Chapter Summaries

Ning Tian showed Xiao Xiao how Azure Dragon City brought sects and people from different walks of life together around learning and practical work. She then escorted Xiao Xiao to the Azure Dragon King’s Residence, where Huo Yuhao had just emerged from a meeting.

• Ning Tian explained that Azure Dragon City hosted branches of many Soul Master factions and offered residents a path to stay through assessments, then pointed out former Shrek students who had found roles there.
• Ning Tian took Xiao Xiao through the Public Grand Library, where people of different ranks shared knowledge, and helped a Soul Engineer find a solution to a failed food-warmer experiment.
• Ning Tian explained that Azure Dragon City valued useful ideas and contributions, while the library made basic knowledge freely available and offered everyone a chance to receive expert guidance.
• Xiao Xiao spotted the building that housed the secret Myriad Spirits Council headquarters, and Ning Tian continued escorting her through the heavily guarded central district.
• Ning Tian told Xiao Xiao that Huo Yuhao would personally assess her unusual Martial Soul and led her into the Azure Dragon King’s Residence as Huo Yuhao came out after meeting with Hong Yue and Bai Ming.

Huo Yuhao tested Xiao Xiao's resolve and showed her how to use the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron by resonating with heaven and earth. After seven days of grueling training, Xiao Xiao stood among Azure Dragon City's defenders as Huo Yuhao's forces marched to war, determined to earn a place in the Lingdou City campaign.

• Wu Bufan told Huo Yuhao that Ning Tian had brought Xiao Xiao, who possessed the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and the Nine-Phoenix Ritual Flute, to Azure Dragon City.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Xiao Xiao to attack him, and she overcame her fear to unleash Cauldron Tremor with the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron.
• Huo Yuhao stopped and recombined Xiao Xiao's three cauldrons, then demonstrated how to use Cauldron Tremor to stir heaven and earth and suppress everything around it.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Ning Tian to enroll Xiao Xiao in the City Defense Battalion and put her through special training, promising she could join the Lingdou City Battle if she endured a month.
• After seven days of harsh training, Xiao Xiao joined the north wall's martial-soul salute as Huo Yuhao led Heavenly River Dustless and the Holy Dragon Brigade off to war.

The Heaven Dou Eastern Army rapidly captured three of the Ten Perils, aided by aerial reconnaissance and saturation bombardment. Huo Yuhao planned a surprise assault on Dragon Throat Gorge while Li Kongming reported that Dai Hao had taken Crouching Dragon Pass at great cost.

• The Heaven Dou Eastern Army overwhelmed Dragon Fang Pass, then captured Falling Eagle Ravine and Iron Rock Pass as Dou Ling reinforcements arrived too late.
• Huo Yuhao told Li Kongming that Heavenly River Dustless and the Holy Dragon Brigade would lead the assault on Dragon Throat Gorge.
• Li Kongming reported that Dai Hao had seized Crouching Dragon Pass after Long Tianming’s mountain fortifications inflicted heavy losses, and Long Tianming died defending it.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the Eastern Army to stage a diversion at the gorge entrance while Heavenly River Dustless and the Holy Dragon Brigade attacked the cliff tops at the hour of Xu.

Huo Yuhao and the Heavenly Dou Eastern Army captured Dragon Throat Gorge by collapsing its cliffs and diverting the Raging Waves River through the pass. With the gorge garrison shattered and the flood rushing toward Ghost Gate Path, Huo Yuhao led the Soul Saint-level experts onward to seize the next stronghold.

• Huo Yuhao and Long Teng used their martial soul powers to collapse the cliffs while the Heavenly Dou forces stormed the heights and attacked the Dou Ling defenders.
• Huo Yuhao and the water-attribute soul masters reversed the waterfalls and flooded Dragon Throat Gorge, sweeping away the garrison’s fortifications and many soldiers.
• Huo Yuhao froze the attacks of 150 Dou Ling Soul Saints, then killed them with Great Heavenly Thunder Sound.
• Li Kongming ordered the Eastern Army to advance, while Huo Yuhao assigned the Holy Dragon Brigade to secure the cliffs and directed the Soul Saints toward Ghost Gate Path.
• Huo Yuhao carried the Soul Saints toward Ghost Gate Path as the diverted river surged toward the pass.

Huo Yuhao used the diverted Raging Waves River flood and his Azure Dragon form to break Ghost Gate Path’s defenses, then attacked its Core Fortress with dragons of ice, water, boiling water, and steam. After the Heaven Dou forces arrived, he raised the dead as undead soldiers, while news of the pass’s fall shocked the Dou Ling Empire leadership.

