Chapter Summaries

Xiao Wu learned that Bibi Dong had killed her mother and swore revenge, then broke down in Lin Yuan’s arms. When Qin Ming reprimanded them for embracing during class, Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong stood up to defend them.

• Xiao Wu recognized Bibi Dong as the woman who killed her mother and took her Soul Ring and Soul Bone, then vowed to avenge her.
• Bibi Dong admitted killing Xiao Wu’s mother and taunted Xiao Wu, while the Chat Group discussed Tang San’s role in the danger surrounding her.
• Lin Yuan comforted Xiao Wu as she cried about missing her mother.
• Qin Ming scolded Lin Yuan and Xiao Wu for embracing during class and accused them of disrespecting classroom discipline.
• Dugu Yan challenged Qin Ming and got the other students to say Lin Yuan and Xiao Wu had not disturbed their studies.
• Ning Rongrong stood up after Dugu Yan defended Lin Yuan and Xiao Wu.

Lin Yuan left Qin Ming's classroom standoff with Xiao Wu and the girls, then received a powerful summon in his dormitory: Zhao Yun, a Level Ninety-nine Peerless Douluo. Lin Yuan ordered Zhao Yun to hide as his supposed reclusive Teacher and protect him from the shadows.

• Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan challenged Qin Ming for criticizing Lin Yuan, while Yu Tianheng grew jealous of their closeness to him.
• The dismissal bell rang, and Lin Yuan left with Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling to go eat.
• At midnight, Lin Yuan's system rewarded him with a Special Summoning Card, which summoned Zhao Yun into his dormitory.
• Lin Yuan inspected Zhao Yun's status and discovered he was a Level Ninety-nine Peerless Douluo with eight black Soul Rings and two red ones.
• Lin Yuan told Zhao Yun to stay hidden as his reclusive Teacher and reveal himself only when protection or intimidation was needed; Zhao Yun accepted and vanished into the darkness.

Xiao Wu reached level twenty and resolved to stop hiding her identity from Lin Yuan, while Bo Saixi formed a Vast Sea Soul Core that greatly improved her endurance. Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy to meet Lin Yuan, but heard Meng Shenji angrily confronting Qin Ming before entering the Teaching Committee Building.

• Xiao Wu received rewards that raised her Soul Power to level twenty, then decided she would no longer hide the truth from Lin Yuan.
• Bo Saixi used the system's Soul Core method to condense a Vast Sea Soul Core and discovered that it greatly increased her Soul Power recovery.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin arrived at the academy after discussing border defenses with Xue Ye, intending to see Ning Rongrong and meet Lin Yuan.
• Chen Xin recalled Lin Yuan's talent in Spear Dao and his own near-breakthrough, and hoped to meet Lin Yuan's mysterious teacher.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin reached the Teaching Committee Building and heard Meng Shenji roar at Qin Ming.

Meng Shenji reprimanded Qin Ming for clashing with Lin Yuan and angering Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan, while Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin overheard from outside. Chen Xin entered and confronted Qin Ming, leaving him to defend his attempt to temper Lin Yuan's character as Chen Xin condemned his humiliating methods.

• Meng Shenji warned Qin Ming that Dugu Bo and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect stood behind Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin overheard the reprimand and discussed Ning Rongrong's connection with Lin Yuan.
• Chen Xin entered Meng Shenji's office and pressured Qin Ming with the authority of a Level Ninety-Six Super Douluo.
• Qin Ming explained that he had tried to curb Lin Yuan's arrogance and temper his character because his cultivation had advanced unusually quickly.
• Chen Xin rebuked Qin Ming for using his position to humiliate Lin Yuan instead of challenging him to a guided match.

Chen Xin rebuked Qin Ming for trying to suppress Lin Yuan’s spear intent, and Meng Shenji decided the academy should shift its support toward Lin Yuan. As Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan set out to visit him, Lin Yuan sensed Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi approaching the Mimicry Training Ground.

