Chapter Summaries

Mo Yuan reorganized the Federation Academy of Sciences and led the development of its first rocket to launch a satellite for the Star Dou Battle Net. Star Dou One successfully entered orbit, and Mo Yuan asked Gu Yue what she was thinking.

• After becoming Parliament Speaker, Mo Yuan appointed himself president of the Federation Academy of Sciences and reorganized its research institutes into six laboratories.
• Mo Yuan designed and built the Spark One rocket, which completed its tests and was prepared to carry the Star Dou One satellite into orbit.
• Mo Yuan arrived at the launch site with scientists, engineers, and guests, including Di Tian, whom he had given a job researching Soul Beast protection and breeding.
• Ling Zichen asked whether a rocket could launch a Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shell, but Mo Yuan ignored her.
• The control center launched Spark One, and Star Dou One successfully entered its planned orbit with all systems operating normally.
• Mo Yuan turned to the silent Gu Yue and asked what she was thinking about.

Mo Yuan oversaw successful tests of the Star Dou One satellite and secured approval to build a communications network for the Star Dou Battle Net. As the Federation’s advance slowed and the Star Luo Empire prepared to resist, he warned Yu Guanzhi that the empire’s strongest trump card was a hidden Limit Douluo.

• Gu Yue told Mo Yuan that human technology and the Star Dou Battle Net had left her overwhelmed, and he assigned the satellite monitoring team to check its status and begin communications tests after three days.
• Tang Wulin watched satellite imagery with a distant look, while Xie Xie asked what he was thinking and Tang Wulin kept it secret.
• The monitoring team completed three communications tests without data loss, and Mo Yuan signed the report and sent it to the Military Department and Academy of Sciences.
• Mo Yuan proposed a network of at least seventy-two communications satellites, seven primary ground stations, and dozens of receiving terminals, and the Federal Parliament approved the publicly announced plan.
• Mo Yuan discussed the Federation’s slowed advance with Yu Guanzhi and revealed that the Star Luo Empire had a hidden Limit Douluo.

Mo Yuan prepared a fleet of flying warships and sent Zang Xin and Tang Wulin’s family to contact Qilin Douluo Tong Yu, while Yu Guanzhi took command of the fleet. The ten ships departed Eastsea City for the Heaven Dou Continent, with the Chronos joining them en route.

• Mo Yuan offered Yu Guanzhi command of a fleet of flying warships and sent him information about the vessels.
• Mo Yuan tasked Tang Wulin with bringing Tong Yu back and revealed Tong Yu’s history with Tang Ziran’s mother.
• Mo Yuan assigned Zang Xin to lead the contact mission, and Tang Ziran agreed to accompany Tang Wulin and Lang Yue.
• Mo Yuan described the Ares-class attack ships and Athena-class defense ships, placing Yu Guanzhi in overall command.
• The next morning, ten warships left the secret base outside Eastsea City, and the Chronos joined the formation as it flew west.

Eleven enormous Federation warships descended from the clouds over West Sea Port, startling the dockworkers and civilians. Federation personnel headed for the administrative center while Xue Yuntian, seeing the fleet from house arrest, felt relieved that he had surrendered.

• Lin Yuan registered grain at West Sea Port and heard a growing hum overhead.
• Eleven warships emerged through the clouds and hovered over the port, casting it into shadow.
• A blue beam brought Federation personnel down to the docks, and a young man asked Lin Yuan how to reach the administrative center.
• A middle-aged Federation officer flew toward the sea with the supply officer while the young man and a couple headed to the administrative center.
• Xue Yuntian saw the fleet from house arrest and feared what it could have done to his army, then felt fortunate that he had surrendered.

The Federation Fleet launched a surprise assault on the Star Luo Empire’s Imperial City, crippling its defenses while Tang Sect and Federation experts stopped the Worship Hall from reaching the ships. As En Ci remained locked in battle with Zang Xin, he called on Tong Yu to intervene.

• The Federation Fleet appeared over the Imperial City and bombarded its walls, arsenal, military camps, and garrisons.
• Dai Tianling ordered En Ci to lead the Worship Hall experts against the fleet, but Zang Xin and other Tang Sect and Federation experts blocked their way.
• Zang Xin and En Ci began an aerial duel while the other experts fought, preventing the Worship Hall from reaching the ships.
• The Federation Fleet destroyed the mecha hangars and scattered the city defense forces and army corps in less than ten minutes.
• After Zang Xin told En Ci that his army was nearly defeated, En Ci shouted for Tong Yu to act.

Tong Yu attacked Zang Xin, then tried to break through the Federation Fleet’s defenses, but Yu Guanzhi captured him with the Chronos’s gravity weapon and tractor beam. The Federation forces defeated the Star Luo Empire’s defenders, and Dai Tianling surrendered with a ceasefire edict already prepared.

