Recaps

After Liu Bai dominated a practical combat class, Qin Ming questioned how he had absorbed a thousand-year second Soul Ring, and Liu Bai credited his physique. Over the next month and a half, Liu Bai advanced to three-star Dou Zhe while his Soul Power remained at level twenty-six, and he prepared Dou Techniques for Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.

• Liu Bai joked with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling after his arena battle, then watched the rest of the matches with them.
• Qin Ming asked Liu Bai how he had absorbed a thousand-year second Soul Ring, and Liu Bai answered that it was because of his physique.
• Liu Bai planned to rely on enhancement-type Soul Rings and Dou Techniques to build his future combat power.
• Liu Bai resumed his routine between the academy and Battle Through the Heavens, leaving a letter in his dormitory so Dugu Yan and the others would not worry when he was away.
• Over the next month and a half, Liu Bai advanced to three-star Dou Zhe, while his Soul Power stayed at level twenty-six but became richer after fully converting to his cultivation method.
• Liu Bai prepared Floating Willow Breeze, a high-grade Xuan Tier movement Dou Technique, for Ye Lingling.

During the holiday, Liu Bai gave Si Si a precious spiritual fungus and helped her obtain a third Soul Ring before returning to Heaven Dou City with the Sacred Heart Begonia. Ye Lingling absorbed the flower, evolved her Martial Soul, and broke her clan’s curse, revealing that her Soul Skills had changed.

• Liu Bai prepared Floating Willow Breeze for Ye Lingling, Ghost Poison Palm for Dugu Yan, and Dark Poison Seal and a cultivation technique for Dugu Bo.
• Liu Bai visited Si Si in Nuoding City and gave her a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma, raising her Soul Power from level twenty-six to level thirty.
• Liu Bai took Si Si to Soul Hunting Forest, where she obtained her third Soul Ring.
• Liu Bai presented the Sacred Heart Begonia to Ye Lingling, who absorbed it and evolved her Martial Soul, breaking her clan’s curse.
• Ye Lingling demonstrated her new First Soul Skill, Begonia Bathes the Heart, which restored 30% of an ally’s base Soul Power and accelerated injury recovery.

Ye Lingling revealed the transformed Sacred Heart Begonia’s powerful paralysis, healing, and shielding abilities before leaving to tell her family. Four years later, twelve-year-old Liu Bai faced Imperial Guard Commander Qin Zhan in a packed arena in the Jia Ma Empire.

• Ye Lingling demonstrated her First Soul Skill’s paralysis effect and her Second Soul Skill, which shielded Liu Bai and healed nearby allies when it broke.
• Dugu Yan celebrated Ye Lingling’s new abilities, and Ye Lingling left to inform her mother about her Martial Soul’s evolution.
• Dugu Yan and Liu Bai headed to the training grounds, and four years passed as Liu Bai cultivated to a remarkable level.
• In the Jia Ma Empire’s Imperial Guard camp, Liu Bai faced peak Dou Ling expert Qin Zhan in front of thousands of soldiers.

Liu Bai sparred with Qin Zhan before the soldiers and demonstrated how his four Soul Skills and Dry Blue Water Flame strengthened his combat power. After their Dou Techniques clashed and both fighters were forced back, Liu Bai activated Red Scale Leap and resumed the fight at greater speed.

• Qin Zhan opened the spar with a rapid punch, but Liu Bai evaded his attacks and countered with Dazzling Fire Fist.
• Qin Zhan unleashed his Mid Xuan Tier Dou Technique, Mountain Splitting Chop, while Liu Bai activated his four Soul Skills and formed the Red Spirit Seal.
• The Red Spirit Seal shattered Qin Zhan's green battle-axe, though the collision injured Liu Bai and drove him to the arena's edge.
• Qin Zhan praised Liu Bai's strength, and the soldiers cheered as Jia Xingtian and Yao Ye watched from the city wall.
• Liu Bai challenged Qin Zhan to continue, activated Red Scale Leap, and clashed with him at increased speed.

Liu Bai admitted defeat after a hard spar with Qin Zhan, then reunited with Jia Xingtian, Yao Ye, and Yao Yue. Yao Yue dragged him into the Imperial Capital to shop, leaving Liu Bai exhausted after two hours.

