Chapter Summaries

Tang San confronted Destruction over the Goddess of Life choosing a successor, but Destruction drove him away and stood by her decision. At Shrek Academy, Lin Ming awakened two powerful martial souls and Innate Full Soul Power, earning Mu En’s promise that academy resources would favor him.

• Destruction rebuked Tang San for interfering with the Goddess of Life’s choice of successor, and Tang San left the Destruction Temple.
• Destruction comforted the Goddess of Life and agreed to pass his divine position to her chosen successor, Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming awakened the Sky-Propping Spear and an eight-winged Prayer Angel, astonishing Yan Shaozhe, Beibei, and Lin Feng.
• Lin Ming displayed Innate Full Soul Power, and Mu En ordered that academy resources be directed toward him.
• Lin Feng excitedly asked Lin Ming if he understood what Mu En’s decision meant.

After awakening two martial souls with Innate Full Soul Power, Lin Ming vowed to become the leader of the Shrek Seven Devils and eventually the Sea God Pavilion Master. He spent the night talking with Zhang Lexuan, then made steamed buns for breakfast with Xuan Zi, leaving them ready to eat.

• Lin Feng told Lin Ming that his talent could guarantee him an Elder's seat, but Lin Ming said he aimed to become Sea God Pavilion Master and promised to lead the Shrek Seven Devils.
• After Lin Feng left, Lin Ming climbed onto the roof, where Zhang Lexuan asked about his awakening; he showed her his Sky-Propping Spear and bragged about his Innate Full Soul Power.
• Zhang Lexuan said goodbye, and Lin Ming returned to his room and fell asleep.
• The next morning, Lin Ming prepared steamed buns with soul beast meat and Whale Rubber for breakfast.
• Xuan Zi arrived to join Lin Ming for the food, and Lin Ming opened the steamer to reveal the finished buns.

Lin Ming left for the Star Dou Great Forest with Lin Feng to obtain his first soul ring. After absorbing an eight-hundred-year Giant Claw Dragon’s ring, Lin Ming gained a powerful all-attribute boosting skill and reached Soul Power level thirteen.

• Xuan Zi recognized Lin Ming’s Innate Full Soul Power and offered to help him obtain a soul ring, but Lin Ming refused and asked Lin Feng instead.
• Lin Ming gave Lin Feng two meat buns, and Lin Feng carried him to the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lin Ming asked Lin Feng to find him a soul beast with strong attack power, and Lin Feng brought him to an eight-hundred-year Giant Claw Dragon.
• Lin Feng subdued and weakened the Giant Claw Dragon, and Lin Ming killed it with his Sky-Propping Spear before absorbing its soul ring.
• The Prayer Angel’s origin power repaired the damage to Lin Ming’s meridians as he absorbed the ring, raising his Soul Power to level thirteen.
• Lin Ming revealed his first soul skill, Sky-Propping Battle Intent, which gave him an all-attribute boost that astonished Lin Feng.

Lin Ming revealed his powerful first Spirit Ring and teased Beibei over their difference in Soul Power before cooking grilled fish with Xuan Zi by Sea God Lake. The chapter ended with Lin Ming asking Xuan Zi to bring him a thousand-year soul beast leg for his next meal.

• Lin Ming told Lin Feng that his first soul skill increased all attributes by fifty percent and attack power by one hundred percent, and Lin Feng eagerly took him back to Shrek Academy.
• Lin Ming met Beibei, who proudly showed off his four-hundred-year Spirit Ring and near-Level-Twelve Soul Power, then Lin Ming revealed his eight-hundred-year Spirit Ring and Level Thirteen Soul Power, leaving Beibei dejected.
• Xuan Zi joined Lin Ming by Sea God Lake and helped catch fish, which Lin Ming seasoned and grilled for them.
• Beibei returned after following the smell of the fish, and Lin Ming shared some with him.
• Lin Ming asked Xuan Zi to bring a thousand-year soul beast leg next time, and Xuan Zi agreed.

Lin Ming defeated Beibei in a spar, provoking him into renewed determination, then asked Lin Feng to teach him spear techniques. Lin Feng gave him a manual of basic techniques he had created.

• Beibei challenged Lin Ming to prove that Spirit Ring age and Soul Power Level did not determine everything, and they arranged a duel on Sea God Island.
• Lin Ming outmaneuvered Beibei with the Sky-Propping Spear and defeated him, telling him to get disciplined.
• Beibei vowed to surpass Lin Ming, while Mu En approved of the pressure that had spurred him on.
• Lin Ming returned to his room to cultivate, and Lin Feng came back from boasting about his grandson to the elders.
• Lin Ming asked Lin Feng to teach him spear techniques, and Lin Feng handed him a manual of basic techniques he had created.

