Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan learned from Qian Huanyi that his father had died during a Divine Trial and that his mother might still be alive at the inheritance grounds beneath the sea. He agreed to wait for the fog to reveal the route, while Ye Guyi insisted on joining him, and the pair went to her home.

• Qian Huanyi recognized Lin Yan’s Martial Souls as resembling his parents’ and revealed that his father had died while attempting to inherit a Divine Position.
• Qian Huanyi explained that Lin Yueyao had also sought the inheritance grounds, but she did not know whether Lin Yan’s mother had survived the trial.
• Qian Huanyi told Lin Yan the grounds lay beneath the waters and could only be reached when mysterious fog appeared, so Lin Yan agreed to wait.
• Ye Guyi insisted on accompanying Lin Yan despite the danger, and he accepted her decision.
• Lin Yan and Ye Guyi visited her home, where Ye Guyi introduced him to her mother as her boyfriend.

Lin Yan visited Ye Guyi’s family, won over Ye Cheng by giving him a Spirit Bone, and faced suspicion from Ye Guyi’s father, Ye Tianxing. Ye Tianxing challenged Lin Yan to withstand three moves, and their test began outside the house.

• Ye Cheng questioned Lin Yan about his cultivation, then accepted a twenty-thousand-year Spirit Bone and called him brother-in-law.
• Ye Cheng absorbed the Spirit Bone, revealed his Golden Crocodile Martial Soul, and broke through to rank fifty.
• Ye Tianxing returned home, objected to Lin Yan’s presence until Ye Guyi explained the Grand Elder had permitted it, then questioned whether Lin Yan was worthy of his daughter.
• Ye Tianxing demanded that Lin Yan take three moves from him to prove he could protect Ye Guyi, and Lin Yan agreed.
• Lin Yan vanished and appeared on the grass ahead of Ye Tianxing, who launched the first strike with his palm.

Lin Yan proved his overwhelming strength by defeating Ye Tianxing in a sparring match at Ye Guyi’s home, then stayed there for a month while waiting for the sea fog to return. Qian Huanyi brought him to the shore, where Lin Yan learned how to locate the Divine Trial Grounds and discovered that its inheritance had been left by the Demon God.

• Lin Yan easily stopped Ye Tianxing’s opening strike, then revealed his eight Spirit Rings, including four Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings, and his Black Demon Mace Martial Soul.
• Ye Tianxing used his Martial Soul Avatar and strongest attack, but Lin Yan’s Thunderous Bagua shattered the Golden Crocodile King phantom and sent him flying.
• Elder Wang arrived after the clash, learned that Lin Yan was Ye Tianxing’s son-in-law, and left after Lin Yan said several Titled Douluo had died at his hands.
• Ye Tianxing confirmed that Lin Yan wielded Ultimate Lightning, welcomed him into the family home, and Lin Yan stayed there for a month.
• When the sea fog appeared again, Qian Huanyi brought Lin Yan to the beach and explained that he had to use Unity of Heaven and Man to sense the route through the fog to the Divine Trial Grounds.
• Qian Huanyi told Lin Yan that the inheritance at the Divine Trial Grounds had been left by the Demon God.

Lin Yan entered the Demon God's Divine Trial Grounds to search for his missing mother, Lin Yueyao. After locating the inheritance site, he found her alive, and they reunited.

• Qian Huanyi warned Lin Yan that no one who had entered the Divine Trial Grounds had returned, but Lin Yan resolved to go inside and asked her to reassure Gu Yi.
• Lin Yan used the divine power in the mist to find the entrance, tested it with a Death Knight, and then entered the Divine Trial Grounds alone.
• Lin Yan explored the forest, read the memories of a captured blood-red flood dragon, and learned where the Demon God's inheritance lay.
• Lin Yan reached a valley guarded by a flight-ban domain and found Lin Yueyao sitting near a nine-story pagoda.
• Lin Yan and Lin Yueyao recognized each other, and she rushed to embrace him.

Lin Yan reunited with Lin Yueyao in the Divine Trial Grounds and learned that the Sky Demon Tower offered a way for them to escape. After revealing his strength and his Thunder God Divine Position, he proposed that the tower’s guardian let them leave in exchange for finding it an inheritor.

