Chapter Summaries

Lin Ye searched Sunset Forest with Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan for a suitable twenty-thousand-year fourth spirit ring, prioritizing space, speed, or control over attack power. They encountered a nineteen-thousand-year Earth Bear, and Yue Guan asked whether Lin Ye would accept it.

• Bibi Dong sent Lin Ye with Yue Guan to hunt for his fourth spirit ring, while Hu Liena resolved to cultivate harder so she would not fall behind him.
• Lin Ye considered the kind of spirit skill he needed and refused Yue Guan’s invitation to call him Uncle Yue Guan.
• Yue Guan praised Lin Ye’s level and composure, then carried him at great speed to Sunset Forest.
• Lin Ye rejected several ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts because they did not suit his desired attributes and explained that he wanted speed, control, or a space attribute.
• A nineteen-thousand-year Earth Bear appeared, and Yue Guan asked Lin Ye whether it was suitable for his fourth spirit ring.

Lin Ye and Yue Guan found a Three-Eyed Thunder Demon Tiger whose lightning and evil attributes perfectly matched Lin Ye’s Martial Soul. Lin Ye insisted on claiming it for his fourth spirit ring despite Yue Guan warning that its nearly thirty-thousand-year cultivation far exceeded what he could safely absorb.

• Yue Guan drove off an Earth Bear with his Soul Power, then led Lin Ye deeper into the forest.
• A powerful tiger’s roar drew Lin Ye and Yue Guan to a valley, where they discovered a Three-Eyed Thunder Demon Tiger.
• Lin Ye’s Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Martial Soul reacted to the beast, and he stepped forward to meet its pressure.
• Lin Ye declared that he wanted the Three-Eyed Thunder Demon Tiger as his spirit ring.
• Yue Guan warned Lin Ye that the tiger was likely close to thirty thousand years old and that absorbing its ring could kill him.

Lin Ye insisted on absorbing the Three-Eyed Thunder Demon Tiger’s thirty-thousand-year spirit ring despite Chrysanthemum Douluo’s warnings. Chrysanthemum Douluo finally agreed to let him try and confronted the beast to protect him.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo warned Lin Ye that a thirty-thousand-year fourth spirit ring could kill him, but Lin Ye cited his exceptional physical constitution and Spiritual Power as reasons he could endure it.
• Lin Ye declared he would take the Three-Eyed Thunder Demon Tiger’s spirit ring unless he died, leaving Chrysanthemum Douluo unable to dissuade him.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo weighed the danger against Lin Ye’s past feats and decided to gamble on him succeeding.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo agreed to indulge Lin Ye and stepped between him and the Three-Eyed Thunder Demon Tiger.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo released all nine of his spirit rings, making the valley tremble and unsettling the beast.

Chrysanthemum Douluo trapped the Three-Eyed Thunder Demon Tiger and nearly killed it with his sixth spirit ability, then let Lin Ye deliver the final blow and absorb its Thirty-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring. After five hours of enduring the ring’s energy, Lin Ye successfully absorbed it and reached level forty-three.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo trapped the Three-Eyed Thunder Demon Tiger inside a golden petal barrier with his third spirit ability.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo unleashed his sixth spirit ability, severely wounding the tiger with a torrent of sharp golden petals.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Lin Ye to finish the weakened beast, and Lin Ye killed it with a punch and began absorbing its black Spirit Ring.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo watched anxiously as Lin Ye endured the Spirit Ring’s energy for five hours without losing control.
• Lin Ye completed the absorption, gained three Soul Power levels, and reached level forty-three.

After Lin Ye obtained his fourth spirit skill, he revealed the Dark Demon Evil Prison Formation to Chrysanthemum Douluo and tested it on him. The formation trapped Chrysanthemum Douluo with gravity suppression and slowed his Soul Power, and Lin Ye hinted that it had more effects.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo discovered that Lin Ye had reached rank 43 and was astonished by his rapid advancement.
• Lin Ye named his fourth spirit skill Dark Demon Evil Prison Formation, and Chrysanthemum Douluo asked him to demonstrate it.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo challenged Lin Ye to use the skill on him and promised not to use any spirit skills.
• Lin Ye activated the formation, surrounding Chrysanthemum Douluo with a dark, thirty-meter-wide cage threaded with lightning.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo felt gravity press him down and his Soul Power circulation slow by at least thirty percent.
• Lin Ye told Chrysanthemum Douluo that the formation's effects were only beginning.

