Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong and Dugu Bo visited the Mountain-Suppressing Sect with the Judgment Heavenly Army to invite it into the Spirit Hall Alliance. Qin Yue accepted after Qin Tianzhen presented Murong Huai’s letter, and Bibi Dong agreed to the sect’s conditions before departing for the Ye Family in Healing Heart City.

• Qin Tianzhen welcomed Bibi Dong and Dugu Bo and led them to meet Qin Yue and the elders.
• Bibi Dong invited the Mountain-Suppressing Sect to join the Spirit Hall Alliance, but Qin Yue’s elders protested against submitting to Spirit Hall.
• Dugu Bo demonstrated his deadly poison, raising tensions as Qin Yue recognized the threat posed by Spirit Hall’s forces.
• Qin Tianzhen showed Qin Yue Murong Huai’s letter, which described Spirit Hall’s strength and promised sect autonomy, resources, and protection.
• Qin Yue agreed to join the alliance after Bibi Dong accepted his conditions that Spirit Hall preserve the sect’s internal affairs and protect it from other sects.
• Bibi Dong and Dugu Bo departed with the Judgment Heavenly Army for the Ye Family in Healing Heart City to meet Murong Huai.

Murong Huai visited the Ye Family to seek its submission to Spirit Hall, and Ye Xuanqiu agreed only if he could remove the Nine Heart Begonia’s restriction. After touching the family’s ancestral flower, Murong Huai was pulled into its inner realm, leaving Bibi Dong, Dugu Bo, and Ye Xuanqiu waiting anxiously.

• Murong Huai, Bibi Dong, and Dugu Bo arrived in Healing Heart City and planned to visit the Ye Family after resting.
• Ye Xuanqiu welcomed the three guests and challenged Murong Huai to resolve the Nine Heart Begonia’s restriction before the family would submit to Spirit Hall.
• Murong Huai accepted Ye Xuanqiu’s condition and accompanied her to the Ye Family ancestral grounds.
• Ye Xuanqiu explained that the ancestral flower’s blood-red patterns appeared after Ye Jiuxin was supposedly cursed by an unknown god.
• Murong Huai touched a petal of the ancestral flower and vanished into its inner realm, while Bibi Dong and Dugu Bo stood guard.

Murong Huai learned that Ye Jiuxin had caused the curse afflicting the Ye Family by stealing divine power, then used Heavenly Condemnation divine power to free her and break the curse. Ye Jiuxin restored the ancestral flower with her life, and the Ye Family pledged loyalty to Spirit Hall.

• Ye Jiuxin told Murong Huai how her greed had brought the curse upon the Ye Family and imprisoned her for centuries.
• Murong Huai used Heavenly Condemnation divine power to break Ye Jiuxin's chains and destroy the altar and curse's core.
• Ye Jiuxin gave Murong Huai the Nine Heart Begonia's origin healing ability, then transformed herself to restore the ancestral flower.
• The Ye Family disciples' Martial Souls evolved into the Nine Heart Begonia, and Ye Xuanqiu thanked Murong Huai and pledged the family to Spirit Hall.
• The Ye Family celebrated its liberation at a grand feast with Murong Huai, Bibi Dong, and Dugu Bo.

Murong Huai brought the Judgment Heavenly Army to the Clear Sky Sect and asked it to join Spirit Hall. The sect agreed to become an ally until Tang Chen returned to decide whether it would formally join.

• After six months of campaigning, Murong Huai led the Judgment Heavenly Army to the Clear Sky Sect, the last major sect he planned to approach.
• Murong Huai, Bibi Dong, and Dugu Bo met Sect Master Tang Zhan and the elders at the mountain gate, where they greeted the visitors respectfully.
• In the council hall, Murong Huai invited the Clear Sky Sect to become directly affiliated with Spirit Hall, but Tang Zhan said he could not decide without the absent Tang Chen.
• Tang Zhan offered to end the sect's dealings with both empires and form an alliance with Spirit Hall until Tang Chen returned; Murong Huai accepted.
• Bibi Dong asked about Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, and Tang Zhan said they were traveling across the continent.

