Chapter Summaries

Lin Ming returned from the poisonous miasma after breaking through to Soul King, while Xuan Zi admitted he had forgotten to protect him because he was drinking. Lin Ming gave his grandfather Lin Feng a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma, leaving Lin Feng stunned at the chance to break through to Super Douluo.

• Lin Ming found Xuan Zi waiting outside the poisonous miasma, where Xuan Zi confessed he had stayed drunk and never entered it.
• Lin Ming disguised the medicinal scent on his clothes as herbs from the miasma and flew back to Shrek Academy with Xuan Zi.
• Lin Ming returned to Lin Feng's residence, where Lin Feng recognized that he had broken through to Soul King.
• Lin Ming presented Lin Feng with a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma, and Lin Feng reacted with shock and emotion at the rare herb.

Lin Ming gave Lin Feng a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma to help him break through his long-standing Rank 94 bottleneck. Lin Feng reached Rank 95 and embraced Lin Ming in gratitude.

• Lin Ming insisted that Lin Feng use the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma instead of saving it for Lin Ming's distant future.
• Lin Feng entered his cultivation room and consumed the herb, directing its medicinal power against his Rank 94 bottleneck.
• Lin Ming reflected on his gains from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while waiting for Lin Feng's breakthrough.
• Lin Feng shattered his bottleneck and reached Rank 95, becoming a Super Douluo.
• Lin Feng rushed out and embraced Lin Ming, crying as Lin Ming congratulated him.

After Lin Feng broke through to Super Douluo, Lin Ming finished the school year as Shrek Outer Court’s top student and traveled to Dragon City to seek Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow. He infiltrated Earth Dragon Gate and jumped into the hidden well beneath its rear courtyard.

• Lin Feng thanked Lin Ming for helping him become a Super Douluo, and the two went out to celebrate.
• Lin Ming again placed first in the end-of-year assessment with 200 points, far ahead of Beibei’s 148 points.
• Lin Ming spoke with Jiang Nannan, then decided to travel to Dragon City to obtain Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.
• Lin Ming packed his travel supplies, flew north for three days, and surveyed Earth Dragon Gate’s grounds and guard rotations.
• Lin Ming entered Earth Dragon Gate at night, found the neglected well in its rear courtyard, and jumped into it.

Lin Ming secretly entered an underground cave beneath a well and collected forty-five Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrows and the surrounding Ice Extreme Divine Crystal. He returned to the inn before dawn, carrying the treasures he would need for his future trip to the Far North.

• Lin Ming found a hidden passage beneath the well and reached an underground cave filled with Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.
• Lin Ming summoned Bi Ji and borrowed a single use of Di Tian's Ultimate Darkness Soul Power to cut through the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal.
• Lin Ming gathered all the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal and uprooted all forty-five Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrows, storing them in his Soul Tool.
• Lin Ming returned to the inn before dawn and went to sleep, keeping the treasures' future purpose to himself.

Lin Ming traveled to the Far North to negotiate with the Ice Empress, whose body was nearing its limit after nearly four hundred thousand years of cultivation. He showed her a piece of Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, and she recognized its value as they began discussing terms.

• Lin Ming recovered at an inn, counted his forty-five pieces of Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, and set out for the Far North.
• Bi Ji sensed the powerful, pure ice aura ahead and noted that the Ice Empress's condition seemed unstable.
• Lin Ming reached the Ice Empress's palace and called for an audience.
• The Ice Empress appeared and challenged Lin Ming, questioning why a human Soul King had come to her territory.
• Lin Ming offered a piece of Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow as proof he had something worth discussing, and the Ice Empress recognized it.

Lin Ming offered Ice Empress a chance to survive her coming heavenly tribulation if she sacrificed herself to him, promising to preserve her spiritual consciousness and rebuild her body after he became a god. Ice Empress weighed the uncertain promise against certain death but had not yet decided.

