Chapter Summaries

Xiao Lin helped Shui Bing'er suppress the cold poison from the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass dew and advised her team on soul beasts for their Fourth Soul Rings. On his way back, he learned more about Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow and decided to seek a fire-aligned soul beast for his Sixth Soul Ring.

• Shui Bing'er drank the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass dew and used her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul to suppress its cold energy.
• Xiao Lin recommended a Diamond Rune Crocodile for Shen Liuyu and a six-thousand-year Bubble Flying Fish for Shui Yue'er.
• Shui Bing'er chose to continue hunting while Yu Hairou led Xue Wu and the others away with the unwell Shao Wanqing.
• Xiao Lin asked the Ice Dragon King about Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow and learned that it was a concentrated source of ice energy.
• The Fire Dragon King told Xiao Lin that the sun could supply Ultimate Fire, so Xiao Lin planned to find a soul beast capable of absorbing solar energy for his Sixth Soul Ring.
• Xiao Lin considered the Golden Crow and Corona Demon as potential soul beasts, favoring the Corona Demon for its light and fire attributes.

Xiao Lin continued cultivating in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Mei Mei went to bring her son to him. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang’s rumors about Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones spread across Heaven Dou City and beyond, putting Tang San and Xiao Wu at risk as they returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Xiao Lin allowed Mei Mei to leave and retrieve her son, warning her not to hurt anyone or be seen by other Soul Masters.
• Tang Hao left Tang San and Xiao Wu outside Heaven Dou Royal Academy and flew back toward Sunset Forest.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu overheard noble students repeating Yu Xiaogang’s claims that Xiao Yan had used Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones to raise their innate talent, and they feared the rumors would attract powerful Soul Masters.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu reached the Royal Fight Team, where Qin Ming and the others welcomed them and learned that Xiao Lin was cultivating in Dugu Bo’s medicine garden.
• Qin Ming and Yu Tianheng explained that Yu Xiaogang’s New Thesis had spread from Heaven Dou City to nearby cities and provinces, with readers especially suspecting Tang San and Xiao Wu of possessing Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan vowed to seize Yu Xiaogang, but some people interpreted the clan’s response as an attempt to silence him.

Tang San used his Blue Silver Domain to search Heaven Dou City and Shrek Academy for Yu Xiaogang, but found no trace of him. Meanwhile, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan enforcers pressured Flender to reveal Yu Xiaogang’s whereabouts, and Flender agreed to lead them to the place he had prepared.

• Yu Tianheng and Ning Rongrong told Tang San that their factions had searched Heaven Dou City for Yu Xiaogang without finding him.
• Tang San refused Xiao Wu’s suggestion to expose his Twin Martial Souls and used his Blue Silver Domain to search for Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang San searched the Blue Silver Grass around Shrek Academy and learned that Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, and the others seemed not to know where Yu Xiaogang was, while Flender appeared anxious.
• Liu Erlong and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan enforcers questioned Flender about Yu Xiaogang’s location.
• Flender said Yu Xiaogang was not at the house he had found for him and agreed to lead the enforcers there.

Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan Enforcers found Yu Xiaogang’s abandoned home and concluded that he had fled. In Papal Hall, Bibi Dong dismissed his teaching methods while praising Wu Ning’s Internal Skill, then was shocked by Yu Xiaogang’s claim that he could help Spirit Academy’s Golden Generation reach Soul Emperor in a year and a half.

• Flender led Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan Enforcers to Yu Xiaogang’s tiny, empty home, where they found his drafts.
• An Enforcer reported that the neighbors said Yu Xiaogang had fled in a hurry, and the middle-aged Enforcer guessed he had run because of the rumors about him.
• Bibi Dong read Yu Xiaogang’s letter seeking Spirit Hall’s protection but dismissed his request and doubted his ability to train Spirit Academy’s Golden Generation.
• Wu Ning told Bibi Dong that he had developed Internal Skill, a meditation method intended to improve Soul Masters’ potential, and Bibi Dong ordered him to simplify and publish it.
• Bibi Dong read another letter from Yu Xiaogang and was shocked by his claim that he could help the Golden Generation reach Soul Emperor in a year and a half.

