Chapter Summaries

Yu Mu'en rescued Lin En, Zhang Lexuan, Old Wolf, and three Soul Saints from the dungeon and carried them toward Shrek Academy, hoping Elder Zhuang could save Old Wolf. As they flew over the Heaven Dou Empire, Lin En sensed an imminent threat just before a blood-red spear shot toward Yu Mu'en’s heart.

• Yu Mu'en stabilized the three Soul Saints and led the group out of the collapsing dungeon after Lin En warned that the area was dangerous.
• The group emerged into sunlight, and Yu Mu'en transformed into a Light Holy Dragon and carried everyone into the sky.
• Yu Mu'en chose to take Old Wolf to Shrek Academy, where Elder Zhuang might be able to save him.
• Lin En’s Dragon Clan Bloodline and Little Sage warned him of a life-and-death battle as they flew toward Shrek Academy.
• A silent blood-red spear tore through space from below and aimed at Yu Mu'en’s heart, and Lin En activated Vector Manipulation Domain.

Lin En reflected a deadly Wraith Spear with Little Sage’s Vector Manipulation, but he and Yu Mu'en were soon surrounded by two Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluos and their forces. Yu Mu'en fought back with his Light Holy Dragon powers, while Myriad Soul Douluo and Abomination Douluo tried to wear him down.

• Lin En used Little Sage’s Vector Manipulation to send the Wraith Spear back, devastating the forest with its impact.
• Yu Mu'en stopped his charge and praised Lin En as Myriad Soul Douluo, Abomination Douluo, and their Holy Spirit Disciples appeared around them.
• Yu Mu'en sent Lin En and the others to the ground, then transformed into the Light Holy Dragon and unleashed his power against the attackers.
• Myriad Soul Douluo attacked with the Myriad Souls Banner, but Yu Mu'en’s Dragon Emperor Evil-Breaking Rend destroyed the banners and forced him to evade.
• Abomination Douluo bound Yu Mu'en’s hind leg with a skull whip, allowing Myriad Soul Douluo to summon soul beast wraiths and swarm the dragon.
• Myriad Soul Douluo and Abomination Douluo continued attacking, expecting Yu Mu'en’s Soul Power to run out within half an hour.

Lin En slaughtered the Holy Spirit Cult’s forces while Yu Mu'en held back two Titled Douluo, using Word Spirits, his devouring ability, and changing adaptations to keep fighting. As the Black Blade Soul Emperor’s group shifted to a formation designed to wear him down, Old Wolf rose on a nearby hill, still alive.

• Yu Mu'en held back two Titled Douluo while Lin En charged into the Holy Spirit Cult’s ranks, devouring corpses to restore his Soul Power.
• Lin En used Bronze Throne and Moment to overpower and kill numerous Evil Soul Masters, prompting one of them to curse, “Who the hell is the Evil Soul Master here?!”
• The Black Blade Soul Emperor attacked Lin En, but Lin En parried his saber, manifested wings, and continued feeding on his enemies to replenish himself.
• The Black Blade Soul Emperor and ten Soul Kings surrounded Lin En and tried to capture him, but Lin En used his Memory soul skill, ninth-stage Moment, and King’s Flame to kill and injure them.
• The Evil Soul Masters changed formation to attack from a distance and wear Lin En down, while Little Sage prepared a desperate counterattack and Lin En readied his Cocooning method.
• Old Wolf staggered to his feet on a hill beyond the battlefield, his life still burning despite his deathly gray face.

Old Wolf and Lin En wiped out the Evil Soul Masters on the ground while Yu Mu'en battled Myriad Soul Douluo and Abomination Douluo. Old Wolf sacrificed himself to shield Yu Mu'en from Nether Thunder Douluo’s lightning, and Nether Thunder Douluo revealed that he had already eliminated the Shrek Inspection Corps.

• Old Wolf burned his Soul Rings to kill the Black Blade Soul Emperor and the ten Soul Kings, while Lin En devoured the fallen Evil Soul Masters.
• Yu Mu'en fought Myriad Soul Douluo and Abomination Douluo, but Abomination Douluo fled as Nether Thunder Douluo’s storm gathered overhead.
• Old Wolf used Shadow Exchange to take the lightning strike meant for Yu Mu'en and died protecting him.
• Nether Thunder Douluo arrived with a Soul Tool and revealed that he had killed the Shrek Inspection Corps and consumed their souls.
• Myriad Soul Douluo and Abomination Douluo regrouped beside Nether Thunder Douluo and urged him to help kill Yu Mu'en and the others.

Lin En refused to flee the battle and used the mountain’s metal ore to build a gigantic railgun. He fired it toward the fighting between Yu Mu'en and the Nether Thunder Douluo, leaving the strike’s impact unresolved.