• Ice Empress threatened Lin Ming after he demanded that she sacrifice herself, but Bi Ji appeared and used her authority as his Dao protector to make Ice Empress hear him out.
• Lin Ming revealed that Ice Empress’s body was failing and that Snow Empress suffered a similar condition, shocking Ice Empress with his knowledge.
• Lin Ming presented ten pieces of Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow and said they could heal Ice Empress’s injuries and help her survive her next heavenly tribulation.
• Ice Empress rejected the demand to sacrifice herself, but Lin Ming explained that her spiritual consciousness would survive and that he would reconstruct her body after becoming a god.
• Bi Ji confirmed Lin Ming’s agreement with Di Tian and vouched for his potential, while Ice Empress considered the risk of trusting him against the certainty of death.

Lin Ming accepted the Ice Empress’s sacrifice after promising to heal Snow Empress and help her survive the Seventh Heavenly Tribulation. He became a level sixty-two Soul Emperor with a four-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring and Ultimate Ice, then set out to find Snow Empress in the Far North.

• The Ice Empress agreed to sacrifice herself after Lin Ming promised to use the Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow to heal Snow Empress and help her survive the Seventh Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Ice Empress sacrificed her power to Lin Ming, whose meridians were repeatedly broken and repaired as his Soul Power rose to level sixty-two.
• Lin Ming gained a blood-red sixth Spirit Ring with four golden patterns, the Ice Empress’s Left Arm Bone, and the power of Ultimate Ice.
• Lin Ming told Bi Ji they had to find Snow Empress so he could keep his promise, then traveled deeper into the Far North.
• Bi Ji warned Lin Ming that Snow Empress ruled the territory ahead and had a cultivation nearing seven hundred thousand years, but Lin Ming continued through the blizzard.

Lin Ming delivered Ice Empress’s token and ten pieces of Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow to Snow Empress, explaining Ice Empress’s sacrifice and her request. Snow Empress absorbed the marrow and unleashed a tremendous surge of power, but whether her injuries had healed remained unknown.

• Lin Ming reached Snow Empress’s iceberg and presented Ice Empress’s crystal token and the Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.
• Lin Ming recounted Ice Empress’s sacrifice, including how she became his sixth Spirit Ring and left arm bone, and explained her request to help Snow Empress.
• Lin Ming gave Snow Empress all ten pieces of Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, honoring his promise to Ice Empress.
• Snow Empress absorbed the marrow while Lin Ming and Bi Ji watched, uncertain whether it could heal her long-standing injuries.
• After the tenth piece merged into her, Snow Empress released a powerful burst of Soul Power that shattered the ice platform and forced Lin Ming back.

Snow Empress faced the Seventh Heavenly Tribulation after reaching seven hundred thousand years of cultivation. She survived the final bolt by reflecting it with an ice crystal mirror, and Lin Ming rushed to her side as the tribulation clouds cleared.

• Snow Empress broke through to seven hundred thousand years of cultivation, triggering the Seventh Heavenly Tribulation, and Lin Ming retreated to safety with Bi Ji's warning.
• Snow Empress endured the first five bolts with her ice techniques, but the fifth left her injured and struggling.
• Snow Empress met the sixth bolt with the Heavenly Snow Woman's power and survived, while the seventh bolt gathered overhead.
• Snow Empress remembered Ice Empress's sacrifice, burned her origin to form an ice crystal mirror, and redirected the white lightning away from herself.
• Snow Empress survived the final bolt and collapsed, and Lin Ming rushed over to check on her.

Snow Empress joined Lin Ming as his guardian and entered the Black Dragon Reverse Scale before he returned to Shrek Academy. There, he reunited with Beibei and revealed that he had reached Level 63, leaving Beibei stunned.

• Snow Empress asked to accompany Lin Ming and protect him until he became a god, partly so she could be near Bing'er when she awoke.
• Lin Ming agreed to let Snow Empress live inside the Black Dragon Reverse Scale alongside Bi Ji, then left the Far North for Shrek City.
• After arriving at Shrek Academy, Lin Ming met Beibei, who proudly announced his 12,000-year fourth Spirit Ring and Level 43 cultivation.
• Lin Ming took Beibei to a secluded grove and revealed his six Spirit Rings, including two red rings, and his Level 63 cultivation.
• Beibei stared at Lin Ming in shock after learning how far his strength had advanced.

Lin Ming revealed that he had reached level sixty-three, leaving Beibei despairing over the growing gap between them before Lin Ming encouraged him to keep striving. Lin Ming then reunited with Zhang Lexuan and told her he had traveled to the Far North during the break.

