Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan returned to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with Ju Zi and Ke Ke after completing tests on the All-terrain Exploration Soul Tool, impressing Xuan Ziwen with his repairs. He prepared to accompany Ju Zi invisibly to meet Xu Tianran, leaving the academy grounds with her under concealment.

• Lin Yuan, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke flew back to the academy after their mountain trip, and Lin Yuan sent Xuan Ziwen the Soul Tool test data showing major improvements.
• Xuan Ziwen praised the results, while Ju Zi described Lin Yuan’s precise control of the Soul Tool.
• Ju Zi visited Lin Yuan in his dormitory and asked when he would act while she went to see Xu Tianran; Lin Yuan said he would go that day.
• Lin Yuan told Ju Zi he would conceal himself as her shadow and gave her a barrier to evade detection and let him sense her condition.
• Ju Zi and Lin Yuan left the dormitory together, and Lin Yuan vanished into the light and shadows beside her.

Lin Yuan stopped time in the imperial palace, read Xu Tianran’s memories, and replaced him with a flawless imitation. He and Ju Zi left the study for the Imperial Garden, where Lin Yuan demonstrated how convincingly he could act as the prince.

• Ju Zi entered the palace using the Eight-Clawed Fire Dragon Token and went to meet Xu Tianran.
• Lin Yuan froze time, studied Xu Tianran’s memories and mannerisms, then erased him and took his place.
• Lin Yuan resumed time and asked Ju Zi to push him through the Imperial Garden in a wheelchair, matching Xu Tianran’s disability and behavior.
• Ju Zi reported on Soul Tool research, and Lin Yuan responded with Xu Tianran’s usual concerns about the Star Luo Empire.
• Lin Yuan reproduced Xu Tianran’s preference for tea and explained to Ju Zi that convincing imitation meant understanding a person’s behavior and reasoning.

Lin Yuan used his split body to impersonate Xu Tianran in the palace while keeping his true self at the academy, and he and Ju Zi agreed to advance their plans together. He gave Ju Zi a fake Regeneration Cradle blueprint to present to Bright Virtue Hall, setting up Xu Tianran’s staged recovery and helping secure his political position.

• Lin Yuan teased Ju Zi about Xu Tianran’s feelings for her and promised to give her revenge, stability, and favor.
• Ju Zi agreed to accept the Crown Princess title as part of their plan to strengthen Lin Yuan’s identity and advance her revenge.
• Lin Yuan returned to the side hall and revealed that he had split his origin between a Xu Tianran identity in the palace and his true body at the academy.
• Lin Yuan gave Ju Zi a sham Regeneration Cradle blueprint and explained that it would provide cover for Xu Tianran’s staged recovery in three months.
• Ju Zi accepted responsibility for presenting the project to Jing Hongchen at Bright Virtue Hall, while Lin Yuan’s palace body promised Imperial Household Department support.

Lin Yuan entered the Dragon Clan Graveyard, where the Dragon God Bloodline let him absorb energy from Dragon Clouds and overpower the Dragon Souls he encountered. He reached a valley filled with dragon skeletons, where the graveyard’s grief awakened the Dragon God’s will, and he began to sense the memories held by a Dragon Bone.

• Lin Yuan used the system to open a Space Channel and teleported from his dormitory to the Dragon Clan Graveyard.
• After landing safely despite being unable to use Soul Power, Lin Yuan crossed the graveyard’s hills and absorbed energy from multicolored Dragon Clouds.
• Lin Yuan traveled deeper into Dragon Valley, where his Dragon God Pressure suppressed the Dragon Souls and his Nine-Colored Flowing Light stirred the Dragon Scales.
• At a collapsed valley filled with dragon skeletons, Lin Yuan’s Dragon God’s Wings and Martial Soul emerged as the Dragon God’s sorrow answered the dragons’ laments.
• Lin Yuan descended to the valley floor and touched a Dragon Bone, sensing the giant dragon’s final cry through it.

