Chapter Summaries

After Qian Xunzong finished arranging the integration of two sects, Qian Daoliu summoned him to Spirit City and told him to attend Ning Yushan’s birthday banquet with the Qian brothers. Qian Xunzong returned to Cloud-Treading Villa, where a system notification announced that its check-in anchor detection was complete.

• Shen Ye reported that Qian Daoliu had summoned Qian Xunzong to the Papal Palace, so Qian Xunzong sent the others to Heavenly God City and traveled to Spirit City with Shen Ye.
• Qian Xunzong kicked open the Papal Palace doors and found Qian Daoliu relaxing while Qian Xunji struggled beneath piles of official documents.
• Qian Daoliu explained that Ning Yushan’s eightieth birthday banquet was approaching and ordered Qian Xunzong and Qian Xunji to attend with him.
• Qian Xunzong agreed to go, while Qian Daoliu refused Qian Xunji’s request to stay behind and assigned him to keep working.
• Qian Xunzong returned to Cloud-Treading Villa and rested as the system announced that check-in anchor location detection was complete.

Qian Xunzong’s dual-sect check-in rewarded him with the demigod Sword God Li Chungang and a thousand-member elite Soul Engineer Legion. He sent both to Heavenly God City to strengthen its defenses and research, then planned to display the city’s power at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s birthday banquet.

• Qian Xunzong checked in simultaneously at the Battle Soul Sect and the Undying Sect, receiving Li Chungang and a thousand Soul Engineers.
• Li Chungang appeared at Cloud-Treading Villa in his prime as a demigod and pledged his loyalty to Qian Xunzong.
• The thousand Soul Engineers arrived, bowed to Qian Xunzong, and swore to serve Heavenly God City.
• Qian Xunzong ordered the Soul Engineers to establish a research system under Kong Deming and assigned Li Chungang to guard Heavenly God City with Mo Hengchuan and Kong Deming.
• Li Chungang and the Soul Engineer Legion departed for Heavenly God City, while Qian Xunzong looked forward to revealing his strength at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s birthday banquet.

The Undying Sect and Battle Soul Sect relocated to Heavenly God City and pledged allegiance to Qian Xunzong, who appointed their leaders to oversee the city's military and spiritual affairs. Yun Yan prepared the Origin Life-Gathering Formation to temper the martial souls and bloodlines of the three sects, and began activating it.

• The Undying Sect and Battle Soul Sect arrived in Heavenly God City with all 3,057 of their members and were struck by the city's grandeur and cultivation environment.
• Ye Qiulin and Chen Jianjun met Ma Mingshan in the Heavenly God Palace, where Ma Mingshan revealed that Qian Xunzong had cured his poison and restored his strength.
• Qian Xunzong appointed Chen Jianjun Vice City Lord to oversee combat forces and city defenses, and Ye Qiulin Special-Grade Elder to manage spiritual plants, formations, and spiritual resources with Yun Yan.
• Qian Xunzong announced that members of the Undying Sect and Battle Soul Sect could freely study core techniques and inheritances at the Heavenly God City Soul Tool Institute.
• Yun Yan summoned Immortal-Grade Herbs and formed the Origin Life-Gathering Formation in the central square, where members of the Blazing Flame Sect, Battle Soul Sect, and Undying Sect sat down to receive its tempering.
• Yun Yan activated his seventh Soul Skill, Formation Spirit True Body, to begin the formation.

Yun Yan’s Origin Life-Gathering Formation transformed a small number of disciples’ Martial Souls into the three sects’ rare inherited types, earning the sects’ gratitude and loyalty to Qian Xunzong. Qian Xunzong bestowed the Throne of Doom and Slaughter on Chen Jianjun, then ordered Heavenly God City to prepare to make its name known at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect master’s birthday in one month.

