Recaps

After a year and a half in Biyou Village, Dugu Yan prepared to leave for Heaven Dou Royal Academy but hurried to the back mountain when she learned Lin Ya was testing new weapons. There, she watched Lin Ya demonstrate rifles and flying Soul Tools, while he promised an even more powerful weapon was still to come.

• Dugu Yan arrived at Biyou Village on the day she was set to enroll at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where her Soul Power had reached level 27.
• A guard told Dugu Yan that Lin Ya and Dugu Bo were testing a new weapon at the back mountain, so she went to watch.
• Dugu Yan passed through the village’s busy artifact-refining zone, where Tie Xin supervised blacksmiths producing Soul Tools and components.
• Lin Ya tested Hanyang Type 88 Rifles with a thousand level-three Soul Scholars, whose volleys pierced iron plates and could kill a level 19 Soul Master.
• Eight hundred Soul Elders used steel wings and level-three soul-guided rifles to fire soul-piercing bullets powerful enough to break through a level 41 Soul Ancestor’s defenses.
• Dugu Bo praised the guns’ potential, and Lin Ya said the real big stuff was still coming.

Lin Ya demonstrated the devastating power of his Red Barbarian Cannons and declared his ambition to command all the armies under heaven. As Dugu Yan prepared to leave for Heaven Dou Academy, he gave her a protective Soul Tool, and she kissed his cheek before fleeing.

• Lin Ya ordered eighteen Red Barbarian Cannons to fire, blasting away thirty percent of a mountain peak and astonishing Dugu Bo.
• Lin Ya explained that the cannons could not stop powerful experts and discussed Heaven Dou's divided provinces before declaring that he wanted command over all armies.
• Dugu Bo told Lin Ya to cultivate until he reached level 40, then left to help Dugu Yan prepare for Heaven Dou Academy.
• Lin Ya promised Dugu Yan he would visit her and gave her a Level 4 flying Soul Tool, a pistol, and the protective Three Treasure Beads necklace.
• Dugu Yan kissed Lin Ya's cheek, blushed, and ran down the mountain, while Lin Ya put on a new Five Treasure Beads necklace and turned toward Biyou Village.

Ah Rou, a hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit soul beast in human form, infiltrated Biyou Village but was driven out by its defenses. Lin Ya intercepted her outside the village and challenged her despite the gap in their strength.

• Ah Rou entered Biyou Village, but Flying Insect devices detected her and triggered an alarm.
• Biyou Village’s Soul Elders attacked Ah Rou with Soul-Breaking Bullets, and she used her Teleportation skill to evade them.
• Lin Ya recognized Ah Rou’s rabbit martial soul and wondered why she had come to the village.
• Ah Rou fled over the wall after using her Invincible Golden Body to survive a Red Barbarian Cannon blast.
• Lin Ya caught up with Ah Rou in the air and challenged her, revealing his level thirty-nine strength and three black soul rings.

Lin Ya used three ten-thousand-year soul spirits, his soul bones, and powerful spiritual strength to defeat Ah Rou despite her level advantage. He stopped the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear from striking her and asked what she had come for.

• Ah Rou bypassed Lin Ya’s three soul spirits with Teleportation and attacked him, but his Emerald Swan Wings blocked her Waist Bow.
• Ah Rou fought off the soul spirits with Invincible Golden Body, then used Dream's Other Shore and Soft Bone Lock against Lin Ya.
• Lin Ya’s Spirit Abyss Realm spiritual power let him break the illusion, and his Mirror Image Clone tricked Ah Rou into binding a false copy.
• The Demon Eye Tree stunned Ah Rou, and the Soul-Devouring Demon Spider and Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear restrained her before Lin Ya recalled them.
• Lin Ya approached Ah Rou and asked what she had come for.

Ah Rou explained that Bi Ji had sent her to Lin Ya because the Soft Bone Rabbit clan could not survive the heavenly tribulation, and she asked him to shelter her and Xiao Wu. Lin Ya accepted and gave Ah Rou a Lovesick Heartbreak Red that concealed her soul beast aura, leaving her overwhelmed with gratitude.

