Chapter Summaries

Ling Bai ambushed the Holy Spirit Cult in the Valley of Life and defeated its vice leader, Feng Ling, despite her rank ninety-seven power. He captured her alive as proof for his graduation assessment and prepared to return to Shrek Academy with a surprise for Dean Yan.

• Feng Ling led ten Holy Spirit Cult disciples into the Valley of Life to hunt soul beasts, but Ling Bai killed one and confronted the survivors.
• Ling Bai used Angel Domain and his sacred dragon and lightning skills to battle Feng Ling, whose Evil Phoenix martial soul and powerful Soul Skills pushed back against him.
• Feng Ling unleashed Evil Phoenix Day and tried to detonate her Soul Core, but Ling Bai countered her attacks with Sword Intent · Heavenly Radiance, Myriad Bladed Radiance, and Demon Eye skills.
• Ling Bai destroyed Feng Ling's consciousness and crippled her Evil Phoenix martial soul, then knocked her unconscious with a slap when she recovered briefly.
• Ling Bai stored Feng Ling in his Storage Soul Tool and said he would bring the captured rank ninety-seventh Evil Phoenix Douluo to Shrek Academy for his graduation assessment.

After Feng Ling’s death, Ling Bai became the Holy Spirit Cult’s acting Vice-Leader and spent the following year secretly feeding Evil Soul Masters to Ye Guyi. As he prepared to leave Mingdu for Shrek Academy, he asked Ning Feng Yu to deliver a cryptic plea for help to his teacher.

• Zhongli Wu mourned Feng Ling, appointed Ling Bai acting Vice-Leader, and entrusted Tang Ya and Yan Feng to his guidance.
• Zhongli Wu swore vengeance on the Six-Winged Angel and called for Dragon Uncle to help him.
• Over the next year, Ling Bai helped Ye Guyi cultivate to Rank Sixty-Eight and secretly revealed Holy Spirit Cult hideouts so she could hunt Evil Soul Masters.
• Ling Bai reunited with Wu Feng, then spoke with Ning Feng Yu, who said she would return to her sect the next morning.
• Ling Bai asked Ning Feng Yu to tell his teacher, who had recently broken through, to stop staying home and pass along the words, “Teacher, save me.”

Lin Jiaran and Xuan Ziwen resigned from Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and traded their best soul-engineering work before setting off in the same direction. Ling Bai defeated Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan, then recruited them to follow him to Nine Treasures City with two valuable soul bones; the exchange students' journey ended as he prepared to return to Shrek Academy.

• Jing Hongchen accepted Lin Jiaran and Xuan Ziwen's resignations and received their parting gifts: Sealed Milk Bottle Technology and a spiritual defense soul tool.
• Lin Jiaran and Xuan Ziwen traded Level Seven Sealed Milk Bottle Technology for a Level Eight spiritual defense soul tool, then left for destinations along the same route.
• Ling Bai met Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan at the testing grounds and defeated Jing Ziyan's smoke-based attacks in their final spar.
• Ji Juechen tested his newly comprehended domain, Silence, against Ling Bai and lost their sword clash.
• Ling Bai told Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan he was returning to Shrek Academy, and they agreed to follow him to Nine Treasures City.
• Ling Bai gave Ji Juechen an eighty-thousand-year Adamantine White Tiger King right arm soul bone and Jing Ziyan a fifty-thousand-year Netherworld Ghost Tiger King left arm soul bone.

The Shrek exchange students returned home after completing their studies at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and Ling Bai reunited with Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen. On the journey back, Death Prison Douluo and Zhang Peng confronted them, but Long Xiaoyao appeared to claim Ling Bai before Zhou JiRen arrived to protect his disciple.

• Jing Hongchen presented Ling Bai with an honorary graduation certificate and tried to recruit him into the Sun Moon Empire, but Ling Bai refused.
• At Maple Leaf City, Meng Hongchen tearfully reunited with Ling Bai, while Xiao Hongchen teased them and Ning Tian and Wu Feng reacted jealously.
• The Shrek group departed for the academy, and Yan Shaozhe told Huo Yuhao that the exchange had earned him a place in the Sea God Pavilion and that he had reached rank forty-nine.
• Death Prison Douluo and Zhang Peng intercepted the group, and Yan Shaozhe and Xian Liner fought them in the sky.
• Long Xiaoyao appeared and demanded that Shrek leave Ling Bai behind, then attacked him with a black hole.
• Zhou JiRen appeared, shattered Long Xiaoyao's attack, and declared that no one could harm his disciple.

