Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo defended Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling after Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun insulted them, forcing Shrek Academy to confront the consequences. Zhao Wuji learned Dugu Yan’s connection to Dugu Bo and ordered the two students to apologize before leading the academy away.

• Qin Ming stopped Zhao Wuji from attacking and asked Lin Mo to explain the fight.
• Lin Mo recounted the insults and claimed he had followed Shrek Academy’s rule about daring to cause trouble, while Ma Hongjun tried to blame him.
• Qin Ming proposed apologies and treatment for the injured students, but Dugu Yan rejected the compromise and challenged Zhao Wuji’s authority.
• Lin Mo warned Zhao Wuji that Dugu Yan’s surname was Dugu, and Ning Rongrong privately identified her as Dugu Bo’s successor and Ye Lingling as a Nine Heart Begonia successor.
• Zhao Wuji ordered Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to apologize; after Lin Mo made them repeat their words loudly, Zhao Wuji led Shrek Academy away.

After Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun were badly burned by Lin Mo, Zhao Wuji questioned the Shrek students about him and his connections. Qin Ming arrived, apologized on Lin Mo’s behalf, and gave the injured students medicine, while Tang San explained why Lin Mo’s flames had overwhelmed Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix Martial Soul.

• Ning Rongrong identified Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling by their Martial Souls, while Tang San said Lin Mo had once been his classmate at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Xiao Wu revealed that Lin Mo’s Martial Soul was Charmander, an external beast Martial Soul, and Ning Rongrong guessed he attended Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Qin Ming entered the room, and Zhao Wuji introduced him as a Shrek graduate and a Six-Ring Soul Emperor.
• Qin Ming apologized for Lin Mo’s treatment of Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun and left them two bottles of medicine.
• Oscar explained that the pair’s worst injuries were burns, and Tang San said Lin Mo’s flames were stronger than Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix flames.

After Lin Mo defeated Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, Qin Ming revealed that the twelve-year-old was already a level-forty Soul Ancestor with a mutated Martial Soul. The Shrek students were left stunned by the gap between Lin Mo’s talent and their own.

• Zhao Wuji questioned how Lin Mo could overpower Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun with an external beast Martial Soul, and Tang San admitted he did not know.
• Xiao Wu said Lin Mo’s Charmander had once spat flames at her when she tried to touch it, while Qin Ming recalled it being friendly with Ye Lingling.
• Qin Ming explained that Lin Mo had reached level thirty and gained his third Soul Ring more than two years earlier, after which his Charmander mutated into Charmeleon.
• Qin Ming revealed that Lin Mo had come to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his fourth Soul Ring, leaving everyone in the room stunned.
• Qin Ming said Lin Mo had studied mostly under Poison Douluo rather than at Shrek Academy, and Xiao Wu reacted uneasily to the name.
• Ning Rongrong realized Lin Mo was the exceptional student Ning Fengzhi had once refused to describe, and she felt she could not hope to catch up with him.

The Heaven Dou Royal Academy party discussed their clash with Shrek Academy while Lin Mo considered Qin Ming’s loyalties and assessed the Shrek students’ cultivation. The next morning, they rejected Qin Ming’s suggestion to travel with Shrek and entered the Star Dou Great Forest ahead of them.

• Osler, Yu Feng, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan criticized Shrek Academy, while Yu Tianheng doubted whether he could defeat Lin Mo.
• Qin Ming left the room, and Lin Mo expected him to visit Shrek Academy and possibly reveal information about their group.
• Lin Mo sensed that Tang San and Xiao Wu were still level twenty-nine, Dai Mubai was level thirty-seven, and Oscar was at the level-thirty bottleneck.
• Lin Mo wondered why his Spirit Eyes could not detect Xiao Wu’s true form, despite his enhanced spiritual power.
• The Heaven Dou Royal Academy party rejected Qin Ming’s suggestion to travel with Shrek Academy and entered the Star Dou Great Forest ahead of them.

Yu Tianheng obtained his fourth soul ring in the Star Dou Great Forest, but a roar from the Titan Giant Ape triggered a beast tide and forced the group to retreat. As Qin Ming reconsidered their search for Lin Mo’s soul ring, Charizard sensed a promising Fire-type soul beast nearby.

• Yu Tianheng killed a roughly 4,500-year-old Thunder Horn Python and absorbed its soul ring, reaching level forty-one and gaining Blue Lightning Divine Dragon Rush.
• A distant roar sent soul beasts fleeing through the forest, and Lin Mo recognized it as the Titan Giant Ape, Er Ming.
• Qin Ming led the group toward the forest’s outskirts as they fought off panicked beasts, then warned that the disturbance would make finding Lin Mo a suitable soul beast difficult.
• Charizard told Lin Mo it had sensed a suitably aged soul beast with a remarkably pure Fire-type attribute, giving him a lead on his fifth soul ring.

