Recaps

Tai Yi and his companions rescued captives held by the Blood Demon Cult, cured their Blood Poison, and sent them away with money and advice to stay in Spirit Province. Over the next two months, Tai Yi’s group of five hunted down and eliminated evil forces and suspected traitors across the province.

• Tai Yi burned the Blood Demon Cult’s corpses with Sun True Fire and opened the cells holding their captives.
• Bi Ji healed the captives’ wounds and restored their blood and vitality, but Tai Yi discovered they still carried Blood Poison and had become numb.
• Tai Yi used controlled Sun True Fire to purge the Blood Poison, making the captives feel pain and regain their senses.
• Bi Ji restored the captives’ strength, and Tai Yi gave each of them five Gold Soul Coins and advised them to stay in Spirit Province for ten years.
• Tai Yi, Qian Renxue, and their companions left to hunt other evil forces, spending the next two months eliminating them and suspected traitors across Spirit Province.

Tai Yi and Qian Renxue completed their fourth God Trials and learned that their next trial required them to unify Douluo Continent under Spirit Hall. As Tai Yi prepared for his coronation, he received intelligence on the allied empires’ military deployments and set out for Pope Palace to become Pope.

• Tai Yi and Qian Renxue discovered that they had both completed their fourth trials and received their fifth trial: unify the humans of Douluo Continent under Spirit Hall.
• Qian Daoliu praised Tai Yi’s efforts against Evil Soul Masters and told him to remain in Spirit City for his coronation in three days.
• Tai Yi learned that Guang Tian had secretly sent detailed intelligence about the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires’ alliance and troop deployments, and he and Qian Daoliu decided to act after the ceremony.
• The Lower Four Sects, the Leng Clan, and other factions arrived in Spirit City to congratulate Tai Yi, while Leng Feng came to see Leng Qianqiu.
• On coronation day, Tai Yi donned ceremonial robes bearing a Three-Legged Golden Crow and Sun True Fire, and his imposing aura brought two attendants to their knees.
• Tai Yi and Qian Renxue left their longtime residence and headed to Pope Palace for his coronation.

Tai Yi and Qian Renxue arrived at Spirit Hall’s grand coronation ceremony, where three divine statues and the Worship Hall’s support marked a new order. Tai Yi took his place as the new Pope, and the Grand Pontiff prepared to crown him.

• Tai Yi told Qian Renxue that he would become Pope, and she promised to help him.
• A servant announced that the square was ready, and Tai Yi and Qian Renxue went to the ceremony.
• The gathered crowd saw statues of the God of Destruction, Goddess of Life, and Angel God, while Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo wondered whether Ning Rongrong might inherit a Divine Position.
• Qian Daoliu and the other eight pontiffs of the Worship Hall took their seats, demonstrating their support for the new Pope.
• Tai Yi approached the seats with his Destruction Domain and Life Domain exerting pressure on the crowd, while Qian Renxue sat beside the Pope’s seat.
• The red-robed bishop announced that the Grand Pontiff would crown Tai Yi.

Tai Yi was crowned Pope of Spirit Hall and displayed his overwhelming Spirit Ring configuration to warn the continent’s factions. He declared his intention to lead Spirit Hall toward unifying Douluo Continent, and Ning Fengzhi publicly pledged the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s cooperation.

• Qian Daoliu crowned Tai Yi Pope and handed him the Papal Scepter after Tai Yi swore to uphold his duties.
• Tai Yi dismissed the coronation’s divine baptism and planned to give the Angel Crown and Angel Scepter to Qian Renxue.
• Tai Yi summoned his two Martial Souls and revealed sixteen Spirit Rings, including eleven scarlet rings that shocked the assembled factions.
• Tai Yi promised to make Spirit Hall the continent’s sole sacred land and end oppression and Evil Soul Master harassment, prompting cheers from Spirit Hall’s members and fear among other factions.
• Ning Fengzhi declared that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would fully cooperate with Spirit Hall.

Tai Yi concluded his coronation by granting healing light to the assembled crowd and promising benefits to Spirit Hall’s supporters. Back at Pope Palace, Guang Yi delivered a map showing the allied empires’ troop deployments around Spirit Province, which Tai Yi recognized as a major contribution from Guang Tian.

