Recaps

Madara fought the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion in Ice God's Great Hall, countering her Ultimate Ice with Amaterasu's Ultimate Fire until the Divine Envoy stopped them. The Divine Envoy revealed that Madara likely could not inherit Ice God's position because of Ice God's poor relationship with Asura God, and Madara continued exploring.

• The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion attacked Madara with icy wind and a torrent of ice spikes, while the Snow Woman tried to stop her.
• Madara activated Sage Mode, opened the Gate of Pain, and summoned Susanoo, but the Scorpion's Ultimate Ice began freezing him and Kurama.
• Madara unleashed Amaterasu, and his Ultimate Fire clashed with the Scorpion's Ultimate Ice until the Divine Envoy erased both attacks.
• The Divine Envoy restored the damaged hall and forbade fighting there, so the Snow Woman led the angry Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion away.
• Madara learned the hall belonged to Ice God's inheritance ground and that Ice God's poor relationship with Asura God likely disqualified him, then left to explore.

Madara challenged the Ice God's Snowy Heavenly Ladder despite the Divine Envoy's warning and climbed against its crushing pressure. After removing his weights and using the Eight Inner Gates and Sage Mode, he overcame the trial and reached the summit.

• Madara led Kurama to the main hall, where the Ice God's Divine Envoy directed him to the rear hall but explained that the Snowy Heavenly Ladder was the first trial.
• Madara ignored the Divine Envoy's advice and stepped onto the ladder, where the pressure grew stronger with every step.
• The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion mocked Madara's struggle and provoked Kurama, while Snow Woman watched him climb.
• Madara removed his weights, opened the Fourth Gate, and activated Sage Mode as he continued to resist the ladder's pressure.
• Snow Woman and the Divine Envoy watched in admiration as Madara reached the summit.

Madara claimed the Ice God's first-trial reward and endured its violent energy, raising his cultivation to level 55. He then chose to enter the second trial, the Ice Soul Arena, despite being warned that it could kill him.

• Madara reached the summit, stepped onto the runic platform, and met the Ice God's phantom, which recognized the Asura God’s power in him.
• The Ice God sent Madara a surge of energy that ravaged his meridians, but Madara used Soul Power, Chakra, and Sage Mode to control and absorb it.
• Madara's Soul Power rose five or six levels, bringing his cultivation to level 55.
• Kurama teased Ice Empress about Madara's gains, and Ice Empress threatened to skin him once they escaped.
• Madara asked to attempt the second trial, and the Ice God's Divine Envoy warned him that the Ice Soul Arena could be fatal.
• Madara accepted the risk, while Snow Empress predicted he could become a Titled Douluo and then led Ice Empress to watch.

Madara entered the Ice Soul Fighting Arena for the second trial and faced its guardian, an Ice Phoenix. After dodging its attacks and weaving through a storm of shattered ice, he appeared beside it and prepared to strike.

• The Ice God's Divine Envoy explained that the arena suppressed entrants to Spirit King level and that Madara had to defeat its guardian.
• Madara entered the arena and saw the Ice Phoenix descend, boast, and challenge him.
• Madara attacked with shuriken, but the Ice Phoenix froze them and sent them back at him.
• The Ice Phoenix cracked the arena floor and launched a torrent of ice at Madara.
• Madara used his Sharingan and reflexes to weave through the ice without being hit, then appeared beside the Ice Phoenix and announced that his turn had come.

Madara used his superior physique and taijutsu to overwhelm the Ice Phoenix in the Ice Soul Arena. The Ice Phoenix ended the chapter bloodied and near death, pinned beneath Madara’s relentless assault.

• Madara shattered the Ice Phoenix’s frost armor with powerful kicks, forcing it to abandon its armor and take to the sky.
• The Ice Phoenix rained feather arrows on Madara, then lunged at him, but Madara countered and stabbed its abdomen with a blood-red Kunai.
• Madara held onto the wounded Ice Phoenix and dragged it back as it tried to flee, and the Ice Phoenix rammed him into the ground.
• Madara endured the Ice Phoenix’s pecks and claw strikes while stabbing its vital areas and disabling its wings.
• Madara slammed the grounded Ice Phoenix into the arena and battered it until it lay near death.

