Chapter Summaries

The Titled Douluos identified the azure-gold vines as a Plant Type set Martial Soul while the vines battered Bai Tianrui’s barrier and overwhelmed the team’s defenses. Just as Ye Zijun healed Bai Tianrui and Ling Xinyao froze several whips, an immense aura of verdant life began breaking through the ground.

• Ghost King suggested that the vines were a set Martial Soul, and Yu Yongyuan and others accepted the explanation.
• She Yaolei and Qiangu Hongying discussed the Chen Clan’s unusual talents and the pressure Beiming Xinghai would face.
• The sword-spined vines cracked Bai Tianrui’s Stars Barrier, while their blade leaves cut apart Zhi Xuan’s regenerated Azure Vines.
• Ling Xinyao froze several attacking vine whips, and Ye Zijun’s Nine Heart Begonia restored Bai Tianrui’s strength.
• Zhi Xuan spotted an immense aura of verdant life breaking through the ground before the Stars Barrier.

Xiao Yi revealed a fifth vine in her symbiotic vine-cluster martial soul, then shaped it into a throne and watched the battle below. Her companions recognized that she had finally set aside her last reservation and openly displayed her true self.

• An enormous Immortal Evergreen Vine erupted from the arena floor, and Xiao Yi descended onto its crown as the gathered Titled Douluo admitted they could not identify it.
• Chen Yanwu remembered Xiao Yi’s quiet longing from their meeting at Shaolin Lake eight years earlier, while Yu Yongyuan concluded that Xiao Yi possessed a symbiotic vine-cluster martial soul of unknown size.
• The Immortal Evergreen Vine transformed into a five-colored throne, and Xiao Yi sat above the battle as the Sword Willow Vine pursued Xue Shiming and the Sky Azure Vine Sea trapped Tang Chen and the others.
• Zhu Wuneng and his companions praised Xiao Yi’s overwhelming display, while Chen Xiaojun relaxed, realizing she had revealed herself after honoring his request to wait.
• Liu Ruyan said Xiao Yi had raised the curtain on a new era for Soul Masters, and Yang Jingxue and Chen Hong reflected on her natural detachment from everyone around her.

Xue Shiming summoned the Sacred Beast Swan Goose and used the Heavenly Feather Sacred Canon to raise it to the high-rank Soul Saint realm, then launched a powerful attack at Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi opened a fissure and summoned the Silver Wolf True King, whose battle with the Swan Goose filled the arena.

• Ye Zijun healed the injured Heaven Dou fighters, while Tang Chen, Ning Zhongtian, and Bai Tianrui seethed at being treated like spectators.
• Xue Shiming summoned the Sacred Beast Swan Goose by combining his soul skills and raised its strength to level 77 with his fifth soul skill.
• The Swan Goose shattered the Sword Willow Vine's attacks and sent two enormous cross-shaped blades toward Xiao Yi's throne.
• Xiao Yi opened a fissure in space and summoned the Silver Wolf True King, which destroyed one of the Swan Goose's holy blades with Moonlight Rending the Sky.
• The Silver Wolf True King and the Sacred Beast Swan Goose clashed in the sky above the arena.

Xiao Yi activated the Ancient Vine Barrier, empowering the vines and restoring soul power across the arena as Heaven Dou struggled to withstand their intensified assault. The battle remained locked in a brutal stalemate, with Heaven Dou's defenses repeatedly healing and breaking.

• Zhou Yi recognized the silver-white wolf as a True King-tier Howling Moon Silver Wolf remnant spirit summoned through a rare soul-calling bone, and Jin Xin marveled at the Banished Immortal's treasure.
• Bai Tianrui, Zhi Xuan, Ling Xinyao, and Ye Zijun bickered while Tang Chen and Ning Zhongtian continued attacking the tide of vines.
• Xue Shiming landed on the Stars Barrier and used golden feathers of light to drive back the vines, easing the pressure on Heaven Dou's formation.
• Xiao Yi activated the Ancient Vine Barrier, which restored soul power and increased vine-type plant soul beasts' skill effects.
• The strengthened vines overwhelmed Heaven Dou's defenses as healing, destruction, and regeneration trapped both sides in a brutal equilibrium.

