Chapter Summaries

Zuo Qiu Lun faced Monster Academy’s Long Yue in a brief strength contest before defeating Hua Lantang in the second round of the individual competition. He left the platform after the instant victory, while the spectators and Monster Academy watched in shock.

• Long Yue tried to overpower Zuo Qiu Lun in a handshake, but Zuo Qiu Lun remained unmoved and forced Long Yue to withdraw in pain.
• Zuo Qiu Lun faced Hua Lantang, while Long Yue told Dai Yueyan that Hua Lantang had no chance of winning.
• Hua Lantang activated his Battle Armor and Dragon Wolf abilities, then launched a rapid attack on Zuo Qiu Lun.
• Zuo Qiu Lun released his golden blood vitality, stopped Hua Lantang with spiritual force, and struck him with a hand blade.
• Zuo Qiu Lun shattered Hua Lantang’s Battle Armor and broke his arm, winning the match in one attack.

Zuo Qiu Lun crushed Hua Lantang and continued advancing through the tournament, while Wei Heng also defeated a Monster Academy king, weakening Star Luo’s public confidence. The Star Luo Empire restored morale by arranging Long Yue’s decisive victory over Yue Zhengyu, but Emperor Dai Tianling still sought another win to secure support.

• Zuo Qiu Lun defeated Hua Lantang with a single devastating attack, leaving him severely injured and unable to compete again soon.
• Zuo Qiu Lun won his later matches and helped the Body Sect recruit more than a dozen young disciples, while Wei Heng defeated Su Mu and both Douluo teams drew widespread attention.
• Emperor Dai Tianling warned Dai Yueyan not to underestimate the younger Douluo contestants and worried about their growing strength.
• The Star Luo Empire arranged for Long Yue to fight Yue Zhengyu, whom Long Yue defeated after revealing his six-ringed Mountain Dragon martial soul.
• The Star Luo Empire used the victory to revive public support for Monster Academy, but Dai Tianling remained concerned and decided another victory was needed.

Zuo Qiu Lun overwhelmed Dai Yueyan in the round-of-sixteen match, then broke his limbs to punish the Star Luo Empire for using Dai Yueyan to test him. En Ci conceded on Dai Yueyan’s behalf and carried him away, while Zuo Qiu Lun advanced as the winner.

• Dai Tianling and En Ci judged Dai Yueyan’s chances against Zuo Qiu Lun to be slim, but Dai Yueyan entered the arena determined to win for the Star Luo Empire.
• Zuo Qiu Lun taunted Dai Yueyan, then unleashed his Blood Qi when the match began.
• Dai Yueyan activated his White Tiger Martial Soul, One-Word Battle Armor, three Soul Skills, and a close-combat Soul Tool before charging Zuo Qiu Lun.
• Zuo Qiu Lun defeated Dai Yueyan in their first clash, shattered his Battle Armor, broke his right arm, and forced him to his knees.
• When Dai Yueyan refused to admit defeat, Zuo Qiu Lun broke his remaining arm and then his legs until En Ci intervened and conceded for him.
• En Ci carried away the severely injured Dai Yueyan after sensing a Limit Douluo’s killing intent, and the referee declared Zuo Qiu Lun the winner.

After Zuo Qiu Lun defeated Dai Yueyan, Star Luo’s crowd pinned its hopes on Long Yue as he faced Shrek’s mysterious Wei Heng. The match began with Long Yue summoning his martial soul, but Wei Heng’s five ten-thousand-year soul rings immediately unsettled him.

• The referee declared Zuo Qiu Lun the winner, and Star Luo’s spectators erupted in anger over Dai Yueyan’s one-sided defeat.
• The arena announced Long Yue’s match against Wei Heng, and the crowd rallied around Long Yue.
• In Shrek’s waiting room, Yue Zhengyu and the others discussed Long Yue’s strengths, while Tang Wulin told Xie Xie that Wei Heng would win.
• Long Yue and Wei Heng entered the arena, and Long Yue warned that his attacks might be heavy before choosing to let Wei Heng strike first.
• Long Yue summoned his six-ringed martial soul, then saw Wei Heng reveal five black soul rings and realized his opponent was far stronger than expected.