Jian Mu Douluo returned to protect Ling Bai and Shrek Academy, forcing Long Xiaoyao to withdraw while the other Holy Spirit Cult Douluos fled. After the group reached Shrek City and parted ways, Wu Feng encountered a mysterious woman who looked strikingly like Ling Bai and found her name, Ling Qiuxi, embroidered on a veil.

• Jian Mu Douluo confronted Long Xiaoyao for attacking his disciple, and the two Ultimate Douluos fought in the sky until Long Xiaoyao called a halt and left.
• Ling Bai and Ning Tian helped Yan Shaozhe face Death Prison Douluo, while Jian Mu Douluo's intervention sent Death Prison Douluo and Scorpion Tiger Douluo fleeing.
• Jian Mu Douluo learned about the Holy Spirit Cult and escorted Ling Bai, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and the Shrek group toward Shrek City before departing near the East Gate.
• The group split up in Shrek City, and Wu Feng went shopping while Ling Bai stayed behind and entered the city disguised as an ordinary person.
• Wu Feng bumped into a beautiful woman who looked nearly identical to Ling Bai; the woman vanished, leaving behind a veil embroidered with the name Ling Qiuxi.

Ling Bai returned to Shrek Academy for the Sea God's Fate matchmaking event, where his friends teased him about his reputation and urged him to participate. As the event approached, Han Ruoruo resolved to confess her feelings to Ling Bai, while Zhang Lexuan proposed a bet that could shape the girls' choices.

• Ling Bai arrived on Sea God Island, obeyed Old Li's rules, and joined the male students' barbecue gathering.
• Chu Qingtian asked Ling Bai for advice about confessing to Wu Ming, and Ling Bai urged him to be brave and straightforward.
• Yao Haoxuan and the others called Ling Bai a notorious scumbag, and Ling Bai learned that he was required to join the matchmaking event.
• Han Ruoruo explained to Zhang Lexuan and Wu Ming that she loved Ling Bai but believed he and Ning Tian were destined to be together.
• Wu Ming encouraged Han Ruoruo to tell Ling Bai how she felt, and Han Ruoruo decided to confess while leaving the choice to him.
• Zhang Lexuan suggested a bet that would require any girl whose bamboo hat a boy removed to choose him during the event.

Ling Bai competed in Shrek Academy’s Sea God's Fate matchmaking event, drawing attention as he removed the hats of five women and received seventeen lit lamps. The event continued with Ling Bai in the lead as the girls’ unexpected choices left the other participants confused and jealous.

• Chu Qingtian explained to Ling Bai that Dean Yan had opened Sea God's Fate to outer academy students to encourage them to enter the inner academy.
• Ling Bai took first place in the opening contest, defeating Xu Sanshi’s attempt to switch their positions and pinning Xu Sanshi’s shield to the lake.
• During Mutual Appreciation, Ling Bai removed the hats of Ma Xiaotao, Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and Han Ruoruo, while Du Gu Lin removed her own hat and asked Zhang Lexuan to count it for him.
• Ling Bai finished Mutual Appreciation with five hats, while Huo Yuhao removed none and He Caitou removed one.
• In Love at First Sight, seventeen girls left their lamps lit for Ling Bai, including Jiang Nannan, Wu Ming, and Yun Er, while one girl’s lamp went out.

At Sea God’s Fate, Ling Bai’s level seventy-nine strength drew six Sea God Fairies, while Dai Huabin entered the event to challenge Huo Yuhao. After Huo Yuhao defeated Dai Huabin and paired with Wang Dong’er, Ling Bai faced the choice among the six women, each of whom spoke to him.

• Dai Huabin revealed he already had a girlfriend and said he had joined the event to reach the bride-stealing stage and fight Huo Yuhao.
• Ling Bai introduced himself as a seventeen-year-old level seventy-nine Six-Winged Angel, shocking the Sea God Fairies and spectators.
• Wang Dong’er chose Huo Yuhao, Ma Xiaotao, Wu Feng, Ning Tian, Han Ruoruo, Du Gu Lin, and Ling Luochen chose Ling Bai, with Ling Luochen declaring she wanted to challenge him.
• Gu Fan accepted Hua Yao, and Huo Yuhao defeated Dai Huabin before pairing with Wang Dong’er.
• The six women each spoke to Ling Bai about their feelings or intentions, leaving him to make his choice.

