Chapter Summaries

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena tracked Council Speaker Zhang Haisheng to a tea house in Sha Yue City and secretly followed him inside. Gu Chen revealed himself and provoked Zhang, who responded with a volley from his nine Level 6 Soul Cannons before reacting cautiously to Gu Chen’s survival.

• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena arrived in Sha Yue City as the Sun Moon Empire’s siege of Qing Yang City continued.
• Gu Chen learned from the Bounty Hunter Guild that Zhang Haisheng visited Wan Chun Tea House weekly and had two Level 5 Soul Engineer guards.
• Gu Yuena shared her spiritual power with Gu Chen and made them invisible as they followed Zhang into his private room.
• Gu Chen entered Zhang’s room while Gu Yuena remained outside, then praised the meaning of Zhang’s name as Zhang reflected on his past.
• Zhang revealed nine Level 6 Soul Cannons and fired at Gu Chen, but looked surprised and cautious when Gu Chen remained standing.

Gu Chen entered Zhang Haisheng’s room and demonstrated a Milk Bottle Soul Tool that could rapidly restore Soul Power, then sold Zhang one hundred of them for ten million gold coins. Gu Chen offered to show Zhang another weapon that could reverse the war’s outcome, leaving Zhang intrigued but uncertain about Gu Chen’s motives.

• Zhang Haisheng attacked Gu Chen with his martial soul, spirit abilities, and Soul Tools, but Gu Chen blocked his attacks without striking back.
• Gu Chen told Zhang he had come to make a deal and showed him a Soul Power replenishment device called a Milk Bottle.
• Zhang Haisheng offered fifty million gold coins for the blueprints, but Gu Chen refused to sell them and agreed to sell one hundred Level 5 Milk Bottles instead.
• Zhang Haisheng paid Gu Chen ten million gold coins for the Milk Bottles, and Gu Chen warned him that dismantling them would trigger self-destruction.
• Gu Chen offered Zhang another weapon that could reverse the war’s outcome, and Zhang wondered why Gu Chen was willing to offer it.

Gu Chen demonstrated his ordinary-iron P9 pistol to Zhang Haisheng and negotiated to sell it to the Council Army for one thousand gold coins apiece. After learning Qing Yang City had fallen to the Emperor's Army, Zhang agreed to the price but said he needed council approval to purchase a large number.

• Gu Chen showed Zhang Haisheng a locally manufactured P9 pistol and explained that ordinary people could use it without Soul Power.
• Gu Chen shot Zhang's Level 4 Soul Tool Shield to demonstrate the pistol's power, and Zhang offered to buy the weapons.
• Gu Chen set the price at one thousand gold coins per pistol, and Zhang accepted after comparing it to a Level 5 Soul Cannon.
• A Level 5 Soul Engineer reported that Qing Yang City had fallen after a concealed Soul Saint used the Level 7 Soul Cannon City Breaker to breach its gates.
• Zhang told Gu Chen he would seek approval from more than half the council members before purchasing the pistols.

Gu Chen secretly followed Zhang Haisheng to Sha Yue City's council meeting, where Zhang presented the Milk Bottles and introduced the P9 pistol as a weapon that could change the war after Qing Yang City fell. The council doubted the pistol, so Zhang called his rival Mattai Ismael onto the platform to demonstrate it.

• Gu Chen gave Zhang Haisheng a P9 pistol and left him with one hundred Level 5 Milk Bottles, then secretly waited with Gu Yuena until Zhang departed the tea house.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena teleported into the protected council building in Sha Yue City and took seats while remaining invisible.
• Zhang Haisheng opened the meeting by discussing Qing Yang City's fall and explained that the Milk Bottles could quickly restore Soul Power for Soul Masters at Soul King rank and below.
• Zhang Haisheng told the council that the bottles were costly, limited in number, and impossible to dismantle without triggering their self-destruct mechanisms.
• Zhang Haisheng presented the P9 pistol, dismissed the council's doubts, and summoned his rival Mattai Ismael to demonstrate its power.

