Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong guided Lu Yan in refining his Reincarnation Dreamscape, and Hu Liena reaffirmed her relationship with him after rejecting Yan. Lu Yan then endured an intensified assault from the Rakshasa God's Mind and broke through to the Soul Douluo Realm.

• Bibi Dong advised Lu Yan to build his illusions around emotions rather than perfectly copied scenes, and Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong shared their cultivation insights with him.
• Lu Yan visited Hu Liena, who welcomed him passionately and was delighted to learn that Bibi Dong had acknowledged him as her disciple.
• Yan confronted Lu Yan and Hu Liena, but Hu Liena said she loved Lu Yan and warned Yan to stop interfering in their relationship.
• Yan stopped appearing before them, while Lu Yan focused on cultivation.
• Lu Yan voluntarily endured twice the previous impact of the Rakshasa God's Mind, broke through the barrier in his Sea of Consciousness, and reached the Soul Douluo Realm.

Lu Yan stabilized his newly advanced Soul Douluo Realm Spiritual Power and improved his Reincarnation Dreamscape with Bibi Dong’s guidance. After introducing Hu Liena and Tang Yuehua, he grew close to both women and tried to balance his time between them, leaving Hu Liena flustered by his suggestion for the night.

• Lu Yan demonstrated his improved Reincarnation Dreamscape to Bibi Dong, who praised its realism and potential.
• Lu Yan introduced Hu Liena to Tang Yuehua, and the two women gradually grew close as they spent time together in Spirit City.
• Lu Yan, Hu Liena, and Tang Yuehua watched the sunset together, where both women kissed Lu Yan.
• At the fork between the inn and the Papal Palace, Hu Liena urged Lu Yan to attend to cultivation with Bibi Dong, and Tang Yuehua let him go.
• Lu Yan balanced visits with both women and fully stabilized his Soul Douluo Level Spiritual Power.
• When Hu Liena asked Lu Yan to stay with her, he said he had promised to visit Tang Yuehua, then whispered a suggestion that left Hu Liena blushing and running away.

Lu Yan completed his training under Qian Daoliu and reunited with Hu Liena and Tang Yuehua for a trip that ended in an intimate night together. The next morning, Hu Liena hurried back to the Papal Palace, while Lu Yan told Tang Yuehua they would leave Spirit City in a few days.

• Qian Daoliu praised Lu Yan's Reincarnation Dreamscape and told him that its further development depended on his own insight and opportunities.
• Lu Yan left the Worship Hall, invited Hu Liena to travel with him, and set out with her and Tang Yuehua.
• When the three stayed at an inn in a border city, Lu Yan booked separate rooms, then secretly signaled Hu Liena to visit him after nightfall.
• Hu Liena entered Lu Yan's room, and Tang Yuehua later joined them.
• The next morning, Hu Liena returned to the Papal Palace in embarrassment, and Tang Yuehua teased Lu Yan before he said they would leave Spirit City in a few days.

Lu Yan returned to Heaven Dou City after spending two months traveling with Tang Yuehua, then showed Qian Renxue his Reincarnation Dreamscape. Qian Renxue admitted she could not reliably distinguish its layered illusions from reality, but insisted he could not use it in their future sparring matches.

• Bibi Dong warned Lu Yan not to betray Hu Liena, and Hu Liena asked him to spend his remaining days in Spirit City with her before he left.
• Hu Liena said goodbye to Lu Yan and Tang Yuehua, and the pair traveled leisurely for two months before returning to Heaven Dou City.
• Tang Yuehua went to check on Moonlight Pavilion while Lu Yan returned to his room and then visited Qian Renxue at the Crown Prince's Mansion.
• Lu Yan trapped Qian Renxue in successive layers of the Reincarnation Dreamscape, leaving her unsure whether the Lu Yan before her was real.
• Qian Renxue admitted defeat, praised the skill, and asked Lu Yan not to use it in their future sparring matches.

