Chapter Summaries

Illusion assigned Toxic Ferocity and Ju Kuang to destabilize the Federation’s southern and northern fronts while he monitored the border for Zhong Shenxiu. In Eastsea City, Zhong Shenxiu left a meeting frustrated by local families seeking favors while secretly courting the Sun-Moon Federation.

• Illusion sent Toxic Ferocity to harass the Holy Angel Clan on the southern front without causing mass casualties.
• Ju Kuang took the northern front and planned to disrupt the Northern Legion’s supplies and communications.
• Illusion established his domain over the border and pledged to prepare the Douluo Plane for Zhong Shenxiu.
• Zhong Shenxiu rode from Skysea Alliance headquarters with Leng Yaozhu and complained about a meeting with regional families and alliance elders.
• Zhong Shenxiu criticized the families for seeking resources and positions from Doulong Technology while secretly approaching the Sun-Moon Federation.

Zhong Shenxiu struggled with governing the Douluo Plane and considered using force, but Leng Yaozhu advised him to win the people’s support and avoid uniting the divided Sun-Moon Federation against him. She offered to help him manage political affairs, then realized she might have sounded too eager.

• Zhong Shenxiu complained that the Xu Clan and other groups were stalling, and considered crushing the political obstacles by force.
• Leng Yaozhu warned Zhong Shenxiu that harsh rule would create panic and unite the Sun-Moon Federation against the Dragon Fighting Plane.
• Leng Yaozhu argued that the Federation was corrupt and that people might welcome a new ruler who treated them fairly.
• Zhong Shenxiu recognized Leng Yaozhu’s political insight and felt comforted by her advice and companionship.
• Leng Yaozhu offered to help Zhong Shenxiu with political affairs, then froze at how proactive her offer sounded.

Zhong Shenxiu and Leng Yaozhu discussed how to handle East Sea's powerful families, and he ultimately chose a forceful plan that would put the Leng Family in charge as enforcers. Leng Yaozhu recognized the opportunity and risks but fell silent as Zhong Shenxiu insisted he would support her.

• Leng Yaozhu advised Zhong Shenxiu to reward cooperative families, keep records on those aligned with the Federation, and deal with them later.
• At Zhong Shenxiu's residence, he embraced Leng Yaozhu from behind and proposed making the Leng Family the first enforcers of the Douluo Continent.
• Leng Yaozhu warned that abruptly giving her family authority could alarm the other families and push them toward the Federation.
• Zhong Shenxiu dismissed her concerns and ordered the Leng Family to oversee East Sea affairs, promising to back her and replace or punish anyone who resisted.
• Leng Yaozhu considered that a decisive crackdown might make the families comply and that the role could raise her family to the continent's top powers.

Leng Yaozhu accepted Zhong Shenxiu’s offer to lead East Sea’s new Law Enforcement Hall, while Zhong teased her until she hurried away. Left alone at the villa, he reflected on how Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan were occupied with their own work.

• Zhong Shenxiu assured Leng Yaozhu that he trusted her and would protect her if anything went wrong, and she agreed to have the Leng Family enforce order in East Sea.
• Leng Yaozhu promised to present a governance plan within three days and asked Zhong Shenxiu to take responsibility if problems arose.
• Zhong Shenxiu granted Leng Yaozhu broad authority to establish and command an independent Law Enforcement Hall beside the Skysea Alliance headquarters.
• Zhong Shenxiu asked Leng Yaozhu to take a bath with him, and she blushed, called him a bastard, and hurried out after promising to send word in three days.
• Zhong Shenxiu was left alone and thought about Gu Yue researching spatial technology and Xu Xiaoyan expanding the Xu Clan amid Skysea’s independence crisis.

Zhong Shenxiu found Lan Jinghe, the Demon Empress of the Holy Spirit Cult, waiting in his bedroom and traded flirtatious barbs with her while both secretly tested the other’s power. He ended their banter and demanded to know why she had come.

