Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yuheng rejected Long Xiaoyao’s plea to spare Ye Xishui and used his desire to protect her to force him into a bargain. Long Xiaoyao agreed to obey, and Jiang Yuheng ordered him to kill Zhongli Wu and bring back his head.

• Long Xiaoyao asked Jiang Yuheng to spare Ye Xishui, offering his life in exchange, but Jiang Yuheng refused and condemned her crimes.
• Jiang Yuheng told Long Xiaoyao that Ye Xishui’s death was inevitable and warned him to prepare for the coming war.
• Long Xiaoyao offered to restrain Zhongli Wu, stop the Death God Tower from firing, and keep the Sun Moon Empire’s two King-level Soul Engineer Legions out of the fighting.
• Jiang Yuheng rejected those offers as insufficient, and Long Xiaoyao agreed to accept any condition if Jiang spared Ye Xishui.
• Jiang Yuheng ordered Long Xiaoyao to kill Zhongli Wu and bring him his head.

Jiang Yuheng demanded that Long Xiaoyao kill Zhongli Wu in exchange for freeing him and Ye Xishui, while plotting to exploit the conflict between the Holy Spirit Cult and Xu Tianran. Long Xiaoyao told Ye Xishui about the condition, leaving her to react to Jiang Yuheng’s demand.

• Jiang Yuheng told Long Xiaoyao that he had to bring him Zhongli Wu’s head to secure Ye Xishui’s release.
• Jiang Yuheng explained to Wang Dong'er that he intended to exploit the interests binding Xu Tianran and the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Long Xiaoyao agonized over the choice between Ye Xishui and Zhongli Wu and regretted seeking Jiang Yuheng’s help.
• Ye Xishui asked Long Xiaoyao what had troubled him, and he revealed Jiang Yuheng’s condition.
• Ye Xishui cursed Jiang Yuheng after hearing that he demanded Zhongli Wu’s head.

Ye Xishui rejected Long Xiaoyao’s agreement to sacrifice Zhongli Wu and prepared to fight him. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao struggled with his trial of humanity but resolved to face it by targeting nobles who had sold people.

• Ye Xishui learned that Long Xiaoyao had agreed to Jiang Yuheng’s demand to offer up Zhongli Wu, and she refused to let her son die.
• Long Xiaoyao warned Ye Xishui that Jiang Yuheng would destroy the Holy Spirit Cult and threatened to kill Zhongli Wu himself if she refused to cooperate.
• Ye Xishui trapped Long Xiaoyao with her Soul Power and challenged his Dark Holy Dragon with her Death God Puppet.
• Huo Yuhao wrestled with his trial of humanity as he held the commander token, while Wang Dong’er urged him to follow Jiang Yuheng’s example.
• Wang Dong’er marked a city whose nobles had sold people and suggested Huo Yuhao begin his trial by dealing with them.
• Huo Yuhao asked why Wang Dong’er had refused the Sixth Sequence position, and then resolved to face his trial rather than keep avoiding it.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er uncovered a village trafficking people for the Holy Spirit Cult and confronted the merchants responsible. Huo Yuhao posed as a noble heir and began negotiating with the operation’s leaders, leaving his real intentions concealed.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er reached a village where a merchant openly offered kidnapped girls and people to be used for pleasure or cultivation.
• The merchant said the operation served Prince Xu Mu and blamed the Frost Dragon Butterfly’s arrival and rising food prices for the opportunity to profit.
• Wang Dong'er used her Ultimate Light Power to calm Huo Yuhao, and he suppressed his anger and asked to meet the leaders.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself as the heir of the Huo Family, an earl’s household from the Heavenly Spirit Empire, and the clan leader questioned his identity.
• Huo Yuhao sat down with the clan leader and said he would decide what business to conduct based on the profit offered.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er negotiated with Sun Moon Empire nobles to buy people for the Douluo Continent, while secretly investigating their trafficking operation. Their argument was overheard by the nobles, some of whom suspected a setup, but the clan head's brothers dismissed his concerns.

• Huo Yuhao offered to buy five thousand people, and the clan head demanded a deposit before the deal could proceed.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er were led to a private room, where Wang Dong'er discussed the cost and quantity while signaling that an Eavesdropping Soul Tool was hidden nearby.
• The pair pretended to argue over the purchase and moved the listening device into plain sight.
• The nobles overheard them and planned to reduce the price and provide fewer people, while the clan head suspected their behavior was deliberate.
• The clan head's brothers dismissed his suspicions and urged him to continue bargaining.

Huo Yuhao heard the family patriarch and Second Elder argue over whether to abandon their human-trafficking business, then struggled with whether to kill them. After Wang Dong'er reminded him to focus on his goal, he chose to act that night and eliminated the leaders while bringing the commoners into his ranks.

