Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan broke Remnant Dream Shinian’s illusion and killed him after overpowering his Nightmare True Body. He claimed the soul bone Shinian had stolen and flew toward Ye Yao’s residence.

• Lin Yuan saw through Shinian’s illusion and shattered it with his Soul Power.
• Shinian summoned his seven soul rings and used his seventh skill, Nightmare True Body, but Lin Yuan destroyed the phantoms with a fingertip tap.
• Lin Yuan struck Shinian down and suppressed his Soul Power, revealing himself to be a Title Douluo-level powerhouse.
• Shinian begged Lin Yuan to spare him, but Lin Yuan killed him and turned his body to ash.
• A seven-colored skull-shaped soul bone appeared, and Lin Yuan put it away before flying toward Ye Yao’s residence.

Lin Yuan took Zhu Zhuqing to the Star Dou Forest to hunt the sixty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, planning to seal its soul ring’s excess energy so she could absorb it. They followed its trail into a desolate, blood-soaked region, but had not yet found the beast.

• Zhu Zhuqing told Lin Yuan she had reached the Soul King realm, and he decided to take her to the Star Dou Forest instead of the Sunset Forest.
• Lin Yuan explained that the nearly extinct Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was powerful enough for a Soul Douluo, but promised to seal its soul ring’s excess energy for Zhu Zhuqing.
• Lin Yuan and Zhu Zhuqing entered the depths of the Star Dou Forest, where Azure Dragon Consultation detected the tiger’s aura in the northwest.
• Lin Yuan and Zhu Zhuqing reached a bleak region of blackened trees, bloodstained air, and bones from Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts and humans.

Lin Yuan and Zhu Zhuqing tracked the corruption in Sunset Forest to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and Lin Yuan sent Azure Dragon Consultation to fight it. Consultation met the tiger’s evil aura head-on and crushed its first attack, while Zhu Zhuqing watched from a distance.

• Lin Yuan protected Zhu Zhuqing from the forest’s corrupted creatures and identified the beast-bone arrangement as a sacrificial array centered on a dragon skeleton and the tiger’s tailbone.
• Lin Yuan suppressed the dark aura around them as they reached the cave where Chen Xuan found the sleeping Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger woke and roared at Lin Yuan, but Azure Dragon Consultation answered with a dragon roar that exposed its overwhelming bloodline pressure.
• Lin Yuan told Azure Dragon Consultation to handle the tiger, and Consultation promised to defeat it.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger released its Evil God Domain and fired a black beam from its hooked tail, but Azure Dragon Consultation crushed the beam with his dragon claw.

Lin Yuan watched Zhu Zhuqing absorb the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s soul ring after Azure Dragon Shang Que defeated and killed the beast. After discovering its Core Bead, Lin Yuan left to meet Black Dragon Di Tian, while Shang Que stayed behind to guard Zhu Zhuqing.

• Azure Dragon Shang Que wounded the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, then transformed and struck it down with his dragon power.
• With Lin Yuan’s permission, Zhu Zhuqing stabbed the restrained Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and began absorbing its soul ring as Lin Yuan sealed its energy to protect her.
• A black Core Bead appeared, and Lin Yuan identified it as the source of the tiger’s powers before putting it away.
• Azure Dragon Shang Que told Lin Yuan that Black Dragon Di Tian wanted to meet him.
• Lin Yuan left for the meeting and ordered Shang Que to take Zhu Zhuqing to the inn after her absorption; Shang Que guarded her and warned nearby soul beasts away.

Di Tian asked Lin Yuan to help attack Great Death Canyon, where he believed the Evil God's Deity was empowering dangerous soul beasts. Lin Yuan weighed the risks against Di Tian's offer of a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and Di Tian ended by asking him to join the assault.

• Lin Yuan arrived at Star Lake, where Di Tian asked whether he had killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Di Tian offered Lin Yuan a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone in exchange for help investigating Great Death Canyon.
• Di Tian explained that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and escaped beasts from the canyon showed signs of the Evil God's influence.
• Lin Yuan questioned why Di Tian needed his help, and Di Tian said leaving the Star Dou Forest would invite conflict among its other Ferocious Beasts while his strength remained unrecovered.
• Di Tian revealed that he had informed the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape and planned to gather soul beasts for an attack on Great Death Canyon.
• Di Tian said he was eighty percent confident with Lin Yuan's help, then bowed and urged him to accept the offer.

Lin Yuan negotiated with Di Tian to join the battle at Great Death Canyon in exchange for two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, then returned to Zhu Zhuqing and Shang Que. Zhu Zhuqing had reached Soul King level, while Shang Que warned that joining Di Tian’s battle could bring great danger.

