Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan broke through to Soul Emperor at the Lake of Life and obtained a fragment of the Dragon God Realm. He and Gu Yue Na fused it with the Dragon God Plane, where she became its Life Core and helped it advance to a Demigod Realm.

• Lin Yuan returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, reconciled with Gu Yue Na over his other wives, and prepared to break through under her protection.
• Lin Yuan shattered the Soul Emperor bottleneck, reached rank sixty-two with six million-year Soul Rings, and received Dragon God Forbidden Law and a Dragon God Realm Fragment from the system.
• Lin Yuan asked Gu Yue Na to become the Dragon God Plane's Life Core, and she swallowed his Dragon God Blood Essence to connect with the plane.
• Lin Yuan and Gu Yue Na traveled to the Dragon God Plane, where Gu Yue Na fused with the realm fragment and became its Life Core as the plane advanced to a Demigod Realm.
• Lin Yuan reviewed his updated status and declared that he could defeat a Limit Douluo without using Dragon God Transformation.

Lin Yuan prepared to leave Shrek Academy for a dangerous three-year stay at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and comforted Wang Dong before departing. He gave her a Dragon Scale pendant that could help her sense his location, then left before dawn while she slept, promising to return.

• Wang Dong worried about Lin Yuan's impending departure and feared she would fall behind him during their three years apart.
• Lin Yuan visited Wang Dong, healed her injured hand, reassured her, and revealed that he knew she was a girl.
• Lin Yuan gave Wang Dong a Dragon Scale pendant made from his own Martial Soul, which could protect her and help her sense his location.
• Wang Dong and Lin Yuan exchanged promises, shared a kiss, and fell asleep together before his departure.
• Lin Yuan left quietly before dawn, while Wang Dong held the pendant and silently vowed to wait for him and catch up.

Lin Yuan joined Shrek Academy’s exchange delegation to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where he reunited with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen. After the students exchanged places in Maple Leaf City, Jing Hongchen flew the Shrek students toward the Sun Moon Empire using an immense flying Soul Tool.

• Yan Shao Zhe led Lin Yuan, Huo Yu Hao, He Caitou, Fan Yu, and eight Soul Tool Department students to Maple Leaf City for the exchange.
• Lin Yuan returned to his room, intending to use his three years as an exchange student to search for the Dragon Clan Graveyard and the remaining Dragon Bones.
• Yan Shao Zhe and Jing Hongchen met in Maple Leaf Square, exchanged barbed remarks, and supervised the students’ exchange.
• Xiao Hongchen challenged Lin Yuan, who dismissed him and released a trace of dragon’s might that made Xiao Hongchen stagger.
• Yan Shao Zhe led the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students away, while Jing Hongchen used an enormous flying Soul Tool to carry the Shrek students toward the Sun Moon Empire.

The Shrek Academy students arrived in Mingdu and began their exchange program at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Lin Yuan’s presence overwhelmed the academy’s testing instrument, and he asked whether he would have to pay if his full-strength punch broke the next one.

• Jing Hongchen brought the Shrek students to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and left Fan Yu with him while Lin Jiayi handled their arrangements.
• Lin Jiayi welcomed the students, explained their access to Bright Virtue Hall, and sent them for physical tests.
• The academy’s assessment instrument recorded Ye Xiaosheng, He Caitou, and Huo Yu Hao’s physical data before it failed when Lin Yuan stepped onto it.
• Lin Yuan’s presence overwhelmed the instrument, which he ultimately caused to crash; Lin Jiayi recorded his data as unavailable for testing.
• The students took the strength test, and He Caitou reached its Level 70 maximum with help from his Strength-Boosting Big Cigar.
• Lin Yuan asked Lin Jiayi whether he would need to compensate the academy if he broke the strength-testing instrument with a full-strength punch.

Lin Yuan overwhelmed the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s testing equipment, prompting Jing Hongchen to treat him cautiously and reconsider a risky research plan. After settling into his dormitory, Lin Yuan learned the Dragon God Forbidden Technique Nine Forms and began studying their immense power and dangerous costs.

