Chapter Summaries

At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Lin Yuan returned from years of cultivation and arrived before the Shrek Academy group atop a blood-red Azure Dragon. After Ning Rongrong mocked his claim about the dragon and Dai Mubai insulted the academy’s students, Lin Yuan challenged Dai Mubai to spar.

• Flander praised Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s facilities as Shrek’s teachers and students explored the grounds.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun joked about pursuing noble girls, while Tang San and the others admired the academy.
• Lin Yuan appeared on a huge blood-red Azure Dragon, prompting Ning Rongrong and Yu Xiaogang to identify and discuss the rare Martial Soul.
• Lin Yuan landed and headed toward the Teaching Committee, but Ning Rongrong blocked him and questioned him.
• Lin Yuan told Ning Rongrong the dragon was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and she mocked him.
• Dai Mubai disparaged Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s students, so Lin Yuan stopped and asked whether he wanted to spar.

Lin Yuan effortlessly defeated Tang San and Master after they confronted him, shocking Shrek Academy. Flender challenged Lin Yuan, who revealed nine soul rings as the confrontation escalated.

• Dai Mubai offered to fight Lin Yuan, but Tang San stepped forward to test him and promote Shrek Academy.
• Tang San attacked Lin Yuan with Blue Silver Grass, but Lin Yuan struck him with one slap, knocking him unconscious and badly injuring him.
• Flender questioned Lin Yuan's excessive force, but Lin Yuan said Shrek's disciples had provoked him first.
• Master approached Lin Yuan and introduced himself, but Lin Yuan kicked him through a line of trees and called him trash.
• Flender released his seven soul rings and challenged Lin Yuan, who answered by revealing nine soul rings, including two red ones.

Lin Yuan revealed himself as a young Title Douluo and overwhelmed Shrek Academy with his Soul Power. After the Heaven Dou Royal Academy committee members arrived, Flender apologized for the confrontation, leaving the misunderstanding between the two academies to be addressed.

• Lin Yuan revealed nine Soul Rings, including a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and his Asura Demon Sword, forcing Shrek Academy's teachers and disciples to the ground.
• The three Heaven Dou Royal Academy committee members arrived and recognized Lin Yuan, amazed that he had become a Title Douluo in five years.
• Dream Machine asked Lin Yuan what had happened, and Lin Yuan said a minor incident on his way back had already been resolved.
• The committee members learned that the Shrek Academy group had clashed with Lin Yuan and helped Qin Ming to his feet.
• Dream Machine introduced Lin Yuan to Qin Ming and described his extraordinary achievements as a Soul Master.
• Flender bowed to Lin Yuan and apologized for what had happened.

Lin Yuan joined the negotiations over Shrek Academy’s transfer to Heaven Dou Royal Academy while Tang San was forced to apologize for his earlier disrespect. The discussion ended with Lin Yuan challenging the Shrek disciples’ contempt for Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Lin Yuan ignored Dean Flander’s apology and headed to the Teaching Committee, while Xiao Wu sensed that the Azure Dragon was truly a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• Dream Machine led Flander into the Teaching Committee hall, where Zhi Lin woke Tang San by slapping his uninjured cheek.
• Master ordered Tang San to apologize to Lin Yuan, and Tang San reluctantly bowed after learning Lin Yuan was a Title Douluo.
• Lin Yuan ignored Tang San’s apology, and Flander tried to move the conversation along.
• Dream Machine welcomed Shrek Academy and promised its teachers freedom from assigned duties, but Lin Yuan asked whether its disciples had looked down on Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Lin Yuan rejected Shrek Academy’s apology and struck Ma Hongjun, while Prince Xue Xing arrived with Dugu Bo and challenged Shrek’s qualifications to teach at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Xue Beng recognized Lin Yuan, leaving the dispute poised to escalate.

• Dream Machine questioned Lin Yuan about Shrek Academy’s refusal to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Lin Yuan pointed to Shrek’s disciples.
• Lin Yuan slapped Ma Hongjun after Ma Hongjun demanded that he be reasonable, and Flender stopped Zhao Wuji from retaliating.
• Prince Xue Xing entered the Teaching Committee with Dugu Bo and Xue Beng, then mocked Shrek Academy and questioned its right to teach.
• Prince Xue Xing demanded that Shrek prove its talent, and Lin Yuan told Dream Machine to let the prince handle the matter himself.
• Xue Beng recognized Lin Yuan and excitedly called out to him.