Madara challenged the Ice God's phantom to a wager after the god intervened to save the Ice Phoenix, demanding to know whether a god could be slain. The Ice God agreed to fight Madara at equal cultivation levels after one hour, and Madara asked Kurama to lend him Nine-Tails Chakra.

• Madara impaled the Ice Phoenix with a blood-aura spear, but it escaped his follow-up attack before the Ice God's phantom knocked Madara back and healed it.
• Madara accused the Ice God of violating the trial's rules and proposed wagering the Ice Phoenix's fate on a fight.
• Madara asked whether a god could be slain, and the Ice God agreed to fight him fairly at equal cultivation levels after one hour of recovery.
• Madara told the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion that aspiring gods should not bow before gods, prompting the Snow Empress to realize something about the path to godhood.
• Madara told Kurama he would fight the Ice God and asked to borrow Nine-Tails Chakra.

Madara challenged the Ice God's phantom in the arena, escalating from a close-range assault to his Eight Inner Gates and powerful spirit skills. He set the phantom ablaze and hurled Yasakani no Magatama, but the phantom redirected the attack into the arena wall, which exploded and shook the ground.

• Madara dodged the Ice God's phantom's spears and struck at him, but a sudden ice block stopped his scythe and sent him reeling from the recoil.
• Madara discarded his weights and opened the Eight Inner Gates, then used Dance of the Crescent Moon to attack from three directions.
• The Ice God's phantom impaled the three apparent Madaras with ice swords, but Madara appeared behind him and kicked him away.
• Madara unleashed Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation, then amplified it with Mangekyo Shinra Bansho to ignite the phantom with Amaterasu.
• Madara launched Yasakani no Magatama, but the Ice God's phantom raised five ice walls that diverted it into the arena wall, blasting the wall apart and shaking the ground.

Madara and the Ice God phantom escalated their powers and fought on equal terms until Madara gained the advantage with a combination of illusion and close-range attacks. Their final exchange ended with both striking at each other’s vital points.

• The Ice God phantom armored himself in frost and formed an ice saber, while Madara activated Sage Mode amplified by Nine-Tails Chakra.
• Madara and the Ice God phantom clashed with their scythe and saber, matching each other’s attacks before both unleashed their full strength.
• The Ice God phantom surrounded Madara with a storm of ice blades, but Madara countered it with Blade Storm and emerged from the attack wounded.
• Madara rushed the Ice God phantom, used Binding Illusion to immobilize him, then cracked his mask and pierced his hand with the scythe.
• The Ice God phantom stabbed toward Madara with an ice spike as Madara drove a blood-red Kunai toward his chest and abdomen.

Madara survived the Ice God's avatar's self-destructive final attack, but learned that killing the god had placed a spreading curse on his arm. The Ice God's Divine Envoy said only becoming a god could remove it, and Madara left the palace with Kurama and the captured Ice Phoenix.

• Madara and the Ice God's phantom wounded each other, and the phantom unleashed the Ice Explosion Technique, reducing the Ice Soul Arena to ruins.
• Kurama found Madara alive, and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion and Snow Woman approached as the Ice God's Divine Envoy said he would not attack.
• Madara collapsed from pain in his right arm, and the Divine Envoy identified the spreading mark as Godslayer's Curse, which could be removed only by becoming a god.
• The Divine Envoy said fire-attributed Heavenly Treasures could temporarily suppress the curse and warned that it had other uses.
• Madara thanked the Divine Envoy, ordered Kurama to carry the shrunken Ice Phoenix, and left by a staircase of ice and snow.

Madara left Ice God's Great Hall with Ice Phoenix in tow and discovered that Ice God's Curse let him resist cold and control snow. Seeking the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus, he subdued a chameleon Soul Master and reached a camp where several factions were poised for battle.