• Factions that pledged themselves to Spirit Hall stepped forward, while others chose to gamble on the empires or wait to profit from a war.
• Tai Yi used the Goddess of Life statue to heal minor injuries and invigorate the people, then promised rewards to those who served Spirit Hall faithfully.
• Salas declared the coronation ceremony concluded, and the assembled crowd knelt or bowed to Tai Yi as Pope.
• Salas invited guests interested in joining Spirit Hall to register, while Tai Yi, Qian Renxue, Qian Daoliu, and the elders returned to Pope Palace.
• Guang Yi presented Tai Yi with Guang Tian’s map of the allied Heaven Dou and Star Luo armies deployed around Spirit Province.
• Tai Yi praised Guang Tian’s contribution and promised Guangling Douluo that Spirit Hall’s rare treasures would be available to him when he returned.

Tai Yi planned a strike against the Heaven Dou and Star Luo empires’ command headquarters, then explained how Spirit Hall would take control of Heaven Dou. He set the operation for three days later and told Snow Empress and the other Demon Marshals to prepare.

• Qian Daoliu and the worshippers gave Tai Yi authority to command the response to the two empires’ blockades.
• Tai Yi assigned Qian Daoliu and the worshippers to attack Star Luo’s headquarters, while he, Qian Renxue, Leng Qianqiu, and Ning Rongrong would target Heaven Dou’s leaders and spare ordinary soldiers who surrendered.
• Tai Yi told Qian Renxue that Guang Tian would ask Spirit Hall to govern Heaven Dou after Xue Xing and the other hardliners were eliminated.
• Tai Yi scheduled the attacks for three days later, then entered Pope Palace’s secret room, burned its furnishings, and left the room empty.
• Tai Yi informed Snow Empress, Di Tian, and the other Demon Marshals that they would set out to eliminate Xue Xing and his allies, and they were thrilled to fight.

After Spirit Hall’s new Pope Tai Yi traveled to the Heaven Dou Empire’s troop deployment point, he discovered that its commanding general was an Evil Soul Master. Suspecting that Heaven Dou’s senior military officers might be practicing evil arts, Tai Yi killed the general and feared what they could do to the soldiers under their command.

• News of Tai Yi’s age, strength, and Twin Martial Souls spread across the continent, raising Spirit Hall’s standing among commoners and low-level soul masters.
• After three days, Tai Yi departed Spirit City with Qian Renxue, Leng Qianqiu, Ning Rongrong, Zi Ji, and the Ice Bear King Xiao Bai.
• At the Heaven Dou Empire camp, Xiao Bai killed the soldiers who tried to stop the group.
• Tai Yi sensed that the camp’s Soul Douluo commander carried the stench of an Evil Soul Master, and Qian Renxue recognized the danger as well.
• Tai Yi suspected that Xue Xing might have led senior officers into evil cultivation and worried they would prey on the soldiers under their command.
• Tai Yi swiftly killed the general before him.

Tai Yi killed an Evil Soul Master commander and discovered the commander had been draining his own soldiers for cultivation. He offered the surviving troops the choice to return home or join Spirit Hall’s new army, and the volunteers set out for Spirit City.

• Tai Yi offered the commander’s soldiers surrender, and they immediately laid down their weapons.
• Tai Yi found dozens of drained corpses in the commander’s tent and burned the tent with Sun True Fire.
• Tai Yi offered the soldiers the choice of returning home or joining Spirit Hall, warning that anyone who fought Spirit Hall again would endanger their families.
• Most of the soldiers chose to join Spirit Hall, while others returned home rather than help destroy the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Tai Yi promised to protect the volunteers’ families, and the new recruits departed for Spirit City as the others headed home.

Tai Yi found Xue Xing’s largest camp in the grip of a massacre and learned that Xue Xing’s commanders had become powerful Evil Soul Masters. As Tai Yi entered the camp to confront the crisis, Xue Xing prepared to consume his commanders’ flesh and blood to raise his strength enough to fight him.

