Recaps

Hu Haoran subdued the Dragon Bone Gang, founded Hualei Pavilion, and trained in the Earth Domain before leading a group to Haori City. There, he set a plan in motion to expose the Four Great Powers’ abuses and gain a pretext to act against them.

• Hu Haoran forced the Fengho Town Lord to pay a ransom, then brought the Boulder Mercenary Group with him to Dragon Bone Mountain.
• Hu Haoran defeated Song Dalin, won the Dragon Bone Gang’s allegiance, and established Hualei Pavilion with Shen Mengyan as deputy pavilion master.
• Hu Haoran entered the Earth Domain, endured its storms and beasts, developed Dragon Roams the Nine Heavens, and defeated the Houtu Python and the Silver Flying Fish.
• Hu Haoran returned from his training and supplied Hualei Pavilion with resources and armor before preparing to travel to Haori City.
• Hu Haoran led his companions to Haori City and learned that the Four Great Powers controlled the City Lord’s Manor and oppressed the people.
• Hu Haoran and Gao Cheng planned to record the manor guards’ abuse, and Hu Haoran let the guards insult and capture him with Song Linlin and Song Yingying.
• Gao Cheng recorded the guards and officers plotting to abuse the two girls and kill Hu Haoran, who stopped pretending to cry once they had enough evidence.

Hu Haoran took control of Haori City, executed its corrupt commanders, and built a city guard while preparing to break the Zhu Family’s hold over its resources. After capturing three Zhu retainers, he led a secret raid on the family’s medicinal convoy, where the battle for a fifty-thousand-year Void Lotus began.

• Hu Haoran exposed the Four Great Commanders’ crimes, had them executed with the people’s support, took office as City Lord, and abolished personal taxes.
• Hu Haoran opened City Guard recruitment and organized the recruits into specialized guards and a Reserve Army, placing Shi Danda in command and setting the strongest trainees challenging goals.
• Hu Haoran gave Shi Danda cultivation arts and combat skills, then learned that the Zhu Family was intercepting herbs meant for the Spirit Pill Hall.
• Hu Haoran and the War Hall ambushed Tai Feng, Meng Liang, and Jing Kongxiang during a staged caravan raid, defeated them, and kept them alive to spy on the Zhu Family.
• Hu Haoran recruited Haori Squad and the Four Heroes of Dragon Bone for a secret raid on the Zhu Family’s medicinal convoy, using their attacks to divide and delay its guards.
• Hu Haoran’s allies clashed with Zhu Zhenming and Zhu Luanxin as Hu Haoran demanded their fifty-thousand-year Void Lotus, and Zhu Luanxin unleashed a burning Spider Silk net over Xue Jinghong.

Hu Haoran weakened the Zhu Family, raided its pill pavilion, and trained his allies before capturing Zhu Tianguang and using him to plan a strike on a major shipment. As the Four Great Powers fought at Crimson Jade Mountain, Wu Chong and Zhao Yuanyi’s duel left both injured but still battling.

• Xue Jinghong and Qian Duoxiang defeated Zhu Luanxin and Zhu Zhenming with help from Hu Haoran and Zhan Ya, then captured the Zhu Family fighters.
• Hu Haoran recovered and planned an attack on the Zhu Family’s Zhu Pill Pavilion, whose defenses were weak because most of the family’s forces remained at headquarters.
• Hu Haoran led Haori Squad in a raid on Zhu Pill Pavilion while the Four Heroes of Dragon Bone cleared sentries and looted its warehouse.
• Hu Haoran learned that the Blood Sand Gang and Berserk Gang planned to move Fixed Soul Tools and thousand-year soul spirits, and he arranged to contest the shipment.
• Hu Haoran took Haori Squad and the Four Heroes of Dragon Bone to the Ice Domain, where they trained and fought domain beasts to increase their soul-ring ages.
• Hu Haoran, Shen Mengyan, and Zeng Xiao lured Zhu Tianguang and his companions into a trap, captured them, and learned the factions’ plans for the shipment.
• Hu Haoran launched Operation Crimson Jade as the Zhao Family and Zhu Family ambushed the Blood Sand Gang and Berserk Gang at Crimson Jade Mountain.
• Wu Chong and Zhao Yuanyi traded powerful attacks using Battle Armor, a mecha, and their Soul Skills, ending the exchange injured but still ready to fight.

Hu Haoran subdued the forces behind the Crimson Jade Mountain conflict, then turned his attention to bringing the Zhu Family under his control. The arc ended with Hu Haoran and Zhu Zhenming closing in on Mu Sicheng after discovering Dragon Soul Valley.

• Hu Haoran’s allies captured the Blood Sand Gang, Zhu Family, Zhao Family, and Berserk Gang fighters after the Soul Douluos fell, while Hu Haoran arranged for the subdued captives to serve as informants.
• Zhao Guangxin pursued Hu Haoran, but Bloodhand Douluo interrupted them, and Hu Haoran and Zeng Xiao eventually captured both men and brought them under Hu Haoran’s control.
• Hu Haoran returned to Haori City, rewarded Hong Zuifeng, gave Ye Ye sword techniques, and saw that the city’s residents benefited from its improved order.
• Hu Haoran decided to make the Zhu Family submit, and the Douluo System tasked him with subduing its six Soul Douluos and ten Soul Sages.
• After learning Mu Sicheng and Quan Zhenyang planned to search Dragon Bone Mountain for Bone Dragon Corpse Grass, Hu Haoran’s group followed them into the mountain.
• Mu Sicheng and Quan Zhenyang split up, with Hu Haoran and Zhu Zhenming pursuing Mu Sicheng while Xue Jinghong and Qian Duoxiang followed Quan Zhenyang.
• Hu Haoran discovered Dragon Soul Valley, a treasure land where the Emerald Dragon King had fallen, and told Zhu Zhenming they had to subdue Mu Sicheng before he could reveal it.
• Zhu Zhenming bound Mu Sicheng with Netherflame Silk and attacked him with Netherflame Burn.