• Yun Yan activated the Origin Life-Gathering Formation, exhausting himself as it tempered more than three thousand people from the three sects.
• After an hour, dozens of disciples’ Martial Souls transformed into inherited types, including the Seven Kill Sword, Nine Heavens Phoenix, and Nine-Heart Begonia.
• Ma Mingshan, Ye Qiulin, Chen Jianjun, and the disciples thanked Yun Yan, then swore loyalty to Qian Xunzong and rose at his command.
• Qian Xunzong bestowed the Throne of Doom and Slaughter on Chen Jianjun, raising him to rank ninety-seven Peak Douluo with strength comparable to a Limit Douluo.
• Qian Xunzong reassured Ye Qiulin that he would receive a throne when the others returned, then ordered preparations for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect master’s eightieth birthday in one month.

Qian Xunzong took Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji to Ning Yushan’s eightieth-birthday celebration at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, showing off his flying Cloudstep Light-Carriage along the way. The chapter left the celebration underway as Yu Minghai and Yu Yuanzhen arrived and learned that Tang Chen was already inside.

• Qian Xunzong refused to travel by carriage and brought out his flying Cloudstep Light-Carriage, taking Qian Xunji with him while Qian Daoliu rode separately.
• Qian Xunji ate chicken legs before the visit, then tried to hide the evidence when Qian Daoliu joined him at a restaurant in Seven Treasure City.
• Qian Daoliu and his sons arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, which was hosting Ning Yushan’s eightieth-birthday celebration.
• Ning Wuqiu and Wei Wuyou welcomed Yu Minghai and Yu Yuanzhen at the sect entrance, and Yu Minghai went inside after hearing Tang Chen had already arrived.

Qian Daoliu and his sons attended Ning Tianshan’s birthday banquet, where the continent’s major powers gathered. The previously unknown Heavenly God City arrived as a united force of the Earth Three Sects, and the banquet began.

• Wei Wuyou recognized Qian Xunzong and Qian Xunji’s extraordinary talent and warned Ning Wuqiu that Spirit Hall could shift the continent’s balance.
• Qian Daoliu entered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s banquet hall with his sons and was welcomed by Ning Tianshan and the assembled guests.
• Ning Wuqiu told Ning Tianshan that the Earth Three Sects had not arrived, and Ning Tianshan speculated they might be absent.
• Chen Jianjun, Ye Qiulin, Ma Jinyan, Chen Xin, Ye Qingxuan, and Gu Rong arrived as representatives of Heavenly God City, revealing that the Earth Three Sects had joined forces.
• The gathered powers recognized Heavenly God City’s three Titled Douluo and the complementary strengths of its three sects, while its members discreetly acknowledged Qian Xunzong.
• Ning Wuqiu announced the start of the birthday banquet.

At Qian Daoliu’s birthday banquet, Qian Xunzong ignored courtly manners to order five more servings, while Qian Daoliu and Ning Tianshan reminisced about Qian Xunzong’s missing mother. The guests then arranged a sparring match between Yu Yuanzhen and Gu Rong, and the chapter left them facing off on the Soul Duel Platform.

• Qian Xunzong gathered the seven dishes onto one plate, ordered five more servings, and eagerly ate while Qian Xunji and Qian Daoliu watched in surprise.
• Ning Tianshan recalled how he and Qian Daoliu had feasted during their younger days, and Qian Daoliu lamented that his wife had disappeared after giving birth to Qian Xunzong.
• The guests proposed a match between the younger generation, and Ning Tianshan had the Soul Duel Platform raised from the pool.
• Yu Yuanzhen stepped onto the platform, and Gu Rong quickly joined him, revealing that both were level sixty-three Soul Emperors.
• Qian Xunzong watched as Yu Yuanzhen and Gu Rong prepared to fight, having arranged the sparring match to draw attention to the Earth Three Sects.

Gu Rong defeated Yu Yuanzhen in a fierce spirit battle by enduring his lightning attacks with the Bone Dragon’s defenses and draining his Soul Power. Tang Zhan and Chen Xin then stepped onto the stage to begin their match.

• Yu Yuanzhen attacked Gu Rong with lightning Soul Skills, but Gu Rong’s Bone Armor withstood the assault and his Bone Prison countered.
• Gu Rong’s Bone Dragon domain restrained Yu Yuanzhen, who exhausted most of his Soul Power before Gu Rong aimed Void-Piercing Bone Blades and forced him to concede.
• Gu Rong and Yu Yuanzhen acknowledged each other after the match, while Yu Minghai urged his son to learn from the defeat.
• Tang Zhan challenged the assembled factions, and Chen Xin flew onto the stage to face him.
• Tang Zhan and Chen Xin introduced their level-sixty-four Clear Sky Hammer and Seven Kill Sword martial souls before their battle began.

