Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan confronted Zhou Yi after she confessed to hiring someone to kill him, but Fan Yu arrived and tried to protect her. When Fan Yu threatened Lin Yan, Lin Yan killed him with a devastating Buddha Fury Fire Lotus, leaving Zhou Yi and Zhang Lexuan stunned.

• Zhou Yi begged Lin Yan to spare her, but he refused and prepared to kill her.
• Fan Yu arrived and tried to stop Lin Yan, while Zhang Lexuan revealed she had witnessed the events and accused Fan Yu of knowing about Zhou Yi's plot.
• Zhang Lexuan asserted her authority as a member of the Sea God Pavilion Supervision Group and cited the academy's penalties for hiring a murderer.
• Fan Yu threatened Lin Yan and demanded that he release Zhou Yi, so Lin Yan stomped on Zhou Yi and launched a Buddha Fury Fire Lotus at Fan Yu.
• Lin Yan's fire lotus destroyed the surrounding forest and vaporized Fan Yu below the abdomen, killing him.
• Zhou Yi crawled toward Fan Yu's remains in despair, while Zhang Lexuan stared in shock at Lin Yan.

Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan recounted how Zhou Yi’s hired assassins and Fan Yu’s attempt to protect her led to Fan Yu’s death, leaving Shrek’s leaders stunned. When Xian Lin’er challenged Lin Yan, he silenced Zhou Yi with a powerful aura that Yan Shaozhe recognized as Mu En’s Reign Over the World.

• Yan Shaozhe, Qian Duoduo, and Xian Lin’er arrived at the battlefield and asked Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan what had happened.
• Zhang Lexuan explained that Zhou Yi had hired assassins to kill Lin Yan, Fan Yu had threatened him, and Lin Yan had killed Fan Yu.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo treated Fan Yu’s death as the consequence of his actions, while Xian Lin’er objected that Lin Yan had killed a Shrek teacher without academy approval.
• Zhou Yi begged Xian Lin’er to punish Lin Yan, but Lin Yan’s pressure silenced her and forced her to her knees.
• Yan Shaozhe recognized Lin Yan’s aura as Mu En’s Reign Over the World, leaving all three deans shocked and confused.

Lin Yan rejected Xian Lin'er’s attempt to reprimand him, killed Zhou Yi, and burned Fan Yu’s corpse, discovering a valuable Soul Bone among the ashes. He returned to Shrek City with Zhang Lexuan, who wondered whether Mu En had accepted him as a disciple and realized her feelings for Lin Yan were growing.

• Lin Yan challenged Xian Lin'er over the academy’s failure to protect him, and Yan Shaozhe apologized and acknowledged Zhou Yi and Fan Yu’s guilt.
• Lin Yan killed Zhou Yi with the Nine-Colored Flame and burned Fan Yu’s corpse, finding and pocketing a metal-element left arm Soul Bone.
• Lin Yan left with Zhang Lexuan while Yan Shaozhe, Qian Duoduo, and Xian Lin'er marveled at his strength and his mastery of Reign Over the World.
• Zhang Lexuan asked when Lin Yan learned Reign Over the World, and he said Mu En taught him after their return from the Far North.
• Zhang Lexuan held back further questions when she saw Lin Yan was exhausted and quietly recognized that he had entered her heart.

After spending the morning with Jiang Nannan, Lin Yan returned to Freshman Class One for the upcoming assessment and reflected on the investigation into Zhou Yi’s attack. He reunited with Chen Beixuan and Ye Liangchen, who greeted him excitedly.

• Lin Yan woke beside Jiang Nannan, and the two got ready, ate breakfast, and headed to the academy together.
• Jiang Nannan wished Lin Yan luck in his assessment before they parted at the academy gates.
• Lin Yan recalled that a Soul Sage had neglected his duty monitoring Zhou Yi and Fan Yu to gather food for Xuan Zi, allowing Zhou Yi to arrange a murder; Mu En reprimanded Xuan Zi, and Xuan Zi punished the Soul Sage.
• Yan Shaozhe compensated Lin Yan with a thirty-thousand-year fire-attribute Soul Bone after the investigation was settled.
• Lin Yan entered Freshman Class One, where Chen Beixuan and Ye Liangchen rushed over to welcome him after nearly three months apart.