Xiao Yi and the Silver Wolf True King destroyed Xue Shiming’s Swan Goose sacred beast, leaving the Heaven Dou Team badly wounded and trapped by the vines. Xue Shiming joined forces with Tang Chen and Ning Zhongtian to prepare a last stand.

• Xiao Yi fired a Moon-White Beam that severed Swan Goose’s wing, and the Silver Wolf True King shattered it before Xue Shiming could restore it.
• Swan Goose’s energy structure collapsed, and Xue Shiming suffered a severe backlash before Ye Zijun healed him with the Nine Heart Begonia.
• The vines tightened around Tang Chen and Ning Zhongtian as the Heaven Dou Team’s defenses weakened.
• Xue Shiming ordered Bai Tianrui, Zhi Xuan, and Xin Yao to hold the line for three breaths, then called Tang Chen and Ning Zhongtian to his side.
• Tang Chen and Ning Zhongtian placed their hands on Xue Shiming’s shoulders, linking their auras together.

Ling Xinyao, Zhi Xuan, and Bai Tianrui struggled against the vine formation while Xue Shiming unleashed Heaven Dou’s sacred punishment. Xiao Yi empowered her Sword Willow Vine, which pierced the Swan Goose’s wings despite the sacred flames and Ling Xinyao’s ice.

• Bai Tianrui used Xinghe Stopping Ring to absorb and break down the vine attacks, while Zhi Xuan’s Sky Azure Diamond Drill tore open a path before the vines destroyed it and left him collapsing.
• Ling Xinyao healed Zhi Xuan and Bai Tianrui with pink-white light, then used Ice Radiance Ring and Ice Seal Three Thousand Li to freeze the Sword Willow Vine.
• Xue Shiming invoked Swan Goose Sacred Punishment: Thunderfall Heavenly Conquest, and his true Swan Goose form tore through space amid sacred flames.
• Xiao Yi applied Willow Catkins Drifting with the Wind to the frozen Sword Willow Vine, which broke free and surged with renewed speed and sharpness.
• The Sword Willow Vine resisted Ling Xinyao’s extreme ice and charged through the Swan Goose’s sacred flames, piercing its wings.

The Three Heroes of Heaven Dou unleashed their coordinated Thunderfall Heavenly Conquest, sending a devastating storm of sacred lightning slurry toward Xiao Yi. The Silver Wolf True King died protecting him, while the remaining lightning streams veered toward strange, dark-purple vines on the arena.

• Ning Zhongtian transformed Swan Goose’s sacred flames into molten glazed slurry, which burned the Sword Willow Vine’s tendrils and forced it to sever them.
• Tang Chen infused the glazed slurry with lightning, and Xue Shiming sent the resulting storm of destructive streams toward Xiao Yi.
• The Silver Wolf True King blocked the attack with Howling Moon Silver Light Break and awakened Moon Wolf Guard, but the lightning slurry overwhelmed him.
• The Silver Wolf True King’s body disintegrated into silver-white light that returned to Xiao Yi.
• The remaining lightning streams abruptly veered toward dozens of twisted, dark-purple vines that had appeared on the arena.

Xiao Yi’s Thunderclap Hell Prison Vine drained the Heaven Dou team’s lightning attacks and struck back with a devastating storm of purple lightning. Ning Zhongtian took over as the formation’s core and raised a holy barrier, but the destructive barrage began forcing it inward.

• Yu Yongyuan and the Yu Family disciples recognized Xiao Yi’s Thunderclap Hell Prison Vine as a natural counter to lightning martial souls.
• The vines absorbed the sacred lightning plasma from Xue Shiming’s Swan Goose True Body and drained Tang Chen’s Clear Sky Force, forcing Xue Shiming to sever their link.
• Xiao Yi unleashed her fifth soul skill, Ninefold Purple, sending hundreds of powerful lightning-plasma beams at Heaven Dou’s formation.
• Bai Tianrui’s Xinghe Barrier shattered under the attack, leaving him injured, while Zhi Xuan collapsed nearby.
• Ning Zhongtian took over as the formation’s core, reached the Soul Saint realm, and raised the Glazed Holy Domain to block the lightning barrage.
• The Glazed Holy Domain withstood the initial impacts, but the purple lightning pushed its curtain inward toward the Heaven Dou team.

