Chapter Summaries

Cheng Xiao received Belyon and the second-generation Shadow Monarch’s elite legion, then gathered his own Shadow Legion and allies as the two forces prepared for the Dragon Emperor’s coming war. Elsewhere, Bibi Dong ordered a full-scale invasion in three days, while Belyon began a sparring match with Nash that left the surrounding terrain devastated.

• Belyon arrived with ten Ancient Dragons and an elite Shadow Legion, and Cheng Xiao summoned his own soldiers, Gu Yue’s Fierce Beasts, and the Soul Masters to stand with him.
• The Dragon Emperor learned the elite troops had arrived and ordered preparations to proceed with his plan to win the war.
• After remembering something she had overlooked, Bibi Dong summoned Chrysanthemum Douluo and announced that the Spirit Hall Empire would attack both Heaven Dou and Star Luo in three days.
• At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect ruins, Cheng Xiao approved Nash’s challenge to Belyon, and Belyon used his jointed sword to overpower Nash and level the nearby land and hills.

Cheng Xiao stopped Belyon from finishing Nash, then let Belyon face Di Tian and the other Fierce Beasts. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue completed the Angel Assessment, and Tang San claimed full control of the Sea God's Trident as he prepared to return to Douluo Continent.

• Cheng Xiao watched Belyon overwhelm Nash, and Belyon defeated Nash after the Ancient Dragon seized a brief opening and fought back.
• Cheng Xiao stopped Belyon from delivering a final punch, healed Nash, and accepted Gu Yue's request for Di Tian to challenge Belyon.
• Di Tian, the Bear King, Zi Ji, Myriad Demon King, and Scarlet King attacked Belyon together, while Belyon told Cheng Xiao to leave the battlefield with Gu Yue.
• Qian Renxue knelt in Douluo Hall after completing the Angel Assessment, and Qian Daoliu resolved to help her finish the Angel Nine Trials quickly.
• Tang San removed the Sea God's Trident from its platform, fused it with the trident in his sea of consciousness, and planned to return to Douluo Continent to find Xiao Wu and his former companions.

Da Ming and Er Ming sacrificed themselves to Xiao Wu, giving her powerful Soul Rings and Soul Bones as their final gift. After Xiao Wu vowed to avenge them, Cheng Xiao comforted her and promised she could fight alongside him.

• Da Ming and Er Ming told Xiao Wu they had chosen to sacrifice themselves and asked her to absorb their power.
• The brothers sacrificed their lives, raising Xiao Wu's Soul Power from level sixty-five to eighty-five and granting her two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and matching Soul Bones.
• Xiao Wu mourned Da Ming and Er Ming and vowed to avenge them.
• Cheng Xiao arrived after learning of the sacrifice, reassured Xiao Wu that the brothers did not blame her, and promised to help her fight.
• Xiao Wu insisted she wanted to help Cheng Xiao too, then fell asleep in his arms as he used Shadow Swap to leave the forest.

Tang San passed the Sea God’s seventh trial and prepared to leave Sea God Island with the Seven Sacred Pillars, while Qian Renxue confronted the cost of inheriting the Angel God position. A vast portal opened over Spirit City, and Qian Daoliu warned that the beings from other worlds were almost there.

• The Sea God restored Tang San’s access to the Sea God’s Trident, and Tang San passed his seventh trial with eighty-five percent Sea God affinity.
• Bo Saixi allowed the Seven Sacred Pillars to accompany Tang San to the continent after he promised to bring them safely back to Sea God Island.
• Qian Renxue revealed that she had been deliberately losing her trials because she feared Qian Daoliu would sacrifice his life for her divine inheritance, and Qian Daoliu comforted her.
• Light Feather Douluo reported that the beings from other worlds were preparing to attack, and Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue went to see the portal over Spirit City.
• Darkness swallowed the sky above Spirit City, and Qian Daoliu said the beings from other worlds were almost there.

