Chapter Summaries

Kong Deming told Yuwen Yuan about a continent-spanning underground tunnel used by Evil Soul Masters and revealed that Ye Xishui had spared him. Yuwen Yuan contacted Ye Xishui, who proposed staging a midnight attack so she could deceive the Evil Soul Masters while he reported the threat to the Spirit Hall Empire.

• Kong Deming told Yuwen Yuan that the Sun-Moon Empire had secretly discovered a tunnel beneath the continent and that Evil Soul Masters had established a stronghold inside it.
• Kong Deming said he had encountered Ye Xishui in the tunnel and that she had let him escape despite his injuries.
• Kong Deming gave Yuwen Yuan a communicator and asked him to pass the tunnel intelligence to the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Yuwen Yuan contacted Ye Xishui, who explained that she had sent troops to put on a show for the Evil Soul Masters.
• Ye Xishui proposed staging a midnight attack on Yuwen Yuan's camp, and Yuwen Yuan agreed to help her deceive the Evil Soul Masters.

Ye Xishui raided the Spirit Hall Empire’s border camp and defeated Yuwen Yuan in a duel, but Zhongli Old Ghost’s attempt to seize him failed when Yuwen revealed his restored power. Yuwen killed Zhongli Old Ghost, freed Zhu Haojie’s soul, and sent it peacefully into the night sky.

• Ye Xishui and eleven Soul Douluo infiltrated the camp, set its banner on fire, and killed the three condemned prisoners.
• Yuwen Yuan confronted Ye Xishui, pursued her beyond the camp, and fought her while their forces battled below.
• Ye Xishui defeated Yuwen Yuan with her Phoenix Burning Heaven, leaving him apparently gravely injured.
• Zhongli Old Ghost approached the kneeling Yuwen Yuan and ordered Zhu Haojie’s soul to kill him.
• Yuwen Yuan restored his Six-Winged Angel avatar, killed Zhongli Old Ghost with holy flames, and freed Zhu Haojie’s soul.
• Yuwen Yuan purified Zhu Haojie’s soul and sent it into the night sky.

Ye Xishui and the Soul Douluo surrounding Zhongli Ren attacked him and destroyed the souls he controlled. Just as Ye Xishui was about to kill him, Nangong Wan appeared with the unconscious Yan Shaozhe as a hostage and demanded that she stop.

• Nineteen Soul Douluo encircled Zhongli Ren, who used Weini's soul to strengthen nine other souls and send them against his attackers.
• Eight Spirit Empire Soul Douluo purified the nine souls while eleven Western Legion Soul Douluo attacked Zhongli Ren, who nearly separated the souls of two of them.
• Ye Xishui struck Zhongli Ren with her Phoenix skills, shattered Weini's barrier, and wounded his left shoulder.
• As Ye Xishui moved to kill Zhongli Ren, Nangong Wan appeared at the edge of camp holding the unconscious Yan Shaozhe hostage.
• Nangong Wan threatened to kill Yan Shaozhe unless Ye Xishui let Zhongli Ren go, and Zhongli Ren demanded that she release him.

Ye Xishui rescued Yan Shaozhe after trading Zhongli Ren to Nangong Wan, while Yuwen Yuan ambushed and killed both men. Ye Xishui revealed that the Evil Soul Masters had held Long Xiaoyao captive to control her, and she and Yuwen Yuan agreed to search for him as Tieshan's army advanced toward the western border.

• Ye Xishui exchanged Yan Shaozhe for Zhongli Ren, then carried the unconscious Yan Shaozhe away from the camp.
• Yuwen Yuan ambushed Zhongli Ren and Nangong Wan in a mountain hollow, killed them with his Angel Light Feather Formation, and burned their bodies to ash.
• Yuwen Yuan questioned Ye Xishui about why she had not defeated the Soul Douluo, and she revealed that the Evil Soul Masters had taken Long Xiaoyao and used him to control her.
• Ye Xishui said she would find Long Xiaoyao at any cost, and Yuwen Yuan offered to help her.
• Tieshan and Man Yi continued advancing west, expecting to reach the border in two days and find Ye Xishui there.

