Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan fought Zhongli Wu, a level ninety-eight Peak Super Douluo, but struggled to overcome his greater cultivation even with the advantage of his Great Buddha Martial Soul. Zhongli Wu unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and Death Demon Scythe, leaving Lin Yan battered and aware that he would need a major leap in strength to defeat him.

• Zhongli Wu blocked Lin Yan's Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Skill with Reaper's Protection, then blasted him back with the power of his Spirit Bone, but Lin Yan's defenses prevented injury.
• Lin Yan used Heavenly Demon Subjugation, and Zhongli Wu swallowed the golden beam with a ghost head before their attacks destroyed each other.
• Zhongli Wu unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and transformed his staff into the Death Demon Scythe, then opened a spatial rift filled with thousands of ghosts.
• Lin Yan activated Three Thousand Buddha Realms and purified many of the ghosts, while Zhongli Wu used his own domain to resist its effects.
• Zhongli Wu struck Lin Yan with the scythe and sent him flying, but Lin Yan's defenses and Life's Blade helped him recover as he realized he could not suppress Zhongli Wu at his current cultivation.

Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan used a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to severely injure Zhongli Wu and turn the battle in their favor. Long Xiaoyao withdrew with Zhongli Wu, leaving Lin Yan and his allies relieved but aware the conflict would continue.

• Lin Yan realized he could not defeat Zhongli Wu alone and called on Zhang Lexuan to help him use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Du Busi and Xuan Zi fought Long Xiaoyao above the clouds while Zhongli Wu attacked Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan.
• Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan fused into a giant Great Buddha and struck Zhongli Wu with a powerful golden and moon-white sphere of light.
• Long Xiaoyao rescued the badly injured Zhongli Wu from the energy storm, and Du Busi praised Lin Yan's hidden trump card.
• Long Xiaoyao ended the fight and departed with Zhongli Wu, warning that their conflict would be settled another day.

After a year of seclusion, Lin Yan reached Rank 89 and prepared to condense a Second Soul Core so he could become a Titled Douluo. He chose the dangerous Yin-Yang Complementary Cultivation Method, which could also allow him to condense a Third Soul Core and eventually reach Limit Douluo.

• After Long Xiaoyao and Zhongli Wu withdrew, Lin Yan, Du Busi, and Elder Xuan returned safely to Shrek City, where the groups parted ways.
• Lin Yan rested with his family, then entered seclusion while Zhang Lexuan handled negotiations with factions interested in Soul Spirits.
• Over the next year, the Spirit Pagoda grew rapidly as factions joined it and the Star Luo Empire, Heaven Dou Empire, Nine Treasure Glazed Sect, and Sky Dragon Sect offered support.
• Lin Yan advanced to Rank 89, but realized that reaching the Titled Douluo realm required him to condense a Second Soul Core.
• Lin Yan chose the Yin-Yang Complementary Cultivation Method because it offered a path to a Third Soul Core, despite being more difficult and dangerous.

Lin Yan condensed his Second Soul Core during a month of seclusion, raising his Soul Power to rank ninety and approaching the realm of a Titled Douluo. He emerged from Sea God Pavilion having gained experience that might help Xuan Zi pursue the Limit Douluo realm.

• Lin Yan chose to place his Second Soul Core in his chest and relied on the Golden Ancient Tree to guide his breakthrough.
• Zhang Lexuan told Shrek's senior elders not to disturb Lin Yan while he cultivated in seclusion.
• After a month, Xue Shuanghen noticed golden clouds of origin energy covering nearly half of Shrek City.
• Lin Yan emerged from Sea God Pavilion, and Xuan Zi realized Lin Yan had reached a deeper state of Unity of Heaven and Man than he had.
• Lin Yan told Xuan Zi that condensing his Second Soul Core had raised his Soul Power from rank eighty-nine to rank ninety, and offered to share what he had learned.

After stabilizing his Second Soul Core, Lin Yan prepared for the Thunder God trial and planned a journey to the Far North to seek a Spirit Pagoda alliance and help Ling Luochen obtain a Spirit Ring. He returned home to see his daughter before leaving the next day.

