Chapter Summaries

Zhai Henbai survived Long Jing'an and Yu Yongyuan’s combined assault without injury. Zhi Mengze joined the fight and used his Shadow Tree domain to help Zhai Henbai suppress the two dragons, who prepared to unleash their full strength.

• Zhai Henbai’s Abyssal Return Barrier withstood Long Jing'an and Yu Yongyuan’s attacks until their assault exhausted itself, leaving him unharmed.
• Zhi Mengze appeared and spread his Shadow Forest Dream Prison domain across the battlefield, ensnaring the dragons’ minds and attacking them with heart-eroding thorn vines.
• Zhai Henbai used Mysterious Water Yin Thunder to attack while Zhi Mengze’s vines and illusions kept the dragons under pressure.
• Long Jing'an countered with Silver Dragon Sky-Rending Wave, and Yu Yongyuan burned through the vines with Heart-Burning Fire before striking with Red Dragon Rageflame Claw.
• As the dragons’ attacks were suppressed and the illusions and assaults continued, Yu Yongyuan urged Long Jing'an to use the Overlord Dragon Art’s Profound Art, and Long Jing'an prepared to break through their predicament.

Zuo Tinggang and Chen Weizhe watched a massive battle at the Bao Residence and realized the Crimson Church’s forces were hiding a pattern. They concluded that its high-level Soul Douluo were training to break through to the Titled Douluo realm.

• Zuo Tinggang and Chen Weizhe observed four Titled Douluo and more than a dozen Soul Douluo fighting at the Bao Residence, an unexpectedly large gathering.
• Chen Weizhe inferred that Chen Zhang had timed the attack to exploit the distraction caused by Donghuang’s coronation and the Gaoying Tournament.
• Zuo Tinggang and Chen Weizhe compared the forces at the Bao Residence, the Chen Residence, and Sea Lake Manor and noticed that none included high-level Soul Douluo.
• Chen Weizhe pointed out that the Crimson Church’s legions had never openly deployed fighters above level 87 in recorded battles.
• Zuo Tinggang concluded that the Crimson Church’s high-level Soul Douluo were undergoing advanced training to break through to the Titled Douluo realm.

Chen Weizhe and Zuo Tinggang realized the Crimson Church might be using the Ancient Death Spiral Magic Formation and victims’ blood essence to create dozens of new Titled Douluos before the coming calamity. Their deductions later reached Chen Xiaojun, who understood that this scheme could explain the soul master world’s decline in later generations.

• Chen Weizhe calculated that the Ancient Death Spiral Magic Formation could let high-level Soul Douluos force breakthroughs to Titled Douluo.
• Chen Weizhe concluded that the Crimson Church’s repeated early attacks might have gathered blood essence to fuel the formation and estimated its Titled Douluos could eventually number in the dozens.
• Zuo Tinggang imagined the Crimson Church overwhelming the soul master world and leaving it vulnerable to returning otherworlder forces.
• Chen Weining judged that the Chen Clan’s three Titled Douluos were not enough to face the threat.
• Chen Xiaojun later heard Chen Weizhe and Zuo Tinggang’s deductions and connected the Crimson Church’s scheme to the decline of Soul Masters in later generations.

Chen Weizhe explained how the Crimson Church used the Ancient Death Spiral Magic Formation to create Titled Douluo and proposed a two-pronged strategy to limit its growth. He and Zuo Tinggang turned their attention to the four Crimson Titled Douluo surrounded below.

• Chen Weizhe slapped Zuo Tinggang out of his troubled thoughts about the soul masters who could be lost to the Crimson Church’s formation.
• Chen Weizhe reasoned that the formation required enormous amounts of blood essence, especially from powerful soul masters killed in battle.
• Chen Weizhe urged the forces to secure high-rank soul master remains and conduct reconnaissance to prevent the Crimson Church from harvesting them.
• Chen Weizhe proposed killing Crimson Titled Douluo faster than the formation could produce replacements, noting that four were surrounded below.
• Chen Weizhe concluded that cutting off the formation’s blood essence supply and killing existing Titled Douluo could force the Crimson Church into numerical decline.

