Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xiao killed Lu Genggeng and revealed her hidden strength as a seven-ring Soul Saint with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. After she crushed Tang Dai with her Martial Soul Avatar, Zhang Peng had the Holy Spirit Sect forfeit.

• Xiao Xiao used a purification melody to recover from her curse, then killed Lu Genggeng with Spiral Force.
• Xiao Xiao challenged Tang Dai, and he unleashed six Soul Skills in a powerful attack.
• Xiao Xiao summoned the Three Lives Soul-Quelling Cauldron's Martial Soul Avatar and crushed Tang Dai.
• The crowd discovered Xiao Xiao had a Hundred Thousand Year Seventh Soul Ring and two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Zhang Peng announced the Holy Spirit Sect's forfeit.

After Xiao Xiao swept the Holy Spirit Sect, Wei Na proposed holding the tournament final immediately, and Xu Tianran agreed. The Ghost Valley Sect prepared to face the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, with Wei Na announcing her lineup.

• Zheng Zhan declared the Ghost Valley Sect the winner after the Holy Spirit Sect conceded, and the crowd cheered Xiao Xiao for defeating the entire team.
• Long Aotian complained that he had not gotten a proper match, while Wei Na reassured him that he would eventually fight Yan Feng.
• Wei Na proposed holding the final that day, and the audience and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy supported the idea.
• Xu Tianran announced that the final would begin in fifteen minutes, and Zheng Zhan named the competing teams.
• Wei Na announced that she, Cao Jinxuan, Long Aotian, Wang Yanfeng, Chen Lu, Chen Yu, and Lian Yue would compete for Ghost Valley.

Ghost Valley Sect and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy skipped the individual matches and began their final in a team battle. Ghost Valley Sect’s Body Martial Soul fighters shattered the Sun Moon team’s defenses, and the match was left with Qiu Yi eliminated.

• Wei Na proposed that both teams forfeit the individual matches, and Xiao Hongchen agreed to settle the contest in a team battle.
• The teams revealed four Soul Saints, including Wei Na and Long Aotian, before the final match began.
• Qiu Yi charged behind a defensive Soul Tool shield while Lian Yue amplified Ghost Valley Sect’s fighters with her Ruyi Plate.
• Long Aotian, Wang Yanfeng, Chen Lu, and Wang Yanfeng’s teammates activated their Body Martial Soul Second Awakening and rushed the Sun Moon team.
• Wang Yanfeng and Chen Lu shattered Qiu Yi’s shield with their attacks, forcing Zheng Zhan to intervene and remove Qiu Yi from the match.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy launched a coordinated Soul Tool assault while Long Aotian continued building momentum. Wei Na and Cao Jinxuan slowed and disrupted the attacks, but Xiao Hongchen’s massive cannon barrage threatened to overwhelm the arena.

• Zhongli Wu recognized Long Aotian’s Clear Heart in the Heaven and Man Unity Realm and realized he was preparing a decisive attack.
• Lan Xiu used Nine Radiance to repel Chen Yu and help the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy complete its defensive formation.
• Xiao Hongchen deployed 256 Soul Guidance Cannons while Meng Hongchen unleashed her cold poison, and Ye Nongfeng targeted Wei Na with his Aging Ray.
• Cao Jinxuan used Fleeting Time to slow the incoming attacks, and Wei Na used her Brain Martial Soul’s Mental Domain to disrupt their accuracy.
• Chen Yu returned to the arena and expanded his Body Martial Soul’s wings until they covered the field as Xiao Hongchen’s cannon barrage began.

The Body Sect team endured the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s attacks while Long Aotian completed his Aura Condensation. With his teammates’ enhancements, he overwhelmed the opposing team and won the match with a decisive punch.

