Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping and Xuan Zi reviewed how Shrek’s undead workforce was transforming mining and metallurgy as the Sun Moon Empire launched its war against the Star Luo Empire. The first attack devastated the Mingdou Mountain Range, and the front lines collapsed.

• Xuan Zi recognized that Chen Ping’s undead army could expand Shrek’s mining and metallurgical production by handling vast amounts of tireless, low-complexity work.
• Han Ruoruo brought Chen Ping and Xuan Zi intelligence that the Sun Moon Empire had begun its attack.
• At Yu Ming City, Princess Xu Yun addressed new recruits when three Rank 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells struck the Mingdou Mountain Range and three more exploded beyond the city’s view.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s bombardment collapsed the Mingdou Mountain Range and marked the start of the continental war, leaving the Star Luo Empire unable to stop the shells or their shockwaves.
• Dai Hao survived because he was outside the shells’ killing range, while the Star Luo Empire’s detection devices made it difficult for the Sun Moon Empire to track his movements.

The Sun Moon Empire launched a surprise assault on the Star Luo Empire’s western frontier, breaking through the Mingdou Mountain Range defenses and devastating Dai Hao’s Northwest Army Group. As the invaders consolidated their gains, Xu Jiawei requested aid from Shrek Academy and the neighboring empires, while Xuan Zi and Chen Ping considered the scale of the attack.

• The Sun Moon Empire fired three Rank 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells and sent eight Soul Engineer Legions through the breach in the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Dai Hao’s Northwest Army Group suffered more than sixty thousand casualties and lost the mountain defense line, though its earlier withdrawal from the core position prevented even greater losses.
• The Beast King Soul Engineer Legions located and crippled several Star Luo Soul Guidance Cannon positions with long-range strikes.
• The Star Luo Empire’s royal family mobilized its armies and requested aid from the Dou Ling Empire, the Heaven Dou Empire, and Shrek Academy.
• Han Ruoruo reported the war’s progress to Xuan Zi and Chen Ping, who noted that nearly all the Hands of the Nation Protector had been deployed.

Chen Ping argued that the Sun Moon Empire’s halt at the Mingdou Mountain Range was a diversion, not a genuine pause before attacking the Star Luo Empire. He urged Shrek Academy to support the Heaven Dou Empire instead, warning that it was the Sun Moon Empire’s true target.

• Xuan Zi proposed sending Shrek Academy Elders to support the Star Luo Empire, and Han Ruoruo asked to join them.
• Chen Ping rejected sending Shrek to support the Star Luo Empire, though he said the Elders could still fight alongside the academy.
• Chen Ping reasoned that the Sun Moon Empire’s forces and weapons could have advanced farther if Star Luo were their real target, making their sudden halt suspicious.
• Chen Ping concluded that the Sun Moon Empire was drawing the continent’s attention and pulling Star Luo’s forces west to prepare an attack on the Heaven Dou Empire.

Chen Ping exposed the Sun Moon Empire’s plan to draw reinforcements away before attacking the Heaven Dou Empire, and Shrek’s advice guided the Three Great Empires’ response. As the Star Luo Empire struck the weakened Mingdou Mountain Range, a Sun Moon Empire marshal learned that Heaven Dou and Dou Ling had sent troops and believed the bait had worked.

• Chen Ping warned Xuan Zi, Han Ruoruo, and Shrek’s Elders that the Sun Moon Empire intended to lure forces away from the Heaven Dou Empire before attacking it.
• Chen Ping advised the Star Luo Empire to keep its border defenses in place and bombard the Mingdou Mountain Range with Soul Guidance Cannons rather than waste lives in a direct assault.
• Han Ruoruo sent Chen Ping’s analysis and Shrek’s decisions to the Three Great Empires through their encrypted communication network.
• The Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires assembled troops and appeared to send them to aid the Star Luo Empire, while secretly redirecting their forces according to Shrek’s advice.
• The Star Luo Empire bombarded the Mingdou Mountain Range and sent tunnel-borne units to verify that Sun Moon Empire defenders had largely left.
• A Sun Moon Empire marshal received word that Heaven Dou and Dou Ling had sent troops and smiled, believing someone had taken the bait.

Ju Zi directed the Sun Moon Empire’s invasion as commander-in-chief, while the other empires mobilized and Chen Ping prepared countermeasures. The chapter ended with Xu Jiawei sending eight Soul Master legions and Princess Xu Jiujiu toward the Mingdou Mountain Range, while Dai Hao still could not explain why his troops had been attacked there.

