Chapter Summaries

As Lin Ciyan and Zhang Lexuan left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he analyzed the Mysterious Heaven Skill Record and criticized its techniques as inefficient and overly constrained. Zhang Lexuan reconsidered the art’s limitations and asked how his Relaxation Circulation Breathing Method compared.

• Lin Ciyan maintained his Auspicious Domain while analyzing the Mysterious Heaven Skill Record as he and Zhang Lexuan crossed the canyon.
• Lin Ciyan criticized the Purple Demon Eye as slow and inefficient, contrasting it with how his Heart of Dawn nurtured spiritual power.
• Lin Ciyan faulted the Mysterious Jade Hand and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, comparing them unfavorably with his Five Elements Rotation and light-based abilities.
• Lin Ciyan argued that Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon wasted Soul Power and concluded that the Mysterious Heaven Skill confined cultivators to limited techniques rather than optimal methods.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Lin Ciyan how his Relaxation Circulation Breathing Method measured up.

Lin Ciyan adapted the Mysterious Heaven Skill’s meridian theory to improve his Breathing Method, then prepared to leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and deal with the poisonous formation. The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot privately stopped him to entrust him with something.

• Lin Ciyan explained his Relaxation Circulation Breathing Method to Zhang Lexuan and said it could be more adaptable than the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Lin Ciyan studied the Mysterious Heaven Skill’s meridian diagram and, with Zhang Lexuan standing guard, incorporated selected routes into his own method.
• Lin Ciyan completed a localized adjustment that increased his Soul Power recovery efficiency by about thirty percent.
• Lin Ciyan and Zhang Lexuan prepared to leave the core area and confront the poisonous formation’s possible recording mechanism.
• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot privately contacted Lin Ciyan, saying they had personal goods to entrust to him because of his understanding of the Five Elements and ice-and-fire balance.

Lin Ciyan received gifts from the Immortal Herbs and promised to help them experience the outside world if he ever could. After learning the poison array recorded intruders, he muddled the traces of his and Zhang Lexuan’s visit, but they found fresh signs that someone had recently watched the array.

• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot gave Lin Ciyan leaf sheaths containing powerful ice and fire energy, and asked him to help them see the outside world someday.
• Lin Ciyan promised to try if he became strong enough and the opportunity arose.
• The Aromatic Silk Beauty warned Lin Ciyan and Zhang Lexuan that the poison array recorded visitors’ auras, Soul Power, and movements.
• Lin Ciyan used his Qilin Divine Light to blur the array’s records of their distinctive energy signatures, then continued toward the perimeter with Zhang Lexuan.
• Near the edge of the array, Lin Ciyan and Zhang Lexuan found fresh footprints, broken brush, and charred leaves, suggesting someone had recently spied on them.

Lin Ciyan and Zhang Lexuan fought a Moon Shadow Soul-Devouring Wolf whose Dark Moon Rune coveted Lin Ciyan’s light and life aura. After Lin Ciyan weakened and restrained the beast, Zhang Lexuan killed it and began absorbing its red Soul Ring, leaving Lin Ciyan to guard her.

• Lin Ciyan and Zhang Lexuan sensed a powerful Soul Beast waiting in the forest, and the Moon Shadow Soul-Devouring Wolf revealed itself and targeted Lin Ciyan.
• Lin Ciyan used his Light Domain, Five Elements Rotation, ice-and-fire Yin-Yang Millstone, and Radiant Impact to counter the wolf and leave it badly wounded.
• Zhang Lexuan struck the wolf with Moon Splendor Sky Blade, shattered its Shadow Moon Shield and Dark Moon Rune, and drove it to the brink of death.
• Lin Ciyan urged Zhang Lexuan to absorb the wolf’s Soul Ring, and she killed it with her Moon Blade.
• Zhang Lexuan began absorbing the red Soul Ring while Lin Ciyan stood guard and watched her aura steadily rise.

