Chapter Summaries

Lin Yun sent the Myriad Demon King to spread a new book, “Uncle and Nephew Join Forces, ‘Kindred Spirits’!”, a sequel about Long Xiaoyao, Ye Xishui, and their child. The story revealed the child’s origins and the Holy Spirit Cult’s history before ending with Ye Xishui bound in a secret chamber by Zhongli Old Ghost.

• Lin Yun ordered the Myriad Demon King to distribute books across the continent, and one Tree Seed dropped a copy of “Uncle and Nephew Join Forces, ‘Kindred Spirits’!”
• Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui decided their child could not stay with them and left him in an ordinary village under the surname Yan.
• Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui returned to the Holy Spirit Cult, where Ye Xishui was the Saintess and heir to the sect leadership.
• The chapter recounted the City of Slaughter’s destruction by Tang San and the later rise of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Zhongli Old Ghost sealed Ye Xishui’s Soul Power, bound her in a secret chamber, and began an outrageous reward for her service.

The story recounted how Zhongli Old Ghost forced Ye Xishui to bear his heir, then passed his inheritance and Soul Power to her before dying. It introduced Zhongli Wu and his wife Feng Ling, and left the story poised to follow Feng Ling and Yan Shaozhe.

• Zhongli Old Ghost demanded that Ye Xishui bear his child in exchange for inheriting the Holy Spirit Cult, while Ye Xishui mocked his failing vigor.
• A year later, Ye Xishui gave birth to Zhongli Wu, and Zhongli Old Ghost died after leaving her his inheritance and Soul Power.
• Ye Xishui became a Rank 99 Limit Douluo, while Zhongli Wu grew into the Rank 98 leader of the Holy Spirit Cult and married Feng Ling.
• The story explained that Feng Ling possessed the Evil Phoenix Martial Soul, originally the Dark Phoenix.
• Yan Shaozhe appeared as the other protagonist, gazing at Feng Ling across a sea of flowers.

The chapter revealed how Yan Shaozhe descended from Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui and how Mu En secretly trained him. It recounted Yan Shaozhe and Feng Ling’s romance, which ended with Feng Ling becoming an Evil Phoenix evil soul master.

• Yan Shaozhe was revealed to be the grandson of Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui, inheriting Ye Xishui’s concealed Radiant Phoenix Martial Soul through her son.
• Mu En recognized the Radiant Phoenix in Yan Shaozhe, kept Ye Xishui’s secret, and took Yan Shaozhe as his disciple.
• Yan Shaozhe met Feng Ling at the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament and pursued her because she possessed the Dark Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Yan Shaozhe and Feng Ling fell in love and became intimate.
• Yan Shaozhe’s inherited darkness and evil nature caused Feng Ling to fall from a Dark Phoenix soul master into an Evil Phoenix evil soul master.

Mu En helped Yan Shaozhe protect Feng Ling after she became an Evil Soul Master, then took her to the Holy Spirit Cult to live with Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao. There, Zhongli Wu claimed Feng Ling for himself, leaving Yan Shaozhe behind and ending the story of “Kindred Spirits.”

• Feng Ling lost control after becoming an Evil Phoenix and nearly devoured Yan Shaozhe, who shielded her from Shrek Academy’s pursuit.
• Mu En arrived, spared Feng Ling, accepted her as a disciple, and told Yan Shaozhe about his ties to Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui.
• Mu En took Feng Ling to the Holy Spirit Cult and left her with Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui.
• Zhongli Wu noticed Feng Ling and used drugs and torture to make her obey him.
• Yan Shaozhe remained at Shrek, longing for Feng Ling, as “Kindred Spirits” ended.

As Shrek Academy and Shrek City emptied after revelations about the school’s ties to Evil Soul Masters, Elder Song used apologies and promises of reform to preserve the academy’s reputation. After reading "Kindred Spirits," Xian Lin'er turned against Yan Shaozhe and agreed to help Elder Song move against Mu En’s faction.

• Shrek City’s residents and Shrek Academy’s students left in large numbers after learning that the academy’s leaders had aided Evil Soul Masters.
• Elder Song and Lin Huiqun let people leave freely and gave them apology letters promising to address Shrek Academy’s corruption.
• Elder Song’s public apology helped retain some trust in Shrek Academy among those who departed.
• Elder Song found Xian Lin'er weeping over "Kindred Spirits," which exposed Yan Shaozhe’s Evil Soul Master ancestry and affair with Feng Ling.
• Xian Lin'er agreed to join Elder Song in purging Mu En’s faction and protecting Shrek Academy.

