Recaps

Ning Fengzhi and the others speculated that the Frost Douluo had stripped and dumped a Titled Douluo at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, unaware Li Pu was responsible. The Shrek Six Monsters concealed Tang San’s father’s identity, while Tang Rat discovered his Soul Rings had all changed to white.

• Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Fengzhi discussed why a naked Titled Douluo had been left at the sect and suspected the Frost Douluo had mistaken him for one of their hidden protectors.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin said the sect would follow the known course of events and continue concealing Xiao Wu’s identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Tang San realized the naked man was his father but stayed silent, while Ning Rongrong hinted at the truth to the Shrek Six Monsters.
• Tang San warned Xiao Wu not to identify the man, and Oscar and the others called him a notorious pervert to make her drop the subject.
• Tang Rat covered himself and found that all his Soul Rings had turned white, then wondered whether Ah Yin was responsible.

Tang Rat discovered that all his Soul Rings had become Ten-Year Soul Rings and asked Tang San what had caused it. After they argued over whether Ah Yin was Tang San’s mother reborn, Tang San urged his father to help him reach the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well for Immortal Herbs.

• Tang Rat told Tang San that all his Soul Rings had shrunk to Ten-Year Soul Rings, but Tang San admitted he did not know why.
• Tang San suspected Ah Yin had used a secret technique to drain the energy from Tang Rat’s Soul Rings, while Tang Rat insisted she was his wife reborn.
• Tang Rat slapped Tang San for speaking against Ah Yin, and Tang San reluctantly agreed that someone else must have caused the change.
• Tang Rat claimed his Soul Bones, Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, and Clear Sky Nine Absolutes still made him invincible.
• Tang San asked Tang Rat to help him reach the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well for Immortal Herbs, and Tang Rat promised to buy him enough time.

Tang San gathered Ning Fengzhi’s covert support and prepared to seize Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, while Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong worried about his intentions and the sect’s future. Tang San departed with Chen Xin, leaving Xiao Wu behind and promising to bring her a gift.

• Ning Fengzhi agreed to support Tang San’s secret operation with one Titled Douluo and three Soul Douluos, while Gu Rong stayed behind to guard the sect.
• After Tang San left, Gu Rong warned Ning Fengzhi about Tang San’s murderous intent, and Ning Fengzhi reflected on the danger to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tang San refused Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Xiao Wu’s requests to accompany him, saying the operation was dangerous and identities had to remain hidden.
• Tang San promised Xiao Wu he would return safely with a gift, then left with Chen Xin, resentful of him.

Tang San and Chen Xin entered the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well hoping to take its Immortal Herbs, but found that someone had dug up every plant. Tang San left furious and resolved to reclaim the herbs from Li Pu.

• Tang Rat blasted open the poisonous fog around the valley, but no guardian appeared.
• Chen Xin led Tang San through the poison formation to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Tang San discovered the valley had been plundered and blamed Li Pu for taking every Immortal Herb.
• Chen Xin persuaded Tang San to leave and plan carefully rather than wait for Li Pu.
• Tang Rat learned the herbs were gone and vowed to tear apart the person who took them.
• Tang San told Tang Rat that the herbs must still be in Li Pu's possession and they only needed to take them back.

Tang San returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect without the Immortal Herbs, telling the Shrek Six Monsters that someone else had taken them all. The group decided to offer that person a godhood in exchange, while Tang San grew confident he could make him hand over the herbs.

• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar eagerly asked Tang San for the Immortal Herbs they had hoped to receive.
• Tang San told the Shrek Six Monsters that every herb at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well was gone.
• Tang San blamed the other man for taking the herbs, and Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai demanded that they get them back.
• Ning Rongrong reminded Dai Mubai that he could trade the Star Luo Empire's terms for his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Oscar proposed promising the other man a godhood in exchange for the Immortal Herbs.
• Tang San agreed and became confident that the other man would obey once he explained who could inherit godhood.

The Shrek Six invited Li Pu to the Heaven Dou Royal Hotel and tried to trade a Third-Level Godhood for the Immortal Herbs. Li Pu rejected their pressure and mocked the offer, leaving the negotiation unresolved.

