Chapter Summaries

Liu Ruyan treated Yan Nanfei and the other wounded as the counterattack began to push back Crimson’s Soul Masters. In the northeastern ruins, Yan Choulong launched twin Demon Dragon Claws at Chen Xiaojun, and Xiao Yi used Ten Thousand Miles of Flying Rosy Clouds to form a shifting mist barrier against one claw.

• Liu Ruyan used the Origin Spirit Water-Fire Needles and wound salve to treat Yan Nanfei’s injuries, then hurried to help Feng Min.
• Yan Nanfei swallowed a pill, took to the sky again, and joined the defenders’ counterattack as Zhu Changyun rallied more Soul Emperors and Soul Kings.
• The Silver Wolf True King, the Xuanwu spirit beast, and the ice soul dream vine drove the Dark Night Dragon into the northeastern ruins.
• Yan Choulong unleashed two Demon Dragon Claws at Chen Xiaojun, who raised the Black Tortoise Shield to defend himself.
• Xiao Yi invoked Ten Thousand Miles of Flying Rosy Clouds and formed a multicolored sphere of mist that met the left Demon Dragon Claw.

Xixi appeared in time to shield Chen Xiaojun from Yan Choulong’s Demon Dragon Claw with her newly revealed Sea-Calming Divine Shield. She stood her ground amid the ruins, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Yan Choulong shattered the Ten-Thousand-Mile Flying Rosy Clouds Barrier and drove his Demon Dragon Claw toward Chen Xiaojun.
• Chen Xiaojun braced his Black Tortoise Shield against Yan Choulong’s other claw and refused to retreat.
• Xixi appeared and intercepted Yan Choulong’s claw with her golden Sea-Calming Divine Shield.
• Xixi revealed that the shield was her External Soul Bone, formed after she hunted the Sea-Calming Divine Giant Ao and endured its painful fusion.
• Xixi stood with her shield and Golden Trident raised, protecting Chen Xiaojun as the battle continued.

Chen Xiaojun and Xixi held off Yan Choulong’s attacks as Xiao Yi’s Moonlight Divine Radiance burned through his defenses. Frustrated by their shields and her attacks, Yan Choulong abandoned his ranged assault and charged straight at their formation.

• Chen Xiaojun endured the backlash of Yan Choulong’s strikes as his damaged sea of consciousness began to fracture further.
• Yan Choulong struggled to break through Chen Xiaojun and Xixi’s shields while Xiao Yi gathered her soul power for Moonlight Divine Radiance.
• Xiao Yi fired Moonlight Divine Radiance at Yan Choulong, purifying his netherworld defenses and forcing him to shield himself with his Demon Dragon Wings.
• Yan Choulong recognized the shields as powerful external soul bones and grew furious at the group’s repeated resistance.
• Yan Choulong broke away from the shields, rose into the air, and charged toward Chen Xiaojun, Xixi, and Xiao Yi to smash through their formation.

Yan Choulong’s Demon Dragon Vortex collided with the combined powers of Chen Xiaojun’s and Xixi’s shields, which formed a vast twin-tortoise vortex that protected them and eased the strain on Chen Xiaojun. The chapter ended with Xixi wondering whether their linked powers had become a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Yan Choulong unleashed his Demon Dragon Vortex while Chen Xiaojun was distracted by pain in his sea of consciousness.
• Xixi’s Shield of Victory and Chen Xiaojun’s Black Tortoise Shield released their totems, which merged with the spirit abyss xuanwu’s essence to form a massive twin-tortoise vortex.
• The twin-tortoise vortex collided with Yan Choulong’s attack, and its linked oceanic and yin-yang forces ground down the netherworld storm.
• Chen Xiaojun and Xixi felt their soul powers resonate in harmony as the vortex redirected the attack and reduced the pressure on Chen Xiaojun.
• Xixi wondered whether she and Chen Xiaojun had performed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Chen Xiaojun and Xixi’s external soul bones resonated, forming a balanced fusion that tore through Yan Choulong’s attack and gave them hope of surviving the battle. Chen Xiaojun then trapped Yan Choulong with Green Lotus Descends and unleashed Three Swords of the Shang Son of Heaven, combining the three swords into a formation that ground away his netherworld power.

