Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao used his strength and the system’s guidance to restore Long Yan’s legs in exchange for Long Yan becoming his sworn subordinate. He left Long Yan to recuperate and returned to the Shrek Academy members waiting at a tavern outside the Suo Tuo Grand Soul Arena.

• Lin Xiao explained that his strength came partly from the Asura God King’s cleansing and divine power, then urged Long Yan to face his unwillingness to accept defeat.
• Lin Xiao offered to heal Long Yan’s legs if he became Lin Xiao’s subordinate, and Long Yan swore an oath on his martial soul to serve him.
• Lin Xiao used the system’s injury scan, reset Long Yan’s bones, and treated his damaged legs and meridians with silver needles and Soul Power.
• Lin Xiao instructed Long Yan to rest for half a month without walking or using Soul Power, then told Chi Dragon that Long Yan was mostly healed and departed.
• Lin Xiao returned to the tavern, where Gu Yuena ran into his arms and the Shrek Academy members said they had waited because they were worried about him.

Lin Xiao reassured the Shrek students after killing Black Star, then warned them about protecting support-type Soul Masters in battle. He assigned Li Bai to guard Gu Yuena and the students while planning to seek a map fragment from the Clear Sky Sect, and the chapter ended with Gu Yuena bringing him food she had cooked herself.

• Dai Mubai worried that Black Star's family would retaliate, but Lin Xiao promised to protect Shrek Academy and advised the students to have Zhao Wuji guard them.
• Lin Xiao reviewed the Soul Battle and taught Tang San and the others that control-type and assault-type Soul Masters needed to protect their support-type teammates.
• Lin Xiao summoned Li Bai, Wang Zhaojun, and Hou Yi, explained why he had taken Long Yan as a subordinate, and said he would visit the Clear Sky Sect to obtain a map fragment.
• Lin Xiao ordered Li Bai to protect Gu Yuena and the Shrek students, including Tang San if he faced mortal danger.
• The next morning, Gu Yuena brought Lin Xiao food she had cooked herself.

Lin Xiao encouraged Oscar to test himself in one-on-one Soul Fighting and used his power to greatly increase Oscar’s strength. Oscar rushed off to fight, while Chi Dragon reported that Long Yan was recovering and learned that Lin Xiao served as a guest elder at Shrek Academy.

• Lin Xiao gave Gu Yuena a protective jade pendant and told her to take the others to Suo Tuo Grand Soul Arena.
• At the arena, Lin Xiao urged Oscar to enter one-on-one Soul Fighting despite being a support-system Soul Master.
• Lin Xiao infused Oscar with power that he said would increase his strength severalfold, and Oscar wept with excitement before heading to fight.
• Zhao Wuji went to watch Oscar’s match, while Lin Xiao told Flender that Oscar would remain undefeated unless he challenged someone above his level.
• Chi Dragon brought Lin Xiao a fruit platter and reported that Long Yan was recovering, then asked Flender about Lin Xiao’s position at Shrek Academy.

Lin Xiao accepted two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for Shrek Academy and prepared to face the Black Star Family’s ancestor, Black Dragon. After Flender revealed Lin Xiao’s identity as the Heaven Dou Empire’s Imperial Tutor, Lin Xiao visited Long Yan, whose recovery was progressing.

• Chi Dragon gave Lin Xiao two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, which Lin Xiao passed to Flender as funding for Shrek Academy.
• Chi Dragon warned that Black Dragon, a Level 93 Title Douluo whose mutated martial soul made him even stronger, was coming to seek revenge for the Black Star Family.
• Lin Xiao said he would handle Black Dragon personally and intended to eliminate the Black Star Family if necessary.
• Flender told Chi Dragon that Lin Xiao was the Heaven Dou Empire’s Imperial Tutor who had instantly killed the Level 95 Wen Mo Douluo, and asked him to keep Lin Xiao’s identity secret.
• Lin Xiao visited Long Yan and explained that the pain from his waist was part of the recovery of his bones and meridians, then gave him fruit.

Lin Xiao learned that Black Dragon had crippled Long Yan and vowed to kill him, then encountered a masked woman in black at a tavern. After their clash escalated outside, Lin Xiao revealed his name and summoned Li Bai's Green Lotus Sword.

• Long Yan told Lin Xiao that Black Dragon had shattered his legs, and Lin Xiao promised to kill Black Dragon himself.
• Lin Xiao learned that Long Yan's Three-Colored Golden Dragon martial soul was a lesser form of the legendary Nine-Colored Golden Dragon.
• Lin Xiao left the Suo Tuo Grand Soul Arena and went to a crowded tavern to refill his wine flask and order food.
• Lin Xiao recognized the masked person in black as a woman, provoking her to split their table with her sword when she became angry.
• Lin Xiao avoided the woman's attacks, moved outside the tavern, and identified himself as Lin Xiao.
• The woman in black threatened to kill Lin Xiao, and he summoned Li Bai's Green Lotus Sword.

