Chapter Summaries

Lin Hanye reunited with Liu Erlong, who had been waiting for him and worried about his relationship with another woman. He gave Liu Erlong an Immortal Herb to help her cultivation and offered Shao Xin a Ten Thousand Year Ginseng King, leaving both of them surprised by his gifts.

• Liu Erlong confronted Lin Hanye after waiting for him, and he promised to give her the surprise he had mentioned.
• Lin Hanye brought Liu Erlong and Shao Xin to a quiet room and explained why he had chosen the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum for Liu Erlong.
• Liu Erlong mistook the flower for a romantic confession, then learned it was an Immortal Herb that could improve her cultivation.
• Lin Hanye told Liu Erlong he was lusting after her body, and she asked him to say he liked her before accepting the herb.
• Liu Erlong began consuming the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, while Lin Hanye gave Shao Xin a Ten Thousand Year Ginseng King.

After refining Immortal Herbs, Lin Hanye revealed his thousand-year Second Soul Ring and gave Liu Erlong and Shao Xin Whale Glue to strengthen their physiques. He sent them to refine it while he went to the Blacksmith Association to heat his ten-thousand-year Whale Glue.

• Shao Xin accepted an Immortal Herb from Lin Hanye in exchange for agreeing to join the Soul Master Guild later, and both began refining their herbs.
• Lin Hanye refined the Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid and Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, awakening with ice-blue eyes and a new ability he had yet to identify.
• Liu Erlong and Shao Xin reached Level 30, and Lin Hanye revealed his One Yellow and One Purple Soul Ring configuration.
• Lin Hanye explained how Whale Glue could strengthen a Soul Master's physique and increase soul ring age, then gave Liu Erlong a six-thousand-year piece and Shao Xin two lower-grade pieces.
• Lin Hanye helped Liu Erlong and Shao Xin begin refining their Whale Glue, then headed to the Blacksmith Association to heat his ten-thousand-year piece.

After refining Ten Thousand Year Whale Glue, Lin Hanye met Bibi Dong and told her he would delay establishing the Soul Master Guild until he was strong enough to protect its allies. Ling Yuan secretly witnessed their intimacy and left, choosing not to reveal what she had seen.

• Lin Hanye changed his appearance, had his Ten Thousand Year Whale Glue melted, and refined it, gaining a great surge of physical strength.
• Lin Hanye visited Bibi Dong, who worried about his efforts to advance her ambitions and offered to help him seize the position of Spirit Hall Pope.
• Lin Hanye told Bibi Dong he would not risk her by moving against Qian Xunji and explained that he would wait to establish the Soul Master Guild until he became a Titled Douluo.
• Bibi Dong affirmed that Lin Hanye's ambition was hers, and Lin Hanye embraced her before they kissed by the pavilion.
• Ling Yuan, whose martial soul had transformed into the Fire Phoenix, secretly saw Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong together and left without exposing them.

Lin Hanye traveled with Liu Erlong and Shao Xin toward the Star Dou Great Forest, while Ling Yuan secretly followed under Bibi Dong’s orders and helped them obtain their soul rings. After all three absorbed rings beyond the usual limits, Ling Yuan abandoned her plan to report back and decided to confront Lin Hanye.

• Lin Hanye returned to the inn and told Liu Erlong and Shao Xin that he had failed to find Whale Rubber, then the three set out for the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lin Hanye recommended suitable soul beasts and soul-ring ages for Liu Erlong and Shao Xin, while revealing that he planned to absorb a soul ring from a nine-thousand-year Ice Spider.
• Ling Yuan followed the group in secret, resenting Lin Hanye’s shamelessness but obeying Bibi Dong’s order to help them hunt soul beasts.
• With Ling Yuan’s secret assistance, Liu Erlong absorbed a four-thousand-plus-year Horned Fire Python and gained the Bursting Fire Dragon Bomb skill, while Shao Xin absorbed a three-thousand-year Mighty Ape and became a Soul Elder.
• Lin Hanye absorbed a nine-thousand-year Ice Spider soul ring and reached level 39, prompting Ling Yuan to decide she would meet him instead of reporting back to Bibi Dong.
• Liu Erlong and Shao Xin gathered around Lin Hanye and asked what soul skill he had gained from his Third Soul Ring.

Lin Hanye demonstrated his new third soul skill, Realm of Ice, and discovered that his enhanced vision could reveal the paths of soul power inside a body. Ling Yuan asked how he absorbed soul rings beyond their limits, but Lin Hanye told her to ask Dong'er for the method.

• Lin Hanye used Realm of Ice to raise a forest of ice prisms across the swamp and explained its effects to Liu Erlong, Shao Xin, and Ling Yuan.
• Liu Erlong fed Lin Hanye a Recovery Sugar Bean and embraced him while Shao Xin teased them about their relationship.
• While keeping watch at night, Lin Hanye discovered that his vision could show the pathways of soul power flowing through a soul master's body.
• Ling Yuan asked Lin Hanye how he had absorbed soul rings beyond their limits, and he joked before telling her that Dong'er could share the method if she trusted her.

