Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yuheng explained why he believed Dai Hao had not been replaced, then left Wang Dong'er to delegate her work to Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao. As the Sun Moon Empire seized West City, Xu Jiawei sent Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu to ask Jiang Yuheng for help, ordering them to offer him whatever he wanted.

• Jiang Yuheng told Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er that Dai Hao's strange behavior might stem from divine mental interference, and said he was waiting for the Star Luo Empire to reach a critical point before negotiating.
• Wang Dong'er complained about her workload, so Jiang Yuheng arranged for Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao to take over her duties; Huo Yuhao found a mountain of paperwork waiting for him.
• Xu Jiawei demanded information about the border, blamed Dai Hao, and grew angry during their meeting before news arrived that the Sun Moon Empire had captured West City.
• Dai Hao urged Xu Jiawei to seek Jiang Yuheng's help, and Xu Jiawei sent Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu to Shrek City with instructions to give Jiang Yuheng whatever he requested.
• Xu Jiujiu wanted to avoid meeting Jiang Yuheng, but Dai Hao insisted that she accompany him to fulfill their mission.

Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu sought Jiang Yuheng’s help as the Sun Moon Empire threatened the Star Luo Empire, but Jiang negotiated over the empire’s rare metals. After exposing and expelling the Sea God’s divine sense from Xu Jiujiu, he rejected the offer of forty percent of the treasury’s metals as too low.

• Xu Jiujiu agreed to meet the White Tiger Duke’s demands, and Dai Hao took her to Shrek City to seek help.
• Mu En ordered the Sea God's Pavilion Elders to receive Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu but not discuss their request, following Jiang Yuheng’s instructions.
• Dai Hao waited for Jiang Yuheng, who arrived with Wang Dong'er, and Xu Jiujiu apologized for her earlier opposition.
• Jiang Yuheng stopped time, confronted the Sea God for controlling Xu Jiujiu’s consciousness, and extinguished the divine sense before restoring time.
• Dai Hao offered rare metals from the Star Luo Empire’s treasury in exchange for Jiang Yuheng’s help, and Jiang rejected Xu Jiujiu’s offer of forty percent as insufficient.

Jiang Yuheng rejected Xu Jiujiu’s initial offer, then agreed to help the Star Luo Empire after it offered seventy percent of its rare metals. After hearing how the Sun Moon Empire was advancing toward Star Luo City, he traveled to the capital with the White Tiger Duke and Princess Jiujiu, where he immediately confronted the emperor about the price.

• Jiang Yuheng dismissed Xu Jiujiu’s offer of forty percent of the rare metals, and Wang Dong'er urged her to make a more generous proposal.
• Huo Yuhao reported that the Star Luo Empire had agreed to give up seventy percent of its rare metals, and Jiang Yuheng arranged to meet its leaders at the Spirit Pagoda.
• The White Tiger Duke and Princess Jiujiu told Jiang Yuheng that the Sun Moon Empire had captured border cities and was advancing steadily toward Star Luo City.
• Jiang Yuheng agreed to leave for the Star Luo Empire that night, reassured Wang Dong'er, and traveled with Dai Hao and Princess Jiujiu to the capital.
• Emperor Xu Jiawei welcomed Jiang Yuheng, who bluntly brought up the rare-metals deal before they could begin their formal pleasantries.

Jiang Yuheng arrived in the Star Luo Empire, demanded clear terms before helping, and refused to discuss strategy until the next day. He secretly went to West City, where he and Huo Yuhao suspected an unknown commander was directing the Sun Moon Empire’s campaign, and ordered intelligence gathered.

• Jiang Yuheng told Xu Jiujiu and Xu Jiawei that he wanted the terms of their agreement made clear, and Xu Jiawei promised not to go back on his word.
• Xu Jiawei asked Jiang Yuheng to propose a way to retake West City, but Jiang Yuheng said they could discuss it tomorrow and left for his hotel.
• Xu Jiawei’s ministers criticized Jiang Yuheng, while Xu Jiujiu and Dai Hao urged the emperor to give him more time.
• Dai Hao described Jiang Yuheng as steady, perceptive, and almost godlike, leaving Xu Jiawei uncertain but willing to wait.
• Jiang Yuheng secretly left the capital for West City and concluded that the Sun Moon Empire’s campaign was not led by Kong Deming or Xu Tianran.
• Huo Yuhao warned that the tactics matched the earlier attack on the Heaven Dou Empire, and Jiang Yuheng ordered Dong'er to gather intelligence through merchant caravans.

