Chapter Summaries

Lin Yun returned to Lake of Life, where he considered his plans for the Soul Fighting Competition and Xixi’s growth before sneaking into Xue Qingci’s room to surprise her. The chapter ended with Electrolux teasing Lin Yun and then sealing off his senses.

• Di Tian praised Lin Yun’s wisdom and began considering how soul beasts could learn from human methods, while Lin Yun intended to face the Divine Realm alone.
• Lin Yun watched Xixi train and reflected on how her new Soul Ring and Soul Bones had strengthened and evolved her martial soul into the Thunder Shadow Leopard.
• Lin Yun planned to enter the Soul Fighting Competition as Soul Hall, considering Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, Xue Qingci, and Di Qiu’er for the team but worrying about filling the remaining spots.
• Lin Yun used a Soul Bone skill to enter Xue Qingci’s room and set up a soundproof barrier, while Electrolux sealed his senses after warning Lin Yun to restrain himself.

After leaving Xue Qingci exhausted, Lin Yun rested by the Lake of Life and decided to develop his own techniques instead of relying solely on Soul Skills. He entered Deep Meditation to study his abilities and strengthen his control, hoping to find his own path toward surpassing the Golden Dragon King.

• Lin Yun left Xue Qingci's room, and Xixi peeked in before encouraging herself to pursue a blissful life with her master.
• Lin Yun basked in the sun beside the Lake of Life and considered creating Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Lin Yun concluded that his cultivation had reached a stage where developing his abilities would help him consolidate his strength and find his own path.
• Lin Yun entered Deep Meditation and examined his Soul Skills, talents, attributes, and Soul Power from an extraordinary perspective.
• Lin Yun's Deep Meditation improved his familiarity with his Soul Skills and helped address gaps in his control and experience.

After a hundred days of Deep Meditation, Lin Yun mastered his soul skills and forged a new path based on space-time and the sun. He awakened before the gathered ferocious beasts and named his new all-out strike the Solar God Fist.

• Lin Yun analyzed his soul skills in Deep Meditation until he could unleash them with Soul Power alone and control their strength.
• Lin Yun fused his Golden Dragon King power, Solar Scripture, and four attributes to develop a punch combining the Power of Time, Sun Force, and Ultimate Fire.
• Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts guarded Lin Yun at the Lake of Life for a hundred days as his heat scorched the ground around him.
• Scarlet King felt threatened by Lin Yun's power, while Snow Empress saw the potential to refine her Great Cold Without Snow.
• Lin Yun awoke, named his new secret art the Solar God Fist, and settled on space-time and the sun as his own path.

After three months of Deep Meditation, Lin Yun woke with greatly strengthened powers and planned to train with Di Tian before heading to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to retrieve his maid. Meanwhile, Shrek Academy weathered the collapse of its exchange program and public controversy, while Huo Yuhao stayed after Wang Dong'er revealed herself.

• Lin Yun learned from Di Tian that his Deep Meditation had lasted three months and realized he needed to master his rapidly increased power.
• Lin Yun set off for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, with the Two Ice and Snow Empresses following him.
• The exchange program between Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy fell through after Jing Hongchen refused to send students.
• Wang Dong'er revealed her original appearance to Huo Yuhao, stopping him from leaving Shrek Academy and reigniting his pursuit of her.
• Elder Song recovered from her distress over Lin Yun's departure as Shrek Academy stabilized and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er began a difficult courtship.

Lin Yun arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to collect the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass after she had taken human form. Seeing that she had modeled her appearance on the Snow Empress, he watched the two become sisters.

• Wang Dong'er impulsively revealed that she was a girl to keep Huo Yuhao close, while Huo Yuhao abandoned his plan to leave Shrek Academy.
• Lin Yun flew to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the Immortal Herbs feared he had come to take them again.
• Lin Yun found the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass in human form, looking strikingly like the Snow Empress.
• The Snow Empress reassured the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass that she forgave her for borrowing her appearance.
• The Snow Empress declared the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass her younger sister, and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass called her Big Sister.

The Snow Empress welcomed the transformed Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass as her little sister, upsetting the Ice Empress until Lin Yun persuaded her to enjoy being called “Sister Bing'er.” After the three reconciled, Lin Yun gave the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass the human name Mingli.

