Chapter Summaries

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.

Lin Ya said goodbye to the Blue Silver King and returned toward Biyou Village, where he tested his Fourth Soul Skill, Fenghou Strange Gates. He discovered he could transform into a sparrow and began experimenting with transforming into Soul Beasts.

• Lin Ya told the Blue Silver King he would become a god, while Ah Yin entrusted the Blue Silver people to the King’s care.
• Lin Ya rejoined Xue Xing and Dugu Bo, learned Ah Rou had gone ahead to Biyou Village with her daughter, and revealed his third Soul Ring was fifty thousand years old.
• On the carriage ride, Lin Ya formed a Strange Gates domain and explained that he could set its central palace within himself.
• Lin Ya transformed into a sparrow, startling Xue Xing and Dugu Bo.
• Lin Ya failed to transform into the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King and chose the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear for his next attempt.

Lin Ya tested his Fourth Soul Skill by transforming into soul beasts and fighting Dugu Bo. After countering Dugu Bo's attacks with the Emerald Swan's purification and the Illusory Snake's illusions, Lin Ya earned Dugu Bo's recognition as strong enough to fight a Soul Douluo.

• Lin Ya used his Fourth Soul Skill to transform into a thirty-thousand-year Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear, crushing the carriage and challenging Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo limited himself to Soul Sage-level Soul Power and attacked Lin Ya with his Jade Phosphorous Ghostfire and Bewildering Array, but Lin Ya endured the strikes and blew away the poisonous mist.
• Dugu Bo injected poison into Lin Ya, who transformed into an Emerald Swan and purified it before changing back and striking Dugu Bo with Darkgold Terrorclaw.
• Dugu Bo blocked Lin Ya's attack with his Jade Phosphorous Heavenly Shield and tried to restrain him with Iron Python Strangulation.
• Lin Ya used an Illusory Snake's mist and illusions to deceive Dugu Bo, who concluded that Lin Ya could now fight a Soul Douluo.

Lin Ya barely lost a spar to Dugu Bo, who used his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Inner Core despite claiming he would use only his first six soul skills. During the journey afterward, Lin Ya revealed that his Fenghou Strange Gates could truly foresee the future, and Dugu Bo and Xue Xing eagerly agreed to try it.

• Dugu Bo used his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Inner Core to break Lin Ya's Mist Domain and win their spar by a narrow margin.
• Lin Ya challenged Dugu Bo for using the inner core, while Dugu Bo argued it was not an eighth soul skill.
• Prince Xue Xing praised Lin Ya's strength, and Lin Ya imagined combining his transformations, domains, and other abilities.
• Dugu Bo asked whether Lin Ya's transformation could produce offspring with a real Emerald Swan, and Lin Ya called him a pervert.
• In the carriage, Lin Ya confirmed that he could use Fenghou Strange Gates to foresee the future.
• Dugu Bo and Xue Xing eagerly agreed to let Lin Ya try divination on them.

Lin Ya brought Xue Xing and Dugu Bo into his Inner Scene World, where questions about the past, present, and future could be answered at a cost. Dugu Bo paid a level of Soul Power to learn Tang Sect Pill Devour, while Xue Xing changed his question after seeing how dangerous the price could be.

• Lin Ya used the Fenghou Strange Gates to bring Xue Xing and Dugu Bo into his Inner Scene World and explained that its answers came at a cost.
• Dugu Bo asked how to strengthen the Jade Phosphorous Serpent lineage, shattered the answer sphere, and lost one level of Soul Power in exchange for learning Tang Sect Pill Devour.
• Lin Ya warned Dugu Bo that teaching the ability to Yan Yan would cost him at least another level, and Dugu Bo decided not to ask anything else.
• Xue Xing asked whether the Heaven Dou Empire would unify the continent, but changed his question when a blazing sphere showed the immense price of the answer.

Lin Ya used the Inner Scenery to locate a fifty-thousand-year Solitary Bamboo King that could evolve with the Black Jade Divine Bamboo into a suitable fourth soul ring. After returning to Biyou Village and upgrading his equipment and Self-Cultivation Furnace, he prepared to fuse two compatible soul bones.

• Prince Xue Xing backed away from the Inner Scenery’s sphere of light, and Lin Ya explained that questions affecting the world’s direction caused severe karmic backlash.
• Lin Ya asked where to find a suitable life-attribute fourth ring and learned that a Solitary Bamboo King lived in Sunset Forest near Heaven Dou City.
• Lin Ya saw the Solitary Bamboo King consume the Black Jade Divine Bamboo, evolve, and willingly become his fourth soul ring, then withdrew from the Inner Scenery after spitting blood.
• Lin Ya returned to Biyou Village, while Prince Xue Xing departed to report to Emperor Xue Ye and Dugu Bo entered seclusion to cultivate Tang Sect Pill Devour and pursue level 92.
• After a month in seclusion, Lin Ya finished upgrading his Five Treasure Beads, Black Dipper Armor, Thief Devourer, and Self-Cultivation Furnace, which could now fuse compatible soul bones.
• Lin Ya considered fusing his twenty-thousand-year Bloodthirsty Berserk right leg bone with his thirty-thousand-year Illusory Snake torso bone, while rejecting risky combinations based on luck.