Chapter Summaries

Lin Ye traveled to Balak City to negotiate a partnership between the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce and the Barak Royal Family. King Kundera proposed taking half the goods produced in the kingdom and gaining access to the Chamber’s expertise, but Lin Ye rejected the arrangement and offered the royal family a product list instead.

• Lin Ye agreed to meet the Barak Royal Family after Elder Xia Lifeng told him they had invited the Chamber of Commerce to negotiate in Balak City.
• Lin Ye brought Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Hu Liena to Balak City, where they waited three days for the negotiations.
• Hu Liena overheard Lin Ye think that Kundera was planning a rebellion and considered informing her teacher.
• Kundera surprised Lin Ye by asking to buy every Hidden Weapon, Soul Tool, and Elixir the Chamber offered.
• Kundera proposed that the kingdom provide premises and workers in exchange for half the output and access to the Chamber’s production expertise.
• Lin Ye rejected Kundera’s proposal, explained that the Chamber already had sufficient facilities and production, and presented a product list for the royal family to purchase from.

Lin Ye rejected Kundera’s proposed partnership and revealed that the Barak royal family had tried to seize the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce’s technology by force. After Lin Ye’s people defeated the royal guards, he took the throne and demanded massive compensation, leaving Kundera to choose between paying or losing his royal family.

• Kundera refused to examine Xia Lifeng’s product list and proposed that the Barak royal family take half the shares without supplying materials, so Lin Ye ended the negotiations.
• Kundera ordered guards and Soul Masters to block Lin Ye and his companions from leaving, but Lin Ye turned back and refused to cooperate.
• Xia Lifeng killed a minister who insulted Lin Ye, while Lin Ye’s companions swiftly killed or incapacitated the royal Soul Masters.
• Four Titled Douluos revealed their nine soul rings, and Kundera and the ministers backed down as Lin Ye took Kundera’s throne.
• Lin Ye exposed Kundera’s plan to acquire weapons for rebellion against the Heaven Dou Empire and demanded 11 billion Gold Soul Coins within three days, plus fifty years of tax exemption for the Chamber of Commerce’s Barak branches.

Lin Ye used the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce’s Titled Douluo to force Kundera to accept an enormous settlement, then left Balak’s king facing devastating financial losses. Lin Ye and the girls discussed the windfall as they prepared to decide whether to wait in Balak City.

• Lin Ye threatened Kundera with a Godly Zhuge Crossbow, and Kundera accepted the Chamber’s terms: 11 billion Gold Soul Coins and fifty years of tax exemption.
• Lin Ye demanded full payment within three days and warned Kundera that late payment would incur daily interest and lead to his death.
• After Lin Ye left, Kundera silenced his ministers’ calls for retaliation and lamented that the settlement had cost the Barak Royal Family more than sixty billion Gold Soul Coins.
• Lin Ye rejoiced over the profit and considered targeting other kingdoms, leaving the four girls speechless.
• One of the girls asked Lin Ye whether they would wait in Balak City.

Lin Ye collected the eleven billion Gold Soul Coins from Kundera and set out with Xiao Wu and the others for Maple Forest City, where he suspected Ah Yin was hidden. The group landed before reaching the city, and Lin Ye activated his Chaos Divine Eye to search the area.

• Lin Ye thought about Tang Hao's role in Ah Yin's death, while Xiao Wu and the others overheard his thoughts and learned that Tang Hao had betrayed her for power and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Lin Ye stayed at the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce to develop stronger elixirs and considered recruiting Dugu Bo or Yang Wudi as top-tier alchemists.
• After three days, Kundera gave Lin Ye the eleven billion Gold Soul Coins, and Lin Ye left the palace with Xia Lifeng and the four Titled Douluo.
• Lin Ye proposed visiting Maple Forest City because he suspected Ah Yin's hiding place was nearby, and Xiao Wu eagerly agreed to go with him.
• Before reaching Maple Forest City, Lin Ye landed with the others and activated his Chaos Divine Eye to search the surroundings.

Lin Ye and the four girls found Ah Yin growing in a dark cave, where Tang Hao had hidden her to control her growth and sever her ties to the Blue Silver Grass clan. They took her away, and Ah Yin left the cave aware that Lin Ye somehow knew her identity and could communicate with her through his thoughts.

• Lin Ye used the Chaos Divine Eye to locate the cave where Tang Hao had planted Ah Yin.
• Lin Ye led the four girls into the cave under the pretext of searching for treasure, and they found a struggling Blue Silver Grass with golden patterns.
• Ah Yin heard Lin Ye's thoughts about her identity and his outrageous idea of fertilizing her, then trembled in alarm.
• Lin Ye suggested moving the grass somewhere with better growing conditions, and Xiao Wu pulled Ah Yin from the soil with her roots intact.
• Xiao Wu asked to take Ah Yin home, and Lin Ye agreed, intending to keep her from Tang Hao and eventually reveal the truth.

