Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan realized he could use the Soul Mark, Life Spirit Fire, and the Law Segment’s Power of Creation to bring a Variant Emerald Phoenix to life. With Electrolux’s help, he began the process, and the treated flames streamed out as Lin Yan’s second Spirit Ring shone brightly.

• Lin Yan reasoned that the Soul Mark held the Variant Emerald Phoenix’s life information and that Life Spirit Fire and the Power of Creation could form its body and nurture its soul.
• Lin Yan explained his plan to Electrolux, who judged it theoretically viable and agreed to help.
• Electrolux directed the Law Segment’s Power of Creation into the Soul Mark while Lin Yan gathered vital energy and sent Life Spirit Fire through it.
• Lin Yan guided the flames to take in the Phoenix’s life information, and Electrolux fused them with the Power of Creation.
• The newly spiritualized flames streamed through the passage toward reality as Lin Yan’s second Spirit Ring shone with azure light.

Lin Yan successfully created a Phoenix Egg and used Contract Magic and his soul light to bring a mutated Emerald Phoenix to life. Its birth stabilized the law fragment and transformed his second Spirit Ring, while the newborn phoenix formed a trusting bond with him.

• Lin Yan condensed Life Spirit Fire and the Power of Creation into a jade Phoenix Egg.
• Lin Yan established a contract with the egg and sent a strand of his soul light inside to kindle its life.
• A new soul formed within the egg, absorbed the Emerald Phoenix's life information, and drew in energy from the surrounding world.
• The Phoenix Egg cracked open, and a mutated Emerald Phoenix emerged and bonded with Lin Yan.
• The phoenix's birth stabilized the law fragment, changed Lin Yan's second Spirit Ring to azure-jade with golden-red patterns, and revealed new Soul Skill information.

Tang San secretly blocked the Ancient Tree of Life from identifying Lin Yan as a possible heir, then failed to locate him and concealed Xiao Qi’s condition from Xiao Wu. Lin Yan discovered that his fused second soul skill let his Flame Spirits cultivate and evolve, allowing Emperor Flame to grow stronger over time.

• The Ancient Tree of Life sensed Lin Yan’s creation of life, but Tang San’s hidden barrier and Divine Sense caused it to judge him unqualified.
• Tang San searched the Douluo Plane for the candidate but could not find Lin Yan, then decided to wait until his plans let him control the Plane Spirit.
• A young man with short dark-purple hair and scarlet eyes watched Tang San leave the God Realm Hub and pondered.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San how Xiao Qi was doing, and he reassured her while hiding the truth and changing the subject.
• Lin Yan learned that his Flame Spirits could absorb vital energy, cultivate, and evolve, which would also drive Emperor Flame’s continued growth.

Lin Yan named the newly born Variant Emerald Phoenix Azure Phoenix and sent her into his sea of consciousness when Yan Shaozhe and Cai Mei'er arrived to investigate the energy tide. Yan Shaozhe questioned Lin Yan about the experiment, but Lin Yan declined to explain until he had definite results.

• The Variant Emerald Phoenix sought Lin Yan's attention, and he affectionately stroked her feathers.
• Lin Yan named the little phoenix Azure Phoenix, and she happily accepted the name.
• Lin Yan sensed Yan Shaozhe and Cai Mei'er approaching after the energy tide shook the Lava Mimicry Field.
• Lin Yan sent Azure Phoenix into his sea of consciousness, where Electrolux noticed her before returning to recovery.
• Yan Shaozhe questioned Lin Yan about the disturbance, and Lin Yan said he would explain the Spirit Ring experiment once he understood what had happened.
• Yan Shaozhe refrained from pressing Lin Yan further and accepted that he would handle the matter himself.

After half a month of deep meditation, Lin Yan absorbed his insights, comprehended Life Intent and Creation Intent, and broke through to Soul Power Level 49. He reunited with Zhang Lexuan, who had watched over him, and the two set off to meet Mu En.