Bibi Dong questioned Yu Xiaogang’s promise to raise the Golden Generation into Soul Emperors, while Xiao Lin intervened when Dugu Bo and Mei Mei fought near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After reading a newspaper about Yu Xiaogang spreading rumors, Xiao Lin worried that the scheme would endanger Xiao Wu, Tang San, and the peace between humans and Soul Beasts.

• Bibi Dong asked Wu Ning whether he could help the Golden Generation become Soul Emperors before the competition, and Wu Ning said it was impossible without rare treasures.
• Mei Mei and Dugu Bo fought near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well until Xiao Lin stopped them and learned that Mei Mei blamed Dugu Bo for killing her husband.
• Xiao Lin offered Mei Mei one more chance to fight Dugu Bo, with the condition that the matter would end if she lost.
• Dugu Bo gave Xiao Lin a newspaper and explained that Yu Xiaogang was spreading rumors in Heaven Dou City.
• After reading the newspaper, Xiao Lin worried that Yu Xiaogang’s scheme could put Xiao Wu and Tang San in danger and trigger a war between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts.

Xiao Lin drafted a Thesis under the name Xiao Yan to discredit Yu Xiaogang and reveal methods for raising soul masters’ aptitude. He paused before publishing the Whale Rubber method so he could first arrange to buy up supplies and discuss the profits and plans for a cultivation-research faction.

• Xiao Lin decided to refute Yu Xiaogang’s claims by writing a Thesis under the name Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Lin mocked Yu Xiaogang’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone claim and argued that soul masters could cultivate before awakening their martial souls if they carefully prepared their bodies.
• Xiao Lin included a crippled version of Tang San’s Mysterious Heaven Skill as a basic cultivation method for children.
• Xiao Lin wrote that Whale Rubber could improve a soul master’s aptitude, but withheld that method while considering how to buy up the supply.
• Xiao Lin planned to discuss the Whale Rubber market with the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School and others, and considered founding a faction to research martial souls and cultivation techniques.

Xiao Lin finished a thesis outlining methods to raise Innate Soul Power and rushed to stop Dugu Bo and Mei Mei’s destructive fight. When neither would back down, he revealed his strength and trapped them both in the grip of two dragons, leaving them terrified and unable to move.

• Xiao Lin completed his thesis, proposing Spirit Second Awakening and a pill as additional methods to raise Innate Soul Power, and planned to involve Tang San and the Breaking Clan in developing the pill.
• Xiao Lin heard an explosion and found Dugu Bo and Mei Mei badly injured after their fight, with poison mist corroding the battlefield.
• Xiao Lin ordered Dugu Bo and Mei Mei to stop, but they refused and continued preparing to settle the fight with a decisive attack.
• Xiao Lin threatened to fight them himself, then released his Soul Rings and used a series of Soul Skills to unleash overwhelming power.
• Xiao Lin drew on the Two Great Dragon Kings’ Dragon Qi, formed two giant ice and fire dragons, and seized Dugu Bo and Mei Mei, leaving them unable to move or control their Soul Power.

After defeating Dugu Bo and Mei Mei, Xiao Lin explained his Dragon Might and shared a Thesis draft containing cultivation and whale-rubber methods. Tang Hao learned of Yu Xiaogang’s rumors targeting Tang San and Xiao Wu, then decided to buy whale rubber, protect the group, and entrust Ah Yin to Xiao Lin again.

• Xiao Lin told Dugu Bo that his victory came from developing his hundred-thousand-year soul skill and controlling Dragon Might, then proposed sparring sometime.
• Xiao Lin gave Dugu Bo part of his Thesis draft, and Dugu Bo praised its Internal Energy Cultivation Method and asked whether its claims about whale rubber were true.
• Xiao Lin confirmed the whale rubber’s effects and said he planned to release the Thesis in three or four days, prompting Dugu Bo to consider buying some for Dugu Yan.
• Tang Hao returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, read Xiao Lin’s Thesis, and agreed to buy whale rubber in bulk to help reclaim the Four Great Clans.
• Xiao Lin told Tang Hao about Yu Xiaogang’s rumors targeting Tang San and Xiao Wu, so Tang Hao resolved to protect them and asked Xiao Lin to care for Ah Yin.

