Chapter Summaries

Snow Empress invited Snow Bear Queen Xiaobai to leave the Far North with her and follow Ji Lin on a Path to Godhood. She teased Ji Lin by telling Xiaobai to call him Dad, leaving Ice Empress bewildered by Snow Empress’s playful change.

• Snow Empress explained that Xiaobai’s third Heavenly Tribulation was approaching and invited her to leave the Far North and pursue godhood with Ji Lin.
• Snow Empress introduced Ji Lin as their chosen path to becoming gods and joked that Xiaobai could call him Uncle or Dad.
• Xiaobai and Ice Empress were stunned, while Chi Yuan recognized the situation from a novel she had lent Snow Empress and enjoyed Ji Lin’s confusion.
• Snow Empress explained that her life was bound to Ji Lin’s and urged Xiaobai to call him Dad, prompting Ji Lin to protest.
• Snow Empress admitted to Ice Empress that she enjoyed how the human world had changed her, while Ice Empress wondered what Ji Lin’s bond with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm meant.

Snow Bear Queen Xiaobai agreed to become Ji Lin’s Sacred Mark and returned to settle matters with her clan. In the Far North Core Circle, Ice Empress began creating her Sacred Mark, leaving her spiritual origin to open its Sacred Mark Space.

• Snow Empress explained the Sacred Mark plan to Snow Bear Queen Xiaobai, who eagerly agreed to become Ji Lin’s Sacred Mark and went to settle matters with her clan.
• Snow Empress assigned Xiaobai to become the third soul ring of Ji Lin’s second martial soul once his body could accommodate her, while Ice Empress would take the second soul-ring position.
• After Xiaobai returned, Snow Empress instructed her to guard Ji Lin and Ice Empress while they fused in the Far North Core Circle.
• Ice Empress chose her physical body as her Sacred Mark Carrier, then separated her spiritual origin and transformed her body into a blood-red crystal scorpion.
• Ji Lin took the crystal scorpion as Ice Empress’s spiritual origin began opening a Sacred Mark Space.

Ji Lin completed the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Sacred Mark and gained new powers, including the Thousand-Hand Guanyin skill. With their business in the Far North finished, he prepared to leave with Xiaobai, who transformed into a comically round human form.

• Ji Lin guided the Ice Empress's Sacred Mark Space into the Sacred Mark Carrier, completing the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Sacred Mark.
• Ji Lin fused the Sacred Mark into his right arm, upgrading his Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Right Palm Bone into a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and renaming its claw the Ice Empress Claw.
• Ji Lin learned that the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Sacred Mark granted strength and defense enhancements and the Thousand-Hand Guanyin skill, which created a controllable ice sculpture.
• Ji Lin told Snow Bear Queen Xiaobai to transform into human form before they entered the human world.
• Xiaobai transformed into a round, chubby figure and insisted she wanted to look that way because the Snow Empress liked her plump.

Ji Lin, Chi Yuan, and Xiao Bai searched the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Area for a fire-attribute Soul Beast to become Ji Lin’s fifth soul ring, while avoiding the Great Fiend Zone because of Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena. After days without finding a suitable beast, a furious dragon charged toward them, ending the search with a powerful new arrival.

• Ji Lin considered seeking a Hundred-Thousand-Year fire-attribute Soul Beast but decided not to enter the Great Fiend Zone and risk awakening Gu Yuena’s attention.
• Ji Lin, Chi Yuan, and Xiao Bai searched the Core Area for about ten more days but found no suitable Hundred-Thousand-Year fire-attribute Soul Beast.
• Ji Lin considered settling for a lower-cultivation fire-attribute Soul Beast and using Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s energy to raise its soul ring.
• Ji Lin sensed a furious Soul Beast rushing toward the group, burning trees to ash and sending waves of heat through the forest.
• A massive scarlet dragon charged before Ji Lin, Chi Yuan, and Xiao Bai.

