Recaps

At the Soto Great Soul Arena, three supposedly ordinary men revealed soul rings and powerful second martial souls, stunning the spectators and Shrek. Yu Xiaogang claimed they had concealed their true talents, prompting Shrek to recognize the resemblance to Tang San’s hidden twin martial souls.

• After the Shrek Seven Devils defeated the Frenzy Battle Team, Yu Xiaogang reviewed their flaws and directed them to return to the hotel for a fuller debrief.
• The group stopped to watch three locals with supposed innate zero soul power and farming-tool martial souls fight a team of one-ring soul masters.
• After enduring their opponents’ attacks, the three locals revealed yellow soul rings and drove their opponents back, shocking the arena.
• The three withdrew their farming-tool martial souls and revealed second martial souls: a Crimson Flame Demon Lion, a Netherworld Dark Wolf, and a Thunder Tribulation Hammer.
• Yu Xiaogang concluded that the three had concealed their twin martial souls and never truly had innate zero soul power.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing connected the claim of a trash martial soul with innate full soul power to Tang San, and the Shrek group turned toward him with mixed reactions.

After the three commoner Soul Masters described how a mysterious shop had given them new martial souls and soul rings, Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek group dismissed their account. Zhu Zhuqing chose to investigate the shop herself and left the inn to follow them.

• Yu Xiaogang warned the Shrek group to keep Tang San's second martial soul secret, then led them to meet the three Soul Masters who had won the arena battle.
• The three told Yu Xiaogang that a shop owner had let them enter another world through a game, where they gained martial souls, soul power, and soul rings that carried over into reality.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun called the story ridiculous, while Yu Xiaogang accused the three of repeating a fabricated tale and ordered them to leave.
• After the three departed, Zhu Zhuqing requested time off to visit the shop, despite the others urging her not to go.
• Yu Xiaogang allowed Zhu Zhuqing to investigate, and she left the inn to catch up with the three Soul Masters.

Zhu Zhuqing followed three Soul Masters to Lin Yue’s shop and entered its virtual world, where she chose the White Tiger Martial Soul. There she met Dai Mubai of the Heavenly Radiance Empire, received his cultivation method and an invitation to stay, then returned to the shop as she tried to study it.

• Zhu Zhuqing followed the three young Soul Masters on foot for two days to Lin Yue’s shop and paid to use an experience pod.
• Inside the virtual world, Zhu Zhuqing chose the White Tiger Martial Soul and appeared in a city of the Heavenly Radiance Empire.
• Dai Mubai introduced himself as the empire’s third prince and recognized Zhu Zhuqing’s White Tiger as the original form of his royal family’s Martial Soul.
• Dai Mubai offered Zhu Zhuqing the Sunlight Sacred Art and his ancestor’s Soul Ring configuration, and arranged a quiet courtyard for her to stay in.
• As Zhu Zhuqing began reading the Sunlight Sacred Art, the system offered idle mode; she accepted and returned to the shop.

Zhu Zhuqing learned that her game world was a parallel Douluo Continent and stayed in Lin Yue’s shop to cultivate. Dragon Duke Meng Shu, Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran visited but left without trying the games, while Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei arrived and questioned Lin Yue about his customers’ Twin Martial Souls.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked Lin Yue about idle mode and learned that her counterpart continued cultivating while she was outside the game.
• Lin Yue explained that the game took place in a parallel world where Zhu Zhuqing’s counterpart belonged to the Netherworld Empire and had a Nine Nether Spirit Cat Martial Soul.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked to cultivate in the shop, and Lin Yue let her stay and gave her a free bottle of cola.
• Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran entered the shop, but they left uncertain after Lin Yue suggested the game could help Meng Yiran avoid a poor third Soul Ring.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei arrived and asked Lin Yue about the three customers in the gaming pods; Lin Yue confirmed they had gained Twin Martial Souls in his shop.

Lin Yue offered Yue Guan and Gui Mei rewards if they left Spirit Hall, then sent them into a game world to prove his claims. There, they discovered a Martial Soul Sect led by counterparts who shared their appearances and Martial Souls, and the chapter ended when a screen offered them a way to exit.