• Lin Yueyao explained that she had been trapped for ten years without activating the Divine Trial, and that they could escape by earning the Divine Position’s recognition or clearing the nine-floor Sky Demon Tower.
• Lin Yueyao described the tower’s escalating trials, which required challengers to defeat increasing numbers of powerful opponents matched to their cultivation.
• Lin Yan revealed his eight Spirit Rings, including four Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings, and proposed that he and Lin Yueyao challenge the tower together.
• The face on the tower’s gate appeared and identified itself as the intelligence overseeing the inheritance, then offered Lin Yan a chance to seek the Demon God’s recognition.
• Lin Yan revealed that he already possessed the Thunder God Divine Position, and the tower’s guardian lamented that the Thunder God had claimed him first.
• Lin Yan offered to find a suitable inheritor for the Demon God if the guardian let him and Lin Yueyao leave.

Lin Yan entered the Sky Demon Tower in place of his mother, Lin Yueyao, and fought through increasingly difficult trials. After defeating a coordinated team of twelve Spirit Douluo on the sixth floor, he overcame the seventh floor but faced a Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill on the eighth.

• Lin Yan persuaded the divine envoy to let Lin Yueyao leave while he took her place in the Sky Demon Tower, despite being warned that his trial difficulty would double.
• Lin Yan defeated the first floor’s Fire Dragon and Shadow Mantis Spirit Douluo puppets, then quickly cleared the next floors and reached the sixth.
• On the sixth floor, Lin Yan destroyed the support puppet first, then used his Thunder God Domain and Chidori Stream to defeat the other eleven Spirit Douluo puppets.
• Lin Yueyao watched Lin Yan’s progress as the divine envoy increased the difficulty within the tower’s rules, giving the seventh-floor team a spatial-attribute counter to Lin Yan’s Space Movement.
• Lin Yan struggled through the seventh-floor trial and won, then was struck by the eighth floor’s Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill and prepared to counter it with his Martial Soul Avatar and Heavenly Dragon Golden Body.

Lin Yan cleared the Sky Demon Tower’s ninth level, earned a Divine-Gift Spirit Ring, and escaped the Demon God’s Divine Trial Grounds with Lin Yueyao. Back at the Holy Court, he reunited with Ye Guyi and revealed that he had inherited the Thunder God’s Divine Position, promising to help revive the Angel God and his father if he became a god.

• Lin Yan used Golden Tyrant Body and Golden Immortal Armor to defeat the Sky Demon Tower’s puppets and clear its ninth level, then received a Divine-Gift Spirit Ring.
• Lin Yan and Lin Yueyao left the Demon God’s Divine Trial Grounds after the human-faced divine envoy opened the gate, and Lin Yan guided them through the mist to the Holy Court.
• Ye Guyi reunited with Lin Yan, tearfully scolded him for leaving without her, and met Lin Yueyao, who welcomed her as Lin Yan’s daughter-in-law.
• Lin Yueyao met Qian Huanyi, and Lin Yan explained how they had escaped the secret realm and disclosed that he had already inherited the Thunder God’s Divine Position.
• Lin Yan promised Qian Huanyi he would seek a way to revive the Angel God if possible, and told Lin Yueyao he would try to revive his father after becoming a god.

Lin Yan completed the fifth Thunder God trial, gained a three-hundred-thousand-year seventh spirit ring, and reunited his mother with his grandmother before returning to Shrek Academy. Elder Xuan told him Zhang Lexuan had been looking for him, leaving Lin Yan concerned about what had happened.

• Lin Yan learned the sixth trial required him to become a Titled Douluo and obtain a complete set of Spirit Bones within three years, then absorbed a Divine-Gift Spirit Ring that became a three-hundred-thousand-year ring for his Great Buddha Martial Soul.
• Lin Yan told Ye Guyi that he had several other girlfriends, and she gave him a black eye before he left wearing sunglasses the next morning.
• Two months later, Lin Yan returned to the continent with Lin Yueyao and Ye Guyi and brought his mother to reunite with Lin Yuhuan in Nine Treasure City.
• Lin Yueyao decided to live in Shrek City, and Lin Yan took her and Ye Guyi there before returning alone to Shrek Academy.
• Elder Xuan told Lin Yan that Zhang Lexuan wanted to see him, and Lin Yan hurried to find out what had happened.

Lin Yan returned to Shrek City and learned that Zhang Lexuan was eight months pregnant with his child, then reunited with his other companions and introduced them to his mother. The chapter left Lin Yueyao welcoming the women and offering to care for Zhang Lexuan until she gave birth.