Chen Xin and Tang Zhan fought an evenly matched battle, with Chen Xin’s newly learned sword technique shattering Tang Zhan’s strongest hammer strike. They agreed to a draw, and Tang Chen promised to teach Tang Zhan the Grand Sumeru Hammer.

• Chen Xin and Tang Zhan exchanged Soul Skills and martial techniques, matching sword attacks against the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Chen Xin used Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Source, but Tang Zhan countered by charging Disorder Splitting Wind to eighty-one strikes and launching a devastating final attack.
• Chen Xin unleashed One Sword Makes Immortals Kneel, shattered Tang Zhan’s attack, and left both fighters exhausted.
• Tang Zhan conceded, but Chen Xin called the battle a draw, and the crowd applauded their fight.
• Gu Rong asked Chen Xin about his final sword, and Chen Xin said Li Chungang had taught it to him; Chen Jianjun urged him to keep studying under his teacher.
• Tang Chen praised Tang Zhan’s technique and promised to teach him the Grand Sumeru Hammer after they returned.

Dai Xuanfeng provoked Qian Xunji into fighting a Star Luo guard who had suppressed his Soul Emperor cultivation to Soul King level. Qian Xunji initially held his own with his Seraphim Martial Soul, but the guard’s stronger cultivation began to overwhelm him.

• Dai Xuanfeng cited the attack on Zhu Xuanye in Spirit City and challenged Qian Xunji to fight his guard.
• Qian Xunji accepted and demanded that the guard fight at high-level Soul King rather than suppressing himself to Soul Ancestor.
• The guard revealed his Breaker Spear Martial Soul, while Qian Xunji summoned his Seraphim Martial Soul and began the duel.
• Qian Xunji’s Angel Sword Technique and holy flames let him match the guard and gradually gain the upper hand.
• The guard used his Soul Skills to amplify his spear and unleash a barrage that tore through Qian Xunji’s defenses.
• Dai Xuanfeng hoped the guard’s advantage would let him embarrass Spirit Hall and strengthen his claim to the Star Luo crown prince position.

Qian Xunji nearly lost his life when the guard removed his cultivation seal and attacked him, but Qian Daoliu intervened and Qian Xunzong retaliated. The guard was left crippled, while Dai Xuanfeng was allowed to leave and the birthday banquet continued.

• Qian Xunji broke through during his fight with the guard and gained the upper hand with his Angel Soul Bone, but the guard removed his seal and unleashed his full power.
• The guard's sixth Soul Skill nearly struck Qian Xunji, but Qian Daoliu dismantled the attack and pinned the guard down.
• Qian Xunzong revealed his purple, black, black, black Soul Ring configuration, sealed the guard's Soul Power, and crippled him.
• Qian Xunzong threatened Dai Xuanfeng, but Qian Daoliu stopped him and ordered Dai Xuanfeng to leave.
• Qian Xunzong helped the injured Qian Xunji, and Ning Tianshan allowed the banquet to resume after the guard was carried away.

Dai Xuanfeng fled Seven Treasure City, but the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall ambushed his forces on the road. Mountain-Sea Tower operatives later slaughtered his remaining guards, mutilated him, and prepared to leave him naked at the Star Luo Empire’s gates.

• Dai Xuanfeng mocked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for failing to ambush him, then Ning Yu and the sect’s archers attacked his guards from a canyon overlook.
• Dai Xuanfeng escaped the canyon with over two hundred guards and stopped at a forested crossroads, where Qian Jun and Jiang Mo led Spirit Hall cavalry in another attack.
• Dai Xuanfeng fled with fewer than fifty guards and rested beneath rocky terrain, where Mountain-Sea Tower operatives surrounded them.
• Mountain-Sea Tower assassins killed all of Dai Xuanfeng’s guards, crippled his Soul Power, and mutilated him with a dull knife.
• Mountain-Sea Tower operatives put a token in Dai Xuanfeng’s mouth and ordered that he be stripped and thrown at the Star Luo Empire’s gates.

