Chapter Summaries

Tang San explained to Dugu Bo that Lin Bei and Liu Shen came from another world, and that Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu were their younger parallel-world selves. Lin Bei settled into a courtyard at Shrek Academy, while Tang San and the others considered uniting this world's powerful people against possible threats from other worlds.

• Dugu Bo asked Tang San about Lin Bei, Liu Shen, and the boy who resembled him, and Yu Xiaogang explained that Liu Shen's martial soul awakening had transformed the Dean's Office Building.
• Tang San told Dugu Bo that Lin Bei and Liu Shen were from another world and recounted how Lin Bei had brought six-year-old versions of Tang San and Xiao Wu into their world.
• Tang San explained that he and Yu Xiaogang had revealed the truth because they hoped the powerful people of this world would unite against possible future threats from other worlds.
• Flander showed Lin Bei a tidy courtyard at the academy, and Lin Bei said he was satisfied before Flander left.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu stayed with Lin Bei that night, and Xiao Wu left looking especially happy.

Lin Bei and Liu Shen broke their martial-soul restrictions through their own power and gained nine rings each, then considered pursuing the Shura God and Sea God inheritances. They joined Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu on a trip to Sunset Forest to watch Xiao Tang San seek a soul ring, where Lin Bei seized a spider soul beast with a wave of his hand.

• Liu Shen and Lin Bei broke their martial-soul restrictions and formed nine green-gold and nine Supreme-colored soul rings, respectively.
• Lin Bei and Liu Shen sensed that the Goddess of Life's godhood was occupied and agreed to consider the Shura God and Sea God inheritances.
• Da Tang San distributed immortal herbs, giving Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu the herbs originally meant for Dai Mubai and Oscar.
• Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu invited Lin Bei and Liu Shen to accompany them to Sunset Forest, and Flander welcomed the pair along with the Shrek Seven Devils.
• The group traveled deeper into Sunset Forest, where Lin Bei pulled a spider soul beast into his grasp with a terrifying suction force.

Lin Bei captured a ten-thousand-year Crypt Demon Spider for Tang San, who absorbed its soul ring and gained Blue Silver Cage. Later, Lin Bei and Liu Shen set out to pursue separate divine inheritances, leaving Lin Bei at Slaughter City and Liu Shen on her way to Sea God Island.

• Lin Bei gave Tang San the Crypt Demon Spider, and Tang San chose to absorb its ten-thousand-year soul ring despite warnings from Xiao Wu and the others.
• Tang San absorbed the soul ring successfully and gained the Blue Silver Cage skill while Liu Shen observed the process.
• Lin Bei and Liu Shen left for Slaughter City after the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament began, and Liu Shen chose the Sea God's inheritance over the Shura God's.
• At Slaughter City, Lin Bei sent Liu Shen on to Sea God Island and entered a tavern alone.
• Lin Bei unleashed golden energy that destroyed the tavern and made the villains inside disappear.

Lin Bei entered Slaughter City without drinking Bloody Mary and destroyed the guards sent to kill him. He subdued Tang Chen, mastered the Slaughter God Domain, and received the Shura God's divine trials.

• Lin Bei refused to drink Bloody Mary, killed the guide and guards, and entered Slaughter City.
• Lin Bei obliterated the Slaughter King's armored guards with a punch, leaving a vast ravine and terrifying the survivors.
• Lin Bei recognized the Slaughter King as Tang Chen and knocked him unconscious with a hand-blade.
• Lin Bei took Tang Chen away and quickly mastered the Slaughter God Domain in Slaughter City.
• The Shura God sensed Lin Bei's strength and began his divine trials.

Lin Bei and Liu Shen completed their inheritances, becoming the new Shura God and Sea God, and saved Bo Saixi during the process. After returning to Heaven Dou City and encouraging Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu to pursue their own inheritances, they entered the God Realm, took over their duties, and the former gods departed for other worlds.

• Lin Bei inherited the Shura God’s divine seat in three months, while Liu Shen easily completed the Sea God inheritance and used her ninth soul skill to save Bo Saixi.
• Lin Bei’s Shura God trial did not require Tang Chen, who recovered his sanity and left Slaughter City after Lin Bei treated him.
• Lin Bei and Liu Shen met by the coast, where Liu Shen said she expected to advance her Sea God laws to the root level within a year.
• Lin Bei and Liu Shen returned to Heaven Dou City, advised Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu to cultivate and inherit divine seats, and then ascended to the God Realm.
• Lin Bei and Liu Shen took over as Shura God and Sea God, while the previous gods departed for other worlds; Lin Bei established his authority among the God Realm’s gods.

