Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan captured the consciousness inside the Ice Dragon King’s Dragon Ball with Di Xinyu’s help, then learned it might fill the Martial Soul Slot he had given Ning Tian. He reached Ning Tian and revealed that she could gain the Ice Dragon King as her Second Martial Soul.

• Lin Yan returned to Sea God Island, told Yan Shaozhe about recruiting the Far North and Ice Sea Soul Beasts for the Spirit Pagoda, and went to meet Di Xinyu.
• Lin Yan asked Di Xinyu to use her Golden Dragon Martial Soul to draw the Dragon Ball’s spirit out, and he trapped the miniature dragon with his Holy Necromancer Martial Soul.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm proposed using the dragon spirit to fill his Martial Soul Slot so Ning Tian could gain the Ice Dragon King as her Second Martial Soul.
• Lin Yan left Di Xinyu, promised to take her traveling after she became a Soul Sage, and went to the expanding Spirit Pagoda to find Ning Tian.
• Lin Yan told Ning Tian that an opportunity had arisen for her to obtain the Ice Dragon King as an Extreme Martial Soul, leaving her stunned.

Lin Yan helped Ning Tian fuse with the Dragon Spirit, giving her the Ice Dragon King as a Second Martial Soul and four blue-gold Spirit Rings. Back in Shrek City, Ning Tian tested her new strength against Wu Feng and froze Wu Feng’s arm with a single punch.

• Lin Yan, Electrolux, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm prepared Ning Tian and used the Dragon Ball’s power to help the Dragon Spirit mistake her for the Dragon Ball.
• After seven days of fusion, Ning Tian awoke with an Ice Dragon King Martial Soul, a Soul Spirit, and four blue-gold Spirit Rings, while her Soul Power rose from level sixty-six to level sixty-eight.
• Lin Yan returned to Shrek City with Ning Tian, who excitedly told Wu Feng that she had obtained a Second Martial Soul.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng entered the garden arena to spar, while Jiang Nannan and Lin Yan watched from the side.
• Ning Tian revealed the Ice Dragon King, whose roar and aura made Wu Feng’s Red Dragon Martial Soul feel fear and reverence.
• Wu Feng blocked Ning Tian’s punch, but the impact sent an intense chill through her arm and froze it.

Lin Yan discovered that the Azure Dragon Crown had evolved enough to let him transform into a true giant dragon, then encountered Bi Ji and Xiong Jun in the mountains. They mistook him for a real Azure Dragon until he greeted Bi Ji as an old acquaintance.

• Ning Tian defeated Wu Feng with her Ice Dragon King abilities, and Lin Yan rescued Wu Feng from the freezing breath before arranging for Di Xinyu to train Ning Tian.
• Lin Yan used the Dragon Ball to cultivate and strengthen his Azure Dragon Crown External Soul Bone over the next month.
• Lin Yan tested the upgraded Azure Dragon Crown and unlocked a full Dragon Transformation, destroying a mountain with a single strike.
• Bi Ji and Xiong Jun arrived, mistook Lin Yan for a powerful Azure Dragon, and discussed his unusual aura.
• Lin Yan flew above Bi Ji and Xiong Jun and greeted Bi Ji, surprising the two Soul Beast overlords.

Lin Yan met Bi Ji and Xiong Jun, the Star Dou Great Forest’s representatives, and prepared to host the Spirit Pagoda Conference while keeping Xiong Jun’s temper in check. As the conference began, Lin Yan reunited with Ning Xingzong and Lin Yuhuan and learned that the Sun Moon Empire was preparing for war.

• Lin Yan revealed that his Spirit Bone let him transform into an Azure Dragon, then escorted Bi Ji and Xiong Jun to the Spirit Pagoda and warned Xiong Jun not to cause trouble.
• Lin Yan asked Xuan Zi to keep an eye on Xiong Jun and agreed with Zhang Lexuan that he should attend the conference as Pagoda Master.
• Lin Yan explained the Spirit Pagoda parliament’s voting rules as representatives from nearly a hundred factions arrived.
• Ning Tian told Lin Yan that Ning Xingzong and Lin Yuhuan had come to Shrek City, and Lin Yan visited them with her.
• Ning Xingzong said the Sun Moon Empire was reorganizing its forces for war, and Lin Yan promised it would not easily annex the continent.
• Lin Yuhuan visited Lin Yan’s home, then returned to her duty protecting Ning Xingzong; the third Spirit Pagoda Conference began the next day.