• Ah Rou told Lin Ya that Bi Ji had warned her the Soft Bone Rabbits could not endure the heavenly tribulation and advised her to seek refuge with him.
• Ah Rou asked Lin Ya to protect her so she could give Xiao Wu a chance to live.
• Lin Ya agreed to let Ah Rou stay by his side, though he noted that her aura could expose her to Titled Douluo.
• Lin Ya gave Ah Rou a Lovesick Heartbreak Red, which concealed her hundred-thousand-year soul beast aura.
• Ah Rou realized the flower could protect her and wept as she thanked Lin Ya.

Lin Ya reached level 40 and took Ah Rou to a hidden waterfall to obtain his fourth Soul Ring from the Blue Silver Emperor. After cautiously scouting the area, he summoned his Emerald Swan Martial Soul, filling the valley with powerful life energy.

• Ah Rou thanked Lin Ya for giving Xiao Wu the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, which would let her hide her aura and live safely.
• Lin Ya broke through to level 40 and told Ah Rou he would obtain his fourth Soul Ring before returning to Biyou Village.
• Lin Ya chose the Blue Silver Emperor as his target for awakening Fenghou Strange Gates and flew with Ah Rou toward its hidden location.
• After reaching the mountain range, Lin Ya sent out insect-shaped artifacts to scout the area eighteen times before entering.
• Ah Rou saw that the Blue Silver Emperor looked like an ordinary ten-year Blue Silver Grass, while Lin Ya summoned his Emerald Swan Martial Soul and unleashed its ultimate life energy.

Lin Ya found Ah Yin, the weakened Blue Silver Emperor, hidden behind a waterfall and offered to make her his Soul Spirit. Ah Yin agreed, but urged him to bind her to his Emerald Swan Martial Soul instead of his Outcast Martial Soul, arguing that their life-based powers could greatly strengthen it.

• After six years without sunlight or rescue, Ah Yin sensed Lin Ya's powerful life force and hoped he could help her.
• Lin Ya and Ah Rou found Ah Yin, and Lin Ya used Twin Hands—Blue Hand to establish a mental connection with her.
• Lin Ya showed Ah Yin memories of the Soul Spirit Method and explained that she could become his Soul Spirit; Ah Yin agreed despite having only ten years of cultivation.
• Lin Ya summoned his Outcast Martial Soul to make Ah Yin his fourth soul ring, but Ah Yin asked him to use his Emerald Swan Martial Soul instead.
• Ah Yin explained that meeting the Blue Silver King could rapidly increase her cultivation and help evolve Lin Ya's Emerald Swan Martial Soul, potentially reaching five hundred thousand years in total.

Lin Ya absorbed Ah Yin’s ten-year soul ring and hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone, advancing his plan to forge a complete Battle Armor from soul bones. Ah Yin appeared in human form as a soul ring spirit and began to explain the soul skills she had granted him.

• Lin Ya confirmed that the Blue Silver Emperor lineage should focus on its life attribute rather than follow a poison-attribute path.
• Ah Yin gave Lin Ya a sealed box containing her hundred-thousand-year right leg bone, while Ah Rou guarded the cave.
• Lin Ya absorbed Ah Yin’s ten-year soul ring and the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone over two days.
• Lin Ya awoke without breaking through the level 40 bottleneck, and Ah Yin appeared before him as a human-form soul ring spirit.
• Ah Yin began explaining the soul skills she had bestowed upon Lin Ya.

Lin Ya learned the powers of the Blue Silver Domain and the two skills attached to Ah Yin’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone. He tested the Emerald Overlord Spear and demonstrated its overwhelming destructive force.