Ning Tianshan retired as sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and passed the position to Ning Wuqiu, then presented valuable gifts to the guests. As Qian Xunzong left, he gained absolute control over thirty percent of the industries across the Douluo Continent, giving him the means to build a vast commercial empire.

• Ning Tianshan announced that he was stepping down and named Ning Wuqiu as his successor before the assembled guests.
• Ning Tianshan handed Ning Wuqiu the sect master's scepter, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's disciples and elders bowed to their new leader.
• Ning Tianshan gave the visiting powers precious gifts, including a Soul Bone that surprised Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Xunzong signed in at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and received absolute control over thirty percent of the industries in every region and city across the continent.
• Qian Xunzong considered handing the commercial holdings to Shen Wansan and He Shen and planned to use them to challenge the continent's powers.

A year after Qian Xunzong founded the Eternal Commerce Alliance, it had become the continent’s largest commercial power and provoked the two empires and the Seven Great Sects to suppress it. After learning of their coordinated economic attack, Shen Wansan ordered the alliance’s businesses to shut down and planned to use the resulting turmoil against its rivals.

• Qian Xunzong entrusted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s industries to Shen Wansan and He Shen, who built the Eternal Commerce Alliance into the continent’s largest commercial giant.
• With support from Heavenly God City, the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and Mountain-Sea Tower, the alliance expanded to control around thirty-five percent of the continent’s industries.
• The two empires and the Seven Great Sects coordinated a crackdown, restricting the alliance’s access to goods and raw materials through their subordinate businesses.
• Mu Qing delivered the secret report to Shen Wansan and He Shen, who learned that Spirit Hall would stay out of the commercial war.
• Shen Wansan ordered every alliance business to close so the disruption would throw the continent’s economy into turmoil and create an opening to strike back.

The Eternal Commerce Alliance shut down its businesses across the continent, prompting the empires and sects to seize the markets while Shen Wansan and He Shen prepared to cut off their supplies. As shortages and economic chaos spread, Ning Wuqiu recognized the shutdown as an economic trap and rushed to find his father.

• The Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires and several major sects ordered their forces to seize the Alliance’s vacant businesses.
• Shen Wansan and He Shen told the Embroidered Uniform Guard and Mountain-Sea Tower to activate agents and sever resource and supply routes to the new market entrants.
• Over ten days, shortages of food, money, Soul Tools, and materials caused prices to soar and disrupted commerce across the continent.
• Ning Wuqiu concluded that the Alliance’s shutdown was an economic encirclement that had left a gap the other powers could not fill.
• After receiving intelligence confirming the scale of the industrial shortfall, Ning Wuqiu urged Wei Wuyou to accompany him to find his father.

Ning Wuqiu and Wei Wuyou traveled to Spirit City seeking help with the economic crisis, only to be brought to Heavenly God City and discover that Qian Xunzong led the Eternal Commerce Alliance. They arrived before him in Heavenly God Palace, stunned by the revelation.

• Ning Tianshan ordered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to halt its market expansion and investigate which powers had stayed out of the economic turmoil.
• Ning Wuqiu took Wei Wuyou to Spirit City to seek the Pope’s help, but Shen Ye intercepted them and said his master had invited them.
• Shen Ye escorted Ning Wuqiu and Wei Wuyou through a teleportation formation to Heavenly God City overseas, the Eternal Commerce Alliance’s headquarters.
• Ning Wuqiu and Wei Wuyou saw Heavenly God City’s powerful defenses and arrived at Heavenly God Palace.
• Ning Wuqiu recognized the young Qian Xunzong as the master of the Eternal Commerce Alliance and was left in shock.

Qian Xunzong’s allies revealed how the Eternal Commerce Alliance’s economic blockade would collapse the continent’s markets and offered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect a choice: cooperate or face ruin. Ning Wuqiu accepted the merger of the Seven Treasure Chamber of Commerce, and Ning Tianshan agreed that it was the sect’s only path to survive the coming upheaval.

