Chapter Summaries

Lin Li killed the Death Spider Emperor, obtained its domain-bearing soul bone, and returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy of Spirit Masters, where she met Qin Ming. Three months later, she had begun using perfume blending to temper her power and develop fragrances with medicinal and poisonous effects.

• Lin Li exhausted her Soul Power to kill the Death Spider Emperor, and her fifth spirit ring evolved as the Abyssal Phoenix absorbed energy.
• Lin Li found a complete Death Spider Emperor torso soul bone with a small External Soul Bone and the Death Domain skill, then put it away.
• At Heaven Dou Royal Academy of Spirit Masters, Lin Li met Qin Ming, exchanged introductions, and wished him luck in his bid to become the Imperial Dou Team's vice-captain instructor.
• Three months later, Lin Li had transformed her dormitory and used perfume blending to temper unstable Soul Power and train her Spiritual Power.
• Lin Li discovered that fragrances could carry medicinal properties and conceal poisonous effects, and she experimented with using them to kill Soul Beasts.

Lin Li left Heaven Dou Royal Academy to seek the Death God Deity at Death Cliff, defeating four Yue Family Spirit Emperors along the way. After reaching the cliff, she was taken into a secret realm by the Death God’s figure, where her inheritance began.

• Lin Li requested indefinite leave from the three education committee members and set out for Death Cliff.
• Four Yue Family Spirit Emperors tried to force Lin Li to join their family, but she trapped them with Fallen Yellow Springs Purgatory and devoured them to raise her Soul Power to level fifty-nine.
• Lin Li traveled for four months and arrived at Death Cliff, where her Inheritance Map glowed and a shadowy figure appeared.
• The figure brought Lin Li into a gloomy secret realm filled with black sand, a ruined palace, and signs of the Death God.

Lin Li entered the secret realm and became the Death God's Inheritor, receiving the Death God's Mark. Her inheritance stirred the God Realm, where the God of Destruction realized the Death God had hidden his successor and reclaimed his scepter.

• Lin Li entered the secret realm after waiting seven years for a chance to earn a god's favor and resurrect her parents.
• The phantom of the God of Death explained that previous people with Ultimate Evil Power had been drawn to the Evil God's inheritance, then recognized Lin Li's exceptional talent and destiny.
• The God of Death made Lin Li his Inheritor, and the nine pillars lit up as the Death God's Mark appeared on her forehead.
• The inheritance sent black radiance and Ultimate Evil Power through the God Realm Central Hub, restoring the seat of the God of Death.
• The God of Destruction sensed the change and realized that the Death God had concealed Lin Li and taken back his scepter.

Lin Li began the first of Death God's Nine Trials, which required her to raise the God-Bestowed Soul Ring to the Hundred-Thousand-Year level. As she endured the trial, she was drawn into a vision of the loss of her family and friends.

• In the Rakshasa God Palace, the Rakshasa God recognized that the God of Death had returned.
• The God of Death announced Lin Li's first trial and gave her Death God's Crystal to raise her soul ring.
• Lin Li crushed the crystal and absorbed its death power and Ultimate Evil Power as her spirit ring advanced to the Hundred-Thousand-Year level.
• Lin Li summoned both martial souls and unfolded the Abyssal Interminable Domain and Star Radiance Domain at once, impressing the God of Death.
• Lin Li relived the day her family and friends died, then found herself alone in a dark abyss until a gentle voice sounded beside her.

Lin Li passed the first trial of Death God's Nine Trials after absorbing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring at level sixty. Her Death God affinity increased, her right arm soul bone advanced, and she received the second trial.

• Lin Li regained her resolve and transformed her sixth Spirit Ring into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.
• Lin Li awakened the soul skills Death God's Fall and Blood Fiend Eternal Trace from her new ring.
• The God of Death announced that Lin Li had passed the first trial, raising her affinity by fifteen percent and advancing her right arm soul bone to Hundred-Thousand-Year.
• Lin Li's Blazing Sun soul skill transformed into Eternal Nether Sun, which weakened dragon-blooded opponents and produced an intensely hot black sun.
• The God of Death assigned Lin Li the second trial: cultivate to the Spirit Saint realm within the Death Secret Realm.

After four years of cultivation, Lin Li passed the Second Trial, obtained a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, and developed powerful new soul skills. She received the Third Trial’s requirement to reach level eighty and learned she could leave the secret realm, but had to return after the Seventh Trial.

