Chapter Summaries

Princess Xu Jiujiu and White Tiger Duke Dai Hao agreed to follow Jiang Yuheng’s dangerous plan as the Sun Moon Empire pushed the Star Luo Empire’s defenders toward collapse. Jiang Yuheng and Huo Yuhao then entered the Ming Dou Mountain Range to disrupt the enemy’s supply route, while Jiang Yuheng also called on Di Tian to act.

• Princess Xu Jiujiu welcomed Jiang Yuheng’s decision to act and promised him increased resources, while Kong Deming warned his commanders not to underestimate him.
• The Star Luo Empire’s defenders held Central City despite heavy losses, and Kong Deming ordered his legions to use captured prisoners as shields to force a surrender.
• White Tiger Duke Dai Hao worried that the Star Luo Empire could not afford further losses, but Jiang Yuheng urged him to commit fully to defending Central City until the next day.
• Dai Hao returned to headquarters and ordered his forces to hold the line, while Sun Moon Empire officers suspected Jiang Yuheng had changed his attitude.
• Jiang Yuheng and Huo Yuhao passed through the Time Domain and flew toward the Sun Moon Empire’s supply road in the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
• Jiang Yuheng contacted Wang Qiuer and asked her to have Di Tian act against the Sun Moon Empire’s sea transport route.

Huo Yuhao and Jiang Yuheng attacked a Sun Moon Empire supply convoy, and Jiang Yuheng pushed Huo Yuhao to kill the surviving transport soldiers. The supplies were destroyed, and Kong Deming’s commanders received news of the raid as their front-line operation continued.

• Huo Yuhao secretly planted Soul Tool High Explosive Bombs along the convoy’s route while Jiang Yuheng watched from above.
• The transport captain argued for caution, but the convoy continued after its Detector Soul Tool reported no danger ahead.
• Huo Yuhao used Ice Burst, with Jiang Yuheng’s help freezing the water supplies, to destroy the convoy’s water and meat stores.
• Jiang Yuheng stopped time and challenged Huo Yuhao over sparing the soldiers; after time resumed, Huo Yuhao dealt with every transport soldier present.
• The Royal Dragon Legion Commander and Terrorclaw Legion Commander received word that the supplies had been robbed and worried about the effect on their army.

After Jiang Yuheng destroyed the Sun Moon Empire's logistics, Kong Deming ordered a retreat, and the Star Luo Empire began reclaiming territory and pursuing the withdrawing forces. At the border, a deputy city lord questioned orders to abandon some defenses, leaving the city leadership facing a possible act of insubordination.

• The Terrorclaw Legion Commander told Kong Deming that the Sun Moon Empire's logistics had been destroyed, and Kong recognized Jiang Yuheng's move and recommended retreat.
• The commanders learned that Ju Zi had issued the withdrawal order, and the Terrorclaw Legion Commander criticized her intervention before apologizing for his outburst.
• Kong Deming ordered the troops to retreat and explained that the truth about their severed logistics would persuade the Soul Engineer Legions to withdraw.
• Dai Hao received news of the retreat and ordered the Star Luo Empire's forces to pursue the enemy and seize its Soul Tool Weapons.
• Kong Deming ordered the border defenses to be consolidated, but the deputy city lord objected to abandoning the territory and questioned whether the order should be followed.

Jiang Yuheng discussed his plans with Luo Yuexi, who hinted that Ju Zi was secretly directing Kong Deming and had feelings for him. In the Star Luo Empire, Xu Jiawei’s court sought a way to address its shortages, and Xu Jiujiu proposed sending Jiang Yuheng to restore trade with the Sun Moon Empire.

• The City Lord ordered the Deputy City Lord to evacuate toward the Central District Mountain Range, while Kong Deming’s three King-level Soul Engineer Legions slaughtered pursuing Star Luo soldiers and covered the retreat.
• Jiang Yuheng told Luo Yuexi that he intended to support He Caitou in becoming emperor of the Sun Moon Empire and exploit Xu Tianran’s rebellion to bring the empire into civil strife.
• Luo Yuexi hinted that Ju Zi, whom Jiang Yuheng had met at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, was directing Kong Deming through her schemes and had unusual feelings for him.
• Luo Yuexi left to visit the Star Dou Great Forest, and Jiang Yuheng took Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao to meet Xu Jiawei and claim his promised reward.
• Xu Jiawei’s ministers debated restoring maritime trade with the Sun Moon Empire to secure grain, and Xu Jiujiu proposed Jiang Yuheng as their merchant ambassador.