Murong Huai entered seclusion in the Clear Sky Sect and successfully condensed a Mental Soul Core, bringing his combat strength to that of an ordinary Limit Douluo despite remaining at rank eighty-eight. He left with Bibi Dong and Dugu Bo to return to Spirit Hall and prepare to consolidate the continent’s soul masters, while Tang Zhan awaited his father’s return.

• Tang Zhan led Murong Huai to a Clear Sky Sect cultivation chamber in the back mountain after Murong Huai asked for a quiet place to cultivate.
• Murong Huai began condensing a Mental Soul Core with Heavenly Punishment’s guidance, using the Stabilizing Soul Core to steady his spiritual power.
• After ten days, Murong Huai completed the Mental Soul Core and emerged with strength comparable to an ordinary Limit Douluo.
• Murong Huai told Tang Zhan that Spirit Hall would compensate the Clear Sky Sect for the chamber’s resources and promised to look after Tang Hao and Tang Xiao if needed.
• Murong Huai, Bibi Dong, and Dugu Bo departed for Spirit Hall to prepare to consolidate the soul masters’ forces, while Tang Zhan waited for his father to return.

Dai Lingfeng sent the Star Luo Empire’s Tiger-Slaying Army and five imperial offerings to intercept Murong Huai’s Judgment Heavenly Army at the Scorching Wind Plains. The battle began with the Judgment Heavenly Army’s cannons disrupting the cavalry charge, while the Tiger-Slaying Army regrouped behind shields and prepared to fight back.

• Dai Lingfeng ordered the imperial offerings to kill Dugu Bo first and then attack Murong Huai.
• Dugu Bo identified the force blocking the Judgment Heavenly Army as thirty thousand Tiger-Slaying soldiers and recognized five imperial offerings among them.
• Murong Huai chose to let his soldiers fight first and ordered them to prepare their soul-tool crouching tiger cannons.
• The Tiger-Slaying Army charged toward the Judgment Heavenly Army, and Murong Huai ordered the cannons to fire.
• The cannon volley killed nearly a thousand Tiger-Slaying soldiers, but their commander rallied them into a shield formation as archers returned fire.

The Judgment Heavenly Army and its allies overwhelmed the Tiger-Slaying Army as Murong Huai, Dugu Bo, and Bibi Dong battled the royal consecrates and other Title Douluos. The Tiger-Slaying Army’s formation collapsed under the Judgment Heavenly Army’s charge, while the individual duels remained underway.

• The five royal consecrates blocked Dugu Bo’s poison, and two Super Douluos combined their Martial Souls into a tiger-bear beast to attack Murong Huai.
• Murong Huai shattered the fusion beast with one sword strike and forced the two Super Douluos and a Saber Douluo onto the defensive.
• Dugu Bo poisoned a python Martial Soul’s wielder with Bone-Eroding Powder, leaving him in pain and demanding an antidote.
• Bibi Dong wounded the Golden Eagle Douluo and pierced his back with the Death God’s Magic Sickle, causing his Soul Power to collapse.
• The Mystic Gold Armor and disciplined formations let the two thousand Judgment Heavenly Army soldiers cut through the Tiger-Slaying Army’s thirty thousand troops.
• The Judgment Heavenly Army charged in a wedge, broke the Tiger-Slaying Army’s formation, and cut down the fleeing soldiers.

Murong Huai's Judgment Heavenly Army defeated the Star Luo Empire's Sha Tiger Army, prompting Dai Lingfeng to seek revenge through the God of Slaughter. Meanwhile, a masked man discovered that the Asura Magic Sword had appeared in the Blood Cavern Mountains, where evil soul masters were gathering to summon the Asura God.

• Murong Huai killed Black Tiger Douluo, Giant Bear Douluo, and Longblade Douluo, while the Sha Tiger Army commander killed himself after his forces were defeated.
• Murong Huai ordered the Judgment Heavenly Army to collect the spoils and continue to Judgment City, postponing revenge against Dai Lingfeng until the city was secured.
• Dai Lingfeng learned that the Sha Tiger Army and its consecrated elders had been wiped out, then sent a black shadow with the God of Slaughter token to Scorpion Tiger.
• A masked man found evil soul masters in the Blood Cavern Mountains and sensed the Asura Magic Sword's aura.
• The masked man discovered the Asura Magic Sword at an altar surrounded by thousands of kneeling evil soul masters as a blood-robed man vowed to summon the Asura God.

