Chapter Summaries

After five years of cultivation, Jiang Lin remained just short of Soul King when Xiao Wu returned, accompanied by two powerful figures. Jiang Lin and Little Dragon Girl reunited with Xiao Wu, whose appearance had changed dramatically.

• Jiang Lin checked his status panel and continued cultivating toward Soul King, though his progress had slowed.
• Little Dragon Girl sensed a familiar presence approaching with two frighteningly powerful presences behind it.
• Jiang Lin recognized the approaching girl as Xiao Wu and went to meet her with Little Dragon Girl, keeping hold of her hand despite her embarrassment.
• Xiao Wu reunited with Jiang Lin and Little Dragon Girl and explained that family affairs had kept her away for five years.
• Jiang Lin and Little Dragon Girl were surprised by how much Xiao Wu had grown.

Xiao Wu reunited with Jiang Lin and Little Dragon Girl, planted Star-Dream Rose seeds with them, and shared a meal. She learned that Tian Yan had been gone for five years, and Jiang Lin said he did not know where she was but believed she would return after finishing important work.

• Jiang Lin invited Xiao Wu to eat with him and Little Dragon Girl, and Xiao Wu concealed that Da Ming and Er Ming were hiding nearby.
• Xiao Wu admired the Deep Blue Starflowers around the cabin and learned Little Dragon Girl had cultivated them with Jiang Lin's help.
• Xiao Wu revealed that her late mother had given her Star-Dream Rose seeds, and the three planted them together.
• Xiao Wu praised Little Dragon Girl's cooking, and they ate together in the cabin.
• Xiao Wu asked about Tian Yan, and Little Dragon Girl and Jiang Lin told her Tian Yan had been away for five years; Jiang Lin said he did not know her whereabouts but expected her to return.

Jiang Lin broke through to Level 50 Soul Power and prepared to hunt a fifth Soul Ring with Little Dragon Girl. In the Star Dou Forest, he chose to fight a 12,000-year Earth Giant Bear alone, leaving Xiao Wu astonished by his strength and ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring.

• Jiang Lin broke through to Level 50 Soul Power, and Xiao Wu was shocked by how far his cultivation had surpassed hers.
• Jiang Lin promised Xiao Wu he would protect her, and she vowed to keep cultivating so she would not fall too far behind.
• Jiang Lin told Little Dragon Girl he planned to hunt a 27,000-year Cold Crystal Python for his fifth Soul Ring, with her help driving it from its deep lake.
• Jiang Lin, Little Dragon Girl, and Xiao Wu entered the Star Dou Forest's inner region and encountered a 12,000-year Earth Giant Bear.
• Jiang Lin refused Little Dragon Girl's offer to fight the bear, and Xiao Wu saw his three purple and one black Soul Rings, including a ten-thousand-year fourth ring.

Jiang Lin defeated the Earth Giant Bear with his King's Power Sword Shield, Thousand-Shadow Sword Formation, and Pure Yang Flame, then obtained its right arm Soul Bone. He and Xiao Wu continued deeper into Star Dou Forest toward the great lake where the Cold Crystal Python lived, while an armed team of Soul Masters followed behind.

• Jiang Lin blocked the Earth Giant Bear's attacks with his King's Power Sword Shield, then summoned the Thousand-Shadow Sword Formation and drained the bear's life essence.
• The Earth Giant Bear tried to escape underground, but Jiang Lin slowed it with his sword shadows and killed it with Pure Yang Flame.
• Jiang Lin recovered the Earth Giant Bear's twelve-thousand-year right arm Soul Bone and planned to sell it.
• Xiao Wu praised Jiang Lin's strength, and the three continued toward the Cold Crystal Python's lake.
• An armed team of Soul Masters arrived at the battle site and proceeded deeper into Star Dou Forest.
• Jiang Lin, Xiao Wu, and their companion arrived at the great lake several hours later.

Jiang Lin and Little Dragon Girl killed the Cold Crystal Python, and Jiang Lin obtained its Soul Ring and a rare Trunk Soul Bone. While he absorbed the Soul Ring, a powerful blue-clad elder arrived and asked Little Dragon Girl to reveal her Martial Soul.

• Little Dragon Girl summoned an Ice Dragon and defeated the 27,000-year-old Cold Crystal Python, leaving Jiang Lin to finish it off.
• Jiang Lin discovered a dark-blue Trunk Soul Bone inside the python and began absorbing its Soul Ring to break through to Soul King.
• Little Dragon Girl and Xiao Wu guarded Jiang Lin as his aura rose during the several-hour absorption.
• A group of powerful blue-clad figures arrived, and their elder approached Jiang Lin and his companions.
• Little Dragon Girl shielded Xiao Wu and Jiang Lin, but eventually agreed to release her Martial Soul after the elder insisted he meant no harm.

