Recaps

Xu Tianming entered the assessment arena and insisted on facing a soul beast without summoning his Martial Soul, while Jing Hongchen learned more about his imperial-family background. The test began with a five-thousand-year Ghost Leopard, and Jing Hongchen rebuked Ma Yun for choosing a beast far stronger than the planned opponent as Xu Tianming faced its attack.

• Ma Yun arranged Xu Tianming’s assessment and warned him to be careful against a five-thousand-year soul beast.
• Jing Hongchen arrived, learned Xu Tianming’s identity and extraordinary Soul Rings, and explained that he was the son of a cautious man from Dongyang City.
• Xu Tianming refused to summon his Martial Soul and urged Jing Hongchen to begin the assessment.
• A five-thousand-year Ghost Leopard charged from the passage and lunged at Xu Tianming.
• Jing Hongchen questioned Ma Yun about the unexpectedly powerful opponent, and Ma Yun admitted he had chosen it to test Xu Tianming.

Xu Tianming killed a five-thousand-year Ghost Leopard with one sword strike, then bargained with Jing Hongchen for a left arm Secret Method Spirit Bone in exchange for fighting a two-thousand-year soul beast barehanded. He crushed the Great Strength Gorilla’s arms with his fists, leaving the trial’s outcome unresolved.

• Xu Tianming split the five-thousand-year Ghost Leopard in two with a single slash, stunning Jing Hongchen and Ma Yun.
• Ma Yun told Jing Hongchen that Xu Tianming had forged the saber himself from Qingjingang, though it seemed unusually tough and almost alive.
• Jing Hongchen challenged Xu Tianming to fight a two-thousand-year soul beast without a weapon, and Xu Tianming negotiated a left arm Secret Method Spirit Bone as his reward.
• Xu Tianming put his saber aside and refused to summon his Martial Soul when a Great Strength Gorilla charged him.
• Xu Tianming's golden-red fists struck the Great Strength Gorilla's raised arms and smashed them into irregular shapes, sending the beast flying.

Xu Tianming defeated a 2,500-year-old Great Strength Gorilla and went with Jing Hongchen to discuss his training at Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy. When Jing Hongchen asked which of the academy’s two training paths he would choose, Xu Tianming’s God-Level Choice system offered him a divine artifact for either option.

• Xu Tianming crushed the Great Strength Gorilla’s arms, defeated it without killing it, and passed the assessment.
• Jing Hongchen invited Xu Tianming to his office, where they discussed Xu Tianming’s parents and the academy’s training paths.
• Jing Hongchen asked Xu Tianming to choose between focusing on Spirit Master abilities and training as a Soul Engineer.
• Xu Tianming’s God-Level Choice system offered him the Angel Holy Sword for choosing Spirit Master training or the Book of Curses for choosing Soul Engineer training.
• Xu Tianming considered the Angel Holy Sword’s possible connection to Qian Renxue and worried that he could not reveal it or use it against Tang San.

Xu Tianming chose to study Soul Tools at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy, explaining that no one there could guide his unusual Martial Soul. After Jing Hongchen arranged his dormitory, Xu Tianming reminded him about the promised Spirit Bone.

• Xu Tianming chose the Soul Engineer training path and claimed the Book of Curses reward without claiming it immediately.
• Xu Tianming told Jing Hongchen that he was only a first-class Soul Engineer and revealed his sun-and-moon twin-pupil Body Martial Soul.
• Jing Hongchen felt the effects of Xu Tianming's Martial Soul and admitted the academy could not guide his Martial Soul cultivation.
• Jing Hongchen summoned Lin Jiayi and asked him to arrange a single dormitory for Xu Tianming.
• Xu Tianming greeted Lin Jiayi and asked Jing Hongchen whether he planned to welsh on the promised Spirit Bone.

Xu Tianming accepted a Secret Method Left Arm Bone from Jing Hongchen for an experiment, then toured Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy with Lin Jiayi and received a private villa dormitory. In his Meditation Room, he claimed the system reward, the Book of Curses.