• The Death God Phantom confirmed that he wanted to pass his divine position to Lin Li, but she was not yet strong enough to become a god.
• Lin Li cultivated for four years, raising her Soul Power and Spiritual Power until she became a sixteen-year-old Spirit Saint.
• Lin Li passed the Second Trial, gained fifteen percent Death God affinity, and absorbed the Death God Crystal Core as her Seventh Spirit Ring.
• Lin Li obtained the Abyssal Phoenix Body and Immortal Phoenix Body soul skills, but could not raise her spirit ring to two hundred thousand years.
• Lin Li received the Third Trial’s requirement to reach level eighty, and the Death God Phantom told her she could leave but must return after the Seventh Trial.

Lin Li returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy of Spirit Masters at rank 73 and encountered Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and a muscular student who demanded that she bow to the two counts. She subdued them with her Soul Saint pressure, and the chapter ended when Qin Ming intervened.

• Lin Li arrived at the academy after less than three months of travel and headed toward her dormitory, hoping to rest.
• Lin Li recognized Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, who showed little respect for her, and a muscular student blocked her way and demanded that she bow to them.
• Lin Li told the student to get lost, revealed her seven soul rings, and restrained all three with her Abyssal Phoenix's soul pressure.
• Qin Ming arrived and criticized Lin Li for going too far.
• Lin Li dismissed Qin Ming as a mere Soul Emperor and challenged him for provoking her.

Lin Li punished Qin Ming and his companions for provoking her, then returned to her dormitory while they faced a reprimand from Shen Mengji. The next morning, Lin Li visited the Education Committee, where Shen Mengji greeted her as a Spirit Saint and praised her strength.

• Lin Li restrained Qin Ming and forced him and the others to kneel in an illusory purgatory for three hours before leaving.
• Lin Li returned to her dormitory, bathed, and fell asleep.
• Shen Mengji reprimanded Qin Ming and the others for disrespecting their teacher, while Dugu Yan silently considered asking Dugu Bo to retaliate.
• The next morning, Lin Li visited the Education Committee and greeted its three members.
• Shen Mengji welcomed Lin Li and praised her for reaching the Spirit Saint realm.

Lin Li impressed the Heaven Dou Royal Academy committee and agreed to join the Spirit Master Competition, prompting them to consider putting her in charge of the Imperial Dou Team. After leaving, she confronted Dugu Bo, who accused her of bullying his granddaughter Yan Yan and threatened to kill her.

• Lin Li declined the committee members’ praise, but Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin urged her to lead the Imperial Dou Team because of her strength.
• Lin Li said she would participate in the Spirit Master Competition, and the committee members welcomed her decision.
• Lin Li sensed a powerful observer following her and summoned her martial spirit and seven soul rings in an open area.
• Dugu Bo appeared and accused Lin Li of provoking Yan Yan, then revealed his nine soul rings and pressured her with his poisonous-serpent aura.
• Lin Li’s eyes turned cold as the ground cracked beneath her, and she prepared to fight Dugu Bo.

Lin Li unleashed her Abyssal Phoenix abilities against Dugu Bo after he attacked her, but his strength as a Titled Douluo forced her to escalate. She ended the chapter launching another sixth soul skill, with the battle still unresolved.

• Dugu Bo attacked Lin Li with his fifth spirit ability, Venomous Fangs, and then used Bone-Eroding Whitening.
• Lin Li blocked the serpent attack with Abyssal Phoenix Return and activated her Abyssal Hell of Interminable Suffering domain and Abyssal Phoenix Body.
• Lin Li combined her abilities with Death God's Descent and sent Death God's Fall crashing toward Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo transformed with Jade Phosphor True Body and fired Jade Phosphor Divine Light to counter her attack.
• Lin Li continued her assault by using Blood Fiend Eternal Trace.

Lin Li nearly killed Dugu Bo after striking him with Blood Fiend Eternal Trace, but spared him at the last moment because she considered her debt to him repaid. She left him with a warning that she would kill him if they became enemies again.

• Lin Li used Blood Fiend Eternal Trace to wound Dugu Bo while he was distracted by Death God's Fall.
• Dugu Bo unleashed his eighth soul skill, Time-Space Condensation, and Lin Li countered with Abyssal Gaze and Soul Shattering Finger.
• Lin Li's attack overcame Dugu Bo's Medusa Soul Bone Skill, but she redirected the final strike and ended her domain.
• Dugu Bo asked why Lin Li had spared him, and she said she had repaid her favor and would kill him if they became enemies again.

