Chapter Summaries

Zhuge Lan entered the match between Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, then eliminated the academy’s team members with spatial displacement. He let Xu Tianzhen attack him inside a small circle, and her solar assault continued as molten metal began to flow from the arena.

• Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan teased each other after Ice God Temple won, while Huo Yuhao reacted to Xu Sanshi mentioning Dong'er.
• Long Aotian defeated all seven Haoyue Sect opponents without summoning his Martial Soul, and Xu Tianran arranged for him and Huo Yuhao to meet in advance.
• After the Sacred Fire Cult competed again, eighty-four teams remained, including fifty-eight sect teams.
• Jing Hongchen announced that Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy would face Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and Zhuge Lan volunteered to fight Xu Tianzhen.
• Zhuge Lan used spatial displacement to send five of Xu Tianzhen’s teammates off the stage, then promised to stay inside a small circle while she attacked him three times.
• Xu Tianzhen unleashed her Sun God Light, Sun Reflection, and Radiant Ten Thousand Zhang Soul Skills, while Zhuge Lan remained unharmed and molten metal began flowing from the arena.

Xu Tianzhen’s strongest attack empowered Zhuge Qiu’er instead of harming Zhuge Lan, and Shrek won the match. The Sacred Fire Cult then faced Shrek in the next elimination match, where Wang Dong’er and Sima Jinchi prepared to compare the Golden Dragon Spear and the Dragon Slaying Blade.

• Xu Tianzhen unleashed her Sun True Fire, but Zhuge Lan redirected it to Zhuge Qiu’er, who absorbed the sunlight and refined her bloodline.
• Xu Tianzhen conceded defeat, then fled after asking whether Zhuge Qiu’er liked women and drawing a threatening glare from her.
• Jing Hongchen declared the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy the winner and announced Shrek Academy’s next match against the Sacred Fire Cult.
• Zhuge Lan switched to his Sacred Fire Cult avatar and went to the waiting area with Huo Yuhao and the others as Shrek’s team entered the arena.
• Wang Dong’er proposed settling the match in one fight, and Sima Jinchi stepped forward to face her.
• Wang Dong’er and Sima Jinchi raised their weapons and revealed their Soul Rings as they prepared to clash.

Wang Dong'er and Sima Jinchi clashed with their divine weapons and skills until their battle ended in a massive explosion. Sima Jinchi left the arena, while Wang Dong'er's Black Dragon Inverse Scale revealed that Di Tian had taken the Dragon Slaying Blade's strike and was furious.

• Sima Jinchi's Dragon Slaying Blade and Wang Dong'er's Golden Dragon Spear resonated, briefly sending both fighters into an epiphany.
• Wang Dong'er and Sima Jinchi unleashed divine skills and true forms, shattering the arena and nearly breaking Jing Hongchen's defensive barrier.
• After the explosion, Sima Jinchi's Dragon Slaying Blade vanished, and he left the arena with Zhuge Qiu'er and the other Shrek Academy members.
• Wang Dong'er's Black Dragon Inverse Scale flashed, revealing that Di Tian had taken a strike from the Dragon Slaying Blade while keeping a child company.
• Di Tian was enraged that Wang Dong'er had made him suffer a painful wound with a weapon that countered Dragon race members.

Wang Dong'er’s victory helped Sacred Fire Cult advance as the rigged Soul Master Competition narrowed to four factions, while Xu Jiujiu and Huo Yuhao prepared a surprise attack on Xu Tianran. Before their plan began, the Demon Empress’s forces attacked Clear Sky Sect, and Ye Xishui’s Death God Tower struck demigod Titan with a potentially fatal beam.

