Chapter Summaries

Xiao Lie’s rebellion and Duke Tianhe’s uprising left the Dou Ling Emperor scrambling to defend his throne, so he sent Shrek Academy to mediate with the Sun Temple. Xuan Zi dispatched Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er, who arrived at the Sun Temple and waited to meet its representatives.

• Xiao Lie’s army advanced toward Lingdou City as cities surrendered, while the Dou Ling Emperor learned that Duke Tianhe had also rebelled and seized two provinces.
• The Dou Ling Emperor sent Tianyang Douluo to suppress Xue Leng and planned to ask Shrek Academy to persuade the Sun Temple to withdraw its support for Xiao Lie.
• After Xiao Lie’s forces neared Lingdou City, the Dou Ling envoy asked Shrek Academy to mediate, and Xuan Zi agreed.
• Xuan Zi ordered Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er to tell Lin Yaoyang to stop supporting Xiao Lie and make him withdraw his troops.
• Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er traveled to the Sun Temple and waited in its reception hall.

Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er waited at the Sun Temple to discuss Xiao Lie’s rebellion, but Ice Empress rebuffed them and overpowered them with her Ultimate Ice. She left them frozen in place until the ice melted naturally, telling them to return to Shrek and warn Xuan Zi not to interfere.

• Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er learned that Lin Yaoyang and both Vice Hall Masters were in seclusion, then demanded to speak with someone in charge.
• Ice Empress arrived, questioned Shrek’s role in Xiao Lie’s rebellion, and rejected Xian Lin’er’s demand that the Hall Master meet them.
• Xian Lin’er tried to stop Ice Empress, but the chill from Ice Empress’s body froze her hand and began seeping into Qian Duoduo’s palm.
• Xian Lin’er attacked with her Azure Flame Dragon, but Ice Empress froze her flames and spread frost across the reception hall, trapping both visitors.
• Ice Empress froze Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin’er from the neck down and told them to leave only after the ice melted naturally, then sent them back to warn Xuan Zi.

A Sun Temple steward humiliated and imprisoned Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er, then brought them to a research area as targets for testing new weapons. The chapter ended with soldiers forming ranks to test the rifles on the two frozen Shrek representatives.

• After the Ice Empress left, the young steward slapped Xian Lin'er and mocked Shrek Academy while she and Qian Duoduo remained trapped in ice.
• The young steward ordered soldiers to carry Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er away despite their protests and threats.
• The steward took the frozen pair to Researcher Zhao, who proposed using them for live-fire tests of newly completed single-soldier Soul Guidance rifles.
• The steward opened a case of twelve rifles and ordered the soldiers to form ranks and test them.

A new mass-producible Soul Tool rifle demonstrated how ordinary soldiers could threaten powerful soul masters. Xue Lingxun brought Xu Sanshi to Lingdou City and demanded that her ailing brother yield the Dou Ling throne to him, leaving the emperor furious and the succession unresolved.

• Researcher Zhao demonstrated the Standard Rapid-Fire Soul Tool Rifle, and twelve soldiers fired at Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er, knocking the two Titled Douluo to the ground.
• Researcher Zhao said the rifle could be mass-produced, and the steward planned to start production for the Red Sun Army before reporting to the Hall Master.
• After reading news of the Douling Empire's troubles, Xue Lingxun decided Xu Sanshi should pursue the throne because his soul-master path was cut off and he carried the Black Tortoise bloodline.
• Xue Lingxun took Xu Sanshi to Lingdou City and told him they had come to claim what was rightfully his.
• Xue Lingxun demanded that her ailing brother pass the throne to Xu Sanshi, but the emperor rejected the demand and accused her of plotting a coup.

Xue Lingxun failed to persuade the Dou Ling Emperor to give Xu Sanshi the throne and headed for the Heaven Dou Empire to seek military support. Meanwhile, Xiao Lie’s army advanced on Lingdou City, and he attacked a Mysterious Underworld Sect escort after stopping its convoy.

