Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan helped Jing Hongchen defect with his family and Illustrious Virtue Hall’s warehouse supplies, dealing a severe blow to the Sun Moon Empire. After three months of preparation and cultivation, Lin Yan welcomed Qian Huanyi and asked her to help confront Ye Xishui.

• Jing Hongchen and Jiang Fan joined Lin Yan after Jing Hongchen took the rare metals and Soul Tools from Illustrious Virtue Hall’s warehouses.
• Xu Tianran learned that Jing Hongchen had fled with his family and collapsed after vomiting blood.
• Jing Hongchen persuaded the Hongchen Family to join the Spirit Pagoda, while news of the Sun Moon Empire’s defeat and the family’s defection damaged the empire’s morale.
• Lin Yan reached Rank 95 during three months stationed in Moonfall City as forces from across the continent reinforced the front lines.
• Qian Huanyi and Ye Guyi arrived in Moonfall City, and Lin Yan asked Qian Huanyi to help defeat Ye Xishui.

Lin Yan gathered Qian Huanyi, Du Busi, Xuan Zi, and Zhang Lexuan to prepare for a hunt in the Evil Demon Forest, hoping to kill Evil Emperor and absorb its Spirit Ring. He lured Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao toward the front lines, then entered the forest and began fighting Evil Emperor, with the battle still underway.

• Qian Huanyi agreed to leave the mountain and help Lin Yan, provided he fulfilled a promise to her later.
• Lin Yan announced that he intended to kill Evil Emperor and absorb its Spirit Ring, despite warnings from Du Busi, Xuan Zi, and Qian Huanyi.
• Lin Yan arranged a fake full-scale offensive to draw Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao away from the Evil Demon Forest, then led Qian Huanyi, Du Busi, Xuan Zi, and Zhang Lexuan into the Sun Moon Empire.
• Lin Yan entered the Evil Demon Forest alone, broke Evil Emperor's illusion, and launched an attack against the beast.
• Lin Yan and Evil Emperor exchanged powerful attacks as the others rushed toward the battlefield, and Lin Yan struck with Great Bodhisattva Palm while Evil Emperor counterattacked with its tentacles.

Lin Yan and his allies fought the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, whose spiritual attacks and destructive powers threatened the group. Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan broke its Temporal-Spatial Light with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, leaving the Evil Emperor mortally wounded as Lin Yan struck its body with the Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle.

• The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's tentacles injured Lin Yan's soul, but Lin Yan broke through its spiritual barrier and struck it with the Great Bodhisattva Palm.
• Qian Huanyi ambushed the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, and Xuan Zi and Du Busi followed with attacks that drove it behind its Spiritual Sea projection.
• The wounded Evil Eye Tyrant Lord unleashed Destruction Light, but Lin Yan and Qian Huanyi broke through its beams and struck it again.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Lord used Temporal-Spatial Light to freeze its enemies, so Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan activated their Martial Soul Fusion Skill and shattered the stillness with a golden-and-silver meteor.
• The meteor devastated the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, leaving it fatally injured in a vast crater, and Lin Yan pierced its vertical eye with the Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle.

After killing Evil Emperor, Lin Yan absorbed its seven-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring and External Soul Bone, greatly increasing his Soul Power and spiritual strength. He then led the others to the Holy Spirit Cult’s hidden headquarters in Evil Demon Forest and began purifying its Evil Soul Masters for Merit.

• Evil Emperor died, and strange changes spread through Evil Demon Forest as its Soul Beasts mourned.
• Lin Yan used Deliverance to remove Evil Emperor’s lingering spiritual origin, then absorbed its Spirit Ring and eyeball External Soul Bone, reaching nearly Level 98 and greatly enhancing his spiritual power.
• Lin Yan revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters lay beneath Evil Demon Forest and led Qian Huanyi, Du Busi, Xuan Zi, and Zhang Lexuan to find it.
• Lin Yan detected the concealed underground palace, destroyed its entrance mechanisms, and entered ahead of the others.
• Lin Yan purified the wraiths and two Evil Soul Masters guarding the passage, absorbing the resulting Merit as he advanced into the headquarters.

Lin Yan destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters, advanced his Golden Body to six zhang, and returned to Moonfall Pass. He then urged the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires to launch a full-scale attack, confronting Ye Xishui and Zhongli Wu at the border.

