Chapter Summaries

Lin Li used Yellow Springs Purgatory to expose the group’s weaknesses, then began a new special-training test by setting seven clusters of Abyssal Phoenix Flame before them. She left them to figure out how to extinguish the flames, with Zhou Yurou warning that water would not work.

• Lin Li used illusions to tempt Ye Lingling, the Shi Mos, Dugu Yan, and Yu Tianheng, then intensified the illusions when she noticed Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng reacting to each other.
• Lin Li ended Yellow Springs Purgatory after half an hour, leaving the group drained and Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan embarrassed.
• Lin Li summoned seven clusters of Abyssal Phoenix Flame and ordered the group to extinguish them by any means before the next round of special training.
• Lin Li left the training grounds with Zhou Yurou, who warned the group that water could not put out the flames.

Zhou Yurou and Lin Li left the Imperial Dou Team to endure Lin Li’s Abyssal Phoenix Flame trial. Ye Lingling discovered that Spiritual Power channeled through a martial soul could weaken the flames, and Lin Li approved of her insight.

• Zhou Yurou followed Lin Li out of the training grounds, leaving the seven team members surrounded by flames.
• Yufeng tried to blow out the flames, but the wind made them surge around him.
• Yu Tianheng told Shi Mo and Shi Mo to use their water abilities, but the flames resisted and whipped the brothers.
• Ye Lingling placed petals from her Nine-Hearts Begonia into the flames, causing them to weaken.
• Lin Li realized Ye Lingling had found that martial-soul-transmitted Spiritual Power could extinguish the flames, and she watched with satisfaction.

The Imperial Dou Team learned that Lin Li’s Abyssal Phoenix Flame could be suppressed with Spiritual Power and used to temper the body. As Ye Lingling recovered, Lin Li secretly let the flame strengthen her Soul Power and instructed her to guide the others.

• Ye Lingling told the Imperial Dou Team to apply Spiritual Power through their martial souls to lower and extinguish the flames, and Yu Tianheng tried first.
• Zhou Yurou recalled that Lin Li’s flames could temper bodies and considered using her soul bone skill to rescue the team if needed.
• The team used their Spiritual Power to suppress the Phoenix Flame, but it faded so slowly that Ye Lingling ran out of Soul Power first.
• As Ye Lingling recovered, wisps of flame entered her body, and Lin Li told her the Phoenix Flame would solidify her Soul Power.
• Lin Li told Ye Lingling that the team would take three days to extinguish the flames and instructed her to have everyone quietly accept their tempering effect.

Lin Li finished tempering the Imperial Dou Team and prepared to meet the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Sect Master. She suspected his visit was connected to Ning Rongrong and resolved to face him without fear.

• Lin Li judged that the Imperial Dou Team needed more training to resist Hu Liena’s control and considered using her poison if Dugu Yan proved cooperative.
• Lin Li cultivated while the Imperial Dou Team dispelled her Abyssal Phoenix Flame, which took four days.
• Zhou Yurou told Lin Li that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Sect Master had requested a meeting through the Crown Prince.
• Zhou Yurou connected the visit to Ning Rongrong, the Shrek Academy student with the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul.
• Lin Li decided to meet Sect Master Ning and considered advancing to rank 80 early if necessary.

Lin Li and Zhou Yurou went to the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce to meet Sect Master Ning, but the sect’s guards stopped their carriage and Sword Douluo challenged Lin Li from hiding. The chapter ended with Lin Li clashing her Ultimate Evil Power against his sword aura.

• Lin Li changed into a moon-white qipao and left with Zhou Yurou to meet Sect Master Ning.
• The two arrived at the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce in Heaven Dou City, where several yellow-clad men stopped their carriage.
• Lin Li threatened to leave and used her Spiritual Power to turn the Blaze Horse around.
• Sword Douluo spoke from hiding and sent a sharp sword aura toward Lin Li.
• Lin Li released her Abyssal Phoenix martial soul and collided her Ultimate Evil Power with Sword Douluo's sword aura.

Lin Li’s clash with Chen Xin revealed the corrosive power of her Ultimate Evil Power, while Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo came to meet her. She confronted them outside the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce, her aura rising as she mocked their reputations.