• Ning Rongrong arranged for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to invite Li Pu to the Heaven Dou Royal Hotel.
• Li Pu told Tang San and the others that each Immortal Herb would cost one hundred million Gold Soul Coins.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun threatened Li Pu, claiming Tang San’s divine backing would ensure terrible consequences if he refused.
• Tang San offered Li Pu a godhood in exchange for all the Immortal Herbs and invited him to become the seventh Shrek Monster.
• Li Pu laughed at Tang San’s offer of a Third-Level Godhood.

Li Pu rejected Tang San and his companions’ demands for the Immortal Herbs, bound them with the Blue Silver Emperor, and claimed he had discarded the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud in a Heaven Dou City latrine. He left after releasing them, while the Shrek Six Monsters were left despairing over their futures without the herbs.

• Li Pu mocked Tang San and his companions’ offer of godhood and insisted that each Immortal Herb cost one hundred million Gold Soul Coins, paid in advance.
• Dai Mubai attacked Li Pu, but Li Pu’s Blue Silver Emperor bound him and the others, shocking Tang San with its power and identity.
• Tang San accused Li Pu of coveting his godhood and the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, while Li Pu said he had thrown the artifact into Heaven Dou City’s biggest cesspit.
• Li Pu repeated his price for the Immortal Herbs, released the group, and left before they could catch him.
• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and the other Shrek Six Monsters despaired over losing their chance to change their fates without the herbs.

Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai lamented losing the Immortal Herbs they needed, and Li Pu returned with an offer to help them form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. He revealed that the herb could be divided into three portions, leaving the group intrigued by his proposal.

• Ma Hongjun pleaded with Tang San to help him find a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, and Tang San suggested finding an Ice-type Spirit Master instead.
• Ning Rongrong recalled that Skywater Academy had an Ice Phoenix Spirit Master, prompting Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai to consider seeking her out.
• Dai Mubai told Ma Hongjun that an Ice Phoenix and a Fire Phoenix might form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Li Pu returned and revealed that the Ice Phoenix Spirit Master was already his, then offered an herb that could let unrelated people form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Tang San realized Li Pu meant for Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to form the skill, and Li Pu confirmed the herb could be divided into three portions.

Li Pu forced Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun to eat an Immortal Herb so they could gain a Three-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill. He made them fuse briefly into the Blue Silver Fire Tiger Chicken, then left them behind.

• Dai Mubai rejected Li Pu's offer to use an Immortal Herb, but Li Pu restrained the Shrek Six Monsters and said he would make the men fuse.
• Li Pu had burly men tickle Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun until they swallowed the mashed fruit he gave them.
• Li Pu forced the three to release their Martial Souls and fuse into a green creature called the Blue Silver Fire Tiger Chicken for two seconds.
• Li Pu left, while Ning Rongrong and Oscar stared at the exhausted Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun and marveled at his strength.

Tang San and the others learned their Martial Soul Fusion Skill was a Three-in-One technique, but they rejected it because they found it humiliating and ugly. After they returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect without Immortal Herbs, Yu Dash discovered the technique and reacted with wild excitement.

• Sword Douluo asked what had happened, and Ning Rongrong explained that the group had formed a Three-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Tang Rat praised the fusion skill, but Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun refused to accept it and Tang San blamed Li Pu for humiliating him.
• Tang Rat insisted that Li Pu was Tang San's mother reborn and slapped Tang San when he denied it.
• Tang San and the others returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect without the Immortal Herbs, and Tang San reassured his friends that ordinary herbs might still help them.
• Yu Dash rushed over after hearing about their Three-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then laughed excitedly while staring at Tang San.

Yu Dash forced Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun to train a Three-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill, arguing that repeated fusion would bind them together and help Shrek compete without Zhu Zhuqing and the Immortal Herbs. Meanwhile, Alison and Zhu Zhuqing traveled in disguise toward Heaven Dou City, Zhu Zhuyun followed them there, and Qian Renxue's scheme against Xue Ye succeeded.

