Chapter Summaries

Shen Lian led ten thousand Sun Moon Empire soul masters through a mass teleportation to Black Wind Canyon on Douluo Continent. He began establishing an outpost there and received a visit from Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong.

• Xu Peng reported that the Royal Soul Master Legion was ready to depart, while Zhu Zhuqing, Liu Yuxi, Ning Rongrong, and Xu Chengye arrived and asked to accompany Shen Lian.
• Shen Lian refused to take the four with him, urging them to continue their God Trials in Ming Capital, and they agreed to wait for his news.
• Shen Lian teleported himself and ten thousand soul masters to Black Wind Canyon, three hundred li west of Heaven Dou City.
• Shen Lian assigned the brigades to build fortifications, clear the canyon, establish a camp, and scout the surrounding terrain.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong arrived at Shen Lian's camp and surveyed the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Tools.

Shen Lian accepted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support and led the Sun-Moon Royal Soul Master Legion toward Heaven Dou City. As the army gathered outside the city, Qian Renxue learned of its approach while continuing to conceal her role in Xue Ye’s decline.

• Ning Fengzhi praised the Sun-Moon Empire’s army, learned that Ning Rongrong had become the Nine-Colored Goddess’s inheritor, and offered Shen Lian supplies for the Empire.
• Shen Lian accepted the sect’s resources, assigned its members to survey Black Wind Canyon, and ordered the army to march on Heaven Dou City in three days.
• The Sun-Moon Royal Soul Master Legion left Black Wind Canyon along concealed routes prepared by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• One day later, more than ten thousand soldiers assembled in a forest ten li west of Heaven Dou City and aimed their Soul Guidance Cannons at the city.
• Qian Renxue received a spy’s report about the unidentified army and kept the threat from Xue Ye, whose illness she had caused with poison.

Qian Renxue suspected Shen Lian had brought an army to Heaven Dou City and ordered the city's defenses strengthened. Outside the city, Shen Lian used a deployment map to direct a coordinated Soul Guidance Cannon assault that devastated the surrounding military camps.

• Qian Renxue ordered her guards to eliminate anyone who had discovered or reported the approaching army, then sealed Heaven Dou City and heightened its vigilance.
• Shen Lian consulted a military deployment map he had obtained from Qian Renxue and identified the camps, armories, and granaries surrounding Heaven Dou City.
• Shen Lian ordered Xu Peng to split the Soul Masters into five battalions and position Soul Guidance Cannons at the marked locations.
• After every unit reported readiness, Shen Lian ordered the cannons to fire on the military camps around Heaven Dou City.
• Shen Lian commanded a second volley, leaving the camps in ruins and reducing the million-strong army to fewer than a hundred thousand wounded, demoralized soldiers.

Shen Lian’s artillery strikes devastated Heaven Dou’s military camps, forcing Xue Ye to prepare Heaven Dou City for a siege. As Shen Lian’s 110,000-strong army assembled outside the city, Ning Fengzhi and the two Title Douluo secretly prepared to help him take it.

• A guard reported that unknown weapons had destroyed Heaven Dou’s three military camps, and Xue Ye collapsed after hearing the news.
• Qian Renxue realized Shen Lian had obtained Heaven Dou’s deployment map and was attacking the empire, putting their goals at odds.
• Xue Ye ordered the surviving troops and mobilized Soul Masters to defend the city, then summoned Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo pledged to defend Heaven Dou City, though Ning Fengzhi had secretly agreed to open the gates and aid Shen Lian’s army.
• Shen Lian gathered 110,000 Sun-Moon Empire troops and Soul Masters outside Heaven Dou City, frightening the defenders with their weapons and numbers.

Qian Renxue summoned Spirit Hall reinforcements to stop Shen Lian from capturing Heaven Dou City, while Shen Lian ordered his forces to target them. A battle at the southern gate was about to erupt as Qian Renxue and Shen Lian faced off.

• Qian Renxue sent Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo to fetch Salas and reinforce Heaven Dou City without revealing her identity.
• Salas led several hundred Spirit Hall Soul Masters and the two Title Douluo onto the southern wall, where Xue Ye reluctantly accepted their help.
• Ning Fengzhi sent Shen Lian a message about Spirit Hall's arrival, while the Heaven Dou troops and Spirit Hall forces eyed each other warily.
• Shen Lian ordered ten thousand Soul Guidance Ray Guns to target the southern wall where Spirit Hall was stationed.
• Salas realized Spirit Hall was the target as Shen Lian and Qian Renxue's gazes met before the battle began.

