Chapter Summaries

Tai Yi met Wang Xing, a Soul Saint from the embattled Starlight Empire, and learned that the empire was nearing defeat after years of war with the Azure Ashes Empire. Wang Xing mistook Tai Yi’s fleet for reinforcements, while Tai Yi left him believing they had come to end the war.

• Wang Xing approached Tai Yi’s fleet and asked to meet an elder from Sea God Island, believing High Priest Bo Saixi had sent aid.
• Tai Yi pressed Wang Xing with his Soul Power, then confirmed that they had come to help end the war without explaining what that meant.
• Wang Xing reported that the Azure Ashes Empire had taken two-thirds of Starlight territory, leaving only two provinces, while the Sun Moon Empire remained uninvolved.
• Wang Xing described the empires’ forces and said Starlight had lost its empress and most of its army, while Emperor Huo Yan and all five Azure Ashes Titled Douluo remained unharmed.

Tai Yi revealed that he had brought the Spirit Hall Empire to conquer the continent, not to help Sea God Island repel the Azure Ashes Empire. He demanded Wang Xing’s submission and left the fate of Star Sea City in his hands as the invasion force disembarked.

• Wang Xing realized that Tai Yi’s force looked like an invading army and feared it intended to unite the continent under its own rule.
• Tai Yi identified himself as the Pope and ruler of the Spirit Hall Empire, explained that he had come to unite the continent, and offered to spare Wang Xing if he submitted.
• Tai Yi warned Wang Xing that his choice would affect his family, daughter, and the fate of Star Sea City, while Pufferfish and Snake Lance watched him.
• More than two hundred ships docked, and Tai Yi’s forces disembarked at Star Sea City as its scattered defenders watched in fear.
• Wang Xing asked what submission would mean for him and the city’s people, and Tai Yi promised to spare civilians while threatening to eliminate anyone who resisted.

Wang Xing tried to surrender Star Sea City to Tai Yi, but Chen Ling seized control of the gates and rallied the defenders to resist. Tai Yi’s forces stormed the walls, leaving the city’s remaining defenders facing execution.

• Wang Xing ordered Star Sea City’s gates opened, but Chen Ling and his men killed the gate operators and shut them again.
• Chen Ling accused Wang Xing of betraying the Starlight Empire and declared that he would resist Tai Yi’s forces.
• Tai Yi gave the defenders three minutes to leave the walls and threatened to execute those who remained and their immediate families.
• Half the soldiers abandoned the walls after Wang Xing urged them to think of their families, and Chen Ling shot an arrow at Wang Xing.
• Tai Yi deflected the arrow and ordered his forces to kill the remaining defenders and anyone who resisted inside the city.
• Ning Fengzhi and the other powerful Soul Masters attacked the walls, killing the soldiers and accidentally killing Chen Ling with a Soul Skill.

Tai Yi took control of Star Sea City and ordered Wang Xing to purge the families of the rebels while Angel Legion soldiers secured the city. He then announced that the forces would split up to conquer the Starlight Empire, leaving the commanders eager to win posts and accumulate merit.

• Tai Yi stopped Wang Xing from seeking death by warning that further attempts would cause the city’s people to be branded rebels.
• After Chen Ling’s soldiers were wiped out, Tai Yi entered Star Sea City and accepted the surrender of the remaining troops.
• Tai Yi ordered Wang Xing to eliminate the rebels’ direct relatives and gave Snake Lance Douluo, Pufferfish Douluo, and the Angel Legion responsibility for securing Star Sea City.
• Tai Yi promised Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo an Immortal Herb for guarding the port and its ships, then sent them to remain in the city.
• Tai Yi announced that his forces would divide into groups to conquer the Starlight Empire, prompting Ning Fengzhi, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei to seek chances to gain command and merit.

Tai Yi divided his forces into four teams to attack in different directions and eliminate Evil Soul Masters, while he set out alone to investigate the Sun Moon Empire and recruit a powerful Soul Beast. He reached the tense border between the Azure Ashes Empire and the Sun Moon Empire, where both sides guarded against a sudden attack.

• Tai Yi assigned Qian Renxue, Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Ning Fengzhi separate forces to attack north, east, and west, while he planned to travel alone.
• Tai Yi told Qian Renxue he would investigate Bright Capital and seek the nearly 800,000-year-old Soul Beast, then flew northwest from Star Sea City.
• Tai Yi saw Wang Xing, Snake Lance Douluo, and Pufferfish Douluo overseeing the slaughter of nobles and soul master clans that refused to submit.
• Tai Yi flew through occupied former Starlight Empire territory and observed that the Azure Ashes Empire let commoners live as before and monitored nobles who submitted.
• Tai Yi reached the border between the Azure Ashes Empire and the Sun Moon Empire, where both empires kept troops on guard despite their superficial cooperation.