• Lin Yuan destroyed the Soul Tool Tester and strength-testing device with his unexplained aura and physical strength, so Lin Jiayi waived the rest of his tests and assigned him a dormitory.
• Lin Jiayi reported Lin Yuan’s abilities to Jing Hongchen, who ordered that the academy follow normal procedures because Lin Yuan was a hostage from Shrek Academy.
• Lin Jiayi raised concerns about Plan One’s risks and limited scalability, and Jing Hongchen ordered the ninth-ranked Soul Engineers to pause and reconsider their approach.
• Lin Yuan checked his Character Panel, which showed his Soul Power at Level 63 and the Dragon God Forbidden Technique Nine Forms unlearned.
• Lin Yuan learned the nine forbidden forms and spent three hours understanding their principles, including the destructive power and severe backlash of techniques such as Destruction Dragon Meteor and Time Dragon Trace.

Lin Yuan began studying at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy under Xuan Ziwen, who tested his Soul Tool skills. Lin Yuan built an unprecedented self-charging Soul Tool Gun, leaving Xuan Ziwen astonished and eager to learn how he had designed it.

• Lin Jiayi explained the Shrek students’ study arrangements, and teachers drew lots to choose their students.
• Xuan Ziwen took Lin Yuan to the Third Laboratory and demanded that he make his best Soul Tool core formation in fifteen minutes.
• Lin Yuan used his dragon claws and nine-colored power to carve an unfamiliar core formation into purple-gold metal, impressing Xuan Ziwen with its precision and energy flow.
• Lin Yuan assembled the core into a Soul Tool Gun, then demonstrated its self-charging design and precise beam, which pierced an alloy target.
• Xuan Ziwen judged the gun to meet seventh-rank standards, with efficiency and accuracy beyond ordinary Soul Tools, and questioned Lin Yuan about its living energy guidance.

Lin Yuan showed Xuan Ziwen revolutionary Soul Tool blueprints and recruited him to turn them into reality, promising to establish a new technological system after his exchange period. The chapter ended with Xuan Ziwen learning that Lin Yuan was the current head of the enormously wealthy Lin Family and could readily fund the research.

• Lin Yuan explained that his dragon-pattern Soul Tool could not be reverse-engineered and warned that its self-charging, zero-loss technology could fuel devastating warfare.
• Lin Yuan showed Xuan Ziwen blueprints for Soul Tools that needed no Soul Power, could repair themselves, and could resonate with natural elements.
• Xuan Ziwen offered to leave Bright Virtue Hall and build a research team to turn Lin Yuan's designs into working Soul Tools.
• Lin Yuan transferred the technologies and their detailed principles to Xuan Ziwen, who vowed to study them during the next two and a half years.
• Xuan Ziwen estimated that the research would require at least five billion Gold Soul Coins, and Lin Yuan revealed that he was the current head of the Lin Family and could afford it.

Lin Yuan met Xuan Ziwen’s student Ju Zi, who first mistook him for a girl before marveling at his Soul Tool Gun. After challenging Ju Zi to design a compatible formation within three months, Lin Yuan decided to spend that time researching Artificial Soul Rings.

• Ju Zi arrived sleepy in the laboratory, and Xuan Ziwen introduced her to Lin Yuan as one of his students.
• Ju Zi attacked Xuan Ziwen after he tricked her with the promise of food, and Lin Yuan stopped her yellow energy attacks with Space Power.
• Ju Zi mistook Lin Yuan for a girl, then examined his Purple-Gold Dragon Pattern Soul Tool Gun and realized he had created its advanced design.
• Lin Yuan lent Ju Zi the gun and challenged her to design a compatible auxiliary formation within three months in exchange for teaching her a new energy-conversion logic.
• Xuan Ziwen explained that the academy used cultivation shortcuts with side effects, and Lin Yuan resolved to research Artificial Soul Rings during the next three months.