Lin Yan attended the class meeting where Wang Yan assigned teams for the Freshman Assessment, and he was grouped with Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao. After the meeting, Wang Dong'er saw Lin Yan again and found her suppressed feelings for him returning.

• Lin Yan checked Chen Beixuan and Ye Liangchen's Soul Power Levels and praised their progress to level twenty-one.
• Wang Yan announced the Freshman Assessment and assigned Lin Yan, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao to Group One, while Huo Yuhao joined Chen Beixuan and Ye Liangchen in Group Two.
• Wang Yan finished assigning the teams, explained the assessment rules, and dismissed the class.
• Huo Yuhao greeted Lin Yan, who encouraged him to perform well, while Huo Yuhao found Lin Yan approachable and contrasted him with Wang Dong'er's cold gaze.
• After the other students left, Wang Dong'er looked at Lin Yan and felt her suppressed affection and bitterness return.

Lin Yan took Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao to practice for the freshman assessment and refereed their sparring match. Wang Dong'er charged through Xiao Xiao’s cauldron defense, but Xiao Xiao’s flute melody disrupted her mind and slowed her Soul Power.

• Lin Yan encouraged Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao to show their full strength in the assessment and promised to protect them.
• Lin Yan asked the girls to spar while he refereed, and Xiao Xiao agreed to fight Wang Dong'er.
• Xiao Xiao summoned her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and Nine Phoenix Flute, while Wang Dong'er revealed her Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul.
• Wang Dong'er rushed forward and used Butterfly Wing Slash to knock aside one of Xiao Xiao’s cauldrons.
• Xiao Xiao retreated and played the Nine Phoenix Flute, disrupting Wang Dong'er’s mind and slowing her Soul Power.

Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao pushed their spar to the brink until Lin Yan intervened and erased both of their strongest attacks. After reviewing their mistakes and sending them to rest, Lin Yan entered his sea of spirit and asked Electrolux whether he had noticed anything about Wang Dong'er.

• Wang Dong'er absorbed Xiao Xiao's cauldron strike and counterattacked, forcing Xiao Xiao to defend with her cauldrons and Nine Phoenix Flute.
• Wang Dong'er unleashed Butterfly Goddess Light while Xiao Xiao countered with Cauldron Tremor and a combined attack, leaving Wang Dong'er unable to evade.
• Lin Yan appeared between them and used crimson flames to dissolve both attacks before warning them not to spar so fiercely.
• Lin Yan pointed out the girls' mistakes and openings, then sent Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao back to rest.
• Lin Yan entered his sea of spirit and asked Electrolux whether he had noticed anything about Wang Dong'er.

Lin Yan and Electrolux confirmed that the Prajna Heart Lamp could hide Lin Yan’s fate and conceal Electrolux from Tang San’s Divine Sense. Lin Yan then revealed his suspicion that Tang San had torn Wang Dong’er’s soul apart, and Electrolux asked to investigate her spirit sea.

• Electrolux confirmed that Tang San’s Divine Sense was stronger than his own but had no fundamental qualitative advantage.
• Lin Yan learned that the Art of Fate-Concealing could hide his Fate Line from the God Realm’s monitoring.
• Electrolux reported that the Prajna Heart Lamp’s concealment power had let him probe Wang Dong’er’s spirit sea without Tang San noticing.
• Lin Yan asked whether Electrolux had discovered the condition of Wang Dong’er’s soul, but Electrolux said he could not investigate without exposing himself.
• Lin Yan suspected that Wang Dong’er’s soul was incomplete and said Tang San might have torn it apart.
• Electrolux asked Lin Yan to find an opportunity for him to enter Wang Dong’er’s spirit sea and examine her soul.

