Chapter Summaries

Dai Hao ordered the Star Luo Empire’s soldiers to charge out and fight at close range rather than die under the Sun-Moon Empire’s bombardment. Shen Lian’s cannons and disciplined infantry devastated the charge, leaving Dai Hao to watch the Star Luo Empire’s remaining strength collapse.

• Dai Hao ordered the city gates opened and sent eight hundred thousand Star Luo soldiers charging toward the Sun-Moon Empire’s army.
• Shen Lian redirected the eighty thousand Soul Guidance Cannons toward the charging troops and ordered them to fire in unison.
• The cannon barrage reduced the Star Luo force to fewer than four hundred thousand before the survivors reached the enemy formation.
• Shen Lian ordered three hundred thousand Sun-Moon infantrymen to advance, and their coordinated ranks slaughtered the Star Luo soldiers.
• Dai Hao watched his gamble fail as the Star Luo soldiers dwindled through hours of fighting and the Sun-Moon Empire’s formation held.

After the Sun-Moon Empire defeated Star Luo’s army at the cost of tens of thousands of soldiers, Shen Lian ordered Star Luo City bombarded without regard for civilians. Dai Hao survived the attack and opened three gates for people to flee while gathering those willing to defend the city; Zhu Lingtian then approached him.

• Dai Hao tried to join the battle, but his generals restrained him as the Star Luo army was wiped out and the Sun-Moon Empire suffered heavy casualties.
• Shen Lian ordered the Soul Engineer Legion to bombard all of Star Luo City, including civilian areas, to avenge his fallen soldiers.
• The bombardment destroyed parts of the city and wounded Dai Hao, who fainted while hearing civilians cry out.
• After waking, Dai Hao ordered three gates opened so civilians could escape and called those who stayed to gather at the main gate.
• Zhu Lingtian approached Dai Hao amid the ruined city.

Dai Hao and Zhu Lingtian chose to defend Star Luo City alongside their wives, leading soldiers and civilians in a final charge against Shen Lian’s army. Shen Lian defeated them and prepared to kill the four, while Zhu Lingtian recognized him as the young man Zhu Zhuqing had left with years earlier.

• Dai Hao and Zhu Lingtian decided to stay and die defending Star Luo City, and the Star Luo Empress and Madam Zhu joined them.
• Dai Hao and the Empress, then Zhu Lingtian and his wife, summoned Hell White Tigers and led Star Luo’s soldiers and civilians into a charge.
• Shen Lian ordered the Soul Engineer Legion to bombard the charging forces, then attacked the two Hell White Tigers with three Title Douluo.
• The attacks shattered both Martial Soul Fusion Skills, leaving the four leaders gravely wounded but standing together.
• Shen Lian launched a sphere of divine power at the four, and Zhu Lingtian recognized him as the young man Zhu Zhuqing had left with years ago.

Shen Lian destroyed Star Luo City, brought the former empires’ territories under Sun-Moon Empire rule, and set a trap to draw resistance forces into the open. As those forces headed for a canyon near Spirit City to claim supposedly captured Soul Guidance Cannons, Shen Lian waited with his troops to ambush them.

• Shen Lian killed Dai Hao, the Star Luo Empress, Zhu Lingtian, and Madam Zhu with an attack that left only their bloodstained clothes behind.
• Shen Lian used Destruction Storm to wipe out Star Luo City’s charging soldiers and civilians, then the Sun-Moon Empire took control of Star Luo territory.
• Three kingdoms and a duchy submitted to Shen Lian, while he sent Xu Peng with 150,000 troops to conquer the defiant Balak Kingdom and eliminate its royalty and nobility.
• Shen Lian arranged for a mysterious resistance force to recruit former nobles and clans by promising them Soul Guidance Cannons, then announced that captured cannons were stored in a canyon outside Spirit City.
• Resistance forces sent their elite personnel toward the canyon, where Shen Lian’s Soul Engineer Legion lay in wait with Heavy Soul Guidance Cannons.

Shen Lian discovered that the Ninth Trial remained incomplete because the Far North and scattered small continents overseas were not yet under his rule, so he prepared to conquer them. A week later, he gathered familiar companions at the Imperial Palace in the City of Light.

• Xu Peng lured more than ten thousand Soul Masters into Black Wind Grand Canyon and had them killed with arrows and Soul Guidance Cannons.
• Shen Lian ordered Xu Peng to wipe out the families and forces connected to the people killed in the canyon.
• Shen Lian realized the Ninth Trial required him to unify the Far North and the small continents at sea, and decided to go to the Far North alone to make Snow Empress submit.
• Shen Lian studied an ancient book about the Far North and prepared to set out after dealing with his other affairs.
• A week later, Shen Lian stood in the City of Light’s Imperial Palace square with Zhu Zhuqing, Liu Yuxi, Ning Rongrong, and Xu Chengye, whom he had brought to Douluo Continent with a spatial Soul Skill.

