Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• A wealthy couple approaches Phainon’s Star Rail Escort Agency, asking for an assassination.
• They explain that their son, a promising but physically fragile student, was pushed through Zhou Yi’s brutal training at Shrek Academy despite repeatedly warning her of his condition. His health collapsed, ending his cultivation prospects. When his parents sought justice, Zhou Yi drove them away with her power, and Shrek offered no help.
• Phainon initially notes how dangerous it would be to target Zhou Yi at Shrek, leading the parents to fear he will refuse. He clarifies that the obstacle is the price: the job will cost at least ten million Gold Soul Coins.
• The agency’s system rates the assignment as a premium three-star order. It warns Phainon that Zhou Yi’s connections—and the involvement of Shrek’s Soul Tool Department—make the mission more dangerous than her rank alone suggests. It also charges him Escort Points for information he never asked for.

Character developments and interactions

• The parents are grief-stricken and furious, but their desire to avenge their son outweighs the cost. They are impressed by Phainon’s apparent confidence.
• Phainon presents himself as calm and compassionate while treating the assassination as a lucrative assignment. His excitement over the potential reward contrasts with his sympathy for the couple; his irritation at the system adds humor.
• Zhou Yi is portrayed through the parents’ account as a ruthless teacher who dismisses a student’s serious limitations and evades responsibility.
• The system behaves like a transactional business, charging Phainon for unsolicited intelligence and refusing a refund.

Significant themes

• The chapter contrasts institutional power and impunity with the vulnerability of ordinary people: Shrek’s prestige and internal loyalty prevent the parents from obtaining justice.
• It explores revenge as a response to helplessness, as the parents turn to an assassination agency after conventional remedies fail.
• Commerce and dark humor undercut the grim subject matter: even a dangerous killing is presented as a service with a price list and customization options.

Key plot points and events

• Wealthy clients commission a customized operation to kill Zhou Yi, paying a deposit and agreeing to submit their desired script for assessment.
• At the Star Rail Escort Agency, Phainon, Kafka, and Silver Wolf review Zhou Yi’s background and decide to gather their team. They regard her as deserving punishment but recognize Shrek Academy’s powerful defenders as the real danger.
• Phainon plans to use his second form to hold off Mu En and Xuan Zi while the others handle the rest. The team understands that this power boost will leave them weakened afterward.
• Hanabi eagerly wants to cause extra trouble but accepts the others’ refusal. Acheron declares that she will kill Zhou Yi.
• The story then shifts to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Lin Chen escorts Huo Yuhao in exchange for grilled fish—one fish for each year of Yuhao’s requested hundred-year First Soul Ring.
• Lin Chen’s private mission panel reveals that he is infiltrating several organizations. His current long-term assignments include the Holy Spirit Cult, the Star Luo Empire, and Shrek Academy; accepting the Shrek mission raised him from Three-Star to Four-Star Servant.

Character developments and interactions

• Phainon acts as the agency’s strategist, balancing ambition with caution and taking responsibility for the dangerous confrontation ahead.
• Silver Wolf supplies intelligence and pushes the agency to grow, comparing it with rival escort groups.
• Kafka supports Phainon’s plans and shares the team’s outrage at Zhou Yi.
• Hanabi remains playful and eager for chaos, but shows she understands the mission’s stakes.
• Acheron is quiet and controlled; her brief vow to kill Zhou Yi conveys intense resolve.
• Lin Chen appears warm and easygoing while secretly pursuing a complex infiltration strategy. His preference for routine mission rewards contrasts with the agency’s high-risk operation.
• Huo Yuhao admires Lin Chen’s strength and finds his unusual payment arrangement amusing.

Significant themes

• Justice and revenge: The agency frames its planned attack as a response to Zhou Yi’s alleged misconduct, though the operation remains a paid assassination.
• Ambition and risk: The agency needs a major victory to establish itself, but faces overwhelming opponents and a costly power-up.
• Secrecy and double lives: Lin Chen’s ordinary escort work conceals multiple covert missions and a carefully constructed identity.
• Competing approaches to progress: Phainon’s team seeks rapid recognition through a dangerous confrontation, while Lin Chen patiently accumulates rewards through long-term infiltration.

