Chapter Summaries

After the Earth Bear battle, Tang Hao told Tang San to delay absorbing its Soul Bone and criticized his lack of experience in life-or-death combat. As the group left the area, Xiao Lin explained how Tang San could build on his all-round abilities by strengthening the Blue Silver Emperor’s weaknesses.

• Xiao Lin identified the Earth Bear’s Soul Bone as an unusual Arm Bone that either arm could absorb, but Tang Hao stopped Tang San from absorbing it.
• Tang Hao criticized Tang San’s lack of decisiveness and killing intent in battle, then postponed explaining how he should train.
• Xiao Lin comforted Tang San by arguing that Soul Master classifications were too simplistic and that Tang San was an All-Rounder Type.
• Xiao Lin advised Tang San to strengthen the Blue Silver Emperor’s defense and control so he could make better use of his attacks.
• Tang San considered Xiao Lin’s advice while Xiao Wu looked confused and Tang Hao silently agreed.

Xiao Lin outlined three ways to strengthen Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor, and Tang San chose to pursue all three for now. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Tang San planted Ah Yin and used his fifth soul skill to revive the surrounding Blue Silver Grass, helping Ah Yin and Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew recover.

• Xiao Lin described transforming the Blue Silver Emperor into a tree, compressing its vitality into a Food System Spirit, or changing its cellular density, and Tang San asked to pursue all three paths.
• Tang Hao refused to let Tang San absorb a Soul Bone, warning that his already-high Soul Power Level would attract unwanted attention, and Tang San agreed to keep a lower profile.
• The group reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Xiao Lin absorbed its Ice Fire Spiritual Energy to compress his soul power.
• Tang San planted Ah Yin in fertile ground with an Earth Bear Spirit Gathering Array, and Tang Hao watched over her.
• Tang San used his fifth soul skill, Spring Breeze Blows Again, to revive the Blue Silver Grass and share its converted spiritual energy with Ah Yin and Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.

Xiao Lin discussed whether to absorb a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and helped Tang San consider Soul Beast soul rings suited to his Blue Silver Emperor. The chapter ended with Xiao Lin proposing to collect final data when Sister Xiao Gui obtained her Third Soul Ring.

• Xiao Lin decided that four times gravity was not enough for training and considered absorbing Lei Lei's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to intensify the environment.
• Tang San asked Xiao Lin what Soul Beast soul rings could support his Blue Silver Emperor's three possible paths, and Xiao Lin explained that Soul Beasts combining all three traits were nearly nonexistent.
• Xiao Lin suggested a Weaving Fate Spider Spirit, then named the Life Ancient Tree, Jadeite Swan, and a vital Dragon Clan creature as alternatives; Tang San doubted he could find or defeat them.
• Xiao Wu suggested the Hundred-Thousand-Year Saint Soul King, and Tang San gave up gravity training and sprawled across the Blue Silver Grass lawn.
• Xiao Lin advised Tang San to pursue the Food System path and said they could collect the final set of data when Sister Xiao Gui obtained her Third Soul Ring.

Xiao Lin explained how Sister Xiao Gui’s Frost Moon Rabbit Soul Ring had improved her Moon Osmanthus Martial Soul and helped him develop a theory for Tang San’s future Soul Ring. Tang San considered using a vital Snake Soul Beast for his Sixth Soul Ring, while Xiao Wu remained angry about Xiao Lin’s talk of rabbit droppings.

• Xiao Lin explained that Sister Xiao Gui’s 800-year-old Frost Moon Rabbit Soul Ring had strengthened her Moon Osmanthus Martial Soul and improved her speed, perception, toughness, and constitution.
• Tang San understood that Xiao Lin had asked him about rabbit droppings to confirm their medicinal use, while Xiao Wu sulked over the idea of using them as food.
• Tang San asked what Soul Beast might suit his Sixth Soul Ring, and Xiao Lin suggested a Snake Soul Beast with powerful Vitality.
• Tang San reasoned that a medicinal snake could strengthen his Blue Silver Emperor and provide healing, detoxifying, and other food-based benefits.
• Xiao Lin cautioned Tang San against expecting too many effects from one Soul Ring and reflected that Yue Guan might have been better suited to the Food System path.

