Recaps

Su Chen awakened Chakra, gained a thousand-year first Soul Ring, and proved his strength to Spirit Hall’s leaders. After defeating Guang Ling Douluo’s chosen fighter and winning Bibi Dong’s support, he asked for a laboratory and criticized Grandmaster.

• Su Chen awakened Chakra with Innate Full Soul Power, restored Hu Liena after she collapsed, and left Yan resentful after rejecting his challenge.
• Su Chen trained in Spirit Hall, then killed the Linwu Silkworm and absorbed its Thousand-Year Soul Ring, awakening the ability to use ninjutsu on Douluo Continent.
• Su Chen defeated a thousand-year wolf and Yan, while Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo escorted him back to Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong summoned Su Chen to Pontiff Palace, where he condemned Guang Ling Douluo’s proposal concerning the upper sects and defended a hardline response to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Guang Ling Douluo arranged a test against the Soul Ancestor Wu Da, and Su Chen stopped Wu Da’s charge before knocking him unconscious.
• Bibi Dong ordered Guang Ling Douluo arrested, and Yue Guan gave Su Chen the Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone he had brought for the test.
• Bibi Dong invited Su Chen to her garden and offered him rewards, but he requested a fully equipped laboratory and called Grandmaster ignorant, incompetent, pitiful, and tragic.

Su Chen gained Bibi Dong’s trust, found a hidden laboratory, and absorbed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to strengthen his abilities. After defeating Qian Renxue in a spar, he began building a friendship with her as Spirit Hall prepared for Bibi Dong’s enthronement ceremony.

• Su Chen impressed Bibi Dong with his self-created techniques and criticism of Yu Xiaogang’s theories, earning her trust, a soul bone, and a fully equipped underground laboratory.
• After absorbing Natural Energy, Su Chen reached Level 20 and went with Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo to Star Dou Forest, where he encountered Lord Bear and Scarlet King.
• Su Chen escaped the beasts and met Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who sacrificed himself to become Su Chen’s ten-thousand-year soul ring.
• Su Chen used Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s power to trap Lord Bear and Scarlet King, then returned to Spirit Hall, where the Silver Dragon King ordered her followers not to pursue him.
• Qian Renxue challenged Su Chen to a spar, and he defeated her with his water techniques and Water Mirror Technique before Bibi Dong rewarded him with a soul bone.
• Su Chen found Qian Renxue alone and encouraged her to examine what she still did not know, leaving her to feel that she had made a friend.
• At a meeting in the Pontiff Palace, Su Chen heard officials discuss the enthronement ceremony and realized they blamed him for the mobilization of healers and funds.

Su Chen’s cultivation method strengthened Bibi Dong’s position in Spirit Hall, while he helped Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue confront their painful past. As the tournament approached, Su Chen began assembling allies and dealing with Spirit Hall’s rivals, leaving him poised to compete and rise toward becoming Holy Son.

• Guang Ling Douluo returned to Pontiff Palace, where Bibi Dong confronted him before he admitted his mistake and returned to his post.
• Su Chen presented his research to Spirit Hall’s leaders, who recognized that his cultivation method could transform Spirit Hall, while Guang Ling Douluo tried to destroy it.
• Bibi Dong ordered the method secured, and Su Chen promised to make another copy for Chrysanthemum Douluo as he planned future research and a return to Star Dou Forest.
• Bibi Dong told Su Chen about Qian Xunji’s assault and her history with Yu Xiaogang, then asked whether he would still help her.
• Su Chen helped Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue learn the truth about their relationship, reconcile, and acknowledge that neither was to blame for their estrangement.
• Su Chen infused a golden head soul bone with Natural Energy and Chakra to enter Sage Mode, then developed Dragon Sage Mode, which he could sustain for only ten seconds.
• Bibi Dong assigned Su Chen to compete in the Pope’s ascension tournament, and Su Chen rescued Du Wudi from Ye Zhiqiu before recruiting him and his father’s sect into Spirit Hall.
• Su Chen confronted the unruly students assigned to his tournament team, while Bibi Dong explained that their connections could help him after he became Holy Son and warned him not to trust Spirit Hall’s senior leaders.

Su Chen prepared Spirit Hall Academy for the tournament, crushed Godwind Academy in the opening melee, and recruited an intelligence broker to found Akatsuki. He also secured Skywater Academy’s cooperation with Spirit Hall and returned to training for the next stage.

• Spirit Hall announced a hundred-team melee with only one team advancing, and Teacher Lin studied a black-market ranking that named Su Chen a major threat.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to Spirit City hoping to reconcile with Bibi Dong, but Bibi Dong rejected him and destroyed his Pontiff's Edict.
• Bibi Dong opened the tournament and promised contestants rewards that impressed ordinary Spirit Masters and unsettled Ning Fengzhi.
• Su Chen revealed two Thousand-Year Soul Rings and used his marked Kunai to defeat Godwind Academy and other opponents, winning Arena One for Spirit Hall Academy.
• Su Chen tracked down the intelligence broker, learned about the City of Slaughter, and recruited him to establish Akatsuki with branches in three cities.
• Su Chen confronted Liu Erlong, warned her about the consequences of confronting Spirit Hall, and advised her to ask about Yu Xiaogang’s identity.
• Su Chen visited Skywater Academy and persuaded Lin Ziwei to become Spirit Hall’s friend by offering cultivation methods in exchange for recruiting factions into the Martial Soul Alliance.
• Su Chen left Skywater Academy with Yin Luo and returned to training for the competition’s next stage.