Tai Yi crossed into the Sun Moon Empire and approached Bright Capital, where heavy security confirmed his suspicion that the city was researching Soul Tools. Kong Yueming confronted him and attacked with a Level Nine Soul Tool spear, while Tai Yi calmly chose to test it by blocking the strike with his bare hand.

• Tai Yi ignored the armies guarding the border and flew into the Sun Moon Empire.
• Tai Yi noticed the unusually heavy security around Bright Capital and suspected the city was hiding Soul Tool research.
• Kong Yueming confronted Tai Yi above Bright Capital and demanded that he leave.
• Tai Yi released an aura comparable to an ordinary Peerless Douluo, prompting Kong Yueming to reveal his spear Soul Tool.
• Kong Yueming fired the Level Nine Soul Tool spear at Tai Yi, who raised his hand to block it.

Tai Yi tested Kong Yueming’s Level Nine Soul Tools and easily overwhelmed his attacks, while Kong Yueming tried to lure him away from Bright Capital. Tai Yi realized Kong Yueming intended to use Soul Cannons and deliberately followed him toward a barren mountain to see their power.

• Kong Yueming’s Level Nine Soul Tools failed to harm Tai Yi, who blocked them without summoning his Martial Soul.
• Tai Yi attacked Kong Yueming, forcing him back despite the protection of a defensive Soul Tool.
• Kong Yueming considered calling Xu Tian for help, then decided to use the Level Nine Soul Cannons rather than save them for a future war.
• Kong Yueming enhanced himself with Bright Moon Over the Sea and tried to draw Tai Yi toward a barren mountain outside Bright Capital.
• Tai Yi recognized Kong Yueming’s plan to fire the Soul Cannons and deliberately followed him toward the mountain.

Tai Yi tested Bright Capital’s Ninth-Level Soul Cannons and revealed his overwhelming strength to Kong Yueming. Before killing Kong Yueming, he disclosed that he came from a continent across the sea and that his empire had begun occupying this continent.

• Kong Yueming lured Tai Yi to the barren mountains outside Bright Capital and restrained him to expose him to the city’s Soul Cannons.
• Tai Yi shielded himself with the Donghuang Bell’s Martial Soul Avatar and endured three Ninth-Level Soul Cannon shots without injury.
• Tai Yi broke the restraining Soul Tool and approached Kong Yueming, who was horrified by his nine golden-patterned, hundred-thousand-year Spirit Rings.
• Kong Yueming asked about Tai Yi’s origins, and Tai Yi said he ruled a continent across the sea whose empire had landed through the Starlight Empire and begun occupying the continent.
• Tai Yi prepared to kill Kong Yueming, who was left stunned by the revelation of another continent and its powerful people.

Tai Yi killed Kong Yueming and defeated Emperor Xu Tian’s Level Nine Soul Tool, forcing Xu Tian to confront him to protect Bright Capital and its people. Tai Yi summoned Di Tian and the others to capture Xu Chenghuang and seal off the city, leaving Bright Capital in panic.

• Tai Yi ignored Emperor Xu Tian’s warning and killed the already wounded Kong Yueming.
• Xu Tian attacked Tai Yi with his Level Nine Soul Tool, but the Donghuang Bell cracked his weapon and knocked him back.
• Xu Tian chose to fight rather than flee and ordered his son, Xu Chenghuang, to take the research results and escape.
• Tai Yi summoned Demon King, Di Tian, Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and five others, then ordered them to capture Xu Chenghuang and surround Bright Capital.
• Di Tian and the others captured Xu Chenghuang and guarded the city as their unleashed auras sent Bright Capital into panic.

Tai Yi captured Bright Capital and declared that the Spirit Hall Empire would unify the continent and purge its Evil Soul Masters. He rejected Xu Tian’s request to spare an infant from his bloodline and demanded answers about the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tool research.

• After Crown Prince Xu Chenghuang was captured and Bright Capital sealed, Xu Tian gave up fighting and asked Tai Yi to spare the city’s people.
• Tai Yi told the people of Bright Capital that he ruled the Spirit Hall Empire across the sea and had come to unify the continent and eliminate Evil Soul Masters.
• Civilians and low-ranked Soul Engineers stopped fleeing when they heard Tai Yi promise to purge the Evil Soul Masters.
• Tai Yi questioned Xu Tian about the origins and progress of the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tool methods and its Level Nine Soul Tools.
• Xu Tian agreed to answer only if Tai Yi left a trace of his bloodline, but Tai Yi refused and said he could obtain the empire’s records after occupying Bright Capital.

