Chapter Summaries

Qian Gu Fenfeng campaigned for Sun Moon Federation Council Chair by promising to centralize power, expand the Federation, and prepare for war against the Abyss Plane. He won the election and took office, shifting the balance of power in Mingdu.

• Qian Gu Fenfeng delivered a campaign speech condemning internal divisions and promising to conquer the Dou Ling Empire and Star Dou.
• The chapter described the Qiangu Family’s influence over the Spirit Pagoda and listed the twelve Spirit Envoys.
• The 108 council members voted, and the presiding elder announced that Qian Gu Fenfeng had won with 81 votes.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng took the Council Chair’s seat and pledged to reconcile factions, develop Soul Guidance Technology and Soul Masters, and defend against the Abyss Plane.

At the Sea God Pavilion, Long Yeyue demanded action against Qian Gu Fenfeng, but Yun Ming and the elders agreed to counter the Spirit Pagoda by increasing Tang Sect support to other continents. Ya Li concealed her past connection to Qian Gu Fenfeng, and the meeting ended amid accusations and tension.

• Long Yeyue tried to confront Qiangu Dieting at the Spirit Pagoda, but Yun Ming stopped her and urged her to remain calm.
• Yun Ming asked Ya Li for advice on opposing Qian Gu Fenfeng, and she recommended that the Tang Sect increase its strategic weapons support to other continents.
• Ya Li privately thought about obtaining the Tang Sect's defense deployment map for her father while the elders agreed on her proposal.
• An elder accused Ya Li of disloyalty and having an affair with Qian Gu Fenfeng, but Yun Ming defended her and adjourned the meeting.

At a family banquet, Qiangu Dieting asked Qian Gu Fenfeng about his plans as speaker, and Fenfeng said he would focus on unifying the Federation. After dinner, Leng Yaozhu and Qian Chenyue led him away to give him their private present.

• Qiangu Dieting asked Qian Gu Fenfeng what he planned to do as speaker.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng said the Federation needed to resolve its internal divisions before facing outside threats.
• Qiangu Dieting, Qiangu Dongfeng, and Qiangu Qingfeng pledged their support for Fenfeng.
• After dinner, Leng Yaozhu and Qian Chenyue congratulated Fenfeng and took him away to present their gift.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng embraced both women and accepted their present.

Speaker Qian Gu Fenfeng arranged alliances and coordinated a midnight plan against the Sea God Family, while the Federation's factions prepared for the coming Family Annihilation Operation. The chapter ended with Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect appearing calm as the storm gathered.

• Qian Gu Fenfeng summoned Dong Zi'an for a gathering the day after tomorrow, using the invitation to bring the Western Legion commander into his plans.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng told Secretary Pan to inform Chen Yue, the Leng sisters, Elder Yi, and Qingfeng that the plan would begin at midnight the day after tomorrow.
• Chen Xinjie surveyed the Sea God Legion's defenses, which functioned as the Sea God Family's private army.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng pressured Family Head Yue into siding with the Qiangu Family and demanded proof of loyalty the day after tomorrow.
• Federation officials held their positions as the Tang Sect quietly moved military supplies, setting the stage for the Family Annihilation Operation.

Qian Gu Fenfeng used a banquet in Mingdu to demand that the six legion commanders surrender their regional military authority, then attacked Chen Xinjie when he objected. Chen Xinjie fought back with his Sea God Helmet and a seawater dragon, while Qian Gu Fenfeng heated the surrounding ocean.

• Qian Gu Fenfeng announced the Calm the Waves Plan after Qiangu Dongfeng established Spirit Pagoda-centered local security agencies, and the Federation's six legion commanders gathered in Mingdu the next day.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng praised the legion commanders and urged them to retire honorably, returning their authority to the central government and their weapons to the armories.
• Yu Guanzhi, Divine Brush Douluo, Yue Zhengen, and Vast Sea Douluo recognized the banquet as an effort to strip the legions of their power, while Chen Xinjie objected.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng attacked Chen Xinjie with the Coiling Dragon Staff as Dong Zi'an and Yue Zhengen turned against Yu Guanzhi and Guo Zhenfeng.
• Chen Xinjie summoned his four-word Battle Armor and Sea God Helmet, then sent an enormous seawater dragon plunging at Qian Gu Fenfeng.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng dismissed Chen Xinjie's reputation and heated the surrounding ocean until its waters began to steam.

Qian Gu Fenfeng overwhelmed Chen Xinjie in a battle above the sea, breaking through his defenses and leaving him badly wounded. Qian Gu Fenfeng declared that the Sea God Family would cease to exist, and Chen Xinjie was left facing his opponent’s final attack.

