Recaps

Liu Bai left Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin behind and returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where he learned that Dugu Yan was defending Ning Rongrong’s place on the tournament main team. Dugu Yan defeated every challenger, and she was about to claim the final spot for Ning Rongrong while Liu Bai remained absent.

• Liu Bai embraced Xiao Yi Xian, asked her to wait for him, and told Qing Lin the same before leaving through the Shuttle Gate.
• Liu Bai returned to his dormitory, changed into his school uniform, and learned that Dugu Yan and the others were at the academy’s tournament team selection.
• Dugu Yan defeated a challenger with her poison and declared that anyone seeking a main team position had to beat her first.
• Dugu Bo, Xue Qinghe, and the Three Education Committees watched as Dugu Yan’s strength left the other students unwilling to challenge her.
• Dugu Yan asked the Three Education Committees to approve Ning Rongrong for the final main team spot, while Liu Bai remained away from the selection.

Liu Bai returned to Heaven Dou Academy and formed a streamlined second team with Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling instead of joining the main team. After celebrating together in Heaven Dou City, they returned to find Dugu Bo waiting with a gilded invitation for Liu Bai.

• Liu Bai declined a spot on the main team and said he and the three girls would compete as Heaven Dou Second Team, which the Three Education Committees accepted.
• Liu Bai told the girls they would begin with four members and confidently declared that their team could win the championship.
• Dugu Yan asked Liu Bai to celebrate the new team with a feast, and he took the three girls to a soul beast ingredient restaurant in Heaven Dou City.
• After the four returned to the academy at night, Dugu Bo greeted Dugu Yan and reproached Liu Bai for disappearing without a word.
• Dugu Bo tossed Liu Bai a gilded invitation.

Liu Bai accepted an invitation to the Heaven Dou Royal Family’s banquet and committed to attending, suspecting that Qian Renxue wanted to meet him. He trained Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong for the approaching tournament, then the morning of the banquet arrived.

• Dugu Bo gave Liu Bai an invitation to the Heaven Dou Royal Family’s banquet in three days, and Liu Bai agreed to attend.
• Liu Bai began intensive training with Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong at a training ground assigned to their team.
• Liu Bai gave Dugu Yan a copy of the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and continued teaching Ye Lingling the Floating Willow Breeze movement technique and palm techniques.
• Liu Bai taught Ning Rongrong the Floating Willow Breeze as a personal secret technique after she promised not to pass it on, but advised her to learn the footwork gradually because her stamina and Soul Power control were weak.
• After two days of training, the morning of the Heaven Dou Royal Family’s banquet arrived.

Liu Bai dressed for a Royal Family banquet and arrived at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, where Xue Qinghe welcomed him warmly. He learned the banquet celebrated Xue Ke’s birthday and met her as she approached to introduce herself.

• Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling urged Liu Bai to change into formalwear Dugu Yan had chosen for the banquet.
• Liu Bai left Heaven Dou Royal Academy by carriage and arrived at the palace banquet, where the nobles took notice of him.
• Xue Qinghe welcomed Liu Bai and invited him to address him as Brother Qinghe.
• Xue Qinghe told Liu Bai the banquet was for his younger sister Xue Ke’s birthday.
• Xue Ke approached, recognized Liu Bai as the person Xue Qinghe often mentioned, and introduced herself.

At Xue Ke’s birthday banquet, Liu Bai met Emperor Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, and Bone Douluo before eagerly drinking with Xue Qinghe. As Xue Qinghe grew drunk, her formerly restrained manner began to change.

• Xue Bai greeted Princess Xue Ke at her birthday banquet, and Emperor Xue Ye arrived with Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo.
• Xue Ye praised Liu Bai, while Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo exchanged greetings with him.
• Xue Ye welcomed the guests and officially began Xue Ke’s birthday banquet.
• Liu Bai accepted Xue Qinghe’s toast, then pulled him to a quiet corner and repeatedly urged him to drink.
• Xue Qinghe became increasingly drunk, and her gentle, restrained demeanor began to turn bolder.

