Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng planned to investigate whether the protagonist group felt unusually close to him and decided to leave Heaven Dou Academy with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling. After Qin Ming granted them leave, the three set out and heard a fierce argument ahead.

• Lin Feng decided to seek out Grandmaster and Shrek Academy to test his suspicions about the protagonist group.
• Dugu Yan asked to accompany Lin Feng, and he agreed; Ye Lingling joined them, while the Shi Brothers stayed behind to train.
• Lin Feng and the others asked Qin Ming for leave, and he reluctantly approved their trip.
• Lin Feng, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling left Heaven Dou Academy and heard a fierce argument along the road.

Lin Feng intervened in Yu Kuang and Taino’s dispute over Whale Rubber, then agreed to let Yu Kuang join the group’s training journey. When Lin Feng said they were going to find Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong recognized the name and asked to go with them.

• Yu Kuang and Taino argued over who had the right to buy Whale Rubber, and both activated their Martial Souls.
• Lin Feng bought the Whale Rubber, prompting Taino to leave, then gave it to Yu Kuang, who said he had wanted it for Lin Feng.
• Yu Kuang asked to accompany Lin Feng, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling on their training journey, and Lin Feng agreed.
• Lin Feng told Dugu Yan that they were going to find Yu Xiaogang, whom she dismissed as an overrated Martial Soul researcher.
• Liu Erlong stepped forward and urgently asked Lin Feng to take her to Xiao Gang, saying she had been searching for him.

Lin Feng brought Liu Erlong along to find Yu Xiaogang and learned of her forbidden love for her cousin. As the group supported her, Liu Erlong defended Yu Xiaogang’s hesitation, and they continued toward him.

• Liu Erlong recognized Lin Feng and asked him to take her to Yu Xiaogang, and he agreed.
• Lin Feng inspected Liu Erlong’s traits and saw her talent and forbidden-love destiny.
• Liu Erlong told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that she, Yu Xiaogang, and Flender had formed the Golden Iron Triangle.
• Lin Feng revealed that Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang shared a grandfather, and he and the others reassured her that she deserved happiness.
• Dugu Yan criticized Yu Xiaogang’s cowardice, but Liu Erlong insisted that he was only considering her well-being.

Lin Feng helped Liu Erlong question her devotion to Yu Xiaogang and secretly replaced her Forbidden Love attribute with Love 100 Times, leading her to decide she would leave Yu Xiaogang behind. As the carriage approached Flame Valley, bandits blocked the road, and Lin Feng prepared to face them while Liu Erlong stepped forward in anger.

• Lin Feng, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling told Liu Erlong that Yu Xiaogang had chosen his reputation over her feelings, but Liu Erlong said she still wanted to try to move him with her sincerity.
• Lin Feng replaced Liu Erlong's Forbidden Love attribute with Love 100 Times, and she dreamed of several relationships that ended in heartbreak.
• Lin Feng ordered Yu Kuang to take the carriage to Yuhuo City so he could bring spiritual medicine to his people at Flame Valley and awaken their potential.
• After waking, Liu Erlong thanked Lin Feng and said she would tell Yu Xiaogang that she could live better without him.
• Bandits stopped the carriage and demanded toll money, so Lin Feng ordered the women to stand behind him while Liu Erlong angrily confronted the robbers.

Lin Feng revealed his overwhelming strength when bandits attacked the group, killing their leader and underlings with his Fire Dragon King martial soul and fire skills. Liu Erlong and the others were left stunned by his power, and Liu Erlong confronted him as he returned to the carriage.

• Yu Man and his bandits surrounded Lin Feng's carriage and threatened the women, prompting Liu Erlong to prepare to fight.
• Lin Feng stopped Liu Erlong and revealed his Fire Dragon King martial soul, suppressing the bandits and astonishing Liu Erlong and Yu Kuang.
• Yu Man led his men in an attack, but Lin Feng boosted his attributes and unleashed Fire Dragon Rage Cannon, incinerating most of them.
• Lin Feng killed the surviving bandits with a mental attack from the Flame Beast Skull, then calmly walked back toward the carriage.
• Liu Erlong praised Lin Feng for hiding his strength and asked whether he had finally revealed everything.

Lin Feng learned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had challenged his clan over Flame Valley, with the valley at stake in a five-match contest. He disguised himself and went to the valley to compete, while his companions offered to seek help from their families.

• Liu Erlong joined Lin Feng’s group and swallowed a poison pill that would let him control her life.
• Lin Feng’s second uncle told him that Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo were in Flame Valley and had wagered a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone and three merchant caravans on a five-match contest.
• Lin Feng learned that his eldest uncle had lost the Soul Sage match and that the clan needed two more victories to save Flame Valley.
• Lin Feng revealed his strength to his second uncle, used Gorgeous Effects to disguise himself, and said he would find a way to win the remaining matches.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling offered to ask their grandfathers to help preserve Flame Valley, while Yu Kuang asked Ye Lingling about the Nine Heart Begonia martial soul.

