Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao condensed a Second Soul Core using the Yin-Yang Complement method and became a Rank 91 Titled Douluo. Jing Hongchen and the two consecrators learned how he had done it and praised his achievement.

• Jing Hongchen grew worried when Huo Yuhao's aura became chaotic and summoned two Worship Hall consecrators to stand by.
• Huo Yuhao successfully condensed his Second Soul Core, reached Rank 91, and emerged from the pavilion as a Titled Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he had used the Yin-Yang Complement method and encountered minor problems because it was his first time using it.
• Jing Hongchen and the consecrators reacted with shock and praised Huo Yuhao, declaring him more talented than Tang San.

Huo Yuhao chose the title Ice God Douluo after becoming a Titled Douluo, and the Sun Moon Empire publicized his achievement. At Shrek Academy, Mu En and the others mistakenly concluded that the empire had sacrificed Huo Yuhao’s potential to make him a powerful soul engineer.

• Jing Hongchen offered to name Huo Yuhao’s title and proposed Ice Scorpion Douluo, but Huo Yuhao said he had chosen Ice God Douluo.
• Jing Hongchen and the two offerings approved of Huo Yuhao’s title and believed he could become a Three Soul Cores Limit Douluo.
• The Sun Moon Empire spread news of Huo Yuhao becoming a Titled Douluo to shape how other powerhouses interpreted his rapid advancement.
• At Sea God Pavilion, Gong Changlong reported Huo Yuhao’s achievement to Mu En, who assumed the Sun Moon Empire had used pills that damaged Huo Yuhao’s potential.
• Xu Jiawei lamented Huo Yuhao’s supposed lost future, and Zhao Zhehan suggested the Sun Moon Empire planned for him to pursue the path of a soul engineer.

Xu Jiawei and Zhao Zhehan recognized Huo Yuhao as a growing threat, while Huo Yuhao learned how Star Luo nobles were crushing commoners with taxes collected twenty years in advance. He ordered the Spirit Pagoda to aid the exploited and arranged for ordinary prisoners of war to return home, leaving Ju Zi convinced the policy would weaken resistance to the Sun Moon Empire.

• Zhao Zhehan warned Xu Jiawei that Huo Yuhao could become an immensely powerful combatant, and Xu Jiawei ordered construction of the Ocean-going Fleet to prepare for defeat or victory.
• Na Na reported to Huo Yuhao that Star Luo nobles were taxing commoners twenty years in advance to replace wealth lost to the Sun Moon Army.
• Huo Yuhao instructed Na Na to secretly help exploited commoners in the Star Luo Empire and Dou Ling Empire and guide them to pray to the Spirit Pagoda's Tower Master for the Life Altering Skill.
• Huo Yuhao used spatial magic to reach Ju Zi's command tent and asked about prisoners of war who wanted to return home.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Ju Zi to release ordinary prisoners with routes, dry rations, and Copper Soul Coins, without sending anyone to kill them afterward.
• Ju Zi concluded that the returning prisoners would spread word of the Sun Moon Empire's benevolence and reduce resistance in captured territory.

Huo Yuhao announced that ordinary prisoners of war could return home, and the Sun Moon Army supplied them with money and travel provisions. Soul Master prisoners were allowed to write to their families, and several days later they received letters from home.

• Ju Zi arranged for Huo Yuhao to announce the prisoner release, and the Sun Moon Army maintained strict discipline in the camp.
• Wang Yiheng told the prisoners that an important figure would make an announcement, leaving them afraid of execution or forced service.
• Huo Yuhao announced that ordinary prisoners who wanted to stop fighting could go home with travel rations and money.
• The ordinary prisoners chose to leave, and the Sun Moon Army planned their routes home.
• Huo Yuhao told Soul Master prisoners they could not leave yet but could write letters to their families.
• Several days later, the Sun Moon Army delivered letters from home to the remaining Soul Master prisoners.

