Chapter Summaries

Ma Hongjun joined Blazing Fire Academy after defeating Huo Lie, while Dai Mubai went to Thunder Academy to strengthen himself. In Sunset Forest, Lin Chuan found a roughly 6,000-year-old Purple Extreme Sword Bamboo and recommended it as Tang San’s fourth Spirit Ring, leaving the group to decide whether Tang San could safely absorb it.

• Ma Hongjun defeated Huo Lie with his Phoenix Flame and joined Blazing Fire Academy despite Huo Wu’s disdain.
• Dai Mubai chose Thunder Academy over Heaven Dou Academy and sought to prove himself against Yu Tianxin.
• Qian Renxue learned that Lin Chuan had reached level forty and was hunting Soul Beasts with Chen Xin, then praised Lin Chuan to Xue Ke.
• Lin Chuan used the Blue Silver Emperor’s power to ask nearby plants for help locating a suitable Soul Beast.
• Lin Chuan found a 6,000-year-old Purple Extreme Sword Bamboo and said it suited Tang San’s fourth Spirit Ring.
• Flender warned that the Soul Beast was too old and dangerous for Tang San, while Yu Xiaogang stayed silent.

Lin Chuan guided Tang San to absorb a six-thousand-year Purple Extreme Sword Bamboo, giving him the Blue Silver Sword Formation as his fourth Spirit Skill. As the group failed to find a suitable ten-thousand-year plant-type Soul Beast for Lin Chuan, he calmly checked his system panel at sunset.

• Lin Chuan explained how the Purple Extreme Sword Bamboo could strengthen Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and urged him to claim it as his fourth Spirit Ring.
• With Chen Xin suppressing the Soul Beast, Tang San absorbed the six-thousand-year Purple Extreme Sword Bamboo and gained the Blue Silver Sword Formation.
• Tang San tested the skill by firing countless sharp Blue Silver Grass blades that pierced the rocks, astonishing the group.
• Lin Chuan advised Tang San to combine the new Spirit Skill with his hidden weapon techniques, and Tang San eagerly embraced his guidance.
• The group searched Sunset Forest all afternoon but found no suitable ten-thousand-year plant-type Soul Beast for Lin Chuan.
• As darkness approached, Flender suggested withdrawing and Yu Xiaogang urged Lin Chuan to lower his standards, while Lin Chuan silently looked at his system panel.

Lin Chuan used his Golden Crow Fire to grill fish for the group, impressing everyone with his control and cooking. Their meal was interrupted when golden leaves drifted downstream, carrying an immense life force that astonished Dugu Bo.

• Lin Chuan had Tang San catch and prepare Silver Scale Fish with his new soul skill.
• Lin Chuan grilled the fish with precise control of his Golden Crow Fire, stunning Chen Xin and the others.
• Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, and the rest of the group eagerly ate Lin Chuan's grilled fish, while Yu Xiaogang sat apart with dry rations.
• Lin Chuan noticed golden leaves drifting downstream, and Dugu Bo recognized their powerful plant-like aura as something he had never encountered in Sunset Forest.

Lin Chuan led the group to the Golden Tree King, a powerful plant-type Soul Beast that had devoured a ten-thousand-year Seven-Colored Poison Python. Despite warnings that the tree had reached twenty thousand years and could kill him, Lin Chuan resolved to absorb its Spirit Ring.

• Lin Chuan recognized the golden leaves as signs of the Golden Tree King and led the group upstream through its purifying domain.
• The group found the Golden Tree King in a hidden valley, where its life force suppressed Dugu Yan’s poison and awed the others.
• Zhu Zhuqing spotted a Seven-Colored Poison Python skeleton among the tree’s roots, and Lin Chuan deduced that the tree had recently devoured the ten-thousand-year beast.
• Yu Xiaogang estimated that the Golden Tree King had reached twenty thousand years and warned that its Spirit Ring would destroy Lin Chuan.
• Lin Chuan dismissed the warnings and declared that he would absorb the powerful Spirit Ring, while Tang San voiced his faith in him.