Xiao Lin revised his thesis on improving Soul Master aptitude after Dugu Bo pointed out unclear methods and sections that were too difficult for ordinary children. He added new approaches and resolved to make the thesis accessible to commoners, while leaving Tang San to fill in some details.

• Tang Hao stopped reading Xiao Lin's thesis and went to spend time with Ah Yin, while Xiao Lin privately mocked his lovestruck behavior.
• Dugu Bo questioned vague sections about pills and Spirit Second Awakening, so Xiao Lin added Immortal Herbs and soul rings as supporting methods.
• Dugu Bo advised Xiao Lin to explain the Internal Energy Cultivation Method in greater detail and to reorder the thesis; Xiao Lin agreed to revise it and distribute it widely, including in villages.
• As they discussed further shortcomings, Xiao Lin thought of Power Transfer as another way to improve a Soul Master's aptitude and added it to the thesis.
• Xiao Lin added the Mystic Water Pill and suitable ingredients for Tang San to develop further, then decided that he would learn pill refining himself.

Xiao Lin arranged for Tang Hao and Dugu Bo to buy Whale Rubber through Ning Fengzhi and considered how to care for Ah Yin and the Immortal Herbs. He then began drafting another thesis to attack Yu Xiaogang, starting with a critique of his Weighted Running training methods.

• Xiao Lin gave Dugu Bo Ning Fengzhi’s Black Card to fund the Whale Rubber purchase, while Tang Hao planned to use the profits to recruit the Strength Clan and Speed Clan.
• Tang Hao and Dugu Bo flew away after Xiao Lin promised to care for Ah Yin.
• Xiao Lin learned that the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew had reached two thousand years of cultivation, while Mei Mei had reached eighty thousand years.
• Xiao Lin decided not to awaken the other Immortal Herbs’ intelligence, wanting to preserve the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a treasured land for future generations.
• Xiao Lin began writing another thesis to discredit Yu Xiaogang, criticizing the academy’s crude Weighted Running training methods.

Xiao Lin wrote a draft for Spirit Hall's Spirit News detailing physical-training methods and criticizing Yu Xiaogang, hoping to turn the Shrek Three Bastards against him. Meanwhile, Dugu Bo told Ning Fengzhi about the draft and sought whale rubber for Yan Yan, only to learn the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School had already bought up the supply.

• Xiao Lin drafted a wide range of physical-training methods and removed body-modification training because it might make people suspect Xiao Yan was one of the Fallen Ones.
• Xiao Lin disparaged Yu Xiaogang's methods in the draft and planned to use its publication to drive Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek Three Bastards apart.
• Tang Hao and Dugu Bo arrived in Heaven Dou City, and Tang San sensed Tang Hao approaching through his Blue Silver Domain.
• Dugu Bo told Ning Fengzhi that Xiao Lin had imitated Xiao Yan's handwriting to counter Yu Xiaogang's rumors, then explained the thesis's contents.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School had secretly bought most whale rubber over a thousand years old and offered the best pieces to Dugu Bo and Tang Hao for free.

Ning Fengzhi arranged to buy aquatic Soul Beast corpses for Xiao Lin’s pill research while Tang San revised Xiao Lin’s thesis with cultivation methods and pill formulas of his own. Tang Hao told Tang San he planned to reunite the Clear Sky Sect’s Four Great Clans, and Tang San offered to help win over the Breaking Clan and Defense Clan.

• Ning Fengzhi assigned Gu Rong to arrange a secret trade with Sea God Island and decided to acquire aquatic Soul Beast essence blood for Xiao Lin.
• Tang San added the Morning Bell Primordial Nurturing Skill and a basic pill formula to Xiao Lin’s thesis, then claimed Xiao Lin’s Mystic Water Pill idea for his own Mystic Ice Pills.
• Tang Hao was surprised by Tang San’s knowledge of pill refinement and told him he planned to bring the Strength Clan and Speed Clan back under the Clear Sky Sect’s command.
• Tang Hao said he would also seek to reunite with the Breaking Clan and Defense Clan, using Whale Rubber to win their interest.
• Tang San warned that a forceful approach could provoke the two resentful clans and offered to approach them himself, which Tang Hao accepted.

