Chapter Summaries

Hanabi declared war on the world while insisting that the Fatui sought to end bloodshed and let Evil Soul Masters live peacefully, then challenged anyone to face her at Eastsea City. As the Federation was crippled by the evidence she had revealed, Chen Xinjie ordered the War God Hall to gather other major forces and confront the Fatui.

• Hanabi told the continent that the Fatui wanted justice and an end to Evil Soul Master crimes, not a bloody war.
• Hanabi invited challengers to meet her at Eastsea City for a week and warned against using weapons of mass destruction.
• Hanabi and the other Masked Fools escaped Sun Moon News through spatial gates before the military could rescue the hostages.
• The livestream sparked outrage, leaving much of the Federation paralyzed while the War God Hall remained largely unaffected.
• Chen Xinjie ordered the War God Hall to contact Shrek Academy, the Tang Sect, and the Spirit Pagoda and gather them in Eastsea City to confront the Fatui.

The Abyssal Sage King, possessing Long Yeyue, pushed Shrek Academy to attack the Fatui while plotting to exploit the resulting conflict. Ya Li defended the Fatui, but Long Yeyue persuaded the elders to go to East Sea, leaving the academy vulnerable to the Abyssal Sage King's scheme.

• The Abyssal Sage King recalled that the Demon Empress had avoided using Abyssal power and resolved to conquer the Douluo Plane without the Holy Spirit Cult's cooperation.
• After Hanabi displayed the Sea God Trident on television, the Abyssal Sage King sensed a divine aura and decided the Fatui were a threat to his plans.
• Long Yeyue urged Shrek Academy to eliminate the Fatui, claiming they were dangerous Evil Soul Masters who had slandered the Sea God.
• Ya Li argued that the Fatui's account was credible and said Hanabi's videos had made her sympathize with them.
• Long Yeyue asked the Sea God Pavilion elders to go to East Sea, intending to leave Shrek Academy open for the Abyssal Sage King's plan.

As Eastsea City's residents fled ahead of the coming battle, Wu Zhangkong offered his Zero Class students a way to continue studying at Tang Sect headquarters. Tang Wulin and Sister Firefly agreed, and Wu Zhangkong promised to persuade Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan's families, leaving the four hopeful that they could stay together and reach Shrek Academy.

• Eastsea City's residents fled in panic after the Masked Fool declared war and Hanabi named the city as a target.
• Tang Wulin, Sister Firefly, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan lamented that Eastsea Academy's early break might separate them.
• Wu Zhangkong offered to take the students to Tang Sect headquarters, where they might earn admission to Shrek Academy.
• Tang Wulin and Sister Firefly accepted Wu Zhangkong's offer, while Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan worried about leaving their families behind.
• Wu Zhangkong promised to visit the Xie and Xu families, and the four students celebrated the chance to stay together.

As Eastsea City prepared for war against the Evil Soul Masters, Mu Chen sent Yuan Bao'er and Mu Xi to safety before joining the defenders. Hanabi waited on the coast for the powerful fighters from the factions she had challenged, and the decisive battle began as they arrived.

• Mu Chen told Yuan Bao'er and Mu Xi to go to Uncle Zhen Hua's place while he stayed to fight the Evil Soul Masters.
• Mu Chen explained to Mu Xi that neither the Evil Soul Masters seeking the right to live freely nor those fighting to protect others were wrong, and that this was the essence of war.
• Mu Chen gave Yuan Bao'er Herta's letter, urged them not to forget Herta at Shrek Academy, and said goodbye to his family.
• As Eastsea City's residents fled and the military prepared for battle, Hanabi waited on the coast for the enemy's strongest fighters.
• Hanabi saw the arriving Titled Douluo and announced that the battle deciding Douluo Continent's future would begin.

Gu Yue mourned the Demon Empress’s death and feared humanity’s growing strength, including the power displayed by Hanabi’s livestream. Determined to give the Soul Beasts one final chance, she planned to devour the Demon Empress and demanded that Di Tian sacrifice his life to help her recover.

• Gu Yue brought the Demon Empress’s corpse to her palace, where Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts gathered to mourn another lost Soul Beast pillar.
• Gu Yue questioned whether humans had gained enough power to reach level one hundred after learning about twelve Soul Rings, and the gathered beasts wondered how Soul Beasts could survive.
• Di Tian asked Gu Yue what they should do, and she declared that she would eat the Demon Empress to regain strength.
• Gu Yue explained that consuming Soul Beasts with pure Dragon Clan bloodlines could help restore the half she had lost, then demanded that Di Tian offer up his life.

