Chapter Summaries

After the battle at sea, the Silver Shuttle and Star Glory endured five days of repairs before reaching a Star Luo Empire harbor. The exhausted Douluo Continent delegation declined a welcoming banquet and rested overnight, while the Star Luo Empire members returned home.

• The crews of the Silver Shuttle and Star Glory repaired their ships for five days, aided by Soul Masters sent by the Star Luo Empire.
• The two ships reached a Star Luo Empire harbor, where officials welcomed the visiting delegation.
• An Shaojie declined the welcoming banquet because the delegation needed rest, and the Star Luo Empire members dispersed to return home.
• An Shaojie led the Sun Moon Federation delegation to a hotel, where everyone slept through the night.
• The delegation woke the next morning and remembered that they had arrived in the Star Luo Empire.

An Shaojie led the Sun Moon Federation delegation aboard a train to the Star Luo Empire and met Situ Xuan in a private compartment. He confirmed Situ Xuan could move freely during the visit and would not be expected to gather intelligence.

• An Shaojie led the delegation from their hotel to Haibin City's Soul Guidance Train station and boarded the train with them.
• The Star Luo Empire had separated the Sun Moon Federation delegation from Shrek Academy, hoping to approach and recruit each group separately.
• An Shaojie passed through the empty carriages to reach Situ Xuan's guarded private compartment.
• An Shaojie activated a barrier and told Situ Xuan that he could move about freely and would not need to handle intelligence gathering.

An Shaojie told Situ Xuan that the Federation wanted him to stir up trouble in the Star Luo Empire, then described a competition that would let him fight freely. Situ Xuan became eager to enter, especially after learning Shrek Academy could participate.

• An Shaojie explained that the Federation hoped Situ Xuan would exploit the diplomatic visit to stir up trouble in the Star Luo Empire.
• Situ Xuan asked An Shaojie to tell him directly what he wanted him to do.
• An Shaojie told Situ Xuan about the All-Continent Youth Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition in Star Luo City and its prizes.
• An Shaojie explained that the Infinite Challenge Tournament allowed any fighting methods and required a life-and-death waiver.
• Situ Xuan grew excited when An Shaojie said Shrek Academy could participate and asked when the competition began.
• An Shaojie said the competition would start around their arrival and offered to help Situ Xuan skip the preliminary qualifiers.

Situ Xuan and An Shaojie escaped as a hundred-plus hostile mechas bombarded the delegation’s train, but Cai Yue'er’s silver barrier kept it intact. The attackers clashed with the Star Luo Empire’s guards while Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, and the Shrek students joined the defense and rescue effort.

• Situ Xuan and An Shaojie leapt from the carriage just before explosions tore through the train.
• Cai Yue'er shielded the tumbling train with silver light, then attacked the red Goshawk Mecha, which dodged her strike.
• The Star Luo Empire Mecha Guard launched from the train and fought the attackers, whose mechas bore skull marks with green flames.
• Gu Yue returned incoming shells with hurricanes, destroying several yellow mechas, while Shrek students evacuated trapped passengers and helped defend the train.
• Ye Xinglan took position beside Gu Yue on the train roof as a shell exploded in front of them.

Ye Xinglan, Gu Yue, and Yue Zhengyu defended the Shrek delegation’s train as a massive mecha force overwhelmed its defenses. Situ Xuan unleashed his Darkness Domain, blinded most of the attackers, and withstood the eight Black-Grade Mechas’ fire, leaving them enraged by his taunt.

• Ye Xinglan, Gu Yue, and Yue Zhengyu joined forces on the train roof while Shrek students rescued the wounded and helped defend the delegation.
• Wu Zhangkong intercepted enemy fire, but an attack broke through and blasted a carriage carrying delegation members.
• Gu Yue called for Situ Xuan, who rushed into the battlefield and released Darkness Without Sun, shrouding much of the area in a Malevolent Qi domain.
• The darkness disabled the lower-grade mechas’ vision and perception, causing some to panic and collide as the eight Black-Grade Mechas kept firing.
• Situ Xuan protected himself with Evil Aura Body Protection and shrugged off the Black-Grade Mechas’ attacks before mocking them.

