Arc 22Inheritance and Imperial War

Tang San accepted the Rakshasa inheritance while Xue Haicang and his companions pursued the Sea God trials, as Spirit Hall and the Star Luo Empire advanced against Heaven Dou. The arc ended with Qian Renxue beginning her Angel God inheritance and Heaven Dou Imperial City under threat.

  • Bo Saixi explained the divine legacies and assigned Xue Haicang and his companions Sea God trials, while Zhou Liu recounted the Peerless Douluos and the scar on the Sea God Steps.
  • Blood Fiend offered Tang San the Rakshasa inheritance, and Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun traveled to Dawn Island, accepted Rakshasa power, and began their trials.
  • Xue Qinghe crushed a noble rebellion, while Lin Yuanfeng and the Star Luo forces captured several cities and destroyed Heaven Dou reinforcements with Spirit Hall’s help.
  • After four months on the Sea God Steps, Xue Haicang, Ning Rongrong, Yu Tianheng, and Oscar advanced their trials and received God-Given Soul Rings from Bo Saixi.
  • Tang San gained a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring but refused the Rakshasa God’s demand to trade the souls of Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua for his loved ones.
  • Dai Tianfeng challenged Xue Qinghe outside Heaven Dou Imperial City, and Spirit Hall’s Desert Eagles routed Ge Hu’s Hidden Weapon Battalion before Xue Qinghe used civilians to shield the city.
  • Qian Renxue defeated Qian Daoliu and began the Angel Ninth Trial as Qian Chongling sacrificed his vitality to strengthen the Angel God Statue.
  • Qian Renxue drew the Angel Holy Sword and endured the Angel-advent, as her body transformed and five golden Soul Bones emerged.
Chapters 533–557 Vol. 6 Read

Ch. 533Wasn't the Angel God an Evil God?

Bo Saixi warned Xue Haicang that a Soul Master was inheriting an evil god’s legacy and urged him to complete at least seven Sea God trials within five years. After Xue Haicang and his companions compared their first assessments on Sea God Island, Tang San, Mu Daibai, and Ma Cuihua began their perilous trials under the Sea God’s watch.

  • Bo Saixi explained that benevolent and evil gods existed, revealed an evil god’s legacy threatened the continent, and told Xue Haicang to pass at least seven trials within five years.
  • Sea Horse Douluo escorted Xue Haicang, Yu Tianheng, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar to a city and explained Sea God Island’s settlements, defenses, and way of life.
  • Xue Haicang and the others compared their first assessments and found that all required them to pass through the Sea God’s Light, with Xue Haicang facing 333 steps.
  • Tang San met Mu Daibai and Ma Cuihua on the beach, where they complained that their assessments were deadly despite their low levels.
  • Mu Daibai completed her assessment and gained two Soul Power levels, while Ma Cuihua began hers; Poseidon watched from the Divine Realm.

Ch. 534Spirit Hall Had Gods Too-and More Than One

Tang San and his companions planned to seek another god’s inheritance after their disappointing Sea God trials, while Ning Rongrong revealed to Oscar that Spirit Hall had helped send them to Sea God Island because they could inherit the Food God and Nine-Colored Goddess’s powers. She also disclosed that Spirit Hall’s founder was the Angel God and that Qian Renxue was already inheriting her legacy.

  • Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun compared their soul power gains, lamented their weak trial rewards, and agreed to wait briefly before leaving Sea God Island to seek another god’s inheritance.
  • Tang San blamed the Sea God for treating them unfairly and declared that he would become a god and take revenge on Spirit Hall, with Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun pledging to support him.
  • Oscar urged Ning Rongrong to distance the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect from a possible conflict between Sea God Island and Spirit Hall, but Ning Rongrong explained that a Spirit Hall senior had promised them opportunities to inherit the Nine-Colored Goddess’s and Food God’s powers.
  • Ning Rongrong told Oscar that he could inherit the Food God’s legacy by becoming the first Food System Super Douluo, while her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda matched the Nine-Colored Goddess’s inheritance.
  • Oscar realized that Spirit Hall knew about the Sea God and had no fear of him, and Ning Rongrong revealed that Spirit Hall’s founder was the Angel God and that Qian Renxue was inheriting her legacy.

