Chapter Summaries

Lin Qing gave Dugu Yan an External Soul Bone and a sixty-thousand-year Head Soul Bone, which she absorbed alongside Er Ni. Two days later, the pair told Lin Qing about their new strength, while Xiao Wu and the others wondered where the three had gone.

• Lin Qing reassured Dugu Yan that he had chosen the two Soul Bones especially for her, and she tearfully thanked him before beginning to absorb them.
• Er Ni and Dugu Yan absorbed their Soul Bones while Lin Qing kept watch over them.
• Two days later, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Meng Yiran noticed that Lin Qing, Er Ni, and Dugu Yan had not appeared for training or meals, and they speculated about their absence.
• Er Ni and Dugu Yan rested beside Lin Qing after spending an intimate night together and complained playfully about their sore waists.
• Lin Qing asked Er Ni and Dugu Yan to show him the results of absorbing their Soul Bones.

Er Ni and Dugu Yan revealed the abilities they gained from their Soul Bones, and Lin Qing warned Dugu Yan against relying on the Eight Spider Lances to shortcut cultivation. After the two left to show their new strength at the training ground, Lin Qing wrote down four goals for improving himself.

• Er Ni reached Soul Power Level 40 and described the flight and regeneration skills from her Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
• Dugu Yan reported reaching Soul Power Level 48 and explained how her Eight Spider Lances strengthened and housed her poison, devoured Soul Power and life force, and granted her Illusion Space.
• Lin Qing warned Dugu Yan that relying on devoured power for cultivation could contaminate her bloodline, and advised her to practice her new skills and integrate the Eight Spider Lances fully.
• Er Ni and Dugu Yan left for the training ground to surprise Ning Rongrong and the others with their improved strength.
• Lin Qing wrote down four goals: increase his Soul Power, improve his Soul Engineer abilities, cultivate two Battle Techniques, and study pill refining and medicine making.

Lin Qing broke through to the threshold of rank 50 and received an Ash Urn containing the final words of another Lin Qing from the Spirit Pagoda. The recording revealed that Spirit Pagoda Lin Qing had been reborn in a blank era between Peerless Tang Sect and Legend of the Dragon King, leaving the story at the beginning of his uncertain life.

• Lin Qing broke through the rank-49 bottleneck and reached the threshold of the rank-50 Soul King realm.
• An ebony Ash Urn appeared, and Lin Qing chose to hear the recorded final words of Spirit Pagoda Lin Qing.
• Lin Qing recalled the Spirit Pagoda's history and its valuable Spirit Soul, Spirit Ascension Platform, and Artificial Spirit Soul technologies.
• Spirit Pagoda Lin Qing's recording revealed that he had awakened memories of his past life at age six and identified his era as the time between Peerless Tang Sect and Legend of the Dragon King.
• The recording showed young Lin Qing awakening a Heavenly Eye Martial Soul with rank-7 Innate Soul Power, while his parents Lin Yan and Su Wan celebrated his results.

Lin Qing decided to master the Spirit Master, Soul Engineer, and Forging systems as he grew up in the Spirit Pagoda. At seven, he reached Soul Power level 10 and went with his parents to choose his first Centennial Spirit Soul.

• Lin Qing told Lin Yan and Su Wan that he wanted to join the Spirit Pagoda and become a Soul Master and Soul Engineer.
• Lin Qing resolved to master the Spirit Master, Soul Engineer, and Forging systems, believing Battle Armor would become vital in the future.
• A year later, Lin Qing reached Soul Power level 10 and became eligible for his first Spirit Soul.
• Lin Yan and Su Wan took Lin Qing to the Spirit Pagoda headquarters, where Master Liu presented three Centennial Spirit Souls suited to his Heavenly Eye Martial Soul.
• Master Liu introduced the Illusion Eye Fox, Focus Rabbit, and Truth-Seeing Eagle and asked Lin Qing to choose one.

Lin Qing chose a hundred-year Truth-Seeing Eagle Spirit Soul, gained the Insightful Truth-Seeing skill, and persuaded his parents to support his studies in Soul Tools and forging. Two years later, at age nine, he had become a Second-Ring Soul Grandmaster and was taking his Level 1 Blacksmith assessment.

• Lin Qing chose the Truth-Seeing Eagle Spirit Soul for its compatibility with his Heavenly Eye Martial Soul and fused with it successfully.
• Lin Qing gained the First Soul Skill, Insightful Truth-Seeing, and officially became a Soul Master.
• Lin Qing asked Lin Yan and Su Wan to help him study Soul Tool Knowledge and forging, and Lin Yan agreed to teach him and introduce him to Master Li Mo.
• Over the next two years, Lin Qing became a Second-Ring Soul Grandmaster, joined the Spirit Pagoda, reached Level 2 as a Soul Master, and learned to make Level 2 Soul Tools.
• At age nine, Lin Qing began his Level 1 Blacksmith assessment after learning forging under Master Li Mo and mastering Hundred-Refinement Purification on a single metal.

