Chapter Summaries

Chou Yao'er reunited with Shen Lang and Yaoyao before joining them in Queen City, where Helen and Sauron settled the Xilun Empire’s division without civil war. The Xilun Third Empire was established with Sauron as Emperor and Helen as Vice Emperor, and Shen Lang prepared to return to the Eastern World.

• Chou Yao'er returned after twelve days of travel, embraced Shen Lang and Yaoyao, and slept for a day and a night.
• Yaoyao showed Chou Yao'er a drawing of herself and the Medusa Queen, and Chou Yao'er reunited with her daughter over a meal.
• Shen Lang brought Chou Yao'er and Yaoyao to Queen City, where Helen and Sauron fought privately and each announced that the other had won.
• Helen and Sauron negotiated and jointly announced the establishment of the Xilun Third Empire, with Sauron as Emperor and Helen as Vice Emperor governing the south.
• Shen Lang held Yaoyao and told her they would return to the Eastern World to see Younger Brother and Younger Sister.

Shen Lang left the Western World for the Eastern World, determined to build his power before seeking revenge on Sauron and recover Medusa Queen. He departed with a newly armed fleet, soldiers, craftsmen, and supplies, while Helen remained in the Xilun Empire and promised to help reunite their family when the time came.

• Shen Lang declined Sauron's banquet and a Xilun title, then told Helen he would eventually make Sauron pay for insulting Medusa Queen.
• The Eastern Warriors and Roland Knights chose to stay in the Western World to search for Medusa Queen, while Shen Lang prepared to return east with the Skull Gang and his family.
• Shen Lang left Queen City with Yaoyao and Chou Yao'er, reunited with Hella, and said goodbye to Deborah in Azure Gold City.
• Shen Lang gathered fifty thousand troops, craftsmen, horses, and supplies, then tested his hundred refitted warships, whose cannons destroyed a target ship with their first volley.
• Seven days later, Shen Lang led the Amazon Legion, Skull Gang Legion, and Invincible Fleet out of the Western World for the Eastern World.

Shen Lang’s fleet reached the Devil’s Triangle after a long voyage, while Yue Kingdom’s rulers continued purging his followers and preparing for his possible return. With Yaoyao insisting on joining him, Shen Lang entered the Triangle aboard a specially built ship to find MuLan and the others.

• Princess Helen escorted Shen Lang’s fleet along the coast, and Black Widow Hill watched it depart from a lighthouse.
• Ning Yi told the demented Ning Yuanxian about the destruction of Shen Lang’s allies, then poured spoiled porridge over him when he kept asking to eat.
• Ning Shao and Ning Yi discussed killing Shen Lang’s followers as Yue Kingdom continued mass arrests, while Yan Nanfei commanded a vast fleet watching for Shen Lang near the Devil’s Triangle.
• During the voyage, Yaoyao attracted growing numbers of sea creatures and showed an uncanny ability to sense what lay ahead.
• When the fleet reached the Devil’s Triangle, Yaoyao insisted on accompanying Shen Lang, who took her aboard a specially built ship and sailed into the darkness.

Xu Qianqian faced Zhu Wenhua’s threat to become his concubine or see her family killed, while Shen Lang crossed the Devil’s Triangle and reunited with his family inside the Lost Temple. He discovered that the Pyramid’s Energy Core was about to explode and raced underground with Yaoyao to try to stop it.

• Zhu Wenhua threatened to kill Xu Qianqian’s family unless she became his concubine and managed his silk business.
• Shen Lang’s ship entered the Devil’s Triangle, where a glowing bird guided it safely through the storms and ruins.
• Shen Lang found more than a million Sea Monsters gathered around the Great Pyramid, and they parted to let his ship pass.
• Shen Lang detected a countdown to the Pyramid’s destruction and rushed inside, where he reunited with Xueyin, Ning Yan, and the others.
• Shen Lang learned that the Pyramid would explode within fifteen minutes, so Chou Yao’er carried him toward its underground Energy Core while Hella brought Yaoyao along.

Shen Lang and his family survived the Great Pyramid’s impending destruction with Yaoyao’s help, then learned that Luo Zu had taken MuLan and Shen Ye away to help them advance. After reuniting with his family and preparing to return to the Eastern World, Shen Lang led the Nirvana Army out of the Devil’s Triangle to reclaim Yue Kingdom.

