Chapter Summaries

Bai Chen established the Spirit Pagoda and recruited Xuan Ziwen, then news of Soul Spirits reached the four nations. In the Sun-Moon Empire, the emperor debated whether to cooperate with the Spirit Pagoda or destroy it, and the chapter ended with him unable to choose between Jing Hongchen and Zhongli Wu.

• Bai Chen assigned leadership of the Spirit Pagoda’s human and Soul Beast sides and laid out its Spirit Envoy positions.
• Bai Chen persuaded Xuan Ziwen to leave the academy and join him by offering rare metals and promising to raise his cultivation.
• Bai Chen officially announced the Spirit Pagoda’s founding, and news of Soul Spirits spread throughout the four nations.
• The Sun-Moon Emperor praised Xu Tianran for confirming that Soul Spirits were real and discussed gaining influence over the Spirit Pagoda with Jing Hongchen.
• Zhongli Wu opposed cooperation, revealed Bai Chen’s role in attacking his mother, and urged the emperor to destroy the Spirit Pagoda.
• The Sun-Moon Emperor weighed Jing Hongchen’s and Zhongli Wu’s arguments but could not decide whom to trust.

The Sun-Moon Emperor chose to wait another year before deciding whether to attack the Spirit Pagoda, but Kong Deming and Ye Xishui agreed that war had to begin soon after learning the Douluo Original Three Kingdoms possessed Humanoid Soul Guide Device technology. Meanwhile, Bai Chen arrived at Mingde Hall and reunited with Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Jing Hongchen.

• The Sun-Moon Emperor ended the argument by ordering everyone to wait another year and then disperse.
• Ye Xishui told Kong Deming the emperor had delayed action, and Kong Deming warned that the Battle Armor revealed the other kingdoms had mastered Humanoid Soul Guide Device technology.
• Kong Deming agreed to handle the emperor while Ye Xishui targeted Mingde Hall, and Ye Xishui announced she would also send people to attack Shrek to force Long Xiaoyao out of seclusion.
• Jing Hongchen told Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen that Bai Chen would arrive soon, while warning them to stay inside Mingde Hall for their safety.
• Jing Hongchen received word that Bai Chen had arrived, and Meng Hongchen rushed to greet him when he entered Mingde Hall.

Bai Chen rescued Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen from an assassination attempt, then emerged from Mingde Hall to find Jing Hongchen dying and the Holy Spirit Cult attacking. He struck Feng Ling and confronted Ye Xishui, leaving the battle unresolved as he prepared to defeat her.

• Bai Chen captured a rank-ninety-four evil soul master who revealed that Feng Ling and Ye Xishui were purging anyone who refused to cooperate with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Bai Chen sent Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and the captured assassin into the Undead Demi-Plane before breaking out of Mingde Hall.
• Bai Chen reached the battlefield and found Jing Hongchen unconscious and near death while Feng Ling and Ye Xishui overwhelmed the Sun-Moon Empire's soul engineers.
• Bai Chen used his domain to strengthen the surviving soul engineers, struck Feng Ling, and clashed with Ye Xishui.
• Bai Chen told the soul engineers to stall Feng Ling while he fought Ye Xishui.

Bai Chen defeated and destroyed Ye Xishui by exploiting her weakened state, his immunity to her Wraiths, and Bear Lord’s assistance. After killing her for good, he turned toward Feng Ling, who was overwhelming Mingde Hall’s Soul Engineers.

• Bai Chen struck Ye Xishui and confronted her after she unleashed her Blood Soul Method and sent Wraiths against him.
• Bai Chen’s Immaculate Golden Body nullified the Wraiths, and Bear Lord joined him to break Ye Xishui’s defenses.
• Bai Chen destroyed Ye Xishui’s Reaper Tower and multiple Blood Souls with Heaven-Rending Claw, while Bear Lord helped cover the remaining Blood Soul.
• Bai Chen interrupted Ye Xishui’s attempted self-destruction, killed her, and burned her body and soul to ashes.
• Bai Chen saw Feng Ling driving Mingde Hall’s Soul Engineers back and prepared to intervene.