Lin Qing passed the Level 1 Blacksmith assessment by forging high-grade Hundred-Refined Cold Iron, earning praise from his teacher and parents. He celebrated with them but remained focused on strengthening himself and pursuing a path across three disciplines.

• Master Li Mo explained the Level 1 Blacksmith assessment, and Lin Qing began forging Cold Iron with his Forging Hammer and Heavenly Eye Martial Soul.
• Lin Qing completed a hundred precise hammer strikes, producing flawless high-grade Hundred-Refined Cold Iron with less than 0.1% impurities.
• The examiners confirmed Lin Qing had passed, and Master Li Mo declared him an official Level 1 Blacksmith.
• Lin Qing left the Blacksmith Association with his badge, and Su Wan and Lin Yan congratulated him and invited him to celebrate.
• Lin Qing reflected that his achievements still fell short of his ambitions and resolved to build a strong foundation on three paths.

At sixteen, Lin Qing had reached Soul Ancestor level and become a Level 5 Soul Master and Blacksmith, but he returned home to find the Spirit Pagoda Enforcement Squad claiming his parents had died in a Soul Tool explosion. Using his Insightful Truth-Seeing martial soul, he discovered the blast had come from outside the house, revealing that their deaths had been staged as an accident.

• Lin Qing recounted his growth to sixteen, when he had reached Soul Power level 47 and achieved Level 5 Soul Master and Blacksmith status.
• Lin Qing returned from the forging room during a storm and found the Spirit Pagoda Enforcement Squad surrounding his home.
• The Enforcement Captain told Lin Qing that his parents, Lin Yan and Su Wan, had died in a supposed Soul Tool explosion and offered him their belongings and compensation.
• Lin Qing questioned the lack of bodies and the claim that his parents had conducted an experiment at home, since their safety precautions made such an accident unlikely.
• Lin Qing activated his Insightful Truth-Seeing martial soul and saw that the blast marks pointed inward from outside the courtyard, proving the explosion had been staged.

Lin Qing discovered that his parents had been murdered for their Spirit Ascension Platform research and found the evidence they had hidden. Their recording identified the Qiangu Family as the killers and warned him to survive, while the Lin Qing listening in reality realized the parallel world’s parents had been core researchers on the project.

• Lin Qing examined the wreckage of his parents’ home and realized the explosion had been staged to conceal their murder.
• Lin Qing found his father’s folded-corner clue in a book and used his birthday to open a hidden compartment.
• Lin Qing played his parents’ recording, which revealed that the Qiangu Family had targeted them for the Spirit Ascension Platform Core Array Diagram.
• Lin Qing learned that the hidden Black Box contained the original core-array materials, and his parents urged him not to seek revenge.
• The Lin Qing in reality heard the revelation and reacted with shock at the parallel version’s parents’ connection to the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Lin Qing learned that Spirit Pagoda’s Spirit Ascension Platform concealed a plan to create an Artificial God Realm, and he read how his counterpart had survived seven years in the Star Dou Great Forest while being hunted. The twenty-three-year-old Lin Qing waited for a chance to kill a Silver Moon Wolf King and break through his Soul Power bottleneck.

• Lin Qing realized that Spirit Pagoda’s Spirit Ascension Platform extracted Soul Masters’ origins to nourish an Artificial God Realm, and that his parents had been silenced for learning its secrets.
• Lin Qing read that Spirit Pagoda had framed his counterpart and driven him into the Star Dou Great Forest, where he survived alone for seven years.
• The twenty-three-year-old Lin Qing planned to defeat a seventy-thousand-year-old Silver Moon Wolf King for a Soul Ring so he could overcome his level-seventy bottleneck.
• Lin Qing hid in a tree for fifteen days, tracking the wolf pack and waiting for the wolf king to become isolated.
• After an earlier ambush failed when the wolf king barricaded itself in its den, Lin Qing resumed watching the pack and sensed that his turning point was near.

Lin Qing of the Spirit Pagoda abandoned his plan to capture the Silver Moon Wolf King after discovering an eighty- or ninety-thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Ape fighting the wolf pack. He secretly provoked the wolves to intensify the battle, hoping both sides would be exhausted and badly wounded.

