Chapter Summaries

After Bear Lord defeated Sword Douluo Chen Xin and destroyed the city wall, Golden Crocodile Douluo appeared to stop the beast tide. The chapter ended with Golden Crocodile Douluo transforming into his true body and clashing with Bear Lord.

• Bear Lord defeated Chen Xin, and Ning Fengzhi pulled the injured Sword Douluo away from the fight.
• Cheng Xiao tried to leave the wall, but Bear Lord's attack shattered it and sent him tumbling.
• The fallen wall caused panic among the defenders as soul beasts threatened to pour into Spirit City.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo struck Bear Lord and drove him back, restoring the defenders' morale.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo revealed his identity and challenged Bear Lord.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo activated his Seventh Soul Skill, Crocodile King True Body, and collided with Bear Lord.

Cheng Xiao sensed battles at Spirit City’s other gates as Qian Jun, Jiang Mo, and other Titled Douluo joined the fight against the fiendish beasts. The reinforcements shifted the battles repeatedly, but Di Tian’s arrival at the final gate left the conflict poised to escalate.

• Cheng Xiao sensed Qian Jun and Jiang Mo helping Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Bone Douluo suppress the Three-Headed Crimson Demonic Mastiff, the Sky Azure Bull Python, and the Titan Giant Ape.
• Zi Ji arrived and joined the fiendish beasts, separating the human Titled Douluo and preventing Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo from using their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Myriad Demon King battered Dugu Bo, while Ye Renxin healed him, until Qing Luan Douluo intervened to protect Ye Renxin.
• Yu Yuanzhen drove back the soul beasts at his gate with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, but Di Tian emerged from a spatial rift above the city wall.

Di Tian killed Yu Yuanzhen and demanded that Spirit Hall surrender Cheng Xiao, turning the city’s anger against the Saint Son. Cheng Xiao accepted that the war’s suffering had come because of him, but told Qian Daoliu he felt little attachment to Spirit Hall or its dead.

• Di Tian attacked Yu Yuanzhen with a spatial sphere and Dragon God's Claw, overpowering his soul skills and killing him as Qian Daoliu stayed away.
• Cheng Xiao realized that Bibi Dong had likely arranged for Yu Yuanzhen to be abandoned, while Bibi Dong declared that she had avenged Xiaogang and intended to punish the entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Di Tian projected Cheng Xiao’s image over Spirit City and demanded that humans hand him over or face the city’s destruction.
• Spirit Hall’s people blamed Cheng Xiao for the war and demanded that he atone for the deaths.
• Qian Daoliu found the disguised Cheng Xiao, who said he felt no strong sense of belonging to Spirit Hall and did not care how many people died.

Cheng Xiao challenged Qian Daoliu over Spirit Hall’s casualties, while Qian Daoliu admitted his responsibility but defended the sacrifices as necessary for peace. As the battle threatened to collapse, Qian Daoliu offered Cheng Xiao the shadows of the Titled Douluo buried in the Tomb of Heroes, leaving Cheng Xiao uncertain whether he could summon them.

• Cheng Xiao blamed Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu for sacrificing Spirit Hall’s lower-ranking Spirit Masters for their ambitions.
• Qian Daoliu admitted responsibility for the deaths but insisted everyone in Spirit Hall, including himself, could be sacrificed for peace.
• Radiant Feather Douluo and Mighty Lion Douluo transformed and rose to face Di Tian, proving Qian Daoliu was willing to risk the Worship Hall’s offerings.
• Cheng Xiao warned Qian Daoliu that Di Tian could only be challenged by someone capable of contending with his Dragon God's Claw.
• Qian Daoliu said the battlefield was close to collapse and asked whether Cheng Xiao could summon shadows from corpses dead for many years.
• Qian Daoliu offered Cheng Xiao the shadows of countless Titled Douluo in the Tomb of Heroes, and Cheng Xiao wondered whether his soul skill could summon them.

Qian Daoliu brought Cheng Xiao to Spirit Hall’s Tomb of Heroes to see if he could summon the fallen Titled Douluo to help repel the Beast Tide, but Cheng Xiao’s current limits prevented him from doing so. Qian Daoliu then invoked his Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and divine power, and the Angel God’s manifestation stunned the battlefield.

• Qian Daoliu asked Cheng Xiao to help drive the Beast Tide from the city if he could summon the fallen, then took him to Spirit Hall’s Tomb of Heroes.
• Cheng Xiao sensed more than a hundred powerful remnant souls in the tombs but realized he could not control Titled Douluo yet, so he refused to risk summoning them.
• Qian Daoliu accepted that Cheng Xiao could not help and prepared to fight Di Tian himself.
• Qian Daoliu invoked his Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and divine power, causing the angel to expand above Spirit City.
• The fighters on the battlefield saw the radiant angel and cried out that the Angel God had manifested.

