Chapter Summaries

Lin Ya wagered against Davis using rare ores, then fought him in a duel over a thousand-year soul bone. After Lin Ya’s Golden Light Mantra withstood Davis’s attacks, he revealed two thousand-year soul rings, leaving Davis stunned.

• Starcrown Duke offered five rare ores, including Starfall Iron, against Lin Ya’s thousand-year soul bone, and Lin Ya accepted after Zhi Lin confirmed their value.
• Davis introduced himself as a level 25 White Tiger soul master, while Lin Ya revealed he was level 22 and a few months short of nine.
• Davis charged Lin Ya with White Tiger Possession, but Lin Ya blocked his tiger-claw strike with the Golden Light Mantra.
• Davis fired White Tiger Fierce Light Wave and cracked Lin Ya’s golden shield, believing he had nearly won.
• Lin Ya pointed out that he had not yet manifested his martial soul, then revealed two thousand-year soul rings, shocking Davis.

Lin Ya defeated Davis with his Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear soul spirit, while Starcrown Duke and Zhu Zhuyun withdrew. As Prince Xue Xing prepared to help Zhi Lin hunt an eighth soul ring, a hundred-thousand-year Six-Winged Darkgold Tiger appeared and crushed Lin Ya with its pressure.

• Davis attacked Lin Ya with White Tiger Fierce Light Wave, but Lin Ya summoned the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear with his first soul skill.
• The bear broke through Davis's White Tiger Bodyguard Barrier and knocked him unconscious with a strike to the face.
• Starcrown Duke recovered the defeated Davis, returned five chunks of ore to Lin Ya, and left with Zhu Zhuyun after warning Lin Ya they would meet again.
• Prince Xue Xing celebrated their victory and offered to help Zhi Lin find an eighth soul ring.
• A Six-Winged Darkgold Tiger appeared above Lin Ya, overwhelmed him with its pressure, and was recognized by Lin Ya as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.

The Six-Winged Darkgold Tiger attacked Lin Ya’s party and abducted him after he agreed to go with it in exchange for Prince Xue Xing and the others being spared. Prince Xue Xing and Zhi Lin returned toward Heaven Dou City to seek help and rescue him.

• Prince Xue Xing tried to flee with Lin Ya, but the Six-Winged Darkgold Tiger knocked out the guards and broke through Zhi Lin’s Heavenly Blue Vines.
• The tiger targeted Lin Ya, overcame Prince Xue Xing, and brushed aside Lin Ya’s Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear and Soul-Devouring Demon Spider.
• The tiger told Lin Ya to come with it and promised to spare the others, so Lin Ya agreed to protect Prince Xue Xing and the rest of the party.
• The Six-Winged Darkgold Tiger carried Lin Ya away, leaving Zhi Lin devastated.
• Prince Xue Xing woke, learned Lin Ya had been taken, and resolved to seek help from powerful allies while Zhi Lin promised to find Mengshenji.

Lin Ya was taken to the Lake of Life, where Bi Ji asked him about the Soul Spirit Method. He claimed he could revive soul beasts that had become soul rings, shocking the assembled beasts.

• The Six-Winged Darkgold Tiger carried Lin Ya to the Lake of Life and set him down before Bear Lord confronted him.
• Bear Lord tested Lin Ya with crushing pressure until Bear Two defended him and Bi Ji told Bear Lord to stop.
• Bi Ji explained that she had brought Lin Ya to learn about his soul skill, and Lin Ya called it the Soul Spirit Method.
• Lin Ya said soul spirits retained their intelligence and could grow alongside soul masters, drawing Bear Lord's objection that this was imprisonment.
• Lin Ya claimed he could revive soul beasts that had become soul rings, leaving Bi Ji, Bear Lord, and the others stunned.

