Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong'er went to the Sun Moon Maritime Transport Authority to arrange a ship for travel to Tianma Port. After Jiang bought a million-Gold-Soul-Coin annual card, he told Wang Dong'er that the authority had been watching them and that the clerk had used an unwritten rule to steer him toward the higher payment.

• Wang Dong'er scolded Jiang Yuheng for his lazy attitude and fed him sour plums before taking him to the maritime authority.
• Jiang Yuheng asked about renting a large ship to Tianma Port and claimed he was arranging a grain deal with the Star Luo Empire.
• Jiang Yuheng paid for a million-Gold-Soul-Coin annual card, while Wang Dong'er privately questioned why he spent so much for one trip.
• Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong'er went to a café near the port, where he explained that the authority's staff had been watching them.
• Jiang Yuheng told Wang Dong'er that grain traders were expected to maintain at least a million in their accounts, though the Sun Moon Empire never announced the rule openly.

Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong'er discussed Xu Tianran's vigilance and the dangers of the Sun Moon Empire's seas as they prepared to travel toward Sunrise City. Their ship left port with hired marine Soul Engineers, while Elder Song was stunned by the empire's aerial reconnaissance technology.

• Jiang Yuheng warned Wang Dong'er that the deep sea and its Soul Beasts posed a greater danger than Xu Tianran, and that outsiders were poorly prepared to fight there.
• A Rank 7 Soul Engineer questioned a middle-aged woman about suspicious outsiders at the harbor, but her investigation found no one who seemed foreign.
• The middle-aged woman questioned the scale of the Sun Moon Empire's precautions, and the Rank 7 Soul Engineer warned her to stop speaking about the Emperor.
• Jiang Yuheng hired ten marine Soul Engineers to protect the group's ship, negotiating a seven-figure price.
• Elder Song saw the Sun Moon Empire's high-altitude reconnaissance Soul Tools and was shocked by the extent of its technology.

Shrek Academy and Body Sect Super Douluo attacked the Sun Moon Empire’s border to divert its forces and support Jiang Yuheng’s rescue mission. The bombardment continued through the night, and Xu Tianran learned of the losses the next morning, leaving the story with his anger directed at the border army.

• Qian Duoduo coveted the Sun Moon Empire’s reconnaissance Soul Tools as Shrek’s elders and Du Busi prepared to draw border fire away from Jiang Yuheng’s infiltration.
• Xuan Zi entered Sun Moon Empire airspace, captured and destroyed dozens of high-altitude reconnaissance Soul Tools, and crippled the Flying Soul Engineers’ equipment.
• The border forces unleashed artillery and anti-air weapons, while Xuan Zi and Du Busi argued and the other attackers moved to destroy shells, grain stores, and weapons arsenals.
• The Sun Moon Empire failed to stop the Super Douluo and sent urgent messages to Mingdu for reinforcements.
• Xu Tianran received news of the attack early the next morning and angrily demanded that Ju Zi explain the border army’s failure.

Ju Zi and Xu Tianran prepared Sunrise City for an attack by Shrek Academy’s rescuers, while Jiang Yuheng’s group arrived by sea and discovered the city had been turned into a trap. Jiang Yuheng ordered his allies to scout and map the area before they entered.

• Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to bring level-nine Soul Guide Cannonballs to Sunrise City for an experiment.
• Jiang Yuheng, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and their companions sailed across the sea and reached Sunrise City three days later.
• The group learned that Spirit Masters were barred from the city and that two King-level Soul Engineer Legions had been stationed nearby.
• Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong'er concluded that Xu Tianran intended to sacrifice the emptied city and trap the rescuers with level-nine Soul Guide Cannonballs.
• Jiang Yuheng told Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao to prepare a Spirit Detection report and sent Brother He, Xu Sanshi, Ye Guyi, and Nan Qiūqiū into the city to scout and map it.

Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong'er entered Sunrise City to find the hostages and plan a rescue, but discovered that the city was heavily monitored and might be a trap set by Xu Tianran. During their nighttime investigation, they encountered a suspicious broad-built woman at a special establishment, leaving their attempt to gather information unresolved.

• Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, Nan Qiūqiū, and Ye Guyi entered Sunrise City after the guards gave their merchant caravan an unexpectedly lenient inspection.
• Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong'er entered the city and noticed that it had few native residents and surveillance cameras covering nearly every intersection.
• At the hotel, Jiang Yuheng briefed the group and suspected Xu Tianran planned to trade the whole city for their lives.
• Jiang Yuheng, Wang Dong'er, and the others investigated the city at night, seeking useful information around shopping malls and special establishments.
• Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong'er, disguised, encountered a broad-built woman making a flirtatious sales pitch, and Jiang Yuheng suggested they leave.

Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong found Feng Ling disguised as a seductive shopkeeper while investigating the missing hostages in Sunrise City. They suspected his shop was an Evil Soul Masters base and planned to track him, but Huo Yuhao arrived before they could act.

• Jiang Yuheng recognized the shopkeeper Ling Ling as Feng Ling, the young sect master of Chongtian Sect, and secretly used his Time Domain to question him.
• Feng Ling failed to recognize his own name, so Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong left after Wang Dong marked him with the Light Goddess Butterfly's aura.
• Wang Dong suspected Feng Ling's appearance was a disguise and guessed the shop was an Evil Soul Masters base in Sunrise City.
• Jiang Yuheng agreed with Wang Dong's deduction, kissed her in public, and received a light slap.
• Huo Yuhao found Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong on the street and hurried over to them.

Huo Yuhao and his companions learned from Tang Ya where the hostages were held and began planning a rescue in Sunrise City. Wang Qiuer joined the team to detect Soul Tools and Rare Metal, while Jiang Yuheng struggled with a strange gap in his memory; in the Divine Realm, the Sea God watched a crimson influence spread across the sphere.

• Huo Yuhao told Jiang Yuheng and the others that Tang Ya had supplied a map to the Water Prison beneath Sunrise City’s northwest corner.
• Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao studied the map, and Jiang Yuheng urged them to inspect the site before planning the rescue.
• The team returned to the hotel and discussed how to free the hostages, evade the Evil Soul Masters, and escape Sunrise City.
• Wang Qiuer arrived and explained that Xuan Zi had sent her because her Golden Dragon Martial Soul could detect Rare Metal and Soul Tools.
• Jiang Yuheng experienced a headache and realized he might have forgotten something, while Wang Dong comforted him.
• The Sea God watched a crimson hue taint the sphere and wondered who was interfering with his Divine Power.

Wang Qiuer warned Jiang Yuheng that someone had altered his memories and interfered with his actions, prompting him to revise the mission plan. The next morning, the group began investigating the Soul Tools around the Water Prison, while Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong stayed behind.

• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Yuheng discussed the unexplained interference affecting Jiang Yuheng and considered whether a powerful outsider was responsible.
• Wang Qiuer revealed that Jiang Yuheng had forgotten her participation in the mission and relayed a warning from a handsome man in a black coat that someone was altering his memories.
• Jiang Yuheng thanked Wang Qiuer, assigned her to help Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao clear a safe exit, and planned for himself and Wang Dong to investigate the Water Prison and rescue hostages.
• Wang Qiuer asked whether Jiang Yuheng's friend was a Soul Beast, and Jiang Yuheng denied it before she left.
• Jiang Yuheng reassured Wang Dong and decided that Xu Sanshi and the others should investigate the Water Prison the next day, relying on Mysterious Nether Swap to escape if discovered.
• The next morning, Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Qiuer went outside the city to detect the Soul Tools, while Wang Dong complained that Jiang Yuheng had dragged her out of bed at six.

Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong met Tang Ya, who explained the dangers of rescuing hostages from the Water Prison and gave them the recipe for an antidote to Soft-Bone Powder. Jiang Yuheng was tasked with figuring out how to deliver it to the scattered prisoners, while he and Wang Dong planned to prepare the antidote and consider Feng Ling's rescue.

