Recaps

Ling Zichen presented the Floating Island proposal, and Mo Yuan secured its approval with revised defenses and a four-month construction schedule. After the meeting, Ling Zichen told Mo Yuan that Zang Xin had private Tang Sect prescriptions for him, prompting Mo Yuan to ask Zang Xin for copies and order Ling Zichen to supervise construction.

• Ling Zichen presented the Floating Island's design, power system, defenses, communications layout, budget, and construction schedule to the officials.
• Mo Yuan removed the inward-facing cannons and redirected their resources to the shield array, while Yu Guanzhi and Fu Moxin accepted the proposal's safeguards and budget.
• Yu Guanzhi and Fu Moxin signed the proposal, and Mo Yuan approved it with Ling Zichen responsible for execution and biweekly progress reports to Parliament.
• Mo Yuan gave Ling Zichen the original blueprints, explaining that her design belonged to her while the revised version belonged to Anti-Entropy.
• Mo Yuan asked Amber to filter the health-preservation prescriptions for reliable sources, then Ling Zichen told him Zang Xin had unpublished Tang Sect remedies.
• Mo Yuan ordered Ling Zichen to supervise the Floating Island construction site and privately asked Zang Xin to send him the prescriptions.

Mo Yuan oversaw the Federation’s major projects, including the Floating Island and research into cheaper Level 12 Cannon Shells. After Gu Yue visited and invited him home for dinner, he returned to work, still convinced that exploiting employees was more relaxing.

• Ling Zichen told Zang Xin that the Floating Island could be completed in as little as two and a half months, while Zang Xin handled logistics at the construction site.
• Mo Yuan revised the Level 12 Cannon Shell research goal to reduce manufacturing costs, allowed power to be scaled back, and ordered the existing shells kept out of testing.
• Gu Yue visited Mo Yuan, admitted she missed him, urged him to rest, and invited him home for dinner.
• Amber informed Mo Yuan that the third section of the Floating Island’s base framework was complete and that the entire base was expected to be finished the next day.
• Mo Yuan finished reviewing documents at his office and remarked that exploiting employees was more satisfying.

After the Floating Island passed its final inspections, Mo Yuan inspected its systems and assigned Ling Zichen to prepare the island for the Star Dou Battle Net’s first core node. Ling Zichen and Zang Xin then discussed the coming integration of the Tang Sect into Anti-Entropy and Mo Yuan’s plans for the Spirit Pagoda and Shrek.

• Ling Zichen signed the Floating Island’s final inspection report after its systems and facilities passed inspection.
• Mo Yuan arrived at the Floating Island and inspected its power core and defensive systems with Ling Zichen and Zang Xin.
• Mo Yuan approved plans for the first personnel to move in and confirmed that the island would serve as the satellite network’s primary ground station.
• Mo Yuan announced that the Floating Island would host the Star Dou Battle Net’s first core node and tasked Ling Zichen with preparing its server room, access devices, and computing resources.
• Ling Zichen and Zang Xin discussed the health-preserving formula and Zang Xin’s intention to integrate the Tang Sect into Anti-Entropy.
• Zang Xin predicted that the Tang Sect, Spirit Pagoda, and Shrek would soon disappear, and Ling Zichen agreed that it sounded like Mo Yuan’s style.

The Six-Clawed Demon Empress’s nest on the twelfth layer came under a devastating barrage of human Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shells. Badly wounded, he fled down the Abyss Passage to warn the Abyssal Sage King.

• The Six-Clawed Demon Empress rested in his nest while the twelfth layer’s Six-Clawed Bats lived among its caves and jagged rock faces.
• Explosions began outside the nest and rapidly grew louder, as dozens of gashes opened in the sky and dropped bombs across the layer.
• The shells devastated the area, killing Six-Clawed Bats, collapsing nests, and sending magma across the shattered ground.
• The Six-Clawed Demon Empress sent Six-Clawed Bats to investigate, but they never returned, and he decided to seek the Abyssal Sage King.
• Wounded by explosions, the Six-Clawed Demon Empress led the surviving bats down the Abyss Passage toward the deepest layers.

The Six-Clawed Demon Empress reported the bombing of the 97th Layer to the Abyssal Sage King, who learned that the Federation was dropping shells throughout the Deep Abyss. At the Blood God Legion command center, Zhang Huanyun and Cao Dezhi monitored the attack and recorded the deployment of more than sixty thousand test shells across the first thirty-six layers.

• The Six-Clawed Demon Empress arrived at the Abyssal Sage King's temple and found the rulers of the upper Deep Abyss layers gathered there.
• The Six-Clawed Demon Empress told the Abyssal Sage King that the 97th Layer had been bombed and that more than half his clansmen were dead.
• The Abyssal Sage King explained that the Federation was using Spatial Passages to drop Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shells across the Deep Abyss and ordered the Six-Clawed Demon Empress to return after the bombardment stopped.
• The Abyssal Sage King blamed the Ghost Emperor and suspected the human who had killed his projection, but admitted the Deep Abyss had no way to stop the attack for now.
• Zhang Huanyun and Cao Dezhi monitored live footage from newly deployed Deep Abyss Monitoring Devices at the Blood God Legion command center.
• Cao Dezhi reported that the Federation had deployed 63,720 test shells across the first thirty-six layers as shells continued passing through the Spatial Passage.