Lin Ya persuaded the fierce beasts that he could become a god and let Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm choose to sacrifice itself to him after they drained its cultivation. Bi Ji then revealed that she had summoned Lin Ya to receive a sacrifice from one of her kin, an emerald swan lying near death in the Lake of Life.

• Bear Lord grabbed Lin Ya, but Lin Ya argued that becoming a god could revive his soul beast spirits and give them eternal life.
• Myriad Demon King pointed out Lin Ya's exceptional age and talent, and Lin Ya said he could become a god by inheriting the Sea God's Nine Trials.
• Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm asked to sacrifice itself to Lin Ya after the fierce beasts drained its cultivation, and Bi Ji agreed to let it choose its destination.
• Bi Ji told Lin Ya that she had called him to receive a sacrifice from one of her kin, then showed him a dying emerald swan in the Lake of Life.

Bi Ji asked Lin Ya to accept the dying 110,000-year Emerald Swan Wings as his soul ring, hoping he could help it reach godhood and ease the conflict between humans and soul beasts. The swan sacrificed itself to Lin Ya, evolving his White Swan Martial Soul into the Emerald Swan Wings and granting him a hundred-thousand-year external soul bone.

• Bi Ji explained that the Emerald Swan Wings faced near-certain death in its Heavenly Tribulation, while Myriad Demon King and Bear Lord refused to share Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's cultivation with it.
• Bi Ji revealed that she hoped Lin Ya could help the Emerald Swan Wings survive by accepting its sacrifice and possibly taking it to the God Realm.
• Lin Ya promised to pursue godhood and use the Soul Spirit Method to ease hostility between humans and soul beasts.
• The Emerald Swan Wings accepted Lin Ya's offer and sacrificed itself, raising his soul power to the Rank 30 bottleneck.
• The Emerald Swan Wings infused its power into Lin Ya's White Swan Martial Soul, evolving it into the top-tier Emerald Swan Wings with ultimate life and giving him a blood-red soul ring.
• The sacrifice produced a hundred-thousand-year external soul bone, the Emerald Swan Wings, which flowed into Lin Ya's eight ribs.

Lin Ya’s White Swan Martial Soul evolved into the Emerald Swan Martial Soul after Green Ji became his hundred-thousand-year soul ring. He gained powerful healing and defensive abilities along with the hundred-thousand-year Emerald Swan Wings, leaving him eager to use his new support skills.

• Bi Ji congratulated Lin Ya and Green Ji after Lin Ya’s Martial Soul evolved into the Emerald Swan Martial Soul.
• Lin Ya summoned Green Ji as his soul spirit, and she explained that she could remain outside his body indefinitely as long as she did not fight.
• Green Ji revealed that she granted Lin Ya the Emerald Green Lightwave healing skill and the Jade Light Defense skill.
• Green Ji showed Lin Ya the hundred-thousand-year Emerald Swan Wings, which had fused with him and could not be taken away.
• Green Ji explained that the wings gave Lin Ya Emerald Protection and Clear Jade Purification in addition to flight.

Lin Ya sought a third soul ring, and Myriad Demon King offered him an offshoot that could meet his spiritual and life-attribute requirements if Lin Ya found an immortal herb to help it evolve. The chapter ended with Bear Lord realizing Myriad Demon King was using Lin Ya to pursue a possible path to godhood without risking its true body.

• Lin Ya said he was level thirty and needed to find a soul beast for his third soul ring, then listed spiritual and life, spatial, domain, and devouring attributes as possible targets.
• Bi Ji and Bear Lord explained why soul beasts matching those requirements would be difficult or impossible for Lin Ya to capture.
• Myriad Demon King asked whether ultimate wood would satisfy Lin Ya's need for a spiritual-and-life-type soul beast and offered him an offshoot instead of sacrificing itself.
• Myriad Demon King said Lin Ya would need to find and consume an immortal herb so the offshoot could gain the ultimate wood attribute.
• Bear Lord deduced that Myriad Demon King hoped its offshoot could become a soul ring, help Lin Ya become a god, and eventually provide a way to resurrect Myriad Demon King's soul.