• Lin Yan used Space Movement to reach Zhang Lexuan, discovered her pregnancy, and reunited with her after six months away.
• Lin Yan visited Snow Empress and asked her to act as an intermediary so he could bring sea Soul Beasts into the Spirit Pagoda system, and she agreed.
• Jiang Nannan told Lin Yan that Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya had gone to the Evil Demon Forest to find a Spirit Ring for Huo Yuhao, accompanied by an elder.
• Lin Yan reunited with Jiang Nannan, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian, learned Wu Feng had reached the Soul King realm, and promised to help her contract a Soul Spirit.
• Lin Yan brought Zhang Lexuan, Jiang Nannan, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng to meet Lin Yueyao, who was shocked to learn Zhang Lexuan was eight months pregnant and offered to care for her.

Lin Yan prepared to establish the Spirit Pagoda and went to the Star Dou Great Forest to arrange Soul Beast support and find a Soul Spirit for Wu Feng. There, he discovered the Emperor Auspicious Beast had taken human form, agreed to protect her as she entered the human world, and learned she would use the name Di Xinyu.

• Lin Yan introduced Ye Guyi to his mother and the other girls, and Jiang Nannan helped ease the awkward meeting.
• Lin Yan told Yan Shaozhe he planned to establish the Spirit Pagoda, and they discussed land, spiritual-attribute Soul Masters, and growing interest in Soul Spirits.
• Lin Yan took Wu Feng to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Scarlet King led him to the Lake of Life while Wu Feng waited outside.
• Lin Yan met Di Tian and discussed gathering Soul Beasts from the Star Dou Great Forest, the Far North, and the sea for the Spirit Pagoda.
• Di Tian entrusted the human-form Emperor Auspicious Beast to Lin Yan, and she chose the name Di Xinyu before they left the Lake of Life.
• Lin Yan found Scarlet King waiting with a Ten-Thousand-Year Giant-Clawed Fire Armored Dragon as a potential Soul Spirit for Wu Feng.

Lin Yan helped Wu Feng obtain a Ten-Thousand-Year Giant-Clawed Fire Armor Dragon Soul Spirit, then introduced Di Xinyu, the Auspicious Beast in human form, to the Shrek Academy Inner Court. After securing Du Busi’s support for the Spirit Pagoda, Lin Yan arranged for Di Xinyu to join Shrek and warned Yan Shaozhe that her safety was crucial.

• Wu Feng formed a contract with the Giant-Clawed Fire Armor Dragon Soul Spirit, broke through to Rank 51, and challenged Di Xinyu, who defeated her with ease.
• Lin Yan took Wu Feng and Di Xinyu from the Star Dou Great Forest to the Body Sect, where Du Busi agreed to provide spiritual-attribute Soul Masters for Lin Yan’s Spirit Pagoda.
• Lin Yan brought Di Xinyu to Shrek Academy and asked Yan Shaozhe to assess her for Inner Court admission after revealing that her Martial Soul was the Golden Dragon.
• Di Xinyu defeated Dai Huabin in the Soul Fighting Arena, convincing Yan Shaozhe to admit her to the Inner Court.
• Lin Yan told Yan Shaozhe that Di Xinyu’s identity was special and that Shrek Academy had to guarantee her safety.

Lin Yan reached the Evil Demon Forest and rescued Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and Huo Yuhao from Zhang Peng’s attack. He took on Scorpion Tiger Douluo alone, revealed his extraordinary Spirit Rings, destroyed Zhang Peng’s Twelve Beast Envoys, and left the battle facing Zhang Peng’s black clouds of resentment.

• Lin Yan found Gong Changlong and the others being overwhelmed by Zhang Peng and his Beast Souls, then used lightning to free Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and Huo Yuhao.
• Lin Yan joined Gong Changlong in the sky and insisted on fighting Zhang Peng alone while Gong Changlong protected the others.
• Lin Yan revealed two gold and five red Spirit Rings, activated his Great Buddha Martial Soul Avatar, and matched Zhang Peng’s attacks with the Great Bodhisattva Palm.
• Lin Yan spread his Three Thousand Buddha Realms domain and purified Zhang Peng’s Twelve Beast Envoys, weakening Zhang Peng and advancing his Golden Body Power.
• Lin Yan blasted Zhang Peng away with the Great Bodhisattva Palm, and Zhang Peng answered by releasing black clouds filled with the resentment of slain Soul Beasts.

Lin Yan defeated and killed the Holy Spirit Cult’s Super Douluo Zhang Peng, then parted from Bei Bei and the others and traveled to Mingdu. He reunited with Meng Hongchen outside the Hongchen Family estate.