• Liu Bai withdrew Red Scale Leap and conceded that Qin Zhan had defeated him, while Qin Zhan praised his strength and agreed to spar again after Liu Bai reached Dou Ling.
• Jia Xingtian, Yao Ye, and Yao Yue joined Liu Bai after the battle, and Yao Yue teased him about his rapid cultivation and insisted on calling him Xiao Bai.
• Jia Xingtian again suggested betrothing Yao Yue to Liu Bai, but Liu Bai asked him to put off the subject because Yao Yue was still young.
• Yao Ye wiped dust from Liu Bai's face, and Yao Yue complained that he treated her sister more gently before pulling him along to go shopping.
• Liu Bai changed clothes and accompanied Yao Yue around the Imperial Capital, paying for her purchases and carrying them until the two-hour shopping trip left him exhausted.

Liu Bai returned to the Douluo World and began secluded cultivation in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to break through to Dou Ling. As his Dou Crystal absorbed the well’s extreme ice and fire energy, Dugu Bo waited above, unaware of how much longer Liu Bai’s breakthrough would take.

• Yao Yue and Nalan Yanran argued over a longsword, but Liu Bai persuaded Yao Yue to choose a folding fan instead.
• Nalan Yanran recognized Liu Bai as a young genius and resolved to join the Misty Cloud Sect so she could oppose her family and choose her own future.
• Liu Bai returned to the Imperial Palace, announced he was entering seclusion, and traveled to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well in the Douluo World.
• Dugu Bo, whose Soul Power had reached level ninety-five with Liu Bai’s help, waited above the well while Liu Bai cultivated below.
• After two months, the well churned as Liu Bai continued drawing in ice and fire energy and refining it into Dou Qi to enlarge his Dou Crystal.

Liu Bai broke through to the Dou Ling realm and returned to Heaven Dou City, where he met Ning Rongrong and discouraged her from attending Shrek Academy. He began explaining why he considered the school a scam, while Ning Rongrong listened.

• Liu Bai transformed his Dou Crystal into a nine-spiked pearl and broke through to the Dou Ling realm at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Liu Bai told Dugu Bo that his cultivation technique had advanced, then left to find Dugu Yan at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Liu Bai returned to Heaven Dou City and accidentally caught Ning Rongrong when she ran into him.
• Ning Rongrong invited Liu Bai to visit Shrek Academy with her, but he refused and called it a scam academy.
• Liu Bai told Ning Rongrong that Shrek had extreme admissions standards but lacked the ability to teach and nurture its students.

Liu Bai persuaded Ning Rongrong that Shrek Academy was a poor choice, and she decided to enroll at Heaven Dou Royal Academy instead. After Qin Yun discovered her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul and level 26 Soul Power, he welcomed her and began arranging her admission.

• Liu Bai criticized Shrek Academy’s harsh admissions, inadequate teaching, and low graduation rate, and advised Ning Rongrong to choose another academy.
• Ning Rongrong decided to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy after learning that Liu Bai studied there, and he offered to recommend her.
• Liu Bai brought Ning Rongrong to Teacher Qin Yun during the academy vacation and introduced her as a prospective student.
• Ning Rongrong revealed her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul and said she was a twelve-year-old level 26 support-type tool Soul Master.
• Qin Yun welcomed Ning Rongrong, promised to arrange her enrollment, and asked Liu Bai to show her around the academy.

Liu Bai introduced Ning Rongrong to Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling after persuading her to enroll at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and the four shared a meal while discussing the upcoming tournament. Ning Rongrong wanted to join their team, while Liu Bai and the others were confident they would choose their own teammates.

• Liu Bai showed Ning Rongrong around Heaven Dou Royal Academy after recommending it to her and helping her enroll.
• Liu Bai introduced Ning Rongrong to Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, who welcomed her as a new junior at the academy.
• The four went to Drunken Immortal Pavilion, where Ning Rongrong ordered the restaurant's signature dishes and they discussed the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament.
• Liu Bai suggested that Ning Rongrong join their team because her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could boost their strength, and Ning Rongrong said she would reach level thirty in time.
• Liu Bai told the others they would choose their own teammates, while Ning Rongrong wondered how strong they were; the chapter recounted Liu Bai's and the girls' remarkable reputations and victories.

Ning Rongrong learned that Liu Bai was a twelve-year-old Soul Ancestor and that Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were also exceptionally strong, then resolved to train harder alongside them. Liu Bai returned to the Battle Through the Heavens World to pursue the treasures he needed, and informed Jia Xingtian and Yao Ye after breaking through to Dou Ling.

