Chapter Summaries

Shen Lang learned that Medusa Queen had only a year left and that Princess Helen, possibly his half-sister, could unite the Xilun south. He left Queen City with two thousand followers and reached the Azure Tide Peninsula to begin building a city, while promising to return for Yaoyao.

• Medusa Queen explained that her body could not sustain her for long, that Chou Yao'er would return when she died, and that Yaoyao would need Shen Lang's protection.
• Medusa Queen told Shen Lang that Princess Helen, a descendant of Queen Helen and possibly Emperor Jiang Li's daughter, could claim the Xilun throne and become his ally.
• Shen Lang recruited Zhang Chunhua and a group of young Horizon Sea Pavilion apprentices, then promised Yaoyao he would return for her within a year.
• Shen Lang left Queen City with two thousand soldiers, including Black Pearl's pirates, Meng Roland's knights, and Lan Feng's Eastern Knights.
• Black Pearl pledged to serve Shen Lang if he helped her find the Skull Gang, while Meng Roland and Lan Feng explained their loyalty and histories.
• After twenty-seven days at sea, Shen Lang landed on the southern Azure Tide Peninsula and ordered his followers to build a city.

Shen Lang rapidly built up Azure Tide Peninsula, used porcelain to secure Hill’s advance payment of 250,000 gold coins, and prepared to expand his city. Meanwhile, Princess Ning Han led a joint fleet into the Devil's Triangle to search for Shen Lang and the Jin Family.

• Shen Lang turned the abandoned mine into a growing town by using volcanic ash cement, mass-produced bricks, and thousands of newly freed slaves.
• Shen Lang opened Jiang Li’s box with the combination based on pi and studied its records about resources, Ancient Ruins, and the Amazon Warriors.
• Zhang Chunhua told Shen Lang that the treasury was nearly empty and that thirteen Sea Ships required 150,000 gold coins, so he went to Azure Gold City to seek funds.
• Shen Lang sold Hill exclusive rights to porcelain shipments in exchange for a 250,000-gold-coin advance, which Hill delivered to Azure Tide Peninsula.
• Princess Ning Han led the joint fleet of Horizon Sea Pavilion, Heavenly Execution Pavilion, and Floating Pagoda Mountain into the Devil's Triangle to search for Shen Lang and the Jin Family.

Shen Lang learned that Duke Deborah and the Xilun Third Empire had imposed a complete blockade on his city and planned to destroy it. The story then returned to MuLan’s journey through the Devil’s Triangle, where she collapsed after guiding the ship through its dangers and the crew was attacked by countless strange creatures.

• The Bloody Baron told Shen Lang that Duke Deborah had blacklisted him and that Prince Sauron was conquering city-states while competing for the Xilun throne.
• The Bloody Baron’s fleet began enforcing the Great Purge Edict as Duke Deborah led her army south to destroy Shen Lang’s city.
• The story shifted to half a year earlier, when MuLan guided Shen Lang’s ship through the lightning, reefs, and storms of the Devil’s Triangle.
• MuLan exhausted her spiritual power and collapsed as the ship emerged into the New World.
• Xueyin caught MuLan and saw that the ship was surrounded by strange creatures, which rushed to attack it.

Shen Lang prepared MuLan City for Duke Deborah’s approaching invasion by building defenses, producing explosives, and testing cannons, then set out to recruit the Amazon Warriors. His party reached the Amazon Queen Kingdom’s waters, where armed warriors destroyed their boat and held them at swordpoint.

• Helen arrived at Jin MuLan’s ship, drove off the Sea Monsters with a conch call, and said MuLan needed treatment.
• Shen Lang and Zhang Chunhua prepared MuLan City for a blockade and Duke Deborah’s expected attack by stockpiling supplies and building walls.
• Shen Lang successfully tested T/N/T, but his first cannon exploded and killed its gunner; a Black Powder cannon then fired, though it missed its target.
• Shen Lang announced he would seek the Amazon Warriors, entrusted MuLan City’s defense to Zhang Chunhua and Lan Feng, and left with Meng Roland and several Female Warriors.
• Lan Feng called Shen Lang Monarch, then knelt with the Eastern Warriors and Zhang Chunhua to hail him as their ruler after he departed.
• After traveling by land and sea, Shen Lang’s party entered the Amazon Queen Kingdom’s waters, where Amazon Warriors wrecked their boat and threatened them with swords.