• Lin Yan used his Golden Body and Great Buddha abilities to counter Zhang Peng’s evil power and overpower him in battle.
• Zhang Peng tried to flee, but Lin Yan blocked his escape, wounded him with Heavenly Demon Subjugation, and suppressed him with the Golden Demon-Subduing Seal and his domain.
• Lin Yan purified Zhang Peng, absorbed Merit that advanced his Golden Body, and collected Zhang Peng’s storage ring and three Spirit Bones.
• The Holy Spirit Cult discovered that Zhang Peng’s Soul Tablet had shattered, marking the loss of another powerful Titled Douluo.
• After the group withdrew to safety, Lin Yan parted from Bei Bei and the others and headed alone to Mingdu.
• Meng Hongchen sensed Lin Yan’s communication Soul Tool, rushed out of the Hongchen Family estate, and found him waiting outside.

Lin Yan visited the Hongchen Family and asked Jing Hongchen to make him a Level-Nine Soul Tool, offering a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone as payment. He then urged Jing Hongchen to cooperate with him against the Sun Moon Empire’s alliance with the Holy Spirit Cult, leaving Jing to consider the dangerous proposal.

• Meng Hongchen brought Lin Yan to the Hongchen Family manor to meet her grandfather, Jing Hongchen.
• Xiao Hongchen encountered Lin Yan and learned that Lin Yan had become an Eight-Ring Spirit Douluo with four Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings.
• Lin Yan asked Jing Hongchen to craft an all-attribute staff using Elemental Mother Gold, and Jing agreed to finish it in half a month in exchange for a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Lin Yan revealed that he had killed Nether Lightning Douluo and offered the Nether Lightning Heart as payment, but Jing refused because possessing it could draw dangerous suspicion.
• After asking to speak privately, Lin Yan told Jing Hongchen about the Sun Moon Empire’s alliance with the Holy Spirit Cult and urged him to join Lin Yan’s side; Jing objected that he could not betray his country.

Lin Yan convinced Jing Hongchen to cooperate by revealing that he had inherited a divine position and could become a god, then received Jing’s completed Level-Nine staff Soul Tool. After learning Xu Tianran planned to use the next tournament to prepare for war, Lin Yan decided to cripple the Sun Moon Empire’s strongest Soul Engineer Corps to deter him.

• Lin Yan showed Jing Hongchen the Divine Trial Grounds and his Thunder God Mark, convincing him that he could become a god and reverse the balance of power.
• Jing Hongchen agreed to cooperate with Lin Yan to prevent large-scale war, on the condition that Lin Yan marry Meng Hongchen; Lin Yan agreed if Meng chose it, and she accepted.
• Jing Hongchen took the Elemental Mother Gold and Xiao Hongchen away, while Lin Yan stayed with Meng Hongchen in Mingdu during the half month it took Jing to build a Level-Nine staff Soul Tool.
• Jing Hongchen completed the staff Soul Tool, and Lin Yan called him Grandfather after confirming that Meng had agreed to marry him.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Yan that Xu Tianran planned to expand the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament to include sects and use it to eliminate rival nations’ young elites.
• Lin Yan proposed destroying one or two of the Sun Moon Empire’s five Beast King-class Soul Engineer Corps, the Protector’s Hand, to weaken Xu Tianran’s confidence and delay war.

Lin Yan returned from the Sun Moon Empire, arranged a plan to destroy a Beast King-class Soul Engineer Corps, and began founding the Spirit Pagoda in Shrek City. After training its first members, he welcomed his daughter, while Zhang Lexuan was safe after giving birth.

• Lin Yan and Jing Hongchen agreed that Jing Hongchen would arrange a suicide operative while Lin Yan prepared an explosive powerful enough to destroy a Beast King-class Soul Engineer Corps without exposing Jing Hongchen.
• Lin Yan returned to Shrek City, visited Zhang Lexuan, and told her he had killed Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng.
• Lin Yan met Yan Shaozhe and gathered twenty-five spiritual-attribute Soul Masters from Shrek Academy and the Body Sect to establish the Spirit Pagoda and teach them Soul Spirit contracts.
• Huo Yuhao and the other Soul Masters agreed to join the Spirit Pagoda, and Lin Yan began training them in the contract method.
• Zhang Lexuan gave birth to a girl, and Lin Yueyao assured Lin Yan that Zhang Lexuan was well.