Lin Mo separated from Qin Ming’s group to hunt a powerful Soul Beast for his Fifth Soul Ring, trusting his strength and Charizard to handle the danger alone. After he flew off, Dugu Yan revealed that Lin Mo had reached level fifty months earlier, shocking Qin Ming and Yu Tianheng.

• Lin Mo told Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, and Qin Ming to leave the area while he hunted a Soul Beast alone, and Dugu Yan agreed to leave markers along their route.
• Lin Mo summoned Charizard, mounted it, and flew toward the Soul Beast he had sensed.
• Yu Feng, Osler, and the others noticed Charizard’s changed form and Lin Mo’s four Soul Rings, including a black one.
• Yu Tianheng asked Dugu Yan whether Lin Mo was seeking his Fifth Soul Ring, and she confirmed that Lin Mo had broken through level fifty months earlier.
• Qin Ming and Yu Tianheng reacted with shock when they learned Lin Mo was already a Soul King.

Lin Mo pursued a fire-and-light Soul Beast for Charizard’s Fifth Soul Ring while Shrek Academy regrouped after the Titan Giant Ape took Xiao Wu. Tang San flew after Xiao Wu, and Lin Mo found a beautiful winged Soul King already waiting at the lava valley.

• Qin Ming led the Imperial Fighting Team toward the forest’s outskirts to wait for Lin Mo after learning he was a twelve-year-old Soul King.
• Lin Mo and Charizard tracked a rare Soul Beast with fire and light attributes deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang San, enraged over Xiao Wu’s capture, took Oscar’s Mushroom Sausage and flew after the Titan Giant Ape; Ning Rongrong boosted his speed with her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Lin Mo reached a lava-filled valley and found a beautiful woman with white wings and five Soul Rings standing beside the lava lake.
• Lin Mo recognized the woman, and his pupils contracted.

Lin Mo encountered Qian Renxue in the Star Dou Great Forest while both were seeking Soul Rings, and discovered that a hidden Titled Douluo had him and Charizard locked in place. He concealed his identity and offered to leave, while preparing to use his Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill if attacked.

• Lin Mo recognized Qian Renxue and considered fleeing, but realized Spirit Hall must have a Titled Douluo guarding her.
• Qian Renxue ordered Lin Mo to stay and was astonished by his evolved Charizard, four Soul Rings, and apparent level-fifty cultivation.
• A powerful presence hidden nearby locked onto Lin Mo and Charizard, so Lin Mo readied his Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill as an escape measure.
• Qian Renxue softened her approach and asked Lin Mo who he was and why he had come to the forest.
• Lin Mo introduced himself as Mo Ling, claimed to be an eighteen-year-old unaffiliated cultivator seeking a fifth Soul Ring, and offered to leave the Soul Beast to Qian Renxue.

Qian Renxue questioned whether her long undercover mission had been worth the cost to her cultivation, then offered Lin Mo the Soul Beast beneath the lava lake to build a bond with him. Lin Mo accepted her offer so he could pursue a Soul Ring compatible with his Martial Soul.

• Qian Renxue silently compared her cultivation with Lin Mo's and questioned whether infiltrating the Heaven Dou Imperial Family had been worth sacrificing years of her life.
• Lin Mo explained that he had come to the lava lake because his Martial Soul sensed a highly compatible Soul Beast, and said he could escape if it proved too powerful.
• Qian Renxue offered Lin Mo the Soul Beast because its attributes did not suit the sacred and light Soul Ring she needed.
• Lin Mo suspected Qian Renxue wanted to recruit him, but accepted her offer rather than delay his search for a Soul Beast.

Lin Mo and Qian Renxue exchanged false names before Lin Mo began hunting a roughly thirty-thousand-year-old Sun Insect King for his Fifth Soul Ring. Charizard’s Sunny Day strengthened both combatants, but its Ultimate Fire gave Charizard a decisive advantage as the fight began.

• Qian Renxue asked Lin Mo to call her Sister Xue, and Lin Mo reluctantly agreed while Snake Lance Douluo Yu Long watched from hiding.
• Lin Mo kept Charizard close and sent him into the lava lake to flush out a Soul Beast while Qian Renxue stayed back to observe.
• Charizard forced a Sun Insect King from the lava, and Lin Mo judged that its cultivation was within their ability to handle.
• Charizard used Sunny Day, boosting both himself and the Sun Insect King, while Qian Renxue recognized the skill as a pseudo-domain rather than a true domain.
• The Sun Insect King fired a golden-red beam, but Charizard’s Flamethrower overwhelmed it and began melting its carapace.
• Lin Mo recognized that Sunny Day had raised Charizard’s flames to Ultimate Fire, giving him a strong attribute advantage over the Sun Insect King.