• Chen Yu shielded his teammates from Xiao Hongchen’s Soul Guidance Cannons but was weakened by the Aging Ray before Wang Yanfeng and Chen Lu arrived to help.
• Wei Na used her Snow Lotus abilities to disperse Meng Hongchen’s Ice Toad Poison and explained that she had also cultivated Yuwen Tuo’s technique.
• Long Aotian activated his Martial Soul Avatar and Silver Awakening, then received Lian Yue’s and Wei Na’s enhancements to greatly increase his strength.
• Long Aotian charged into the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s team and knocked four opponents out of the arena, including Lan Xiu.
• Wei Na’s Banshee’s Wail briefly delayed the Hongchen siblings’ Martial Soul Fusion Skill, allowing Long Aotian to defeat them with Heaven and Man in One · Universe Shift.

Ghost Valley defeated Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to win the tournament, and the awakened Yuwen Tuo revealed that his cultivation had reached level 80. Xu Tianran then arranged to keep Yuwen Tuo in the capital overnight and invited him to visit his gravely ill father, concealing his plan to kill him.

• Zheng Zhan declared Ghost Valley the tournament champion, and the crowd cheered its victory.
• Lian Yue celebrated the win, while Long Aotian said he was eager for a more satisfying fight.
• Xiao Xiao, Ling Luochen, and Qiu’er escorted the awakened Yuwen Tuo from the contestants' passageway, and the group found that his cultivation had advanced to level 80.
• Jing Hongchen recognized that Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's defeat had weakened his standing with Xu Tianran.
• Xu Tianran and Ju Zi arranged to delay the closing ceremony until noon the next day and planned to use Yuwen Tuo before killing him that night.
• Xu Tianran told Yuwen Tuo that his ill father wished to see him, asking him to come along.

Yuwen Tuo went with Xu Tianran and Xu Tianzhen to the palace, knowing Xu Tianran planned to use him as a scapegoat. As both sides prepared for a major operation in Mingdu, Xiao Xiao and Qiu'er set out to raid a warehouse while Wei Na organized the gathered allies and Xu Tianran put the city on alert.

• Yuwen Tuo agreed to visit the Emperor with Xu Tianzhen, drawing Xu Tianran's attention while Wei Na and the others prepared their plans.
• Zhongli Wu departed and Zhang Peng, Yan Feng, and Tang Ya followed him as the Holy Spirit Cult prepared to assist Xu Tianran.
• Wei Na sent Xiao Xiao and Qiu'er, accompanied by the Scarlet King, to loot a warehouse during the coming chaos.
• Wei Na coordinated the forces from Shrek, the Star Luo Empire, the Earth Dragon Gate, and the Sky Dragon Gate for the night's operation.
• Xu Tianran ordered the five soul engineer legions to seal off Mingdu and issued a first-level alert.

Yuwen Tuo realized Xu Tianran had lured him to the Sun Moon Emperor’s bedside to kill the Emperor and frame him, so he used his medical skill to temporarily awaken the dying ruler. The Emperor understood Xu Tianran’s plan and accepted that his death could help secure the Sun Moon Empire’s future.

• Yuwen Tuo warned Xu Tianzhen that Xu Tianran intended to kill the Emperor and frame him, and that she might be killed as well.
• Yuwen Tuo stimulated the Emperor with medicine and golden needles, temporarily waking him at the cost of shortening his remaining life.
• The Sun Moon Emperor recognized Yuwen Tuo and angrily demanded to know why he had returned.
• Yuwen Tuo explained that Xu Tianran had pardoned him and summoned him to Mingdu, and that he had come only because he was told the Emperor wanted to see him.
• Xu Tianzhen struggled to accuse Xu Tianran, but the Emperor concluded that his son meant to kill him, frame Yuwen Tuo, and use the incident to strengthen the Empire.

Yuwen Tuo explained why he would never reconcile with the Sun Moon Emperor, whose devotion to the empire clashed with Yuwen Tuo’s extreme loyalty to those who had helped him. As Yuwen Tuo hinted at what was about to happen, Du BuSi confronted Long Xiaoyao above Xu Tianran’s palace.

