Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng appeared at the Research Institute’s assembly after Dean Han used a fake self-destruct threat to expose how the gathered crowd would react. The chapter then recounted Lin Feng’s secret visit the previous night, when he revealed the Institute’s traitors and his plan to obtain its technology for the sake of peace between continents.

• Dean Han’s claim that the Institute’s self-destruct device would be activated sent the assembly into panic, but Elder Yang assured the crowd that he had disabled it.
• Lin Feng and Lin An descended from the roof beams, and Lin Feng said Dean Han’s threat had been his idea.
• The previous night, Lin Feng visited Dean Han and warned him that two trusted Institute members were traitors and that one had sabotaged the self-destruct device.
• Lin Feng told Dean Han that the Sun Moon Empire, Chenxing Kingdom, and Tianhe Federation planned to disrupt the assembly to acquire the Institute’s materials.
• Lin Feng explained that he came from the Douluo Continent to obtain Soul Tool technology and hoped to reduce war through a system of three balanced powers, including the Five Elements Academy.

Lin Feng revealed his divine inheritance to Dean Han and persuaded him to bring Tiangong Institute to Douluo Continent under Five Elements Academy’s protection. Dean Han agreed, and Lin Feng prepared to defend the institute when rival powers arrived the next day.

• Lin Feng showed Dean Han his extraordinary Soul Rings and explained that his divine trial required him to reduce the harm caused by war.
• Lin Feng warned Dean Han that Tiangong Institute could not protect its Soul Tool secrets, while Dean Han said the institute planned to retreat to an overseas base.
• Lin Feng urged Dean Han to join Five Elements Academy, promising protection and support for Soul Tool research.
• Dean Han agreed to move Tiangong Institute to Douluo Continent, and he and Lin Feng swore oaths to their agreement.
• Lin Feng learned that the Sun Moon Empire, Starlight, and Tianhe Federation would send Soul Douluo-level experts to the Research Institute the next day, and promised to protect it while Dean Han prepared to use its self-destruct mechanism as a warning.

Lin Feng intervened at the conference and swiftly crushed the Tianhe Federation’s attack, revealing himself to be a Soul Douluo with extraordinary strength. He then let Tiangong Institute’s original members leave after swearing Dean Han’s required oaths, while imposing an additional restriction on one Level Seven Soul Engineer.

• Lin Feng appeared beside Dean Han and challenged Marquis Xu, then called out the Tianhe Federation forces hiding in the auditorium.
• Lin Feng defeated five concealed Tianhe Federation experts, destroying their Soul Power and exposing them before the crowd.
• Lin Feng killed four of the incapacitated Federation members and sent the surviving Soul Douluo away with a warning for the Federation’s leaders.
• Lin Feng recognized Chen Shi from their earlier merchant caravan and told Marquis Xu that Tiangong Institute’s original members could leave if they swore Dean Han’s required oaths.
• Lin Feng required the Level Seven Soul Engineer to swear never to use Soul Tools again and gave everyone three minutes to complete their oaths, removing those who tried to fake them.

Lin Feng settled the aftermath at Tiangong Institute, securing compensation from Chenxing Kingdom and the Sun Moon Empire before giving the remaining Masters three days to decide whether to join him. He then asked Lin Yun Chi to take willing disciples back to Douluo Continent and learned his Third Brother would soon leave as well.

• Lin Feng let the remaining factions leave after demanding materials for five Level 8 Soul Tools from Chenxing Kingdom and twenty from the Sun Moon Empire, and he reclaimed Tiangong Institute’s Soul Tool materials.
• Lin Feng told Lan Yi and the other Masters they could choose whether to leave with him, and he would return in three days for their answer.
• Lin Feng asked Lin Yun Chi to take the Masters and disciples to Five Elements Academy, and Lin Yun Chi said he would leave afterward on a task from Eldest Brother.
• Lin Feng asked Lin Yun Chi to tell Little White to pick him up after helping Sister Yan and the others complete the fourth trial.
• Lin Feng gave Lin Yun Chi homemade jerky to share with Eldest Brother and Second Brother.