Shen Lian left his family and companions in charge of the Douluo Continent and traveled to the Far North to demand the Snow Empress and her territory submit to him. The Snow Empress faced him at the Ice God Palace, where the Ice Empress arrived and vowed to drive him away.

• Shen Lian entrusted Xu Ningtian and his parents with keeping the Douluo Continent stable while Zhu Zhuqing and Liu Yuxi continued their God Trials.
• Shen Lian flew to the Far North, and the Ice Empress sensed his powerful aura heading toward the Snow Empress Ice Palace.
• The Ice Empress rushed to the palace, fearing for Xue'er, while Shen Lian continued toward the Far North's center.
• The Snow Empress emerged from the Ice God Palace, and Shen Lian demanded that she and the Far North submit to him.
• The Ice Empress arrived in human form and challenged Shen Lian, declaring that the Far North followed only the Ice God.

Shen Lian revealed his overwhelming power and demanded that Snow Empress and Ice Empress submit to him. The Empresses refused to abandon their faith in the Ice God, and Shen Lian unleashed his full-strength Dragon Breath against them.

• Shen Lian transformed into the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon and displayed nine powerful Spirit Rings, freezing the wind and snow with his aura.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress gathered their strength and prepared to fight Shen Lian.
• Shen Lian used his seventh spirit skill, Martial Soul Avatar, and filled the sky with a colossal dragon phantom.
• Snow Empress recognized divine power in Shen Lian and asked whether he was a god-position inheritor.
• Snow Empress refused to submit, declaring that the Far North worshipped only the Ice God, and Ice Empress stood with her.
• Shen Lian fired his full-strength Dragon Breath as Snow Empress raised an ice barrier and Ice Empress formed a net of emerald spikes to resist it.

Shen Lian nearly defeated Snow Empress and Ice Empress, but the Ice God’s phantom intervened and urged them to submit to Shen Lian. The Ice God revealed why he had withheld his inheritance, and Shen Lian promised to protect Snow Empress if she accepted his authority.

• The Ice Heart shielded Snow Empress and Ice Empress from Shen Lian’s Dragon Breath and summoned the Ice God’s phantom.
• The Ice God offered to have the Far North submit to Shen Lian in exchange for sparing Snow Empress and Ice Empress, but they initially resisted.
• The Ice God told Snow Empress that she had long been qualified to inherit his godhood, but he had kept her from it to protect her from Asura God.
• The Ice God explained that Shen Lian’s standing as the inheritor of the God King of Destruction could help Snow Empress safely become a god.
• Shen Lian promised that if the Far North behaved itself, he would protect Snow Empress and ensure no one in the God Realm could harm her as long as she posed no threat.

Shen Lian secured the Far North’s submission and the Snow Empress accepted the Ice God’s inheritance before leaving with him. They returned to the City of Light, where Liu Yuxi and Zhu Zhuqing greeted Shen Lian and grew jealous of his new companion.

• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress agreed to submit the Far North to Shen Lian, who let them remain its rulers under his authority.
• The Ice God’s phantom merged into the Ice God Heart, and Shen Lian asked the Snow Empress and Ice Empress to show him around the Far North.
• The Snow Empress received the Ice God’s inheritance, transformed her Soul Power into divine power, and chose to stay by Shen Lian’s side.
• The Snow Empress left the Ice Empress in charge of protecting the Far North, then traveled with Shen Lian toward the City of Light.
• Shen Lian returned to his residence, where Liu Yuxi and Zhu Zhuqing welcomed him and squeezed his waist after noticing the Snow Empress.

After returning to the City of Light with the Snow Empress, Shen Lian spent a peaceful week with his family and companions before setting out to complete the Ninth Trial. His friends insisted on joining him, and the group sailed together toward the scattered sea continents.

• Shen Lian introduced the Snow Empress to Liu Yuxi and Zhu Zhuqing and explained her origins and alliance with him.
• Shen Lian spent a week with Liu Yuxi, Zhu Zhuqing, and his family in the City of Light.
• Shen Lian found Liu Yuxi, Zhu Zhuqing, Xu Chengye, Ning Rongrong, and the Snow Empress waiting to join his voyage.
• Xu Chengye argued that the group was prepared to face the dangers at sea, and Shen Lian agreed to let them come.
• Shen Lian and his companions boarded Xu Chengye's Soul Guidance Warship and sailed toward the small continents across the sea.