Little Dragon Girl refused repeated invitations to join the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect, despite the sect’s leaders offering her exceptional status and resources. After Yu Yuanpo used his Soul Power to pressure her, she stood firm and declared she would never join, leaving the group’s leaders enraged.

• Yu Xuanhai sensed the overwhelming superiority of Little Dragon Girl’s Ice Dragon Martial Soul and invited her to join the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect, but she refused.
• Yu Xuanhai offered to admit Xiao Wu and the others as well, but Little Dragon Girl again declined to join any sect.
• Yu Yuanzhen arrived and offered to make Little Dragon Girl the sect’s Holy Maiden, promising the sect’s full resources, but she refused.
• Yu Yuanpo released his Soul Rings and pressed Little Dragon Girl with his power, until Yu Xuanhai intervened and dispelled the pressure.
• Yu Yuanzhen gave Little Dragon Girl another chance to accept, but she said Jiang Lin would not agree and declared she would never join the sect.

Jiang Lin tried to protect Little Dragon Girl from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect by persuading its leaders to give her three days to decide whether to join them. Yu Yuanzhen agreed to wait but left Yu Yuanqing behind to ensure Little Dragon Girl came with them afterward, regardless of her answer.

• A gloomy elder urged Yu Yuanzhen to abduct Little Dragon Girl, but Jiang Lin's breakthrough to Soul King drew the sect's attention.
• After Xiao Wu explained the situation, Jiang Lin offered to persuade Little Dragon Girl and promised the sect an answer within three days.
• Yu Yuanpo and the gloomy elder objected to waiting, but Yu Yuanzhen accepted Jiang Lin's proposal and warned that someone would stay behind to watch them.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered Yu Yuanqing to remain and bring Little Dragon Girl to meet the sect in three days, whether she agreed or not.
• Yu Xuanhai told Yu Yuanqing to wait, and she landed beside Jiang Lin and the others.

With Yu Yuanqing guarding Little Dragon Girl for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect, Jiang Lin decided his only chance to protect her was to attempt the dangerous Ancient God Art inheritance. The system warned his odds were one in ten thousand, but he used a rare card that raised his survival rate to fifty percent, leaving him poised to begin the inheritance.

• Yu Yuanqing warned Little Dragon Girl that she could not refuse the Sect Master's demand, then left Jiang Lin and the others alone.
• Jiang Lin reassured Little Dragon Girl and considered why summoning Da Ming and Er Ming or fleeing would put them all at greater risk.
• Jiang Lin activated the Ancient God Art inheritance, but the system warned that failure would kill him and gave him only a one-in-ten-thousand chance of success.
• Jiang Lin resolved to proceed, and the system offered him Goddess of Fortune's Favor for 3,500 Collapse Points, raising his survival rate to fifty percent.
• Jiang Lin bought and used Goddess of Fortune's Favor, and the goddess sent purple light from her crystal into him before vanishing.

Jiang Lin entered the Ancient God inheritance and began absorbing its Memory Crystals, experiencing the life of the young Ancient God Cang Xu. After surviving Cang Xu’s painful transformation into a One-Star Ancient God with help from the Goddess of Luck’s blessing, Jiang Lin moved on to the next crystal.

• Jiang Lin entered the inheritance space and realized that the Ancient God inheritance contained power from one to five stars.
• Jiang Lin entered the Sea of Death and began absorbing the Ancient God’s Memory Crystals, becoming the young Ancient God Cang Xu in the first memory.
• Cang Xu absorbed Xuanlan Star’s origin over several thousand years, then began the painful bodily reconstruction required to become a One-Star Ancient God.
• As Jiang Lin’s soul neared collapse from the agony, the Goddess of Luck’s purple glimmer restored and strengthened it.
• Cang Xu completed his bodily reconstruction and formed a One-Star Ancient God Mark, ending Jiang Lin’s first memory; Jiang Lin then drew the second Memory Crystal toward himself.

After completing the memory inheritance, Jiang Lin began the first stage of Ancient God Cang Xu’s Strength Inheritance on Xuanlan Star. Cang Xu poured Ancient God Power into him, and Jiang Lin’s body exploded under the strain.

• Jiang Lin absorbed the final usable memory crystal and learned that he had experienced Cang Xu’s 137,921-year life.
• The system offered the Strength Inheritance, and Jiang Lin chose to begin its first stage because he could not withstand the later stages.
• Jiang Lin entered the blood-red gate and arrived on a flourishing Xuanlan Star, where Cang Xu had become a One-Star Ancient God.
• Cang Xu appeared before Jiang Lin and transferred a stream of Ancient God Power into his brow.
• The power tore apart Jiang Lin’s meridians, destroyed his dantian, and caused his body to explode.

