Recaps

Qin He’s harem order unexpectedly won support from powerful factions, while Xiao Chenyu and others interpreted it as a plan to unite the empire. Hu Yanzhen challenged Qin He and lost, but came to see Qin He’s remarks about his Martial Soul as genuine guidance, ending with light bursting from Hu Yanzhen’s body.

• Qin He ordered Xiao Chenyu to arrange a selection of more than three thousand concubines, and Xiao Chenyu carried out the decree despite warning that it could anger powerful factions.
• Xiao Chenyu explained to Xie Yue that the harem could bind major factions through marriage and bring capable women into Qin He’s service, while Spirit Hall debated whether to participate.
• Ning Rongrong rejected Oscar’s proposal and said she liked Qin He, while Dai Mubai and Tang San argued over Qin He’s rule and harem.
• Hu Yanzhen rejected warnings about Qin He’s strength and challenged him to a martial contest, prompting the Elephant Armor School to openly defy Qin He.
• Qin He defeated Hu Yanzhen with a burst of Soul Power, and the Five Element Academies recognized that they could not challenge him.
• Hu Yanzhen refused to submit, but reconsidered Qin He’s conduct and took his reference to the Diamond Mammoth Pig as a reminder to focus on the essence of his Martial Soul.
• Qin He denied that he meant to guide Hu Yanzhen, but light burst from Hu Yanzhen’s body as the onlookers reacted.

As Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire competed to attract soul masters, Qin He became the tournament’s main attraction and accidentally transformed Tianshui Academy with his power. The arc left rival academies weighing how to approach him as the competition drew near.

• Hu Yanzhen transformed the Elephant Armor School’s Diamond Mammoth martial soul into a stronger pig form and renamed the sect the Pig Armor Sect, crediting Qin He with revealing its essence.
• Bibi Dong opened free classes and offered soul bones to recruit soul masters for Spirit Hall, while Qin He persuaded the Heaven Dou Empire to promise lavish tournament rewards.
• At the tournament, Shui Bing'er challenged Qin He, mistook his modesty for weakness, and had her strongest Ice Phoenix Soul Skill shattered when he sneezed.
• Qin He revealed his overwhelming soul rings, and golden rays from his Soul Pillar unexpectedly raised every Tianshui Academy student to Level 50, leaving the girls devoted to him.
• Yu Xiaogang speculated that Qin He sought to free the continent from the Gods, while Spirit Hall and Shrek Academy worried about his growing influence and the strengthened rival teams.
• As Blazing Fire Academy prepared for the tournament, Huo Wushuang considered whether Huo Wu should approach Qin He, but Huo Wu dismissed the idea and suspected Qin He was over a hundred years old.

Qin He brought Blazing Fire Academy and Wind Spirit Academy under Heaven Dou’s influence, then survived assassination attempts by Davis, Zhu Zhuyun, and Spirit Hall while leaving his enemies convinced he had planned every turn. As Spirit Hall reconsidered its ability to oppose him, Blood Infant’s bounty brought Qin Li to Heaven Dou Imperial City, where he attacked Qin He.

• Qin He frightened Blazing Fire Academy with a display of power, and Huo Wushuang pledged the academy’s allegiance despite Huo Wu’s anger.
• Huo Wu persuaded Feng Xiaotian to challenge Qin He by promising to date him if he won, but Qin He’s aura swept Feng Xiaotian away before he could attack.
• Three months later, Qin He learned that his policies had expanded Heaven Dou’s territory and brought the five elemental academies under its control.
• Davis and Zhu Zhuyun joined Spirit Hall in planning to assassinate Qin He, but Ghost Douluo’s attack struck Davis instead, and Heaven Dou’s forces captured the pair.
• Davis and Zhu Zhuyun became convinced that Qin He had outmaneuvered them, and Davis eventually surrendered to him unconditionally.
• Bibi Dong concluded that Qin He had used Davis’s capture to turn the Star Luo Empire’s hostility toward Spirit Hall, while Ghost Douluo accepted that Spirit Hall could no longer unify the continent under Qin He’s rule.
• Blood Infant revealed that he had placed a bounty on Qin He and introduced Qin Li, his rank-88 cousin with a mutated Sinister Black Tiger King martial soul.
• Qin Li infiltrated Heaven Dou Imperial City and attacked Qin He with his Black Tiger Howl to the Heavens Wave, but Qin He appeared excited rather than afraid.