Recaps

Long Zhanye broke through to Soul Power level ninety-five and unleashed two Ninth Soul Skills to crush the black vortex trapping Huo Yuhao and the Spirit Souls. As the vortex began to collapse, the Snow Empress chose to sublimate her power rather than let Huo Yuhao be captured or killed.

• Long Zhanye broke through to level ninety-five and pressed his golden power against the Snow Empress, who was possessed by Huo Yuhao.
• The Snow Empress drew on the four Spirit Souls' origin power, strengthening their resistance and tearing cracks into the black vortex.
• Long Zhanye used two Ninth Soul Skills to summon a golden Titan Giant Ape whose palms squeezed the vortex from above and below.
• Huo Yuhao, the Snow Empress, and the other Spirit Souls were injured as the vortex warped and collapsed, while Long Zhanye exhausted his Soul Power.
• The Snow Empress warned the Spirit Souls that Huo Yuhao would not escape the Soul Engineers outside and began sublimating her ice and snow aura.

The Snow Empress prepared to self-destruct against Long Zhanye and the Level 9 Soul Engineers, but Ice Bear King Xiaobai and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass sacrificed themselves to strengthen her power. As the energy threatened Ming Capital, Xu Tianran summoned four pillars of light to form a vast barrier, and the combined sphere plunged toward the vortex’s core.

• Long Zhanye and five Level 9 Soul Engineers compressed the Snow Empress’s energy inside the black vortex as she prepared to self-destruct.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Empress feared the blast would kill them, and Ice Bear King Xiaobai and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass offered their source power to help.
• Ice Bear King Xiaobai and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass dissolved into energy and merged with the Snow Empress, causing her sphere to expand outward beyond the Soul Engineers’ control.
• Four immense white pillars rose near Ming Capital, and Xu Tianran climbed the Sun Moon Altar of Heaven and called them toward him.
• The pillars formed a vast barrier across the sky as the enlarged energy sphere plunged toward the core of the black vortex.

Long Zhanye survived the Snow Empress's self-destruction by activating Tai Tan's Divine Consciousness Fragment and earned the ninth trial's reward after killing Xuan Ziwen and disrupting the blast. The white dome contained the explosion, but Xu Tianran collapsed after suffering a soul attack from the Snow Empress's final will.

• Long Zhanye used the Divine Consciousness Fragment to shield himself and hurled the Golden Dragon Spear through Xuan Ziwen's head.
• Huo Yuhao's mental power stirred when Xuan Ziwen died, causing the Snow Empress and her companions to falter during their self-destruction.
• Long Zhanye completed the Ninth Trial of Sin—Abuse and received ten percent more Sin Affinity and the Fallen Domain.
• A white dome spread from the Ming Capital and absorbed the explosion, while Xu Tianran summoned his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon to resist the pressure.
• Xu Tianran collapsed on the altar after the blast, and Ju Zi rushed to his side as she realized the Snow Empress's final will had struck his soul.

The Snow Empress and two others self-destructed, but a strange force contained the blast while Ultimate Ice and Snow froze half of Ming Capital and killed millions. Huo Yuhao escaped with the Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, while Ju Zi protected the injured Xu Tianran and declared the empire safe to the survivors.

• The explosion's shockwave froze half of Ming Capital, killing everyone below Titled Douluo and trapping the stronger experts, including Long Xiaoyao and Xuan Zi, in ice.
• The Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm carried the gravely injured Huo Yuhao away, retrieving the Morning Dew Blade but leaving his Soul Tool Ring behind.
• Five hours later, Long Xiaoyao broke free first and left, followed by Xuan Zi, Kong Deming, Long Zhanye, and the other Titled Douluo.
• Ju Zi tried to heal Xu Tianran but found a frenzied spiritual force clashing with his Soul Power.
• Ju Zi addressed the survivors through an Amplification Soul Tool, claiming Xu Tianran had stopped the fiends and promising to protect the Sun Moon Empire.
• The surviving people cheered for Ju Zi as the empire presented the ruined Sacrificial Ceremony as a victory over its enemies.