Ch. 535Was Sea God Island Really This Poor?

Ning Rongrong revealed her suspicions about Spirit Hall's divine power, then Xue Haicang and his companions traveled to Sea God Island's forbidden grounds to begin their trials. There, Zhou Liu explained the taboo surrounding the damaged Sea God Steps and began recounting Bo Saixi's history with Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu.

  • Ning Rongrong told Oscar that Bibi Dong might have inherited the Time God and that another Spirit Hall senior was likely a true god.
  • Xue Haicang and his companions asked Zhou Liu to take them to the forbidden grounds, and he led them to the Sea God Hall and its thousand-and-one steps.
  • Xue Haicang asked Zhou Liu about the black line of damage on the steps, and Zhou Liu warned that the subject was taboo before sharing the story behind it.
  • Zhou Liu revealed that Bo Saixi was over two hundred years old and had met Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu more than a century earlier.
  • Zhou Liu described the three Peerless Douluos' relative strength across land, sea, and sky, then said Qian Daoliu was strongest when divine power was allowed.
  • Ning Rongrong assumed Bo Saixi and Qian Daoliu had loved each other, but Zhou Liu corrected her and left the reason unexplained.

Ch. 536The Legend of the Evil God

Zhou Liu told Xue Haicang and the others that an evil god had once fought the Sea God, leaving an unreparable sword scar on the Sea God Steps, before they began testing the Sea God's Light. Meanwhile, a disguised figure visited the group, and Tang San's drunken resentment turned into a dream in which he relived his childhood and suffered familiar humiliations.

  • Zhou Liu claimed that Qian Daoliu's ancestor had fought the Sea God over Bo Saixi and left the sword scar on the Sea God Steps, then departed after warning Xue Haicang and the others to keep the story secret.
  • Xue Haicang and Yu Tianheng were repelled by the Sea God's Light, and the group worked out that it reflected attacks and strengthened those who climbed the steps.
  • A disguised figure wearing a Purple-Red Robe watched Xue Haicang, then vanished before Bo Saixi appeared and praised the group for understanding the trial.
  • Tang San drank alone, lamented his losses, and blamed the Sea God, Spirit Hall, and others for his misfortunes before falling asleep on a reef.
  • Tang San dreamed he had returned to childhood, awakened his twin martial souls, and started over, but Xiao Chenyu broke both his legs and Zhao Wuji beat him after he kept trying to lecture him.

Ch. 537Rakshasa High Priest: Blood Fiend

Tang San relived his failed attempts to change his fate in a dream, then met Blood Fiend, who offered him the Rakshasa God’s inheritance. Blood Fiend gave him the key to the trials on Dawn Island and began explaining the realms of Peerless Douluos.

  • Tang San’s dream replayed his repeated tragedies, leaving him furious and despairing as he awoke into darkness.
  • Blood Fiend appeared, called Tang San a clown, and persuaded him that the gods had manipulated his suffering for entertainment.
  • Blood Fiend offered Tang San the Rakshasa God’s inheritance, claiming it could grant him the power to take revenge and resurrect his loved ones.
  • Blood Fiend told Tang San about the Rakshasa inheritance site on Dawn Island and branded him with a phantom of the Rakshasa Demon Scythe to begin the Rakshasa Nine Trials.
  • Tang San asked Blood Fiend to compare the four Peerless Douluos, and Blood Fiend began describing their four realms.

Ch. 538Gods should do as they please

Tang San discovered that his dream of receiving the Rakshasa Nine Trials was real and set out for Dawn Island with Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun. At Jialing Pass, Dai Tianfeng arrived to celebrate the Star Luo Empire’s victory, but Ye Mengwei’s control over him revealed that he had become Spirit Hall’s captive.

  • Blood Fiend explained the stages of level 99 power to Tang San and vanished.
  • Tang San woke on Sea God Island, found the Rakshasa divine mark on his forehead, and realized his dream had been real.
  • Tang San told Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun about the Rakshasa Nine Trials and Dawn Island, and the three departed for it the next day.
  • Dai Tianfeng arrived at Jialing Pass, rewarded the Star Luo army with a three-day celebration, and postponed discussing Spirit Hall until after the war with the Heaven Dou Empire.
  • Ye Mengwei suggested brainwashing Lin Yuanfeng, then used an illusion to force Dai Tianfeng to obey her.