As portals opened across the continent, Cheng Xiao realized the Dragon Emperor had used the Chaos Soldiers’ magic power to prepare Douluo Continent for his arrival. While Cheng Xiao’s group faced an empty portal, a powerful figure descended through the portal above Star Luo City, forcing Tang San and the Seven Sacred Pillars to flee.

• Qian Daoliu stayed in Douluo Hall to oversee Qian Renxue’s trial, while Bibi Dong delegated her authority to Hu Liena, who fortified Spirit City as the empires prepared defenses.
• Tang San arrived in Star Luo City with the Seven Sacred Pillars and noticed the strange energy gathering above the city.
• Xiao Wu reached Rank 92, and Cheng Xiao recalled the Shadow Soldiers when the portal near Seven Star Academy began to open.
• Cheng Xiao concluded that the Dragon Emperor had used the Chaos Soldiers’ deaths and magic power to make the world withstand his descent, while Gu Yue sent Di Tian and the Fierce Beasts to investigate other portals.
• A humanoid figure descended through the portal above Star Luo City, and Tang San warned the Seven Sacred Pillars to flee as the Star Luo Empire’s generals approached it.

The Dragon Emperor destroyed Star Luo City and ordered his forces to attack the continent, while Tang San reached Geng Xin City and sought Lou Gao’s help in making the Rain of Pear Blossoms Needle. Dai Mubai was left grieving his family and empire as the war began to spread.

• The Dragon Emperor summoned his soul-beast army and vaporized the gathered Star Luo Empire soldiers, while Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun stayed behind to protect the Star Luo Emperor and Dai Mubai.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun died fighting the soul beasts, and the Star Luo Emperor was killed during his escape while Dai Mubai survived.
• The Dragon Emperor welcomed the Illusion Realm King and his commanders, then ordered the armies to destroy cities across the continent and declared that the war against the Shadow Monarch had begun.
• Tang San encountered Dai Mubai in Geng Xin City, learned of Star Luo City's destruction, and promised to help avenge the dead.
• Tang San met Lou Gao at the Blacksmith Association and showed him the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and the Rain of Pear Blossoms Needle blueprint.
• Dai Mubai mourned his father, brother, and lost empire, blaming himself for fleeing and breaking down in despair.

Tang San and Lou Gao raced to forge Deep Sea Silver while the Dragon Emperor’s forces ravaged the Star Luo Empire and Cheng Xiao prepared to confront him. After Yang Wudi fell defending Dragonrise City, Cheng Xiao gathered his allies and began preparing them for battle, ending with his order to begin.

• Tang San and Lou Gao jointly forged Deep Sea Silver in Geng Xin City as Tang San hurried to complete Hidden Weapons.
• Cheng Xiao sensed the Dragon Emperor’s army devastating the southern lands, and the two exchanged threats across the battlefield.
• The Dragon Emperor’s forces destroyed Dragonrise City, where Yang Wudi’s final spear strike failed to harm him.
• Cheng Xiao apologized to Dugu Bo and his companions, but they affirmed their choice to stand with him.
• Cheng Xiao used magic to strengthen and harmonize his allies’ magic power and Soul Power, then ordered everyone to begin the battle.

The Seven Sacred Pillars and Dai Mubai were trapped in Geng Xin City as demonic beasts attacked, and the Sea God’s phantom appeared to help Tang San. The phantom was destroyed by the Ancient Dragon, and the Dragon Emperor revealed himself as the King of Destruction.

• Sea Dragon Douluo told Dai Mubai that the Seven Sacred Pillars would stay to protect Tang San, then led them into battle against the demonic beasts.
• Sea Spear Douluo blocked an orc warrior, while the beasts overwhelmed Sea Star Douluo and Sea Dragon Douluo suffered a broken arm fighting a shapeshifting orc.
• An Ancient Dragon arrived, and the surviving Sacred Pillars despaired when they realized it was stronger than their High Priest.
• Tang San appeared with the Sea God's Trident and summoned the Sea God's phantom, who demonstrated Unfixed Storm against the Ancient Dragon.
• A dark red beam dispersed the Sea God's phantom, and the Dragon Emperor arrived and identified himself as the King of Destruction.

