Recaps

Su Mo and Xiao Wu learned that rumors across the continent accused Xiao Wu of being a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and Su Mo of stealing the Ring Condensation Technique from her. Su Mo dismissed the speculation and decided to establish an academy, where he would teach locked versions of his self-created soul skills.

• Rumors spread from Spirit City across the continent that Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and had taught Su Mo the Ring Condensation Technique.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu heard the accusations, and Xiao Wu angrily defended Su Mo while he reassured her that suspicion alone could not expose her identity.
• Su Mo explained that his ability to escape danger meant he no longer needed to hide and cultivate in seclusion.
• Su Mo told Xiao Wu he planned to start an academy and teach self-created soul skills with restrictions on passing them along.

Su Mo planted anonymous notices across Spirit City accusing Bibi Dong of having been Yu Xiaogang’s lover, of being forcibly taken by Qian Xunji, and of killing him. The scandal spread across the continent, and Bibi Dong ordered her subordinates to find the person responsible.

• Su Mo left identical scandalous notes around Spirit City before returning to Void Space to watch the rumors spread.
• Residents across Spirit City found the notices and spread the accusations about Bibi Dong, Yu Xiaogang, and Qian Xunji.
• The scandal traveled to cities and towns throughout the continent, becoming a widespread topic of gossip.
• Bibi Dong read a notice in the Pope Palace and was especially shaken by its mention of Qian Xunji forcibly taking her.
• Bibi Dong furiously ordered her people to find whoever had spread the rumors.

After learning that Qian Xunji had forcibly possessed Bibi Dong, Yu Xiaogang realized she had pushed him away to protect him and quietly left Spirit Hall with Tang San. Qian Renxue learned the same truth and decided to confront Bibi Dong.

• Yu Xiaogang read the note and concluded that Bibi Dong had ended their relationship to protect him from Qian Xunji.
• Yu Xiaogang blamed himself for resenting Bibi Dong and failing to fulfill the trust and resources she had given him.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San they would leave Spirit Hall, then secretly departed with him in disguise.
• Qian Renxue read the intelligence report and connected it to her memories of Bibi Dong and her father.
• Qian Renxue tore up the reports, struggled to accept that Bibi Dong had killed Qian Xunji, and resolved to return and question her.

Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong about the reports and learned that Bibi Dong’s rejection of her stemmed from her resemblance to Qian Xunji. Qian Renxue left without seeking her mother’s love or forgiveness, then threatened to remove Yu Xiaogang from Spirit Hall, unaware he had already departed.

• Qian Renxue entered the Pope Palace and demanded that Bibi Dong confirm the reports circulating outside.
• Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong over abandoning her in Heaven Dou City and leaving her to pose as Xue Qinghe for over a dozen years.
• Bibi Dong confirmed the reports and told Qian Renxue she did nothing wrong, but that she could not accept her because she saw Qian Xunji in her.
• Qian Renxue said she would no longer expect maternal love or seek revenge, but would never forgive Bibi Dong, and then called her “Sister” as she left.
• Qian Renxue threatened to make Yu Xiaogang disappear if he remained in Spirit Hall, while Bibi Dong watched her leave, knowing Yu Xiaogang had already gone.

Bibi Dong tried to suppress the scandal about her past by shifting attention to the revived Soul Master Tournament, which would take place in a year. Su Mo saw the tournament as an opportunity to launch his planned academy and set out with Xiao Wu to seek funding from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Bibi Dong gave up investigating who had spread the rumors and declared them false, offering a Soul Bone reward for catching rumor-mongers.
• Bibi Dong announced that the Continent-wide Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament would resume in a year with at least three top-tier Soul Bones as prizes.
• Xiao Wu complained that Bibi Dong had used the tournament to distract people from the scandal, while Su Mo recognized that it could serve as a stage for his new academy.
• Su Mo proposed forming an academy team for the tournament, and Xiao Wu agreed that their first students could compete.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu headed to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to ask Ning Fengzhi for donations, with Su Mo planning to offer the sect one place in the academy's first class.

Su Mo visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and asked to spar with Sword Douluo Chen Xin. Their duel revealed Su Mo’s self-created Teleportation and Intangibility skills, leaving the spectators astonished as the fight continued.

• Su Mo arrived at the sect with Xiao Wu and asked Ning Fengzhi for a spar with Sword Douluo.
• Chen Xin agreed, and the two faced off in the sect’s martial arts arena.
• Su Mo used unpredictable self-created Teleportation techniques to attack Chen Xin, who blocked each strike.
• Chen Xin unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and sent a powerful wave of sword qi at Su Mo.
• Su Mo became intangible, letting the sword qi pass through him unharmed, then told Chen Xin not to hold back.

