Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao encountered four Far North Icefield Bears and tried to fight them, despite the Ice Empress and Snow Empress forbidding him from harming the rare soul beasts. The Ice Empress finally revealed her overwhelming aura, driving the adults back and making the cub flatten itself in fear.

• Huo Yuhao spotted three adult Far North Icefield Bears and a cub charging toward him, and considered their paws a delicacy.
• The Ice Empress and Snow Empress warned Huo Yuhao not to hurt the bears because the species was rare and could become vital to a future Beast Tide.
• The adult bears spread out to encircle Huo Yuhao, and the largest charged him with its paws raised.
• Huo Yuhao caught the largest bear's paw and threw its enormous body onto the ice.
• The Ice Empress unleashed her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast aura, causing the adults to retreat and the cub to cover its head and lie flat on the ground.

Huo Yuhao met Xiao Bai, the Snow Empress’s enormous adopted Ice Bear son and a powerful ruler of the Far North. After learning Xiao Bai’s descendants were safe, Huo Yuhao felt reassured that the Far North could serve as a secure rear base.

• The Ice Empress used her authority to send the Three-Headed Ice Bears away, and Huo Yuhao playfully tormented a little Ice Bear cub.
• The Snow Empress explained that this Xiao Bai was her adopted son, not the Demon Soul Great White Shark Huo Yuhao knew.
• Xiao Bai arrived, his massive strides sending snow across the plains, then crawled up to the Snow Empress and greeted her affectionately.
• The Ice Empress told Huo Yuhao that Xiao Bai had lived with the Snow Empress for over two hundred thousand years and was as strong as the Titan Snow Demon King.
• The Snow Empress stroked Xiao Bai’s nose as he and the cub yipped, and Huo Yuhao relaxed at the thought that the Far North was a secure rear base.

Huo Yuhao watched Soul Beasts from across the Far North Land gather before the Snow Empress, whose authority united the region’s clans. The Titan Snow Demon King arrived and greeted her, then sat beside the Snow Empress and began pressing against the Ice Bear King.

• Huo Yuhao detected tens of thousands of Soul Beasts converging on the Snow Empress.
• The Titan Snow Demon King arrived with a hundred or more Titan Snow Demons, and the other clans made way for them.
• The Titan Snow Demon King knelt before the Snow Empress, greeted her, and recognized the Ice Empress.
• The Snow Empress welcomed A Tai and invited him to sit beside her.
• A Tai sat beside the Ice Bear King and deliberately bumped against him, making the ice beneath them crack as they pressed against each other.

Electrolux tested the defenses of Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Pagoda, a Soul Tool fortress built to support cultivation and future research. The chapter also described the damage to the Sun Moon Empire’s forces and left Huo Yuhao’s decision not to target Ming Capital’s civilians clear.

• Electrolux’s Divine Soul controlled a Lich body inside the Spirit Pagoda and tested its defensive formations.
• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux had designed the Spirit Pagoda as a Blessed Land and future aerial fortress called the Soul Tower.
• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux studied reports that Star Luo’s surprise attack had damaged the Sun Moon Empire’s detection tools and Death God Tower.
• Huo Yuhao considered using buried ammunition to destroy Ming Capital but rejected the plan to avoid killing ordinary civilians.

Vina and Du Busi discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s rapid advance and the Three Empires’ desperate efforts to respond. With the Heaven Dou border breached and its defenders suffering heavy losses, the Tianhun Emperor prepared to abandon the western territory and concentrate his forces at Heaven Dou City.

• Vina reported that Dai Hao’s surprise attack damaged the Sun Moon Empire’s detection Soul Tools, but Ye Xishui and the Death God Tower still blocked the Star Luo Empire at the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
• Vina said Xu Jiu Jiu led five Soul Master Legions north while Star Luo sent its remaining reserves toward Heaven Dou City, and Dou Ling reinforcements were also heading there.
• Du Busi told Vina that the Sun Moon army had breached the Heaven Dou border after two days of fighting, causing more than a hundred thousand casualties among the Heavenly Soul defenders.
• Du Busi explained that Soul Tool barrages had made conventional Soul Master forces nearly helpless against Soul Engineer Legions.
• The Tianhun Emperor decided to abandon the Western Territory, evacuate its people and resources, and gather his main forces at Heaven Dou City to try to contain the Sun Moon army.

The Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer forces devastated the Heaven Dou Empire’s western defenses, but the empire’s scorched-earth tactics and strategic depth slowed their advance. Ju Zi realized that annexing the Three Empires would be far harder than conquering small kingdoms, as the history of Barat demonstrated.

• Ju Zi’s forces and the Holy Spirit Cult swept across the battlefield, overwhelming Heaven Dou troops with Soul Guidance weapons and gathering strength from the dead.
• The Heaven Dou Empire withdrew when its reserves ran low, evacuated civilians, destroyed crops, and sealed cities to prolong the invasion.
• The Sun Moon Empire captured cities one by one rather than bypassing them, since it needed territory and resources and risked encirclement if it advanced too far.
• Ju Zi reconsidered her expectation of a swift conquest after seeing how strategic depth trapped the Sun Moon Empire in the western territory.
• Heaven Dou’s historical records recalled how the Barat Kingdom was destroyed and absorbed as a province in twenty-two days after defying its sovereign.

Ju Zi’s invasion stalled as the Heaven Dou Empire erased its administrative records, emptied its granaries, and preserved its soldiers and civilians, forcing the Sun Moon Empire to spend troops rebuilding local governance. After ten days of fighting, Ju Zi arrived at a damaged City Lord’s Mansion with the empire’s senior commanders and elite Soul Engineer forces.

• Ju Zi struggled to administer two provinces and dozens of cities after the Heaven Dou Empire burned its records, and she considered returning for administrative personnel.
• The Heaven Dou Empire emptied villages and granaries and drove residents into cities, leaving Ju Zi to choose between alienating commoners or empowering nobles and clans.
• Huo Yuhao advised the Tianhun Emperor to use long-range weapons during sieges, then surrender once the gates fell so defenders would survive and burden the occupiers with maintaining order.
• The Sun Moon Empire took cities and relied on surviving local defenders, while the troops assigned to maintain stability grew to far exceed its battlefield losses.
• Ju Zi arrived at the ruined City Lord’s Mansion with the three Guardian Hands, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Troupe, and commanders of the four Soul Engineer Legions.

Ju Zi struggled to govern the occupied cities as officials fled, supplies vanished, and local factions resisted Sun Moon Empire rule. After Feng Ling proposed using brutal acts to secure local collaborators, Ju Zi accepted the plan.

• Ju Zi learned that city officials had disappeared and the grain stores were empty, then ordered the army to spare commoners and confiscate noble property for supplies.
• An intelligence officer told Ju Zi that detained nobles and sects resisted cooperation and that exhausted troops could not maintain control without local help.
• Ju Zi proposed killing a few outspoken holdouts, but the intelligence officer suggested fostering collaborators from the Heaven Dou Empire to govern Heavenly Soul.
• Feng Ling urged the army to make collaborators prove their loyalty by killing nobles and Soul Masters, while the Holy Spirit Cult dealt with nobles back home.
• Ju Zi agreed that fostering collaborators was the best way to revive the occupied cities and secure resources for the Sun Moon Empire.

The Sun Moon Empire’s rapid conquest drove the Heaven Dou Empire to gather its forces and make a last stand at Heaven Dou City. Huo Yuhao arrived in the besieged capital and met Du Busi, who asked when their plans would begin.