• Ju Zi ordered a tighter reconnaissance blockade along the Star Luo Empire’s western frontier as officers praised her strategy.
• The Sun Moon Empire deployed two hundred thousand elite troops, including eight Soul Engineer Legions, and its surveillance devices left the Star Luo Empire nearly blind.
• Chen Ping advised the Heaven Dou Empire to bury hundreds of tons of fixed cannonballs beneath its military positions to ambush the Sun Moon Empire’s forces.
• Dai Hao struggled to understand why his soldiers were attacked near the Mingdou Mountain Range despite their functioning detectors beyond it.
• Xu Jiawei sent eight Soul Master legions toward the Mingdou Mountain Range and appointed Princess Xu Jiujiu as a military adviser.

Chen Ping explained that an experimental Ultra-High Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Device was exposing Dai Hao’s scouts, and revealed that it could not detect effectively at night. He advised Dai Hao to wait for darkness before attempting to exploit the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses.

• Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu wondered how the Sun Moon Empire had repeatedly detected their squads and considered whether spies or advanced devices were responsible.
• Chen Ping arrived and told Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu that an experimental detector patrolling three thousand meters overhead had likely spotted the scouts.
• Chen Ping said he had come to capture several detectors and investigate whether they could be replicated, and Xu Jiujiu offered to buy them for the northwestern Border Army.
• Dai Hao lamented that his army still lacked details about the Sun Moon Empire’s forces and equipment in the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Chen Ping explained that the detectors had virtually no detection capability at night and advised Dai Hao to wait until then to act.

Chen Ping warned Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu that the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses in the Mingdou Mountain Range made reconnaissance and a direct assault nearly impossible, while offering Shrek’s cannon shells at a steep discount. He revealed that the Death God Soul Guidance Device might have arrived in the range, leaving the Star Luo commanders facing an even greater threat.

• Dai Hao planned to send scouts into the Mingdou Mountain Range at night, gather intelligence, and use artillery to retake it, but Chen Ping urged him to bombard the defenses rather than risk pinpointing them first.
• Dai Hao objected that the Northwest Army Group could not afford the thousands of shells needed for widespread bombardment, so Chen Ping announced that Shrek would sell Soul Guidance Cannon Shells at seventy-five percent of market price.
• Chen Ping disclosed that the Sun Moon Empire had more than three thousand linked fire points protected by detection devices, meaning attackers would be destroyed as soon as they were spotted.
• Dai Hao proposed repeated raids by Titled Douluo and Soul Douluo, but Chen Ping warned that the Death God Soul Guidance Device might have reached the Mingdou Mountain Range and consumed the souls of tens of thousands there.

Chen Ping warned Xu Jiujiu and Dai Hao that Ye Xishui’s Death God Tower could devastate their forces, then proposed that Ye Xishui was injured and recovering. He asked the Star Luo Empire to risk lives verifying his deduction, hoping to weaken her influence over the war.

• Chen Ping explained that the Death God Tower consumed tens of thousands of souls and could unleash power beyond an ordinary Super Douluo’s ability to withstand.
• Chen Ping revealed that Ye Xishui, a Limit Douluo, had come instead of Kong Deming and that she had helped create the Death God Soul Guidance Device.
• Dai Hao asked how Chen Ping learned the intelligence, and Chen Ping claimed he combined information from a looted arsenal with knowledge gained from killing an Evil Soul Master Titled Douluo.
• Dai Hao asked about Chen Ping’s second purpose, and Chen Ping said he suspected Ye Xishui was injured and relying on the Death God Tower to hold the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Chen Ping produced a Rank 9 Fixed Cannonball and asked Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu to verify his deduction, explaining that an injured Ye Xishui might be prevented from interfering in the continent’s affairs for years.

Chen Ping reasoned that Ye Xishui was likely weakened and saw a chance to investigate her presence in the Mingdou Mountain Range. He flew there at night to steal a High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Device, but at three thousand meters he discovered that hovering rapidly drained his Soul Power.

• Chen Ping concluded that Ye Xishui was probably unable to fight at full strength and decided to seize the opportunity to investigate her and the Death God Tower.
• After a day without further attacks from the Sun Moon Empire, Chen Ping set out at four in the morning to steal a High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Device above the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Chen Ping concealed himself with Mirage Gas and used Ultimate Ice-attribute Soul Power to evade the detection devices as he flew upward.
• Chen Ping noticed that his Soul Power consumption increased with altitude and became extremely rapid when he hovered at three thousand meters.

Chen Ping stole the Sun Moon Empire’s high-altitude detection devices over the Mingdou Mountain Range and discovered that the Death God Soul Guidance Device was deployed there. Ju Zi learned that thirteen devices had vanished and suspected Chen Ping was responsible.

• Chen Ping used a space portal to collect the detection devices over the Mingdou Mountain Range, taking more than a dozen of them.
• Chen Ping flew west under Mirage Gas, found more than fifty detectors near the Sun Moon Empire’s position, and evaded detection.
• Chen Ping spread his Spiritual Power across the Mingdou Mountain Range and located the hidden Death God Soul Guidance Device.
• A red-armored Soul Engineer reported to Ju Zi that thirteen high-altitude detection devices had disappeared without warning.
• Ju Zi recalled the earlier disappearance that had led to Keke’s imprisonment and concluded that Chen Ping was behind the thefts.