• The patriarch said the family should leave its immoral business, but Second Elder refused to give up their wealth and way of life.
• Huo Yuhao overheard their argument and wondered whether the patriarch’s regret should change his plan.
• Wang Dong'er advised Huo Yuhao to focus on his objective and decide whether the others’ actions affected it.
• Huo Yuhao chose to act that night and left the room before Wang Dong'er could reply.
• Huo Yuhao eliminated the family’s leaders, spared the commoners, and took them into his ranks.

Huo Yuhao struggled to accept Jiang Yuheng’s brutal orders as he prepared to attack the Sun Moon Empire, while Wang Dong encouraged him to choose his own path. After failing to steel himself overnight, Huo Yuhao set out to force the next city’s nobles to surrender or die, and they refused his demands.

• Wang Dong'er comforted Huo Yuhao and told him to make his own decision rather than imitate Jiang Yuheng’s methods.
• Huo Yuhao studied the map and considered Jiang Yuheng’s orders to slaughter cities and kill Zhongli Wu or Ye Xishui to intimidate the Sun Moon Empire’s nobles.
• Huo Yuhao spent the night trying to prepare himself mentally but did not sleep and remained visibly strained.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong he was ready to start killing people and headed toward the next city.
• Huo Yuhao demanded that the city’s nobles surrender, give up half their property, and persuade other nobles to surrender, but they refused.

Huo Yuhao executed the rebellious nobles and gave their land and property to the city's commoners, then went to Huo Yun'er for help with his doubts about the Sixth Sequence trial. Her advice helped him recognize that he wanted to pursue the goal, though he still compared himself unfavorably to Jiang Yuheng and Dong'er.

• Huo Yuhao rejected the nobles' pleas, ordered their execution, and had their property and land distributed among the commoners.
• Distressed by what he had done, Huo Yuhao went alone to the back mountain and visited Huo Yun'er in the small world.
• Huo Yuhao told Huo Yun'er about his recent actions and his fear that becoming the Sixth Sequence would make him lose his humanity.
• Huo Yun'er asked whether Huo Yuhao truly wanted to become the Sixth Sequence and reminded him of his determination when he struggled to become a Spirit Master.
• Huo Yuhao realized that he wanted the goal and that his confusion came from having his worldview shattered, but admitted he struggled to decide as Jiang Yuheng and Dong'er did.

Huo Yuhao learned that Wang Dong'er had refused the position Jiang Yuheng once chose her for, while he recognized Dai Hao as his true Heart Demon and continued calming the city. Wang Dong then questioned Jiang Yuheng about pushing his disciple so hard and coaxed him into sharing gossip about Luo Yuexi, ending by asking about her parents.

• Huo Yun'er told Huo Yuhao that Wang Dong'er had been Jiang Yuheng's first choice for the position but had refused it to live more freely.
• Huo Yuhao identified Dai Hao as his true Heart Demon and resolved to make him apologize to Huo Yun'er, then returned to calming the people in the city.
• Wang Dong confronted Jiang Yuheng for pushing Huo Yuhao too hard, and Jiang Yuheng explained that he was preparing his disciple for the Sixth Sequence and its emotional trials.
• Jiang Yuheng said the Divine Realm had already decided the Sixth Sequence position and described how he had urged Sister Luo to hurry Boss Luo along.
• Wang Dong asked Jiang Yuheng about Luo Yuexi, and he described her unruly nature and compared her to Tang Wulin and Xie Xie.
• Wang Dong asked Jiang Yuheng to tell her about Sister Luo's parents.

Jiang Yuheng revealed that Gu Yuena was Wang Dong’s mother, then Huo Yuhao faced Long Xiaoyao in battle. Long Xiaoyao stopped fighting and asked Huo Yuhao to persuade Jiang Yuheng to ease his demands, leaving Huo Yuhao probing for the reason behind their dispute.

• Jiang Yuheng told Wang Dong that the woman they had seen in Unfeeling Valley was her mother, Gu Yuena.
• Huo Yuhao encountered Long Xiaoyao, who angrily accused him of forcing a decision and challenged him to a fight.
• Long Xiaoyao briefly overpowered Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao suspected someone had threatened him and adapted to his fighting style.
• Long Xiaoyao ended the battle and asked Huo Yuhao to persuade Jiang Yuheng to relax his conditions.
• Huo Yuhao asked what he should say, but Long Xiaoyao refused to reveal more than his request.

Huo Yuhao used Long Xiaoyao to practice controlling the emotion of anger, but the enraged Limit Douluo quickly overwhelmed and injured him. As Huo Yuhao continued the fight to test his emotional control, Jiang Yuheng watched from the mountaintop and worried about Long Xiaoyao’s abnormal mental state.

