Chapter Summaries

Soul Shadow Flying Dragon sent its soul after Mo Lin, forcing him to flee while his puppets attacked its body. As the dragon recovered and its attacks weakened, it caught Mo Lin off guard and unleashed its unblockable white flame.

• Soul Shadow Flying Dragon separated its soul from its body and pursued Mo Lin, who tried to slow it with Village Chief Ma's Soul-Shaking Bell.
• Mo Lin used Yin Five Thunders to flee down a mountainside and into the forest, while the dragon's soul passed through obstacles to follow him.
• Mo Lin realized the flying dragon's body was recovering faster than the puppets could damage it as their soul power dwindled.
• A startled soul beast knocked a tree across Mo Lin's path, causing him to crash and lose precious time.
• Soul Shadow Flying Dragon seized its chance and attacked Mo Lin with the special white flame it could breathe while out of its body.

Mo Lin defeated the Soul Shadow Flying Dragon and absorbed its soul ring, gaining an external soul bone in the form of dragon wings. He discovered that the wings could enter a soul-like state, fly, and wield flames that burned souls.

• Mo Lin used the Thief Devouring Beast to absorb the Soul Shadow Flying Dragon’s flames, then refined them with Qi Body Origin Flow and killed the fleeing soul with Palm Thunder.
• Mo Lin checked his puppets, transferred their remaining soul power to the Golden Light Incantation puppet, and drew the flying dragon’s purple soul ring toward him.
• Mo Lin endured the soul ring’s impact by circulating the Yin and Yang Five Thunders and the power of his immortal herbs, then escaped an inner vision by reciting the Mind-Cleansing Incantation.
• Mo Lin discovered that black dragon wings had grown from his back with little pain, and confirmed that they could fly, become intangible, and wield white soul-burning flames.
• Mo Lin concluded that his new abilities let him manipulate souls and memories while the wings gave him flight, defense against physical and elemental attacks, and a long-range soul attack.

Mo Lin searched his memories for clues about the attack on his parents and found evidence that a member of the Agility Clan had joined the Clear Sky Sect’s pursuers. He traveled to Gengxin City to meet Lou Gao, who became fascinated by the Black Dipper Armor Mo Lin claimed to have forged.

• Mo Lin found a Needle-tailed Swift among the pursuers in his memories and decided to visit the Agility Clan.
• Mo Lin traveled to Gengxin City to acquire rare metals and sent Lou Gao the Black Dipper Armor.
• Mo Lin told Lou Gao that he had forged the armor, but Lou Gao doubted him because of his age.
• Mo Lin offered to leave with the armor if Lou Gao did not believe him, then said he planned to depart the next day.
• Lou Gao decided to seek out Mo Lin and asked Myers where his room was.

Mo Lin manipulated Lou Gao into accepting a deal that secured a steady supply of materials and the Blacksmith Association’s support for Spirit Hall. After returning from vacation, Mo Lin asked Bibi Dong for land in Spirit City, but she imposed monthly strength tests and noticed his Soul Shadow Dragon Wings.

• Mo Lin poisoned Lou Gao’s tea and used the Double Full Hands to alter his memories, arranging for monthly deliveries of materials and fuel and bringing the Blacksmith Association under his influence.
• Mo Lin spent the rest of his vacation in Holy Soul Village before returning to Spirit Hall with plans to establish an industrial operation.
• Mo Lin asked Bibi Dong for a plot of land in Spirit City, presenting it as a surprise for her.
• Bibi Dong subjected Mo Lin to soul power pressure and required him to stand longer each month before he could pursue his plans.
• Mo Lin’s Soul Shadow Dragon Wings appeared under the pressure, and Bibi Dong asked where he had gotten the external soul bone.

Mo Lin moved his forging operation into a workshop and arranged for puppets to make armor for sale, but Bibi Dong forced him to train after judging his cultivation progress. He arrived at Spirit Hall’s annual assessment tournament without knowing what it was, and the chapter ended as the students began drawing lots.

• Mo Lin set up a workshop and programmed two puppets to forge armor that Lou Gao would sell for him.
• Bibi Dong knocked Mo Lin down and ordered him to follow her training arrangements for the next month.
• Mo Lin went to the training grounds and learned from Hu Liena and Xie Yue that Spirit Hall was holding its annual assessment tournament.
• Hu Liena criticized Mo Lin for falling behind in soul power cultivation while he focused on making soul tools.
• Bibi Dong opened the tournament, and a teacher began the drawing of lots.