Tieshan’s army reached the western border, where Ye Xishui surrendered the Western Legion and handed over command in exchange for her soldiers’ safety. Tieshan accepted, taking control of Heaven Soul, while Man Yi reminded him to find Yan Shaozhe and address the southern region.

• Tieshan and Man Yi received a report that Ye Xishui and Yuwen Yuan had clashed, then withdrawn and remained at peace.
• Ye Xishui predicted that Tieshan would continue toward the western border despite the truce, and prepared to receive his army.
• When Tieshan’s army arrived, Ye Xishui raised a white flag and surrendered, offering to hand over the Western Legion in return for her soldiers’ safety.
• Tieshan accepted Ye Xishui’s terms, and his army took over the western encampment’s defenses.
• Man Yi urged Tieshan to find Yan Shaozhe and deal with the southern region, and Tieshan promised to keep his word.

Kraken and the Evil Emperor fought over the two hundred-thousand-year soul beasts sent to attack the Evil Spirit Forest, but neither could defeat the other. After they reached a settlement, Kraken sacrificed fifty thousand hundred-thousand-year soul beasts to build an energy reserve and form his fifth soul core.

• The Evil Emperor confronted Kraken over the two soul beasts Kraken had given Xu Tianran, then attacked when Kraken offered compensation.
• Kraken resisted the Evil Emperor's psychic attacks with poison, water blades, and Energy Orbs, while the Evil Emperor withstood Kraken's Dan-Devour by rewinding time.
• The Evil Emperor and Kraken stopped fighting after both survived their strongest attacks, and the Evil Emperor agreed to let the matter go in exchange for resources.
• The Evil Emperor accepted the resources, warned Kraken to watch himself, and returned to the Evil Spirit Forest.
• Kraken used psychic links to sacrifice fifty thousand hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, storing most of their energy in Energy Orbs as his fifth emerald-green soul core began to form.

At Loulan’s first grand court assembly, Tieshan announced sweeping reforms, including free Spirit awakenings and the consolidation of academies into Kraken Academy, while declaring a tournament wager with the Star Luo Empire. Public reaction ranged from praise for free awakening to resistance against the academy reforms, as families waited to learn when the program would begin.

• Tieshan renamed the Heaven Dou Empire the Loulan Empire and appointed the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as its Guardian Sect, prompting one representative to question the decision.
• Tieshan decreed that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would pay to awaken every citizen’s Spirit free of charge.
• Tieshan ordered all Soul Master Academies to be restructured as Kraken Academy and announced an alliance with Star Luo that put Loulan’s southern territory at stake in the next tournament.
• People across Loulan debated the decrees, while established academies organized resistance and commoner families welcomed the promise of free awakening.
• In a remote town, a bearded man and Old Li asked a bamboo-hatted elder when free awakenings would begin, and the elder estimated that preparations could take six months to two years.

Kraken revealed that he had tampered with the awakening stones using Dan-Devour, locking people’s cultivation, while Tieshan used impersonators to force academies and sects into the Empire’s reforms. By the end, all one hundred and thirteen sects had been absorbed into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Kraken explained to Yo-Yo that Dan-Devour could lock cultivation, then implied he could use it on humans through the tampered awakening stones.
• Tieshan summoned eighteen academy presidents who opposed renaming their schools and had them replaced by identical doubles.
• The Empire announced that the eighteen academies had voluntarily become branches of Kraken Academy, prompting other academies to comply.
• Tieshan asked one hundred and thirteen sects to merge into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and a dissenter was replaced by an impersonator.
• Within an hour, the masters and representatives of all one hundred and thirteen sects had been replaced.

The Loulan Empire opened Awakening Halls across the country and sent nearly thirty thousand Kraken Academy students and Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples to conduct free Spirit Empire awakenings. After a day of mostly fruitless results, two workers discussed Tieshan’s aim of finding talented commoners and accepted that they would continue the work.