Liu Bai and Xue Qinghe drank together until they were both thoroughly drunk, strengthening their bond in the eyes of the Heaven Dou court. They stumbled back to the Crown Prince Mansion and passed out on the same bed.

• Xue Qinghe praised Liu Bai and repeatedly urged him to drink more as he let go of his dignified manner.
• Liu Bai and Xue Qinghe continued drinking through the end of the banquet, while Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Xue Ye watched them.
• Xue Ye approved of Liu Bai and hoped Xue Qinghe would maintain a good relationship with him.
• Liu Bai and Xue Qinghe staggered into the Crown Prince Mansion, called each other brothers, and collapsed on opposite sides of a bed.

After drinking too much, Liu Bai and Qian Renxue woke up in the same bed, embarrassed by their tangled sleeping position. Liu Bai gave Qian Renxue a pill he had refined, and she was astonished by its powerful effects.

• Two concealed onlookers saw Liu Bai and Qian Renxue asleep together but decided not to interfere.
• Qian Renxue woke beside Liu Bai and remembered their drinking contest and brotherhood oath from the night before.
• Liu Bai woke, apologized for pinning Qian Renxue's arm, and remarked on Xue Qinghe's exaggerated chest muscles, prompting Qian Renxue to leave and change.
• Liu Bai gave Qian Renxue a pill that cleared her drunkenness and restored her Soul Power, surprising her with its strength.
• Liu Bai said he had casually refined the pill, leaving Qian Renxue wondering about its ingredients, cost, and potential for mass production.

Liu Bai told Qian Renxue that only he could refine his Soul Power-restoring pills, increasing her desire to recruit him. After returning to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and training with Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong, he left again to take care of something.

• Qian Renxue asked Liu Bai to sell her the pill formula, but he explained that only he could refine the pills using his Martial Soul.
• Qian Renxue invited Liu Bai to stay at the Crown Prince's Mansion, but he returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy because Dugu Yan and the others might be worried.
• Ning Rongrong teased Liu Bai for staying out all night, and he explained that he had drunk with the Crown Prince and stayed at the mansion.
• Liu Bai joined Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong for training, then said he had to leave again to take care of something.

Liu Bai returned to the Battle Through the Heavens world, found Xiao Yi Xian had awakened her Woe Poison Body and Qing Lin had begun cultivating, then resumed searching for the Green Lotus Core Flame. He discovered the Lava Fire Sea beneath the desert and planned to use the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake to locate the flame.

• Liu Bai returned to his residence and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, who had both made rapid cultivation progress.
• Liu Bai learned that Xiao Yi Xian had awakened her Woe Poison Body and warned her to explore it carefully, then praised Qing Lin for reaching the first stage of Dou Qi.
• Liu Bai flew to the desert outside Stone Desert City and searched the underground fire veins for the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• After searching through the day, Liu Bai sensed intense fire-attribute energy beneath a patch of desert and identified the Lava Fire Sea's location.
• Liu Bai decided to subdue the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake and have Qing Lin try to control it so it could lead him to the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Liu Bai dug through the desert rock to reach a cave near the Lava Fire Sea, then returned the next morning with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin. They entered the cave, where Liu Bai shielded them from the intense heat.

• Liu Bai burned through the sand and punched through the rock until he reached a massive, heat-filled cave near the Lava Fire Sea.
• Liu Bai covered the passage entrance with sand and flew back to Stone Desert City.
• The next morning, Liu Bai, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin uncovered the passage and descended into the cave.
• Liu Bai formed a Dou Qi barrier around Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to block the cave’s heat.

Liu Bai drew the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake out of the magma and defeated it with a series of powerful attacks. He left the beast badly weakened on the shore, with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin amazed at his strength.

• Liu Bai told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin that the Heavenly Flame lay beneath the Lava Fire Sea and sent them to a safe distance.
• Liu Bai struck the magma with a flaming palm, provoking the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake to erupt from the sea.
• Liu Bai ambushed the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake with a Dazzling Fire Fist and smashed it into the cave wall.
• The Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake attacked Liu Bai with a fiery tornado, but Liu Bai countered with the Red Spirit Seal and overpowered it.
• Liu Bai struck the weakened Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake several more times and dragged it onto shore as Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin watched in amazement.

