Recaps

Xiao Ze cultivated new crops and companions while Ning Rongrong and the others grew stronger, and Tang San discovered his Clear Sky Hammer heritage. The group visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Rongrong evolved her Martial Soul and Xiao Ze proved his strength to Gu Rong.

• Yu Tianheng offered to bring the Shrek group to Lightning Academy, while Xiao Ze declared that his team would reach the tournament finals, and Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to investigate him.
• Xiao Ze questioned Zhu Zhuqing’s memories of fleeing the Star Luo Empire, and she decided to ask Zhu Zhuyun directly about her intentions during the tournament.
• Ning Rongrong and the others completed the Azure Spirit Secret Realm, while Xiao Ze gained the Agricultural Sprites Chi Kai and Qing Lu and began cultivating red beans and mung beans.
• Xiao Ze’s bean cakes increased Zhu Zhuqing’s Soul Ring Age, and he explained how Faith, Merit, and Deity inheritances could lead to godhood.
• Tang San defeated Tailong in the Soul Arena, then revealed his Clear Sky Hammer during a fight with Taino, prompting Tai Tan to recognize him as Tang Hao’s son and pledge the Strength Clan’s allegiance.
• Meng Yiran joined Xiao Ze’s group at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Xiao Ze and the women continued cultivating and Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolved into the Eight Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Rongrong brought Xiao Ze and the others to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where she revealed her evolved Martial Soul and received the sixty-thousand-year Phantom Star Glazed Crown Soul Bone.
• Gu Rong sparred with Xiao Ze to judge whether he could protect Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Ze fought back with Chi Kai and Qing Lu until Ning Rongrong stopped the match and Chen Xin called him unfathomable.

Xiao Ze helped Ning Rongrong and his companions grow stronger before claiming the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ power and artifacts. After accepting Liu Erlong’s request to hunt a powerful Soul Beast, he traveled with her into the Star Dou Great Forest to seek both a soul ring and treasure.

• Ning Rongrong received a sixty-thousand-year Head Soul Bone, and Xiao Ze traded crops for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Heart Separation Control manual, which she taught him and his companions.
• Xiao Ze prepared a starry birthday celebration for Ning Rongrong, while Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Meng Yiran underwent Martial Soul evolutions.
• Ye Lingling received her family’s heirlooms, including the Seed of Life and a Demigod Artifact hairpin, and gave the seed to Xiao Ze.
• Xiao Ze cultivated at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then met the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings and gained a fourth Soul Ring, Dragon Wings, and the Dragon King’s Sickle.
• Xiao Ze absorbed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well into his Sea of Consciousness, strengthened his Soul Rings and Soul Bones, and helped Ning Rongrong and Meng Yiran obtain their fourth Soul Rings.
• Xiao Ze agreed to join the academy Exchange Tournament and sparred with Dugu Bo, whose poison and attacks his Spirits overcame.
• After Liu Erlong asked Xiao Ze to help her obtain an Eighth Soul Ring, he agreed to travel with her to the Star Dou Great Forest despite his companions’ objections.
• Liu Erlong and Xiao Ze headed toward a Lava Lake while searching for a powerful Soul Beast and treasure, then camped together overnight.

Xiao Ze and Liu Erlong found the Heavenly Craft Soul Tool Record, and Xiao Ze began turning its knowledge into Soul Tools and a way to expose Xiao Wu’s identity. Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to seize control of Lightning Academy ended with Yu Ze’s death, and the story left Yu Xiaogang in Ye Qingli’s hands after Flender paid for treatment.

• Xiao Ze and Liu Erlong defeated the Crimson Flame Yan Dragon Lizard, then followed the Ancient Parchment to a hidden vault in the Ghost Face Small Forest.
• Xiao Ze and Liu Erlong opened the vault and found the Heavenly Craft Soul Tool Record, which Xiao Ze later translated with help from a history book Ning Rongrong found.
• Xiao Ze recruited Old Wang to make Soul Tools, and Old Wang finished a First-Rank Firefly Sword that Ning Rongrong demonstrated with a sword dance.
• Xiao Ze told the women that Xiao Wu was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit, then refined Stealth Breath Pills to conceal her aura.
• Xiao Ze and Ning Rongrong used Xiao Xu and the Glazed Chamber of Commerce to lead Xiao Wu to the pills, confirming their suspicion when she bought all six.
• Yu Xiaogang poisoned Yu Ze’s wine and lured him to a forest, where Flender and Zhao Wuji confronted him while Xiao Ze and the women watched.
• Yu Ze fought Flender and Zhao Wuji despite the poison, unleashed his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon True Body, and died after striking Yu Xiaogang with a lightning storm.
• Flender brought the critically injured Yu Xiaogang to Ye Mansion, where Ye Qingli demanded five times her usual fee and Xiao Ze watched with a smile.

Xiao Ze’s group navigated the fallout from Yu Ze’s death, competed for places on Lightning Academy’s team, and embarrassed Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun with a spreading brothel scandal. At the Five Elements Academy Exchange Tournament, Xiao Ze’s team faced Blazing Fire Academy and gained the upper hand in their opening match.

• Ye Qingli healed Yu Xiaogang for five thousand Gold Soul Coins, while the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect began investigating Yu Ze’s death and suspected Yu Xiaogang and Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Ze named Peanut and Sunflower’s new Spirit forms Di Zun and Guang Yao, while Ye Qingli healed Flender and Zhao Wuji for twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Xiao Wu bought Stealth Breath Pills with money from Tang San, who later found Yu Xiaogang’s Spirit Hall card containing one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Yu Luomian questioned Yu Xiaogang about Yu Ze’s death, and Yu Xiaogang denied responsibility before Flender revived him and helped him prepare to compete for team places.
• Yu Luomian opened a selection tournament, where Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun won early matches but Ma Hongjun was forced to fight repeatedly and badly injured.
• After fifteen days of competition, Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ning Rongrong earned regular places, while Oscar and Xiao Wu became substitutes and Ma Hongjun and Zhu Linlin failed to qualify.
• Ning Rongrong led Xiao Ze and the others into Yihongyuan, where they drugged and bound Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun and wrote humiliating titles on their foreheads, sparking rumors across Heaven Dou City.
• Yu Luomian announced Yu Ze’s death at the Five Elements Academy Exchange Tournament, and Xiao Ze’s team began its match against Blazing Fire Academy with his Spirit forms and evolved support abilities overwhelming the opposing team’s attacks.