Chapter Summaries

Zhuge Lan helped Huo Yuhao create advanced Soul Tool blueprints and learned how Huo Yuhao’s work had earned him Luck Value as the era’s Child of Destiny for Soul Tools. Back at Bright Hall, Zhuge Lan obtained a new weapon and prepared to test it against a Titled Douluo while Xuan Ziwen examined his close-combat Soul Tool.

• Zhuge Lan discovered that Huo Yuhao’s new Soul Tool system had earned him 5 million Luck Value by advancing Soul Tools and making them more accessible to ordinary people.
• Huo Yuhao asked Zhuge Lan to create blueprints for a powered combat suit and giant humanoid mech, and Zhuge Lan spent 11 million Luck Value to make them.
• Zhuge Lan advised Huo Yuhao to stay at Bright Hall and use the Sun Moon Empire’s resources while keeping the core technologies under their control.
• Zhuge Lan returned to Bright Hall, took the new Soul Tool from Jing Hongchen, and updated Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul template.
• Jing Hongchen hurried away after Zhuge Lan claimed he could copy Soul Engineer arrays, while Xuan Ziwen inspected Zhuge Lan’s close-combat Soul Tool and asked to repair it after its planned fight against a Titled Douluo.

Zhuge Lan learned that his assessment for the Holy Spirit Cult’s Saint Son position was to kill the newly advanced Titled Douluo Bone Nightmare. He trapped Bone Nightmare with a divine halberd technique and began charging an attack, while Bone Nightmare desperately raised his defenses.

• Zhuge Lan encountered Bone Nightmare, whom Zhang Peng identified as the opponent chosen for his assessment.
• Zhang Peng explained Bone Nightmare’s abilities and Soul Skills to Zhuge Lan while they traveled to a forest east of the city.
• Bone Nightmare arrogantly gave Zhuge Lan the first move and tried to withstand his attack.
• Zhuge Lan used the Golden Thirteen Halberds’ First Form to imprison Bone Nightmare and charged his halberd with eight red Soul Rings.
• Bone Nightmare transformed into his Martial Soul Avatar and deployed armor and skeletal puppets as shields.

Zhuge Lan killed Bone Nightmare with the Golden Thirteen Halberds and completed the Sea God's Second Trial, only to receive a far more punishing Third Trial. He planned to seek the Holy Spirit Cult's Chief Venerable for a business deal while Zhang Peng collected Bone Nightmare's beast soul.

• Zhuge Lan overwhelmed Bone Nightmare's attacks with an Invincible Shield and his powerful Mental Power, then pierced him with the Golden Thirteen Halberds' Third Form, No Return.
• Zhuge Lan completed the Sea God's Second Trial and received new affinity and divine-skill rewards, but his Third Trial required him to kill a Titled Douluo using only Soul Power, divine skills, and Soul Tools.
• Zhang Peng questioned whether the Sea God was trying to torment Zhuge Lan, who considered using battle armor, mechs, and Soul Tool cannons to overcome the trial.
• Zhuge Lan asked Zhang Peng to take him to the Holy Spirit Cult's Chief Venerable to discuss a business deal, and Zhang Peng agreed after protecting Bone Nightmare's beast soul and Soul Bone.
• Zhuge Lan recalled his Three-pointed, double-edged halberd with his Golden bracelet and found it covered in dense cracks.

Zhuge Lan met Long Xiaoyao at the Holy Spirit Cult’s underground headquarters and accidentally revealed that Yan Shaozhe had a Bright Phoenix Martial Soul, prompting Long Xiaoyao to leave. Zhang Peng then declared Zhuge Lan the cult’s Saint Son, and Zhuge Lan demanded materials and a Titled Douluo for his plans.

• Zhang Peng finished stabilizing the Titled Douluo’s soul and took Zhuge Lan to meet the Chief Venerable at the Holy Spirit Cult’s Sun Moon Plain headquarters.
• Zhuge Lan met Long Xiaoyao and asked whether he had descendants after noticing that Yan Shaozhe’s aura resembled his.
• Zhuge Lan identified Yan Shaozhe’s Martial Soul as the Bright Phoenix, and Long Xiaoyao abruptly left after learning the news.
• Zhuge Lan discovered that Long Xiaoyao had gone to the Sun Moon Plain for the Asura God’s Second Trial and received Luck Value for changing Long Xiaoyao’s fate.
• Zhang Peng made Zhuge Lan the Holy Spirit Cult’s Saint Son and offered to fulfill reasonable requests.
• Zhuge Lan demanded materials for fixed Soul Tool cannons and asked Zhang Peng to find him a Titled Douluo outside the Agility Attack System.