Bai Chen killed Feng Ling after recovering from his fight with Ye Xishui, then tried to escape Mingdu with Mingde Hall’s Soul Engineers. Kong Deming and the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps blocked his path, leaving Bai Chen surrounded and facing a dangerous confrontation.

• Bai Chen used his Immaculate Golden Body to recover, struck Feng Ling, and sent the Soul Engineers through the gate to the Undead Demi-Plane.
• Bai Chen and Feng Ling fought with their Martial Soul Avatars, and Bai Chen endured her Evil Phoenix Sun before killing her with Terrorclaw.
• Bai Chen withdrew his Martial Soul Avatar and fled, reasoning that Ye Xishui and Feng Ling’s deaths would badly damage the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Kong Deming appeared before Bai Chen and stopped his escape, while the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps gathered overhead.
• Bai Chen accused Kong Deming of letting Feng Ling wear him down, and Kong Deming admitted he had seen Bai Chen send the researchers into the gray gate.

Bai Chen rejected Kong Deming’s offer to join the Sun-Moon Empire, then used a charged Heaven-Rending Claw to severely injure him. When all five Guardian Hands assembled and attacked, Bai Chen fled toward the outskirts of Mingdu, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Kong Deming admitted betraying the Holy Spirit Cult and offered Bai Chen support in exchange for his technologies, but Bai Chen refused to trust him.
• Kong Deming ordered the Linked Soul Devices to fire at Bai Chen, while Bai Chen waited for him to approach and unleashed a charged Heaven-Rending Claw.
• Kong Deming escaped the attack but was badly wounded, and the Fire Phoenix, Terrorclaw, Imperial Dragon, and Sun-Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Corps arrived.
• Kong Deming ordered the assembled forces to kill Bai Chen, who burst through the bombardment and fled toward the outskirts of Mingdu.
• Kong Deming realized his injuries left him unable to intercept Bai Chen and ordered the forces to stop him, while Bai Chen evaded the cannon fire.

After escaping Mingdu, Bai Chen saw Kong Deming blame the Spirit Pagoda for the destruction and install Xu Tianran as emperor. At Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, Bai Chen learned that Ye Yulin had taken control of Mingde Hall and proposed a dangerous metal absorption to help Xiao Hongchen grow stronger.

• Kong Deming ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to attack Spirit Pagoda branches after Bai Chen escaped the Guardian Hands.
• Kong Deming and Xu Tianran used the Mingdu Daily to blame Bai Chen for Jing Hongchen’s death and the damage in Mingdu, while Xu Tianran accepted the throne as a puppet emperor.
• Bai Chen told Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen that the Hongchen family’s factions had been wiped out and Ye Yulin had become the new master of Mingde Hall.
• Bai Chen warned the Hongchen siblings to stay within the Spirit Pagoda or by his side, since they might be targeted by the Sun-Moon Empire.
• Bai Chen offered Xiao Hongchen a chance to absorb Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, explaining that his odds of succeeding alone were less than one in ten and that an absent ally might help.

Bai Chen processed Ice Extreme Divine Crystal into an alternative Heavenly Forging metal and prepared risky cultivation methods for Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen. After Youyou purified the Ice Spring and Fire Spring for Meng Hongchen to absorb, Bai Chen rejected the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and explained why he believed it was counterfeit.

• Bai Chen used his Immaculate Golden Body to process Ice Extreme Divine Crystal into metal comparable to Heavenly Forging metal, and Xiao Hongchen agreed to risk absorbing it with the Snow Empress's help.
• Bai Chen brought Meng Hongchen to the Great Beast Land and asked Youyou to remove the toxins from the Ice Spring and Fire Spring so Meng Hongchen could absorb their energy.
• Youyou purified the spring water and warned Meng Hongchen that absorbing its opposing forces would cause extreme agony, but Meng Hongchen agreed to endure it.
• Youyou offered Meng Hongchen the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, but Bai Chen refused and told her that the herb's effects in Dou II appeared fake based on Huo Hao and Wang Dong'er.

Bai Chen went to Shrek Academy as Mu En neared death and sought Shrek’s support in the coming war. Mu En agreed to leave Shrek’s strength to Bai Chen if he promised to limit civilian casualties and avoid unifying the continent through war, and Bai Chen accepted.

