Recaps

Ji Lin led a covert rescue team south toward the Sun Moon Empire, using advanced Flying Soul Tools and an ocean route to avoid detection. The group reached the Star Luo Empire’s southern coast, where Ji Lin took Ye Guyi out to catch seafood before their journey across the sea.

• Ji Lin chose Chi Yuan, Ye Guyi, Wang Qiuer, Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, Nan Qiu Qiu, and Ling Luochen to join him on the hostage rescue, while Gu Yuena stayed at Freedom Gate.
• Xu Jiujiu saw Ji Lin’s group off, and the eight flew south using custom Rank 7 Flying Soul Tools powered by Sealed Milk Bottles.
• Ji Lin led the group around cities to avoid aerial detection, and they traveled for most of the day before reaching the southern coast of the Star Luo Empire.
• Ji Lin explained that they would cross the sea and enter the Sun Moon Empire from the west to keep their covert route hidden.
• After landing on the beach, Ji Lin invited Ye Guyi to help him catch fish and lobsters, and she reluctantly lit the way with her Sacred Angel Martial Soul.

Ji Lin and Ye Guyi caught fish for the group before Ji Lin led everyone across the sea toward the Sun Moon Empire. They reached Haiyue City, changed their clothes, and settled in to recover and explore before continuing their rescue mission.

• Ji Lin used Ye Guyi's light to draw fish to the surface, froze them inside an iceberg, and brought them back to shore.
• Ji Lin prepared the fish with Xiao Xiao and the others, and the group shared dinner before meditating through the night.
• Ji Lin and the others flew across the sea, avoided the naval garrison, and reached the waters near Haiyue City.
• The group landed away from Sun Moon Port, changed into Sun Moon Empire clothing, and entered Haiyue City without trouble.
• After checking into a hotel, Ji Lin and the others explored the city and ate fresh seafood.

Ji Lin and the girls traveled toward Sunrise City to rescue the captured contestants while Elder Xuan led Shrek Academy’s powerful elders in a diversionary attack on the Sun Moon Empire’s border defenses. The diversion destroyed many detection Soul Tools and drew heavy cannon fire, but the group remained beyond the reach of most weapons as the empire began searching the sky.

• After spending a day in Haiyue City, Ji Lin set out with the girls toward Sunrise City, where the Sun Moon Empire had imprisoned the captured contestants.
• Elder Xuan and Elder Song led six other Shrek Academy members into Sun Moon Empire airspace to draw attention away from the rescue operation.
• Elder Xuan’s Soul Power caused the nearby High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools to explode, and the other seven Super Douluos destroyed more detection devices across the border.
• The Sun Moon Empire fired a barrage of anti-air Soul Cannons, forcing Elder Xuan and the others to climb beyond the weapons’ effective range.
• The bombardment weakened after several minutes, and Ground-to-Air Detection Soul Tools began sweeping the sky for Elder Xuan and his group.

Elder Xuan and Shrek Academy, joined by the Body Sect and forces from the Star Luo and Dou Ling Empires, devastated the Sun Moon Empire’s border defenses. Xu Tianran and Ju Zi discussed how to deter further attacks, while the chapter also described how widespread soul tool use had transformed life and military recruitment in Sunrise City.

• Elder Xuan used Gravity Control to bring down the Sun Moon Empire’s aerial Soul Engineers while the Sea’s God Pavilion Elders destroyed cannon positions, grain depots, and armories.
• Du Busi led eight Titled Douluo from the Body Sect in attacks on the Sun Moon Empire’s border defenses, while forces from the Star Luo and Dou Ling Empires also inflicted losses.
• News of the raid enraged Xu Tianran, who summoned the Imperial Tutor and asked Ju Zi how to respond to Shrek Academy’s attacks.
• Ju Zi warned Xu Tianran against starting the war early and proposed using Level 9 Soul Tool Cannon Shells to deter the Super Douluo.
• The chapter described how the Sun Moon Empire used free training and medicine to turn people with innate Soul Power into a broad base of Soul Engineers and civilian soul tool users.