Zhuge Lan tricked Zhang Peng into gathering materials for fixed Soul Tool cannons, then returned to the Hall of Light God and helped Huo Yuhao take charge of Bright Hall’s mecha research. He later discussed plans for new Soul Tools with Huo Yuhao and checked on Chakra training in the Dou Ling Empire, where interest had faded.

• Zhuge Lan persuaded Zhang Peng to collect vast quantities of common materials and Black Gold for fixed Soul Tool cannons, and Zhang Peng agreed to send them to Bright Hall.
• Zhuge Lan returned to the Hall of Light God, handed control to his third clone, and began studying the fourth and fifth forms of the Golden Thirteen Halberds.
• Huo Yuhao presented mecha design theory to Jing Hongchen and the Soul Engineers, then accepted command of the humanoid Soul Tool project after Jing Hongchen backed him.
• Zhuge Lan told Huo Yuhao about his third test and plans, and they agreed to pursue battle suit Soul Tools and develop the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon while keeping its newer designs secret.
• Zhuge Lan switched to his second clone and found that Chakra training in the Dou Ling Empire had slowed as practitioners lost enthusiasm.

Huo Yuhao learned from Zhuge Lan that Ju Zi would one day have his son through artificial insemination and that Tang San had allowed it, so he angrily rejected her and returned to Shrek Academy. He was met there by Wang Dong’er and Zhuge Qiu’er, who had just attacked him with the Golden Dragon Spear.

• Huo Yuhao and Xuan Ziwen recruited Ju Zi to help with the battle suit Soul Tool project, but Huo Yuhao dismissed her after Zhuge Lan revealed her future actions and Tang San’s involvement.
• Huo Yuhao cursed Tang San, and Electrolux and the others condemned Tang San while Tian Meng and Ice Empress bickered.
• Huo Yuhao calmed down, decided to hold Tang San accountable in the future, and spent 50,000 Luck Value to teleport to Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao entered his dormitory at night, caught Zhuge Qiu’er’s Golden Dragon Spear with his Mental Power, and saw Wang Dong’er and Zhuge Qiu’er ready to confront him.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Wang Dong’er at Shrek, learned that the Clear Sky Sect had mobilized for the Sun Moon Empire, and spent a brief romantic visit with her before returning to his research. The chapter left him in Xuan Ziwen’s laboratory, confronted by an angry petite girl and two other students.

• Huo Yuhao revealed himself to Wang Dong’er and Zhuge Qiu’er, then told them Zhuge Lan was undertaking the Sea God Nine Trials.
• Wang Dong’er told Huo Yuhao that the Clear Sky Sect had headed to the Sun Moon Empire and warned him to be careful.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er shared a romantic dance on Phoenix Lake, while Zhuge Lan and the Soul Spirits watched.
• Huo Yuhao left Shrek after half a day and resumed researching battle suit Soul Tools in Xuan Ziwen’s laboratory.
• Three of Xuan Ziwen’s students entered the laboratory, and the petite girl rushed at Huo Yuhao, pointing at him angrily.

Huo Yuhao built and charged a prototype battle suit Soul Tool, then let Zhuge Lan take control of his body to try it on. Outside the laboratory, Zhuge Lan faced Xu Tianran and the gathered officials, soldiers, and teachers, while Jing Hongchen learned of the new project and Xu Tianran stepped in front of Ju Zi.

• Huo Yuhao used his Mental Power to control three students who challenged him, then sealed the laboratory and completed a battle suit Soul Tool powered by eighty-one core modules.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Zhuge Lan's account login request, and Zhuge Lan put on the charged suit and marveled at its strength and appearance.
• Zhuge Lan opened the laboratory door and found nearly a hundred people kneeling under the guard of the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps, while Xu Tianran offered to let him kill them.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhuge Lan that Lin Jiayi and the other teachers were innocent, and Zhuge Lan spared them while Xuan Ziwen examined the prototype.
• Jing Hongchen explained the battle suit project to Xu Tianran, and Xu Tianran rose from his wheelchair and stood in front of Ju Zi as Zhuge Lan looked toward her.

Zhuge Lan accepted compensation from Xu Tianran and Jing Hongchen, then tested his prototype battle suit Soul Tool before leaving Huo Yuhao to take over. His warnings about Ju Zi changed Xu Tianran’s plans and earned him a large amount of Luck Value.

