Recaps

Tang Hao cornered Xiao Wu after discovering she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast reborn as a human, but Zhao Ming rushed in and took Tang Hao’s attack while protecting her. Moved by the scene, Tang Hao spared Xiao Wu and left medicine for Zhao Ming before departing.

• Tang Hao questioned Xiao Wu about her hatred of humans, and she revealed that humans had killed her mother and vowed to take revenge.
• Tang Hao decided to kill Xiao Wu for her Spirit Bone, but Zhao Ming emerged from the dormitory and rushed to save her.
• Zhao Ming scooped Xiao Wu up and dodged Tang Hao’s attack, but the Soul Power cut across his back and left him badly wounded.
• Zhao Ming told Xiao Wu he had come because he loved her, and Tang Hao recalled how Ah Yin had once protected him.
• Tang Hao gave Xiao Wu medicine for Zhao Ming’s wound, said he would not kill her that day, and left.

After Tang Hao injured Zhao Ming and exposed Xiao Wu's identity, Xiao Wu cared for Zhao Ming as he recovered and chose him over Tang San. Tang San remained unaware of his father's actions and left in bitterness after watching Zhao Ming and Xiao Wu grow closer.

• Xiao Wu treated Zhao Ming's wounds, declared she would live for him, and carried him back to the dormitory.
• Zhao Ming woke a day later, reflected on his weakness, and reassured Xiao Wu before asking for porridge.
• The Dormitory Seven students gathered around Zhao Ming, while Tang San envied his popularity and secretly hoped his injury would give him time to get closer to Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu decided Tang San was an enemy because his father had tried to kill her, while Tang San remained unaware that Tang Hao had injured Zhao Ming.
• Xiao Wu fed Zhao Ming porridge and shared it with him, prompting the Dormitory Seven students to leave and Tang San to storm out in anger.

While Xiao Wu cared for Zhao Ming as he recovered, she confessed that she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit and feared he would reject her. Zhao Ming assured her his love would not change, and Xiao Wu accepted his nature and said she only needed a place in his heart.

• Xiao Wu washed and changed Zhao Ming while he recovered from his back injuries in the dormitory.
• Xiao Wu confessed to Zhao Ming that she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit cultivating anew and explained that a Titled Douluo had discovered her identity.
• Xiao Wu worried that Zhao Ming would despise her because she was a soul beast and far older than him.
• Zhao Ming held Xiao Wu's hand and promised to love her regardless of whether she was human or beast.
• Xiao Wu's worries eased, and she accepted that Zhao Ming might love other women as long as she had a place in his heart.

Tang San eavesdropped on Zhao Ming and Xiao Wu, growing convinced that Zhao Ming had taken Xiao Wu from him. After hearing Xiao Wu warn Zhao Ming about him, Tang San decided to kill Zhao Ming, setting himself and Xiao Wu on a path of opposition.

• Tang San listened outside Dormitory Seven as Zhao Ming sweet-talked Xiao Wu and realized their relationship had advanced far beyond what he had thought.
• Xiao Wu warned Zhao Ming that Tang San was calculating and dangerous, and Zhao Ming told her that Tang San was eavesdropping outside.
• Xiao Wu sensed Tang San nearby and worried he might attack Zhao Ming while Zhao Ming was injured.
• Tang San heard Xiao Wu's warning and felt devastated by how she viewed him.
• Tang San blamed Zhao Ming for losing Xiao Wu, touched the Sleeve Arrows in his hand, and resolved to kill him.

Tang San tried to kill Zhao Ming with Hidden Weapons because he believed Zhao Ming had stolen Xiao Wu from him, but Zhao Ming and Xiao Wu stopped him. Tang San then claimed Xiao Wu had once been close to him, and Xiao Wu angrily rejected his accusations.

• Tang San confronted Zhao Ming in the dormitory and revealed Hidden Weapons, declaring that he intended to kill him.
• Xiao Wu rushed back and interrupted Tang San just as he was about to attack.
• Zhao Ming summoned Flame Spirit Princess, whose Fire Charm Technique distracted Tang San and let her kick away his Hidden Weapons.
• Xiao Wu knocked Tang San to the ground, but Zhao Ming stopped her from killing him.
• Tang San called Zhao Ming a liar and claimed Xiao Wu had once loved him, while Xiao Wu denied his claims and grew furious.