• Lin Yan stabilized his Second Soul Core, judged his strength greatly increased, and decided he needed a ninth Spirit Ring and a head Spirit Bone for the sixth Thunder God trial.
• Xue Shuanghen told Lin Yan she wanted to return to the Far North, and he agreed to accompany her to meet the Ice Empress about cooperating with the Spirit Pagoda.
• Lin Yan invited Ling Luochen to travel with him and find a suitable seventh Spirit Ring after learning she had reached rank seventy.
• Lin Yan returned to Shrek City, reunited with his two-year-old daughter Lin Yue, and told Lin Yueyao he would leave for the Far North the next day.

Lin Yan brought Xue Shuanghen and Ling Luochen to the Far North, where they flew toward Snow Woman Peak despite Ling Luochen's warning that it was the Snow Empress's territory. As they approached the summit, Lin Yan sensed the Ice Empress, and a freezing beam shot toward them.

• Lin Yan flew north with Xue Shuanghen and Ling Luochen, and Xue Shuanghen said there were no Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts near death in the Far North.
• The three reached the Far North and heard injured travelers say that a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had appeared near the outskirts.
• Xue Shuanghen guided Lin Yan and Ling Luochen to Snow Woman Peak, and Ling Luochen warned that the Snow Empress ruled the area.
• Lin Yan brought both women toward the summit, where he sensed the Ice Empress in the form of a jade-green scorpion.
• An ice-blue beam shot from the mountaintop toward Lin Yan and the two women, freezing everything in its path.

Lin Yan and his companions reached Snow Woman Peak, where he repelled the Ice Empress’s attack and revealed that Xue Shuanghen was the Snow Empress. After reuniting with Xue Shuanghen, the Ice Empress remained wary of Lin Yan but agreed to let them stay for several days.

• The Ice Empress attacked Lin Yan with her Ice Emperor’s Wrath and Eternal Frozen Domain, but Lin Yan countered both with his power and the Heavenly Human Realm.
• Lin Yan let Xue Shuanghen reveal her aura, drawing the Ice Empress out and reuniting her with the Snow Empress.
• Ling Luochen learned that Xue Shuanghen was the Snow Empress, and Lin Yan asked her to keep the secret.
• At the Snow Empress’s ice palace, the Ice Empress questioned Lin Yan’s motives, then accepted his explanation that he would not seize Xue Shuanghen’s Spirit Rings or Spirit Bones.
• Xue Shuanghen agreed to stay with the Ice Empress for several days.

Lin Yan brought the Snow Empress back to the Far North and persuaded the Ice Empress to consider the Spirit Pagoda’s Soul Spirit method. While the group searched for a suitable Spirit Ring for Ling Luochen, they discovered a hundred-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which Lin Yan intended to claim as his ninth Spirit Ring.

• The Snow Empress explained the Soul Spirit method to the Ice Empress, who agreed to visit Shrek City and see the Spirit Pagoda for herself.
• Lin Yan, Ling Luochen, the Snow Empress, and the Ice Empress left Snow Woman Peak to search for a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast near the end of its lifespan.
• The Ice Empress revealed that she had sent Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts into the Far North’s Outer Zone to hunt humans after the Snow Empress disappeared.
• The group sensed an evil aura in the Core Zone, and Lin Yan recognized it as the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger he had encountered twice before.
• Lin Yan confirmed that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had reached a hundred thousand years of cultivation and said he planned to make it his ninth Spirit Ring.

Lin Yan defeated and killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, then proposed turning the dying Skyfrost Dragon Python into a Soul Spirit for Ling Luochen. The Skyfrost Dragon Python agreed, leaving Lin Yan ready to begin the experiment.

• The Ice Empress intervened to protect the badly wounded Skyfrost Dragon Python, while Lin Yan blocked the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger from escaping.
• Lin Yan severed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's scorpion tail, suppressed it with his domains and vines, and killed it with Heavenly Demon Subjugation.
• A hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring appeared, and the Skyfrost Dragon Python collapsed from its injuries and told the Ice Empress it could not survive.
• Lin Yan proposed using the dying Skyfrost Dragon Python to test Soul Spirits for Ling Luochen, and the Ice Empress agreed if the beast consented.
• Lin Yan demonstrated his Soul Spirits to persuade the Skyfrost Dragon Python, which agreed to become one.