Gu Yue realized the plane’s weakening suppression gave her a chance to break through, but her injuries and incomplete state forced her to seek Di Tian’s power. After Di Tian sacrificed himself and Gu Yue devoured him and the giant whale, she vowed to defeat humanity and took the name Heaven Defying Demon Dragon Emperor.

• Gu Yue concluded that the plane’s suppression was weakening and told Di Tian she needed his and the Demon Empress’s power to restore herself and break through its restrictions.
• Di Tian offered his life, and Bi Ji and Zi Ji offered to follow him, but Gu Yue told them they were pregnant and had to live for their children.
• Di Tian chose to sacrifice himself, while Gu Yue told the other ferocious beasts to leave and seek the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape.
• After the beasts left, Gu Yue transformed into the Silver Dragon King and devoured the giant whale and Di Tian’s corpse.
• Gu Yue vowed that soul beasts would defeat humanity and declared herself the Heaven Defying Demon Dragon Emperor.

Hanabi repelled Eastsea City's mecha assault by redirecting its shells and captured the pilots, then forced them to sing while she waited for more powerful fighters to arrive. When the major factions' experts reached the shore, they found the defeated mecha unit performing for her.

• Eastsea City's mecha unit fired a barrage of Soul Guidance Cannon Shells at Hanabi, who dodged the first wave and swallowed the next with Space Gates.
• Hanabi sent the shells back through the gates, destroying the mechas, then pulled out the surviving pilots and buried them in the sand with their Soul Power sealed.
• The captain and his team insulted Hanabi, so she brought out Teddy to make them agree to sing.
• Hanabi made the pilots sing as powerful experts from the major factions arrived and found the scene unexpectedly peaceful.

The continent’s strongest factions gathered to confront Hanabi, but Ya Li questioned whether Hanabi was truly an Evil Soul Master. After Hanabi revealed the Sea God’s power, she drew the assembled powerhouses into her domain, welcoming them to her world of The Elation.

• Chen Xinjie rallied the major factions’ Titled Douluo and led them toward Eastsea City to fight the Fatui and the Evil Soul Masters.
• The assembled powerhouses found Hanabi performing on the beach, and she revealed twelve soul rings and released a divine aura.
• Ya Li interrupted Hanabi and questioned why she was working with the Evil Soul Masters when she was not one herself.
• Hanabi said she was leading them to change their circumstances under the Sea God’s guidance, then summoned the Sea God Trident and showed its power.
• Hanabi opened her domain and drew the gathered powerhouses into her world of The Elation.

Hanabi trapped Chen Xinjie, Cao Dezhi, and Zang Xin in her godlike domain, where she sealed their powers and forced the Tang Sect rivals into a contest. Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin began fighting over who would have to become the other’s wife, while the author added a note about finding their novel on Douyin.

• Hanabi transported the Titled Douluo into her domain, where Chen Xinjie recognized that it created an entire world.
• Hanabi sealed Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin’s Soul Power and Martial Souls, then told them they had to fight, with the loser becoming a woman and accepting a punishment.
• Zang Xin initially offered to sacrifice himself, but then punched Cao Dezhi and changed his mind.
• Cao Dezhi fought back, and the two agreed that whoever admitted defeat would become the other’s wife.
• The author noted that they had seen someone listening to their novel on Douyin.

Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin fought in Hanabi’s domain, where Zang Xin won by using a humiliating mental attack, transforming Cao Dezhi into a girl. After Cao Dezhi regained her Soul Power and pursued Zang Xin, Ya Li and Yun Ming enjoyed the amusement park attractions as Hanabi’s newlywed blessings.

• Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin fought hand to hand after their Soul Power was sealed.
• Zang Xin kissed Cao Dezhi to break his resolve, and Hanabi declared Zang Xin the winner as Cao Dezhi transformed into a black-haired girl.
• Cao Dezhi regained her Soul Power and chased the frightened Zang Xin, who wondered whether he would escape the domain.
• Ya Li and Yun Ming rode bumper cars and enjoyed the amusement park attractions, free from their usual duties.

Hanabi told Chen Xinjie what had happened to Long Yeyue, then met the Titan Giant Ape, who came to verify whether she was the Sea God's successor and ask about the Divine Realm. Hanabi prepared to punish him for arriving late, and he asked what her relationship with Tang San was.