Shen Lang disguised himself as a beautiful female doctor and entered the Amazon Queen Kingdom, claiming he could cure the gout that plagued its warriors. After seeing the kingdom’s formidable warriors and meeting the Amazon Queen, he gave medicine to a suffering patient, and an apparent miracle began within half an hour.

• Shen Lang disguised himself as Long Nana, examined the Amazon Warriors, and promised the female general he could cure their gout.
• The warriors brought Shen Lang and his companions to an island, then Princess Dora escorted him alone toward the Amazon Queen Kingdom.
• Shen Lang saw Princess Dora and the other warriors train with immense strength, then passed through a fog-shrouded barrier into their vast pyramid city.
• Princess Dora presented Shen Lang to the Amazon Queen, who warned that he would be punished if his promised cure failed.
• Shen Lang gave colchicine-containing medicine to a warrior suffering a gout flare, and an unbelievable change began within half an hour.

Shen Lang treated the Amazon Queen Kingdom’s gout sufferers and cured Queen Eda’s infertility, earning the tribe’s gratitude. When the High Priest suspected that Long Nana was a man, Shen Lang revealed his identity and warned that only he could save the Amazon Warriors from an approaching catastrophe.

• Shen Lang used medicine to ease the gout of General Kuis and other warriors, then helped the High Priestesses prepare treatments for the tribe.
• Shen Lang diagnosed Queen Eda with blocked fallopian tubes and successfully performed a recanalization procedure, allowing her to bear children.
• After a High Priestess suspected Long Nana was a man, Queen Eda summoned Shen Lang and explained the punishment required by ancestral law.
• Shen Lang removed his disguise and identified himself as Shen Lang, son of Jiang Li, forcing Queen Eda to surrender her crown rather than violate the law.
• As the Amazon Warriors seized him, Shen Lang declared that a catastrophe would destroy the kingdom and claimed he alone could save the tribe.

Shen Lang warned that a volcanic eruption would destroy the Amazon Queen Kingdom, but Queen Eda gave him twenty-four hours to prove it before executing him. As the deadline neared, the eruption triggered a chain of catastrophic explosions that began destroying the kingdom, confirming Shen Lang’s prediction.

• The High Priest condemned Shen Lang for seeking the Amazon Queen Kingdom’s allegiance and cursing its Pyramid, but Queen Eda gave him twenty-four hours to prove that Nightmare Island’s volcano would bring destruction.
• While confined, Shen Lang studied Ancient texts and confirmed that both his calculations and Emperor Jiang Li’s predicted a catastrophe for the kingdom.
• As the deadline approached, Shen Lang was taken to the execution stake, where he prepared to be burned while Queen Eda watched the sunset from the top of the Pyramid.
• The volcano on Nightmare Island erupted, causing a massive earthquake that reached the Amazon Queen Kingdom just before Shen Lang’s execution.
• The High Priest ordered the fire lit, but Queen Eda saw the northern Pyramids explode one after another, beginning the destruction Shen Lang had predicted.

Shen Lang uncovered the Great Pyramid’s self-destructing energy core and stopped its explosion just before the countdown ended. Queen Eda’s kingdom and people were saved, while the High Priest’s betrayal and Adolf’s offer remained unresolved.

• The High Priest blamed Shen Lang for the disaster and tried to burn him, but Princess Dora rescued him as Queen Eda ordered the warriors to stop the High Priest’s forces.
• Queen Eda saw White Capital’s Snowdrift Boat and met Adolf, who demanded her loyalty and promised a new kingdom; she attacked him, but he vanished after his ship was destroyed.
• After the fifth small Pyramid exploded, Shen Lang led Queen Eda beneath the Great Pyramid and used the Greek password Ares to reach its hidden core.
• Shen Lang identified the core’s Nightmare Stone and began altering it to stop the metal sphere’s self-destruction, while Queen Eda watched the countdown fall to seconds.
• Shen Lang completed the final adjustment with five seconds remaining and stopped the core from exploding, saving the Amazon Queen Kingdom.

