Chapter Summaries

Former Star Luo retainers celebrated Xu Yanli’s upcoming wedding while Shrek’s detained representatives realized they could not escape. As Xu Yanli’s godhood inheritance neared completion, Huo Yuhao received orders to join Ju Zi’s campaign, and Xu Yanli urged caution to protect human lives.

• Former Star Luo generals and retainers toasted Xu Yanli’s wedding and pledged to protect his legacy.
• Bei Bei read the wedding notice with Xu Sanshi, Dai Huabin, and Ling Luochе, then proposed leaving the Shrek hotel.
• Ling Luochе explained that the gates were sealed and the Angel Legion guarded the skies, leaving the group trapped.
• Xu Yanli sensed that his godhood inheritance was nearly complete as the Sun Moon Empire prepared to attack the three empires.
• Huo Yuhao told Xu Yanli that he had been ordered to lead the Melee Soul Guidance Master Regiment and join Ju Zi’s campaign against Heaven Dou.
• Xu Yanli questioned the need to hurry the campaign and said that human lives were the most precious thing.

Xu Yanli advised Huo Yuhao on how to defeat the Heaven Dou Empire’s remaining cities, ultimately choosing artillery strikes guided by precise targeting while protecting civilians. He gave Huo Yuhao command of the front-line fighting and urged him to return safely before Xu Yanli’s wedding.

• Huo Yuhao worried that delaying the campaign would leave his forces caught between the enemy and the allied army of the three nations.
• Xu Yanli described using penetration and encirclement to cut off the western cities and ambush any troops sent to relieve them.
• Xu Yanli realized that three hundred Level 7 Soul Guidance Cannons could make the older tactics unnecessary and proposed targeting military defenses while sparing civilian areas.
• Xu Yanli outlined a plan combining cannon fire, the Melee Soul Guidance Master Regiment, and precise artillery support, calling it Firepower Penetration.
• Xu Yanli gave Huo Yuhao a communicator and placed him in command of front-line fighting, with Ju Zi responsible for artillery support under his orders.
• Huo Yuhao worried about missing Xu Yanli’s wedding, and Xu Yanli told him to fight safely and return in time to celebrate.

Huo Yuhao left Xu Yanli after their farewell, and Xu Yanli turned his attention to preparing for his Godhood Inheritance. As the Ninth Trial began, the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life revealed what they knew about Xu Yanli’s mother and Tang San’s actions.

• Huo Yuhao bowed to Xu Yanli and left the courtyard, while Xu Yanli reflected on how his former student had grown into a general.
• Xu Yanli wrote a memorial about military regulations and summoned Luo Chen to arrange for fourteen Angel Clan Soul Douluo and Ye Guyi to attend his inheritance.
• Xu Yanli gathered the Angel Clan members and activated the divine objects, opening a gate that he entered.
• The God of Destruction told Xu Yanli that he had watched him since birth and that his mother’s final prayer had reached him through the Prayer Angel.
• The Goddess of Life said the gods knew only that Tang San had sent a beam of light toward Douluo Continent, publicly claiming he was purging evil.

Xu Yanli learned that the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life passed their godhoods to him because his mother left the God of Destruction a memory from another time and space, warning of Tang San’s plan to sacrifice the Great God Circle for the Tang Clan. He arrived at the next trial, where the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord’s eye-type External Soul Bone began to be torn from his soul.

• Xu Yanli asked the God of Destruction why he and the Goddess of Life had chosen him to inherit their godhoods.
• The God of Destruction revealed that Xu Yanli’s mother had passed him a memory from another time and space before her death.
• The God of Destruction said that Tang San had taken their godhoods and planned to use the Great God Circle as nourishment for the Tang Clan.
• The God of Destruction explained that Xu Yanli’s judgment Martial Soul, Life and Destruction attributes, and powerful dragon bloodline made him essential to their hopes.
• The Goddess of Life urged Xu Yanli to stay true to himself during the trial, and the divine palace faded as he was transported away.
• Xu Yanli appeared on a black altar in the void, where the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord’s eye-type External Soul Bone began tearing itself from his soul.

Xu Yanli completed the transformation of his Soul Bone into the divine Eye of Judgment and saw the truth of his past-life death. He accepted that his former self had been poisoned by relatives for his inheritance, and the chapter left him recognizing that the college student had been dead for twenty years.

