Chapter Summaries

Leng Xiyue’s reinforcements and Stalker suicide attacks shifted the battle around the Papal Hall, leaving Bibi Dong under heavy pressure. As Bibi Dong called on Qian Daoliu for help, Spirit Hall’s forces paused, and Leng Xiyue retained a possible route to retreat.

• Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, Chrysanthemum, Ghost, and other allied Titled Douluos were captured or incapacitated, while Bibi Dong remained locked in combat with Kaldalis and Tang Hao.
• Leng Xiyue deployed five Titled Douluo puppets and a hundred Stalkers carrying Fusion Explosives, whose blasts gravely wounded several Spirit Hall fighters.
• Leng Xiyue sent another hundred Stalkers into the fight, and Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluos dispersed to seek a ranged attack, leaving Bibi Dong, Javier, and Tireya exposed.
• Tian Meng defeated Tireya, Javier was gravely wounded, and the Nine Heart Begonia Titled Douluo helped Tang Hao fight Bibi Dong under Probius’s stronger debuffs.
• Bibi Dong called for Qian Daoliu’s help as Spirit Hall fighters began moving to reinforce her, and both sides halted at her shout.

Leng Xiyue forced Qian Daoliu to end the battle by threatening to detonate a nuclear bomb beneath Spirit City, and he agreed to her demands and took Bibi Dong into custody. At the Elder Hall, Leng Xiyue outlined a plan for Qian Renxue to succeed Bibi Dong as Pope, leaving Qian Daoliu to consider its remaining flaw.

• Qian Daoliu arrived with the four other Top Offerings and offered to spare Leng Xiyue if she surrendered and handed over her armaments.
• Leng Xiyue demanded compensation, a public retraction of Spirit Hall's accusations, noninterference in the Jiuzhou Empire, and Bibi Dong's removal and detention.
• Leng Xiyue revealed a nuclear bomb beneath Spirit City and a life-monitoring system that would trigger it if she were seriously harmed, then threatened to shoot herself.
• Qian Daoliu agreed to Leng Xiyue's terms, ordered Golden Crocodile to take Bibi Dong away, and negotiated a Peace Agreement that ended the war.
• At the Elder Hall, Qian Daoliu's threat-assessment specialist's crystal ball exploded while testing the bomb, convincing him of its danger.
• Leng Xiyue proposed that Qian Daoliu purge Bibi Dong's loyalists and help Qian Renxue take the papal throne, with Angel Clan elders supporting her rule.

Leng Xiyue and Qian Daoliu agreed on Spirit Hall’s future role, policies for Soul Beasts, and a plan to attack Evil Soul Masters. After leaving their meeting, Leng Xiyue arranged to have Yu Xiaogang imprisoned while she remained in Spirit City.

• Leng Xiyue gave Qian Daoliu a pendant she claimed would block Bibi Dong’s connection to the higher world, and they agreed that Spirit Hall would become a religious organization under the Jiuzhou Empire’s leadership.
• Leng Xiyue proposed establishing a Soul Beast nation under the Jiuzhou Empire and developing Programmable Soul Rings, while warning that uncooperative Soul Beasts would be exterminated once humans had another source of Soul Rings.
• Leng Xiyue and Qian Daoliu agreed that Spirit Hall would search for Evil Soul Master gathering places for a nuclear strike.
• Qian Daoliu asked what would have happened if he had attacked, and Leng Xiyue explained that Spirit City would still have been destroyed while she escaped with Qian Renxue.
• Leng Xiyue left Spirit Hall with Light Feather Douluo escorting her and asked Guang Ling to imprison Yu Xiaogang for later punishment.

Leng Xiyue helped Qian Renxue prepare to become Spirit Hall's Pope while Qian Daoliu purged the organization and restored order in Spirit City. On the eve of the coronation, Tang Hao asked Qian Renxue to forgive him for killing Qian Xunji, and she agreed to include him in a public amnesty ceremony.

