Recaps

Qian Xunji blamed his subordinates for making his need for Whale Rubber a continent-wide scandal, then failed to persuade the elders to share the humiliation. Seven days later, Zhang Qingxuan discovered Evil Soul Valley among the system’s check-in locations and set off to ask Qian Xunji about it.

• Qian Xunji berated three supervisors after their careless purchase order sparked rumors mocking his virility.
• Qian Xunji rushed to the Elder Palace to demand that the elders share the blame, but they threw him out and ordered him to keep quiet.
• Qian Daoliu and the elders agreed to leave Qian Xunji to bear the scandal alone.
• Seven days later, Zhang Qingxuan asked the system about check-in locations and learned that Evil Soul Valley was one of seven sites.
• Zhang Qingxuan decided to seek Qian Xunji’s knowledge of Evil Soul Valley and secretly headed for the Pope Palace.

Zhang Qingxuan received an Elf Egg after signing in at Pope Palace, then helped Qian Xunji turn the damaging Whale Rubber rumors into a plan to build future prestige and profit. He ended by asking Qian Xunji about Evil Soul Valley.

• Zhang Qingxuan signed in at Pope Palace and obtained an Elf Egg that the system confirmed would not hatch into a Soul Beast.
• Qian Xunji told Zhang Qingxuan that rumors about his Whale Rubber purchases had damaged his reputation and that the elders had refused to share the blame.
• Zhang Qingxuan advised Qian Xunji to let the rumors spread while secretly expanding his Whale Rubber monopoly, then reveal its true benefits later.
• Qian Xunji took heart from Zhang Qingxuan's advice and imagined the major powers seeking Whale Rubber from him.
• Zhang Qingxuan asked Qian Xunji about Evil Soul Valley.

Zhang Qingxuan learned that Evil Soul Valley was guarded by the level-ninety-nine Necromancer Douluo and decided to seek strength at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well first. Qian Daoliu investigated Zhang Qingxuan’s hidden background and ordered Golden Crocodile Douluo to keep observing him without interfering.

• Qian Xunji told Zhang Qingxuan about Evil Soul Valley, its location in the Black Mist Mountain Range, and its powerful Necromancer Douluo.
• Zhang Qingxuan judged that confronting the Necromancer Douluo would be suicidal and set off for the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well in Sunset Forest to grow stronger.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo secretly followed Zhang Qingxuan and reported his exceptional power control and mysterious abilities to Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu showed Golden Crocodile Douluo a sparse dossier describing Zhang Qingxuan’s talent, adopted family, and suspected role in the Li Clan Chamber of Commerce.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Golden Crocodile Douluo to continue observing Zhang Qingxuan without disturbing him, saying Spirit Hall should make him a friend rather than an enemy.

Zhang Qingxuan searched Sunset Forest for a natural blessed land, but instead encountered a White Flood Dragon and tried to recruit it after sensing its unusual fortune. The dragon repeatedly attacked him with lightning, yet his golden barrier remained intact as the battle continued.

• Zhang Qingxuan searched a lakeside area with his martial souls but found no sign of the blessed land.
• A White Flood Dragon emerged from the lake and attacked Zhang Qingxuan, whose golden barrier blocked its claw.
• Zhang Qingxuan sensed the flood dragon’s fortune and invited it to follow him, but it refused and gathered lightning from the storm clouds.
• The White Flood Dragon fired a massive lightning torrent at Zhang Qingxuan, but his barrier remained unharmed.
• Zhang Qingxuan taunted the flood dragon to keep attacking, and it unleashed a barrage of lightning bolts across the lakeshore.

Zhang Qingxuan tried to recruit the White Flood Dragon with roasted meat, wine, and the promise of a chance to transform into a dragon. When it refused, he used lightning to beat it unconscious, leaving their negotiation for the next day.

• Zhang Qingxuan stayed unharmed after the White Flood Dragon collapsed from the lightning strike.
• Zhang Qingxuan cooked meat and offered the White Flood Dragon food, wine, and a chance to transform into a dragon if it joined him.
• The White Flood Dragon rejected Zhang Qingxuan and turned away, so he unleashed lightning and attacked it.
• Zhang Qingxuan repeatedly struck the White Flood Dragon until it fainted, then returned to the fire and went to clean up.

Zhang Qingxuan subdued the White Flood Dragon and learned that it could lead him to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, which was guarded by a dangerous Queen Medusa. Confident he could defeat her, he set off with the dragon to claim the treasures there.