• After arranging cultivation rooms for Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, Bai Chen learned that Mu En was dying and traveled to Shrek Academy.
• Qian Duoduo met Bai Chen at the entrance and told him Mu En was waiting in the Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En dismissed Shrek’s leaders and confirmed that Bai Chen had grown stronger and killed Ye Xishui.
• Bai Chen asked Mu En to persuade Long Xiaoyao to join them, but Mu En said he could not contact him.
• Mu En offered Shrek’s support if Bai Chen spared innocents and did not wage war merely to unify the continent.
• Bai Chen promised to minimize innocent casualties and avoid unifying the continent through war.

Bai Chen accepted Mu En’s request to judge the Sun-Moon Empire’s criminals, then witnessed Mu En’s death and inherited his final instructions to Shrek’s people. Afterward, Bai Chen brought Shrek’s top Soul Engineers to the Spirit Pagoda to help Xuan Ziwen develop light-energy storage technology.

• Bai Chen agreed to Mu En’s request, and Mu En said the promise left him able to die without regrets.
• Mu En instructed the Sea God Pavilion members to obey Bai Chen through the coming war and to advance their study of Soul Guidance and Soul Spirit technologies.
• Mu En drew on the Golden Tree’s Light Attribute to strengthen Bai Chen’s spiritual power, then merged his soul into the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Bai Chen asked Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin’er to bring Shrek’s finest Soul Engineers to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Bai Chen introduced the Soul Engineers to Xuan Ziwen, a Level-Nine Soul Engineer, and authorized him to reveal the confidential technology they would help research.

Bai Chen established New Mingde Hall to develop and popularize light-energy storage technology, then welcomed the Extreme North’s leaders into the Spirit Pagoda. With the Star Dou Great Forest and the Extreme North secured, he prepared to seek support from the Demonic Forest.

• Bai Chen tasked Xuan Ziwen and the Shrek researchers with simplifying and mass-producing a Light-Energy Storage Device, explaining that he wanted the technology widely understood and used.
• Bai Chen named Xuan Ziwen’s research department New Mingde Hall and made the Shrek researchers temporary employees.
• Snow Empress returned from the Extreme North with the Titan Snow Demon King, A-Tai, and the Ice-Snow Bear King, Little White; Bai Chen tested A-Tai’s strength during their handshake and welcomed the Extreme North’s delegation to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Bai Chen confirmed that the Extreme North had four Spirit Envoy seats and noted that the Star Dou Great Forest and the Extreme North had both joined his effort to promote Soul Spirits.
• Bai Chen contacted Di Tian to arrange a visit to the Demonic Forest, and Snow Empress offered to accompany them before Bai Chen decided Di Tian would be enough.

Bai Chen and Di Tian traveled to the Demonic Forest to recruit the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler into the Spirit Pagoda, while the Holy Spirit Cult began evacuating its headquarters to avoid discovery. After learning that the Snow Empress had survived her tribulation and grown stronger, the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler reacted with disbelief, leaving Bai Chen’s recruitment effort underway.

• Bai Chen asked the Snow Empress, the Titan Snow Demon King, and Little White to help Xiao Hongchen safely absorb the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal.
• Di Tian took Bai Chen through a spatial passage to the Demonic Forest, where the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler agreed to hear about the Spirit Pagoda.
• A Holy Spirit Cult scout reported their arrival to Zhongli Wu, who ordered the headquarters evacuated and its members to scatter.
• Di Tian warned Bai Chen about the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler’s spiritual home ground and revealed that Bai Chen had the Silver Dragon King’s backing.
• Bai Chen explained the Spirit Pagoda and Soul Spirits to the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler, who questioned his proposed position alongside the Snow Empress.
• Di Tian told the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler that the Snow Empress had survived her 700,000-Year Heavenly Tribulation and condensed a Yin-Yang Complementary Second Soul Core, leaving him astonished.

Bai Chen recruited the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler by promising to help him survive his next Heavenly Tribulation, then went alone to attack the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters. The cult had already fled, but Bai Chen recovered much of its wealth before returning and learning the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler could not track the escapees.

