Recaps

Yan survived Rassoul’s attack, split his Flame Lord Martial Soul, and obtained his first Soul Ring before enrolling at Spirit Hall’s junior academy. The arc left Yan fighting alongside his classmates in a practical combat test against instructor Lu Song.

• Yan used lime powder, flour, and his Flame Lord Martial Soul to kill Rassoul, then recovered at the Spirit Hall in San Erves City.
• Yan split the Flame Lord into the Flame Commander and Earth Commander with help from Feng Lin and Liya, keeping his Twin Martial Souls secret.
• Yan traveled with Feng Lin and Liya to the Hot Springs Mountain Range and chose an Inferno Demon Lion as his first Soul Ring target.
• Yan absorbed the Inferno Demon Lion’s Soul Ring and gained Rebirth Through Fire, then found a Golden Flame Pearl inside the beast’s skull.
• Yan reached Spirit City and enrolled at its First Junior Soul Master Academy, choosing to begin in Class Three rather than skip grades.
• Yan partnered with Tuo Ba Hong for practical combat class, where instructor Lu Song grouped the students and challenged them to make him summon his scythe Spirit.
• Yan coordinated his teammates’ attacks on Lu Song, then closed in while the instructor was off balance and struck with reddish-gold flames.

Yan built ties with Tuo Ba Hong, advanced his cultivation, and used the academy’s year-end disturbance to attract Bibi Dong’s attention and become her disciple. When Bibi Dong revealed the planned infiltration of the Heaven Dou Empire, Yan traveled to meet Qian Renxue and left her questioning his knowledge of the operation.

• Yan outmaneuvered Lu Song in the practical assessment, then befriended Tuo Ba Hong and invited him home to share a meal.
• Yan refined the Inferno Demon Lion’s soul pearl, raised his Soul Power, and learned about Xie Yue and Hu Liena while investigating the academy’s strongest students.
• Yan helped provoke a fight among the academy’s student representatives, where he and the siblings demonstrated their abilities before Bibi Dong and the Spirit Hall leaders.
• Bibi Dong confronted Yan about orchestrating the disturbance, and Yan showed her his intelligence gathering and proposed ways to bring Spirit Hall’s factions under her control.
• Yan became Bibi Dong’s disciple and requested Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo as instructors.
• Bibi Dong told Yan that Qian Daoliu planned to replace Xue Qinghe and take the Heaven Dou throne through the Infiltration Plan, and Yan warned her of its risks.
• Yan traveled to the Worship Hall with Lor Diarra and told the golden-haired Qian Renxue that Bibi Dong opposed her plan.
• Qian Renxue demanded to know how Yan had learned about the operation, and Yan asked her to guide his cultivation of the Angel Spirit in exchange for an explanation.

Yan helped Qian Renxue reconsider her relationship with Bibi Dong, then became Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and led a campaign that forced the Clear Sky Sect to retreat. Spirit Hall captured the Four Single-Attribute Clans, while Bai He’s escape attempt ended under Yue Guan and Guimei’s domain.

• Yan fought Qian Renxue, then urged her to reconsider Bibi Dong’s past and her own priorities.
• Qian Renxue broke through to rank forty, and she and Yan hunted soul beasts, gaining powerful new soul rings and discovering a strange stone fragment.
• Bibi Dong proposed Yan as Holy Son, and Yan secured the elders’ support for a campaign against the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yan led Spirit Hall’s army to the Clear Sky Sect, where its leader expelled Tang Hao and ordered the sect to retreat to its ancestral lands.
• Yan let the allied factions leave, registered and recruited nearly three thousand remaining Soul Masters, and allowed the Four Single-Attribute Clans to depart toward the ancestral lands.
• The Four Single-Attribute Clans clashed with Spirit Hall, and Tuoba Xi, She Long, and Bloodspike Honored One helped subdue their fighters.
• Xiangmo Douluo stopped Yang Wudi’s final attack and offered him a chance to submit to Spirit Hall.
• Bai He fled with two children, but Yue Guan and Guimei froze him and the Speed Clan with the Polar Stillness Domain.

Yan broke the Clear Sky Sect’s standing, drew the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Heaven Dou Empire into cooperation, and expanded Spirit Hall’s influence. After returning to Spirit City, he led a soul-hunting expedition and gained the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s Soul Bone.

• Yan captured the Speed Clan and brought the Four Single-Attribute Clans under Spirit Hall’s control, while the Clear Sky Sect Leader collapsed beneath the humiliation of Yan’s stele.
• Yan pressured the four clan patriarchs to sever ties with the Clear Sky Sect, then offered Ning Fengzhi firearms and proposed a Mercenary Guild and agricultural research partnership.
• Yan visited Heaven Dou City, won a spatial Soul Tool fragment at auction, exposed the slave trade, secured land for crop research, and asked Emperor Xue Ye to lend him the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Yan brought Clear Sky Sect outer branch members and their families to Spirit City, reported to Bibi Dong, and received Qian Daoliu’s authority to oversee the Worship Hall’s routine affairs.
• Yan trained in his Mimetic Training Ground, then took Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Liya to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek soul rings.
• Liya absorbed an Emerald Swan’s soul ring, Hu Liena obtained a Purple Spirit Wolf-Badger ring, and Xie Yue absorbed a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear ring.
• Yan found the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s palm bone and accepted it from Xie Yue after Xie Yue failed to absorb it.
• Yan fused the Soul Bone, transforming his right hand into dark-gold claws powerful enough to cut through the air and tear a corridor through distant trees.