Lin Ya accepted Myriad Demon King’s offshoot and absorbed it as a ten-thousand-year third soul ring, surviving its physical strain and soul tremor. The ring granted him Twin Hands, and he decided to conceal Blue Hand’s memory-altering abilities while displaying only Red Hand.

• Lin Ya agreed to take Myriad Demon King’s offshoot as his third soul ring and insisted he could withstand a ten-thousand-year ring.
• Myriad Demon King empowered the offshoot into a ten-thousand-year Demon Eye Magic Tree and formed a black soul ring from it.
• Lin Ya endured the soul ring’s physical strain with help from his Emerald Swan Wings and vitality, while his three soul spirits shattered and devoured the soul tremor.
• Lin Ya successfully fused with the ten-thousand-year soul ring as Bi Ji and Myriad Demon King watched in relief and approval.
• Lin Ya revealed that his third soul skill was Twin Hands, with Blue Hand able to alter souls and Red Hand able to reshape and heal bodies.
• Lin Ya decided to keep Blue Hand secret and use Red Hand publicly.

After Lin Ya’s hundred-thousand-year soul beast sacrifice raised his soul power to level 32, four Titled Douluo and Prince Xue Xing’s forces arrived at the Lake of Life to demand the Six-Winged Darkgold Tiger hand him over. The invaders found themselves facing the three great ferocious beasts, and Xue Xing realized his confidence might be misplaced.

• Lin Ya considered seeking out the Blue Silver Emperor hidden near the waterfall and discovered that his soul power had risen from level 22 to level 32.
• Bear Lord reacted angrily when four powerful auras approached the Lake of Life.
• Yu Yuanzhen, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo appeared as four Titled Douluo.
• Prince Xue Xing arrived with three Heaven Dou Academy Soul Douluo consecrators and Ning Fengzhi, then demanded that the Six-Winged Darkgold Tiger hand Lin Ya over.
• Xue Xing noticed the three great ferocious beasts at the Lake of Life and wondered what they were.

Lin Ya halted a confrontation between human Titled Douluo and the Star Dou Great Forest’s ferocious beasts, then prepared to leave with Prince Xue Xing. As the humans departed, a powerful voice challenged them from above, leaving their escape uncertain.

• Prince Xue Xing and four Titled Douluo arrived to rescue Lin Ya, while the three ferocious beasts revealed their formidable strength and faced them down.
• Bear Lord’s pressure clashed with Yu Yuanzhen’s, prompting both sides to unleash their auras until Lin Ya stopped the standoff.
• At the Lake of Life, Xiao Wu asked Ah Rou why she had become human, and Ah Rou explained that Soft Bone Rabbits could not survive the two-hundred-thousand-year tribulation.
• Lin Ya said he would leave with his human family and promised Myriad Demon King he would obtain immortal herbs, thinking of Dugu Bo as a source.
• Prince Xue Xing checked Lin Ya for injuries as Ning Fengzhi thanked the ferocious beasts, but a voice from above challenged the humans for leaving the forest.

Beast God Di Tian challenged the four Titled Douluo to withstand one attack, and Chen Xin chose to face him alone. Chen Xin survived Di Tian’s strike without falling, and Di Tian let the group leave.

• Di Tian appeared before the group and offered to let them leave if they endured one attack.
• Ning Fengzhi enhanced the Titled Douluo, but Chen Xin insisted on facing Di Tian alone.
• Di Tian unleashed Dragon Emperor God-Slaying Roar, and Chen Xin countered with his Ninth Soul Skill, Sword Dao: Chen Xin.
• Di Tian’s renewed attack overwhelmed Chen Xin’s sword phantom and left Chen Xin badly wounded.
• Chen Xin remained standing, so Di Tian allowed the group to leave.

