Chapter Summaries

Xu Jiujiu chose the Spirit Eater Carving Knife as the final item for an upcoming auction, while Lin Ming and Zhang Lexuan traveled to Star Luo City for the event. Lin Ming got Zhang Lexuan to promise she would be with him when he was old enough to participate in Sea God Fate, then took her out to eat.

• Xu Jiujiu chose the Spirit Eater Carving Knife for the auction despite her doubts that anyone would bid on it.
• Lin Ming and Zhang Lexuan read the Star Luo Auction House notice and discussed the item Lin Ming hoped to find at the auction.
• Lin Ming reminded Zhang Lexuan that she had once agreed to marry him, and she promised to be with him when he was old enough to participate in Sea God Fate.
• Lin Ming took Zhang Lexuan to a barbecue restaurant and ordered skewers for them to grill as they ate.
• Zhang Lexuan tried to eat a raw garlic clove before her meat and coughed from its sharp taste.

Lin Ming and Zhang Lexuan attended the Star Luo Auction House, where Lin Ming used his wealth to bid on a Beauty Pill as a gift for her. After he offered one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, the hall fell silent and no one immediately challenged his bid.

• Zhang Lexuan learned to eat meat with garlic after Lin Ming showed her how.
• Lin Ming revealed he had one million Gold Soul Coins, earned from Lin Feng and Xuan Zi, and passed the auction house's asset verification.
• Lin Ming and Zhang Lexuan took seats in the auction hall, where Xu Jiujiu began the auction and presented a Beauty Pill.
• Lin Ming told Zhang Lexuan the pill would be a gift for her, then bid one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• The high bid silenced the hall as Xu Jiujiu asked whether anyone would offer more.

Lin Ming waited for the Spirit Eater Carving Knife to appear at the auction and bought it despite its cursed reputation. After the auction, Xu Jiujiu personally received him and learned his name.

• Lin Ming ignored the early auction lots while waiting for the item he had come to buy.
• Xu Jiujiu presented the ninety-ninth-ranked Spirit Eater Carving Knife, whose curse-filled aura frightened the Soul Engineers.
• Lin Ming bid 100,000 Gold Soul Coins for the knife, and no one competed with him.
• Lin Ming and Zhang Lexuan went backstage to pay and collect their purchases after the auction.
• Xu Jiujiu personally received Lin Ming, thanked him for preventing the Spirit Eater Carving Knife from going unsold, and asked his name.

Lin Ming and Zhang Lexuan returned to their inn after the auction, where Zhang Lexuan absorbed the Beauty Pill and Lin Ming purified the cursed Spirit Eater Carving Knife. He transformed it into the Blade of Life and prepared to integrate it into his Sea of Spirit.

• Xu Jiujiu gave Lin Ming a membership card and a discount on his auction purchases, and Lin Ming left the auction house with Zhang Lexuan.
• Zhang Lexuan absorbed the Beauty Pill and saw that her skin and condition had improved.
• Lin Ming used his Prayer Angel Martial Soul to suppress the black mist from the Spirit Eater Carving Knife while Zhang Lexuan protected herself with moonlight.
• A green light from the Goddess of Life's blessing helped Lin Ming purify the curse, turning the Spirit Eater Carving Knife into the Blade of Life.
• Lin Ming asked Zhang Lexuan to stand guard while he prepared to integrate the Blade of Life into his Sea of Spirit.

Lin Ming fused with the Blade of Life and returned to Shrek City with Zhang Lexuan, where his changed aura drew notice from his friends. Back home, he used his Prayer Angel Martial Soul to calm Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, leaving her with a deep reverence for him and an unfamiliar feeling.

• Lin Ming connected the Blade of Life to his Sea of Spirit, and it entered his body and could be summoned from his forehead.
• Lin Ming and Zhang Lexuan rode back to Shrek City, where Beibei, Tang Ya, and Jiang Nannan noticed Lin Ming’s changed temperament; Lin Ming revealed he had reached level forty-eight and resolved to get Beibei training again.
• Lin Ming and Zhang Lexuan returned home and found Lin Feng and Lao Deng struggling to contain Ma Xiaotao during an Evil Fire flare-up.
• Lin Ming used his Prayer Angel Martial Soul to clear Ma Xiaotao’s mind, drawing Power of Faith from her as she began to regard him with reverence and developed an unfamiliar feeling.

