Chapter Summaries

After Leng Xiyue survived an assassination attempt, she woke in the Jiuzhou Empire’s care and began reconsidering her ties to Spirit Hall. She told Qian Renxue that Bibi Dong had reason to oppose their plan to unify the continent, leaving Leng Xiyue to reassess what to do about Spirit Hall.

• Qian Renxue learned that Salas had been killed and the Lower Four Sects had been devastated, leaving only the Elephant Armor Sect barely holding on.
• A Titled Douluo puppet and Ye Renxin healed Leng Xiyue’s injuries until she woke, and Ye Renxin quickly left after refusing a reward.
• Leng Xiyue remembered the attack by the Clear Sky Sect and people from the Star Luo Empire, while Xiao Bai urged her to stop deceiving herself and reconsider her plans.
• Qian Renxue entered Leng Xiyue’s room and apologized for Bibi Dong’s actions, but Leng Xiyue explained that Bibi Dong’s ambition to become the Rakshasa God depended on prolonged war, which their plan would prevent.

After Bibi Dong’s assassination attempt, Leng Xiyue decided to sever ties with her and told Qian Renxue she would imprison Bibi Dong rather than kill her. Qian Renxue accepted Leng Xiyue’s decision, but Leng Xiyue remained guarded toward her, leaving their friendship strained.

• Leng Xiyue reconsidered Bibi Dong’s betrayals of Spirit Hall and resolved not to forgive her for ordering the assassination.
• Qian Renxue asked whether Leng Xiyue would sever ties with Bibi Dong, and Leng Xiyue said she would.
• Qian Renxue asked if Leng Xiyue would kill Bibi Dong if she captured her, and Leng Xiyue said she would probably imprison her instead.
• Qian Renxue accepted the answer and chose to stay with Leng Xiyue, though she understood their friendship could not immediately return to normal.
• Qian Renxue said goodbye, and Leng Xiyue lay back down, troubled by the need to keep her distance.

After recovering from her injuries, Leng Xiyue heard Miho Nishizumi’s plans for retaliating against three sects and learned that the alliance with Heaven Dou would now prepare for a cold war with Spirit Hall. Tian Meng then revealed evidence that Bibi Dong had deliberately let the order to kill Leng Xiyue stand, and Leng Xiyue waited for the revenge operation to begin the next day.

• Miho Nishizumi told Leng Xiyue that their plan to wipe out three sects would proceed, while surrendered members might be spared, and that the alliance would unite Heaven Dou against Spirit Hall.
• Miho Nishizumi said Tian Meng, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress had been preparing more than a hundred missiles to strike the sects, and they returned to Leng Xiyue’s bedside soon afterward.
• Tian Meng explained that he had sent two puppets into Spirit City, where they obtained intelligence from the Elder Hall and Spirit Main Hall.
• Tian Meng reasoned that Bibi Dong could have reversed the order to kill Leng Xiyue but chose not to, and reported that Spirit Hall elders were angry with her while she avoided accountability by claiming to enter seclusion.
• Leng Xiyue accepted the revelation and said she would wait for the revenge operation scheduled for the next day.

Leng Xiyue convened Heaven Dou's factions to announce the alliance and present the Jiuzhou Empire's latest weapon, while preparing to broadcast the destruction of the Lower Three Sects. The chapter ended as she introduced the Jiuzhou One and its first live combat exercise.

• Miho Nishizumi wheeled the still-injured Leng Xiyue into the Temporary Palace auditorium, where Heaven Dou's nobles and other guests had gathered.
• Leng Xiyue had Tian Meng bring in two Water Cloud Sect Titled Douluo on leashes and ordered him to force them to kneel.
• Leng Xiyue confirmed that the Empire Convention signing ceremony would proceed and announced expanded industrial cooperation with Heaven Dou.
• Leng Xiyue offered paid defensive-line construction and mercenary services to the various factions, drawing Ning Fengzhi's interest.
• Leng Xiyue announced the first live combat exercise of the Jiuzhou One.

The Jiuzhou Empire’s forces kept the Wind Sword Sect and Flame Demon Sect trapped until Miho Nishizumi’s declared judgment began. The Flame Demon Sect was destroyed by successive missile strikes, leaving its mountain bare and frozen.

• Breakout attempts by the Wind Sword Sect and Flame Demon Sect failed, and the sects dwindled to barely five hundred survivors between them.
• The Wind Sword Sect’s older-generation Titled Douluo died fighting Da Ming, while the Flame Demon Douluo took his own life and the Flame Demon Sect’s former master waited for the judgment.
• At nine fifteen, a first wave of missiles struck the Flame Demon Sect, collapsing its buildings and leaving survivors among the ruins.
• A second missile wave unleashed clinging flames that burned the sect and its survivors to ash, with the former master dying last.
• A third wave of Ultimate Ice missiles extinguished the blaze and left the Flame Demon Sect’s mountaintop frozen and silent.