• Xue Lingxun demanded that the Dou Ling Emperor name Xu Sanshi his successor, but he refused, citing the Sun Temple’s backing of Xiao Lie and Xu Sanshi’s humiliation in Lingdou City.
• Xue Lingxun left with Xu Sanshi and planned to enlist the Heaven Dou Empire’s help in invading Dou Ling and putting him on the throne.
• Xiao Lie advanced toward Lingdou City with an army of three hundred thousand and went to investigate a convoy leaving the city after Xiao Zhan reported its green-haired turtle banner.
• Xue Lingxun ordered Elder Xu to deal with Xiao Lie’s group when they stopped the convoy, but Xiao Lie revealed his identity and attacked Elder Xu with his Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron.

Xiao Lie seized Lingdou City, took the throne, and stabilized the Dou Ling Empire. After Lin Yaoyang emerged from seclusion as a Titled Douluo, he challenged Gu Yuena and revealed the extraordinary power of his ninth soul skill.

• Xiao Lie crushed Elder Xu's shield, defeated the Mysterious Underworld Sect's Soul Saints, and let Xue Lingxun and Xu Sanshi escape in their carriage.
• Xiao Lie entered Lingdou City, found the Dou Ling Emperor's abdication edict, and ordered the former emperor given a proper burial.
• Xiao Lie ascended the throne, issued edicts recognizing the Sun Temple, sending Xiao Zhan to suppress Xue Leng, and granting the former emperor's son a title; Xiao Zhan later defeated the rebellion and Xue Leng was beheaded.
• Lin Yaoyang emerged from seclusion as a Titled Douluo, teased the Ice Empress, and flew to challenge Gu Yuena.
• Lin Yaoyang and Gu Yuena exchanged basic attacks before Gu Yuena increased her power, prompting Lin Yaoyang to unleash his ninth soul skill, Corona Light.
• Gu Yuena blocked Lin Yaoyang's devastating solar torrent with her dragon shield and was astonished by the strength of his attack.

Lin Yaoyang returned from testing his newly gained strength against Gu Yuena and told the Snow Empress that he had broken through and defeated a god. In the God Realm, the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction watched their battle and questioned how quickly Lin Yaoyang had grown.

• Gu Yuena stopped fighting Lin Yaoyang, dismissed his strength as average, and insisted she had held back while testing him.
• Lin Yaoyang teased Gu Yuena about her apparent fatigue until she blushed, then she teleported him to the Snow Empress.
• Lin Yaoyang told the Snow Empress that he had broken through and defeated Gu Yuena, and she praised him before they began fooling around.
• In the God Realm, the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction watched Lin Yaoyang's battle and wondered how he had become strong enough to rival gods so quickly.

Destruction realized that the God Realm had no available god positions for Lin Yaoyang, leaving his plan to recruit him at an impasse. In the Forbidden Land of Gods, Tang San rejected the Golden Dragon King's offer to join forces, but his wavering eyes revealed his temptation.

• Destruction and the Goddess of Life discussed Lin Yaoyang's power and speculated that his mysterious origin gave him a higher status.
• Destruction resolved to expand the God Realm and condemned Tang San for occupying two god positions while neglecting his duties.
• The Goddess of Life pointed out that the God Realm had no open positions, and Destruction realized he had no clear path to make Lin Yaoyang a god.
• The Golden Dragon King noticed Tang San imprisoned nearby and mocked him as another God King trapped by the God Realm.
• The Golden Dragon King proposed that he and Tang San join forces to escape, and Tang San refused aloud while visibly wavering.

The Golden Dragon King persuaded Tang San to ally with him to escape their imprisonment, while Xue Lingxun rushed Xu Sanshi to Heaven Dou City and asked the Heavenly Soul Emperor to invade Douling. The emperor learned that Xiao Lie had already crushed the unrest, leaving Xue Lingxun’s appeal without an opening to exploit.

