Chapter Summaries

Ji Lin defended Duke White Tiger Dai Hao from a Sun Moon Empire assassination squad, killing eight attackers and forcing the four Titled Douluos to flee. Ji Lin headed for Star Luo City while Xuan Zi brought the Shrek group into the Heaven Dou Empire, and the chapter ended at Clear Sky Fortress, the Clear Sky Sect’s secluded home.

• Ji Lin’s Blazing Flame King Sword exposed the assassins’ Invincible Shields, and their leader ordered a retreat after the attack failed to kill them.
• Ji Lin pursued the fleeing assassins with Heavenly Fire Unsheathed, killing four Soul Douluos and four Soul Saints while four Titled Douluos escaped.
• Duke White Tiger Dai Hao recognized Ji Lin’s strength, and Ji Lin and his companions soon left the military camp for Star Luo City.
• Xuan Zi brought the Shrek group into the Heaven Dou Empire and planned to gather information, help rescue captured students, and punish He Caitou, Xu Sanshi, and Huo Yuhao.
• The chapter introduced Clear Sky Fortress, the former residence and secluded sanctuary of the Clear Sky Sect.

Ji Lin told Xu Jiawei that he planned to unify Douluo Continent, but Xu Jiawei warned that the empires were not the only obstacle. The chapter ended with Ji Lin considering the hidden sects, powerful clans, and possible intervention from the God Realm.

• At Clear Sky Fortress, Niu Tian and Titan wondered why the man who left a trial for Dong'er had not acted or explained who it was meant for.
• After half a month of diplomatic disputes over the Mingdu explosion and detained tournament teams, Ji Lin's allies made progress with help from Soul Engineers secretly sent by Jing Hongchen.
• Ji Lin met with Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu in the imperial palace and announced that he wanted to unify Douluo Continent.
• Xu Jiawei said he had once shared that ambition but now wanted to preserve the Star Luo Empire, and he warned Ji Lin that hidden sects and clans stood in the way.

Ji Lin persuaded Xu Jiawei to support his plan to use the Sun Moon Empire’s campaign against other factions to help unify the Douluo Continent. Xu Jiawei agreed, then urged Ji Lin and Xu Jiujiu to have a child to carry on the Xu family line, leaving Ji Lin and Xu Jiujiu alone together.

• Ji Lin told Xu Jiawei that the Sun Moon Empire had at least three Limit Douluo and explained his plan to exploit its conflict with other factions.
• Xu Jiawei weighed their resources and Ji Lin’s ambitions, then agreed to support him and cooperate with his plan.
• Xu Jiawei asked Ji Lin to get Xu Jiujiu pregnant soon, preferably with a son to inherit the future empire.
• Ji Lin teased Xu Jiujiu and urged her to begin immediately; after she resisted doing it in the palace, she agreed to go to her room.

During two months of uneasy peace, Freedom Gate expanded and grew in influence while the kingdoms prepared for war and Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect produced Soul Tools. The chapter ended with Ji Lin watching the girls spar and asking what Sacred Marks they wanted next.

• Xu Tianran ascended the Sun Moon Empire's throne but remained quiet, while the original Three Douluo Kingdoms prepared for war and Xu Jiawei handed military command to the White Tiger Duke.
• Freedom Gate moved to a site more than ten times larger near Star Luo City and attracted many new students and talented graduates.
• He Caitou and Huo Yuhao developed the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon, and the Tang Sect supplied batches of the Soul Tools to the three great empires with help from Shrek Academy and Freedom Gate.
• Freedom Gate's Sacred Marks increased the number of low-level Soul Masters, helping the kingdoms build up their forces alongside Tang Sect Soul Tools.
• Wang Dong'er and Nan Qiu Qiu sparred against Wang Qiuer, showing how much their combat skills had improved over the past two months.
• Ji Lin arrived to watch the girls train and asked what kinds of Sacred Marks and Soul Beasts they wanted.

Ji Lin brought Bai Xiuxiu into the open, where Ye Guyi, Wang Qiuer, and Gu Yuena helped train her to fight. After reading a letter from Shrek Academy about rescuing imprisoned tournament contestants, Ji Lin considered joining the rescue to gain allies for Freedom Gate and his plans to unify Douluo Continent.

• Ji Lin avoided sparring with Ye Guyi by bringing out Bai Xiuxiu and suggesting that Ye Guyi train her instead.
• Bai Xiuxiu agreed to learn to fight so she could avenge her mother and people, and Ye Guyi began sparring with her.
• Wang Qiuer and Gu Yuena joined in instructing Bai Xiuxiu as the training continued.
• Xu Jiujiu gave Ji Lin a letter from Shrek Academy proposing a rescue of contestants detained by the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Jiujiu explained that Shrek Academy and the three great empires planned rescue efforts because abandoning the hostages could alienate sects and academies.
• Ji Lin weighed the risks and benefits and concluded that Freedom Gate should join the rescue to earn the gratitude of the imprisoned contestants and their organizations.

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.