Lin Chuan defeated the twenty-thousand-year Golden Tree King by combining Golden Crow Fire and wind, then burned away its poisonous counterattack. After the beast died and formed a black Spirit Ring, Yu Xiaogang warned that absorbing it would expose Lin Chuan to a soul shock.

• Lin Chuan charged the Golden Tree King and used Golden Crow Fire and a wind barrier to repel its roots and golden leaves.
• Lin Chuan fused wind with fire to form a powerful flaming tornado, driving the Golden Tree King to burn its life force in a desperate counterattack.
• The Golden Tree King detonated the Seven-Colored Venom Python's poison core, but Lin Chuan vaporized the poisonous mist and struck the beast's core with his flames.
• Lin Chuan killed the Golden Tree King, which left behind a twenty-thousand-year black Spirit Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang warned that Lin Chuan still had to withstand the Spirit Ring's soul shock.

Lin Chuan absorbed the Golden Tree King's Spirit Ring, overcame its Soul Shock, and reached level forty-four as a Soul Ancestor. After demonstrating his powerful fourth Soul Skill, he returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Dugu Bo and took two herbs to refine into pills for people who had helped him.

• Lin Chuan absorbed the Twenty-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, destroyed the Golden Tree King's mental attack, and broke through to level forty-four, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned.
• On the journey back, Lin Chuan used his fourth Soul Skill, Blue Silver Golden Spear, to instantly impale and devour a Ten-Thousand-Year Earth Cave Demon Spider Emperor.
• Lin Chuan returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Dugu Bo and helped draw more poison from Dugu Bo's bones.
• Lin Chuan took the Nine Grade Purple Ganoderma and Dragon Ganoderma Leaf to refine Xuanyuan Pills for Su Yuntao and Ma Xiunuo, then tossed two pills to Dugu Bo.

Lin Chuan’s enhanced Martial Soul Fusion Skill impressed the Shrek team, while Dugu Yan secretly visited his room and kissed him. Ning Rongrong caught Dugu Yan leaving and saw the lip print on Lin Chuan’s cheek.

• Dugu Bo took Lin Chuan’s Xuanyuan Pills, broke through to level 93, and decided Dugu Yan should pursue Lin Chuan.
• Lin Chuan and Ye Lingling tested their upgraded Samsara Sacred Domain, which could heal, restore Soul Power, boost attributes, and block a fatal strike.
• Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang reacted to Lin Chuan and Ye Lingling’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Dugu Yan slipped into Lin Chuan’s room, claimed she needed him to check her, kissed his cheek, and fled.
• Ning Rongrong ran into Dugu Yan outside Lin Chuan’s room and saw the kiss mark on Lin Chuan’s cheek.

Ning Rongrong told Lin Chuan that Xue Qinghe wanted to meet him, and Lin Chuan went with her to discuss helping the Imperial Fighting Team prepare for an exchange tournament. Xue Qinghe tried to recruit him and invited him to a palace ball where Princess Xue Ke would meet him, while Lin Chuan began considering what music to perform.

• Ning Rongrong wiped Dugu Yan’s lipstick from Lin Chuan’s cheek and told him that Senior Brother Xue Qinghe wanted to see him.
• Lin Chuan and Ning Rongrong met Xue Qinghe, who secretly was Qian Renxue, at a private club in Heaven Dou City.
• Qian Renxue explained that Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had left the Imperial Fighting Team and Lin Chuan agreed to guide its students at Imperial Heaven Academy the next day.
• Qian Renxue tried to recruit Lin Chuan as a Royal Guest Elder, but he said they could discuss it after his guidance session.
• Qian Renxue invited Lin Chuan to a Royal Exchange Ball and mentioned that Princess Xue Ke wanted to meet him, prompting Ning Rongrong to protest.
• Qian Renxue asked whether Lin Chuan was skilled in music, and he recalled songs from his previous life.

Lin Chuan refused Qian Renxue’s request for pills unless she could provide rare medicinal treasures, then asked her to gather rare metals for a weapon he planned to forge himself. On the carriage back to Shrek Academy, Ning Rongrong offered her sect’s help and hinted that she wanted a kiss as thanks.

