Chapter Summaries

Xu Tianran seized power after claiming the Sun Moon Emperor had been assassinated, killing his brothers and many members of the court to eliminate rivals. After Kong Deming accepted Xu Tianran’s rule and took command of the Sun Moon front, the Emperor awoke in captivity and learned that Xu Tianran had blamed him for the deaths.

• Xu Tianran told Kong Deming that the Emperor, his brothers, the imperial consorts, and several officials and nobles had died, and Kong Deming confronted him over the killings.
• Kong Deming accepted that the Emperor was dead, took command of the Sun Moon front, and warned Xu Tianran to handle an upcoming transaction with the Beast Sect carefully.
• Xu Tianran agreed to supply the front and ascend the throne, while Kong Deming bowed and left.
• The Sun Moon Emperor awoke bound and gravely injured, then realized Xu Tianran had orchestrated the assassinations.
• Xu Tianran asked why the Emperor would not die and blamed him for the deaths Xu Tianran had caused.

Xu Tianran revealed that he had rebelled to reclaim the throne, used the Blood Skull technique to restore his legs, and turned the emperor into a living blood source while destroying his mind. Elsewhere, Angel Miss completed the Angel God's inheritance and reached the level of a Second-Rank Deity, then sought the youth's touch.

• Xu Tianran accused the emperor of taking back his authority and declared that he would reclaim what was rightfully his.
• Xu Tianran explained that he had used the Blood Skull technique and murdered relatives to reshape his body and regain the ability to stand.
• Xu Tianran drained the emperor's blood while using a mental destruction device to reduce him to a vegetable.
• Angel Miss completed the Angel God's inheritance in the Undead Minor Plane and advanced to the level of a Second-Rank Deity.
• Angel Miss appeared in the youth's arms, offered him her new wings, and told him his touch was not enough.

Huo Yuhao confirmed that Angel Miss had gained a divine state alongside her humanity, with him acting as her anchor, while his Emotion God King position began to take shape. At the Mingdou Mountain Range, both armies settled into a standoff, leaving the Star Luo Army’s purpose unclear.

• Huo Yuhao tested Angel Miss and found that she had reached the Second-Rank Deity realm, switching between humanity and divinity when he was near or absent.
• Huo Yuhao spread his name through the Abyss Plane and the Douluo Plane, gathering faith and emotion power as the Emotion God King divine position began to gestate.
• Huo Yuhao estimated that the Douluo Plane had a seventy percent chance of defeating the God Realm, rising to ninety percent if he became a God King of two systems, though he worried about the God Realm Will.
• Kong Deming and the Mecha Masters kept Huo Yuhao behind the front lines, where he relayed orders using his spiritual power.
• The Sun Moon Army adopted a defensive strategy at the Mingdou Mountain Range, and the Star Luo Army stopped attacking after several failed probes.
• The two armies maintained their positions, while Huo Yuhao wondered what the Star Luo Army was waiting for.

Xuanji Douluo, Giant Hammer Douluo, and Dai Hao learned that Star Luo City might have fallen, while Huo Yuhao comforted Xu Tianzhen after she witnessed the killing of her companions. The chapter left the Star Luo army facing the collapse of its capital and Xu Tianzhen shaken by Xu Tianran’s purge.

• Xuanji Douluo asked Dai Hao and Giant Hammer Douluo how they should respond to a bloodstained letter claiming Star Luo City had fallen.
• Dai Hao argued that the army could not retreat, whether the letter was false or Star Luo was already lost, because the Sun Moon Empire would use Star Luo as an example to threaten other nations.
• Heavenly Fiend Douluo returned to the tent wounded and missing an arm, confirmed that Star Luo City had fallen, and collapsed.
• Huo Yuhao held Xu Tianzhen and reflected that he had expected Xu Tianran’s purge but had believed the Scythe Emperor could keep her safe.
• Xu Tianzhen had witnessed Xu Tianran’s assassins behead several girls from collateral branches while she was out with them.

Huo Yuhao comforted Xu Tianzhen after revealing that Xu Tianran had tried to use her as a tool, and promised he would never abandon her. As the Star Luo Army struggled with the news that Star Luo City had fallen, word arrived that Heaven Dou Empire reinforcements were nearby, just as an explosion sounded.

• Huo Yuhao told Xu Tianzhen that Xu Tianran had targeted Kong Deming for the throne and spared her to avoid offending him.
• Xu Tianzhen feared Huo Yuhao would abandon her, and he kissed her before promising he would never leave her.
• Huo Yuhao left Xu Tianzhen to rest and resolved to deal with Xu Tianran after the Douluo Continent was unified.
• Huo Yuhao spent the following days at the front lines while the Star Luo Army grew anxious over reports that Star Luo City had fallen.
• Dai Hao, Xuanji Douluo, and Giant Hammer Douluo learned from Heavenly Fiend Douluo about Star Luo City's fall and Ye Yulin's overwhelming strength.
• A messenger reported that Heaven Dou Empire reinforcements were five li away, and an explosion suddenly rang out.