After more than ten days at sea, Shen Lian and his companions encountered a suspicious merchant ship and discovered pirates hiding aboard it and a nearby cargo ship. Shen Lian realized the pirates had seized the merchant vessel and were holding wounded women captive, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• After Xu Chengye spotted a merchant ship, Shen Lian approached it with the group to ask for directions and supplies.
• Snow Empress warned Shen Lian that the ship seemed suspicious, and he found its deck empty despite detecting Soul Power inside the cabin and beneath the cargo tarp.
• When the hidden people refused to come out, Shen Lian and Xu Chengye fired two Soul Guidance Cannons at the cargo ship.
• The blasts exposed people hiding beneath the tarp, and several jumped into the sea as the damaged cargo ship began to sink.
• The merchant ship's cabin opened, revealing a scarred pirate leader and wounded, frightened women; Shen Lian realized the pirates had captured the ship and its passengers.

Shen Lian let Xu Chengye, Zhu Zhuqing, Liu Yuxi, and Ning Rongrong fight Hai Dongqing and his pirates so they could gain combat experience. The four gained the upper hand, but Hai Dongqing attacked Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing intercepted his strike, leaving both of them hurt as the battle continued.

• Hai Dongqing threatened Shen Lian's group and demanded that the women be handed over, but his greed grew when he saw them.
• Shen Lian told Xu Chengye, Zhu Zhuqing, Liu Yuxi, and Ning Rongrong to fight the pirates while he and Snow Empress watched.
• The four worked together with attacks, healing, and enhancements, gradually overwhelming the pirates.
• Hai Dongqing tried to seize Ning Rongrong, but Zhu Zhuqing moved in front of her and revealed her level seventy-nine strength and Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.
• Zhu Zhuqing dodged Hai Dongqing's slash with Hell Shadow Clone and counterattacked, but his return strike wounded her while numbing his arm.

Hai Dongqing transformed and unleashed a powerful attack against Shen Lian and the others, but Xu Chengye’s Blazing Sun Fire overwhelmed his water-based technique. With Liu Yuxi and Ning Rongrong supporting them, Xu Chengye and Zhu Zhuqing pressed their attack, leaving Hai Dongqing exposed to Zhu Zhuqing’s strike.

• Hai Dongqing sent his remaining pirates retreating and activated his Martial Soul Avatar to unleash Raging Wave Slash at Shen Lian and the others.
• Liu Yuxi healed Zhu Zhuqing and Xu Chengye while Ning Rongrong boosted their strength, speed, and Soul Power.
• Xu Chengye summoned his Blazing Sun and used its fire to vaporize Hai Dongqing’s water blade.
• Xu Chengye attacked Hai Dongqing with Fire Crows and Heaven Burner, breaking through his defenses and setting his sleeve ablaze.
• Zhu Zhuqing concealed herself in the shadows, activated Hell Avatar, and clawed toward the Soul Core on Hai Dongqing’s back.

Xu Chengye and Zhu Zhuqing fought Hai Dongqing, who sacrificed his life force to the sea and gained enough power to turn the battle against them. Ning Rongrong and Liu Yuxi exploited his overconfidence to strike him down, and Shen Lian comforted Liu Yuxi afterward.

• Xu Chengye and Zhu Zhuqing wounded Hai Dongqing, while Shen Lian and Snow Empress's overwhelming presence made him realize he was cornered.
• Hai Dongqing used the forbidden soul skill Ocean Sacrifice, drawing power from the sea and forcing Xu Chengye and Zhu Zhuqing onto the defensive.
• Ning Rongrong fired nine colored arrows into Hai Dongqing's exposed back as Liu Yuxi pierced him with a Blade of Life that drained his power.
• Hai Dongqing's Ocean Sacrifice collapsed, and he fell dead on the ship's deck.
• Shen Lian drew Liu Yuxi into his arms and told her there was no need to show mercy to villains like Hai Dongqing.

After defeating Hai Dongqing, Shen Lian saved the captive women from the surviving pirates and agreed to take them to the pirates’ lair. Before the group could leave, a powerful Soul Beast began awakening beneath the sea.

• As Hai Dongqing died, he threw his blade at a calm patch of sea, triggering a massive eruption that left Shen Lian suspicious.
• A pirate leader and the surviving pirates seized the captive women as hostages, but Shen Lian knocked them unconscious with Soul Power.
• The women took revenge on the unconscious pirates, while Shen Lian spared one and offered the women a choice to stay or join the trip to the lair.
• The women chose to go with Shen Lian and see the pirates’ lair destroyed, and Shen Lian prepared the group to set out.
• Shen Lian sensed powerful Soul Power awakening underwater, and Liu Yuxi identified an extremely powerful Soul Beast beneath the ship.

Shen Lian faced the Deep Sea Demonic Whale Emperor, the Demon Empress and mate of the whale king he had killed, after she attacked the merchant ship seeking revenge. As she unleashed a vortex and water arrows, Shen Lian drew the Dragon-Slaying Blade and launched his Whale Swallowing Nine-Fold Slash at her.