• Kurama teased Ice Phoenix with threats of roasting him or making shaved ice, while Madara considered sealing Elemental Beings inside people to build a faction.
• Madara left Ice God's Great Hall and found that Ice God's Curse protected him from cold and let him command ice and snow.
• Madara hurried across the northern ice plains with Kurama and Ice Phoenix, determined to reach the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus before its contest ended.
• A chameleon Soul Master tried to lure Madara into a team and then attacked him, but Madara caught his tongue and put him under a Sharingan illusion.
• Madara ordered the Soul Master to lead him to the snow lotus and arrived at a camp where powerful Soul Masters from rival factions awaited a chance to fight.

Madara attacked the Soul Master camp and fought through its defenders while seeking the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus. He killed the butcher-like leader, leaving the surviving Soul Masters facing him in chaos.

• Madara killed the sentry outside the camp, triggering an alarm that brought hundreds of Soul Masters out of their tents.
• Madara warned the gathered Soul Masters to leave, then charged into their ranks and slaughtered those in his path.
• Madara blocked many Soul skills with blood energy and used Uchiha Rebound to send powerful attacks back at the crowd.
• Madara unleashed Sweep the Thousand Armies, blasting apart the front row before evading the Soul Masters' counterattacks.
• Madara cut his way toward the bald butcher-like Soul Master, who fell to his knees and begged for mercy.
• Madara beheaded the butcher-like Soul Master as the other Soul Masters watched from a distance.

Madara slaughtered the soul masters who surrounded him, then faced a Soul Saint who attacked him with a bow. The Soul Saint’s arrow failed to penetrate Madara’s Susanoo, leaving the archer in despair.

• The soul masters renewed their assault on Madara, driven by greed for his strength, and he charged into the crowd, killing those who came near.
• Madara dodged a burly five-ring Spirit King’s attack, disarmed him, and killed him with his scythe.
• A hidden Soul Saint shot an arrow at Madara, but Madara caught it and identified the archer’s location.
• Madara’s fireball forced the Soul Saint to flee, but Madara blocked his escape route.
• The Soul Saint attacked Madara with Eagle-Eye Aim and Charged Arrow, but Madara’s Susanoo stopped the arrow and he casually redirected it into the ground.

Madara killed the bow-wielding Soul Saint with Amaterasu and waited for Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation to arrive at the snow lotus. When Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan reached the deserted camp, Madara confronted them and launched an attack.

• The bow-wielding Soul Saint tried to kill Madara at close range, but Madara burned his arrow and then him with Amaterasu.
• Madara returned to camp, dismissed the surviving soul masters, and waited for Spirit Hall’s group to come for the snow lotus.
• Several days later, Madara sensed Spirit Hall’s approach and went outside to meet them.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan realized the camp was deserted and saw Madara waiting for them.
• Madara identified himself as the one who would kill them and charged, beginning the battle.

Madara overwhelmed Yan while mocking Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation, but Yan survived and Xie Yue and Hu Liena fused into a Fox Person to challenge him. The Fox Person attacked Madara, who remained confident as the fight continued.

• Yan charged Madara, but Madara struck him down and mocked the Golden Generation, angering Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena.
• Yan used Flame Demon Transformation and Flame Violent Fist, but Madara dodged his attacks and taunted him.
• Madara used the scythe to numb Yan’s arm, then grabbed and slammed him into the ground.
• Yan used his Fourth Spirit Ring to blast Madara away before Madara could kill him.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena fused into a Fox Person, which attacked Madara with its paired curved weapons.

Madara overwhelmed the Golden Generation’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill and defeated Xie Yue and Hu Liena. He turned his attention to Yan, who challenged him, and began carving humiliation onto his face.

• Madara blocked the Fox Person’s twin Curved Sabers with his War Fan and scythe, then wounded it with a blood-red Kunai.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue unleashed a spinning crescent strike, but Madara used Uchiha Rebound to send the Curved Sabers flying back.
• Madara knocked aside the Fox Person’s attacks and struck it down, splitting it back into Xie Yue and Hu Liena.
• Yan taunted Madara to draw him away from Xie Yue and Hu Liena, accepting that he would be the first of the Golden Generation to face him.
• Madara grabbed Yan by the hair and carved his face with a blood-red Kunai as Yan struggled.

Madara left Yan and the other members of Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation badly wounded before reinforcements arrived and Bishop Lin attacked him. Madara revealed Susanoo and turned the fight around, then sensed Bishop Lin and launched an attack at him.

