Chapter Summaries

Long Yao infiltrated the Sun Moon Imperial Palace, learned that Xu Tianran and the Holy Spirit Cult planned to create a godlike being from Tang Huo'er, and leaked their conversation to destabilize Mingdu. He then entered Mingde Hall during the resulting security shuffle and headed for its forbidden archives to find clues about the City of No Light.

• Long Yao delivered the rescued children to a Shrek outpost, then used Ling Yue to trace the Lord Overmind's signals to the Sun Moon Imperial Palace.
• Inside the palace, Long Yao overheard Xu Tianran and a Red Robe Figure discuss Tang Huo'er, the City of No Light, and their plan to create a being beyond God Tier.
• After the Red Robe Figure detected him, Long Yao escaped and sent their recorded conversation to Mingdu's princes, newspapers, and public broadcast channels, provoking a security crackdown.
• Long Yao purified Tang Wan'er's remnant soul in the Vast Sea Ring, then learned that the crackdown had weakened security at Mingde Hall.
• Using a disguised identity, Long Yao entered Mingde Hall and overheard Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen discuss strange students and a red-robed masked dean's suspected infiltration.
• Long Yao continued toward Mingde Hall's Forbidden Archive Room to search for records about the God Creation Plan and the City of No Light.

Long Yao infiltrated Jing Hongchen’s Forbidden Archive Room and discovered that the City of No Light and the God Creation Plan lay beneath Mingdu. He then sneaked into the underground city, saw Tang Huo’er sealed inside a tower, and escaped after she sensed him and Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao attacked.

• Long Yao synchronized with the archive’s Mental Lock, broke into the S-Class vault, and copied the map of Project: No Light and the God Creation Plan report.
• Long Yao found Jing Hongchen’s letter to Xiao and Meng, which revealed that Jing had cooperated with the plan to protect his grandchildren from Lord Overmind.
• Long Yao entered the City of No Light beneath Mingdu and saw captives having their life force and Soul Power drained into the central tower.
• Long Yao evaded Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao’s senses, then used an observation hole to glimpse Tang Huo’er sealed within a Blood Crystal Pillar.
• Tang Huo’er reached Long Yao with a plea to save her and a contradictory demand to kill her, alerting Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao to his presence.
• Long Yao escaped their attack with a Random Teleportation Talisman and the Void Phase Device, landing injured in a desert and resolving to confront the plan after recovering.

After recovering from Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao’s attack, Long Yao tracked the Lord Overmind’s suspected ally to a mechanical base in the Tianhui Mountain Range. He defeated Sky Net’s giant machine and traced the real transmigrator to the Main Control Tower, where he entered a corridor full of gun barrels.

• Long Yao used a Life Origin Fruit to recover, then had Ling Yue locate a suspicious mechanical site in the Tianhui Mountain Range.
• Long Yao reached the abandoned mining area, destroyed a Mechanical Spider, and fought off a swarm of coordinated machines.
• Sky Net appeared as a hologram, described his plan for a technological utopia, and restarted the mechanical assault after Long Yao questioned his role in Tang Huo’er’s God Creation Plan.
• Sky Net combined the machines into a Giant Mechanical Centipede, but Long Yao used the Nirvana Demon Spear to destroy its core and Chaos Power to disrupt the network.
• Ling Yue traced Sky Net to a quantum computer cluster on the Main Control Tower’s third basement level, and Long Yao forced his way inside.
• Sky Net activated hidden guns in the corridor as Long Yao charged toward him.

Long Yao infiltrated Sky Net’s base, destroyed its core and killed Sky Net while Ling Yue extracted data about the Saintess and Laboratory Number One. After escaping the collapsing base, he hid to recover, sent evidence to Shrek, and exchanged worried messages with Wang Dong'er as he prepared to pursue the Lord Overmind and the City of No Light.

• Long Yao traced the corridor weapons’ power to a relay and destroyed it, then found living people being used as biological processors in Sky Net’s laboratory.
• Long Yao confronted Sky Net in the base’s core and used his Star Ring and Nirvana Demon Spear to destroy the Blood Crystal Mecha and defeat him.
• Long Yao killed Sky Net, while Ling Yue took control of the base and downloaded files about Laboratory Number One and the Saintess.
• Long Yao destroyed the remaining culture dishes and fled as the base collapsed, vowing to face the Lord Overmind and rescue Tang Huo'er.
• Long Yao hid in a concealed pit, sent evidence to Dean Yan Shaozhe, and messaged Wang Dong'er, who urged him to return before the competition.
• Long Yao began recovering while Ling Yue monitored for threats, and he planned how to steal the creation sealed inside the tower.

