Recaps

Yu Yan secured the Speed Clan’s support, grew stronger through battles and discoveries, and negotiated with Dugu Bo for access to his medicinal garden. He began cultivating the garden’s opposing Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

• Yu Yan traded the Crystal Dragon Blood Ginseng for Bai He’s favor and Whale Glue, then proved his strength to the Speed Clan’s young members and secured their agreement to attend Exotic Beast Academy.
• Yu Yan returned to the academy with five Speed Clan students, advanced to level 28 with Xiao Wu, and arranged to meet Dugu Bo through Dugu Yan.
• Yu Yan, Xiao Wu, and Bai Chenxiang cleared a bandit hideout in an ancient tomb, where Yu Yan killed the Corpse Ghost Vine and found valuable treasures, a Spirit Bone, and records about Martial Soul enhancement.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu reached level 29, then Yu Yan traveled with Jiang Jing to Dugu Yan’s birthday, where he met Ning Fengzhi and endured Dugu Bo’s Soul Power pressure.
• Yu Yan showed Dugu Bo the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and proposed curing his poison while helping Dugu Yan evolve her Martial Soul in exchange for Dugu Bo’s medicinal garden.
• Yu Yan agreed to move Dugu Bo’s poison into his Spirit Bones over several months, then declined Ning Fengzhi’s recruitment and left Heaven Dou City with Dugu Bo.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Yu Yan harvested and ate the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then used the Ice and Fire Twin Fish and Little Fish Meditation Method to begin developing Ice-Fire Immunity.

Yu Yan gained new powers, helped Dugu Yan and Xiao Wu transform, and returned to Exotic Beast Academy before accepting Ye Lingling’s request for help. He and Xiao Wu then tested Yu Yan’s Soul Power Compression Method on criminals in the mountains, where a mysterious young man began asking about their actions.

• Yu Yan completed his transformation, reached level 30, and made medicine that suppressed Dugu Bo’s poison.
• Yu Yan obtained a nearly ten-thousand-year Sun-Moon Dragon Blood Tree Soul Ring, then used medicine and cultivation to reach level 40.
• Dugu Yan consumed Yu Yan’s medicine, evolved her Martial Soul into the Jade Blood Jade Dragon, and gained a new First Spirit Skill.
• Dugu Bo helped Yu Yan hunt a Vortex Ice-Light Dragon, and Yu Yan absorbed its ten-thousand-year Soul Ring to reach level 44.
• Yu Yan gave Xiao Wu the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, which transformed her Martial Soul into the Taiyin Profound Rabbit and concealed her Soul Beast identity.
• Yu Yan returned to Exotic Beast Academy, where Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling enrolled and Ye Lingling pledged lifelong service in exchange for his help with her Martial Soul.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu traveled to the mountains to test his Soul Power Compression Method, and he tortured Black Mountain until the man agreed to try it.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu tested research ideas on Soul Masters, cleared criminal groups from the mountains, and drew the attention of a young man near the Star Dou Forest.

Yu Yan and Xiao Wu rescued captives, traveled north to seek the Pure Moon Lotus, and crossed paths with Xue Qinghe before visiting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After exploring the sect’s library and Heaven Dou City, they reached the Crown Prince’s Residence for dinner with [Xue Qinghe].

• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu destroyed a human-trafficking caravan, rescued its captives, and arranged for repentant Soul Masters to help them return home or settle safely.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu traveled toward the Far North, where Yu Yan absorbed fused blood at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and Wu Xue transformed into a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu found and harvested the Pure Moon Lotus, then Yu Yan met Xue Qinghe, who invited them to Dragon City.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu explored an ice cavern, gathered Ice Silkworm molts and Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow for Da Ming and Er Ming, and missed Xue Qinghe’s banquet.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Yu Yan studied Conjecture on the Essence of Soul Power in its library.
• Ning Rongrong showed Yu Yan and Xiao Wu around Heaven Dou City and the auction house, where Yu Yan bought research materials and Xiao Wu bought enslaved people for New Life Village.
• Prince Xue Xing confronted Yu Yan and Xiao Wu over the people Xiao Wu had bought, but Yu Yan refused to hand them over and declined Ning Rongrong’s offer to intervene.
• Ning Rongrong led Yu Yan and Xiao Wu to the Crown Prince’s Residence, where [Xue Qinghe] welcomed them and invited them to dinner.

Yu Yan recruited Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong into Exotic Beast Academy, strengthened their abilities, and formed the academy’s competition team. As the Elite Advanced Soul Master Competition approached, Yu Yan reached level 70 and chose a 130,000-year Nine-Section Fish Dragon Beast as his seventh Soul Ring target.

• Xue Qinghe invited Yu Yan to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Yu Yan declined and reaffirmed his promise to compete for Exotic Beast Academy.
• Yu Yan and Xiao Wu confronted attackers sent by Prince Xue Xing, then strengthened their Soul Power at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well before returning late to the academy.
• Yu Yan gave Ye Lingling two Immortal Herbs that evolved her Nine-Heart Begonia and raised her Soul Power to level 30.
• Yu Yan showed Zhu Zhuqing evidence that Dai Mubai had abandoned their cause, offered to help her change her fate, and later defeated Zhao Wuji after Ma Hongjun and Oscar joined the confrontation.
• Zhu Zhuqing joined Exotic Beast Academy, swore a God's Oath to Yu Yan, absorbed two Immortal Herbs, and gained the strength to absorb a nearly ten-thousand-year Space-Rending Shadow Leopard as her Third Spirit Ring.
• Jiang Jing formed the Exotic Beast Academy Team with Yu Yan as captain, and the students began intensive training for the competition.
• Ning Rongrong left Shrek Academy and joined Exotic Beast Academy, where she roomed with Zhu Zhuqing and trained under Jiang Jing.
• The Exotic Beast Academy Team defeated the Heaven Dou Royal Team, Yu Yan reached level 70, and he chose the 130,000-year Nine-Section Fish Dragon Beast as his seventh Soul Ring target.