Recaps

Xu Yanli encouraged Tang Ling to join him and gave him a cultivation method that helped him break through two levels overnight. As the freshman assessment finals began, Xu Yanli planned how to deal with He Caitou and then faced He Caitou’s opening Soul Cannon attack with Sun True Fire.

• Xu Yanli asked Tang Ling about the hardship faced by his family and gifted people, then gave him a modified cultivation method to try.
• Tang Ling told Xu Yanli the next morning that the method had helped him break through two levels overnight.
• Xu Yanli ordered Xiaoyao Pavilion’s subordinates to investigate Xiao Xiao’s background and recruit talented children they found while scouting.
• At the finals, Xu Yanli spotted He Caitou and considered using him to target Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool genius after leaving the academy.
• He Caitou fired a Soul Cannon shell at Xu Yanli, who raised his hand and summoned Sun True Fire to meet the attack.

Xu Yanli led Xiao Xiao and Tang Ling to victory over Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and He Caitou in a team match. After defeating their Hell White Tiger fusion skill, he left the arena reflecting that his abilities countered theirs and that Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu lacked coordination.

• Xu Yanli destroyed He Caitou's Soul Cannon with Sun True Fire, and He Caitou boosted Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu with cigars.
• Tang Ling and Xiao Xiao attacked Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu while Xu Yanli healed his teammates and slowed their opponents with moonlight transformed into sunlight.
• Xu Yanli shielded Xiao Xiao and Tang Ling with his holy wings, reflecting Dai Huabin's and Zhu Lu's attacks.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu unleashed their Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Xu Yanli's Sun Wheel Slash shattered it and knocked them down.
• He Caitou surrendered, and the referee declared Xu Yanli, Xiao Xiao, and Tang Ling the winners.
• Xu Yanli told Xiao Xiao and Tang Ling that their opponents had poor coordination and that his Soul Skills naturally countered theirs.

Xu Yanli planned his break, discussed recruiting the major sects with Long Xiaoyao, and saw Xiaoyao Pavilion poach students from Shrek Academy. After his team won the freshman assessment, he rejected their Secret Soul Bone, and Gu Yuena appeared before leaving in anger.

• Xu Yanli told Long Xiaoyao he knew the location of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and revealed that the Divine Realm could not contact the lower world, then considered using that fact to recruit major sects.
• Xiaoyao Pavilion recruited nearly half of the students Shrek Academy was likely to expel.
• Du Weilun announced that Xu Yanli's team had won the freshman assessment, ahead of Dai Huabin's team and Wang Dong's team.
• Xiao Xiao and Tang Ling offered Xu Yanli their Soul Bone, but he refused and warned them that it was a cruelly obtained Secret Soul Bone.
• Gu Yuena glared at the Soul Bone and Xu Yanli, then turned and left.

Xu Yanli reflected on the distorted society of Douluo Continent and considered how to use his position at Shrek Academy to pursue his goals. After the class elections and a clash involving Wang Dong, he began planning to send evidence of a teacher’s conduct to the Clear Sky Sect, then resumed studying Necromancy with Electrolux.

• Xu Yanli told Tang Ling and another student to keep the Secret Soul Bones, then wrote and destroyed a list of changes he believed the continent could not accept.
• Xu Yanli considered dealing with Evil Soul Masters and worried that Long Xiaoyao might kill Ye Guyi, making him impatient to leave Shrek Academy.
• Mu Jin appointed Xu Yanli Support class monitor, while Wang Dong was thrown out of the classroom during a dispute that drew the class outside to watch.
• Xu Yanli recorded Zhou Yi’s lesson and decided to copy the recording and send it to the Clear Sky Sect to provoke a response over Xiao Qi’s humiliation.
• Xu Yanli returned to Xiaoyao Pavilion and studied Necromancy with Electrolux, who remained concerned that the magic might affect Xu Yanli’s mind.

Xu Yanli cultivated with the Golden Ancient Tree, broke through to level 59, and received a seed to carry beyond Sea God Island. A report on Xiao Xiao’s family revealed their ties to his mother, Xu Wangshu, leaving Xu Yanli determined to uncover what had happened to her.