Ch. 539Pets should act like pets

Lü Lingqi reviewed Lin Yuanfeng’s plan to capture Heaven Dou Imperial City and taught him how to exploit secret agents, terrain, and seasonal flooding. As the Star Luo Empire prepared to attack in four months, Xue Qinghe began receiving reports on Heaven Dou’s vassal states.

  • Ye Mengwei decided not to control Lin Yuanfeng, while Xue Peng promised to kill anyone she could not control.
  • At a war council in Jialing Pass, Lin Yuanfeng proposed surrounding Heaven Dou Imperial City to draw out its defenders.
  • Lü Lingqi explained how the Shadow Division could open Tianwan City and Linzi City’s gates, how an ambush could destroy relief forces in a gorge, and how flooding could devastate Wuling City and Tianchang City.
  • Lin Yuanfeng recognized his strategic mistakes, and Lü Lingqi concluded that the Star Luo Empire would launch its campaign in four months.
  • Xue Qinghe asked Ge Hu how preparations involving the Heaven Dou Empire’s vassal states were progressing.

Ch. 540Destroy Spirit Hall, purge the traitors, let the sovereign rule behind a curtain, govern the nation together

Xue Qinghe prepared to crush a conspiracy by thirty-five noble families after they plotted rebellion against his reforms and secretly called for the sovereign to rule behind a curtain. He ordered Ge Hu to capture the nobles, sparing only Earl Qingfeng from execution, and left the purge in motion.

  • Xue Qinghe learned that the treasury could fund a million soldiers, the capital’s walls were reinforced, and An Lushan’s hidden weapons were ready to equip the military against weaker Soul Masters.
  • A guard reported that thirty-five noble families had gathered at Duke Suoluo’s Gilded Grotto, and Xue Qinghe ordered Ge Hu to surround it.
  • Xue Qinghe explained that the nobles consumed three hundred million Gold Soul Coins in allowances each year, a third of the empire’s tax revenue.
  • Duke Suoluo and other nobles used a projected gathering to denounce Spirit Hall and Xue Qinghe, then chanted for the sovereign to rule behind a curtain and govern with them.
  • Ge Hu arrived with fifty thousand soldiers and ten thousand Hidden Weapon Battalion troops, and Xue Qinghe ordered the male nobles executed except for Earl Qingfeng and the women sent to the Rouge Pavilion.

Ch. 541Shattering Benevolent Thoughts

Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun reached Dawn Island to seek the Rakshasa God's inheritance, but Blood Fiend made them face unsettling riddles as trials. After the first game forced them to inspect bloody spines, he began a second game about identifying an unborn child's sex and prepared to serve them food.

  • Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun found a purplish-red castle on Dawn Island and met Blood Fiend at its entrance.
  • Blood Fiend set a riddle about which stage of life had the most bone marrow; Dai Mubai and Tang San answered incorrectly, while Ma Hongjun chose youth and answered correctly.
  • Blood Fiend led the trio into the castle, where they saw a statue of the Rakshasa God and learned another game awaited them.
  • Blood Fiend asked how to tell whether a pregnant woman carried a boy or a girl; Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun offered opposing guesses, while Tang San said it could not be determined by looking at her belly.
  • Blood Fiend accepted their answers with an eerie smile and snapped his fingers to have the dishes served.

Ch. 542No Other Choice

Blood Fiend served Tang San and his companions Ginseng Fruit made with Rakshasa divine power, and Tang San ate both portions to restore his twin Martial Soul talent. His Martial Souls evolved into evil ultimate forms, and he embraced Blood Fiend’s lawless creed as Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun began eating their portions.

  • Blood Fiend explained the Ginseng Fruit’s benefits and urged Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun to eat, while Tang San realized they had no real choice but to comply.
  • Driven by his desire for power, Tang San ate both Ginseng Fruits, and Rakshasa energy transformed his Martial Souls into the Dark Blue Silver Emperor and Blood Fiend Heaven-Splitting Hammer while restoring his twin Martial Soul talent.
  • Tang San emerged with a changed appearance and declared that freedom meant being free of moral constraints; Blood Fiend praised him as his lord’s chosen successor.
  • Tang San and Blood Fiend urged Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to eat, and the two men finally consumed their Ginseng Fruits.