Wei Heng revealed the Evilbane Spear and faced Long Yue in a fierce battle, matching the Mountain Dragon Martial Soul's strength with precise spear strikes. Their clash escalated into direct close-quarters combat, with neither fighter showing signs of yielding.

• Wei Heng summoned the ancient Evilbane Spear, and its righteous aura briefly affected Long Yue before he overcame it.
• Wei Heng used Spirit Flash to vanish, while Long Yue activated Mountains and Rivers to strengthen his defenses and sense his opponent.
• Wei Heng reappeared behind Long Yue and thrust his spear against Long Yue's punch, breaking the phantom mountain range and forcing them both back.
• Long Yue drove out the spear's sharp aura, then charged Wei Heng and unleashed his Mountain Dragon bloodline pressure.
• Wei Heng broke through the pressure with his spear intent and accepted Long Yue's challenge to test their strength.
• Long Yue and Wei Heng exchanged a relentless barrage of punches and spear strikes in close combat.

Long Yue and Wei Heng escalated their battle, summoning their battle armor and unleashing their strongest attacks. Wei Heng pierced Long Yue through the chest and defeated him, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Long Yue used Marsh and River to attack Wei Heng, but Wei Heng broke free and split the rushing waters with Azure Radiant Rend.
• Long Yue drew on the ground to recover, then stopped delaying and unleashed the violent power of his Mountain Dragon martial soul.
• Long Yue and Wei Heng summoned their battle armor as the stadium crowd roared for Long Yue.
• Long Yue hurled a small mountain at Wei Heng, then charged through the debris with Wrath of the Mountain Dragon King.
• Wei Heng countered with Evilbane Radiant Thrust and pierced Long Yue's arm and chest, leaving him bleeding in the arena as the crowd realized he had lost.

After Long Yue and the Star Luo Continent’s favored competitors lost, Star Luo City mourned through the night. An explosion at a black-market armory then exposed a weapons handover involving the Tang Sect, as the Holy Spirit Cult arrived to seize the goods.

• En Ci carried the defeated Long Yue from the arena while Monster Academy’s students and the Star Luo crowd watched in silence.
• Zhang Haifu opened his Sea Breeze Shop all night and supplied alcohol to grieving customers as Star Luo City fell quiet.
• An explosion in the western outskirts shook the city, prompting alarms and the deployment of city defense troops.
• A black-market arms dealer led buyers into a hidden mountain storehouse containing weapons, many of them guarded by people dressed like the Tang Sect.
• The buyers exchanged a rare herb called Together Till Old Age and a Soul Tool bank card for the weapons, but the Holy Spirit Cult announced it would take the goods.

Holy Spirit Cult and Green Skull attackers raided the Tang Sect’s hidden warehouse, but Hu Jie’s arrival forced them to retreat with some of the Fixed Soul-Guided Artillery Shells. An eighth-level shell detonated the remaining ammunition and destroyed the cave, while Hu Jie learned that the Tang Sect headquarters had also been stripped bare.

• Green Skull revealed itself as an ally of the Holy Spirit Cult and helped raid the Tang Sect warehouse, killing the boss and overwhelming its defenders.
• Hu Jie arrived and used his Golden Belly Martial Soul to protect the exhausted Tang Sect disciples from Dark Bell’s sound attacks.
• Dark Bell ordered the Holy Spirit Cult members to retreat with the Fixed Soul-Guided Artillery Shells, then fled after using Wraith Assault to delay Hu Jie.
• An eighth-level Fixed Soul-Guided Artillery Shell struck the cave, detonating the remaining ammunition and blasting Hu Jie away.
• Hu Jie learned that the Tang Sect headquarters had been looted while he was lured away, and Star Luo City’s powerful Soul Masters arrived to find the cave reduced to a crater.

After the Tang Sect arsenal explosion disrupted the tournament and exposed the deep ties between the Tang Sect and the Star Luo Empire, the Douluo delegation returned home. Meanwhile, Xie Jiayun (Healing) was promoted to major general and transferred to lead the Federation Military Medical Department in Heaven City.