Lin Ye demonstrated the full power of his fourth spirit skill, the Dark Demon Evil Prison Formation, against Chrysanthemum Douluo, Yue Guan. Yue Guan survived the devastating blast but was left battered and covered in dust, even more impressed by Lin Ye.

• Lin Ye warned Yue Guan to look up as the formation gathered evil energy and formed a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger phantom.
• The phantom charged Yue Guan, who raised a golden Soul Power shield to block it.
• Lin Ye ordered the phantom to explode, blasting Yue Guan and leaving a crater more than thirty meters wide.
• Yue Guan emerged from the rubble with his robe and hair disheveled, but unharmed enough to reassure Lin Ye.
• Yue Guan called Lin Ye a little monster and regarded him with even greater satisfaction.

Lin Ye returned to Spirit City with Chrysanthemum Douluo after acquiring his Fourth Soul Ring, a thirty-thousand-year ring whose powerful skill impressed the Titled Douluo. Bibi Dong learned that Lin Ye had succeeded, while Hu Liena watched with unease.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo praised Lin Ye's Dark Demon Evil Prison Formation and declared that Lin Ye's strength surpassed an ordinary Soul Emperor.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo escorted Lin Ye back to Spirit City, where the knights noticed his disheveled appearance and wondered whether Lin Ye had bested him.
• Bibi Dong questioned Chrysanthemum Douluo about his condition, and he directed her to ask her precious disciple.
• Lin Ye greeted Bibi Dong and confirmed that he had successfully obtained his Fourth Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong praised Lin Ye's success, while Hu Liena felt unsettled by how quickly he had obtained his ring.

Lin Ye told Bibi Dong that he had absorbed a roughly thirty-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring and revealed the power of its spirit skill, astonishing everyone. Bibi Dong proudly declared him her most prized disciple and ordered two months of personal training to begin the next day.

• Bibi Dong asked Lin Ye how old his Fourth Soul Ring was, and he answered that it came from a soul beast cultivated for approximately thirty thousand years.
• Hu Liena rejected Lin Ye's claim in disbelief, but Chrysanthemum Douluo confirmed that the Three-Eyed Thunder Demon Tiger had reached thirty thousand years.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo described Lin Ye's Dark Demon Evil Prison Formation, which could restrain an opponent and self-destruct.
• Bibi Dong praised Lin Ye as her proudest disciple and announced that she would personally train him for the next two months.
• Lin Ye accepted the order, expecting grueling training but recognizing it as an opportunity to grow stronger.

After leaving the Papal Palace, Lin Ye visited Zhu Zhuqing and teased her before telling her that Bibi Dong would personally train him for two months starting the next day. Zhu Zhuqing learned why he had come, and the story left them together outside her dormitory.

• Lin Ye left Bibi Dong after she decided to personally train him for two months.
• Lin Ye bought candied hawthorn and waited for Zhu Zhuqing outside her dormitory.
• Zhu Zhuqing returned from training, and Lin Ye teased her about missing him and growing again.
• Lin Ye hugged Zhu Zhuqing, then told her Bibi Dong would begin training him the next day.

Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing said goodbye before his two-month seclusion, and she gave him a handmade bracelet. The next morning, Bibi Dong began Lin Ye’s two-month special training by presenting him with his first opponent.

• Zhu Zhuqing gave Lin Ye a bracelet she had made, and he asked her to put it on his wrist.
• Lin Ye held Zhu Zhuqing close before leaving, and she vowed to catch up to him and stand beside him next time.
• Lin Ye arrived at the Papal Palace the next morning, and Bibi Dong led him to an indoor Soul Fighting Arena.
• Bibi Dong explained that Lin Ye would face Spirit Hall elites for two months to improve his combat skills, then introduced his first opponent.