Lin Yuan explored the Dragon Clan Graveyard, where the grief of fallen dragons stirred his bloodline and summoned Gu Yue Na and the others to his side. He restored the Mountain Dragon King’s remains, and the awakened Dragon King willingly gave him his Dragon Bone for the Dragon God Set.

• Lin Yuan’s contact with the Dragon Bones stirred grief that Gu Yue Na sensed through their bond, so she opened a Space Channel to the Dragon Clan Graveyard.
• Gu Yue Na, Biji, Zi Ji, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress joined Lin Yuan and helped soothe the sorrowful aura around him.
• Lin Yuan and Gu Yue Na found the Mountain Dragon King’s enormous skeleton and used their powers to heal the crack that split it in half.
• The Mountain Dragon King awakened, recognized Lin Yuan as the returned Dragon God, and offered his Dragon Bone.
• The Mountain Dragon King’s skeleton shrank into a palm-sized Dragon Bone, whose earth-element power merged with Lin Yuan’s Dragon God Bloodline.

Lin Yuan restored the Mountain Dragon King's soul as a dragon egg, then descended with Gu Yue Na to awaken the previous Dragon God's dragon soul. After driving off an attack from the Asura God, Lin Yuan absorbed the Dragon God's inheritance and transformed his Martial Soul into a tangible Nine-Colored Divine Dragon, reaching peak level sixty-nine.

• Lin Yuan used creation power and Dragon God blood to reshape the Mountain Dragon King's remnant soul into a dragon egg, which Gu Yue Na sent to the Dragon God Plane.
• Lin Yuan and Gu Yue Na descended into the sinkhole while Bi Ji and the others waited above, and they found the previous Dragon God's enormous seven-colored dragon soul.
• Lin Yuan touched the Dragon God's dragon soul with the Nine-Colored Dragon God Spear and defeated the Asura God's bloody greatsword in the resulting mental battle.
• The Dragon God's remaining origin flowed into Lin Yuan, raising his Soul Power to peak level sixty-nine and transforming his Dragon God Martial Soul into a tangible Nine-Colored Divine Dragon.
• Lin Yuan's divine soul fused with the transformed Martial Soul, and Gu Yue Na stroked his dragon scales as he greeted her warmly.

Lin Yuan completed his inheritance in the Dragon Clan Graveyard, then spent three months laying the Dragon Bones to rest and restoring the Wind, Light, and Darkness Dragon Kings. He explained the past tragedy to the Space and Time Dragon Kings and offered to free their souls, ending with his appeal for them to fight beside him again.

• Lin Yuan emerged from the pit with Gu Yue Na after receiving the previous Dragon God's origin inheritance and reaching the peak of level sixty-nine.
• Lin Yuan, Gu Yue Na, Biji, Zi Ji, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress spent three months assembling and burying the Dragon Bones in the graveyard.
• Lin Yuan revived the Wind, Light, and Darkness Dragon Kings with Dragon God Blood, and Gu Yue Na sent their dragon eggs to the Dragon God Plane.
• Lin Yuan told Gu Yue Na how the Space and Time Dragon Kings had tried to prevent the God Star Evolution Ceremony from destroying the Dragon God Realm, leading to the Dragon God's grief and their deaths.
• Lin Yuan offered the Space and Time Dragon Kings Dragon God Blood and promised to rebuild the Dragon Clan, asking them to fight by his side again.

Lin Yuan reunited the Space Dragon King and Time Dragon King with the Dragon Clan, completed the Dragon God Set, and discovered a surviving descendant of the Fire Dragon King. He sent six dragon eggs to the Dragon God Plane and left Gu Yue Na to merge the Dragon Clan Graveyard with it as he prepared to return to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