Xu Jiawei assigned an old minister to persuade Jiang Yuheng to represent the Star Luo Empire in food-trade negotiations with the Sun Moon Empire. Jiang Yuheng received the minister and questioned the proposal, leaving the minister uncertain how to respond as he offered a forty-percent share of future profits.

• Xu Jiawei ordered an old minister to approach Jiang Yuheng after Xu Jiujiu and Dai Hao declined to handle the negotiations.
• Jiang Yuheng told Huo Yuhao that the Star Luo Empire would send someone unfamiliar with him and that its leaders would eventually come seeking his help.
• The old minister arrived with gifts, and Jiang Yuheng welcomed him while Huo Yuhao drank the tea.
• The old minister explained that he represented Xu Jiawei and wanted Jiang Yuheng to negotiate a food-trade agreement with the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jiang Yuheng challenged the request, pointing out that his recent damage to the Sun Moon Empire could make the mission dangerous.
• The old minister offered to share forty percent of the subsequent profits, but Jiang Yuheng remained unmoved.

Jiang Yuheng rejected a Star Luo Empire censor’s attempt to recruit him into a plan to conquer the Sun Moon Empire, insisting that the Spirit Pagoda would only act for sufficient profit. After learning other empires were also making moves, he planned to relocate and involve He Caitou in restoring the Sun Moon Empire, while Xu Jiawei prepared to approach him in person.

• The old minister offered Jiang Yuheng a share of profits and proposed that the Star Luo Empire use his strength to take the Sun Moon Empire, but Jiang Yuheng refused and sent him away.
• Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, Lan Ya, and Huo Yuhao discussed the Star Luo Empire’s ambitions, and Jiang Yuheng explained that the Spirit Pagoda would remain neutral unless its interests were threatened.
• Jiang Yuheng decided to move toward the Star Luo capital and summoned He Caitou to help restore the Sun Moon Empire as support for the Spirit Pagoda.
• The old minister reported his failed negotiations to Xu Jiawei, who decided to meet Jiang Yuheng personally.
• The White Tiger Duke delivered a secret letter revealing that the Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires also wanted a share, and Xu Jiawei ordered their representatives placed under watch.

The Spirit Pagoda prepared to back He Caitou’s bid for the Sun Moon Empire’s throne, while Jiang Yuheng explained how the empire’s internal power struggles could help their plan. As the empires competed to secure his support, the Star Luo Empire detained a Heaven Dou envoy in the capital under the pretext of hospitality.

• Xu Jiawei ordered the Heaven Dou and Dou Ling envoys to meet him immediately, while Xu Jiujiu declined to comment on the Emperor’s intentions.
• Wang Dong'er offered He Caitou the Spirit Pagoda’s support in ascending to the Sun Moon Empire’s throne, and He Caitou agreed to cooperate after reading Jiang Yuheng’s plan.
• Jiang Yuheng explained to Huo Yuhao that Xu Tianran was wary of the Sun Moon Empire’s powerful nobles and did not fully control them.
• He Caitou questioned the risks of entering the Sun Moon Empire as a merchant representative, but Jiang Yuheng said Xu Tianran would not act recklessly and revealed that all three empires were seeking his support.
• The White Tiger Duke detained a Heaven Dou envoy and insisted that the Star Luo Empire was merely offering its guests a private chat and rest.

The White Tiger Duke blocked the Heaven Dou envoy while the Dou Ling envoy secretly learned where Jiang Yuheng might be staying and joined forces with the Heaven Dou envoy to seek him out. At the imperial banquet, Xu Jiawei refused to reveal Jiang Yuheng’s whereabouts, while Jiang Yuheng and Huo Yuhao watched from outside and prepared to act on their own terms.

