Recaps

Jiang Bai and Qian Renxue went together to Yelin City’s lantern festival after promising to attend, enjoying the celebration hand in hand. As they headed toward the great phoenix lantern, an unseen watcher stared at them from an attic window.

• After sword practice, Qian Renxue invited Jiang Bai to Yelin City’s lantern festival, and they sealed their promise with a pinky swear.
• Jiang Bai prepared for the outing, dressed carefully, and met Qian Renxue at the Spirit Academy gates.
• Jiang Bai and Qian Renxue arrived in Yelin City and marveled at the crowded, brightly lit festival streets.
• Jiang Bai took Qian Renxue’s hand as they walked toward the phoenix lantern and explored the festival together.
• A watcher in an inconspicuous attic fixed cold, venomous eyes on Jiang Bai and Qian Renxue.

Jiang Bai and Qian Renxue watched their flower lanterns drift along the river, then shared tea as Jiang Bai recited a poem that moved her. He gave her two handmade puppets, leaving her smiling over the crude Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King.

• Qian Renxue and Jiang Bai released their flower lanterns into the river and followed them to a nearby teahouse.
• Qian Renxue spotted their lanterns drifting together and gazed dreamily at the river from the terrace.
• Jiang Bai recited a poem about searching for someone through a crowd and finding her where the lantern light faded.
• Jiang Bai presented Qian Renxue with handmade puppets of a little Angel and a Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King.
• Qian Renxue declared that the little Angel should win, then examined the puppets and called the crude one ugly while smiling.

Jiang Bai and Qian Renxue shared a kiss and promised to be together forever, while Bibi Dong watched with jealousy and resolved to kill him. After Jiang Bai returned to his dormitory, an icy voice transmission summoned him to the back mountain.

• Qian Renxue thanked Jiang Bai for the hand puppets, embraced him, and kissed him.
• Bibi Dong watched Jiang Bai and Qian Renxue together, remembering Yu Xiaogang and her rejection of Qian Renxue as a child.
• Bibi Dong grew jealous of Qian Renxue's affection for Jiang Bai and decided that Jiang Bai had to die.
• Jiang Bai and Qian Renxue returned to the academy holding hands, embraced, and promised to be together forever.
• Jiang Bai returned to his dormitory, where an icy voice transmission told him to come to the back mountain.

Jiang Bai was summoned to the back mountain by Bibi Dong, who attacked him after challenging his claim of loyalty. Near death, he revealed his Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda with three purple Spirit Rings, leaving Bibi Dong stunned and questioning Yu Xiaogang’s theory.

• Jiang Bai followed a voice transmission to a clearing by the river and discovered Bibi Dong waiting for him.
• Bibi Dong accused Jiang Bai of not respecting her and pressed him with her Title Douluo aura.
• Jiang Bai claimed loyalty to Bibi Dong but could not answer when she asked about the second lesson he had learned.
• Bibi Dong unleashed her full pressure, then struck Jiang Bai and broke his ribs.
• Jiang Bai summoned his Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, revealing three purple Spirit Rings and astonishing Bibi Dong.

Bibi Dong defeated Jiang Bai and pierced him with her Death-Soul Spider Emperor Martial Soul, then threw his body into the river. At the Worship Hall, Qian Daoliu listened to the storm and wondered whether he had done the right thing.

• Jiang Bai summoned three dragon beasts from his mutated Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda and let them possess him together.
• Bibi Dong broke through Jiang Bai’s defenses and overwhelmed him in their clash, leaving him badly injured.
• Bibi Dong impaled Jiang Bai with all eight legs of her Death-Soul Spider Emperor Martial Soul, and he appeared to die.
• Bibi Dong kicked Jiang Bai’s body into the river and left as the storm began.
• Qian Daoliu knelt before the Angel God statue and quietly said he hoped he had done the right thing.

Qian Daoliu agreed to Bibi Dong’s plan involving Jiang Bai in exchange for her promise to treat Qian Renxue like a mother should. When Jiang Bai vanished, Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong, learned she had killed him, and attacked her in a fury before Bibi Dong stopped her with Divine Slaughter’s Domain.