• Ah Yin explained that Lin Ya’s Blue Silver Domain could disguise his soul rings and assimilate plants, and Lin Ya discovered it enhanced life-type skills, weakened other skills and enemies, and let him see through nearby plants.
• Lin Ya considered how to make better use of his powerful mental strength and wondered whether the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone’s skills would suit him.
• Ah Yin revealed that Devour Heaven and Earth could restore Lin Ya’s Soul Power by consuming nearby life force, while Blue Silver Overlord Spear was her lineage’s strongest single-target attack.
• Lin Ya formed the Emerald Overlord Spear from his wings’ feathers and used it to split a massive waterfall and carve a deep ravine into the cliff.

Lin Ya returned to Biyou Village after reaching Rank 40 and showed Dugu Bo the white third soul ring on his Emerald Swan Martial Soul, explaining that it was a ten-year ring capable of evolving. He asked Dugu Bo about soul beasts with domains, and Dugu Bo named a rare sea soul beast called the Illusory Snake.

• Dugu Bo welcomed Lin Ya back and asked to see the new soul ring, but Lin Ya revealed he had found a third ring for his Swan Martial Soul instead of a fourth for his Outcast Martial Soul.
• Dugu Bo was shocked by Lin Ya's white ring, and Lin Ya teased him with the story of the million-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm before explaining that his own ten-year ring could evolve in the right environment.
• Lin Ya asked Dugu Bo about soul beasts with domains at around thirty thousand years, and Dugu Bo said he knew a kind that could possess one at the ten-thousand-year level.
• Dugu Bo described a rare sea soul beast he had meant to save for Dugu Yan and identified it as the Illusory Snake.

Lin Ya and his group found a village outside Vast Sea City being ravaged by Wolf Bandits, and Lin Ya ordered his guards to attack. The chapter ended with the guards’ soul-guided guns trained on the remaining bandits as Lin Ya commanded that none be spared.

• Lin Ya, Dugu Bo, Ah Rou, and one hundred Soul Elder guards traveled toward Vast Sea City to hunt an Illusory Snake soul ring, and Lin Ya explained why they needed their own ship and crew.
• Dugu Bo detected a strong smell of blood near a village, and Lin Ya’s artifact flying insects revealed that the village had been burned and its people attacked by Wolf Bandits.
• Lin Ya recognized the Wolf Bandits and, seeing them threaten the villagers, ordered his guards to kill them.
• A Wolf Bandit pounced on a mother and daughter, but a guard shot it dead with a soul-guided gun and Soul-Breaking Bullet.
• Lin Ya and the guards confronted the remaining Wolf Bandits, and Lin Ya ordered them all killed.

Lin Ya and the soul-tool guards slaughtered the Wolf Bandits attacking the villagers, then Lin Ya fought the remaining leaders to gain combat experience. He stood unharmed after the azure Wolf Bandit's cyan ring attack, though the protective beads around his neck went dark.

• A hundred Soul Elder guards fired their soul cannons and wiped out more than four hundred Soul Elder- and Soul Ancestor-level Wolf Bandits while protecting the villagers.
• Forty Soul King Wolf Bandits and three Soul Emperor leaders charged Lin Ya, but Dugu Bo stopped Ah Rou from intervening so Lin Ya could gain experience.
• Lin Ya summoned a Mirror Image Clone and six soul spirits; the spiders and Demon Eye Trees restrained the Soul King attackers while the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bears battered two Soul Emperor leaders.
• Lin Ya faced the azure Wolf Bandit leader, blocked its wind blades with his Black Dipper Armor, and stopped its claw strike with golden light.
• The azure Wolf Bandit trapped Lin Ya in a cyan ring attack, but he emerged unharmed as the two protective beads around his neck lost their glow.

Lin Ya fought the azure Wolf Bandit leader through its Bloodthirsty Berserk state, using the Emerald Swan’s healing and defensive skills to outlast it. He killed the leader with the Hundred Thousand Year Emerald Overlord Spear, ending the twenty-thousand-year-old bandit’s rampage.