• Jing Hongchen gave Xu Tianming a Secret Method Left Arm Bone and warned him against absorbing it, while Xu said he wanted it for an experiment.
• Lin Jiayi showed Xu Tianming around the academy and criticized Shrek Academy's facilities and reputation.
• Lin Jiayi brought Xu Tianming to detached dormitory villa number 12 and warned him that receiving special accommodation as a freshman could cause trouble.
• Xu Tianming inspected his villa, entered the Meditation Room, and claimed the Book of Curses from the system.

Xu Tianming opened the Book of Curses and nearly lost himself to its negative emotions, but Electrolux awakened in his Sea of Consciousness and saved him. After Xu Tianming asked for help cursing Tang San, Electrolux concealed his aura and brought him to the Undead Half-Plane, where the curse could be used safely.

• Xu Tianming opened the Book of Curses, and its black light invaded his Sea of Consciousness, overwhelming him with violent spiritual pressure and negative emotions.
• Electrolux awakened within Xu Tianming, controlled the Book of Curses, and helped open Xu Tianming's Sea of Consciousness.
• Electrolux introduced himself as the Holy Necromancer and explained that the divine artifact had awakened him.
• Xu Tianming told Electrolux he wanted to curse Tang San for manipulating the Douluo Plane, and Electrolux agreed to conceal his aura.
• Electrolux brought Xu Tianming to the Undead Half-Plane and told him he would be safe there.

Xu Tianming used the Book of Curses to write Tang San’s name, while Tang San defended his surveillance of the Douluo Plane before the God Realm Committee. The curse struck just as Tang San’s Sea God and Asura divine powers began to clash, leaving him coughing up golden blood.

• Xu Tianming struggled to write Tang San’s name in the Book of Curses as each stroke rapidly consumed his spiritual power.
• Electrolux used a mental suggestion to help Xu Tianming finish the final stroke, and a strange black line shot from the book and vanished.
• The God of Destruction accused Tang San of repeatedly spying on the Douluo Plane and interfering in its affairs.
• Tang San justified his observations as concern for his daughter and argued that he had not directly intervened, while the Life Goddess said he bore no blame.
• Tang San sensed an ominous aura, then his Sea God and Asura divine powers suddenly clashed and made him spit out golden blood before the other God Kings.

Xu Tianming used the Book of Curses to send curse power toward an unknown plane, then met Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy. After Xu Tianming claimed he was stronger than Xiao Hongchen, the two agreed to compete, with Xu Tianming demanding stakes.

• Xu Tianming thanked Electrolux for helping him control the Book of Curses, and Electrolux warned him to keep it in the Undead Half-Plane before sending him back to his dormitory.
• Xu Tianming noticed his spiritual power had greatly increased, changed clothes, and left his dormitory to find food at the academy cafeteria.
• Xu Tianming met Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen outside another dormitory, and Xiao Hongchen challenged him after Xu Tianming claimed to be stronger.
• Xu Tianming agreed to compete with Xiao Hongchen but insisted that they put up stakes.

Xu Tianming challenged Xiao Hongchen to a wager and fought him to prove his strength. Xu Tianming stunned Xiao Hongchen with one Soul Skill and asked whether he admitted defeat.

• Xu Tianming provoked Xiao Hongchen into wagering rare metal on their fight, and Xiao Hongchen offered Soul Forging Secret Silver.
• Meng Hongchen warned Xiao Hongchen that the metal was meant to help his cultivation, but he refused to back down.
• Xu Tianming revealed his three Soul Rings, including one purple and two black rings, while Xiao Hongchen introduced himself as a level forty-seven Battle Soul Master.
• Xiao Hongchen summoned metal cannon barrels with his Soul Skills, but Xu Tianming struck him with Xuanye Ice Bind and interrupted his attack.
• Xu Tianming walked up to the stunned Xiao Hongchen, tapped him between the brows, and asked whether he admitted defeat.

