Recaps

Hu Haoran, Bai Erli, and Sai Fenglei won through the Caixia City playoffs by refining their teamwork and defeating a series of strong teams. They reached the finals against the Three Dragon Combination, where Bai Erli and Liu Yu were eliminated and Hu Haoran knocked out Zhao Kuang, leaving the match unresolved.

• Hu Haoran, Bai Erli, and Sai Fenglei defeated Xie Shuo and the Starlight Team, then overcame the Azure Wind Team to advance through the playoffs.
• Hu Haoran developed the Sword Flood Dragon Stab Array, and the team continued training while learning that the championship prizes included a spirit bone and two powerful pills.
• The Monkey Sai Lei Combination defeated the Three Swordsmen and the Little Bear Team, while Bai Erli advanced to level forty-five after taking a Jade Marrow Pill.
• Jin Youcai treated the team to a strengthening feast, while He Gufeng planned to kill them in the Dark Spirit Forest.
• The team defeated the Grass Leaf Vine Team and the Iron Wall Team to reach the finals, with Sai Fenglei earning the title Wind Thunder Angel and Bai Erli helping secure their victory over Li Dashan.
• Sai Fenglei recovered and comprehended the leg intent of his Lightning Gale Leg Technique before the Monkey Sai Lei Combination began its semifinal against the Three Dragon Combination.
• Bai Erli and Liu Yu fought to a draw and were both eliminated, while Hu Haoran and Sai Fenglei continued battling Wang Xiaobei and Zhao Kuang.
• Hu Haoran drained Zhao Kuang's soul power with the Qinghua Sword Technique and knocked him unconscious while Sai Fenglei kept Wang Xiaobei from intervening.

Hu Haoran won the city tournament, strengthened his companions with spirit bones, and rapidly mastered alchemy under Luo Li. After selling his pills and joining the survival competition in Dark Spirit Forest, he led Bai Erli and Sai Fenglei toward the forest’s core to investigate the Dark Spirit Phantoms’ frenzy.

• Hu Haoran defeated Wang Xiaobei, and the Monkey Sai Lei Combination won the tournament before Hu Haoran met Wen Lianfeng and revealed that he was Hu Xi’s son.
• Hu Haoran, Bai Erli, and Sai Fenglei improved their cultivation, received rare spirit bones from Hu Haoran, and tested their new strength against Hong Zuifeng.
• Hu Haoran chose to study forging and alchemy, became Luo Li’s disciple, and quickly learned the Nine Dragon Alchemy Technique.
• Hu Haoran refined large quantities of pills, became an Elixir Master, and proved to Luo Li that he was an Elixir Grandmaster by making top-grade Three-Pattern Profound Fire Pills.
• Hu Haoran sold his surplus pills and joined Bai Erli and Sai Fenglei for the Life and Death Survival Competition in Dark Spirit Forest.
• Hu Haoran and his companions fought through swarms of Dark Spirit Wraiths, suspected a disturbance at the forest’s core had driven them into a frenzy, and decided to investigate after breaking out of the encirclement.

Hu Haoran and his companions battled the forest’s wraiths and dangerous soul beasts as Sai Fenglei gained a Soul Spirit and Dugu Hen transformed through corpse fiend poison. The group found Unregretting Heaven Sword, then followed a new, icy Sword Intent deeper into the forest.

• Hu Haoran, Bai Erli, and Sai Fenglei fought off Dark Spirit Wraiths, ambushed five Soul Masters for their points, and collected useful treasures from their Storage Rings.
• The trio killed a Marshal-class Dark Spirit Wraith and later rescued Dugu Hen and Lu Han from phantom hordes, then helped Sai Fenglei defeat an eighteen-thousand-year Ghost Wind Evil Thunder Eagle.
• Sai Fenglei turned the eagle into his Soul Spirit and reached rank fifty-one, while Dugu Hen and Lu Han joined the group as they headed deeper into the forest.
• Hu Haoran killed a Man Faced Demon Spider, cultivated its venom into the Poison Dragon Demon Finger, and absorbed poison from Corpse Fragrance Demon Ganoderma to become immune to poisons.
• The five entered a Corpse Fiend Pit, where Dugu Hen was infected by a phantom but fused the poison into his Sword Core and reached level forty-eight.
• The group killed a Corpse Ghoul Spider, and Hu Haoran absorbed its poisonous External Soul Bone and demonstrated Heavenly Net Silk.
• In an ancient battlefield, Dugu Hen absorbed the Sword Intent of an ancient longsword, formed a Sword Bone, and named the weapon Unregretting Heaven Sword.
• Hu Haoran identified the sword’s former owner as Unregretting Douluo, then led the group toward an extremely cold Sword Intent that called to Lu Han.

Hu Haoran and his companions uncovered rare treasures in the Corpse Fiend Pit, then pushed into the Dark Spirit Forest’s core and fought increasingly dangerous Dark Spirit Phantoms. The stretch ended with Shen Mengyan and Ling Fengyun cornered by a horde as Hu Haoran’s group rushed toward them.

• Lu Han inherited Sword Kill Douluo’s Cold Wind Killing Sword Art, forming a Sword Bone and Cold Yin Sword Pill, while Hu Haoran’s group later claimed the Heavenly Fist Douluo’s inheritances.
• Hu Haoran led the group through caves where they subdued a Sunstone Beast, gathered Heavenly Sun Stones and Sacred Gestation Crystal Marrow, and discovered a lake of Heavenly Spirit Stone Milk.
• Hu Haoran defeated an eighteen-thousand-year Electric Light Ghost Wolf, absorbed its soul ring, and reached rank forty-three before the group drank from the stone milk and left the Corpse Fiend Pit.
• Hu Haoran and his companions fought through Corpse Devouring Ants, then Hu Haoran revealed his identity to Dugu Hen and Lu Han before entering the forest’s core with Bai Jiali and Sai Fenglei.
• Hu Haoran’s group teamed up with the Little Bear Team to defeat four Marshal-class Dark Spirit Phantoms, then killed a Dark Spirit Giant Python while He Gufeng attempted a sneak attack.
• After Hu Haoran treated the injured with Sacred Healing Pills, Rakshasa possessed He Gufeng, restored him, raised his Soul Power to level fifty, and imprisoned his soul.
• Hu Haoran’s group fought off a vast horde of Dark Spirit Phantoms, earning a huge haul of Douluo Crystal Points, then followed the creatures toward a gathering ahead.
• Shen Mengyan and Ling Fengyun were cornered by a horde and four Marshal-class Dark Spirit Wraiths, while Hu Haoran’s group rushed toward them and Ling Fengyun privately weighed how to survive.