Chapter Summaries

Kui Ni arrived in Tuo'erda City to help the Zhang Clan strengthen its position, but the Lin Family attacked with the Elephant Armored Sect’s support. Kui Ni fought Huyan Jun and transformed into a Thunder Shadow Viper, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Zhang He learned that the Lin Family was preparing to attack the Zhang Clan, while the Elephant Armored Sect elder urged the Lin Family to act quickly.
• After the Lin Family’s Soul Masters stormed the Zhang Clan residence, Zhang He confronted Lin Jian, and Huyan Jun challenged him.
• Kui Ni intercepted Huyan Jun’s Crushing Kill and attacked him with his Thunder Shadow Viper’s corrosive lightning.
• Huyan Jun broke free of Kui Ni’s lightning and sent him flying, but Kui Ni activated his Martial Soul Avatar and transformed into a Thunder Shadow Viper.

Kui Ni broke through Huyan Jun’s defenses and used their confrontation to declare the Thunder God Sect’s ambitions in Tuo’erda City. The chapter ended with him daring the Elephant Armored Sect to challenge the Thunder God Sect, leaving Huyan Jun unsure whether to respond.

• Kui Ni’s lightning attacks initially failed to penetrate Huyan Jun’s Diamond Body, and Huyan Jun charged at him with his fifth soul ring.
• Kui Ni’s Thunderfall Shock exploited lightning corrosion on Huyan Jun’s defenses, cracking his diamond body and wounding him.
• Kui Ni and Huyan Jun both survived the clash, and Kui Ni rejected Huyan Jun’s attempt to lure him into another attack.
• Kui Ni declared that he would help the Gold Clan become Tuo’erda City’s strongest soul master family and invoked Spirit Hall’s Soul Extermination Operation to justify the Thunder God Sect claiming benefits.
• When Huyan Jun questioned the Thunder God Sect’s strength, Kui Ni challenged the Elephant Armored Sect to test its power, leaving Huyan Jun unable to advance or retreat.

The Thunder God Sect destroyed the Elephant Armored Sect after taking control of Tuo'erda City, then accepted Spirit Hall’s unexpected invitation to the Seven Great Sects selection. In Heaven Dou, Ning Fengzhi learned that Spirit Hall had gained the allegiance of the empire’s kingdoms and duchies, while the Star Luo Empire faced danger.

• Kui Ni told Lin Jian to abandon Tuo'erda City temporarily, and the Lin and Wood Clans fled with as many assets as they could carry.
• Zhang He’s Gold Clan took over the remaining assets and became Tuo'erda City’s strongest soul master force, though Zhang He felt uneasy about its new power.
• The Thunder God Sect destroyed the Elephant Armored Sect, and Huyan Zhen’s headless body was displayed on its sect plaque.
• Spirit Hall denied the Thunder God Sect’s involvement in destroying the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and invited it to the Seven Great Sects selection.
• The Heaven Dou Emperor told Ning Fengzhi that Dugu Bo and Yang Wudi had gone to the Star Luo Empire and that the empire’s kingdoms and duchies had defected to Spirit Hall.

After the Star Luo Emperor was found murdered, Ning Fengzhi urged the Heaven Dou Emperor to secure Star Luo territory before Spirit Hall could seize it. Dai Mubai enlisted Ma Hongjun and the Holy Word Sect to eliminate rival rulers, while privately resenting Ma Hongjun’s growing independence.

• Dugu Bo reported that the Star Luo Emperor was already dead when he and Yang Wudi arrived, and that the emperor had not died from the poison alone.
• Ning Fengzhi advised the Heaven Dou Emperor to send troops into the Star Luo Empire, but the emperor hesitated while considering how to justify an invasion.
• The Netherworld Duke returned to the Star Luo Imperial Palace and found sinister Soul Masters beside Dai Mubai after several Soul Master armies had been massacred.
• Ma Hongjun absorbed Tie Wu’s soul bone, evolved his evil fire into ultimate dark fire, and reached Soul Power Level eighty-three after gaining an eighth soul ring.
• Dai Mubai asked Ma Hongjun and the Holy Word Sect to kill the kings of the Star Luo Empire’s kingdoms and duchies, promising that the sect would protect the empire.
• Dai Mubai resented Ma Hongjun for taking control of the Holy Word Sect and rejecting his authority, but still relied on the sect’s strength.