• Lin Li sent her Ultimate Evil Power along Chen Xin’s sword qi and corroded through his Seven Kill Sword barrier.
• Ning Fengzhi comforted Chen Xin after he lost the exchange and agreed to go meet Lin Li.
• Lin Li pressured the guard who had stopped her and ordered him to kneel until his master arrived.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin emerged from the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce to greet Lin Li.
• Lin Li sarcastically greeted the two men, then unleashed a surge of aura accompanied by a phoenix cry.

Lin Li and Zhou Yurou visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi tried to recruit Lin Li's help as a teacher. Ning Fengzhi hinted that his youngest daughter had encountered trouble, leaving Lin Li to ask what had happened.

• Lin Li intimidated Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo, then accepted Ning Fengzhi's apology and left the carriage with Zhou Yurou.
• Ning Fengzhi guided Lin Li and Zhou Yurou through the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Zhou Yurou concealed her disgust at the flowers they passed.
• Lin Li noticed the sect's costly furnishings and ornaments but showed no reaction to them.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Lin Li's talent and mentioned that she still taught at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy of Spirit Masters.
• Ning Fengzhi hinted that his youngest daughter had encountered trouble, and Lin Li asked him to explain.

Lin Li confronted Ning Fengzhi over his daughter’s academy and the injury to her student, while revealing the power she had gained through the God of Death’s inheritance. The meeting ended in a tense standoff as Lin Li warned Ning Fengzhi that she had killed an eight-ringed opponent.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Lin Li for help regarding the teachers at his daughter’s academy, and Lin Li demanded to know who they were.
• Lin Li used the God of Death’s influence to project a phoenix cry, making Sword Douluo wary of her power.
• Ning Fengzhi identified Shrek Academy as the school that had competed against the Imperial Dou Team in Suotuo City.
• Lin Li accused one of Ning Fengzhi’s daughter’s teammates of using a poisonous external spirit bone to injure her student.
• Sword Douluo drew the Seven Kill Sword and released sword energy, but Lin Li’s black mist dissolved it and surged toward Ning Fengzhi.
• Ning Fengzhi summoned his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Lin Li taunted him by saying she had recently killed someone with eight soul rings.

Lin Li fought Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo, testing their defenses with her sixth soul skill and Profound Nether Phoenix Wings. After they survived the attack, she offered to remove the Phoenix Fire from the masters if they found her a soul bone over ten thousand years old.

• Sword Douluo attacked Lin Li with his fourth spirit ability, but she countered with her sixth soul skill, Death God's Fall.
• Lin Li used her Profound Nether Feather Robe to shield herself and the others from Sword Douluo's sword aura.
• Death God's Fall damaged Sword Douluo's robes, forcing him to call on Ning Fengzhi for support.
• Ning Fengzhi activated his Martial Soul Avatar and strengthened Sword Douluo, who eventually dispersed Lin Li's attack.
• Lin Li offered to remove the Phoenix Fire from the masters in exchange for a soul bone over ten thousand years old.

Lin Li demanded a ten-thousand-year Soul Bone as compensation from Ning Fengzhi, then left after refusing his offer to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. The Phoenix Flame would continue burning Shrek Academy's teachers for four months unless they brought a Soul Bone to Heaven Dou Royal Academy of Spirit Masters.

• Ning Fengzhi refused to give Lin Li a Soul Bone and offered her a place in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect instead.
• Lin Li rejected Ning Fengzhi's offer and spread her Abyssal Interminable Domain through the reception hall.
• Sword Douluo prepared to attack Lin Li, but Ning Fengzhi stopped him to avoid risking the sect.
• Lin Li took Zhou Yurou and left, saying the Phoenix Flame would burn for four months unless Shrek Academy brought a Soul Bone to Heaven Dou Royal Academy of Spirit Masters.
• Ning Fengzhi told an attendant to inform Shrek Academy that he had arranged for the flames to last four months, then ordered the servants to keep the incident secret.

Ning Fengzhi ordered the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce to keep the confrontation secret and decided against eliminating Lin Li, judging that she was too powerful to target without sufficient benefit. Outside, Lin Li reassured Zhou Yurou that the sect would not retaliate and resolved to pursue a breakthrough to Soul Douluo.