Su Mo visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and asked to spar with Sword Douluo Chen Xin. Their duel left the sect’s observers stunned as Su Mo displayed self-created Teleportation and Intangibility, and Sword Douluo began fighting seriously.

• Su Mo arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Xiao Wu and asked Sword Douluo Chen Xin to spar with him.
• Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Ning Rongrong reacted with disbelief when Su Mo challenged the level ninety-six Titled Douluo as a level seventy-eight Soul Saint.
• Su Mo used Teleportation and self-created sword techniques to attack Chen Xin, who blocked each strike with the Seven Kill Sword.
• Chen Xin activated his Martial Soul Avatar and unleashed sword qi, but Su Mo became intangible and let the attack pass through him.
• Su Mo solidified and told Chen Xin not to hold back, while Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Ning Rongrong watched in shock.

Su Mo persuaded Ning Fengzhi to support an elite academy for teaching self-created soul skills, with the goal of competing in the Soul Master Tournament a year later. After leaving the sect, Su Mo discussed recruiting students and his sword training with Xiao Wu, then realized he had forgotten to ask for weapon-forging materials.

• Su Mo explained that self-created soul skills came easily to him and said he wanted to establish an academy to prove his abilities.
• Su Mo outlined plans for an elite academy with ten gifted students, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to provide the facilities and cultivation resources.
• Xiao Wu offered to help teach, and Ning Fengzhi welcomed her offer and pledged the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's support.
• Su Mo told Xiao Wu he planned to learn from Sword Douluo and improve his swordsmanship through their sparring.
• Su Mo realized he had forgotten to ask Ning Fengzhi for weapon-forging materials and wondered whether the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could evolve through soul artifact fusion.

Bibi Dong barred Soul Saints and above from the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, a decree widely seen as targeting Su Mo and Xiao Wu. Ning Fengzhi responded by publicizing Su Mo’s plan to establish an academy for teaching Self-Created Soul Skills, leaving the continent eager for details.

• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to add a rule prohibiting participants above Soul Saint from competing, and Chrysanthemum Douluo warned that it would look like a direct attack on Su Mo.
• Spirit Hall distributed the new rule across the continent, prompting Soul Masters to argue over whether it was fair or aimed at Su Mo and Xiao Wu.
• Ning Fengzhi discussed the rule with Sword Douluo Chen Xin and concluded that Su Mo had anticipated the restriction by planning to establish an academy.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered a steward to publicize that Su Mo would open an academy dedicated to teaching Self-Created Soul Skills.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s announcement spread across the continent, and Soul Masters wondered where the academy would be and how they could enroll.

Tang San used the Su Mo Ring Condensation Technique to break through to Soul Grandmaster, though the success left him feeling stifled. Meanwhile, the Clear Sky Sect worried that Su Mo’s planned academy would spread powerful Self-Created Soul Skills, and Tang Xiao prepared to confront him.

• Tang San gave Yu Xiaogang permission to study the Self-Created Soul Skills he could reveal, then used Su Mo’s Ring Condensation Technique to condense a Soul Ring.
• Tang San broke through to Soul Grandmaster after ten years at the Soul Master realm, but felt no joy because he had relied on Su Mo’s technique.
• Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders discussed Su Mo’s plan to teach Self-Created Soul Skills and feared it would undermine their advantage.
• Tang Xiao decided to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to learn what skills Su Mo planned to teach and to stop him if they were too powerful.
• Su Mo, unaware of the Clear Sky Sect’s plans, sought out Sword Douluo again to study his Soul Skills and Sword Dao.

Su Mo trained with Sword Douluo at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and learned to condense Soul Power into a sword, allowing him to imitate Sword Douluo’s Soul Skills. Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo watched in disbelief as Su Mo mastered them in less than a month.

• Su Mo sparred with Sword Douluo, whose controlled attacks helped him improve his Sword Dao comprehension.
• Su Mo asked Sword Douluo to demonstrate Condensing Qi into Sword and formed a miniature Blood Shadow Sword after several attempts.
• Su Mo thanked Sword Douluo and began copying his Soul Skills, gradually reproducing their forms across the Martial Arts Arena.
• Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo arrived to watch Su Mo imitate Sword Douluo’s Soul Skills and marveled that he had learned them in less than a month.
• Ning Fengzhi wondered whether he could learn Sword Douluo’s Soul Skills too if he picked up a sword.