• Xu Yanli endured the painful separation process and transformed his Soul Bone into the Eye of Judgment, strengthening his divine soul.
• Touching the divine artifact revealed Xu Yanli's past life as an ordinary college student.
• Xu Yanli saw his male cousin poison his bubble tea with lime powder while the other relatives distracted him.
• Xu Yanli witnessed his relatives neglect his funeral and take his inheritance, while his three roommates buried him beneath an Old Locust Tree.
• Xu Yanli reflected that he no longer hated his relatives and affirmed that he was now Prince Xiaoyao of the Sun Moon Empire, not the student who had died twenty years earlier.

Xu Yanli passed the first two altars as his Eye of Judgment and right arm bone transformed into divine relics, resisting trials that tempted him with visions of joining legendary leaders. At the third altar, Snow Empress’s torso bone began transforming, and Xu Yanli witnessed memories of his lonely childhood and his first moments of warmth.

• Xu Yanli fused the divinity into his soul and completed the transformation of his eye bone into the Eye of Judgment.
• Xu Yanli endured visions of historical figures inviting him to join their causes, while Snow Empress warned him that the first visions were illusions.
• Xu Yanli stepped toward the final vision of a man urging him to defend his homeland, but Snow Empress’s torso bone stopped him from reaching it.
• Xu Yanli’s Black Dragon Soul Bone transformed into a Divine Right Arm God Bone, and he passed the Second Altar.
• Snow Empress’s torso bone began transforming, and Xu Yanli saw memories of his childhood in the Cold Palace, Kong Deming finding him, and his Martial Soul Awakening.

After taking the Heaven Dou Empire’s cities with minimal bloodshed, Huo Yuhao’s army reached Heaven Dou City. Zhang Lexuan revealed the royal family’s role in her family’s slaughter and moved to open the capital’s gates for the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xu Yanli completed the Torso Divine Bone and passed the Third Altar.
• Huo Yuhao persuaded Ju Zi to surround Sunset City and wait for its starving defenders to surrender.
• Sunset City’s defenders opened the gates, and Huo Yuhao’s army fed the townspeople before continuing west.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s forces took the Heaven Dou Empire’s remaining cities and reached Heaven Dou City.
• Zhang Lexuan recalled uncovering that the Heaven Dou royal family had ordered her family’s slaughter and that Shrek officials had helped conceal it.
• Zhang Lexuan bound the palace guards with moonlight and addressed the soldiers of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Zhang Lexuan persuaded Heaven Dou's defenders to surrender, allowing the Sun Moon Empire to take the capital without bloodshed. As Huo Yuhao prepared to march on Dou Ling, Xu Yanli endured another Soul Bone trial and recalled the people whose lives his actions had changed.

• Zhang Lexuan exposed the imperial family's massacre of her family and urged the Imperial Guards to lay down their weapons.
• Heaven Dou's soldiers dropped their weapons and opened the palace gates, and Zhang Lexuan left without entering the palace.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the Sun Moon army to rest for three days before marching on the Dou Ling Empire.
• Lezheng Ling reported Heaven Dou's surrender to Xu Tianran, who acknowledged the news.
• Xu Yanli endured the extraction of Bi Ji's left leg Soul Bone and remembered the child he had saved and the common people who respected him.

Xu Yanli completed the Life and Destruction God trials and ascended as the God King of Creation, transforming both his Martial Souls and restoring Ming Capital with divine light. He remained in the mortal realm to stabilize its affairs, while the Angel Clan members awakened as Titled Douluo.

• Xu Yanli endured the tempering of his right leg Soul Bone, understood destruction as the beginning of rebirth, and fused all seven Divine Bones into a complete set of laws.
• A pillar of five-colored light rose above Prince Xiaoyao Mansion, and its gentle radiance healed and renewed Ming Capital as its people hailed Xu Yanli.
• The Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction declared their trials complete, and Xu Yanli ascended as the Dual God King of Life and Destruction while both Martial Souls transformed.
• The Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction explained that their Godhoods had fused into the Godhood of the God of Creation and that Xu Yanli could remain in the mortal realm for a hundred years.
• Xu Yanli chose to stay and stabilize the mortal realm before confronting Tang San, while the fifteen members of the Angel Clan broke through to Titled Douluo, with Ye Guyi reaching Level 96.