• Lin Ming told Beibei that he had reached level sixty-three, and Beibei despaired at the twenty-level gap between them.
• Lin Ming reassured Beibei that his talent was exceptional and urged him to treat Lin Ming as a goal; Beibei regained his resolve to keep cultivating.
• Lin Ming left Beibei and went to the Inner Court to call for Zhang Lexuan.
• Zhang Lexuan came downstairs to greet Lin Ming, and they walked together while discussing their breaks.
• Lin Ming told Zhang Lexuan he had gone to the Far North to find something, and Zhang Lexuan joked that she worked hard so he would not surpass her.

Lin Ming and Zhang Lexuan spent the day shopping and eating together before meeting at Sea God Lake that night. Zhang Lexuan revealed she was waiting for the person she liked to grow up, and Lin Ming promised to choose her at the Sea God Fate gathering when he turned eighteen.

• Zhang Lexuan took Lin Ming shopping in Shrek City, where he carried more than a dozen bags for her.
• Lin Ming told Zhang Lexuan that he wanted to become a god so he could protect the people he cared about.
• After shopping and eating grilled fish, Lin Ming and Zhang Lexuan agreed to meet by Sea God Lake that night.
• Zhang Lexuan told Lin Ming she wanted to stay forever with the person she liked and that she was waiting for him to grow up.
• Lin Ming promised Zhang Lexuan that he would choose her at the Sea God Fate gathering when he turned eighteen.

Lin Ming and Zhang Lexuan affirmed their feelings, and Lin Ming reached level sixty-six by the end of another year at Shrek Academy. The break began with Tang Ya leaving to revive the Tang Sect, while Beibei learned just how enormous the gap between his and Lin Ming’s Soul Power had become.

• Lin Ming promised Zhang Lexuan he would become a god and keep her by his side, and she agreed to wait for him.
• Over the next year, Lin Ming advanced from level sixty-three to level sixty-six, perfected several Tang Sect secret arts, and took first place in the Outer Court examinations.
• At the start of the break, Beibei told Lin Ming that Tang Ya had left a note saying she was leaving to restore the Tang Sect.
• Beibei said he would respect Tang Ya’s choice, then told Lin Ming that his own Soul Power had reached the peak of level forty-five.
• Lin Ming revealed that he was level sixty-six, leaving Beibei stunned by the gap between them.

Lin Ming reached level sixty-six and was summoned by Yan Shaozhe to take the Inner Court Assessment after completing his third year in the Outer Court. Yan Shaozhe brought him to Sea God Island, where he met Mu En and two other people.

• Beibei learned that the gap between his level and Lin Ming's had not narrowed, then left to cultivate harder.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived and told Lin Ming that he would take him to the Inner Court Assessment.
• Lin Ming changed and packed before Yan Shaozhe explained that the assessment was required by Shrek tradition.
• Yan Shaozhe flew Lin Ming to the Inner Court on Sea God Island and described its resources and fierce competition.
• Lin Ming met Mu En and two middle-aged people at the plaza.

Lin Ming passed Shrek’s Inner Court entrance assessment by lasting three minutes against Zhao Hanlin, an eighty-eighth-level Soul Douluo. Yan Shaozhe escorted him back and told him to move into the Inner Court the next day, but Lin Ming was more curious about the cafeteria food.

• Mu En explained that Lin Ming had to survive three minutes against Inner Court instructor Zhao Hanlin to pass the entrance assessment.
• Lin Ming used his Sky-Propping Spear, Spirit Rings, and Tang Sect footwork to withstand Zhao Hanlin’s attacks.
• Lin Ming countered Zhao Hanlin’s speed-reducing soul skill with a spear strike and blocked his Earth-Splitting Strike head-on.
• Mu En stopped the test when three minutes had passed, and Zhao Hanlin welcomed Lin Ming to the Inner Court.
• Mu En granted Lin Ming access to Inner Court courses and resources and told him to move in the next day.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Lin Ming about his record, but Lin Ming asked whether the Inner Court cafeteria food was good.

Lin Ming waited near the Star Dou Great Forest to intercept Electrolux before Huo Yuhao could encounter him. After six days, Huo Yuhao finally appeared, and Lin Ming began following him while waiting for a Wind Baboon to show up.

