Chapter Summaries

Ma Tianyang and Bing Huo battled in the sky as Chen Yu and Ximen Wenhua devastated the Heartless Tower headquarters. When former Tower Master Situ Taiyuan appeared, Chen Yu, Ximen Wenhua, and Yang Jingxue joined forces to trap and attack him, leaving the Level 97 Peak Douluo under mounting pressure.

• Ma Tianyang and Bing Huo flew into the sky and began a contest of speed and power.
• Chen Yu unleashed his sword skill, surrounding the Heartless Tower headquarters with sword shadows and tearing through the building.
• Ximen Wenhua summoned a giant karmaflame red lotus whose burning petals scorched the battlefield and the Tower's members.
• Situ Taiyuan arrived and the surviving Heartless Tower members begged him to defend them.
• Ximen Wenhua attacked Situ Taiyuan while Chen Yu sealed him in a sword formation and Yang Jingxue struck with her fused Golden Crow and Heavenly Howling Moon Wolf powers.
• Situ Taiyuan summoned his Earth Rock Dragon martial soul, but the combined assault left him trapped with no way to escape underground.

Chen Yu, Ximen Wenhua, and Yang Jingxue unleashed the Three Great Families’ Trinity-Demon-Slaying Dominion against Situ Taiyuan. The attack devastated the battlefield and left Situ Taiyuan gravely wounded, standing alone amid the ruins.

• Situ Taiyuan used Earth Affinity, Rock Barrier, and Rock Dragon Protection to defend against Chen Yu and Ximen Wenhua’s attacks.
• Chen Yu and Ximen Wenhua joined Yang Jingxue to perform the Trinity Fusion Skill, and Yang Jingxue invoked Nine-Ring Linkage, Heaven and Earth in Resonance.
• Yang Jingxue led the trio in firing the Trinity-Demon-Slaying Dominion arrow at Situ Taiyuan.
• Situ Taiyuan strengthened himself with Rock Dragon’s Heart and Rock Dragon’s Wrath before summoning nine rock dragons with Rock Dragon Heavenly Shield.
• The arrow destroyed the rock dragons and devastated Ghost City’s battlefield, killing many Soul Masters and driving Gui Changhao back.
• Situ Taiyuan survived the blast but was left severely wounded amid the ruins.

Fang Yuan and Gui Changhao used Baxia to suppress the wounded Situ Taiyuan, while Chen Yu accused him of abandoning Soul Fighting City’s clans during a calamity fifty years earlier. As Baxia prepared to crush Situ, Ma Tianyang began using the Fire-Merging Art, and Bing Huo Douluo fled toward the city’s outskirts.

• Fang Yuan and Gui Changhao manifested Baxia, a powerful fusion skill that rivaled a Level 98 Supreme Douluo.
• Baxia suppressed the wounded Situ Taiyuan after the three-in-one Demon-Slaying Dominion had gravely injured him.
• Chen Yu accused Situ Taiyuan of shirking his duties during the calamity fifty years earlier, and Baxia vowed to end his life.
• Baxia raised the stone stele on its back and enlarged it to crush Situ Taiyuan beneath its pressure.
• Ma Tianyang activated the Fire-Merging Art, drawing nine Destruction Flame Pearls into his Nine Heavens Rainbow Phoenix.
• Bing Huo Douluo fled toward the outskirts of the city, fearing Ma Tianyang and the collapse of his side’s forces.

Yang Jingxue, Ma Tianyang, Zhong Yao, and Ximen Wenhua turned the battle against the Ghost Market and its allies, forcing their enemies to retreat. The chapter ended as Ximen Wenhua shattered the Ghost Slaughter Magic Formation while the retreating forces faced a deadly barrage.

• Yang Jingxue stopped Bing Huo Douluo from fleeing, and Ma Tianyang attacked him with the Phoenix Fire Wing Formation and nine Purple-Black Phoenixes.
• Zhong Yao used the Primordial Yellow Bell to withstand the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade, then summoned the Ancient Primordial Yellow Dragon to clash with the Dark Skeleton King's Bone Blade.
• Gui Sha learned that reinforcements led by more than a dozen Soul Douluo were approaching and ordered the Ghost Market forces to retreat.
• Yang Jingxue and Chen Yu attacked the retreating forces with arrows and sword rain.
• Ximen Wenhua used Heavenly Blade Splits the Firmament to shatter the Ghost Slaughter Magic Formation.

