Chapter Summaries

Xu Tianran revised his plan to conquer the continent after Jiang Ming disrupted the Holy Spirit Cult alliance, ordering a surprise naval attack on the Dou Ling Empire. As the fleet sailed and foreign agents prepared to stir unrest in Radiant City, Ming Jiang asked them to locate Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen without alerting them.

• Xu Tianran assessed Shrek Academy's strength and decided to avoid a direct war by attacking the Dou Ling Empire first.
• Ye Yulin and another Rank 9 Soul Master prepared a fleet of ten thousand elite Soul Engineers to sail around the Star Luo Empire and strike the Dou Ling Empire's eastern coast.
• Star Luo and Heaven Dou agents in Radiant City received orders to spread opposition to Xu Tianran and incite public unrest.
• Ming Jiang met with the agents and ordered them to find Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen without alerting them.

Xu Tianran intensified taxes and forced Rare Metal mining to continue despite deadly blizzards as he prepared for war, while Jiang Ming inferred that the Sun Moon Empire might attack the Dou Ling Empire by sea. The chapter ended with the Snow Empress asking whether she could use ice and snow to make a temporary body.

• Ministers discussed Xu Tianran's worsening condition and oppressive decrees before attending court.
• Elder Zhang urged Xu Tianran to reduce taxes, but Xu Tianran ordered his fortune confiscated and silenced the court.
• A minister reported hundreds of deaths in northern Rare Metal mines, but Xu Tianran rejected a suspension and ordered mining expanded.
• Jiang Ming and the Snow Empress analyzed the Sun Moon Empire's likely plans, and Jiang Ming suspected a seaborne attack on the Dou Ling Empire.
• Jiang Ming said he missed Zhang Lexuan and the others, and the Snow Empress asked whether she could create a temporary body from ice and snow.

Ye Yulin led a Sun Moon Empire fleet through Star Luo Empire waters, using the Sun Moon Divine Needle to draw deep-sea Soul Beasts away from its route. The fleet reached the eastern waters of the Star Luo Empire and continued toward the Dou Ling Empire, where Ye Yulin planned to attack Dong Ling City before advancing on the capital.

• Jiang Ming declined Snow Empress's suggestion to visit the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and flew to the Soul Tool Department.
• Ye Yulin used the Sun Moon Divine Needle to lure deep-sea Soul Beasts away as the fleet crossed Star Luo Empire waters.
• A group of Sea Soul Beasts attacked a Star Luo Empire patrol fleet, destroying its ships and forcing surviving crew members to flee to shore.
• The Star Luo Empire's coastal cities went on alert, but no further Beast Tide came, and the sea later appeared calm again.
• Ye Yulin's fleet continued north through the eastern waters, having lost one ship and over a dozen soldiers, and he ordered the troops to rest before attacking Dong Ling City.

Xu Tianran and Ju Zi discussed the Sun Moon Empire fleet’s progress as Ye Yulin led its surprise invasion of the Dou Ling Empire. After landing on the coast and racing past the empire’s defenses, Ye Yulin’s Soul Engineer Legion reached the outskirts of Ling Dou City before the capital learned of the attack.

• Ju Zi estimated that Ye Yulin’s fleet had reached the northeastern waters of the Star Luo Empire, and Xu Tianran asked what she thought about unifying the continent.
• Xue Tianhai approved sending troops to guard the Dou Ling Empire’s southeastern coast against Sea Soul Beast tides, while Ye Yulin’s fleet entered those waters.
• Ye Yulin brought the fleet to its designated position, ordered the ships to maximize their interference Soul Tools, and sent scouts to investigate the coast.
• After learning that the Dou Ling Empire had reinforced its southeastern coast, Ye Yulin redirected the fleet toward the eastern coastline and ordered it to advance at full speed.
• Ye Yulin’s Soul Engineer Legion landed, seized a coastal city, killed its city lord and resisting defenders, and began constructing a Soul Cannon formation.
• Ye Yulin led the legion past the cities between the coast and Ling Dou City, reaching the capital’s outskirts before the emperor and ministers received news of the invasion.

Ye Yulin led the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer Legion in a surprise attack on Ling Dou City, using three Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonballs to destroy the Dou Ling Empire’s imperial palace and kill most of its imperial family and ministers. As the legion seized the capital, Ye Yulin confronted the Dou Ling Empire’s surviving Titled Douluo, including Heavenly Sun Douluo.