Xu Yanli restored the Angel Clan’s Six-Winged Angel Martial Souls and bestowed God-Bestowed Soul Rings on fifteen clan members, completing the Angel Legion. He then used his chaotic divine power to begin restoring Electrolux, whose spirit had been fading in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Fifteen Angel Clan members awakened Six-Winged Angel Martial Souls, and Lezheng Yang wept as he witnessed the lost power return.
• Xu Yanli gave the fifteen clan members God-Bestowed Soul Rings, and they began absorbing them as a pillar of light rose above Ming Capital.
• Xu Yanli judged the Angel Legion strong enough to protect the Sun Moon Empire and went to his study to attend to Electrolux.
• Xu Yanli entered his Sea of Consciousness and found Electrolux’s gray-gold orb diminished and close to going out.
• Xu Yanli channeled chaotic divine power into Electrolux’s orb, and Electrolux’s phantom began to grow solid.

Xu Yanli resurrected Electrolux with a complete physical body and planned to settle Shrek’s conflict before going to the Divine Realm to find Tang San. Tang San discovered that his Asura Godhood and Power of Judgment were gone, but fear kept him from confronting the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life.

• Xu Yanli used the Creation Force to restore Electrolux’s soul and create a complete body, welcoming his teacher back to life.
• Xu Yanli told Electrolux he would first resolve the Shrek conflict involving Xuan Zi, Wang Dong'er, Da Ming, and Er Ming, then go to the Divine Realm to find Tang San.
• Tang San awoke in the Sea God Temple and discovered that his Asura Godhood and Power of Judgment had vanished.
• Tang San suspected that the loss was connected to the boy with the Angel Martial Soul and the events in the lower realm.
• Tang San nearly went to confront the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life, but feared losing his remaining Sea God Godhood and returned to sit on his bed.

The God of Destruction persuaded the Old God of Destruction to pass the Godhood of Destruction to Xu Tianran, making him an ally for Xu Yanli. In Star Luo City, Xu Yanli awakened the people’s lingering faith in his mother, Xu Wangshu, and left them seeing her light return.

• The God of Destruction told the Old God of Destruction that Xu Yanli’s Second Martial Soul was the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon and proposed that Xu Tianran inherit the Godhood of Destruction.
• The Old God of Destruction agreed to pass the godhood to Xu Tianran, and the God of Destruction resolved to counter Tang San’s plans.
• Xu Yanli surveyed Star Luo City and discovered that its people still held faith in his mother, Xu Wangshu.
• Xu Yanli used Creation Force to ignite that faith, sending pillars of milky-white light rising across Star Luo City.
• The awakened residents watched the lights and recognized them as the return of the Eldest Princess.

Xu Yanli arrived in Star Luo City and revived the people’s fading faith in his mother before confronting Xu Jiawei at the imperial palace. He greeted his uncle and asked how he had been, leaving their conversation poised to begin.

• Xu Yanli restored the Fire of Faith among the people of Star Luo City, moving an old woman to tears as she recognized his resemblance to Xu Wangshu.
• Xu Yanli descended from the clouds and landed on the roof of the palace’s main hall, where his presence left the guards and officials trembling.
• After hearing that Prince Xiaoyao had arrived alone, Xu Jiawei hurried from his bedchamber to meet him.
• Xu Jiawei faced Xu Yanli in the palace square, unable to meet his nephew’s gaze because he looked so much like Xu Wangshu.
• Xu Yanli greeted Xu Jiawei as his uncle and asked whether he had been well all these years.

Xu Yanli confronted Xu Jiawei in the Star Luo palace and demanded that he abdicate so the Star Luo Empire could unite with the Sun Moon Empire. Xu Jiawei recognized that his empire could no longer resist, while Xu Tianran waited in the Crown Prince’s Mansion in Ming Capital.

• Xu Yanli entered the empty main hall and sat on the Dragon Throne as Xu Jiawei watched from the Crown Prince’s seat.
• Xu Yanli told Xu Jiawei that the three-nation alliance had failed and that the Star Luo soldiers, people, and ministers no longer wanted to fight.
• Xu Yanli offered to spare Xu Jiawei if he abdicated and handed him the throne, but warned that refusal would cost him his position.
• Xu Jiawei fell silent, recognizing that the Star Luo Empire and his reign could not endure.
• Xu Tianran sat awake in his Ming Capital study beside untouched documents, waiting or weighing a decision.

Xu Yanli used his divine power to force the Star Luo court to accept his rule and secured Xu Jiawei’s promise to abdicate. After leaving the palace, he blessed the Star Luo Empire with a rain of light and asked his mother if she could see.

