Recaps

Xu Qing overwhelmed Ji Juechen in their duel, then faced him as he boosted his Soul Power to Level 70 with six shots of Nine Dragons Potion. Ji Juechen prepared to fight on, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Xu Qing praised Ji Juechen for allowing his buildup, then offered to sell him Body Potion at cost if he won.
• Hall Master Jing promised Ji Juechen thirty shots of Nine Dragons if he defeated Xu Qing, and Ji Juechen unleashed all six Soul Rings in a sword strike.
• Xu Qing dodged Ji Juechen's Sword Technique—Silence and broke his Level Five Defensive Soul Tool with a punch, then restored his Soul Power by swallowing a blue crystal.
• Xu Qing summoned a Deep Sea Demon Whale phantom, which Ji Juechen barely deflected before it cratered the arena beyond him.
• Ji Juechen injected himself with six shots of Nine Dragons Potion, temporarily raising his Soul Power to Level 70.

Ji Juechen unleashed his newly comprehended sword technique, Obsession, against Xu Qing, who pushed himself into a second Blood Burst to defeat him. Ji Juechen survived with help from Xu Qing’s experimental Adrenaline and Hall Master Jing’s healing pill, while Xu Qing turned to Hall Master Jing and asked why he was still calling him Hall Master.

• Ji Juechen revealed his determination and named the sword technique he had just comprehended Obsession.
• Xu Qing activated his second Blood Burst and traded powerful blows with Ji Juechen, whose sword held out until Xu Qing finally stopped him.
• Ji Juechen collapsed gravely wounded and apologized for failing to let Xu Qing enjoy the fight.
• Xu Qing injected Ji Juechen with Adrenaline, while Hall Master Jing gave him a healing pill and Lin Jiayi took him to the infirmary.
• Xiao Meng applied ointment to Xu Qing, who covered himself and asked Hall Master Jing why he was still calling him Hall Master.

Xu Qing asked the Ice Empress about Soul Cores and demonstrated that he could solidify and attribute his Soul Power ahead of schedule by making Mystic Ice Marrow. The Ice Empress tasted it and said a month or two of daily servings could give her an eighty percent chance of surviving her Heavenly Tribulation, leaving Xu Qing eager to improve the treat.

• Xu Qing returned to the villa and found the Ice Empress had quickly learned human writing, then rewarded her with Mystic Ice Marrow that she initially refused.
• Xu Qing asked the Ice Empress how she formed her Soul Core, and she explained that the process required a body, spiritual power, and Soul Power as strong as a Titled Douluo's.
• Xu Qing used his Mystic Ice Marrow Martial Soul to solidify and attribute his Soul Power, demonstrating that he had crossed the first threshold for forming a Soul Core.
• The Ice Empress tasted the Mystic Ice Marrow and said regular servings could give her an eighty percent chance of surviving her Heavenly Tribulation.
• Xu Qing, still holding most of his Soul Power, proposed spending the afternoon discussing how to make Mystic Ice Marrow taste better.

Huo Yuhao suffered a sudden attack at the Body Sect gym, then recovered after Ano injected him with several potions, awakening a changed fortune and improved senses. In the Divine Realm, Tang San tried to observe Douluo Planet but was stopped by the God of Destruction.

• Huo Yuhao worried that his head looked pointy and doubted his physical talent while talking with Ano at the gym.
• Huo Yuhao felt sudden, severe heart pain, and Ano mistook his symptoms for an overdose and injected him with three potions.
• Huo Yuhao recovered, and his fortune surged in a chaotic mix of colors as his cultivation speed, sight, and hearing improved.
• Tang San noticed Huo Yuhao's luck had risen again and prepared to inspect Douluo Planet through the God Realm Hub.
• The God of Destruction confronted Tang San for trying to interfere with the lower realm, and Tang San claimed he only wanted to check on Xiao Qi.

Xu Qing began attending Class One, Year Five at Royal Soul Master Academy, where he struggled to follow a lesson on Soul Tools. The academy announced a selection exam in two and a half months to choose its Continental Soul Master Tournament team, giving Xu Qing a new deadline to prepare for.