Zhao Ming used Xiao Wu’s anger toward Tang San to complete a mission and obtain a summon card. The card summoned Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin, giving Zhao Ming a way to threaten Tang Hao.

• Xiao Wu beat Tang San and denied his accusations, while Zhao Ming told her he believed her.
• Zhao Ming let Tang San watch him touch Xiao Wu, and Xiao Wu warned Tang San that she would cripple him if he angered her.
• Tang San broke down in tears, and the system announced that Zhao Ming had completed his mission and earned a Random Summon Card.
• Zhao Ming changed the card into a Designated Character Summon Card and drew Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin.
• The system explained that it had brought Ah Yin back from the past, and Zhao Ming considered using her to threaten Tang Hao.

Zhao Ming considered using the Ah Yin Summoning Card to help him kill Tang Hao, then prepared to leave Dormitory Seven with Xiao Wu after Tang San departed. Several days later, Zhao Ming recovered enough to say farewell to Wang Sheng and the other students as he moved out.

• Zhao Ming read Ah Yin’s profile and decided to summon her later so he could use her against Tang Hao.
• Zhao Ming stopped Xiao Wu from harming Tang San further, and Tang San left Dormitory Seven after saying Zhao Ming had won.
• Zhao Ming told Xiao Wu they should move out of Dormitory Seven, but waited for his injuries to heal.
• Tang San did not return to Dormitory Seven while Zhao Ming recovered over the next few days.
• Zhao Ming said goodbye to Wang Sheng and the other students, promising he would still help them if needed.

After renting a secluded house with Xiao Wu, Zhao Ming used the Ah Yin Summoning Card and summoned a beautiful woman whose memories and identity had been altered to make her his devoted personal maid. The chapter ended with Ah Yin preparing Zhao Ming’s bed while he planned to cultivate.

• Xiao Wu praised the quiet, elegant house, and Zhao Ming revealed that he had rented the entire building for a year.
• After parting from Xiao Wu, Zhao Ming returned to his room and used the Ah Yin Summoning Card.
• The system summoned Ah Yin and explained that it had implanted the identity of Zhao Ming’s personal maid in her memories.
• Ah Yin called herself Zhi'er and worried that Zhao Ming was unwell when he asked about her identity and thanked her.
• Ah Yin said she usually attended Zhao Ming at bedtime, so Zhao Ming awkwardly told her to warm his bed before leaving him to cultivate.

Zhao Ming woke to find Ah Yin behaving unusually familiar with him, while the system explained that her memories left him as her only close person. Xiao Wu interrupted their awkward encounter, misunderstood what she saw, and ended up suspecting that Ah Yin was Zhao Ming’s arranged child bride.

• Ah Yin woke Zhao Ming and admitted she had come to see him, then accepted his teasing about a supposed family punishment.
• Zhao Ming questioned the system, which said Ah Yin’s memories contained only him and that her closeness came from instinctive dependence.
• As Zhao Ming approached Ah Yin, Xiao Wu entered and pushed her away, mistaking the scene for something improper.
• Zhao Ming introduced Ah Yin as his personal maid and Xiao Wu as his girlfriend, and Xiao Wu realized she had misunderstood.
• Xiao Wu privately concluded that Ah Yin must be the child bride Zhao Ming’s powerful family had prepared for him.

Zhao Ming sent Ah Yin on a mission to visit the seed Tang Hao had planted, while planning how to use her to weaken his enemies. At the hidden cave, Tang Hao found the Blue Silver Grass turning yellow and believed Ah Yin’s last hope was dying.

• Xiao Wu apologized to Ah Yin, and the two became acquainted before Zhao Ming took them to eat.
• Zhao Ming considered how Ah Yin could reclaim her Soul Ring and help him manipulate the Clear Sky Sect, Spirit Hall, and other powers.
• Zhao Ming told Ah Yin she had to leave temporarily for a mission, and she feared he no longer wanted her until he reassured her.
• Tang Hao visited the cave where he had planted Ah Yin’s seed six years earlier and found its leaves withering.
• Tang Hao wept and blamed himself for having planted Ah Yin to death.

Tang Hao sensed Ah Yin’s presence through her Soul Ring and Spirit Bone and set out west to find her. In Nuoding City, Zhao Ming coached the resurrected Ah Yin to distrust Tang Hao and reclaim what he had taken.

