Chapter Summaries

After receiving an invitation to the imperial palace banquet, Lin You and the Shrek group prepared to attend, while Lin You later ran into Ju Zi in Mingdu. Huo Yuhao joined them, and she and Ju Zi concealed a rivalry beneath their polite conversation as they went shopping together.

• The Shrek group accepted an invitation to the imperial palace banquet, and Mu En told them they could attend without causing trouble.
• Lin You wandered through Mingdu and encountered Ju Zi, who had just left the Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Huo Yuhao arrived, linked arms with Lin You, and told Ju Zi that she and Lin You were childhood sweethearts rather than blood-related siblings.
• Ju Zi and Huo Yuhao exchanged polite compliments while privately becoming wary of each other.
• Ju Zi, Huo Yuhao, and Lin You shopped together, and Ju Zi suggested they visit a handicraft shop.

At He Caitou's ascension banquet, Lin You ignored the festivities to eat, then met privately with the new emperor, who confessed that he felt powerless to govern. Lin You urged him to remove obstructive officials and strengthen the Sun Moon Empire, leaving He Caitou worried that this would provoke war.

• Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi drew attention at the banquet, while Lin You focused on the food and ignored their attempts to catch his eye.
• He Caitou addressed the guests as the new emperor, and Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Ning Tian reacted to his transformation and the opportunities his rule could bring.
• A palace attendant summoned Lin You to the rear hall, where He Caitou admitted that he was a figurehead struggling with the empire's problems and entrenched interests.
• Lin You told He Caitou to appoint capable people and remove those who blocked them, then said he wanted the Sun Moon Empire to grow stronger and unify peacefully through advanced technology.
• He Caitou warned that strengthening the empire could lead the Douluo Three Kingdoms to form a coalition, but Lin You argued that their opposition proved the plan was right.

Lin You received three powerful Rank Nine Soul Guidance Devices from He Caitou and agreed to help purge corruption in the Sun Moon Empire. After the banquet, he studied the devices and considered returning Experiment Body Number One to He Caitou’s group.

• He Caitou agreed to recognize the order from Elder Kong and voiced his anger over corruption in the Sun Moon Empire, so Lin You offered to handle it using his Sea God Pavilion Deputy Pavilion Master status.
• He Caitou gave Lin You the defensive Shield of Light, the offensive Wrath of Thor, and the mobility-type Wings of the Wind God, and explained their capabilities.
• He Caitou promised to rebuild places Lin You cleared and gave him an imperial decree so loyal officials could judge those implicated by the evidence Lin You gathered.
• At the banquet, Ju Zi questioned Huo Yuhao about Lin You, and Huo Yuhao answered provocatively until Lin You returned and the two women resumed their polite smiles.
• Back at their lodgings, Lin You admired the three devices, considered the potential of Element Technology, and decided he might return Experiment Body Number One to He Caitou’s group.

In the God Realm, Tang San discovered that events on the Douluo Continent had strayed from his plans and resolved to stop anyone from disrupting them. In the Sun Moon Empire, Snow Empress warned Lin You that he needed to grow stronger and took him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Tang San saw that the Child of Destiny was female and learned that Huo Yuhao and Lin You had overturned the Sun Moon Empire's imperial family.
• Tang San worried that the empire's upheaval would derail his plans to unite the Douluo Continent against the Abyssal Invasion, and he raged at the unknown person sabotaging him.
• At the Sun Moon Hotel, Lin You examined the three Rank Nine Soul Guidance Devices He Caitou had given him and privately mocked their names.
• Snow Empress warned Lin You that she could not protect him alone if two Holy Spirit Cult Limit Douluos attacked, and she took him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Snow Empress took Lin You to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well so he could cultivate and grow strong enough to face the Holy Spirit Cult. They reached the poisonous valley, where Lin You found a place rich in spiritual energy and medicinal plants that could also temper his body.

• Snow Empress told Lin You that strength was necessary to confront the Holy Spirit Cult, so he informed He Caitou that he was leaving to cultivate.
• Lin You and Snow Empress traveled into Sunset Forest, where Snow Empress explained that soul beasts avoided humans and that the miasma ahead was deadly.
• Lin You decomposed the poisonous miasma as they crossed it and reached a region filled with Jade Phosphor Seven Absolutes Flowers.
• Snow Empress showed Lin You the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and explained that its dense energy and poisonous herbs could help strengthen and temper him.