• Wang Dong'er defeated Sima Jinchi, and Jing Hongchen declared Shrek Academy eliminated and Sacred Fire Cult the winner.
• Sacred Fire Cult, Holy Spirit Cult, Clear Sky Sect, and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy became the final four as other factions were eliminated through rigged matchups.
• Xu Jiujiu told Huo Yuhao that the Three Great Empires would launch their decapitation plan against Xu Tianran that night, and he agreed to the six-group attack.
• The Demon Empress, Mu En, Long Xiaoyao, and Ye Xishui led Sea Soul Beasts in a surprise assault on Clear Sky Sect’s encampment.
• Niu Tian revealed his god-level strength and trapped Titan, Ye Xishui, and Long Xiaoyao inside the Rakshasa God’s Barrier of Annihilation while Mu En fought him outside.
• Ye Xishui fired the Death God Tower’s beam into Titan’s chest, and the demigod’s flesh, blood, and energy began to dissipate.

Mu En and his allies attacked the Clear Sky Sect while Niu Tian and Titan weighed whether to intervene, and God King Tang was prevented from acting by the rules governing gods. Di Tian joined the battle as the God Realm was distracted by the disappearance of Nirvana, and the chapter ended with Niu Tian defending himself from the Myriad Soul Tower’s attack.

• Titan used Divine Skill: Void to survive Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao’s attacks, while the depleted Death God Tower could no longer threaten him.
• Mu En used the Myriad Soul Tower to keep Niu Tian and Titan at bay as Demon Empress and the Sea Soul Beasts slaughtered Clear Sky Sect members and gathered their souls.
• God King Tang threatened the attackers but withdrew when he could not interfere in the mortal world; Niu Tian then abandoned the Clear Sky Sect and started toward the inheritance grounds.
• Di Tian appeared and attacked Titan, while the God King of Destruction confronted God King Tang over the missing Nirvana, diverting his attention from the mortal battle.
• Di Tian wounded Titan as Mu En kept Niu Tian occupied, and the Myriad Soul Tower fired a thin black ray at Niu Tian, who raised Divine Skill: Nine Revolutions Divine Dragon Protection.

Niu Tian and Titan were forced back to the God Realm after Mu En’s plan drew the God King of Destruction’s intervention. With the Clear Sky Sect defeated, the allied forces launched a coordinated assault on the Sun Moon Imperial Palace, where Xu Tianran and the Holy Spirit Cult faced a massive battle.

• Niu Tian erased the Sea God’s Divine Sense, but the God King of Destruction struck him and ordered him back to the God Realm; Niu Tian took Titan with him.
• Mu En stopped burning faith power, while Ye Xishui collected Clear Sky Sect members and Dai Hao offered her ordinary undead in exchange for their souls.
• Xu Tianran explained to Ju Zi that he intended to use the Holy Spirit Cult to conquer the continent and discard it afterward.
• Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult were confronted at the Sun Moon Imperial Palace by eight Titled Douluo from the Three Great Empires and Shrek Academy, while Soul Engineers fought elsewhere around the palace.
• Xu Tianran revealed two artificial Limit Douluo, and one of them killed Mad Lion Douluo in a surprise attack.
• Xuan Zi broke through Rank 98 and killed Troll Douluo, then challenged the enemy Limit Douluo.

Shrek Academy and the allied empires attacked Xu Tianran’s imperial palace, only to be trapped by its vast Soul Tool defenses and face Kong Deming’s supposedly Level 11 weapon. Mu En answered the devastating Silver Moon Divine Light Wave with a Platform of Conferring Gods, while Xue Chen whisked Xu Tianran and Ju Zi away amid the ensuing blast.

• Du Busi fought a silver-moon limit Douluo while the allied armies attacked the Sun Moon Empire’s four city gates.
• Vina, Long Aotian, and the Shrek fighters broke through the imperial study’s barriers, but Xu Tianran’s forces revealed a forest of Soul Tool weapons and surrounded them.
• Mu En, Zhang Lexuan, Wang Dong'er, Zhuge Qiu'er, and Sima Jinchi arrived as reinforcements, and Xu Tianran revealed the Holy Spirit Cult’s fighters and other powerful defenders.
• Mu En advanced through the MK-2 and MK-3 Soul Engineer Corps’ bombardment, forcing Xu Tianran to reveal Kong Deming’s Silver Moon Divine Light Shield and immense Soul Tool attack.
• Mu En used a Platform of Conferring Gods containing the God of War’s divine consciousness to collide with Kong Deming’s beam, and Xue Chen carried Xu Tianran and Ju Zi away into the shadows.