• Bibi Dong offered to change how she treated Qian Renxue if Qian Daoliu gave her Jiang Bai, and Qian Daoliu implicitly agreed.
• Qian Daoliu worried that Jiang Bai’s mortal lifespan would bring Qian Renxue sorrow and tried to calm himself through prayer.
• Qian Renxue searched the academy and back mountain after Jiang Bai failed to appear, then suspected Bibi Dong had taken him.
• Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong at the Pope’s Palace, and Bibi Dong admitted she had killed Jiang Bai.
• Qian Renxue awakened her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and charged at Bibi Dong, who halted her with Divine Slaughter’s Domain.

After Bibi Dong killed Jiang Bai, Qian Renxue confronted Qian Daoliu over his knowledge and consent, then grieved alone. The next morning, she demanded the Angel God Trial and vowed to avenge Jiang Bai and kill Bibi Dong.

• Bibi Dong overpowered Qian Renxue, but Qian Daoliu intervened before she could strike her again.
• Qian Renxue demanded that Qian Daoliu kill Bibi Dong, then realized he had known Jiang Bai would die and rejected his explanation.
• Qian Renxue returned to her bedchamber and mourned Jiang Bai while clutching the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King puppet.
• The next morning, Qian Renxue demanded that the Great Pontiff initiate her Divine Examination, despite Qian Daoliu's warning to wait.
• Qian Daoliu declared the Angel God Trial for Qian Renxue, who vowed to avenge Jiang Bai and kill Bibi Dong.

After Bibi Dong threw Jiang Bai into a river, his three dragon beasts rescued him and carried him into Star Dou Forest to seek help from the Emerald Swans. The swans stopped his bleeding but could not remove the corruption of Eternal Trauma, so they decided to ask their clan chief.

• The Fire Dragon, Earth Dragon, and Wind Dragon guarded Jiang Bai as he lay unconscious in a sheltered cave.
• The Wind Dragon proposed seeking the Emerald Swans, whose healing abilities might save Jiang Bai.
• The three dragon beasts carried Jiang Bai into Star Dou Forest and traveled toward an Emerald Swan lake.
• The dragons landed near several Emerald Swans and asked them to help their gravely injured master.
• A large Emerald Swan used emerald light on Jiang Bai, but the corruption of Eternal Trauma remained, so the swans considered asking their clan chief.

The three dragons brought the unconscious Jiang Bai to Bi Ji, who healed his physical wounds and allowed them to wait near the lakes. Three-Eyed Golden Lion arrived and teased Bi Ji about her interest in Jiang Bai, leaving her suggestion unresolved.

• The three dragons followed the Emerald Swans to Lake Heart Island and asked Bi Ji to save Jiang Bai.
• Bi Ji healed Jiang Bai’s wounds and found that his soul remained asleep, so she told the dragons to wait for him to awaken.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion visited Bi Ji and spotted Jiang Bai lying unconscious.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion teased Bi Ji about liking Jiang Bai, and Bi Ji flicked her forehead.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion rubbed her forehead and replied, “Hard to say.”

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion secretly examined Jiang Bai with her Eye of Destiny, then touched her forehead to his and triggered a mysterious exchange of memories and information. Bi Ji sensed the event and arrived as the Three-Eyed Golden Lion staggered back, confused by a new connection within her soul.

• Bi Ji scolded the Three-Eyed Golden Lion for sneaking away and explained that Jiang Bai's Martial Soul bound the three dragons' fates to his.
• After Bi Ji and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion left, the Three-Headed Dragon Beast guarded Jiang Bai by the lakeshore.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion slipped back to the lakeshore at midnight and used her Eye of Destiny to inspect Jiang Bai's immense fortune and unusual threads of fate.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion pressed her vertical eye against Jiang Bai's brow, triggering a soul-level exchange of memories and information that the Three-Headed Dragon Beast could not stop.
• Bi Ji sensed the disturbance, flew to the lakeshore, and found the Three-Eyed Golden Lion confused and shaken.

Three-Eyed Golden Lion used the Eye of Destiny to view Jiang Bai’s memories and was shocked by his extraordinary fortune. After Bi Ji helped him recover, Jiang Bai awoke, left the Star Dou Forest’s core region with the Three-Headed Dragon Beast, and resolved to grow stronger before confronting Bibi Dong.