Ling Bai chose Ning Tian during Sea God's Fate, then defeated Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Du Gu Lin in a bride-snatching battle while reassuring Ma Xiaotao of his feelings. He and Ning Tian left together, and Wu Feng secretly watched them reunite in private.

• Ling Bai chose Ning Tian, leaving Ma Xiaotao heartbroken while Han Ruoruo, Du Gu Lin, and Ling Luochen reacted to his decision.
• Ling Luochen challenged Ling Bai to a bride-snatching battle and recruited Ma Xiaotao and Du Gu Lin, while Han Ruoruo declined to fight.
• Ling Bai accepted the challenge and used Angel Domain and Radiance Lightning Worldfall to overcome his opponents.
• Ling Bai comforted Ma Xiaotao during the battle, and she accepted Ning Tian as his principal wife before conceding.
• Ling Bai and Ning Tian left Sea God Lake together, and Ning Tian thanked him for choosing her.
• Wu Feng secretly watched Ling Bai and Ning Tian together and begged him to go easy on Ning Tian.

Ling Bai learned that a girl named Ling Qiuxi looked almost exactly like him and went to meet her at Shrek Academy. Their encounter ended with Yan Shaozhe revealing that Ling Qiuxi was two years older, making Ling Bai the younger sibling if they were related.

• Ning Tian admired Heavenly Moon after Ling Bai gave her the second-ranked Ranked Engraving Knife, and Ling Bai broke through to level eighty.
• Wu Feng confronted Ling Bai, confessed that she wanted to taste Ning Tian's flavor, and told him she had met Ling Qiuxi, who looked like him.
• Ling Bai and Wu Feng went to the outer courtyard, where they learned that the inner courtyard assessment had ended and found Yan Shaozhe questioning Ling Qiuxi.
• Ling Bai met Ling Qiuxi, who refused Yan Shaozhe's offer to take Xuan Zi as her master and asked why she and Ling Bai looked alike.
• Yan Shaozhe noted that Ling Qiuxi's bone age was nineteen, two years older than Ling Bai's, leaving Ling Bai stunned at the prospect of being the younger sibling.

Ling Bai completed his graduation assessment by killing Feng Ling, then triggered a wave of departures from Shrek Academy as his companions applied to graduate and join him. After Zhang Lexuan invited him on a soul-hunting expedition, Ling Bai agreed to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest, where he planned to collect a debt from Ten Thousand Demons King.

• Ling Bai presented the crippled Feng Ling as proof that he had completed Yan Shaozhe's graduation mission, and Yan Shaozhe reluctantly let him kill her and claim her six soul bones.
• Yan Shaozhe officially graduated Ling Bai, prompting Ling Qiuxi to rage and announce that she was dropping out of Shrek Academy.
• Ling Luochen, Yao Haoxuan, Gongyang Mo, Xi Xi, Du Gu Lin, Chen Zifeng, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng pursued graduation or departure plans, while Han Ruoruo chose to remain at Shrek Academy.
• Zhang Lexuan invited Ling Bai to join an Inner Academy soul-hunting expedition, and Ling Bai agreed while planning to collect a soul bone owed by Ten Thousand Demons King.
• The Sea God Pavilion scheduled the expedition for the next morning, with Old Song leading the group and Zhang Lexuan commanding it as they headed for the Star Dou Great Forest.

Ling Bai joined Zhang Lexuan’s soul beast hunting squad in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Ling Qiuxi’s obvious favoritism toward him contrasted with her hostility toward Huo Yuhao. As the squad entered the Mixed Zone, they encountered a Purple Shadow Lion being chased by four powerful Ice Blade Mantises, and Huo Yuhao eagerly claimed the mantis brothers as his targets.

• Ling Qiuxi joined the hunting squad, and Zhang Lexuan assigned its members their roles before leading them toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The squad shared a meal near the forest; Ling Qiuxi refused Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish but eagerly ate the beef Ling Bai cooked for her.
• Zhang Lexuan led the squad through the forest, while Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection Sharing helped them advance into the Mixed Zone.
• The squad spotted a roughly twenty-thousand-year Purple Shadow Lion, and Zhang Lexuan offered it to Li Yongyue as a potential soul ring.
• Ling Bai sensed that four roughly thirty-five-thousand-year Ice Blade Mantises were chasing the lion, and Huo Yuhao declared that he wanted to hunt the four brothers.