• Lin Ya charged the azure Wolf Bandit leader and traded blows with it, relying on his defenses and the Thief Devourer to withstand its attacks.
• The wounded leader activated Bloodthirsty Berserk, doubling its strength and speed, and broke through Lin Ya’s defenses in their ensuing clash.
• Lin Ya secretly summoned the Emerald Swan and healed his wounds with Emerald Green Lightwave.
• Lin Ya blocked the leader’s next attack with Emerald Light Guard, then pierced its heart with the Emerald Overlord Spear.
• Lin Ya detonated the spear’s energy, destroying the azure Wolf Bandit leader.

Lin Ya and Dugu Bo reached Vast Sea City after defeating the Wolf Bandits and finding a twenty-thousand-year soul bone. There, they learned more about Sea God Island and prepared to search for an Illusory Snake with help from the Hai Po Brothers.

• Lin Ya and the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bears finished off the Wolf Bandits, and Lin Ya let his soul spirits consume their souls until they reached thirty thousand years in quality.
• Lin Ya found a twenty-thousand-year wolf leg soul bone, declined to give it to Dugu Bo, and stored it in his Devouring Pouch.
• Lin Ya led the group west to Vast Sea City, where Prince Xue Xing welcomed them and asked about the Illusory Snake they sought.
• Lin Ya told Dugu Bo and Prince Xue Xing that Sea Delusion Douluo of Sea God Island had an Illusory Snake martial soul and was a level ninety-three control-system Titled Douluo.
• Dugu Bo explained that Illusory Snakes created Mist Domains and mirages, and Prince Xue Xing introduced the Hai Po Brothers, Sea White and Sea Ghost, as their guides.

Lin Ya’s ship encountered a seventy-thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Shark fleeing a group of Evil Orcas, and he ordered his crew to help it. As the orcas reached the ship, the shark created an iceberg to stop them, leaving Lin Ya puzzled by its ice powers.

• Lin Ya sang aboard the ship until Dugu Bo spotted a huge shadow beneath the water.
• Sea Ghost and Sea White identified the creature as a seventy-thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Shark, which turned out to be seeking help from Lin Ya’s group.
• Lin Ya ordered the crew to fire the Red Barbarian Cannons at the pursuing Evil Orcas, killing one and blasting several others.
• As the surviving Evil Orcas charged the ship, the Demon Soul Great White Shark created an iceberg that stopped them.
• Lin Ya marveled at the shark’s ice-element attack and wondered why a Demon Soul Great White Shark could wield ice powers.

Lin Ya and Dugu Bo defeated a group of Evil Spirit Orcas, and Lin Ya discovered that his Twin Hands could preserve their soul rings by binding them to blood. He stored the rings and continued toward the Illusory Snake, while a seven-hundred-thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Shark insisted on repaying his kindness.

• Dugu Bo killed the Evil Spirit Orcas, including a fifty-thousand-year one, and ordered the others to collect Whale Rubber from their heads.
• Dugu Bo gave Lin Ya the fifty-thousand-year Whale Rubber to raise the age limit of his fourth soul ring.
• Lin Ya used Spirit Binding, General Summoning, and his Twin Hands to seal the orcas' soul rings with their blood and prevent them from dissipating.
• Lin Ya wondered whether his abilities might eventually let him revive soul beasts, but decided that finding the Illusory Snake was more important.
• Lin Ya asked the seven-hundred-thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Shark why it had stayed, and it offered to repay his kindness.

Lin Ya enlisted Bai Paopao, who renamed herself Bai Xiuxiu, to guide him to the Illusory Snakes. Their journey brought them to the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, whose supposed hundred-thousand-year cultivation made Lin Ya realize its true age was far greater.

• Lin Ya asked the Demon Soul Great White Shark to guide him to the Illusory Snakes in exchange for sparing her, and she agreed.
• The shark introduced herself as Bai Paopao and eagerly adopted the name Bai Xiuxiu after Lin Ya suggested it.
• Bai Xiuxiu led Lin Ya, Dugu Bo, and the others through the sea, while Lin Ya warned her to hide her soul-beast identity if she ever took human form.
• The group reached a vast trench and spotted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, prompting the Hai Po Brothers and Dugu Bo to urge everyone to retreat.
• Lin Ya questioned why the whale was said to have only a hundred thousand years of cultivation, knowing it had lived for over three hundred thousand years and nearly reached a million.