• Yu Dash made Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun repeatedly perform their Three-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill to improve its compatibility, despite their reluctance.
• Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar encouraged the trio, and Yu Dash assigned them continuous fusion practice to sustain the Blue Lust Fire Tiger Vulture longer.
• Alison and Zhu Zhuqing headed toward Heaven Dou City in disguise while evading the Xingluo Empire, and Zhu Zhuyun continued there after learning Shrek Academy had moved.
• Qian Renxue found a seductive but innocent woman in Slaughter City and arranged for Xue Beng to present her to Xue Ye, draining the emperor within three days.

After Emperor Xue Ye died, Prince Xue Xing planned to use Xue Beng to accuse Xue Qinghe and seize the throne. Xue Qinghe learned of their plot and ordered them eliminated, then wondered whether Xue Ke could be spared.

• Emperor Xue Ye died after Xue Beng presented him with a beautiful woman, leaving Xue Beng looking like the main suspect.
• Xue Beng sought help from Prince Xue Xing, who urged him to blame Xue Qinghe and pursue the throne.
• Prince Xue Xing privately resolved to reclaim the throne and treat Xue Beng as his tool.
• A spy in Prince Xue Xing's Mansion recorded their conversation and sent it to Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Qinghe and Li Pu discussed eliminating Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng, and Xue Qinghe ordered someone to take care of them.
• Xue Qinghe asked whether Xue Ke could be spared from the political danger surrounding the royal family.

After Emperor Xue Ye died, Qian Renxue took the throne of the Heaven Dou Empire and eliminated Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng. Tang San and the Shrek Six Monsters debated how to respond, and Tang San proposed supporting a different branch of the Xue Family.

• Qian Renxue spared Xue Ke, but Guang Ling set out on a mission with his silent, invisible arrows.
• Qian Renxue brought Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng under control, concealed Emperor Xue Ye’s cause of death, and inherited the throne as Xue Qinghe.
• Tang San learned that Emperor Xue Ye, Prince Xue Xing, and Xue Beng had died, and he wondered whether Li Pu had helped Qian Renxue seize power early.
• Tang San suggested helping Ning Rongrong’s father become emperor, but Ning Rongrong warned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect lacked funds and faced powerful opponents.
• Tang San asked whether the Xue Family had other male heirs and proposed supporting a distant branch of the family for the throne.

Tang San and the Shrek monsters decided to wait for the conflict between Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong to create an opening, while Dai Mubai asked Tang San to help him unify the continent. Meanwhile, Xiao Wu left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect alone and walked into a trap set by the Heaven Dou Slave Hunter Group.

• Ning Rongrong warned Tang San and the others that they lacked the strength and resources to oppose Qian Renxue.
• Tang San argued that Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong would not unite the continent until their conflict was resolved, leaving the group time to prepare.
• Dai Mubai asked Tang San to help him become emperor and unify the continent, and Tang San agreed.
• Xiao Wu left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after feeling excluded and went to Heaven Dou City.
• The Heaven Dou Slave Hunter Group targeted Xiao Wu and staged a scene in which thugs bullied an old woman and her daughter-in-law.
• Xiao Wu rushed over and shouted at the thugs to let the old woman go.

Xiao Wu was tricked by traffickers after she intervened to save two women, then drugged and sold to the Heaven Dou Royal Auction House. She woke in a cage with other children, realizing she had been betrayed and enslaved, while Li Pu had watched without intervening.

• Xiao Wu defeated three men who were staging an assault, then agreed to escort the old woman and her daughter-in-law home.
• The two women gained Xiao Wu's trust, learned about her strength and connections, and gave her drugged water.
• Xiao Wu fainted, and the traffickers transported her to the Heaven Dou Royal Auction House and sold her.
• Xiao Wu woke in an iron cage among other enslaved children and learned she had been sold.
• Xiao Wu recognized the women had betrayed her and struggled against the cage, while an auction house employee mocked her.

Xiao Wu was captured and taken to an auction house, where Director Wang tried to break her resistance and prepare her for sale. After Xiao Wu refused to cooperate, Director Wang had her locked alone in a dark room, leaving her frightened and longing for her brother.

