Chapter Summaries

Xu Yanli brought the Angel Clan out of hiding and settled them in Ming Capital, where he appointed Lezheng Yang as Angel Duke and ordered him to form the Angel Legion. The chapter ended as Xu Yanli began laying out conditions for the new legion.

• Xu Yanli arrived at Angel Village, reassured the villagers that his injury had healed, and spent the night there.
• At daybreak, the Angel Clan left the valley with Xu Yanli and his escort, beginning their journey north.
• Three days later, the procession reached Ming Capital, where the Angel Clan moved into the newly built Angel Duke Mansion.
• The clan elder introduced Lezheng Yang, a ninety-fifth-rank Super Douluo, as the Angel Clan's strongest younger member.
• Xu Yanli named Lezheng Yang the Angel Duke and charged him with forming the Angel Legion, inviting light-attribute Soul Masters from across the Sun Moon Empire to join.

Xu Yanli continued training his academy team while his ties with the Angel Legion and Xu Tianran strengthened. After reaching the seventh ring, he prepared to leave for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament, warning Xu Tianran that the Second Prince and Fourth Prince might retaliate.

• Xu Yanli promised that the Angel Legion would stand for justice, and Lezheng Ling thanked him for letting them live like people again.
• At Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, Huo Yuhao coordinated Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Ji Juechen, Shen Muqing, and Zhao Tiesheng in a training drill while Xu Yanli watched.
• Xu Yanli trained the team for a month and cultivated at the mansion as the threat from his injured brothers' forces diminished.
• The emperor confirmed Xu Yanli had reached the seventh ring and ordered him to bring back the tournament championship.
• Xu Yanli told Xu Tianran he was leaving, reassured him that he would always be his brother, and warned him to watch the Second Prince and Fourth Prince.
• Xu Yanli departed with Kong Deming, Lezheng Ling, and Long Xiaoyao waiting beside the soul-guidance carriages.

Xu Yanli left Ming Capital with his companions for Star Luo City, where he began accepting the Life and Destruction godhood inheritance. The two forces tore through and healed his body in turn as he struggled to endure the process.

• Xu Yanli departed Ming Capital with Long Xiaoyao and joined Huo Yuhao and the others outside the city, while Xu Tianran destroyed a letter revealing the Second Prince and Fourth Prince's secret contact with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xu Yanli accepted the godhood inheritance and continued toward Star Luo City, with Long Xiaoyao privately noting how much he resembled someone.
• Two days from Star Luo City, Xu Yanli sensed the inheritance seeds stirring and asked Long Xiaoyao to protect him while he underwent the inheritance.
• Xu Yanli activated both Martial Souls, and the Life and Destruction seeds unleashed opposing forces that repeatedly broke and repaired his meridians.
• Electrolux appeared in Xu Yanli's Sea of Consciousness but let him face the trial alone as Xu Yanli fought to remain conscious.

Xu Yanli awakened Faith Force, which helped him guide the conflicting Life Force and Destruction Force, and his Martial Soul resonance brought him to the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life. After receiving both gods’ first trials, he calmed the forces in his spiritual sea, but they rebounded more violently than before.

• Xu Yanli’s Faith Force awakened and soothed his soul as Life Force and Destruction Force threatened to damage his body.
• Xu Yanli was pulled into the God of Destruction’s divine hall, where the god told him to control his emotions and gave him a one-year trial to comprehend Destruction.
• The God of Destruction told Xu Yanli that he would learn about his mother once he ascended.
• Xu Yanli visited the Goddess of Life, who gave him a one-year trial to comprehend Life Force.
• Xu Yanli returned to his spiritual sea and guided each force into its corresponding Martial Soul, but both forces soon rebounded more violently.

Xu Yanli recovered from the turmoil of Life Force and Destruction Force, then arrived in Star Luo City with his team for the competition. At their planning meeting, he named the seven competitors for their opening knockout match.

• Faith Force separated the Life Force and Destruction Force in Xu Yanli's sea of consciousness, allowing him to survive the ordeal.
• Xu Yanli learned that the group was nearing Star Luo City and told Lezheng Ling to arrange lodging and scout the arena.
• Xu Yanli entered the Star Emperor Hotel with Elder Ma and arranged rooms for the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy team.
• Xu Yanli called a meeting and said he would compete in the early knockout matches but withdraw from the round-robin stage.
• Xu Yanli announced that Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Tang Ling, Xiao Xiao, Ji Juechen, and he would compete in the upcoming match.