• Tang Hao mourned over the withered Blue Silver Grass until his Clear Sky Hammer and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring reacted to Ah Yin’s aura.
• Tang Hao opened the box holding Ah Yin’s blue-gold Spirit Bone, sensed that she had returned to life, and followed her direction west.
• In Nuoding City, Zhao Ming tested Ah Yin on what to tell Tang Hao about her resurrection and how to recover her Soul Ring and Spirit Bone.
• Zhao Ming warned Ah Yin that Tang Hao had taken her Soul Ring and Spirit Bone, and Ah Yin agreed that she would not let him off.

Zhao Ming sent Ah Yin to stay in Nuoding City and trusted the system’s assurance that she would remain loyal to him. Tang Hao arrived in the city and found Ah Yin, overwhelmed by memories of meeting her for the first time.

• The system told Zhao Ming that Ah Yin’s implanted loyalty and trust would prevent Tang Hao from persuading her.
• Zhao Ming, Ah Yin, and Xiao Wu shared a farewell meal, after which Ah Yin settled in Nuoding City.
• Tang Hao rushed toward Nuoding City, convinced Ah Yin had returned and determined to protect her.
• Tang Hao followed Ah Yin’s presence through the city and found her beneath a tree.
• Tang Hao saw Ah Yin and recalled their first meeting, smiling as he recognized the feeling of first love.

Tang Hao reunited with Ah Yin in Nuoding City, but she did not recognize him and believed her name was Zhi'er. Ah Yin explained that the God of Life had temporarily resurrected her and sent her to retrieve her Soul Ring and Spirit Bone so she could be revived permanently.

• Tang Hao rushed to embrace Ah Yin, but she dodged him and warned him off.
• Ah Yin recognized Tang Hao's name as the person Zhao Ming had told her to find, but she denied knowing him and said her name was Zhi'er.
• Tang Hao took Ah Yin to a hotel and tried to tell her about their marriage, but she refused to hear about their past.
• Tang Hao asked how Ah Yin had been resurrected and why she had come to find him.
• Ah Yin followed Zhao Ming's instructions and claimed the God of Life had resurrected her temporarily and promised her an inheritance.
• Ah Yin told Tang Hao she had one month to retrieve her Soul Ring and Spirit Bone, which were necessary for her permanent resurrection.

Tang Hao gave Ah Yin her Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, and she absorbed it, recovering to the sixty-fifth rank. They agreed to go to Holy Soul Village the next day so Ah Yin could reclaim her Soul Ring, while she secretly planned to weaken Tang Hao and complete the mission Young Master had assigned her.

• Tang Hao offered to return Ah Yin's Soul Ring despite knowing that losing it would reduce his cultivation to the Soul Douluo level or lower.
• Tang Hao gave Ah Yin the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, and she absorbed it in a little over an hour.
• Ah Yin's cultivation rose to the sixty-fifth rank after the Spirit Bone restored her strength and she divided off a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin agreed to go to Holy Soul Village the next day so she could take back her Soul Ring.
• Ah Yin planned to make Tang Hao eat the item Young Master had given her after his strength fell, completing her mission and helping her protect Young Master.

Tang Hao brought Ah Yin to his filthy home, then returned his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring to her in a secluded spot. Ah Yin recovered to level seventy-three while Tang Hao fell to level eighty-eight, and he believed his sacrifice had won back her affection.

• Tang Hao brought Ah Yin to his ramshackle home, where its dirt and disrepair further lowered her opinion of him.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin went to a secluded hillock and prepared to transfer the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Tang Hao removed the ring, suffering severe injuries, and Ah Yin absorbed it as blue-gold light enveloped them.
• Ah Yin's cultivation rose to level seventy-three, while Tang Hao's strength dropped to that of an eighty-eighth-level Soul Douluo.
• Tang Hao secretly took satisfaction in the injuries he had deliberately caused himself, expecting Ah Yin to care for him.

Ah Yin lured the injured Tang Hao into drinking Soul Dispersion Powder on Zhao Ming's orders. Zhao Ming confronted and killed Tang Hao, then threatened to send Tang Hao's son after him.

