Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan encountered Dai Mubai on the road to Suotuo City and defeated him with one blow before looting his belongings. After spotting Dai Mubai’s hidden protectors, Lin Yuan diverted the carriage toward Balak City and slipped away alone.

• Lin Yuan left home for Suotuo City after his parents learned he had become a Soul Grandmaster and hunted a thousand-year soul beast.
• Dai Mubai tried to take Lin Yuan’s carriage, but Lin Yuan stopped his White Tiger attack with blue flames and knocked him unconscious.
• Lin Yuan looted Dai Mubai’s Soul Tool, Gold Soul Coins, and Star Luo Imperial Family token, then noticed Dai Mubai’s hidden protectors treating him.
• Lin Yuan ordered the driver to take the road toward Balak City, checked that no one was following, and quietly left the carriage with money for the driver.

Lin Yuan bought Millennium Whale Rubber at the Balak City auction house, then faced a demand from Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan to hand it over. Meng Baichuan identified Lin Yuan as a likely Shrek-bound rival, while Lin Yuan overheard them and chose to stay cautious.

• Lin Yuan entered Balak City, checked that no one was following him, and went to the auction house.
• Lin Yuan bought three pieces of Millennium Whale Rubber and several Soul Tools, but did not compete for the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber.
• Meng Yiran confronted Lin Yuan and demanded the Whale Rubber, but an auction house employee warned them against fighting inside.
• Meng Baichuan recognized that Lin Yuan had paid with a Star Luo Empire gold card bearing a White Tiger emblem and persuaded Meng Yiran to let him go.
• Meng Baichuan concluded that Lin Yuan was heading to Shrek Academy, and Lin Yuan overheard the siblings while deciding not to act rashly.

Lin Yuan refined three pieces of Millennium Whale Rubber, enrolled at Suotuo City Intermediate Soul Master Academy under an alias, and watched Shrek Academy’s admissions. He then entered the Great Soul Arena as Qin Xuan and began investigating Meng Baichuan and Meng Yiran after seeing how unusually strong they were.

• Lin Yuan refined three pieces of Millennium Whale Rubber in ice water, greatly improving his constitution and the Soul Ring he could withstand.
• Using the alias Lan Si, Lin Yuan enrolled at Suotuo City Intermediate Soul Master Academy and received an entrance-exam exemption and a scholarship.
• Lin Yuan watched Dai Mubai gain entry to Shrek Academy, then noticed Meng Baichuan and Meng Yiran’s unusually high Soul Power and powerful Soul Ring configurations.
• At Shrek, Li Yusong drove off arguing applicants by revealing his six Soul Rings and explaining the academy’s requirements.
• As Qin Xuan, Lin Yuan won a Soul Grandmaster-level duel at the Great Soul Arena without revealing his full strength.
• Lin Yuan watched Meng Baichuan and Meng Yiran battle at the arena and judged them far stronger than other Soul Elders he had seen.

After nearly two years of observing Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan, Lin Yuan reached rank thirty-five and prepared to ambush them on their journey home. Meng Baichuan recognized him as a fellow transmigrator, and as their confrontation began, he tried to persuade Lin Yuan to avoid fighting and follow Tang San toward godhood.

• Lin Yuan studied Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan’s fighting abilities and coordination while cultivating at Suotuo City Intermediate Soul Master Academy.
• After nearly two years, Lin Yuan reached rank thirty-five and obtained a third soul ring from a Golden Sword Bamboo.
• When Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan traveled home alone, Lin Yuan checked their route and followed them before attacking near a bamboo grove.
• Meng Baichuan pulled Meng Yiran out of the way of Lin Yuan’s pebble and identified Lin Yuan as the person who had stolen their whale rubber.
• Lin Yuan explained that Meng Yiran had not originally been meant to die, but that he could not let her witness the fight and expose him.
• Meng Baichuan asked Lin Yuan to avoid fighting and argued that they could follow Tang San, become gods, and build a replacement for Spirit Hall.