• Lin Yan returned to his villa after leaving the Lava Mimicry Field and began deep meditation to absorb his insights from creating a Soul Spirit.
• Zhang Lexuan learned from Mu En that Lin Yan was safe in deep meditation and spent ten days watching over him at the villa.
• Lin Yan's Fire, Life, and Creation Intents fused and advanced, triggering a breakthrough to Soul Power Level 49.
• Lin Yan awoke and found Zhang Lexuan waiting for him; he thanked her for keeping watch over him.
• Lin Yan asked to see Mu En, and he and Zhang Lexuan headed together toward Sea God Pavilion.

Mu En released Zhang Lexuan from her engagement to Beibei and encouraged her to pursue Lin Yan, whose growing importance to her was clear. The next morning, Lin Yan’s Flame Spirits occupied the lava pool beneath the reopened Lava Mimicry Training Ground, which Mu En had granted him for their cultivation.

• Mu En told Zhang Lexuan to forget her engagement to Beibei and live according to her own wishes.
• Mu En recognized Zhang Lexuan’s feelings for Lin Yan, but she said he already had someone by his side.
• Mu En privately hoped Zhang Lexuan might eventually end up with Lin Yan.
• Students returned to the Lava Mimicry Training Ground and discovered Lin Yan’s Flame Spirits living in its lava pool and caves.
• The students recognized several Flame Spirits from Lin Yan’s battles and noticed their newfound vitality.
• Lin Yan used the lava pool and nearby caves as a cultivation ground for his Flame Spirits after Mu En granted him the area.

Lin Yan agreed to represent Shrek in the upcoming Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament because he expected to meet Luo Ye and reclaim a lost portion of his power. After the holiday, he returned to Shrek for the new term’s promotion assessment, arriving at the Beast Fighting Arena with his classmates.

• Yan Shaozhe asked Lin Yan to join the main-team selection and represent Shrek in the tournament, and Lin Yan agreed to fight at least one selection match.
• Lin Yan recalled intelligence identifying Luo Ye as the beggar who had found the mirror and suspected Luo Ye would compete for the Sun Moon Royal Academy.
• Lin Yan took Jiang Nannan home while Electrolux continued recovering and made new arrangements for the Lin Family.
• After the holiday ended, Lin Yan and the other former new students arrived at the Beast Fighting Arena for their promotion assessment under Wang Yan’s lead.
• Huo Yuhao appeared among the students after having been absent for the entire holiday.

Lin Yan watched Huo Yuhao gain a hundred-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon ring and Soul Bone, then was summoned to compete for a place among Shrek’s Inner Courtyard representatives. He faced Ma Xiaotao and revealed his transformed Spirit Rings, leaving everyone stunned as the Grafting Ring Elevation Method’s success became clear.

• Lin Yan inferred that Yan Shaozhe had accepted Huo Yuhao’s account of a spiritually aligned ferocious beast and had recruited him as a reserve core disciple, while Huo Yuhao developed a guilty fear of Lin Yan.
• Gong Changlong stopped Lin Yan from taking the Upgrade Assessment and dragged him to the stands because he feared Lin Yan would kill more Soul Beasts.
• Lin Yan saw Huo Yuhao use two simulated crimson Spirit Rings and learned that Huo Yuhao had gained a Titan Snow Demon as his second Martial Soul, along with a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring and Soul Bone.
• Yan Shaozhe summoned Lin Yan to the Inner Courtyard Martial Arts Arena to choose opponents for a team selection challenge, and Ma Xiaotao immediately challenged him.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed her Evil Fire Phoenix, but Lin Yan answered with Emperor Flame and four altered Spirit Rings, shocking the assembled disciples and Yan Shaozhe.
• Lin Yan revealed that he had successfully deduced the Grafting Ring Elevation Method, which used Divine Sense to graft memories within Soul Marks and elevate Spirit Rings.