Lin Ye challenged Feng Ling, a level sixty-one Soul Emperor, to test his strength against a true powerhouse. After Feng Ling’s opening dive was repelled by Lin Ye’s bare fist, the Soul Emperor launched a barrage of wind blades.

• Lin Ye asked Bibi Dong to let him challenge Feng Ling, and she ordered Feng Ling to use his full strength.
• Lin Ye and Feng Ling faced off in the arena as Bibi Dong began the match.
• Feng Ling used his Gale-Splitting Eagle Martial Soul and dived at Lin Ye with his first spirit skill, Eagle Strikes the Sky.
• Lin Ye met Feng Ling’s eagle claw with his fist and knocked the Soul Emperor backward with his physical strength.
• Feng Ling unleashed his second soul skill, Wind Blades, sending dozens of blades toward Lin Ye.

Lin Ye overwhelmed Feng Ling in their aerial battle, breaking through his attacks and control skill with his power. After declaring that the warm-up was over, Lin Ye launched himself at Feng Ling, leaving the fight poised for his next attack.

• Lin Ye used Evil God Thirteen Slashes to destroy Feng Ling’s wind blades and force him to block the remaining slashes with Wind Barrier.
• Lin Ye vanished and appeared behind Feng Ling, who tried to escape and ensnare him with Wind God’s Lock.
• Lin Ye activated Dark Demon Evil God Transformation, and his Super Armor state shattered Feng Ling’s wind chains.
• Lin Ye cracked the stone ground with a stomp and appeared in front of Feng Ling, announcing that it was his turn.

Lin Ye withstands Feng Ling’s ten-thousand-year sixth spirit skill and reveals that he still has another trump card. He activates his fourth spirit skill, trapping Feng Ling in a vast field that suppresses his movement and Soul Power.

• Feng Ling uses his sixth spirit skill, Wind-Splitting Annihilation Strike, against Lin Ye.
• Lin Ye weakens Feng Ling’s attack with Evil God Thirteen Slashes, then uses Evil God Guard to block most of its remaining force.
• Lin Ye is knocked back several steps, but he tells Feng Ling that Feng Ling has not seen his true strength.
• Feng Ling dismisses Lin Ye’s warning, and Lin Ye activates his fourth spirit skill, Dark Demon Evil Prison Formation.
• Lin Ye’s formation creates a thirty-meter vortex that slows Feng Ling’s movement and suppresses his Soul Power circulation by thirty percent.

Lin Ye defeated Feng Ling with his Dark Demon Evil God Tiger phantom and completed Bibi Dong’s grueling two-month training, reaching Soul Power level forty-four. After receiving a week off, he went to find Zhu Zhuqing but did not see her at the women’s dormitory.

• Lin Ye summoned the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger phantom, which shattered Feng Ling’s strongest attack and left him unconscious in a crater.
• Bibi Dong praised Lin Ye’s strength, and he declared himself ready for harsher training.
• Over the next two months, Lin Ye fought increasingly powerful Soul Emperors under Bibi Dong’s guidance and advanced to Soul Power level forty-four.
• Bibi Dong ended the training and gave Lin Ye a week off.
• Lin Ye went to the women’s dormitory to see Zhu Zhuqing, but she did not appear.

After learning that Zhu Zhuqing had joined a dangerous expedition to catch up with him, Lin Ye rushed to ask Bibi Dong to let him go to Death Grand Canyon. He left the chapter awaiting her response.

• Lin Ye searched the academy’s Mimicry Training Grounds for Zhu Zhuqing and asked Chrysanthemum Douluo where she was.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Lin Ye that Zhu Zhuqing had joined the academy’s elite expedition to Death Grand Canyon a month earlier.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo explained that Zhu Zhuqing had been pushing herself relentlessly because she did not want to fall behind Lin Ye.
• Alarmed and angry, Lin Ye hurried to the Papal Palace, with Chrysanthemum Douluo following him.
• Lin Ye told Bibi Dong that he wished to go to Death Grand Canyon.

Lin Ye asked Bibi Dong for permission to go to Death Grand Canyon, and she approved while teasing him about Zhu Zhuqing. As Lin Ye hurried to find her, Bibi Dong sent Yue Guan to secretly protect him; the chapter ended with Zhu Zhuqing injured and exhausted while hiding from a powerful soul beast.