Long Yao attacked a Holy Spirit Cult outpost, discovered a hidden Mechanical Legion, and reached Soul Emperor after obtaining a powerful new Spirit Ring. With the Undying Legion’s manufacturing plant located in Mingdu’s underground black market, he prepared to infiltrate it while delegating Shrek’s upcoming competition to Yuhao and Bei Bei.

• Long Yao raided what he believed was a Holy Spirit Cult supply station, killed its Soul Emperor leader, and uncovered a concealed Mechanical Legion beneath the site.
• Long Yao destroyed the Mechanical Soldiers and disabled the Silver Mecha Commander, while Ling Yue downloaded its core data; Long Yao escaped as a level 93 Titled Douluo arrived.
• Ling Yue decoded coordinates in the mecha’s core that pointed to the Undying Legion’s manufacturing plant in Mingdu’s underground black market, and Long Yao’s Soul Power reached Level 60.
• Long Yao bought and absorbed a Hundred-Forty-Thousand-Year Void Demon Spider Emperor Spirit Ring, breaking through to Level 63 and becoming a Soul Emperor.
• Long Yao told Ling Yue to inform Dean Yan that Yuhao and Bei Bei would lead Shrek’s competition team, and he sent Wang Dong'er a message promising to watch the finals livestream.
• Disguised as a poor Soul Engineer, Long Yao headed toward the Mingdu Underground Black Market to investigate the factory and confront Lord Overmind.

Long Yao infiltrated the Mingdu Underground Black Market and discovered the factory where the Undying Legion was being made from human captives. After killing the guards and researchers at the Commander’s laboratory, he infected its network and descended to Sub-level Five, where he found Lord Overmind’s core as a forced reboot began.

• Long Yao used a stolen Holy Spirit Cult Elder Token to enter the underground black market, then followed Ling Yue’s scan toward the Abandoned Industrial Zone.
• Long Yao disabled the mechanical patrol, stole a uniform and ID Card, and passed through Furnace Number Three into a factory that was converting people into mechanical soldiers.
• Long Yao secretly killed the laboratory guards and Bald Head Soul Saint, then learned from a researcher that the Commander connected the factory’s network and Lord Overmind operated from Sub-level Five.
• Long Yao injected a virus into the Commander, causing the factory’s mechanical forces to malfunction, and received Ling Yue’s warning that Lord Overmind was attempting a system reboot.
• Long Yao used the Void Phase Device to reach Sub-level Five, where he found a gigantic Mechanical Heart beating inside a crystalline pillar.

Long Yao destroyed the Lord Overmind’s avatar node beneath Mingdu and learned its true body was hidden near the Far North. He headed toward the Far North to find the collapsing Snow Empress, leaving the story as he raced toward Icefield Rift Valley.

• Long Yao pierced the Mechanical Heart’s crystal shell with Chaos Flame and destroyed the Lord Overmind’s avatar node, while Ling Yue salvaged data pointing to Abyss Eye near the Far North.
• Long Yao escaped the collapsing underground market, sent Yan Shaozhe the intercepted information, and warned him to keep Dong'er safe during the competition.
• Long Yao crossed the Demonic Forest, secretly filmed Evil Emperor from a distance, and withdrew when its tentacle sensed him.
• Long Yao used the Dongdong System to locate a powerful ice-element collapse at Icefield Rift Valley and set out to rescue Snow Empress.

Long Yao rescued the Snow Empress from the Far North, discovered the Lord Overmind’s Abyss breach, and spent two million points to seal it temporarily. He escaped to the Sun Moon Empire border with the Snow Empress, but arrived injured, nearly powerless, and broke before the Continental Elite Tournament.

