Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao tempered the 50,000-year Underworld Sparrow Spirit Bone, gained the Nine Nether Flame Hell skill, and reached rank 50 while cultivating with Shui Bing'er. Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling that Shui Bing'er had visited Lin Xiao’s room for the third time, leaving the girls to confront what they had been pretending not to notice.

• Lin Xiao tempered the Underworld Sparrow Right Leg Soul Bone with phoenix fire, rose to rank 49 and a half, and gained the Nine Nether Flame Hell skill.
• Ye Lingling found Lin Xiao exhausted, healed him with her Nine Hearted Begonia, and suggested she could take over from Ye Qingxian in helping him recover.
• Shui Bing'er invited Lin Xiao to cultivate with her, and their Yin Yang Phoenix Nirvana Profound Chapter cultivation brought him to rank 50.
• Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling that Shui Bing'er had gone to Lin Xiao’s room for the third time.

Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan admitted their feelings for Lin Xiao and discussed his closeness with Shui Bing'er. Ye Lingling resolved to openly compete with Shui Bing'er rather than keep hiding her feelings.

• Dugu Yan pressed Ye Lingling to admit that she liked Lin Xiao, and they confessed that they had both held back because of each other.
• Ye Lingling reassured Dugu Yan that Lin Xiao and Shui Bing'er had not slept together and guessed their late-night meetings involved their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Ye Lingling suggested Shui Bing'er had let them discover her meetings with Lin Xiao, while Dugu Yan realized Shui Bing'er had always been open about her feelings.
• Ye Lingling said she would go to war with Shui Bing'er and take the initiative to pursue Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao summoned Xiao Wu alone, used his Soul Bone Skill to bind her through pain, and forced her into submission. He then revealed that Tang Hao had followed her for seven years, leaving Xiao Wu terrified by the implications.

• Lin Xiao used Feng Yu's concealment method to contact Xiao Wu at Shrek Academy and summoned her to the back mountain alone.
• Xiao Wu left the training ground without alerting Tang San or Zhu Zhuqing and went to meet Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao branded Xiao Wu with his Nine Nether Flame Hell Soul Bone Skill and warned that he could make her suffer with a thought.
• Lin Xiao declared that Xiao Wu would be his dog, then soothed her with spiritual power and gave her a file about Tang Hao.
• Xiao Wu learned that Tang Hao's Ninth Soul Ring was 100,000 years old, and Lin Xiao told her Tang Hao had followed her for seven years.

Lin Xiao unsettled Xiao Wu with evidence that Tang Hao was Tang San’s father and had secretly followed her, then began drawing her toward his plans against the beings in the Star Dou Great Forest. After preparing for his fifth Soul Ring, he accepted the Strength Clan’s allegiance and formally entered the struggle for power.

• Lin Xiao showed Xiao Wu information linking Tang Hao to Tang San and revealed that Tang Hao had followed her for seven years, leaving her shaken.
• Lin Xiao told Feng Yu he would help reclaim what was hers when he was strong enough, and he planned to use Xiao Wu to turn the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape.
• Xiao Wu returned to Shrek and asked Zhu Zhuqing to help her get leave, then confronted Yu Xiaogang about whether Tang San’s father was Clear Sky Douluo; Yu Xiaogang dropped his teacup in shock.
• Lin Xiao collected medicinal herbs from Ye Qingxian and poison from Dugu Bo, said farewell to Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, and Shui Bing'er, and set out to hunt his fifth Soul Ring.
• Lin Xiao visited the Strength Clan, where Tai Tan presented the heads of three Clear Sky Sect spies as a pledge of loyalty, and Lin Xiao formally accepted the clan’s allegiance.

Lin Xiao prepared the Strength Clan to strengthen itself while keeping a low profile, then entered the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Cloud Piercing Falcon for his fifth Soul Ring. He killed a roughly thirty-five-thousand-year-old falcon with poison, a cave collapse, and a Tri-Color Phoenix Wrath Fire Lotus, leaving its black Soul Ring behind.

