Recaps

Huangfu Ji escaped Yuan Hao’s control long enough to enter the academy, gain his first Soul Ring, and build friendships with Liu Erlong and the Work-Study Students. After surviving an assassination attempt, he and Liu Erlong developed a powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Huangfu Ji remained trapped in Qingyang City under Yuan Hao’s watch.

• Huangfu Ji awakened the Sacred Martial War Dragon with Innate Full Soul Power, but Yuan Hao concealed his talent and tried to keep him confined and weak.
• Huangfu Ji exposed Yuan Hao’s restrictions to the people of Qingyang City, forcing Yuan Hao to let him attend the academy.
• Huangfu Ji obtained a four-hundred-year Crimson Fang Tiger Soul Ring and reached Soul Power Level 12.
• Huangfu Ji defeated Yuan Ling in a duel, securing an end to the bullying of Work-Study Students and winning their support.
• Huangfu Ji and Liu Erlong sparred, sensed a resonance between their Martial Souls, and later studied Martial Soul Fusion Skills together.
• An assassin fired an arrow at Huangfu Ji in the academy, but he dodged it and Cheng Yao failed to catch the attacker.
• Huangfu Ji reached level thirty and Liu Erlong level twenty-seven, then they fused into a giant dragon wielding golden flames, lightning, and golden slashes.

Huangfu Ji left Qingyang Duchy for Heaven Dou City, survived an assassination attempt, and recruited Tang Yuehua’s help to win Xing Hu’s allegiance by finding medicine for his mother. After gaining power from rare herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and sending Golden Leaf Grass to Xing Hu, Huangfu Ji arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Huangfu Ji chose to leave Qingyang Duchy for Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Yuan Hao approved his departure and secretly arranged an assassination beyond the duchy’s borders.
• Huangfu Ji survived attacks by masked Soul Masters and joined Tang Yuehua’s caravan after Clear Sky Sect soul masters drove off his pursuers.
• Huangfu Ji watched Xing Hu kill Meng Jin in a Great Soul Arena match and decided to recruit Xing Hu by curing his ill mother.
• Huangfu Ji and Tang Yuehua found Xing Hu in the forest, and Xing Hu pledged his life to Huangfu Ji if he brought Golden Leaf Grass and cured his mother.
• Huangfu Ji evaded his watchers in Heaven Dou City, found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and ate the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Huangfu Ji found Golden Leaf Grass and entrusted it to Tang Yuehua through Tang Xiao so it could be delivered to Xing Hu.
• Huangfu Ji left Heaven Dou City and reached Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where a teacher escorted him to meet Meng Shenji.

Huangfu Ji strengthened his position through training, a new intelligence network, and victories in the Soul Master exchange. Zhou Mu urged him to expand Qingyang into an empire, while Xue Ye tried to keep him close with a mansion, money, and the promise of a new title.

• Huangfu Ji arrived at the Royal Academy, revealed himself as Grand Duke Qingyang, and promised five displaced youths that they would return to overthrow the Yuan Family.
• Huangfu Ji trained relentlessly while Wang Zhi left the academy to build an intelligence network, recruiting former slaves and training spies with Zhou Mu’s help.
• Huangfu Ji defeated Langston and Yan Ming in academy battles, then spent two years cultivating until he reached Soul Power Level forty.
• Huangfu Ji hunted a seventeen-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear with Meng Shenji, absorbed its Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and gained a Left Arm Bone.
• Huangfu Ji joined the Martial Soul Exchange against Star Luo, defeated Zhu Yi despite their Soul Power gap, and declined Xiao Zuo’s offer of Spirit Hall support.
• Wang Zhi brought Zhou Mu to Huangfu Ji, and Zhou Mu outlined a plan to secure Qingyang, conquer neighboring territories, and eventually unify the continent.
• Tang Yuehua overheard their plans and warned that Qingyang could not defeat the Empire, while Xue Ye and his advisors decided to keep Huangfu Ji close with a title and generous rewards.
• Huangfu Ji received a mansion and more than a million Gold Soul Coins, moved into the mansion, and appointed Zhou Mu as steward.