• Qian Renxue asked Lin Chuan to refine more pills, but he claimed he had used all the rare ingredients and offered to make more if she found specific Immortal Herbs.
• Ning Rongrong urged Lin Chuan to make pills for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect too, and Lin Chuan agreed to refine pills for whoever supplied the materials.
• Lin Chuan asked Qian Renxue to collect rare metals such as Deep Sea Sunken Silver and Cold Heart Iron Essence so he could forge a weapon, and she promised to send a first batch to Shrek Academy within three days.
• On the ride back, Ning Rongrong offered to have the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect gather metals as well.
• Ning Rongrong leaned close to Lin Chuan and hinted that she wanted a kiss as thanks for his help.

Lin Chuan carried Ning Rongrong back to Shrek Academy after she celebrated getting his first kiss, only to run into Zhu Zhuqing, who was jealous of their closeness. Zhu Zhuqing carried Ning Rongrong to the girls' dormitory, where Ning Rongrong admitted she had been pretending to sleep and promised to help Zhu Zhuqing next time.

• Ning Rongrong delighted in receiving Lin Chuan's first kiss and fell asleep in his arms during the carriage ride.
• Lin Chuan decided to accept the benefits of guiding the Imperial Fighting Team and planned to dominate its geniuses again.
• At Shrek Academy, Lin Chuan carried the supposedly sleeping Ning Rongrong toward the girls' dormitory and encountered Zhu Zhuqing after her late-night training.
• Ning Rongrong deliberately snuggled closer to Lin Chuan, provoking Zhu Zhuqing to snap a branch with her dagger.
• Lin Chuan handed Ning Rongrong to Zhu Zhuqing, who called out her pretense; Ning Rongrong admitted she had enjoyed being carried and promised to help Zhu Zhuqing next time.

Lin Chuan gave Tang San a Xuanyuan Pill and sent two more for his former mentors, gaining a physique point from Tang San’s admiration. He arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy to guide the Imperial Fighting Team, where Yu Tianheng saw Lin Chuan’s visit as an opportunity to study and surpass him.

• Lin Chuan gave Tang San a Xuanyuan Pill and asked him to send two others to Su Yuntao and Ma Xiunuo in Nuoding City.
• Tang San accepted the pill, resolved to train harder, and Lin Chuan gained a physique point from his admiration.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling asked to accompany Lin Chuan to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but he told them to stay and cultivate.
• Lin Chuan arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and followed a teacher to the Imperial Fighting Team’s training grounds.
• Yu Tianheng stopped training and called Lin Chuan’s visit an opportunity to observe him and eventually surpass him.
• Lin Chuan entered the training grounds and told the team that anger and brute force would not be enough to surpass him.

Lin Chuan effortlessly defeated the Imperial Fighting Team and explained the flaws in their techniques. When Yu Feng blamed the loss on Lin Chuan’s higher Soul Power, Lin Chuan summoned his Blue Silver Emperor and revealed a fourth Spirit Ring that stunned everyone.

• Lin Chuan challenged the Imperial Fighting Team to attack him together, then dodged Yu Feng and knocked him down while sending Osler flying with a casual blow.
• Lin Chuan shattered the Shi Mo brothers’ Black Tortoise defenses with one punch and blasted them away.
• Yu Tianheng unleashed Thunder's Fury and Thunder Dragon Claw, but Lin Chuan dispersed the attack with a Blue Silver Emperor grass sword and criticized his lightning technique.
• Yu Feng accused Lin Chuan of winning because his Soul Power was higher, so Lin Chuan began revealing his Martial Soul and Spirit Rings.
• Lin Chuan’s first three Spirit Rings appeared, and the training ground fell silent when his fourth Spirit Ring rose.

Lin Chuan revealed his Ten-Thousand-Year fourth Spirit Ring and thoroughly convinced the Imperial Fighting Team of his strength. After Yu Tianheng humiliated Xue Beng for mocking the team, Crown Prince Qian Renxue arrived with two prospective recruits and offered Lin Chuan precious metals for helping them join the team.