• Lin Yuan demanded two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones from Di Tian, and Di Tian agreed to pay them after the battle if Lin Yuan helped resolve the problem at Great Death Canyon.
• Zi Ji objected to Di Tian’s decision, but Di Tian insisted they needed Lin Yuan’s help to avoid defeat and danger to Gu Yuena and the soul beasts.
• Lin Yuan left Star Lake after agreeing on a time with Di Tian, then returned to Zhu Zhuqing and Shang Que.
• Zhu Zhuqing had absorbed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s soul ring and reached level fifty-two, entering the Soul King realm.
• Lin Yuan told Zhu Zhuqing and Shang Que about Di Tian’s request, and Shang Que warned that joining the battle could bring unnecessary trouble.

Lin Yuan agreed to help Di Tian obtain two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and traveled with him and the soul beasts to Great Death Canyon. At the canyon’s edge, Lin Yuan questioned whether any Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts lived there.

• Lin Yuan decided to accept Di Tian’s offer because he wanted Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones for Ye Lingling and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Lin Yuan asked Zhu Zhuqing to return with Ye Lingling while he and Azure Dragon Consultation went to meet Di Tian.
• Lin Yuan arrived at Star Lake and agreed to join Di Tian’s operation, despite Zi Ji and the Sky Azure Bull Python questioning his confidence.
• Di Tian and Zi Ji led the soul beasts on a cautious journey toward Great Death Canyon while Lin Yuan rode on Azure Dragon Consultation.
• After several days, the group reached Great Death Canyon, where Lin Yuan asked Di Tian whether Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts lived inside.

Lin Yuan and Di Tian led the Star Dou Forest Soul Beasts in an assault on the Great Death Canyon, where Lin Yuan discovered the Soul Beasts had been corrupted by the Evil God’s energy. A powerful hundred-thousand-year Deathworm emerged, and Lin Yuan began fighting it.

• Di Tian said the Great Death Canyon was dangerous and unknown to them, and Lin Yuan sensed Evil God energy within it.
• Di Tian ordered the Star Dou Forest Soul Beasts to attack, while Zi Ji and Shang Que joined the battle.
• A hundred-thousand-year Earthworm emerged from underground, and Di Tian asked Lin Yuan to deal with it.
• Lin Yuan summoned the Asura Demon Sword and recognized that the Earthworm carried Evil God energy.
• The Earthworm accused Lin Yuan of interfering in Soul Beast affairs, and Lin Yuan called it a beast parasitized by the Evil God’s energy.

Lin Yuan and Di Tian defeated the Earthworm in Great Death Canyon, then discovered that corrupted soul beasts yielded no soul rings or bones and that the Evil God had drained many others. They reached the mountain where the Evil God's Divine Thought seemed to be located, with Lin Yuan warning Di Tian to resist its power over desire.

• Lin Yuan killed the Earthworm with his Ninth Soul Skill, but it left behind neither a soul ring nor a soul bone.
• Lin Yuan realized that soul beasts outside the Star Dou Forest were corrupted puppets, and the surviving beasts fled after the battle.
• Lin Yuan left Shang Que and Zi Ji to guard the others while he and Di Tian searched for the Evil God Ruins.
• Lin Yuan and Di Tian found heaps of drained soul beast corpses and concluded that the Evil God had consumed their life force to restore its Deity.
• Lin Yuan warned Di Tian that the Evil God's power could awaken desire and seize control of its victims, then they approached the mountain radiating immense, chilling energy.

Lin Yuan and Di Tian entered the Evil God's illusion realm, where Lin Yuan was trapped in a desire-fueled illusion while the Evil God tried to make him fall. Lin Yuan resisted the visions and shattered the realm, leaving the Evil God surprised.

• Lin Yuan warned Di Tian to stay close as they crossed a grotesque landscape and approached a black crystal palace.
• The palace gates opened onto pink mist that separated Lin Yuan from Di Tian and trapped Lin Yuan in an illusion realm.
• Ye Lingling appeared and tried to seduce Lin Yuan, but he recognized her as an illusion and searched for a way out.
• The black-robed Evil God watched Lin Yuan and Di Tian succumb to the realm's effects and mocked Lin Yuan's resistance.
• Madam Ye Yao, Zhu Zhuqing, Liu Erlong, Bibi Dong, and other women appeared to intensify Lin Yuan's desires, but he remained unmoved.
• Lin Yuan opened his eyes and shattered the illusion realm, surprising the Evil God.

The Evil God tried to persuade Lin Yuan to inherit his God Position by tempting him with power, wealth, eternal life, and mastery of the Asura Demon Sword. Lin Yuan rejected him and praised Asura God, prompting the Evil God to warn that becoming an Asura God would mean serving as a restrained God Realm Enforcer.