Lin Ye took Ah Yin from the Little Black Hole and brought her toward the village with Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong, while a check-in granted him powerful rewards. Xiao Wu confronted Ah Yin with Lin Ye’s claims about Tang Hao, and Ah Yin began to doubt her lover as his inner thoughts revealed how Tang Hao had deliberately led her toward Qian Xunji.

• Lin Ye decided Ah Yin should be planted somewhere nearby, and Ning Rongrong offered her sunny bedroom windowsill.
• Lin Ye checked in at the Blue Silver Empress Little Black Hole and received two hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones, ten Immortal-grade Martial Soul Evolution Pills, a Soul Power increase, and the Dragon God Scepter.
• Ah Yin and Xiao Wu sensed a fleeting sacred aura from Lin Ye, which Xiao Wu recognized as connected to his Dragon God Martial Soul.
• Xiao Wu told Ah Yin that Lin Ye’s inner thoughts accused Tang Hao of plotting against her, prompting Ah Yin to doubt the claim.
• Lin Ye’s inner thoughts described how Tang Hao had taken Ah Yin on a detour to encounter Qian Xunji, and Ah Yin began reconsidering their past.

Ah Yin pieced together how Tang Hao had deliberately led her to Qian Xunji so he could obtain her hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone. After Lin Ye and Xiao Wu brought her back to Heavenly Sword Village, the villagers recognized her and recalled Tang Hao’s efforts to isolate her from the Blue Silver Grass, leaving her shaken by the village’s strange indifference to her treasures.

• Ah Yin concluded that Tang Hao had knowingly taken her to Qian Xunji to claim her Soul Ring and Soul Bone, and she asked Xiao Wu whether she should believe him.
• Xiao Wu advised Ah Yin to stay near Lin Ye to help her transformation, while Ah Yin worried that he might cover her with farm manure.
• Lin Ye, Xiao Wu, and the others returned to Heavenly Sword Village, where villagers recognized Ah Yin as a Blue Silver Empress that had died once.
• A villager recalled Tang Hao planting Ah Yin in a cave and removing nearby Blue Silver Grass, leading Ah Yin to realize he had prevented her from contacting her subjects.
• Xiao Wu reassured Ah Yin that the villagers would not harm her, and Ah Yin wondered why powerful Soul Masters in the village ignored the chance to seize her treasures.

Lin Ye gave Xiao Wu a pill that evolved her Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul into a Soft Bone Immortal Rabbit, granting her greatly enhanced abilities and two domains. After hearing about its new powers, Lin Ye began testing Xiao Wu’s increased flexibility.

• The Village Chief directed Lin Ye and the girls to plant Ah Yin beside the fishpond, where she discovered that the soil held abundant energy.
• After dinner, Lin Ye gave Xiao Wu a golden pill that he said could evolve her Martial Soul, and she swallowed it.
• Xiao Wu’s Martial Soul transformed into a pink-gold Soft Bone Immortal Rabbit, and her aura stabilized after an hour.
• Xiao Wu explained that her Soul Skills had doubled in effectiveness, her flexibility and spiritual power had increased, and moonlight boosted her attributes.
• Xiao Wu revealed that she had gained the Immortal Rabbit Domain and Pure Spirit Domain, and Lin Ye lunged at her to test her flexibility.

Lin Ye gave Ning Rongrong a Martial Soul Evolution Pill, transforming her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda. The evolution granted her a powerful Glazed Tile Domain and five offensive Soul Skills, while Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena awaited their own evolutions.

• Ning Rongrong acted sad about the limits of her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and asked Lin Ye to help her evolve it.
• Lin Ye revealed that he had prepared Martial Soul Evolution Pills and offered to evolve Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Hu Liena.
• Ning Rongrong took a pill, and her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda transformed into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong explained that her Glazed Tile Domain increased attributes and Soul Skill effects by fifty percent, reduced Soul Power consumption by fifty percent, and reached a range of one thousand meters.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that her evolved Martial Soul also had five offensive Soul Skills, leaving Lin Ye, Zhu Zhuqing, and Hu Liena stunned.

Zhu Zhuqing took the Martial Soul Evolution Pill and transformed her Nether Civet into the God Rank Nine-Lives Heavenly Cat. She revealed its powerful abilities, including nine revivals, and resolved to use them to protect her companions.