• Xiao Wu was deceived, captured, and imprisoned with other girls who had been starved before sale.
• Director Wang learned that Xiao Wu had the Soft Bone Charm Rabbit Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, then came to inspect her.
• Xiao Wu insulted Director Wang and refused food, so Director Wang ordered that she be isolated in a dark room.
• Xiao Wu began to struggle with fear and loneliness on her first day in the room while Director Wang planned to keep her imprisoned for at least three days.

The Black Armor Army seized control of the Heaven Dou Royal Auction House and arrested Director Wang along with its staff and guests. Li Pu freed Xiao Wu, who chose to follow him to take revenge on the people who had mistreated her.

• The Black Armor Army surrounded the auction house, captured Director Wang, and gathered the staff, attendants, and nobles in the auction hall.
• The soldiers beat nobles who resisted until everyone submitted.
• Li Pu opened Xiao Wu’s confinement and told her she could go home.
• Xiao Wu clung to Li Pu and asked him to be her big brother, but he brushed her off and gave her only a little food after she nearly collapsed.
• Xiao Wu questioned whether Li Pu was good or bad, then decided to follow him as he went to deal with the people who had hurt her.

Li Pu took control of the Heaven Dou Auction House and announced that the ban on slavery would be strictly enforced. After Director Wang challenged him, Li Pu had him killed and declared that everyone involved in the slave trade would be punished.

• Li Pu confronted the nobles and auction house staff, saying the auction house would follow new rules and that disobedience would cost them their lives.
• When the nobles assumed Li Pu had come to rescue Xiao Wu, he said she was incidental and that he intended to address the slave trade.
• Li Pu rejected warnings that the slave trade was too profitable to challenge and declared that anyone who broke the ban would lose their head.
• Director Wang argued that Li Pu was too young to make such a decision, so a Black Armor Guard killed him on Li Pu's order.
• Li Pu announced that the slavery ban would be strictly enforced and that people involved in slave hunting, training slaves, or trading them would not be spared.

Li Pu explained to Xiao Wu how the auction house’s female staff had been enslaved and why helping them would take time, while promising to get them out. Xiao Wu reconsidered her Shrek friends’ treatment of women and decided to distance herself from Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, though she wondered whether Xiao San had noticed she was missing.

• Li Pu warned the nobles that the new laws would end their exploitation of slaves, and they left after agreeing to comply.
• Li Pu told Xiao Wu that the auction house’s female staff had been bought as children, conditioned through abuse, and treated as commodities.
• Li Pu explained that helping the women would require patiently rebuilding their trust and giving them support, while many imprisoned girls feared being sold again by their families.
• Xiao Wu reflected that Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun treated women as resources and said she would avoid them and tell Xiao San to stay away.
• Xiao Wu wondered whether Xiao San had come looking for her, and Li Pu suggested he might still be with the others performing the Three-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Tang San and the Shrek monsters realized Xiao Wu had disappeared and rushed to Heaven Dou City, suspecting Li Pu had taken her. Meanwhile, Li Pu warned Xiao Wu about the dangers of trusting people, leaving her shaken by the possibility that even her friends might betray her.

• Tang San learned Xiao Wu had left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and worried that her identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast could put her in danger.
• Ning Rongrong secretly welcomed Xiao Wu's absence, while the Shrek monsters suspected Li Pu had gone after her.
• Tang San and the others set off for Heaven Dou City to find Xiao Wu and confront Li Pu.
• Xiao Wu stayed by Li Pu's side as they walked through the city, and he dismissed her complaints about his lack of attention.
• Li Pu cautioned Xiao Wu that strangers and even friends could conceal harmful intentions, leaving her frightened and questioning whom she could trust.

Xiao Wu reunited with her friends after Li Pu protected her from being sold, but Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Tang San attacked Li Pu and were publicly whipped by his Blue Silver Emperor. Li Pu left after teaching them a lesson, while a beautiful woman rushed to Dai Mubai’s side.