• Tong Yu ambushed Zang Xin with his Great Five-Element Divine Blade, but Zang Xin blocked the strike while En Ci urged Tong Yu to attack the fleet.
• Tong Yu used his Five-Element Divine Needle against the fleet’s strengthened shield, but it failed to break through.
• Yu Guanzhi fired the Chronos’s Anti-Gravity Cannon and captured Tong Yu with the ship’s tractor beam.
• Yu Guanzhi joined Zang Xin against En Ci as the Federation Fleet overwhelmed the Star Luo Empire’s city defenses and captured the Worship Hall’s experts.
• En Ci surrendered after seeing a white flag over the imperial palace, and Dai Tianling presented a prepared ceasefire edict.
• Yu Guanzhi verified the edict, sent it to the front lines for broadcast, and ordered the fleet to cease fire.

Zang Xin used the fleet to hold the Star Luo Imperial City until Federation reinforcements arrived, then brought Tang Ziran, Lang Yue, and Tang Wulin to confront Tong Yu, who had murdered Su Yue. Tang Ziran refused to kill Tong Yu, leaving his fate to the Federation, and felt his old burdens had finally lifted.

• Zang Xin gave En Ci a Level-9 Spirit-Sealing Bracelet, and En Ci put it on to suppress his Soul Power.
• Zang Xin and Yu Guanzhi kept the Star Luo Imperial City sealed for seven days while officials and nobles began surrender arrangements.
• Federation reinforcements arrived on the eighth day, took over defenses and prisoner processing, and allowed the fleet to lift the blockade.
• Zang Xin brought Tang Ziran, Lang Yue, and Tang Wulin to meet Tong Yu, who admitted killing Su Yue and offered no resistance to punishment.
• Tang Ziran refused to kill Tong Yu, saying the Federation would decide his fate, and left feeling that his regrets and burdens had been resolved.

Mo Yuan discussed Zhang Geyang and Qiangu Zhangting with Yu Guanzhi before Gu Yue teased him and he carried her away. After the Star Luo Empire surrendered, Yu Guanzhi brought Qiangu Zhangting and Zhang Geyang to the imperial palace and went to meet them.

• Mo Yuan told Yu Guanzhi to preserve Zhang Geyang’s mutated Netherworld Flame Beast Soul Spirit and said he had been watching Qiangu Zhangting.
• Gu Yue wrapped her arms around Mo Yuan, teased him, and was spanked and carried off by him.
• Yu Guanzhi ordered Qiangu Zhangting brought to him, then changed his mind and sent for Zang Xin.
• Zhang Geyang handed Qiangu Zhangting over to Federation forces after the Star Luo Empire surrendered, and Yu Guanzhi had both men brought to the imperial palace.
• Yu Guanzhi entered the side hall, where Qiangu Zhangting remained despondent and Zhang Geyang greeted him as Divine Brush Excellency and Passionate Excellency.

Yu Guanzhi questioned Qiangu Zhangting and arranged for Zhang Geyang to manage the Star Luo Spirit Pagoda branch under Federation authority. As the takeover continued amid local resistance, Mo Yuan returned to Anti-Entropy Tower and woke after a night with Gu Yue and Na'er.

• Zang Xin used his Passionate Domain while Yu Guanzhi questioned Qiangu Zhangting, who accepted that his family was dead and said he had no plans to escape.
• Yu Guanzhi dismissed Zhang Geyang and later appointed him acting head of the Star Luo Spirit Pagoda branch, making clear that he must serve the Federation and follow its rules.
• Yu Guanzhi ordered Zhang Geyang to send Qiangu Zhangting to the mines once the situation stabilized.
• Yu Guanzhi reported the Star Luo takeover to Mo Yuan and planned administration for its six provisional districts amid resistance from local veterans and soldiers.
• Mo Yuan woke beside Gu Yue and recalled that Na'er had joined them the previous night after Gu Yue passed out.

After defeating Gu Yue and Na'er, Mo Yuan discussed Anti-Entropy’s Floating Island construction with Ling Zichen and told her to submit an application for approval. The next day, he brought the Anti-Entropy Sky Island Construction Plan before the Federal Parliament Presidium to settle the matter.

• Mo Yuan defeated Gu Yue and Na'er, then wondered whether he needed a Soul Steel body or restorative herbs to recover.
• Ling Zichen asked Mo Yuan when Anti-Entropy could begin building the Floating Island, and he told her to submit an application so construction could proceed legally.
• Ling Zichen secretly contacted old Zang to request a health-preservation manual for Mo Yuan.
• Amber sent Mo Yuan a large archive of health-preservation texts after collecting the Federation’s documented material on the subject.
• Mo Yuan convened the Federal Parliament Presidium and presented the Anti-Entropy Sky Island Construction Plan for discussion.

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.