The Heaven Dou Empire joined the Sun Moon Empire’s attack on the Star Luo camp, while Du Busi confronted Xuanji Douluo and Giant Hammer Douluo. Dai Hao struggled to shield the White Tiger Legion from the bombardment as his forces were devastated and his hope began to collapse.

• Rank 7 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells struck the Star Luo camp, setting off explosions that devastated its supplies and soldiers.
• Dai Hao used his White Tiger Martial Soul Avatar to intercept the shells, while Xuanji Douluo and Giant Hammer Douluo flew toward the artillery.
• Xuanji Douluo and Giant Hammer Douluo discovered Heaven Dou Empire flags beside the cannons and realized the empire had joined the Sun Moon Empire’s assault.
• Du Busi appeared with nine scarlet Blood Essence Soul Rings and confronted Xuanji Douluo and Giant Hammer Douluo, who feared his Limit Douluo-level power.
• The Sun Moon Army advanced behind the relentless bombardment, and Dai Hao watched the White Tiger Guards die as his weakening White Tiger phantom failed to protect them.

After Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi arrived at the ruined camp, Ju Zi began taking revenge on the White Tiger Guards who had slaughtered her town. She used her enhanced Martial Soul to kill them one by one, while the surviving guards watched in terror.

• Dai Hao collapsed from exhaustion after enduring the saturation bombardment, and his remaining White Tiger Guards rushed to treat him.
• Huo Yuhao told Ju Zi that the surviving people from the incident were present, and Ju Zi walked toward them to take revenge herself.
• Ju Zi used oranges carrying Elemental Annihilation to annihilate several White Tiger Guards.
• The White Tiger Guards panicked as Ju Zi continued firing Elemental Annihilation at them.

Ju Zi avenged her father by mutilating Dai Hao and burning him and his guards, while Huo Yuhao revealed a Soul Lamp that could torment their souls for decades. After her revenge, Ju Zi felt hollow but embraced Huo Yuhao, realizing she was not unwanted.

• Dai Hao pleaded for Ju Zi and Huo Yuhao to spare his White Tiger Guards, but Ju Zi ignored him and attacked with three-element Elemental Annihilation.
• Ju Zi destroyed Dai Hao’s right hand and killed or mutilated his White Tiger Guards as Dai Hao struggled to evade her attacks.
• Ju Zi annihilated Dai Hao’s remaining limbs, stripping away his Soul Bones and reducing his cultivation to the Soul Emperor level.
• Ju Zi burned Dai Hao and the surviving White Tiger Guards, then Huo Yuhao showed her a Soul Lamp that could burn their souls for decades.
• Ju Zi discarded the Soul Lamp, embraced Huo Yuhao, and cried as she realized she was not unwanted.

After Dai Hao’s death, Huo Yuhao turned his soul into a Soul Lamp and left with Ju Zi, while Kong Deming’s forces prepared to conquer the Star Luo Empire. The chapter ended with Kong Deming ordering the Duke’s Mansion prisoners guarded, anticipating the Spirit Pagoda’s interest.

• Ju Zi clung to Huo Yuhao after her revenge was fulfilled, and he reflected on how his own hatred remained despite treating revenge as entertainment.
• Huo Yuhao extracted Dai Hao’s soul, made it into a Soul Lamp, and planned to burn him for hundreds of years before dealing with Dai Huabin and the First Madam.
• Kong Deming and the others arrived at the battlefield, where Jing Hongchen cut off Dai Hao’s head and Kong ordered the army to conquer the Star Luo Empire within half a year.
• Jing Hongchen learned of the purge in Mingdu, and Kong Deming told him the Hall of Reverence would focus on unifying Douluo rather than intervening in imperial affairs.
• Kong Deming ordered the battlefield cleaned up, news of the Star Luo Army’s destruction spread, and the Duke’s Mansion prisoners guarded in case the Spirit Pagoda wanted them.

After the Sun Moon Empire’s victories brought the other empires to surrender and Xu Tianran seized the throne, Huo Yuhao exacted revenge on the Duke’s family. Completing that revenge fulfilled the final Emotion God King examination, and he fused the divine position into himself.

• The Sun Moon Army advanced through the Star Luo Empire as Heaven Dou and Dou Ling surrendered and their imperial families retired.
• Xu Tianran announced Xu Jiawei’s death and ascended the throne, rapidly taking control of Mingdu.
• Huo Yuhao killed Dai Huabin, tormented First Madam with the memories and suffering of her family, and turned them into Soul Lamps.
• Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Destiny to extract the souls of other Duke’s Mansion residents who had targeted his mother, while ordering the Spirit Pagoda to care for the rest.
• Huo Yuhao completed the Emotion God King divine position and fused it into himself, gaining a new power system and reclaiming the strength of his previous life.