After the Sacrificial Ceremony’s catastrophic explosion, Long Zhanye found Huo Yuhao’s Soul Tool Ring and secretly took its four mysterious Elixirs. He then told Kong Deming about his breakthroughs and learned that killing the Yin Yang Chaos Bird would require the Sun Moon Empire’s strongest allies and weapons.

• Long Zhanye survived the explosion and found Huo Yuhao’s Soul Tool Ring among the ice, discovering rare metals, two Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, and four Elixirs inside.
• Long Zhanye took the ring and wooden box containing the Elixirs, bringing the Sacrificial Ceremony to an end.
• Long Zhanye told Kong Deming he had become a Level 9 Soul Engineer and a Super Douluo, and Kong Deming said the emperor would award him a badge and offer him a place in the Offering Hall.
• Long Zhanye asked when they could hunt the Yin Yang Chaos Bird, and Kong Deming explained that the attempt would need Long Xiaoyao, Ye Xishui, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Regiment, and his Level 10 Soul Tool.
• Kong Deming described the bird’s legendary origins and spoke of powerful, little-known Soul Beasts beyond the Ten Great Fierce Beasts, leaving Long Zhanye yearning to learn more.

Long Zhanye chose the Sun Moon Divine Blade from Kong Deming’s five top-ranked engraving knives, but its immense weight made it unsuitable for him. After learning about engraving-knife materials and elemental properties, Long Zhanye asked Kong Deming to forge him a knife from Starfall Nether Gold, leaving its added attributes to him.

• Kong Deming praised Long Zhanye’s rapid advancement and warned him to keep a low profile before offering him one of five top-grade engraving knives or a custom-made one.
• Long Zhanye chose the Sun Moon Divine Blade, but its extraordinary weight prevented him from wielding it comfortably, so Kong Deming kept it for its future master.
• Kong Deming explained that an engraving knife’s material set its lower limit and its craftsmanship set its upper limit, and that multiple metals were difficult to combine.
• Long Zhanye asked whether multiple elements could be fused into an engraving knife, and Kong Deming said it might be possible, citing Long Zhanye’s Dark Green Dragon Engraving Knife.
• Long Zhanye brought out more than a hundred kilograms of Starfall Nether Gold and asked Kong Deming to forge him a knife, saying he would add its attributes himself.

Long Zhanye received a newly forged Engraving Knife that startled Kong Deming by sending the renowned Sun Moon Divine Blade flying, and named it the Asura Evil Blade. Long Zhanye then discussed new Soul Tool designs with Kong Deming, who considered whether a Soul Tool without a Core Array might be possible.

• Kong Deming tested the new Engraving Knife against the Sun Moon Divine Blade, and the ranked-first blade flew into a wall.
• Kong Deming offered to keep the new knife and give Long Zhanye the Sun Moon Divine Blade, but Long Zhanye insisted on the knife his teacher had promised him.
• Kong Deming asked to study Long Zhanye's Green Emperor, and Long Zhanye left it in the laboratory while concealing that he had infused the Engraving Knife with Asura Divine Power and Sin Divine Power.
• Long Zhanye named the new weapon the Asura Evil Blade and spent the next few days discussing Soul Tool research with Kong Deming.
• Long Zhanye pointed out the Humanoid Soul Tool's vulnerable Core Arrays and proposed fusing Soul Tools with Martial Souls as Life-Bound Soul Tools.
• Long Zhanye suggested developing a Soul Tool without a Core Array, and Kong Deming said it might require something beyond existing Soul Tool theory.

While searching western Sun Moon Empire for the Yin Yang Chaos Bird, Long Zhanye discovered that he could harmonize his Mental Power with plants and use their senses to greatly expand Spirit Detection. He left the valley convinced the plants could help him find the bird.

• Long Zhanye set out alone to search the western Sun Moon Empire for the barren mountain where the Yin Yang Chaos Bird lived.
• Long Zhanye sensed the spiritual fluctuations of plants in a hidden valley and discovered they responded to his goodwill.
• Long Zhanye harmonized his Mental Power with the plants, sensing their roots, leaves, and flowers while reducing the cost of Spirit Detection.
• The plants’ feedback expanded Long Zhanye’s Spirit Detection to a diameter of one million meters, letting him perceive distant cities through their senses.
• Long Zhanye withdrew his Mental Power and concluded that the plants could help him find the Yin Yang Chaos Bird.

