Chapter Summaries

Old Li helped Old Zhao and Old Qian discover that Barak’s identity cards let migrants buy artificially bred Soul Beasts, so the two men moved from Star Luo and advanced to Soul Grandmasters. Xue Qingxi learned that thousands of Star Luo residents were migrating and set limits and a review process for accepting them into Barak.

• Old Li told Old Zhao and Old Qian that the Great Tang Merchant Guild sold artificially bred Soul Beasts in Barak, but only Barak residents could buy them.
• Old Qian proposed that he and Old Zhao register in Barak, and Old Li agreed they could try.
• Old Qian and Old Zhao canceled their Star Luo household registrations, obtained migrant identity cards in Barak, bought Soul Beasts, and reached level 20.
• A minister reported to Xue Qingxi that 7,532 people had migrated from Star Luo to three border cities.
• Xue Qingxi ordered officials to accept up to 10,000 migrants at a time, review them for three months, and accept three groups of 10,000 in total.

Dai Mubai discovered that over a thousand people had left Aojia City for Barak, drawn by the Great Tang Merchant Guild’s affordable artificially bred Soul Beasts and Barak’s settlement policies. He allowed future departures and, realizing Star Luo held no future for him, decided he would eventually follow them too.

• Dai Mubai found a hidden booklet listing more than a thousand residents who had canceled their household registrations in Aojia City.
• Chu Youjun explained that the residents had transferred their registrations to Barak to access the Great Tang Merchant Guild’s affordable Soul Beasts and opportunities for advancement.
• Dai Mubai learned that Barak had attracted ten thousand soul masters from three Star Luo cities in two months, while Star Luo City had yet to respond amid its reorganization.
• Dai Mubai ordered Chu Youjun to stop recording departures and to process future registration cancellations after checking applicants’ backgrounds.
• Dai Mubai told Chu Youjun to monitor Barak and report when its settlement policy opened for the final time, revealing that he planned to leave Star Luo as well.

Dai Mubai learned that Dai Weisi had taken control of Star Luo City and placed their father under house arrest, and Chu Youjun revealed that his family had been assigned to protect Dai Mubai. Dai Mubai agreed to retreat to Suotuo City but insisted on receiving news about his father.

• Chu Youjun told Dai Mubai that migration to the Barak Empire had reopened and that Dai Weisi had consolidated power in Star Luo City.
• Dai Mubai learned that Dai Weisi had confined their father, the Retired Emperor, and was eliminating his allies.
• Dai Mubai wanted to return to Star Luo City, but Chu Youjun urged him to escape instead of risking his life.
• Chu Youjun revealed that his family served Dai Mubai because his mother, Queen Chu, had arranged for them to protect him.
• Dai Mubai agreed to go to Suotuo City and required Chu Youjun to keep him informed about his father.

Dai Mubai relocated from Aojia City to Suotuo City with Chu Youjun’s help, where Tang Jiukong explained that his earlier capture had saved his life and presented a peace treaty. Dai Mubai signed it and invited Tang Jiukong to visit his new residence.

• Dai Mubai agreed to leave Aojia City with Chu Youjun, who had prepared a convoy and a residence in Suotuo City.
• Chu Youjun brought Dai Mubai to the residence, where Tang Jiukong was waiting to meet him.
• Tang Jiukong explained that he had captured Dai Mubai during the Battle of Suotuo to protect him from his brother, then gave him a Grade A Peace Treaty to sign.
• Dai Mubai signed the treaty with his fingerprint, accepting limits on harming people, gathering forces, and damaging Barak’s interests.
• Dai Mubai called Tang Jiukong his lifesaver and invited him to visit the residence.

Dai Mubai and Tang Jiukong discussed the restrictions and help available to him in Suotuo City, then Dai Mubai gave Tang Jiukong a letter to read. The chapter ended with Tang Jiukong realizing Dai Mubai wanted the Eldest Princess to help save his father.

