Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan convinced Ye Guyi that he was not an Evil Soul Master and asked her to help him contact Saint Light Douluo Qian Huanyi about his missing mother. After revealing that he had used undead creatures as bait to lure out Evil Soul Masters, Lin Yan detected a powerful presence in the Misty Swamp and sent his Bone Dragon to investigate.

• Lin Yan used his Great Buddha Martial Soul to show Ye Guyi that he possessed sacred power, and she reluctantly accepted that he was not an Evil Soul Master.
• Lin Yan asked Ye Guyi about Lin Yueyao and Qian Huanyi, and Ye Guyi agreed to pass a message to Qian Huanyi when she returned to the Angel Clan's Holy Court.
• Lin Yan explained that he had brought undead creatures to lure out Evil Soul Masters, and Ye Guyi proposed that they join forces against them.
• Lin Yan sensed a powerful aura in the Misty Swamp through a Skeleton Soldier and sent his Bone Dragon west to investigate.
• A black-robed man examined a Skeleton Soldier and sensed the approaching Bone Dragon's powerful undead aura and dragon's might.

Lin Yan confronted Nether Lightning Douluo after summoning three Bone Dragons to corner him. He detonated one Bone Dragon to damage the Soul Engineer, then fought him directly, but Nether Lightning Douluo’s Soul Tools and lightning avatar kept the battle going.

• Nether Lightning Douluo captured one Bone Dragon, while Lin Yan identified him and summoned two more to block his escape.
• Lin Yan flew to confront Nether Lightning Douluo and used the captured Bone Dragon’s self-destruction to attack him.
• Nether Lightning Douluo survived the blast with a Level-Nine defensive Soul Tool, which was destroyed in the explosion.
• Lin Yan revealed his powerful Spirit Rings and struck Nether Lightning Douluo’s lightning serpent with Ultimate Lightning, then attacked him with his Spiked Club.
• Nether Lightning Douluo blocked Lin Yan’s strike with an Invincible Shield, activated Nether Lightning Avatar, and unleashed a storm of lightning from an orb above his head.

Lin Yan used his Thunder God Domain and powerful soul skills to defeat and capture Nether Lightning Douluo, the Holy Spirit Cult’s Third Elder. Ye Guyi arrived, learned of Lin Yan’s strength and the Holy Spirit Cult’s power, and left the Misty Swamp with him on a Bone Dragon.

• Nether Lightning Douluo recognized Lin Yan and attacked him with a Level-Nine Soul Tool, but Lin Yan escaped with teleportation and opened his Thunder God Domain.
• Lin Yan’s Lightning Forest restrained Nether Lightning Douluo, and Thunder Realm Divine Punishment broke through his defenses and left him barely alive.
• Lin Yan captured Nether Lightning Douluo, and Ye Guyi arrived to find him transformed into a towering dragonman holding the defeated Titled Douluo.
• Lin Yan explained that his Ultimate Lightning and soul skills had let him defeat Nether Lightning Douluo, then warned Ye Guyi that the Holy Spirit Cult had dozens of Titled Douluo.
• Lin Yan sent his undead army back through the Gate of the Undead, and Ye Guyi joined him as they flew out of the Misty Swamp on a Bone Dragon.

Lin Yan completed the Thunder God’s fourth trial by killing Nether Lightning Douluo and gained rewards before discovering his spoils. The Holy Spirit Cult began investigating the death and targeting Shrek Academy, while Lin Yan helped Ye Guyi obtain a Spirit Bone and set out with her for the Jingyang Mountains.

• Lin Yan recovered his Soul Power in a secluded valley, then used his Three Thousand Buddha Kingdom Domain to purify and kill Nether Lightning Douluo.
• The Thunder God announced that Lin Yan had completed the fourth trial, increasing his Thunder God affinity and Soul Power and granting him a Divine-Gift Spirit Ring.
• The Holy Spirit Cult learned that Nether Lightning Douluo had died, and Zhongli Wu ordered an investigation and blamed Shrek Academy for the deaths of Mask and Blood Infant.
• Lin Yan collected Nether Lightning Douluo’s Spirit Bones and Soul Tool, then gave Ye Guyi the spiritual head Spirit Bone, which helped her break through to Level Sixty.
• Lin Yan took Ye Guyi to the Jingyang Mountains to obtain a Spirit Ring rather than risk going near the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters.