Qian Daoliu manifested the Angel God’s power and confronted Di Tian, but Di Tian killed Mighty Lion Douluo in front of him. Overcome by grief and rage, Qian Daoliu unleashed a sun-fueled blast that engulfed Di Tian and annihilated the surrounding soul beast horde.

• Qian Daoliu’s Angel God phantom appeared above Spirit City, and people mistook the Divine Fire’s warmth for healing holy light.
• Di Tian held Mighty Lion Douluo captive and discarded the gravely injured Radiant Feather Douluo, then sensed divine power from Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu activated Angel True Body and attacked Di Tian with the Sword of Judgment, but redirected the strike to avoid hitting Mighty Lion Douluo.
• Di Tian killed Mighty Lion Douluo as Qian Daoliu reached to catch him, provoking Qian Daoliu’s grief and fury.
• Qian Daoliu drew on the sun’s power and erupted in a massive blast that engulfed Di Tian and left a crater where the soul beast horde had been.

Di Tian escaped Qian Daoliu’s Divine Fire by combining darkness and spatial power, then blocked his access to the sun as their battle continued. Meanwhile, Cheng Xiao learned that desperate survivors were pleading to see him, and their accusations forced him to confront his own indifference as he left the chapter questioning himself.

• Di Tian emerged from a sphere of darkness after surviving Qian Daoliu’s Divine Fire and used his power to cut off Qian Daoliu’s connection to the sun.
• Qian Daoliu charged at Di Tian with the Sword of Judgment, and Di Tian prepared to face him cautiously.
• Cheng Xiao left the Tomb of Heroes after learning its location and went toward the Pope’s Palace square when he noticed a crowd requesting an audience with the Saint Son.
• Cheng Xiao saw survivors carrying the dead and injured, then recognized Li Yuan, who fainted as Xiao Yu said that only the Saint Son could bring their parents back.
• Cheng Xiao heard Xiao Yu accuse him of not caring about them and realized he had avoided helping out of selfishness, much like Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu.

Cheng Xiao left the plaza without helping the people seeking an audience, then found Ye Lingling healing the wounded at the western gate and asked her to flee with him. Ye Lingling refused, choosing to stay and treat everyone injured in the Beast Tide.

• Li Yuan slapped Xiao Yu and urged him to show sincerity as they continued asking to see the Saint Son.
• Cheng Xiao felt ashamed of his selfishness but still left the plaza rather than expose his location to help them.
• Cheng Xiao went to the western gate, where he found Ye Lingling treating wounded people as a healer.
• Ye Lingling recognized Cheng Xiao despite his disguise and pulled him into an empty treatment room.
• Cheng Xiao asked Ye Lingling to find Yan Yan and escape with him, but Ye Lingling refused because she considered saving the wounded her duty.

Cheng Xiao recognized his retreat as cowardice after seeing Ye Lingling continue treating the wounded and hearing the crowd call for the Saint Son. He answered their plea by raising the dead and leading the Shadow Legion back into battle.

• Ye Lingling refused to leave the wounded, and Cheng Xiao reluctantly let her go before wandering through Spirit City.
• Cheng Xiao heard the crowd demand an audience with the Saint Son and realized he had deserted while others fought the soul beasts.
• Cheng Xiao shouted, "Get up!" and the dead in the square rose from their bodies as their families rejoiced.
• The Shadow Legion appeared behind Cheng Xiao, and stronger shadows formed contracts with him.
• Cheng Xiao called on the risen to follow him into battle, no longer afraid to face Di Tian and the ferocious beasts.

Cheng Xiao revealed himself in the city and led the Shadow Legion into battle as Di Tian tried to reach him and intensified the Beast Tide. The revived soldiers and rallied soul masters held the city gates, while Cheng Xiao marched out to lead his army.

• Cheng Xiao transformed from his disguised appearance, received the kneeling Shadow Legion's devotion, and led them out of the city.
• Di Tian reached through a spatial vortex toward Cheng Xiao, but Qian Daoliu struck his claw with the Sword of Judgment and forced him to withdraw.
• Di Tian threatened to destroy the city and drove the Beast Tide into a fiercer assault, pressuring the defenders at every gate.
• The Shadow Legion charged into the beasts, and its soldiers repeatedly rose from death as their call rallied the living soul masters to fight.
• Cheng Xiao walked through the open city gates in black armor with the Shadow Dagger and advanced at the head of his legion.

Cheng Xiao used his Shadow Legion to turn the Beast Tide battle in the humans’ favor, but the strain of resurrecting so many soldiers pushed his body to its limit. When Di Tian attacked him, Qian Daoliu and the Gold of Life intervened, helping Cheng Xiao break through to the forty-ninth rank as his power continued to rise.

