Recaps

Long Zhanye persuaded Ye Guyi to follow him into the Mingdou Mountain Range by claiming they could find a metal deposit, though he had only guessed where one might be. After they found only common rare metals, his Soul Guidance Detector suddenly spun faster than ever as they left the mountain dead end, suggesting a richer deposit lay nearby.

• Long Zhanye said Ye Guyi would be in danger if she stayed in the mountains, then tempted her to follow by claiming a metal deposit was ahead.
• Ye Guyi caught up with Long Zhanye, and the pair ventured deep into the Mingdou Mountain Range as darkness and soul-beast howls unnerved her.
• Long Zhanye admitted he did not know where the deposit was and had only guessed based on the Gold Wolf Pack living nearby; Ye Guyi decided not to leave because she feared he would target the Ordinary Alliance.
• Long Zhanye used his Soul Guidance Detector and engraving knife to search the surrounding mountains, finding only small amounts of Mithril and other common metals.
• As Long Zhanye started to leave the mountain dead end, his detector spun faster than ever.

Long Zhanye discovered that the spring water carried a sinister Yin Underworld chill and began breaking open the mountain around its source. The mountain shook as his Demon-Breaking Sword unleashed red-and-blue astral energy, leaving the source’s secret unrevealed.

• Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi chose a mountain hollow as shelter for the night after searching until they were exhausted.
• Long Zhanye drank from a nearby spring and felt a soul-chilling cold, then noticed the water’s bitter taste and trace of Yin Underworld Qi.
• Long Zhanye examined the spring’s dark-red stone opening and unusually lush grass while Ye Guyi dismissed his suspicions.
• Long Zhanye repeatedly hacked at the rock around the spring with his Demon-Breaking Sword, carving out a deep depression.
• Long Zhanye drove the sword into the mountain and released red-and-blue astral energy, making the mountain shake.

Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi discovered that the mountain contained the legendary Starfall Nether Gold, and Long Zhanye offered Ye Guyi one-third if she mined it. He rested while Ye Guyi began chipping away at the mountain through the night.

• Long Zhanye found a glowing red substance inside a rock, and he and Ye Guyi identified it as Starfall Nether Gold.
• Long Zhanye wondered whether the mountain had once been a fallen star and imagined using its metal to forge high-level Soul Tools.
• Ye Guyi asked for a share, and Long Zhanye agreed to give her one-third if she mined the mountain.
• Long Zhanye went to sleep in a tree while Ye Guyi spent the night breaking apart the mountain.

Long Zhanye woke to find Ye Guyi still mining the mountain for Starfall Nether Gold, but her slow progress threatened to delay his other obligations. He summoned his Scapegoat puppet and Tang San, then ordered Tang San to destroy the mountain with its destructive flames.

• Long Zhanye woke and saw that Ye Guyi had spent the night stripping nearly a meter of rock from the mountain.
• Long Zhanye decided he could not wait the estimated half a year for Ye Guyi to mine the Starfall Nether Gold by herself.
• Long Zhanye summoned his Scapegoat puppet and released Tang San from his Storage Soul Tool.
• Ye Guyi questioned Long Zhanye about the unfamiliar soul beast, but he ignored her and ordered Tang San to destroy the mountain.
• Tang San engulfed the mountain in greenish-blue Destruction Attribute flames, causing rocks to break apart as Ye Guyi watched in shock.

Long Zhanye dismantled his soul cannon platform to build a Linked Soul Bomb and blasted open the mountain. The explosion exposed the densely packed Starfall Nether Gold at its core, revealing that the mountain’s ordinary rock and metals had formed a shell around it.

• After five hours of Tang San's destructive work, Long Zhanye found that little Starfall Nether Gold had been exposed, while Tang San and Ye Guyi were exhausted.
• Long Zhanye dismantled the thirty-six cannon barrels and removed their seventy-two Core Arrays to build a powerful linked soul cannon.
• Long Zhanye placed thirty-two blast points around the mountain and detonated them together using the Master Control Device.
• The explosion shattered the mountain's outer rock and revealed densely packed, pale-red Starfall Nether Gold arranged in layers at its core.

Long Zhanye collected the Starfall Nether Gold with a Star Sapphire and refused to give Ye Guyi her share until they returned. The exhausted group then continued through the Mingdou Mountain Range, where the overgrown terrain left them unable to fly or retrace their route easily.