Spirit Hall’s scheme plunged Star Luo Empire into rebellion and invasion, while Bibi Dong prepared to expand Spirit Hall’s power. As Clear Sky Sect struggled to rescue Tang Chen, he left for Sea God Island to spend his remaining days.

• Bibi Dong spread claims that Star Luo’s imperial family had allied with fallen Soul Masters, triggering rebellions and an invasion by Heaven Dou Empire.
• Dai Mubai confronted Ma Hongjun over their exposure, but the Duke of the Netherworld told Dai Mubai to deny the alliance and rally the army.
• Spirit Hall’s forces and rebellions helped seize a third of Star Luo Empire’s territory, while Bibi Dong planned to exploit the clash between the empires and bring the New Seven Great Sects under Spirit Hall.
• Clear Sky Sect’s elders learned that Tang Chen had disappeared and found his letter saying he had gone to Sea God Island to spend his final days.

Tie Li faced a middle-aged man who wielded ultimate fire in the seventh Thunder God Nine Trials, which required him to awaken the Thunder God Hammer by tempering it with ultimate attributes. Tie Li shattered the man’s sea of fire and defeated him, while realizing the Elemental Continent’s divine-official trials concealed a deeper purpose.

• Tie Li met a middle-aged man from the Elemental Continent, who believed defeating Tie Li was his trial to become a divine official.
• The man invoked the Lord of Blazing Flames and transformed his body with ultimate fire, creating fire beasts to attack Tie Li.
• Tie Li discovered that the sealed Thunder God Hammer could inflict irreparable damage on elemental energy and struck at the man’s sea of fire.
• Tie Li smashed the sea of fire with thirteen hammer blows, destroying the flaming lion king and leaving the middle-aged man mortally cracked.
• The middle-aged man was annihilated, and his fire element returned to the Elemental Continent; Tie Li concluded that the promised divine-official trials were a lie.

Tie Li defeated Sheng Dexun, the concealed wielder of ultimate ice, and received a rainbow-gold ninth soul ring from the Elemental Continent. The ring granted Elemental Judgment, raised Tie Li to Soul Power Level ninety-five, and awakened the Thunder God Hammer.

• Sheng Dexun was summoned to the divine official assessment secret realm after advising a boy to consider the Wind God and Thunder God Hall as an observer.
• Tie Li faced Sheng Dexun on the ancient battlefield, where Sheng Dexun unleashed ultimate ice but lacked the combat experience to control it effectively.
• Tie Li shattered Sheng Dexun’s defenses with the Thunder God Hammer and defeated him, returning the ultimate ice elements to the Elemental Continent.
• The Elemental Continent’s will rewarded Tie Li with a rainbow-gold ninth soul ring as he endured the ultimate elements’ tempering to absorb it.
• Tie Li gained Elemental Judgment, which could instantly kill enemies with elemental power or strike enemies without it through an attack that ignored defenses.
• Tie Li’s Soul Power Level rose to ninety-five, and the Thunder God Hammer awakened with powerful lightning suppression and enhanced soul skills.

Tie Li entered Thunder Prison Land for the Eighth Trial, seeking powerful soul rings for his second martial soul. After killing and rejecting a fifty-thousand-year Giant-Feather Armored Beast’s ring, he encountered a Golden-Feather Giant Eagle and closed in on it after its burst of speed faltered.

• Tie Li completed the Seventh Trial, gained 30% lightning affinity, and received a boost as the second seal on his Thunder Spirit Dragon torso soul bone lifted.
• Tie Li began the Eighth Trial in Thunder Prison Land, where he had to gather soul rings from imprisoned ferocious beasts.
• A Giant-Feather Armored Beast attacked Tie Li, and he killed it with his Thunder God Hammer, then rejected its fifty-thousand-year soul ring.
• Tie Li surveyed Thunder Prison Land and learned that its strongest beasts occupied the outer regions while weaker beasts survived near the deadly central lightning vortex.
• A Golden-Feather Giant Eagle challenged Tie Li and used a burst of extraordinary speed, but its speed soon weakened, allowing Tie Li to appear behind it.