Ch. 543Well, well, we're taking off too

Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun emerged from their transformations with evolved martial souls and joined Tang San at the Rakshasa Secret Realm, where he claimed the Rakshasa Demon Scythe and began the succession process. Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun received top-level eight trials, with Dai Mubai’s trial power reaching slightly higher than Ma Hongjun’s.

  • Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun emerged from their cocoons with evolved martial souls, increased power, and their evil fire resolved.
  • Tang San led Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun through the Rakshasa Temple to the Rakshasa Secret Realm using the seal on his forehead.
  • Blood Fiend welcomed Tang San, who took up the Rakshasa Demon Scythe and received a taste of Rakshasa divine power from the Rakshasa God.
  • The Rakshasa God told Tang San to have his brothers undergo trials, and Dai Mubai’s soul power reached the middle of the eighth notch, earning him top-level eight trials.
  • Ma Hongjun’s soul power reached the base of the eighth notch, earning him top-level eight trials just below Dai Mubai’s level.

Ch. 544A Tense and Thrilling Divine Trial

Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun learned that their Rakshasa trials required them to help one another and began the first trial. In the time Secret Realm, Qian Renxue learned that her Angel Eighth Trial would require her to defeat Qian Daoliu, then left the realm for a break.

  • Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun discovered that each of their first Rakshasa trials involved one of the other two, so they agreed to help one another.
  • Tang San began his first trial with Ma Hongjun.
  • Qian Renxue achieved the three-suns stage of Eternity Blazing Sun, but Qian Chongling said it was insufficient for his requirements.
  • Qian Chongling told Qian Renxue that her Angel Eighth Trial required her to defeat Qian Daoliu and that five suns rising together would let her do so.
  • Qian Renxue complained about staying in the Secret Realm and flew out to take a break, while Qian Chongling followed her.

Ch. 545How About a Continent-Wide Live Broadcast?

A continent-wide broadcasting soul tool appeared over Spirit City and Sea God Island, showing a disturbing scene that exposed three young men to horrified onlookers. Bo Saixi destroyed the screen with her ninth soul skill, but the broadcast’s reach and purpose remained unclear.

  • Qian Renxue and Qian Chongling discovered an enormous crystal screen above Spirit City, and Qian Chongling identified it as a broadcasting soul tool.
  • The screen showed three handsome men in a cave, and Qian Chongling shielded Bibi Dong and Qian Guangyue when one of them began to unfasten his belt.
  • Huang Yuyao told Qian Renxue to close her eyes, while people across Spirit City cried out in horror at the broadcast.
  • Xue Haicang, Yu Tianheng, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong saw the same footage on a crystal screen near Sea God Island.
  • Bo Saixi used her Ninth Soul Skill, Sea God's Descent, to smash the screen above Sea God Island into dust.

Ch. 546The Greatest Obstacle to Human Progress

After three months of preparation, Lü Lingqi and Lin Yuanfeng launched an assault on Tianwan City while Spirit Hall agents incited the oppressed civilians to rebel from within. The west gate fell to Qingfeng’s forces, and Lin Yuanfeng led two cavalry legions through it as the Star Luo Empire began its invasion of the Heaven Dou Empire.

  • Three months passed as the Shrek Three Heroes continued the Rakshasa God Trial, Xue Haicang and his companions undertook the Sea God Trial, and Qian Renxue studied two divine skills.
  • Lü Lingqi confirmed that Tianwan City was ready to be taken, while Lin Yuanfeng reported that victory feasts had been prepared.
  • Qingfeng rallied civilians who had suffered under Tianwan City’s nobles and revealed that Spirit Hall agents and a vast Star Luo army supported their uprising.
  • As Star Luo cavalry threatened Tianwan City’s east gate, Qingfeng’s disguised group exposed itself, killed Wang Biao, and seized the west gate with help from Spirit Hall deacons and Itachi Uchiha’s Shadow Division.
  • After Qingfeng sent up a signal flare, Lin Yuanfeng ordered the Second Cavalry Legion and Third Cavalry Legion to enter Tianwan City through the west gate.

