Chapter Summaries

Xuan Zi and Chen Ping reviewed how the undead were transforming Shrek’s mining and metallurgical production, but Han Ruoruo then reported that the Sun Moon Empire had launched its war. The chapter left the Star Luo Empire’s front collapsed after Level 9 shells destroyed part of the Mingdou Mountain Range, while Dai Hao remained outside their lethal range.

• Xuan Zi recognized that Chen Ping’s undead army could support large-scale mining and metallurgy, and new production lines began operating in the Star Dou Forest.
• Han Ruoruo told Xuan Zi and Chen Ping that the Sun Moon Empire had begun its military offensive.
• Xu Tianran and other factions persuaded Xu Shiliu to set the Sun Moon Empire’s war machine in motion.
• Princess Xu Yun visited recruits in Yuming City as three Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells struck the Mingdou Mountain Range and shook the camp.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s attack collapsed the Star Luo Empire’s front, but Dai Hao survived because he was outside the shells’ lethal range.

The Sun Moon Empire launched a surprise attack on the Star Luo Empire, using eight Soul Engineer Corps and Level 9 shells to shatter the Mingdou Mountain Range Defense Line and inflict devastating losses on Dai Hao’s army. After the invasion forces seized border fortresses, Xu Jiawei appealed to Shrek Academy and the neighboring empires for aid, while Xuan Zi and Chen Ping considered the scale of the attack.

• The Sun Moon Empire fired three Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells into the Mingdou Mountain Range, then sent eight Soul Engineer Corps through the breach to overwhelm the Star Luo Empire’s defenses.
• Dai Hao’s Northwestern Army Group lost the Mingdou Mountain Range and suffered more than sixty thousand casualties, though its abandoned central position spared tens of thousands of troops from a direct hit.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s forces crippled several Star Luo artillery positions, occupied border fortresses, and advanced into Star Luo territory while guarding their border with the Heaven Dou Empire.
• The Star Luo Imperial Family appealed to the Heaven Dou Empire, the Dou Ling Empire, and Shrek Academy for aid after news of the breached western frontier spread across the continent.
• Han Ruoruo briefed Xuan Zi and Chen Ping on the war, and Chen Ping remarked on the vast deployment of the Hand of National Protection.

Chen Ping argued that the Sun Moon Empire’s attack on the Star Luo Empire was a diversion and that its real target was the Heaven Dou Empire. He urged Shrek Academy to send reinforcements to Heaven Dou instead, leaving Xuan Zi and Han Ruoruo to reconsider the enemy’s strategy.

• Xuan Zi proposed sending Shrek Academy Elders to reinforce the Star Luo Empire, and Han Ruoruo volunteered to fight with them.
• Chen Ping rejected sending the Academy to help the Star Luo Empire, though he allowed that its Elders could fight alongside the Academy elsewhere.
• Chen Ping reasoned that the Sun Moon Empire’s halt after capturing the Mingdou Mountain Range made little sense if it intended to invade Star Luo, suggesting the pause concealed its true objective.
• Chen Ping warned that the attack would draw Star Luo, Dou Ling, and Heaven Dou forces toward the western frontier, leaving the Heaven Dou Empire exposed.
• Chen Ping concluded that the Sun Moon Empire’s real target was Heaven Dou and that its limited Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shells and unstable domestic situation made a prolonged assault on Star Luo unlikely.

Chen Ping identified the Sun Moon Empire’s plan to draw the Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires away before attacking Heaven Dou, and Shrek relayed countermeasures to the Three Great Empires. As the empires made their deployments, a red-armored woman in the Sun Moon Empire’s command tent learned that both had sent troops and believed the bait had worked.