• Lin Chen, a three-ring Soul Elder, has three powerful Myriad Worlds clones running escort agencies in separate worlds. He lets them operate independently, keeping his identity as their master secret. Their rivalries encourage them to take more jobs, and Lin Chen claims half the Escort Points they earn.
• The chapter distinguishes ordinary Escort jobs, which earn basic points, from rare Fate Escorts, which earn High-Tier points. Lin Chen previously accepted a Fate Escort for Huo Yuhao and is now accompanying him as he pursues his first Soul Ring.
• Lin Chen notices a major job posted by the Star Rail agency: for a 100,000 deposit, its client wants Zhou Yi killed at Shrek Academy. The details are still being decided, but Lin Chen anticipates a clash with his own agency and plans to watch.
• While sharing Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish, Lin Chen explains away his unusually powerful Soul Rings and skills with a fabricated account. He says strong physiques can withstand higher-age rings, though he warns Huo Yuhao that his own body could handle only a three-hundred-year first ring. Privately, Lin Chen knows his rings and abilities came from the system, and that Huo Yuhao is destined for far greater things.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei arrive, drawn by the food. The system reveals two possible Fate Escorts concerning Tang Ya: help her gain power, or help her become an Evil Soul Master so she can avenge her parents and rebuild the Tang Sect. Lin Chen chooses the second, easier-to-define objective, since he has access to a technique that can transform her.
  Character developments and interactions: Lin Chen remains secretive, pragmatic, and amused by the advantages his system gives him. He treats Huo Yuhao warmly, while Huo Yuhao’s gratitude and trust deepen through Lin Chen’s help and praise of his cooking. Tang Ya’s grief and ambitions become the focus of a new mission, setting up Lin Chen’s next intervention.
  Themes: Hidden power and deception; competition as a tool for motivation; the contrast between ordinary rewards and destiny-driven opportunities; and the way personal pain can shape a person’s pursuit of power and revenge.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Chen asks his system for simple, direct tasks. It assigns him a mission to help Bei Bei win Tang Ya’s heart and Zhang Lexuan over, leaving Lin Chen baffled because he is supposed to be going undercover at Shrek. Since the mission has no penalty for failure, he accepts it casually.
• While Lin Chen and Huo Yuhao grill fish in the Star Dou Great Forest, Bei Bei and Tang Ya arrive, hungry after traveling. They explain that they are there to hunt a Soul Beast and obtain a Soul Ring.
• Lin Chen invites them to eat and claims the fish cost one Gold Soul Coin each. Tang Ya is shocked by the price but happily continues once she learns Lin Chen is treating them. Bei Bei nevertheless pays ten Gold Soul Coins, partly to avoid owing Lin Chen a favor.
• Tang Ya becomes upset when Bei Bei spends money on the meal, accusing him of claiming poverty when she needs funds to establish a Tang Sect branch in Shrek City. Lin Chen challenges her complaint, and Bei Bei tries to smooth things over.
• After the meal, Lin Chen and Huo Yuhao leave to pursue their own urgent business: getting Huo Yuhao a Soul Ring. Huo Yuhao is delighted by the money he has earned.

Character developments

• Lin Chen is pragmatic and blunt, amused by the system’s romantic mission but more focused on his own plans. He uses the fish sale to help Huo Yuhao and reacts sharply when Huo Yuhao undervalues the fish.
• Huo Yuhao is observant and quick to adapt, especially when Lin Chen signals that he should accept Bei Bei’s payment. The unexpected ten Gold Soul Coins give him hope of affording academy tuition.
• Tang Ya is visibly captivated by Lin Chen’s looks and generosity, but her excitement turns to frustration when Bei Bei spends money on the meal instead of supporting her plans.
• Bei Bei is courteous and considerate, but cautious about accepting favors from Lin Chen. He tries to defuse the tension between Tang Ya and Lin Chen.

Significant themes

• Money and obligation: Bei Bei pays to avoid a debt, while Tang Ya measures his spending against his refusal to fund her ambitions.
• First impressions and attraction: Tang Ya’s attention shifts quickly from the fish to Lin Chen’s appearance.
• Bluntness and social awkwardness: Lin Chen’s direct remarks expose the conflict, and Bei Bei’s attempts to mediate cannot fully restore the mood.
• Fate versus choice: Lin Chen treats the system’s mission as optional and prioritizes his own immediate goals.

Character interactions

• Lin Chen welcomes Bei Bei and Tang Ya to the meal, while Huo Yuhao prepares more fish.
• Tang Ya openly admires Lin Chen; Bei Bei also compares himself unfavorably to Lin Chen’s looks.
• Bei Bei’s payment sparks Tang Ya’s complaint about his unwillingness to fund the Tang Sect branch. Lin Chen pushes back, and Bei Bei apologizes for the awkwardness, prompting further irritation from Tang Ya.
• Lin Chen and Huo Yuhao leave on friendly terms, with Huo Yuhao thanking Lin Chen for the money-making opportunity.

Key plot points

• Lin Chen follows Huo Yuhao to the Star Dou Great Forest, intending to exploit the events surrounding him without interfering with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s destined bond.
• When Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appears, it chooses Huo Yuhao and sacrifices itself to him, ignoring Lin Chen despite Lin Chen’s stronger mental abilities.
• Lin Chen uses his Rebirth Soul-Luring Lamp to draw Electrolux into it, gaining the powerful necromancer as an ally and potential means of accessing the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao collapses after the sacrifice. Lin Chen stays beside him, then gives Bei Bei and Tang Ya a cover story: a powerful Soul Beast passed through and knocked him unconscious.
• The group leaves the forest. Elsewhere, Zhang Lexuan and several injured Shrek disciples are being overwhelmed by the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blood Moon Wolf King. Just as Zhang Lexuan despairs, a strange mocking laugh interrupts the scene.

Character developments

• Lin Chen proves calculating and opportunistic, concealing his true motives while quietly acquiring Electrolux. He also rationalizes his killings within the Holy Spirit Cult as targeting only Evil Soul Masters, though his reasoning reveals a pragmatic moral code.
• Huo Yuhao receives Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s sacrifice but remains unconscious, leaving the consequences of this major change unresolved.
• Electrolux enters Lin Chen’s Soul-Luring Lamp, setting up a potentially powerful partnership.
• Zhang Lexuan shows courage and self-sacrifice, holding off a far stronger enemy to protect the wounded, but reaches a breaking point when help fails to arrive.

Significant themes

• Fate versus agency: Lin Chen knows Huo Yuhao’s life is shaped by a larger plan, yet seeks to alter the future by claiming Electrolux.
• Power and control: Tang San’s influence over the lower world fuels Lin Chen’s resentment and ambition.
• Moral compromise: Lin Chen condemns the Holy Spirit Cult’s violence while defending his own participation in it as a matter of survival and selective targets.
• Loyalty and sacrifice: Sky Dream Ice Silkworm gives itself to Huo Yuhao, while Zhang Lexuan risks everything for her companions.

