Chapter Summaries

Chen Yu ordered Pan Wen to release evidence exposing the Douluo Auction House’s crimes, igniting public outrage and protests across the Federation. As the scandal spread, Ning Chen recognized Chen Yu’s hand behind it and flew into a rage.

• Chen Yu ordered Pan Wen to publish the evidence against the Douluo Auction House for every Federation citizen to see.
• Pan Wen’s posts and victims’ testimonies spread across the Soul Guidance Network, exposing killings, coercion, and stolen businesses.
• Citizens condemned the auction house, former victims came forward, and protests and petitions demanded an investigation and the revocation of its business license.
• The military deployed to maintain order but did not disperse the protesters as public anger mounted.
• Ning Chen watched the news in Glazed Tile Hall, concluded Chen Yu had orchestrated the scandal, and smashed his teacup in fury.

Ning Chen tried to fight Chen Yu’s attack on the Douluo Auction House through paid media and experts, but learned that Chen Yu had shut down the aristocratic families’ media and imprisoned their hired voices. Ning Chen decided to go to Shrek and seek Yun Ming’s help, while Yun Ming condemned Chen Yu for targeting the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after it aided Shrek.

• Ning Chen ordered his subordinates to pay experts and professors to counter Chen Yu’s public-opinion campaign.
• A subordinate told Ning Chen that the Federation Government had shut down the aristocratic families’ media outlets, Chen Yu had taken control of the remaining platforms, and their hired experts were imprisoned.
• Ning Chen rejected the idea that anyone would speak the truth and ordered his subordinate to keep spending money to influence public opinion.
• Ning Chen decided to travel to Shrek to meet Yun Ming and find a way to deal with Chen Yu.
• At the Sea God Pavilion, Yun Ming accused Chen Yu of targeting the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to warn others against helping Shrek, while the remaining elders stayed silent.

Ning Chen tried to rally Shrek Academy’s defeated elders against Chen Yu by invoking their ancestors’ divine legacy, leading them to hope that Ning Rongrong had left the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect a god-level trump card. Ning Chen knew the sect had no such trump card, and the chapter ended with him questioning whether Ning Rongrong had ever truly cared for her family.

• Zhuo Shi urged Yun Ming to find a way forward, but Yun Ming admitted that Shrek had exhausted its options against Chen Yu.
• Ning Chen arrived at Sea God Pavilion and found its elders demoralized and focused on paying Chen Yu compensation.
• Ning Chen warned the elders that Chen Yu intended to break their alliance apart and asked whether they would let him succeed.
• Ning Chen invoked the Deities among their ancestors, reviving the elders’ hopes that Ning Rongrong had left her family a divine trump card.
• Ning Chen realized the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had no such trump card and wondered why Ning Rongrong had never helped her clan produce true Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Masters.

Ning Chen told the Sea God Pavilion elders that the Nine-Colored Goddess had left no trump card, and learned that Shrek Academy had none either. The chapter explained how Shrek had maintained its dominance for twenty thousand years through God Realm protection, alliances, and control of the continent’s strongest Soul Masters, but Chen Yu’s arrival had shattered that foundation.

• Ning Chen told the elders that Ning Rongrong had left the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect no trump card.
• An elder rejected the news, but Ning Chen explained that Ning Rongrong had not returned or sent any messages in twenty thousand years.
• Ning Chen asked whether Shrek Academy had a god-level trump card, and an elder answered that it had none.
• Ning Chen realized Shrek had no hidden power to oppose Chen Yu and wondered why he had come to the academy.
• The chapter recounted how Shrek had relied on the God Realm, ties to powerful forces, and generations of elite Soul Masters to preserve its dominance.
• Chen Yu’s appearance undermined Shrek because its status and influence depended on monopolizing the continent’s highest combat power.

Pan Wen led Federation Police into Shrek Academy to arrest Ning Chen after the Federation designated the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect a terrorist organization. Shrek's elders refused to help Ning Chen, and Pan Wen warned them that they had five days left to meet a deadline.

• Ning Chen appealed to Yun Ming for help, but Yun Ming said Shrek could do nothing for him.
• Federation Police surrounded Sea God Pavilion and entered under Pan Wen's lead.
• Ning Chen refused to go with Pan Wen, but Pan Wen revealed that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had been designated a terrorist organization by the Chairman's decision.
• Ning Chen gave in under threat of being shot without trial, and a Federation Police officer restrained him.
• Pan Wen told the Sea God Pavilion elders that they still had five days and warned them not to miss the deadline.