Xu Tianming defeated Xiao Hongchen with a single soul skill and won the Soul Forging Secret Silver, then quickly befriended Xiao and Meng Hongchen. The three went to the academy cafeteria, where the siblings explained the academy card system and treated Xu Tianming to medicinal cuisine, and he shared his Hundred Fruit Brew with them.

• Xu Tianming used his spiritual power to revive Xiao Hongchen, who admitted defeat and handed over the Soul Forging Secret Silver.
• Xiao Hongchen vowed to reclaim his title as the empire’s greatest genius, while he and Meng Hongchen questioned Xu Tianming about his control-type soul skill and imperial family ties.
• Xu Tianming revealed that his father, Xu Xiang, was the City Lord of Dongyang City, and Xiao Hongchen called their rivalry a friendship forged through a fight.
• Xiao Hongchen brought Xu Tianming to the cafeteria with Meng Hongchen, where Meng explained academy cards and their discounts for medicinal cuisine.
• The Xiao siblings used their gold cards to buy medicinal cuisine, and Xu Tianming poured them cups of his Hundred Fruit Brew.

Xu Tianming explained the Thousand Refinement technique to Jing Hongchen after the dean discovered the unusual nature of his Qingjingang saber. Jing Hongchen learned that the process could improve metal quality, but Xu Tianming warned that it required exceptional spiritual power and was difficult to master.

• Xu Tianming got Xiao Hongchen and his sister drunk with Hundred Fruit Brew, then showed Jing Hongchen the Soul Forging Secret Silver he had won from Xiao Hongchen.
• Jing Hongchen accepted that Xiao Hongchen had lost the metal fairly and examined Xu Tianming's long saber, sensing that it seemed alive.
• Jing Hongchen teleported Xu Tianming and the drunken siblings from the cafeteria to his office and asked about the saber.
• Xu Tianming revealed that he had used Thousand Refinement to forge the Qingjingang saber, explaining that it reduced the metal's volume while improving its quality and inherent properties.
• Xu Tianming told Jing Hongchen that Thousand Refinement required powerful spiritual power and was extremely difficult to perform.

Jing Hongchen arranged for Xu Tianming to study Soul Engineering under Zhang Tiezhu while continuing his Forging Technique research. At Zhang Tiezhu’s laboratory, Xu Tianming impressed his new mentor by recognizing the furnace’s quality and declared his belief that forging would change the world.

• Jing Hongchen offered Xu Tianming an Eighth-Level Soul Engineer as a mentor and gave him an academy card.
• Jing Hongchen instructed Lin Jiayi to take Xu Tianming to meet Zhang Tiezhu, who would become his mentor.
• Lin Jiayi told Xu Tianming that Zhang Tiezhu was an eccentric Eighth-Level Soul Engineer whose former students had all left.
• Lin Jiayi led Xu Tianming to Zhang Tiezhu’s Fifth Laboratory, where Xu Tianming admired the smelting furnace.
• Zhang Tiezhu tested Xu Tianming on the furnace, and Xu Tianming explained that it efficiently contained and directed its heat.
• Xu Tianming told Zhang Tiezhu that he believed Forging Technique was the future of Soul Engineers and would change the world.

Xu Tianming demonstrated his superior Forging Technique by improving Soul Forging Secret Silver, astonishing Zhang Tiezhu and Lin Jiayi. Zhang Tiezhu asked Xu Tianming to teach him, while Xu Tianming learned that Zhang researched close-combat Soul Tools and soul guidance armor.

• Xu Tianming used Zhang Tiezhu's forging station to forge Soul Forging Secret Silver with his Tungsten Steel Hammer.
• Xu Tianming infused the metal with spiritual power and sealed the forging with a drop of his blood.
• Zhang Tiezhu examined the finished metal and asked Xu Tianming to become his teacher and teach him Forging Technique.
• Lin Jiayi found that the metal's quality had improved by at least thirty percent and its Soul Power affinity had greatly increased.
• Xu Tianming asked about Zhang Tiezhu's research, and Zhang explained that he worked on close-combat Soul Tools and soul guidance armor.