Lin Feng and Lin An traveled to Sun Moon City after the Tiangong Institute’s people were sent safely to Douluo Continent. Lin Feng negotiated with Sun Moon Great Emperor Xu Jingheng for a chance to double the materials owed to him, and the chapter ended as their duel began.

• Lin Yun Chi sent the Tiangong Institute’s disciples and Soul Engineers to Douluo Continent, then left to visit his Eldest Brother.
• Lin Feng and Lin An spent half a month traveling to Sun Moon City before going to the Imperial Palace to meet Xu Jingheng.
• Lin Feng demanded extra materials as the price for letting Xu Jingheng test his strength, and Xu Jingheng agreed to grant his request if Lin Feng won.
• At the Imperial Palace martial arena, Xu Jingheng revealed his Sun Martial Soul and nine soul rings while Lin Feng summoned his Heavenly Sword without showing any rings.
• Xu Jingheng sensed that Lin Feng’s aura was even stronger than his own despite Lin Feng appearing to be a Soul Douluo.

Lin Feng defeated Sun Moon Great Emperor Xu Jingheng in a duel, overcoming his soul skills and eighth-grade Soul Tool with precise swordsmanship. Xu Jingheng accepted his loss and agreed to provide double the promised materials, while Lin Feng stayed at the Imperial Palace to wait for them.

• Xu Jingheng attacked Lin Feng with his soul skills, but Lin Feng deflected his strikes and dismantled his afterimages and force field.
• Xu Jingheng transformed with his Seventh Spirit Skill and used his Eighth Soul Skill, but Lin Feng dispersed the Great Sun Burning Heaven Palm with his Yin-Yang Harmony sword stance.
• Xu Jingheng drew the Heaven Burning God Slaying Saber and launched a powerful slash, but Lin Feng struck its weak point and sent him crashing to the ground, damaging the Soul Tool.
• Xu Jingheng admitted defeat, and Lin Feng clarified that his cultivation was at the Soul Douluo level despite his Titled Douluo-level strength.
• Xu Jingheng promised double the eighth-grade Soul Tool materials as an apology to the Tiangong Institute and asked Lin Feng to wait in the Imperial Palace.
• Lin Feng agreed to stay for the palace cuisine and returned to the hall with Xu Jingheng.

After their battle, Xu Jingheng hosted Lin Feng and Lin An for a banquet and questioned Lin Feng about Soul Tools. Lin Feng explained their value in warfare and assured Xu Jingheng that the Tiangong Institute would not interfere in the continent’s wars.

• Xu Jingheng invited Lin Feng and Lin An to a banquet, where Xiao Qing ignored the food and ate spiritual herbs and Spiritual Fruit from her Soul Tool Ring.
• Xu Jingheng apologized for attacking Lin Feng, and Lin Feng accepted the apology as though their fight had been a simple exchange of pointers.
• Xu Jingheng asked why Lin Feng considered an eighth-grade Soul Tool unsuitable for battles between Titled Douluo, and Lin Feng explained that a soul master’s own strength mattered more.
• Lin Feng argued that Soul Tools were most valuable on the battlefield, describing how Soul Cannons could devastate a much larger army.
• Xu Jingheng explained that he sought both greater personal strength and the unification of the continent, and that he had wanted the Tiangong Institute to support those goals.
• Lin Feng told Xu Jingheng that the Tiangong Institute had no intention of intervening in the Sun Moon Continent’s wars.

Lin Feng proposed a gradual strategy for the Sun Moon Empire to unify the continent through technological and economic dependence, cultural influence, military integration, and political deals instead of conquest. Xu Jingheng was stunned by the plan and saw that it could enable stable unification with far less damage than war.