• The flood from Dragon Throat Gorge rushed toward Ghost Gate Path as Huo Yuhao raced ahead and smashed through the gate and a section of the walls.
• The flood poured through the breach, and Heaven Dou Soul Saints charged into the pass while Huo Yuhao headed toward its defenses.
• Huo Yuhao evaded the fortress’s heavy Soul Cannons in the torrent and used four water dragons to freeze, batter, crack, and fill the Core Fortress with scalding steam.
• The Heaven Dou Eastern Army and Heavenly River Dustless reached Ghost Gate Path, where Huo Yuhao raised corpses from the flood as undead soldiers.
• The Dou Ling Empire leadership learned that two major passes had fallen in one night and that half of the Ten Perilous Passes had been lost in just over ten days.

Huo Yuhao and Li Kongming prepared to demolish Hanging Skull Pass while Heaven Dou’s army cleared the conquered routes and waited for explosives. In Lingdou City, Xue Rui seized command of Dou Ling’s remaining forces and prepared for a final defense, accepting that the empire might fall.

• Huo Yuhao told Zhao Xuan to obtain the explosives and drilling Soul Tools needed to collapse Hanging Skull Pass, Bloodheart Valley, and Soldier-Striking Mountain.
• Heaven Dou’s forces rerouted floodwaters, cleared rubble, and built roads around Dragon Throat Gorge and Ghost Gate Path while awaiting supplies.
• Xu Yan ordered Hanging Skull Pass’s plank road burned, then sent a Swift Shadow Falcon toward the Heaven Dou Eastern Army with a warning.
• Xue Rui rejected Xu Yan’s plan, ordered his removal and the arrest of his allies, and placed the Eight Longitudinal and Transverse Lines under her direct command.
• Xue Rui ordered nationwide conscription and a final concentration of Dou Ling’s forces at the defensive lines and Heaven Gate City.
• Xue Rui told Sky Sun Douluo to ensure she could die on the battlefield and to burn Lingdou City’s Imperial Palace rather than let it fall into enemy hands.

Huo Yuhao’s forces planted timed explosives throughout the Yuanling Mountain Range while Xu Yan burned the plank road to stage his allegiance to Heaven Dou. As the countdown ended, Xue Rui’s three Soul Douluo arrived at Hanging Skull Pass just as the charges reached their final marks.

• Huo Yuhao and Li Kongming accepted Xu Yan’s offer of allegiance for the time being, using it to buy time while the Eastern Army cleared the river.
• Zhao Xuan delivered a vast stockpile of Fixed Soul Cannon Shells and the Body Sect’s Mountain-Piercing Pangolin Soul Tools to Huo Yuhao in the Undead Demiplane.
• Xu Yan ordered his soldiers to burn the plank road at Hanging Skull Pass, believing the fire would help him secure a future position with Heaven Dou.
• Huo Yuhao’s forces and Soul Beasts drilled into the Yuanling Mountain Range, placed explosives at weak points, and evacuated before the timed charges detonated.
• Huo Yuhao gathered the troops and Soul Beasts at the Dragon Throat River camp to watch the countdown, while Xu Yan awaited the promised rescue at Hanging Skull Pass.
• Three Soul Douluo arrived at Hanging Skull Pass carrying Xue Rui’s gold token just as the explosives’ timers reached their final marks.

Huo Yuhao’s plan destroyed three perilous passes in the Yuanling Mountain Range, leaving Qiling Pass and Dragon Tail Road isolated. Their commanders surrendered, allowing the Heaven Dou army to advance toward the Eight Longitudinal and Transverse Lines.

• A massive earthquake and a series of explosions collapsed the Yuanling Mountain Range, burying Hanging Skull Pass, Bloodheart Valley, and Soldier-Striking Mountain and killing Xu Yan and the fleeing Soul Douluos.
• Huo Yuhao’s army surveyed the ruins, and Li Kongming ordered earth-attribute Soul Masters to clear the roads while the Heaven Dou forces made camp.
• The commanders at Qiling Pass and Dragon Tail Road agreed to surrender rather than resist after the destruction left their passes isolated.
• Several days later, Dou Ling soldiers clearing the road encountered Heaven Dou troops and surrendered instead of fighting.
• A messenger reported that Zhang He and Wang Pan had led their remaining troops out of the two passes and requested surrender; Huo Yuhao and Li Kongming accepted.