Lin Bei and Liu Shen comprehended the source laws of a parallel world while the Spirit Empire expanded and advanced technologically. Their insights strengthened their main bodies, and Liu Shen found a path to becoming a Quasi-Immortal Emperor once she fully recovered.

• Lin Bei's independent clones continued growing across discovered worlds while he comprehended the Dao in the source of Douluo Continent's parallel world.
• Lin Bei's main body helped Ning Rongrong and the others develop the Spirit Empire, whose transportation network and public welfare supported a prosperous, unified continent.
• The Spirit Empire began exploring Sun Moon Continent and excavated its ancient soul tool technology, accelerating Douluo Continent's technological progress.
• A year later, Liu Shen broke through to God King and entered the world's source to comprehend its fundamental laws alongside Lin Bei.
• Their insights raised Lin Bei's main body to Level 7 God Beyond the Realm and gave him a deeper understanding of Time-Space Imprints.
• Liu Shen realized that after fully recovering, she could take the half-step toward the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.

Lin Bei’s consciousness entered a future wasteland timeline in the world of Ling Cage, where he joined Mark’s Hunter squad aboard the Lighthouse. After learning that the squad would descend to search a hospital for medicine, he prepared for the mission and headed to the Elevating Platform.

• The simulator found the Ling Cage timeline, and Lin Bei projected his consciousness into a clone on the Lighthouse.
• Lin Bei met Fei Xue, learned that he was an Upper Citizen and a trusted close-combat member of Mark’s Hunter squad, and explored the Lighthouse.
• Mark told Lin Bei that the squad would descend to a hospital the next day to search for medicine.
• Lin Bei recognized that the mission was not the start of the plot and returned to his room.
• Before dawn, Lin Bei equipped his Hunter gear, took his axe and Automatic Rifle, and walked toward the Elevating Platform.

Lin Bei joined Mark’s Hunter team as they descended from the Lighthouse to search a hospital for medicine and supplies. After splitting into two groups, Lin Bei’s team entered the eastern building, where he sensed Spore-Eaters on the upper floors.

• Mark prepared the Hunter team and led them down from the Lighthouse after Morgan warned them to proceed carefully.
• Lin Bei sensed about a hundred Spore-Eaters near the Hospital Ruins as Mark directed the team to establish a temporary base.
• Mark assigned Ran Bing to lead Lin Bei and Penny east while he took Mo Cheng and Fei Xue west, leaving Jeff and Erica to guard the camp.
• Ran Bing’s group used a smoke flare to clear the eastern building and waited before entering it.
• Lin Bei sensed five Spore-Eaters on the third floor and warned Ran Bing, who ordered the team to search the first floor carefully and avoid going upstairs alone.

Lin Bei led Ran Bing, Penny, and three soldiers through a hospital, where he killed five Snake Dogs and helped the team clear the building for supplies. As the Dust-People searched, a nearby building collapsed, forcing Mark and his team to flee through the dust.

• Ran Bing took Lin Bei, Penny, and three soldiers upstairs after the Dust-People found medical supplies on the first floor.
• Lin Bei led the group onto the third floor, where five Snake Dogs ambushed them.
• Ran Bing and Penny shot at the Snake Dogs while Lin Bei killed all five and destroyed their cores.
• Lin Bei and the others cleared the building, then let the Dust-People search for supplies while the Hunters kept watch.
• A building to the west collapsed, and Ran Bing and Penny saw Mark and his team fleeing from the dust cloud.

Lin Bei rescued Mark and his team from a pack of Snake Dogs and destroyed their cores before they could revive. Mark was stunned by Lin Bei’s strength, and the group carried their supplies back to the temporary stronghold.

• Lin Bei ran toward Mark’s team after learning they were in trouble and found them fleeing a collapsing building pursued by more than a dozen Snake Dogs.
• Lin Bei killed a Snake Dog that was about to catch a Dust-Person, while Mark ordered his team to fire and Ran Bing provided sniper support.
• Lin Bei shattered the cores of the Snake Dogs attacking him and then wiped out the rest of the pack with precise axe strikes.
• Mark asked how Lin Bei had become so strong, and Lin Bei said he had been training.
• Ran Bing reported that Lin Bei had also killed five Snake Dogs near her building, and the group carried the recovered supplies back to the temporary stronghold.

