Recaps

Yu Bai absorbed Xiao Yan’s memories and powers, then realized Cassell Academy was searching for the Exposer. After sensing Queen Medusa’s newly awakened Dou Di pressure, he devised a way to conceal himself by posing as another student seeking information.

• Yu Bai hid in the woods as the Heavenly Dao Rankings ended and Cassell Academy students began searching for its Exposer.
• Yu Bai absorbed Xiao Yan’s cultivation techniques, alchemy knowledge, and combat experience, then worried that discovery would attract powerful factions.
• A crushing pressure struck Yu Bai, and he recognized it as Queen Medusa’s Dou Di might, concluding that her reincarnation had become the world’s strongest being.
• Yu Bai used the commotion to approach a group of students and pretended to share their excitement about finding the Exposer.
• Yu Bai told the students that girls had heard teachers believed the earlier pressure came from an Exposer who had become a Dou Di.

Yu Bai spread rumors that the academy’s Exposer had a Dou Emperor protecting them, deterring powerful outsiders and helping conceal his identity. With the academy’s dean banning the search and Yu Bai still only a Soul Grandmaster, Yu Bai decided he had to act before his deception was exposed.

• Yu Bai persuaded students that whichever Exposer attended Cassell Soul Master Academy would be protected by a Dou Emperor and gain support for their allies.
• Yu Bai staged his participation in the search, planted rumors among other students, and spread the claim that a Dou Emperor backed the academy’s Exposer.
• Shady figures abandoned plans to target the Exposer, while noble students and students from powerful clans rushed to report the news to their families and sects.
• The dean of Cassell Soul Master Academy forbade students from searching for the Exposer and threatened violators with expulsion, halting the search.
• Yu Bai reviewed how the rumors and the dean’s order had protected his identity, then resolved to take the initiative before his cover was discovered.

Yu Bai put aside his questions about the Burning Art as news spread that a final Exposer was studying at Cassell Advanced Soul Master Academy, drawing the attention of powers across Douluo Continent. Ning Fengzhi explained that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had sent people to Keling City to maintain stability and compete to recruit the Exposer, while Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo warned of the danger.

• Yu Bai postponed discussing the matter with the old man and others and focused on comparing cultivation methods from Douluo Continent and Dou Qi Continent.
• News spread that a final Exposer attended Cassell Advanced Soul Master Academy, prompting people and major powers to rush toward Keling City.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong warned Ning Fengzhi that the powers in Keling City could provoke the Dou Emperor expert if they acted recklessly.
• Ning Fengzhi said he had sent sect disciples, Soul Saints, Soul Douluos, and intelligence personnel to Keling City to preserve stability and seek the Exposer.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that other major powers had also deployed people and would compete to win over the Exposer, while the assembled men defended Ning Rongrong's personality.

Yu Bai analyzed Douluo Continent’s cultivation system and concluded that its weak foundations, blocked acupoints, and Soul Ring restrictions might have been arranged by the gods of the God Realm. Determined to strengthen his own insubstantial soul power, he began refining it with the Emperor Grade Burning Art.

• Yu Bai used Xiao Yan’s cultivation experience to work out how martial soul awakening, Innate Soul Power, meditation, acupoints, and Soul Rings functioned on Douluo Continent.
• Yu Bai reasoned that the strange restrictions on martial souls and Soul Rings likely came from the gods of the God Realm, and joked about setting their realm on fire.
• Yu Bai mocked Douluo Continent’s weak soul power and decided to rebuild his foundation rather than become like a so-called Hydrogen Man.
• Yu Bai sat cross-legged and circulated the Emperor Grade Burning Art, rapidly compressing his twenty-seventh-rank soul power as a visible vortex of heaven-and-earth soul power surged into him.

Yu Bai refined his Soul Power, awakened and renamed his Heavenly Flame Eyes as Blazing Eyes, then headed with Shi Zheng to the Keling Great Soul Arena as factions gathered in Keling City. He left planning to discuss the influx of outsiders with the elders after his match.

• Yu Bai repeatedly refined his Soul Power until it reached Level 30, and his strength rose sharply.
• Yu Bai discovered the Green Lotus Core Flame in his Heavenly Flame Eyes and renamed the martial soul Blazing Eyes.
• Shi Zheng called Yu Bai to their daily match, and the two set off for the Keling Great Soul Arena.
• Yu Bai noticed that many people from major factions had arrived in Keling City and decided to speak with the elders after the match.
• Yu Bai told Shi Zheng that he had found no clues about the Exposer, while several nearby listeners departed after the pair left.

