Chapter Summaries

Lin Jin reunited with his younger sister Lin Xue and brought her home to the Count's Mansion, promising they would never be separated again. After the Royal Fighting Team struggled to understand his overwhelming strength, Lin Jin accepted an invitation to meet the Crown Prince the next day.

• The Royal Fighting Team asked Qin Ming about Lin Jin's strength, and Qin Ming explained that Lin Jin's battle-hardened murderous aura had overwhelmed them despite his Soul Power being below Soul King.
• Lin Jin escorted Lin Xue from the academy and introduced her to A Tu, who had prepared for her return.
• Lin Jin rode with Lin Xue to the Count's Mansion and showed her the room he had prepared for her.
• Lin Xue told Lin Jin she had feared he would be hurt or forget her, and he promised they would never be separated again.
• A Tu delivered an invitation from the Crown Prince, and Lin Jin agreed to meet him the next day.

Lin Jin reunited with his younger sister, then met Qian Renxue to reaffirm his loyalty and offer to seize the throne for her by force. Qian Renxue instead ordered him to curb Prince Xue Xing’s influence and try to recruit Dugu Bo, while privately recognizing how dangerous Lin Jin had become.

• Lin Jin noticed Lin Xue's pale complexion and weak aura, then ordered a Shadow agent to investigate her health.
• Lin Jin went alone to the Crown Prince's Mansion and told Qian Renxue he would carry out any order, including killing Xue Ye and Prince Xue Xing to put her on the throne.
• Qian Renxue rejected an immediate coup and said she preferred to proceed gradually, while Lin Jin warned that remaining Crown Prince too long could be dangerous.
• Qian Renxue asked Lin Jin to warn Prince Xue Xing about his expanding influence and, if possible, recruit Dugu Bo.
• After Lin Jin left, Qian Renxue asked Pufferfish whether he had meant his words about regicide, and Pufferfish judged him dangerous.

Lin Jin took Lin Xue to their ruined hometown to mourn their parents, where her worsening condition deepened his suspicions. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue wondered what Lin Jin intended, Xue Xing learned Lin Jin was Lin Xue’s brother, and Yang Wudi received Lin Jin’s letter.

• Lin Jin brought Lin Xue to their abandoned village, where they found their parents’ graves and mourned for seven days.
• Lin Jin noticed Lin Xue growing pale and sweating, then sent a letter to Yang Wudi through Tie Shan.
• Qian Renxue grew uneasy when Lin Jin failed to return and ordered Pufferfish and Snake Lance to keep searching the histories for precedents about a long-serving Crown Prince.
• Xue Beng told Xue Xing that Lin Jin was Lin Xue’s older brother, and Xue Xing concluded Lin Jin was likely Xue Qinghe’s man.
• Yang Wudi received Lin Jin’s letter at the Breaking Clan and wondered why the Heaven Dou general had contacted him.

After learning that Lin Xue’s Sacred Sun Flower Martial Soul might consume her life force, Lin Jin decided to seek a remedy at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He returned to duty at Heaven Dou City’s City Defense Force and found its garrison and soldiers in disarray.

• Yang Wudi read a letter, left his clan’s affairs to the elders, and hurried to Heaven Dou City.
• Lin Jin brought Lin Xue home after the mourning period and arranged for her to return to the academy the next day.
• Shadow reported that Lin Xue’s Soul Skills and growing Soul Power seemed to weaken her, while the Crown Prince appeared unaware of her condition.
• Lin Jin concluded that Lin Xue had a flawed Mutated Martial Soul and identified the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a possible remedy.
• Lin Jin escorted Lin Xue to the Royal Academy, then went to inspect the City Defense Force garrison with A Tu.
• Lin Jin criticized the garrison’s neglected state, and Deputy Commander Zhao De introduced himself as Lin Jin questioned his soldiers.

Lin Jin took command of the Fifth City Defense Force and imposed harsh discipline, publicly punishing Deputy Commander Zhao De for disobeying him. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue questioned how Lin Jin had identified Prince Xue Xing’s followers so quickly.