Chen Weizhe urged Zuo Tinggang to unite the major powers and counter the Crimson Church by disrupting its evil formation and hunting its future Title Douluos. He argued that if their plans failed, powerful heroes might still emerge to defeat the church, leaving Zuo astonished by his conviction.

• Chen Weizhe proposed cutting off the Crimson Church's supply of nether blood lilies and hunting its Soul Douluo Seeds to prevent it from producing Title Douluos.
• Chen Weizhe warned Zuo Tinggang that the church might retaliate and could use soul beast blood essence in its formation, putting soul beast groups at risk.
• Chen Weizhe called on the major powers to coordinate, share intelligence, and suppress the Crimson Church's expansion.
• Chen Weizhe told Zuo Tinggang that their generation had to step forward in this age of great contention, then joked that they could find someone stronger to shoulder the burden.
• Chen Weizhe argued that powerful figures such as Qian Zhongling and emerging Supremes or a Peerless Douluo could turn the tide against the Crimson Church, leaving Zuo astonished.

After intercepting the Sunset Legion’s scouts, Ge Laihao arrived at Sunshine City and ordered a silent disarmament of its garrison. With all 31,478 soldiers stripped of their weapons and the fortress under his control, he told Lin Qichuan to talk inside.

• Lin Qichuan ordered scouts to investigate the battle near Bao Family Manor and prepared ten thousand soldiers to reinforce them.
• The scouts returned and reported that the Marshal had blocked their route.
• Lin Qichuan recognized Ge Laihao and waited as the Marshal stood watch over the barracks.
• Ge Laizheng reported that all 31,478 soldiers in Sunshine City had surrendered their weapons and equipment under Ge Laihao’s orders.
• Ge Laihao told Lin Qichuan the disarmament was complete and walked toward the central hall to talk.

Chen Weizhe joined the battle against Zhai Henbai and Zhi Mengze, using his Azure Gourd Douluo abilities to clear Long Jing'an and Yu Yongyuan’s minds and strengthen the two dragons. The chapter ended as Yu Yongyuan and Long Jing'an unleashed enhanced attacks at Zhai Henbai.

• Chen Weizhe left Zuo Tinggang to assist Long Jing'an and Yu Yongyuan, who were fighting Zhai Henbai and Zhi Mengze.
• Zuo Tinggang descended over the battlefield and struck down several Black Nether Guard leaders with blue force.
• Chen Weizhe used his Clear Saint soul skill to free Long Jing'an and Yu Yongyuan from Zhi Mengze’s Shadow Forest Dream Prison domain.
• Chen Weizhe enhanced himself and the two dragons with several soul skills, boosting their abilities and elemental affinities.
• Yu Yongyuan launched Red Sun Annihilation at Zhai Henbai, and Long Jing'an followed with Cosmic Silver Stream.

Chen Weizhe and the two dragons wounded Zhai Henbai but failed to break through his formidable defenses, so Chen Weizhe went after Zhi Mengze. In the central hall, Ming Xingyun unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill against Zhu Yanfeng, who barely held on while Chen Zhang’s sword formation kept Ming pinned down.

• Zhi Mengze weakened the dragons’ combined Ninth Soul Skills with Shadow Sinking, but Zhai Henbai blocked their attacks with his Dark Nether Return-to-the-Abyss Armor and eternal immovability conceptions.
• The dragons broke through Zhai Henbai’s armor and cracked his tortoiseshell, injuring him before dark nether blackwater began repairing the damage.
• Chen Weizhe blamed Zhi Mengze for weakening the attack and dove into the shadow domain to confront him with an azure saber.
• At the central hall, Chen Zhang’s Sword Peak Heaven-Suppressing formation and its fighters kept Ming Xingyun trapped for more than ten minutes.
• Ming Xingyun unleashed Netherworld Corrodes the Heavens Strike at Zhu Yanfeng, who weakened it with Petrification Eye and his defenses but still suffered a wound.