After Tang San and the others left, Xiao Lin studied Ah Yin and the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, then devised a plan to make the herb ripen faster. He left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to search for a suitable soul beast to help it grow.

• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Tang Hao left Xiao Lin at the Poison Barrier after saying goodbye.
• Xiao Lin used his Fiery Eyes of Truth to study Ah Yin and considered how her Blue Silver Emperor differed from Tang San’s.
• Xiao Lin examined the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and learned from the Two Great Dragon Kings how it purified Ice Fire Spiritual Energy.
• Xiao Lin planned to remove the Dragon Qi, create a Spirit Gathering Array, and feed the herb Soul Power and Earth Attribute Soul Beast remains.
• Xiao Lin blocked out Lei Lei and left the Poison Barrier to search for a suitable soul beast.

Xiao Lin searched Sunset Forest for an Earth Dragon but encountered Skywater Academy while avoiding Soul Beasts. After refusing to travel with the team, he left, and Shui Bing'er convinced Shao Wanqing to continue searching for a Diamond Rune Crocodile for Shen Liuyu.

• Xiao Lin entered Sunset Forest to find an Earth Dragon, relying on his defenses as Soul Beasts watched him.
• A giant Centipede attacked Xiao Lin, but he repelled it without injuring it and continued onward.
• Xiao Lin heard Skywater Academy members confronting the Centipede and recognized Shui Bing'er, then tried to leave without meeting them.
• Shui Yue'er blamed Xiao Lin for the Centipede's approach, while Shao Wanqing rebuked her and invited him to travel with the group.
• Xiao Lin refused the invitation and raced out of sight, leaving Shao Wanqing annoyed at his recklessness.
• Shui Bing'er explained that Shen Liuyu needed a Diamond Rune Crocodile Soul Ring, and Shao Wanqing agreed to keep searching for one.

Xiao Lin considered how Shui Bing'er’s Ultimate Ice compared with his own and planned a Three-in-One Soul Core formation with Lei Lei and the Two Great Dragon Kings. Meanwhile, the Skywater Team drove off a ten-thousand-year Medusa Snake in Sunset Forest and searched the swamp’s outskirts for a Diamond Rune Crocodile for Shen Liuyu.

• Xiao Lin learned from the Ice Dragon King that Shui Bing'er’s Ultimate Ice surpassed his because of her Phoenix Martial Soul and Soul Rings.
• Xiao Lin planned to have Lei Lei condense a lightning-attribute Soul Core and later form a Three-in-One Soul Core arrangement with the Two Great Dragon Kings.
• The Skywater Team encountered a ten-thousand-year Medusa Snake in a swamp, and Shao Wanqing told Shui Bing'er to use her Phoenix pressure while the others avoided its eyes.
• Shui Bing'er’s Phoenix pressure drove the Medusa Snake away, and Qiu Ruoshui admitted the team could have been wiped out without her.
• Shao Wanqing changed the route to skirt the swamp while seeking a roughly six-thousand-year Soul Beast for Shen Liuyu, preferably a Diamond Rune Crocodile.

Xiao Lin chased a Ten-Thousand-Year Medusa Snake through the swamp, hoping to raise it and eventually obtain its Soul Bone, but a stronger member of the Medusa Snake clan ambushed and swallowed him. The chapter ended with Xiao Lin unconscious in its stomach while his Horned Dragon Staff Soul remained summoned.