• Chen Xin told Qin Ming that his teaching could ruin Lin Yuan’s sharpness and criticized Qin Ming’s limited talent and Soul Ring.
• Meng Shenji comforted Qin Ming, then decided Lin Yuan was the academy’s true future and that Qin Ming should no longer receive its resources.
• Dugu Yan persuaded Dugu Bo to visit Lin Yuan, citing his promised detoxification method and her curiosity about his teacher.
• Lin Yuan trained with his God-Slaying Spear in the Ancient Battlefield Ruins and felt his spear intent improving.
• Zhao Yun warned Lin Yuan that a Level Ninety-Six sword user and a Soul Sage Peak were approaching, and Lin Yuan recognized them as Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi.

Lin Yuan rejected Ning Fengzhi’s invitation to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and claimed his master was nearby. A terrifying Spear Intent then immobilized Chen Xin as a silver-armored general emerged with seven black and two red Soul Rings.

• Ning Fengzhi invited Lin Yuan to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Ning Rongrong promised he would receive treatment as good as hers.
• Lin Yuan declined, saying he preferred freedom and had been instructed by his master not to join a faction.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin asked Lin Yuan about his master, and Lin Yuan said the master was nearby and challenged Chen Xin to sense him.
• Chen Xin searched with his Spiritual Power but detected no expert nearby, leading Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong to suspect Lin Yuan was bluffing.
• A powerful Spear Intent erupted from the void and immobilized Chen Xin.
• A silver-armored general carrying the Dragon Spear of the Bright Silver appeared behind Lin Yuan, displaying seven black Soul Rings and two red Soul Rings.

Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan arrived as Zhao Yun revealed himself as Lin Yuan’s level-ninety-nine teacher, then Chen Xin asked him for guidance and began a duel. Zhao Yun effortlessly countered Chen Xin’s attacks while teaching him about swordsmanship, and the showdown continued inside Zhao Yun’s barrier.

• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan arrived and were stunned by Zhao Yun’s Peerless Douluo aura as he identified himself as Lin Yuan’s teacher.
• Ning Fengzhi apologized to Zhao Yun, while Chen Xin asked him to give guidance on the Sword Dao.
• Lin Yuan urged Zhao Yun to accept, and Zhao Yun created a barrier for a duel with Chen Xin.
• Chen Xin attacked with his Seven Kill True Body, but Zhao Yun deflected it with a casual spear thrust.
• Zhao Yun criticized Chen Xin’s excessive Sword Intent and countered his ninth soul skill with Seven Probes of the Coiled Serpent.

Chen Xin broke through to level ninety-seven after Zhao Yun taught him to wield his sword to protect rather than kill, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect left grateful to Lin Yuan. That evening, Xiao Wu confessed to Lin Yuan that she was a shapeshifted hundred-thousand-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit, only to learn that he already knew.

• Zhao Yun defeated Chen Xin and guided him to understand that his sword should protect, helping him break through to level ninety-seven.
• Chen Xin thanked Lin Yuan and Zhao Yun, while Ning Fengzhi resolved to win Lin Yuan over and keep Zhao Yun's existence secret.
• Dugu Yan asked Lin Yuan to help detoxify her and Dugu Bo, and Lin Yuan arranged for Dugu Bo to visit his dorm that evening.
• Xiao Wu told Lin Yuan that she had reached level twenty and confessed that she was a shapeshifted One Hundred Thousand Years Soft Bone Rabbit.
• Lin Yuan told Xiao Wu he already knew her identity and said he had not expected her to confess so soon.

Lin Yuan revealed that his Double Pupils had exposed Xiao Wu’s Soul Beast identity from their first meeting and reassured her that he would never want her Soul Ring or Soul Bone. After Xiao Wu condensed a five-thousand-year Second Soul Ring, Lin Yuan told her to display it openly at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, leaving her unsure whether doing so would be too high-profile.

