Chapter Summaries

Lin Qing left the academy with Wu Yun and flew to Sunset Forest on the Frost Bone Dragon to find Dugu Bo’s Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and its Immortal Herbs. He spotted the red-and-blue terrain beneath a dense poison barrier, leaving them poised to approach the well.

• Lin Qing told Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Er Ni to continue their training while he was away, with the academy’s teachers supervising them.
• Lin Qing and Wu Yun rode the Frost Bone Dragon toward Sunset Forest, confident they could handle Dugu Bo and his poison.
• The Frost Bone Dragon reached Sunset Forest in less than a day, and Lin Qing searched the forest for the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Wu Yun spotted a dense poison barrier with red and blue flashes beneath it, and Lin Qing identified the location as the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Lin Qing brought Wu Yun and the Frost Bone Dragon to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where Dugu Bo confronted them. After Lin Qing vanished through a spatial rift, Wu Yun and Frost continued attacking Dugu Bo.

• Frost froze a passage through the poison barrier, revealing the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and its Immortal Herbs.
• Dugu Bo challenged the intruders, but Lin Qing ordered Wu Yun and Frost to subdue him while leaving him alive.
• Wu Yun attacked Dugu Bo with blood-colored chains as Frost rained down ice spikes and struck with its claws.
• Wu Yun shattered Dugu Bo's poison shield with a palm strike, sending him flying and leaving him injured.
• Lin Qing opened a spatial rift and disappeared, while Wu Yun and Frost pressed their attack against Dugu Bo's poison.

Wu Yun and Frost subdued Dugu Bo, and Lin Qing forced him to swear loyalty by threatening to leave Dugu Yan without help for her poison. At the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Lin Qing began consuming Immortal Herbs and discovered his Ultimate Ice could neutralize the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass’s cold poison.

• Wu Yun and Frost defeated Dugu Bo and pinned him beneath Frost’s claw.
• Lin Qing offered to spare Dugu Bo if he submitted, then invoked Dugu Yan’s illness to overcome his resistance.
• Dugu Bo swore loyalty to Lin Qing, and Lin Qing ordered Frost and Wu Yun to release him.
• Lin Qing entered the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, ate Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and felt his Spiritual Power and perception improve.
• Lin Qing used his Ultimate Ice to absorb the cold poison from the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and refined the herb.

Lin Qing consumed several Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, strengthening his ice power, Spiritual Power, and body. After demonstrating his new abilities, he prepared to search Sunset Forest for a suitable fourth Soul Ring.

• Lin Qing ate the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and absorbed its ice-attributed energy, improving his power and control.
• Lin Qing consumed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and guided its medicinal heat through his body to temper his muscles and bones.
• Dugu Bo watched Lin Qing eat the herbs and became shocked by Lin Qing’s apparent immunity to their dangers, while wondering about Lin Qing’s origins and powerful companions Wu Yun and the Frost Bone Dragon.
• Lin Qing demonstrated his improved ice attacks and Spiritual Power, then shattered a boulder with his bare fist without injuring himself.
• Lin Qing decided to search Sunset Forest for a spiritual-type Soul Beast over forty thousand years old to provide his fourth Soul Ring.

Lin Qing had absorbed the Immortal Herb and asked Dugu Bo to lead him to powerful Soul Beasts in search of a suitable Soul Ring. After several fruitless stops, Dugu Bo worried that his repeated failures would anger Lin Qing.

• Lin Qing asked Dugu Bo for the locations of powerful Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, then set out with Dugu Bo and Wu Yun on the Frost Bone Dragon.
• Dugu Bo led them to a valley where a Shadow Demon had once lived, but Lin Qing sensed that its cave was empty.
• Dugu Bo directed them to a lake where a Phantom Moon Fox had once nested, but Lin Qing found that Green Wind Wolves had occupied the island and the fox had left.
• Lin Qing ordered Frost to frighten away the Green Wind Wolves, then moved on after confirming the Phantom Moon Fox was gone.
• Lin Qing searched four more locations without finding a suitable Soul Beast, while Dugu Bo grew anxious about repeatedly coming up empty.

Lin Qing and his companions found the fifty-thousand-year Silver Moon Wolf King dead in the Black Forest, with no visible injuries and evidence that a spiritual attack had erased its consciousness. They sensed no other creatures or energy in the unnaturally silent forest, leaving the source of the attack unknown.