Huo Yuhao challenged Star Luo prisoners to reconsider what they were fighting for by showing them letters from home and inviting them to visit Sun Moon-occupied territories. The prisoners returned convinced that their leaders had deceived them and that life under the Sun Moon Empire had improved, leaving them questioning their loyalty to Star Luo.

• Soul Master prisoners read letters from their families and learned about their loved ones’ circumstances, including Star Luo’s heavy taxes and abuses by nobles.
• When a prisoner asked Huo Yuhao when they could return home, Huo Yuhao asked what they were fighting for and challenged whether Star Luo cared for them.
• A loyal prisoner defended the ruler and claimed hardships were temporary, while Huo Yuhao invited the prisoners to see the occupied territories for themselves.
• Sun Moon Soldiers led the prisoners through occupied Heaven Soul and Star Luo territories, where they saw people benefiting from the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Guidance Technology.
• The prisoners returned several days later, angry at the Marshal’s deception and questioning why they had fought for Star Luo’s nobles instead of their families.

Huo Yuhao persuaded the allied prisoners of war to oppose their empires and help Sun Moon weaken the allied forces, while Xuan Zi attacked the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters. The headquarters was left in ruins, and its leaders were away fighting the allied forces.

• Huo Yuhao asked the prisoners what they were fighting for, and they said they would not fight for the Star Luo Empire or Dou Ling Empire.
• Huo Yuhao promised to relocate the prisoners' families and asked the prisoners to tell the allied forces about their experiences using sound-amplifying Soul Tools.
• Xuan Zi confirmed Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao were away, then secretly planted Rank 8 fixed-installation Soul Cannon Shells around the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters.
• Xuan Zi detonated the shells and escaped as the blast destroyed the underground headquarters and injured or killed many Evil Soul Masters.
• The Holy Spirit Cult Worships emerged from the ruins and began organizing relief efforts and notifying their absent leaders.

After the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters was devastated by an explosion, Feng Ling and the Worships investigated the attack and sought to identify the culprit. The Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord revealed that its son had seen a masked, one-armed man, leading Feng Ling to blame Xuan Zi.

• Feng Ling reviewed the headquarters' casualties and losses with the Worships and ordered them to find the attacker.
• The Second Worship reported that the wreckage contained rare Sun Moon Empire metals used for Standard Soul Cannon Shells, but Feng Ling argued that Mingde Hall was unlikely to be responsible.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord appeared through its Spiritual Power and injured the Second Worship when he asked it to find the culprit.
• Feng Ling told the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord that Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao were away, and the Second Worship offered to increase the tribute in exchange for information.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord described a masked, one-armed man who had emerged from the ground before the explosion, and Feng Ling identified him as Xuan Zi.

The Holy Spirit Cult Worships agreed to exploit Xuan Zi’s mistaken belief that his framing plan had succeeded, while the Allied Forces responded to the Sun Moon Empire’s broadcast of prisoners of war by suppressing the reports. The chapter left Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan arriving at a residence in Jiangyun City.

• Feng Ling persuaded the Holy Spirit Cult Worships to gather their disciples and use the conflict with the Sun Moon Empire to lure Xuan Zi out.
• Xuan Zi believed his scheme had sparked a clash between the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon experts, and planned to inflame their conflict further.
• Xu Jiujiu asked the Allied Forces’ leaders how to counter the prisoners of war’s broadcasts, which were weakening morale.
• Ning Xiujie proposed reversing the Soundproof Soul Guidance Barrier and branding the prisoners of war as traitors, while secretly hoping to undermine the Allied Forces for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Jiujiu approved Ning Xiujie’s plan, and Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan arrived at a residence in Jiangyun City in disguise.

Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan confronted Liu Feng, a Star Luo deputy commander secretly aiding the Sun Moon spies, and pressured him to help the Sun Moon Army take Jiangyun City. Liu Feng agreed to betray his commander in exchange for a greater reward.

• Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan waited in Liu Feng’s residence and recalled that he was a greedy Soul Sage who sold intelligence and concealed the Sun Moon spies’ movements.
• Liu Feng arrived, sealed the reception hall with a Soundproof Soul Guidance Barrier, and asked whether they had come to buy intelligence.
• Jing Ziyan offered Liu Feng a reward to defect to the Sun Moon Empire and help kill the Star Luo Ninth Soul Master Legion’s commander, seize the city, and open its gates.
• Liu Feng refused, calling the commander his brother in arms and dearest friend, but Jing Ziyan threatened to expose evidence of his collusion.
• Ji Juechen displayed his strength and domain, and Liu Feng agreed to help kill the commander if the Sun Moon spies increased his reward.

Liu Feng, Ji Juechen, and Jing Ziyan killed the commander of the Star Luo Ninth Soul Master Legion, then opened Jiangyun City’s gates and withdrew its Soul Guidance Cannons under the pretense of luring the Sun Moon Army into a trap. Liu Feng gathered the legion’s troops in the inner city square as the Sun Moon Army advanced toward the city.

• Liu Feng, Ji Juechen, and Jing Ziyan invited the commander to dinner, ambushed him and his trusted followers, and burned their bodies.
• Jing Ziyan warned Liu Feng not to investigate the allied army’s growing discontent and urged him to take control of the city defenses.
• Liu Feng ordered the guards at the eastern gate to open the gates and withdraw the Soul Guidance Cannons, claiming the allied army leadership planned to trap the Sun Moon Army.
• Liu Feng persuaded the guards at all four gates and the scouts to assemble in the inner city square, then forbade anyone from the legion to leave.
• Flying Sun Moon soul engineers advanced toward Jiangyun City through its open gates.

Sun Moon forces seized cities across Star Luo, while Xu Jiujiu organized the allied counterattack. As the Star Luo Fourth Soul Master Legion fought to defend its position, a messenger delivered an order to shift its Soul Guidance Cannon Array one thousand meters to the left.

• A Sun Moon Soul Engineer force surrounded allied Soul Masters in Jiangyun City, and Liu Feng persuaded them to surrender as prisoners of war.
• The Sun Moon forces left troops to guard Jiangyun City and advanced toward the allied command tent while fighting erupted across Star Luo.
• Xu Jiujiu blamed traitors for the rapid loss of territory, dispatched legions to reinforce the front, and sent military orders to frontline commanders.
• The Star Luo Fourth Soul Master Legion fought fiercely against the Sun Moon Soul Engineers as a messenger crossed the battlefield to reach its commander.
• The messenger told the legion commander that Xu Jiujiu had ordered the Soul Guidance Cannon Array moved one thousand meters to the left.

As the Allied Forces fell into a worsening position, Xu Jiujiu refused to abandon her command, while Kong Deming confronted Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao over their arrival at the front. Huo Yuhao then prepared to capture Xu Jiujiu alive amid the Allied Forces to boost his fame and gather Faith Power.

• Xu Jiujiu ordered the Fourth Soul Master Legion to move its Soul Guidance Cannon Array one thousand meters left, and the soldiers carried out the order under enemy fire.
• Grandma Man Yi urged Xu Jiujiu to retreat, but Xu Jiujiu refused because she believed the Allied Forces would collapse without her command.
• Kong Deming questioned Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, and Long Xiaoyao explained that they wanted to draw Xuan Zi out by attacking the Allied Forces.
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao prepared to fight Kong Deming when he refused to let them reach the battlefield.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Yiheng he would attack the Allied Forces command tent alone and capture Xu Jiujiu alive to increase his fame and gather Faith Power.

Huo Yuhao attacked the Allied Forces’ command tent alone, freezing its cannon barrage and drawing out rank ninety-seven Super Douluo Sky Sun. Xu Jiujiu and Man Yi watched as Sky Sun charged him, while Huo Yuhao summoned icy-blue armor to meet the attack.