• Long Yao used a Shuttle Ticket to reach the Snow Empress’s transformation point and took her cocoon into his arms before the Lord Overmind’s detectors could seize it.
• Long Yao recorded the Abyss vortex and sent a warning about it to Yan Shaozhe while observing Mechanical Shells emerging from the breach.
• Long Yao spent two million livestream points on a concealed formation that sealed the Abyss Node’s surface connection for at least half a year.
• Long Yao hid the Snow Emperor Embryo in the Vast Sea Ring and used his damaged Void Phase Device to escape as a Star Luo Empire Titled Douluo arrived too late to find him.
• Long Yao reached a forest near the Sun Moon Empire border, where Ling Yue reported that he was injured, nearly out of Soul Power, and penniless.

Long Yao used his Chaos Origin to stabilize the Snow Emperor Embryo, then recovered for five days in the Demonic Forest. He left for Star Luo City to reunite with Wang Dong'er and enter the turmoil there, carrying the dormant Snow Empress as both a danger and a potential advantage.

• Long Yao ignored Ling Yue's warnings and nurtured the Snow Emperor Embryo with Chaos Origin until it stabilized, planting a Chaos Seed to shield it from dimensional tracking.
• Long Yao collapsed from the strain and meditated for five days, restoring his strength while the Snow Emperor Embryo settled above the Chaos Seed inside the Vast Sea Ring.
• Ling Yue told Long Yao that the tournament knockout stage was nearing its end and that Wang Dong'er seemed extremely anxious, prompting him to prepare to leave.
• Long Yao decided not to absorb the dangerous embryo and asked Ling Yue to find a merchant caravan he could join as a temporary bodyguard to cross into the Star Luo Empire.
• Long Yao set out toward the caravan, sensed the Snow Empress stir inside the ring, and looked forward to seeing Wang Dong'er while considering the embryo a possible surprise for the dangers ahead.

Long Yao infiltrated Star Luo City and secretly hunted the Holy Spirit Cult and Lord Overmind agents targeting the tournament and Wang Dong'er. He discovered they planned to harvest the crowd’s mental resonance during the finals ceremony, and continued destroying their underground preparations while staying hidden from his companions.

• Long Yao entered Star Luo City with a merchant caravan and learned from Ling Yue that enemies were preparing an attack near the Star Luo Grand Hotel.
• Long Yao killed two disguised agents, searched one man’s memories, and traced their superiors to a Holy Spirit Cult elder monitoring the arena.
• Over the next half month, Long Yao cleared enemy installations across the city and found parasitic puppets preparing to contaminate the hotel’s water supply.
• Ling Yue revealed that the Lord Overmind planned to use the finals ceremony to activate an Abyss Eye node, with Wang Dong'er serving as its core frequency modulator.
• Long Yao followed Ling Yue’s readings through the sewers and killed modified Soul Masters installing a Soul Power Guiding Needle and compressed Soul Remnants.

Long Yao secretly destroyed Holy Spirit Cult nodes beneath Star Luo City while preparing to stop a larger ritual tied to the tournament finals. He infiltrated the main altar chamber and began silently eliminating its Soul Engineers, leaving Ninth Elder and the ritual still active.

• Long Yao and Ling Yue located a Guiding Needle guarded by three Soul Saints, and Long Yao killed all three before they could detonate it.
• Long Yao warned that the Holy Spirit Cult and the Lord Overmind still threatened Star Luo City as Wang Dong'er prepared for the day's final Knockout Stage.
• Long Yao silently killed a patrolling Evil Soul Master and found Ninth Elder overseeing a ritual that drained Earth Vein Soul Power and aimed to use the finals crowd as nourishment for the Saintess's descent.
• After Ling Yue assessed the altar's defenses, Long Yao chose to quietly eliminate the four Soul Engineers monitoring the arena before sabotaging the ritual.
• Long Yao drained the first Soul Engineer's Neural Current and Soul Power, concealed the body, and slipped back into the purple mist.

Long Yao destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult’s altar beneath Star Luo City, killed Ninth Elder, and escaped before the city’s defenses could find him. He saw Wang Dong’er at the Star Luo Grand Hotel but chose to stay hidden and continue his work.