• Ning Rongrong showed off the offensive Soul Skills of her Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Lin Ye prepared Zhu Zhuqing to take the evolution pill.
• Zhu Zhuqing swallowed the pill, and her Nether Civet transformed into the Nine-Lives Heavenly Cat.
• Lin Ye identified Zhu Zhuqing’s new Martial Soul as God Rank and warned that she might face divine trials.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained that her evolution increased her attributes, doubled her Soul Skill activation speed, and gave her shadow clones, invisibility, a domain, and nine revivals.
• Zhu Zhuqing offered to share her extra lives, but Lin Ye told her to keep them, and she secretly resolved to save her companions if necessary.

Lin Ye gave Hu Liena a Martial Soul Evolution Pill, transforming her Demon Fox into a Nine-Tailed Sky Fox and raising her Soul Power to level fifty. The Village Chief offered to help the girls obtain Soul Rings, suggesting unusually powerful fifth rings for Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Hu Liena.

• Lin Ye gave Hu Liena an Immortal Grade Martial Soul Evolution Pill and stood guard while she absorbed it.
• Hu Liena's Demon Fox evolved into a Nine-Tailed Sky Fox, and her attributes increased while her Soul Power reached level fifty.
• Lin Ye told Xiao Wu that Zhu Zhuqing's Martial Soul had become God Level and Hu Liena's was nearly God Level.
• The Village Chief welcomed Lin Ye and the girls to a meal and recognized that three of them had reached level fifty.
• The Village Chief offered to arrange the girls' Soul Rings and suggested fifth rings of seventy or eighty thousand years.

The Village Chief revealed that Heavenly Sword Village was a divine inheritance site where residents obtained Soul Rings through trials at the Heavenly Sword Stele. He urged Lin Ye to pursue the Heavenly Sword Nine Trials and inherit a God King's divine position, while explaining how its concealment art could shield him from the God Realm.

• The Village Chief told Lin Ye, Xiao Wu, and Hu Liena that Heavenly Sword Village had a divine inheritance and that villagers did not need to hunt Soul Beasts for Soul Rings.
• The Village Chief revealed that the village worshipped eighteen sword-path gods, including a God King who had fallen on the Douluo Continent without ascending to the God Realm.
• The Village Chief explained that the God Realm had killed the God King and the seventeen first-class gods, and said he believed Lin Ye might obtain the Heavenly Sword Nine Trials.
• Xiao Wu worried that the God Realm would target Lin Ye if he inherited the God King's position, but the Village Chief said the inheritance included a Concealment Divine Art.
• The Village Chief explained that the seventeen gods' power and origins had fused into the Heavenly Sword Stele, which enabled villagers to obtain divine trials and Soul Rings.
• Lin Ye considered using treasures to raise his companions' Soul Ring Ages and wondered whether Xiao Wu's sixth Soul Ring should reach one hundred thousand years.

Xiao Wu unlocked the Red-Level Seven Trials at the Heavenly Sword Stele and received the Seventeen Gods' Blessing. A deep-red Soul Ring descended toward her as the blessing took effect.

• The Village Chief asked Lin Ye to advance Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Hu Liena's Martial Souls, and Lin Ye gave each of them a Martial Soul Evolution Pill.
• Lin Ye and the others followed the Village Chief to the Heavenly Sword Stele, where Xiao Wu entered the golden array first.
• Xiao Wu's Martial Soul evolution raised her Soul Power to level sixty, and the stele revealed her Red-Level Seven Trials.
• The Seventeen Gods awakened and bestowed their blessing on Xiao Wu, sending beams of light into her forehead.
• A deep-red Soul Ring descended from the sky and settled around Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Hu Liena received powerful divine trials, while Xiao Wu’s blessing awakened the prospect of an exclusive divine inheritance. Lin Ye then began the Heavenly Sword Nine Trials and fused the Heavenly Sword God’s inheritance and the divine power of seventeen gods into his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass Martial Soul.

• Xiao Wu absorbed a two-hundred-thousand-year god-bestowed Soul Ring and rose to level sixty-five.
• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Hu Liena each received Red-Level Seven Trials and the Fifteen Gods’ Blessing, which gave them one-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year Soul Rings and the potential for exclusive divine inheritances.
• The Village Chief invited Lin Ye to begin his divine trial, and the Heavenly Sword Stele glowed gold as he awakened the Heavenly Sword Nine Trials.
• The Heavenly Sword God named Lin Ye his successor and placed a golden sword mark on his forehead while seventeen gods sent divine light into the Nine-Leaf Divine Sword.
• Lin Ye’s Nine-Leaf Sword Grass forcibly fused the gods’ divine power and the Heavenly Sword God’s inheritance, and the Heavenly Sword God told him that his second Martial Soul might let him obtain another divine position.

Lin Ye accepted the risks of inheriting the Heavenly Sword God’s God King-level divine position and began the Heavenly Sword Nine Trials. After the Heavenly Sword God and his seventeen subordinates vanished, the village celebrated Lin Ye’s recognition, while he privately worried that his first trial required him to reach level ninety.