Xiao Yi unleashed her Forest of Lightning against the Heaven Dou team as their Glazed Holy Domain pushed back her ground-based lightning barrage. She completed her Five Thunderbolts · Purgatory Thunder Realm, but the water-based barrier could conduct and drain much of the lightning, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Xue Shiming and Ning Zhongtian incorporated Sacred Rain and Still Water into the Glazed Holy Domain, strengthening its barrier and pushing back Xiao Yi's lightning flood.
• Xiao Yi summoned Forest of Lightning, combining its descending lightning pythons with the Thunderclap Hell Prison Vine's bombardment to crush the Heaven Dou team's defense.
• Tang Chen used First Yang Force to reinforce Ning Zhongtian, allowing the Glazed Holy Domain to take complete shape.
• Xiao Yi formed the Five Thunder Talisman and unleashed three bolts of tribulation lightning as part of her Five Thunderbolts · Purgatory Thunder Realm.
• The Glazed Water Screen conducted and dispersed much of the combined lightning, channeling it into the ground before it could directly strike the Heaven Dou team.

The Titled Douluos identified Xiao Yi’s Thunderclap Hell Prison Vine soul bone as a powerful, exceptionally compatible treasure, while her lightning attacks battered the arena barrier. The observers discovered an unseen formation gathering lightning spiritual qi across the battlefield, and the chapter ended as they realized it was strengthening all the lightning attacks.

• Ghost King, Lei Xing, and Yu Yongyuan assessed Xiao Yi’s Thunderclap Hell Prison Vine soul bone as at least fifty thousand years old and potentially capable of reaching the Holy King tier.
• Xiao Yi formed a second ancient lightning seal, unleashing three increasingly powerful bolts that cracked and damaged the glazed water barrier.
• Sword Lord Azure Bamboo and Zuo Tinggang sensed something unusual about the lightning bolts, prompting the Titled Douluos to use their probing abilities.
• The Titled Douluos revealed a vast, layered formation surrounding the battlefield, though they could not identify it.
• Venerable Lei Xing sensed lightning-attribute spiritual qi gathering toward the arena floor and concluded that the formation was making all the lightning attacks stronger.

Xiao Yi’s Wind-After Wonder Gate secretly weakened and trapped the Heaven Dou Team while intensifying the lightning attacks battering their defenses. The fourth Five Thunder Talisman struck the team’s barrier, leaving Ling Xinyao and Zhi Xuan unable to fight as Ye Zijun struggled to treat them.

• Sword Lord Azure Bamboo and Ji Hongming noticed Xiao Yi’s intricate Magic Formation and praised her skill.
• Xiao Yi’s Wind-After Wonder Gate locked the Heaven Dou Team into a killing configuration that weakened their defenses and drew together lightning energy.
• Ning Zhongtian and Xue Shiming struggled to maintain the damaged Glazed Holy Domain as the third Five Thunder Talisman’s bolts gouged its barrier.
• Ling Xinyao and Zhi Xuan lent Soul Power to reinforce the barrier while Xiao Yi formed a fourth Five Thunder Talisman.
• The fourth talisman’s lightning struck the barrier, exhausting Ling Xinyao and Zhi Xuan; Ye Zijun used her remaining strength to heal their worst wounds.

The Heaven Dou Team’s Glazed Water Screen collapsed under Xiao Yi’s lightning attacks, leaving the team badly injured. Ye Zijun used the Holy Healing Art to restore the Three Heroes of Heaven Dou, then fell unconscious as strange frost spread across her back, and Xiao Yi ended the confrontation by declaring herself king.