• Lin Yuan comforted Xiao Wu and explained that he had known her identity since Nuoding Academy because his Double Pupils could see through disguises and shapeshifting.
• Xiao Wu asked Lin Yuan to protect her while she condensed her Second Soul Ring, and he agreed.
• Xiao Wu successfully formed a five-thousand-year purple Second Soul Ring with the Bewitchment skill.
• Xiao Wu tested Bewitchment on Lin Yuan, but his Double Pupils and Spiritual Power resisted it, and he teased her about her embarrassing reaction to Whale Rubber.
• Xiao Wu worried that displaying a Thousand-Year Second Soul Ring would attract attention and asked whether to disguise it as yellow.
• Lin Yuan told Xiao Wu to show the purple Soul Ring openly and shock the academy’s self-proclaimed geniuses.

Lin Yuan revealed his extraordinary Soul Rings to Xiao Wu and explained that his Master, Zhao Yun, would protect them. He then brought Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he promised to cure their poison and help Dugu Bo break through his cultivation bottleneck in exchange for several herbs.

• Lin Yuan told Xiao Wu that his two Natal Soul Rings had advanced to the ten-thousand-year level and introduced Zhao Yun as his Level Ninety-nine Master.
• Lin Yuan met Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan and asked Dugu Bo to take him to his Medicine Garden for materials to treat their poison.
• Dugu Bo led Lin Yuan and Dugu Yan through the poison formations to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Lin Yuan recognized the garden's rare herbs and said he could cure the poison afflicting Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan and help Dugu Bo break through his bottleneck.
• Dugu Bo agreed to let Lin Yuan take several herbs in return for curing them.

Lin Yuan refined Yin Yang Profound Poison Pills that cured Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s poison and increased their Soul Power. He offered to refine Celestial Herbs into pills to improve their cultivation potential, while Dugu Yan kissed him and Dugu Bo feared she would be taken from the family.

• Lin Yuan used the Nine Dragon Fire Refining Furnace and Celestial Herbs to refine two Yin Yang Profound Poison Pills for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan took the pills and circulated their Soul Power, eliminating their Toxin Reversal and greatly increasing their cultivation.
• Dugu Bo reached Level 93 Peak, while Dugu Yan’s Soul Power rose four levels to level 35.
• Lin Yuan offered to refine Celestial Herbs into pills that could preserve and amplify their medicinal effects to improve their aptitude.
• Dugu Yan kissed Lin Yuan as an advance reward, and Dugu Bo worried that Lin Yuan would take his granddaughter away.

Lin Yuan spent a month refining pills at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, helping Dugu Bo break through and Dugu Yan begin evolving toward a dragon. Before leaving, he checked on Ah Yin, whose growth had accelerated dramatically.

• Lin Yuan collected the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and Wujue Stone, keeping them sealed for Xiao Wu.
• Lin Yuan gave Dugu Bo the Jade Phosphorous Nine Transformations Pill, which raised him to Level Ninety-Four Peak and awakened his Jade Phosphorous Domain.
• Dugu Yan took the Dragon Blood Purple Ganoderma Pill, rose to level thirty-eight, and showed signs of evolving into a Jade Phosphorous Dragon Emperor.
• Dugu Bo pledged to protect Lin Yuan, who decided to leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with him and Dugu Yan.
• Lin Yuan examined Ah Yin, whose growth had reached half a person's height and whose cultivation had recovered to at least Five Thousand Years.

Lin Yuan asked Ah Yin whether she wanted to stay at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well or leave with him, and she chose to go. After leaving the valley, Lin Yuan announced that he intended to hunt a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast for his third Soul Ring, leaving Dugu Bo alarmed and opposed.

