Recaps

Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun, along with Dai Mubai and Davis, traded barbs before their match as Bibi Dong arrived unexpectedly. Bibi Dong discovered that Xiao Wu was a transformed, juvenile 100,000-year Soul Beast while the contest was about to begin.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun argued heatedly, while Davis taunted Dai Mubai and threatened to cripple him.
• Bibi Dong entered the Great Spirit Arena with twelve Red Clothes Bishops and was greeted by Spirit Hall members.
• Bibi Dong’s arrival briefly interrupted the match between Shrek Academy and Star Luo Royal Academy, which resumed at her order.
• Tang San led Shrek Academy into formation as Xiao Wu concealed her fury and hatred from the others.
• Bibi Dong watched the Shrek team and realized Xiao Wu was a transformed juvenile 100,000-year Soul Beast.

Bibi Dong recognized Xiao Wu as a juvenile 100,000-year Soul Beast and decided to capture her after the competition. In the arena, Zhu Zhuqing overwhelmed Zhu Zhuyun while Davis began brutally beating Dai Mubai.

• Bibi Dong sensed Xiao Wu’s Soul Beast bloodline through the connection to her mother and resolved to keep her from escaping Spirit City.
• Zhu Zhuqing charged at Zhu Zhuyun as Ning Rongrong boosted her with the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Zhu Zhuqing wounded Zhu Zhuyun with a Netherworld Slash and continued attacking her instead of ending the match quickly.
• Davis attacked Dai Mubai and beat him severely with his superior strength and Soul Power.

Shrek Academy turned the team battle against Star Luo Royal Academy after Ning Rongrong joined the fight and overwhelmed their opponents. Zhu Zhuqing summoned her Evil Eye Spirit Cat Martial Soul Fusion Skill and struck down Zhu Zhuyun, leaving Davis facing the new threat.

• Dai Mubai struggled against Davis, while Tang San repeatedly intervened to keep him from being defeated.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Ning Rongrong to help the others, and Ning Rongrong knocked a Star Luo Royal Academy Power Attack Soul Master off the arena with her punches.
• Ning Rongrong’s attack shifted the battle in Shrek Academy’s favor, making Davis worry that his teammates would be defeated.
• Zhu Zhuqing summoned the Evil Eye White Tiger and fused it with her Netherworld Cat to unleash the Evil Eye Spirit Cat Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Zhu Zhuqing’s Evil Eye Spirit Cat slashed Zhu Zhuyun across the neck and sent her flying with another strike.

Shrek Academy defeated the Star Luo Royal Academy Team, but Bibi Dong exposed Xiao Wu as a 100,000-year Soul Beast and ordered Spirit Hall to seize her. Tang Hao arrived just as Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo attacked, then urged Tang San to flee.

• Zhu Zhuqing defeated Zhu Zhuyun and Davis with her Martial Soul Fusion Skill while Shrek Academy's other members knocked the remaining Star Luo Royal Academy Team members off the arena.
• After Shrek Academy won, Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to capture Xiao Wu and revealed that she was a transformed 100,000-year Soul Beast.
• Tang San, the Shrek Academy students, and the Golden Iron Triangle stood between Xiao Wu and Spirit Hall, angering Bibi Dong and prompting her to order the two Douluo to attack.
• Tang Hao appeared in the Great Spirit Arena and sent Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo flying with a single blow.
• Tang Hao called to Tang San to flee because his battered condition left him unable to confront Spirit Hall for long.

Tang Hao fought Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall’s forces at the Great Spirit Arena, then was badly wounded by Li Ang’s Darkness Ray while escaping with Tang San and Xiao Wu. After fleeing to a forest, Tang Hao sensed someone waiting nearby, and a mysterious, unremarkable man appeared before him.