• Huo Yuhao flew openly toward the command tent, intending to capture Marshal Xu Jiujiu, while Wang Yiheng ordered the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion to support him and stand ready to rescue him.
• The Allied Forces fired Soul Guidance Cannon Shells at Huo Yuhao, but he froze the barrage in midair with a low-grade version of Absolute Zero.
• Sky Sun flew out to confront Huo Yuhao and declared that he would show him the gap between a Super Douluo and a Titled Douluo.
• Xu Jiujiu and Man Yi left the command tent to watch Sky Sun, confident that he could capture Huo Yuhao and turn the battlefield around.
• Sky Sun activated his Martial Soul Avatar and charged like a blazing sun, while Huo Yuhao summoned icy-blue armor from his Storage Ring.

Huo Yuhao defeated Sky Sun Douluo and three other Titled Douluo, then captured Xu Jiujiu as the Allied Forces’ command position collapsed around them. He noticed that one of the fallen experts had survived and decided to take that person prisoner too.

• Huo Yuhao struck Sky Sun Douluo with Soul Impact, then froze his blazing sun with his Emperor Sword and Emperor Palm.
• Xu Jiujiu ordered Grandma Man Yi and two other Titled Douluo to assist Sky Sun Douluo in defeating Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed Snow Dance Ice Domain, hurled the frozen blazing sun at the four Titled Douluo, and detonated it with Ice Burst.
• Huo Yuhao seized Xu Jiujiu and declared that he would take her captive, while Allied Forces soldiers warned him that reinforcements would arrive.
• Three Titled Douluo fell from the explosion, and Huo Yuhao realized one person had survived and decided to capture them as well.

Huo Yuhao captured Xu Jiujiu and Man Yi, then used their capture to undermine the Allied Forces and drive many soldiers to surrender as the Sun Moon Army advanced. Long Xiaoyao saw the Allied Forces’ crushing defeat and decided Xuan Zi would likely return to defend them, then went back to find Ye Xishui.

• Man Yi revealed herself from among the fake corpses and attacked Huo Yuhao, but he exposed and defeated her, then froze her and took her prisoner alongside Xu Jiujiu.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Wang Yiheng to lead the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion behind the Allied Forces and block their retreat while spies spread news of the capture.
• Huo Yuhao flew across the battlefields with Xu Jiujiu and Man Yi, announced the marshal’s capture, and threatened Xu Jiujiu into urging the Allied Forces to surrender.
• Many Allied Forces soldiers surrendered, while some commanders killed would-be defectors, called Xu Jiujiu an impostor, and fled with their troops.
• The Sun Moon Army captured several Star Luo cities and took many Allied Forces soldiers prisoner as the defeated forces retreated toward Star Luo City.
• Long Xiaoyao saw the Allied Forces’ defeat, concluded Xuan Zi would likely return to help them, and left to find Ye Xishui.

Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao withdrew from their fight with Kong Deming after learning the allied forces had been defeated, but then discovered Xuan Zi had destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters. In Star Luo City, Xu Jiawei learned of the defeat and the capture of Xu Jiujiu and Senior Man Yi, then vomited blood from the shock.

• Ye Xishui used the Blood Sea Wraith Spear against Kong Deming, but his Martial Soul Second Awakening let him withstand the attack as the three fought.
• Long Xiaoyao returned from the front lines and told Ye Xishui and Kong Deming that the allied forces had collapsed; a Rank 9 Soul Engineer then reported Huo Yuhao had captured Xu Jiujiu and persuaded the alliance to surrender.
• The Eleventh Worship told Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao that Xuan Zi had blown up the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, and Ye Xishui resolved to intercept him rather than return to Mingdu.
• An allied commander reported the defeat and Xu Jiujiu and Senior Man Yi's capture to Xu Jiawei, who became enraged and vomited blood.
• Zhao Zhehan caught Xu Jiawei and called for the imperial physician to examine him.

After the allied forces suffered a crushing defeat, Xu Jiawei struggled with the prospect of abandoning Xu Jiujiu, while Zhao Zhehan urged him to hide her capture and seek Mu En’s help. In the Dou Ling Empire, the emperor also demanded that Mu En go to the front lines, as Mu En and others at Shrek Academy discussed Huo Yuhao’s growing strength.

