Chapter Summaries

Wang Nan defeated Long Xiaoyao in their clash, forcing the Sun Moon Empire to abandon its siege of Yuming City. Long Xiaoyao warned Wang Nan about the Holy Spirit Cult, and the chapter ended with the army retreating toward Dawn City as Yuming City celebrated.

• Wang Nan and Long Xiaoyao fought in a crater, where Long Xiaoyao acknowledged Wang Nan’s intent and warned him about the Holy Spirit Cult and its Soul Ascension ritual.
• Long Xiaoyao flew back to Ye Xishui, and she stopped herself from attacking Wang Nan when Long Xiaoyao ordered a retreat from Yuming City.
• Wang Nan watched Long Xiaoyao leave and reflected that the injured Limit Douluo might soon be no match for him.
• Wang Yiheng ordered the Sun Moon Empire’s army to retreat, and its camp withdrew toward Dawn City.
• Dai Hao thanked Wang Nan and Shrek Academy for relieving the siege, while Yuming City’s soldiers cheered the retreating enemy.

Wang Nan was recognized as His Excellency Qitian after defeating Long Xiaoyao, while the Star Luo Empire and Shrek Academy assessed the worsening war. Huo Yuhao proposed sharing the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon blueprints and decided to seek Soul Rings for his Second Martial Soul.

• Dai Yueheng and Dai Hao addressed Wang Nan as His Excellency Qitian, and Wang Nan asked Dai Yueheng to keep calling him Senior Brother Wang.
• Dai Hao told Wang Nan that Princess Jiujiu was heading to Yuming City, the Sun Moon Empire had withdrawn its forces there, and Shrek’s Soul Tool Cannons could help defend the city.
• Huo Yuhao met Vina and the Heaven Dou Empire’s representatives after the Sun Moon Empire renewed its northern offensive, then told Beibei he wanted to release the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon blueprints to Shrek Academy.
• Beibei agreed to discuss the proposal with Xiaoya and urged Huo Yuhao to rest.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Ice Empress about Soul Beasts in the Far North because he wanted Soul Rings for his Second Martial Soul.

Xu Jiujiu confirmed that Wang Nan possessed Limit Douluo strength and offered him a dukedom and a place in the Worship Hall. After Wang Nan accepted, he joined Xu Jiujiu and Dai Hao as they discussed the Star Luo Empire’s defenses against the Sun Moon Empire.

• Star Luo Douluo told Xu Jiujiu that Long Xiaoyao and Wang Nan had wielded power beyond ordinary Titled Douluo and that Wang Nan’s strength was at the limit level.
• Xu Jiujiu explained that her elder brother had authorized compensation, annual cultivation resources, and a dukedom for Wang Nan, and Star Luo Douluo approved the offer.
• Xu Jiujiu offered Wang Nan the title of duke and membership in the Worship Hall, and Wang Nan accepted the Empire’s reward.
• Xu Jiujiu said she had brought Soul Tool Cannons ordered from Shrek Academy, and Dai Hao discussed rebuilding the Empire’s defensive line from Yuming City after Dawn City fell.
• Wang Nan listened as Xu Jiujiu and Dai Hao discussed the Empire’s military situation, then returned to his room after nightfall.

Wang Nan examined the Soul Bones left by Zhongli Wu before Xu Jiujiu arrived with his promised rewards and fief. After she reminisced about their past and approached him with tenderness, Wang Nan politely ended the conversation, leaving the two apart for the night.

• Wang Nan inspected the four Soul Bones Zhongli Wu had left behind, three of which were Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bones.
• Xu Jiujiu visited Wang Nan and gave him a Soul Bone, cultivation resources, rare metals, and at least a million Gold Soul Coins as his annual Worship Hall reward.
• Xu Jiujiu told Wang Nan that his fief was in Flowing Gold Province, which contained the prosperous Soul Tool city of Gengxin City.
• Xu Jiujiu recalled meeting Wang Nan at Shrek Academy and how he later saved her in the Star Dou Mountain Range.
• Wang Nan stood and politely urged Xu Jiujiu to rest, and after she left, he sat on his bed and began to meditate.