Lin Bei returned to the Lighthouse with the supplies from the Hospital Ruins and met three Dust-People children seeking medicine for 9033. He promised he would find a cure for her and visit them that night.

• Lin Bei and Mark returned to the Lighthouse with the recovered medical supplies, and Mark sent the Hunters to rest while he reported to Morgan City Lord.
• Lin Bei met 8925, 9027, and 9033, noticed that 9033 was seriously ill, and explained that the Upper Citizens' medical district would not treat her.
• Lin Bei promised the children that he could cure 9033 and would visit them that night with a medicine.
• The three children returned to their dormitory, where 9027 and 9033 said they trusted Lin Bei because he had treated them kindly.

Lin Bei brought Senzu Beans from his main body to the Lighthouse to treat 9033’s illness. After 9033 ate one, her symptoms disappeared, and the others realized she had recovered.

• Lin Bei tested a Senzu Bean and confirmed it could cure disease in the Ling Cage timeline, though it could not grant eternal youth or longer life.
• Lin Bei went to the Dust-People district and asked 4068 and 4277 to take him to 9033 and the others.
• Lin Bei told 9033, 9027, and 8925 that he had found medicine, then gave 9033 a Senzu Bean.
• 9033 ate the bean and felt her weakness and coughing vanish as her complexion turned rosy.
• 8925 and 9027 celebrated 9033’s recovery, while 4277 watched in shock.

Lin Bei spoke with Mark about the Lighthouse’s unequal laws, Morgan City Lord’s leadership, and the danger of relying on the aging Lighthouse as Spore-Eaters evolved. Mark was left troubled by Lin Bei’s suggestion that the Lighthouse needed a new successor and a different future.

• After leaving the Dust-People District, Lin Bei passed a City Defense Army patrol, whose soldiers saluted him.
• Lin Bei met Mark in the corridor, and they shared cigarettes while discussing the Lighthouse’s laws separating Upper Citizens and Dust People.
• Lin Bei argued that Morgan City Lord’s restrictions on emotion were wrong, prompting Mark to recall his older sister’s execution by fire.
• Lin Bei urged Mark to consider replacing Morgan City Lord, warning that the Lighthouse’s systems would fail and that Spore-Eaters might evolve to fly.
• Mark watched Lin Bei leave, then headed to his room troubled.

Morgan investigated Mark’s account of Lin Bei’s strength and decided to watch him more closely. The next day, Lin Bei asked Jessica to make his axe heavier after demonstrating his strength, then encountered Light Bearer Vanti and Big Dog Sharif arriving with a group from the Church of Light and Shadow.

• Jing Nan told Morgan that the system’s records supported Mark’s description of Lin Bei’s exceptional strength, and Morgan wondered whether Lin Bei had met powerful people on the surface.
• Morgan recalled Bai Yuekui saving him during a desperate mission and resolved to pay closer attention to Lin Bei.
• Lin Bei asked Jessica to make his axe as heavy as possible and lifted her Gravity Armor, which weighed more than three tons, with one hand.
• Ran Bing saw Lin Bei’s feat and asked whether he was going to the medical area, but he said he was not sick.
• Light Bearer Vanti and Big Dog Sharif arrived with a group from the Church of Light and Shadow, and Lin Bei asked what they were doing there.

Charles tried to have Lin Bei arrested by the Light Shadow Society, accusing him of plotting with Mark to overthrow Morgan as city lord. Lin Bei demanded evidence, then defeated Sharif in front of Charles and the gathered Hunters.

• Vanti ordered Lin Bei to come with the Light Shadow Society, but Lin Bei challenged her authority and demanded proof of his guilt.
• Charles arrived and claimed Lin Bei’s conversation with Mark about making Mark city lord was evidence of rebellion.
• Charles displayed a Recording Pen and ordered Vanti and Sharif to take Lin Bei down.
• Lin Bei told Ran Bing to move back, blocked Sharif’s armored punch, and forced the larger man backward.
• Lin Bei struck Sharif so hard that he flew into an iron wall and became embedded in it.

Lin Bei turned Charles’s accusation of rebellion against Morgan City Lord into a confrontation and revealed that he intended to make a major move. He incapacitated Fanti and left Charles terrified as Lighthouse suddenly tilted, with Lin Bei’s next action still unknown.