Character interactions

• Lin Chen protects Huo Yuhao outwardly while pursuing a separate agenda, and later misleads Bei Bei and Tang Ya to hide what really happened.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm deliberately chooses Huo Yuhao over Lin Chen; Lin Chen responds by securing Electrolux instead.
• Zhang Lexuan confronts the Blood Moon Wolf King alone to shield the survivors. Her plea for help goes unanswered until the mysterious laughter interrupts the attack.

Key plot points and events

• During the Shrek students’ desperate fight with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blood Moon Wolf King, Li Bai arrives and freezes the beast in place through sheer force and swordsmanship.
• Li Bai’s companions—Yun Ying, Kai, Zhao Huaizhen, and Cai Wenji—join him. Seeing the students badly wounded by the Wolf King’s corrosive Soul Power, Li Bai orders Zhao Huaizhen to heal them.
• Zhao Huaizhen uses his Support Gem Martial Soul to rapidly mend their injuries, purify the corrosive power, and restore much of their strength. Cai Wenji also provides Zhang Lexuan with a final touch of healing.
• Zhang Lexuan recognizes the newcomers as members of the King’s Escort Agency. Cai Wenji explains that the group came to the Star Dou Great Forest for a casual “team outing” to build up their jungle-blade stacks.

Character developments

• Li Bai is introduced as supremely confident and theatrical: he restrains the powerful Wolf King with little apparent effort and jokes at Zhao Huaizhen’s expense.
• Zhao Huaizhen is revealed to be an exceptionally capable healer, despite being teased for losing his former mobility ability and being assigned the support role.
• Zhang Lexuan shifts from near-death and stunned disbelief to recovery and recognition of the rescuers.
• Cai Wenji is cheerful and helpful, eagerly healing Zhang Lexuan and explaining the group’s purpose.

Character interactions

• Li Bai takes charge, directing Zhao Huaizhen to heal while assigning Cai Wenji a control role.
• Zhao Huaizhen accepts the task but trades barbs with Li Bai, who mocks him for losing his Three Thousand Thunderbolt Movement.
• Cai Wenji and Zhang Lexuan greet one another warmly, while Zhang Lexuan questions why the King’s Escort Agency has appeared.

Significant themes

• Power and rescue: The newcomers’ arrival dramatically reverses the students’ near-defeat.
• Team roles and cooperation: Each member has a distinct function, and Li Bai’s commands quickly organize the group.
• Humor amid danger: Banter and Cai Wenji’s casual description of the outing contrast with the severity of the battle.

Plot points and events

• Cai Wenji and Zhang Lexuan discuss why Shrek’s students are in the Star Dou Great Forest without a teacher. Zhang explains that a powerful Blood Moon Wolf King stopped them and nearly killed the group.
• Cai dismisses the danger, confident that Li Bai can handle the wolf. Zhang is astonished by the escort agency’s apparent strength, especially after seeing its members heal the injured students.
• Li Bai considers killing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. He reasons that it attacked the Shrek students first, making the kill defensible despite the forest’s agreement with Shrek Academy against hunting such beasts.
• After Zhang gives permission, Li Bai reveals his Green Lotus Sword Martial Soul and nine Soul Rings, including two hundred-thousand-year rings. He attacks the wolf with rapid sword techniques.
• The Blood Moon Wolf King tries to flee and then fights back, but Li Bai’s sword strikes overwhelm its defenses. The chapter ends as Li Bai unleashes his eighth Soul Skill, Green Lotus Sword Song, against the transformed wolf.

Character developments

• Zhang Lexuan shifts from desperate concern for her group to relief and awe. She realizes the King’s Escort Agency is far more powerful than its ordinary reputation suggests.
• Li Bai is shown as both pragmatic and formidable: he seeks Zhang’s consent before killing the wolf, partly to avoid responsibility, and is eager to gain Soul Rings, a Soul Bone, and Jungle Knife stacks.
• Cai Wenji remains calm and reassuring, treating a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast as a manageable threat.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: The agency’s humble, everyday reputation conceals extraordinary power.
• Power and ambition: Li Bai sees the wolf as both a threat to defeat and an opportunity to strengthen himself.
• Custom, responsibility, and self-defense: Li Bai weighs the forest’s agreement with Shrek against the wolf’s attack, then seeks explicit permission before acting.
• Composure amid danger: Cai’s casual confidence contrasts with Zhang’s alarm and the wolf’s escalating fear and rage.

Character interactions

• Cai questions Zhang about the students’ mission and urges them to leave the dangerous mixed zone.
• Zhang and Cai’s exchange highlights their contrasting perceptions of the wolf and the escort agency’s abilities.
• Li Bai asks Zhang for permission to kill the wolf; she eagerly agrees, wanting both the creature dead and her group saved.
• Li Bai and the wolf exchange threats before engaging in a fast, increasingly violent battle.

