Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tianyang discovered that Black Fox had used the Void Origin to pass him the dangerous Heavenly Machine Cube, which he sealed away. With the Elemental Kingdom subdued, Xiao Tianyang planned the Tianwu Dynasty’s defenses and discussed returning to the capital with Wang Jian.

• Zhang Liang warned Xiao Tianyang that Black Fox likely possessed a treasure important enough for the Void Will to watch them.
• Xiao Tianyang shattered the Void Origin, absorbed most of it with his [Void Blade], and caught the Heavenly Machine Cube hidden inside.
• Xiao Tianyang sealed the Heavenly Machine Cube with layers of restraints and buried it deep in his storage space.
• Xiao Tianyang discussed returning to the capital with Wang Jian after settling matters in the Elemental Kingdom.
• Xiao Tianyang planned to strip the Elemental Continent of its resources and establish three defensive zones across Douluo Continent.
• Xiao Tianyang planned to leave several legions behind to guard the dynasty while nineteen legions set out to conquer the God Realm.

Xiao Tianyang returned to Shenwu City and rested before reviewing the transformed court’s affairs and the officials serving the Tianwu Dynasty. He began examining reports and appointments while Wang Jian’s legions prepared to sweep the Elemental Continent for resources.

• Xiao Tianyang sent the Mystic Bird Legion and Fierce Leopard Legion to search south of the imperial city for two days and gather every recoverable resource.
• Xiao Tianyang reached Shenwu City, settled Zhang Liang, and rested while Yue Shen and the others organized reports and court documents.
• Yue Shen explained that the memorials on Xiao Tianyang’s table represented one-third of the accumulated government affairs.
• Xiao Tianyang reviewed the roster of ministers, including Li Si, Fan Li, Bai Gui, Li Bing, Li Kui, Wei Liao, Gan Mao, Zhang Yi, Shang Yang, and Han Feizi.

Xiao Tianyang reviewed three pressing matters: unrest involving Tang Family members, the dynasty’s dwindling treasury, and shortages of basic resources. He began weighing solutions while arranging the upcoming imperial-dynasty ceremony, leaving the Tianwu Dynasty stable but in need of a stronger foundation for growth.

• Xiao Tianyang agreed to meet with the Six Ministries and scheduled the imperial-dynasty sacrificial ceremony for ten days later, appointing Zhang Liang to preside.
• Xiao Tianyang reviewed cases involving spoiled young masters from great clans, including the Tang Family, and considered Shang Yang’s handling of them and Tang San’s opinion.
• Xiao Tianyang recognized that the dynasty’s treasury could no longer cover military pay, official salaries, and infrastructure, even after Madam Mingzhu contributed her fortune.
• Xiao Tianyang noted that the Tianwu Dynasty’s basic resources were nearly exhausted, though he already had a solution and mainly lacked time to carry it out.
• Xiao Tianyang concluded that the dynasty remained secure but needed to resolve its problems and build a solid foundation before pursuing stronger development.

Xiao Tianyang confirmed the appointments of twelve officials and sought reforms to strengthen the dynasty’s administration and finances. Li Si proposed more frequent, grassroots evaluations, while Fan Li urged commercial expansion and changes to merchant regulations and taxes.

• Xiao Tianyang officially appointed the twelve officials and asked Li Si about the existing evaluation schedule for officials and city lords.
• Li Si proposed evaluating officials every three months and city lords every six months, with evaluations beginning at the grassroots level.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered Li Si to develop a detailed evaluation plan with the prime minister.
• Fan Li offered commerce as a way to address the dynasty’s fiscal deficit and explained that existing trade measures were too suited to peacetime.
• Fan Li proposed easing restrictions on merchants, raising tax rates, and having imperial merchants intervene to expand commerce.

Fan Li proposed long-term merchant policies and a quick way to address the Tianwu Dynasty’s fiscal deficit, while Xiao Tianyang assigned tasks to officials from several ministries. Shang Yang advised restricting powerful families through law rather than uprooting them, and planned a complete revision of the dynasty’s Codex.

