Chapter Summaries

Lin Mu escaped Qian Daoliu’s pursuit by leading him into a clash with Xiong Jun, a four-hundred-thousand-year-old Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear sent after him. The chapter left Qian Daoliu fighting Xiong Jun while Lin Mu fled.

• Lin Mu refused to join Spirit Hall and challenged Qian Daoliu to catch him, then used his Hurricane form to get a head start and escape Spirit City.
• Xiong Jun followed the dragon scale’s signal toward Spirit Hall and attacked Lin Mu with Sky-Tearing Claw when he encountered him.
• Lin Mu dodged the strike with his Eighth Soul Skill, then wounded Xiong Jun with Titan Sky Break and lured him toward Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu arrived, saw Xiong Jun attacking Lin Mu, and charged the beast with an Angel Sacred Sword while Lin Mu fled.
• Qian Daoliu abandoned his pursuit of Lin Mu and turned to fight Xiong Jun.

Lin Mu recovered at Heaven Dou Royal Academy after battling Xiong Jun and attacking the Papal Palace, while Qian Renxue welcomed his injury of Bibi Dong and drew closer to him. As news of the battle spread, Emperor Xue Ye ordered Prince Xue Xing to recruit Lin Mu for the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Lin Mu returned to the academy, recovered his Soul Power, and resumed training the Imperial Dou Team under triple gravity.
• Qian Renxue asked Lin Mu about his visit to the Papal Palace and rejoiced when he said he had badly injured Bibi Dong.
• Qian Daoliu and Xiong Jun ended their fight with injuries, and Xiong Jun fled while Qian Daoliu returned to Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong forgave Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo for failing to restrain Lin Mu, rewarded them, and worried about his growing strength and his relationship with Qian Renxue.
• News of Lin Mu's assault on the Papal Palace spread across both empires, and Qian Renxue went to Lin Mu's dormitory to reward him.
• Emperor Xue Ye blamed Prince Xue Xing for failing to recruit Lin Mu earlier and ordered him to bring Lin Mu to the Heaven Dou Empire's side.

After Tang San reached Rank 45, Lin Mu took him to Holy Soul Village to reveal that his mother, Ah Yin, was alive as a frail Blue Silver Grass. The chapter ended with Tang San discovering her behind a waterfall and asking whether his mother was a blade of grass.

• The Imperial Dou Team strengthened through training, and Xiao Wu, Yu Feng, and Osler each reached Rank 40.
• Tang San broke through to Rank 45, so Lin Mu promised to show him his mother and began preparing to awaken Ah Yin.
• Lin Mu left Qian Renxue in charge of training and took Tang San to Holy Soul Village, while Tang Hao saw them depart but chose not to follow.
• Lin Mu led Tang San through a waterfall into a cold, damp cave and showed him a frail Blue Silver Grass marked with faint golden patterns.
• Tang San realized the plant was his biological mother, Ah Yin, and asked Lin Mu whether his mother was a blade of grass.

Lin Mu told Tang San how his mother sacrificed herself to save Tang Hao from Spirit Hall, and Tang San wrestled with whom to blame and whether to seek revenge. The chapter ended with Lin Mu proposing to move Tang San’s mother to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in hopes of restoring her, while Tang San wished Lin Mu were his father.

• Lin Mu explained that Tang San’s mother was a mature-stage soul beast who sacrificed herself to save Tang Hao, leaving Tang San stunned by his heritage.
• Lin Mu recounted how Spirit Hall hunted Tang San’s parents and how his mother’s sacrifice let Tang Hao wound the previous Pope and escape.
• Tang San asked whether he should take revenge on Spirit Hall, and Lin Mu promised to support him as long as he did not harm innocent people.
• Tang San concluded that Tang Hao had also failed to protect his mother and planned to question him, though Lin Mu noticed his hesitation.
• Lin Mu proposed moving Tang San’s mother to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well so she might regain human form, and Tang San wished Lin Mu were his father.

Lin Mu found the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Soul Bone in the cave and gave it to Tang San, who absorbed it while Lin Mu stood guard. After three days, Tang San emerged from the cave and reunited with Lin Mu over a meal.

• Tang San transplanted Ah Yin into a flowerpot and placed her in the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch.
• Lin Mu found a hidden box containing the Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Soul Bone and gave it to Tang San.
• Tang San offered the soul bone to Lin Mu, but Lin Mu refused and told him to absorb it.
• Tang San absorbed the soul bone without rejection and became immersed in the life aura of his mother, while Lin Mu guarded him and hunted for food.
• Three days later, Tang San awoke, washed beneath the waterfall, and joined Lin Mu outside for grilled meat.