Lin Xiao defeated Bing Ling in a sword duel, then moved them into his separate domain to keep their battle from affecting the outside world. After he revealed fabricated soul rings that appeared to mark him as a level-ninety-five Titled Douluo, Bing Ling showed her face and asked to see his.

• Lin Xiao used sword illusions and the Green Lotus Sword to defeat Bing Ling’s attacks and shatter her longsword.
• Bing Ling revealed her Snow Lotus Ice Cold martial soul and challenged Lin Xiao to defeat her before she shared her origins.
• Lin Xiao transported them to a separate domain where they could fight without affecting the outside world.
• Lin Xiao used the system to create fake soul rings and displayed eight red rings and one gold ring, convincing Bing Ling of his overwhelming strength.
• Bing Ling gave her name, removed her mask and black clothes, and asked Lin Xiao to reveal his face.

Lin Xiao met Bing Ling in Suotuo City and learned she was traveling to an auction in the Heaven Dou Empire, while the Black Dragon family arrived at the Suo Tuo Grand Soul Arena. The chapter ended with Black Dragon striking Chi Dragon and demanding to see Long Yan.

• Lin Xiao removed his mask, spoke with Bing Ling, and learned she came from the Star Luo Empire and was headed to an auction in the Heaven Dou Empire half a month later.
• Lin Xiao agreed to accompany Bing Ling to the auction, but she left the next morning while he stayed behind to deal with the Black Dragon family.
• Lin Xiao entered the Suo Tuo Grand Soul Arena with Chi Dragon's golden token and overheard Chi Dragon speaking with Black Dragon in his office.
• Black Dragon rejected the food prepared for him, asserted his status as a Titled Douluo, and reminded Chi Dragon that Long Yan was still alive.
• Black Dragon slapped Chi Dragon and ordered him to bring Long Yan to see him immediately.

Lin Xiao accepted Black Dragon Douluo’s challenge to a battle to the death at Suo Tuo Grand Soul Arena that night. After learning how ruthless Black Dragon was, Flender and the others worried about Lin Xiao and Shrek Academy, but Lin Xiao remained confident and said the children would compete as usual.

• Black Dragon threatened Chi Dragon and demanded that Lin Xiao face him in a soul fighting match, or he would slaughter Shrek Academy.
• Lin Xiao arrived, identified himself as the man Black Dragon sought, and accepted Black Dragon’s challenge for eight that night.
• Black Dragon’s follower persuaded him to settle the matter in the arena, and Black Dragon left after setting the match.
• Yu Xiaogang told Flender and Zhao Wuji about Black Dragon’s reputation as a notorious killer, and they discussed protecting Shrek Academy and its students.
• Lin Xiao returned to the hotel, reassured Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang, and said the battle would end with only one survivor.

Lin Xiao faced the Mad Team’s captain, Mad Rhino, and revealed his status as a Titled Douluo when Manager Ao recognized him. As the nobles and powerful Soul Masters gathered for Lin Xiao’s scheduled life-and-death battle with Black Dragon Douluo, Lin Xiao remained relaxed and had not yet entered the arena.

• Mad Rhino barged into the Shrek Seven Devils’ lounge, threatened Zhu Zhuqing, and defeated Dai Mubai in a brief contest of strength.
• Lin Xiao warned Mad Rhino to leave, and Manager Ao intervened before Mad Rhino could attack him.
• Manager Ao bowed to Lin Xiao as Your Excellency, revealing that Lin Xiao was a Titled Douluo; Mad Rhino and his companion hurried away.
• Lin Xiao told Manager Ao he would not enter Soul Fighting Arena Number Eight before eight, then lay down for a nap.
• After the Shrek Seven Devils defeated the Mad Team at a cost to Mad Rhino’s side, nobles and powerful Soul Masters gathered to watch Lin Xiao’s battle with Black Dragon Douluo.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Dugu Bo, and Prince Xue Xing discussed Black Dragon’s strength and the possibility of recruiting Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao appeared behind Black Dragon Douluo at the Suo Tuo Grand Soul Arena, drawing the attention of Prince Xue Xing, Ning Fengzhi, and Bibi Dong. After Black Dragon realized he had failed to notice Lin Xiao and the crowd mocked him, the two prepared to begin their battle.