• The Evil God returned to his throne after Lin Yuan broke the Desire Seal and offered him the Evil God inheritance.
• Lin Yuan refused, and the Evil God showed him visions of ruling Douluo Continent and the God Realm.
• The Evil God tempted Lin Yuan with wealth, loyal followers, authority over the gods, eternal life, and the Asura Demon Sword's hidden power.
• Lin Yuan attacked the Evil God, but his strike could not harm divine sense.
• Lin Yuan said the Evil God was unworthy of his inheritance and that Asura God was far stronger.
• The Evil God grew furious and warned Lin Yuan that inheriting Asura God's position would make him a God Realm Enforcer bound by imprisonment and restraint.

Lin Yuan refused the Evil God’s offer and fought against his overwhelming power, but the Evil God destroyed his Asura Demon Sword and revealed he had planted an Evil God Seed in him. The Asura God appeared to confront the Evil God after learning Lin Yuan’s future was at stake.

• Lin Yuan rejected the Evil God, who attacked him with purple-black energy and black vines.
• Lin Yuan dodged the Evil God’s attacks and charged at him, but the Evil God shattered his Asura Demon Sword and threatened to force him to inherit the Evil God’s position.
• The Asura God appeared and accused the Evil God of slaughtering innocents and targeting his inheritor.
• The Evil God revealed that he had planted an Evil God Seed in Lin Yuan, and the Asura God realized Lin Yuan would become the Evil God’s inheritor unless he accepted the Asura God’s position.
• The Asura God turned on the Evil God in fury and declared that he deserved death.

Asura God tried to execute Evil God for his crimes in the Mortal Realm, but Sea God Poseidon arrived and intervened. Poseidon revealed information that changed Asura God’s expression, leaving him questioning whether Evil God truly knew an expert of immense power.

• Asura God attacked Evil God, destroying his summoned soul beasts and breaking through his defenses.
• Asura God prepared a final strike, and Evil God called for help as he realized he could not escape.
• Sea God Poseidon appeared and blocked Asura God, arguing that Evil God was only a Divine Thought and should be judged by the God Realm Committee.
• Asura God refused to spare Evil God, while Poseidon insisted that he had to protect him.
• Poseidon whispered an explanation to Asura God, who reacted with disbelief and asked if it was true.

Asura God and Poseidon let the Evil God escape after he tricked them, leaving them arguing over who would answer for the failure. Lin Yuan rescued Di Tian from an illusion that had drained much of his cultivation, and they left the collapsing palace.

• Asura God agreed to spare the Evil God on Poseidon's promise to have him imprisoned in the God Realm.
• The Evil God escaped by striking the ground and vanishing in a pillar of light, and Asura God and Poseidon began tracking him.
• Asura God blamed Poseidon for the escape and threatened to bring the matter before the God Realm Committee, while Poseidon defended his actions.
• Lin Yuan woke Di Tian, who had been caught in an illusion, and criticized him for giving in to it.
• Lin Yuan carried Di Tian away as the palace collapsed, then discovered that Di Tian's cultivation had fallen from seven hundred and eighty thousand years to six hundred and thirty thousand years.

Di Tian lost 150,000 years of cultivation after the illusion in Great Death Canyon and gave Lin Yuan two hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones. At the tournament, a sinister voice appeared inside Tang San and raised his Soul Power to level forty-eight, offering to help him become stronger and take revenge on Lin Yuan.

• Di Tian realized his cultivation had fallen by 150,000 years, regretted giving in to the illusion, and told Lin Yuan he would enter seclusion.
• Di Tian handed Lin Yuan a torso Soul Bone and a right arm Soul Bone before Lin Yuan left with Shang Que for the Heaven Dou Empire.
• At the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, Tang San watched Dai Mubai fight Blazing Academy and vowed revenge on Lin Yuan and Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Tang San suffered sudden pain during the match, then recovered and returned to his tent after Flender and Yu Xiaogang checked on him.
• Tang San saw a sinister face in his mirror and heard a voice offer to help him grow stronger and bring his sister back.
• The voice raised Tang San's Soul Power to level forty-eight, and Tang San wondered whether its power surpassed that of a Title Douluo.

Tang San accepted the Evil God's offer to help him grow stronger so he could defeat Lin Yuan, while Heaven Dou Royal Academy's team prepared to improve before the tournament ended. Lin Yuan returned and reunited with Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling, provoking Dai Mubai's fury when he saw his fiancée embracing Lin Yuan.

