Recaps

Cai Kun visited the Spirit Hall Branch in Nuoding City seeking part-time work, but Su Yuntao tried to recruit him instead. Cai Kun rejected promises of power and status, and Su Yuntao began tempting him with money and benefits.

• Cai Kun met Su Yuntao and Sisi outside the Spirit Hall Branch, where Su Yuntao mistook his visit for a decision to join Spirit Hall.
• Cai Kun asked Su Yuntao whether the branch had any part-time jobs, explaining that he needed money to support himself and Grandpa Jack.
• Su Yuntao and Sisi were shocked that a talented child wanted odd jobs, and Su Yuntao said the branch had no work-study positions.
• Su Yuntao stopped Cai Kun from leaving and promised elite training, powerful mentors, Soul Rings, Soul Bones, and even a chance at the papal throne.
• Cai Kun rejected the prospect of becoming Pope and said he wanted an ordinary life with enough money for food and leisure.
• Su Yuntao switched to offering practical rewards, describing his salary, allowances, housing, and the benefits Cai Kun could receive by joining Spirit Hall.

Cai Kun agreed to join the Spirit Hall after negotiating for a free and well-paid position, but learned that Su Yuntao had already sent Tang San’s full-Soul-Power report to higher authorities. In Heaven Dou City, Platinum Bishop Salas decided to investigate the reports himself and claim the credit if the unusual martial souls proved genuine.

• Cai Kun agreed to join the Spirit Hall on the condition that he avoid leadership duties and receive a flexible, easy job.
• Su Yuntao told Cai Kun that he had already sent reports about Cai Kun and Tang San to the Pope Hall.
• Cai Kun realized that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power could expose his hidden second martial soul and put Holy Soul Village in danger.
• Salas doubted the reports from Nuoding City but reconsidered after imagining the rewards if they were true.
• Salas decided to go to Nuoding City to verify the reports and claim the credit before anyone else arrived.

Salas rushed to bring two Innate Full Soul Power talents to Pope Bibi Dong, while Yu Xiaogang was dragged into the Divine Realm and brutally beaten by the Sea God and Asura God after failing his assessment. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang desperately begging the two God Kings to stop.

• Salas ordered a fast carriage to Nuoding City and sealed all information about the city until he approved its release.
• The Sea God and Asura God beat Yu Xiaogang after his divine assessment failed and his divine position rejected him.
• The two God Kings argued over their past mistakes and their competing claims on Tang San, taking their anger out on Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang survived the beating thanks to his bamboo armor and Soul Bones, but after two hours he begged the God Kings to stop.

The Asura God and Sea God stripped Yu Xiaogang of his counterfeit Lone Bamboo Martial Soul, Soul Bones, and power before sending him back to the mortal world. He returned to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, where his hysterical outburst drew a crowd just as Cai Kun, Tang San, and Xiao Wu arrived.

• The Asura God healed Yu Xiaogang, warned him never to force Tang San to absorb another Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo Soul Ring, and declared him unfit for godhood.
• The Sea God ripped the Lone Bamboo Martial Soul and its Soul Bones from Yu Xiaogang, discovered a mark identifying it as a counterfeit, and reduced his Soul Power to level twenty-nine.
• The Asura God and Sea God mocked Yu Xiaogang for ruining his Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline and resolved to investigate who had introduced the strange counterfeit into the lower realm.
• The Asura God beat Yu Xiaogang again and sent him through a spatial passage to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy; the Sea God kicked Luo Sanpao through after him.
• Yu Xiaogang crashed into the Grandmaster's office, shouted that he would never seek godhood again, and collapsed as students gathered to watch.
• After fifteen days had passed since the battle in the Soul Hunting Forest, Cai Kun, Tang San, and Xiao Wu pushed through the crowd toward the office.

After Yu Xiaogang returned from the Divine Realm traumatized and revealed that the gods had chosen Tang San, Tang Hao fled Nuoding City with his son after killing Salas. Xiao Wu was left behind as Spirit Hall sealed the city and began hunting for Tang Hao, Tang San, and Cai Kun.

• Tang Hao killed Salas and his subordinates, leaving Spirit Hall to bury Su Yuntao’s report and suspend Cai Kun’s expected appointment.
• Cai Kun earned money escorting low-level Soul Scholars through the Soul Hunting Forest, while rumors spread that Yu Xiaogang had died.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to the academy terrified, confessed that Asura God and Sea God had beaten him, and revealed that Tang San had been chosen to become a god.
• Tang Hao seized Tang San from the academy roof and fled, refusing to bring Xiao Wu and leaving her behind to distract Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Wu sensed multiple Titled Douluo and found Nuoding City’s gates sealed by Spirit Hall forces.
• Yue Guan ordered the city searched and all suspected accomplices arrested after Ma Xiunuo identified Tang San and Cai Kun as suspicious students.