Situ Xuan crushed the Black-Grade Mechas and gathered battlefield Malevolent Qi into a devastating attack. Cai Yue'er stopped the Goshawk Mecha from reaching him, leaving him time to complete the attack.

• Situ Xuan caught and crushed the Heavy-Duty Black-Grade Mecha’s cannon beams, then crippled it with one punch.
• Situ Xuan used Instant Shadow to overwhelm the remaining seven Black-Grade Mechas and bring them down.
• Situ Xuan began condensing battlefield Malevolent Qi into a massive sphere with Black Heart Evil Palm’s Sixth Form.
• The Goshawk Mecha’s pilot dived toward Situ Xuan to interrupt the attack, but Cai Yue'er blocked its path with silver chains.
• The Goshawk Mecha pulled away from Cai Yue'er's chains, giving Situ Xuan another breath to gather power.

Situ Xuan unleashed a sphere of Malevolent Qi that annihilated most of the attacking mechas, leaving the survivors to flee. The injured Cai Yue'er vowed to identify the force behind the attack, while Situ Xuan watched the retreat with a satisfied smile.

• Cai Yue'er decided she had to stop Situ Xuan from killing the attackers to protect Shrek Academy's reputation.
• Situ Xuan fired a condensed sphere of Malevolent Qi into the mecha formation, destroying dozens of mechas and killing their pilots.
• Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, Yue Zhengyu, and Tang Wulin watched in shock as Tang Wulin struggled to contain his hatred and jealousy.
• Wu Zhangkong told Tang Wulin to stop watching and help the injured, and Tang Wulin went to assist the delegation.
• The surviving mechas fled, while the injured Cai Yue'er memorized the skull mark and vowed to make the attackers pay.

Situ Xuan confronted Star Luo Empire officials after annihilating the mecha force that attacked the train. As Minister Sima Lanxiao tried to explain, Situ Xuan demanded that he speak the truth.

• Situ Xuan surveyed the ruined battlefield, met Gu Yue's gaze, and walked away as the Malevolent Qi faded.
• Star Luo Empire mecha guards arrived, and their commander realized Situ Xuan had destroyed more than a hundred enemy mechas, including three Black-Grade Mechas.
• Medical personnel rescued the wounded while Situ Xuan walked toward Foreign Affairs Minister Sima Lanxiao and the other officials.
• Situ Xuan told Sima Lanxiao that death and grief made people reveal their true thoughts, then ordered him to speak.
• Sima Lanxiao said he could explain, and Situ Xuan spread Malevolent Qi toward him and demanded his first sentence.

Situ Xuan silenced a Star Luo Empire major who interrupted him, then forced Minister Sima Lanxiao to explain the Green Skull attack. Sima Lanxiao feared that a wrong answer to Situ Xuan’s next question would cost him his life.

• A Star Luo Empire major confronted Situ Xuan for disrespecting Sima Lanxiao and the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Situ Xuan tore open the major’s Black-Grade mecha, pulled him from the cockpit, and threw him into a Purple-Grade mecha.
• Situ Xuan warned the gathered forces not to interrupt while he was speaking, leaving them stunned and Sima Lanxiao terrified.
• Sima Lanxiao explained that Green Skull was a powerful resistance organization that controlled two provinces and had attacked to provoke conflict between the Federation and the Star Luo Empire.
• Situ Xuan told Sima Lanxiao that the explanation was only his second sentence, and Sima Lanxiao anxiously wondered what he had to say next.

After Situ Xuan destroyed the attacking Mechas and saved the delegation, Sima Lanxiao offered him compensation on behalf of the Star Luo Empire and the Sima Family. Situ Xuan accepted and left, while Sima Lanxiao realized the offers had spared his life.

• Sima Lanxiao decided that compensation was the only way to appease Situ Xuan.
• Sima Lanxiao promised the Star Luo Empire would give Situ Xuan a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, two Black-Grade Mechas, and thirty standard-issue Purple-Grade Mechas.
• Sima Lanxiao offered to have the Sima Family cover all of Situ Xuan's expenses during his time in the Star Luo Empire.
• Situ Xuan accepted the offer, told Sima Lanxiao to deliver the promised items, and walked away.
• Sima Lanxiao stood relieved, believing the compensation had saved his life.