Zhang Lexuan overcame the Moon Shadow Soul-Devouring Wolf’s backlash with Lin Ciyan’s help, absorbed its Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and advanced to Soul Saint. On their return to Shrek City, they found the gates crowded and heavily guarded, suggesting trouble had arisen.

• Zhang Lexuan absorbed the Moon Shadow Soul-Devouring Wolf’s Soul Ring as Lin Ciyan’s Holy Radiance Qilin Martial Soul helped soothe its violent energy and mental imprint.
• Zhang Lexuan broke through to level seventy-four, became a Soul Saint, and gained a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring with two powerful Soul Skills.
• Lin Ciyan told Zhang Lexuan to keep the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and their discoveries secret, and they agreed on a cover story for the Soul Ring.
• Lin Ciyan and Zhang Lexuan grew closer as they rehearsed their story and traveled back toward Shrek City.
• Lin Ciyan and Zhang Lexuan found the city gates crowded, guarded by twice the usual number of tense soldiers, and wondered what had happened.

Lin Ciyan analyzed Ma Xiaotao’s mutated Evil Fire and used his abilities to calm the flames and ease their spiritual effects. Ma Xiaotao briefly regained awareness and asked whether he could help her.

• Ma Xiaotao lost control of her mutated Evil Fire outside Shrek City, while Inner Court instructors struggled to contain it behind a barrier.
• Lin Ciyan identified the flames’ chaotic, destructive energy, and his system recommended using water, spiritual soothing, and ice energy to calm them.
• Lin Ciyan told Zhang Lexuan to stay back and approached the barrier to help Ma Xiaotao.
• Lin Ciyan used Five Elements Rotation: Water Moistening, Grace of Bathing Light, and a trace of Ice and Fire Leaf Sheath (Ice) to soothe Ma Xiaotao’s flames and spirit.
• Ma Xiaotao’s frenzy eased, and she asked Lin Ciyan whether he could help her.

Lin Ciyan helped Ma Xiaotao regain control of her rampaging Evil Fire by teaching her a breathing and Soul Power guiding method. Yan Shaozhe arrived and took Lin Ciyan to the Sea God Pavilion to explain the method, while Ma Xiaotao returned to rest.

• Lin Ciyan entered the barrier and taught Ma Xiaotao to calm her breathing and guide her Soul Power around the Evil Fire instead of suppressing it.
• Ma Xiaotao followed his guidance until her flames withdrew and her gaze cleared, though she remained weak.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived, heard Chen Hong's report, and asked Lin Ciyan whether the method could cure Ma Xiaotao completely.
• Lin Ciyan said he could only ease and guide the problem for now, and Yan Shaozhe summoned him to the Sea God Pavilion to discuss it.
• Ma Xiaotao returned to the Inner Court to rest and practice the method as Lin Ciyan left with Yan Shaozhe.

At the Sea God Pavilion, Lin Ciyan explained how Zhang Lexuan acquired her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and offered to help Ma Xiaotao regulate her Evil Fire for a fee. The academy approved the treatment as a secret, and Ma Xiaotao arranged to meet Lin Ciyan in the Cultivation Room the next afternoon.

• Zhang Lexuan described how she and Lin Ciyan killed a gravely weakened Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and how Lin helped her absorb its Soul Ring.
• Lin Ciyan attributed their victory to his Martial Soul's suppressive aura and credited Zhang Lexuan with the decisive blow; Mu En accepted their account as good fortune backed by strength.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Lin Ciyan about his method for controlling Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire, and Lin explained that he used breathing and Soul Power guidance to harmonize it.
• Lin Ciyan offered ongoing assistance for payment without guaranteeing a cure, and Mu En approved the arrangement and ordered the matter kept secret.
• Yan Shaozhe scheduled Ma Xiaotao's first treatment for the following afternoon, and Ma Xiaotao thanked Lin Ciyan and warned him not to take advantage of her.
• Ma Xiaotao left after setting the meeting place, while Lin Ciyan returned inside and comforted the jealous Xiyao before they fell asleep together.

