Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiuran collected the Purple-level Mecha Mu Ye had made for him and began learning to control it, while Mu Chen relayed Zhen Hua’s invitation to forge his One-Word Battle Armor. At Shrek Academy, Tang Wulin and the others prepared to leave for the Star Luo Continent, and Lin Xiuran came to see them off.

• Lin Xiuran visited Mu Chen and received the Space Ring containing his mecha, while Mu Chen told him that Zhen Hua was ready to guide the forging of his One-Word Battle Armor.
• Lin Xiuran examined Mu Ye’s Purple-level Mecha, which had been fused with his Phoenix Truefire, and began familiarizing himself with its controls.
• Wu Zhangkong announced that Tang Wulin, Guyue, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Xu Lizhi, and Ye Xinglan would leave for Skysea City that afternoon for the Star Luo Continent exchange event.
• Lin Xiuran waited outside First Year Class One and told Xie Xie that he had come to see the group off.
• Xu Xiaoyan kept her distance from Lin Xiuran after learning more about his history with her Xu Family, while Wu Siduo watched him with an icy gaze.

Lin Qianni brought Lin Xiuran to the hidden Beast Emperor Hall in the Far North, revealing a vast, ancient forest concealed behind a spatial barrier. She led him deeper into the forest, where he began to encounter Soul Beasts.

• Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi prepared to leave, and Lin Xiuran wished them well as they parted.
• Two ocean liners carrying people toward the Star Luo Continent departed from the docks.
• Lin Qianni led Lin Xiuran through the barren northern buffer zone and shoved him through a hidden spatial entrance.
• Lin Xiuran spread his wings to descend safely inside the concealed forest, then confirmed with Lin Qianni that they had reached the Beast Emperor Hall.
• Lin Qianni took Lin Xiuran by the hand and guided him deeper into the forest, where he heard cheerful beasts and spotted birds flying overhead.

Lin Qianni showed Lin Xiuran the orderly Town Zone of Beast Emperor Hall and explained how its powerful Soul Beasts maintained peace. As they headed for the Palace Zone, an Ice Phoenix appeared and transformed into a woman whom Lin Qianni greeted as Aunt Feng.

• Lin Qianni led Lin Xiuran into the Town Zone, where powerful humanoid Soul Beasts lived and traded peacefully.
• Lin Qianni explained that the Phoenix Heart helped the Soul Beasts grow stronger and encouraged harmony, while clan leaders and the Inspection Team kept the Dense Forest Zone in order.
• Lin Xiuran followed Lin Qianni toward the Palace Zone after marveling at Beast Emperor Hall's organization.
• An Ice Phoenix descended before them, and Lin Xiuran recognized her Phoenix bloodline.
• The Ice Phoenix transformed into a woman, and Lin Qianni bowed and addressed her as Aunt Feng.

Feng Siran recognized Lin Xiuran as someone deeply connected to her past and brought him to the Beast Emperor Hall. Lin Qianni explained that the Hall had searched for a human with the purest Phoenix Bloodline for ten thousand years, and Lin Xiuran might be the person they sought.

• Feng Siran seized Lin Xiuran's hand, became emotional, and told him that she knew him.
• Feng Siran led Lin Xiuran and Lin Qianni to the Beast Emperor Hall's palace, then went inside and asked them to wait.
• Lin Qianni explained that Feng Siran had raised her after her parents abandoned her and helped awaken and evolve her Martial Soul.
• Lin Qianni told Lin Xiuran that the Beast Emperor Hall secretly adopted children and sent her to study the continent for fifty years.
• Lin Qianni revealed that the Hall had searched for a human with the purest Phoenix Bloodline for ten thousand years and believed Lin Xiuran might be that person.

Feng Siran brought Lin Xiuran to the Phoenix Heart, where its power resonated with his bloodline and eased the black energy suppressing him. A nine-colored Phoenix appeared behind him, and its cry made every beast in the Beast Emperor Hall’s Small World bow.

• Feng Siran invited Lin Xiuran into the palace while Lin Qianni waited outside.
• Feng Siran led Lin Xiuran through a corridor of murals left by Soul Beasts that had reached the 20,000-year level.
• Feng Siran showed Lin Xiuran the Phoenix Heart and explained its role in the Beast Emperor Hall’s rise.
• The Phoenix Heart shone on Lin Xiuran, stirring his bloodline and causing the black energy in his body to seep out as his life energy grew.
• A nine-colored Phoenix phantom appeared behind Lin Xiuran, and its cry made the Soul Beasts across the Small World kneel in worship.

