Chapter Summaries

The Star Luo Emperor ordered his remaining forces to defend Star Luo City and went to the walls to face Bibi Dong’s advancing army. Bibi Dong’s Soul Tool Cannons smashed through the city gate, and the defenders began to flee.

• The Star Luo Emperor deployed every available soldier, Soul Master, and Soul Tool to defend the city, then took up the Star Luo Dragon Sword and headed to the walls with Dai Weisi.
• The Star Luo Emperor accused Bibi Dong of betraying Spirit Hall’s principles, and Bibi Dong condemned his rule before declaring Star Luo the last empire she would destroy.
• Ye Xiao mocked the Star Luo Emperor’s vow to die rather than surrender, and Bibi Dong ordered the cannons to fire.
• The first volley shattered parts of the city wall, while the defenders’ arrows and Spirit Abilities failed to break the Spirit Hall Empire’s defenses.
• Bibi Dong directed the second and third volleys at the city gate, destroying it and causing the defenders to panic and flee.

Ye Xiao and Bibi Dong’s forces captured Star Luo City after artillery broke through its walls, and Ling Yuan’s troops killed the Star Luo royal family and its leaders. As the city came under Spirit Hall Empire control, Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun set out to check on their family.

• The Star Luo Emperor urged his troops to hold the walls while Ye Xiao and Bibi Dong watched the city come under sustained cannon fire.
• After more than a thousand shots, the walls collapsed, and Bibi Dong ordered the Spirit Hall Empire army to attack.
• Ling Yuan defeated the Star Luo Emperor and Empress’s Hell White Tiger fusion, while her forces killed the Crown Prince and the rest of the empire’s upper echelon.
• The defenders surrendered, and Ye Xiao and Bibi Dong rode through the captured city and into the imperial palace.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun told Ye Xiao they planned to visit their family, and he said the Zhu family would be left alone if it behaved itself.

After the Spirit Hall Empire conquered Star Luo City, Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun returned home and assured their family of its safety under the new regime. Bibi Dong stayed in the city to manage the troubled annexed territory, while Ye Xiao kept her company as she worked.

• Bibi Dong ordered the Star Luo Emperor and empress buried without a stele and imposed martial law in Star Luo City.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun returned to the Zhu family residence, where Mother Zhu embraced them and Zhu Father asked about the conquest.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Zhu Father that the emperor, empress, and Dai Weisi were dead, and promised the Zhu family would be safe if it followed the Spirit Hall Empire.
• The Spirit Hall Empire captured the remaining provinces with little resistance and replaced Star Luo banners with its own.
• Bibi Dong remained in Star Luo City to suppress unrest, manage surrendered officials, and oversee troop deployments and supplies.
• Ye Xiao brought Bibi Dong roast meat and urged her to rest, but she explained that rebel forces, old nobles, displaced laborers, and regional granaries kept her overwhelmed.

Asura God abandoned Tang San as a successor and chose Bibi Dong, whose powers and divine trials made her suited to his godhood. After Bibi Dong received Asura’s trial while retaining Rakshasa’s, Asura proposed that she inherit both god positions at once.

• Asura God saw that Tang San had been crippled in Spirit Hall’s prison and began searching for a new inheritor.
• Asura God considered Ye Xiao, then chose Bibi Dong because she had the Slaughter Domain, twin Martial Souls, and Rakshasa God’s trials.
• Rakshasa God discovered Asura God’s divine sense around Bibi Dong and angrily confronted him, but he dismissed her protest.
• Bibi Dong sensed that Asura God’s divine trial had appeared alongside Rakshasa God’s trial, and Ye Xiao suggested she might inherit both godhoods.
• Asura God considered Ye Xiao’s idea and went to Rakshasa God to propose that Bibi Dong inherit both god positions at the same time.

Asura God and Rakshasa God agreed to share Bibi Dong as an inheritor so she could pursue Dual God Integration, and Bibi Dong received the trial to withstand both gods’ power. She delayed becoming a god to stabilize the Spirit Hall Empire and began organizing a Five-Year Plan focused on improving ordinary people’s lives through Soul Tools.

• Asura God persuaded Rakshasa God to share Bibi Dong as an inheritor, with each god contributing half the divine power.
• Bibi Dong sensed that Asura God’s trial required her to endure both his and Rakshasa God’s divine power in preparation for Dual God Integration.
• Ye Xiao kissed Bibi Dong, then carried her away from her paperwork to celebrate the new trial with her.
• Bibi Dong postponed completing the trials because the newly conquered Star Luo territory and the Spirit Hall Empire needed her leadership.
• Bibi Dong gathered capable officials and specialists in Star Luo City, where they drafted the First Five-Year Plan after half a month of discussion.
• Bibi Dong assigned Soul Engineers to develop Soul Tool machines that ordinary people could operate to increase food and goods production.