Ju Zi blamed Chen Ping for stealing the detection devices and ordered the Sun Moon Empire’s invasion of the Heaven Dou Empire to proceed. At the border, Vina and Long Ao Tian watched Chen Ping’s prediction come true as the eight soul engineer legions devastated the defenses, while Ju Zi ordered them to advance.

• Ju Zi concluded that Chen Ping had stolen the Ultra-High Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices and prepared to attack Heaven Dou City despite the risk that the Three Great Empires had discovered her plans.
• Vina and Long Ao Tian waited at the Heaven Dou border, where Vina wondered whether Chen Ping’s judgment would prove correct.
• When Vina spotted smoke from the advancing soul engineer legions, she ordered a retreat through the underground passage.
• The eight Sun Moon Empire soul engineer legions bombarded the border defenses, killing countless Heaven Dou Empire soldiers and reducing the fortifications to rubble.
• Ju Zi ordered the Dreadclaw and Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legions to alternate fire on the defensive nodes, then advance and crush the remaining border forces.

The Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer Legions advanced through the ruined Heaven Dou border defenses, killing the remaining defenders. Beneath the battlefield, hundreds of elderly Heaven Dou veterans prepared to detonate a vast store of cannon shells, knowing they would not survive.

• The Third Round Soul Guidance Legion bombarded the Heaven Dou Empire’s border defenses for half an hour, reducing the line to craters.
• The Dreadclaw Soul Engineer Legion and another Soul Engineer Legion advanced under their shields and killed the remaining defenders under Ju Zi’s no-survivors order.
• Hundreds of elderly veterans waited beneath the battlefield with cannon shells stored in their devices, discussing their sacrifice and the future of their families.
• The veterans placed their shells beneath their feet after the bombardment, preparing a massive detonation intended to destroy the advancing Soul Engineer Legions.

Wei Na’s buried Soul Guidance Shells devastated the Dreadclaw Soul Engineer Legion and the advancing Imperial Soul Engineer Legion, while a Rank 8 Annihilation Light killed the Dreadclaw commander. Ju Zi ordered an immediate retreat after realizing Chen Ping had anticipated the invasion, but the Holy Spirit Cult had already gone out.

• The Dreadclaw Soul Engineer Legion advanced over Wei Na’s buried explosives, which detonated and killed hundreds of elite soldiers while devastating the Imperial Soul Engineer Legion behind them.
• Wei Na ordered the bombardment team to fire a Rank 8 Annihilation Light at the wounded Dreadclaw commander, erasing him completely.
• Ju Zi received word that the Dreadclaw Legion had been wiped out and contact with the Imperial Legion had been lost.
• Ju Zi ordered every Soul Engineer Legion to retreat, then learned that the Holy Spirit Cult’s members had already gone out.

Wei Na reported that the Heaven Dou Empire had crushed the Sun Moon Empire's first attack, while Xuan Ziwen activated Chen Ping's Soul Guidance Soul Revealing Lamps. The lamps exposed the Holy Spirit Cult's Evil Soul Masters devouring the dead, and Zhong Li Wu fled as the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineers witnessed their comrades' souls being consumed.

• Wei Na ordered reinforcements and wounded care after the explosions destroyed two elite Soul Engineer Legions, and warned that Ju Zi would return with stronger forces.
• Xuan Ziwen prepared to reveal the souls of the dead using equipment designed by Chen Ping.
• Ju Zi saw the Heaven Dou Empire's hot-air balloons and searchlights, which illuminated the souls of fallen soldiers and Soul Engineers.
• Zhong Li Wu, Feng Ling, and other Holy Spirit Cult Evil Soul Masters appeared and devoured the exposed souls, including those of Sun Moon Empire commanders.
• Feng Ling realized the lamps made the souls visible to everyone, and Zhong Li Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to retreat.
• The Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineers watched the Evil Soul Masters flee with their comrades' souls, and many fainted.

After the Holy Spirit Cult’s evil soul masters turned on the Sun Moon Empire’s forces, Ju Zi’s lightning campaign collapsed and the remaining legions retreated. Ju Zi tried to secure her survival by ordering a northern regrouping, while Xuan Ziwen’s side celebrated the enemy’s withdrawal.

• The Holy Spirit Cult’s evil soul masters fled back into the Sun Moon Empire as Ju Zi’s six remaining soul engineer legions lost morale and retreated.
• Ju Zi realized the disastrous battle could cost her her life and remembered that she still had to avenge her father.
• Ju Zi ordered her troops to regroup, head north, and change into warm clothing to buy herself more time.
• Xuan Ziwen’s soul engineers saw the Sun Moon Empire’s forces disappear beyond the horizon and cheered their retreat.
• Xuan Ziwen reflected that the battle had shown him the evil soul masters were a threat to the whole continent.