Xu Tian bargained with Tai Yi to preserve a descendant of his family, offering information about a Divine Position in return. Tai Yi agreed to spare a granddaughter after the God of Destruction revealed that the position belonged to a loyal subordinate and asked him to protect its hereditary line.

• Xu Tian asked Tai Yi to preserve his bloodline, but Tai Yi initially refused and threatened to question his son instead.
• Xu Tian offered information about a Divine Position if Tai Yi spared one descendant, explaining that only someone with the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul could inherit it.
• Tai Yi displayed his two Martial Souls and eighteen Spirit Rings, then agreed to spare a granddaughter but not a grandson.
• Xu Tian believed the surviving descendant could eventually awaken the hereditary Martial Soul and restore the Xu Family’s influence through the Purple Brilliant God’s inheritance.
• The God of Destruction told Tai Yi that the Divine Position belonged to the loyal Second-Level God Purple Brilliant God and asked him to preserve the family line.
• Tai Yi agreed to leave a descendant, and the God of Destruction promised to ensure that the descendant could awaken only the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul and become Tai Yi’s ally upon becoming the new Purple Brilliant God.

The God King of Destruction explained that Purple Brilliant had died saving the God Kings after being deceived by the Dragon God, and asked Tai Yi to recover its surviving origin and divine position. Tai Yi spared one of Xu Tian’s granddaughters in exchange for answers, learning how the Sun Moon Empire acquired soul-tool technology and where the inheritance site was hidden.

• The God King of Destruction told Tai Yi how he had taken in Purple Brilliant, who later died blocking the Dragon God’s prepared attack on the five God Kings.
• The God King of Destruction asked Tai Yi to seek Purple Brilliant’s remaining origin and divine position so they could be restored and inherited.
• Tai Yi agreed to spare one of Xu Tian’s granddaughters and asked about the Sun Moon Empire’s soul tools and the place of divine position inheritance.
• Xu Tian explained that he had found ancient Storage Soul Tools containing manufacturing methods and Level Nine weapons, which the empire had used to develop soul tools for its army.
• Xu Tian revealed that the inheritance site was beneath the Hall of Ancestral Offerings in the imperial palace, accessed by turning the incense burner.

Tai Yi forced Xu Tian to lead him to the Divine Position Inheritance site beneath the Hall of Ancestral Offerings, while keeping Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang under guard. Xu Tian revealed the Sun Moon Empire’s pact with a fallen god, and the group reached the purple stone door to the inheritance site.

• Tai Yi took Xu Tian’s Storage Ring, placed Soul Power inside his body, and brought him toward the Hall of Ancestral Offerings with Xu Chenghuang and Bi Ji.
• Tai Yi ordered Bi Ji to seal the palace so no one could escape, then made Xu Tian point out the hidden hall.
• Tai Yi killed two palace maids in the hall, and Xu Tian opened a passage beneath the altar.
• Xu Tian told Xu Chenghuang that their family had inherited the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul through a pact with a fallen god, and that Xu Chenghuang had once been the strongest candidate for the Divine Position.
• Tai Yi, Xu Tian, and Xu Chenghuang descended through the passage and arrived at a glowing purple stone door leading to the inheritance site.

Tai Yi found the Purple Brilliant God in the Xu Family’s place of inheritance and learned that the God King of Destruction could restore him. The God King reclaimed the essence from the Xu Family bloodline, leaving Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang weakened as Purple Brilliant prepared to recover.

• Tai Yi, Xu Tian, and Xu Chenghuang entered the inheritance cavern, where a dragon sculpture on the Sacrificial Altar awakened as the Purple Brilliant God.
• Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang begged the Purple Brilliant God to destroy Tai Yi, but the dragon instead asked whether Tai Yi was the God King of Destruction’s successor.
• Tai Yi explained that the God King of Destruction had forgiven Purple Brilliant and wanted to know whether any of his essence remained.
• Purple Brilliant revealed that his essence was nearly exhausted, and the God King of Destruction began restoring him with purple divine power.
• The God King of Destruction reclaimed the essence from the Xu Family bloodline, draining Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang and causing them to lose their Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul.
• The God King of Destruction told Tai Yi to have Purple Brilliant absorb the recovered essence so he could return to the Divine Realm and recover.

Tai Yi killed Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang after agreeing to preserve two unborn martial-soul heirs of the Xu Family. He seized their Soul Tools and a valuable Level 9 Soul Engineer’s diary, then left the inheritance grounds and sealed the passage.

