Chapter Summaries

Lin Yaoyang negotiated with Jing Hongchen to forge a Level 9 gauntlet Soul Tool from his Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, offering help for Meng Hongchen’s poison and Jing Hongchen’s cultivation breakthrough in return. After agreeing to meet again in five months, Lin Yaoyang left Star Luo City with Jiang Nannan, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao to visit Xiao Xiao’s parents in the Dou Ling Empire.

• Lin Yaoyang offered to help Jing Hongchen break through Rank 95 and cure Meng Hongchen’s Martial Soul poison in exchange for a Level 9 Soul Tool, and Xiao Hongchen sent the offer to his grandfather.
• Jing Hongchen traveled to Star Luo City and met Lin Yaoyang, who asked him to turn an Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone into a gauntlet-type Soul Tool.
• Lin Yaoyang displayed thirty jin of Ice Extreme Divine Crystal, and Jing Hongchen accepted the deal and promised to finish the Soul Tool in five months.
• Jing Hongchen gave Lin Yaoyang a Hongchen Family badge and told him to find Xiao at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy when he came to Mingde Hall.
• Lin Yaoyang left Star Luo City with Jiang Nannan, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao, and they set out for the Dou Ling Empire to visit Xiao Xiao’s parents.

Lin Yaoyang, Xiao Xiao, Jiang Nannan, and Wang Dong'er arrived at the Marquis Zhenshuo Mansion, where Xiao Xiao reunited with her mother, Su Wanqing. Lin Yaoyang revealed his cultivation and proposed founding a faction at the Spirit City Ruins, leaving Su Wanqing to consider the risky plan.

• Xiao Xiao brought Lin Yaoyang, Jiang Nannan, and Wang Dong'er through Shuoyang Pass to her family estate and explained her father's border duties.
• Xiao Xiao reunited with Su Wanqing, who welcomed her friends into the mansion.
• Su Wanqing questioned Lin Yaoyang about his family and cultivation, and he said his two older sisters were Titled Douluo and that he was a Soul Sage.
• Lin Yaoyang told Su Wanqing he planned to establish a faction at the Spirit City Ruins, a dangerous and politically sensitive abandoned city.

Lin Yaoyang sought Xiao Lie and Su Wanqing’s support for founding a new power, and Xiao Lie tested his strength before hearing his plans. Though Xiao Lie offered only conditional backing, he acknowledged Lin Yaoyang and warned him about the mysterious oppression surrounding the Spirit City Ruins.

• Su Wanqing withheld her decision until Xiao Lie returned, and Xiao Lie challenged Lin Yaoyang to withstand three moves at his own cultivation level.
• Lin Yaoyang revealed his seven Soul Rings, including three red rings, and briefly fought Xiao Lie, who acknowledged his strength.
• After dinner, Xiao Lie and Su Wanqing asked Lin Yaoyang to explain how he would build his proposed Sun Temple.
• Lin Yaoyang said the Sun Temple would purge Evil Soul Masters and restore free Martial Soul awakenings for commoners.
• Xiao Lie pointed out the need for a detailed plan and described an oppressive presence at the nearby Spirit City Ruins, while making his support conditional on Lin Yaoyang’s success.

Shrek lost the Soul Master tournament final to the Sun Moon Empire after conceding the last match, then Lin Yaoyang and Xiao Lie reached the ruins of Spirit City to consider building a faction there. They entered the ruined city and began examining the remains of its three former landmarks.

• Wang Yan conceded Shrek's match against Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, leaving Shrek as runner-up to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Spectators argued over Shrek's defeat and whether Sun Moon's Soul Tools made the result unfair, but the championship remained with the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xiao Lie brought Lin Yaoyang to the ruins of Spirit City and asked whether he still wanted to build a faction there.
• Lin Yaoyang sensed nothing watching them, and Electrolux assured him there was no danger.
• Lin Yaoyang and Xiao Lie entered the ruined city and reached the hill where the Pope Palace, Worship Hall, and Douluo Palace once stood.