• A Ming Yue Chamber of Commerce branch president warned headquarters that the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer Legion was advancing toward Ling Dou City.
• Ye Yulin ordered his forces to rest before attacking the city at dusk and targeting the imperial palace first.
• The Soul Engineer Legion bombarded Ling Dou City’s eastern wall, breached the gate, and spread through the capital while Ye Yulin flew toward the palace.
• Ye Yulin fired three Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonballs at the imperial palace, killing most of the gathered imperial family, princes, nobles, and ministers.
• The Soul Engineer Legion seized key locations across Ling Dou City as the capital fell into chaos and flames.
• Heavenly Sun Douluo and other surviving Titled Douluo attacked the legion, while Ye Yulin used his Flying Soul Tool to keep his distance and prepare to fight.

Ye Yulin’s Sun Moon Empire legion captured Ling Dou City after crushing the Dou Ling Empire’s resistance, though Heavenly Sun Douluo escaped. Jiang Ming learned of the capital’s fall on Sea God Island and ordered the plan targeting Ye Yulin to begin as the continental war approached a major shift.

• Ye Yulin and the Sun Moon Empire’s Rank 9 Soul Masters used prepared Soul Tools to suppress Heavenly Sun Douluo and the other Dou Ling Empire Titled Douluo.
• Heavenly Sun Douluo attacked the Soul Engineers below, killing many of them as his fiery strikes also devastated Ling Dou City’s defenders and citizens.
• Two Dou Ling Empire Titled Douluo fell, and Heavenly Sun Douluo escaped the encirclement severely injured after another hour of fighting.
• Ye Yulin ordered his troops to purge the remaining Dou Ling Empire soldiers, fortify Ling Dou City, gather supplies, and inform Xu Tianran that the next stage of the plan could begin.
• The Ming Yue Chamber of Commerce received news of Ling Dou City’s fall before the other empires, and Jiang Ming ordered the plan targeting Ye Yulin to begin.
• Jiang Ming told the Chamber’s branches to stay alert, warning that Xu Tianran’s move could drastically change the situation across the continent.

After the Sun Moon Empire seized Ling Dou City and destroyed the Dou Ling imperial family, Jiang Ming and the two princesses anticipated a continent-wide war, while Xu Tianran prepared to expand the invasion. The chapter ended with Xu Tianran fixating on Shrek Academy and Jiang Ming as a blood-red, seemingly divine Evil Soul Master aura surfaced in his eyes.

• Jiang Ming, Qian Duoduo, and Fan Yu concluded that the Sun Moon Empire's force in Ling Dou City was isolated and that Xu Tianran would likely attack the Heaven Dou Empire next.
• After learning that Ling Dou City had fallen, Xu Jiu Jiu ordered the news sent to Star Luo City and decided to travel with Princess Vina to Sea God Island to meet Jiang Ming.
• Xu Tianran celebrated Ye Yulin's capture of Ling Dou City and ordered Kong Deming to open a land route through the northern Heaven Dou Empire while other forces attacked its western cities and watched the Star Luo border.
• Ju Zi warned Xu Tianran that Shrek Academy could not be ignored, prompting him to recognize Jiang Ming as a threat and suffer a sudden headache.
• As Ju Zi helped Xu Tianran back, blood-red, seemingly divine Evil Soul Master aura emerged from his eyes.

The Sun Moon Empire mobilized its forces on four fronts after Ye Yulin’s success, aiming to isolate and conquer the Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires while preventing the Star Luo Empire from helping. As the Clawed Soul Master Corps attacked the Heaven Dou Empire, Xu Tianyuan and Luan Feng planned a Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonball feint against the Star Luo Empire, with Xu Tianyuan proposing to target the White Tiger Duke.

• Kong Deming received news of Ye Yulin’s success and ordered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps to prepare to attack Clear Water City from the north.
• Xu Tianran’s forces prepared coordinated offensives across four fronts, seeking to pin down the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires while Kong Deming and Ye Yulin advanced.
• The Clawed Soul Master Corps attacked the central border of the Heaven Dou Empire, nearly breaking through before the defenders could organize a counterattack.
• Xu Tianyuan and Luan Feng discussed using Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonballs to convince the Star Luo Empire to concentrate its forces at the border.
• Luan Feng agreed to use no more than three cannonballs, and Xu Tianyuan suggested dropping one on the White Tiger Duke.