Lin Yan absorbed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s ninth Spirit Ring, purified its Evil God Orb to advance his Golden Body and gain a Demon-Subduing Pestle, then prepared Ling Luochen to fuse with the Skyfrost Dragon Python as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit. The ritual began, with Lin Yan protecting the python’s consciousness as its sacrifice proceeded.

• Lin Yan entered the Divine Trial Grounds, captured and sealed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Evil God Orb, then absorbed its Spirit Ring and reached level ninety-two.
• Lin Yan purified the Evil God Orb, advanced his Golden Body to Four-Zhang, and gained the ability to summon a Demon-Subduing Pestle.
• Lin Yan returned to the Far North and gave Ling Luochen a Terror Demon Dragon Head Spirit Bone to strengthen her spiritual power.
• Ling Luochen absorbed the Spirit Bone, and Lin Yan began the ritual to turn the Skyfrost Dragon Python into her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit.
• The Skyfrost Dragon Python began its sacrifice as Lin Yan used his spiritual power to protect its consciousness.

Ling Luochen fused with Skyfrost Dragon Python’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, became a Soul Sage, and confessed her feelings to Lin Yan, who accepted her. The group then traveled with Ice Empress to the depths of the Far North Ice Sea to seek an alliance with the Sea Princess clan.

• Ling Luochen completed her fusion with Skyfrost Dragon Python’s Spirit Ring, broke through to Soul Sage, and received its Hundred-Thousand-Year Torso Spirit Bone.
• Ice Empress approved Lin Yan’s plan to cooperate with aging Soul Beasts, and Xue Shuanghen agreed to guide the group to the Sea Princess clan in the Ice Sea.
• Ling Luochen confessed that she had long loved Lin Yan, and he accepted her and brought her into his arms.
• After spending the night together, Lin Yan restored Ling Luochen’s strength with Life’s Blade, and the pair joined Xue Shuanghen and Ice Empress to set out for the Ice Sea.
• Lin Yan and the group crossed the Ice Sea without incident and reached its depths, where they hoped to meet the Sea Princess.

Lin Yan discovered that impostors had lured Princess Liya and more than a thousand endangered Sea Soul Beasts away from the Ice Sea in the Spirit Pagoda's name. He and the Sea Princess rushed after them, but the group walked into a trap where Sun Moon Empire soldiers opened fire.

• Lin Yan summoned the Sea Princess by unleashing his power over the Ice Sea, then introduced her to the Ice Empress and Xue Shuanghen, who revealed that she was the Snow Empress and that Lin Yan was her teacher.
• Lin Yan invited the Sea Princess's Sea Soul Beasts to join the Spirit Pagoda, but learned that someone posing as its representative had already taken Princess Liya and endangered Sea Soul Beasts away.
• After the Sea Princess explained what had happened, Lin Yan realized Holy Spirit Cult members were likely impersonating the Spirit Pagoda and led the group to pursue Liya.
• Liya led more than a thousand Sea Soul Beasts through a river toward Dongyang City, trusting the black-cloaked guides who had deceived her.
• Sun Moon Empire soldiers appeared along the narrow river channel and fired hundreds of soul cannons at Liya and the Sea Soul Beasts.

Liya and the Sea Soul Beasts were caught in a Holy Spirit Cult ambush, and Lin Yan arrived just as she was close to defeat. He confronted the cult elders, who revealed their powers as the Ten-Thousand Souls Douluo and the Abomination Douluo.