Lin Yuan revealed that Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and claimed her as his prey, forcing Shrek Academy to leave without her. He threatened Xiao Wu through Tang San, leaving her and the Shrek group under his control.

• Xue Beng reunited with Lin Yuan and introduced him to Prince Xue Xing, who stopped Xue Beng from revealing more about their past.
• Prince Xue Xing rejected Shrek Academy, and Flander led the group out of Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Lin Yuan stopped Xiao Wu from leaving and revealed that she was a Soul Beast who had taken human form.
• Dugu Bo confirmed Xiao Wu's identity and tried to seize her, but Lin Yuan threatened him with the Asura Demon Sword until he backed down.
• Lin Yuan struck Tang San and warned Xiao Wu to behave, threatening Tang San's life if she resisted.

Lin Yuan exposed Xiao Wu as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and forced Shrek Academy to leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Tang San vowed to destroy the academy, but Zhao Wuji knocked him unconscious before he could provoke the Title Douluo further.

• Lin Yuan accused Shrek Academy of colluding with Soul Beasts, and Master realized the accusation could ruin the academy.
• Lin Yuan slapped Master after he invoked Tang San's father, prompting Flender and the others to release their martial souls and prepare to fight.
• Master stopped Flender from challenging Lin Yuan and urged him to protect the Shrek disciples from a hopeless battle.
• Prince Xue Xing ruled that Shrek Academy could avoid execution because its members had not known Xiao Wu was a Soul Beast, but they had to leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Flender withdrew his martial soul and left, while Zhao Wuji stopped Tang San from taking Xiao Wu away.
• Tang San vowed never to rest until Heaven Dou Royal Academy was destroyed, and Zhao Wuji knocked him unconscious.

After taking Xiao Wu captive and warning her that her identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had been exposed, Lin Yuan became the Heaven Dou Battle Team’s new teacher. The team’s members, led by Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, challenged his authority.

• Qin Ming left Heaven Dou Royal Academy after the Shrek group was driven away, and Dream Machine appointed Lin Yuan to lead the Heaven Dou Battle Team.
• Lin Yuan took Xiao Wu to a secluded courtyard, marked her so he could kill her with a thought, and warned that leaving would put her in danger from soul masters who learned her identity.
• Xiao Wu accepted that she had to stay with Lin Yuan, who promised not to interfere with her cultivation as long as she obeyed.
• Lin Yuan went to the training grounds and told the seven Heaven Dou Battle Team disciples that he would be their teacher.
• Yu Tianheng questioned Lin Yuan about Qin Ming’s departure, while Dugu Yan threatened him with her Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Poison and demanded that he leave.

Lin Yuan confronted the Heaven Dou Battle Team after its members rejected him as their teacher, then revealed his Title Douluo strength when Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan challenged him. The team members asked him to teach them, while Yu Tianheng protested their decision.

• Yu Tianheng refused Lin Yuan as a teacher and challenged him over Lin Yuan's beating of his uncle.
• Yu Tianheng attacked Lin Yuan but collapsed after Lin Yuan subdued him with a look, and Lin Yuan struck Dugu Yan down when she rushed to avenge him.
• Lin Yuan revealed that he was a level ninety-three Title Douluo with the Asura Demon Sword martial soul, stunning the team.
• Yufeng, Osler, Shimo, and Ye Lingling showed they wanted Lin Yuan's guidance, while Yu Tianheng accused them of abandoning their loyalty to Teacher Qin Ming.
• Yufeng argued that Qin Ming had left and that they should accept the chance to learn from a Title Douluo.

Lin Yuan took charge of training the Heaven Dou Battle Team members who chose to follow him, while Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan decided to leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy for Shrek Academy. At the academy’s back mountain, Lin Yuan revealed that their first test would be to endure a battle against his enormous Azure Dragon.

• Shimo explained that he and the other team members wanted the guidance of a Title Douluo, and Yu Tianheng cut ties with those who chose to leave him.
• Ye Lingling joined the others in following Lin Yuan, who said he would oversee their studies until they graduated from Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Yu Tianheng told Dugu Yan that they should leave for Shrek Academy, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Lin Yuan led his new students to the back mountain and said he would train them through real combat against Soul Beasts.
• Lin Yuan summoned his three-hundred-thousand-year Azure Dragon and set it as their opponent, requiring them to endure for the time it took an incense stick to burn.

After Lin Yuan left his students to face his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast mount, Shrek Academy’s leaders debated how to rescue Xiao Wu from Heaven Dou Royal Academy. They chose not to seek Tang Hao’s help, fearing Lin Yuan would strike before Tang Hao could arrive.

