Recaps

After evolving from a Soul Beast, Xia Yi was forced into human form and taken to Eastsea City, where he challenged Gu Yue’s choices and faced Na’er’s attack. He joined the academy’s First Class assessment and began fighting Wujin before a crowd of teachers and students.

• Xia Yi evolved after surviving the Silver Dragon Bloodline, but the Plane Master’s pillar forced him into human form and Gu Yue brought him to the Star Dou Forest Core.
• Gu Yue sent Xia Yi with Zi Ji to Eastsea City, where Wu Zhangkong offered him a place in Zero Class if he could last three minutes against Tang Wulin, whom Xia Yi quickly defeated.
• Di Tian staged Bi Ji’s injury to test Gu Yue, and Xia Yi confronted Gu Yue when she considered asking Bi Ji to risk her life to heal Tang Wulin.
• Na’er attacked Xia Yi with her Silver Dragon Spear, but he subdued and humiliated her before making her acknowledge her mistake to the Beasts.
• Ya Li healed Tang Wulin and offered Xia Yi treasures and discipleship, while Xia Yi warned her that the Federal Government might be plotting against Shrek Academy.
• Ya Li’s Faith Power evolved Xia Yi’s martial soul, and Xia Yi later regenerated Na’er’s severed finger before refusing to heal Tang Wulin.
• Gu Yue took Xia Yi to First Class, where Ye Yingluo challenged him to last three minutes against Wujin without the use of soul skills.
• Wujin revealed his two Thousand-Year Soul Rings and Snow Jade Lion Martial Soul, then broke free after Xia Yi slammed him into the ground and counterattacked.

Xia Yi absorbed Wujin’s resentment, advanced his cultivation, and became a gifted blacksmith while drawing the attention of Mu Xi and Zhen Hua. After a battle with an Evil Spirit Master left Leng Yulai bound inside him, Xia Yi entered a tournament where a restaurant scandal brought him into conflict with Ye Xinglan.

• Xia Yi fought Wujin to a draw, and Wujin admitted defeat to Ye Yingluo before leaving.
• Ya Li recognized that Wujin was suppressing Evil Spirit Master power and stayed in Eastsea City to monitor him.
• Wujin revealed that he was an avenger made from Soul Beast spirits and asked Xia Yi to absorb their resentment, which Xia Yi agreed to do in exchange for an Ice Phoenix Flower.
• Xia Yi absorbed resentment through the night, approached Soul Power level eleven, and joined Wujin at Eastsea Academy, where Wujin refused a place in Zero Class.
• Gu Yue explained Second Professions to Xia Yi, who joined the Blacksmith Association and unexpectedly passed the Level-Two assessment.
• Xia Yi rescued Mu Xi, healed her injuries, and began studying forging under her until he achieved Thousand Refinement.
• Xia Yi traveled with Mu Xi to meet Zhen Hua, then was attacked by an armored woman whose black-flame power was absorbed into him as Leng Yulai.
• Xia Yi joined the academy team for the tournaments, tested at 183 Spiritual Power, and stirred public outrage by publicizing Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi washing dishes before Ye Xinglan confronted him at the blacksmith competition.

Xia Yi won attention through his battles and forging, then entered the Spirit Ascension Platform, where he gained a thousand-year Soul Ring and a Soul Bone. After Li Na tried to control him, Gu Yue set him on a path into the Holy Spirit Cult, while her larger plans remained concealed as they traveled toward Shrek City.

• Xia Yi defeated Ye Xinglan, and Gu Yue beat her in a second match, ending Shrek Academy’s challenge and prompting Duan Xuan to offer Xia Yi support if he joined the Skysea Blacksmith Association.
• Gu Yue asked Xia Yi to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Cult and investigate a powerful hidden presence, while Di Tian embedded the Dark Phoenix tattoo in Xia Yi’s flesh as a second Martial Soul.
• Xia Yi and Wujin entered the Spirit Ascension Platform, fought Soul Beasts, and killed the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, allowing Xia Yi to absorb its Right Palm Bone.
• Xia Yi reentered the platform with Mu Xi, hunted Soul Beasts with her, and raised his first Soul Ring to a thousand years before Li Na used a dark bell and a Wraith to attack him.
• Li Na forced resentment into Xia Yi’s Spiritual World, but the Silver Dragon Scale resisted her control, and Gu Yue explained that Di Tian had exposed Li Na’s plan and driven her from Eastsea City.
• Li Na escaped a Federal Government manhunt after killing the chief and two War Gods, while the Holy Spirit Cult prepared for possible conflict and Shrek Academy began investigating the cult.
• Gu Yue praised the attack for weakening the War God Temple, kept her larger plan from Xia Yi, and told Di Tian to prepare for her recovery to god level.
• Xia Yi traveled toward Shrek City with Gu Yue and the Demon Empress, who proposed destroying the Sea God’s faith and was told to coordinate with Xia Yi.

Xia Yi helped the Holy Spirit Cult spread its influence while Shrek Academy and its allies struggled to locate the Cult. After swallowing the Ice God's Heart and evolving his martial soul, Xia Yi traveled to Heaven Dou City, where he learned Shrek had blocked him from applying to the academy.

• Xia Yi proposed using sensational Sea God stories and stolen imperial tomb treasures to promote the Holy Spirit Cult, while Shrek Academy and its allies searched for the Cult and tried to coordinate a response.
• Leng Yaozhu questioned Xia Yi about the Evil Spirit Masters, recognized that his story about Leng Yulai was fabricated, and invited him and Gu Yue to Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion meeting.
• Xia Yi urged Shrek's leaders to prove that the Sea God was not a lone hero, then went with Gu Yue to find the Ice God's Heart at Shrek Auction House.
• Leng Yaozhu borrowed money to win the Ice God's Heart for Xia Yi, and Xia Yi swallowed it as its cold power overwhelmed the auction room.
• The Ice God's Heart tried to possess Xia Yi, but a cyan light absorbed part of its power and his martial soul evolved as he gained a third tail.
• Leng Yaozhu demanded repayment of the auction cost and gave Xia Yi twenty years to repay it or join the Leng Family through marriage, while Qiangu Dongfeng secretly cooperated with the Ghost Emperor.
• Xia Yi went to Heaven Dou City and promised Zi Ji he would help Soul Beasts find a way forward, then met Mu Xi, who gave him an Ice God's Heart she had bought.
• Mu Xi told Xia Yi that Shrek Academy had instructed the Blacksmith Associations in Eastsea City and Heaven Dou City not to give him an entrance-exam quota, and Xia Yi joked that he could stay at Eastsea Academy with her.