Recaps

Mu Ci strengthened the Medicine King Sect’s position while Tang San’s group embraced a corrupting secret method and turned Shrek into a brutal team. The preliminary tournament left Shrek battered by Blazing Fire and set them up to face Skywater next.

• Mu Ci elevated the Blue Silver King into Lan, gathered the Blue Silver Clan’s faith, and learned that Spirit Hall planned to execute a long-wanted prisoner in Spirit City.
• Tang San’s hidden-weapon strategy failed against Dugu Yan’s Heaven Dou Team, and Mu Ci punished Shrek’s leaders before Yu Xiaogang was poisoned and Zhao Wuji was left near death.
• Tang San found Ah Yin’s cave empty, then Lan stripped him of the Blue Silver Empress bloodline, prompting Tang San to mutate his Blue Silver Grass through slaughter and consumption.
• Qian Renxue used the Medicine King Sect to purge Duke Fagu and his allies, while Tang San returned to Shrek with his new Dark Blue Silver Grass and learned Zhao Wuji had died.
• Tang San taught Yu Tianheng, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Yu Xiaogang a blood-based method that transformed their martial souls, while Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing left Shrek after Dai Mubai threatened Zhu Zhuqing.
• Mu Ci accepted Zhu Zhuqing into the Medicine King Sect and brought the Plant Team to the tournament, where Shrek’s transformed fighters brutally killed the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team.
• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang defeated Shrek after Huo Wu awakened her power and shattered the transformed fighters’ defenses, and the preliminary draw paired Shrek with Skywater Academy.

Mu Ci led the Plant Team through the tournament while his clashes with Tang San and the Star Dou Forest’s soul beasts revealed the scale of his power. As the finals continued, the Clear Sky Sect’s attempt to gain a foothold in Heaven Dou ended in Xue Ye’s death, and Zhu Zhuqing awakened a White Tiger Martial Soul and defeated Dai Mubai.

• Mu Ci defeated Yu Tianheng, Dai Mubai, and Tang San in the featured Plant Team match, while Tang San’s attempt to use his Eight Spider Lances against him failed.
• Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders voted to rescue Tang Hao and investigate Qian Renxue’s identity, while Mu Ci explained to his allies that he and Qian Renxue planned to take control of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Mu Ci forced the Sky Azure Bull Python to sacrifice itself to Dugu Yan, granting her a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, then escaped Di Tian with her.
• Mu Ci helped Qian Renxue through a Martial Soul Reversal triggered by learning how Bibi Dong’s trauma shaped her birth, and Qian Daoliu accepted him as family.
• Feng Xiaotian and Yun Wu defeated Tang San in their match, but conceded to Yu Tianheng and Dai Mubai, allowing Shrek Academy to win.
• Yang Wudi’s medicine killed Xue Ye, and Yang Wudi then betrayed the Clear Sky Sect elders by killing the Seventh Elder as the palace erupted into battle.
• Zhu Zhuqing fought Dai Mubai, awakened her White Tiger Martial Soul, and used a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill to break his defenses and leave him badly injured.
• Tang San surrendered for Shrek after Dai Mubai’s arms broke, while Bibi Dong watched Zhu Zhuqing’s unprecedented fusion skill with interest.

The Spirit Master Tournament ended with Mu Ci and the Snow Empress confronting Tang Chen and the Clear Sky Sect, while Qian Renxue’s identity and a Heaven Dou crisis reshaped the political situation. The arc left Qian Renxue preparing to unite Spirit Hall with Heaven Dou, and Bibi Dong moving against Yu Xiaogang and his companions.

• Hu Liena and Xie Yue’s fusion skill clashed with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling’s Death Dragon, and Mu Ci healed the fighters before Heaven Dou Royal Academy forfeited the championship final to the Plant Team.
• Bibi Dong presented Tang Hao’s corpse at the ceremony, but Tang Chen arrived to challenge her, and Mu Ci revealed Tang Hao was already dead.
• Mu Ci battled Tang Xiao while Qian Daoliu fought Tang Chen, and the Snow Empress killed the Fourth Elder before Mu Ci and the Spirit Hall elders captured the Fifth Elder and Tang San.
• Tang Chen unleashed an Asura attack and vanished with Tang San in a crimson pillar, while Qian Renxue’s disguise as Xue Qinghe was exposed to the assembled teams.
• Qian Renxue reported that Yang Wudi had poisoned Emperor Xue Ye and that Prince Xue Xing had died during a fight with Clear Sky Sect elders, giving her grounds to declare war on the sect.
• After Elder Lin reported a massacre near Leinuo City, Bibi Dong accused Yu Xiaogang of draining bandits’ blood essence, and Mu Ci broke the Golden Iron Triangle’s fusion by extracting its Dark Origin.
• Qian Renxue planned to return to Heaven Dou City and unite Spirit Hall with the empire, while Bibi Dong acknowledged that Mu Ci and Qian Renxue had left her with little real power.

Qian Renxue consolidated the Shenzhou Empire while Mu Ci expanded its faith, technology, and alliances, healed Gu Yuena, and reached God Rank strength. The arc ends as the Sky Fleet arrives over the Star Luo border, poised to begin the campaign for continental unification.

• Qian Renxue became ruler of the Shenzhou Empire, incorporated Spirit Hall, and began reforms that reduced noble power and reorganized the government.
• Yang Wudi and Ge Long led the imperial attack that destroyed the Clear Sky Sect, while Tang Yuehua was captured and Ge Long died.
• Mu Ci completed the Star Skiff and negotiated with Di Tian to treat the Silver Dragon King, whom he learned was Gu Yuena.
• Mu Ci treated Gu Yuena, gained the King of Ten Thousand Demons' Soul Ring, and brought Gu Yuena, Bi Ji, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion back to the capital.
• Mu Ci studied Xiao Wu's ability to condense a Soul Ring, then learned from the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings about the Dragon God's fall and traded Abundance God Fruits to begin their resurrection.
• After six months of preparation, Mu Ci reached God Rank strength and transformed Bi Ji into an Emerald Phoenix with the Path of Abundance.
• Gu Yuena offered an alliance between the Star Dou Forest Soul Beasts and the Shenzhou Empire, and Qian Renxue accepted on the empire's behalf.
• Mu Ci and Qian Renxue led the Sky Fleet toward Star Luo, where its Star Skiffs appeared above the border army and left the opposing soldiers stunned.