Zhuge Lan and his allies overwhelmed the Sun Moon Imperial Palace while Xu Tianran, Ju Zi, and Kong Deming remained trapped in spatial turbulence. As Kong Deming’s shield failed, he handed Xu Tianran the empire’s Invincible Shields and faced a desperate choice about who could escape.

• Zhuge Lan and his allies sealed Xu Tianran, Ju Zi, and Xue Chen inside spatial turbulence while their forces attacked the palace and disabled the MK Soul Engineer Regiments.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Ma Xiaotao, Han Ruoruo, and their allies helped rout the Sun Moon Empire’s forces and purge Xu Tianran’s direct lineage.
• Kong Deming protected Xu Tianran and Ju Zi with the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield while Xue Chen regenerated from his injuries.
• Zhuge Lan entered the shield and told Xu Tianran that at least thirty Titled Douluo were fighting outside and that he could escort at most two people out.
• Kong Deming gave Xu Tianran a Storage Ring containing 125 Invincible Shields and warned that his shield would fail within ten seconds.
• Xu Tianran hesitated over whom to save as Kong Deming asked whether taking only one person would improve their chances of escape.

Zhuge Lan revealed that he was Huo Yuhao, betrayed Xu Tianran, and escaped the spatial turbulence with Blue Bamboo while Xu Tianran died. They returned to the battlefield and left the Sun Moon Empire’s forces leaderless, just as alarms sounded beneath the two MK Soul Engineer Regiments.

• Kong Deming gave Zhuge Lan the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield before Kong Deming, Ju Zi, and Xue Chen were swallowed by spatial turbulence.
• Zhuge Lan stole Xu Tianran’s Storage Rings and revealed that he, Blue Bamboo, and the Hall Master of Light were Huo Yuhao’s secret art clones.
• Xu Tianran attacked Zhuge Lan with his Purple Blazing Annihilation Dragon Martial Soul, but Zhuge Lan used the Time-Space Divine Shuttle to evade him, and Xu Tianran died in the spatial turbulence.
• Zhuge Lan and Blue Bamboo staged their escape and reappeared injured at the imperial study ruins while the Hall Master of Light faked his death.
• Ma Xiaotao and the others struck the Sun Moon Empire’s forces, then Huo Yuhao signaled their retreat as Xu Tianran’s supporters gathered around Zhuge Lan and Blue Bamboo.
• Blue Bamboo explained that Xu Tianran could not be revived without part of his corpse or a preserved soul, and alarms began sounding beneath the two MK Soul Engineer Regiments.

After the Sun Moon Imperial Palace was destroyed, Zhuge Lan and the surviving officials searched for someone to lead the empire. He Caitou was revealed as Xu He, the Sun Moon Empire’s legitimate crown prince, and the chapter ended with officials recognizing his claim to the throne.

• The MK-2 and MK-3 Soul Engineer Regiments exploded, destroying the Sun Moon Imperial Palace and killing Zhongli Wu, Jing Hongchen, Xu Tianyuan, and others.
• Huo Yuhao led the Three Great Empires’ teams out of Mingdu, leaving the surviving Sun Moon officials without a leader.
• Zhuge Lan emerged alive and resurrected, then urged the survivors to choose someone to take charge.
• The Hall Master of Light declined the throne and introduced He Caitou as Xu He, the Sun Moon Empire’s crown prince.
• Xu He summoned the Sun Martial Soul, and Blue Bamboo summoned the Mirror Divine Beast to confirm Xu He’s imperial bloodline.
• A minister knelt before Xu He, recognizing him as the legitimate crown prince.