Lin Feng taught Lin Ming three basic spear moves and explained Spear Intent. Lin Ming rapidly mastered the moves, leaving Lin Feng convinced that his grandson could become a Limit Douluo.

• Lin Feng demonstrated the spear thrust and told Lin Ming that he had sensed Spear Intent.
• Lin Feng showed Lin Ming an upward sweep, and Lin Ming copied it well enough to produce a sonic boom.
• Lin Feng demonstrated the sweep, destroying a boulder with a wave of air and Spear Intent.
• Lin Ming immediately copied the sweep and blasted a thick tree, astonishing Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng celebrated Lin Ming's potential to become a Limit Douluo, and Lin Ming told him not to curse him.

Lin Ming and Beibei stood up to a group of noble Soul Grandmasters harassing a lemonade seller, and Lin Ming defeated them. He then pretended to be injured and called Xuan Zi over, leaving the nobles helpless under Xuan Zi’s pressure.

• Lin Ming and Beibei visited a snack street, where a group of noble youths shoved them aside and the leader, Song, grabbed the lemonade seller Xiao Ling.
• Lin Ming confronted Song to defend Xiao Ling, and Beibei joined him as the nobles revealed their martial souls and challenged them.
• Lin Ming activated his first soul skill and swept the noble Soul Grandmasters aside with his spear, seriously injuring their Green Wolf leader.
• After learning the leader was a marquis’s son, Lin Ming pretended to be frightened, then called for Xuan Zi and claimed the nobles had injured him.
• Xuan Zi arrived and moved to take Lin Ming for treatment, but Lin Ming insisted he settle the matter first, and Xuan Zi’s pressure immobilized the noble youths.

Lin Ming used Xuan Zi’s authority to get a group of Shrek Academy playboys expelled, then gathered Xuan Zi, Zhang Lexuan, and Beibei at Sea God Lake for a late-night grilled skewer feast. The chapter ended as Lin Ming lifted the first batch of skewers from the grill.

• Xuan Zi summoned Yan Shaozhe and had the playboys expelled from Shrek Academy after they bullied Lin Ming.
• After Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe left, Lin Ming taunted the playboys until they fled, then accepted lemon water from the stall owner.
• That night, Xuan Zi brought Lin Ming thousand-year cow and sheep legs, and Lin Ming decided to grill them by Sea God Lake.
• Lin Ming fetched Zhang Lexuan and Beibei to join him while Xuan Zi prepared the grill and caught fish.
• Lin Ming grilled beef and mutton skewers, and Xuan Zi, Zhang Lexuan, and Beibei eagerly waited for the food.

After six years of training, Lin Ming reached level forty and decided to seek a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring despite Lin Feng’s warnings about its dangerous spiritual shockwaves. The chapter left Lin Ming and Lin Feng on their way to the Star Dou Great Forest, with Lin Feng urging him to choose a safer ring.

• Mu En joined Lin Ming, Xuan Zi, and Zhang Lexuan for Lin Ming’s cooking and enjoyed the meal.
• Six years later, Lin Ming easily defeated Beibei in a sparring match and urged him to train harder.
• Mu En watched Beibei’s cheerful friendship with Lin Ming and felt glad that his great-grandson had become happier.
• Lin Ming broke through to level forty after meditating, and Lin Feng agreed to take him to find a fourth soul ring.
• Lin Ming chose to pursue a ten-thousand-year soul ring, but Lin Feng warned him that its spiritual shockwaves could be fatal and advised him to settle for a ring under ten thousand years.

Lin Ming chose a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear for his fourth soul ring, and Lin Feng took him into the Star Dou Great Forest to find one. Xuan Zi secretly lured three bears to them, leaving Lin Feng facing a dangerous fight while protecting Lin Ming.

• Lin Ming told Lin Feng that he wanted a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and Lin Feng accepted his choice after hearing Mu En had tested his spiritual power.
• Xuan Zi followed Lin Feng and Lin Ming toward the Star Dou Great Forest, hunting soul beasts for meat along the way.
• Lin Feng led Lin Ming into the depths of the Mixed Zone and cautiously searched for a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.
• Xuan Zi found a nest and lured three bears, each over ten thousand years old, toward Lin Feng and Lin Ming.
• Lin Feng realized that fighting all three bears would be difficult because he had to protect Lin Ming and could not use his full strength.

