Vol. 1Lin Yuan’s Rise

Lin Yuan built Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s battle team while confronting Tang San, Spirit Hall, and powerful Soul Masters. After reaching Level 95 and preparing his students for the tournament, he left for the City of Slaughter and began attacking the King of Slaughter’s forces.

  • Lin Yuan drove Shrek Academy from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, took charge of its battle team, and trained the students while keeping Xiao Wu with him.
  • Lin Yuan brought the team to the Star Dou Forest, where Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Yan arrived and judged them a threat to Spirit Hall.
  • Lin Yuan defended Xiao Wu and his students, clashed with Tang Hao, and rejected offers to join the empire’s factions.
  • Lin Yuan emerged from seclusion still short of Level 95 and ordered Ye Lingling and the other students to train with him.
  • Lin Yuan trained Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s team, acquired Cai Die at auction, and killed Dai Weilin to take an ancient map fragment.
  • Tang San met Ning Fengzhi and Tai Tan, while Lin Yuan continued strengthening Ye Lingling and investigating the map’s connection to Great Death Canyon.
  • Lin Yuan strengthened Ye Lingling, confronted powerful soul beasts, and prepared Heaven Dou Royal Academy for the tournament before leaving for the City of Slaughter.
  • Lin Yuan killed threatening patrons, defeated the King of Slaughter’s Title Douluo and Soul Douluo, and attacked Terror Knight Scott’s soldiers.
Chapters 1–100 Read from ch. 1

Arc 1Lin Yuan Takes Command

Lin Yuan drove Shrek Academy from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, took charge of its battle team, and kept Xiao Wu under his control. After defeating the City of Slaughter’s assassins and helping his students advance, he brought them to the Star Dou Forest, where Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation arrived and considered killing them.

  • Lin Yuan crushed Tang San and the Shrek group in a confrontation, then revealed his Title Douluo power and forced them to leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
  • Lin Yuan exposed Xiao Wu as a transformed Soul Beast, threatened Dugu Bo into backing down, and kept Xiao Wu with him while Prince Xue Xing expelled Shrek Academy.
  • Dream Machine appointed Lin Yuan to lead the Heaven Dou Battle Team, and Lin Yuan began training the students against his Azure Dragon, Shang Que.
  • Lin Yuan defeated Dugu Bo and traded a cure for his and Dugu Yan’s poison for access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s herbs.
  • Lin Yuan made Ye Lingling his personal disciple, and his training helped the Heaven Dou Battle Team advance rapidly.
  • Lin Yuan killed Castor and the City of Slaughter Soul Masters who attacked him, reached Level 94, and cured Dugu Bo’s poison.
  • Lin Yuan took Xiao Wu and the Heaven Dou Battle Team to the Star Dou Forest, where the students hunted Soul Beasts and Ye Lingling absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
  • Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Yan arrived, identified themselves as Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation, and decided the Heaven Dou Academy disciples could threaten Spirit Hall in the tournament.
Chapters 1–25 Summaries Read

Arc 2The Asura Sword’s Shadow

Lin Yuan defended his students and Xiao Wu, clashed with Tang Hao, and strengthened Ye Lingling while keeping Heaven Dou Royal Academy independent of the empire’s factions. The arc ended with Lin Yuan preparing to train Ye Lingling and the other students as he sought a path to Level 95.

