Chapter Summaries

Ju Zi killed Prince Tianhe as part of Xu Tianran’s plan to secure an heir, but secretly prepared to conceive a child with Ji Lin instead. Sensing that something involving him had happened, Ji Lin returned to spy on the Sun Moon Empire’s military camp and was caught in a trap.

• Ju Zi warned Prince Tianhe that Xu Tianran might silence him, then rendered him unconscious and killed him with a pointed weapon.
• Ju Zi reported to Xu Tianran, whose agents confirmed Prince Tianhe’s death and that Ju Zi had killed him as ordered.
• Xu Tianran learned that Ju Zi was still a virgin and told the imperial physician to help her conceive, while privately planning to eliminate everyone connected to the scheme.
• Ju Zi gave the imperial physician a metal tube containing the seed she had prepared herself, intending to bear a child fathered by someone other than Prince Tianhe.
• Ji Lin sensed that something related to him had happened in the Sun Moon Empire and returned to observe its military camp from the sky.
• Two black shadows revealed Ji Lin’s presence and surrounded him with black mist.

Ji Lin and Zhang Lexuan ambushed Masked Douluo and Centipede Douluo Nangong Wan after the two Evil Soul Masters tried to capture Ji Lin. Ji Lin weakened them with his Word Spirit Art, and Zhang Lexuan struck first as the battle began.

• Masked Douluo and Nangong Wan revealed their identities and confronted Ji Lin in the sky.
• Ji Lin recognized Nangong Wan as Spirit Hall's Second Elder and hinted that Nangong Wan's brothers had died by his hand.
• Zhang Lexuan emerged from hiding and joined Ji Lin, surrounding the two Evil Soul Masters.
• Masked Douluo and Nangong Wan launched an attack, targeting Ji Lin with a massive soul-devouring phantom.
• Ji Lin used his Word Spirit Art to weaken both enemies and shared Mental Detection with Zhang Lexuan.
• Zhang Lexuan cut through Masked Douluo's phantom and struck at him, leaving him struggling under Ji Lin's suppression.

Ji Lin and Zhang Lexuan fought the Masked Douluo and Nangong Wan, using their combined abilities to kill the Masked Douluo and overpower Nangong Wan. The chapter ended with Zhang Lexuan closing in on Nangong Wan beneath the image of a silver moon.

• Nangong Wan used poison mist while the Masked Douluo slowed Zhang Lexuan and Ji Lin with distorted light and spiritual maggots.
• Ji Lin burned away the maggots, freeing Zhang Lexuan to attack the Masked Douluo as Ji Lin immobilized him with Word Spirit Art.
• Zhang Lexuan killed the Masked Douluo in a burst of silver moonlight.
• Nangong Wan tried to flee by spreading poison mist, but Ji Lin froze and scattered it with snow before striking Nangong Wan out of his Centipede Avatar.
• Zhang Lexuan appeared before the injured Nangong Wan as a brilliant silver moon.

Ji Lin and Zhang Lexuan defeated two Evil Soul Master Titled Douluo, killing the Masked Douluo and capturing Nangong Wan, the Centipede Douluo. Back in Heavenly Spirit City, they prepared to interrogate him for information about Tang Ya while Zhang Lexuan sealed his Soul Core.

• Ji Lin and Zhang Lexuan worked together to kill the Masked Douluo and capture Nangong Wan.
• Ji Lin and Zhang Lexuan returned to their courtyard, where Wang Dong'er and the others recognized Nangong Wan as the Centipede Douluo.
• Zhang Lexuan recounted the battle, and Ma Xiaotao resolved to grow stronger so she could keep pace with Ji Lin.
• Ji Lin, Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Bei Bei took Nangong Wan to a quiet room to question him about Tang Ya.
• Zhang Lexuan inspected Nangong Wan and slowed his Soul Core's rotation to keep him from recovering.

Zhang Lexuan weakened Nangong Wan to interrogate him, but he revealed that a curse prevented him from disclosing the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters. He described the cult’s leadership and hierarchy, and Bei Bei reacted when Nangong Wan mentioned its Saintess.

• Zhang Lexuan began draining Nangong Wan’s Soul Power while Ji Lin prepared to control him, and Nangong Wan awoke and begged them to spare his strength.
• Nangong Wan offered to become a spy, but Zhang Lexuan continued draining his Soul Power and demanded answers.
• Nangong Wan explained that the Supreme Pontiff’s curse would make him explode if he revealed the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters.
• Nangong Wan identified Ye Xishui as the Supreme Pontiff and described the curse’s conditions and how it could potentially be removed.
• Nangong Wan outlined the cult’s leadership, including Zhongli Wu, Feng Ling, and its Eight Great Elders, and said its Saintess held an exceptionally high status.
• Bei Bei reacted at the mention of the Saintess, but Zhang Lexuan signaled him to stay quiet.

