Recaps

Lin Hanye’s cultivation manual reshaped the balance between Spirit Hall and the major powers, while he defeated Tang Hao and helped Bibi Dong and Ling Yuan grow stronger. After gaining a million-year soul ring and core, he recruited Yue Guan and Gui Mei and returned to Heaven Dou City with Bibi Dong.

• Qian Xunji appointed Lin Hanye an Honorary Elder, and Spirit Hall published his Soul Master Cultivation Manual, winning commoner soul masters’ support.
• Ning Fengzhi and Xue Ye tried to resolve Lin Hanye’s conflict with the Clear Sky Sect, and Lin Hanye agreed to support them after revealing his identity as Ice Emperor.
• Lin Hanye defeated Tang Hao in a duel, and Tang Hao left Heaven Dou City devastated by the loss.
• Lin Hanye helped Shao Xin win Han Li’s approval to marry Han Yue, then revealed his identity to Han Xue and accepted Haixing as his disciple.
• Bibi Dong escaped the Road to Hell without accepting the Rakshasa God’s inheritance, and Ling Yuan strengthened her Phoenix martial soul with the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s inner core.
• Lin Hanye trapped the Million Year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, accepted its sacrifice, and gained a powerful seventh Soul Ring and Wisdom Skull before Bibi Dong devoured its remnant soul.
• Lin Hanye condensed his Extreme Ice Soul Core, then joined Ling Yuan and Bibi Dong in defeating a Hundred Thousand Year Death Spider Emperor whose Soul Ring and Soul Bones Bibi Dong absorbed.
• Lin Hanye recruited Yue Guan and Gui Mei to help with soul-beast hunts for three years, then returned to Heaven Dou City with Bibi Dong and Ling Yuan and sent word to Dugu Xin.

Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong build their strength through years of deep-sea hunts, then rescue Spirit Hall’s expedition from Sea God Island and confront its Great Priestess, Bo Saixi. As Lin Hanye leaves Bo Saixi with a promise to return, Qian Xunji learns that Bibi Dong is alive and Lin Hanye has become a Titled Douluo, while Yu Xiaogang leaves prison bent on revenge.

• Lin Hanye recruited Dugu Bo’s family and their allies into the Soul Master Guild, then led them on a deep-sea hunt that helped Dugu Bo reach level 92 and strengthened the rest of the group.
• Lin Hanye reached level 95 with two soul cores, while Ah Yin absorbed the Evil Orca King’s soul ring and soul bone.
• Qian Xunji married Huang Yue'e, and Spirit Hall sent an expedition of more than two thousand soul masters to attack Sea God Island.
• Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong rescued the expedition from Bo Saixi, and Lin Hanye fought Bo Saixi for three days before they made peace.
• Lin Hanye told Bo Saixi he would forge his own path to godhood, while she rejected Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen and said she would marry only a man who became a god through his own power.
• Lin Hanye arranged a level-suppressed duel with Tang Chen and demanded the Clear Sky Sect’s Ring Explosion manual as the stake, while Qian Xunji ordered Yu Xiaogang released from prison.
• The warden had Yu Xiaogang castrated before dumping him outside Spirit City, and Yu Xiaogang vowed revenge on Spirit Hall.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Xunji that Bibi Dong was alive and Lin Hanye was a Titled Douluo, leaving Qian Xunji to suspect Lin Hanye had reached that rank before leaving Spirit City.

Lin Hanye gained a soul ring, destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect, and defeated Tang Chen while building the Soul Master Guild. After Xue Ye was assassinated, Lin Hanye maneuvered Xue Xing toward the throne and pressured the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, leaving the Guild poised to expand as the Clear Sky Sect turned against it.

• Tang Chen left the Clear Sky Sect to pursue godhood, while Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong went to the Star Dou Great Forest and Lin Hanye gained the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as a one-hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
• Lin Hanye established the Soul Master Guild with Dugu Bo’s help, gained Emperor Xue Ye’s support, and announced his coming fight with Tang Chen and his feud with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect.
• Lin Hanye destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect, spared Yu Luomian’s family and the Outer Clan Disciples, and took the sect’s assets for the Guild.
• Tang Chen and Lin Hanye fought on Clear Sky Peak, where Lin Hanye defeated Tang Chen, recognized the Ring Explosion manual as false, and watched Tang Chen’s later battle with Qian Daoliu end in a devastating stalemate.
• Xue Ye was assassinated by a mental attack, and Lin Hanye detained Gu Rong, secretly allied with Xue Xing, and arranged to support his coronation in exchange for imperial backing of the Guild.
• Ning Daorong accepted blame for Xue Ye’s assassination and agreed to Lin Hanye’s demands to spare the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Tang Chen returned injured to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Lin Hanye appointed Hu Yan Zhuo a Guild elder, welcomed Hu Yan Zhen as his disciple, and hired Yang Wushuang and Tai Kun to develop medicine and weapons at the Guild headquarters.
• The Clear Sky Sect ordered its affiliated clans to stop taking future Guild work, but Yang Wushuang and Tai Kun honored their contracts, and Lin Hanye planned to bring the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into the Guild.

Lin Hanye established the Soul Master Guild, gathered powerful Soul Beasts and allies, and led the Guild to victory in Spirit Hall’s Sect Competition. Five and a half years later, he guided Lin Huaizhu’s awakening and prepared to take her and Qian Renxue to the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Xue Xing became emperor and sentenced Gu Rong to death, while Lin Hanye helped Gu Rong escape before sacrificing him and Ning Daorong to Soul Beasts.
• Lin Hanye founded the Soul Master Guild, recruited its leaders, and prepared for Spirit Hall’s Sect Competition as Tang Chen disappeared and Yu Xiaogang learned that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect had fallen.
• Lin Hanye gathered powerful Soul Beasts and Soul Rings, helped Bibi Dong condense her second Soul Core, and brought the Ice Empress, Snow Empress, Silver Moon, and Tiantian into his service.
• Lin Hanye arrived at the Sect Competition as a Peerless Douluo, and the Soul Master Guild defeated the Clear Sky Sect and won the title of Number One Sect in the World.
• Ah Yin rejected Tang Hao, Dugu Bo defeated Tang Wei, and Qian Xunji declared the Guild the competition’s winner as the Clear Sky Sect accepted its defeat.
• Lin Hanye agreed to teach Qian Renxue, while Tang Hao and Tang Xiao met A Lang and Yu Xiaogang endured months of bullying before leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Five and a half years later, Lin Hanye guided Lin Huaizhu’s awakening, concealed her level 20 Innate Soul Power, and discovered that Qian Renxue had the same innate level before taking them toward the Star Dou Great Forest.