At the Spirit Pagoda Conference, Bi Ji proposed limiting Soul Spirit supply and setting talent standards, and Lin Yan secured support by promising cooperation with the Far North and Ice Sea Soul Beasts. After the proposal passed, Xu Jiujiu sought Lin Yan’s help in an alliance against the Sun Moon Empire and agreed to meet his terms.

• Lin Yan attended the Spirit Pagoda Conference as Pagoda Master, where representatives including Xu Jiujiu, Bi Ji, and Xiong Jun gathered.
• Bi Ji proposed reducing the Star Dou Great Forest’s Soul Beast supply and prioritizing talented Soul Masters for Soul Spirit fusion.
• Lin Yan supported Bi Ji’s proposal, announced that the Far North and Ice Sea Soul Beasts would also cooperate with the Spirit Pagoda, and proposed standards based on Innate Soul Power.
• The conference approved the proposal, and Lin Yan met with Xu Jiujiu afterward.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Lin Yan to discuss an alliance against the Sun Moon Empire and said the Star Luo Empire would agree to any condition he named.

Lin Yan negotiated with the Far North Soul Beasts and chose a site for the Spirit Pagoda Branch, arranging for Ice Bear King Xiao Bai to guard it. As construction began, he took Ye Guyi to the Ice Sea to seek the Sea Princess’s help with her seventh Spirit Ring.

• Lin Yan brought Xue Shuanghen, Ning Tian, Di Xinyu, and Ye Guyi to Cold Jade City, where Ning Tian took charge of the branch construction preparations.
• Lin Yan let the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sense Ice Empress, then told him she had surpassed the four-hundred-thousand-year threshold and that Snow Empress had become human.
• Lin Yan, Xue Shuanghen, and Ice Empress chose a bay on the Far North’s western edge and Lin Yan carved an entrance through an ice mountain with his Azure Dragon form.
• Xue Shuanghen asked Ice Bear King Xiao Bai to relocate nearby Soul Beasts and guard the site, and he readily agreed.
• Lin Yan returned to Cold Jade City with Xue Shuanghen and Ice Empress, began construction with Ning Tian, and then took Ye Guyi to the Ice Sea to summon the Sea Princess.

Lin Yan helped Ye Guyi fuse with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Sun Starfish Soul Spirit, raising her cultivation to Rank 73 and granting her a head Spirit Bone. After learning that the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire had launched a surprise attack on the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect, Lin Yan rushed to Nine Treasure City with Ye Guyi as the battle turned against the sect.

• Liya led Lin Yan and Ye Guyi to the Sea Princess, who revealed that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Sun Starfish in the southern sea was near the end of its lifespan.
• The Sea Princess persuaded the Sun Starfish to accept the Soul Spirit ritual, and Ye Guyi fused with it, gaining a red Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, a head Spirit Bone, and three ranks of Soul Power.
• Song Lao informed Lin Yan that the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire were attacking the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect, so Lin Yan left for Nine Treasure City with Ye Guyi.
• The Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire brought eight Titled Douluo and twenty Spirit Douluo against the sect, whose five Titled Douluo initially gained the advantage through Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda support.
• An unidentified Evil Soul Master with a scythe interrupted Jian Feng's attack on Feng Ling and charged at Jian Feng, who countered with his ninth Soul Skill, Soul-Severing Spirit-Extinguishing Slash.

Lin Yan arrived at Nine Treasure City in time to stop Zhongli Wu from killing Jian Feng, then revealed that he had become a Titled Douluo. As Lin Yan and Zhongli Wu took their battle high above the city, a golden-winged Angel Martial Soul user struck the Netherworld Douluo and badly damaged his sword.

• Zhongli Wu's attack defeated Jian Feng, but Lin Yan arrived and drove Zhongli Wu back with a Thunder Dragon strike.
• Lin Yan reflected Zhongli Wu's slash with his Counterattack Hammer and revealed his nine Spirit Rings, shocking Zhongli Wu with his breakthrough to Titled Douluo.
• Zhongli Wu summoned a black Bone Dragon and unleashed his Death God Demon Puppet true form, while Lin Yan activated Tool Soul Avatar.
• Lin Yan flew ten thousand meters into the sky to fight Zhongli Wu away from Nine Treasure City, and the remaining fighters clashed below.
• A golden light ambushed the Netherworld Douluo as he fought Lin Yuhuan; the Angel Martial Soul user's Holy Sword damaged his Netherworld Sword and frightened him.