After learning that the Sun Moon Emperor had died and Xu Tianran would soon take the throne, Xu Jiujiu warned the Star Luo Empire while Xu Tianran prepared to assume power. Days later, a powerful attack blasted a breach in Heavenly Spirit City's walls.

• Xu Jiujiu received a reliable report that the Sun Moon Emperor had died and Xu Tianran would soon ascend the throne, then ordered the news sent to Star Luo City.
• Xu Tianran told Ju Zi that he planned to rely on the imperial army rather than the Holy Spirit Cult to conquer the continent after his coronation.
• Jing Hongchen reported that one prince had contacted the three great empires, likely the Star Luo Empire, and Xu Tianran dismissed him.
• Several days later, a dazzling attack struck Heavenly Spirit City and blasted a breach through its walls.

Disguised as a Sun Moon Empire citizen, Huo Yuhao learned that Heavenly Spirit City had fallen and worried that Shrek Academy would be threatened next. The Sun Moon Empire army reached Shrek City, where Xuan Zi confronted Prince Xu Tianyuan and rejected his call for the Academy to join the empire.

• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection in a Heaven Dou City restaurant and overheard Sun Moon Empire citizens announce Heavenly Spirit City's fall.
• Huo Yuhao and the consciousnesses in his Spiritual Sea discussed the danger to Shrek Academy, then decided to head for the Far North so he could seek Soul Rings.
• The Ice Empress warned that the Snow Empress would not agree to become Huo Yuhao's Soul Ring, but Tian Meng urged him to try.
• The Sun Moon Empire army stopped ten kilometers from Shrek City, and Prince Xu Tianyuan called for a discussion with the Academy.
• Xuan Zi appeared on Shrek City's walls, challenged Xu Tianyuan's claims, and reminded him of his previous intrusion into the Academy.

Xuan Zi rejected Xu Tianyuan’s offer to surrender Shrek City, then joined the representatives of the three great empires and Shrek Academy to discuss the approaching Sun Moon Empire army. Yan Shaozhe revealed that Shrek Academy could repel the Soul Engineer Corps with a single-use strike, and the meeting considered luring the enemy into Shrek City.

• Xuan Zi exposed the hooded person behind Xu Tianyuan and refused the Sun Moon Empire’s offer, declaring Shrek and the empire enemies.
• Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe returned to Sea God Island, where representatives learned that the Sun Moon Empire had assembled three major legions and more than ten soul tool formations outside Shrek City.
• Du Busi rejected an assassination attempt against Xu Tianran as too dangerous and unlikely to stop the war.
• Yan Shaozhe revealed that Shrek Academy had a method to destroy the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer Corps in one strike, and Xuan Zi agreed to use it.
• Xu Jiujiu proposed that Shrek City feign defeat and let the Sun Moon Empire enter the city.

Wang Nan proposed staging a controlled Soul Beast attack to make Shrek City's evacuation and apparent defeat seem credible to the Sun Moon Empire. Xuan Zi approved the plan, and Wang Nan left for the Star Dou Great Forest while Ma Xiaotao stayed at the academy.

• Xu Jiujiu and Tianyang Douluo offered places and funds for Shrek City's residents, and Shrek Academy agreed to cover property losses.
• Wang Nan suggested having Soul Beasts attack Shrek City before the Sun Moon Empire's forces arrived, allowing Shrek's elders to appear defeated and injured.
• Wang Nan said he was eighty or ninety percent certain he could arrange the attack, and Xuan Zi approved the plan and ordered them to act quickly.
• Jin Peng thanked Wang Nan for handling the matter, and Wang Nan left the meeting room to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ma Xiaotao offered to accompany Wang Nan, but he declined, and she agreed to wait for him at the academy.

Gu Yue arranged for Wang Nan to lead the Star Dou Great Forest’s soul beasts to Shrek City and stage a confrontation, hoping to deter the Sun Moon Empire without risking beast casualties. As the staged beast tide reached the city, Di Tian and Xuan Zi began fighting while the Sun Moon Empire’s commanders and Holy Spirit Cult members considered how to exploit the chaos.