Qing Lin awakened her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and controlled the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, which revealed the Green Lotus Core Flame was below the lava. Liu Bai descended into the lava on the snake’s back, but the rising heat was rapidly draining his strength as he searched for the Heavenly Flame.

• Liu Bai helped Qing Lin use her eyes to imprint the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake and establish control over it.
• Qing Lin commanded the snake to reveal the Heavenly Flame’s location, and it indicated that the flame lay beneath the lava.
• Liu Bai healed the snake, then prepared to descend into the lava while Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian worried for his safety.
• Liu Bai and the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake plunged into the lava, with Liu Bai protected by Flame Armor.
• The snake guided Liu Bai past dangerous lava currents as they descended into hotter, darker flows that rapidly consumed his Dou Qi and Soul Power.
• Liu Bai asked the snake how much farther they had to travel.

Liu Bai retrieved the Green Lotus Core Flame from deep within the magma and returned safely to Graphite City with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin. After recovering, he left the city and began preparing to absorb the Heavenly Flame in a secluded cave while the two women guarded him.

• Liu Bai found the Green Lotus Core Flame and used a jade blade to sever and store its lotus seat, preserving the flame and its eleven Earth Fire Lotus Seeds.
• Liu Bai and the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake escaped the magma, and Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin helped him recover before they returned to Graphite City.
• Qing Lin named the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake Xiao Ling, and Liu Bai resolved to absorb the Green Lotus Core Flame after recovering.
• Liu Bai led Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to a secluded valley outside Graphite City and carved out a cave dwelling.
• Liu Bai entered the cave to absorb the Heavenly Flame while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin prepared to guard him.

Liu Bai endured the perilous process of absorbing the Green Lotus Core Flame, first extracting its origin and then swallowing it to guide the flames through his body. He finally brought the scattered fire under control, though the chapter ended before the absorption’s consequences were revealed.

• Liu Bai released the Green Lotus Core Flame from the Green Lotus Seat, then took the Blood Lotus Pill and sat on the pedestal to begin absorbing it.
• Liu Bai used his Soul Power to draw the raging flame toward him, endured the heat, and plunged his armored arm into it to seize its core origin.
• Liu Bai pulled the origin from the flame, causing the larger blaze to collapse, then swallowed the azure magma.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame split apart inside Liu Bai and raced through his meridians, while he drank the Ice Spirit Cold Spring to counter its heat.
• Liu Bai repeatedly tried to guide the scattered flames until they began circulating through his meridians and gathered into a thin stream of azure magma.

Liu Bai absorbed the Green Lotus Core Flame by fusing it directly with his Flame Martial Soul, becoming a six-star Dou Ling and reaching level fifty. After emerging from three days of cultivation, he reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin and prepared to return to Stone Desert City.

• Liu Bai fused the Green Lotus Core Flame with his Flame Martial Soul instead of using the Spirit Absorber, transforming it into the Green Lotus Core Flame Martial Soul.
• Liu Bai gained five stars of Dou Qi cultivation, reached six-star Dou Ling, and filled his Soul Power to level fifty, making him ready to absorb a fifth Soul Ring.
• Liu Bai found that cultivating on the Green Lotus Pedestal had tripled his cultivation speed, then ended his three-day seclusion.
• Xiao Yi Xian congratulated Liu Bai on absorbing the Heavenly Flame and revealed that she had advanced to Dou Zhe; Qing Lin had also advanced with Xiao Ling's help.
• Liu Bai promised to find snake-type magical beasts for Qing Lin to control, then set off with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin for Stone Desert City.

Liu Bai visited Hai Bodong after leaving the valley and proved he had absorbed the Green Lotus Core Flame. He agreed to search the Tagor Desert for Sand Mandala so Hai Bodong could refine a Po'e Pill, leaving with the medicinal ingredients and a promise of two favors.