• Zhong Shenxiu bathed and sensed the Douluo Continent’s planar shackles weakening as his cultivation neared level eighty.
• Zhong Shenxiu discovered Lan Jinghe sitting on his bed when he entered his bedroom.
• Lan Jinghe teased Zhong Shenxiu about being alone after a woman had left, and he invited her to keep him company.
• Zhong Shenxiu and Lan Jinghe exchanged provocative remarks while their spiritual powers clashed beneath the banter.
• Zhong Shenxiu stopped the flirtation and asked Lan Jinghe what she had come to discuss.

Lan Jinghe sought Zhong Shenxiu’s cooperation, warning that Yun Ming was about to ascend to godhood and threaten both their forces. Zhong Shenxiu dismissed her concerns and ridiculed the Holy Spirit Cult’s failed attack on Shrek City, while Lan Jinghe endured his insults.

• Lan Jinghe confronted Zhong Shenxiu with the will-pressure of her Level-100 True God status, but his Dragon God authority overpowered her demonic whale aura.
• Zhong Shenxiu taunted Lan Jinghe after they withdrew their pressure, and she said she had come to discuss cooperation.
• Lan Jinghe warned that Yun Ming was about to ascend to godhood and would target the Dragon Fighting Plane’s forces and the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Zhong Shenxiu mocked her fear of Yun Ming and recalled how the Holy Spirit Cult had failed to kill him during its attack on Shrek City.
• Lan Jinghe accepted Zhong Shenxiu’s accusations in silence as he described the devastation of Shrek City and Yun Ming’s survival and growing power.

Lan Jinghe tried to recruit Zhong Shenxiu into a joint strike against Yun Ming, but he rejected her proposed division of power and demanded better terms. She offered control of the Abyss Passage and the Holy Spirit Cult’s secrets about the God Realm, then moved close to press her advantage.

• Lan Jinghe warned Zhong Shenxiu that Yun Ming was nearing godhood and would threaten the East Sea, but Zhong dismissed Yun Ming and vowed to kill him if he became an obstacle.
• Lan Jinghe proposed that they eliminate Yun Ming, offering Zhong the Sun-Moon Federation while the Holy Spirit Cult claimed the Spirit Pagoda and Shrek’s position.
• Zhong Shenxiu refused to share what he believed would eventually be his and demanded to know what the Holy Spirit Cult could truly offer.
• Lan Jinghe offered Zhong control of the Abyss Passage and the Holy Spirit Cult’s accumulated secrets about the God Realm.
• Lan Jinghe moved close, pressed Zhong Shenxiu back onto the bed, and hooked a finger beneath his chin.

Lan Jinghe offered Zhong Shenxiu the Holy Spirit Cult’s inheritance on recondensing a Divine Position in exchange for his help. She asked him to join her in killing Yun Ming and to protect her daughter afterward, revealing her maternal tenderness as her one weakness.

• Lan Jinghe teased Zhong Shenxiu and offered guarded secrets in exchange for a promise, while he challenged her about the deposit she wanted.
• Lan Jinghe explained that the Abyss Passage connected the Douluo Plane and the Abyss Plane, then revealed the Holy Spirit Cult possessed an inheritance describing how to recondense a Divine Position.
• Zhong Shenxiu showed interest in the inheritance but demanded to know what Lan Jinghe wanted from him.
• Lan Jinghe flirted with Zhong Shenxiu, but he seized her wrist and warned her to stop playing tricks and discuss business.
• Lan Jinghe asked Zhong Shenxiu to help her kill Yun Ming when he ascended to godhood and to protect her daughter for the rest of her life.

Zhong Shenxiu and Lan Jinghe negotiated an alliance in which he would help her kill Yun Ming, destroy Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect, and protect her daughter in exchange for control of the Abyss Passage, God Realm inheritance records, and the Holy Spirit Cult’s intelligence network. Later, Ling Zichen angrily confronted Xiha Dragon over his crude hammer-forged modifications to a soul guidance cannon.

