Recaps

Xue Qinghe abolished brothels and freed enslaved women, offering them factory training and work as part of his reforms. Li Pu continued treating and employing the women while driving Heaven Dou toward industrialization, with Lou Gao identified as crucial to that effort.

• Ning Fengzhi feared Spirit Hall’s influence in the Heaven Dou Empire, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect chose to cooperate with Xue Qinghe’s reforms to preserve its independence.
• Soldiers raided brothels and courtesans’ houses, executed their proprietors, and freed the women by returning their contracts and slave papers.
• A young soldier told the freed women that Xue Qinghe would prioritize them for factory training and jobs under the new laws.
• The women tore up their papers and washed away their slave marks, while women across the empire welcomed the abolition of brothels.
• Li Pu treated women who were ill and arranged factory work for them in light industries such as food production, textiles, and papermaking.
• Li Pu recognized Lou Gao as essential to industrializing the empire and recalled that he had invited him from Gengxin City.

Li Pu guided Xue Qinghe’s reforms with new technology, expanded education, and a campaign to confiscate nobles’ estates, using firearms to crush their resistance. After Qian Renxue questioned what else he intended to change, Li Pu proposed taking on land ownership.

• Li Pu shared industrial designs with Lou Gao, whose craftsmen developed new machines for factories and industry.
• Li Pu promoted large-scale agriculture and established Commoner Academies for boys and girls.
• Xue Qinghe began confiscating nobles’ estates to fund reforms, and Li Pu’s armed forces used cannons and firearms to defeat the nobles’ resistance.
• Qian Renxue spoke with Li Pu about the reforms, and he asked whether she dared to take on the land.

Li Pu urged Qian Renxue to make land state-owned and redistribute its use to commoners, arguing that noble control of food and land kept the people impoverished. Qian Renxue recognized the reform would strike at the nobles’ deepest interests, and the chapter ended with her quietly repeating Li Pu’s vision of a world where everyone could become a dragon.

• Li Pu explained how noble control of land and food left commoners vulnerable to hunger, taxes, and disaster.
• Qian Renxue recalled how Heaven Dou Empire nobles had ignored disaster victims, seized their land, and offered them moldy grain and animal fodder.
• Li Pu argued that making land state-owned and invalidating exploitative sales would secure food and weaken noble power.
• Li Pu told Qian Renxue that a worthy emperor should let everyone live with dignity and build an age where everyone could become a dragon.
• Qian Renxue murmured, “Everyone can become a dragon?”

Li Pu persuaded Qian Renxue that people could thrive through many different paths, then helped her plan reforms for the Heaven Dou Empire. When Xue Qinghe announced that all private land would be taken into state ownership, the ministers erupted in protest, but he threatened to crush any rebellion.

• Li Pu told Qian Renxue that everyone could find a way to shine and urged her to take responsibility for governing the empire.
• Qian Renxue agreed to carry out Li Pu's plans while he declined to become emperor.
• A few days later, Xue Qinghe summoned the ministers and announced that private land ownership would be abolished and all land reclaimed by the state.
• The ministers warned that the policy would provoke nobles, unrest, and rebellion, while some newly appointed officials were also stunned.
• Xue Qinghe dismissed their objections and threatened to use his forces and modern weapons against anyone who rebelled.
• The ministers appealed to Sect Master Ning of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to speak up.

Xue Qinghe pushed through the abolition of private land ownership and plans for a nationwide road network, promising that a new economic system would create prosperity. As resistance grew, nobles turned to the powerful Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and offered it rule over the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Ning Fengzhi supported Xue Qinghe’s reforms, and Xue Qinghe explained how new jobs and higher wages would benefit the nobles as the economy grew.
• Xue Qinghe ordered a nationwide road network and said confiscated noble wealth would pay for construction.
• Xue Qinghe brought nobles and merchants to tour factories and new transportation systems, encouraging state-owned and private industries to develop together.
• Nobles resisted surrendering their extensive lands, especially the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, which controlled a vast territory.
• Nobles gathered at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and offered to recognize it as their overlord and ruler of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Angered by Xue Qinghe’s reforms, the nobles urged Yu Yuanzhen to overthrow the Xue Family and become emperor. Yu Yuanzhen publicly refused but accepted their staged proclamation, leaving him seated in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s hall as the nobles hailed him as emperor.