• Xiao Tianyang thanked Fan Li for helping the dynasty’s finances, and Fan Li pledged to do his utmost.
• Fan Li proposed selling rare crystals gathered from the Elemental Continent to resolve the fiscal deficit, and Xiao Tianyang entrusted him with the matter.
• Li Bing and Li Kui offered practical suggestions for the Ministry of Works, while Zhang Yi accepted his role in the Ministry of Rites.
• Xiao Tianyang asked Shang Yang how to handle the major families, including the Tang Family.
• Shang Yang advised restricting the families through proper legal procedures and proposed revising the Tianwu Dynasty’s Codex to prevent them from growing too powerful.

Xiao Tianyang reorganized the Ministry of War to balance Yue Fei’s authority while strengthening the dynasty’s other ministries. As the ten-day deadline arrived, he successfully advanced the Tianwu Dynasty into an imperial dynasty, and the Heavenly Dao’s blessing transformed its people and Xiao Tianyang himself.

• Xiao Tianyang told Wei Liao about Zhang Liang’s speculation and assigned the Military Affairs Pavilion external wars while the Ministry of War handled logistics and received intelligence from Baihua Tower.
• Nine days later, the Six Ministries had introduced sweeping reforms, including examinations, free education, legal reviews, and a Ministry of War that balanced Yue Fei’s command.
• Xiao Tianyang ascended the altar in the imperial capital as Zhang Liang recited the sacrificial prayer before the Heavenly Dao.
• Xiao Tianyang asked the Heavenly Dao to permit the Tianwu Dynasty’s advancement, and the Heavenly Dao granted his request.
• The fortune divine dragon rose into the sky as the dynasty’s officials and generals felt their fortune and cultivation potential increase, while Xiao Tianyang’s appearance and bearing changed.

Xiao Tianyang celebrated the Heavenly Martial Dynasty’s promotion, addressed the people, and convened court to reward officials and generals for their service in the Elemental Continent campaign. The chapter ended with the court accepting his appointments and Wang Wan’s new role in the palace’s discreet affairs.

• Xiao Tianyang addressed the cheering crowd, urged the dynasty to strengthen itself and resist its enemies, and returned to the imperial palace after the ceremony.
• Xiao Tianyang told the officials that the dynasty needed to recover its strength while remaining alert to threats from the God Realm and Evil God.
• Wang Wan read Xiao Tianyang’s decree, which promoted Xiao He and Wang Jian and granted noble ranks, posts, and rewards to several generals.
• Xiao Tianyang’s court recognized Wang Wan as his close attendant and Chancellor of the Central Secretariat, tasked with handling discreet matters and keeping the inner palace in check.

Xiao Tianyang convened his officials to discuss the Heavenly Martial Dynasty’s next strategy against the Void and Evil God, then settled the legion deployments with Yue Fei’s approval. Yue Shen presented the Ministry of Works’ defensive network plans, leaving Xiao Tianyang puzzled by their layout.

• Xiao Tianyang asked his officials to recommend the dynasty’s next step, and they pledged their loyalty and support.
• Xiao Tianyang discussed Wang Jian’s defensive network and offensive strategy with Yue Fei, who approved the plan.
• Xiao Tianyang assigned legions to the God Realm and the surrounding continents, appointed Sima Cuo to command the Nine Dragon Imperial Guards, and ordered the Boulder and Divine Might Legions to rest and reorganize.
• Yue Shen showed Xiao Tianyang the Ministry of Works’ plans for a network centered on Douluo Continent, and he could not see a pattern in them.

Xiao Tianyang discussed how to strengthen the Heavenly Martial Dynasty and planned to use Huo Yuhao and the other fortunate young people as disruptors rather than soldiers. New intelligence revealed that the War God Kingdom’s troops had appeared in the God Realm, prompting him to summon Sir and reconsider the sudden attack.