• The Golden Dragon King taunted Tang San about his imprisonment and coaxed him to consider joining forces against the God Realm.
• Tang San agreed to ally with the Golden Dragon King in exchange for half the God Realm’s control and sole authority over Douluo Planet.
• Xue Lingxun drove Xu Sanshi back to Heaven Dou City and asked the Heavenly Soul Emperor to send troops into Douling to help Xu Sanshi claim its throne.
• Xue Lingxun promised that Douling would become Heavenly Soul’s vassal and appealed to their shared origins.
• The Heavenly Soul Emperor received a report that Xiao Lie had taken Douling’s throne and suppressed the rebellion, ending the chance to intervene.

After Heaven Soul refused Xue Lingxun’s request for military aid, Douling’s new emperor Xiao Lie and Crown Prince Xiao Xiao proposed a public treaty and secret partition pact to the Sun Moon Empire. Both sides signed, leaving Heaven Soul and Star Luo baffled by a non-aggression agreement between countries that did not share a border.

• The Heaven Soul Emperor dismissed Xue Lingxun and Xu Sanshi without agreeing to send troops, then ordered an envoy to congratulate Douling’s new emperor.
• Envoys from Heaven Soul, Star Luo, and Sun Moon attended Xiao Lie’s ascension celebration while secretly assessing Douling and one another.
• Xiao Lie invited Ju Zi to a private meeting, where Xiao Xiao proposed that Douling and Sun Moon publicly promise peace while secretly agreeing to divide Heaven Soul and Star Luo between them.
• Ju Zi accepted the secret pact on behalf of Sun Moon, and she and Xiao Lie signed both the public trade and non-aggression treaty and the confidential partition agreement.
• Heaven Soul and Star Luo learned of the public treaty and wondered why Douling and Sun Moon had signed a non-aggression pact despite having no shared border.

Elder Song confronted Xuan Zi over sending Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo to the Sun Temple without the Sea God Pavilion’s approval, and the two set out to find them. They reached Sun City, where Lin Yaoyang confronted them after the city’s defenses opened fire, and the encounter ended in an argument over whether they had come as guests or intruders.

• Elder Song demanded that Xuan Zi answer for sending Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo to mediate the Dou Ling rebellion without consulting the Sea God Pavilion.
• Xuan Zi agreed to accompany Elder Song to the Sun Temple after arranging for Yan Shaozhe and Cai Mei'er to oversee the pavilion.
• Xuan Zi and Elder Song flew to Sun City, where Xuan Zi called on Lin Yaoyang to return Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo.
• Sun City’s guards treated the pair as enemies and fired the city’s defensive weapons, but Xuan Zi and Elder Song dodged the attacks.
• Lin Yaoyang arrived with Gu Yuena, Bi Ji, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress, ordered the defenses to stand down, and flew out to meet Xuan Zi and Elder Song.
• Lin Yaoyang accused Xuan Zi of trespassing, while Xuan Zi protested that the Sun Temple had attacked them without warning.

Elder Song and Xuan Zi confronted Lin Yaoyang at the Sun Temple, demanding to know what happened to Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo. After Ice Empress revealed that she had killed them when they attacked her, Lin Yaoyang fought Xuan Zi and Elder Song, ending with a devastating strike from his Corona Sword.

• Elder Song asked Lin Yaoyang about her missing daughter, Xian Lin'er, and son-in-law, Qian Duoduo, while Xuan Zi demanded to search the Sun Temple.
• Ice Empress remembered meeting Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo at the temple and admitted to Snow Empress that she had killed them after they attacked first.
• Ice Empress used Soul Power transmission to tell Lin Yaoyang what had happened, and he decided not to yield to Xuan Zi and Elder Song.
• Xuan Zi transformed into his Godly Taotie Bull True Body, and Elder Song used her Azure Shadow Divine Eagle Avatar to attack Lin Yaoyang.
• Lin Yaoyang activated Light Energy Convergence, absorbed the light energy around him, and unleashed Corona Light against Xuan Zi and Elder Song.

Lin Yaoyang killed Xuan Zi and Elder Song with the Corona Light, then returned to the city and reunited with Xiao Xiao, who had become the Dou Ling Empire’s crown prince. He arranged for her to serve as a Temple-empire liaison while the Temple prepared to mass-produce its Soul Tool weapons and equipment.