• Xu Yanli accepted a seed from Elder Jin so the Golden Ancient Tree could see the outside world, and promised to help it take root at his academy someday.
• Xu Yanli absorbed life energy and light elements until he broke through the bottleneck at level 59.
• A report revealed that Xiao Xiao’s family had once supported Xu Wangshu’s bid for the Star Luo Empire’s throne and had been close to her.
• Xu Yanli resolved to investigate who had crippled his mother’s Martial Soul and driven her from the Star Luo Empire, while considering how to win over Xiao Xiao’s family.
• Kong Deming told Xu Yanli that Xiao Xiao might be the fiancée his mother had once planned for him.

Xu Yanli learned that Kong Deming did not know why his mother had lost her talent and decided to investigate through Xiao Xiao's family. As the semester ended, he prepared to leave Shrek Academy with Huo Yuhao and Tang Ling while setting plans in motion against the academy.

• Kong Deming told Xu Yanli that his mother had appeared in the Sun Moon Empire with a crippled Martial Soul, and that a streak of light had appeared when she broke through to the Titled Douluo realm.
• Xu Yanli concluded that his mother's talent and royal lineage had made her valuable, then planned to visit Xiao Xiao's family and take Huo Yuhao to the Extreme North after the holiday.
• Xu Yanli ordered Xiaoyao Pavilion to reduce its Shrek City operations and asked its students at Shrek Academy whether they would stay or leave for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Yanli quietly worked to influence He Caitou and considered using him to expose his identity and deepen suspicion of Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao told Xu Yanli that he had reached level 20, while Xu Yanli reached level 60 and considered seeking a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Xu Yanli said goodbye to Xiao Xiao, and Tang Ling chose to leave with him; Xu Yanli revealed that Xiaoyao Pavilion had already taken in Tang Ling's parents.

Xu Yanli manipulated He Caitou into killing Zhou Yi at Shrek Academy, then arranged to send a recording to the Body Sect and Clear Sky Sect. He continued using his soul link to push He Caitou toward revealing his Sun Martial Soul, while privately feeling remorse for what he had done to him.

• Xu Yanli took Tang Ling to Xiaoyao Pavilion as its Sun Moon Empire members prepared to leave, while Long Xiaoyao watched them depart.
• At Shrek Academy, Zhou Yi berated the anxious He Caitou until he accidentally shot her with a Soul Cannon.
• Xu Yanli entered He Caitou's point of view and whispered accusations that drove him to stab Zhou Yi in the heart.
• Fan Yu arrived, shoved He Caitou aside, and rushed the dying Zhou Yi toward the inner courtyard.
• Xu Yanli gave Shadow Douluo a recording for delivery to the Body Sect and Clear Sky Sect, then resumed influencing He Caitou to release his Sun Martial Soul.

Xu Yanli watched Zhou Yi die after Elder Li failed to save her, then arranged for He Caitou’s Sun Martial Soul and imperial identity to be exposed in Shrek City. As a crowd attacked He Caitou, Xu Yanli continued carrying out his Imperial Father’s plan.

• Xu Yanli and Elder Jin watched as Elder Li declared Zhou Yi dead, and Fan Yu broke down in anguish.
• Xu Yanli reflected on Zhou Yi’s treatment of expelled students and anticipated that the Body Sect and others would use her death against Shrek Academy.
• Fan Yu chased He Caitou toward the outskirts of Shrek City and attacked him with a Soul Tool sword.
• He Caitou revealed his Second Martial Soul, the Sun, as Xu Yanli drew nearby people toward the scene.
• Xu Yanli told the crowd that He Caitou belonged to the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial family and urged them to kill him, prompting them to rush forward.