• Tang Jiukong visited Dai Mubai and said he would be working overtime for the next three months.
• Tang Jiukong brought Dai Mubai duck delicacies and warned him that restrictions in the city would tighten.
• Tang Jiukong told Dai Mubai to seek him or Soto Soul Master Academy if anyone threatened him, explaining that Seventh Brother was at the academy.
• Dai Mubai asked whether the Eldest Princess would help him as a Barack citizen, and Tang Jiukong said it depended on what help he wanted and what price he could pay.
• Dai Mubai handed Tang Jiukong a letter, and Tang Jiukong realized he wanted the Eldest Princess's help to save his father.

Dai Mubai asked Tang Jiukong to seek the Eldest Princess’s help rescuing his father, who had been imprisoned in Star Luo City after a change of power. Tang Jiukong agreed to submit the request, and Dai Mubai accepted that his father might have to live out his life in Barak.

• Dai Mubai explained that his brother Dai Weisi would likely start a war or demand his return, and Tang Jiukong told him he was a citizen of Barak, not Dai Weisi’s trophy.
• Tang Jiukong revealed that his mission had only been to warn Dai Mubai, not monitor him, and that Dai Mubai had brought their current relationship about by approaching him.
• Tang Jiukong agreed to submit Dai Mubai’s request to the Eldest Princess that day so Dai Mubai could travel to Barak City the next morning.
• Tang Jiukong warned Dai Mubai that he might become the last prince of Star Luo, and Dai Mubai said he could accept his father living in Barak instead of being killed or imprisoned by Dai Weisi.
• Tang Jiukong said Dai Mubai’s father could enjoy his retirement in Barak City, and Dai Mubai thought he would likely welcome the freedom.

Tang Ling arranged for Dai Mubai to come to Barak City and meet with her after he offered to help rescue his father. Dai Mubai arrived with Tang Jiukong, while Tang Ling and Xue Qingxi prepared to meet them.

• Tang Ling read Jiu Kong's message about Dai Mubai and ordered Qi Lu to manage Suotuo City's lockdown while Tang Jiukong escorted Dai Mubai to Barak City.
• Tang Ling also told Tang Eryi to reveal Dai Mubai's whereabouts after events in Star Luo City concluded and summoned Xue Qingxi to visit.
• Dai Mubai met Tang Jiukong in the carriage, learned that his future living arrangements would depend on what he wanted, and said he hoped to travel.
• Xue Qingxi arrived at Tang Ling's mansion, where he and Tang San discussed Tang Ling seeing through their act of pretending to be pitiful.
• Tang Yiyin reported that Tang Jiukong and Dai Mubai had arrived.

Dai Mubai negotiated with Xue Qingxi and Tang Ling for Barack’s help rescuing his father in exchange for Star Luo City’s defense map. After Dai Mubai left, Dai Weisi learned that Oliver had escaped Aojia City and ordered his men to find him.

• Dai Mubai offered Star Luo City’s defense map as his bargaining chip, and Xue Qingxi accepted while warning that Barack already had spies in Star Luo.
• Xue Qingxi agreed to help Dai Mubai rescue his father, and they sealed their cooperation with a handshake.
• Tang Ling praised Xue Qingxi’s handling of the negotiation, then sent him and Tang San to deal with memorials before returning to rest.
• A guard reported that Oliver had left Aojia City, prompting Dai Weisi to berate him and demand an immediate search.

Dai Weisi learned that twenty thousand people had migrated from Star Luo to Barack and ordered officials to report all imperial news directly to him. After learning that Dai Mubai had joined Barack, Dai Weisi declared war and ordered an army to march on Aojia City in three days.