Xu Tianming and Zhang Tiezhu traded forging and Soul Tool knowledge, helping each other make rapid progress. After Xu Tianming struggled to engrave Core Arrays onto Thousand-Refined metal, Zhang Tiezhu invited him to seek a Ranking Engraving Knife at Ming Capital’s underground black market.

• Zhang Tiezhu proposed teaching Xu Tianming Soul Tool technology in exchange for learning his forging technique, and Xu Tianming agreed.
• Xu Tianming explained the five levels of Tiangong Secret Forging, and Zhang Tiezhu began teaching him Soul Tool fundamentals.
• Xu Tianming and Zhang Tiezhu spent their time combining Soul Tool research with forging, and Zhang Tiezhu quickly mastered Thousand Refinement.
• Xu Tianming advanced to Level 3 Soul Engineer but found ordinary engraving knives could not inscribe Core Arrays onto Thousand-Refined metal.
• Zhang Tiezhu told Xu Tianming that a Ranking Engraving Knife was being auctioned in Ming Capital’s underground black market and invited him to go; Xu Tianming accepted.

Xu Tianming and Zhang Tiezhu explored Ming Capital’s slums and black market, where Zhang explained the city’s three underground forces and their trades. Electrolux sensed a possible divine artifact among the rusted weapon fragments at a stall, and Xu Tianming stopped to inspect them.

• Zhang Tiezhu showed Xu Tianming the impoverished outer district and explained that it was Ming Capital’s Four-No-Control Zone.
• Zhang Tiezhu described the Xishui Alliance, Pingfan Alliance, and Aodu Chamber of Commerce, warning that the Xishui Alliance had powerful experts and dealt in human trafficking, drugs, and arms.
• Zhang Tiezhu led Xu Tianming into the black market and explained its risky rules for trading goods.
• Electrolux sensed that a stall of rust-covered weapon fragments might carry the feeling of a divine artifact.
• Xu Tianming told Zhang Tiezhu he wanted to buy metal fragments for Forging Technique research and examined the stall.

Xu Tianming bought battlefield metal fragments from a black-market stall after recognizing that the seller was lying about their origin. He and Zhang Tiezhu then entered Ming Capital’s Underground Auction House, where they were welcomed as honored guests.

• Xu Tianming exposed the stall owner’s false claim that the metal fragments came from a border battlefield and bought the pieces on display for eighty Gold Soul Coins.
• The stall owner promised to fetch more fragments from home, and Xu Tianming warned that he would only accept goods identical to those on the stall.
• Xu Tianming told Zhang Tiezhu he had bought the fragments to study their unusual forging techniques, without revealing their true significance.
• Zhang Tiezhu led Xu Tianming through a concealed passage beneath the black market and explained that the abandoned sewer system housed an underground auction.
• Zhang Tiezhu presented his Eighth-Level Soul Engineer badge at the guarded gate, and the pair entered the auction house, where a veiled woman welcomed them.

Xu Tianming and Zhang Tiezhu attended an underground auction hosted by the Pingfan Alliance and Otto Chamber of Commerce, where the first item was a ton of smuggled Star Pattern Steel. Bidding began in a frenzy, and the chapter left Xu Tianming watching the price climb.

• Xu Tianming and Zhang Tiezhu took their seats at the auction and dismissed the maid assigned to attend them.
• Zhang Tiezhu discussed his ambition to create a humanlike Bionic Intelligent Soul Tool Puppet, and Xu Tianming wondered at the idea.
• Auctioneer Xiaowei opened the event and explained that the Pingfan Alliance and Otto Chamber of Commerce were working against the Xishui Alliance.
• Xiaowei revealed that the first auction item was a ton of Star Pattern Steel, prompting shock from the attendees.
• Xiaowei set the starting bid at ten million Gold Soul Coins, and the displayed price began rising rapidly.

