Chapter Summaries

At a Federation press conference, Chen An clashed with Chief of General Staff Shen over the Federation’s campaign against Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect. Chen An threatened Shen and reporters who defended them, promising legal investigations and leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Chen An argued that casualties during the Federation’s pursuit of the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy did not make the Federation more at fault.
• Chief of General Staff Shen insisted the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy were heroic organizations, and Chen An warned he could arrest Shen for supporting terrorist forces.
• Shen ordered soldiers to bind Chen An, but Xu Lang stopped them, and Chen An challenged Shen to test his men against him.
• The Federation Speaker, Vice Speaker, and Xu Lang stayed silent as reporters accused Chen An of insubordination and slander.
• Chen An threatened to investigate reporters who defended the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy, promising to broadcast the inquiries and prosecute anyone found guilty.

Chen An forced reporters suspected of ties to Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect to submit to a public investigation, then confronted Chief of General Staff Shen. Shen backed down from attacking Chen An, and Chen An left the exchange still intent on assassinating him.

• Chen An said suspected reporters would be investigated and that those connected to terrorist forces could be executed.
• The reporters who had sided with Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect panicked as Chen An refused to negotiate.
• Chen An met Chief of General Staff Shen’s gaze and challenged him to act, relying on his powerful protectors and Undead Puppets.
• Chief of General Staff Shen restrained himself because he feared the experts protecting Chen An, then deferred the confrontation to discuss serious matters.
• Chen An recognized that legal procedures made it difficult to arrest Shen and decided assassination was the simplest way to eliminate him.

At a Federation press conference, Chen An defended the campaign against Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect, blamed them for civilian casualties, and urged Shrek City residents to evacuate. He ended by threatening to destroy them and challenging them not to hold civilians hostage.

• The Federation Speaker said the Tang Sect was responsible for the explosion and argued that the Federation should not bear all the blame.
• Chief of General Staff Shen accused the Federation Government of distorting the truth and acting dictatorially.
• Chen An declared that the Federation’s operation against Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect would continue regardless of public pressure or further casualties.
• Chen An urged citizens to avoid Tang Sect Branches and evacuate Shrek City, warning that the Federation would not stop its attacks even if civilians remained.
• Chen An told Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect to let residents choose whether to leave and vowed that the Federation would destroy them.

At a press conference, Chen An publicly threatened Chief of General Staff Shen over his support for Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect, then announced he would lead operations against Tang Sect Branches. Tang Sect personnel rushed to modify their self-destruct devices, while Chen An went to a Federation meeting and received praise for taking down fifty-one branches.

• Chief of General Staff Shen mocked Chen An for speaking on behalf of the Federation, and Chen An warned that he would expose Shen's alleged collusion with Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect and remove him from office.
• Xu Lang backed Chen An, and Chief of General Staff Shen left the press conference in anger after defending himself and the Shen Family.
• Chen An told the public he would take charge of operations against Tang Sect Branches and urged people to stay away from them and evacuate Shrek City.
• Tang Sect personnel accelerated modifications to their self-destruct devices so that entering underground shell storage areas would trigger explosions.
• Chen An attended a meeting of senior Federation officials, where the Federation Speaker praised him for taking down fifty-one Tang Sect Branches.

The Federation approved Chen An’s promotion to General and promised him the rank of Three-Star General if he captured all the Tang Sect Branches. After the meeting, Chen An urged Xu Lang to eliminate Chief of General Staff Shen and the other Shrek-affiliated officials, then insisted that the Shen Family should be killed before it could threaten the Federation.

• The Federation approved Chen An’s promotion to General and promised him a Three-Star General rank for capturing all the Tang Sect Branches.
• The Federation criticized the factions, sects, and officials whose carelessness had contributed to the previous night’s explosion, but ordered them to earn merit instead of imposing further punishment.
• Chen An told Xu Lang that he wanted to eliminate Chief of General Staff Shen and Federation officials who had graduated from Shrek Academy.
• Xu Lang warned Chen An that killing Shen could provoke the powerful Shen Family to rebel with troops drawn from several legions.
• Chen An said they should kill the Shen Family and purge the Federation’s interior, leaving Xu Lang startled by his resolve.

Chen An and Xu Lang planned to secretly capture Chief of General Staff Shen and use the Soul-Seizing Bell to obtain proof that the Shen Family had allied with Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect. They settled on monitoring Shen’s movements and preparing to eliminate key Shen Family officers if the situation escalated.