Three years after the Spirit Hall Empire unified the continent, Bibi Dong’s reforms reshaped its provinces, administration, roads, and transportation. The chapter ends with railways still incomplete but already transforming travel and commerce across the empire.

• Bibi Dong abolished the old borders and reorganized the continent into eighteen provinces and three directly governed cities, with officials promoted through local service.
• The empire built a connected network of official roads linking Spirit City, Heaven Dou City, Star Luo City, and settlements throughout the provinces.
• The Soul Tool Research Institute developed Energy Storage Crystals that let ordinary people operate Soul Tool Cars, and Bibi Dong restricted the crystals’ use in weapons.
• Blue-and-white buses began carrying passengers along city routes, while trains connected major cities as railway construction continued.
• Railways cut travel between Heaven Dou City and Spirit City from more than ten days on horseback to two days and one night, and road construction spurred commerce.

The Spirit Hall Empire underwent three years of sweeping reforms that transformed transport, farming, education, government, the army, and its cities. Spirit City and the rest of the country continued expanding, while the Research Institute approached the development of ninth-level Soul Tools.

• Soul Tool Cargo Trucks and new machinery lowered transport and production costs, increased output, and freed workers and farmers for other jobs.
• Bibi Dong funded nationwide construction, while the state reclaimed all land and distributed farmland to households under a tax system that protected the national food supply.
• The empire established free, standardized spirit master academies and opened paths for graduates to enter advanced schools and public service.
• The empire changed official recruitment, equipped soldiers with Soul Tool Armor and Melee Soul Tool Blades, and advanced research until an eighth-level Soul Tool was completed and ninth-level development drew near.
• Spirit City expanded into core, inner, and outer districts, while Heaven Dou City, Star Luo City, and settlements across the country underwent renovations.

After the Spirit Hall Empire improved living conditions, nationwide records revealed a surge in newly awakened Soul Masters, and a second awakening campaign uncovered hundreds of thousands more. The academies struggled to accommodate the influx as students crowded into classes across the empire.

• The Spirit Hall Empire's census found that more than ten thousand people had awakened martial souls in a single year, many from formerly impoverished regions.
• The Research Institute task force concluded that better nutrition had allowed previously suppressed martial soul potential to emerge.
• The Cabinet ordered free second awakening ceremonies for people who had failed to awaken before, and Soul Masters traveled through counties and villages to conduct them.
• After several months, Bibi Dong received the final figures showing that hundreds of thousands had awakened, all before age thirty.
• Intermediate and primary academies became overcrowded, forcing counties to hold outdoor lessons and divide students into morning and afternoon sessions.

Ye Xiao proposed that the Spirit Hall Empire develop Sea God Island into a supply center for trade with Sun Moon Continent, using its surplus goods and Storage Soul Tools. Bo Saixi considered the island’s capacity as Ye Xiao outlined how the empire could overcome its limits.

• The Ministry of Education calculated that the newly awakened Soul Masters would require at least a thousand academies, and the Cabinet prioritized funding their construction.
• Ye Xiao woke in Bo Saixi’s arms and told her he had serious business to discuss.
• Ye Xiao proposed that the Spirit Hall Empire help develop Sea God Island, and Bo Saixi asked what he meant.
• Ye Xiao explained that surplus goods and Soul Tools could be sold on Sun Moon Continent, with Sea God Island serving as a supply center between the continents.
• Bo Saixi raised concerns about the island’s limited land and docks, and Ye Xiao suggested using Storage Soul Tools and expanding the docks.

Ye Xiao and Bo Saixi discussed turning Sea God Island into a trading hub between the two continents. The Spirit Hall Empire assembled its First Fleet, and Ye Xiao and Bo Saixi departed aboard its flagship.

• Ye Xiao persuaded Bo Saixi that Sea God Island could prosper by serving as a supply and cargo-transfer hub between Douluo Continent and Sun Moon Continent.
• Ye Xiao and Bibi Dong oversaw the assembly of the Spirit Hall Empire First Fleet, a force of warships, supply ships, and troop transports built with advanced soul tools.
• Bibi Dong asked Ye Xiao whether the fleet was meant for trade or war, and he said its impressive appearance would help business negotiations.
• Bibi Dong wished Ye Xiao a safe journey as he and Bo Saixi boarded the flagship.
• The flagship left the dock, carrying Ye Xiao and Bo Saixi away from the farewell party on shore.