• Xuan Zi and Elder Song attacked Lin Yaoyang, but his Corona Light shattered their defenses and killed them both, leaving behind eight soul bones.
• Lin Yaoyang collected the soul bones, dismissed the city defense troops, and boasted to the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and the others before they returned to the courtyard.
• Xiao Xiao returned from the Dou Ling Empire and told Lin Yaoyang that she had become its crown prince.
• Lin Yaoyang kissed Xiao Xiao, then proposed that she focus on relations between the Temple and the empire while keeping a nominal Red Sun Army position; she agreed.
• Lin Yaoyang sent word to the Soul Engineer factory to move Soul Tool rifle production from testing into mass production, with other equipment also in development.

As the Dou Ling Empire and Sun Temple expanded their Soul Tool network and began building a railway, Shrek reeled from the deaths of Xuan Zi and Elder Song at Lin Yaoyang’s hands. In Ming Capital, Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to prepare an invasion of Star Luo, leaving the continent’s uneasy peace under threat.

• Xiao Xiao oversaw Soul Tool training and the sale of communicators in Dou Ling, while Lin Yaoyang and Xiao Xiao planned a railway linking Lingdou City and Sun City.
• News that Lin Yaoyang had killed Xuan Zi and Elder Song spread through Shrek, plunging the students into panic.
• Yan Shaozhe confirmed the elders’ deaths to the Sea God Pavilion, whose senior elders blamed him and Cai Mei'er and feared war with the Sun Temple.
• Ju Zi reported to Xu Tianran that she had signed a Non-Aggression Treaty with Xiao Lie and gathered intelligence on Heaven Soul and Star Luo.
• Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to prepare a campaign against Star Luo, and Ju Zi vowed to destroy the empire to avenge her parents.

Lin Yaoyang lost two games of Gomoku to Gu Yuena, who had pretended to be a beginner, before Electrolux announced that his Life-Bound Single Spirit Ascension Flow was ready for testing. Lin Yaoyang summoned two Red Sun Army warriors to begin practical verification of the new method.

• The Sun Temple opened enrollment for two academies in Sun City, accepting students for Soul Master and soul tool engineering training.
• Gu Yuena beat Lin Yaoyang at Gomoku twice after misleading him with seemingly random moves.
• Electrolux told Lin Yaoyang that he had completed the derivation of the Life-Bound Single Spirit Ascension Flow and verified its core mechanism.
• Electrolux explained that a Soul Spirit could cultivate alongside its contracted Soul Master and grow beyond its initial age without further soul beast hunts.
• Lin Yaoyang ordered the Red Sun Army to select two warriors at bottlenecks, and they arrived at the temple's cultivation chamber within half an hour.

Lin Yaoyang and Electrolux successfully tested the Life-Bound Spirit Ascension System on Wang Sheng and Sun Xiaoman, while Gu Yuena learned of their plans to observe it before a wider rollout. Meanwhile, Shrek’s elders struggled to choose a leader after Xuan Zi and Elder Song died, and mass student departures left the academy in steep decline.

• Lin Yaoyang and Electrolux converted Wang Sheng and Sun Xiaoman to the new Soul Spirit System, giving each a soul spirit and a fourth soul ring.
• Lin Yaoyang told Wang Sheng and Sun Xiaoman to report any developments, then explained the system to Gu Yuena and said it would not be widely implemented until testing confirmed its safety.
• The Sea God Pavilion elders confirmed Xuan Zi and Elder Song’s deaths, argued over Shrek’s future, and appointed Elder Lin to lead temporarily after Yan Shaozhe declined.
• News of the elders’ division spread, prompting Outer Court and Inner Court students to withdraw from Shrek Academy in large numbers.
• As students began considering the Sun Temple, Shrek City fell quiet and the Sea God Pavilion’s elders continued debating without finding a solution.

After two years of military and infrastructure reforms backed by the Sun Temple, Dou Ling prepared to invade the Heavenly Soul Empire. Xiao Lie declared war and sent three armies across the border, leaving the continent-wide conflict underway.