• Tang Hao used Haotian True Body to strike Bibi Dong, Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Spirit Hall’s bishops, then threatened Bibi Dong before escaping with Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Li Ang attacked Tang Hao with his eighth soul skill, Darkness Ray, piercing the Haotian Hammer and wounding Tang Hao before the three escaped by teleportation.
• Li Ang contacted an associate and told them to proceed with their plan ahead of schedule, then taunted Bibi Dong about Tang Hao’s attack and the stolen 100,000-year Soul Beast.
• Tang Hao appeared in a forest outside Spirit City, coughing black blood as Darkness Ray’s corrosive power continued to injure him.
• Tang Hao sensed a hidden presence and called for it to reveal itself, and a strange, ordinary-looking man appeared before him.

The Black Beast Mercenary Group assembled seven captains to hunt Tang Hao, who was weakened but still a formidable opponent. Red Demon fought him head-on while the others joined the attack, leaving the battle underway with Tang Hao increasingly surrounded.

• Tang Hao knocked Black Robe away, but Huang Yuan caught him and revealed himself as a captain of the Black Beast Mercenary Group.
• Lan Shui, Zi Yan, a green-clad support Soul Master, and Red Demon emerged with the other captains to confront Tang Hao.
• Red Demon revealed his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and attacked Tang Hao, trading blows with him in his beastlike transformed state.
• Tang Hao began to suppress Red Demon, prompting the green-clad woman to support her allies and Huang Yuan and Black Robe to attack from range and the shadows.
• Lan Shui and Zi Yan joined their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Frigid Nether Blazing Fire, and sent a blue-purple fire dragon toward Tang Hao.

The Black Beast Mercenary Group trapped Tang Hao with coordinated attacks and fields that disrupted his Soul Power and blocked spatial teleportation. Tang Hao used Ring Burst to attack the field-generating captain, who revealed an identical Haotian Hammer and used the same technique, leaving Tang Hao stunned and questioning who he was.

• Luo Luo supported the captains while a strange man activated fields that suppressed Tang Hao's Soul Power and disrupted the space around him.
• Unable to escape and facing the captains' attacks, Tang Hao burst his first Soul Ring and unleashed Sumeru Surpasses the Heavens.
• Tang Hao aimed his attack at the strange man, whom he considered the greatest threat, while the other captains evaded the blow.
• The strange man revealed a Haotian Hammer and nine Soul Rings, though his aura remained at the peak of Soul Sage.
• The strange man burst his seventh Soul Ring and used Sumeru Surpasses the Heavens, leaving Tang Hao stunned and demanding to know who he was.

Tang Hao defeated a mysterious Haotian Hammer Soul Master, only to realize the opponent had been his dead father’s body under someone else’s control. A puppet of the Clear Sky Sect’s Sixth Elder revealed the scheme and ordered the Black Beast Mercenary Group to capture Tang Hao, whose strength had been crippled.

• Tang Hao crushed the mysterious Haotian Hammer Soul Master, but found that his first soul ring had vanished and the force fields remained.
• The Sixth Elder appeared in a controlled corpse and taunted Tang Hao, who recognized that the previous opponent had been his father’s body.
• Tang Hao learned that the Sixth Elder and his father were dead and that someone had been using their corpses as puppets for scientific research.
• The Sixth Elder told the Black Beast Mercenary Group to capture Tang Hao alive if possible, and Red Demon led the captains to surround him.
• The chapter described You Hun, the thousand-year-old Soul Saint who led the research-focused Twelfth Great Brigade and wielded a brain body martial soul.

You Hun explained how he became an immortal-seeking evil soul master and crippled Tang Hao’s Ring Burst technique with a potion. Tang Hao escaped the Black Beast Mercenary Group by sacrificing his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and the group withdrew with a captured rabbit.

• You Hun’s consciousness fused with his brain martial soul after he abandoned his body, and he later joined Li Ang’s Black Beast Mercenary Group to protect his research and assist with missions.
• You Hun explained that his potion made soul rings fragile during Ring Burst, and Tang Hao lost one soul ring, dropping from rank ninety-five to rank eighty-nine.
• Tang Hao burst his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring to escape the six captains, destroying You Hun’s second puppet as he fled.
• You Hun observed that Tang Hao’s Ring Burst power seemed unusually strong, while Luo Luo revealed that their teacher had not expected the mission to succeed.
• Zi Yan noted that the group had captured a rabbit, and You Hun ordered it sent to his laboratory before the Black Beast Mercenary Group left ahead of Spirit Hall’s arrival.

