Chapter Summaries

Lu Jun defeated the attackers and reunited with his team, whose admiration awakened a strange power within him. Lan Muzi learned that the operation against Gu Yue Na had failed because Lu Jun appeared, and ordered the remaining Tang Sect forces to gather for an all-out assault.

• Lu Jun's companions celebrated his victory, while Gu Yue Na watched with relief and quietly teased him by ignoring his plea for help.
• Lu Jun sensed golden strands of emotion flowing from his companions and Tang Wulin into him, restoring his strength and revealing a new power he suspected was Faith Power.
• Lan Muzi received a call informing him that six Three-Word Dou Armor Masters, including Tang Fan and Tang Yu, had been killed during the operation against Gu Yue Na.
• After learning that Lu Jun had returned, Lan Muzi ordered the remaining Tang Sect personnel to rendezvous and prepare to encircle and annihilate their opponents.

Lan Muzi and Tang Yinmeng prepared for the mission to capture Lu Jun and Wulin while Lu Jun continued toward Mingdu, confident he could face the gathered Soul Sages. After Zang Xin lamented the loss of six Three-Word Dou Armor Soul Sages, he and Cao Dezhi reaffirmed their resolve to capture Lu Jun and defend the Tang Sect and Shrek.

• Lan Muzi complained to Tang Yinmeng that the Tang Sect lacked discipline, and she reassured him that their combined forces would capture Lu Jun and Wulin.
• As Lu Jun's group advanced toward Mingdu, Xu Tiandi urged him to accept Federation support against the more than one hundred Soul Sages Shrek and the Tang Sect were gathering.
• Lu Jun told Xu Tiandi that his Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores and Spirit Domain Realm spiritual power made him confident against any number of Soul Sages, and Xu Tiandi arranged Federation forces around the perimeter.
• Lu Jun considered visiting Shrek City during a future war to seize the Golden Ancient Tree's accumulated Life Energy.
• Zang Xin grieved over six Three-Word Dou Armor Soul Sages killed by Lu Jun, while Cao Dezhi urged him to focus on capturing Lu Jun and threatened resistance if the Federation interfered.
• Zang Xin invoked the Tang Sect and Shrek's history and Ancestor Tang San's Divine Oracle as he vowed to protect their glory.

Lu Jun confronted a thousand Soul Masters from Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect alone, while explaining to Gu Yue Na that his victory could weaken their factions without triggering a full-scale war. He advanced toward the army, intending to establish his authority and help the Federation prepare for the conflicts ahead.

• Lan Muzi led Shrek Academy and Tang Sect forces to block Lu Jun and his companions outside Mingdu, then ordered the thousand Soul Masters to attack.
• Lu Jun told Xie Xie, Long Chen, and the others to stay back, and Gu Yue Na stopped them from arguing after they sensed the overwhelming enemy force.
• Lu Jun asked Gu Yue Na to protect the others and explained that fighting alone would keep the Federation from provoking a full-scale war while weakening the Tang Sect and Shrek.
• Lu Jun revealed that he planned to enter the Federation's highest Soul Tool Technology laboratory after the battle and help overcome its research bottleneck.
• Lu Jun drew the Ice Abyss Sword and advanced alone toward the charging army, aiming to defeat the elites and diminish Tang San's Faith Power.

Lu Jun charged alone into the Tang Sect and Shrek forces, cutting a bloody path through their ranks until Lan Muzi and Tang Yinmeng joined the fight. As Lan Muzi struck at Lu Jun’s neck, Yue Zhengen and the others held back to test his limits.

• Lu Jun confronted the thousand Soul Masters and charged into their formation with the Ice Abyss Sword, killing dozens and carving through the ranks.
• Yue Zhengen, Qiangu Dongfeng, and Guan Yue watched Lu Jun’s assault and discussed whether to intervene.
• Lan Muzi and Tang Yinmeng revealed their Soul Douluo auras and helped the enemy forces organize a coordinated counterattack.
• Yue Zhengen stopped Guan Yue from intervening, saying they should wait unless Lu Jun faced a life-or-death crisis.
• Lan Muzi charged Lu Jun with his Yangmu Blade and swung at his neck with a killing strike.

