Recaps

The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect won its matches against the Snow Demon Sect and the Holy Spirit Cult while Chen Junting uncovered Xu Tianran’s plans and prepared a counter-operation. After poisoning the grain stores, the group waited for the signal to act as the Finals approached.

• Chen Junting replaced Huo Yuhao against Long Aotian, defeated him, and led the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to victories over the Snow Demon Sect in both the individual and team competitions.
• Ye Guyi reconsidered her judgment of Evil Soul Masters, joined the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and learned Chen Junting’s explanation of his sacred death aura.
• Chen Junting studied Di Yao’s soul-ring condensation and learned enough to understand Self-Condensed Soul Rings, while the Holy Spirit Cult empowered its disciples through the Blood Pool.
• Chen Junting discovered Xu Tianran’s plan to kill the princes and frame the Three Great Empires, then recruited Xu Tianhe to help turn the scheme against him.
• At the Top Four semifinals, Di Yao defeated Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Xiao Xiao and Wu Feng defeated Holy Spirit Cult fighters, and Chen Junting destroyed Yan Feng’s Three-Headed Evil Dragon to win the team battle.
• Chen Junting and Xu Jiujiu’s group planned to counter Xu Tianran’s attack and escape strategy, while Chen Junting’s team prepared to target Mingdu’s military supplies.
• Dugu Xin proposed poisoning Mingdu’s water supply, but Ning Tian and Chen Junting rejected the deadly plan and agreed to use his incapacitating poison instead.
• Chen Junting, Gu Tianchen, and Dugu Xin secretly poisoned the Granary’s grain stores, erased Li Hua’s memory after he found them, and later waited with Huo Yuhao for a signal from the imperial palace.

Chen Junting’s allies raided the Sun Moon Empire’s armories and escaped a deadly pursuit, while Xu Tianran consolidated power at home. The stretch ended with Chen Junting agreeing to help Star Dou Forest delay its beasts’ heavenly tribulations in exchange for Di Tian’s support.

• Xu Tianran killed the old emperor, seized the throne, and ordered Jing Hongchen to silence those who questioned the official account.
• Chen Junting’s group stole the armories’ rare metals and Soul Tools as Du Busi, Xuan Zi, and other experts fought Long Xiaoyao at the palace.
• Di Tian killed Long Xiaoyao, and Chen Junting’s allies escaped with stolen weapons after the palace was devastated and its forces were thrown into chaos.
• Ye Xishui, the Evil Emperor, and the Deep Sea Demon Whale Queen attacked Chen Junting’s group, but Chen Junting used the Heavenly Tribulation Formation and Deceiving Heaven Formation Plate to escape them.
• Kong Deming pursued the escaping group with a fleet, but Chen Junting’s formation and cannon shells broke the encirclement before the Demon Queen’s attack was stopped by Wang Dong’er’s Trident mark.
• Chen Junting and his companions returned to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, while Xu Tianran reorganized the empire and ordered secret surveillance of ministers and imperial relatives.
• Di Tian asked Chen Junting to establish the Deceiving Heaven Array in Star Dou Forest’s core region, and Chen Junting agreed on the condition that the protected soul beasts stay within it.

Chen Junting gathered earth veins and built the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s Ice and Fire Dual Heaven Formation while helping Huo Yuhao confront his past and Wang Dong'er learn the truth about her identity. As Chen Junting and Ning Tian became engaged and Ning Tian transformed her martial soul, the Holy Spirit Cult prepared a Soul Hunt Operation timed to coincide with the coming weddings.

• Chen Junting and Huo Yuhao helped Nan Qiuqiu disband the Earth Dragon Sect, then explored its Cold Spring and moved an earth vein into the Necromancer Demigod Plane.
• Huo Yuhao killed the White Tiger Duchess and the servants who had abused him and Huo Yun'er, while Chen Junting held off the mansion’s elders and the Star Luo forces.
• Chen Junting extracted a volcanic island’s fire earth vein for the Necromancer Demigod Plane and negotiated with Wuyan over the island’s metals and control.
• Chen Junting completed the Ice and Fire Dual Heaven Sect-Protecting Formation, shared his formation knowledge, and sought the Power of Faith while keeping his identity as the founder secret.
• Chen Junting and Elder Yi helped Wang Dong'er discover that she was Tang San’s daughter and learn how Tang San had intended to use her, while Huo Yuhao comforted her with a Lovesick Heartbreak Red.
• Chen Junting and Ning Tian became engaged, and Ning Tian absorbed Lovesick Heartbreak Red and Aromatic Silk Beauty, transforming her Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and gaining a Time Attribute.
• The Demon Queen and the Saint Emperor planned to exploit continental chaos, while Ye Xishui and Xu Tianran arranged attacks on Shrek Academy, the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and the Body Sect.
• Ning Bo Wen scheduled Chen Junting and Ning Tian’s engagement ceremony for the same day as Xu Tianran’s wedding, and Chen Junting gathered allies to cultivate before sending Huo Yuhao to escort Wang Dong'er back to Shrek Academy.

Chen Junting guided his companions through breakthroughs, created Self-Condensed Soul Rings, and helped Dugu Xin evolve into a poison master. While Chen Junting and his allies searched the Ice Sea for Huo Yuhao and Zhiyong, they found them with the Mermaid Race, whose alliance came under attack from Zhongli Wu and the Demon Queen.

• Chen Junting helped the group cultivate, aided Wu Feng in absorbing Wuyan’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and developed new Soul Skills and Self-Condensed Soul Rings.
• Chen Junting demonstrated the four Self-Condensed Soul Ring methods, and Gu Tianchen and Ning Tian used them to obtain new rings.
• Chen Junting took Dugu Xin and Ning Tian to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Xin formed a Poison Pill and evolved his Martial Soul into the Ten-Headed Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor.
• The God of Poison recognized Dugu Xin as a potential successor, while Tang San arranged to monitor him and concealed his own plans from the God of Destruction.
• After learning that the Holy Spirit Cult was attacking Sea Soul Beasts in the Ice Sea, Chen Junting searched for Huo Yuhao and Zhiyong and followed a Sea Princess Clan scale to the Mermaid territory.
• The Sea Princess welcomed Chen Junting’s group, and Liya explained that Huo Yuhao and Zhiyong had rescued her from the Holy Spirit Cult before escaping their pursuers.
• Chen Junting and the Sea Princess discussed cooperating through Soul Spirits, but a conch alarm sent the Mermaid Race and its allies to face an attack.
• Zhongli Wu’s Holy Spirit Cult slaughtered the Sea Elephant clan and attacked Sea Soul Beasts, then fought the Sea Princess until the Demon Queen struck at her forces.