Chen Zhang sacrificed his sword formation to blunt Ming Xingyun’s ninth soul skill, but the clash left both men injured. The formation was destroyed, and Ming Xingyun remained standing, visibly enraged.

• Ming Xingyun’s corrupting torrent destroyed Chen Zhang’s four wounded clones and overcame Zhu Yanfeng’s defenses.
• Chen Zhang drove his thirty-six sword peaks into the torrent, but the corrosive power shattered or damaged them.
• Chen Zhang detonated the surviving sword peaks, collapsing the formation barrier in a massive explosion against Ming Xingyun’s attack.
• The blast left Chen Zhang badly injured and kneeling with his Seven Kill Sword, while Ming Xingyun stood with dimmed soul power and blood at his mouth.

Ming Xingyun fled the collapsing battle after Li Xunhuan’s flying daggers broke through his armor and wounded him. Li Xunhuan proved he could injure a Titled Douluo, while the fighting across the estate continued to turn against the Black Nether Legion.

• Ming Xingyun saw Bao Nansong dead and realized the Black Nether Legion’s forces were being overwhelmed across the estate.
• Ming Xingyun sensed that Ghost Demon Douluo Wan Hanyou was losing ground and that Zhai Henbai and Zhi Mengze were fighting three powerful opponents.
• Ming Xingyun tried to flee, but Li Xunhuan launched six daggers with his Thousand-Feather Heart-Burning Formation.
• Ming Xingyun activated Black Nightmare Guard, but Li Xunhuan’s daggers pierced the armor and wounded him in the left shoulder and chest.
• Li Xunhuan celebrated wounding a Titled Douluo despite coughing up blood from the strain of his attack.
• Ming Xingyun threatened Li Xunhuan and escaped in a torrent of black mist.

Ximen Wenlan revealed herself as the hidden attacker and used the Three Peerless Hell Blades to fatally wound Ming Xingyun. As Ming recognized her as the Red Lotus Woman, Li Xunhuan called her “Mother.”

• Ximen Wenlan launched three successive blade techniques, destroying Ming Xingyun’s defenses and carving a deep wound across his chest.
• Ming Xingyun realized the woman who had accompanied Chen Zhang and the others was the ambusher who had been preparing to kill him.
• Ximen Wenlan identified herself as Red Lotus Douluo-Ximen Wenlan.
• Li Xunhuan called out to Ximen Wenlan as his mother, and Ming recognized her as the Hong Lian Woman.
• Ming recalled that the Ximen Family had granted Ximen Wenlan its precious opportunity to become a Titled Douluo.

After the battle at Bao Family Manor, Chen Hong, Chen Menglin, and Yang Jingxue cornered Ming Xiangyun at his hidden observation post and attacked him. Ming Xiangyun unleashed his ninth soul skill and then summoned a massive crimson sword to break through their encirclement.

• Ming Xiangyun watched from a hill near Bao Family Manor and cursed the Heaven Dou Imperial Family and Soul Fighting City for ruining his Black Nether Legion.
• Chen Hong, Chen Menglin, and Yang Jingxue appeared on Ming Xiangyun’s escape route, and Chen Hong revealed that they had found his hiding place.
• Chen Hong used his dark nether sword intent, Chen Menglin attacked with Secret Sword: Space-Rending Scar, and Yang Jingxue cast Seven Absolutes Arrow: Demon-Sealing Chains to trap Ming Xiangyun.
• Ming Xiangyun unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill, Myriad Ghosts Devouring Souls Domain, weakening the trio’s attacks and forcing their restraints outward.
• Ming Xiangyun summoned his Ninth Soul Skill, Bloodthirsty Fiend Divine Sword, and sent the enormous crimson blade sweeping toward the demon-sealing net and the encircling trio.

Li Lingfeng broke Chen Hong’s restraints and escaped, giving Ming Xiangyun the opening to flee with a blood-burning spatial escape art. Chen Hong, Chen Menglin, and Yang Jingxue failed to kill Ming Xiangyun and headed toward Bao Family Manor to deal with the remaining situation.