• Dugu Yan revealed she was a level-fifty-one Soul King at nineteen, Ye Lingling said she was a level-forty-seven Soul Ancestor at nineteen, and Liu Bai disclosed that he was a level-forty-four Soul Ancestor at twelve.
• Ning Rongrong was stunned by Liu Bai's strength, agreed to join them, and decided she needed to work harder at cultivation.
• Liu Bai told Dugu Yan he would stay in the Battle Through the Heavens World for a while to seek a flying Dou Technique, the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, and a fragment of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map.
• Liu Bai returned to the Battle Through the Heavens World and left his cultivation chamber, where palace maids greeted him as Your Highness Liu Bai.
• Liu Bai went to notify Jia Xingtian before setting out, and Jia Xingtian welcomed him with Yao Ye and congratulated him on reaching Dou Ling.

After breaking through to Dou Ling, Liu Bai left the Imperial Capital to train in the Magical Beast Mountain Range and visited Ma Qi in Bitter Sea Town. He said farewell to Ma Qi with medicinal pills and then headed toward Green Mountain Town to find a cave.

• Liu Bai told Jia Xingtian and Yao Ye he planned to train in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and Yao Ye gave him a Jia Ma Imperial Family token.
• Liu Bai left the Imperial Palace without telling Xiao Yue and traveled to Bitter Sea Town to see Ma Qi.
• Ma Qi welcomed Liu Bai and told him he had quit hauling goods and hoped to start a mercenary group after reaching Dou Master.
• Liu Bai spent the evening drinking and reminiscing with Ma Qi and his old brothers, then gave Ma Qi a Storage Ring filled with medicinal pills before departing.
• Liu Bai traveled from Bitter Sea Town toward Green Mountain Town, where he planned to search for a cave in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Liu Bai searched the Magical Beast Mountain Range for the hidden cliffside cave and unexpectedly encountered Xiao Yi Xian and the Wolf Head Mercenary Group. When Mu Li tried to force his way into Liu Bai’s shelter, Liu Bai answered his threat with a display of power.

• Liu Bai learned that Xiao Yi Xian had gone into the mountains with Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion’s herb-gathering team, then headed west to search for the cave.
• Liu Bai searched the mountain slopes until dark, found a stone hollow by a stream, and settled in for the night.
• Mu Li and the Wolf Head Mercenary Group arrived at the hollow, where Liu Bai recognized Xiao Yi Xian among the herb-gathering team.
• Liu Bai ordered Mu Li’s men to leave, but Mu Li threatened him and told him to get lost.
• Liu Bai fired blue-gold Dou Qi into a nearby rock and shattered it into powder.

Liu Bai drove Mu Li and the Wolf Head Mercenary Group from the cave, then shared a meal and traded seasonings for Xiao Yi Xian’s medicines. They agreed to return to a hidden cave in three days, and Liu Bai followed her back to the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion to stay there.

• Liu Bai intimidated Mu Li and his mercenaries with his Dou Master aura, forcing them to flee while Mu Li vowed to get revenge in Green Mountain Town.
• Liu Bai invited Xiao Yi Xian to eat roasted meat, and they traded his barbecue seasonings for her collection of medicines.
• Liu Bai learned that Xiao Yi Xian knew of a cave beneath a cliff and asked her to take him there for two items; they agreed to return in three days.
• Liu Bai considered whether to bring Xiao Yi Xian with him and whether to reveal the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture to her early.
• Liu Bai followed Xiao Yi Xian back to the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion, where Boss Yao let him stay after Liu Bai showed his strength and paid gold coins.
• Xiao Yi Xian offered Liu Bai the side room beside hers.

Liu Bai promised Xiao Yi Xian that she could seek refuge with him, then watched her treat Green Mountain Town’s patients and resolved to protect her from the Woe Poison Body’s tragic fate. Later, they secretly entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range to find the cave, but Xiao Yi Xian struggled to remember its location.

• Liu Bai warned Xiao Yi Xian that people around her might not be sincere, then invited her to follow him if she ever had nowhere to go.
• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to seek refuge with Liu Bai if she left Green Mountain Town, and they made their promise beneath the moonlight.
• Xiao Yi Xian treated a long line of patients at the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion while Liu Bai helped her and encouraged her hopes of learning alchemy.
• Liu Bai decided he would keep Xiao Yi Xian from the fate awaiting her Woe Poison Body and let her remain by his side.
• Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian slipped into the Magical Beast Mountain Range at night to find the cave, but Xiao Yi Xian could not determine the way.

Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian found a hidden cave and discovered its treasure chamber. They divided the treasures, including a Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, before Xiao Yi Xian learned that Liu Bai was an Alchemist.