Lin Ming chose and killed an eighteen-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear to obtain his fourth Spirit Ring, then discovered it had dropped a rare Right Palm Bone. The chapter ended with Xuan Zi urging him to absorb both rewards.

• Lin Feng struggled to protect Lin Ming while fighting three Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears until Xuan Zi appeared and subdued them.
• Xuan Zi revealed the bears’ estimated ages, and Lin Ming chose the one with around eighteen thousand years of cultivation.
• Lin Ming killed the selected bear with his Sky-Propping Spear and watched its ink-black Spirit Ring emerge.
• Lin Ming searched the bear’s corpse and found a golden Right Palm Bone in its right claw.
• Xuan Zi identified the find as a rare External Soul Bone and urged Lin Ming to absorb the Spirit Ring and Soul Bone.

Lin Ming absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s Spirit Ring, surviving its violent Soul Power and Soul Shock after a mysterious woman intervened in his Sea of Spirit. He awakened with the fourth Spirit Skill, Wrath of the Sky-Propping Spear, and revealed its powerful effects to Lin Feng and Xuan Zi.

• Lin Ming began absorbing the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s Spirit Ring, and its remnant soul attacked his Sea of Spirit with Soul Shock.
• As Lin Ming’s Sea of Spirit neared irreparable damage, a mysterious green-lit woman calmed the remnant soul and made it disperse.
• In the God Realm, the Goddess of Life worried that she had broken the rules by helping Lin Ming, but Destruction reassured her.
• Lin Ming completed the Spirit Ring absorption, awakened, and told Lin Feng and Xuan Zi that his fourth Spirit Skill was Wrath of the Sky-Propping Spear.
• Lin Ming demonstrated that the skill raised all his attributes by one hundred percent and granted Bloodlust, which heightened fighting spirit and reduced pain perception by fifty percent.

Lin Ming absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s Soul Bone and demonstrated its immense power before starting at Shrek Academy with Beibei. When Beibei revealed that Tang Ya had invited him to join the Tang Sect, Lin Ming angrily tried to dissuade him, with Destruction secretly emboldening him.

• Lin Ming absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone and used its Dark Gold Terrorclaw skill to shatter a boulder and slice through a tree.
• When Shrek’s school term began, Lin Ming and Beibei were assigned to the same Outer Court class and dormitory, and Zhang Lexuan visited Lin Ming before showing him around the academy.
• Lin Ming found Beibei examining a Silent Sleeve Arrow Tang Ya had given him and learned that she had invited him to join the Tang Sect as deputy sect master.
• Beibei said he had not decided whether to join, but Lin Ming declared that not even dogs would join the Tang Sect and told Beibei he was not allowed to join either.
• Destruction secretly encouraged Lin Ming to curse the Tang Sect, while Beibei questioned why Lin Ming had become so worked up.

Lin Ming stopped Beibei from joining Tang Ya’s sect by warning that it would end their friendship, while Tang San’s attempt to influence Beibei was thwarted by Destruction. The next morning, Beibei agreed to help Tang Ya expand the Tang Sect, and the students’ first class began with a contest to choose a class monitor.

• Lin Ming explained that Tang Ya was using a gift to draw Beibei into the Tang Sect, then convinced Beibei to abandon the idea by threatening to end their friendship.
• Tang San raged after learning that Lin Ming had blocked his plan to recruit Beibei, while Destruction celebrated Tang San’s failure.
• The next morning, Tang Ya asked Beibei to join the Tang Sect, but he declined because of his status and offered instead to help expand it within his power.
• Lin Ming, Beibei, and Tang Ya entered Class One, Year One, where their homeroom teacher, Li Wei, introduced herself.
• Li Wei announced that students could nominate themselves for class monitor, which would go to the strongest student in the class.

Lin Ming secured the class monitor position in Class One, Year One after revealing his extraordinary strength, and Beibei won the vice class monitor position in a spar. The class ended its leadership selection with both positions filled.

• Lin Ming introduced himself as a twelve-year-old level-forty-five Soul Ancestor and revealed his Sky-Propping Spear and powerful Spirit Rings, including a genuine ten-thousand-year fourth ring.
• Lin Ming declared his goal of becoming the Outer Court boss, and the class accepted him as class monitor without a challenge.
• Beibei introduced himself as a level-thirty-three Soul Elder and sought the vice class monitor position.
• Wang Gang and Li Qing challenged Beibei, so Li Wei took the class to the Outer Court arena for a spar.
• Beibei used his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and Thunderous Might to defeat Wang Gang and Li Qing, earning the vice class monitor position.