Lu Yan teased Qian Renxue during a leg massage, then joined Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye to observe Dugu Bo’s attempt to condense a Soul Core. Dugu Bo began demonstrating the method, leaving Lu Yan and Dugu Yan watching closely as he worked to form the first wisp of Solidified Soul Power.

• Qian Renxue shamelessly asked Lu Yan to massage her legs, and he teased her before giving her a massage that left her flustered and relaxed.
• Over the next half year, Lu Yan reached level 47 with Soul Douluo-level Spiritual Power, while Tang Yuehua advanced to level 27.
• Dugu Bo told Lu Yan he had worked out the Soul Core Method and invited him and Dugu Yan to observe its use at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.
• Lu Yan revealed that his Spiritual Power could perceive details within ten thousand meters, astonishing Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo explained how to balance Spiritual Power, Soul Power, and Heaven and Earth Vitality, then began compressing them to create Solidified Soul Power.

Dugu Bo successfully condensed a Soul Core, broke through to level ninety-three, and freed himself from the threat of his poison. Back in Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue kissed Lu Yan and claimed him as hers, then nervously awaited his answer.

• Dugu Bo condensed a Soul Core and guided it into his body, enduring a dangerous reconstruction that lasted until dawn.
• Dugu Bo emerged stronger at level ninety-three, with refined Soul Power and Green Phosphorus Snake Poison that no longer threatened his life.
• Lu Yan and Dugu Yan congratulated Dugu Bo before returning to Heaven Dou City, while he stayed behind to stabilize his Soul Core.
• Lu Yan and Dugu Yan walked hand in hand through the city, and Dugu Yan stayed with him at “Heaven” overnight.
• Qian Renxue revealed herself to Lu Yan, kissed him, and declared that he was her man.
• After Lu Yan teased her about having planned this for a long time, Qian Renxue asked what he decided.

After sharing a kiss, Lu Yan and Qian Renxue wagered their lives on which of them would be stronger and agreed that the loser would yield to the winner. They began a full-power battle in a forest outside Heaven Dou City, where Qian Renxue opened her Angel Domain and gained the advantage.

• Lu Yan reassured Qian Renxue that he cared for her, and they kissed again with Lu Yan taking the lead.
• Qian Renxue proposed a lifelong wager, and Lu Yan accepted, promising to give her everything if he broke his word.
• Lu Yan and Qian Renxue traveled to an uninhabited forest outside Heaven Dou City to fight without holding back.
• Snake Lance Douluo argued that Qian Renxue's stronger cultivation, Angel Martial Soul, and domain made her the likely victor, while Stingray Douluo agreed.
• Qian Renxue revealed her five Spirit Rings and warned Lu Yan that she was a level fifty-seven Soul King with ten more levels of Soul Power.
• Qian Renxue unleashed her Angel Domain, weakening Lu Yan's Soul Power and Spiritual Power while boosting her own strength to the Soul Emperor level.

Lu Yan defeated Qian Renxue by using his Illusion Eye and spiritual Soul Skills to overcome her Angel Domain. Qian Renxue accepted her loss and agreed to honor their bet.

• Qian Renxue used her Angel Domain and swift movements to suppress Lu Yan and evade his attacks.
• Lu Yan revealed his Illusion Eye and struck Qian Renxue with Soul Impact and Dream Inducement, sending her into a dream.
• Lu Yan caught Qian Renxue as she fell and gently awakened her without using Soul Devour’s deadly follow-up.
• Qian Renxue admitted defeat and said she would do as Lu Yan asked, while Pufferfish and Snake Lance watched in shock.

After spending the night with Qian Renxue, Lu Yan realized his Spiritual Power was growing too slowly and decided to create a cultivation method using his Dream Devour ability. Qian Renxue gave him access to Heavenly Dou Death Prison for his experiments, while warning him not to pursue an evil path.