After the surrender of Qiling Pass and Dragon Tail Road, Huo Yuhao and Li Kongming planned a covert strike against Flying Eagle Pass, the aerial-support hub of the Eight Longitudinal and Transverse Lines. They left the story preparing a coordinated assault meant to cripple the base and open the enemy’s defenses without harming civilians.

• Zhang He and Wang Pan surrendered Qiling Pass and Dragon Tail Road, then told Huo Yuhao and Li Kongming that the Dou Ling Empire had concentrated its forces in the Eight Longitudinal and Transverse Lines.
• Li Kongming explained how the eight strongholds supported one another and identified Flying Eagle Pass as the vulnerable wing whose loss would weaken the core defenses.
• Huo Yuhao proposed feints against Watersplitting Pass and Dragon-Locking Bridge while his elite team infiltrated Flying Eagle Pass and destroyed its air-control system.
• Li Kongming planned a follow-up assault on Eaglewing Bay to block reinforcements and provide the team with a route to withdraw.
• Huo Yuhao recruited the water-type Soul Beasts and Ice Empress to open an old underground riverbed passage and create dense fog for the infiltration.

The Myriad Demon King, Old Five, and Tang Yi coordinated plans to attack Clear Sky Castle and exploit Niu Tian and Tai Tan’s restrictions, while Old Five learned Wang Dong might be his granddaughter. In the Divine Realm, Tang Chen and Bo Saixi decided to visit the Clear Sky Sect first when they descended to the lower realm.

• The Myriad Demon King brought the resurrected Old Five to a spy-run town near Clear Sky Castle, where a one-armed elder briefed them on Tang Yi’s infiltration and Wang Dong’s missing memories.
• The elder explained that Niu Tian and Tai Tan were powerful but bound by Tang San’s restrictions, and that Old Five and Wang Dong could help create an opening to subdue them.
• Tang Yi met the group in a secret passage, and Old Five became enraged when Tang Yi said Wang Dong resembled him and might be his blood relative.
• The Myriad Demon King and Tang Yi urged Old Five to control his anger, then Tang Yi shared Clear Sky Castle’s defenses and Niu Tian’s daily route to the Tranquility Platform.
• Tang Chen and Bo Saixi discussed their planned descent to Douluo Planet and agreed to visit the Clear Sky Sect first.

Huo Yuhao copied Cao Jinxuan’s Time-Mark Imprint and prepared for the assault on Flying Eagle Pass, while Xiao Xiao and Cao Jinxuan began intensive battlefield training. As the Ice Empress and the Soul Beasts spread mist across the rivers, Huo Yuhao ordered Broken Wing Operation to begin at dawn.

• Huo Yuhao selected nine team members for his squad, returned to Azure Dragon City, and copied Cao Jinxuan’s Time-Mark Imprint.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Cao Jinxuan and Xiao Xiao to train in bombardment survival, rapid relocation, and collective defense instead of sending them directly into battle.
• Ning Tian arranged brutal battlefield simulations for Cao Jinxuan and Xiao Xiao on the western side of Azure Dragon City.
• At Dragon Tail Road Pass, Huo Yuhao studied Time-Mark Imprint and planned his assault on Flying Eagle Pass, driven by a sense of impending danger.
• The Ice Empress and the ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts entered the three great rivers, where mist spread toward Flying Eagle Pass.
• Huo Yuhao and Li Kongming saw the rising mist, and Huo Yuhao ordered Broken Wing Operation to begin in ten hours at dawn.

Huo Yuhao led a covert strike through an ancient river passage into Flying Eagle Pass while Heaven Dou forces feinted against the Dou Ling defensive line. After destroying the pass’s flying Soul Tools and killing its defenders, Huo Yuhao’s team escaped amid a devastating counterattack, and Li Kongming ordered Heaven Dou to seize Eaglewing Bay and begin taking the surrounding cities.

