Recaps

Zhang Qingxuan teased the Ice Empress by pretending to break their agreement and threaten to kill her for a Soul Ring, then revealed he had only flicked her forehead. In Spirit City, Lu Xueqi and Yun Qingyang sensed his breakthrough, and Yun Qingyang learned Zhang Qingxuan still had not reached Title Douluo.

• The Ice Empress tried to take Zhang Qingxuan to eat, but he claimed he no longer had to honor their agreement because he had become a Super Douluo.
• Zhang Qingxuan pretended he would silence the Ice Empress and offered to kill her with lightning or fire, making her break down in tears.
• Zhang Qingxuan rushed at the Ice Empress and flicked her forehead, while the Snow Empress laughed and revealed he had been teasing her.
• The furious Ice Empress transformed into a streak of light and pounced at Zhang Qingxuan.
• In Spirit City, Yun Qingyang recognized Zhang Qingxuan's voice and celebrated his breakthrough, while Lu Xueqi said he had not even reached Title Douluo.

Yun Qingyang learned that his cultivation could let him challenge opponents above his rank, while Zhang Qingxuan prepared to help Snow Empress survive her seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation. When the tribulation began, Zhang Qingxuan and his two martial souls devoured its origin power, causing the lightning to vanish.

• Lu Xueqi explained that Yun Qingyang could gain the strength to challenge opponents above his rank by cultivating his secret art and using his chosen Soul Rings.
• Zhang Qingxuan sparred with the Ice Empress, and Snow Empress revealed that she had absorbed Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow and discovered a frightening ice cave.
• Zhang Qingxuan agreed to help Snow Empress face her seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation and promised to investigate the ice cave afterward.
• At the Far North Summit, Snow Empress's Heavenly Tribulation began, and Zhang Qingxuan charged into the thunderclouds.
• Zhang Qingxuan and his Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram and Green Leaf Sword devoured the tribulation's origin power, making the Blood-Colored Tribulation Lightning disappear.

After Zhang Qingxuan survived Snow Empress's tribulation and offered to teach her the Power of Heaven and Earth, he led Snow Empress and Ice Empress into an underground ice cave. In Spirit City, Tang Hao challenged Yun Qingyang, while Lu Xueqi's Sword Intent put Tang Xiao under immense pressure.

• Zhang Qingxuan showed Ice Empress his new Soul Rings, promised to help her face her own tribulation, and offered to teach Snow Empress the Power of Heaven and Earth.
• Zhang Qingxuan used Spatial Shift to take Snow Empress and Ice Empress into an underground ice chamber and led them deeper into an icy cave.
• Tang Hao confronted Yun Qingyang in Spirit City and attacked him with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Yun Qingyang defended himself with the Canglan Spear and fought back as Lu Xueqi stopped Yun Lingyue from intervening, calling Tang Hao a useful opponent for tempering him.
• Lu Xueqi fixed her gaze on Tang Xiao and released Sword Intent that left him shaken and nearly made him spit blood.

Yun Qingyang turned Tang Hao’s attack against him and dominated the fight until Tang Zhen intervened, only for Li Yuntian to overwhelm Tang Zhen’s pressure and confront him. The chapter ended with Tang Zhen enraged by Li Yuntian’s insults and shocked by his rapid growth.

• Tang Hao attacked Yun Qingyang with his first Soul Skill, but Yun Qingyang dodged and rejected his attempt to provoke a direct clash.
• After Tang Hao insulted Yun Qingyang’s master, Yun Qingyang deflected his hammer strike and counterattacked, then repeatedly struck Tang Hao before he could recover.
• Tang Xiao tried to intervene, but Lu Xueqi slapped him into a distant wall.
• Tang Zhen arrived and forced Yun Qingyang to one knee with his pressure, threatening him for injuring a member of the Tang Clan.
• Li Yuntian appeared, canceled Tang Zhen’s pressure, and revealed strength beyond Tang Zhen’s, then mocked him for his slow cultivation progress.

Ning Fengzhi defused the confrontation between Tang Zhen and Li Yuntian, who praised Yun Qingyang and recognized Lu Xueqi’s exceptional talent before her spar with Bibi Dong. Far beneath the Far North, Zhang Qingxuan discovered three supreme ice-based Innate Spiritual Objects and gave one each to Snow Empress and Ice Empress.

• Ning Fengzhi persuaded Tang Zhen to put away his Clear Sky Hammer and prevent a fight in Spirit City.
• Li Yuntian praised Yun Qingyang and assessed Lu Xueqi’s talent, while she said only Young Master mattered to her.
• Zhang Qingxuan led Snow Empress and Ice Empress into an ice cavern filled with rare resources and discovered three crystalline Innate Spiritual Objects.
• Zhang Qingxuan explained that the crystals were the ancestral source of ice-attributed power and gave one to each of the two women.

Zhang Qingxuan shared Innate Spiritual Objects with Snow Empress and Ice Empress, then salvaged the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's remains and the Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Iron. His voice awakened the Silver Dragon King, who ordered Di Tian to investigate him in the Far North.