Shen Lang saved the Amazon Kingdom’s Great Pyramid, exposed the conspiracy behind the catastrophe, and helped Queen Eda uncover the High Priest’s motive for betrayal. He then left the kingdom as Duke Deborah prepared to send an army against Queen City, while Queen Eda asked whether his provocative promise still stood.

• Zhang Chunhua organized the construction of Chunhua Pass as Shen Lang’s forces prepared to defend Queen City during the blockade.
• Duke Deborah arrived at Azure Gold City, accepted Bloody Baron’s allegiance, and ordered one hundred thousand troops to destroy Shen Lang’s city in three days.
• Shen Lang completed the changes that stopped the Great Pyramid from exploding and explained to Queen Eda how someone had delayed the disaster and plotted against the Amazon Kingdom.
• The High Priest admitted she had tried to destroy the kingdom because Queen Eda’s mother had supposedly killed her son and confessed to making Eda unable to conceive.
• Queen Eda revealed that her mother had secretly saved the High Priest’s son, then exiled the High Priest and gave her the chance to find him.
• Shen Lang departed the Amazon Queen Kingdom, and Queen Eda asked whether his promise to sleep with her still counted.

Shen Lang secured the allegiance of eight thousand Amazon Warriors, while Duke Deborah sent a hundred-thousand-strong army to attack his territory. The chapter ended as Earl Austin's forces prepared to bombard Chunhua Pass, defended by only five hundred soldiers.

• Queen Eda explained Amazon traditions to Shen Lang, including the Procreation Ceremony, the fate of boys born among the Amazons, and the ancestral rule that warriors could not leave their homeland.
• After Shen Lang left Amazon waters empty-handed, Princess Dora met him with eight thousand exiled Amazon Warriors, pledged their lives to him, and renamed herself Dora Roland.
• Duke Deborah dispatched one hundred thousand troops to attack MuLan City, wrote to Sauron, ordered her organ burned after playing Shen Lang's composition, questioned Black Widow Hill, and summoned the southern governors to prove their loyalty.
• The Fire God Priest demonstrated Thunder's Wrath to Earl Austin and said his force had brought more than a thousand charges to destroy MuLan City.
• Zhang Chunhua completed Chunhua Pass and learned that Earl Austin's fifty thousand troops were approaching, while Shen Lang had not returned from the Amazon Kingdom.
• Earl Austin's army arrived at Chunhua Pass, where Zhang Chunhua commanded five hundred defenders, and the Fire God Priest ordered the trebuchets to bombard the wall.

Earl Austin’s forces tested the Fire God Sect’s gunpowder weapons against Zhang Chunhua’s defenses, but both attacks failed. Austin then led a conventional assault into a valley where Zhang Chunhua’s buried explosives annihilated his ten thousand siege troops, leaving him to face the devastation.

• Zhang Chunhua ordered her defenders to lie prone as the Fire God Sect’s catapults launched gunpowder packets, but the blasts left the wall intact and caused few casualties.
• The Fire God Sect fired thousands of Rocket Arrows, but they flew over Six-Li Pass without hitting the defenders.
• Earl Austin dismissed the Fire God Priest’s request for another chance and ordered ten thousand armored soldiers to assault the wall.
• Zhang Chunhua signaled her defenders to take cover as Austin sensed danger and ordered his troops to stop, spread out, and retreat.
• Buried explosives detonated beneath Austin’s packed siege troops, killing all ten thousand and damaging part of the wall.
• Earl Austin survived the blast with a concussion, saw his army destroyed, and roared in despair as the Fire God Priest looked on in shock.

Duke and Earl Austin joined forces to surround MuLan City, while Zhang Chunhua and the defenders prepared to resist an overwhelming assault. As the decisive battle began, Shen Lang returned with eight thousand Amazon Warriors.

• Duke landed his fifty thousand troops at a dangerous beach, avoiding explosives buried at the easier landing sites, then built defensive camps while awaiting Earl Austin.
• Earl Austin's forces cleared the cratered approach to Chunhua Pass, but grenades and mountain alarms inflicted heavy casualties before his troops captured the pass and advanced toward MuLan City.
• Duke's army joined Earl Austin, and their combined force of ninety thousand surrounded MuLan City; the defenders resolved to fight rather than retreat.
• At dawn, Earl Austin ordered the assault on MuLan City, while Zhang Chunhua remained prepared to destroy the city's secrets if it fell.
• Shen Lang returned from the north with eight thousand Amazon Warriors charging toward the battlefield.

