Chapter Summaries

Lin Bei and Yue Guan waited for the wounded Earth Rock Dragon Armor Beast and Violent Flame King Bear to exhaust themselves, then Lin Bei killed the Dragon Armor Beast with his Creation Axe. Lin Bei absorbed its soul ring through the night and discovered that the Violent Flame King Bear had eaten the Dragon Armor Beast's egg.

• Yue Guan restrained the wounded Violent Flame King Bear while Lin Bei tested the Earth Rock Dragon Armor Beast with his Sword Control Technique.
• Lin Bei summoned the Creation Axe and killed the Earth Rock Dragon Armor Beast with a single blow.
• Lin Bei began absorbing the Dragon Armor Armor Beast's black soul ring after swallowing an Immortal Bean.
• A divine axe-wielding figure shattered the Dragon Armor Beast's resisting soul, allowing Lin Bei to absorb its soul fragments.
• Lin Bei saw in the fragments that the Violent Flame King Bear had broken open and eaten the Earth Rock Dragon Armor Beast's egg.
• Lin Bei finished absorbing the soul ring and opened his eyes to find that dawn had arrived.

Lin Bei absorbed two powerful ten-thousand-year Soul Rings, reached level 25, and demonstrated his new soul skill to Yue Guan. After they returned to Spirit City, Bibi Dong summoned the elders to discuss the opportunities his talent created and worried about what lay ahead.

• Lin Bei learned that absorbing the Earth Rock Dragon Armor Beast's Soul Ring had raised his Soul Power to level 20, and Yue Guan revealed he had saved the weakened Violent Flame King Bear for him.
• Lin Bei killed the Violent Flame King Bear and absorbed its Soul Ring, reaching level 25 and gaining the Sky Tyrant Blazing Wave Slash soul skill.
• Lin Bei used Sky Tyrant Blazing Wave Slash to kill a Crimson Flame Maniac Lion in one attack, astonishing Yue Guan.
• Lin Bei and Yue Guan returned to Spirit City, where Lin Bei showed Bibi Dong his two black Soul Rings and Yue Guan explained their origins.
• Bibi Dong sent Lin Bei to rest, then ordered Yue Guan to summon Gui Mei and the elders for a meeting; she reflected on Lin Bei's talent and the increased chance of drawing in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Bibi Dong proposed a marriage alliance with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to advance Spirit Hall’s plans, and Yue Guan identified her newly accepted disciple as the exceptional candidate. The elders were astonished to learn his first spirit ring exceeded five hundred years, and Yue Guan hinted that it was even more extraordinary.

• Bibi Dong told the elders that she wanted to pursue the Grand Elder’s proposal to win over the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect instead of beginning the Soul Hunting Operation.
• Bibi Dong proposed a marriage alliance by offering Ning Fengzhi a powerful son-in-law for his talented daughter.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo suggested Yan and Xie Yue, but Yue Guan argued that Ning Fengzhi would require an unparalleled genius.
• Yue Guan revealed that the candidate was Bibi Dong’s newly accepted disciple and said his first spirit ring was over five hundred years old.
• Yue Guan asked whether the elders thought the disciple’s first spirit ring was merely at the hundred-year level, leaving them uncertain.

Bibi Dong announced that Spirit Hall would canonize Lin Bei as its Holy Son, using his extraordinary talent to pressure the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into choosing an alliance. Ning Fengzhi learned of the ceremony and agreed to bring Ning Rongrong along when he traveled to attend it.

• Yue Guan revealed that Lin Bei had first and second soul rings from soul beasts with over thirty thousand and forty thousand years of cultivation, shocking the elders.
• Bibi Dong proposed making Lin Bei Spirit Hall’s Holy Son, and the elders agreed to hold the canonization ceremony three weeks later.
• Spirit Hall sent invitations to the sects, and Ning Fengzhi discussed the ceremony with Gu Rong and Chen Xin before deciding to attend with Gu Rong.
• Ning Rongrong asked to travel with Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong, and Ning Fengzhi agreed after she pleaded with them.

After Bibi Dong chose Lin Bei as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son, Qian Renxue and the Golden Generation reacted with anger and uncertainty. Hu Liena brought Xie Yue and Yan to challenge Lin Bei, while Yue Guan watched as they faced him in his courtyard.

• Xue Ye chose Crown Prince Xue Qinghe to attend Spirit Hall’s ceremony, and Qian Renxue privately raged over Bibi Dong appointing a Holy Son.
• Hu Liena told Xie Yue and Yan that she knew Lin Bei, and Xie Yue decided to test him at his home.
• Yue Guan visited Lin Bei on Bibi Dong’s orders and told him to enter Spirit Academy to learn ceremony etiquette.
• A Fu reported that Hu Liena had arrived with two young soul masters, one of whom wanted to challenge Lin Bei.
• Yue Guan and Lin Bei entered the courtyard, where Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena greeted Yue Guan and hesitated after he encouraged them to challenge Lin Bei.

Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan visited Lin Bei under the pretense of preparing him for a sparring challenge, but Lin Bei’s power quickly silenced their doubts about his appointment as Holy Son. After Lin Bei effortlessly overwhelmed Yan, the others left impressed, and Hu Liena promised to visit him again.

• Hu Liena claimed she and Xie Yue and Yan had come to help Lin Bei prepare for challenges at the ceremony, and Lin Bei agreed to spar with them.
• Lin Bei revealed he was a level-thirty Battle Soul Master, while Yan was level twenty-nine, shocking Yue Guan and the others.
• Yan summoned his Flame Lord and attacked Lin Bei with Hell Lava Surge, but Lin Bei’s two black Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings and overwhelming aura stunned the onlookers.
• Lin Bei swung his Pangu Creation Axe once, missing Yan but cutting a deep trench through the courtyard and destroying its wall.
• Yue Guan rebuked Lin Bei for nearly wrecking his estate, while Xie Yue and Yan left and Hu Liena said she would visit again.

Lin Bei told Bibi Dong that he had reached level thirty, and she postponed his third Soul Ring hunt until after his Holy Son ceremony. As the ceremony approached, Lin Bei went for a stroll with Hu Liena and unexpectedly encountered a little girl who seemed to recognize him.

• Lin Bei told Bibi Dong his Soul Power had reached level thirty, and she decided Yue Guan and Gui Mei would take him to hunt for a Soul Ring after the ceremony.
• After Lin Bei left, a middle-aged man told Bibi Dong that Xue Er would return for the ceremony and warned her not to interfere; Bibi Dong confronted him with her soul rings, but he disappeared.
• In the days before the ceremony, Lin Bei studied etiquette, kept simulating transmigration, strengthened his physique to the Soul Douluo level, and obtained the Immortal Wind Cloud Body Technique.
• The day before the ceremony, Hu Liena invited Lin Bei to explore Spirit City, where a little girl in a princess dress excitedly recognized him.
• When Hu Liena asked whether they knew each other, Lin Bei and the little girl both denied it.

Lin Bei met Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong before Yue Guan summoned him to Bibi Dong. Bibi Dong told Lin Bei she planned to arrange his marriage to Ning Rongrong, leaving him to consider how Spirit Hall’s efforts to ally with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect were changing the original course of events.

• Lin Bei greeted Ning Fengzhi and learned that he and his companions had arrived in Spirit City the previous day.
• Yue Guan told Lin Bei that Bibi Dong wanted to see him, and Hu Liena was unable to accompany him.
• Bibi Dong told Lin Bei that she planned to make him Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and arrange his marriage to Ning Rongrong.
• Lin Bei accepted Bibi Dong’s decision, while she warned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would face Spirit Hall’s hostility if it refused.
• Lin Bei reflected that seeking an alliance with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect differed from the original events, in which Spirit Hall destroyed it and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family.

Lin Bei reasoned that Qiandao Liu had pushed Bibi Dong to seek an alliance with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, using Lin Bei as a way to give Spirit Hall another path. The next morning, Lin Bei began his Holy Son bestowal ceremony and ascended the steps toward Papal Hall as the assembled soul masters and nobles watched.

• Lin Bei considered why Bibi Dong wanted him to form a Marriage Alliance with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and concluded Qiandao Liu was trying to prevent Spirit Hall’s destruction.
• Lin Bei wondered whether Ning Fengzhi would accept Spirit Hall’s offer, warning himself that he would not spare the sect if it stood in the way of his ambition.
• A Fu and the maidservants prepared Lin Bei for the ceremony before dawn, while Spirit Hall laid a crimson carpet from his residence to Papal Hall.
• Lin Bei emerged in golden ceremonial robes and walked along the carpet as the gathered soul masters admired him.
• Spirit Hall soldiers sounded their horns as Lin Bei climbed the staircase, and the sect disciples and nobles watched him approach Papal Hall.

At Lin Bei’s Saint Child bestowal ceremony, he stunned the gathered nobles and Soul Masters by revealing two Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings. As the crowd struggled to understand his impossible strength, a handsome middle-aged man suddenly appeared at the arena.

• Qian Renxue recognized Lin Bei, while Ning Fengzhi watched Bibi Dong and wondered why Spirit Hall had chosen him as Saint Child.
• The ceremony’s master of ceremonies described Lin Bei’s common-born background and called on him to release his martial soul.
• Lin Bei summoned an enormous axe and revealed two black Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, shocking the audience, Qian Renxue, and Ning Fengzhi.
• Ning Rongrong asked Ning Fengzhi whether Lin Bei was human, and he gently told her not to insult him.
• A handsome middle-aged man suddenly appeared at the edge of the arena, unseen by those around him, and stared at Lin Bei in surprise.