Bo Saixi returned to Sea God Island with Ye Xiao and the Spirit Hall Empire's First Fleet, alarming the island's residents before she identified the ships as allies. Ye Xiao began organizing a large construction crew and supplies on the pier, leaving the Sacred Pillar Douluo wondering what he intended to do.

• A lookout spotted the First Fleet approaching Sea God Island and raised the alarm.
• Seahorse Douluo, Hailong Douluo, Hainv Douluo, and the other Sacred Pillar Douluo gathered to defend the harbor.
• Bo Saixi landed on the reef, announced her return, and explained that the fleet belonged to the Spirit Hall Empire and was not hostile.
• Ye Xiao came ashore and directed a thousand Construction Soul Masters as they unloaded blueprints, tools, building materials, soul tools, and food.
• Seahorse Douluo asked what the crew and supplies were for, and Ye Xiao told him to ask Bo Saixi.

Bo Saixi explained that Sea God Island would become a free supply stop for Spirit Hall Empire’s trade with Sun Moon Continent, while Ye Xiao teased her about their relationship. After inspecting a map and discussing his plans, they left the dock together.

• Bo Saixi told the Sacred Pillar Douluo that Sea God Island would be developed into a supply point and ordered them to cooperate with Ye Xiao.
• Ye Xiao said the Spirit Hall Empire would cover the construction costs, prompting the Sacred Pillar Douluo to assume he and Bo Saixi had an unusually close relationship.
• Ye Xiao put an arm around Bo Saixi and teased her about how they had gotten together.
• Bo Saixi asked where Sun Moon Continent was, and Ye Xiao showed her its location on a map and described the sea route from Sea God Island.
• Bo Saixi questioned whether Ye Xiao planned to conquer Sun Moon Continent, but he insisted he was going there to trade and joked about having a second-generation god with her.
• Bo Saixi teased Ye Xiao about having children, and he suggested they go rest together.

Sea God Island was rebuilt into eight cities, connected towns, and modern ports by the Spirit Hall Empire's construction team. The seven Sacred Pillar Douluos explored the transformed island and saw how its new services improved daily life.

• The construction team transformed Sea God Island in half a month, building cities, towns, roads, utilities, and three deepwater ports.
• The seven Sacred Pillar Douluos surveyed the new cities, and Hailong Douluo admitted he had gotten lost in his own city.
• The Douluos walked the island road and saw residents using the markets, clinic, and training grounds.
• Hainv Douluo heard an old woman describe how a clinic had cured her grandson's fever.
• Haigui Douluo watched women draw clean water from a public water station.

Ye Xiao and the others prepared Sea God Island for new arrivals, then sailed with a trade fleet toward the Sun Moon Continent. On the voyage, Ye Xiao told the women to begin seeking their own god trials once the trade route was established.

• Ye Xiao and Bo Saixi shared a quiet moment after the Sacred Pillar Douluo toured Sea God Island and saw how much it had changed.
• A week later, Bibi Dong, Ning Rongrong, Huo Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Shui Yue'er, and others arrived with a smaller fleet and marveled at the island's new city and port.
• After three days of sightseeing and gathering seafood, the group boarded the First Fleet while merchant ships carried goods from the Spirit Hall Empire.
• The fleet set sail for the Sun Moon Continent, and Ye Xiao said its defenses could deter an attack upon arrival.
• Ye Xiao told the women that once trade was established, they should seek god trials or consider cultivating into godhood on their own.

Ye Xiao’s fleet reached the Sun Moon Continent and approached Linhai City, where the sight of its unfamiliar metal warships sent the local garrison and townspeople into panic. The fleet stopped offshore and raised an unknown flag, leaving the city’s defenders uncertain about who had arrived.

• Shui Yue'er, Huo Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others gathered on deck to watch the Sun Moon Continent emerge from the mist.
• Han Laosan spotted the approaching fleet from Linhai City’s watchtower and rang the alarm bell.
• The garrison captain ordered the city gates shut and sent soldiers, archers, and Soul Masters to defend the city as residents fled the streets and harbor.
• The city lord and his officers recognized that the fleet’s metal ships did not belong to the Moon Empire but could not identify their owners.
• Ye Xiao’s flagship and the rest of the fleet stopped offshore, then raised an unfamiliar flag as the defenders kept their weapons drawn.

Ye Xiao and Bibi Dong approached Linhai City and reassured its defenders that the Spirit Hall Empire had come to trade, not wage war. The city lord agreed to begin local trade and said he would report their arrival to the imperial capital.