Lin Yuan confronted Meng Baichuan, who revealed he had lured him out to steal his cultivation techniques and seize the Immortal Herbs and divine positions. Their fight left Meng Yiran badly injured, and Meng Baichuan exposed his contempt for her as he attacked Lin Yuan.

• Meng Baichuan admitted he had deliberately gone outside Suotuo City to lure Lin Yuan out and planned to use his techniques to claim the Immortal Herbs, beauties, and divine positions.
• Meng Yiran attacked Lin Yuan with her Snake-Headed Cane while Meng Baichuan completed a Self-Body Martial Soul Fusion Skill and transformed into a poisonous four-clawed dragon.
• Lin Yuan used Flash to evade Meng Yiran's snake shadows and struck her, but pulled back his force to avoid killing her when Meng Baichuan charged at them.
• The dragon's tail struck Meng Yiran and its poison corroded her clothing, worsening her injuries, before Meng Baichuan turned his assault on Lin Yuan.
• Meng Baichuan told Lin Yuan he did not consider Meng Yiran his sister and would sacrifice her to obtain Lin Yuan's cultivation techniques.

Meng Baichuan pursued Lin Yuan through the bamboo forest, relying on an External Soul Bone and his martial soul fusion to overpower him. Lin Yuan revealed that Meng Baichuan’s armor was not fully fused, then used lightning-charged bamboo and a mirage to evade his attack as Meng Baichuan remained intent on stealing his techniques.

• Meng Yiran realized that Meng Baichuan had risked his life for Lin Yuan’s techniques and felt betrayed by the brother she had devoted herself to.
• Lin Yuan led Meng Baichuan to a cliff in the bamboo forest, then suddenly doubled his speed and struck him with merged blue flames and purple lightning.
• Meng Baichuan survived Lin Yuan’s attack with golden dragon armor from an External Soul Bone, which he said Meng Yiran had given him.
• Meng Baichuan offered to spare Lin Yuan and give him Meng Yiran in marriage if Lin Yuan taught him his techniques, but Lin Yuan refused and challenged him.
• Meng Baichuan charged Lin Yuan, who summoned lightning-charged Lone Bamboos that hurt him but could not pierce his armor.
• Meng Baichuan’s tail passed through a mirage of Lin Yuan, and he realized Lin Yuan had trapped him in mist while he continued coveting Lin Yuan’s techniques.

Lin Yuan defeated Meng Baichuan by secretly firing Creation Heaven-Reaching Dew into his mouth during their battle. Meng Baichuan died, leaving behind his golden External Soul Bone.

• Lin Yuan unleashed Golden Shadow Formula, but Meng Baichuan dodged most of the attack and charged him in his dragon form.
• Meng Baichuan blocked Lin Yuan's escape routes and opened his jaws to bite him as he jumped into the air.
• Lin Yuan used a finger to fire Creation Heaven-Reaching Dew into Meng Baichuan's mouth while holding a Hundred-Year Lone Bamboo left leg bone.
• Meng Baichuan recognized the liquid as lethal to animals and began to die as his body swelled.
• Meng Baichuan recalled his past lives and his plan to kill Meng Yiran and seize the Immortal Herbs before exploding into bloody mist, leaving his golden Soul Bone behind.

Lin Yuan killed Meng Baichuan, but Meng Yiran took her own life after learning her brother was dead. He concealed the evidence and returned toward Suotuo City, where Dragon Duke and Snake Granny later began searching for the killer.

• Lin Yuan collected Meng Baichuan’s armor-shaped soul bone and Soul Tool, then approached the mortally wounded Meng Yiran.
• Meng Yiran confirmed that Meng Baichuan was dead, gave Lin Yuan the ten-thousand-year whale rubber, and killed herself with a throwing knife.
• Lin Yuan destroyed Meng Yiran’s body, took her Storage Soul Tool, and removed evidence that could identify him.
• Lin Yuan discarded the siblings’ belongings and his disguise in an underground river, washed, and headed toward Suotuo City as an ordinary traveler.
• Dragon Duke and Snake Granny later escorted a battered Flender and Shrek Academy’s teachers through Suotuo City while searching for the killer.

After Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan’s deaths brought scrutiny and disgrace to Shrek Academy, Lin Yuan laid low while preparing for a coming clash among transmigrators. As Tang San’s arrival approached, new transmigrators emerged, including Han Li, who transformed into human form, and Yu Tianlong, who announced he planned to attend school.

• Investigators ruled out Shrek’s students and dean as suspects, but the academy was blamed for the deaths and past student casualties, leaving enrollment empty and prompting stricter safety measures.
• Lin Yuan refined ten-thousand-year whale rubber, fused with the Imperial Scale Armor, and decided to avoid using it while he improved his strength.
• Eleven months later, transmigrators began moving toward Shrek and the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and Ah Yin’s Seed of Life near Holy Soul Village.
• Han Li emerged from a lightning-covered forbidden zone in the Star Dou Great Forest after transforming from a ten-thousand-year Heavenly Thunder Bamboo Soul Beast, retaining his cultivation and awakening the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords Martial Soul.
• At the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, Yu Tianlong told his grandfather Yu Yuanzhen that he intended to go to school, while thinking about fellow transmigrator Long Aotian’s powerful position and engagement to Ning Rongrong.

Yu Tianlong and Long Aotian allied with Dugu Jue to secure immortal herbs and other advantages, then set out to retrieve the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone. Their three groups converged near Holy Soul Village, where an unseen black-robed figure watched them pass.

• Yu Tianlong and Long Aotian joined forces with Dugu Jue after learning that Dugu Bo had become a level 97 Peak Douluo and negotiating for immortal herbs and other terms.
• Yu Tianlong consumed the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum and reached level 45 Soul Power, while Long Aotian consumed the eight-petal immortal orchid and reached level 42.
• Yu Tianlong persuaded Yu Yuanzhen to let him go to school, with Yu Luomian accompanying him.
• Yu Tianlong and Yu Yuanzhen secretly left the sect for Holy Soul Village to retrieve the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
• Gu Rong arrived with Long Aotian, and Dugu Bo arrived with Dugu Jue, as all three groups converged near Holy Soul Village while a black-robed figure watched from a hidden bamboo grove.

Lin Yuan hid in the mountains hoping to catch a Transmigrator seeking the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone, while Dugu Jue, Long Aotian, and Yu Tianlong negotiated over the relic. Dugu Bo intervened to protect his grandson, and the men reached a deal before departing, leaving Lin Yuan free to consider his next move.

• Lin Yuan waited in a concealed bamboo grove, expecting Transmigrators to search for the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
• Dugu Jue, Long Aotian, and Yu Tianlong arrived and argued over who would claim the Soul Bone, with Yu Tianlong and Long Aotian demanding immortal herbs.
• Dugu Bo appeared with nine Soul Rings and warned the others not to bully Dugu Jue.
• Dugu Jue offered each rival one immortal herb, and Yu Tianlong and Long Aotian agreed to wait up to a year for delivery.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Jue flew deeper into the mountains as Lin Yuan watched from hiding.

Lin Yuan reached Dugu Bo’s hidden medicinal garden by vaulting over its poison formation and accidentally encountered Dugu Yan bathing. Dugu Yan demanded that he turn around and threatened to call for help, leaving Lin Yuan facing a potentially dangerous misunderstanding.

• Yu Tianlong explained to Yu Yuanzhen that the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone would bring trouble, and Long Aotian declined Gu Rong’s plan to raid Dugu Bo’s garden because Dugu Jue had hidden the immortal herbs.
• Long Aotian worried about Ning Rongrong’s growing desire to break off their engagement and hurried back to keep watch over her.
• After the other groups flew away from Holy Soul Village, Lin Yuan traveled to Sunset Forest and reached the edge of Dugu Bo’s poison formation before nightfall.
• Lin Yuan used his Blue Silver Pole Vault skill to leap over the poison mist and land inside the garden’s courtyard.
• Lin Yuan saw Dugu Yan bathing, apologized for intruding, and realized her soul power marked her as at least a Soul Emperor.
• Dugu Yan covered herself, demanded to know how Lin Yuan had entered, and threatened to call her grandfather and younger brother for help.