Xu Yanli watched a furious crowd turn on He Caitou, and his control helped ensure He Caitou was killed by the mob and Fan Yu. Xu Yanli then met Du Busi at Xiaoyao Pavilion, where they discussed plans for the Body Sect in the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xu Yanli watched as people in Shrek City gathered to condemn He Caitou for his Sun Moon Empire heritage.
• A man whose family had died because of the Sun Moon Empire accused He Caitou, and the crowd called for his death.
• Xu Yanli pinned He Caitou in place, allowing a sword to pierce his chest, and Fan Yu stabbed him again as He Caitou pleaded that he had been controlled.
• Xu Yanli entered He Caitou's mindscape and told him to rest easy as He Caitou died.
• Xu Yanli returned to his carriage and later met Du Busi at Xiaoyao Pavilion, where they discussed building the Body Sect in the Sun Moon Empire.

Xu Yanli left Du Busi with a plan to spread damaging rumors about Shrek Academy and continued toward the Extreme North with Huo Yuhao. Along the way, he healed a sick child and gave the child's mother money and a Xiaoyao Pavilion badge, leaving her determined to serve the organization someday.

• Xu Yanli asked Du Busi to pass information about the Clear Sky Sect's hidden young sect master to its leader and help spread rumors about Shrek Academy.
• Xu Yanli continued toward the Extreme North with Huo Yuhao, and the next evening their Soul Guidance Carriage stopped when a woman blocked the road with her feverish child.
• The woman begged Xu Yanli to take them to town and find help, while Huo Yuhao, Tang Ling, and Gu Yuena watched.
• Xu Yanli used his Angel Martial Soul's Holy Prayer Sun Moon Light Heal to treat the child and the woman.
• Xu Yanli gave the woman fifty Gold Soul Coins and a Xiaoyao Pavilion badge, promising the Pavilion would awaken her child's Martial Soul and offer them a safe life.
• After the carriage departed, the woman kissed her child and said they would serve Xiaoyao Pavilion someday.

Xu Yanli explained how helping commoners could turn them away from the empires and toward Xiaoyao Pavilion, while Gu Yuena grew more curious about his contradictions. As the convoy neared the Extreme North, Du Busi prepared to use evidence against Shrek Academy, and Xu Yanli readied Xiaoyao Pavilion to recruit commoner students when Shrek’s scandals broke.

• Xu Yanli told Huo Yuhao and Tang Ling that aid to the poor could win their loyalty for Xiaoyao Pavilion, and Gu Yuena listened as her curiosity about him deepened.
• Huo Yuhao realized that Xu Yanli was winning people over, while Xu Yanli decided he should stay in research instead of causing trouble outside.
• As the convoy neared the Extreme North, Du Busi reviewed a recording of Zhou Yi mistreating students and planned to use it against Shrek Academy.
• Du Busi considered sending the recording to the Clear Sky Sect and exposing Shrek Academy’s glorification of Zhou Yi to damage its reputation.
• Xu Yanli ordered Xiaoyao Pavilion branches to recruit locally after Shrek’s scandals emerged, prioritizing primary academies and free Martial Soul awakenings for commoners.
• Xu Yanli wondered why there were so few Angel Martial Soul holders and sent Ye Guyi away because Shrek Academy remained dangerous.

Xu Yanli led Huo Yuhao, Tang Ling, and Gu Yuena into the Extreme North, where he helped Huo Yuhao prepare to hunt an Ice Silkworm for his second Soul Ring. Huo Yuhao attacked the three-thousand-year-old Ice Silkworm with a Soul Guidance Ray Gun, landing five shots as it thrashed.

• Xu Yanli and the others entered the Extreme North, and Kong Deming gave the shivering Huo Yuhao, Tang Ling, and Gu Yuena Thermal Bracers to keep them warm.
• After an hour of travel, Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to locate a three-thousand-year-old Ice Silkworm, and Xu Yanli chose it as Huo Yuhao’s second Soul Ring target.
• Xu Yanli gave Huo Yuhao a Level 3 Soul Guidance Ray Gun and told him to stay calm, keep Spiritual Detection active, and stop the Ice Silkworm from escaping.
• Huo Yuhao approached the Ice Silkworm in its ice cave and fired five shots into vital spots, leaving it thrashing.

Huo Yuhao absorbed a three-thousand-year Soul Ring from an Ice Silkworm and reached level twenty-three as Xu Yanli led the group deeper into the Extreme North. After a detector found a dying Hundred-Thousand-Year Ice Jade Scorpion, Xu Yanli asked Electrolux to help Huo Yuhao form a willing contract with it.