Lu Jun stood unharmed after Lan Muzi struck him with his full power, then defeated him with a single punch. He turned his attention to Tang Yinmeng as she rallied the battlefield to form the Sacred Judgment Grand Formation and attack him.

• Lu Jun let Lan Muzi's blazing Yangmu Blade strike his shoulder, but the blow failed to harm him.
• Lu Jun mocked Lan Muzi and claimed his Two-Word Dou Armor surpassed Lan Muzi's Three-Word Dou Armor.
• Lan Muzi tried to launch a Soul Bone Skill, but Lu Jun tore through his armor with one punch and sent him flying into the crowd.
• Lu Jun named Tang Yinmeng as his next target, and she ordered her forces to form the Sacred Judgment Grand Formation.
• Tang Yinmeng branded Lu Jun an Evil Soul Master and urged her forces to eliminate him.

Lu Jun fought the Sacred Judgment Grand Formation, which Tang Yinmeng and Lan Muzi controlled using the Soul Power of a thousand Soul Masters. As the formation reached its peak and seemed to engulf him, it began shaking violently from within, leaving the onlookers stunned by his strength.

• Tang Yinmeng activated the Sacred Judgment Grand Formation and linked the Soul Power of nearly a thousand Soul Masters to attack Lu Jun.
• Lu Jun mocked the formation and evaded its pursuit while using the Ice Abyss Sword to clash with its golden attacks.
• Lan Muzi recovered from his injuries and joined Tang Yinmeng in directing increasingly powerful assaults against Lu Jun.
• Lan Muzi drove the formation to its ultimate strike, claiming its power rivaled a Super Douluo, while Guan Yue, Qiangu Qingfeng, and Yue Zhengen prepared to intervene.
• The formation's foundation began shaking as Lu Jun resisted from within, and the three onlookers praised his potential and strength.

Lu Jun used Myriad Swords Returning to Origin to expose and break Lan Muzi and Tang Yinmeng’s formation, then slaughtered its defenders as it swallowed him again. He emerged a second time with the formation badly weakened, leaving the surviving observers terrified and unable to face him without its protection.

• Lu Jun unleashed Myriad Swords Returning to Origin and struck a hidden weak point in the formation, forcing his way out as Lan Muzi reacted in disbelief.
• Lan Muzi activated the formation’s God Devour technique and swallowed Lu Jun again, but Lu Jun sent his Ice Swords through the formation and killed more than a hundred Soul Masters.
• Lu Jun tore open the formation and emerged a second time, while the deaths of its defenders left its light dimmed and its operation sluggish.
• Lu Jun mocked the formation as the watching Yue Zhengen, Qiangu Dongfeng, Guan Yue, Xu Tiandi, Gu Yue Na, Xie Xie, and others stared in shock.
• Lan Muzi, Tang Yinmeng, and the surviving Soul Masters recognized that none of them could withstand Lu Jun without the formation.

Lu Jun destroyed the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy’s thousand-man formation and slaughtered the remaining Soul Masters, including Xu Mi'er, Lan Muzi, and Tang Yinmeng. The battlefield was left without any surviving defenders.

• Lan Muzi urged the surviving Soul Masters to reform their formation, but Lu Jun pierced and destroyed its third assault with the Ice Abyss Sword.
• Lu Jun sent a storm of ice swords through the battlefield, killing around a hundred more Soul Masters and leaving only a few dozen alive.
• Xu Mi'er charged at Lu Jun in her heavily armed Black-grade Mecha and prepared to unleash a barrage of Soul Tool weapons.
• Lu Jun froze Xu Mi'er and her Mecha with a Word of Law, then shattered them with ice swords.
• Lu Jun's ice swords killed the remaining Soul Masters, including Lan Muzi and Tang Yinmeng.

Lu Jun slaughtered the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy forces, then publicly challenged their leaders and spared a few Soul Kings to carry his message back. As Yue Zhengen and the others prepared to congratulate him, they discovered hidden cameramen recording the battle and moved to capture them.