Li Ang gained points after the plot diverged, while the Shrek Team withdrew from the competition after losing most of its members. Dai Mubai demanded that Zhu Zhuqing return with him to the Star Luo Empire, and the chapter ended with him threatening her as she refused.

• Li Ang received 9,000 points when the plot alteration progress reached 38 percent after the battle involving Tang Hao and the Black Beast Mercenary Group.
• Ning Rongrong withdrew from the Shrek Team, and Flender and Yu Xiaogang decided to pull the team from the remaining Finals.
• Dai Mubai celebrated the Shrek Team's victory over the Star Luo Royal Team and planned to return to claim the Star Luo throne.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Dai Mubai she would travel and train instead of returning with him to the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Mubai threatened to report Zhu Zhuqing as a defector and endanger her family, but Zhu Zhuqing warned that this would also jeopardize his claim to the throne.
• Dai Mubai answered with a twisted smile and threatened Zhu Zhuqing.

Zhu Zhuqing killed Dai Mubai after he threatened her and her family, then chose to flee to Slaughter City for training. Li Ang advised her to strengthen herself first, while Spirit Hall began investigating Dai Mubai’s death after his body was found.

• Dai Mubai threatened Zhu Zhuqing when she refused to return to the Star Luo Empire, and Zhu Zhuqing killed him with her First Soul Skill, Hell Stab.
• Li Ang told Zhu Zhuqing to flee and recommended Slaughter City as a refuge where she could pursue the God of Slaughter Domain.
• Zhu Zhuqing decided to go to Slaughter City but agreed to raise her strength and obtain her Fifth Soul Ring first.
• Zhu Zhuqing left Spirit City that day, and Great Spirit Arena staff later discovered Dai Mubai’s corpse.
• Spirit Hall dispatched a Red Clothes Bishop and investigators to examine Dai Mubai’s death and prepare an explanation for the Star Luo Empire.

After Dai Mubai’s death, the Star Luo Empire settled its succession dispute by naming Dai E'ren Crown Prince and hunting the vanished Zhu Zhuqing. Meanwhile, the tournament continued, with Heavenly Water Academy advancing without fighting and New Kamikaze Academy defeating Heaven Dou Royal Academy to move on.

• Spirit Hall identified Zhu Zhuqing as Dai Mubai’s killer and handed its findings and his corpse to the Star Luo Empire, while Zhu Zhuqing fled.
• After more than a month of disputes, the Star Luo Empire made Dai E'ren Crown Prince, placed Davis and Zhu Zhuyun under house arrest, and issued a bounty for Zhu Zhuqing.
• Shrek Academy withdrew from the tournament after Xiao Wu was exposed as a transformed 100,000-year Soul Beast and Tang Hao rescued her from Spirit Hall.
• The Heavenly Water Academy Team advanced after its opponents withdrew, first when Blazing Academy left the competition and then when the Beast Academy Team conceded after Meng Yiran fled with her grandparents.
• The New Kamikaze Academy Team overwhelmed the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team, with Huo Wu’s attacks defeating its members despite Ye Lingling’s healing, and advanced to the next round.

After the New Kamikaze Academy Team defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Li Ang recruited Ye Lingling into the Black Beast Mercenary Group and accepted her as a disciple. As the third round began, Heavenly Water Academy drew Beast Academy, a powerful team formed from two Star Luo Empire academies.

• Huo Wu and the New Kamikaze Academy Team repeatedly injured and healed Heaven Dou Royal Academy until Ye Lingling ran out of Soul Power, then won the match.
• The second round ended with eight teams remaining, while the weak performances of the Heaven Dou and Star Luo royal teams increased Spirit Hall's confidence.
• Li Ang invited Ye Lingling to join the Black Beast Mercenary Group and promised to help accelerate her cultivation.
• Ye Lingling joined the group, acknowledged Li Ang as her master, and gained a rank of Soul Power after his unconventional overnight instruction.
• Bai Chi told Li Ang that Heavenly Water Academy's third-round opponent was Beast Academy, a newly merged team whose seven members all had Soul Power above Rank 40.