• Tang San asked the Evil God how to raise his cultivation quickly, agreed to follow his arrangements for now, and vowed to kill Lin Yuan once he became a god.
• Ye Lingling told Osler that she had reached level fifty-nine, while the Heaven Dou Battle Team discussed strengthening themselves for the tournament.
• Lin Yuan returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling welcomed him and Ye Lingling asked him to choose her next Soul Beast.
• Lin Yuan promised Ye Lingling gifts after the tournament and said she could not yet withstand a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Dai Mubai saw Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling embrace Lin Yuan and angrily vowed revenge against Zhu Zhuqing, while Ma Hongjun lusted after her.

Tang San faced Feng Xiaotian in a one-on-one match and revealed his Clear Sky Hammer when Feng Xiaotian’s growing attacks pushed him back. The revelation shocked the arena, while Tang San remained unable to call on the Evil God because Lin Yuan was present.

• Tang San saw Lin Yuan at the arena and vowed to make him suffer once he reached god level.
• Tang San and Feng Xiaotian agreed that their match would decide whether either academy advanced, and Feng Xiaotian pressed Tang San with his Demonic Wolf's Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes.
• Tang San pleaded inwardly for the Evil God’s help, but the Evil God refused to act while Lin Yuan was nearby and risk drawing the Asura God and Sea God Poseidon.
• As Feng Xiaotian’s stacked attacks forced Tang San to retreat, Tang San shouted that he could not lose while Xiao Wu was waiting for him.
• Tang San summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and struck Feng Xiaotian’s Soul Power wings, cracking them and stunning the audience with the reveal of his Twin Martial Souls.
• Xue Xing, Salas, Dream Machine, Bai Baoshan, Osler, and Zhu Zhuqing reacted to Tang San’s hidden strength and his connection to the Clear Sky Sect.

Lin Yuan warned Osler and the other students not to underestimate their opponents as Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer and defeated Feng Xiaotian. The Heaven Dou Empire named its fifteen qualifying teams, with Shrek Academy finishing undefeated, and prepared them for the next stage of the tournament.

• Lin Yuan rebuked Osler for underestimating opponents and warned that reckless students could lose their chance to graduate and his instruction.
• Salas ordered a soldier to report Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls to Spirit Hall, while Ning Fengzhi recognized the danger this could bring.
• Tang San used the Clear Sky Hammer and the Disorderly Splitting Wind Hammer Method to overpower Feng Xiaotian, who collapsed unconscious after admitting defeat.
• Feng Xiaotian asked his teammate to tell Huo Wu that he would defeat Tang San next time, then was carried away for treatment.
• Xue Ye announced the fifteen qualifying teams and congratulated Shrek Academy for winning all fourteen of its qualifying matches.
• Xue Ye appointed Crown Prince Xue Qinghe as the empire’s envoy and assigned five hundred Royal Knights soldiers to escort the teams.

Xue Ye promised noble titles and royal status to the tournament’s winners, angering Salas, while Lin Yuan prepared to take Ye Lingling into Sunset Forest to pursue a breakthrough and a powerful soul ring. There, he met the Nine-Colored Goddess, who praised his extraordinary talent.

• Xue Ye promised academy funding and noble titles to the tournament winners, then raised the rewards further if they won the championship.
• Salas objected to Xue Ye’s rewards, but Xue Ye dismissed his concerns and reaffirmed that it was an internal matter of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Lin Yuan told the academy disciples to follow Shang Que to Spirit Hall if he did not return in time, and Zhu Zhuqing promised to protect them.
• Lin Yuan took Ye Lingling to Sunset Forest so she could break through to the Soul Emperor realm while he searched for a high-age soul beast.
• Lin Yuan called for the Nine-Colored Goddess, who appeared before him and praised him as an extraordinary talent.

Lin Yuan challenged the Nine-Colored Goddess’s plan to choose between Ye Lingling and Ning Rongrong, arguing that Ye Lingling could forge her own Deity with the power of her Nine Heart Begonia. The Goddess agreed to discuss Ye Lingling’s inheritance later, but Lin Yuan refused to press for her Deity and left the choice unresolved.

• The Nine-Colored Goddess explained that her inheritance was paired with her husband’s and considered Ning Rongrong and Oscar as potential successors.
• Lin Yuan argued that Ning Rongrong and Oscar might ascend together, but warned that Oscar’s chances were uncertain and Ye Lingling could create her own Deity.
• The Goddess questioned the danger of creating a Deity, and Lin Yuan cited Ye Lingling’s life-origin power, the Asura God’s mark, and changes in the mortal world.
• The Nine-Colored Goddess opened a portal to the God Realm and agreed to discuss Ye Lingling’s inheritance later, while warning that creating a Deity carried grave consequences.
• A roar shook Sunset Forest, and Lin Yuan told the Goddess that Ye Lingling did not need her Deity if she remained unwilling to pass it on.