Tang Hao brought Tang San to meet Tai Tan and began his effort to reunite the Four Great Clans under his command. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang traveled toward Spirit City under Spirit Hall’s escort, where a member beat him with a barbed whip.

• Tang Hao and Tang San visited Tai Tan, who greeted Tang Hao as his master and agreed to teach Tang San forging.
• Tang Hao told Tai Tan that he wanted to bring the Four Great Clans back under his command, and Tai Tan offered to contact Bai Chenxiang of the Speed Clan.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted Spirit Hall’s invitation, believing it would protect him and help him prove himself against Xiao Lin.
• During the journey, a Spirit Hall member grew angry at Yu Xiaogang’s behavior and diverted the horse onto a deserted path.
• The Spirit Hall member summoned his Spirit Withered Vine and repeatedly whipped Yu Xiaogang, who screamed and begged him to stop.

Xiao Lin tested the War God Cape’s flight speed and began developing a Self-Created Soul Skill based on condensing and bursting Soul Cores. He left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s vicinity to experiment and ended the chapter bringing two Blazing Hearts together to try fusing them.

• Xiao Lin transformed the War God Cape into wings, then a rocket, and flew at extreme speed away from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xiao Lin asked the Ice Dragon King, Fire Dragon King, and Lei Lei to assess his speed, and they judged it impressive or comparable to Lei Lei’s full speed.
• Xiao Lin wondered about Douluo Star’s physical properties, then returned toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and asked how the dragons flew.
• Xiao Lin reasoned that soul power could enable flight and conceived Core Burst, a technique that would fuse and detonate Soul Cores inside or outside his body.
• Xiao Lin moved away from the Immortal Herbs and used Blazing Heart to form golden and blue flaming tops, then began bringing them together to match their rotation and vibration.

Xiao Lin fused his Golden Flame and Ice Blue Flame Blazing Hearts, triggering a catastrophic explosion that forced him to flee. After the Dragon Kings explained the risks and limits of the technique, he named it Soul Core Fission Burst.

• Xiao Lin used his Soul Rings to control the flames and successfully fused their cores into one Blazing Heart.
• Xiao Lin lost control of the fused Blazing Heart, threw it into the sky, and escaped as it exploded with immense force.
• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King explained that the Blazing Hearts inside Xiao Lin had been designed to remain controllable and that the explosive burst was far more dangerous.
• Xiao Lin asked how his Core Fusion and Core Burst compared with other attacks, and Lei Lei said the destruction rivaled his strongest killing move.
• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King warned Xiao Lin that the technique required too much concentration and could injure him in battle, so he abandoned the idea of charging enemies with it.
• Xiao Lin proposed the name Buddha's Angry Fire Lotus, but the Ice Dragon King rejected it, and Xiao Lin named the technique Soul Core Fission Burst.

Xiao Lin found the Immortal Herbs near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well unharmed and fed three top-grade Spiritual Herbs to Medusa Snake while considering how to help her sacrifice herself to Tang San. He planned ways to strengthen her Mental Power and cultivation, and left the success of his preparations uncertain.

• Xiao Lin rushed back to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found that Dragon Qi and Mei Mei's Soul Power had protected the Immortal Herbs.
• Xiao Lin praised Mei Mei and told her to bring Medusa Snake to eat three top-grade Spiritual Herbs.
• Xiao Lin reasoned that Soul Beasts below a hundred thousand years might be able to sacrifice themselves if they had sufficient willingness and Mental Power.
• Xiao Lin considered having Medusa Snake join Mei Mei's tribulation, devour Soul Beast corpses, and absorb the Mental Power in Tang San's fused External Soul Bone.
• Xiao Lin proposed that Mei Mei and Medusa Snake might sacrifice together and create a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to improve their chances.
• Xiao Lin watched Medusa Snake evolve as she devoured the three Spiritual Herbs and thought he had done all he could to help her.

Bai Chenxiang joined the Royal Fight Team as a substitute after Tang San and Qin Ming tested her speed and talent. Tang San recognized her as a special genius because her small body and compressed Meridians could let her advance quickly toward Soul Core formation.