• Yuwen Tuo told the Sun Moon Emperor that he had once offered him a chance to help fight the Evil Soul Masters, but the emperor had refused.
• Yuwen Tuo explained that he would repay the Heaven Dou Empire and the Body Sect for helping him leave Shrek, while seeking total vengeance on Shrek and the Evil Soul Masters.
• The Sun Moon Emperor and Xu Tianzhen realized that Yuwen Tuo’s values were irreconcilable with the emperor’s ambition.
• Yuwen Tuo ended their conversation and urged the Sun Moon Emperor to hold fast to his principles as they awaited a show.
• Xu Tianran and Ju Zi watched the moonlight while Xu Tianran waited for news from the palace, then recognized the arrival of Body Douluo Du BuSi.
• Du BuSi confronted Long Xiaoyao above the Crown Prince Eastern Palace and urged him not to help Xu Tianran harm the Heaven Dou Empire.

Du Busi fought Long Xiaoyao above the Sun Moon Imperial Palace and began destroying the palace to attack the Sun Moon Empire. Meanwhile, Wei Na and Xu Jiujiu organized the gathered sects and academies into a force to assault the palace and escape Mingdu.

• Du Busi rejected Long Xiaoyao's offer to withdraw and challenged him, invoking the Heaven Dou Empire's past support for Long Xiaoyao.
• Du Busi activated Diamond Awakening and his Martial Soul Avatar, then dived toward the imperial palace instead of taking their battle into the sky.
• Long Xiaoyao intercepted Du Busi, but Du Busi struck him and the attack's force damaged buildings in the palace as Xu Tianran watched calmly.
• Wei Na and Xu Jiujiu told the gathered disciples that Mingdu was surrounded and divided them between Shrek's feint at the Illustrious Virtue Hall and an assault on the palace.
• The Proud Sword Sect, Sky Dragon Gate, Earth Dragon Gate, Iron Sword Sect, and Dou Ling Brocade Guard Sect joined Wei Na's force, which set out to assault the Sun Moon Imperial Palace.

The battle for the Sun Moon Imperial Palace escalated as Du Busi’s allies and the Shrek group drew the defenders into separate fights. Xu Tianran ordered the palace’s Titled Douluo to help kill Du Busi, while Wei Na and Xu Jiujiu’s forces stormed the palace and sent an assassin toward Xu Tianran.

• Zhongli Wu joined Long Xiaoyao against Du Busi, while Zhang Peng and Feng Ling headed toward Yu Wen Tuo.
• Jing Hongchen’s Soul Engineers fought the Shrek-led group, and Yan Shaozhe arrived to help Ma Xiaotao escort the students west.
• Feng Ling sensed Yan Shaozhe’s Light Phoenix aura and flew toward the Illustrious Virtue Hall, leaving Zhang Peng to deal with Yu Wen Tuo.
• Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to send the palace’s Titled Douluo to support Long Xiaoyao and help kill Du Busi.
• Du Busi called for a full assault, and Wei Na led the allied forces into the Imperial Palace as Xu Jiujiu ordered the Whirlwind Douluo to assassinate Xu Tianran.

Xu Tianran revealed that he was both a Rank 9 Soul Engineer and a Titled Douluo, then blasted Whirlwind Douluo from the Eastern Palace to the imperial palace entrance. As fighting erupted around the palace, Yuwen Tuo removed the Emperor and Xu Tianzhen from danger, while Wei Na and Long Aotian faced the Holy Spirit Cult defenders.

• Xu Tianran’s defensive Soul Tool blocked Whirlwind Douluo’s dagger, and Xu Tianran revealed his nine Soul Rings and Purple Emperor Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul.
• Xu Tianran’s destructive beam injured Whirlwind Douluo and hurled him from the Eastern Palace to the imperial palace entrance.
• Yuwen Tuo put the Emperor to sleep, sealed him inside a Soul Tool, and persuaded Xu Tianzhen to leave with him.
• Zhang Peng saw Yuwen Tuo leave and planned to kill the Emperor, unaware that Yuwen Tuo had already taken him away.
• Wei Na confronted Tang Ya while Long Aotian fought Yan Feng at the Eastern Palace gates.

Long Aotian and Wei Na overwhelmed Yan Feng and Tang Ya, while Miao Xin engaged the Nether Lightning Douluo. The chapter ended with Miao Xin striking him with her evolved Ninth Soul Skill and sending him flying toward the Crown Prince Eastern Palace.