Ye Guyi and Lin Yuhuan killed the Netherworld Douluo and helped turn the battle around at the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect, while Lin Yan fought Zhongli Wu and his Bone Dragon King overhead. As Long Xiaoyao approached, Lin Yan struck the Bone Dragon King with the Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle, leaving its enormous body frozen in midair.

• Ye Guyi used Holy Sun Judgment and her Angel Domain to kill the Netherworld Douluo, then caught the Spirit Bones he left behind.
• Ye Guyi told Lin Yuhuan that she and Lin Yan had come to help, and the two joined forces against Feng Ling.
• Lin Yan broke through the Bone Dragon King's wind attacks and wounded it, forcing Zhongli Wu to use vengeful souls to heal it.
• Lin Yan overwhelmed Zhongli Wu and the Bone Dragon King as Long Xiaoyao approached to join the fight.
• Lin Yan sent the Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle through the Bone Dragon King's head wound, and the dragon froze in midair.

Lin Yan destroyed Zhongli Wu’s Bone Dragon King, advanced to a five-zhang Golden Body, and helped turn back the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire’s attack on the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect. After the enemies retreated, the sect began relocating its core members to Shrek City, while Lin Yan headed to the Far North with Ye Guyi and planned to seek help from the Holy Court’s Grand Elder.

• Lin Yan destroyed the Bone Dragon King, severely injuring Zhongli Wu and raising his Golden Body to five zhang.
• Long Xiaoyao aided Zhongli Wu and prepared to fight Lin Yan, but Xuan Zi arrived to support Lin Yan, prompting Long Xiaoyao to order a retreat.
• Yan Shaozhe and Zhang Lexuan helped the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect defeat the remaining attackers, and the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire escaped after suffering casualties.
• Lin Yan advised Ning Xingzong to move the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect’s core members to Shrek City, and Ning Xingzong agreed while leaving some members to guard Nine Treasure City.
• Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan agreed to organize a meeting at the Spirit Pagoda to unite factions against the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire.
• Lin Yan traveled with Ye Guyi toward the Far North and asked her to deliver a letter inviting Holy Light Douluo Qian Huanyi to help oppose their enemies.

After securing Shrek City and the Spirit Pagoda against the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire, Lin Yan persuaded the factions to form a Soul Master Alliance. He then negotiated for the Earth Dragon Sect’s Cold Spring and traveled with Nan Shuishui to Dragon City, where they encountered her daughter, Nan QiQiu.

• Lin Yan arranged for the Ice Empress and Sea Princess to protect the Spirit Pagoda branch, sent Ye Guyi to the Holy Court with a letter, and persuaded Du Busi to move the Body Sect’s elites to Shrek City.
• Lin Yan used the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect’s attack to alarm the Spirit Pagoda’s member factions, and their representatives agreed to form the Soul Master Alliance against the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire.
• Lin Yan privately met Nan Shuishui and offered her a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone and an extra Spirit Pagoda vote in exchange for the Earth Dragon Sect’s Cold Spring.
• After learning that the Cold Spring contained Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, Nan Shuishui agreed to hand it over, and Lin Yan accompanied her to Dragon City.
• At the Earth Dragon Sect, Nan QiQiu approached Nan Shuishui and recognized Lin Yan, who remembered seeing her at the Mingdu Tournament.

Lin Yan discovered a declining Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave and harvested all forty-five pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. He distributed the treasure to ice-attribute allies, and a month later Di Xinyu, Xue Shuanghen, and Ning Tian each reached Soul Power level seventy.

• Lin Yan descended through the Earth Dragon Sect's Cold Spring, opened the concealed entrance, and found Ice Pole Divine Crystals that he could not remove without Extreme Ice power.
• Lin Yan entered the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave, collected all forty-five pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, and gave Nan Shuishui a small piece before returning to Shrek City.
• Lin Yan gave Xue Shuanghen five pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and then gave five pieces each to Ling Luochen and Ning Tian.
• Lin Yan and Electrolux developed a magic array to let people without extreme ice attributes absorb the marrow's energy.
• Within a month, Di Xinyu, Xue Shuanghen, and Ning Tian each broke through to Soul Power level seventy.

Lin Yan sought seventh Spirit Rings for Xue Shuanghen, Di Xinyu, and Ning Tian at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, persuading two hundred-thousand-year Immortal Herbs to become Soul Spirits. Xue Shuanghen gained her seventh Spirit Ring, while Di Xinyu secured the Nine-Section Dragon Grass as her Soul Spirit.