• Lin Feng told Xu Jingheng that Tiangong Institute had withdrawn from the Sun Moon Continent and would no longer take part in its affairs.
• Xu Jingheng explained that he still intended to unify the continent through military force, despite failing to recruit Tiangong Institute.
• Lin Feng proposed “Soft Hegemony and Integrated Fusion,” using the Sun Moon Empire's technology and resources to make other nations dependent on it.
• Lin Feng outlined plans to export institutions and culture, integrate military forces, and peacefully weaken or absorb resistant nations through political pressure and negotiated benefits.
• Lin Feng proposed forming the Sun Moon Federation once the continent was already unified in practice, with the Emperor as its first head of state.
• Xu Jingheng was impressed by Lin Feng's strategy and recognized that it could bring stable unification at far lower cost than conquest.

Lin Feng shared a broad political and military strategy with Xu Jingheng, then traveled with Lin An to Lingxi City to investigate the Tianhe Federation. The city’s extraordinary prosperity concealed an unsettling abnormality that convinced Lin Feng the federation was not what it seemed.

• Xu Jingheng praised Lin Feng’s strategic vision, and Lin Feng said the plan depended on a ruler willing and able to carry it out.
• Lin Feng reflected that his concern for ordinary people came from his Mortal World Intent, though he remained willing to kill those who provoked him.
• Lin Feng and Lin An received their compensation from the Chenxing Kingdom and left after its courteous officials showed no desire to keep them there.
• Lin Feng and Lin An traveled for several days to Lingxi City, where the Tianhe Federation had established its headquarters.
• Lin Feng sensed an unexplained discord beneath Lingxi City’s lavish prosperity and concluded that the Tianhe Federation was abnormal.

Lin Feng met with Situ Ming, who explained that an impostor had used the Tianhe Federation’s name to provoke conflict and asked for time to prove the federation’s innocence. Three days later, Situ Ming claimed the culprit had been found and invited Lin Feng to join the planned capture that night.

• Situ Ming visited Lin Feng at Flowing Cloud Residence and explained that someone impersonating the Ninth Elder had ordered an attack at Tiangong Town.
• Situ Ming revealed that the real Ninth Elder had been murdered and that the impostor had disappeared, possibly still hiding in Lingxi City.
• Lin Feng offered to help investigate and agreed to remain in the city while the Tianhe Federation searched.
• For two days, Lin Feng waited quietly as the federation searched the city, while Lin An voiced suspicions about Situ Ming.
• Situ Ming told Lin Feng that the culprit’s hiding place had been confirmed and invited him to join the operation after nightfall.
• Lin Feng agreed to wait at the hotel with Lin An until Situ Ming sent for them.

Lin An captured a masked attacker who had impersonated a Tianhe Federation elder, but the man poisoned himself before he could be questioned. Situ Ming blamed the Sun Moon Empire for framing the Chenxing Kingdom, leaving the true mastermind unconfirmed.

• Situ Ming led Lin Feng, Lin An, and Tianhe Federation experts to raid a courtyard where they believed the impostor was hiding.
• The masked attacker escaped the house and fired a Level 7 Soul Tool Crossbow at Lin An, who dodged the bolt, disarmed him, and subdued him almost instantly.
• Situ Ming questioned the captured man, who declared he would reveal nothing and swallowed poison, dying before the federation elder could save him.
• Situ Ming noted that the attacker had shouted “For the kingdom” and proposed that the Sun Moon Empire had staged the scheme to frame the Chenxing Kingdom and weaken its rivals.

Lin Feng and Lin An uncovered the Tianhe Federation’s false accusation against the Chenxing Kingdom and left Lingxi City for Tiangong Mountain. The next day, the elders revealed that they had staged the evidence to provoke a war, but an unknown speaker interrupted Situ Ming’s plan.

• Lin An identified a scar concealing a Sky Wind Lion Emblem, exposing the dead warrior’s connection to the Chenxing Kingdom and clearing the Tianhe Federation of blame.
• Situ Ming admitted the Federation would not wage war against the Chenxing Kingdom, while Lin Feng said the Tiangong Institute would decide its own stance and left with Lin An the next morning.
• After Lin Feng and Lin An departed, Situ Ming met with eight elders, including the supposedly dead Ninth Elder, at the Federation headquarters.
• Situ Ming explained that the Federation had staged the investigation to frame the Chenxing Kingdom and trigger a war with the Sun Moon Empire.
• An unidentified voice interrupted Situ Ming, declaring that the Federation no longer had any opportunity.

