Chapter Summaries

The Sun-Moon Empire and the Shrek Allied Forces settled into an uneasy defensive lull as both sides prepared for their next moves. Qin Yue focused on a weapon meant to kill Ye Shuhua, while Ning Deyang secretly sent two Super Douluo to search for dragon remains.

• Qin Yue ordered the Sun-Moon Empire's workshops to prioritize a special Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell and instructed frontline forces to defend, scout, and track Ye Shuhua and her daughter.
• The Shrek Allied Forces and the Sun-Moon Empire fortified their positions, limiting clashes to occasional small-scale encounters as soldiers on both sides wondered what the lull meant.
• Dean Feng Yun ordered the Shrek forces to strengthen their defenses and counter-reconnaissance, and urged Elder Ye to speed up work on the Soul Tool Energy Erosion Potion and Rapid Soul Power Recovery Pill.
• Qin Yue learned that the Annihilation Energy-Gathering Rune Array had made a breakthrough and demanded that the special shell be assembled and tested within a month.
• Ning Deyang secretly sent two Super Douluo to investigate ruins in Thunderstorm Canyon for remnants of an ancient true dragon.
• An unseen observer with ice-blue eyes watched the events from the shadows.

Kraken stole Li Jie's Annihilation Decomposition Ray and used poison to ambush Yu Qingshan and Yu Zhenyue in a cave containing a true dragon’s remains and Dragon Essence. He fired the weapon at the immobilized super Douluo, leaving the outcome of the attack unknown.

• Kraken watched the opposing forces prepare for their next moves and anticipated that a small disruption could upset their fragile balance.
• Li Jie discovered that his Annihilation Decomposition Ray had vanished from his sealed workshop and ordered a full investigation and the highest alert.
• Yu Qingshan and Yu Zhenyue found an ancient true dragon’s remains and Dragon Essence in a cave deep within Thunderstorm Canyon.
• A hidden poison erupted in the two super Douluo’s bodies, paralyzing them and corroding their Soul Power and consciousness.
• Kraken appeared at the cave entrance with Li Jie’s stolen weapon and fired it at Yu Qingshan and Yu Zhenyue.

Kraken killed Yu Qingshan and Yu Zhenyue in Thunderstorm Canyon with an Annihilation Decomposition Ray, then planted misleading traces implicating the Sun-Moon Empire and an evil technique. After finding the cave, Feng Yun mistook the staged evidence for an enemy attack and ordered the Shrek Allied Forces to their highest combat readiness.

• Kraken used the Annihilation Decomposition Ray to annihilate Yu Qingshan and Yu Zhenyue, then planted sinister poison traces and left the cave without taking the True Dragon Remains or Dragon Essence.
• Ning Deyang grew alarmed when Yu Qingshan and Yu Zhenyue failed to return and rushed to ask Dean Feng Yun for help.
• Feng Yun hurried to Thunderstorm Canyon and found the remains, strange indentations, and traces of annihilation energy and deadly poison.
• Feng Yun concluded that the Sun-Moon Empire had attacked the two Super Douluo and ordered the entire army to its highest combat readiness.

After Li Jie reported the theft of the Annihilation Decomposition Ray, Qin Yue ordered sweeping security measures across the Sun-Moon Empire’s frontline. Meanwhile, driven by rage over Yu Qingshan and Yu Zhenyue’s deaths, Feng Yun led the Shrek Allied Forces’ Title Douluo in a massive assault on the empire’s defenses.

• Li Jie told Qin Yue and the other Class Nine Soul Engineers that the Annihilation Decomposition Ray had vanished from a sealed, guarded workshop and warned that the theft suggested an insider or advanced enemy methods.
• Qin Yue ordered Class Nine Soul Tools moved to secure underground workshops, raised security to Blood Moon level, and mandated inspections and new defensive arrays.
• After seeing fragments bearing traces of the force that killed Yu Qingshan and Yu Zhenyue, Ning Deyang vomited blood, then rallied the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and called for vengeance.
• Feng Yun announced that all Title Douluo except Elder Ye would attack the Sun-Moon Empire’s defensive line.
• Forty-five Title Douluo charged the empire’s core defenses and its most heavily fortified Soul Tool positions.