Lin Yan helped Ye Guyi obtain a suitable Spirit Ring in the Jingyang Mountains, then used a Divine-Gift Spirit Ring to strengthen his Great Buddha Martial Soul and learned that the fifth Thunder God trial required him to find his mother. After traveling for half a year in search of clues and Snow Empress, he reached Reflecting Snow City, the last city on the Far North’s outskirts that he had yet to search.

• Lin Yan and Ye Guyi traveled into the Jingyang Mountains, where he drove off Soul Beasts until they found a twenty-thousand-year Sacred Light Flame Lion suited to her Angel Martial Soul.
• Lin Yan weakened the Sacred Light Flame Lion with Chidori, and Ye Guyi killed it, absorbed its Spirit Ring, and became a level-sixty-one Soul Emperor.
• Ye Guyi told Lin Yan she would return to the Angel Clan’s Holy Court to ask about his mother, while Lin Yan returned to the Divine Trial Grounds and discovered that his fifth Thunder God trial required him to find her within three years.
• Lin Yan absorbed a Divine-Gift Spirit Ring into his Great Buddha Martial Soul, forming a two-hundred-thousand-year fourth Spirit Ring and raising his Soul Power to level seventy-four.
• After half a year of traveling without finding clues about his mother, Lin Yan reached Reflecting Snow City to continue searching for Snow Empress.

Lin Yan found the young Snow Empress at Reflecting Snow Soul Master Academy, kidnapped her, and escaped far from the Far North. He forced her to choose between becoming his disciple and dying; she accepted, but continued to deny that she was the Snow Empress.

• Lin Yan recognized the white-haired girl leaving Reflecting Snow Soul Master Academy as the Snow Empress and followed her.
• When the girl tried to go home, Lin Yan seized her after she summoned an Ice Emperor Sword, then used Space Movement to flee with her.
• Lin Yan traveled five hundred li and recovered his Soul Power while the bound girl questioned why he had captured her.
• Lin Yan revealed that he knew her identity and offered to protect her as his disciple, threatening to kill her if she refused.
• The Snow Empress accepted, and she and Lin Yan completed a disciple-taking ceremony without her kneeling.
• The Snow Empress continued to insist she was only an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, despite Lin Yan challenging her denial.

Lin Yan took Snow Empress to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to find a way to conceal her Soul Beast aura, but the powerful plant-type Soul Beasts guarding the valley confronted them. He used Tang San’s name to win their trust and asked for a book and several immortal herbs, but Aromatic Silk Beauty said he had to prove he was Tang San’s descendant to receive the book.

• Lin Yan summoned a light-attributed Bone Dragon and took Snow Empress toward Sunset Forest to find something that could conceal her Soul Beast aura.
• Lin Yan used Space Movement to bring Snow Empress into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well valley, where they saw its extraordinary plants and dual-colored spring.
• The plant-type Soul Beasts attacked Lin Yan with vines and surrounded him with their auras, demanding that he leave.
• Lin Yan claimed Tang San had sent him, and Aromatic Silk Beauty believed him when he said Tang San had ascended to the Divine Realm and missed the plants.
• Lin Yan asked Aromatic Silk Beauty for Tang San’s book and several immortal herbs, but Aromatic Silk Beauty said it could give him the book only if he proved he was Tang San’s descendant.

Lin Yan passed the Aromatic Silk Beauty’s first trial by eating a lightning-born fruit that strengthened his cultivation and lightning attribute. He then faced a second trial against the Infernal Delicate Apricot, but the fight paused when his three Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings made Snow Empress and the plant Soul Beasts suspect him of killing Soul Beasts.

• The Aromatic Silk Beauty sent Lin Yan to dig in a scorched patch, where he found and ate a fruit formed from lightning tribulations and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s power.
• The fruit raised Lin Yan’s cultivation to level seventy-six and strengthened his lightning attribute, so the Aromatic Silk Beauty declared that he had passed the first trial.
• The Aromatic Silk Beauty summoned the Infernal Delicate Apricot to test Lin Yan’s strength, and the plant attacked him with the Scorching Yang Spring’s Ultimate Fire.
• Snow Empress and the plant Soul Beasts grew hostile after seeing Lin Yan’s three Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings, but Lin Yan summoned Thunderclap Hellvine and the Desolate Heaven Thunder Dragon to explain that they had willingly become his Soul Spirits.
• Lin Yan explained his Soul Spirit method and his agreement with Di Tian to create an organization for Soul Beasts, easing the group’s suspicions; the Aromatic Silk Beauty asked about becoming a Soul Spirit but declined the idea.