• Xu Qing left Ice Empress after refusing to make her Mystic Ice Marrow for a week, and she locked the door and struggled to recover from eating it.
• Xu Qing went to school the next morning, where Meng Hongchen greeted him and Xiao Hongchen dramatically welcomed him to class.
• Xu Qing sat beside Meng Hongchen instead of Xiao Hongchen, then listened as Lin Jiayi taught a lesson on Soul Tools that he could barely understand.
• Lin Jiayi announced that Year Five and Year Six students would take a selection exam in two and a half months to choose seven official and seven reserve tournament team members.

Xiao Hongchen anticipated his future match against Xu Qing while Xu Qing visited the library and had Elder Yi copy its Soul Tool books. After Ju Zi’s tangerine attack became juice in Xu Qing’s hands, he left and asked Elder Yi how far away he could sense a divine presence.

• Xiao Hongchen resolved to defeat Xu Qing in their match two and a half months later, while Xiao Meng teased Xu Qing about keeping her fight with Lao Ji from her brother.
• Xu Qing asked Elder Yi to study the library’s Soul Tool books, and Elder Yi secretly copied them all with his divine sense.
• Ju Zi threw a tangerine at Xu Qing, who caught it, squeezed it into juice, and ate the ice cup before leaving without paying her.
• Ju Zi identified Xu Qing’s Martial Soul as ice and saw that his Soul Power level was forty-five.
• Xu Qing recalled seeing an angel while repeatedly exhausting his Soul Power and asked Elder Yi how far away he could sense a divine presence.

Xu Qing watched Ye Guyi mistake Nana for an Evil Soul Master and secretly stopped Nana from killing her, allowing Nana to escape. He then confronted Ye Guyi and accused her of being an Evil Soul Master in disguise.

• Elder Yi detected a sacred aura three kilometers ahead, and Xu Qing followed it to a Holy Spirit Cult branch in Ming Capital.
• Xu Qing watched as Ye Guyi cornered Nana in an alley and accused her of being an Evil Soul Master.
• Nana tried to defend herself, then attacked Ye Guyi with a Level 6 Blink Sword when Ye Guyi launched her Holy Spirit Slash.
• Xu Qing summoned an Ice Jade Scorpion phantom to knock the Blink Sword aside, giving Nana time to retrieve it and escape.
• Ye Guyi accused the unseen rescuer of being a villain, and Xu Qing jumped down and challenged her to prove she was not an Evil Soul Master in disguise.

Xu Qing met Ye Guyi, a Holy Angel Martial Soul user who had been investigating the Holy Spirit Cult, and tried to hide his own identity while earning her trust. Their conversation ended when the Great Holy Spirit and another enemy trapped them in the alley.

• Xu Qing convinced Ye Guyi that he fought Evil Soul Masters, then learned she had a Holy Angel Martial Soul despite her claim to possess a Bright Swan.
• Xu Qing gave Ye Guyi an ice marrow drink and introduced himself as Xu Qing, claiming his Martial Soul was ice cubes.
• The Great Holy Spirit appeared with black mist, trapping Xu Qing and Ye Guyi in the alley.
• The Great Holy Spirit revealed his seventy-eighth-level Evil Soul Saint strength and celebrated finding both Ye Guyi and a light-attribute Soul Master.
• Another hostile voice joined the Great Holy Spirit as Xu Qing warned Ye Guyi that they were in trouble.

Ye Guyi fought the Holy Spirit Cult’s Evil Soul Masters in their underground hall, but the Great Holy Spirit overwhelmed her. Xu Qing stepped in, raised his strength to Soul King, and revealed a holy aura purer than Ye Guyi’s.