• The Star Luo Empire and Tang Sect blamed the arsenal explosion on a failed experiment, but Star Luo City residents remained frightened and the tournament was suspended.
• Pan Wen and the delegation's senior members concluded that the Tang Sect had long supplied weapons to Star Luo and considered how it might act in a future war with the Federation.
• Zuo Qiu Lun and Wei Heng returned to Douluo Continent after the finals were canceled, carrying energy gathered at the blast site and a memory fragment revealing the location of Dragon Valley.
• Dong Zi'an gave Xie Jiayun (Healing) a transfer order promoting him to major general and appointing him Minister of the Federation Military Medical Department.
• Dong Zi'an explained that Xie Jiayun (Healing) had been chosen after helping the Southern Legion handle an epidemic, and Xie Jiayun (Healing) agreed to take the post.
• Xie Jiayun (Healing) left the Western Legion and set out for Heaven City.

Xie Jiayun (Healing) left the Western Legion to take charge of the newly established Federation Military Medical Department in Heaven Dou City. As the hospital filled with patients and wounded soldiers, his healing work helped it thrive and brought his cultivation to rank 89, just short of Titled Douluo.

• Xie Jiayun (Healing) received an emotional farewell from his comrades in the Western Legion and traveled to Heaven Dou City.
• Xie Jiayun (Healing) inspected the vast Federation Military Medical Department, which included hospital buildings, rehabilitation centers, staff housing, and a planned recuperation park.
• Xie Jiayun (Healing) learned that the department had sixteen healing-type Soul Sages, seven healing-type Soul Douluos, and vice minister Qiu Xun, a rank 93 healing-type Titled Douluo.
• The Federation Military Medical Department opened and drew patients from Heaven Dou City and other regions, along with severely wounded soldiers transferred from the legions.
• Xie Jiayun (Healing) and Qiu Xun treated patients around the clock, while Xie Jiayun (Healing) used Life's Light to stabilize groups of critically injured patients.
• Xie Jiayun (Healing) gathered energy and positive emotions from patients' gratitude, advancing to rank 89 Soul Douluo and nearing a breakthrough.

Xie Jiayun (Healing) examined a boy whose mutated Martial Soul caused violent episodes and suspected it came from the Demon Plane. Liu Tianran learned of the case and decided the Federation might invade the Demon Plane, while Xie Jiayun (Healing) secretly treated the boy’s bloodline and left the exact method unexplained.

• Director Yue summoned Xie Jiayun (Healing) and Qiu Xun to examine a six-year-old boy whose Martial Soul Possession made him lose control and attack his parents.
• The boy transformed and attacked Xie Jiayun (Healing), who calmed him with Soul Power and recognized traits resembling legendary demons.
• Xie Jiayun (Healing) sent Liu Tianran information about the boy, and Liu Tianran recalled that Demon Plane Martial Souls could act as keys for an invasion before considering invading the Demon Plane himself.
• Xie Jiayun (Healing) used the Tree of Life to stabilize the boy’s bloodline and told his parents that the child should recover without further episodes.
• The boy’s parents thanked Xie Jiayun (Healing), while Director Yue and Qiu Xun praised his treatment; the chapter ended with the method of his bloodline treatment remaining mysterious.

Lucifer Morningstar, one of Liu Tianran’s avatars, traveled to Star Luo Continent to enter Dragon Valley and claim its treasures. After using his demonic powers to get past the two guards, he entered the sealed small world and prepared to explore.

• Lucifer Morningstar arrived at a Tang Sect town near Star Luo City and registered at an inn.
• Lucifer sneaked into the mountains and used his beguiling powers to persuade the two Spirit Douluo guarding Dragon Valley to let him approach.
• Lucifer learned that Tang Sect’s high-level elders had been recalled to Star Luo City after the branch’s losses, leaving Dragon Valley guarded only by the two Spirit Douluo.
• Lucifer entered Dragon Valley, where the small world sealed most of his Soul Power and Martial Soul, and used his Spirit Abyss Realm spiritual power to slow his fall.
• Lucifer landed in Dragon Valley, surveyed its dragon remains and energy-rich Dragon Cloud, and prepared to begin exploring.