• Lin Chuan displayed his Ten-Thousand-Year fourth Spirit Ring and used his Blue Silver Golden Spear to demonstrate the gap between himself and the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Yu Tianheng admitted defeat and accepted that Lin Chuan was beyond his reach, while the education committee members regretted the academy’s past treatment of him.
• Xue Beng mocked the defeated team, so Yu Tianheng grabbed him by the throat, threw him down, and warned him to stay quiet.
• Qian Renxue arrived, praised Lin Chuan, and introduced two potential recruits with Iron-Armored Rhino and Star Disk Martial Souls.
• Qian Renxue asked Lin Chuan to guide the recruits and revealed that she had sent precious metals to Shrek Academy.

Lin Chuan guided the Shi Brothers into awakening their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Black Tortoise: Mountain-Shaking Wall, and showed Imperial Heaven Academy how much potential his training could unlock. Impressed and ashamed that he had overlooked his teammates, Yu Tianheng asked Lin Chuan to train them ruthlessly.

• Lin Chuan identified that the Shi Brothers’ Black Tortoise Martial Souls were close to fusing and used the Golden Tree King’s life force and Mental Synchronization to align their Soul Power.
• The Shi Brothers successfully unleashed Black Tortoise: Mountain-Shaking Wall, a powerful defensive Martial Soul Fusion Skill that also accelerated their Soul Power circulation.
• Lin Chuan named the brothers’ new skill Black Tortoise: Mountain-Shaking Wall, leaving the Shi Brothers and Imperial Heaven Academy’s education committee astonished.
• Yu Tianheng bowed to Lin Chuan, admitted he had failed to recognize his teammates’ potential, and asked him to train the team ruthlessly.

Lin Chuan tested the Imperial Fighting Team and gave Yu Tianheng, Osler, and Yu Feng targeted advice that improved their combat techniques. He left without advising the two newcomers, while Qian Renxue stayed behind to win over the team members.

• Lin Chuan divided the team into attackers and defenders, and the Shi Brothers' formation held against Yu Tianheng, Osler, and Yu Feng.
• Lin Chuan told Yu Tianheng to compress his lightning into Thunder Dragon Claw, advised Osler to use his clones and footwork to mislead opponents, and showed Yu Feng how to turn airflow into blades.
• Lin Chuan ended training without offering the newcomers advice, prompting them to resolve to earn his approval.
• Lin Chuan left for Shrek Academy to work on upgrading his Clear Sky Divine Sword, and Qian Renxue remained to win over the Imperial Fighting Team.

Lin Chuan took Tang San to the Strength Clan’s blacksmith shop to use its furnace and begin working with the rare metals sent by Qian Renxue. As Tang San started forging Deep Sea Sunken Silver with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, Tailong went to fetch Tai Tan.

• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling asked Lin Chuan for guidance, and he promised to design a poisonous combat style for Dugu Yan while crediting Ye Lingling with helping him discover Mental Frequency Tuning.
• Tang San told Lin Chuan that Qian Renxue had sent a collection of rare metals, and Lin Chuan decided they should make something beyond hidden weapons.
• Lin Chuan took Tang San and the metals to the Strength Clan’s blacksmith shop and paid Tai Nuo double to borrow the furnace and equipment while they forged.
• Tai Nuo sent Tailong to summon Tai Tan after seeing the precious metals.
• Tang San began hammering Deep Sea Sunken Silver with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.

Tang San purified rare metal and, with Lin Chuan and Tai Tan’s help, fused four top-grade metals into the Clear Sky Hammer, transforming it into the Great Evolution Hammer. Tai Tan acknowledged Tang San as his young master, and Tang San broke through to level 46; Lin Chuan also gained benefits through their system bond.

