Chapter Summaries

The Star Luo Empire launched a massive assault on the Sun Moon Empire’s heavily armed defenses in the Mingdou Mountain Range, but neither side could gain the upper hand. Liu Xing surveyed the battlefield as the conflict settled into a tense deadlock.

• The Sun Moon Empire used thousands of Spirit Tool Cannons and Spirit Tool Rays to keep the Star Luo Empire’s forces at a distance.
• The Star Luo Empire sent five hundred Soul Saints to wear down the defending Soul Engineers and destroy spirit tools.
• The Scorching Knight Legion guarded the high-altitude Detection Spirit Tools and blocked enemy Soul Masters from reaching them.
• Liu Xing watched the battle and saw that the Sun Moon Empire’s weapons threatened ordinary troops but struggled to stop powerful, agile Soul Masters.

Xu Jiujiu rejected a human-wave assault and relied on the Star Luo Empire’s Spirit Master Legion to break through the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses. As the prolonged battle wore down the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers and weapons, its barrage weakened, creating a possible opening in the line.

• Xu Jiujiu refused a general’s proposal to send ordinary soldiers in a mass charge because she did not want to sacrifice them needlessly.
• Xuanji Douluo and veteran officers supported Xu Jiujiu’s decision, and the Star Luo Empire focused on using its Spirit Master Legion to break through.
• Liu Xing and the Scorching Knight Legion guarded the aerial Detection Spirit Tools rather than joining the main battle.
• The chapter explained that the Star Luo Empire had fallen behind in spirit tool technology because traditional spirit master circles had dismissed its importance after their earlier victory over the Sun Moon Empire.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s barrage gradually weakened as its Soul Engineers tired, their Soul Power ran low, and the spirit tools endured prolonged firing.

As the Star Luo Empire prepared to break through the exhausted Sun Moon Empire defenses, Huo Yuhao sensed a sinister force hidden in the Mingdou Mountain Range. A gigantic White Light Pillar suddenly erupted from a peak and descended toward the battlefield.

• Liu Xing, Firefly, and Meng Hongchen watched the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses weaken, confident that Ju Zi had prepared a hidden countermeasure.
• Xu Jiujiu ordered the Star Luo Empire’s Spirit Masters to charge, while Huo Yuhao grew suspicious of Liu Xing’s inaction and the Sun Moon Empire’s stillness.
• Huo Yuhao probed the Mingdou Mountain Range with his spiritual power, but a terrifying evil aura struck him and left him bleeding and disoriented.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm replenished Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power and prevented him from losing consciousness.
• A massive, deathly White Light Pillar burst from a Mingdou Mountain Range peak and cleaved down toward the battlefield.

The Death God Tower’s white beam erased more than two hundred Star Luo Empire Soul Saints, letting the Sun Moon Empire overwhelm the stunned attackers. Xuanji Douluo realized Ye Xishui’s presence had decided the battle and left the Star Luo Empire unable to breach the defenses.

• The Death God Tower’s white beam swept through the Star Luo Empire’s Spirit Master Legion and erased more than two hundred Soul Saints.
• The Sun Moon Empire resumed its bombardment, breaking the Star Luo Empire’s formation and sending its Spirit Masters fleeing.
• Xu Yun supported Xu Jiujiu as she staggered in shock over the loss of the empire’s elite forces.
• Xuanji Douluo recognized the beam’s power and concluded that Ye Xishui and the Death God Tower made another Star Luo offensive impossible.

After witnessing the Sun Moon Empire’s devastating weapon and the Star Luo Empire’s defeat, Huo Yuhao raced back to Shrek Academy to report the danger facing the continent. In the command tent, Xu Jiujiu accepted responsibility for the losses while Xuanji Douluo urged the commanders to regroup and defend the northwestern line.