The soul-hunting team defeated the Purple Shadow Lion and captured four Ice Blade Mantises so Huo Yuhao could absorb their Soul Rings. During their night watch, Ling Bai and Ling Qiuxi teased each other and discussed her place in the human world before a pack of Blood Red Baboons approached camp.

• Ling Qiuxi killed the Purple Shadow Lion with her Golden Dragon Fist, and Li Yongyue absorbed its ten-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan divided the team to capture the four Ice Blade Mantises, which Ling Bai, Ling Qiuxi, Huo Yuhao, and Zhang Lexuan quickly subdued.
• The team camped near the Core Region, and Huo Yuhao began absorbing the Ice Blade Mantises' Soul Rings one at a time.
• During their watch, Ling Bai shared grilled beef with Ling Qiuxi, urged her to return home after his friends' graduation assessment, and warned her to stay away from Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er.
• Ling Qiuxi declared that she wanted Ling Bai to be hers, but Ling Bai spotted a group of Blood Red Baboons approaching the campsite.

Ling Bai and Ling Qiuxi helped the soul-hunting squad defeat a Blood Red Baboon tribe, then the siblings were ambushed in the Core Region by the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and its allies. The tiger revealed that it had come for vengeance against Ling Bai and the Emperor Auspicious Beast.

• Ling Qiuxi, Ling Bai, and the others slaughtered the Blood Red Baboons, while Huo Yuhao absorbed the Blood Red Baboon King's soul ring.
• Ling Bai and Ling Qiuxi's martial souls resonated, confirming their blood relationship, and Ling Qiuxi absorbed life force from the fallen baboons.
• The squad entered the Star Dou Great Forest's Core Region, where Mo Xuan obtained a soul ring from a twenty-thousand-year Azure Sea Spirit Ape.
• An Emerald Devil Bird, Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, Wolf Ape Trio, and a powerful unknown soul beast attacked the squad, forcing Old Song to hold them off as the others fled.
• Ling Bai and Ling Qiuxi separated from the squad and confronted the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which declared that it wanted vengeance and sought the Emperor Auspicious Beast's Power of Destiny and Ling Bai's origin.

Di Tian and the Star Dou Great Forest’s beast kings defeated the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger after it attacked Ling Qiuxi. Di Tian accepted Ling Bai as Ling Qiuxi’s partner after learning he had a godhood inheritance, and Ling Bai hinted that he wanted Scarlet King as his eighth soul ring.

• Ling Qiuxi used the Black Dragon Inverse Scale to summon Di Tian, who burned the Wolf Ape Trio to ashes and drove back the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s forces.
• Di Tian sealed the Star Dou Great Forest, and Bear Monarch and the other beast kings arrived to help defeat the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, Emerald Devil Bird, and Soul Devouring Spider Emperor.
• Di Tian used Dragon God Claw to subdue the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, then comforted Ling Qiuxi and angrily confronted Ling Bai about their relationship.
• Di Tian took Ling Bai to the Lake of Life, asked him to care for Ling Qiuxi, and urged him to become a god so he could share her future.
• Ling Bai revealed his Rakshasa godhood inheritance, prompting Di Tian to welcome him as a potential son-in-law and offer help from Star Dou.
• Ling Bai asked Di Tian about obtaining an eighth soul ring for his Six-Winged Angel martial soul and suggested that Scarlet King still had plenty of charm.

Ling Bai killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, strengthening his Death Prison Spider Emperor and collecting several rare soul bones. Di Tian learned that the soul beasts hoped to cultivate a God King to challenge the Divine Realm’s restrictions, while Ling Bai left Star Dou with his next goal still ahead.

• Ling Bai persuaded Di Tian to let him kill the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, then absorbed its soul ring and inner core, raising his evil attribute to Ultimate Evil and claiming its torso soul bone.
• Di Tian spoke with Silver light over the Lake of Life about supporting a deity who could help the soul beasts, but Silver light warned him not to trust humans and said the Power of Destiny must eventually pass to another Star Dou soul beast.
• Ling Bai collected four soul bones from the Wolf Ape Trio and the Emerald Devil Bird, including the Emerald Wings External Soul Bone, and received a Hundred-Thousand-Year Azure Flame Red Lotus soul bone from Ten Thousand Demons King.
• Ling Bai asked to deal with the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor himself, then drained its life with his Death Prison Spider Lances and gained its Hundred-Thousand-Year soul ring and head soul bone.
• Ling Bai considered the soul bones he had amassed and rejected the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor's soul ring for his Martial Soul Avatar because its cultivation was too low.