Ma Xiaotao recovered from her Evil Fire, and Lin Ming used the Blade of Life to replenish Lin Feng’s vitality before collapsing from the mental strain. At the start of the second-year assessment, Jiang Nannan passed her soul-beast trial, though Yan Shaozhe criticized her lack of a finishing technique.

• Ma Xiaotao thanked Lin Ming after he helped calm her Evil Fire, and Lin Ming demanded compensation from Yan Shaozhe for the damage and Lao Deng’s distress.
• Lin Ming stabbed the Blade of Life into Lin Feng’s back to channel life force into him, then fainted from the mental strain; Lin Feng carried him to bed and realized the treatment had extended his life.
• The second-year students returned to Shrek and began a team assessment in which each student had to defeat a soul beast of at least a hundred years.
• Lin Ming was grouped with Beibei and Tang Ya, and Yan Shaozhe noticed Lin Ming’s dismissive comment about him.
• Jiang Nannan chose a five-hundred-year soul beast and defeated a Rock Giant Bear by dodging its attacks until it exhausted itself.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Jiang Nannan a score of one hundred and ten, praising her mobility but noting that she lacked an effective way to subdue her opponent.

Tang Ya and Beibei completed their combat assessments, with Beibei earning 145 points after defeating a thousand-year Flame Tiger. Lin Ming entered the arena and declared that he wanted to fight ten thousand-year soul beasts.

• Lin Ming advised Tang Ya to choose a hundred-year soul beast, and she defeated a Gale Rabbit with her Blue Silver Grass for 75 points.
• Beibei chose a thousand-year soul beast and faced a Flame Tiger, using his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul to overpower it.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded Beibei 145 points, noting that his aggressive fighting style carried risks.
• Lin Ming chose a thousand-year soul beast, then announced that he wanted to fight ten.

Lin Ming requested to fight ten Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, but Yan Shaozhe changed the challenge to one twenty-thousand-year Soul Beast. Despite Gong Changlong's objections, Lin Ming accepted and the beast was about to be released.

• Lin Ming asked the referee to let him fight ten Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, startling everyone in the arena.
• Yan Shaozhe approved a fight against one twenty-thousand-year Soul Beast instead and promised Lin Ming a scholarship if he won.
• Gong Changlong objected that the challenge was too dangerous for a Soul Ancestor, but Lin Ming insisted he could handle it.
• Yan Shaozhe promised to take responsibility, and Gong Changlong agreed to watch.
• Lin Ming accepted the challenge and told the referee to release the Soul Beast.

Lin Ming fought a twenty-thousand-year Flame Lion in the Beast Fighting Arena and used his spirit skills and spear techniques to overpower it. As the enraged beast charged, Lin Ming met it head-on with Sky-Propping Break.

• The iron gate opened, and a twenty-thousand-year Flame Lion emerged as Beibei and Tang Ya worried while Zhang Lexuan trusted Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming summoned the Sky-Propping Spear and used Sky-Propping Battle Intent and Sky-Propping Prohibition to split the Flame Lion’s fireball.
• Lin Ming dodged the Flame Lion’s claw, then used Wrath of the Sky-Propping Spear to lift it and drive it backward with Thirty-Six Sky-Propping Spears.
• The Flame Lion unleashed its innate Flame Charge, and Lin Ming activated Sky-Propping Break to meet its charge head-on.

Lin Ming defeated a twenty-thousand-year Flame Lion alone and earned an unprecedented score of two hundred points, outshining Beibei. After the assessment, he walked with Zhang Lexuan and reaffirmed that he planned to marry her when he became powerful.

• Lin Ming pierced the Flame Lion's throat, restrained it, and killed it with a second strike through the wound.
• The arena erupted in cheers as Lin Ming withdrew his Martial Soul and reminded Yan Shaozhe to honor his scholarship promise.
• Gong Changlong and the judges praised Lin Ming's performance, and Yan Shaozhe awarded him two hundred points, beyond full marks.
• Beibei vowed to surpass Lin Ming and began resolving to cultivate until he reached Soul Ancestor.
• After the assessment, Lin Ming found Zhang Lexuan, and the two walked together as he said he would marry her in the future.

