Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan reconciled with Meng Hongchen, exchanged gifts with her, and revealed that he was a fourteen-year-old Soul Emperor. After purifying Blood Infant Douluo and advancing to the Two-Zhang Golden Body, Lin Yan tested his new ranged Golden Body Power while Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to hide its branches and avoid provoking Shrek Academy.

• Lin Yan apologized to Meng Hongchen for deceiving her, gave her a Thunderclap Fruit, and accepted the Level Six Flying Soul Tool she had made for him.
• Meng Hongchen learned that Lin Yan was a fourteen-year-old Soul Emperor, and the two parted discreetly because their academies were rivals.
• Lin Yan purified Blood Infant Douluo, gained the final Merit, and advanced from the One-Zhang Golden Body to the Two-Zhang Golden Body.
• Lin Yan discovered that his Two-Zhang Golden Body could release Golden Body Power beyond his body as a ranged attack.
• After learning of Blood Infant Douluo's death, Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult's branches in other nations to stay hidden and forbade a rash attack on Shrek Academy.

Lin Yan examined Blood Infant Douluo’s Spirit Bones, then led Shrek Academy into the round-robin stage and defeated Yun Luo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy’s first fighter without using his Martial Soul. That evening, he returned to the Divine Trial Grounds to test whether his two-zhang Golden Body could carry him across the final part of the Lightning Sea and complete the first Thunder God trial.

• Lin Yan found three Ten Thousand Year Spirit Bones among Blood Infant Douluo’s remains and decided to save his seven unabsorbed Spirit Bones for a better trade.
• Wang Yan explained the round-robin stage’s scoring rules and three match formats to the Shrek team.
• Lin Yan drew the individual elimination format for Shrek Academy’s first round-robin match against Yun Luo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy.
• Shu Le fired his Soul Tools at Lin Yan, but Lin Yan deflected the first shot and endured the full barrage without a scratch, prompting Shu Le to surrender.
• Shrek Academy earned two points, and Lin Yan skipped the Starshine Auction House because he already possessed the Soul Devouring Dagger.
• Lin Yan opened a passage to the Divine Trial Grounds to test whether his two-zhang Golden Body could cross the final fifth of the Lightning Sea.

Lin Yan passed the first Thunder God trial by crossing the Lightning Sea, earning five percent Thunder God Affinity, the Ultimate Lightning attribute, and a Divine-Gift Spirit Ring. He began the second trial on the divine temple stairs, but stopped at the thirty-first step as increasingly frequent Soul Lightning overwhelmed his Spiritual Sea.

• Lin Yan crossed the Lightning Sea despite the Ultimate Lightning tearing apart his Golden Body, reached the island, and passed the first trial.
• The Thunder God rewarded Lin Yan with five percent affinity, the Ultimate Lightning attribute for his Black Demon Mace, and a Divine-Gift Spirit Ring.
• Lin Yan learned that the second trial required him to climb the divine temple stairs within one year while enduring Soul Lightning.
• Lin Yan climbed to the thirty-first step, where the frequent Soul Lightning forced him to sit and defend his Spiritual Sea.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm woke inside Lin Yan's Spiritual Sea and asked what had happened, and Lin Yan snapped back at him.

Lin Yan learned Five-Thunder Soul Tempering from Electrolux and used a Divine-Gift Spirit Ring to give his Great Buddha Martial Soul a 150,000-year third ring with two new Soul Skills. He tested his improved strength against Xiao Jiu, who overpowered his strongest attack, and Lin Yan asked how he compared to an ordinary Titled Douluo.

• Electrolux taught Lin Yan Five-Thunder Soul Tempering, and Lin Yan decided to use the Divine Trial’s Soul Lightning to refine his soul.
• After reaching the thirty-first floor and returning to Xiao Jiu, Lin Yan used his Divine-Gift Spirit Ring on his Great Buddha Martial Soul, gaining a 150,000-year third ring and the Soul Skills Benevolent Buddhist Chant and Immovable Wisdom King.
• Lin Yan noted that his Soul Power had risen only one rank to sixty-six and concluded that reaching Rank Seventy would be difficult under the restrictions of his Extreme Attribute.
• Lin Yan challenged Xiao Jiu to test his strength and fought her with his Ultimate Lightning Black Demon Mace, but she repeatedly knocked him back.
• Lin Yan used Thunder God's Blessing and Thunder Wave to unleash a huge lightning attack, but Xiao Jiu's Nine-Headed Thunder Serpent shattered it and blasted him to the ground.
• After healing his injuries, Lin Yan asked Xiao Jiu how his strength compared with that of an ordinary Titled Douluo.