Tie Li searched the Thunder Prison Land for powerful soul beasts and encountered a Titan Spirit King before entering the outermost territory. There, he subdued the Golden-Flame Emerald Crystal Beast and questioned it about the land’s strongest beasts.

• Tie Li killed the Golden-Feather Giant Eagle, took its inner core, and passed through several ferocious beast territories while searching for suitable soul beasts.
• Tie Li met a ninety-thousand-year Titan Spirit King, whose hostility faded when it sensed Tie Li’s strength, and it retreated from its territory.
• Tie Li entered the outermost territory and found that the Golden-Flame Emerald Crystal Beast there had not reached one hundred thousand years.
• Tie Li summoned his Thunder God Hammer and overwhelmed the Golden-Flame Emerald Crystal Beast’s ultimate-fire attack with ultimate lightning and destruction power.
• The Golden-Flame Emerald Crystal Beast surrendered, and Tie Li asked whether it was the strongest ferocious beast in the Thunder Prison Land; it said that it was.

Tie Li learned that Thunder Prison Land had no hundred-thousand-year ferocious beasts and followed Thunder Spirit’s guidance to investigate its lightning vortex. After the Golden-Flame Emerald Crystal Beast pointed him toward the Magic Heart Tree, Tie Li located the tree and confronted its annihilation-powered vines.

• The Golden-Flame Emerald Crystal Beast told Tie Li that Thunder Prison Land had no hundred-thousand-year ferocious beasts.
• Thunder Spirit sensed two lightning-attributed ferocious beasts in the eye of lightning at the land’s center, then retreated into Tie Li’s body.
• Tie Li subdued the Golden-Flame Emerald Crystal Beast, which revealed that the Magic Heart Tree, also called the King of Thousand Annihilations, had annihilation powers and strong spiritual abilities.
• The Magic Heart Tree attacked Tie Li with its spiritual power, but Tie Li overpowered it and found its withered black tree body.
• The Magic Heart Tree sent swarms of annihilation-powered vines against Tie Li, who transformed with his second martial soul and dragon wings to fight back.

Tie Li killed the Magic Heart Tree, absorbed its soul ring to gain his seventh soul ring, and entered the Thunder Eye’s lightning vortex. He found a powerful thunder beast guarding the Thunder Eye and recognized it as a suitable target for his eighth soul ring.

• Tie Li used Annihilation Light and Star of Destruction to destroy the Magic Heart Tree’s vines, then killed its true body with his dragon claws.
• Tie Li absorbed the Magic Heart Tree’s soul ring and gained the seventh soul ring for his Black Prison Heaven-Destroying Dragon martial soul, though his Soul Power Level remained at ninety-five.
• Tie Li left the Golden-Flame Emerald Crystal Beast behind and flew into the lightning vortex in his dragonified state.
• A thunder beast discovered Tie Li and warned him away from the Thunder Eye it guarded.
• Tie Li sensed the thunder beast’s power and judged it a suitable target for his eighth soul ring.

Tie Li confronted the 230,000-year-old Thunder Beast in the Thunder Prison Land, using the Thunder God Hammer and his multicolored-gold ninth soul ring to suppress its lightning and overwhelm it. The Thunder Beast’s attacks failed, and Tie Li continued to dominate the battle.

• The Thunder Beast warned Tie Li away from the Thunder Eye and attacked him with a lightning bolt, but Tie Li dispersed it with the Thunder God Hammer.
• Tie Li pursued the Thunder Beast as it tried to flee, then struck it with his second soul skill and severely wounded it.
• The ninth soul ring’s Elemental Judgment stripped the Thunder Beast’s control over its ultimate lightning and inflicted true damage.
• The Thunder Beast drew power from the lightning vortex and released its domain, but Tie Li turned the lightning enhancement to his own advantage.
• The Thunder Beast attacked with Boundless Divine Lightning and other lightning techniques, but Tie Li shattered its attacks with the Thunder God Hammer.