• Lin Yuan explained to Dugu Bo that Ah Yin was the Blue Silver Emperor and asked her whether she wanted to remain at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well or return to the academy with him.
• Ah Yin wrapped her vines around Lin Yuan’s hand to show that she wanted to leave with him, and Lin Yuan stored her in his Soul Tool.
• Dugu Yan suspected Ah Yin had feelings for Lin Yuan and kept quiet about her own Martial Soul evolution and increased Soul Power.
• As the group left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Lin Yuan told Dugu Bo that he had broken through Level Thirty and wanted to obtain his third Soul Ring before returning to the academy.
• Lin Yuan revealed that he planned to absorb a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast for his third Soul Ring, and Dugu Bo warned that the Soul Shock could kill him.

Lin Yuan revealed his evolved Ten Thousand Year first Soul Ring to convince Dugu Bo to let him absorb a powerful third Soul Ring. He found a thirty-thousand-year Golden-Eyed Blood Lion and charged into battle, unveiling his God-Slaying Armor as the beast attacked.

• Lin Yuan showed Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan his Ten Thousand Year first Soul Ring and explained that it had evolved from his Natal Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo agreed to let Lin Yuan hunt a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast, promising to intervene if the absorption became dangerous.
• Lin Yuan found a thirty-thousand-year mutant Golden-Eyed Blood Lion feeding in a valley and refused Dugu Bo's offer to weaken it first.
• Lin Yuan charged the Golden-Eyed Blood Lion and summoned his God-Slaying Armor, raising his aura to Soul King level.
• Lin Yuan met the lion's claw head-on with his enhanced God-Slaying Spear.

Lin Yuan used his Battle Armor, Double Pupils, God-Slaying Domain, and Ring Fusion to kill a thirty-thousand-year Golden-Eyed Blood Lion, leaving Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan stunned. While absorbing its Soul Ring, Lin Yuan overcame the beast’s resentment, and a strange golden-red bone began fusing with his eyes.

• Lin Yuan froze the Golden-Eyed Blood Lion with Void Stasis, weakened it with the God-Slaying Domain, and killed it with God-Slaying Soul Chasing after fusing his Soul Rings.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan were shocked that a Level Thirty Lin Yuan had instantly killed a thirty-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Lin Yuan began absorbing the Golden-Eyed Blood Lion’s Soul Ring and asked Dugu Bo to protect him.
• The lion’s resentment rampaged through Lin Yuan’s body, but his Double Pupils shattered its resentful spirit within his Sea of Consciousness.
• Golden-red beams erupted from Lin Yuan’s eyes as a strange bone fused with them, and Dugu Bo recognized it as an External Soul Bone.

Lin Yuan obtained the Destructive Golden Eyes External Soul Bone and revealed his Double Pupils Martial Soul to Dugu Bo, who promised to keep the secret. On the journey back to the academy, Lin Yuan discovered that his accumulated rewards included the Great Desolation Star-Plucking Hand, giving him a new close-combat technique.

• Lin Yuan's Golden-Eyed Blood Lion resentment condensed into an External Soul Bone called Destructive Golden Eyes, raising his cultivation to Level Thirty-Six.
• Dugu Bo questioned Lin Yuan about the Soul Bone and his eyes, and Lin Yuan revealed that Double Pupils was his second Martial Soul.
• Lin Yuan demonstrated Destructive Gaze, which pierced a boulder and could penetrate defenses while damaging a target's Spiritual Power.
• Lin Yuan activated his Third Soul Skill, God-Slaying Army Breaker, which boosted his attack power by 212 percent and granted immunity to Mental Control during attacks.
• Lin Yuan, Dugu Bo, and Zhao Yun set off for the academy, and Lin Yuan reviewed his saved system rewards in the carriage.
• Lin Yuan discovered that his forging ability had improved and that he had gained the Great Desolation Star-Plucking Hand martial technique.

Lin Yuan recorded his gains from the trip to Sunset Forest and the pills he had prepared for Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling, while Dugu Yan revealed her dragon transformation and kiss with him. Meanwhile, Tang Hao returned to Nuoding City, cleared Yu Xiaogang of suspicion about the ambush years earlier, and asked how Tang San was doing.

