Chapter Summaries

Lin Ya fused soul bones to strengthen his Mirror Image Clone and Darkgold Terror Claw, then emerged from seclusion. He recognized the little girl waiting with Ah Rou as Xiao Wu.

• Lin Ya fused the Illusory Snake Torso Bone into the Spirit Mirror Image Right Leg Bone, creating a 110,000-year soul bone that gave his clone the same strength and presence as his original body, apart from soul bones.
• Lin Ya fused the Bloodthirsty Berserk Right Leg Bone into the Darkgold Terror Claw Right Palm Bone, raising it to 30,000 years, then tested its power by tearing through a wall and splitting a large tree.
• Lin Ya declared his seclusion over and opened the cultivation hall doors to find Liu Huang, Xiao Shi, Mu Tan, Bai Tang, Tie Long, Tie Hu, and Ah Rou waiting outside.
• Lin Ya saw the little girl holding Ah Rou’s hand and recognized her as Xiao Wu.

Lin Ya emerged from seclusion, met Ah Rou’s daughter Xiao Wu, and gave her a set of Soul Tool artifacts. With Ah Rou now a Soul Sage, Lin Ya planned to move Biyou Village to Heaven Dou City and take Xiao Wu to study there.

• Lin Ya dismissed his subordinates and considered recruiting more blacksmiths to support Biyou Village’s growth.
• Ah Rou introduced Xiao Wu to Lin Ya, and Xiao Wu thanked him for giving her the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to conceal her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast aura.
• Xiao Wu asked Lin Ya for a Soul Tool gun, and he gave her a set of level-four artifacts, which she happily took to play with.
• Ah Rou revealed that she had reached level seventy-one and said her disguise could now fool even a Title Douluo.
• Lin Ya proposed moving Biyou Village to Heaven Dou City and enrolling Xiao Wu at Heaven Dou Junior Academy, then ordered Old Yan to prepare a carriage for Nuoding Academy so he could obtain his graduation certificate.

After gaining his first soul ring, Tang San went to challenge Wang Sheng but learned that Lin Ya was graduating and chose to confront him instead. Lin Ya accepted the challenge, leaving Tang San poised to make his move.

• Yu Xiaogang congratulated Tang San on obtaining his first soul ring, and Tang San resolved to avenge his earlier defeat by Wang Sheng.
• Tang San returned to the dormitory, learned that Wang Sheng and the other students were attending Lin Ya's graduation, and decided to challenge Lin Ya.
• Wang Sheng, Xiao Chenyu, and the other students bid Lin Ya farewell and celebrated his achievements as he received his graduation certificate.
• Tang San blocked Lin Ya's path and asked him to fight, prompting the working students to protest and offer to face Tang San themselves.
• Lin Ya accepted Tang San's challenge and told him to make his move.

Lin Ya defeated Tang San with his aura and left the academy, then returned to Biyou Village to prepare for founding the New Interception Sect in Heaven Dou City. Emperor Xue Ye arranged five thousand mu of land for Lin Ya and entrusted Prince Xue Xing with delivering a fifty-thousand-year soul bone, while also ordering him to buy four more soul bones for Xue Beng.

• Tang San challenged Lin Ya, but Lin Ya shattered his Blue Silver Entanglement with his aura and knocked him unconscious.
• Lin Ya left the academy, and Ah Yin thanked him for going easy on Tang San; Lin Ya claimed he had treated Tang San gently because he was his son too.
• Lin Ya returned to Biyou Village and prepared to move to Heaven Dou City to establish the New Interception Sect.
• Prince Xue Xing told Emperor Xue Ye that Lin Ya planned to establish a sect, and Xue Ye designated five thousand mu of land for him.
• Emperor Xue Ye gave Prince Xue Xing a fifty-thousand-year Ghost King Vine Trunk Bone for Lin Ya and a ten-thousand-year Wind Tiger Right Arm Bone for Xue Beng.
• Emperor Xue Ye ordered Prince Xue Xing to buy four additional ten-thousand-year soul bones for Xue Beng, and Prince Xue Xing hurried off to find land and carry out the orders.

Lin Ya and Dugu Bo arrived in Heaven Dou City and went to the site set aside for Lin Ya’s new sect, while keeping his identity quiet. There, Lin Ya recognized the Defense Clan’s patriarch, Niu Gao, overseeing construction work.

• Lin Ya admired Heaven Dou City’s prosperity as Dugu Bo explained why the capital was so wealthy.
• Dugu Bo warned Lin Ya to avoid drawing attention, then assured him he could protect him in Heaven Dou City.
• Lin Ya considered how his sect needed stronger members and reflected on the power he would gain at level sixty.
• Lin Ya and Dugu Bo reached the outskirts of the city, where Xue Xing had arranged land for the sect under Dugu Bo’s name.
• Lin Ya spotted Niu Gao directing workers on the site and recognized him as the Defense Clan’s patriarch.