• Liu Bai promised Qing Lin he would find her a flying snake-type magical beast once she reached Dou Zhe.
• Liu Bai met Hai Bodong at the Ancient Map shop and revealed his Green Lotus Core Flame, confirming he had obtained and absorbed a Heavenly Flame.
• Hai Bodong gave Liu Bai the medicinal ingredients for a Po'e Pill but explained that Liu Bai would have to find Sand Mandala in the Tagor Desert.
• Hai Bodong revealed that he was the former Ice Emperor and promised Liu Bai one additional condition if Liu Bai found Sand Mandala and helped restore his strength.
• Liu Bai accepted the task and reminded Hai Bodong that he would owe him two conditions, then left with the ingredients while Hai Bodong prepared to await his return.

Liu Bai searched a desert oasis for the Sand Mandala, only to hide when Yue Mei and her guards arrived to bathe. Yue Mei spotted human footprints and ordered Ling Yue to find the intruder, leaving Liu Bai at risk of discovery.

• Liu Bai left Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin in Stone Desert City under Hai Bodong's protection and flew into the Tager Desert to search for the Sand Mandala.
• After two days of searching, Liu Bai reached an oasis, found no Sand Mandala, and washed himself in its lake.
• Yue Mei arrived with seven female Snake-Person guards, and Liu Bai hid in the shrubs to avoid a confrontation.
• Yue Mei noticed human footprints by the lake and ordered Ling Yue to search the oasis for the intruder.

Liu Bai was discovered in Yue Mei’s oasis and fought her in midair, revealing his Heavenly Flames when she tried to capture him. After Yue Mei summoned reinforcements, he fled into the desert with her in pursuit.

• Liu Bai escaped the Snake-Person guards by flying from the oasis, but Yue Mei intercepted him in midair.
• Liu Bai clashed with Yue Mei’s palm strike and was knocked back, while she recognized his strength and questioned why he had entered Snake-Person territory.
• Liu Bai revealed his Heavenly Flames and warned Yue Mei that they were a natural nemesis to the Snake-Person Tribe.
• Yue Mei refused to let Liu Bai go and sent a signal to summon nearby Snake-Person powerhouses.
• Liu Bai fled toward the desert, and Yue Mei pursued him while he dodged her energy attacks.

Liu Bai fought Yue Mei with his Heavenly Flame and soul skills, then escaped after forcing her back. As a terrifying aura descended ahead of him, a peerlessly beautiful woman appeared in his path.

• Liu Bai turned to face Yue Mei and used Flowing Flame Startling Swan, but she countered it with Mystic Yin Python Evil.
• Liu Bai combined the Red Spirit Seal with all four soul skills and shattered Yue Mei's Mystic Yin Shield, blasting her backward.
• Liu Bai swallowed a medicinal pill and fled at full speed while Yue Mei chased after him.
• A terrifying pressure descended on Liu Bai, and he instinctively formed a wall of Green Lotus Core Flame around himself.
• A beautiful woman silently appeared several dozen meters in front of Liu Bai.

Liu Bai negotiated with Queen Medusa to keep his Green Lotus Core Flame by offering to assist her dangerous evolution. Medusa agreed to bring him to the Snake-Person Tribe as her guest until her evolution was complete.

• Queen Medusa seized and crushed a portion of Liu Bai's Green Lotus Core Flame, then demanded that he hand over the rest.
• Liu Bai warned that forcibly taking the Flame could trigger a dangerous backlash and revealed that he knew Medusa needed it for her evolution.
• Liu Bai offered to control the Flame and assist Medusa in exchange for the Sand Mandala and two future favors.
• Yue Mei arrived and bowed to Medusa, who asked Liu Bai about his alchemy rank.
• Medusa agreed not to take Liu Bai's Flame and invited him to the Snake-Person Tribe, where he could use their medicinal ingredients and refine pills while awaiting her evolution.

Liu Bai settled into Queen Medusa’s bedchamber while awaiting preparations for her evolution, and arranged to refine pills for the Snake-Person Tribe. He began his first attempt at a fourth-tier pill with the Green Lotus Core Flame, smoothly refining and combining its ingredients.