• Shen Lang opened the Pyramid’s underground passage by having Yaoyao touch the Medusa statue, then discovered that its immense statue’s arms formed an uneven balance.
• Shen Lang realized the statue needed Yaoyao’s tear on the left-hand eyeball, and her tear stopped the countdown and averted the great destruction.
• Shen Lang learned that Luo Zu had taken the sleeping MuLan and Shen Ye away so MuLan could break through and Shen Ye could begin his training.
• Shen Lang reunited with Yaoyao, Shen Mi, Shen Li, Mirror, and his in-laws, and promised to reclaim Raging Tide City and the Jin Family’s territories.
• Shen Lang said goodbye to MuLan and led his family and nearly three thousand Nirvana Army members out of the Devil’s Triangle toward Yue Kingdom.

Shen Lang and his family escaped the Devil's Triangle with a sea monster's help, reunited with the Skull Gang Fleet, and sailed east toward the Yue Kingdom. A Yue patrol spotted the returning fleet and realized Shen Lang had come back to wage war.

• A glowing sea monster guided Shen Lang's ships through the Devil's Triangle and out of the shifting dark fog.
• Shen Lang reunited with Big Fool, Arunana, their children, Jin MuCong, Hella, and Xueyin, and discussed the Eastern World's powerful enemies and the mysteries surrounding Jiang Li and Shen Lang's mother.
• Shen Lang's ships emerged from the Devil's Triangle, and the sea monster disappeared after repaying its debt to him.
• Shen Lang reunited with Jack Tang and the Skull Gang Fleet, and the combined fleet set sail east toward the Yue Kingdom.
• A Yue Kingdom patrol spotted Shen Lang's enormous fleet and hurried to report his return to Raging Tide City and Yan Nanfei.

Shen Lang returned to the Yue Kingdom with a fleet, while Ning Zheng endured imprisonment without submitting and Yan Nanfei learned that Shen Lang was advancing on Raging Tide City. Yan Nanfei ordered the Yue Kingdom's 150,000 naval troops to assemble and destroy Shen Lang's smaller fleet.

• Shen Lang let three Yue Kingdom ships escape so they would spread word of his return, then sailed toward Raging Tide City with his fleet.
• Princess Ning Yan worried about her father, Consort Bian, Ning Zheng, and Yun Mengze, while Shen Lang reassured her that he would soon rescue them.
• Ning Zheng endured Ning Yi's threats and torture, then silently ate live snakes rather than submit.
• Yan Nanfei received confirmation that Shen Lang had returned with 100 warships and fewer than 20,000 men.
• Yan Nanfei ordered the Yue Kingdom's 150,000 naval troops to assemble and prepare to annihilate Shen Lang's fleet.

Yan Nanfei led a 150,000-man fleet to surround Shen Lang’s smaller fleet, confident that numbers would secure victory. Shen Lang’s ships unleashed more than five hundred powerful cannons, beginning a one-sided destruction of Yan Nanfei’s packed fleet.

• Zhu Wenhua demanded that Xu Qianqian become his concubine, and she tried to disfigure herself rather than submit.
• Xu Yun stopped Xu Qianqian from cutting herself, but Zhu Wenhua threatened him until news arrived that Shen Lang had returned; Zhu Wenhua then arrested the Xu Family.
• Zhuo Zhaoyan learned that Shen Lang had returned and rode south to report to Horizon Sea Pavilion before heading to the capital.
• Yan Nanfei assembled 150,000 sailors and gradually encircled Shen Lang’s fleet, believing its ships and crew could be overwhelmed by superior numbers.
• As Yan Nanfei’s fleet closed in, Jack Tang ordered Shen Lang’s ships to raise their sails and open fire with their cannons.
• Shen Lang’s cannonballs smashed through Yan Nanfei’s tightly packed ships, setting one ablaze and splitting several others apart.

Shen Lang’s fleet used Chain Shot and its superior ships to cripple Yan Nanfei’s fleet, then destroyed most of it in a close-range slaughter. After Yan Nanfei’s survivors fled, Shen Lang’s smaller force encircled them and annihilated the remaining fleet, with Hella leading the attack on one group of enemy ships.

• Yan Nanfei ordered his fleet to press through Shen Lang Fleet’s cannon fire, but his Giant Ballistas and catapults did little damage in return.
• Shen Lang Fleet switched to Chain Shot, tearing apart enemy sails and masts and causing hundreds of Yan Nanfei’s warships to collide and become crippled.
• Shen Lang Fleet fired solid cannonballs into the immobilized ships while Skull Gang warriors killed the enemy sailors who swam over to attack.
• Yan Nanfei ordered his surviving northern and southern fleets to retreat, but Shen Lang’s faster ships pursued and encircled the fleeing force over three days and nights.
• Yan Nanfei ordered his ships to scatter into groups of eight and attack Shen Lang’s vessels, but Hella’s warship disabled and captured her attackers before destroying nearby ships.
• Shen Lang Fleet’s fifty warships surrounded and annihilated Yan Nanfei’s remaining fleet, ending the battle after three hours.