• Xu Lang explained that attacking the Shen Family without evidence could give its allies a reason to oppose the Federation, and Chen An proposed capturing them and interrogating them with the Soul-Seizing Bell.
• Chen An assured Xu Lang that the Soul-Seizing Bell could make Chief of General Staff Shen tell the truth, while privately considering whether to control him and use him to take over the Shen Family.
• Xu Lang and Chen An planned to avoid the Federation Base’s defenses and capture Shen secretly before publicly interrogating him.
• Xu Lang marked Shen’s route from the Federation Base to his Mingdu manor and said Shen usually went home about once every half month.
• Chen An asked Xu Lang to track Shen’s movements, identify important Shen Family members in the legions, and handle procedural preparations.

Chen An revealed that he had learned the locations of the Tang Sect Underground Shelters and planned to wait until the Tang Sect Branches were occupied before ambushing them all at once. Xu Lang agreed to gather people for surveillance and standby, while Chen An arranged to share the recovered assets with his teacher and martial uncle.

• Xu Lang urged Chen An to focus on taking down the Tang Sect Branches while they investigated the missing Tang Sect members.
• Chen An revealed that the Soul-Seizing Bell had already helped him discover the Underground Shelters, and explained that he had kept the information secret to prevent the Tang Sect from moving.
• Chen An proposed waiting until all shelter locations were known before sending people to keep watch, reducing the risk of leaks and alerting the Tang Sect.
• Xu Lang agreed to gather people and have them remain on standby, while Chen An said his own powerhouses would handle the Tang Sect members once the shelters were tracked.
• Xu Lang offered Chen An full authority over the seized assets, and Chen An said he would split them equally with his teacher and martial uncle.

Chen An executed more than eight hundred captured Tang Sect members, then secretly captured another Tang Sect Branch and discovered the sect had booby-trapped Grade 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shells to kill Federation technicians. He ended by staring into a control-room camera, with the trap still unresolved.

• Chen An ordered the captured Tang Sect members transported to a square and personally executed them while the scene was broadcast live.
• Chen An publicly reaffirmed the Federation's campaign against the Tang Sect, then left the square and had Di Tian take him to another Tang Sect Branch.
• Chen An used Time Power to capture the Branch before its personnel could react, then read their memories.
• Chen An discovered the Tang Sect had tampered with the cannon shells and installed a biological-triggered device that could explode before he could freeze time.
• Chen An approached a camera in the Branch's control room and stared into it.

Chen An and his companions took down twenty Tang Sect Branches, learning that their secret chambers held modified Grade 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shells. He devised a way to move the chambers intact and transported one toward Heaven Dou City, where he planned to make use of the shells.

• Tang Sect Headquarters watched Chen An disable a branch’s attack system, then sent the footage to the Sea God Pavilion and warned the other branches about his immobilizing Soul Skill.
• Chen An destroyed the cameras, and Di Tian carried the group to another branch, where they repeated their tactic despite headquarters’ warning.
• Chen An and his companions subdued twenty Tang Sect Branches in succession before Di Tian’s Soul Power ran low and they stopped to rest.
• Chen An realized the modified cannon shells could cause devastating explosions and decided to move their underground chambers intact rather than dismantle the shells.
• Chen An had the Mountain Dragon King move a chamber to an uninhabited area, then had Di Tian transport it through a Space Channel to the vicinity of Heaven Dou City.

Chen An and his companions secretly placed two Tang Sect-made shells near the underground Tang Sect Headquarters, bypassing its detection systems. As Tang Sect and Shrek Academy leaders investigated Chen An’s attacks, Yun Ming identified the immobilizing ability as Time Power, leaving them without an effective countermeasure.

• Chen An’s group used Cang Xin’s memories to avoid the underground detection devices and left two shells a hundred meters from the Tang Sect Headquarters’ outer defenses.
• Tang Sect and Sea God Pavilion leaders reviewed footage of Chen An immobilizing Tang Sect personnel and struggled to identify the ability.
• Yun Ming recognized the effect as Time Power, wielded by a demigod who had interfered with him on the Abyss Battlefield.
• The leaders concluded they had no reliable way to resist Time Power, so Yun Ming ordered Tang Sect personnel at the branches to evacuate.
• The leaders continued studying footage of Chen An shaking a bell before one person in every attack video.

Chen An seized nearly all of the Tang Sect’s branches across the continent, winning widespread public support while drawing fierce accusations from Federation officials aligned with Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect. The Federation Council debated whether to punish him and began voting on his fate.