• Lan Jinghe told Zhong Shenxiu that she wanted revenge fulfilled and her daughter to live safely and freely.
• Zhong Shenxiu offered to help Lan Jinghe kill Yun Ming, destroy Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect, and protect her daughter, demanding control of the Abyss Passage and access to the Holy Spirit Cult’s secrets and intelligence.
• Lan Jinghe accepted and said she would send the materials and Abyss Passage coordinates in batches, then return after confirming when Yun Ming would ascend to godhood.
• Lan Jinghe left through the window, and Zhong Shenxiu dismissed the hidden Iceberg Giant Dragon and Volcano Giant Dragon.
• Ling Zichen criticized Xiha Dragon for hammering rough array patterns into a Rank 6 soul guidance cannon, saying his method ruined the metal and would cause major energy loss.

Ling Zichen and Xiha Dragon clashed over whether precise Soul Guidance Technology or Withered Dragon forging made better weapons for the East Sea Legion. Their argument left them trading claims about engineering, durability, and mass production, while Xiha Dragon privately remained interested in learning Soul Forging.

• Xiha Dragon slammed the lab bench and condemned Ling Zichen's delicate array patterns as fragile and useless in combat.
• Ling Zichen defended her design's ninety-two-percent energy conversion rate and accused Xiha Dragon's patterns of risking a cannon explosion.
• Xiha Dragon pointed to the piles of damaged frontline cannons and argued that his dragonfire-forged weapons could endure extreme conditions.
• The chapter revealed that Aquarius Star Dragon had summoned the Withered Dragon Clan to upgrade the East Sea Legion's arsenal and explore combining their forging methods with Soul Guidance Technology.
• Ling Zichen argued that her Superconducting Array could fire repeatedly with little energy loss and that hand-forging could not equip a legion efficiently.
• Xiha Dragon boasted that his clan could purify and cast metal in moments, while privately valuing Douluo Continent's Soul Forging and spiritual weapons.

Ling Zichen and Xiha Dragon clashed over their opposing approaches to modifying Soul Guidance Artillery and agreed to settle the dispute in a protected testing ground. After both showed off their combat forms, Ling Zichen opened the fight with six artillery beams, which Xiha Dragon blocked with his hammers.

• Ling Zichen accused Xiha Dragon of wanting to steal Soul Guidance Technology, and he angrily defended his attempt to improve the artillery.
• Ling Zichen and Xiha Dragon threatened to fight until the project leader directed them to the back-mountain testing ground.
• Ling Zichen activated her adaptive armor and Single-Unit Source Core while Xiha Dragon transformed his arms into forging hammers and donned Forged Scale Armor.
• Ling Zichen fired six high-tier Soul Guidance beams at Xiha Dragon, who blocked them with his crossed hammers.

Ling Zichen and Xiha Dragon fought through a fierce arena battle, each adapting their attacks and defenses. Xiha Dragon’s final hammer strike shattered Ling Zichen’s barriers and sent her crashing into the protective barrier, leaving her badly damaged.

• Xiha Dragon charged Ling Zichen with his forging hammers, but she evaded, counterattacked, and cracked the scales on his back.
• Ling Zichen modified her shoulder cannons into armor-piercing weapons and followed with a rapid-fire barrage, but Xiha Dragon deflected the beams and endured the explosions.
• Xiha Dragon trapped Ling Zichen in the Withered Dragon Forge-Prison, but she broke a pillar and escaped.
• Xiha Dragon waited at the cage’s opening and struck Ling Zichen with his full-powered Molten Light Fierce Strike.
• Ling Zichen’s six-layer barrier shattered, and Xiha Dragon’s blow dented her breastplate and sent her crashing into the protective barrier.