Yu Bai registered for one-on-one and two-on-two matches at the Great Soul Arena and revealed to Shi Zheng that he was the Exposer, promising to help him increase his cultivation. Yu Bai then entered the arena for a badge-promotion match against Calamity of the Mad Python.

• Yu Bai updated his registration to level thirty and signed up to fight alongside Shi Zheng in a two-on-two match.
• In the waiting room, Yu Bai told Shi Zheng that he had been the Exposer at the academy and promised to help him become an Assault-type food Martial Soul wielder.
• Shi Zheng eagerly accepted Yu Bai's offer and called him his big brother.
• A staff member summoned Yu Bai to Branch 12, where his level was checked before his one-on-one match.
• The host introduced Yu Bai and Calamity of the Mad Python as level-thirty and level-twenty-nine fighters, both seeking to extend four-win streaks and earn Silver Soul Arena Badges.

Yu Bai faced Calamity of the Mad Python in a Soul Fighting Stage match while the audience mocked his mask and bet against him. After effortlessly blocking both of Calamity of the Mad Python’s attacks, Yu Bai pretended to be knocked back and landed safely at the stage’s edge.

• Spectators laughed at Yu Bai’s Comical Smiling Face Mask, while Shi Zheng bet all the Gold Soul Coins on Smiling Face.
• Yu Bai and Calamity of the Mad Python summoned their Martial Souls and began the match.
• Calamity of the Mad Python used his first Soul Skill to rush Yu Bai and punch him, but Yu Bai blocked the blow without moving.
• Calamity of the Mad Python followed with his second Soul Skill, and Yu Bai blocked the sweeping kick with his leg.
• Yu Bai judged the attack weak, then used a slight force to fly backward and landed steadily at the edge of the stage with the Everlasting Sword planted in the floor.

Yu Bai used his Sword Control Technique to overwhelm Calamity of the Mad Python and won their soul battle. The victory earned Smiling Face a Silver Soul Arena Badge and brought his record to thirty-three wins and fourteen losses.

• Calamity of the Mad Python realized Yu Bai had blocked his attacks without using a soul skill and became wary.
• Yu Bai activated his second soul skill, Sword Control Technique, and used the Everlasting Sword to pressure Calamity of the Mad Python.
• Yu Bai closed in and trapped Calamity of the Mad Python between his sword fingers at the throat and the Everlasting Sword aimed at the back of his head.
• The host declared Yu Bai the winner, announced his fifth consecutive victory, and awarded Smiling Face a Silver Soul Arena Badge.

Yu Bai and Little Fatty Shi Zheng defeated one half of their two-on-two opponents, then Yu Bai accepted the surviving fighter Yang Yu’s challenge to a serious duel. The chapter ended as Yu Bai unleashed his first Soul Skill against Yang Yu’s empowered spear attack.

• Shi Zheng used his Ele.me Jerky and Xule.me Jerky Soul Skills while Yu Bai disarmed and threw Yang Hao, knocking him unconscious.
• Yang Yu asked Yu Bai to fight him at full strength, and the spectators urged Yu Bai to accept.
• Yu Bai asked Shi Zheng’s permission to take the challenge, and Shi Zheng left the fight to him after telling him not to waste too much time.
• Yang Yu introduced himself as a Rank 29 Soul Grandmaster from Cassell Academy and attacked with his Charged Strike and Sky-Breaking Strike Soul Skills.
• Yu Bai announced he would go all out and activated his first Soul Skill, Immortal's Heavenly Flight, as Shi Zheng explained that it instantly unleashed two hundred percent of Yu Bai’s power.

After Yang Yu lost to Yu Bai in the Soul Fighting match, Yu Bai told their families that Xiao Yan had identified him as the Exposer. His parents focused on teasing him rather than the danger, while Yu Bai turned to his cautious father for advice.

• Yu Bai defeated Yang Yu with a powerful final strike, and the audience cheered as the host declared the Smiling Tiger Duo the winners.
• The host had a Healing-type Soul Master carry the unconscious Yang Yu away for treatment, and Yu Bai and Shi Zheng left the arena after collecting their points.
• At Yu Manor, Yu Bai recounted Xiao Yan’s warning and asked Yu Fan, Shi Kuan, Luo Ling, and Xie Rou what they should do.
• Luo Ling and Xie Rou pinched Yu Bai’s cheeks and talked excitedly about the Flame Emperor’s reincarnation, prompting him to break free and ask Yu Fan and Shi Kuan for advice.
• Yu Bai recalled that Yu Fan had kept him at home for six months after his martial soul awakening so Spirit Hall and other major powers would not notice his talent.