• Li Lingfeng tore through the demon-sealing net and weakened Chen Hong’s Dark Nether Sword Domain before escaping into the darkness.
• Ming Xiangyun used the opening to activate his secret blood-escape Soul Tool and vanished through space, swearing revenge on Chen Hong, the Chen Clan, and the Yang Family.
• Chen Hong, Chen Menglin, and Yang Jingxue lamented that Li Lingfeng’s interference had ruined their chance to kill Ming Xiangyun.
• Chen Hong, Chen Menglin, and Yang Jingxue discussed whether Zuo Tinggang could track the fugitives, then set off for Bao Family Manor.

Ming Xingyun realized Chen Zhang’s group had orchestrated a trap to give Ximen Wenlan time to unleash her strongest attacks. After Li Xunhuan interrupted Ming Xingyun’s attempt to self-destruct, Ximen Wenlan brought down her final strike, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Ming Xingyun pieced together how Chen Zhang’s group had used layered distractions to conceal Ximen Wenlan’s momentum-gathering attack and isolate him from his forces.
• Ming Xingyun asked Chen Zhang whether he had designed the trap, and Chen Zhang confirmed that he had planned it.
• Ming Xingyun refused to surrender and began to self-destruct, releasing surging black soul power from his damaged armor.
• Li Xunhuan drove blade energy into Ming Xingyun’s wound and disrupted the chain detonation of his soul power seed.
• Ximen Wenlan invoked her ninth soul skill, Red Lotus Purification of the World, and swung a condensed blade of annihilating light down toward Ming Xingyun.

Ming Xingyun’s retreat order sent the Black Nether Legion and Bao Family forces fleeing through concealed passages as Heaven Dou’s fighters pursued them. The attackers killed several escaping Soul Douluos and secured parts of the battlefield, but Bao Yongzhi escaped through a teleportation soul tool.

• Ming Xingyun ordered a retreat, and the Black Nether Legion and Bao Family forces scattered into hidden passages and escape routes.
• The Black Nether aerial riders and Curse Casters used poisonous smoke, stealth techniques, and concealed tunnels to evade their pursuers.
• Ximen Wenming and Zhong Feng killed the Bewitching Wraith Soul Douluo, while other Soul Douluos escaped or were trapped and killed on the flanks.
• Viper Dagger and Darkfire Lizard escaped through underground routes, but Yang Guisan killed the Dark Wind Spear Soul Douluo, and Qin Lüguang had already killed Qiu Ba.
• Bao Yongzhi escaped with confidants and treasures through an ancient teleportation soul tool, leaving its formation disc shattered.
• Ning Hai’s forces pursued the fleeing enemies as Chen Qingrui directed the cleanup and the sealing of tunnel exits.

After the Bao Family’s underground defenses helped the Black Nether Legion retreat, Wan Hanyou tried to escape Han Yiyu and Xuan Qingya. Their combined attacks killed Ghost Demon Douluo, leaving two Soul Bones behind.

• Ming Xingyun ordered a retreat, allowing the Black Nether Legion to escape while the Bao Family’s aboveground stronghold was destroyed.
• Wan Hanyou used Soul-Eroding Ghost Howl against Han Yiyu and Xuan Qingya, but their defensive skills deflected and purified the attack.
• Wan Hanyou activated Unending Ghost Escape to flee through the ice-and-moonlight blockade.
• Han Yiyu used Cold Tide Finger to freeze Wan Hanyou’s escape, and Xuan Qingya struck him with Lunar Eclipse-Eternal Silence.
• Han Yiyu and Xuan Qingya annihilated Wan Hanyou, leaving two Soul Bones floating in the air.

Zhai Henbai and Zhi Mengze escaped underground after the three dragons overwhelmed their defenses, while the others discussed how formidable Zhai had become. Chen Hong and his companions arrived at the manor as Zuo Tinggang reported that Li Lingfeng and Ming Xiangyun had escaped, and Xue Dingshi received a message that his group had finished their task.

