Chapter Summaries

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.

As war between the empires loomed, Huo Yuhao returned to his mother’s grave and resolved to confront the White Tiger Duke during the coming conflict. Ji Lin took him to Yu Ming City, where Huo Yuhao arrived at a reserve legion’s recruitment office.

• Ju Zi left Xu Tianran after hearing that war was imminent, while the empires prepared their forces and Freedom Gate recalled its elite disciples to wait and build strength.
• Huo Yuhao visited Huo Yun’er’s newly rebuilt grave with Ji Lin, grieved, and made offerings to his mother.
• Huo Yuhao vowed to avenge his mother and make Dai Hao acknowledge her, then told Ji Lin he would act during the coming war despite the danger.
• Ji Lin flew Huo Yuhao to Yu Ming City, where the Sixth Reserve Legion was recruiting soldiers.

Huo Yuhao joined the Star Luo Empire’s army as an ordinary soldier, determined to earn his rank and pursue justice through his own military achievements. As he entered the camp, the Sun Moon Empire launched a devastating surprise attack that broke through the western frontier, leaving Yu Ming City preparing to defend itself.

• Huo Yuhao refused Ji Lin’s offer of a high-ranking post and registered as an ordinary soldier in a reserve legion.
• Ji Lin witnessed a distant explosion and realized that the Sun Moon Empire had fired multiple Level 9 Soul Tool Cannon Shells to begin the war.
• The Sixth Reserve Legion entered Yu Ming City after the Star Luo Empire’s front line collapsed under the bombardment and assault of Soul Engineer legions.
• A battalion commander told Ji Lin that Duke White Tiger was leading the retreating forces against the invading army, which included three Protectors of the Nation.
• The Fourth Reserve Army entered Yu Ming City, and the city sealed its gates and went on full alert.

Ji Lin witnessed the Sun Moon Empire shatter the Star Luo Empire’s western defenses with Level 9 Soul Tool Cannon Shells and flying soul engineers. He followed the White Tiger Duke’s retreat north and found him fighting two elite Soul Engineer Corps.

• Ji Lin learned that the Sun Moon Empire’s surprise attack had devastated the Northwest Army Group, with more than seventy thousand casualties.
• Ji Lin flew to the Ming Dou Mountain Range and saw that the defenses had collapsed and Sun Moon Empire forces were pouring through a blasted gap.
• Ji Lin reasoned that the White Tiger Duke had retreated north to draw enemy forces away from the routed troops.
• Ji Lin followed the battle’s trail and identified the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps and the Dreadclaw Soul Engineer Corps pursuing the White Tiger Duke.
• Ji Lin reached an ongoing battle where the two Soul Engineer Corps formed barriers in the air and bombarded the Star Luo Empire’s forces below.

Ji Lin discovered that Duke White Tiger Dai Hao and the Star Luo Empire’s First Soul Master Legion were trapped by a powerful Sun Moon Empire force. Dai Hao decided to sacrifice himself to draw the attackers away so Xuanji Douluo could lead the survivors to safety.

• Ji Lin used Spirit Detection to find fewer than two thousand Star Luo defenders, including a severely injured Dai Hao and four Titled Douluo.
• Dai Hao summoned Xuanji Douluo, who shielded the defenders from incoming attacks with his Xuanji Umbrella.
• Xuanji Douluo identified Starry Sky Douluo Ye Yulin and the Sun Moon Divine Needle as the source of Dai Hao’s grievous injuries.
• Dai Hao ordered Xuanji Douluo to lead the First Soul Master Legion and Dai Yueheng southeast while he drew the enemy’s attention north.
• Xuanji Douluo refused to abandon Dai Hao, but Dai Hao insisted that he obey as marshal and preserve the Empire’s forces.

Duke White Tiger Dai Hao ordered Xuanji Douluo to lead Dai Yueheng and the First Soul Master Legion in a breakout while he and the White Tiger Guards stayed behind as bait. As Starry Sky Douluo Ye Yulin prepared to attack and Ji Lin considered secretly helping, a massive flaming greatsword suddenly descended on the Sun Moon Empire’s soul engineer legions.

• Dai Hao ordered Xuanji Douluo to take Dai Yueheng and the First Soul Master Legion southeast while he led the White Tiger Guards north to draw the enemy away.
• Dai Hao told his commanders that he would remain behind as bait, and they reluctantly prepared to charge with him.
• Dai Hao raised his aura and summoned his nine soul rings as Ye Yulin prepared a full-force attack with the Sun Moon Divine Needle.
• Ji Lin judged that he could not openly fight the enemy’s strongest Soul Masters but decided he could secretly help Dai Hao.
• A hundred-meter flaming greatsword and a shower of fireballs descended toward the Sun Moon Empire’s two soul engineer legions.