Gu Changfeng confronted Scorpion Tiger Douluo in the Blood Cavern, but the Asura Magic Sword's domain triggered his curse and forced him to retreat. Scorpion Tiger then agreed to kill Murong Huai for the Star Luo Empire, though he demanded that their ties end afterward.

• Gu Changfeng appeared before Scorpion Tiger Douluo and demanded to know how he had brought the Asura Magic Sword and fallen ones out of Slaughter City.
• Scorpion Tiger revealed his plan to use the Blood Cavern's power to summon the Asura God and become the god's favored one.
• The Asura Magic Sword's domain triggered Gu Changfeng's curse and weakened him, but he wounded Scorpion Tiger before clashing with the sword and escaping.
• Scorpion Tiger learned that the Star Luo Empire wanted Murong Huai dead because he had killed the Ten Eunuchs, thirty thousand Tiger Blade troops, and five imperial worshippers.
• Scorpion Tiger accepted the mission after receiving the Magic Tiger Token, but declared that his ties to the Star Luo Empire would end once it was done.

Murong Huai returned to Judgment City and reviewed its rapid development, including its growing army, weapons, and Soul Tools. He ordered the creation of an aerial unit and preparations for Spirit Hall’s coming war to unify the Douluo Continent.

• Gui Mei, Yue Guan, Qian Jun, Jiang Mo, Mo Heng, and the Judgment Heavenly Army welcomed Murong Huai and Bibi Dong back to Judgment City.
• Mo Heng introduced Lu Ye, the Blacksmith Association president and a Divine Blacksmith, and Lu Ye introduced his disciple Lou Gao to Murong Huai.
• Mo Heng reported that Judgment City was sixty percent complete and that craftsmen had forged over two thousand sets of armor for the Abyss-Quelling Mountain-Shaking Rhinoceroses.
• Lu Ye presented the Soul Guide Aircraft, which could carry passengers, fly for three hours, and provide suppressive firepower.
• Murong Huai ordered Mo Heng and Lu Ye to develop a larger aircraft, established a hundred-person aerial unit, and directed Judgment City to prepare for Spirit Hall’s unification campaign.

Murong Huai reunited with Gu Changfeng, who explained that he had been cursed after defying the Asura God and was hiding from Yan Qingyu. Gu Changfeng warned that Scorpion Tiger was using the Asura Magic Sword and an altar in the Blood Cavern Mountains to try to summon the Asura God, and Murong Huai agreed to lead a force against them.

• After everyone left the Adjudication Palace, Murong Huai sensed a hidden presence and Gu Changfeng emerged from a pillar.
• Gu Changfeng told Murong Huai that he had severed the Asura God's trial to save Yan Qingyu, leaving him cursed, disfigured, and with at most thirty years to live.
• Gu Changfeng explained that he avoided Yan Qingyu because he had once been an Evil Soul Master and did not want her to learn how her resurrection had been achieved.
• Gu Changfeng revealed that Scorpion Tiger had stolen the Asura Magic Sword and led several thousand fallen ones to the Blood Cavern Mountains to build an altar and summon the Asura God.
• Gu Changfeng said the altar's divine barrier would weaken him and the curse would suppress his strength to less than ten percent, preventing him from stopping Scorpion Tiger alone.
• Murong Huai agreed to gather information, prepare thoroughly, and personally lead troops from Judgment City to attack the fallen ones.

Murong Huai tested his Sword Dao against Gu Changfeng’s Abyssal Magic Sword intent, shaking Judgment City before the two withdrew their power. Gui Mei’s reports revealed a gathering of thousands of evil soul masters in the Blood Cavern Mountains and identified Scorpion Tiger Douluo as Dai Yue, an illegitimate son of the Star Luo Emperor who had escaped imprisonment.

