Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Qian Renxue completed the first half of the Angel Ninth Trial, becoming the Angel God, but Qian Chongling began a second test: surviving an hour against him. Their battle began with Qian Chongling demonstrating that his wooden sword and mastery far surpassed Qian Renxue’s divine power, leaving her injured and on the defensive.

• The Angel Set merged into Qian Renxue’s Angel God Armor, and she celebrated becoming the new Angel God with Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Chongling explained that Qian Renxue could reach God King level by refining the accumulated faith, but first she had to pass the second half of the Angel Ninth Trial by enduring an hour against him.
• Qian Renxue launched a golden sword attack, but Qian Chongling crushed its Sword Qi with his hand and revealed that all eighty-one techniques in the Myriad Phenomena Sword Canon were divine skills he had created.
• Qian Chongling blocked Qian Renxue’s next attack with a wooden sword, struck and cracked her armor, then knocked her down and left her coughing blood.
• Qian Chongling pressed his attack, and his wooden sword collided with Qian Renxue’s Angel Holy Sword again as she continued fighting.

Qian Chongling trained Qian Renxue and warned her that she still needed combat experience before becoming a God King. Meanwhile, Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun returned to the Douluo Continent, where they learned that Spirit Hall and the Star Luo Empire had allied; Dai Mubai killed a commoner over the new policies and headed toward Heaven Dou City to pursue the throne.

• Qian Chongling overwhelmed Qian Renxue in a sparring match, then praised her talent and told her to keep honing her control and combat experience.
• Half a month later, Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun arrived at Vast Sea City and announced their plans to complete the Rakshasa God Trial.
• Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun learned that the Heaven Dou Empire was nearly defeated and that Spirit Hall had joined forces with the Star Luo Empire.
• A commoner described the alliance's generous policies toward commoners, and Dai Mubai killed him in anger over the distribution of land and the killing of nobles.
• Tang San urged Dai Mubai to become emperor and change the policies himself, so Dai Mubai set his sights on removing Dai Weisi and Dai Tianfeng.
• Ma Hongjun decided to go to Suotuo City and kill Cuihua, while Tang San and Dai Mubai headed to Heaven Dou City to complete their divine trials.

After leaving Tang San and the others, Ma Hongjun returned to Suotuo City and went looking for Cuihua, whom he claimed had once been his woman. He revealed his Soul Emperor strength and forced his way into her home, where he found no answer at the door and entered the room.

• Tang San told Ma Hongjun to meet them in Heaven Dou City after finishing his divine trial, and Ma Hongjun promised to return and help.
• Ma Hongjun visited a brothel in Suotuo City, then raced to a village where Cuihua lived.
• Ma Hongjun told Cuihua's mother that he had once been Cuihua's man and reminded her that her family had lived in the former Shrek Academy village.
• Cuihua's mother recognized Ma Hongjun and objected because Cuihua was married, but Ma Hongjun revealed six Soul Rings and threatened to enter the house.
• Ma Hongjun called for Cuihua, received no answer, and opened the door to the room.

Itachi Uchiha defeated and killed Ma Hongjun after revealing the power of his Susanoo. Tang San and Dai Mubai then entered Heaven Dou City and reunited with Yu Dashi and Liu Erlong, concealing their true intentions while claiming they had returned from Sea God Island.

• Ma Hongjun pursued Itachi Uchiha to a hill outside Suotuo City, where Itachi revealed that he knew Ma Hongjun intended to kill Cuihua for his divine trial.
• Ma Hongjun attacked Itachi with his Hell Phoenix Bomb, but Itachi protected himself with Susanoo and killed Ma Hongjun with its flaming sword.
• Tang San used Dark Blue Silver Emperor vines to climb into Heaven Dou City and met Yu Dashi and Liu Erlong at the Heaven Dou Elite Soul Master Training Camp with Dai Mubai.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai told Yu Dashi and Liu Erlong that they had returned from Sea God Island after passing their trials and that their martial souls and appearances had changed.
• Tang San claimed that he had reached the Soul Saint realm and that Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun had reached the Soul Emperor realm, while Liu Erlong served them tea.

Tang San and Dai Mubai revealed that their Sea God Island trials required them to borrow Yu Dashi and Liu Erlong’s lives. Liu Erlong realized their intent and tried to defend Yu Dashi, but she was struck by agonizing pain as she summoned her martial soul.

• Yu Dashi described his advancement to Soul Elder and asked Tang San about the trials on Sea God Island.
• Tang San said Ma Hongjun’s trial required him to kill an ordinary woman, alarming Yu Dashi and Liu Erlong.
• Tang San told Yu Dashi and Liu Erlong that he and Dai Mubai needed their help to complete their trials.
• Tang San said they wanted to borrow something from their teachers, and Liu Erlong realized they meant their lives.
• Liu Erlong shielded Yu Dashi and tried to summon her martial soul, but she collapsed in pain and spat blood.