Lin Xiuran met the mysterious Hall Master of Beast Emperor Hall, who revealed that he shared the founder’s pure Phoenix Bloodline and was destined to inherit the Hall in the future. She offered him time to cultivate beneath the Phoenix Heart and explained that the power changing his fifth Soul Ring was his second heart.

• Feng Siran led Lin Xiuran past the Phoenix Heart and through the central corridor to meet the Hall Master.
• The Hall Master told Lin Xiuran that Beast Emperor Hall’s founder had shared his name and bloodline.
• The Hall Master assured Lin Xiuran that Beast Emperor Hall had no designs on him and had been waiting for him to return.
• The Hall Master said Lin Xiuran would inherit Beast Emperor Hall in the future, though not as he was now.
• The Hall Master offered Lin Xiuran a chance to cultivate beneath the Phoenix Heart and said the power within his fifth Soul Ring was his second heart.

Lin Xiuran learned that Phoenix Heart could suppress the dangerous consciousness within him, while the white-haired woman who examined him recognized him as someone she had awaited for ten thousand years. Feng Siran arranged for him to receive daily baptisms and stay in the Beast Emperor Hall’s orphan community.

• The white-haired woman explained that Lin Xiuran’s negative emotions had formed a powerful second consciousness, and that Phoenix Heart could suppress it.
• After Lin Xiuran left, the woman confirmed to another speaker that he was the person she had awaited for ten thousand years.
• Feng Siran told Lin Xiuran he could receive Phoenix Heart’s baptism every day and asked Lin Qianni to find him a room.
• Lin Qianni brought Lin Xiuran to a green-painted residence where orphans and residents welcomed her and looked at him with curiosity.
• Lin Xiuran learned that Phoenix Heart’s influence improved cultivation and bloodlines in the Beast Emperor Hall’s Small World.

Lin Xiuran settled into Beast Emperor Hall to cultivate under the Phoenix Heart, while an armored Evil Soul Master prepared to visit her nephew. The chapter left the woman’s identity hinted at through her resemblance to Leng Yaozhu, as she set out to see Lin Xiuran.

• Lin Qianni explained how the Phoenix Heart nurtured Soul Beasts and humans, then led Lin Xiuran to a room after residents mistook them for a couple.
• Lin Xiuran began cultivating at Beast Emperor Hall, where the Phoenix Heart’s influence helped his fifth Soul Ring shed its dark power.
• A powerful armored Evil Soul Master met a dark little girl in a cave, and the girl warned her about the consequences of her younger sister’s escape.
• The armored woman’s face was revealed to resemble Leng Yaozhu’s, and she left murmuring that she was coming to see her little nephew.

After reaching level sixty, Lin Xiuran planned to leave the Beast Emperor Hall, but Feng Siran took him to a guarded canyon and showed him an ancient spear buried in earth. The spear had been there for ten thousand years, and Lin Xiuran asked why no one had cleaned it.

• Lin Xiuran told Feng Siran he planned to leave the Beast Emperor Hall after breaking through level sixty, and she said he could return whenever he wished.
• Feng Siran transformed into a blue Phoenix and carried Lin Xiuran across the Dense Forest Zone to a canyon at the forest’s edge.
• Feng Siran explained that the forest was roughly as large as the Star Dou Great Forest had been ten thousand years ago, though it had fewer kinds of Soul Beasts.
• A powerful spiritual force swept over Lin Xiuran as they entered the canyon, and Feng Siran reassured him that it belonged to the guardian Soul Beast.
• Feng Siran brought Lin Xiuran to an ancient stone pillar holding a double-headed spear covered in thick yellow earth.
• Feng Siran said the spear had been there for ten thousand years, and Lin Xiuran asked why it had not been cleaned.

Lin Xiuran awakened the Nine Heavens God Phoenix Spear, which recognized him as its master through his bloodline. After storing the spear in his Sea of Consciousness, he began recovering from the strength it had drained.

• Feng Siran told Lin Xiuran that the spear had created the valley with its killing intent and had awaited its master for ten thousand years.
• Feng Siran urged Lin Xiuran to pick up the spear, and he sensed it calling to him through his bloodline.
• Lin Xiuran touched the buried spear, unleashing nine-colored light, a phoenix cry, and overwhelming spear intent across the valley and Beast Emperor Hall's Small World.
• The Nine Heavens God Phoenix Spear took shape in Lin Xiuran's hand, and he felt it was naturally united with him.
• After the spear drained his strength, Feng Siran and Gu Yuena told Lin Xiuran to store it in his Sea of Consciousness, and he did so, allowing his power to recover.