• Di Tian used his Dragon God Claw to pressure the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler, and Bai Chen promised to help him survive his 800,000-Year Heavenly Tribulation if he joined the Spirit Pagoda.
• The Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler agreed to join and allowed Bai Chen to confront the Holy Spirit Cult while Di Tian stayed behind.
• Bai Chen and Bear Lord found the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters abandoned and discovered that its members had relocated.
• Bai Chen loaded the cult's remaining wealth, worth several hundred million Gold Soul Coins, into the Undead Demi-Plane.
• Bai Chen returned to Di Tian and the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler, who told him he could not locate the escaped Evil Soul Masters.

Bai Chen brought the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler and the Demonic Forest’s representatives into the Spirit Pagoda, then used the empire’s lull to strengthen the organization and prepare for war. As Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen made major breakthroughs, Ye Guyi arrived seeking a Holy Attribute Soul Spirit, and Bai Chen offered her a place in the Spirit Pagoda in exchange for joining.

• Bai Chen welcomed the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler into his alliance, and the ruler agreed to serve as an example while continuing to prepare for his Heavenly Tribulation.
• Bai Chen brought representatives of the Demonic Forest to the Spirit Pagoda, where the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler saw Snow Empress’s strength and gained faith in Bai Chen’s promise.
• Bai Chen continued building Spirit Pagoda branches and preparing for war while the Sun-Moon Empire remained silent, and he stabilized the spiritual power Mu En had given him.
• Meng Hongchen used the Icefire Yin Yang Well’s spring water to rise from Soul Emperor to Soul Saint, while Xiao Hongchen reached level eighty-four and gained an Ice attribute through an Ice Extreme Divine Crystal.
• Bai Chen reviewed Ye Guyi’s request for a Holy Attribute Soul Spirit, recognized her name, and summoned her to his office.
• Ye Guyi admitted that she possessed the Holy Angel Martial Soul and had taken her fifteen million Gold Soul Coins from an evil soul master, and Bai Chen offered to find her a Soul Spirit and targets to hunt if she joined the Spirit Pagoda.

Bai Chen recruited Ye Guyi with generous pay and prepared Electrolux’s forbidden spell as the Sun-Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult attacked Spirit Pagoda branches and breached the Mingdou Mountains. After revealing a soul-locking technique that would burn the attackers through the victims’ lingering soul fluctuations, Bai Chen began activating the spell.

• Bai Chen gave Ye Guyi a black card containing one million Gold Soul Coins as her first month’s salary and told her to wait for orders at headquarters.
• A week later, Sky-Yang Douluo and Vina reported that the Sun-Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult had attacked Spirit Pagoda branches across the Dou Ling and Heaven Dou Empires.
• Bai Chen consulted Electrolux, whose remnant soul had stabilized, and confirmed that he had prepared a forbidden spell targeting the Holy Spirit Cult’s Evil Soul Masters.
• Bai Chen collected soul fragments at each destroyed branch so Electrolux’s prepared spell could use them to track the attackers.
• Xu Jiujiu told Bai Chen that the Mingdou Mountains had fallen and five Star Luo Empire Title Douluo had been killed.
• Bai Chen showed Xu Jiujiu a magic formation and explained that the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Ruler’s secret technique would lock onto the killers through their victims’ soul traces and inflict soul-burning pain.

Bai Chen used Electrolux’s forbidden spell to locate eighty-two Evil Soul Masters and sent Snow Empress and Ye Guyi to hunt them down and seek the Holy Spirit Cult’s new headquarters. As the human factions gathered to face the Sun-Moon Empire’s advance, Bai Chen volunteered to hold back its three Guardian Hands and proposed that the experts raid Mingdu.

• Bai Chen cast the Soul-Locking Forbidden Spell and located eighty-two Evil Soul Masters who had taken part in the attack.
• Bai Chen sent Snow Empress and Ye Guyi to kill the marked Evil Soul Masters, question them about the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters, and seize its stored wealth.
• At the Spirit Pagoda meeting, Xu Jiujiu reported that three Sun-Moon Empire Soul Engineer Corps had broken through the Mingdou Mountains using Ninth-Level Fixed Soul Cannon Shells.
• Bai Chen offered to hold back the Sun-Moon Imperial, Terrorclaw, and Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps alone while the other experts used their mobility and individual strength elsewhere.
• Du Busi arrived with Body Sect Title Douluo, and Bai Chen proposed that the gathered experts use the opportunity to raid Mingdu.