• Lin Yan purified the Evil Soul Masters at the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters, took its stored wealth, and advanced his Golden Body to the six-zhang realm.
• Ye Xishui learned that the cult's sacred ground had been destroyed, found the Evil Emperor's corpse, and vowed to kill Lin Yan.
• Lin Yan returned to Moonfall Pass and persuaded the allied commanders to launch their general offensive immediately to keep the Holy Spirit Cult's leaders occupied.
• The Heaven Dou and Star Luo armies advanced at dawn and met the fortified Sun Moon Empire army, where Lin Yan called Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao out to fight.
• Zhongli Wu attacked Lin Yan with his Death God Demon Scythe, but Lin Yan crushed the blade barehanded and left Zhongli Wu stunned.

Lin Yan confronted Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Corps after Qian Huanyi challenged Ye Xishui and the other Limit Douluo were drawn into separate battles. The chapter ended with the Corps linking their Soul Tools to reinforce Kong Deming’s shield and withstand Lin Yan’s Heavenly Demon Subjugation.

• Lin Yan effortlessly neutralized Zhongli Wu’s attack, while Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui recognized Qian Huanyi as a Limit Douluo and Saint Light Douluo.
• Qian Huanyi revealed her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and challenged Ye Xishui; Du Busi and Xuan Zi intercepted Long Xiaoyao, leaving both matchups engaged.
• Lin Yan identified Kong Deming among the Sun Moon Empire’s forces and urged him to join the Spirit Pagoda, but Kong Deming refused because of his imperial bloodline.
• Kong Deming summoned the five hundred-member Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Corps, and Lin Yan launched Heavenly Demon Subjugation against him.
• The Corps activated their Linked Soul Tools and channeled power into Kong Deming’s defensive shield, which withstood Lin Yan’s attack.

Lin Yan destroyed the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Corps with Six Paths of Reincarnation, collapsing the Sun Moon Empire army’s morale, and captured Kong Deming. He then reached Qian Huanyi’s battlefield, where five powerful wraiths were fighting him and Ye Xishui was nowhere to be seen.

• Lin Yan used the Great Bodhisattva Palm and endured the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Corps’ coordinated cannon barrage, then protected himself with the Immoveable Wisdom King.
• Lin Yan unleashed Six Paths of Reincarnation, killing all five hundred members of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Corps as their souls collapsed within the Six Paths.
• News of the corps’ destruction spread across the battlefield, causing the Sun Moon Empire’s soldiers and Soul Engineers to flee while the Douluo Coalition Army pressed its attack.
• Lin Yan trapped Kong Deming in a Temporal-Spatial Prison and put away the crystal holding him.
• Lin Yan appeared at Qian Huanyi and Ye Xishui’s battlefield, where Qian Huanyi was fighting five powerful blood-red wraiths and Ye Xishui was absent.

Lin Yan and the allied army crushed the Sun Moon Empire’s forces, while Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao escaped. After Zhang Lexuan revealed her Sun Moon Empire origins, Lin Yan freed Kong Deming to ask whether he knew who had destroyed her family, and Kong Deming recognized her Moon Martial Soul with shock.

• Lin Yan purified Ye Xishui’s five Blood Souls, gaining Merit that brought his Golden Body close to the seven-zhang realm.
• Lin Yan learned that Ye Xishui had driven Du Busi and Xuan Zi back before escaping with Long Xiaoyao, then led the allied army in pursuit and captured six border cities.
• Zhang Lexuan reported the battle’s heavy losses for the Sun Moon Empire and the allied army, and Lin Yan ordered care for the wounded and protection for civilians in the captured cities.
• Lin Yan showed Zhang Lexuan the sealed Kong Deming and explained that Kong Deming shared her Moon Martial Soul, prompting her to reveal that she was a Sun Moon Empire noble whose family had been destroyed.
• Lin Yan released Kong Deming and asked him about Zhang Lexuan’s origins; after Zhang Lexuan summoned her Martial Soul, Kong Deming stared at it in disbelief.

Lin Yan proposed making Zhang Lexuan empress of the Sun Moon Empire to end the war and create a path toward abolishing the imperial system. Kong Deming agreed to help, and Lin Yan, Zhang Lexuan, and their companions set out for Mingdu to begin the effort.