Lin Feng returned to Flame Valley, reviewed the Lin Family’s competition roster, and decided to fight in the Soul King match himself. He began strengthening the family’s contestants with immortal herbs, starting with Lin Long, while Lin Jian was introduced as a promising swordsman.

• Lin Feng and his companions greeted Lin Ye, who welcomed them and brought Lin Feng into a private room to discuss the competition roster.
• Lin Feng judged the roster too weak, disguised himself, and volunteered to compete in the Soul King match; Lin Ye agreed.
• Lin Feng summoned Lin Long, Lin Jian, Lin Shui, and Lin Xue, then gave Lin Long a Blazing Sun Flower to improve his talent.
• Lin Jian stepped forward as the contestant for the Soul Elder match, and Lin Feng examined his attributes as a talented Fire Lotus Sword wielder.

Lin Shui's True Spirit Flower mutated her Flame Snake Martial Soul into a Void Spirit Serpent, granting her invisibility and space traversal. Lin Feng and Lin Ye witnessed her new abilities as she appeared outside the window.

• Lin Jian absorbed the Three-Leaf Sword Grass, broke through to Soul Power rank 40, and comprehended Red Lotus Sword Intent and the Red Lotus Domain.
• Lin Feng copied Lin Jian's Red Lotus Sword Intent and also comprehended a cyan domain.
• Lin Long emerged with his Soul Power still at rank 50 but felt new power within his body.
• Lin Shui's Martial Soul mutated into the Void Spirit Serpent, allowing her to conceal herself and use her Third Soul Skill, Void Shuttle, to traverse space.
• Lin Shui demonstrated Void Shuttle by disappearing from the secret chamber and reappearing outside the window.

Lin Xue awakened Exotic Eyes and gained level 38 Soul Power after absorbing an immortal herb, while Lin Ye prepared Lin Jian and Lin Long for the remaining matches over Flame Valley. At the competition grounds, Lin Feng scanned Ning Fengzhi and discovered attributes tied to the Child of Destiny and his own eventual death.

• Lin Xue emerged from the secret chamber with Exotic Eyes, hypnotic abilities, stronger spiritual power, and level 38 Soul Power.
• Lin Ye told Lin Jian and Lin Long to handle the next two matches and instructed everyone to rest until Lin Han's match ended.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo discussed the Lin Family's arrival and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's plans to secure Flame Valley.
• Lin Ye reassured Lin Han before his match, while Lin Feng remained disguised and promised they would not recognize him.
• Lin Feng scanned Ning Fengzhi and found that Destiny's Aid would make him a major aid to the Child of Destiny before he met a natural end.

Lin Feng studied Sword Douluo Chen Xin’s powerful attributes and triggered an advancement that offered three golden choices, including All In. Hesitating to make Chen Xin stronger, he instead changed Ning Fengzhi’s personality attribute to Kindness, though Ning Fengzhi still refused to give up Flame Valley as the battle continued.

• Lin Feng recalled how Ning Fengzhi’s support for Tang San would eventually lead to his disgrace and lonely old age.
• Lin Feng examined Chen Xin’s attributes, including his potential to break through near death and his fate of dying while saving Tang San.
• Lin Feng refreshed Chen Xin’s attributes, triggering an advancement that offered God of Sky, Flame-Flame Fruit, and All In as golden choices.
• Lin Feng considered having Chen Xin choose All In so he could copy the resulting attribute, but rejected the plan because it might make Chen Xin stronger.
• Lin Feng refreshed Ning Fengzhi’s attributes and replaced one with Kindness, causing Ning Fengzhi to feel guilty about occupying Flame Valley.
• Ning Fengzhi continued watching the Lin Family fight and refused to relinquish Flame Valley, while the battle carried on with a Fire Snake Shockwave.

Lin Feng urged the Lin Family and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to finish their remaining matches that day, then faced Liu Yu in the Soul King match. After Liu Yu’s attacks failed to harm him, Lin Feng unleashed a vast sea of flames across the arena.

• Lin Han lost to Wu Chuan, leaving the Lin Family down two matches, and Lin Ye comforted him.
• Lin Feng proposed completing all the remaining matches that day, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to the terms, including keeping Flame Valley secret and giving the Lin Family the sect’s Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone and merchant association if they won.
• Chen Xin privately warned Ning Fengzhi about the risk of losing, but Ning Fengzhi remained confident after the sect’s two victories.
• Lin Feng scanned Liu Yu and learned that the Control System Soul Master was level 59 and close to becoming a Soul Emperor.
• Liu Yu attacked with his Jade Flute and Lingering Sound, but Lin Feng’s True Dragon Scale left him unharmed.
• Lin Feng activated Emperor Flame Fury, filling the arena with a blood-red sea of flames.