Zhang Huanyun and Cao Dezhi reviewed the test results from the Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shells deployed in the Deep Abyss, then followed Mo Yuan’s orders to pause further shelling while the Academy of Sciences analyzed the cores. The chapter ended with Cao Dezhi mentioning Zang Xin and Zhang Huanyun fleeing after misunderstanding his words.

• Zhang Huanyun and Cao Dezhi saw that the explosions had devastated the Six-Clawed Bat lairs and driven Deep Abyss creatures toward deeper layers.
• Cao Dezhi reviewed the core-monitoring data and found that the upper layers’ cores had fluctuated while the deepest layers’ cores were close to failing.
• Zhang Huanyun reported the test results to Mo Yuan, who ordered the team to track creature migrations, send him the core data, and suspend shell deployment.
• Zhang Huanyun relayed Mo Yuan’s orders, and he and Cao Dezhi speculated about the next ammunition type.
• Cao Dezhi said he would spend time with Zang Xin once the Blood God Legion matter was settled, prompting Zhang Huanyun to flee after assuming Cao Dezhi was making advances toward him.

Mo Yuan announced that the former Shrek Academy would become St. Freya Academy and introduced sweeping reforms making education free and compulsory for all school-age students. The reforms drew a surge in applications, and Mo Yuan told Chen Xinjie that new projects would let ordinary people gain combat abilities beyond becoming Soul Masters.

• Mo Yuan announced the renaming of Shrek Academy to St. Freya Academy and presented three amendments establishing free compulsory education, uniform admissions rules, and new foundational subjects.
• Mo Yuan explained that students would share first-year foundations before choosing flexible study tracks, and said the Federation would fund education through its budget.
• Yu Zhenshan and Ya Li discussed Shrek Academy's end after Mo Yuan confirmed that no former teachers had been retained.
• Academies began revising their curricula and admissions plans, while families responded to free tuition with a surge in enrollment inquiries.
• Mo Yuan reviewed figures showing applications had nearly tripled and directed the Federation to fund facility expansions where needed.
• Mo Yuan told Chen Xinjie that the Stigmata Project and Fusion Warrior Project would let ordinary people gain combat abilities, making Soul Master training no longer the only path.

Ling Zichen launched the first closed beta of the Star Dou Battle Net, testing two hundred participants in individual scenarios and team combat. The first trial ended with Zhao Qing’s team defeating Lin Shuying’s side, while the participants’ wider results remained unknown.

• Ling Zichen explained the Star Dou Battle Net’s test rules to two hundred military personnel, academy students, and unaffiliated participants before connecting them to the virtual pods.
• Lin Shuying survived a simulated blizzard, defeated eighteen ice elemental creatures, and received an A rating in her individual adaptability test.
• The system assigned Lin Shuying and Zhao Qing to opposing teams for a battle over a control point in an abandoned castle.
• Zhao Qing’s Fusion Warriors and military soldiers broke through Lin Shuying’s ice wall and cornered her side in a hall.
• Zhao Qing stopped before Lin Shuying and declared that she had lost, and Lin Shuying accepted that her skills had fallen short.

Zhang Huanyun and Cao Dezhi tested an improved Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shell by firing it into the Deep Abyss, where it destroyed the seventy-second layer before an unknown force cut off the surveillance feed. They launched a second shell toward the boundary between the seventy-third and seventy-fourth layers, but a blue-robed figure with a great halberd appeared on the feed before it detonated.

• Zhang Huanyun and Cao Dezhi reviewed the improved shells and chose the seventy-second layer for the first test.
• Zhang Huanyun ordered a shell launched through the Spatial Passage while the Academy of Sciences' observation team monitored it.
• The shell shattered the seventy-second layer's core, and the entire layer collapsed into the void in seventeen seconds.
• A huge blue-lit hand destroyed the surveillance device, but the Academy of Sciences confirmed that the shell had fractured the layer's core.
• Zhang Huanyun ordered a second shell fired at the boundary between the seventy-third and seventy-fourth layers.
• Cao Dezhi saw a blue-robed figure holding a great halberd appear on the surveillance feed before the second shell exploded.

The Abyssal Sage King intercepted the experimental shells and tried to force open the spatial passage, but Mo Yuan drove him back and sealed it. With the Abyssal Sage King now on high alert, Mo Yuan halted further testing, and Zhang Huanyun suggested that Cao Dezhi and the Blood God Battalion take time to rest.

• The Abyssal Sage King destroyed the second round of shells, but Mo Yuan's flaming greatsword struck him and forced him to the ground.
• The Abyssal Sage King tore open the seventy-second-layer spatial passage from inside, but Mo Yuan used silver light to force it shut.
• Mo Yuan taunted the Abyssal Sage King, who threatened to kill him when he escaped the Abyss.
• Mo Yuan told Zhang Huanyun to halt the third round of experimental shells because the Abyssal Sage King was now on high alert.
• Zhang Huanyun suggested that Cao Dezhi and the Blood God Battalion take time off, but Cao Dezhi shook his head.