• Tai Yi killed the Evil Soul Master commanders he encountered along the way and gave their soldiers the choice to go home or join Spirit Hall.
• Tai Yi found Xue Xing’s camp unguarded and entered with Qian Renxue and Zi Ji, leaving Xiao Bai to protect Leng Qianqiu and Ning Rongrong.
• A soldier told Tai Yi that Duke Qin, General Lin, and two pontiffs had become Title Douluo, gone mad, and started slaughtering and eating people, while Xue Xing remained hidden.
• The soldier said Xue Xing had summoned the commanders into his tent shortly before the massacre began, and that some force prevented soldiers from escaping the camp.
• Xue Xing learned that Tai Yi was approaching and, unable to get help from the besieged Star Luo Empire, planned to sacrifice his Soul Douluo commanders to become a Super Douluo.

Tai Yi and his companions fought their way into the Heaven Dou Empire military camp to stop Xue Xing from completing his evil cultivation. After Xiao Bai and Zi Ji killed Duke Qin and the other three, Tai Yi found Xue Xing, who had reached level ninety-seven and challenged him to fight.

• Duke Qin and the other three attacked Tai Yi, who ordered Xiao Bai and Zi Ji to deal with them.
• Xiao Bai and Zi Ji quickly killed all four Title Douluos, and Tai Yi burned their corpses to ash.
• Tai Yi led Qian Renxue and the others through the camp toward Xue Xing's tent as the soldiers watched without intervening.
• Tai Yi blasted open the tent and found Xue Xing surrounded by the drained corpses of officers, having just finished drinking a victim's blood.
• Xue Xing declared that he had reached level ninety-seven and challenged Tai Yi, convinced he would kill him.

Tai Yi sent Xiao Bai, Zi Ji, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress to defeat Xue Xing after he unleashed a blood-powered secret art. As Xue Xing weakened, Tai Yi demanded to know where the evil technique came from, and Xue Xing revealed that he had tried to prevent it from spreading.

• Tai Yi ordered Xiao Bai and Zi Ji to attack Xue Xing, who was quickly overwhelmed despite his newfound Super Douluo strength.
• Xue Xing used a secret art to raise his power to nearly level ninety-nine and tried to break through the encirclement.
• Tai Yi summoned Ice Empress and Snow Empress, and the four soul beasts surrounded Xue Xing and battered him until his secret art expired.
• Xue Xing shriveled into extreme weakness as he realized the Heaven Dou Empire's defeat was imminent.
• Tai Yi asked Xue Xing for the evil technique's origin and threatened the remaining loyal soldiers; Xue Xing explained that he had restricted the technique's spread and killed the generals who began using soldiers to cultivate.

Xue Xing revealed that Bibi Dong had given him the divine method, and Tai Yi disclosed that Guang Tian, posing as Xue Qinghe, had infiltrated and destroyed the Heaven Dou imperial family. Tai Yi killed Xue Xing and turned his attention to the remaining Heaven Dou soldiers.

• Xue Xing asked Tai Yi who had exposed the hidden military camp, and Tai Yi promised to answer after Xue Xing revealed the source of the divine method.
• Xue Xing told Tai Yi that Bibi Dong had personally taught him the method to use against Spirit Hall and the Pope Palace.
• Tai Yi realized Bibi Dong might still be alive and decided he would warn Spirit Hall's Worship Hall and monitor Slaughter City.
• Tai Yi revealed that there had been no traitor in Xue Xing's camp and that Guang Tian, disguised as Xue Qinghe, had eliminated Xue Ye and the other royal heirs.
• Tai Yi sealed Xue Xing's mouth, killed him, and looked toward the roughly ten thousand remaining Heaven Dou soldiers without intending to spare them.

Tai Yi ordered the witnesses to Xue Xing’s forbidden-art transformation killed and burned their camp to keep the secret from spreading. He then recruited escaped soldiers for Spirit Hall and arrived at Heaven Dou City, where Guang Tian prepared to hand over the empire and return to Spirit City.