• The Snow Empress warmly accepted the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass as her younger sister, while the Ice Empress grew jealous and feared losing her place with the Snow Empress.
• Lin Yun comforted the Ice Empress and pointed out that Octagonal was younger and would have to call her big sister.
• The Ice Empress embraced the idea of Octagonal calling her “Sister Bing'er” and happily accepted her as a little sister too.
• The Snow Empress and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass heard Lin Yun and the Ice Empress's conversation, and Octagonal sweetly called the Ice Empress “Sister Bing'er.”
• Lin Yun asked the transformed Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to take a human name, then named her Mingli.

Lin Yun named the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass Mingli and left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Meanwhile, the Dou Ling and Star Luo Empires ended their costly war, leaving their grudge unresolved as both feared the Sun Moon Empire.

• Lin Yun named the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass Mingli and departed, while the other Immortal Herbs rejoiced that he had taken only her.
• After two years of fighting, the Dou Ling Empire and Star Luo Empire agreed to a truce because both had suffered severe losses.
• The Dou Ling Empire’s depleted treasury led it to demand military funds from its sects, driving many factions to flee and nearly draining the Profound Nether Sect.
• With its sources of funding gone, the Dou Ling Empire recalled its troops and abandoned its threats to fight to the death.
• Xu Jiawei chose not to destroy the weakened Dou Ling Empire because the Sun Moon Empire could exploit the damage, while the Star Luo Emperor held onto his grudge.
• The Heaven Dou Empire was relieved when the war ended.

Xu Tianran became Regent King of the Sun Moon Empire and reconsidered his alliance with the Holy Spirit Cult after Shrek Academy’s collapse. He began plotting to turn against the Evil Soul Masters and ordered Ju Zi to broaden the tournament planned for Radiant City.

• The Heavenly Soul Emperor feared that Dou Ling and Star Luo would weaken themselves further and leave the continent vulnerable to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Tianran took over the Sun Moon Empire’s affairs as Regent King while his ailing father remained emperor.
• After learning that Shrek Academy had nearly collapsed, Xu Tianran regretted allying with the Holy Spirit Cult and considered destroying it to improve his reputation.
• Xu Tianran told Ju Zi to rename the tournament in Radiant City the All-Continent Youth Soul Master Tournament and allow sects to participate alongside academies.

Xu Tianran planned to use the expanded tournament to expose the Holy Spirit Cult and hold academy and sect elites hostage before the coming war. At the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, Long Xiaoyao learned from books that he and Ye Xishui had a child, and Ye Xishui confirmed it.

• Xu Tianran planned to expand the Soul Master Tournament to include sects, expose the Holy Spirit Cult, and detain participating students and disciples as hostages.
• Long Xiaoyao read “Phoenix Playing with Two Dragons” and “Kindred Spirits” and was stunned by their claims about his life with Mu En and Ye Xishui.
• Long Xiaoyao rushed to Ye Xishui’s seclusion and asked whether she had borne him a child.
• Ye Xishui confirmed that they had a child, who had likely died of old age, and said one of his descendants was Mu En’s disciple.

Ye Xishui learned that Long Xiaoyao had discovered her hidden child, then read two books that exposed and distorted painful parts of her past. Enraged by the books, she vowed to kill whoever had written them.

• Ye Xishui asked Long Xiaoyao how he learned she had a child, and he handed her Phoenix Playing with Two Dragons and Secret Biography of the Supreme Elder.
• Ye Xishui read Phoenix Playing with Two Dragons and grew furious at its humiliating account of her relationship with Mu En and Long Xiaoyao.
• Ye Xishui destroyed Phoenix Playing with Two Dragons, while Long Xiaoyao silently reflected on how the book portrayed him as more successful than he was in real life.
• Ye Xishui read Kindred Spirits and tore it apart when it revealed and distorted her imprisonment by Zhongli Wu and the child she was forced to bear.
• Ye Xishui demanded to know who made the books and threatened to tear that person into ten thousand pieces.

Lin Yun mistook a sudden wave of malice for Shrek plotting against him and ordered Myriad Demon King to intensify a campaign to turn human factions against the academy. Myriad Demon King accepted two copies of Source of Life and set out to carry out Lin Yun’s orders.