Lin Yuan worked with Electrolux to improve the formations for Artificial Soul Rings, then confronted Ju Zi and three hostile students in the laboratory. After they attacked him, he defeated them, crippled Wang Shaojie’s Soul Power, and threatened to withdraw the Lin Family’s businesses from the Sun Moon Empire.

• Lin Yuan asked Electrolux to improve the formations for Artificial Soul Rings, and Ju Zi delivered him a laboratory access badge from Xuan Ziwen.
• Ju Zi returned with Wang Shaojie, Ke Ke, and Zi Mu, who challenged Lin Yuan and provoked him.
• Wang Shaojie and Zi Mu attacked Lin Yuan with Soul Tools, but Lin Yuan blocked their attacks and struck them down with spatial power.
• Lin Yuan seized Wang Shaojie and declared that he would withdraw every Lin Family business from the Sun Moon Empire within a month.
• Lin Yuan destroyed Wang Shaojie’s Soul Power, leaving him crippled, and warned that the imperial family might sacrifice him to appease the Lin Family.

Lin Yuan crippled Wang Shaojie after he and his companions provoked and attacked him, then ordered the Lin Family to withdraw its assets from the Sun Moon Empire. Jing Hongchen learned of the threat and resolved to keep Lin Yuan from carrying out the evacuation plan.

• Xuan Ziwen arrived at the wrecked laboratory, where Lin Yuan explained that Wang Shaojie had insulted him and led Zi Mu and Ke Ke in an ambush.
• Lin Yuan ordered the Lin Family to evacuate its assets and personnel from the empire within a month, cut ties with its authorities, and halt supplies of rare metals and core materials.
• Lin Yuan healed Zi Mu, who thanked him for holding back, while Xuan Ziwen sent Zi Mu to take Wang Shaojie away and concealed the incident from academy disciplinary officers.
• Ke Ke apologized to Lin Yuan, who forgave her, and Ju Zi warned her never to provoke him again.
• Jing Hongchen heard Xuan Ziwen's report and decided to manage the imperial family's response and stabilize Lin Yuan before the Lin Family withdrew.

After Wang Shaojie insulted Lin Yuan’s deceased parents and attacked him, Lin Yuan demanded that the Sun Moon Empire kill him or face the loss of the Lin Family’s support. Jing Hongchen agreed to secure Wang Shaojie’s death within three days, while Ju Zi recognized Lin Yuan’s threat as a warning to anyone who might challenge him.

• Jing Hongchen ordered Xuan Ziwen to calm Lin Yuan and promised the emperor that he would apologize and preserve the Lin Family’s cooperation.
• Jing Hongchen and Xuan Ziwen visited Lin Yuan in the laboratory, where he demanded Wang Shaojie’s death in exchange for ending the Lin Family’s evacuation plan.
• Lin Yuan claimed that the Lin Family had enough powerful retainers to destabilize the empire, and Jing Hongchen agreed to obtain Wang Shaojie’s life within three days.
• After Jing Hongchen and Xuan Ziwen left, Lin Yuan admitted that he had exaggerated the Lin Family’s forces, betting that the empire would not risk testing his claim.
• Ju Zi explained to Ke Ke that Lin Yuan had used Wang Shaojie’s punishment to deter others, then blushed when Ke Ke teased her about being attracted to him.

After Wang Shaojie’s execution, Lin Yuan accepted Xuan Ziwen’s assignment to test new Soul Tools with Ju Zi and Ke Ke in the Jingyang Mountain Range. The three flew north together and stopped to rest on the way, with their destination still ahead.

• Xuan Ziwen told Lin Yuan that Wang Shaojie had been executed and that the imperial family would continue cooperating with the Lin Family; Lin Yuan rejected compensation and warned that no one should provoke him again.
• Xuan Ziwen arranged for Lin Yuan to leave the academy with Ju Zi and Ke Ke to test newly developed Soul Tools for half a month.
• Lin Yuan met Ju Zi and Ke Ke at the academy gates, then revealed his nine-colored dragon wings when they asked whether he could fly.
• Ju Zi explained that the Jingyang Mountain Range was home to mineral resources and Soul Beasts that favored metallic energy, and Lin Yuan promised to protect her and Ke Ke.
• After flying for nearly two hours, Ju Zi led the group to stop and eat before continuing toward the Jingyang Mountain Range.