• Leng Xiyue comforted Qian Renxue and promised to help her govern Spirit Hall through a privy council so they could travel together.
• Leng Xiyue trained a puppet to impersonate Xue Qinghe and sent him to handle matters in Heaven Dou as Qian Daoliu prepared Qian Renxue's accession.
• Qian Daoliu signed a new treaty with Leng Xiyue, publicly accused Bibi Dong of numerous crimes, and launched a purge of her followers.
• Qian Daoliu's forces executed several war criminals, and Spirit City recovered as visitors gathered for Qian Renxue's coronation.
• Tang Hao knelt before Qian Renxue and asked forgiveness for killing Qian Xunji; Qian Renxue forgave him and told him to attend her coronation amnesty ceremony bound.

Qian Renxue was crowned the Fifty-Third Pope of Spirit Hall and announced a new era of peace, reconciliation, and reforms. After the ceremony and a week of public celebrations, she returned to the Papal Hall to face Spirit Hall’s officials.

• Leng Xiyue escorted Qian Renxue to the Papal Hall as the leaders of the Jiuzhou Empire and Spirit Hall appeared together before the crowds.
• Qian Daoliu crowned Qian Renxue, and Guang Ling presented her with the papal scepter, formally making her Pope.
• Qian Renxue announced Spirit Hall’s peaceful new stance, revoked the Clear Sky Sect’s lockdown, cleared Tang Hao from the wanted list, and freed him from his bonds.
• Qian Renxue announced protections for friendly Soul Beasts and ended Spirit Hall’s policy of treating all Soul Beasts as enemies.
• Qian Renxue returned to the Papal Hall after announcing a week of celebrations, then took her seat before Spirit Hall’s assembled officials.

Qian Renxue purged corrupt Spirit Hall officials and announced an open examination to rebuild its ranks. Leng Xiyue offered to take responsibility for imprisoning the dismissed officials, then brought a hesitant Qian Renxue to visit Bibi Dong.

• Qian Renxue offered officials a chance to resign and approved the departures of about three-quarters of those assembled.
• Qian Renxue proposed an open examination to recruit capable Spirit Hall members, and the Platinum Bishop overseeing internal affairs supported the plan.
• Qian Renxue assigned Angel Clan members to gather intelligence on the remaining officials and called Leng Xiyue to join her.
• Leng Xiyue offered to have Bibi Dong identify the dismissed officials as her partisans, then planned to imprison them in the Jiuzhou Empire's northern wasteland.
• Leng Xiyue invited Qian Renxue to visit Bibi Dong and led her to the Papal Hall dungeon, where Light Feather Douluo greeted them.

Leng Xiyue questioned Bibi Dong about the Demon Realm and learned that its invasion was expected in about ten years, then left with Qian Renxue after forbidding Bibi Dong from seeing her. With Spirit Hall’s administration reorganized, Leng Xiyue and Qian Renxue departed Spirit City as their allies scattered to pursue separate plans.

• Leng Xiyue visited Bibi Dong in prison with Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong revealed that Yu Xiaogang had helped her restore the materials needed to contact the Demon Realm.
• Bibi Dong warned that the Demon Realm would descend in roughly ten years, while Leng Xiyue barred her from seeing Qian Renxue and left her to reflect on how she had treated her daughter.
• Qian Renxue and Leng Xiyue established a Privy Council to manage Spirit Hall, appointed an Angel Clan elder as chief councilor, and then left Spirit City with a small entourage.
• Leng Xiyue left Yu Xiaogang in Spirit Hall’s custody, while Hu Liena volunteered to oversee him and the Shrek Seven Monsters and their companions dispersed to different destinations.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin stayed in Spirit City and stopped involving themselves in Tang San’s affairs, while Xiao Wu returned to the Star Dou Great Forest with Wu Rou, Da Ming, and Er Ming to prepare Leng Xiyue’s plans for Soul Beasts.

Dai Mubai attacked a slave convoy and urged the captives to rise against the Star Luo Empire’s tyranny. After Li Mengdie gave him an opening to kill the captain, Dai Mubai and the slaves defeated the guards, and the freed slaves gathered around him, ready to follow him.