• Murong Huai told Gui Mei to investigate the Blood Cavern Mountains and Scorpion Tiger’s identity.
• Murong Huai and Gu Changfeng clashed sword intents, causing Judgment City’s swords to rise and its buildings to shake, then ended their test.
• Gu Changfeng recognized that Murong Huai was combining many sword intents to forge his own Sword Dao.
• Gui Mei reported that at least three thousand evil soul masters had gathered in the Blood Cavern Mountains, where a baleful force weakened and beguiled investigators.
• Gui Mei identified Scorpion Tiger Douluo as Dai Yue, an illegitimate son of the Star Luo Emperor who escaped the death cells decades earlier.

Murong Huai learned that Dai Lingfeng had sent Scorpion Tiger to attack the Chief and decided to strike the Star Luo Empire’s hidden forces by destroying the altar in the Blood Cavern Mountains. He ordered two Judgment Heavenly Army battalions to assemble by dawn and told Gui Mei to bring their new weapons.

• Gui Mei told Murong Huai that Dai Lingfeng had used the Magic Tiger Token to send Scorpion Tiger after the Chief.
• Murong Huai and Gu Changfeng realized that the Asura Magic Sword’s theft meant the altar might summon the Asura God in roughly two years.
• Murong Huai announced that he would lead troops to destroy the altar and its Evil Soul Masters, despite Gu Changfeng’s warning about its defenses.
• Murong Huai ordered Gui Mei to select two battalions, assemble them by dawn, and bring the new weapons made by Mo Heng and Lu Ye.
• Gui Mei gathered the commanders and explained that Dugu Bo’s recently returned Fifth Battalion was excused, then secretly anticipated that his own Third Battalion already had a slot.

Qian Jun, Jiang Mo, and Yue Guan fought over who would lead a battalion, while Gui Mei secretly brought his own troops into the expedition. Murong Huai selected the First and Third Battalions to join him in clearing evil soul masters from the Blood Cavern Mountains, leaving Gui Mei at the mercy of the three bruised men.

• Gui Mei suggested Qian Jun, Jiang Mo, and Yue Guan settle who would accompany Murong Huai with a fight, and the three battled until Qian Jun was chosen.
• Gui Mei arrived at the training grounds with his Fourth Battalion and lined his soldiers up beside Qian Jun's First Battalion.
• Murong Huai announced that thousands of evil soul masters had appeared in the Blood Cavern Mountains and ordered the First and Third Battalions to depart with him.
• Jiang Mo and Yue Guan asked Murong Huai for ten minutes to deal with Gui Mei, and Murong Huai agreed before leaving.

Murong Huai led the Judgment Heavenly Army in a devastating artillery assault on Scorpion Tiger’s ritual in the Blood Cavern Mountains, disrupting the Asura Magic Sword’s blood offering. After Scorpion Tiger called for help, Dai Lingfeng awakened an ancestor in the Star Luo imperial mausoleum.

• Murong Huai ordered four thousand Judgment Heavenly Army soldiers to bombard the evil Soul Masters gathered around the Asura Magic Sword.
• Murong Huai fired the upgraded Mountain-Shattering Cannon at Scorpion Tiger, wounding him and intensifying the assault.
• Scorpion Tiger used the evil Soul Masters’ blood to shield the altar as the bombardment slowed the sword’s absorption of blood qi.
• Scorpion Tiger crushed the Magic Tiger Token to summon help.
• Dai Lingfeng sensed the token’s destruction, went to the imperial mausoleum, and implored the Star Luo ancestor to awaken.
• The ancestor’s hoarse voice answered Dai Lingfeng from within the crystal coffin.

Dai Lingfeng awakened Dai Wuzun, the sixth emperor of the Star Luo Empire, and persuaded him that Murong Huai threatened the empire’s plan to summon a god. Dai Wuzun headed for the Blood Cavern Mountains to kill Murong Huai, while Dai Lingfeng believed no one could stop him.

• Dai Lingfeng woke Dai Wuzun from his long slumber, and Dai Wuzun revealed he had been the Star Luo Empire’s sixth emperor.
• Dai Wuzun punished Dai Lingfeng for breaking the secret decree that forbade awakening him unless the imperial clan faced annihilation.
• Dai Lingfeng told Dai Wuzun that Murong Huai had defeated the empire’s forces and posed a grave threat to the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Lingfeng explained that he had allied with a lost imperial-clan member who was preparing to summon a god, but Murong Huai was attacking the altar at Scorpion Tiger.
• Dai Wuzun took Dai Lingfeng’s map and vanished toward the Blood Cavern Mountains to kill Murong Huai.