After completing Ancient God Cang Xu’s inheritance, Jiang Lin fused the remaining origin power in the real world and became an Inferior One-Star Ancient God. His transformation shocked Little Dragon Girl, Xiao Wu, and Yu Yuanqing, who sensed his newfound strength.

• Jiang Lin returned from the Inheritance Space and was enveloped in a blood-colored cocoon as spiritual energy surged toward him.
• The system explained that Jiang Lin had to absorb the other half of Cang Xu’s origin power and fuse his bodies, while stronger bloodline power remained sealed until he reached higher planes.
• Jiang Lin learned that Cang Xu’s later inheritances were scattered across other worlds and that having the system collect them would cost an enormous number of points.
• Jiang Lin began circulating the Ancient God Art and absorbed the gathered spiritual energy and Ancient God Power.
• After two days, Jiang Lin emerged from the cocoon with a fully formed Ancient God Star Point and a transformed Ancient God Body.
• Little Dragon Girl, Xiao Wu, and Yu Yuanqing were stunned by Jiang Lin’s new appearance, and Yu Yuanqing sensed a powerful threat from him.

After receiving the Ancient God Inheritance, Jiang Lin confronted Yu Yuanqing to keep her from taking Little Dragon Girl away. He overwhelmed her in battle, but Yu Yuanqing escaped several thousand meters away.

• Jiang Lin reassured Little Dragon Girl and challenged Yu Yuanqing to fight.
• Yu Yuanqing transformed into her seventy-meter dragon Martial Soul Avatar, while Jiang Lin revealed his hundred-meter Ancient God Avatar.
• Yu Yuanqing attacked with Thunder Chain Prison, but Jiang Lin cut through the lightning chains and severed one of her wings.
• Yu Yuanqing used Destructive Lightning Beam, but Jiang Lin blocked it with his King's Power Sword Shield.
• Yu Yuanqing lost her will to fight and escaped with Void-Piercing Escape.

Jiang Lin killed Yu Yuanqing and used the Death-Transforming Return-to-God Seal to turn her into his obedient divine attendant, Qingyue. After introducing her to Xiao Wu and Little Dragon Girl, he received Collapse Points for founding the Everplain Jiang Clan and disrupting the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect’s timeline.

• Jiang Lin struck Yu Yuanqing with Annihilation Divine Light, killing her and destroying her Martial Soul Avatar.
• Jiang Lin repaired Yu Yuanqing’s body and revived her as an obedient divine attendant using the Death-Transforming Return-to-God Seal.
• Jiang Lin named her Qingyue and ordered her to call him Master in private and Young Master in public.
• Jiang Lin introduced Qingyue to Xiao Wu and Little Dragon Girl as a member of the Everplain Jiang Clan.
• The system awarded Jiang Lin Collapse Points for the emerging force and Yu Yuanqing’s death, bringing his balance to 9430.

Jiang Lin changed Qingyue's appearance to hide her from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect and decided to leave the Star Dou Forest for Suotuo City to cultivate. At the forest's edge, he learned Tian Yan was close to death and chose to spend 5,000 Collapse Points to rescue her.

• Jiang Lin used Ancient God Power to transform Qingyue's face, figure, and clothes, then added a veil to make her less conspicuous.
• Jiang Lin told Little Dragon Girl and Xiao Wu they would travel to Suotuo City and cultivate there for about a year before Tang San entered Shrek Academy.
• Jiang Lin and the two women traveled for a day and reached the outer edge of the Star Dou Forest.
• The system warned Jiang Lin that Tian Yan was about to die and offered a spatial jump rescue for 5,000 Collapse Points.
• Jiang Lin recalled Tian Yan's past help and chose to spend the points to save her.

Jiang Lin crossed a spatial passage to find Tian Yan gravely wounded in a desert and used a system healing card to stabilize her. While carrying her toward shelter, he encountered Spirit Hall cardinals who had come to capture her for stealing books from their archives, and he prepared to fight them.

• Jiang Lin left Little Dragon Girl and Xiao Wu to travel to Suotuo City while he entered the spatial passage to rescue Tian Yan.
• Jiang Lin found Tian Yan unconscious in the desert and used a Rare Card Healing Art to heal her wounds and stop her death countdown.
• Jiang Lin carried Tian Yan across the desert, reassured her when she murmured about her mother, and found a sand cave with three Millennium Soul Beast auras.
• Lian, Ophelia, and Kurint arrived and identified Tian Yan as the woman who had stolen books from Spirit Hall's archives, then ordered Jiang Lin to surrender her.
• Kurint attacked Jiang Lin and Tian Yan with a net of light, but Jiang Lin shielded Tian Yan and split the net with a golden sword aura.