• Huo Yuhao refused Long Xiaoyao’s demand and unleashed Extreme Ice, prompting Long Xiaoyao to attack him.
• Jiang Yuheng urged Huo Yuhao to practice his divine skill, so Huo Yuhao infused Long Xiaoyao with extreme anger.
• Long Xiaoyao struck Huo Yuhao through several mountain peaks, leaving him bleeding with a badly injured right hand.
• Huo Yuhao used Ice Emperor Possession and kept fighting defensively while testing his control over Long Xiaoyao’s anger.
• Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong'er watched the Soul Engineer Legion advance, and Jiang Yuheng voiced concern about Long Xiaoyao’s abnormal mental state.

Huo Yuhao defeated Long Xiaoyao by mastering the power of emotion, while Jiang Yuheng watched over Wang Dong'er. Jiang Yuheng left Long Xiaoyao's fate to Huo Yuhao, who chose to spare him as a future sparring partner.

• Wang Dong'er fell asleep in Jiang Yuheng's arms as he watched Huo Yuhao battle Long Xiaoyao.
• Huo Yuhao gained control of Long Xiaoyao's emotions and revealed that he had caused the older man's anger and calmness to fluctuate.
• Long Xiaoyao asked whether Jiang Yuheng was a god and what his Godhood was, but Huo Yuhao refused to explain the latter.
• Long Xiaoyao accepted defeat and knelt before Huo Yuhao, while Jiang Yuheng left with Wang Dong'er and entrusted the decision to Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao spared Long Xiaoyao so he could use him as a sparring partner to refine his Divine Power.

Huo Yuhao drove Long Xiaoyao to retreat and captured a city in the Sun Moon Empire, though the strain of using Divine Power left him severely exhausted. After Jiang Yuheng praised his improved control of his emotions, Huo Yuhao discussed the dangers and political challenges facing the Spirit Pagoda’s campaign.

• Huo Yuhao refused to kill Long Xiaoyao but made clear he would not let him go without a fight, and Long Xiaoyao chose to retreat.
• Huo Yuhao’s forces took a medium-sized economic city in the Sun Moon Empire, while Huo Yuhao collapsed into extreme exhaustion from using Divine Power.
• Jiang Yuheng and Wang Dong'er arrived, and Wang Dong'er congratulated Huo Yuhao for controlling his emotions.
• Huo Yuhao asked Jiang Yuheng whether he had embarrassed him, and Jiang Yuheng teased him before asking about his next plans.
• Huo Yuhao identified Death God Douluo and the Death God Tower as major threats, and Jiang Yuheng advised him to consider the Sun Moon Empire’s divided imperial family and pursue alliances and interests.

Jiang Yuheng praised Huo Yuhao, then ordered him to win over a member of the Sun Moon Imperial Family and secure the East District. Jiang Yuheng traveled there himself and met Xu Zhongguo, who apologized for his part in forcing Jiang Yuheng to leave the Sun Moon Empire.

• Jiang Yuheng praised Huo Yuhao and tasked him with persuading an important member of the Sun Moon Imperial Family to help control the East District.
• Jiang Yuheng took back the command token and left Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er behind, then reached the East District after fifteen days.
• Xu Zhongguo reviewed reports about Xu Tianran's decisions and worried that the imperial family had become trapped in the struggle for the throne.
• Xu Zhongguo received Jiang Yuheng's letter, dismissed his guards, and went to meet him in the garden.
• Xu Zhongguo apologized to Jiang Yuheng for hesitating when Xu Tianran's threat had driven him to leave for the Douluo Continent.

Jiang Yuheng offered Xu Zhongguo a chance to open East City’s gates and submit, but Xu refused. The next morning, panicked nobles gathered outside the city, and Xu remained determined not to surrender despite pressure from his guard.

• Jiang Yuheng confronted Xu Zhongguo, defending his ambition to establish the Spirit Pagoda in the Sun Moon Empire and asking Xu to submit.
• Xu Zhongguo refused to open East City’s gates, insisting he would not betray anyone again, and Jiang Yuheng vanished after warning that Xu had no better choice.
• News of Jiang Yuheng’s arrival spread through the surrounding cities, and powerful nobles gathered outside East City to urge Xu Zhongguo to appease him.
• Xu Zhongguo’s personal guard warned that the nobles might hand him over to Jiang Yuheng, but Xu reaffirmed that he would not surrender voluntarily.

The East District nobles abandoned their agreement not to surrender and sought Jiang Yuheng’s mercy, but he ignored them and ordered Huo Yuhao to prepare an attack. As Wang Dong’er arranged support for the campaign’s administration, Mu En took over watching the Spirit Pagoda and asked Jiang Yuheng whether Long Xiaoyao had met with him.

