Recaps

Tang Hao returned to Nuoding City hoping Xiao Wu's survival meant Ah Yin had survived, but learned that Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had gone to Spirit Hall. He restrained himself from pursuing them and left determined to find Ah Yin and eventually rescue his son, while news of Yu Xiaogang's new post began spreading across the continent.

• Tang Hao rushed to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy and learned from Wang Sheng that Xiao Wu had left half a month earlier.
• Tang Hao discovered that Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had also left Nuoding City for Spirit Hall.
• Tang Hao found Yu Xiaogang's notes on the theoretically feasible Self-Condensed Soul Ring and learned from the headmaster that Spirit Hall had invited Yu Xiaogang to Spirit City for research.
• Tang Hao considered charging into Spirit Hall to retrieve Tang San but decided that doing so could expose his son's identity and endanger them both.
• Tang Hao vowed to find Ah Yin and then save Tang San, while announcements about Yu Xiaogang joining Spirit Hall as director of the Creation Institute spread across the Douluo Continent.

Spirit Hall appointed Yu Xiaogang to lead the Creation Institute’s research into substitute Soul Rings, alarming the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and surprising his old friends at Shrek Academy. Yu Yuanzhen ordered the clan to monitor the research, while Flender anticipated Liu Erlong would be upset by the news.

• Yu Yuanzhen learned that Spirit Hall had given Yu Xiaogang supreme authority over the Creation Institute and ordered the clan to watch its research and claim a share if it succeeded.
• Flender read Spirit Hall’s announcement aloud at Shrek Academy, and Zhao Wuji and the teachers reacted with astonishment.
• Flender reasoned that Yu Xiaogang had accepted the position to prove his theories and fulfill his lifelong ambition.
• Flender worried that Liu Erlong would be upset when she heard that Yu Xiaogang had returned to Spirit Hall.

Liu Erlong reacted furiously to Yu Xiaogang joining Spirit Hall, then accepted that his research could benefit Soul Masters. As factions hoped Yu Xiaogang would replace Soul Rings, Su Mo and Xiao Wu discussed keeping Su Mo’s Ring Condensation Technique secret and doubted Yu Xiaogang could reproduce it.

• Liu Erlong learned Yu Xiaogang had gone to find Bibi Dong, vented her anger by destroying a mountain range, and then wished him success as dean of the Creation Institute.
• Factions across the Douluo Continent supported Spirit Hall’s Creation Institute while concealing their knowledge that Soul Beasts had been eradicated and no new ones were appearing.
• Su Mo arrived in a village outside Suotuo City and wondered why Spirit Hall had appointed Yu Xiaogang as dean.
• Xiao Wu urged Su Mo to let Soul Masters keep panicking instead of revealing his Ring Condensation Technique before the Soul Beast Clan returned.
• Su Mo declared Yu Xiaogang lacked the ability to develop the technique and wondered whether Bibi Dong’s confidence in him would collapse.

Su Mo studied Soul Skills by watching battles at the Suotuo Great Soul Arena, gaining insights as he cultivated. A year later, he and Xiao Wu both reached Level 20, and Xiao Wu demonstrated her newly acquired Teleportation Soul Skill for him to observe.

• Su Mo took Xiao Wu to the Suotuo Great Soul Arena and watched Zhou Tai fight Liu Qing, gaining insight from their Iron Fist and Clear Wind Sword Soul Skills.
• Su Mo began visiting the arena regularly and found that weapon-type Martial Soul battles gave him the most insight for creating his own Soul Skills.
• One year later, Su Mo broke through to Level 20 after rising nine levels, while Xiao Wu also reached Level 20 with help from a secret technique he devised for her.
• Su Mo asked whether Xiao Wu had chosen Teleportation as her second Soul Skill, and she confirmed that she had.
• Xiao Wu used Teleportation to appear five meters away, and Su Mo gained insight by observing the Soul Skill.

Su Mo learned to use a three-meter Teleportation Soul Skill after studying Xiao Wu's technique, then focused on cultivating. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang's Soul Ring research remained stalled, so he asked to invite Titled Douluo from across the continent to help the Creation Institute.

• Su Mo repeatedly analyzed Xiao Wu's Teleportation as she used it until he created his own three-meter Teleportation Soul Skill.
• Xiao Wu compared her five-meter range with Su Mo's and declared herself superior.
• Su Mo stopped visiting the Great Soul Arena in Suotuo City and concentrated on cultivating Soul Power for his second Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang reviewed the Creation Institute's failed experiments and proposed seeking insight from Titled Douluo.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Elder Yun Shuo to submit a request to the Pope and invite every Titled Douluo across the continent to Spirit City.