• Lin Ye asked Bibi Dong to let him go to Death Grand Canyon, and she guessed he was worried about Zhu Zhuqing.
• Bibi Dong approved Lin Ye's request and warned him not to disgrace her as her disciple.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to follow Lin Ye secretly and protect him unless he faced a life-or-death crisis.
• Lin Ye raced from Spirit City toward Death Grand Canyon, fearing for Zhu Zhuqing's safety.
• Three days later, Zhu Zhuqing hid behind a boulder in Death Grand Canyon, wounded and nearly out of Soul Power after encountering a soul beast nearing forty thousand years of cultivation.

Zhu Zhuqing was cornered by a forty-thousand-year Gale Demon Leopard after fleeing for a day and night. Her attacks failed, and after using her third Spirit Skill’s three invulnerable bursts, she faced death with no clear escape.

• The Gale Demon Leopard caught up with Zhu Zhuqing and blocked her path.
• Zhu Zhuqing attacked with Netherworld Thrust and Netherworld Hundred Claws, but the leopard repelled her and injured her badly.
• The leopard spread Bloodthirsty Mist, weakening Zhu Zhuqing’s vision and perception before attacking her.
• Zhu Zhuqing used Invincible Golden Body to block the leopard’s repeated attacks, activating the skill three times.
• With her final protection fading and no way to flee or fight the leopard, Zhu Zhuqing fell into despair.

Lin Ye arrived just as the Gale Demon Leopard was about to kill Zhu Zhuqing and rescued her with his Evil God Thirteen Slashes. After she broke down crying in his arms, Lin Ye scolded her for facing a nearly forty-thousand-year-old beast alone.

• Zhu Zhuqing gave up resisting the Gale Demon Leopard and thought of Lin Ye as she prepared to die.
• Lin Ye burst through the Bloodthirsty Mist and struck the Gale Demon Leopard with his First Spirit Skill, Evil God Thirteen Slashes.
• Lin Ye landed in front of Zhu Zhuqing and pulled the wounded girl into his arms.
• Zhu Zhuqing cried against Lin Ye's chest while he held and comforted her.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked why Lin Ye had come, and he rebuked her for trying to fight a nearly forty-thousand-year-old beast as a Soul Elder.

Lin Ye and the injured Zhu Zhuqing fought together against a Gale Demon Leopard nearing forty thousand years of cultivation. As Lin Ye’s Soul Power dwindled, he trapped the beast in his Dark Demon Evil Prison Formation and began forming a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger above it.

• Lin Ye healed Zhu Zhuqing slightly and agreed to let her fight beside him, warning her to retreat if she was in danger.
• Lin Ye activated his Dark Demon Evil God Transformation and fought the Gale Demon Leopard, which used its speed to strike and injure him.
• Zhu Zhuqing wounded the leopard’s hind leg while Lin Ye’s slashes interrupted its counterattack, and they coordinated their assaults.
• As his Soul Power ran low, Lin Ye had Zhu Zhuqing retreat and unleashed his fourth spirit skill, the Dark Demon Evil Prison Formation.
• The formation slowed and trapped the Gale Demon Leopard as a massive Dark Demon Evil God Tiger phantom took shape above it.

Lin Ye and Zhu Zhuqing triggered a Martial Soul Fusion Skill when they joined hands, forming a powerful Evil Tiger that killed the forty-thousand-year Gale Demon Leopard. Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan watched in disbelief as he recognized the fusion.

• Lin Ye's attack gravely wounded the Gale Demon Leopard but left him nearly out of Soul Power.
• The dying Gale Demon Leopard lunged at the exhausted Zhu Zhuqing, and Lin Ye stopped it briefly with Mental Shock.
• Lin Ye reached for Zhu Zhuqing, and their joined hands caused their Martial Souls and Soul Power to fuse.
• A giant blackish-purple Evil Tiger with deep-blue markings emerged from the light and suppressed the Gale Demon Leopard.
• The Evil Tiger struck the Gale Demon Leopard twice, killing it as Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan recognized their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.