Chapter Summaries

Lin Ran planned his next steps and asked the system to find him a spatial-type soul bone. Meanwhile, Wang Dong'er proposed that she and Wang Qiu'er disguise themselves as each other, leaving Lin Ran unaware of their scheme.

• Lin Ran decided to help the remaining people enter the academy gradually and returned home to consider absorbing a spatial-type soul bone.
• Wang Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er agreed to visit Lin Ran that night to cultivate, while Wang Dong'er privately wrestled with her feelings about Qiu'er and Lin Ran.
• Wang Dong'er suggested that she and Wang Qiu'er take turns pretending to be each other so Wang Qiu'er could return to her original appearance.
• Wang Qiu'er accepted the disguise plan despite worrying that Lin Ran might detect the switch through their martial soul fusion skill.
• Lin Ran called on the system to find a spatial-type soul bone suitable for him.

Wang Dong proposed that she and Qin Yan switch appearances each day so Qin Yan could regain her original appearance, while Lin Ran considered a system task to obtain the Evil Eye Tyrant’s spatial soul bone. The chapter ended with Lin Ran weighing whether the reward was worth a five-year deadline.

• Wang Dong felt conflicted about her feelings for Lin Ran and Qin Yan, then asked Qin Yan if she wanted to restore her original appearance.
• Wang Dong suggested that she and Qin Yan take turns pretending to be each other, and Qin Yan considered the plan despite concerns about her martial soul fusion with Lin Ran.
• Lin Ran asked the system for a suitable spatial soul bone and saw an offer for the Skull Bone of the Tyrannical Evil Eye Tyrant.
• The system required Lin Ran to defeat the Evil Eye Tyrant without help within five years, and it forbade him from using the Mirage Sea Lotus.
• Lin Ran judged that he might grow strong enough to win but hesitated over whether the soul bone was worth spending five years on.

Lin Ran negotiated with the Ice Empress for three roots of Ice Marrow in exchange for letting him touch her, then met Snow Maiden to discuss her Mind Reading ability. Snow Maiden explained that cultivating it could improve a cultivator’s connection to heaven and earth and help them comprehend laws, but the chapter ended before Lin Ran revealed what he wanted from her.

• Lin Ran reminded the Ice Empress that their one-year deadline was near and said he would touch her.
• The Ice Empress agreed to Lin Ran’s condition in exchange for three roots of Ice Marrow.
• Snow Maiden opened her door, heard their exchange, and accompanied Lin Ran and the Ice Empress to the reception room.
• Snow Maiden served Lin Ran sacred spring water, which he drank despite the Ice Empress’s warning.
• Lin Ran asked Snow Maiden about Mind Reading, and she explained its potential to deepen harmony with heaven and earth and aid in comprehending laws.

Lin Ran visited Snow Maiden and negotiated with Ice Empress, offering her three drops of Snow Maiden's Tears of Ice in exchange for a head pat and a hug. He then asked Snow Maiden about her Mind Reading ability and explained how the Realm of Eternal Life could help cultivators approach the laws of heaven and earth.

• Lin Ran reminded Ice Empress of her year-old promise to accept a head pat, then added a hug in exchange for three drops of Snow Maiden's Tears of Ice.
• Ice Empress reluctantly agreed after Lin Ran said he would give the precious tears to Snow Maiden instead.
• Snow Maiden opened the door and witnessed Lin Ran teasing Ice Empress, who insisted she had accepted the terms willingly.
• Snow Maiden served Lin Ran spirit spring water from the Ice God Valley, and he drank it despite learning it had been used in the Snow Maiden clan's rites eight hundred years earlier.
• Lin Ran asked whether Snow Maiden's Mind Reading had granted her only one ability, then described how mastering the Realm of Eternal Life could improve cultivators' understanding of the world and divine laws.

Lin Ran tried to persuade the Ice Empress to study the Longevity Art for the sake of the Land of the Far North, but she refused. After realizing the Snow Empress could help with his Horn of Communication research, he used her to make the Ice Empress jealous and agree to join the study, only for the Ice Empress to freeze him in an ice sculpture.

• Lin Ran offered the Ice Empress the Longevity Art, but she rejected it because she expected godhood to free her from her soul beast bloodline restrictions.
• Lin Ran warned the Ice Empress that the Land of the Far North would be weakened if she, the Snow Empress, and Little Bai left, prompting the Snow Empress to ask how she could help.
• Lin Ran changed his plan and said he wanted the Snow Empress's help with the Horn of Communication, then tried to exclude the Ice Empress from their discussion.
• The Ice Empress insisted on joining the research after Lin Ran taunted her about the Snow Empress being more capable.
• The Ice Empress struck Lin Ran and froze him into an ice sculpture with his five soul rings visible.