Lin Ya met Niu Gao, chief of the Defense Clan, while the clan worked on his sect and learned that Niu Gao was heading to a gathering of the Four Single-Attribute Clans. Lin Ya arranged to join him, planning to use the gathering and the Aromatic Silk Beauty to recruit Yang Wudi of the Breaking Clan.

• Lin Ya recognized Niu Gao and considered recruiting the Defense Clan and the Breaking Clan, whose circumstances differed from those of the other two clans.
• Niu Gao introduced himself to Lin Ya and Dugu Bo and showed them the Defense Clan members building the sect.
• Niu Gao told Lin Ya that he had to attend the Four Single-Attribute Clans' gathering hosted by Titan.
• Lin Ya and Dugu Bo pretended they would leave to eat at a roadside restaurant, prompting Niu Gao to invite them to the gathering's meal.
• Lin Ya accepted Niu Gao's invitation and planned to use the Aromatic Silk Beauty to recruit Yang Wudi.

Lin Ya and Dugu Bo visited the Defense Clan’s residence with Niu Gao, where they reunited with the leaders of the four clans and attended a banquet. Dugu Bo revealed that he and Lin Ya planned to establish the New Interception Sect and invited the clan leaders to join.

• Niu Gao showed Lin Ya the Defense Clan’s fortified residence and praised its defensive mechanisms.
• Titan and Bai He welcomed Niu Gao, then met Lin Ya and Dugu Bo; Lin Ya learned the leaders’ Soul Power ranks from Dugu Bo.
• Yang Wudi arrived with severe internal injuries that Lin Ya and Dugu Bo noticed but did not mention.
• At the banquet, Yang Wudi asked Dugu Bo whether he planned to establish a Poison Sect.
• Dugu Bo explained that the New Interception Sect would encompass many specialties and invited everyone to join.

Dugu Bo invited the four clan leaders to join the New Interception Sect, and Lin Ya offered Yang Wudi a rare flower that could aid his medicine-making. Yang Wudi eagerly accepted the offer, leaving the other clan leaders to reconsider their positions.

• Titan refused to let the Strength Clan join, while Niu Gao and Bai He held back and Yang Wudi asked about the sect.
• Yang Wudi explained that joining a small new sect would not risk his clan being absorbed, and the other leaders saw the potential benefits.
• Dugu Bo revealed that Yang Wudi had serious hidden injuries and said Lin Ya could treat them as the continent’s greatest healing-type Soul Master.
• Lin Ya offered Yang Wudi an Aromatic Silk Beauty, which Yang Wudi recognized as a flower he had sought his whole life.
• Yang Wudi excitedly accepted Lin Ya’s offer and firmly asked to join the New Interception Sect.

Lin Ya showed Yang Wudi and Niu Gao the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng he had bought from the Speed Clan and explained how he had helped them find work. Niu Gao offered to join the New Interception Sect if Lin Ya could break through his defense, and Lin Ya stepped forward to accept the challenge.

• Yang Wudi urged Niu Gao to work properly and tried to persuade him to join the New Interception Sect as Defense Hall master.
• Lin Ya returned with Dugu Bo and revealed that he had bought the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng from Bai He for one million Gold Soul Coins.
• Lin Ya said he had arranged for the Speed Clan to handle air freight logistics through Tailwind Express.
• Niu Gao asked whether the New Interception Sect's offer still stood, then vowed to bring the Defense Clan's four hundred members if its sect master broke through his defense.
• Yang Wudi tried to take the challenge himself, but Lin Ya stepped forward, and Dugu Bo warned Yang Wudi to stand back in case Niu Gao got hurt.

Lin Ya revealed his extraordinary age, level, and soul rings before unleashing his Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear clone against Niu Gao. The clone broke through Niu Gao’s defenses and wounded him, winning the duel.

• Lin Ya revealed four thirty-thousand-year soul rings and introduced himself as an eleven-year-old level 43 Soul Ancestor with the Outcast martial soul.
• Lin Ya used Mirror Image Clone and had the clone employ Turtle Fly Body, then enhanced its power with Fenghou Strange Gates.
• Lin Ya’s Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear clone charged Niu Gao, who activated his Martial Soul Avatar and four defensive soul skills.
• The clone shattered Niu Gao’s barriers and slashed his chest, leaving him on one knee as the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear won.

Lin Ya completed the New Interception Sect’s formation and prepared to leave for school with Dugu Bo to obtain a soul ring for his Emerald Swan Martial Soul. He set out to hunt the fifty-thousand-year Solitary Bamboo King, expecting the breakthrough to bring him to Soul King.