Bibi Dong backed Yu Xiaogang’s plan to summon every Titled Douluo to Spirit City to discuss the Soul Master world’s survival and the search for a substitute for Soul Rings. The invitation sent the continent’s major powers into debate, and Xiao Wu brought the news to Su Mo.

• Bibi Dong approved Yu Xiaogang’s proposal and ordered Spirit Hall to invite all Titled Douluo to Spirit City, promising their safety within one hundred li.
• Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin discussed the lack of progress on replacing Soul Rings, and Ning Fengzhi decided to attend with Chen Xin.
• Yu Yuanzhen overruled his elders’ objections and decided to attend to assess Yu Xiaogang’s work and consider the sect’s future.
• Xiao Wu told Su Mo about Gang Zi’s invitation, and Su Mo learned what had happened.

Bibi Dong backed Yu Xiaogang’s plan to gather the continent’s Title Douluo in Spirit City to discuss replacing Soul Rings, despite doubts about the Creation Institute’s lack of progress. The invitation stirred the major sects, while Xiao Wu told Su Mo about the gathering.

• Bibi Dong approved Yu Xiaogang’s proposal and ordered Spirit Hall to invite every Title Douluo to Spirit City on the fifteenth of next month.
• Ning Fengzhi decided that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would attend, with Chen Xin accompanying him.
• Yu Yuanzhen chose to attend the gathering to judge Yu Xiaogang’s progress and protect the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s future.
• Xiao Wu told Su Mo that Yu Xiaogang had invited all the Title Douluo to Spirit Hall.

Su Mo and Xiao Wu entered Sunset Forest after learning that Dugu Bo had gone to Spirit City, then found the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and its Immortal Herbs. Xiao Wu made the Lovesick Heartbreak Red acknowledge her as its master, and Su Mo told her it would conceal her Soul Beast aura.

• Su Mo saw that Dugu Bo was listed among the attendees of Spirit Hall’s gathering and realized the Poison Douluo had been lured away by Yu Xiaogang.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu traveled to Sunset Forest, where they found no Soul Beasts and spent three days searching for the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu used protective suits and their Teleportation Soul Skills to pass through Dugu Bo’s poisonous miasma and reach the valley.
• Su Mo identified the Immortal Herbs and decided to absorb the Infernal Delicate Apricot, the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, and the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
• Su Mo asked Xiao Wu to offer blood to the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and it acknowledged her as its master.
• Su Mo told Xiao Wu that the flower would conceal her Soul Beast aura, and he realized that she had fallen in love with him.

Su Mo convinced Xiao Wu to keep the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and absorb Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, while Spirit Hall hosted a gathering of the continent’s strongest figures. Yu Xiaogang opened the meeting by asking for help after his Soul Master Creation Institute made little progress on Self-Condensed Soul Rings.

• Su Mo explained that the Lovesick Heartbreak Red could conceal Xiao Wu’s Soul Beast aura, and Xiao Wu happily let it take root in her body.
• Su Mo told Xiao Wu not to absorb the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and gave her Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone to absorb instead.
• Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi arrived at Spirit City, followed by Yu Yuanzhen and representatives of major factions.
• Yu Xiaogang addressed the gathering and announced that the Soul Master Creation Institute had hit a bottleneck in its research into Self-Condensed Soul Rings.
• Yu Xiaogang asked the assembled experts to help the institute make progress.

Xiao Wu absorbed the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone and gained ten Soul Power ranks, while Su Mo absorbed several Immortal Herbs and gained new abilities and a plan to sacrifice the remaining herbs for a Soul Power Pool. After Spirit Hall's grand gathering produced no viable solution, Yu Xiaogang returned to the Creation Institute and began his research again, less confident than before.

• Xiao Wu absorbed the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, rose from rank 20 to rank 30, and chose Invincible Golden Body as her third Soul Skill.
• Su Mo absorbed Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, greatly enhanced his Spiritual Power, and gained eyesight similar to Fiery Golden Eyes.
• Xiao Wu used Invincible Golden Body to bring Su Mo the two ice-and-fire Immortal Herbs, which he absorbed to gain immunity to fire, ice, and poison and a greatly strengthened physique.
• Su Mo asked the system about sacrificing the remaining Immortal Herbs and learned that doing so would grant him a Soul Power Pool for condensing Soul Rings.
• Dozens of experts shared their insights at Spirit Hall's half-month gathering, but Yu Xiaogang found no viable solution and promised to continue his research.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to the Creation Institute, asked Elder Yun Shuo to organize the experiment records, and began again while doubting whether he could succeed.