• Yun Ming and the others failed to draw conclusions from the footage, while news spread that Chen An had seized twenty more Tang Sect Branches.
• Chen An barred soldiers from touching the Grade 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shells and spent the following days shutting down the branches’ automatic attack systems as he occupied them.
• In one week, Chen An seized 267 Tang Sect Branches across 268 cities, becoming a popular hero to Federation supporters and earning the anger of Shrek Academy and Tang Sect allies.
• Officials submitted charges accusing Chen An of slaughter, executions, and provoking war, while more than two billion people backed him on StarNet.
• Chen Xinjie, Chief of General Staff Shen, and others demanded that Parliament convict Chen An, while Xu Lang, Yu Guanzhi, the Federation Speaker, and Zhang Huanyun defended him.
• After more than an hour of debate at the Federation Council, the members began voting on whether to punish Chen An.

Chen An proposed a nationwide vote to decide whether the Federation should convict him, and overwhelming public support led the Federation to clear and honor him. Meanwhile, the Federation assembled forces for its campaign as Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect retaliated with protests, attacks, and assassinations.

• Chen An proposed putting his case to a nationwide vote, and Xu Lang, Xu Lin, Yu Guanzhi, Zhang Huanyun, and the Federation leaders supported him.
• After three days of voting, 3.5 billion people opposed convicting Chen An, and the Federation named the officials who had targeted him to redirect public anger.
• The Federation voided the proposal against Chen An, recognized his actions, awarded him the Federation Medal of Honor, and began reviewing his promotion to Two-Star General.
• The Federation gathered divisions from three legions and mobilized armed personnel near Mingdu, though Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect disrupted the deployment and attacked small groups.
• Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect organized protests across the Federation, while their members sabotaged operations and assassinated governors in dozens of cities.

Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect escalated their attacks on Federation city governors and planned bombings in Mingdu, while Chen An and Xu Lang prepared a military operation against Tang Sect personnel hiding in more than two hundred underground shelters. The operation was set to begin at ten that night, and Chen An went to confirm the plan with Di Tian, Bear Monarch, and the others.

• Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect killed twenty city governors in open assaults and prepared five bombardment plans targeting Mingdu.
• Chen An used the Mountain Dragon King to locate Tang Sect shelters whose positions he had not learned through memory theft.
• Chen An and Xu Lang convened a confidential military meeting to plan how to track and contain Tang Sect personnel in more than two hundred shelters.
• After more than two hours of discussion, Chen An set the operation to begin at ten that night and ordered preparations to proceed quickly.
• Chen An privately spoke with his teacher and Xu Lang, then went to confirm the operation with Di Tian, Bear Monarch, and the others.

Chen An assembled Gu Yue Na and the ferocious beasts for a prolonged assault on Tang Sect personnel in 268 Underground Shelters, driven by their ancient hatred of Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect. After outlining the operation and its recovery plan, he found Bear Monarch eager to begin.

• Chen An gathered Gu Yue Na and the six combat-ready ferocious beasts, while Bi Ji stayed in Dragon Valley Space to provide medical support.
• The ferocious beasts recalled how the beast tides and Huo Yuhao's taking of the Auspicious Beast's fortune had made them enemies of Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect.
• Chen An explained that clearing all 268 Underground Shelters would require nearly three days of fighting and described the Soul Power recovery equipment he had secured.
• Bear Monarch said he could hardly wait to start the operation.

Chen An prepared Gu Yue Na and the ferocious beasts for an operation against Tang Sect members, warning them to hide their identities, control their strength, and spare civilians. As the group made preparations across the Federation, Mingdu tightened security and Tang Sect personnel faced growing scrutiny.

• Chen An warned Bear Monarch, Di Tian, Ten Thousand Demon King, and the other soul beasts not to reveal their identities or harm civilians during the operation.
• Chen An asked Gu Yue Na to keep the ferocious beasts under control, and she agreed to watch them closely.
• Chen An and Gu Yue Na left the Dragon Valley Space through his Seven-Colored Crystal, emerged at a hotel in Mingdu, and bought food for the coming days.
• Chen An sent seven thousand members of the Sixteenth Division to more than four hundred cities, including decoy locations, while Xu Lang and others prepared to approach Tang Sect shelters.
• Tang Sect personnel at an underground base east of Mingdu and inside the city faced heightened security and strict inspections as the city enforced martial law.