Ling Qiuxi absorbed a seventy-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape soul ring and reunited with Ling Bai before the Shrek team escaped the Star Dou Great Forest. Back in Shrek City, Ning Tian told Ling Bai that sects could enter the Soul Master Competition, and he began planning a team.

• Ling Qiuxi asked Bi Ji for a strength-type soul beast, then absorbed a seventy-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape soul ring and reached Rank 64.
• Ling Bai arrived at Swan Lake, and he and Ling Qiuxi left together with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's soul bones divided between them.
• Old Song searched the forest for Ling Bai and Ling Qiuxi while the rest of the soul-hunting team kept watch, then rejoiced when the two returned safely.
• The team left the Star Dou Great Forest and returned to Shrek City, where its members split up and Ling Bai took Ling Qiuxi to their hotel.
• Ning Tian told Ling Bai that sects could register for the Soul Master Competition, and he named himself, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Ling Qiuxi, and Nana as team members, leaving two spots open.

Ling Bai and Ning Tian assembled the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's competition team while the Tang Sect decided to enter the All-Continent Advanced Young Soul Master Elite Competition. Du Gu Lin arrived at Ling Bai's room after completing her graduation assessment and begged him to accompany her somewhere so she could stay alive.

• Ling Bai offered Ning Tian a fifty-thousand-year Diamond Mammoth soul bone to help recruit Xie Huanyue, and Ning Tian and Wu Feng brought him back to join the team.
• Ning Tian reported that the Lan Sisters had declined and named Nanmen Yun'er for the final place, completing the roster with Ling Bai, Ning Tian, Ling Qiuxi, Wu Feng, Nana, Xie Huanyue, and Nanmen Yun'er.
• Bei Bei told the Tang Sect members that sects could enter the renamed All-Continent Advanced Young Soul Master Elite Competition, and Huo Yuhao persuaded them to compete under the Tang Sect's name for Tang Ya and the sect's future.
• Bei Bei and the others declared their decision to Elder Xuan, and Shrek Academy selected Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, Huang Chutian, Cao Jinxuan, Zhou Sichen, Lan Susu, and Lan Luoluo for its team.
• Du Gu Lin arrived at Ling Bai's room, teased him about the women she smelled on him, and pleaded with him to accompany her somewhere because she wanted to stay alive.

Ling Bai and Du Gu Lin traveled to Sunset Forest and overcame its poisonous miasma to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Du Gu Lin learned that her ancestors had been killed to nourish the poison array. After Aromatic Silk Beauty recognized Ling Bai’s Six-Winged Angel as their benefactor’s enemy, she commanded the immortal herbs to slay him.

• Ling Bai left Ning Tian asleep and set out with Du Gu Lin for Sunset Forest, carrying her when her flying Soul Tool could not keep pace.
• Ling Bai burned a passage through Sunset Forest’s poisonous miasma, and he and Du Gu Lin fought off poisonous vines before advancing under his Angel Domain.
• Du Gu Lin recognized the Jade Phosphorous Seven Absolute Flowers and learned that the poison array had grown by consuming her ancestors and other intruders.
• Ling Bai and Du Gu Lin reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Aromatic Silk Beauty told them that only their benefactor’s descendants could take immortal herbs.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty identified Ling Bai’s Six-Winged Angel as their benefactor’s mortal enemy and ordered the immortal herbs to slay him.

Ling Bai defeated the six Hundred-Thousand-Year immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, seized their essences, and reclaimed the well in the name of the Dugu Clan. Du Gu Lin revealed how Tang San’s actions had left her clan ruined, ending with her grieving that the inheritance should have been hers.

• The six immortal herbs attacked Ling Bai, but he overwhelmed them with Myriad Bladed Radiance and defeated Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Ling Bai commanded the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s springs, using Ultimate Ice and fire to subdue the plants and frighten the remaining immortal herbs.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty offered the Qiluo Heart and other herbs in exchange for mercy, but Ling Bai took Snow-Colored Swan Kiss’s Swan Snow Tear and captured the other herbs.
• Ling Bai seized Aromatic Silk Beauty’s purple pearl and book, declaring that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well belonged to the Dugu Clan and that he was reclaiming its inheritance for Du Gu Lin.
• Du Gu Lin accused Tang San of taking the Dugu Clan’s last chance to survive and preserving the immortal herbs for his own descendants, then cried that the inheritance should have been hers.