Ji Lin faced an eighty-thousand-year Blazing Sun Fire Dragon that attacked him because he had killed its child, which became his first soul ring. Chi Yuan defeated the dragon, and Ji Lin absorbed its soul ring, which Sky Dream Ice Silkworm raised to a hundred-thousand-year red ring.

• The Blazing Sun Fire Dragon recognized Ji Lin as the killer of its child and charged at him, while Chi Yuan realized the beast was likely the child's surviving parent.
• Xiao Bai urged Ji Lin to kill the dragon so they could leave the forest, and Ji Lin accepted that it would not willingly become his Sacred Mark.
• The Blazing Sun Fire Dragon attacked Ji Lin with dragon flames, but Chi Yuan blocked them and shattered its Blazing Sun Fire Wheel with a punch.
• Chi Yuan struck the Blazing Sun Fire Dragon down, and Ji Lin killed it with the Heavenly Fire Greatsword despite its lingering hatred.
• Ji Lin absorbed the dragon's soul ring as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm raised its age until it turned red, leaving five soul rings around Ji Lin.

Ji Lin obtained an eighty-thousand-year Blazing Sun Fire Dragon torso bone and left the Star Dou Great Forest with Chi Yuan and Xiao Bai, planning to give Xu Jiujiu the Artificial Sacred Mark crafting technology. Meanwhile, Xu Jiujiu hosted prospective Freedom Gate recruits in Star Luo City, where Yu Mengdi asked why Ji Lin had not appeared.

• Ji Lin dismembered the Blazing Sun Fire Dragon and found an eighty-thousand-year torso bone, which he considered giving to Ma Xiaotao or Wang Qiuer or keeping for Freedom Gate.
• Ji Lin left the Star Dou Great Forest with Chi Yuan and Xiao Bai, thinking about whether the Silver Dragon King could become his Sacred Mark.
• Ji Lin headed to Star Luo City to deliver Artificial Sacred Mark crafting technology to Xu Jiujiu.
• Xu Jiujiu gathered around twenty prospective recruits at Freedom Gate, including Ye Wuqing, Yu Mengdi, Situ Yu, Ma Yingjun, Shang Yue, Shen Ce, An Lengye, and Crimson Feather Flame.
• Yu Mengdi asked Xu Jiujiu where Ji Lin was and noted that the sect master had not yet graduated from Shrek Academy.

Ji Lin returned to Star Luo City and introduced Freedom Gate to the invited young soul masters, using his power and the support of Chi Yuan to persuade them to join. Yu Mengdi, Ye Wuqing, An Lengye, and the others signed contracts and became Freedom Gate disciples.

• Ji Lin arrived at the reception with Chi Yuan and Xiao Bai, then revealed that he had reached Rank 50 and displayed his five soul rings, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Ji Lin explained that Freedom Gate was an independent sect allied with the Star Crown Sect, and revealed that Xu Jiujiu was both its deputy sect master and his fiancée.
• Ji Lin introduced Chi Yuan as Freedom Gate’s Grand Consecrator, and Chi Yuan displayed nine soul rings, including three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Ji Lin promised qualified disciples a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring when they reached Titled Douluo and showed the power of his Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul.
• Yu Mengdi agreed to join Freedom Gate, followed by Ye Wuqing, An Lengye, and the other invitees, who signed the Book of Contracts.

Ji Lin and Xu Jiujiu assessed the danger of revealing Sacred Mark technology and agreed to keep it confidential while seeking allies. Ji Lin named their strategy the Sacred Mark Plan before returning to Shrek Academy for his Inner Court assessment.

• After signing their contracts, Ji Lin taught the recruits Void Sword Qi, and Xu Jiujiu arranged for them to move into Freedom Gate.
• Xu Jiujiu read Ji Lin's Sacred Mark Crafting Technology and realized it could let humans create Soul Rings without hunting Soul Beasts.
• Xu Jiujiu warned that the Body Sect, Mingde Hall, Shrek Academy, and other powers might try to seize the technology if it became public.
• Ji Lin and Xu Jiujiu agreed to keep Sacred Marks confidential, craft some for internal use, and seek allies through Xu Jiawei.
• Ji Lin decided to share only the Artificial Sacred Mark Crafting Technology, named their alliance and promotion strategy the Sacred Mark Plan, and prepared to return to Shrek Academy for his Inner Court assessment.

Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer applied for Shrek Academy’s Inner Court assessment after returning from their travels, and Yan Shaozhe personally brought them to the assessment area. There, Ji Lin saw that most candidates were outside geniuses, with fewer than ten places available, as the assessment was about to begin.

• Ji Lin left the Sacred Mark Plan’s implementation to Xu Jiujiu and Xu Jiawei, then returned to Shrek Academy after nearly a month away.
• Ji Lin learned that Wang Dong’er had reached Rank 40 and left with the academy’s soul-hunting team, while Xiao Xiao still needed time to advance.
• Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer applied for the Inner Court assessment after Yan Shaozhe urged them to enter the Inner Court.
• Yan Shaozhe personally escorted Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer to the assessment area, where an Inner Court teacher sent them to register.
• Ji Lin saw that more than a hundred outside candidates were competing for fewer than ten Inner Court places.

Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer registered for Shrek Academy’s Inner Court assessment, whose final round matched candidates against Inner Court disciples. As Ji Lin entered his practical exam, he met an overly familiar senior who promised to go easy on him.

• Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer registered, and the teacher was astonished by their ages and Soul Power Levels, especially Ji Lin’s level of fifty-three.
• The candidates learned that the three-day assessment included background and written tests followed by practical battles against Inner Court disciples.
• The first half of the practical assessment left most candidates defeated, with only two said to have passed.
• Ji Lin entered the arena and met an Inner Court disciple whose aloof demeanor vanished when he realized Ji Lin was an Outer Court junior.
• Ji Lin introduced himself and politely asked the senior to go easy on him.

Ji Lin faced Shrek Inner Court disciple Chu Qingtian in his practical assessment and revealed his unusually powerful soul rings. Chu Qingtian used lightning transformation and clones to keep fighting, but Ji Lin’s Spirit Detection exposed his true body and forced him to evade a decisive strike by switching places with a clone.

• Chu Qingtian introduced himself and challenged Ji Lin, who revealed that he was a thirteen-year-old Rank 53 Battle Soul King with a red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Chu Qingtian attacked with Swift Lightning, but Ji Lin countered with Crimson Flame Sword Qi and forced him to defend himself.
• Chu Qingtian used Element Transformation to turn into lightning and reassemble after Ji Lin’s sword qi cut through him.
• Chu Qingtian created five lightning-shadow clones and attacked Ji Lin from multiple directions.
• Ji Lin used Spirit Detection to identify Chu Qingtian’s true body and struck him, but Chu Qingtian exchanged places with a clone to escape the blow.

Ji Lin defeated Chu Qingtian in the Inner Court assessment, and Wang Qiuer also passed her assessment. The two arrived at Sea God Island and chose nearby cottages, where they would begin life in the Inner Court.

• Ji Lin overwhelmed Chu Qingtian with sword qi, then defeated his lightning-powered charge and earned Chu Qingtian's welcome to the Inner Court.
• Ji Lin left the assessment area, saw Wang Qiuer waiting for her turn, and rested while she fought her opponent.
• Wang Qiuer passed her assessment, and the five successful students traveled with a special-grade Inner Court teacher to Sea God Island.
• Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer chose secluded cottages near each other by Sea God Lake, with Ling Luochen's cottage nearby.

Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer explored the Inner Court, learned about its facilities and rules, and headed to class after breakfast. They encountered Chu Qingtian at the teaching building, where he noticed their relationship and saw that Han Ruoruo was teaching that day.

• Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer followed the map across Sea God Island, learning about the Inner Court's Inspection Pavilion, Library, and Douluo Arena along the way.
• Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer ate free breakfast made with precious ingredients at the Inner Court cafeteria.
• Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer found that Han Ruoruo was teaching Control System theory at the Inner Court teaching building.
• Chu Qingtian greeted Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer, noticed their clasped hands, and learned they were a couple.
• Chu Qingtian saw that Senior Han was substituting for the class and said he could not miss it.