• Xiao Lin regretted letting a Ten-Thousand-Year Medusa Snake escape after it petrified him, then hurried after its tracks through the swamp.
• The Two Great Dragon Kings told Xiao Lin that Dragon Qi could strengthen a Medusa Snake's Soul Bone if it dropped one.
• A Medusa Snake with over seventy thousand years of Soul Power spotted Xiao Lin and prepared to ambush him, driven by hatred of humans after Dugu Bo had killed its mate years earlier.
• The Medusa Snake struck Xiao Lin with a spiritual attack, swallowed him, and dived back into the swamp.
• The Medusa Snake assumed Xiao Lin was an ordinary Soul King, unaware that his Horned Dragon Staff Soul was still present.

Xiao Lin woke inside a seventy-thousand-year Medusa Snake and found the surviving members of Skywater Academy trapped in its abdomen. He rescued Shao Wanqing and revealed his Soul King strength and Ultimate Ice, leaving the other survivors' fate unresolved.

• Xiao Lin awoke inside the Medusa Snake and debated whether to kill it or search its belly for treasure.
• Xiao Lin found Skywater Academy armor and heard Shao Wanqing calling for help from deeper inside the snake.
• Xiao Lin reached Shao Wanqing, who had been injured by the Medusa Snake's corrosive stomach and Medusa's Gaze.
• Xiao Lin lifted Shao Wanqing and unleashed his Soul King pressure and Ultimate Ice to freeze the Medusa Snake's flesh.
• Shao Wanqing recognized Xiao Lin's Ultimate Ice and was shocked that he was a Soul King.

Xiao Lin rescued Shao Wanqing and the seven Skywater Academy students from petrification inside the Medusa Snake and demanded payment for saving them. After restoring the students' Mental Power, he faced the Medusa Snake's rapidly contracting stomach tunnel.

• Xiao Lin froze the Medusa Snake's belly, confirmed the petrified students were unharmed, and freed Shao Wanqing.
• Xiao Lin used Ultimate Fire to melt the ice around the students and demanded twenty million Gold Soul Coins or equivalent resources for their rescue.
• Shao Wanqing agreed to pay if Xiao Lin could get them out alive, while Xiao Lin resolved to kill the Medusa Snake rather than escape by bursting through it.
• Xiao Lin activated Shen Liuyu's Mental Power to break her petrification, then restored the other six students and left each a trace of Mental Power to help resist future petrification.
• The Medusa Snake's flesh tunnel suddenly contracted at incredible speed, threatening to crush or dissolve everyone inside.

Xiao Lin broke through Medusa Snake’s body and resisted its mental attacks while rescuing the trapped Skywater Team members. After throwing Shao Wanqing and the final student outside, he faced Medusa Snake as it prepared to use Medusa’s Gaze.

• Xiao Lin used his Imprisoning Dragon Staff and Ultimate Ice to punch through Medusa Snake’s abdomen and back, creating an escape passage.
• Medusa Snake thrashed and struck Xiao Lin with a mental attack, leaving him apparently unconscious as Shao Wanqing threw the Skywater Team members outside.
• Shao Wanqing hesitated over Xiao Lin, then tried to escape with the last student, but Medusa Snake’s mental attack knocked her unconscious.
• Xiao Lin revealed that the Two Great Dragon Kings and Lei Lei had helped him resist Medusa Snake’s attack, then threw Shao Wanqing and the final student outside.
• Medusa Snake grew furious that Xiao Lin had survived and prepared to use Medusa’s Gaze.

Xiao Lin resisted the Medusa Snake’s petrifying gaze and overwhelmed it with Lei Lei’s lightning Soul Skill, leaving it paralyzed and badly injured. He withdrew the lightning and ran toward its mouth to negotiate, while the roasting smell of the snake’s charred body made him hungry.

