Chapter Summaries

Lin Ya transformed a Darkgold Terror Claw Right Arm Bone into an external Darkgold Terror Claw Right Palm Bone, gaining a powerful attack skill. He then began using the Self-Cultivation Furnace to help Liu Huang and considered whether soul beast power could improve martial souls.

• Lin Ya refined the Darkgold Terror Claw Right Arm Bone into a Darkgold Terror Claw Right Palm Bone and fused it into his right hand.
• Lin Ya tested the Darkgold Terror Claw skill, carving five deep marks into a stone wall and gaining a direct attack ability.
• Lin Ya summoned Liu Huang, Xiao Shi, Mu Tan, and Bai Tang and offered to refine them so they could break through rank 29.
• After the four argued over who should go first, Lin Ya tossed Liu Huang into the Self-Cultivation Furnace, where Liu Huang reacted with comfort rather than pain.
• Lin Ya focused on repairing Liu Huang's martial soul and wondered whether adding soul beast power could help improve its quality.

Liu Huang broke through to level thirty in Lin Ya’s Self-Cultivation Furnace, and Dugu Bo arrived at Biyou Village with his granddaughter Dugu Yan seeking a cure for their family’s poison. After Dugu Yan doubted Lin Ya’s strength, Dugu Bo prompted them to spar, and she prepared to attack with her Jade Phosphor Poison.

• Liu Huang emerged from the Self-Cultivation Furnace as a level-thirty Soul Elder, and Lin Ya told Xiao Shi, Mu Tan, and Bai Tang to take their turns next.
• Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to Biyou Village to seek treatment for the poison afflicting their family, and Dugu Yan revealed that she had been enduring its painful effects in secret.
• A burst of energy from the village alarmed Dugu Bo, who rushed to Lin Ya’s residence with Dugu Yan and found Liu Huang, Xiao Shi, Mu Tan, and Bai Tang demonstrating a four-person martial soul fusion skill.
• Dugu Bo introduced Dugu Yan to Lin Ya as the physician who could cure their poison, but Dugu Yan doubted that someone younger than her could be powerful.
• Dugu Bo challenged Lin Ya to show Dugu Yan his strength, and Lin Ya agreed to spar as Dugu Yan warned him about her Jade Phosphor Poison.

Lin Ya defeated Dugu Yan effortlessly, then received a pouch of immortal herbs from Dugu Bo and demonstrated that his Devouring Pouches could hold living people. While choosing an herb, he spotted the Yearning Heartbreak Red.

• Dugu Yan attacked Lin Ya with her Excitement Poison and Jade Phosphor Serpent Venom, but Lin Ya blocked her and bound her with golden light.
• Dugu Bo revealed that nine-year-old Lin Ya was a rank thirty-two Soul Elder, and Dugu Yan accepted her defeat.
• Dugu Bo gave Lin Ya the requested herbs in his Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch, and Lin Ya gave Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan Devouring Pouches.
• Lin Ya knocked Liu Huang unconscious and demonstrated that a Devouring Pouch could contain a living person.
• Lin Ya inspected the immortal herbs and recognized the Yearning Heartbreak Red as the king of flowers.

Lin Ya tried to offer the Yearning Heartbreak Red to Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, but neither could claim it. He discovered the flower had a spirit and began persuading it to become his soul spirit, leaving it tempted by the prospect of seeing the world.

• Lin Ya offered the Yearning Heartbreak Red to Dugu Bo and explained that it could greatly increase a cultivator's power, but Dugu Bo declined because he did not wish to take another wife.
• Dugu Bo urged Dugu Yan to try claiming the flower, but it rejected her blood and mocked her love at first sight as lust at first sight.
• Lin Ya wondered whether the Yearning Heartbreak Red could become a soul spirit and used his abilities to contact its flower spirit.
• The Yearning Heartbreak Red told Lin Ya that becoming a soul beast would take an extremely long time, so he proposed that it become his soul spirit instead.
• Lin Ya promised the Yearning Heartbreak Red the chance to travel with him and become a Flower Goddess, and it began considering his offer.

Lin Ya absorbed the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and fused its life origin with his Emerald Swan Martial Soul, transforming it and gaining a powerful new Soul Ring. The Life Goddess observed him from the God Realm but judged that he still needed to strengthen his life force before he could inherit her Divine Seat.

• The Lovesick Heartbreak Red accepted Lin Ya as its Soul Spirit after seeing his memories of the Emerald Swan’s sacrifice.
• Lin Ya chose to fuse the flower’s life origin with his Emerald Swan Martial Soul instead of using it to raise his Soul Power by thirteen levels.
• The Lovesick Heartbreak Red became an orange-gold Soul Ring, and Lin Ya’s Martial Soul transformation produced a red Soul Ring as Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan watched in shock.
• Lin Ya released an immense aura of ultimate life that broke through Dugu Bo’s barrier and caused the plants in Biyou Village to bow toward him.
• The Life Goddess and the God of Destruction observed Lin Ya, and the Life Goddess decided his Martial Soul still needed greater life power before he could inherit her Divine Seat.

Lin Ya absorbed the Yearning Heartbreak Red, gained a resurrection soul skill, and revealed its limits to Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan. He offered the Snow-White Swan Kiss to help the Dugu family reach the Ultimate Poison, and Dugu Bo chose Dugu Yan to receive it; Lin Ya told her to enter the Self-Cultivation Furnace.