• Lin Yue asked Yue Guan and Gui Mei whether Spirit Hall had rewarded their loyalty and offered them Soul Bones, immortal herbs, and other benefits if they joined him.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei entered gaming pods and woke in a forest in a world where Lin Yue had arranged their landing.
• They followed locals to the Martial Soul Sect and saw Yue Mei and Gui Guan, who resembled them and possessed matching Martial Souls.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei disguised themselves as wanderers, introduced themselves as Li Qing and Wang Xuan, and were accepted into the sect as guests.
• After settling into their room, Yue Guan and Gui Mei decided to return and question Lin Yue, and an exit prompt appeared before them.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei discovered that their game experience had granted them new martial souls, while Zhu Zhuqing accepted work at Lin Yue’s shop. Dai Mubai found her there, attacked Lin Yue, and was sent flying with a slap.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei summoned their new martial souls, questioned their counterparts’ differences, and left to discuss the matter.
• Lin Yue fed Zhu Zhuqing and offered her work as the shop’s helper, which she accepted.
• Oscar announced that he had reached rank thirty, and Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang planned a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Dai Mubai heard that a black-clad girl worked at a nearby shop, injured two men who discussed her, and rushed there.
• Dai Mubai tried to make Zhu Zhuqing return to Shrek, then unleashed a soul skill and attacked Lin Yue when he saw her working in the shop.
• Lin Yue blocked Dai Mubai’s attacks, called him Piao Changhu, and slapped him out of the shop.

Dai Mubai returned to Lin Yue’s shop with the Shrek group, who demanded justice until Lin Yue forced Zhao Wuji to kneel with a single command. Yu Xiaogang tried to challenge Lin Yue’s power and defend his theories, but Lin Yue exposed him as a counterexample and ordered the group out.

• Ma Hongjun hurried back to the inn and told the Shrek group that Dai Mubai had been injured and gone to Lin Yue’s shop, so they rushed there.
• Dai Mubai received Oscar’s Recovery Big Sausage, then followed the group into the shop, where Zhao Wuji demanded that Lin Yue answer for injuring him.
• Lin Yue joked that he would pay ten billion Gold Soul Coins, then revealed he was mocking them when Zhao Wuji demanded more than compensation.
• Zhao Wuji attacked Lin Yue with his second soul skill, but Lin Yue ordered him to kneel and suppressed him with an overwhelming force.
• Yu Xiaogang guessed that Lin Yue had used an external artifact, then challenged him to debate martial soul theory after Lin Yue mocked Yu’s claims.
• Lin Yue argued that Yu Xiaogang’s weak cultivation made him a counterexample to his own theory and ordered the Shrek group to leave.

After Lin Yue criticized Shrek and Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing left the academy and revealed that she had gained a White Tiger martial soul alongside her Nether Civet. Shrek's members coveted the possibility of obtaining additional martial souls but chose not to return to Lin Yue's shop, leaving Zhu Zhuqing to walk away alone.

• Lin Yue told Zhu Zhuqing that Shrek was unregistered, its members bullied weaker people, and Dai Mubai had abandoned her when he fled the Star Luo Empire.
• Zhu Zhuqing caught up with Shrek and announced that she was leaving the academy after Dai Mubai's insult extinguished her remaining hope in him.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed her White Tiger martial soul and said she now possessed twin martial souls, shocking Shrek and stirring their desire to gain more martial souls.
• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Zhu Zhuqing's White Tiger as a trick, and Flender ordered Shrek to continue their original plan and find another Agility Attack System Soul Master.

Lin Yue introduced the Martial Soul Lucky Draw Machine to Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran, and their ten-draw guarantee produced an Origin-Compatible Soul Ring Coupon. Meng Yiran used it to gain a powerful third Soul Ring whose skill could weaken enemies’ defenses and progressively nullify support enhancements.

