Recaps

Bibi Dong discovered that she could hear Li Mubai’s private thoughts and learned that he knew the future of the Douluo Continent. She began relying on his ideas to address Spirit Hall’s problems, while Li Mubai’s growing familiarity with her softened his reluctance to work with her.

• Bibi Dong tracked the insulting inner voice to Li Mubai and heard his prediction that Spirit Hall would eventually collapse.
• Bibi Dong visited Li Mubai at home, where his thoughts revealed Spirit Hall’s corruption and his knowledge of the world’s future.
• Bibi Dong apologized to Li Mubai and asked him to explain Spirit Hall’s weaknesses, but he said its way of operating was the problem.
• Bibi Dong brought Hu Liena to meet Li Mubai, then made Hu Liena apologize after his thoughts suggested she would help bring about Spirit Hall’s destruction.
• Hu Liena learned from Xiao Qian that Li Mubai had rescued and cared for her, and she admitted she had misjudged him.
• Li Mubai suggested collecting taxes and taking wealth from Spirit Hall’s elders to increase its funds, and Bibi Dong praised his ideas.
• Li Mubai served zongzi instead of rice, invented a hometown tradition to explain it, and Bibi Dong agreed to raise his salary by fifty percent.
• Bibi Dong allowed Li Mubai to call her “boss” outside monthly assemblies, leaving him less averse to her.

Li Mubai rescued Zhao and Xiao Yu'er from the Wild Wolf Gang, then exposed the City Guard Office’s corruption by allowing himself to be arrested. Bibi Dong arrived, uncovered Xiao Li’s hidden fortune, and began turning the scandal into a campaign against corrupt officials.

• Li Mubai intervened when Scarface threatened Zhao and Xiao Yu'er, then defeated the Wild Wolf Gang after its leaders arrived.
• Ye Lao'er bribed Xiao Li to act against Li Mubai, and Xiao Li arrested Li Mubai while ignoring the gang’s crimes.
• Bibi Dong learned Li Mubai had willingly gone to the City Guard Office and set out to find him.
• Xiao Li falsified the case against Li Mubai and locked him in the dungeon, where Li Mubai heard a prisoner describe the City Guard Office’s abuses.
• Director Li recognized Li Mubai as Spirit Hall’s Tenth Elder and tried to intervene, but Li Mubai stayed in his cell until Bibi Dong arrived.
• Bibi Dong saw the prison conditions, and Li Mubai used the prisoners’ pleas to show her the corruption beneath Spirit City’s prosperity.
• Bibi Dong ordered a search of Xiao Li’s home, where her maid discovered his hidden room full of Gold Soul Coins, jewels, and treasures.
• Xiao Li confessed to embezzlement, and Bibi Dong agreed that confiscating corrupt officials’ estates could quickly raise funds before turning her attention to Director Li.

Li Mubai urged Bibi Dong to win ordinary people’s support, and her crackdown on corruption and adoption of his policies transformed Spirit City. As Bibi Dong sought to expand the reforms, Golden Crocodile challenged Li Mubai, and she pressed him to face the match that had drawn Soul Masters from across both empires.

• Bibi Dong investigated Director Li, then agreed to Li Mubai’s request to review prisoners’ cases and free those wrongly jailed.
• Li Mubai argued that ordinary people’s ingenuity and weapons could threaten even powerful Soul Masters, while Bibi Dong wondered whether he could create such weapons.
• Li Mubai returned home to Xiao Qian and Sister Zhao, while Bibi Dong ordered arrests and public executions for corrupt City Guard Office officials.
• Bibi Dong oversaw the beheadings, winning public acclaim, as Qian Daoliu allowed her crackdown and forced Golden Crocodile to promise not to interfere.
• Li Mubai’s reforms helped make Spirit City safer and busier, and Hu Liena reported that seven days of tax revenue exceeded the city’s usual monthly total.
• Golden Crocodile challenged Li Mubai to a public spar, and Li Mubai accepted for three days later despite telling Demon Bear he could still skip it.
• Bibi Dong visited Li Mubai with Hu Liena and urged him to face Golden Crocodile after news of their duel drew Soul Masters from both empires.

Li Mubai faced Golden Crocodile Douluo in a public spar and used his Spiritual Power to force the elder to concede. After Li Mubai’s victory shook Spirit City and drew attention from rival sects, merchant caravans flooded into the city.

• Bibi Dong offered Li Mubai a Right Hand Soul Bone in exchange for accepting a spar with Golden Crocodile Douluo, and Li Mubai fused with it before the match.
• Li Mubai and Demon Bear bet on Li Mubai to win, then joined the gathered Soul Masters and sect representatives at Spirit Hall’s arena.
• Li Mubai descended into the arena on his sword and traded taunts with Golden Crocodile before the spar began.
• Golden Crocodile brushed off Li Mubai’s sword attacks, but Li Mubai’s Spiritual Power struck his mind and exposed his Hundred Thousand Year Torso Soul Bone to the crowd.
• Golden Crocodile’s attack appeared to defeat Li Mubai, but Li Mubai rose unharmed and revealed that he had been teasing his opponent.
• Li Mubai used Forgetting Both Self and Things to trap Golden Crocodile in an illusion, and Golden Crocodile stopped his attack and admitted defeat.
• Hu Liena explained how Li Mubai’s Spiritual Power had forced Golden Crocodile to surrender, while the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect began considering defenses and opportunities.
• Merchant caravans from the two great empires filled Spirit City, and Li Mubai used Soul Power to heal Sister Zhao’s scalded fingers.