• Lin Jin silenced the lax soldiers, revealed his reputation as the Heavenly Wolf General, and ordered the force to run ten laps around the city wall.
• Lin Jin told Zhao De that the order applied to him too, and Zhao De threatened to report him to the Corps Commander before walking away.
• Lin Jin ordered A Tu to give Zhao De fifty military lashes for disobeying an order, and the soldiers resumed running in fear.
• After the punishment, Lin Jin challenged anyone who wished to report him, and the Legion Commanders joined the formation.
• Pufferfish told Qian Renxue that Lin Jin had purged several of Prince Xue Xing’s men and hundreds of others, prompting Qian Renxue to wonder how he had identified them so quickly.

Qian Renxue realized Lin Jin intended to replace Xue Xing’s influence in the City Defense Force with Northern Border veterans, creating a force loyal to Lin Jin. When Marshal Odysseus confronted him, Lin Jin defended his purge as necessary to restore the Fifth Detachment’s combat strength and openly requested that his veterans fill the vacancies; the dispute ended with both men preparing to take the matter to His Majesty.

• Qian Renxue inferred that Lin Jin’s dismissal of soldiers was meant to clear positions for his Northern Border veterans and build a force under his command.
• Marshal Odysseus summoned Lin Jin to the Military Department and challenged him over dismissing nearly two thousand soldiers and disrupting the Fifth Detachment.
• Lin Jin argued that military discipline and combat readiness required removing redundant personnel, and condemned the City Defense Force’s decay.
• Lin Jin revealed that he had requested transfers of meritorious Northern Border soldiers to fill the vacancies and challenged the Military Department to provide more capable replacements.
• Odysseus said he would report Lin Jin’s actions to His Majesty, and Lin Jin offered to accompany him immediately.

Lin Jin defended his purge of the Fifth Detachment before Xue Ye and accepted Xue Xing’s challenge to prove his troops’ strength. At the Royal Hunting Ground, Lin Jin revealed his Soul King cultivation and invoked Azure Dragon Will, leaving the contest poised to begin.

• Odysseus impeached Lin Jin for injuring Zhao De and dismissing nearly two thousand soldiers, but Lin Jin argued that he had acted to reform the ineffective City Defense Force.
• Xue Ye backed Lin Jin and gave him full authority over the Fifth Detachment, prompting Xue Xing to challenge him to a contest against Odysseus’s troops.
• Lin Jin accepted Xue Xing’s challenge to lead a hundred men against Odysseus’s hundred soldiers at the Royal Hunting Ground.
• At the contest, Odysseus’s soldiers formed their Iron Wall Spear Formation while Lin Jin’s Blood Blade guards stood silently behind him.
• Lin Jin revealed five Soul Rings, including a ten-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring, then activated Azure Dragon Will and commanded the Azure Dragon to heed him.

Lin Jin unleashed his Azure Dragon Will and led Blood Blade in crushing Odysseus's elite City Defense Force in a single charge. Emperor Xue Ye rewarded him with full authority over the Fifth City Defense Detachment and the title of Young Protector of the Crown Prince, while Qian Renxue wondered whether his display was a warning to Xue Xing.

• Lin Jin activated Azure Dragon Will, gaining armor and a domain-like power that strengthened Blood Blade and stalled the Iron Wall Spear Formation.
• Lin Jin led Blood Blade in a charge that shattered the enemy's shields, broke its formation, and defeated Odysseus's hundred elite troops.
• Xue Ye, Xue Xing, Qian Renxue, Pufferfish, and Snake Lance watched in shock as Lin Jin and Blood Blade demonstrated their strength.
• Lin Jin thanked Odysseus for yielding, and Xue Ye praised his victory before granting him authority over the Fifth City Defense Detachment, one hundred thousand gold, and the title of Young Protector of the Crown Prince.
• Qian Renxue wondered whether Lin Jin's display had been his final warning to Xue Xing.