• Jiang Yuheng woke Wang Dong and told her that Tang Ya had contacted him, so they went to meet her at a Coffee Shop in West City.
• Tang Ya described the Water Prison's powerful guards and the hostages, who had been given Soft-Bone Powder and lost their Soul Power.
• Tang Ya gave Jiang Yuheng the antidote ingredients and preparation method, then asked him to devise a way to distribute it among the scattered hostages.
• Wang Dong teased Jiang Yuheng into taking responsibility for the delivery plan, and Tang Ya left after arranging to meet them at her territory if they needed help.
• Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong decided to gather everyone, prepare the antidote, and consider how to rescue Feng Ling.

Jiang Yuheng and the others planned how to obtain antidote ingredients and rescue the Water Prison hostages, while Nan Qiūqiū learned that some captives had been taken away. She pleaded for them to find out whether her mother was among them, and Wang Dong urged Jiang Yuheng to consider rescuing her if time allowed.

• Xu Sanshi summarized the remaining tasks: rescue Feng Ling, prepare the antidote, deliver it to the hostages, and escape.
• Huo Yuhao suggested buying the antidote ingredients in small, separate batches, and Jiang Yuheng assigned the group to make purchases throughout the day.
• Nan Qiūqiū asked whether the group would rescue hostages taken away by Evil Soul Masters, and Jiang Yuheng said they would not risk delaying the main rescue.
• Nan Qiūqiū feared that her mother might be among the missing hostages, and Jiang Yuheng argued that searching for them could endanger everyone else.
• Wang Dong comforted Nan Qiūqiū, who begged her to find out what had happened to her mother.
• Wang Dong later told Jiang Yuheng that they should try to rescue Nan Qiūqiū's mother if time permitted.

Jiang Yuheng and his companions discussed the vast network of Soul Tool Bombs surrounding Sunrise City and planned how to neutralize it. After the team split up to handle the bombs, Jiang Yuheng told Tang Ya that the land routes were too dangerous and escape by sea was their only option.

• Jiang Yuheng reassured Wang Dong that he had acted harshly toward Nan Qiūqiū because he was protecting the team's safety, especially Wang Dong's.
• Huo Yuhao reported that Soul Tool Bombs had been planted along the roads and mountains, linked to trigger chain reactions.
• Jiang Yuheng marked crucial intersections on the map and decided that he and He Caitou should dismantle only the bombs' key components.
• Jiang Yuheng and Tang Ya met in the East District, where Tang Ya explained that she had suggested the Evil Soul Masters hide in the lively area.
• Jiang Yuheng showed Tang Ya the intelligence map, revealed that about four hundred bombs made land escape too dangerous, and said they would have to flee by sea.

Jiang Yuheng and Tang Ya devised a way to free the tournament contestants held in the Holy Spirit Cult’s Water Prison by secretly giving them an antidote to Soft-Bone Powder. While the antidote took effect, Jiang Yuheng went to help Huo Yuhao and the others dismantle bombs.

• Tang Ya disguised Jiang Yuheng and brought him into the Water Prison to inspect the imprisoned contestants.
• Jiang Yuheng realized the Holy Spirit Cult was dosing the prisoners with Soft-Bone Powder and proposed putting its antidote in their food.
• Tang Ya agreed to distribute the antidote in batches, while Jiang Yuheng spent the night preparing it outside the city.
• Tang Ya administered the antidote to the prisoners during the morning, noon, and evening shifts, with its effects expected to take hold by the following night.
• Jiang Yuheng went to help Huo Yuhao and the others dismantle bombs and pocketed them.

Jiang Yuheng and Huo Yuhao secretly contacted the Water Prison captives and prepared them for a rescue planned for the night after tomorrow. Tang Ya stayed behind to serve as an inside agent and planned to write to Bei Bei.

• With Tang Ya’s help, Jiang Yuheng and Huo Yuhao entered the Water Prison and used Spirit Detection Sharing to contact the captives without alerting the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Huo Yuhao swore upon his Martial Soul that he had come to rescue them, and an elder quietly asked him to explain the plan.
• Huo Yuhao told the captives that antidote had been added to their food and that their rescue would happen the night after tomorrow.
• Jiang Yuheng checked Huo Yuhao’s impressions for signs of a spy among the captives, and Huo Yuhao reported none.
• Tang Ya declined to leave, choosing to remain as an inside agent, and said she would write a letter to Bei Bei.