• Lin Xiao ordered Tai Tan to keep the Strength Clan discreet, gave him the Medicinal Bath formula and an improved body-tempering method, and demanded that the clan prove its loyalty through action.
• Two days later, Lin Xiao went to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Cloud Piercing Falcon for his fifth Soul Ring, following Feng Yu's recommendation.
• Lin Xiao found the falcon's nest in a cliff above a lake, poisoned its nest, and hid nearby with Feng Yu concealing his aura.
• When the Cloud Piercing Falcon returned, Lin Xiao triggered an explosion that collapsed its cave and weakened it with the poison.
• Lin Xiao blasted the trapped Cloud Piercing Falcon with a Tri-Color Phoenix Wrath Fire Lotus, killing it and revealing a roughly thirty-five-thousand-year-old black Soul Ring.

Lin Xiao absorbed the Cloud Piercing Falcon’s Soul Ring, reached rank 52, and gained a speed-focused skill that let him break through space. He and Feng Yu then carried out a plan to send an aphrodisiac toward the Lake of Life, and the herb containing it arrived there.

• Lin Xiao absorbed his fifth Soul Ring, reached rank 52, and learned Phoenix Breaks the Nine Heavens, which tripled his speed and let him break through space.
• Lin Xiao activated the skill while holding Feng Yu, crashed into a mountain, and protected her from injury with his Ink Jade Divine Body.
• Feng Yu doubted Lin Xiao could help her get revenge, but agreed to his plan after he whispered it to her.
• Lin Xiao and Feng Yu found a stream they believed connected to the Lake of Life and put aphrodisiac made from Ten Thousand Year Herbs into a Ten Thousand Year Herb.
• Lin Xiao and Feng Yu followed the stream to an inaccessible ravine, released the herb into the underground water, and waited near the Core Area.
• After about a day, the herb drifted through the underground river and reached the Lake of Life.

Di Tian found a Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus in the Lake of Life and brought it to Gu Yuena, who discovered it could suppress the Asura God's Power in her body. After Di Tian ate a petal and began entering heat, Gu Yuena struck him, leaving him desperately pleading that he had not known what would happen.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told the Fierce Beasts about a Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus outside their dimensional space, and Di Tian went to investigate.
• Di Tian found the snow lotus, brought it to the Otherworldly Dimension, and had Bi Ji check that it contained no poison or harmful substances.
• Gu Yuena tasted a petal and found that the snow lotus could suppress the Asura God's Power within her.
• Gu Yuena gave Di Tian a petal as a reward, but its effects made his body enter heat.
• Gu Yuena attacked Di Tian, who knelt and begged for forgiveness while insisting he had not known about the petal's effect.

Gu Yuena blamed Di Tian for the Snow Lotus’s strange effects, while he forced Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to eat it as revenge. Lin Xiao and Feng Yu escaped detection and chose a volcano in southern Heaven Dou for Feng Yu’s Nirvana.

• Gu Yuena questioned Di Tian about the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus, then left after ordering him to handle it himself.
• Di Tian attacked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm but stopped short of killing it, then forced it to swallow the Snow Lotus.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm absorbed the lotus’s powerful energy and suffered its burning effects, unknowingly nearing a premature million-year transformation.
• Feng Yu told Lin Xiao that Gu Yuena’s mental-power sweep had failed to find them, and they celebrated their successful deception.
• Lin Xiao and Feng Yu chose the volcano in southern Heaven Dou as the site for Feng Yu’s first Nirvana and set out.

Lin Xiao accompanied Maple Leaf to a living volcano in the Soro Mountain Range so she could use its earth-vein energy to undergo Nirvana. While Maple Leaf remained inside for six months, Lin Xiao cultivated and gained a deeper understanding of the relationship between Phoenix Nirvana, destruction, and vitality; he expected her return soon.