• The nobles complained that Xue Qinghe’s reforms threatened their interests and persuaded Yu Yuanzhen to consider taking the throne.
• Yu Yuanzhen claimed he would not betray the Heaven Dou Empire, while the nobles dismissed the threats posed by Xue Qinghe’s powerful allies.
• Yu Yuanzhen’s son, Yu Leiming, explained that his father needed the nobles to prove their support and provide a respectable excuse for the takeover.
• The nobles prepared a dragon robe and gold-painted throne, then carried Yu Yuanzhen into the clan’s great hall.
• Yu Yuanzhen protested as the nobles dressed him in the robe and proclaimed him emperor, but he smiled and thanked Xue Qinghe for alienating them.

Yu Yuanzhen sought Ning Fengzhi’s support for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s plan to depose the Xue Family and take control of the Heaven Dou Empire. Ning Fengzhi weighed the offer against the danger of disrupting the fragile balance of power and said he could not support Yu Yuanzhen.

• Yu Yuanzhen relied on the nobles’ backing as he prepared to challenge the Xue Family’s rule of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Yu Yuanzhen visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and asked Ning Fengzhi to abandon the Xue Family.
• Yu Yuanzhen offered to preserve the sect’s standing and even let Ning Fengzhi become emperor if the sect supported the coup.
• Ning Fengzhi dismissed the servants and told Yu Yuanzhen that he could not support him.

Ning Fengzhi warned Yu Yuanzhen that Spirit Hall had infiltrated the Heaven Dou Empire and urged him not to attack, but Yu refused to believe him and left to pursue his plan. Tang San decided not to save the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, leaving Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin unable to prevent its likely destruction.

• Ning Fengzhi told Yu Yuanzhen that Spirit Hall had infiltrated the Heaven Dou Empire, but Yu accused him of inventing the story and rejected his warning.
• Yu Yuanzhen left, insisting that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would act without Ning Fengzhi's support.
• Ning Fengzhi told Chen Xin what had happened, and they worried that the clan would be unable to survive a confrontation with Qian Renxue's forces.
• Tang San said the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan could face its fate and argued that its attack might weaken Qian Renxue's plans.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin could not find a way to stop the clan from acting, since Yu Yuanzhen would not believe their warning.

Qian Renxue learned that Yu Yuanzhen and allied nobles had rebelled, and she planned to use the uprising to display the empire’s weapons and crush her opponents. Yu Yuanzhen’s forces surrounded the palace and prepared to storm it, but the gates opened amid raging fires, leaving the rebels convinced their people had secured the way inside.

• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed whether the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could help the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but decided they could not risk intervening.
• Qian Renxue learned that the great nobles and Marshal Ge Long had joined the rebellion, and she and Li Pu planned to use the conflict to demonstrate their weapons and eliminate the disobedient factions.
• Yu Yuanzhen gathered nearly a thousand Battle Soul Masters and troops around Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, while learning that Dugu Bo and Frost Douluo were away.
• Yu Luoguan warned Yu Yuanzhen that the palace was suspiciously quiet, but Yu Yuanzhen dismissed his concerns and insisted the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would prevail.
• The palace erupted in flames and its gates slowly opened, prompting a noble to urge Yu Yuanzhen to enter and overthrow Xue Qinghe.

Xue Qinghe faced Yu Yuanzhen and the rebellious nobles in the palace plaza, where his forces unleashed explosive buns and firearms against them. The rebels were routed, and Xue Qinghe asked the shaken nobles what they thought.

• Yu Yuanzhen led the nobles and their troops into the palace to overthrow Xue Qinghe.
• Xue Qinghe confronted the rebels in the plaza, while Ge Long demanded that he abdicate and Luo Yang denounced the traitors.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered an attack, and Luo Yang’s soldiers threw explosive buns that killed and wounded the advancing rebels.
• Xue Qinghe ordered his soldiers to fire their new weapons, cutting down the rebels and routing their forces across the palace.
• Xue Qinghe calmly asked the terrified nobles what they thought.

Xue Qinghe crushed the nobles’ rebellion with devastating weapons and revealed that he had anticipated Yu Yuanzhen’s plans. Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders confronted him, but an overwhelming presence froze them and left Yu Yuanzhen fearing his clan’s destruction.