• Chen Ping advised Shrek that the Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires should not send forces to the Star Luo Empire, and recommended that Star Luo bombard the Mingdou Mountain Range while probing it through tunnels.
• Han Ruoruo sent Chen Ping’s analysis and Shrek’s proposals to the Three Great Empires through the encrypted communications network.
• The Heaven Dou emperor realized that Shrek’s warning had prevented him from exposing his empire to an attack by the four great Beast King Soul Engineer Corps.
• The Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires staged troop movements that appeared to support Star Luo, while secretly positioning their forces to defend Heaven Dou.
• Star Luo deployed Soul Tool Cannons against the Mingdou Mountain Range and sent tunnel-burrowing detachments to confirm that its defenders had largely withdrawn.
• A messenger told the red-armored woman in the Sun Moon Empire’s command tent that Heaven Dou and Dou Ling had dispatched troops, and she concluded that they had taken the bait.

Ju Zi’s war preparations advanced as the Sun Moon Empire’s surveillance blinded the Star Luo Empire, while Chen Ping devised countermeasures for the allied empires. The chapter ended with Xu Jiawei sending Princess Xu Jiujiu and eight Soul Master legions to the Mingdou Mountain Range as Dai Hao remained baffled by the attacks on his troops.

• Ju Zi ordered a tighter reconnaissance blockade along the Star Luo Empire’s western border as her officers praised her plan and the Sun Moon Empire prepared its elite forces.
• Xu Jiawei realized the Star Luo Empire had lost most of its ability to observe the enemy, while Dai Hao’s scouts were exposed and struck by saturation attacks.
• Chen Ping advised the Heaven Dou Empire to bury hundreds of tons of Fixed-Installation Cannon Shells beneath its military positions to ambush the Sun Moon Empire’s attacking forces.
• Dai Hao failed to understand why his soldiers were attacked near the Mingdou Mountain Range despite his High-Altitude Detectors still operating outside it.
• Xu Jiawei sent eight Soul Master legions to the Mingdou Mountain Range and appointed Princess Xu Jiujiu as a staff officer.

Chen Ping informed Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu that experimental High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools operating three thousand meters above the ground had exposed Star Luo scouts near the Mingdou Mountain Range. He revealed that the devices had virtually no detection capability at night and recommended waiting for darkness to act.

• Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu wondered how the Sun Moon Empire kept detecting their squads and whether spies or undiscovered equipment were responsible.
• Chen Ping arrived and explained that self-moving High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools at three thousand meters were likely spotting the scouts.
• Chen Ping said he intended to capture several of the devices and investigate whether they could be reproduced.
• Dai Hao lamented that the Star Luo army still lacked information on the enemy’s forces in the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Chen Ping explained that the detection devices were nearly blind at night and advised Dai Hao to wait until darkness to strike.

Chen Ping warned Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu that the Mingdou Mountain Range’s automated defenses made nighttime scouting and assaults nearly impossible, while the Star Luo Empire lacked the shells for a broad bombardment. He revealed that the Sun Moon Empire’s Death God Soul Tool might also be in the mountains, leaving the defenders facing an even greater threat.

• Dai Hao planned to send scouts into the Mingdou Mountain Range at night, then use concentrated artillery fire to destroy the emplacements and retake the mountains.
• Chen Ping said he had recommended blanket bombardment with Level 4 Soul Tool Cannons, but Dai Hao objected that the Northwestern Army Group had fewer than a hundred thousand shells.
• Chen Ping told Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu that Shrek would sell Soul Cannon Shells at seventy-five percent of market price.
• After Dai Hao cleared the command tent, Chen Ping explained that more than three thousand automated firing positions were linked to detection Soul Tools and would eliminate attackers as soon as they were detected.
• Dai Hao proposed sending elite Soul Masters to destroy the firing positions in repeated sorties, and Chen Ping warned that the Death God Soul Tool might have been transported to the mountains and fueled by the souls of tens of thousands of people.

Chen Ping warned Xu Jiujiu and Dai Hao that Ye Xishui and Kong Deming’s Death God soul tool could devastate the Star Luo forces, then proposed testing his deduction that Ye Xishui was injured and relying on the weapon to hold the Mingdou Mountain Range. He left a Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shell in the tent as he asked Dai Hao to provide people for the test.