Jiang Yuheng secured Xu Jiawei’s funding and authority to reclaim West City, then tested the city’s loyalty by presenting the Emperor’s token at its gate. After the guards tried to seize him, he defeated them and entered amid a rising civilian revolt.

• Jiang Yuheng returned from West City, and Princess Jiujiu brought him to meet Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao.
• The Chancellor feared Jiang Yuheng had uncovered important intelligence and ordered a reconnaissance machine to spy on their conversation.
• Jiang Yuheng learned that Sun Moon Empire might target South City, then secured an agreement and initial funding from Xu Jiawei to reclaim West City.
• Jiang Yuheng entered West City with a crowd, presented the Emperor’s token, and confirmed that the occupation forces feared Star Luo Empire’s authority.
• Jiang Yuheng froze and crushed the guards who tried to arrest him, prompting civilians and merchants to follow him into the city.
• The city lord, commander of the Imperial Dragon Legion, learned of the gate incident and threatened the guards.

The Royal Dragon Legion Commander executed captured civilians in West City to provoke Jiang Yuheng into intervening. Jiang Yuheng uncovered President Zhong’s plan to oppose the Sun Moon Empire and demanded half of the rare metal under the Xi Shui Alliance’s control as payment for helping.

• The Royal Dragon Legion Commander ordered the capture and public execution of civilians and merchants who had entered West City, then used the killings to suppress the population and bait Jiang Yuheng.
• A citizen representative asked Jiang Yuheng to help seek justice, but Jiang Yuheng demanded payment and challenged the man to show his identity token.
• Jiang Yuheng released the Frost Dragon’s suppressive force, prompting the representative to reveal that he was President Zhong of the Xi Shui Alliance’s Star Luo Empire branch.
• President Zhong explained that the Holy Spirit Cult feared the Sun Moon Empire would discard it after conquering the continent, and Jiang Yuheng asked what reward he would receive for helping.
• Jiang Yuheng prepared to leave, but President Zhong stopped him and asked what he wanted; Jiang Yuheng demanded half of the rare metal under President Zhong’s control.

Jiang Yuheng used the Holy Spirit Cult’s failed negotiations to gain leverage while withholding his plans from the Star Luo Empire. As Xu Jiawei’s court debated whether to exploit the Sun Moon Empire’s apparent mistake in West City, the prime minister warned that the situation might be a trap.

• Jiang Yuheng refused Zhongli Wu’s demand for half the city’s profits, then discussed the Holy Spirit Cult’s weakness with Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao.
• Jiang Yuheng waited in West City while the Sun Moon Empire’s army advanced in the south, and Xu Jiujiu confronted him for failing to act.
• Jiang Yuheng rebuked Xu Jiujiu, told her to report that West City’s people supported the Star Luo Empire, and hinted that he could change allies.
• Xu Jiujiu reported the Sun Moon Empire’s brutal executions in West City to Xu Jiawei, prompting Dai Hao to urge an immediate military advance.
• The prime minister cautioned Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu that the Royal Dragon Soul Engineer Legion’s apparent blunder might be deliberate, and questioned an attack.

Xu Jiawei struggled to choose between reinforcing West City and protecting South City as the Star Luo Empire’s leaders argued over the military response. After he chose to defend South City, Jiang Yuheng received half of President Zhong’s Rare Metal in exchange for helping the Holy Spirit Cult destroy a plan.

• Xu Jiujiu and Dai Hao urged Xu Jiawei to send troops to West City, while the prime minister warned that doing so would leave South City vulnerable.
• The God of Destruction accused the Sea God of interfering in the Douluo Continent and seeking Rong Nianbing’s position, but the Sea God demanded evidence and resolved to cover his tracks.
• Xu Jiawei dismissed Xu Jiujiu, Dai Hao, and the prime minister, then spent three days weighing his options.
• Xu Jiawei chose to reinforce South City and abandon West City, leaving Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu without troops to help Jiang Yuheng.
• President Zhong gave Jiang Yuheng half of the Rare Metal under his control and demanded that he help the Holy Spirit Cult destroy the plan.