Elder Song gathered allies to force Mu En to answer for his actions, while Mu En returned to find Shrek City and Shrek Academy nearly deserted. As he entered Sea God Pavilion to discuss Shrek’s future, Lin Yun and Elder Song sprang their trap.

• Elder Song won over more than half of the Sea God Pavilion members and prepared to confront Mu En when he returned.
• Elder Song left Cai Meier and Zhang Lexuan unapproached, unaware that Zhang Lexuan had secretly begun turning against Mu En.
• Mu En used his spatial power to return to Shrek City and saw that most residents had fled, leaving refugees and beggars behind.
• Mu En surveyed the emptier Shrek Academy and worried that the ongoing wars and the Sun Moon Empire’s ambitions threatened Shrek’s survival.
• Mu En entered Sea God Pavilion to discuss Shrek’s future, and Lin Yun and Elder Song launched their scheme against him.

Mu En convened a Sea God Pavilion Meeting after returning to Shrek Academy, hoping to learn how the scandalous books had affected the school and find a way to respond. Elder Song and the gathered elders confronted him with Shrek’s worsening crisis, leaving Mu En unable to offer a solution.

• Mu En summoned the Sea God Pavilion members and worried that the books’ claims about his past were believable because their outcomes matched events he knew had happened.
• Elder Song arrived first, concealed her suspicions, and let Mu En mistake her silence for trust.
• The other elders gathered, and Mu En admitted he had failed to find the mastermind behind the books.
• Elder Song told Mu En that nearly everyone had left Shrek Academy and Shrek City, then asked whether he could resolve the crisis.
• Mu En considered how Secret Biography of the Supreme Elder had tied Shrek to the Holy Spirit Cult and triggered the departures of residents and students.

Elder Song confronted Mu En over Shrek Academy’s loss of public trust after revelations tied its leaders to Evil Soul Masters. Mu En could not prove his innocence, and the other Sea God Pavilion elders appeared to have turned against him.

• The public learned that Shrek’s celebrated campaign against Evil Soul Masters had helped preserve its reputation while its leaders were implicated in the very evil they opposed.
• The revelations drove people from Shrek City and left Shrek Academy feared as a powerful, deceitful force.
• Elder Song demanded that Mu En explain how he could prove he and other Shrek leaders were free of ties to Evil Soul Masters.
• Mu En sweated and searched for an answer, knowing his past gave him no way to establish his innocence.
• Elder Song accused Mu En of having no proof, and Mu En saw that the other Sea God Pavilion elders regarded him with cold suspicion.

Elder Song publicly denounced Mu En for his past ties to Evil Soul Masters, and Cai Meier joined her, leaving Mu En unable to defend himself. Already weakened by old injuries, Mu En died in the Sea God Pavilion, hoping Elder Song would lead Shrek Academy through the scandal.

• Mu En asked the Sea God Pavilion elders whether they believed him, but Elder Song silenced him and began condemning him.
• Elder Song accused Mu En of betraying Shrek’s mission by aiding Evil Soul Masters and blamed his past decisions for the academy’s disgrace.
• Cai Meier openly supported Elder Song, and Mu En took her betrayal as the final blow.
• Mu En’s injuries and the baleful aura within him erupted, and he died without attacking Elder Song.
• Mu En’s body dissolved into motes of light, leaving only his clothes as Elder Song remained Shrek’s leading figure.

Lin Yun learned that Mu En had died and realized Shrek had lost its best chance to repair its reputation. With Shrek’s campus nearly deserted and Elder Song in control, Lin Yun considered leaving.

• Ice Empress woke Lin Yun and reported that a powerful Shrek figure had died in a collapse of Soul Cores.
• Lin Yun recognized the dead Limit Douluo as Mu En and celebrated that Shrek would struggle to clear its name.
• Mu En’s death remained hidden from Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe, while Elder Song continued consolidating her control of the Sea God Pavilion.
• Lin Yun looked over the deserted Shrek campus and wondered whether he should leave.