• Li Mengdie endured the guards’ abuse as they marched her and hundreds of other captives toward an earl’s estate.
• Dai Mubai ambushed the convoy, but the guards’ gunfire badly wounded him before the slaves seized weapons and joined the fight.
• Dai Mubai declared that he had returned to overthrow the Star Luo Empire’s tyranny, while the guard captain dismissed the slaves as livestock and prepared to kill him.
• Li Mengdie tackled the captain to create an opening, and Dai Mubai shot him with a large-caliber pistol.
• Dai Mubai activated a healing supply station, cut the slaves’ shackles, and helped them kill the remaining guards and fleeing Soul Masters.
• The freed slaves gathered around Dai Mubai, choosing to follow him rather than return to their homes and face reprisals.

Dai Mubai rallied escaped slaves and planned to seize the Earl’s fortress from within, using disguises and firearms. His group infiltrated the fortress, where Dai Mubai entered the castle with Li Mengdie and five women to assess its defenses before confronting the Earl.

• Dai Mubai urged the slaves to resist, and more than a hundred men pledged themselves to his cause while over a hundred women fled.
• Li Mengdie woke and chose to join Dai Mubai’s uprising, accepting books on administration and territorial development from Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dai Mubai assigned the insurgents their roles and planned to disguise the advance team as guards, infiltrate the fortress, arm their followers, and assassinate the Earl.
• Dai Mubai’s party entered the fortress, where Zhu Zhuqing’s people replaced the guards and the disguised team began gathering weapons and sabotaging facilities.
• Dai Mubai led Li Mengdie and five young women into the castle and surveyed its cannons and machine-gun positions instead of immediately seeking the Earl.

Dai Mubai and his companions stormed the Earl’s castle, killed the Earl, and defeated its defenders, but thousands of troops surrounded the fortress. Li Mengdie moved to recruit the imprisoned slaves and other captives to strengthen their position.

• Dai Mubai armed the girls, warned them to prioritize survival, and took Li Mengdie with him to the Earl’s quarters.
• Dai Mubai killed the guards at the Earl’s door, then used the Dragon Flame Cannon to kill the Earl and destroy the bridge to the Inner City.
• Dai Mubai and Li Mengdie fought their way through the castle using heavy weapons, an EMP bomb, and support from the other girls.
• Dai Mubai’s group cleared the castle floors, but five hundred guards surrounded the fortress and three thousand more waited across the moat.
• Li Mengdie assessed the divided enemy forces and led the group toward the cells to recruit imprisoned slaves and captives.

Li Mengdie rallied the castle’s enslaved workers and organized its defenses alongside Dai Mubai, who used a Tactical Radar to track enemy forces. The two prepared for a siege, while Dai Mubai explained why neither side dared risk destroying the castle’s advanced weapons.

• Li Mengdie exposed and killed guards disguised as laborers, then rallied more than 120 enslaved people to arm themselves and prepare the castle’s defenses.
• Dai Mubai placed a Tactical Radar on the rooftop, revealing enemy deployments to the defenders and the Outer City forces.
• Dai Mubai organized machine-gun teams and fortified the castle, assigning guards, distributing weapons and grenades, and securing food for a prolonged battle.
• Li Mengdie asked why the Outer City artillery did not bombard the castle, and Dai Mubai explained that both sides wanted to preserve the Empire’s valuable weapons and armories.
• Dai Mubai explained that the castle’s advanced weapons could attract nobles and armies from across the world, and Li Mengdie understood their strategic importance.

Dai Mubai and Li Mengdie used the castle cannons to provoke a battle between the Inner City and Outer City forces, while preparing a breakout. When the Inner City troops launched an assault on the castle, the Resistance Army met them with overwhelming gunfire.

• Dai Mubai proposed firing on the Outer City and using the secret passages and the enemy’s response to create an opening for a breakout, and Li Mengdie agreed.
• Dai Mubai sent Zhu Zhuqing three battle plans, while Li Mengdie assigned fifty people to ten gun positions and Dai Mubai trained them to operate the cannons.
• Dai Mubai opened fire on the Outer City's artillery positions, prompting its guns to bombard the castle and injure the Inner City troops below.
• The Inner City commander and the Outer City's Captain of the Guards blamed each other, and their suspicions deepened until they stopped communicating.
• The Inner City commander ordered five hundred troops to assault the castle from its stairs, ladders, and walls.
• Dai Mubai's machine-gun positions and Resistance Army riflemen opened heavy fire on the attackers as they reached the castle.

