Recaps

Donghuang Xiuyi revealed her identity as Lesser Siming after defeating the Heaven Dou Team, then began planning to rebuild the Wood Division. Meanwhile, Chen Xun brought the Si Family into the Chen Clan and expanded its influence, before Chen Zhang and Li Xunhuan’s covert visit to the Bao Residence erupted into a fight with Ming Xingyun.

• Bai Tianrui held back the vines long enough for Tang Chen, Ning Zhongtian, and Xue Shiming to strike, but Xiao Yi healed the vines with Heavenly Dew.
• Tang Chen’s final empowered hammer shattered Xuanwu’s shell, but Xiao Yi stopped it with Time-Space Prison and revealed a seemingly hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
• Chen Hong explained that Xiao Yi’s ring was actually 79,999 years old and that her Void Willow God Vine used Simulation to disguise it, while also revealing her true level was 71.
• Xiao Yi revealed that she was Donghuang Xiuyi, Lesser Siming and the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking’s Top Rank, then drew the crowd’s acclaim with her seven vines and ceremonial display.
• Bo Saixi and Chen Yanwu placed wreaths on Xiuyi, and Chen Xiaojun agreed to help her rebuild the Wood Division at the Five Mountains.
• Chen Xun accepted Si Baining’s offer of the whole Si Family’s allegiance, making it the Fourteenth Zhaowu Family and planning to expand its influence through cities, academies, and trade.
• The Si siblings joined the Chen Clan’s network of inheritances and resources, while Chen Xun revealed the clan had killed six Titled Douluos and crippled Yan Wufeng.
• Chen Zhang and Li Xunhuan revealed their disguises at the Bao Residence, identified Ming Xingyun as the attacker, and faced his Black Nightmare Ghost Claw.

Chen Zhang and allied forces attacked Bao Family Manor and fought the Black Nether Legion while Chen Weizhe deduced how the Crimson Church might produce more Titled Douluos. The defenders were overwhelmed, but Ming Xingyun escaped after Chen Zhang was badly injured and Li Xunhuan wounded him.

• Chen Zhang trapped Ming Xingyun within a sword formation while Xue Hongtao led the Heaven Dou Knight Order against the Bao Residence.
• Ning Hai and the Support Soul Masters helped the knights advance through the Black Nether Guard, while Han Yiyu and Xuan Qingya trapped Wan Hanyou within their combined domain.
• Qin Lüguang saved Chen Qingrui from Qiu Ba and defeated Qiu Ba after Chen Gushan suffered grievous injuries shielding Chen Qingrui.
• Chen Weizhe and Zuo Tinggang inferred that the Crimson Church used the Ancient Death Spiral Magic Formation to force breakthroughs to Titled Douluo, and Chen Weizhe proposed cutting off its supplies and killing its fighters.
• Ge Laihao blocked reinforcements from Sunshine City and ordered all its soldiers to surrender their weapons and equipment.
• Chen Weizhe freed Long Jing'an and Yu Yongyuan from Zhi Mengze’s illusions and strengthened them, allowing their combined attacks to injure Zhai Henbai.
• Chen Zhang detonated his surviving sword peaks against Ming Xingyun’s corrosive attack, destroying the formation and leaving himself badly injured.
• Ming Xingyun found Bao Nansong dead and his forces overwhelmed, suffered wounds from Li Xunhuan’s daggers, and escaped in black mist.

Chen Xiaojun’s allies crushed the Bao Family’s stronghold and the Blood Desire Cult’s monster, though several enemies escaped. As the Chen Clan prepared for more upheaval in Heaven Dou, Spirit Hall investigated the clan’s growing influence over momentum and fortune.

• Ximen Wenlan revealed herself as Red Lotus Douluo and wounded Ming Xingyun, while Li Xunhuan recognized her as his mother.
• Chen Hong, Chen Menglin, and Yang Jingxue cornered Ming Xiangyun, but Li Lingfeng’s intervention let Ming escape through a secret blood-escape Soul Tool.
• Chen Zhang’s group broke Ming Xingyun’s resistance, and the Black Nether Legion and Bao Family forces fled as Ning Hai’s troops pursued them and sealed the tunnels.
• Tong Yangyuan led four other Titled Douluo into the Blood Desire Cult’s stronghold, where they defeated the Malice-Devouring Blood Sovereign, though Azmonk escaped and Sword Lord Azure Bamboo pursued him.
• Chen Zhang told Chen Xiaojun about the raid’s casualties, the Blood Desire Cult, and the Chen Clan’s growing role in the coming political upheaval.
• Chen Xiaojun met Zhu Wuneng and the Three Mountains Academy interns, then asked them to inspect the cleared cult stronghold and gauge public opinion.
• Chen Xiaojun learned that Xiao Yi was recovering but that her upper soul nest had closed again, while Qian Zhongling suspected her unusual soul ring and paired martial souls were connected to deities.
• Qian Zhongling ordered Spirit Hall to study the momentum around the Chen Clan and stoke its conflict with the Crimson Church, while Bo Xian'er realized the clan’s awakened fortune flowed through Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi’s companion deities.

Ye Xiuxin suppressed the blood curse afflicting four Titled Douluo while the Imperial Capital’s search for Azure Bamboo uncovered a sprawling underground conflict. Chen Zhang’s alliance attacked Iron Jaw Fortress, where Chen Xiaojun’s presence steadied the allied fighters and drew the enemy’s strongest forces into a widening battle.

• Bo Xian'er linked her emperor aura to the Chen Clan and Sea God Island, advancing her emperor-rule fusion as she began refining her soul power into complex rules.
• Su Ningxia and Gao Cuilan reported that Xiao Yi had moved her fingers, and Ye Xiuxin treated the gesture as a hopeful sign while ordering attendants to watch over her.
• Ye Xiuxin learned that Ji Hongming, Thunderclap, Xuanwu, and Tong Yangyuan were critically ill from a delayed Blood Curse left by Azmonk, then used Yin-Yang Soul Refinement Liquid to suppress the curse in all four.
• Xue Jiqing, Ge Laihao, and the Imperial forces searched the underground network for Azure Bamboo and Azmonk’s associates as battles erupted between the Court and underground factions.
• Mo Yu Zheng’s group found rune-marked crystal fragments and a hidden doorway near the Slaughterhouse ruins, while Chen Zhang began organizing the Chen Clan to establish a foothold underground.
• Lin Yu’s search for Lin Wuyou led him to the Bone Arena, where he found the family’s broken jade pendant and followed clues toward Kalano, Pi Kaiding, and Black Tongue.
• Chen Zhang’s alliance attacked the Bone-Digging Corps at Iron Jaw Fortress, breaking through its defenses before the Rusty Brotherhood and Phantom Shadow Sisterhood struck the allied army’s flanks.
• Chen Xiaojun entered the battlefield with the Nethersea Seven Kill Sword, strengthening the Chen Clan’s coordination as his companions fought to protect him and the enemy’s elites closed in.
• Xiao Yi held the Orchid Finger gesture as the battle intensified, while Dugu Fu, Zhu Wuneng with Gao Cuilan, and Chen Mu were drawn into separate fights against three Soul Saints.