• Li Kongming’s eastern army bombarded Watersplitting Pass and probed Dragon-Locking Bridge while Heaven Dou’s main force unleashed a saturation attack on Dragon Head Platform.
• Xue Rui ordered Flying Eagle Pass to heighten its alert, but the frontal assaults drew the defenders’ attention away from its rear flank.
• Huo Yuhao led his team through the Ancient River Channel, silently eliminated a patrol led by Lone Bamboo Sword, and entered Flying Eagle Pass through a maintenance passage.
• Huo Yuhao’s team attacked the core warehouse, destroyed the Flying Soul Tools with incendiary bombs, and Huo Yuhao killed the Soul Douluo and Titled Douluo guarding it.
• Su Tong’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill and the team’s combined attacks helped cover their escape, while Huo Yuhao’s Time-Mark Imprint replayed their destruction against the garrison’s counter-barrage.
• Li Kongming ordered Heaven Dou forces to seize Eaglewing Bay, surround Dragon Head Platform, and begin taking the cities near Watersplitting Pass and Dragon-Locking Bridge.

Huo Yuhao raced to Dragon-Locking Bridge as the Heaven Dou Eastern Army launched a full assault, while Du Busi pinned down the Dou Ling Offering Hall at Dragon Head Platform. When three Offering Hall Titled Douluo arrived to save the collapsing defenses, Huo Yuhao confronted rank-ninety-five Lie Yangtian, shocking the battlefield with his five Soul Rings.

• Huo Yuhao left the raiding team in its designated area and flew toward Dragon-Locking Bridge to ensure the Dou Ling Empire could not destroy the bridge.
• Du Busi held the three Offering Hall Titled Douluo in place above Dragon Head Platform while Xue Rui remained under guard.
• The Heaven Dou Eastern Army attacked Dragon-Locking Bridge, and Wang Kaishan rallied the defenders as their line crumbled under artillery and close combat.
• Xue Rui ordered the three Offering Hall Titled Douluo to reinforce Dragon-Locking Bridge, and they flew to the battlefield.
• Li Kongming ordered a saturation bombardment and a renewed assault as the three Titled Douluo arrived to attack the breach.
• Huo Yuhao intercepted Lie Yangtian's flaming strike with his scaled hand, revealing three red and two black Soul Rings to the stunned soldiers.

Huo Yuhao sent Lie Yangtian flying with a counterstrike, then killed Feng Wuji and Shi Yuekai with a spiritual attack, driving the Heaven Dou Eastern Army toward victory at Dragon-Locking Bridge. Lie Yangtian rose from the rubble and threatened Huo Yuhao, causing the army’s charge to freeze in terror.

• Huo Yuhao caught Lie Yangtian’s punch and countered with enough force to send the Super Douluo crashing into a ruined Soul Tool Turret.
• Li Kongming rallied the Heaven Dou Eastern Army to charge as the Dou Ling Empire’s defenses faltered.
• Huo Yuhao stopped Feng Wuji and Shi Yuekai with Soul Shock, killing both Titled Douluo.
• The Heaven Dou Eastern Army surged toward Dragon-Locking Bridge after the deaths of the Dou Ling Empire’s offerings.
• Lie Yangtian emerged from the rubble, threatened to annihilate Huo Yuhao, and halted the advancing army with fear.

After Lie Yangtian insulted Huo Yuhao’s mother, Huo Yuhao unleashed his full power and destroyed Dragon-Locking Bridge with the Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Finger. The Heaven Dou army broke through Watersplitting Pass, leaving the Dou Ling Empire’s defenses in the Eight Longitudinal and Transverse Lines shattered.

• Li Kongming recognized that Lie Yangtian’s insult had triggered Huo Yuhao and ordered the Heaven Dou forces to retreat.
• Huo Yuhao activated all five rings and his states, then annihilated Lie Yangtian and destroyed more than a third of Dragon-Locking Bridge with the Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Finger.
• Xue Rui saw the devastation from Dragon Head Platform Fortress, while the Douluo Planet Plane Will trapped Tang Hao with golden chains of law.
• Huo Yuhao turned his attention toward Watersplitting Pass as Dragon-Locking Bridge’s destruction isolated Dragon Head Platform and overwhelmed the Dou Ling defenses.
• The Heaven Dou Eastern Army’s bombardment breached Watersplitting Pass’s wall, and its soldiers charged through the opening.

Huo Yuhao absorbed the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, learned the Ice Explosion Technique, and helped the Heaven Dou Eastern Army launch its assault on Dragon Head Platform. As the fortress fell, Xue Rui urged her ministers to surrender and charged into the battlefield herself.

