Recaps

Cheng Xiao used Whale Rubber to break through his Martial Soul’s restraints, then persuaded the Cheng Family to fund his hunt for powerful Soul Beasts. After gathering a Shadow Legion, he killed the mercenaries who tried to steal his secret, only to face a Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear.

• Cheng Xiao trained at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, befriended Xiao Wu, and developed a Tai Chi method that opened his Ren Du Meridians and strengthened his cultivation.
• Cheng Xiao absorbed a five-hundred-year Soul Binding Vine and defeated Tang San in a spar, while Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San that Cheng Xiao was no rival.
• Cheng Xiao joined Cheng Yu’s trip to Moon Village, discovered Whale Rubber among the discarded whale remains, and secretly used it to strengthen his body and Spiritual Power.
• Cheng Xiao balanced the powers of the Shadow King and Destruction King, reached level twenty, and gained the Shadow Domain ability to command shadows of the dead.
• Cheng Xiao revealed his Twin Martial Souls to Cheng Yu, who arranged family backing for a Soul Beast hunt and required him to attend Moonlight Pavilion and pursue tournament honors and a noble title.
• Cheng Xiao recruited Soul Beast shadows during the hunt, while Dai Chong and his men grew suspicious of his abilities and plotted to force his secret from him.
• Cheng Xiao exposed the mercenaries’ ambush and used three powerful Soul Beasts to wound them before summoning his Shadow Legion.
• Cheng Xiao refused Dai Chong’s offer to surrender, killed all seven mercenaries with his Soul Beast shadows, and noticed a Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bear approaching.

Cheng Xiao acquired the Crystal Bear’s Left Palm Bone and defeated the Dreadclaw Bear before leaving the Star Dou Great Forest. In Heaven Dou City, he met Ye Renxin and Dugu Bo, demonstrated his acupuncture, and secured a promise to visit the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Cheng Xiao killed the Crystal Bear, found its Left Palm Bone, and fused it into his hand after escaping a massive Dreadclaw Bear.
• Cheng Xiao killed the wounded Dreadclaw Bear, absorbed its Soul Ring, and used his shadows to defeat Zhu Lie and Zhu Lian when they tried to force him back to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Mo investigated the deaths and concluded that Cheng Xiao had deceived his group, then warned Spirit Hall that he was a dangerous Fallen One.
• In Heaven Dou City, Cheng Xiao befriended Ye Renxin and Ye Lingling, diagnosed Ye Renxin as gravely ill, and accompanied them to Dugu Bo’s estate.
• Cheng Xiao identified Dugu Bo’s poison and guided Ye Renxin’s acupuncture treatment, which expelled toxins and briefly increased Dugu Bo’s Soul Power.
• Dugu Bo described the spring with scorching and freezing halves, and Cheng Xiao recognized it as the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Cheng Xiao persuaded Dugu Bo to take the group to the spring and claimed that murals linked it to fallen Dragon Kings, then startled Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin by citing gods and the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

Cheng Xiao gained Ye Renxin’s support, survived the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and drew the attention of Qian Renxue and Spirit Hall. After Salas tried to arrest him, Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin drove the bishop away, while Xue Qinghe sought to have Salas transferred.

• Cheng Xiao demonstrated his unusual fighting skill against Dugu Yan, then chose Dugu Bo’s favor over becoming his disciple and agreed to move in with Ye Renxin.
• After nobles ambushed him, Cheng Xiao lost control of the Power of Destruction and killed his attackers, then spent a month unconscious recovering from bodily and spiritual injuries.
• Cheng Xiao entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after eating the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, survived its waters, and emerged immune to ice and fire.
• Cheng Xiao explained Martial Soul evolution to Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, Ye Renxin, and Ye Lingling, while Ye Renxin agreed to help refine his theories.
• Qian Renxue met Cheng Xiao in the forest, offered him access to Spirit Hall’s records, and fled when their Martial Souls resonated.
• Salas identified Cheng Xiao as the suspected killer in the reports, ordered his arrest, and confronted him outside Moonlight Pavilion.
• Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin protected Cheng Xiao from Salas’s forces, and Xue Qinghe later ordered Snake Lance Douluo and Stingray Douluo to seek Salas’s transfer.

Cheng Xiao strengthened his Dragon Emperor Martial Soul, published influential research, and survived Spirit Hall's attempt to capture him with Qian Renxue's help. After demonstrating his power against the Yu brothers, he secured allies and protection, while Spirit Hall formally named him Saint Son.

• Cheng Xiao tested his Dragon Emperor possession at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and the Nine Ring absorbed the spring's dragon souls and transformed.
• Cheng Xiao's research on martial souls and soul-ring limits spread through the empires, while Yu Xiaogang's own theory was contradicted and he collapsed.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei pursued Cheng Xiao, but Qian Renxue arrived and fused her power with his to drive Yue Guan away.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to announce Cheng Xiao as Saint Son and Hu Liena as Saintess, while Cheng Xiao received visitors interested in his research.
• Cheng Xiao negotiated with Ning Fengzhi over the Heart Separation Control method and the possibility of evolving the Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda with the Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Dugu Bo arranged a fight between Cheng Xiao and Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng, and Cheng Xiao's Dragon Emperor overwhelmed both brothers before Ye Renxin healed them.
• Dugu Bo secured promises to keep Cheng Xiao's Twin Martial Souls secret and arranged protection from Chen Xin, while Yu Yuanzhen received Cheng Xiao's advice about soul-ring limits.
• She Long told Xue Qinghe that Spirit Hall had named Cheng Xiao Saint Son, and Ning Fengzhi concluded that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could no longer oppose him.