• Xu Tianran asked Zhuge Lan to spare Ju Zi, while Jing Hongchen offered rare metals, a Level 9 defensive Soul Tool, and a Level 9 fixed Soul Tool cannon as compensation.
• Zhuge Lan let Lin Jiayi and the other teachers rise, invited Xu Tianran to watch the MK-2 test, and left Xuan Ziwen with a punishment of no dinner.
• Jing Hongchen and Xuan Ziwen escorted Ju Zi away, and Jing told her to find another teacher or graduate directly because she could no longer stay with Xuan Ziwen.
• Zhuge Lan told Xu Tianran that the wise did not enter the river of love, prompting Xu Tianran to keep Ju Zi in his harem but ensure she would not appear before Zhuge Lan.
• Zhuge Lan demonstrated the prototype’s flight, shield, pulse cannon, and Soulfire cannonball attacks, which reached Level 7 against one target before the suit ran out of energy and disassembled.
• Zhuge Lan returned control to Huo Yuhao and left, telling him to make the next test’s firepower fiercer.

Huo Yuhao revealed that MK-2’s miniature Energy Storage Soul Guiding Arrays let ordinary people use its powerful combat functions, then handed the blueprints to Jing Hongchen and negotiated supplies and support from Xu Tianran. After Xu Tianran agreed, Huo Yuhao privately revealed that he planned to turn MK-2 into a mass-deployed Soul Guiding Bomb.

• Jing Hongchen realized MK-2’s components contained miniature Energy Storage Soul Guiding Arrays, and Huo Yuhao explained that they let the suit store enough Soul Power for an ordinary person to use it.
• Huo Yuhao declared MK-2 the private property of the Hall of Light God, then handed its blueprints to Jing Hongchen, who warned Xu Tianran that he could produce only one suit every two months without Huo Yuhao’s help.
• Huo Yuhao asked Xu Tianran to provide rare metals and direct the Soul Engineer Corps to mine Black Gold, while promising to make one MK-2 per day if Xu Tianran supplied core modules.
• Xu Tianran agreed to provide the requested resources and protect Huo Yuhao’s research, while Jing Hongchen promised to clean up the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• After Xu Tianran left, Huo Yuhao watched Xuan Ziwen reassemble MK-2 and considered modifying the suits to overload their Milk Bottles and make an entire battle suit Soul Tool corps self-destruct.

Huo Yuhao planned upgrades to the MK-2 battle suit while Zhuge Lan was drawn into Long Xiaoyao’s trials and Xu Tianran’s alliance negotiations. The chapter left Zhuge Lan challenging Xu Tianran’s attempt to balance the Hall of Light God against the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Huo Yuhao heard from Xuan Ziwen about Sun Moon Soil and considered using it to improve the soul fire formula, then planned enhanced versions of the MK-2 suit.
• Zhang Peng told Zhuge Lan that Long Xiaoyao’s third trial required him to hunt a Star Luo Empire Guardian Douluo and teach the Great Sumeru Hammer to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Zhuge Lan agreed to go with Zhang Peng, while the Hall Master of Light headed to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to recruit new members using Awakening Stones.
• Zhang Peng brought Zhuge Lan to the imperial palace, where Xu Tianran praised Lan Yu and negotiated with Long Xiaoyao for the Holy Spirit Cult to help conquer the other empires.
• Zhuge Lan accused Xu Tianran of trying to make the Hall of Light God and the Holy Spirit Cult restrain each other, and said that he and the Hall Master of Light would both become gods.

Xu Tianran agreed to support the Hall of Light God’s faith in exchange for its help during his planned coup, then went to meet Hall Master of Light. Hall Master of Light began recruiting 4,500 people through the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and Xu Tianran offered to help.

• Long Xiaoyao agreed to have the Holy Spirit Cult support Xu Tianran’s coup, while Zhuge Lan negotiated for the Hall of Light God to spread its faith across the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Tianran accepted Zhuge Lan’s terms and asked to meet Hall Master of Light, while Long Xiaoyao departed to wait elsewhere.
• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran that Zhuge Lan and Lan Yu were too powerful to use, and Xu Tianran left her in the Eastern Palace.
• Hall Master of Light visited the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and asked Jing Hongchen to help recruit 4,500 newcomers, offering 500 relaxed slots and access to the six inheritance sites for participants.
• Xu Tianran arrived at the academy and offered to help Hall Master of Light recruit members.

Xu Tianran agreed to make the Hall of Light God the Sun Moon Empire’s state religion in exchange for its support until its leaders ascended. Zhuge Lan then revealed to Long Xiaoyao that he possessed more than twenty divine positions, but a warning barrier shielding their conversation shattered.