Zhang Haisheng demonstrated that the P9 pistol could destroy a Level 4 Soul Tool Shield and argued that it could help the Council Army resist the Emperor’s Army. The council approved spending 100 million gold coins on 100,000 pistols, and Zhang prepared to meet their supplier at Wan Chun Tea House.

• Zhang Haisheng shot through Mattai Ismael’s Level 4 Soul Tool Shield with a P9 pistol, then explained that ordinary people could use the weapon.
• Zhang Haisheng said the P9 pistols came from a mysterious supplier and argued that they could help defend Sha Yue City against the Emperor’s Army.
• Zhang Haisheng proposed buying 100,000 P9 pistols for 100 million gold coins, and the council approved the purchase by a 6.5-to-4.5 vote.
• Zhang Haisheng, Mattai Ismael, and Marcia Aguilar unlocked the council’s spatial Soul Tool and took out ten rings, each containing ten million gold coins.
• Zhang Haisheng asked Mattai Ismael and Marcia Aguilar to escort him to Wan Chun Tea House to conduct the transaction.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena followed Zhang Haisheng as he left the Council meeting, then watched an Emperor’s Army ambush led by Ovi Apitz. Zhang Haisheng empowered his allies with moonlight, and Marcia Aguilar killed one of the attackers as the battle began.

• After Zhang Haisheng agreed to buy one hundred thousand P9 pistols, he left the Council with Mattai Ismael and Marcia Aguilar, while Gu Chen and Gu Yuena followed unseen.
• Gu Chen sensed an ambush ahead but chose to watch as dozens of attackers opened fire on Zhang Haisheng and his companions.
• Mattai Ismael knocked Zhang Haisheng clear of the Soul Tool blasts, and Marcia Aguilar and Mattai prepared to fight with their Soul Tools.
• Zhang Haisheng recognized Ovi Apitz among the ambushers and accused him of betraying the Council; Ovi admitted he wanted to win the Emperor’s favor and seize Zhang’s hundred million gold coins.
• Ovi ordered his forces to concentrate their fire on Zhang, but Zhang summoned his Moon Power Spirit and used Moon’s Gift to strengthen himself, Mattai, and Marcia.
• Marcia charged an enemy Soul Engineer slowed by Zhang’s aura and cut his throat with her short sword.

Zhang Haisheng and his allies fought off an ambush by the Emperor's Army until Gu Chen and Gu Yuena arrived and killed the last attackers. Zhang Haisheng then paid Gu Chen for one hundred thousand P9 pistols and received the weapons with a warning about their self-destruct mechanism.

• Zhang Haisheng used Moon Illumination and Moon's Wrath to blind and injure the thirty Soul Engineers surrounding him.
• Marcia Aguilar and Mattai Ismael killed two Soul Douluos, leaving Ovi Apitz and one Level 7 Soul Cannon wielder alive.
• Ovi Apitz fired his Energy Gathering Laser Cannon at Zhang Haisheng, but Gu Chen blocked it with a golden rune and killed Ovi Apitz with the Golden Dragon Spear.
• Gu Yuena killed the remaining Soul Douluo with a Light Sword, and Zhang Haisheng introduced Gu Chen to Mattai Ismael and Marcia Aguilar.
• Zhang Haisheng gave Gu Chen ten spatial Soul Tool rings containing one hundred million gold coins in exchange for one hundred thousand P9 pistols.
• Gu Chen handed Zhang Haisheng a spatial Soul Tool containing the pistols and ten thousand bullets, warning him not to dismantle the weapons.

After completing a weapons and ammunition deal with Zhang Haisheng, Gu Chen and Gu Yuena left Sha Yue City and set out for the Demon Forest to recruit its powerful Soul Beasts. They hired an elderly driver to take them to the forest’s outskirts, where their next plan awaited.

• Gu Chen sold Zhang Haisheng one million nine-millimeter bullets, then vanished with Gu Yuena as Zhang Haisheng and the two vice speakers watched.
• Zhang Haisheng told Mattai Ismael and Marcia Aguilar that he did not know why Gu Chen had chosen him, but that the weapons would benefit the Council.
• Gu Chen told Gu Yuena they would travel to the Demon Forest and subdue the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord to help their plans against the Council Army.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena rented a carriage after the drivers refused to approach the Demon Forest, and an elderly driver agreed to take them to its outskirts for one hundred gold coins.