Xu Tianyuan and Luan Feng used three Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonballs to strike the Star Luo Empire’s border, prompting Dai Hao to call in reinforcements. Meanwhile, Kong Deming began the Sun Moon Empire’s advance from Ice Snow City, aiming to seize Clear Water City within a day.

• Xu Tianyuan and Luan Feng planned to bombard Dai Hao and two Star Luo Empire Soul Tool positions to draw enemy forces to the border.
• Dai Hao learned that the Dou Ling Empire had fallen, deduced that Ye Yulin’s force had attacked from the South Sea, and resolved to send troops to support Dou Ling.
• A Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonball exploded near Dai Hao, who protected nearby soldiers and was injured as he ordered the border positions to retreat.
• Two more Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonballs destroyed Star Luo Empire Soul Tool positions, and Dai Hao ordered troops from the rear cities to reinforce the border.
• Xu Tianyuan and Luan Feng saw that Dai Hao had mobilized his forces, while Kong Deming assembled the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps and ordered it to take Clear Water City within a day.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps attacked Clear Water City, but its advanced defenses and reserves initially held them off. After a Rank 9 Soul Master shattered the city’s shield, Jiang Ming rushed north to defend the city.

• Kong Deming led the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps toward Clear Water City and ordered an attack despite noticing its Rank 7 Fixed Soul Cannons.
• Clear Water City’s ice-blue Soul Tool Shield blocked the opening bombardment, and Nie Heng mobilized the city’s troops and reserves.
• Nie Heng recognized the attackers as a powerful Sun Moon Empire force and ordered the city to prepare for battle.
• The Ming Yue Chamber of Commerce relayed news of the attack to Shrek City, where Jiang Ming learned Clear Water City was threatened.
• Jiang Ming left Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu to travel to Clear Water City, while a Rank 9 Soul Master shattered the city’s shield.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps attacked Clear Water City to open a route into the Dou Ling Empire, overwhelming its defenses until Jiang Ming arrived. He seized control of the battlefield and killed five or six hundred enemy Soul Tool Masters, leaving Kong Deming and the surviving forces at his mercy.

• Nie Heng activated Clear Water City's anti-air Soul Tool system, but the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps blasted open the walls and set the western district ablaze.
• Nie Heng threatened to detonate a Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonball, but Kong Deming used Bewildering Moon to subdue him and sealed the weapon away.
• Jiang Ming arrived, stopped Kong Deming from killing Nie Heng, and used his pressure to pin the attackers to the ground.
• Jiang Ming ordered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps to withdraw and asked Kong Deming whether the attack aimed to open a route into the Dou Ling Empire.
• When the ten-second deadline expired, Jiang Ming crushed five or six hundred Soul Tool Masters above Rank Five who remained inside Clear Water City.

Jiang Ming stopped Kong Deming’s attack on Clear Water City, detained him and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps, and discussed Soul Tool technology with him. Xu Tianran ordered preparations to threaten Clear Water City with Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonballs, but a later report said Kong Deming was suspected of betrayal.

• Jiang Ming killed more than a quarter of the attacking Soul Engineers, placed the Rank 7 and higher survivors in his Small World, and had Kong Deming brought to the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Jiang Ming told Kong Deming he would spare him for now but keep him and the corps in Clear Water City, then persuaded him to discuss Rank 9 Soul Tools.
• Xu Tianran learned that Jiang Ming had appeared in Clear Water City and concluded the city was likely Jiang Ming’s hometown.
• Xu Tianran asked Ju Zi about the Fixed Soul Cannonballs and ordered her to prepare a possible strike on Clear Water City when Jiang Ming was absent.
• Ju Zi sent a secret unit with Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonballs toward Clear Water City, but Xu Tianran later received a report that Kong Deming was suspected of betrayal.

Xu Tianran learned that Jiang Ming had forced Kong Deming to exchange Soul Engineering insights and had inflicted heavy losses on the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps, leaving the Sun Moon Empire to reroute its campaign toward the Dou Ling Empire. In Heaven Dou City, Vina proposed a bold counteroffensive to seize the Dou Ling Empire and restore the former unified Heaven Dou Empire.