Heavenly Water Academy faced Beast Academy in the third round of the finals and seized an early advantage through Shui Bing’er’s ice skills and their stronger attackers. As the battle continued, Ma Mengmeng’s dark flames resisted the ice, while Shui Bing’er fought Beast Academy’s airborne attackers and Beast Academy’s frontline began to collapse.

• Beast Academy introduced its lineup, led by Vice Captain Ma Mengmeng and Captain Zhao Li, while Heavenly Water Academy fielded all seven main members.
• The referee started the match, and Ma Mengmeng transformed into a three-headed Hellfire Cerberus as Li Ang considered recruiting her.
• Shui Bing’er froze Beast Academy’s three Power Attack Soul Masters, but Ma Mengmeng’s dark flames quickly broke the ice.
• Heavenly Water Academy’s attackers gained the upper hand, while Zhao Li led Beast Academy’s Agility Attack Soul Masters in an attempt to reach Shui Bing’er.
• Shui Bing’er took to the air to fight the three attackers, and Xue Wu commanded Heavenly Water Academy’s assault from the arena floor.
• Heavenly Water Academy knocked one of Beast Academy’s Power Attack Soul Masters off the stage and badly wounded another.

The Heavenly Water Academy Team struggled against Beast Academy after its support member used bizarre Soul Skills to drive both teams into a frenzy. After Li Ang intervened, Beast Academy admitted defeat, and the chapter ended with the other quarterfinal matches also concluding.

• The Beast Academy support member used Group Berserk and Taunt, causing both teams to lose control and attack wildly.
• The Heavenly Water Academy Team overwhelmed Beast Academy, knocking three of its members from the arena and leaving them badly injured.
• Luo Shi confronted Bai Chi, but Li Ang invoked his Titled Douluo authority and demanded that Beast Academy either continue fighting or concede.
• Luo Shi admitted defeat, and the referee declared the Heavenly Water Academy Team the winner.
• Huo Wu single-handedly defeated Plant Academy, while the Spirit Hall Team and Black Beast Academy Team also won their matches.

The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament Finals began under Spirit Hall’s grand display of authority, while Li Ang joined Pope Bibi Dong, Ning Fengzhi, and Sword Douluo Chen Xin. The teams gathered before Papal Hall as Bibi Dong made her entrance, but the competition had not yet started.

• The Tournament Organizing Committee changed the Finals format to a four-team group stage, followed by team battles to determine the ultimate champion.
• Spirit Hall surrounded the Clear Sky Sect after Tang Hao’s attack, using the blockade to punish the sect and warn other forces.
• Li Ang chatted with Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin inside Papal Hall before Pope Bibi Dong arrived with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.
• Bibi Dong and her entourage emerged before the assembled spectators, who cheered and saluted her as the four teams waited outside Papal Hall.
• The members of Heavenly Water Academy saluted Bibi Dong with a hand-over-heart gesture instead of kneeling.

Pope Bibi Dong began the tournament finals by unveiling three valuable Soul Bones as the champions’ prize, then the semifinal group stage started. Huo Wu gave Heavenly Water Academy trouble, while Black Beast Academy unexpectedly took an early lead against Spirit Hall; Li Ang offered to train Spirit Hall’s young Soul Masters.

• Pope Bibi Dong presented three ten-thousand-year Soul Bones and announced that the winning team would receive all three.
• Bibi Dong began the group stage, and the draw paired Heavenly Water Academy against New Divine Wind and Spirit Hall against Black Beast Academy.
• Spirit Hall had tampered with the draw to face the team it considered weakest and force Heavenly Water Academy and New Divine Wind to exhaust each other.
• Huo Wu defeated Shui Yue'er and Shen Liuyu, prompting Shui Bing'er to enter the battle against her.
• A Black Beast Academy member defeated two Spirit Hall members through greater combat experience and ruthless tactics.
• Li Ang told Bibi Dong that Spirit Hall’s young Soul Masters looked impressive but were useless, and offered to straighten them out.