At a black-market auction in Ming Capital, Xu Tianming recognized a broken sword as a possible fragment of the Angel Holy Sword and fought to buy it. He won the sword for ninety thousand Gold Soul Coins after Zhang Tiezhu advised him to bid carefully.

• Xu Tianming and Zhang Tiezhu watched the Star Pattern Steel and other auction items sell for high prices.
• Auctioneer Xiaowei introduced a broken sword whose material and exceptional durability had baffled a Level 9 Soul Master.
• Electrolux sensed a dense holy aura in the sword, leading Xu Tianming to suspect it was part of Qian Renxue's Angel Holy Sword.
• Xu Tianming asked Zhang Tiezhu for a loan, and the two gathered enough money to bid up to one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Following Zhang Tiezhu's advice, Xu Tianming waited until the last moments and raised bids by one thousand at a time.
• Xu Tianming won the broken sword with a final bid of ninety thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Xu Tianming watched the Lingxi Dream-Guiding Blade auction while the system warned him of an impending crisis and offered him a choice. A masked Title Douluo then raided the auction with the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Master Legion, leaving Xu Tianming and the other attendees in custody.

• Auctioneer Xiaowei introduced the Lingxi Dream-Guiding Blade, and its bidding price climbed past ten million Gold Soul Coins.
• The system warned Xu Tianming of danger, and he chose to surrender without revealing his identity, earning a Spirit Master Summoning Card.
• An elderly masked man interrupted the auction, killed a Spirit Douluo with an unseen attack, and revealed himself as a Title Douluo.
• Hundreds of Sun Moon Empire soldiers stormed the auction house and surrounded the attendees and organizers.
• Officer Ying asked the elderly Title Douluo what to do with the crowd, and he ordered the soldiers to take everyone away.

Xu Tianming was questioned after the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Master Legion raided an underground auction, but he was more concerned with getting back the broken sword he had bought. At the Crown Prince’s Mansion, Xu Tianran learned that his cousin Xu Tianming had been among those captured and was amused by how unlike his cautious father he seemed.

• Zhang Tiezhu worried that the legion’s raid and Shadow Douluo Xue Chen’s involvement meant serious trouble, while Xu Tianming remained optimistic.
• Xue Chen questioned Xu Tianming about his father, Xu Xiang, and why he had attended the underground auction.
• Xu Tianming asked Xue Chen to return the lower half of the broken sword he had bought, but Xue Chen ordered soldiers to take him away.
• Xu Tianran told Xue Chen that the empire would cooperate with the Holy Spirit Cult against the Pingfan Alliance and Otto Chamber of Commerce while using the situation to warn their backers.
• Xue Chen reported that Xu Tianming had been captured, and Xu Tianran remarked that Xu Xiang’s son was unlike his cautious father.

Xu Tianran learned of Xu Tianming’s exceptional talent and decided to spare him punishment for attending the underground auction, sending him the broken sword he had bought and a gift from the imperial treasury. Xu Tianming received both boxes from Shadow Douluo and opened the gift box, but the chapter ended before revealing its contents.

• Shadow Douluo told Xu Tianran about Xu Tianming’s rare Martial Soul, powerful Soul Rings, combat feats, and Super Douluo teacher.
• Xu Tianran ordered Shadow Douluo to return Xu Tianming’s broken sword and send him the Dark Gold Engraving Knife as a gift.
• Shadow Douluo reported that Zhang Tiezhu had not returned after questioning, leaving Xu Tianming increasingly uneasy.
• Shadow Douluo told Xu Tianming that Xu Tianran had intervened to prevent his punishment and handed him two boxes.
• Xu Tianming confirmed that one box held the broken sword and opened the second box to see the Crown Prince’s gift.

Xu Tianming received a rare Dark Gold Engraving Knife from Shadow Douluo Xue Chen and returned safely to the academy, where he reunited with Mu Ye. After learning Mu Ye had completed his assignment, Xu Tianming planned another trip to the Far North after arranging matters at the academy.