Yu Bai argued that his unknown wife might be far older than him, but his family insisted he should find her anyway. After the Pope in Spirit Hall secretly reacted to his remarks, Yu Bai’s parents and relatives seemed to confirm their suspicions and left him to solve his predicament himself.

• Yu Bai explained that his father had limited his soul power training and strength, then worried his future wife might be an elderly Soul Saint or stronger.
• Yu Fan and Shi Kuan told Yu Bai to find his wife, arguing that powerful cultivators stayed young and lived for centuries.
• Yu Bai imagined his wife as an enormous person or an old granny, angering someone in the Pope’s bedchamber in Spirit Hall.
• The person in Spirit Hall struck at the air, and a chair leg beneath Yu Bai snapped, causing him to fall and get hit by half the chair leg.
• Yu Fan, Luo Ling, Xie Rou, and Shi Kuan exchanged knowing looks as Little Fatty realized the adults had schemed against Yu Bai.
• Yu Bai went to his room, deciding he would have to solve his predicament himself.

Yu Bai’s parents confirmed that a powerful figure from his past life was watching over him, while Yu Bai and Little Fatty left to handle something important. Elsewhere, two disguised men hired a carriage and headed toward Heaven Dou City.

• Yu Fan and the other adults concluded that one of Yu Bai’s past-life wives was protecting him and that their families were probably safe.
• Luo Ling worried that Yu Bai’s past-life identity might change how he saw her, and Xie Rou wondered if he already liked someone.
• Little Fatty asked Xie Rou for drumsticks, left two Earth Rank Advanced Techniques and a note for the adults, then went out with Yu Bai.
• Yu Fan said the adults would need to change their plans after reading the note and examining the techniques.
• At night, two black-robed figures went to a carriage station, hired a carriage, and left for Heaven Dou City.

Yu Bai and Shi Zheng disguised themselves and traveled to Heaven Dou City to seek Dugu Bo’s help with their families’ crisis. They reached Dugu Manor and tried to secure an audience by revealing knowledge of a mysterious poison that could threaten two important people.

• Yu Bai and Shi Zheng used chicken legs made with Shi Zheng’s mother’s World-Altering Chicken Leg skill to disguise themselves for twenty-four hours.
• Yu Bai explained that they needed a powerful ally and led Shi Zheng through Heaven Dou City toward Dugu Manor, despite Shi Zheng’s fear of Dugu Bo.
• The two arrived at Dugu Manor, where an elderly steward questioned their request to see Dugu Bo.
• Yu Bai described symptoms of a severe poison and warned that two highly important people would die unless Dugu Bo heard his question.

Yu Bai persuaded Dugu Bo’s steward to report the poisoning symptoms to his master, then revealed to Little Fatty that he could cure Dugu Bo’s condition using the alchemy knowledge from his past life as the Flame Emperor. Dugu Bo recognized Yu Bai from the previous day’s exposure and agreed to receive the two men, leaving them invited inside Dugu Manor.

• The steward reconsidered turning Yu Bai and Little Fatty away and went to tell Dugu Bo about the rare poisoning symptoms Yu Bai described.
• Little Fatty realized Yu Bai was referring to Dugu Bo’s poisoning and worried that they might provoke the powerful Poison Douluo.
• Yu Bai assured Little Fatty that his Flame Emperor alchemy knowledge gave him the ability to cure any poison on the Douluo Continent.
• Dugu Bo rushed toward the gates, fearing the visitors might reveal his family’s Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Martial Soul secret and endanger Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo overheard Yu Bai identify himself as the Flame Emperor’s reincarnation and, recalling the Flame Emperor’s alchemy, decided to receive the visitors.
• Dugu Bo instructed the steward to open the gates, and the steward invited Yu Bai and Little Fatty into the manor.

Yu Bai and Little Fatty met Dugu Bo to discuss a deal, and Yu Bai openly called out Dugu Bo for eavesdropping. Dugu Bo revealed their disguises, discovered they were children, and addressed Yu Bai as the reincarnated Flame Emperor while asking his current name.

• The steward seated Yu Bai and Little Fatty in Dugu Bo’s hall, where Dugu Bo appeared to savor his tea.
• Yu Bai asked Dugu Bo whether he had eavesdropped on their conversation and what he thought of their deal, startling Little Fatty.
• Little Fatty prepared to risk his life to protect Yu Bai, while Dugu Bo appreciated his loyalty instead of taking offense.
• Dugu Bo sensed their disguises, swept them with Soul Power, and dispelled the World-Altering Chicken Leg skill without harming them.
• Dugu Bo saw that Yu Bai and Little Fatty were about twelve years old, recognized Yu Bai’s exceptional Soul Power, and asked what name he used now.

