Recaps

Yu Xiaogang woke and realized Tang Hao had attacked Tang San, then panicked and begged Flender to save him. Tang Hao remained silently behind the house as Flender considered their only hope: fleeing to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Yu Xiaogang woke in Tang San's room and noticed the wound on Tang San's neck.
• Flender confirmed that Yu Xiaogang had seen what happened, and Yu Xiaogang recalled Tang Hao killing Tang San in his nightmare.
• Yu Xiaogang collapsed in terror, then begged Flender to save him and wet his pants.
• Flender silently considered fleeing with Yu Xiaogang to seek help from Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Xia Yan watched the scene while Tang Hao stood behind the house, feeling helpless but still regarding Tang San as his only hope for Revenge.

Tang San woke after his attempted suicide and learned that his father, Tang Hao, was the Clear Sky Douluo and had tried to take him away. Yu Xiaogang repeatedly fainted and broke down as Tang San insisted on staying, leaving Xia Yan to watch the chaos.

• Tang San woke with no neck wound and asked Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Zhao Wuji how he had been found.
• Yu Xiaogang began to reveal that Tang Hao had brought Tang San to them, but Flender and Zhao Wuji left the room to give the teacher and student privacy.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that his father was Clear Sky Douluo and that he had threatened to kill himself rather than leave with him.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to go with Tang Hao after hearing that Spirit Hall might have discovered him, but Tang San refused and explained how he had injured his neck.
• Yu Xiaogang fainted again, then laughed, sobbed, and slapped himself as Tang San tried to restrain him; Xia Yan watched from the edge of the bed.

After Yu Xiaogang collapsed, Tang San resolved to defy Tang Hao and stay until the Soul Master Tournament ended. Shrek began its first match against Exotic Beast Academy, where Tang San’s poisoned Blue Silver Grass disgusted the crowd as the battle opened.

• Tang San held Yu Xiaogang as he broke down, then vowed to resist Tang Hao and win the tournament for himself and his teacher.
• Tang Hao decided to let Tang San remain for the tournament’s three months rather than risk turning his son against him.
• Shrek faced Exotic Beast Academy, and Meng Yiran mocked Tang San over their past conflict in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After the match began, Dai Mubai charged ahead with his White Tiger attacks despite Yu Tianheng ordering him to follow the captain’s command.
• Tang San released his Blue Silver Grass across the arena, spreading poison and a foul stench that horrified the spectators and alerted Meng Yiran.

Shrek defeated Exotic Beast Academy while Tang Hao searched for Blue Silver Grass in Sunset Forest. Xia Yan told Salas that Tang Hao was Tang San’s father and arranged for Spirit Hall to target only the two of them after Shrek’s elimination.

• Tang San’s filthy Blue Silver Grass disgusted the spectators, and Shrek overwhelmed Exotic Beast Academy in the tournament battle.
• Meng Yiran vowed revenge against Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Yu Tianheng as Flender lamented Shrek’s lack of unity.
• Tang Hao accepted Tang San’s demand and planned to search Sunset Forest for Four-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass.
• Xia Yan met Salas and offered information about Tang Hao and Tang San on the condition that Spirit Hall harm no one else.
• Xia Yan told Salas to wait until Shrek was eliminated and to notify him before Spirit Hall acted against Tang Hao and Tang San.

Bibi Dong agreed to Xia Yan’s terms and planned to judge Tang Hao after Shrek was eliminated, while Xia Yan secretly warned Xiao Wu not to compete against Canghui. As the match began, Canghui Academy revealed that it had prepared a strange seven-colored formation specifically for Shrek.

• Salas reported Xia Yan’s intelligence to Bibi Dong, who agreed to the terms and planned to personally judge Tang Hao after Shrek’s defeat.
• Xia Yan secretly told Xiao Wu not to take the field against Canghui, and she silently agreed.
• Xia Yan watched the match unseen with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing while Shrek and Canghui prepared to fight.
• Tang San blamed his Blue Silver Grass for Xiao Wu’s apparent illness and entered the match resentful toward Canghui.
• Canghui Academy formed a hexagon around its captain and unleashed a distorted, seven-colored light, declaring that it had prepared the formation for Shrek.

Canghui Academy trapped Shrek and Morning Water in a mental illusion with its Seven-in-One Fusion Skill, exposing their deepest fears and secrets before the assembled crowd. Xia Yan restrained Ning Rongrong from attacking Dai Mubai and promised to make him suffer for the rest of his life.