• Gu Yue asked Wang Nan to lead the soul beasts to Shrek City and keep them under control, and Wang Nan agreed.
• Xu Tianyuan and Jing Hongchen assessed Shrek City’s defenses as Shrek’s elders displayed their Titled Douluo auras from the walls.
• A vast darkness and a powerful beast tide approached, prompting Xu Tianyuan to order the Sun Moon Empire’s army to retreat.
• Wang Nan saw that Di Tian had brought nearly all the major Fierce Beasts, though the soul beasts had come only to stage a show and avoid casualties.
• Xuan Zi challenged Di Tian over Shrek’s agreement with the Star Dou Great Forest, and Di Tian attacked him.
• Feng Ling and Zhang Peng discussed the unexpected beast tide, while Xu Tianyuan proposed that Feng Ling lead the Holy Spirit Cult into Shrek City after the battle weakened it.

Xuan Zi and Shrek’s experts battled Di Tian’s fierce beasts, and the Soul Beasts withdrew after Xuan Zi appeared to drive Di Tian back. As Shrek celebrated, the Sun Moon Empire launched an attack, sending Feng Ling and the Holy Spirit Cult toward the exhausted city.

• Xuan Zi unleashed the power of his Godly Taotie Bull Martial Soul and fell from the sky after Di Tian’s Black Dragon Breath struck him, while Elder Zhuang caught him.
• Yan Shaozhe and Shrek’s other experts fought off Scarlet King, Xiong Jun, and the remaining fierce beasts as Xuan Zi urged Di Tian to reconsider the attack.
• Di Tian ordered the Soul Beasts to withdraw, and Xiong Jun returned to the clouds after fighting Shrek’s Titled Douluo.
• Wang Nan considered what he had learned from the Soul Beasts’ formation as Di Tian pulled back the dark clouds.
• Xu Tianyuan ordered Feng Ling and the Holy Spirit Cult to attack Shrek City while its defenders were exhausted, despite Jing Hongchen’s warning.

Xu Tianyuan’s Sun Moon Empire forces broke through Shrek City and advanced on Shrek Academy while Feng Ling’s Holy Spirit Cult waited at Seagod Lake. As Du Busi rose to counterattack, Xu Tianyuan flew up to confront him.

• The Sun Moon Empire’s bombardment breached Shrek City’s walls, and Zhang Peng led Evil Soul Masters toward Shrek Academy as Shrek’s defenders withdrew.
• Xu Tianyuan ordered the Soul Tool Formations to advance and told the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps to prepare.
• Feng Ling entered Shrek Academy, destroyed the statues of its founders and First Generation Shrek Seven Monsters, then held her forces back near Seagod Lake while awaiting the empire’s army.
• Shrek’s Titled Douluo recovered at the lake as Feng Ling and the defenders delayed their attack until night.
• Du Busi rose into the sky to counter the approaching Soul Engineer Corps, and Xu Tianyuan activated his golden armor and flew up to meet him.

Xu Tianyuan and the Sun Moon Empire’s soul engineers attacked Shrek Academy, but Sea God Island’s golden light restored the defenders and enabled their counterattack. As Huo Yuhao reached Shrek City and sensed the Evil Soul Masters, he revealed his third Martial Soul and turned their controlled souls against them.

• Xu Tianyuan activated golden armor and combined his power with the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps to attack Du Busi.
• A golden light spread from Sea God Island, healing Shrek’s defenders as Yan Shaozhe and the elders attacked Feng Ling’s forces.
• Xuan Zi blocked Xu Tianyuan’s attacks, while Ma Xiaotao unleashed Ultimate Fire against the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tool Formation.
• Jing Hongchen recognized that Xuan Zi’s rapid recovery was suspicious and ordered a retreat as Shrek’s counterattack advanced.
• Huo Yuhao flew toward Shrek City after spotting the Sun Moon Empire’s forces and worrying about his mother.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his third Martial Soul, causing Evil Soul Masters’ controlled souls to turn against them.