Lin Ran secured the Ice Empress as his summoned beast and helped her and Qin Yan cultivate, then spent the night with Wang Dong'er while Qin Yan appeared to sleep. The next day, Lingling warned him that Arthur Academy was trying to recruit students from his academy, prompting Lin Ran to intervene.

• Bing'er stopped the Ice Empress from attacking Lin Ran, and the Ice Empress agreed to become his summoned beast.
• Lin Ran created and signed a summoning contract with the Ice Empress, then gave her an Immortal Herb for Bing'er.
• Lin Ran helped the Ice Empress and Qin Yan enter the Eternal Life Furnace's cultivation space and cultivate with him.
• At midnight, Lin Ran secretly approached Wang Dong'er while Qin Yan was beside them, and Qin Yan seemed to remain asleep.
• Lin Ran went to the training grounds the next day, where Lingling reported that a representative of Arthur Academy had tried to recruit her and urged him to protect the academy's other students.

Lin Ran and Feifei confronted Diana’s attempt to recruit Feifei to Arthur, then found her negotiating an exchange meet with the academy director. Lin Ran suspected the event was a pretext for poaching and left the academy’s response unsettled.

• Feifei told Lin Ran that Diana had approached her to recruit her for Arthur, and Lin Ran praised her for refusing.
• Lin Ran and Feifei discussed whether students owed loyalty to their academy, and Feifei said her parents supported her staying.
• Lin Ran and Feifei went to meet Diana but learned she had gone to the academy director’s office.
• The old dean introduced Diana and explained that she wanted Arthur and their academy to hold an exchange meet.
• The old dean agreed to the exchange meet, eager to prove their students could outshine Arthur’s.
• Lin Ran suspected the exchange meet was a cover for poaching and challenged Diana’s stated purpose.

Lin Ran negotiated the terms of an exchange event between Bengao Academy and Arthur Academy, while Dong Yingluo insisted that An Yuyu participate. After teasing Leilei about her cultivation, Lin Ran promised to help her improve and followed her to her room.

• Dong Yingluo proposed an exchange event, and Lin Ran agreed on conditions that included holding it at Bengao Academy and letting him approve the participants.
• Dong Yingluo insisted that An Yuyu participate, so Lin Ran postponed that question while she and the dean discussed the event's details.
• Leilei questioned Lin Ran about the exchange, and they teased each other before she lamented being a weak Great Soul Master.
• Lin Ran said he could help Leilei improve her strength and went with her to her room, where she explained that her grandmother's incense lamp aided her cultivation.

Lin Ran praised Leilei’s flute playing and gave her a pill after learning she had mastered the Dragon-Soaring Nine Flute Manual in two days. Their awkward attempt at a kiss turned into repeated kisses, and Leilei began cultivating after deciding she needed more practice.

• Leilei played a flute tune for Lin Ran and explained that the instruments were Soul Guides disguised by her people.
• Leilei told Lin Ran she had reached the beginner stage of the Dragon-Soaring Nine Flute Manual in two days, and he praised her talent.
• Lin Ran gave Leilei a pill made from Earth Dragon Golden Melon and thousand-year Ghost Gold Fragrance to strengthen and protect her martial souls.
• Leilei nervously moved close to Lin Ran, accidentally headbutted him, and he healed the mark on her forehead before kissing her.
• Leilei repeatedly asked Lin Ran to kiss her again, then swallowed the pill and began meditating, saying she needed more practice.

After giving Ruirui and the Zang sisters cultivation gifts, Lin Ran received a letter about An Yuyu and Arthur’s people pursuing past-life opportunities. Suspecting they had entered the Icefire Twin Veins, he went with the Fourth Elder to investigate and ordered Arthur’s girl detained as a hostage if Shi Mo and the others were harmed.

• Lin Ran exchanged the Lu Family's Falling Flower Palm for the Azure Sea Tide Melody and Jade Flute Saber Art, then memorized much of both techniques.
• Ruirui celebrated reaching the thirty-sixth level, and Lin Ran gave pills to Zang Luoluo and Zang Susu and the two martial arts manuals to Ruirui.
• A letter from Southern Water City reported Imperial Consort Huang and her son’s movements in the Underground Palace, leading Lin Ran to suspect An Yuyu was seeking the immortal herb in the Icefire Twin Veins.
• Lin Ran learned that Shi Mo and eight other Soul Masters were stationed at the Icefire Twin Veins and that they had sent no recent news.
• Lin Ran told the Fourth Elder that Arthur’s people had entered the Icefire Twin Veins and set out with him to investigate, ordering Arthur’s girl detained in case Shi Mo and the others had been harmed.