• The White Flood Dragon woke, remembered Zhang Qingxuan's lightning-powered beating, and agreed to follow him.
• Zhang Qingxuan told the dragon its chance to become a true dragon depended on its future service, then relented when he saw its disappointment.
• The White Flood Dragon revealed the location of a treasure-filled place guarded by Queen Medusa, and Zhang Qingxuan recognized it as the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• The White Flood Dragon warned Zhang Qingxuan that Queen Medusa could immobilize living creatures and turn them to stone with her gaze.
• Zhang Qingxuan dismissed the danger, and the White Flood Dragon led him into the forest toward the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Zhang Qingxuan reached the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with the White Flood Dragon and defeated Queen Medusa, who had ambushed them. He claimed her Petrification Soul Bone and began examining the rare herbs growing around the spring.

• Zhang Qingxuan followed the White Flood Dragon to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and found its valley filled with rare herbs and dense energy.
• Queen Medusa ambushed Zhang Qingxuan and the White Flood Dragon with a Petrification beam, but Zhang Qingxuan blocked it with a golden barrier.
• Queen Medusa offered to yield the treasure land, but Zhang Qingxuan attacked her with Palm Lightning and killed her.
• Zhang Qingxuan retrieved Queen Medusa's head Soul Bone, which carried the ability of Petrification, and reassured the frightened White Flood Dragon.
• Zhang Qingxuan examined the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and identified several immortal-grade herbs, including Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.

Zhang Qingxuan received the Alchemy Canon at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and successfully condensed the Yin-Yang Creation Fire after many failed attempts. When he guided the new flame into his dantian, the Nine Profound Divine Thunder attacked it, leaving him scrambling to stop a clash inside his body.

• Zhang Qingxuan received the Alchemy Canon, gaining extensive knowledge of herbs, pill formulas, alchemy techniques, and strange flames.
• Zhang Qingxuan spent several days combining the Ice and Fire energies at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, failing thirty-five times to condense the Yin-Yang Creation Fire.
• Zhang Qingxuan successfully created the two-colored flame, and the White Flood Dragon recoiled from its intimidating aura.
• Zhang Qingxuan guided the Yin-Yang Creation Fire into his dantian, where the Nine Profound Divine Thunder surged out and attacked it.
• Zhang Qingxuan hurriedly tried to suppress the Nine Profound Divine Thunder before it could clash with the flame inside his body.

Zhang Qingxuan stabilized the forces in his dantian, protected the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with a Heavenly Thunder Array, and refined a trove of powerful pills. The White Flood Dragon became fixated on the Creation Pills, sensing that they could help it evolve.

• Zhang Qingxuan found that the Yin-Yang Creation Fire withstood the Nine Profound Divine Thunder, then placed the Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram between them to keep them in check.
• Zhang Qingxuan carved and activated a Heavenly Thunder Array around the valley to guard his pill refining.
• Zhang Qingxuan practiced refining lower-grade herbs for seven days, raising his success rate above seventy percent.
• Zhang Qingxuan used Heaven Spirit Grass, Red Sun Vermilion Fruit, and other ingredients to refine nine Creation Pills after three days and nights.
• Zhang Qingxuan refined many kinds of pills from the herbs around the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and filled thirty-six labeled white jade bottles.
• The White Flood Dragon awoke, focused on the Creation Pills, and felt its desire to evolve into a dragon ignite.

Zhang Qingxuan gave the White Flood Dragon a Creation Pill, and it survived the Dragon Transformation Tribulation to become a Five-Clawed White Dragon. As the dragon pledged itself to him, a hidden presence in the valley called for help, revealing that it had evaded Zhang Qingxuan’s divine sense and watched his actions.

• Zhang Qingxuan rewarded the White Flood Dragon with a Creation Pill, and it transformed into a cocoon.
• After three days, the cocoon hatched, and the White Flood Dragon faced the Dragon Transformation Tribulation.
• Zhang Qingxuan stopped the Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram and Green Leaf Sword from interfering with the tribulation, then absorbed its remaining lightning after the White Dragon succeeded.
• The newly transformed Five-Clawed White Dragon asked whether Zhang Qingxuan could absorb Lightning Tribulations, and he confirmed that he could.
• A hidden voice begged Zhang Qingxuan to save them, and he realized something in the valley had escaped his divine sense and watched him.

Zhang Qingxuan discovered that Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot were intelligent immortal herbs whose life force was being drained by the Ice and Fire Origin beneath the springs, and agreed to help them after binding them as servants. Meanwhile, Li Yuntian told Yang Wanqing that he was transferring most of the Li Family’s businesses to Spirit Hall, leaving her worried about how the clan members would react.

• Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot revealed themselves to Zhang Qingxuan and asked him to defeat the Ice and Fire Origin draining their life force.
• The two immortal herbs explained that they would lose their intelligence within three years if the origin continued to consume their nourishment.
• Zhang Qingxuan weighed whether to help the herbs or take them for himself, then agreed to aid them in exchange for their eternal service.
• Zhang Qingxuan placed soul restrictions on Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, establishing them as his servants.
• Li Yuntian told Yang Wanqing that he had transferred most of the Li Family’s businesses to Spirit Hall and planned to finish within ten days to half a month.
• Yang Wanqing asked Li Yuntian what he planned to do about the clan members, fearing they would oppose the transfer.

Li Yuntian rejected his corrupt clansmen and told Qian Xunji to deal with them as the law required. After Spirit Hall punished the Li Family members, the survivors staged a protest at its gates, and Qian Xunji ordered their crimes read aloud before they were sent to prison.

• Li Yuntian told Yang Wanqing that he would not protect the Li Family members who had abandoned and betrayed them, and promised to devote himself to his family.
• Qian Xunji ordered Spirit Hall to punish Li Yuntian's clansmen impartially after learning of their crimes, with Li Yuntian's approval.
• Spirit Hall confiscated Li Family members' assets, expelled them from Spirit City, and executed several offenders.
• The old patriarch admitted the clan had brought its punishment upon itself, while the remaining members dispersed in anger.
• The surviving Li Family faction staged a public protest at Spirit Hall's gates, using children and accusations to draw a crowd.
• Qian Xunji gave a guard a scroll listing the clan's crimes and ordered him to read it aloud before sending the protesters to the deepest level of the prison.

The Li Clan members who tried to exploit Li Yuntian’s name were publicly exposed for their crimes and imprisoned. When the remaining clan members begged Li Yuntian to save them, he refused, and the old clan chief faced a young clansman ready to fight.

• A Spirit Hall guard read out evidence that the Li Clan members had committed crimes and betrayed Li Yuntian, and the crowd condemned them.
• Silver Armor Guards arrested the troublemaking Li Clan members and took them to prison.
• The old Li Clan chief led the remaining members to kneel outside Li Mansion and beg Li Yuntian to save the imprisoned clansmen.
• Yang Wanqing worried about the clan’s fate, but Li Yuntian said their betrayal had ended their familial ties and refused to help them.
• A guard ordered the old chief and his followers to leave, and a young clansman rose to fight before the chief pressed him back down.

After the Li Clan was driven out of Spirit City, Zhang Qingxuan reached the heart of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and met the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King. He refused their inheritance and their offer of Ice and Fire Origin in exchange for helping the Soul Beast race, leaving negotiations at an impasse.

• The old clan chief led the Li Clan out of Spirit City after a guard forced the young clansman back with his Soul Power.
• Zhang Qingxuan descended through the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and passed through a barrier into an underground plaza containing two enormous dragon skeletons and their origins.
• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King appeared and offered Zhang Qingxuan their inheritance, but he refused, saying he would reach the Godhood Realm on his own.
• The Ice Dragon King offered the Ice and Fire Origin and the Dragon Kings’ insights into laws if Zhang Qingxuan would help restore the Soul Beast race.
• Zhang Qingxuan refused again, criticizing the Soul Beast race as divided and calling its members piglike teammates.

Zhang Qingxuan challenged the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King to explain the Soul Beast race’s defeat in the divine war before agreeing to cooperate with them. Their account revealed the Dragon God’s madness and the Silver Dragon King’s flight from battle, while Zhang Qingxuan hinted that her fate was worse than they believed and proposed a bet.

• Zhang Qingxuan insulted the Soul Beast race and demanded to know why it lost despite holding an advantage in the divine war.
• Zhang Qingxuan turned to leave, forcing the Ice Dragon King to reveal that the Dragon God had gone mad, wounded several Dragon Kings, and charged the five God Kings alone.
• Zhang Qingxuan asked about the Silver Dragon King’s role, and the Dragon Kings recalled that she had fled while the Golden Dragon King attacked indiscriminately.
• The Ice Dragon King insisted that the Silver Dragon King’s flight had been a temporary strategic retreat and claimed she was preparing to restore the Soul Beast race.
• Zhang Qingxuan suggested the Silver Dragon King might have been badly injured and, seeing that the Dragon Kings would not believe him, proposed a bet.