• Huo Yuhao killed the Ice Silkworm and absorbed its purple Soul Ring, raising his Soul Power to level twenty-three.
• Xu Yanli led Huo Yuhao and the others into the Extreme North, where Long Xiaoyao warned them about a gigantic Titan Snow Demon.
• Tian Meng appeared and proposed a four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast for Huo Yuhao, but Xu Yanli insisted that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would do.
• Xu Yanli shared boxed meals with the group before they continued their journey.
• A detector revealed a severely injured Hundred-Thousand-Year Ice Jade Scorpion, and Xu Yanli asked Electrolux to help it and Huo Yuhao form a contract.

Xu Yanli and his companions helped Huo Yuhao form a Soul Spirit contract with the dying Ice Jade Scorpion, then Xu Yanli sensed the Snow Empress nearby and asked Long Xiaoyao to take him to her. They found the Snow Empress frozen in a cave and captured a Level 9 Soul Engineer from the Sun Moon Empire who had followed them.

• Electrolux performed the Soul Spirit contract ritual for Huo Yuhao and the Ice Jade Scorpion while helping Huo Yuhao fuse with its Soul Bone.
• Electrolux sensed a powerful but nearly dissipated presence about three hundred li northwest, and Xu Yanli recognized it as the Snow Empress attempting to transform into human form.
• Xu Yanli asked Long Xiaoyao to take him northwest and told Kong Deming to bring Huo Yuhao and the others to safety if they had not returned by daybreak.
• Long Xiaoyao took Xu Yanli to an ice-sealed mountain valley, where they found the Snow Empress curled inside a crystal of ice.
• Long Xiaoyao caught an intruder near the cave entrance, and Xu Yanli identified him as a Level 9 Soul Engineer from the Sun Moon Empire.

Xu Yanli offered to save the dying Snow Empress by making her his Soul Spirit, promising she would retain her consciousness and dignity as his partner. After seeing the Radiant Unicorn had kept its consciousness, Snow Empress accepted, and Xu Yanli's Sun Moon Prayer Angel switched to its moon form.

• Xu Yanli used his healing Soul Skill to stabilize Snow Empress, whose injuries were fatal.
• Xu Yanli offered to save Snow Empress and help her pursue godhood if she became his Soul Spirit and partner.
• Xu Yanli showed Snow Empress the conscious Radiant Unicorn Soul Spirit as proof that she would not lose herself.
• Snow Empress considered her bond with Ice Empress and the danger of refusing, then accepted Xu Yanli's offer as his partner.
• Xu Yanli took Snow Empress's hand, and his Sun Moon Prayer Angel switched to its moon form.

Snow Empress became a Soul Spirit bound to Xu Yanli, who then gathered Cold Ice Jade Marrow and three Immortal Herbs with her permission. The Ice Jade Empress Scorpion arrived in a rage, and Xu Yanli stopped her attack while warning that Snow Empress was bound to him.

• Electrolux completed the contract, and Snow Empress appeared in Xu Yanli’s spiritual sea as a Soul Spirit.
• Snow Empress offered Xu Yanli and Long Xiaoyao Cold Ice Jade Marrow and three Immortal Herbs, which they collected with her permission.
• Xu Yanli sensed the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion approaching and decided to meet her rather than leave.
• The Ice Jade Empress Scorpion attacked Xu Yanli, but he blocked her pincer with his sixth Soul Skill.
• Xu Yanli told the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion that Snow Empress was fine and warned that she was bound to him.

Xu Yanli brought Ice Empress out of the Extreme North and headed for Xiaoyao Pavilion, still determined to uncover the truth about his birth mother. At the pavilion, he discovered that its aid to the poor was earning him Faith Force and began considering how to combine his powers into the Creator God's Godhood.