Tang San poisoned Liu Erlong and attacked Yu Dashi while accusing him of ruining his Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul and revealing that Tang Hao had used him to obtain Bibi Dong’s twin martial soul cultivation method. Tang San and Dai Mubai then approached Liu Erlong, threatening to force her to teach them biology and genetics.

• Tang San confirmed that he had poisoned Liu Erlong and mocked Yu Dashi’s claim that his guidance had helped him.
• Tang San demonstrated that he could use Blue Silver Entanglement without a soul skill and bound Yu Dashi, demanding to know why he had chosen a Mandala Snake soul ring.
• Tang San whipped Yu Dashi with his blue silver vines until Yu Dashi admitted that poisonous, tough plants existed and begged for mercy.
• Tang San told Yu Dashi that Tang Hao had intended for him to coax the twin martial soul cultivation method out of Bibi Dong, leaving Yu Dashi disbelieving and shaken.
• Liu Erlong protested Tang San’s treatment of Yu Dashi, but Dai Mubai dragged her up as Tang San and Dai Mubai threatened to make her teach them biology and genetics.

Xue Qinghe learned that Tang Yuehua was pregnant with their child and celebrated the news with her. Their happiness was interrupted when his eunuch reported a gruesome death at the Elite Soul Master Training Camp.

• Xue Qinghe and Tang Yuehua discussed her pregnancy and worried about which martial soul their child would inherit.
• Xue Qinghe reassured Tang Yuehua that their child would likely inherit the stronger martial soul and urged her to care for her health.
• Xue Qinghe's personal eunuch rushed in to report that something terrible had happened at the Elite Soul Master Training Camp.
• The eunuch revealed that two officials in charge of the camp had died, then described Lord Yu's corpse as covered in bloody welts and completely drained of blood.

After Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong were found murdered, Xue Qinghe ordered an urgent investigation and visited the crime scene. Investigators found evidence suggesting the killer was someone the victims trusted, but the culprit remained unknown.

• A eunuch reported that Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong had been killed, and Xue Qinghe ordered the Hanging Mirror Bureau to solve the case within seven days.
• Xue Qinghe ordered their bodies prepared and buried in the princely mausoleum, then left to inspect the Elite Soul Master Training Camp.
• Zhao Lin told Xue Qinghe that Yu Xiaogang had been whipped to death and that four used teacups were found in his room.
• Zhao Lin reasoned that the killer was likely someone Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong knew and trusted, since there were no signs of a struggle.
• Zhao Lin said he had two more important clues, and Xue Qinghe demanded to hear them.

Xue Qinghe ordered Tang San’s arrest after evidence tied him to Yu Dashi and Liu Erlong’s deaths, while Tang San visited Tang Yuehua at the Moonstar Tower. The chapter ended with Tang San joking that a pastry he gave her would make her pregnant.

• Zhao Lin showed Xue Qinghe a Blue Silver Grass vine linked to the wounds on Yu Dashi’s body, and Xue Qinghe ordered Tang San arrested dead or alive.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian confirmed they knew Tang San was the killer, accepted Xue Qinghe’s help finding him, and took Yu Dashi and Liu Erlong’s remains to bury in Thunder Canyon.
• Xue Qinghe learned that Tang Yuehua had gone to meet a relative and hurried toward the Moonstar Tower, fearing Tang San might harm her.
• Tang Yuehua met Tang San and Dai Mubai, accepted Tang San’s explanation for his changed appearance, and shared pastries with them.
• Tang San persuaded Tang Yuehua to taste a pastry, then joked that its supposed poison would make her pregnant.

Tang San and Dai Mubai visited Tang Yuehua, who sensed their hostility and secretly tested herself for poison after they left. She explained to Xue Qinghe that Tang San had poisoned the pastries, but her weekly Hundred Herbs Pill had neutralized the toxin.

• Tang San rejected Tang Yuehua’s plea to abandon his hatred and left with Dai Mubai to continue their intensive training.
• After the two men departed, Tang Yuehua summoned the Imperial Physician, who confirmed that she had been poisoned but that the Hundred Herbs Pill had neutralized almost all the toxin.
• Xue Qinghe arrived at the Moonstar Tower, and Tang Yuehua assured him she was safe and told him Tang San had poisoned her.
• Tang Yuehua explained that she had sensed malice from Tang San and Dai Mubai, recognized poison in her Crystal White Jade Cake, and ate it anyway because she took a Hundred Herbs Pill each week.