Zhang Qingxuan made a wager with the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King, promising to help the Soul Beast race if the Silver Dragon King was thriving and claiming the two Dragon Kings and their resources if she was not. After they accepted, he began absorbing the Ice and Fire Origin to form two Soul Cores, while the Dragon Kings grew wary of the mysterious power behind him.

• Zhang Qingxuan proposed that he would take the Dragon Kings to meet the Silver Dragon King when he reached the Transcendent Realm, and they wagered the Soul Beast race’s future on her condition.
• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King accepted Zhang Qingxuan’s terms and sealed the wager with a soul-bound contract.
• Zhang Qingxuan took the Ice and Fire Origin and began absorbing it with the Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram and Green Leaf Sword revealed.
• The Dragon Kings sensed a terrifying higher-dimensional presence during the contract and wondered who Zhang Qingxuan really was.
• Zhang Qingxuan used the origin power to form a Yin-Yang Soul Core and a Thunder Soul Core inside his dantian.
• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot celebrated as the draining of their origin power eased, while the White Dragon anxiously awaited Zhang Qingxuan’s return.

Yu Yuanzhen sneaked away from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect to challenge Zhang Qingxuan, while Yu Jingtian explained to the elders why he considered Qingxuan a peerless genius. Yu Jingtian allowed his son to go, hoping Qingxuan would humble him.

• Yu Yuanzhen left the sect with Yu Heng to seek out Zhang Qingxuan and test his strength.
• Yu Jingtian watched them depart and told the elders that Yu Yuanzhen needed to learn there were stronger people in the world.
• Yu Jingtian recounted how Zhang Qingxuan had controlled lightning during a battle against a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, despite having no lightning-attribute martial soul.
• Yu Jingtian revealed that Qingxuan's lightning control came from a Self-Created Soul Skill rooted in his understanding of the laws of heaven and earth.
• The elders argued over marrying their daughters to Qingxuan, and Yu Jingtian told them to abandon their schemes.

Li Yingxue brought Xiao Bai to a Soul Fighting Arena in disguise and entered a match against a higher-level Water Snake Soul Master. She revealed her four Soul Rings and used her enhanced speed and strength to send him flying, leaving the arena stunned as the battle turned in her favor.

• Li Yingxue dragged Xiao Bai to the arena and gave her a silver mask to conceal her identity.
• Li Yingxue entered the arena and faced a level forty-three Water Snake Soul Master, while most spectators bet against her.
• Li Yingxue revealed four Soul Rings, including a thousand-year second Soul Ring, and challenged her opponent's confidence.
• Li Yingxue dodged the Water Snake Soul Master's attack, activated her first and second Soul Skills, and punched him hard enough to send him flying.

Li Yingxue dominated several matches at the Soul Fighting Arena before waking up with a hangover and learning she had drunkenly called Xiao Bai “Mother.” When they returned to the arena, manager Li Le revealed he was an old Li Family retainer secretly overseeing local intelligence and funds.

• Li Yingxue used Frenzy Rhythm to defeat a Soul Ancestor opponent, then won several more matches at Xiao Bai’s urging.
• Xiao Bai took Li Yingxue to a luxurious hotel to celebrate, and Li Yingxue woke the next morning with no clear memory of the night before.
• Xiao Bai told Li Yingxue that she had cried, thrown a tantrum, and clung to her while calling her “Mother,” leaving Li Yingxue mortified.
• Li Yingxue and Xiao Bai returned to the Soul Fighting Arena, where a staff member escorted them to meet the manager.
• Li Le introduced himself as an old Li Family subordinate secretly managing local intelligence and funds after the family head transferred most of the family’s assets to Spirit Hall.

Li Yingxue agreed to face a powerful Soul Ancestor from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan after Li Le explained that the fighter was challenging the Soul Fighting Arena’s top Soul Ancestors. Xiao Bai learned the family head had warned them to be cautious and suspected the challenge had a deeper purpose; the chapter ended with Li Yingxue battling her opponent and struggling against his strength in close combat.

• Li Le explained that he recognized Li Yingxue by her Green Fire Swallow martial soul and told her that a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan Soul Ancestor had challenged the arena’s top fighters.
• Li Yingxue accepted the challenge and headed to the fighting stage.
• After Li Yingxue left, Xiao Bai questioned Li Le, who showed her the family head’s letter and a dossier on the challenger.
• Xiao Bai read the dossier and wondered why the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had sent the fighter, given its sect master’s debt to the Li Family.
• Li Yingxue summoned her Green Fire Swallow against her opponent’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and found she could not match his strength in close combat.