• Chen Ping revealed that the Death God soul tool consumed tens of thousands of souls and could unleash attacks more powerful than a Limit Douluo’s strike.
• Chen Ping identified Death God Douluo Ye Xishui, rather than Kong Deming, as the Sun Moon Empire’s presence in the mountains and explained that she had helped create the weapon.
• Dai Hao questioned how Chen Ping had obtained the intelligence, and Chen Ping attributed it to looted arsenal information and a dead evil soul master.
• Chen Ping told Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu that he suspected Ye Xishui was injured and asked to test the deduction using human lives.
• Chen Ping produced a Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shell and explained that, if Ye Xishui was recovering, the Star Luo Empire might be able to keep her from intervening in the war.

Chen Ping suspected Ye Xishui was too injured to fight at full strength and planned to use the opportunity to investigate her position in the Mingdou Mountain Range. While secretly flying to steal a High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool, he discovered that his soul power drained rapidly at high altitude.

• Chen Ping reasoned that Ye Xishui’s absence from the Sun Moon Empire’s major battles likely meant she could not fight at full strength.
• After the Sun Moon Empire paused its advance, Chen Ping set out at four in the morning to steal a High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool and check whether Ye Xishui and her Death God Tower were nearby.
• Chen Ping concealed himself with mirage dragon’s breath and used Ultimate Ice to evade the detection soul tools as he flew upward.
• Chen Ping noticed his soul power consumption increased with altitude, then became extremely rapid while he hovered at three thousand meters.

Chen Ping stole all thirteen High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools above the Mingdou Mountain Range and scouted the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses, discovering the hidden Death God Soul Tool. Ju Zi learned the detectors had vanished and suspected Chen Ping, recalling how she had once blamed others for a similar disappearance.

• Chen Ping used a spatial portal to collect the High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools stationed above the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Chen Ping flew toward the Sun Moon Empire’s positions and scanned their defenses with his spiritual power.
• Chen Ping discovered that the hidden Death God Soul Tool was on a mountaintop in the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• A red-armored Soul Engineer reported to Ju Zi that all thirteen High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools had disappeared without warning.
• Ju Zi recalled her past dealings with the people she had made scapegoats and said that Chen Ping haunted her like a lingering ghost.

Ju Zi concluded that Chen Ping had stolen the High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools and ordered the Sun Moon Empire’s invasion of Heaven Dou City to begin. At the border, Vina and Long Ao Tian escaped the fortifications before eight soul engineer corps devastated them, and Ju Zi ordered the assault to continue.

• Ju Zi blamed Chen Ping for stealing the High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools and prepared to invade Heaven Dou City, assuming the Three Great Empires might have discovered her deception.
• Vina and Long Ao Tian watched the Heaven Dou Empire’s border defenses and saw the Sun Moon Empire’s eight soul engineer corps approaching.
• Vina and Long Ao Tian escaped through an underground passage as the Sun Moon Empire bombarded the border fortifications and killed countless soldiers.
• Ju Zi ordered the Fire Phoenix and Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps to finish firing, then directed the Terrorclaw and Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps to target defensive nodes and advance.

The Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineer Corps devastated the Heaven Dou Empire's border defenses and slaughtered the surviving soldiers as they advanced. Beneath the battlefield, hundreds of veterans prepared to detonate a vast stockpile of shells, knowing their mission would kill them but hoping to protect their families and homeland.

• The Terror Claw Soul Engineer Legion and another Soul Engineer Corps advanced through the ruined defenses after the bombardment ended.
• Surviving Heaven Dou soldiers tried to resist or surrender, but Ju Zi's troops killed them all under her order.
• Hundreds of veteran Soul Masters waited beneath the battlefield with shells stored in their Storage Soul Tools and joked together about their impending deaths.
• The veterans had volunteered to place the shells after the bombardment to prevent the Sun Moon Empire's covering fire from triggering them prematurely.
• The veterans prepared to detonate hundreds or thousands of tons of shells, including Level Seven Fixed-Installation Shells, in an explosion powerful enough to kill millions.

