Recaps

Bibi Dong’s plan to credit the Creation Institute for Self-Condensed Soul Rings collapsed after Su Mo publicly announced his Ring Condensation Technique and promised to reveal it in Spirit City. Yu Xiaogang learned the method had already been developed just as Tang San told him he could finally continue cultivating.

• Yu Yuanzhen read the report about Self-Condensed Soul Rings and reflected on Yu Xiaogang’s eleven years in Spirit Hall, while the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders discussed the news.
• Bibi Dong finalized a plan with Yu Xiaogang to credit the Creation Institute, but the intelligence chief reported that Su Mo had publicly announced his Ring Condensation Technique in Suotuo City.
• Bibi Dong reacted furiously when she learned Su Mo would reveal the complete technique in Spirit City, then ordered Spirit Hall to acknowledge his achievement and invite the continent’s clans, families, and academies.
• Bibi Dong watched the Creation Institute from the Pope Palace and lamented that her plan had failed before Yu Xiaogang returned there, unaware of the announcement.
• Tang San woke Yu Xiaogang and told him that Spirit Hall had announced the method would soon become public, adding that he could finally continue cultivating.

Tang San learned that Su Mo had created the Self-Condensed Soul Ring, allowing him to cultivate again, while Yu Xiaogang hid his failed attempt to claim credit for it. On the road to Spirit City, Su Mo and Xiao Wu met Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Ning Rongrong, who had sought an audience with Su Mo.

• Tang San excitedly told Yu Xiaogang that Su Mo had created the Self-Condensed Soul Ring, and Yu Xiaogang concealed his distress over losing the chance to claim credit.
• Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San that he could finally cultivate again, while Tang San struggled to feel grateful to Su Mo because he blamed him for Xiao Wu growing distant.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu traveled toward Spirit City with Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Spirit Hall deacons.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Su Mo that Ning Fengzhi had arrived to meet Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Su Mo invited them over.
• Ning Fengzhi introduced Chen Xin and his daughter Ning Rongrong to Su Mo, who greeted them as Ning Rongrong blushed and Xiao Wu tightened her hold on Su Mo's arm.

Su Mo and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect traveled together to Spirit City, where Spirit Hall welcomed him before a huge crowd of Soul Masters and civilians. He arrived safely amid the gathered sects, while Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong showed their affection for him in different ways.

• Su Mo invited Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to join his convoy, and Ning Fengzhi accepted.
• Ning Fengzhi teased Ning Rongrong about her feelings for Su Mo and encouraged her to pursue him, but she said Su Mo already liked someone.
• Su Mo's convoy arrived at Spirit City, where Spirit Hall deacons and a vast crowd gathered to welcome him.
• Xiao Wu kissed Su Mo in the carriage, and he joked proudly about being her man.
• Su Mo saw banners from more than thirty sects and felt reassured that the crowd and gathered powers made him safer.

Su Mo and Xiao Wu arrived at the square, where a huge crowd welcomed them and hoped Su Mo would reveal the Ring Condensation Technique. Shui Bing'er, Huo Wu, Hu Liena, and others watched with hopes of breaking through their bottlenecks, while Yan questioned Su Mo's achievement; the chapter ended with someone watching Xiao Wu.

• Su Mo stepped from the carriage beside Xiao Wu, drawing an enormous crowd that urged him to make the Ring Condensation Technique public.
• Shui Bing'er watched Su Mo with hope after nine years stuck at level thirty, and Shui Yue'er teased her about marrying him.
• Huo Wu declared she wanted to win Su Mo over, while Huo Wushuang and Feng Xiaotian teased her about the gap between their levels.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue praised Su Mo as a savior, but Yan accused him of taking credit from Spirit Hall's Creation Institute until Xie Yue silenced him.
• An unidentified person watched Xiao Wu intently from among the crowd.

Su Mo arrived in Spirit City and began publicly demonstrating the Self-Condensed Soul Ring technique before Soul Masters and representatives from across the continent. The crowd witnessed his seven rings, and Su Mo began explaining the method.

• Tang San saw Xiao Wu beside Su Mo and realized her affection for Su Mo surpassed what she had once shown him.
• Bibi Dong welcomed Su Mo, acknowledged the Creation Institute’s failed eleven-year effort, and invited him to begin the unveiling.
• Bibi Dong announced that Su Mo would reveal the complete Self-Condensed Soul Ring method to the gathered Soul Masters.
• Su Mo explained that Self-Condensed Soul Rings required neither Soul Beasts nor external power, then summoned his Blood Shadow Sword and displayed one yellow and six black rings.
• The crowd believed Su Mo had truly achieved Self-Condensed Soul Rings, and Bibi Dong noticed that her second Martial Soul still lacked two rings.