Li Yingxue revealed her soul-burning scarlet flames and defeated Yu Heng after his Dragon Transformation defenses failed to stop them. Yu Yuanzhen helped drive the flames from Yu Heng, then wondered who the masked girl was and felt wary of her power.

• Yu Heng was shocked that Li Yingxue could match him in close combat despite his Dragon Transformation.
• Li Yingxue transformed her flames and used Blazing Claw to burn through Yu Heng's defenses and attack his soul.
• Yu Heng tried to keep his distance, but Li Yingxue stayed close and gradually weakened him until he conceded.
• Yu Heng collapsed unconscious in the private room, and Yu Yuanzhen struggled to drive the flames from his body.
• A healing Soul Master treated Yu Heng, while Yu Yuanzhen reflected on the flames and wondered who the masked girl was.

Yu Heng woke after being badly injured by a mysterious fighter whose flames bypassed his defenses and threatened his soul. Yu Yuanzhen learned that the fighter’s identity was concealed and concluded that he was an unconventional genius with terrifying potential.

• Yu Heng woke in Yu Yuanzhen’s private room and said his attacker had not used his full strength.
• Yu Heng explained that the strange flames penetrated his Dragon Transformation defense and could have burned away his soul if he had not surrendered.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered his attendants to investigate the fighter’s identity and background.
• The attendants returned with no identification, but provided records of the fighter’s Soul Fighting Arena battles.
• Yu Yuanzhen studied the records and inferred that the fighter relied on enhancement Soul Skills and powerful self-created techniques.

Xiao Bai took Li Yingxue to Blazing Fire City, where her established ties with the Fire Family secured their welcome at the Li Family’s Flame Flavor Pavilion. After learning that the Water Family would soon hold an Exchange Tournament in the city, Xiao Bai wondered whether a certain person would attend.

• Xiao Bai explained that she had established a branch and an alliance with the Fire Family in Blazing Fire City, reassuring Li Yingxue that they would be safe there.
• Xiao Bai and Li Yingxue arrived in Blazing Fire City and visited the Li Family’s Flame Flavor Pavilion, where Manager Li Yue welcomed them respectfully.
• A red-haired young man recognized Xiao Bai and sent Steward Wang to tell his father that the key figure had returned.
• Li Yue gave Li Yingxue a Fire Jade Hairpin and offered the two women invitations to the Water Family’s upcoming Exchange Tournament.
• Xiao Bai accepted an invitation and wondered whether a particular person would attend, but she did not answer Li Yingxue’s question about who it was.

At Blazing Fire Academy’s Exchange Tournament, Xiao Bai introduced Li Yingxue to the academy deans and Shui Qingxue. Li Yingxue mistook Shui Qingxue’s teasing claim that she was Zhang’s sister-in-law as proof of an affair, and Xiao Bai explained that Shui Qingxue’s feelings were unrequited.

• Huo Zhenshan and Shui Canglan traded insults at the crowded tournament plaza until Xiao Bai arrived and greeted them.
• Xiao Bai introduced Li Yingxue, the biological daughter of the Li Family head, to Huo Zhenshan and Shui Canglan.
• Shui Qingxue arrived, greeted Huo Zhenshan and Li Yingxue, and asked Xiao Bai where Young Master Zhang was.
• Shui Qingxue teased Li Yingxue by saying she could call her sister-in-law, leaving Li Yingxue convinced that her brother had a lover.
• Xiao Bai denied that Young Master Zhang was interested in Shui Qingxue and explained that he had cured her martial soul backlash and frozen meridians in Skywater City.

Shui Qingxue and Xiao Bai traded insults before the Exchange Tournament, where Shui Qingxue faced Blazing Fire Academy captain Huo Yunshan. The chapter ended just as their main-event battle was about to begin, while Xiao Bai angrily wished for Shui Qingxue to lose.

• Shui Qingxue joked that Zhang’s life-saving favor meant she should offer herself in marriage, irritating Xiao Bai and Li Yingxue.
• Shui Qingxue revealed that she had recently become a Soul Ancestor and mocked Xiao Bai for reaching only level forty-five.
• Xiao Bai lost her temper and tried to attack Shui Qingxue, but Li Yingxue held her back.
• At the Exchange Tournament, Shui Qingxue entered the arena to face Huo Yunshan while Xiao Bai muttered curses wishing for her defeat.