• The Medusa Snake attacked Xiao Lin with Medusa’s Gaze, but Xiao Lin’s Chaos Domain weakened the attack and his Dragon Might forced its Mental Power back.
• Xiao Lin used Lei Lei’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Skill, Weapon Rain, also called Heavenly Net, to paralyze the Medusa Snake with lightning.
• Hundreds of lightning-charged Imprisoning Dragon Staffs pierced the Medusa Snake, stunning it and the watching Tianshui Students.
• Xiao Lin told Lei Lei that he had held back and explained that he wanted to subdue the Medusa Snake rather than kill it.
• Xiao Lin withdrew the lightning and ran through the Medusa Snake’s Flesh Tunnel toward its mouth to negotiate, noticing the appetizing smell of its charred body.

Xiao Lin persuaded the badly injured Medusa Snake to become his subordinate by promising to help her reach a hundred thousand years of cultivation and eventually become a god. After she asked that her son receive the same chance, Xiao Lin named her Mei Mei and sent her north with him.

• Xiao Lin reflected on his battle and recognized that relying on his overpowered soul skill had left him lacking combat experience.
• He quietly offered the Medusa Snake a chance to live, grow into a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, and sacrifice herself to become the Soul Ring of his Second Spirit.
• The Medusa Snake hesitated to become his pet, but Lei Lei intimidated her with his Dragon Might and reinforced Xiao Lin's claims.
• The Medusa Snake agreed and asked that her son also be given the chance to become a god, which Xiao Lin accepted on Tang San's behalf.
• Xiao Lin named the Medusa Snake Mei Mei and ordered her to pretend she had defeated and swallowed him before swimming north.
• The Imprisoning Dragon Staffs vanished, and Mei Mei endured her injuries as she swam north with Xiao Lin.

After Medusa Snake carried Xiao Lin through the Green Phosphorus Poison Barrier, he brought her to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to treat her injuries and strengthen her. He gave her the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, and she began absorbing its power under his command.

• Shen Liuyu and the other Tianshui Students escaped with Shui Bing'er and Shao Wanqing, believing Xiao Lin had died fighting Medusa Snake.
• Xiao Lin rode Medusa Snake through the poison barrier and used the Dragon Qi near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to keep her under control.
• Xiao Lin searched the Medicine Garden and chose the Earth Dragon Golden Melon to heal and strengthen Medusa Snake.
• Medusa Snake swallowed the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, thanked Xiao Lin, and agreed not to harm humans at will.
• Medusa Snake settled down to absorb the herb's energy.

After eating the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, Medusa Snake transformed into a golden jiao with awakened dragon blood and stronger abilities. Xiao Lin brought Mei Mei to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to improve the soil around the immortal herbs and outlined the powers he wanted her to develop.

• The Earth Dragon Golden Melon healed Medusa Snake and awakened her dragon bloodline, transforming her into a jiao with eighty thousand years of Soul Power cultivation.
• Xiao Lin collected Mei Mei's Snake Shedding and asked her to shrink before entering the area around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Mei Mei carefully entered with Xiao Lin and used earth-element Soul Power to improve the soil without harming the immortal herbs.
• Xiao Lin noticed Mei Mei's abilities had changed and considered how her eyes and future Soul Bone might develop.
• Xiao Lin told Mei Mei to cultivate Mental Petrification, Mental Control, gravity control, and increased vitality, and she agreed to try.

Xiao Lin proposed three ways for Mei Mei to increase her Vitality: draw on the earth’s Life Energy, develop a cultivation technique, or study the Heavenly Rules during a Heavenly Tribulation. After Mei Mei agreed to pursue these methods, Xiao Lin prepared to accelerate the growth of the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.

• Xiao Lin explained that Mei Mei could plunder the earth’s Life Energy, provided it contained enough Vitality.
• Xiao Lin suggested that Mei Mei create a cultivation technique by combining the Mysterious Heaven Skill with earth energy, or transform into a human and form her own Soul Rings.
• Xiao Lin proposed that Mei Mei study the Heavenly Rules during her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast tribulation, promising to protect her with his lightning-controlling abilities.
• Mei Mei agreed to pursue the methods together and use her Mental Power-type Soul Skills to observe the Heavenly Rules.
• Xiao Lin summoned the War God Cape and used it to gather Ice Fire Spiritual Energy and clear Dragon Qi around the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.