• Shen Lian realized Hai Dongqing had provoked the Deep Sea Demonic Whale Emperor before his death to turn her against him.
• Snow Empress recognized the Demon Empress and warned her to leave, while the whale revealed her hatred for Shen Lian as the killer of her mate.
• The Demon Empress attacked the merchant ship with crushing water pressure and a water dragon, but Shen Lian shattered the dragon.
• The Demon Empress formed a vortex that dragged the ship toward its center and fired a barrage of water arrows as Snow Empress tried to protect the vessel.
• Shen Lian pulled Snow Empress behind him, drew the Dragon-Slaying Blade, and unleashed Whale Swallowing Nine-Fold Slash at the Demon Empress.

Shen Lian defeated the Demon Empress and trapped her alive, intending to make her Zhu Zhuqing’s eighth Spirit Ring after Zhuqing broke through. Bo Saixi arrived with Sea God Island’s Title Douluo to capture the Demon Empress, and Shen Lian told her to leave the matter to him.

• The Demon Empress attacked Shen Lian, but his Whale Swallowing Nine-Fold Slash shattered her defenses and left her gravely wounded.
• Shen Lian noticed Zhu Zhuqing nearing a breakthrough to level eighty, spared the Demon Empress, and sealed her in a Soul Power cage for Zhuqing’s Spirit Ring.
• Ning Rongrong boosted Zhu Zhuqing, Liu Yuxi protected her, and Xu Chengye guarded the surroundings as they waited for the breakthrough.
• Shen Lian sensed several Title Douluo approaching and saw Bo Saixi arrive aboard the merchant ship with Sea God Island’s experts.
• Bo Saixi said they had come to capture the Demon Empress, and Shen Lian told her he planned to make the Demon Empress Zhu Zhuqing’s Spirit Ring.

Zhu Zhuqing completed her breakthrough to Soul Douluo and absorbed the six-hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Demonic Whale Emperor as her eighth Spirit Ring. The Law of Darkness subdued the beast’s remnant soul, and Zhu Zhuqing emerged with stronger abilities combining darkness and water.

• Bo Saixi agreed not to interfere with Shen Lian’s arrangements, and Zhu Zhuqing finished her breakthrough to Soul Douluo.
• Shen Lian examined Zhu Zhuqing’s foundation and encouraged her to claim the Deep Sea Demonic Whale Emperor as her eighth Spirit Ring.
• Zhu Zhuqing killed the trapped Deep Sea Demonic Whale Emperor by striking its neck wound, and its six-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring appeared.
• Zhu Zhuqing began absorbing the Spirit Ring, but the Demon Empress’s remnant soul caused her pain until the Law of Darkness subdued it.
• Zhu Zhuqing completed the absorption and found that her darkness power had gained water-element flexibility, improving her speed and explosive force.

After Zhu Zhuqing gained her eighth soul skill, Shen Lian set out to destroy the pirates’ lair at Black Reef Bay, with Bo Saixi joining him and the rescued women following aboard a merchant ship. The ships reached the reef landmark after three days, leaving them poised to approach the lair.

• Zhu Zhuqing tested her new eighth soul skill, Nether Whale Surge, and Shen Lian refused Bo Saixi’s invitation to Sea God Island.
• Bo Saixi insisted on accompanying Shen Lian to the pirates’ lair, and he agreed to let her join.
• Xu Chengye threatened a captured pirate until he revealed that more than a hundred pirates and stolen goods were hidden in a sea cave at Black Reef Bay.
• Ning Rongrong marked Black Reef Bay on a sea chart, and Shen Lian’s group set sail with the rescued women aboard the merchant ship.
• Shen Lian slowed the warship to let the merchant ship keep up, and after three days they spotted the three reefs marking Black Reef Bay.

Shen Lian and his companions reached the pirates’ hideout at Black Reef Bay, where the rescued women took revenge after he pinned the pirates down with his Soul Power. After the women thanked him, Shen Lian asked one of them to lead him to Hai Dongqing’s chamber, hoping to find clues about Pirate Continent.

• Shen Lian confirmed that about a hundred pirates were gathered in a cave at Black Reef Bay and Xu Chengye threw their captured informant into the sea after breaking his limbs.
• Shen Lian used his Soul Power to pin the pirates down as Xu Chengye brought the warship and merchant ship to the cave.
• The rescued women from the merchant ship and the captive women attacked and killed the helpless pirates.
• The women thanked Shen Lian, who asked one of them about Hai Dongqing’s room.
• The woman pointed out Hai Dongqing’s chamber, and Shen Lian headed toward it to search for clues about Pirate Continent.