Lin You and Snow Empress entered a valley filled with immortal-grade plants and an ice-and-fire lake, where the plant soul beasts tried to repel them. Snow Empress overwhelmed the plants, and Lin You threatened to eat Aromatic Silk Beauty, leaving it panicked and pleading.

• Lin You admired the valley's rare plants and the lake divided between icy and fiery waters, while Snow Empress warned that the plant soul beasts were powerful in their territory.
• When Lin You stepped forward, the plants joined their power to form a net around him and Snow Empress.
• Snow Empress released her seven-hundred-thousand-year soul beast aura, breaking the plants' attack and forcing them to wilt.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty warned the intruders that gods protected the plants, but Snow Empress revealed her Ultimate Ice and suppressed their combined energy.
• Lin You wandered among the medicinal herbs and asked Snow Empress whether eating Aromatic Silk Beauty would be nourishing, prompting it to plead for its life and invoke heavenly punishment.

Snow Empress and Lin You forced the Immortal Grade Plants to submit and help him cultivate in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Lin You then plunged toward the spring’s boundary, where its opposing energies met.

• Snow Empress demanded that the Immortal Grade Plants accept her rule, and the crimson crane-shaped plant agreed after she threatened it with her icy gaze.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty challenged Snow Empress, but Lin You frightened the plants by threatening to remove the valley’s oxygen and eat any Immortal Herb that displeased him.
• The Immortal Grade Plants described their benefits, and Lin You demanded to cultivate inside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Snow Empress ordered the plants to condense their essence and help balance the spring’s ice and fire energies, and Aromatic Silk Beauty accepted on their behalf.
• After Snow Empress warned that the spring could destroy him and that she could not assist, Lin You leaped toward the boundary between its red and white halves.

Lin You survived the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well by absorbing its destructive energy with his Periodic Table Martial Soul, aided by the immortal plants. As he stabilized, Snow Empress sensed a different power hidden at the well’s bottom.

• Lin You plunged into the spring and endured the opposing ice and fire forces as they tore apart his body.
• The immortal plants poured their origin energy into Lin You to slow his collapse, while Snow Empress watched and trusted him to overcome the trial himself.
• Golden Bone Blood and Lin You’s Periodic Table Martial Soul awakened, drawing the spring’s energy into him as he tried to process it with hydrogen and oxygen.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty gave Lin You her Heart of Kiryu, and the other immortal plants added their powers to balance and strengthen him.
• Lin You survived the destructive cycle and began absorbing the spring’s energy, but Snow Empress sensed another power at the bottom of the well.

Lin You sank beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and absorbed its energies, awakening three elements in his Periodic Table Martial Soul. Snow Empress pierced the divine barrier around the spring and glimpsed a strange dragon skeleton within Lin You as he opened his eyes.

• Lin You continued absorbing the spring’s energy for days while Snow Empress watched and confirmed he was still alive.
• Lin You sank beneath the spring, and his Periodic Table Martial Soul awakened lithium, silicon, and neon.
• Lin You reached the spring’s jade-like bottom and absorbed the liquefied ice and fire energy to ignite more elements.
• Snow Empress used her Ultimate Ice to pierce the barrier and saw a dragon skeleton flashing within Lin You.
• Lin You slowly opened his eyes at the bottom of the spring.

Lin You awakened two Dragon Kings beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, who offered him either their power or their true inheritance. He suspected that taking their power would make him a target for the gods, leaving his choice unresolved.

• Lin You touched the jade beneath him and awakened two immense Dragon Kings, whose pressure struck Snow Empress and forced the Immortal Grade Plants to the ground.
• The Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King appeared before Lin You and identified themselves as fallen servants of the Dragon God whose remains formed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Dragon Kings offered Lin You a choice between taking the well’s energy and divine power or receiving their true inheritance and bearing the karma of fallen gods.
• The Dragon Kings explained that all life carried faint dragon blood and that Lin You’s Periodic Table Martial Soul had awakened them by touching the world’s fundamental truth.
• Lin You questioned the cost of taking their power and warned that it could make him a target for the gods.

Lin You accepted the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King's inheritance, choosing to oppose the old gods and help restore the Dragon Tribe. As their divine power remade his body and awakened more elements in his Martial Soul, the Dragon Kings named him the Ice Fire Dragon King.