Wang Nan received Mu En’s power from the Golden Ancient Tree, reached a deeper understanding of the limit, and unleashed his Ninth Soul Skills against the Evil Soul Masters. As Giant Dragons summoned by Coiling Dragon’s Benevolence filled the sky, an unknown force began gathering around him.

• Zhang Peng charged Huo Yuhao, but Wang Nan’s Golden Staff blocked the attack and burned Zhang Peng’s hand.
• Mu En spoke to Huo Yuhao through the Golden Ancient Tree and sent a Golden Dragon to Wang Nan, causing his power to surge.
• Wang Nan struck Zhang Peng with his fifth Soul Skill, making the Level 96 Super Douluo vanish.
• Wang Nan used Sleeping Dragon Returns to the Universe, causing the fighting Soul Masters in the air to fall from the sky.
• Wang Nan unleashed Coiling Dragon’s Benevolence, summoning Giant Dragons whose roars incapacitated weaker Soul Masters.
• As Wang Nan’s Soul Power and Spiritual Power drained, an unknown power gathered around him and revealed things he had never noticed.

Wang Nan defeated the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire forces attacking Shrek City, then left with Xu Jiujiu to serve as a deterrent for the Star Luo Empire. At Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao was summoned to examine a Rank 9 Fixed Soul Tool left behind by His Excellency.

• Wang Nan's Dance of Ten Thousand Dragons killed Feng Ling and overwhelmed the Holy Spirit Cult forces in Shrek City.
• Wang Nan's dragon souls shattered Xu Tianyuan and the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps' combined shield, while Jing Hongchen escaped and other soul engineers were stranded outside the city.
• After the battle, Beibei brought Huo Yuhao to Fan Yu, who asked him to examine a Rank 9 Fixed Soul Tool left by His Excellency.
• Wang Nan told Ma Xiaotao he was leaving to fulfill his promise to help the Star Luo Empire, then departed with Xu Jiujiu's party.
• As Wang Nan rode in the Star Luo Empire's carriage, he sensed his Soul Core driving two enlarged whirlpools in which the three states of Soul Power had merged.

Wang Nan reached Super Douluo and stayed behind to guard Yuming City as Xu Jiujiu led Star Luo reinforcements toward the Heaven Dou Empire. In Mingdu, Xu Tianran learned that the Sun Moon Empire had lost its forces in Shrek City and that the allied empires were advancing, leaving him to accept that the war was over.

• After reaching Soul Power Level ninety-five, Wang Nan met Xu Jiujiu and watched her lead Star Luo troops toward the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Wang Nan returned to his carriage to signal that he was guarding the empire's border, as Dou Ling forces advanced and Du Busi led troops north.
• Xu Tianran learned that Ju Zi had given birth to a prince, then left without visiting her to question Jing Hongchen about the front.
• Jing Hongchen reported that the Imperial Dragon, Dread Claw, and Evil Lord legions had been annihilated in Shrek City.
• A messenger told Xu Tianran that the allied forces had retaken Heavenly Spirit City and were advancing north, so he ordered Jing Hongchen to stop them.
• After Du Busi detonated a Rank 9 Fixed Soul Tool made by Shrek, Xu Tianran realized the war was over.

Shrek Academy studied captured Sun Moon Empire soul tools while Xu Tianran faced the loss of his strongest forces and sent Ju Zi to seek peace. As the three allied empires advanced, Wang Nan heard the proposed terms and reflected on Dai Hao’s troubled relationship with Huo Yuhao.

• Shrek Academy moved the captured humanoid soul tools to its research tables, while Xu Tianran summoned Ju Zi after assessing the Sun Moon Empire’s losses.
• Dai Hao told Wang Nan that Ju Zi had arrived at the border to negotiate peace with the three empires.
• Wang Nan read that the allied armies had surrounded Heaven Dou City and that the Sun Moon Empire offered to return occupied territory in exchange for ending the war.
• Dai Hao spoke of his estrangement from his son, and Wang Nan suspected he meant Huo Yuhao but chose not to intervene.
• Dai Hao left to attend to affairs in Yuming City, and Wang Nan watched him go.