• Meng Shu explained that Meng Yiran had lost the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent’s Soul Ring to Shrek Academy and came to Lin Yue for help.
• Lin Yue revealed that Tang San was actually in his early forties, shocking Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran.
• Lin Yue demonstrated the Game Pods and the Martial Soul Lucky Draw Machine, and Meng Shu spent nine hundred Gold Soul Coins on ten draws.
• The ten-draw guarantee awarded an Origin-Compatible Soul Ring Coupon, which Meng Yiran tore up to obtain a high-quality thousand-year third Soul Ring.
• Meng Yiran discovered that her new Radiance-Eroding Enhancement-Blocking Miasma weakened defensive Soul Skills and could reduce support enhancements to zero, horrifying her grandparents.

Zhu Zhuqing won a Martial Soul Limit-Breaking Scroll that could grant someone an unlimited number of Martial Souls, while Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran entered the game world to explore Heavenly Evolution City. After learning about the city’s legacy of research and its towering center, Heavenly Evolution Tower, they continued toward it with a gift of Body-Refining Pills for Meng Yiran.

• Zhu Zhuqing used one draw to win a purple Martial Soul Limit-Breaking Scroll, and Lin Yue explained that it could grant additional Martial Souls without limit.
• Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran entered gaming pods and chose the Azure Profound Coiling Dragon, the Frost-glazed Snow Serpent, and the Illusory Rainbow Spirit Butterfly as their Martial Souls.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang found advanced cultivation manuals for sale in Heavenly Evolution City but had no money to buy them because their Soul Tools had not entered the game world.
• A shopkeeper explained that Heavenly Evolution City grew from the work of Dugu Yuan and its early followers, and that Heavenly Evolution Tower housed researchers and their accumulated knowledge.
• The shopkeeper gave Meng Shu a bottle of low-grade Body-Refining Pills, which Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang passed to Meng Yiran as the three headed toward Heavenly Evolution Tower.

Ning Fengzhi sent Sword Douluo to bring Ning Rongrong back from Shrek after learning of the Game Pods, while Bibi Dong visited Lin Yue’s shop and tried to bring it under Spirit Hall’s control. Lin Yue refused every offer, and Bibi Dong’s attempt to use force ended when her Soul Power and Martial Soul were somehow suppressed.

• Ning Fengzhi told Gu Rong and Chen Xin that Shrek’s students had survived a Titan Giant Ape attack and that the shop’s Game Pods reportedly granted Twin Martial Souls.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Chen Xin to bring Ning Rongrong back, and Chen Xin flew toward Shrek on his sword.
• Bibi Dong arrived at Lin Yue’s shop with Yue Guan and Gui Mei, inspected the Game Pods, and accepted that their effects were real.
• Bibi Dong offered Lin Yue one, then three, then five million Gold Soul Coins per month and a favor in exchange for making the shop serve Spirit Hall and close to outsiders.
• Lin Yue refused Bibi Dong’s offers and told her to leave, so she tried to attack him.
• Bibi Dong found that her Soul Power had been cut off and her Martial Soul would not respond.

Bibi Dong tested Lin Yue’s power, failed to damage the shop, and was forced to apologize after he confronted her about her past. After she left, Lin Yue gave Zhu Zhuqing, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei Martial Soul Limit-Breaking Scrolls and assigned Yue Guan and Gui Mei cooking-related martial souls; the chapter ended with Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran arriving at the Heavenly Evolution Tower.

• Bibi Dong found that she could summon her martial soul again after leaving the shop, but her attacks vanished before reaching it.
• Lin Yue summoned Bibi Dong back, warned her not to involve him in her grievances, and made her apologize before she left for Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong vented her fury by destroying a wide area of woodland in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei admitted they had brought Bibi Dong to test Lin Yue’s strength and explained they feared she would attack them if they announced their departure from Spirit Hall.
• Lin Yue gave Martial Soul Limit-Breaking Scrolls to Zhu Zhuqing, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei, telling Zhu Zhuqing to choose a door-type martial soul and the two men to choose a pot and fire.
• Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran reached the foot of the Heavenly Evolution Tower inside their gaming pods.

Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang told Dugu Bo about the mysterious shop and its connection to his ancestor Dugu Yuan. Two days later, Ning Fengzhi arrived with Ning Rongrong, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong to investigate the game cabins, but Gu Rong stopped Ning Fengzhi from trying one first.