Su Mo publicly renamed and demonstrated the Su Mo Ring Condensation Technique, revealing its Soul Power circulation route and warning that it required visualization to use safely. Tang San realized Su Mo’s method drew on Internal Energy knowledge he had taught Xiao Wu, and was devastated that Su Mo had achieved what he had failed to do.

• Su Mo announced that the Ring Condensation Technique would bear his name, and the crowd and dignitaries applauded.
• Su Mo outlined the technique’s two key principles and traced its Soul Power circulation route through the body.
• Several Soul Masters tried circulating Soul Power without visualization, suffered pain, and stopped after Su Mo warned them of the danger.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized that Su Mo’s route surpassed his own, while Tang San recognized traces of an Internal Energy Method.
• Tang San concluded that Xiao Wu had passed along knowledge he taught her and silently seethed as he watched Su Mo’s success.

Su Mo explained the visualization method and safety requirements of his Ring Condensation Technique, then invited volunteers to demonstrate it onstage. He selected three men at different bottleneck levels and began guiding their Soul Power circulation.

• Su Mo displayed the Soul Ring structure and explained how to visualize it while circulating Soul Power along the meridian route.
• Su Mo warned that cultivators had to practice the route until their Soul Power flowed smoothly or risk wasting their efforts and damaging their meridians.
• The crowd clamored to volunteer, while Huo Wu and Shui Yue'er called for Su Mo to choose Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er, and Ning Rongrong hoped he would pick her.
• Su Mo chose three male volunteers at levels twenty, thirty, and fifty, and told them to sit cross-legged and circulate their Soul Power.
• When the three struggled to control their Soul Power, Su Mo sent threads of his own Soul Power into their bodies to guide them.

Su Mo demonstrated the Ring Condensation Technique by guiding three Soul Masters through its circulation route, and all three successfully condensed new Soul Rings. As the crowd celebrated, Bibi Dong recognized Xiao Wu as a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and considered eliminating Su Mo if Spirit Hall could not claim him.

• Su Mo guided three Soul Masters through the Ring Condensation Technique until they learned its Soul Power circulation route.
• Bibi Dong noticed Xiao Wu's hatred and deduced that she was the transformed girl who had escaped the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Su Mo instructed the three Soul Masters to visualize Soul Rings as they circulated their Soul Power.
• The old man, the middle-aged Soul Master, and the young man each successfully condensed a Soul Ring, and the crowd erupted in applause.
• Bibi Dong joined the applause while privately deciding that Su Mo should be eliminated if Spirit Hall could not use him.

After Su Mo publicly demonstrated his Ring Condensation Technique, Bibi Dong invited him to become Spirit Hall’s Honorary Elder, but he refused. Bibi Dong then accused Xiao Wu of being a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Transformation and revealed that she possessed Xiao Wu’s mother’s Soul Bone, leaving Xiao Wu enraged and denying the accusation.

• The crowd applauded Su Mo’s demonstration, and Bibi Dong thanked him before offering him Spirit Hall’s highest Honorary Elder position.
• Su Mo declined Bibi Dong’s invitation, saying he preferred freedom and would not join a faction.
• Bibi Dong announced that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Transformation had infiltrated Spirit City, then turned her attention to Xiao Wu.
• Su Mo moved beside Xiao Wu and took her hand, while powerful Soul Masters sensed her and began to suspect her identity.
• Bibi Dong displayed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Charm Left Leg Bone and said its owner had sacrificed herself to help another transformed girl escape.
• Xiao Wu recognized her mother’s aura, released her seven Soul Rings, and angrily denied being a Soul Beast.

Xiao Wu concealed her anger after Bibi Dong accused her of being a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, while Su Mo demanded proof and defended her. Facing opposition from the major sects, Soul Masters, and Qian Daoliu, Bibi Dong admitted she had no conclusive evidence and apologized to Xiao Wu.

• Xiao Wu restrained herself and hid behind Su Mo, who challenged Bibi Dong to prove her accusation and questioned whether she was trying to discredit his Ring Condensation Technique.
• Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, Tang Xiao, and other sect representatives stood up for Su Mo, while Soul Masters across the plaza voiced their support.
• Qian Daoliu asked Bibi Dong to provide conclusive evidence and warned that the Soul Bone did not prove Xiao Wu was related to its owner.
• Bibi Dong acknowledged she had no further evidence, said she must have been mistaken, and apologized to Xiao Wu for acting rashly.