  • Lin Yuan revealed his nine soul rings and Asura Demon Sword to defeat Spirit Hall’s forces, then sent Shang Que to help the students obtain their Fourth Soul Rings.
  • Lin Yuan interrupted Tang San’s cultivation at Shrek Academy, injured him, and warned the academy that strength mattered more than having a powerful father.
  • Lin Yuan rejected Xue Ye’s offers of imperial office and noble rank, then gave Ye Lingling the Aromatic Silk Beauty, boosting her healing ability and Soul Power.
  • Lin Yuan fought Tang Hao in Sunset Forest, destroyed his Clear Sky Hammer, and wounded him, but Tang Hao escaped and later decided to leave for Holy Spirit Village without revealing his identity to Tang San.
  • Lin Yuan visited Ye Lingling’s home and drove Prince Xue Xing away after he harassed Ye Yao.
  • Lin Yuan stopped Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo from taking Xiao Wu to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, then warned them against interfering in his affairs.
  • At Xue Ye’s birthday celebration, Lin Yuan gave the emperor the Dragon Phoenix Ancient Jade as Xue Qinghe was formally invested as crown prince.
  • After reaching Level 94, Lin Yuan emerged from seclusion short of a breakthrough to Level 95 and ordered Ye Lingling to bring Osler and the other students to the Back Mountain for his training.
Chapters 26–50 Summaries Read

Arc 3The Battle Team and the Ancient Map

Lin Yuan trained Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s team, dealt with former members who had joined Shrek, and acquired Cai Die at the auction. He also killed Dai Weilin for an ancient map fragment, while Tang San gained new allies and learned that Lin Yuan had harmed Tai Tan.

  • Lin Yuan defeated the Heaven Dou Battle Team in the mist, then began training them and met Tang Yuehua, who agreed to teach him at Moonlight Pavilion.
  • Lin Yuan discovered Tang San had tried to take herbs from Dugu Bo’s Medicine Garden and had placed a restriction there, then refused Dugu Bo’s request to take Dugu Yan as his disciple.
  • Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy and saw Ye Lingling’s Rank 48 cultivation and the team’s progress, leaving them to regret their departure.
  • Lin Yuan refused Xiao Wu’s request to visit Tang San, then went to the auction house and used a Crystal Dragon Beast soul bone to gain entry.
  • Lin Yuan bought the captured cat girl for 200,000 Gold Soul Coins, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect bought his soul bone and Dai Weilin won an ancient map fragment.
  • Lin Yuan tracked Dai Weilin, killed him and a Soul Emperor, and took the map fragment, which he believed pointed to a Deity inheritance site in Great Death Canyon.
  • Lin Yuan brought the cat girl to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where he named her Cai Die, and learned Ye Lingling had reached Rank 49.
  • At Shrek Academy, Tang San met Ning Fengzhi and Tai Tan, who recognized him as Tang Hao’s son, while Tang San blamed Lin Yuan for Tai Tan’s missing teeth.
Chapters 51–75 Summaries Read

Arc 4The Road to Slaughter

Lin Yuan strengthened Ye Lingling, clashed with the Star Dou Forest’s powerful soul beasts, and prepared for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament. He then left Heaven Dou City for the City of Slaughter, where he began cutting through the King of Slaughter’s forces.

  • Tang San enlisted Tai Tan to help rescue Xiao Wu, but Lin Yuan defeated them both and warned the Strength Clan not to challenge him again.
  • Lin Yuan took Ye Lingling into the Star Dou Forest for a Soul Ring, fought the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python, and forced Di Tian to provide a suitable Soul Beast and External Soul Bone.
  • Ye Lingling absorbed a fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring and External Soul Bone, and Lin Yuan tested her new abilities before assigning her to train for the tournament.
  • Xue Qinghe tried to recruit Lin Yuan, who revealed he was a Level 95 Title Douluo but refused the offer and said he would handle Tang San himself.
  • Lin Yuan released Xiao Wu and told Dream Machine he would leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Bibi Dong began investigating the young Title Douluo.
  • Lin Yuan visited the Imperial Celebration preparations with Ye Lingling, then left Heaven Dou City with Shang Que for the City of Slaughter.
  • Lin Yuan entered a tavern in the City of Slaughter and killed the patrons who threatened him.
  • Lin Yuan defeated two Title Douluo and six Soul Douluo sent by the King of Slaughter, then attacked Terror Knight Scott’s soldiers.
Chapters 76–100 Summaries Read
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