Recaps

After Soul Beasts vanished, Su Mo developed a way to condense Soul Rings and began creating new abilities while traveling with Xiao Wu. Yu Xiaogang joined Spirit Hall to lead research into replacement Soul Rings, and Tang Hao set out to find Xiao Wu after fearing Ah Yin had died.

• The gods failed to explain the Soul Beasts’ overnight extinction, while Su Mo learned his Broken Sword Martial Soul and the system’s Self-Created Soul Skill feature might help him advance without Soul Beasts.
• Su Mo discovered Xiao Wu’s identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and asked her to teach him how she condensed a Soul Ring, then used her experience to develop the Ring Condensation Technique.
• As Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire confirmed the extinction, Tang Hao found Ah Yin’s hidden body gone, and Xiao Wu returned from the empty Lake of Life grieving for Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Su Mo created a Soul Power Cultivation Technique, condensed his own Soul Ring, reached level eleven, and gained Broken Sword Instant Kill as his first Self-Created Soul Skill.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu left Nuoding City to seek battles and Soul Masters to study, while Yu Xiaogang accepted Bibi Dong’s invitation to join the Soul Master Creation Institute with Tang San.
• Su Mo merged his Martial Soul’s energy into a Refined Iron Longsword, created Soul Weapon Fusion, and discovered that the fusion let his Martial Soul absorb the sword’s essence and evolve.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived at the Creation Institute and proposed stable Soul Rings without embedded Soul Skills, so Bibi Dong appointed him its head and announced Spirit Hall’s research effort.
• Tang Hao learned that Soul Beasts had exploded and their rings had faded, feared Ah Yin had perished, and rushed to Nuoding City to check whether Xiao Wu was safe.

While Su Mo and Xiao Wu grew stronger in hiding, Yu Xiaogang’s Creation Institute failed to solve the Soul Ring crisis. Su Mo revealed his Ring Condensation Technique publicly and invited the continent’s factions to Spirit City, where they prepared to seek it.

• Tang Hao learned that Tang San had gone with Yu Xiaogang to Spirit City, then chose not to storm Spirit Hall and risk exposing his son.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu explored the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, claimed its Immortal Herbs, and gained powerful abilities, while Yu Xiaogang’s gathering of Titled Douluo produced no solution.
• Ten years passed with Soul Masters trapped at cultivation bottlenecks, while Su Mo and Xiao Wu reached Soul Saint rank and Su Mo believed he could condense a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Su Mo decided to reveal the Ring Condensation Technique after learning that someone had created and killed an animal Soul Beast to obtain a Soul Ring.
• Su Mo demonstrated his self-condensed Soul Rings to the Suotuo City Spirit Hall Bishop, prompting Bibi Dong to summon Yu Xiaogang and send Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to invite Su Mo to Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong offered to credit Yu Xiaogang with the technique and suppress news of Su Mo’s success, and Yu Xiaogang accepted her order.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu drew a crowd at the Great Soul Arena, fought to a draw, and Su Mo announced that he would reveal the complete technique at Spirit Hall.
• Tang Xiao prepared to travel to Spirit City with Clear Sky Sect members, while Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong about the technique and she asked him to escort Su Mo.

Su Mo publicly revealed his Ring Condensation Technique, then disappeared with Xiao Wu and entered Slaughter City, where he captured Tang Hao in his Void Space. Meanwhile, Lin Yue’s Soul Beast Catalyzing Technique further humbled Yu Xiaogang, and Bibi Dong ordered rumors spread about Xiao Wu’s identity.

• Bibi Dong invited the continent’s powers to Spirit City, where Su Mo demonstrated the Ring Condensation Technique and helped three Soul Masters condense rings.
• Bibi Dong accused Xiao Wu of being a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, but Su Mo and the gathered sect leaders challenged her evidence, and she apologized.
• Su Mo refused offers to join the major sects and left with Xiao Wu, while Yu Xiaogang learned that Tang San’s Internal Energy Methods had influenced Su Mo’s technique.
• Tang San failed to reproduce Su Mo’s method and chose to develop his own, while Lin Yue announced that he could catalyze Soul Beasts, devastating Yu Xiaogang with the news.
• Su Mo and Xiao Wu traveled to Slaughter City, learned that Soul Ring Soul Skills were restricted there, and began fighting in the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Tang Hao recognized Xiao Wu and demanded news of Ah Yin, so Su Mo took Ah Yin’s Soul Bone, deceived Tang Hao, and trapped him in the Void Space.
• Su Mo kept Tang Hao imprisoned and provoked him to use Ring Detonation, while he and Xiao Wu continued fighting in Slaughter City.
• Bibi Dong learned that Su Mo and Xiao Wu had evaded Spirit Hall’s spies and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to spread rumors about Xiao Wu’s identity while concealing Spirit Hall’s role.

Su Mo prepared to establish an academy teaching Self-Created Soul Skills while rumors about Bibi Dong and Qian Xunji shook Spirit Hall. After killing Tang Hao and demonstrating his copied techniques, Su Mo opened admissions and selected ten students through a comprehension test.

• Rumors about Xiao Wu and the Ring Condensation Technique spread across the continent, and Su Mo decided to establish an academy to teach Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Su Mo spread scandalous notices about Bibi Dong, Yu Xiaogang, and Qian Xunji, prompting Qian Renxue to confront Bibi Dong and leave after rejecting any hope of maternal love.
• Su Mo sparred with Chen Xin at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, gained Ning Fengzhi’s support for his academy, and learned Chen Xin’s sword techniques.
• Bibi Dong restricted the tournament to participants no stronger than Soul Saints, and Ning Fengzhi publicized Su Mo Academy and its plan to recruit ten gifted students.
• Su Mo challenged Tang Hao, copied the Great Sumeru Hammer and Ring Detonation, then killed Tang Hao and researched his Soul Bones.
• Su Mo Academy opened enrollment in Seven Treasure City, where Su Mo displayed his Soul Rings and Self-Created Soul Skills before Tang Xiao and Salas, including the Great Sumeru Slash.
• Tang Xiao accused Su Mo of stealing the Clear Sky Sect’s inheritance, but Sword Douluo and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect supported Su Mo, and Tang Xiao withdrew.
• Su Mo disqualified Ma Hongjun and Oscar after Ma Hongjun provoked another applicant, then tested candidates on forming Soul Power Balls and selected ten students, including Dugu Yan.