• Long Zhanye filled his Storage Belt with Starfall Nether Gold, then used a hidden piece of Star Sapphire to store the entire remaining deposit.
• Ye Guyi demanded her promised share, but Long Zhanye refused to give it to her before they returned.
• Long Zhanye fed Honey-Refined Sugar Pills to the exhausted Tang San as they traveled through the mountains.
• Long Zhanye, Ye Guyi, and Tang San reached dense, person-high grass that had grown back over their path, forcing them to search for an open area before they could fly.

Long Zhanye, Ye Guyi, and Tang San became lost in the valley after Long Zhanye destroyed a mountain that had served as their landmark. With night falling, they made camp and Long Zhanye roasted Gold Wolf meat, leaving Ye Guyi hungry and watching the food.

• Long Zhanye failed to recognize the way back, and he and Ye Guyi wandered through the similar-looking valley with Tang San.
• Ye Guyi warned Long Zhanye that setting the forest on fire could provoke the Star Luo Empire and the Sun Moon Empire.
• After darkness fell, Long Zhanye stopped searching and made camp, leaving Tang San to guard the clearing while he gathered firewood.
• Long Zhanye took a Gold Wolf corpse from his Storage Soul Tool, saved its hide, and prepared the meat over the fire.
• Tang San and Ye Guyi watched the meat roast as Long Zhanye seasoned it with the salt he had brought.

Long Zhanye, Ye Guyi, and Tang San ate roasted wolf meat before Ye Guyi questioned Long Zhanye about his unusual soul rings and martial souls. Long Zhanye revealed that his Heavenly Eye had once been his secondary martial soul but had become his main one, leaving Ye Guyi confused.

• Long Zhanye ate the sour, tough roasted wolf meat and explained that the wolf’s exertion had made it taste that way.
• Ye Guyi forced herself to eat, while Tang San devoured two wolf legs, bones and all.
• After the meal, Long Zhanye rested against Tang San as Ye Guyi asked how he had obtained four Ten-Thousand Year Soul Rings and a platinum sixth soul ring.
• Long Zhanye said his first four soul rings were genuine Ten-Thousand Year Soul Rings and credited his excellent physical condition.
• Long Zhanye explained that his Heavenly Eye was his second martial soul, which had changed from his secondary martial soul into his main martial soul.

Long Zhanye told Ye Guyi how Shrek destroyed his family and crippled his first martial soul, and explained the origins of his Heavenly Eye, Chaos Attribute, and domain. He then asked about Ye Guyi’s Holy Angel Martial Soul, and she confirmed that defeating evil increased her strength and that she considered it her duty to eradicate evil.

• Long Zhanye recounted how his teacher sacrificed himself to save him and later fused his martial soul into Long Zhanye’s body, leaving him with the Heavenly Eye and a second martial soul in his right arm.
• Long Zhanye revealed that Shrek had destroyed his family and crippled his first martial soul, shocking Ye Guyi.
• Long Zhanye explained that his Heavenly Eye could predict events, carried a Chaos Attribute, and produced a domain whose killing intent he could not yet control.
• Long Zhanye shared some of his past and Soul Ring origins with Ye Guyi but kept his soul skills secret according to the Body Sect’s rules.
• Long Zhanye asked about the Holy Angel Martial Soul, and Ye Guyi confirmed that killing evil beings raised her strength and that her power gave her a duty to eradicate evil.

Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi discussed the Ordinary Alliance and Shangguan Wei'er before falling asleep beside Tang San. The next morning, they discovered an unfamiliar golden lion dog eating their leftover bones, and Tang San cautiously approached it.

• Ye Guyi admitted she had joined the Ming Capital Spirit Guidance Competition partly to hunt Evil Soul Masters and said Shangguan Wei'er had promised to keep her safe.
• Long Zhanye learned that the Ordinary Alliance operated as an underground force using a merchant guild as cover, while Ye Guyi heard about Long Zhanye's past.
• Long Zhanye, Ye Guyi, and Tang San slept beside the dying campfire, then Long Zhanye woke to the sound of bones being gnawed.
• Long Zhanye spotted an unfamiliar golden lion dog eating the Gold Wolf bones and asked Ye Guyi to identify it, but she had never seen one before.
• Long Zhanye signaled Tang San to approach the golden beast, and Tang San cautiously stepped toward it.