Bai Chen secured the factions’ support for an assault on Mingdu, then flew alone to confront the Sun-Moon Empire’s three Guardian Hands advancing through the Star Luo Empire. He faced Starry Sky Douluo Ye Yulin and survived the Sun-Moon Divine Needle, leaving the battle underway.

• Du Busi and Song Lao agreed to join Bai Chen’s operation, and Du Busi pledged ten Body Sect powerhouses.
• Bai Chen required Shrek Academy to send ten fighters, including seven Super Douluo, and the other kingdoms pledged additional forces for the assault on Mingdu.
• Bai Chen warned the assembled leaders about Mingdu’s defenses, then departed alone to intercept the Guardian Hands while the allied forces gathered and set out the next day.
• Bai Chen found the three soul engineering corps near a recently conquered city and flew toward them despite their barrage of cannon fire.
• Ye Yulin fired the Sun-Moon Divine Needle at Bai Chen, knocking him back but failing to stop him.
• Bai Chen sliced open space with his Darkgolden Terrorclaw and swallowed Ye Yulin’s next attack.

Bai Chen kept the three Guardian Hands occupied, while their commanders decided to send Liao Mengkai to engage him at close range. Liao Mengkai struck Bai Chen with his blade and vanished again, leaving Bai Chen to recognize the threat he posed.

• Bai Chen evaded the Linked Soul Guide Rays, and both sides settled into a stalemate as he harassed the three Guardian Hands.
• After hours of attacks exhausted their soldiers, Ye Yulin, Liao Mengkai, and Xu Tianyuan agreed they had to defeat Bai Chen quickly or retreat.
• Liao Mengkai volunteered to hold Bai Chen down at close range, and the others accepted his plan.
• Liao Mengkai appeared above Bai Chen and struck his raised arm with a blade before vanishing, leaving a white mark on Bai Chen's skin.
• Bai Chen recognized Liao Mengkai as the commander of the Terrorclaw Soul Engineer Corps and a dangerous close-combat opponent.

Bai Chen defeated Liao Mengkai, turned the Guardian Hands’ attacks against them, and used the Life Watcher Blade to break their Linked Soul Guide Shield. He annihilated all three Soul Engineer Corps and began looting the battlefield.

• Bai Chen used Lion-Mastiff Roar to break the incoming shells and force Liao Mengkai out of space, then killed him with Darkgolden Terrorclaw.
• Ye Yulin struck Bai Chen with the Sun-Moon Divine Needle, and Xu Tianyuan fired Death God's Arrow, but Bai Chen redirected the shell toward the Guardian Hands.
• Bai Chen used the Linked Soul Guide Rays to destroy Death God's Arrow, tore through the Linked Soul Guide Shield with the Life Watcher Blade, and wounded Xu Tianyuan while taking his storage ring.
• Bai Chen unleashed Heaven-Rending Claw and his Martial Soul Avatar, killing the commanders and the remaining Soul Engineers of the three Guardian Hands.
• Bai Chen confirmed the three Soul Engineer Corps had been annihilated and began looting the battlefield.

Bai Chen rushed toward Mingdu after learning that Du Busi had gone silent, while the Three Kingdoms forces faced the Evil Lord and Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps outside the city. The battle escalated as the attackers disrupted both corps, but the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps faced a new threat from purple whirlpools.

• Bai Chen learned that the Snow Empress had eliminated thirty-four evil soul masters and helped Ye Guyi advance to soul saint, then hurried toward Mingdu after Du Busi failed to answer his communicator.
• Du Busi and the assembled Three Kingdoms powerhouses were discovered outside Mingdu and came under fire from the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps.
• Song Lao harried the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps until Wang Yiheng used Blazing Tianluo against her, giving Xuan Zi time to charge the corps.
• Ye Yu intercepted the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps as it rose to support the Evil Lord, while Luan Feng fought him with her Fire Phoenix Sword.
• Purple whirlpools struck the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps' linked shield and sharply drained its energy.