Jiang Yuheng’s group prepared to rescue Nan Shuishui, planting Soul Tool Bombs around Sun Moon City and learning that she was alive but held separately by the Third Elder. The rescue operation began with explosions at the North and West Gates, leaving the team poised to draw the city’s forces away.

• Jiang Yuheng told He Caitou to regroup with Xu Sanshi and the others after detonating the Soul Tool Bombs, while he and his allies handled the rescue.
• Jiang Yuheng reassured Nan Qiūqiū that her mother’s rescue was planned, and Nan Qiūqiū thanked him before trading barbs with him.
• Tang Ya reported that Nan Shuishui was alive and safe, held separately by the Third Elder, and marked the location of her hiding place in northern Sun Moon City.
• After replenishing their strength, Jiang Yuheng told Huo Yuhao and He Caitou to begin the operation.
• He Caitou detonated the bombs beneath the North Gate, destroying the gate and prompting the guards to send out Soul Engineers and Reconnaissance Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao used their combined Soul Power to incapacitate the West Gate guards, then detonated the bombs and blasted the gate into scrap.

Jiang Yuheng led the breakout from the Water Prison amid coordinated attacks that plunged Sunrise City into chaos. When urgent signal flares summoned two King-level Soul Engineer Corps, he ordered Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao to delay them as the escapees continued toward safety.

• The deputy commander struggled to respond as attacks isolated North City, while Tang Ya and the Third and Fourth Elders left the Water Prison to assist elsewhere.
• Jiang Yuheng entered the Water Prison, and the imprisoned Soul Masters broke free and overwhelmed the Evil Soul Masters guarding them.
• Huo Yuhao monitored the operation as Xu Sanshi immobilized the South City garrison with his Black Tortoise ability.
• Jiang Yuheng opened a breach in the city wall with his Frost Dragon and led the freed Soul Masters toward an escape route.
• Red-and-blue emergency flares summoned nearby forces, so Jiang Yuheng told Huo Yuhao to have Xiao Xiao hold back the West City garrison and to detonate buried bombs if the two King-level Soul Engineer Corps approached.
• Nan Qiūqiū found the place where her mother was held, with Wang Dong protecting her.

Wang Dong and Nan Qiūqiū rescued Nan Shuishui from her underground prison and began fleeing Sunrise City while Jiang Yuheng and Huo Yuhao faced the returning Soul Engineer Legions. The rescue party remained in danger, and Wang Qiuer rushed back into the city against orders, drawing Jiang Yuheng’s fury.

• Wang Dong and Nan Qiūqiū defeated two Evil Soul Masters, found a secret passage, and discovered Nan Shuishui bound underground.
• Nan Qiūqiū could not break the enchanted chains, so Wang Dong freed Nan Shuishui by destroying the surrounding stones, and the three headed toward West City.
• Huo Yuhao warned Jiang Yuheng that another King-level Soul Engineer Legion was approaching, while he and Xiao Xiao prepared to hold off the reinforcements.
• Jiang Yuheng told Xu Sanshi that he and the others could not withdraw until Nan Qiūqiū returned, and Xu Sanshi warned him about the danger of staying in the city.
• Wang Qiuer ignored He Caitou’s attempt to stop her and charged back into Sunrise City to rescue anyone still inside.
• Xu Sanshi reported Wang Qiuer’s return to Jiang Yuheng, who angrily complained that she had added to the danger as he faced a Soul Engineer Legion and several Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters.

Jiang Yuheng stayed behind in Sunrise City so Xu Sanshi could lead the others to safety, then turned the Evil Soul Masters’ dark aura against them and unleashed the Frost Dragon. In Mingdu, Xu Tianran ordered the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps to withdraw and self-destruct, while Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao struggled to hold their position and waited for Jiang Yuheng.