Lin Yan’s team advanced through the freshman assessment with overwhelming ease, then defeated Ning Tian’s team as the competition reached the round of sixteen. On the other side of the bracket, Huo Yuhao called on the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and unleashed a powerful spiritual attack against Xie Huanyue.

• At the assessment, Lin Yan, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao advanced through the round-robin stage as their opponents repeatedly surrendered.
• During the elimination matches, Lin Yan held back while his immense Soul Power swept away opposing teams without revealing his Martial Soul or Spirit Rings.
• In the round of sixteen, Lin Yan’s team faced Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er, and Lin Yan cleared the field, leaving Ning Tian staring at him in shock.
• Huo Yuhao, Little Fatty, and Little Skinny faced Xie Huanyue, Luo Tianlong, and Luo Tianba, whose lineup appeared too strong for them.
• As his team neared defeat, Huo Yuhao asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for help and struck Xie Huanyue with a powerful spiritual shock, knocking him down.

Huo Yuhao faced Lin Yan in the four-to-two assessment while his teammates fought Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao. Unable to affect Lin Yan, Huo Yuhao called on the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to use Silkworm Possession, and Lin Yan watched with playful confidence.

• Huo Yuhao drew Lin Yan as his opponent and grew determined to defeat Dai Huabin after the assessment.
• Lin Yan's team faced Huo Yuhao, Chen Beixuan, and Ye Liangchen, while Chen Beixuan and Ye Liangchen asked Lin Yan to go easy on them.
• Huo Yuhao attacked Lin Yan with Spiritual Shock, Tang Sect Secret Techniques, and hidden weapons, but none of them affected him.
• Wang Dong'er countered Ye Liangchen's wind blades, while Xiao Xiao's attacks overwhelmed Chen Beixuan.
• Huo Yuhao called on the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to activate Silkworm Possession, and Lin Yan recognized the change and waited to see what would happen.

Huo Yuhao’s amplified spiritual shock struck Lin Yan, but Lin Yan’s Mystic Ice Fire froze it and burned backward through the spiritual link into Huo Yuhao’s sea of consciousness. As Huo Yuhao’s consciousness began to collapse, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm unsealed one of his million-year spiritual origins, triggering a far stronger spiritual storm that sent Yan Shaozhe rushing to intervene.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm possessed Huo Yuhao and unleashed an exceptionally powerful spiritual shock at Lin Yan.
• Lin Yan’s Mystic Ice Fire froze the spiritual attack and surged along its connection into Huo Yuhao’s sea of consciousness.
• The Mystic Ice Fire devastated Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power and consciousness barrier, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm failed to stop it with his remaining power.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm broke the seal on one of his million-year spiritual origins and released its immense spiritual power against the flames.
• A powerful spiritual storm erupted from Huo Yuhao, and Yan Shaozhe rushed toward the Assessment Zone.

Huo Yuhao's out-of-control mental storm injured several students before Lin Yan and Yan Shaozhe contained it, and the Freshman Assessment was suspended. Two days later, Lin Yan's team won the championship and received a thousand-year Left Leg Bone of the Void Leopard, while Wang Dong'er asked Lin Yan for help investigating something inside her body.

• Huo Yuhao's mental storm knocked Ye Liangchen and Chen Beixuan unconscious and briefly struck Wang Dong'er, but a blue-gold light inside her sea of consciousness erased the impact.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm extinguished the Mystic Ice Fire in Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness at the cost of shrinking his spiritual essence orb, while Yan Shaozhe sealed the storm and took Huo Yuhao for examination.
• The Freshman Assessment was halted, and two days later Lin Yan's team was named champion, ahead of Dai Huabin's second-place team and Huang Chutian's third-place team.
• Lin Yan, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao became core disciples and received the thousand-year Left Leg Bone of the Void Leopard, which Lin Yan kept at their insistence.
• Wang Dong'er approached Lin Yan and asked for his help because she felt something might be inside her body.