• Tai Yi summoned the Snow Empress, Di Tian, and the others to kill the soldiers who had witnessed Xue Xing become a Super Douluo.
• Tai Yi explained to Qian Renxue, Leng Qianqiu, and Ning Rongrong that the massacre would prevent the forbidden art from causing chaos and help stop Bibi Dong from gathering followers.
• Tai Yi burned the camp to ashes, then set out with his companions for Heaven Dou City to find Guang Tian.
• Tai Yi offered escaped soldiers a chance to enlist with Spirit Hall, and many chose to travel to Spirit City to register.
• Tai Yi’s group reached Heaven Dou City as Guang Tian learned of their arrival and prepared to complete the takeover and return to Spirit City.

Tai Yi entered Heaven Dou City and met with officials who hoped to preserve their power as Spirit Hall took over the empire. In the Imperial Study, Guang Tian revealed that he had completed the plan to seize the state, and Tai Yi rewarded him and promised him a place among the Pope Palace elders.

• Tai Yi and his group entered Heaven Dou City, where residents recognized him as Spirit Hall’s Pope and watched Xiao Bai carry them through the streets.
• Officials approached Tai Yi near the palace and flattered him, hoping to retain their privileges under Spirit Hall’s rule; Tai Yi placated them before continuing inside.
• Guang Er led Tai Yi and the others to the Imperial Study, and Ning Rongrong realized that Xue Qinghe was a Spirit Hall agent disguised as the emperor.
• Guang Tian welcomed the group, returned to his original appearance, and reported that he had eliminated those who could prevent Spirit Hall from taking control, including Xue Ye.
• Tai Yi gave Guang Tian an Immortal Herb and Life Gold as rewards and promised him a place among the Pope Palace elders after the takeover.

Guang Tian explained how he had used high taxes and targeted purges to weaken opposition to Spirit Hall in the Heaven Dou Empire, and Tai Yi appointed him an elder of Pope Palace. Tai Yi then took control of the empire through Xue Qinghe’s abdication edict, and the chapter ended with the people and former officials gradually accepting the Spirit Hall Empire.

• Guang Tian told Tai Yi that he had raised taxes outside Heaven Dou City, redirected much of the money from nobles to Spirit Hall, and arranged aid for struggling commoners.
• Tai Yi praised Guang Tian’s work and promised to make him an elder of Pope Palace responsible for governance.
• Tai Yi told Guang Tian about Xue Xing and the Evil Soul Masters, then tasked him with devising a way for the Heaven Dou Empire to abdicate to Spirit Hall.
• Guang Tian issued Xue Qinghe’s abdication edict, blaming Xue Xing’s rebellion and declaring that the Heaven Dou Empire would transfer to Spirit Hall.
• Tai Yi announced that taxes and miscellaneous levies would return to their former rates, renamed the state the Spirit Hall Empire, and ordered his forces to eliminate nobles who resisted.
• Over the following days, people across the former Heaven Dou Empire accepted Spirit Hall’s rule, while Guang Tian helped loyal imperial officials adjust to the new empire.

Tai Yi returned to Spirit City after ordering the four kingdoms and one duchy to surrender their provinces to the Spirit Hall Empire, and all five complied. He then told Qian Daoliu that Bibi Dong was alive and had taught Heaven Dou commanders the evil arts that made them Evil Soul Masters.

• Tai Yi left Heaven Dou City with Qian Renxue and Guang Tian and sent the four kingdoms and one duchy an ultimatum to give their provinces to Spirit Hall.
• The five rulers surrendered control of their territories to Spirit Hall branches rather than risk the empire's military retaliation.
• Tai Yi returned to Spirit City and learned that the kingdoms and duchy had accepted the takeover.
• Tai Yi asked Qian Daoliu about the Star Luo Empire campaign, and Qian Daoliu said he had found no Evil Soul Masters there.
• Tai Yi told Qian Daoliu that Heaven Dou commanders had become Evil Soul Masters and that Xue Xing had named Bibi Dong as the source of their evil arts.

Qian Daoliu learned that Bibi Dong had survived and was spreading a forbidden method that created Evil Soul Masters, so he set out for Slaughter City with Golden Crocodile Douluo to stop her. Meanwhile, Blood One offered Dai Feng a forbidden cultivation method to help the weakened Star Luo Empire resist Spirit Hall, and Dai Feng recognized that it would turn him into an Evil Soul Master.