Lin Yan defeated the Infernal Delicate Apricot’s challenge at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and secured permission to take six immortal herbs and borrow the Aromatic Silk Beauty’s Heart of Silk Beauty. He and Snow Empress left with the herbs and spring water, heading toward Shrek Academy.

• Lin Yan and the Infernal Delicate Apricot clashed with their extreme attributes and domains until the Aromatic Silk Beauty stopped their sparring.
• Lin Yan proved he was a Tang Sect disciple by displaying the Mysterious Jade Hand, then chose six immortal herbs and asked for the Aromatic Silk Beauty’s Heart of Silk Beauty.
• The Aromatic Silk Beauty lent Lin Yan its Heart of Silk Beauty, which concealed Snow Empress’s soul beast aura until she reached the soul sage realm.
• Snow Empress and Lin Yan collected water from the Extreme Cold Ice Spring and Scorching Yang Spring, and Lin Yan harvested the six herbs he had chosen.
• Lin Yan admitted to Snow Empress that he had deceived the plant-type soul beasts about knowing Tang San, then said he would take her to Shrek Academy.

Lin Yan brought the Snow Empress, now posing as his ten-year-old disciple Xue Shuanghen, to Shrek Academy and secured her a chance to take the Inner Court Advancement Assessment. He reunited with his teacher Mu En and offered him Immortal Herbs, but Mu En said they could not extend a Limit Douluo’s life and told Lin Yan to keep them.

• Lin Yan flew with the Snow Empress to Shrek Academy and introduced her as his disciple, Xue Shuanghen, to Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and Huo Yuhao.
• Lin Yan showed Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier that Xue Shuanghen was an Extreme Soul Ancestor with a Snow Woman Martial Soul, and Yan Shaozhe agreed to let her take the next day’s Inner Court Advancement Assessment.
• Lin Yan arranged a room for Xue Shuanghen, noticed Zhang Lexuan was in seclusion, and then visited Mu En at the Sea God Pavilion.
• Lin Yan presented Mu En with several Immortal Herbs, including a Nine-Grade Dragon Ganoderma he intended for Bei Bei.
• Mu En explained that Immortal Herbs could not meaningfully extend his life and urged Lin Yan to keep and distribute them wisely.
• Lin Yan left the Sea God Pavilion intending to visit Jiang Nannan and his other close companions.

Lin Yan reunited with Ning Tian and Wu Feng, gave Ning Tian an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid to evolve her Martial Soul, and helped Wu Feng cultivate with Scorching Yang Spring. The chapter ended with Wu Feng emerging from the water before realizing Lin Yan had seen her.

• Lin Yan encountered Ning Tian and Wu Feng and learned that Ning Tian had reached nearly rank forty-eight while Wu Feng had become a Soul Ancestor.
• Lin Yan gave Ning Tian an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, which she swallowed before beginning to meditate and absorb its effects.
• Lin Yan told Wu Feng to wait until she became a Soul Sage before absorbing Blazing Gum, which would give her an Extreme Fire Attribute, and gave her Scorching Yang Spring to help her cultivate.
• Lin Yan diluted the Scorching Yang Spring in a vat, and Wu Feng endured its heat while cultivating under his protection and life-energy assistance.
• After an hour, Wu Feng absorbed the spring's power and felt her cultivation improve, then hurried beneath the water when she realized Lin Yan had seen her exposed body.

After Ning Tian became a Soul King and awakened the Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda, Lin Yan reunited with his students and prepared Snow Empress for the Inner Court Advancement Assessment. The assessment was about to begin with Snow Empress, Wang Dong, Dai Huabin, and other Outer Court students participating.

• Ning Tian absorbed the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, reached level fifty, and evolved her Martial Soul into the Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda.
• Wu Feng congratulated Ning Tian and grew more motivated to cultivate after remembering Lin Yan's promise to help her become an Extreme Fire Attribute Soul Master.
• Lin Yan gave Jiang Nannan the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone and spent the night with her before leaving for Snow Empress's assessment.
• Lin Yan brought Snow Empress to the Soul Fighting Arena, where she questioned why he had not competed for the Heaven Ranking.
• Han Ruoruo arranged for Snow Empress to join the Advancement Assessment line alongside Wang Dong, Dai Huabin, Huyan Jia, Xu Huan, and the other participants.
• Lin Yan noticed Wang Dong watching him, recalled her ties to Tang San and Ah Yin, and returned to the spectators' seats as the assessment was about to begin.