Su Mo revealed that his extraordinary learning talent let him copy Sword Douluo’s soul skills and, using his system, locked them so Sword Douluo could learn but not pass them on through his own methods. After Su Mo teleported away, Sword Douluo agreed to teach Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo the sword skills, beginning with how to condense sword qi.

• Sword Douluo questioned Su Mo about copying his soul skills, and Su Mo attributed it to his talent for learning and creation.
• Su Mo locked the copied soul skills with his system and taught them back to Sword Douluo, who quickly mastered them without using soul rings.
• Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo watched Sword Douluo use the skills and realized he had made his soul ring skills into self-created ones.
• Su Mo teleported away after saying he would return to spar with Sword Douluo, leaving Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo behind.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Sword Douluo to teach the skills to him and Bone Douluo, and Sword Douluo agreed, telling Bone Douluo to start by condensing sword qi through a bone sword.

Su Mo repeatedly fought Tang Hao in the Void Space to analyze the Clear Sky Sect’s techniques, then demonstrated that he had copied both the Great Sumeru Hammer and Ring Detonation. Tang Hao was left speechless as Su Mo detonated his own first Soul Ring.

• Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo struggled to create Condensing Qi into Sword and recognized Su Mo’s extraordinary learning talent.
• Su Mo challenged Tang Hao again, dodging the Clear Sky Hammer with Teleportation while provoking Tang Hao about failing to protect Ah Yin and Tang San.
• Tang Hao detonated his first Soul Ring and used the Great Sumeru Hammer, allowing Su Mo to finish analyzing the technique.
• Su Mo analyzed Ring Detonation, then revealed a giant Great Sumeru Sword copied from Tang Hao’s hammer technique.
• Su Mo claimed he could copy Ring Detonation too and detonated his first Soul Ring, leaving Tang Hao speechless.

Su Mo evaded Tang Hao’s furious attacks and returned just in time to stop him from destroying his Soul Bones. He killed Tang Hao in the Void Space, where six Soul Bones emerged from the corpse.

• Tang Hao detonated all his soul rings and struck the Floating Island with his Clear Sky Hammer, but Su Mo dodged and opened a spatial rift to leave.
• Tang Hao tried to break through the Void Space barrier, failed, and decided to self-destruct along with his Soul Bones rather than let Su Mo take them.
• Su Mo returned and used Blood Shadow True Body and Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin to disrupt Tang Hao’s attempt to self-destruct.
• After Tang Hao’s Ring Detonation ended and left him weakened, Su Mo pierced his throat with the Blood Shadow Sword and killed him.
• Six Soul Bones appeared above Tang Hao’s corpse, and Su Mo reached for the dark-gold skull first.

Su Mo dismantled Tang Hao’s Soul Bones and used the results to comprehend a method for cultivating his own, then absorbed the remaining bones. Meanwhile, Tang Xiao visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to ask about Su Mo’s planned academy and the Self-Created Soul Skills it would teach, but Ning Fengzhi avoided revealing details.

• Su Mo dismantled four of Tang Hao’s Soul Bones and, after several days of study, comprehended the Soul Bone Cultivation Method.
• Su Mo absorbed the shattered bone fragments and equipped the remaining Soul Bones, including the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone, to study their skills.
• Xiao Wu appeared and asked whether Su Mo had succeeded in researching the method and whether any Soul Bones remained; Su Mo told her he had absorbed them and offered to teach her the method.
• Tang Xiao arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with two elders and twenty young disciples, and Ning Fengzhi welcomed him alongside Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.
• Tang Xiao asked Ning Fengzhi what the academy would teach, and Ning Fengzhi said Su Mo alone would decide its curriculum.
• Tang Xiao warned that widely spreading Self-Created Soul Skills could disadvantage the sects, and asked whether Ning Fengzhi was worried.

Su Mo Academy announced it would recruit ten talented students aged fifteen to twenty-four to prepare for the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament. The announcement drew interest from major clans and Shrek Academy, whose students planned to apply.