After the Jiuzhou Empire destroyed the Lower Three Sects, Leng Xiyue told Heaven Dou’s nobles that the Water Cloud Sect’s plantations and several other assets would go to her, while the rest of the defeated sects’ businesses could be divided among them. The nobles welcomed the offer, though Leng Xiyue’s remarks left Heaven Dou’s dependence on the Jiuzhou Empire unmistakable.

• Leng Xiyue announced that the ice covering the destroyed sect compounds would eventually thaw, leaving two valuable quarries.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Leng Xiyue that the sects’ destruction could stir panic among commoners and urged her to address their concerns.
• Leng Xiyue rejected Ning Fengzhi’s attempt to use public discontent to negotiate for the Lower Three Sects’ assets.
• Leng Xiyue claimed the quarries, the Water Cloud Sect’s compound, and the Lower Three Sects’ Heaven Dou City properties for herself, while allowing the nobles to divide the remaining businesses.
• Heaven Dou’s nobles welcomed the prospect of sharing the Wind Sword Sect’s breeding farms and the Flame Demon Sect’s mining interests.

Leng Xiyue secured the nobles’ support for the alliance, agreed to cure Dugu Bo in exchange for access to his treasured grounds, and prepared to recover. In Spirit City, Golden Crocodile confronted Bibi Dong over her attack on Leng Xiyue, only to discover that Bibi Dong had reached rank ninety-seven.

• Leng Xiyue let Heaven Dou’s nobles keep shares in the industries in exchange for their support of the Jiuzhou Empire’s alliance ceremony.
• Dugu Bo offered Leng Xiyue his treasured spot in Sunset Forest in return for a cure for his innate deadly poison, and she agreed to visit after the ceremony.
• Golden Crocodile arrived at the Pope’s bedchamber and demanded that Bibi Dong answer for the trouble she had caused.
• Bibi Dong emerged from seclusion, and Golden Crocodile sensed that she had broken through to rank ninety-seven.

After becoming a Super Douluo, Bibi Dong defended her order to assassinate Leng Xiyue by portraying her as a threat to Spirit Hall, while Golden Crocodile agreed the Elder Hall would investigate. Yue Guan then asked to retire, leaving Bibi Dong to prepare for a leadership meeting.

• Bibi Dong received a one-level breakthrough reward from the Rakshasa God and used her new strength to assert herself before Golden Crocodile.
• Bibi Dong argued that Leng Xiyue’s efforts to arm ordinary people threatened Spirit Hall and the Soul Master class.
• Yue Guan considered telling Golden Crocodile about Leng Xiyue’s vision but stayed silent and grew disillusioned with Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong warned that Leng Xiyue knew Qian Renxue’s identity, and Golden Crocodile said the Elder Hall would investigate before acting.
• As Bibi Dong prepared to summon the leadership, Yue Guan asked permission to retire and return home.

Yue Guan resigned from Spirit Hall after Bibi Dong threatened to erase his name from Douluo Hall, and Gui Mei chose to leave with him. After surrendering their Elder Tokens, they set out with nothing to begin a new journey.

• Bibi Dong threatened to confiscate Yue Guan's assets and strike his name from Douluo Hall if he resigned, but Yue Guan remained determined to leave.
• Yue Guan recalled how Qian Xunji had found and recruited him and Gui Mei, unlike Bibi Dong, who showed no concern for their service.
• Bibi Dong allowed Yue Guan to leave with belongings worth one thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Gui Mei announced that he would resign as well.
• Bibi Dong dismissed both men, and Gui Mei and Yue Guan left Spirit Hall together.
• Gui Mei and Yue Guan surrendered their Elder Tokens, had their Spirit Hall identities annulled, and departed without taking anything.

On the eve of the Alliance Ceremony, Leng Xiyue welcomed Yue Guan and Gui Mei into the Empire Faction and arranged to reconcile Yue Guan with Dugu Bo. Leng Xiyue and Xue Ye signed the alliance treaty in Heaven Dou City, where Xue Ye announced sweeping reforms and the crowd celebrated.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei asked to serve Leng Xiyue after leaving Spirit Hall, and she welcomed them to her side.
• Leng Xiyue offered to take Yue Guan to Dugu Bo's residence to obtain a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and help settle their old grudge.
• Leng Xiyue persuaded Yue Guan and Gui Mei to appear with her at the Alliance Ceremony and publicly announce their allegiance to the Empire Faction.
• Amid cheers in Central Square, Leng Xiyue and Xue Ye signed the alliance treaty before officials and citizens.
• Xue Ye announced that Heaven Dou would abolish the old system and pursue reforms under the Crown Prince, prompting the crowd to cheer.