• Ye Guyi used her Holy Angel powers to shield the others and attack the Second Holy Spirit as the cult trapped them in its underground lair.
• The Second Holy Spirit burned his Soul Rings and transformed into a giant skeleton, while the Great Holy Spirit taunted the group.
• Ye Guyi unleashed her Holy Light Spirit Array and Holy Hymn, then charged the Great Holy Spirit and was struck into a pillar.
• Xu Qing advised Ye Guyi to defeat the weaker Evil Soul Masters first, then took the front line himself.
• Xu Qing fused his Soul Rings to create Ice Marrow, swallowed it, and surged to level fifty as his left eye began to shine with an exceptionally pure holy aura.

Xu Qing unleashed his Golden Crocodile King phantom and holy power against the Evil Soul Masters in the underground hall. He broke the Great Holy Spirit’s Holy Spirit Flag and left the fallen Evil Soul Saint for Ye Guyi to finish off.

• Xu Qing summoned the Golden Crocodile King, froze the Evil Soul Masters with holy light, and killed the Second Holy Spirit with a punch and a bite.
• The Great Holy Spirit broke free, reached Soul Douluo strength, and used the Holy Spirit Flag to release swarms of vengeful spirits.
• Xu Qing and Ye Guyi resisted the spirits’ attacks, while Xu Qing appeared behind the Great Holy Spirit and struck at the flag.
• The Great Holy Spirit deflected Xu Qing’s punch with the flag, then tried to direct the vengeful spirits at Ye Guyi.
• The Holy Spirit Flag snapped, its backlash left the Great Holy Spirit incapacitated, and Xu Qing offered Ye Guyi the chance to finish him off.

Xu Qing and Ye Guyi defeated the Great Holy Spirit, destroyed the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, and purified the resentful spirits in the hall. As they left Ming Capital’s ruined stronghold, Ye Guyi offered to become Xu Qing’s ace fighter and began to tell him a secret.

• Xu Qing helped Ye Guyi use Holy Spirit Slash to destroy the Great Holy Spirit, and she absorbed its energy to rise from level forty-six to level fifty.
• Elder Yi destroyed the Ten Thousand Soul Banner and purified the resentful spirits throughout the hall.
• Xu Qing told Ye Guyi that it was time to part ways, but she followed him and offered to come whenever he needed her.
• Ye Guyi tried to buy Xu Qing herbal tea, admitted she was broke, and explained that she had pursued the Evil Soul Master for his bounty.
• Ye Guyi pulled Xu Qing aside and began whispering that she wanted to tell him a secret.

Ye Guyi revealed how she entered the Sun Moon Empire and moved into the villa next door to Xu Qing, while Ice Empress teased him at home. Two months later, Xu Qing had advanced four levels and discussed his exhausted soul-sacrifice source with Ice Empress, who asked whether he would still hunt A-Tai’s kin for his fifth ring.

• Ye Guyi told Xu Qing she had smuggled herself into the Sun Moon Empire, pawned her Level 3 Soul Tool, and joined the Ordinary Alliance with Shangguan Ying’er’s help.
• Ye Guyi showed Xu Qing the villa she had bought, and Xu Qing revealed that his own house was next door.
• Ice Empress refused to let Xu Qing inside until he aired out Ye Guyi’s scent, then mocked him after he entered and ignored his messages.
• Over the next two months, Xu Qing and his companions experienced several awkward encounters, while the destruction of the Holy Spirit Cult drew no reaction.
• Xu Qing said he had advanced four levels with help from the bug’s life energy, which was now exhausted, and described how the bug had made a pure soul sacrifice after eating Mystic Ice Marrow.
• Ice Empress asked Xu Qing whether he still planned to hunt A-Tai’s kin for his fifth ring.

Xu Qing traveled to the Far North with Du Busi to hunt Titan Snow Demons, hoping their Ice God bloodline would help him discover whether the Ice God Inheritance existed. After Du Busi knocked out A-Tai, Xu Qing asked for a technique to control Ice Empress’s Soul Core seal, but his master refused.