• Lin Yuan assigned his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast mount to test Osler and the others, then left them to face it.
• At Blue Tyrant Academy, Liu Erlong became furious when she learned what had happened to Xiao Gang and Xiao Wu, while Flender and Yu Xiaogang admitted they could not defeat Lin Yuan.
• Liu Erlong proposed using the Golden Iron Triangle’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Yu Xiaogang pointed out that his Soul Power was still only level twenty-nine.
• Flender suggested asking Tang Hao to help, and privately revealed to Liu Erlong that Tang San was the Clear Sky Douluo’s son.
• Zhao Wuji warned that Lin Yuan could attack Shrek Academy before Tang Hao arrived, so Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong agreed to set the matter aside for now.

Yu Tianheng chose to leave Heaven Dou Royal Academy and stay with Yu Xiaogang, while Yu Xiaogang worried that Lin Yuan’s guidance would make the academy’s students formidable. The next morning, Lin Yuan warned Xiao Wu that she was safer confined within his protective array than outside it, and she wept as he left.

• Yu Tianheng told Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong that he had left Heaven Dou Royal Academy and would not return.
• Yu Xiaogang worried that Lin Yuan’s Title Douluo guidance would give his students a great advantage.
• Lin Yuan finished cultivating and approached Xiao Wu as she pulled weeds in the courtyard.
• Lin Yuan seized Xiao Wu by the throat and warned that Soul Masters, especially the Bu Le Brothers, could capture and abuse her if she left.
• Lin Yuan told Xiao Wu that his array protected her from ordinary Soul Masters, then left her crying in the courtyard.

Lin Yuan pushed the Heaven Dou Battle Team through brutal training, where Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia healed the team and she broke through to level thirty-nine. He then went to Dugu Bo’s valley to ask for herbs, leaving Dugu Bo wary of his intentions.

• Lin Yuan found the Heaven Dou Battle Team exhausted and learned that none of them had passed the Blood Fiend Azure Dragon’s assessment, so he ordered them to continue.
• Ye Lingling used her Nine Heart Begonia to heal her teammates, and Lin Yuan had the Blood Fiend Azure Dragon resume its oppressive training.
• Ye Lingling broke through from level thirty-eight to level thirty-nine, encouraging the team to keep training.
• Lin Yuan headed to Sunset Forest to retrieve herbs from Dugu Bo’s Medicine Garden.
• Dugu Bo confronted Lin Yuan outside his poisonous valley, and Lin Yuan said he had come to pick a few herbs and would pay for them.

Lin Yuan confronted Dugu Bo over the herbs in Sunset Forest, and the two fought after Dugu Bo demanded the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast as payment. Lin Yuan overwhelmed Dugu Bo with his Martial Soul Domain and revealed a formidable soul ring configuration, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved.

• Dugu Bo refused to trade herbs unless Lin Yuan handed over the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Lin Yuan challenged him.
• Dugu Bo summoned his nine soul rings and attacked Lin Yuan after Lin Yuan mocked his Level 91 strength.
• Lin Yuan trapped Dugu Bo in his Martial Soul Domain, where his Asura Blood Blade forced Dugu Bo to dodge and defend himself.
• Dugu Bo used his Jade Phosphor Bewildering Array and Medusa Soul Bone, but Lin Yuan blocked his attack and remained unharmed.
• Lin Yuan ended their exchange by releasing immense Soul Power and displaying a soul ring configuration with two red rings.

Lin Yuan defeated Dugu Bo, negotiated to cure his and Dugu Yan’s poison in exchange for herbs, and harvested and sealed the treasures in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where the Blood Fiend Azure Dragon reported that Ye Lingling and the others had grown stronger under its pressure.

• Lin Yuan overwhelmed Dugu Bo with his power, then stopped when Dugu Bo surrendered.
• Lin Yuan offered to cure Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s poison in exchange for herbs, and Dugu Bo accepted before leaving to recover.
• Lin Yuan entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, harvested herbs, sealed the remaining plants against Tang San and Tang Hao, and took some spring water.
• Lin Yuan returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and found Ye Lingling and the others unconscious from exhausting their Soul Power.
• The Blood Fiend Azure Dragon told Lin Yuan that the students had each gained a level and praised Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia martial soul.

Lin Yuan named the Blood Fiend Azure Dragon Shang Que and promised to help him become a divine beast. After bringing Ye Lingling to his courtyard, Lin Yuan invited her to become his personal disciple, and she asked whether he truly meant to accept her.