After Lin Li defeated Dugu Bo, news of the battle spread through the spirit master world and drew the attention of powerful factions. Ning Fengzhi considered recruiting her, while a hidden young master chose to wait and see.

• Lin Li left after defeating Dugu Bo, and Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin marveled at her victory.
• Dugu Bo warned the education committee members not to reveal what had happened, then vanished.
• The education committee members decided to report the battle to the Crown Prince and discussed Prince Xue Xing's growing restlessness.
• Ning Fengzhi learned that Lin Li had defeated Poison Douluo and said he wanted to recruit her into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• A subordinate confirmed Lin Li's victory to a concealed young master, who chose to wait rather than recruit or kill her.

Alder reunited with Lin Li and described the powerful spirit skill he gained from his third spirit ring, which also strengthened his Earth Nether Demonic Snake bloodline. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong ordered Ghostly Shadow and Yue Guan to verify reports about a Spirit Saint who defeated Dugu Bo and consider recruiting her into Spirit Hall.

• Alder agreed to meet Ning Fengzhi and referred to him as his good teacher.
• Bibi Dong read a report about a Spirit Saint defeating Dugu Bo and ordered Ghostly Shadow and Yue Guan to investigate and have Salas contact her if the report proved true.
• Alder told Lin Li that he had reached Soul Power level thirty-two and obtained the Earth Nether Demonic Mist skill from a thousand-year-old Earth Nether Demonic Snake.
• Lin Li was impressed when Alder explained that his poisonous mist could cause paralysis, hallucinations, decay, and Soul Power loss.
• Alder told Lin Li that his Earth Nether Demonic Snake bloodline had advanced further after gaining the spirit ring.

Alder asked Lin Li to help him join the Imperial Dou Team, but she offered him a place on the Imperial Reserve Team instead. Lin Li then rushed to greet her old friend Zhou Yurou, who visited after years apart, and learned that Yurou had attended Spirit Hall Academy.

• Alder told Lin Li that Qin Ming had rejected his application to join the Imperial Dou Team because Dugu Yan’s soul skills were more useful.
• Lin Li said she could not interfere with the team’s selection but offered Alder a place on the Imperial Reserve Team.
• Alder learned that Lin Li would continue teaching Soul Beast theory and left pleased.
• Lin Li hurried to the academy gate after hearing that Zhou Yurou had come to see her.
• Zhou Yurou hugged Lin Li and teased her for failing to write or be there when Yurou visited before.
• Lin Li welcomed Zhou Yurou into Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then asked why she had described her school as shabby when she had attended Spirit Hall Academy.

Lin Li reunited with Zhou Yurou, who complained about leaving Shrek Academy and revealed her current strength. After learning Lin Li was a level seventy-four Spirit Saint, Zhou Yurou asked for help, and Lin Li told her to wait before making a move against Shrek's powerful teachers.

• Lin Li asked Zhou Yurou why she had left Spirit Hall Academy, and Zhou Yurou explained that her mother had enrolled her at Shrek Academy, where she studied for three years before leaving.
• Zhou Yurou complained that Shrek's teachers monitored and exploited the students, and said she had reached level forty-six while the Class Monitor was level fifty-nine.
• Lin Li revealed that she was a level seventy-four Spirit Saint, astonishing Zhou Yurou as students and teachers respectfully saluted Lin Li.
• Lin Li invited Zhou Yurou to her lodging to explain what had happened, and Zhou Yurou asked her to help.
• Zhou Yurou said Shrek had three Spirit Saints, and Lin Li advised her to wait because none of them had many years left to live.

Lin Li welcomed Zhou Yurou to her residence, where Zhou Yurou recounted the mistreatment she had suffered at Shrek Academy and spoke about returning to Saint Er Junior Soul Master Academy. Lin Li offered her a suitable Spirit Ring and presented her with a precious arm spirit bone, which Zhou Yurou hesitated to accept.

• Lin Li brought Zhou Yurou to her Eastern-style residence and served her Biluochun tea.
• Zhou Yurou described how Shrek Academy had sent her into dangerous fights at the Great Soul Arena and nearly gotten her killed.
• Zhou Yurou said she had returned to Saint Er Junior Soul Master Academy, where Teacher Ye had given her a place to stay, and mentioned seeing Ling Xuan again.
• Lin Li told Zhou Yurou she had found a suitable Soul Beast for her Spirit Ring and urged her to fuse it.
• Lin Li revealed a jade-like arm spirit bone, but Zhou Yurou said it was too precious to accept, and Lin Li insisted it was no use to her.