Lin Yan discovered that his combat strength could rival an ordinary Titled Douluo, but his training made him miss Shrek Academy’s match. After Princess Xu Jiujiu brought him to watch from the imperial city, he warned her about an Evil Soul Master organization, and Shrek’s battle against Qianling Soul Master Academy began.

• Xiao Jiu assessed Lin Yan as strong enough to suppress an ordinary Titled Douluo, and Lin Yan left the Divine Trial Grounds only to find that he had missed the match’s start.
• Lin Yan was denied entry to the competition venue, then met Xu Jiujiu, who took him to a watchtower overlooking the arena.
• Xu Jiujiu asked about Shrek Academy’s small lineup, and Lin Yan explained that an Evil Soul Master Titled Douluo had seriously injured four Inner Court members before Xuan Zi killed him.
• Lin Yan warned Xu Jiujiu that an organization of Evil Soul Masters was operating in secret and asked her to alert the Star Luo Empire; she promised to inform her imperial brother.
• Shrek Academy and Qianling Soul Master Academy began their seven-versus-seven match, with Gongyang Mo boosting Shrek’s advancing fighters.

Shrek Team broke through Thousand Spirits Team's defensive formation and left only Shen Ce and the two girls able to fight. Shen Ce launched a fully charged spear attack at Ling Luochen, but Jiang Nannan blocked it unharmed.

• Thousand Spirits Team formed a defensive line with four Rhinoceros Shield Soul Masters while Shen Ce and the two control-type Soul Ancestors prepared to attack.
• Ling Luochen reversed the Frost Giant Bear's ice attack, then used Gongyang Mo's amplification to freeze the Rhinoceros Shield formation with her fifth Soul Skill.
• Xu Sanshi used Xuanming Substitution to switch places with a shield bearer, and Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei incapacitated the displaced opponent.
• Ling Luochen guided her ice torrent around Xu Sanshi, breaking through the weakened formation, and Xu Sanshi, Bei Bei, Jiang Nannan, and Wu Feng defeated the other three shield bearers.
• Xu Jiujiu learned from Lin Yan that he intended to fight through the tournament alone, while Shen Ce charged his Thousand-Strike Spear to target Ling Luochen.
• Shen Ce's spear pierced Bei Bei's attack and knocked away Xu Sanshi's shield, but Jiang Nannan stopped it with a golden barrier and emerged unharmed.

Shrek Academy finished the round robin undefeated and prepared to face Dou Ling Royal Soul Master Academy in the next stage. Lin Yan attended Starshine Auction House’s top-tier auction, where he reasoned that Snow Empress’s embryo would not appear, and the auction began with a powerful Soul Tool on display.

• Shrek Academy defeated Thousand Spirits Team, and Lin Yan left after Xu Jiujiu expressed curiosity about his strength.
• Lin Yan led Shrek Academy through its remaining round-robin matches, and the team advanced with a perfect record.
• Wang Yan revealed that Shrek Academy’s top-sixteen opponent was Dou Ling Royal Soul Master Academy, whose lineup included five Soul Kings, and Lin Yan volunteered to handle them.
• Lin Yan accepted Starshine Auction House’s invitation and concluded that Snow Empress’s embryo was unlikely to appear because Ice Empress remained in the Far North.
• Qing Ya guided Lin Yan and the Shrek group into the auction’s private hall, where Xu Jiujiu presented the Overlord Tiger Soul-Refining Blade as the first item.

Lin Yan recognized the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Spirit Bone’s Ice Explosion ability and warned that only Soul Masters with the Extreme Ice Attribute could absorb it. The auction was suspended, and Xu Jiujiu confronted Lin Yan, anxious that the Spirit Bone might be impossible to sell.