• Flender recognized Canghui Academy's attack as a seven-person mental fusion skill and tried to forfeit, but the referee declared Morning Water Shrek's concession too late to stop it.
• Tang San tried to block Yu Tianheng and Dai Mubai from charging, but the seven-colored light engulfed Shrek and trapped them in the Seven Asura Illusion Realm.
• The illusion made Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, Yu Tianheng, and Tang San reveal their fears and secrets, including Tang San's parentage and Dai Mubai's resentment toward Xia Yan and Zhu Zhuqing.
• The crowd watched the Shrek members suffer in the illusion, and spectators reacted to Tang San's claim that he was Tang Hao's son.
• Xia Yan covered Zhu Zhuqing's ears while Ning Rongrong prepared to attack Dai Mubai, then pulled her back and said he had a better way to make Dai Mubai regret his actions.

During Shrek’s match, Canghui Academy’s Seven-in-One Fusion Skill left the Shrek team injured and exposed Tang San’s identity as Tang Hao’s son and his threat against Yu Xiaogang. Yu Xiaogang fled in fear, while Tang San later woke alone and suspected his teacher had abandoned him.

• Xia Yan summoned his Jade Green Luan, took Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong, and flew away to see the Sunset Forest as the Canghui team’s attack tortured Shrek.
• The referee ordered Canghui Academy to stop, and its exhausted members ended their fusion skill after leaving Shrek’s fighters bloodied and pleading for mercy.
• The crowd heard Tang San identify Tang Hao as his father and threaten Yu Xiaogang, while Canghui’s captain taunted Flender after the team won.
• Yu Xiaogang panicked over Tang San’s hatred and Tang Hao’s possible arrival, then fled the arena to save himself.
• News of the match spread through Heaven Dou City, and Xiao Wu, Salas, and Ning Fengzhi each learned of the fallout.
• Tang San woke alone in his quarters, suspected Yu Xiaogang was gone, and cautiously peered through the door.

Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the other Shrek members woke to the shame of their public defeat, while their team advanced from the preliminaries. Xia Yan reached level sixty and contracted the Blazing Apricot Delicate’s roots, gaining the ultimate fire attribute and his sixth soul skill, Flame Sovereign.

• Tang San overheard people recounting his disgraceful words and fled Heaven Dou City in panic.
• Dai Mubai and Yu Tianheng woke, met, and went to check on the others, while the Shrek members later hid in their rooms after learning what had happened.
• Yu Xiaogang disappeared north of Heaven Dou City, and Shrek finished the preliminaries with sixteen wins, nine losses, and two draws to advance.
• Xia Yan absorbed the Eight-Petal Orchid, reached level sixty at age fifteen, and prepared to contract a sixth soul beast.
• Xia Yan used the Demon Suppressing Pagoda to contract the Blazing Apricot Delicate’s roots, which regrew in the Sixth-Layer Space and reached twenty thousand years.
• Xia Yan gained immunity to fire and learned his sixth soul skill, Flame Sovereign.

Xia Yan arrived on the sixth floor of the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, bonded with the Infernal Delicate Apricot, and began planning to create a fire-soul-beast ecosystem there. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang hurried toward Spirit Hall to escape Tang Hao and seek protection from Bibi Dong.

• Xia Yan named the Infernal Delicate Apricot Little Jiao and reassured it after its heat scorched his clothes.
• Little Jiao offered Xia Yan a precious Fiery Gel, but he persuaded it to keep the treasure for now.
• Xia Yan decided the lifeless sixth floor needed water and a gradual ecosystem of fire-attribute soul beasts.
• Xia Yan told Little Jiao to await his command, left the pagoda, and flew east on the Jade Green Luan.
• Yu Xiaogang traveled southeast toward Spirit Hall, fearing Tang Hao would catch him and hoping Bibi Dong would protect him.

Xia Yan began transforming the Sixth-Layer Space into an ecological zone by adding water, silt, plants, and aquatic animals. After filling a depression with water from the Four Plains River, he left the water source area established but still needed stones to keep it clean.

• Xia Yan used the Demon Suppressing Pagoda to transfer water from a nearby lake into the Sixth-Layer Space, where the Blazing Apricot Delicate heated it into vapor to raise humidity.
• Xia Yan began filling a depression with lake water, then transferred silt, aquatic plants, soil, stones, fish, and shrimp to help create a suitable habitat.
• Xia Yan rode the Jade Green Luan to the Four Plains River and asked it to watch for people while he drew river water into the Sixth-Layer Space.
• Xia Yan kept filling the depression until its water reached three meters deep, creating a small water zone with fish, shrimp, and rooted plants.
• Xia Yan decided he still needed to find a large quantity of stones to keep the water clean.