Ch. 547Where Were We Just Now?

Lin Yuanfeng captured Tianwan City by using Spirit Hall’s help and Desert Eagle soul tools to force Chen Lang and his troops to surrender. Meanwhile, the Star Luo Empire took Linzi City and won popular support by punishing abusive nobles.

  • Chen Lang learned that Spirit Hall had seized Tianwan City’s western gate and sent reinforcements to retake it.
  • Lin Yuanfeng met Qingfeng at the western gate, promised protection to the commoners, and led his forces toward the eastern gate.
  • Lin Yuanfeng confronted Chen Lang and demonstrated the Desert Eagle soul tools, persuading him to surrender and bring his soldiers into the Star Luo Empire.
  • Dai Tianfeng and Zhu Tiancai’s Hell White Tigers, along with Dai Weisi’s forces, broke through Linzi City’s defenses and captured the city.
  • Dai Tianfeng had Linzi City’s oppressive nobles executed publicly, earning cheers and support from the commoners.

Ch. 548As the saying goes, water and fire show no mercy

Kurumi Tokisaki and Shao Siming dammed the Miluo River with green vine dragons, preparing to flood Wuling City and Tianchang City after evacuating the commoners. A massive wave then surged toward Tianchang City, leaving City Lord Ding Mingyuan and General Liu Wenqiang fleeing in terror.

  • Kurumi Tokisaki and Shao Siming caught 108 kinds of seafood in the Miluo River to take back for Qian Chongling to cook.
  • Shao Siming used her soul skill to create Green Vine Flying Dragons that formed a barrier across the river, and Kurumi Tokisaki planned to evacuate the commoners before the dam broke.
  • A Spirit Hall deacon guided commoners to higher ground and reassured them that Spirit Hall would improve their lives.
  • Ding Mingyuan and Liu Wenqiang discussed Tianchang City's inability to withstand the Star Luo Empire and hoped for reinforcements from Heaven Dou Imperial City.
  • A towering flood wave rushed toward Tianchang City, and Ding Mingyuan and Liu Wenqiang fled as it bore down on the city.

Ch. 549Xue Qinghe's Fury

After a flood devastated Tianchang City, Lin Yuanfeng’s troops found survivors while Spirit Hall brought more than two thousand evacuated commoners into the city. Lin Yuanfeng executed the surviving nobles to appease the commoners, while Xue Qinghe learned that Spirit Hall had helped bring down three cities and ordered Ge Hu to kill Salas; Ge Hu then returned, leaving Xue Qinghe uneasy.

  • Lin Yuanfeng ordered his troops to search Tianchang City for survivors and learned that 172 people had survived, many of them nobles.
  • Lin Yuanfeng agreed to restore Tianchang City and, with Spirit Hall deacon Black Tower’s support, ordered the surviving nobles beheaded before the commoners.
  • Xue Qinghe raged over the fall of four cities and learned that Spirit Hall had helped capture Tianwan City, Tianchang City, and Wuling City.
  • Xue Qinghe agreed to Qin Hui’s proposal to raze the Martial Soul Holy Hall and ordered Ge Hu to bring back Salas’s head.
  • Xue Qinghe and his ministers discussed defending against the Star Luo Empire, then Ge Hu returned and left Xue Qinghe with a sense of foreboding.

Ch. 550You're Exactly Who I'm Hitting

Xue Qinghe learned that Spirit Hall had abandoned its Heaven Dou City branch and businesses, then read Black Feather Douluo’s letter declaring Spirit Hall’s support for the Star Luo Empire. On Sea God Island, Bo Saixi granted God-Given Soul Rings to Ning Rongrong, Yu Tianheng, and Oscar, who absorbed them successfully and prepared to continue their trials.