After interrogating Nangong Wan, Ji Lin and the others learned Spirit Hall’s strength and discovered that Tang Ya was being held at the Sun Moon Empire military camp. Ji Lin proposed infiltrating the camp to rescue her and revealed an unexpected ability that left Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Bei Bei stunned.

• Nangong Wan described Spirit Hall’s consecrators and revealed that its Hall Master, Saintess, and several powerful Evil Soul Masters were at the frontline camp.
• Nangong Wan identified the Saintess as Tang Ya and explained that she lived beside the Hall Master’s golden tent near the central command tent.
• Zhang Lexuan knocked Nangong Wan unconscious after preserving his Soul Power, and Ma Xiaotao urged the group to plan their next move.
• Ji Lin proposed entering the military camp to rescue Tang Ya, while Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan warned that the infiltration would be too dangerous.
• Ji Lin reassured them that he had safeguards and then revealed a gray, icy power that made him vanish before their eyes.

Ji Lin revealed that he could enter an Undead Demi-plane and brought Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Bei Bei there. The group arrived in the bleak realm, where Ji Lin explained its dangers and the limits of its creator’s world.

• Ji Lin vanished into a gray hexagram and reappeared, then explained that he had entered a demi-plane rather than used instant movement.
• Ji Lin told Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Bei Bei that his demi-plane was an incomplete Undead Plane inhabited by dangerous Undead Creatures, and Ma Xiaotao asked to see it.
• Ji Lin recalled how Ye Guyi’s experiment killing the plane’s undead had failed, and explained why he avoided using Electrolux’s undead magic.
• Ji Lin traced a larger hexagram and transported Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Bei Bei through the gate into the Undead Demi-plane.
• The group observed the black sun, barren land, and surrounding hills as Ji Lin explained that the plane had boundaries, a deadly Void beyond them, and a gate that connected it to their world.

Ji Lin took Bei Bei, Zhang Lexuan, and Ma Xiaotao through the Key Gate to explore his Undead Demi-plane, where they encountered and fought skeletons. After demonstrating his control over the undead, Ji Lin returned with them and proposed infiltrating the Sun Moon Empire camp.

• Ji Lin warned the group that light-attribute abilities were weakened in the Undead Plane, then led them across its barren landscape.
• Several hundred skeletons spotted the group and charged, so Bei Bei fought them with his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon abilities.
• Ji Lin reassembled some skeletons and controlled others, explaining that he could protect the group as the Plane Master.
• Bei Bei, Zhang Lexuan, and Ma Xiaotao agreed to keep Ji Lin's demi-plane secret, with Bei Bei intending to hide it even from Xuan Zi.
• Ji Lin brought everyone back through the Key Gate and suggested they make a plan to infiltrate the Sun Moon Empire camp.

Ji Lin secured Zhang Lexuan and the others’ support for his plan, then the story shifted to the Sun Moon Empire’s camp, where Zhongli Wu demanded answers about two missing Evil Soul Masters. Nangong Wan returned badly injured, leaving the fate of Masked Douluo and the identity of their attacker unresolved.

• Ji Lin showed Zhang Lexuan and the others the Undead Demi-plane, and they agreed to stand by and assist his plan.
• Zhongli Wu confronted Marshal Lin Hai after Nangong Wan and Masked Douluo vanished while searching the skies above the camp.
• Lin Hai explained that detection tools and search squads had found no trace of the missing men.
• A messenger reported that Centipede Douluo had returned alone, alarming both Lin Hai and Zhongli Wu.
• Nangong Wan entered the tent injured, and Zhongli Wu demanded to know what had happened to him and Masked Douluo.

Nangong Wan deceived Zhongli Wu about the Shrek Academy ambush and Masked’s death, prompting Zhongli Wu to prepare for Shrek’s arrival. Nangong Wan left the Marshal’s Tent with a healing pill, still focused on surviving the conflict.

• Nangong Wan told Zhongli Wu that Shrek Academy ambushed him and Masked, killing Masked and forcing him to flee.
• Nangong Wan described the attackers as Yan Shaozhe, a fire-wielding Soul Douluo, and Zhang Lexuan, and Zhongli Wu identified them as Shrek Academy’s forces.
• Zhongli Wu ordered Marshal Lin Hai to strengthen detection and vigilance while he watched for Yan Shaozhe’s next move.
• Zhongli Wu forgave Nangong Wan for Masked’s death, urged him to recover, and gave him a jade-green pill.
• After leaving the tent, Nangong Wan dropped his grateful expression and hoped Shrek Academy would honor its promise to spare his life.

Ji Lin used Nangong Wan’s cooperation to infiltrate the Sun Moon Empire Military Camp and established a safe place to hide in his tent. He brought his allies into the Undead Demi-plane, where they prepared to wait until he could find a chance to rescue Tang Ya.