• Kong Deming explained that the War Faction had secretly massacred Zhang Lexuan’s family because they supported the Peace Faction, and revealed that he belonged to a Neutral Faction.
• Lin Yan urged Kong Deming to help force Xu Tianran to abdicate and place Zhang Lexuan on the throne; Kong Deming agreed to contact the Peace Faction and support her succession.
• Lin Yan told Zhang Lexuan he wanted her to lead the Sun Moon Empire as a step toward replacing the continent’s imperial system with parliamentary government, and she agreed to become empress.
• Lin Yan gathered Qian Huanyi, Du Busi, and Xuan Zi, assigned them to guard Shrek Academy and the front lines, and warned them to keep the allied armies from acting rashly.
• Lin Yan departed secretly for Mingdu with Kong Deming, Zhang Lexuan, Meng Hongchen, and Jing Hongchen.

Lin Yan and his allies negotiated with the Sun Moon Empire’s Peace Faction to place Zhang Lexuan on the throne, then began weakening Xu Tianran’s supporters and palace defenses. Meanwhile, Xu Tianran remained unaware of the plot and believed Kong Deming had died in battle.

• Lin Yan, Zhang Lexuan, and Meng Hongchen met the Peace Faction representatives, and Zhang Lexuan proved her Moon Emperor Bloodline with her Moon Martial Soul.
• Lin Yan rejected the Peace Faction’s demand to control the empress’s policies, but agreed that the Star Luo Empire and Heaven Dou Empire would not seize Sun Moon territory or violate the nobles’ interests.
• Lin Yan accepted the Peace Faction’s plan to remove Xu Tianran’s supporters and assassinated seven trusted ministers in one night.
• Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen infiltrated the imperial palace, and Kong Deming secretly dismantled its Soul Tool defenses.
• Xu Tianran suffered from the news of his military defeats, the destruction of several Soul Engineer Corps, and the disappearance of Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui.

Xu Tianran faced growing pressure to end the war as court officials and military leaders demanded that he abdicate in exchange for the Douluo Coalition Army’s withdrawal. When he ordered the Peace Faction arrested, Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, and the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps intervened, and Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan entered the hall to confront him.

• Xu Tianran learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had vanished from Mingdu and that Jing Hongchen’s defection had halted the Humanoid Soul Tool research.
• At court, Xu Tianran heard that prominent War Faction princes and ministers had been assassinated and that the Douluo Coalition Army had occupied Mingyu City and five other border cities.
• A Peace Faction minister revealed that the coalition would withdraw if Xu Tianran abdicated, prompting Peace Faction officials to demand that he relinquish the throne.
• Xu Tianran ordered the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps to seize the ministers, but Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, and the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps entered and demanded his abdication.
• Xu Tianran summoned six Titled Douluo and urged Kong Deming to join him, but Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan entered the hall under a terrifying aura.

Lin Yan seized control of the Sun Moon Empire court, crippled Xu Tianran, and forced him from the throne. Kong Deming named Zhang Lexuan as the new emperor, and her royal bloodline and strength silenced the ministers’ objections.

• Lin Yan offered Xu Tianran a chance to abdicate, but Xu Tianran refused and tried to attack him with his ninth Soul Skill.
• Lin Yan shattered Xu Tianran’s attack, destroyed his cultivation, and ordered the guards to take him into custody.
• The Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps commander backed the takeover, and Kong Deming announced that Xu Tianran had died and that the empire would choose a new ruler.
• Kong Deming named Zhang Lexuan as the new emperor, and she proved her descent from the Zhang Family by releasing her Martial Soul.
• After Prince Nanyang challenged Zhang Lexuan’s fitness to rule, she offered to yield the throne if anyone could defeat her and revealed her nine Spirit Rings, including two Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings.

Zhang Lexuan secured the Sun Moon Empire’s throne as its first empress, while Lin Yan advised her on restoring order and strengthening her rule. After learning that Ju Zi had killed Xu Tianran, they confirmed his death in prison, where Ju Zi asked Lin Yan to kill someone in exchange for a secret about Xu Tianran.

• The court pledged allegiance to Zhang Lexuan, who became the first empress of the Sun Moon Empire and replaced Xu Tianran’s palace guards with the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps.
• Lin Yan advised Zhang Lexuan to negotiate the return of six occupied border cities and introduce the Spirit Pagoda to the empire.
• A guard reported that Ju Zi had killed Xu Tianran in prison, interrupting Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan in the imperial study.
• Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan went to the prison, where Lin Yan confirmed Xu Tianran was dead and reduced his corpse to ashes, collecting six Spirit Bones.
• Ju Zi told Lin Yan she hated him for thwarting her plans and offered to reveal a secret about Xu Tianran if he killed someone for her.