Lin Yaoyang chose to rebuild Spirit City and asked Xiao Lie to find craftsmen. In the God Realm, Tang San opposed checking on Xiao Qi, raising God of Destruction’s suspicion that he was hiding something.

• Lin Yaoyang surveyed the ruined Pope Palace, Worship Hall, and Angel Statue before deciding to restore Spirit City.
• Lin Yaoyang told Xiao Lie he would repair the two halls first and asked him to find craftsmen for the work.
• God of Destruction argued that expanding the God Realm would benefit its Deities, while Tang San warned it could endanger the lower realms.
• God of Destruction challenged Tang San’s claim that Xiao Qi had limited talent and questioned whether Tang San had cherished her as a daughter.
• Goddess of Life proposed that the God Kings check on Xiao Qi, but Tang San tried to stop them from looking into the lower realm.
• God of Destruction accused Tang San of hiding something after he resisted checking on Xiao Qi.

Destruction exposed Tang San’s interference in the lower realm and his forced division of Tang Wutong’s soul, using Wang Dong’er and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to gather fortune for her. The gods condemned Tang San and agreed to seal his cultivation and imprison him for ten thousand years.

• Destruction revealed images of Wang Dong’er cultivating and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion roaming Star Dou Forest, and the gods sensed Wang Dong’er’s unusual fortune and divided soul.
• Life and Destruction realized Tang San had split his daughter’s soul and placed parts of it in different beings, while seeking the fortune of humanity and Soul Beasts for Tang Wutong.
• Tang San claimed he had acted for Wutong’s sake, but Destruction pointed out that she already had a reserved godhood and challenged his motives.
• Tang San insisted he had the right to decide his daughter’s fate and admitted to controlling Douluo Planet, while Life told him he had destroyed Wutong.
• Destruction proposed sealing Tang San’s cultivation and imprisoning him in the Forbidden Land of Gods for ten thousand years, and the assembled gods supported the punishment.

Destruction and the other God Kings sealed Tang San and sent him to the Forbidden Land of Gods for ten thousand years. On the Dou Ling Empire’s southwestern border, Lin Yaoyang and his companions investigated massacred villages, found and killed five Evil Soul Masters, and continued searching for more.

• Destruction, Life, Lie Yan, and Ji Dong combined their power to seal Tang San after he attacked Destruction, then sent him to the Forbidden Land of Gods for ten thousand years.
• Life said the gods should wait until Wang Dong'er reached Rank 100 and went to calm Xiao Wu, after which the meeting adjourned.
• Lin Yaoyang, Jiang Nannan, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao investigated villages in the Dou Ling Empire’s southwestern border and found their inhabitants massacred by Evil Soul Masters.
• Lin Yaoyang cremated the dead in one village and drove away wild dogs feeding on the bodies.
• At the fourth village, Lin Yaoyang killed five black-robed Evil Soul Masters with golden flames before they could attack.
• Lin Yaoyang collected the Evil Soul Masters’ Storage Soul Tools and led his companions onward to clear the area.

Lin Yaoyang and his companions found a village being attacked by Evil Soul Masters and killed the raiders. The villagers remained terrified of their rescuers, and Lin Yaoyang tried to reassure the kneeling elder that they were not there to harm them.

• Lin Yaoyang, Wang Dong'er, Jiang Nannan, and Xiao Xiao reached a village where Evil Soul Masters were killing and abducting villagers.
• Lin Yaoyang and his companions attacked the raiders, while Jiang Nannan rescued a child and Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao fought the others.
• Lin Yaoyang killed the leader, who revealed that the group belonged to the Holy Spirit Cult, and the companions killed the remaining Evil Soul Masters.
• The villagers huddled in fear, and an old man knelt before Lin Yaoyang, begging him not to kill them.
• Lin Yaoyang helped the old man up and told him he had not come to kill the villagers.