Xu He became the Sun Moon Empire’s new emperor and rejected the Holy Spirit Cult’s demand to be named the state religion. He appointed Lu Renjia and Lu Renyi as chief and Second Worship, and learned that the brothers possessed a powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Sun Moon officials urged Xu He to take the throne, and he ordered relief for disaster victims and preparations for possible invasions.
• Blood Spear demanded that Xu He honor Xu Tianran’s deal with the Holy Spirit Cult, but Xu He declared the matter void and sent the cult away after two limit Douluo forced Blood Spear to kneel.
• Xu He asked the two limit Douluo where their loyalties lay, and Lu Renjia and Lu Renyi said they served the Sun Moon Empire regardless of who ruled it.
• Xu He appointed Lu Renjia and Lu Renyi as chief and Second Worship of the empire’s Worship Hall.
• Zhuge Lan asked about the brothers’ Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Lu Renyi explained that their Dragon Soul Break Dance combined Lu Renjia’s Thunder Dragon Claw with his Gale Dragon Wings.

Xu He reclaimed the Sun Moon Empire and learned how the other empires were already under the influence of Zhuge Lan’s religious institutions. He resolved to avenge his father, while Zhuge Lan turned to the remaining demands of the Sea God’s Eighth Trial and devised a way to obtain a Soul Spirit.

• Zhuge Lan told Xu He to take control of the Sun Moon Empire, and Hall Master of Light revealed that he had founded the Hall of Light God and Ice God Temple.
• Xu He summoned Cao Huachun, reviewed intelligence on the other empires, and discovered that the Sacred Fire Cult controlled the Dou Ling Empire while the Ice God Temple and Body Sect shared influence in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xu He concluded that the continent was already effectively unified, accepted that the Sun Moon Empire would support Zhuge Lan’s plans, and set out to assess its strength and avenge his father.
• Zhuge Lan switched to Blue Bamboo’s body and reviewed the remaining conditions of the Sea God’s Eighth Trial, including obtaining a Soul Spirit and killing Huo Yuhao.
• Zhuge Lan activated Create permission to address the problem of obtaining a suitable Soul Spirit.

Zhuge Lan created a Soul Spirit Equality Contract modification and an Empty Realm Spirit Vine, then gathered allies in the Undead Demi-plane to help his secret technique clone condense a second Soul Core. The group prepared to begin as Snow Empress took charge.

• Zhuge Lan created a contract modification allowing Soul Spirits to inhabit suitable vacant Soul Rings, then planned to use it against Tang San’s Sea God position.
• Zhuge Lan created a 250,000-year-old Empty Realm Spirit Vine, drawing a crowd to the Sun Moon Imperial Palace basin.
• Zhuge Lan used his Space Dragon King abilities to pass through spatial turbulence, seize the fleeing vine, and leave the gathered spectators behind.
• Zhuge Lan brought his clones, Huo Yuhao, Electrolux, and the Soul Spirits to the Undead Demi-plane to help his secret technique clone condense a second Space Soul Core.
• Huo Yuhao explained that his own Space Soul Core and the Time-Space Divine Shuttle could supply the needed spatial power, and Snow Empress prepared everyone to begin.

Huo Yuhao successfully condensed a Space Soul Core and strengthened his Soul Rings, then chose to seek a spatially adept Soul Spirit for his next trial. Zhuge Lan left for the Star Dou Great Forest and reunited with the Silver Dragon King, who offered to dance for him.