Shen Lian’s forces blasted through Heaven Dou City’s walls and gate, overwhelming Xue Ye’s defenders as the city’s fall seemed imminent. Then a powerful Clear Sky Hammer aura appeared, and Shen Lian ordered his troops to retreat as three figures descended before the gate.

• Shen Lian ordered the Soul Guidance Cannons to fire, and his infantry charged through the breach in Heaven Dou City’s southern wall.
• Xue Ye sent Soul Douluos to reinforce the breach, but Shen Lian’s three Title Douluos killed a Heaven Dou council member with their Soul Tools.
• Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo, acting under Qian Renxue’s signal, joined the fighting and engaged Shen Lian’s Title Douluos.
• Shen Lian ordered Xu Peng to have the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion bombard the wall, devastating its defenders and blasting open the city gate.
• As Sun-Moon Empire troops poured into the city, Xue Ye begged Ning Fengzhi to call on Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, but a powerful Clear Sky Hammer aura interrupted him.
• Shen Lian ordered his troops to withdraw, and three figures descended from the sky and landed before the city gate.

Tang Xiao and two Clear Sky Sect elders confronted Shen Lian outside Heaven Dou City, seeking revenge and hoping to secure support for their sect. Shen Lian revealed nine crimson Spirit Rings, terrifying the defenders, while Tang Xiao resolved to rely on the Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Tang Xiao arrived at Heaven Dou City with two Title Douluo elders and challenged Shen Lian, citing his desire for revenge and the defense of the empire.
• Shen Lian mocked Tang Xiao and promised to take Heaven Dou City and erase the Clear Sky Sect before accepting the challenge.
• Shen Lian assessed the three Clear Sky Sect fighters and prepared to battle them as Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo watched from the wall.
• Shen Lian drew the Dragon-Slaying Blade and revealed nine crimson Spirit Rings, causing the Sun-Moon Empire's troops to cheer and Heaven Dou's defenders to lose hope.
• Qian Renxue realized Shen Lian was nearing the end of his God Trial and decided she would soon return to Spirit Hall.
• Tang Xiao and the elders were shaken by Shen Lian's Spirit Rings, but Tang Xiao steadied himself by recalling that their Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill could give them level ninety-nine power.

Shen Lian faced Tang Xiao’s Tri-Unity Martial Soul Fusion Skill beneath Heaven Dou City, but Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect turned against the Clear Sky Sect and Heaven Dou. As the Sun-Moon Empire seized the city gate, Tang Xiao attacked Ning Fengzhi while Shen Lian prepared to finish the battle.

• Tang Xiao and two Clear Sky Sect elders fused their Soul Power into a giant hammer and attacked Shen Lian, who recognized that their Rank 99 aura was unstable.
• Ning Fengzhi signaled Shen Lian as Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo Gu Rong struck the two Clear Sky Sect elders from behind, disrupting the fusion skill.
• Tang Xiao steadied the damaged fusion and counterattacked Chen Xin and Gu Rong, while Shen Lian readied his ninth Spirit Ring.
• Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples used Soul Tools to attack Heaven Dou’s soldiers at the city gate, allowing the Sun-Moon Empire army to seize it.
• Tang Xiao turned his giant hammer toward Ning Fengzhi, hoping to defeat the traitor and reverse the battle.

Shen Lian defeated Tang Xiao and the two Clear Sky Sect elders, then ordered them kept alive as prisoners. As the Sun-Moon Empire’s forces overwhelmed Heaven Dou City, Xue Ye issued his final decree, ordering his officials to take Xue Qinghe and rebuild the empire in the border provinces.

• Shen Lian blocked Tang Xiao’s fusion-skill hammer and shattered it, leaving Tang Xiao and the two elders badly injured.
• Shen Lian severed the three men’s limbs, took their Spirit Bones, and ordered Xu Peng to keep them alive under Soul-Locking Shackles.
• Shen Lian planned to use the prisoners to humiliate the Clear Sky Sect and let the Breaking Clan settle its grievances with them.
• Xue Ye watched the Sun-Moon Empire’s troops overrun Heaven Dou City and realized his empire was nearing defeat.
• Xue Ye issued his final decree, ordering his officials to escort Xue Qinghe to the border provinces and help him gather talent and rebuild Heaven Dou.

Xue Ye died with Heaven Dou City after sending Qian Renxue away, and Shen Lian took control of the conquered capital for the Sun-Moon Empire. As the other powers reacted to the invasion, Qian Renxue established a surviving Heaven Dou government in the western provinces and vowed to reclaim the empire.