Lucifer found the Mountain Dragon King Soul Bone in Dragon Valley, used the tomb’s dragon souls and resentment to create a new Mountain Dragon King, and the Dragon Valley rift sealed after the dragon altered the small world. The Spirit Douluos outside reported the closure, leaving Lucifer and the Mountain Dragon King cut off inside.

• Lucifer discovered the Mountain Dragon King Soul Bone and stored it in his Sea of Consciousness Space.
• Lucifer absorbed the Dragon Tomb’s resentful dragon souls while keeping his cultivation below level fifty.
• Lucifer’s stored energy and a branch of Shrek’s Golden Ancient Tree helped bring a new Mountain Dragon King into being.
• The Mountain Dragon King said he could restore Dragon Valley and potentially make it an independent plane, but Lucifer warned him to avoid drawing the Douluo Plane’s attention.
• The Mountain Dragon King stomped and subtly transformed Dragon Valley, causing its spatial rift to close.
• Two Spirit Douluos outside Dragon Valley sent an urgent report that the rift had sealed.

After reaching rank 60, Zuo Qiu Lun was assigned to lead Body Sect disciples into the Spirit Pagoda’s Intermediate Ascension Platform so they could improve their Spirit Souls. The group entered the platform and arrived in a primeval forest, where Zuo Qiu Lun prepared to begin.

• Mu Ye told Zuo Qiu Lun that the Body Sect would take new disciples and those needing Spirit Soul ascension to the Spirit Pagoda, with Zuo Qiu Lun leading them into the Intermediate Ascension Platform.
• Mu Ye and the Body Sect group traveled to Shrek City and were welcomed by Qian Gu Dongfeng at the Spirit Pagoda headquarters.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng led Mu Ye away to discuss matters while Spirit Pagoda staff helped the other Body Sect members choose Spirit Souls and ascension plans.
• Zuo Qiu Lun followed the staff to the Ascension Platform with the disciples who needed Spirit Soul ascension.
• The disciples entered sealed chambers, underwent scanning, and were transported to a primeval forest, where Zuo Qiu Lun said, “Let's begin.”

Zuo Qiu Lun led the Body Sect disciples through the Intermediate Ascension Platform, helping the new disciples gain experience and guiding the elite squad as they hunted powerful soul beasts. After defeating a Vajra Baboon for A Ru Heng, Zuo Qiu Lun heard a beast’s roar from the Advanced Ascension Platform and decided what spirit soul he wanted.

• Zuo Qiu Lun led the Body Sect group through the forest, where the elite disciples defeated a wolf pack and left three beasts for the new disciples to fight.
• The new disciples absorbed soul energy and gained experience until they reached their spirit souls’ limits, then Zuo Qiu Lun sent them out of the platform.
• Zuo Qiu Lun and the elite disciples entered the core region and hunted powerful beasts, bringing most of their spirit souls close to their maximum age limits.
• A ten-thousand-year Vajra Baboon attacked the group, but Zuo Qiu Lun caught its strike and defeated it with his second soul skill, allowing A Ru Heng to absorb it.
• As Zuo Qiu Lun prepared to leave, he heard a mastiff-like roar from the Advanced Ascension Platform and told the elder he had chosen the spirit soul he wanted.

Mu Ye and Zuo Qiu Lun identified a powerful Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff Spirit Soul, but learned it was an Unyielding Spirit Soul that posed serious risks to anyone attempting fusion. Zuo Qiu Lun chose to try anyway, and the chapter ended as the awakened beast roared at him inside the Spirit Fusion Room.

• Mu Ye and Zuo Qiu Lun watched footage of the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff defeating a ten-thousand-year Terrorclaw Bear and absorbing the energy of nearby fallen Soul Beasts.
• A Spirit Pagoda staff member confirmed that the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff had about twenty thousand years of cultivation and was an Unyielding Spirit Soul.
• Mu Ye warned Zuo Qiu Lun that fusing with an Unyielding Spirit Soul could be dangerous, but Zuo Qiu Lun insisted on choosing it.
• Mu Ye agreed to let his disciple attempt the fusion and told him to stop immediately if anything went wrong.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng brought them to a Spirit Fusion Room, where Zuo Qiu Lun prepared for the procedure.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff awoke, recognized that a human was trying to absorb it, and roared furiously at Zuo Qiu Lun.