• Lin Ya healed Niu Gao after defeating him, and Niu Gao pledged the Defense Clan’s 432 soul masters to the New Interception Sect.
• Lin Ya and Dugu Bo brought the Defense Clan and Breaking Clan to the sect’s base, where the clans completed a sect compound for ten thousand people in eight months.
• Lin Ya reviewed the New Interception Sect’s growing strength and left Yang Wudi and Niu Gao in charge while he departed with Dugu Bo.
• Lin Ya and Dugu Bo set out to obtain a fourth soul ring for Lin Ya’s Emerald Swan Martial Soul, targeting the fifty-thousand-year Solitary Bamboo King.

Lin Ya and Prince Xue Xing met at Sunset Forest, where Xue Xing gave Lin Ya a fifty-thousand-year Ghost King Vine Trunk Bone and told him about a powerful Thunderclap Inferno Vine. Lin Ya then reached the Solitary Bamboo King with the Black Jade Divine Bamboo, and the king asked what they wanted.

• Prince Xue Xing welcomed Lin Ya and gave him a fifty-thousand-year Ghost King Vine Trunk Bone, which Lin Ya stored for later refinement.
• Xue Xing told Lin Ya that the Thunderclap Inferno Vine he had found was about forty thousand years old and stronger than an ordinary Titled Douluo.
• Lin Ya asked Xue Xing to take him to the Solitary Bamboo King and brought out the Black Jade Divine Bamboo.
• Dugu Bo identified a ten-year Solitary Bamboo, but Lin Ya entered the forest seeking the Solitary Bamboo King instead.
• The Solitary Bamboo King stopped its bamboo-spears when it sensed the Black Jade Divine Bamboo, opened a path, and asked Lin Ya and his companions why they had come.

Lin Ya persuaded the Solitary Bamboo King to become his soul spirit by revealing his power, introducing Ah Yin, and offering the Black Jade Divine Bamboo. After swallowing the bamboo, the Solitary Bamboo King evolved into a Black Jade Divine Bamboo.

• Lin Ya offered the Black Jade Divine Bamboo to the Solitary Bamboo King in exchange for becoming his soul spirit.
• Lin Ya revealed his Emerald Swan Martial Soul and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, then summoned Ah Yin, who explained what becoming a soul spirit meant.
• Lin Ya offered the Black Jade Divine Bamboo to any willing Solitary Bamboo, prompting the Solitary Bamboo King to fear being replaced.
• The Solitary Bamboo King agreed to become Lin Ya's soul spirit and swallowed the Black Jade Divine Bamboo.
• The Solitary Bamboo King transformed into a Black Jade Divine Bamboo, and the other Solitary Bamboos bowed before it.

The Solitary Bamboo King transformed into Black Jade Divine Bamboo, gained a domain, and sacrificed itself to become Lin Ya’s soul spirit. Lin Ya became a Soul King and acquired the Ink Bamboo Domain, while he considered how to strengthen his domains and choose his fifth soul ring.

• Black Jade Divine Bamboo completed its transformation, gained a domain, and promised to honor its agreement with Lin Ya.
• Black Jade Divine Bamboo sacrificed itself, leaving a seed behind while its life essence and soul power became Lin Ya’s fourth soul ring and a left-hand soul bone.
• Lin Ya summoned Black Jade Divine Bamboo as his soul spirit and promised that they would share their fortunes and misfortunes.
• Black Jade Divine Bamboo told Lin Ya that his Soul Power had risen from Rank 47 to Rank 51, making him a Soul King despite lacking a fifth soul ring.
• Black Jade Divine Bamboo described its domain’s attribute boosts and reductions, and Lin Ya learned that it could stack with Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Domain.
• Lin Ya considered combining several domains to weaken powerful opponents and thought about finding a fifth soul ring.

Lin Ya gained the Black Jade Divine Bamboo’s Ink Bamboo Domain and a soul bone skill called the Black Jade Emerald Spear, then agreed to help the bamboo clan destroy the invading Ghost King Vines. The group marched toward the vines’ territory, where their leader planned to grow stronger by devouring the Solitary Bamboo Forest.

• The Black Jade Divine Bamboo explained that its Ink Bamboo Domain could reshape a battlefield and that its soul ring could grow stronger through worship from its clan.
• Lin Ya activated the Fifty-Thousand-Year Black Jade Divine Bamboo Left Palm Bone and summoned the Black Jade Emerald Spear, which could combine with the domain to unleash the powerful move Eternal Crossing.
• The Black Jade Divine Bamboo revealed that fifty-one Ghost Vines had invaded its territory and asked Lin Ya to help eliminate them.
• Lin Ya agreed to protect the Solitary Bamboo clan and test his new soul skill against the Ghost King Vine.
• The Solitary Bamboos cheered for Lin Ya as he led them toward the Ghost King Vine’s territory.
• The Ghost King Vine believed that absorbing the bamboo forest would raise its cultivation to sixty thousand years, unaware that Lin Ya’s group was approaching.