Xu Yanli prepared the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy for the competition and learned that Shrek Academy had arrived badly injured. At the opening ceremony, he refused to bow to the Star Luo Emperor, declaring that their empires were enemies.

• Xu Yanli told his teammates that he, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Hongchen would lead the attack group while concealing their abilities.
• Elder Ma reported that Shrek Academy had arrived with only nine competitors, many of them children and badly injured, so Xu Yanli ordered his team to match their use of senior students.
• Xu Jiawei and the empress discussed the mysterious Sun Moon prince, while Xu Yanli privately reflected on the emperor and his elder sister.
• Xu Yanli joined the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy at the competition venue and recognized several Shrek competitors, including Lan Luoluo.
• When the Star Luo Emperor arrived, Xu Yanli refused to bow and said that he was a prince of an enemy empire.

Xu Yanli mocked Shrek Academy after its hard-fought victory, while Mu En ordered the academy to bring in more students because it could not afford another loss. At the afternoon tournament, Huo Yuhao guided Xiao Hongchen’s Soul Tool assault against their opponents as the match began.

• Xu Yanli refused to bow to Xu Jiawei, and the emperor declared the tournament open.
• Elder Xuan asked to leave the Sea God Pavilion and step down from his post, but Mu En ordered him to stay and punished him by forbidding him to eat for a month.
• Mu En told Elder Xuan to bring more inner-court students to reinforce Shrek Academy, which had to stop losing matches.
• Shrek Academy defeated Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy after a grueling fight, and Xu Yanli taunted the team over its poor showing.
• Xu Yanli and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy entered their afternoon match against a team led by a Soul King.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to identify openings in the opposing team, guiding Xiao Hongchen as he unleashed a barrage of Soul Tool attacks.

Xu Yanli helped the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy crush its opponents, revealing a holy angel Martial Soul that reminded Xu Jiawei of his Imperial Sister. While Xu Yanli withdrew to study the Laws of Life and Destruction and Shrek Academy scrambled to assemble a team, Xu Tianran refused to sabotage Prince Xiaoyao despite his strategist's objections about Ju Zi.

• Xiao Hongchen bombarded the opposing team while Huo Yuhao guided his attacks, and Xu Yanli healed the opponents so they could not withdraw from the match.
• The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy won, and Wang Yan and Xu Jiawei recognized aspects of Xu Yanli's concealed Martial Soul and appearance.
• Xu Yanli returned to his room to contemplate the Laws of Life and Destruction, while Xuan Zi gathered one Soul Emperor and four Soul Kings for Shrek Academy.
• Xu Tianran's strategist suggested leaving Prince Xiaoyao in the Original Three Kingdoms or making him fail his mission, but Xu Tianran refused and dismissed Ju Zi's importance.

Xu Yanli deepened his understanding of Life Force and Destruction Force as Shrek Academy sent powerful reinforcements for the upcoming match. Meanwhile, Xu Jiawei learned that Xu Yanli was likely Xu Wangshu’s son and ordered him killed in secret.

• Xu Yanli tried to merge Life Force and Destruction Force, but they clashed until Electrolux explained how life and destruction were connected; Xu Yanli then sensed their rhythms and strengthened his body.
• Lezheng Ling told Xu Yanli that Shrek Academy had sent one Soul Emperor and four Soul Kings, and Xu Yanli ordered the team to train while he gathered information about the Soul Emperor.
• Xu Jiawei’s ministers confirmed that Xu Yanli resembled Xu Wangshu and that Xiao Dingtian had once been her personal guard.
• Xu Jiawei concluded that Xu Yanli was likely Xu Wangshu’s son and ordered his men to kill Xu Yanli without leaving evidence.

Xu Yanli learned that Shrek Academy’s new Soul Emperor, Yu Xuanye, was a powerful Mutated Fire Dragon user and arranged with the Body Sect to disrupt the Star Luo Empire at the upcoming auction. As he attended the Soul Tool auction with the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy students, Emperor Xu Jiawei secretly pursued a plan to assassinate him.

• Xu Jiawei rejected his ministers’ warnings and ordered them to devise a plan to kill Xu Yanli, whom he considered a threat to the Star Luo Empire.
• Xu Yanli learned about Yu Xuanye’s strength and told Lezheng Ling to coordinate with the Body Sect on a scheme against the Star Luo Empire while avoiding civilian casualties.
• Wang Yan agonized over Shrek Academy’s oppressive atmosphere and wondered whether Prince Xiaoyao would take him in if he left.
• Several days later, Xu Yanli brought the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy students to the Soul Tool auction and secured them a lavish private room.
• Xu Yanli poured himself red wine to match the other rooms, though he admitted he did not enjoy drinking it.