• The Sun Moon Empire surrounded Heaven Dou City with its main forces while Heaven Dou, Dou Ling, and Star Luo assembled troops to defend the capital.
• Tianhun Emperor issued a fiery proclamation calling on Heaven Dou’s people and allies to fight the Sun Moon Empire and restore the realm.
• Huo Yuhao arrived alone outside Heaven Dou City and entered using the token Vina had given him.
• A soldier escorted Huo Yuhao toward the military camp, where Du Busi greeted him and asked when they would begin and whether the Phoenix Martial Soul girl had left.
• Huo Yuhao said Heaven Dou City first had to survive the coming battle, and Du Busi remarked that Sun Moon’s Soul Tools had enabled its swift advances.

Du Busi brought Huo Yuhao to the Heaven Dou Empire’s court, where he introduced him as a leading heir of Shrek’s Sea God Pavilion and praised his role in resisting the Sun Moon Empire. The emperor and ministers welcomed Huo Yuhao warmly as court turned to the empire’s urgent affairs.

• Du Busi told Huo Yuhao that the emperor had issued a Proclamation Against Rebels and planned to fight the Sun Moon Empire’s Four Beast King Soul Engineer Corps.
• Du Busi brought Huo Yuhao to the imperial court, where the soldiers welcomed the Body Sect leader as a national hero.
• Du Busi introduced Huo Yuhao to the Tianhun Emperor and detailed his standing in Shrek and his achievements against the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire.
• The Tianhun Emperor rose, praised Huo Yuhao, and seated him beside Du Busi as the ministers discussed his contributions to the war.
• The ministers praised Huo Yuhao and the mysterious Soul Hall’s Milk Bottle charging service for helping the empire delay the Sun Moon Empire’s advance.

Huo Yuhao prepared to help the Body Sect defend Heaven Dou City, knowing that Du Busi had to hold off Long Xiaoyao for the city to survive. He gave Long Aotian Golden Crystal Stones and Invincible Shields for the sect's disciples as the battle approached.

• Huo Yuhao told Du Busi that he would accompany him against Long Xiaoyao and asked him to force Long Xiaoyao to reveal his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Sun Moon Empire wanted to seize the mineral veins beneath the Heaven Dou Empire and that Heaven Dou City could not fall yet.
• Huo Yuhao handed Long Aotian two Storage Rings containing Golden Crystal Stones and more than a hundred Invincible Shields.
• Huo Yuhao said Zhao Yang and his companions had taken the Golden Crystal Stones from a vein during their raids, and asked Long Aotian to make more shields so every Body Sect disciple could have one.

Heaven Dou City and the Sun Moon Empire prepared for a decisive battle, with Ju Zi leading the invasion and the Tianhun Emperor commanding the city’s defense. The chapter ended as the Tianhun Emperor ordered Heaven Dou City’s cannons to fire on the advancing army.

• Long Aotian accepted Huo Yuhao’s Invincible Shields on behalf of the Body Sect disciples.
• At dawn, the Tianhun Emperor and Heaven Dou’s defenders prepared the city walls as the Sun Moon Empire assembled its forces west of the capital.
• Ju Zi ordered the Sun Moon army to advance, while its Soul Engineer Legions and two hundred thousand troops moved toward Heaven Dou City.
• Huo Yuhao stood with the Body Sect disciples on the wall as both sides readied their Soul Tools and Soul Masters for battle.
• The Tianhun Emperor ordered Heaven Dou City’s Soul Guidance Cannons to fire at the advancing Sun Moon Empire forces.

The Sun Moon Empire and Heaven Dou City exchanged heavy artillery fire, but Heaven Dou’s defenses could not match the empire’s Soul Tool formations. Huo Yuhao helped the city’s Soul Masters evade the counterattack, though two Titled Douluo died, and the Tianhun Emperor ordered his forces to stop flying over the battlefield.

• Heaven Dou City fired its Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shells at the Sun Moon Empire, whose anti-air defenses intercepted nearly all of them.
• The Sun Moon Empire answered with a barrage that Heaven Dou’s Soul Masters blocked above the city walls.
• Huo Yuhao directed powerful Soul Tool attacks at the defending Soul Masters and shared Mental Detection to help them evade the beams.
• Two Titled Douluo died, and Huo Yuhao used a healing array to restore the wounded survivors.
• The Tianhun Emperor ordered his forces not to fly over the battlefield while the artillery battle continued.