Lin Yuan tricked Dugu Yan into giving him an Immortal Herb, then stole several plants from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes before escaping Sunset Forest. Meanwhile, Dugu Bo and Dugu Jue found Yue Guan and Gui Mei at the waterfall, where a confrontation began over the treasures inside.

• Dugu Yan offered Lin Yuan the Black Jade Divine Bamboo shoot in exchange for his leaving, and Lin Yuan accepted it before slipping away.
• Lin Yuan told Dugu Yan he was twelve, then searched the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes and took the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, the Infernal Delicate Apricot, and what he guessed was the Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Lin Yuan escaped Sunset Forest that night after leaving the other Immortal Herb seeds behind.
• Dugu Jue and Dugu Bo found the waterfall containing the Blue Silver Emperor's Soul Bone and the Seed of Life, but Yue Guan and Gui Mei had arrived first.
• Dugu Bo demanded that Yue Guan and Gui Mei hand over what they had found, threatening them if they refused.

Dugu Jue challenged Xuan Jian, the Pope’s twelve-year-old disciple, to a wagered duel over the Soul Bone. As Dugu Jue prepared to enter the cave, he weighed his confidence against the danger of making an enemy of Spirit Hall.

• Dugu Jue asked Yue Guan to let him fight the person inside, with the winner claiming everything there.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei revealed that Xuan Jian was a powerful twin-sword genius who had reached rank forty-two at age twelve.
• Gui Mei warned Dugu Bo that Xuan Jian was dangerous, but Dugu Bo trusted his grandson and accepted the duel.
• Dugu Bo privately asked Dugu Jue if he was confident, and Dugu Jue assured him that his venomous Poison Flood Dragon could defeat Xuan Jian in the cave.
• Dugu Jue considered how Xuan Jian’s arrival could threaten his plans to win Qian Renxue’s affection, but decided he could not afford to kill a Spirit Hall disciple.

Dugu Jue entered the cave beneath the waterfall to stop a young man from taking the Blue Silver Emperor Seed of Life, but Xuan Jian killed him with the Black-White Xuanzhan swords. Xuan Jian claimed Dugu Jue's Lovesick Heartbreak Red and resolved to take every Immortal Herb from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.

• Dugu Jue activated Jiaolong's Fury and entered the cave after Gui Mei and Chrysanthemum Pass let him through.
• Dugu Jue found a young man putting the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone into his Soul Tool and reaching for the Blue Silver Emperor Seed of Life.
• The young man, Xuan Jian, transformed into a streak of blood-red light and cut Dugu Jue apart with the Black-White Xuanzhan swords.
• Xuan Jian explained that he killed Transmigrators who threatened Bibi Dong, then beheaded Dugu Jue and searched his Soul Tool.
• Xuan Jian found the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, offered it his blood, and watched it fall from the Wujue Stone.

Xuan Jian escaped Dugu Bo’s fury by threatening his family, leaving Dugu Bo to recover his grandson’s remains and the Blue Silver Emperor Seed of Life. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi learned that Ning Rongrong had fled the day before her engagement to Long Aotian and ordered a search.

• Dugu Bo attacked the cave after sensing Dugu Jue’s death, but Chrysanthemum Pass and Gui Mei trapped him with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Xuan Jian warned Dugu Bo that his granddaughter, son, and daughter-in-law would be in danger if he continued fighting, then fled.
• Dugu Bo stopped struggling, vowed revenge on Spirit Hall, and gathered Dugu Jue’s remains and the Blue Silver Emperor Seed of Life.
• A Soul Emperor guard told Ning Fengzhi that Ning Rongrong had swapped clothes with her maid and sneaked out of the sect.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered his people to find Ning Rongrong and summoned Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo to discuss her disappearance.
• Sword Douluo condemned Ning Rongrong for abandoning her engagement, while Gu Rong urged them to search for her and blamed Long Aotian for taking her away.