• Xue Qinghe’s new weapon killed the nobles’ men, but Yu Yuanzhen dismissed its threat to high-ranked Spirit Masters and ordered them to attack.
• Xue Qinghe’s low-ranked Spirit Masters unleashed the Blazing Yang Spring, which burned through the Soul Saints’ defenses and killed them.
• Yu Yuanzhen accused Xue Qinghe of having spies, while Xue Qinghe said he had prepared after the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan joined the rebels before.
• The nobles knelt to Yu Yuanzhen and urged him to execute Xue Qinghe, so Yu Yuanzhen summoned the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s elders and core fighters.
• An immense pressure descended and immobilized Yu Yuanzhen and the dragons, making Yu Yuanzhen fear that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was finished.

After the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s rebellion was crushed, Ning Fengzhi prepared the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for possible danger, while Yu Xiaogang vowed revenge through Tang San. Xue Qinghe spared the surviving clan members under a new policy, but stripped them of their property and status.

• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s destruction, and Ning Fengzhi decided to hide some disciples as a precaution.
• Yu Xiaogang learned that Yu Yuanzhen and the clan had been killed, then vowed to destroy Xue Qinghe and looked to Tang San for revenge.
• Tang San promised Yu Xiaogang that he would overthrow Xue Qinghe and bring the world peace.
• News of the clan’s defeat spread, and people speculated that Xue Qinghe had joined forces with Spirit Hall.
• Li Pu told Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, and the surviving disciples that they would not be punished for their relatives’ crimes, but the empire had confiscated the clan’s property and they would have to rebuild their lives themselves.

Li Pu tested the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan survivors after assuring them that the new policy would spare them. He tormented the children with a rigged game in which every answer meant they must not be spared, leaving them terrified and helpless.

• Some Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan children threatened revenge, prompting their elders to scold them and plead with Li Pu for mercy.
• Li Pu reassured the women that the children would not be implicated under the new policy and invited the children to speak honestly.
• Li Pu offered the children candy and a small knife, declaring that choosing either option meant they must not be spared.
• The boy tried choosing both and then neither, but Li Pu called each choice another reason to kill him.
• A little girl chose Li Pu himself, and Li Pu twisted her answer into yet another reason she must not be spared.

Li Pu spared the surviving Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan members and appointed Yu Luomian as their new leader, warning him to obey the Heaven Dou Empire’s policies. The clanspeople were sent to Thunder Academy, while Yu Tianheng stayed at Heaven Dou Royal Academy as a self-appointed hostage, unaware that someone else had noticed him.

• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin pledged to follow the Heaven Dou Empire’s new policies, and Li Pu allowed them to continue studying.
• Black Armor soldiers brought in Yu Luomian, the only surviving member of the clan’s high command, and Li Pu warned him against mistreating women under the new policies.
• Li Pu appointed Yu Luomian clan leader and ordered him to lead the surviving clanspeople at Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Yu Luomian told Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin to thank the new policy, and the brothers and children complied.
• Most of the clanspeople went to Thunder Academy in Elemental City, while Yu Tianheng stayed at Heaven Dou Royal Academy as a self-appointed hostage and drew someone else’s attention.

Yu Dash visited Yu Tianheng and persuaded him that Xue Qinghe’s policies threatened the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, then recruited him for the team he hoped would win the next Spirit Master Tournament. Yu Tianheng transferred from Heaven Dou Royal Academy to Seven Treasure Academy, despite the academy staff’s reluctance to let him go.

• Yu Dash visited Yu Tianheng at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Yu Tianheng welcomed his uncle and invited him to return to the clan.
• Yu Dash warned Yu Tianheng that Xue Qinghe’s policies would weaken the empire and framed the clan’s rebellion as an effort to set things right.
• Yu Dash proposed training Yu Tianheng for his monster team, but Yu Tianheng said he had chosen to remain at the academy as a sign of loyalty to the royal family.
• Yu Dash assured Yu Tianheng that he could transfer to Seven Treasure Academy, and Yu Tianheng agreed.
• Yu Tianheng completed his transfer to Seven Treasure Academy, while Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s senior staff regretted losing him.

Yu Tianheng joined the Shrek Team at Seven Treasure Academy, where the members welcomed him and discussed their tournament prospects. Yu Dash began training the team by ordering them all to run five laps around the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect without using Soul Power.