• Bai Chenxiang demonstrated exceptional speed during her Royal Fight Team test, and Qin Ming accepted her as a substitute member.
• Xiao Wu happily welcomed Bai Chenxiang and linked arms with her, while Tang San asked to examine her Meridians and Soul Power.
• Tang San sensed that Bai Chenxiang was a special genius and explained Xiao Lin's hypothesis about small bodies, rapid Soul Power advancement, and compression.
• Tang San explained Soul Cores and their importance to reaching Titled Douluo, stunning Qin Ming and Bai Chenxiang.
• Qin Ming realized the implications of Xiao Yan's knowledge and checked that no one else was nearby.

Tang San gave Bai Chenxiang weapons to compensate for her lack of offensive power, while Bibi Dong summoned Yu Xiaogang and ordered him to teach the Spirit Team Xiao Yan’s Seven-in-One Fusion Technique. Yu Xiaogang agreed in humiliation and resolved to create a technique of his own.

• Qin Ming learned that Bai Chenxiang’s special constitution compressed her soul power after Martial Soul Possession, making her a talented cultivator despite her low reserves and lack of attack methods.
• Tang San gave Bai Chenxiang a Soul Tool Version Godly Zhuge Crossbow and a Firearm, and considered having the Strength Clan manufacture Zhuge Crossbows.
• Bibi Dong confronted Yu Xiaogang, who complained about being whipped and tried to threaten her with the Spirit Team’s prospects at the Advanced Academy Tournament.
• Bibi Dong asked whether Yu Xiaogang could teach the Spirit Team Xiao Yan’s Seven-in-One Fusion Technique, and Yu Xiaogang said he could.
• Yu Xiaogang silently vowed to teach the Spirit Team a Seven-in-One Fusion Technique of his own, as his Evil surged out.

Yu Xiaogang proposed using controlled Soul Power pressure to strengthen the Spirit Team, but Spirit Luan Douluo brought Bibi Dong Xiao Yan’s new thesis, which prompted her to buy up all the Whale Rubber. Bibi Dong sent Yu Xiaogang away and summoned Wu Ning, leaving Yu Xiaogang convinced that she did not trust him with the thesis.

• Yu Xiaogang told Bibi Dong that measured Soul Power pressure could strengthen Soul Masters and help the Spirit Team produce Soul Emperors before the Advanced Academy Tournament.
• Spirit Luan Douluo reported that Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo had been badly injured by a massive Thunder Dragon in Thunder Canyon and sent them to the Ye Family for treatment.
• Spirit Luan Douluo gave Bibi Dong Xiao Yan’s new thesis, and Bibi Dong ordered her to buy up all the Whale Rubber on the continent.
• Bibi Dong let Yu Xiaogang use his theory to train the Spirit Team, then dismissed him and called for Wu Ning.
• Yu Xiaogang overheard Bibi Dong’s summons and suspected that she was keeping the thesis’s contents from him.

At Spirit Hall, Wu Ning and Bibi Dong reviewed Xiao Yan’s new thesis and discussed acquiring Whale Rubber, testing his cultivation methods, and researching Spirit Second Awakening. Bibi Dong set Spirit Second Awakening aside as too difficult for now, assigned Wu Ning to study Internal Energy Cultivation, and ordered him to keep Yu Xiaogang provoking Xiao Yan before the thesis was published.

• Outside the Papal Hall, Yu Xiaogang worried that Xiao Yan might refute his rumors and decided to seek Whale Rubber while trying to prove his worth by teaching the Spirit Team.
• Wu Ning read Xiao Yan’s thesis, praised its insights into Soul Master aptitude, and urged Spirit Hall to acquire Whale Rubber and test the proposed methods.
• Bibi Dong said Spirit Hall had already begun buying Whale Rubber and asked Wu Ning whether Spirit Second Awakening could be researched.
• Wu Ning explained that Spirit Second Awakening was difficult to replicate and might take at least ten years, so Bibi Dong reluctantly postponed it and told him to focus on Internal Energy Cultivation.
• Bibi Dong ordered Wu Ning to monitor Yu Xiaogang and keep him provoking Xiao Yan, then instructed him to publish the thesis in three days.