• Lin Xiao appeared behind Black Dragon Douluo, and Prince Xue Xing identified him as the Heaven Dou Empire's Imperial Tutor.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that Xue Ye's distrust had driven Lin Xiao from the empire and noted that Ning Rongrong was studying at Shrek Academy.
• Bibi Dong watched Lin Xiao from a private lounge with Yue Guan and Ghostly, and said she wanted to see whether he could defeat Black Dragon.
• Black Dragon asked where Lin Xiao was, then turned around and found him standing behind him, prompting laughter from the arena.
• Black Dragon silenced the crowd, accepted Dou Dou's signal to begin, and summoned his enormous black dragon Martial Soul.

Black Dragon Douluo revealed his hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and fought Lin Xiao, whose freezing power and divine bow overwhelmed him. Black Dragon escaped Lin Xiao’s golden arrows with a Soul Bone skill and launched a surprise attack, but Lin Xiao dodged and struck him through the chest with an ice blade.

• Black Dragon Douluo revealed his red hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, stunning Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and the others.
• Lin Xiao froze the arena and summoned a crimson-gold divine bow, whose sacred arrows pierced Black Dragon Douluo’s defenses.
• Black Dragon Douluo used his Soul Bone skill, Shadow, to vanish and reappear behind Lin Xiao, while Sword Dao Chen Xin stopped the Black Dragon family elders from interfering.
• Lin Xiao used the system to locate Black Dragon Douluo, dodged his attack, and pierced his chest with a blade of ice.

Lin Xiao defeated Black Dragon Douluo after surviving his self-destructive ninth soul skill and killed him with the Asura Divine Sword. He returned to the arena with Black Dragon Douluo’s soul bones, revealing the Titled Douluo’s death and leaving the Black Dragon family facing ruin.

• Black Dragon Douluo detonated himself to unleash Myriad Dragons Ascend, sending thousands of black dragons after Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao drew the black dragons into an isolated space and used the Asura Divine Sword to destroy them and kill Black Dragon Douluo.
• Lin Xiao collected Black Dragon Douluo’s three soul bones, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, then emerged as the arena’s ice melted.
• Bibi Dong, Ning Fengzhi, and the others could not determine what had happened while Lin Xiao and Black Dragon Douluo were out of sight.
• Lin Xiao showed the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and the Black Dragon family elders realized their former family head had died.

After Lin Xiao won the match, Sword Dao Chen Xin brought him to meet Ning Fengzhi, who learned that Lin Xiao was only twenty and already a Titled Douluo. Hoping to secure Lin Xiao’s allegiance to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin urged Ning Rongrong to marry him, leaving her embarrassed and protesting that she was too young.

• Dou Dou announced Lin Xiao as the winner, and Sword Dao Chen Xin invited him to meet Ning Fengzhi while Prince Xue Xing’s request to see the emperor was rejected.
• Dugu Bo warned Prince Xue Xing that something important would happen that night, and the two left Suotuo City.
• Ning Fengzhi met Lin Xiao and learned that he was twenty, cultivated alone, and would not reveal his teacher’s name.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin agreed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect should win Lin Xiao over, then asked Ning Rongrong to marry him.
• Ning Rongrong blushed and said she was still too young.

Lin Xiao pursued the Black Dragon family elders after they fled Suo Tuo Grand Soul Arena, while Yue Guan tried to make him meet someone and was frightened into backing down. Lin Xiao caught the elders in a forest and began killing them after hearing their plans to destroy Shrek Academy; the survivors offered him their treasures to spare their lives.

• Ning Rongrong agreed to do her best to win Lin Xiao over, and Ning Fengzhi reflected that she had grown up.
• Lin Xiao found the room at Suo Tuo Grand Soul Arena empty and went after the fleeing elders, then rebuffed Yue Guan when he tried to stop him.
• The Black Dragon family elders stopped to rest in a forest, discussed their family's crisis, and threatened to kill everyone at Shrek Academy.
• Lin Xiao arrived and killed Fourth Brother with the Green Lotus Sword, then threatened Fifth Brother and the remaining elders.
• The shadowy figure pleaded for mercy and offered half the family's funds, while the other elders threw down their treasures.

Lin Xiao destroyed the Black Dragon family's strongest fighters and then confronted Bibi Dong, who offered him soul bones and the position of Spirit Hall Chief Elder. He left Bibi Dong's recruitment proposal unanswered and pulled her onto the sofa.

• Lin Xiao killed the Black Dragon family's elders and purified the black shadow's final attack, leaving the family without its strongest experts.
• Bibi Dong heard Yue Guan's report that Lin Xiao had seemed ready to kill him and sent Yue Guan and Ghostly outside.
• Lin Xiao appeared beside Bibi Dong, surprising her by entering within her spiritual perception undetected.
• Bibi Dong offered Lin Xiao three soul bones and the post of Spirit Hall Chief Elder, but Lin Xiao asked whether she thought he was afraid of Spirit Hall.
• Before Bibi Dong could hear his answer, Lin Xiao pulled her onto the sofa, and she looked at him angrily.