• Lin Ming settled into his residence at Shrek Academy and looked forward to seeing Zhang Lexuan in the Inner Court.
• Lin Ming hid near the Star Dou Great Forest for six days, using Bi Ji's cloak to conceal his aura as he waited for Huo Yuhao.
• Lin Ming planned to claim Electrolux's remnant soul for himself and believed his life force could help preserve it.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at the forest outskirts, and Lin Ming followed him from a distance while avoiding detection by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Lin Ming watched Huo Yuhao search the outskirts for two days without finding a Soul Beast and continued waiting for a Wind Baboon.

Lin Ming lured Electrolux away from Huo Yuhao by using the Blade of Life’s aura, drawing the remnant soul into his Sea of Spirit. After waking in the Star Dou Great Forest, Lin Ming spoke with Electrolux, who asked about the source of his Life Force.

• Lin Ming watched Huo Yuhao encounter a ten-year Wind Baboon and waited for Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to begin its sacrifice.
• During the sacrifice, Electrolux emerged from a spatial rift as a gray orb.
• Lin Ming released the Blade of Life’s Life Force and drew Electrolux away from Huo Yuhao and toward himself.
• Electrolux entered Lin Ming’s Sea of Spirit, where his orb settled beside the Blade of Life.
• Lin Ming woke in the forest and confirmed to Electrolux that the Life Force came from the Blade of Life.
• Electrolux revealed that he was a wisp of remnant soul and asked Lin Ming if he knew who he was.

Lin Ming persuaded Electrolux to reside in his Sea of Spirit in exchange for Life Force and cultivation guidance. As Lin Ming returned to Shrek, Electrolux’s presence expanded his spiritual capacity, while the two discussed his limits and the areas in which he could teach.

• Lin Ming offered to nourish Electrolux’s remnant soul with the Blade of Life’s Life Force in return for guidance, and Electrolux agreed.
• Lin Ming told Bi Ji that Electrolux was now in his Sea of Spirit and would guide his cultivation.
• Electrolux’s presence expanded Lin Ming’s Sea of Spirit, and he reassured Lin Ming that the Prayer Angel’s unease around undead power would cause no substantial harm.
• Lin Ming changed back into his usual appearance and kept the secrets of Bi Ji, Snow Empress, and Electrolux from others.
• Electrolux explained that the Blade of Life could sustain his remnant soul for several hundred years and identified elements, laws, spiritual power, and combat as subjects he could teach.
• Lin Ming reached Shrek City at dusk and entered through the city gate.

After returning from the Star Dou Great Forest with Electrolux's remnant soul, Lin Ming prepared to enter Shrek Academy's Inner Court. Xuan Zi brought him to meet the current Shrek Seven Devils, where Lin Ming would compete for a place among them.

• Lin Ming returned to Shrek City, reflected on gaining Electrolux as a teacher, and went back to his residence, where Lin Feng told him to report to the Inner Court the next day.
• Lin Ming dreamed that he fought Tang San beneath a starry sky, then woke on the final morning of the holiday.
• Xuan Zi told Lin Ming that he could join the Shrek Seven Devils by defeating one of their combat-type Soul Masters, while anyone who defeated Lin Ming could become a reserve member of Sea God Pavilion.
• Xuan Zi led Lin Ming to the Seven Devils' training ground, where Lin Ming saw the wall commemorating past generations and resolved to put his name at the front.

Lin Ming arrived before the Shrek Seven Devils and was offered a chance to join them by defeating one of their combat-type members. Seeking to become their leader, he chose Ma Xiaotao, leaving the group stunned by his challenge.

• Lin Ming assessed Ma Xiaotao and the other six members of the Shrek Seven Devils, then decided he wanted to become their leader.
• Xuan Zi introduced Lin Ming as a level sixty-six Soul Emperor and explained that he could replace a member by defeating one of them.
• Dai Yueheng objected to Lin Ming challenging the Seven Devils, but Xuan Zi reminded him that he had won his own seat through a challenge.
• When Xuan Zi asked Lin Ming whom he would challenge, Lin Ming pointed to Ma Xiaotao.
• The other members reacted with surprise when Chen Zifeng revealed Lin Ming's level, while Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng remained unsurprised.