• Chen Xinjie unleashed Vast Sea Swallowing Heaven, but Qian Gu Fenfeng stopped and shattered the sea dragon with Crossing the Mountain.
• Chen Xinjie activated Vast Sea Domain and attacked with water blades and barriers, while Qian Gu Fenfeng broke through them with Rending the Firmament and Suppressing the Wilderness.
• Chen Xinjie struck with Blue Sea Annihilation Seal, but Qian Gu Fenfeng shattered it with Unyielding World Suppression and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng told Chen Xinjie he had lost, and Chen Xinjie asked whether he feared the Sea God Family’s revenge.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng said the Sea God Family would cease to exist and bid farewell to Vast Sea Douluo.

Qian Gu Fenfeng killed Chen Xinjie, then used the execution to justify abolishing the Sea God Family and stripping powerful clans and legion commanders of independent military authority. The Federation’s military power was consolidated under central command.

• Qian Gu Fenfeng struck down Chen Xinjie with Unyielding World Suppression, killing the former commander of the Sea God Legion.
• Yu Guanzhi and the other legion commanders reacted with fear when they learned Chen Xinjie was dead.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng accused Chen Xinjie of undermining the Federation and proposed striking the Sea God Family from the Federation’s rolls.
• Yu Guanzhi and the other legion commanders agreed with Qian Gu Fenfeng’s proposal.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng’s measures returned regional legion deployments and private troops to Federation command and barred great clans from privately commanding large forces.

On August 24, 2057, Qiangu Qingfeng led the Southern Legion in a surprise attack on the Sea God Legion’s naval harbor. The harbor was left in chaos as the Southern Legion split up its defenders and began taking control of the base.

• Qiangu Qingfeng ordered the Southern Legion to disable the coastal artillery and divide the Sea God Legion’s fleet before it could form up.
• Leng Yaozhu struck the coastal defenses with her heavenly fire phoenix, destroying turrets and triggering alarms.
• Leng Yulai infiltrated the harbor and attacked patrols while secretly destroying Communication Soul Tool towers.
• Han Tianyi froze the harbor entrances and exits, trapping the warships in their berths.
• Qian Chenyue’s fallen angel domain caused grotesque mutations among the assembling Sea God Legion soldiers.
• Qiangu Qingfeng directed the Southern Legion as it divided the Sea God Legion’s strongholds and cut its troops into isolated groups.

The Southern Legion crushed the Sea God Legion’s harbor defenses and forced its surviving soldiers to surrender. Le Zheng Ci then ordered the Sea God Family exterminated, leaving its estate in ruins.

• Leng Yulai assassinated Sea God Legion officers, disrupting their command and leaving units isolated.
• Leng Yaozhu burned docks and destroyed coastal guns while fighting Sea God Soul Masters.
• Qiangu Qingfeng directed the Southern Legion’s attack and announced the Sea God Legion’s fall after its command tower was destroyed.
• The Sea God Legion’s surviving soldiers laid down their weapons and surrendered.
• The Southern Legion overwhelmed the Sea God Family, killing its members and elders.
• Le Zheng Ci ordered his men to spare no one in the Sea God Family.

After the Sea God Family was annihilated, Qian Gu Fenfeng suppressed dissent in Parliament while the Spirit Pagoda moved to seize control and Shrek struggled to respond. The Federation’s coastal defenses passed to the Spirit Pagoda, and established powers across the continent withdrew in fear.

• Qian Gu Fenfeng rejected a dove-faction parliamentarian’s condemnation, then ordered the execution of dissenting family heads and sent the elder to the dungeon for interrogation.
• Qiangu Dongfeng reviewed plans targeting great families close to Shrek and ordered the Spirit Pagoda to begin.
• At Shrek, Long Yeyue insisted on confronting Qian Gu Fenfeng, and Yun Ming let her go while the Sea God Pavilion’s members remained wary of open conflict.
• The Spirit Pagoda took over the abandoned coastal defense lines across the four seas.
• Great families and sects across the continent sealed themselves away after the Sea God Family’s destruction.

The Qiangu Family used federal forces to annihilate clans and sects tied to Shrek, while Shrek's elders watched, unable to intervene without provoking the federation. Yun Ming stood at the Sea God Pavilion window as reports of the massacres continued to arrive.

• The federal government and the Spirit Pagoda's Guard Bureau began purging clans that had ties to Shrek or refused to submit to the Qiangu Family.
• Federal forces attacked the Eastern Region Luo Clan, killing its members, burning its estate, and erasing its name from the register of clans.
• The purge legion destroyed the Xuanming Sect, confiscated its resources, and sent surviving disciples to hard-labor prisons or crippled them.
• Pro-Shrek clans and secluded sects across the Western and Northern Regions fell to the federal campaign.
• Shrek's elders received reports of the massacres but could not intervene without defying the federation and inviting a joint assault.
• Yun Ming watched the blood-soaked world from the Sea God Pavilion window.