Ji Lin entered the Inner Court and reunited with Ling Luochen, Xixi, Yao Haoxuan, and Gongyang Mo. After learning that Ling Luochen had joined Freedom Gate, the three former Shrek main team members offered to join as well.

• Chu Qingtian introduced Han Ruoruo as a renowned Inner Court disciple who taught classes, and Ji Lin and Wang Qiuer attended her lesson with him.
• Ji Lin spotted Ling Luochen, Xixi, Yao Haoxuan, and Gongyang Mo in the classroom, then greeted Ling Luochen after the lesson and told her he had entered the Inner Court.
• Ling Luochen welcomed Ji Lin warmly, while Chu Qingtian was surprised that she allowed him to touch her shoulder without freezing him.
• Xixi, Yao Haoxuan, and Gongyang Mo reunited with Ji Lin and thanked him for saving them.
• Xixi, Yao Haoxuan, and Gongyang Mo offered to join Freedom Gate, and Ji Lin gladly accepted.

Ji Lin strengthened Freedom Gate by recruiting Shrek Team members and helping Ling Luochen cultivate, while he and the Inner Court disciples made successive breakthroughs. After nearly half a year, Zhang Lexuan led Ma Xiaotao and the others to the Star Dou Great Forest, as the Sun Moon Empire remained quiet under Mu En’s deterrence.

• Ji Lin left with Wang Qiuer, Ling Luochen, Xixi, and the others to form contracts and teach them Void Sword Qi, while Chu Qingtian resolved to avoid sparring with him and Wang Qiuer.
• Yao Haoxuan summoned Chen Zifeng, and they joined Ji Lin’s Freedom Gate alongside Gongyang Mo and Xixi, bringing five of the Shrek Team’s seven official members into the sect.
• Ji Lin assisted Ling Luochen’s cultivation with Ultimate Ice, while Wang Qiuer gained fame in the Soul Fighting Arena as the Golden Dragon Girl.
• After nearly half a year, Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi emerged from seclusion as Soul Kings, Jiang Nannan reached level forty-nine, and Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong’er entered the Inner Court.
• Ji Lin, Wang Qiuer, Ling Luochen, and the other disciples advanced in cultivation, while Ma Xiaotao broke through to Soul Saint and Ling Luochen and Chen Zifeng reached Soul Emperor.
• Zhang Lexuan led Ma Xiaotao, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Ling Luochen, and the others to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul beasts, while the Sun Moon Empire stayed restrained by Mu En’s presence.

Ji Lin ran into Han Ruoruo in the Library Pavilion, where she admitted she had come to assess him on Zhang Lexuan’s behalf. She asked whether he truly loved Lexuan and could make her happy despite his other relationships.

• Wang Yan began dating Qing Ya, while Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiuer became well-known for challenging Inner Court disciples in the Soul Fighting Area.
• Xu Jiujiu set out to visit Shrek Academy with representatives of the Star Crown Sect and other smaller sects after Xu Jiawei sent a formal letter.
• Snow Woman persuaded Ji Lin to visit Chi Yuan at Freedom Gate’s Shrek City branch, then secretly took something back to the Sacred Mark Space.
• Ji Lin bumped into Han Ruoruo while searching for books in the Library Pavilion, and the two gathered the fallen books.
• Han Ruoruo admitted she had come because Zhang Lexuan had spoken about Ji Lin and asked whether he truly loved Lexuan despite his other relationships.

Ji Lin told Han Ruoruo that he wanted to keep all the women in his life, then joined Shrek Academy’s leaders to receive Princess Xu Jiujiu and her delegation. The talks began when Xu Jiujiu presented a purple crystal called a Sacred Mark as a treasure that could affect the Douluo Continent’s future.