• Lu Jun killed Lan Muzi, Tang Yinmeng, and more than a thousand Tang Sect and Shrek Academy Soul Masters, leaving a few Soul Kings alive.
• Lu Jun challenged Zang Xin, Cao Dezhi, Yun Ming, and the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy, ordering the survivors to deliver his message.
• The surviving Soul Kings fled, while Yue Zhengen, Qiangu Dongfeng, Guan Yue, Xie Xie, Long Chen, and Tang Wulin watched Lu Jun's victory in awe.
• Lu Jun landed among the corpses and reflected that the storm had only begun, while Gu Yue Na watched him with excitement.
• Xia Zhengleng detected dozens of hidden observers recording the battlefield, and Yue Zhengen and the others pursued them as they scattered.

Gu Yue Na secretly teleported the Yuanen Family cameramen away after Lu Jun’s battle, allowing them to spread footage that built support for him. Following Lu Jun’s orders, Yuanen Zhentian and Yuanen Tiandang prepared to infiltrate Shrek City and undermine Shrek Academy from within as videos of Lu Jun’s victory went viral.

• Gu Yue Na teleported the cameramen away before Yue Zhengen and the others could capture them, while Lu Jun explained that their footage would spread his fame and weaken Tang San’s faith.
• Lu Jun led Gu Yue Na, Xie Xie, Long Chen, and the others back toward Mingdu.
• Yuanen Zhentian’s disciples returned with footage of Lu Jun’s battle, and Yuanen Zhentian ordered them to release it across the network.
• Lu Jun instructed Yuanen Zhentian to gather the Yuanen Family’s core forces and infiltrate Shrek City to investigate its defenders and affiliated clans.
• Lu Jun ordered the Yuanen Family to weaken Shrek from within and coordinate with the Federation to destroy Shrek Academy.
• Videos of Lu Jun’s battle spread across the Douluo Continent’s online platforms, stunning viewers with footage of his victory.

After videos of Lu Jun’s battle spread across the internet, Federation Speaker Xu Tiandi suspected a hidden third force was manipulating events. At Shrek, Yun Ming blamed himself for the annihilation of the Inner Courtyard and the expeditionary force, then collapsed as his old wound flared up.

• Xu Tiandi convened a high-level Federation meeting and heard how Xia Zhengleng had discovered secret filming and how the camerapeople had escaped through mysterious Spatial Teleportation.
• Xu Tiandi concluded that a third force had filmed and circulated the videos, though he could not determine its purpose.
• Yun Ming learned that Shrek’s Inner Courtyard disciples, Lan Muzi, and Tang Yinmeng had died, and that nearly all the Soul Masters sent to the front had been wiped out.
• Yun Ming knelt before the statues of Shrek’s founders and Sea God Tang San, confessed that his decision had nearly destroyed Shrek’s legacy, and struck his forehead against the ground.
• Yun Ming’s grief triggered the old wound inflicted by Xu Tiandi, and Ya Li tried to heal him as destructive energy overwhelmed his body.

After Lu Jun’s massacre devastated Shrek and the Tang Sect, Yuanen Zhentian’s clan infiltrated Shrek City under Lu Jun’s direction. Lu Jun then learned the Federation would reward the operation’s participants with a powerful pill and summon them to headquarters the next morning, just as another call arrived from Di Yue.

• Cao Dezhi and Zang Xin blamed themselves for the deaths of more than a thousand Soul Masters, while Yun Ming swore revenge on Lu Jun before the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Yuanen Zhentian and Yuanen Tiandang used Lu Jun’s Ice Sword Token to contact him in a remote mountain hollow outside Shrek City.
• Lu Jun created a spatial teleportation array that brought the Yuanen Family’s elite disciples into sealed Shrek City, where Yuanen Zhentian ordered them to gather intelligence on their targets.
• Gu Yue Na told Lu Jun that the Federation would reward the operation’s participants with an upgraded Qiankun Creation Pill and summon them to headquarters the next morning.
• After speaking with Gu Yue Na late into the night, Lu Jun received an urgent call from Di Yue and wished for a cloning or time-management technique.