After rejecting invitations from more than twenty sects, Su Mo accepted a token from Ning Fengzhi and left Spirit City with Xiao Wu. At the Creation Institute, scholars studied his Ring Condensation Technique and marveled at its principles, while Yu Xiaogang questioned Tang San about the circulation route.

• Ning Fengzhi invited Su Mo to become a guest elder, and after Su Mo declined, Ning Fengzhi gave him a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Token.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Tang Xiao offered Su Mo positions and rewards, but Su Mo refused to join either the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan or the Clear Sky Sect.
• Representatives from more than twenty sects and an academy made offers to Su Mo, who accepted none and teleported away with Xiao Wu.
• At the Creation Institute, Elder Yun Shuo and the scholars studied Su Mo's Ring Condensation Technique and judged its theory far ahead of their era.
• Tang San silently recognized that Su Mo's Soul Power circulation route had evolved from his Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• After the scholars left, Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San whether he thought something was wrong with the circulation route.

Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that Su Mo had learned the meridian-based Internal Energy Methods from Xiao Wu, who had learned them from Tang San. Yu Xiaogang realized those methods could have helped his eleven-year effort to develop the Ring Condensation Technique, and after Tang San explained them, he asked Tang San to test whether they could help him condense a Soul Ring.

• Tang San revealed that Su Mo had likely learned the Internal Energy Methods from Xiao Wu, whom Tang San had taught at Nuoding Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang learned that Tang San's father had taught him the methods and regretted never asking about them.
• Yu Xiaogang became overwhelmed with frustration, vomited blood, and collapsed into Tang San's arms.
• Tang San shared everything he knew about the Internal Energy Methods, and Yu Xiaogang confirmed their connection to Su Mo's Ring Condensation Technique.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San to combine the Mysterious Heaven Skill with the Soul Ring Visualization Method and attempt to condense a Soul Ring.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang tested whether other Internal Energy Methods could condense Soul Rings using Su Mo’s Visualization Method, but none worked. When Tang San tried Su Mo’s circulation route, Soul Power leaked from the path, leading him to realize the technique deliberately used that deviation to gather energy for a Soul Ring.

• Yu Xiaogang suggested Tang San combine the Soul Ring Visualization Method with other Internal Energy Methods, and Tang San tried the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Tang San switched to the Hunyuan Mental Method and then tested his other Internal Energy Methods, but none showed signs of condensing a Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to try the circulation route from Su Mo’s Ring Condensation Technique without the Visualization Method.
• Tang San felt Soul Power leak from the route after one Heavenly Cycle and concluded that the technique would cause Qi Deviation.
• Tang San realized that Su Mo’s method used the leaking Soul Power so the Visualization Method could gather it and condense it into a Soul Ring.

Tang San learned that Su Mo had created his Ring Condensation Technique by harnessing qi deviation, but he refused to use it and chose to develop his own. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong failed to locate Su Mo and Xiao Wu and ordered Spirit Hall to keep searching.

• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang how Su Mo used qi deviation and the Visualization Method to condense Soul Rings, and Yu Xiaogang praised Su Mo as a genius.
• Tang San tried Yu Xiaogang’s complex Soul Ring structures with Su Mo’s circulation route but could not memorize them, so Yu Xiaogang urged him to use Su Mo’s technique.
• Tang San refused and told Yu Xiaogang he wanted to create his own Ring Condensation Technique, despite the delay to his cultivation.
• Yue Guan reported to Bibi Dong that Su Mo and Xiao Wu had vanished from Spirit City without leaving detectable traces.
• Bibi Dong reasoned that Su Mo and Xiao Wu likely feared Spirit Hall because they knew each other’s secrets, then ordered Yue Guan to report them immediately if they were found.

After learning that Bibi Dong had killed her mother, Xiao Wu swore to take revenge, while Su Mo comforted her and planned how to stop Bibi Dong from becoming a god. He realized Bibi Dong could use Slaughter City to activate her ninth trial and decided to destroy it ahead of time.

• At the Lake of Life, Xiao Wu told Su Mo that Bibi Dong had killed her mother and worn her mother's leg bone as a trophy.
• Xiao Wu wept and vowed to kill Bibi Dong herself, and Su Mo comforted her while telling her it could not happen yet.
• Su Mo reflected that revealing the Ring Condensation Technique had earned him the prestige he wanted, though bringing Xiao Wu to Spirit City had exposed her to Bibi Dong.
• Su Mo planned to stop Bibi Dong from completing the Rakshasa God's ninth trial by secretly collecting the corpses she would need if she started a war.
• Su Mo realized Bibi Dong could instead sacrifice Slaughter City, so he decided to destroy it first with the Snowy Swan Kiss he had kept.
• After Xiao Wu's sobs quieted, she raised her head and asked Su Mo where they would go next.