Ji Lin and his companions reached Sunrise City to rescue the captured sect and academy participants, but found its defenses and inspections too formidable to bypass. The group remained hidden among merchant caravans as Ji Lin considered how they could enter and free the prisoners.

• Ji Lin reflected on the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer forces and the importance of its five Protectors of the Nation.
• Ji Lin saw that two five-hundred-member Soul Engineer Corps and extensive detection tools had made Sunrise City’s defenses airtight.
• Ji Lin and his companions joined the merchant caravans waiting outside the city, where strict inspections delayed entry for days.
• Ye Guyi warned Ji Lin that the detection tools and Soul Power checks would expose their high-level cultivation.
• Wang Dong'er questioned how they could rescue the hundreds of captives and escape past the two Soul Engineer Corps.

Ji Lin and Freedom Gate tried to enter Sunrise City so they could reach the imprisoned contestants, and Ji Lin used Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er’s flattery to get the guards to let them approach the Soul Power detector. Just as they neared it, an explosion erupted outside the city, leaving their passage uncertain.

• Ji Lin concluded that Freedom Gate needed to enter before the empires intervened and planned to free the contestants so they could escape on their own.
• Ji Lin proposed that Chi Yuan create a diversion while the others slipped through the city gate, and the group agreed to try the plan.
• Freedom Gate disguised themselves and joined a merchant caravan waiting to be inspected at Sunrise City.
• When the guards called them forward, Ji Lin’s attempt to charm the squad leader faltered, so Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er praised the soldier and persuaded him to let all seven approach the detector together.
• A violent roar and explosions drew everyone’s attention to flames rising in the wilderness just as Freedom Gate came within five meters of the Soul Power-detecting Soul Tool.

Freedom Gate slipped into Sunrise City by exploiting the guards’ alarm, then began investigating where the imprisoned competitors were being held. Their search found no hostages above ground and revealed formidable defenses, leaving them to continue the rescue investigation cautiously.

• Xiao Xiao tricked the squad captain into letting Ji Lin and the other Freedom Gate members enter Sunrise City without inspection.
• Nan Qiu Qiu teased Ji Lin about his failed attempt to act like a social butterfly, and the group decided to find lodging and await Teacher Chi Yuan.
• Ji Lin detected a citywide network of high-grade Soul Tools, including likely Level 9 weapons, while the group suspected the hostages were held underground and Evil Soul Masters were nearby.
• The next morning, the seven members split up to gather intelligence, with Ji Lin surveying the city and Ye Guyi searching for Evil Soul Masters.
• Ji Lin and the others found no hostages on the surface, confirmed the prisoners were likely underground, and discovered that a Rank 9 Soul Master was stationed in Sunrise City.

Ji Lin and Ye Guyi followed a faint Evil Soul Master trace from a brothel to a hidden building, where they discovered a black-robed man torturing people. The man sensed Ji Lin’s Spirit Detection and turned toward the intruders.

• Ye Guyi detected a faint Evil Soul Master aura on a four-ring woman soliciting customers outside a rundown brothel, and she and Ji Lin watched her until she left at night.
• Ji Lin and Ye Guyi followed the woman to a dilapidated, unmarked building and found that powerful Mental Power fluctuations concealed it from Spirit Detection.
• After a scream weakened the fluctuations, Ji Lin used Spirit Detection and Spirit Sharing to survey the building with Ye Guyi.
• They saw a black-robed Evil Soul Master whipping the woman in a bloodstained hall while several obese people huddled nearby, and Ye Guyi struggled to restrain her urge to attack.
• The black-robed man sensed Ji Lin’s Mental Power, stiffened, and demanded to know who was there.

Ji Lin and Ye Guyi were discovered by a mental-attribute Evil Soul Master while sneaking through Sunrise City, and the pursuer’s deadly mental attacks left Ye Guyi temporarily incapacitated. Ji Lin protected her and confronted the woman, who revealed that her Martial Soul was the Spirit of Vengeance.