Tang San remained stuck at Rank 20 while Yu Xiaogang continued researching Self-Condensed Soul Rings, and Su Mo and Xiao Wu encountered a group of predatory Soul Masters in Sunset Forest. Su Mo and Xiao Wu vanished to attack them, leaving the fight about to begin.

• Tang San reflected on his year in Spirit City and his inability to advance beyond Rank 20 without a Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that the Title Douluo gathering’s research materials would help him solve the Soul Ring problem, and Tang San said he believed in his teacher.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu left the area around the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, intending to return to hiding and cultivation.
• Five Soul Masters blocked Su Mo and Xiao Wu in Sunset Forest and made lewd threats toward them.
• Su Mo ordered Xiao Wu to attack, and the two vanished before the bald Soul Master could reach them.

Su Mo and Xiao Wu killed a group of men who tried to prey on them in Sunset Forest, revealing Xiao Wu’s three Soul Rings and Su Mo’s Ten-Thousand-Year second Soul Ring. They left with the stolen money, while Poison Douluo returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well ten days later and was stunned by what he found.

• Su Mo killed the bald man with Broken Sword Instant Kill, while Xiao Wu kicked another attacker out of the fight.
• The remaining men were shocked by Xiao Wu’s three Soul Rings and Su Mo’s black Ten-Thousand-Year second Soul Ring, then attacked them.
• Su Mo killed another man, and Xiao Wu defeated a Soul Elder before the Soul Ancestor leader fled.
• Xiao Wu used Teleportation to block the leader and Invincible Golden Body to withstand his attack, giving Su Mo time to kill him.
• Su Mo finished off the two wounded men, searched the corpses, and found more than a thousand Gold Soul Coins before leaving Sunset Forest with Xiao Wu.
• About ten days later, Poison Douluo returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and was dumbfounded.

Dugu Bo returned from the Martial Soul Experience Sharing Conference with a way to address his poison-related martial soul defect, only to discover that someone had stripped his home of every rare plant. In Spirit City, Flender visited an exhausted Yu Xiaogang and asked whether the conference had given him confidence.

• Dugu Bo learned two possible ways to manage his martial soul poison: condense it into a Poison Pill or force it into his soul bones.
• Dugu Bo shared his Poison Pill experience, then returned to his lair and found the plants around the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well gone and the ground torn up.
• Dugu Bo raged at the unseen thief, destroyed nearby rocks, and threatened to test poisons on whoever had ransacked his home.
• Flender visited Yu Xiaogang in Spirit City after waiting several days, found him sleep-deprived and surrounded by papers, and urged him not to overwork himself.
• Flender asked Yu Xiaogang whether he had gained confidence after the sharing conference.

Ning Rongrong grieved over being trapped at Level 10 without a Soul Beast, and Ning Fengzhi comforted her by promising that Spirit Hall was researching Self-Condensed Soul Rings. Geniuses across the continent faced the same bottleneck, and they would wait ten years for a solution.

• Ning Rongrong stayed in her room for three days, despairing that she could not break through Level 10 without a Soul Ring.
• Ning Rongrong asked Bone Douluo whether any forests held Soul Beasts, and his silence confirmed that none remained.
• Ning Fengzhi returned from Spirit City and told Ning Rongrong that Spirit Hall's Creation Institute was researching Self-Condensed Soul Rings, concealing that the research had made no progress.
• Ma Hongjun, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, Shui Bing'er, Huo Wushuang, Huo Wu, Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and countless other Soul Masters were trapped at their cultivation bottlenecks.
• Soul Masters waited for Soul Beasts to return, for the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Transformation to share its experience, or for Spirit Hall to develop Self-Condensed Soul Rings; their wait lasted ten years.

Ten years after the Soul Beasts' extinction, Soul Masters across Douluo Continent were trapped at cultivation bottlenecks, and hopes for Self-Condensed Soul Rings had faded. Su Mo had reached level 78 and refined his sword techniques while living with level 77 Xiao Wu, as the chapter ended with him confident he could condense a Hundred-Thousand-Year Eighth Soul Ring.