• Dai Weisi learned that Dai Mubai had gone to Suotuo City and used Barack’s new settlement policy to hide there.
• Dai Weisi discovered that twenty thousand people had migrated from Star Luo to Barack without being reported, and ordered his officials to keep him informed of all developments.
• Prime Minister Zhu explained that the migrants were commoners and low-level soul masters, and Dai Weisi accepted the explanation while demanding future reports.
• Dai Weisi asked his ministers how Star Luo should respond to Dai Mubai joining Barack, and Prime Minister Zhu proposed denouncing Barack and launching an offensive warning.
• Dai Weisi ordered the great general to muster the troops and march toward Aojia City in three days to avenge Star Luo’s defeat.

Xue Qingxi announced that Barak would go to war with Star Luo and set unifying the continent as its objective, relying on Oliver’s cooperation and a defense map of Star Luo City. Three days later, Dai Weisi attacked Suotuo City, beginning the Second Battle of Suotuo.

• Xue Qingxi refused to hand Oliver over to Star Luo and told Barak’s officials the empire would fight until it achieved its objective.
• Xue Qingxi declared that Barak’s goal was to unify the continent and revealed that Oliver would provide Star Luo City’s defense map in exchange for help rescuing his imprisoned father, Emperor Dai Yue.
• Xue Qingxi and the chancellor agreed to vet and transfer officials to govern newly acquired cities, while the Eldest Princess would remain in Barak to manage the government.
• Dai Weisi launched a punitive war against Barak, demanding that Oliver be surrendered and Star Luo receive an apology.
• Barak refused Dai Weisi’s demands and accepted the war, as Star Luo’s army advanced against Suotuo City.

Tang Jiukong told Dai Mubai that Star Luo was using rumors about him to smear Barack, and Dai Mubai agreed to publicly clarify the truth. At Suotuo City, Dai Mubai accused Dai Weisi of imprisoning their father and trying to kill him, then severed their ties as the armies began fighting.

• Tang Jiukong explained that Star Luo was claiming Dai Mubai had plotted rebellion and that Barack approved of his crimes, and Dai Mubai agreed to refute the rumors.
• Dai Mubai confronted Dai Weisi from Suotuo City's wall and argued that Dai Weisi had the connections and motive to plot rebellion.
• Dai Mubai accused Dai Weisi of imprisoning their father and declared that the Eldest Princess had saved his life.
• Dai Mubai scattered evidence among the crowd, severed ties with Dai Weisi, and left the city wall.
• Dai Weisi ordered his army to attack Suotuo City, and the two armies clashed.

Barak’s western barracks captured Aojia City after Dai Weisi’s army abandoned it, and Dai Mubai helped reassure the city’s civilians while porridge was distributed. Xue Qingxi planned to keep advancing against Star Luo, confident he could defeat it faster than his father had unified Barak.

• After Star Luo’s army retreated to Aojia City, Xue Qingxi sent Huo Qianjun, Li Jin, and the rested western barracks to besiege it; Dai Weisi and most of his soldiers fled when the city fell.
• The Suotuo City lord brought grain to Aojia City and began distributing porridge to civilians whose food Dai Weisi’s army had plundered.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing discussed Dai Weisi’s cruelty and explained that he and Dai Mubai blamed each other for their mother Queen Chu’s death.
• Dai Mubai served porridge and reassured Aojia City’s residents that they could settle safely in Barak.
• Tang San praised Xue Qingxi’s political skill, and Xue Qingxi declared he would continue advancing and defeat Star Luo faster than his father had united Barak.

Dai Weisi tried to conceal Star Luo’s failed grain scheme, but Barack’s army captured Egao City and drove him back to Star Luo City in less than three months. Xue Qingxi and Tang San paused at Yueyin City to rest and prepare to rescue Dai Mubai’s father, while their companions teased Dai Mubai and asked Xue Qingxi to recount how he and Ning Rongrong got together.