Yan Nanfei gathered 100,000 troops, thirty Grandmaster-level experts, Ironblood soldiers, and Gu Worm Arrows to defend Raging Tide City from Shen Lang. Shen Lang’s fleet arrived with a much smaller force, and he prepared to retake the city despite the overwhelming defenses.

• Yan Nanfei returned to Raging Tide City after Shen Lang destroyed most of his fleet, and Zhu Rong, Shu Tingyu, Zhuo Zhaoyan, and Wu Jue assembled to receive him.
• Yan Nanfei learned that Horizon Sea Pavilion and Floating Pagoda Mountain would not send their armies, but Zhu Rong brought 70,000 troops and Shu Tingyu brought 10,000 Ironblood soldiers.
• Shu Tingyu demonstrated the Ironblood Army’s destructive strength, and Wu Jue revealed that Floating Pagoda Mountain would supply 30,000 arrows carrying Third-Level Corpse-Rot Gu Worms.
• Zhu Rong placed thirty Grandmaster-level experts under Yan Nanfei’s command and ordered him to destroy Shen Lang discreetly so the world would not learn that Shen Lang had returned.
• Three days later, Shen Lang’s hundred warships appeared off Raging Tide City, and he prepared to take back the city with a force far smaller than Yan Nanfei’s defenders.

Shen Lang blockaded Raging Tide City while waiting for Zhang Chunhua to bring crude oil, then launched a hot-air-balloon raid to set the city ablaze. The first wave of explosions engulfed Raging Tide City, beginning his planned massacre.

• Shen Lang refused to use the Black Death Virus or risk a direct assault, and ordered his fleet to blockade Raging Tide City.
• Yan Nanfei reassured the city's merchants that Shen Lang could not attack, while they mocked him and urged him to land.
• Zhang Chunhua arrived with more than fifteen million jin of crude oil, which Shen Lang planned to use to burn Raging Tide City.
• Princess Dora and more than a hundred Amazon Warriors loaded crude-oil barrels into hot-air balloons and flew toward the city.
• Yan Nanfei's troops failed to shoot down the balloons, and the barrels exploded across Raging Tide City, setting it ablaze.

Shen Lang reclaimed Raging Tide City after three days of aerial fire raids and a bombardment that turned Yan Nanfei’s Gu Worm Arrows against his own troops. The chapter ended with Chou Yao'er and Princess Dora leading the assault that destroyed the remaining defenders and returned the city to Shen Lang.

• Shen Lang’s hot-air balloons repeatedly dropped crude oil on Raging Tide City, burning the city for three days and killing many of its inhabitants.
• After heavy rain ended the fires, Yan Nanfei gathered his surviving sixty thousand troops inside the great castle and prepared to resist Shen Lang’s siege.
• Shen Lang’s explosive packs detonated near the defenders, triggering the Hidden Origin Society Iron Blood Army’s Gu Worm Arrows and killing most of the elite soldiers.
• Shen Lang fired a super cannon at the castle gate, blasting open a breach after several shots.
• Chou Yao'er and Princess Dora led the Amazon Legion and Nirvana Army through the breach, killing Yan Nanfei’s remaining troops and reclaiming Raging Tide City.

Shen Lang’s forces captured Yan Nanfei after a buried explosive ambush and reclaimed Raging Tide City, while Jin Zhuo promised Leizhou Island’s farmers their former land and homes. Shen Lang planned a campaign to seize Tianfeng Island and Jinshan Island and launch the Watt Plan, while Chou Hao surrendered without a fight; Zhuo Zhaoyan faced the news of her imminent downfall.

• Yan Nanfei fled Raging Tide City with thirty Grandmasters and several hundred loyalists, but Li Qianqiu and other fighters blocked his escape route.
• Shen Lang’s buried explosives killed Yan Nanfei’s loyalists and many Grandmasters, and Amazon Warriors then shot the survivors until they fell.
• Shen Lang captured Yan Nanfei and the surviving Grandmasters, ordered the others held for blood experiments, and had Yan Nanfei publicly executed by a thousand cuts.
• Jin Zhuo promised Leizhou Island’s residents that their homes, tools, oxen, and former grain tax would be restored, while Shen Lang planned attacks on Tianfeng Island and Jinshan Island and launched the Watt Plan.
• Zhang Chunhua led the Skull Gang fleet toward Tianfeng Island, where Chou Hao surrendered to Shen Lang without a fight.
• Zhuo Zhaoyan received news of Raging Tide City’s fall and realized her downfall was imminent.