• Ice Empress questioned Xu Qing’s plan to use Titan Snow Demon Soul Rings to seek the Ice God Inheritance and admitted she had never found evidence that an inheritance existed.
• Xu Qing revealed that Titan Snow Demon Soul Rings would also nourish his body and strengthen his Self Martial Soul, and resolved to investigate the inheritance himself.
• Du Busi arrived and took Xu Qing to the Far North after Xu Qing promised to make Ice Empress another popsicle when he returned from breaking through to five rings.
• A-Tai angrily accused the humans of tormenting Ice Empress and killing his people, then burned his life force to attack them.
• Du Busi punched A-Tai unconscious, and Xu Qing asked his master for the secret technique to control Ice Empress’s Soul Core seal.
• Du Busi refused to teach Xu Qing the technique, warning that Xu Qing was too young to resist temptation and that a failed seal could cause serious trouble.

Xu Qing lured an eighty-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon out with enhanced Mystic Ice Marrow, intending to drive it to a hundred thousand years and make it sacrifice itself to him. He revealed his aura to provoke the beast and began fighting it, confident that his strength would prevail.

• Xu Qing asked Du Busi for partial control over the sealed scorpion, and Du Busi gave him thirty percent control.
• Xu Qing used Ring Fusion to make Mystic Ice Marrow and placed it outside the Titan Snow Demon's cave.
• The Titan Snow Demon ate the Mystic Ice Marrow, whose energy sent it into a frenzy.
• Xu Qing told Du Busi he planned to push the beast to a hundred thousand years and obtain its sacrifice, then stepped out of the protective barrier to provoke it.
• The Titan Snow Demon attacked Xu Qing with a storm of ice spikes, and Xu Qing shattered them with his fists.

Xu Qing defeated the rampaging Titan Snow Demon with a phantom of the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, then fed it Mystic Ice Marrow to raise its power. As the beast’s aura continued climbing, Du Busi guarded the area and let Xu Qing act as he pleased.

• The Titan Snow Demon trapped Xu Qing with ice spikes and charged, but Xu Qing dodged its attacks while preparing his counter.
• Xu Qing summoned the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion phantom, whose giant pincer crushed the Titan Snow Demon’s internal organs and left it unable to move.
• Du Busi praised Xu Qing’s strength, dispelled the barrier, and searched the area with his Spiritual Power while promising not to interfere.
• Xu Qing poured his stored Mystic Ice Marrow into the Titan Snow Demon’s mouth, clearing its consciousness briefly before its aura began rising again.

Xu Qing used the Life Carving Knife and his Undying trait to endure the violent life force, then killed the newly ascended Titan Snow Demon and absorbed its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. He gained a fifth ring and reached Soul Power Level fifty-four, but discovered that its Soul Skill had changed.

• Du Busi faced the Titan Snow Demon's Heavenly Tribulation while Xu Qing tried to control the beast with Mystic Ice Marrow.
• Elder Yi warned Xu Qing that the Titan Snow Demon's Willpower made it unlikely to offer itself in sacrifice, so Xu Qing turned to his backup plan.
• Xu Qing plunged the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife into his heart and absorbed its life force, triggering his Undying trait as Elder Yi guided him.
• The Titan Snow Demon crossed the hundred-thousand-year threshold, and Xu Qing shattered its head and began absorbing its crimson Soul Ring.
• Electrolux destroyed the Titan Snow Demon's remnant soul in Xu Qing's Sea of Consciousness, allowing Xu Qing to finish absorbing the ring and reach Soul Power Level fifty-four.
• Xu Qing noticed that his new Soul Skill had changed.

Xu Qing returned to Ice Empress's home after absorbing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and explained that he planned to give the Titan Snow Demon's Soul Bone to Xiao Meng. While he tested his new Soul Skills by making Mystic Ice Marrow, Ice Empress became flustered by her reaction to it and attacked him, leaving Xu Qing sprawled on the floor afterward.