• Cheng Xiao’s Shadow Legion joined the battle, rapidly killing Soul Beasts and raising fallen Soul Masters and beasts as new soldiers.
• Gu Yue angrily demanded that Cheng Xiao stop the slaughter, but he refused and argued that both sides had suffered losses and the war had been started by Di Tian.
• Cheng Xiao reinforced the second city gate, then collapsed as the Shadow Legion’s immense Soul Power consumption overwhelmed his body.
• At the third city gate, Cheng Xiao summoned the Shadow Legion again and spat blood as his body began to crack under the strain.
• Di Tian knocked Qian Daoliu aside and struck toward Cheng Xiao, but Qian Daoliu blocked him while the Gold of Life healed Cheng Xiao and supplied Soul Power.
• Cheng Xiao broke through to the forty-ninth rank, and his Soul Power continued surging toward the fiftieth rank.

Cheng Xiao refined the Gold of Life and reached level fifty while Qian Daoliu risked his life by borrowing the Angel God's power to fight Di Tian. After the two vanished inside a collapsing sphere of light and darkness, Cheng Xiao summoned more Shadow Soldiers and sent Yegrit and Revel to level up in battle.

• Di Tian recognized Cheng Xiao and tried to seize him, but Qian Daoliu intercepted him and borrowed the Angel God's divine power.
• Qian Daoliu and Di Tian clashed, and their battle collapsed space around them before they disappeared inside a sphere of light and darkness.
• Cheng Xiao reached level fifty and used his third Soul Incantation to summon more Shadow Soldiers, who charged at the soul beasts.
• Yegrit appeared before Cheng Xiao, received the order to level up with Revel, and swept through the soul beast horde as his aura grew with every kill.

Cheng Xiao and his Shadow Soldiers drove back the Beast Tide at the eastern gate, but Di Tian’s ambush left Cheng Xiao slowed and vulnerable to the Sky Azure Bull Python. Bibi Dong intervened to protect him, then revealed her Death Spider Emperor as she moved to kill the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

• Yegrit and the Shadow Soldiers repeatedly revived and overwhelmed the soul beasts, turning the eastern gate battle in Cheng Xiao’s favor.
• The Beast Tide began to retreat, and Cheng Xiao declared victory before the Sky Azure Bull Python suddenly attacked him with Slowness.
• Cheng Xiao realized Di Tian had secretly brought the Sky Azure Bull Python through a spatial rift, and the beast smashed aside the Shadow Soldiers guarding him.
• Bibi Dong struck the Sky Azure Bull Python back and appeared before the cheering defenders.
• Bibi Dong revealed her Death Spider Emperor and began transforming to fight the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Bibi Dong transformed and attacked the Sky Azure Bull Python, while Cheng Xiao negotiated with Gu Yue for the chance to claim its soul ring. The Sky Azure Bull Python tried to flee, but Bibi Dong blocked its escape with her third soul skill.

• Bibi Dong revealed her spider-like Martial Soul Possession and confronted the Sky Azure Bull Python with her powerful soul rings.
• Cheng Xiao considered claiming the Sky Azure Bull Python's soul ring, and Gu Yue threatened to shatter his Spiritual Sea in anger.
• Cheng Xiao agreed to attack the God Realm with Gu Yue if she helped persuade the Sky Azure Bull Python not to self-destruct.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python began retreating, but Bibi Dong used Death Spiderweb Bind to seal its escape route.

Bibi Dong fought the Sky Azure Bull Python, surviving its attacks and poisoning it with her spider thorns. As the beast fled toward the city gate, Cheng Xiao prepared to act, but Ning Fengzhi’s Seven Kill Sword reached it first, prompting Bibi Dong to challenge him.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python slowed Bibi Dong and struck her clone with soul-damaging lightning, but she broke free and attacked it.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python tore Bibi Dong apart with its Sky Azure Dragon Soul, but she revived with her Immortal Body and stabbed it with blood-sucking, poisonous spider thorns.
• The poisoned Sky Azure Bull Python fled toward the city gate, while Bibi Dong declared that its soul ring would be hers.
• Cheng Xiao alerted Gu Yue that it was time to act, but Ning Fengzhi’s Seven Kill Sword shot toward the Sky Azure Bull Python first.
• Ning Fengzhi claimed the soul ring under the rules, and Bibi Dong angrily demanded to know whether he dared to take it.

Chen Xin interrupted Bibi Dong’s attempt to kill the Sky Azure Bull Python, but the beast escaped their clash and was swallowed by a space-time skill. Inside the dark space, Gu Yue revealed herself to the shrunken Sky Azure Bull Python and began to speak with it.