• Chen Xiaojun realized that the Contract divine card had helped create compatibility between his and Xixi’s external soul bones, producing a new fusion pathway.
• The twin-tortoise vortex destroyed Yan Choulong’s netherworld assault, and Chen Xiaojun resolved to develop the fusion skill further.
• Chen Xiaojun cast Green Lotus Descends, sending lotus threads after Yan Choulong as he tried to evade them.
• Chen Xiaojun urged Xixi and Xiao Yi to pin Yan Choulong down, then used Three Swords of the Shang Son of Heaven to strike him with Chengying, Hanguang, and Xiaolian.
• The three swords formed a Three Powers Sword Formation that imprisoned Yan Choulong and ground away his netherworld demonic qi, while the green lotus threads coiled around him.

Xiao Yi immobilized Yan Choulong while Chen Xiaojun stripped away much of his power with Green Lotus Divine Light. Xiao Yi then pierced his chest with Radiant Mist Rend Wave, and Xixi launched a space-rending strike toward his head.

• Xixi restrained Yan Choulong with Sea God's Gaze while Xiao Yi froze him with the Great Void-Immobilization Spell.
• Chen Xiaojun struck Yan Choulong with Green Lotus Divine Light, dispelling his Martial Soul Avatar and stripping away most of his Dragon Soul Awakening amplification.
• Xiao Yi used Radiant Mist Rend Wave to pierce through Yan Choulong's chest and severely wound him.
• Xixi spun the Golden Trident and sent it toward Yan Choulong's head with Water-Control Art-True Sky-Piercing.

Yan Choulong used Dragon Soul Rebirth to survive the Sea God Trident and break the restraints holding him, then unleashed a devastating attack. Xixi’s shield bought Chen Xiaojun enough time to join Xiao Yi, but she was injured and her divine shield was badly damaged.

• As the trident pierced his defenses, Yan Choulong activated Dragon Soul Rebirth, releasing a dragon soul that shattered the green lotus threads, Sea God hands, and Shang Tianzi’s Three Powers Sword Formation.
• Yan Choulong rapidly regenerated his wounds while Xixi struggled to push the Golden Trident through his four-colored soul light.
• Yan Choulong used Nether Dragon Annihilation to blast the trident away and sent a dark gold pillar of annihilating light toward Xixi.
• Chen Xiaojun clasped hands with Xiao Yi as Xixi used the Sea-Calming Divine Shield and True Sea Shield to hold back the attack.
• Xixi’s water barrier shattered, and the remaining light pillar struck her shield, hurling her into ruined walls and cracking the shield, but she bought Chen Xiaojun five breaths of time.

Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi fused into the All-Heaven Sword Vine and shattered Yan Choulong’s remaining Nether Dragon annihilation beam. Their sword branches then trapped him in a relentless assault as his injuries and dwindling strength left him near defeat.

• Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi formed the All-Heaven Sword Vine, combining six attribute-laced divine swords around the Seven Stars Dragon Abyss Sword.
• The fused pair’s Creation-Destruction Spiral Sword Radiance broke through Yan Choulong’s final annihilation beam and hurled him through the ruins.
• Yan Choulong vomited blood and struggled with accumulated injuries and corrosive energies that disrupted his soul power and healing.
• The All-Heaven Sword Vine pursued Yan Choulong with six coordinated sword branches that formed a domain and restricted his movements.
• Yan Choulong dodged and blocked the attacks but suffered further wounds, while his strength and vitality steadily drained away.

The All-Heaven Sword Vine trapped Yan Choulong, while Long Ma awakened his Divine Venerable Body and drove Yan Wushuang back with his Xuanming weak-water domain. The battle remained unresolved as Yan Choulong stayed trapped and Luo Derun remained occupied with his own fight.