Lin Ciyan gave Ma Xiaotao her first Evil Fire guidance treatment, calming her unstable power through careful Soul Power channeling. Ma Xiaotao left with temporary relief and a complicated reaction to Lin Ciyan, who collected his fee and gained Slacking Value.

• Lin Ciyan set up the cultivation room and persuaded the tense Ma Xiaotao to lie down and relax.
• Lin Ciyan guided Ma Xiaotao's Soul Power through her dantian, soothing her Evil Fire and easing her burning pain.
• Ma Xiaotao said the treatment made her feel much better, and Lin Ciyan told her she would need another session every seven days for lasting control.
• Lin Ciyan charged Ma Xiaotao three kilograms of Star-Patterned Secret Silver or equivalent Academy Contribution Points, and she paid with a piece of the metal.
• Lin Ciyan received Slacking Value and a slight boost to his Slacking Cultivation Accelerator, while Ma Xiaotao lingered outside the room, still flustered by the treatment.

Lin Ciyan challenged the assessment by asking to face the ten strongest Soul Beasts at once, then subdued them without taking a step. The arena erupted in disbelief after his light blinded the beasts and his aura made them cower.

• At the second-year opening assessment, Lin Ciyan requested that ten of the strongest Soul Beasts be released to fight him simultaneously.
• Du Weilun and Yan Shaozhe approved his request, and Gong Changlong prepared to intervene while the ten beasts emerged from the arena gates.
• When the assessment began, the Soul Beasts charged Lin Ciyan from every direction.
• Lin Ciyan unleashed Light Domain: Holy Splendor Canopy, blinding the beasts and releasing the pressure of his Holy Radiance Qilin and other powers.
• The ten Soul Beasts panicked, cowered, and fell over, while Lin Ciyan remained unharmed.
• The audience saw the beasts subdued and erupted in astonishment.

Lin Ciyan effortlessly defeated the ten Soul Beasts in his assessment, earning a system achievement and drawing admiration from his classmates. Days later, Grade Two Class One won the year’s first assessment, and Lin Ciyan’s relaxation techniques began spreading through the lower grades.

• Lin Ciyan calmed the frightened Bloodthirsty Demon Bear, asked if that was all, and earned the “Still as a Mountain, All Beasts Bow” achievement and 3,000 Slacking Value.
• Students crowded around Lin Ciyan after the assessment, while Jiang Nannan admired him and Xu Sanshi challenged him to fight without his aura.
• Lin Ciyan ignored Xu Sanshi and taught his classmates three made-up pre-exam relaxation techniques, which they eagerly wrote down and tried.
• Grade Two Class One achieved the highest average score and pass rate, with classmates celebrating Lin Ciyan as their class monitor.
• Scientific Slacking and Lin Ciyan’s Relaxation Three Styles spread through Shrek Outer Court’s lower grades as Lin Ciyan enjoyed the class’s victory without much effort.

Lin Ciyan joined an Inner Court mission to the Star Dou Great Forest, hoping to scout the area for resources tied to his cultivation. After the team completed most of its tasks and helped two students obtain Soul Rings, Lin Ciyan grew closer to the group by supporting them in battle and sharing food from his Slacker Shop.

• Lin Ciyan told Zhang Lexuan he wanted to visit the Star Dou Great Forest, and she arranged for him to join an Inner Court mission led by Li Qingfeng.
• Lin Ciyan met Li Qingfeng, Ling Luochеn, Gongyang Mo, Xi Xi, and the other students at Shrek Academy before the group set out.
• The team reached the mixed zone, where Gongyang Mo and Xi Xi each obtained a fifth Soul Ring while the others gathered mission supplies.
• Lin Ciyan used light-attribute techniques to help teammates during minor dangers, earning Li Qingfeng's approval and the group's trust.
• Lin Ciyan shared dishes from his Slacker Shop at camp, lifting the group's spirits and softening Ling Luochеn's usually aloof demeanor.