• Dai Hao stopped the Heaven Dou envoy from leaving and insisted that he follow Star Luo Empire’s arrangements, while the Dou Ling envoy went to the envoys’ residence.
• The Dou Ling envoy used his Martial Soul to control an escort and learn that Jiang Yuheng might be staying in a town west of Star Luo City.
• The Dou Ling envoy proposed working with the Heaven Dou envoy, who agreed to cooperate in finding Jiang Yuheng while reserving the right to negotiate separately.
• Xu Jiawei welcomed the envoys at the palace banquet and claimed Jiang Yuheng had refused his invitation, then deflected their requests to visit him.
• Huo Yuhao and Jiang Yuheng watched the banquet from outside, discussed which empire would find Jiang Yuheng first, and noted that Jiang Yuheng would choose the best offer.

Jiang Yuheng and Huo Yuhao discussed a wager and the Spirit Pagoda’s plans while the Heaven Dou and Dou Ling envoys slipped out of Star Luo City to find Jiang Yuheng. Xu Jiawei learned that Jiang Yuheng had left the city, killed a Dark Guard who had reported the news, and sent Xu Jiujiu after him as the Heaven Dou envoy reached Jiang Yuheng and tried to recruit him.

• Jiang Yuheng offered Huo Yuhao a month of milk tea or a month of covering his shifts, and explained that he and He Caitou would be the only ones sent to the Sun Moon Empire during the handover.
• The Heaven Dou and Dou Ling envoys pretended to be drunk, then disguised themselves and quietly left Star Luo City to seek Jiang Yuheng.
• Xu Jiawei learned that the envoys had left and that Jiang Yuheng had gone out of the city, then ordered Xu Jiujiu to execute the Dark Guard who had told him too late.
• Xu Jiujiu offered to find Jiang Yuheng herself, believing the Star Luo Empire’s greater wealth and her past friendship with him would win his support.
• The Heaven Dou envoy found Jiang Yuheng beside a mountain stream and tried to recruit him, but Jiang Yuheng demanded a clear exchange of benefits instead of gratitude.

Jiang Yuheng heard the Heaven Soul and Dou Ling Empire envoys’ offers to cooperate with the Spirit Pagoda and postponed his decision until the next morning. The Heaven Soul envoy grew distraught as Jiang Yuheng left with both agreements, while the Dou Ling envoy remained confident in the value of his empire’s intelligence.

• The Heaven Soul envoy offered the Spirit Pagoda unrestricted access to the empire’s territory and the chance to become its divine religion, and Jiang Yuheng praised the offer without agreeing.
• Jiang Yuheng had Huo Yuhao bring in the Dou Ling envoy, who presented a list of intelligence assets as a gift before cooperation began.
• Jiang Yuheng questioned whether the Dou Ling Emperor was willing to give up those carefully cultivated agents, and the envoy affirmed his empire’s sincerity.
• Jiang Yuheng told both envoys he would give them a unified answer the next morning, despite the Heaven Soul envoy’s plea for an immediate decision.
• Jiang Yuheng left with both agreements, and the increasingly agitated Heaven Soul envoy asked Huo Yuhao whether he still had any hope.

Jiang Yuheng resisted Star Luo Empire’s pressure to secure a larger offer, while Huo Yuhao negotiated with Emperor Xu Jiawei on his behalf. After receiving Star Luo Empire’s terms and reviewing offers from all three sides, Jiang Yuheng prepared to move forward with the alliance and a plan against Sun Moon Empire.

• Huo Yuhao persuaded the envoys from Dou Ling Empire and Heaven Soul Empire to wait another night for news about Jiang Yuheng.
• Jiang Yuheng rejected Princess Xu Jiujiu’s attempt to pressure him, telling her Star Luo Empire had to offer better terms if it wanted his cooperation.
• Emperor Xu Jiawei waited outside Jiang Yuheng’s residence and gave Huo Yuhao Star Luo Empire’s prepared offer after Jiang Yuheng left the negotiations to him.
• Huo Yuhao reviewed Xu Jiawei’s files and agreed that involving the other empires would bring greater gains.
• Jiang Yuheng shared the offers and plans with Wang Dong’er, Xiao Xiao, and He Caitou, then criticized Star Luo Empire’s contract for making him responsible for failures without offering sufficient benefits.

Xu Jiawei secured a trade and peace agreement with the Sun Moon Empire, while Jiang Yuheng represented the Three Great Empires in the negotiations. After the banquet, the Sun Moon envoy asked Wang Dong'er for a private meeting with Jiang Yuheng to learn why he had left the Sun Moon Empire, and she told him Jiang Yuheng was at the harbor.