• Qian Renxue accepted her defeat to Lu Yan and fulfilled their wager by giving him a massage, after which they spent the night together at the Crown Prince's Mansion.
• Lu Yan returned to Heaven the next morning and lamented the slow growth of his Spiritual Power.
• Lu Yan decided to create a Spiritual Power cultivation method based on Dream Devour and chose death-row criminals as experimental subjects.
• Lu Yan returned to the Crown Prince's Mansion and asked Qian Renxue for access to Heavenly Dou Death Prison.
• Qian Renxue gave Lu Yan her Crown Prince's Golden Token and warned him not to cultivate through sacrifices of living people's Essence Souls and lives.

Lu Yan experimented on death row prisoners to understand Soul Devour and develop a safer way to cultivate Spiritual Power. By the third day, he had improved his extraction technique, but it still killed people, leaving him determined to create a sustainable method without plunder or slaughter.

• Lu Yan entered the death prison, used Soul Devour to put the prisoners to sleep, and tested Dream Devour on one prisoner, killing him as he absorbed impure Spiritual Power.
• Lu Yan rejected the contaminated power and spent the day repeating experiments before leaving the prison, where the jailer discovered the prisoners’ lifeless bodies.
• Lu Yan compared Dream Entry with Dream Devour and realized that Dream Entry absorbed naturally dispersed Emotional Power, while Dream Devour consumed whole dreams and Soul Origin along with impurities.
• Lu Yan returned to the prison and guided prisoners into intense emotions before using Dream Devour, but the power remained too impure to absorb and the prisoners died displaying extreme expressions.
• On the third day, Lu Yan selectively extracted emotional energy and improved the effective extraction rate by about twenty percent, but he concluded that the lethal method could not serve as a sustainable Cultivation Method.

Lu Yan developed a dream-based method to cultivate Spiritual Power by drawing others into his dreamscape and gathering their Emotional Power. After testing it on prisoners, he visited Qian Renxue, who urged him to set aside his research for now.

• After months of failed experiments, Lu Yan realized he could guide others into his own dreamscape and use their emotions to cultivate.
• Tang Yuehua played the harp and massaged Lu Yan to help him relax, and their dual cultivation raised him to level forty-eight.
• Lu Yan tested his dream method on condemned prisoners, gathering Emotional Power from as many as fifty before his spirit reached its limit.
• Lu Yan discovered that a prisoner's body had died while his consciousness was in the dream, so he returned several prisoners to their bodies and noted the method's rapid benefits.
• Lu Yan went to the Crown Prince's Mansion, where Qian Renxue embraced him and suggested he pause his research into Spirit Cultivation Methods.

Lu Yan perfected Borrowing from the Masses to Cultivate, advanced his cultivation, and left for Nuoding City after Ning Rongrong announced she was heading to Shrek Academy. He reached Holy Soul Village, took the Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, and began probing Ah Yin’s recovering consciousness.

• Lu Yan told Qian Renxue that he had succeeded in creating a cultivation method suited to Dream Butterfly Martial Soul users, then tested it until he could draw on up to seventy consciousnesses.
• Lu Yan used Borrowing from the Masses to Cultivate across Heaven Dou City, and Tang Yuehua advanced to the Soul Elder realm while Lu Yan’s Soul Power reached level forty-nine.
• Ning Rongrong told Lu Yan she was going to an academy that only accepted monsters, and he warned her to beware of swindlers before deciding to return to Nuoding City.
• Lu Yan left Tang Yuehua behind, informed Qian Renxue and Dugu Yan of his departure, and reached Nuoding City half a month later.
• Lu Yan traveled to Holy Soul Village, found Ah Yin behind the waterfall, broke open the hidden box, and stored the Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone in his Soul Tool.
• Lu Yan extended his Spiritual Power toward Ah Yin and discovered that she had regained a trace of intelligence.

Lu Yan fused with the Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, reached level fifty, and traveled with Dugu Bo to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek a powerful Fifth Soul Ring. After several days of searching, they found a fifty-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Charming Demon, which Dugu Bo poisoned and subdued.