• Ji Lin told Han Ruoruo that he would try to make Zhang Lexuan happy but did not want to give up any of the women involved with him.
• Ji Lin asked Han Ruoruo for books on using Twin Martial Souls simultaneously, and she gave him a book before leaving in annoyance that Zhang Lexuan had not told her about his Twin Martial Souls.
• Yan Shaozhe, Xuan Zi, Ji Lin, and Wang Qiuer waited at Sea God Lake for Xu Jiujiu and her delegation, including Manyi and Chi Yuan.
• Yan Shaozhe escorted Xu Jiujiu, Manyi, and Chi Yuan into the Sea God Pavilion, where Mu En and the Elder Scholars gathered for a conference.
• Xu Jiujiu presented a purple crystal called a Sacred Mark and said it was the treasure her brother believed could affect the situation across the Douluo Continent.

Xu Jiujiu explained to the Sea God's Pavilion Elder Scholars that artificially produced Sacred Marks could grant Soul Rings, enhance Soul Masters, and pass down as Innate Sacred Marks with the potential to grow. The scholars recognized that Sacred Marks could transform Soul Master advancement and the balance of power, especially by allowing Soul Ancestors with sufficient physical strength to obtain Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.

• Xu Jiujiu told the Elder Scholars that Sacred Marks could replace soul beasts in granting Soul Rings and enhance the Soul Masters who fused with them.
• Xu Jiujiu revealed Sacred Marks of four grades, described their possible Sacred Mark Skills, and explained that descendants could awaken inheritable Innate Sacred Marks that might evolve into Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• The Elder Scholars considered the commercial and political significance of Sacred Marks, while Mu En asked about fusion requirements, limits, and risks.
• Xu Jiujiu explained that Soul Masters could fuse with up to nine Sacred Marks if their physical strength was sufficient, and that Sacred Marks lacked the lingering resentment of soul beasts.
• Yan Shaozhe realized that Soul Ancestors with enough physical strength could use Ten Thousand Year Sacred Marks to obtain Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings without enduring a soul beast's remnant soul.

Mu En and the Sea God's Pavilion elders tested Xu Jiujiu's Sacred Mark by having Jiang Nannan fuse with a Ten-Thousand-Year Extreme Shadow Leopard Sacred Mark. Jiang Nannan gained a fifth soul ring and a powerful Sacred Mark Skill, and Xu Jiujiu urged Mu En to discuss the matter at hand.

• Mu En asked Xu Jiujiu how Sacred Marks were made, and she explained that they required special substances and materials from soul beasts rather than hunting them.
• Yan Shaozhe brought Jiang Nannan to Sea God's Pavilion to test whether the Sacred Mark could grant her a fifth soul ring.
• Jiang Nannan fused with the Ten-Thousand-Year Extreme Shadow Leopard Sacred Mark and gained a black fifth soul ring without hunting a soul beast.
• Jiang Nannan reported that the fusion caused no problems and granted her a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill, enhanced speed and reactions, and the Sacred Mark Skill Extreme Shadow.
• Xu Jiujiu explained that Sacred Mark Skills were rare with Ten-Thousand-Year marks, then asked Mu En to discuss the real matter.

Xu Jiujiu, Mu En, and the other leaders negotiated how to protect and distribute Sacred Mark technology. They agreed to establish the Liyue Chamber of Commerce under shared control, with preparations beginning to bring the other empires into the plan.

• Xu Jiujiu offered Shrek Academy a share of Sacred Mark profits and access to the technology in exchange for its protection, and Mu En accepted the arrangement.
• Chi Yuan proposed creating a chamber of commerce to manage Sacred Mark research, crafting, and sales, with seven seats shared among major factions.
• Mu En and Xu Jiujiu agreed that Shrek Academy and the Star Luo Empire would join the chamber and refrain from selling Sacred Marks privately.
• Chi Yuan named the organization the Liyue Chamber of Commerce, placed its headquarters in Shrek City, and granted Freedom Gate a permanent Tianquan Star seat.
• Mu En approved the proposal, and Shrek Academy began preparing to negotiate with the other two great empires.