• Long Yao was discovered by Ninth Elder after silently killing the Mechanical Soul Engineers and dismantling part of the altar’s conduits.
• Ling Yue identified the altar as a device using Star Luo City’s earth-vein energy to open a channel through the planar barrier.
• Long Yao cut the altar’s main conduit with Nirvana Demon Spear, triggering a backlash that wounded Ninth Elder, whom Long Yao then killed.
• Long Yao backed up the altar data, learned the city’s Mechanical Guards would go on alert, and escaped through a secret passage after planting a self-destruct bomb.
• Long Yao emerged in Star Luo City and watched Wang Dong’er on a match replay, but avoided the Tang Sect Team’s restaurant and continued into the city in disguise.

Long Yao ate in Star Luo City's slums, suppressed the Snow Emperor's unrest, and killed two robbers before hiding near Star Luo Grand Hotel to recover and sense Wang Dong'er. Wang Dong'er felt his presence but could not find him, while Long Yao chose to remain concealed and prepare for the coming battles.

• Long Yao stabilized the Snow Emperor Embryo with Chaos Origin while eating barbecue and learned that the Holy Spirit Cult might begin searching for Ninth Elder within two hours.
• Long Yao pretended to succumb to Bone-Eroding Mist, then killed two Soul King robbers with his physical strength and had Ling Yue dispose of their bodies.
• Long Yao asked Ling Yue to disrupt the Lord Overmind's surveillance near Star Luo Grand Hotel and traveled to an abandoned Earth Temple to meditate.
• Long Yao sensed Wang Dong'er through a concealed divine-sense connection, and Wang Dong'er felt his presence and called for him at her window.
• Long Yao severed the connection rather than risk exposing himself, apologized silently to Wang Dong'er, and focused on restoring his strength.

Long Yao evaded Xu Suixing’s citywide search by disguising himself as a drunken noble and entering the Star Brilliance Underground Auction House. There, he spotted an Overmind Signal Relay Core and decided to steal it before returning to Wang Dong'er.

• Xu Suixing detected a faint divine-sense fluctuation near the Earth Temple, searched the ruins, and ordered the Imperial City Guard and Royal Soul Master Corps to seal off the district.
• Ling Yue warned Long Yao that soldiers were closing in and offered three escape plans; Long Yao chose to pose as a noble and enter the underground auction house.
• Long Yao used an Amethyst Card and a fabricated friendship with Xu Jiujiu to convince the guards to let him leave the temple.
• Long Yao entered the Star Brilliance Underground Auction House, where the Snow Emperor first spoke to him through their spiritual connection.
• Long Yao recognized an Overmind Signal Relay Core at auction and decided to steal it before going back for Wang Dong'er.

At the Star Luo Auction, Long Yao secretly bought a mysterious core and covered Huo Yuhao and his companions’ bill while hiding from them. After he began hacking the core and uncovered an underground map of Star Luo City, Long Yao prepared to investigate Laboratory Two and the Abyss Eye’s physical anchor point.

• Long Yao concealed his presence from Huo Yuhao and the Ice Empress while monitoring the auction from a VIP box.
• Long Yao outbid Mingde Hall for the Purple Lightning Core, spending three million Gold Soul Coins, while Huo Yuhao obtained the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife.
• Long Yao sent Wang Dong'er a Star Luo Fruit platter and anonymously paid the Shrek group’s 685,000 Gold Soul Coin bill.
• Wang Dong'er recognized Long Yao’s gesture and left the auction with Huo Yuhao and the others without seeing him.
• Long Yao used Ling Yue and his Chaos Origin to hack the core, revealing underground coordinates across Star Luo City and preparing to investigate Laboratory Two and the Abyss Eye.

Long Yao destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult’s underground laboratory beneath the Star Luo Grand Theater, then returned to the Star Luo Grand Hotel and subdued the Snow Emperor Embryo’s dangerous evolution. As he fell asleep before the tournament match, Wang Dong'er sensed he had returned and vowed to find him if he did not appear after the match.

• Long Yao infiltrated the laboratory beneath the Star Luo Grand Theater and used his Nirvana Demon Spear and Chaos Flame to destroy its cultivation chambers and control center.
• Xu Suixing ordered troops to seal off the theater as Long Yao escaped and returned to the Star Luo Grand Hotel.
• Long Yao messaged Dean Yan about clearing the filth beneath Star Luo City, then contained the Snow Emperor Embryo’s freezing energy with the Chaos Holy Dragon’s power.
• Ling Yue warned Long Yao that contestants would undergo spiritual purity tests after Xu Suixing ordered a search, and Long Yao went to sleep rather than worry about them.
• Wang Dong'er woke with the feeling that Long Yao had returned and vowed to search Star Luo City if he did not appear after the match.

