Chapter Summaries

Tang San’s eyes remained badly injured after Lin Xiao’s attack, while Lin Xiao returned to the Ye Residence and discovered that Feng Yu could speak to him through their Blood Pact. Feng Yu revealed that she had once been the Phoenix God and warned Lin Xiao that a powerful god might be interested in Tang San, but she went silent when he asked about treasures and inheritance.

• Shao Xin warned Flender that Tang San’s severe eye damage might leave him unable to tolerate bright light.
• Lin Xiao reflected on his lack of combat experience as he returned to the Ye Residence, and Feng Yu comforted him through their Blood Pact.
• Feng Yu told Lin Xiao that she could speak to him telepathically and would be able to speak aloud after her first Nirvana.
• Feng Yu claimed she had once been the Phoenix God, while Lin Xiao privately connected her past to the Phoenix God’s downfall.
• Feng Yu warned Lin Xiao that Tang San’s soul carried an aura she disliked and that a powerful god might have taken an interest in him.
• Lin Xiao asked Feng Yu about treasures, her inheritance, and powerful Soul Skills, but she fell silent.

Lin Xiao learned of a powerful, ever-burning furnace fire connected to the Strength Clan and developed a new eye technique by channeling Solar Fire Energy into his eyes. He planned to seek the clan’s treasure with Ning Fengzhi’s help while continuing to study Phoenix Frolic and its potential as a dual cultivation method.

• Tang Yuehua told Lin Xiao that the Strength Clan’s Inheritance Ground contained a furnace fire of extraordinary heat that never went out.
• Lin Xiao practiced Phoenix Frolic and discovered that channeling Solar Fire Energy into his eyes created the Great Sun Golden Eyes, which could launch mental attacks.
• Lin Xiao decided to visit the Strength Clan and planned to ask Ning Fengzhi for help, worried Dugu Bo might provoke the clan.
• Lin Xiao watched Shui Bing'er practice Phoenix Frolic and considered how to create the Yin Yang Phoenix Nirvana Profound Chapter by studying her Yin Energy meridians.

Lin Xiao and Sword Douluo Chen Xin visited the Strength Clan to negotiate for its Undying Fire Seed, but Chen Xin’s overwhelming presence made the clan fear that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had come to seize its treasure. Tai Tan challenged Chen Xin over the demand, and the chapter ended with the Strength Clan confronting the visitors.

• Lin Xiao asked Ning Fengzhi to let him visit the Strength Clan to acquire its Never Extinguishing Fire Seed, and Ning Fengzhi agreed, sending Sword Douluo Chen Xin with him.
• Chen Xin announced his arrival at the Strength Clan’s mountain gate with a voice that reached the clan throughout its grounds.
• The Strength Clan’s Elders panicked, but Tai Tan calmed them and went to receive Chen Xin, hoping the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect might offer help.
• In the reception hall, Chen Xin asked to buy the clan’s Undying Fire Seed on the Sect Master’s behalf, while his imposing presence made the Strength Clan feel threatened.
• Tai Tan demanded to know how the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect learned of the treasure and accused Chen Xin of bullying the Strength Clan despite their ties to the Clear Sky Sect.

Lin Xiao confronted Tai Tan over the Strength Clan’s loyalty to Clear Sky Sect and challenged the clan to a wager duel for its Undying Fire. The chapter ended with Lin Xiao rejecting Tai Tan’s grandson as an opponent and demanding to fight Tai Nuo, a level 58 Soul King.

• Chen Xin’s sword aura pressed Tai Tan and the Strength Clan’s elders, while Tai Tan refused to yield even under threat.
• Lin Xiao criticized Tai Tan for his loyalty to Clear Sky Sect, arguing that his choices had left the Strength Clan’s members poor and vulnerable.
• Lin Xiao declared that he would take the Undying Fire and offered the clan cultivation resources if he won a duel, while promising to leave if he lost.
• Tai Tan accepted the wager and planned to summon his grandson Tai Long, believing the 23-year-old Soul Elder could easily defeat Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao dismissed Tai Long and demanded that Tai Tan’s son Tai Nuo fight him, drawing laughter from the Strength Clan.