Lin Yuan traveled with Ju Zi and Ke Ke through the Jingyang Mountain Range, sharing a playful barbecue with them before revealing his cultivation level. Ju Zi and Ke Ke were stunned to learn that the fourteen-year-old Lin Yuan was a Level 63 Soul Emperor.

• Ju Zi prepared a barbecue while Ke Ke chatted with Lin Yuan about his Soul Tool skills and his view that a Soul Tool’s power depended on its user.
• Lin Yuan teased Ke Ke and Ju Zi about their closeness, then praised Ju Zi’s cooking and offered to make dinner himself.
• Ju Zi explained the Jingyang Mountain Range’s soul beasts, mineral resources, and the Sun Moon Empire’s limits on exploiting the area, then asked Lin Yuan about himself.
• Lin Yuan said he was a Level 63 Soul Emperor and had rarely used his Martial Soul, shocking Ju Zi and Ke Ke with his age and cultivation.

Lin Yuan used his God's Cooking Technique to prepare meat whose flavor awakened Ju Zi's memories of her late parents. After comforting her through her grief, he left her asleep in his arms at their campsite near the Jingyang Mountain Range.

• Lin Yuan reassured Ju Zi and Ke Ke that cultivation rank alone did not measure strength, and the three reached the area near the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• Lin Yuan used his God's Cooking Technique to grill meat and prepare seasonings, impressing Ju Zi and Ke Ke with the food's aroma and flavor.
• The taste reminded Ju Zi of her father's cooking, and she told Lin Yuan and Ke Ke how war had taken both her parents from her.
• Lin Yuan comforted Ju Zi and said that war brought disaster to ordinary people, while strength could protect those they loved.
• Ju Zi broke down in Lin Yuan's embrace, and he promised to make her the food whenever she wanted it.
• Ke Ke returned to her tent, while Ju Zi fell asleep in Lin Yuan's arms beside the fading bonfire.

Ju Zi woke in Lin Yuan’s arms, and Ke Ke teased her about their closeness before the group resumed its expedition. They examined the All-terrain Exploration Soul Tool, and Lin Yuan identified several flaws before taking the main control seat to test it.

• Ju Zi woke in Lin Yuan’s embrace, and Lin Yuan gently teased her about having clung to him all night.
• Ke Ke emerged from her tent, saw Ju Zi blushing, and teased her about marrying Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan prepared breakfast, and the three ate before setting off on foot through the soul-beast territory.
• Ju Zi explained the All-terrain Exploration Soul Tool’s design, defenses, and heavy Soul Power consumption to Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan inspected the Soul Tool and identified flaws in its energy conversion, leg joints, and aura-isolation module.
• Ju Zi opened the vehicle, and Lin Yuan took the main control seat to test it.

Lin Yuan expertly tested and improved the All-terrain Exploration Soul Tool as Ju Zi and Ke Ke watched, then drove off a Silver Wolf with Dragon God Pressure. The group continued deeper into the Jingyang Mountain Range, where Lin Yuan avoided killing the Soul Beasts and later cooked fish soup for Ju Zi and Ke Ke.

• Lin Yuan quickly mastered the All-terrain Exploration Soul Tool, reconstructed its core formation, and greatly reduced its energy consumption while improving its handling.
• A Silver Wolf attacked the Soul Tool, but Lin Yuan evaded its fireball and shattered its Wind Blades before driving it away with Dragon God Pressure.
• Lin Yuan resumed the journey toward the Jingyang Mountain Range's core region, intimidating attacking Soul Beasts instead of killing them.
• Lin Yuan made fish soup from stream fish, spring water, mushrooms, and bamboo shoots, and Ju Zi and Ke Ke enjoyed the meal.

As Ke Ke and Ju Zi ate fish soup with Lin Yuan, Ke Ke asked whether he loved anyone, prompting him to defend sharing sincere love among multiple people. Ju Zi reconsidered her feelings for Lin Yuan and the possibility of accepting his affection despite not being his only one.