The Sun Moon Empire’s five-hundred-thousand-strong Emperor’s Army began its siege of Sha Yue City, whose defenders prepared to rely on P9 pistols and a surprise attack against the enemy Soul Engineers. The chapter ends as Marcia Aguilar’s concealed female Soul Engineers fire more than fifty Level 6 Soul Cannons at the Emperor’s Army’s rear positions.

• Zhang Haisheng prepared Sha Yue City’s one hundred thousand P9-armed soldiers in rotating groups, while Marcia Aguilar warned him about the Emperor’s Army’s Soul Engineers and Soul Cannons.
• Marcia Aguilar left the city and gathered more than fifty female Soul Engineers carrying Level 6 Soul Cannons, ordering them to attack the enemy’s rear Soul Engineer positions when the siege began.
• The Emperor’s Army general anticipated a possible rear attack, reassured his troops, and ordered the five hundred thousand soldiers to charge Sha Yue City.
• Marcia Aguilar’s concealed Soul Engineers aimed their cannons at the rear positions and fired more than fifty beams at the Emperor’s Army.

Marcia Aguilar confronted three Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineer Legion Commanders after Council forces ambushed their emplacement outside Sha Yue City. She killed the Heart-Piercing Ape Commander and used her self-made Soul Tools to defend against the remaining commanders’ attacks.

• More than fifty Council soldiers fired Level 6 Soul Cannons at the Sun Moon Empire emplacement, killing at least thirty Soul Engineers.
• Marcia Aguilar arrived and faced the three Legion Commanders, who released their martial souls and prepared their Level 7 Soul Tools.
• Marcia Aguilar used her Mind Stab swords to attack the commanders, evaded a Level 7 soul ray, and pierced the Heart-Piercing Ape Commander’s heart.
• The Jade Plate Commander supported himself and the Extreme Ice Grass Commander, who fired two Level 7 soul rays at Marcia Aguilar.
• Marcia Aguilar activated her self-made Heart of Protection and raised a pink-blue barrier against the incoming rays.

Marcia Aguilar killed the Jade Plate Legion Commander and battled the Extreme Ice Grass Legion Commander, who revealed his Level 7 melee Soul Tool, Frost. Just as he froze her and prepared a fatal strike, a powerful violet-gold Spirit Power Beam shot toward him from a hundred meters away.

• Marcia Aguilar used her pink-blue short swords to kill the Jade Plate Legion Commander before he could deploy a defensive Soul Tool.
• The Extreme Ice Grass Legion Commander revealed Frost, a Level 7 melee Soul Tool that could channel his soul skills, and tried to use its chilling power to control Marcia Aguilar.
• Marcia Aguilar kept her distance from the Extreme Ice Grass Legion Commander until he withdrew his chilling soul skill, then rushed to attack.
• The Extreme Ice Grass Legion Commander used his sixth and eighth spirit skills to obstruct and freeze Marcia Aguilar, then activated his Martial Soul Avatar and swung Frost at her.
• A violet-gold Spirit Power Beam streaked toward the Extreme Ice Grass Legion Commander before his sword could strike Marcia Aguilar.

Zhang Haisheng killed the Extreme Ice Grass Legion Commander and rescued Marcia Aguilar before returning to Sha Yue City. As the Emperor's Army attacked the city walls, the Council Army's Pistol Regiment used P9 pistols to devastate the enemy Soul Engineer regiment while rotating fresh soldiers into position.