• Ning Fengzhi deflected Tang Xiao’s attempt to question Su Mo’s teaching plans and told him the Clear Sky Sect should accept Su Mo’s generosity; Tang Xiao asked about the academy’s recruitment.
• Ning Fengzhi said the academy would recruit ten geniuses aged fifteen to twenty-four, and Tang Xiao left with the Clear Sky Sect members.
• After learning of the visit, Su Mo focused on the academy’s progress and had the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect publicize Su Mo Academy’s name, recruitment details, and tournament goal.
• Tang Xiao acknowledged Su Mo’s abilities after reading the announcement, while Yu Yuanzhen decided the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan should send eligible disciples to apply.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun asked Flender to let them apply to Su Mo Academy, and Flender agreed while warning them that they might be rejected.

Liu Erlong, Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, and Shui Bing'er reacted to Su Mo Academy’s plan to teach Self-Created Soul Skills, while Bibi Dong considered how to respond to Su Mo and Xiao Wu. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong ordering Chrysanthemum Douluo to spread the suspicion that Su Mo’s academy was a scheme to recruit talented students for a championship team.

• Liu Erlong doubled Blue Tyrant Academy’s students’ training and promised to pay the tuition of anyone who entered Su Mo Academy.
• Feng Xiaotian mocked Su Mo Academy but decided he wanted to see whether it could truly teach Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Huo Wu planned to go to Su Mo Academy early, but Huo Wushuang reminded her that registration details had not been announced.
• Shui Yue'er teased Shui Bing'er about wanting to see Su Mo, while Shui Bing'er said she hoped to learn techniques that could benefit Skywater Academy.
• Bibi Dong learned that her agents still could not locate Xiao Wu and discussed Su Mo Academy’s purpose with Chrysanthemum Douluo.
• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to spread the speculation that Su Mo had created the academy to recruit geniuses and build a championship-winning team.

Su Mo raised his Soul Power to level eighty, condensed a hundred-thousand-year Eighth Soul Ring, and upgraded his First Soul Ring before Su Mo Academy opened enrollment in Seven Treasure City. The first round of testing began with Feng Xiaotian among the applicants.

• News spread that Bibi Dong had announced Su Mo was forming an academy, and Xiao Wu wanted to confront her before Su Mo stopped her.
• Su Mo raised his Soul Power to level eighty, condensed a hundred-thousand-year Eighth Soul Ring, and increased his First Soul Ring to ten-thousand-year quality.
• Su Mo Academy opened enrollment in Seven Treasure City, drawing a long line of applicants from across the continent.
• Su Mo set a minimum requirement of level seven Innate Soul Power, and Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong helped conduct the first-round tests.
• A Heaven Dou Royal Academy student failed with level six Innate Soul Power and left, while Feng Xiaotian was introduced as a level forty-two Soul Ancestor with Innate Full Soul Power.

Feng Xiaotian and other young soul masters arrived to take Su Mo Academy’s admissions tests, but Tang Xiao and Salas disrupted the proceedings by demanding proof that Su Mo could teach Self-Created Soul Skills. Su Mo accepted Tang Xiao’s challenge and proposed testing his skills by slashing at him while he stood still.

• Ning Rongrong recorded the applicants’ results, including Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, Shui Bing’er, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun.
• Tang Xiao arrived at the academy with Clear Sky Sect elders and disciples, then challenged Su Mo to demonstrate his Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Salas arrived on the Pope’s decree and publicly demanded that Su Mo prove his skills were worthy of attracting students.
• Su Mo appeared before Tang Xiao and Salas, accepted the challenge, and suggested that Tang Xiao stand still while Su Mo slashed him with his sword.

Su Mo demonstrated his Self-Created Soul Skills for Tang Xiao and revealed that he had become a nineteen-year-old Soul Douluo with seven black Soul Rings and one hundred-thousand-year red ring. He continued unleashing powerful sword techniques, including a move resembling Sword Douluo's signature skill.

• Su Mo mocked Tang Xiao's demand for a spar and persuaded him to stand still while Su Mo demonstrated his Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Su Mo revealed eight Soul Rings, including seven ten-thousand-year rings and a hundred-thousand-year Eighth Soul Ring, shocking the spectators.
• Su Mo struck Tang Xiao with Sword Qi Slash, which Tang Xiao blocked with his Clear Sky Hammer without being injured.
• Su Mo unleashed more powerful Self-Created Soul Skills, prompting the spectators to marvel at his abilities.
• Su Mo used Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin, a technique the audience recognized as resembling Sword Douluo's signature skill.

Su Mo demonstrated that he could reproduce Sword Douluo’s soul skills as Self-Created Soul Skills, then unveiled a sword technique modeled on the Clear Sky Sect’s Great Sumeru Hammer. He left Tang Xiao and the spectators stunned, while declaring that tool-martial-soul Soul Masters could learn the Great Sumeru Technique.