Lin Mu took Tang San to the Star Dou Great Forest, where the Blue Silver King began awakening Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor bloodline. The awakening was still underway as Tang San’s martial soul and appearance began to transform.

• Tang San told Lin Mu that absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Soul Bone had raised his soul power to Level Forty-Eight and opened his eight extraordinary meridians.
• Lin Mu explained that Tang San could awaken his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and assured him that this would not prevent Ah Yin from taking human form.
• Lin Mu carried Tang San to the Star Dou Great Forest and used Ah Yin’s senses to find a dense Blue Silver Grass forest.
• The Blue Silver King recognized Ah Yin and began the awakening by drawing power from the surrounding Blue Silver Grass into Tang San.
• Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass gained clearer golden patterns, his life force surged, and his appearance changed as the awakening continued.

Tang San awakened his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and gained a thirty-thousand-year fifth soul ring, while reaching level forty-nine. Before leaving the Blue Silver Forest with Lin Mu, he agreed to revive the Blue Silver King after becoming a god, and the Blue Silver King accepted Lin Mu’s plan for it to become Tang San’s sixth soul ring.

• The Blue Silver King explained that Tang San’s fifth soul ring had formed internally and was equivalent to a thirty-thousand-year soul ring.
• Tang San discovered that his martial soul had become the Blue Silver Emperor, his soul skills had strengthened, and his soul power had risen to level forty-nine.
• Tang San asked Lin Mu whether they would head to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but Lin Mu said he first had to arrange something with the Blue Silver King.
• Lin Mu ordered the Blue Silver King to sacrifice itself as Tang San’s sixth soul ring once Tang San reached level sixty, threatening to burn it if it tried to flee.
• Lin Mu promised to help the Blue Silver King reach one hundred thousand years and said Tang San could revive it and take it to the God Realm after becoming a god.
• The Blue Silver King agreed to sacrifice itself and climbed into Lin Mu’s Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch before Lin Mu and Tang San flew toward the Sunset Forest.

Lin Mu brought Tang San to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Tang San settled Ah Yin and the Blue Silver King. After Lin Mu assigned Dugu Bo to guard the powerful Soul Beast, Tang Hao saw Tang San’s changed appearance at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and wondered how Lin Mu knew about the Blue Silver Emperor.

• Lin Mu introduced Tang San’s changed appearance to Dugu Bo and explained that Tang San had completed his second Martial Soul awakening.
• Lin Mu directed Tang San to place Ah Yin and the Blue Silver King on opposite sides of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Lin Mu promised to help Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo with their Martial Soul problems if Dugu Bo kept guarding the medicinal herbs.
• Lin Mu gave Dugu Bo compressed Kirin Fire to use against the eighty-five-thousand-year Soul Beast if it threatened the garden or tried to escape.
• Tang San settled Ah Yin and the Blue Silver King at the well, keeping them far apart.
• Tang Hao saw Lin Mu return with a handsome young man who resembled Ah Yin and realized Tang San had awakened the Blue Silver Emperor.

Tang San reunited with his companions after a second awakening that transformed his appearance and raised his Soul Power to level forty-nine. That night, he followed a gray-robed man into an alley and recognized him, asking why he had returned after leaving.

• Yu Tianheng and the others confirmed Tang San's identity after Lin Mu explained his second awakening and Tang San summoned his Blue Silver Emperor martial soul.
• Tang San revealed that his Soul Power had reached level forty-nine, prompting Yu Tianheng and the others to ask whether they could also undergo a second awakening.
• Lin Mu explained that only certain martial souls could awaken a second time and advised everyone to focus on cultivation, then led the group through training until nightfall.
• Qian Renxue dragged Lin Mu away after training, while Tang San and Xiao Wu headed to the night market.
• A gray-robed man threw a pebble at Tang San, who dodged it and followed him into a secluded alley.
• Tang San recognized the gray-robed man when he revealed his face and asked why he had come back after leaving.

Tang San confronted Tang Hao over his neglect of him and his mother, but Tang Hao slapped him and left. Lin Mu and Xiao Wu found Tang San afterward, and Lin Mu comforted him as he struggled to decide how to regard his father.

• Tang Hao tried to explain his absence and asked Tang San how he had awakened the Blue Silver Emperor, and Tang San said Lin Mu had taken him to the Blue Silver King.
• Tang San confronted Tang Hao about neglecting his mother, and Tang Hao slapped him when he accused him of not caring about them.
• Tang Hao left the alley, and Tang San collapsed, devastated by the loss of the father he had imagined.
• Xiao Wu brought Lin Mu to find Tang San, and Lin Mu urged him to recover and reminded him that he would support him.
• Tang San asked Lin Mu what he should do about Tang Hao, and Lin Mu told him to follow what he believed was right.