Lin Hanye continued his journey after speaking with Ling Yuan, while the Clear Sky Sect learned that he had defeated seven of its disciples. Tang Wei ordered an investigation and sent the defeated disciples into seclusion, as Tang Hao and Tang Yuehua reacted to the news.

• Ling Yuan tried to use Liu Erlong to pressure Lin Hanye into revealing how to raise a soul ring's absorption limit, but Lin Hanye dismissed her threat and she left angrily.
• Lin Hanye's group traveled to a nearby town so he could conduct his Third Simulation in a quiet, safe place.
• Tang Lie told Tang Wei and the Six Elders that Lin Hanye had defeated the Clear Sky Team in Golden City, prompting Tang Wei to order a portrait and assign the investigation to the Sixth Elder.
• Tang Wei ordered Tang Zhan and the other six defeated disciples to cultivate in seclusion until they reached level 40, and they accepted the punishment.
• Tang Yuehua announced that Tang Hao had reached level 60, then Tang Hao angrily heard how Lin Hanye had defeated Tang Zhan and the others while Tang Yuehua praised Lin Hanye's strength.

Tang Chen agreed to take Tang Hao and Tang Yuehua out, with Tang Hao set to hunt for his Sixth Soul Ring and train under his grandfather. Lin Hanye finished a simulation in which he survived ten years, cultivated new techniques, and reached Sea God Island, then chose an external soul bone and a God Bestowed Soul Ring as his rewards.

• Tang Wei proposed that Tang Hao hunt for his Sixth Soul Ring with fifth uncle, but Tang Hao said he could go alone and Tang Wei refused.
• Tang Yuehua asked to join Tang Hao, and Tang Chen arrived and volunteered to take both of his grandchildren out.
• Tang Chen promised to teach Tang Hao after the hunt and told him to go to Slaughter City for experience.
• Lin Hanye finished the Third Simulation after surviving ten years, developing the Ice Heart Skill, and reaching level seventy Soul Power while Bibi Dong reached level eighty.
• Lin Hanye chose the seventy-thousand-year Swift Ice Bird External Soul Bone and the God Bestowed Soul Ring, then inspected the Ice Wings.

Yu Xiaogang remained stuck at Level 29 despite consuming vast amounts of cultivation resources, so he sought support from his father, Yu Yuanzhen. After Yu Yuanzhen reduced his resources to ordinary levels, Yu Xiaogang felt abandoned and ran away from the Council Hall.

• Yu Xiaogang discovered that his soul power had been stuck at Level 29 for two and a half months, despite his intensive cultivation and medicinal baths.
• Yu Xiaogang went to ask Yu Yuanzhen for help, but overheard elders arguing that his excessive use of clan resources should be stopped.
• Yu Luomian acknowledged that Yu Xiaogang had consumed too many resources while avoiding openly taking a firm position.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered that Yu Xiaogang receive medicinal baths at the ordinary direct-line disciple standard.
• Yu Xiaogang burst into the Council Hall, accused his father of thinking he was trash, and ran out after Yu Yuanzhen failed to reassure him.

Yu Xiaogang left the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect for Spirit City, hoping to find a way to overcome his talent’s limits. In Crimson Flame Forest, Lin Hanye defeated and captured a powerful Flying Fire Lizard intended to provide Liu Erlong with her fifth soul ring.

• Yu Xiaogang wept on a cliff over his father’s lack of understanding, then vowed to prove himself and set off for Spirit City.
• Yu Yuanzhen watched Yu Xiaogang leave and decided that leaving the clan for a while might be good for him.
• In Crimson Flame Forest, Lin Hanye fought a roughly twenty-five-thousand-year-old Flying Fire Lizard that he had chosen as a suitable soul beast for Liu Erlong.
• Lin Hanye trapped the Flying Fire Lizard with his Ice Barrier, then used Mirage clones and ice-infused Rasengans to overwhelm it.
• Lin Hanye sealed the badly injured Flying Fire Lizard in ice with his Fourth Soul Skill.

Lin Hanye helped Liu Erlong defeat a Flying Fire Lizard, allowing her to gain a Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang arrived in Spirit City to join Spirit Hall, and Qian Xunji asked Bibi Dong why he had come.

• Lin Hanye descended after freezing the Flying Fire Lizard, and Liu Erlong and Shao Xin joined him at the pit.
• Liu Erlong shattered the ice prison, killed the Flying Fire Lizard, and found its Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone.
• Lin Hanye agreed to let Liu Erlong absorb the rewards, and she gained a flying fifth soul skill, a Head Soul Bone skill, and level fifty-three Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived at the Papal Palace and told the Temple Knights he had come to join Spirit Hall.
• Qian Xunji heard that Yu Xiaogang was at the palace and asked Bibi Dong why Yu Yuanzhen's son had come to Spirit City.