• The Heavenly Sword God explained that the God Realm Committee had killed him and his seventeen subordinates to prevent his power from challenging their authority, but promised his inheritance would remain hidden until Lin Ye became a god.
• Lin Ye declared that he was not afraid of the God Realm Committee and would fight for justice himself, earning the Heavenly Sword God’s approval.
• The Heavenly Sword God and the seventeen divine phantoms disappeared, and the villagers knelt before Lin Ye after witnessing him begin the Heavenly Sword Nine Trials.
• The Village Chief urged Lin Ye to complete the trials carefully, and Lin Ye agreed while thinking that the first trial required him to reach level ninety.
• Lin Ye’s companions heard his thoughts and were astonished that he considered gaining one level in ten days to half a month troublesome.

Lin Ye prepared to return to the academy while Ah Yin learned that another soul had taken over her son Tang San’s body. Ah Yin’s grief turned to anger, then Lin Ye’s thoughts about adding manure to the pond made her perk up in alarm.

• The village chief explained that red-level trial participants could join Heavenly Sword Village’s Elder Council, whose members were generally Titled Douluo.
• Lin Ye considered how to find and punish Tang Hao, guessing he might visit Ah Yin’s old Little Black Hole to check on Tang San’s Blue Silver Empress bloodline.
• Ah Yin told Xiao Wu she wanted to see Tang San, and Xiao Wu revealed that an adult soul had devoured the soul originally belonging to her son.
• Ah Yin broke down at the news, then became determined to make the soul inhabiting Tang San’s body suffer.
• Lin Ye told Xiao Wu they should return to the academy the next day, and Ah Yin perked up after hearing his thoughts about adding farmyard manure to her pond.

Lin Ye and the girls returned to Shrek Academy with Ah Yin, discussing their divine trials along the way. They learned that Bibi Dong had arrived and planned to keep Hu Liena at the academy near Lin Ye.

• Ah Yin chose to leave the village with Lin Ye, and Xiao Wu transplanted her into a flowerpot.
• Lin Ye and the girls departed the village and discussed their divine trials, which required them to defeat three fifty-thousand-year Soul Beasts.
• After several days of travel, the group returned to Shrek Academy and learned that Bibi Dong was there.
• Bibi Dong suppressed her anger at Lin Ye's inner thoughts and told Flender she wanted Hu Liena to remain at the academy, offering another Gold Soul Card.

Lin Ye and Bibi Dong negotiated a fifteen-billion-Gold-Soul-Coin deal for Spirit Hall to acquire Portal Soul Tools. As the group headed out to celebrate, they found Tang San blocking Xiao Wu at the academy gate.

• Hu Liena greeted Bibi Dong, who asked Lin Ye to discuss cooperation over Portal Soul Tools.
• Lin Ye and Bibi Dong agreed on an order of fifty fixed Portals and ten mobile Portals for fifteen billion Gold Soul Coins, then signed a contract.
• Lin Ye invited Bibi Dong and the others to dinner at Sofia Hotel, and the group set off for Suotuo City.
• Near the academy gate, Lin Ye's group saw Tang San agitatedly blocking Xiao Wu's path.

Xiao Wu reunited with Tang San and revealed that she had reached level sixty-five, overwhelming him with her strength. Tang San was so shocked by her cultivation that he collapsed and appeared to become an idiot again.

• Lin Ye asked Flender when Tang San had recovered, and Flender said it had been two days.
• Tang San confronted Xiao Wu and warned her that Lin Ye had deceived her, then tried to grab her.
• Xiao Wu threw Tang San to the ground, scolded him, and revealed that she was level sixty-five.
• Lin Ye confirmed Xiao Wu's level, while Ning Rongrong said she and the others had reached level fifty-six.
• Tang San screamed, collapsed, and stared blankly at Xiao Wu, leading Zhao Wuji to say he had turned into an idiot again.

Lin Ye and Bibi Dong headed to Suotuo City after Tang San relapsed into a witless state, while Yu Xiaogang struggled to restrain him. In Suotuo City, Lin Ye discovered Tang Hao hiding in a blacksmith shop, and the group learned Lin Ye was the Heavenly Sword Chamber of Commerce’s General President.

• Xiao Wu knocked Tang San back into his witless state, and Yu Xiaogang later chained him to a bed after Tang San attacked him while asking for milk.
• Lin Ye led Bibi Dong and the others toward Suotuo City to look for Tang Hao, while Yu Xiaogang went to find a healing Soul Master for Tang San.
• Lin Ye recognized Tang Hao’s back at a blacksmith shop in Suotuo City, and Bibi Dong considered killing him while Ning Rongrong proposed buying the shop.
• The group arrived at the Sofia Hotel, where the manager addressed Lin Ye as the General President, revealing his position to Flender and Zhao Wuji.