• Lin Qing of the Spirit Pagoda recognized the Three-Eyed Demon Ape as a powerful Soul Beast with dark and spiritual attributes.
• Lin Qing of the Spirit Pagoda judged the Three-Eyed Demon Ape a more valuable target than the Silver Moon Wolf King.
• The Silver Moon Wolf King confronted the Three-Eyed Demon Ape over a stolen Nether Purple Crystal Fruit, and the two sides began fighting.
• Lin Qing of the Spirit Pagoda hid nearby and used Spiritual Power to provoke the Silver Moon Wolves into attacking more fiercely.
• The Three-Eyed Demon Ape killed several Silver Moon Wolves with its third eye while the Silver Moon Wolf King sent its pack into successive waves of attacks.

Lin Qing took advantage of the Three-Eyed Demon Ape’s battle with the Silver Moon Wolf pack, then killed the wounded beast and absorbed its Soul Ring and a Soul Bone. After seven years of lying low in Star Dou, he reached level 74 and became a Soul Saint.

• The Silver Moon Wolf King used its pack to exhaust the Three-Eyed Demon Ape, then attacked and was killed by the wounded ape.
• Lin Qing emerged from hiding and bombarded the Three-Eyed Demon Ape with Soul Guidance Bombs and a Soul Cannon, pinning it to the ground.
• The Three-Eyed Demon Ape unleashed a Mental Shock at Lin Qing, but Lin Qing blocked it with spiritual barriers and attacked its third eye.
• Lin Qing stabbed the Three-Eyed Demon Ape’s third eye with a poisoned blade and killed it.
• Lin Qing absorbed the Three-Eyed Demon Ape’s ninety-thousand-year Soul Ring and a Soul Bone, raising his Soul Power to level 74 and making him a Soul Saint.

After breaking through to Soul Saint, Spirit Pagoda Lin Qing disguised himself and returned to Spirit City to investigate his parents’ murder. A year into his search, he identified a Spirit Pagoda Guard captain as the leader of the team involved and began planning revenge.

• Spirit Pagoda Lin Qing used the Thousand-Face Instrument to disguise himself, suppressed his Soul Power, and destroyed his parents’ research materials before leaving the Star Dou Great Forest.
• He returned to Spirit City under the false identity Su Mo and spent a year working at an academy and a tavern while investigating his parents’ deaths.
• While searching the academy archives, Spirit Pagoda Lin Qing found a deployment record showing that a Spirit Pagoda Guard captain had led the team involved in the killings.
• After learning the captain was now a level-seventy-five Soul Saint, Spirit Pagoda Lin Qing began planning his revenge.

Lin Qing of the Spirit Pagoda identified Zhao Kun as the man who murdered his parents and spent three months studying his routines. He ambushed Zhao Kun and brought him to a sealed factory, where his revenge was about to unfold.

• Lin Qing of the Spirit Pagoda overheard Zhao Kun boast about a major deed from seven years earlier and recognized him as his parents’ killer.
• Lin Qing of the Spirit Pagoda watched Zhao Kun for three months, learning his habits and weaknesses.
• The Lin Qing watching the Last Words Screen grew uneasy about the reckless plan and the strange behavior of his counterpart in the image.
• Lin Qing of the Spirit Pagoda struck Zhao Kun with a Mental Shock in the rain and dragged him to an abandoned Soul Tool factory.
• Lin Qing of the Spirit Pagoda sealed the factory with three soul barriers and threw the helpless Zhao Kun onto the floor.

Lin Qing avenged his parents by killing Zhao Kun, the murderer who had killed them seven years earlier. A farewell recording then revealed that the Qiangu Family had used the opportunity for revenge as bait and had Lin Qing captured to obtain his parents’ research.

• Lin Qing confronted Zhao Kun and reminded him that he had killed Lin Qing’s parents seven years earlier.
• Zhao Kun blamed the Qiangu Family for ordering the murder and begged Lin Qing to spare him.
• Lin Qing crippled Zhao Kun, crushed his dantian, and killed him with his saber before hacking apart his corpse.
• Watching the recording, Lin Qing grew suspicious that the revenge had gone too smoothly.
• The recording revealed that guards had captured Lin Qing after the killing and taken him to Spirit Pagoda Prison, where the Qiangu Family intended to extract his parents’ research results.

Lin Qing of the Spirit Pagoda avenged his parents by killing Zhao Kun, but the Spirit Pagoda Guard captured him in a trap and took him to Black Prison. There, Qiangu Tianfeng admitted that he had ordered Lin Qing’s parents killed over their research.

• After Lin Qing of the Spirit Pagoda killed Zhao Kun, Zhang Heng and the Spirit Pagoda Guard stormed the factory and revealed they had tracked him since he entered Spirit City.
• Lin Qing of the Spirit Pagoda fought the guards but was overwhelmed by three Soul Douluos, shackled, and taken to Black Prison.
• Qiangu Tianfeng entered Lin Qing of the Spirit Pagoda’s cell with two Title Douluo guards and taunted him about his parents.
• Qiangu Tianfeng admitted that he had ordered Lin Qing’s parents killed because they refused to hand the Qiangu Family their world-changing research.