Lin Li gave Zhou Yurou a Jade Blood Elixir Lotus spirit bone, which evolved Zhou Yurou’s martial soul and raised her to level fifty. As Lin Li considered helping her pursue godhood, she wondered how the evolution had changed Zhou Yurou’s existing soul skills.

• Zhou Yurou initially refused the Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, but Lin Li pressed it against her arm and guided her through absorbing it.
• The Jade Blood Elixir Lotus spirit bone merged into Zhou Yurou’s martial soul, evolving it and granting the Azure Blood and Elixir Heart abilities.
• Lin Li resolved to help Zhou Yurou reach godhood and thought that the spirit bone’s life force might allow her martial soul to accept a Divine Inheritance.
• Zhou Yurou thanked Lin Li tearfully, and the two friends joked together after her absorption ended.
• Zhou Yurou told Lin Li that her martial soul was now called the Jade Blood Elixir Lotus and that she had advanced four levels to level fifty.
• Lin Li explained Spirit Bone Sets and worried that Zhou Yurou’s new life attribute might have changed her existing soul skills.

Lin Li listened as Zhou Yurou described her evolved Jade Blood Elixir Lotus and its four spirit abilities, then worried over the power and purpose of the new skills. The chapter ended with Lin Li imagining ways to make Zhou Yurou more deadly and Zhou Yurou teasing her for acting perverted.

• Zhou Yurou excitedly told Lin Li that her Martial Soul Evolution had gone well and described how her first two spirit abilities controlled opponents.
• Lin Li learned that the evolved abilities carried life aura that made Zhou Yurou's illusion realm more realistic and that her Third Spirit Ability drained life force from controlled opponents.
• Lin Li grew angry when Zhou Yurou explained that her original Third Spirit Ability had only expanded the illusion realm.
• Zhou Yurou described her Fourth Soul Skill, Jade Cloud Lotus Blade, which produced fifty penetrating lotus-leaf scythes, and Lin Li thought invisible steel needles would suit it better.
• Lin Li laughed as she imagined Zhou Yurou becoming a deceptive killer, and Zhou Yurou told her to rein it in and teased her for acting perverted.

Lin Li and Zhou Yurou searched Sunset Forest for the Life Lotus when an elderly Soul Douluo attacked and tried to make Lin Li join his family. Lin Li killed him swiftly, then comforted Zhou Yurou, who was shaken by seeing a Soul Master die.

• Lin Li and Zhou Yurou continued through Sunset Forest to find the Life Lotus, and Lin Li warned that the treasure was likely deep in the forest.
• Lin Li sensed an unseen attacker, blocked his strike, and confronted an elderly man with a Steel Giant Eagle martial soul and eight Spirit Rings.
• The old man said Lin Li would learn his identity after joining his family, so Lin Li told Zhou Yurou to wait and unleashed her Abyssal Phoenix Body.
• Lin Li killed the Soul Douluo before he could complete his Martial Soul Avatar, then turned his body to ash.
• Zhou Yurou admitted she was frightened despite Lin Li killing the attacker, and Lin Li comforted her and reassured her that she was not useless.
• Lin Li considered seeking out the protagonist group, especially Tang San, and thought she would need to reach level eighty to kill Tang Hao.

Lin Li helped Zhou Yurou use an Emerald Lotus to absorb the twenty-thousand-year Life Lotus’s spirit ring, and Zhou Yurou’s martial soul evolved as a result. Lin Li sensed that Zhou Yurou had succeeded and considered whether her new power could suppress the Blue Silver Emperor.

• Lin Li and Zhou Yurou reached the cave and found that the Life Lotus had grown to twenty thousand years old.
• Lin Li revealed an Emerald Lotus and urged Zhou Yurou to eat it so she could absorb the Life Lotus’s spirit ring.
• Zhou Yurou swallowed the Emerald Lotus seeds and cultivated while Lin Li watched over her.
• Zhou Yurou’s Jade Blood Elixir Lotus shed a petal that became a gemstone-like drop, and jade-green lotuses bloomed throughout the cave.
• Lin Li sensed Zhou Yurou’s surging vitality and concluded that she had succeeded, then turned her attention to the Life Lotus.