• Zhang Qingxuan urged Snow Empress and Ice Empress to accept the Innate Spiritual Objects, and they accepted.
• Zhang Qingxuan recognized the Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Iron as divine weapon material and brought back the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's corpse.
• Zhang Qingxuan extracted the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's head Soul Bone, silk, hide, and flesh, then began packing up the surrounding treasures.
• In the Lake of Life, Scarlet King, Xiong Jun, Zi Ji, Bi Ji, and Di Tian discussed the strange voice from the Far North and worried about Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
• The Silver Dragon King awakened and ordered Di Tian to meet the powerful person behind the voice, warning him to use the Dragon God Claw if necessary.

Lu Xueqi faced Bibi Dong in a public duel and revealed she had reached Soul King strength at eleven. She challenged Bibi Dong to last half an incense stick without Lu Xueqi using her Martial Soul or Soul Skills, then effortlessly cut apart Bibi Dong’s opening attack with Sword Intent.

• Qian Xunji welcomed the crowds gathered to watch Bibi Dong and Lu Xueqi’s duel as Bibi Dong went to the arena.
• Lu Xueqi and Bibi Dong exchanged greetings before the referee began the soul battle.
• Lu Xueqi revealed five Soul Rings, shocking Bibi Dong, Qian Xunji, Chen Xin, and the spectators.
• Lu Xueqi withdrew her Martial Soul and Soul Rings and offered Bibi Dong victory if she endured half an incense stick without Lu Xueqi using either.
• Bibi Dong attacked with Spider Web Restraint, but Lu Xueqi drew her sword slightly and severed the web with Sword Intent.

Lu Xueqi and Bibi Dong traded attacks in the arena, with Bibi Dong's danger sense helping her evade Lu Xueqi's rapid strikes. After Bibi Dong disarmed Lu Xueqi and launched a counterattack, Lu Xueqi called her sword back and blocked the strike, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Lu Xueqi's rapid attack missed as Bibi Dong sensed the danger and used spider silk to pull herself away.
• Qian Xunji realized Bibi Dong's spider-type Soul Rings had granted her an instinctive sense of danger, while Chen Xin also recognized her unusual reactions.
• Lu Xueqi drew her sword and pressed Bibi Dong with a barrage of sword qi, forcing Bibi Dong to conceal herself in poisonous mist.
• Lu Xueqi split the mist, but Bibi Dong used the distraction to disarm her and attack with her Blood-Sucking Spider Thorn Soul Skill.
• Lu Xueqi summoned the Tianya Sword back with her Sword Control Technique, and it knocked aside Bibi Dong's six spider thorns.

Lu Xueqi and Bibi Dong’s battle ended in a draw when the incense burned out just before Bibi Dong hit the ground, and Lu Xueqi healed her afterward. At Qian Xunji’s banquet, Lu Xueqi explained that resolving Bibi Dong’s Twin Martial Souls conflict would require an extraordinary external force, possibly divine power.

• Lu Xueqi declared the match a draw because the incense had burned out before Bibi Dong touched the ground.
• Lu Xueqi gave Bibi Dong a pill that restored her injuries and Soul Power, and called her one of her few friends.
• Qian Xunji invited Lu Xueqi to a banquet and asked her to advise Bibi Dong about her cultivation.
• Lu Xueqi explained that Bibi Dong’s Twin Martial Souls would remain in conflict unless a powerful external force suppressed and fused their Soul Power.
• Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong realized that the required force might be divine power, leaving Bibi Dong solemn and confused.

Lu Xueqi was ambushed in Spirit City by a group of Soul Masters seeking revenge for a failed plan five years earlier. After they wore her down with repeated self-destructions, their Soul Sage leader revealed that Yun Qingyang and Yun Lingyue were targets too.

• Yun Lingyue admitted she had been too nervous to eat in front of His Holiness the Pope, so Yun Qingyang took her to a snack stall while Lu Xueqi went on ahead.
• Several black-clad figures secretly followed Yun Qingyang and Yun Lingyue through the crowd.
• A group of attackers ambushed Lu Xueqi, and she recognized them as Fallen Soul Masters who blamed her young master for ruining their plan five years earlier.
• The attackers repeatedly self-destructed to exhaust Lu Xueqi, leaving her seriously injured and unable to escape the Soul Sage leader.
• The leader told Lu Xueqi that Yun Qingyang and Yun Lingyue were also targets, and her eyes turned cold.

Lu Xueqi used the first strike of the Tianya Divine Sword, which she had nurtured in its sheath for five years, to kill a powerful enemy in Spirit City. She then returned to find Xiao Bai had rescued Yun Qingyang, Yun Lingyue, and the Spirit Hall guards from their attackers.