At the Starlight Auction House, Xu Yanli saw Sun Moon Empire Soul Tools being sold and worried about the empire’s lax controls and lost strategic advantage. When a Milk Bottle appeared at auction, he ordered it bought, leaving its sale price unresolved.

• Xu Yanli told Elder Ma to investigate who was selling offensive Soul Tools to the Star Luo Empire and proposed rewards for contributions and stricter penalties.
• Auctioneer Qingya presented a Level 3 Soul Paralysis Ray made by a Level 6 Soul Engineer, and Wang Yan bid 2,500 Gold Soul Coins for it.
• Qingya revealed a Milk Bottle, which Xu Yanli recognized as a former Sun Moon Empire strategic resource that had been given away by the previous emperor.
• Xu Yanli ordered the Milk Bottle bought.

Xu Yanli learned that the auction’s final lot was the cursed Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife, a Ranked Carving Knife with a grim history. Despite Qingya’s warnings, he declared that he would take it, confident that the Angel Clan’s holiness could overcome its evil.

• Xu Yanli won the Milk Bottle for 27,000 before Qingya introduced the auction’s final lot.
• Qingya revealed an archaic carving knife and explained that it ranked ninety-ninth among Ranked Carving Knives.
• Qingya said the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife had a fragment of an Evil Soul Master’s soul and that all thirty-seven recorded owners had met gruesome ends.
• Xu Yanli dismissed the crowd’s fears and said he would take the carving knife as a memento.
• Qingya warned Xu Yanli that the blade was vicious, but he claimed the Angel Clan’s holiness could overcome its evil.

Xu Yanli bought the cursed Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife and returned to the Star Emperor Hotel to cleanse it. With the Purifying Fire, his Angel Martial Soul, and Electrolux's help, he destroyed the resentful spirits and transformed the knife into a jade-green tool filled with life.

• Xu Yanli won the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife at auction for 100,000 Gold Soul Coins, while Qingya and Lezheng Ling worried about its curse.
• Xu Yanli paid the bill, left the auction with the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy group, and returned to the Star Emperor Hotel.
• Xu Yanli touched the knife and experienced memories of its thirty-seven previous owners dying or falling into evil as their resentments attacked his consciousness.
• Xu Yanli used the Purifying Fire and his Twelve-Winged Angel Martial Soul to burn away the knife's corruption, while Electrolux captured the escaping resentful spirits.
• Xu Yanli caught the transformed jade-green carving knife and sensed that it held an astonishing abundance of life force.

Xu Yanli received an invitation to a Star Luo Royal Family auction and set plans in motion with the Body Sect, while the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy continued dominating its matches. As Shrek’s Yu Xuanye assessed the team’s strengths and weaknesses, Xu Yanli remained in seclusion, unable to cross the final barrier in his cultivation.

• Xu Yanli learned from Electrolux that the Gold of Life carving knife would improve his Soul Tool crafting, then accepted Qingya’s invitation to the Starlight Auction Arena’s upcoming auction.
• Xu Yanli told Lezheng Ling the auction house belonged to the Star Luo Royal Family, said they would attend to uncover its intentions, and messaged the Body Sect to act.
• The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s team won matches through coordinated attacks, prompting Original Three Kingdoms spectators to question the young team’s strength and the masked Xu Yanli’s inactivity.
• Yu Xuanye studied Sun Moon’s team and identified its lack of a support-type Soul Master, then told Shrek’s reinforcements that their battlefield experience gave them an advantage.
• Xu Yanli continued cultivating in seclusion, pondering Life Force and Destruction Force but failing to break through the final barrier.

Xu Yanli and Du Busi discussed the Starlight Auction Arena and agreed to have the Body Sect disguise themselves as Evil Soul Masters to steal items Xu Yanli won at auction, letting him demand compensation. Xu Yanli began explaining the plan using a map and Huo Yuhao's reconnaissance of the venue.

• Xu Yanli met Du Busi, who brought the Body Sect's invitation to the Starlight Auction Arena.
• Du Busi said the Star Luo Royal Family was targeting the visiting teams, especially the Sun Moon Empire, with the auction.
• Xu Yanli revealed a plan to disguise the Body Sect as Evil Soul Masters and steal auction items he had won before they were delivered.
• Du Busi agreed to take part after Xu Yanli explained that the auction house would risk its reputation if it refused to compensate him.
• Xu Yanli spread out a map of Star Luo City and said Huo Yuhao had used Spiritual Detection to scout the auction house.

