Chapter Summaries

Ghost Emperor sent Ha Luosa to the Star Luo Empire to force the Green Skull Organization to prolong the war and generate more souls for the Holy Spirit Cult’s plan. Ha Luosa agreed to go with Dark Phoenix, while Lan Fozi secretly left the cult as its schemes continued.

• Ghost Emperor explained that he wanted the war between the Sun Moon Federation and the Star Luo Empire expanded, and Ha Luosa agreed to investigate the Green Skull Organization and take control if needed.
• Ghost Emperor told Ha Luosa that he had split Yun Ming’s damaged soul, giving one fragment to Shrek Academy and the other to Dark Phoenix, Leng Yulai.
• Ha Luosa agreed to travel to the Star Luo Empire with Dark Phoenix, while Ghost Emperor planned to use the war’s casualties to advance his scheme for a Divine Realm.
• Ghost Emperor reflected that the Demon Empress was committed to the plan after taking Spirit Pagoda drugs, and that he was cooperating with the Abyss Plane despite knowing its intentions.
• Lan Fozi secretly slipped out of the Holy Spirit Cult because she sensed the danger in her mother’s actions and wanted to wander for a while.

Gu Yuena, Tang Wulin, and Chen Xinjie each noticed that sea soul beasts had vanished across the waters, but none could discover why. Their journeys to the Star Luo Empire continued at increased speed as the Sun Moon Federation’s fleet prepared for war.

• Gu Yuena wondered where the sea soul beasts had gone after finding no attacks or signs of them along the voyage, and she ruled out the Abyss Plane as the cause.
• Tang Wulin sailed toward the Star Luo Empire aboard the submarine Thousand Spirits while trying to process what he had learned about his parents and the Divine Realm.
• Ya Li checked on Tang Wulin’s well-being, and he told her his soul power had reached rank eighty-eight; she also reported finding no clues about the missing sea soul beasts.
• Tang Wulin and the others continued toward the Star Luo Empire, unable to explain the sea’s unnatural silence or the likely harm the disappearance would cause Douluo Star’s environment.
• Chen Xinjie observed that no sea soul beasts approached the Sun Moon Federation’s fleet and suspected the silence was more than an effect of its interference system, but he continued the operation toward the Star Luo Empire.

Huo Yuhao and his collaborators launched a production line that used furnaces, Soul Guidance Power Hammers, and alchemy arrays to mass-produce Soul Forged metal. Huo Yuhao inspected the first finished batch and confirmed it had sufficient life force, orderly grain, and powerful characteristics.

• Huo Yuhao and the others started the production line, where a nine-layer Soul Guidance Furnace fused rare metals with different melting points.
• Workers used hundreds of Soul Guidance Power Hammers to purify and refine the alloys through Hundred Refinement and Thousand Refinement.
• Thirty demons with Spirit Sea Realm spiritual power operated the arrays and hammers that brought the alloys to Spirit Forging.
• Ten demons at the Spirit Domain Realm oversaw the stronger arrays and hammers that completed Soul Forging, producing metal with life force.
• Huo Yuhao examined a finished piece, sensed its orderly grain and sufficient life force, and confirmed its characteristics were no weaker than Ultimate Ice.

Huo Yuhao confirmed that the new soul-forging production line had produced a thousand pieces with an eighty-five percent success rate, strengthening his plans to expand it. A few days later, he studied Douluo Star’s military technology and blueprints while Yue Ye arrived with documents.

• Huo Yuhao and the others inspected the production run and found that eighty-five percent of the soul-forged metal met the standard.
• A Bao, Moon Demon God Agares, Star Demon God Vasak, Xiao An, Tang Ziran, and the others celebrated the successful production line.
• Tang Ziran worried that mass production on Douluo Star could threaten blacksmiths like Mang Tian, though he accepted that technological change could not be stopped.
• A few days later, Huo Yuhao reviewed Douluo Star’s Soul Tools and military strength, deciding that the Demon Race and Soul Beasts needed to catch up technologically before confronting humanity.
• Huo Yuhao studied blueprints with Xiao An beside him, and Yue Ye entered carrying a stack of documents.