Jiang Lin tested his fifth Soul Skill against Kurint and Ophelia, then faced Lord Lian after the bishop intervened. The chapter ended with Lord Lian dead and Kurint and Ophelia despairing.

• Kurint attacked Jiang Lin with his fifth Soul Skill, but Jiang Lin's Cold Crystal Frost-Breaking Slash shattered Kurint's defenses until Ophelia protected them with his seventh Soul Skill.
• Jiang Lin rushed Kurint and Ophelia, but their Holy Light Shroud blasted him more than a hundred meters away.
• Jiang Lin transformed into his hundred-meter Ancient God True Body as Lord Lian attacked him with Holy Light Net.
• Ophelia bragged about Lord Lian's strength and argued with Kurint while Lord Lian fought Jiang Lin.
• Kurint and Ophelia saw that Lord Lian had been cut in half and despaired over his death.

Jiang Lin killed Lian, Kurint, and Ophelia, turned Kurint and Ophelia into Blood Shadow Guards, and rescued Tian Yan. After Tian Yan’s favorability rose, he withheld unlocking her seal and later prepared to travel with her to meet Long’er and the others.

• Jiang Lin killed Kurint and Ophelia, refined them into Blood One and Blood Two, and received 10,000 Collapse Points after Lian and the two cardinals died.
• Tian Yan awoke, thanked Jiang Lin for saving her, and pledged her life to him, raising her favorability to 60 and unlocking the option to remove the first stage of her seal.
• Jiang Lin told Tian Yan he would consider removing the seal if she lived up to her pledge, then took Lian’s valuables and burned his remains before leaving with the others.
• Several days later, after Tian Yan recovered in an underground sand cavern, Jiang Lin agreed to set out to meet Long’er and the others.
• Jiang Lin gave Tian Yan a Vermilion Ghost Mask, which changed her appearance and formed red scale armor when she put it on.

Jiang Lin and Tian Yan left the Death Desert and encountered Hu Liena fighting members of the Black Wolf Gang on the Lima Plains. After Jiang Lin rescued her and departed, he reached Suotuo City with Tian Yan, where a soldier explained the city’s new entry-token rule.

• Jiang Lin gave Tian Yan the Vermilion Ghost Mask, which concealed her appearance and aura and formed armor to suit her thoughts.
• Jiang Lin and Tian Yan crossed the Lima Plains and found Hu Liena battling four members of the Black Wolf Gang.
• Jiang Lin knocked the four men unconscious, confirmed the young woman was Hu Liena, and left after sensing a powerful presence approaching.
• Ghost Douluo Gui Mei questioned Hu Liena, then secretly followed her as bait, but Jiang Lin did not return.
• Jiang Lin and Tian Yan arrived in Suotuo City, where Ye Qing gave Jiang Lin an entry token and explained that the city required identity checks after an Evil Soul Master assassination attempt.

Jiang Lin and Tian Yan arrived in Suotuo City and stayed at the Rose Grand Hotel while searching for Qingyue. When Vilant tried to take Tian Yan for a drink, Jiang Lin killed him and invited Earl Sein to come find him.

• Rolf apologized for Kalans’s demand at the city gate and returned Jiang Lin’s Silver Soul Coins.
• Jiang Lin and Tian Yan reached the Rose Grand Hotel, where Vilant approached Tian Yan and invited her for a drink.
• Jiang Lin slapped Vilant, then seized him by the throat after Vilant threatened him with his father, Earl Sein.
• The hotel manager Morrison tried to stop Jiang Lin, but Jiang Lin crushed Vilant’s neck and said Earl Sein could come find him at the hotel.
• Morrison ordered staff to remove Vilant’s corpse and planned to seek Earl Sein’s forgiveness while Jiang Lin and Tian Yan went upstairs.

Jiang Lin met Dai Mubai at the hotel, where Dai Mubai warned him that Earl Sein and Spirit Hall’s Ellington might seek revenge for killing Vilant. Dai Mubai later revealed to Katarina that his Soul-Measuring Device had measured Jiang Lin at level 53, leaving them stunned by his talent.

• Dai Mubai invited Jiang Lin for a drink and warned him about the danger posed by Earl Sein and Ellington.
• Jiang Lin introduced himself as being from the Everplain Jiang Clan and dismissed the threat, then drank with Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai became drunk and suggested they become sworn brothers, but Jiang Lin brushed the idea aside and left him with Katarina.
• After Jiang Lin left, Dai Mubai told Katarina that he had secretly measured Jiang Lin’s cultivation at level 53 Soul King.
• Katarina doubted the result, but Dai Mubai confirmed his device worked and lamented how Jiang Lin surpassed their own talent.