• Lin Yuan absolved the Space Dragon King and Time Dragon King of their guilt, and they dissolved their souls into dragon eggs to follow him again.
• Lin Yuan fused the Dragon Bones of the Wind, Light, Darkness, Space, and Time Dragon Kings into the armor, completing and donning the Dragon God Set.
• Lin Yuan gave Gu Yue Na the five new Dragon King eggs to send to the Dragon God Plane, while Zi Ji revealed a crimson egg that Lin Yuan identified as a descendant of the Fire Dragon King.
• Gu Yue Na sent all six eggs through a Space Rift to the Dragon God Plane and promised to nurture them there.
• Lin Yuan asked Gu Yue Na to merge the Dragon Clan Graveyard with the Dragon God Plane, then opened a spatial vortex toward the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

Lin Yuan returned to the academy and learned that Jing Hongchen had arranged an exchange sparring competition, using Lin Yuan’s clone to test and train the students. The packed arena gathered to watch, and the chapter ended as Lin Yuan appeared onstage before the competition began.

• Lin Yuan left Gu Yue Na to fuse the Dragon Clan Graveyard and returned to Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Lin Yuan learned that Jing Hongchen had organized a sparring competition after the Noumenon Sect ambushed Bright Virtue Hall, with Lin Yuan’s clone as the opponent.
• More than three hundred students registered for the rewards, so Jing Hongchen raised the entry requirement to Soul King level and above.
• Lin Yuan decided to accept the competition as a chance to show the academy students his strength.
• Lin Jiayi hosted the packed arena, and Xuan Ziwen agreed to referee the matches.
• Fan Yu led the Shrek Academy exchange students into the arena, and Lin Yuan flashed onto the stage as the crowd fell silent.

Lin Yuan challenged the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students and defeated their first contestant in moments, effortlessly blocking his attacks and destroying his cannons. The arena fell silent as Lin Yuan called for the next opponent.

• Lin Yuan taunted the assembled students, declaring he would fight them all, while Lin Jiayi struggled to control the uproar.
• The first opponent, an eighteen- or nineteen-year-old fifth-level Soul Engineer, entered the arena and introduced himself before Lin Yuan cut him off.
• After Xuan Ziwen started the match, the Soul Engineer fired two cannon orbs, but Lin Yuan's nine-colored barrier stopped both attacks.
• Lin Yuan crossed the arena in a single step, shattered the opponent's arm-mounted cannons with a touch, and sealed his Soul Power meridians.
• The defeated Soul Engineer was carried away, and Lin Yuan calmly told the stunned crowd, "Next."

Jing Hongchen restored order at the Soul Tool Trial Grounds and insisted the exchange match continue as Lin Yuan defeated a second Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy student. The third opponent, the seeded Soul King Nana, entered the arena and began her match against him.

• Jing Hongchen silenced the crowd, urged the academy students to learn from their defeat, and ordered the exchange match to continue.
• Lin Yuan blocked the second student's twin blades and tracking darts, shattered his Class 6 Condensed Light Screen, and sealed his Soul Power.
• Ke Ke praised Lin Yuan while Zi Mu and Jing Hongchen recognized how far his strength and control exceeded expectations.
• Nana introduced herself as a Rank 54 Soul King and prepared to fight Lin Yuan after the students in the stands cheered her on.
• Xuan Ziwen started the third exchange match between Nana and Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan effortlessly countered Nana’s Soul Tools and evaded her attacks during their sparring match. Nana resorted to her fourth Soul Skill, Vengeful Spirit, and rushed to strike him, but Lin Yuan’s calm expression left the outcome uncertain.

• Nana charged Lin Yuan with her Crimson Flame Blade, but he stopped her blade between two fingers and disarmed her with overwhelming physical strength.
• Nana attacked again with speed-enhancing skills and phantom images, while Lin Yuan used spatial traversal to evade her strikes without fighting back.
• Jing Hongchen watched Nana’s attacks lose power as Lin Yuan’s Nine-Colored Flowing Light swallowed their heat and Soul Power.
• Nana switched to an azure wind blade, but Lin Yuan’s protective light dissolved all six Wind Blades.
• Lin Yuan attacked Nana’s true body with a Dragon-Transformed arm, so Nana used Ghost Possession to pass through him and then bound him with Vengeful Spirit.
• Nana rushed at Lin Yuan with the Light Spirit Blade, but she noticed that his eyes showed no sign of being restrained.