Shen Lang’s Amazon Warriors swept south, annihilated the enemy garrison at Chunhua Pass, and arrived at MuLan City as its defenders faced imminent defeat. Their charge smashed into Earl Austin and Duke’s forty-thousand-man formation, leaving the battle’s outcome in their hands.

• Earl Austin and Earl Duke bombarded MuLan City, then sent twenty thousand troops against its walls; the defenders used their catapults to inflict heavy casualties.
• Shen Lang led eight thousand Amazon Warriors south, and Buck’s two thousand defenders failed to stop them from capturing Chunhua Pass.
• Shen Lang left eight hundred Amazon Warriors to hold the pass and led the rest toward Queen City as the siege of MuLan City intensified.
• Zhang Chunhua prepared to blow up the City Lord’s Manor if MuLan City fell, then spotted Shen Lang’s army arriving from the north.
• Earl Austin and Duke formed their forty-thousand-man army to face the Amazon Warriors, but the Amazon cavalry tore through their ranks and launched a massacre.

The Amazon Legion destroyed Deborah’s hundred-thousand-strong army at MuLan City, and Princess Dora defeated Duke and captured Earl Austin. Shen Lang prepared to send Duke Deborah tens of thousands of enemy heads as a taunting message while promising to march on Azure Gold City.

• The Amazon Legion charged through the enemy’s forty-thousand-man central force, and the defenders of MuLan City cheered Shen Lang’s return.
• Earl Austin and Duke fled as the enemy army collapsed, while General Kuining and her warriors pursued and slaughtered the scattered troops.
• Princess Dora killed Duke in a duel, then pursued Earl Austin to the shore and swam with her warriors to his ship.
• Princess Dora defeated Earl Austin in an underwater duel and captured him after he insulted her.
• General Kuining finished off the fleeing soldiers, leaving Deborah’s hundred-thousand-strong army annihilated and Earl Austin a captive.
• Shen Lang showed the Fire God Priest tens of thousands of heads and ordered her to deliver them to Duke Deborah along with his threat to attack Azure Gold City.

Shen Lang planned to capture Duke Deborah with a surprise hot-air-balloon raid while MuLan City faced a food shortage and Azure Gold City remained heavily defended. Deborah learned of her defeat at MuLan City, then received Shen Lang’s message and watched the ships carrying her troops’ heads explode offshore.

• Zhang Chunhua warned Shen Lang that MuLan City’s provisions would soon run out and urged him to take Azure Gold City for its supplies and workshops.
• Shen Lang and Zhang Chunhua concluded that capturing Duke Deborah was the best way to take the city, and Shen Lang proposed flying Amazon experts over its defenses in hot-air balloons.
• Shen Lang promised to marry Zhang Chunhua after they returned to the Eastern World, then hosted Princess Dora and the Amazon generals at a lavish banquet.
• Duke Deborah defeated a pack of giant wolves and fought Lord Biting to a draw before Talun informed her that her army had been destroyed and Earl Austin captured.
• The Fire God Priest delivered Shen Lang’s humiliating message to Duke Deborah as ships carrying tens of thousands of her soldiers’ heads approached Azure Gold City.
• Explosions destroyed the ships and the heads, shocking the people of Azure Gold City.

Duke Deborah rallied reinforcements and threatened Black Widow Hill while Shen Lang prepared an airborne assault using hot-air balloons and wingsuits. After leading five thousand Amazon Legion soldiers north, Shen Lang began his attack on Azure Gold City, defended by more than two hundred thousand troops.

• Duke Deborah ordered troops from Bibo Province and the southern provinces to reinforce Azure Gold City, then sent Black Widow Hill to the water dungeon after questioning her loyalties.
• Shen Lang tested a large hot-air balloon and proposed that Princess Dora lead an airborne strike on Duke Deborah’s residence to capture her.
• Princess Dora selected one hundred and fifty Amazon Warriors, who trained with parachutes and then mastered wingsuits well enough to land on Dora Mountain.
• Shen Lang said his forces were running low on food and revealed the wingsuit, allowing the Amazon Warriors to complete a successful airborne landing drill.
• Duke Deborah gathered more than two hundred thousand defenders and fortified Azure Gold City while expecting Shen Lang to attack.
• Shen Lang led five thousand Amazon Legion soldiers north to attack Azure Gold City.