  • Ge Hu reported that the Martial Soul Holy Hall and Spirit Hall’s businesses in Heaven Dou City had been emptied before the Heaven Dou forces arrived.
  • Xue Qinghe read Black Feather Douluo’s letter blaming Heaven Dou for its conflict with Spirit Hall and announcing that Spirit Hall would help the Star Luo Empire.
  • Xue Qinghe angrily dismissed Ge Hu and the officials, then privately mourned the disastrous situation left by Xue Ye’s policies.
  • After four months of training on the Sea God Steps, Xue Haicang, Ning Rongrong, Yu Tianheng, and Oscar had advanced their cultivation and trials.
  • Bo Saixi gave Ning Rongrong, Yu Tianheng, and Oscar God-Given Soul Rings, which they endured and absorbed successfully.
  • Bo Saixi urged the four trial-takers to complete Lord Sea God’s trials quickly, and Xue Haicang asked the three about their new Soul Skills and Soul Ring ages.

Ch. 551The God Who Toyed with Souls

Oscar, Yu Tianheng, and Ning Rongrong revealed their new soul skills while Tang San absorbed a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and sought help resurrecting his family. The Rakshasa God offered a soul exchange, then declared Tang San’s trials failed after showing him their disturbing conditions.

  • Oscar explained that his Mirror Big Sausage let him copy another Soul Master's abilities using their blood, while Yu Tianheng and Ning Rongrong described their new skills.
  • On Dawn Island, Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun watched Tang San absorb a hundred-thousand-year seventh soul ring and discovered that he had paid a painful price to pass his fourth trial.
  • Tang San embraced his growing hatred and asked the Rakshasa God to resurrect Tang Hao, his mother, Xiao Wu, and Tang Xuanwei; the god said only his mother’s soul was available directly.
  • The Rakshasa God offered to trade the souls of Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua for Tang Hao, Xiao Wu, and Tang Xuanwei, but Tang San refused to sacrifice them.
  • The Rakshasa God declared Tang San had failed his trials and showed him the conditions of his fifth, sixth, and seventh trials.

Ch. 552They were my dearest loved ones

Tang San accepted the Rakshasa God’s morally brutal trials after negotiating for greater rewards, then planned to return to the Douluo Continent with Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun. Meanwhile, Dai Tianfeng brought the Star Luo army to Heaven Dou City and challenged Xue Qinghe to meet him, and Xue Qinghe agreed to go with guards.

  • Tang San bargained with the Rakshasa God for an additional thirty thousand years of Soul Ring age, but accepted the trials after the god offered him flexibility in their order.
  • Tang San celebrated his first Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring with Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, learned their trials would take them back to the Douluo Continent, and agreed they would depart the next day.
  • Dai Mubai vowed to kill Dai Weisi and Dai Tianfeng and take the Star Luo throne, while Tang San and Ma Hongjun discussed helping him conquer the continent.
  • Li Bin spotted Dai Tianfeng’s Star Luo army outside Heaven Dou City, and Dai Tianfeng challenged Xue Qinghe to meet him in seven days.
  • Chancellor Qin Hui urged Xue Qinghe to accept Dai Tianfeng’s invitation, and Xue Qinghe agreed to go with Qin Hui, Imperial Preceptor Ning, General Ge, and three hundred elite soldiers.

Ch. 553Could It Be Possible?

Zhu Zhuqing returned to the Zhu Family with Dai Yeyu and Ghost Fox Douluo to reveal that the Star Luo Empire had been secretly controlled by Spirit Hall’s Rouge Pavilion. Zhu Tianlin agreed to join Spirit Hall, leaving the family’s allegiance changed as the empire’s military campaign continued.

  • Zhu Zhuqing returned to the Nether Duke's Mansion after five years away and found Zhu Tianlin and Huang Yaqin there.
  • Zhu Zhuqing confronted Zhu Tianlin about the Zhu Family’s role as servants of the Dai Family and declared that the Dai Family and Star Luo Imperial Family were finished.
  • Dai Tianyue revealed himself as Dai Yeyu, and Ghost Fox Douluo exposed the Rouge Pavilion’s decades-long infiltration of the Star Luo Empire on Spirit Hall’s orders.
  • Zhu Zhuqing said Zhu Zhuyun knew about the plan, and Zhu Tianlin agreed to join Spirit Hall rather than risk the Zhu Family’s destruction.
  • Huang Yaqin offered to prepare a welcome feast for Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Yeyu, and Ghost Fox Douluo.