Lin Ran fought Tan Xuanluo, using his soul skills and strange blade to counter her moon-based attacks and wear down her strength. After manipulating her into exhausting herself, he sealed her cultivation and made her his prisoner and blood slave.

• Lin Ran used his Pool of Blood skill to absorb and reflect Tan Xuanluo's moonlight attacks.
• Lin Ran revealed his blood-colored wings and strange blade, whose power dissolved Tan Xuanluo's moonlight and weapon.
• Lin Ran and Tan Xuanluo fought for a long time as his blood energy and life force surrounded them and healed their injuries.
• Lin Ran used his Bloodline Source skill to disrupt Tan Xuanluo's blood and Demonic Power, then evaded her Blood Moon's Glow.
• Lin Ran explained that he had made Tan Xuanluo exhaust her strength, sealed her cultivation, and left his blood energy within her to make her his blood slave.

Little Tao reassured Ling Xuan and heard her account of the deaths caused by Xuanzi, which deepened her resolve to leave Arthur. The next morning, Lin Ran and the Fourth Elder found signs that Rong Kuan and Shi Mo had been killed near the Icefire Two Yi Eyes.

• Little Tao brought Ling Xuan to stay beside her and claimed her restriction only helped control her martial spirit, while Ling Xuan suspected she had made a sacrifice for her.
• Ling Xuan recounted how Xuanzi’s actions led to the deaths of Xiao Ya, Zhenghua, Su Su, and others, and admitted she had taken the blame before Xuanzi.
• Little Tao blamed Xuanzi and Arthur for the tragedy, then distanced herself from Ling Xuan and sent her to stay next door.
• Lin Ran and the Fourth Elder reached the Icefire Two Yi Eyes and found that Rong Kuan and Shi Mo had stopped where the poisonous miasma grew stronger.
• The Fourth Elder detected no trace of Rong Kuan and Shi Mo, and Lin Ran concluded they had been killed in a brief fight.

An Yuyu was defeated in Sunset Forest and poisoned by a giant flower, while Xuanzi carried him back to Arthur Academy. As Elder Mu warned that the toxin could leave An Yuyu permanently disabled, Mu En questioned Xuanzi’s account and worried about the academy’s future.

• An Yuyu endured Lin Ran’s attacks, was thrown into a jade-green flower, and was pierced and poisoned by its barbs.
• Xuanzi arrived and carried the unconscious An Yuyu back to Arthur Academy’s Sea God Pavilion.
• Lin Ran searched the Icefire Yin Yang Well and learned from Youyou and the other immortal herbs that no one had visited recently.
• Elder Mu said An Yuyu’s life was safe but warned that the neurotoxin could leave him bedridden and permanently damage sensitive parts of his body.
• Xuanzi blamed the Supreme Sect for An Yuyu’s condition and said he had killed the two attackers.
• Mu En accepted Xuanzi’s explanation but wondered whether An Yuyu could be relied upon compared with Lin Ran.

Lin Ran persuaded thirty plant-type soul beasts at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to become his soul rings, then took the remaining immortal herbs and left seeds to regrow. On the way back, Poison Undying planned to harass the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan while Lin Ran prepared to strengthen their sect for the threats ahead.

• Lin Ran promised the immortal herbs eternal life in the Divine Realm, and thirty Ten-Thousand Year plant-type soul beasts agreed to follow him.
• Lin Ran spent a day transforming the willing soul beasts into soul rings and storing them in the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud while Poison Undying stood guard.
• Lin Ran intimidated the seven remaining soul beasts into letting him take the immortal herbs, then used life energy to plant seeds so the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could flourish again.
• Poison Undying said he would avoid an all-out war with Arthur and instead kill Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders who came outside Arthur City.
• Lin Ran gave Poison Undying pills and soul bones to distribute, and they agreed to build the sect's strength against the Sun Moon Empire, the Demon King, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Lin Ran realized that the girl he had kissed was Qin Yan, not Winter Snow, and tried to comfort her while teasing her about their past. After Qin Yan learned Lin Ran was with Winter Snow, he said he wanted both of them and suggested they talk to Winter Snow.

• Lin Ran recognized Qin Yan after kissing her and reassured her that he had known she was a girl disguised as a boy since she entered the academy.
• Lin Ran admitted he remembered what happened between them at the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, leaving Qin Yan mortified and furious.
• Qin Yan questioned whether Lin Ran had mistaken her for Winter Snow and asked about his relationship with her; Lin Ran confirmed that he and Winter Snow were together.
• Lin Ran suspected Winter Snow had deliberately switched identities with Qin Yan and asked Qin Yan to consider Winter Snow's purpose.
• Lin Ran told Qin Yan he wanted both her and Winter Snow, and, after Qin Yan's anger subsided, suggested they go talk to Winter Snow.