Cao Dezhi and Zhang Huanyun discussed letting soldiers’ relatives visit the Blood God Legion, and Mo Yuan approved the idea if they submitted a plan. As Mo Yuan reflected on the Federation’s recent changes and Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai’s unexpected reconciliation, he sensed something from a potted plant beside him.

• Zhang Huanyun proposed inviting soldiers’ relatives to the Blood God Legion, and Cao Dezhi agreed after recalling his friend Zang Xin and the Tang Sect’s absorption into the Federation.
• Zhang Huanyun sent Mo Yuan his plan, and Mo Yuan agreed to approve it once it was formally submitted.
• Mo Yuan reflected on the Federation’s conquest and administration of the Tiandou Empire and Star Luo Empire, as well as the public’s reaction to the revealed Deep Abyss threat.
• Mo Yuan recalled returning Leng Yulai to Leng Yaozhu, who was later stabbed but recovered and appeared affectionate with her sister.
• Mo Yuan sensed something from the potted plant beside him and turned to look.

Mo Yuan discovered that the Golden Ancient Tree was nearly finished condensing into a Life Seed, and Yun Ming's soul was emerging from within it. He prepared a Spacetime Shuttle to preserve Yun Ming's soul and summoned Ya Li to wait for his release.

• Mo Yuan asked Qiankun to analyze the Golden Ancient Tree and learned that the Life Seed's condensation was about ninety-eight percent complete, with Yun Ming's soul inside.
• Mo Yuan prepared the Spacetime Shuttle to house Yun Ming's soul and contacted Ya Li.
• Mo Yuan opened a Spatial Passage so Ya Li could arrive at the Schicksal Floating Island immediately.
• Mo Yuan explained that Yun Ming's soul would be released in about ten hours and that it would need to remain near the shuttle.
• Ya Li stayed beside the Golden Ancient Tree, waiting for Yun Ming's soul to emerge.

Mo Yuan transferred Yun Ming’s soul from the Golden Ancient Tree into the Spacetime Shuttle and arranged for Ya Li to become its master. After Ya Li left with the shuttle, Mo Yuan recovered Ah Yin’s Life Seed and considered how to use it with the Goddess of Life’s fragment to rebuild Douluo Star’s Life Core.

• Mo Yuan completed the transfer of Yun Ming’s stable soul into the Spacetime Shuttle and told Ya Li that Yun Ming would survive as its artifact spirit, though his former power and body were gone.
• Ya Li asked whether Yun Ming’s body could be rebuilt, and Mo Yuan said she would have to become the Goddess of Life.
• Mo Yuan instructed Ya Li to drip her blood onto the Spacetime Shuttle, making her its master while he retained the highest level of access.
• Ya Li sensed Yun Ming’s soul inside the shuttle, thanked Mo Yuan, and left with it, promising to help him if needed.
• Mo Yuan retrieved Ah Yin’s Life Seed and noted that it and the Goddess of Life’s fragment could theoretically rebuild Douluo Star’s Life Core, though he needed to choose the location carefully.
• Mo Yuan also discovered a withered branch where the Golden Ancient Tree had taken root.

Mo Yuan revived a consciousness inside a withered branch and discovered it belonged to the former Life Core of Douluo Star, whose natural authority and memories were gone. He then sprouted the Life Seed, where Ah Yin awakened, leaving Mo Yuan to face two distinct consciousnesses connected to the Life Core.

• Mo Yuan used life energy to revive a consciousness in a withered branch, which grew into a sapling resembling the Golden Ancient Tree.
• The sapling claimed to be the Life Core of Douluo Star, but Mo Yuan showed her the Life Seed and explained that she had lost her natural authority.
• The former Life Core reacted violently as fragmented memories surfaced, and Mo Yuan isolated her in a subspace to let her recover.
• Mo Yuan planted the Life Seed in a second flowerpot and used life energy to make it sprout.
• Mo Yuan sensed a new consciousness in the Life Seed and called out to Ah Yin, who responded as if she had just awakened.

Mo Yuan confronted Ah Yin, a Life Seed he had planted in a flowerpot, and persuaded her that cooperating with him was her best chance to grow again. He told her he planned to restore the Star Dou Great Forest and revive the Soul Beasts, while privately concealing that he did not intend to make her its Life Core.

• Mo Yuan warned Ah Yin that the Divine Realm was gone and Tang Hao and Tang San could not come to her aid, then urged her to cooperate with him.
• Ah Yin tried to contact Tang Hao but could not sense him, and she lied that she could perceive the world around her.
• Mo Yuan moved Ah Yin’s flowerpot to the windowsill, where she guessed they were near the sea and learned he had made arrangements in Eastsea City.
• Mo Yuan told Ah Yin that Shrek Academy had been destroyed and that Soul Beasts were nearly extinct.
• Mo Yuan claimed he planned to rebuild the Star Dou Great Forest so Soul Beasts and humans could coexist, while privately thinking Ah Yin was foolish to believe she would become its Life Core.