Princess Dora led the Amazon Warriors in a daring assault on Azure Gold City, where they breached the walls and inflicted heavy losses before withdrawing. That night, Shen Lang launched a planned airborne decapitation strike against Duke Deborah at Mountain Top Castle.

• Duke Deborah learned that Shen Lang had arrived with only five thousand troops and took her position on Azure Gold City's northern wall.
• Princess Dora ordered the Amazon Warriors to charge, evade the catapults and arrows, and swim beneath the defenders' burning moat.
• Two thousand Amazon Warriors climbed onto the wall and killed thousands of defenders before Princess Dora fought Lord Biting and ordered a retreat.
• Lord Biting reported sixteen thousand casualties, and Duke Deborah asked the Fire God High Priest whether his methods could kill the Amazon Warriors; he said they could.
• At night, Shen Lang sent Princess Dora and one hundred and fifty Amazon Warriors aboard hot-air balloons toward Mountain Top Castle to attack Duke Deborah.

Princess Dora led an airborne raid on Duke Deborah’s estate while the Fire God Sect High Priest set out to use Hellfire Insects against Shen Lang and the Amazon Legion. Dora’s warriors fought through the estate, survived a beast-filled trap, and breached Deborah’s steel vault with Thermite, capturing her.

• The Fire God Sect High Priest showed Duke Deborah Hellfire Insects and left with hundreds of thousands of them to attack Shen Lang and the Amazon Legion.
• Princess Dora’s balloons carried her and more than a hundred Amazon experts over Azure Gold City, and they parachuted into Duke Deborah’s estate.
• Dora’s warriors fought through the estate guards and Fire God Sect fighters while Deborah escaped into a hidden passage and sealed herself behind a massive steel door.
• Dora and her companions survived an attack by hundreds of wild beasts, then used Thermite and explosives to breach the steel door.
• Dora found Deborah in the Russo Family’s Treasure Vault and declared that she was captured.

Princess Dora captured Duke Deborah and escaped Azure Gold City with the Amazon Warriors by glider, while the Fire God Sect unleashed hundreds of thousands of Hellfire Insects on Shen Lang’s camp. Shen Lang drew the insects onto himself and survived, then learned the raid had succeeded and tortured the captive Deborah for her surrender.

• Princess Dora captured Duke Deborah, sealed the Russo Family’s Treasure Vault, and used a glider to escape the city with her Amazon Warriors.
• The High Priest of the Fire God Sect released hundreds of thousands of Hellfire Insects toward Shen Lang’s camp, and Shen Lang drew them away from the fleeing Amazon Legion by cutting himself.
• The Hellfire Insects covered Shen Lang, but he survived their attack and awoke ten hours later; the Amazon Warriors had lost thirty-nine people.
• Princess Dora told Shen Lang that Duke Deborah had been captured in a nearly casualty-free raid.
• Shen Lang branded his name onto Deborah and demanded that she surrender Azure Gold City, but she refused.

Shen Lang forced Duke Deborah to accept his demands, then engineered her isolation, political collapse, and impending death until he became her only hope. As Deborah sent for him and rebels prepared to storm her estate, Zhang Chunhua arrived with news that Shen Lang’s elder sister had come looking for him.

• Shen Lang threatened to brand Deborah’s face and injected her with a deadly virus, then released her after she agreed to dismiss her troops, recognize him as her legal husband and co-ruler, and provide Azure Gold City’s resources.
• Deborah returned to Azure Gold City, where the High Priest confirmed her illness was incurable and contagious; as her condition worsened, she ordered the city’s troops to withdraw and publicly proclaimed Shen Lang her husband and co-ruler.
• Doyle Russo and other nobles plotted to kill Deborah and install Doyle as Duke, while Deborah’s illness left her isolated and too weak to defend herself.
• Deborah sent Dina to Shen Lang with Duke Russo’s Great Seal, asking him to send his Amazon Legion into the city and save her.
• Zhang Chunhua arrived at Shen Lang’s camp and told him that his elder sister had come looking for him.