• Tang Hao injured himself stripping away a Soul Ring, and Ah Yin took him back to his room in Holy Soul Village.
• Ah Yin prepared medicine with Soul Dispersion Powder and fed it to Tang Hao, who believed she had regained her affection for him.
• Tang Hao realized he had been drugged when Ah Yin called Zhao Ming in and addressed her as Zhi'er.
• Zhao Ming explained that the powder weakened Tang Hao's Soul Power and said he planned to kill Tang Hao and eventually send his son to join him.
• Zhao Ming struck Tang Hao twice, then called Ah Yin over to help finish killing him.

After killing Tang Hao, Zhao Ming took his Spirit Bones and disposed of his body before returning to Nuoding Academy to find Tang San. He learned that Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had left several days earlier, leaving Zhao Ming to wonder where Tang San would go next.

• Zhao Ming had Ah Yin remove Tang Hao’s two inherited Spirit Bones, then searched his Storage Soul Tool and found a Clear Sky Sect token.
• Zhao Ming stored the Spirit Bones, put Tang Hao’s body into his Spatial Ring, destroyed his face, and left it among wild beasts.
• Zhao Ming and Ah Yin returned to Nuoding Academy, where Liu Hai told him Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had withdrawn and left several days earlier.
• Zhao Ming blamed Tang San’s timely departure on his fortune, while the system pointed out that Tang San could not be killed easily and explained why Yu Xiaogang would not take him to Shrek Academy yet.

Zhao Ming spent a peaceful year at Nuoding Academy, reached level fifteen, and learned that Flame Spirit Princess needed twenty life-force points before her heart would beat. After receiving a sign-in mission in the Extreme North that offered Tu Shan Ya Ya as a reward, he gave Xiao Wu a family ring for their one-year anniversary.

• Zhao Ming dismissed Tang San as a threat after Tang San left Nuoding Academy, then settled into a quiet year with Xiao Wu.
• Zhao Ming reached level fifteen, while Flame Spirit Princess remained at ten life-force points and the system explained that her heart would begin beating at twenty.
• The system issued Zhao Ming a two-month sign-in mission in the Extreme North, with Puppet Tu Shan Ya Ya as the reward.
• Zhao Ming considered how to complete the mission without endangering himself or leaving Xiao Wu alone.
• Zhao Ming gave Xiao Wu the Heart of Blessing ring, saying his mother had intended it for the girl he would spend his life with.

Zhao Ming left Xiao Wu in Nuoding City and traveled north to the Extreme North to complete a check-in mission, enduring its severe cold along the way. He received the Puppet Tu Shan Ya Ya, but the system warned that he could not leave, leaving him stranded in the dangerous region.

• Zhao Ming told Xiao Wu he had to leave Nuoding City to obtain a Soul Ring for his Second Martial Soul, and she agreed to stay behind.
• Zhao Ming set out for the north, buying a horse, a map, and warm supplies as the weather grew colder.
• Zhao Ming crossed the uninhabited northern wilderness, using Flame Spirit Princess to keep warm and thawing ice after an awkward mishap in the freezing cold.
• Zhao Ming reached the Extreme North and completed the check-in mission, receiving the Puppet Tu Shan Ya Ya.
• Zhao Ming refused the system's suggestion to explore the Extreme North, but the system told him he could not leave.

Zhao Ming encountered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, a Million-Year Soul Beast who considered becoming his Soul Ring but feared a clash with Zhao Ming’s fire-elemental Martial Soul. A woman’s voice arrived and terrified Tian Meng, leaving her identity unknown.

• A voice beside Zhao Ming revealed that a Million-Year Soul Beast was nearby, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm emerged from the ground.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recognized Zhao Ming’s talent and said he had hoped to become the Soul Ring of someone capable of becoming a god.
• Zhao Ming revealed that he had Twin Martial Souls and asked whether he could prevent Tian Meng’s ice and fire powers from clashing.
• Tian Meng rejected Zhao Ming’s proposal, but a woman’s voice called him by name and made him retreat into the fissure.