• Xue Ye ordered General Zhang to escort Qian Renxue and twenty thousand Imperial Guards out through a secret passage, then leaped from the city wall and died as Heaven Dou City fell.
• A week later, Shen Lian gave Yang Wudi the captive Tang Xiao and two other prisoners so the Breaking Clan could settle its decades-old grievance.
• Bibi Dong recalled Soul Masters to strengthen Spirit City's defenses, while the Star Luo Emperor opened the borders to people fleeing the fallen Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qian Renxue took the throne as Xue Qinghe in the provinces nearest Spirit City and promised to drive out the Sun-Moon Empire and restore Heaven Dou.

Qian Renxue allied the New Heaven Dou Empire with Spirit Hall and committed herself to inheriting the Angel God Position, while Shen Lian launched a three-pronged campaign to conquer Douluo Continent. Shen Lian’s forces suddenly appeared outside Spirit City and began bombing the city, leaving its defenders horrified for their families.

• Qian Renxue signed an alliance with Spirit Hall, then told Qian Daoliu she would focus on restoring the Angel God Position.
• Shen Lian ordered his armies to attack the New Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire, and Spirit City after half a month of reorganization.
• Shen Lian divided his forces among Xu Peng, three Title Douluo, and himself, then used his teleportation soul skill to take the elite Royal Soul Master Legion to Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong learned that an enemy army had appeared outside Spirit City and recognized the Sun-Moon Royal Soul Master Legion.
• Shen Lian ordered indiscriminate cannon fire into Spirit City, destroying buildings and terrifying Spirit Hall’s defenders, who feared for their loved ones.

Shen Lian’s Soul Guidance Cannons devastated Spirit City, and he slaughtered the experts who tried to stop the bombardment. Bibi Dong and more than ten Title Douluo confronted him, and their battle began with a coordinated assault on Shen Lian.

• Shen Lian ordered the Soul Engineer Legion to continue firing, reducing most of Spirit City to ruins.
• Shen Lian killed the Title Douluo and Soul Douluo who tried to leave the city and disrupt the cannon fire.
• Bibi Dong, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and more than ten Title Douluo emerged from the Pope Palace and Worship Hall to confront Shen Lian.
• Bibi Dong led the attack with her Rakshasa Demon Scythe as Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other Title Douluo unleashed their strongest soul skills at Shen Lian.

Shen Lian revealed the Destruction God Staff and overwhelmed Bibi Dong and the Title Douluo who attacked with her. As Bibi Dong burned her life force to fight back, Shen Lian trapped her in a killing formation and fired a destructive beam, leaving her fate unresolved.

• Shen Lian summoned the Destruction God Staff, shocking Bibi Dong and the Title Douluo accompanying her.
• Bibi Dong and the Title Douluo charged at Shen Lian, and he swept them with dark-purple energy.
• The attack wounded Bibi Dong and suppressed Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other Title Douluo, pinning them to the ground.
• Bibi Dong burned her life force and unleashed greater Rakshasa power, determined to perish together with Shen Lian.
• Shen Lian sealed Bibi Dong inside a net of destructive energy and fired a beam at her as she realized she could not escape.

Shen Lian killed Bibi Dong and the Spirit Hall Title Douluo, then ordered the destruction of Spirit City and its people. As the city lay in ruins, Qian Daoliu looked on with sorrow beside Qian Renxue, whose Angel God inheritance had led him to leave before the battle.

• The Rakshasa God abandoned Bibi Dong, and a blood-red power tore the forming Rakshasa Divinity from her before Shen Lian's attack pierced her chest and killed her.
• Shen Lian annihilated Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other Spirit Hall Title Douluo with the Divine Power of Destruction.
• Shen Lian ordered the Soul Engineer Legion to attack everyone in Spirit City, and its cannons and soldiers slaughtered the city's inhabitants and defenders.
• Shen Lian destroyed the Pope Palace and Worship Hall with the Dragon-Slaying Blade.
• Qian Daoliu watched Spirit City fall from a nearby mountain, then turned to Qian Renxue and her glowing Angel God Mark.

After Spirit City fell, Qian Renxue resolved to pursue the Angel God Trial while Shen Lian prepared to destroy the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. The Clear Sky Sect and its allies braced for an attack, unaware that Shen Lian’s forces were approaching.

• Qian Daoliu urged Qian Renxue to focus on passing the Angel God Trial, and she set aside her grief to continue toward godhood.
• Shen Lian ordered Xu Peng to reinforce the Star Luo border and break through the empire’s defenses within three months.
• Shen Lian invited Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan to settle their grudge with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Shen Lian led ten thousand members of the Sun-Moon Royal Soul Master Legion and the Breaking Clan toward the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yu Yuanzhen brought the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect to the Clear Sky Sect’s mountain stronghold, where both sects strengthened their defenses against the expected attack.