• Lin Yan returned Youyou's Heart of Silk Beauty, then used his Thunder God Domain to subdue the Immortal Herbs and explain that becoming Soul Spirits would let them leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while retaining their consciousness.
• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass agreed to become a Soul Spirit, and Lin Yan chose it for Xue Shuanghen because its Ultimate Ice attribute suited her Snow Woman Martial Soul.
• Xue Shuanghen completed the Soul Spirit ritual, gained a right arm Spirit Bone, reached Soul Power level seventy-three, and lost her Soul Beast aura.
• Di Xinyu chose the hundred-thousand-year Nine-Section Dragon Grass for its pure dragon power, but it initially refused Lin Yan's offer.
• Di Xinyu released a mysterious golden-eye power that immobilized the plant-type Soul Beasts, prompting the Nine-Section Dragon Grass to agree to become her Soul Spirit.

Lin Yan persuaded the aging Frostbound Earth Dragon Emperor to become Ning Tian’s Soul Spirit, giving her a Hundred-Thousand-Year seventh Spirit Ring and raising her Soul Power to rank seventy-three. After reaching an agreement with the other Beast Kings, Lin Yan planned to target Evil Emperor and destroyed a Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineer regiment before leaving.

• Lin Yan led Ning Tian, Xue Shuanghen, and Di Xinyu to the Jingyang Mountains and discovered five Hundred-Thousand-Year Beast Kings on the main peak.
• Lin Yan explained the Soul Spirit method to the Beast Kings and persuaded the aging Frostbound Earth Dragon Emperor to become Ning Tian’s Soul Spirit after she revealed her Ice Dragon King Martial Soul.
• Ning Tian completed the ritual, gained her seventh Spirit Ring, and reached rank seventy-three, while the Frostbound Earth Dragon Emperor became her third Soul Spirit.
• The Silvermoon Wolf Emperor and the other Beast Kings agreed to cooperate with the Spirit Pagoda once Lin Yan resolved its strained relations with the Sun Moon Empire.
• Lin Yan considered finding a chance to eliminate Evil Emperor with Guyi and the ancestor’s help, then wiped out a Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineer regiment and looted its rare metals.

Lin Yan visited Meng Hongchen and Jing Hongchen in Mingdu, learned that the Sun Moon Empire was nearing war, and returned to Shrek City to organize preparations. As the empires’ rulers arrived for a meeting, Lin Yan paused his work crafting Ninth-Level Magic Scrolls to join them.

• Lin Yan reunited with Meng Hongchen, who told him she had become a Level-Eight Soul Engineer, and later admitted to Jing Hongchen that he had destroyed a Soul Engineer Corps in the Jingyang Mountains.
• Jing Hongchen warned Lin Yan that the Sun Moon Empire had completed its war preparations and might attack within one or two months; Lin Yan urged him to prepare an escape plan and decided against attempting to assassinate Xu Tianran.
• Lin Yan returned to Shrek City, told the Sea God Pavilion elders that war was imminent, and arranged to notify the Star Luo, Heaven Soul, and Dou Ling Empires.
• Lin Yan convened a Spirit Pagoda Conference for trusted major sects and began crafting Ninth-Level Magic Scrolls to counter the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tools.
• After crafting two Ninth-Level Magic Scrolls in a week, Lin Yan learned from Zhang Lexuan that the emperors of the Star Luo, Heaven Soul, and Dou Ling Empires had arrived in Shrek City and went to meet them.

Lin Yan secured the three empires’ cooperation against the Sun Moon Empire and learned that it would attack the Heaven Dou Empire in three days. Shrek Academy and its allies assembled twenty-eight Titled Douluo-level fighters to ambush the invading forces, while Song Lao and Cai Meier stayed behind to guard the academy.

• At a meeting with the three emperors, Lin Yan represented Shrek Academy, the Body Sect, and the Spirit Pagoda, negotiated cooperation, and obtained promises of materials for his countermeasures against Soul Tools.
• Lin Yan used the supplied materials to make fifteen Ninth-Level Magic Scrolls in fifty days, then received a secret message from Jing Hongchen naming the Sun Moon Empire’s attack date and targets.
• Lin Yan warned Jing Hongchen to prepare to leave the Sun Moon Empire and called a Sea God Pavilion meeting to plan a response to the imminent attack on the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Zhang Lexuan proposed leaving two elders to defend Shrek Academy, and the elders agreed that Song Lao and Cai Meier would remain while the others went to support the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Shrek Academy, the Body Sect, and the Nine Treasure Glazed Sect gathered their forces, assembling twenty-eight Titled Douluo or fighters of equivalent strength for the relief force.