• Douluo Continent's Soul Hunting Forests became barren, Soul Masters became stuck at bottlenecks, and the Creation Institute stopped reporting progress on Self-Condensed Soul Rings.
• Su Mo demonstrated Blood Shadow Instant Kill: Triple Strike, using Teleportation to deliver three identical cuts to a wooden stake.
• Xiao Wu praised Su Mo's speed as the two, now nineteen-year-old Soul Saints, lived together in a courtyard outside Suotuo City.
• Su Mo's Blood Shadow Martial Soul and high-quality Soul Rings had advanced him to level 78, while Xiao Wu had reached level 77.
• Su Mo believed he could condense a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring for his Eighth Soul Ring.

Su Mo’s system detected a newly created Soul Beast and showed him a young Soul Master’s experiment, which transformed a wild rabbit into a creature with Soul Power. The young man killed the rabbit and watched a white Soul Ring emerge, proving he had created a Soul Beast capable of producing one.

• Su Mo received a system notification that a new Soul Beast had been detected and viewed its details.
• A young Soul Master infused a wild rabbit with Soul Power until a faint Soul mark appeared on its chest.
• The young man celebrated after the rabbit survived, revealing that his first fifteen animal experiments had ended in failure.
• The rabbit used a Soul Skill but could not break out of its bamboo cage.
• The young man stabbed the rabbit to death, and a white Soul Ring emerged from its corpse.

Su Mo discovered that an ordinary Soul Master had created a newborn Soul Beast and obtained a Soul Ring, so he decided to reveal his own Ring Condensation Technique first. After comforting Xiao Wu, he took her to the Suotuo City Spirit Hall Branch to certify their ranks and draw attention to himself.

• Su Mo told Xiao Wu that someone had created a Soul Beast by infusing an animal with Soul Power, then killed it to obtain a Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu feared that the Soul Beast Clan had gone extinct, and Su Mo comforted her.
• Su Mo decided to reveal the Ring Condensation Technique and explained that his and Xiao Wu's improved abilities could protect them from danger.
• The next day, Su Mo brought Xiao Wu to the Suotuo City Spirit Hall Branch to certify their Soul Master ranks and attract Spirit Hall's attention.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu arrived at the rank certification area, where no Soul Masters were waiting.

Su Mo went to the Suotuo City Spirit Hall Branch to certify his rank and revealed that he was a level seventy-eight Soul Saint with an extraordinary Soul Ring configuration. He said he had condensed his own Soul Rings, and left the branch officials debating whether he was a transformed Soul Beast.

• Su Mo gave the registration clerk his details and revealed seven Soul Rings, including a black Second Soul Ring, proving he was a Soul Saint.
• The clerk summoned the Suotuo City Bishop, who brought branch staff to see Su Mo's Soul Rings for themselves.
• The Suotuo City Bishop asked how Su Mo had obtained his Soul Rings, and Su Mo said he had condensed them himself.
• Xiao Wu praised Su Mo and said she had shared her experience with Self-Condensed Soul Rings.
• The Suotuo City Bishop suspected Su Mo was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Transformation, but Su Mo denied it and summoned his Blood Shadow Sword.

Su Mo proved to the Suotuo City Bishop that he had condensed all his Soul Rings himself, prompting Spirit Hall to invite him to Spirit City. Bibi Dong learned that the nineteen-year-old had succeeded where Yu Xiaogang and the Creation Institute had failed, and sent Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to respectfully bring him back.

• Su Mo confirmed that all his Soul Rings were self-condensed, and the Suotuo City Bishop certified his rank and invited him to Spirit Hall.
• The Suotuo City Bishop sent an emergency report to Bibi Dong, declaring that Su Mo's achievement could save Soul Masters across the continent.
• Bibi Dong read that Su Mo was a nineteen-year-old level 78 Soul Saint whose Soul Rings included one yellow and six black, with his second Soul Ring already ten thousand years old.
• Bibi Dong learned that Su Mo had succeeded independently while Yu Xiaogang and the Creation Institute had not, and felt a painful sense of irony.
• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to go to Suotuo City and invite Su Mo to Spirit City respectfully, under threat of execution for anyone who disobeyed.

Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang that Su Mo had successfully condensed his own Soul Ring, then offered to conceal Su Mo’s achievement and credit the Creation Institute instead. Yu Xiaogang struggled between refusing and accepting as Bibi Dong promised to handle the risks.

• Bibi Dong summoned Yu Xiaogang and asked about the Creation Institute’s failed experiments.
• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang that a Soul Master in Suotuo City had successfully condensed his own Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang read the dispatch and recognized Su Mo as a former student at Nuoding Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang said Su Mo’s success gave the Creation Institute’s eleven years of work an answer and prepared to leave.
• Bibi Dong stopped Yu Xiaogang and offered to suppress the news, compensate Su Mo, and publicly credit Yu Xiaogang with creating the Self-Condensed Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang hesitated as Bibi Dong promised to manage the scholars and other risks.