• Madara mocked Yan and chose to spare him, while Xie Yue and Hu Liena helped the wounded Yan.
• Bishop Lin arrived with Spirit Hall reinforcements and confronted Madara to defend the Golden Generation.
• Bishop Lin attacked Madara with explosive black-and-white chess pieces, driving him into a barrage of blasts.
• Madara emerged unharmed inside Susanoo and swept through the Spirit Hall fighters with its enormous arm.
• Madara spotted Bishop Lin hiding in the distance and sent three tomoe spinning toward him with destructive force.

Bishop Lin used his Star Chess Formation and falling-star attacks to trap and bombard Madara, but Madara revealed a mountain-sized second-stage Susanoo and crushed the formation. Bishop Lin’s Martial Soul Avatar failed to stop Susanoo’s descending foot, leaving his defeat imminent.

• Bishop Lin escaped Madara’s Yasakani no Magatama with Star Shift and joined his subordinates in fighting Susanoo.
• Bishop Lin trapped Susanoo with Star Chess Formation and unleashed black-and-white falling stars while the other Spirit Hall fighters attacked.
• Madara expanded Susanoo to mountain size, broke the formation with a stomp, and dwarfed Bishop Lin’s attacks.
• Yan watched Madara’s power and vowed to repay the humiliation one day.
• Bishop Lin activated his Martial Soul Avatar and tried to explode his chess pieces, but his attack had no effect as Susanoo’s foot descended toward him.

Madara reached the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus and discovered Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow beneath it. Using the Ice God's Curse to filter the marrow’s energy, he endured a painful tempering that strengthened his body and left him with the lotus and a small remnant of the marrow.

• Madara let Spirit Hall's Golden Generation escape, hoping the hatred he had planted would eventually turn them into worthy opponents.
• Madara climbed a remote snowy peak with Kurama to find the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus before it bloomed.
• Kurama sensed something beneath the lotus, and Madara uncovered a millstone-sized chunk of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Madara used the Ice God's Curse to transform the marrow’s frigid energy and absorb it, enduring repeated destruction and restoration of his body.
• Madara exhausted the marrow’s useful energy, then collected the bloomed snow lotus and the remaining palm-sized piece of ice marrow.

Madara returned to Li Jia’s inn with the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus and discovered that Mumu had nearly killed Pan Chui with a boulder during a game. After leaving the Land North of the Stream, Madara trained Mumu on the road to Heaven Dou City, where he arrived to deliver Xue Qinghe’s task.

• Madara returned to Li Jia’s inn after seven days and learned Mumu had been causing trouble while he was away.
• Madara found Pan Chui recovering from a boulder that Mumu had dropped onto his chest during their game.
• Mumu demonstrated that his martial soul could control a tree strong enough to lift a boulder, and Madara decided to take him hunting for a soul ring.
• Madara packed the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus, said goodbye to his friends, and left the Land North of the Stream with Mumu.
• Madara traveled toward the Heaven Dou Empire’s capital, training Mumu and having him spar with Spirit Beasts along the way.
• Madara arrived at Heaven Dou City to deliver the task Xue Qinghe had entrusted to him.

Madara delivered the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus to Xue Qinghe, who offered him the promised reward and an invitation to an auction. Madara then returned to Shrek Academy, reunited with Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils, and introduced his disciple Mumu.

• Madara brought Mumu to Xue Qinghe's residence with the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus, while First Prince's informants followed them.
• Xue Qinghe said his father's health had recovered, so Madara threatened him with a kunai until Xue Qinghe ordered his guards to stand down.
• Xue Qinghe promised Madara the full reward and invited him to the auction house, and Madara accepted before leaving.
• Madara hurried back to Shrek Academy with Mumu and told him that he had family, but no home.
• Madara reunited with Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils, then introduced Mumu as his disciple and told him to call the others big brothers and sisters and Tang San his Martial Uncle.

Madara returned to Shrek Academy, then confronted Xue Qinghe at the Heaven Dou Auction House and exposed his disguise. He warned Xue Qinghe to leave his companions alone, then chose the auction’s Life Spring Water as the promised gift.