• Huo Yuhao concluded that the Sun Moon Empire could advance on the Heaven Dou Empire and then attack the weakened Star Luo Empire from both sides.
• Huo Yuhao left without saying goodbye to Xu Jiujiu and hurried east toward Shrek Academy to deliver his intelligence.
• Xu Jiujiu and the commanders remained shaken by Death God's Light, which had killed more than two hundred Soul Saints and left the Star Luo Empire with little to show for its losses.
• Xu Jiujiu accepted responsibility for the defeat and asked the commanders to help hold the northwestern defensive line.
• Xuanji Douluo said the commanders had shared responsibility for the battle plan and urged them to restore morale, reorganize the army, and prepare for a possible Sun Moon Empire attack.

After the failed Star Luo offensive, Xu Jiujiu accepted Xuanji Douluo's plan to send reinforcements to the Heaven Dou Empire and set out with Xu Yun. Liu Xing learned that her army was heading toward the same area as his Scorching Knight Legion.

• Xuanji Douluo urged the Star Luo commanders to share responsibility for the defeat, then explained that the Sun Moon Empire had sent most of its main forces away and could not launch a major attack soon.
• Xuanji Douluo proposed sending elite Star Luo troops and rerouting the Dou Ling Empire's reinforcements to aid the Heaven Dou Empire, and Xu Jiujiu agreed.
• Xu Jiujiu ordered one hundred thousand troops, three Spirit Master Legions, and several Titled Douluo to assemble for the march.
• Xu Yun insisted on joining the expedition, and Xu Jiujiu allowed her to come on the condition that she stay by her side.
• Meng Hongchen brought Liu Xing intelligence that Xu Jiujiu was leading a large Star Luo army toward the Heaven Dou Empire, and Liu Xing noticed their route matched that of his Scorching Knight Legion.

Liu Xing agreed to Meng Hongchen’s plan to raid the Star Luo Empire’s army and capture its princess, hoping to throw its forces into chaos and hinder their support for the front lines. After Meng Hongchen provoked Firefly, a fight broke out in the commander’s tent as the legion prepared for the mission.

• Meng Hongchen proposed that the Scorching Knight Legion use its mechs to raid the Star Luo army and capture its princess.
• Liu Xing agreed and ordered the legion members to gather for the operation.
• Meng Hongchen kissed Liu Xing and teased Firefly, who grabbed her by the head.
• Liu Xing moved between the two women as flames rose from the commander’s tent and the legion members outside ignored the commotion.

Xu Jiujiu feared that the Sun Moon Empire had already invaded deep into the Heaven Dou Empire as she led the Star Luo army toward Maple Leaf Prefecture. The camp came under a sudden nighttime assault, and its defenders rose to fight the attackers in the sky.

• Xu Jiujiu studied scant scout reports and concluded that the Sun Moon Empire may have used Spirit Tool Warships to reach the Heaven Dou Empire by sea.
• Xu Yun brought Xu Jiujiu food and tried to comfort her as the exhausted commander worried over the war.
• Xu Jiujiu sensed an attack just as alarms sounded and explosions rocked the camp, then pulled Xu Yun outside.
• Xu Jiujiu blocked a descending fireball with the Star Crown Spirit Soul’s barrier as Spirit Tool Cannons and rays bombarded the camp.
• Hammer Douluo, Star Shattering Douluo, and Great Strength Douluo took to the sky to fight an enemy wielding an ice-blue greatsword and a red spear, with two of them struggling against their opponent.

Liu Xing led a Mecha unit in a surprise attack on the Star Luo Empire’s camp and confronted Princess Xu Jiujiu and Xu Yun. After the two princesses resisted his attempt to capture them, Liu Xing used his Colorless Domain to silence and overwhelm the area.

• The Spirit Master Legion reinforced the defenders, while Star Cloud Douluo Man Yi arrived to protect Xu Jiujiu and Xu Yun and reported that a Sun Moon Empire Mecha unit had attacked the camp.
• Liu Xing appeared and sent Man Yi flying as she tried to shield Xu Jiujiu, while Firefly held Man Yi back.
• Liu Xing recognized Xu Jiujiu and discovered that Xu Yun was another princess with a Star Crown Spirit Soul.
• Liu Xing urged Xu Jiujiu and Xu Yun to come with him, but both refused and used their Star Crown Spirit Souls to attack and raise a golden protective barrier.
• Liu Xing swept away their starlight with a Flame Pillar, then spread his Colorless Domain across the area.

