Recaps

Xia Tianling won the tournament, exposed Yu Xiaogang, and brought Zhu Zhuqing into his family while Spirit Hall’s ties with Tang San and Xiao Wu deepened. He then began rebuilding his allies and recruiting craftsmen, ending with a forging contest against Titan.

• Xia Tianling defeated Dai Mubai, won the tournament, and Bibi Dong announced him as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and successor.
• Xia Tianling challenged Yu Xiaogang’s theories before the assembled forces, exposed his plagiarism and false claims, and had Liu Erlong mutilate and cast him out of Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong welcomed Xiao Wu after hearing how Xiao Wu’s mother had saved her, while Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and gained a new pink Spirit Ring.
• Xia Tianling brought Zhu Zhuqing home, where she and Old Jack welcomed one another, and later the two confessed their feelings and kissed.
• Xia Tianling arranged for Tang Hao and Tang San to bring Ah Yin to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, where he planted her between the springs to help her recover.
• Xia Tianling persuaded Tang San to join Spirit Hall’s Spirit Research Institute instead of rebuilding the Tang Sect, then recruited the Strength Clan for work and forging.
• Xia Tianling wagered Deep Sea Deep Silver against Titan’s casting skills, then demonstrated Thousand Forgings Saint Grade by striking Pig Iron twice with Soul-Forged Deep Silver Hammers.

Xia Tianling brought the Strength and Defense Clans and Lou Gao into Spirit Hall, while the Spirit Research Institute advanced its forging and industrial projects. He secured Zhu Zhuqing’s broken engagement and continued building Spirit Hall’s influence through education and a widely circulated newspaper, leaving both empires struggling to respond to its growing reach.

• Xia Tianling impressed Titan with Spirit Forging, accepted him as a disciple, and brought the Strength Clan into Spirit Hall’s plans for relocation and training.
• Xia Tianling recruited Niu Gao and the Defense Clan by offering them work and research opportunities, then showed them the Spirit Research Institute’s technology.
• Xia Tianling and the researchers developed the Spirit Guide Engine, and he expanded the institute’s funding and plans for industrial machines and railways.
• Xia Tianling recruited Lou Gao and dozens of blacksmiths, forged god-tier hammers through Heavenly Forging, and had Ghost Douluo expose and execute Miles for embezzlement.
• Xia Tianling and Zhu Zhuqing secured the Netherworld Zhu Family’s secret cooperation with Spirit Hall, then annulled Zhu Zhuqing’s engagement to Dai Mubai before the White Tiger Great Emperor.
• Xia Tianling returned to Spirit City, organized factory training, assigned Tang San and Lou Gao to study, and opened public classes that trained promising students and future teachers.
• Xia Tianling launched Spirit Hall Monthly and distributed it across both empires, where its tournament coverage, stories, and recipes drew eager readers.
• Dennis and other readers spread the newspaper’s story mocking a noble’s treatment of servants, while rulers and officials in both empires realized they could not match Spirit Hall’s printing resources.

Xia Tianling strengthened Spirit Hall through reforms, infrastructure, new alliances, and a disciplined army. The arc left him confronting the King of Slaughter after the Slaughter Legion seized the City of Slaughter’s outer city.

• Qian Renxue and Zhu Zhuqing settled their misunderstanding, while Xia Tianling built an art troupe and used its plays to spread messages among commoners.
• Spirit Hall overhauled its academies and subsidies, established permanent schools, and expanded its research and military programs.
• Xia Tianling helped build roads and railways, and Huyan Zhen reached rank 90 while working on the railway.
• Dai Mubai accepted the Seven Great Families’ terms, killed Dai Weisi, and transformed his White Tiger martial spirit into the Rakshasa Evil Tiger.
• Xia Tianling helped Zhu Zhuqing obtain her sixth spirit ring, healed Tang Hao, and brought the Speed Clan and Breaking Clan into Spirit Hall.
• Spirit Hall completed its railway to Spirit City, while Xia Tianling began planning an expedition to the City of Slaughter and assembled the Slaughter Legion.
• Xia Tianling led the Slaughter Legion into the City of Slaughter, where they killed its defenders and secured the outer city.
• Xia Tianling demanded that the King of Slaughter come to his tent, and the King arrived to meet him.

Xia Tianling helped Zhu Zhuqing gain the Asura inheritance, then was swept into a Void Fault and stranded on the Sun Moon Continent. Disguised as Qian Chaoguang, he entered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, mastered Soul Tool craftsmanship, and began building connections through his cooking.

• Xia Tianling and Zhu Zhuqing entered Hell Road, where Xia Tianling killed its guardians and collected samples before they escaped, and Zhu Zhuqing awakened the Asura Domain.
• Xia Tianling helped Zhu Zhuqing forge an Asura Sword, after which the Asura God named her an inheritor and Xia Tianling sealed Tang Chen’s soul and made the King of Slaughter his subordinate, Fulu.
• Xia Tianling chased a fleeing Titled Douluo into Ban Huang’s sealed valley, where an explosion tore open a Space Rift and dragged Xia Tianling into the Void Fault.
• After using all the system’s energy to escape the collapsing Void Fault, Xia Tianling reached the Sun Moon Continent, killed an Evil Soul Master, and adopted the identity of Qian Chaoguang.
• Xia Tianling traveled to Mingdu and impressed Luo Hongchen with a replicated Soul Tool, becoming his disciple and entering the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Xia Tianling astonished Luo Hongchen and Sun Mingfeng with his physical tests, earned money and rare metals by cooking for students, and began studying Soul Tool theory under Sun Mingfeng.
• Xia Tianling revealed that he was a Divine Craftsman, mastered the academy’s foundational Soul Tool knowledge, and passed his Inner Court assessment by making the Level Six Melee Soul Tool Heavenly Saber Frost.
• After recovering from exhaustion, Xia Tianling studied higher-level Soul Tools and drafted an ocean-going ship blueprint, then cooked a Blazing Sun Deep Sea Octopus feast for the Jin Family that raised its members’ cultivation levels.