• Ju Zi recognized Jiang Ming's report about Kong Deming guiding him toward Rank 10 Soul Master as an attempt to sow discord, while Xu Tianran considered whether Kong Deming had been coerced.
• Kong Deming's letter confirmed that Jiang Ming had forced him to exchange insights, killed more than six hundred members of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps, and made Clear Water City an impractical route.
• Xu Tianran ordered Kong Deming to bypass Clear Water City and find another way into the Dou Ling Empire, since Ye Yulin might not hold out much longer.
• The Old Emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire heard ministers and Princes debate whether to aid the Dou Ling Empire or defend against the Sun Moon Empire.
• Vina proposed sending the Body Sect's elites and one hundred thousand troops to take Ling Dou City, defend the northern approaches, and seize the Dou Ling Empire to restore the Heaven Dou Empire.

Vina’s proposal to conquer the Dou Ling Empire won the Heaven Dou Emperor’s approval, and Du Busi led the Body Sect’s elite toward Ling Dou City to defeat Ye Yulin’s Soul Engineer legion. As night fell, the Body Sect prepared to attack, while Du Busi learned that Jiang Ming’s words had helped guide Vina toward the plan.

• The Heaven Dou Emperor ended the court’s debate and summoned his Imperial Advisor after deciding to consider Vina’s proposal to seize the Dou Ling Empire.
• A Body Sect Soul Saint told Vina that Du Busi would lead the sect’s Soul King-level and stronger experts to attack Ling Dou City, and Vina agreed to go with Long Aotian.
• Du Busi marched toward Ling Dou City with several hundred Body Sect experts and a hundred-thousand-strong army, warning his forces to avoid fighting the Soul Engineers at range and to watch for Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonballs.
• Vina and Long Aotian joined Du Busi outside Ling Dou City, where he ordered the Body Sect to rest before attacking after nightfall.
• Du Busi asked Vina about her plan, and she said Jiang Ming had guided her by telling her that a triangle had stability.
• After one shichen, Du Busi ordered the Body Sect to prepare to attack Ling Dou City.

Du Busi led the Body Sect into Ling Dou City, broke through its Soul Tool defenses, and confronted Ye Yulin, who was trying to raise his cultivation with treasures from the imperial treasury. Ye Yulin died detonating his Fixed Soul Tools, and the blast devastated the city despite Du Busi’s efforts to shield the Body Sect disciples.

• Du Busi shattered Ling Dou City’s Golden Light Barrier and sent the Body Sect’s fighters over the walls while he went to find Ye Yulin.
• Ye Yulin absorbed treasures from the Dou Ling Empire’s treasury in hopes of advancing beyond level ninety-four and becoming a Rank 10 Soul Master.
• Du Busi attacked Ye Yulin and revealed that he had broken through to Limit Douluo, forcing Ye Yulin to exhaust his Rank 9 Defensive Soul Tools.
• Ye Yulin activated the self-destruction procedures of his Fixed Soul Tools and threatened to take Ling Dou City down with him.
• Du Busi trapped Ye Yulin and the Soul Tools and hurled them into the sky, but the enormous explosion killed people across Ling Dou City and Ye Yulin fell.

Du Busi defeated the Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers in Ling Dou City, where Ye Yulin died and the Heaven Dou Empire took control. After learning that Du Busi had reached Limit Douluo, Kong Deming retreated, and news of Ye Yulin’s death reached Xu Tianran in Radiant City.

• Du Busi weakened Ye Yulin’s self-destruction to protect Ling Dou City, then ordered the Body Sect disciples to hunt down the remaining Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers.
• Du Busi’s forces killed or captured Soul Engineers overnight, while one Rank 9 Soul Master escaped; the Heaven Dou Empire army entered the ruined city at dawn.
• Du Busi left Vina and Long Aotian to secure Ling Dou City and returned to Heaven Dou City to confront Kong Deming.
• Du Busi told Kong Deming that Ye Yulin was dead and revealed that he had reached Level Ninety-Nine, then crushed Kong Deming’s Rank 9 Soul Tool attack.
• Kong Deming ordered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps to retreat, and news of Ye Yulin’s death reached Xu Tianran in Radiant City.