Long Zhanye used his Mental Power to communicate with plants and learned that both the Yin Yang Chaos Bird and a Blue Silver Emperor over a hundred thousand years old were nearby. He located the Blue Silver Emperor’s secluded valley and approached it cautiously, hoping to recruit it as a healing Spirit Soul for Vina.

• Long Zhanye discovered that his Mental Power let him sense plants and communicate simple thoughts to them.
• A hundred-year Datura Flower told Long Zhanye that the Yin Yang Chaos Bird lived in a nearby barren mountain range.
• The Datura Flower also revealed that a Blue Silver Emperor over a hundred thousand years old had been sensed in a nearby valley.
• Long Zhanye found the valley where the plants were cut off from his spiritual feelers and concluded that the Blue Silver Emperor was hiding there.
• Long Zhanye considered the Blue Silver Emperor’s potential to heal the sect master and Elder Gu and to become Vina’s Spirit Soul, then cautiously walked toward the valley.

Long Zhanye calmed the Blue Silver Grass valley with the Light of Fate and the aura of the Emperor Auspicious Beast, then asked the Blue Silver Emperor to help save two elders. The Blue Silver Emperor agreed on the condition that Long Zhanye transplant as much Blue Silver Grass as possible to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Long Zhanye used his Mental Power, the Light of Fate, and the aura of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to soothe the hostile Blue Silver Grass.
• The Blue Silver Emperor asked why Long Zhanye carried the Emperor Auspicious Beast's aura, and Long Zhanye explained that he bore the Power of Luck of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Long Zhanye asked the Blue Silver Emperor to save one elder whose source was damaged and another whose life force was nearly exhausted, offering to transplant the valley's Blue Silver Grass to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Long Zhanye showed the Blue Silver Emperor his Spirit Soul, the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, and explained how Spirit Souls formed mutually beneficial bonds with Spirit Masters.
• The Blue Silver Emperor agreed to help save Long Zhanye's elders if he promised to transplant as much Blue Silver Grass from Blue Silver Valley as possible.

Long Zhanye persuaded the nearly two-hundred-thousand-year-old Blue Silver Emperor to leave her valley and become a Soul Ring for his friend Vina. After revealing his Seagod inheritance and earning her trust, he carried her toward the Desolate Mountain Range.

• The Blue Silver Emperor explained that her bloodline prevented her from surviving the next heavenly punishment or choosing recultivation, and Long Zhanye offered to take her to Vina.
• The Blue Silver Emperor agreed to go with Long Zhanye, formed a humanlike body from vines, and connected her Mental Power with his.
• The Blue Silver Emperor sensed the power of Long Zhanye’s Mental Power and told him about the Blue Silver Emperor who had been Tang San’s mother.
• Long Zhanye revealed the Seagod Trident mark and said he had obtained the Seagod’s inheritance, reassuring the Blue Silver Emperor about her choice.
• Long Zhanye carried the Blue Silver Emperor into the sky and flew west toward the Desolate Mountain Range.

Long Zhanye absorbed Chaos Qi in the Desolate Mountain Range until a powerful soul beast confronted him and struck him unconscious with a golden light. After waking a month later, he wondered whether the past and future he had seen in a dream were real.

• Long Zhanye found dense Chaos Qi in the Desolate Mountain Range and began absorbing it with his Sky-Propping Eye while the Blue Silver Emperor watched.
• Long Zhanye absorbed and refined the Chaos Qi for more than sixty days, but a distant voice warned him to leave.
• Long Zhanye used Fate Verdict, Misfortune, to open a path through the mist, but an unknown soul beast overwhelmed his Mental Power and knocked him unconscious with reflected golden light.
• The Blue Silver Emperor stayed beside Long Zhanye, unable to wake him, while a voice from the mountains recognized the Power of Fate.
• Long Zhanye awoke a month later and asked whether the past and future he had seen in his dream were real.

After seeing a vision of his future, Long Zhanye realized Tang San had manipulated his life and resolved to defy his plans. He returned to the Body Sect with the Blue Silver Emperor and introduced Elder Gu, revealing that the sect’s secret techniques extended far beyond its known Body Martial Soul Secondary Awakening.