• Ning Fengzhi warned his people not to leak what had happened, while Sword Douluo proposed killing Lin Li.
• Ning Fengzhi rejected the proposal, citing Lin Li's strength and the sect's need to preserve itself amid Spirit Hall's moves.
• Ning Fengzhi told Sword Douluo to explain to Ning Rongrong that Lin Li had wanted a spirit bone.
• Zhou Yurou urged Lin Li to leave, fearing retaliation from the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Lin Li explained that Ning Fengzhi prioritized the sect's interests over honor and would not attack her without a compelling benefit.
• Lin Li resolved to seek a breakthrough to Soul Douluo after returning.

Lin Li explained the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s hopes for its sect master’s daughter, then fought Liu Erlong when she blocked the carriage. Lin Li left Liu Erlong unconscious and continued toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy of Spirit Masters.

• Lin Li told Zhou Yurou that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s bottom line was its sect master’s daughter, whose Martial Soul might evolve into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Zhou Yurou felt grateful to Lin Li for helping her ordinary lotus Martial Soul evolve into the Jade Blood Elixir Lotus.
• Liu Erlong blocked Lin Li’s carriage and angrily demanded that Phoenix Girl get out.
• Lin Li used her Abyssal Interminable Domain and Azure Nether Eye External Spirit Bone skill to defeat Liu Erlong, then planted Phoenix Flame in her body.
• A black-robed man picked up Liu Erlong and flew away as Lin Li drove toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy of Spirit Masters.

A man with a lightning dragon spirit guarded Liu Erlong after suppressing the Phoenix Flame in her body. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy of Spirit Masters, Lin Li criticized the Imperial Dou Team’s failed test and began a new training exercise.

• A black-robed man used his lightning spirit to purge the Phoenix Flame from Liu Erlong, then stayed beside her as she murmured Xiao Gang’s name.
• Lin Li sensed the Phoenix Flame weakening and made it vanish, prompting the man to look toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy of Spirit Masters.
• Lin Li rebuked Yufeng and the Shi Mo brothers for their failed attempts to extinguish her Phoenix Flame, while praising Ye Lingling and advising her to protect herself.
• Lin Li released her Abyssal Interminable Domain and challenged the Imperial Dou Team to endure within it for thirty minutes in exchange for learning a few moves.

Lin Li tested the Imperial Dou Team in the Abyssal Interminable Domain, unleashing a weakened Abyssal Waltz and ordering them to defeat the Sinful Demon Feathers or survive for an hour. As the team struggled under the feathers’ assault, someone outside the domain called out to Teacher Lin.

• Lin Li decided she would help Dugu Yan become a god only if Dugu Yan passed her trial, while she had no intention of providing Immortal Herbs for the team.
• The Imperial Dou Team entered the Abyssal Interminable Domain, where Dugu Yan summoned her Jade Phosphor Serpent despite the darkness and ghostly wails.
• Lin Li released seventy percent of her Second Spirit Ability, Abyssal Waltz, filling the domain with Sinful Demon Feathers that attacked the team with corrosive Evil Qi.
• Dugu Yan used the poison Lin Li had given her to attack the feathers, and Lin Li noted that Yu Tianheng and Osler were key to overcoming the challenge.
• Lin Li pressed the domain’s power down on the team and told them to defeat the feathers or survive for an hour, but someone outside called, “Teacher Lin!”

Alder told Lin Li that he had earned a place on Heaven Dou Royal Academy of Spirit Masters' second team, then witnessed her brutal training of the Imperial Dou Team. Dugu Bo arrived as Lin Li released the team from her domain, and the exhausted students fled before she could decide whether to intensify their training.

• Alder approached Lin Li to thank her after making the second team, and she urged him to reach rank forty before the tournament.
• Alder saw the Imperial Dou Team being battered by black swan Soul Beasts inside Lin Li's domain.
• Lin Li unleashed the Abyssal Phoenix's power, and the team felt the domain's restraints break and a protective force surround them.
• Dugu Bo emerged from a rift in his rejuvenated condition, and Lin Li withdrew her domain.
• Dugu Yan hurriedly said goodbye to Dugu Bo and ran for the dormitories with Yu Tianheng, while the rest of the team fled as well.