• Qian Xunzong welcomed Ning Wuqiu and Wei Wuyou, then left Shen Wansan and He Shen to handle their negotiations.
• Shen Wansan explained that the Alliance controlled vital trade routes and resources, and He Shen said its blockade would bring the old commercial order to collapse within half a month.
• He Shen offered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect either to surrender half its industries or merge its chamber of commerce into the Alliance while retaining management and sharing profits.
• After Wei Wuyou protested, Shen Wansan warned that refusal meant risking the sect’s destruction, and Ning Wuqiu chose to merge the Seven Treasure Chamber of Commerce.
• Shen Wansan gave Ning Wuqiu a branch alliance token and instructed the sect to conceal its cooperation by continuing to appear hostile to the Alliance.
• Ning Wuqiu and Wei Wuyou returned to the continent and told Ning Tianshan what had happened; Ning Tianshan affirmed the decision and predicted the continent’s upheaval.

The Eternal Commerce Alliance exploited the continent-wide economic collapse to force the empires and major factions to surrender most of their industries. After reopening its supply routes, the Alliance revived the economy and left Douluo Continent’s commercial lifeline under Qian Xunzong’s control.

• As supplies vanished and losses mounted, Tang Chen, the Heaven Dou court, the Star Luo court, and the major sects realized the industries they had seized were empty shells.
• The Eternal Commerce Alliance summoned the continent’s powers to Spirit City, where He Shen demanded seventy percent of their industries and offered to buy them at sixty percent of market value.
• When Yu Minghai, Tang Chen, and other leaders threatened to fight, Mo Hengchuan revealed his Limit Douluo strength and the Alliance’s armed forces subdued the hall.
• He Shen raised the terms to eighty percent of the industries at half market value, and the empires and factions signed the transfer contracts.
• The Eternal Commerce Alliance reopened with supplies from Heavenly God City, rapidly revived the economy, and came to control more than seventy percent of the continent’s commerce.
• Shen Wansan and He Shen reported the completed commercial reshuffling to Qian Xunzong, who declared that Douluo’s commerce belonged to Eternity.

The Eternal Commerce Alliance sold shares to the continent’s major powers, using their investments to protect its growing trade empire. Qian Xunzong returned to Spirit Hall, where Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji were astonished by the Alliance’s influence and the Earth Three Sects’ rumored Limit Douluo.

• The Eternal Commerce Alliance sold forty percent of its shares, which the two empires, the Seven Great Sects, and smaller powers bought; the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect received six percent at an internal price.
• He Shen and Shen Wansan reported the share sale to Qian Xunzong, who rewarded them and ordered preparations for Zhuolu Academy and closer cooperation with Spirit Hall.
• Qian Xunzong decided to return to Spirit Hall after more than half a year away.
• Qian Xunji showed Qian Daoliu a financial report revealing that Spirit Hall’s economic output had risen by sixty to seventy percent, crediting Qian Xunzong’s work.
• Qian Xunzong arrived at the Papal Palace, where Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji asked about Heavenly God City and its rumored rank-ninety-nine Limit Douluo, leaving Qian Daoliu stunned.

Qian Xunzong urged Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji to unify the continent by using Spirit Hall's military strength and the Eternal Commerce Alliance's economic influence to topple the two empires. Qian Xunji supported the plan, but Qian Daoliu had not yet agreed.

• Qian Xunzong told Qian Xunji and Qian Daoliu that his faction's combat strength rivaled the Worship Hall.
• Qian Xunzong proposed unifying the continent and explained how Spirit Hall and the Eternal Commerce Alliance could weaken the two empires.
• Qian Xunji cited the empires' withheld Soul Master subsidies and failure to defend against soul beast tides as reasons to act.
• Qian Daoliu worried that a war would devastate the continent and harm commoners, while Qian Xunzong argued that unity could improve their lives.
• Qian Xunzong proposed killing both imperial families to trigger the empires' collapse, then having Spirit Hall suppress the ensuing unrest.
• Qian Xunji endorsed the idea, and Qian Xunzong asked Qian Daoliu whether they should proceed.