After proving that his Soul Beast Catalyzing Technique worked, Lin Yue planned to join Spirit Hall, but he learned that Su Mo had already revealed a technique for condensing Soul Rings. Jealous and desperate to claim recognition for his own discovery, Lin Yue went to the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch and offered to prove his ability to create Soul Beasts.

• Lin Yue successfully catalyzed a second Soul Beast and concluded that only animals with the potential to awaken as Soul Beasts could be catalyzed.
• Lin Yue decided to raise the Soul Beasts and join Spirit Hall so he could develop and use his technique.
• After returning to Nuoding City, Lin Yue learned that Su Mo had publicly revealed the Ring Condensation Technique and regretted not going to Spirit Hall sooner.
• Consumed by resentment, Lin Yue went to the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch and told Ma Xiunuo that he could create Soul Beasts.
• Lin Yue showed Ma Xiunuo his unusually weak Second Soul Ring and offered to take him to see a living Soul Beast.

Lin Yue demonstrated that he could create a Soul Beast and demanded that Spirit Hall escort him to Spirit City while publicizing his achievement. Bibi Dong agreed despite her anger and frustration, then lamented that Yu Xiaogang had failed to solve the Soul Ring problem after years of support.

• Lin Yue showed Ma Xiunuo the awakened Soul Beast and refused to reveal his method until reaching Spirit Hall, demanding an escort and public announcement.
• Ma Xiunuo agreed and spread the news that Lin Yue could create Soul Beasts.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan brought Ma Xiunuo's report to Bibi Dong, who confirmed that Lin Yue had created a genuine Ten-Year Soul Beast.
• Bibi Dong criticized Yu Xiaogang for producing no results after eleven years at the Creation Institute while younger men solved the Soul Ring problem.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to do as Lin Yue requested, then privately told herself that Yu Xiaogang had failed to live up to expectations.

Ning Rongrong used the Su Mo Ring Condensation Technique to form her First Soul Ring and broke through to the Soul Master realm, bringing joy and relief to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. The sect then received news that someone had created Soul Beasts, revealing another possible source of Soul Rings and Soul Skills.

• Ning Rongrong condensed a yellow Hundred-Year Soul Ring after years of cultivation and broke through to the Soul Master realm.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo celebrated Ning Rongrong's breakthrough and learned that she could use the Soul Skill Power.
• Ning Fengzhi welcomed the news that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's Soul Skills could help the sect remain secure despite its cultivation limit.
• A steward delivered an invitation from Spirit Hall, and Ning Fengzhi read that someone had created Soul Beasts.
• Ning Rongrong, Bone Douluo, and Sword Douluo reacted with shock to the news and discussed how Soul Beasts could provide Soul Rings and Soul Skills.

Yu Xiaogang and the Creation Institute learned that Lin Yue had created living Soul Beasts, a field Yu Xiaogang had studied his entire life without considering. After Lin Yue publicly demonstrated the simple Soul Beast Catalyzing Technique, Yu Xiaogang suffered another collapse.

• A researcher brought Yu Xiaogang Spirit Hall’s announcement that Lin Yue had created a living Soul Beast and would demonstrate the method publicly.
• Yu Xiaogang and the Creation Institute’s researchers were shocked that they had never thought to create Soul Beasts themselves.
• Yu Xiaogang regretted focusing only on finding and using Soul Beasts, vomited blood, and fainted.
• Lin Yue arrived at Spirit Hall and publicly revealed that Soul Beasts could be catalyzed from suitable animals or plants using Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang heard the technique was simple, vomited blood repeatedly, and broke down again.

Su Mo and Xiao Wu traveled to Slaughter City after discussing the public release of the Soul Beast Catalyzing Technique. After testing the restrictions at its entrance, they confirmed Xiao Wu could still use Self-Created Soul Skills and decided to enter.