After Soul Fighting City destroyed and plundered the Heartless Tower, Chen Weining met Gui Sha and the new tower master, Ming Jia, to negotiate the balance of power. Chen Weining urged Ming Jia to publicly announce a reconciliation, but left his proposal unfinished.

• Chen Weining met Gui Sha and Ming Jia outside Dark Ghost City after Soul Fighting City’s attack left the Heartless Tower in ruins.
• Gui Sha complained that Soul Fighting City had taken the Heartless Tower’s treasures, the organizations’ goods, and the Black Market Alliance’s Secret Vault contents.
• Chen Weining defended the plunder as payment for helping Gui Sha and Ming Jia eliminate Situ Taiyuan and Bing Huo Douluo and weaken their rivals.
• The narration revealed that Gui Sha had allied with Ming Jia and Soul Fighting City to overthrow the Heartless Tower’s former leaders and reorganize their power.
• Chen Weining apologized to Ming Jia for the damage and proposed that Ming Jia publicly announce a reconciliation with Soul Fighting City, then paused before stating what came next.

Chen Weining secured Ming Jia’s agreement to have the Heartless Tower help track down people on his list and offered Gui Sha cooperation with Soul Fighting City. After Ming Jia and Gui Sha left, Chen Menglin revealed his new Title Douluo strength, and the two discussed the Chen Clan’s growing power and the shortening intervals between calamities.

• Chen Weining persuaded Ming Jia to accept an assignment for Soul Fighting City, despite the Heartless Tower’s weakened position.
• Chen Weining proposed trade, information sharing, and deeper cooperation to Gui Sha, while the Middle-Aged Man in Green urged him to set aside old prejudices.
• Ming Jia asked about Situ Taiyuan, and Chen Weining assured him that Earth Douluo Situ Taiyuan would no longer exist in the soul master world.
• Gui Sha asked the Middle-Aged Man in Green for his identity, and Chen Menglin introduced himself as Sword Shadow, startling Gui Sha and Ming Jia.
• After the two men departed, Chen Weining congratulated Chen Menglin on reaching the Title Douluo Realm and noted the Chen Clan’s strength.
• Chen Menglin said the intervals between calamities had been growing shorter over the past few centuries.

Chen Cong, Chen Hong, and Chen Xiaojun heard how the Crimson Church turned their trap at the War Dragon Sect into an ambush targeting Xue Chuxin. The gathering ended with City Lord Xue Churan arriving to visit them.

• News spread that the Heavenly Wolf Sect and War Dragon Sect had been destroyed, while evidence of their treason and collusion with the Crimson Church was made public.
• Chen Cong, Chen Xiaojun, and their companions returned to Chang'an City on July 17 and met Chen Hong, Long Ma, and Xixi.
• Long Ma recounted how Youguang Zhou escaped with the eldest of the You Family and three more Titled Douluo ambushed their pursuers.
• Long Ma identified Yan Wufeng as the level 97 leader and reported that Xue Chuxin had been wounded in the opening attack but was likely out of danger.
• Chen Cong asked about Xue Churan, and an announcement revealed that City Lord Xue Churan had arrived to visit.

Xue Churan visited the Chen Clan Villa to ask after Long Ma and discuss the Crimson Church’s growing threat with Chen Cong and Chen Hong. Chen Cong outlined the enemy families’ roles and the Church’s regional organization, leaving them considering a strategy to exploit divisions within the Church.

• Xue Churan brought medicines for Long Ma and asked about Great General Chuxin’s injuries; she learned Chuxin would recover with time.
• Xue Churan asked Chen Cong and Chen Hong to assess the current situation and the Crimson Church.
• Chen Cong identified the You Family and Yan Family as the forces behind recent attacks and warned that Youguang Zhou and Yan Wufeng would be major adversaries in Fasinuo Province.
• Chen Cong said their side had preserved the Ji and Liu Families, disrupted Crimson Church networks in the War Dragon Sect and Heavenly Wolf Sect, and foiled an assassination attempt, though spies might remain in the army.
• Xue Churan asked who handled other regions, and Chen Cong named the Yuwen Family in the Heaven Mountain Plateau foothills and the Ming Family around the Sunset Forest.
• Chen Cong explained that the Crimson Church’s concentrated northern forces could become vulnerable to a coordinated blow that might provoke factional upheaval and secure the Empire a long period of peace.