• The fifteenth Platinum Tribulation Lightning bolt shattered the Glazed Water Screen, and the Forest of Lightning and Ninefold Purple attacks struck the Heaven Dou Team.
• Xiao Yi’s lightning left the Three Heroes of Heaven Dou charred and weakened, while Ye Zijun suffered somewhat less damage because Xiao Yi secretly reduced the force of the attacks against her.
• Ye Zijun used the Holy Healing Art to heal the Three Heroes of Heaven Dou instantly, then collapsed into a coma as white frost spread across her back and nape.
• Ling Xinyao demanded to know what Xiao Yi had done to Ye Zijun, and Xiao Yi calmly told her to draw the frost out.
• Ning Zhongtian expelled concealed violet-black lightning from his spine, and Xue Shiming accused Xiao Yi of secretly driving foreign energy into their bodies.
• Xiao Yi recited that she commanded the heavenly cycle and its changes, concluding, “I am the king!”

Xiao Yi explained how she used the Harm Gate to secretly erode Ning Zhongtian’s control of the Glazed Holy Domain and Ye Zijun’s healing ability, choosing lightning and frost to exploit their surroundings. After declaring, “I am the king,” she left the arena audience and honored guests debating the meaning of her doctrine.

• Xiao Yi used the Harm Gate to implant lightning power in Ning Zhongtian’s lumbar vertebrae, targeting his role as the Glazed Holy Domain’s central controller.
• Xiao Yi implanted frost power in Ye Zijun’s spine to weaken the Heaven Dou Team’s healing lifeline, while choosing an attribute that could be treated more safely after the match.
• Xiao Yi declared, “Innately Command the Heavenly Cycle, Command the Changes of the Heavenly Cycle, Transform Myself into a King. I am the king,” stirring discussion among the spectators.
• Jin Xin joked that Xiao Yi’s declaration sounded like contempt for official authority, while Zhou Yi dismissed his political interpretation.
• Prince Xue Jiqing, Sword Lord Azure Bamboo, Xiao Yicai, and Ghost King each pondered the words and responded according to their own interests and aspirations.

Xue Shiming questioned how much soul power Chen Xin Yi had left, hoping her extensive attacks had exhausted her. Xiao Yi had less than twenty percent remaining, but her vines awakened and launched another assault on the Heaven Dou Team.

• Xue Shiming asked how much soul power Chen Xin Yi had left, and the audience debated whether her reserves were depleted.
• Dugu Fu called Xue Shiming an idiot, while Zhu Wuneng argued that the Strongest Artillery could not lack staying power.
• Xiao Yi remained silent as the Thunderclap Hell Prison Vine reopened its flower buds and gathered destructive energy.
• The Sword Willow Vine attacked the remaining Heaven Dou Team members, while the Azure Vine, Life Vine, and Falling Star Vine rose from the scorched arena.

Xiao Yi answered Xue Shiming’s doubts by summoning six vines and launching a vastly enhanced Taiji Jade Hand Seals attack. Ning Zhongtian met the descending assault with his strongest defensive skills as the battle reached a deadlock.

• Xiao Yi formed the Vine Tribe’s Ten Thousand Vines Mystic Aspect, displaying six distinct vine bodies before her throne.
• Xiao Yi revealed her Wheel Fan external soul bone and continued directing the vines’ relentless assault against the Three Heroes of Heaven Dou.
• Xiao Yi formed a massive Taiji Diagram from emerald leaves and sent the powerful Taiji Jade Hand Seals crashing down on the arena.
• Gao Cuilan, Su Ningxia, Zhu Wuneng, and Chen Xiaojun recognized the move, while Chen Xiaojun suspected Xiao Yi had enhanced it with new insights.
• Ning Zhongtian burned soul power, activated Holy Light’s Blessing, and raised his Light-Pattern Barrier to defend against Xiao Yi’s attack.

Xiao Yi’s Taiji Jade Hand Seals overwhelmed Heaven Dou’s trio, who only stopped the attack through a chain of desperate counterstrikes. Ning Zhongtian discovered that Xiao Yi’s Wheel Fan held an enormous reserve of life soul power, and Xue Shiming resolved to stake everything on one final move.