Lin Li learned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had ordered its Spirit Masters not to assist her after she refused to return her flames to Shrek Academy. As the Spirit Hall Golden Generation loomed over the competition, she remained confident that she could fight them herself.

• Dugu Bo revealed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had issued a blockade order against Lin Li, and Lin Li vowed to repay the sect.
• Lin Li made the strange flame erupt on the Shrek Academy students, exposing its full power outside their bodies.
• Dugu Bo asked Lin Li about Spirit Hall's Golden Generation, and she acknowledged their strength with mocking praise.
• Dugu Bo questioned whether Lin Li's team could defeat them, and Lin Li said she would compete herself if necessary because she was still under the age limit.

Lin Li offered to enter the Youth Spirit Master Competition despite nearing Rank 80, startling Dugu Bo with her strength. Dugu Bo gave her a rare Soul Tool, and Lin Li tried to repay him with a valuable spirit bone, which he refused.

• Lin Li said she was qualified to compete because she was under twenty, and revealed she was close to becoming a Soul Douluo.
• Dugu Bo compared Lin Li's talent to Tang Hao's, and Lin Li disparaged Tang Hao while hinting at a past connection.
• Dugu Bo gave Lin Li the Ruyi Bag of Treasures, a rare Soul Tool he had found in a mysterious gorge.
• Lin Li offered Dugu Bo a ten-thousand-year Netherworld Demonic Snake Right Arm Spirit Bone in exchange.
• Dugu Bo refused the spirit bone because he felt he already owed Lin Li too much.

Lin Li’s Abyssal Phoenix awakened the God of Death’s attention, and he began preparing her path to godhood. The new divine power drew the notice of powerful figures across the continent and beyond, leaving the Sea God’s inheritor still missing.

• Lin Li offered Dugu Bo a soul bone in exchange for one future favor, and he accepted it solemnly.
• Lin Li’s Abyssal Phoenix emerged as her desire for vengeance reignited, and the God of Death surrounded her with black mist as he declared her his inheritor.
• Dugu Bo summoned the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor and tried to seal off Lin Li’s aura, but Titled Douluos and Soul Douluos across Heaven Dou City sensed it and gathered.
• Qian Daoliu sensed the divine power near the Angel Statue and realized another Deity had appeared.
• A woman in a purple gown vowed that she would inherit a Deity and bring down Qian Daoliu and Spirit Hall.
• The Sea God’s seated attendant asked what they should do about another Deity appearing while the Sea God still had no inheritor.

Lin Li completed the Death God’s Third Trial, broke through to Soul Douluo, and received a God-Bestowed Soul Ring. Afterward, Sword Douluo recognized the mark on her forehead as evidence that she was inheriting a Deity.

• Lin Li relived the pain of seeking revenge and reached Soul Power Level 80.
• A voice announced that Lin Li had completed the Death God Inheritance Third Trial and began her Fourth Trial: reaching Level 90 and becoming a Titled Douluo.
• Lin Li descended and asked the gathered Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and others to let her consolidate her Cultivation Level.
• After leaving, Sword Douluo told Ning Fengzhi that Qian Daoliu was a Level 99 Angel Douluo and explained that reaching Level 100 was far harder than reaching Level 99.
• Sword Douluo said that Lin Li’s faint forehead mark indicated she was the inheritor of a Deity.

Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo discussed whether a Deity’s inheritance could explain Spirit Hall’s strength and help Ning Rongrong overcome the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s martial spirit limitation. Meanwhile, Lin Li endured the God-Bestowed Soul Ring until it reached 400,000 years and gained two powerful soul skills.

• Sword Douluo told Ning Fengzhi that Spirit Hall’s worship of the Angel God indicated it possessed a Deity’s inheritance.
• Ning Fengzhi wondered whether Ning Rongrong could be favored by a god and resolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s martial spirit problem.
• Lin Li endured the God-Bestowed Soul Ring’s pressure as its age rose from 299,999 to 400,000 years.
• Lin Li discovered that the ring’s residual power was nourishing her first four soul rings, with the first approaching 50,000 years.
• Lin Li learned her new skills, Eternal Fall to Yama and Abyssal Death God's Moon Praise.