• Ji Lin and Ye Guyi fled after a female Evil Soul Master detected Ji Lin’s Spirit Detection and pursued them through Sunrise City.
• Ji Lin interfered with the pursuer’s mental lock while allowing her to draw closer, so Ye Guyi could fight her.
• The Evil Soul Master used Fearful Shriek, stunning Ye Guyi, and Ji Lin sheltered her and steadied her Sea of Consciousness.
• The Evil Soul Master attacked Ji Lin with Curse of Resentment, but his Head Soul Bone blocked it and his golden gaze shattered the attack.
• Ji Lin stalled the Evil Soul Master while Ye Guyi recovered, and she identified her Martial Soul as the Spirit of Vengeance.

Ji Lin and Ye Guyi defeated a female Evil Soul Master whose Spirit of Vengeance had arisen from hatred, and Ye Guyi’s sacred power purified her before she died. They left the scene, with Ye Guyi more firmly convinced that Evil Soul Masters had to be eliminated.

• The female Evil Soul Master explained that her Spirit of Vengeance had awakened from hatred, then lost control and unleashed her resentment against Ji Lin and Ye Guyi.
• Ji Lin used Soul Impact and Word Spirit Art to disrupt and control the female Evil Soul Master, while Ye Guyi attacked her with sacred light and her Holy Sword.
• Ye Guyi’s strike shattered the Spirit of Vengeance’s Martial Soul Avatar, and her purifying power calmed the female Evil Soul Master’s hatred and madness.
• The female Evil Soul Master thanked Ye Guyi for freeing her, then aged rapidly and vanished into dust.
• Ji Lin and Ye Guyi discussed the woman’s fate and left before others arrived; Ye Guyi reaffirmed that Evil Soul Masters should die.

Ji Lin and Ye Guyi killed the Evil Soul Master who had tortured Feng Ling, but Ye Guyi could not undo the damage done to him. Ji Lin helped Feng Ling recover enough to reveal that the captured contestants were being held in a water dungeon outside Sunrise City.

• Ji Lin and Ye Guyi returned to the hotel after killing a Soul Douluo-level Evil Soul Master, and Ye Guyi rested for two days to recover from a spiritual attack.
• Ye Guyi used her purification power on the rescued fat woman and discovered that the victim was a castrated man altered by curses and drugs.
• Ji Lin used the Word Spirit Art to help the man regain his memories, and he revealed that his name was Feng Ling and that he was the young master of the Chongtian Sect.
• Feng Ling said Evil Soul Masters had captured his group after they lost a tournament match in Mingdu, and his captor had tortured him and killed or driven other captives to suicide.
• Feng Ling told Ji Lin that the remaining prisoners were held in a water dungeon beneath the moat outside Sunrise City's southern wall.

Ji Lin used Spirit Detection to locate and confirm an underwater prison outside Sunrise City's southern wall, where the Holy Spirit Cult held captured Soul Masters. He left the prisoners in place for the moment and prepared to plan a rescue.

• After Feng Ling's condition worsened, Ji Lin learned that some hostages had been taken away and decided the group would focus on rescuing those who remained.
• Ji Lin, Wang Qiuer, and Ye Guyi investigated near the southern wall, and Ji Lin used Spirit Detection to find a suspicious iron grating beneath the moat's riverbank.
• Ji Lin returned at night with Chi Yuan, who brought him through the wall and helped him approach the moat undetected.
• Ji Lin sent his Mental Power through the grating and confirmed that the underwater prison contained rows of cages filled with weakened tournament participants, including members of Heavenly Armor Sect and Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy.

Ji Lin discovered that the Sun Moon Empire was holding the captured contestants in a heavily guarded water prison and poisoning them with Soul Extinguishing Powder. After Nan Qiu Qiu supplied her mother's antidote prescription, Ji Lin and his companions prepared the antidote, and Chi Yuan infiltrated the prison to begin detoxifying the hostages before a rescue attempt.

• Ji Lin located the water prison inside Sunrise City and secretly observed its guards, learning that the hostages were weakened by Soul Extinguishing Powder.
• Ji Lin overheard the Second Elder and the Fourth Elder discussing the Zhongli Brothers and the Holy Spirit Cult's plans for the captives.
• Ji Lin returned to the hotel with Chi Yuan and told Wang Qiuer and the others that the contestants were poisoned and difficult to rescue.
• Nan Qiu Qiu recognized Soul Extinguishing Powder as the poison that had afflicted her mother and offered her mother's antidote prescription.
• Ji Lin and his companions divided up to buy the five ingredients and prepared the antidote.
• Chi Yuan secretly entered the water prison and released the antidote into the water to neutralize the poison in advance.