• Nangong Wan returned to his tent and told the invisible Ji Lin everything he had heard from Zhongli Wu.
• Ji Lin recovered his Mental Power, checked the tent for surveillance, and formed a mental barrier around it.
• Ji Lin opened the Gate of the Undead, emerged in the Undead Demi-plane, and informed Zhang Lexuan and the others that his infiltration had succeeded.
• Zhang Lexuan and the others agreed to wait in the demi-plane until Ji Lin found the right time to begin the rescue operation.
• Ji Lin returned to the tent, closed the gate, and sent the Snow Empress back into his body.

Ji Lin infiltrated the Sun Moon Empire camp and found Tang Ya, whose power had grown as her life force and will faded. After scouting her tent at night, he prepared to test a plan to rescue her.

• Ji Lin and Nangong Wan went to the Evil Soul Masters’ dining tent, where Ji Lin spotted Tang Ya eating alone.
• Ji Lin observed Tang Ya’s deathly condition and judged that her poisoned cultivation had reached the level of a Titled Douluo in combat power.
• Ji Lin left without alerting anyone, returned to Nangong Wan’s tent, and spent the day planning how to rescue Tang Ya without losses.
• After nightfall, Ji Lin used distorted light to turn invisible and approached Tang Ya’s tent.
• Ji Lin circled Tang Ya’s tent and a nearby golden tent, then quietly headed away without entering.

Ji Lin abandoned his plan to attack a soul tool warehouse after discovering that the Sun Moon Empire’s five soul tool positions were too well defended. With Nangong Wan arranging an inspection visit, Ji Lin finalized preparations for the next night’s operation to rescue Tang Ya and accompanied him toward the soul tool positions.

• Ji Lin surveyed the camp, found the soul tool positions heavily protected, and realized he could not reach the warehouses without breaking through their defenses.
• Ji Lin asked Nangong Wan to find a quiet location near a soul tool position, and Nangong Wan secured an inspection assignment for the following afternoon.
• Ji Lin discussed the plan with Zhang Lexuan and the others through the Gate of the Undead, then secretly left the camp and returned after making further preparations.
• Ji Lin spent the next morning waiting, then turned invisible and followed Nangong Wan and six Evil Soul Masters to inspect the positions.
• Ji Lin reviewed the Sun Moon Empire’s fifteen Soul Engineer Corps and the five corps deployed at the front, which were helping suppress the allied armies.

Ji Lin accompanied Nangong Wan to inspect the Second Soul Engineer Regiment, where the formidable Soul Tool emplacement revealed the Sun Moon Empire’s military strength. Guo Nu hosted them with a lavish banquet and offered Soul Cannon Shells in hopes of earning Nangong Wan’s favor, while Nangong Wan used the visit to buy Ji Lin time.

• Ju Zi’s ten-year strategy to consolidate occupied Heaven Dou Empire territories gained Xu Tianran’s approval and raised her standing in the military.
• Nangong Wan brought Ji Lin to the Second Soul Engineer Regiment, where commander Guo Nu welcomed them.
• Ji Lin inspected the emplacement’s ranks of long-range Soul Cannons, linked arrays, and other powerful Soul Tools.
• Guo Nu invited Nangong Wan and the six Evil Soul Masters to a banquet and asked him to put in a good word before the Imperial Tutor.
• Guo Nu presented three Rank 7 and thirty Rank 5 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, and Nangong Wan praised the gifts while lamenting his lost savings.

Ji Lin secretly planted a Level 9 Soul Tool Cannon Shell in Guo Nu’s marshal’s tent, preparing to trigger it as part of his plan. After confirming the setup to Nangong Wan, Ji Lin began summoning figures through a pitch-black door, leaving a major action poised to begin that night.

• Nangong Wan accepted Guo Nu’s fixed-installation soul tool cannon shells, while Guo Nu saw him and the other Evil Soul Masters out of the camp.
• After Guo Nu left the marshal’s tent, Ji Lin emerged from hiding and placed a Level 9 Soul Tool Cannon Shell behind the command chair.
• Ji Lin set a Mental Power trigger on the shell, concealed himself, and returned to Nangong Wan’s tent.
• Ji Lin told Nangong Wan the setup had worked and ordered him outside, promising that everything would be over that night.
• Ji Lin opened a pitch-black door and summoned several figures into the tent.

Ji Lin and Zhang Lexuan prepared to rescue Tang Ya by detonating a Level 9 Soul Tool Cannon Shell inside the Sun Moon Empire's Second Soul Engineer Regiment. The shell activated in Guo Nu's Marshal's Tent, leaving him to realize that his regiment was in grave danger.