Lin Feng and Lin An secretly returned to Lingxi City and uncovered a vast Myriad Spirits Blood River Array beneath the Tianhe Federation headquarters. Lin Feng realized the federation had spent over a century sacrificing lives to revive the being at the formation’s core, and he left furious at the atrocity.

• Lin Feng used the Soul Shifting Great Method to mislead a Tianhe Federation spy, then secretly returned to Lingxi City with Lin An.
• Lin Feng followed a sinister aura to an unoccupied courtyard at Wanliu Guiyi Hall and found a hidden passage beneath a painting.
• Lin Feng and Lin An descended through the passage and discovered a vast underground blood river surrounded by a sinister formation.
• Lin Feng identified the formation as the Myriad Spirits Blood River Array and estimated that hundreds of thousands of lives had been sacrificed to sustain it.
• Lin Feng explained that the Tianhe Federation had likely collected lives through war and chaos for over a century to resurrect the being within the formation’s core.

Lin Feng destroyed the Evil Soul Core with his Five Elements Domain, crippling the Myriad Spirits Blood River Array and forcing the weakened Vampire Bat to emerge. The Vampire Bat attacked him, and Lin Feng countered its blood poison and illusions with the Heavenly Sword.

• Lin Feng identified the Evil Soul Core as the array’s control hub and decided to destroy it while Lin An guarded him.
• Lin Feng used Five Elements Rotation to crack and destroy the Evil Soul Core, purifying its remains.
• The array’s destruction triggered a furious roar, and a wounded Great Bat emerged from the blood river, revealing itself as the creature from the painting.
• The Vampire Bat blamed Lin Feng for destroying its hope of rebirth and lunged at him with blood waves, soul shrieks, and a corrosive domain.
• Lin Feng used the Heavenly Sword to deflect the bat’s attack, then struck down its blood-poison mist and mind-distorting light with precise sword shadows.

Lin Feng killed the Vampire Bat and destroyed the core of the Myriad Spirits Blood River Array, then returned with Lin An to confront the Tianhe Federation’s elders. He left the elders facing his demand that all nine of them die.

• Lin Feng split the Blood Soul Spear and killed the Vampire Bat with a single sword strike.
• As the Myriad Spirits Blood River Array lost control and the underground space began to collapse, Lin Feng used the Sea Bottom Lotus to stabilize it and escaped with Lin An.
• Lin Feng and Lin An returned to the courtyard, where Lin Feng declared that he would settle accounts with the Tianhe Federation.
• Lin Feng arrived at the elders’ meeting and exchanged mocking pleasantries with Grand Elder Situ Ming.
• Lin Feng told the nine elders that he wanted them to die, and Situ Ming warned him not to joke about it.

Lin Feng exposed Situ Ming’s scheme and uncovered the Tianhe Federation’s secret, prompting the elders to attack him and Lin An. The battle left the Fourth Elder dead, while Lin Feng and Lin An continued fighting the Federation’s forces.

• Lin Feng detailed the flaws in Situ Ming’s investigation and accused the Tianhe Federation of harvesting people’s flesh and souls.
• Situ Ming ordered the elders to kill Lin Feng, and the Second, Third, and Fourth Elders joined him in attacking.
• Lin An used his Sword Feather abilities to hold off the Fifth through Ninth Elders and gain the upper hand against the Soul Douluo.
• Xiao Qing transformed into an Ancient Sky Peng and blocked the Federation’s reinforcements outside the hall.
• Lin Feng used his Five Elements Domain and Mortal World Intent to kill the Fourth Elder with a single sword strike.