Lin Ming sought a chance to test his strength and challenged Li Wei to spar during the class’s combat lesson. Their fight began with Lin Ming matching her staff with his spear and using several soul skills, leaving Li Wei facing a choice about whether to use her fifth soul skill.

• Lin Ming spotted Tang Ya cultivating the Purple Demon Eye beneath the girls' dormitory at dawn.
• Li Wei led the class to a training ground and assigned Lin Ming to watch the students’ matches because he was far stronger than them.
• Lin Ming asked to fight Li Wei when she told him to spar with her instead, and she accepted in front of the class.
• Lin Ming and Li Wei released their Martial Souls and began a close-range fight with the Sky-Propping Spear and Dragon Pattern Staff.
• Li Wei enhanced her staff with her third soul skill, but Lin Ming countered with his first and second soul skills before launching Sky-Propping Break.
• Li Wei realized she had to choose whether to use her fifth soul skill against Lin Ming.

Lin Ming defeated Li Wei in a spar but helped her save face by telling the students she had protected him, then learned Tang Ya was again trying to recruit Beibei into the Tang Sect. Lin Ming decided he and Beibei would offer money for the Tang Sect’s techniques and planned to confront Tang Ya the next day.

• Li Wei used her fifth soul skill against Lin Ming, but his third soul skill overcame it and left him unharmed while she fell to one knee.
• Lin Ming told the students that Li Wei had taken the collision’s force to protect him, preserving her standing while his own prestige rose.
• Beibei told Lin Ming that Tang Ya had again invited him to join the Tang Sect and promised him techniques inherited from Tang San.
• Lin Ming said they should buy the techniques instead of joining the Tang Sect, especially because he wanted the Purple Demon Eye.
• Lin Ming put a card containing one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins on the table and said he and Beibei would speak with Sect Master Tang the next day.

Lin Ming and Beibei visited Tang Ya to learn about the Tang Sect’s techniques, and Lin Ming negotiated to buy them instead of joining. Tang Ya sold all the Tang Sect’s supreme arts for eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins, leaving Lin Ming promising to consider helping her recruit members.

• Lin Ming and Beibei visited Tang Ya in her dorm room to ask about the Tang Sect techniques she had told Beibei about.
• Tang Ya demonstrated the Tang Sect’s hidden weapons and arts, including Mysterious Jade Hand, Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, Purple Demon Eye, and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Lin Ming said he and Beibei wanted to purchase the techniques rather than join the Tang Sect, and Tang Ya initially refused to share them with outsiders.
• Lin Ming offered Tang Ya Gold Soul Cards and pointed out that she was the Tang Sect’s only remaining member, then warned that he could influence whether others joined.
• Tang Ya agreed to sell the techniques on the condition that Lin Ming not pass them on to others, and Lin Ming promised to share them only with his closest family and loved ones.
• Lin Ming bought all the Tang Sect’s supreme arts for eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins and promised to consider helping Tang Ya recruit members.

Lin Ming and Xuan Zi hunted Spirit Beasts together, then Xuan Zi used Lin Ming as bait to lure a ten-thousand-year beast. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion appeared, and Xuan Zi suppressed her just as another figure rushed from the shadows.

• Lin Ming used Tang Sect secret arts to hunt a hundred-year Blue-Headed Duck, which he and Xuan Zi roasted and ate.
• Xuan Zi persuaded Lin Ming to seek a ten-thousand-year Spirit Beast, claiming they would only kill one that attacked first.
• Xuan Zi tied Lin Ming to a tree in the Mixed Zone and hid nearby to use him as bait.
• Lin Ming sensed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion approaching and recognized her as the Emperor Auspicious Beast.
• Xuan Zi's Soul Power hand suppressed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion as a fiery red figure rushed out of the shadows.

Xuan Zi subdued Scarlet King and forced Lin Ming to touch foreheads with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, triggering a shared vision of their memories and fates. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion saw fragments of Lin Ming’s strange existence and a future in which she took human form, leaving her stunned by what came next.

• Xuan Zi suppressed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion while Lin Ming escaped the Soul Power lock and came to examine and pet her.
• Scarlet King demanded the Auspicious Beast’s release, but Xuan Zi ignored him and ordered Lin Ming to press his forehead against hers.
• Xuan Zi used his Martial Soul and overwhelming Soul Power to hold Scarlet King back as Lin Ming touched the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Eye of Destiny.
• A golden cocoon enveloped Lin Ming and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and they entered a vision of her memories and his past and present lives.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion saw only faint fragments of Lin Ming’s fate, including a scene of herself taking human form, and the next fragment shattered her worldview.