Leng Xiyue secured a Jiuzhou concession in Heaven Dou City and brought her allies to Dugu Bo’s valley to claim the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. As Tian Meng and Ah Yin began treating Dugu Bo, Xiao Bai sensed an ancient power beyond God Level at the valley.

• Leng Xiyue arranged for Jiuzhou to purchase and govern a section of Heaven Dou City as a concession.
• Leng Xiyue traveled with her companions to Dugu Bo’s base in the Sunset Forest, where Dugu Bo agreed to transfer the valley to her.
• Probius destroyed Dugu Bo’s Poison Formation, allowing the group to enter the valley.
• Leng Xiyue sent Tian Meng and Ah Yin with Dugu Bo to begin treating his poison while she and the others explored.
• Xiao Bai sensed an ancient aura beyond God Level near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and warned Leng Xiyue that the valley held a more powerful presence than expected.

Leng Xiyue and her group explored the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where they found the remains of two powerful dragons and turned them into Soul Bones. The Fire Dragon King Right Arm Bone and Ice Dragon King Left Arm Bone were prepared for Leng Xiyue to absorb, despite the severe pain and transformation Xiao Bai warned she would face.

• Yue Guan found and ate the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, while Gui Mei chose an immortal herb and went to cultivate.
• Xiao Bai suspected that two Nebula Level beings had died in battle beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Leng Xiyue sent Probius to investigate.
• Probius found two enormous dragon remains at the bottom of the pool and brought them to shore.
• Xiao Bai explained that she could turn the remains into Soul Bones, but warned Leng Xiyue that absorbing them could cause excruciating pain and remake her body.
• Xiao Bai extracted the Fire Dragon King Right Arm Bone and Ice Dragon King Left Arm Bone, whose elemental power surpassed the limits recognized by the Ice Empress.

Leng Xiyue absorbed the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ Soul Bones and underwent a five-and-a-half-month evolution in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. She awakened powerful new abilities and the Solar Forge, then learned that the tournament was only two weeks away.

• Leng Xiyue absorbed both Soul Bones, and Xiao Bai placed her in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to undergo her evolution.
• Xiao Bai told Miho Nishizumi that Leng Xiyue would gain the Dragon Kings’ bloodline, while the others cultivated among the Immortal Herbs.
• The system granted Leng Xiyue Dragon Might, Rapid Regeneration, and the Solar Forge, which replaced the system’s original Forge.
• Leng Xiyue broke out of the egg-shaped barrier and emerged from the spring after five and a half months.
• Xiao Bai told Leng Xiyue that the others had returned to prepare for the tournament, which would begin in two weeks.

Leng Xiyue learned that the Solar Forge gave her immense psionic energy and powerful skills, while her strength reached level sixty. Xiao Bai then recounted six months of events, including Spirit Hall’s failed retaliation and Yu Xiaogang’s return to Liu Erlong, whose request to promote him was sent to Tian Meng.

• Leng Xiyue learned that the Solar Forge supplied her with vast psionic energy and granted her Radiant Sun Slash and Lightspeed Adjustment Force Field.
• The Soul Bone infusion raised Leng Xiyue’s strength to level sixty, and she considered choosing Da Ming or Er Ming to sacrifice himself to her.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei defeated Spirit Hall’s four-person operation at the Alliance Ceremony, and the Alliance retaliated by firing two missiles into Martial Soul Forest.
• Yu Xiaogang came to see Liu Erlong, and she returned to him despite Flender’s efforts to win her over.
• Liu Erlong pleaded for Yu Xiaogang to be promoted at Jiuzhou Academy’s Heaven Dou Branch, and the matter was reported to Tian Meng.

Leng Xiyue returned to Heaven Dou City and observed the expanding industrial cooperation between Heaven Dou and the Jiuzhou Empire. At Jiuzhou Academy, Yu Xiaogang dismissed the threat of newly delivered robots, just as Old Wang was told he would be promoted.

• Leng Xiyue learned that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect had restricted Liu Erlong to prevent her from eloping with Yu Xiaogang, then returned to Heaven Dou City with Xiao Bai.
• Leng Xiyue found Heaven Dou City flourishing as the Jiuzhou Empire and Heaven Dou expanded factories, trade, livestock farming, and civilian research.
• Qin Menglan led joint research that produced new robots, which were delivered to Jiuzhou Academy.
• Old Wang worried the robots would replace the cleaners, but Yu Xiaogang dismissed them as mere tricks.
• A cheerful voice approached and congratulated Old Wang on his promotion.

