Recaps

Xiao Qiang secured Tian Meng as his third spirit ring, survived a deadly clash with Shrek’s agents, and used his Soul Tool talent to win Jing Hongchen’s patronage at Mingde Hall. After defeating Xiao Hongchen and arranging to buy cultivation pills, he set his sights on resources that could help him reach level forty.

• Xiao Qiang met Huo Yuhao near the Star Dou Great Forest, offered to help him find a spirit ring, then sent him away and became Tian Meng’s host.
• Tian Meng became Xiao Qiang’s Wisdom Spirit Ring, altered his spirit rings, and agreed to help him pursue the Ice Empress and improve his strength.
• Xiao Qiang killed Yang Peng after the Soul Emperor tried to frame him as an Evil Soul Master, then returned to finish off Wang Xiaodong after the man awakened a Zombie Spirit.
• Xiao Qiang returned to the Sun Moon Empire, used Yang Peng’s belongings to reach level thirty-three, and persuaded Tian Meng to study Soul Tool construction with him.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed a four-hundred-year spirit ring and Tang Ya took the Azure-eyed Bird’s External Soul Bone, while the story described the loss of Spirit Hall’s support for ordinary Soul Masters.
• At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Xiao Qiang passed the Rank 4 assessment and began making a Rank 5 Milk Bottle, prompting Jing Hongchen to take him as a disciple and grant him resources.
• Xiao Qiang’s Sharingan evolved to three tomoe as he completed the Milk Bottle, and he later defeated two Rank 4 Soul Engineers and beat Xiao Hongchen in a duel.
• Xiao Qiang consulted Jingyun about buying a Soul Ascension Pill and bidding on a Marrow Cleansing Pill, while Jing Hongchen praised his gratitude to Vice Dean Bai Qingshan.

Xiao Qiang strengthened his bond with the Hongchen siblings and helped Bai Qingshan before traveling north to join the Ice Empress and seek Snow Empress’s protection. He secured Snow Empress’s agreement to protect him for twenty years and entered the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave with her.

• Xiao Qiang defeated Xiao Hongchen in a rematch, paid his medical bills, and later let him win a spar so he could recover his confidence.
• Xiao Qiang sent Bai Qingshan pills and a Black Card, helping him pay his debts and prepare to reach Five-ring Soul King.
• Xiao Qiang joined the Sun Moon Empire’s tournament team, helped train its members, and gave Xiao Sheng and Xiao Lan Sun Moon Divine Pills before setting out for the Extreme North.
• Xiao Qiang and Tian Meng trapped the Ice Empress, and Xiao Qiang persuaded her to join his God Creation Plan and create soul bones for both his hands.
• After absorbing a Mirror Beast’s soul ring, Xiao Qiang sought Snow Empress and negotiated her protection in exchange for helping her find a way to survive her 700,000-year Heavenly Tribulation.
• Xiao Qiang and Snow Empress located the hidden entrance to the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave and entered to find Ice Extreme Divine Crystals.

Xiao Qiang captured an Evil Soul Master, deepened his alliance with Jing Hongchen, and developed a plan for Soul Spirits while preparing for the Star Luo City tournament. Meanwhile, Shrek’s mission against Evil Soul Masters ended in devastating losses, leaving its remaining team to continue toward the competition without Elder Xuan.

• Xiao Qiang used Snow Empress’s protection to capture a Myriad Soul Banner Soul Douluo and extract Jin Chuan’s soul, then returned to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Xiao Qiang revealed his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion martial soul to Jing Hongchen, who recognized his value and agreed to support his research.
• Xiao Qiang emptied the Hongchen Family treasury and developed the Soul Spirit idea, including a plan to use Soul Bones as vessels that could preserve spirit beasts through reverse-sacrifice.
• Xiao Qiang gave Xiao Lan the Snow Pill after testing her limits, while Snow Empress brought him a seventy-three-thousand-year Silver Wolf as a potential Soul Spirit.
• Xuan Zi led Shrek’s students on a mission against Death Messenger, whose Corpse Explosion caused catastrophic casualties before he escaped with Ning Tian and Xuan Zi rescued her.
• Xuan Zi confessed his failure to Mu En, who sent reinforcements to the tournament team, while Dai Yueheng and Wang Yan led the survivors toward Star Luo City.
• Xiao Qiang warned Jing Hongchen that the Sun Moon team might be attacked, then arrived safely in Star Luo City and showed his teammates his Tang Dao, Mirror Flower Water Moon.

Xiao Qiang used his strength and the Sun Moon team’s resources to expose Shrek’s abuses during the tournament, while building a faction around Angel Spirit users. The arc ended with Shrek and Sun Moon facing off after a brutal final match, as Shrek tried to buy time for Ma Xiaotao to recover.

• Xiao Qiang revealed his Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, then used the spectacle and his feigned injury to force Xuan Zi to pay Jing Hongchen a costly settlement.
• Xiao Qiang secretly witnessed the Duchess’s conflict with Dai Hao, then defeated Thousand Spirits Academy alone and bought the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife at auction.
• Xiao Qiang recruited Mu Qingxue, Yu Mengdi, and Ye Guyi, and helped them purify the knife into the Blade of Life before absorbing a compressed Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring that awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Shrek’s Xu Sanshi and Bei Bei were chosen for the final against Sun Moon, where Xiao Qiang’s flash attack left Huo Yuhao unconscious and Sun Moon killed Ning Feng and Bai Fan.
• Xiao Qiang exposed Huo Yuhao’s Vision Sharing and Yu Mengdi’s accusation against Xuan Zi, turning the crowd against Shrek and forcing Jing Hongchen to demand Zhang Lexuan in exchange for Bei Bei.
• Ma Rulong’s team defeated Ling Luochen and Dai Yueheng, while Ma Xiaotao fused her rings into a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring and Jing Hongchen conceded before she could attack.
• After Ma Xiaotao was carried from the arena, Shrek’s team counted its dead and wounded, and Xuan Zi gave them defensive Soul Tools while Wang Yan and Yan Shaozhe urged them to stall for her recovery.