Huo Yuhao reviewed proposed reforms to the Undead Demiplane and reflected on how entrenched martial soul families, institutions, and political systems concentrated power and resources on Douluo Star. He questioned whether ordinary people could truly challenge these conditions and concluded that the world should offer people without great talent a chance to advance, before Austin Griffin mocked his thoughts.

• Yue Ye presented Huo Yuhao with documents outlining reforms to the Undead Demiplane, including stronger welfare, transparency, education, and resident oversight.
• Huo Yuhao considered how martial soul families in the Sun Moon Federation and Star Luo Empire controlled resources and legion leadership, concentrating political power among a few groups.
• Huo Yuhao questioned whether public protest and popular power could challenge entrenched systems, citing the Spirit Pagoda's high soul spirit prices as an example.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on the suffering of people such as his mother, Jiang Nannan, Tang Ya, members of the Demon Race, soul beasts, and ordinary soul masters, and wondered whether those without talent had any chance to advance.
• Austin Griffin mocked Huo Yuhao for becoming lost in idealistic thoughts.

Huo Yuhao rejected Austin Griffin’s claim that every civilization inevitably turns into a struggle for supremacy, insisting that other paths were possible. After their exchange in the Sea of Consciousness, Huo Yuhao reviewed Yue Ye’s documents and left the room with Yue Ye and Xiao An.

• Austin Griffin mocked Huo Yuhao’s hesitation and claimed that the civilizations he had encountered had all succumbed to destruction and a ruthless struggle for power.
• Huo Yuhao recalled his conversation with Xue Ke and challenged Austin Griffin’s view that victors inevitably became the same as those they defeated.
• Austin Griffin argued that ambition assimilated everyone and that reaching the top was the only goal.
• Huo Yuhao said he would not dismiss people as insignificant and believed someone could leave the forest and find another path.
• Austin Griffin said he would wait to see Huo Yuhao’s vision fail, and Huo Yuhao replied that he had never expected words alone to solve the problem.
• Back in the real world, Huo Yuhao read the documents Yue Ye handed him, patted Xiao An’s head, gathered the drawings, and left with Yue Ye and Xiao An.

Tang Ziran watched footage of Tang Wulin while Lingyin described how she and her family had adapted to life among the Demon Race in Demon City. Her questions about old hatred left Tang Ziran reflecting on the people once called enemies, and the chapter ended with him recognizing that Demon City offered a different way of thinking about life and protecting others.

• Tang Ziran watched a recording of Tang Wulin competing, and he told Lingyin proudly that Tang Wulin was his son.
• Lingyin complained that Tang Ziran replayed the same footage every day while she studied Spiritual Power and practiced what she had learned.
• Lang Yue brought drinks, and Lingyin recounted how her family had feared leaving home until a Wolf Demon helped them after a Yak Clan neighbor raised concerns.
• Lingyin questioned why people had hated and tried to kill strangers, and Tang Ziran reflected on the history between the Star Luo Empire and the Green Skull Organization.
• Tang Ziran recalled Demon City's belief that people should protect their own lives and the lives of others from those who would destroy them.

Huo Yuhao brought Xiao An to the Soul Beast Area, where Leng Xiao organized an assessment that would determine which Soul Beasts could move freely through the Undead Demiplane. As the thousand participants began their written and Soul Guidance Array tests, Huo Yuhao noted how heavily the group was dominated by sea Soul Beasts.

• Huo Yuhao flew with Xiao An past construction across the Undead Demiplane and arrived at the Soul Beast Area.
• Leng Xiao told Huo Yuhao preparations were nearly complete and asked him to serve as an examiner, but he chose to watch instead.
• Soul Beasts emerged from the sea and forest and took their assigned places for the assessment.
• The participants began written tests on social conduct and daily life, followed by tasks inscribing Soul Guidance Arrays.
• Huo Yuhao observed that sea Soul Beasts made up ninety percent of the thousand participants, including ten of the twelve Soul Beasts with at least a hundred thousand years of cultivation.

Huo Yuhao oversaw the Soul Beasts’ Soul Guidance Array assessment while considering Xiao An’s incomplete origins and reviewing plans for a land-and-sea city. After the results were announced, he recruited the hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts to help build it and took Xiao An back.