After Ning Rongrong fled her engagement, Long Aotian accepted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s explanation and returned to cultivation. Qian Renxue learned that Xuan Jian had killed Dugu Jue and resolved to focus on Yu Tianlong and Long Aotian as potential rivals for Xuan Jian, leaving Lin Yuan unaware of these developments.

• Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo argued over Ning Rongrong’s disappearance before Ning Fengzhi planned to explain her absence as a breakthrough in cultivation.
• The sect failed to find Ning Rongrong, so Long Aotian stood alone at the engagement banquet and accepted Ning Fengzhi’s promise to hold the wedding when he became a Soul Emperor.
• Qian Renxue learned that Ning Rongrong had fled and that Xuan Jian had killed Dugu Jue.
• Qian Renxue rejected the suggestion to tell Long Aotian about Ning Rongrong, expecting the secret to eventually drive him against Ning Fengzhi.
• Qian Renxue dismissed Dugu Jue as a lost recruit and ordered She Long to keep watching Yu Tianlong and Long Aotian while seeking other promising talents.
• Qian Renxue focused on finding someone who could defeat Xuan Jian to prove herself to Bibi Dong, while Lin Yuan remained unaware of the news.

After reaching rank forty by refining the Black Jade Divine Bamboo, Lin Yuan hid near his cave and witnessed Zhu Zhuyun’s group overwhelm Zhu Zhuqing. As Lin Yuan prepared to withdraw, someone challenged Zhu Zhuyun for bullying her sister.

• Lin Yuan found a secluded cave near Star Dou Great Forest, ate the Black Jade Divine Bamboo shoot, and refined its power until he reached rank forty.
• Lin Yuan heard Zhu Zhuyun pursuing her younger sister and recognized the encounter, but chose to stay hidden rather than intervene.
• Zhu Zhuyun’s group attacked Zhu Zhuqing with close-range fighters, archers, and a support Soul Master, leaving Zhu Zhuqing badly wounded and unconscious.
• Lin Yuan judged that Zhu Zhuyun had intended to drive Zhu Zhuqing away rather than kill her and prepared to retreat into the cave.
• An unknown person confronted Zhu Zhuyun, saying that her group was going too far by bullying Zhu Zhuqing.

Han Li intervened when Zhu Zhuyun attacked Zhu Zhuqing, and Lin Yuan realized the newcomer was a transmigrator wielding the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords. Han Li killed Zhu Zhuyun’s attendants and defeated Uncle Biao, while Lin Yuan concluded that Han Li had awakened the swords as his martial soul rather than inheriting Old Devil Han’s cultivation techniques.

• Han Li emerged from hiding and killed Zhu Zhuyun’s violin support-type Soul Master, startling Lin Yuan with his undetectable presence.
• Han Li declared that he would protect Zhu Zhuqing, and Zhu Zhuyun warned him that her sister was engaged to the Third Prince of the Star Luo Empire.
• When Zhu Zhuyun’s attendants attacked, Han Li cut them down with sword energy, prompting her to call for Uncle Biao.
• Uncle Biao attacked Han Li with his Mighty Demon Bear martial soul, but Han Li’s lightning shield shattered the attack and his follow-up techniques overwhelmed him.
• Han Li killed Uncle Biao with a giant sword strike, and Lin Yuan deduced that Han Li had awakened the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords as his martial soul rather than receiving Old Devil Han’s techniques.

Lin Yuan watched Han Li drive Zhu Zhuyun away, then revealed himself and fought him. After Han Li’s earlier attacks had drained his Soul Power, Lin Yuan overpowered him and left him badly injured.

• Han Li spared Zhu Zhuyun and threatened her into leaving after killing her Soul Emperor guard.
• Han Li sensed someone watching and cut apart the bamboo grove and cave with a sword aura, forcing Lin Yuan to reveal himself.
• Lin Yuan explained that Han Li had wasted Soul Power on his earlier attacks and showed his Soul Rings.
• Lin Yuan strengthened himself with his cultivation techniques and Yellow Scale Armor, then struck Han Li from behind.
• Han Li’s shield shattered, his swords flew from his hand, and he slammed into a boulder, vomiting blood.