Recaps

Ye Lei and the Eight Soul Suppressors defeated the Third Elder’s forces, then turned to recruiting new disciples and defending Banyan City. The arc left the freshmen under attack from a 2A-class beast tide as Ye Lei’s Blue Silver Grass protected them.

• Ye Lei’s eight disciples defeated Chen Tao and Lu Dali’s forces, and Ye Lei warned Lu Dali to stop threatening Banyan City.
• The Third Elder arrived with three Soul Sages seeking Chen Sican’s Soul Bone, and Ye Lei’s group fought them as more elders joined the battle.
• The Eighth Elder’s guqin disrupted Ye Lei’s allies, but Han Nuan and the others defeated Lei Tian and Lie Huo while Ye Lei and Han Nuan battled the Third Elder and Jian Feng.
• Ye Lei and Han Nuan fused their Martial Souls, destroyed Jian Feng’s cultivation, and forced the Third Elder and Eighth Elder to flee.
• Huang Xiaoshu healed the fighters and civilians, and Ye Lei arranged a recruitment assessment with Rongcheng Eighth Middle School while the clans strengthened Banyan City’s defenses.
• Ye Lei and the Eight Soul Suppressors tested the students, reducing 500 first-years to 120 through Soul Power, Martial Soul, and mental strength trials.
• A 2A-class beast tide approached during the assessment, and Blue Silver Grass - Cages protected the freshmen from the attacking flying soul beasts.

Ye Lei built up the Eight Soul Suppressors while Song Yang and Jing Hang strengthened themselves through dangerous hunts and Song Yang challenged Ye Lei in a spar. The arc ended with the team fighting a Thunder Prison Sky-Slaying Python in the city as its soul was torn from its body.

• Ye Lei ended the fourth-stage assessment, recruited Zhang Zetao’s group into the Eight Soul Suppressors, and assigned them to assess the remaining first-year students.
• Ye Lei set up City Security, Ocean Management, and a Soul Beast restaurant, while he and Zhang Ning forced Wang Yao to work off an unpaid meal after rejecting his claim to the Ye Family.
• Song Yang hunted at the ocean overlord’s territory, defeated the Abyssal Evil Dragon Whale, absorbed its Soul Ring and Beast Soul, and broke through to Soul Douluo.
• Jing Hang and Qiao Na hunted a Purple Lightning Sacred Armor Bear, and Jing Hang absorbed its Soul Ring and bear paw Soul Bone before returning home.
• Song Yang confronted Ye Lei over the faulty Propulsion Soul Tool, and the two fought until they stopped their duel before damaging the area or endangering their team.
• A Thunder Prison Sky-Slaying Python attacked the city, and Jing Hang, Ye Lei, Song Yang, Han Nuan, Chen Sican, and Luo Yun joined forces against it.
• The injured Thunder Prison Sky-Slaying Python tried to escape through the rift, but its soul began to be forcibly torn from its body.

Ye Lei and his allies destroyed the Second Elder’s attack on Banyan City, but the elders turned their plans toward capturing Chen Sican. After Chen Sican killed the Storm Armor Bear, the four elders ambushed him and took him prisoner.

• Song Yang and Ye Lei killed the Thunder Prison Sky-Slaying Python, and Song Yang revealed the power and risks of his new Eighth Soul Ring.
• Song Yang and Weng Yunling went to Dening Town, where Zhang Ning’s team encountered Misty Bamboo Crabs and the Second Elder’s Blood Puppet killed a security guard.
• Song Yang and Weng Yunling defeated the Two-Headed Blood Puppet, while Ye Lei destroyed the Second Elder’s fleeing soul fragment and the Second Elder began completing his Puppet King.
• The Second Elder unleashed the Puppet King on Banyan City, but Jing Hang broke through to rank 81 and joined Ye Lei’s group in fighting the elders’ forces.
• Jing Hang and the others badly injured the Second Elder, who fused with the Puppet King before withdrawing as the Great Elder revealed a plan to capture a Soul Sage hunting in the north.
• Qiao Na and Luo Yun reached level 79, Ye Lei provided the team with custom Soul Blade Pistols, and Chen Sican left to hunt a Storm Armor Bear.
• Chen Sican defeated the Storm Armor Bear and absorbed its Wind-attribute Right Arm Soul Bone, then found himself trapped in black mist.
• The Third, Eighth, Second, and Great Elders surrounded Chen Sican, rejected his resistance, and the Great Elder subdued him with Fallen Blade.

Ye Lei’s group battled the undead while Luo Yun gained Xiao Guang’s power, and Jing Hang helped Qiao Na confront her family in Shu City. The story then shifted to Banyan City, where rival squads clashed over Zhang Ning and Zhang Zetao.

• The Second Elder turned Chen Sican into a puppet called Wind Dragon, and Chen Sican attacked Luo Yun before the elders took him away.
• Xiao Guang healed Luo Yun, then gave her a Soul Ring and Soul Bone that raised her cultivation to Level 81 and granted her purification abilities.
• Ye Lei’s group fought the undead assault, defeating several elders and their allies while Song Yang faced the Ninth Elder and the sea brothers.
• Jing Hang and Qiao Na traveled to Shu City, where they defended Feng Yiran’s restaurant and confronted Qiao Na’s family over their attempts to control her.
• Jing Hang and Qiao Na defeated Qiao Zhentian and Yang Mei, destroying their implanted bloodlines, and Feng Yiran left Shu City with her eldest daughter.
• Zhang Ning led the Eight Soul Suppressors’ Soul Hunting Squad in Banyan City while Zhang Zetao’s City Defense Squad patrolled the area.
• Zhang Zetao provoked Zhang Ning, escalating hostility between the two squads until Ye Lei and the others could not settle their conflict.