Lin Bei received an Angel God-given Soul Ring and endured the trial to gain a hundred-thousand-year third Soul Ring before being formally named Spirit Hall’s Saint Child. At the celebratory banquet, Bibi Dong proposed that he marry Ning Rongrong to strengthen ties between Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, leaving Ning Fengzhi stunned.

• The Angel God’s phantom bestowed a God-Given Soul Ring on Lin Bei, and he began absorbing it as Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong explained the opportunity to Ning Rongrong.
• Lin Bei endured the absorption and formed a red hundred-thousand-year third Soul Ring, astonishing the spectators.
• Bibi Dong crowned Lin Bei Spirit Hall’s Saint Child, and the ceremony concluded with an invitation to a banquet in the Papal Hall.
• At the banquet, Lin Bei and Ning Rongrong bickered and snatched food from each other while the adults watched with amusement.
• Bibi Dong proposed that Lin Bei and Ning Rongrong marry to strengthen ties between Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Ning Fengzhi was taken aback.

Bibi Dong pressured Ning Fengzhi to consider a marriage alliance between the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall, giving him three days to answer. After Ning Fengzhi left, Lin Bei celebrated his new status as Holy Son with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, while Xue Qinghe approached them and began speaking with Hu Liena.

• Bibi Dong asked Ning Fengzhi to consider a marriage alliance and demanded his answer within three days.
• Ning Fengzhi left the banquet with Gu Rong and Ning Rongrong, while Ning Rongrong reminded Lin Bei that he owed her cakes and chicken legs.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan congratulated Lin Bei on becoming Spirit Hall's Holy Son.
• Bibi Dong and Xue Qinghe exchanged brief formalities before Bibi Dong left, leaving Qian Renxue confused and resentful.
• Xue Qinghe congratulated Lin Bei and met Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, then began a lively conversation with Hu Liena.

After the banquet, Lin Bei showed Bibi Dong his God-Given Soul Ring’s Deification skill, which briefly raised his attributes enough to reach Soul Emperor-level strength. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong weighed Spirit Hall’s proposed marriage alliance and decided to ask Ning Rongrong what she wanted.

• The guests left the banquet and considered how their organizations should respond to Spirit Hall’s powerful new Holy Son.
• Bibi Dong asked Lin Bei to demonstrate his new soul skill, and he used Deification to boost his strength to the Soul Emperor level for one minute.
• Lin Bei told Bibi Dong that his Soul Power had reached level thirty-six, then left to rest.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong discussed Spirit Hall’s marriage alliance and the danger of opposing Spirit Hall without the other great sects.
• Ning Fengzhi said he would rather disband the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect than accept the alliance without Ning Rongrong’s consent, and the two agreed to ask her the next day.

Ning Rongrong agreed to a marriage alliance with Lin Bei, and Ning Fengzhi and Bibi Dong arranged their future engagement and wedding. After the adults began discussing the alliance, Lin Bei gave Ning Rongrong a rose in the Small Garden, and she happily accepted him as her future husband.

• Ning Fengzhi teased Ning Rongrong about Lin Bei, and she shyly admitted that a marriage alliance with him would be acceptable.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to betroth Ning Rongrong to Lin Bei, and Lin Bei called him father-in-law when Bibi Dong announced the agreement.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed that Lin Bei and Ning Rongrong become engaged at thirteen and marry at eighteen, and Bibi Dong agreed.
• Lin Bei and Ning Rongrong were sent to the Small Garden while the adults discussed the alliance's details.
• Lin Bei gave Ning Rongrong a golden rose and told her he wanted to marry her, making her smile happily.

After Ning Fengzhi left Spirit City, Bibi Dong examined Lin Bei after he reached rank forty, suspecting his rapid cultivation might come from an Evil Soul Master. She found no evil aura and began arranging his fourth Soul Ring, while privately wondering whether Lin Bei would one day interfere with her plan to destroy Spirit Hall.

• Ning Fengzhi left Spirit City after forming agreements with Bibi Dong, and Ning Rongrong asked Lin Bei to visit her.
• Bibi Dong learned that Lin Bei had reached rank forty and examined him for signs of an Evil Soul Master’s influence.
• Bibi Dong found Lin Bei healthy and free of evil aura, then asked whether he needed help hunting for his fourth Soul Ring.
• Lin Bei insisted on getting a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and Bibi Dong dismissed him while saying she would consult Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and the other elders.
• After Lin Bei left, Bibi Dong reflected on his growing strength and reaffirmed her resolve to destroy Spirit Hall.