Lin Yan struck a deal with Ju Zi to help her kill Dai Hao in exchange for her exposing the War Faction and helping him purge its forces. After arranging the allied army’s withdrawal from the Sun Moon Empire, Lin Yan learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had massacred a major city in the Dou Ling Empire.

• Lin Yan persuaded Ju Zi to agree to publicly blame Xu Tianran’s poisoning on the War Faction in exchange for his help killing Dai Hao.
• Lin Yan explained his plan to Zhang Lexuan and warned her that Dai Hao would be assassinated after the border situation stabilized.
• Lin Yan traveled to Mingyu City and told Du Busi to disband the allied army while warning the three great empires against claiming Sun Moon Empire territory.
• The Soul Master reinforcements withdrew, followed over the next three days by the allied armies of the three great empires.
• Lin Yan and Du Busi discussed the threat posed by the hidden Holy Spirit Cult and planned a Spirit Pagoda Conference to search for its remnants.
• Lin Yan received news that the Holy Spirit Cult had slaughtered a city of one million people in the Dou Ling Empire.

Lin Yan investigated Dongling City after the Holy Spirit Cult massacred more than a million people, then returned to Shrek City to prepare for the Spirit Pagoda Conference and explain Zhang Lexuan’s role as Sun Moon Empire empress. The chapter ended with Lin Yan agreeing to temporarily manage the Sea God Pavilion in her place.

• Song Lao warned Lin Yan and Du Busi that the Holy Spirit Cult had massacred Dongling City, and Lin Yan arranged safety measures for Shrek City and Mingdu.
• Lin Yan, Du Busi, and Sky Sun Douluo entered Dongling City and found countless drained corpses and no undead, leading Lin Yan to suspect the Holy Spirit Cult had taken them to strengthen Ye Xishui’s Death God Soul Tool.
• Lin Yan purified Dongling City’s death energy, advanced his Golden Body Power to the seven-zhang realm, and told Sky Sun Douluo to arrange burials for the dead.
• Lin Yan left Du Busi to guard Mingdu, returned to Shrek City, and announced that the Spirit Pagoda Conference would be held the next day.
• Lin Yan told the Sea God Pavilion elders that Zhang Lexuan had become Sun Moon Empire empress as part of his plan and would have him temporarily serve as pavilion master.

After the Holy Spirit Cult massacred three major cities and refugees overwhelmed Shrek City, Long Xiaoyao came to Lin Yan with the cult’s hiding place and asked to be buried beside Ye Xishui. Lin Yan accepted his information and gathered allies from the Spirit Pagoda, Shrek, and the Star Luo Empire for a campaign against the cult.

• Lin Yan announced at the Spirit Pagoda Conference that the Sun Moon Empire would join the Spirit Pagoda in exchange for one hundred places for Soul Engineers to study at the Illustrious Virtue Hall, and the proposal passed.
• The Holy Spirit Cult massacred two more major cities, spreading panic and driving refugees toward Shrek City, where the gates were eventually closed and the city filled with displaced people.
• Lin Yan and Xuan Zi confronted Long Xiaoyao above Shrek Academy, where he offered to reveal the Holy Spirit Cult’s hiding place and asked for Ye Xishui’s intact corpse so they could be buried together.
• Lin Yan sealed Long Xiaoyao’s Spiritual Sea and Soul Power, then learned where the Holy Spirit Cult remnants were hiding.
• Lin Yan summoned experts from Mingdu and secured the support of five Titled Douluo from the Star Luo Empire to prepare an assault on the Holy Spirit Cult.

Lin Yan led a force of Titled Douluo to the Holy Spirit Cult’s island hideout, where Long Xiaoyao’s betrayal left Ye Xishui and Zhongli Wu cornered. Lin Yan began fighting Ye Xishui, whose blood sea absorbed the souls and bloodline power of slaughtered citizens and trapped him in resentful chains.

