Chapter Summaries

Xu Tianyao prepared the imperial palace and Ming Capital as a trap for the invading forces, then ordered his troops to withdraw and draw the attackers deeper inside. Xuan Zi and the allied experts broke through the palace’s defenses and reached the inner hall.

• Xu Tianyao and Kong Deming returned to the palace, where Soul Engineers prepared to channel their power into Kong Deming, while Jing Hongchen deployed troops and strategic weapons around Ming Capital.
• At midnight, the Holy Spirit Cult attacked from the southwest, and Xuan Zi led the allied experts through a breach at the imperial city’s main gate.
• The attackers stormed the palace forecourt as Xu Tianyao ordered the defenders to retreat to the inner hall and preserve their strength, revealing his plan to lure the enemy inside.
• Xuan Zi smashed through the inner hall doors and broke through the palace’s final line of defense.

Xuan Zi, Du Busi, Long Xiaoyao, and their allies stormed the imperial palace to kill Xu Tianyao, believing its defenses had been caught unprepared. Kong Deming and Xu Tianyao revealed that the attackers had walked into a trap, and the Mountains Rivers Sun Moon Map sealed the palace as Xu Tianyao declared that he had anticipated their every move.

• Xuan Zi and the allied forces advanced through the imperial palace, dismissing Du Busi's warnings as they approached Imperial Zenith Hall.
• Xuan Zi, Du Busi, and Xuanming Douluo attacked the hall, but Kong Deming emerged and halted their assault with overwhelming power.
• Long Xiaoyao noticed the ambush as Soul Engineers appeared on the palace walls and surrounding streets, cutting off the attackers' escape.
• The Mountains Rivers Sun Moon Map unfurled above the palace and trapped the allied forces inside a Space Lockdown.
• Xu Tianyao appeared in silver-white Soul Tool armor and told Xuan Zi that every step of their invasion had been within his expectations.

Xu Tianyao trapped the Three Great Empires, Shrek, the Body Sect, and the Holy Spirit Cult inside the Mountains Rivers Sun Moon Map and overwhelmed them with his powers and an undead army. He evacuated Kong Deming, the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers, and the undead, leaving the enemy forces sealed inside as he reached for the formation core controller above Ming Capital.

• Xuan Zi realized the palace defenses had sealed the attackers in, while Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers aimed their weapons at them.
• Xu Tianyao repelled Du Busi, Xuan Zi, and Long Xiaoyao with the Mountains Rivers Sun Moon Map and unleashed his Sun Moon Radiance fusion skill.
• Xu Tianyao summoned Electrolux’s undead army, which swarmed the attackers as the map sealed the palace area into a cage.
• Xuan Zi ordered the trapped forces to break out, but Xu Tianyao used the map’s spatial laws to transport Kong Deming, the Soul Engineers, and the undead away.
• Long Xiaoyao realized the remaining attackers had fallen into a trap and attacked the sealed spatial barrier, while Xu Tianyao appeared with Kong Deming above Ming Capital and reached for the formation core controller.

Xu Tianyao destroyed the Three Great Empires’ strongest fighters in Ming Capital, while Sun Moon Empire forces conquered Heaven Dou City and broke into Xingluo City. With both imperial houses fallen and most of the continent under Sun Moon rule, only Shrek City remained unconquered.

• Xu Tianyao used the Mountains Rivers Sun Moon Map to contain the blast of dozens of Level-Nine Fixed-Mount Soul Tool Projectiles, killing Xuan Zi, Du Busi, Long Xiaoyao, and the other trapped defenders.
• Xu Tianyao ordered the Sun Moon Empire’s armies to advance across the front and demand the surrender of Xingluo and Heaven Dou.
• Wang Qiangu opened Heaven Dou City’s southern gate to the Sun Moon Empire, whose forces occupied the city and began purging members of the old imperial house and noble families.
• The Sun Moon Empire breached Xingluo City’s defenses, and Xu Jiawei refused to flee, ordered Dai Hao to escape, and poisoned himself as enemy troops approached the palace.
• The Sun Moon Empire took control of nearly every major province, while secluded sects withdrew behind sealed mountain gates and Shrek City remained unconquered.

Xu Tianyao forced Shrek City to surrender, seized Huo Yuhao’s fortune and spiritual origin, and prepared to merge with Douluo Planet. After proclaiming the unified Ming Empire, he entrusted its governance to Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen before entering seclusion.

• Xu Tianyao demanded Shrek City’s surrender, and Zhang Lexuan led the academy in kneeling and accepting the terms laid down by Mu En’s final command.
• Xu Tianyao ordered his forces into Shrek City, where they seized the academy’s defenses and resources and purged the descendants of defeated nobles.
• Xu Tianyao captured Huo Yuhao and took his fortune and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s million-year spiritual origin, then planned to seize the Golden Ancient Tree and merge with the Douluo Plane.
• A month later, Xu Tianyao proclaimed the unified realm the Ming Empire and unveiled its new sun, moon, and dragon flag.
• Xu Tianyao gave Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen authority over the Empire’s affairs and disappeared to begin a period of seclusion.

After fusing with Douluo Planet, Xu Tianyao reshaped its laws, ruled the Ming Empire, and later retired to a divine kingdom as the world transformed into the Douluo Federation. A mysterious man ended their account of Xu Tianyao’s life by showing him the words “The End!”

• Xu Tianyao emerged from five years of seclusion with control of Douluo Planet’s Life Core, then married Meng Hongchen and made her Empress of the Ming Empire.
• The Ming Empire destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult, executed Ju Zi, and sent Xu Yunhan into exile in the Far North.
• Tang San confronted Xu Tianyao over the planet’s source, but Xu Tianyao invoked the God of Destruction’s support and forced Tang San’s divine sense to retreat.
• Xu Tianyao established new laws for human and soul beast coexistence, founded the Sun Moon Spirit Pagoda, and helped Electrolux and Kong Deming advance soul-spirit research.
• A hundred years later, Xu Tianyao passed the throne to his son and retired with Meng Hongchen, Snow Maiden, and the others to an independent divine kingdom; thousands of years later, the Ming Empire gave way to the Douluo Federation.
• After losing another chess game to Xu Tianyao, the mysterious man declared their story finished and showed him a screen displaying “The End!”