Lin Mo and Charizard defeated the thirty-thousand-year Sun Insect King, and Charizard demonstrated its self-created flame skills to Qian Renxue. Lin Mo absorbed the beast’s Soul Ring safely, reaching Soul Power Level 53 and gaining the fifth Soul Skill, Light of the Corona.

• Charizard killed the weakened Sun Insect King, and its thirty-thousand-year Soul Ring appeared.
• Qian Renxue questioned Lin Mo about Charizard’s many skills, and Lin Mo explained that it had learned them as Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Charizard demonstrated Ember, Fire Spin, and Flamethrower for Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue agreed to guard Lin Mo while he absorbed the Soul Ring, and Charizard swallowed it.
• Lin Mo and Charizard absorbed the Soul Ring without danger, and two hours later Lin Mo saw that his Soul Power had reached Lv53 and his fifth Soul Skill was Light of the Corona.

After absorbing the Sun Insect King’s Soul Ring, Lin Mo tested Charizard’s new Fifth Soul Skill and thanked Qian Renxue before heading back to his companions. Qian Renxue then set off with She Long to search for her Sixth Soul Ring.

• Lin Mo explained that the Sun Insect King’s Soul Ring granted Charizard the offensive Soul Skill Light of the Corona, raised his Soul Power to rank fifty-three, and further purified its flames to Ultimate Fire.
• At Lin Mo’s request, Charizard demonstrated Light of the Corona by vaporizing a large hollow in the lava lake, impressing Qian Renxue with its attack power.
• Lin Mo thanked Qian Renxue for yielding the Sun Insect King and said he needed to return to his companions; Qian Renxue teased him about claiming to be a lone cultivator, then let him leave.
• Lin Mo flew away on Charizard and promised to remember Qian Renxue’s kindness, while she watched him depart.
• Qian Renxue called She Long and turned toward the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest to search for her Sixth Soul Ring.

Tang San absorbed a powerful Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Ring and obtained the Eight Spider Lances before Lin Mo encountered the Shrek group in Star Dou Great Forest. After Tang San explained that the Titan Giant Ape had taken Xiao Wu, he begged Lin Mo to help rescue her.

• Tang San endured the absorption of a Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Ring that exceeded the usual limit for a third Soul Ring and reached the Soul Elder realm, gaining the Eight Spider Lances.
• Lin Mo turned Charizard toward familiar presences in the forest and landed before the Shrek group, stunning them with Charizard's five Soul Rings.
• Lin Mo asked where Xiao Wu was, and Tang San recounted how the Titan Giant Ape had taken her.
• Lin Mo described the Titan Giant Ape's overwhelming strength and questioned how the Shrek group knew his Martial Soul had once been called Charmeleon.
• Tang San pleaded with Lin Mo to rescue Xiao Wu, offering to pay any price.

Tang San pleaded with Lin Mo to ask Poison Douluo to rescue Xiao Wu, but Lin Mo refused and left with Charizard. At the Lake of Life, Xiao Wu decided not to return to the human world and accepted Er Ming and Da Ming’s protection.

• Lin Mo told Tang San that rescuing Xiao Wu from the Titan Giant Ape was too dangerous and urged the group to leave the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang San asked Lin Mo to enlist Poison Douluo, but Zhao Wuji rebuked him and Lin Mo refused.
• Tang San angrily accused Lin Mo of being cold-blooded, and Lin Mo departed on Charizard.
• At the Lake of Life, Er Ming asked Xiao Wu whether she would return to Tang San, and she said she would not.
• Da Ming reassured Xiao Wu that he and Er Ming would protect her, and Xiao Wu agreed to stay.

Lin Mo returned to the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest with his fifth Soul Ring and explained his unusual Soul Ring absorption to the Imperial Fighting Team. After telling them that Xiao Wu had been taken by the Titan Giant Ape but the rest of Shrek Academy was safe, Qin Ming led the team out of the forest.

• Lin Mo arrived on Charizard and revealed that he had become a five-ring Soul King with two Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Lin Mo claimed Charizard helped him withstand the pressure of stronger Soul Rings, and Qin Ming warned everyone not to exceed their limits.
• Lin Mo blamed Charizard for accidentally killing the Soul Beast and said he had absorbed its Soul Ring on the spot.
• Lin Mo told Qin Ming that the Titan Giant Ape had taken Xiao Wu, while the other Shrek Academy members were alive and had been advised to leave.
• Qin Ming ordered the Imperial Fighting Team to withdraw from the Star Dou Great Forest, and the group headed toward Soul Hunting Town.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Lin Mo told Dugu Bo and Ye Linyuan about his fifth Soul Ring and growing strength, while Dugu Yan recounted how Ma Hongjun had insulted them in the Star Dou Great Forest. Dugu Bo asked whether Lin Mo was still hiding a trump card, leaving the courtyard waiting for his answer.