Lin Yaoyang and his companions rescued the villagers of Kaoshan Village from Evil Soul Masters, treated the wounded, and gave the survivors supplies. They left after promising to eradicate the Evil Soul Masters and telling the villagers to remember the Sun Temple.

• Lin Yaoyang learned that Evil Soul Masters had attacked Kaoshan Village, killing and eating villagers, and promised to destroy those in the area.
• Jiang Nannan and Xiao Xiao treated the wounded while Lin Yaoyang purified a sick infant with his Ultimate Light.
• Lin Yaoyang collected the seven Storage Soul Tools left by the Evil Soul Masters and gave Jiang Nannan their useful supplies to distribute.
• Wang Dong'er reflected on the villagers' suffering as Lin Yaoyang explained that they would fight evil and show people that hope remained.
• Jiang Nannan gave the villagers medicine and Gold Soul Coins, and Lin Yaoyang told them the Sun Temple would protect them.
• Lin Yaoyang and the others departed for their next destination as a little girl remembered the Sun Temple and hoped to become a source of light herself.

Lin Yaoyang and his companions drove the Evil Soul Masters from the southwestern border, helped villagers, and searched for children with Soul Power. After finding Shi Tou and learning Xiao Xiao had reached rank thirty, they set out for the Star Dou Forest to find her a Soul Ring.

• The Sun Temple’s attacks forced surviving Evil Soul Masters to flee or hide, while its reputation spread through the southwest.
• Lin Yaoyang healed injured villagers, and Jiang Nannan and Wang Dong'er awakened children until they found Shi Tou, who had rank-one Innate Soul Power and received a cultivation book.
• Xiao Xiao returned from cultivating and told Lin Yaoyang she had reached rank thirty.
• Lin Yaoyang decided the group would travel to the Star Dou Forest to find Xiao Xiao a suitable Soul Ring before taking a rest.
• Lin Yaoyang and Wang Dong'er flew with Jiang Nannan and Xiao Xiao toward the Star Dou Forest as Shi Tou watched them leave, clutching his book.

Lin Yaoyang helped Xiao Xiao obtain a two-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Soul Ring and found a Soul Bone on the beast's corpse. While Xiao Xiao absorbed the ring, Lin Yaoyang proposed a way for Electrolux to develop a symbiotic alternative to Soul Rings, and Electrolux began researching it.

• Lin Yaoyang's group encountered a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear chasing an Oink Pig, and Lin Yaoyang identified it as a suitable Soul Beast for Xiao Xiao.
• Lin Yaoyang knocked the bear down with one punch, and Xiao Xiao finished it with her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron before beginning to absorb its purple Soul Ring.
• Jiang Nannan and Wang Dong'er guarded Xiao Xiao while Lin Yaoyang processed the corpse and found a complete Dark Gold Terrorclaw right palm bone.
• Lin Yaoyang discussed the cost of Soul Rings with Electrolux and proposed creating bodiless Soul Beast spirits that could coexist with Soul Masters and provide Soul Ring abilities.
• Electrolux agreed to study Lin Yaoyang's proposal and began researching it within the Eye of Life.

After Xiao Xiao became a Soul Elder and received a Soul Bone, Lin Yaoyang returned with her to see Spirit City rapidly rebuilt around the Sun Temple. He prepared to travel alone to the Sun Moon Empire, while Wang Dong'er left to recruit help from the Clear Sky Sect.

• Xiao Xiao reached three rings, and Lin Yaoyang gave her the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's right palm bone to absorb later.
• Lin Yaoyang showed Xiao Xiao, Jiang Nannan, and Wang Dong'er Spirit City's construction and explained how the Sun Temple was attracting villagers with work, fair pay, and free Martial Soul awakenings.
• At the Marquis Zhenshuo Mansion, Xiao Xiao worried about Lin Yaoyang traveling alone to the Sun Moon Empire, but he refused to let her come along.
• Wang Dong'er decided to return to the Clear Sky Sect to seek fighters for the Sun Temple, and Lin Yaoyang kissed her forehead before she flew away.