Lin Xiuran learned more about the Nine Heavens God Phoenix Spear while Beast Emperor Hall prepared for an approaching conflict. Feng Siran set out with Lin Qianni and Lin Xiuran to negotiate Lin Qianni’s admission as an official student at Shrek Academy.

• Feng Siran explained that the Nine Heavens God Phoenix Spear was far stronger than ordinary Super Artifacts, though Lin Xiuran could only use a fraction of its power for now.
• The white-haired woman ordered Beast Emperor Hall to negotiate, double its resource distribution, ready its members for battle, activate its outside networks, and notify the Soul Beasts of the Far North.
• Lin Qianni told Lin Xiuran that she had to leave Beast Emperor Hall because she served as its public representative in the outside world and needed to avoid attracting attention to the Hall.
• Feng Siran joined Lin Xiuran and Lin Qianni and said she would accompany them to address the dispute between Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and Shrek Academy.
• Lin Xiuran learned that Lin Qianni intended to become an official student at Shrek Academy and that Feng Siran would personally help secure her admission.

Lin Xiuran set out for Star Luo Continent to search for the Beast Emperor Hall, with Gu Yuena warning him to hurry while Tang Wutong urged him to stay calm. After more than a month at sea, he reached Star Luo City and prepared to continue by high-speed train.

• Lin Xiuran told Lin Qianni that he was leaving on a long journey to Star Luo Continent.
• Gu Yuena said the trip to the Beast Emperor Hall should take a few months and warned that they needed to hurry; Tang Wutong reminded Lin Xiuran not to let impatience disrupt his cultivation.
• Lin Xiuran arrived in Star Luo City after more than a month aboard an Ocean Liner and planned to take the empire's high-speed Soul Guidance Train to his destination.
• Lin Xiuran stopped at a restaurant to eat and rest before continuing his journey.

Lin Xiuran dined at a luxurious hotel and observed Star Luo’s Fourth Prince, Dai Yueyan, eating with Han En and Long Yue. Han En tried to force Dai Yueyan to consider his adopted daughter as a future concubine, leaving the prince displeased but constrained by his public image and political position.

• Lin Xiuran ordered several dishes at the hotel and waited as they arrived slowly.
• Han En introduced his timid adopted daughter to Dai Yueyan and asked that she be considered as a future concubine.
• Dai Yueyan politely avoided committing, explaining that he was not in a hurry about such matters.
• When Han En’s adopted daughter picked up her chopsticks, he shouted at her and slapped her for eating without permission.
• Dai Yueyan exchanged a glance with Long Yue and remained outwardly courteous, while Han En pressed his attempt to secure the girl’s place with the prince.

Lin Xiuran intervened when Han En tried to force his adopted daughter to obey Dai Yueyan, overpowering both Han En and Long Yue. He condemned Han En for exploiting and abusing the girl.

• Dai Yueyan hesitated to answer Han En's demand, and Han En raised his hand to strike his adopted daughter again.
• Lin Xiuran seized Han En's wrist before he could hit the girl.
• Han En failed to break free as Lin Xiuran suppressed his Soul Power and crushed his wrist.
• Long Yue attacked Lin Xiuran, but Lin Xiuran caught his fist and shoved him back.
• Lin Xiuran demanded to know why Han En abused the girl he had adopted, then broke bones in Han En's arm as Han En claimed it was a family matter.
• Lin Xiuran accused Han En of exploiting the girl, whose adoption had never been sincere.

Lin Xiuran freed a timid girl from Han En’s control, then vanished before Dai Yueyan and Long Yue could speak with him. The story shifted to a Titled Douluo guarding the hidden entrance to Dragon Valley.

• Lin Xiuran gave the girl two cards and urged her to seek freedom, and she ran away with them.
• Lin Xiuran knocked Han En unconscious, then declined Dai Yueyan’s offer of friendship and disappeared using spatial transfer.
• Dai Yueyan and Long Yue recognized Lin Xiuran’s strength and decided to investigate him while seeking to befriend him.
• A Titled Douluo searched the remote mountain peak but could not detect what he sensed nearby.
• The Titled Douluo guarded a nine-colored crack that led to Dragon Valley, a secret sanctuary claimed by the Tang Sect.