• Dai Weisi learned that Barack had taken Aojia City without riots, scolded his military adviser, and accepted a plan to hide Star Luo’s grain scheme from Egao City’s residents.
• Dai Weisi ordered the soldiers to train, but Barack’s army attacked Egao City the next day and captured it before the Star Luo soldiers could seize the grain.
• Dai Weisi fled with tens of thousands of guards, and Xue Qingxi sent another army after them as Barack’s forces captured cities and drove him back to Star Luo City.
• Xue Qingxi and Tang San withdrew to Yueyin City, where Dai Mubai realized they had stopped before rescuing his father from North Mountain Courtyard.
• Dai Mubai joked with Zhu Zhuqing and the others about being beaten by his father, and the group teased him over whether he had been obedient as a child.
• Ning Rongrong and Tang San recalled Xue Qingxi’s teacher discovering their relationship, prompting Xue Qingxi to offer to tell the story of how he and Ning Rongrong got together.

Dai Weisi learned that Barack’s armies had seized most of the Star Luo Empire and that his orders to the cities went unanswered. With Star Luo City left isolated, he agreed to surrender, and Emperor Qingxi later proclaimed the unified Douluo Empire.

• Dai Weisi ordered Star Luo City’s defenses reinforced after hearing that the Barack troops in Yueyin City had not moved.
• The great general informed Dai Weisi that Wanxiang City had fallen and Lidun City was likely captured, prompting Dai Weisi to order soldiers to withdraw rather than die needlessly.
• Two months later, after Barack’s armies had taken every other city, Prime Minister Zhu urged Dai Weisi to surrender for the sake of his family, and Dai Weisi agreed to open Star Luo City’s gates.
• Star Luo’s prime minister, Zhu Teng, welcomed the Barak army into the city after half a day of negotiations.
• Seven days later, Emperor Qingxi proclaimed the Douluo Empire and established the first day of the sixth month as National Day.

Tang San agreed to urge Ah Yin and Xiao Wu to establish the Soul Beast Realm, and the two made their declaration in the Star Dou Great Forest. The Heavenly Dao approved the realm’s independence and peace rules, leaving the continent with a treaty, new regulations, and an annual peace celebration.

• Xue Qingxi persuaded Tang San to hurry Ah Yin and Xiao Wu along so he could marry Rongrong, and Tang San agreed.
• Ah Yin and Xiao Wu entered the Star Dou Great Forest to establish a society for soul beasts, with Xiao Wu having contacted Da Ming, Er Ming, and the other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• On June 10th, Ah Yin and Xiao Wu declared the founding of the Soul Beast Realm before the people of the continent as Tang Ling and the empire’s Titled Douluo watched.
• The Heavenly Dao approved the realm’s independence and ordered humans and soul beasts to obey the Peace Treaty and their respective rules.
• Tang Ling and Xiao Wu accepted the Heavenly Dao’s decree, exchanged national seals, and Emperor Qingxi added the decree to the new regulations for peaceful coexistence.
• June 10th became Continent Peace Day, and June 1st to June 10th became an annual celebration week for humans and soul beasts.

Tang Ling and Tang San enjoyed a peaceful life with the Little Heavenly Dao until the Angel God descended to find Qian Renxue. Tang Ling killed the Angel God with one sword, then set off with Tang San to attack the False God Realm.

• Tang Ling apologized to the Little Heavenly Dao for taking Tang San away without telling it, and the two made peace.
• The Little Heavenly Dao sensed that the Angel God had descended and identified the False God Realm as the source.
• Tang Ling and Tang San flew toward the Angel God after Tang San informed Xue Qingxi they would be gone.
• The Angel God attacked Tang Ling, but she deflected the strike and killed the god with the Ice Phoenix Sword.
• Tang Ling explained that her strength was recovering and invited Tang San to join her in attacking the False God Realm, and he agreed.

Tang Ling revealed that the Angel God’s death came from her and killed the false gods who served an outsider Heavenly Dao. After restoring the world’s Soul Power and explaining that the fallen gods could earn a chance at rebirth, she left with Tang San as the world began to recover.