• Su Mo used Sword Douluo’s signature soul skills, convincing the spectators that he had recreated a Title Douluo’s entire set of soul skills as Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, Feng Xiaotian, and the other spectators reacted with astonishment and recognized the significance for Su Mo Academy.
• Su Mo told Tang Xiao that he would show him a move learned from the Clear Sky Sect, then enlarged the Blood Shadow Sword into a colossal blade.
• Tang Xiao recognized that Su Mo had adapted the Great Sumeru Hammer’s force technique to a sword, and Su Mo named the move the Great Sumeru Slash, or Great Sumeru Technique.
• Su Mo brought the giant sword down, and Tang Xiao countered with Clear Sky Nine Absolutes: Shock Formula; the sword shattered, but Tang Xiao did not retreat.
• Su Mo declared that any Soul Master with a tool martial soul could learn the Great Sumeru Technique, then asked Tang Xiao whether he still considered him unqualified to establish an academy.

Su Mo defended his Great Sumeru Technique against Tang Xiao’s accusation that he had stolen the Clear Sky Sect’s inheritance, with Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Ning Fengzhi supporting him. Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect left in disgrace, and Su Mo resumed the academy’s admissions assessment.

• Tang Xiao accused Su Mo of stealing the Clear Sky Sect’s secret inheritance after Su Mo demonstrated the Great Sumeru Technique.
• Su Mo asked Sword Douluo whether he considered his copied swordsmanship stolen, and Sword Douluo said learning it was Su Mo’s ability.
• Su Mo argued that his Great Sumeru Technique differed from the Clear Sky Sect’s Great Sumeru Hammer and could be used with any tool martial soul.
• Bone Douluo and Ning Fengzhi backed Su Mo, while the crowd criticized Tang Xiao’s accusations.
• After Second Elder warned him that the Clear Sky Sect had no evidence and would only lose face, Tang Xiao withdrew and led his disciples away.
• Su Mo recalled the Blood Shadow Sword and told everyone to continue the admissions assessment.

During Su Mo Academy’s second-round assessment, Ma Hongjun insulted a Heaven Dou Royal Academy candidate and defended himself with Flender’s saying that Soul Masters who dared not cause trouble were mediocre. Su Mo appeared and challenged Ma Hongjun’s interpretation, leaving the waiting candidates to hear his distinction between having backbone and starting trouble.

• Ning Fengzhi announced that 362 candidates had passed the first round and that Su Mo would personally oversee the comprehension test.
• Ma Hongjun mocked a Heaven Dou Royal Academy youth, and the youth confronted him while Oscar urged him to stop.
• Ma Hongjun insulted the youth and claimed that Soul Masters who dared not cause trouble were mediocre fools.
• Su Mo appeared, drew a line in the stone, and explained that backbone meant standing up when someone crossed a boundary, not picking fights unprovoked.
• Su Mo rebuked Ma Hongjun for insulting someone at the recruitment event and questioned whether he would cause trouble for the academy if admitted.

Su Mo revoked Ma Hongjun and Oscar’s entrance qualifications after condemning their attitude toward causing trouble, humiliating Flender and Shrek Academy in front of the crowd. He began the second entrance round by demonstrating a Soul Power Ball, a self-created skill that tested precise control; the challenge was to master it before the tenth person did.

• Su Mo stripped Ma Hongjun and Oscar of their qualifications, and both left the waiting area in disgrace.
• The crowd praised Su Mo, while Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Shao Xin endured ridicule over Shrek Academy’s motto.
• Flender admitted that he had expressed his lesson poorly, promised to change the motto, and promoted Shrek Academy to the onlookers.
• Su Mo announced that the second round tested comprehension and that the first ten candidates to master his skill would pass.
• Su Mo demonstrated the Soul Power Ball and explained how incorrect power or spinning speed would make it fail.

Su Mo set the academy applicants a second assessment: forming and spinning a stable soul power ball. Ning Rongrong and Feng Xiaotian passed, leaving eight of the ten places open as the other examinees continued trying.

• Su Mo demonstrated a soul power ball and gave the examinees one hour to create their own.
• Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, and Shui Bing'er each tried different approaches, while spectators and powerful onlookers also tested the technique.
• Ning Rongrong formed a seven-colored soul power ball and passed the second assessment.
• Su Mo announced that nine places remained, and Ning Rongrong joined the passed examinees.
• Feng Xiaotian formed a stable cyan soul power ball and passed, leaving eight places as the assessment continued.