• Lin Ya finished absorbing the Yearning Heartbreak Red, evolved his martial soul, gained a two-hundred-thousand-year soul ring, and expanded all eight extraordinary meridians.
• Lin Ya revealed that his new soul skill could revive someone who had recently died, though the target had to meet strict conditions and the skill could be used only once a month.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan mourned that Lin Ya had not met them sooner, since he could not restore their long-dead family members.
• Lin Ya showed them the Snow-White Swan Kiss and explained that the Self-Cultivation Furnace could strengthen Dugu Bo's poison without harming him.
• Dugu Bo refused the flower for himself and persuaded Dugu Yan to accept it for the future of their family.
• Lin Ya handed the Snow-White Swan Kiss to Dugu Yan and told her to jump into the Self-Cultivation Furnace.

Lin Ya used the Snow-White Swan Kiss to help Dugu Yan absorb a Demon Skull and evolve her Jade Phosphor Serpent martial soul. Dugu Yan emerged with a Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor, a fifty-thousand-year soul bone, and a Serpent Emperor Inner Core, leaving Dugu Bo convinced their family had gained an Ultimate Poison.

• Dugu Bo gave Lin Ya the ten-thousand-year Demon Skull he had obtained for Dugu Yan, and Lin Ya handed it to her before she entered the Self-Cultivation Furnace.
• Lin Ya carefully fed the Snow-White Swan Kiss’s energy into Dugu Yan while she absorbed the soul bone, causing her Jade Phosphor Serpent to evolve into a Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor.
• Lin Ya infused the Demon Skull with the Snow-White Swan Kiss’s energy, raising its quality from ten thousand years to fifty thousand years.
• As Dugu Yan’s body began to fail under the spreading poison, Lin Ya detected a Serpent Emperor Inner Core forming and poured the remaining Snow-White Swan Kiss energy into it.
• A jade-green pillar of light erupted from the furnace, and Dugu Yan emerged with her evolved martial soul, fifty-thousand-year Demon Skull, and level twenty cultivation.
• Dugu Bo examined Dugu Yan and thanked Lin Ya, declaring that the Dugu family had finally produced an Ultimate Poison.

Lin Ya absorbed the Strange Velvet Heaven Chrysanthemum, advancing to level 36 and awakening a new ability, while Xue Xing arrived at Biyou Village with supplies and revealed Lin Ya’s royal identity to Dugu Bo. After Xue Xing gave Lin Ya an eighty-thousand-year Mirror Beast spirit bone, Lin Ya refined it in his Self-Cultivation Furnace and announced that the times had changed.

• Lin Ya chose the Strange Velvet Heaven Chrysanthemum, absorbed it under Dugu Bo’s protection, and advanced from level 32 to level 36.
• Xue Xing arrived at Biyou Village with two thousand troops, blacksmiths, laborers, and craftsmen, then told Dugu Bo that Lin Ya was Heaven Dou’s fifth prince.
• The Strange Velvet Heaven Chrysanthemum gave Lin Ya’s Demon Eye Tree the ultimate wood attribute and awakened his Outcast Martial Soul’s new ability, Threefold Rebirth.
• Dugu Bo took Dugu Yan away to hunt for her second soul ring after Lin Ya asked him to find rings for the demolition squad as well.
• Xue Xing gave Lin Ya an eighty-thousand-year Mirror Beast right leg bone, which Lin Ya refined into a right foot bone in his Self-Cultivation Furnace.
• Xue Xing said he had brought everything Lin Ya requested, and Lin Ya declared that the times had changed.

Lin Ya demonstrated powerful soul tools to the blacksmiths gathered in Biyou Village and offered them three ways to join his enterprise. The blacksmiths faced a choice between becoming his restricted subordinates, working as well-paid component makers, or leaving with their memories erased.

• Lin Ya used the Void Wail Roar to destroy a tree and the Six Harmony Beads to shield the blacksmiths from Flower-like puppets’ gunfire.
• Lin Ya explained that the artifacts were soul tools he had made and claimed the blacksmiths could learn to make them too.
• Dozens of blacksmiths rushed to ask Lin Ya to take them as disciples, but he refused to teach his methods without conditions.
• Lin Ya offered potential direct subordinates artifact-refining lessons and resources, but warned that he would place a deadly restriction on their souls.
• Lin Ya offered workers double pay, food, lodging, and leave in exchange for making individual components without learning complete artifact-refining methods.
• Lin Ya offered the blacksmiths the option to leave Biyou Village after having their memories of the day erased, then told them to choose.

Lin Ya recruited blacksmith Tie Xin by helping him break through to level 30, prompting many others to pledge their loyalty. Prince Xue Xing realized the breakthrough method could greatly strengthen Heaven Dou’s forces and hurried to share the news.

• Tie Xin chose Lin Ya’s first option despite its soul restriction and introduced his sons, Tie Long and Tie Hu.
• Lin Ya brought Tie Xin into the hall, and the blacksmiths debated whether to trust him while Tie Long and Tie Hu waited anxiously.
• Tie Xin emerged as a level 30 Soul Elder, and nearly a third of the blacksmiths rushed to pledge their loyalty to Lin Ya.
• Tie Xin brought Tie Long and Tie Hu forward, hoping Lin Ya would nurture his gifted sons.
• Xue Xing realized Lin Ya could help Heaven Dou’s Great Soul Masters advance and decided to return to Heaven Dou with the news.
• Xue Xing reconsidered the precious-materials list and noticed that Gold of Living Beings stood at the top.

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.