God King of Asura persuaded Rakshasa God to pass her divine position to Tang San, promising she could leave the God Realm. Rakshasa God accepted and observed Tang San at the Clear Sky Sect, where he was preparing defenses.

• Rakshasa God wondered why Bibi Dong’s God Trial continued after her death and suspected someone had interfered.
• God King of Asura revealed that he had kept the Rakshasa God Trial going and proposed that Tang San inherit both divine positions.
• God King of Asura argued that dual inheritance would strengthen Tang San and allow Rakshasa God to leave the God Realm.
• Rakshasa God agreed to pass her divine position to Tang San, trusting God King of Asura’s promise.
• Rakshasa God examined Tang San on a water mirror and noted his age, cultivation, and work reinforcing the Clear Sky Sect’s defenses.

Shen Lian ordered his army to use soul guidance cannons to blast away the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s mountain defenses. As the bombardment devastated the peaks, Tang San and Yu Yuanzhen prepared to ambush Shen Lian and his army with hidden weapons.

• The Rakshasa God watched Shen Lian attack the Clear Sky Sect but dismissed the projection, leaving Tang San’s fate to the God of Asura.
• Shen Lian rejected a direct mountain assault and ordered the army to flatten the mountains with soul guidance cannons, while Ning Fengzhi sent resources to support the campaign.
• Shen Lian’s cannons battered the peaks and destroyed much of the defenders’ fortifications, frightening the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect disciples.
• Tang San gave Yu Yuanzhen the Peacock Plume and planned to sneak down the mountain with him to ambush Shen Lian or attack the army.
• Tang San and Yu Yuanzhen crept toward the mountain’s base under cover of smoke as Shen Lian watched the bombardment, unaware of their approach.

Tang San and Yu Yuanzhen tried to ambush Shen Lian and disable the Soul Guidance Cannons as Shen Lian’s forces devastated the mountain and slaughtered or captured its defenders. Shen Lian stopped and reflected their hidden weapons, forcing the two attackers to dodge the explosion of Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus.

• Tang San and Yu Yuanzhen hid beside the army and waited for an opening to attack Shen Lian and the Soul Engineer Legion.
• Shen Lian ordered the cannons to fire faster, then used the Destruction God Staff to blast the mountain in half.
• Yang Wudi led the Breaking Clan in killing surviving Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect disciples and capturing Clear Sky Sect disciples.
• Tang San and Yu Yuanzhen decided to strike, launching their hidden weapons at Shen Lian and the Soul Engineer Legion.
• Shen Lian froze and repelled the hidden weapons, and Yu Yuanzhen pulled Tang San aside before Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus exploded in their hiding place.

Shen Lian destroyed the Clear Sky Clan and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect after Asura God rescued Tang San, then ordered the army to advance on the Star Luo Empire. At Star Luo City, Dai Hao faced the Sun-Moon Empire’s overwhelming forces and feared the city would fall to their Soul Guidance Cannons.

• Shen Lian killed Yu Yuanzhen with Destructive Dragon Breath, but Asura God used scarlet divine power to take Tang San away.
• After Shen Lian ordered an advance, the Soul Engineer Legion bombarded the Clear Sky Clan, while the Breaking Clan captured surviving disciples and crippled their Soul Power.
• Shen Lian ordered his army to clean the battlefield and march toward the Star Luo Empire.
• The Sun-Moon Empire’s army surrounded Star Luo City after conquering half the Star Luo Empire and annihilating the Heaven Dou Empire, Spirit Hall, the Clear Sky Clan, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
• Dai Hao learned that the enemy was setting up Soul Guidance Cannons and doubted that Star Luo City’s walls could withstand the attack.

Dai Hao struggled to decide how to defend Star Luo City as the Sun-Moon Empire’s army surrounded it with Soul Guidance Cannons. Shen Lian arrived and ordered an overwhelming barrage, leaving the city’s defenses on the verge of collapse.

• Dai Hao faced pressure from his generals to choose between surrender and resistance while the Sun-Moon Empire’s army waited outside Star Luo City.
• Dai Hao ordered the city gates sealed and secretly asked Zhu Lingtian to send members of the Dai and Zhu Clans out of the city to preserve their bloodlines.
• Shen Lian arrived with ten thousand Soul Engineers, and the Sun-Moon Empire’s army expanded its cannon array toward Star Luo City.
• Dai Hao ordered the city’s soldiers to form ranks and activate their defenses when Shen Lian took command.
• Shen Lian ordered eighty thousand Soul Guidance Cannons to fire, and the barrage battered Star Luo City’s defensive barrier.