Jiang Yuheng enlisted President Zhong and the Holy Spirit Cult to provoke unrest in West City, arranging a massacre of Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers to turn public anger against the occupiers. After the city reacted with outrage and satisfaction, Jiang urged President Zhong to keep escalating the disturbance.

• Jiang Yuheng learned that President Zhong could summon two hundred Evil Soul Masters and urged him to exploit West City's hidden tensions.
• President Zhong's subordinates proposed slaughtering people, but Jiang arrived and ordered the Cult to kill the Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers flying outside the city.
• The Evil Soul Masters killed the Soul Engineers, drained their blood, and displayed their heads and bodies at the city gates.
• At sunrise, commoners and merchants gathered beneath the walls, where many welcomed the killings as punishment for the Sun Moon Empire.
• President Zhong asked what to do next, and Jiang told him to continue provoking unrest while rejecting the idea that he was a genius.

Jiang Yuheng intercepted the Sun Moon Empire’s messengers after President Zhong maneuvered him into acting, while the Holy Spirit Cult killed the other messenger groups. He warned President Zhong that any escaped Soul Engineers would cost him his head, then sped back as Zhong waited anxiously for news.

• Jiang Yuheng rejected President Zhong’s attempt to recruit him and gave the name “Frost Dragon Butterfly” before leaving.
• Over three days, the Holy Spirit Cult attacked patrols in West City, prompting its officials to send five messenger groups toward South City for reinforcements.
• President Zhong learned of the messengers and arranged for Jiang Yuheng to intercept them, while Wang Dong'er warned Jiang that Zhong wanted to conserve his own forces.
• Jiang Yuheng set out toward the messengers and told Wang Dong'er he would make the Holy Spirit Cult pay two lives for manipulating him.
• The Holy Spirit Cult intercepted and killed the messenger groups on Jiang Yuheng’s route, while Jiang killed the Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers he encountered.
• After half an hour without news from his subordinates, President Zhong grew more anxious as Jiang Yuheng warned him that any escaped messengers would cost him his head.

Jiang Yuheng and President Zhong drove the Sun Moon Empire’s forces out of West City and launched attacks on their retreating Soul Engineers. After Jiang reported the city’s fall to Princess Jiujiu, she and the White Tiger Duke urged the Star Luo Empire to reclaim it.

• President Zhong grew anxious when one of his interceptors failed to return, and Jiang Yuheng appeared with the subordinate’s burned corpse.
• Jiang gave President Zhong a letter and convinced him that they had no choice but to intensify their attacks on the Sun Moon Empire’s forces.
• Over two days, President Zhong’s Evil Soul Masters trapped the Sun Moon Empire’s troops in West City, and the city’s three officials chose to retreat with their army.
• As the Soul Engineers withdrew, Jiang and President Zhong ordered repeated ambushes that inflicted heavy losses on the rear legion.
• Jiang informed Princess Jiujiu that the Sun Moon Empire had left West City, and she and the White Tiger Duke called for an immediate campaign to retake it.

Xu Jiawei’s forces recovered West City while Jiang Yuheng refused to take on further responsibilities, and Kong Deming punished the officers who abandoned the city before weighing how to attack South City. In the Clear Sky Fort secret realm, Tang Hao arrived to investigate Xiao Qi’s relationship with Jiang Yuheng and heard the Azure Ox praise him as worthy of her.

• Xu Jiawei ordered tax relief and settlement funds for West City, and the White Tiger Duke and Xu Jiujiu entered the intact city with Jiang Yuheng.
• Jiang Yuheng asked Xu Jiujiu for Rare Metal as thanks, then left rather than help plan the recovery of South City.
• Kong Deming questioned the three administrators who had abandoned West City, and, after Jing Hongchen endorsed clear punishment, had them beheaded before the army.
• Kong Deming stopped the commanders’ argument over attacking South City and proposed using the Holy Spirit Cult’s forces in the coming battle.
• Tang Hao arrived at the Clear Sky Fort secret realm and asked the Azure Ox about Xiao Qi’s relationship with Jiang Yuheng.
• The Azure Ox said Xiao Qi and Jiang Yuheng were close and praised Jiang Yuheng as worthy of entrusting her to.