Yu Tianheng gave up the Imperial Dou Team captaincy to Tang San, and Lin Mu began explaining how to address the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul’s poison problem. Dugu Yan chose the uncertain, long-term treatment that might cure the problem at its root.

• Yu Tianheng offered to relinquish the captaincy, and Lin Mu appointed Tang San captain and Yu Tianheng vice-captain.
• Tang San’s changed outlook raised his main quest completion rate above sixty percent, unlocking Lin Mu’s right to use Tsinami of the Howling.
• After training, Lin Mu explained to Dugu Yan that the Jade Phosphorous Serpent lineage’s poison problem came from the Martial Soul’s inability to control its toxins.
• Lin Mu described a quick treatment using a soul bone and a more difficult treatment that might evolve the Martial Soul and cure the problem at its source.
• Dugu Yan chose the long-term treatment despite its risks.

Tang Hao discovered that Ah Yin and the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone were missing from the cave and suspected Lin Mu, though he considered that Tang San might have found the cave through the Blue Silver Domain. Meanwhile, Lin Mu refused an invitation to dine with Prince Xue Xing.

• Tang Hao returned to the cave near Holy Soul Village, found footprints, and discovered that Ah Yin was gone.
• Tang Hao blamed Lin Mu for taking Ah Yin and threatened not to spare him if he was plotting against them.
• Tang Hao found the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone missing and considered whether Tang San had located the cave through the Blue Silver Domain.
• Meng Shenji and the other Education Committee members introduced Prince Xue Xing’s invitation to Lin Mu.
• Lin Mu told Meng Shenji to decline invitations from nobles, including Prince Xue Xing.

Tang Hao confronted Lin Mu over the missing soul bone and Ah Yin, while Lin Mu challenged Tang Hao’s treatment of Tang San. Tang Hao learned that Tang San had absorbed the soul bone, but Lin Mu refused to reveal where Ah Yin was.

• Tang Hao summoned Lin Mu from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Tang San secretly followed them using the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Soul Bone.
• Tang Hao confronted Lin Mu in a secluded place, but Lin Mu rebuked him for slapping Tang San and mocked his parenting.
• Tang Hao reminded Lin Mu that he had helped him obtain his fifth soul ring, then tried to persuade him that they should cooperate for Tang San’s sake.
• Lin Mu admitted taking the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and said Tang San had absorbed it because it suited Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang Hao asked whether Lin Mu had also taken the Blue Silver Grass from the cave, and Lin Mu refused to disclose Ah Yin’s whereabouts.

Tang Hao demanded that Lin Mu return Ah Yin, but Tang San took Tang Hao’s punch while defending Lin Mu and rejected his father’s demand for revenge against Spirit Hall. Tang Hao still insisted that Ah Yin belonged in the cave he had chosen for her.

• Tang Hao demanded Ah Yin from Lin Mu and attacked him when Lin Mu refused.
• Tang San emerged from hiding and blocked Tang Hao’s punch with his Blue Silver Emperor shield, suffering an injury.
• Tang Hao apologized to Tang San, then blamed Lin Mu for letting Tang San take the hit; Tang San defended his choice to protect his master.
• Tang Hao revealed that Ah Yin had been a hundred-thousand-year soul beast who took human form and urged Tang San to destroy Spirit Hall.
• Tang San said he would seek revenge without harming innocent people, while Lin Mu and Tang San insisted Ah Yin was better off where she was.
• Tang Hao rejected their objections and insisted Ah Yin would rather stay in the cave he had chosen.

Tang San confronted Tang Hao over keeping Ah Yin in the cave, and Lin Mu agreed to fight Tang Hao to decide where she would stay. Their battle began in a forest, where Tang Hao’s Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer forced Lin Mu to change tactics and evade.

• Tang San condemned Tang Hao for disregarding Ah Yin’s wishes, and Tang Hao slapped him when he refused to abandon his revenge against Spirit Hall.
• Lin Mu attacked Tang Hao in defense of Tang San, but Tang San stopped them before they could continue fighting.
• Tang Hao proposed a match to decide whether Ah Yin would return to the cave, and Tang San arranged a rule forbidding both fighters from using their Eighth and Ninth Soul Skills.
• Lin Mu accepted the match, and the three flew to a forest outside Heaven Dou City.
• Tang Hao opened with the Clear Sky Hammer and built up power with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, forcing Lin Mu to switch to Tuo Na Duo of Hurricane and evade.