Chen An and the soul beasts launched a surprise attack on the Mingdu Tang Sect's Underground Shelter, using the Time Dragon's power to slow its occupants and overwhelm its defenders. The four Titled Douluo fought Bear Monarch, who gained the upper hand as the slaughter spread through the shelter.

• The Underground Shelter's alarm detected abnormal spatial fluctuations, and a Soul Emperor was killed when the attackers emerged into his room.
• The Time Dragon slowed everyone in the shelter while the Mountain Dragon King, Fire Dragon King, Di Tian, Bear Monarch, and others charged in and attacked the Tang Sect personnel.
• The four Titled Douluo confronted Bear Monarch, but his Dark Gold Terrorclaw tore through their battle armor and badly wounded them.
• Chen An and Gu Yue Na killed Tang Sect members with the Scythe of Death and Silver Dragon Spear while the other attackers overwhelmed the shelter.

Chen An and the powerful beings accompanying him slaughtered the Tang Sect personnel in the Mingdu Underground Shelter while Time Power left the defenders unable to resist. The Tang Sect leadership learned of the attack but, believing reinforcements would only be killed, left the shelter’s people to their fate and informed Yun Ming.

• Chen An’s group overwhelmed the Underground Shelter’s defenders, with the Time Dragon’s power slowing their movements as the Fire Dragon King, Mountain Dragon King, Ten Thousand Demon King, and others killed them.
• The shelter’s defenses and soul-guided weapons failed to stop the attackers, and the number of its occupants fell from over four hundred to roughly half in less than five minutes.
• A defender contacted Tang Sect Headquarters to report the attack and request reinforcements, but he was killed before he could finish, cutting off the communication.
• Tang Sect senior officials viewed satellite footage of soldiers above the shelter and decided not to send reinforcements because they feared more Tang Sect members would die against the attackers.
• The senior officials contacted Yun Ming, who suspected Chen An and the Limit Douluos with him had found the shelter and feared its occupants were doomed.

After the Federation attacked the Tang Sect Underground Shelter, Yun Ming ordered ten powerful shells launched at Mingdu in retaliation. The shells streaked toward the Federation capital as the Tang Sect demonstrated it could strike the city directly.

• Yun Ming ordered the Mingdu Tang Sect Underground Base to launch ten Grade 9 Fixed-Installation Soul Guidance Cannon Shells at Mingdu, directing them toward the Federation Base.
• The Tang Sect higher-ups hesitated over the expected civilian casualties, but Yun Ming reaffirmed the order and said the Federation Base should be the target.
• Tang Sect leaders contacted the Mingdu base, and its deputy person in charge carried out the command.
• The first shell launched from a concealed shaft in the mountains south of Mingdu, followed by nine more.
• The ten high-explosive shells flew toward the heart of Mingdu, backed by targeting support from Tang Sect Starry Sky Satellites.

Mingdu activated its Super Defense System when ten Tang Sect shells approached, while city operators and the incoming shells fought a tense interception battle. Four shells were destroyed, but the remaining shells continued toward the shield as Chen An and the others sensed the clash from underground.

• Mingdu detected the incoming attack, sounded the highest-level alarm, and raised its Super Defense System shield.
• City defense operators launched shells to intercept the ten Tang Sect shells, which used anti-interception systems to evade them.
• Eight Tang Sect shells initially shook off the interception, while two were hit but continued toward their targets.
• Mingdu launched more shells to encircle the incoming attack, and four Tang Sect shells were intercepted and exploded.
• Chen An and the others paused their fight in the underground Tang Sect shelter as they sensed powerful energy fluctuations outside.

Mingdu’s Super Defense System survived the Tang Sect’s first ten-shell barrage, but the attack drained nearly forty percent of its energy. Yun Ming then ordered a second barrage of twenty-five shells, and Xu Lang mobilized the Sun Moon Royal Academy and Central Legion to help intercept them.

• Mingdu’s shield withstood the first barrage of ten shells, though the explosions consumed nearly forty percent of its energy.
• The Tang Sect regretted the failed attack but recognized the strength of Mingdu’s defensive system.
• Yun Ming ordered the Mingdu Tang Sect Underground Base to launch all its remaining shells.
• The base fired twenty-five Grade 9 shells, including five super high-explosive shells, toward Mingdu.
• Mingdu’s city defense officer warned Xu Lang that the weakened shield might not withstand the new barrage.
• Xu Lang ordered Xu Lin to activate the Sun Moon Royal Academy’s attack system and contacted the Central Legion to help intercept the shells.