• Three-Eyed Golden Lion saw Jiang Bai’s childhood, his lightning-struck Martial Soul awakening, his love for Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong’s attack, then sensed the immense fortune protecting him.
• Bi Ji comforted Three-Eyed Golden Lion, told the Three-Headed Dragon Beast that Jiang Bai would recover, and instructed them to leave the next day.
• Jiang Bai awoke beside Emerald Lake, remembered Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong, and thanked the Three-Headed Dragon Beast for staying by him.
• Jiang Bai bowed toward Lake Heart Island in gratitude, then left the forest’s core region on Wind Dragon with the Three-Headed Dragon Beast.
• Jiang Bai remembered Bibi Dong’s attack and decided that he was too weak to face her directly.

Jiang Bai traveled toward Niuma Village, stopping in Suotuo City to rest and buy supplies. There, he found Flender’s curio shop and bought a rare crystal before Flender noticed Jiang Bai’s extraordinary strength.

• Jiang Bai recovered in the outskirts of the Star Dou Forest, then ordered Wind Dragon to carry him toward Niuma Village in the Balak Kingdom.
• After ten days of travel, Jiang Bai arrived in Suotuo City, ate at a restaurant, and bought tools, building materials, and gifts for people in his village.
• Jiang Bai spotted Flender’s curio shop and entered to examine its wares.
• Jiang Bai recognized a dark-yellow Crystal Board as the material for Dragon Whisker Needles and bought it from Flender for one hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Flender examined Jiang Bai and sensed that the young man was a Soul Elder with unusually powerful Soul Power.

Jiang Bai returned to Niuma Village after six years away and reunited with Xihai, who welcomed him home. Meanwhile, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion tried to sneak into the human world, and Bi Ji agreed to accompany her.

• Flender waited at Shrek Academy for Jiang Bai, but Jiang Bai had already left Suotuo City and flown home on the Wind Dragon.
• Jiang Bai reached Niuma Village and recognized Xihai, who was herding cattle with faint traces of Soul Power in his whip strikes.
• Jiang Bai told Xihai he had come home and agreed to have dinner at his house before visiting the village chief and his mother.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion tried to leave the Star Dou Forest to see the human world, but Bi Ji stopped her.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion persuaded Bi Ji to accompany her, and Bi Ji agreed to make the trip with her.

Jiang Bai returned to Niuma Village, honored his mother and said goodbye to the people who had cared for him before traveling to Nuoding City. After learning that Nuoding Academy’s enrollment had passed, he began planning how to torment Yu Xiaogang without exposing himself.

• Jiang Bai visited Xihai and the village chief grandmother, shared breakfast with the old woman, and brought her gifts.
• Jiang Bai rebuilt his mother Jiang Ning’s grave, made offerings, and vowed to grow stronger and return.
• Jiang Bai said goodbye to Xihai and the village chief grandmother, then left Niuma Village with rice cakes for the road.
• Jiang Bai traveled to Nuoding City, checked into the Oak Inn, and learned that Nuoding Academy’s enrollment period had passed.
• Jiang Bai considered ways to torment Yu Xiaogang while avoiding Tang Hao’s attention and keeping Yu Xiaogang alive to guide Tang San.

Jiang Bai sent his Fire Dragon to attack Yu Xiaogang in his office at Nuoding Academy, seeking revenge for Bibi Dong’s attack. The flames struck Yu Xiaogang, and he screamed in terror.

• Jiang Bai bribed a gatekeeper to learn where Yu Xiaogang kept his office at Nuoding Academy.
• Jiang Bai watched the academy from a nearby restaurant and summoned his Fire Dragon from the Seven-Story Glazed Pagoda.
• Jiang Bai ordered the Fire Dragon to burn Yu Xiaogang without killing him, explaining that he wanted to torment him for being Bibi Dong’s former lover.
• The Fire Dragon shrank into a small birdlike shape and flew toward Yu Xiaogang’s office.
• Yu Xiaogang reviewed records from Tang San’s Spirit Ring hunt and imagined the recognition his theories would bring him.
• The Fire Dragon burst through the office window in flames, setting Yu Xiaogang ablaze and making him scream.