Lin Xiao rejected Bibi Dong’s threat and won her attention, while she offered to accept his request if he became Spirit Hall’s Chief Elder. Outside the hotel, soul masters ambushed him for his soul bones, and Lin Xiao faced their demand as Bibi Dong watched from a rooftop.

• Lin Xiao revealed his face to Bibi Dong, then asked her to become his woman, provoking her to seize him by the throat.
• Lin Xiao’s power blasted Bibi Dong into a wall, and she offered to accept his request if he became Spirit Hall’s Chief Elder.
• Bibi Dong warned Lin Xiao that his actions would provoke others, while Lin Xiao ordered Li Bai to kill anyone who threatened them.
• A Soul Saint ambushed Lin Xiao outside the hotel, but Lin Xiao tore off the attacker’s arm and demanded to know where his accomplices were.
• Three Soul Douluo confronted Lin Xiao and demanded that he hand over his three soul bones, while Bibi Dong watched from a rooftop.

Lin Xiao killed the Soul Douluo and his men after they threatened him, then returned to Suo Tuo Grand Soul Arena and learned Long Yan had broken through to rank ninety. Back at Shrek Academy, he checked on the students after their battle and urged Oscar to grow strong enough to protect himself.

• Lin Xiao killed the men in black who attacked him and ordered Chi Dragon to dispose of their bodies and keep the match confidential.
• Lin Xiao visited Long Yan, who thanked him for overcoming his Inner Demon and revealed that his Soul Power had reached rank ninety.
• Lin Xiao told Long Yan to recover, obtain a soul ring, and later protect the teachers and students of Shrek Academy.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji reported that the students were safe after Li Bai and the Shrek Seven Devils helped defeat their attackers.
• Lin Xiao found the students shaken by their first kills and told Oscar that he needed to become strong enough to avoid being bullied or humiliated.

After the attack on Shrek Academy, Lin Xiao reassured the students and laid out plans for the academy while preparing to travel to the Heaven Dou Empire. The chapter ended with the teachers dividing up the Black Dragon family’s spoils and a brief unrelated exchange about Qin Feng.

• Lin Xiao comforted Oscar and Na'er, then asked the students whether they were worried about further attacks on Shrek Academy.
• Lin Xiao ordered the students to continue their usual training, said Chi Dragon would help them, and announced that a Titled Douluo would soon join Shrek Academy.
• Lin Xiao told Flender he would leave for the Heaven Dou Empire the next morning for half a month and handed him the Soul Tools and spoils taken from the fallen Black Dragon family elders.
• Lin Xiao left with Gu Yuena, and Flender sent the Shrek Seven Devils back to rest before joking with the other teachers about the money.
• Master went to question Tang San, while a brief exchange showed Qin Feng dismissing someone’s claim of being invincible as an illusion.

Lin Xiao traveled to Heaven Dou City to attend the imperial auction, but he arrived without money and planned to sell a soul bone if he found something he wanted. After entering with Chi Dragon’s token, he looked for Bing Ling shortly before the auction began.

• Wang Zhaojun questioned Lin Xiao about giving Flender his resources, and Lin Xiao admitted he might need to auction a soul bone for money.
• Lin Xiao left Shrek Academy and reached Heaven Dou City half a year later, where he learned that the young noble Yu Jiefu was a level-forty-five Soul Ancestor.
• A Soul Saint admitted Lin Xiao to the Heaven Dou Empire auction house after he presented Chi Dragon’s token.
• Lin Xiao waited in the auction hall, noticed Bing Ling was missing, and went to the entrance to look for her.
• Manager Wang offered to help find Lin Xiao’s friend and warned him that the auction was about to begin.

Lin Xiao found Bing Ling behind the Heaven Dou Empire Auction and brought her inside with his token. He offered a fifty-thousand-year dark-attribute soul bone for auction and learned it could start at two million Gold Soul Coins, with a possible sale price in the tens of millions.

• Lin Xiao used the system to locate Bing Ling, who was hiding behind the auction house after entering without a token.
• Lin Xiao escorted Bing Ling through the auction entrance, where Manager Wang welcomed him and led them to an appraiser.
• Lin Xiao revealed a pitch-black fifty-thousand-year dark-attribute soul bone, surprising the old appraiser.
• The old appraiser set the soul bone's starting price at around two million Gold Soul Coins and estimated it could sell for tens of millions.
• Lin Xiao accepted the potential sale, planning to use the money to bid on items he wanted.