Key plot points

• Li Bai kills the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blood Moon Wolf King almost instantly, rescuing Zhang Lexuan and the surviving Shrek disciples.
• He takes the Soul Bone and gives it to Zhao Huaizhen, following the group’s usual practice. He then absorbs the wolf’s corpse into his Wine Gourd, claiming his Martial Soul will eventually absorb its Soul Ring as the beast dissolves.
• Zhang Lexuan thanks the group and promises a reward, but Li Bai instead criticizes her for leading Soul Saints and Soul Emperors into the forest’s Mixed Zone while she herself still lacks an Eighth Soul Ring.
• Cai Wenji reveals that the powerful teacher meant to protect the Shrek group was found drunk and asleep. Zhang recognizes him as Xuan Zi and vows to confront him.
• Since Zhang and the survivors are too depleted to safely leave the Star Dou Great Forest, Zhao Huaizhen offers them the agency’s services. He presents an Escort Order, proposing that they hire the King's Escort Agency to escort them back to Shrek.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Bai demonstrates overwhelming strength and an unusual Martial Soul ability, while remaining casual, self-assured, and more interested in wine than in conventional use of the wolf’s remains. His banter with Yun Ying shows the group’s familiar, teasing dynamic.
• Zhang Lexuan shifts from shock at Li Bai’s power to serious respect for the agency. Her gratitude and anger at Xuan Zi reveal both her sense of responsibility and her frustration with the failed protection.
• Zhao Huaizhen quietly manages the Soul Bone and turns the rescue into a practical offer of paid escort services.
• Yun Ying eagerly argues for a share of the wine and experience; Kai claims to drink, while Cai Wenji and Zhao say they do not.
• Cai Wenji’s discovery exposes the negligence that left Zhang’s group vulnerable.

Significant themes

• Hidden strength and reassessment: Li Bai’s effortless victory forces Zhang to reconsider the agency as a major power.
• Responsibility and recklessness: Zhang’s dangerous expedition and Xuan Zi’s alleged drunken absence highlight the consequences of failing to protect others.
• Business amid danger: The agency treats rescue as a professional service, offering safe passage in exchange for an order.
• Found-group camaraderie: Teasing over loot, experience, and wine contrasts with the deadly battle and the loss of eight Shrek disciples.

Plot points and events

• In the Star Dou Great Forest, Zhang Lexuan hires Zhao Huaizhen’s escort agency to protect her group for one million Gold Soul Coins. She also places a Hunting Order for others who still need Soul Rings.
• Meanwhile, Phainon’s team prepares to travel to Shrek Academy to carry out a paid mission targeting Zhou Yi. Their script gives Zhou Yi a chance to live if she expels no students—but they expect her to do so.
• Wang Dong arrives and hires the agency to escort her to Shrek. Though she is alarmed by the million-coin price, pride makes her pay. The team accepts, since Shrek is already their destination.
• In the forest, Huo Yuhao joins the Tang Sect after Tang Ya and Bei Bei offer him a cultivation method and a special Shrek admission place. Lin Chen intends to head to Shrek as well, though his real aim is infiltration, not study.

Character developments

• Zhang Lexuan pragmatically turns to the capable escort agency after losing faith in Xuan Zi’s reliability.
• Phainon shows his ruthless business sense, taking profitable escort work even when it adds little effort to the team’s journey.
• Wang Dong’s pride leads her to spend her entire one-million-coin reserve rather than admit she cannot afford the escort.
• Huo Yuhao is excited by the prospect of cultivation and admission to Shrek, and believes his future is opening up.
• Lin Chen remains detached from Huo Yuhao’s progress and pursues his own objective: obtaining Electrolux’s soul.

Themes

• Business and opportunism: The agency monetizes emergencies and convenient routes, treating profit and points as priorities.
• Pride and appearances: Wang Dong’s “young master” persona prevents her from bargaining or revealing her financial limits.
• Manipulation and hidden motives: The mission against Zhou Yi is framed as merciful, while Lin Chen’s apparent plan to enroll at Shrek masks an attempt to infiltrate it.
• Paths already in motion: Lin Chen chooses not to intervene in Huo Yuhao’s established story, even though he could help him.

Character interactions

• Zhao Huaizhen and Zhang Lexuan negotiate escort and hunting contracts, with her money and his eagerness making the arrangement easy.
• Phainon questions Wang Dong about possible threats before signing her escort contract; his companions silently judge his opportunism but accept it as necessary for earning points.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei reconcile outwardly and persuade Huo Yuhao to join the Tang Sect, though Lin Chen senses Tang Ya still has reservations.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya ask Lin Chen about his plans; he says he is also going to Shrek, concealing his true purpose.

Key plot points and events

• Huo Yuhao is delighted to learn Lin Chen will also attend Shrek Academy. Tang Ya jokingly calls Lin Chen her junior, but he refuses to play along.
• That night, Lin Chen secretly drugs Bei Bei and Huo Yuhao, then takes Tang Ya to a secluded forest clearing. He reveals that her Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul can devour life and identifies it as an Evil Martial Soul.
• Lin Chen offers to transform it fully into an evil form, claiming Tang Ya could gain power quickly by devouring Soul Beasts and potentially reach Titled Douluo status within ten years.
• Tang Ya fears the consequences, especially losing her chance to remain at Shrek and rebuild the Tang Sect. Lin Chen claims he can suppress her evil aura with a “candle flame” in her soul, renewed by his mark once a week.
• Convinced, Tang Ya kneels and begs Lin Chen to transform her Martial Soul and conceal its aura.

Character developments

• Lin Chen acts methodically and reveals he has an Evil Martial Soul in addition to his blade. He uses Tang Ya’s grief and desperation to persuade her, while offering himself as the one who can manage the risks.
• Tang Ya is shown to be deeply burdened by her family’s deaths, her clan’s decline, and her limited prospects for revenge. Though frightened of becoming an Evil Soul Master, she chooses power when she believes she can still preserve the Tang Sect.
• Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei remain unaware of Lin Chen’s actions after being drugged.

Significant themes

• Power versus moral and personal cost: Tang Ya must weigh rapid strength against the stigma and danger of becoming an Evil Soul Master.
• Grief, vengeance, and desperation: Her desire to avenge her parents and restore the Tang Sect makes Lin Chen’s offer compelling.
• Secrecy and control: Lin Chen’s promised suppression of Tang Ya’s aura comes with dependence on him for weekly renewal.
• Manipulation and choice: Tang Ya technically decides for herself, but Lin Chen shapes that decision by emphasizing her hopeless prospects and presenting his offer as a solution.

