Recaps

Zhou You awakened the Heaven- and Earth-Harmonizing Shadowless Umbrella, entered Spirit Hall, and developed his unusual cultivation by combining Soul Power with his own Qi. After defeating Yan and Xie Yue, he joined the elite class and set his sights on the academy’s higher-level library.

• Zhou You awakened the Heaven- and Earth-Harmonizing Shadowless Umbrella, displayed its strength, and accepted Zhou Chengjie's invitation to join Spirit Hall.
• Zhou You studied how his umbrella refined primordial Qi into Soul Power, then used his Qi and martial skill to kill an Ironclad King Worm and absorb its unusually old Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu disputed which faction should claim Zhou You, then Spirit Hall sent him to the main campus in Spirit City.
• She Long questioned Zhou You about his cultivation theories, reconsidered his ideas about spiritual power, and accepted him as his student.
• At the Central Academy, Zhou You defeated Yan in combat and made him acknowledge him as the dormitory boss.
• Zhou You defeated Xie Yue in the entrance assessment, while Hu Liena considered challenging him and Liu Suxin set a condition for him to access the library’s second floor.
• Zhou You discussed Yu Xiaogang’s theories with Liu Suxin, joined the elite class, and ignored Hu Liena’s attempts to provoke him as Yan watched her sit beside him.

Zhou You studied Spirit Hall’s cultivation methods, helped Yan and Zhang Ping prepare for Soul Hunts, and joined an expedition into the Soul Hunting Forest. After meeting Xiao Wu, he chose to help her injured mother escape Bibi Dong’s group, leaving himself captured and pursued in the forest.

• Zhou You refused the class monitor position, began studying Spirit Hall’s teachings, and gained access to its Library and Angel Holy Church.
• Zhou You helped Yan plan his second Soul Ring and agreed to help Zhang Ping hunt a Sonic Bird after accepting the Eye of Truth from Sun Chuantao.
• Zhou You persuaded Hu Liena to join Yan’s Soul Hunt and assembled with Yan, Zhang Ping, Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Wei Lin for the expedition.
• After the group fought Ghost Baboons, Zhou You pursued the Golden-Waisted Flying Swallow and became separated from the others.
• Zhou You met Xiao Wu, used the Eye of Truth to communicate with her, and learned about Da Ming, Er Ming, and her search for her mother.
• Zhou You followed Xiao Wu’s mother’s Soul Power trail while the others set out to find him, and he discovered Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei cornering her.
• Zhou You told Xiao Wu and her mother how he would help, then exposed himself and used his umbrella to delay Xiao Wu’s mother before she seized him and carried him into the forest as Bibi Dong’s group pursued.

Zhou You helped Ah Rou and Xiao Wu survive Bibi Dong’s hunt, then returned to Spirit Hall and gained a powerful new Soul Skill. The story left Zhou You at home with his family as Bibi Dong’s arrival in Heaven Dou City brought her face-to-face with her daughter.

• Zhou You treated Ah Rou’s injuries and helped Xiao Wu reach Da Ming and Er Ming, while Bibi Dong’s pursuit led her group through the Death Swamp and into a humiliating bird attack.
• Ah Rou captured Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena, but Da Ming and Er Ming arrived to force Bibi Dong to release her, and Zhou You emerged with Zhang Ping to confirm Xiao Wu was safe.
• Zhou You’s Soul Power reached Level 20, prompting Qian Daoliu to send She Long to bring Zhou You’s parents to Spirit City, but She Long delayed after hearing that Tang Hao had appeared in Yingyang Village.
• While hunting a Thousand-Year Rank Sawtooth Silvergrass, Zhou You secretly reunited with Xiao Wu, who directed him to the plant and sent him a Raven messenger.
• Zhou You defeated the Sawtooth Silvergrass and absorbed its Soul Ring, gaining a Second Soul Skill that changed his Umbrella Sword’s length, hardness, and flexibility.
• Zhou You defeated Xie Yue in a sparring match, returned home with the Raven, and examined the Whale Rubber Ah Rou had sent him as thanks.
• Bibi Dong rejected Xue Qinghe’s reception at Heaven Dou City and continued onward, while Xue Ye later appointed Xue Qinghe as reception ambassador with Pang Qinglong as his deputy.
• A black-robed intruder entered Bibi Dong’s residence, and after Bibi Dong confronted her, the young woman removed her hood and revealed herself as Bibi Dong’s daughter.

Zhou You joined Spirit Hall’s tournament team, exposed its leadership and teamwork problems, and earned Yue Guan as a teacher. His experiments led him to formulate a theory of the body that he published anonymously, drawing attention from Soul Masters across the continent.

• Bibi Dong told Qian Renxue that six-year-old Zhou You was a Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster with a Thousand-Year Second Soul Ring, and Qian Renxue refused to believe it.
• Zhou You dismantled the Eye of Truth, studied its circuits, and used Qi in his eye Meridians to gain enhanced vision and mental acceleration.
• She Long left Spirit City for the Heaven Dou Empire and urged Zhou You to grow stronger without giving his loyalty entirely to any faction.
• Hu Liena brought Zhou You to meet her team, where Sun Chuantao challenged Xie Yue for leadership and Zhou You declined to back either side.
• After Xie Yue’s team defeated Sun Chuantao’s group, Zhou You challenged the whole team and defeated them, then criticized their teamwork and Xie Yue’s leadership.
• Yue Guan accepted Zhou You as his student, gave him a Wishful Treasure Bag, and helped him develop and test medicinal preparations that ultimately killed a test monkey.
• Zhou You explained his Five-Layer Structure theory to Yue Guan, who recognized its potential for Soul Master cultivation and pressed him to document and investigate it.
• With Yue Guan’s help, Zhou You published the theory anonymously, and Soul Masters began studying it while Yu Xiaogang reacted with amazement to the paper in a library.