• Lin Mo returned to the Ye Family Medical Hall with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling and reassured Dugu Bo and Ye Linyuan that they were safe.
• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo that Ma Hongjun had insulted them, and Lin Mo said he had beaten him and his companion with Charizard's flames.
• Lin Mo revealed that his fifth Soul Ring came from a thirty-thousand-year Sun Insect King and gave Charizard the Light of the Corona skill.
• Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo judged that Lin Mo's combat strength now rivaled or exceeded that of an ordinary Seven-Ring Soul Sage.
• Ye Lingling noted that Lin Mo's records would attract attention from other factions, and Lin Mo said he could no longer hide everything.
• Dugu Bo recalled Lin Mo's composure during their spar and asked whether he was concealing another trump card.

Lin Mo demonstrated a new Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill formed by merging Charizard with his Body Martial Soul, revealing strength and mobility far beyond his previous limits. He named the ability Crimson Blood Flame Dragon Transformation as news of his power spread through Heaven Dou City.

• Lin Mo fused with Charizard, transforming into a half-dragon whose presence approached the Seven-Ring Soul Sage realm.
• Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling reacted with astonishment, and Lin Mo explained that the transformation was a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill rather than ordinary Martial Soul Possession.
• Lin Mo demonstrated that the form let him use most of Charizard's Soul Skills and all of his Body Martial Soul abilities, while combining Blood Qi and flame in his attacks.
• Lin Mo showed how Spatial Battlefield, Dragon Dance, and flight could help him escape a Titled Douluo, then ended the transformation and recalled Charizard.
• Lin Mo named the skill Crimson Blood Flame Dragon Transformation, while members of the Imperial Fighting Team spread news of his strength and ten-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring through Heaven Dou City.

After learning that Lin Mo had become a twelve-year-old Soul King, Heaven Dou City’s factions began discussing and maneuvering around him. As Dugu Bo sheltered Lin Mo at Dugu Manor, Prince Xue Xing sent Xue Beng to make his acquaintance before Crown Prince Xue Qinghe could act.

• Qin Ming told Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin that Lin Mo had reached Soul King rank and possessed two ten-thousand-year Soul Rings, so they worried about protecting his secret.
• The committee learned Lin Mo was staying at Dugu Manor under Dugu Bo’s protection and realized news of his breakthrough had likely already spread through the Imperial Fighting Team’s noble families.
• Rumors about Lin Mo swept through Heaven Dou City, drawing admiration, envy, and hidden schemes toward the twelve-year-old Soul King.
• Three days later, Prince Xue Xing told Xue Beng that Xue Qinghe was interested in Lin Mo and would likely approach him soon.
• Prince Xue Xing arranged for Xue Beng to visit Lin Mo at Dugu Manor and instructed him to act like a wastrel making casual acquaintance, without recruiting Lin Mo or competing with Xue Qinghe.

Xue Qinghe visited Dugu Manor on Emperor Xue Ye’s behalf and granted Lin Mo the title of earl for his extraordinary cultivation achievements. The imperial family’s generous reward surprised Lin Mo and Dugu Bo.

• After Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing left Dugu Manor, Dugu Bo explained that Xue Beng acted like a wastrel to protect himself from his eldest brother, Xue Qinghe.
• A servant announced Xue Qinghe’s arrival, and Lin Mo and Dugu Bo went to receive him with Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan.
• Xue Qinghe arrived with attendants and numerous gifts, without the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect members who had accompanied him before.
• Xue Qinghe praised Lin Mo for delaying his fourth Soul Ring and reaching the rank of Five-Ring Soul King at a young age.
• Xue Qinghe announced that Emperor Xue Ye had granted Lin Mo the title of earl and its corresponding stipend, surprising Lin Mo and Dugu Bo.

Lin Mo accepted a nominal earldom from Xue Qinghe to gain the Heaven Dou Empire’s protection while continuing his cultivation. Dugu Bo warned that Spirit Hall, especially Pope Bibi Dong, was the real threat, and Lin Mo decided to face events as they came.

• Xue Qinghe explained that Lin Mo’s earldom carried honors and benefits but no duties, then gave him the earl’s token.
• Lin Mo accepted the title and reasoned that the imperial connection could shield him from other powers while he traveled and cultivated.
• Dugu Bo questioned Lin Mo’s decision, and Lin Mo explained that he could not remain hidden at Dugu Bo’s home forever.
• Dugu Bo said the imperial families were no real concern but warned that Spirit Hall and Pope Bibi Dong posed the greater danger.
• Lin Mo said he would respond to problems as they arose and considered that Qian Renxue might help resolve the threat from Spirit Hall.