Lin Yuan defeated Nana and a burly Rock Armor Giant Bear student with overwhelming ease during the guidance matches, leaving the spectators in awe. Jing Hongchen watched with growing respect and curiosity as the matches continued to reveal how far Lin Yuan’s strength exceeded the students’.

• Lin Yuan dispelled Nana’s Vengeful Spirit, crushed her sixth-level Blink Sword, and returned the soul he had absorbed before defeating her.
• Lin Yuan advised Nana that Soul Tools could not replace personal cultivation, and she bowed in thanks before leaving the arena.
• Lin Yuan asked Xuan Ziwen to begin the next match, and a burly student mocked him with a provocative gesture.
• The burly student charged Lin Yuan with his Rock Armor Giant Bear Martial Soul, but Lin Yuan moved behind him and stomped him into the arena floor.
• Lin Yuan ordered the student to leave, and the spectators fell silent as Jing Hongchen realized Lin Yuan’s power surpassed his expectations.

Lin Yuan completed his first day of sparring with fifty-three consecutive victories and collected his promised Soul Tool rewards. After Nana asked him to save her parents’ souls from a Holy Spirit Cult branch in Mingdu, he agreed to raid it after the exchange event ended.

• Lin Yuan defeated thirty-three opponents in the morning and twenty more in the afternoon without using his Martial Soul or soul skills.
• Lin Yuan stored twenty seventh-level Milk Bottles and thirty-three Invincible Shields from Jing Hongchen’s reward.
• Nana visited Lin Yuan and begged him to free her parents’ souls, revealing that the Holy Spirit Cult had sealed them at its branch’s holy altar.
• Nana described the branch’s members, its elder, and the Spirit Ascension ritual that she feared would take control of her soul.
• Lin Yuan agreed to accompany Nana to raid the Holy Spirit Cult branch after the sparring event and prepared to use Electrolux’s undead magic against its Evil Soul Masters.

On the second day of the exchange, Lin Yuan faced Bright Virtue Hall’s Class 6 Soul Engineers and continued to demonstrate how far his strength surpassed theirs. He defeated Jing Ziyan and offered her advice, leaving the competition poised to continue through the day.

• Jing Hongchen watched Lin Yuan, troubled by the fifty-three Class 7 Soul Tools he had promised him and by Bright Virtue Hall’s political position beside Crown Prince Xu Tianran.
• Lin Jiayi announced that Bright Virtue Hall would send twenty Class 6 Soul Engineers to challenge Lin Yuan, with matches continuing until dinner.
• Jing Ziyan concealed herself in paralyzing purple mist and attacked Lin Yuan with poisoned flying needles and her Purple Crystal Soul Breaking Blade.
• Lin Yuan’s Nine-Colored Flowing Light blocked the needles and dispersed the mist, then disarmed Jing Ziyan and restrained her Soul Power.
• Lin Yuan released Jing Ziyan, explained the weaknesses in her tactics, and watched her accept defeat and leave the stage.

Lin Yuan faced Ji Juechen, whose lifelong devotion to his sword drove him to challenge the Dragon God Martial Soul. Ji Juechen’s attack nearly pierced Lin Yuan’s defense, but Lin Yuan stopped the blade and, after restoring him, offered to show him the pinnacle of the sword path.

• Ji Juechen entered the arena, introduced himself, and asked Lin Yuan to fight at full strength.
• Lin Yuan revealed his Dragon God Martial Soul, and its overwhelming Dragon Might shook the arena and pressured Ji Juechen.
• Ji Juechen resisted the pressure, poured his Soul Rings’ power into his Outer-Heaven Meteorite Sword, and charged Lin Yuan with his full Sword Intent.
• Lin Yuan blocked the sword beam with a nine-colored barrier, allowing it to waver and tear open briefly before stopping the blade just short of his chest.
• Ji Juechen collapsed from exhaustion, and Lin Yuan healed him; Ji Juechen thanked him for the guidance.
• Lin Yuan offered to show Ji Juechen the pinnacle of the sword path.