The Sun Moon Empire’s probing assault battered Heaven Dou City, but Ju Zi ordered the attack slowed and planned a full offensive at dawn. Ju Zi suspected Huo Yuhao had arrived, while Huo Yuhao weighed whether she would target the imperial palace and prepared to draw her into a trap.

• Ordinary people and low-level soul masters carried shells, Milk Bottles, and wounded soldiers across Heaven Dou City’s battered walls as the defenders endured the bombardment.
• Ju Zi judged Heaven Dou City’s defenses tougher than expected and ordered the Sun Moon Empire to reduce its fire until noon before launching a full offensive at dawn.
• Feng Ling offered the Holy Spirit Cult’s help, but Ju Zi declined for the moment and told the cult to prepare for the next day’s attack.
• The Fire Phoenix Douluo questioned why Ju Zi would not deploy Long Xiaoyao and the Holy Spirit Cult, and Ju Zi said Huo Yuhao had likely arrived and would not act without confidence.
• Huo Yuhao noticed the weakened attack and considered whether Ju Zi would attempt to kill the emperor, while noting that Vina could succeed him and vowing to lure Ju Zi into a trap.

After the Heaven Dou Empire halted the Sun Moon Empire’s advance, Huo Yuhao and Du Busi prepared for the next confrontation as the Sun Moon Grand Army moved its Soul Tool Position toward Heaven Dou City. The chapter ended with both sides facing off above the city’s western wall, where Long Aotian proposed attacking Feng Ling and Ye Yulin.

• The Sun Moon Empire’s army withdrew after a costly battle, and Heaven Dou City celebrated its first victory against the invading forces.
• The Tianhun Emperor reviewed the losses and supplies, while messengers carried news of the victory to Xing Luo and Dou Ling.
• The Tianhun Emperor recalled Huo Yuhao’s warning and remained awake, fearing the trial awaiting him the next day.
• Huo Yuhao and Du Busi spent the night drinking tea, but Ju Zi did not send assassins against them.
• At dawn, the Sun Moon Grand Army advanced its Soul Tool Position toward Heaven Dou City, signaling an attempt to break through the western wall in one decisive battle.
• Feng Ling and Ye Yulin appeared above the western wall with the Guardian Hands, and Long Aotian offered to attack them alongside Huo Yuhao.

As the Sun Moon Empire advanced on Heaven Dou City, Huo Yuhao declined to join the battle, judging that individual combatants could not change a large-scale fight. Heaven Dou City opened fire, and Ju Zi ordered the Holy Spirit Cult and the empire’s forces to launch a full assault, leaving the city under attack.

• Huo Yuhao refused to intervene, noting that only a poison like Azure Scale Poison or power on the level of a Limit Douluo could decisively affect the battlefield.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s army advanced toward Heaven Dou City with four Beast King-level Soul Engineer Troupes at its spearhead.
• A Support System Soul Master boosted the Heavenly Soul soldiers, and the Tianhun Emperor ordered the city’s first artillery position to fire.
• Heaven Dou City’s Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shells shattered some enemy barriers and killed soldiers and Soul Tool Masters, while the Sun Moon Empire assembled weapons to counterattack.
• Ju Zi ordered the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire’s forces to attack, and Feng Ling led the cult’s Soul Masters toward the city walls.

Du Busi revealed his Rank 99 strength and fought Long Xiaoyao above the Sun Moon Grand Army, while an unexpected strike from the sky slammed the Dark Saint Dragon to its knees. Du Busi recognized the blow as the Hundred-Ton Iai Strike and raised his fist to attack Long Xiaoyao.