Huo Yuhao considered how to evade the God Realm Will’s judgment, but Dragon King Miss suddenly captured him. At the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, Tang San wielded the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe and confronted Ye Xishui, the last of the enemies he had been sent to eliminate.

• Huo Yuhao decided to delay fusing a Divine Artifact with his Emotion God King Position and focus on developing his Soul Ring Carrying Soul Core system.
• Dragon King Miss appeared before Huo Yuhao, recognized that he was a God King, and took him away by force.
• Ye Xishui attacked the overgrown Holy Spirit Cult headquarters after discovering her son Zhongli Wu was dead and the Blood Food supply had stopped.
• Tang San blocked Ye Xishui’s attack with the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe and introduced himself as Rakshasa God Tang San.
• Tang San unleashed the scythe’s power and prepared to fight Ye Xishui, the last target left after the Holy Spirit Cult and Evil Emperor were destroyed.

Tang San completed the Rakshasa God Examination by killing Ye Xishui and began fusing with the god position, but several figures ambushed and sealed him before sending him to the Undead Minor Plane. At the Lake of Life, Huo Yuhao and the Dragon King Miss rested together after their exhausting battle.

• Tang San killed Ye Xishui with the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe, devoured her life force, and completed his final Rakshasa God Examination.
• Tang San began ascending to godhood, but several figures struck him unconscious, took the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe, sealed him, and sent him to the Undead Minor Plane.
• Huo Yuhao recalled that Emotion Amplification had helped him fight the Dragon King Miss to a draw after three hundred rounds.
• Huo Yuhao embraced the sleeping Dragon King Miss, who curled her tail around his waist and nestled against him.

Huo Yuhao, posing as Elder Yu, traded forged metals with the newly crowned Xu Tianran and exposed that Xu Tianri might still be alive and imprisoned. He laid out the Beast Sect’s demands for the Sun Moon Empire, then gave Kong Deming a scroll containing a possible path to redemption.

• Xu Tianran met six Limit Douluos from the Beast Sect as Huo Yuhao arrived in his Elder Yu persona to trade this year’s Thousand Forgings Metal and Spirit Forged Metal.
• Huo Yuhao questioned Xu Tianran about his father’s death and revealed that he could still sense the Life Metal Alloy in Xu Tianri operating.
• Xu Tianran denied that his father was alive, but Huo Yuhao said he did not care if Xu Tianran was an Evil Soul Master as long as their trade continued.
• Huo Yuhao told Xu Tianran that the Spirit Pagoda would aid the Sun Moon Empire’s control of the Douluo Three Nations, share some Soul Guide Technology, and receive the sect disciples intercepted at the Soul Master Tournament.
• Huo Yuhao threw a scroll to Kong Deming and told him that the path to redemption lay within.

Huo Yuhao gave Kong Deming a proposal for a constitutional monarchy, leaving Kong to weigh Xu Tianran’s succession against the Sun Moon Empire’s future. Meanwhile, the Spirit Pagoda gained influence across the unified continent, and the former empires were reorganized into provinces under Sun Moon rule.

• Huo Yuhao refused to help Xu Tianran locate the Life Metal Alloy and left with his undead companions, while Kong Deming departed with the scroll.
• Kong Deming read Huo Yuhao’s constitutional monarchy proposal and struggled to choose between supporting Xu Tianran as the legitimate heir or another successor.
• In April of Year 1 of the New Calendar, the Spirit Pagoda negotiated the Star Luo Empire’s surrender in exchange for peace and shared Soul Guide Technologies, boosting its standing among Star Luo’s people.
• In May, the Spirit Pagoda traded Artificial Soul Ring technology for the release of captured sect disciples, earning gratitude from sects across the former Douluo Three Nations.
• In July, the Sun Moon Empire allowed the Spirit Pagoda to open branches in major cities and granted it Nation-Protecting Sect status.
• In September, the Sun Moon Empire abolished the former empires’ names, reorganized their lands into nine provinces, and withdrew its army from the four Star Luo provinces.

Xu Tianran confronted Kong Deming over the loss of his power and accused him of usurping the nation. Kong Deming questioned whether Xu Tianran’s Martial Soul still proved his legitimacy, leaving the emperor facing a public demand to reveal it.

• Xu Tianran welcomed the returning Sun Moon Army on foot and publicly displayed his closeness with Kong Deming.
• Xu Tianran accused Kong Deming of stripping him of power and asked who would replace him, calling the elder’s actions a usurpation.
• Xu Tianran reflected that Kong Deming and the Hall of Reverence had turned against him after learning he had used Evil Soul Master arts and his father as fuel.
• Kong Deming asked Xu Tianran to show his Martial Soul, and Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin demanded that he prove the Sun Moon Empire’s legitimacy.