• Madara told Tang San he would stay until the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition and hinted that he had a surprise for him.
• Madara reunited with the Shrek Academy teachers and friends, then went to the Heaven Dou Auction House in Heaven Dou City.
• Madara accused Xue Qinghe of not being the real eldest prince and blocked his attempt to kill him.
• Madara fought Xue Qinghe and demanded that he keep away from Madara’s companions.
• Madara noticed the Life Spring Water’s dense life force and asked Xue Qinghe to give it to him, which Xue Qinghe reluctantly agreed to do.

Madara took Mumu to Sunset Forest to obtain a First Spirit Ring from a five-hundred-year Spirit Devouring Vine, forcing him to fight for it himself. Mumu absorbed the ring and later demonstrated his new skill, Tree Binding Eternal Burial, at Shrek Academy.

• Madara brought Mumu to Sunset Forest to hunt a Spirit Devouring Vine selected as his First Spirit Ring.
• Madara gave Mumu a kunai and ordered him to kill the vine, and Mumu fought desperately despite being battered and trapped.
• Madara cut Mumu free when the vine had nearly subdued him, and Mumu severed its roots and absorbed its yellow Spirit Ring.
• At Shrek Academy, Mumu used Tree Binding Eternal Burial to bind a boulder in trees and drag it underground.
• Madara praised Mumu's progress and noted that the Spirit Devouring Vine had given his wood martial soul a trace of the ability to devour stamina and Soul Power.

The Shrek Seven Devils returned to the academy after reaching the four-ring Soul Ancestor realm, and Madara tested Oscar’s strength before the group discussed their new spirit skills. After seeing Zhu Zhuqing’s Netherworld Shadow Clone, Madara copied it and filled the dining hall with powerful duplicates of himself.

• The Shrek Seven Devils returned, and Madara challenged Oscar to test his progress.
• Oscar opened the Fourth Gate, Gate of Pain, impressing Madara and earning his approval.
• Tang San reported that Oscar had gained the Excited Pink Sausage spirit skill.
• Zhu Zhuqing demonstrated her Netherworld Shadow Clone spirit skill at Madara’s request.
• Madara used his Third Spirit Skill to create a dozen powerful copies of himself, astonishing everyone at dinner.

At dinner, Madara learned about Tang San’s Blue Silver Prison and Mumu’s ability to absorb Soul Power from Blue Silver Grass. After Grandmaster introduced the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition and its substitutes, Madara went to test Wang Zi’an’s progress and left him stunned by the power of his own First Spirit Skill.

• Tang San demonstrated his ten-thousand-year Fourth Spirit Skill, Blue Silver Prison, and Mumu covered its cage with saplings that absorbed Soul Power from Blue Silver Grass.
• Flender announced a discussion of the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition, and Grandmaster explained the competition and introduced four potential substitutes from Erlong’s academy.
• Grandmaster said Wang Zi’an had been injured in training and asked Madara to check on him; Madara found him practicing at the rear mountain.
• Wang Zi’an demonstrated his Gale Roll, and Madara asked whether he had completed the change in the nature of his wind-attribute Soul Power.
• Madara unleashed Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation and told the stunned Wang Zi’an that this was the minimum power expected of a First Spirit Skill.

Madara led Shrek Academy into the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition and confronted Ye Zhi Qiu and Canghui Academy at registration. After Ye Zhi Qiu attacked him with his sixth spirit skill, Madara revealed that he had only destroyed a Shadow Clone and surrounded him with more than a dozen clones.

• Madara led Shrek Academy to register for the competition, where the team encountered Ye Zhi Qiu and students from Canghui Academy.
• A Canghui student provoked Ma Hongjun, and Madara prompted him to strike back, escalating the confrontation.
• Ye Zhi Qiu summoned his Blackwater Turtle martial soul and charged at Madara, who easily dodged his attacks while Ma Hongjun mocked him.
• Ye Zhi Qiu unleashed his sixth spirit skill, Mystic Water Giant Wave Surge, and appeared to freeze Madara in a block of ice.
• Madara's frozen figure disappeared as a Shadow Clone, and he revealed himself with more than a dozen clones behind him before asking Ye Zhi Qiu how many he could take on.