• Wang Wan prepared to travel to the God Realm to reward Yue Fei and the others while Xiao Tianyang weighed the threats facing the dynasty.
• Zhang Liang proposed a feasible plan, and Xiao Tianyang told Madam Mingzhu he wanted to assess the second generation before deciding how to strengthen the people.
• Xiao Tianyang explained that Huo Yuhao and the others were bearers of fortune and that he intended to make them disruptors, not battlefield soldiers.
• Zhu Zhuqing brought Xiao Tianyang a report that the War God Kingdom’s troops had appeared in the God Realm.
• Xiao Tianyang suspected the War God Kingdom had agreed with Azathoth and summoned Sir to discuss the unexpectedly sudden attack.

Zhang Liang identified the enemy’s strange deployment around the God Realm as a trap designed to lure the Heavenly Martial Dynasty into advancing. He proposed destroying three key positions with high explosives, but warned that the mission would be risky and asked who could lead it while Xiao Tianyang remained in the capital.

• Xiao Tianyang summoned Zhang Liang back and showed him intelligence about the enemy’s movements in the God Realm.
• Zhang Liang used a sand table to locate Kankuli’s, Doflamingo’s, and Black Fox’s camps and concluded their spread-out formation was neither a clear feint nor a straightforward battle plan.
• Zhang Liang warned Xiao Tianyang that advancing could lead the army into an ambush, while waiting could give the enemy time to grow stronger.
• Zhang Liang proposed using high explosives to destroy terrain at the three camp coordinates, but noted that the positions would be heavily guarded.
• Zhang Liang pointed out that Xiao Tianyang could not leave the capital and asked who else in the Heavenly Martial Dynasty could take on the dangerous mission.

Xiao Tianyang chose Huo Yuhao and his companions for a dangerous mission to eliminate the enemy, then arranged for Nie Zheng and Gai Nie to escort them into the God Realm. The chapter ended with Xiao Tianyang and Yue Shen discussing the plan’s risks and identifying Doflamingo and Black Fox as its greatest variables.

• Huo Yuhao and his companions agreed to carry out Xiao Tianyang’s mission after Yue Shen explained the plan.
• Xiao Tianyang assigned Nie Zheng and Gai Nie to escort the group and represent him on an expedition beyond the borders.
• Xiao Tianyang prepared tools to improve the mission’s chances of success and protect the group.
• Xiao Tianyang told Yue Shen that the Grand Commandant would pressure the enemy while four swordsmen ambushed Kankuli.
• Yue Shen warned that Doflamingo and Black Fox could disrupt the plan, and Xiao Tianyang called them its greatest variables.

Yue Fei’s army marched across the Plains Area to escort Huo Yuhao’s people, but Xiang Yu discovered an enemy ambush and the army was surrounded. Yue Fei formed a layered defensive position and assigned Xiang Yu to command its eastern side as the enemy closed in.

• A scout told Yue Fei that William commanded three hundred thousand enemy troops at Tianhe River Mouth, so Yue Fei sent Xiang Yu and five hundred Beiwei Army soldiers to investigate.
• Xiang Yu encountered enemy cavalry behind a hill, killed several riders, and withdrew after discovering the force was too large to fight.
• Yue Fei ordered the legions into a five-layer Chariot City Circular Formation designed to withstand attacks from outside.
• Xiang Yu reported two hundred thousand enemy soldiers behind the hill and enemy forces approaching from both sides, confirming that Yue Fei’s army was surrounded.
• Yue Fei sent Xiang Yu to command the eastern defenses and warned him not to underestimate the enemy.

Kankuli kept Yue Fei’s forces occupied while preparing to use rainwater and the low-lying terrain to drown them. Yue Fei anticipated the plan and revealed that his forces had deliberately entered the dangerous area to buy time, leaving the battle underway.