• Meng Yiran retrieved the items she had collected, and she left the shop with Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang, who decided to buy a house in town.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang sensed Dugu Bo's Titled Douluo aura, followed him, and explained the shop's connection to Dugu Yuan; Dugu Bo said he might visit when he had time.
• Two days later, Ning Fengzhi arrived at the shop with Ning Rongrong, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong to ask whether the game cabins could grant a second martial soul.
• Ning Rongrong apologized to Lin Yue for her earlier behavior, and Ning Fengzhi paid one Gold Soul Coin to try a cabin.
• Gu Rong and Chen Xin warned Ning Fengzhi about the unknown risks, and Gu Rong insisted on testing a game cabin before the sect master and Ning Rongrong.

Gu Rong tested the gaming pod and selected a second Bone Dragon Martial Soul, then Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Ning Rongrong entered the virtual world to choose their own martial souls. They explored a town and found a prosperous Nine Treasure Pavilion, where a poised woman welcomed them.

• Gu Rong entered the gaming pod, chose another Bone Dragon Martial Soul, and revealed his plan to surprise future enemies with two identical martial souls.
• Ning Fengzhi paid Lin Yue half his gold coins as thanks, and Lin Yue gave that share to Zhu Zhuqing, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Ning Rongrong entered gaming pods and chose the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, the Seven Kill Sword, and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda respectively.
• Ning Fengzhi led the group through an unfamiliar town, where they noticed the grand Nine Treasure Pavilion and wondered whether it was connected to their sect.
• The four entered the Nine Treasure Pavilion, and a graceful woman approached to welcome them.

Ning Fengzhi and his companions explored the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s prosperous world, tracing its advances to Heavenly Evolution City, then returned to Lin Yue’s shop to try the Prize Machine. After seventy mostly disappointing draws, Ning Fengzhi’s final ten-draw triggered a purple-quality Martial Soul Limit-Breaking Scroll.

• Ning Fengzhi used his Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to gain the Nine Treasure Pavilion maid’s respect, questioned her about the sect, and obtained funds for his group.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Rongrong explored the town and learned that Heavenly Evolution City had helped the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect break its Martial Soul’s limits and become the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• The four checked into an inn, left the game world, and returned to Lin Yue’s shop, where Lin Yue explained that Prize Machine rewards could be used in both worlds.
• Ning Fengzhi spent Gold Soul Coins on eighty-one draws, receiving mostly blanks, recovery potions, and ordinary hundred-year soul beast materials.
• Ning Fengzhi’s final ten-draw triggered the Prize Machine’s guaranteed reward and awarded him a purple-quality Martial Soul Limit-Breaking Scroll.

Ning Fengzhi saved his Martial Soul Limit Breakthrough Voucher while he considered the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s potential. Lin Yue received missions to prepare his shop for business, assigning Zhu Zhuqing, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei work and transforming their third martial souls with Divine Rings.

• Lin Yue explained that Ning Fengzhi could use the voucher to gain a third martial soul, but Ning Fengzhi decided to keep it until he understood the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s possibilities.
• Ning Fengzhi and the others left the shop, and the system told Lin Yue to begin officially operating after enough returning customers had come back.
• Lin Yue gave Zhu Zhuqing flyers to distribute and handed Yue Guan and Gui Mei a cookbook so they could manage the shop’s meals.
• Lin Yue summoned three Divine Rings and offered them to Zhu Zhuqing, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei for their third martial souls.
• The Divine Rings transformed Zhu Zhuqing’s wooden door, Yue Guan’s iron pot, and Gui Mei’s flame, granting the door continent-wide travel and creating a resonance between the pot and flame.

Zhu Zhuqing brought Feng Xiaotian to the shop, where he used a Game Pod to obtain a Crimson Flame Demon Wolf as his second Martial Soul. He returned to Heaven Dou City carrying breakfast and planned to reveal his new power to Huo Wu.