• Long Zhanye recalled the Yin Yang Chaos Bird’s warning and concluded that Tang San had orchestrated his path, including his trials and Huo Yuhao’s future.
• Long Zhanye vowed to reject the Sea God inheritance and prevent Huo Yuhao from becoming Tang San’s subordinate, then thanked the Yin Yang Chaos Bird for revealing the future.
• After refining Chaos Qi, Long Zhanye reached level ninety-five and a half and decided to return to the Body Sect to change its future.
• Long Zhanye brought the Blue Silver Emperor to the Body Sect and summoned its elders and disciples, including the reclusive Elder Gu.
• Long Zhanye introduced Elder Gu as one of his teachers and revealed that the Body Sect had eight undeveloped secrets beyond its Secondary Awakening technique.

Long Zhanye introduced the Body Sect’s Nine Body Secrets, explaining their techniques, requirements, and his own achievements. He announced that he and Elder Gu would pass the secrets on to the sect so its members could grow stronger.

• Long Zhanye explained that the Awakening Secret used living beings’ essence blood to refine longevity medicine, while the Defense Secret was the Flawless Golden Body.
• Long Zhanye revealed that Elder Gu had grafted his Qilin Arm onto him through the Fuse Secret, then described the Transformation, Source, Spirit, and Collapse Secrets.
• Long Zhanye said he had three soul cores and demonstrated their linked abilities, explaining the Nirvana Secret and his goal of reaching five cores.
• Long Zhanye identified the ninth secret as the Body Martial Soul Third Awakening and outlined its demanding cultivation requirements.
• Long Zhanye said he had mastered seven of the nine secrets and promised to pass them down with Elder Gu.

Long Zhanye learned that Tang San had manipulated his life and resolved to defy the future he had seen. After returning to the Body Sect with the Blue Silver Emperor, he introduced Elder Gu and revealed that the Body Sect’s secret arts extended beyond its Body Martial Soul Secondary Awakening.

• Long Zhanye recalled seeing the Yin Yang Chaos Bird and learning that Tang San had plotted to make him inherit the Sea God position and control Huo Yuhao’s future.
• Long Zhanye vowed to reject Tang San’s plans, then refined Chaos Qi and raised his Soul Power to level ninety-five and a half.
• Long Zhanye returned to the Body Sect with the Blue Silver Emperor, while the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment remained in Ming Capital under his command.
• Long Zhanye gathered the Body Sect’s elders and disciples, introduced Elder Gu as one of his teachers, and credited him with shaping Long Zhanye’s rise.
• Long Zhanye revealed that the Body Sect’s secret arts included eight undeveloped techniques beyond the Body Martial Soul Secondary Awakening, surprising Du Busi and the assembled sect members.

Long Zhanye revealed the Body Sect’s Nine Body Secrets, explaining their abilities and how many he had mastered. He promised that he and Elder Gu would pass the secrets on to the sect, leaving the elders to consider a path toward the Body Sect’s revival.

• Long Zhanye explained that the Awaken Secret used blood essence to refine medicines for longevity, then demonstrated the Defense Secret’s Flawless Golden Body.
• He revealed that Elder Gu grafted a Qilin Arm martial soul onto him through the Fuse Secret, and described the Transformation, Source, Spirit, and Collapse Secrets.
• Long Zhanye disclosed that he possessed three soul cores and used his Spiritual Soul Core and Double Pupil to let the hall verify them.
• He announced the Ninth Secret, Body Martial Soul Third Awakening, and listed its requirements, shocking Du Busi and the other elders.
• Long Zhanye said he had mastered seven of the Nine Body Secrets and that he and Elder Gu would pass them down to the sect.

Long Zhanye presented Vina with the Blue Silver Emperor as a potential second Spirit Soul and revealed four powerful Elixirs he had taken from Huo Yuhao. After disciples tested the first Elixir without ill effects, their cultivation rose dramatically, showing the medicine’s benefits.