• Xiao Wu worried that the public Soul Beast Catalyzing Technique would create Soul Beasts that could be enslaved or killed, and Su Mo tried to comfort her.
• Su Mo teased Xiao Wu by feeding her a carrot before they traveled for several days toward Slaughter City.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu reached a desolate wasteland and paid the bartender at a run-down tavern to open the hidden entrance beneath it.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu descended into Slaughter City and saw its dim crimson sky and enormous underground city.
• Su Mo asked Xiao Wu to test the city's rules, and she found that Soul Ring Soul Skills were restricted but Self-Created Soul Skills still worked.
• Su Mo confirmed the restriction himself and decided that they would enter Slaughter City to gain experience and seek the Asura God's inheritance.

Su Mo and Xiao Wu entered Slaughter City after defeating its patrol and learning its rules. Su Mo won his first Hell Slaughter Arena match by killing all nine opponents with precise swordsmanship, and Xiao Wu prepared to fight next.

• Su Mo and Xiao Wu defeated two black-armored patrol soldiers, earning passage into Slaughter City.
• A guide explained that Fallen Ones could stay in the Outer City by paying Yellow Spring Dew or enter the Inner City by competing in the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Su Mo entered the arena and killed the man who attacked him with a flaming meteor hammer, then killed a dagger-wielding opponent.
• Seven contestants attacked Su Mo together, but he disarmed and killed all seven with sword techniques alone.
• Su Mo left the arena after his victory, and Xiao Wu praised him before preparing for her own match.

Xiao Wu won her Hell Slaughter Arena match with swift, precise swordsmanship, drawing comparisons to Su Mo. In the stands, a drunken Tang Hao recognized her, briefly regaining his senses after years of grieving Ah Yin and abandoning his son, Tang Shan.

• Xiao Wu killed her first opponent and then defeated the other eight Fallen Ones who joined forces against her.
• Spectators discussed Xiao Wu and Su Mo's similar fighting styles and wondered whether they were together.
• Tang Hao sat alone in the stands, drinking Yellow Spring Dew and recalling how he had given up searching for Ah Yin and rescuing Tang Shan.
• Tang Hao saw Xiao Wu leave the arena and recognized her, his gaze briefly clearing.

Tang Hao confronted Xiao Wu, desperate to learn whether Ah Yin was alive, while Su Mo tricked him into handing over Ah Yin’s Soul Bone. Su Mo revealed that Ah Yin had died after sacrificing herself, leaving Tang Hao enraged and in denial.

• Tang Hao recognized Xiao Wu as a surviving Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit and begged her to tell him whether Ah Yin was alive.
• Xiao Wu said Ah Yin would still be alive if she had been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Transformation, then realized Tang Hao carried Ah Yin’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Tang Hao threatened Xiao Wu, but Su Mo stepped in and claimed he could find Ah Yin if Tang Hao gave him her Soul Bone.
• Tang Hao handed Su Mo the Blue Silver Emperor’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and Xiao Wu helped Su Mo maintain the deception.
• Su Mo told Tang Hao that Ah Yin had sacrificed herself and was destroyed eleven years earlier, prompting Tang Hao to roar in disbelief.

Su Mo lured Tang Hao into his Void Space after taking Ah Yin's Soul Bone, intending to kill him so he could not reveal Xiao Wu's identity. Tang Hao unleashed Ring Detonation but failed to hit Su Mo or Xiao Wu, and he ended trapped inside the space with his power spent.

• Su Mo took Ah Yin's Soul Bone from Tang Hao and led Xiao Wu away, drawing Tang Hao into a spatial rift that closed behind them.
• Su Mo revealed that they were in his Void Space and told Tang Hao it would be his burial ground.
• Tang Hao attacked Su Mo and Xiao Wu with the Great Sumeru Hammer, while they evaded his strikes using Teleportation and Su Mo's Void ability.
• Su Mo learned from Tang Hao's techniques and provoked him until Tang Hao unleashed Ring Detonation.
• Tang Hao tried to flee but struck the spatial barrier, failed to break it, and collapsed after Ring Detonation ended.

Su Mo imprisoned Tang Hao in the Void Space to study Ring Detonation while he and Xiao Wu continued their trials in Slaughter City. In Spirit City, Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to spread the truth that Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, hoping to turn the world against them.

• Su Mo defeated Tang Hao and kept him imprisoned in the Void Space, provoking him to use Ring Detonation so he could study the technique.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu each fought one match in Slaughter City every day before teleporting away.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo reported that Spirit Hall's spies had failed to track Su Mo and Xiao Wu.
• Bibi Dong told Chrysanthemum Douluo that Xiao Wu was the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had escaped her before and suggested Su Mo had learned Ring Condensation from her.
• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to spread rumors revealing Xiao Wu's identity while keeping Spirit Hall's involvement hidden.