Lin Yaoyang returned to the Sun Moon Empire and visited Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen at the Royal Soul Master Academy to meet Jing Hongchen. Jing Hongchen presented the completed ice-amplifying Soul Tool and asked Lin Yaoyang for the promised Immortal Herb.

• Lin Yaoyang kissed Jiang Nannan goodbye, then flew back toward the Sun Moon Empire.
• After reaching Ming Capital, Lin Yaoyang went to the Royal Soul Master Academy and asked Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to take him to their grandfather.
• Lin Yaoyang told Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen that he had established his own force and traveled to hunt Evil Soul Masters, prompting Meng Hongchen to warn him about the dangers of speaking openly in the empire.
• Jing Hongchen showed Lin Yaoyang a gauntlet that amplified ice-attribute attacks, reduced Soul Power consumption, and retained the Ice Explosion Technique.
• After Lin Yaoyang praised the Soul Tool and thanked Jing Hongchen, Jing Hongchen asked him where the Immortal Herb was.

Lin Yaoyang offered Jing Hongchen an Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid and gave Meng Hongchen a plan to control the toxins in her body, along with a seventy-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon Torso Soul Bone. In exchange, he asked Jing Hongchen to temporarily lend high-ranking Soul Engineers to help build the Sun Temple, leaving Jing to weigh the request against the empire’s restrictions.

• Lin Yaoyang gave Jing Hongchen an Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid to strengthen his foundation and purge accumulated impurities.
• Lin Yaoyang examined Meng Hongchen and explained that a torso Soul Bone could contain her toxins until she reached Titled Douluo, when a Poison Soul Core could bring them under her control.
• Lin Yaoyang presented Meng Hongchen with a seventy-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon Torso Soul Bone, then stopped her from taking it until Jing Hongchen heard his conditions.
• Lin Yaoyang asked Jing Hongchen to temporarily lend high-ranking Soul Engineers to build civilian facilities at the Sun Temple, promising to return them afterward.
• Jing Hongchen considered the valuable gifts against the Sun Moon Empire’s ban on advanced soul tool technology reaching opposing forces.

Lin Yaoyang secured Jing Hongchen's support for borrowing Soul Engineers, then defeated Xiao Hongchen in a spar and teased him about becoming his brother-in-law. Jing Hongchen later summoned Xuan Ziwen and offered him a chance to research civilian Soul Tools outside the city.

• Jing Hongchen agreed to arrange Soul Engineers for Lin Yaoyang and send Xiao Hongchen to bring him back to the academy.
• Xiao Hongchen invited Lin Yaoyang to spar, but Lin Yaoyang overwhelmed him with his Soul Power and stopped a punch just before his nose.
• Lin Yaoyang called Xiao Hongchen "Brother-in-law," prompting Xiao Hongchen to protest that he was pursuing Meng Hongchen.
• Jing Hongchen summoned Xuan Ziwen and offered him the chance to establish civilian Soul Tool facilities for Lin Yaoyang's faction.

Xuan Ziwen agreed to lead a team of Soul Engineers to the Douluo Continent to help Lin Yaoyang build a city and spread civilian Soul Tool technology. After the team departed, Jing Hongchen scolded Xiao Hongchen over his cultivation and reliance on pills.

• Jing Hongchen told Xuan Ziwen to prepare a proposal for a civilian Soul Tool project on the Douluo Continent and warned him not to make military Soul Tools.
• Xuan Ziwen wrote the proposal and recruited five Soul Engineers to join him, and Jing Hongchen approved the team.
• At the academy plaza, Jing Hongchen introduced Xuan Ziwen and the five Soul Engineers to Lin Yaoyang, who invited Xiao Hongchen to visit his place before leaving with the team.
• Xiao Hongchen worried that Lin Yaoyang might keep Xuan Ziwen and the others from returning, and Jing Hongchen rebuked him and urged him to cultivate without relying on more pills.