• Long Zhanye told Vina that the Blue Silver Emperor could become her second Spirit Soul and provide her eighth and ninth Soul Rings.
• Vina summoned her Snow Lotus martial soul and questioned whether she could fuse with a Spirit Soul before reaching a bottleneck.
• Long Zhanye revealed four Elixirs taken from Huo Yuhao and said he would test one in diluted portions before distributing the others.
• Ye Guyi dissolved the first Elixir in water, and Long Zhanye drank a bowl before ordinary disciples followed.
• After three or four days, all seventeen test subjects gained cultivation levels, with one rising from rank thirty-nine to rank fifty, and none suffered backlash.

Long Zhanye confirmed the elixirs’ power as disciples throughout the Body Sect made major cultivation gains, then helped Vina fuse with the 190,000-year Blue Silver Emperor. He revealed that he possessed Niu Tian’s severed arm and explained his conflict with the Clear Sky Sect, while assuring the elders that Niu Tian knew him only as Yan Feng.

• Long Zhanye gave the second diluted elixir to the younger generation, and Long Aotian, Vina, and many other disciples advanced several levels.
• Long Zhanye rose to the peak of level ninety-five, while Ye Guyi reached level ninety-three.
• After Vina reached level eighty, Long Zhanye and the Blue Silver Emperor completed her Spirit Soul fusion, giving her a 190,000-year Soul Ring and Left Leg Spirit Bone and raising her to level eighty-five.
• Long Zhanye presented Niu Tian’s severed right arm to the hall, shocking Du Busi and the others.
• Long Zhanye recounted how he killed Tai Tan, absorbed his Soul Ring and Spirit Bone, and later found Niu Tian’s arm after Zhongli Wu severed it.
• Long Zhanye told Du Busi that Niu Tian still knew him as Yan Feng, the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son, rather than as a member of the Body Sect.

Long Zhanye helped Elder Gu graft on Niu Tian’s severed arm, transforming it into a powerful new arm that raised Elder Gu to rank ninety-five and earned him the title Divine Arm. He then used an Elixir and Vina’s healing abilities to restore Du Busi’s damaged origin, leaving the Body Sect to stabilize its gains through cultivation.

• Long Zhanye and Vina reattached Niu Tian’s right arm to Elder Gu, whose healing skills restored the connection and awakened its power.
• Elder Gu absorbed the arm’s lightning power, rose to rank ninety-five, and named his new dragon arm the Azure Divine Dragon Arm.
• Long Zhanye gave Elder Gu a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, which he absorbed to gain a two-hundred-thousand-year soul ring and the title Divine Arm.
• Long Zhanye persuaded Du Busi to accept an Elixir, and Vina spent more than ten days healing his damaged Source.
• Du Busi recovered his vitality and went to cultivate in seclusion, while Long Zhanye told the Body Sect members to stabilize their improved Soul Power.

Jing Hongchen sought the Body Sect’s protection from Xu Tianran and joined the sect in his personal capacity after Long Zhanye persuaded him that the Holy Spirit Cult’s split from the Sun Moon Empire created an opportunity for cooperation. He left Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen with the Body Sect as they prepared to travel, while Long Zhanye reassured skeptical elders that Jing Hongchen seemed sincere and his grandchildren gave the sect leverage.

• Du Busi rejected Jing Hongchen’s proposal to assassinate Xu Tianran and said the Body Sect would not help overthrow the Sun Moon Empire, while Long Zhanye identified Shrek as the sect’s greater concern.
• Long Zhanye offered to protect Jing Hongchen’s family if Jing joined the Body Sect, and explained that Zhongli Wu’s new empire could divide the Holy Spirit Cult from Xu Tianran.
• Jing Hongchen agreed to join the Body Sect in his own name with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, swearing an oath in the hall.
• Long Zhanye accepted Jing Hongchen for the value of his Level 9 Soul Engineer expertise, and Jing promised to report unusual developments in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Long Zhanye asked Jing to leave Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen with the group during their travels, and Jing agreed.
• After Jing left, Long Zhanye told the elders that Jing did not seem to be lying and that keeping his grandchildren in the sect would help prevent betrayal.

Long Zhanye led a group of thirteen, including the Hongchen Siblings and Ji Juechen, on a journey to the Star Luo Empire's eastern coast. He summoned the Bone Dragon King and used its spatial power to carry them there, arriving safely above the shoreline.