• Xiao Yi Xian remembered the cave’s location, and Liu Bai carried her down the cliff to its hidden entrance.
• Liu Bai opened a stone door and led Xiao Yi Xian into a chamber filled with herbs, gold, and three locked stone boxes.
• Liu Bai retrieved three keys and a Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame from the skeleton.
• Liu Bai gave Xiao Yi Xian the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and took the Purple Cloud Wings and Mad Lion Roar techniques for himself.
• While they gathered the herbs, Liu Bai said he was an Alchemist, and Xiao Yi Xian reacted with shock.

Liu Bai revealed that Xiao Yi Xian had the Woe Poison Body and promised he knew ways to control it. Xiao Yi Xian learned that Liu Bai could help her pursue either the Nether Poison Flame or the Poison Core Method, though his teasing left her exasperated.

• Liu Bai showed Xiao Yi Xian the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, and she read about the Woe Poison Body.
• Liu Bai confirmed Xiao Yi Xian had learned about her constitution and reassured her that he knew two ways to control it.
• Liu Bai explained that devouring the Nether Poison Flame could gather her accumulated poison and prevent an eruption.
• Liu Bai described the Poison Core Method, which required three Heavenly Flames, a Tier 7 Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast's Magic Core, and Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva.
• Liu Bai said he knew where to find the required materials, giving Xiao Yi Xian hope, then teased her about helping if no one else wanted her.

Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to travel together to seek a Heavenly Flame, then left Green Mountain Town and reached Black Rock City. The next morning, they headed to the Alchemist Guild so Liu Bai could take the assessment before they continued toward Graphite City.

• Liu Bai told Xiao Yi Xian about a Heavenly Flame in the Tagor Desert and persuaded her to join him on his journey.
• Xiao Yi Xian visited the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion, packed her belongings, and left a letter before departing with Liu Bai.
• Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian traveled by carriage to Black Rock City and stayed at an inn for the night.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked about Liu Bai's Alchemist credentials, and he decided to take the Alchemist assessment the next day.
• Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian arrived at the Alchemist Guild, where Xiao Yi Xian admired its imposing building.

Liu Bai entered the Black Rock City Alchemist Guild with Xiao Yi Xian and began the assessment process despite having no mentor record. After claiming he intended to test for Third-Grade Alchemist, he agreed to start at First Grade, then faced questions from President Frank and Grandmaster Otto in the assessment hall.

• Liu Bai showed the entrance guards his Condensed True Flame, and they let him and Xiao Yi Xian enter the guild.
• Liu Bai registered for an assessment and told the woman in green that he was sixteen and wanted to test for Third-Grade Alchemist.
• The woman in green explained that, without mentor records, Liu Bai had to pass each grade in order, so he accepted a First-Grade assessment and received armband number Eight.
• Teya checked Liu Bai's registration and allowed him and Xiao Yi Xian into the assessment hall.
• President Frank asked Liu Bai about his age and master, and Grandmaster Otto remarked on Liu Bai's steady aura and strong Soul Power before asking what grade he planned to test for.

Liu Bai took the Alchemist assessment at the Jia Ma Empire’s Alchemist Guild, astonishing the examiners with his blue-gold Flame and effortless First-Grade pill refinement. After passing the First-Grade test, he began the Second-Grade assessment.

• Liu Bai announced that he intended to take the Alchemist assessments up to Third Grade, and Frank recognized him as the famed young genius of the Jia Ma Empire.
• Liu Bai inspected the First-Grade assessment materials and refined superior-grade Qi Recovery Pills with his blue-gold Flame, finishing far ahead of the other examinees.
• Frank declared Liu Bai’s First-Grade assessment passed, and Liu Bai immediately requested the Second-Grade test.
• Frank provided Liu Bai with the Pulse-Protecting Pill formula and herbs, and Liu Bai began refining the Second-Grade pill with the same blue-gold Flame.

Liu Bai passed the Third-Grade Alchemist assessment at sixteen, earning a formal badge and the admiration of the guild. He and Xiao Yi Xian set out by flying mount for Stone Desert City, while Liu Bai prepared to train with the Purple Cloud Wings.

• Liu Bai refined a Wind-Travel Pill, passed the Third-Grade assessment, and revealed that he had reached the Dou Ling realm.
• Frank and Otto praised Liu Bai, awarded him a Third-Grade Alchemist robe and badge, and escorted him from the guild with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian bought desert-ready clothes and headed to the Flight Transport Station for their trip to Stone Desert City.
• Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian boarded a flying magical beast, which took off toward the eastern border of the Jia Ma Empire.