Character interactions

• Lin Chen and Tang Ya move from teasing hostility to a tense, private negotiation. He confronts her with knowledge of her hidden Martial Soul and exploits her fears before offering a path to power.
• Tang Ya challenges Lin Chen’s motives and questions whether she could remain at Shrek. His proposed seal addresses her concern, and she ultimately appeals to him for help.
• Lin Chen’s friendly relationship with Huo Yuhao contrasts with his secretive, coercive actions behind the group’s backs.

Plot points and events

• Tang Ya begs Lin Chen to corrupt her Martial Soul, offering him half of the Tang Sect and half of her possessions in return. She hopes to gain power, hide her Evil Soul Master nature, and eventually rebuild the Tang Sect.
• Lin Chen performs the corruption ritual. Tang Ya’s Blue Silver Grass turns black and she becomes an Evil Soul Master.
• He then uses his Reincarnation Soul-Guiding Lamp to conceal her corruption, leaving her outwardly normal. The concealment must be renewed every seven days. Completing the task earns Lin Chen 100 High-Tier Escort Points.
• Lin Chen takes Tang Ya away from camp to test her new abilities and build her strength. On the way, he challenges her motives toward Bei Bei, arguing that she is using him for support. Tang Ya denies being a gold digger but admits she never intended to be with him and wants revenge and to restore the Tang Sect.
• At the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, Lin Chen begins killing Soul Beasts with overwhelming ease, demonstrating his strength to Tang Ya.

Character development and interactions

• Tang Ya embraces corruption as a route to power and independence, but remains conflicted about Bei Bei and unwilling to be fully honest with him. She learns that his family background is far more powerful than she realized.
• Lin Chen acts as both enabler and judge: he grants Tang Ya the power she wants, secretly places her under his control through the lamp’s flame, and bluntly confronts her about her relationship with Bei Bei.
• Their exchange exposes the gap between Tang Ya’s stated ideals—revenge and rebuilding the Tang Sect—and her apparent desire for someone else to provide the resources and support.

Significant themes

• Power and ambition: Tang Ya sees strength as protection from being dismissed and as a means to reclaim her legacy.
• Appearance versus reality: The lamp hides Tang Ya’s corruption without undoing it, allowing her to appear ordinary while retaining an Evil Soul Master’s power.
• Trust and manipulation: Lin Chen’s control over Tang Ya and his accusation that she is leading Bei Bei on raise questions about honesty and self-interest.
• Strength and hierarchy: Lin Chen’s effortless victories emphasize how starkly power separates him from ordinary Soul Masters.

Plot points and events

• Lin Chen hunts fleeing Soul Beasts, cutting them down with black crescent slashes. Tang Ya’s Blue Silver Grass consumes their life energy, rapidly raising her cultivation from level 31 to 35.
• Tang Ya says she wants to keep hunting. Lin Chen warns that most Evil Soul Masters are driven toward harming people, and credits his Soul Candle Flame with purifying the corrupt energy she absorbs.
• Lin Chen and Tang Ya head back, but he senses a powerful presence in a nearby cave. Using the Byakugan, he sees unusual life energy suppressed by decay and leads Tang Ya inside.
• They find a Golden Hawksbill Turtle King, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Lin Chen deduces that it is near death and hiding from a greater threat. His taunts provoke the turtle into revealing its concealed life aura.
• Lin Chen recognizes the turtle as the creature that stole a large quantity of Gold of Life from Di Tian. He remains confident despite Tang Ya’s fear, and the chapter ends with the turtle challenging him.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Ya becomes increasingly powerful and more willing to embrace her unusual growth. She feels safe relying on Lin Chen, agreeing to follow his lead; her attachment to him now seems stronger than her former bond with Bei Bei.
• Lin Chen acts as Tang Ya’s protector and anchor, reassuring her while also teasing her about Bei Bei. His confidence and curiosity lead him to confront the turtle rather than retreat.
• Tang Ya is alarmed by the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and wants to leave, while Lin Chen calmly analyzes and provokes it. The turtle responds defensively, angered by Lin Chen’s accurate assessment.

Significant themes

• Power and moral danger: Tang Ya’s rapid growth through devouring Soul Beasts offers strength without killing people, but Lin Chen warns that such power can bring destructive urges.
• Trust and dependence: Tang Ya’s growing reliance on Lin Chen provides her comfort and direction, while raising questions about her independence and her past relationship with Bei Bei.
• Hidden weakness and opportunity: Lin Chen sees through the turtle’s intimidating exterior, using observation to uncover its illness, fear, and potential value.

Plot points and events

• The Golden Hawksbill Turtle King, a weakened but still dangerous Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, corners Lin Chen and Tang Ya in a cave. He intends to torment and eat them, while Tang Ya fears they are about to die.
• Lin Chen decides he cannot let the turtle king’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone go to waste. Rather than summon someone to help him absorb them, he aims to force the beast to sacrifice himself.
• Using his system, Lin Chen spends 3,000 points to summon Madara Uchiha in his Impure World form. On the Douluo Continent, Madara becomes a level 95 Super Douluo, while retaining the advantages of his unusual abilities: limitless Soul Power and near-indestructibility.
• Madara recognizes Lin Chen as his “original self” and submits to him. Lin Chen orders him to control the turtle king and make him sacrifice himself.
• Madara dismisses the turtle king as a dying old turtle and considers using his Sharingan an insult. The provocation enrages the beast, who draws on the Gold of Life and recovers much of his strength.
• The turtle king prepares to fight. Madara answers his challenge with a taunt: “Do you want to dance too?”

