Chapter Summaries

Wu Yun revealed her extraordinary power as an eight-ring Soul Douluo and announced that Azure Throne Academy was recruiting for the Azure Throne Team to win the tournament. Zhu Zhuqing joined the team after choosing to approach Lin Qing, while Dai Mubai reacted furiously.

• Wu Yun emerged from Azure Throne Academy and revealed eight black Soul Rings, stunning the crowd and silencing Dai Mubai and Tang San.
• Wu Yun announced the Azure Throne Team and invited qualified candidates to try out for the academy's tournament squad.
• Dai Mubai and Tang San recognized Lin Qing as the young man who had defeated them at the Rose Hotel.
• Zhu Zhuqing approached Lin Qing, introduced herself as a twelve-year-old level twenty-seven Soul Grandmaster, and asked to join the team.
• Lin Qing welcomed Zhu Zhuqing to the Azure Throne Team, and Dai Mubai roared that he would not allow it before charging forward.

Wu Yun stopped Dai Mubai from interfering with Azure Throne Academy’s recruitment, while Flender and Zhao Wuji apologized and restrained him. Lin Qing then stunned the gathering by revealing that he was a twelve-year-old Soul Elder, leaving Tang San and the Shrek group shaken.

• Dai Mubai tried to charge at Lin Qing and Zhu Zhuqing, but Wu Yun pinned him in place with her pressure.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji intervened, apologized to Wu Yun, and warned Dai Mubai not to provoke her or approach Zhu Zhuqing.
• Flender welcomed Tang San to Shrek Academy after recognizing him as Xiao Gang’s disciple.
• Ning Rongrong questioned whether Lin Qing and Er Ni were Azure Throne Team geniuses.
• Lin Qing introduced himself as a twelve-year-old Soul Elder and revealed a purple Soul Ring, stunning Flender, Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Ning Rongrong.

Lin Qing introduced Li Erni and welcomed Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu to the Azure Throne team. Tang San tried to join after Xiao Wu, but Lin Qing rejected him for his past behavior and lack of integrity, and Wu Yun led the three accepted candidates into the academy.

• Lin Qing introduced Li Erni as a sixteen-year-old Soul Grandmaster with a special martial soul.
• Ning Rongrong revealed her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul and joined the Azure Throne team.
• Xiao Wu declared that she wanted to join Azure Throne Academy, and Lin Qing welcomed her.
• Tang San applied to join because Xiao Wu had joined, but Wu Yun refused him.
• Lin Qing cited Tang San's trouble at the Rose Hotel, his slander of the academy, and his broken commitment to Shrek as reasons to reject him.
• Wu Yun ended the recruitment round and led Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Li Erni into the academy.

Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong joined the Azure Throne Team and introduced their Martial Souls and Soul Skills. As Er Ni revealed her striking Martial Soul and two purple Soul Rings, she stunned the new recruits.

• Tang San was stopped by an invisible barrier as he tried to follow Xiao Wu, while Dai Mubai watched Zhu Zhuqing leave; Flender led the Shrek group back to the academy.
• Lin Qing brought Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong to the Azure Throne Team’s private training ground and welcomed them to the team.
• Zhu Zhuqing introduced her Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul and demonstrated her two Soul Skills.
• Xiao Wu introduced her Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul and described her Waist Bow and Charm skills, then Ning Rongrong introduced her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and its Strength and Speed boosts.
• Er Ni revealed her Lovesick Heartbreak Red Martial Soul, and two deep purple Soul Rings appeared beneath her feet, leaving the training ground silent.

Lin Qing and Li Erni revealed their extraordinary Soul Rings and abilities to Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing, leaving the three girls stunned. Lin Qing withheld the secrets behind their power, then had Li Erni show the newcomers around and prepare their rooms before training began the next day.

• Li Erni introduced her Lovesick Heartbreak Red martial soul and explained that her sole Soul Skill boosted the attributes of the person she loved by up to two hundred and fifty percent.
• When Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing asked how Li Erni obtained two thousand-year Soul Rings, Lin Qing refused to reveal the Green Throne's secrets.
• Lin Qing displayed two thousand-year Soul Rings and a ten-thousand-year third Soul Ring, shocking the three girls.
• Lin Qing revealed he was twelve years old, level thirty-nine, and specialized in Mental Control with the Heavenly Eye martial soul and three Soul Skills.
• Lin Qing told Li Erni to show the girls around, arrange their rooms, and let them rest before formal training began the next day.

Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing settled into Azure Throne Academy and discovered Lin Qing's unusual household Soul Tools. Meanwhile, Tang San and Dai Mubai struggled with Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing's departures, Shrek's teachers worried about Azure Throne Academy, and Tang Hao decided to leave Xiao Wu there for now.

• Er Ni showed Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing their rooms, where they marveled at Lin Qing's hot-and-cold water fixtures and other devices.
• Tang San lay awake, distressed that Xiao Wu had left with Lin Qing, while Dai Mubai brooded over Zhu Zhuqing standing beside Lin Qing.
• Zhao Wuji complained to Flender about Tang San's conduct, and the two discussed investigating Azure Throne Academy and its powerful students.
• Tang Hao found Xiao Wu at Azure Throne Academy but chose not to confront her, deciding to wait until Tang San reached level sixty before capturing her.

Lin Qing began listening to the final words of another version of himself, Evil Eye Lin Qing, who had been reborn as a soul beast in the Evil Demon Forest. The account reached his first thousand-year transformation, when he learned his mutated ice power was Ultimate Ice.

• Lin Qing planned his Battle Team and cultivated beside Er Ni, then stopped himself from reaching for her when an Ash Urn appeared.
• Lin Qing inspected the urn’s eerie photograph of a tentacled eye and chose to hear Evil Eye Lin Qing’s final words.
• Evil Eye Lin Qing recounted being reborn as a hundred-year Evil Eye in the Evil Demon Forest, tens of thousands of years before Peerless Tang Sect.
• Evil Eye Lin Qing discovered he had mutated, gaining an ice-element power and the innate ability Sluggish Gaze.
• Evil Eye Lin Qing described a thousand years of adapting to life as a soul beast before his first transformation revealed his power was Ultimate Ice.

Lin Qing heard Evil Eye Lin Qing recount how he gained Wither Light, grew powerful enough to destroy human cities, and later transformed his Spiritual Power into the Ultimate Spirit attribute. After reaching the hundred-thousand-year level, Evil Eye Lin Qing chose the Far North to seek the cave containing Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.

• Evil Eye Lin Qing awakened Wither Light after becoming a Thousand-Year Soul Beast and later earned the Evil Emperor's notice when he reached the Ten-Thousand-Year stage.
• At ninety thousand years of cultivation, Evil Eye Lin Qing left the Evil Demon Forest, froze several human cities, and grew bored with the weak Soul Masters.
• After crossing the hundred-thousand-year threshold, Evil Eye Lin Qing transformed his Spiritual Power into Ultimate Spirit and named himself Heavenly Eye Divine Monarch.
• Evil Eye Lin Qing judged the Evil Demon Forest's resources insufficient and chose the Far North over the ocean or Douluo Continent.
• Evil Eye Lin Qing went to the Far North to find the cave where Tian Meng had fallen and its Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.

Evil Eye Lin Qing entered the Far North, won permission from Snow Empress to stay, and spent centuries waiting for Ice Empress to chase Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. He identified the fleeing silkworm but continued tracking from afar as Ice Empress pursued it toward the outer reaches.

• Evil Eye Lin Qing crossed the sea into the Far North and headed for its core region, where Ice Empress confronted him.
• Evil Eye Lin Qing showed Ice Empress his Ultimate Ice attribute and explained that he meant no harm.
• Snow Empress allowed Evil Eye Lin Qing to remain in the Far North on the conditions that he harm no soul beasts and stay out of the core region.
• Evil Eye Lin Qing repeatedly fought Ice Empress while waiting for her to pursue Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• After nearly three hundred years, Evil Eye Lin Qing spotted Ice Empress chasing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and tracked them from afar for three months.

Evil Eye Lin Qing discovered a cavern filled with Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, accidentally crushed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and slept as he absorbed the marrow and advanced toward a million years. He emerged into the Far North as the Million-Year Heavenly Tribulation descended, leaving Snow Empress and Ice Empress stunned and the tribulation locked onto him.

• Evil Eye Lin Qing followed a Spiritual Power mark to an ice field, dug down, and fell into a cavern filled with Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Evil Eye Lin Qing accidentally crushed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, then sealed the cavern entrance and prepared to sleep undisturbed.
• Evil Eye Lin Qing slept for an unknown length of time while absorbing the marrow and steadily raising his cultivation without attracting a Heavenly Tribulation.
• Evil Eye Lin Qing sensed the Million-Year Heavenly Tribulation above the ice and rushed out of the cavern to the surface of the Far North.
• Evil Eye Lin Qing's cultivation erupted at ninety-nine-hundred-thousand years, drawing the Heavenly Tribulation as Snow Empress and Ice Empress arrived and reacted with shock.