Bibi Dong persuaded Qian Xunji to use Yu Xiaogang to undermine the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and obtain its secrets. Yu Xiaogang passed a basic knowledge test and believed Spirit Hall had accepted his theories, while Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong privately judged his abilities and planned to exploit him.

• Bibi Dong convinced Qian Xunji that Yu Xiaogang could damage the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's prestige and help Spirit Hall obtain its medicinal bath recipe and classics.
• Qian Xunji summoned Yu Xiaogang, who asked to join Spirit Hall and enter its Library Pavilion to seek a way past his cultivation bottleneck.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that he had left his clan and could not progress beyond Rank 29 despite his cultivation efforts.
• Qian Xunji made Yu Xiaogang take a knowledge test, and Bibi Dong questioned him about Soul Master Theory.
• Qian Xunji recognized that Yu Xiaogang had some basic knowledge but considered his theories flawed and his breakthrough to Level 30 hopeless.
• Yu Xiaogang mistook the lack of criticism for approval and grew pleased with himself.

Yu Xiaogang joined Spirit Hall and revealed Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon secrets, prompting Yu Yuanzhen to expel him from the clan. Meanwhile, Lin Hanye, Liu Erlong, and Shao Xin drank together after hearing the news, until Ling Yuan arrived and drew Liu Erlong’s hostility.

• Qian Xunji appointed Yu Xiaogang as a librarian and demanded that he prove his worth to Spirit Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang joined Spirit Hall and leaked Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon secrets, and Bibi Dong helped spread the news across the continent.
• After hearing the reports, Yu Yuanzhen expelled Yu Xiaogang from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect and barred him from returning.
• Lin Hanye, Liu Erlong, and Shao Xin discussed Yu Xiaogang’s betrayal over drinks at an inn.
• Ling Yuan entered their private room, and Liu Erlong glared at her with hostility.

Ling Yuan reminded Lin Hanye of their agreement to strengthen her physique before she broke through Level 90, then brought him to meet Bibi Dong. After Ling Yuan left, Bibi Dong reunited with Lin Hanye and asked him to take her.

• Ling Yuan teased Liu Erlong at dinner, then left with Lin Hanye to discuss her upcoming ninth soul ring.
• Lin Hanye reaffirmed that he would give Ling Yuan a physique capable of bearing a hundred-thousand-year ninth ring before she broke through Level 90.
• Ling Yuan took Lin Hanye to a teahouse, where he found Bibi Dong waiting for him.
• Ling Yuan excused herself, and Bibi Dong nestled against Lin Hanye and kissed him.
• Bibi Dong asked Lin Hanye whether he approved of her interference with Yu Xiaogang, and he praised her efforts.
• Bibi Dong pleaded with Lin Hanye to take her.

Lin Hanye urged Bibi Dong to wait for a chance to enter Slaughter City before breaking free of Qian Xunji's control, and she agreed. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang grew resentful after failing to gain access to Spirit Hall's most valuable knowledge and began plotting against Qian Xunji using what he had learned about Bibi Dong.

• Lin Hanye told Bibi Dong to wait until the Soul Master Tournament ended before seeking permission to enter Slaughter City, and she agreed to follow his plan.
• Bibi Dong and Lin Hanye spent a sleepless night together before she left with Ling Yuan to hunt for her Sixth Soul Ring.
• Lin Hanye returned to the inn, and he, Liu Erlong, and Shao Xin resumed their travels across the continent.
• Yu Xiaogang studied Spirit Hall's library and traded Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon secrets for access to its second and third floors, but he could not enter the restricted upper floors.
• Yu Xiaogang concluded that Qian Xunji had used him to undermine the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect and began devising a plan after identifying Bibi Dong as Spirit Hall's Saintess.

Yu Xiaogang planned to attract Bibi Dong with his Martial Soul theories and use her influence to advance his ambitions. Meanwhile, Lin Hanye and his companions reached a village near Vast Sea City, where Wolf Bandits appeared, and Lin Hanye went to assess the threat alone.

• Yu Xiaogang decided to organize his ideas and use the Lantern Festival in Yelin City as an opportunity to win Bibi Dong's attention.
• Lin Hanye, Liu Erlong, and Shao Xin arrived at a village near Vast Sea City to buy Whale Rubber and stayed there for the night.
• A villager rushed to Lin Hanye and warned that the Wolf Bandits had arrived.
• Lin Hanye told Liu Erlong and Shao Xin to wait for his signal, then went to investigate the Wolf Bandits.

Lin Hanye attacked the wolf bandits raiding a village, killing many and trapping their leader while protecting the villagers. A mysterious woman warned him of the leader’s ambush, and Liu Erlong and Shao Xin arrived as the battle continued.