Zuo Qiu Lun subdued the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff through a fierce clash of spiritual power and fused with it, reaching the six-ringed Soul Emperor rank. After the Body Sect disciples left the Spirit Pagoda, Qian Gu Dongfeng ordered their analysis reports destroyed and instructed his people to preserve good relations with the sect.

• Zuo Qiu Lun released his full spiritual power and intent to challenge the hostile Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff in the sea of spirit.
• Zuo Qiu Lun and the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff fought repeatedly until the exhausted soul spirit acknowledged his strength and lowered its head.
• Zuo Qiu Lun fused with the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, gaining an ancient black soul ring, becoming a six-ringed Soul Emperor, and greatly increasing his vitality and blood energy.
• Mu Ye watched the successful fusion from outside the soul fusion chamber, and the Body Sect disciples later found soul spirits before leaving the Spirit Pagoda.
• A staff member presented Qian Gu Dongfeng with a report assessing the Body Sect as a superpower after Zuo Qiu Lun's spiritual fluctuations approached the peak of the Spirit Abyss realm.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng ordered all reports on the Body Sect destroyed and instructed the Spirit Pagoda to continue cooperating with the sect and maintain good relations.

Six months after returning to Douluo, Wei Heng set out alone for Devil Island, where Shrek Academy held its Inner Court military training. He resisted the island’s first attempt to ensnare him in an illusion.

• Na'er asked Wei Heng why he had agreed to go to Devil Island, and he said he still had to follow academy traditions.
• Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, Xu Lizhi, Xie Xie, Yuanen Yehui, and Yue Zhengyu entered the Inner Court, while Wei Heng’s tournament achievements overshadowed their rise.
• Wei Heng avoided the North Sea Legion and sailed toward Devil Island in an ordinary fishing boat, with sea soul beasts kept away by a true-dragon aura.
• Wei Heng reached the Devil Archipelago, found the island marked on Shrek Academy’s map, and resisted the spiritual illusion that struck him as he stepped ashore.
• An unseen observer called Wei Heng an interesting child.

Wei Heng confronted the Seven Old Devils of Shrek after they entered his Sea of Consciousness, then absorbed them and their power. He emerged onto Devil Island close to a breakthrough to Soul Emperor and decided to explore while searching for two things.

• The Seven Old Devils tried to invade Wei Heng’s Sea of Consciousness to uncover his secrets, and he let them enter.
• Wei Heng explained that their Spirit Souls had survived through powerful life energy and possessed mental power on par with the Divine Origin Realm.
• Abomination Old Devil attacked Wei Heng, but his mental power was trapped, and the Seven Old Devils began losing their strength and life force.
• Wei Heng activated his Sea of Consciousness Space and absorbed the Seven Old Devils, using their mental power and life force to strengthen himself.
• Wei Heng emerged in a valley on Devil Island, realized he was close to breaking through to Soul Emperor, and set off to explore and find two things.

Wei Heng discovered the Life God Crystal and Destruction God Crystal at the center of Devil Island and took both into his Sea of Consciousness space. As he left, he realized the island’s trees and soil might rapidly grow now that the crystals’ suppression was gone, and he made arrangements before departing the North Sea.

• Wei Heng examined Devil Island’s ancient, withered trees and concluded that the powers of destruction and life had kept the island in a balance between death and survival.
• Wei Heng traced the destructive aura through the earth veins to a valley containing the Destruction God Crystal and the Life God Crystal.
• Wei Heng used his Sea of Consciousness space to store both divine crystal fragments.
• Wei Heng considered how the island’s trees and soil might grow stronger without the crystals’ suppression and decided Devil Island must not disappear while Shrek knew he had visited.
• Wei Heng sent a message into his Sea of Consciousness space and sailed away from the North Sea.