Recaps

Rota, posing as Borsalino and known as Kizaru, joined Spirit Hall after proving his strength and helped Qian Xunjie hunt a powerful Soul Beast. He defeated the criminals responsible for Nuoding City’s destruction, became an elder, and left to recover a missing Soul Bone as Qian Xunjie began monitoring him.

• Rota met Xiao Wu and the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, then warned them that Qian Xunjie planned to hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Rota joined Qian Xunjie’s expedition, helped defeat a Radiant Sword Fang Tiger, and carried the badly injured Yue Guan to Nuoding City for treatment.
• Rota trained Ghost, who broke through to Rank 86, before pursuing the criminals who had destroyed part of Nuoding City and killed Little Flower Face’s friends.
• Rota killed Fire Bull and Deklai after they admitted their gang’s involvement in the Soul Bone theft and the attack on Nuoding City.
• Rota attended his Elder inauguration, reported the criminals’ defeat, and received Qian Xunjie’s approval and a reward, though the missing Soul Bone remained unrecovered.
• Rota bought a secluded house in Spirit City, learned that the eighty-thousand-year Soul Bone was in a village, and flew toward the Star Dou Great Forest to retrieve it.
• Qian Xunjie ordered Ghost and Yue Guan to monitor Kizaru, then told Bibi Dong he would eliminate him if he acted against Spirit Hall.

Rota followed the hunt for a Soul Bone, secured it, and saved Reid, Wind Concealment, and Jin Ling from the Blazing Sun Lion King before recruiting them into Tongbao Pavilion. As Qian Xunjie assigned Rota to recruit Tang Hao, Rota traveled to the Star Luo Empire, funded Tongbao Pavilion, and helped it gain official registration.

• Rota followed Reid and Fick’s teams into the Life Forbidden Zone, secretly helped them avoid threats, and watched as they found the Soul Bone.
• Fick stole the Soul Bone and fled, but Rota defeated him, recovered it, and then saved Reid, Wind Concealment, and Jin Ling from the Blazing Sun Lion King.
• Rota recruited Reid, Wind Concealment, and Jin Ling into Tongbao Pavilion, gave Wind Concealment an eighty-thousand-year Soul Bone, and helped him absorb it safely.
• Rota returned to Spirit City, where Qian Xunjie learned he had searched for the Soul Bone and later assigned him to recruit Tang Hao.
• Rota negotiated a larger salary and reward, learned Tang Hao might attend a Blacksmith Competition, and left Spirit City for the Star Luo Empire.
• Rota met Reid, Wind Concealment, and Jin Ling, gave Tongbao Pavilion ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, and agreed to help them secure merchant-association registration.
• Rota confronted an agency worker who had mocked Reid and his companions, and Tongbao Pavilion was officially registered.

Rota secured Tang Hao’s cooperation with the Clear Sky Sect and traveled to the Balak Kingdom, where Tang Hao competed in a blacksmith tournament. As Rota and Ning Fengzhi considered their plans, the Furensi Clan’s brutality erupted at the auction, leaving Rota poised to act against its members.

• Rota staged a diversion at the auction house to obtain Meteorite Iron, then presented it to Tang Xiao, who revealed Tang Hao would compete in the Balak Kingdom.
• Tang Xiao forged Rota the sword Starfall, and after testing it in a duel, he saw Rota off toward the competition.
• Rota defended Ah Yin from Sige, killing him, and reunited with Tang Hao, who explained that he had entered the competition to win a rare forging hammer.
• At the tournament, Tang Hao placed first in the opening round, ahead of Xinglan and Tie Gutong, while Rota and Ning Fengzhi discussed their interest in recruiting a blacksmith.
• During the weapon auction, Furensi’s bodyguards beat a bidder, and Rota and Ning Fengzhi agreed to address the Furensi Clan without implicating the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Rota detected Tie Gutong’s murderous intent toward Xinglan and planned to intervene, while he and Ning Fengzhi arranged to act against the Furensi Clan after the competition.
• Furensi summoned his uncle Hugu, who revealed himself as Flying Cloud Douluo and tore apart a bidder, while Rota held back and watched the crowd’s reaction.

Rota defeated Flying Cloud Douluo, helped Tang Hao and Xinglan, and destroyed the Furensi Clan before turning to Spirit Hall’s succession struggle. As Uchiha Madara, he killed Qian Xunlie and lured Qian Xunjie to Boundary Canyon, where he began fighting Kizaru.

• Kizaru killed Flying Cloud Douluo at the auction, then agreed to spar with Chen Xin and visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Rota helped Xinglan withdraw after Tie Gutong sabotaged him, and Tang Hao won the Blacksmith Competition before agreeing to join Spirit Hall as an elder.
• Rota exposed and destroyed the Furensi Clan while Ning Fengzhi persuaded Xue Ye to punish corrupt nobles.
• Rota drew Uchiha Madara, then supported Bibi Dong against Qian Xunlie and accompanied her toward Boundary Canyon.
• Rota defeated Qian Xunlie’s force and killed him, then returned Bibi Dong to Spirit City and agreed to teach her Body Techniques.
• Rota and Kizaru let Qian Xunjie discover Qian Xunlie’s disappearance, and Qian Xunjie ordered Kizaru to search with him.
• Rota appeared at Boundary Canyon with Qian Xunlie’s corpse and attacked Qian Xunjie, but Kizaru cut apart his Great Fireball and began fighting him.