• Chen Xinjie embraced an illusion of Long Yeyue before Hanabi revealed that something had happened to her.
• Hanabi warned Chen Xinjie that a powerful enemy could endanger millions and said she and her allies would handle it.
• The Titan Giant Ape arrived at the East Sea shore and confirmed he had come to investigate Hanabi's Sea God powers.
• The Titan Giant Ape explained that he had stopped to get some friends to safety before coming to Hanabi.
• Hanabi summoned a huge red hammer to teach the Titan Giant Ape a lesson, and he asked what her relationship with Tang San was.

Hanabi defeated Tai Tan and the assembled forces, then posted photos of her victories across Douluo Net while sparing the Titan Giant Ape for now. The chapter left Yun Ming and Ya Li waking to the defeated factions and finding Zang Xin barely recognizable with a black-haired girl in his arms.

• Tai Tan recognized Hanabi’s Clear Sky Hammer, but she knocked him unconscious with a single blow.
• Hanabi examined the Titan Giant Ape’s memories, learned of the Soul Beasts’ grief and Gu Yue and Di Tian’s disappearance, and decided to spare him after placing a tiny red dot in his mind.
• Hanabi pulled the unconscious fighters from the ground, arranged them in a pile, took victory photos, and uploaded them to Douluo Net.
• People across the continent argued over Hanabi’s posts, her faction’s treatment of its defeated enemies, and what the Evil Soul Masters’ victory meant for ordinary people.
• Yun Ming and Ya Li regained consciousness, saw the defeated forces, and noticed that Zang Xin was missing while a black-haired girl rested in the Amorous Douluo’s arms.

After Hanabi’s intervention destabilized the continent, the Douluo Peace Company rose to become its largest force through its avatars’ leadership and Herta’s inventions. Its leaders toasted their next plans, including negotiations with the major powers and extracting value from the Sun Moon Federation.

• Hanabi’s warning and the Fatui’s surveillance curbed the major powers’ open interference and made poisoning and assassination rare.
• The Douluo Peace Company, owned by Asta, defeated rival factions and grew to have the most employees on the continent.
• Asta was revealed to be Yao Lan’s avatar, while Emerald, Topaz, and Aventurine helped lead the company and Winterfire Hall funded it from behind the scenes.
• Herta secretly sent her inventions from God Craftsman Zhen Hua’s tutelage to the company, helping it withstand attacks from the major powers.
• Emerald, Topaz, Aventurine, and Asta raised their glasses and pledged everything to the Amber Lord as they planned their next moves.

Tang Wulin and his companions arrived in Shrek City, where Wu Zhangkong gave them a day to rest and explore before joining the Tang Sect. After the children struggled to afford a meal, a red-and-white-haired girl offered to treat them if they recommended somewhere to eat.

• Wu Zhangkong brought Tang Wulin, Liu Ying, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan to Shrek City and gave them a day to relax before visiting the Tang Sect headquarters.
• The four children invited Wu Zhangkong to eat with them, but he declined because he had urgent business at the Tang Sect.
• Tang Wulin and his companions went to a busy food street, where Tang Wulin eagerly eyed the food and Xie Xie suggested a restaurant.
• The group found Shrek City's food far too expensive and settled on a small shop, only to discover that its rare ingredients made every meal unaffordable.
• A red-and-white-haired girl with a pig-like Soul Spirit asked the children for food recommendations and offered to pay for their meal.

Wu Zhangkong returned to the deserted Tang Sect headquarters and encountered Manager Guo, while Tang Wulin and his companions followed Topaz to an extravagant restaurant. Topaz revealed her wealth by ordering nearly everything on the menu.

• Wu Zhangkong entered the empty Tang Sect headquarters cautiously and sensed vibrations from a soundproofed room.
• Manager Guo appeared, recognized Wu Zhangkong, and led him away from the suspicious room.
• Topaz rejected a modest restaurant and took Tang Wulin, Xu Xiaoyan, Xie Xie, and Liu Ying to a much more expensive one.
• Xu Xiaoyan, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin worried that Topaz could not afford the meal, but Liu Ying pointed out Topaz’s Douluo Peace Company emblem.
• Topaz ordered every dish on the menu except the few she had indicated.

Tang Wulin and his companions learned about the Douluo Peace Company and the Evil Soul Masters’ defeat of the continent’s strongest fighters. As Topaz and Liu Ying challenged their assumptions about what made someone evil, Tang Wulin began to think about the question.