• Tai Yi told Qian Daoliu that Xue Xing had revealed Bibi Dong was alive and passing on a forbidden method that created Evil Soul Masters.
• Qian Daoliu decided to kill Bibi Dong to protect Spirit Hall's reputation and left Spirit City for Slaughter City with Golden Crocodile Douluo.
• Dai Feng reviewed a battle report showing that Spirit Hall had crippled the Star Luo Empire's forces and annexed the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Blood One appeared in Dai Feng's Imperial Study and offered him a method that could strengthen him, the empress, and the empire's fighters against Spirit Hall.
• Dai Feng read the booklet and realized its flesh-and-blood cultivation requirements would turn him into an Evil Soul Master.

Blood One tried to persuade Dai Feng to cultivate an evil technique by promising rapid growth and a chance to defeat Spirit Hall. Dai Feng became tempted but demanded to know what Blood One and his master wanted in return.

• Dai Feng refused the evil technique at first, fearing he would sacrifice his subjects and be remembered as a disgraceful ruler.
• Blood One claimed the technique could let Dai Feng advance a level in a few days if he had enough blood food.
• Blood One said Xue Xing had risen from Soul Emperor to Super Douluo in a few months before Spirit Hall killed him.
• Blood One urged Dai Feng to cultivate alongside the Empress, promising their Martial Soul Fusion Skill could help them become Ultimate Douluos and unify the continent.
• Dai Feng reconsidered the technique but questioned why Blood One's master was offering it and demanded to know their purpose.

Dai Feng accepted Blood One’s offer to help the Star Luo Empire fight Spirit Hall and decided to cultivate the evil art, with Zhu Lingxin agreeing to stand by him. To test the art before using it himself, Dai Feng ordered his guard captain to try it on two children taken from the slums.

• Blood One told Dai Feng that his unnamed master hated Spirit Hall and urged him to cultivate the divine art to prepare for its invasion.
• Dai Feng accepted Blood One’s offer to stay in the Star Luo Empire and help him, believing Blood One’s master was a powerful Evil Soul Master with a grudge against Spirit Hall.
• After Blood One left, Dai Feng ordered his men to seize two children with Soul Power from the slums and went to tell Zhu Lingxin what had happened.
• Zhu Lingxin agreed to follow Dai Feng’s decision, and Dai Feng said they would cultivate the evil art to protect the empire, even if the people suffered for now.
• The guard captain brought the two children to Dai Feng and Zhu Lingxin, and Dai Feng handed him the evil art and ordered him to test it first.

Dai Feng and Zhu Lingxin tested a forbidden technique that turned its user into an Evil Soul Master and decided to use loyal officials to strengthen the Star Luo Empire against Spirit Hall. They left Dai Weisi and two trusted relatives untainted, then began recruiting prisoners for the officials to use in cultivation.

• The guard captain learned the forbidden technique, killed two children who had awakened their Martial Souls, and absorbed their blood and Soul Power, increasing his strength.
• Dai Feng ordered the guard captain to arrange attacks and abductions so Spirit Hall and Soul Beasts would take the blame for the Star Luo Empire's use of the forbidden technique.
• Dai Feng and Zhu Lingxin decided that Dai Weisi, Zhu Lingyu, and Dai Yu must remain unaware of or untouched by the technique, and planned to eliminate its cultivators if they defeated Spirit Hall.
• Dai Feng summoned more than a dozen trusted ministers and generals to the Imperial Study and told them he had found a way to oppose Spirit Hall.
• The ministers swore loyalty, and Dai Feng ordered guards to bring in more than thirty prisoners, assigning two to each official for initial cultivation.

Dai Feng gave his ministers a forbidden cultivation art that strengthened them by consuming human blood and flesh, then ordered them to spread across the Star Luo Empire and build armies. He acknowledged that the provinces would suffer and planned to use the ministers’ atrocities as a pretext to eliminate them if the empire survived its war with Spirit Hall.