• Ke Ke asked Lin Yuan whether he had someone he liked, and Ju Zi blushed as she listened.
• Lin Yuan said he cared for several people and could give them equal love, protection, and devotion.
• Lin Yuan argued that sincere feelings mattered more than exclusivity and described the regrets and insecurity that could follow unrequited or divided love.
• Ke Ke recalled an unfulfilled crush, while Ju Zi questioned whether Lin Yuan's view could be right despite what the world might say.
• Lin Yuan said he would protect those he cared for and bear others' criticism, then served them more soup.
• Ju Zi remembered Lin Yuan comforting her and began to consider accepting his tenderness without demanding to be his only one.

Lin Yuan discussed honest, shared relationships with Ke Ke and Ju Zi before uncovering Ju Zi’s plan to help Xu Tianran seize the throne in exchange for revenge against the Star Luo Empire. Ju Zi admitted that revenge was the only path she believed she had, and Lin Yuan comforted her as her despair surfaced.

• Lin Yuan explained to Ke Ke that a shared relationship could avoid jealousy if everyone received genuine care and honesty, and Ke Ke and Ju Zi reflected on his words.
• Ju Zi asked whether Lin Yuan’s companions knew about one another, and Lin Yuan confirmed that they did.
• After dinner, Ju Zi stayed with Lin Yuan to talk, and he guessed that Xu Tianran was supporting her revenge against the Star Luo Empire.
• Lin Yuan revealed the Dragon God’s Eye and explained its foresight, startling Ju Zi with how much he had inferred about her plans.
• Ju Zi said Xu Tianran had promised to attack the Star Luo Empire if she helped him take the throne, and admitted she had no other way to seek revenge.
• Lin Yuan drew Ju Zi into his arms and warned that marrying someone who treated her as a tool would leave her empty, but Ju Zi insisted revenge was her only choice.

Lin Yuan comforted Ju Zi and offered to help her avenge her parents by replacing Xu Tianran and taking control of the Sun Moon Empire, while pursuing his own plan to unite the Douluo Continent. Ju Zi agreed to trust him, and Lin Yuan reflected on his divine powers and his past life in a world of Mythological Descent.

• Lin Yuan told Ju Zi she did not need to abandon her grief or become Xu Tianran's pawn, and promised to help her seek revenge while protecting her.
• Lin Yuan explained how he had honored his own parents by expanding the Lin Family's influence and said he could use the Usurpation Plan to take Xu Tianran's place.
• Lin Yuan revealed his goal of integrating the Douluo Continent and claimed he could kill and perfectly impersonate Xu Tianran.
• Lin Yuan asked Ju Zi to remain Xu Tianran's confidante and help stabilize his power while he took control of the Sun Moon Empire and pressured the Star Luo Empire.
• Ju Zi accepted Lin Yuan's plan and clasped his hand, saying she believed him.
• Lin Yuan refreshed his Character Panel and recalled that his original world had been an era of Mythological Descent, where he had wielded the Xuanyuan Sword as Guardian of the Human Realm.

Lin Yuan used his Dragon God power to drive off a Golden Wolf pack and finished repairing the All-terrain Exploration Soul Tool. He and Ju Zi and Ke Ke spent twelve days vacationing in the Jingyang Mountain Range before preparing to return to Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

• Ju Zi sensed danger, and Lin Yuan identified a Golden Wolf pack approaching the mountaintop.
• Lin Yuan manifested his Nine-Colored Giant Dragon and drove away the wolves with his Dragon Might and command to scram.
• Lin Yuan repaired the All-terrain Exploration Soul Tool, and the group left the mountain range once morning came.
• Lin Yuan suggested a twelve-day vacation, and the three of them set up camp and shared his fish soup and rice.
• Over the following days, Ke Ke helped Lin Yuan cook while Ju Zi studied Soul Tools and grew closer to him.
• The final day arrived, and Lin Yuan, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke prepared to return to Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.