• Ice Empress agreed to accompany Xu Yanli, and Long Xiaoyao promised to keep their arrangement secret.
• Xu Yanli told Long Xiaoyao that he wanted to visit Xiao Xiao's home and learn the truth about his birth mother, but Long Xiaoyao warned that the time was not right.
• Xu Yanli, Long Xiaoyao, and Ice Empress left the Extreme North and traveled to Xiaoyao Pavilion.
• Xu Yanli saw a pavilion member serving porridge to hungry old people and children, then asked where the people who had arrived earlier were staying.
• Xu Yanli realized that the pavilion's charitable work had been generating Faith Force for him and considered pursuing the Creator God's Godhood by combining his powers.

Xu Yanli planned to take Huo Yuhao to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy as turmoil loomed across Douluo Continent. After resting, he traveled to Star Luo City to visit the Duchess of White Tiger and knocked on the gate of a familiar-sounding woman’s courtyard.

• Xu Yanli told Huo Yuhao to avoid the Body Sect and said he would take him to study Soul Tools at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy.
• Xu Yanli, Huo Yuhao, and Tang Ling played in a hot spring while Kong Deming and Long Xiaoyao discussed Kong Deming’s breakthrough.
• After resting for a day, Xu Yanli set out for Star Luo City and sent his companions to wait at Xiaoyao Pavilion.
• Xu Yanli went with Long Xiaoyao secretly following him to a small courtyard, knocked on its vermilion gate, and heard a familiar female voice answer.

Xu Yanli visited Xiao Dingtian to learn about his mother, and discovered she had been the revered Eldest Princess Wangshu. Xiao Dingtian began recounting her life but stopped as he reached the late emperor’s plan to name her Crown Princess.

• Xiao Yue opened the gate and was overcome by Xu Yanli’s resemblance to his mother.
• Xiao Dingtian recognized Xu Yanli as Her Highness and revealed that he had served as Wangshu’s personal guard commander.
• Xu Yanli asked Xiao Dingtian to tell him who his mother was, what she experienced, and how she died.
• Xiao Dingtian described Wangshu’s exceptional Martial Souls, rapid cultivation, and service to soldiers and commoners.
• Xiao Dingtian said the late emperor had begun considering naming Wangshu Crown Princess.

Xiao Dingtian told Xu Yanli how Xu Jiawei betrayed the Eldest Princess after her Martial Soul was destroyed, forcing her to flee and eventually die. Xu Yanli suspected Tang San had caused her downfall, then read a letter that revealed her warmth toward her soldiers.

• Xiao Dingtian recounted how Xu Jiawei feigned support for the Eldest Princess before a mysterious streak of light shattered her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
• Xu Jiawei staged a coup after the Eldest Princess was crippled, and Xiao Dingtian helped her escape to the Sun Moon Empire.
• The Eldest Princess asked Xiao Dingtian to return to Star Luo and help a child who resembled her; Xu Yanli suspected Tang San had caused the attack.
• Xu Yanli thanked Xiao Dingtian, reassured him about Xiao Xiao, and discussed inviting her to join his side.
• Xiao Dingtian gave Xu Yanli a letter from the Eldest Princess, who had written fondly of drinking with her soldiers.

After learning that Xu Qingwan had helped persecute his mother and hunted her former followers, Xu Yanli went to the Duke of White Tiger Mansion with Long Xiaoyao. On the way, he resolved to avenge his mother, broke through a bottleneck in his spiritual power, and entered a secluded compound in the mansion.

• Xu Yanli asked Xiao Dingtian whether the Duke of White Tiger Mansion had harmed his mother, and Xiao Dingtian named Xu Qingwan as one of the perpetrators.
• Xu Yanli left Xiao Dingtian’s home, then told Long Xiaoyao he wanted to go to the Duke of White Tiger Mansion immediately.
• Xu Yanli and Long Xiaoyao entered the mansion at night, with Long Xiaoyao following from the shadows as Xu Yanli avoided the guards.
• Xu Yanli embraced his desire to live freely and decided to avenge his mother, triggering a breakthrough in his spiritual power.
• Xu Yanli searched the mansion with his spiritual power, found a secluded compound in the rear courtyard, and slipped inside through its half-open gate.