• Lin Yuan named the Blood Fiend Azure Dragon Shang Que and promised him a chance to become a divine beast if he remained loyal.
• Shang Que carried Osler and the others back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy while Lin Yuan brought Ye Lingling to his courtyard.
• Xiao Wu recognized Ye Lingling from the Heaven Dou Battle Team and later told Lin Yuan when she had awakened.
• Lin Yuan reviewed his cultivation status and recalled refusing the King of Slaughter's offer to become his disciple because the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King intended to parasitize him.
• Lin Yuan offered to take Ye Lingling as his personal disciple, and she asked whether he was truly willing to accept her.

Ye Lingling became Lin Yuan’s personal disciple after he explained the Nine Heart Begonia’s extraordinary healing potential. She returned to the academy to pack and train with her teammates, while keeping her new master’s identity private.

• Ye Lingling accepted Lin Yuan’s offer, performed the discipleship ceremony, and became his personal disciple.
• Lin Yuan told Ye Lingling that the Nine Heart Begonia could become the strongest healing martial soul and instructed her to live with him and cultivate alongside Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu questioned Lin Yuan’s choice, and he explained the Nine Heart Begonia’s rarity, battlefield-wide healing, and possible power to revive gods.
• Ye Lingling returned to the academy, packed her belongings, and avoided telling her roommates who her master was.
• Ye Lingling trained with Osler and the others, who discussed their rapid progress and criticized their former captain for joining Shrek Academy.

Lin Yuan met with Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Teaching Committee and reaffirmed his gratitude to the three committee members who had supported him. After reporting on the Heaven Dou Battle Team’s progress, he left the committee impressed by his rise to Title Douluo at age twenty.

• Osler and the others discussed Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan joining Shrek Academy, then decided to focus on their own training rather than worry about them.
• Lin Yuan met with Dream Machine, Zhi Lin, and Bai Baoshan, thanked them for their past support, and asked them to keep calling him Teacher Lin.
• Lin Yuan told the committee that Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan had left and that the rest of the Heaven Dou Battle Team had reached rank thirty-nine Soul Elder under his guidance.
• The committee entrusted the team to Lin Yuan and promised to provide the funds needed for his teaching.
• After Lin Yuan departed, Dream Machine and Zhi Lin praised his extraordinary talent and predicted that his future might reach even greater heights.

Lin Yuan kept Xiao Wu captive and reflected on the devastation he believed Tang San’s path had brought to Douluo Continent. In Sunset Forest, he was surrounded by a force from the City of Slaughter seeking to take him back—or bring back his corpse—and prepared to face them.

• Xiao Wu asked Lin Yuan to let her return to Shrek Academy, but he slapped her, threatened to lock her in a Secret Chamber, and ordered her to accept her captive status.
• Lin Yuan considered how transformed soul masters such as Xiao Wu would fare in Spirit Hall’s hands and condemned the legacy of Tang San’s supposed righteous path.
• Lin Yuan burned the book he had been reading and sensed a strange energy fluctuation near the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Lin Yuan appeared in Sunset Forest and confronted a black-robed old man, recognizing that the King of Slaughter still coveted his immortal body.
• Soul masters from the City of Slaughter surrounded Lin Yuan, and the black-robed old man offered to take him back alive or return his corpse.
• After learning that the King of Slaughter would accept Lin Yuan’s corpse, the black-robed old man activated his Title Douluo soul rings.

Lin Yuan confronted Castor and the assembled Soul Masters, revealing his overwhelming power and slaughtering nearly all of them. After Castor ordered a joint attack, Lin Yuan unleashed his Azure Luan soul-bone skill, leaving Castor and the remaining survivors in dire straits.

• Castor summoned his Shadow Mane Lion and attacked Lin Yuan with his eighth soul skill, but Lin Yuan blocked the roar with a Soul Power barrier.
• Lin Yuan revealed nine Soul Rings, including two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, and manifested the Asura Demon Sword.
• Lin Yuan deployed the Asura Domain and Divine Slaughter's Domain, preventing Castor from escaping and killing most of the attacking Soul Masters with sword energy.
• Castor and the surviving Soul Masters used their Martial Soul Avatars, but Lin Yuan unleashed his right-arm soul-bone skill, Heaven and Earth Reversal, Azure Luan, Sky-Howling Break.
• Lin Yuan's Azure Luan attack devastated the forest and killed the Soul Douluo Castor used as a shield, while a Title Douluo was mortally wounded.