• Imperial physicians treated Xu Jiawei after he coughed up blood, and he asked Zhao Zhehan whether Xu Jiujiu could return safely.
• Zhao Zhehan warned Xu Jiawei that negotiating for Xu Jiujiu would cost the weakened empire dearly, then advised him to deny her capture and ask Mu En to intervene.
• Xu Jiawei sent an envoy to Shrek Academy to ask Mu En to join the war.
• Grieving over the Sky Sun Douluo’s death, the Dou Ling Emperor ordered the captain of the imperial guard to send Xue Lingxun to demand that Mu En leave Shrek Academy for the front lines.
• At Sea God Pavilion, Mu En, Gong Changlong, and Shi Xing discussed Huo Yuhao’s strength and the allied forces’ worsening prospects.

Mu En refused to lead the allied forces against the Sun Moon Army, citing Shrek Academy’s need for his protection, but promised to send Gong Changlong and Shi Xing instead. In Mingdu, Xuan Zi decided to return to the front lines and take command, despite the danger posed by Huo Yuhao’s seal on his Soul Core.

• Mu En advised Shi Xing and Gong Changlong that Xu Jiawei should prepare to form a government-in-exile in Shrek City if the Star Luo Empire fell.
• Two days later, the Star Luo envoy and Xue Lingxun pleaded with Mu En to fight on the front lines, but he refused and offered Gong Changlong and Shi Xing’s help instead.
• Mu En also said he would have Xuan Zi continue causing destruction in the Sun Moon Empire to draw away its experts.
• In Mingdu, Xuan Zi listened to people mock Xu Jiujiu and praise Huo Yuhao, then decided he had to return to the front lines and take command.
• Xuan Zi worried that Huo Yuhao’s Soul Core Seal would leave him vulnerable if they met on the battlefield.

Xuan Zi decided to command the Allied Forces from a distance to avoid Huo Yuhao’s Soul Core Seal, while Huo Yuhao tried to force the captured Xu Jiujiu to cooperate with the Sun Moon Empire. The chapter ended with Xu Jiujiu questioning how Huo Yuhao could make her empress when the Star Luo people despised her.

• Xuan Zi concluded that Elder Mu could not safely remove his Soul Core Seal and planned to retreat whenever Huo Yuhao approached.
• Xuan Zi left the tavern for the Star Luo Chino Defense Line, intending to urge Xu Jiawei to recruit more troops.
• Huo Yuhao confronted the captive Xu Jiujiu and used her role in persuading the Allied Forces to surrender to pressure her.
• Huo Yuhao claimed Mu En was too frail to protect the Star Luo Royal Family and threatened to destroy the family if Xu Jiujiu refused to cooperate.
• Huo Yuhao asked Xu Jiujiu to become Star Luo Empress, submit to the Sun Moon Empire, and follow his orders in exchange for the Xu family's safety.
• Xu Jiujiu questioned how Huo Yuhao could install her as empress when her reputation had collapsed and the Star Luo people likely hated her.

Huo Yuhao secured Xu Jiujiu’s cooperation by promising to spare Xu Jiawei and his children, while Xu Jiawei made plans to preserve the royal family if the Star Luo Empire lost the war. At the allied defense line, Xuan Zi returned from Mingdu and announced that he would lead the resistance against the Sun Moon Army, leaving the other commanders uneasy.

• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jiujiu he would imprison Xu Jiawei and his children safely if she obeyed him, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Xu Jiawei and his ministers arranged escape routes and a government in exile in Shrek City, then Xu Jiawei ordered Zhao Zhehan to secretly send Xing Er and the others to the Overseas New Continent.
• Xuan Zi arrived at the Star Luo Chino Defense Line, revealed his identity, and told Heavenly Fiend Douluo, Shi Xing, and Gong Changlong he had returned to lead the allied forces.
• Shi Xing decided to notify Elder Mu of Xuan Zi’s return, while Xuan Zi entered the command tent to review intelligence and plan the defense.
• Ju Zi listened to reports in the Sun Moon Army command tent as her forces worked to govern and assimilate their occupied Star Luo territory.