• Zhuge Lan explained why Huo Yuhao should condense a Space Soul Core, and Huo Yuhao completed it with the Soul Spirits’ help in just an hour.
• Zhuge Lan spent Luck Value to raise Huo Yuhao’s Soul Rings to million-year level and outlined two options for his next Soul Spirit.
• Huo Yuhao chose to find a Soul Spirit with strong spatial control, and Zhuge Lan set off for the Star Dou Great Forest to find one.
• Zhuge Lan and Electrolux discussed Dragon Valley, the Undead Demi-plane, and their plans for the future before parting.
• Zhuge Lan reached the Lake of Life, where the Silver Dragon King appeared and playfully offered to dance for him.

Zhuge Lan agreed to make Di Tian a Soul Spirit for the Sea God’s Eighth Trial, strengthened him, and arranged a plan to disguise his sacrifice while attacking the Sea God Inheritance Grounds. Meanwhile, the Four Great Empires prepared to invade the Sun Moon Continent, and Vina learned that Xu Jiujiu intended to use the Dou Ling Empire as a pawn.

• The Silver Dragon King revealed that Dragon Valley knew Zhuge Lan’s plan, then offered Di Tian as a Soul Spirit for the Eighth Trial.
• Di Tian agreed to sacrifice himself for the Dragon God’s resurrection and his children’s future, and Zhuge Lan assigned him to Blue Bamboo instead of Huo Yuhao.
• Zhuge Lan raised Di Tian’s cultivation to eight hundred thousand years, and the Eye of Divine Punishment dispersed after Zhuge Lan assured it Di Tian would not attempt godhood.
• The Three Great Empires led by the Star Luo Empire mobilized to attack the Sun Moon Continent, while Xu Jiujiu privately asked Vina to let the Dou Ling Empire lead the assault.
• Vina refused to commit without consulting her father, then told Jiang Nannan and Xu Sanshi that Xu Jiujiu planned to use the Dou Ling Empire and claim the spoils.

Vina struggled with the empires’ offer to make her a future empress, while Xu He sought an alliance with God King Tang and received a succession of divine trials that rapidly transformed his strength. The chapter ended with Zhuge Lan gaining 850,000 Luck Value after rewriting Xu He’s fate.

• Jiang Nannan offered Vina the chance to become the second emperor after a brief reign by an emperor chosen by the Dou Ling Empire, and Vina remained troubled by the unexplained condition.
• Xu Sanshi gave Vina over a month to decide before the allied forces moved against the Sun Moon Empire, then left with Jiang Nannan.
• Xu He proposed that God King Tang help the Sun Moon Empire repel the allied armies and let Blue Bamboo kill Huo Yuhao, and Tang agreed in exchange for Xu He personally killing Huo Yuhao.
• God King Tang gave Xu He the Sea God Nine Trials, and Xu completed the first trial by praising the Sea God, receiving rewards that raised him from Rank 71 to Rank 80.
• Xu He completed additional trials and rewards from the Sea God and Fire God, reaching Rank 99 and gaining powerful abilities before receiving a trial to kill Huo Yuhao.
• Zhuge Lan saw a notification that rewriting Xu He's fate had earned 850,000 Luck Value.

Zhuge Lan met Xu He, learned about his divine trials and arranged for him to surrender when the coming war was nearly over. As the allied armies gathered for battle, Huo Yuhao and a reconnaissance team prepared to scout the Sun Moon Empire, leaving with Vina after she joined them.

• Zhuge Lan brought Xu He away from the Sea God Inheritance Grounds, and Xu He explained the Sea God's offer and his two divine trials.
• Zhuge Lan told Xu He to cooperate with the coming war and surrender near its end, and Xu He agreed after describing his revenge against those involved in the past usurpation.
• After a month of uneasy calm, the allied armies of the Heaven Dou, Dou Ling, and Star Luo Empires assembled near Sky Spirit to face the Sun Moon Empire.
• At a war council, Huo Yuhao proposed a nighttime reconnaissance mission, and the leaders assigned Wang Dong'er, Zhang Lexuan, and Vina to join him.
• Huo Yuhao led the five-person team out to scout, while Vina warned them that the Sun Moon Empire's satellite Soul Tools could coordinate precision strikes and that an attack might come that night.

