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.

Lin Yuan spent nearly two years observing Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan before ambushing them on their journey home. When the ambush failed to separate the siblings, Meng Baichuan recognized Lin Yuan as a fellow transmigrator and tried to negotiate instead of fighting.

• Lin Yuan continued cultivating and watching the siblings, reaching level thirty-five and obtaining a third soul ring from a Golden Sword Bamboo.
• Flender gave the Shrek students a month off, and Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan set out for their family home without an escort.
• Lin Yuan followed the siblings' route and, after confirming no one was waiting for them, attacked Meng Yiran with a pebble in a bamboo forest.
• Meng Baichuan pulled Meng Yiran out of the pebble's path, then identified the masked Lin Yuan as the person who had robbed them of Whale Rubber.
• Lin Yuan admitted that he had planned to kill Meng Baichuan and frame the Star Luo Empire, while Meng Baichuan proposed that they cooperate and pursue godhood together.

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 the deaths of Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan brought Shrek Academy under scrutiny, Lin Yuan strengthened himself and resolved to stay hidden. As the next Shrek term approached, new Transmigrators began preparing to pursue their ambitions, including Han Li, who transformed into human form, and Yu Tianlong, who announced he was leaving to attend school.

• The investigation into Meng Yiran and Meng Baichuan's deaths ended after half a month, but Shrek Academy became notorious and stopped attracting new students.
• Lin Yuan refined ten-thousand-year whale rubber, fused with the Imperial Scale Armor, and judged himself ready to absorb a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring.
• As Shrek Academy's new term drew near, several Transmigrators planned to enroll or seek the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone and Ah Yin's Seed of Life.
• Han Li emerged from the Star Dou Great Forest's lightning-shrouded forbidden zone in human form, retaining his cultivation and awakening the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords martial soul.
• Yu Tianlong told his grandfather Yu Yuanzhen that he planned to leave and attend school, while reflecting on the Transmigrator Long Aotian's advantages.

Yu Tianlong and Long Aotian joined forces with Dugu Bo and Dugu Jue over the Immortal Herbs, then prepared to leave for school. Yu Yuanzhen, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo converged at Holy Soul Village to retrieve soul bones, where a black-robed figure flew past them into the mountains.

• Yu Tianlong and Long Aotian allied with their families to negotiate with Dugu Bo, who had become a 97th-level Peak Douluo after consuming Immortal Herbs and evolving his martial soul into the Ice and Fire Dragon King.
• Dugu Jue, whose dual martial souls had evolved into flood dragons, arranged an alliance and divided the Immortal Herbs, soul bones, whale rubber, and other terms with Yu Tianlong and Long Aotian.
• Yu Zhengyuan objected when Long Aotian said he wanted to attend school, but Yu Tianlong argued that leaving home would help him grow, and Yu Yuanzhen agreed to let the two go.
• Yu Tianlong privately asked Yu Yuanzhen for help, and the two secretly headed toward Holy Soul Village to retrieve the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone.
• At Holy Soul Village, Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Tianlong encountered Gu Rong with Long Aotian and Dugu Bo with Dugu Jue, as a black-robed figure flew over them and disappeared into the back mountain.

Lin Yuan watched as three Transmigrators converged while seeking the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, hoping their dispute would give him a chance to raid the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes. Dugu Bo’s intervention helped Dugu Jue negotiate a deal with Yu Tianlong and Long Aotian, and the group left without fighting.

• Lin Yuan hid in the bamboo forest and waited for Transmigrators to search for the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone.
• Dugu Jue, Long Aotian, and Yu Tianlong met in the mountains and argued over who would claim the Soul Bone.
• Yu Tianlong and Long Aotian demanded four Immortal Herbs each to withdraw, while Dugu Bo appeared and threatened them.
• Dugu Jue offered one Immortal Herb to each of them, and they agreed to wait for delivery within a year.
• Dugu Bo carried Dugu Jue farther into the mountains after the others departed.

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 duel for the Wisdom Skull of Mental Concentration while Dugu Bo and Spirit Hall’s elders watched. Dugu Jue entered the contest confident in his venomous abilities, but he also worried that Xuan Jian might become a rival for Qian Renxue.

• Yue Guan warned Dugu Bo that the person inside was a disciple of the Pope, and Dugu Jue asked his age before proposing a duel for the Soul Bone.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei revealed that Xuan Jian was twelve, level forty-two, and a formidable Twin Martial Soul user who had been granted the Wisdom Skull of Mental Concentration.
• Gui Mei warned Yue Guan that Dugu Jue might die and that Dugu Bo could retaliate, but Dugu Bo trusted his grandson and wanted the absorption interrupted before it finished.
• Dugu Bo privately asked Dugu Jue if he could win, and Dugu Jue said his Poison Flood Dragon venom and strength made him confident in the cave.
• Dugu Jue planned to defeat Xuan Jian and worried that the Pope’s disciple might also have designs on Qian Renxue.

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 refining the Black Jade Divine Bamboo, Lin Yuan reached level forty and prepared to test his strengthened Lone Bamboo Martial Soul. He discovered Zhu Zhuyun’s group attacking Zhu Qing outside his hidden cave and was about to leave when someone intervened.

• Lin Yuan hid in a cave near the Star Dou Great Forest and refined the Black Jade Divine Bamboo, raising his Soul Power to level forty.
• Lin Yuan heard Zhu Zhuyun threaten her younger sister Zhu Qing and realized he had stumbled upon their confrontation.
• Lin Yuan watched from behind his concealed cave entrance as Zhu Zhuyun’s group wounded Zhu Qing and knocked her unconscious.
• Lin Yuan decided not to intervene, but an unexpected voice challenged Zhu Zhuyun’s group for ganging up on Zhu Qing.

Han Li appeared during Zhu Zhuyun’s attack on Zhu Qing and killed her followers and Uncle Biao with his Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords. Lin Yuan recognized Han Li as another transmigrator and concluded that his abilities came from his martial soul and soul rings, not Old Devil Han’s cultivation techniques.

• Han Li emerged from hiding, killed Zhu Zhuyun’s violin-type attendant, and revealed his four soul rings as he declared he would intervene.
• Zhu Zhuyun warned Han Li that Zhu Qing was engaged to Dai Mubai, while Han Li dismissed Dai Mubai and demanded that Zhu Zhuyun’s group leave.
• Zhu Zhuyun’s followers attacked Han Li, who cut them down with sword qi.
• Zhu Zhuyun summoned Uncle Biao, but Han Li used lightning defenses and five clones to overpower him before destroying him with a giant sword.
• Lin Yuan identified Han Li’s techniques and lightning as soul-ring abilities and realized Han Li had not inherited Old Devil Han’s cultivation techniques.

After Han Li defeated Zhu Zhuyun’s guards and drove her away, Lin Yuan revealed himself and challenged him. Lin Yuan left Han Li badly injured, but the chapter ended before the fight was decided.

• Han Li threatened Zhu Zhuyun, and she fled after seeing Zhu Qing unconscious.
• Han Li sensed someone hiding nearby and destroyed Lin Yuan’s cave with a sword strike.
• Lin Yuan evaded the attack, revealed himself, and asked Han Li how he had found him.
• Lin Yuan inferred Han Li had spent much of his Soul Power and attacked with his Lone Bamboo staff.
• Lin Yuan knocked Han Li’s sword away, shattered his shield, and sent him crashing into a boulder, where he spat blood.