Mo Lin steamrolled his way through the tournament’s first day, advancing from the opening round in under twenty seconds and helping the Golden Generation reach the top eight. He decided to conceal most of his abilities behind a public account of his skills, and Bibi Dong agreed, though neither of them fully understood the complicated feelings between them.

• Mo Lin knocked out or forced the surrender of every opponent in Arena A-4 with the Golden Light Incantation and advanced in less than twenty seconds.
• Hu Liena was astonished by Mo Lin’s speed, while Xie Yue and Yan also advanced despite being besieged in their arenas.
• Mo Lin and the Golden Generation reached the top eight on the first day, and Mo Lin used the Golden Light Incantation so others would mistake it for his first soul skill.
• Mo Lin planned to publicly describe the Golden Light Incantation, Triple Inverse Life, and Lightning Method as his first three soul skills, and Bibi Dong readily agreed.
• Bibi Dong reflected on her mixed feelings toward Mo Lin, including sympathy, gratitude, teacherly affection, and a mother-and-son-like bond.

Mo Lin faced Xie Yue in the semifinal, where Xie Yue’s Moon Blades repeatedly countered Mo Lin’s Golden Light Incantation. After the fight became a war of attrition, Mo Lin said he would end it quickly, leaving Xie Yue braced for a stronger attack.

• Yue Guan warned Xie Yue that Mo Lin had defeated Yan before and advised him to seize the initiative and avoid a war of attrition.
• Xie Yue opened the match with Blood Moon Flash, but Mo Lin sensed and evaded the Moon Blades before countering with golden light.
• Xie Yue cut apart Mo Lin’s golden whips and chain with his soul skills, while Mo Lin’s close-range attacks forced him into a defensive struggle.
• Mo Lin stopped attacking after recognizing that Xie Yue’s first soul skill countered his Golden Light Incantation, and Xie Yue grew exhausted from repeatedly defending.
• Mo Lin told Xie Yue that they should finish the match quickly, and Xie Yue took a defensive stance.

Mo Lin defeated Xie Yue with Yin Five Thunders, then forfeited the tournament final so Hu Liena could win without facing a humiliating loss. He later explained that he had forfeited to spare her the embarrassment of doing so herself.

• Mo Lin used Yin Five Thunders to overwhelm Xie Yue, whose Moon Blades could not cut the lightning away, and won the match.
• Hu Liena defeated Yan by disrupting his attacks with her charm skill.
• Hu Liena arrived at the final uncertain whether to forfeit, but Mo Lin forfeited first, and Bibi Dong declared Hu Liena the tournament winner.
• Hu Liena visited Mo Lin that night, and he explained that he had forfeited because it was less humiliating for him, the youngest and lowest-ranked competitor, to do so.

Bibi Dong sent Mo Lin to fight six daily matches at the Grand Spirit Arena, where his quick victories made him rich and notorious. A week later, the arena changed the betting odds on his matches, while Bibi Dong reviewed his record and felt conflicted about how little his strength owed to her training.

• Bibi Dong gave Mo Lin a schedule of six spirit battles a day and warned him not to arrive late.
• Mo Lin defeated Li Shen with a strike to a vital point, then secretly treated him after the match.
• Mo Lin won his other matches in seconds, injuring each opponent and gaining a reputation for ruthless fighting.
• Mo Lin repeated the six-match routine for a week, earning money from bets as rumors about him spread.
• The Grand Spirit Arena adjusted the odds on Mo Lin's matches, and Bibi Dong reviewed his record with mixed feelings.

Mo Lin learned that his afternoon wager-match opponent, Liu Xin, was likely a member of the Broken Clan using a false name, and he entered the bout hoping to learn more about the clan’s past. The match began with Liu Xin’s spear attacks, and Mo Lin injured him with a close-range punch.

• Mo Lin continued winning wager matches at the Great Spirit Arena and spoke with Hu Liena about her difficult Soul Ancestor-level battles.
• Su Yuntao told Mo Lin that Liu Xin’s Flowing Silver Spear was likely the Broken Clan’s Soul-Breaking Spear and showed him records suggesting Liu Xin sought rare medicinal herbs.
• Mo Lin realized Liu Xin had come to Spirit City for medicinal ingredients and kept their suspicions quiet so they would not alert him.
• Mo Lin faced Liu Xin in the afternoon wager match, where Phoenix-Eye Grass was at stake.
• Liu Xin attacked with his Soul-Breaking Spear, but Mo Lin dodged his strikes, closed the distance, and injured Liu Xin with a spinning punch.

