Recaps

Shrek defeated Star Luo and advanced through the tournament, while Lin Yi stunned the field by revealing his Soul King strength and defeating Thunderclap Academy for Tianshui. As the top-six draw set up new matches, Qian Renxue offered Lin Yi a place in the Heaven Dou Empire, but he chose to remain with Skywater Academy.

• Tang San used his Blue Silver domain to weaken Star Luo Royal Academy, then shattered Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun’s Hell White Tiger Break with the Clear Sky Hammer, winning the match for Shrek.
• Spirit Hall defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Shrek later beat Godwind Academy after Tang San stopped Feng Xiaotian’s consecutive slashes with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Lin Yi entered the quarterfinal against Thunderclap Academy and revealed five soul rings, including black fourth and fifth rings, shocking Tang San and the other spectators.
• Yu Tianxin combined his teammates’ Soul Power into a powerful attack, but Lin Yi dodged his strikes, caught his final lightning punch, and spread Lightning Domain across the arena as Skywater won.
• Qian Daoliu’s Worships discussed recruiting Lin Yi after Guang Ling reported his strength, while the tournament’s other quarterfinals completed the top-six field.
• The draw paired Shrek with Verdant Mist, Tianshui with Plant, and Spirit Hall with Black Feather, as Lin Yi read a comic book about martial souls with the Skywater girls.
• Qian Renxue invited Lin Yi to discuss his performance and offered him a rank, a fiefdom, and cultivation resources if he moved to Heaven Dou City, but Lin Yi declined and returned to Skywater Academy.

Lin Yi led Skywater Academy through the individual rounds and into the Grand Finals, while Shrek fell to Spirit Hall’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Skywater defeated Spirit Hall when Lin Yi revealed the Sun God Spear, leaving Bibi Dong’s plans to recruit him and Lin Yi’s warning of further trouble unresolved.

• Spirit Hall, Tianshui, and Shrek advanced to the Top Three Round, where Bibi Dong set individual matches before any team battle and Lin Yi suspected she wanted to expose his strength.
• Lin Yi won fourteen consecutive individual matches, defeating Shrek’s fighters and Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation as both teams conserved strength for their later clash.
• Spirit Hall’s Hu Liena and Xie Yue used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to defeat Tang San and Shrek, securing Spirit Hall a place in the Grand Finals against Skywater Academy.
• Bibi Dong asked Qian Renxue to approach Lin Yi and win him over for Spirit Hall, and Qian Renxue agreed reluctantly while considering other ways to keep him from Bibi Dong.
• In the final, Lin Yi and Skywater Academy faced Spirit Hall’s coordinated attacks, and Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu briefly challenged Hu Liena and Xie Yue’s demonic fusion.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue intensified their red mist and launched a final attack after Lin Yi’s Eight Spider Lances began to crack, but Lin Yi summoned the Sun God Spear and shattered their strike.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue conceded, and the referee declared Skywater Academy the champion as the girls celebrated with Lin Yi, who warned them that their troubles were not over.

After Skywater Academy won the tournament, Lin Yi turned down recruitment from Spirit Hall, Qian Renxue, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect while accepting training from Chen Xin and Gu Rong. The arc ended with Qian Renxue asking him to accompany her to Sunset Forest after reporting Xue Qinghe’s supposed death.

• Lin Yi accepted Bibi Dong’s invitation to the Library Pavilion, where his thoughts revealed ways she could pursue the Rakshasa Godhood without starting a war.
• Qian Renxue visited Skywater Academy, failed to recruit Lin Yi, and later traveled with him to Heaven Dou City disguised as Xue Qinghe.
• Ning Fengzhi invited Lin Yi to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but Lin Yi declined to join and said he did not want to be bound to any faction.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong trained Lin Yi in spear control, footwork, and ways to handle opponents who avoided direct combat.
• Ning Rongrong let Lin Yi use her hidden cultivation room’s medicinal bath and told Chen Xin and Gu Rong to stop trying to persuade him to join the sect.
• After Lin Yi and Ning Rongrong left the sect, Lin Yi heard that Xue Qinghe had died in Sunset Forest and suspected Qian Renxue had faked his death.
• Qian Renxue met Lin Yi with Spirit Hall elders She Long and Ci Xue, reported that a Shadow Thorn Wolf had injured Xue Qinghe, and asked Lin Yi to go with her to Sunset Forest.

Lin Yi left Skywater Academy to seek training in the Northern Frontier Ancient Battlefield, where he uncovered a deadly black mist and faced increasingly strange attacks. After turning the Black Beasts’ assaults into training, he drew the attention of the battlefield’s ruler, who unleashed the Myriad Souls Formation against him.

• Lin Yi parted from Qian Renxue after learning she had abandoned her Heaven Dou identities, then returned to Skywater Academy and reunited with his companions.
• Lin Yi absorbed the Explosive Burning Spirit Bone, reached Soul Power level fifty-five, and secretly left to travel north while Shui Qinghan and Shui Qingyue followed at a distance.
• At Looking North Town, Lin Yi met Wang Sheng, an old schoolmate who led the Blackrock Group, and joined its outer-perimeter reconnaissance trip.
• Lin Yi left Wang Sheng’s group at Deadwood Forest and entered the Middle Layer, where Soul Power suppression and killing intent challenged him.
• Lin Yi rescued Yang Zheng and Yang Ling from the black mist, and Yang Zheng gave him a black stone found near collapsed ruins.
• Lin Yi reached the ruins and discovered that creatures fled from his Sun God Spear, while dark-red-eyed watchers observed him from a distant hall.
• Lin Yi fought successive attacks from Black Beasts and used them to build his resistance to killing intent.
• The battlefield’s ruler ordered the Myriad Souls Formation unleashed, and the black-mist subordinate began attacking Lin Yi’s consciousness with illusions and whispers.