• Ning Tian offered to give Lin Yan the Overlord Tiger Soul-Refining Blade, but he declined, and another bidder bought it for 1.4 million Gold Soul Coins.
• The Fixed-Installation Soul Cannon Shells failed to sell, and Bei Bei stopped bidding on the Iron-Clawed Earth Dragon Spirit Bone, which sold for four million Gold Soul Coins.
• Lin Yan recognized the emerald-green Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Spirit Bone and identified its Ice Explosion ability, exciting Ling Luochen.
• Lin Yan told Ling Luochen and Wang Yan that only Soul Masters with the Extreme Ice Attribute could absorb Ice Jade Scorpion Spirit Bones, then urged Qing Ya to inform the auction house.
• Qing Ya returned with Xu Jiujiu after the auction was suspended, and Xu Jiujiu pressed Lin Yan to confirm that the Spirit Bone could only be absorbed by an Extreme Ice Soul Master.

Lin Yan identified the final auction item as a rare External Soul Bone and began bidding aggressively for the Six-Winged Wind-Thunder Wings. The price reached thirty million Gold Soul Coins after Lin Yan’s bid, and the auction was still underway.

• Lin Yan told Xu Jiujiu that an Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Spirit Bone could be tested by having a Soul Master absorb it, and Xu Jiujiu briefly paused the auction before resuming its sale.
• Lin Yan explained that the Starshine Auction House was secretly bidding on the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone to keep it from entering the market without damaging its reputation.
• Xu Jiujiu unveiled the final item, a sixty-thousand-year External Soul Bone called the Six-Winged Wind-Thunder Wings, and described its flight ability, speed, Wind-Thunder Tribulation skill, and growth potential.
• Lin Yan decided to acquire the Six-Winged Wind-Thunder Wings, and Wang Yan and Ning Tian offered to support him.
• Lin Yan bid sixteen million Gold Soul Coins, then raised the price to thirty million after other bidders pushed it to twenty-five million.

Lin Yan won the Six-Winged Wind-Thunder Wings at auction by trading seven Spirit Bones and eight million Gold Soul Coins, then absorbed the External Soul Bone and gained extraordinary speed. The next day, Shrek Academy began its Round of Sixteen match against the Dou Ling Royal Soul Master Academy, with spectators eager to see whether Lin Yan would fight alone again.

• Lin Yan outbid Xiao Hongchen for the Six-Winged Wind-Thunder Wings at forty-one million Gold Soul Coins, and Xiao Hongchen withdrew rather than risk exposing Illustrious Virtue Hall technology.
• Lin Yan traded seven Spirit Bones worth about thirty-three million Gold Soul Coins and paid the remaining eight million in cash to obtain the wings.
• Lin Yan entered the Divine Trial Grounds and absorbed the Six-Winged Wind-Thunder Wings, combining them with the Thunderclap Hellvine Trunk Bone without breaking through Level 66.
• Lin Yan tested the wings and found that they let him move faster than agility-type Soul Masters of the same rank, giving him another trump card.
• Shrek Academy began the Round of Sixteen against the Dou Ling Royal Soul Master Academy as spectators gathered to see whether Lin Yan would take on the opposing team alone.

Lin Yan faced the Dou Ling Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy alone and revealed two Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings, shocking the tournament spectators and rival teams. He broke through Xiao Feng’s illusion and reached the team’s Diamond Barrier as they hurried to assemble a Thunder Cannon.

• Lin Yan entered the arena alone and answered Gu Zhujian’s accusation of arrogance with a challenge to match his strength.
• Lin Yan summoned his Spiked Club and revealed two Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings, stunning the emperor, spectators, and competing academies.
• Lin Yan charged as Qing Feng raised an earth wave and Xiao Feng concealed the Dou Ling Team in an illusion, giving them time to prepare their Thunder Cannon.
• Lin Yan used his spiritual power to tear apart Xiao Feng’s illusion, leaving Xiao Feng weakened and the team exposed.
• Chi Hengyu expanded his Diamond Greatshield into a massive barrier while the Dou Ling Team continued assembling the Thunder Cannon, and Lin Yan arrived before the shield wall.

Lin Yan overwhelmed the Dou Ling Team by destroying their shield wall and surviving a Thunder Cannon blast, securing Shrek Academy’s place in the top eight. Later, he met Meng Hongchen, confirmed his Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings were real, and agreed to go easy on her brother if their teams met.

• Lin Yan shattered Chi Hengyu’s Diamond Greatshield wall and proposed that the Dou Ling Team fire its assembled Thunder Cannon at him.
• Gu Zhujian and two teammates charged and fired the Thunder Cannon, but Lin Yan used Desolate Heaven Power and Thunderous Bagua to withstand the blast unharmed.
• Gu Zhujian conceded the match, and the referee declared Shrek Academy the winner and advanced it to the top eight.
• Lin Yan returned to the Star Emperor Hotel to cultivate and worried that his Soul Power was growing too slowly to reach the Soul Sage realm within two years.
• Meng Hongchen summoned Lin Yan to their tea restaurant and asked whether his two Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings were real; Lin Yan confirmed they were.
• Meng Hongchen asked Lin Yan to spare her brother if their teams met, and Lin Yan agreed.