• Lu Yan moved the Blue Silver Emperor to a secluded place, then fused with her Hundred Thousand Year Right Leg Bone, strengthening his body and reaching level fifty.
• Lu Yan decided to claim the Eight Spider Lances before Tang San and returned to Heaven Dou City to ask Dugu Bo for help obtaining his Fifth Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo agreed to accompany Lu Yan to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Lu Yan insisted on searching for a Soul Ring over fifty thousand years old.
• Lu Yan and Dugu Bo searched the forest for several days, passing over several Spirit-type Soul Beasts that were too young.
• On the fifth day, Dugu Bo attacked a fifty-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Charming Demon with Green Phosphorus Snake Poison and brought it down.

Lu Yan absorbed the Mirror Shadow Charming Demon's fifty-thousand-year soul ring, breaking through to level fifty-six and strengthening his Spiritual Power and Illusion Eye. After a roar drew Dugu Bo and Lu Yan toward the outskirts, they discovered the Titan Giant Ape approaching Xiao Wu and the Shrek Academy group, but a commanding stranger appeared and ordered them to stop.

• Lu Yan endured the fifty-thousand-year soul ring's violent power, broke through level fifty, and reached level fifty-six after more than six hours of absorption.
• Dugu Bo praised Lu Yan's rapid cultivation and predicted that his later soul rings could become hundred-thousand-year rings.
• The Titan Giant Ape roared nearby, so Dugu Bo and Lu Yan fled toward the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After realizing the Titan Giant Ape was heading toward a specific target rather than pursuing them, Dugu Bo agreed to follow it with Lu Yan.
• Dugu Bo and Lu Yan found the Titan Giant Ape approaching a group that included Xiao Wu, whom they recognized as a transformed hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• As Dugu Bo prepared to stop the Titan Giant Ape, a bedraggled, commanding figure appeared beside them and ordered them to stop.

Lu Yan rescued Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing from the Titan Giant Ape, then followed Tang San to seize the Man Faced Demon Spider’s External Soul Bone before Tang San could absorb it. He obtained the Eight Spider Lances while Tang San remained trapped in his illusion.

• Tang Hao confronted Dugu Bo and demanded that he leave the woman Tang Hao wanted, while Dugu Bo prepared to fight him.
• The Titan Giant Ape unleashed a devastating roar that injured the Shrek group, and Lu Yan used Dream Phantom Shadow to rescue Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Lu Yan explained that he was hunting for a Soul Ring, and the two girls rushed back toward their companions after he told them the Titan Giant Ape had left.
• Lu Yan followed Tang San and found the Man Faced Demon Spider, trapping Tang San with Reincarnation Dreamscape before killing the spider with Soul Impact.
• Lu Yan used his Purple Demon Eyes to find and extract the Eight Spider Lances from the Man Faced Demon Spider, then turned his attention to Tang San.

Lu Yan wounded Tang San and left him unable to absorb the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring, then reunited with Dugu Bo after his fight with Tang Hao. The chapter ended with Lu Yan and Dugu Bo confident they would hunt Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the future.

• Lu Yan shot Soul Power spikes into Tang San’s knees, then vanished before Tang San escaped the Reincarnation Dreamscape.
• Tang San failed to absorb the Man Faced Demon Spider’s Soul Ring and realized someone else had killed it.
• Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran arrived, and Tang San denied killing the spider while secretly preparing his Godly Zhuge Crossbow.
• Lu Yan watched Dugu Bo and Tang Hao withdraw from their battle, then found Dugu Bo and heard that Tang Hao had been poisoned.
• Lu Yan reassured Dugu Bo that they would obtain Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and Soul Bones in the future.

Lu Yan crippled Yu Xiaogang after tormenting him in an illusion, then waited in Suotuo City for the Shrek group to return. He turned his attention to Ah Yin, intending to wake her and reveal what he believed about Tang San and Tang Hao.