Xu Tianzhen obeyed her boss’s orders and challenged Xu Tianran, forcing him to reveal his corrupted Martial Soul. The confrontation left Kong Deming and the others facing proof that Xu Tianran had become an Evil Soul Master.

• Xu Tianran confronted Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, and another Super Douluo, refusing to back down until Xu Tianzhen stepped forward to challenge him.
• Xu Tianzhen revealed her Ultimate Fire, seven soul rings, and enhanced combat strength, then attacked Xu Tianran with her sword.
• Xu Tianran retreated behind disposable Class 9 soul tool shields, but when his last shield broke, he revealed his Martial Soul and nine soul rings to repel Xu Tianzhen.
• Xu Tianzhen withdrew after accomplishing her goal of making Xu Tianran reveal his power, and she saw that his Purple Radiance Sky Extinguishing Dragon had been tainted by an evil aura.
• Kong Deming confronted Xu Tianran over his corrupted Martial Soul and declared that he was no longer worthy of being called the legitimate successor.

Xu Tianran was captured after his Evil Soul Master nature emerged, and Xu Tianzhen unexpectedly became empress of the Sun Moon Empire. In her bedchamber, Huo Yuhao saw through Xu Tianzhen’s plan to use her new position to get close to him.

• Kong Deming confronted Xu Tianran about his Evil Soul Master aura, and Ye Yulin shackled and led him away.
• Kong Deming told Xu Tianzhen she would ascend the throne, leaving her stunned that she had become empress.
• Xu Tianzhen ascended the throne as the Sun Moon Empire’s new empress in early November of the first year of the New Calendar.
• After the ceremony, Xu Tianzhen complained to Huo Yuhao about her duties and tried to use her position to draw him close.
• Huo Yuhao exposed Xu Tianzhen’s intentions and told her she was not allowed to beg for mercy.

Xu Tianzhen missed her first morning court as empress after spending the night with Huo Yuhao, leaving Kong Deming to cancel the session. More than a year later, the Sun Moon Empire and Spirit Pagoda had begun sweeping reforms and promoting new cultivation paths, while someone continued gathering emotions in pursuit of becoming a God King.

• Kong Deming learned that Xu Tianzhen and Huo Yuhao had spent the night together and canceled the morning court because she was absent.
• Huo Yuhao gave Xu Tianzhen Life Essence to ease her soreness, and the two teased each other in the bedchamber.
• Over the following year, Xu Tianzhen and the Spirit Pagoda Tower Master established deep cooperation and weakened the Sun Moon Empire's noble faction.
• The Spirit Pagoda announced Dharma Cultivation, Body Cultivation, and Artifact Cultivation, and sent practitioners to spar with other factions.
• The Spirit Pagoda offered the Xuantian Foundation Building Technique for free, drawing widespread excitement from commoners and soul masters.
• Someone quietly continued harvesting emotions while waiting to break the final shackle before becoming a God King.

Huo Yuhao used the Abyss’s abundant energy and his God King power to condense three Soul Cores, reaching God King through the Soul Ring Carrying Soul Core system. After mastering his new strength, he attempted to condense a Dharma Aspect, leaving its outcome unresolved.

• Huo Yuhao left Miss Meng, Big Juzi, and Miss Empress and used a Space Door to reach the first layer of the Abyss.
• Huo Yuhao drew on the Abyss’s Heaven and Earth Origin Energy and his Power of Emotion and Power of Faith to condense three Soul Cores for his three Martial Souls.
• The three Soul Cores completed their transformation, and Huo Yuhao reached God King through the Soul Ring Carrying Soul Core system.
• Huo Yuhao compared his new strength with his former self and quickly familiarized himself with his power.
• Huo Yuhao made the three Martial Soul phantoms collide as he began condensing his Dharma Aspect.

Huo Yuhao fused his three Martial Souls into a Dharma Aspect and broke through beyond the God King level, then returned to the Douluo Plane. There, he found Dragon King Miss and the assembled deities ready to face the God Realm.

• Huo Yuhao used the Seed of Emotion as the foundation to merge his Spiritual Eye, Ultimate Ice, and Holy Necromancer into a single Dharma Aspect.
• The Dharma Aspect's power shattered the first layer of the Abyss Plane and pushed Huo Yuhao beyond the God King level.
• Huo Yuhao stopped his power from further damaging the Abyss Plane and told the Plane Will he would bring it a dedicated plane crusher later.
• Huo Yuhao opened a Space Door and returned to the Douluo Plane, setting his sights on the God Realm.
• Dragon King Miss, Electrolux, Di Tian, Snow Empress, Ye Guyi, and the other deities gathered before Huo Yuhao, displaying the Douluo Plane's current strength.