Liu Xing captured Xu Jiujiu and Xu Yun during the battle and escaped with the Scorching Knight Legion, whose members covered their retreat. Xu Jiujiu regained consciousness in flight but found herself sealed and unable to resist.

• Liu Xing used the Colorless Domain to disable Xu Jiujiu's skill, knocked her unconscious, and melted Xu Yun's sword before incapacitating her too.
• Liu Xing carried both princesses into the sky and ordered the Scorching Knight Legion to retreat.
• Xiao Bai blocked Star Cloud Douluo Man Yi's pursuit with an ice sphere, while a blizzard and a burst of steam concealed the legion's escape.
• Chong Yun and Guinaifen vanished amid the chaos, and the Star Luo Empire's forces could only watch the legion flee with the princesses.
• Xu Jiujiu woke during the flight, discovered sealing bracelets had suppressed her Soul Power, and stopped struggling after Liu Xing smacked her rear.

Liu Xing’s group escaped to a secluded valley with Xu Jiujiu and Xu Yun after capturing the princesses in a raid on the Star Luo Empire’s army camp. With Xu Yun awake and fiercely resisting, Xu Jiujiu questioned Liu Xing about why he had risked the attack to seize them.

• Liu Xing carried the restrained Xu Jiujiu and unconscious Xu Yun toward the group’s destination until Firefly and Meng Hongchen took the princesses from his shoulders.
• Liu Xing’s group reached a quiet valley, where Chong Yun and the others arrived with the Scorching Knight Legion members; the raid had caused no deaths and had captured both princesses.
• Xu Yun woke and struggled violently against Liu Xing, while Xu Jiujiu regained her composure and watched the group.
• Firefly punched Xu Yun in the abdomen, silencing the onlookers and prompting Xu Jiujiu to worry for her niece.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Liu Xing why he had risked attacking a huge military camp with only five hundred people to capture her and Xu Yun.

Liu Xing explained that he had captured Xu Jiujiu and Xu Yun simply because the plan seemed interesting, and Xu Jiujiu called him an idiot. As she settled in for the night, she weighed the sisters’ value as hostages and feared what might happen if negotiations failed.

• Xu Jiujiu judged that capturing her and Xu Yun would only give the Sun Moon Empire leverage to demand resources, since the Star Luo Empire would not trade its fate for two princesses.
• Liu Xing admitted he had no purpose beyond finding the capture plan interesting, and Xu Jiujiu called him an idiot.
• Liu Xing assured Xu Jiujiu that no one would harm them without his orders, then left Nana to watch over the sisters.
• Xu Jiujiu carried the still-sleeping Xu Yun to another tent with Nana and concluded that they were safe while the two empires negotiated.
• Xu Jiujiu feared that if negotiations collapsed, their Star Crown Martial Souls might make them targets for forced reproduction, and she remembered that she and Xu Yun had learned methods of suicide as a last resort.

Liu Xing and Firefly emerged from their tent after Nana and Meng Hongchen waited outside, while the captive princesses Xu Jiujiu and Xu Yun faced an uncertain fate. Liu Xing led the Scorching Knight Legion out of the Star Luo Empire and into the Heaven Dou Empire, where they spotted Maple Leaf Prefecture.

• Xu Jiujiu and Xu Yun reflected on the danger their capture posed and the possibility that they might have to protect their dignity and bloodline by taking their own lives.
• Liu Xing woke beside Firefly, and they took their time getting dressed while Nana waited outside the tent and Meng Hongchen arrived.
• Liu Xing ate breakfast with Firefly and saw that Xu Jiujiu and Xu Yun were exhausted and anxious, with Xu Yun wary of provoking Firefly again.
• Liu Xing decided the captured princesses could be useful bargaining chips and ordered the Scorching Knight Legion to set out.
• Liu Xing led the airborne legion out of Star Luo Empire territory and into the Heaven Dou Empire, where they soon saw Maple Leaf Prefecture.