• Ning Zhongtian’s reinforced Light-Pattern Barrier weakened under Xiao Yi’s Taiji Jade Hand Seals, and the force knocked him down.
• Tang Chen used Sky-Piercing Strike against the diminished vortex, but its remaining blades overwhelmed him and sent him plummeting.
• Xue Shiming unleashed Sky-Rending, tearing apart the final currents and dissipating the Taiji Jade Hand Seals.
• Ning Zhongtian used Evil-Purging Eyes and discovered that Xiao Yi’s Wheel Fan contained a vast store of life soul power that replenished her.
• Xue Shiming rejected the idea that Xiao Yi was cheating and decided the trio would stake everything on a final move.

Xue Shiming, Tang Chen, and Ning Zhongtian completed a devastating combined attack that injured the six main vines, while Bai Tianrui collapsed after buying them time. Xiao Yi then used the giant life vine to channel powerful healing energy to the wounded vines.

• Xue Shiming used Cloudhide Escape to send seven afterimages against the vines, but they were quickly destroyed.
• Bai Tianrui stood and used Xinghe Stopping Ring to block the vines’ attack, giving the triangular formation time to finish gathering its power.
• Tang Chen, Ning Zhongtian, and Xue Shiming unleashed Holy Meteor Hammer Starfall, bombarding the arena and damaging the six main vines.
• Bai Tianrui lost consciousness after the attack, and Zhi Xuan praised him before Bai Tianrui faintly replied.
• Xiao Yi used Heavenly Dew on the giant life vine, which spread its life essence to heal the other five vines.

Xiao Yi summoned Xuanwu through the Wind-After Wonder Gate Spirit Plate Art, and the Sacred Beast blocked Tang Chen’s overwhelming hammer strike. The assembled Title Douluos began investigating the compass formation behind the summoning.

• Tang Chen, Xue Shiming, and Ning Zhongtian combined their powers to unleash Radiant World Mountain Suppressor Strike at Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Yi invoked Xuanwu, drawing together the four plates of the Wind-After Wonder Gate compass and manifesting a colossal Sacred Beast of water.
• Xuanwu absorbed and redirected the Clear Sky Hammer’s force, perfectly blocking Tang Chen’s attack.
• Ji Hongming, Sword Lord Azure Bamboo, Ge Laihao, and Lei Xing recognized that Xuanwu was not a Martial Soul Avatar and speculated about its origin.
• Zuo Tinggang identified the operating compass formation around Chen Xin Yi as the anchor that summoned Xuanwu’s energy.
• The chapter explained that the Eight Spirit Powers could summon the imprints of ancient Divine Beasts and Sacred Beasts on the Douluo Continent.

Tang Chen, Xue Shiming, and Ning Zhongtian combined their trump cards into the Heavenly Emperor's Hammer and shattered Chen Xin Yi's Xuanwu sacred beast. The hammer continued downward toward Chen Xin Yi and the Vine Throne, leaving the strike's outcome unresolved.

• Tang Chen refused to retreat and asked Xue Shiming and Ning Zhongtian to lend him their power for one final strike.
• Xue Shiming awakened the Five-Colored Heavenly Feather, while Ning Zhongtian activated Glazed Sacred Heart, and both imprinted their power onto Tang Chen's Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Chen used his Mountain-Shaking Strike and combined their powers into the Heavenly Emperor's Hammer.
• The Heavenly Emperor's Hammer broke through Xuanwu's Dark Nether True Water and shattered the sacred beast's shell.
• The hammer's remaining momentum carried it toward Chen Xin Yi, who was still seated on the Vine Throne.

Xiao Yi stopped Tang Chen’s overwhelming hammer strike with her Sixth Soul Skill, Time-Space Prison, revealing a blood-red hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. As Tang Chen failed to break through, a mysterious Seventh Vine rose beside her throne.

• A hundred-thousand-year blood-red Soul Ring appeared behind Xiao Yi, shocking the crowd and the five Titled Douluos.
• Xiao Yi used her Sixth Soul Skill, Time-Space Prison, to halt Tang Chen’s Heavenly Emperor’s Hammer above her throne.
• A new, seemingly ordinary vine rose beside the Immortal Evergreen Vine, identified as the Seventh Vine.
• Tang Chen exhausted himself trying to force the hammer through the barrier, but the membrane remained unmoved.
• Xiao Yi’s Time-Space Prison was revealed to twist time and space, requiring at least a Titled Douluo’s full-power strike to have a chance of breaking it.