Ling Zichen and Xiha Dragon fought to a draw after trading devastating attacks and acknowledging each other’s abilities. The Black Hand Clan’s elite arrived to arrest Ling Zichen, and Xiha Dragon stood between them and denied that she was there.

• Ling Zichen unleashed a ten-second saturation barrage, but Xiha Dragon endured it and began healing with his clan’s innate talent.
• Xiha Dragon charged again, and Ling Zichen met him head-on with energy gauntlets, leaving both fighters seriously injured but standing.
• Xiha Dragon called the fight a draw and criticized Ling Zichen’s cannons for overheating, while acknowledging their power.
• Black Hand Clan elite warriors landed at the testing grounds, and their leader formally announced Ling Zichen’s arrest on behalf of the Skysea Alliance Investigation Squad.
• Xiha Dragon shielded Ling Zichen and told the Black Hand leader that Technician Cao was a key researcher and that Ling Zichen did not exist there.

The Black Hand Clan took Ling Zichen from Doulong Technology's research institute under The Master's orders, despite Xiha Dragon's protests. Xiha Dragon let them take her but resolved to visit The Master the next day and demand her return, while the chapter shifted to the Law Enforcement Hall headquarters in Eastsea City under Leng Yaozhu's control.

• The researchers protested when the Black Hand elite tried to arrest Ling Zichen, and Xiha Dragon stepped forward to defend her.
• The Black Hand elite invoked The Master's orders, stopping Xiha Dragon from opposing them.
• Ling Zichen said she had done nothing to harm the Skysea Alliance and challenged them to provide evidence.
• Xiha Dragon allowed the Black Hand warriors to take Ling Zichen but warned them against mistreating her and promised to seek an explanation from The Master.
• After the Black Hand Clan departed, Xiha Dragon ordered the researchers back to work and decided to visit The Master's residence the next day to demand Ling Zichen's return.
• The chapter introduced Eastsea City's Law Enforcement Hall, which Leng Yaozhu had brought under strict control.

Leng Yaozhu took charge of the Law Enforcement Hall and was summoned to decide the fate of Ling Zichen, a captured Tang Sect spy. She learned that Ling Zichen was the Tang Sect’s chief scientist, whose work and technology made her a highly valuable target.

• Leng Yaozhu complained privately about the workload she had inherited as head of the Law Enforcement Hall.
• An assistant told Leng Yaozhu that the Black Hand Clan had captured a Tang Sect spy named Ling Zichen and requested her personal ruling.
• Leng Yaozhu questioned Ling Zichen, who remained defiant and refused to cooperate.
• A Black Hand Clan elite explained that Illusion had captured a Tang Sect team sent by Zang Xin to retrieve Ling Zichen alive.
• Illusion traced the team’s mission to a concealed Tang Sect factory and uncovered Ling Zichen’s identity as its chief scientist and the developer of much of the Tang Sect’s Soul Guidance weaponry.

Leng Yaozhu tried to recruit Ling Zichen, the Tang Sect’s chief soul guidance scientist, to Doulong Technology, but Ling refused to betray the sect. Leng Yaozhu decided Ling was too valuable to release or kill and resolved to keep her imprisoned in East Sea.

• Leng Yaozhu learned that Ling Zichen was the Tang Sect’s hidden chief soul guidance scientist and recognized her importance to its military technology.
• Leng Yaozhu offered Ling an independent research institute, rare materials, funding, equipment, and Xiha Dragon’s cooperation if she stayed.
• Ling rejected the offer and refused to betray the Tang Sect.
• Ling remembered how Zang Xin had rescued and supported her, and she regarded the Tang Sect as her home.
• Leng Yaozhu concluded that she could neither let Ling return to the Tang Sect nor kill her, and decided to keep her in East Sea and wear down her resistance.

After Leng Yaozhu imprisoned Ling Zichen, she ordered her subordinates to keep the captive safe while reporting her capture to Zhong Shenxiu. Ling Zichen resolved to endure her confinement and study Doulong Technology, as the chapter revealed the vast underground arms factory underpinning Tang Sect’s power.