• Ji Lin explained that he had installed the Destruction Storm shell and decided its destruction of the regiment would not cripple the Sun Moon Empire's campaign.
• Zhang Lexuan placed Ji Lin in command, and he used Spirit Detection and Spirit Sharing to brief the group on their plan to rescue Tang Ya and regroup in the Undead Plane.
• Ji Lin triggered the Destruction Storm shell remotely, losing a strand of Mental Power as Snow Empress and the others steadied his Sea of Consciousness.
• Guo Nu noticed the growing light and aura in his Marshal's Tent, sounded the alarm, and ordered the Soul Tool Linked Defense activated.
• Guo Nu rushed into the tent and recognized the glowing object as a fixed-installation Soul Tool Cannon Shell, realizing his regiment was in danger.

Ji Lin detonated the Level 9 Soul Tool Cannon Shell Destruction Storm inside the Second Soul Engineer Regiment’s camp, killing Guo Nu and triggering cascading explosions among the camp’s Soul Tools. The resulting Metal Storm tore through the Sun Moon Empire Military Camp, leaving a massive breach and killing everyone in its path.

• Guo Nu fled, but Destruction Storm’s explosion overwhelmed his Rank 8 defenses and killed him.
• Ji Lin’s Level 9 Soul Tool Cannon Shell unleashed a fireball and shockwave packed with Metal Bombs across the Second Soul Engineer Regiment’s position.
• Guo Nu’s order activated the Linked Defense Formation, which briefly contained the blast but trapped the explosive force and Metal Bombs inside.
• The Metal Bombs fused with the camp’s Soul Tools and triggered a second wave of explosions, collapsing the Linked Defense Formation.
• The resulting Metal Storm ripped through nearby tents and soldiers, carving a massive breach into the Sun Moon Empire Military Camp.

The Heaven Dou Empire launched a night assault on the Sun Moon Empire camp after a Level 9 Soul Tool Cannon Shell devastated the Second Soul Engineer Regiment. As Zhongli Wu left to coordinate the defense, Ji Lin’s group attacked the remaining Evil Soul Masters, and Zhang Lexuan confronted Ten Thousand Soul Douluo while Abomination Douluo transformed to face another attacker.

• A Destruction Storm explosion struck the Second Soul Engineer Regiment’s position, setting off alarms and throwing the Sun Moon Empire camp into chaos.
• Zhongli Wu ordered the Evil Soul Masters to hold together, then went to the Marshal’s Tent with six worshippers while Tang Ya and Nangong Wan stayed behind.
• Nangong Wan identified Ten Thousand Soul Douluo and Abomination Douluo as the chief threats among the remaining Evil Soul Masters and urged the others not to underestimate Shrek Academy.
• An unseen attacker blasted Nangong Wan into the other Evil Soul Masters, then Zhang Lexuan appeared and struck Ten Thousand Soul Douluo with her Silver Slash.
• Zhang Lexuan pressed Ten Thousand Soul Douluo with silver attacks while Abomination Douluo was engulfed in crimson flame and transformed into a giant Undead Creature.

Ji Lin and his allies ambushed the Evil Soul Masters after Zhongli Wu took the strongest worshippers away, while the Heaven Dou Empire staged a feint. The Fifth and Sixth Elders were forced onto the defensive, and the Fifth Elder unleashed his Myriad Soul Banner against Zhang Lexuan.

• Ji Lin used distorted light and Nangong Wan’s barrier to help Bei Bei and the others surprise the Evil Soul Masters, while Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan attacked the Fifth and Sixth Elders.
• The Heaven Dou Empire began its agreed feint after seeing an explosion, but Princess Vina rejected calls for a full-scale offensive.
• Ji Lin headed to the marshal’s tent to establish a Mental Power barrier that would delay Zhongli Wu and the other leaders from noticing the battle.
• Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao suppressed the Fifth and Sixth Elders, though the two Titled Douluo endured the attacks.
• The Fifth Elder summoned his Myriad Soul Banner and used the battlefield’s vengeful souls and yin energy to attack Zhang Lexuan.

Bei Bei and the others attacked the Sun Moon Empire camp, where Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao fought the Evil Soul Masters while Bei Bei came face to face with Tang Ya. Tang Ya attacked him despite his pleas, and Bei Bei began fighting back while still trying not to hurt her.

• Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao gained the upper hand against the Fifth Elder and the Abomination Douluo, while Wang Qiuer and the others overwhelmed the Evil Soul Masters elsewhere.
• Tang Ya used her Dark Blue Silver Vines to assist the Fifth Elder, but Zhang Lexuan cut them apart.
• Bei Bei saw Tang Ya and called to her through tears, but she launched a barrage of vines at him.
• Xu Sanshi blocked Tang Ya's attack and scolded Bei Bei, who regained his composure and charged at Tang Ya.
• Tang Ya formed a Blue Silver Overlord Spear and a spreading net, while Bei Bei used his sacred mark and Dragon Emperor Evil Break Slash to tear the net apart.