• Zhu Zhuqing handed out flyers in Heaven Dou City, and Feng Xiaotian became interested in the promise of Twin Martial Souls.
• Feng Xiaotian followed Zhu Zhuqing through her Anywhere Door to the shop and paid one Gold Soul Coin to use a Game Pod.
• Feng Xiaotian selected the Crimson Flame Demon Wolf as his second Martial Soul and summoned it after leaving the Game Pod.
• Zhu Zhuqing opened the Anywhere Door to Heaven Dou City, and Feng Xiaotian returned to the street with his breakfast.
• Feng Xiaotian hurried toward Blazing Fire Academy, planning how to show Huo Wu his new Martial Soul.

Feng Xiaotian revealed his second Martial Soul, the Crimson Flame Demon Wolf, during a spar at Blazing Fire Academy and explained that he had obtained it from a mysterious shop. The four elemental academy deans gathered at Godwind Academy and agreed to investigate the shop the next morning.

• Feng Xiaotian brought breakfast to Huo Wu, then sparred with Huo Wushuang and revealed his Crimson Flame Demon Wolf Martial Soul.
• Huo Lie summoned Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wushuang, and Huo Wu to his office, where Feng Xiaotian described obtaining the Martial Soul at a mysterious shop for one Gold Soul Coin.
• Huo Lie told Feng Xiaotian to report the matter to Godwind Academy and arranged a meeting with the other elemental academy deans.
• Feng Xiaotian recounted his encounter to the four deans and showed them the flyer advertising the shop.
• The deans agreed to investigate the flyer’s address and watch for the girl with the Anywhere Door the following morning.

At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Dugu Yan found a flyer claiming a shop could grant twin martial souls, and Dugu Bo recognized the shop from rumors he had heard. Convinced it might be real, he took Dugu Yan to its remote location beside the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Yu Tianheng dismissed rumors about the Shrek Team and mocked a flyer Dugu Yan found advertising twin martial souls.
• Dugu Yan returned to Dugu Manor and asked Dugu Bo whether someone could acquire twin martial souls later in life.
• Dugu Bo recalled hearing about a mysterious shop from the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny and matched their account to the flyer.
• Dugu Bo took Dugu Yan to the shop near the Star Dou Great Forest, arriving there after a three-hour flight.

Dugu Bo visited the shop with Dugu Yan and learned from Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang about the Game Pods, Heavenly Evolution City, and the possibility of finding a way to evolve their martial souls. He ended the chapter eager to try the lottery machine, hoping it might offer a solution to their martial-soul flaws.

• Dugu Bo entered the shop, where he was surprised to find Yue Guan working as a cook and learned that Yue Guan had willingly taken the job.
• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang welcomed Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, then explained the Game Pods, twin martial souls, and rumors about Dugu Yuan.
• Dugu Bo asked whether Heavenly Evolution City held methods for martial-soul evolution, and Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang said Dugu Yuan had evolved his martial soul and that details might be recorded in Heavenly Evolution Tower.
• Dugu Bo privately hoped to find a remedy for the flaws in his and Dugu Yan's martial souls, while Dugu Yan grew excited to hear Dugu Yuan might be their ancestor.
• Chao Tianxiang led Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Meng Shu to the lottery machine and explained that it could yield an item capable of evolving a martial soul; Dugu Bo asked how to use it.

Dugu Bo won an Immortal Herb Knowledge Atlas in the Prize Machine, and Yue Guan revealed that he, Zhu Zhuqing, and Gui Mei possessed Divine Rings. Lin Yue hinted that the atlas’s familiar plants came from Dugu Bo’s own herb garden, leaving him to realize he might not know what grew there.

• Dugu Bo spent nine hundred Gold Soul Coins on ten draws and won an Immortal Herb Knowledge Atlas along with several lesser rewards.
• Yue Guan explained that immortal herbs existed and revealed his Divine Ring, adding that Zhu Zhuqing and Gui Mei also had one.
• Lin Yue arrived and welcomed Dugu Bo, who showed him the atlas and asked why so many illustrations seemed familiar.
• Lin Yue asked Dugu Bo whether he knew what grew in his own herb garden.