After obtaining his fourth soul ring in the main timeline, Lin Bei began a simulation in a gender-swapped Douluo Continent and discovered that he had been reborn as a boy with a powerful sword martial soul. The simulation left him headed for Shrek Academy with Tang Shan after encounters with gender-swapped versions of familiar characters.

• Lin Bei returned to Spirit City with Yue Guan and Gui Mei after gaining a seventy-thousand-year Unicorn Tyrannosaurus soul ring and reaching Soul Power rank forty-four.
• Lin Bei started a simulation in the gender-swapped timeline and saw that he had been reborn into the Lin Family with the name Lin Bei.
• At six, Lin Bei awakened the Wind and Thunder Divine Sword, gained a Gale Demon Wolf soul ring, and persuaded his parents to send him to Notting City.
• Lin Bei met Tang Shan, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang at Notting Academy, befriended Tang Shan, and defeated Xiao Wu after refusing to duel over her.
• At twelve, Lin Bei graduated with Tang Shan at Soul Power rank twenty-eight and headed for Shrek Academy after meeting Dai Mubai and Flandre in Suotuo City.

After a gender-swapped simulation ended with Xiao Wu ordering a Titan Giant Ape to kill Lin Bei, he chose the Wind and Thunder Divine Sword as his reward. Bibi Dong then sent Lin Bei and the others to train in the Bewildering Grand Canyon, where Lin Bei was ordered to enter its deadly middle section alone.

• In the simulation, Lin Bei defeated Chao Yiran with the Wind and Thunder Divine Sword, but a Titan Giant Ape killed him after Xiao Wu ordered it to attack.
• Lin Bei chose the Mutated Martial Soul · Wind and Thunder Divine Sword and tested it with Sword Control Technique.
• Bibi Dong ordered Lin Bei, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan to train in the Bewildering Grand Canyon, setting their departure for a week later.
• After three days of travel, Lin Bei and the others reached the canyon, where Yue Guan explained that Hu Liena and the others had to reach level fifty to leave, while Lin Bei was expected to reach Titled Douluo.
• Yue Guan told Lin Bei he had to enter the canyon's middle section alone, and Hu Liena protested that the order would likely get him killed.

Lin Bei entered Bewildering Grand Canyon alone while Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan stayed near its outskirts. The Immortal Beans saved Yan after an ambush, while Lin Bei pressed deeper into the mist and destroyed a powerful giant lizard soul beast with one axe strike.

• Yue Guan reassured Hu Liena that Lin Bei would be fine, and Lin Bei gave her a bag of Immortal Beans before continuing alone into the canyon.
• A Rock-Patterned Azure Scale Serpent ambushed Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, badly injuring Yan, but an Immortal Bean restored his injuries and Soul Power completely.
• Lin Bei fought off several soul beasts as the mist thickened and the creatures grew stronger.
• Lin Bei's Wind and Thunder Divine Sword failed to pierce a giant lizard soul beast's defenses, so he summoned his Heaven Splitting Axe and used Tyrant Dragon Slash to tear the beast apart.

After five years of training in the Bewildering Grand Canyon, Lin Bei returned to the camp with nine soul rings, including four Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings. Hu Liena and the others welcomed him back in awe, while his dangerous journey into the canyon’s depths left them stunned.

• Hu Liena learned that Lin Bei had not emerged from the canyon for two years and grew increasingly anxious while waiting with Xie Yue and Yan.
• Lin Bei emerged from the mist, and Hu Liena rushed to embrace him before he assured her he was unharmed.
• Yan asked whether Lin Bei had succeeded, and Lin Bei revealed nine soul rings, including four red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Lin Bei explained that he had entered the canyon’s depths two years earlier and obtained three of those Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings there.
• Hu Liena and the camp’s soul masters knelt and shouted, “Welcome back, Saint Child!”

Lin Bei returned to Spirit City after five years of training as a twelve-year-old Titled Douluo, having gained peerless-Douluo-level physique and three new hundred-thousand-year soul rings. His display stunned Spirit Hall’s welcoming party, who celebrated him as the Holy Son and the future of their organization.

• Lin Bei reviewed his progress, including his Titled Douluo realm, three soul bones, and the simulator’s new projection function and timelines.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei waited at Spirit City’s gates and speculated about Lin Bei’s strength and whether he had reached Titled Douluo.
• Lin Bei arrived with Hu Liena and the others, greeted Yue Guan and Gui Mei, and revealed nine soul rings, including four hundred-thousand-year rings.
• Lin Bei released his aura, overwhelming the gathered Soul Douluo, Soul Saints, and Soul Emperors before withdrawing it.
• The crowd cheered for Lin Bei, and Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan joined in.