• Kankuli ordered William to wear down Yue Fei’s forces and keep Yue Fei occupied while they prepared to channel rainwater into the low-lying battlefield.
• The War God Kingdom sent cannon fodder forward first, but Gao Chong and Yang Zaixing’s heavy weapons inflicted severe casualties before the main forces clashed.
• The War God Kingdom committed its regular forces but held back its elite troops, prompting Yue Fei’s staff officer to question their strategy.
• Yue Fei told the staff officer that the enemy planned to use the weather and terrain, and handed him a letter explaining why his forces had entered the area.
• After reading the letter, the staff officer understood that Yue Fei had begun the battle to buy time.

Xiao Tianyang received news that Yue Fei had defeated Kankuli’s elite forces in the God Realm and rewarded those involved. He suspected the victory was bait in a larger scheme and began considering how to respond to the enemy’s threat against Douluo Continent.

• Wang Wan reported that Huo Yuhao and his companions had disrupted the regional connection points, allowing Yue Fei to destroy Kankuli’s elite troops and seriously wound him.
• Xiao Tianyang promoted Yue Fei by two ranks, awarded him one hundred pills, and granted Huo Yuhao and his companions baron rank and Life Tokens.
• Bibi Dong asked Xiao Tianyang how confident he had been in the battle, and he said he had trusted Huo Yuhao and his companions’ luck.
• Xiao Tianyang judged that the enemy’s attack had come too early and suggested the victory was meant to lower his guard and draw his attention toward the God Realm.
• Xiao Tianyang told Bibi Dong he would not let the enemy strike Douluo Continent unchecked now that they had revealed their intentions.

Xiao Tianyang and his ministers planned defenses against an uncertain enemy threat, deciding to strengthen border forces and build outer defenses without withdrawing legions from the God Realm. The meeting continued into a review of the dynasty’s administration, leaving Xiao Tianyang better informed about its affairs.

• Xiao Tianyang explained that the enemy’s intentions remained unclear and laid out plans to keep all legions in the God Realm, reinforce regional defenses, and fortify the outer defensive line.
• Wei Liao said the dynasty had only nine legions at home and proposed appointing Sun Bin, Zhang Han, Long Ju, and Meng Tian to command new legions; Xiao Tianyang named them the Comet Legion, Blood Blade Legion, Eagle Legion, and Ridge Legion.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered the Ministry of Works to build defenses from the perimeter and hire low-level Soul Masters, while Fan Li warned that the treasury could afford only a thirty percent wage increase.
• Xiao Tianyang assigned Xiao He to call civilian Soul Masters to the borderlands and discussed maintaining frontline supplies and developing the dynasty’s territories.
• Xiao Tianyang used the meeting to review internal government affairs with Xiao He, Wei Liao, and Fan Li, who answered his questions.

Xiao Tianyang convened an emergency war council after learning that the Void Faction had massed overwhelming forces on two fronts in the God Realm. He ordered the legions expanded and prepared for battle, leaving the commanders to organize the defense as the decisive conflict approached.

• Xiao Tianyang’s orders sent Sun Bin, Zhang Han, Long Ju, and Meng Tian back to the capital while their legions began training.
• The Elemental Continent was fully devoured by the Douluo Continent, whose Plane Spirit stored most of the gains and used the rest to expand and strengthen the continent.
• After receiving a battle report in mid-December, Xiao Tianyang called an emergency war council with Yue Fei and the other Legion Commanders.
• Yue Fei reported that more than a million beastmen and at least a million God Kingdom Warriors had gathered on opposite sides of the God Realm, while the generals warned that the Douluo Continent’s long front lines were vulnerable.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered each major legion’s main force raised to sixty thousand, with forty thousand reserves, and the commanders pledged to prepare their forces for battle.

Xiao Tianyang delegated frontline command to his generals while preparing a risky plan that depended on giving them freedom to fight. At an emergency council, Yue Fei and the commanders considered where to break through the enemy’s encirclement, with Li Mu recommending the Forest Area despite Sauron’s dangerous foresight.