Qian Gu Fenfeng publicly denounced Chen Xinjie and the Sea God Family, winning popular support while condemning their associates as rebels. When Long Yeyue confronted him, he defeated her instantly and ordered her imprisoned alive for later use.

• A six-year-old Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon orphan left the ruins of his clan holding his father's dagger and vowed revenge against the Qiangu Family.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng announced the Federation's treason judgment against Chen Xinjie and the Sea God Family, ordering the clan destroyed and its allies branded as rebel remnants.
• The people praised Qian Gu Fenfeng, while writers and politicians promoted books celebrating him and his pro-war ideology.
• Long Yeyue confronted Qian Gu Fenfeng at the Federal Parliament and attacked with the Radiant Sacred Dragon and Dark Sacred Dragon.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng pierced Long Yeyue with a Heaven-Incinerating Dragon Beam, shattered her Soul Rings, and ordered his men to keep her alive and imprison her.

Yun Ming confronted Qian Gu Fenfeng over Long Yeyue’s imprisonment, but Qian Gu Fenfeng insisted it was lawful and threatened Shrek. Yun Ming tried to negotiate, and Qian Gu Fenfeng raised his demand for Shrek Academy’s tax rate before Yun Ming challenged him to a bout.

• Yun Ming arrived at the Spirit Pagoda and confronted Qian Gu Fenfeng after seeing Long Yeyue bound and injured in a cage.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng defended Long Yeyue’s detention as lawful and claimed the Sea God Family and other established families had been punished for their actions.
• Yun Ming demanded Long Yeyue’s release and threatened all-out war between Shrek and the Qian Gu Clan.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng challenged Yun Ming to fight if Shrek intervened, and Yun Ming ultimately asked for his terms.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng demanded a sixty percent tax from Shrek Academy, then raised it to seventy percent when Yun Ming counteroffered forty percent.
• Yun Ming challenged Qian Gu Fenfeng to a bout, and Qian Gu Fenfeng warned him that he might crush him from a higher dimension.

Qian Gu Fenfeng defeated Yun Ming and imposed a ninety-percent tax on powerful organizations, enforcing the decree through the Federation Soul Police. Yun Ming returned to Shrek Academy with Long Yeyue, while the new taxes sparked resistance and a grim nursery rhyme spread among the people.

• Qian Gu Fenfeng broke through Yun Ming's Air-Banishing Domain and shattered his Martial Soul, forcing Yun Ming to concede defeat.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng ordered Yun Ming to leave and declared that powers worth more than ten million Federation dollars had to pay ninety percent in annual taxes or face death.
• Yun Ming brought Long Yeyue back to Shrek Academy, where Ya Li sidestepped his attempt to embrace her and said her father would not let him touch her.
• Major powers either paid the new taxes or resisted and were subdued by the Federation Soul Police.
• At the Dugu Family home, Dugu Jin agreed to pay, while the Federation Soul Police killed his wife and daughter and ordered the Liu Family exterminated.
• A satirical nursery rhyme about the crushing taxes and the Federation Soul Police began circulating among the people.

After the Calm the Waves Plan ended, Qian Gu Fenfeng reshaped the Sun Moon Federation through the Spirit Pagoda Group, government reforms, education, and expanded security forces. He later contacted Ha Luosa to ask about reaching the Demon Empress, then invited his old friend to the Mingdu Night Market.

• The continent returned to peace as the Spirit Pagoda Group expanded into transportation, home appliances, clothing, and communications across the federation.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng restructured local government and education, imposed compulsory schooling, revised history, and promoted his principles while reducing Sea God Tang San's influence.
• The Spirit Pagoda and government provided free Martial Soul Awakening and discounted Soul Spirits to those joining the Pagoda, while restricting and raising prices for others.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng integrated the Spirit Pagoda's security organization into the federal Soul Police, dividing it into the Guard Squad and the Qiangu Family's private Guard Army.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng called Ha Luosa, learned the Demon Empress was in seclusion and would be unreachable until she emerged, and invited Ha Luosa to the Mingdu Night Market.

Fifty years after the wars, the Sun Moon Federation revered Qian Gu Fenfeng as its Benevolent Father, while the destruction of noble families remained buried beneath his public legacy. After failing to reach the Divine Origin Realm, he reunited with Qian Chenyue and Leng Yaozhu and spent a peaceful evening shopping with them in Mingdu.