• Yu Mu'en burned his origin to fight the Nether Thunder Douluo and urged Lin En, Zhang Lexuan, and the Soul Saints to escape.
• Lin En broke away from Ma Yunshan and gave Zhang Lexuan his cocoon, telling her it would let him be reborn if he died.
• Lin En gathered the wind to help Ma Yunshan carry Zhang Lexuan and the others away, then stayed behind to attack the Evil Soul Masters.
• Lin En used Vector Manipulation and three Word Spirits to extract metal ore from a hill and shape it into a railgun shell.
• Lin En fired a fifty-meter-diameter railgun beam across the battlefield toward the Evil Soul Masters.

Ming Lei's supersonic Railgun tore through the Myriad Soul Douluo's domain and disrupted the battle against Yu Mu'en. The attack killed the Abomination Douluo and left the Nether Thunder Douluo exposed just as Yu Mu'en unleashed the Dragon Emperor Shaking Domain Realm.

• Ming Lei fired a supersonic Railgun through the vicious ghosts, and the Myriad Soul Douluo sensed its power and fled by splitting apart the Myriad Souls Banner.
• The Nether Thunder Douluo and Abomination Douluo continued suppressing the injured Yu Mu'en, and the Nether Thunder Douluo shot him through the heart with Yin Thunder's Wrath.
• Yu Mu'en burned his origin, awakened his power, and began charging the Dragon Emperor Shaking Domain Realm.
• The Railgun struck the Abomination Douluo and blasted him apart, then smashed through the Nether Thunder Douluo's defensive Soul Tools.
• Yu Mu'en unleashed the Dragon Emperor Shaking Domain Realm as golden dragons filled the sky.

Lin En carried the dying Yu Mu'en away from the battlefield as Yu Mu'en recounted his life and the loss of his wife. Yu Mu'en died peacefully, leaving Lin En his soul bones and resources and urging him to protect those who cared for him; at sunrise, Lin En stood free beside Yu Mu'en’s grave.

• Lin En told Yu Mu'en that his Word Spirit explosion had killed Abomination Douluo, while Myriad Soul Douluo had escaped with the gravely injured Nether Thunder Douluo.
• As Lin En carried him east, Yu Mu'en recalled his training, his rise as Shrek's champion, and his marriage to the woman he loved.
• Yu Mu'en described how his wife died during childbirth despite his efforts to save her, and admitted that he had felt helpless and had failed his family.
• Yu Mu'en gave Lin En his soul bones and resources and asked him to protect the people who cried for him and live to see the future.
• Yu Mu'en died as Lin En carried him into a sea of fireflies, and Lin En remained beside his grave until sunrise.

In Shrek City, Lin En learned that the Yun family had prospered despite its ties to Evil Soul Masters, and he decided to take action himself. After checking on Zhang Lexuan’s situation, he prepared to leave for the Star Dou Great Forest to build his bloodline Memory repository and seek a vitality-enhancing third Soul Ring.

• Merchants in a Shrek City tavern discussed the Heaven Dou Empire’s lockdown of Diao Province, Shrek Academy’s search for a missing former prodigy, and plans to profit from rising grain prices.
• Lin En learned that the Yun family had annexed the Zhang family’s estates and resolved to punish those connected to the Evil Soul Master base himself.
• Lin En could not pay the tavern’s exorbitant bill, so he washed dishes for the afternoon while gathering more information.
• Lin En reflected that Zhang Lexuan was living in the Golden Tree under Mu En’s guidance and felt reassured that she was being treated well.
• Lin En planned to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest to complete his bloodline Memory repository and find a Soul Beast for his third Soul Ring.

Lin En entered the Star Dou Great Forest seeking Soul Beasts while struggling with his dragon nature and the Black Emperor’s whispers. Little Sage warned that his dragon body would hatch in a month and recommended a way to stabilize his spirit.

• Lin En traveled from Shrek City toward the Star Dou Great Forest, reflecting on the dangers of the road and his recovered memories of dragon alchemy.
• Lin En entered the forest, where its rich natural energy strengthened him, and asked Little Sage to locate Soul Beasts that resisted his Golden Eyes’ aura.
• Little Sage warned Lin En that his spirit and bloodline were imbalanced and estimated that his dragon body would hatch in one month.
• Little Sage located two spiritual-attribute Soul Masters at the White Tiger Duke’s Residence, but Lin En refused to eat them because Huo Yuhao and Dai Luoli were still too young.
• Little Sage advised Lin En to absorb Yu Mu'en’s four Soul Bones, especially the 100,000-Year Light Sub-Dragon Left Arm Bone, to stabilize his spirit and bloodline.