• Xu Zhongguo realized that the East District nobles wanted to surrender and coldly told them to negotiate with Jiang Yuheng.
• The nobles searched for Jiang Yuheng and offered to accept any conditions, while he ignored them and contacted Lan Ya to summon Huo Yuhao’s forces.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to attack within five days and assigned Wang Dong’er to command the arriving Spirit Masters.
• Wang Dong’er complained about being left with the campaign’s logistics and secured Jiang Yuheng’s agreement to bring Xiao Xiao over.
• Jiang Yuheng arranged for Mu En to oversee the Spirit Pagoda, and Mu En asked whether Long Xiaoyao had met him.

After Daming and Erming sought to join Jiang Yuheng’s Divine Realm, Mu En contacted Jiang Yuheng, who summoned Luo Yuexi to handle their request. Luo Yuexi accepted the pair after they swore loyalty to Jiang Yuheng, but warned that she would kill them if they betrayed him.

• Mu En worried over requests from the three empires for more trade with the Sun Moon Empire, while Daming and Erming arrived at Shrek Academy and asked to join the Divine Realm.
• Daming revealed that he and Erming wanted to join because they admired Jiang Yuheng and feared Tang San, who blamed them for Wang Dong'er’s fate and intended to silence them.
• Mu En reported their request to Jiang Yuheng, who summoned Luo Yuexi to decide the matter in his place.
• Luo Yuexi questioned Daming and Erming, then ordered them to swear on their personal souls that they would never betray or wrong Jiang Yuheng.
• Luo Yuexi accepted their oaths and warned that she would personally kill them if they betrayed the group later.

Jiang Yuheng rejected Mu En’s plea to spare Long Xiaoyao, then reassured Wang Dong'er that he would handle any future danger for her. The next day, the East District’s old nobility surrendered to Jiang Yuheng, who corrected their assumption that Xu Tianran had driven him out only because of his methods.

• Mu En admitted that Long Xiaoyao wanted to replace Ye Xishui and pleaded for Jiang Yuheng to cripple Long Xiaoyao instead of killing him.
• Jiang Yuheng questioned Mu En’s right to make the request, and Mu En ended the call after promising not to repeat his mistake.
• Jiang Yuheng embraced Wang Dong'er and promised to resolve anything that made her hesitate, even if doing so meant breaking rules.
• The East District’s old nobility tied up Xu Zhongguo and offered Jiang Yuheng their loyalty and all their properties in exchange for forgiveness.
• Jiang Yuheng told the Wang Family head that he and Xu Tianran would have clashed even without the other reasons for his exile.

Jiang Yuheng rejected the Wang Family patriarch’s pleas, killed him, and ordered the Wang Family’s businesses seized. He then wiped out the Wang Family and leaders of several other families that refused to surrender, stirring unprecedented uproar in the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial family.

• The Wang Family patriarch begged Jiang Yuheng for an exception, blaming Xu Tianran for forcing his family to slander him.
• Jiang Yuheng accused the patriarch of knowingly spreading slander and reminded him that he had uncovered the Wang Family’s secret actions.
• The patriarch warned that the East District’s nobles would never obey Jiang Yuheng, who replied that he intended to kill the disobedient families too.
• Jiang Yuheng beheaded the Wang Family patriarch in front of everyone and ordered Dong'er to seize the family’s businesses and threaten any allies.
• Jiang Yuheng massacred the Wang Family and leaders of several major families that had refused to surrender, causing uproar in the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial family.

After Jiang Yuheng massacred the surrendered Wang Family and seized the East District, Xu Tianran ignored calls to confront him and ordered Kong Deming to hunt down the Holy Spirit Cult’s hidden Evil Soul Masters instead. The commanders challenged Xu Tianran’s judgment and demanded action, while Jing Hongchen stayed silent and remained committed to his own side.

• The court learned that Jiang Yuheng had massacred the Wang Family despite its surrender, and Kong Deming called him insane.
• A Royal-class Soul Engineer Legion commander urged Xu Tianran to join forces with the Holy Spirit Cult and send troops into battle, prompting the other commanders to kneel in support.
• Xu Tianran asked Kong Deming about the Holy Spirit Cult, who reported that Long Xiaoyao had been defeated by Huo Yuhao and that Zhongli Wu and Ye Xishui were hiding their forces.
• Xu Tianran gave Kong Deming ten days to eliminate the Evil Soul Masters around the perimeter, and Kong Deming accepted the order and left.
• The commanders and a minister rebuked Xu Tianran for neglecting Jiang Yuheng and the front, but Xu Tianran coldly challenged them as Jing Hongchen kept his own allegiance secret.