• Ice Empress waited at home for Xu Qing and considered making a fruit slushie while searching for a card he had given her.
• Xu Qing arrived and tossed Ice Empress the Titan Snow Demon's Soul Bone, saying he would give it to Xiao Meng because it was only about eighty thousand years old in essence.
• Xu Qing tested his fifth Soul Ring's two Soul Skills, which boosted Soul Power and improved concentration and refinement when consumed with Mystic Ice Marrow.
• Ice Empress leaned close to Xu Qing as he made the marrow, then became embarrassed and furious when he crushed part of the mark controlling her power.
• Ice Empress attacked Xu Qing and accused him of putting something in the Mystic Ice Marrow, eventually leaving him sprawled on the floor while she held the marrow between her teeth.

Xu Qing teased Ice Empress by withholding the powerful Mystic Ice Marrow until she apologized, then refused to share it even after she complied. In the Undead Demi-plane, he explained the five-ring Mystic Ice Marrow’s extreme purity and the rule-type effect of its second Soul Skill, then created samples containing each Soul Skill’s effect.

• Ice Empress woke with physical amnesia, remembered Xu Qing’s role in her injuries, and refused to apologize while craving the Mystic Ice Marrow he made.
• Xu Qing paused the five-ring fusion to taunt Ice Empress, then promised to withhold Mystic Ice Marrow for another month unless she apologized.
• Ice Empress apologized and asked for the finished piece, but Xu Qing refused to give it to her and returned to his room.
• In the Undead Demi-plane, Xu Qing told Elder Yi the five-ring Mystic Ice Marrow had nearly ten times the energy density and 99.999% purity.
• Xu Qing reported that Ice Empress had eaten a piece carrying the second Soul Skill, which appeared to be a rule-type ability usable regardless of level, constitution, or form of existence.
• Xu Qing created two more pieces, each containing the effect of one of the fifth ring’s Soul Skills.

Xu Qing used Mystic Ice Marrow to double his Soul Power and discovered that consuming it sharpened his senses and accelerated his thoughts and movements. After reaching Soul Power Level fifty-five, he tried to use the immense energy from another piece of ice marrow to condense a Soul Core.

• Xu Qing created hundreds of pieces of Mystic Ice Marrow and stored them in his Sea of Consciousness.
• After eating another piece, Xu Qing entered a state in which the world seemed to slow down and he could move beyond the limits of the human eye.
• Xu Qing realized he could use his Second Martial Soul, Self, while freely calling on the first Soul Ring of the Mystic Ice Marrow.
• With Elder Yi watching over him, Xu Qing crushed a powerful piece of Mystic Ice Marrow and refined it instantly in his Sea of Consciousness.
• The ice marrow's energy left a solid blue speck in Xu Qing's Lower Dantian, and the impact raised his Soul Power Level to fifty-five.
• Xu Qing guided the remaining elemental energy and began attempting to condense a Soul Core.

Xu Qing recovered from condensing a Soul Core Prototype and fell asleep, while Ice Empress secretly regained her Ultimate Ice Soul Power. Ice Empress tried to sneak into Xu Qing's room for Mystic Ice Marrow, but he woke and caught her in the act.

• Xu Qing cooled off after leaving the Undead Demi-plane, told Elder Yi he had condensed a Soul Core Prototype, and fell asleep.
• Ice Empress recovered enough Ultimate Ice Soul Power to move freely and secretly ate a Mystic Ice Marrow Popsicle.
• Ice Empress suppressed her Soul Power and crept down the corridor toward Xu Qing's room.
• Ice Empress entered Xu Qing's room and reached for his blanket, hoping to find Mystic Ice Marrow.
• Xu Qing woke at Ice Empress's scent, slapped her hand away, and confronted her as she tried to pretend she was sleepwalking.

Meng Hongchen visited Xu Qing and mistook the Ice Empress’s guilty behavior and scent for evidence that something intimate had happened between them. After the Ice Empress fled, Meng Hongchen clung to Xu Qing, but her bold advances left her flustered and she finally sat back down; Xu Qing asked what good news she had brought.