Long Zhanye watched Tang San battle a Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, which proved stronger than Tang San and suppressed its Azure Flame Destruction Domain with the Domination Domain. Ye Guyi identified the legendary beast and warned that its Ultimate Strength and bloodline made it a true beast king.

• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff wounded Tang San with a single claw while guarding its food.
• Tang San attacked with blue-green flames, but the lion mastiff’s golden light wave scattered them.
• Tang San activated its Azure Flame Destruction Domain, and Long Zhanye expected it to overwhelm the lion mastiff.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff unleashed the Domination Domain, suppressing Tang San’s domain and alarming Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi.
• Ye Guyi identified the beast as a supposedly extinct Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff and warned that its domain, Ultimate Strength, and cultivation made it a formidable beast king.

Long Zhanye and Tang San fought the golden-haired Lion Mastiff, a powerful soul beast whose Domination Domain overwhelmed their attacks. The chapter left them struggling to hold their ground as the battle continued.

• Ye Guyi urged Long Zhanye to flee from the golden-haired Lion Mastiff, but Tang San refused to retreat and stood ready to fight.
• The golden-haired Lion Mastiff relentlessly attacked Tang San, drawing blood and suppressing its strength with the Domination Domain.
• Long Zhanye fired Weakening Rays and trapped the beast with a Level 7 Binding Light, but the Lion Mastiff broke free almost immediately.
• The golden-haired Lion Mastiff charged Long Zhanye, who intervened with his Flawless Golden Body and joined Tang San in attacking it.
• Long Zhanye released Divine Slaughter's Domain against the Lion Mastiff's Domination Domain and Tang San's Azure Flame Destruction Domain, but the beast forced them backward.

Long Zhanye, Tang San, and Ye Guyi fought the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, whose overwhelming strength forced them to flee through the valley. Long Zhanye distracted the pursuing beast with a Gold Wolf corpse, giving them a chance to escape.

• Long Zhanye activated his Heavenly Eye Martial Soul and struck the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, but its powerful claw knocked him back and badly bruised his arm.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff swatted Tang San aside and charged Long Zhanye, while Ye Guyi slowed it briefly with three Angel Sword strikes.
• Long Zhanye used Chaos Demon Light to obscure the valley, recalled Tang San into his Storage Soul Tool, and fled with Ye Guyi.
• After the fog faded, the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff caught up with them, and Long Zhanye threw out a Gold Wolf corpse to distract it.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff stopped pursuing them and began devouring the corpse.

Long Zhanye fought the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff and survived its overwhelming attack by combining his Silver-Grade Awakening with the Transformation, Source, and Defense Secrets. The chapter left him standing as his Flawless Golden Body advanced, while the beast remained his opponent.

• Long Zhanye attacked the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff with Chaos Qi dragon claws, but it ignored its wounds and charged at him again.
• Long Zhanye summoned seven Colorless Walls, but the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff smashed through all of them with its body.
• Long Zhanye activated his Silver-Grade Body Martial Soul Secondary Awakening and used the Transformation and Source Secrets to withstand the beast's full-power strike.
• Long Zhanye combined his Flawless Golden Body with the Defense Secret, causing golden light to spread across the right half of his body and greatly reinforcing his physical defense.

Long Zhanye used the Demon-Breaking Sword to wound the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff and force it to vomit, then struck it down with his transformed arm. The chapter left the beast pinned beneath his axe, its life threatened.

• Long Zhanye unleashed the Demon-Breaking Sword's power in a blue-red dragon-shaped strike that knocked the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff back and tore fur from its abdomen.
• Ye Guyi and Long Zhanye were astonished by the sword's power, while the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff vomited up the Gold Wolf meat and bones it had swallowed.
• Long Zhanye used his fourth soul ring to transform his right arm into a giant axe and attacked the vomiting beast.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff fell to the ground, and Long Zhanye pressed the axe blade against its neck.

Long Zhanye nearly killed the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff while consumed by uncontrollable killing intent, but Ye Guyi stopped him with her Sacred Praise soul skill. After recovering, Long Zhanye threatened the talking beast, which offered to become his beast slave to survive.

• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff begged Long Zhanye to spare it as his killing blow came down, and Ye Guyi discovered that the beast could speak.
• Ye Guyi used her Third Soul Skill, Sacred Praise, to suppress Long Zhanye's killing intent and bring him back to his senses.
• Long Zhanye learned the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff could talk and demanded a reason not to kill it.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff apologized for hunting the food on Long Zhanye and pleaded for its life.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff offered to become Long Zhanye's beast slave, mistaking Tang San for his mount and slave.

Long Zhanye spared the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff and took it with him as Golden Hair before finding a way out of the Mingdou Mountain Range with Ye Guyi. Back at Mingde Hall, he claimed Ye Guyi was his girlfriend to get her past a guard into Experimental Zone 7.

• Long Zhanye chose to keep the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff after learning its cultivation had reached forty thousand years despite its age of only twenty thousand years.
• Long Zhanye named the reluctant beast Golden Hair and stored it in his Storage Belt.
• Long Zhanye followed Golden Hair's directions and left the Mingdou Mountain Range with Ye Guyi.
• Long Zhanye brought Ye Guyi through Mingde Hall's access gates, but a guard stopped them at Experimental Zone 7.
• Long Zhanye put his arm around Ye Guyi and told the guard she was his girlfriend, so the guard let them enter.

Ye Guyi followed Long Zhanye into Experimental Zone No. 7, where its advanced Soul Tools persuaded her to stay and study. Long Zhanye presented Kong Deming with Starfall Nether Gold to meet his third requirement, but concealed the deposit’s location.

• Ye Guyi angrily confronted Long Zhanye for taking advantage of her, then silently accepted the chance to remain in Mingde Hall and study in Experimental Zone No. 7.
• Long Zhanye brought Ye Guyi to Ruo Lin and Kong Deming in the experimental zone.
• Long Zhanye presented Kong Deming with a fist-sized piece of Starfall Nether Gold from the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Kong Deming praised the ore’s exceptional purity and asked Long Zhanye where the deposit was located.
• Long Zhanye claimed he had destroyed the mountain range with his Soul Cannons and could bring back only that piece, hiding the deposit’s true location.

Kong Deming agreed to teach Long Zhanye personally after lamenting the Starfall Nether Gold mine Long Zhanye had destroyed, and allowed Ye Guyi to stay in Experimental Zone No. 7. The next day, Ye Guyi eagerly explored Mingde Hall while she and Long Zhanye settled into an arrangement that served both their needs.

• Kong Deming scolded Long Zhanye for destroying a mine of Starfall Nether Gold, then offered to teach him real skills by hand.
• Long Zhanye asked Kong Deming to let his girlfriend, Ye Guyi, stay and study, and Kong Deming agreed.
• Ye Guyi thanked Kong Deming, then traded teasing remarks with Long Zhanye as they followed their master through the experimental area.
• The next day, Ye Guyi explored Mingde Hall's instruments, Soul Tools, and blueprints, excited by its advanced technology.
• Long Zhanye monitored Ye Guyi with Mental Power but gave her freedom, while relying on her Holy Angel to suppress his Killing Intent when he fought.

Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen invited Long Zhanye to join the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy team for the upcoming Spirit Master Elite Tournament, promising him the champion’s Soul Tool. Long Zhanye remained conflicted between his hatred of Shrek and the risks his ties to the Body Sect would bring, leaving his answer unresolved.

• Long Zhanye and Ye Guyi encountered Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen waiting in a Mingde Hall corridor.
• Xiao Hongchen raised the tournament, but Long Zhanye initially refused to participate because it could expose his abilities and complicate his ties to Mingde Hall and the Body Sect.
• Xiao Hongchen offered Long Zhanye the team’s champion’s Soul Tool reward, while Meng Hongchen said they wanted to challenge Shrek Academy’s dominance.
• Xiao Hongchen admitted that Huo Yuhao, who had beaten him five years earlier, still unsettled him and said Long Zhanye’s help in defeating him would secure their victory.
• Long Zhanye weighed his hatred of Shrek against the danger of facing Body Sect acquaintances on behalf of Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, and did not give the siblings an answer.

Long Zhanye agreed to help Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen against Shrek Academy as their team’s Main Controller, in exchange for a True Dragon Pill. He then challenged Xiao Hongchen to a test of strength, and Xiao Hongchen eagerly accepted.