During the flight toward Desert City, Liu Bai subdued the Purple Cloud Eagle’s remnant soul and began cultivating the Purple Cloud Wings, enduring severe pain as new meridians formed. After he recovered, he and Xiao Yi Xian teased each other, and he began teaching her basic Dou Qi cultivation.

• Liu Bai opened the Purple Cloud Wings scroll and resisted the Purple Cloud Eagle’s soul attack until its remnant soul calmed.
• Liu Bai fused with the flying technique, enduring the painful formation of two new branch meridians before collapsing unconscious.
• Xiao Yi Xian caught Liu Bai, cared for him, and watched over him until he woke.
• Liu Bai teased Xiao Yi Xian after waking, and the two playfully bickered.
• With two days remaining before they reached their destination, Liu Bai began teaching Xiao Yi Xian the basics of Dou Qi cultivation.

Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian reached Graphite City after Xiao Yi Xian made astonishing progress cultivating Dou Qi. They settled into an inn, where Xiao Yi Xian tried on desert-style clothes and Liu Bai praised her beauty.

• Xiao Yi Xian cultivated her first wisp of Dou Qi within a day and continued progressing at an extraordinary rate.
• Liu Bai used his Purple Cloud Wings to carry Xiao Yi Xian from their flying magical beast toward Graphite City.
• Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian arrived in the scorching city, where Xiao Yi Xian struggled with the heat.
• Liu Bai gave Xiao Yi Xian a White Jade Folding Fan and found an inn for them to stay in.
• Xiao Yi Xian changed into a purple gauze outfit, and Liu Bai told her she looked beautiful.

Liu Bai found a fragment of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map in Hai Bodong's shop and revealed that he knew about Hai Bodong's seal. He offered to help break it, and Hai Bodong gave him the Po'e Pill formula as a test, promising the other half of the map if Liu Bai could refine it.

• Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian visited an ancient map shop, where Liu Bai found a fragment matching the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map he had obtained earlier.
• Liu Bai asked Hai Bodong to sell him the fragment, but Hai Bodong refused.
• Liu Bai identified Queen Medusa's seal as the cause of Hai Bodong's diminished strength and offered to help him break it.
• Hai Bodong doubted Liu Bai's claim that he would soon obtain a Heavenly Flame, but agreed to show him a pill formula as a test.
• Liu Bai recognized the formula as the Sixth-Grade Po'e Pill, which he could not yet refine; Hai Bodong promised him the other half of the fragmented map if he succeeded.

Liu Bai obtained Hai Bodong’s maps of possible Heavenly Flame locations and planned to explore the site near Stone Desert City after spending the day there with Xiao Yi Xian. They encountered the hungry, mistreated Qing Lin, and Liu Bai took her with them as they returned to the inn.

• Liu Bai traded assurances of a future Po'e Pill for Hai Bodong’s maps of possible Heavenly Flame locations and identified one near Stone Desert City.
• Liu Bai told Xiao Yi Xian that Hai Bodong had once been a Dou Emperor but was now sealed down to Dou Ling, then proposed enjoying the city before searching for the Heavenly Flame.
• Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian strolled through the marketplace, shared food, and grew closer.
• A shop owner shoved Qing Lin out of his store and accused her of being Snake-Person mixed blood, so Liu Bai made him apologize.
• Xiao Yi Xian comforted the hungry Qing Lin, and Liu Bai carried her back toward the inn while asking about her family.

Liu Bai took in Qing Lin, cared for her, and began teaching her to cultivate while continuing his search for Heavenly Flames. After narrowing down the flame’s location, he left for the Douluo World for about half a month, asking Xiao Yi Xian to stay behind with Qing Lin.

• Qing Lin told Liu Bai that her mother had died and she did not know her father, so Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian welcomed her into their care.
• Xiao Yi Xian washed Qing Lin and altered a green dress for her, while Qing Lin insisted on remaining Liu Bai’s maid and calling him Young Master.
• Liu Bai nourished Qing Lin with food and medicinal baths, then taught her to cultivate until she successfully drew energy into her body.
• Liu Bai bought an estate in Stone Desert City and continued searching for Heavenly Flames while Qing Lin settled in with him and Xiao Yi Xian.
• After narrowing down the Heavenly Flame’s location, Liu Bai told Xiao Yi Xian he would return to the Douluo World for about half a month, and she wished him to be careful.