• Xiao Wu refused to return to her friends until Tang San and the others found her, and she told them Li Pu had saved her from being sold.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun accused Li Pu and attacked him, so he restrained them with Blue Silver Emperor vines and whipped them.
• Tang San fired a Silent Sleeve Arrow at Li Pu, who dodged and then hung Tang San up and whipped him as well.
• Ning Rongrong, Oscar, and Xiao Wu pleaded for Li Pu to release the three, but he continued until they were bloody and barely conscious.
• Li Pu told the three their injuries were a lesson and left, while a beautiful woman rushed to comfort Dai Mubai.

Zhu Zhuyun arrived in place of Zhu Zhuqing and said she had broken with Dai Weisi and wanted to be with Dai Mubai. Dai Mubai welcomed the idea, believing the Star Luo Imperial Family would accept it, while Zhu Zhuyun began to suspect that the others had also been reborn.

• Zhu Zhuyun corrected Dai Mubai when he mistook her for Zhu Zhuqing, then asked who had injured him and the others.
• Xiao Wu and Oscar explained that Li Pu, Xue Qinghe's son and the Heaven Dou Empire's First Prince, had beaten them, and the group went to a Healing-type Spirit Master for treatment.
• Dai Mubai asked why Zhu Zhuyun had come, and she said the Star Luo Empire scandal had caused her to fall out with Dai Weisi.
• Zhu Zhuyun announced that she wanted to break off her engagement with Dai Weisi and be with Dai Mubai, and he considered the match a way to strengthen his chances of victory.
• Ning Rongrong questioned whether the Star Luo Empire would object, while Dai Mubai said his Three-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill gave the family reason to turn a blind eye.
• Ma Hongjun praised Zhu Zhuyun over Zhu Zhuqing, prompting Zhu Zhuyun to suspect that he and the others might have been reborn.

Xiao Wu confronted Tang San and the others over their belief that women without power were merely resources, and she grew disillusioned with them. As she tried to leave, Tang San prepared to stop her while Li Pu watched nearby.

• Zhu Zhuyun asked Dai Mubai to accept her, and he eagerly drew her into his arms.
• Xiao Wu condemned Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar for opposing Li Pu’s plan to shut down brothels and for treating women as resources.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San and Ning Rongrong what they thought of women, but they defended their views and avoided answering what they would have thought if she had become a slave or courtesan.
• Disappointed by their answers, Xiao Wu left, and Tang San panicked and prepared to stop her.
• Li Pu watched nearby as Xiao Wu challenged the prevailing belief that status, power, and strength determined who counted as a person.

After taking the throne, Xue Qinghe rejected calls to take consorts and announced that he would abolish slavery in the Heaven Dou Empire. He faced fierce opposition but threatened to replace officials who would not carry out the reform, while Ning Fengzhi listened to his proposed transition.

• On his first day as emperor, Xue Qinghe refused to rush into taking consorts and announced plans to abolish slavery as Li Pu had requested.
• Civil and military officials opposed the decree, arguing that freeing slaves would threaten nobles and destabilize the empire.
• Zhao Tele and other officials placed by Qian Renxue defended Xue Qinghe and urged the court to implement his reforms.
• Xue Qinghe warned opponents to carry out the reforms or resign, then asked Ning Fengzhi to support his vision for a new era.
• Xue Qinghe explained a transition from slavery to a landlord system, and some officials resigned while Ning Fengzhi recognized its benefits for landlords and servants.

Xue Qinghe used new laws and military reforms to strengthen imperial authority, abolish slavery, and crush a nobles’ rebellion. He then ordered brothels and gambling dens closed across the empire, leaving Ning Fengzhi suspecting that Spirit Hall had infiltrated Heaven Dou’s government.

• Xue Qinghe warned officials that the new laws would not be applied retroactively, but demanded they reform their conduct.
• Xue Qinghe purged old nobles from the military, appointed his own officers, and strengthened the throne with common-born talent and marginal factions.
• Nobles rebelled against Xue Qinghe’s reforms, but his army quickly crushed them and executed many powerful nobles.
• Xue Qinghe decreed that brothels and gambling dens be shut down and that officials involved in prostitution or drugs be barred from government service.
• Authorities across the empire swiftly enforced the crackdown, prompting Ning Fengzhi to suspect that Spirit Hall had infiltrated Heaven Dou’s government.