• Xu Tianran offered the Hall of Light God imperial support, and Hall Master of Light promised to aid him for up to one hundred years before handing over the organization.
• Xu Tianran accepted the deal and vowed to promote worship of the Goddess of Light throughout the Sun Moon Empire and its future conquests.
• Zhuge Lan watched Xu Tianran agree through his third avatar and considered helping Huo Yuhao spend his newly accumulated Luck Value.
• Long Xiaoyao deduced that the inheritance grounds’ god trials were bait, and Zhuge Lan showed him his Sea God and Emotion God marks.
• Zhuge Lan explained that his difficult trial was meant to stop him from claiming a divine position, then offered Long Xiaoyao cooperation and access to more than twenty divine positions.
• A warning barrier Zhuge Lan had created around Long Xiaoyao’s Asura’s Mark shattered, releasing an invisible ripple.

Zhuge Lan secretly secured Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui’s support by offering divine positions, then strengthened Huo Yuhao’s Soul Bones and spiritual world. He and Long Xiaoyao headed for the Dou Ling Empire, where Zhuge Lan planned to target the imperial family.

• Long Xiaoyao faked a backlash to keep Xiao Wu from suspecting him, then negotiated with Zhuge Lan for Eighth Order Bright Magic Scrolls in exchange for resources and a 280,000-year Soul Bone deposit.
• Zhuge Lan gained 500,000 Luck Value after changing the fates of Long Xiaoyao, Ye Xishui, the Holy Spirit Cult, and others, then spent Luck Value to enhance Huo Yuhao’s skull and other main Soul Bones to one million years.
• Long Xiaoyao asked Sleep Nightmare Douluo about Sun Moon Soil, and Zhuge Lan ordered him to dig some up for Bright Hall.
• Zhuge Lan rejected choosing a Star Luo Empire consecrator for a divine test and told Long Xiaoyao to help destroy the Dou Ling Imperial Family when the time came.
• Long Xiaoyao flew Zhuge Lan across the continent, and they arrived in the Dou Ling Empire.

Zhuge Lan met Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan at the Sacred Fire Cult headquarters and announced his plan to overthrow the Dou Ling Imperial Family. After reviewing the empire’s Titled Douluo and arranging a cover story for the attack, he chose Xuan Zhang, the Immovable Douluo, as the target for his solo divine-trial battle.

• Zhuge Lan surprised Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan in the garden, revealed that he planned to wipe out the Dou Ling Imperial Family, and told Xu Sanshi to prepare to take over.
• Xu Sanshi revealed that his mother was Princess Xue Lingxun and pleaded not to inherit the empire; Zhuge Lan agreed to let his mother take the throne instead.
• Xu Sanshi gave Zhuge Lan documents on the Dou Ling Empire’s Titled Douluo, and Zhuge Lan selected the highly defensive Immovable Douluo, Xuan Zhang, as his opponent.
• Wang Yan and Han Ruoruo reported that the Sacred Fire Cult had gained influence across the Dou Ling Empire and asked Zhuge Lan what he needed them to do.
• Zhuge Lan explained that he needed a chance to fight Xuan Zhang alone and planned to blame the destruction of the imperial family on the level 99 Sacred Spirit Cult Chief Venerable, while sparing the other four Titled Douluo for future use.

Han Ruoruo organized a massive festival that drew the Dou Ling Imperial Family into Long Xiaoyao’s attack, after which Zhuge Lan confronted Xuan Zhang. Zhuge Lan unveiled his MK-3 Soul Tool armor and tested its escalating firepower against Xuan Zhang’s defenses, ending with a Level 9 cannonball aimed at him.

• Han Ruoruo took command of the operation and organized a festival that gathered more than three million people outside Dou Ling City.
• Long Xiaoyao attacked the returning procession with Dark Dragon Breath, killing most of those present, then left the Douling Emperor and the Mad Lion Douluo alive as he pursued his own plan.
• Long Xiaoyao brought Zhuge Lan out of a spatial rift, and Zhuge Lan’s Soul Spirits sealed off the area for his duel with Xuan Zhang.
• Zhuge Lan donned his upgraded MK-3 armor and used its Pulse Soul Cannons and Fire God fixed Soul Tool cannons to damage Xuan Zhang’s Martial Soul Avatar.
• Xuan Zhang reinforced his defenses with his Eighth Soul Skill, and Zhuge Lan charged a Level 9 fixed Soul Tool cannonball and aimed it at him.

Zhuge Lan and Huo Yuhao tested a Level 9 fixed Soul Tool cannonball against Xuan Zhang, then fought to stop him from reaching Zhuge Lan. Xuan Zhang’s final outburst shattered most of Zhuge Lan’s weapons, but MK-3’s Level 8 shield held.