Lin Yan completed the elevation of his first Spirit Ring to seventy thousand years, greatly strengthening his flame-refining abilities and raising his all-attribute enhancement to 720%. After Ma Xiaotao attacked him, Lin Yan easily blocked her Phoenix Fire Line and unleashed his first Soul Skill before the stunned onlookers.

• Lin Yan’s Grafting Ring Elevation Method strengthened his first Spirit Ring using a seventy-thousand-year Fire-Swallowing Demon Wolf from Shrek’s Beast Enclosure.
• Lin Yan traded a thirty-thousand-year Fire Attribute Soul Bone to Gong Changlong for the wolf and asked him to find a high-age Wither-Glory Fire Dragon.
• Lin Yan planned to wait until he reached Rank 50 and condensed a Soul Core before absorbing a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring for his fourth ring.
• Ma Xiaotao accused Lin Yan of putting on an act and fired her Phoenix Fire Line at him.
• Lin Yan blocked the attack with Emperor Flame and activated Flame Devour, boosting all his attributes by 720%.

Lin Yan decisively defeated Ma Xiaotao in a spar, overwhelming her with his Ice-Fire War Halberd and Emperor Reigns Over the World. Yan Shaozhe caught Ma Xiaotao and arranged healing, while she remained fixed on Lin Yan in stubborn disbelief and fear.

• Ma Xiaotao attacked Lin Yan with Phoenix Roaring Sky Strike, but he split her fire pillar with the Ice-Fire War Halberd.
• Lin Yan pressed Ma Xiaotao across the arena with the Twelve-Form Halberd Technique, interrupting her attempts to use soul skills.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed Phoenix Piercing Cloud Strike at close range, but Lin Yan dismantled the Flame Phoenix with Snake Form.
• Lin Yan used Emperor Reigns Over the World to halt Ma Xiaotao, then struck her down with Bear Form and sent her flying.
• Yan Shaozhe caught Ma Xiaotao and a healing-type Soul Douluo treated her; Ma Xiaotao continued to stare at Lin Yan with resentment and lingering fear.

After Chen Zifeng yielded his place to Yao Haoxuan, Lin Yan focused on his research and traveled with Shrek’s tournament teams toward a dangerous mission. He refused to join the Supervision Group before seeing its work firsthand, and the chapter ended with Jiang Nannan discovering how poorly equipped the students were.

• Ma Xiaotao defeated Yao Haoxuan, but Chen Zifeng surrendered their next match and gave Yao Haoxuan his chance to represent Shrek.
• Lin Yan returned to researching formations and Soul Cores while Xuan Zi neglected coordination training for the tournament team.
• Xuan Zi invited the students to join the Supervision Group, but Lin Yan said he would decide only after witnessing its work; Jiang Nannan, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao followed his lead.
• Ma Xiaotao briefed the group on its mission to eliminate the Hand of Death bandits in the Mingdou Mountain Range, led by the Evil Soul Master known as the Messenger of Death.
• During a rest stop, Jiang Nannan examined the Supervision Group equipment and realized it consisted mostly of uniforms, masks, cloaks, and distress flares; Lin Yan confirmed her suspicions.

Lin Yan and the Shrek team reached the Mingdou Mountain Range, where his spiritual power quickly uncovered the bandits’ hidden cave. Horrified by the bodies inside, the group attacked the bandits, and reinforcements rushed toward them as the chapter ended.

• Dai Yueheng used his identity to borrow flying Soul Tools, and Xuan Zi later carried the group at speed to the Star Luo western border.
• The group rested at Dai Hao’s military camp before heading to the Mingdou Mountain Range on their mission.
• Lin Yan searched the area with his spiritual power and immediately found the concealed cave entrance.
• Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and Yao Haoxuan led the way into the cave, where the team found human remains and a murdered child.
• The team killed the sentries in a coordinated assault, drawing more bandits from deeper in the cave.

Lin Yan and the Shrek team defeated the bandits, but the Messenger of Death’s corpse explosions badly injured Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and Yao Haoxuan. Xuan Zi killed the Messenger of Death and ordered the team onward, while Dai Yueheng recovered enough to curse the Evil Soul Masters and Xuan Zi.