Huo Yuhao and his companions surveyed the Sun Moon Empire camp, but the Lu brothers ambushed them with a Martial Soul Fusion Skill before they could retreat. Zhuge Lan broke the attack with a powerful repulsion, and as the Sun Moon Empire’s limit Douluo surrounded them, Huo Yuhao charged away alone to draw their pursuit.

• Vina agreed on behalf of the Heaven Dou Empire to Huo Yuhao’s proposal and used a signal Soul Tool to summon the allied army.
• Huo Yuhao’s group spotted eight Soul Tool positions at the Sun Moon Empire camp, but the encampment’s forces detected them and fired linked Level 9 attacks at Zhuge Lan’s Susanoo.
• Lu Renjia and Lu Renyi appeared and trapped the group in their Dragon Soul Break Dance Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while their Soul Tools drove Di Tian back.
• Zhuge Lan unleashed Super Almighty Universal Push to shatter the fusion domain, but Vina was badly injured and the Sun Moon Empire’s limit Douluo surrounded the group.
• Huo Yuhao activated his Water Dragon King Bone Armor True Body and charged toward the Sun Moon Empire, prompting Blue Bamboo to send a limit Douluo after him.

Di Tian stayed behind to protect the others, but after Huo Yuhao’s self-destruction froze the battlefield, God King Tang arrived to execute him. Di Tian instead blood-sacrificed himself to Blue Bamboo, helping him advance the Sea God’s trials, while the God King of Destruction arrived to prevent Tang San from interfering.

• Di Tian attacked the Sun Moon Empire camp to stop the limit Douluo from pursuing him, while Lan Yu fought back with Soul Tool cannons and Huo Yuhao and Blue Bamboo burned their power of faith in a separate clash.
• A Sea God’s Trident strike pierced Huo Yuhao’s defenses, and Huo Yuhao opened a spatial portal to send away his equipment as Di Tian tried to evacuate Wang Dong’er and the others.
• Blue Bamboo attacked Di Tian before he could enter the rift, and Huo Yuhao’s self-destruction froze the surrounding sky; Di Tian and Blue Bamboo eventually broke free, both badly weakened.
• Tang San arrived as the Asura God King and declared Di Tian guilty, but Di Tian used Blood Sacrifice to pour his Soul Power into Blue Bamboo and offered to help him fail the Sea God’s trials.
• The God King of Destruction arrived and warned Tang San against interfering, while Blue Bamboo silently began inscribing version 3.0 of the Soul Spirit Equality Contract.

Blue Bamboo completed Di Tian’s contract and left to summon the Star Dou Great Forest’s Soul Beasts, while the allied armies began their final battle against the Sun Moon Empire. As the battlefield spiraled into a brutal clash, the undead army helped sustain the fighting, serving a greater plan tied to the Undead Demi-plane.

• Di Tian completed the contract with Blue Bamboo, who absorbed him into a pale-gold Ninth Soul Ring, and Di Tian promised to summon the Star Dou Great Forest’s Soul Beasts.
• Blue Bamboo departed through a spatial rift, and Lu Renyi returned to the Sun Moon Empire camp to inform Xu He and revise the battle plan.
• The allied armies attacked the Sun Moon Empire’s fortified positions as both sides exchanged cannon fire, and an unseen controller used the Sun Moon Divine Needle to strike the allied barrier.
• Xuan Zi and Du Busi confronted the Sun Moon Divine Needle while the armies broke through the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses and began fighting at close range.
• Mo Xuan boosted the allied forces with his War Controller Martial Soul, and an undead army emerged through spatial gateways to carve out a buffer zone on the battlefield.
• The chapter revealed that the undead used the souls of the dead to replenish their ranks and that the war was intended to consume the Undead Demi-plane’s energy for Zhuge Lan’s greater plan.