• Long Aotian broke Yan Feng’s Burial Ground domain with Myriad Laws Break, then struck Yan Feng and Tang Ya hard enough to break their bones.
• Wei Na used Banshee’s Wail to injure Yan Feng and Tang Ya’s minds, giving Long Aotian an opening to attack them.
• Miao Xin restrained the Nether Lightning Douluo with Heart-Tethering Lock Prison and challenged him to a duel.
• The Nether Lightning Douluo deployed his Soul Tools, but Miao Xin’s domain drained his Soul Power and her Boiling Heart Riot let her break through his defenses.
• Miao Xin hit the Nether Lightning Douluo with Heart Burial and sent him flying toward the Crown Prince Eastern Palace.

Yun Yi coordinated the allied Soul Masters as they fought the Hand of the Nation, while Miao Xin struck Xu Tianran but failed to kill him. Xu Tianran activated the Steel Forest to destroy his enemies, and Yuwen Tuo arrived to challenge the trap.

• Yun Yi linked the allied Titled Douluo through her Divine Brain martial soul, helping them resist the Hand of the Nation Soul Engineer Legions.
• Xu Tianran questioned Ju Zi about the missing reinforcements as the battle continued around the imperial palace.
• Miao Xin unleashed her ninth soul skill, Heart Burial, injuring the Nether Lightning Douluo and blasting the Crown Prince Eastern Palace, but Xu Tianran survived behind a triggered defensive Soul Tool.
• Xu Tianran activated the Steel Forest, raising numerous powerful Fixed Soul Cannons around the Eastern Palace.
• Wei Na and Long Aotian revealed that they had anticipated Xu Tianran's trap and called for Yuwen Tuo, who appeared and vowed to break the Steel Forest.

Ji Juechen returned from three years of seclusion and intervened in the battle spreading across Mingdu, where he confronted the Evil Soul Master Wu Yun. After defeating her, he left her unable to warn Zhongli Wu as Yuwen Tuo prepared a powerful flame attack in the imperial palace.

• Ji Juechen entered Mingdu, found the city engulfed in battle, and decided to attack Evil Soul Masters while searching for Yuwen Tuo.
• Ji Juechen rescued Feng Ling from Wu Yun, who had killed the other Heavens Sect disciples and pursued him.
• Ji Juechen revealed his new Sword Maniac Domain—Severance and defeated Wu Yun, stopping her from reporting the eastern city's situation to Zhongli Wu.
• Yuwen Tuo gathered the palace's flames into his right arm to prepare his Flame Inferno technique.

Yuwen Tuo gathered flames and Soul Power from his allies to unleash Inferno, which melted the Sun Moon Empire’s Steel Forest and devastated its forces. After Xu Tianran accused him of killing his own people, Yuwen Tuo calmly denied it.

• Zhang Peng and Xu Tianran tried to stop Yuwen Tuo, but Jin Peng shielded him with his Invincible Golden Body.
• Ye Guyi added her Angel Sacred Flame, and Wei Na used the Nine Transformations Soul Conversion Instrument to channel the gathered Soul Power of the others into Yuwen Tuo.
• Du Busi held Long Xiaoyao back, while an ally stopped Ye Yulin’s Sun Moon Divine Needle and others blocked Kong Deming from reaching the battlefield.
• Yuwen Tuo unleashed Inferno, melting the Steel Forest, the Level 9 Soul Cannons, and Xu Tianran’s defensive Soul Tools while devastating the five great Soul Engineer Legions and Zhongli Wu’s Evil Soul Masters.
• Xu Tianran escaped with Ju Zi and accused Yuwen Tuo of killing his own allies, but Yuwen Tuo replied that he had not.

Yuwen Tuo destroyed the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Guidance Cannons, captured Xu Tianran, and revealed that he had saved the emperor and Xu Tianzhen, breaking several of Xu Tianran’s schemes. As Yuwen Tuo began explaining the Sun Moon Empire’s encirclement of Mingdu, Xu Tianran realized what he was about to reveal.