• Lin Yan left Du Busi and Xuan Zi to guard Shrek City and led twenty-one Titled Douluo, Long Xiaoyao, and three Heaven Dou Empire reinforcements toward the Holy Spirit Cult’s island.
• Lin Yan killed two Holy Spirit Cult Soul Emperors on the island and summoned the coalition to attack the cult’s hideout.
• Ye Xishui and Zhongli Wu emerged to confront Lin Yan’s force, and Zhongli Wu realized Long Xiaoyao had betrayed the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Long Xiaoyao told Ye Xishui he could no longer indulge her crimes, and Lin Yan stepped forward to fight her.
• Ye Xishui’s Endless Blood Sea dissolved Lin Yan’s Thunder Dragon attack, revealing that it contained bloodline power and souls from slaughtered cities.
• Lin Yan summoned the Immovable Wisdom King and cut several blood chains with Heavenly Demon Subjugation, but the blood sea absorbed the resentful spirits’ power and bound the Buddha again.

Lin Yan purified Ye Xishui’s blood sea and hundreds of thousands of resentful spirits, then fought her as she turned to the Death God Tower and burned her Martial Soul Avatar. The tower’s blood-red arrow broke through Lin Yan’s defenses, leaving their battle unresolved amid a catastrophic blast over the sea.

• Lin Yan used the Three Thousand Buddha Realms and his sixth Soul Skill to overwhelm Ye Xishui’s Blood Soul Domain, purify the resentful spirits, and absorb the gathered Merit.
• Lin Yan trapped Ye Xishui in the Sea of Bitterness, but she resisted its purification, merged with her Blood Soul Demon Puppet, and attacked him in close combat.
• Lin Yan blasted Ye Xishui away and broke the seven Blood Souls’ binding ring, after which the Blood Souls transformed into ghostly figures.
• Ye Xishui burned her Martial Soul Avatar to empower the Death God Tower while the seven Blood Souls self-destructed to delay Lin Yan.
• The Death God Tower fired a blood-red arrow that pierced Lin Yan’s Temporal-Spatial Barrier and Immovable Wisdom King, forcing him to withstand it with his Imperishable Golden Body and Six-Syllable Mantra as the sky shattered over the sea.

Lin Yan defeated Ye Xishui, purified her Blood Soul Demon Puppet power, and helped her reunite with Long Xiaoyao before the pair passed their cultivation to Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan. With the Holy Spirit Cult destroyed and the continent seemingly at peace, Lin Yan remained wary of his coming conflict with Tang San over Ah Yin.

• Lin Yan survived Ye Xishui's Death God Tower attack, overcame her Blood Soul Demon Puppet Avatar with his Sea of Bitterness, and purified her evil power, revealing her Radiant Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Long Xiaoyao reunited with Ye Xishui, and Lin Yan explained that the Blood Soul Demon Puppet's destruction had left her with only a final moment before death.
• Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui offered their lifetime cultivation to Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan and agreed that the Holy Spirit Cult should be ended.
• Lin Yan used the Three Thousand Buddha Kingdom Domain to purify Zhongli Wu and the remaining Holy Spirit Cult members, gaining Merit for his Golden Body.
• Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan received Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui's cultivation, reaching Rank 98 and Rank 96 respectively, then buried the pair's remains and erected a gravestone.
• Lin Yan reflected that his next danger was Tang San, who would become his mortal enemy if Lin Yan moved against Ah Yin within the Golden Ancient Tree.

Lin Yan condensed his Third Soul Core and became a Limit Douluo, drawing the attention of Di Tian. At a celebratory banquet, Di Tian discovered that Di Xinyu was pregnant with Lin Yan’s child and warned that childbirth would cost her much of her Auspicious Beast fortune; he then took Lin Yan aside for a private talk.

• After a year of preparation, Lin Yan formed his Third Soul Core, and a thousand-meter golden Buddha appeared over Shrek City as he reached the Limit Douluo realm.
• Xue Shuanghen admitted she had gained some understanding from watching Lin Yan’s breakthrough but still lacked confidence in forming her own Third Soul Core.
• Lin Yan’s companions held a banquet to celebrate, and he went outside with Di Xinyu when he sensed Di Tian arriving.
• Di Tian was shocked that Lin Yan had surpassed him with three Soul Cores, then noticed Di Xinyu’s pregnancy and learned Lin Yan was the father.
• Di Tian warned that bearing a child would drain Di Xinyu’s fortune, weaken her, and affect her cultivation, but she insisted on having the child.
• Di Tian summoned Lin Yan to speak privately, and Lin Yan followed him into the night.