After Situ Xuan left the devastated battlefield, Sima Lanxiao considered how to report the incident and realized the promised compensation could be supplied without sacrificing the empire’s most valuable assets. He concluded that Situ Xuan might be hired through transactions and recorded him as a potential opportunity.

• Sima Lanxiao ordered the Mecha warriors to reinforce the perimeter, search the area, and bring the damaged Mecha and its major to him.
• Sima Lanxiao considered how to explain the attack and compensation to the emperor while waiting for buses to transport the survivors.
• Sima Lanxiao reasoned that the empire could provide captured or stored Mechas and a less valuable Soul Bone instead of giving away core military assets.
• Sima Lanxiao recalled Situ Xuan’s offer to help in exchange for payment and considered using him against his political enemies, then decided not to attempt to control him.
• Sima Lanxiao wrote in his notebook that Situ Xuan was usable through transactions at a cost within tolerable limits.

Situ Xuan unleashed his Darkness Domain and Evil Aura to turn back the overwhelming mecha assault, while the battered delegations repaired their ships and continued their voyage. By the fifth day, they reached a Star Luo Empire port, where the exhausted groups disembarked and the Douluo Continent delegation prepared to begin its visit.

• Ye Xinglan, Gu Yue, and Yue Zhengyu defended the train as more than a hundred enemy mechas overwhelmed the Star Luo Empire brigade and damaged the carriages.
• Situ Xuan entered the battle, blinded the enemy mechas with his Darkness Domain, and protected himself from their attacks with Evil Aura.
• An Shaojie and the Shrek Academy group watched the damaged ships undergo repairs, while Star Luo Empire reinforcements arrived on the third day to help.
• On the fifth day, the Silver Shuttle and Star Glory reached a Star Luo Empire port, where the exhausted delegations declined a welcoming banquet and went to rest.
• The Star Luo Empire delegation dispersed at the pier, while An Shaojie led the Douluo Continent delegation to a hotel for the night.

Situ Xuan reflected on Sima Lanxiao’s apparent fear and concluded that the Star Luo Empire’s ambitious foreign minister was masking a desire to exploit the coming chaos. He expected Sima Lanxiao to return and negotiate, while considering the brutal political history that had shaped the empire.

• Situ Xuan recognized that Sima Lanxiao’s fearful, flattering behavior concealed calculation and ambition.
• Situ Xuan recalled how the Star Luo Empire’s imperial family and officials used betrayal, intrigue, and violence to secure power.
• Situ Xuan considered the Xu Family’s usurpation, its failure to eliminate the Dai and Zhu Families, and the Dai Family’s later restoration.
• Situ Xuan concluded that Sima Lanxiao would return to negotiate terms and try to use him for personal gain.
• Situ Xuan reflected that the Star Luo Empire resented the Sun Moon Federation but had to conceal its hostility because the Federation was far stronger.

Situ Xuan reflected on his belief that brute personal power was the only force behind rules and civilization, and he waited for a chance to unleash it. Meanwhile, Gu Yue’s eyes and hands began to show dragonlike traits as Tang Wulin slept nearby.

• Situ Xuan clenched his fist hard enough to burst the air and reaffirmed that power determined everything.
• Situ Xuan looked over Star Luo City and resolved to face Sima Lanxiao and the other schemers with his strength.
• Tang Wulin fell asleep in the Shrek Academy hotel room, exhausted from the journey and the attack on the Soul Guidance Train.
• Gu Yue watched Star Luo City as her pupils narrowed into silvery slits and silver scales appeared on the backs of her hands.

Gu Yue secretly met with the injured Di Tian and asked him to assess the power behind Situ Xuan. After learning that the unknown figure might be a God King, she decided Situ Xuan was an uncontrollable variable the Soul Beasts could not afford to provoke yet.

• Gu Yue sealed the room against outside detection, and Di Tian emerged from the shadows to kneel before her.
• Gu Yue asked about Di Tian’s injuries and gave him a wisp of silver light from the Dragon God’s inheritance to aid his recovery.
• Gu Yue asked Di Tian to assess Situ Xuan’s senior brother, and Di Tian estimated that the figure was at least at the peak of the First-Level God rank.
• Gu Yue recalled the figure’s strike that had shattered Tang Hao’s martial soul and considered the possibility that the figure was a God King.
• Di Tian wondered if Gu Yue intended to act against Situ Xuan, but Gu Yue forbade the idea and called him an uncontrollable variable.
• Gu Yue sensed Tang Wulin, who carried the Golden Dragon King Bloodline, in the neighboring room.