Xiao Lin tried to awaken the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew’s sentience while the Skywater Team discussed Shao Wanqing’s condition and suspected Xiao Lin had survived his battle with the Medusa Snake. Shui Bing’er flew off to search for him, hoping to find him alive—or claim his Soul Bone if he was dead.

• Xiao Lin asked the Two Great Dragon Kings how to awaken the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, then tried singing to it and calling himself its father.
• The Skywater Team worried that Shao Wanqing had become an idiot after a Mental Power attack and agreed they needed to get her treated.
• Shen Liuyu deduced that the young man who had fought the Medusa Snake was Xiao Lin, leaving the team alarmed because they believed he had died.
• Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu reasoned that Xiao Lin might have survived, and the team decided to search for him while heading out of Sunset Forest.
• Shui Bing’er activated Martial Soul Possession and flew away to track Xiao Lin, determined to find him and thinking of taking his Soul Bone if he was dead.

Shui Bing'er searched Sunset Forest for Xiao Lin, fearing Medusa Snake had swallowed him, while Xiao Lin awakened Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew's spiritual intelligence and left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After they reunited, Shui Bing'er asked Xiao Lin to treat her teacher's mental injury, and he agreed in exchange for compensation.

• Shui Bing'er searched along Medusa Snake's trail and realized she could use her Ultimate Ice perception to find Xiao Lin.
• Xiao Lin awakened Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew's spiritual intelligence, left the War God Cape as the formation's core, and headed out to collect the promised resources.
• Xiao Lin sensed his Mental Power in Shui Bing'er and found her flying through Sunset Forest.
• Shui Bing'er explained that Medusa Snake's mental attack had left her teacher dazed and asked Xiao Lin to bring Grandmaster Xiao Yan to help.
• Xiao Lin said he could treat the injury, negotiated compensation, and followed Shui Bing'er toward her teacher.

Xiao Lin healed Shao Wanqing and negotiated a reward with Shui Bing'er after Yu Hairou challenged the Skywater Team's promise to pay him. Shui Bing'er offered money, family resources, and access to Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow in the Extremely North Land, where Xiao Lin learned a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast guarded it.

• Xiao Lin examined Shao Wanqing and planted a seed to gather Mental Power, telling the Skywater Team that she would recover after resting for a few months.
• Yu Hairou refused to take a Spirit Oath or pay Xiao Lin, but Shui Bing'er defended their debt to him and the team argued over the reward.
• Shui Bing'er offered Xiao Lin twenty million Gold Soul Coins in combined payment from herself, Shui Yue'er, Xue Wu, and Shen Liuyu.
• Shui Bing'er offered to share Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow in the Extremely North Land, explaining that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast guarded it.
• Xiao Lin asked whether the beast was the Titan Snow Demon King, and Shui Bing'er fell silent.

Xiao Lin agreed to help Shui Bing'er obtain Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow and promised to guide her future Soul Ring choices. After retrieving a gift from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he gave her dew of Ultimate Ice, leaving her stunned and reluctant to accept it.

• Shui Bing'er explained that an Ice Condensing Flying Luan guarded the area above the Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, and Xiao Lin agreed to retrieve it with her later.
• Shui Bing'er swore a Spirit Oath and offered to help Xiao Lin locate the Titan Snow Demon King; Xiao Lin accepted and promised to help her find suitable Soul Rings and strengthen her body and Mental Power.
• Xiao Lin left for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Shui Yue'er teased Shui Bing'er, Shen Liuyu expressed envy, and Yu Hairou and the others regretted their earlier choices.
• About an hour later, Xiao Lin returned with a bottle of Ultimate Ice dew and gave it to Shui Bing'er for her Martial Soul.
• Shui Bing'er tried to return the bottle, but Xiao Lin had already stepped three meters away.