After a long call with Di Yue leaves Lu Jun exhausted, Federation Speaker Xu Tiandi rewards him and his companions with Qiankun Creation Pills and recruits them for a mission to the East Continent. Lu Jun persuades Xu Tiandi to let him join the team despite concerns for his safety.

• Lu Jun spent the night talking with Di Yue and arrived at the Federation headquarters with dark circles, prompting his companions to tease him.
• Xu Tiandi gave Qiankun Creation Pills to Lu Jun, Gu Yue Na, Xie Xie, Long Chen, Yue Zhengyu, Yuanen Yehui, Xu Xiaoyan, Tang Wulin, and Wu Sidu as rewards for their contributions.
• Xu Tiandi told Wu Sidu that the pills were also a gesture of sincerity and a transaction, since the Federation wanted her to guide a mission to the East Continent; Wu Sidu agreed to help.
• Xu Tiandi told the group to prepare for the East Continent mission after taking the pills, but advised Lu Jun to remain in Mingdu for his safety.
• Lu Jun insisted on joining his companions, and Xu Tiandi approved his request while warning him not to act recklessly.

Lu Jun sent his spiritual incarnation to infiltrate the Federal Central Parliament Headquarters and investigate the Federation's Highest Soul Tool Technology Laboratory. Back at Leng Yaozhu's home, Ice Empress struggled to resist the pull of his Ultimate Ice origin and tried to persuade Snow Empress to approach him.

• Xu Tiandi warned Lu Jun and his companions that the Douluo Continent's future was turbulent and urged them to grow stronger.
• Lu Jun told his companions to take their Pills and stabilize their realms, then told Gu Yue Na that his people had infiltrated Shrek City to gather information.
• Lu Jun returned to Leng Yaozhu's villa, asked Snow Empress to keep Ice Empress in check, and sent his spiritual incarnation toward the Federal Central Parliament Headquarters.
• Lu Jun's incarnation slipped past a Soul Sage's Spiritual Power scan and entered the headquarters hall.
• Ice Empress was overcome by the attraction of Lu Jun's Ice Attribute origin and reached toward him, but Snow Empress stopped her.
• Ice Empress argued that Lu Jun's absent consciousness made it safe to get closer, and Snow Empress showed signs of hesitation.

Lu Jun infiltrated the Federation's highest-level Soul Tool laboratory and discovered its Cosmic Warship project and stockpile of God-Slaying Fixed-mounted Soul Cannon Shells. He continued gathering information and noticed an elderly Level Ten Soul Engineer directing the researchers.

• Ice Empress persuaded Snow Empress to overcome her hesitation and reach down toward the unconscious Lu Jun.
• Lu Jun used his Spirit Domain Realm Spiritual Power and the Ice Abyss Sword to bypass surveillance and enter the Federation laboratory unnoticed.
• Lu Jun scanned the laboratory's technology and saw a Cosmic Warship over a thousand meters long under construction.
• Lu Jun discovered four Level Twelve God-Slaying Fixed-mounted Soul Cannon Shells, bringing the Federation's known ultimate weapons to five alongside the Eternal Heaven Kingdom.
• Lu Jun spotted an elderly Level Ten Soul Engineer leading the researchers and operating a complex holographic design blueprint.

Lu Jun secretly influenced Elder Kong’s research into orbital attacks on Shrek City by planting the idea of finding an Ultimate Ice Core in the Far North. He placed a fragment of the Ice Abyss Sword at the suggested coordinates, and Elder Kong set out to search for it.

• Lu Jun observed Elder Kong and the Federation researchers struggling to develop orbital weapons capable of striking Shrek City with God-Slaying Fixed-mounted Soul Cannon Shells.
• Lu Jun planted inspiration in Elder Kong’s subconscious about a natural Ultimate Ice Core in the Extreme North and gave him its coordinates.
• Lu Jun broke off a fragment of the Ice Abyss Sword and buried it beneath the permafrost at those coordinates, concealing it with a barrier.
• Elder Kong realized that an Ultimate Ice Core could solve the weapons’ energy problems and announced that he would lead an expedition to find one.
• Lu Jun watched Elder Kong leave with an exploration team, confident that he could disable weapons powered by the energy source whenever he chose.