After recovering, Long Yao sneaked into Star Luo Plaza to watch Wang Dong'er compete and used three Holy Spirit Cult scouts to distract the two Super Douluo guarding the venue. Wang Dong'er recognized him, abandoned the match to reunite with him, and they faced the growing attention of Dai Hao and Xu Suixing.

• Long Yao woke after sleeping through the next day, dressed, and headed to Star Luo Plaza to watch Wang Dong'er compete.
• Long Yao hid near the arena as Wang Dong'er prepared to face her opponent, while Ling Yue warned him that two Super Douluo were scanning the venue.
• Long Yao used steel needles carrying Evil Soul Master aura to expose three Holy Spirit Cult scouts, drawing Dai Hao and Xu Suixing away from his hiding place.
• Wang Dong'er sensed Long Yao nearby, knocked her opponent out of the arena, and rushed to the reserve area to confront him.
• Long Yao dropped his Hidden Cloak and reunited with Wang Dong'er, while Dai Hao and Xu Suixing began looking toward them.

Long Yao reunited with Wang Dong'er after returning to Star Luo Plaza, then used his Shrek Supervisory Group identity to deflect suspicion from Xu Suixing and Dai Hao. After sending the Tang Sect Team to the ceremony, he returned to his hotel room to manage the Snow Empress's awakening and repair his meridians.

• Wang Dong'er tearfully reunited with Long Yao, while the newly awakened Snow Empress nearly exposed herself by leaking extreme cold from the Vast Sea Ring.
• Xu Suixing and Dai Hao confronted Long Yao about his sudden appearance and connection to the Evil Soul Masters, but he presented his Inspector's Token and explained his mission under Mu En.
• Long Yao pretended to be injured, convincing Xu Suixing and Dai Hao to withdraw their suspicion and leave the remaining security work to Dai Hao.
• Long Yao reassured Wang Dong'er and reunited with the Tang Sect Team, then urged them to attend the post-match interview and ceremony.
• Long Yao bought treats for Wang Dong'er and returned to Room 2208, where he asked Ling Yue to activate a shielding field so he could tend to the Snow Empress's aftermath and repair his meridians.

Long Yao spoke with the Snow Empress about her recovery and then reunited with Wang Dong'er after months apart. As Long Yao and Wang Dong'er were about to kiss, the Snow Empress interrupted them from inside the Vast Sea Ring.

• Long Yao summoned the Snow Empress from the Vast Sea Ring, and she said Chaos Origin was repairing her damaged foundation and nearing a transformation of her divine sense.
• The Snow Empress sampled Long Yao's Rose Pastry before Wang Dong'er arrived and rushed into his arms.
• Wang Dong'er confronted Long Yao about disappearing for months, and he apologized and explained he had been handling business to protect her during the tournament.
• Long Yao comforted Wang Dong'er with pastry, and she asked him never to leave her alone in frightening uncertainty again.
• Long Yao leaned in to kiss Wang Dong'er, but the Snow Empress interrupted from the ring and left him scrambling to hide what had happened.

Long Yao reunited with Wang Dong'er at the Star Luo Grand Hotel, where they spent the night together and reaffirmed that he would not leave her again. The next morning, they headed to meet the Tang Sect team as Long Yao prepared for the tournament’s finals and the threats surrounding it.

• Long Yao pulled Wang Dong'er into his bed, while Snow Empress complained about their intimacy from inside his ring.
• Long Yao used Chaos Origin to block Niu Tian's attempt to sense Wang Dong'er through her Clear Sky Sect token.
• Wang Dong'er asked Long Yao if he would stay, and he promised they would face the future together.
• The next morning, Long Yao teased Wang Dong'er about her former identity as Wang Dong until she woke and playfully attacked him with a pillow.
• Wang Dong'er asked Long Yao not to disappear again, and he promised to stay by her side unless he left to win the championship for her.
• Long Yao and Wang Dong'er left for breakfast, while Long Yao resolved to confront the Holy Spirit Cult's Tang Huo'er and the hidden enemy during the finals.