Character developments

• Lin Chen remains calm and strategic, choosing a specific summon whose abilities could secure the turtle king’s sacrifice and valuable remains.
• Tang Ya initially panics but takes comfort in Lin Chen’s confidence, hiding behind him.
• Madara Uchiha appears as a powerful, arrogant but obedient clone. He follows Lin Chen’s command while looking down on his opponent.
• The Golden Hawksbill Turtle King shifts from cruel confidence to anger and defiance. His fear of death—and of Di Tian discovering him—fades as he decides to fight rather than submit.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: The turtle king’s belief that he can challenge a Super Douluo is tested by Madara’s overwhelming presence.
• Ingenuity over raw strength: Lin Chen relies on a strategically chosen ability rather than confronting the beast himself.
• Pride and provocation: Madara’s contempt turns the turtle king’s fear into fury, escalating a plan of control into an impending battle.
• Death and opportunity: Lin Chen treats the dying beast’s life, Soul Ring, and Soul Bone as resources to be obtained.

Character interactions

• Tang Ya clings to Lin Chen and asks whether he has a plan; his composure steadies her.
• Lin Chen gives Madara direct orders, and Madara acknowledges him as his original self.
• Madara insults the turtle king, who responds by drawing on the Gold of Life and openly challenging the newcomers.

Key plot points and events

• Madara uses his Rinnegan to seize control of the weakened Golden Hawksbill Turtle King, whose life force has been drained by the Gold of Life.
• He forces the Turtle King to make a seemingly willing, wholehearted sacrifice to Lin Chen. The sacrifice produces a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, a Soul Bone, blood essence, and the Gold of Life, while freezing everyone else inside the domain.
• The Gold of Life’s released energy alerts Beast God Di Tian, an immensely powerful Ferocious Beast who has searched for it since it was stolen thousands of years earlier.
• Di Tian arrives at the sacrifice site, recognizes the Gold of Life, and realizes its thief has already sacrificed himself. Furious, he turns his attention to the humans and Madara.
• Madara senses Di Tian’s tremendous strength but, confident in his Rinnegan’s adaptation to this world, eagerly prepares to confront him while his true body absorbs the sacrifice.

Character developments and interactions

• Madara demonstrates the Rinnegan’s ability to override not only a target’s movements but also their will, making the Turtle King’s coerced sacrifice appear sincere. He shifts from dismissing the Turtle King as insignificant to welcoming Di Tian as a worthy opponent.
• The Golden Hawksbill Turtle King resists sacrificing himself but is mentally dominated. His sacrifice both fulfills Madara’s command and inadvertently exposes the Gold of Life’s location.
• Di Tian reveals a long-standing grievance: the Turtle King had stolen his Gold of Life. His anger is intensified by arriving too late to punish the thief, and he now faces Madara, whom he finds both strange and potentially dangerous.
• Lin Chen and Tang Ya are immobilized by the sacrificial domain, leaving Madara as the only active defender at the site.

Significant themes

• Power and control: Madara’s ocular power eliminates resistance by controlling both body and choice.
• Sacrifice and exploitation: The Turtle King’s “willing” offering is the product of absolute coercion.
• Revenge denied and redirected: Di Tian’s hunt ends without direct vengeance, shifting his rage toward those present.
• Escalating conflict: The sacrifice draws a far more formidable opponent into Madara’s path, setting up a major confrontation.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• After Madara finishes absorbing the hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, the sacrificial domain fades. Di Tian prepares to destroy the mountain, but Madara emerges and challenges him.
• Di Tian’s spiritual pressure has no effect on Madara. He attacks with the Black Dragon Sword, but Madara blocks it with his giant Susanoo and nearly strikes Di Tian down.
• Madara uses the Rinnegan’s Universal Pull and Shinra Tensei to drag Di Tian close and blast him away, then overwhelms him with Susanoo’s swords.
• Di Tian transforms into his enormous black-dragon form and unleashes Black Dragon Annihilation. Madara absorbs the attack through the Preta Path, converting its energy into Soul Power.
• With direct attacks proving ineffective, Di Tian expands his Darkness Domain, seals the surrounding space, and launches a hidden Dragon God Claw attack. The chapter ends before its outcome is revealed.

Character developments

• Madara displays confidence and curiosity, treating the battle as a test rather than a desperate struggle. His abilities allow him to withstand spiritual pressure, counter physical attacks, manipulate attraction and repulsion, and absorb energy.
• Di Tian’s initial certainty that he can easily defeat Madara gives way to shock and fury as his strongest attacks fail. He adapts by resorting to his domain and a concealed strike.

Significant themes

• Power beyond conventional rankings: Madara’s apparent level of ninety-five does not reflect the true scale of his abilities.
• Adaptation and escalation: As each tactic fails, Di Tian shifts from spiritual pressure to weapons, spatial power, energy attacks, and finally domain-based combat.
• Confidence versus arrogance: Madara’s taunting confidence contrasts with Di Tian’s wounded pride as the Beast God loses control of the battle.