Chen Xiaojun explained to Xue Churan that Chang'an City should expand beyond its military and trade roles and become a major manufacturing center. He began outlining how the Chen Clan’s proposed medicinal herbs market could support that industrial development.

• Chen Cong invited Chen Xiaojun to share his ideas about the Heavenly Wolf Sect’s businesses, and Xue Churan agreed to hear him out.
• Chen Xiaojun confirmed Xue Churan’s authority over the Southern Five Commanderies and argued that the region’s economic development required strategic coordination.
• Chen Xiaojun proposed expanding Chang'an City's role into large-scale manufacturing, saying the city needed integrated resources, technological innovation, trained workers, and a complete industrial chain.
• Xue Churan asked how Chang'an City could become a manufacturing center, and Chen Xiaojun cited the Chen Clan’s medicinal herbs trade market proposal.
• Xue Churan said she strongly supported the proposal and was pleased with the fifteen-percent share granted to the City Lord's Residence.

Chen Xiaojun proposed industrializing the Southern Five Commanderies through specialized markets, region-specific industries, and improved roads, while Xue Churan considered the scale and political challenges of his plan. He left her with a development blueprint that could strengthen Chang'an and advance the Chen Clan’s expansion by drawing support from the authorities.

• Chen Xiaojun proposed turning the Heavenly Wolf Sect’s former site into a forging trade market that would support local industry and supply the Chang'an Military District.
• Chen Xiaojun outlined economic plans for Wushan Prefecture, Falling Star Commandery, and Nottingham Commandery based on their local resources and terrain.
• Chen Xiaojun urged Xue Churan to widen and build roads across the Southern Five Commanderies, suggesting she consult the Xili Family.
• Chen Xiaojun described developing Chang'an City into a manufacturing, commercial, and cultural center as industrialization created jobs and attracted resources.
• Xue Churan recognized the potential rewards and daunting political and financial demands of Chen Xiaojun’s plan.
• Chen Xiaojun saw his connections to Xue Churan and Chen Cong as an opportunity to enlist government support and secure benefits for the Chen Clan.

Xue Churan praised Chen Xiaojun’s talent and explained how his victory over Xue Shiming had drawn attention across Chang'an City. She then invited Chen Cong to become Chang'an Academy’s chief vice dean and honorary dean, hoping to recruit both him and Chen Xiaojun to the academy.

• Xue Churan praised Chen Xiaojun’s intelligence and cultivation, while Chen Cong downplayed his talent and defended Xue Shiming’s potential.
• Xue Churan recalled how Chen Xiaojun’s defeat of Xue Shiming had attracted the attention of academy leaders and the great houses of Chang'an City.
• Chen Xiaojun realized that his victory had put him high on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking and made him a target of public attention, so he resolved to plan more carefully.
• Xue Churan invited Chen Cong to serve as Chang'an Academy’s chief vice dean and honorary dean, offering him authority over the academy’s affairs.
• Xue Churan argued that Chen Cong’s appointment would benefit his plans in Chang'an and protect Chen Xiaojun, while helping Chang'an Academy improve its standing.
• Xue Churan privately planned to secure Chen Cong’s agreement and use it to bring Chen Xiaojun into Chang'an Academy.

Xue Churan pressed Chen Xiaojun to become the City Lord’s Residence’s economic consultant, while Chen Cong and Chen Xiaojun warned her that the Crimson Church used nether blood lilies in a formation that could help break cultivation bottlenecks. Xue Churan left to investigate the War Dragon Sect area and report the danger to the Imperial Family.