Lin Ya entered the Illusory Snake’s illusion to claim its soul ring, but the illusion shifted to a vision of his return to Heaven Dou City as the empire’s crown prince. There, Xue Qinghe declared that Xue Ye had died and that he would rule Heaven Dou.

• Bai Xiuxiu revealed that the apparent Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was the Illusory Snake, which would only accept its own chosen soul-ring host.
• Lin Ya decided to face the Illusory Snake himself, entered its illusion, and disappeared inside its false form.
• Lin Ya found himself in an illusion where Prince Xue Xing and Dugu Bo brought him to Heaven Dou City to acknowledge his ancestry and proclaim him crown prince.
• Eight hundred soul masters surrounded Lin Ya and his companions outside the emperor’s chambers, where a severed head resembling Lin Ya’s was thrown before them.
• Xue Qinghe emerged with Pufferfish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo, announced that Xue Ye was dead, and claimed the Heaven Dou throne.

Xue Qinghe’s coup against the Heaven Dou Empire escalated as Dugu Bo and Lin Ya fought to protect Prince Xue Xing, until Xue Qinghe revealed herself as Qian Renxue, Spirit Hall’s Angel inheritor. Qian Renxue offered Lin Ya a high position if he submitted, but he refused, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Xue Xing learned that the emperor was dead, and Xue Qinghe ordered eight hundred Soul Elders to kill Lin Ya, Xue Xing, and Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo unleashed his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison, killing more than a hundred Soul Elders before Pufferfish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo attacked him and Xue Xing.
• Dugu Bo was wounded and Xue Xing was gravely injured, so Lin Ya revealed his Emerald Swan Martial Soul and used his healing and protection skills to help them.
• Xue Qinghe shed his disguise and revealed herself as Qian Renxue, the level-seventy-eight Soul Sage and Spirit Hall’s Six-Winged Angel inheritor.
• Qian Renxue offered Lin Ya the position of First Worshipper if he pledged loyalty, but Lin Ya refused because she had killed his father and brothers.

Qian Renxue trapped Lin Ya in a Mist Domain illusion where Prince Xue Xing and Dugu Bo died protecting him, but Lin Ya saw through it by recognizing that the imagined Qian Renxue was thirteen years older than the real one. He confronted her with three thirty-thousand-year soul rings and prepared to fight.

• Qian Renxue taunted Lin Ya about killing Xue Qinghe and admitted she would kill Bibi Dong if her mother blocked her path to power.
• In the illusion, Pufferfish Douluo killed Prince Xue Xing, and Dugu Bo sacrificed himself with his ninth soul skill to protect Lin Ya.
• Qian Renxue tried to crush Lin Ya with her Mist Domain, but Lin Ya unleashed his spiritual power and shattered the illusion.
• Lin Ya explained that the illusion's Qian Renxue was far older and stronger than the sixteen-year-old Qian Renxue could be, revealing the deception.
• Qian Renxue claimed she could still fight at level seventy-two, while Lin Ya revealed three black soul rings and challenged her.

Lin Ya used his top-tier soul spirits to defeat and bind the Illusory Snake impersonating Qian Renxue. The chapter ended with the creature unleashing a powerful mental attack, only for Lin Ya to shrug it off.

• Qian Renxue attacked Lin Ya with her Holy Sword, but his Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear met her blow and knocked her back.
• Qian Renxue used Angel Dance to evade the bear and attacked Lin Ya directly, but the Demon Eye Tree’s vines bound her in a cocoon.
• Lin Ya explained that Qian Renxue was only a thirty-thousand-year Illusory Snake imitating her skills, not her Angel Domain.
• Qian Renxue unleashed Angel Roar and Martial Soul Avatar, but Lin Ya remained unharmed and complained that she was shouting too loudly.

Lin Ya killed Qian Renxue inside the Mist Domain, broke through to level 41, and emerged with a thirty-thousand-year fourth soul ring. He reunited with Xue Xing, Dugu Bo, and Ah Rou, then revealed the Illusory Snake’s thirty-thousand-year Illusory Spine Bone.