Gu Yue drew the leaking Golden Dragon King Bloodline from Tang Wulin, using his emotional turmoil and loss of control to bring the Dragon God's divided powers together. As Tang Wulin dreamed of Gu Yue, the bloodline’s violent influence weakened while her strength began to transform.

• Gu Yue recognized that Tang Wulin’s premature breakthrough and emotional turmoil had caused him to lose control, and she intended to keep him unaware of her role in his feelings of betrayal.
• Gu Yue ordered Di Tian to guard the room, then began absorbing the Golden Dragon King Bloodline leaking from Tang Wulin.
• Tang Wulin dreamed that Gu Yue approached and comforted him, murmuring her name as the bloodline’s violent influence diminished.
• As Golden Dragon King power entered Gu Yue, it merged with her Silver Dragon King source, beginning to reunite the Dragon God’s two powers.

Gu Yue absorbed more of the Golden Dragon King’s bloodline, integrating its pure power with her control of the elements and moving closer to the Dragon God. The next morning, Situ Xuan discovered his soul power had reached rank fifty-four and admired his transformed body.

• Gu Yue combined golden power with silver light, strengthening each of the six elements with the Dragon God’s pressure.
• Gu Yue thought of Situ Xuan and looked forward to fighting him again as she continued absorbing the Golden Dragon King’s bloodline.
• Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King bloodline weakened him, and he dreamed of finally standing beside the person he wanted.
• Situ Xuan woke the next morning and found his soul power had naturally advanced to rank fifty-four after reaching Six-Turn Golden Body.
• Situ Xuan examined his powerful, scarred physique in the mirror and declared that he had gotten stronger again.

Situ Xuan encountered Gu Yue in the hotel lobby, where she invited him for a walk, and he accepted. After introducing Yuanen Yehui to Gu Yue, he offered to pay for their outing, leaving Gu Yue teasing him about his money.

• Situ Xuan and Yuanen Yehui met Gu Yue in the hotel lobby as they headed for the entrance.
• Gu Yue invited Situ Xuan to take a walk, and he accepted with amusement.
• Situ Xuan introduced Yuanen Yehui as his friend, and the two women exchanged guarded greetings and scrutinizing looks.
• Situ Xuan urged them to come along and offered to pay for everything.
• Gu Yue questioned whether Situ Xuan could afford to pay, teasing him that he was not rich.

Situ Xuan reflected on his hard-won strength and looked forward to new battles in Star Luo City. Yuanen Yehui arrived to become his assistant, and Mu Ye revealed that he had brought her there after she asked to follow Situ Xuan.

• Situ Xuan recalled his growth from level-three Innate Soul Power to a level-fifty-four Soul King and resolved to surpass the powerful people ahead of him.
• Situ Xuan looked out over Star Luo City and said he hoped the Star Luo Empire would not disappoint him.
• Yuanen Yehui came to Situ Xuan's room and timidly said she had come to be his assistant.
• Situ Xuan recognized that Yuanen Yehui had reached level forty-seven and wondered how she had joined the trip despite not being on the delegation list.
• Mu Ye appeared in the corridor and explained that Yuanen Yehui had asked to come with Situ Xuan, then teased them about it.

Yuanen Yehui asked to follow Situ Xuan as his assistant, and he warned her that the role would mean fighting beside him and sharing his dangers. She accepted, and he agreed to let her stay before inviting her to explore Star Luo City together.

• Mu Ye teased Yuanen Yehui about her feelings for Situ Xuan and left them alone.
• Situ Xuan invited Yuanen Yehui into his room and asked why she had come.
• Yuanen Yehui said she wanted to follow Situ Xuan and learn from him.
• Situ Xuan explained that his assistant would have to fight beside him and face danger, and Yuanen Yehui said she was ready.
• Situ Xuan agreed to let Yuanen Yehui stay and invited her to walk around Star Luo City.
• Situ Xuan and Yuanen Yehui left the room and descended in the elevator.