• The fused All-Heaven Sword Vine used its extended reach and spatial pressure to confine Yan Choulong, preventing him from escaping.
• Long Ma saw Holy Maiden Xixi badly injured and awakened his Heavenly River Dragon Lord Divine Venerable Body, breaking through to level 95.
• Long Ma unleashed Xuanming Heavenly River, forming a cold domain of weak water and extreme ice around Yan Wushuang.
• Yan Wushuang's Abyssal Dragon World-Burning Tribulation weakened under the domain, and weak water corroded his wrist and began dissolving his Soul Power.
• Luo Derun rebuked Yan Choulong for being trapped, but remained too occupied in his own battle to intervene.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Coi Russell attacked the Crimson Church’s Sky Net around the Chen Residence while battles raged inside. Coi’s assault nearly broke the barrier, and the chapter ended with the defenders under pressure as the fights continued.

• Ning Ruiting and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect joined the Heaven Dou City Patrol Bureau in attacking the Sky Net, but Luo Derun held it in place.
• Coi Russell arrived and used her eighth Soul Skill, Vast Sea Heaven and Earth Break, to batter the barrier and spread cracks through it.
• Luo Derun reinforced the weakening Sky Net and saw Yan Choulong, Yan Wushuang, and the formation’s central core all in dire straits.
• Li Lingfeng attacked Chen Menglin with a frenzied blood-red sword assault, but Chen used the Seven Kill Sword to exploit weaknesses and maintain an advantage.
• Youguang Zhou tried to trap Zhuo Qianren with spatial techniques, but Zhuo’s Silver Emperor Sky Falcon evaded the blockades with wind and lightning.

The Chen Residence battle continued as the attackers struggled against opponents who countered their abilities. Chen Hong gained the advantage over Ming Xiangyun with an Ice-Water Taiji technique that could unravel his shadow form.

• Youguang Zhou and Zhuo Qianren fought to a stalemate as Zhuo Qianren used Yan Wufeng’s arm bone and evaded Youguang Zhou’s attacks.
• Luo Ping’s scythe attacks failed to break through Zhu Hongzhen’s Stone Armor Shield.
• Yang Jingxue pierced Yuwen Changtai’s Eternal Winter Permafrost and Froststar Shield with her Sun Moon Shine Together arrow, sending him crashing toward the earth.
• Chen Hong’s Ice-Water Taiji damaged Ming Xiangyun’s shadow armor and forced him to take solid form.
• Chen Hong declared his turn as his Taiji technique threatened to pin down and disintegrate Ming Xiangyun’s shadow.

Coi Russell, Ning Ruiting, and the city patrol broke the Chen Residence’s protective net, but Luo Derun detonated it as Zuo Tinggang arrived. The ensuing blast devastated the residence and battlefield, leaving several fighters injured or dead and concealed attacks underway in the smoke.

• Ning Ruiting used his Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda to enhance Coi Russell as the city patrol’s ballista fire weakened the protective net.
• Zuo Tinggang rushed toward the Chen Residence, but Luo Derun triggered the net’s explosive nodes before he could intervene.
• Coi Russell and Ning Ruiting raised layered defenses as the protective net detonated and the Dark Luo Tian Curtain exploded.
• The combined blast destroyed much of the Chen Residence, killed two Soul Douluos, injured others, and scattered fighters across the battlefield.
• Under cover of the shock wave, Yan Wushuang reached for Long Ma’s neck while Yan Choulong attacked Chen Xiaojun’s Fish Intestine main branch.

Luo Ping and Luo Derun combined their Rakshasa attacks to critically wound Zhu Hongzhen, then the Crimson Cult members began retreating. Chen Hong tried to stop their escape, but Li Lingfeng and Ming Xiangyun joined forces to break through his attack and vanished into the battlefield’s mist.

• Luo Ping unleashed his Limit Break and struck Zhu Hongzhen’s blood-crystal barrier while Luo Derun ambushed him from above with a Rakshasa Netherworld Slash.
• Luo Ping and Luo Derun’s attacks shattered Zhu Hongzhen’s defenses, pierced his body, and left him critically wounded.
• Luo Derun ordered the Crimson Cult members to retreat, and Youguang Zhou, Li Lingfeng, Yuwen Changtai, Luo Ping, Yan Wushuang, and the others fled in different directions.
• Chen Hong unleashed a hundred Xuan Bing Flood Dragons at Ming Xiangyun as she tried to escape through the shadows.
• Li Lingfeng and Ming Xiangyun merged into a giant armored form, destroyed most of the flood dragons, and struck Chen Menglin away with a sweeping sword blow.
• The merged form collapsed, and Li Lingfeng and Ming Xiangyun disappeared into the mist.

Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi unleashed their new Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Ten Directions Annihilation, to kill Yan Choulong after trapping him in the sword formation. Chen Xiaojun collapsed from the strain, and Xiao Yi held him as the Willow God Vine began to glow.

• Yan Choulong tore through the Fish Intestine Sword with his dragon claw, but its single-target attack shattered his right forelimb from within.
• Chen Xiaojun directed the All-Heaven Sword Vine to seal Yan Choulong inside a sword-domain cage while Yan Wushuang escaped through a spatial rift.
• Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi used Soul-Piercing Needles to interrupt Yan Choulong and fused their powers into Ten Directions Annihilation.
• The sword formation trapped Yan Choulong and annihilated him, leaving his body suspended with six divine swords piercing it.
• Chen Xiaojun coughed blood and collapsed, and Xiao Yi caught him before laying him down as the Willow God Vine glowed through her palms.

Pang Yanfeng crushed Zhu Wuneng and Gao Cuilan’s fused attack, but Zhu Changyun sacrificed himself to save them before Pang escaped into the shadows. Chen Zhang and the other defenders pursued the fleeing Crimson remnants as Heaven Dou City joined the hunt, then sealed the ruined Chen Residence after thanking those who had come to help.

• Pang Yanfeng’s black claw broke Zhu Wuneng and Gao Cuilan’s Martial Soul Fusion, leaving both badly wounded and unconscious Gao Cuilan in Zhu Wuneng’s arms.
• Zhu Changyun blocked Pang Yanfeng’s follow-up attack with his Stone Armor Shield, buying Zhu Wuneng time before the shield shattered and Zhu Changyun was buried in rubble.
• Pang Yanfeng escaped into a shadow swamp as Chen Zhang’s clones closed in, and Chen Hong ordered the defenders to pursue the fleeing Crimson members.
• Chen Zhang, Zhuo Qianren, Yang Jingxue, Chen Menglin, and Long Ma chased different fleeing enemies while Heaven Dou City’s forces and crowds helped hunt the Crimson remnants.
• Chen Zhang thanked the gathered allies, announced that the bereaved household would be sealed, and entered the ruined residence with Ning Ruiting as its gates closed under a powerful killing chill.

Xiao Yi agreed to attempt to save Zhu Hongzhen, whose wounds were being consumed by Rakshasa Divine Power. She began draining the corpses of the crimson enemies to prepare for the treatment, with Coi Russell ready to help expel the divine power.

• Coi Russell treated Xixi with an Azure Pill and confirmed that her injuries had not damaged her vital essence.
• The healers determined that Zhu Hongzhen was close to death because Rakshasa Divine Power was destroying his organs and resisting their treatment.
• Zhu Wuneng rushed to find Xiao Yi and pleaded with her to save his great-grandfather.
• Xiao Yi examined Zhu Hongzhen, then ordered his transfer to a large room along with the crimson enemies' corpses and asked Chen Zhang to summon Coi Russell.
• Xiao Yi told Coi Russell that she would stitch Zhu Hongzhen's wound and gather the Rakshasa Divine Power for Coi to expel.
• Xiao Yi used the Immortal Evergreen Vine to drain the corpses, which rapidly shriveled as the vines turned dark red.

Xiao Yi used the Great Azure Jade Heavenly Mandate Finger, the Xikang Celestial Maiden Flower, and Coi’s Sea God power to heal Zhu Hongzhen’s catastrophic wound and purge the rakshasa baleful energy. The chapter ended with his body drawing on immense life force in a perilous struggle between life and death.