After naming Zhang Lexuan and Lin Yan’s daughter Lin Yue, Lin Yan created three Ninth-Level Magic Scrolls with Electrolux and arranged with Jing Hongchen to use them against the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer Corps. He watched as the scrolls struck the Imperial Dragon and Evil Lord camps, where ghostly hands dragged away the engineers’ souls.

• Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan named their daughter Lin Yue.
• Lin Yan gathered materials from the Star Dou Great Forest and created three Ninth-Level Magic Scrolls, though an explosion injured him and forced him to leave.
• Lin Yan gave two scrolls to Jing Hongchen and agreed they would target the Imperial Dragon and Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps in Mingdu.
• After seven days in Mingdu, Lin Yan and Meng Hongchen heard two explosions; Lin Yan left to witness the attack and told her to stay behind.
• The scrolls’ magic opened fissures beneath both corps’ camps, where ghostly hands seized Soul Engineers’ souls and left their bodies as mummies.

Lin Yan and Jing Hongchen destroyed the Imperial Dragon and Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps, leaving Xu Tianran furious and prompting him to accuse the Holy Spirit Cult. Zhongli Wu denied the cult’s involvement and argued that someone had framed them, leaving the alliance between the empire and the cult under suspicion.

• Lin Yan and Jing Hongchen wiped out both Soul Engineer Corps, leaving only their commanders alive as experts including Jing Hongchen arrived at the camps.
• Jing Hongchen suggested the attack resembled the Holy Spirit Cult’s methods while secretly enjoying the suspicion it stirred.
• Xu Tianran learned that both corps had been destroyed and was shaken by the loss of two of the empire’s elite forces.
• Lin Yan returned to Hongchen Manor, told Meng Hongchen about the plot, and declined to use his Ninth-Level Magic Scroll against Xu Tianran because the palace defenses were too strong.
• Xu Tianran summoned Zhongli Wu and demanded an explanation, while Jing Hongchen accused the Holy Spirit Cult of carrying out the attack.
• Zhongli Wu denied the cult’s responsibility and claimed the attacker had framed them to undermine their cooperation with the Sun Moon Empire.

After the destruction of two Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineer Corps delayed Xu Tianran’s war plans, Lin Yan advanced his cultivation and prepared to represent the Spirit Pagoda in the expanded youth tournament in Mingdu. He assembled his team and arranged powerful escorts for the journey, while Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect prepared their own teams.

• Zhongli Wu denied that the Holy Spirit Cult was behind the explosions, and Xu Tianran ordered an investigation while warning that the cult would be punished if implicated.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Yan that Xu Tianran had postponed the war and lost trust in the Holy Spirit Cult; Lin Yan revealed that he had created the Magic Scroll to frame the cult.
• Half a year later, Lin Yan reached Rank 88, the Spirit Pagoda’s Soul Spirit inheritors improved their skills, and the tournament committee announced that sects could join the renamed All-Continent Youth Elite Soul Master Tournament in Mingdu.
• Lin Yan chose Jiang Nannan, Ning Tian, Di Xinyu, Wu Feng, Li Keke, and Xia Lei for the Spirit Pagoda team, then discussed the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy teams with Bei Bei and Yan Shaozhe.
• Lin Yan arranged for Elder Xuan and Zhang Lexuan to accompany the delegation and invited Body Sect Patriarch Du Busi to travel with them to Mingdu.

Lin Yan arrived in Mingdu with the Shrek Academy, Tang Sect, and Spirit Pagoda teams for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament and discussed the Spirit Pagoda’s future with Xu Jiujiu. Back at Mingyue Hotel, he confessed to Zhang Lexuan that he had a girlfriend in Mingdu and revealed that she was Meng Hongchen, granddaughter of Jing Hongchen.

• Lin Yan and the other teams arrived in Mingdu, registered for the tournament, and received ordinary accommodations for the Tang Sect and Spirit Pagoda teams.
• Xu Jiujiu met Lin Yan at the registration site and later invited him to discuss the Spirit Pagoda.
• Lin Yan explained Soul Spirits and the Spirit Pagoda to Xu Jiujiu, who agreed to discuss having the Star Luo Empire join the alliance after the tournament.
• Lin Yan returned to Mingyue Hotel and confessed to Zhang Lexuan that he had a girlfriend in Mingdu.
• Lin Yan revealed that his girlfriend was Meng Hongchen, granddaughter of Jing Hongchen, master of the Illustrious Virtue Hall.