• The Sun Moon Empire soldiers bombarded Liya and over a thousand Sea Soul Beasts in the narrow river, while a Level-Nine Soul Tool blocked their retreat and killed many of them.
• Liya rallied the Sea Soul Beasts and attacked the soldiers, but the Dark Panther Emperor ambushed her and the Ten-Thousand Souls Douluo unleashed vengeful spirits against her and the survivors.
• A sacred golden light dispelled the evil qi in Liya and weakened the Beast Souls, while roots rose from the riverbanks and strangled the Sun Moon Empire soldiers.
• Lin Yan arrived, introduced himself to Liya, and intercepted the Ten-Thousand Souls Douluo and his companion as they tried to flee.
• The Ten-Thousand Souls Douluo attacked with his enlarged Ten-Thousand Souls Banner, while his companion transformed into an undead Abomination and revealed himself as the Abomination Douluo.

Lin Yan defeated the two Evil Soul Master Titled Douluo, purified their resentful spirits, and rescued Liya and the surviving Sea Soul Beasts. After collecting the enemies’ weapons, he traveled with the Sea Princess’s group to the Mermaid homeland, where the Sea Princess presented him with a mysterious gift that Lin Yan suspected was a Spirit Bone.

• Lin Yan used the Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle to pierce the Abomination Douluo’s shield and kill him, then purified the Ten-Thousand Souls Douluo’s spirits and killed the fleeing Evil Soul Master.
• Lin Yan absorbed Merit that advanced his Golden Body and collected the Soul Tool cannons left at the battlefield.
• Lin Yan healed Liya, and she told the Sea Princess that he had saved her; the Sea Princess agreed to cooperate with him.
• The Sea Princess led Lin Yan, Liya, and Ling Luochen to the Mermaid homeland beneath the Ice Sea, where they met Li Jing.
• The Sea Princess returned with a solemnly presented gift, and Lin Yan asked whether it was a Spirit Bone.

Lin Yan accepted the Sea Princess's four-hundred-thousand-year Mermaid Skull, completed the sixth Thunder God trial, and advanced to rank ninety-three. He began the seventh trial by fighting Xiao Jiu, who could command the Lightning Sea, and their battle ended with Lin Yan trapping and weakening her nine-headed thunder python form.

• The Sea Princess gave Lin Yan her ancestor's four-hundred-thousand-year head spirit bone, and he agreed to establish a Spirit Pagoda branch near the Far North Ice Sea for Sea Soul Beasts.
• After spending three days in the mermaid territory, Lin Yan returned to the Snow Palace and fused with the Mermaid Skull after sharing time alone with Ling Luochen.
• Lin Yan completed the sixth Thunder God trial, gained a rank of Soul Power and other rewards, and learned that his seventh trial required him to defeat Xiao Jiu within one year.
• At the Divine Trial Grounds, Xiao Jiu revealed that she could draw on the Lightning Sea's power while Lin Yan could not, then launched a powerful attack with her nine-headed thunder python form.
• Lin Yan countered Xiao Jiu's lightning and charged at her, but she intercepted him with her tail; he then combined Thunder God's Blessing and Thunder Wave to trap and weaken her in a massive lightning sphere.

Lin Yan completed the seventh Thunder God trial by defeating Xiao Jiu, then learned that his eighth trial required him to reach rank ninety-nine Soul Power. He brought Ling Luochen to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to obtain Extreme Attribute essences, forcing the immortal herbs to comply.

• Lin Yan severed Xiao Jiu's connection to the Lightning Sea and defeated her with Dark Demon Evil God Thunder, completing the seventh trial and increasing his Soul Power and Thunder God affinity.
• Lin Yan learned that the eighth trial required him to reach rank ninety-nine Soul Power, with no time limit.
• Lin Yan left the Far North with Ling Luochen and Xue Shuanghen after agreeing to protect Snow Empress as a condition of the Soul Spirit cooperation.
• Lin Yan told Ling Luochen he would give her an Extreme Attribute and brought her to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Youyou and the other hundred-thousand-year immortal herbs resisted Lin Yan's request, but he overpowered them and demanded the essences of the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.
• The Infernal Delicate Apricot finally agreed to give Lin Yan its Blazing Gum.

Lin Yan collected treasures from the Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and helped Ling Luochеn begin transforming her ice-element Martial Soul into Ultimate Ice. He then entered the Ice Spring and discovered what appeared to be the Ice Dragon King’s burial ground, where the Dragon King’s enormous body still lay intact.