Ling Luochеn followed an icy light into the woods and was trapped by a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Crystal Demon Epiphyllum, but Lin Ciyan rescued her and gave her an Ice Soul Crystal Heart. Shaken and newly drawn to him, she asked if she could call him Ciyan.

• Ling Luochеn left the campsite alone to investigate an ice-blue light while Lin Ciyan quietly followed her.
• Ling Luochеn recognized an Ice Crystal Ghost Epiphyllum, but the Ten-Thousand-Year plant attacked, poisoned her, and began dragging her toward its flowers.
• Lin Ciyan struck the Demon Epiphyllum with his Dawn Break Fist, freed Ling Luochеn, and destroyed the plant with Qilin Divine Light—Flame.
• Lin Ciyan comforted the trembling Ling Luochеn and placed an Ice Soul Crystal Heart in her hand.
• Ling Luochеn thanked Lin Ciyan and shyly asked if she could call him Ciyan, and he agreed.

Lin Ciyan returned safely from the Star Dou Great Forest after scouting the place where Huo Yuhao would meet the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and his growing reputation pushed his Slacking Value past sixty thousand. Back at his quarters, Ma Xiaotao urgently demanded treatment, interrupting his time with Zhang Lexuan and leaving him caught between the two senior sisters’ attention.

• Lin Ciyan found the creek where Huo Yuhao would encounter his first signpost and a Wind Baboon, but sensed no trace of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm or Electrolux’s fragment.
• Lin Ciyan returned to camp, where Ling Luochеn watched for him, then several days later came back to Shrek Academy with the team and received praise from Li Qingfeng and the Inner Court disciples.
• Zhang Lexuan walked with Lin Ciyan to Sea God Island, and his mission rewards and rising reputation pushed his Slacking Value above sixty thousand and his cultivation speed boost to 58 percent.
• Zhang Lexuan brought Lin Ciyan pastries and tea at his quarters, but Ma Xiaotao burst in with Blazing Fire Essence Gold and demanded immediate treatment.
• Lin Ciyan agreed to take Ma Xiaotao to the Cultivation Room after Zhang Lexuan told him to help her first, while Xiyao complained jealously through their spiritual connection.

During a routine treatment, Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Martial Soul Origin flared into a powerful resonance, and Lin Ciyan calmed it before the situation went further. Afterward, his cultivation reached the peak of Rank forty-nine, and he set out to absorb the Earth Dragon King Right Leg Bone.

• Lin Ciyan began Ma Xiaotao’s treatment, but her Phoenix Flame suddenly surged as her Martial Soul Origin became agitated.
• Ma Xiaotao seized Lin Ciyan and lost control of her impulses, but he used his Holy Radiance Qilin Martial Soul and guidance to calm her and restore her balance.
• Ma Xiaotao regained her composure, apologized, and paid Lin Ciyan; he concluded that future treatments needed greater care.
• Lin Ciyan continued his studies and cultivation as his relationships with Zhang Lexuan, Ling Luochеn, and Ma Xiaotao settled into their usual routines.
• At the end of the second semester, Lin Ciyan naturally reached the peak of Rank forty-nine and headed to the Sea God Pavilion to absorb the Earth Dragon King Right Leg Bone.

Lin Ciyan absorbed the Earth Dragon King's Earth-Shaking Right Leg Bone in the Sea God Pavilion's Golden Tree cultivation chamber, gaining two earth-based abilities and reaching the peak of rank 49. He considered seeking a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring for his fifth ring, then settled in for a nap before discussing the plan with his teacher.

• Lin Ciyan entered his private Sea God Pavilion cultivation chamber and prepared to absorb the Earth Dragon King's 160,000-to-170,000-year-old right leg bone.
• His Holy Radiance Qilin and Five Elements Rotation smoothly absorbed and integrated the earth power, strengthening his body and right leg.
• Lin Ciyan gained Earth-Shaking Wave and Earth-Walking Technique, and his Soul Power advanced to the peak of rank 49.
• He considered attempting to absorb a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his fifth ring and decided to discuss the possibility with his teacher.
• Lin Ciyan lay back in the Golden Tree chamber to consolidate his gains and fell asleep.