• Lin Bei defeated Big Dog Sharif in one move, and Charles accused him of plotting against Morgan City Lord using an edited recording.
• Mark arrived, and Charles accused him and Lin Bei of conspiring to overthrow Morgan City Lord before ordering their arrest.
• Lin Bei admitted that he opposed Morgan City Lord’s conservative rule, and Mark defended him by arguing that disagreement was not rebellion.
• Lin Bei warned Mark that Charles wanted the City Lord’s seat and said he was about to make a huge scene.
• Lin Bei told Ran Bing he was saving her, then moved as Lighthouse tilted; he knocked Fanti unconscious and approached the trembling Charles.

Lin Bei defeated Charles and the Light Shadow Society, then revealed that he wanted Mark to replace Morgan as City Lord. He openly challenged Morgan’s survival laws, and the chapter ended with Morgan asking whether Lin Bei believed those laws were no longer suitable.

• Lin Bei defeated the Light Shadow Society and confronted Charles, who was trapped by his claims of being Morgan’s son and supporting the Lighthouse’s laws.
• Lin Bei announced that he wanted Mark to replace Morgan as City Lord, stunning Charles and Mark.
• Morgan arrived with Jing Nan and Victor, and Victor accused Lin Bei of trying to rebel.
• Lin Bei admitted his dissatisfaction with Morgan’s rule and criticized the laws that classified people by genes and denied Dust-People the right to have children.
• Lin Bei acknowledged Morgan’s efforts to preserve humanity but argued that the survival laws no longer suited the Lighthouse’s situation, and Morgan asked if he believed they were no longer applicable.

Lin Bei confronted Morgan over the Lighthouse’s emotional repression and revealed its origins as an aerial prison, then exposed secrets about Mark’s creation and connection to the Abyssal One Project. Mark struggled to accept the truth, while Lin Bei considered leaving the Lighthouse for the surface or trying to make Mark its next city lord.

• Lin Bei argued that the Lighthouse’s emotional suppression and Life Formula could not secure humanity’s future, and revealed that the Lighthouse had once been an aerial prison.
• Morgan and the Hunters were shocked by Lin Bei’s knowledge of the Lighthouse’s past and its deepest secrets.
• Lin Bei pointed out that Mark healed unusually quickly and had abilities beyond an ordinary human.
• Lin Bei revealed that Mark was a Nirvana Company clone whose body could fuse with and devour living things, leaving Mark shaken and the Hunters in an uproar.
• Lin Bei said Morgan had cultivated Mark for the secret Abyssal One Project and considered whether Mark could become city lord or whether he should leave for the surface.

Lin Bei revealed that humans survived on the ground and challenged Morgan's ideology, forcing him to resign as City Lord. After Morgan named Mark as his successor, Lin Bei confirmed that Mark was a clone connected to the Abyssal One Project, and Mark went to question Morgan.

• Lin Bei told Morgan that humans on the ground lived without suppressing their emotions and recalled that one had once saved Morgan and invited him to join them.
• Lin Bei argued that the Lighthouse's Three Great Laws and division between Dust-People and Upper Citizens would eventually destroy its society, while Morgan defended the laws as necessary for survival.
• Lin Bei warned Morgan to step down or he would dismantle the Lighthouse, then tilted the Lighthouse to demonstrate his power.
• Morgan agreed to resign and announced that Mark would become City Lord at a succession ceremony the next day.
• Mark asked whether Lin Bei's claims about him were true, and Lin Bei confirmed that Mark was a clone connected to the Abyssal One Project.
• Mark ran off to ask Morgan about his birth while Ran Bing and the others surrounded Lin Bei.

Morgan agreed to pass the position of city lord to Mark, and Lin Bei told his teammates he would remain on the Lighthouse while searching the ground for humans. Lin Bei discovered that most of humanity lived in a hidden Interlayer Space, and Mark was appointed the new city lord, facing a divided crowd as he took on the heavier responsibility.

• Charles questioned Morgan about giving Mark the city lord position, and Morgan sent him away before Mark arrived to ask questions.
• Lin Bei told Ran Bing, Erica, Jing Nan, Mo Cheng, and Penny that humans lived on the ground and that he would search for them if Mark became city lord.
• Lin Bei sensed a hidden Interlayer Space where most humans lived, separate from the real world and without Mana Ecology.
• Morgan appointed Mark as city lord the next day, while Charles silently fumed under Lin Bei's watch.
• The Lighthouse broadcast Mark's appointment, prompting Dust-People to celebrate and Church of Light and Shadow members to protest.
• Mark observed the mixed reactions from Jing Nan, Ran Bing, Charles, and Victor and realized his new burden was heavier than his commander's role.