The Spirit Hall Team advanced after the Black Beast Academy Team conceded, while Heavenly Water Academy defeated the New Kamikaze Academy Team in a hard-fought match. In the next group-stage round, Black Beast Academy beat the exhausted New Kamikaze Team, and the Spirit Hall Team faced Heavenly Water Academy, with Yan and Xue Wu opening the duel.

• After Yan entered the arena, the Black Beast Academy Team conceded the entire match, leaving the frustrated Spirit Hall Team with a win.
• Shui Bing'er defeated Huo Wu and several New Kamikaze Academy Team members, then stepped down after Heavenly Water secured victory; Yu Hairou defeated Feng Xiaotian and the remaining opponents fell.
• The Heavenly Water Academy Team and Spirit Hall Team each earned one point, then drew each other for the second group-stage round while the New Kamikaze Academy Team faced Black Beast Academy.
• The weakened New Kamikaze Academy Team lost to the Black Beast Academy Team after its battle with Heavenly Water Academy.
• Yan opened the Spirit Hall Team's match against Heavenly Water Academy, and Xue Wu took the arena to give Shui Bing'er time to recover.

Yan battled Xue Wu in the opening match between the Spirit Hall Team and Heavenly Water Academy, but her snow attacks and escape skill forced him to concede. Xie Yue then entered the arena as Spirit Hall’s next representative.

• Yan charged through Xue Wu’s blizzard, enduring its cuts to close the distance while she appeared to retreat.
• Yan trapped Xue Wu with his fourth Soul Skill and struck her, but she shattered into ice and reappeared unharmed elsewhere on the arena.
• Xue Wu repeatedly used her fourth Soul Skill to evade Yan and resumed attacking with her snow tornado, while Yan struggled to reach her.
• Yan admitted defeat, though Xue Wu had consumed a great deal of Soul Power and knew the outcome might have been different if he had continued.
• Xie Yue took the arena after Yan stepped down, becoming Spirit Hall’s second representative.

Xie Yue defeated Yu Hairou after she surprised him with her Water Dragon Cannon but could not overcome his strength and speed. When he attacked her after she surrendered, Shui Bing'er intervened, leaving the match in a tense standoff.

• Xue Wu surrendered to Xie Yue after his speed and attacks overwhelmed her, then Yu Hairou took the stage to buy time for Shui Bing'er.
• Yu Hairou used her Water Dragon Cannon to catch Xie Yue off guard and drive him back, but he recovered and struck her with his Fifth Soul Skill, seriously injuring her.
• Yu Hairou surrendered, but Xie Yue ignored her signal and charged in to attack her again.
• Shui Bing'er intervened with a blue Soul Skill that pierced Xie Yue's left arm, then confronted him for attacking Yu Hairou after she surrendered.
• The referee warned both teams to follow the rules or face disqualification.

Shui Bing'er defeated Xie Yue after he attacked her following the referee’s biased ruling, and the Spirit Hall Team surrendered to Heavenly Water Academy. After the group stage ended, the organizers postponed the championship match for three days, leaving the Spirit Hall and Black Beast teams to face off first.

• The referee warned Shui Bing'er and Xie Yue, resumed the match, and Shui Bing'er entered the arena after Yu Hairou conceded.
• Shui Bing'er pierced Xie Yue with Rapid Freeze Rays and then blasted him off the arena with her Repelling Ice Ring, leaving him severely injured.
• The Spirit Hall Team surrendered, and Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to find powerful healers to help Xie Yue recover.
• Heavenly Water Academy defeated the Spirit Hall Team, while the New Divine Wind Team lost all three group matches and the Black Beast Academy Team conceded to Heavenly Water Academy.
• The group stage ended with the Spirit Hall Team scheduled to face the Black Beast Academy Team, and the organizers postponed the championship match for three days.