Lin Ciyan and Mu En went to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek a fifth Soul Ring, where Lin Ciyan’s auspicious aura drew out the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. After Mu En captured it and negotiated with Scarlet King, Lin Ciyan connected with the beast’s fortune and fate, forming an intimate bond that left both changed.

• Mu En took Lin Ciyan to the Star Dou Great Forest and asked what kind of fifth Soul Ring he wanted.
• Lin Ciyan released the Holy Radiance Qilin’s auspicious aura, attracting the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Mu En sealed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Scarlet King demanded its release before leaving to consult Di Tian.
• Mu En asked for a fifteen-hundred-thousand-year Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear in exchange for the beast.
• Lin Ciyan infused the Three-Eyed Golden Lion with his Soul Power, and their connection revealed fragments of fate and fortune while synchronizing some memories.
• Lin Ciyan and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion regained consciousness with a new, intimate bond between them.

Di Tian arrived to confront Mu En over the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, but after sensing the Dragon God's aura within Lin Ciyan and receiving a message from Gu Yuena, he agreed to trade a Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear for the Auspicious Beast. Just as Mu En and Lin Ciyan prepared to leave, Xiong Jun attacked Lin Ciyan in a rage.

• Di Tian arrived with the Scarlet King and threatened Lin Ciyan, while Mu En demanded a fifteen-hundred-thousand-year Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear's Soul Ring and Soul Bone in exchange for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Di Tian probed Lin Ciyan's secrets, sensed the Dragon God's Seven-Colored Origin Qi, and received Gu Yuena's command to give him the Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Di Tian agreed to the exchange, and the King of Ten Thousand Monsters brought the unconscious Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear to the clearing.
• Mu En released the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who returned to Di Tian after lingering affectionately on Lin Ciyan.
• Xiong Jun arrived furious and unleashed a massive claw strike at Lin Ciyan as Mu En prepared to leave.

Di Tian stopped Xiong Jun from killing Lin Ciyan and sent him and Mu En away from the Star Dou Great Forest. At Sea God Lake, Lin Ciyan killed the unconscious 150,000-year-old Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear and began preparing to absorb its Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

• Xiong Jun attacked Lin Ciyan, but Mu En shielded him from the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear's powerful strikes.
• Di Tian intervened and used the Simplified Dragon God Claw to hurl Xiong Jun into a distant crater, leaving him alive but unable to fight.
• Di Tian told Lin Ciyan to take the Soul Ring and warned him not to let the incident happen again.
• Mu En teleported Lin Ciyan and the unconscious 150,000-year-old Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear through several locations before reaching Sea God Lake.
• Lin Ciyan killed the bear with his Seven-Colored Qilin Claw, then sat down and prepared to absorb its Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

Lin Ciyan absorbed the 150,000-year Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear Soul Ring and its External Soul Bone, reaching level fifty-four and gaining two powerful Soul Skills. After thanking Mu En, he planned to consolidate his cultivation and begin preparing for a journey to the Far North.

• Lin Ciyan used Five Elements Rotation, Xiyao's spiritual support, and Seven-Colored Origin Qi to withstand and absorb the Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear's 150,000-year Soul Ring.
• The Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Left Arm Bone flew into Lin Ciyan's body, strengthening and transforming his left arm.
• Lin Ciyan reached level fifty-four and gained the fifth Soul Ring's Qilin Heaven-Rending Claw and Qilin Heaven-Piercing Sword Soul Skills.
• Lin Ciyan tested the Soul Bone's sharpness by slicing the top off a reef, and realized its power could strengthen his Heaven-Rending Claw by more than sixty percent.
• Mu En praised Lin Ciyan's gains and urged him to put character and responsibility first; Lin Ciyan thanked his teacher.
• Lin Ciyan resolved to consolidate his cultivation and considered planning a journey to the Far North to perfect Water of the Five Elements.