• Zhuge Lan’s Level 9 cannonball shook Xuan Zhang’s golden mountain armor, and Xuan Zhang estimated its power at around Level 93.
• Zhuge Lan waited for Xuan Zhang’s invincible defense to fade, while Xuan Zhang revealed that a battle had begun near Dou Ling City and recognized the Dark Holy Dragon as Dragon Emperor Douluo.
• Xuan Zhang canceled his defense and charged Zhuge Lan through a barrage of Soul Fire cannonballs, but Zhuge Lan’s shield blocked his stone spikes.
• Zhuge Lan trapped Xuan Zhang with the Golden Thirteen Halberds’ Unsettling Waves and ordered the Fire God cannons to bombard him.
• Xuan Zhang activated his Martial Soul Avatar and Ninth Soul Skill, then unleashed a devastating burst that destroyed all but two of the Fire God cannons and broke through MK-3’s six Level 7 shields; its Level 8 shield held.

Zhuge Lan completed the Sea God's Third Trial and learned that his next trial required him to gather Sea God faith and rebuild Sea God Island, despite the threat of the Demon Empress. As Long Xiaoyao battled Tian Yang and three others above Dou Ling City, Zhuge Lan gathered the city's life force and Chakra to prepare an overwhelming attack.

• Zhuge Lan received the rewards for completing the Sea God's Third Trial and learned that his Fourth Trial required him to master two more Golden Thirteen Halberds forms, gather Sea God faith, and rebuild Sea God Island.
• Huo Yuhao lamented that Xuan Zhang's self-destruction had erased his savings, while Zhuge Lan assigned three Soul Bones dropped by the Immovable Douluo for others to use or for Huo Yuhao to turn into Soul Tools.
• Zhuge Lan flew toward Dou Ling City in his second clone and announced that his Deep Forest Emergence would drain life force and Chakra but spare Soul Power and not kill those who joined it.
• Civilians, soldiers, and Soul Masters voluntarily entered Zhuge Lan's forest, while Tian Yang and three allies fought Long Xiaoyao to buy Zhuge Lan time.
• Zhuge Lan expanded his wooden giant into a ten-thousand-meter figure with thousands of armored hands, drew Chakra from Tian Yang and the others, and prepared to strike Long Xiaoyao with World Annihilation.

Zhuge Lan destroyed Dou Ling City, then used the ruin’s souls and Arctic Sweet Shrimp to resurrect the people willing to submit to the Holy Fire Meow Meow Sect. After collecting a vast amount of Luck Value, he completed the Impure World Reincarnation and brought the dead back in undead bodies.

• Zhuge Lan’s True Thousand Hands forced Long Xiaoyao to use his eighth and ninth Soul Skills, and Long Xiaoyao fled when Zhuge Lan revealed the divine aura inside a Platform of Conferring Gods.
• Zhuge Lan told Long Xiaoyao where to find the soul energy needed for Ye Xishui’s pseudo-Level 10 Soul Tool, then summoned the dead from Dou Ling City and offered them resurrection if they submitted to the Holy Fire Meow Meow Sect.
• Zhuge Lan opened spatial portals and poured more than a million Arctic Sweet Shrimp over the ruins as sacrifices for the souls willing to be revived.
• Zhuge Lan rallied the civilians with a plea to the Great Bright Meow Meow God, earning 550,000 Luck Value as most of the ghosts accepted his offer.
• Zhuge Lan trapped the remaining ghosts in a black sphere and performed Impure World Reincarnation, returning the willing dead in gray, cracked bodies that needed neither breath nor heartbeats.

Zhuge Lan resurrected nearly a million people with the Rinnegan’s Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique, then faked his own death to harvest Luck Value. After recovering in his third clone, he followed Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao through space and revealed his unusual spatial power and Mental Soul Core.

• Zhuge Lan evolved his Eternal Mangekyo into a Rinnegan and used the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to restore the resurrected citizens to flesh and blood, exhausting his vitality.
• As the crowd offered their life force and mourned his apparent decline, Zhuge Lan gave Xu Sanshi his Rinnegan and claimed it was his Body Martial Soul, causing Luck Value to surge.
• Ye Xishui collected the black soul sphere after Zhuge Lan warned her against further slaughter, while Long Xiaoyao left without attacking.
• Zhuge Lan turned into a sapling and appeared to die, then switched to his third clone and gained Luck Value from the crowd’s grief.
• Zhuge Lan tore open space, caught up with Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, and demonstrated his spatial ability and upper-dantian Mental Soul Core.