Zhuo Zhaoyan learned that Shen Lang had defeated Yan Nanfei and prepared to flee Xuanwu City after planting explosives to destroy Xuanwu Marquis Manor. Shen Lang turned her trap against her, revealed that her supposed hostage was Goddess Xueyin, and began executing the Zhuo Family.

• A merchant told Zhuo Zhaoyan that Shen Lang had attacked Raging Tide City with fire from the sky, but she insisted Yan Nanfei and the great castle could still withstand him.
• Zhuo Zhaoyan ordered Daoist Xu to bury gunpowder, Fish Oil, and tung oil beneath Xuanwu Marquis Manor so she could destroy the estate and Shen Lang's army.
• Chou Hao surrendered Tianfeng Island, his fleet, and its shipyards to Shen Lang, while Marquis Jin Zhuo retook Jinshan Island and its mines.
• After learning that Yan Nanfei had been defeated and executed, Zhuo Zhaoyan fled toward Tianyue City with her family and captured a woman she believed was Shen Lang's adoptive mother.
• Zhuo Zhaoyan watched from a mountain as her explosives were triggered, but they destroyed her own convoy instead of Xuanwu Marquis Manor.
• The supposed hostage revealed herself as Goddess Xueyin, and Shen Lang arrived with Chou Yao'er as his troops killed Zhuo Zhaoyan's family and prepared to execute Zhuo Yixin by chariot.

Shen Lang reclaimed the Xuanwu Marquis Manor, killed the Zhuo Family, and sent Zhu Wenhua to Tianyue City with demands for Yue Kingdom’s rulers. Ning Shao rejected the demands and ordered mass executions and preparations for war.

• Xu Fan revealed that he had been one of Jiang Li’s surviving war orphans and had infiltrated Zhuo Zhaoyan’s circle to aid Shen Lang.
• Shen Lang had An Ting Earl Zhuo Yixin torn apart, ordered the Nirvana Army to kill the Zhu Family, and dragged Zhuo Zhaoyan to her death.
• Shen Lang returned to the Xuanwu Marquis Manor, wrote Zhu Clan, Ning Han, and Horizon Sea Pavilion on his Enemies Wall, and appointed Xu Qianqian to oversee the silk trade.
• Shen Lang castrated Zhu Wenhua, spared him, and sent him to Tianyue City with demands that prisoners be released, Ning Yi be surrendered, and Zhu Ning be handed over for marriage to Jin MuCong.
• Officials and soldiers fled toward Tianyue City after Shen Lang’s return, while frightened residents stayed inside and offered him no public support.
• Ning Shao refused Shen Lang’s demands, ordered ten thousand prisoners beheaded and Ning Zheng’s arm cut off, and called for Horizon Sea Pavilion to join the coming battle.

Shen Lang uncovered Zhu Yao’s past and the location of the Zhu Family’s Secret Base, where Hella’s team found Ancient Ruins and used a Black Death Bomb to seize the site. As Ning Shao prepared to execute ten thousand people and mutilate Ning Zheng, Shen Lang’s secret letter prompted Zhu Hongzhu to order the execution stopped.

• Shen Lang recognized the executioner as Zhu Yao, a former Grandmaster and Jiang Li’s loyalist who had fled the Zhu Family after refusing to betray Jiang Li’s trainees.
• Zhu Yao’s clues led Shen Lang’s fleet to a Zhu Family Secret Base, where Hella discovered Ancient Ruins guarded by powerful weapons and chose to use a Black Death Bomb.
• After hearing that the base had been destroyed and occupied, Shen Lang devised a new plan to protect Ning Yuanxian, Ning Zheng, and the thousands of people in danger.
• Ning Yi threatened Ning Yuanxian and Consort Su, then announced that Ning Zheng would lose an arm and ten thousand people would be executed.
• As Ning Shao’s mass execution approached, a Black Mirror Agency spy delivered Shen Lang’s secret letter to Zhu Hongzhu, who read it and ordered the execution halted.

Zhu Hongzhu tried to halt King Yue Ning Shao’s executions to protect the Zhu Family’s secrets and preserve its bargain with Shen Lang, but Ning Luo and a deliberately tardy eunuch allowed five hundred prisoners to be beheaded. After learning what happened, Shen Lang ordered an investigation of Birdless City and threatened to destroy it if it was tied to Ning Shao and Reaching Heaven Temple.