Xu Yanli arranged with Du Busi for the Body Sect to rob a major auction, while Shrek prepared to attend and confront the Sun Moon Empire’s prince. In Ming Capital, Xu Tianran killed the Third and Fourth Princes after revealing his belief that Xiao Jiu had been chosen by the gods.

• Xu Yanli explained the auction’s defenses and escape route to Du Busi, and they assigned roles for the robbery.
• Xu Yanli admitted to Lezheng Ling that he did not trust the Body Sect completely but believed their shared interests would keep them from betraying him.
• Yu Xuanye received Xuan Zi’s order to take Shrek’s team to the auction and decided he would assess Xu Yanli there.
• Xu Tianran taunted the Third and Fourth Princes in the dungeon, then revealed that he believed Xiao Jiu had been chosen by the gods.
• Xu Tianran used his Soul Power to kill the Third and Fourth Princes.

Qingya brought Xu Yanli and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy team to the Starlight Auction House’s exclusive No. 1 Auction Hall, where they saw a screen powered by ore. The auction began with a promise of nine treasures, and a woman in red appeared on the stage.

• Qingya led the team through a hidden entrance into the top-tier auction hall and explained that the private room had once belonged to a princess.
• A golden-dressed attendant activated the Light-Guided Screen, and Qingya explained that Xiaoyao Pavilion’s device used ore rather than Soul Power.
• Elder Ma and the others reacted to the ore-powered Soul Tool, while Xu Yanli stayed quiet as Qingya described the bidding rules.
• The screen filled with golden light, and an announcer welcomed the guests and introduced the nine treasures.
• A young woman in a red dress appeared on the mist-veiled stage as the auction began.

Xu Yanli recognized an eighth-grade Soul Tool from Mingde Hall at the auction and later focused on bidding for the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone. As Shrek Academy competed for the Soul Bone, thieves stole all the auction items and guards, leaving Princess Jiujiu stunned.

• Jiujiu opened the auction, and Xu Yanli recognized the first item as an offensive eighth-grade Soul Tool from Mingde Hall.
• Dai Yaoheng bought the blade while Xu Yanli suspected a traitor had supplied it to the auction.
• Xu Yanli watched the auction and bid on antiques until the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone appeared.
• Xu Yanli had Huo Yuhao use Spiritual Detection and helped restore his Soul Power while Shrek Academy bid for the Soul Bone.
• A staff member reported that thieves had stolen everything from the storeroom and all the guards had disappeared, leaving Princess Jiujiu frozen in place.

Xu Yanli and Huo Yuhao learned that thieves had stolen every auction item from the Starlight Auction Arena, and Xu Yanli joined Princess Jiujiu and the academy representatives to discuss compensation. He began probing whether the thieves had targeted a particular item, noticing that Princess Jiujiu's reaction suggested they had.

• Princess Jiujiu learned that all the auction items had been stolen and that the three Titled Douluo guards had disappeared, with signs pointing to Evil Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to tell Xu Yanli that men in black had taken the items after a powerful decoy drew the guards away from the rear entrance.
• A staff member summoned Xu Yanli to the Council Hall to discuss compensation, and Xu Yanli brought Huo Yuhao along.
• Princess Jiujiu promised full compensation, while Dai Yaoheng questioned how the thieves had bypassed the auction house's security.
• Xu Yanli asked whether the stolen items included anything the Evil Soul Masters had specifically wanted, and he noticed Princess Jiujiu's telling reaction.

Xu Yanli demanded full-value compensation for the stolen auction items and asked to meet the Star Luo Emperor, calling him his dear uncle. After Du Busi revealed that the Body Sect had taken the goods, Dai Yaoheng suspected Xu Yanli had come to Star Luo City for more than the competition.

• Xu Yanli told Princess Jiujiu he suspected the Evil Soul Masters had targeted a particular auction item, then demanded equivalent goods for every missing item and a meeting with the Star Luo Emperor.
• Xu Yanli called the emperor his dear uncle, leaving Dai Yaoheng and the others shocked; Princess Jiujiu agreed to relay his request.
• Xu Yanli told Dai Yaoheng to tell his father that he would face him in a proper match in a few years, then left the Council Hall with Huo Yuhao, Lezheng Ling, and Long Xiaoyao.
• Du Busi and the Body Sect elders celebrated their haul, and Du Busi ordered valuable items sent to Xu Yanli while the rest went back to the sect.
• Dai Huabin asked Dai Yaoheng what Xu Yanli wanted, and Dai Yaoheng said he believed Xu Yanli had come to Star Luo City for the empire, not just the competition.