• Du Busi gave Huo Yuhao the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone and ordered him to prepare for the assault on Dragon Head Platform.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the soul bone, gained a level of soul power, and shared the Ice Explosion Technique's circulation route with the Ice Empress.
• Huo Yuhao assigned Xiao Xiao and Cao Jinxuan to the Heaven Dou forces before Li Kongming ordered the army to attack Dragon Head Platform.
• Huo Yuhao and the Ice Empress froze and detonated the river water at the fortress's southeastern defenses, destroying its heavy firepower and defenders.
• The Heaven Dou Eastern Army stormed Dragon Head Platform, and Xue Rui told her ministers to surrender before drawing her sword and charging into battle.

At Dragon Head Platform, Vina defeated Dou Ling Emperor Xue Rui, whose death ended the empire’s final resistance and severed its national fortune. As Heaven Dou’s army advanced toward Lingdou City, Huo Yuhao told Xiao Xiao that her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron was ready to evolve.

• Xue Rui charged into battle and rekindled the resolve of scattered Dou Ling soldiers to fight to the death.
• Vina challenged Xue Rui, and her armor-enhanced strength and swordsmanship broke Xue Rui’s weapon.
• Xue Rui severed her own heart meridians, and a one-armed officer and the remaining Death Soldiers killed themselves after witnessing her death.
• Vina ordered Xue Rui’s remains gathered with imperial rites and led Heaven Dou’s forces toward Sinking Sand Crossing and Lingdou City.
• Huo Yuhao watched Dou Ling’s national fortune be absorbed by Heaven Dou’s and told Xiao Xiao it was time for her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron to evolve.

Huo Yuhao guided Xiao Xiao through a dangerous evolution of her Martial Soul using the national fortunes of the fallen Dou Ling Empire and the Heaven Dou Empire, creating the Mountain and River State-Unity Cauldron. After discussing its implications for Qi Theory, he ordered the army to advance on Lingdou City, where Dai Hao’s forces were also approaching.

• Huo Yuhao linked Xiao Xiao’s Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron to the fortunes of both empires and helped her endure their conflicting power for ten days.
• Xiao Xiao fused her three cauldrons into the Mountain and River State-Unity Cauldron, which gained an Artifact Soul and became connected to Heaven Dou’s national fortune.
• Xiao Xiao’s Soul Power rose to level fifty-five without a Soul Ring, but she collapsed from exhaustion and Su Tong carried her away to recover.
• Huo Yuhao explained to Vina that national fortune Soul Masters would need to bear responsibility for their empire, then said he would be the first to condense a Soul Skill under Qi Theory.
• Vina reported that Heaven Dou’s army had taken Sinking Sand Crossing while Dai Hao had captured Heaven Gate City and was advancing toward Lingdou City.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the army to march immediately on Lingdou City.

Huo Yuhao publicly challenged Sky Sun Douluo and Dai Hao as the Heaven Dou army prepared to take Lingdou City. Sky Sun Douluo sacrificed himself in the burning imperial palace, and Huo Yuhao ordered his troops to breach the city.

• Huo Yuhao called on Lingdou City's defenders to surrender and condemned Dai Hao for waiting outside the city instead of attacking.
• Huo Yuhao declared Lingdou City Heaven Dou's objective and ordered the army to attack, prompting the troops to advance on the walls.
• Sky Sun Douluo set the imperial palace ablaze and detonated himself, fulfilling his oath as the Dou Ling Empire's final guardian.
• Lingdou City's defenders dropped their weapons and lost their remaining resolve as the palace burned.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the Heaven Dou army to breach the city's eastern and northern gates and kill anyone who resisted.

Huo Yuhao revealed himself as Dai Hao’s son and publicly condemned him for abandoning Huo Yun'er, then cursed Dai Hao by returning the remains of his former body and severing their bloodline ties. Dai Hao ordered the Star Luo army to withdraw, while Huo Yuhao claimed Lingdou City for Heaven Dou and prepared for the next war.

• Huo Yuhao donned the Azure Dragon King Robe and challenged Dai Hao, then denounced him for neglecting his sons and abandoning Huo Yun'er.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he was Huo Yuhao, Huo Yun'er's son, and recounted how she had died after enduring hardship in the Duke's Mansion.
• Huo Yuhao sent the remains of his former body into Dai Hao, severing their Fate Power ties and cursing him so he could no longer use his Evil-Eyed White Tiger Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao defeated Du Lei's attack, and Dai Hao, unable to stand, ordered the Star Luo army to withdraw.
• Du Busi told Huo Yuhao that Huo Yun'er's grave had been settled and urged him to prepare for a new war.
• Huo Yuhao ordered his forces to clear the remaining enemies and take over Lingdou City's defenses for Heaven Dou.