• The Sun Moon Federation’s people worshipped Qian Gu Fenfeng, and statues of him appeared across the continent as memories of the wars faded.
• In the Qiangu Family’s secret chamber, Qian Gu Fenfeng admitted he had not reached the Divine Origin Realm and practiced the Douzhan Saint Method he had developed over nearly fifty years.
• Qian Chenyue and Leng Yaozhu welcomed Qian Gu Fenfeng out of seclusion and persuaded him to take them shopping.
• Leng Yaozhu showed Qian Gu Fenfeng Mingdu’s shopping streets, and the three browsed jewelry and merchandise, bought drinks, and rode shared bicycles together.

Qian Gu Fenfeng joined forces with the Demon Empress and the Spirit Pagoda to prepare an assault on the Star Luo Continent. The Holy Spirit Cult secretly planted the Blood River God-Slaying Array across the continent, while Qian Gu Fenfeng accepted the deaths of countless people as sacrifices for unification.

• Qian Gu Fenfeng proposed that the Demon Empress unleash slaughter in Star Dou using the Blood River Array, and she accepted his proposal.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng ordered the Spirit Pagoda branches to convene and sought assistance from its branch on the Star Luo Continent.
• The Holy Spirit Cult infiltrated the Star Luo Empire over several months, establishing hidden bases and placing components of the Blood River God-Slaying Array beneath major cities and towns.
• The Ghost Emperor and Underworld Emperor commanded the operation from a hidden lair as infiltrators gathered intelligence on Monster Academy and traitors suppressed reports of disappearances.
• Qian Chenyue and Leng Yaozhu questioned Qian Gu Fenfeng about working with the Holy Spirit Cult, and he called the planned deaths necessary sacrifices for unification.

The Demon Empress unleashed the Blood River Great Array across the Star Dou Continent, while the Star Luo Empire struggled to respond and the Spirit Pagoda and Tang Sect withheld aid. After the Federation Seventh Soul Guidance Research Laboratory exploded, Ling Zichen escaped and collapsed into a stranger’s embrace.

• A mother was transformed by the red light and attacked her daughter, Xiaoxi, before a Spirit Pagoda researcher ordered both specimens taken back for study.
• The Demon Empress activated the Blood River Great Array, which swept across the Star Dou Continent and devoured civilians and Soul Masters.
• Dai Tianling learned that the Holy Spirit Cult was ravaging the Star Luo Empire and that the Tang Sect and Spirit Pagoda would not help without conditions.
• Dai Tianling and En Ci decided to ask Shrek for aid after En Ci reported that the Eight Heavenly Kings were safe.
• The Federation Seventh Soul Guidance Research Laboratory exploded, killing Ling Zichen’s father as he saved her.
• Ling Zichen fled the burning laboratory, collapsed from exhaustion, and was caught by a stranger who urged her to move forward.

The Sun Moon Federation planned to use the Star Dou Empire’s crisis as a pretext to conquer it, while Zang Xin ordered Tang Sect members on the ravaged Star Luo Continent to flee and preserve their lives. The Federation then accused the Tang Sect of treason and launched a violent purge of its branches.

• Qian Gu Fenfeng proposed waiting until the Star Dou Empire requested aid, then entering its territory under the guise of rescuing its people.
• After receiving reports of the Blood River Great Array’s destruction on the Star Luo Continent, Zang Xin ordered Tang Sect members to abandon their outposts, flee to the Heaven Dou Continent, and avoid large-scale rescue attempts.
• Zang Xin warned Dai Tianling to gather the imperial family’s elite, give up some territory, and avoid confronting the Blood River Great Array with a massed army.
• The Federation announced that the Tang Sect had colluded with foreign powers and smuggled strategic materials and Soul Tools overseas.
• The Benevolent Father ordered the guards and Guard Army to eliminate suspected Tang Sect supporters, and forces across the Federation raided areas around Tang Sect branches.

Qian Gu Fenfeng refused Yun Ming’s demand to withdraw the order against the Tang Sect, while secretly abusing Ya Li during their meeting. The Sun Moon Federation then launched a coordinated assault that destroyed Tang Sect branches across the continent, leaving survivors fleeing.

• Qian Gu Fenfeng spoke with Ya Li beneath his desk while Yun Ming arrived to challenge the Federation’s treatment of the Tang Sect.
• Qian Gu Fenfeng claimed the evidence against the Tang Sect was irrefutable, and Yun Ming left without persuading him to withdraw the arrest order.
• After Yun Ming departed, the Sun Moon Federation’s Mecha Formation attacked Tang Sect branch strongholds without warning.
• Federation mechas overwhelmed the Tang Sect’s defenses, killing disciples and elders while destroying its buildings, archives, and hidden weapon workshops.
• Tang Sect branches fell across the continent, and the surviving members fled as the Federation’s mechas continued their patrols.