Dean Feng Yun and the Shrek Allied Forces launched an all-out attack on a heavily reinforced Sun-Moon Empire defensive line, believing the enemy had anticipated and trapped them. From a command fortress, Qin Yue ordered the defenders to hold the shields, isolate Feng Yun, and target the other Titled Douluo.

• Dean Feng Yun led forty-five Titled Douluo in an assault on a Sun-Moon Empire fortress, where overlapping Soul Tool shields, charged turrets, and Level Nine Soul Engineers awaited them.
• Feng Yun struck the reinforced shield and deflected a barrage of Soul Tool attacks, while the Shrek Allied Forces suspected the Sun-Moon Empire had lured them into a prepared trap.
• Ning Deyang recognized the danger, but Feng Yun ordered the attackers to press on and tear through the enemy defenses.
• Kraken watched the battle from a distant vantage point, pleased that his schemes had ignited the fighting and fueled suspicion among the Shrek forces.
• Qin Yue ordered the defenders to maintain the shield, distribute their remaining Single-Target Level 9 Soul Defense Devices, and use six Soul Engineers to pin down Feng Yun.
• Qin Yue directed the remaining Level Nine Soul Engineers to coordinate fire against the other Titled Douluo, prioritizing isolated fighters and support or control types.

The Sun-Moon Empire's soul engineers broke the Shrek Allied Forces' charge with a coordinated defense, trapping Feng Yun and striking isolated Titled Douluo. As Qin Yue taunted the allied forces over their vulnerable rear, Kraken watched the battle and turned his attention toward their medical area.

• The Sun-Moon Empire's shield shattered under Feng Yun's attack, but six Level Nine Soul Engineers trapped him in a coordinated cage while Qin Yue directed concentrated fire at the advancing Titled Douluo.
• The Sun-Moon Empire's soul engineers wounded several Shrek Allied Forces fighters and killed a rank ninety-one Titled Douluo with a combined assault.
• Feng Yun blamed the Sun-Moon Empire for exploiting the chaos caused by Evil Soul Masters and the deaths of Yu Qingshan and Yu Zhenyue.
• Qin Yue taunted the allied forces, saying their defeat stemmed from their inability to secure their own rear, and the battle continued in a bloody stalemate.
• Kraken watched Feng Yun and the embattled forces, then focused on the Shrek Allied Forces' medical area and hinted that their supposedly secure rear could be exposed.

Zhongli Yan ambushed two Sun-Moon Empire Soul Engineers watching the Evil Spirit Forest after defeating the purge squad sent to kill him. A badly wounded Level 9 survivor warned that Zhongli Yan was heading toward the imperial capital, setting his attack on the empire’s heartland in motion.

• Two Purge Unit Soul Engineers waited outside the forest for the Level 9 leaders and their team to return from hunting Zhongli Yan.
• Zhongli Yan appeared from the shadows, bound the two Soul Engineers with shadow tentacles, and devoured their souls.
• Zhongli Yan said one Level 9 Soul Engineer had escaped and suggested the empire’s attention had been drawn toward the forest.
• The lone surviving Level 9 Soul Engineer emerged from the forest and sent a broken warning that Zhongli Yan had defeated the squad and was heading toward the imperial capital.
• The warning reached the Sun-Moon Empire’s command, as Zhongli Yan began his assault on the empire’s rear.

Feng Yun broke free of the Sun-Moon Empire’s prison and killed Qin Yue and the other surviving Level Nine Soul Engineers, but the battle left the Shrek Allied Forces annihilated and Feng Yun gravely weakened. As he surveyed the silent battlefield, he discovered a mysterious gray-robed figure whose presence had escaped his notice.

• Feng Yun unleashed Burning Heaven: Ash Annihilation, shattered the Soul Tool cage, and killed the six Level Nine Soul Engineers holding him captive.
• Feng Yun found that only six Titled Douluo remained from the Shrek Allied Forces, while only four Level Nine Soul Engineers remained on the Sun-Moon Empire’s side.
• Feng Yun fought Qin Yue and the other three Soul Engineers alone, killing them one by one before defeating Qin Yue’s Thunder Dragon Annihilation Wave with Burning Heaven Fist.
• The last six Titled Douluo of the Shrek Allied Forces fell while Feng Yun fought, leaving him apparently alone on the battlefield.
• Feng Yun noticed a gray-robed figure with ice-blue eyes standing on a nearby slope and demanded to know who they were.