Character interactions

• Madara repeatedly provokes Di Tian, inviting him to show his strength and dismissing attacks that fail.
• Di Tian responds with increasingly forceful techniques, but Madara’s counters deepen his disbelief and anger.
• Their confrontation is a direct test of power: Di Tian tries to dominate through overwhelming force, while Madara methodically exploits the unique properties of his abilities.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Di Tian ambushes Madara with the Dragon God Claw, a nearly instantaneous divine attack. Madara’s invisible Limbo shadow blocks it, leaving him unharmed.
• Madara fills Di Tian’s dark domain with trees and hallucinogenic pollen, then traps him in Chibaku Tensei, sealing him inside a vast sphere of rock.
• Di Tian’s immense strength begins to break the seal. Madara responds with Tengai Shinsei, dropping two meteorites in succession. Di Tian destroys the second, but the impact badly injures him.
• Refusing to accept defeat, Di Tian activates defensive and healing powers, surrounds himself with Black Dragon Flame, and charges Madara.
• Madara’s Truth-Seeking Orbs erase the flames completely. Di Tian then burns his life force and unleashes his suppressed dragon bloodline, pushing his power close to a god’s level.
• The chapter ends as Di Tian commits all his cultivation, bloodline, and destructive power to one final Dragon God Claw.

Character developments

• Madara remains composed and confident, but recognizes Di Tian’s strength and deliberately escalates his attacks to match it. He is also surprised by his newly available Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Di Tian shifts from confidence to anger and desperation as Madara repeatedly counters him. His pride fuels his refusal to yield, ultimately driving him to sacrifice his life force and reveal his full bloodline potential.

Significant themes

• Power and escalation: Each fighter answers the other’s abilities with increasingly overwhelming force.
• Pride and defiance: Di Tian cannot accept being defeated by someone he considers beneath him.
• Respect through combat: Madara’s decision to use stronger techniques reflects his recognition that Di Tian deserves a serious challenge.
• The cost of power: Di Tian’s final transformation relies on burning his own life force.

Character interactions

• Di Tian questions Madara’s strange eyes and abilities, but Madara refuses to explain them.
• Their exchange is chiefly a battle of attacks and counters: Madara repeatedly overpowers Di Tian, while Di Tian answers with escalating resistance.
• Di Tian’s pride turns the fight into a personal struggle, culminating in his all-or-nothing strike.

Key plot points and events

• Madara Uchiha counters Di Tian’s life-burning Dragon God Claw with his enormous, Truth-Seeking-Orb-armored Perfect Susanoo. The clash tears open space and devastates the surrounding landscape.
• Though Madara is injured and Susanoo’s sword is damaged, he survives the attack. Di Tian is left near death, and Madara prepares to finish him.
• Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena appears in spirit form, restores Di Tian enough to save him, and withdraws with him through a spatial rift. Madara recognizes her as a formidable opponent and heads toward the Star Dou Great Forest’s heart to find her.
• In a protected cave, Lin Chen continues absorbing his hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring undisturbed.
• Tang Ya absorbs the blood-rich water left by the battle, including Di Tian’s dragon blood. The Gold of Life keeps the dangerous mixture from harming her, while her Blue Silver Grass devours it and her Soul Power rapidly rises from level 34 to 38.
• Madara reaches the Mixed Zone and encounters the King’s Escort Agency. He challenges them to fight; Yun Ying readies her spear.

Character developments

• Madara proves he can withstand Di Tian’s strongest physical attack and becomes eager for an even greater battle after sensing Gu Yuena’s power.
• Di Tian is defeated but rescued by Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena reveals both her immense strength and her concern for Di Tian.
• Tang Ya undergoes a dramatic increase in power, with her vines developing dragon-like markings and seeming close to evolving.
• Lin Chen remains focused on absorbing his ring, protected from the surrounding conflict.

Significant themes

• Power and escalation: Each confrontation introduces an opponent capable of matching or exceeding the last.
• Destruction and renewal: The battle kills countless Soul Beasts, but their remains fuel Tang Ya’s growth.
• Ambition and the thrill of combat: Madara treats formidable foes as opportunities for battle rather than reasons to retreat.
• Transformation through dangerous power: Tang Ya’s growth depends on absorbing a perilous mixture, balanced by the Gold of Life.

Character interactions

• Madara and Di Tian exchange a near-fatal clash, with Madara acknowledging Di Tian’s physical strength even as he defeats him.
• Gu Yuena intervenes to save Di Tian, briefly confronting Madara before escaping with the injured beast.
• The Gold of Life sustains both Lin Chen’s absorption and Tang Ya’s otherwise hazardous transformation.
• Madara confronts the King’s Escort Agency; Li Bai wonders what he is, Zhao Huaizhen rejects the idea that he is a Soul Beast, and Yun Ying prepares to attack.

Plot and events

• Yun Ying, renowned for her reckless temper and deadly spearwork, charges Madara Uchiha, while the onlookers note that her ally Kai is even more formidable at full strength.
• Madara jumps down from his Susanoo and forms a katana from a Truth-Seeking Orb, eager to test his Uchiha-style swordsmanship against Yun Ying.
• Their opening clash sends a shockwave across the battlefield. Yun Ying dodges Madara’s counterattack, but Zhao Huaizhen shields the spectators from it.
• The duel intensifies: Yun Ying combines speed, flame, and feints, while Madara calmly parries her attacks with exceptional strength and precision.
• Yun Ying tricks Madara with her final thrust, pulls him in, and drives her spear through his chest, leaving a massive hole. Madara survives and regenerates, revealing the resilience granted by Impure World Reincarnation.
• Madara praises her technique and, still eager to fight, hints that he will return the favor.

Character developments and interactions

• Yun Ying shows that her brash confidence is backed by extraordinary skill. Though startled by Madara’s power, she keeps pressing him and ultimately lands a potentially fatal blow.
• Madara relishes the contest and deliberately accepts Yun Ying’s strike because he trusts his regenerative body. He recognizes that Yun Ying and the others are powerful enough that he could not defeat them all alone.
• Zhao Huaizhen protects the group from Madara’s missed attack, drawing Madara’s notice.
• Kai admires the duel and wants to test his own swordsmanship against Madara. Li Bai cheers the combat, while Cai Wenji dislikes the violence.
• Zhang Lexuan becomes increasingly wary of the Escort Agency after seeing Yun Ying’s strength.