• Meng Hongchen tried to persuade Long Zhanye to help her and Xiao Hongchen, but he pointed out that their family ties made him their grand-martial uncle.
• Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen addressed Long Zhanye as grand-martial uncle and asked him to support them.
• Long Zhanye agreed to make a move only when their team faced Shrek Academy, and demanded the Main Controller position.
• Long Zhanye asked for a True Dragon Pill as payment, and Xiao Hongchen said he would ask his grandfather whether one could be found.
• Long Zhanye challenged Xiao Hongchen to show his strength, and Xiao Hongchen accepted the match.

Long Zhanye effortlessly countered Xiao Hongchen’s combined martial soul and soul tool attack, then dismantled his metal torrent and exposed the weaknesses in his fighting style. Xiao Hongchen was left standing in silence after Long Zhanye shattered his confidence.

• Xiao Hongchen attacked Long Zhanye with Floating Thunder Orbs, a barrage of Soul Guidance Rays, and a metalized punch.
• Long Zhanye stopped the orbs and rays with Killing Intent, caught Xiao Hongchen’s punch, and sent the thunder orbs exploding back at him.
• Xiao Hongchen unleashed his seven Soul Rings and used Love of Metal to gather a torrent of metal fragments against Long Zhanye.
• Long Zhanye crossed the metal torrent with his footwork, grabbed Xiao Hongchen, and disrupted the Soul Power circulating through him.
• Long Zhanye told Xiao Hongchen that he relied too heavily on his martial soul and that his body and reactions could not keep pace with his attacks.

Long Zhanye faced Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen together, then defeated their powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Red Dust Attachment, with his golden palm and Demon-Breaking Sword. The siblings rose from the clash shocked and respectful, while Long Zhanye acknowledged their strength despite having spent nearly eighty percent of his Soul Power.

• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen attacked Long Zhanye in a coordinated assault, combining close-range punches, Soul Guidance Rays, and icy mist.
• Long Zhanye deflected their strikes and dispersed Meng Hongchen's mist, but the siblings retreated and activated their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Red Dust Attachment.
• Long Zhanye activated Golden Bloodlust, strengthening his body and tripling his strength as he prepared to meet the fusion attack.
• Long Zhanye struck with his golden palm and Demon-Breaking Sword, overpowering Red Dust Attachment and sending both siblings crashing to the ground.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen stood and bowed respectfully as Long Zhanye praised their strength.

Long Zhanye discovered that Xiao Hongchen’s Soul Power was solidifying because of the medicine he had taken, putting his future cultivation at risk. He could not cure the problem, but offered a Gold Wolf King’s remains as a possible way to slow it, leaving Xiao Hongchen hopeful and grateful.

• Long Zhanye told Xiao Hongchen that his Soul Power was beginning to solidify, a process that could trap him at Soul Saint.
• Long Zhanye said the medicine had likely caused the problem and urged Xiao Hongchen to stop taking it and cultivate quickly to reach Title Douluo before the solidification progressed.
• Meng Hongchen pleaded with Long Zhanye to help her brother, but he admitted he could not solve the problem himself.
• Xiao Hongchen offered to repay Long Zhanye if he could help, and Long Zhanye gave him a Gold Wolf King’s remains to eat and prepare as a possible way to slow the condition.
• Xiao Hongchen accepted the advice with renewed hope and promised to repay Long Zhanye’s kindness.

Long Zhanye considered whether Xiao Hongchen’s Soul Power solidification could be addressed by cultivating a Heart Soul Core, but he judged the untested method too risky to recommend. Back in Mingde Hall, he continued learning from Kong Deming and noticed that Kong used a different engraving knife for each part of a Core Array.

• Long Zhanye studied the Nirvana Secret’s Body Five-Viscera Deification Soul Core and considered using it to help Xiao Hongchen condense a Heart Soul Core early, but he decided not to risk damaging his foundation.
• Long Zhanye left the Hongchen siblings and returned to Mingde Hall’s experimental area, where he continued assisting Kong Deming with a Humanoid Soul Tool.
• Long Zhanye mastered the production of most Level 7 Soul Tools and learned by watching Kong Deming engrave Class Nine Core Arrays.
• Ye Guyi quietly asked Long Zhanye why Kong Deming used a different engraving knife for each component.
• Long Zhanye observed Kong Deming switch knives while engraving a single Core Array and wondered about the unusual technique.