• Topaz paid for a lavish meal with a Black Card, surprising Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan.
• Liu Ying prompted the group to pay attention to events beyond their immediate surroundings, and Xu Xiaoyan asked Topaz about the Douluo Peace Company.
• Topaz showed them images of the Evil Soul Masters defeating powerful figures from Shrek Academy, Spirit Pagoda, and the Tang Sect in East Sea.
• Topaz explained that the defeated experts survived and that the Evil Soul Masters continued hunting down the wicked instead of seizing control of the continent.
• Liu Ying and Topaz argued that evil came from a person’s actions rather than their Martial Soul, making Tang Wulin reconsider his beliefs.
• Topaz revealed that the Douluo Peace Company had become the continent’s new overlord, replacing the Sun Moon Federation.

Topaz treated Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan to a lavish meal, then reflected on her plan to invest in them as they parted. The next morning, she approached their teacher Wu Zhangkong and revealed that she had come to collect a debt from the Tang Sect.

• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan ate their fill at Topaz's expense, and Topaz invited them to become her friends.
• Topaz watched the children leave and hoped her investment in Tang Wulin would pay off with Liu Ying's help.
• Wu Zhangkong learned that Topaz had treated his students to dinner and reprimanded them for accepting a stranger's invitation.
• Topaz met Wu Zhangkong the next morning and asked him to take her to the Tang Sect for important business.
• Topaz produced a huge scroll and told Wu Zhangkong she had come to collect what the Tang Sect owed.

Wu Zhangkong led Tang Wulin and the others to meet Topaz, who had come to collect a huge debt from the Tang Sect’s headquarters on behalf of Douluo Peace Company. As the students tried to learn about the company and the Tang Sect’s troubles, Wu Zhangkong decided he would later remind them that they could leave the sect.

• Tang Wulin mistakenly thought Topaz was collecting a debt over their meal, but she explained that she was there to collect from Xuan Shi Tang Sect Technology Co., Ltd.
• Wu Zhangkong explained that the Tang Sect’s enormous debt stemmed from its subsidiary companies and that its weakened position made it dangerous to keep stalling.
• Wu Zhangkong led the group across Shrek Street toward the Tang Sect headquarters while the students worried about the sect’s situation.
• Liu Ying chatted with Topaz, and Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan joined them to ask about Douluo Peace Company and the Tang Sect.
• Wu Zhangkong reflected that he had brought his students into a debt-ridden sect and decided to remind them that they could leave.

After the Tang Sect’s subsidiaries borrowed hundreds of billions in its name and vanished, the sect was left deeply in debt amid the continent’s turmoil. Wu Zhangkong urged Tang Wulin and the others to reject membership and avoid sharing the Tang Sect’s burdens, but they resolved to help him anyway.

• A month after Hanabi defeated the continent’s powerhouses, Tang Sect subsidiary leaders feared retaliation by the Evil Soul Masters and decided to flee with the sect’s money.
• The subsidiaries borrowed several hundred billion using Tang Sect seals from the Douluo Peace Company, then disappeared before investigators could find them.
• Topaz told Tang Wulin and the others that the Tang Sect owed more than one hundred billion, while other powers, including Shrek Academy, also had substantial debts.
• Wu Zhangkong warned Tang Wulin and the others that they had never formally joined the Tang Sect and told them not to take on its debts.
• Tang Wulin and the others cried at Wu Zhangkong’s harsh but protective words and resolved to find a way to help him.

Liu Ying stopped Tang Wulin from rushing to join the struggling Tang Sect and explained that falling metal prices made his forging an ineffective way to help Wu Zhangkong. She urged the group to grow stronger first, leaving them determined to restore the Tang Sect in the future.

• Tang Wulin tried to leave the hotel to join the Tang Sect and help Wu Zhangkong, but Liu Ying stopped him.
• Tang Wulin offered to sell his forged metals, and Liu Ying showed him that metal prices had collapsed because Douluo Peace Company had introduced Herta's Assembly Line Forging.
• Liu Ying explained that Wu Zhangkong had sent the students away so they would not sacrifice their futures to raise money.
• Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan helped Tang Wulin up, and Liu Ying persuaded the group to become stronger before trying to help the Tang Sect.
• Liu Ying invoked Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao's role in the Tang Sect's revival, and the students vowed to make the sect great again.