Lin En hunted down and killed a rare Twin Cyclops, then took its heads and meat for his stores. A golden, three-eyed young lion arrived at the clearing afterward and mourned the loss of its prey.

• Lin En chased a fire-and-wind Twin Cyclops through Star Dou Great Forest after spending three months hunting Cyclops for their nourishing brains.
• The Twin Cyclops fought back with a fire tornado, but Lin En deflected the flames and killed it with a charge empowered by Moment.
• Lin En cut off the Twin Cyclops's heads and stored some of its flesh in the Inspector's Ring.
• A golden young lion with a crimson third eye arrived and lamented that someone had killed its Twin Cyclops.

The Auspicious Beast discovered that Lin En had wiped out the Cyclops tribe she planned to harvest and used the Power of Fate to track him down. Lin En feasted on Twin Cyclops brains, but his warning system identified the approaching beast as the Imperial Auspicious Beast and predicted he had no chance of surviving a fight.

• The Auspicious Beast escaped the Core Circle and found the Cyclops tribe she had marked as her vegetable garden wiped out.
• The Auspicious Beast sensed that the killer was nearby and used the Power of Fate to locate them.
• Lin En roasted and ate a Twin Cyclops brain, increasing his physical strength and spiritual power.
• Lin En's Little Sage warned him that an enemy with Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire was approaching and identified the Imperial Auspicious Beast.
• The Auspicious Beast arrived and glared at Lin En and the Twin Cyclops brain as Little Sage predicted that Lin En's survival rate was zero.

Lin En shared grilled Twin Cyclops brain with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who had mistaken him for a human but found his eyes unsettling. She offered to guide him through the Mixed Zone to find rare fruits and herbs in exchange for more grilled food, leaving Lin En petting her despite her complaints.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed that Lin En's eyes and aura were strange, while Lin En decided that fighting her was too dangerous.
• Lin En offered the Golden British Shorthair roasted Twin Cyclops brain, and she eagerly accepted.
• As night fell, the Golden British Shorthair praised Lin En's cooking and complained about being fed only spiritual fruits by Di Tian.
• Lin En offered to take unwanted spiritual fruits, but the Golden British Shorthair accused him of wanting them for himself and described humans dying in the Mixed Zone.
• The Golden British Shorthair offered to guide Lin En through the Mixed Zone's secret realms in return for continued grilling.
• Lin En began petting her head, and she complained that it was itchy.

Lin En and Three-Eyed Golden Lion tried to hunt a rare Rainbow Deer King, but it fled before she could catch it. Lin En used Moment to pursue the deer and asked hiding Soul Beasts to point him east, leaving him racing after the prey.

• Three-Eyed Golden Lion brought Lin En to ambush a seven-thousand-year Wind-chasing Rainbow Deer and revealed it was becoming a powerful Rainbow Deer King.
• The Rainbow Deer King sensed danger and fled at extreme speed, so Three-Eyed Golden Lion took to the air and pursued it.
• Lin En activated his eighth-tier Word Spirit, Moment, to catch up while Little Sage analyzed the surroundings.
• Lin En stopped at a cave where Ten-Thousand-Year Terrorclaw Bears and Green Shadow Snakes were hiding from Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• The hidden Soul Beasts pointed Lin En east toward the Rainbow Deer King, and he resumed his high-speed pursuit.

Lin En and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion hunted down the Rainbow Deer King, after which she noticed that Lin En’s life force was dangerously low and offered to help him recover in the Core Zone. She rejected his offer to make her his godmother and asked him to be her friend, and Lin En accepted.

• The Rainbow Deer King fled through the Hidden Dragon Land toward a Blue Silver Grass forest, hoping to escape the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Lin En ambushed the Rainbow Deer King and knocked it back, allowing Miss Golden British Shorthair to kill it.
• Lin En praised the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, then petted her until she warned him to stop.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed that Lin En’s life force, physical body, spiritual power, and Soul Power were out of balance and offered to bring him to the Core Zone for life-attribute supplies.
• Lin En offered to acknowledge the Three-Eyed Golden Lion as his godmother, but she said she wanted him to be her friend, and he agreed.

Lin En and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion shared a meal and talked about names, loneliness, and family. Lin En named her Qiu’er, and she decided he would be her most important companion for life.

• Lin En roasted Rainbow Deer King venison and shared it with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• As they watched the sunset, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked Lin En for his name, and he admitted his name was Lin En.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion shared that she had no family or personal name and asked Lin En to give her one.
• Lin En named her Qiu’er after the autumn season, and she happily accepted the name.
• That night, Qiu’er watched Lin En sleep and vowed that he would be her most important companion for life.