Chen Yu responded to overcrowded Federation prisons by assigning captured sect members to dangerous labor and military service. He sent the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to his mines and factories and ordered Tang Sect to guard the Abyss Passage, where their choices could determine whether they earned a chance to return to Federation life.

• Pan Wen reported that the Douluo Auction House had been sealed, its accounts were under investigation, and detained sect members had filled the Federation's prisons.
• Chen Yu ordered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan sent for unpaid labor in his hazardous mines and factories, with Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells aimed at them to prevent escape.
• Chen Yu ordered Tang Sect members sent to the Blood God Legion to guard the Abyss Passage, despite Pan Wen's concern that they could threaten the defensive line.
• Chen Yu explained that Tang Sect could help fight Abyss creatures and that surviving members might return to Federation life if they served faithfully, but he was prepared to wipe them out if they resisted.

Chen Yu ordered the Federation to absorb the Douluo Auction House, seize Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect members for experiments or public trials, and put the sect’s former elites to forced labor. The chapter then introduced the Blood God Legion and revealed how Chen Yu had reformed its exploitative military merit loan system.

• Chen Yu told Pan Wen that he could turn any Tang Sect decision about the Abyss Plane to his advantage, and ordered the Douluo Auction House absorbed into the Federation after its crimes were accounted for.
• Chen Yu ordered Soul Masters with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul sent to his Private Laboratory for experiments, while other Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect members faced livestreamed trials.
• The Federation sent aristocratic heirs and sect disciples to mines, smelting workshops, and chemical plants, where they were forced to work under harsh punishment.
• The chapter shifted to the Blood God Legion’s camp in the Endless Mountains, where the Ninth Legion guarded the Abyss Passage.
• Chen Yu had overhauled the Blood God Legion after discovering that its old system forced recruits to borrow money for weapons, armor, and meals, trapping many soldiers in lifelong debt.

The Federation’s reforms under Chen Yu ended the Blood God Legion’s loan system and supplied it with basic necessities, cultivation resources, and advanced Soul Guidance weapons. At the camp, Zhang Huanyun reflected on how much the Legion had changed as Tang Sect members arrived under escort from the Central Legion.

• Chen Yu abolished loans for the Blood God Legion and arranged for the Federation to provide soldiers’ necessities and part of their cultivation resources.
• Chen Yu sent retired Soul Guidance weapons from his Private Laboratory to strengthen the Legion’s defenses.
• Zhang Huanyun waited at the camp gates with soldiers as the Central Legion escorted Tang Sect members to them.
• Zhang Huanyun recalled how Federation support had transformed the Legion and described the energy channel, more than two hundred Level 9 Soul Guidance Rays, and eight Level 10 Soul Tools guarding the Abyss Passage.

Chen Yu arranged punishments for the Tang Sect, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect members, then set a date for the prisoners’ live-broadcast trial. He finally summoned Skysea City's governor Xie Chang, who had waited two days, and left him trembling in a deep bow.

• Zhang Huanyun warned the Tang Sect members that they would have to kill enemies to survive in the Blood God Legion.
• Pan Wen reported that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan members had been sent to the mines, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s direct disciples to laboratories, and the Tang Sect members to the Blood God Legion.
• Chen Yu scheduled the prisoners’ live-broadcast trial for three days later, the deadline for Shrek Academy to repay its debt.
• Pan Wen reminded Chen Yu that Skysea City's governor Xie Chang had waited at the Parliament Building for two days, and Chen Yu ordered him sent up.
• Xie Chang entered Chen Yu’s office, bowed deeply, and remained frozen in place as the silence stretched on.

Chen Yu removed Xie Chang as governor after confronting him over the Skysea Alliance Auction House’s dealings with the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. He ordered the auction houses merged under Federation control, while reflecting that the Skysea Alliance had long operated as a self-governing power beyond the Federation’s reach.

• Xie Chang admitted that the Skysea Alliance Auction House should have purged the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect but had continued working with it instead.
• Chen Yu ordered the Skysea Alliance Auction House and Douluo Auction House merged into a single Federal Auction House.
• Chen Yu told Xie Chang to surrender his post and retire, and Xie Chang thanked him for sparing his life.
• After Xie Chang left, Chen Yu considered how the Skysea Alliance had formed its own power structure and kept control in the hands of local leaders.