Mo Lin defeated Liu Xin, discovered he was Yang Luo of the Broken Clan, and secretly altered his memories before letting him go. Two years later, after building his strength and tracing his family roots, Mo Lin reached a port and bought a boat to seek the island where the Mo Family lived.

• Mo Lin defeated Liu Xin in a wager match, and Liu Xin lost his Emerald Grass.
• Mo Lin ambushed Liu Xin as he tried to leave Spirit City, learned his true name was Yang Luo, altered his memories, returned the Emerald Grass, and left him in a forest.
• Mo Lin told Hu Liena that he had brought her along as a precaution and because he trusted her most in Spirit City after Bibi Dong.
• Two years later, Mo Lin had become a Gold Soul Fighter, reached level thirty-nine, and earned more than four thousand gold soul coins from selling his armor.
• Mo Lin followed a compass guided by his blood to a port, where he bought a boat for fifty Gold Soul Coins.

Mo Lin encountered a pod of Spirit Dolphins at sea and joined them in fighting a giant Kraken that had attacked their group. As the dolphins harried the beast, Mo Lin gathered Yin Five Thunders underwater, preparing to trap it.

• Mo Lin sailed steadily while cultivating and investigating a gentle shift in the currents.
• Hundreds of Spirit Dolphins surrounded Mo Lin’s ship, appearing to escort him, before a tsunami and a fifty-meter Kraken suddenly threatened them.
• Mo Lin used Palm Thunder to stop the tsunami, then recognized that the Kraken was hunting the Spirit Dolphins and entered the sea to help.
• Mo Lin and the Spirit Dolphins attacked the Kraken, with the dolphins distracting and biting it while Mo Lin accumulated Yin Five Thunders underwater.
• Mo Lin observed the pod’s precise coordination and estimated that he would soon have enough Yin Five Thunders to envelop the Kraken.

Mo Lin trapped and killed the Kraken, then absorbed its soul ring after reaching Rank 40 and gained Heavenly Talisman. The Spirit Dolphins gave him the Kraken's spirit bone and stayed beside his ship as he continued toward land.

• The Spirit Dolphins distracted the Kraken while Mo Lin's Yin Five Thunders surrounded and trapped it.
• Mo Lin used the white flames from his external spirit bone to burn the Kraken's soul until it died and left a black soul ring.
• After controlling the Yin Five Thunders and maintaining Qi Body Origin Flow, Mo Lin broke through to Rank 40 and began absorbing the Kraken's soul ring.
• Mo Lin absorbed the ring without pain and discovered that he had gained Heavenly Talisman.
• The Spirit Dolphins tossed the Kraken's spirit bone onto Mo Lin's ship, and Mo Lin thanked them before setting sail toward land.

Mo Lin returned to the Mo Family’s hidden island and told his grandfather Mo Teng that his parents had been hunted down by Clear Sky Sect. Mo Teng prepared to bring the family back into the world, but Mo Lin urged caution and proposed building strength before taking revenge with help from his mother’s clan.

• Mo Lin’s ship entered the Mo Family island, where Mo Wen welcomed him and learned that Mo Di had died twelve years earlier.
• Mo Wen brought Mo Lin to Mo Teng, and Mo Lin recounted his investigation into his parents’ deaths.
• Furious at the killings, Mo Teng ordered Mo Wen to gather the disciples so the Mo Family could return to the world.
• Mo Lin warned that Clear Sky Sect had at least six Titled Douluo, including a Rank 97 expert, and urged the family not to reveal themselves until they could secure revenge.
• Mo Lin proposed seeking support from his mother’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, whose leader Yu Yuanzhen was his uncle, and Mo Teng agreed he should stay on the island and meet the clan.

Mo Lin learned about the Mo Family and Soul Beast Island, then decided he wanted to stay longer but worried that returning to Spirit Hall would keep him from leaving again. Mo Jia offered to help him with any favor, and Mo Lin accepted.

• Mo Wen introduced Mo Lin to his cousins Mo Ning and Mo Min, who explained Soul Beast Island and its families, soul beasts, and powerful residents.
• Mo Lin decided to extend his stay on the island because it seemed ideal for cultivation, but he could find no way to contact Bibi Dong, his master, or Hu Liena.
• Mo Lin worried that returning to Spirit Hall would prevent him from leaving until the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Mo Jia told Mo Lin about his regret at not traveling with Mo Di and offered to help him with anything he needed.
• Mo Lin accepted Mo Jia's offer of help.

Mo Jia delivered Mo Lin’s letter to Bibi Dong at the Papal Palace, escaped after revealing his surname, and Bibi Dong read the letter. On Soul Beast Island, Mo Lin explained his unusual martial soul to Mo Teng and asked to inherit his father’s poison-type soul bone.