• Lin Xiao and Maple Leaf reached a living volcano near Noah City, and Maple Leaf explained that she would use its earth-vein energy to undergo Nirvana for about half a year.
• Maple Leaf transformed into a Phoenix totem and passed through the volcanic crater, while Lin Xiao used their Blood Pact to sense her Nirvana.
• Lin Xiao felt the earth-veins' heat and vitality and gained insight into the mysteries of Phoenix Nirvana.
• The residents below the volcano noticed unusually warm weather, while local farmers discussed the volcano's connection to both destruction and vitality.
• During Maple Leaf's long Nirvana, Lin Xiao cultivated, contemplated her state, and lived off supplies from the mountain range.
• Lin Xiao began missing his friends and relatives and wondered whether Maple Leaf would soon emerge.

After six months and seventeen days, Feng Yu completed her first Nirvana and emerged from the volcano, where she reunited with Lin Xiao. She could not yet take human form, but her Phoenix Bloodline had strengthened and her Undying Body had regained its rebirth abilities, leaving Lin Xiao excited about their potential.

• Lin Xiao reached Level 54 during his months of cultivation and learned to shape a Tri-Color Fire Lotus as he waited for Feng Yu's Nirvana to finish.
• Feng Yu told Lin Xiao to move, then erupted from the volcano after he flew clear of the rising magma.
• Feng Yu appeared in a larger, graceful form, spoke aloud, and told Lin Xiao she could not transform into a human until at least her next Nirvana.
• Feng Yu shrank back into a Little Red Bird so she could hide beside Lin Xiao.
• Feng Yu explained that her Phoenix Bloodline and fire control had improved and that her Undying Body could regenerate severed limbs or allow rebirth from blood and flames, though both abilities consumed energy.

Feng Yu calmed the volcano and gathered Faith Power while explaining to Lin Xiao why he should avoid divine inheritances. Gu Yuena learned that Phoenix God had returned, and Lin Xiao was summoned to meet Tang Yuehua in Heaven Dou City.

• Feng Yu reversed the lava flow, revealed herself as a Phoenix to the villagers, and gathered their Faith Power.
• Feng Yu told Lin Xiao that divine inheritances brought shackles and that self-cultivated power mattered most, then returned to Little Red Bird form as they headed for Heaven Dou City.
• Gu Yuena saw that a crimson Godhead Fragment had lost its divinity and concluded that Phoenix God had begun recovering her power.
• Lin Xiao entered Heaven Dou City and was approached by a girl who said Tang Yuehua wanted to see him and asked why he had killed her people.

Tang Yuehua confronted Lin Xiao over his ties to the Strength Clan and the Clear Sky Sect’s dead spies, but he rejected her accusations and forced her to apologize to Ye Qingxian. When Tang Yuehua tried to win him over with a tearful appeal, Lin Xiao called her an old woman, leaving her overheated.

• Tang Yuehua grew furious after learning that Tai Tan had pledged the Strength Clan to Lin Xiao and killed Clear Sky Sect spies.
• Tang Yuehua summoned Lin Xiao, who challenged her for having him watched and demanded to know what she wanted.
• Tang Yuehua accused Lin Xiao of interfering with the Strength Clan and ordering Tai Tan to kill Clear Sky Sect members.
• Lin Xiao said the Clear Sky Sect had abandoned the Strength Clan, denied instructing Tai Tan, and challenged the sect’s authority to threaten him.
• Lin Xiao demanded that Tang Yuehua apologize to Aunt Ye for insulting Qingxian, and she reluctantly complied.
• Tang Yuehua tried to appeal to Lin Xiao with a tearful, suggestive speech, but he called her an old woman and made her flush with embarrassment.

Lin Xiao humiliated Tang Yuehua by comparing her unfavorably with Ye Qingxian and exposing the limits of her influence. He left Moonlight Pavilion unharmed, while Tang Yuehua ordered her people to call the dispute a misunderstanding and avoid provoking powerful allies.