• The Soul Beasts encountered frequent mishaps while inscribing Soul Guidance Arrays, and Huo Yuhao let Xiao An attempt one despite knowing he was still weakened and might be a dragon connected to the Dragon God.
• The Demon God of Love Sidi gave Huo Yuhao a blueprint for a city combining land and sea, which he approved as a home where Soul Beasts and other peoples could interact.
• Xiao An completed a flawless Class 6 Soul Guidance Array, and Leng Xiao hurried away with the Demon God of Love Sidi to avoid being near another diligent prodigy.
• The assessment results showed a seventy-percent pass rate, leaving three hundred Soul Beasts to retake the test.
• Huo Yuhao explained the city project to the hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts, who agreed to prepare workers for the ocean construction, and then he took Xiao An back.

Tang Wulin and his companions arrived in the Star Luo Empire, where Tang Sect branch master Hu Jie welcomed them and recognized Tang Wulin’s Spirit Domain Realm spiritual power. As they traveled toward New Star Luo City, Tang Wulin discussed the attack on the Spirit Pagoda’s Lingbo City branch with Hu Jie, who listened gravely.

• Hu Jie, Hua Lantang, and Ye Zhi welcomed Tang Wulin and his companions to the Star Luo Empire.
• Hu Jie recognized Tang Wulin as the new Tang Sect master after sensing his Spirit Domain Realm spiritual power.
• Xie Xie and the others chatted with Hua Lantang and Ye Zhi while Tang Wulin reflected on Gu Yue and his need to become stronger.
• Tang Wulin recalled that his soul power had reached rank eighty-nine and that the sea voyage had been unusually free of sea soul beasts.
• Tang Wulin, Hu Jie, and Ya Li rode together toward New Star Luo City, where Hu Jie asked about the attack on the Spirit Pagoda’s Lingbo City branch.
• Tang Wulin explained the situation in Lingbo City, and Hu Jie listened without his usual smile.

Hu Jie told Tang Wulin and Ya Li that Dai Tianling had shown little interest in the Tang Sect’s weapons deal despite the looming war, leaving him unsure what leverage the Star Luo Empire expected to use. In a flashback, Dai Tianling explained to En Ci that his negotiating plan could not truly succeed, but he still expected the Tang Sect to value the Star Luo Empire as a major buyer.

• Ya Li urged Hu Jie to focus on the Star Luo Empire’s situation and on preventing war, and Hu Jie agreed that the truth about Shrek Academy’s destruction would eventually emerge.
• Hu Jie reported Dai Tianling’s subdued response to discussions about buying Tang Sect soul weapons and wondered what technology the emperor might be using as leverage.
• Tang Wulin could not identify any such technology, but he believed the Star Luo Empire would recognize the danger of the approaching war, especially with the heavy ion soul weapons accompanying him.
• In a flashback, Dai Tianling told En Ci that the Star Luo Empire could not catch up to the Tang Sect and Sun Moon Federation’s soul guidance technology soon, and En Ci warned that the Sun Moon Federation might attack within three months.
• Dai Tianling said the Star Luo Empire still needed Tang Sect weapons and would remain its ally for now, but argued that the Tang Sect would not want to lose such a major buyer.

Dai Tianling explained why the Star Luo Empire should use the Tang Sect’s need for customers to secure weapons and technology while preparing for conflict with the Sun Moon Federation. He and En Ci failed to reproduce Huo Yuhao’s unusual soul-forged metal, and Dai Tianling decided to make it a bargaining chip in the coming negotiations with the Tang Sect.

• Dai Tianling told En Ci that the Tang Sect would likely protect the Star Luo Empire because it needed customers and had assets there, while the empire could use that dependence to seek technology.
• Dai Tianling and En Ci examined the soul-forged metal Huo Yuhao had given Chang Gongyan, which carried Heaven and Earth Vital Energy matching En Ci’s Radiant Sacred Dragon.
• Chang Gongyan explained that he had been unable to reproduce the metal’s effect and had brought it to the Imperial Palace for help.
• En Ci, Dai Tianling, and Chang Gongyan tried to channel Heaven and Earth Vital Energy into soul-forged metal, but they could not make the energy remain within it.
• Dai Tianling ordered the metal’s origins kept secret and its blacksmith sought in private, then chose to use it in negotiations with the Tang Sect.