Jiang Bai’s Fire Dragon set Yu Xiaogang and his office ablaze, and Tang San rescued his teacher with water and a urine bucket. Yu Xiaogang survived but discovered that his research notes had burned to ash, while Jiang Bai watched from a restaurant window.

• Jiang Bai’s Fire Dragon ignited Yu Xiaogang and his bookshelf, then vanished.
• Tang San rushed in and accidentally paralyzed Yu Xiaogang with his Blue Silver Grass before running to find water.
• Tang San doused Yu Xiaogang with clean water and urine, extinguished the flames, and dragged him into the corridor.
• The teachers put out the bookshelf fire, but Yu Xiaogang’s research notes and books were destroyed.
• Yu Xiaogang blamed the teachers for arriving too late, then collapsed as Tang San supported him.
• Jiang Bai watched the aftermath from a private room in the restaurant.

Jiang Bai left Nuoding City, while Jiang Li'er arrived and explored the streets before impulsively attacking Tang San. She fled after striking him, leaving Tang San furious and injured.

• Jiang Bai summoned the Wind Dragon outside Nuoding City and flew north.
• Jiang Li'er entered Nuoding City, bought a dragon-shaped sugar figurine, and enjoyed tasting it.
• Jiang Li'er sensed Tang San approaching and felt an inexplicable urge to attack him.
• Tang San explained that he was carrying herbs to treat Yu Xiaogang's burns when Jiang Li'er ordered him to stop.
• Jiang Li'er punched Tang San several times, then fled when he tried to retaliate.
• Tang San was left with swollen cheeks and raged at Jiang Li'er for attacking him.

Jiang Li'er beat Tang San, while Bi Ji’s intervention deterred Tang Hao from retaliating. Two and a half months later, Jiang Bai reached Dragon City to prepare for his next Spirit Ring and began searching for Whale Rubber.

• Jiang Li'er beat Tang San and left before he could question her.
• Bi Ji blocked Tang Hao’s pressure, then took Jiang Li'er away and urged her to stop causing trouble.
• Tang Hao decided not to pursue Jiang Li'er after sensing her powerful protector, though he wondered where they had come from.
• Two and a half months later, Jiang Bai arrived in Dragon City, where he planned to find an ice-element dragon beast for his fourth Spirit Ring.
• Jiang Bai entered a medicinal shop and asked the clerk for thousand-year and ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber.

Jiang Bai bought Whale Rubber and endured the painful effects of consuming five thousand-year portions followed by a portion of ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber. After the second, more dangerous transformation, his bones, meridians, and internal organs had become much tougher and stronger.

• Jiang Bai bought five portions of thousand-year Whale Rubber and one portion of ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber, then rented a room at the Cedar Inn for a month.
• Jiang Bai summoned Fire Dragon to melt the five thousand-year portions and drank the liquid before enduring its heat in an icy bathtub while circulating his Soul Power.
• After two shichen, Jiang Bai recovered and noticed his scars had faded, his strength had increased, and his meridians had grown broader and tougher.
• Jiang Bai had Fire Dragon melt the ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber and drank the liquid, underestimating its power.
• Jiang Bai struggled through intense pain as the Whale Rubber expanded and healed his meridians, then emerged with a jade-like sheen and greatly strengthened bones, meridians, and internal organs.

After reaching level forty, Jiang Bai searched the Icebound Forest for a suitable ice-attributed draconic soul beast for his next Spirit Ring. He found several candidates but no ideal target yet, and continued looking for an Ice Dragon.

• Jiang Bai broke through to level forty after two and a half months of cultivation and prepared to seek a new Spirit Ring.
• Jiang Bai flew on Wind Dragon to the Icebound Forest and sent Eldest, Second, and himself to search separately for a strong draconic ice soul beast.
• Jiang Bai encountered Ice Plain Elk and an Ice Giant Python, then found a roughly two-thousand-year-old Frost Dragon Lizard and noted its location before moving on.
• Jiang Bai and the three dragon beasts searched the forest for several days, finding an Ice Soul Dragon Turtle, Frost Wing Flying Bats, Snow Shadow Leopards, and Aurora Foxes.
• Jiang Bai spotted a rare Mirror Image Beast but left it alone because he was still seeking an Ice Dragon.

