Recaps

Mu En and Xuan Zi found Ye Chen in the Star Dou Forest, where he later awakened two extraordinary Martial Souls and survived absorbing a powerful first Soul Ring. Five years later, Ye Chen joined Bei Bei and Tang Ya on their trip toward the Star Dou Forest and encountered Huo Yuhao.

• Mu En and Xuan Zi found a glowing infant with mismatched eyes in the Star Dou Forest and brought him to Shrek Academy, where Xian Lin'er adopted him as Ye Chen.
• At six, Ye Chen persuaded Gong Changlong to give him beast milk, then underwent Martial Soul Awakening before the Sea God's Pavilion elders.
• Ye Chen awakened the Fusang Divine Tree and Taiyin Youying with Innate Full Soul Power, and Mu En decided to guide him and protect him from Evil Soul Masters.
• After studying Ye Chen's four ultimate attributes, Mu En sent him with Xuan Zi to find his first Soul Ring in the Star Dou Forest.
• Ye Chen persuaded Xuan Zi to let him absorb a wounded Aurora Dragon-Tooth Beast's fifteen-hundred-year Soul Ring, then overcame its resentment as his Fusang Divine Tree evolved and gained a Three-legged Golden Crow.
• Ye Chen explained that Fusang Above Tanggu could alter nearby targets' attributes and heal them, while Mu En and Xuan Zi learned about his unusual evolution.
• Five years later, Ye Chen encountered Bei Bei and Tang Ya on their way to the Star Dou Forest, declined to join the Tang Sect, and persuaded Tang Ya to let him study its Secret Arts.
• Ye Chen went with Bei Bei and Tang Ya toward the Star Dou Forest, hoping to find Huo Yuhao, and recognized him grilling fish beside a stream.

Ye Chen helped Huo Yuhao reach Shrek Academy and guided him into the Tang Sect and Soul Tool studies while beginning his own classes. The arc ended with Ye Chen facing Wang Dong and Xu Sanshi in a one-against-two duel.

• Ye Chen joined Bei Bei and Tang Ya on their trip to Star Dou Forest, where they found Huo Yuhao grilling fish beside a stream.
• After Huo Yuhao left, Ye Chen and the others searched for him and fought two Mandala Snakes, with Tang Ya absorbing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Ye Chen enduring the pain of his two-month cycle.
• Ye Chen found Huo Yuhao at Shrek Academy and helped him enroll using the Tang Sect's admission quota after the admissions teacher rejected him.
• Ye Chen entered Class One, Grade One, where Zhou Yi appointed him class monitor and ordered him to demonstrate his Fusang Divine Tree and two Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Zhou Yi sent Ye Chen and Huo Yuhao to Fan Yu, who tested Huo Yuhao's Spirit Detection Share and taught both boys the basics of Soul Tools.
• Ye Chen accepted Huo Yuhao into the Tang Sect and later entered Dormitory 108 without knocking, startling Wang Dong while she was bathing.
• When Xu Sanshi tried to take Huo Yuhao's saved grilled fish, Ye Chen confronted him and accepted his challenge to a duel, while Wang Dong joined Xu Sanshi's side.
• At the Soul Dueling Arena, Ye Chen wagered for a Profound Water Pill and faced Wang Dong and Xu Sanshi, countering Wang Dong's opening attack without releasing his martial soul.

Ye Chen traveled to the Star Dou Forest with Ma Xiaotao to seek a third soul ring and help with her evil fire, but a strange upheaval separated them and led him to a living Fusang Divine Tree. The academy returned amid signs of a coming beast tide, and Ye Chen began absorbing a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

• Ye Chen fought Wang Dong and Xu Sanshi in the arena, won their wager, and later gave Wang Dong the Profound Water Pill before conceding the match.
• Ye Chen used his Taiyin Youying Martial Soul to suppress Ma Xiaotao’s rampaging evil fire, then proposed that his Extreme Flame might help transform her martial soul.
• Ye Chen began studying Soul Tools, became a Rank 1 Soul Engineer, and spent three months avoiding Wang Dong after their dormitory dispute.
• Ye Chen and Ma Xiaotao traveled to Star Dou Forest to seek a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, but strange events drew Ye Chen through a holy sphere of light and left Ma Xiaotao behind.
• Ye Chen escaped the Blood Feather Luminous Sparrow’s illusion, subdued the injured beast, and fired a Soul Cannon signal that Xuan Zi recognized while confronting Di Tian.
• Ye Chen’s blood caused the living Fusang Divine Tree to enter his body, and he used his First Soul Skill to keep the nearly dead sparrow alive.
• Xuan Zi returned Ye Chen and the soul beasts to the academy, where he warned the Sea God Pavilion that powerful beasts were gathering in the forest’s core.
• Ye Chen began absorbing the Blood Feather Luminous Sparrow’s black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring as Mu En and Ma Xiaotao watched and Mu En expressed confidence in him.

Ye Chen completed his third soul-ring fusion and used the Southern Bright Leaving Fire to purge Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire before returning to the freshmen assessment. He defeated his opponents, gave Huo Yuhao a spirit bone, and found a mysterious fruit at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion as the assessment approached its finals.

• Xuan Zi returned Ye Chen and the soul beasts to the academy, where Ye Chen began absorbing the Blood Feather Luminous Sparrow’s Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Ye Chen endured the fusion’s strain until his Fusang Divine Tree grew a third Three-legged Golden Crow and produced Southern Bright Leaving Fire.
• Ma Xiaotao chose to risk using the divine fire, and Ye Chen and Mu En helped it purify her Phoenix Evil Fire while Ye Chen protected her meridians.
• Ma Xiaotao recovered with her evil fire gone, and Ye Chen reached peak Level Thirty-Three before returning just in time for his assessment match.
• Ye Chen trapped Ge Shaoyun, Zhao Peibin, and Xue Yueqiong in an illusion and won, then gave Huo Yuhao a five-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear right leg spirit bone.
• Ye Chen defeated Huang Chutian and burned away Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill during the assessment.
• Ye Chen took Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where his Fusang Divine Tree drew a sun-bright fruit into his hand.
• Ye Chen obtained Royal Jelly for Bei Bei, declined to give Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong school property, and postponed consuming the mysterious fruit as the assessment neared its finals.