Recaps

Lin Yan left the academy to build a medicine business, strengthen himself, and seek a suitable first Soul Ring. He joined the Boulder team in Star Dou Great Forest, where the group found Su Yun a Soul Ring candidate and defeated its guardians.

• Lin Yan awakened Blue Silver Grass with half a rank of innate Soul Power, then trained, sold medicine, and entered Nuoding Soul Master Academy.
• Lin Yan befriended the work-study students, kept his unusual cultivation and fighting skills private, and reached level ten while searching for a life-rich Plant-type Soul Beast.
• Lin Yan gave the village his share of the medicine profits, opened the Hundred Herbs Shop in Nuoding City, and secured Spirit Hall certification in exchange for a share of its profits.
• Lin Yan bought thousand-year whale rubber and survived absorbing some of it, increasing his physical strength while his Soul Power fell to around rank eight.
• Lin Yan withdrew from the academy, studied Soul Beasts at Spirit Hall, trained in swordsmanship, and traveled to Star Dou Great Forest for his first Soul Ring.
• Lin Yan joined Lei En’s Boulder team and helped its members fight Soul Beasts as they searched for a third Soul Ring for Su Yun.
• Lin Yan found and identified a Dew-Condensing Cattail for Su Yun, but three Sickle Mantis Shrimp ambushed the team and were defeated in a coordinated fight.

Lin Yan gained new abilities, secured resources through the Fasinuo auction, and escaped an ambush after rival bidders pursued him. After strengthening himself with thousand-year Blood Ginseng, he returned to the Star Dou Great Forest and killed a Heart-Healing Grass to claim his second Soul Ring.

• Su Yun absorbed the Dew-Condensing Cattail’s Soul Ring and an emerald Torso Soul Bone, gaining healing and defensive abilities.
• Lin Yan stayed behind in the Star Dou Great Forest, killed an Iridescent Withering and Flourishing Fern, and gained Illusory Color Concealment and stronger Blue Silver Grass.
• Lin Yan helped Han Shuirou defeat a Mysterious Ice Vine before returning to the Hundred Herbs Shop and investigating the fern’s spores and a piece of Spirit-Nurturing Wood.
• Lin Yan formed a Spirit Hall-backed partnership for the Hundred Herbs Shop, awakened Withering and Flourishing Intent, and traveled to Fasinuo City for an auction.
• Lin Yan bought Spirit-Clearing Spring and thousand-year Blood Ginseng, then fled Fasinuo City after two Soul Elders pursued him for the treasures.
• Lin Yan escaped the pursuers by plunging into a river, recovered in a hidden cave, and used the Blood Ginseng to reach Soul Power level twenty.
• Lin Yan searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable second Soul Ring and found a four-thousand-five-hundred-year-old Heart-Healing Grass beside a frozen pool.
• Lin Yan killed the Heart-Healing Grass despite its freezing attack, and prepared to absorb the purple Soul Ring.

Lin Yan built a partnership with Spirit Hall, entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and gained Dugu Bo’s trust by helping him manage his poison. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Lin Yan strengthened himself, absorbed a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, and received a rare External Soul Bone.

• Lin Yan survived the Heart-Healing Grass Soul Ring, evolved his Blue Silver Grass, and reached the peak of rank twenty-three before leaving the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lin Yan partnered with Spirit Hall to expand Hundred Herbs Hall, then traveled to Heaven Dou City and earned admission to Heaven Dou Royal Academy by presenting Xue Qinghe with a curved-shaft plow.
• Lin Yan befriended Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan, identified Dugu Yan’s poison buildup, and advised her to guide the poison into a Soul Bone.
• Dugu Yan successfully moved some poison into a thousand-year Soul Bone, and Dugu Bo invited Lin Yan to dinner and questioned him about treating the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison.
• Lin Yan accompanied Dugu Bo to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he proposed treating Dugu Bo with a Soul Bone and medicinal solutions, then broke through to rank thirty using a nine-grade purple ganoderma.
• Dugu Bo fused with a sixty-thousand-year Soul Bone and, over six months, sealed away his poison with Lin Yan’s help, and Lin Yan accepted Dugu Bo as his master and prepared to seek a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Lin Yan tempered his body with the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then joined Dugu Bo in Sunset Forest and killed a thirteen-thousand-year Nine-Leaf Sword Grass.
• Lin Yan absorbed its black Soul Ring, reached the peak of level thirty-eight, and gained the Blue Silver · Sword Leaf skill before an External Soul Bone fused into his spine.

Lin Yan joined the Imperial Fighting Team, helped it win until its brutal match against the Fierce God Team, and grew closer to Ye Lingling. As Shrek Academy found a new home and Tang San drew Dugu Bo’s attention, Lin Yan warned Dugu Bo against provoking Tang Hao and persuaded him to approach Tang San cautiously.

• Lin Yan fused with an External Soul Bone that formed nine sword leaves, then returned with Dugu Bo to harvest the mature Immortal Herbs and helped Dugu Yan absorb one.
• Dugu Yan brought Lin Yan to the Imperial Fighting Team, where he concealed his true strength, defeated Osler in a trial, and joined the team before confessing his feelings with Ye Lingling.
• Lin Yan helped the Imperial Fighting Team win matches across several cities, then used his sword-leaf skills to defeat Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils in Suotuo City.
• After Shrek Academy joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Prince Xue Xing expelled Yu Xiaogang, so Flender and the Shrek group left, with Qin Ming resigning to join them.
• At the Heaven Dou City exhibition tournament, Shrek defeated Plant Academy and Skywater Academy, then beat the Imperial Fighting Team after Lin Yan sat out their match.
• Blue Tyrant Academy merged with Shrek Academy, with Flender as dean, Yu Xiaogang overseeing teaching, and Liu Erlong as vice dean.
• Dugu Bo decided Tang San’s resistance to poison threatened the Dugu Family, but Lin Yan warned him that Tang San might be Tang Hao’s son and urged him to seek a deal instead of killing him.
• Dugu Bo agreed to approach Tang San cautiously and set out to visit him at Shrek Academy.