Lin Qing witnessed Evil Eye Lin Qing’s failed Million-Year Heavenly Tribulation and learned how the soul beast created the divine skill Wither Divine Light before dying. He received the soul beast’s relics and final wish: to allow soul beasts to attain a million years.

• Evil Eye Lin Qing endured eighty bolts of tribulation lightning before fusing four powers into the divine skill Wither Divine Light.
• Evil Eye Lin Qing froze the final annihilation bolt and the surrounding sky, then died as his body scattered into light.
• Lin Qing reflected on the soul beast’s death and the law forbidding soul beasts from becoming gods.
• The system awarded Lin Qing Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, the Million-Year Heavenly Eye Divine Monarch Sovereign Origin, and an external soul bone.
• Lin Qing received Evil Eye Lin Qing’s final wish to allow soul beasts to attain a million years, with the Divine Artifact: Eye of Wither as the promised reward.

Lin Qing entered the Undead Semi-Plane to prepare for fusing his Million-Year External Soul Bone, but encountered and contracted a powerful Bone Dragon by feeding it Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. He left with a new ally roughly as strong as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast or a level ninety-three Title Douluo.

• Lin Qing set aside the wish to help a soul beast reach a million years and entered the Undead Semi-Plane with Wu Yun to find a safe place to fuse his Soul Bone.
• Lin Qing brought out Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, attracting a Bone Dragon that was at least as powerful as Wu Yun.
• Lin Qing discovered that the Bone Dragon grew stronger by absorbing the marrow and offered it more in exchange for following him.
• Lin Qing used an Undead Contract to bind the Bone Dragon, nearly collapsing from the effort.
• Lin Qing gave the contracted Bone Dragon more marrow and sensed that it was roughly as strong as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast or a level ninety-three Title Douluo.

Lin Qing fed the Bone Dragon five pieces of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, transforming it into a Frost Bone Dragon with the strength of a level 94 Titled Douluo, then began fusing with the million-year external soul bone. The next morning, Er Ni told Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu that Lin Qing was in dangerous Seclusion and invited them to explore the academy’s core area.

• Lin Qing fed the Bone Dragon five pieces of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, causing it to evolve into a Frost Bone Dragon with Titled Douluo-level strength.
• Lin Qing asked Wu Yun and the Frost Bone Dragon to guard him, then began fusing with the Heavenly Eye of the Million-Year Heavenly Eye Divine Monarch Ruler external soul bone.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu waited at the central training ground for Lin Qing and the teachers, growing impatient when nobody arrived.
• Er Ni told the three girls that Lin Qing was in dangerous Seclusion and Wu Yun was guarding him.
• Er Ni said the academy’s core area was open to them and suggested they visit the Mimicry Environment Training Ground or the Core Library.

Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu explored Azure Throne Academy and discovered its advanced training facilities and library. Ning Rongrong found a notebook challenging mainstream Soul Master theory that might have been written by Lin Qing, prompting the three girls to search for more secrets.

• After Er Ni left, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu decided to explore the academy together.
• The three girls tried the Mimicry Cultivation Field's snowfield mode and were impressed by how realistically it simulated extreme conditions.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing tested Wooden Man Alley, where animated figures attacked them and helped them practice evasion.
• Ning Rongrong found a battered notebook in a library side room whose notes questioned Soul Ring limits and emphasized physical and Spiritual Power training.
• Ning Rongrong showed the notebook to Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu, and the three suspected Lin Qing had written it before continuing their search of the library.

After fusing with the Million-Year External Soul Bone, the Heavenly Eye, Lin Qing returned to guide Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu. He exposed each girl's weaknesses and left them questioning the Soul Master theories that had shaped their training.

• After waiting fifteen days, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu saw Lin Qing return with an unsettling presence and purple-gold light in his eyes.
• Lin Qing revealed that fusing with the Heavenly Eye had greatly increased his Spiritual Power and granted him the divine skill Wither Divine Light.
• Lin Qing announced that he would guide the girls while Wu Yun handled other matters and the academy's teachers focused on ordinary students.
• Ning Rongrong challenged Lin Qing's qualifications, but he calmly identified the strengths and weaknesses of Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu.
• Lin Qing told the girls that established Soul Master theories were holding them back.