• Xiao Tianyang entrusted the generals on the Frontline with command authority, then told Bibi Dong that his risky plan required them to fight without restraint.
• Yue Fei and the other commanders gathered in the Heavenly Mountain District to discuss how to break the enemy’s encirclement.
• Yue Fei reported that the Heavenly Martial Dynasty had seventeen legions in the God Realm and would expand its army by one hundred thousand troops.
• Yue Fei asked Li Mu to assess the Forest Area, and Li Mu said its terrain and concealment made it the best place to lure in and destroy the enemy.
• Li Mu warned that Sauron’s Eye of Sorcery and danger sense made him difficult to ambush, while Sauron and Saruman had yet to appear on the battlefield.

Sauron sent Titan and his army into the Forest Area to test the Heavenly Martial Dynasty, and Li Mu’s forces ambushed them at Falling Leaf Valley, destroying the enemy at Falling Phoenix Slope. After learning of the victory and Saruman’s escape as a clone, Xiao Tianyang ordered two new legions north to reinforce the God Realm.

• Sauron ordered Titan to lead the main force into the Forest Area while Saruman watched for trouble.
• Li Mu and Bedivere recognized Titan’s advance as a test and rode out to respond, while Saruman escaped before they could catch him.
• Li Mu’s four legions ambushed the enemy at Falling Leaf Valley and annihilated them at Falling Phoenix Slope, losing two thousand men against one hundred thousand enemies.
• Li Cunxiao captured Saruman, but the captive was confirmed to be only a clone, and Titan withdrew after realizing his force had fallen into a trap.
• Xiao Tianyang sent the Ambition Legion and Wood Hammer Legion north to reinforce the God Realm and ordered Wang Wan to keep the Imperial Edict sealed until they arrived.

Cao Can and Peng Yue learned that their apparent mission to support the Plains Area concealed a deployment to the Forest Area, where they would join Li Mu against Sauron. As battle reports reached Xiao Tianyang, he and Wei Liao analyzed the enemy’s maneuvers and concluded that the war’s outcome depended on destroying the Eye of Sauron and sealing the Magic Ring.

• Cao Can and Peng Yue presented the Imperial Edict, then learned from Yue Fei that they were to travel secretly to the Forest Area and join Li Mu.
• Yue Fei explained that the enemy spies had seen their arrival and the Edict, so their visit to the Plains Area was a deception.
• Xiao Tianyang and Wei Liao reviewed reports of Yuwen’s and Xie Yue’s engagements and deduced that the enemy was maneuvering to force a decisive battle.
• The Grand Commandant’s forces ambushed and annihilated two enemy forces, but Xiao Tianyang suspected those troops had been bait for a larger attack.
• Xiao Tianyang said victory depended on the Forest Area mission succeeding, while Wei Liao doubted that anyone besides Gandalf and Aragorn could reliably destroy the Eye of Sauron and seal the Magic Ring.

Gandalf and the Fellowship of the Ring tried to draw out the Magic Tower's defenders while Li Mu lured Sauron's armies away from the camp. They attacked the tower and discovered its monsters could wield magic, leaving Aragorn and Legolas fighting as the defenders charged.

• Gandalf explained that Li Mu would draw Sauron's army away from the Magic Tower by six in the evening, while the Fellowship planned to enter the tower.
• Gandalf assigned himself to confront Saruman, while Aragorn and Legolas prepared to draw out the tower's defenders and urged the others to retreat to the Heavenly Martial Dynasty if the mission failed.
• Li Mu sent Sauron's Titan, Beast, and Orc Legions out of the camp by threatening his forces and Saruman's experimental base.
• Gandalf, Aragorn, and Legolas attacked the Magic Tower, prompting Sauron to order his defenders to capture them alive.
• The tower's six-armed monsters charged out and spat magical fireballs; Aragorn cut through the fireballs while Legolas attacked the monsters with enchanted arrows.