Lin Yaoyang discovered Ye Guyi fleeing three Evil Soul Master brothers and intervened, killing Zhongli Ren and Zhongli Tian. The chapter left Zhongli Di facing Lin Yaoyang while Ye Guyi watched his overwhelming Light Power.

• While flying over the Mingdou Great Forest with Xuan Ziwen and five Soul Engineers, Lin Yaoyang sensed Evil Soul Masters fighting below and went to help.
• Ye Guyi fled three Soul Douluos—Zhongli Tian, Zhongli Di, and Zhongli Ren—after her raid on their stronghold went awry.
• Ye Guyi wounded Zhongli Ren with her Holy Sword, but the three brothers continued pursuing her.
• Lin Yaoyang descended from the canopy and killed Zhongli Ren with the Corona Sword, then cut down the brothers’ Nether Ghost Tigers.
• Lin Yaoyang stabbed Zhongli Tian, whose wound erupted in golden flames, while Zhongli Di remained beside him.

Lin Yaoyang killed three Evil Soul Masters who had nearly defeated Ye Guyi, then invited her to visit the Sun Temple and consider joining. He brought her and Xuan Ziwen’s Soul Engineers to Spirit City, where he planned to establish a Soul Tool system and gave Xuan Ziwen authority to equip the laboratory.

• Lin Yaoyang killed Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di with his Corona Sword, saving Ye Guyi from the Evil Soul Masters.
• Lin Yaoyang invited Ye Guyi to visit the Sun Temple and consider joining, and she agreed to accompany him.
• Lin Yaoyang spotted Shangguan Wei'er and the Ordinary Alliance members, who explained they had stopped after hearing the fighting and then left.
• Lin Yaoyang introduced Ye Guyi to Xuan Ziwen and the Soul Engineers before the group flew east toward Spirit City.
• Lin Yaoyang showed Xuan Ziwen the city rising from ruins and said the Soul Tool system could be developed there.
• Lin Yaoyang offered Xuan Ziwen funds to buy laboratory equipment and materials, and Xuan Ziwen asked whether he trusted him that much.

Lin Yaoyang showed Xuan Ziwen and Ye Guyi the rebuilt Spirit City, which he had made the Sun Temple, then visited Xiao Xiao and returned to the Far North. He gave Ice Empress a Level 9 Soul Tool made from an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone and flirted with Snow Empress.

• Lin Yaoyang showed Ye Guyi and Xuan Ziwen the rebuilt Spirit City and its Soul Tool laboratory, then offered Ye Guyi a room in the unfinished main hall.
• Lin Yaoyang visited Xiao Xiao at Marquis Zhenshuo Mansion, told her he was safe, and explained that he had brought Ye Guyi and Xuan Ziwen with him.
• Lin Yaoyang flew to the Far North, where Ice Empress and Snow Empress welcomed him and heard about his departure from Shrek and the founding of the Sun Temple.
• Lin Yaoyang gave Ice Empress a Level 9 bracer forged from an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, which could boost ice attacks and use the Ice Explosion Technique.
• Lin Yaoyang told Snow Empress that his gift for her was himself, and she flicked his forehead and called him a smooth talker.

Lin Yaoyang explained to the Snow Empress and Ice Empress why he fought Evil Soul Masters and awakened Martial Souls for commoners, insisting he sought neither to be a savior nor deliberately to become a god. As the two Empresses held his hands, the Douluo Plane Consciousness was deeply stirred by his words.

• The Snow Empress scolded the Ice Empress and Lin Yaoyang for their exhausting night, then accepted their apologies and massages.
• The Snow Empress asked Lin Yaoyang about his plans for the Sun Temple, and he described the suffering he had witnessed among commoners.
• Lin Yaoyang said he believed in himself, his companions, and those who wanted to live, and that he chose to help because he cherished the world.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress silently tightened their hands around Lin Yaoyang's, while the Douluo Plane Consciousness trembled with emotion as it listened.