• Lin You learned that the Dragon Kings' inheritance carried their hatred of the God Realm and their last will to restore the Dragon Tribe.
• Lin You accepted the inheritance, reasoning that his plans to unite the continent would make him an enemy of the old gods regardless.
• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King poured their divine power into Lin You, while the Snow Empress sensed their sacrifice from above the spring.
• Lin You's Periodic Table Martial Soul decomposed and reconstructed the ice and fire power as his body transformed and new elements awakened.
• The Dragon Kings declared that Lin You would inherit their authority and become the Ice Fire Dragon King.

Lin You accepted the Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King’s inheritance, beginning nine divine trials and a transformation into a true member of the Dragon Tribe. Six days later, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well erupted with a pillar of golden light as his changes intensified.

• Lin You questioned how a human could inherit a Dragon King divine position, and the Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King explained that divine positions came from mastery of the laws.
• The two Dragon Kings chose Lin You as their inheritor and gave him the Inheritance Seal, information about their divine artifacts, and the secret of his dragon ancestry.
• Lin You agreed to undergo a painful transformation, and the Dragon Kings’ remnant souls used their divine power to reshape his body as he fell asleep.
• The Snow Empress monitored Lin You beneath the spring while Aromatic Silk Beauty worried that he was dead, and she sensed his life aura growing stronger as his Dragon Pressure changed.
• On the sixth day, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well shook and formed a vortex as a pillar of golden light shot into the sky, shocking the Snow Empress.

After completing the Ice Fire Dragon King inheritance, Lin You emerged as a Dragon Tribe member with rank seventy-two cultivation and strength capable of contending with an ordinary Super Douluo. He began testing his new ice-and-fire powers and learned that he still needed to master them and complete every inheritance trial to reach the divine level.

• After the pillar of light faded on the seventh day, Lin You rose from the spring transformed by the Ice Fire Dragon King inheritance.
• Lin You revealed that he had reached rank seventy-two Soul Saint and could contend with an ordinary Super Douluo, while Snow Empress warned him that the God Realm might oppose his inheritance.
• Lin You decided to return to Shrek Academy after adapting to his new strength and began testing his powers on Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Lin You demonstrated precise control over ice and fire, and Snow Empress sensed that his energy carried the embryonic form of divine power.
• Snow Empress explained that Lin You still had to complete every Dragon King Inheritance trial to truly reach the divine level, and Lin You sensed the two Dragon King wills in his mind.

Lin You began the Ice Fire Dragon King trial, which required him to raise his Soul Power above level ninety and master the Dragon Kings’ abilities. He chose to cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for a month while preparing to confront the Holy Spirit Cult, as Snow Empress stood guard and worried about the God Realm’s response.

• The Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King set Lin You’s first trial and offered inherited memories and the Ice Fire Dragon God Art as rewards.
• Lin You contacted He Caitou, learned that the Holy Spirit Cult was retreating toward the coast after finding a powerful source of strength, and told He Caitou to report that he was in seclusion.
• Lin You decided to use the Holy Spirit Cult’s Evil Soul Masters as combat practice, and he ordered the Immortal Grade Plants to cooperate with his cultivation.
• Snow Empress chose to stay and protect Lin You as he began a month of cultivation beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Ice Fire Dragon God Art drew torrents of ice and fire elements into Lin You as his perilous inheritance cultivation began.

Lin You cultivated the Ice Fire Dragon God Art for a month, gaining Dragon Transformation, an embryonic ice-and-fire domain, and basic Divine Skills. With his soul power nearing a breakthrough, he and Snow Empress decided to seek Di Tian’s advice on obtaining Soul Rings.

• Lin You used the Ice Fire Dragon God Art to balance ice and fire within his body and transform his blood, bones, and life force.
• Lin You awakened Dragon Transformation, spreading a powerful Dragon Pressure that frightened the Immortal Grade Plants and impressed Snow Empress.
• Lin You expanded an unstable ice-and-fire domain and demonstrated Flame Dragon Breath and extreme cold by melting a boulder and freezing the resulting magma.
• Lin You withdrew his powers after a month of cultivation and discussed the God Realm’s restrictions on Soul Beasts becoming gods with Snow Empress.
• Lin You asked Snow Empress how to obtain Soul Rings, and she advised him to visit Di Tian.

Lin You and Snow Empress traveled to the Lake of Life so he could meet Di Tian and assert his status as the Ice Fire Dragon King’s inheritor. Di Tian emerged from the lake, recognized Lin You’s extraordinary bloodline, and reacted with shock and excitement.