Lin Yun decided to leave Shrek Academy because he feared Tang San’s divine sense in the Golden Tree and saw little reason to stay. Xiao Xiao and Ning Tian agreed to leave with him, though Xiao Xiao planned to visit her family first and Ning Tian would return to her clan ahead of Lin Yun’s visit.

• Lin Yun judged the Golden Tree too dangerous to approach and decided to leave Shrek to develop elsewhere.
• Lin Yun planned to take Xiao Xiao and Ning Tian with him and bring his Beast Taming Sect into the open under the name Soul Hall.
• Xiao Xiao welcomed the decision to leave Shrek and chose to return home first to tell her family she was withdrawing.
• Ning Tian agreed to leave without hesitation and planned to return to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan to await Lin Yun.
• Lin Yun told Ning Tian he would visit her clan soon and affectionately rubbed her head.

Lin Yun left Shrek Academy with Xiao Xiao and Ning Tian, then set out to bring the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan under his control as part of the soul beasts’ rise. He gathered Di Tian, Snow Empress, Myriad Demon King, and Ice Empress at the Lake of Life and led them through a spatial rift toward the human world.

• Lin Yun escorted Xiao Xiao to the Heaven Dou Empire and promised to visit her after dealing with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan.
• Lin Yun flew to the Star Dou Great Forest and told Ice Empress he would gather Di Tian and Xue'er before showing off their strength.
• Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts welcomed Lin Yun at the Lake of Life.
• Lin Yun ordered Di Tian, Snow Empress, Myriad Demon King, and Ice Empress to accompany him into the human world to seek allies.
• Di Tian opened a spatial rift, and Lin Yun led the group through it toward the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan.

Lin Yun arrived at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan with Ice Empress and assessed the clan’s weakness, intending to bring it under his influence. He confronted Ning Zhirou and its two guardian Titled Douluo with a show of force, demanding they bow.

• Lin Yun and Ice Empress emerged from a spatial rift above the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan.
• Di Tian reported that the clan had two Titled Douluo, one at Rank 94 and one at Rank 96.
• Lin Yun judged the clan to be declining and thought it could be persuaded to follow him instead of Tang San.
• Ning Zhirou came out to face Lin Yun, and he disliked her calculating gaze.
• Lin Yun unleashed Dragon’s Might on Ning Zhirou and the two Titled Douluo, then demanded that they bow to him.

Lin Yun confronted Ning Zhirou after sensing her plans to use his relationship with Ning Tian for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan’s benefit. Ice Empress instantly defeated the clan’s two guardian Douluo, leaving Lin Yun to demand that Ning Zhirou kneel.

• Lin Yun sensed Ning Zhirou’s ulterior motives and decided to show her the power behind him.
• Heavenly Sword Douluo and Purple Star Douluo confronted Lin Yun and threatened to drive him from the clan.
• Ice Empress struck both Douluo with her Wrath of the Ice Emperor and froze them instantly.
• Ning Zhirou caught the frozen Douluo and called the confrontation a misunderstanding.
• Lin Yun descended before Ning Zhirou with Ice Empress and demanded that she kneel.

Lin Yun arrived at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan and demonstrated the overwhelming strength of the Ice Empress, prompting Ning Zhirou to offer compensation and show submission. After accepting a rare pearl, Lin Yun entered the clan with Ning Zhirou, leaving the two humbled Sect Guardian Douluo to follow.

• Ning Zhirou recognized the gap between her strength and Lin Yun's, then bowed and offered him a rare treasure as compensation.
• The Ice Empress identified the gift as a pearl from a hundred-thousand-year-old clam-type soul beast that could greatly increase and purify Soul Power.
• Lin Yun accepted the pearl, and Ning Zhirou welcomed him into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan.
• The Ice Empress released the two frozen Titled Douluo, who followed Ning Zhirou after being cowed by her strength.

Lin Yun used the Ice Empress to subdue Heavenly Sword Douluo and Purple Star Douluo, then followed Ning Zhirou to a private tea meeting about the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan. The chapter ended with Lin Yun threatening to destroy the clan if Ning Tian was present when their negotiations failed.

