Recaps

Hu Haoran won his arena battles, rescued Bing Yuxin, and joined Bai Erli and Sai Fenglei in surviving a massive melee. The arc ended with ten contestants advancing to the championship, where Bai Erli drew Dugu Hen in the first round.

• Hu Haoran defeated the Lion King, Wolf King, King of War, and Mr. Phantom before learning Ice Guest was Bing Yuxin, a fugitive seeking justice for her father.
• Hu Haoran helped Bing Yuxin fake her death, then defeated Ghost Spear and rescued her from the arena, earning the Golden Jade War God Badge and a large reward.
• Bai Erli entered a one-against-three match, killed Strength Sheep and Dragon Turtle, and won against his remaining opponent.
• Bing Yuxin recovered with Hu Haoran’s help, acknowledged him as her older brother, and joined his companions as they prepared for the preliminaries.
• Hu Haoran, Bai Erli, and Sai Fenglei competed separately in a five-hundred-person melee, defeating waves of opponents while Dugu Hen, Lu Han, and He Gufeng also advanced.
• Hu Haoran, Bai Erli, and Sai Fenglei joined forces to eliminate nearly twenty contestants, and the competition ended with ten finalists remaining.
• The referee announced the championship matchups, including Bai Erli versus Dugu Hen, and Hu Haoran recognized Li Hongjun as the contestant who had given him Asura’s Grin.

Hu Haoran won the Biyun City preliminaries as Niu Dafu and helped his companions overcome their cultivation problems. After three assassins attacked the group on their journey toward the Imperial Capital, Hong Zuifeng rescued them and joined their plan to steal a pill that could restore him.

• Li Hongjun defeated Lu Tianya, while Dugu Hen beat Bai Erli and Sai Fenglei defeated Hua Xiaozhen in their preliminary matches.
• Hu Haoran, competing as Niu Dafu, defeated Lu Han with his new Sword Dragon's Roar and developed the Soaring Sword Technique before the round-robin contest.
• Bai Erli won his matches against He Gufeng and Lu Han, but later lost to Li Hongjun, while Hu Haoran defeated Cao Xiong and Dugu Hen.
• Hu Haoran defeated Ling Hongjun in the final to become Biyun City's preliminaries champion, and the Douluo System rewarded him with Po Jun Gauntlets and a quest offering External Soul Bones.
• Hu Haoran helped Bing Yuxin, Taohua, Sai Fenglei, and Bai Erli advance their cultivation, then set out with his companions toward the Imperial Capital to seek soul rings.
• Three Soul King assassins ambushed Hu Haoran's group on He Gufeng's orders, badly injuring Sai Fenglei and leaving the others overwhelmed.
• Hong Zuifeng appeared as a former Wine Douluo, stopped the assassins, and let them flee after Hu Haoran ordered them crippled.
• Hong Zuifeng told the group how his junior brother had poisoned and framed him, and Hu Haoran proposed stealing a Nine-Colored Pure Spirit Pill that might restore him, prompting Hong Zuifeng to pledge lifelong service.

Hu Haoran led his companions through the Canglan Mountain Range to obtain soul rings, strengthening the group as they hunted and made plans for their studies. After Bing Yuxin gained a soul ring and soul bone, they entered Myriad Poison Pool, where Hu Haoran recognized Shi Zhenhe in mortal danger.

• Hu Haoran reunited with his companions in Cangyun City, tested the group’s combat skills, and led them into the Canglan Mountain Range to seek soul rings.
• Bai Erli and Sai Fenglei killed a Dark Crystal Bloodthirsty Lion and a Xunfeng Black Winged Lion, then absorbed their fourth soul rings and advanced to level forty-three.
• Niu Dagui killed an Armored Fire-Eyed Ox, while Hu Haoran protected him from a Lightning Chasing Shadowless Leopard that Taohua then killed for her second soul ring.
• Hu Haoran used poison and bait to kill a nine-thousand-year Azure Ridge Lightning Devouring Snake, absorbed its soul ring, and gained Spring Thunder Stab as his Third Soul Skill.
• Taohua found a Ghost Ice Vine and an Ice Silkworm for Bing Yuxin and Hu Tengfei, and the group worked together to hunt the Ice Silkworm.
• Hu Tengfei absorbed the Ice Silkworm’s soul ring, while Bing Yuxin received a soul ring and fifty-thousand-year soul bone from the Ghost Ice Vine and advanced past level forty-one.
• Hu Haoran led the group into Myriad Poison Pool to find a soul beast for Hu Yuchen, where they encountered two Crimson Ghost Scorpions and heard a battle nearby.
• Hu Haoran recognized Shi Zhenhe as a Soul King fighting a Bitter Poison Scorpion Tail Tiger and urged his companions to save him.

Hu Haoran helped save Zhou Wangchao, then led the Monkey Sai Lei Combination through a string of Caixia City matches and made major purchases at the auction. After learning that the competition’s next stage would be a dangerous survival trial, the team continued competing and faced the Blue Thunder Combination.

• Sai Fenglei, Bing Yuxin, and Bai Erli killed the Bitter Poison Scorpion Tail Tiger and saved Shi Zhenhe, who explained that he needed venom from a Huaman Death Soul Spider to treat Zhou Wangchao.
• Hu Haoran’s group lured out and killed the spider, then Shi Zhenhe used its venom to treat Zhou Wangchao, who survived the dangerous treatment.
• Hu Yuchen absorbed the spider’s Soul Ring, and Hu Haoran’s group reached Caixia City, where Hu Haoran, Bai Erli, and Sai Fenglei formed the Monkey Sai Lei Combination.
• The Monkey Sai Lei Combination defeated the Fire Sparrow Combination and the Giant Stone Combination, then Hu Haoran bought the Dark Poison Spirit Blade, Heavenly Thunder Divine Stone, and Soul Splitting God Sealing Blade at the auction.
• Hu Haoran arranged with Jin Youcai to open an auction house in Haori City, and the Monkey Sai Lei Combination went on to win several more matches, including battles against the Berserk and Whirlwind Combinations.
• Hu Haoran learned that the top thirty-two teams would enter a Life and Death Survival Competition, while Taohua promised to cultivate diligently and stay by his side.
• The Monkey Sai Lei Combination faced the Blue Thunder Combination, and Sai Fenglei and Bai Erli eliminated Xie Chen and Xie Fei while Hu Haoran chose to test himself against Xie Shuo.