• Queen Medusa brought Liu Bai to her bedchamber and ordered him to stay there until her evolution preparations were complete.
• Liu Bai gave Hua She'er a list of more than a hundred herbs and offered discounted pill-refining services for the Snake-Person Tribe.
• Hua She'er agreed to gather the herbs and said she would discuss the pill-refining arrangement with Queen Medusa and the tribal elders.
• Liu Bai used the Green Lotus Core Flame to begin refining a Three Flower Fire Gathering Pill.
• Liu Bai quickly purified the pill’s ingredients and smoothly fused their medicinal essences with the help of the Heavenly Flame.

Liu Bai refined a Three Flower Fire Gathering Pill and agreed to make pills for the Snake-Person Tribe in exchange for ingredients and other resources. After five days of intensive alchemy, his skills and control of the Green Lotus Core Flame had improved, and he believed he could soon attempt to become a Fifth-Grade Alchemist.

• Liu Bai successfully refined a high-quality Three Flower Fire Gathering Pill with the Green Lotus Core Flame, impressing Queen Medusa.
• Queen Medusa asked Liu Bai to refine pills for the Snake-Person Tribe, and he agreed in exchange for ingredients and other resources.
• Medusa sent Liu Bai a long list of pill orders and generously provided compensation, including a sixth-grade pill recipe.
• Liu Bai spent five days refining dozens of pill varieties, producing over forty pills with high success rates.
• Liu Bai received rare ingredients, desert materials, and a finished sixth-grade Imperial Pole Pill, and he concluded that he might soon attempt fifth-grade alchemy.

Liu Bai persuaded Queen Medusa to let him leave for up to seven days, promising to return for her evolution on the full moon ten days later. Back in the Douluo World, he learned that Dugu Yan and the others had gone to Suotuo City and flew there to watch the Imperial Fighting Team face Shrek Academy and confront Tang San.

• Liu Bai told Queen Medusa he needed to leave temporarily, and assured her that he would return to help with her evolution.
• Queen Medusa granted Liu Bai seven days away and set the evolution for the full moon ten days later.
• Liu Bai vanished through the Traversal Gate, and Queen Medusa realized he had left without a trace.
• Liu Bai returned to the Douluo World and learned that Dugu Yan and the others had followed the Imperial Fighting Team to Suotuo City.
• Liu Bai decided to watch the match against Shrek Academy and flew toward Suotuo City, intending to greet Tang San.

Liu Bai returned to Suotuo City and reunited with Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, Ning Rongrong, and the Imperial Fighting Team as they prepared to face the Shrek Seven Devils. He told everyone he had brought them gifts, while the team battle still lay ahead.

• Liu Bai hurried from Heaven Dou City toward Suotuo City, eager to see how Tang San had grown and watch the battle between the Imperial Fighting Team and the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Qin Ming brought the team details about the Shrek Seven Devils and warned that they had won twenty-seven Soul Battles in a row.
• Liu Bai suddenly appeared in the room, startling everyone, and Dugu Yan recognized his voice and rushed into his arms.
• Liu Bai greeted Qin Ming, Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling, then joined the group on the sofa.
• Liu Bai announced that he had brought gifts for everyone.

Liu Bai gave the Imperial Fighting Team pills that could raise their Soul Power and learned that their opponent was the Shrek Seven Devils. After warning them that they would probably lose, he left the team questioning his judgment.

• Liu Bai gave everyone present a pill that could raise their Soul Power by two levels before Soul King, without side effects.
• Yu Tianheng told Liu Bai that the Imperial Fighting Team would face the Shrek Seven Devils that night and handed him the team's information.
• Liu Bai noticed the unfamiliar name Qing Ziyue in the Shrek roster, then focused on Tang San, whose level thirty-two Soul Power he considered no match for his own strength.
• Liu Bai told the confident Imperial Fighting Team that they would most likely lose.
• Yu Feng and Osler challenged Liu Bai's prediction by citing their higher Soul Power, experience, and teamwork, while Yu Tianheng remained puzzled.