After Lin Jin’s martial demonstration made him a powerful figure in Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue trusted him while Prince Xue Xing plotted against him. Lin Jin began reshaping the Fifth Detachment by rallying its soldiers to train and fight for advancement.

• Qian Renxue decided to let Lin Jin act freely, believing his growing strength would help her seize the throne and trusting that Spirit Hall could handle any betrayal.
• Prince Xue Xing vowed revenge and ordered his confidants to recruit Lin Jin’s opponents, investigate his past, and encourage the Star Luo Empire to kill him.
• Lin Jin ordered A Tu to bring two thousand Blood Blades back to Heaven Dou and sent Shadow to watch Prince Xue Xing.
• Lin Jin urged the roughly eight thousand Fifth Detachment soldiers to abandon their old ways, promising demanding training, better equipment, and advancement based on merit.
• The soldiers shouted that they would follow Lin Jin, earn merit, and prove they were not trash.

Lin Jin reassured Qian Renxue that he had preparations for Dugu Bo, then received Yang Wudi at his mansion and confronted him about the Breaking Clan’s role in poisoning Xue Ye. The exchange ended with Lin Jin warning that Heaven Dou could send an overwhelming force against the clan.

• Lin Jin told Qian Renxue he had prepared for Dugu Bo and refused to reveal his plan, promising that she would hear good news.
• Qian Renxue warned Lin Jin not to face Dugu Bo alone and offered him assistance if needed.
• Yang Wudi arrived secretly at Lin Jin’s mansion and sensed the elite guards and their coordinated defenses.
• Lin Jin confirmed that the letter was truthful and that Seven-Colored Splendor had poisoned Xue Ye.
• Yang Wudi dismissed Heaven Dou’s ability to threaten the Breaking Clan in Star Luo, and Lin Jin answered with a warning about sending up to one hundred thousand soldiers.

Lin Jin revealed to Yang Wudi that his supposedly dead younger brother Yang Wushuang had betrayed the Breaking Clan by leaking the Seven-Colored Splendor formula. Facing the threat that his clan would be blamed for poisoning Great Emperor Xue Ye, Yang Wudi agreed to cooperate with Lin Jin to clear their names.

• Yang Wudi arrived in Heaven Dou City to learn how the Breaking Clan's forbidden poison had been used on Great Emperor Xue Ye.
• Lin Jin suggested that Yang Wushuang, whom Yang Wudi had believed dead for more than a decade, had leaked the poison formula.
• Yang Wudi rejected the accusation at first, then broke down as he reconsidered his brother's fate during the Clear Sky Sect Breakout Battle.
• Lin Jin warned Yang Wudi that pursuing revenge against Yang Wushuang would endanger the Breaking Clan and urged him to help remove the poison from Great Emperor Xue Ye.
• Yang Wudi accepted Lin Jin's hand and asked what he needed to do.

Lin Jin proposed using Prince Xue Xing’s collusion with the Star Luo Empire to accuse him of treason and implicate Xue Beng and Dugu Bo in the princes’ deaths and Xue Ye’s poisoning. Qian Renxue approved the risky plan, leaving them ready to move against their rivals.

• Lin Jin waited until Prince Xue Xing’s increased activity prompted Qian Renxue to summon him to the Crown Prince’s Mansion.
• Qian Renxue told Lin Jin that Xue Xing had conspired with Odysseus and contacted the Star Luo Empire’s Military Department to arrange an assassination.
• Lin Jin proposed using the conspiracy as evidence of treason and blaming Xue Xing and Xue Beng for the deaths of the Second and Third Imperial Princes.
• Lin Jin said Yang Wudi could help prove that Dugu Bo’s poison was used to kill the princes and slowly poison Xue Ye.
• Pufferfish and Snake Lance supported Lin Jin’s plan, and Qian Renxue agreed to carry it out.

Qian Renxue accepted Lin Jin’s plan to implicate Xue Beng and mentally break Xue Ye, but she realized Lin Jin knew too much about her crimes and concluded that he had discovered she was not Xue Qinghe. The chapter left Qian Renxue and the two Douluo alarmed that their identities had been exposed.