Lin Jian defeated Li Hu and refused Sword Douluo’s offer to become his disciple, while Ning Fengzhi and the Lin Family failed to reconcile. As the final match was about to begin, a massive Fire Dragon emerged from the volcano, forcing everyone to flee, and a mysterious voice told Lin Feng not to fear.

• Lin Feng defeated Liu Yu, and Lin Ye urged Lin Jian to fight without restraint.
• Lin Jian defeated Li Hu with his Red Lotus Domain, astonishing Sword Douluo and Ning Fengzhi.
• Sword Douluo offered to take Lin Jian as his disciple, but Lin Jian refused and declared his loyalty to the Lin Family.
• Lin Ye rejected Ning Fengzhi’s proposal and called for the final match to proceed, while Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo planned to act after the competition.
• As Lin Long and Wu Feng prepared to fight, a massive Fire Dragon emerged from the volcano, and Sword Douluo, Ning Fengzhi, and the Lin Family fled.
• A mysterious voice spoke to Lin Feng in his mind and told him it meant no harm.

Lin Feng followed the Fire Dragon into the volcano and met Huo Yi, a loyal guard of the Fire Dragon King who recognized the king’s aura in Lin Feng’s Martial Soul. Huo Yi sacrificed itself to empower Lin Feng, leaving him with an evolved dragon Martial Soul and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, while a newly formed Soul Spirit emerged without its former memories.

• Lin Feng reassured the clanspeople and went into the volcano with Lin Ye after the Fire Dragon summoned him.
• Huo Yi revealed itself as the spirit of a fallen guard and recognized the Fire Dragon King’s Martial Soul in Lin Feng.
• Huo Yi sacrificed itself, channeling the power of the Fire Dragon Grass into Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng’s Blazing Sun Three-Headed Serpent evolved into the Flame Sky Dragon, his Soul Power rose to level 57, and he gained a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Dragon Wing External Soul Bone.
• Lin Feng summoned the Soul Ring and discovered it contained a new Flame Sky Dragon Soul Spirit with no memories of its previous life.

Lin Feng awakened soul skills that let him control attendants and animate a dragon corpse, leaving the Soul Spirit in Flame Valley as the Lin Family’s trump card. Outside the valley, Dugu Bo confronted Ning Fengzhi over his granddaughter’s territory, then rushed in and found Dugu Yan safe.

• Lin Feng tested Huo Yi’s King's Attendant and Dragon Corpse Revival skills, animating the dragon corpse briefly before the Soul Spirit ran out of strength.
• Lin Feng examined his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone skills and left the Soul Spirit in Flame Valley to grow stronger and guard the Lin Family.
• Dugu Bo arrived outside the valley and accused Ning Fengzhi of coveting his granddaughter and grandson-in-law’s territory.
• Ning Fengzhi told Dugu Bo that Dugu Yan was inside the valley, and Dugu Bo flew in while threatening the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect party.
• Ning Fengzhi led his people away as Chen Xin worried that the dragon had gone quiet; Dugu Bo found Dugu Yan safe, and she ran toward him.

After taming the Fire Dragon in Flame Valley, Lin Feng planned an Empty Fort Strategy to deter the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect from targeting the Lin Family. He left with Dugu Bo to visit the sect, taking the dragon’s corpse with him.

• Lin Feng returned safely with Lin Shui and Lin Ye, and he told everyone the Fire Dragon had become the guardian of Flame Valley.
• Lin Feng explained that the Fire Dragon could launch only one attack, while Dugu Bo admitted he could not defeat the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect alone.
• Lin Feng proposed visiting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Dugu Bo and Lin Long, pretending to continue the fifth match while using the Fire Dragon to make the sect fear retaliation.
• Lin Ye reluctantly agreed, and Lin Feng said farewell to Dugu Yan and the others before flying out of the valley with Dugu Bo and the dragon’s corpse.

Lin Feng brought Dugu Bo and Lin Shui to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to settle their tournament wager, while worrying the sect might expose the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to Spirit Hall. After Lin Feng claimed Xiao Yan protected Flame Valley and had taken Lin Jian as a disciple, Ning Fengzhi conceded the final match, and Lin Feng presented Xiao Yan’s jade token.