Dai Mubai’s forces held the Castle while the Outer City Resistance Army seized the city wall and turned its cannons against the Inner City Army. After heavy losses and a failed assault, the Inner City commander ordered a retreat but was shot dead, and a soldier called for surrender.

• The Inner City Army’s first assault on the Castle was wiped out, and its commander ordered two thousand men to attack from every direction.
• The Outer City Resistance Army launched a surprise uprising, captured the wall’s artillery positions, and brought in additional fighters.
• Zhu Zhuqing helped the resistance secure the Outer City Wall, allowing them to fire the captured cannons at the Inner City troops.
• Dai Mubai withdrew his defenders to the Castle’s upper floors as the Inner City Army broke into the building and fought through its rooms and passages.
• After bombardment and Castle defenses killed thousands, the Inner City Army reached only the fourth floor, and its commander ordered a retreat and threatened to fight in the streets.
• A gunman shot the Inner City commander, and another soldier urged the troops to surrender.

Dai Mubai’s forces captured the castle after the defenders surrendered, and Dai Mubai ordered the prisoners who laid down their weapons slaughtered. He rallied the surviving Resistance Army and began deciding how to handle the castle’s prisoners and newly liberated people, leaving the movement’s loyalty and future growth unresolved.

• Dai Mubai’s forces killed the defenders still fighting inside the castle, then slaughtered the roughly thousand soldiers who surrendered.
• Dai Mubai gathered the Resistance Army’s fallen, urged the survivors to remember their comrades, and vowed to continue liberating the oppressed.
• Dai Mubai’s forces took control of the castle and assembled its prisoners, slaves, and peasants for registration and processing.
• Li Mengdie suggested killing the old, weak, sick, and disabled prisoners, while Zhu Zhuqing recognized Dai Mubai’s dilemma and a liberated slave girl objected.
• Li Mengdie challenged the girl’s sympathy for her former masters, while Dai Mubai faced the problem of building a loyal movement from only a few thousand people.

Dai Mubai released the refugees and organized the Earl Fortress into a growing settlement, building a loyal guard and training an army. As food shortages threatened expansion, he prepared to move against the remaining troops in the Earl's Domain and take control of its land.

• Dai Mubai decided to let the refugees leave for other parts of the Star Luo Empire, while Li Mengdie affirmed his authority and supported his reasoning.
• Dai Mubai used the fortress’s supplies and equipment to shelter those who stayed, then oversaw repairs and assigned residents housing and duties.
• After a week, Li Mengdie selected fifty dependable personal guards, and Dai Mubai appointed officers to train troops using Miho Nishizumi's Military Training Guide.
• More than two thousand people joined Dai Mubai after news spread that the Earl's Domain had changed hands, but only about five hundred agreed to work in production.
• Dai Mubai assembled two thousand recruits and veterans, with guns, artillery, and several dozen vehicles, to confront the remaining forces and seize control of the territory.

Dai Mubai consolidated the earldom by winning support from farmers and townspeople, while Dai Yun held back from attacking because the Jiuzhou Empire warned that interference over the stolen equipment would mean war. The Jiuzhou Empire made clear it would guarantee the earldom’s independence, leaving Dai Mubai in control of a small territory as Star Luo forces gathered nearby.

• Dai Yun rejected Dai Weisi’s proposal to publicly condemn the Jiuzhou Empire and ordered troops to surround the earldom without entering it.
• Dai Mubai set out with two thousand soldiers and gained farmers’ support by ending taxes and forced labor while buying their surplus grain.
• Dai Mubai occupied the earldom’s five towns, executed nobles, and won the welcome of the local population.
• The earldom’s force of over ten thousand fled toward the Star Luo Empire’s heartland, leaving Dai Mubai in control of the territory.
• Leng Xiyue declared that the Jiuzhou Empire would not interfere in Star Luo’s internal affairs but would treat any attack on its equipment as a declaration of war.
• Leng Xiyue offered to evacuate Dai Mubai and his followers to the Jiuzhou Empire, making the Empire’s policy of guaranteeing the earldom’s independence clear.