Lin Xiao accepted the Strength Clan’s challenge and chose to fight Tai Nuo with physical strength instead of relying on his flames. As Lin Xiao fused three kinds of Phoenix fire and transformed, Tai Tan recognized his physique as the legendary Godly Body.

• Tai Tan agreed to Lin Xiao’s wager, and Tai Nuo stepped forward to fight him.
• Lin Xiao revealed his Phoenix Martial Soul and four Soul Rings, while Tai Nuo activated his Great Strength Gorilla Martial Soul and strength-enhancing Soul Skills.
• Lin Xiao dismissed his flames and traded punches with Tai Nuo, matching his strength until Tai Nuo increased his power and knocked him back.
• Lin Xiao began fusing crimson, jet-black, and golden flames through Phoenix Fire Three Profound Transformations, and his body grew taller and more muscular.
• Tai Tan recognized Lin Xiao’s physique as the Godly Body said to belong only to the God of Strength.

Lin Xiao defeated Tai Nuo with the overwhelming power of his perfected body, winning his bet against Tai Tan. Awestruck by Lin Xiao’s strength, Tai Tan and the Strength Clan swore loyalty to him, but Lin Xiao refused and demanded to see their Undying Fire.

• Lin Xiao revealed his perfected, remolded body, and Tai Tan and the Strength Clan’s Elders realized its strength surpassed theirs.
• Lin Xiao’s physical power increased fivefold, and he fought Tai Nuo in a rapid exchange of hundreds of punches.
• Lin Xiao shattered Tai Nuo’s arms and won the fight; Tai Tan arranged for his son to be carried away for treatment.
• Tai Tan accepted the bet’s result, then knelt with the Strength Clan’s Elders and offered their loyalty to Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao refused to accept the clan’s allegiance and demanded to see the Undying Fire, which Tai Tan offered along with another plea for him to accept their loyalty.

Lin Xiao agreed to take in the Strength Clan after Tai Tan explained their ancestral rule and their break with the Clear Sky Sect. At the clan’s hidden Undying Fire, Feng Yu recognized her inheritance in the flames and meteorite-like mass, revealing it was her Phoenix Bone Remains and a fragment of her shattered Super Divine Artifact.

• Tai Tan explained that the Strength Clan’s ancestors ordered them to follow anyone with a Godly Body, and said the clan had become independent after the Clear Sky Sect cut ties with them.
• Lin Xiao agreed to take in the Strength Clan and demanded to inspect its Undying Fire, cultivation methods, body-tempering arts, and records about gods.
• Lin Xiao and Feng Yu entered the hidden fire cave, where Feng Yu flew into the Ultimate Fire and absorbed the flames.
• Feng Yu told Lin Xiao the supposed Meteorite Iron was a fragment of her shattered Super Divine Artifact, the Crimson Feather Sky Burning Beak, and that the Undying Fire came from her Phoenix Bone Remains.
• Feng Yu said the Phoenix Bone Remains would strengthen her first Nirvana and urged Lin Xiao to refine the artifact fragment, so he asked her to teach him how.

Lin Xiao resonated with the Back Mountain meteorite iron and witnessed the ancient battle between the Phoenix God and the Dragon God Group from the perspective of the sword the Phoenix God wielded. The Phoenix God was finally pinned and left near death, while Lin Xiao felt a powerful impulse as her life force collapsed.

• Lin Xiao sacrificed his Essence Blood to communicate with the meteorite iron, synchronized with its tremors, and fainted.
• Lin Xiao awoke as a sword beside the Phoenix God and saw her challenge the Dragon God and the eighteen God Kings.
• The Phoenix God and Lin Xiao fought the Dragon God, wounded him, and then faced the Dragon God Group after the Time Dragon King and Space Dragon King sealed the battlefield.
• The Dragon God Group overcame the Phoenix God through their combined assault, losing five God Kings while the Dragon God was severely wounded.
• The Phoenix God exhausted her divine power and was pinned by the Dragon God Spear; as she lay near death, Lin Xiao felt a powerful impulse.