• Lin Shui absorbed a ten-thousand-year soul ring, reached Soul Power Level 46, and demonstrated her Fourth Soul Skill, Space Token, which allowed teleportation within ten li.
• On the way to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Lin Feng and Dugu Bo worried Ning Fengzhi might reveal the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to Spirit Hall, so Lin Shui made Space Tokens for their return.
• Ning Fengzhi welcomed Lin Feng and Dugu Bo at the sect after learning of their arrival, while Gu Rong and Sword Douluo remained wary of Dugu Bo.
• Lin Feng said they had come to complete the final tournament match, then claimed Xiao Yan lived in Flame Valley and had accepted Lin Jian as his disciple.
• Ning Fengzhi conceded the final round rather than challenge Xiao Yan’s residence, and Lin Feng showed him Xiao Yan’s jade token.

Lin Feng visited Ning Fengzhi at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, secretly refreshed the attributes of Ning Fengzhi and his family, and received a soul bone. He left with Poison Douluo using a teleportation soul tool, while Ning Fengzhi and the others were stunned.

• Ning Fengzhi accepted Xiao Yan's jade talisman and promised to keep the matter of Flame Valley secret, then ordered a servant to bring Lin Feng the prepared soul bone.
• Lin Feng refreshed Ning Fengzhi's Die Alone attribute and chose Cuckold after Ning Fengzhi's wife, Liu Rong, and daughter, Ning Rongrong, arrived.
• Lin Feng scanned Ning Rongrong, refreshed her attributes, and replaced Stockholm Syndrome; Ning Rongrong clung to him, prompting Sword Douluo's concern.
• Lin Feng refreshed Liu Rong's attributes and replaced her Unbeatable Field attribute, while leaving Sword Douluo's attributes untouched and changing Bone Douluo's Spatial Perception to Master Craftsman.
• Ning Fengzhi escorted Lin Feng and Poison Douluo to the mountain gate, where Lin Feng used a ring to teleport them away, shocking the Sect Master and his companions.

Ning Fengzhi and the others tested the jade talisman and witnessed Xiao Yan’s terrifying display of power, convincing them not to provoke Lin Feng’s group. Lin Feng and his companions headed back to Flame Valley, but an explosion sounded behind them as they flew.

• Ning Fengzhi crushed the jade talisman, summoning Xiao Yan, who unleashed his ninth soul skill, Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus, and warned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect against harboring hostile intentions.
• Sword Douluo discovered that blue flames from Xiao Yan’s attack continued burning on water and scorched his Seven Kill Sword Martial Soul Avatar.
• Sword Douluo reassured Ning Fengzhi that Xiao Yan and Lin Feng’s group would likely leave them alone if they did not provoke them, and Ning Fengzhi considered helping Ning Rongrong get closer to Lin Feng.
• Seven kilometers away, Dugu Bo asked Lin Feng whether he had really met Xiao Yan, and Lin Feng confirmed that Xiao Yan was his master.
• Dugu Bo regretted that Xiao Yan’s power had been spent on the talisman, but Lin Feng said he could ask his master for another one before leading everyone toward Flame Valley.
• An earth-shattering explosion sounded behind Lin Feng and the others as they flew home.

After the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was devastated by the jade talisman’s flames, Ning Fengzhi ordered a search for spies, while Liu Rong summoned the new guard Lao Ai to her room. In Flame Valley, Ye Nantian knocked Ye Lingling unconscious and carried her away, hoping to protect her from the sect’s threat.

• Lin Feng, Dugu Bo, and Lin Shui saw the flames engulf the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and continued flying, while the sect’s survivors emerged from the disaster.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered the Second Elder and Shadow Guards to watch for spies, then dismissed Liu Rong while he continued working.
• Liu Rong noticed the new guard Lao Ai, ordered him to bring Ning Fengzhi lotus seed porridge, and later summoned him into her courtyard.
• Ye Nantian told Ye Lingling he could not oppose the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and she insisted she would stay with Lin Feng.
• Ye Nantian knocked Ye Lingling unconscious and carried her away from Flame Valley to keep her safe.

Lin Ye let Ye Nantian leave with Ye Lingling, then the Lin Family chose to wait for Lin Feng rather than hide from the Upper Three Sects. Lin Feng returned with news that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would not come back, learned Ye Lingling had been taken away, and set out with Dugu Yan to find her.

• Lin Ye stopped Ye Nantian from leaving, but let him go after Ye Nantian threatened to swallow a poison pill and argued that the Lin Family should hide from the Upper Three Sects.
• Lin Ye asked Dugu Yan and Lin Jian whether some clansmen should hide, but they insisted on trusting Lin Feng and facing danger together.
• Lin Feng returned to Flame Valley and reassured the clansmen that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would not come again; Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo reunited with him.
• Lin Ye told Lin Feng that Ye Nantian had taken Ye Lingling and directed him to ask his second uncle in Yuhuo City where they had gone.
• Lin Feng left for Yuhuo City with Dugu Yan, while Dugu Bo stayed behind to tell the others what had happened at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ye Nantian hid Ye Lingling in a basement in Yuhuo City, but she demanded to return to Flame Valley and wait for Lin Feng.