Yu Bai offered Dugu Bo a place in his faction in exchange for curing and improving Dugu Bo and his granddaughter Dugu Yan, and securing them First-Class God positions. Dugu Bo was deeply tempted by the offer, while Little Fatty imagined himself becoming a Titled Douluo.

• Yu Bai introduced himself and Shi Zheng to Dugu Bo and explained that they were from Cassell Academy.
• Dugu Bo asked Yu Bai to explain the proposed transaction, privately worrying about the poison harming him and Dugu Yan.
• Yu Bai invited Dugu Bo to join his faction, and Dugu Bo asked what he would gain.
• Yu Bai promised to cure their Martial Soul poison, improve their constitutions and talents, evolve their Martial Souls, and secure each of them a First-Class God position.
• Dugu Bo rose in excitement and asked whether Yu Bai's promises were true, while Little Fatty fantasized about becoming the Food God Douluo.

Dugu Bo joined Yu Bai and Shi Zheng’s new faction with his granddaughter, and they named it the Other Shore Sect. After Dugu Bo offered his medicinal garden in Sunset Forest as the sect headquarters, Yu Bai asked whether he wanted to possess a Calamity Poison Body.

• Dugu Bo agreed to follow Yu Bai’s orders and join his faction with Dugu Yan.
• Yu Bai, Shi Zheng, and Dugu Bo named their faction the Other Shore Sect.
• Yu Bai and Shi Zheng considered where to establish their headquarters while Dugu Bo thought of his medicinal garden in Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo offered his medicinal garden as the sect headquarters.
• Yu Bai told Dugu Bo to call him Little Bai and asked whether he wanted a Calamity Poison Body.

Yu Bai took Dugu Bo and Little Fatty Shi Zheng toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, planning to bring their families there for safety as powerful factions investigated him. Dugu Bo saw through Yu Bai’s fake rumor about a Dou Emperor watching over him, but Yu Bai trusted that Dugu Bo would honor his promise to join the Other Shore Sect.

• Dugu Bo studied Yu Bai’s Seven-Colored Poison Sutra while Little Fatty Shi Zheng meditated with the Yi Wood Art.
• Yu Bai planned to bring his parents and Little Fatty’s parents to hide at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest.
• In Keling City, Yu Bai noticed the increased crowds and unfamiliar people, and suspected major powers were secretly investigating him.
• Dugu Bo deduced that Yu Bai had spread the rumor about a Dou Emperor’s wife watching over him and challenged him about it.
• Yu Bai said he trusted Dugu Bo to keep his promise to join the Other Shore Sect and explained that this was why he had chosen Dugu Bo first.

Yu Bai feared his parents had been captured when he found his home untouched, but a letter from Yu Fan revealed that both families had left to travel and cultivate. Yu Bai and Little Fatty discovered they had each been given a Storage Soul Tool and considered building a sect.

• Yu Bai and Little Fatty returned home to invite their families to relocate to Sunset Forest, while Dugu Bo stayed in the carriage.
• Yu Bai found his home unusually quiet and feared something had happened to his parents.
• Yu Bai discovered Yu Fan's letter, which said the parents and Shi Zheng's parents had left together to travel and cultivate.
• Yu Fan urged Yu Bai to handle his own troubles, take responsibility for his past romantic debts, and keep looking after Shi Zheng.
• Little Fatty showed Yu Bai the Storage Soul Tool his parents had left him, containing ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, and suggested they build a sect.

Yu Bai and Shi Zheng learned that their parents had left them to make their own way, so they set off with Dugu Bo for Sunset Forest. Meanwhile, the major sects reacted to Yu Bai’s escape and information about the Exposer, with Ning Fengzhi seeking friendly ties and Clear Sky Sect considering capturing one.

• Yu Bai found ten thousand Gold Soul Coins in the ring Yu Fan had left for him.
• Yu Bai and Shi Zheng told Dugu Bo that their parents had disappeared after leaving letters, money, and supplies, and the three departed for Sunset Forest.
• Ning Fengzhi received a report about Yu Bai and ordered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s personnel to invite him but never force him, and to help him if needed.
• Yu Yuanzhen berated the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s scouts for losing track of the Exposer and ordered most of them to withdraw and cultivate.
• Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect’s Great Elder discussed the report, concluded the Exposer’s claim about the reincarnated Dou Emperors was a lie, and considered capturing one to obtain cultivation techniques and Dou Skills.

A golden-haired girl in Heaven Dou City studied Yu Bai’s dossier and ordered an investigation to find him. Meanwhile, a silver-haired girl and her giant arrived in a town near the Star Dou Great Forest, where they drew attention before the Shrek group arrived at the inn.