• The Sun Moon envoy presented Xu Jiawei with gifts and proposed peace and friendship between their empires.
• Xu Jiawei introduced Jiang Yuheng as the envoy representing the Three Great Empires in negotiations with the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jiang Yuheng reviewed the trade agreement, and Xu Jiawei signed it for the Star Luo Empire.
• After the banquet ended, the Sun Moon envoy asked Wang Dong'er to arrange a private meeting with Jiang Yuheng so he could learn why Jiang Yuheng had left the Sun Moon Empire.
• Wang Dong'er told the envoy that Jiang Yuheng was at the harbor outside the city.

Jiang Yuheng agreed to travel to the Sun Moon Empire, where nobles hoped to enlist him against Xu Tianran, while He Caitou returned to his homeland determined to claim the throne and avenge his enemies. During the voyage, Jiang Yuheng challenged the envoy’s motives after reading a letter from the nobles.

• The Sun Moon Empire's envoy met Jiang Yuheng at the harbor, and they discussed his reputation and the nobles’ opposition to Xu Tianran.
• Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong'er agreed that the nobles could help He Caitou take the throne, and Jiang Yuheng requested ten million Gold Soul Coins for disaster relief.
• Jiang Yuheng departed for the Sun Moon Empire with He Caitou aboard merchant ships, while Wang Dong'er gave him money and told him to stay safe.
• He Caitou remained quiet during the voyage, and Jiang Yuheng silently understood his resolve to restore the empire and take revenge himself.
• The envoy offered Jiang Yuheng coffee and discussed his expulsion from the Sun Moon Empire before presenting letters from coastal nobles seeking his support against Xu Tianran.
• Jiang Yuheng accused the envoy of trying to use him, and he pressed the envoy about how much he knew of the nobles’ plans.

Jiang Yuheng secured the Deep Sea Azure Dragon clan’s protection for Sun Moon Empire merchant ships and offered territory concessions to reconcile humans and Soul Beasts. Di Tian agreed to support him, though his cooperation was partly motivated by Gu Yuena.

• Jiang Yuheng used Lan Ya to ask Wang Qiuer to have the Deep Sea Azure Dragon clan protect merchant ships while he was in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jiang Yuheng offered to have the Star Luo Empire and Heaven Dou Empire surrender territory as a gesture of reconciliation.
• Di Tian dismissed the offer as a human tactic, but Wang Qiuer and Myriad Demon King urged him not to distrust their allies.
• Myriad Demon King said Jiang Yuheng’s power was unlike that of ordinary humans, and Di Tian admitted that this was part of why he had agreed to cooperate.
• Di Tian asked Wang Qiuer to tell Jiang Yuheng that the Soul Beasts would offer further help, while the chapter revealed that his other motive was Gu Yuena.

Jiang Yuheng arrived in the Harbor District and met with its three leading merchant guild presidents, whom the Dou Ling Empire had placed at his disposal. He pressed them to reveal their backgrounds and learned they were former imperial guild leaders who had escaped a palace coup and spent over thirty years as undercover agents.

• Jiang Yuheng arrived at the Harbor District with He Caitou and met the three merchant guild presidents gathered to welcome him.
• A guild president warned Jiang Yuheng that he risked being captured, but Jiang Yuheng challenged the Sun Moon Empire to try.
• The three presidents brought Jiang Yuheng into a private VIP room, where he activated his Time Domain despite their assurances that their conversation was secure.
• Jiang Yuheng demanded to know whether the presidents were natives of the Sun Moon Empire and insisted they explain their backgrounds.
• President Mu revealed that the three had led the former emperor's merchant guild, fled a palace coup, and spent more than thirty years undercover for the Dou Ling Empire.

Jiang Yuheng revealed He Caitou’s identity as Xu He, the surviving descendant of the Former Emperor, to the three guild masters. He later rejected the Harbor District representative’s attempt to secure protection without making meaningful concessions.

• Jiang Yuheng opened the door and introduced He Caitou as Princess He Caitou, whose real name was Xu He, and the sole surviving descendant of the Former Emperor.
• He Caitou revealed his Sun Martial Soul and royal-family complexion, convincing the three guild masters to kneel and greet him as their prince.
• Jiang Yuheng left the reunited ruler and subjects to speak privately and prepared to welcome the other representatives.
• The Harbor District representative asked Jiang Yuheng to include them in trade negotiations and protect them if their conflict with Xu Tianran escalated.
• Jiang Yuheng challenged the representative to offer something in return, then left after rejecting the proposed profit-sharing arrangement.