• Bibi Dong blocked Chen Xin’s Seven Kill Sword with Myriad Poison Silk as he tried to strike the Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Chen Xin broke through Bibi Dong’s spider threads with Myriad Swords Returning to Origin, but the poisoned Sky Azure Bull Python evaded his attack and knocked Bibi Dong toward him.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python fled toward Bi Ji, but a black hemisphere created by Time-Space Reversal swallowed it.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python fell inside the dark space in a tiny juvenile form and recognized Gu Yue’s Dragon’s Might.
• Gu Yue appeared in golden light, and the Sky Azure Bull Python bowed to her as its lord before she said she had something to tell it.

Gu Yue and Cheng Xiao tried to persuade the Sky Azure Bull Python to cooperate, but it erupted when Cheng Xiao mentioned sacrifice. After Gu Yue explained sacrifice’s origin, Cheng Xiao proposed testing his Spirit Soul method, leaving Gu Yue considering how it might help end the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts.

• Gu Yue hesitated over asking the Sky Azure Bull Python to sacrifice itself, and Cheng Xiao appeared and urged her to speak.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python attacked Cheng Xiao with lightning and vowed never to sacrifice itself for humans.
• Gu Yue explained that sacrifice was originally a Soul Beast ability meant to let a mother protect her human-form child, and Cheng Xiao learned why the Sky Azure Bull Python was enraged.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said it had resisted its own sacrifice but accepted it to survive, leaving Cheng Xiao speechless.
• Cheng Xiao told the Sky Azure Bull Python about his Spirit Soul method and asked it to help test a skill.
• Gu Yue recognized the method as Cheng Xiao’s plan to ease the hatred between humans and Soul Beasts, while Cheng Xiao declared they would impose their own rules after attacking the God Realm.

Cheng Xiao tried to win the Sky Azure Bull Python’s cooperation by proposing the Spirit Soul Method and revealing Xiao Wu’s situation. The Sky Azure Bull Python agreed to trust him on the condition that he rescue Xiao Wu.

• Gu Yue said she was not forcing the Sky Azure Bull Python to cooperate, while Cheng Xiao warned that the Titled Douluo outside could soon break his soul skill and claim its soul ring.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python questioned whether Cheng Xiao could make the unfamiliar Spirit Soul Method work, and Cheng Xiao revealed that he knew Xiao Wu.
• Cheng Xiao told the Sky Azure Bull Python that Xiao Wu had been captured so she could become Tang San’s ninth soul ring, and promised there was still time to save her.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python lowered its guard but asked how Cheng Xiao could guarantee success.
• Cheng Xiao promised that even if the Spirit Soul Method failed, he would preserve the Sky Azure Bull Python’s consciousness and let it see Xiao Wu again.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python agreed to cooperate on the condition that Cheng Xiao rescue Xiao Wu, and he accepted.

Cheng Xiao attempted to create a Spirit Soul from the Azure Ox-Python using Soul Stripping, hypnosis, and his Shadow King abilities. After his hypnosis failed, he persuaded Daming to accept the contract by invoking Xiao Wu, and began compressing its soul into a newborn state before starting the sacrifice.

• Cheng Xiao used Tian Meng's Soul Stripping to separate the Azure Ox-Python's soul from its body.
• Cheng Xiao's hypnosis failed against the Azure Ox-Python's soul, leaving him to proceed without it.
• Cheng Xiao used Shadow Ink and the command to stand up to try to bind the Azure Ox-Python's soul, but it rejected him twice.
• Cheng Xiao invoked Xiao Wu to persuade Daming to accept the contract, and the Azure Ox-Python's soul finally agreed.
• Cheng Xiao compressed the Azure Ox-Python's soul into a newborn state and prepared to begin the sacrifice that would give the Spirit Soul a soul ring.

Cheng Xiao ordered Sky Azure Bull Python to sacrifice himself, gaining a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and rapidly advancing to level fifty-six. He then tried to use the Yin-Yang Plate and Evil God Orb to corrupt the ring, but Sky Azure Bull Python resisted, leaving Cheng Xiao's plan in danger.

• Cheng Xiao commanded Sky Azure Bull Python to sacrifice himself so his Spirit Soul could be housed in a soul ring.
• The sacrifice destabilized the spatial-temporal barrier, and Bibi Dong's attack failed to break the barrier that replaced it.
• Sky Azure Bull Python's sacrifice gave Cheng Xiao a crimson hundred-thousand-year soul ring and raised him to level fifty-six.
• Cheng Xiao drew the sacrifice's Soul Power into the Yin-Yang Plate and used the Evil God Orb to corrupt the soul ring.
• Sky Azure Bull Python resisted the Evil God Orb's corruption, and Cheng Xiao realized the plan was failing.