After the Ice Empress and Snow Empress secretly strengthened themselves while Lu Jun was unconscious, he refined Xu Tiandi’s Qiankun Creation Pill and broke through from Soul Power level sixty-eight to level seventy-one, entering the Soul Sage realm. Leng Yulai discovered the two sovereigns living with him and soon grew close to them, especially the lively Ice Empress.

• Lu Jun woke to find the Ice Empress and Snow Empress acting guilty, noticed their improved auras, and realized they had taken advantage of his unconscious body to replenish their spirits.
• Lu Jun spent the next few months cultivating at Leng Yaozhu’s villa with the Ice Empress and Snow Empress assisting him.
• Lu Jun refined Xu Tiandi’s Qiankun Creation Pill, raising his Soul Power from level sixty-eight to level seventy-one and reaching the Soul Sage realm.
• Leng Yaozhu returned home and greeted the two emperors with familiarity, while Leng Yulai accused Lu Jun of hiding two beauties.
• After learning the Ice Empress and Snow Empress were sovereigns of the Extreme North, Leng Yulai became close to them and often played with the Ice Empress.

Lu Jun spent a peaceful evening with his household before Yuanen Zhentian reported that his agents had finished gathering intelligence in Shrek City. Lu Jun prepared to begin an operation against Shrek City, while Leng Yulai asked how she could help.

• Leng Yaozhu welcomed Snow Empress as part of the household, and Snow Empress embraced the warmth of sharing a meal with them.
• Ice Empress teased Leng Yulai about asking Lu Jun to help her break through, making Leng Yulai blush and the household laugh.
• Yuanen Zhentian told Lu Jun that his agents had uploaded intelligence on Shrek City's factions, defenses, and powerful residents.
• Lu Jun ordered Yuanen Zhentian's agents to stay hidden and said the final encirclement and suppression would begin soon.
• Lu Jun told Leng Yulai to finish her Four-Word Dou Armor and said Ice Empress and Snow Empress would assist him in the operation.
• Leng Yulai complained about being stuck at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, so Lu Jun offered her a different task, and she eagerly asked what it was.

Lu Jun arrived in Shrek City through a spatial rift and ordered the Yuanen Family to evacuate its weaker members while Yuanen Zhentian and Yuanen Tiandang prepared to attack Shrek’s allied forces. As Lu Jun moved toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Yu Guanzhi received a report of a sudden temperature drop and surging Ice Attribute Soul Power inside the city.

• Lu Jun asked Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai to investigate the missing Qiangu father and son, and Leng Yulai promised to do so.
• Yuanen Zhentian used the Ice Sword Token to summon Lu Jun’s Divine Sense incarnation in the Yuanen Family’s secret residence.
• Lu Jun ordered the Yuanen Family’s noncombatants and weaker members to evacuate and tasked Yuanen Zhentian and Yuanen Tiandang with commanding the Ice Golem Legion against Shrek’s allied forces.
• Lu Jun gave Yuanen Zhentian and Yuanen Tiandang Ice Swords that controlled the Ice Golem Legion, then disappeared from the residence.
• Lu Jun appeared in Shrek City and fixed his killing intent on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s residence.
• Yu Guanzhi’s adjutant reported a sudden temperature drop and a sharp rise in Ice Attribute Soul Power inside Shrek City.

Lu Jun arrived at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s estate with the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, intending to destroy the clan. Shrek’s leaders detected the immense chill and sent elders to investigate as the guards prepared to stop Lu Jun at the gates.

• Yu Guanzhi dismissed an abrupt chill at first, then ordered his adjutant to monitor Shrek closely.
• Yun Ming and the Sea God Pavilion Elders sensed the powerful Ice Attribute aura, sent three elders to investigate, and asked Long Yeyue to cover them.
• Lu Jun appeared outside the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s estate with the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, who shared a spicy candy with him before he declared his intention to destroy the clan.
• Lu Jun approached the gates with his Ice Sword raised as two Soul Sage guards warned him to stop and then unleashed their Soul Power.