Xia Yan completed the first ecological renovations in the Sixth-Layer Space, filling it with water and introducing fire-attribute plants and creatures. Tang Hao decided to follow Tang San to Spirit City, while Yu Xiaogang continued fleeing toward Dong'er.

• Xia Yan cleared a hidden rocky field, planted aquatic plants, and began building a fire-attribute ecosystem in the Sixth-Layer Space.
• Xia Yan moved Fire Snails, rock lichen, Lava Mushrooms, Flame Ear Grass, insects, snakes, and other creatures into the space, then filled its water source and finished two days of renovations.
• Tang Hao learned what had happened at the arena and decided to let Tang San go to Spirit City while secretly protecting him.
• Tang Hao dismissed Yu Xiaogang's flight and reflected on Tang San's mysterious Tang Sect methods and his own exhaustion.
• Yu Xiaogang continued fleeing through a forest with Luo Sanpao, hoping to reach Dong'er.

Yu Xiaogang fled through the mountains, using Luo Sanpao’s foul-smelling soul skill to defeat a group of bandits. After another gang cornered him, an ambusher stabbed him in the ass, leaving him unconscious as the bandits decided to cripple him.

• Yu Xiaogang and Luo Sanpao encountered seven ambushers, and Luo Sanpao’s soul skill knocked six unconscious while the seventh flew away.
• Yu Xiaogang fled southwest with Luo Sanpao, but half an hour later a scarred bandit boss and five others surrounded them.
• Yu Xiaogang used Luo Sanpao’s soul skill to cover his escape, but a thin ambusher stabbed him in the ass with a sharpened wooden stick.
• Luo Sanpao vanished after sharing Yu Xiaogang’s pain, and Yu Xiaogang fell unconscious as the bandits vomited from the stench.
• The scarred bandit boss ordered his men to pull out the stick, apply medicine, and cripple Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Xiaogang woke in the rain after the bandits had stripped and crippled him, discovering that his Soul Power and Soul Rings were gone. Meanwhile, the tournament reached Spirit City, where Shrek Academy faced the Star Luo Royal Team and Dai Weisi brutally overwhelmed Dai Mubai.

• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao and discovered that he had lost all his Soul Power and both Soul Rings.
• Xia Yan and the tournament teams traveled to Spirit City, where the semifinals and finals began after a two-day rest.
• Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi taunted each other before the match, while Tang San vowed to defeat Xia Yan and claim the Spirit Bone.
• The teams unleashed their Martial Souls, and Tang San's foul Blue Silver Grass disgusted Bibi Dong, who planned to kill the Tang father and son after Shrek left Spirit City.
• Dai Weisi shattered Dai Mubai's chest and dragged him toward the Star Luo Royal Team while Yu Tianheng deliberately failed to intervene.

Tang San secretly poisoned Dai Weisi during the match, prompting Bibi Dong to disqualify and expel Morning Water Shrek United Academy. Yu Tianheng blamed Tang San for ruining his chance to challenge Xia Yan and attacked him, leaving Shrek’s allies facing an internal fight.

• Dai Weisi tormented Dai Mubai, and Tang San used Blue Silver Grass to conceal a shot of poisonous pellets that badly injured Dai Weisi.
• Zhu Zhuyun tried to reach Dai Weisi but was overcome by the poison, while Tang San kept him trapped in the toxic Blue Silver Grass.
• Bibi Dong exposed the cheating, revoked Morning Water Shrek United Academy’s qualification, and declared Star Luo Royal Academy the winners.
• Yu Tianheng accused Tang San of ruining his revenge against Xia Yan and charged at him with a Thunder Serpent.
• Tang San dodged Yu Tianheng’s attack and confronted him as the others watched the Shrek members turn against one another.

Tang San and Yu Tianheng fought after trading insults over cheating and the Tang Sect’s Hidden Weapons, until Flender stopped them. After Feng Xiaotian challenged Xia Yan, Xia Yan entered the arena alone, signaling that he meant to face Skywater Academy by himself.

• Tang San and Yu Tianheng exchanged insults about their strength and Tang San’s use of stolen Tang Sect techniques, then attacked each other with lethal force in Spirit Plaza.
• Tang San fired Hidden Weapons and prepared a poison pellet, but Flender intervened and forced both fighters to stop; the Shrek group left amid laughter from the audience.
• Kamikaze Academy defeated Blazing Fire Academy, and Feng Xiaotian challenged Xia Yan to meet him in the tournament.
• Xia Yan reassured Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing before walking into the arena alone, prompting the spectators to realize he planned to challenge Skywater Academy by himself.