• Ye Xiao addressed Linhai City’s frightened soldiers, declared the Spirit Hall Empire’s peaceful trading intentions, and displayed goods from his Storage Soul Tool.
• The city lord judged that the two Titled Douluo had no need to explain themselves if they intended to attack, then left the city to speak with them.
• Bibi Dong told the city lord about Douluo Star’s two continents and the Spirit Hall Empire’s unification of Douluo Continent.
• Ye Xiao gave the city lord a nautical chart and described Sea God Island as a harbor where ships could resupply.
• The city lord accepted the chart, said he would report the arrival to the imperial capital, and offered to begin trade with Linhai City.

Ye Xiao began trade between the Spirit Hall Empire and Linhai City, using the exchange of currency and goods to establish the empire’s influence on the Sun Moon Continent. As commerce flourished outside the city, Ye Xiao and Bibi Dong entered Linhai City with its lord.

• Ye Xiao kept his fleet outside Linhai City and had hundreds of attendants fly ashore to set up stalls.
• Ye Xiao required buyers to exchange Sun Moon Coins for Gold Soul Coins, explaining to Bibi Dong that wider circulation of their currency would help bring the continent under their influence.
• The city lord reassured Linhai’s people, and an old fisherman became the first customer, buying a sharp, inexpensive sickle.
• More townspeople came to browse and buy, while a small peddler stocked up on goods to resell in the royal capital.
• The city lord watched the successful trade, then escorted Ye Xiao and Bibi Dong into Linhai City, where Bibi Dong noted its poverty.

Ye Xiao and Bibi Dong toured Linhai City and learned about the Moon Empire’s limited defenses and the Sun Moon Continent’s politics. After the city lord reported the Spirit Hall Empire’s arrival, Moon City’s emperor and officials debated whether the fleet was a threat, and Du Ruhai challenged General Temur’s claim that it was a scouting force.

• Ye Xiao and Bibi Dong saw Linhai City’s small garrison, and Ye Xiao advised the city lord about trade and improving local craftsmanship.
• Ye Xiao learned that the Sun Empire and Moon Empire maintained a fragile ceasefire and that local nobles held power in the Moon Empire.
• As news of the trade spread, crowds gathered at Linhai City, and the city lord bought eight Soul Tool Textile Machine component sets before sending an urgent memorial to the imperial capital.
• In Moon City, Emperor and his ministers reviewed the memorial describing the Spirit Hall Empire’s fleet, Titled Douluo, goods, and sea route.
• General Temur and another officer urged the emperor to reinforce the eastern border, arguing that the fleet was scouting for an invasion.
• Du Ruhai questioned whether an openly displayed fleet could be scouting and asked Temur how long it would take the force to capture Linhai City.

The Moon Empire’s officials argued over whether the Spirit Hall Empire’s fleet at Linhai City meant trade or a threat, and whether to welcome it or prepare for war. The emperor decided to visit Linhai City himself to judge the fleet and negotiate before the Sun Empire could gain the initiative.

• Du Ruhai argued that the Spirit Hall Empire had shown goodwill by trading openly and avoiding an attack on Linhai City.
• The Minister of Rites urged the emperor to send envoys and warned that mishandling the Spirit Hall Empire could drive it toward the Sun Empire.
• Temur opposed welcoming the visitors, citing the Sun Empire’s past use of trade to scout defenses before invading.
• The civil and military officials argued for nearly two hours over whether to trade with the Spirit Hall Empire or strengthen defenses.
• The emperor heard both sides and announced that he would personally go to Linhai City to assess the fleet and show the Moon Empire’s sincerity.

The Moon Empire's emperor traveled to Linhai City to assess the Spirit Hall Empire, whose powerful fleet and weapons alarmed him. After hearing that Bibi Dong ruled an empire descended from Spirit Hall, the emperor realized Linhai City's reports had understated its strength.

• The emperor ordered a diplomatic letter and gifts prepared, then set out for Linhai City with Temur and an escort.
• A week later, the emperor's carriage entered Linhai City amid crowds buying the Spirit Hall Empire's goods.
• Temur inspected a farmer's new hoe and judged its steel superior to the Moon Empire's military weapons.
• The Lord of Linhai City told the emperor that Spirit Hall's ships carried powerful Soul Tool Cannons and that Bibi Dong was its female emperor.
• The lord explained that Spirit Hall had been founded by the Angel God and had once held dozens of Titled Douluo, leaving the emperor convinced its power had been understated.