Old Wang was promoted to supervise the academy’s new cleaning robots and assist the Empire Research Institute, while Yu Xiaogang was dismissed for poor work and thrown out of Jiuzhou Academy. Yu Xiaogang left vowing revenge and planned to elope with Erlong when he could meet her.

• Old Zhang brought Old Wang to see Yin Shu, and Yu Xiaogang accompanied them.
• Yin Shu explained that new robots would help the cleaners while their pay and benefits remained unchanged.
• Yin Shu named Old Wang the best cleaner, promoted him to department supervisor, and selected him to help the Empire Research Institute record technical knowledge.
• Yin Shu announced that the least efficient cleaner would be dismissed and identified Yu Xiaogang as the one to go.
• Yu Xiaogang protested, but Yin Shu had two security guards carry him out of the academy and throw him through the gates.
• Yu Xiaogang threatened the guards and left, planning to elope with Erlong after finding a chance to meet her.

Leng Xiyue and Liu Erlong encountered Yu Xiaogang after he was dismissed from the academy for exploiting his colleagues. Faced with the truth about his conduct, Liu Erlong rejected him and destroyed the token that had bound them together.

• Leng Xiyue and Liu Erlong arrived as Yu Xiaogang was preparing to flee, and Liu Erlong hesitated to approach him.
• Leng Xiyue mocked Yu Xiaogang, then asked Yin Shu why the academy had dismissed him.
• Yin Shu explained that Yu Xiaogang shirked his work, made ordinary employees do it, and collected a higher salary while deceiving them.
• Leng Xiyue left Liu Erlong to decide what to do, and Liu Erlong recognized that Yu Xiaogang no longer resembled the man she had admired.
• Liu Erlong joined their jade pendant halves and burned them, declaring that all bonds between her and Yu Xiaogang were severed.

With Yu Xiaogang gone, Liu Erlong felt relieved and joined Leng Xiyue and Flender to finalize their tournament plans. Leng Xiyue reviewed the rosters for Jiuzhou Heaven Dou Imperial Academy’s two teams, including the powerful first team and the Shrek Seven Monsters, whose strength had grown without most of their usual advantages.

• Yu Xiaogang left, and Liu Erlong felt refreshed after letting go of her former relationship with him.
• Liu Erlong joined Leng Xiyue and Flender in a meeting to make final preparations for the tournament.
• Flender presented the rosters for Jiuzhou Heaven Dou Imperial Academy’s first and second teams.
• Leng Xiyue reviewed the first team’s roster, led by Snow Empress and including Ice Empress, Qin Menglan, Xuanwu, Ah Yin, Wu Rou, and Liu Qinghan.
• Leng Xiyue reviewed the Shrek Seven Monsters’ roster and noted that Oscar had surpassed Dai Mubai in Soul Power and become captain.

Leng Xiyue reviewed Shrek’s tournament prospects and learned that the Victoria Kingdom had entered an unusual team made entirely of certified Soul Engineers. Flender warned that their selection suggested they were serious contenders, leaving Leng Xiyue to assess a new threat alongside the Elemental Academies.

• Leng Xiyue and Flender discussed how Dai Mubai and Oscar would have to carry Shrek’s second team against stronger opponents.
• Flender gave Leng Xiyue documents on the tournament teams and identified the Wind, Thunder, Water, and Fire Academies as their main rivals.
• Flender told Leng Xiyue that the Elephant Armor Sect had withdrawn and drew her attention to the Victoria Kingdom’s Soul Engineer squad.
• Leng Xiyue examined the squad’s unconventional martial souls and considered how the Victoria Kingdom’s wealth, trade, and research culture had enabled its development.
• Flender warned Leng Xiyue that the Victoria royal family would not have entered the squad without confidence in its ability to compete.

Leng Xiyue learned that Spirit Hall had offered an exceptionally valuable External Soul Bone as the tournament prize and suspected it was preparing a scheme to defeat the Jiuzhou First Team. She asked Qin Menglan and Qinghan how they would counter Spirit Hall if it used anti-Soul-Beast weapons and an EMP Bomb.

• Leng Xiyue heard that Spirit Hall had offered an eighty-thousand-year Sky Cloud Fox External Soul Bone as the tournament prize and guessed it aimed to restore its prestige and promote Hu Liena.
• Flender told Leng Xiyue that the tournament opening ceremony would take place in a week and that Tireya, Spirit Hall’s newly appointed Platinum Bishop, would attend.
• Leng Xiyue considered how Spirit Hall might use ancient Soul Tools against the Jiuzhou First Team and left the conference room to think through countermeasures.
• Qin Menglan and Qinghan joined Leng Xiyue, who asked how they would fight if Spirit Hall had weapons to counter the Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Xuanwu, as well as an EMP Bomb.