• Lu Yan infiltrated Shrek Academy and trapped Yu Xiaogang in Reincarnation Dreamscape and Illusionary Dream Domain, forcing him to relive painful memories.
• Lu Yan severed Yu Xiaogang’s manhood, left him alive, and warned that he would later take his reputation.
• Flender found Yu Xiaogang unconscious and bleeding, but Yu Xiaogang refused to let him seek treatment and learned that Shao Xin’s Healing Sugar Beans could not restore the injury.
• Lu Yan stayed in an inn in Suotuo City, then prepared to wake Ah Yin and tell her his version of the truth about Tang San and Tang Hao.

Lu Yan continued using dreams to show Ah Yin the hidden sides of Tang San and Tang Hao while watching for a chance to act against Tang San. At Shrek Academy, Ning Rongrong challenged Yu Xiaogang’s qualifications and his theories, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Lu Yan drew Ah Yin into a dream and showed her scenes from Tang San’s life, then continued exposing her to the truth about Tang San and Tang Hao in later dreams.
• Zhao Wuji and the others returned to Shrek Academy with Tang San, whose injuries had improved after he obtained his Third Soul Ring and reached level thirty-one.
• Flender introduced Yu Xiaogang as the students’ new instructor and praised his theories, but most of the students doubted him because of his low Soul Power and limited mobility.
• Ning Rongrong asked Yu Xiaogang about his Soul Power Level, and he admitted he was a Soul Grandmaster stuck at level twenty-nine.
• Ning Rongrong challenged Yu Xiaogang to explain how she could absorb a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring as her Fourth Soul Ring, while Yu Xiaogang insisted the maximum was five thousand years.
• After Flender and Tang San rebuked her, Ning Rongrong called them frogs at the bottom of a well and said they had never seen a true genius.

Ning Rongrong revealed that Lu Yan had become a Soul King with a ten-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring, forcing Yu Xiaogang and Tang San to confront the return of someone they had underestimated. Disillusioned with Shrek Academy, she decided to leave and headed out, while Zhu Zhuqing stayed behind.

• Ning Rongrong praised Lu Yan’s power and recounted how he had defeated Yu Tianheng and the Heaven Dou Team, while Yu Xiaogang dismissed her claims as lies.
• Ning Rongrong identified the genius as Lu Yan, the butterfly Martial Soul user who had rescued her and Zhu Zhuqing, and Yu Xiaogang and Tang San realized they knew him.
• Yu Xiaogang regretted not taking Lu Yan as a disciple, while Tang San felt threatened and Dai Mubai burned with jealousy over Lu Yan’s connection to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Rongrong announced that she was withdrawing from Shrek Academy, and Flender tried unsuccessfully to persuade her to stay.
• Ning Rongrong invited Zhu Zhuqing to join her at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Zhu Zhuqing refused because of her family’s obligations and bond with Dai Mubai.
• Ning Rongrong left Shrek Academy, determined to return to Heaven Dou City and see Lu Yan.

Ning Rongrong left Shrek Academy, while Zhu Zhuqing stayed because leaving would make her a target in the Star Luo Empire’s succession struggle. Lu Yan revealed her engagement to Dai Mubai and suggested she seek protection from Spirit Hall, but Dai Mubai arrived and confronted them.

• Ning Rongrong left Shrek Academy, and Zhu Zhuqing accompanied her beyond Suotuo City before deciding to return.
• Ning Rongrong urged Zhu Zhuqing to leave Shrek with her, but Zhu Zhuqing said she had a reason to stay and could not explain it.
• Lu Yan appeared, identified Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai through their martial souls, and urged Zhu Zhuqing to consider joining Spirit Hall for protection.
• Ning Rongrong learned that Zhu Zhuqing was engaged to Dai Mubai and offered to take her to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but Lu Yan said the sect would not oppose the Star Luo Empire for her.
• Dai Mubai arrived with Tang San and the others, ordered Zhu Zhuqing to stay, and insulted Lu Yan as an unsavory person.