• Lin Jin proposed a three-step plan to implicate Xue Beng, expose his supposed correspondence, and capture the Star Luo Assassins with Qian Renxue’s guards and the two Douluo.
• Qian Renxue agreed to the plan and asked how soon she could ascend the throne.
• Lin Jin explained that the revelations would devastate Xue Ye with grief, leaving him unable to rule and allowing Qian Renxue to govern in his place.
• After Lin Jin left, Pufferfish and Snake Lance called his scheme filthy, while Qian Renxue sensed that something about it was wrong.
• Qian Renxue realized Lin Jin knew about Xue Ye’s poison and that the plan placed the blame on her and her allies, then concluded that he knew she was not Xue Qinghe.

Qian Renxue suspected Lin Jin was using her plan to clear his own path to the throne, but chose to continue and draw him deeper into the plot. Five days later, Lin Jin lured the Star Luo Empire’s Netherworld Assassination Squad into an ambush, where he fought them until Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance captured them.

• Qian Renxue speculated that Lin Jin planned to use her to eliminate obstacles, then expose her identity and claim the throne, but decided to turn his scheme against him.
• Qian Renxue ordered that the plan continue and insisted Lin Jin be personally involved in capturing the Star Luo assassins.
• Lin Jin left the Royal Academy alone at night and took a secluded route to lure the Netherworld Assassination Squad into attacking him.
• Lin Jin resisted the Soul Sage and four Soul Emperors, using his soul skills to injure and overpower several of them.
• Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance intervened, defeated the squad, and helped Lin Jin demand the communication records Xue Xing had given them.

Lin Jin killed the Star Luo assassins who refused to talk, then obtained evidence that Prince Xue Xing had arranged the attack in exchange for the Heaven Dou border Defense Map. Xue Ye ordered Xue Xing’s arrest, interrupting the prince and Odysseus as they celebrated their plan.

• Snake Lance Douluo pinned an assassin, but Lin Jin killed the captain and another Soul Emperor when they refused to cooperate.
• Two surviving Soul Emperors revealed that Xue Xing had contacted the assassins through the Grand Marshal and promised them the border Defense Map; they also disclosed a hidden letter on the captain’s body.
• Lin Jin and Qian Renxue presented the letter and the captured assassins to Xue Ye, who ordered Royal Knights Commander Kosti to arrest Xue Xing.
• Xue Xing and Odysseus discussed their assassination plot and waited for news of Lin Jin’s death, unaware that the plan had failed.
• Royal Knights arrived at Xue Xing’s mansion and announced Xue Ye’s order to arrest him for treason.

Qian Renxue and Lin Jin exposed Prince Xue Xing’s alleged treason and conspiracy against the imperial family, then brought him before Xue Ye with evidence. Xue Ye discovered he had been poisoned, ordered Xue Xing and Xue Beng taken to the Heavenly Prison, and Lin Jin volunteered to capture Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan for a cure.

• Qian Renxue and Commander Kosti led the Royal Knights into Xue Xing’s mansion, where Xue Xing and Odysseus were caught off guard.
• Qian Renxue accused Xue Xing of colluding with the Star Luo Empire and presenting secret evidence, while Lin Jin later uncovered additional fabricated evidence in the mansion’s study.
• Qian Renxue, Lin Jin, and Kosti presented evidence against Xue Xing before Xue Ye, including a letter, an alleged poisoning order, and an antidote formula.
• Xue Ye coughed up black-streaked blood, and the Chief Imperial Physician confirmed that he had been afflicted with a dormant poison resembling the one described in the evidence.
• Xue Xing blamed Qian Renxue, but Xue Ye ordered Kosti to take Xue Xing and Xue Beng to the Heavenly Prison.
• Lin Jin volunteered to capture Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, whom Qian Renxue said might know how to cure Xue Ye.

