Recaps

Zhao Linchuan strengthened Dao Seeking Academy, expanded his household and prepared Qian Renxue’s rise while the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect built its own tournament team. The stretch ended with Yu Xiaogang leading Tang San and the others out with a powerful soul-hunting party.

• Yu Yuanzhen forced Tang San and his companions to surrender the Immortal Herbs, but Zhao Linchuan and Yan Fei later restored the garden after the group left with its plants.
• Zhao Linchuan acquired Blue Tyrant Academy, renamed it Dao Seeking Academy, and ordered Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing to enroll as he assembled a tournament team.
• Zhao Linchuan killed Tai Tan and the Strength Clan members after Tai Tan came to avenge Tailong, then Yue Shen emerged from her cultivation with power beyond the ordinary God King Realm.
• Qian Renxue met Zhao Linchuan, who gave her an energy stone to poison Xue Ye and later advised her to blame his death on Star Luo and use the crisis to surrender power to Spirit Hall.
• Zhao Linchuan received forty Divine Cores and the Ice Fire Clear Shadow, gave the twin swords to Yan Lingji, and gave Yan Fei a Divine Core to help her reach the God King Realm.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling joined Dao Seeking Academy’s tournament team, while Jin Da reported that the Tang Sect had been established and that Captain Sun’s allies held substantial Star Luo military command.
• Yu Yuanzhen prepared Yu Xiaogang’s team for the tournament, and Yu Xiaogang led Tang San and the others out of the sect with a powerful soul-hunting party.

Tang San feared that the Tang Sect from his previous life had found him, while Shrek’s team was injured and Dao Seeking Academy dominated the tournament. Yu Xiaogang gained the Food God’s inheritance through a revolting cooking trial and planned to make Xiao San taste the next dish.

• Yu Xiaogang completed his fourth Soul Ring during an attack by Gale Demon Wolves, then drove the pack away with explosive attacks fueled by his gas.
• Tang San discovered the Tang Sect had built its headquarters in Heaven Dou City, feared its members were hunting him, and suffered a nightmare about being punished for stealing its secrets.
• Dao Seeking Academy defeated Godwind Academy and Elephant Armor Academy, while Zhao Linchuan spent time with Young Master of Fate and the other women.
• After Shrek’s victory, Tang San and his companions were beaten by hired attackers, and Tang San later poisoned the wine of Yu Tianheng’s companions.
• Zi Nu joined Zhao Linchuan’s household and agreed to rebuild Zilan Pavilion while gathering intelligence for Qian Renxue.
• Yu Xiaogang received the Food God’s inheritance and made Nine-Turn Intestines that repulsed the students and Yu Yuanzhen, who beat him after tasting them.
• The Food God declared Yu Xiaogang’s first trial complete, raised Yu Xiaogang to level forty-five and Yu Yuanzhen to level ninety-six, then ordered Yu Xiaogang to serve Human-Waste Tadpole Stew to someone who sincerely praised it.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to serve the stew to his beloved disciple Xiao San.

Zhao Linchuan and Qian Renxue strengthened their influence while Shrek Academy’s humiliations and Tang San’s personal misery escalated during the tournament. Dai Yutian uncovered a purge of his illegitimate children, and the Brocade Guards destroyed Shrek Academy’s remaining leadership.

• Yu Yuanzhen reached level ninety-six, while Yu Xiaogang’s cooking and the incapacitated former Thunder Academy members stirred suspicions and scandal.
• Tang San and his teammates faced Zhao Linchuan’s Dao Seeking Academy, lost after Zhao’s energy ring made them vomit and lose control of their bowels, then retaliated by dumping Yu Xiaogang in a latrine.
• Qian Renxue used Zi Nu’s intelligence to begin replacing corrupt officials with the Brocade Guard, then toured the academy camps with Zhao Linchuan and spent the night with him after becoming heavily intoxicated.
• Zhao Linchuan gave Qian Renxue a Golden Sacred Dragon Martial Soul Granting Card, and she awakened it as her second Martial Soul.
• Dai Weisi ordered Captain Sun to kill Dai Congyu and the Star Luo Emperor’s other illegitimate sons, and Dai Yutian later discovered that Congyu and the others had been murdered.
• Tang San fled Yu Xiaogang’s soup, faced Chao Tianxiang’s threats and humiliation, and watched Xiao Wu reject him and leave with Zhao Linchuan.
• Yu Luomian ordered Tang San’s group to face Dao Seeking Academy first and forbade them from withdrawing, while Zi Nu and Nong Yu reunited at Zhao Residence.
• Bi Jianhua and the Brocade Guards attacked Shrek Academy, killing Zhao Wuji and Lu Qibin, capturing the surrendered teachers, and cutting off Flender’s arms before taking him away.

Dao Seeking Academy’s students endured Yu Xiaogang’s cooking before an ambush and political crisis pulled Zhao Linchuan into the defense of Heaven Dou Empire. After staging Qian Renxue’s death and reclaiming occupied cities, Zhao Linchuan turned against the Clear Sky Sect, where Tang Xiao confessed to killing Xue Qinghe.

• Yu Xiaogang’s forced return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect left Shrek Academy to face Dao Seeking Academy, where Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing defeated Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai.
• Yu Xiaogang’s strange cooking raised his Soul Power and set him the trial of making Tang San eat One Bite Three Springs while praising it, but Tang San and his friends struggled through the foul dishes.
• Yan Fei emerged from her breakthrough, and she and Yue Shen joined Zhao Linchuan for an outing where Qian Renxue revealed that Snow Ye was near death.
• Dai Weisi plotted to attack Heaven Dou teams and seize border cities, while Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian whipped Yu Xiaogang for his kitchen experiments.
• An ambush killed two Shrek reserves, and news that Snow Ye had been assassinated and Bone Douluo killed sent Qian Renxue back to defend Heaven Dou Empire as Zhao Linchuan and Huo Wu followed.
• Qian Renxue staged Xue Qinghe’s death with Zi Nu, who appeared to be a Clear Sky Sect assassin, while Zhao Linchuan rallied the people and took charge of resisting Star Luo Empire.
• Qian Renxue sent troops to the front, and Zhao Linchuan reclaimed occupied cities as rebellion forced Dai Weisi’s forces to abandon Jialing Pass.
• After Jin Da’s men brought Chen Xin back from near the Clear Sky Sect, Zhao Linchuan confronted Tang Xiao, who confessed to killing Xue Qinghe before the Second Elder silenced him.