• Replaced academy presidents and sect masters built Awakening Halls, while Kraken Academy and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect recruited workers for the awakening program.
• A Kraken Academy student began the first day of awakenings in Azure Cloud Town and told a boy his Blue Silver Grass Spirit Empire had no Soul Power.
• After more than a hundred children were tested, the student found that fewer than twenty percent had Soul Power and the strongest had only level four.
• The Kraken Academy student and his Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect roommate compared their results and discussed Tieshan’s reasons for offering free awakenings.
• Nearly thirty thousand workers carried out awakenings across the Loulan Empire and returned to their lodgings exhausted.

Ye Chen brought the four empires together to destroy the Evil Soul Masters in the underground passage and seal it. The coalition rescued Long Xiaoyao, and Ye Xishui resigned from her command after reuniting with him.

• Ye Chen revealed the continent-spanning underground passage and persuaded Tieshan, Xu Jiawei, and Xu Tianran to sign an alliance treaty against the Evil Soul Masters.
• Three days later, the four empires sent their forces into the passage, where Ye Chen led the coalition in crushing the Evil Soul Master strongholds.
• Ye Chen found Long Xiaoyao chained and injured in an underground palace, freed him, and brought him to Ye Xishui.
• Ye Xishui reunited with Long Xiaoyao, and the four sides sealed the passage with stones, Soul Tool formations, and holy-light seals.
• Ye Xishui asked Tieshan to accept her resignation as commander-in-chief of the Western Legion, and he granted it.

Kraken drained much of the Golden Tree’s vitality to condense over a thousand Energy Orbs, then traveled overland with Mo Yuan toward Heaven Dou City. There, they met Tieshan, who revealed that Kraken had condensed a fifth Soul Core after fighting Evil Emperor.

• Kraken absorbed life energy from the Golden Tree while Mo Yuan kept watch, and he condensed more than a thousand Energy Orbs.
• Kraken and Mo Yuan left Shrek’s ruins and traveled north, passing newly built Loulan Empire Martial Soul Awakening Halls.
• At a teahouse, Mo Yuan traded an Immortal Herb for tea and a roasted soul beast, while Spirit Hall Deacon Su Yongfeng returned the herb rather than risk wasting it.
• After two days of travel, Kraken and Mo Yuan reached Heaven Dou City and met Tieshan in a quiet alley.
• Tieshan told Mo Yuan that Kraken had condensed his fifth Soul Core after fighting Evil Emperor, leaving Mo Yuan astonished.

Kraken ordered the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to supply resources for twenty native Title Douluo, then considered how to use his fused life-and-poison powers to permanently kill Tang Wutong. Meanwhile, Tang San’s divine power restored Wang Chun, and Niu Tian learned that Tai Tan had gone to Sea God Island, where Tang San warned he might be in danger.

• Kraken told Tieshan to monitor the Clear Sky Sect and said Loulan needed native Title Douluo, regardless of their loyalty.
• Kraken ordered Yo-Yo to prepare twenty sets of resources to cultivate Title Douluo, then contemplated using Dan-Devour to erase Tang Wutong completely.
• Tang San’s blue divine power restored Wang Chun’s body and awakened her, while Niu Tian told her that she had suffered a cultivation deviation.
• Tang San’s divine sense questioned Niu Tian about Tai Tan, and Niu Tian revealed that Tai Tan had gone to Sea God Island to seek the soul beast responsible for Xiao Qi’s condition.
• Tang San warned that Sea God Island had fallen under soul beast control and told Niu Tian not to go after Tai Tan, advising him to wait.

Niu Tian sent Wang Chun to Radiant City to study Soul Tools and escorted her on the journey, while Kraken prepared an attack. Fifteen cannon shells struck their carriage at the border, leaving Wang Chun's fate unclear and Tang San demanding an investigation.