Old Wu sensed a fleeting Soul Power fluctuation at Dragon Valley, but a rift soon opened inside the Small World and brought in a group of powerful figures. Their silver-haired Master entered the valley to search for something, leaving them to hold the rift open for seven days.

• Old Wu sensed a faint Soul Power fluctuation near Dragon Valley’s cliff, then found nothing when he searched again.
• A black rift opened above Dragon Valley as ink-black claws pulled it apart and the Dragon Clouds bowed to the roars from within.
• Five figures descended through the rift and used their power to stabilize it.
• A giant black dragon emerged, absorbed the Dragon Clouds, and transformed into a middle-aged man who helped hold the rift open.
• The silver-haired woman appeared, and the six figures welcomed her as their Master.
• The Master said her spacetime seal would allow seven days inside Dragon Valley, then vanished into its depths to search for what she sought.

Gu Yuena found Lin Xiuran absorbing the Dragon God's Soul and attacked him, but his silver aura nullified her elements. She and the Lin Xiuran controlled by Gu Yuena then competed to absorb the soul, which resonated with his Phoenix bloodline and multiplied its power.

• Gu Yuena entered the depths of Dragon Valley after sensing a disturbance and found Lin Xiuran absorbing the Dragon God's Soul.
• Gu Yuena attacked Lin Xiuran, but a silver radiance around him dispersed her elemental strike, and his purple gaze nearly made her collapse.
• Gu Yuena revealed her Silver Dragon King bloodline and began absorbing the Dragon God's Soul, drawing most of it toward herself.
• Lin Xiuran, under Gu Yuena's control, summoned the Nine Heavens God Phoenix Spear and used its nine-colored vortex to envelop the Dragon God's Soul.
• Gu Yuena combined Lin Xiuran's Phoenix bloodline with her Silver Dragon King aura, causing the Dragon God's Soul and Phoenix aura to resonate and multiply its power.

After the Dragon Soul’s power affected the Dragon Graveyard, Lin Xiuran left Dragon Valley with his strength greatly increased and a newly awakened Gold Element. Months later, he returned to Eastsea City to visit the Xu Family for the Clan Elder’s birthday, while Gu Yuena remained asleep.

• The Dragon Soul burst apart and its aura overwhelmed Tang Wulin and Dai Yun'er with intense desire, while Guyue also succumbed to its effects.
• Lin Xiuran found Gu Yuena coldly regarding the unconscious Guyue as a tool, and the Dragon Graveyard began to shatter as Di Tian urged his companions to hold on for their master.
• Several months after leaving Dragon Valley, Lin Xiuran arrived in Eastsea City and decided to visit the Xu Family for the Clan Elder’s birthday.
• Lin Xiuran recalled that his Soul Power had surged to Seventy-Level after Dragon Valley and that he had awakened the Gold Element, which could suppress Soul Tools and Battle Armor and improve his forging.

Lin Xiuran reflected on how mastering the metal element strengthened his forging prospects and combat power before heading to the Xu Family Old Residence. There, he discovered a massacre and found the Clan Elder’s companion and several others dead, with the Clan Elder’s fate still unknown.

• Lin Xiuran recognized that his control over metal made forging and Fusion Forging far more reliable and increased his chances of becoming a Godsmith under Zhen Hua’s guidance.
• Lin Xiuran traveled to the Xu Family Old Residence and found it unusually quiet, with almost no life aura inside.
• Lin Xiuran pushed open the residence’s doors and found the Butler dead, his heart torn out.
• Lin Xiuran entered the hall and saw several more corpses, all killed brutally with their hearts removed.
• Lin Xiuran headed upstairs toward the Clan Elder’s room and passed two more corpses on the stairs.

Lin Xiuran returned to the Xu Family's old house and discovered that Xu Junwen had slaughtered the Clan Elder and the household. After saving a wounded maid and confronting Xu Cu, he demanded to know what had happened.

• Lin Xiuran found the Clan Elder dead with his heart torn out.
• Lin Xiuran healed a badly wounded maid, who said Xu Junwen had attacked the old house and killed the Clan Elder.
• Lin Xiuran encountered Xu Cu, Xu Junwen's guard, and Xu Cu attacked him with ice Soul Skills.
• Lin Xiuran stopped Xu Cu's attacks and used the Ice Ring against him, then grabbed him by the throat.
• Lin Xiuran froze Xu Cu's Soul Power and demanded that he explain what had happened.