• After six failed searches, Lin Qing chose Dugu Bo's seventh location, a fog-shrouded Black Forest where Dugu Bo had once seen a Silver Moon Wolf King.
• Lin Qing used his Spiritual Power to locate the Wolf King in a clearing and discovered that it had died less than a day earlier.
• Lin Qing examined the uninjured corpse and found a faint trace of energy in its brain that suggested its consciousness had been erased by a spiritual attack.
• Lin Qing noticed that the Black Forest had no living creatures and asked Wu Yun to sense for danger, but she detected nothing.
• Lin Qing spread his Spiritual Power around the group as a warning barrier, yet found no abnormal energy or sign of what had killed the Wolf King.

Lin Qing and Dugu Bo discovered a strange Spider inside the Silver Moon Wolf King’s corpse and learned it could interfere with Spiritual Detection and use a rapid short-range spatial leap. The Spider remained unharmed nearby as the two faced an unfamiliar and dangerous foe.

• Dugu Bo examined the Silver Moon Wolf King’s corpse and found no poison or obvious injuries, only a tiny hole near its left eye.
• Lin Qing warned Dugu Bo and raised a Spiritual Power barrier, blocking the Spider’s strike as it emerged from the wolf king’s brain.
• Lin Qing’s Spiritual Detection could not penetrate the pale golden veil around the Spider, and he warned Dugu Bo that it had a spatial ability.
• Dugu Bo threw a poisonous blade at the Spider, but it vanished with a spatial distortion and reappeared on a nearby branch.
• Lin Qing identified the Spider’s ability as Space Blink, a rapid short-range spatial leap, while Dugu Bo recognized the danger it posed.

Lin Qing discovered that a tiny spider had killed the Silver Moon Wolf King by burrowing into its skull and devouring its brain with an invisible Spiritual Power attack. He stopped the spider from striking Dugu Bo, but the danger remained as the creature was trapped and Lin Qing stayed on guard.

• Lin Qing examined the Silver Moon Wolf King's corpse and found its brain had been devoured by the spider.
• Lin Qing explained that the spider fed on Spiritual Power and had killed the fifty-thousand-year soul beast from within its skull.
• The spider sent invisible threads toward Dugu Bo's head, but Dugu Bo could not see the attack.
• Lin Qing warned Dugu Bo and used his Spiritual Power and Heavenly Eye Soul Lock to trap the spider and lock the surrounding space.
• Dugu Bo realized Lin Qing's intervention had saved his life and stood still as Lin Qing watched the trapped spider gravely.

Lin Qing used Wither Divine Light to destroy the spatially strange spider, but the million-year divine skill nearly exhausted him. A Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring emerged from the ashes as Wu Yun hurried to support him, while Dugu Bo grappled with the fact that Lin Qing had saved his life.

• Lin Qing fired Wither Divine Light at the spider, withering everything along its path and reducing the beast to ash.
• The forest fell silent and lifeless around Lin Qing, who collapsed to his knees after the divine skill drained most of his energy.
• A black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring rose from the spider's remains, and Lin Qing judged the reward worth the cost.
• Dugu Bo realized the spider had nearly killed him and felt fear, gratitude, and awe toward Lin Qing, who had saved his life.
• Wu Yun rushed to Lin Qing's side, supported him, and anxiously checked whether he was injured.

Lin Qing recovered after using the Wither Divine Light to kill a dangerous Spider with spiritual and spatial abilities. He decided to absorb its Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, though its age and the risks remained uncertain.

• Wu Yun checked Lin Qing and found his Soul Power nearly depleted as he explained that the Wither Divine Light had frozen space and time and killed the Spider.
• Dugu Bo asked whether Lin Qing intended to absorb the Spider's Soul Ring, and Lin Qing told Wu Yun and Dugu Bo to guard him while he recovered.
• Wu Yun and Dugu Bo protected Lin Qing as he regulated his breathing and restored most of his Soul Power and Spiritual Power.
• Lin Qing assessed the Spider's spiritual attacks and Space Blink, concluding that it had posed a danger comparable to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Lin Qing decided to absorb the Spider's Soul Ring, but resolved to make the process absolutely foolproof.

Lin Qing insisted on absorbing the bizarre Spider's Soul Ring despite Wu Yun and Dugu Bo's warnings, trusting his exceptional body and Spiritual Power to withstand it. As he began the absorption, Dugu Bo discovered Lin Qing was only a Soul Ancestor with an extraordinary Soul Ring configuration and was left stunned.