• A voice filled with killing intent confronted the Clear Sky Sect after its members blamed Spirit Hall for their suffering.
• The golden-haired girl assessed Yu Bai’s strength and suspected he was hiding his true innate Soul Power and abilities.
• She ordered Uncle She Mao to investigate Keling City’s guards and carriage records to trace Yu Bai’s departure.
• A silver-haired girl and a Black-clad Giant entered the town and went to its only inn, stunning the townspeople with her beauty.
• The Shrek group arrived at the inn, where Ma Hongjun asked about the beautiful woman and Dai Mubai teased Xiao Wu.
• Zhu Zhuqing dismissed Shrek Academy as a scam and questioned its fees, conditions, and treatment of Ning Rongrong.

Zhu Zhuqing comforted Ning Rongrong after the Shrek students ostracized her, and the two became close friends. Later, at a hotel near Star Dou Great Forest, Dai Mubai and the others provoked students from Blue Sunshine Academy, and a staged collision escalated into violence.

• Zhu Zhuqing judged Ning Rongrong more favorably than the other Shrek students and embraced her as she wept, beginning their friendship.
• Dai Mubai noticed Zhu Zhuqing's new distance and warmth toward others, but convinced himself she still had to cooperate with him in the family trial.
• Ma Hongjun leered at a Blue Sunshine Academy student, and Dai Mubai loudly insulted her academy to provoke the group.
• Tang San and Oscar discussed Flender's advice to cause trouble, while Ning Rongrong coughed at Tang San's remark about Blue Sunshine Academy.
• A Blue Sunshine Academy student deliberately bumped into a waiter, sending a hot dish toward Dai Mubai, but Tang San and Dai Mubai caught it.
• Dai Mubai struck the student hard enough to send him flying through two tables, and then dismissively apologized to the Blue Sunshine Academy group.

Ning Rongrong stayed beside Zhu Zhuqing during the fight at the inn, then refused to join the battle against Ye Zhiqiu and publicly condemned Shrek Academy’s students and dean. Her outburst left the inn’s onlookers shocked as she invoked the power of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Zhu Zhuqing calmly ate while Ning Rongrong admired her poise and asked how she had become so confident and carefree.
• Xiao Wu called Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong to help fight Ye Zhiqiu, but Zhu Zhuqing declined and Ning Rongrong mocked the group’s ideals.
• Ning Rongrong rebuked Oscar for judging her and accused the Shrek students and dean of ostracizing her.
• Ning Rongrong condemned Dai Mubai for abandoning his fiancée and threatened to summon Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo against him and Shrek Academy.
• The inn’s patrons reacted with shock and criticized Shrek Academy while noting Ning Rongrong’s powerful family connections.

Ning Rongrong exposed Dai Mubai’s secrets and revealed that she was the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s young sect master, leaving the Shrek group shaken. Ye Zhiqiu summoned them outside to fight, while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing stayed behind and agreed to focus on their Soul Rings in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Ma Hongjun and Oscar were shocked when Ning Rongrong revealed her status, while Dai Mubai flew into a rage over the secrets she had exposed.
• Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples restrained Dai Mubai, and Xiao Wu hid behind Tang San after hearing Ning Rongrong could summon two Titled Douluo.
• Ye Zhiqiu overheard the argument and planned to use Dai Mubai’s past to attract the Heaven Dou Imperial Family’s interest.
• Ye Zhiqiu taunted the Shrek group from outside, so Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Tang San, and Xiao Wu went out to face him.
• Ning Rongrong celebrated having provoked Dai Mubai, but Zhu Zhuqing told her to avoid further conflict and focus on gaining strength.

Ye Zhiqiu overwhelmed the Shrek students, injuring Ma Hongjun, Xiao Wu, and Dai Mubai before assuring Tang San that they would recover. Zhao Wuji intervened as Tang San prepared to retaliate, and confronted Ye Zhiqiu over the attack.

• Ye Zhiqiu used his Soul Skills to break through the Shrek students' planned assault and severely injured Ma Hongjun.
• Ye Zhiqiu's Mystic Turtle Shockwave disrupted Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Dai Mubai, allowing his Mystic Water Surge to knock Xiao Wu unconscious and injure Dai Mubai.
• Tang San rushed to Xiao Wu and held her as spectators mocked the defeated Shrek group.
• Ye Zhiqiu said the students' injuries were not serious and would heal after a day or two of rest, then turned to leave.
• Tang San reached for Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night, but Zhao Wuji stopped him and warned him not to reveal his hidden weapons.
• Zhao Wuji challenged Ye Zhiqiu, who argued that Shrek's students had started the fight and accused Zhao Wuji of seeking revenge.