Wang Dong'er told Lin Yan about a mysterious voice that kept her away from Soul Tools and a blue-gold light that erased Huo Yuhao's Mental Storm. Trusting Lin Yan to investigate her sea of consciousness, she let him enter, where he and Electrolux looked beyond her pale-gold spiritual power and found a startling scene.

• Wang Dong'er explained that an unseen voice had grown stronger whenever she tried to use Soul Tools.
• Wang Dong'er said a blue-gold flash had appeared in her consciousness during Huo Yuhao's Mental Storm and erased the attack.
• Wang Dong'er asked Lin Yan for help, and he suspected the problem was in her sea of consciousness.
• Wang Dong'er agreed to let Lin Yan examine her, and he warned her not to resist.
• Lin Yan touched his forehead to Wang Dong'er's and, with Electrolux, entered her sea of consciousness.
• Lin Yan and Electrolux passed through Wang Dong'er's pale-gold spiritual power, and the scene before them changed dramatically.

Lin Yan discovered that Tang San had torn away at least a third of Wang Dong'er’s soul and left his Divine Sense fused with it to keep her alive. He hid the full truth from Wang Dong'er, asked her to trust him, and told her to ignore the presence until he could resolve it.

• Lin Yan and Electrolux examined Wang Dong'er's sea of spirit and found it fragmented, with Tang San's Divine Sense holding her damaged soul together.
• Electrolux concluded that Tang San's Divine Sense had fused with Wang Dong'er's soul and could no longer read her memories without causing her soul to collapse.
• Lin Yan inferred that Tang San had split Tang Wutong's soul and planned to unite the pieces associated with Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er.
• Lin Yan withdrew from Wang Dong'er's sea of spirit and told her that something was there but would not harm her for the time being.
• Lin Yan asked Wang Dong'er to trust him, avoid investigating the presence, and tell no one else; Wang Dong'er agreed.

Lin Yan used the Lava Mimicry Field to test the Lesser Spirit Gathering Array he had developed from Soul Guidance Arrays. The array gathered natural energy successfully, confirming his research approach, and he turned to the experiment he had come to conduct.

• Eight months passed, and Shrek Academy’s vacation began as the Lava Mimicry Field closed temporarily for Lin Yan’s experiments.
• Lin Yan descended to the deepest cave, where the extreme heat posed no threat to him because he possessed Ultimate Fire.
• Lin Yan arranged five metal discs and activated them, causing their patterns to form a diagram that drew natural energy into the cave.
• Lin Yan explained that the Lesser Spirit Gathering Array used Array Patterns to manifest a Dao Script meaning “gather.”
• Lin Yan concluded that the array’s success proved his method of developing arrays was viable, then stopped focusing on it because he had come to conduct another experiment.

Lin Yan and Electrolux completed their analysis of spirit rings, discovering how their layers, Rule Fragments, and Soul Marks determined their age and soul skills. Lin Yan then recreated the Holy Spirit Cult’s Ring Elevation Method and identified how it strengthened Soul Marks.

• Lin Yan and Electrolux found that spirit rings consisted of three layers, with Rule Fragments and a Soul Beast’s Soul Mark at the core.
• They concluded that increasing a ring’s age required strengthening its Soul Power, soul power, and Soul Mark.
• Lin Yan and Electrolux determined that a Soul Mark was formed from a Soul Beast’s memories and the weight of its existence.
• Lin Yan reasoned that the Holy Spirit Cult’s Ring Elevation Method could alter Soul Marks even after a Soul Beast’s death.
• Lin Yan recreated the method by opening a gap in a spirit ring and forcing in souls and Soul Power.
• With Evil Soul Master volunteers, Lin Yan observed the method’s effects and figured out how it strengthened Soul Marks.