Dugu Bo learned that his herb garden held immortal herbs and heard Lin Yue describe the betrayal and death awaiting him in the original course of events, leaving him furious with Tang San. The next day, Dugu Yan set out with Yu Tianheng to seek permission to challenge Tang San, while Huo Lie decided to investigate the address on the mysterious flyer with Blazing Fire Academy’s core students.

• Dugu Bo discovered that his garden contained valuable immortal herbs, and Lin Yue told him how Tang San had exploited and abandoned him in the future he had avoided.
• Dugu Bo thanked Lin Yue, then took Dugu Yan to the Game Pods, where they each chose a second martial soul before returning to Heaven Dou City.
• At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Dugu Yan heard Yu Tianheng praise Tang San and led him to ask the principal for permission to fight Shrek Team, intending to avenge her grandfather.
• The Four Elements Academy principals debated whether to investigate the flyer’s address, weighing the opportunity against the risk of wasting their students’ cultivation time.
• Huo Lie chose to personally lead Blazing Fire Academy’s core students to investigate the flyer’s address and left to prepare.

Blazing Fire Academy and Skywater Academy traveled to Lin Yue’s Mysterious Shop to seek opportunities, where Dugu Bo helped Dugu Yan prepare for a future match against Tang San. After Huo Lie gave Dugu Yan a breakthrough ticket, she reached level forty-eight and received a ten-thousand-year soul ring, leaving her far stronger before the coming fight.

• Huo Lie led Blazing Fire Academy to the Mysterious Shop, where the group met Shui Qinglan and Skywater Academy and traveled inside together.
• Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to the shop to find treasures that could quickly improve her strength before she left for Suotuo City.
• Lin Yue confirmed that the game pods could grant second martial souls, and both deans paid for their students to use them.
• Dugu Bo drew a ten-thousand-year adaptive soul ring and a One-Word Battle Armor, while Huo Lie won a Soul Power Breakthrough Ticket.
• Huo Lie gave the ticket to Dugu Yan, who used it to rise from level thirty-eight to level forty-eight, and Dugu Bo gave her the ten-thousand-year soul ring to absorb.

Huo Wu demonstrated that the game pods could grant a second martial soul, unlocking the arena function for Lin Yue. Lin Yue challenged Dugu Bo to show the arena’s capabilities, and their match began with Lin Yue charging in with Blue Silver Armor and a Blue Silver Overlord Spear.

• Huo Wu used a game pod and emerged with a flame-shaped crimson lotus as her second martial soul, prompting the Blazing Fire and Skywater students to enter the pods.
• The arena function unlocked after the minimum participant requirement was met, and Lin Yue answered Dugu Bo’s questions about the shop’s other features.
• Lin Yue stopped the two academies from leaving by explaining that the arena could train combat skills and teamwork.
• Dragon Duke, Snake Granny, and Meng Yiran arrived, and Lin Yue proposed demonstrating the arena by fighting Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo entered a game pod, challenged Lin Yue, and selected his martial soul and soul skills for a level-90 match.
• When the arena match began on a mountaintop, Lin Yue formed Blue Silver Armor and a Blue Silver Overlord Spear, then charged at Dugu Bo.

Lin Yue defeated Dugu Bo in the Arena using his Blue Silver Emperor and explained the Arena’s rules to the gathered Soul Masters. The others recognized its value for testing Martial Soul and Soul Skill combinations.

• Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Armor stopped Lin Yue’s Blue Silver Overlord Spear, and his Serpent Lance forced Lin Yue onto the defensive.
• Lin Yue activated Blue Silver True Body and created a swarm of spears, while Dugu Bo countered with his Jade Phosphorous Emperor True Body and Ten Thousand Poisons Devouring.
• Dugu Bo used Time Freeze and unleashed his ninth Soul Skill, but Lin Yue broke free and summoned the Blue Silver Puppet Tianshu and Azure Dragon to deflect the poison.
• Azure Dragon fought Dugu Bo’s Serpent Emperor True Body until Dugu Bo exhausted his Soul Power and lost.
• Lin Yue explained that his Martial Soul was the Blue Silver Emperor, then described the Arena’s challenge levels, midpoint rule, and three-minute preparation phase for choosing Martial Souls and Soul Skills.