• Zhu Hongzhu told Zhu Rong that Shen Lang could expose Zhu Yao’s and Zhu Hongxue’s identities, then pleaded with Ning Shao to stop the executions and spare Ning Zheng’s arm.
• Ning Shao ordered the executions suspended, but Ning Luo began them before the decree arrived, and Eunuch Nian announced it only after five hundred prisoners had been killed.
• Zhu Hongzhu told the Black Mirror Agency spy that the Zhu Family had tried to stop the killings, then marked Birdless City’s location on a map as a concession to Shen Lang.
• Three days later, the spy reported the massacre to Shen Lang, who flew into a rage and learned that Birdless City had once been a stronghold of Great Tribulation Temple.
• Shen Lang ordered an investigation into whether Birdless City was connected to Ning Shao and Reaching Heaven Temple, and threatened to destroy it if the connection was confirmed.

Shen Lang learned that Reaching Heaven Temple had preserved Great Tribulation Temple’s sinister techniques and secretly destroyed its Birdless City stronghold, including Ning Shao’s family. After Ning Shao ordered more killings to taunt Shen Lang, he received the heads of five thousand people and learned that Birdless City had been wiped out.

• Shen Lang discussed Ning Shao’s origins with Ning Yan and learned that Ning Shao’s mother might have been connected to Great Tribulation Temple.
• Shen Lang explained that he would attack Tianyue City only after preparing to defeat Horizon Sea Pavilion’s Blood Soul Army and hold the city afterward.
• A secret guest told Shen Lang that Birdless City housed Great Tribulation Temple’s surviving sinister-technique practitioners and Ning Shao’s five sons.
• Goddess Xueyin, Chou Yao'er, and Ban Ruo bombed Birdless City with an Extinction Bomb, then killed the survivors and collected their heads.
• Ning Shao ordered Ning Yi to kill more of Shen Lang’s followers and send their heads to Xuanwu City.
• Shen Lang sent Ning Shao the heads of five thousand people, including Ning Shao’s women and sons, and Ning Shao learned that Birdless City had been destroyed.

Ning Shao retaliated against Shen Lang by ordering the deaths of his captives, but Zhu Hongzhu’s forces blocked the executions and Ning Shao turned toward threatening Ning Yuanxian. Reaching Heaven Temple’s army entered Tianyue City, where its commander Kong Zheng struck Ning Shao and ordered him to leave Shen Lang’s people unharmed before the Battle of Tianyue City.

• Ning Shao examined the heads of his slain sons and former lover, ordered them burned, and Zhu Hongzhu and Zhu Rong discussed how to destroy Shen Lang without involving the Great Yan Empire openly.
• Ning Shao ordered Ning Yi and Ning Luo to kill Shen Lang’s prisoners, but Zhang Zhao and the Blackwater Directorate Governor refused to obey decrees lacking the cabinet seal.
• Ning Shao proposed castrating Ning Yuanxian to hurt Shen Lang, but Eunuch Nian announced that Reaching Heaven Temple’s army had arrived near the capital.
• Ning Shao welcomed ten thousand Monk Soldiers into Tianyue City, then Elder Kong Zheng slapped him and ordered him not to harm Shen Lang’s people before the battle.

Ning Shao and the allied forces prepared for the Battle of Tianyue City as Shen Lang studied the defenses and tested new rifled cannons. After learning of a superweapon hidden in the Zhu Family's Secret Base, Shen Lang sailed to the island to investigate it.

• Ning Shao promised Kong Zheng not to harm Shen Lang's people before the battle, while Kong Zheng explained Reaching Heaven Temple's ambitions and visited the mentally broken Ning Yuanxian.
• Armies converged on Tianyue City, and Shu Tingyu brought the Hidden Origin Society's Iron Blood Army as Ning Qi agreed to command Yue troops against Shen Lang.
• Shen Lang learned that many Yue soldiers secretly favored him and Jiang, while Zhu Hongxue's Blood Soul Army was expected to return from the Western Regions soon.
• Shen Lang tested five new rifled cannons, which struck targets two thousand meters away with powerful explosions despite problems with their firing mechanisms and fuzes.
• Hella reported that the Zhu Family's Secret Base held a sealed ancient chamber, and Shen Lang used Truth Serum to learn that it contained an unfinished world-destroying superweapon.
• Shen Lang ordered preparations and sailed to the Zhu Family's Secret Base to inspect the superweapon.