• Lin Yun sneezed, sensed malice, and decided Shrek was cursing him behind his back.
• Lin Yun summoned Myriad Demon King and clarified that he wanted Shrek taught a lesson, not everyone killed.
• Myriad Demon King agreed when Lin Yun declared Shrek evil by nature and urged him to say it louder.
• Lin Yun handed Myriad Demon King two copies of Source of Life and ordered him to pressure human factions into helping destroy Shrek.
• Mingli realized Lin Yun’s killing intent was aimed at human factions and admired him, while Myriad Demon King vowed to complete his task.

Lin Yun sent Myriad Demon King to spread Greedy Ambition, a book accusing Shrek Academy of plotting to exploit the Sun Moon Empire’s conquest and establish a Shrek Empire. Its revelations enraged patriots and the royal families of the Four Great Empires, who began considering an alliance against Shrek.

• Myriad Demon King delivered the enormous proceeds from selling Shrek Spring and Autumn, and Lin Yun praised his work.
• Lin Yun kept Source of Life from being published but ordered Myriad Demon King to distribute Greedy Ambition across the continent.
• Greedy Ambition portrayed Shrek as planning to use Xu He and Zhang Lexuan, heirs to the Sun and Moon Martial Souls, to seize control after the Sun Moon Empire unified Douluo Continent.
• The book claimed Mu En arranged the Zhang Family’s slaughter with Ye Xishui and manipulated Zhang Lexuan into serving Shrek.
• Patriots condemned Shrek, and the royal families of Star Luo, Heaven Soul, and Dou Ling considered joining forces with the other empires to destroy it.

After Greedy Ambition exposed Shrek Academy’s supposed imperial ambitions and the Sun Moon bloodlines of Zhang Lexuan and He Caitou, Shrek faced suspicion from the empires and sidelined both students. Zhang Lexuan and He Caitou left the academy, and Shrek denied the book’s claims while the surrounding armies withdrew but continued secret surveillance.

• The Four Great Empires verified details about Zhang Lexuan and He Caitou in Greedy Ambition, grew wary of Shrek, and moved troops around Shrek City.
• The Sea God Pavilion temporarily stripped Zhang Lexuan of her membership and vice dean position, leaving her assigned to sit by a water dispenser.
• Zhang Lexuan grabbed her bucket, escaped Shrek Academy, and broke with the academy.
• Fan Yu confronted He Caitou about his second Martial Soul and Sun Moon imperial blood, and Qian Duoduo delivered a notice urging He Caitou to withdraw from Shrek.
• Shrek expelled Zhang Lexuan and He Caitou, publicly denied having imperial ambitions, and claimed Greedy Ambition was slander.
• The three empires withdrew their troops from Shrek’s surroundings but left scouts to watch the academy in secret.

After leaving Shrek Academy, Fan Yu and He Caitou were hunted by the Sun Moon Empire’s Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Corps, which Xu Tianran sent to capture his estranged younger brother. The master and disciple were surrounded in a mountain ravine by the corps’ commanders, and Mad Ox Douluo ordered them to accept their deaths.

• Fan Yu left Shrek Academy with He Caitou after He Caitou was expelled, and the two began wandering the world.
• Xu Tianran learned that He Caitou had been expelled and ordered the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Corps to pursue him.
• Fan Yu and He Caitou were surrounded in a mountain ravine by hundreds of Soul Engineers.
• Fan Yu identified the two Ninth Level Soul Engineer commanders, and Mad Ox Douluo declared that they would die.

Xu Tianran had Xu He killed with a Level 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell and decided to accelerate his plans against Shrek Academy. Meanwhile, Lin Yun headed to Xiao Xiao’s home, where Zhang Lexuan asked Xiao Xiao to tell her where he was so she could seek his help against Shrek.

• Wang Yiheng confirmed that the Level 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell had destroyed Xu He, then reported back to Xu Tianran.
• Xu Tianran felt relieved that Xu He was dead and decided that his plan needed to be accelerated.
• Lin Yun headed to Xiao Xiao’s home, eager to reveal that he was the Co-Lord of Soul Beasts.
• Zhang Lexuan visited Xiao Xiao and explained that she had come to ask for her help.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Xiao Xiao where Lin Yun was so she could seek his help in taking revenge on Shrek Academy.