• Shadow Douluo Xue Chen gave Xu Tianming the Dark Gold Engraving Knife and advised him to cultivate properly.
• Xu Tianming asked about his mentor Zhang Tiezhu and learned that Zhang would return later, then was escorted back to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy.
• Xu Tianming reflected on Xu Tianran's apparent alliance with the Holy Spirit Cult and the trap surrounding the underground auction.
• Mu Ye greeted Xu Tianming at the academy gates and said he had waited there, prepared to wreak havoc in Ming Capital if Xu Tianming did not return.
• Xu Tianming learned Mu Ye had completed his assignment and asked him to accompany him to the Far North after he arranged matters at the academy.

Xu Tianming learned that Electrolux could not break the seal on the Angel Holy Sword without its missing half or a sacred-attribute Spirit Master, then summoned Yuanen Yehui with a Spirit Master Summoning Card. He brought her toward the dean’s office to arrange her identity and encountered Meng Hongchen, who reacted warily to the girl beside him.

• Electrolux explained that the broken Angel Holy Sword held immense sacred power but was sealed by blood-fiend power, and he suggested finding its upper half or a Spirit Master with a sacred attribute to help undo the seal.
• Xu Tianming decided to postpone seeking Ye Guyi or the sword’s other half until after his return from the Far North, then used a Spirit Master Summoning Card.
• The system summoned fifteen-year-old Yuanen Yehui, a Level 42 Spirit Master with Titan Giant Ape and Fallen Angel Martial Souls and four black Soul Rings.
• Yuanen Yehui arrived at Xu Tianming’s room and pledged loyalty to him, and he asked her to call him by his name at the academy and accompany him to the dean’s office to settle her identity.
• Xu Tianming and Yuanen Yehui met Meng Hongchen outside, and Meng Hongchen greeted Xu Tianming before frowning at the girl beside him.

Xu Tianming arranged a bet between Yuanen Yehui and Xiao Hongchen to secure her admission to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy. Yuanen Yehui revealed her four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and overwhelming strength, forcing Xiao Hongchen to concede.

• Xu Tianming introduced Yuanen Yehui as a friend from Dongyang City who had missed the academy entrance examination and asked Xiao Hongchen to help secure her admission.
• Xiao Hongchen insulted Yuanen Yehui, and Xu Tianming proposed a match: Xiao Hongchen would arrange her admission if she won, while Xu Tianming would return Xiao Hongchen's lost Soul Forging Secret Silver if Xiao Hongchen won.
• Xiao Hongchen accepted the challenge after Yuanen Yehui called him a coward, and Meng Hongchen questioned Xu Tianming's motives while warning that Yuanen Yehui seemed strong.
• Yuanen Yehui revealed her Titan Giant Ape Martial Soul and four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, then charged Xiao Hongchen before he could use a soul skill.
• Xiao Hongchen's Invincible Barrier activated and carried him dozens of meters as Yuanen Yehui struck him, and he conceded once the barrier's effect ended.

After Yuanen Yehui defeated Xiao Hongchen, Xu Tianming promised to help him grow stronger in exchange for arranging her enrollment at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy. Jing Hongchen confronted Xu Tianming about the Black Market Auction, then balked at admitting Yuanen until Yuanen revealed her four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.

• Yuanen Yehui revealed that her Martial Soul was the Titan Giant Ape, and Xiao Hongchen accepted that his loss to her had been fair.
• Xu Tianming encouraged Xiao Hongchen and promised he might help him become stronger, prompting Xiao to agree to arrange Yuanen Yehui's enrollment.
• Jing Hongchen accused Xu Tianming of buying rare metals at the Black Market Auction, and Xu admitted he had visited but denied having money for controlled metals.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen to make an exception and enroll Yuanen Yehui, but Jing angrily refused.
• At Xu Tianming's suggestion, Yuanen Yehui revealed her four black Soul Rings, astonishing Jing Hongchen, and Xu urged him to make an exception for her talent.