• Lin You told the Immortal Grade Plants to guard the valley and absorb their own condensed essence while they restored their origins.
• Snow Empress warned Aromatic Silk Beauty not to seek help from deities, then left the valley with Lin You.
• On the way to the Star Dou Great Forest’s core, Snow Empress explained that Lin You’s Dragon King bloodline placed him on equal standing with Di Tian and advised him to show confidence without arrogance.
• Lin You and Snow Empress arrived at the Lake of Life, where Di Tian’s pressure descended and Lin You answered with his own Dragon Pressure.
• Di Tian rose from the lake, recognized Lin You, and exclaimed in disbelief at the Ice and Fire Dragon King bloodline he carried.

Lin You returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, revealed the Dragon King Inheritance Seal to Di Tian, and reunited with Di Qiuer at his old hut. Deep beneath the Lake of Life, the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena awakened and summoned Di Tian.

• Lin You showed Di Tian his Inheritance Seal, and Di Tian recognized him as the Dragon King’s inheritor and offered him any Soul Beasts except the Ferocious Beasts.
• Lin You and Snow Empress went to his Calcium Hut, which Di Qiuer had kept clean while living there.
• Di Qiuer greeted Lin You, claimed the hut as her home, and decided they were fellow dragons because he could use ultimate ice and fire.
• The aura from Lin You’s seal reached the cavern beneath the Lake of Life and awakened Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena called Di Tian to come see her, and he responded with reverence.

Lin You reunited with Di Qiuer at his hut as he prepared to find a Soul Ring, while Gu Yuena learned that he had inherited the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s power. She ordered Di Tian to support Lin You and set out to meet him herself.

• Di Qiuer told Lin You she had left Shrek Academy with Xuan Zi’s permission and had been cleaning his hut.
• Lin You said he needed a Soul Ring to break through, and Di Qiuer offered to help him find one in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Di Tian visited Gu Yuena beneath the Lake of Life and reported that Lin You, a human, had inherited the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s legacy.
• Gu Yuena ordered Di Tian to fulfill Lin You’s reasonable requests, including selecting Soul Rings and granting him access to the core region of the Lake of Life.
• Gu Yuena declared Lin You the Dragon Tribe’s chosen weapon against the God Realm and went to meet him in the form of a young maiden.

Lin You rejected being bound by the Dragon Tribe's revenge and explained that he wanted to build a world without racial discrimination or bloodline ranks. A mysterious silver-haired girl named Gu Yue appeared, tested the group, and showed interest in his ambitions.

• Lin You told Di Qiuer and Snow Emperor-jiejie that he would pursue his own goals rather than become a replica or tool of the Dragon Tribe.
• Lin You described his vision of a world where humans, Soul Beasts, and other beings lived as equals, challenging Di Qiuer's belief in bloodline ranks.
• A silver-haired girl entered the cabin unnoticed, dismissed Snow Emperor-jiejie's ice domain with a glance, and said she had come to see the one chosen by ice and fire.
• The girl told Lin You that opposing the God Realm was his destiny, but Lin You insisted he would fight it by choice to build the world he wanted.
• The girl petted Di Qiuer, spoke of the Dragon Tribe's future needing her fortune, and introduced herself to Lin You as Gu Yue.

After Gu Yue departed, Di Tian gathered the Star Dou Great Forest’s strongest soul beasts so Lin You could choose his Soul Spirits as the inheritor of the Ice Fire Dragon Kings. Snow Empress claimed four Soul Rings and took charge of inspecting the candidates, while Di Qiuer eagerly volunteered and was pushed down by Di Tian.

• Gu Yue left after telling Di Qiuer she would learn her identity someday, and Snow Empress admitted she could not fathom Gu Yue’s strength.
• Di Tian told Lin You that ordinary soul beasts were unworthy of becoming his Soul Spirits and offered him a choice among soul beasts over one hundred thousand years old.
• Snow Empress declared that she had reserved a place as Lin You’s Soul Spirit and would occupy four Soul Rings, then insisted on inspecting the candidates.
• Di Tian assembled the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts and other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts by the Lake of Life and announced that Lin You was the Ice Fire Dragon Kings’ inheritor.
• Snow Empress told Lin You to choose carefully, and Di Qiuer raised her hand to volunteer before Di Tian pressed her down with his palm.