Tang Wulin demonstrated the Heavy Ion Beam to Dai Yueyan, who then warned Dai Tianling about the weapon and his concerns over the war. Dai Tianling prepared to meet Tang Wulin while redirecting troops after learning the Green Skull Organization’s base had been abandoned.

• Tang Wulin showed Dai Yueyan and the Star Luo Empire’s Soul Masters how the Heavy Ion Beam pierced a Black-Grade Mecha, but explained the Tang Sect could not supply the classified weapon in bulk.
• Dai Yueyan reported Tang Wulin’s new position as Tang Sect sect master and the weapon’s power to Dai Tianling, who remained confident the Tang Sect would preserve the empire.
• Dai Tianling reviewed a report that soldiers had found the Green Skull Organization’s base deserted and concluded the group had relocated and weakened.
• Dai Tianling decided to withdraw most troops encircling the Green Skull Organization so they could prepare for the Sun Moon Federation’s fleet.
• Dai Tianling considered how the Star Luo Empire’s resistance could serve as leverage in future negotiations with the Tang Sect and began preparing for his meeting with Tang Wulin.

Tang Wulin and the Tang Sect delegation met Dai Tianling at the Star Luo Imperial Palace to negotiate an arms sale. Dai Tianling accepted most of the terms but proposed a higher price in exchange for a condition involving Dai Yun'er, leaving Tang Wulin uneasy as the negotiations began.

• Tang Wulin, Hu Jie, and the Shrek Six Monsters arrived at the Star Luo Imperial Palace, where Dai Yueyan and Dai Yun'er welcomed them.
• Dai Tianling held a court assembly that displayed the empire’s preparations for war, then led Tang Wulin’s delegation to a private hall for negotiations.
• Dai Tianling asked the Tang Sect to remove its restriction requiring approval before the weapons could be used, offering a ten percent price increase.
• Tang Wulin refused to remove the restriction, citing the Holy Spirit Cult’s use of powerful weapons to destroy Shrek Academy and attack the Sun Moon Federation fleet.
• Dai Tianling dropped his objection and offered a twenty percent price increase if Tang Wulin agreed to another condition, then drew Dai Yun’er forward, making Tang Wulin uneasy.

Dai Tianling offered Tang Wulin marriage to Dai Yun'er, but Tang Wulin intended to refuse because he loved Gu Yue and feared the political consequences for the Tang Sect. Dai Tianling then revealed soul-forged metal whose aura changed to match the White Tiger, leaving Tang Wulin shocked by its unexplained properties.

• Dai Tianling proposed that Tang Wulin marry Dai Yun'er and promised the Star Luo Empire's support wherever he went.
• Tang Wulin decided to refuse, considering his feelings for Gu Yue and the damage the marriage could cause the Tang Sect's standing in the Sun Moon Federation.
• Dai Tianling asked Tang Wulin about his skills as a Battle Armor Master and blacksmith, then had En Ci display a piece of soul-forged metal.
• Dai Tianling touched the metal, causing its aura to change from light to the White Tiger's imposing presence.
• Tang Wulin realized the metal's properties could change after Soul Forging, a phenomenon he had never encountered, and stared at it in shock.

Tang Wulin examined the Star Luo Empire’s remarkable Soul Forged metal, which changed its properties to match the Martial Soul power he released. He refused Dai Tianling’s condition, leaving Dai Yun'er heartbroken and the negotiations at a stalemate as war approached.

• Tang Wulin and the others were astonished when Dai Tianling revealed a piece of Soul Forged metal, and Hu Jie realized its value to the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy.
• Tang Wulin tested the metal with the Blue Silver Emperor’s and Golden Dragon King’s powers, discovering that it rapidly adapted to different Martial Souls.
• Dai Tianling pressed Tang Wulin for an answer to his condition without revealing who had forged the metal.
• Tang Wulin addressed Dai Yun'er, who understood his impending refusal and left in tears.
• Tang Wulin apologized to Dai Tianling and refused the condition, after which En Ci took back the metal.
• Tang Wulin recognized that the negotiations had reached a stalemate, but the Tang Sect could neither accept the condition nor abandon the Star Luo Empire before the approaching war.