Tie Li killed the Thunder Beast, absorbed its hundred-thousand-year soul ring, and discovered that both his leg soul bones had gained ten thousand years of age. He then attacked the powerful being inside the Thunder Eye with his strongest restricted soul skills, leaving the Thunder Eye cracked and Thunder Prison Land devastated.

• Tie Li killed the Thunder Beast with the Thunder God Hammer and absorbed its hundred-thousand-year soul ring inside the lightning vortex.
• Tie Li discovered that both his leg soul bones had reached ninety thousand years, then released his second martial soul and entered his dragonified state.
• The being inside the Thunder Eye grew unstable as it restored its ferocious beast bloodline and sensed Tie Li's aura.
• Tie Li combined Azure Thunder Sky-Destroyer with Breath of Annihilation to smash the Thunder Eye, scattering lightning across Thunder Prison Land and killing many ferocious beasts.
• Tie Li unleashed Divine Thunder Shattering Array, and its white light engulfed the central region as cracks spread across the Thunder Eye.

Tie Li battled Nine-Heavens Thunder Prison Kui after interrupting its transformation in the Thunder Eye, weakening the ferocious beast and driving it toward a desperate final attack. The chapter ended with Nine-Heavens Thunder Prison Kui’s power beyond the level of soul masters cracking Tie Li’s ultimate defensive barrier.

• Nine-Heavens Thunder Prison Kui revealed that Tie Li had forced it to abandon its transformation into an innate lifeform and restore its weakened body.
• Tie Li used Lightning Burst Technique and Ruin Rainbow Light to damage Nine-Heavens Thunder Prison Kui from within, then trapped it with Chains of Destruction.
• Tie Li fired Annihilation Light through Nine-Heavens Thunder Prison Kui, but the beast revealed its third eye and launched a final black-light attack.
• Tie Li activated Boundless Guard, and the clash between the beast’s attack and his defense left the protective light covered in cracks.

Tie Li killed the Nine-Heavens Thunder Prison Kui and absorbed its soul ring, reaching level ninety-seven and gaining major upgrades to his soul bone and Thunder God Affinity. The Thunder God revoked his authority over the Thunder Tribulation Realm, freeing the clans trapped there and leaving Kui Xin to reflect on the consequences ahead.

• Tie Li summoned the Thunder Spirit to guard him, then began absorbing the Nine-Heavens Thunder Prison Kui's seven-hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
• Tie Li's Soul Power Level rose from level ninety-five to level ninety-seven, and his Dark Thunder Demon Dragon Left Arm Soul Bone became a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and gained a second skill.
• Three seals lifted from Tie Li's Thunder Spirit Dragon Torso Soul Bone, but he did not break through to level ninety-eight.
• Tie Li completed the eighth Thunder God Nine Trials trial, raising his Thunder God Affinity to one hundred and five percent, while the ninth trial required level ninety-nine.
• Tie Li's Thunder Tribulation Realm authority was revoked, releasing the invisible shackle on Bing Ju and the other clan chiefs.
• Kui Xin warned that those who had failed to understand their position would pay a terrible price.

Tie Li returned to Thunder God Sect as the sect faced a forceful conscription order from the Heaven Dou Empire, and he learned how the Spirit Hall Empire had reshaped the continent’s balance of power. The chapter ended with Lei Zhen raising concerns about the newly emerged Holy Word Sect.

• Tie Li’s token reacted on Douluo Continent as he surveyed Thunder God Sect’s new peaks and learned how the clans recruited and trained Soul Masters, including orphans rescued by the Viper Clan.
• Bing Ju and the others discussed the Heaven Dou Empire’s conscription order and Beast Mountain proposed attacking Heaven Dou City in response.
• Tie Li appeared in the main hall without the five noticing and stunned them with the growth of his Soul Power.
• The five explained that Spirit Hall had established its empire, weakened the Star Luo Empire, and formed a new sect to fill the vacant place among the New Seven Great Sects.
• Lei Zhen told Tie Li about the newly emerged Holy Word Sect, and Tie Li set the matter aside to focus on the Heaven Dou Empire’s threat.