Lin Yuan demonstrated his ultimate sword intent by shattering the Soul Tool Trial Arena’s barrier and cleaving open the sky, then ended his exchange with fifty-five consecutive victories. Several days later, he met Nana in secret and followed her to a covert gathering place, where she identified herself with a token and a greeting to the Holy Emperor and Holy Maiden.

• Lin Yuan formed an azure sword and used one strike to break the arena barrier and split the sky, leaving Ji Juechen inspired by his swordsmanship.
• Lin Yuan declared their exchange over, and the arena erupted in cheers as Ji Juechen grasped the meaning of the ultimate sword path.
• Jing Hongchen worried about Lin Yuan’s strength but ended the exchange, which Lin Yuan completed with fifty-five straight victories.
• Several days later, Nana left the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and met Lin Yuan in secret before leading him through Mingdu to a hidden courtyard.
• Nana entered a black-roofed building, presented a black token to two people in white, and exchanged a formal greeting honoring the Holy Emperor and Holy Maiden.

Lin Yuan and Nana infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult’s underground hall and defeated the Great Holy Spirit, Second Holy Spirit, and their skeletons. Lin Yuan purified the captive souls and left the Great Holy Spirit dead, while the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Emperor remained a threat.

• Nana entered the underground hall and greeted the Great Holy Spirit and Second Holy Spirit before Lin Yuan revealed himself and attacked.
• Lin Yuan struck the Great Holy Spirit and used his bloodline pressure to immobilize Second Holy Spirit and six summoned skeletons.
• Lin Yuan killed Second Holy Spirit and destroyed the six skeletons, then absorbed and transformed Second Holy Spirit’s soul.
• The Great Holy Spirit unleashed the Holy Spirit Banner and a torrent of captive souls, but Lin Yuan used the Heart Cleansing Incantation to purify them and shattered the banner.
• Lin Yuan purified the Great Holy Spirit’s evil power and killed him, freeing the souls he had imprisoned.

Lin Yuan destroyed a Holy Spirit Cult branch, freed the relatives’ souls of Nana and eight other Holy Servants, and took the nine survivors in as his people. More than a year later, he had consolidated his control over the Sun Moon Empire’s court and was heading back to his dormitory when Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen approached him again.

• Lin Yuan told the eight Holy Servants that their relatives’ souls had been purified and gave them a chance to see them before reincarnation.
• Nana and the other eight Holy Servants offered to serve Lin Yuan, and he accepted them into his care.
• Lin Yuan summoned Yu Mengdi, who welcomed the nine into the Nest-Shaped Space and promised to help them cultivate.
• Lin Yuan destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult branch with a Fixed Soul Tool Shell and returned to Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Over the next year and a half, Lin Yuan took control of the Sun Moon Empire’s court while Ju Zi rose to power as a leading Soul Tool engineer.
• As Lin Yuan headed toward his dormitory at the start of vacation, Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen stopped him, ready to challenge him again.

Lin Yuan escaped a spar with Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan by leaving them to fight his clone, then reunited with Wang Dong after a year and a half apart. He reassured her that he would wait until she felt ready to reveal her true appearance, and she agreed to do so in his dormitory.

• Lin Yuan created a clone to spar with Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan, then opened a space rift and left the clone to face them.
• Lin Yuan met Wang Dong outside the academy and brought her inside after she told him she had waited nearly an hour to see him.
• Lin Yuan reminded Wang Dong of her promise to stop disguising herself as a man, and she admitted she was not ready yet.
• Lin Yuan held Wang Dong's hand and told her he would accept her whether she appeared as a young man or as a girl.
• Lin Yuan brought Wang Dong to his dormitory and waited quietly as she stood nervously, preparing to reveal her true appearance.