Lin Jin received Xue Ye’s order to arrest Dugu Bo and set out to find him by capturing Dugu Yan. He left the academy with Dugu Yan and revealed that he wanted her to lead him to her grandfather in Sunset Forest.

• Xue Ye ordered Lin Jin to apprehend Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, while Qian Renxue warned him about Dugu Bo’s strength and poison.
• Lin Jin gathered Yang Wudi and one hundred Blood Blade members, then led them to the Royal Academy to search for Dugu Yan.
• Lin Jin surrounded the girls’ dormitory and announced that Dugu Yan was wanted because Dugu Bo was suspected of poisoning Xue Ye.
• Dugu Yan agreed to cooperate, despite insisting her grandfather would never poison the emperor; Lin Xue, Ye Lingling, Yu Tianheng, and Qin Ming failed to stop her arrest.
• As Lin Jin led Dugu Yan away, he asked her to take him to Sunset Forest to find Dugu Bo, surprising her with his knowledge of her grandfather’s whereabouts.

Lin Jin led Dugu Yan toward Dugu Bo while explaining to Yang Wudi that the grandfather and granddaughter both suffered from poison caused by their Martial Souls. He hinted that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could cure them and excite Yang Wudi’s interest, hoping to recruit him to help Lin Xue with her Martial Soul side effects.

• Dugu Yan was alarmed that Lin Jin knew her secret and led him toward Dugu Bo.
• Yang Wudi questioned why Lin Jin was provoking Dugu Bo, and Lin Jin explained that Yang Wudi’s Soul Breaking Spear could match his strength.
• Lin Jin told Yang Wudi that Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo suffered from poison caused by their Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Souls.
• Lin Jin hinted that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could end the Dugu family’s suffering, and Yang Wudi recognized the legendary treasure basin.
• Yang Wudi became eager to cooperate after Lin Jin tacitly confirmed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, which Lin Jin hoped to use to secure medicinal help for Lin Xue.

Lin Jin brought Yang Wudi and Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Yang Wudi agreed to cooperate after learning of its value. At Dugu Bo’s valley, Lin Jin accused him of conspiring with Prince Xue Xing and poisoning the royal family, and the chapter ended with Lin Jin demanding that Dugu Bo cooperate or return to the Imperial Palace.

• Yang Wudi agreed to follow Lin Jin’s orders in exchange for seeing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and gathering herbs for research.
• Lin Jin explained his plan to Yang Wudi, who promised to help put on a show for Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Yan led Lin Jin, Yang Wudi, and the Blood Blade soldiers through Sunset Forest to the Poison Mist surrounding Dugu Bo’s valley.
• Dugu Yan called for her grandfather, and Dugu Bo emerged from the Poison Array, threatening Lin Jin while Lin Jin held Dugu Yan hostage.
• Lin Jin accused Dugu Bo of conspiring with Prince Xue Xing and poisoning Xue Ye and the two princes; Dugu Bo denied the charges and threatened the group.
• Yang Wudi confronted Dugu Bo, and Lin Jin ended the standoff by offering him the choice to cooperate or return to the Imperial Palace.

Lin Jin pressured Dugu Bo into cooperating by exposing the danger his poison posed to Dugu Yan and offering to clear his name and cure them both. Dugu Bo agreed to return to the Imperial Palace as an advisor, while Yang Wudi left the Poison Realm and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well unexplored.

• Lin Jin warned Dugu Bo that refusing to cooperate could endanger Dugu Yan and described the symptoms caused by their inherited poison.
• Dugu Bo faltered after Lin Jin revealed that Dugu Yan had begun showing symptoms, then agreed to cooperate.
• Lin Jin proposed that Dugu Bo assist Yang Wudi in curing His Majesty Xue Ye, in exchange for clearing his name and later detoxifying Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.
• Yang Wudi urged the group to inspect the Poison Realm, but Lin Jin persuaded him to return to the palace first and treat His Majesty.
• Lin Jin's group escorted Dugu Bo back to the brightly lit Imperial Palace after nightfall.