Vina detonated buried Soul Cannon Shells against the Sun Moon Empire’s advancing forces, then destroyed the Terror Claw Soul Engineer Legion’s surviving commander with a Level 8 Light of Annihilation. Ju Zi realized Chen Ping had exposed her plan and ordered a retreat, but the Holy Spirit Cult had already gone out.

• Vina detonated hundreds of tons of buried Soul Cannon Shells, wiping out the Terror Claw Soul Engineer Legion and devastating the following forces.
• Vina ordered a Level 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell fired at the surviving Legion Commander, and the Light of Annihilation erased him.
• Ju Zi received word that the Terror Claw Soul Engineer Legion was destroyed and contact with the Soul-Controlling Soul Engineer Corps was lost.
• Ju Zi recognized the attack as a trap set by Chen Ping and ordered all Soul Engineer Corps to retreat.
• Ju Zi learned the Holy Spirit Cult had already gone out and cursed their predictable actions.

After the Heaven Dou Empire repelled the Sun Moon Empire’s first assault, Xuan Ziwen activated Chen Ping’s Soul-Guiding Soul-Revealing Lamps, exposing the Holy Spirit Cult’s Evil Soul Masters as they devoured fallen soldiers’ souls. Zhongli Wu fled with the cult, leaving the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers to face the revelation and wonder whether their own families would be next.

• Vina declared the first offensive defeated, ordered the defenses reinforced, and told Xuan Ziwen to raise the equipment he had prepared.
• Xuan Ziwen launched Hot-Air Balloons carrying hundreds of Soul-Guiding Soul-Revealing Lamps, which illuminated the dead soldiers’ souls above the battlefield.
• Zhongli Wu, Feng Ling, and the Holy Spirit Cult’s Evil Soul Masters appeared and began devouring the souls of fallen Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers and other soldiers.
• Feng Ling realized the lamps made the souls visible to everyone, and the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers stared at the cult in fury.
• Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to retreat, and some Soul Engineers fainted as they feared the cult might threaten their families.

The Sun Moon Empire’s invasion collapsed after Chen Ping’s plan destroyed two Soul Engineer Corps and shattered the morale of the six survivors. Ju Zi ordered the retreating army to march north, while Xuan Ziwen’s side celebrated the enemy’s withdrawal.

• The Holy Spirit Cult’s Evil Soul Masters fled toward the Sun Moon Empire rather than risk entering the Douluo Continent, while the six surviving Soul Engineer Corps began a disorganized retreat.
• Ju Zi realized the defeat had ruined her position and could lead to her execution, but she refused to die before avenging her father.
• Ju Zi ordered her forces to reorganize, change into cold-weather clothing, and march north to prolong her survival.
• Xuan Ziwen’s soul engineers cheered as they confirmed the Sun Moon Empire’s army had retreated.
• Xuan Ziwen accepted that fighting alongside Shrek against the Evil Soul Masters was necessary to protect the continent.

Dai Hao and the Star Luo Empire’s officers approved a suicide mission to destroy the Sun Moon Empire’s detection Soul Tools in the Mingdou Mountain Range. Xuanji Douluo led the force toward the mountains, where the Soul Douluos prepared to draw the enemy’s fire while the Titled Douluos pursued other assault routes.

• Dai Hao concluded that the Star Luo Empire had to destroy the Sun Moon Empire’s detection Soul Tools despite Ye Xishui and the Death God Soul Tool guarding the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• The officers assembled a force of Titled Douluos and Soul Douluos, and Dai Hao entrusted the mission’s command to Xuanji Douluo.
• Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu watched as Xuanji Douluo led dozens of powerful Soul Masters into the night toward the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Xuanji Douluo halted the force near the detection Soul Tools and ordered the Soul Douluos to begin a low-altitude incursion in three minutes.
• A Soul Douluo pledged that the group would draw the mountain range’s defenses and the Death God Soul Tool’s attention while Xuanji Douluo and the other Titled Douluos carried out separate assaults.