• Lin Ya used his Spirit Abyss-level spiritual power to overcome Qian Renxue’s attack and kill her with the Emerald Overlord Spear.
• Qian Renxue’s death caused the Mist Domain to collapse, and the Illusory Snake’s soul beast origin power broke Lin Ya’s level-40 barrier.
• Outside the mirage, Xue Xing worried about Lin Ya while Dugu Bo reassured him that Lin Ya could handle the danger.
• Lin Ya emerged from the shattered mirage with a deep black fourth soul ring and used the Xun Character to descend safely onto the deck.
• Xue Xing, Dugu Bo, and Ah Rou welcomed Lin Ya back, and he revealed the Illusory Snake’s thirty-thousand-year Illusory Spine Bone.

Lin Ya revealed that absorbing the Illusory Snake's Soul Ring had brought him to level forty-three and granted him the domain-type Fourth Soul Skill Fenghou Strange Gates. As the group prepared to return home, Bai Xiuxiu left to reunite with her mother, and Ah Yin asked Lin Ya to go somewhere with her first.

• Lin Ya showed Dugu Bo and the others the Illusory Snake's thirty-thousand-year torso Soul Bone and revealed that his Soul Power had reached level forty-three.
• Lin Ya explained that his Fourth Soul Skill, Fenghou Strange Gates, was a domain, leaving Dugu Bo and Ah Rou astonished.
• A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's aura spread across the sea, and Bai Xiuxiu recognized it as her mother, Xiao Bai.
• Bai Xiuxiu said goodbye to Lin Ya, made a promise to meet him again, and swam away to rejoin her mother.
• As Lin Ya prepared to take the group home, Ah Yin asked him to go somewhere with her first.

Tang San enrolled at Nuoding Academy and challenged Dormitory Seven's boss, Wang Sheng, but discovered that Wang Sheng's rapid cultivation and defensive artifact gave him a decisive advantage. Wang Sheng defeated Tang San twice, leaving Tang San stunned by the strength of the Douluo Continent.

• Tang San entered Dormitory Seven and challenged Wang Sheng, who had become a fourteenth-level Battle Soul Master after joining Biyou Village.
• Wang Sheng revealed his War Tiger Martial Soul and yellow hundred-year soul ring, then defeated Tang San in a direct clash of strength.
• Wang Sheng recognized Tang San's skill and offered him the position of Dormitory Seven's second-in-command, but Tang San refused to accept defeat.
• Tang San fired a Silent Sleeve Arrow at Wang Sheng, but Wang Sheng's Body-Protection Pearl blocked it.
• Wang Sheng struck Tang San with War Tiger Climbs the Mountain again and won their first battle.

Lin Ya reached the Blue Silver Grass prairie and was attacked by the Blue Silver King, who mistook him for the one responsible for Ah Yin’s fate. After Ah Yin explained that she had willingly become Lin Ya’s soul ring, the Blue Silver clan welcomed her back and empowered Lin Ya, leaving his third soul ring nearly fifty thousand years old and Ah Yin restored to fifty thousand years of cultivation.

• Lin Ya arrived at the Blue Silver Grass prairie and used his Blue Silver Domain to connect with the land.
• The Blue Silver King attacked Lin Ya, but Lin Ya’s Emerald Swan Soul Spirit protected him with Emerald Protection.
• Ah Yin appeared and stopped the Blue Silver King, explaining that she had willingly become Lin Ya’s soul ring.
• The Blue Silver King condemned Spirit Hall and Tang Hao, then called on the Blue Silver Grass to welcome Ah Yin home.
• The Blue Silver clan offered its power to Lin Ya, raising his third soul ring to nearly fifty thousand years and strengthening his Blue Silver Domain and Emerald Swan Martial Soul.
• Ah Yin told Lin Ya that her cultivation had recovered to fifty thousand years and that she could grow stronger as his Soul Power increased.