• Lin Yuan wrote that he had cured Dugu Bo, helped Dugu Yan evolve, reached Level Thirty-Six, and gained the Destructive Golden Eyes External Soul Bone.
• Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling reacted to the pills Lin Yuan had prepared for them, while Xiao Wu objected to Ning Rongrong's claims about Lin Yuan.
• Dugu Yan revealed that her Martial Soul was evolving into the Jade Phosphorous Dragon Emperor, her Soul Power had reached Level Thirty-Eight, and she had kissed Lin Yuan.
• Tang Hao returned to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy and confronted Yu Xiaogang about whether he had betrayed Tang Hao's whereabouts to Spirit Hall.
• Tang Hao believed Yu Xiaogang's denial and asked how Tang San's cultivation had been progressing.

Tang Hao learned that Xiao Wu and Lin Yuan had left Nuoding Academy for Heaven Dou Royal Academy and set out to investigate Lin Yuan’s mysterious master, while Yu Tianheng grew anxious over Yanyan’s month-long absence with Lin Yuan. The chapter ended with Yu Tianheng insisting that Yanyan could never fall for someone seven years younger.

• Yu Xiaogang told Tang Hao that Tang San had reached level sixteen and that Lin Yuan and Xiao Wu had left for Heaven Dou Royal Academy after Chen Xin and Dugu Bo visited Nuoding Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that Lin Yuan had mentioned a mysterious, powerful master, and Tang Hao feared that experts had learned of Xiao Wu’s identity and planned to claim her.
• Tang Hao declared that he would go to Heaven Dou City to find Lin Yuan’s mysterious master, then vanished into the night.
• At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Yu Tianheng complained that Yanyan and Lin Yuan had been away together for a month, while Yu Feng and Osler speculated about their relationship.
• Yu Tianheng angrily rejected the idea that Yanyan could love Lin Yuan, arguing that she was seven years older than him.

After returning to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Lin Yuan promised to make Dugu Yan Battle Armor and offered to help Dugu Bo condense a Soul Core. Yu Tianheng confronted Dugu Yan over her closeness with Lin Yuan, but she rejected his claims to her attention.

• Yu Tianheng convinced himself that his status and strength made him superior to Lin Yuan, while Yu Feng and Osler doubted his reasoning.
• Dugu Bo announced he would leave Heaven Dou City to settle an old grudge with Yue Guan and asked Lin Yuan to make Battle Armor for Dugu Yan.
• Lin Yuan offered to ask his Master, Zhao Yun, to guard Dugu Bo as he attempted to condense a Soul Core.
• After Lin Yuan and Dugu Yan returned to the academy together, Yu Tianheng saw them arm in arm and grew furious.
• Yu Tianheng confronted Dugu Yan, but she told him their relationship was not close and that her private affairs were none of his business.

Yu Tianheng challenged Lin Yuan over Dugu Yan, but Lin Yuan condemned him for treating her like a wager, and Dugu Yan encouraged Lin Yuan to accept the fight with a promised reward. Just as they prepared to clash, the three teaching committee members arrived and Meng Shenji demanded to know what was happening.

• Yu Tianheng confronted Dugu Yan and demanded to know why she chose Lin Yuan, and she listed Lin Yuan's looks, strength, talent, and understanding of her as reasons.
• Yu Tianheng challenged Lin Yuan to a match and said he should stay away from Dugu Yan if he lost, but Lin Yuan objected that Dugu Yan was not a prize to wager.
• Dugu Yan agreed with Lin Yuan and invited him to teach Yu Tianheng a lesson, promising him a special reward if he won.
• Lin Yuan accepted the match and chose an open area, while Yu Tianheng eagerly prepared to fight.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin arrived and separated the two with Soul Power, and Meng Shenji reminded them that private fighting was forbidden.