• The Messenger of Death detonated corpses in the cave, and Lin Yan’s Emperor Flame shielded most of the group while Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and Yao Haoxuan were injured.
• The Messenger of Death fled through a hidden passage, but Xuan Zi dragged him back and crushed him into a blood mist; flying bone fragments further wounded Yao Haoxuan.
• Wang Yan treated the injured and led the group out, while Xuan Zi took Yao Haoxuan back to the academy and ordered the others to continue to Star Luo City.
• Dai Hao learned how Dai Yueheng had been injured and grew furious at Xuan Zi’s failure to protect him.
• A healing-type Soul Sage treated Dai Yueheng, who cursed the Evil Soul Masters and Xuan Zi.

Lin Yan secretly attacked a Holy Spirit Cult branch in the Mingdou Mountain Range to avenge his parents, destroying its base and confronting its two Evil Soul Sages. He overwhelmed the surviving cultists with his flames and began driving the two Soul Sages toward a desperate last stand.

• Lin Yan used the Messenger of Death's memories to locate a Holy Spirit Cult branch hidden beneath the poisonous forest in the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Lin Yan dropped a Buddha Fury Fire Lotus onto the branch, obliterating its buildings and killing many Evil Soul Masters in the blast.
• The branch's two Soul Sages, one wielding the Blood Fiend Withered Bone Vine and the other the Rotten Corpse Poison Toad, attacked Lin Yan together.
• Lin Yan activated his domain and countered their vines and poison with his Emperor Flame, Ultimate Ice, and Ice-Fire War Halberd.
• Azure Phoenix and more than a hundred Flame Spirits overwhelmed the surviving Evil Soul Masters, while Lin Yan forced the two Soul Sages back.
• Recognizing that they would otherwise die, the two Soul Sages prepared to use their Martial Soul Avatars.

Lin Yan defeated two Evil Soul Sages and led the destruction of the Evil Soul Masters at the stronghold. After searching the survivors’ memories and killing them, he stood alone in the valley with a twenty-thousand-year poison-attributed left leg bone.

• The gaunt Soul Sage and the Rotten Corpse Poison Toad Soul Sage transformed and attacked Lin Yan together, but he broke through their assaults with his Ice-Fire War Halberd and Emperor Flame.
• Lin Yan pierced the bone-vine demon and then froze the fleeing Rotten Corpse Poison Toad in place before splitting its avatar with a powerful halberd strike.
• Azure Phoenix and over a hundred Flame Spirits slaughtered the more than two hundred Evil Soul Masters around the stronghold.
• Lin Yan used Soul Search on the gaunt Soul Sage, learned the information he wanted, and burned him to ash.
• Lin Yan killed the Rotten Corpse Poison Toad Soul Sage and obtained a poison-attributed left leg bone of roughly twenty thousand years.
• With no one else alive in the valley, Lin Yan remained alone among the defeated Evil Soul Masters.

Lin Yan discovered the Holy Spirit Cult’s blood pool and learned that it consumed nearly five hundred people each month to produce Filth Blood. Electrolux identified the substance as a fusion of two corrupt energies that could harm divine souls, leaving Lin Yan to wonder what Luo Ye planned to do with it.

• Lin Yan followed the gaunt Soul Sage’s memories to a hidden chamber beneath the Holy Spirit Cult stronghold and found a blood pool surrounded by four Soul Guidance Pillars.
• Lin Yan learned that the pool contained the remains and shattered souls of more than twenty thousand people, and that the branch had to submit fifty drops of Filth Blood each month.
• Lin Yan recalled that roughly ten adults were needed to produce each drop and that the branch earned rewards for exceeding its quota.
• Lin Yan touched the Filth Blood with spiritual power, was overwhelmed by its screams and resentment, and severed the connection.
• Electrolux identified the Filth Blood as a fusion of Blood Fiend Filth Qi and Soul Fiend Filth Qi that could corrode Divine Sense and contaminate the divine soul.
• Lin Yan suspected Luo Ye was connected to the Filth Blood’s creation but could not determine its intended target.