Zhang Lexuan asked Xiao Xiao for help finding Lin Yun, hoping to join his faction and use its power for revenge. Xiao Xiao admitted she did not know where Lin Yun was, but Lin Yun arrived just as Zhang Lexuan was leaving, leaving her heartbroken as he embraced Xiao Xiao.

• Zhang Lexuan assured Xiao Xiao that she would not compete with her for Lin Yun and explained that she wanted to find him and his faction.
• Xiao Xiao told Zhang Lexuan that she did not know where Lin Yun had gone or where his sect was located.
• Zhang Lexuan thanked Xiao Xiao and prepared to leave, but Xiao Xiao offered to let her stay until Lin Yun came to pick her up.
• Lin Yun arrived in a streak of golden light and asked Zhang Lexuan why she was there.
• Lin Yun pulled Xiao Xiao into an embrace, while Zhang Lexuan watched and lamented that she was always too late.

Zhang Lexuan asked Lin Yun to take her into his faction so she could gain the power to destroy Shrek, which she believed had orchestrated her family's downfall. Lin Yun accepted her allegiance after she revealed Shrek's weakness and secrets, and she made her first move to draw his attention.

• Zhang Lexuan told Lin Yun she had broken with Shrek and wanted his help taking revenge for her family.
• Lin Yun learned Zhang Lexuan believed Shrek had destroyed her family and that the academy was close to collapse, with many students leaving.
• Zhang Lexuan shared her knowledge of Shrek's experts and structure as a pledge of loyalty.
• Lin Yun accepted Zhang Lexuan into his faction, and she vowed she would not regret joining.
• Zhang Lexuan noticed Lin Yun looking at her legs and tugged her skirt to reveal them more clearly.

Lin Yun brought Xiao Xiao and Zhang Lexuan through a spatial passage opened by Di Tian to reveal his faction. The women arrived at the Lake of Life, where Lin Yun welcomed them.

• Lin Yun stopped admiring Zhang Lexuan and said he would show her and Xiao Xiao his faction.
• Di Tian opened a spatial passage, startling Zhang Lexuan and Xiao Xiao with evidence of a Limit Douluo's power.
• Lin Yun led both women through the passage, and they watched the dazzling star-like scenery.
• After they emerged at the Lake of Life, powerful figures arrived behind Lin Yun and he welcomed the women.

Lin Yun brought Xiao Xiao and Zhang Lexuan to the Lake of Life and revealed that he was the Co-Lord of Soul Beasts, a god whose true body was the Golden Dragon King. He introduced them to eight Ferocious Beasts, and Xiao Xiao and Zhang Lexuan accepted their new places within his faction.

• Lin Yun arrived at the Lake of Life with Xiao Xiao and Zhang Lexuan, who were alarmed by the Ferocious Beasts gathered there.
• Lin Yun told them he was the Co-Lord of Soul Beasts and the Golden Dragon King, and said the Ferocious Beasts were his brothers and sisters rather than subordinates.
• Lin Yun introduced Di Tian, Snow Empress, Bijie, Myriad Demon King, Xiong Jun, Ice Empress, Scarlet King, and Zi Ji as members of his group.
• Lin Yun introduced Xiao Xiao as his consort and as the Ice Empresses' little sister, and the Two Ice and Snow Empresses welcomed her.
• Zhang Lexuan curtsied to the soul beasts and identified herself as the Honored One's human maidservant.

Di Tian and Snow Empress welcomed Zhang Lexuan and Xiao Xiao into Lin Yun’s circle by giving them powerful Soul Bone gifts. Zhang Lexuan accepted her role as Lin Yun’s maid and pledged herself to him, while Xiao Xiao received an External Soul Bone from Snow Empress.

• Zhang Lexuan introduced herself as Lin Yun’s maid, and Di Tian and the others welcomed her warmly.
• Di Tian told Zhang Lexuan to serve Lin Yun faithfully and gave her a Hundred Thousand Year Silver Moon Heavenly Steed Right Arm Bone.
• Zhang Lexuan accepted the Soul Bone and said she was willing to do anything as long as Lin Yun avenged her.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress teased Xiao Xiao and gave her a Cold Wind Jade Luan External Soul Bone.
• Xiao Xiao accepted the rare wing-type Soul Bone in surprise.