After the war ended, Wang Nan prepared to move his parents from Star Luo City to Gengxin City and was joined by Ma Xiaotao and his old classmates. The group arrived at Gengxin City at dusk, leaving Wang Nan surrounded by the family and friends he hoped to keep close.

• Wang Nan, Wang Xing, and She Yu said goodbye to their courtyard in Star Luo City as Wang Nan prepared to take his parents to Gengxin City.
• Wang Nan recalled that the three great empires and the Sun Moon Empire had ended their three-year war, though the empires still prepared for possible future conflict by sharing Soul Tool technology.
• Ma Xiaotao, Gongyang Mo, and Ye Xiaosheng arrived, and Wang Nan's parents welcomed his classmates before the group set out together.
• Wang Nan used his power to carry everyone through the air toward Gengxin City, while She Yu quietly studied Ma Xiaotao and Ma Xiaotao blushed.
• Wang Nan and his companions reached Gengxin City as dusk approached.

Huo Yuhao traveled from Shrek City to Gengxin City to meet Duke Qitian before a planned trip to the Sun Moon Empire. He found the Duke absent and turned toward a nearby auction house after a soldier suggested he ask there.

• Huo Yuhao left the Tang Sect, reassured Beibei he could protect himself, and flew south using his newly made Rank 9 Flying Soul Tool.
• Soldiers stopped Huo Yuhao outside Gengxin City, checked his identification, and told him that flying was prohibited over the city.
• Huo Yuhao entered Gengxin City and observed its new districts filled with tall buildings and soul tools, then crossed the old walls into the preserved inner city.
• Huo Yuhao went to the Duke's Mansion to see Duke Qitian, but a soldier said the Duke was away and could not say when he would return.
• A commotion drew Huo Yuhao's attention to a nearby auction house, and the soldier suggested he ask there about Duke Qitian.

Huo Yuhao met Ma Xiaotao at the Gengxin Auction House, where an eighty-thousand-year Soul Bone linked to Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng was auctioned. At the Lake of Life, Wang Nan learned from Gu Yue how a human with the Rainbow Dragon Martial Soul could break through its limits, then prepared to ask her about Limit Douluo.

• Huo Yuhao followed two maids to Ma Xiaotao at the Gengxin Auction House and asked whether she and Brother Wang had received the Star Luo Empire's notice.
• The auctioneer presented an eighty-thousand-year Right Arm Bone left by Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng, and Huo Yuhao understood why its Soul Skill was unknown.
• Two and a half years after the war, Wang Nan met Gu Yue at the Lake of Life after she emerged from seclusion.
• Wang Nan asked Gu Yue how a boy with the Rainbow Dragon Martial Soul could break through his limits, and she explained that he needed a Dragon King's power or could cultivate near Wang Nan's Dragon God's Tear.
• Wang Nan asked Gu Yue to explain another method and then turned to a question about Limit Douluo.

Gu Yue explained that Wang Nan’s Ninth Soul Ring had awakened the Dragon Souls through a power that could create life, and urged him to use that insight to forge his own divine position. In the Divine Realm, the God of Destruction challenged Tang San’s conduct, then demanded to see his daughter, provoking Tang San’s anger.

• Gu Yue told Wang Nan that the Ninth Soul Ring’s mysterious power had given the Dragon Souls new life and explained that creating a divine position required understanding that power.
• Gu Yue revealed that the Divine Realm had lost its connection to Douluo Continent, leaving even Shrek Academy unable to locate it.
• The God of Destruction questioned Tang San about severing the Divine Realm’s connection to Douluo Continent and visiting the God of Love’s inheritance ground.
• Tang San admitted that he had sought an Asura God inheritor and watched over him, while the God of Goodness, the God of Evil, and the God of Life defended him.
• The God of Destruction sarcastically asked Tang San to bring out his daughter, and Tang San rose angrily, thinking that the God of Destruction had chosen the path to death.