• The God of Goodness asked the God of Time and the God of Space to investigate the Angel God’s death, but their attempt left them injured and showed them a flash of golden and blue light.
• Tang Ling appeared with Tang San, identified herself as the Daughter of the Grand Dao, and killed the God of Darkness with a single sword strike.
• Tang Ling explained that the gods were false gods whose souls carried evil karma, and the God of Goodness, the God of Evil, and the others accepted their deaths after learning they could return through reincarnation and merit.
• Tang Ling destroyed the gathered false gods with a sword strike and revealed that she had created the New God Realm.
• Tang Ling and Tang San descended through the clouds as she explained that the restored Soul Power would revive the Heavenly Dao and renew the world.

Tang Ling returned to Barak City with Tang San after defeating the False Gods in the Thirty-Second Heaven and explained the invading Heavenly Dao’s plan. She reassured Xue Qingxi that she would stay, agreed to hold weddings with Tang San and with Xue Qingxi and Rongrong, and persuaded Xue Qingxi to become God Emperor of the New God Realm.

• Tang Ling told Xue Qingxi that she and Tang San had killed the False Gods in the Thirty-Second Heaven, then explained that the invading Heavenly Dao had sought power to survive and parasitize another world.
• Xue Qingxi asked if Tang Ling would leave after saving the world, and she assured him she would stay while A-Xuan and the next Son of the Heavenly Dao remained.
• Xue Qingxi proposed holding his wedding with Rongrong before the new year, and Tang Ling agreed while promising to hold her wedding with Tang San afterward.
• Tang Ling told Xue Qingxi to contact Xue Yang and arrange invitations, and Xue Qingxi recruited Tang San to help with the preparations.
• Tang Ling offered Xue Qingxi the position of God Emperor in the New God Realm, and he accepted after hearing that immortals could help manage its work.

Xue Qingxi and Ning Rongrong prepared for their wedding after learning that their responsibilities would keep them busy, though they hoped to retire once they trained successors. Their grand wedding brought the emperor and empress together in Barak City, where Little Heavenly Dao blessed them as they became husband and wife.

• Xue Qingxi told Ning Rongrong that their wedding could take place before the year ended, but their duties would grow after the new year as the world revived and new realms were established.
• Xue Qingxi revealed that they had secured divine posts and discussed training successors so they could eventually retire to the God Realm.
• In October, Xue Qingxi and Ning Rongrong celebrated their wedding, with the emperor and empress marrying amid continent-wide festivities.
• Xue Qingxi arrived at the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect in a Soul Power–powered flying carriage, and Ning Rongrong accepted his invitation to come home with him.
• Xue Qingxi and Ning Rongrong reached the Royal Palace in Barak City, bowed before their elders and the sky, and received Little Heavenly Dao's blessing as Tang San officiated.

Xue Qingxi discussed Tang San and Tang Ling’s wedding arrangements with Tang San, then turned his attention to revising marriage laws and policies to encourage births. Tang Ling and Tang San held their wedding at the Princess Manor, where Xiao Wu officiated and invoked the blessings of heaven, earth, and the Heavenly Dao.

• Xue Qingxi asked Tang San about the wedding date and procedure, and learned that Tang Ling had arranged for the ceremony on October nineteenth.
• Xue Qingxi offered to be Tang San’s groomsman, but Tang San explained that married people could not be groomsmen and that Tang Ling would parade through the city to take him as her husband.
• Xue Qingxi considered changing the marriage law so women could take husbands, then told Tang San to review memorials while he handled the study work.
• On October nineteenth, Tang Ling drove through Barak City and returned to the Princess Manor to marry Tang San, who asked her to carry him inside.
• Tang Ling and Tang San stood before the hall’s empty central chairs as Xue Yang, Meng Zhao, and Ah Yin attended the ceremony.
• Xiao Wu officiated the wedding, leading Tang Ling and Tang San through their bows and wishing them eternal union.