• Xiao Yi summoned the apparition of Lesser Siming and used One Finger Severs Yin and Yang to restore a faint heartbeat in Zhu Hongzhen.
• Xiao Yi crushed the Xikang Celestial Maiden Flower petals over Zhu Hongzhen’s wound, suppressing the rakshasa markings and stimulating new flesh.
• Xiao Yi used Two Fingers Cover All Life to drive the baleful energy from Zhu Hongzhen, and Coi purified it with the Sea God’s power.
• Xiao Yi’s Evergreen Vine drew life force from the corpses, then pierced Yan Choulong’s corpse when Zhu Hongzhen’s wound still needed more life force.
• Zhu Hongzhen’s flesh began rapidly regrowing as multiple sources of life force flooded his body, turning his recovery into a desperate struggle between life and death.

The Crimson Cult’s upheaval in Heaven Dou City drove its allied shadow organizations to flee, sever ties, or turn against it. As dawn revealed the city’s vast network of entrenched powers awakening, the deeper struggle for influence had only begun.

• After the Chen Residence explosions, intelligence chiefs, informants, and gangs across Heaven Dou City began abandoning hideouts and destroying records to evade the coming purges.
• The Ghost Market banker blamed the Crimson Cult for ruining its Gaoying Tournament scheme and ordered guards to kill its members for a tenfold bounty.
• Black Forest Tree Person Guardian agents activated the “Deep Dive” dormancy protocol, while other hidden groups sealed passages and destroyed their identifying traces.
• Hu Wuer ordered supplies to the Crimson Cult cut off at Bitterwater Station and threatened to turn Youguang Zhou into a chamber pot for Sand Lizards.
• Azmonk blamed Ming Xiangyun and Li Lingfeng for ruining his Blood-Brewed Feast and issued his Edict of Delight.
• At dawn, concealed powers across Heaven Dou City awakened and scrutinized the upheaval, leaving the city’s struggle for influence poised to begin.

Jixiang recounted the Crimson Church’s attack on the Chen Residence as the Ji family considered the political fallout and Tiantian’s return to her maternal clan. Ji Hongming revealed that the Ming King had forced the Ji family to yield, leaving the dispute over Tiantian’s lineage unresolved.

• Jixiang told the Ji family that eight Title Douluos from the Crimson Church had attacked the Chen Residence, and that Chen Hong and others pursued the attackers.
• Ji Hongming explained that he and his allies had failed to stop Ming Xiangyun from escaping through the Shadow World.
• Ji Xing reported that the court was furious over the attack and that the intelligence bureaus faced punishment, while the family anticipated political upheaval involving Zuo Tinggang and the Silver Plume Alliance.
• Ji Hongming asked whether Tiantian’s return to her ancestral clan had been settled, prompting Ji Lan to object when she learned Tiantian had twin martial souls.
• Jixiang revealed that Tiantian’s other martial soul was the Seven Kill Sword, and the Ji family recognized her direct-line ties to both the Ji family and the Chen Clan.
• Ji Hongming said Sword Hero Douluo had visited the Ji Family Old Residence after Tiantian’s birth and revealed that the Ming King had ultimately forced the Ji family to yield.

The Ji Family learned that the Chen Clan had given Tiantian the name Chen Du Ling while allowing her to keep her original surname, and Ji Hongming asked who killed the Yan Family’s newly emerged Title Douluo. Meanwhile, Luo Derun and Luo Ping hid on Monkey Mountain after escaping their pursuers, and Luo Derun feared their Soul Douluos and Soul Saints had suffered heavy losses.

• Ji Lan questioned why the legendary Ming King would concern himself with Tiantian, and Ji Hongming admitted he could only guess at the reason.
• Jixiang told the Ji Family that Tiantian kept her surname and also received the name Chen Du Ling from the Chen Clan.
• Ji Xing and Ji Lan agreed the arrangement could benefit the Ji Family, while Ji Hongming said it was for the best and asked who had killed the Yan Family’s Title Douluo.
• Two days later, Luo Ping and Luo Derun hid on Monkey Mountain after Chen Hong, Chen Menglin, and Zhuo Qianren pursued them for three days and nights.
• Luo Derun warned Luo Ping not to fight back and worried that their Soul Douluos and Soul Saints were likely doomed.