• After Wan Hanyou fell, Zhai Henbai unleashed the Mysterious Water Nether River while Zhi Mengze used Nightmare Root Seed to disrupt Long Jing'an, Yu Yongyuan, and Chen Weizhe.
• Zhai Henbai activated Xuanwu Black Marsh Escape, merged with the marsh, and carried Zhi Mengze underground as Yu Yongyuan's attack only tore through their outer covering.
• Long Jing'an, Yu Yongyuan, and Chen Weizhe assessed Zhai Henbai's strength and speculated about why his family had never sought a position among the Seven Demon Generals.
• Chen Hong and his two companions reached the ruined manor, where Xue Hongtao was organizing the aftermath and counting casualties.
• Zuo Tinggang reported that Li Lingfeng had escaped into a river and Ming Xiangyun had vanished through spatial tears.
• Xue Dingshi's Brightlight Mirror displayed a message saying that his group had finished their task.

Tong Yangyuan led four Titled Douluo and Supervisory Court troops into the Blood Desire Cult’s underground stronghold beneath a slaughterhouse in Heaven Dou City. They advanced through its horrific sacrificial chambers, killing fanatics as Tong Yangyuan ordered the cult eradicated without survivors.

• The City Guard Army surrounded the slaughterhouse and exposed the entrance to the Blood Desire Cult’s hidden stronghold.
• Tong Yangyuan led Lei Xing, Ji Hongming, Sword Lord Azure Bamboo, and Shi Yuanyuan into the underground passage.
• The five Titled Douluo and accompanying troops encountered the cult’s grotesque remains, blood-soaked chambers, and mental contamination.
• Fanatics attacked from the side passages, but the Titled Douluo swiftly crushed their resistance.
• Tong Yangyuan ordered the Supervisory Court troops to eradicate the cult and leave no one alive.

The five Titled Douluos confronted Azmonk in the Blood Desire Cult’s underground sanctuary, where he unleashed the Malice-Devouring Maw from the Blood Desire Egg. The Maw began pulling the group toward its enormous mouth as Tong Yangyuan ordered the others to attack.

• The five Titled Douluos reached a cavern containing the Blood Desire Egg, which was made from human remains and filled with anguished faces.
• Azmonk appeared from the blood pool and declared that the egg was nurturing the cult’s Sacred Spirit.
• Tong Yangyuan denounced the cult and vowed to destroy the egg and kill Azmonk.
• Azmonk awakened the Blood Desire Egg, which burst open and formed the Malice-Devouring Maw.
• The Malice-Devouring Maw unleashed a powerful suction toward Lei Xing and Shi Yuanyuan, and Tong Yangyuan ordered the five Titled Douluos to attack.

Shi Yuanyuan, Lei Xing, and Sword Lord Azure Bamboo fought back the Malice-Devouring Maw while Tong Yangyuan, Sword Lord Azure Bamboo, and Ji Hongming attacked Azmonk. Their combined assault weakened and wounded the evil leader, but Azmonk plunged his claws into the blood pool as the Malice-Devouring Maw prepared a destructive breath attack.

• Shi Yuanyuan blocked the Malice-Devouring Maw’s suction with Xuanwu Heavenly Wall while Lei Xing scorched its throat with his lightning axe.
• Sword Lord Azure Bamboo severed the Malice-Devouring Maw’s attacking tentacles with Ten Thousand Bamboos Sever the River.
• Tong Yangyuan, Sword Lord Azure Bamboo, and Ji Hongming charged Azmonk as he unleashed a wave of tainted blood and soul-corroding mist.
• Ji Hongming used Spring and Autumn Brushwork to weaken Azmonk, and Sword Lord Azure Bamboo and Tong Yangyuan followed with sword strikes and a purifying fire lotus.
• Azmonk suffered heavy injuries, then plunged his claws into the blood pool as the Malice-Devouring Maw prepared to attack the three Titled Douluos.