• Lin Xiao rebuked Tang Yuehua for comparing herself to Ye Qingxian and listed Ye Qingxian’s superior status, skills, beauty, and kindness to him.
• Lin Xiao accused Tang Yuehua’s Clear Sky Sect of using her as a tool, then left Moonlight Pavilion after she angrily ordered him out.
• Moonlight Pavilion’s middle-aged Soul Master asked Tang Yuehua why she had forbidden her people from chasing Lin Xiao.
• Tang Yuehua warned her subordinates not to provoke Lin Xiao or powerful groups such as Poison Douluo, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the Ye Family.
• Tang Yuehua ordered her people to report the incident as a misunderstanding and claimed Lin Xiao had apologized and made compensation.

Lin Xiao told Ye Qingxian how Tang Yuehua had approached him, prompting Ye Qingxian to cut ties with Tang Yuehua and end the Clear Sky Sect’s supply of medicinal herbs. Meanwhile, the Clear Sky Sect’s Elders secretly ordered Lin Xiao to be taught a lesson, setting up a new threat.

• Lin Xiao returned to Ye Residence and told Ye Qingxian about Tang Yuehua’s actions; Ye Qingxian took his side and refused to seek an explanation from Tang Yuehua.
• Alone at Moonlight Pavilion, Tang Yuehua examined her reflection, noticed fine lines around her eyes, and broke down.
• Tang Yuehua arranged a meeting with Ye Qingxian, who ended their association and cut off the Clear Sky Sect’s medicinal herbs before leaving.
• Tang Yuehua noticed Ye Qingxian’s flawless complexion, then cried after Ye Qingxian questioned her heavy makeup.
• The middle-aged Soul Master reported Lin Xiao and the Strength Clan to the Clear Sky Sect’s Elders, who secretly ordered Lin Xiao to be taught a lesson and planned to intimidate Tai Tan.

After returning from training, Lin Xiao reunited with Shui Bing'er, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan, then organized a trip to find Dugu Yan's fifth Soul Ring. The group set out for the Star Dou Great Forest, where Lin Xiao entrusted his safety to Feng Yu.

• The Clear Sky Sect's Elder Council ordered its members at Moonlight Pavilion to investigate Lin Xiao and find a chance to teach him a lesson, while Tang Yuehua sought cultivation supplies from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Shui Bing'er welcomed Lin Xiao back and suggested that the group visit Skywater City after the Soul Master Competition.
• Lin Xiao learned that Dugu Yan had reached Level 50 and could absorb a Soul Ring of up to 15,000 years.
• Lin Xiao proposed helping Dugu Yan hunt for her fifth Soul Ring, and Ye Qingxian approved the group's expedition.
• Three days later, Lin Xiao, Shui Bing'er, Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, and Shui Yue'er set off for the Star Dou Great Forest, and Lin Xiao asked Feng Yu to protect him.

Lin Xiao and the girls left Heaven Dou City while members of the Clear Sky Sect followed them, hoping to teach him a lesson. Lin Xiao turned their pursuit into a chance for team combat practice, but after two days without an attack, he suspected they were waiting for a supervisor and expected them to strike that night.

• The Clear Sky Sect's elders ordered their people to teach Lin Xiao a lesson, and a group began following him after he left Heaven Dou City.
• Dugu Yan sensed they were being watched, and Lin Xiao told the girls that three Soul Kings and two Soul Emperors were pursuing them.
• Lin Xiao assigned the girls their roles in a possible battle as they continued toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After two days without an attack, Lin Xiao reasoned that the pursuers were waiting for someone to supervise their mission.
• Feng Yu spotted the five pursuers gathering together, and Lin Xiao predicted they would make their move that day or night.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Xiao's team prepares for battle against the Clear Sky Sect, with a Soul Sage, two Soul Emperors, and three Soul Kings as their enemies.
• Lin Xiao devises an underhanded battle plan to counter the enemy's strength.
• The enemy, consisting of five Black Robed People, approaches Lin Xiao's team while they are having a barbecue.
• Shui Bing'er detonates hidden ice blocks, forcing the enemies to gather together.
• Lin Xiao uses his Phoenix Domain and Blazing Feather Burns the Heavens soul skills to attack the enemies.