The semifinals began with Lin Yan drawing Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy, and he faced its full team alone in the opening team battle. He broke through their opening attacks, but the match remained underway as Huang Heyun launched a black tiger at him.

• Lin Yan and the other semifinalists entered Star Luo Square, where Emperor Xu Jiawei arrived guarded by four Titled Douluo.
• Xu Jiawei announced that Huang Jinxu would referee the remaining matches, and the captains drew Shrek Academy against Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy and Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy against Imperial Ao Academy.
• Lin Yan offered to settle the semifinal in one team battle, and Xu Jiujiu agreed before leading her six teammates onto the platform against him alone.
• Xu Jiujiu's team released their Martial Souls and combined Yi Chen and Wang Shiying's wind-and-fire attack into a flaming tornado around Lin Yan.
• Lin Yan used Chidori Stream to tear through the tornado, while Huang Heyun, Dugu Shangshan, and Chen Xiaojie combined their power and Huang Heyun sent a black tiger lunging at him.

Lin Yan defeated the Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy in the tournament semifinals and revealed his Ultimate Lightning when Tian Sha Douluo pressured him. Afterward, two Body Sect members confronted the group and tried to recruit Huo Yuhao, claiming his awakened Eye Martial Soul belonged with their sect.

• Lin Yan destroyed Huang Heyun's attack, repelled Yi Chen and Wang Shiying's control skills, and knocked out Xu Jiujiu and the other Star Luo team members with his exploding Desolate Heaven Thunder Dragon Spear.
• Tian Sha Douluo sensed Lin Yan's Ultimate Lightning and was shocked by the power of the fourteen-year-old Soul Emperor, then declared Lin Yan the winner.
• Lin Yan warned Tian Sha Douluo before leaving the arena, and he and the Shrek group headed back toward the Star Emperor Hotel.
• Two unusual men blocked the group and demanded to speak with Huo Yuhao; Lin Yan recognized them as members of the Body Sect and stopped one man's spiritual power from dazing everyone.
• The Body Sect men explained that they wanted Huo Yuhao because his Eye Martial Soul had undergone a Second Awakening, while Bei Bei and Tang Ya objected to their attempt to take him from the Tang Sect.

Lin Yan protected Huo Yuhao from the Body Sect’s attempt to recruit him, then revealed to Lang Ya and Yu Tao that he possessed a second, Body Martial Soul. He refused to join the sect unless Du Busi came to meet him personally.

• Lin Yan used his spiritual power to break the big-headed man's influence over Huo Yuhao, who reaffirmed his loyalty to the Tang Sect.
• Yu Tao attacked Lin Yan, but Lin Yan paralyzed him with lightning and knocked him back before the two Body Sect men withdrew.
• Lin Yan stopped Lang Ya and Yu Tao and took them to a tavern to discuss his second Martial Soul.
• Lin Yan revealed that his second Martial Soul was a Body Martial Soul, prompting Lang Ya to invite him to join the Body Sect.
• Lin Yan said he would consider joining only after meeting Du Busi, then insisted that Du Busi come to see him personally.

Lin Yan set terms for meeting with the Body Sect’s master, while the Star Luo Emperor learned of his extraordinary strength and planned to make amends. After Tian Sha Douluo left the palace, Elder Xuan confronted him for pressuring Lin Yan and defeated him with a single palm strike.

• Lin Yan refused to visit the Body Sect and told Lang Ya to ask its master to meet him in Shrek City after the tournament.
• Tian Sha Douluo told Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu that Lin Yan possessed Ultimate Lightning and strength comparable to an ordinary Titled Douluo.
• Xu Jiujiu suggested building goodwill with Lin Yan, and Xu Jiawei ordered her to invite him to the palace and prepare gifts to compensate him.
• Elder Xuan summoned Tian Sha Douluo outside the city and demanded he withstand one palm strike for pressuring Lin Yan during the tournament.
• Elder Xuan’s palm broke through Tian Sha Douluo’s defense and left him badly injured, while Elder Xuan warned that the Star Luo Empire might not protect him next time.