Jiang Yuheng strengthened his position in the Harbor District while He Caitou accepted his role as the Sun Moon Empire’s heir and vowed to defeat Xu Tianran’s faction. After Jiang exposed a coerced official’s supposed surrender to He Caitou and the Guild Masters, he left the decision about the man’s fate to them.

• Jiang Yuheng left his manor to arrange trade agreements for the Harbor District and surrounding cities.
• He Caitou told the three Guild Masters that he would pursue a better future for the empire and swore to cut down its parasites.
• A Dark Guard ordered the Harbor District official to infiltrate Jiang Yuheng’s faction and threatened his family if he failed.
• After the Dark Guard left, the official appealed to Jiang Yuheng, who had secretly listened, but Jiang remained suspicious.
• Jiang summoned He Caitou and the three Guild Masters, then left them to decide what to do with the official.

Jiang Yuheng staged a confrontation with the harbor district director, then kept his intentions under suspicion while waiting for the man to reveal himself. In Mingdu, Xu Tianran learned that Jiang had arrived and ordered the Empress to plan how to keep him there.

• The harbor district director asked President Mu and He Caitou for help after Jiang Yuheng rejected his sudden offer to surrender, and He Caitou urged him to maintain the status quo and gather information.
• Jiang Yuheng revealed that his harsh performance had been planned to win the director’s trust, but the Third Guild Master warned that the director might still favor the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jiang Yuheng told the Elders to wait and watch the director, confident that his true purpose would eventually become clear.
• A Dark Guard reported to Xu Tianran that Jiang Yuheng had returned and was negotiating terms in the Harbor District.
• Xu Tianran dismissed calls to strike immediately and instructed the Dark Guard to tell the Empress that Jiang had arrived and to consider how to keep him there.

Ju Zi learned that Xu Tianran planned to capture Jiang Yuheng and warned against provoking the Harbor District director, while concealing her true location with a Visual Distortion Soul Tool. After Jiang Yuheng signed a major trade agreement with the Sun Moon Empire, he openly challenged its officials, leaving the negotiations publicly successful but tensions unresolved.

• Xu Tianran ordered a Dark Guard to bring Ju Zi to him despite her imminent delivery, and privately vowed not to let her escape his control.
• Ju Zi heard that Xu Tianran intended to capture Jiang Yuheng and advised her guards to warn the Harbor District director without driving him to desperation.
• Ju Zi put away her Visual Distortion Soul Tool after discussing Xu Tianran’s unstable emotions and her reliance on his power to seek revenge on the White Tiger Duke.
• Jiang Yuheng signed a ten-billion trade agreement for the Three Great Empires of Douluo Continent, with the Sun Moon Empire waiving twenty percent of merchant ship rental fees.
• Jiang Yuheng accused the Harbor District officials of secretly striking at others, and the officials around him worried that another war would threaten their interests.

The Three Great Empires celebrated their new food trade agreement with the Sun Moon Empire and debated how to respond to the Spirit Pagoda’s growing influence. At the harbor, Jiang Yuheng and the Frost Dragon Butterfly clashed over trust, leaving their cooperation close to collapse.

• The Star Luo Empire received news of the trade agreement, and Xu Jiawei ordered funding and produce sent to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Xu Jiawei rejected a minister’s fears about the Spirit Pagoda’s influence and said the empire should accept soul spirits to strengthen itself against the Sun Moon Empire.
• The Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires likewise recognized their need for the Spirit Pagoda, Shrek Academy, and Jiang Yuheng’s support.
• Jiang Yuheng told the Frost Dragon Butterfly that the Harbor District Guild agreement would restore the Douluo Continent’s access to resources and asked whether he had proved his sincerity.
• The Frost Dragon Butterfly rejected Jiang Yuheng’s appeal, called their cooperation unequal, and threatened to withdraw from the agreement.
• Jiang Yuheng warned that the Frost Dragon Butterfly’s exposed allegiance would cost Xu Tianran’s trust and challenged him to prove he could defeat Jiang Yuheng.