• Tang San told Niu Tian that Wang Chun's restrictions had been lifted and directed him to send her to Huo Yuhao at Radiant City Soul Engineer Academy under the cover of studying Soul Tools.
• Three days later, Wang Chun left the Clear Sky Sect with a recommendation letter, and Niu Tian accompanied her south.
• Kraken waited in a secluded Heaven Dou City residence as Moyuan reported that fifteen Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon shells were ready.
• Huo Yuhao received the academy's request to guide a recommended new student named Wang Chun, who was expected to arrive in at least half a month.
• At the Loulan-Star Luo border, Niu Tian sensed danger and pulled Wang Chun from the carriage as fifteen shells exploded, destroying the carriage and injuring him.
• Niu Tian could no longer sense Wang Chun's aura, and Tang San ordered him to investigate and punish whoever was responsible.

After Star Luo’s White Tiger Legion suffered a disastrous defeat, Xu Tianran ordered the Sun-Moon Empire’s three great Soul Engineer Legions to invade Star Luo territory. Xu Jiawei mobilized his forces and appealed to Tieshan for help, but Loulan remained on the sidelines.

• Xu Tianran learned that Liao Mengkai and Ming Xin had defeated the White Tiger Legion, while Xu Jiawei angrily condemned the losses and confirmed the Sun-Moon Empire’s role in the Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon attack.
• Liao Mengkai received orders to hold position until the Evil Tyrant and Fire Phoenix Legions arrived, then learned that all three armies would advance into Star Luo territory.
• Wang Yiheng and Luan Feng arrived with their legions, and Luan Feng relayed Xu Tianran’s order to invade in three days.
• Liao Mengkai led the Terror Claw Legion across the border as the Evil Tyrant and Fire Phoenix Legions advanced alongside it, prompting Star Luo’s border sentries to sound the alarm.
• Xu Jiawei learned that Tieshan was waiting and watching, then ordered every legion to reinforce the border and sent a warning appeal to Loulan.

Man Yi and Huang Jinxu failed to secure Loulan’s help for Star Luo, forcing Xu Jiawei to prepare for the Sun-Moon Empire’s advance. As the Terror Claw Legion reached a city defended by Man Yi and Huang Jinxu, the two prepared to face its assault.

• Tieshan refused Man Yi and Huang Jinxu’s request to send Loulan troops, saying his country could not spare forces.
• Man Yi concluded that Tieshan had backing and no longer depended on Star Luo, then returned with Huang Jinxu to report to Xu Jiawei.
• Xu Jiawei ordered Star Luo to abandon its border cities, withdraw inland, and resist the invaders using the terrain.
• After Sun-Moon forces broke through three southwestern cities, Xu Jiawei ordered the delayed 300,000-strong army abandoned and sent Man Yi and the others to delay the advance.
• Liao Mengkai ordered the Terror Claw Legion to attack the second city, where Man Yi and Huang Jinxu prepared to defend the walls.

Man Yi, Liao Mengkai, and Ming Xin fought atop the city wall while Huang Jinxu battled Wang Yiheng, Yang Ren, and Luan Feng below. Man Yi activated her Martial Soul Avatar, but when Liao Mengkai and Ming Xin attacked together, she was struck down as she tried to counterattack.

• Man Yi fought off Liao Mengkai and Ming Xin on the battlements as Terror Claw Legion Soul Engineers climbed the city wall.
• Wang Yiheng battered the side gate until Huang Jinxu intervened and used his power to suppress Wang Yiheng's Soul Power.
• Yang Ren aided Wang Yiheng, while Luan Feng attacked Huang Jinxu with her Long-Range Soul-Conducting Cannon and Yang Ren briefly restrained him.
• Man Yi activated her Martial Soul Avatar as Liao Mengkai and Ming Xin prepared to end the fight quickly.
• Man Yi charged into Liao Mengkai's blade and thrust her Nebula Fan at his throat, but Ming Xin redirected his strike to cut her hand, and Man Yi fell.