Ji Lin secretly intervened to help Duke White Tiger Dai Hao and the Star Luo Empire’s First Soul Master Legion escape the Sun Moon Empire’s attack. Dai Hao turned back to stand by his White Tiger Guards, and Ji Lin confronted him over choosing loyalty to his soldiers over survival.

• Ye Yulin ordered the Soul Engineer corps to shield themselves from Ji Lin’s flaming sword as Dai Hao and the First Soul Master Legion fled in separate directions.
• Ji Lin intercepted Ye Yulin’s attack on Dai Hao, giving the First Soul Master Legion time to escape while Ye Yulin pursued the White Tiger Guards.
• Dai Hao turned back to rejoin the White Tiger Guards and ordered them to run, even as Ye Yulin’s forces closed in.
• Ji Lin asked Dai Hao why he had returned instead of escaping, and Dai Hao explained that he would never abandon a soldier under his command.
• Ji Lin urged Dai Hao to live so he could protect more soldiers, but Dai Hao told Ji Lin to leave before it was too late.

Ji Lin stayed behind to shield Dai Hao and the White Tiger Guards from the Sun Moon Empire’s forces, using Mu Xue Thousand Mountains to withstand their bombardment. As the White Tiger Guards fled, Ji Lin intercepted the pursuing high-ranking Soul Masters, while Chi Yuan was on her way to support him.

• Ji Lin decided to cover Dai Hao and the White Tiger Guards’ retreat after learning Chi Yuan had arrived, then flew off to block the Sun Moon Empire’s legions.
• Xu Jiujiu learned that the western defenses had fallen and stopped Wang Qiuer, Nan Qiu Qiu, and Wang Dong'er from rushing to find Ji Lin.
• Xu Jiujiu sent Chi Yuan to retrieve Ji Lin and went to the imperial palace to discuss the war with Xu Jiawei.
• Ye Yulin ordered the legions to bombard Ji Lin, but Ji Lin used Mu Xue Thousand Mountains to raise icebergs that absorbed the attacks.
• Dai Hao led the White Tiger Guards in retreat as seven high-ranking Soul Masters tried to bypass Ji Lin and pursue them.
• Ji Lin sent Ice Roses and Ice Vines after the fleeing Soul Masters to obstruct their advance.

Ji Lin used a surprise attack to help Duke White Tiger Dai Hao escape the surrounding soul masters. He bluffed the pursuing enemies with Ye Yulin’s Sun Moon Divine Needle and fled with Dai Hao, taking the Level 9 Soul Tool with him.

• Duke White Tiger Dai Hao engaged Ye Yulin and six other high-ranking soul masters while Ji Lin held back the Soul Engineer Legion.
• Ji Lin froze the battlefield with Heaven and earth, I alone reign supreme, appeared behind Ye Yulin, and slashed at him.
• Ye Yulin’s Starry Sky Guardian blocked Ji Lin’s strike, but the sword energy injured him, and he narrowly avoided another attack by dropping away.
• Ji Lin stopped Dai Hao from pursuing the retreating enemies and seized control of Ye Yulin’s abandoned Sun Moon Divine Needle.
• Ji Lin bluffed Ye Yulin and the other soul masters into believing he would fire the needle, then escaped with Dai Hao while carrying it away.

Ji Lin rescued Dai Hao and his White Tiger Guards as the Sun Moon Empire’s assault plunged the continent toward war. Shrek Academy debated the threat while Ji Lin returned to Star Luo City, where reports revealed the catastrophic losses on the western frontier.

• Ji Lin and Dai Hao escaped pursuit, and Dai Hao promised to repay Ji Lin for saving him and the White Tiger Guards twice.
• The Sun Moon Empire breached Star Luo’s northwestern defenses, occupied border fortresses, and repelled a Heaven Dou Empire raid with the Holy Spirit Cult’s help.
• Xuan Zi convened the Sea God Pavilion and urged the members to wait for more intelligence while weighing the danger to the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Ji Lin returned safely to Star Luo City with Chi Yuan and learned that the surprise attack had killed nearly eighty thousand soldiers and left tens of thousands wounded or missing.

Ji Lin and Xu Jiujiu watched the Star Luo Empire gather its forces while the Sun Moon Empire remained ominously inactive. The chapter ended with Xu Jiujiu asking Ji Lin whether she or Qiu'er and the others were prettier.

• Duke White Tiger Dai Hao withdrew the Northwest Army Group to the Star Luo Empire's second defensive line and vowed to hold Tianming City.
• Xu Jiujiu arrived at the front to command six Soul Master legions, while Ji Lin and Chi Yuan came to protect her; Dou Ling Empire reinforcements also entered Star Luo territory.
• The Sun Moon Empire continued blocking scouts and made no move, as Star Luo forces assembled and Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect supplied Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons.
• Ji Lin tried to ease Xu Jiujiu's stress with a massage and an invitation to relax, but she struck him with her elbow after his joke about her growing old.
• Ji Lin comforted Xu Jiujiu, who then asked whether she was prettier than Qiu'er and the others.