• Zhang Haisheng killed the Extreme Ice Grass Legion Commander with his Eternal Silent Night Moon and freed Marcia Aguilar from the ice.
• Zhang Haisheng explained that Mattai Ismael was commanding the city's defense, then flew back to take charge of the battle.
• Marcia Aguilar gathered her female Soul Engineers and led them back to Sha Yue City, ignoring the few surviving Emperor's Army Soul Engineers.
• The Emperor's Army's three thousand Soul Engineers advanced within firing range of Sha Yue City's walls and prepared to use their Soul Cannons.
• The Council Army's thousand soldiers opened fire with P9 pistols, killing Soul Engineers in large numbers while the enemy's Soul Cannon blasts damaged the walls.
• Council Army soldiers with empty magazines descended and fresh Pistol Regiment soldiers took their places, continuing to fire.

The Council Army used P9 pistols and Mattai Ismael’s Level 7 Soul Cannon to repel the Sun Moon Empire’s Emperor’s Army from Sha Yue City. After the victory, Zhang Haisheng reported heavy enemy losses, and Marcia Aguilar said her subordinates still could not figure out how to make a Milk Bottle.

• The Council Army’s pistol fire nearly wiped out the Emperor’s Army’s Soul Engineers, while more than a hundred defenders died under Soul Cannon bombardments.
• The Emperor’s Army brought its five hundred thousand troops to Sha Yue City and advanced a battering ram and siege ladders toward the walls, but the Council Army shot down soldiers near the siege equipment and archers.
• After Zhang Haisheng reported that the Emperor’s Army’s high-level Soul Engineers had been assassinated, Mattai Ismael flew above the battlefield and attacked the approaching troops with his Level 7 Soul Cannon.
• The Emperor’s Army general ordered a retreat, and the Council Army continued firing as the soldiers withdrew; Mattai Ismael stopped pursuing them after they had fallen back one kilometer.
• Zhang Haisheng reported at least two hundred and seventy thousand Emperor’s Army casualties and fewer than five hundred Council Army losses, while Mattai Ismael predicted a counteroffensive after the Council Army produced more bullets.
• Marcia Aguilar told Zhang Haisheng that her subordinates had made no progress in figuring out how to produce the Milk Bottle.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena entered Demon Forest and encountered a Fire Evil Tyrant, which Gu Chen subdued with his Dragon Might before letting it go. He then called the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord out, alarming the Evil Eyes across the forest’s core.

• Zhang Haisheng learned that Mattai Ismael expected the Council to produce enough bullets for a counterattack in about a week, and ordered him to recruit and train more Pistol Regiment soldiers.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena arrived at Demon Forest and traveled into its coniferous woods on foot.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena encountered a Fire Evil Tyrant, which attacked them with spiritual power and warped light.
• Gu Chen used Dragon Might to pin the Fire Evil Tyrant down, then released it after it begged for mercy.
• Gu Chen flew above Demon Forest and called for the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord, frightening the ten-thousand-year Evil Eyes nearby.

Gu Chen fought the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord after it attacked him and Gu Yuena, demanding that the eight-hundred-thousand-year soul beast submit and cooperate with him. Gu Yuena stepped in front of Gu Chen to face the Overlord’s spiritual attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord attacked Gu Chen and Gu Yuena, but Gu Chen reflected its beam and severed more than half of its tentacles.
• Gu Chen revealed himself as the lord of soul beasts and demanded the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord submit and cooperate, but it refused, confident in its strength.
• Gu Chen pierced the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord’s eye with the Golden Dragon Spear, badly wounding it without activating the spear’s life-draining ability.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord unleashed its Destruction Light at Gu Chen, and Gu Yuena moved in front of him to face the attack.

Gu Yuena forced the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord to submit, and Gu Chen ordered it to organize the Demon Forest’s powerful soul beasts into a legion for his conquest of the Sun Moon Continent. They returned to the post station near Sha Yue City and learned that the Council Army had crushed an imperial siege and marched to retake Qing Yang City.