Kraken killed and devoured the weakened Feng Yun, then turned his attention toward Shrek City. Meanwhile, Yo-Yo stood before the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Glazed Tile Hall as its wounded defenders gathered in fear.

• Kraken revealed that Feng Yun was too depleted to use a soul skill and said it was time to harvest.
• Feng Yun tried to resist, but Kraken struck him with his Scorpion Tail Arm and drained his power, life essence, and soul fragments.
• Kraken left Feng Yun as a dried corpse and sensed that devouring the level-ninety-eight Douluo had strengthened his Scorpion Tail Arm.
• Kraken looked toward Shrek City and wondered whether Yo-Yo had completed his mission without the turtle causing trouble.
• At the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, a wounded level-eighty-nine elder guarded the Glazed Tile Hall against Yo-Yo while the remaining sect members gathered in fear.

Yo-Yo forced the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to accept an undisclosed order, while Kraken approached Ye Shuhua with a proposal to revive the Angel Martial Soul as Evil Soul Masters threatened to exploit the continent’s weakened defenses. The chapter ended with Ye Shuhua weighing Kraken’s offer and its price.

• Yo-Yo threatened the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with the Annihilation Decomposition Ray until its elder agreed to the order from Yo-Yo’s boss.
• Yo-Yo reminded the elder to carry out the order quietly and left the ruined mountain gate.
• Kraken entered Ye Shuhua’s medical tent and warned that the war had depleted the continent’s strongest fighters, leaving it vulnerable to Evil Soul Masters.
• Kraken revealed that the Angel Martial Soul was under the Ye family’s protection and urged Ye Shuhua to let it return and help establish order.
• Kraken offered support in exchange for Ye Shuhua’s help treating special injuries and using the Angel Martial Soul’s sacred light, leaving her to decide whether to accept.

After the Allied Forces were destroyed, Ye Shuhua gathered the surviving medical team and chose to flee to the Ye Family’s ancestral land. Her group left the camp while a small Star Luo detachment stayed behind to guard its post.

• Ye Shuhua saw the battlefield littered with corpses and realized the Allied Forces had been wiped out.
• Ye Shuhua ordered the remaining survivors to gather supplies and travel to the Ye Family’s ancestral land.
• Ye Shuhua’s small group set out toward the heartland of the Heaven Dou Empire, with Kraken following behind them.
• A Star Luo captain stopped the group and asked about the battle and Dean Feng Yun.
• Ye Shuhua told the soldiers the front had collapsed and warned them that no reinforcements were coming; the captain let her pass while his soldiers remained at their post.

Ye Qingning met Kraken, who offered soul-beast allies to help her fight the rising Evil Soul Masters in exchange for restrictions on hunting powerful soul beasts. She accepted his terms, agreeing to lead the fight while insisting that the soul beasts obey her commands and protect innocents.

• Ye Shuhua opened the Ye Family's secret chamber and introduced Ye Qingning, the Angel Martial Soul inheritor, to Kraken.
• Kraken told Ye Qingning that the three empires and Shrek's top Title Douluo had fallen, leaving the continent vulnerable to Evil Soul Masters.
• Ye Qingning rejected Kraken's suggestion to wait until the Evil Soul Masters grew stronger and demanded a chance to fight them now.
• Kraken offered soul-beast allies if Ye Qingning's future force refrained from hunting soul beasts with over eighty thousand years of cultivation.
• Ye Qingning agreed to the restriction on the condition that the soul beasts obey commands, spare innocents, and help only against Evil Soul Masters.
• Kraken accepted Ye Qingning's terms and declared the deal made.

Ye Qingning led the Holy Sword in wiping out Evil Soul Masters while the Heaven Dou Empire fractured and faith in the region declined. Tang San learned of the turmoil and ordered Sea God Island’s Sacred Pillar Guardians to intervene, watch Ye Qingning, and judge whether she deserved support.