Lin Xiao witnessed the Phoenix God’s final battle through the memories of the broken hilt, then watched the hilt reforge itself into a sword that recognized him. He named the new sword Crimson Sky and promised Feng Yu that she would no longer be alone, and she said she would stay with him too.

• Lin Xiao dreamed of the Phoenix God’s death and the slaughter of the Phoenixes by the Dragon God and his forces.
• The broken hilt shed its outer shell, melted down, and reforged itself into a small sword that formed a connection with Lin Xiao.
• Feng Yu told Lin Xiao that only fragments of her past, including memories of the Dragon God and the other God Kings, remained to her.
• Lin Xiao apologized for his earlier remarks about Feng Yu and promised to stay by her side, though she misunderstood his words.
• Lin Xiao summoned the sword, sensed its connection to Feng Yu’s former power, named it Crimson Sky, and heard Feng Yu say she would stay with him too.

Lin Xiao gained Sword Douluo as a sword instructor and brought the Strength Clan under his command, while learning about their body-tempering method and promising support. Back at Ye Residence, Ye Qingxian recognized that Lin Xiao had concealed the full extent of his strength.

• Sword Douluo saw the Crimson Sky Sword and Lin Xiao's embryonic Sword Intent, then asked him to learn swordsmanship from him.
• Tai Tan accepted Lin Xiao as his new master and warned that the Clear Sky Sect might target the Strength Clan for following someone else.
• Lin Xiao examined the Strength Clan's body-tempering method, promised to provide Medicinal Bath resources in exchange for something later, and told Tai Tan to send Tai Nuo to Ye Family Clinic for treatment.
• Lin Xiao returned to Ye Residence with Sword Douluo and told Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, and Shui Bing'er that he had asked Tai Tan for a Letter of Allegiance.
• Ye Qingxian said Lin Xiao had held back his true strength during the fight, and Lin Xiao agreed that one serious punch could have defeated Tai Nuo.

Lin Xiao cultivated with Shui Bing'er, secured leave from Heaven Dou Royal Academy to search for a Living Volcano for Feng Yu, and prepared to leave before the Soul Master Competition. Ye Qingxian agreed to let him go only if he absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

• Lin Xiao and Shui Bing'er cultivated together, and he asked how the Burning Maple Battle Team's training was going.
• Meng Shenji told Lin Xiao the team would enter the Soul Master Competition's final stage as the seeded team, and Lin Xiao requested a long leave.
• Lin Xiao told Feng Yu he would take her to search for a Living Volcano and return for the competition after her Nirvana.
• Lin Xiao refused Ye Qingxian's offer to have Dugu Bo accompany him, saying he wanted to face the world himself.
• Ye Qingxian agreed to let Lin Xiao leave on the condition that he absorb the Blue Silver Emperor's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

Lin Xiao insisted that Ye Qingxian absorb the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, helping her break through to Soul Douluo and gain flight and healing skills. He then went to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Sword Douluo tempered his Sword Intent Prototype, bringing it close to completion.

• Lin Xiao refused to take back the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and persuaded Ye Qingxian to absorb it instead.
• Ye Qingxian absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Soul Bone, reached level 80, and gained flight and healing soul skills.
• Ye Qingxian told Lin Xiao that they shared their fortunes and promised she would protect him too.
• Lin Xiao arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to learn the sword from Sword Douluo.
• Sword Douluo used his sword intent to temper Lin Xiao's Unyielding Sword Intent, while Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo watched and discussed Lin Xiao's Sword Intent Prototype.