Chen Yu sent Ye Qing to take over as Skysea City Governor, challenging the Skysea Alliance’s control of the coastal cities. The alliance’s hidden leaders gathered under Xu Zhou to discuss Chen Yu’s latest move.

• Chen Yu decided to use the Douluo Auction House to target the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and reclaim Federation sovereignty over the coastal cities.
• Ye Qing arrived in Skysea City as its new governor, and the Skysea Alliance’s beneficiaries worried that Chen Yu’s backing would limit their usual tactics.
• Xu Zhou convened the alliance’s hidden controllers at his private estate and announced that Chen Yu had sent another official.
• The chapter recounted how Xu Zhou’s Black Tortoise Sect descended from the Xu Family and helped establish the Skysea Alliance a thousand years earlier.

Xu Zhou warned the Skysea Alliance’s leaders that Chen Yu was targeting the whole alliance, not merely Skysea City. The leaders’ initial confidence gave way to concern as they considered how to respond.

• The chapter described how powerful families and sects had drained Eastsea City’s resources while its people and public services grew poorer.
• Xu Chengzhou urged Xu Zhou to explain why he had gathered the Skysea Alliance’s leaders.
• Xu Zhou said Chen Yu had set his sights on the alliance, but Xu Chengzhou and other leaders dismissed the threat and claimed Ye Qing would be sidelined like Xie Chang.
• Xu Zhou pointed out that Chen Yu had since eliminated or taken control of several major powers, making him far more dangerous than when Xie Chang took office.
• Xu Zhou explained that Chen Yu had used the Douluo Auction House as a test and was ultimately moving against the entire Skysea Alliance.
• Xu Chengzhou asked Xu Zhou how the alliance should respond.

The Skysea Alliance dismissed the threat of Chen Yu, but he learned of their defiance and began making moves against their influence. He sent Mo Lan to work aboard the Hailan in Skysea City, where the train was soon attacked by Evil Soul Masters.

• Xu Zhou and the Skysea Alliance leaders decided to wait for Ye Qing and Chen Yu to act before responding.
• A man secretly recorded the alliance's discussion and reported it to Chen Yu.
• Chen Yu decided he could replace councilors tied to the Skysea Alliance and asked Pan Wen to send Mo Lan to work as a train attendant on the Hailan.
• Mo Wu agreed to Chen Yu's request, and Mo Lan happily went to Skysea City.
• Less than a week after Mo Lan joined the Hailan, Evil Soul Masters attacked its power carriage; two Title Douluo killed them, but the train was delayed and freight scheduling was disrupted.

After two Evil Soul Master attacks disrupted transport and stirred public anger, Chen Yu sent Federation forces into more than twenty Skysea Alliance cities and took over public security. Xu Zhou and the aristocratic families met to discuss their dwindling power, while the Three Great Navies’ former loyalty to them became a point of contention.

• Evil Soul Masters attacked a train in broad daylight, and two Title Douluo killed three attackers while the others fled.
• The attacks disrupted transport and commerce, prompting public outrage over security in the Skysea Alliance.
• Chen Yu deployed the Central Legion and the Tianhai, Donghai, and Beihai Navies to take over public security in more than twenty cities.
• Xu Zhou questioned why the attacks began after Mo Lan arrived, but dismissed the idea that Chen Yu was colluding with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xu Zhou convened the aristocratic families, and a woman lamented that the Three Great Navies named for their cities now obeyed Chen Yu.
• A man mocked her complaint and said the Three Great Navies had originally obeyed the aristocratic families.

Skysea Alliance aristocrats feared Chen Yu after he took control of the Three Great Navies and dismantled their influence, but they believed he lacked evidence to move against them. They decided to yield power for now and wait for Chen Yu to die, leaving their descendants to reclaim the Alliance.

• The aristocrats recalled how their attempts to reclaim the Three Great Navies had failed, including their alliance with Chen Xinjie, whom Chen Yu defeated and publicly executed.
• They acknowledged that Chen Yu had stationed the Three Great Navies in the Skysea Alliance, removed its security authority, and replaced key personnel with Federation forces.
• One aristocrat argued that Chen Yu could not target them because they had no proven ties to the Alliance's scandals or to Shrek.
• The aristocrats reasoned that attacking them would mean confronting the entire Skysea Alliance and risking economic and social upheaval.
• They agreed to let Chen Yu's people control the Skysea Alliance temporarily and wait for him to die so their descendants could reclaim power.