Lin Qing challenged Ning Rongrong’s orthodox Soul Ring theories and demonstrated his strength by defeating Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong without summoning his Martial Soul or using Soul Skills. He offered Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu personalized training plans, and the chapter ended as he turned to assess Ning Rongrong.

• Lin Qing argued that Soul Ring theories should not be followed blindly and invited the three girls to test themselves against him.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing attacked Lin Qing, but he evaded and countered them with precise technique and mental pressure.
• Ning Rongrong’s boosts faltered under Lin Qing’s gaze, and Xiao Wu suffered mental backlash when Lin Qing resisted her Charm.
• After three minutes, Lin Qing had defeated all three without moving from his spot or using his Martial Soul or Soul Skills.
• Lin Qing identified Zhu Zhuqing’s and Xiao Wu’s weaknesses and offered each a training plan, which Zhu Zhuqing accepted and Xiao Wu hesitated to accept.
• Lin Qing turned to Ning Rongrong, who defended her support skills as the chapter ended.

After defeating the girls in training, Lin Qing challenged what they believed about Soul Ring age limits and offered to teach them a secret method for absorbing older rings, but warned that it would come at a steep price. Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu decided to seek him out, uncertain what he would demand in return.

• Lin Qing told Ning Rongrong she needed to learn battlefield survival and assigned her daily dodging practice.
• Lin Qing claimed physical condition, Spiritual Power, willpower, Martial Soul compatibility, and other factors could let Soul Masters break the accepted Soul Ring age limits.
• Lin Qing offered to teach the girls his secret method, warning that the cost would be high and deepen their ties to his academy.
• Ning Rongrong spent a sleepless night considering whether Lin Qing's method could help her overcome the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's seven-ring limit.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Ning Rongrong that Xiao Wu believed Lin Qing and wanted to get stronger.
• The three girls discussed the likely conditions for learning the method and went to find Lin Qing.

Lin Qing laid out three rules for Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong to become his students, including swearing on their Martial Souls. After they took binding oaths, he gave each girl a bottle of Whale Rubber and ordered them to drink it.

• Lin Qing told the three girls to keep academy secrets, follow his arrangements until they won the Soul Master Tournament, and swear on their Martial Souls.
• Ning Rongrong objected to the oath, but Lin Qing's mental pressure and the value of Overlimit Soul Ring Absorption made her reconsider.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing swore binding oaths on their Martial Souls, and Ning Rongrong followed with an oath to keep the academy's secrets and obey Lin Qing.
• Lin Qing accepted the three girls as half his students and gave each a bottle of Whale Rubber, calling it poison when Xiao Wu asked what it was.
• Ning Rongrong hesitated at the strange-looking substance, then drank the entire bottle.

After Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu drank Lin Qing’s Whale Rubber, they discovered their physical abilities had improved. Lin Qing began specialized training, leaving Zhu Zhuqing dodging flying daggers while he directed Xiao Wu to develop a powerful kick.

• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu drank the Whale Rubber and quickly noticed improvements in their speed, agility, and strength.
• Lin Qing led the girls to the training ground and announced that he would tailor their training to their individual weaknesses.
• Lin Qing sent twelve Sinking Silver Flying Daggers at Zhu Zhuqing, forcing her to dodge their coordinated attacks and gradually improve her anticipation and precision.
• Lin Qing told Xiao Wu that relying on grappling with her Soft Technique was dangerous against tough opponents and instructed her to use her flexibility for a powerful kick.

Lin Qing pushed Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Er Ni, and Zhu Zhuqing through harsh training that developed their combat skills and mental resistance. The girls recognized their improvement during the midday rest, but Lin Qing announced that training would continue that afternoon.

• Lin Qing taught Xiao Wu to use her legs as weapons, and she shattered targets while rapidly improving her kicks.
• Ning Rongrong and Er Ni endured Lin Qing's escalating spiritual pressure as he explained the danger support Soul Masters faced from enemy attacks.
• Zhu Zhuqing completed grueling combat training while Xiao Wu practiced kicks and Ning Rongrong and Er Ni struggled under the pressure until noon.
• The four girls rested together, noticed signs of improvement, and accepted that their training was meant to make them stronger.
• Lin Qing restored his stern expression and told the girls they would continue training that afternoon.