• Xue Churan invited Chen Xiaojun to serve as economic consultant, but Chen Xiaojun objected because he was young and unqualified.
• Chen Hong and Chen Cong asked Xue Churan to give the Chen Clan time to discuss the appointment, and she agreed to return in a few days.
• Chen Cong told Xue Churan that the Crimson Church’s Death Spiral Magic Formation used nether blood lilies and may have motivated its attack on the Ji and Liu Families.
• Chen Cong urged the Imperial Family to monitor places rich in nether blood lilies and netherworld soil, and Chen Xiaojun suggested investigating near the War Dragon Sect for signs of the formation and soul-master blood.
• Xue Churan decided to investigate around the War Dragon Sect herself and report the information to the Imperial Family’s senior leadership and His Majesty.

Xue Churan and Mu Lingyun reunited in the Chen Clan Villa and discussed Mu Qingyun’s long-ago departure and its possible connection to Chuxin. They parted with an unspoken understanding, while the reasons behind Qingyun’s departure remained unresolved.

• Xue Churan and Mu Lingyun exchanged greetings and spoke about Mu Lingyun’s plans to manage the Medicinal Herbs Market’s finances in Chang’an.
• Xue Churan asked whether Mu Qingyun would come north and learned that she had left the clan more than ten years earlier and never returned.
• Xue Churan asked whether Mu Qingyun’s departure was connected to Chuxin and Chen Yu, and Mu Lingyun said the reasons were complex and would become clear in time.
• Mu Lingyun thanked Xue Churan, who took her hand, and the two stood together in quiet understanding.
• A servant brought Mu Lingyun household matters, and Xue Churan left to prepare for something she needed to do that night.

Chen Cong, Chen Xiaojun, and Chen Hong discussed the benefits of Chen Cong joining Chang'an Academy, while Chen Xiaojun decided not to enroll because he wanted to stay near the sleeping Xiao Yi. In the rear courtyard, Chen Xiaojun encouraged Su Ningxia and joined the younger Chen Clan members in sparring and joking together.

• Chen Xiaojun outlined the advantages of Chen Cong joining Chang'an Academy, including education, research resources, and fewer disturbances from the Soul Master World.
• Chen Xiaojun said he did not want to study far from Xiao Yi, and Chen Hong supported Chen Cong joining the academy to strengthen the clan's connections.
• Chen Xiaojun found Su Ningxia looking lonely and comforted her about missing the battle against the Heavenly Wolf Sect.
• Chen Mu invited Chen Xiaojun and Su Ningxia to spar, and Chen Xiaojun encouraged Su Ningxia to join them.
• Chen Yanwu arrived with a bruised Chen Feng, prompting the younger Chen Clan members to tease him and laugh together.

Chen Xiaojun agreed to teach Chen Yanwu the Sword-Drawing Technique and help refine it through practice. Meanwhile, Chen Hong prepared to help Chen Jianzun absorb two soul bones and reach level fifty, after which they would hunt a soul beast to advance him to Soul King.

• Chen Yanwu asked Chen Xiaojun to teach her the Sword-Drawing Technique, and he agreed to work with her at the Practice Ground.
• Chen Xiaojun explained the technique’s principle of concealment as he and Chen Yanwu headed to practice.
• Chen Hong discussed Chen Jianzun’s progress with the Big Dipper Art and praised his place on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking.
• Chen Hong presented Chen Jianzun with a forty-thousand-year Head Soul Bone and a fifty-thousand-year water-element right arm bone.
• Chen Hong planned for Chen Jianzun to absorb the soul bones, reach level fifty, and hunt a ten-thousand-year soul beast to become a Soul King.

Chen Jianzun absorbed two Soul Bones at once and broke through to the Soul King realm, while Chen Xiaojun learned that Wuneng had been visited by Gao Cuilan. Later, Xue Churan discovered a dangerous Primordial Magic Formation and ordered it copied and destroyed before returning to the estate.

• Chen Jianzun absorbed both Soul Bones under Chen Hong's watch and rose from level forty-six to the Soul King realm.
• Chen Xiaojun and the others sensed Chen Jianzun's breakthrough, and Chen Xiaojun explained that the two Soul Bones likely caused his sudden increase in power.
• Chen Mu told Chen Xiaojun that Gao Cuilan had come to see Wuneng, and Chen Xiaojun explained her connection to Wuneng.
• Chen Yanwu invited Chen Xiaojun to observe as she sparred with Xixi to test the Sword-Drawing Technique.
• Xue Churan found a bloodstained Primordial Magic Formation in a secluded valley and ordered someone to copy it and destroy it before they returned to the estate.