Wu Feng defeated Huyan Jia in the first match of the Advancement Assessment, and Snow Empress instantly froze her opponent to earn a perfect score. Dai Huabin then defeated Wang Wu, while Wang Dong and Xu Huan began their match, which remained unresolved as Xu Huan unleashed his Dizziness Ring.

• Wu Feng used her Spirit Bone to repel Huyan Jia’s Crushing Kill, then overwhelmed him with Red Dragon Flame and won the first match.
• Snow Empress froze Dugu Tian in an instant, earning a perfect score while he received zero and failed to qualify for the Inner Court.
• Lin Yan told Ling Luochen that Snow Empress was his disciple and revealed that her Martial Soul was Snow Woman with the Extreme Snow attribute.
• Dai Huabin defeated Wang Wu in a close-range fight, and both received passing scores for Inner Court entry.
• Wang Dong and Xu Huan began their match, and Xu Huan spread his Dizziness Ring across the Soul Arena Platform.

Wang Dong defeated Xu Huan and Dai Huabin in the Advancement Assessment, but Snow Empress overwhelmed her in the final match and claimed victory. Afterward, Ling Luochen decided to challenge Snow Empress to test the gap between her ice attribute and an Extreme Attribute.

• Wang Dong's Spiritual Sea repelled Xu Huan's Nightmare Reincarnation and left him severely injured, earning her ten points as the first round ended.
• Snow Empress froze Wu Feng almost instantly, winning their second-round match and alarming the spectators with her Extreme Attribute.
• Wang Dong trapped Dai Huabin in her Hexagram Array, badly injured him, and won after Han Ruoruo stopped the match.
• Snow Empress froze Wang Dong during their final match and was declared the winner.
• Ling Luochen told Lin Yan she intended to challenge Snow Empress, then walked toward the Soul Arena Platform.

Ling Luochen challenged Snow Empress and was overwhelmed by her control of the Ultimate Ice attribute. After the match, Lin Yan promised to help Ling Luochen strengthen her ice attribute and brought her Ice Spring to use for cultivation, leaving her about to try it.

• Ling Luochen asked Han Ruoruo to let her spar with Xue Shuanghen, and Snow Empress agreed to fight without either side suppressing their strength.
• Snow Empress took control of Ling Luochen's ice attack, turned it into a spinning ice wheel, and froze Ling Luochen with her blizzard.
• Yan Shaozhe praised Snow Empress and asked Lin Yan to let her become his disciple, but Lin Yan refused and told him he had found the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower for Ma Xiaotao.
• Lin Yan told the dejected Ling Luochen he could help her gain an Extreme Attribute after she reached Soul Sage, and offered her an item to increase her cultivation speed.
• Lin Yan brought Ling Luochen to her room and prepared diluted Ice Spring in a vat, explaining that she could cultivate in it but must avoid using more than she could endure.

Lin Yan used the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower to eliminate Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, awakening her Ultimate Fire and transforming her Azure Phoenix Soul Spirit into a true Fire Phoenix. He also gave Bei Bei an Immortal Herb, comforted Wu Feng after her defeat, accepted her confession, and stayed with her as she rested while he examined another herb.

• Lin Yan gave Ma Xiaotao the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, and she absorbed it, purging the evil power from her Martial Soul and awakening Ultimate Fire.
• Ma Xiaotao’s Azure Phoenix Soul Spirit was reborn through fire and evolved into a true Fire Phoenix, while Lin Yan judged her strength to have surpassed that of an ordinary Titled Douluo.
• Lin Yan gave Bei Bei the Nine-Grade Dragon Ganoderma, which strengthened his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and enhanced its dragon transformation ability.
• Lin Yan visited Wu Feng, reassured her after the Snow Empress defeated her, and learned that Wu Feng had already cleared away the lingering chill by soaking in the Sun Spring.
• Wu Feng confessed that she liked Lin Yan and agreed to become one of his girlfriends; Lin Yan accepted her, and they kissed and spent time together.
• After Wu Feng fell asleep in his arms, Lin Yan took out the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and considered how it could strengthen his Golden Body Power.