• Wu Yun and Dugu Bo warned Lin Qing that the Spider's unknown, unusually violent Soul Ring could be dangerous, especially after his recent exertion.
• Lin Qing dismissed their concerns and said his tempered body and Spiritual Power would let him endure the absorption, while the Ring's spiritual and spatial attributes made it worth the risk.
• Wu Yun took up guard as Lin Qing began absorbing the Spider's Soul Ring and summoned his Heavenly Eye Martial Soul.
• Dugu Bo saw Lin Qing's two purple Soul Rings and one black Soul Ring and realized he was only a Soul Ancestor.
• Dugu Bo recalled Lin Qing's strength and concluded that his foundation had always defied the limits he believed were unbreakable.

Lin Qing absorbed the fifty-thousand-year Space-Awareness Spider Soul Ring and gained the Fourth Soul Skill, Space-Awareness Silk. He demonstrated its undetectable spiritual threads to Wu Yun and Dugu Bo, then explained that the skill was difficult to defend against but lacked direct offensive power.

• Lin Qing finished absorbing the Space-Awareness Spider Soul Ring, and his Soul Power rose to level 46.
• Lin Qing identified the beast as a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast with spiritual and spatial attributes, and named his new skill Space-Awareness Silk.
• Lin Qing explained that Space-Awareness Silk could sense spiritual fluctuations, transmit information across space, and interfere with weaker targets through Mental Domination.
• Lin Qing secretly connected his threads to Wu Yun and Dugu Bo's spiritual centers, and neither detected them until he revealed what he had done.
• Lin Qing explained that the Space-Awareness Spider had attacked Dugu Bo with similarly concealed spiritual threads, then said Space-Awareness Silk was mainly a support and control skill rather than a direct attack.

Lin Qing tested the Space-Awareness Silk’s information transmission and mental control, discovering that it could connect allies over long distances, control weak targets, and disrupt stronger opponents’ Soul Skills. Wu Yun identified its potential for covert intelligence gathering, and Dugu Bo called it a natural spy ability.

• Lin Qing silently transmitted information to Wu Yun and Dugu Bo, confirming that communication through the Space-Awareness Silk worked both ways and could share thoughts and images.
• Lin Qing connected to Wu Yun from a thousand meters away, and she confirmed that she received his message clearly.
• Lin Qing used Mental Control to make a Gale Rat follow simple orders, then explained that the ability weakened against targets with strong Spiritual Power.
• Wu Yun’s Soul Skill failed to activate when Lin Qing tested Spiritual Interference, and Dugu Bo’s poisoned needle veered off course after his Soul Skill was disrupted.
• Wu Yun suggested using the Space-Awareness Silk to gather intelligence covertly, and Dugu Bo recognized its potential for spying on enemies.

Lin Qing returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and appointed Dugu Bo Honorary Director of Instruction at Azure Throne Academy, while leaving him free of academy duties. He revealed a way to suppress Dugu Bo’s poison, giving him hope of saving both himself and his granddaughter.

• Lin Qing returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with his group.
• Dugu Bo offered to serve Lin Qing, and Lin Qing asked him to take the honorary director position at Azure Throne Academy.
• Lin Qing told Dugu Bo that he did not need to manage the academy or leave the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Lin Qing revealed that he knew about the deadly poison afflicting Dugu Bo.
• Lin Qing suggested that Dugu Bo force the poison into his Soul Bones and seal it there to control its harm.
• Dugu Bo bowed to Lin Qing, grateful for the chance to suppress his poison and save his granddaughter.

At the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Lin Qing made Dugu Bo pledge to serve him in exchange for a future cure and let him leave to stabilize his granddaughter Dugu Yan’s poison. Lin Qing then gave Wu Yun Ghost Nether Grass in hopes of helping her break through to Title Douluo, and she began absorbing it as its dangerous effects took hold.

• Dugu Bo forced his poison into a Soul Bone, and Lin Qing warned him that the method only suppressed the poison rather than removing it.
• Lin Qing offered Dugu Bo a complete cure in exchange for his service, and Dugu Bo knelt and pledged his life to him.
• Dugu Bo asked Lin Qing to cure his granddaughter Dugu Yan, and Lin Qing told him to stabilize her condition and bring her to him later if she was willing.
• After Dugu Bo left, Lin Qing showed Wu Yun several herbs and chose Ghost Nether Grass as a possible way to help her break through from level eighty-nine to Title Douluo.
• Wu Yun swallowed the Ghost Nether Grass and began absorbing it as cold, sinister Soul Power surged through her body.