Tang San’s attempt to stop the Dragon Emperor’s attack failed, and the Sea God teleported him away while the Seven Sacred Pillars were destroyed. As the Destruction Legion reached Heaven Dou City, Cheng Xiao launched his counterattack, turning fallen magical beasts into Shadow Soldiers and driving fear into the Chaos Soldiers.

• The Dragon Emperor’s Dragon Breath overwhelmed Tang San’s divine skills, and the Sea God fused with him before teleporting him to Sea God Island, leaving the Seven Sacred Pillars to be reduced to ash.
• Bo Saixi found Tang San collapsed at Sea God Hall after the Sea God’s intervention drained him, and Tang San’s last words left her unable to calm down.
• The Dragon Emperor’s Destruction Legion devastated Heaven Dou Empire and reached Heaven Dou City on the third day, while Cheng Xiao began the battle he had prepared for.
• Cheng Xiao charged into the magical beast horde alone, killed hundreds with the Shadow Scythe, and raised them as Shadow Soldiers with his command to stand up.
• Cheng Xiao attacked the Chaos Soldiers with the Demon King’s Longsword, severed a Giant’s lower leg, and let insect soldiers devour it.
• Cheng Xiao raised the Giant as a Giant Soldier, which took up its battle axe and made the Chaos Soldiers retreat in fear.

Cheng Xiao slaughtered the Chaos Soldiers and Dragon Clan forces on the eastern battlefield, raising the dead as Shadow Soldiers while the Dragon Emperor moved to confront him. Meanwhile, the Spirit Hall Empire’s defenses faltered against monsters immune to Soul Skills until Demon Subduing Douluo and Thousand Jun Douluo intervened, and an unknown fighter prepared to use poison infused with magic power.

• Cheng Xiao attacked the Chaos Soldiers alone, and the Dragon Emperor watched as he raised their dead into the growing Shadow Legion.
• Cheng Xiao killed waves of Flying Dragons and Giant Dragons, then raised the fallen Dragon Clan warriors as Shadow Soldiers.
• The Dragon Emperor ordered the Illusion Realm King to watch for the Shadow Legion and entered a portal to the eastern battlefield with the Ancient Dragons.
• The monster army broke through the Spirit Hall Empire’s first defense, and Insectoid Monsters pursued retreating Soul Masters toward the city.
• Demon Subduing Douluo and Thousand Jun Douluo held the Insectoid Monsters back with their Soul Skills but could not injure them.
• An unidentified fighter shouted that poison infused with magic power could harm the monsters and activated Eighth Soul Skill, Time Freeze.

Dugu Bo arrived at Spirit City and revealed the Shadow Legion hidden in his shadow, while Belyon confronted the Illusion Realm King. On the eastern battlefield, Cheng Xiao raised a large Shadow Legion from the fallen magical beasts, but the Dragon Emperor surrounded him with overwhelming forces before a golden pillar of energy erupted from the city.

• Dugu Bo petrified the attacking magical beasts and reunited with Chrysanthemum Douluo, while Thousand Jun Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo watched in shock.
• Belyon and one hundred and thirty thousand Shadow Soldiers emerged from Dugu Bo's shadow, and Belyon severed the Illusion Realm King's control over the magical beasts before leading the attack.
• The Dragon Emperor attacked Cheng Xiao with the Breath of Destruction, then summoned the Destruction Legion as Cheng Xiao's Shadow Soldiers retreated.
• Cheng Xiao used the Shadow Soldiers to buy time and drew the Dragon Emperor's forces to the city, where he raised the fallen magical beasts as nearly two hundred thousand Shadow Soldiers.
• The Dragon Emperor brought his ten-million-strong army to face Cheng Xiao, but a sacred golden pillar of energy erupted from the city and caught his attention.

Cheng Xiao lured the Dragon Emperor away from the battlefield and brought him to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Gu Yue and the Fierce Beasts joined the fight. The Dragon Emperor revealed the full force of his Dragon's Fear and declared war on Cheng Xiao and his allies.