Lin Yan’s coalition gathered at Glazed City, but the Sun Moon Empire launched its invasion before the allied reinforcements could join the fighting. As Moonfall City came under siege and the Heaven Dou Empire’s defenders were overwhelmed, a mysterious young man appeared on the battlefield and killed an Evil Soul Master.

• Lin Yan kept the allied forces near Glazed City until reinforcements from the Star Luo Empire, the Dou Ling Empire, and several sects arrived, bringing their total to forty Titled Douluo.
• The Sun Moon Empire crossed the border and sent its million-strong army toward Moonfall City, where Wang Zhen prepared the defenders for battle.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer legions attacked Moonfall City, and Mad Blade Douluo Ye Feng arrived with four other Titled Douluo to face the enemy’s five Titled Douluo.
• Five more Sun Moon Empire Titled Douluo joined the fighting, turning the battle decisively against Heaven Dou’s defenders as the city’s forces were outnumbered and outgunned.
• A young man appeared beside an Evil Soul Master collecting fallen soldiers’ souls, suppressed his Spirit Rings and Soul Power, and snapped his neck.

Lin Yan arrived during the Heaven Dou Empire’s battle against the Sun Moon Empire, killed Feng Ling, and confronted Zhongli Wu before Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui appeared. He revealed a powerful force of reinforcements, then began fighting Ye Xishui as the battle spread across the battlefield.

• Lin Yan appeared on the battlefield and killed Feng Ling with two punches, collecting her six Spirit Bones.
• Zhongli Wu confronted Lin Yan, and Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui arrived to support him.
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao tried to attack Lin Yan, but more than one hundred reinforcements arrived at his command.
• Lin Yan ordered the reinforcements to attack the Sun Moon Empire’s forces, while Du Busi and Xuan Zi engaged Long Xiaoyao.
• Lin Yan fought Ye Xishui at high altitude, and his Chidori Sharp Spear passed through the Blood-Red Demon Puppet’s expanding halo without stopping it.

Lin Yan battled Ye Xishui as the Heaven Dou Empire gained the advantage and the Sun Moon Empire retreated. Ye Xishui unleashed the Death God Tower, but after their clash she and Long Xiaoyao withdrew, leaving both sides locked in a stalemate.

• Lin Yan broke Ye Xishui's blood-red domain with his Three Thousand Buddha Kingdoms Domain, then fought her evenly using his Great Buddha Avatar and multiple enhancements.
• Du Busi and Xuan Zi held Long Xiaoyao to a standstill while reinforcements shifted the ground battle in the Heaven Dou Empire's favor.
• Ju Zi ordered the Sun Moon Empire's army to withdraw under cover from its Soul Engineer Legions, and Yan Shaozhe and Wang Zhen sent Heaven Dou forces in pursuit.
• Ye Xishui summoned the Death God Tower and fired its blood-red beam at Lin Yan; his Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle, inscribed with the Six-Syllable Mantra, met it in a clash that injured both of them.
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao withdrew, and Lin Yan joined Du Busi and Xuan Zi in pursuing them; the Limit Douluo kept their opponents occupied without either side gaining a decisive victory.

After the Heaven Dou Empire repelled the Sun Moon Empire’s invasion, Lin Yan went to Mingdu to evacuate Jing Hongchen and his family before Xu Tianran could investigate the leak. Jing Hongchen agreed to cooperate with Lin Yan’s plans, but stayed behind to handle business at Illustrious Virtue Hall while Lin Yan waited outside the city.

• The Heaven Dou Empire and its reinforcements defeated the Sun Moon Empire’s army, inflicting heavy casualties and crippling two Soul Engineer Corps without losing a Titled Douluo.
• Lin Yan explained that the weapon Yan Shaozhe had used was a scarce Magic Scroll and predicted that the Sun Moon Empire would pause its attacks to recover.
• Xu Tianran raged over the defeat, suspected a traitor had revealed the war plans, ordered Elder Kong summoned, and sent the Royal Soul Engineer Corps to the front.
• Lin Yan arrived at Hongchen Manor and urged Jing Hongchen to leave Mingdu with his family for their safety.
• Jing Hongchen agreed to cooperate with Lin Yan’s vision of a unified empire, and Lin Yan moved the Hongchen Family members into the Divine Trial Grounds.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Yan to wait outside Mingdu while he went alone to Illustrious Virtue Hall.