After Lin Ming slipped away from Shrek Academy to hunt for food in the Star Dou Great Forest, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed his arrival and alerted Di Tian. The Beast God and the Auspicious Beast confronted Lin Ming in the forest, leaving him terrified and seemingly trapped.

• Beibei saw Lin Ming's two hundred-point assessment score and vowed to cultivate until he reached Soul Ancestor, while Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan guessed Lin Ming had discouraged him.
• Three days after the Freshman Assessment, Lin Ming secretly left Shrek Academy to hunt in the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed Lin Ming's Fate Power and urged Di Tian to capture him, so Di Tian set off with the Auspicious Beast.
• Lin Ming noticed the forest had fallen silent, then felt Di Tian's overwhelming pressure as the Beast God and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion appeared above him.
• Lin Ming recognized Di Tian and the Auspicious Beast and feared that he was finished.

Di Tian brought Lin Ming before the Star Dou Great Forest’s fierce beast kings to question him about the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s vision of her death. Lin Ming claimed he existed beyond the River of Fate and warned that the Auspicious Beast would take human form, fall in love with a human, and sacrifice herself for him.

• Di Tian seized Lin Ming and brought him to the Emerald Lake, where Bi Ji, Scarlet King, Bear Lord, King of Ten Thousand Monsters, and other beast kings had gathered with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Di Tian asked Lin Ming to explain why the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had seen her own death in his memories.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion said Lin Ming’s memories suggested he did not exist within the River of Fate and that no one could control his destiny.
• Lin Ming claimed that even the God Kings of the God Realm could not control him and said he could perceive the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s fate.
• Lin Ming told the beast kings that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion would choose to take human form, fall in love with a human, and sacrifice herself to save him.

Lin Ming convinced Di Tian that he could save the Auspicious Beast and bargained for four 500,000-year Spirit Rings in exchange for future protection of the soul beast race. Di Tian agreed to assign Bi Ji to protect Lin Ming while he grew stronger.

• Lin Ming told Di Tian that the Auspicious Beast might sacrifice herself for Huo Yuhao and claimed he could change her fate.
• Lin Ming revealed his Prayer Angel Martial Soul and argued that his extraordinary talent made him worth four 500,000-year Spirit Rings.
• Di Tian and Lin Ming settled on four Spirit Rings in exchange for Lin Ming's promise to protect the Star Dou Great Forest after becoming a god.
• Lin Ming told the Auspicious Beast to take control of her own fate and said it was too early to reveal what she must do.
• Lin Ming asked Di Tian for protection, and Di Tian assigned Bi Ji to guard him.

Lin Ming left the Star Dou Great Forest with a Reverse Scale that could shelter Bi Ji and summon Di Tian, while promising to find a solution for the Auspicious Beast within ten years. Back at Shrek Academy, he decided to seek immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and went to Yan Shaozhe's office.

• Di Tian gave Bi Ji a Reverse Scale with an inner space and the ability to protect Lin Ming, then gave Lin Ming ten years to solve the Auspicious Beast's situation.
• Lin Ming asked Di Tian for permission to hunt overpopulated soul beasts on the forest's outskirts, reminded the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to control her own fate, and left with Bi Ji.
• Lin Ming returned to Shrek Academy, told Lin Feng he had a bodyguard, and began cultivating as Bi Ji prepared a space inside the Reverse Scale.
• The next morning, Lin Ming decided to find immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to grow stronger before his ten-year deadline.
• Lin Ming went to Yan Shaozhe's office and entered after Yan Shaozhe invited him in.

Lin Ming received Yan Shaozhe’s approval to leave Shrek Academy for a month of training and traveled to Sunset Forest with Bi Ji’s protection. After crossing its poisonous miasma, he found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he hoped to discover rare treasures.