• Qian Renxue appeared to help Cheng Xiao, who recalled the Shadow Soldiers and used Dragon's Fear to immobilize the Dragon Emperor's army.
• Cheng Xiao dragged the Dragon Emperor through his shadow to the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving Qian Renxue to handle the battlefield.
• Gu Yue and the Fierce Beasts met Cheng Xiao, while the Dragon Emperor found himself surrounded by the Shadow Legion without his own troops.
• The Dragon Emperor unleashed his true Dragon's Fear, overwhelming Gu Yue, the Fierce Beasts, and the surrounding forces before Cheng Xiao recalled the Shadow Legion.
• The Dragon Emperor threatened to kill Cheng Xiao's allies and attacked with overwhelming destructive power, forcing Cheng Xiao to seize Gu Yue and leap away.

Cheng Xiao fought the Dragon Emperor and awakened a colossal form that let him contend with it, but their battle devastated the Star Dou Great Forest. After Cheng Xiao’s explosive counterattack, the wounded Dragon Emperor revealed its humanoid form and drew on the magic power stored in its sword to prepare for a final strike.

• Cheng Xiao and Gu Yue attacked the Dragon Emperor, but its scales resisted their weapons and its Dragon’s Fear left Gu Yue and Nash helpless.
• Nash shielded Cheng Xiao from the Dragon Emperor’s Breath of Destruction and vanished, while the Dragon Emperor overwhelmed the Seven Deadly Sins Gods with help from the Illusion Realm King.
• Cheng Xiao realized he could make himself a weapon, transformed into a colossal being, and fought the Dragon Emperor on equal terms.
• Cheng Xiao lost an arm but regrew it, then thrust it into the Dragon Emperor’s mouth and detonated his magic power, flattening the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The wounded Dragon Emperor survived in humanoid form, drew power from its sword, and prepared to strike Cheng Xiao as he lay exhausted.

Cheng Xiao defeated the Dragon Emperor and the Illusion Realm King, then led his Shadow Soldiers to conquer the God Realm and reshape the Douluo Continent. Years later, he reunited with Qian Renxue, who asked him not to disappear again, and agreed to share a meal with him.

• The Dragon Emperor nearly killed Cheng Xiao, but an orc Great Shaman's magic restored him, allowing Cheng Xiao to kill the Dragon Emperor and absorb its Magic Crystal.
• Cheng Xiao healed Qian Renxue, tracked down and killed the Illusion Realm King, then returned to the Douluo Continent.
• The Asura God attacked Cheng Xiao, but Cheng Xiao killed him and summoned tens of millions of Shadow Soldiers to defeat the God Realm's forces and kill the four God Kings.
• Cheng Xiao's Shadow Soldiers hunted down Sea God Tang San, while the Douluo Continent later united under the Spirit Hall Empire and magic power replaced Soul Power.
• Years later, Dugu Bo visited Cheng Xiao and told him that Ye Lingling and Qian Renxue had been looking for him.
• Qian Renxue found Cheng Xiao and asked him not to leave without saying goodbye again, and he promised to stay and cook for her.

Cheng Xiao and Qian Renxue hosted family and friends at their home, where old tensions eased and their children enjoyed a lively gathering. As fireworks lit the city, the couple shared a quiet moment together, while Dugu Bo revealed the celebration was his gift to them.

• Cheng Xiao woke beside Qian Renxue, greeted Cheng Lingxue, and learned Cheng Yun had already gotten up while Belyon and Ah Yin argued over his education.
• Dugu Bo arrived, gave candy to Cheng Lingxue and Cheng Yun, and joked with Cheng Xiao about his granddaughter Yanyan's cooking.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue visited, and Qian Renxue used Divine Power to relieve Hu Liena's exhaustion and put their past awkwardness behind them.
• Chen Xin, Dugu Bo, Bone Rong, and the other guests competed to catch fish, arguing over their use of special abilities.
• Cheng Xiao and Qian Renxue kissed on the cliff as fireworks lit the city, and Dugu Bo said he had arranged the fireworks as a gift.