Recaps

Mu Rong built the Demon Blade business, gained powerful allies, and trained until he could seek his first Spirit Fragment. The arc ended with him surviving the absorption of a nearly eight-hundred-year fragment and reaching soul power level twelve.

• Mu Rong refused Bi Bi’s invitation, escaped Ju Yuan City, and reached Holy Soul Village, where Old Monk took him in.
• Mu Rong awakened his Ice-Elemental Martial Soul, entered Ju Yuan Academy with Suo Ling, and used his cold poison to defeat Tang San and his companions.
• Mu Rong enlisted Lin in a card-prize business, secured funds from Lin Changhe, and opened the Demon Blade Benevolent Merchant Hall, whose success drew the attention of major powers.
• Ning Fengzhi met Mu Rong and offered his support, while Mu Rong hinted that Golden Soul Seed could evolve the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and received a company token from Dai Mo.
• Mu Rong returned to the village, funded roads and lodging for merchants, and trained until he broke through to level ten.
• Mu Rong and his guards entered the Star Dou Great Forest to find his first Spirit Fragment, where they encountered a giant python and Mu Bei’s injured group.
• Mu Rong killed the python and absorbed its unusually powerful fragment despite the danger, completing the process seven hours later at soul power level twelve.

Mu Rong settled into Soul Heaven Academy, grew stronger through arena battles and the hunt for a nine-hundred-year Ice Crystal Dragon, and planned a path to evolve his Ice Phoenix. After he and his friends beat Jade Little Blade, Mu Erlong and Zhang Lanfeng tracked them down, leaving Mu Rong fighting Mu Erlong.

• Mu Rong chose Soul Heaven Academy with Suo Ling and the forest, then defeated opponents in academy preliminaries and the Great Soul Arena.
• After rising to rank fourteen and protecting himself with a Lu family guest elder token, Mu Rong gathered rare-herb records and resolved to search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Mu Rong trained Suo Ling, reached the Great Soul Scholar realm, and asked King Ying to help him hunt an Ice Crystal Dragon Soul Fragment.
• Mu Rong persuaded King Ying and Zhou the Old Axe to capture a nine-hundred-year Ice Crystal Dragon, then killed it and absorbed its Soul Seed Light.
• Mu Rong gained a second soul ring and demonstrated Ice Crystal Wave before telling Lin and Suo Ling that he planned to leave for the front lines in a year.
• Mu Rong, Lin, and Suo Ling attacked Jade Little Blade after he made claims about plant-type martial spirits, and Mu Rong took his Soul Eater and examined his clan records.
• Mu Rong studied a route to evolve his Ice Phoenix with rare herbs and dragon blood, while Jade Little Blade vowed revenge and Mu Rong shared a cultivation method with Suo Ling and Zhang Lanfeng.
• Mu Erlong and Zhang Lanfeng found Mu Rong and his friends, and Mu Rong used Frozen Dark Domain against Mu Erlong’s Fire Dragon Breath before she burned his Ice Phoenix’s tail.

After the slaughter of Mu Rong’s allies and villages, Mu Rong joined the army, fought in the war against Star Luo, and grew stronger before leading his companions away from the battlefield. He reached Sunset Town and set his sights on the Ice-and-Fire Two-Pole Eyes, while Ka Qi returned home to discover his wife’s betrayal.

• Mu Erlong attacked Mu Rong and his companions, but Mu Rong escaped, and King Ying intervened as Zhang Lanfeng tried to dismiss the fight as a misunderstanding.
• Mu Rong learned that Linglong Village and Lone Wolf Village had been massacred, then killed an assassin who said he acted on orders from Jade Little Blade, Mu Erlong, and Zhang Lanfeng.
• Mu Rong and his companions fled to the border, enlisted in the army, and fought Star Luo forces, where Mu Rong’s poison and ice skills helped his squad survive and win battles.
• Ge Long promoted Mu Rong after his battlefield contributions, and Mu Rong later broke through to become a Soul Venerable before traveling to the Ice-Sealed Forest with an escort.
• Mu Rong and Jade Little Blade killed a thousand-year Wolf King and a 3,500-year-old Ice-Horned Python, after which Mu Rong absorbed the python’s soul ring and gained Ice Phoenix Fragment.
• When a Star Luo attack threw the camp into chaos, Mu Rong led Kaqi, Ye Lin, and Suo Ling out of the fighting and announced they would head to Sunset Forest.
• Dai Tianfeng’s forces suffered heavy losses after Spirit Hall intervened, while Qian Xunji ordered operations to disrupt Star Luo and force its withdrawal.
• Mu Rong’s group reached Sunset Town, where Mu Rong chose it as their base and prepared to seek the Ice-and-Fire Two-Pole Eyes, and meanwhile, Ka Qi returned home, found his wife with another man, and attacked him.

Mu Rong transformed his martial soul, strengthened his companions, and began building an academy for overlooked students while hunting sea beasts and selling soul bones to raise funds. The new academy opened beside Shrek Academy, where old conflicts resurfaced as Mu Rong sailed onward with money and supplies for his plans.

• After realizing he had killed his family, Ka Ka collapsed in despair, while Mu Rong continued searching Sunset Forest and escaped an Earth-Cave Demon Spider into a poisonous valley.
• Mu Rong used the valley’s rare herbs to refine a pill, raised his soul power to rank forty, transformed his martial soul into the Ice Vein Dragon, and gained new domain and soul-bone abilities.
• Mu Rong killed a Void-Devouring Dragon, absorbed its soul orb to reach level forty-seven, and returned to Sunset Town with pills for his companions.
• The pills evolved Kakashi’s blade and the wolves belonging to Suo Ling and the little girl, and Mu Rong led his companions into the forest to hunt soul beasts and grow stronger.
• Mu Rong planned an academy for mistreated students, named it Lingering Light Academy, and sent his companions to recruit students and establish it near Shrek Academy.
• Mu Rong poisoned the Sea of Death, killed more than a thousand soul beasts, collected four poisonous soul bones, and sold the bones to fund the academy.
• Lingering Light Academy opened beside Shrek Academy, where conflicts with Flender and Zhang Lanfeng’s group revived old grievances and drew attention to the new school’s recruitment rules.
• Mu Rong bought a Heart of the Sea Orchid storage ring with the proceeds from his soul-bone sales and continued sailing toward the city of the sea.