Tang Wulin agreed to fight in the Five Gods Battle after Dai Tianling made the Star Luo Empire's purchase of the Tang Sect's Soul Weapons conditional on the contest. The Tang Sect returned to its headquarters to prepare, while Tang Wulin admitted he could not identify the secret behind Dai Tianling's unusual soul forged metal.

• Hu Jie tried to steer the negotiations toward war preparations and Soul Weapon sales, but Dai Tianling asked the Tang Sect to help advance the Star Luo Empire's soul tool technology.
• Dai Tianling proposed the Five Gods Battle, offering a ten percent price increase if Tang Wulin won every battle and requesting that some weapon restrictions be removed if he did not.
• Tang Wulin agreed to participate and said he would warn Tang Sect headquarters in the Sun Moon Federation to prepare for possible repercussions.
• Xie Xie and the others questioned Tang Wulin about Dai Tianling's unusual soul forged metal, but Tang Wulin said he could not understand its structure.
• Hu Jie urged Tang Wulin to prepare for the Five Gods Battle, and the group returned to the Tang Sect headquarters to await the arrangements.

Huo Yuhao and the others developed modular mechas in the Undead Demiplane, designing them for faster repairs and battlefield support rather than individual combat. The group tested the new mechas, and Huo Yuhao focused on the experiment.

• Huo Yuhao and the others identified how integrated mechas took too long to repair and limited battlefield readiness.
• A Hell Demon suggested combining mecha sections like fillings in a wrap, inspiring the group to create a modular design.
• Huo Yuhao and the others divided each mecha into eight replaceable sections and reduced repairs to under twenty minutes.
• The group incorporated transformation functions into selected components and treated mechas as mobile support tools for soldiers.
• Huo Yuhao watched a grade-seven Fixed Soul Cannon Shell strike the black metal armor during the experiment.

Huo Yuhao and the others tested a heavily armed black-grade mecha against a ten-member combat squad, measuring its defenses and the squad’s coordinated firepower. The mecha survived the assault, its soul-forged armor began repairing the damage, and Huo Yuhao cleared the squad away for the next experiment.

• Huo Yuhao observed the six-meter black-grade mecha and explained its weapons, design, and role as the plan’s intended mainstay.
• A Seventh Order Hell Demon commanded the combat squad to switch weapons after its first attack failed to damage the mecha.
• The squad used communication and detection helmets to coordinate attacks, achieving a ninety-percent hit rate without Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection Sharing.
• The mecha’s Soul Tool Shield absorbed a Level 8 soul cannon blast, though the impact pushed it back two meters.
• The squad unleashed a barrage that destroyed the mecha’s shield and visibly damaged its armor, which began repairing itself.
• Huo Yuhao and the others approved of the mecha’s defenses, reviewed Tang Ziran’s collected data, and ordered the squad to withdraw for the next experiment.

Huo Yuhao tested the Black-Grade Mecha against an undead army in a simulated urban battle, demonstrating its interception fire, mobility, and combat capabilities. He then exposed it to ten Bone Dragons, and the battered mecha continued facing their attacks as Huo Yuhao kept the test going to discover its limits.

• Huo Yuhao used Elements Control to create a simulated city block for the five thousand undead creatures.
• The Black-Grade Mecha intercepted incoming arrows and magic missiles while moving, stopping seventy percent of the attacks and allowing fewer than ten percent to hit it.
• The mecha fought through attacks from undead creatures inside the block, destroying enemies and continuing to fire despite damage to the simulated city.
• Star Demon God Vasak watched as Huo Yuhao sent ten Bone Dragons against the mecha, whose firepower could not stop their charge.
• Moon Demon God Agares cleared the dust to reveal the Bone Dragons had damaged the mecha, but Huo Yuhao continued the test to find its limits.