• Purple Brilliant asked Tai Yi to spare some of the Xu Family’s bloodline, and Tai Yi agreed to leave one boy and one girl alive under his watch.
• Purple Brilliant absorbed his gathered essence while Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang faced their impending deaths.
• Tai Yi struck down Xu Tian and Xu Chenghuang, then took their Storage Soul Tools.
• Tai Yi found Xu Tian’s Level Nine Soul Tools, fixed-charge Soul Cannons, and the diary of a Level 9 Soul Engineer, which he kept for the Spirit Hall Empire to study.
• Tai Yi burned the unwanted items and the bodies, returned to the Hall of Ancestral Offerings, and closed the passage to the inheritance grounds.

Tai Yi took control of the palace and spared Xu Chengxin’s two infant children under a promise he had made to their father. He killed the remaining people gathered in the square and left Bi Ji to watch the fire while he went to the Soul Tool research institute.

• Bi Ji gathered the palace’s thousands of occupants in a square and killed those who tried to escape.
• Tai Yi identified Xu Chengxin and told her that her two infants would live because he had promised to spare two members of Xu Tian’s bloodline.
• Bi Ji took both children as Tai Yi ordered, and Xu Chengxin handed over her daughter after saying goodbye to them.
• Tai Yi rang the Donghuang Bell three times, killing everyone else in the square, then burned their bodies.
• Tai Yi told Bi Ji to watch the fire and keep the infants alive while he went elsewhere in Bright Capital.

Tai Yi attacked the Soul Tool Research Institute in Bright Capital, killing its guards, Soul Douluos, and nearly a thousand workers. He reached the underground center, where the continent’s leading Soul Tool researchers faced him with their weapons aimed.

• Tai Yi entered the Research Institute and defeated the soldiers guarding it.
• Tai Yi killed three hidden Soul Douluos with attacks infused with Sun True Fire.
• Tai Yi reached the Soul Tool workshops and used the Donghuang Bell to kill nearly a thousand researchers.
• Tai Yi broke through the Institute’s restrictions and entered its underground research center.
• Tai Yi told the specialists there that their Soul Tools could not harm him, leaving them uncertain how to respond.

Tai Yi forced the Soul Engineers at the research institute to choose between serving him and dying, then took control of their Soul Tool research. The twenty-five survivors agreed to work for him and began their first task of handing over the institute’s records and Soul Tools.

• Tai Yi offered to spare the Soul Engineers and their families if they taught his people and researched Soul Tools that benefited ordinary people under supervision.
• The Level Seven Soul Engineer urged the others to resist, then tried to destroy the research, but Tai Yi struck him down with the Donghuang Bell.
• After the Soul Douluo died, several Soul Engineers tried to wreck the research, but Tai Yi’s Donghuang Bell projection trapped and repelled them.
• Tai Yi killed everyone who tried to destroy the research and threatened to kill their families as well.
• The twenty-five remaining Soul Engineers agreed to serve Tai Yi, who ordered them to hand over every Soul Tool record and device in the institute.

Tai Yi left Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in charge of the Research Institute, assigning him to guard its twenty-five Soul Engineers and study Level Nine Soul Tools. After collecting the institute’s Soul Tools and research records, Tai Yi departed to deal with the people throughout the Bright Capital.

• Tai Yi summoned Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to the Research Institute and gave him two Level Nine Soul Tools to test.
• Tai Yi asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to guard the twenty-five Soul Engineers and study the Soul Tools, with the hope that he would become a Level 9 Soul Engineer.
• The Soul Engineers handed Tai Yi several thousand Soul Tools and the institute’s copied research records.
• Tai Yi recorded the Soul Engineers’ names, addresses, and household details, promising to protect their families during the Bright Capital purge.
• Tai Yi ordered the Soul Engineers to research Soul Tools for ordinary people and teach Tian Meng, then left the institute to deal with the Bright Capital.

Tai Yi seized Bright Capital for the Spirit Hall Empire and gave its residents half an hour to submit before he began a purge. He gathered the families of the twenty-five Soul Engineers at the central square, then sealed them inside a phantom of the Donghuang Bell as the deadline expired.

• Tai Yi learned from Di Tian and the Demon King that they had blocked most escapes from Bright Capital, then ordered them to begin purging the city.
• Tai Yi announced that the Sun Moon Empire's royal family was dead and offered residents half an hour to submit to the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Tai Yi, Di Tian, and the Demon King brought the families of the twenty-five Soul Engineers to the central square; one family that attacked Tai Yi was killed, while some others refused to leave their homes.
• When the deadline passed, Tai Yi declared that those who had not submitted had forfeited their chance, and formed a phantom of the Donghuang Bell around the people gathered in the square.