Tang Hao demanded that Azure Ox kill Jiang Yuheng or bring him in, but Azure Ox and Titan Giant Ape chose to seek him out themselves. Meanwhile, after West City was retaken, Jiang Yuheng faced questions about his tactics as the Star Luo Empire prepared to attack South City.

• Tang Hao threatened Azure Ox and demanded Jiang Yuheng be killed or delivered to him so Sea God's plan and the Child of Destiny would remain under their control.
• Azure Ox and Titan Giant Ape decided to find Jiang Yuheng, believing they had to act despite Tang Hao's threat.
• At a banquet in West City, Dai Hao and Princess Jiujiu thanked Jiang Yuheng and awarded him half the city's property and treasures.
• Jiang Yuheng refused to explain how he had persuaded West City's Soul Engineer Legion to leave without a fight.
• Princess Jiujiu redirected the banquet's discussion to the difficult upcoming campaign to retake South City, and the others looked to Jiang Yuheng for a surprise strategy.

Jiang Yuheng paid President Zhong five hundred million Gold Soul Coins to have the Holy Spirit Cult harass the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineer Legion, advancing his plan to profit from the conflict and weaken his rivals. After discussing the plan and Spirit Pagoda's research with Wang Dong'er, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao, he met Daming and Erming, who warned him that Tang Hao was nearby and had come to separate him from Wang Dong'er or kill him.

• Jiang Yuheng gave President Zhong a five-hundred-million-Gold-Soul-Coin check in exchange for the Holy Spirit Cult intensifying its harassment of the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineer Legion near South City.
• Jiang Yuheng explained to Wang Dong'er, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao that he intended to weaken the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire while positioning the Spirit Pagoda to benefit.
• Jiang Yuheng learned that Artificial Soul Spirit research remained limited by the Spirit Pagoda's equipment and ordered the available Rare Metal invested in experiments and a trustworthy Pagoda Master sent to the Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires.
• Daming and Erming met Jiang Yuheng and told him that Tang Hao had arrived nearby, intending either to separate him from Wang Dong'er or to kill him.
• Jiang Yuheng asked Daming and Erming whether they planned to help Tang Hao, while they left their own position unclear.

Jiang Yuheng won Azure Ox and Titan Giant Ape’s support against the Sea God and waited for the Lord of the Plane to confront him. As the Sun Moon Empire advanced on South City, Princess Xu Jiujiu left to seek Heaven Dou’s help, while Jing Hongchen accepted a mission to pressure that empire into staying out of the war.

• Azure Ox explained that he and Titan Giant Ape sided with Jiang Yuheng because they cared for Xiao Dong, trusted Jiang Yuheng’s character, and had seen his mastery of time.
• Jiang Yuheng said he would wait for the Lord of the Plane, then attended the Star Luo Empire’s campaign meeting and refused to persuade Heaven Dou to send troops.
• Princess Xu Jiujiu left to seek resources and visit Vina in the Heaven Dou Empire, while Jiang Yuheng promised to help capture South City.
• Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen discussed whether Heaven Dou and Dou Ling would aid Star Luo, and Jing estimated a fifty-percent chance for Heaven Dou because of Jiang Yuheng.
• Kong Deming ordered Jing Hongchen to pressure Heaven Dou and spread rumors to delay its response, and Jing readily agreed to lead his legion.

Jing Hongchen secured a troop deployment token by convincing Kong Deming that he had no hidden motives, then warned Jiang Yuheng that the Sun Moon Empire’s forces had weakened and that an internal spy might be involved. Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao traveled to Star Luo City to investigate, where Wang Dong'er informed Xu Jiawei that a spy was hidden among the empire’s highest officials.

• Jing Hongchen persuaded Kong Deming to let him lead a Soul Engineer Legion away from the main front and secretly told Jiang Yuheng that only two King-level Soul Engineer Legions remained.
• Jing Hongchen warned Jiang Yuheng of a possible internal spy, and Jiang Yuheng asked Wang Dong'er to inspect the Star Luo Empire’s upper ranks.
• Wang Dong'er set out for the Star Luo Empire, and Xiao Xiao joined her after receiving Wang Dong'er's message.
• Xu Jiawei welcomed Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao to Star Luo City, then met with them privately after a banquet.
• Wang Dong'er told Xu Jiawei that an important official was likely an undercover agent, and they agreed that investigating openly could alert the spy.