Lin Yan revealed his acquired Ultimate Lightning attribute to Elder Xuan, then spent the next day cultivating while Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy won its semifinal. In the tournament final, Lin Yan faced the academy’s seven-member team alone and broke through their opening bombardment, leaving them battered and their defensive Soul Tools damaged.

• Elder Xuan thanked Lin Yan for his match and questioned him about the Ultimate Lightning attribute; Lin Yan explained that his Black Demon Mace had evolved, and Elder Xuan judged the acquired attribute exceptionally powerful.
• Lin Yan stayed in his room cultivating as Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy defeated Emperor Ao Advanced Soul Master Academy and secured a place in the final against Shrek Academy.
• At the final’s opening team battle, Lin Yan entered alone to face Ma Rulong, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and four other Sun Moon Team members, rejecting Ma Rulong’s challenge to surrender.
• The Sun Moon Team used Lin Xi’s shield Soul Tool for protection and unleashed more than 180 cannon barrels at Lin Yan, but Lin Yan dodged every attack with his Six-Winged Wind-Thunder Wings.
• Lin Yan trapped the seven opponents in his Wind-Thunder Tribulation; after a minute of defending, Ma Rulong and his teammates emerged disheveled with their defensive Soul Tools damaged.

Lin Yan defeated the Sun Moon Team in the final, securing Shrek Academy the tournament championship after the opposing team forfeited its remaining matches. The next day, Xu Jiujiu brought him to meet her brother, Star Luo Emperor Xu Jiawei, who was waiting at the Star Emperor Hotel.

• Lin Yan struck Ma Rulong and the other Sun Moon Team members unconscious with the Desolate Heaven Thunder Dragon Spear, and the referee declared Shrek Academy the team-battle winner.
• The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy forfeited the remaining matches, giving Shrek Academy the tournament championship.
• Lin Yan returned to the Shrek waiting area, where Ning Tian congratulated him and Wang Yan marveled at his strength.
• Xu Jiujiu visited Lin Yan and met Jiang Nannan, whom Lin Yan introduced as his girlfriend.
• Xu Jiujiu invited Lin Yan to meet her brother, and Lin Yan followed her to a private room where Xu Jiawei revealed himself.

Lin Yan accepted an Ice Jade Scorpion Spirit Bone from Xu Jiawei, turned down Star Luo Empire’s recruitment offer, and won the tournament’s champion rewards. After returning to Shrek Academy, Yan Shaozhe noticed that Lin Yan had grown far stronger during his time away.

• Xu Jiawei apologized for Tian Sha Douluo’s actions and offered Lin Yan compensation, so Lin Yan requested the Ice Jade Scorpion Spirit Bone with Ice Explosion.
• Xu Jiawei tried to recruit Lin Yan with generous promises, but Lin Yan declined because of his ties to the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect and Shrek Academy.
• Shrek Academy won three Ten Thousand Year Spirit Bones at the awards ceremony, and Lin Yan accepted all three in addition to the Ice Jade Scorpion Spirit Bone.
• Lin Yan met Meng Hongchen before their teams departed and promised to visit her in Mingdu.
• Lin Yan returned to Shrek Academy with Xuan Zi, where Yan Shaozhe welcomed the students and remarked that Lin Yan had changed greatly.

Lin Yan reunited with Zhang Lexuan after cultivating his Ultimate Lightning in the Sea God Pavilion, then agreed to demonstrate his strength in a spar. Their battle began in an uninhabited mountain range north of Shrek City and continued with both revealing powerful attacks.

• Lin Yan visited Mu En with Yan Shaozhe, revealed his Ultimate Lightning, and spent three days cultivating in the Sea God Pavilion, reaching Soul Power rank sixty-seven.
• Lin Yan reunited with Zhang Lexuan, told her about his Extreme Attribute and Titled Douluo-level combat strength, and agreed to spar with her the next day.
• Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan traveled north of Shrek City to an uninhabited mountain range and released their Martial Souls for the match.
• Zhang Lexuan's Moonlight beam shattered against Lin Yan's club, and she followed with Full Moon and Bright Moon Avatar to unleash a barrage of moon-white rays.
• Lin Yan used Power of Desolate Heaven and Sky Azure Dragon Break to tear through Zhang Lexuan's rays, then shattered her ten-meter moon blade with Thunderous Bagua as they faced each other again.