Xia Yan faced Heavenly Water Academy alone and waited as Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to become an Ice Phoenix. He summoned a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, whose devastating strike collapsed the Spirit Plaza, leaving the match’s outcome unclear.

• Ning Fengzhi and Dugu Bo praised Xia Yan and predicted that he would win the championship.
• The Heavenly Water Academy team formed up against Xia Yan, and Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu led their teammates in unleashing a thick ice wall.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu fused into a massive Ice Phoenix and attacked Xia Yan with the Ice Snow Vortex.
• Xia Yan summoned a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear with an aura comparable to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• The Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear spun away from the Ice Phoenix and struck the ground, collapsing the Spirit Plaza while Xia Yan stood unharmed amid the ruins.

Xia Yan overwhelmed Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu with his Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and won the match for the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team. His display left Spirit City stunned, while Xue Qinghe secretly resolved to kill him.

• Xia Yan’s Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear appeared amid the ruined Spirit Plaza, terrifying the Titled Douluo and revealing a power far beyond what his fifth Soul Ring should have allowed.
• The referee declared Xia Yan and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team the winners, and the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear vanished.
• Qian Daoliu watched Xia Yan and recognized him as a peerless genius, while Xue Qinghe privately decided he had to die.
• Ning Fengzhi noticed Xue Qinghe’s hostility and prepared to protect Xia Yan, though Xue Qinghe concealed her intentions behind a calm apology.
• The spectators erupted in cheers, and Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and the Imperial Dou team celebrated Xia Yan’s victory.

At Spirit City's gates, Shrek Academy fell apart as Yu Tianheng, Dai Mubai, and the others left, while Xiao Wu refused to go with Tang San. Bibi Dong confronted Tang San, and Tang Hao descended with his Clear Sky Hammer to defend his son as Bibi Dong released her Soul Rings.

• Yu Tianheng quit Shrek, and Dai Mubai left after declaring he would never return to the academy.
• Tang San tried to persuade Xiao Wu to leave with him, but she rejected him and moved closer to Spirit City's gates.
• Flender disbanded Shrek Academy, and Ma Hongjun and Oscar left with the others.
• Bibi Dong told Tang San to stay when he refused to leave Spirit City.
• Tang Hao descended and attacked Bibi Dong with his hundred-meter Clear Sky Hammer, and she unleashed her Soul Rings.

Xia Yan rescued Xiao Wu from the battlefield as Tang Hao unleashed his full power against Spirit Hall and escaped with Tang San. Afterward, Xia Yan caught Dai Mubai fleeing and brutally crippled him, keeping him alive as he dragged him toward a nearby settlement.

• Xia Yan took Xiao Wu away inside the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and carried her to safety while Tang Hao revealed his full power.
• Tang Hao detonated his nine Soul Rings and struck Bibi Dong with the Clear Sky Hammer, devastating Spirit City before escaping with Tang San.
• Bibi Dong pursued Tang Hao, while Xia Yan comforted the frightened Xiao Wu and assured her that Tang Hao would not target her yet.
• Dai Mubai fled from Spirit City in fear, but Xia Yan ambushed him and pierced his body with a fist.
• Xia Yan destroyed Dai Mubai's meridians and intended to cripple his martial soul, then gave him a Tortoise Breath Pill and dragged him toward a nearby gathering point.

Xia Yan punished Dai Mubai, arranged for Scarface to keep him alive, and ordered him to do the same to Yu Xiaogang if he appeared. He then crushed Spirit Hall’s team in the tournament final and received two Spirit Bones from Bibi Dong.

• Xia Yan gave Scarface gold and the gravely injured Dai Mubai, ordered him to castrate Dai Mubai and keep him alive, then supplied a healing pill.
• Xia Yan gave Scarface Yu Xiaogang’s portrait and ordered him to inflict the same punishment if Yu Xiaogang appeared.
• Xiao Wu bled for the first time, while news spread that Bibi Dong had severed Tang Hao’s left leg and he had fled with Tang San, leaving behind a fifty-thousand-year Spirit Bone.
• Xia Yan faced Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation in the tournament final, and the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear defeated the entire team with one slap.
• Bibi Dong awarded Xia Yan two Spirit Bones before Papal Palace as Chen Xin, Ning Fengzhi, Dugu Bo, and others watched.