At the Blood Cavern Mountains, Murong Huai and the Judgment Heavenly Army destroyed the evil soul masters and confronted Scorpion Tiger Douluo. As Dai Wuzun rushed to aid them, Gu Changfeng intercepted him and challenged him to a fight.

• Murong Huai led the Judgment Heavenly Army in a charge against the surviving evil soul masters, while Gui Mei and Qian Jun helped slaughter them.
• Murong Huai defeated Scorpion Tiger Douluo with Nine-Fold Holy Judgment and threatened him as he boasted that reinforcements were coming.
• Dai Wuzun raced toward the Blood Cavern Mountains, using the temporary Rank 99 strength he had gained through a secret slumber technique.
• Gu Changfeng stopped Dai Wuzun and revealed that Murong Huai had sent him to intercept the Star Luo Empire's aid.
• Gu Changfeng revealed his Abyssal Magic Sword and Rank 99 Limit Douluo strength, then challenged Dai Wuzun to a battle.

Gu Changfeng battled Dai Wuzun in the Cangwu Desert, while Murong Huai and his allies fought the Evil Soul Masters at the Blood Cavern Mountains. Scorpion Tiger Douluo was erased by Murong Huai’s spatial strike, but the Asura Magic Sword remained on the altar, growing increasingly restless.

• Gu Changfeng and Dai Wuzun exchanged powerful attacks across the Cangwu Desert, wounding each other before unleashing their martial soul avatars.
• Dai Wuzun launched his Demon Fiend Death Ray as Gu Changfeng answered with Abyssal Annihilation, and their attacks collided in a massive explosion.
• At the Blood Cavern Mountains, Murong Huai stood over the defeated evil Tiger Douluo as Scorpion Tiger Douluo threatened to take his enemies down with him.
• Scorpion Tiger Douluo feigned self-destruction, rushed to the altar, and used his remaining Soul Power and the Evil Soul Masters’ blood aura to empower the Asura Magic Sword.
• Murong Huai used his sixth soul skill to sweep Scorpion Tiger Douluo and the surrounding blood energy into a spatial rift, leaving the restless Asura Magic Sword on the altar.

Murong Huai stayed behind to face the Asura God projection while Qian Jun and Gui Mei evacuated the Judgment Heavenly Army. After the projection nearly defeated him, a mysterious purple presence awakened through Murong Huai and confronted it.

• Murong Huai ordered Qian Jun and Gui Mei to withdraw with the Judgment Heavenly Army, then raised a golden barrier to buy them time.
• The Asura God projection formed, shattered Murong Huai's defenses, and wounded him in their ensuing fight.
• Murong Huai activated his Immortal Lord True Body and pierced the projection's armor, but its powerful counterattack left him badly injured.
• The Asura God projection offered to spare Murong Huai if he became its inheritor, but froze when a purple divine mark appeared on his forehead.
• A purple-armored presence spoke through Murong Huai and challenged the Asura God projection for touching its person.

The God of Heavenly Punishment took control of Murong Huai and overwhelmed the Asura God's projection, then erased the Blood Cavern Mountains. Murong Huai fainted after the divine presence withdrew, while the God of Heavenly Punishment hinted that his “brother” should grow quickly before he awakened.

• The God of Heavenly Punishment's pressure crushed the Evil Soul Master corpses and forced Qian Jun, Gui Mei, and the four thousand Judgment Heavenly Army cavalrymen to the ground.
• The God of Heavenly Punishment introduced himself through Murong Huai and challenged the Asura God's projection.
• The Asura God's projection attacked, but the God of Heavenly Punishment shattered its greatsword, pierced it with the Immortal Lord Nine-Arrival Sword, and destroyed it.
• The God of Heavenly Punishment unleashed blades that reduced the Blood Cavern Mountains and their accumulated baleful aura to nothing.
• The God of Heavenly Punishment told his “brother” to grow quickly, then vanished as Murong Huai fainted.