Freedom Gate and allied rescue teams launched a coordinated assault in Sunrise City to disable the Sun Moon Empire’s aerial detection tools and prepare to free the hostages. Their surprise volleys destroyed the detection network, leaving the city’s defenders half-blind as the operation continued.

• Ji Lin and the others supplied antidote to the water prison, secretly coordinated with the hostages, and arranged a rescue plan with other factions’ teams.
• Ji Lin left Feng Ling at the hotel for safety and sent Freedom Gate members to their separate positions after nightfall.
• The rescue teams fired hundreds of fixed-installation soul cannon shells at the High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools, triggering alarms and drawing the city’s defenses into action.
• The Heaven Dou Empire’s team launched its Level 8 Soul Cannon Shell toward the northern Soul Engineer Legion position, forcing the legion to activate its barriers and concentrate fire.
• The teams fired a second volley that caught the defenders off guard, destroying the High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools and blinding the Sun Moon Empire’s forces.
• The Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons launched a third volley while the rescue teams prepared to move freely through the city.

Wang Qiuer’s group used hidden Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons to devastate the Soul Engineer forces and walls around Sunrise City, then escaped under cover of the chaos. Ji Lin entered the water prison and prepared the hostages to break out as the guards focused on the attacks elsewhere.

• The third wave of Fixed Soul Cannon Shells struck Sunrise City’s eastern and western walls while a Level 8 shell burrowed beneath the northern Soul Engineer encampment and exploded, destroying much of the position.
• More than a hundred shells battered each side wall, shattering defensive Soul Tools and destroying over one-third of the eastern and western walls.
• Wang Qiuer’s group retrieved the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons and vanished into Sunrise City, lamenting the vast share of the Three Douluo Kingdoms’ military reserves they had spent.
• The Spirit Hall Second Elder and Fourth Elder flew toward the northern gate, while the Second Elder left the Zhongli Brothers to guard the water prison.
• Ji Lin entered the moat, froze the water outside the prison, cut through its iron bars, and secretly told the hostages that the time to act had come.
• The hostages prepared to fight while the southern gate’s soldiers watched the explosions and flames at the northern, eastern, and western walls.

Ji Lin froze and detonated Sunrise City's moat, freeing the hostages and triggering a coordinated assault on the city's defenses. After the hostages killed the Evil Soul Masters, Ji Lin opened an escape route and led them out of the water prison.

• Ji Lin froze the moat and used Ice Blast Technique to blast it apart, shaking the southern city wall and breaking open the water prison's exit.
• Ji Lin attacked the Zhongli brothers as the hostages regained their Soul Power, broke out of their cages, and overwhelmed the Evil Soul Masters.
• Wang Qiuer and the rescue teams ambushed the southern Soul Engineer Legion, throwing its Soul Tool Position into chaos and preventing it from aiding the city.
• The hostages killed nearly all the Evil Soul Masters, while the Zhongli brothers escaped through the exit.
• Ji Lin rallied the hostages, blasted open the collapsed southern section, and led them out of the water prison.

Ji Lin froze the moat, defeated a Soul Engineer squad, and helped the imprisoned Soul Masters escape, but Mingdu’s reinforcements arrived far sooner than expected. He sent the hostages to regroup with Wang Qiuer and turned back into Sunrise City to rescue Feng Ling.

• Ji Lin froze the moat’s backflow and used Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment to badly damage a fifty-man Soul Engineer squad.
• The escaped Soul Masters charged the disorganized squad and wiped out all fifty Soul Engineers.
• Fireworks from the fleeing Zhongli Brothers signaled danger, so Ji Lin ordered the hostages to break out south.
• Ji Lin detected powerful reinforcements approaching from the north and told the hostages to regroup with Wang Qiuer’s group.
• Ji Lin returned to Sunrise City to retrieve Feng Ling, whom he had left at the hotel.