Dai Hao and the Star Luo Empire’s officers planned a desperate mission to destroy the Sun Moon Empire’s aerial reconnaissance Soul Guidance Devices, despite Ye Xishui and the Death God Soul Guidance Device guarding the Mingdou Mountain Range. Xuanji Douluo led the Titled Douluo and more than one hundred Soul Douluo toward the range, where the Soul Douluo prepared to draw enemy fire so the other attacks could proceed.

• Dai Hao and the officers agreed to send Titled Douluo and Soul Douluo on a suicide mission to destroy the Sun Moon Empire’s detection devices.
• Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu watched as Xuanji Douluo led dozens of Soul Master powerhouses from Tianming City toward the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Xuanji Douluo halted the group near the detection devices’ range and ordered the Soul Douluo to begin a low-altitude incursion in three minutes.
• A Soul Douluo pledged that his group would draw the Mingdou Mountain Range’s and the Death God Soul Guidance Device’s attention while Xuanji Douluo and the Titled Douluo carried out separate missions.

More than one hundred Star Luo Empire Soul Douluo launched a deadly assault on the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses at the Mingdou Mountain Range, destroying many detection devices and Soul Tools at the cost of heavy casualties. As the barrage began to weaken, the detection devices retreated into the mountain range and other systems started to fail.

• Chen Ping sent the Titled Douluo hidden routes through tunnels beneath the Mingdou Mountain Range for their surprise attack.
• More than one hundred Soul Douluo dispersed around the breach and began destroying High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer Legion unleashed a massive barrage, killing at least twenty Soul Douluo within minutes.
• The Dare-to-Die Squad destroyed over forty percent of the aerial Soul Tools and numerous ground-based Soul Tools, suffering devastating losses.
• The Soul Guidance Cannon fire gradually weakened as the detection devices retreated into the mountain range and other detection Soul Tools overloaded.

The Death God Soul Guidance Device fired its Eternal Annihilation Light across the Mingdou Mountain Range, erasing more than a dozen Soul Douluos. It then revealed a point-erasure attack mode and began targeting the scattered fighters with multiple beams.

• Xuanji Douluo stopped the Titled Douluos from rushing out of the tunnel while the Soul Douluos attacked the mountain’s Soul Engineer positions.
• A Soul Douluo using the Star Piercing Spear pierced a Rank Eight Anti-Aircraft Soul Guidance Cannon and its shield with his Eighth Soul Skill.
• The Death God Soul Guidance Device swept the sky with the Eternal Annihilation Light, erasing the Star Piercing Spear wielder and more than a dozen other Soul Douluos.
• The Titled Douluos in the tunnel realized the Death God Soul Guidance Device had activated and hoped the dispersed Soul Douluos would minimize casualties while exhausting its energy.
• The Death God Tower revealed its blood-lit form and fired numerous white beams from its spinning black triangular cube at the Soul Douluos in mid-air.

The Death God Tower’s Triangular Pyramid used precise Light of the Death God shots to erase the scattered Soul Douluos of the Star Luo Empire’s Dare-to-Die Squad. When the device slowed and began to glow red, Xuanji Douluo ordered the survivors to charge.

• The Triangular Pyramid fired Light of the Death God beams that silently erased a Wind Attribute Soul Douluo and an Earth Attribute Soul Douluo.
• The Death God Soul Guidance Device continued picking off Soul Douluos, and the survivors in the tunnel realized that spreading out had left them exposed.
• Great Hammer Douluo urged Xuanji Douluo to let the brothers go, but Xuanji Douluo told him to wait because the device was slowing down.
• The Triangular Pyramid glowed bright red as only about forty points of light remained in the sky.
• Xuanji Douluo roared for the brothers to charge and blasted upward through the ground, killing several dozen nearby Soul Engineers in the explosion.

More than a dozen Star Luo Empire Titled Douluo broke into the Sun Moon Empire’s position and advanced toward the Death God Tower, wrecking its defenses. Ye Xishui remained inside, waiting for the Death God Tower to cool while her unstable condition kept her from confronting them.

• The Great Hammer Douluo struck the mountainside and triggered a collapse that disrupted the enemy’s position.
• The Shattered Star Douluo used his Shattered Star Vortex to absorb incoming attacks as the Titled Douluo advanced.
• The Great Hammer Douluo smashed several built-in offensive soul guidance devices and helped clear a path toward the Death God Tower.
• Ye Xishui waited inside the Death God Tower for the Light of the Death God to cool down.
• Ye Xishui’s unstable powers forced her to periodically withdraw and reorganize the chaotic energy within her body.