Character Developments

• Lin Xiao demonstrates his strategic thinking and confidence, reassuring his team despite their overwhelming disadvantage.
• The girls in Lin Xiao's team show determination and willingness to follow his plan.
• The Black Robed People show arrogance and underestimate Lin Xiao's team.

Significant Themes

• The importance of strategy and preparation in facing a stronger enemy.
• The contrast between Lin Xiao's team's underhanded tactics and the Black Robed People's arrogance.
• The power dynamics between the two sides, with Lin Xiao's team trying to turn the tables despite their disadvantage.

Character Interactions

• Lin Xiao interacts with his team, reassuring them and laying out his battle plan.
• The girls in Lin Xiao's team show camaraderie and trust in Lin Xiao's leadership.
• The Black Robed People interact with each other, expressing their jealousy and desire to "take care" of Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao and his companions used coordinated traps and powerful attacks to kill Tang Feng, a Clear Sky Sect warrior. After Lin Xiao and Shui Bing'er unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Lin Xiao pierced Tang Feng with a sword strike he named Dragon Slaying.

• Lin Xiao's crimson feathers exploded near the five Black Robed People, and he prepared a Tri-Color Fire Lotus while one of them accused the Clear Sky Sect of being behind the attack.
• Tang Feng arrived and killed the five Black Robed People with his Clear Sky Hammer, then questioned Lin Xiao about how he had discovered them.
• Lin Xiao signaled Dugu Yan, whose Poison Burst Technique made the corpses explode and covered Tang Feng in poison, while also exposing his face.
• Tang Feng survived Lin Xiao's Tri-Color Fire Lotus and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling's Jade Phosphorous Divine Light, then realized Lin Xiao had been targeting him all along.
• Lin Xiao and Shui Bing'er used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to stop Tang Feng's hammer, and Lin Xiao struck him with Crimson Sky, burning him down to a skeleton with a move he named Dragon Slaying.

After Lin Xiao’s team defeated the six Black Robed People, he praised Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Begonia Martial Soul Fusion Skill and urged them to develop it further. The team then hunted a 15,000-year-old Emerald Poison Python, where the fusion skill quickly proved its lethal power.

• Lin Xiao and the girls collected the defeated Black Robed People’s spoils and burned the battlefield clean.
• Lin Xiao named Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan the battle’s MVPs and praised their Nine Star Poisonous Milk Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Lin Xiao encouraged Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to practice their own Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• The team traveled deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a fifth Soul Ring for Dugu Yan.
• Lin Xiao cleared an area and Shui Bing'er froze the ground to trap the 15,000-year-old Emerald Poison Python.
• Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan joined hands and used Jade Phosphorous Divine Light, which rapidly rotted and weakened the Emerald Poison Python.

After Dugu Yan gained a poison-attributed Soul Ring and Spirit Bone, Lin Xiao learned that the Clear Sky Sect had attacked his group and proposed crippling Moonlight Pavilion instead of risking a direct war. Ye Qingxian and Dugu Bo approved the plan to weaken the sect and keep its movements under watch.

• Dugu Yan absorbed the Emerald Poison Python's Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone, gaining a hallucination-inducing miasma and an Emerald Poison Python avatar.
• After the group returned to Heaven Dou City, Ye Qingxian praised Ye Lingling for developing an offensive Martial Soul Fusion Skill and said she would record it in the clan genealogy.
• Dugu Bo and Ye Qingxian grew furious when Lin Xiao told them the Clear Sky Sect had attacked the group.
• Lin Xiao warned them that the Clear Sky Sect had six Titled Douluo and urged them not to fight the sect to the death.
• Lin Xiao proposed crippling Moonlight Pavilion and severing its outside connections to weaken the Clear Sky Sect, and Ye Qingxian and Dugu Bo approved.