• Meng Hongchen entered Xu Qing’s villa and found him facing a nervous Ice Empress in the living room.
• Meng Hongchen sensed the Ice Empress’s scent on Xu Qing and believed he was no longer pure, then tearfully clung to him.
• Xu Qing asked Meng Hongchen to find Xiao Bing an etiquette tutor, and the Ice Empress pretended not to understand before escaping to her room.
• Xu Qing asked Meng Hongchen what good news she had brought, but she silently pressed close and held his hand.
• Meng Hongchen realized she was afraid to take things further because Xu Qing was far stronger than her, so she reluctantly sat upright apart from him.

Meng Hongchen asked Xu Qing to help her find a fire-attribute Soul Beast for her fifth Soul Ring, since Mystic Ice Marrow had unbalanced her Martial Soul’s ice and fire attributes. In the Far North, they found an intelligent outcast Ice Clear Red Toad whose abilities matched her needs, and Xu Qing’s pressure pinned it in place.

• Meng Hongchen explained that her Vermilion Clear Ice Toad’s poison depended on balancing its ice and fire attributes, and that Mystic Ice Marrow had suppressed her fire attribute.
• Xu Qing agreed to help Meng Hongchen find a suitable Soul Beast and called Du Busi to take them to the Far North.
• Du Busi said they should seek a Vermilion Clear Ice Toad with a stronger fire attribute.
• An outcast Ice Clear Red Toad hunted and ate an Ice Silkworm in the Far North’s outer region.
• Xu Qing and Meng Hongchen found the Ice Clear Red Toad, and Xu Qing’s Soul King pressure stopped it from moving.

Xu Qing helped Meng Hongchen obtain a ten-thousand-year Ice Clear Red Toad Soul Ring and Soul Bone, then gave her a powerful Titan Snow Demon Soul Bone as a parting gift. Overwhelmed by the gift, Meng Hongchen kissed Xu Qing.

• Xu Qing restrained the Ice Clear Red Toad and told Meng Hongchen to kill it for its ten-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Meng Hongchen killed the toad, which left behind a left-hand Soul Bone, and absorbed both it and the Soul Ring, reaching level fifty-three.
• Meng Hongchen teased Xu Qing about thanking him and waited outside his villa for the parting gift he had promised.
• Xu Qing gave Meng Hongchen a box containing a Titan Snow Demon Soul Bone, whose power seemed greater than that of seventy- or eighty-thousand-year Soul Bones.
• Meng Hongchen put the box away, grabbed Xu Qing by the collar, and kissed him.

At the Royal Soul Master Academy’s tournament trials, Ye Guyi explained to Xu Qing that she had infiltrated the school to investigate Nana, whom she suspected of being an Evil Soul Master. Xu Qing faced Nana in the first round and left her crushed against the arena barrier with a single punch.

• More than ten days after Meng Hongchen’s encounter with Xu Qing, the Royal Soul Master Academy held trials to select its Continental Soul Master Tournament participants.
• Ye Guyi told Xu Qing she had enrolled under a false identity to investigate Nana, but Xu Qing insisted Nana was not an Evil Soul Master.
• The draw matched Xu Qing against Nana, while Meng Hongchen cheered for Xu Qing and Xiao Hongchen complained that she had not cheered for him.
• Nana entered the arena expecting an easy victory, believing Xu Qing was an unskilled transfer student who had benefited from his connections.
• As the match began, Xu Qing struck Nana with a powerful fist wind that slammed her into the arena’s protective barrier.

Xu Qing easily defeated Nana in the arena while Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming discussed his strength and place on the selection team. After the matches, Ye Guyi asked Xu Qing to help her hunt down Holy Spirit Cult branches, but he refused.

• Nana used Ghost Possession, blades, and a Flying Soul Tool to defend herself, but Xu Qing knocked her unconscious with a swift attack.
• Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming praised Xu Qing's talent, noted that his Soul Power had reached level forty-eight, and discussed his possible place on the selection team.
• Xu Qing explained to Ye Guyi that Nana's ghost Martial Soul likely had once been influenced by the Holy Spirit Cult, but that its evil aura had faded.
• Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen each overwhelmed their opponents in their arena matches.
• Ye Guyi asked Xu Qing to travel with her and exterminate Holy Spirit Cult branches, and Xu Qing refused.