Ch. 554My Lords, Times Have Changed

Lü Lingqi used Spirit Hall’s Yuan-Destroying Cannons to ambush and devastate the two hundred thousand troops led by Chang Bin, Kuan Ye, and Gao Ming at One-Line Sky. Outside Heaven Dou Imperial City, Dai Tianfeng and Xue Qinghe then met face-to-face on a platform as the two empires’ forces watched.

  • City Lord Gao welcomed Chang Bin and Kuan Ye to Hengyang City, where the three leaders feasted before leading their combined forces toward Heaven Dou Imperial City.
  • Gao Ming dismissed warnings of an ambush and led the two hundred thousand troops onto the shortcut, while a Spirit Hall scout reported their route to Lü Lingqi.
  • Lü Lingqi ordered eight Yuan-Destroying Cannons positioned above One-Line Sky and prepared to bombard the approaching army.
  • Chang Bin, Kuan Ye, and Gao Ming led their troops into the gorge, where Lü Lingqi’s cannons unleashed a devastating barrage that killed the three leaders and nearly wiped out their army.
  • Dai Tianfeng and Xue Qinghe climbed opposite sides of a platform outside Heaven Dou Imperial City and faced each other before the gathered armies.

Ch. 555The End of the Cold-Weapon Era

Dai Tianfeng revealed that Spirit Hall and the Rouge Pavilion had annihilated Heaven Dou's reinforcements, but Xue Qinghe remained confident in his Hidden Weapon Battalion. Lin Yuanfeng's Army-Breaker Battalion then routed Ge Hu's forces with Desert Eagles, leaving Xue Qinghe to defend Heaven Dou Imperial City by sealing its gates and using civilians as hostages.

  • Dai Tianfeng told Xue Qinghe that four Super Douluos and seven Titled Douluos had destroyed two hundred thousand Heaven Dou reinforcements at Sunset Cliff.
  • Lin Yuanfeng ordered the Army-Breaker Battalion to advance against Ge Hu's Hidden Weapon Battalion, whose soldiers expected to use their hidden weapons.
  • The Army-Breaker Battalion fired Desert Eagles at close range, killing most of Ge Hu's ten thousand soldiers and leaving Ge Hu stunned.
  • Lin Yuanfeng claimed that one hundred thousand soldiers across three Star Luo battalions carried Desert Eagles and told Ge Hu to urge Xue Qinghe to surrender.
  • After learning that his Hidden Weapon Battalion had been crushed, Xue Qinghe sealed Heaven Dou Imperial City's passages and forced civilians to the gates to deter Spirit Hall from attacking.

Ch. 556A sacrifice kills you? Let me try

Qian Renxue passed the Angel Eighth Trial and entered the true Angel Temple to begin the final trial. As her blood awakened the Angel Holy Sword, the sword began glowing, but the trial’s first part remained unfinished.

  • Qian Renxue defeated Qian Daoliu in their sparring match, completing the Angel Eighth Trial.
  • Qian Daoliu opened a golden vortex in the Angel God Statue, and he and Qian Chongling led Qian Renxue into the true Angel Temple.
  • Qian Chongling explained that the first part of Qian Renxue’s Angel Ninth Trial was to draw the Angel Holy Sword.
  • Qian Renxue cut her finger and placed her golden blood on the sword’s hilt gem, which absorbed her blood and gradually lit up the sword.

Ch. 557Fear is the foremost of all enemies

Qian Chongling sacrificed his vitality to restore the Angel God Statue and open the way for Qian Renxue to inherit the Angel God’s position. Qian Renxue began her inheritance trial and endured its painful transformation as five golden Soul Bones emerged from her body.

  • Qian Chongling burned his soul power and vitality to fuel the Sacrifice, reassuring Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue as he strengthened the Angel God Statue.
  • Qian Chongling accelerated the Sacrifice with another burst of golden flame, completing it and gaining a white streak in his hair.
  • Qian Renxue accidentally drew the Angel Holy Sword, triggering the Angel God Statue to embrace her and begin the Angel-advent.
  • Qian Renxue endured excruciating pain as golden patterns spread across her body, and Qian Chongling’s words urged her to overcome her fear.
  • Qian Renxue’s body transformed, the flame-shaped mark on her forehead became a miniature Six-Winged Angel, and five golden Soul Bones emerged.
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