Significant themes

• Power and confidence: Both fighters meet overwhelming force with fearless conviction.
• Skill versus resilience: Yun Ying’s precise, tactical spearwork can inflict devastating damage, but Madara’s immortality makes such a blow survivable.
• Combat as enjoyment: For Madara—and to a degree the watching fighters—the duel is an exhilarating test of ability, even when it involves lethal attacks.
• Hidden strength: The spectators’ shifting impressions reveal that the Escort Agency contains several powerful figures, not just the obvious contenders.

Key plot points and events

• Madara senses that the Susanoo Skeleton he left guarding Lin Chen is under attack. He abandons his battle with Yun Ying, Zhao Huaizhen, Li Bai, Kai, and the others, warning them not to interfere as he flies back.
• Yun Ying is unapologetic about nearly killing Madara, while Zhao Huaizhen criticizes her for striking lethally before they had talked. Li Bai joins in teasing Zhao Huaizhen for being too compassionate.
• The attacker is Tang Ya, driven into a frenzy after absorbing Di Tian’s dragon blood. Her nine powerful, dragon-headed Blue Silver Vines batter the already-damaged Susanoo Skeleton until it breaks.
• Madara returns just in time and uses a powerful repulsive force to pin Tang Ya down. Lin Chen, who had been focused on absorbing a Soul Ring, is unharmed.
• Lin Chen completes the Golden Hawksbill Turtle King’s sacrifice. His Soul Power rises from level 38 to level 40, and the sacrifice delivers the Gold of Life’s essence into both of his Martial Souls, triggering major transformations.

Character developments and interactions

• Madara shows that protecting Lin Chen takes priority over continuing his fight, then quickly subdues Tang Ya when he returns.
• Yun Ying remains bold and combative, though she agrees to be more careful after Zhao Huaizhen’s warning—while privately expecting she might act the same way again.
• Zhao Huaizhen advocates restraint and tries to prevent unnecessary killing; Li Bai playfully reinforces Yun Ying’s teasing of him.
• Tang Ya has lost control of herself, her strength vastly enhanced by the dragon blood she absorbed.
• Lin Chen emerges from the sacrifice stronger, but regards the Gold of Life—not the Soul Ring or Soul Bone—as the most consequential part of the event.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: The group’s immense strength makes lethal force especially dangerous, prompting Zhao Huaizhen to urge caution.
• Loyalty and protection: Madara leaves his own battle to safeguard Lin Chen.
• The cost and danger of power: Tang Ya’s enhanced abilities come with loss of control, while the Gold of Life is portrayed as an extraordinarily potent force that ordinary Soul Masters cannot safely handle.
• Transformation and sacrifice: The Golden Hawksbill Turtle King’s unusual sacrifice changes Lin Chen’s Martial Souls as well as his Soul Power.

Key plot points and events

• After three days of absorbing the Gold of Life and the Golden Hawksbill Turtle King’s remaining power, Lin Chen’s Soul Power rises only slightly, to level 44; most of the energy instead transforms his Dart Blade and Nine-Turn Soul-Guiding Lamp.
• Both Martial Souls gain a life attribute, dramatically strengthen their Soul Skills, and—most astonishingly—develop independent consciousness. They behave like living companions, responding affectionately when Lin Chen touches them.
• Lin Chen considers seeking more Gold of Life to further evolve them, but decides against returning to the Star Dou Great Forest while the Silver Dragon King remains too powerful to risk confronting.
• Madara reports defeating Beast God Di Tian, who was then rescued by a powerful woman. He also encountered a group of unusually strong, weapon-wielding strangers—apparently members of the King’s Escort Agency. Lin Chen is relieved Madara did not fight them.
• Lin Chen turns to the badly injured Tang Ya, whose corrupted consciousness has overwhelmed the protective flame he had left in her mind. He uses the living Soul-Guiding Lamp to send nine sparks into her sea of consciousness, suppressing the corruption and stabilizing her.

Character developments

• Lin Chen gains extraordinary power in the form of transformed Martial Souls rather than a major Soul Power increase. He also shows caution, postponing a dangerous trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Dart Blade and Soul-Guiding Lamp become sentient, displaying affection and eagerness for Lin Chen’s touch—an unprecedented development for tool Martial Souls.
• Madara proves powerful enough to overwhelm Di Tian, though he recognizes the strength of the mysterious group he encountered.
• Tang Ya survives absorbing Di Tian’s dragon blood but remains mentally unstable and dependent on Lin Chen’s intervention. Her condition may require ongoing care.

Significant themes

• Life and transformation: The Gold of Life turns inanimate weapons into conscious beings and reshapes Lin Chen’s abilities.
• Power and caution: Lin Chen’s gains are immense, but he avoids provoking opponents whose strength he cannot confidently match.
• Unnatural consequences: Both the living tool Martial Souls and Tang Ya’s survival after absorbing dragon blood defy established expectations.
• Care and responsibility: Lin Chen must manage the consequences of Tang Ya’s unstable condition, which appears to demand regular support.

Character interactions

• Lin Chen shares an affectionate, tactile moment with his newly living Martial Souls, which actively seek his attention.
• Madara calmly recounts his clash with Di Tian and his encounter with the unfamiliar warriors; Lin Chen identifies them as allies and is relieved they avoided a fight.
• Lin Chen tends to Tang Ya with the Soul-Guiding Lamp, using its life-infused sparks to calm her corrupted mind.