Lin Ya and the Black Jade Divine Bamboo confronted the Ghost King Vine, which had been parasitizing Solitary Bamboos. Lin Ya unleashed his domains and Eternal Crossing to destroy the fifty-thousand-year soul beast, leaving its soul ring behind.

• The Black Jade Divine Bamboo interrupted the Ghost King Vine as it attacked another Solitary Bamboo and revealed that it was Old Bamboo, now an immortal-grade being.
• The Ghost King Vine attacked and tried to restrain the Black Jade Divine Bamboo, but Old Bamboo broke free, severed its lash, and trapped it inside the Ink Bamboo Domain.
• Lin Ya appeared and took up the Black Jade Divine Bamboo Spear, while the Ghost King Vine realized Old Bamboo had sacrificed itself to him.
• Lin Ya revealed his enhanced soul rings and used the Blue Silver Domain, Ink Bamboo Domain, and Fenghou Strange Gates to weaken the Ghost King Vine and strengthen himself.
• Lin Ya activated the domain skill Eternal Crossing, and a colossal bamboo crushed the Ghost King Vine, destroying even its buried roots.
• The battle's rumbling shook Sunset Forest, and when the dust cleared, the Ghost King Vine's fifty-thousand-year soul ring remained.

Lin Ya returned to the New Interception Sect, upgraded his Black Jade Divine Bamboo left palm bone, and used divination to locate his fifth soul ring in the Star Dou Great Forest. When he named the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as his target, Ah Rou and Xiao Wu warned that it was even more terrifying than the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear.

• Ah Rou led Gentle Hall in Tai Chi while Niu Gao praised Heavenly Gang Qi and Yang Wudi lamented that he could not learn Threefold Rebirth.
• Lin Ya returned to the sect with Dugu Bo and Prince Xue Xing, then used the Self-Cultivation Furnace to upgrade his Black Jade Divine Bamboo left palm bone with the Ghost King Vine soul bone.
• Lin Ya kept the Ghost King Vine soul ring for the Thunderclap Inferno Vine and consulted his Fenghou Strange Gates map to choose the Star Dou Great Forest for his fifth soul ring.
• Lin Ya identified the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as his target, and Ah Rou and Xiao Wu reacted with alarm.
• Ah Rou told Dugu Bo that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was even more terrifying than the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear.

Lin Ya set out for the Star Dou Great Forest with Xiao Wu and Ah Rou to hunt the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, hoping to obtain its soul ring while avoiding its dangerous Time Domain. They arrived and reunited with Xiao Wu’s companions, the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python.

• Lin Ya insisted on facing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger without other human soul masters, explaining that he was not afraid of its domain and needed to make it use the domain on him.
• Xiao Wu offered a way to force the tiger to use its domain, and Lin Ya realized she meant involving the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Lin Ya reassured Prince Xue Xing that he would flee if he faced real danger, then departed with Xiao Wu and Ah Rou for the Star Dou Great Forest using a Level 6 flying Soul Tool.
• Lin Ya showed Ah Rou an item he had brought to prepare for the tiger’s spacetime domain.
• The Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python arrived and greeted Ah Rou and Xiao Wu.

Lin Ya joined Xiao Wu, Ah Rou, the Sky Azure Bull Python, and the Titan Giant Ape to confront the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. After the tiger fought off the Sky Azure Bull Python’s opening attack and refused to surrender, the battle began in earnest, with the Titan Giant Ape preparing to strike.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape agreed to help Xiao Wu deal with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and Lin Ya joined them while Xiao Wu and Ah Rou stayed back.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger killed and devoured a ten-thousand-year Purple Spirit Wolf, growing to sixty thousand years of cultivation.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python attacked the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which blocked the strike with Evil God Protection before Lin Ya and the Titan Giant Ape cut off its escape.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python urged the tiger to sacrifice itself to Lin Ya, but the tiger refused and attacked with Dark Demon Evil Thunder.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python countered with Sky Azure Annihilation Thunder, and the two attacks canceled each other out before the Titan Giant Ape moved to attack.

Lin Ya joined the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape in battling the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, using a bear clone and his domains to help trap it. The tiger drew Lin Ya into a black hole, but Lin Ya revealed that he had anticipated this move.

• Lin Ya's Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear clone struck the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger while it was distracted by the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape.
• The tiger pierced the clone, and Lin Ya revealed that his real body had stayed behind a tree.
• The tiger tried to flee, but Lin Ya's Ink Bamboo Domain and the two soul beasts' domains trapped it and brought it back to the ground.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape shattered the tiger's defensive barrier, while it formed a black hole to pull Lin Ya inside.
• Lin Ya and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger were drawn into the black hole, and Lin Ya smiled as if the outcome had been part of his plan.