• Xiao Xiao delivered Lin Yaoyang’s message that Dou Ling could begin the war and that the Sun Moon Empire would attack Star Luo at the same time.
• Xiao Lie told Xiao Xiao he would appoint her Grand Marshal of the Expedition and urged her to use the war to accumulate certain things.
• Dou Ling held a military parade in Lingdou City, displaying its modern infantry, armored vehicles, tanks, fighter jets, and artillery to the citizens.
• Xiao Lie proclaimed war on the Heavenly Soul Empire, declaring that Dou Ling would reunify the northern lands and restore Heaven Dou.
• Dou Ling’s eastern, central, and western armies crossed the border and advanced into the Heavenly Soul Empire.

Douling’s modernized army captured Azure Mist Pass and swept through Heavenly Soul’s eastern territory, advancing to within two hundred li of Heaven Dou City. As Heavenly Soul begged Star Luo for help, Sun Moon launched a full-scale invasion of Star Luo, leaving its court trapped between two threatened fronts.

• Xiao Xiao led Douling’s air, artillery, tank, and infantry forces in the destruction and capture of Azure Mist Pass, defeating its defending general.
• Douling’s three armies rapidly seized cities and provinces across Heavenly Soul, while the Sun Temple established branches in cities that surrendered.
• Heavenly Soul’s urgent report announced that Douling had taken twenty-one cities in two days and reached a point less than two hundred li from Heaven Dou City.
• The Heavenly Soul Emperor ordered a plea for the Body Sect’s aid and sent an envoy to Star Luo requesting military support.
• Sun Moon joined the war against Heavenly Soul by invading Star Luo, and Empress Ju Zi’s forces attacked the Mingdou Mountain Range defense line held by Dai Hao.
• Star Luo’s court faced an impossible choice as Heavenly Soul neared defeat in the north and Sun Moon threatened to break through in the west.

Xiao Xiao’s army reached Heaven Dou City but was stopped by Du Busi and the Body Sect’s eleven Titled Douluo, forcing her to halt and regroup. Heaven Soul’s peace offer was rejected, and the chapter ended with Lin Yaoyang and four Sun Temple reinforcements arriving to help Xiao Xiao confront the Body Sect.

• Du Busi led the Body Sect’s eleven Titled Douluo in an assault that halted Douling’s advance and inflicted heavy losses on the vanguard.
• Xiao Xiao recognized that she had advanced too quickly, ordered her forces to camp and establish defenses, and Du Busi withdrew with his injured elders.
• The Heaven Soul Emperor called regional armies to defend the capital and sent an envoy offering territory and tribute in exchange for peace.
• Xiao Xiao rejected the envoy’s offer and declared that Heaven Soul’s dynasty would fall and its land would become part of the new Heaven Dou.
• Lin Yaoyang, Wang Dong'er, Wang Qiu'er, Zhang Lexuan, and Wu Ming arrived as reinforcements, and Xiao Xiao explained that the Body Sect was the main obstacle.

Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao launched an attack on Heaven Dou City as Lin Yaoyang and his allies confronted the Body Sect's eleven Titled Douluos. Lin Yaoyang unleashed Corona Light and killed Du Busi and six other Body Sect elders, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Wang Dong'er urged Xiao Xiao to resume the war, and Xiao Xiao began preparing the army to attack Heaven Dou City.
• Wang Dong'er blocked the city's anti-air Soul Tools and released her Rank 96 Soul Power, prompting Du Busi and ten other Body Sect Titled Douluos to take to the sky.
• Lin Yaoyang assigned Wang Dong'er, Wang Qiu'er, Lexuan, and Wu Ming to hold off four enemies while he faced the remaining seven Titled Douluos.
• Du Busi tried to dissuade Lin Yaoyang from fighting, but Lin Yaoyang declared that he sought to unify the continent and prepared a powerful attack.
• Lin Yaoyang absorbed light energy from across the region and struck with Corona Light, overwhelming Du Busi's combined defense with six other Titled Douluos.
• Corona Light annihilated Du Busi and the six Body Sect elders supporting him, while the fight with the other opponents remained unresolved.