• Tai Tan recognized Tang San’s Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer technique and suspected he was Tang Hao’s son, while Lin Chuan warned Tai Tan not to distract Tang San during forging.
• Tang San finished purifying Deep Sea Sunken Silver, and Tai Tan confirmed Tang Hao was his father before kneeling to acknowledge Tang San as his young master.
• Tai Tan offered his treasured Sun Essence Iron to help upgrade the Clear Sky Hammer and apologized to Lin Chuan for his earlier offense.
• Lin Chuan, Tai Tan, and Tang San spent a day and night combining four top-grade metals and forging them into the Clear Sky Hammer.
• The Clear Sky Hammer evolved into the Great Evolution Hammer, and Tang San’s Soul Power broke through to level 46.
• Lin Chuan named the transformed weapon the Great Evolution Hammer and secretly benefited from Tang San’s breakthrough through their system bond.

Lin Chuan broke through to level forty-seven as the Clear Sky Divine Sword gained its Truth-Shattering attribute, while Tang San tested his newly forged Great Evolution Hammer and won Tai Tan’s recognition. Back at Shrek Academy, Lin Chuan sought Sword Douluo for a high-level battle to test his transformed sword.

• Lin Chuan reached level forty-seven, and his Clear Sky Divine Sword gained the Truth-Shattering attribute.
• Tang San swung the Great Evolution Hammer at Tai Tan, whose three steps backward convinced him the weapon was worthy of the Clear Sky name.
• Tai Tan withheld the secrets of Tang San’s father and sent Tailong to serve as Tang San’s attendant.
• Tang San thanked Lin Chuan for helping him forge the hammer and earn the Strength Clan’s support.
• After returning to Shrek Academy, Lin Chuan sought Sword Douluo to test his transformed Clear Sky Divine Sword in battle.

Lin Chuan demonstrated his newly advanced Sword Intent to Chen Xin, then learned the Seven Kill Sword Technique and comprehended Nirvana Sword Intent. He improved Ning Rongrong’s Heart Separation Control technique and tasked Tang San with teaching it, then turned his attention to the rest of the Shrek Team ahead of the Spirit Master Tournament.

• Lin Chuan’s sword strike cut through Chen Xin’s sword qi and damaged his robe, shocking Chen Xin and Ning Rongrong.
• Lin Chuan explained his theory about the Metal Fusion Device Martial Soul, and Chen Xin decided to pass on his Seven Kill Sword Technique.
• Under Chen Xin’s guidance, Lin Chuan comprehended Nirvana Sword Intent, combining the Seven Kill Sword’s killing intent, Chaotic Cloak’s vitality, and the Clear Sky Divine Sword’s Truth-Shattering law.
• Lin Chuan broke Ning Rongrong’s Heart Separation Control technique into simpler modules and asked whether Tang San could learn his improvements and teach her.
• Lin Chuan gave Tang San the improved technique to study and explained how it could help him control Blue Silver Grass, hidden weapons, and his Eight Spider Lances at once.
• After arranging training for Tang San and Ning Rongrong, Lin Chuan turned to the other members of the Shrek Team, aiming to prepare them to win three Spirit Bones at the tournament.

Lin Chuan trained Shrek Academy’s students with unconventional techniques, while Yu Xiaogang secretly recorded his theories and plotted to regain influence. The chapter ended with Lin Chuan receiving an invitation from the Heaven Dou Royal Family.

• Lin Chuan taught Zhu Zhuqing the Nether Ghost Steps to help her use stealth and illusions.
• Lin Chuan instructed Dugu Yan to compress and guide her poison for precise attacks, and assigned Xiao Wu to spar against Zhu Zhuqing while dodging without Soul Skills.
• Lin Chuan taught Oscar to use Soul Power for defense and combat, prompting Oscar to reconsider the limits of an auxiliary Spirit Master.
• Yu Xiaogang secretly copied Lin Chuan’s training theories and hoped the Imperial Fighting Team would lose at the Four Elemental Academies Exchange Tournament so he could reclaim influence.
• Shrek Academy received an official Heaven Dou Royal Family invitation to the Heaven Dou Royal Friendship Exchange Meeting, addressed to Lin Chuan.