Star Luo Empire's Soul Douluo launched a costly surprise assault on the Sun Moon Empire's defenses at the Mingdou Mountain Range, destroying many Soul Tools but suffering heavy losses. The barrage began to weaken as the defenders' detection systems retreated or malfunctioned.

• A Soul Douluo led more than a hundred others toward the Mingdou Mountain Range using hidden tunnels and scattered them around the breach.
• A Soul Douluo destroyed a High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool, signaling the attack, and the Soul Douluo began striking the surrounding devices.
• The Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineer legions answered with a vast barrage of Soul Cannons and antiaircraft fire, killing at least twenty Soul Douluo.
• The Star Luo attackers destroyed over forty percent of the nearby high-altitude Soul Tools and many ground-based devices, but many Soul Douluo were killed or wounded.
• The Sun Moon Empire's Soul Cannon fire weakened as its Soul Tools consumed power, while detection devices retreated or overloaded.

Xuanji Douluo’s assault team attacked the Soul Engineer positions in the Mingdou Mountain Range, but the Death God Soul Tool unleashed its devastating Eternal Annihilation Light. The Death God Tower then revealed a more precise attack mode and began targeting scattered Soul Douluos one by one.

• Xuanji Douluo stopped the Titled Douluos from charging and ordered the squad to attack the Soul Engineer positions below.
• A Soul Douluo pierced a Level 8 anti-aircraft Soul Tool and its shield with his Star-Piercing Spear, before a terrifying pressure struck the squad.
• The Death God Soul Tool swept the sky with a beam of Eternal Annihilation Light, erasing more than a dozen Soul Douluos.
• The Titled Douluos in the tunnel realized the Death God Soul Tool had activated and hoped the scattered Soul Douluos would limit its casualties.
• The Death God Tower appeared in the Mingdou Mountain Range and fired precise white beams at the Soul Douluos in the air.

The Death God Tower’s triangular cube switched to targeted attacks and erased the scattered Soul Douluos one by one, leaving the ambushers helpless underground. As the weapon began to glow red and slow, Xuanji Douluo ordered the remaining fighters to charge and burst through the ground.

• The Death God Tower’s cube fired precise Death God’s Light beams that erased a Cyan Light Falcon Soul Douluo and a Rock Giant Statue Soul Douluo.
• The cube continued picking off the scattered Soul Douluos, while the hidden Titled Douluos realized their speed, defenses, and soul skills could not stop the beams.
• Giant Hammer Douluo urged Xuanji Douluo to send their brothers out, grieving that his younger brother had been killed.
• Xuanji Douluo waited, recognizing the weapon’s targeted-erasure mode and trusting that they had to seize their chance themselves.
• The cube slowed and glowed bright red, and Xuanji Douluo ordered the remaining fighters to charge before blasting through the ground.

More than a dozen Star Luo Empire Titled Douluos broke into the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses in the Mingdou Mountain Range and fought their way toward Ye Xishui and the Death God Soul Tool. Ye Xishui waited for the Death God Tower to recover, while her unstable condition left her unable to face the assault immediately.

• The Star Luo Empire’s Titled Douluos attacked the Sun Moon Empire’s soul engineers after the Soul Douluos’ sacrifice let them break into the enemy position.
• Giant Hammer Douluo struck the mountainside, causing tremors and collapsing part of the peak while damaging the defenses.
• Shattered Star Douluo used Shattered Star Vortex to absorb incoming soul-tool attacks and shield the advancing Titled Douluos.
• The Titled Douluos smashed their way toward the Death God Tower, forcing Ye Xishui to wait for the Death God’s Light to cool down.
• Ye Xishui’s recurring instability, caused by her coexisting Bright Phoenix and Blood Soul Demon Puppet martial souls, was revealed as the reason she could not readily confront the attackers.