Jiang Yuheng arranged for the Holy Spirit Cult to investigate a high-ranking Sun Moon Empire infiltrator in the Star Luo Empire, then joined Dai Hao and Princess Jiujiu to inspect occupied South City. The city’s citizens were so terrified of the Sun Moon Empire that Star Luo’s commanders questioned whether the city was worth saving.

• Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao reported to Jiang Yuheng that they had noticed nothing suspicious among the Star Luo officials, so he planned to have the White Tiger Duke bring in a Soul Engineer Legion to pressure the infiltrator.
• Jiang Yuheng paid President Zhong one million Gold Soul Coins to investigate the suspected infiltrator and learned that Kong Deming had sent Jing Hongchen to the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Jiang Yuheng traveled in disguise with Dai Hao and Princess Jiujiu to South City, where an inspection device failed to detect anything unusual about them.
• The three entered South City and saw citizens cower in terror before Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers, leading Jiang Yuheng to conclude that their original plan would not work.
• Dai Hao and Princess Jiujiu investigated the city and reported that its citizens seemed affected by a curse, prompting Star Luo’s legion commanders to argue that saving the city would be too dangerous.

Jiang Yuheng rejected a direct assault on demoralized South City and proposed using fear against the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer Legion. After President Zhong helped reproduce the terror tactics used in West City, the enemy camp fell into chaos, setting Jiang Yuheng’s plan in motion.

• Princess Xu Jiujiu and the White Tiger Duke argued with their commanders over whether to abandon South City, and Jiang Yuheng said a direct attack would not improve the situation.
• Princess Xu Jiujiu insisted that the Star Luo Empire could not surrender territory, while Jiang Yuheng asked only for a quiet place to sleep before agreeing to consider a solution.
• Jiang Yuheng and President Zhong investigated a nearby city and found its citizens terrified of Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers.
• Jiang Yuheng asked President Zhong to use Evil Soul Master tactics to recreate the terror campaign, with the Star Luo Empire’s Soul Engineer Legion applying pressure.
• President Zhong reproduced West City’s method with a small team, throwing the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer camp into chaos and making its forces more cautious.

Jiang Yuheng left with the Imperial Reconnaissance Corps to destroy a group of Evil Soul Masters in the Ming Dou Mountain Range. He revealed his adult form and true power, wiped out all one hundred enemies in minutes, and emerged to the astonishment of the waiting troops.

• Xiao Hongchen scolded Jiang Yuheng for accepting the dangerous mission, while Meng Hongchen defended him and went to ask Jing Hongchen to intervene.
• Jiang Yuheng set out for the Ming Dou Mountain Range with the Imperial Reconnaissance Corps and reassured their Captain that he would succeed as Elder Chen's Personal disciple.
• Jiang Yuheng reached the mountain range, where Kong Deming and his Soul Engineer Legion waited outside, then entered the fog alone.
• The Evil Soul Masters surrounded Jiang Yuheng and revealed that they had prepared an Ice Attribute defensive Soul Tool to counter him.
• Jiang Yuheng put on his Lan Ya, transformed from a child into a young man, and declared that he was not an ice Attribute Spirit Master.
• Jiang Yuheng used Deep Blue flames to exterminate the hundred Evil Soul Masters in less than ten minutes, leaving the onlookers fearful and incredulous.

Jiang Yuheng’s plan to sow fear in the Sun Moon Empire’s camps prompted Kong Deming to unleash a brutal counterattack on South City. As the city’s defenses faltered, Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu sent aid and summoned Yu Heng to decide what to do next.

• President Zhong failed to persuade Jiang Yuheng to join the Holy Spirit Cult, but the cult carried out his plan to kill ten Soul Engineers and spread fear through their camps.
• Kong Deming suspected an outside force was attacking his squads and sent elite Soul Engineers to investigate, prompting the Holy Spirit Cult to target civilians instead.
• After civilians were murdered and their bodies left in the Sun Moon Empire’s camps, Kong Deming ordered the Imperial Dragon and Dread Claw Soul Engineer Legions to attack South City and rewarded kills with promotion merit.
• South City’s defenses suffered heavy losses, and its lord requested reinforcements while wondering what had provoked Kong Deming’s sudden assault.
• Dai Hao ordered Soul Tool Legions to assist South City through lateral interference, and Xu Jiujiu summoned Yu Heng to discuss their next move.