Recaps

Ning Tianchen’s Seven Treasures Battle Team dominated the opening matches of the Advancement Tournament as Tang San trained the Clear Sky Hammer and prepared to challenge them. The arc ended with Tang San winning five matches against Portland Academy before fatigue forced the opposing team to concede.

• Ning Tianchen defeated Shrek in the Preliminary Competition, and Yu Xiaogang’s public accusations against him ended with Yu Xiaogang collapsing after Ning Tianchen exposed details about his past.
• Shrek lost its remaining funds when Xue Qinghe declared that its prize money would cover compensation owed to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while its members pooled money to support their school.
• Yu Xiaogang arranged for Yu Tianxin to join Shrek, while Yu Luomian accepted a Spirit Hall bargain to remove Kunlin Soul Douluo and Dugu Bo later killed Golden Tower Soul Douluo to save Zhang Erhe.
• Tang Hao trained Tang San to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer, helping him obtain four powerful spirit rings before warning him that his two streams of soul power could endanger him.
• The Seven Treasures Battle Team prepared for the Advancement Tournament, while Tang San returned to Shrek with the Clear Sky Hammer and Titan recognized him as Tang Hao’s son and the Strength Clan’s young master.
• Ning Tianchen defeated the Beast Academy Team’s strongest fighters and beat Tian Chao, who told him about the Snow Mountain Sect and gave him a guest token.
• Feng Xiaotian completed the tournament’s first One Against Seven in the Heaven Dou Empire division, then Tang San began his own attempt against Portland Academy with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San won five matches before Portland Academy conceded, while Ning Tianchen revealed that he and Ning Rongrong also possessed Twin Martial Souls.

Seven Treasures Academy won the Advancement Tournament, while Ning Tianchen defeated Tang San and led his team through the finals bracket. Yu Xiaogang was imprisoned by Spirit Hall and later released, and Shrek Academy joined Seven Treasures and Spirit Hall in the Finals.

• Dugu Bo warned Ning Tianchen that Meng Shu wanted him to pursue Meng Yiran, while Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang redirected her toward Tang San.
• Tang San defeated Meng Yiran and most of Exotic Beast Academy in a One Against Seven challenge, then Shrek faced Beast Academy after Ma Hongjun was nearly killed by Xue Ao.
• Ning Tianchen negotiated with Beast Academy’s leader for Northernmost Land treasures and a possible formal exchange between the Snow Mountain Sect and Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Tianchen defeated Shrek Academy’s challengers one by one, including Tang San, Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, and Yu Tianheng, and won after Yu Tianxin fell through the shattered arena.
• Seven Treasures Academy placed first in the Advancement Tournament, and Xue Qinghe led the teams toward Spirit City as Yu Xiaogang went there seeking the Twin Martial Souls cultivation method.
• Yu Xiaogang was imprisoned in Spirit Hall’s Heavenly Prison after Guang Ling exposed his Clear Sky Sect token, while Spirit Hall ambushed the tournament convoy and Chen Xin’s arrival forced its forces to retreat.
• Yu Xiaogang was eventually released and reunited with Shrek Academy, while Seven Treasures Academy and Shrek won their finals matches against Beast Academy and Star Luo Royal Academy.
• Hu Liena proposed that Spirit Hall make Shrek Academy and Seven Treasures Academy fight each other, and Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to deliver invitations to the teams.

Ning Tianchen led the Seven Treasures Battle Team to victory over Spirit Hall, survived the fallout in Spirit City, and built the Shadow Guard before entering Slaughter City. After completing its trials and receiving the Asura Mark, he resumed his journey north and joined the Hong Family in hunting a spirit ring.

• Ning Tianchen led the Seven Treasures Battle Team to defeat Shrek Academy and then Spirit Hall, winning the championship and three soul bones.
• Bibi Dong exposed Xiao Wu’s identity and waited for Tang Hao, who attacked Ning Tianchen for his soul bones before Dugu Bo, Ke Jie, and Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo intervened.
• Tang Hao seized Tang San and Xiao Wu and escaped, while Ning Tianchen’s team fled Spirit City with Xue Qinghe’s Royal Knights and distributed the championship soul bones.
• Ning Tianchen returned to Heaven Dou City, founded the Shadow Guard with Zhang Erhe and Zhao Wuji, and formed an equal partnership with Qian Renxue.
• Ning Tianchen entered Slaughter City, defeated Wolf Fang King, won one hundred matches, and crossed Hell Road to earn Divine Slaughter’s Domain.
• Hu Liena met Tang San in Slaughter City, while Ning Tianchen woke in a forest and later learned that two years had passed since the Spirit Master Competition.
• Ning Tianchen treated the Hong Family patriarch’s poisoning and agreed to travel with the family in exchange for fine horses.
• Ning Tianchen received the Asura Mark, entered the Star Dou Great Forest with Hong Tianxiang, and joined the hunt for a forty-thousand-year Earth Armor Thorn Dragon.

Ning Tianchen built alliances with the Snow Mountain Sect and pursued trials and a dragon’s sacrifice in the Northernmost Land, while his plans for a new sect and political influence advanced back in Heaven Dou. The arc ended with scholars publicly dismantling Yu Xiaogang’s claims at the Academic Exchange Conference.

• Ning Tianchen killed Gu Ao and the Mad Saber Sect’s fighters, then helped the Hong Family recover and arranged for them to cooperate discreetly with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong traveled north, found the Snow Mountain Sect, and persuaded its leaders to pursue cooperation and explore the Northernmost Land with them.
• Ning Tianchen’s group discovered the Eighteenth Ancient Ruin and a buried golden palace, where Ning Rongrong and the Snow Mountain Sect geniuses received trials and Ning Tianchen began Asura God’s trial.
• Ning Tianchen and the others trained for nearly a year, completed their trials, and witnessed the Golden Scale Dragon’s sacrifice, which gave Ning Tianchen a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring and a right leg spirit bone.
• Ning Tianchen rescued Oscar and Chen Huayu from a Clear Sky Sect ambush, killed the attackers and their traitorous guides, then returned to the sect and began planning a new sect with Dugu Bo.
• Ning Tianchen enlisted Chen Lei to bait Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng into an attack, and Xue Ye punished them after Chen Lei exposed their assault.
• Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong hosted the Academic Exchange Conference, where scholars questioned Tang San’s theories and Ke Jie presented work credited to Ning Tianchen.
• Yu Xiaogang presented his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul, but Qin Tian and Ke Jie exposed its plagiarism and challenged its claims until Yu Xiaogang could barely defend himself.