Lin Xiao defeated Sword Douluo in a contest of Sword Intent, and Sword Douluo accepted him as his swordsmanship disciple. Sword Douluo explained that Lin Xiao’s Sword Intent might become a deadly self-created Soul Skill, while Ning Fengzhi considered how to deepen Lin Xiao’s ties to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Sword Douluo and Lin Xiao clashed with their Sword Intents until Lin Xiao’s Crimson Sky Sword and Fire Phoenix overwhelmed the contest, leaving Sword Douluo astonished.
• Lin Xiao thanked Sword Douluo and asked to become his swordsmanship disciple, and Sword Douluo joyfully accepted him.
• Lin Xiao revealed that his Sword Intent came from his phoenix-connected sword, and Sword Douluo praised his talent and offered to teach him swordsmanship.
• Sword Douluo compared Sword Intent to the Great Sumeru Hammer’s ultimate secret technique and told Lin Xiao to develop it into a potential self-created Soul Skill.
• Ning Fengzhi watched Lin Xiao become Sword Douluo’s disciple and began considering how to strengthen Lin Xiao’s sense of belonging to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Lin Xiao gave Ning Rongrong an Immortal Grass, which evolved her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and made Ning Fengzhi deeply grateful. After Lin Xiao returned to the Ye Residence, Dugu Bo challenged him to prove himself before traveling alone.

• Ning Fengzhi brought Ning Rongrong back, and Lin Xiao gave her the Aromatic Silk Beauty to swallow.
• Ning Rongrong’s Soul Power surged, and she thanked Lin Xiao, thinking he had pleaded with his teachers to obtain the Immortal Grass.
• Ning Rongrong released her Martial Soul and revealed the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, leaving Ning Fengzhi overcome with joy and gratitude.
• Ning Fengzhi promised to fulfill Lin Xiao’s requests and decided to send merchant caravans to search for an Avian Fire Attribute Soul Bone, special Soul Tools, and items connected to the Phoenix.
• Lin Xiao returned to the Ye Residence, where Dugu Bo and Ye Qingxian questioned his plan to travel alone.
• Dugu Bo said Lin Xiao could leave only after passing a test of his mettle.

Lin Xiao accompanied Dugu Bo and Ye Qingxian into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt an Emerald Swan for Ye Qingxian’s Eighth Soul Ring. After Dugu Bo subdued and poisoned a fifty-eight-thousand-year-old Emerald Swan, Ye Qingxian killed it and began absorbing its Soul Ring.

• Dugu Bo told Lin Xiao he would take him on a training journey after helping Ye Qingxian hunt her Eighth Soul Ring.
• Lin Xiao, Dugu Bo, and Ye Qingxian followed Feng Yu’s directions through the forest toward an Emerald Swan.
• The Emerald Swan detected Dugu Bo’s poison and fled, but Dugu Bo pursued it, slowed it with Medusa’s Gaze, and dragged it to the ground.
• The Emerald Swan healed its injuries, but Dugu Bo’s poison weakened it enough for Ye Qingxian to kill it.
• Ye Qingxian judged the fifty-eight-thousand-year Soul Ring suitable and began absorbing it.

Ye Qingxian obtained a powerful healing Soul Skill, then agreed with Dugu Bo to test Lin Xiao’s readiness to venture out on his own. They assigned him a one-month solo mission to find and wipe out a Wolf Bandit Mercenary Group, leaving Dugu Bo privately worried that the challenge was too dangerous.

• Ye Qingxian awakened after absorbing her Eighth Soul Ring and told Lin Xiao she could revive him as long as his head remained intact.
• After the group left the Star Dou Great Forest, Ye Qingxian decided to stay with Lin Xiao and help Dugu Bo train him.
• Dugu Bo and Ye Qingxian discussed the plan privately while Lin Xiao could not hear them through the Soul Power Barrier.
• Dugu Bo and Ye Qingxian told Lin Xiao to find and eliminate a Wolf Bandit Mercenary Group alone within one month, or continue studying cultivation under their supervision.
• Dugu Bo privately worried that finding a disguised bandit group within the deadline was unreasonable and that Lin Xiao might encounter one too powerful to defeat.