Huang Jinxu awakened Heavenly Fiend Lone Star and overwhelmed Liao Mengkai, Wang Yiheng, Luan Feng, and Yang Ren, leaving them badly hurt and their weapons damaged. Ming Xin realized Huang Jinxu’s eyes were ruined and that he tracked them through Soul Power fluctuations, suggesting that they could evade him by suppressing their Soul Power.

• Huang Jinxu’s aura rose as Heavenly Fiend Lone Star appeared, and he warned the five fighters that none of them would leave.
• Huang Jinxu blasted Liao Mengkai backward, tore flesh from Wang Yiheng’s shoulder, and destroyed his Blazing Skynet attack.
• Huang Jinxu stopped Luan Feng’s crimson beam with one hand and seized Yang Ren’s Myriad Wood Everlasting Spring Cauldron, throwing it to the ground.
• Liao Mengkai attacked Huang Jinxu from behind, but Huang Jinxu blocked the Demon God Blade with his elbow and left most of the group injured.
• Ming Xin stopped Liao Mengkai from attacking and concluded that Huang Jinxu could not see, but instead sensed Soul Power fluctuations.

Ming Xin held Huang Jinxu off while Luan Feng prepared a surprise attack, but Xuanji Douluo intervened before it could land. He forced Liao Mengkai's group to withdraw and remained behind with Huang Jinxu.

• Huang Jinxu used ground vibrations to locate Liao Mengkai and attacked him and Luan Feng, while Ming Xin realized the others needed to retreat.
• Ming Xin stayed behind to stall Huang Jinxu with two ninth-grade shields as Liao Mengkai, Wang Yiheng, Yang Ren, and Luan Feng withdrew.
• After Ming Xin wore down Huang Jinxu, Luan Feng struck from the sky with Phoenix Wing Soaring.
• Xuanji Douluo appeared and blocked Luan Feng's attack with a gigantic umbrella.
• Xuanji Douluo warned Liao Mengkai's group about the beast tide and told them to leave, and they withdrew while he faced Huang Jinxu.

Xu Tianran and Xu Jiawei agreed to a twenty-year ceasefire in exchange for twenty Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, after Xu Tianran revealed that Blue King had obtained the shells used in the border attack. Xu Jiawei launched free martial soul awakenings and began recruiting gifted children, prompting Xu Tianran to order a rival mass-production project.

• Xu Tianran told Xu Jiawei that Blue King had traded two hundred-thousand-year soul beasts for Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, and Xu Jiawei realized he had been manipulated.
• Xu Tianran and Xu Jiawei negotiated a ceasefire, agreeing on twenty Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones for twenty years of peace.
• Xu Jiawei ordered free martial soul awakenings for Star Luo children aged six to twelve, with the imperial household covering the expense.
• After records showed 872 children had innate soul power of level seven or above, Xu Jiawei ordered all of them into the imperial reserves and promised to fund their cultivation.
• Xu Tianran read a report about Star Luo's free awakenings and ordered the Soul Tool Research Institute to begin the Mass Production of Soul Masters project, with initial results due in three months.

Niu Tian learned from Tang San that Kraken had ordered the attack that killed Wang Chun, then traveled to the southeastern continent to kill him. After Niu Tian defeated Xiong Jun and warned the others away, Di Tian and the Dragon Kings withdrew, leaving Niu Tian and Kraken alone.

• Tang San revived Wang Chun temporarily and told Niu Tian that Kraken had ordered the Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon attack, then gave him seven days to kill Kraken while a God Realm Committee meeting distracted the God Realm.
• Niu Tian learned that Kraken's true body was on the continent to the southeast and flew there in his Azure Divine Dragon form.
• Niu Tian confronted Di Tian and the others, then knocked Xiong Jun unconscious with a single finger when he attacked.
• Niu Tian demanded that everyone leave or die, and Kraken emerged to face him.
• Di Tian ordered the Demon Eye Demon Tree King and Xiong Jun to leave, then sent the three Dragon Kings away, leaving Niu Tian and Kraken alone.