• Yu Tianheng joined the Shrek Team after transferring to Seven Treasure Academy, and the members welcomed him as their new teammate.
• Ning Rongrong told the team that Princess Xue Ke would compete for the Heaven Dou Empire with an evolved Emerald Swan Martial Soul.
• Yu Tianheng chose the nickname Thunder Dragon, and Yu Dash praised the team’s mix of dragon, tiger, and phoenix Martial Souls.
• Yu Dash warned Yu Tianheng that he would train him especially hard despite their family ties, and Yu Tianheng agreed.
• Yu Dash ordered Yu Tianheng and the rest of the Shrek members to run five laps around the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect without using Soul Power.

Li Pu recruited Zhu Zhuqing to join the Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Imperial Heaven Team 1 and train to defeat her former Shrek companions. He gave her a special flower containing the essence of a Spirit Master, which she swallowed before beginning to meditate.

• After Yu Tianheng left, Li Pu arranged for Zhu Zhuqing to join the Imperial Heaven Team 1.
• Li Pu told Zhu Zhuqing he wanted her to defeat the Shrek Seven Devils, and she agreed after he promised to train her.
• Li Pu explained that the exotic flower could serve as a medium for combining a person’s life force, soul, and Martial Soul.
• Zhu Zhuqing swallowed the flower and began meditating as Li Pu revealed he had condensed a Spirit Master’s essence into it.

Zhu Zhuqing evolved her Hell Spirit Cat by absorbing the Evil Eye White Tiger, reversing their Martial Soul Fusion Skill’s master-servant relationship. She joined the Imperial Fighting Team while Li Pu prepared for the tournament, and Tang San reached Level 30 to hunt for an External Soul Bone.

• Zhu Zhuqing refined the strange flower, and her Hell Spirit Cat swallowed the Evil Eye White Tiger to evolve into the Evil Eye Spirit Cat.
• Li Pu told Zhu Zhuqing that the Star Luo Imperial Family had supposedly killed an ancestor of the Zhu Family to hide the secret of reversing the Martial Soul Fusion Skill’s master-servant roles.
• Li Pu arranged for Zhu Zhuqing to replace Yu Tianheng on the Imperial Fighting Team’s first team, where she trained and fought in Soul Fighting Arena death matches under a concealed identity.
• Tang San reached Level 30 and set out to hunt for the External Soul Bone Pig Hair Plucking.

Tang San and the others traveled toward the Star Dou Forest, hoping to recreate the events that would lead him to the Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Bone. At a hotel, Shrek provoked and defeated Canghui Academy, but a masked woman’s intervention and Dai Mubai’s offer to recruit her changed the expected scene.

• Tang San, Oscar, and Xiao Wu had reached level thirty, and Tang San planned to obtain his External Soul Bone by following the events of his previous life.
• Tang San and the others set out for the Star Dou Forest under the protection of a Soul Douluo and several Soul Saints, taking a detour to the same hotel as before.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai insulted Canghui Academy, and Dai Mubai provoked its students into a fight.
• Shrek’s group beat Canghui Academy, with Zhu Zhuyun and Yu Tianheng present in place of some members from the original events.
• A masked woman stepped in and demanded to know which academy Shrek belonged to, and Dai Mubai offered her a place at Shrek Academy.

The Shrek Seven Devils clashed with the Masked Girl and Blue Sunshine Academy after Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun were seriously injured by hidden weapons. The confrontation left Shrek unable to intimidate their opponents with imperial or sect connections.

• The Masked Girl cut Dai Mubai's trousers with a blade in her shoe, while a hidden-weapon attack struck Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun in their lower bodies.
• Tang San and Oscar treated Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, but the injuries left them unable to function normally, and Tang San prepared to retaliate.
• Xiao Wu blamed Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun for their behavior toward women, while Ning Rongrong refused to help them and Zhu Zhuyun defended Dai Mubai.
• The Masked Girl and another student mocked Shrek's threats, saying they were unafraid of the Star Luo Empire or the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• The Shrek companions realized Blue Sunshine Academy had formidable backing, while Tang Rat watched from the shadows.

Ning Rongrong hesitated to provoke the Masked Girl’s mysterious faction, while Tang San tried and failed to force a bet before attacking her. When his Blue Silver Grass was suppressed without the Masked Girl revealing her Martial Soul, Tang San speculated that she might be a powerful plant being and considered refining her.