Xu Yanli confronted the Duchess of White Tiger, who revealed her lifelong devotion to Xu Wangshu and confessed that she had killed Huo Yun'er because she resembled Xu Wangshu. The Duchess asked Xu Yanli to kill her, leaving him facing the woman he had come intending to execute.

• Xu Yanli found a ruined statue of Xu Wangshu in the Duchess of White Tiger's house and discovered the Duchess kneeling before it.
• The Duchess told Xu Yanli she had worshipped Xu Wangshu for twelve years and described watching her fall from the sky and shatter.
• The Duchess admitted she had sent people to test Xu Yanli, not to kill him, and said she wanted to see what kind of life Xu Wangshu's child would lead.
• The Duchess confessed she hated Xu Wangshu for showing her another way to live and revealed she had killed Huo Yun'er because Huo Yun'er resembled Xu Wangshu but lacked her character.
• The Duchess told Xu Yanli she could not return to her old life and asked him to kill her.

Xu Yanli confronted the Duchess of White Tiger over her hatred of his mother and the murder of Huo Yun'er, forcing her to face the resentment and despair behind her actions. After the Duchess broke down and explained how his mother's death had destroyed her hopes, Xu Yanli told her she was finished and asked her a question.

• Xu Yanli entered the room and accused the Duchess of White Tiger of destroying the idol she had worshipped for twelve years.
• Xu Yanli told the Duchess that she had hated his mother for showing her another way to live and hated herself for lacking the courage to follow it.
• Xu Yanli said the Duchess had killed Huo Yun'er because she lived with dignity, not because she resembled his mother.
• The Duchess collapsed and confessed that she had once believed his mother could show her a way out, but her death had shattered that hope.
• The Duchess cried that she could not turn back from the person she had become, and Xu Yanli told her she was finished before asking her something.

Xu Yanli killed the Duchess of White Tiger after confronting her with the emptiness of her life, then returned to Xiaoyao Pavilion with Long Xiaoyao. As they prepared to return to the Sun Moon Empire, Xiao Dingtian arrived with more than a hundred family members who pledged to follow Xu Yanli.

• Xu Yanli told the Duchess of White Tiger that she had been a coward rather than a true believer, then killed her with the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon's power after she asked him to tell her she could finally see her again.
• Xu Yanli gathered the Duchess's ashes with Lunar Power and scattered them into the night before leaving with Long Xiaoyao.
• Long Xiaoyao warned Xu Yanli to keep a low profile in the Sun Moon Empire and beware of Xu Tianran, and Xu Yanli spent the night cultivating in silence with Electrolux.
• The next morning, Xu Yanli prepared to return to the Sun Moon Empire, but Xiao Dingtian arrived with more than a hundred relatives and declared that his family would follow him.
• Xu Yanli asked why Xiao Dingtian's family would go to such lengths, and Xiao Dingtian recalled the Lord's words about meeting a kindred spirit.

Xu Yanli’s convoy left Star Luo City during a lockdown prompted by the Duchess of White Tiger’s death, but the Duke declared it Heaven’s Retribution and halted the investigation. The convoy reached the Sun Moon Empire, where Xu Yanli and his companions saw its advanced Soul Tool infrastructure as they traveled toward Ming Capital.

• Xu Yanli’s convoy left Star Luo City, but soldiers and Soul Masters locked down the city after the Duchess of White Tiger was found dead.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the Duchess’s death had triggered the lockdown, and Xu Yanli reminded him that the Duchess’s children and Huo Yuhao’s father were still alive.
• Kong Deming received a message that the Duke of White Tiger had blamed his wife’s death on Heaven’s Retribution and ordered the investigation stopped, lifting the lockdown.
• Xu Yanli studied Huo Yuhao’s face and concluded that they did not look alike, while Huo Yuhao wondered what his teacher meant.
• Xu Yanli’s convoy crossed the Mingdou Mountain Range and entered the Sun Moon Empire, where Tang Ling and Huo Yuhao marveled at the advanced roads and Soul Tools.
• The convoy traveled toward Ming Capital, passing increasingly prosperous cities and low-flying detectors.