• Lin Yan took Blazing Gum from Infernal Delicate Apricot and Frost Ice Dew from Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, then gave the Frost Ice Dew to Ling Luochеn to fuse.
• Ling Luochеn began absorbing the Frost Ice Dew while Lin Yan gathered spiritual fruits and a Holy Light Blazing Sunflower seed for his companions.
• Lin Yan told Xue Shuanghen that he planned to explore the Ice Spring, then entered it protected by his soul-bone skills and Four-Zhang Golden Body.
• Lin Yan asked Electrolux to search the Ice Spring with his divine perception, and Electrolux guided him to an ice-blue light curtain filled with divine power and dragon's might.
• Lin Yan passed through the light curtain and found a vast icy cave containing the seemingly intact body of the Ice Dragon King.

Lin Yan explored the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, captured an intelligent Dragon Ball from the Ice Dragon King's burial ground, and failed to obtain treasures from the Fire Dragon King's corpse. He returned to Xue Shuanghen and revealed that he had acquired a God-Rank Dragon Ball.

• Lin Yan approached the Ice Dragon King's corpse, defeated the dragon-shaped light that attacked him, and discovered it had transformed into a Dragon Ball.
• The Dragon Ball evaded Lin Yan until Electrolux determined it had developed a trace of intelligence, and Lin Yan caught and sealed it with Electrolux's help.
• Lin Yan found no other treasure near the Ice Dragon King's corpse, was injured when he touched it, and learned from Electrolux that they could not take the corpse away.
• Lin Yan entered the Sun Spring and found the Fire Dragon King's burial ground, but he could not retrieve its Dragon Ball or find any other treasure.
• Xue Shuanghen worried about Lin Yan while he was gone, and Lin Yan returned and revealed the sealed God-Rank Dragon Ball from the Ice Dragon King.

Lin Yan helped Ling Luochen absorb Frost Ice Dew, giving her an Extreme Attribute, then returned with her to Shrek City and introduced her to the women in his life. He also discussed family and Spirit Pagoda plans before offering Ye Guyi an Immortal Herb, whose aura captivated her.

• Xue Shuanghen warned Lin Yan that Di Tian might demand the Ice Dragon King’s remains, but Lin Yan said he could protect himself.
• Ling Luochen successfully fused with Frost Ice Dew, reached Rank 76, and tested her strength against Lin Yan, who stopped her horned ice python by opening a spatial rift.
• Lin Yan, Xue Shuanghen, and Ling Luochen returned to Shrek City, where Lin Yan introduced Ling Luochen to the women in his household.
• Lin Yan gave Zhang Lexuan Red Jade Spirit Fruits for their daughter and discussed establishing a Spirit Pagoda Branch in the Far North.
• Lin Yan visited Ye Guyi, then revealed an Immortal Herb from the Holy Light Blazing Sunflower, captivating her with its aura.

Ye Guyi absorbed the Holy Light Blazing Sunflower, evolved her Angel Martial Soul into the Six-Winged Seraph, and reached Soul Sage. Lin Yan then tried to absorb the Ice Dragon King's Dragon Ball, but its hidden intelligence resisted him, so he turned to Di Xinyu for help.

• Lin Yan gave Ye Guyi the Holy Light Blazing Sunflower, and she absorbed it while he cultivated nearby.
• Ye Guyi's Soul Power rose to level seventy, and her Martial Soul evolved into the Six-Winged Seraph; she chose to stay with Lin Yan rather than pursue becoming the Holy Court's Grand Elder.
• Lin Yan decided to use the Ice Dragon King's Dragon Ball to accelerate his cultivation, but its intelligence resisted absorption and refused to answer their attempts at communication.
• Lin Yan summoned the Desolate Heaven Thunder Dragon Soul Spirit to communicate with the Dragon Ball, but its Dragon King pressure overwhelmed the Soul Spirit.
• Lin Yan asked Wu Feng to try using her Red Dragon Martial Soul, but the Dragon Ball did not react to her either.
• Lin Yan sought out Di Xinyu, hoping her Three-Eyed Golden Lion's Golden Dragon bloodline could earn the Dragon Ball's recognition.