Lin Mu defeated Tang Hao by evading his attacks and wearing him down until the agreed half hour expired. Tang Hao left Ah Yin in Lin Mu’s care, and Tang San formally entrusted his mother to his master.

• Lin Mu struck Tang Hao with a sealing soul-bone skill, briefly disrupting his Soul Power and aggravating his old injuries.
• Tang Hao tried to overpower Lin Mu, but Lin Mu used his soul-bone skills, speed, and arrows to evade him and keep him at a distance.
• Tang Hao exploded his first five soul rings and unleashed the Great Sumeru Hammer, but Lin Mu escaped the strike unharmed.
• Lin Mu declared that the half hour had ended and that Tang Hao had lost, and Tang Hao reluctantly withdrew without Ah Yin.
• Tang San chose not to heal Tang Hao and asked Lin Mu to take care of his mother.

Tang San reunited with his mother, Ah Yin, whose Blue Silver Emperor body had recovered greatly under Lin Mu’s care. After Lin Mu left them alone, Ah Yin asked Tang San where Tang Hao was and how he was doing, leaving Tang San troubled by her concern for the father who had abandoned her.

• Lin Mu took Tang San to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor had grown into a vast plant.
• Ah Yin formed a phantom, recognized Tang San, and embraced him with her leaves as they wept together.
• Tang San introduced Lin Mu as his Master and thanked him for rescuing and nurturing Ah Yin.
• Lin Mu left Tang San and Ah Yin together, and Ah Yin immediately asked about Tang Hao.
• Tang San frowned as he reflected on Ah Yin’s sacrifice for Tang Hao and the neglect she had suffered from him.

Tang San reassured Ah Yin that she could remain in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then Lin Mu returned with Tang San to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where the education committee asked him to attend the tournament’s opening ceremony. Lin Mu agreed after learning Emperor Xue Ye wanted his presence, not his participation.

• Tang San told Ah Yin that Tang Hao had tried to take her back to her original cave, and promised that he and Lin Mu would protect her.
• Ah Yin and Tang San spoke about Tang San’s childhood, and Ah Yin learned how poorly Tang Hao had treated both of them and how much Lin Mu had helped Tang San.
• Lin Mu confirmed to Dugu Bo that Ah Yin was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast who had sacrificed her cultivation, then left Sunset Forest with Tang San.
• At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Meng Shenji told Lin Mu that the three education committee members had an important matter from Emperor Xue Ye to discuss.
• Lin Mu rejected the idea of joining the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, but agreed to attend its preliminary-round opening ceremony.

As the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament approached, Flender worried that Shrek Academy’s depleted roster could not compete, while Dai Mubai vowed to lead the team to the finals. At the Heaven Dou City opening ceremony, Lin Mu met Emperor Xue Ye, who tasked Xue Qinghe with attending to him.

• Flender worried that Shrek Academy lacked enough strong, coordinated students after Fatty and Xiaogang left for Spirit Hall, and Qin Ming urged him to prioritize participation over winning.
• Dai Mubai, troubled by the tournament being his only chance to challenge Dai Weisi, vowed to lead Shrek Academy into the finals.
• Two days later, Lin Mu arrived at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, where Xue Qinghe took him to the VIP seats.
• Xue Qinghe introduced Lin Mu to Emperor Xue Ye as the Imperial Dou Team leader and her close friend.
• Emperor Xue Ye instructed Xue Qinghe to accompany Lin Mu and fulfill his requests, and she saw this as a chance to secure the throne.

Lin Mu drew attention at the tournament opening ceremony through his ties to Ning Fengzhi, his pill exchange, and his formidable reputation. As he surveyed the competing teams, he focused on Feng Xiaotian, judging that the Godwind Academy student had squandered his talent on a weak self-created skill.

• Salas worried that Lin Mu might ally with the Heaven Dou Royal Family, while Ning Fengzhi greeted Lin Mu and revealed their familiarity.
• Lin Mu asked after Bone Douluo and said he wanted to spar again, prompting Ning Fengzhi to offer rare medicinal herbs in exchange for Lin Mu's pills.
• Lin Mu rebuffed Salas's interference, and Emperor Xue Ye opened the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Ning Fengzhi named the Imperial Dou Team as his favorite to win, and the host introduced Lin Mu as a distinguished guest to the cheering crowd.
• Lin Mu surveyed the tournament teams and fixed his attention on Feng Xiaotian, judging that he had wasted his talent developing a weak self-created soul skill.