• Lin Ming asked Yan Shaozhe for a month of leave, and Yan Shaozhe agreed on the condition that Lin Ming report his safety every three days.
• Yan Shaozhe contacted Xuan Zi to ask him to keep an eye on Lin Ming while he was away.
• Lin Ming packed his supplies, set out for Sunset Forest, and reassured himself with Bi Ji’s protection through the Reverse Scale.
• After reaching Sunset Forest, Lin Ming used Bi Ji’s life force to pass safely through its poisonous miasma.
• Lin Ming emerged into a lush valley and discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Lin Ming found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and confronted the immortal herbs growing there. With Bi Ji’s overwhelming power forcing them to submit, he demanded a Silk Beauty Pill and the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record from Youyou.

• Lin Ming entered the valley and identified Aromatic Silk Beauty, Infernal Delicate Apricot, Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, and other immortal herbs.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty and Infernal Delicate Apricot warned Lin Ming to leave, and Infernal Delicate Apricot attacked him with a heatwave.
• Bi Ji emerged from Lin Ming’s Reverse Scale and overwhelmed the immortal herbs with her immense pressure.
• Lin Ming approached Youyou with his Sky-Propping Spear and demanded a Silk Beauty Pill and the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.

Lin Ming used Bi Ji’s overwhelming pressure to force Youyou and the two other immortal herbs to surrender their treasures and essences. After collecting them, he examined the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Lin Ming threatened Youyou until she gave him the Silk Beauty Pill and the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.
• Lin Ming demanded the essence of the Infernal Delicate Apricot and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, and both surrendered.
• Lin Ming collected the Blazing Gel and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal, then asked Bi Ji to withdraw her pressure.
• Lin Ming inspected the Fire Spring and Ice Spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Lin Ming endured Ice-Fire Body Tempering in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, using the Blade of Life to survive as the opposing forces strengthened his body. After three days, he completed the tempering and broke through to level fifty, emerging confident in his new strength.

• Lin Ming swallowed the Blazing Gel and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal and leaped into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Bi Ji guarded him.
• The well’s spring powers intensified the ice and fire raging inside Lin Ming, repeatedly damaging his body as the Blade of Life repaired it.
• Over three days, Lin Ming gradually brought the opposing powers into balance and absorbed both essences.
• Lin Ming completed Ice-Fire Body Tempering, released a burst of golden light, and broke through to level fifty.
• Lin Ming tested his newly strengthened body and concluded that one strike with the first spear of the Thirty-Six Sky-Propping Spears could defeat the twenty-thousand-year Flame Lion.

After completing Ice-Fire Body Tempering and reaching level fifty, Lin Ming searched the valley’s Immortal Herbs for a fifth Spirit Ring and chose the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo. He demanded that it sacrifice itself, threatening the other weakened herbs and promising to protect them and help the bamboo take human form if he became a god.

• Lin Ming emerged from the spring after completing Ice-Fire Body Tempering, and Bi Ji congratulated him on reaching level fifty at thirteen.
• Lin Ming inspected the valley’s Immortal Herbs for a suitable fifth Spirit Ring while the plants feared he would take more from them.
• Lin Ming found the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo and decided its attributes suited his Sky-Propping Spear Martial Soul.
• Lin Ming asked the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo to sacrifice itself as his fifth Spirit Ring, but it refused.
• Lin Ming threatened to kill the weakened Immortal Herbs unless the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo agreed, then promised to protect them and help it take human form after he became a god.

Lin Ming completed the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo's sacrifice at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, gaining a hundred-thousand-year fifth Spirit Ring and a fused External Soul Bone. After packing the Immortal Herbs and consuming the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, he left the valley to meet Xuan Zi.

• The Ink Jade Divine Bamboo agreed to sacrifice itself after Lin Ming promised to protect the other Immortal Herbs within his abilities.
• Lin Ming received the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo's Life Force, reached peak level fifty-four, and gained a hundred-thousand-year fifth Spirit Ring.
• The bamboo's final joint fused with Lin Ming's Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone, creating the External Soul Bone Ink Jade Divine Spear.
• Lin Ming tested the spear, packed the Immortal Herbs, and consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
• Bi Ji told Lin Ming that Xuan Zi had been waiting outside for several days, and Lin Ming left the poisonous miasma.