• The Ice Empress restrained Heavenly Sword Douluo and Purple Star Douluo, terrifying them into leaving.
• Ning Zhirou accepted the two elders’ retreat and reflected on the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan’s vulnerability and need for an ally.
• Ning Zhirou led Lin Yun and the Ice Empress to a private courtyard, where Ning Tian was brewing tea.
• Lin Yun made the Ice Empress sit beside him, then warned Ning Zhirou that a failed negotiation with Ning Tian present would doom the entire clan.

Lin Yun frightened Ning Zhirou with the threat of destroying the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan, then offered the possibility of an alliance. After Ning Zhirou inferred that he represented the Soul Beast side, Lin Yun revealed himself as the Co-Lord of Soul Beasts, the Golden Dragon King.

• Lin Yun sealed the residence and pointed out the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan’s internal problems while hinting that failed negotiations could mean its destruction.
• Ning Tian realized Lin Yun was deliberately frightening her mother and poured him tea, intending to fight for her sect’s interests in the negotiations.
• Ning Zhirou weighed the risks and decided to go all in, then asked whether Lin Yun’s secret involved the Soul Beast side.
• Ning Zhirou inferred that Lin Yun and the Ice Empress were connected to Soul Beasts, leaving Ning Tian stunned.
• Lin Yun indirectly confirmed Ning Zhirou’s guess and introduced himself as the Co-Lord of Soul Beasts, the Golden Dragon King.

Lin Yun revealed his identity as the Golden Dragon King and used his power, the Ice Empress, and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan’s desperate situation to pressure Ning Zhirou into serving him. He tempted her with an Immortal Herb that could restore the clan’s Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and demanded her choice between submission and destruction.

• Ning Zhirou asked whether Lin Yun was the Golden Dragon clan’s patriarch, and Lin Yun claimed to be the Dragon God’s avatar and said he could defeat Sea God Tang San.
• Lin Yun identified the Ice Empress as his former personal guard, while Ning Zhirou realized she had learned dangerous information about him.
• Lin Yun explained that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan was in decline and criticized Ning Rongrong for leaving her descendants without a lasting foundation.
• Lin Yun revealed that Glazed Jade Tea had evolved Ning Zhirou’s Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda by one level and offered her another herb that could restore the Nine Treasures form.
• Lin Yun promised Ning Zhirou power, glory, and revenge against Ning Rongrong if she became his loyal subordinate, then demanded her decision.

Ning Zhirou accepted Lin Yun’s offer and pledged the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan’s loyalty to him in exchange for the Glazed Jade Tea and promises of advancement. After Lin Yun revealed the name Soul Hall and left, Ning Zhirou discovered the Myriad Demon King had planted a threat in her Spirit Sea, then told Ning Tian that their allegiance was both an opportunity and a danger.

• Ning Zhirou closed the jade box, gave the Glazed Jade Tea to Ning Tian, and pledged the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan to Lin Yun.
• Lin Yun dismissed the clan’s usefulness for now, told Ning Zhirou to call him Hall Master, and revealed that his force was Soul Hall.
• Lin Yun and Ice Empress departed through a spatial passage, while the Myriad Demon King warned Ning Zhirou not to betray Lin Yun and planted a Demonic Eye Demon Tree in her Spirit Sea.
• Ning Zhirou considered the soul beast powers backing Lin Yun and recognized the danger humanity could face if they united.
• Ning Zhirou reassured Ning Tian that their allegiance could restore the clan’s glory, but warned that the choice could also destroy them.

Ning Zhirou and Ning Tian struggled with the changes in their relationship with Lin Yun, while Lin Yun explained why the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan would not betray him. The soul beasts accepted his reasoning and continued on without worrying that the clan would rebel.

• Ning Zhirou recognized that Ning Tian was confused by how much Lin Yun had changed and trusted that her daughter would eventually find her way.
• The Ice Empress questioned why Lin Yun had left the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan without leaving anyone to watch them.
• Lin Yun asked Myriad Demon King about the Tree Seed planted in Ning Zhirou's Spiritual Sea, and Myriad Demon King explained that only the Evil Emperor could remove it without killing her.
• Lin Yun explained that he had offered Ning Zhirou benefits she could not refuse and demonstrated enough strength to ensure the clan had no reason to betray him.
• Myriad Demon King understood Lin Yun's strategy, and Di Tian and Snow Empress stopped worrying about the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan rebelling.