Ji Lin entered Sunrise City to help get Feng Ling out alive as the rescue operation freed the hostages and scattered them across the plains. The Second and Fourth Elders pursued them but found the escape route empty, while the hostages flew toward a coastal rendezvous point.

• Ji Lin flew into Sunrise City and spotted a powerful Beast King Class Soul Engineer Corps arriving from the north.
• The Second and Fourth Elders blamed the Zhongli Brothers for the hostages' escape, then led them out of the city to pursue the fugitives.
• The elders and Zhongli Brothers found the northern soul engineer fortification destroyed and the hostages gone.
• The rescue teams had staged nearly a thousand Flying Soul Tools in the wilderness, allowing the hostages to fly away in small groups.
• The hostages scattered by sect and academy toward the coast, where experts from their factions waited to receive them.

Ji Lin’s plan allowed Freedom Gate to rescue the hostages from Sunrise City without revealing Chi Yuan or his own full strength. As the Evil Soul Masters prepared to deal with the escape, the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps arrived and nearly provoked a clash with them.

• Ji Lin’s diversions and rapid breakout let the hostages escape Sunrise City in less than fifteen minutes, while Wang Qiuer and the other rescuers split up to attack the southern Soul Engineer Corps and prepare their flight.
• The Second Elder told Zhongli Tian to explain the hostages’ escape to the Cult Master, and the Zhongli Brothers worried about pursuing the unknown rescuers with only five people.
• Hundreds of members of the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps surrounded the Second Elder, Fourth Elder, and the Zhongli Brothers, and Regimental Commander Wang demanded that they surrender.
• The five Evil Soul Masters resisted, but a black-clad figure intervened, identified them as members and elders of the Guardian Divine Cult, and urged Regimental Commander Wang to pursue the hostages.
• Regimental Commander Wang lowered the Soul Engineers’ weapons after the newcomer challenged him over starting an internal conflict.

After the hostages escaped, Ji Lin carried Feng Ling through Sunrise City while the Sacred Cult and the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps searched for them. Wu Yu sensed her dead sister Wu Yun’s lingering aura on Feng Ling, exposed Ji Lin, and confronted him as the soldiers surrounded them.

• Regimental Commander Wang led the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps south in pursuit of the escaped hostages, while the Second Elder took the Zhongli Brothers with him and left the Fourth Elder behind.
• Wu Yu revealed that her twin sister Wu Yun had died and flew back toward Sunrise City, where she sensed her sister’s aura beneath the streets.
• Ji Lin carried Feng Ling through the city’s alleys, evading the soldiers’ searches with Spirit Detection.
• Wu Yu spotted Ji Lin from above and attacked the alley with a blood-red phantom, but Ji Lin quickly moved himself and Feng Ling out of the blast.
• The Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps surrounded Ji Lin, and the Fourth Elder recognized him as a member of Freedom Gate.
• Wu Yu demanded to know whether Ji Lin had killed Wu Yun, and Ji Lin realized that Wu Yun’s lingering aura on Feng Ling had exposed them.

Ji Lin confronted Wu Yu over her sister’s death and fought the Fourth Elder and the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps in Sunrise City. His Word Spirit Art briefly controlled the enemy forces, but Wu Yu broke free, and the battle continued as Ji Lin faced the Fourth Elder’s Netherworld Sword.

• Wu Yu accused Ji Lin of killing her twin sister, and Ji Lin offered to free her from the hatred consuming her.
• Wu Yu threatened to torture Ji Lin, so he tossed Feng Ling aside and prepared to fight the surrounding enemies.
• The Fourth Elder and the Soul Engineers readied their abilities as Ji Lin charged the Fourth Elder and used the Word Spirit Art to command the enemy forces to kill themselves.
• Wu Yu broke the mental control and rallied the Soul Engineers, who attacked Ji Lin with Soul Tool beams and cannon shells.
• Ji Lin deflected the barrage with Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment and clashed with the Fourth Elder’s Netherworld Slash as Wu Yu sent her Spirit of Vengeance toward him.

Ji Lin fought the Fourth Elder and Wu Yu while protecting Sunrise City’s civilians from the battle’s destruction. After injuring the Fourth Elder, he fled beyond the southern walls to draw his pursuers away, but the Fourth Elder, Wu Yu, and the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps chased him.