The narrator outlined the Chen Clan’s Douluo-adapted Nine Yang Divine Skill, describing its cultivation stages and powers. They also detailed the Big Dipper Art’s stages, with the highest levels of both methods still under derivation.

• The narrator described the Nine Yang Divine Skill’s progression from sensing true qi and condensing a qi sea to tempering the body and forming a blazing sun.
• The narrator explained that later Nine Yang stages involved breaking free of bodily limits and merging with the soul, will, and laws of heaven and earth.
• The narrator outlined the Big Dipper Art’s early stages, in which cultivators sensed the seven stars, gathered their power, and incorporated the auxiliary stars Left Assistant and Right Support.
• The narrator described the Big Dipper Art’s advanced stages, including forming a starlight domain, drawing in the star river, and unleashing stellar annihilation.
• The narrator listed manifestation of the star chart and union of the star soul as the Big Dipper Art’s stages under derivation.

The Nine Mysterious Heavens and Nights discussed the battle at Heartless Tower, the family heads’ hidden communications, and whether Situ Taiyuan had survived. Feng Ye then reported that Ming Jia had taken over the ruined Heartless Tower and begun arranging assassination missions.

• Feng Ye recounted how Yang Jingxue, Chen Yu, and Ximen Wenhua defeated Situ Taiyuan at Heartless Tower.
• Xing Ye and the others discussed Yang Jingxue’s strength and the Three Great Families’ Trinity Tactic.
• Feng Ye explained that the family heads appeared to use a secret communication network that his intelligence department could not penetrate.
• Xing Ye concluded that Situ Taiyuan was alive because the family heads had used Baxia, which could capture him alive.
• Feng Ye said the Xuan Ye Pavilion had stayed out of the previous calamity and would wait to see how events unfolded.
• Feng Ye reported that Ming Jia had become Tower Master of Heartless Tower and arranged several high-level assassination missions.

The Xuan Ye Pavilion leaders discussed Ming Jia’s takeover of the Heartless Tower and suspected that Soul Fighting City and the Chen Clan were involved in the shifting conflict. After Guan Ye’s divination foretold the Chen Clan’s unstoppable rise, the Night Emperor ordered the Pavilion to watch them closely and offer support if needed.

• Xue Ye, Xuan Ye, and the others assessed Ming Jia’s assassination move and concluded that he had likely allied with Soul Fighting City.
• Xing Ye and Feng Ye connected the conflict to the Chen Clan, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, and the Crimson Church, while Jiang Ye suggested the Chen Clan was clearing the field.
• Xing Ye reported that the Chen Clan had grown rapidly, including Chen Xun’s rise from level 78 to level 87, and suspected it now had more than five Titled Douluos.
• Guan Ye told the Pavilion Master that his divination showed the Chen Clan’s momentum was unstoppable.
• The Pavilion Master ordered Meng Ye, Xuan Ye, and Feng Ye to send people to observe and assist the Chen Clan without interfering, and instructed the Pavilion’s divisions to watch the continent more closely.
• Ming Ye began naming promising Chen Clan youths for the Pavilion to pay attention to.

Sea God Island’s delegation, led by Xixi, visited the Chen Clan, where Chen Yu hosted a welcoming ceremony. When a powerful soul fluctuation came from Blueheart Mountain, Coi Russell restrained Chen Cong and urged everyone to wait, hinting at an old connection between the Chen Clan and Sea God Island.

• Xixi led Sea God Island’s delegation, including Coi Russell and Long Ma, to Chenlin Village, where Chen Yu and the Chen Clan welcomed them.
• Chen Yu guided the visitors into the ancestral hall, where the clan held a feast and performances for the delegation.
• A powerful soul fluctuation arose from Blueheart Mountain, and Chen Yu recognized it as his father’s soul power.
• Chen Cong prepared to investigate, but Coi Russell stopped him and urged the guests to continue the reunion without interference.
• Chen Cong returned to his seat, and Chen Yu and Coi Russell toasted the friendship between their two houses.