The Spirit Hall Team defeated the Black Beast Academy Team and used a three-day delay to strengthen its members before facing Heavenly Water Academy in the championship match. As the final battle began, Bibi Dong wagered with Li Ang over the match’s outcome, and Shui Bing'er opened the fight by freezing all seven Spirit Hall contestants.

• The Spirit Hall Team defeated the Black Beast Academy Team, securing the second place in the championship match.
• During the three-day delay, Spirit Hall raised its seven contestants’ Soul Power, while Li Ang healed Yu Hairou and Heavenly Water Academy trained under his guidance.
• The two teams assembled before Papal Hall, where Bibi Dong announced the championship match; she and Li Ang wagered that the winner would receive the secret of Li Ang’s restored youth or choose a Spirit Hall contestant as a disciple.
• Hu Liena activated her Soul Spirit Avatar and used Charm, but the Heavenly Water Academy contestants blocked their sight and hearing to resist it.
• Shui Bing'er used Ice Seal to trap all seven Spirit Hall contestants in solid ice.

Heavenly Water Academy seized the initiative with Shui Bing’er’s Ice Seal, but Xie Yue and Hu Liena countered with their Demon Charm Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu then unleashed Ice Snow Drifting Ice Phoenix, shattering the red mist and overpowering Demon Charm.

• Shui Bing’er froze the Spirit Hall Team with Ice Seal, while Heavenly Water Academy’s attackers charged and ambushed their opponents.
• Shui Bing’er struck Hu Liena with Rapid Freeze Rays, and Hu Bing’er used her External Soul Bone tail to block them at the cost of severely damaging it.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena activated Demon Charm, engulfing most of Heavenly Water Academy’s team in a red mist that weakened their senses, Soul Power, and movement.
• Shui Bing’er and Xue Wu unleashed Ice Snow Drifting Ice Phoenix, breaking Demon Charm’s domain and filling the arena with freezing wind and snow.
• Bibi Dong recognized Heavenly Water Academy’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill as even more imposing than Demon Charm.

Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu defeated Xie Yue and Hu Liena with their Ice Phoenix Martial Soul Fusion Skill, securing the tournament championship for Heavenly Water Academy. After the award ceremony, Bibi Dong tried to recruit Shui Bing'er, but Li Ang reminded her that Shui Bing'er was already his disciple and an Elder Hall member.

• Xie Yue refused to surrender, so Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu unleashed Ice Snow Drifting Ice Phoenix, while the other competitors and the referee fled the arena.
• Xie Yue used his self-created Soul Skill Full Moon to resist the Ice Phoenix, but the extreme cold froze him and Hu Liena unconscious and ended their Demon Charm fusion.
• Shui Bing'er lifted the ice seal after confirming Xie Yue and Hu Liena were alive, and Bibi Dong declared Heavenly Water Academy the tournament champion.
• Shui Bing'er accepted the three soul bones as the team's representative, and Bibi Dong praised her before asking her to join Spirit Hall.
• Li Ang stopped Bibi Dong's recruitment attempt by pointing out that Shui Bing'er was already his disciple, and Bibi Dong offered her future well wishes instead.

Zhu Zhuqing reached Order City, where Li Ang had imposed strict laws and steep fees around the entrance to Slaughter City, and paid to stay for three days while seeking a way inside. As she asked about entering Slaughter City, an unkempt older man and a captivating woman in blue arrived outside the city, drawing the attention of the surrounding villains.

• Li Ang explained that he had transformed the lawless settlement around Slaughter City's entrance into Order City and stationed a large garrison and the Black Beast Mercenary Group Eleventh Brigade there.
• Zhu Zhuqing saw criminals obeying the city's rules and joined the orderly queue to enter.
• Order City soldiers registered Zhu Zhuqing, issued her identification badge, and charged her fees for entry and lodging.
• Zhu Zhuqing paid enough to stay for three days and began asking staff how to enter Slaughter City.
• An unkempt older man and a woman in blue arrived outside Order City, where villains fixed greedy stares on the woman.