Lin Yan gave Zhang Lexuan the Aromatic Silk Beauty, allowing her to break through to rank ninety and qualify for her ninth Spirit Ring. As Mu En named Zhang Lexuan his successor, Lin Yan prepared to lead her, Snow Empress, and a group of Inner Court students on a Spirit Ring expedition.

• Wu Feng learned that Lin Yan had the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, and he absorbed it while staying with her in secluded cultivation.
• Lin Yan visited Snow Empress at her nearby residence and urged her to cultivate at the academy.
• Zhang Lexuan emerged from failed seclusion, and Lin Yan gave her the Aromatic Silk Beauty; she absorbed it and broke through to rank ninety.
• Mu En congratulated Zhang Lexuan, named her his successor as Sea God Pavilion master, and agreed that Lin Yan would arrange her ninth Spirit Ring.
• Three days later, Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan gathered Snow Empress and the Inner Court students, including Bei Bei, Jiang Nannan, Ning Tian, Ling Luochen, and Lei Ze, for the expedition.

Lin Yan brought Shrek Academy’s students and leaders to the Star Dou Great Forest to begin testing the Soul Spirit partnership, then secretly took Snow Empress to meet Di Tian. Snow Empress agreed to involve the Far North, and Di Tian revealed a dying Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that could become Zhang Lexuan’s ninth Soul Spirit, while Lin Yan asked him to capture the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

• Lin Yan led Shrek Academy’s group to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Scarlet King accepted their request and took a list of students needing Spirit Rings to find suitable Soul Beasts.
• Lin Yan secretly brought Snow Empress into the forest and met Di Tian at the Lake of Life, where Snow Empress revealed her identity and explained that she had transformed to seek a path to godhood.
• After Di Tian vouched for the Soul Spirit method, Snow Empress agreed that the Far North would participate in the plan.
• Lin Yan asked Di Tian for a dying Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast to provide Zhang Lexuan’s ninth Spirit Ring, and Di Tian offered one fatally wounded by the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Lin Yan asked Di Tian to capture the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger so its Spirit Ring could be used, and Di Tian agreed.

Lin Yan brought Zhang Lexuan and the Shrek group to a secluded valley, where Di Tian and Bi Ji had gathered Soul Beasts for the Soul Spirit method. Zhang Lexuan accepted the dying Nine-Tailed Sky Fox as her Soul Spirit, gained a Hundred-Thousand-Year ninth Spirit Ring and a head Spirit Bone, and rose to Soul Power level ninety-two.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked Lin Yan to stay and play, but he declined and left the Core Zone with Snow Empress.
• Scarlet King led Lin Yan and the Shrek group to a secluded valley, where Di Tian and Bi Ji had gathered about fifty aged Soul Beasts for the Soul Spirit method.
• Bi Ji introduced the badly injured Nine-Tailed Sky Fox, and Zhang Lexuan agreed to become her host after promising to avenge her against the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Lin Yan performed the Soul Spirit fusion, and the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox became Zhang Lexuan's ninth Spirit Ring after an hour and a half.
• Zhang Lexuan received a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and a head Spirit Bone, gained two Soul Power levels, and reached level ninety-two.

Zhang Lexuan, Lei Ze, and Shrek Academy’s students completed their Soul Spirit fusions in the Star Dou Great Forest, though three Outer Court fusions went wrong. As the group headed back to Shrek Academy, Song Lao arrived with urgent news that the academy had been attacked.

• Zhang Lexuan obtained a Nine-Tailed Sky Fox Soul Spirit and entrusted Lin Yan with choosing her Titled Douluo title.
• Lei Ze, Ye Xiao, and Ling Luochen successfully fused with their chosen Soul Spirits, and Lei Ze absorbed a torso Spirit Bone that raised his Soul Power to level eighty-three.
• Xu Sanshi, Bei Bei, Jiang Nannan, and Ning Tian obtained Soul Spirits, leaving all Inner Court students with Spirit Rings.
• During the Outer Court fusions, three Thousand-Year Soul Beasts lost control, but Lin Yan killed them before any students were hurt.
• After a day and a half, the group finished the Soul Spirit ritual, discussed Soul Spirits with Di Tian, and left the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Song Lao intercepted the returning group and told them Shrek Academy had been attacked.