Xu Tianran learned that Ye Yulin had died and that the Sun Moon Empire’s plans in the Dou Ling Empire had been badly disrupted, while Ju Zi urged him to exploit the chaos left behind. In Ling Dou City, Vina proposed merging the fallen Dou Ling Empire into the Heaven Dou Empire, with Du Busi’s arrival forcing Heavenly Sun Douluo to hear her terms.

• Xu Tianran killed the soldier who delivered news of Ye Yulin’s death, then discussed the failed campaign with Ju Zi and ordered Kong Deming to return and report on Jiang Ming.
• Ju Zi persuaded Xu Tianran to consider exploiting the chaos in the Dou Ling Empire, and Kong Deming’s corps was assigned to join the Heaven Dou front while he was recalled.
• Heavenly Sun Douluo led an army to Ling Dou City and demanded that Vina return the Dou Ling capital, but she invited him inside to discuss the matter.
• Vina showed Heavenly Sun Douluo the ruined palace and argued that the Dou Ling Empire had no reason to continue after its royal family was wiped out.
• Heavenly Sun Douluo attacked Vina, but Du Busi arrived, revealed his Limit Douluo strength, and suppressed him.
• Vina proposed merging the Dou Ling Empire into the Heaven Dou Empire, promising royal burials and protection for the existing city lords, generals, and nobles.

Princess Vina persuaded Heavenly Sun Douluo to accept the Dou Ling Empire’s merger with the Heaven Dou Empire, and the Heaven Dou emperor approved the agreement despite ministers’ objections. The reunited Heaven Dou Empire was publicly proclaimed, leaving the continent reacting to the change.

• Vina offered Heavenly Sun Douluo a place as a Guardian Douluo and a chance to avenge the Dou Ling imperial family, while Du Busi warned that refusal would mean death.
• Heavenly Sun Douluo agreed to the merger on the condition that it be announced as a union rather than an annexation.
• The Old Emperor initially hesitated to reward the Body Sect because it supported Vina, then learned she had negotiated the merger with Heavenly Sun Douluo.
• The Old Emperor rejected ministers’ attempts to undermine Vina and ordered them to carry out the agreement.
• The Heaven Dou Empire announced that it had merged with the Dou Ling Empire under the name Heaven Dou Empire, causing an uproar across the continent.

Xu Jiawei recognized the Heaven Dou Empire’s merger with the Dou Ling Empire because Star Luo could not risk fighting on two fronts against it and the Sun Moon Empire. Jiang Ming watched the fallout and planned to target Xu Tianran’s remaining allies, while Xu Tianran destroyed the palace hall and asked Ju Zi what he should do next.

• Xu Jiawei rejected his ministers’ calls to oppose the merger and turned the court’s attention to the Sun Moon Empire’s attacks on the border.
• Jiang Ming told the Ming Yue Chamber of Commerce’s Shrek City branch president to monitor Radiant City and considered how to strike at Ju Zi.
• Xu Tianran learned that the Heaven Dou Empire had merged with the Dou Ling Empire and demolished the imperial hall in a fit of rage.
• Xu Tianran ordered a guard to summon Ju Zi and arrange for the hall to be repaired before the next day.
• Xu Tianran met Ju Zi in the Imperial Garden, admitted that his plan had failed, and asked what path they should take next.

Ju Zi advised Xu Tianran to avoid pressuring the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires, while his worsening violence unsettled the imperial clan. Ming Jiang located Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, and the chapter ended with Xu Tianran learning they had been abducted.

• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran that tensions between the newly merged Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires and the Star Luo Empire could benefit the Sun Moon Empire if it avoided applying too much pressure.
• Sun Moon Empire nobles discussed Xu Tianran’s increasingly violent behavior and feared the effects of his policies, while his closest supporter promised to speak with him.
• Ming Jiang learned from Star Luo undercover agents that Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were confined at an estate in eastern Radiant City.
• Jing Hongchen continued crafting Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonballs and asked Xu Tianran to let him see his grandchildren, but Xu Tianran refused.
• An explosion in eastern Radiant City triggered a lockdown, and Xu Tianran summoned Jing Hongchen after Ju Zi found him.
• After Jing Hongchen left, Xu Tianran read a note saying that Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen had been abducted.