Wu Yun failed to break through Rank 90 but felt her bottleneck loosen and entered seclusion in the Undead Semi-Plane. Lin Qing received an Ash Urn containing the memories of another Lin Qing, whose story began with a Heavenly Eye Martial Soul, almost nonexistent Innate Soul Power, and a humiliating broken engagement.

• Wu Yun told Lin Qing that she planned to attempt her Rank 90 breakthrough in the Undead Semi-Plane, and he sent her into seclusion.
• A pitch-black Ash Urn appeared before Lin Qing, and the system began playing the relic’s last words without his permission.
• The recorded Lin Qing described how his Heavenly Eye Martial Soul and Innate Soul Power below Rank 1 earned him the label of good-for-nothing.
• The memories showed the eight-year-old Lin Qing being publicly rejected when his betrothed’s family tore up their marriage contract.
• The recorded Lin Qing said he endured the humiliation and declared, "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river—never belittle a poor young man!"

Lin Qing watched the memories of Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing, a mocked youth who had painstakingly reached Rank 10 and entered the Soul Hunting Forest for a Soul Ring. After a Soul Beast Tide threw him off a cliff, he survived the fall on a bed of Dragon Whisker Grass and discovered a hidden cave.

• Lin Qing saw Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing declare that people should not look down on the poor young man, prompting Lin Qing to compare him to Xiao Yan.
• Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing recalled enduring years of mockery and cultivation before reaching Rank 10 at age fourteen.
• He entered the Soul Hunting Forest alone, carrying meager supplies and a rusty woodcutter's blade, hoping to obtain his first Soul Ring.
• After finding an injured hundred-year Heavenly Illusion Rabbit, he was caught in a Soul Beast Tide and flung toward a cliff by a charging tiger.
• He struck a bed of Dragon Whisker Grass on a cliffside platform, survived the fall, and spotted a cave hidden behind vines.

Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing discovered and fused with an External Soul Bone in the cave, gaining black wings that let him fly. He then found an ancient ring that reacted to his Heavenly Eye Martial Soul and began the Three-Eyed God Trial.

• Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing recovered enough to explore deeper into the cave and found the remains of a thousand-year avian Soul Beast.
• Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing discovered an External Soul Bone beside the skeleton and endured three hours of agony to fuse with it.
• Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing awakened a pair of black wings and gained the ability to fly.
• Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing explored to the cave's end and found an ancient black ring on a stone platform.
• Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing's Heavenly Eye Martial Soul activated when he picked up the ring, and a divine voice announced the start of the Three-Eyed God Trial.

Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing received the Three-Eyed God's Divine Trial and vowed to rise above the contempt he had endured. But after discovering how far Tang San and the other Shrek geniuses had already advanced, he struggled to keep pace despite his relentless cultivation, leaving his ultimate fate uncertain.

• Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing found a ring that triggered the Three-Eyed God's Divine Trial, offering him a path to godhood.
• After learning the fallen Third-Class God specialized in spiritual abilities and had perfect compatibility with him, Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing resolved to complete all nine trials.
• Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing earned his first Soul Ring, became a Soul Master, and returned to Heaven Dou City, where he heard that Tang San and the others had reached the Soul Ancestor realm.
• Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing trained relentlessly and risked his life to complete the trials, but lacked the protection, guidance, allies, and resources that supported Tang San.
• Lin Qing watched the projection and concluded that Good-for-Nothing Lin Qing was unlikely to catch up to Tang San, while wondering what unforeseen fate had befallen him.

After fleeing the destruction of his family estate, Lin Qing hid under the name Ah Qing in Snow Nest Village and continued cultivating in secret. When pillars of divine light appeared across the continent, he realized Tang San and others had become gods, but remained determined to lie low and complete his own Divine Trial.

• After eight years of cultivation, Lin Qing broke through to level 60 and completed the Third Trial of the Three-Eyed God.
• Bibi Dong established the Spirit Hall Empire and began a war of unification, and Lin Qing returned to find his family estate burning.
• Lin Qing fled Spirit Hall's pursuers north through a snowstorm, concealed his identity, and settled in Snow Nest Village as Ah Qing.
• Lin Qing worked alongside the villagers by day and cultivated in secret at night while waiting to become a god.
• Golden pillars of light appeared in the sky, and Lin Qing sensed that Tang San and others had ascended to godhood.