Lin Yan rejected the flawed Ring Elevation Method and turned to testing how an Exotic Flame Soul Ring fused with a Soul Beast Spirit Ring. He began condensing the Life Spirit Fire into a Spirit Ring for fusion with his second Spirit Ring, but the chapter ended as the new ring’s framework activated.

• Lin Yan discovered that stacked Soul Marks could increase a Spirit Ring’s age but would eventually erode a Soul Master’s soul and mind, so he abandoned the Ring Elevation Method.
• Lin Yan and Electrolux reasoned that Dual-Ring Fusion might resolve the difference in strength between Soul Marks and the fuller rule segments in Heavenly Flames, though they still needed to test it.
• Lin Yan chose to fuse the Life Spirit Fire with his second Spirit Ring because its Flame Spirit skill contained a fragment of the Creation Law and could potentially improve the Flame Spirits.
• Lin Yan sat on the cultivation platform while Electrolux monitored him, then drew the Life Spirit Fire from the Emperor Flame and absorbed energy from the cave.
• Lin Yan wove the Life Spirit Fire into a Spirit Ring framework, which began humming and trembling as soon as its ends joined.

Lin Yan used the Ring Condensation Method to create a Life Spirit Fire Exotic Flame Soul Ring and began fusing it with his second soul ring. As the rings merged, the Life Spirit Fire burned away the soul beast’s imprint, and its origin entered the Soul Skill Rule Space, forcing the invisible Soul Mark into a tangible form.

• Lin Yan let the laws of heaven and earth complete the Life Spirit Fire soul ring after he constructed its basic framework.
• Lin Yan absorbed the Exotic Flame Soul Ring, and the Life Spirit Fire origin returned to the Emperor Flame.
• Lin Yan guided the Exotic Flame Soul Ring into his second soul ring, and the purple ring melted into it.
• Lin Yan used his heightened perception to observe the fusion as the Life Spirit Fire devoured the outer structure and purified the soul beast’s Life Imprints.
• The Life Spirit Fire origin entered the Soul Skill Rule Space and forced the soul beast’s Soul Mark into a tangible shape.

Lin Yan witnessed the Fire Puppet Bird’s memories, from its awakening Phoenix Bloodline to its defeat and death at the hands of Uncle Lin and young Lin Yan. The memory ended as its deep-purple Spirit Ring rose from its body.

• Lin Yan’s consciousness was swept into the Fire Puppet Bird’s memories as the Soul Mark mutated.
• The Fire Puppet Bird discovered and swallowed a Phoenix Remnant Bone, awakening the Phoenix Bloodline hidden within it.
• Its golden-red flames and Flame Puppets grew more powerful as it developed, but its unusual abilities attracted Soul Masters.
• Uncle Lin and young Lin Yan fought the Fire Puppet Bird, and Uncle Lin defeated it despite its fierce resistance.
• Young Lin Yan killed the wounded Fire Puppet Bird, and a deep-purple Spirit Ring rose from its body.

Lin Yan's Life Spirit Fire rewrote the Mutant Fire Puppet Bird's memories and transformed its Soul Mark into a Variant Emerald Phoenix. The Life Spirit Fire's Law Segment then merged with the bird's Law Fragment and began anchoring to the Soul Mark, sweeping Lin Yan's consciousness into a vortex of laws and insights.

• The Life Spirit Fire altered the Mutant Fire Puppet Bird's memories, gradually transforming it into a Variant Emerald Phoenix.
• The transformed Soul Mark grew solid and powerful, and it pulled the Mutant Fire Puppet Bird's Law Fragment toward itself.
• Lin Yan used the Prajna Heart Lamp to perceive the Life Spirit Fire's Law Segment and recognized that it could be copied.
• A copied Law Segment collided with the bird's Law Fragment, and their fire, life, and creation laws reorganized into a new structure.
• Invisible threads began anchoring the new Law Segment to the Variant Emerald Phoenix Soul Mark, plunging Lin Yan's consciousness into a vast vortex of laws and insights.