Lin Feng and Lin An defeated the Nine Great Elders, leaving Grand Elder alive to explain the Tianhe Federation’s connection to a powerful bat. Grand Elder revealed that the Federation’s alliance with the bat began about one hundred and twenty years earlier, after a former Grand Elder mysteriously recovered from a failed breakthrough.

• Lin Feng killed Third Elder and Second Elder, then blocked Grand Elder’s attacks and wounded him with sword intent.
• Lin An killed Seventh Elder, Ninth Elder, and Eighth Elder after Lin An and Lin Feng had already defeated the other elders on Lin An’s side.
• Lin Feng defeated Grand Elder and crippled his Soul Power and limbs instead of killing him.
• Lin Feng took Grand Elder to the collapsing underground passage beneath the courtyard, where Grand Elder saw the blood lake’s power leaking away and despaired over the Federation’s century-long plan.
• Lin Feng questioned Grand Elder about the Great Bat, and Grand Elder explained that the Tianhe Federation’s connection to it began after a former Grand Elder recovered from a failed soul-ring absorption roughly one hundred and twenty years earlier.

Lin Feng learned how the Tianhe Federation and the Vampire Bat traded human lives for cultivation aid, then killed Situ Ming and arranged for the Sun Moon Empire and Chenxing Kingdom to investigate. His reflection on the confrontation deepened his Mortal World Intent, which rose to a new level.

• Situ Ming explained that the Nine Great Families fed people to the Vampire Bat in exchange for its cultivation knowledge and help overcoming bottlenecks.
• Lin Feng condemned Situ Ming for choosing to sacrifice others and disguising his choice as necessity, then killed him with a sword strike.
• Lin Feng told Lin An to notify the Sun Moon Empire and Chenxing Kingdom, urging them to eliminate the Evil Soul Masters while sparing uninvolved people.
• Lin Feng reflected on his exchange with Situ Ming and realized that Mortal World Intent meant understanding others' choices while holding to one's own principles and accepting the consequences.
• Lin Feng's Mortal World Intent transformed into a sword that cut through confusion, and its level rose.

After waiting in a fishing village, Lin Feng and Lin An were picked up by Little White and returned toward Douluo Continent. Lin Feng then planned to visit the City of Slaughter and recruit Tang San to help develop Soul Tools, offering to protect the people and Soul Beasts Tang San cared about.

• Lin Feng decided not to hunt the Evil Eye Tyrant for Lin Qing, leaving him to seek his own ninth soul ring.
• Lin Feng and Lin An spent several months fishing and helping the villagers before Little White arrived to collect them.
• Little White told Lin Feng that the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan had wiped out the Evil Orca Clan without losing any members and that Dugu Yan's group was preparing for battles against the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians.
• Lin Feng sent gifts to Dugu Yan's group without visiting them, then asked Little White to take him and Lin An to a landing point near northern Douluo Continent.
• Lin Feng planned to visit the City of Slaughter and find Tang San, hoping to recruit him to the Five Elements Academy's Soul Tool research and help him protect those he cared about.

Lin Feng found Tang San still cultivating in the City of Slaughter and invited him to join Five Elements Academy’s Soul Tool Department. Tang San was impressed by the Soul Tools but questioned whether he and Lin Feng could cooperate, and Lin Feng bluntly explained his views of Tang San’s father and teacher.

• Lin Feng watched Tang San and Hu Liena fight in the Hell Slaughter Arena, where both had won around sixty matches and were cultivating slowly.
• Lin Feng waited in Tang San’s residence and revealed himself when Tang San returned and drew hidden weapons.
• Lin Feng offered Tang San a place in Five Elements Academy’s Soul Tool Department and showed him attack and support Soul Tools.
• Tang San tested the crossbow Soul Tool and acknowledged his interest, while questioning its advantages compared with his hidden weapons.
• Tang San raised Lin Feng’s strained relationship with Shrek Academy, Tang Hao, and Master, and Lin Feng said he disapproved of Shrek Academy, looked down on Tang Hao, and found Master repulsive.