Spirit Pagoda Lin Qing endured a month of torture rather than reveal his parents’ research data, then detonated the Soul Core Bomb he had forged from his own Soul Core when Qiangu Tianfeng tried to read his memories. The blast consumed the Black Prison and killed Lin Qing alongside the people responsible for his parents’ deaths.

• Qiangu Tianfeng demanded that Spirit Pagoda Lin Qing reveal where his parents’ research data was hidden, but Lin Qing refused.
• Lin Qing watched the footage and realized the Qiangu Family had lured his parallel-world self into a trap in Spirit City.
• After a month of torture, Lin Qing still refused to give up the data, so Qiangu Tianfeng ordered a guard to use the Soul Searching Device on him.
• Qiangu Tianfeng entered the cell to witness the Soul Searching Device’s activation, and Lin Qing revealed that he had prepared a Soul Core Bomb.
• Lin Qing detonated the bomb, engulfing the Spirit Pagoda Black Prison in flames and collapsing it in a massive explosion.

After watching the Spirit Pagoda's Lin Qing die in a final act of revenge, Lin Qing inherited his relics and learned that he could earn a God Realm Fragment by preventing the Qiangu Family from controlling the Spirit Pagoda. He decided to build and govern the Spirit Pagoda himself, then prepared to absorb a 90,000-year Soul Ring as his fifth ring.

• Lin Qing watched the final recording of his other self burning himself and his enemies in a devastating explosion.
• The system granted Lin Qing the relics and knowledge left behind and revealed the wish to stop the Qiangu Family from taking control of the Spirit Pagoda.
• Lin Qing decided to build the Spirit Pagoda himself and bar the Qiangu Family from joining it.
• Lin Qing opened the Ash Urn, stored the Soul Bones, and absorbed the future knowledge of Soul Cores, Spirit Soul contracts, Soul Tools, forging, and the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Lin Qing examined the 90,000-year Three-Eyed Demon Ape Soul Ring and intended to absorb it as his fifth Soul Ring.

Lin Qing reached Soul King level 54 and gained the destructive Fifth Soul Skill, Eye of Oblivion. A year later, Dugu Yan defeated Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and Er Ni in a five-against-one training match using her Illusion Skull Bone.

• Lin Qing absorbed the remaining energy of the Three-Eyed Demon Ape's Soul Ring, reached level 54, and gained the Fifth Soul Skill Eye of Oblivion.
• Lin Qing tested Eye of Oblivion on a block of Dark Iron and destroyed it without leaving a trace.
• After a year of training, Dugu Yan faced Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and Er Ni in a five-against-one battle.
• Dugu Yan used her Illusion Skull Bone to disorient the five attackers and turn their movements against one another.
• Dugu Yan stopped her Eight Spider Lances at the attackers' vital points and won the match.

Dugu Yan defeated the others in a training match using her Eight Spider Lances and Illusion Skull Bone, while Er Ni kept her own strength hidden. The young women discussed their growth over the past year and wondered what Lin Qing was doing in seclusion, leaving Ning Rongrong to reflect on how they all felt about him.

• Dugu Yan's Eight Spider Lances and Illusion Skull Bone overwhelmed Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Meng Yiran, and Zhu Zhuqing during their training match.
• Dugu Yan and Er Ni recognized that Er Ni could have defeated Dugu Yan with her two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, but Er Ni had chosen not to reveal them.
• The young women discussed how their levels and Soul Rings had improved over the past year, with Dugu Bo hunting several of their rings.
• Meng Yiran, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong wondered why Lin Qing had remained in Seclusion for almost three months, and Dugu Yan and Er Ni said they did not know what he was researching.
• Ning Rongrong observed the other young women's affection for Lin Qing and reflected that everyone in the courtyard had fallen for him.

Lin Qing forged a Level 6 Soul Tool using the 40,000-Year Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone as its core. He successfully mounted it in a Sinking Silver Bracelet that could channel the bone’s Ice Explosion Technique, becoming a Level 6 Soul Engineer.

• Lin Qing used his Heavenly Eye and Gold of Life carving knife to engrave a 372-pattern Soul Tool array into the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone.
• After three months of preparation and practice, Lin Qing completed the final pattern and activated the array, condensing the Soul Bone into a small icy blue core.
• Lin Qing fused the core with his Thousand-Refinement Sinking Silver Bracelet, which contained the Ultimate Ice power without letting it leak.
• Lin Qing tested the bracelet with Soul Power and formed an orb of Ultimate Ice, confirming that the Level 6 Soul Tool could channel the Ice Explosion Technique.