Lin En spent a year in the Star Dou Great Forest collecting powerful Soul Beast bloodlines and refining his body, while searching for a suitable life-attribute Soul Beast for his third Soul Ring. He remained Rank 30 and, as Qiu'er complained of hunger, continued reading about Soul Beasts in the Mixed Zone.

• With Qiu'er guiding him, Lin En captured rare Soul Beasts and used their bloodlines to gain Dark Crow wings, Dark Gold Terror Claws, and other powerful traits.
• Lin En learned from Qiu'er that the Power of Fate was not tied to bloodlines, so obtaining the Three-Eyed Golden Lion bloodline did not let him use it.
• The Blue Silver King failed to become a Blue Silver Emperor because another already existed on Douluo Continent, and Lin En suspected that Ah Yin was the one.
• Lin En and Little Sage used the Blue Silver King and Purple Radiant Bamboo bloodlines to create photosynthetic energy cells and a second energy cycle based on the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Little Sage advised Lin En to seek a life-attribute Soul Beast for his third Soul Ring, but Lin En had not found one that met its standards despite having reached Rank 30 five months earlier.
• When Qiu'er said she was hungry, Lin En teased her about her excess nutrition and suggested she read the books he had collected from Soul Masters in the Mixed Zone.

Lin En and Qiu'er cracked a storage Soul Tool and found a collection of books, prompting Little Sage to uncover the previous owner's risqué reading material. Lin En ordered most of it deleted but kept a ranking of the Sun Moon Empire's beauties for research.

• Lin En asked Qiu'er to open a ruby-ring storage Soul Tool while explaining why he was postponing his study of Soul Tools.
• Qiu'er used her spiritual power to erase the previous owner's imprint and unlock the ring.
• Lin En found books inside and asked Little Sage to scan and record them.
• Little Sage listed erotic material and novels among the stored items, leaving Lin En shocked.
• Lin En ordered Little Sage to delete the material but kept Sun Moon Empire's Top Ten Beauties, Ranked from Hot to Lame.

Lin En learned that the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament would take place in Heaven Dou City in two months, and planned to attend while pursuing the people connected to the Evil Soul Master Altar. He left the cave with Qiu'er to hunt in the Mixed Zone, watched by a mysterious man in black.

• Lin En read a Sun Moon Empire magazine until Qiu'er burned it, then teased her about whether he counted as human.
• Qiu'er urged Lin En to go hunting, and Little Sage found information in a storage Soul Tool about the delayed Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament.
• Little Sage explained that famine, uprisings, and Shrek Academy's blockade had delayed the tournament; Lin En decided to visit Heaven Dou City and seek the Soul Devouring Carving Knife.
• Lin En resolved to kill those connected to the Evil Soul Master Altar before traveling, then agreed to hunt Soft Bone Rabbits and Silver-Patterned Fish with Qiu'er.
• Lin En and Qiu'er left the Core Zone for the Mixed Zone while a middle-aged man in black watched them from atop Qiu'er's nest.

Di Tian confronted Wan Demon King over his control of the forest’s plants and his surveillance of the Auspicious Beast, then agreed to consider a way to help him survive his next Heavenly Tribulation. After Lin En and Qiu’er finished gathering food, Di Tian and Wan Demon King appeared before them through spatial rifts, leaving them stunned.

• Wan Demon King urged Di Tian to kill Lin En, but Di Tian rebuked him for trying to make decisions and warned him not to expand his control over the forest’s plants.
• Wan Demon King explained that he needed the Auspicious Beast’s fortune to survive his six-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation, and Di Tian promised to consider a solution.
• Di Tian decided to investigate why the Auspicious Beast had approached and stayed with Lin En, and he and Wan Demon King vanished into the forest.
• Qiu’er and Lin En caught a sack of Soft Bone Rabbits and a basket of Silver-Patterned Fish using Lin En’s methods.
• Di Tian and Wan Demon King appeared in the air before Lin En and Qiu’er amid spatial rifts, and Qiu’er dropped her sack in shock.

Di Tian confronted Qiu'er and Lin En in the Star Dou Great Forest, then recognized Lin En’s Golden Eyes and dragon might as proof that he was a dragon rather than a human. Di Tian invited Lin En to spar, leaving their first clash about to begin.

• Qiu'er warned Lin En to flee while Di Tian explained that he had secretly watched over her using his spiritual power.
• Wan Demon King accused Lin En of killing the Blue Silver King and destroying his plans to cultivate the Blue Silver Grass territory.
• Di Tian met Lin En’s crimson-gold Golden Eyes and sensed the distinct dragon might in them.
• Di Tian concluded that Lin En was a dragon from another plane and asked his name.
• After Lin En introduced himself, Di Tian invited him to spar so they could test each other’s strength.