Lin Ran reassured Imperial Consort Huang and the Winter Goddess that Tang San had been imprisoned, then tried to draw out the Golden Dragon King’s remnant soul. Gu Yue mistook him for a dragon ancestor, and he arranged for her to meet him and retrieve two dragon souls.

• Lin Ran told Imperial Consort Huang and the Winter Goddess that Tang San had been sentenced to six thousand years in the Divine Forbidden Grounds, but warned them to remain vigilant and grow stronger.
• Imperial Consort Huang and the Winter Goddess began absorbing the soul bones while Lin Ran planned to lure out the Golden Dragon King’s remnant soul.
• Lin Ran infused the Golden Dragon King scale with dragon aura and spoke to its hidden presence, frightening Gu Yue into withdrawing her divine sense.
• Gu Yue contacted Lin Ran again, apologized for probing him, and mistook him for an ancestor of the dragon clan.
• Lin Ran told Gu Yue about two dragon souls buried in a place he had discovered and asked her to come retrieve them herself.
• Gu Yue agreed to carry the scale and use it to find Lin Ran.

Gu Yue visited Spirit Hall Academy to learn about the human world and speak with Lin Ran, whom she believed was a powerful senior hiding his true identity. As Lin Ran explained how soul beasts and soul masters affected Douluo Star’s growth, Gu Yue listened with growing confusion and contemplation.

• Gu Yue left Di Tian in charge of Star Dou Great Forest and traveled to Spirit Hall Academy.
• Gu Yue met Lin Ran and asked him to show her around the academy, hoping to learn more about him.
• Gu Yue asked Lin Ran how soul beasts and soul masters were related, and he described them as intertwined parts of the same community.
• Lin Ran explained that soul masters could be seen as doctors born from Douluo Star’s will to eliminate its diseases.
• Lin Ran described how a plane’s resources, life force, and extraordinary beings shaped its growth and potential to ascend.

Lin Ran accepted the Water and Fire Dragon Kings’ soul bones and proposed keeping their dragon souls within his divine body until he could help them recover. After examining the bones, he decided where each would best fit, but the Fire Dragon King rejected his idea of turning hers into a heart external soul bone.

• Lin Ran told Gu Yue that the two Dragon Kings’ souls could stay in his divine body and recover there until he became a god.
• The Water and Fire Dragon Kings gave Lin Ran their soul bones, and he used Source of Silence to examine their bloodlines.
• Gu Yue and the Dragon Kings were astonished by Lin Ran’s five soul rings and his affinities with water and fire dragons.
• Lin Ran found that both soul bones suited him and decided to fuse the Water Dragon King’s bone into his torso.
• Lin Ran suggested turning the Fire Dragon King’s soul bone into a heart external soul bone, but she refused.

Lin Ran moved the Water and Fire Dragon Kings into the Sea of Illusions Pearl, while Gu Yue agreed to stay near the Supreme Academy before returning to heal. At the Sea God Pavilion, Mu En ordered the elders to seek Ma Xiaotao’s return and entrust the academy’s future to An Yuyu, just as a massive wave of spiritual power struck.

• Lin Ran separated the Sea of Illusions Pearl into isolated worlds and brought in the Water and Fire Dragon Kings and Gu Yue.
• The Water and Fire Dragon Kings took human forms, named themselves Gu Qingling and Gu Xuanji, and settled in the spiritual space.
• Gu Yue agreed to stay at the Supreme Academy, then returned to heal through the dragon scale fragment.
• At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Xuanzi denied leaving evidence of his killings, while Cai Meier blamed him for endangering Ma Xiaotao and other students.
• Mu En ordered the elders to contact the Supreme Academy about Ma Xiaotao and told them to protect An Yuyu, then a tremendous surge of spiritual power descended on the Sea God Pavilion.

Gu Yuena visited Body College to get closer to Lin Ran, whom she mistakenly believed was a powerful senior, and asked him about the conflict between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts. Lin Ran explained how their relationship and the balance of vitality and cultivation affected Douluo Star’s growth, leaving Gu Yuena to consider his view of Soul Beasts as a threat to the plane.

• Gu Yuena left Di Tian in charge of the Star Dou Great Forest and traveled to Body College.
• Lin Ran greeted Gu Yuena, introduced himself by name, and offered to show her the academy before visiting the Burial Ground of the Two Dragon Kings.
• Gu Yuena chose to explore the academy and asked Lin Ran what he thought of Soul Masters and Soul Beasts.
• Lin Ran described the two groups as opposed yet connected, and said Soul Masters could be seen as guards and doctors removing diseased growths from Douluo Star.
• Lin Ran explained how Heaven and Earth Origin Power, vitality, and the production of powerful beings determined a plane’s carrying capacity and development.