• Gu Yuena overwhelmed the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord with a spiritual attack and threatened it with her Light Sword until it agreed to submit.
• Gu Yuena planted a spiritual seed in the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord’s sea of consciousness, while Gu Chen warned it to obey them.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord revealed that the Demon Forest held over two thousand ten-thousand-year soul beasts, including eleven hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrants.
• Gu Chen ordered the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord to gather the ten-thousand-year soul beasts into the Demon Soul Beast Legion within half a year, explaining that he planned to use it to take control of the Sun Moon Empire.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena returned to the post station near Sha Yue City and learned that the Emperor’s Army had lost nearly three hundred thousand soldiers and its Soul Engineer corps in a failed siege.
• The Council Army’s main force and Pistol Regiment set out to retake Qing Yang City.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena infiltrated Sha Yue City and planned to head for Mingdu to deal with the Imperial Tutor. In Qing Yang City, Zhang Haisheng decided the Council Army would bypass Luoyu City and use the City Breaker to attack Hengyu City, keeping the plan quiet to prevent traitors from warning the Emperor’s Army.

• Gu Chen praised the precision of a Sun Moon Empire bullet and told Gu Yuena they would soon travel to Mingdu to target the Imperial Tutor.
• Marcia Aguilar told Zhang Haisheng and Mattai Ismael that five Emperor’s Army Soul Engineer legions were stationed in Luoyu City.
• Zhang Haisheng proposed attacking Hengyu City instead and revealed the Level 7 Soul Cannon City Breaker.
• Zhang Haisheng explained that City Breaker could breach Hengyu City’s copper walls and that its garrison was likely weak.
• Zhang Haisheng ordered Mattai Ismael to march the Pistol Regiment toward Hengyu City and asked Marcia Aguilar to delay informing the other Council members for a day because he feared more traitors.

Mattai Ismael and Marcia Aguilar attacked Hengyu City with the Level 7 Soul Cannon City Breaker, melting through its copper walls from five kilometers away. The eastern wall was left with a ten-meter-wide breach as Zhang Haisheng’s main force approached.

• Mattai Ismael and Marcia Aguilar led the Council Army regiment to a position five kilometers east of Hengyu City.
• Mattai Ismael fired City Breaker and blasted a crater into Hengyu City's copper wall, triggering the city's alarm.
• Hengyu City's Soul Engineers gathered at an arrow tower but could not reach the attackers with their weapons.
• Mattai Ismael fired again, then handed City Breaker to Marcia Aguilar while he restored his Soul Power.
• Marcia Aguilar fired City Breaker into the damaged wall and opened a hole nearly ten meters wide.

Mattai Ismael and Marcia Aguilar led the Council Army’s assault on Hengyu City, using Soul Cannons and a massive volley of pistol fire to break the defenders’ resistance. Hengyu City surrendered, and the Council Army occupied it before Zhang Haisheng’s main force arrived.

• Marcia Aguilar sent the hundred thousand Pistol Regiment soldiers toward Hengyu City while Mattai Ismael flew ahead to target the Soul Engineers in the watchtowers.
• Mattai Ismael fired two Level 6 Soul Cannons and then a Level 7 Soul Cannon, destroying the watchtower positions and killing the Soul Engineers there.
• The Pistol Regiment fired a volley of P9 pistols that devastated the defenders on the wall and destroyed the Soul Tools guarding the breach.
• The remaining Hengyu City soldiers raised a white flag, and Marcia Aguilar ordered them to drop their weapons and surrender.
• The Council Army occupied Hengyu City and incorporated its surviving soldiers into the cooking regiment.
• Three hours later, three hundred thousand Council Army soldiers arrived and entered the city beneath the Council flag.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena arrived in Mingdu and planned to gain Xu Zheng’s trust by claiming to possess an immortality elixir. Gu Chen arranged for the Bounty Hunter Guild to spread news of the elixir’s arrival, setting up his next move against the Sun Moon Empire’s emperor.

• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena entered Mingdu, obtained the imperial palace map from the Bounty Hunter Guild, and learned that Xu Zheng was the emperor.
• Gu Chen revealed that his Longevity Pill could extend a person’s life by one hundred years and decided to use it to win Xu Zheng’s trust.
• Gu Chen returned to the guild and paid for a mission to spread word that an immortal carrying an Elixir of Immortality would arrive in Mingdu seven days later.
• Gu Chen required Employed Hunters to complete the mission within three days and paid the guild 110,000 gold coins.