• Long Zhanye reassured the elders that the Hongchen Siblings would keep Jing Hongchen from acting against the Body Sect.
• Ji Juechen asked Long Zhanye to take him along for training, and Long Zhanye agreed, bringing the group to thirteen.
• Long Zhanye told the group they were heading to the Star Luo Empire's eastern coast despite the tense war.
• Long Zhanye summoned the Bone Dragon King and had the twelve others climb onto its back.
• Long Zhanye directed the Bone Dragon King through a spatial rift, and the group emerged above the eastern coast.

Long Zhanye and the others reached Sea God Village and searched its vast central plaza for a hidden mechanism. Long Zhanye uncovered a massive statue of a Sea God, but the plaza revealed no further entrance or explanation.

• Long Zhanye and twelve companions entered Sea God Village, where the residents watched the outsiders warily.
• Long Zhanye led the group to the village’s central plaza and identified its pillars and raised platform as their destination.
• Long Zhanye and his companions searched the plaza for a mechanism, hidden entrance, or exit.
• Long Zhanye found a loose stone and pressed it, causing a huge statue holding a trident to rise from the ground.
• Ye Guyi wondered whether the statue depicted Tang San, but Long Zhanye said it was likely the first-generation Sea God and found no sign of what to do next.

Long Zhanye activated the Seagod statue and met Sea Cloud Douluo, one of Sea God Village’s five guardians. After proving he carried the Seagod’s mark, Long Zhanye began his second god trial, and the Sea Cloud Sacred Pillar revealed a blue-gold halo around him.

• Long Zhanye used the Seagod seal to activate the statue, shaking the square and summoning a face in the clouds.
• Long Zhanye pierced the cloud face with a Mental Ray and demanded that its hidden speaker reveal himself.
• Sea Cloud Douluo introduced himself as a guardian of Sea God Village and asked Long Zhanye to prove the Seagod had sent him.
• Long Zhanye revealed the Seagod Trident brand, and Sea Cloud Douluo recognized him as the Seagod’s chosen successor.
• Sea Cloud Douluo activated the Sea Cloud Sacred Pillar and began the ritual for Long Zhanye.
• The ritual surrounded Long Zhanye with a blue-gold halo, confirming to Sea Cloud Douluo that he was the long-awaited successor.

Long Zhanye received the Nine Trials of the Sea God, and Hai Kongming appeared to explain that he had nine years to complete them or die along with Sea God Village. The first trial required him to climb to the 333rd step of the Sea God Staircase within one year, and Hai Kongming vanished after warning him to look after himself.

• Blue-gold light enveloped Long Zhanye as the sea and sky erupted in a storm, and Sea Cloud Douluo recognized him as the Sea God's successor and identified the event as the Nine Trials of the Sea God.
• Hai Kongming descended from the sky and confirmed that Long Zhanye had accepted the Nine Trials, insisting that he complete all nine within nine years or be destroyed along with Sea God Village.
• Hai Kongming sent the trial information into Long Zhanye's Sea of Consciousness, where he read that his first trial was to reach the 333rd step of the Sea God's Light within one year.
• Hai Kongming revealed a staircase of water near the shore and warned Long Zhanye that he could not leave Sea God Village during the assessment.
• Long Zhanye remained wary of the rules, and Hai Kongming disappeared after warning him that the assessment was dangerous.

Long Zhanye’s companions began their Sea God trials, and the first three received red-tier trials that astonished Sea Cloud Douluo. The remaining companions prepared to approach the Sea Cloud Sacred Pillar.

• Long Zhanye refused Sea Cloud Douluo’s offer to rest and confirmed that his twelve companions would take trials.
• Long Aotian received a Top-tier Seven Trial, which Sea Cloud Douluo explained could qualify its successor to become a candidate for the next Sea God High Priest.
• Ye Guyi received a Top-tier Five Trial, prompting further surprise from Sea Cloud Douluo.
• Xiao Hongchen received a Top-tier One Trial, and Sea Cloud Douluo repeated the test to confirm the result.
• Sea Cloud Douluo yielded the position at the pillar as the remaining companions prepared to take their trials.