• Dai Feng presented the forbidden art to his ministers, and they agreed to cultivate it alongside him and Zhu Lingxin.
• Dai Feng, Zhu Lingxin, and the ministers cultivated through the night, consuming criminals and rapidly increasing their Soul Power.
• Dai Feng ordered the ministers to leave Star Luo City, cultivate using criminals and other vulnerable people, and train elite armies in their territories.
• Zhu Lingxin warned Dai Feng that the ministers would likely prey on civilians, and Dai Feng admitted he accepted the cost because of Spirit Hall’s threat.
• Dai Feng told Zhu Lingxin he intended to use the ministers’ crimes as grounds to eliminate them after victory, then planned to have Davis oversee the state while they cultivated in the inner palace.

Dai Feng announced that he and the Empress would enter seclusion while Dai Weisi governed the Star Luo Empire. After detecting a blood scent associated with Evil Soul Masters, Dai Weisi confronted his father and learned that Dai Feng, the Empress, and several ministers were using an evil technique to prepare for war with Spirit Hall.

• Dai Feng told the court that trusted ministers had been sent to train soldiers and appointed Dai Weisi to oversee the empire during his and the Empress’s seclusion, assisted by Zhu Lingyu and Dai Yu.
• Dai Weisi noticed a blood scent on Dai Feng that resembled the scent of Evil Soul Masters and waited until the court was dismissed to question him.
• Dai Feng admitted that he, the Empress, and the departed ministers were using a technique that absorbed human blood to increase their strength and train an army against Spirit Hall.
• Dai Weisi offered to cultivate the evil technique too, but Dai Feng slapped him and ordered him to focus on governing the empire.
• Dai Feng said that if they survived the crisis, he and the Empress would eliminate the ministers using the technique and leave Dai Weisi an empire without Evil Soul Masters.

Dai Weisi learned that Dai Feng and the empress were cultivating an evil art and had been told to conceal their actions while overseeing the Star Luo Empire. Blood One secretly gave Dai Weisi the method, and after telling Zhu Zhuyun everything, Dai Weisi asked whether he should cultivate it.

• Dai Feng told Dai Weisi that his uncle and aunt did not know about the evil art and warned him to keep it secret while dismissing reports of missing people.
• Dai Weisi wondered whether he could help the empire by cultivating the evil art, but believed his parents would not give it to him.
• Blood One followed Dai Weisi home and handed him a manual containing the evil cultivation method.
• Dai Weisi recognized the method and began to question whether he should use it.
• Zhu Zhuyun visited Dai Weisi, and he told her about his parents’ cultivation and his new responsibility overseeing the empire.
• Dai Weisi asked Zhu Zhuyun whether he should obey his parents and avoid cultivating the evil art.

Dai Weisi ignored reports of people vanishing across the Star Luo Empire until officials reported that their grandsons had disappeared from Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy. He suspected Blood One, who denied abducting the students.

• Zhu Zhuyun persuaded Dai Weisi to put away the evil technique, and he stored it in his Storage Soul Tool.
• Blood One watched Dai Weisi set aside the technique and planned to find a way to make him cultivate it.
• During the following week, Dai Weisi dismissed reports of mass disappearances, while officials and commoners grew frightened.
• A month later, Lord Wang and several officials told Dai Weisi that their grandsons had vanished from Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Dai Weisi suspected Blood One and asked why he had taken the students, but Blood One denied targeting them.

Dai Weisi traced the attacks on academy students to Chen Xin, a noble youth who had cultivated the evil technique and rapidly advanced to Soul King. As Chen Xin broke through the guards and charged at him, Dai Weisi realized he was in immediate danger.

• Blood One told Dai Weisi that at least three other people in Star Luo City had cultivated the evil technique, and Dai Weisi suspected ministers had passed it to their children.
• Dai Weisi investigated the ministers’ families and learned that Chen Xin and two sons from another family had cultivated the technique.
• Dai Weisi identified Chen Xin as the likely attacker after reports linked him to corpses and Lord Wang’s missing grandson.
• Dai Weisi led guards to the count’s residence, where Chen Xin admitted attacking Wang Jian and others because he wanted revenge on those who had bullied and looked down on him.
• Chen Xin charged at Dai Weisi, who realized Chen Xin had reached Soul King in a month, before Chen Xin broke through the guards and attacked him.