• Leng Yaozhu left Ling Zichen restrained in the interrogation room after warning that Tang Sect would be destroyed.
• Ling Zichen worried about Tang Sect and Zang Xin, then steadied herself and decided to analyze the Improved Soul Guidance Cannon while imprisoned.
• Leng Yaozhu ordered her deputy to give Ling Zichen the best treatment, prevent anyone from harming her, and provide safe tools and materials she requested.
• Leng Yaozhu hurried to report Ling Zichen’s capture to Zhong Shenxiu, considering her a major asset.
• The chapter revealed Tang Sect’s immense underground arms factory beneath Heaven Dou City, where Soul Tools, hidden weapons, mechas, and Soul Guidance Shells were produced.

Zang Xin struggled to keep the Tang Sect together as Ling Zichen remained missing after secretly traveling to Eastsea City to research Doulong Technology. With the Tang Sect weakened and no help available from Shrek, he ordered an intensified search and placed the sect on high alert.

• Ling Zichen secretly left Heaven Dou City with three guards after Zang Xin forbade her from visiting Doulong Technology.
• Ling Zichen infiltrated the Doulong Technology Research Institute and worked on a core project, arguing with the dragon clan forgemaster Xiha Dragon.
• Contact with Ling Zichen and her guards stopped completely, and the Tang Sect's covert network could not locate them.
• Zang Xin declined to ask Shrek for help because Shrek was dealing with its own devastation and Yun Ming and Long Yeyue could not spare support.
• Zang Xin ordered the covert network to intensify its search across Eastsea City and told all branch halls to upgrade their weapons and prepare for battle.

Shrek City struggled to recover from the Holy Spirit Cult's attack as Long Yeyue and Tang Mengyin worried over Lan Muzi and awaited Yun Ming's breakthrough. Three months later, the Federation had heavily fortified Shrek while disastrous reports from the border showed that the wider war was worsening.

• Long Yeyue reflected on Shrek City's devastation beside Sea God Lake as Tang Mengyin urged her to rest.
• Tang Mengyin told Long Yeyue that Lan Muzi remained unconscious after taking Sagittarius Star Dragon's punch, and Long Yeyue promised to ask Yun Ming to heal him if he reached the Divine Realm.
• Shrek City spent three months rebuilding its defenses and receiving troops and experts from the Federation, the Spirit Pagoda, and the War God Temple.
• The Federation council debated Yun Ming's possible breakthrough, fearing that his ascent would give Shrek Academy overwhelming power.
• Border reports revealed that Guo Zhenfeng had died and the Northern Legion had retreated, the Central Legion had suffered heavy losses, and Yue Zhengen had been severely wounded on the southern front.

The Sun-Moon Federation committed its resources to protecting Yun Ming as he prepared to undergo Divine Tribulation, while the Holy Spirit Cult and Dragon Fighting Plane prepared to attack Shrek during it. In Eastsea City, Zhong Shenxiu received reports of the border offensive’s success and Ling Zichen’s research.

• The Federation speaker persuaded parliament to give Yun Ming every resource and protection needed for his breakthrough.
• Lan Jinghe learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had assembled its forces and that Zhong Shenxiu had agreed to send two Dragon Fighting Plane powerhouses to help attack during Yun Ming’s Divine Tribulation.
• Lan Jinghe ordered the cult to mobilize on the day of the tribulation and vowed to settle its ten-thousand-year grudge with Yun Ming, then privately looked at a pendant bearing the character for “Buddha.”
• Leng Yaozhu reported that Ling Zichen had revised small Soul Cannon formations and that Ju Kuang, Lie Yan, and Toxic Ferocity were wearing down the Federation’s border forces.
• Zhong Shenxiu accepted the reports and noted that the Federation’s focus on Yun Ming gave his forces time to keep weakening its defenses.