Bi Ji arrived in the Extreme North and respectfully mistook Zhao Ming for the legendary Ancient Immortal Bird, while Zhao Ming realized he could use her mistaken belief to conceal his true identity. The chapter left Bi Ji convinced that Zhao Ming was a powerful Soul Beast seeking Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm learned that Bi Ji had come alone and relaxed after she said she had not come to capture him.
• Bi Ji appeared before Zhao Ming, then bowed and addressed him as her lord instead of attacking him.
• Zhao Ming questioned the System, which suggested Bi Ji had mistaken his Ancient Immortal Bird Martial Soul for his true identity.
• Zhao Ming pretended to recognize Bi Ji's cultivation, deepening her belief that he was the Ancient Immortal Bird.
• Bi Ji recalled how Gu Yue Na's Dragon Scale had led her to Zhao Ming and interpreted his abilities and behavior as proof of his identity.

Zhao Ming used Bi Ji’s belief that he was a reincarnated Ancient Immortal Bird to learn she had come on Gu Yue Na’s orders and to impress both her and Tian Meng. After Bi Ji revealed forbidden secrets about the Dragon God and glorified Zhao Ming’s supposed power, Tian Meng decided he wanted to become Zhao Ming’s Soul Ring.

• Zhao Ming questioned Bi Ji about how she recognized him and why she had followed him, and Bi Ji said she was protecting him on her Master's orders.
• Zhao Ming identified her Master as the Silver Dragon King and described how the Dragon God had been split by the Asura God, deepening Bi Ji’s reverence for him.
• Tian Meng questioned why Bi Ji treated Zhao Ming with such deference, and Bi Ji rebuked him for disrespecting a Soul Beast undergoing reincarnation.
• With Zhao Ming’s permission, Bi Ji told Tian Meng that Zhao Ming was an immensely powerful Ancient Immortal Bird, embellishing his greatness with grand claims.
• Tian Meng was inspired by Zhao Ming’s supposed status and resolved to become his Soul Ring.

Zhao Ming had Sky Dream Ice Silkworm seal most of his power before beginning his sacrifice. As Tian Meng poured Spiritual Power into Zhao Ming, the chapter ended with the infusion entering Zhao Ming’s mind and his Puppet poised to help him withstand it.

• Zhao Ming told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to seal most of his power before the sacrifice, and Tian Meng tightly restrained himself with white energy vines.
• Zhao Ming promised to capture the Ice Empress for Tian Meng, while privately thinking she would be better suited as his sister-in-law.
• Zhao Ming told Bi Ji to guard them, adjusted his Soul Power, and released his Ancient Immortal Bird Martial Soul.
• Tian Meng began the sacrifice, sending his ten golden rings around Zhao Ming as streams of white radiance flowed into him.
• Tian Meng’s Spiritual Power poured into Zhao Ming’s mind, and Zhao Ming relied on his Puppet to withstand the infusion.

Zhao Ming absorbed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Spiritual Power and used the chance to eliminate him with the Undying Flame. The chapter ended with Tian Meng dying after Zhao Ming revealed he had never intended to let him live.

• Zhao Ming transferred some of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Spiritual Power to Flame Spirit Princess and formed a Spiritual Sea in his mind.
• Tian Meng’s ice-attributed energy clashed with Zhao Ming’s fire-attributed Soul Power, and the Undying Flame swallowed it while Zhao Ming’s Soul Power surged.
• Tian Meng appeared in Zhao Ming’s Spiritual Sea, where Black Flame burned him as he tried to extinguish it with ice.
• Zhao Ming refused to save Tian Meng and explained that he had deceived him into sacrificing himself, intending to eliminate him from the start.
• Tian Meng shrank under the flames and glared at Zhao Ming, who said he would take care of Ice Empress before Tian Meng died.

After Tian Meng's death, his ice energy evolved under the Undying Flame, forcing Zhao Ming to endure alternating extremes of heat and cold. The energies balanced within Zhao Ming, strengthening his body and granting him two powerful soul skills, including an ice-and-fire domain.

• Tian Meng's body became pure white ice-element energy that entered Zhao Ming's Spiritual Sea and grew colder as the Undying Flame refined it.
• Zhao Ming suffered violent waves of extreme cold and heat, but the energies eventually balanced and tempered his body.
• Zhao Ming discovered that the balanced energies had formed a taiji-like pattern in his Spiritual Sea, still dominated by the Ancient Immortal Bird's flame.
• The System explained that the Undying Flame would keep pressuring the ice energy to evolve as long as the balance remained stable.
• Zhao Ming learned that Tian Meng's Soul Ring had granted him the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well soul skill and the domain-type Ice and Fire Bipolar Domain.