Tie Li ordered the Thunder God Sect to block Heaven Dou City and openly challenge the Heaven Dou Imperial Family. The emperor assigned Count Goren to lead a noble coalition against the sect, and Count Goren’s forces gathered with more than two hundred thousand troops but very few soul masters.

• Tie Li ordered Bing Ju and the others to block Heaven Dou City with three mountains and announce that the Thunder God Sect would accept any challenge.
• The Heaven Dou Emperor assigned Count Goren to lead an attack on the Thunder God Sect, giving him fifty thousand troops and three days to act.
• Count Goren convened his family, whose members debated whether their forces could threaten the Thunder God Sect.
• The Goren and Xiya families assembled with other nobles, gathering more than two hundred thousand troops but fewer than two thousand mostly low-level soul masters.
• Count Yaxun warned Count Goren that the coalition had too few soul masters.

The Thunder God Sect prepared an ambush for the Heaven Dou nobles’ army while considering the threat posed by the Spirit Hall Empire. Meanwhile, the Heaven Dou Emperor refused to back down against the sect, though Ning Fengzhi urged him to prepare for the Spirit Hall Empire’s advance and help the Star Luo Empire if needed.

• Count Goren dismissed the Thunder God Sect’s strength and led the nobles’ two-hundred-thousand-man army toward it, while Count Yaxun worried about the sect’s Title Douluo.
• Lei Zhen and Kui Xin planned to ambush the army at Giant Python Gorge, taking ten Soul Douluo and thirty Soul Sages to prepare for its arrival.
• Tie Li wondered whether the Spirit Hall Empire would exploit the conflict, recalling its earlier attempt to provoke a clash between the Thunder God Sect and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi warned the Heaven Dou Emperor that the imperial family’s forced requisition had angered soul master factions, but the emperor insisted the Thunder God Sect must pay for challenging the empire.
• Ning Fengzhi asked about relations with the Star Luo Empire, and the Heaven Dou Emperor agreed not to refuse if it sought help against the Spirit Hall Empire.

The Spirit Hall Empire sent seven Title Douluo and a large force to destroy the Thunder God Sect while Kui Xin and Lei Zhen were away. As Bing Ju and Beast Mountain fought the attackers, Tie Li confronted the three Soul Masters invading the sect, and his overwhelming dragon aura shifted the battle.

• Mighty Lion Douluo led seven Title Douluo against Bing Ju and Beast Mountain, assigning Chrysanthemum Douluo, Gui Mei, and Ghost Leopard Douluo to hold back Beast Mountain.
• Agatha and two other Title Douluo led the Spirit Hall Empire's Soul Masters into the Thunder God Sect while Bing Ju and Beast Mountain were occupied.
• Mighty Lion Douluo tried to recruit Bing Ju, then used his eighth soul skill, but Bing Ju resisted and fought even more fiercely.
• Tie Li revealed seven red and two black soul rings as Agatha and the other two attacked him, frightening them with his perfect dragon transformation.
• Tie Li's aura affected the battlefield, distracting Mighty Lion Douluo, and Bing Ju seized the moment to warn him.

Tie Li emerged from Thunder God Sect and used his Destruction Domain to break Chrysanthemum Douluo and Gui Mei’s Bipolar Static Domain. As the domains clashed, Mighty Lion Douluo transformed into his Martial Soul Avatar to attack Bing Ju and Beast Mountain.

• Mighty Lion Douluo was struck by Thunder Dragon Douluo’s lightning, then saw Agatha and two other Title Douluos thrown from Thunder God Sect as the Spirit Hall Empire soul masters’ auras vanished.
• Beast Mountain injured Chrysanthemum Douluo with his eighth soul skill, while Gui Mei and Ghost Leopard Douluo attacked Beast Mountain to protect him.
• Mighty Lion Douluo ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Gui Mei to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Ghost Leopard Douluo held Beast Mountain back as Bing Ju tried to stop them.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Gui Mei unleashed the Bipolar Static Domain, halting the attacks and trapping Bing Ju and Beast Mountain.
• Tie Li flew out of Thunder God Sect in perfect dragonification and used his Destruction Domain to steadily destroy the Bipolar Static Domain.
• Mighty Lion Douluo entered his Martial Soul Avatar state as the domains continued to clash.