• Kong Deming urged Xu Tianran to prepare a plan involving Meng Hongchen bearing a child for Prince Xiaoyao, while warning that Xu Yanli might reject it.
• Xu Yanli confronted the Star Luo officials on the Dragon Throne and used his godly pressure to make them kneel and accept him as emperor.
• Xu Jiawei agreed to write an abdication edict after Xu Yanli demanded to see it by the next day.
• Xu Yanli left the palace, scattered a gentle rain of chaotic light over the Star Luo Empire, and whispered to his mother.

Xu Yanli forced Xu Jiawei to prepare for his enthronement and order Dai Hao's transfer to the Heaven Dou battlefield. After leaving the side hall, Xu Yanli surveyed Star Luo City from above as the city prepared for the ceremony.

• Xu Yanli told Xu Jiawei he would transfer Dai Hao from Star Luo City to the Heaven Dou battlefield as vanguard.
• Xu Yanli threatened to send Xu Jiawei and the entire Xu Clan to the battlefield if Xu Jiawei failed to carry out the order.
• Xu Yanli demanded that Xu Jiawei prepare the enthronement edict and Dai Hao's transfer order for the ceremony in three days.
• Xu Yanli left the side hall and flew above Star Luo City, where he saw the Fire of Faith burning over thousands of households and the city preparing for the enthronement.

Xu Yanli secured Star Luo's submission, while Xu Tianran faced a difficult decision about activating the Nuwa device to preserve the Angel Bloodline. As Xu Yanli considered the coming unification of the continent, he felt unexpectedly weary.

• Xu Yanli told Lezheng Ling to inform the Crown Prince that Star Luo had submitted and its enthronement ceremony would take place in three days.
• Xu Tianran ordered Lezheng Yang to lead the Angel Legion to Star Luo and help Xu Yanli stabilize the situation.
• Xu Tianran visited the Nuwa device with Kong Deming, who explained that it could preserve the Angel Bloodline and that Meng Hongchen had agreed to take part in an experiment.
• Xu Tianran told Kong Deming to start the Nuwa device experiment, then left the sealed chamber.
• Xu Yanli remained in the air that night, reflecting on the coming unification of Douluo Continent and feeling weary instead of triumphant.

Xu Yanli spent the night reflecting on the fading seeds of faith and his plans to confront the Sea God after unifying the continent. The next morning, he entered the Hall of Supreme Harmony for his enthronement, with the court gathered to witness.

• Xu Yanli watched the last faint pillars of faith in Star Luo City and resolved to hold on until he could restore faith across the continent and settle his old grievances with the Sea God.
• Before dawn, notices announced Xu Yanli’s enthronement, and Star Luo City and the palace prepared for the ceremony.
• Xu Yanli dressed in imperial robes and left the side hall when the auspicious hour arrived.
• The Angel Legion knelt as Xu Yanli passed along the palace avenue toward the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
• Xu Yanli entered the hall, where the assembled officials waited before the Dragon Throne.

Xu Yanli was formally enthroned as emperor after Xu Jiawei abdicated, and he warned the court that his rule rested on his strength and his plans to unify the continent and bring peace. After completing the accession ceremonies, he remained on the Dragon Throne as the officials withdrew.

• Luo Xu read Xu Jiawei’s abdication decree and Xu Yanli’s accession edict, naming the new era Yong'an.
• Xu Yanli reflected on his rise from a twelve-year-old awakening his Martial Soul to becoming emperor, while the court and people of Star Luo City acclaimed him.
• Xu Yanli told the kneeling officials he cared about unifying the continent, securing peace, and carrying out his policies, not winning their affection.
• Xu Yanli displayed Chaos Divine Light and warned the officials not to scheme against him, then ordered them to rise.
• Xu Yanli completed the accession rites and banquet, while the officials endured the ceremonies, and the court eventually emptied except for him and a few personal eunuchs.

Xu Yanli crushed a court conspiracy and learned that the former emperor of the Sun Moon Empire had died and left the throne to him. He set out for the Ming Capital while leaving a clone in imperial robes behind.

• Xu Yanli accused Grand Secretary Zhang and five other officials of plotting against his new dynasty and ordered them punished under the old dynasty's laws.
• Luo Xu reported that the Eldest Princess's 372 former subordinates had been settled, and Xu Yanli told them to enjoy their peaceful retirement.
• Jing Hongchen informed Xu Yanli that the former emperor of the Sun Moon Empire had died and passed the throne to him by edict.
• Xu Yanli summoned Zhongli Wu, created a clone dressed in imperial robes, and flew toward the Ming Capital in divine armor.