• Jiang Yuheng ordered Xu Sanshi to evacuate everyone through North City while he sought a way to escape by sea.
• The Fourth Elder struck Jiang Yuheng and tried to corrupt him, but Jiang Yuheng absorbed the dark aura into his Extreme Ice.
• Jiang Yuheng released the Frost Dragon, which swallowed the Third Elder and repelled the Fourth Elder as its aura spread.
• Xu Tianran learned Jiang Yuheng was in Sunrise City and ordered the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps to withdraw and activate its self-destruct.
• Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao continued defending West City as Xiao Xiao tried to contact Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong.

Jiang Yuheng faced the Evil Soul Masters and the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps in Sunrise City while waiting for Dong'er and the others. After Xu Tianran ordered the city destroyed and the commander pressed the switch, Wang Qiuer escaped to find Huo Yuhao as Jiang Yuheng prepared for the coming explosion.

• Xiao Xiao proposed entering Sunrise City, but Huo Yuhao told her to keep trying to contact the others and said he would go in with her if needed.
• Wang Qiuer arrived beside Jiang Yuheng, warned him that Xu Tianran had ordered Sunrise City destroyed, and questioned why Wang Dong'er had not returned.
• The communications officer ordered the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps commander to withdraw some elite forces and press the destruction switch within three minutes.
• The commander quietly withdrew part of his men and pressed the switch, accepting Xu Tianran's order despite his anger at the sacrifice of his soldiers and the city.
• Jiang Yuheng sent Wang Qiuer to find Huo Yuhao and the others, and she broke through the Soul Engineer Corps' encirclement with her Martial Soul Avatar.
• As Fourth Elder taunted Jiang Yuheng and Third Elder prepared a sneak attack, Jiang Yuheng rubbed his Butterfly Ring, which responded faintly thirty seconds before the explosion.

Jiang Yuheng swallowed Tang Ya and fought to escape as Sunrise City collapsed, while Xu Sanshi brought the rescued contestants safely to a ship bound for home. Xu Tianran heard that the commanders still could not confirm Jiang Yuheng’s fate and condemned their failure.

• Jiang Yuheng transformed into a Frost Dragon, swallowed Tang Ya, and used his Time Domain to hold off the Holy Spirit Cult elders as Sunrise City began collapsing.
• Xu Sanshi and his companions reached Haiyue City with more than six hundred rescued contestants and boarded a cargo ship for Star Luo and Heaven Soul.
• Xu Sanshi reassured Han Zhanhu and the other team leaders that Shrek Academy and the Spirit Pagoda had worked together to rescue them, and they offered their thanks and support.
• Xu Tianran questioned the commanders of the two King-level Soul Engineer Legions, who could not confirm whether Jiang Yuheng was dead.

After the failed operation at Sunrise City, Xu Tianran confronted Zhongli Wu over the Holy Spirit Cult’s losses and the escape of the hostages. The empire’s allies withdrew from the border, leaving Xu Tianran to prepare for war while plotting to deal with Zhongli Wu later.

• Xu Tianran questioned the surviving Soul Engineer Corps commanders about the explosion and learned that the Holy Spirit Cult’s Third Elder, Fourth Elder, and Saintess had suffered devastating losses.
• Zhongli Wu arrived with the crippled elders and questioned why Sunrise City had collapsed and how the hostages had recovered their Soul Power and escaped.
• Xu Tianran challenged Zhongli Wu over his failed guarantee that no antidote to the Soul Extinguishing Powder could be made, while Zhongli Wu claimed pursuit forces would catch the escapees.
• Xu Tianran received word that Shrek Academy, Star Luo, and Heaven Soul had withdrawn from the border, and accused Zhongli Wu’s plan of causing enormous losses without results.
• Zhongli Wu ordered five surviving Evil Soul Masters to kill themselves and extracted the souls of the Soul Engineer Corps commanders, then left the Conference Hall.
• Wang Yiheng asked whether Xu Tianran would tolerate Zhongli Wu’s actions, and Xu Tianran told him to restore the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Corps and focus on the coming war.