• Mo Jia used the Scout Flying Bugs to find the Papal Palace and left Mo Lin’s letter on Bibi Dong’s seat.
• Bibi Dong attacked Mo Jia, but he defended himself with Non-Aggression and revealed a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
• Mo Jia told Bibi Dong he would support Spirit Hall because of someone, then escaped after giving his surname as Mo.
• Bibi Dong stopped Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo from pursuing Mo Jia and read Mo Lin’s letter.
• Mo Lin explained his Primordial Qi martial soul to Mo Teng, who said it had no resemblance to the family’s martial souls.
• Mo Lin asked for his father’s left leg soul bone, and Mo Teng agreed to give him the Poison-Devouring Dragon bone.

Mo Lin absorbed a poison-based soul bone and made rapid cultivation gains on Soul Beast Island while the Mo Family prepared to seek revenge with the Zhou and Fu Families. When two hundred-thousand-year soul beasts demanded a hostage or valuable object in exchange for tolerating the increased hunting, Mo Lin volunteered himself.

• Mo Lin absorbed the soul bone, which drew the poison qi from his body and granted him the Devouring Poison and Soul-Chasing Poison skills.
• After a week on Soul Beast Island, Mo Lin advanced his Golden Light Incantation, Triple Inverse Life, and Yin-Yang Five Thunders.
• Mo Teng asked Zhou Sheng and Fu Li to prepare with the Mo Family to avenge Mo Di, and both family heads agreed to help.
• As soul beast hunting increased, the Heaven-Devouring Titan Python and Void-Shattering Mantis confronted the humans and demanded a person or object as a pledge until they left the island.
• Mo Lin arrived during the negotiations and volunteered to go with the two soul beasts, despite Mo Teng's objections.

Mo Lin volunteered to accompany the Heaven-Devouring Titan Python so it would not threaten his family, then traveled with it to its swamp lair. There, the python revealed that it had lived on Soul Beast Island for nearly a thousand years and asked Mo Lin to tell it about the world beyond the island.

• Mo Lin persuaded Mo Teng and the others to accept his decision to go with the soul beasts, then knelt and promised to stay safe.
• The Heaven-Devouring Titan Python took Mo Lin toward its lair, explaining that it and the Reaper would take turns guarding him every sixty days.
• Mo Lin spoke calmly with the python, which said it might offer him and his clansmen leniency if he did not provoke it.
• At the python's swamp lair, Mo Lin cultivated while the soul beast slept, then spoke with it after it awoke.
• The Heaven-Devouring Titan Python guessed that Mo Lin had recently returned to the island and revealed that it had reached one hundred thousand years of cultivation 994 years earlier.
• The python admitted it expected to die soon and asked Mo Lin to describe the world beyond the island.

Mo Lin stayed on Soul Beast Island, keeping the Heaven-Devouring Titan Python and Void-Shattering Mantis entertained with stories while his family prepared to leave the island within six years. Mo Jia confirmed that Mo Lin was safe and willing to remain, then returned home and reassured Mo Teng.

• Mo Lin realized that arriving on Soul Beast Island early had helped prevent the Mo Family from being caught in future conflict between soul beasts.
• Mo Jia worried about Mo Lin’s extended stay and visited the habitats of the Heaven-Devouring Titan Python and Void-Shattering Mantis to check on him.
• Mo Jia found Mo Lin telling stories to the two soul beasts, who warned him to keep the visit brief so they could hear more.
• Mo Lin told Mo Jia that he had not specified when he would return to Douluo Continent and urged his uncle to leave before a misunderstanding arose.
• Mo Jia returned to the Mo Family and assured Mo Teng that Mo Lin was safe and seemed happy to stay on the island.

Mo Lin left the island after promising the Heaven-Devouring Titan Python and Void-Shattering Mantis that he would return within four years and fulfill their wish. He reunited with the Mo Family and agreed to stay for a week, though Mo Teng promptly dragged him toward the training grounds.

• Mo Lin asked the Heaven-Devouring Titan Python and Void-Shattering Mantis to let him leave the island, and they agreed because his departure was important to him.
• Mo Lin offered to house the seniors’ souls after their deaths, and they promised to acknowledge him as their master if he gained the power to absorb their soul rings before they died.
• Mo Lin promised to return within four years, then departed for the Mo Family.
• Mo Teng learned that Mo Lin had returned alone and hurried to greet him at the family hall.
• Mo Lin agreed to stay for a week, and Mo Teng playfully threatened to put him through intensive training.