• The Tianhun Emperor ordered his army to attack as Du Busi transformed and sent Feng Ling flying with a punch.
• Du Busi crushed the Sun Moon Divine Needles, then Long Xiaoyao appeared in his Dark Saint Dragon avatar and learned that Du Busi had reached Rank 99.
• Du Busi struck Feng Ling again and killed a Rank Nine Soul Tool Master, provoking Long Xiaoyao to attack him.
• The two Limit Douluo fought above the Sun Moon Grand Army, and Du Busi briefly gained the upper hand with his awakened Golden Level Martial Soul.
• Long Xiaoyao knocked Du Busi back with his tail, but an unknown attacker struck the Dark Saint Dragon from behind and forced it to its knees.
• Du Busi identified the impact as the Hundred-Ton Iai Strike and raised his fist to smash Long Xiaoyao.

Huo Yuhao revealed himself in Experiment No. 1 as Long Xiaoyao and Du Busi clashed above the Sun Moon Grand Army. Du Busi kept fighting Long Xiaoyao despite the danger, and their battle continued with neither gaining a clear advantage.

• Long Xiaoyao realized Huo Yuhao was controlling Experiment No. 1, while Huo Yuhao admitted he had stolen the embryo and splashed the Holy Spirit Cult with filth.
• Huo Yuhao rolled behind Du Busi to evade Long Xiaoyao's attack, and Du Busi charged Long Xiaoyao for attacking the younger generation.
• Long Xiaoyao and Du Busi fought fiercely, sending shockwaves across the battlefield and endangering the Sun Moon Grand Army below.
• The Tianhun Emperor watched the battle from Heaven Dou City's walls and worried that Du Busi would lose once Golden Awakening ended.
• Du Busi taunted Long Xiaoyao over betraying his country, then took a dragon-tail strike and punched him hard enough to scatter his scales.
• Long Xiaoyao unleashed a Black Dragon that swallowed Du Busi, but Du Busi shattered its head and continued colliding with him through distorted space.

The Heaven Dou Empire launched a desperate assault on the Sun Moon Empire as the battlefield spiraled into a costly melee. Ju Zi realized Huo Yuhao had been missing from the fight just as he ambushed Long Xiaoyao and began injecting him through the gaps in his dragon scales.

• The Heaven Dou Empire’s forces charged the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tool Positions while Ju Zi watched the battle’s escalating destruction.
• Long Xiaoyao and Du Busi’s clash disrupted the High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools, and Ju Zi recognized that her plans had suffered major setbacks.
• Titled Douluo and Soul Engineer Regiments fought across the sky and ground as casualties mounted and Heaven Dou City’s western wall was breached.
• Ju Zi heard Long Xiaoyao howl and realized she had overlooked Huo Yuhao, who had not appeared since his earlier ambush.
• Huo Yuhao stabbed Long Xiaoyao through shattered dragon scales with an Ice Extreme Divine Crystal blade and injected a blue liquid into his wounds, leaving him in agony.

Huo Yuhao used Subject No. 1 and spring water from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to wound Long Xiaoyao, but Long Xiaoyao’s tail strike crippled the mecha and embedded it in Heaven Dou City’s wall. As Huo Yuhao struggled to recover, the Sun Moon Empire’s Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Troupe focused its weapons on him and Subject No. 1.

• Huo Yuhao controlled Subject No. 1 to leap across Long Xiaoyao’s Dark Saint Dragon true form, stabbing him with the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal Battle Blade and injecting spring water from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Long Xiaoyao struck Huo Yuhao and Subject No. 1 with his tail, crippling much of the mecha and sending it crashing into Heaven Dou City’s wall.
• Du Busi saw Huo Yuhao survive the blow and resumed attacking Long Xiaoyao, while Ju Zi ordered her forces to focus fire on Long Xiaoyao.
• Huo Yuhao assessed the damage and realized that Long Xiaoyao had rendered Subject No. 1 nearly irreparable, costing the Sun Moon Empire more than five billion Gold Soul Coins.
• The Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Troupe bombarded Huo Yuhao and Subject No. 1 with an array of Soul Tools, determined to destroy the mecha.