After fleeing the Star Dou Great Forest, Lin Ya revealed an astonishing healing ability and cured Chen Xin’s severe wounds. The group was left stunned by Lin Ya’s power and unusual soul rings.

• Di Tian let the human soul masters leave, then spoke with the Silver Dragon King about her unrecoverable soul and divine-consciousness injuries.
• On Bone Douluo’s back, Dugu Bo questioned Lin Ya about why the powerful soul beasts had targeted him.
• Lin Ya offered to treat Chen Xin and revealed three soul rings colored purple, purple, and black, astonishing the gathered Titled Douluo.
• Lin Ya healed Chen Xin’s wounds and repaired his clothes within minutes.
• Chen Xin woke up completely healed, while the witnesses wondered whether Lin Ya was a god of healing.

Lin Ya explained how soul bones and whale gelatin could raise the age of soul rings, earning the trust and favor of the gathered Titled Douluo. After the group left the Star Dou Great Forest to pursue whale gelatin, Xue Xing asked Lin Ya to explain what had happened.

• Dugu Bo asked about Lin Ya’s Twin Hands skill, and Lin Ya confirmed that it could detoxify poison.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Ning Fengzhi questioned how Lin Ya had exceeded soul-ring age limits, and Lin Ya explained the benefits of soul bones and whale gelatin, as well as soul shock.
• Yu Yuanzhen praised Lin Ya, while Ning Fengzhi promised that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect owed him a favor.
• Gu Rong announced that they had left the Star Dou Great Forest, and several Titled Douluo set off for Vast Sea City to seek whale gelatin.
• Dugu Bo vanished, and Xue Xing asked Lin Ya what had happened.

Lin Ya revealed his hundred-thousand-year soul ring and evolved Emerald Swan Martial Soul to Prince Xue Xing, then sought resources to develop his soul-tool and Self-Cultivation Furnace plans. Ning Fengzhi recognized Lin Ya as the Heaven Dou Fourth Prince and considered becoming his teacher.

• Prince Xue Xing was overwhelmed when Lin Ya showed him the hundred-thousand-year soul ring granted by a voluntary sacrifice and his evolved Emerald Swan Martial Soul.
• Lin Ya asked Prince Xue Xing for ores, skilled craftsmen, and loyal death warriors so he could experiment with Divine Machine Hundred Refinements and build a soul-tool assembly line.
• Lin Ya explained that combining Divine Machine Hundred Refinements with Twin Hands could let ordinary people awaken as Soul Masters, strengthening Heaven Dou’s forces against Spirit Hall.
• Prince Xue Xing agreed to provide the materials and craftsmen but said he would need to ask Emperor Xue Ye about raising death warriors; Lin Ya also asked him to upgrade his first two soul rings before they returned.
• Ning Fengzhi concluded that Lin Ya had concealed the reason the soul beasts wanted him but chose not to press him for answers.
• Ning Fengzhi recalled Lin Ya’s resemblance to the Fourth Prince and decided that teaching him might be more interesting than teaching the Third Prince.

Lin Ya’s first Soul Ring evolved to ten thousand years, upgrading Spirit Binding and General Summoning so he could seize and control other Soul Masters’ first three Soul Rings. He then defeated an eighteen-thousand-year Void Spirit Leopard in three breaths, demonstrating his strength at rank 32.

• Lin Ya’s Soul-Devouring Demon Spider consumed a ten-thousand-year Cave Demon Spider and evolved, raising Lin Ya to rank 32 and his first Soul Ring to ten thousand years.
• Lin Ya tested his evolved Spirit Binding and General Summoning by taking a Soul Emperor’s first three Soul Rings, then returning them and explaining the skill’s limits to Xue Xing.
• Lin Ya volunteered to fight an eighteen-thousand-year Void Spirit Leopard and flew toward it despite Xue Xing’s warning.
• Lin Ya blocked the leopard’s teleporting pounce with Emerald Light Guard, and the reflected force sent the beast flying.
• Lin Ya’s Demon Eye Tree Soul Spirit stunned the leopard with Soul Impact, allowing Bear Two to kill it with one blow.