Lin Xiao used the false identity Lin Dong and his apparent wealth to bait a suspicious mercenary group while searching for the Wolf Bandit Mercenary Group. After discovering the group had drugged his wine and planned to exploit him, he remained alert and prepared to act.

• Lin Xiao posed as a wealthy youth and let the bearded deputy leader of the Berserk Blood Mercenary Group recruit him with a fake discount and a fabricated favor.
• Lin Xiao chose the group as bait while trying to draw out the Wolf Bandit Mercenary Group, suspecting the bearded man was probing him and had ill intentions.
• The Berserk Blood Mercenary Group staged a cheerful feast, and Lin Xiao detected Sleeping Pill in his wine but pretended to pass out.
• At night, Lin Xiao overheard the mercenaries discussing making him stupid and keeping him as a male prostitute, and his eyes turned cold.

Lin Xiao killed the Wolf Bandit Mercenary Group after uncovering the bearded man's Mental Control and using poison and an explosive trap to defeat the group. Dugu Bo and Ye Qingxian questioned how calmly he had acted, and Dugu Bo demanded to know why his hand had not trembled during his first human kill.

• The bearded man tried to use his Head Soul Bone's Mental Control on Lin Xiao, but Lin Xiao let the attack reach him and killed the man with the Phoenix's golden flames.
• The mercenaries discovered the bearded man's death and the missing Spirit Bone, but Lin Xiao detonated a Two-Colored Fire Lotus trap that badly burned their leader.
• Lin Xiao killed the poisoned mercenaries one by one and finished off their weakened leader with his Meteorite Iron Sword.
• Dugu Bo and Ye Qingxian told Lin Xiao they had witnessed his massacre and were shocked by his clear thinking and efficient killing.
• Lin Xiao explained that he had poisoned the group after confirming their identity, and Dugu Bo demanded to know why his hand had not trembled the first time he killed someone.

After explaining his calmness in battle as a memory-filled dream experienced through the Crimson Sky Sword, Lin Xiao convinced Dugu Bo and Ye Qingxian that he could stand on his own. Ye Qingxian allowed him to train outside the city after he returned to Heaven Dou City, where news from Ning Fengzhi awaited him.

• Lin Xiao told Dugu Bo and Ye Qingxian that the Crimson Sky Sword had shown him memories of an ancient battlefield, and Ye Qingxian credited his mental resilience for helping him endure them.
• Dugu Bo praised Lin Xiao for defeating the Wolf Bandit Mercenaries, and Lin Xiao explained that he had poisoned and ambushed them before burning their bodies.
• Lin Xiao found a Ten Thousand Year Head Soul Bone among the bandits' loot, but Dugu Bo and Ye Qingxian declined it, so Lin Xiao stored it away.
• Lin Xiao asked to leave and train on his own, and Ye Qingxian agreed on the condition that he return to Heaven Dou City first.
• Ye Qingxian told Lin Xiao that Ning Fengzhi had arranged the item and location he had requested, and Lin Xiao wondered if Ning Fengzhi had brought good news.

Lin Xiao received maps to three Living Volcanoes, an ancient Fire Absorption Pouch, and a powerful Underworld Sparrow Spirit Bone from Ning Fengzhi. Back at the Ye Residence, he tested the pouch and began absorbing the fifty-thousand-year Spirit Bone.

• Sword Douluo guided Lin Xiao in swordsmanship while Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo watched, and Ning Fengzhi later praised their teacher-disciple connection.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Lin Xiao maps to three Living Volcanoes and presented him with a Fire Absorption Pouch and a Ten Thousand Year Underworld Sparrow right-leg Spirit Bone.
• Lin Xiao tested the Fire Absorption Pouch and found it could store his flames, making it useful alongside Flame Burst.
• Lin Xiao discovered the Underworld Sparrow Spirit Bone was fifty thousand years old and began absorbing it at the Ye Residence.