Lin Yan destroyed a Holy Spirit Cult branch and returned to camp, while Mu En confronted Xuan Zi over his failures and replaced him with Zhang Lexuan as the temporary manager of the Shrek Inspector Group. The chapter left Xuan Zi with a single duty: to defend Shrek when powerful enemies came.

• Lin Yan sealed the Filth Blood, dismantled the Soul Guidance Pillars, burned the blood pool, and looted the branch before flying back to camp.
• The Shrek group woke and set out for Star Luo City, unaware of Lin Yan’s night raid.
• After hearing Yao Haoxuan’s account, Mu En summoned a Sea God Pavilion meeting, where Xuan Zi offered to resign over the injuries to three main-team members.
• Mu En rebuked Xuan Zi for neglecting his duties and told him he would no longer restrain his eating and drinking, but must defend Shrek at any cost.
• Mu En appointed Zhang Lexuan to temporarily manage the Shrek Inspector Group until she became a Titled Douluo.

As the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament opened in Star Luo City, Lin Yan sensed that Luo Ye had arrived but then left the city. Lin Yan expected they would meet during the competition and hoped to recover his lost power and resolve his doubts.

• Lin Yan and the Shrek group checked into the Star Emperor Hotel, where his Prajna Heart Lamp resonated and he realized Luo Ye had come to Star Luo City.
• Luo Ye interrupted a Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy briefing about Shrek's team, then left the hotel and headed for the outskirts of the city.
• The tournament venue was prepared, and Emperor Xu Jiawei confirmed that the arrangements were complete.
• Wang Yan brought Lin Yan and the Shrek team to the competitors' area, where they lined up ahead of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy.
• Xu Jiawei welcomed the academies and officially declared the tournament begun.

Shrek Academy defeated Tianling Academy in the first match of the tournament, and Lin Yan accompanied Jiang Nannan around the capital afterward. When Luo Ye approached the hotel, the fragment of “Power” resonated with Lin Yan’s Prajna Heart Lamp and returned to it, leaving Luo Ye’s Treasure Mirror powerless.

• The tournament began, and Shrek Academy faced Tianling Academy in the opening elimination match.
• Jiang Nannan used her spatial soul skills to eliminate two opponents, while Gongyang Mo, Ling Luochen, and Beibei quickly defeated Tianling’s remaining members.
• Jiang Nannan returned to Lin Yan’s arms, and he later took her for a stroll through the capital.
• Back at the hotel, Lin Yan sensed the Prajna Heart Lamp’s resonance returning and saw Luo Ye approach along the guarded street.
• The fragment of “Power” left Luo Ye’s Treasure Mirror and returned to the Prajna Heart Lamp, turning the mirror into an ordinary object.

After reclaiming a third of his power, Lin Yan examined its records and discovered that Luo Ye’s true spirit was 91% eroded, nearing permanent enslavement as Lin Yan’s Living Puppet. He reviewed Luo Ye’s past questions and answers, tracing his rise and growing ambitions.

• Lin Yan reclaimed the third of his power and decided to preserve its traits, including its Q&A ability, rather than merge it into the Prajna Heart Lamp.
• Lin Yan checked Luo Ye’s True Spirit Erosion and found it had reached 91%, with completion close at hand.
• Lin Yan explained that complete erosion would turn Luo Ye into his Living Puppet across lifetimes and allow him to use Luo Ye’s body as an incarnation.
• Lin Yan reviewed the records of Luo Ye’s questions, including how he sought food, Soul Coins, Martial Soul growth, and ways to gain the Holy Spirit Cult’s support.
• Lin Yan continued scrolling through Luo Ye’s records and saw that Luo Ye’s schemes grew more ambitious as he became stronger.