Lin Ya gained a ten-thousand-year Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear and decided to attend Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, using Twin Hands to change his appearance. After Prince Xue Xing confirmed Lin Ya’s identity, Lin Ya asked him to search for domain-type soul beasts and places struck by lightning year-round to help find his next soul ring.

• Bear Two absorbed the Void Spirit Leopard’s soul ring and evolved into a ten-thousand-year Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear, giving Lin Ya three ten-thousand-year soul rings.
• Prince Xue Xing rewarded his subordinates and asked Lin Ya about his future plans, and Lin Ya chose Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
• Lin Ya transformed his face and hair with Twin Hands, easing Prince Xue Xing’s concern that he would resemble Xue Beng at the academy.
• Prince Xue Xing tested Lin Ya’s blood with Black Silver Liquid and confirmed he was genuine, explaining that the fake crown prince incident had frightened him.
• Lin Ya asked Prince Xue Xing to look for domain-type soul beasts and places with year-round lightning, hoping to find a Thunderclap Inferno Vine for his fourth soul ring.

Dugu Bo visited Lin Ya at night to seek treatment for the poison in his body. Lin Ya eased his symptoms but said a full cure would take about two and a half years, and Dugu Bo agreed to stay in Biyou Village.

• Dugu Bo arrived at Lin Ya’s residence after nightfall, and Lin Ya revealed that he knew about Dugu Bo’s nightly poisoning symptoms.
• Dugu Bo asked Lin Ya to cure him and offered three favors in exchange.
• Lin Ya used Twin Hands to draw poison out of Dugu Bo temporarily, stopping his pain and convincing him of Lin Ya’s skill.
• Lin Ya explained that fully healing Dugu Bo would take about two and a half years, and Dugu Bo chose to stay in Biyou Village for treatment.

Xue Ye rewarded Lin Ya for his achievements with supplies, workers, and a powerful eighty-thousand-year Mirror Beast soul bone. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue struggled under the exhausting study schedule imposed on her disguise as Xue Qinghe, and Xue Xing only added to her lessons.

• Xue Xing reported Lin Ya’s accomplishments to Xue Ye, who approved all of Lin Ya’s requests and ordered Xue Xing to gather materials and recruit vetted workers from Gengxin City.
• Xue Ye gave Xue Xing an eighty-thousand-year Mirror Beast soul bone for Lin Ya, explaining how its powerful clone ability could complement Lin Ya’s Twin Martial Souls.
• Xue Xing met the exhausted Qian Renxue at the palace entrance as she complained that Xue Ye’s lessons left her no time to cultivate.
• Xue Xing suggested adding lessons during lunch and nightly study journals, leaving Qian Renxue stunned and furious.
• Qian Renxue resigned herself to returning to her studies at Moonlight Pavilion while Xue Xing watched her retreat with concern.

Xue Xing gave Xue Beng the Golden Light Mantra and told him he no longer needed to hide his abilities now that Ning Fengzhi planned to take him as a disciple. Meanwhile, Lin Ya completed the Self-Cultivation Furnace by using Twin Hands to make its core from his own severed hand, then prepared to test it with a spirit bone.

• Xue Xing gave Xue Beng the Golden Light Mantra and explained that he could cultivate openly under the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's protection.
• Dugu Bo asked Lin Ya to treat his granddaughter's poison, and Lin Ya agreed if Dugu Bo obtained a soul bone for her.
• Lin Ya used his first favor from Dugu Bo to request herbs, and Dugu Bo left to collect them from his garden.
• Lin Ya severed his right hand and used Twin Hands to create the core that completed the Self-Cultivation Furnace.
• Lin Ya decided not to risk testing the furnace on his subordinates and chose the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear Right Arm Bone instead.