him with Chen Xin’s Seven Kill Sword abilities, and imposed commands on his mind. The chapter ended with Bone Douluo helplessly slapping himself as he tried to resist.

• Bone Douluo used his Bone Dragon Avatar and soul skills to attack Tide Enchantress, but she controlled his movements with her spiritual power.
• Bone Douluo transformed into a massive bone dragon, drawing Ning Yuanqing into the devastated hall.
• Tide Enchantress summoned the Seven Kill Sword, unfolded the Seven Kill Domain, and destroyed Bone Douluo’s dragon form with God-Demon Dual Slash.
• Ning Fengzhi knelt and pleaded with Tide Enchantress, while Chen Xin and Ning Yuanqing watched in shock.
• After Bone Douluo awoke, Tide Enchantress used Heavenly Illusion to implant commands in his mind, and he slapped himself when he tried to resist.

Tide Enchantress used Heavenly Illusion to force Bone Douluo, Ning Yuanqing, Chen Xin, and Ning Fengzhi to kneel and surrender the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s records, then returned to Heaven Dou Imperial City under Jiang Ce’s control. At dawn, the women completed their clone-based cultivation, and Yan Lingji greeted the exhausted Tide Enchantress as she arrived on a black horse.

• Tide Enchantress mentally restrained Bone Douluo, forced him to kneel, and made him admit submission.
• Tide Enchantress used Heavenly Illusion on Ning Yuanqing and ordered the sect leaders to kneel overnight and deliver the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s asset lists, commercial channels, and branch personnel rosters by dawn.
• After leaving the sect, Tide Enchantress asked Jiang Ce how she had performed, and he summoned a black horse with two Supreme Bones for her ride back to Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• At dawn, Yan Lingji, Snow Maiden, Na'er, and Xiaomeng absorbed their clones’ shared insights, advancing their sword-intent deductions.
• Tide Enchantress arrived in the imperial palace courtyard exhausted on the black horse, and Yan Lingji approached to tease her.

Yan Lingji took her turn on the black stallion, then pulled Xiaomeng onto it as well. Elsewhere, the Star Luo army retreated through the mountains while Qin Ming led three thousand Heavenly Strategy cavalrymen in pursuit.

• Yan Lingji sent Snow Maiden to help the exhausted Tide Enchantress to the baths, then mounted the black stallion herself.
• Yan Lingji’s tentacles swept Xiaomeng onto the stallion, and she held her there as it paced around the courtyard.
• Hu Lie ordered the retreating Star Luo army to abandon heavy supplies and leave behind anyone who fell behind.
• A scout reported the Star Luo army’s loose formation and distant cavalry vanguard to Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming ordered his three thousand Heavenly Strategy cavalrymen to accelerate and pursue the Star Luo forces.

Qin Ming’s Heavenly Strategy Army annihilated Hu Lie’s 150,000-strong Star Luo Army with its heavily armed cavalry and crossbows, then captured Hu Lie. In the palace, Jiang Ce told Yan Lingji she had reached level 70 and would soon receive her seventh soul ring, but first they needed to retrieve a divine artifact.

• Qin Ming led the Heavenly Strategy Army’s cavalry in a crossbow barrage that wiped out the Star Luo Army’s rear guard.
• Hu Lie ordered his main force to hold its ground, but the Heavenly Strategy Army’s repeated volleys and charges broke the army and forced it to scatter.
• The battle ended with about 20,000 Star Luo soldiers dead, nearly 100,000 captured, and the rest scattered; the Heavenly Strategy Army suffered no casualties.
• The Heavenly Strategy Army captured Hu Lie and brought him before Qin Ming, who ordered him bound and taken back for His Majesty to judge.
• Jiang Ce told Yan Lingji she had reached level 70 and said they would retrieve a divine artifact from the palace before obtaining her seventh soul ring.

Jiang Ce learned that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud could lead to the Sea God Nine Trials, but the women feared the gods might watch Xiaomeng during them. The Stone Bead awakened as the Chaos Pearl, revealing that it could shield Jiang Ce and the women from even the God Realm’s scrutiny, though its deeper powers remained beyond his reach.

• Jiang Ce explained the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud’s origins and described the dangers of the Sea God Nine Trials.
• Yan Lingji proposed that Xiaomeng pursue the Sea God’s inheritance with Snow Maiden supporting her, while she stayed behind as ruler.
• Jiang Ce warned that gods might observe the trials, leaving Xiaomeng and the others unwilling to let the Sea God or other deities watch them.
• The Stone Bead inside Jiang Ce trembled and glowed, and Na'er sensed that it was growing hot.
• Jiang Ce learned that the Stone Bead was the Chaos Pearl, a supreme treasure that could conceal him and the women from Heaven and the gods, though he could not yet unlock its other powers.

Yan Lingji and her companions found the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud in the imperial treasure vault, and the Sea God chose Xiaomeng to wield it. After setting out for the sea, they enjoyed their first encounter with the ocean before Jiang Ce directed them toward an undersea volcano to search for a fire-attributed soul beast.

• Yan Lingji followed Jiang Ce's guidance to find the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud in the imperial treasure vault, where Xiaomeng gained the Sea God's recognition.
• Yan Lingji created a clone to manage the empire, then flew southeast with Xiaomeng, Snow Maiden, Tide Enchantress, and Na'er.
• The women reached the ocean, formed a venom skiff, and explored the water together.
• Jiang Ce told them to search the deep sea near an undersea volcano for a fire-attributed marine soul beast.
• Yan Lingji and the others dove beneath the sea to begin their search.