• Ye Qingning and the Holy Sword destroyed an Evil Soul Master stronghold, rescued thirteen civilians, and prepared to withdraw.
• Ye Qingning worried that the Holy Sword’s victories could not end the Evil Soul Masters’ resurgence, while Balak, Silves, and Hagendas declared independence from the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Tang San sensed faith from the Heaven Dou region declining and questioned the High Priest of Sea God Island about the cause.
• The High Priest reported the devastating war, Evil Soul Master attacks, Ye Qingning’s Holy Sword, and Heaven Dou’s fragmentation.
• Tang San ordered the seven Sacred Pillar Guardians to help clear Evil Soul Masters, stabilize order, and observe Ye Qingning’s intentions.
• The seven Sacred Pillar Guardians departed Sea God Island for the Douluo Continent while the High Priest stayed behind.

Ye Qingning reached Soul Douluo after absorbing several soul beast sacrifices arranged by Kraken, and she pledged to use her power against Evil Soul Masters. Kraken warned that Sea God Island’s seven Sacred Pillar Guardians were coming and might view her as either an ally or a threat, leaving her to continue strengthening the Holy Sword while preparing for their arrival.

• Ye Qingning thanked Kraken for arranging soul beasts to sacrifice themselves, while Ye Shuhua and the deputy captain recalled how eerily calm the sacrifices had been.
• Kraken defended the arrangement as a fair investment and explained that the sacrifices suited Ye Qingning’s Angel Martial Soul; Ye Qingning vowed to purge Evil Soul Masters and protect civilians.
• Kraken revealed that nearly half the active Evil Soul Master forces in Heaven Dou territory had been defeated and warned that Sea God Island had sent seven Sacred Pillar Guardians onto the continent to compete for faith and assess Ye Qingning.
• Kraken told Ye Qingning to keep purging Evil Soul Masters and rescuing civilians, meet Sea God Island without fear or submission, and use the coming crisis to demonstrate her value.
• Kraken warned Ye Qingning not to fall before fulfilling their agreements, then vanished from the tent as she, Ye Shuhua, and the deputy captain faced the uncertain future in silence.

Several months into the Seven Sacred Pillars’ campaign against Evil Soul Masters, Sea Swallow Douluo reported to the Demon Empress that Sea God Island was lightly defended and its High Priest might have been empowered by Tang San. After Kraken warned that an invasion would likely be a trap, the Demon Empress ordered the Deep Sea forces to remain hidden and continue their plans.

• The Seven Sacred Pillars purged Evil Soul Master strongholds, winning the continent’s gratitude and strengthening faith in Sea God Island.
• Sea Swallow Douluo secretly reported the campaign’s results and Sea God Island’s defenses to the Demon Empress, Tieshan, and Moyuan.
• The Demon Empress contacted Kraken through the Deep Wave Sound-Transmission Conch and shared Sea Swallow Douluo’s intelligence.
• Kraken concluded that Tang San had likely empowered the High Priest and that attacking Sea God Island would risk a devastating counterattack.
• The Demon Empress approved Kraken’s advice, ordered the Deep Sea Soul Beasts to stay concealed, and sent Sea Swallow Douluo back to monitor Sea God Island’s attitude toward the Holy Sword and the Angel Martial Soul.

Kraken planned to use the Annihilation Decomposition Ray to kill Sea God Island Sacred Pillars while framing the Sun-Moon Empire, hoping to shatter the continent’s growing faith in the Sea God. At a Sea God Island outpost, he launched an attack on Sea Cucumber Douluo, and Sea Turtle Douluo intercepted the ray.

• Kraken took the Annihilation Decomposition Ray from Yo-Yo and ordered him to disguise himself and kill two or three people from Sea God Island.
• Kraken explained that the weapon’s traces would implicate the Sun-Moon Empire and that killing Sacred Pillars would undermine faith in the Sea God.
• Yo-Yo understood that Kraken intended to destabilize Sea God Island’s image and stir doubt among the continent’s people.
• At a mine in southern Fasinuo Province, the Seven Dog Sacred Pillars rested after an operation while Sea Swallow, Sea Turtle, and Coral secretly anticipated an attack.
• Kraken appeared above the group and fired at Sea Cucumber Douluo, but Sea Turtle Douluo raised his Black Armor Sacred Turtle defense to block the ray.