• Ning Rongrong questioned whether the Masked Girl truly knew the Sect Master, and the Masked Girl warned her against making a powerful enemy for Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun.
• Xiao Wu stopped Ning Rongrong from helping Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, while Tang San argued that the Masked Girl had gone too far.
• Tang San proposed a one-on-one bet, but the Masked Girl refused and mocked his childish wager.
• Tang San attacked the Masked Girl with Blue Silver Grass, but his Martial Soul went limp and was suppressed by her unseen power.
• Tang San wondered whether the Masked Girl was a Child of Nature or another powerful plant being, and considered absorbing her.
• The Masked Girl dismissed Tang San’s demand to reveal her Martial Soul.

Tang San tried to learn the Masked Girl’s Martial Souls and the source of her Silent Sleeve Arrows after forcing Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to apologize. She left without answering, and Tang San decided he could find another way to make her reveal her Martial Soul.

• Tang San made Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun apologize to the Blue Sunshine Academy students and the girls they had insulted.
• The Masked Girl accepted their apologies and left with her companions while Ye Zhiqiu took the injured students to find a Healing-type Spirit Master.
• Tang San pressed the Masked Girl about her Martial Souls and Silent Sleeve Arrows, but she said the weapons were for sale and denied knowing the Tang Sect.
• The Masked Girl left, and Tang San resolved to force her Martial Soul to come out through a suitable opponent.
• Xiao Wu asked whether Tang San had taken a liking to the Masked Girl, and he denied it by claiming he was curious about unknown Martial Souls.

Tang Rat chased the Masked Girl after suspecting she threatened Tang San, but her Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul and attacks convinced him she was his wife, Ah Yin. The Masked Girl escaped, leaving Tang Rat to tell Tang San that his mother had returned.

• Xiao Wu accepted Yu Dash's explanation for investigating the unknown and wondered whether he was the Child of Nature.
• Tang Rat disguised himself as a filthy robber and blocked the Masked Girl and her companion, intending to discover her Martial Soul.
• The Masked Girl tripped Tang Rat with Blue Silver Grass, and he recognized her Martial Soul as a Blue Silver Emperor.
• The Masked Girl struck Tang Rat with a giant fist after a Blue Silver Grass strand caused him severe pain, sending him crashing into Piggy.
• The Masked Girl escaped while Tang Rat beat Piggy to death and concluded that the woman was Ah Yin.
• Tang Rat told Tang San that the Masked Girl was his mother, but Tang San doubted his claim and wondered whether Tang Hao had lost his mind.

Tang San failed to find the mysterious Blue Silver Grass user and continued following the original events in the Star Dou Forest, while Li Pu’s group intercepted the Titan Giant Ape and forced it to agree to take human form by threatening Xiao Wu. The Titan Giant Ape agreed, hoping Li Pu would keep his word.

• Tang San learned that the woman with the superior Blue Silver Grass had disappeared and decided to seek the Eight Spider Lances instead.
• Tang San’s group found the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, competed with Meng Yiran over it, and took the dead Soul Beast with them.
• Dai Mubai asked Tang San about the Titan Giant Ape taking Xiao Wu, and Tang San planned to use the encounter to find the Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Li Pu and several Super Douluos blocked the Titan Giant Ape as it hurried to find Xiao Wu.
• Li Pu threatened Xiao Wu’s safety unless the Titan Giant Ape took human form, and the Titan Giant Ape reluctantly agreed.

Li Pu captured the transformed Titan Giant Ape and learned that stronger Soul Beasts guarded the Star Dou Forest, while the ape insisted its loyalty to Xiao Wu would not change. Meanwhile, Tang San and his companions realized Er Ming had not appeared and rushed to search for the Man Faced Demon Spider without knowing where to go.

• Li Pu sealed the transformed Titan Giant Ape's Soul Power, and the ape accused him of breaking his promise to protect Xiao Wu.
• The Titan Giant Ape warned that stronger Soul Beasts guarded the forest, and Li Pu explained that the two emperors were only guarding an entrance.
• Li Pu mocked the Titan Giant Ape's devotion to Xiao Wu, but it said it did not care about her past or romantic life.
• Tang San's group noticed Er Ming had not appeared to take Xiao Wu away, and Ma Hongjun worried that Tang San would miss the Eight Spider Lances Soul Bone.
• Tang San took Mushroom Flying Sausages from Oscar and flew off to search for the Man Faced Demon Spider, but Ning Rongrong pointed out that they did not know which direction to go.