After the tournament, Xia Yan accepted Spirit Hall’s support and gave Spirit Bones to Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing. He stayed behind with them, then brought them to meet Xiao Wu and his other soul beasts outside Spirit City.

• Bibi Dong gave Xia Yan a fifty-thousand-year Spiritual Skull and a sixty-thousand-year Emerald Sky Dragon torso bone, and offered Spirit Hall’s support.
• Xia Yan gave the Spiritual Skull to Ning Rongrong and a twenty-thousand-year Wolf Bandit Soul Bone to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xia Yan told Ning Fengzhi he would not return with him immediately and planned to accompany Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing for a few days.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin departed with the others while Dugu Yan went to find Dugu Bo.
• Xia Yan took Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing into the forest, where they met Xiao Wu, the Datura Snake, and the Jade Green Luan.

Xiao Wu reunited with Xia Yan and accepted his gift of a sixty-thousand-year Emerald Sky Dragon torso bone, while Ning Rongrong began absorbing another Spirit Bone. Xia Yan then used the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to conceal himself and Zhu Zhuqing as he began undressing her.

• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing welcomed Xiao Wu and learned that Tang Hao had kept her apart from Xia Yan.
• Xia Yan revealed that the Jade Green Luan and Datura Snake were real soul beasts and told the women to keep it secret.
• Xia Yan gave Xiao Wu the sixty-thousand-year Emerald Sky Dragon torso bone, and she accepted it after he reassured her of his love.
• Ning Rongrong began absorbing her Spirit Bone while Zhu Zhuqing stayed with Xia Yan; after she teased him, he spanked her.
• Xia Yan summoned the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to hide himself and Zhu Zhuqing from Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu, then tore Zhuqing's clothes.

Xia Yan reunited with Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu after they absorbed their Spirit Bones, then left for a safe destination, promising to return in half a year. The chapter ended with Yu Xiaogang still struggling across the Lingdou Plains, desperate for Bibi Dong’s help.

• Xiao Wu woke after absorbing her Spirit Bone, gaining a twenty-percent attribute boost and rising from level forty-one to level forty-eight.
• Ning Rongrong woke with greatly increased Mental Power and a new Soul Skill that expanded her awareness and strengthened her teammates’ Mental Power.
• Xia Yan pulled Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu into the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, then bathed and dressed all three women after their three-day stay in the hidden space.
• Xia Yan flew with the Jade Green Luan to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, said goodbye to Ning Rongrong and the others, and promised to return in half a year.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong saw that the Jade Green Luan had reached the seventy-thousand-year level and noted the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s hundred-thousand-year aura.
• Yu Xiaogang continued his two-month trek across the Lingdou Plains, limping barefoot and pleading in his thoughts for Bibi Dong to help him.

Xia Yan entered Slaughter City after destroying the town above it, then overpowered its gatekeeper and explored the outer and inner city with a black-veiled guide. He learned about the city's rules and ended the chapter demanding a cup of Bloody Mary from a terrified resident.

• Xia Yan descended through the tavern's ruins and reached Slaughter City's entrance, where Jester challenged him for violating the rules.
• Xia Yan caught and shattered Jester's lance with one hand, then accepted token 9527 and entered Slaughter City.
• A black-veiled guide welcomed Xia Yan and explained the outer city's monthly blood tribute and the inner city's unrestricted violence.
• Xia Yan asked whether he could kill everyone in Slaughter City, but the guide explained the Hell Slaughter Arena and its path to escape.
• Xia Yan ordered a gaunt man to give him Bloody Mary, and the man cut his arm and filled a cup with blood.

Xia Yan explored Slaughter City, won seven Hell Slaughter Arena matches, and kept his power secret as other desperadoes fled the inner city. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang reached Spirit City and hurried toward the gate, intent on meeting Bibi Dong.

• Xia Yan questioned the black-veiled girl about Slaughter City's lack of factions, then sent her away after learning what he wanted.
• When nearby desperadoes tried to attack Xia Yan, he killed them and took their heads to exchange for supplies.
• Over the next month, Xia Yan won seven arena matches with instant kills, while residents who noticed his strength fled or kept silent about him.
• After a month and a half of hardship, Yu Xiaogang reached the outskirts of Spirit City with Luo Sanpao and celebrated his arrival.
• Yu Xiaogang planned how to make Bibi Dong pity him, then rushed toward Spirit City's gate and was ordered to stop.