Bibi Dong secured Yu Xiaogang’s agreement to let him receive public credit for the Self-Condensed Soul Rings research, then ordered the Spirit Hall to conceal information from Suotuo City. Several days earlier, Su Mo began publicizing his own achievement at the Suotuo Great Soul Arena by revealing his powerful Soul Rings.

• Bibi Dong offered Yu Xiaogang public recognition for the Self-Condensed Soul Rings theory, and he accepted her order.
• Bibi Dong ordered her steward to suppress information from Suotuo City and silence those who knew about it.
• Several days earlier, Su Mo took Xiao Wu to the Suotuo Great Soul Arena to register and make his discovery known among Soul Masters.
• Su Mo registered as a nineteen-year-old seventy-eighth-level Soul Saint and summoned his seven Soul Rings, drawing a stunned crowd.

Su Mo and Xiao Wu registered as Soul Saints at the Suotuo Great Soul Arena, astonishing the staff and prompting the arena to arrange a public match between them. Their scheduled fight drew a huge crowd, including Spirit Hall officials and Shrek students, as the host introduced the pair before the bout.

• Su Mo registered for Soul Fighting, and the staff discovered that no suitable opponent was available for a level-seventy-eight Soul Saint.
• Xiao Wu revealed that she was also a Soul Saint, registered as a level-seventy-seven fighter, and stunned the lobby with her Soul Rings.
• Supervisor Zhou ordered the arena to promote a final match between the two young Soul Saints on the Soul Tool Screen.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun saw the announcement, believed it was real, and rushed to tell the Shrek staff while crowds flocked to the arena.
• A Spirit Hall bishop watched from the front row, aware that news of both Soul Saints would soon spread beyond Suotuo City.
• The host introduced Su Mo and Xiao Wu on the Soul Fighting Platform as the match was about to begin.

Su Mo and Xiao Wu amazed the Soul Fighting Platform with their unusual Soul Rings and a fast-paced draw. When the crowd demanded to know how they had obtained their Soul Rings, Su Mo addressed them with a question.

• Su Mo and Xiao Wu released their Martial Souls and Soul Rings, shocking the audience with Su Mo’s one yellow and six black rings and Xiao Wu’s seven rings.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu fought using Teleportation and sword techniques until they ended the match after fifteen minutes.
• The host declared the Soul Fight a draw, and spectators cheered for Su Mo and Xiao Wu.
• The audience pressed Su Mo and Xiao Wu to reveal where their Soul Rings came from, and Su Mo took the microphone and asked whether they wanted to know.

Su Mo revealed that he had created Soul Rings himself through a method called the Ring Condensation Technique, which other Soul Masters could also learn. He promised to reveal the complete method at Spirit Hall in Spirit City before the continent’s powers.

• Su Mo told the Great Soul Arena that he had condensed his own Soul Rings rather than hunting Soul Beasts.
• Su Mo named the method the Ring Condensation Technique and said Soul Masters with enough accumulated Soul Power could use it to create Soul Rings and their own Soul Skills.
• Su Mo announced that he would make the complete technique public, but not at the arena.
• Su Mo said he had accepted Spirit Hall’s invitation and asked the audience to summon sects, families, and academies to Spirit Hall for the revelation.
• The crowd celebrated and called for their leaders to attend, while the Suotuo City Bishop worried about Su Mo’s public announcement.

Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders celebrated the Ring Condensation Technique, believing their self-created combat techniques would give the sect an advantage, and Tang Xiao prepared to travel to Spirit City. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong she could finally cultivate, and she urged him to take her to Su Mo in Suotuo City.

• Tang Xiao received news that Self-Condensed Soul Rings had appeared and celebrated with the Clear Sky Sect elders, who believed their self-created techniques would keep their combat strength intact.
• Tang Xiao ordered the news shared with the sect and decided to go to Spirit City with the Second Elder, Fifth Elder, and twenty outstanding young disciples to obtain the technique.
• Ning Fengzhi read Bone Douluo's report while watching Ning Rongrong cultivate and told her that she could finally cultivate using Self-Condensed Soul Rings.
• Ning Rongrong cried with relief, learned that nineteen-year-old Su Mo had developed the technique, and asked Ning Fengzhi to go to Suotuo City and escort him to Spirit City.