Chen Yu watched Xu Zhou and the other Skysea Alliance leaders dismiss him and decided to reclaim the Alliance’s sovereignty. With the Alliance offering no resistance, Federation personnel took control of its cities within a month, while its aristocratic families and sects continued waiting for Chen Yu to die.

• Xu Zhou and the other leaders toasted their plan to wait for Chen Yu to die, unaware that Chen Yu was watching them through a soul tool screen.
• Chen Yu reflected that the Alliance’s leaders relied on force and schemes but had no answer to his superior strength.
• Chen Yu ordered Pan Wen to reclaim the Skysea Alliance’s sovereignty.
• The Alliance’s governors and city leaders resigned, and Federation personnel replaced them across every city within a month.
• Xu Zhou and the other families and sects watched the takeover without resisting, believing they could outlast Chen Yu.

After Chen Yu reclaimed the Skysea Alliance’s authority, the Federation’s forces entered the great families’ and sects’ territories. At the Black Tortoise Sect, Huang Jinshui led soldiers in a forced search, and Ancestor Xu realized Chen Yu’s campaign might not stop even though the sect had surrendered.

• Ye Qing sent the Central Legion and the Three Great Navies’ taxi soldiers into the territories of the great families and sects.
• Huang Jinshui and the Central Legion surrounded the Black Tortoise Sect, prompting Xu Zhou to challenge their arrival.
• Ancestor Xu confronted Huang Jinshui and invoked Federation law, but Huang Jinshui claimed his soldiers had gotten lost and refused to wait for the sect to search for them.
• Ancestor Xu threatened to demand compensation if no soldiers were found, and Huang Jinshui said he would apologize.
• Ancestor Xu accused Chen Yu of seeking to exterminate the Black Tortoise Sect despite its surrendering the Skysea Alliance’s authority.

Huang Jinshui led the Federation soldiers into the Black Tortoise Sect to search for evidence and confiscate its wealth. Ancestor Xu’s attempt to fight back was stopped by Yu Guanzhi, and the sect’s disciples and resources were taken into custody.

• Huang Jinshui ordered the soldiers to search the Black Tortoise Sect for evidence of its crimes.
• Ancestor Xu unleashed his Black Tortoise Martial Soul and attacked Huang Jinshui and the soldiers.
• Yu Guanzhi froze Ancestor Xu’s waves with the character “Still,” then pinned him down with “Suppress.”
• Yu Guanzhi announced that the Black Tortoise Sect had attacked Central Legion soldiers and ordered its immediate suppression.
• The soldiers captured resisting disciples and confiscated the sect’s treasures, Soul Bones, and other resources for the Federation.

The Federation’s crackdown destroyed the Skysea Alliance, leaving Shrek’s elders terrified that they would be next. Clear Sky Sect Master Tang Wen arrived and offered to join forces with Shrek against Chen Yu, but dismissed Chen Yu’s strength as merely mortal.

• Ancestor Xu watched the Xu Family’s wealth being seized, fell to his knees, and lamented that heaven had doomed his family.
• Central Legion soldiers raided the Skysea Alliance’s families and sects, arresting their leaders and sending them to prison.
• Shrek’s elders mourned the fall of the Skysea Alliance and feared that Chen Yu would target them next.
• Tang Wen introduced himself as Clear Sky Sect Master and offered to join forces with Shrek against Chen Yu.
• Yun Ming admitted that he lacked the strength to fight Chen Yu, but Tang Wen called Chen Yu a mortal and declared him no deity.

Tang Wenshan visited Shrek Academy, where he convinced its elders that the Clear Sky Sect possessed a God-Level Trump Card, renewing their hope and greed. Chen Yu learned of the visit and suspected Tang Hao had returned to the sect after losing his divine cultivation.

• Tang Wenshan assured the Clear Sky Sect elders that they possessed a God-Level Trump Card, and they imagined defeating Chen Yu and reclaiming power and resources.
• Yun Ming watched the elders regain their confidence while quietly reflecting on how easily hope could turn to despair.
• The Satellite Bureau tracked Tang Wenshan from the Clear Sky Sect to Shrek Academy and reported his visit to Pan Wen.
• Pan Wen informed Chen Yu that Tang Wenshan had entered the Sea God Pavilion.
• Chen Yu suspected Tang Hao had returned to the Clear Sky Sect and inferred that he might have lost his divine cultivation and become mortal.