Leng Xiyue brought Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong, and their companions to Slaughter City for training and to confront its dangers, backed by a vast Jiuzhou army. Bibi Dong reflected on her past and hoped to earn Leng Xiyue’s forgiveness, while the group entered the town on the way to Slaughter City.

• Dai Mubai’s territory traded industrial goods for grain and immigrants while the Star Luo Empire’s border wall project stalled.
• Leng Xiyue traveled through the Star Dou Great Forest with Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong, Tang San, Hu Liena, and Kaldalis, while a large army established a position near Slaughter City.
• Leng Xiyue told Tang San and Hu Liena that they would train their minds and courage by killing criminals in Slaughter City.
• Bibi Dong led the group into the town’s tavern, where criminals recognized Leng Xiyue and fled.
• Bibi Dong reflected on her past relationship with Yu Xiaogang and resolved to seek Leng Xiyue’s forgiveness and repair her relationship with Qian Renxue.

Bibi Dong brought Leng Xiyue, Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Tang San into Slaughter City, using deadly force to get them past its guards. Leng Xiyue discovered that most of the city opposed the Jiuzhou Empire and retaliated against an ambush; she planned to prepare Hu Liena and Tang San for the city’s gun-based fighting while pursuing her own training goals.

• Hu Liena drank her Bloody Mary without hesitation, while Tang San forced himself to drink his and then vomited as the tavern crowd jeered at him.
• Bibi Dong killed two servers and compelled a third to open the entrance to Slaughter City, then warned Hu Liena and Tang San that the city understood only force.
• Bibi Dong threatened the black-armored knight into letting the group enter and handing over six tokens, then went ahead while the veiled woman offered to guide the others.
• Leng Xiyue found portraits of herself and Qian Renxue vandalized throughout the city and learned that an anti-Jiuzhou coalition united most of its residents.
• After a gunman’s bullet bounced off Leng Xiyue’s barrier, she destroyed the attacker’s building with a rocket launcher and decided to prepare weapons for Hu Liena and Tang San.

Leng Xiyue took control of Slaughter City by threatening its residents with daily bombardments and demanding that they kill one another, while Tang San and Hu Liena began their trials. After rebels attacked her and Qian Renxue, the pair slaughtered them, leaving the city too frightened to challenge Leng Xiyue openly.

• The girl in black gauze explained that Outer City residents were kept as blood sources, then led Leng Xiyue, Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and Tang San into the Inner City.
• Leng Xiyue shot a man attacking a woman, and Qian Renxue killed the woman when she tried to stab Leng Xiyue.
• Leng Xiyue ordered the Inner City residents to kill one person each and promised daily bombardments until six thousand heads were placed in a pit.
• Leng Xiyue sent Kaldalis to prepare the pit, then fired five random blasts the next morning while Bibi Dong went to meet the King of Slaughter.
• A group of more than a hundred residents attacked Leng Xiyue, but she cut down the front ranks with Psionic Energy Blades and Qian Renxue killed the gunmen.
• Leng Xiyue challenged anyone who still wanted to kill her to face her in the Hell Slaughter Arena.

Leng Xiyue arranged a new team battle in Slaughter City and fought alongside Qian Renxue against forty contestants. They won, but Leng Xiyue discovered that killing in close combat awakened a disturbing exhilaration in her, which Xiao Bai silently observed.

• Slaughter City’s factions fought over the remaining heads, killing roughly two thousand people before Kaldalis smashed the square into a crater.
• Leng Xiyue proposed special team matches at the Hell Slaughter Arena, and Tang San and Hu Liena each won their first matches despite suffering injuries.
• The Black Veil Girl announced a forty-against-two event, and Leng Xiyue and Qian Renxue entered the arena to fight the contestants.
• Leng Xiyue and Qian Renxue killed all their opponents, while Leng Xiyue found herself exhilarated by the slaughter and fought with an unknown energy.
• Xiao Bai appeared to watch the battle, and Leng Xiyue looked at the wounded Qian Renxue with bloodlust in her eyes.