• Ji Lin used Spirit Detection and Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment to injure the Fourth Elder, then blasted Wu Yu backward with Mental Shock.
• The Fourth Elder trapped Ji Lin’s sword between spatially manipulated Netherworld Swords and unleashed Netherworld Ten Thousand Blades, which Ji Lin met with a hundred-meter flaming sword.
• Seeing the civilians endangered and Feng Ling already taken away by Chi Yuan, Ji Lin flew beyond Sunrise City’s southern walls to move the battlefield.
• The Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps tried to ensnare Ji Lin with a Soul Tool Position, but he tore through its blue light nets and escaped beyond the walls.
• The Fourth Elder and Wu Yu ordered the corps to pursue Ji Lin, who cut through the southern district’s garrison as his pursuers closed in.

Ji Lin unleashed his seventh Soul Skill, Tribulation Annihilation Form, and obliterated Fourth Elder, Wu Yu, and the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps on the plain outside Sunrise City. The enormous blast alarmed Mingdu and drew the attention of the forces pursuing the hostages, while Ji Lin was left to reckon with the strike’s overwhelming power.

• Ji Lin led Fourth Elder, Wu Yu, and the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps away from Sunrise City and stopped on a wilderness plain to end the pursuit.
• Ji Lin activated his Weapon Soul True Body, Tribulation Annihilation Form, transforming Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment into a greatsword and summoning a towering pillar of fire.
• Fourth Elder tried to defend himself with the Netherworld Sword, while Wu Yu’s Spirit of Vengeance emerged to protect her, but the falling flaming sword overwhelmed them.
• Ji Lin’s strike erased Fourth Elder, Wu Yu, and the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps, splitting the earth and raising a massive mushroom cloud.
• Xu Tianran and Ju Zi saw the blast from Mingdu and questioned its cause, while Second Elder ordered the forces pursuing the hostages to return toward Sunrise City.
• Ji Lin surveyed the scorched plain and realized his full-force attack approached the power of a Limit Douluo’s strike.

Ji Lin returned after rescuing nearly six hundred prisoners, and the group sailed from Haiyue City while the Sun Moon Empire learned that its hostages had escaped. Xu Tianran began investigating how Ji Lin had defeated the pursuing force, while Ju Zi reacted subtly to hearing his name.

• Ji Lin's attack outside Sunrise City killed the Fourth Elder, Wu Yu, and more than a hundred members of the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps before he left the battlefield.
• At Haiyue City, Xiao Xiao, Nan Qiu Qiu, Wang Dong'er, Ling Luochen, Wang Qiuer, and Ye Guyi counted the rescued hostages and prepared to depart.
• Ji Lin and Chi Yuan returned with Feng Ling, and a Chongtian Sect elder recognized the rescued young master and thanked the group.
• Ji Lin ordered the ship to set sail with nearly six hundred rescued prisoners aboard.
• Xu Tianran questioned the commanders after learning the hostages had escaped and that the pursuit had cost the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps a third of its men.
• Wang Yiheng identified Ji Lin as the rescuer, and Ju Zi briefly reacted when she heard his name.

Xu Tianran learned that the hostages had been rescued and confronted Zhongli Wu over the failure of the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses. The chapter ended with Xu Tianran ordering a military meeting as war seemed imminent.

• Xu Tianran excused Wang Yiheng from blame but kept the other two Soul Engineer Corps commanders kneeling.
• Zhongli Wu and his subordinates explained that the rescuers had obtained the antidote and carried out a coordinated operation, likely supported by the former Three Douluo Kingdoms.
• Xu Tianran learned that Shrek Academy, the Body Sect, and more than thirty monitored experts had disappeared, and Zhongli Wu ordered four of his subordinates to mutilate themselves before killing the two kneeling commanders.
• Zhongli Wu left after warning that war was likely unavoidable, while Xu Tianran ordered the dead commanders buried with compensation for their families.
• Xu Tianran told Ju Zi to summon all generals of regimental commander rank and above in Mingdu for a military meeting.