After searching the Icebound Forest without finding a pure-blooded Ice Dragon, Jiang Bai traveled with Fire Dragon into the Far North. There, he sensed a powerful ice-attributed dragon near a hidden lake, but had not yet found it.

• Jiang Bai chose to search the Far North after finding only a Frost Earth Dragon in the Icebound Forest.
• Jiang Bai rode Fire Dragon north into the Far North, where the extreme cold made travel difficult and weakened Fire Dragon.
• Jiang Bai and Fire Dragon spent two and a half days searching among the Far North’s soul beasts without finding an Ice Dragon.
• A blizzard forced Jiang Bai and Fire Dragon to shelter in an ice cave before they resumed their search to the east.
• Jiang Bai sensed a powerful ice-attributed dragon’s aura and followed it to an ice lake hidden among the peaks.

Jiang Bai found an eight-thousand-year-old Ice Dragon at the Ice Lake and attacked it to claim it as his fourth Spirit Ring. He struck the dragon with Dragon Whisker Needles, leaving it in sudden pain as their fight continued.

• Jiang Bai spotted the Ice Dragon in its nest and considered how to overcome its home-field advantage and persuade it to become his Spirit Ring.
• Jiang Bai prepared Dragon Whisker Needles made from Hair Gold and summoned the three dragon beasts to possess him.
• Jiang Bai approached the Ice Lake and launched a fireball at the waking Ice Dragon, triggering an explosive clash of flame and icy breath.
• The Ice Dragon took to the air and shattered Jiang Bai's frozen-earth barrier with its icy breath.
• Jiang Bai charged toward the Ice Dragon and fired three Dragon Whisker Needles into its open mouth, causing it to recoil in pain and terror.

Jiang Bai defeated the Ice Dragon and absorbed it as the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda’s fourth Spirit Ring. As he prepared to leave the Far North with the Fire Dragon, a massive avalanche swept down from Xueling Main Peak.

• Jiang Bai used the Dragon Whisker Needles to distract the Ice Dragon, then struck its left wing with a flaming greatsword and brought it down.
• Jiang Bai demanded the Ice Dragon sacrifice itself, and the three dragon beasts persuaded it that it would retain its soul and continue cultivating.
• The Ice Dragon willingly sacrificed itself, and Jiang Bai absorbed its Spirit Ring as the pagoda’s fourth ring.
• Jiang Bai summoned the Ice Dragon, named it Fourth, and watched it return to the pagoda’s inner space with the other dragon beasts.
• Jiang Bai mounted the Fire Dragon to leave the Far North, but an enormous avalanche began crashing down from Xueling Main Peak.

After an avalanche, Jiang Bai saved a young Ice Jade Scorpion from a falling boulder, only for the boulder to shatter beside him. Ice Empress appeared, intrigued by Jiang Bai and the four kinds of dragon aura she sensed from him.

• The avalanche buried the ice plains, leaving injured soul beasts and exposed prey for surviving hunters.
• Three young Ice Jade Scorpions dug up an Ice Horn Deer, but a heavy ice boulder broke loose and rolled toward them.
• Jiang Bai held up the boulder and urged the trapped Ice Jade Scorpion to flee, saving it from being crushed.
• The boulder suddenly shattered into fragments as Jiang Bai eased his strength.
• Ice Empress appeared beside Jiang Bai and studied him, noticing his unusual power and that he had saved one of her clan's young.

Jiang Bai negotiated with the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, offering the location of a Myriad-Year Profound Ice Cave in exchange for ten years of protection and an agreed share of its treasure. After both spirit beasts swore an oath in the name of the Ice God, they set off with him toward the cave.

• Jiang Bai proposed trading the location of a Myriad-Year Profound Ice Cave for ten years of protection and a share of any Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow found there.
• The Ice Empress considered the offer and questioned whether Jiang Bai feared she would betray him after finding the treasure.
• The Snow Empress arrived, learned of the proposed trade, and agreed to Jiang Bai's terms.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress swore oaths in the name of the Ice God, binding them to the agreement.
• The Snow Empress lifted Jiang Bai and the Ice Empress into the air, and they flew south toward the ice cave.