• Lin Hanye spotted wolf bandits killing and capturing villagers, then struck them with ice blades and destroyed nearly a hundred of the attackers.
• Lin Hanye shielded the villagers and used Frost Sword Finger to kill more wolf bandits as their leader ordered an indiscriminate slaughter.
• An unknown woman warned Lin Hanye of the Wolf Bandit Leader’s sneak attack, but he dodged and trapped it with his soul skills.
• Lin Hanye sealed the Wolf Bandit Leader and nearby bandits in Ten Thousand Year Ice Prison, then turned to attack the remaining enemies.
• Liu Erlong and Shao Xin arrived, and Liu Erlong attacked the wolf bandits with flames and a magma fireball.

Lin Hanye, Liu Erlong, Shao Xin, and the Blue-Clad Girl wiped out a wolf bandit pack attacking a village, with Lin Hanye killing the berserk Wolf Bandit Leader. After the battle, Lin Hanye recognized the Blue-Clad Girl as Ah Yin.

• Lin Hanye and Liu Erlong led the fight against the wolf bandits while Shao Xin supported them with Sugar Beans and the Blue-Clad Girl bound enemies with Blue-Gold Vines.
• Lin Hanye used his domains, Ice Spears, and Mirage phantoms to kill most of the bandits as the villagers escaped.
• The Wolf Bandit Leader broke free from the Ten Thousand Year Ice Prison, entered a berserk state, and charged at Lin Hanye.
• Lin Hanye lured the Wolf Bandit Leader away, weakened it with Extreme Ice arrows, and killed it with an Ice Spear through its throat.
• Liu Erlong and Shao Xin finished off the remaining wounded bandits, while Shao Xin treated the villagers and Liu Erlong burned the corpses.
• Lin Hanye recognized the Blue-Clad Girl as Ah Yin and was captivated by her beauty.

After Lin Hanye and his companions defeated the wolf bandits, they met Ah Yin and invited her to travel with them. She joined the group, and they set off for Vast Sea City to buy Whale Rubber while Lin Hanye considered how to keep her identity hidden.

• Ah Yin healed the villagers with her Blue Silver Grass and thanked Lin Hanye for saving them from the wolf bandits.
• Lin Hanye introduced Ah Yin to Liu Erlong and Shao Xin, and the four learned that they were all traveling alone.
• The villagers held a feast to thank the group, and Lin Hanye invited Ah Yin to join their travels.
• Ah Yin hesitated over joining because she sensed feelings between Liu Erlong and Lin Hanye, but Liu Erlong encouraged her to come along.
• Lin Hanye accepted Ah Yin into the group and worried that a Titled Douluo might discover her identity.
• The next morning, the group left the village for Vast Sea City to buy Whale Rubber.

Lin Hanye and his companions disguised themselves to buy whale rubber in Vast Sea City, then distributed it so they could strengthen their future soul rings. After Ah Yin secretly obtained a Ten Thousand Year Fourth Soul Ring, Lin Hanye continued guiding her, and their relationship grew closer over the following months.

• Lin Hanye used Thousand Faces to disguise the group and explained to Ah Yin that he wanted to protect whale soul beasts from being hunted for whale rubber.
• The group spent nearly half a month buying whale rubber in Vast Sea City, including a piece more than fifty thousand years old.
• Lin Hanye distributed the whale rubber to Liu Erlong, Shao Xin, and Ah Yin, and Ah Yin advanced to level forty after refining hers.
• After the group left Vast Sea City to hunt Ah Yin's Fourth Soul Ring, Ah Yin separated from them and returned with a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring she had condensed herself.
• Over the next several months, Lin Hanye taught Ah Yin about human society and gave her the Dark Jade Divine Bamboo, while their relationship grew closer.

Lin Hanye’s growing love triangle with Liu Erlong and Ah Yin unfolded as he traveled and trained with them. Yu Xiaogang completed and submitted his plagiarized “Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul,” prompting Bibi Dong to confront his work and recognize how poorly it imitated Lin Hanye.

• Ah Yin fell in love with Lin Hanye after learning about his ideals, but she kept her feelings hidden out of consideration for Liu Erlong.
• Liu Erlong discovered the feelings between Lin Hanye and Ah Yin, and the three tacitly avoided hurting one another as Shao Xin watched their awkward love triangle.
• Yu Xiaogang organized six of his proposed Ten Core Competencies, including soul ring age limits copied from Spirit Hall records, and found that Lin Hanye held the record for a five-hundred-year First Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang completed his work and submitted it to the Papal Palace, where Qian Xunji dismissed it without interest.
• Bibi Dong visited the Library Pavilion intending to find a charge against Yu Xiaogang, then laughed in anger at his plagiarized and erroneous theories.