• Yuwen Tuo burned the palace’s Soul Guidance Cannons and Soul Tools without harming his allies, while Shrek Academy’s group withdrew from Mingdu.
• Yuwen Tuo captured Xu Tianran after destroying his defenses and knocked Ju Zi unconscious when she tried to stop him.
• Yuwen Tuo released the Sun Moon Emperor and Xu Tianzhen from his Soul Tool, revealing that he had treated the emperor and disproved the claim that he had murdered his family.
• The Sun Moon Emperor demanded that Yuwen Tuo release Xu Tianran, but Yuwen Tuo said he would also break the scheme to surround Mingdu.
• Yuwen Tuo asked why the Sun Moon Continent had lost its war against the Douluo Continent four thousand years earlier, and Xu Tianran began to suspect his answer.

Yuwen Tuo revealed how he had arranged for more than fifty Titled Douluo to ambush the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer Legions, leaving Xu Tianran’s plan in ruins. He then pressed the Sun Moon Emperor to abandon Xu Tianran, while making clear that the Body Sect’s support could determine whether the other nations dared continue the fight.

• More than fifty Titled Douluo arrived, including Kong Deming, Tianyuan Douluo, Star Crown Douluo, and Man Yi, whom the Body Sect had rescued.
• Yuwen Tuo explained that he had alerted Du Busi and the other powers to Xu Tianran’s conspiracy and organized a surprise attack on the Soul Engineer Legions surrounding Mingdu.
• The Titled Douluo had destroyed the scattered legions before they could activate their Linked Defensive Soul Tools, leaving the Sun Moon Empire at a severe disadvantage.
• Long Xiaoyao told Zhongli Wu to prepare the Holy Spirit Cult to withdraw, while Xu Tianran and the emperor realized Yuwen Tuo had turned their plan against them.
• Yuwen Tuo urged the emperor to abandon Xu Tianran, then warned that the Body Sect’s withdrawal would leave the other nations’ Titled Douluo facing Kong Deming and Long Xiaoyao.

Yuwen Tuo refused to help the Three Great Nations destroy the Sun Moon Empire, prioritizing his revenge and divine trial. The Sun Moon Emperor stripped Xu Tianran of his title, and Yuwen Tuo left him powerless and publicly humiliated.

• Yuwen Tuo rejected Star Crown Douluo and Tianyuan Douluo's pleas to continue the attack, while Du Busi defended his choice.
• The Sun Moon Emperor named Xu Tianran's crimes, stripped him of his crown prince status, and placed him at Yuwen Tuo's mercy.
• Yuwen Tuo dispersed Xu Tianran's Soul Power, reducing him to an ordinary man.
• Yuwen Tuo used the Inclined Severing Sword to mutilate Xu Tianran while Cao Jinxuan photographed it for distribution across the continent.
• Xu Tianzhen turned away as the gathered fighters watched Yuwen Tuo's revenge in fear.

Yuwen Tuo confronted the Sun Moon Empire over his family’s slaughter and pushed his body beyond its limits with power absorbed through the Nine Transformations Soul Conversion Instrument. As Qiu'er, Xiao Xiao, and Ling Luochen rushed to reach him, Yuwen Tuo declared that he would destroy his body and bloodline to sever his ties to the Sun Moon and Star Luo Empires.

• Yuwen Tuo accused Kong Deming, Xu Tianran, and the Sun Moon Empire of ignoring his family’s massacre and rejected any peace unless his family could be resurrected.
• Yuwen Tuo’s body began to crack and bleed from the power he had absorbed, while Qiu'er and Xiao Xiao sensed that he was in danger.
• Ling Luochen fought Xu Guozhong outside the imperial warehouse, and he fled when Qiu'er and Xiao Xiao joined the battle.
• Qiu'er, Xiao Xiao, and Ling Luochen flew toward the palace as the Shrek group withdrew in the opposite direction.
• Yuwen Tuo refused Du Busi’s offer to stabilize him and declared that he would destroy his body and bloodline to repay the Sun Moon and Star Luo Empires and sever all ties with them.