Kraken ambushed the Seven Sacred Pillars of Sea God Island with his Annihilation Decomposition Ray, killing Begonia Douluo and Sea Halberd Douluo while severely injuring Sea Turtle Douluo. The survivors retreated to report the attack, unaware that Kraken watched them leave and hid his depleted weapon in the mine.

• Kraken struck Sea Turtle Douluo with the first ray, badly injuring him and cracking his defensive Soul Bones.
• Kraken killed Begonia Douluo with a second ray before the other pillars could protect her.
• Sea Halberd Douluo charged Kraken, but Kraken fired a third ray at Conch Douluo, and Sea Halberd took the hit to shield him.
• Sea Halberd Douluo died from his chest wound after destroying the conveyor frame with his counterattack, while Kraken escaped through spatial teleportation.
• Sea Swallow Douluo and Coral Douluo led the survivors away and ordered a report to the High Priest and Lord Sea God.
• Kraken watched the survivors leave and discarded his depleted Annihilation Decomposition Ray in a hidden mine crack.

The five surviving Sacred Pillar guardians headed back to Sea God Island, but Kraken ambushed them on the way. The High Priest arrived too late to stop the attack and carried the survivors home, vowing that Sea God Island would avenge its dead.

• Sea Swallow Douluo, Coral Douluo, Conch Douluo, Sea Cucumber Douluo, and the wounded Sea Turtle Douluo flew toward Sea God Island after reporting the attack to the High Priest.
• Kraken emerged from the sea and attacked the exhausted guardians, so Sea Swallow Douluo fled with Sea Turtle Douluo while the other three tried to hold Kraken back.
• Coral Douluo, Conch Douluo, and Sea Cucumber Douluo failed to stop Kraken, who killed Sea Cucumber Douluo with a poisoned tentacle.
• The High Priest approached with renewed Sea God power, and Kraken vanished beneath a tsunami and poisonous mist before he arrived.
• The High Priest healed Coral Douluo and Conch Douluo, then carried them back to Sea God Island and vowed revenge against Kraken.

Several months after the Evil Soul Master purges, Ye Qingning led the Holy Sword into southern Fasinuo to destroy its entrenched remnants and aid the survivors. The local people then petitioned to join Barak, expanding the kingdom into a coastal power and raising the Holy Sword’s influence.

• The purges ended unevenly across the continent, as Xu Changfeng became emperor of the Star Crown Empire while Evil Soul Masters continued to plague southern Fasinuo.
• The king of Barak asked Ye Qingning to intervene in southern Fasinuo, and she agreed under conditions that gave the Holy Sword independent command and required local consent for the region’s future.
• Ye Qingning led the Holy Sword across the border, destroyed the Evil Soul Masters’ strongholds, and helped local people recover.
• Southern Fasinuo’s survivors petitioned to leave Heavenly Soul and join Barak, blaming the Heavenly Soul court for abandoning them.
• The king of Barak accepted the petition, and southern Fasinuo formally merged into Barak, giving the kingdom a coastline and ports.
• Heavenly Soul protested but took no substantive action as Barak’s territory and the Holy Sword’s influence grew.

During Sea God Island’s Sacred Pillar Divine Selection, a mysterious attacker erased the three leading candidates and escaped, leaving the High Priest furious and the island’s succession crisis unresolved.

• The High Priest began the Sacred Pillar Divine Selection to choose successors for the fallen Begonia Douluo, Halberd Douluo, and Sea Cucumber Douluo.
• Three gray shadows appeared above the leading candidates and erased them completely before the High Priest could intervene.
• The High Priest blamed Kraken and heard the attacker mock Sea God Island before the presence vanished without a trace.
• The High Priest halted the ceremony, ordered the island placed under its highest martial law, and vowed that Sea God Island and Kraken would fight until one side was dead.