• Lu Xueqi killed the enemy leader with Tianya's stored sword energy and set off to find her junior brothers.
• Yun Qingyang stood wounded beside his unconscious sister, Yun Lingyue, while Spirit Hall guards tried to protect them.
• The remaining attackers sacrificed themselves in an explosion that gravely wounded several guards and left Yun Qingyang struggling to stand.
• Xiao Bai arrived as a Soul Emperor and used her Ice and Snow World to weaken the attackers before freezing and shattering them.
• Lu Xueqi reached the scene and saw that Xiao Bai had saved Yun Qingyang, Yun Lingyue, and the surviving guards.

Zhang Qingxuan forged two icy swords and gave one to Snow Empress, prompting Ice Empress to cry over being left out. He placated her with a dagger and protective armor meant to help her survive her coming four-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation.

• Three streams of sword qi erupted from the glacial abyss, and Zhang Qingxuan appeared with two newly forged swords.
• Zhang Qingxuan gave the Ice-Snow Sword to Snow Empress, who smiled warmly as Ice Empress watched jealously.
• When Zhang Qingxuan refused to give Ice Empress a sword and teased her, she burst into tears and rolled around in the snow.
• Zhang Qingxuan gave Ice Empress a rare dagger, but she held out for another gift.
• Zhang Qingxuan gave Ice Empress protective ice-silk armor to help her endure her upcoming four-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation, and she happily claimed it.

Zhang Qingxuan sensed a great calamity at home and rushed back, but Di Tian blocked his path, demanding to know where he had obtained the Ice and Fire Dragon King’s inheritance. Zhang Qingxuan’s urgency turned to killing intent as Di Tian revealed his true form and the two prepared to fight.

• Zhang Qingxuan divined a sign of great calamity, apologized to Snow Empress and Ice Empress, and hurried toward Spirit City.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress followed after a distant explosion shook the mountains.
• Zhang Qingxuan confronted Di Tian, who sensed a Dragon King’s aura and demanded to be taken to the inheritance site.
• Zhang Qingxuan said he had obtained part of the Ice and Fire Dragon King’s inheritance by chance and warned Di Tian to move aside.
• Di Tian transformed into the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King and threatened to capture Zhang Qingxuan.
• Zhang Qingxuan unleashed his lightning and fire, and Snow Empress realized he intended to kill Di Tian.

Zhang Qingxuan defeated Di Tian in the Far North, but a scale from the Silver Dragon King rescued the wounded Beast God. Zhang Qingxuan left for Spirit City while the Snow Empress and Ice Empress prepared to follow, and Di Tian set out to report to his lord.

• The Snow Empress stopped the Ice Empress from joining the battle, warning that interfering against Di Tian would betray the Soul Beast World.
• Zhang Qingxuan restrained Di Tian with the Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram and struck him with the Heaven-Severing Three Swords, but a Silver Dragon King scale swallowed the sword attacks and carried Di Tian away.
• Victini restored more than half of Zhang Qingxuan's strength, and he told the Snow Empress and Ice Empress that the scale came from a God Rank Soul Beast.
• Zhang Qingxuan gave the Snow Empress and Ice Empress Breath-Concealing Talismans, a map, and his personal token before departing for Spirit City.
• Di Tian arrived at a distant lake badly wounded and decided to seek out his lord, recognizing that Douluo Continent held deeper dangers than he had expected.

Qian Xunji punished the officials responsible after Yun Qingyang was gravely injured in Spirit City. He told Qian Daoliu that Yun Qingyang had survived but his Martial Soul Origin was nearly exhausted, leaving them to fear Zhang Qingxuan’s return.

• Qian Xunji summoned the intelligence chief, blamed him for failing to monitor the remnants who attacked Zhang Qingxuan’s disciples, and ordered the guards to cripple his Soul Power and imprison him.
• Qian Xunji dismissed the patrol corps commander after acknowledging his rescue efforts and ordering rewards for the guards who had helped protect Yun Qingyang.
• Qian Daoliu emerged from the shadows and asked how serious Yun Qingyang’s injuries were.
• Qian Xunji explained that Yun Qingyang had burned his Martial Soul Origin and life force to protect his younger sister, leaving his meridians shattered and his future cultivation ruined.
• Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji feared Zhang Qingxuan would retaliate when he learned that his disciple had been crippled.

Zhang Qingxuan returned to find his disciple Yun Qingyang gravely injured, with his Martial Soul Origin exhausted and his meridians shattered. After Yun Qingyang recounted the ambush, Zhang Qingxuan’s killing intent spread across Spirit City beneath a darkening sky.

• Elder Ye said Yun Lingyue would recover but could not promise the same for Yun Qingyang, and Lu Xueqi explained that his exhausted Martial Soul Origin could not simply be restored.
• Yun Lingyue awoke, learned her brother had been crippled, and blamed herself until Lu Xueqi slapped her to stop her guilt from overwhelming her.
• Yun Qingyang woke and comforted Yun Lingyue, saying he had willingly protected her.
• Zhang Qingxuan appeared with white hair and a chilling presence, then demanded that Yun Qingyang explain what had happened.
• Yun Qingyang described the Fallen Soul Masters’ ambush, how he burned his Martial Soul Origin to protect Yun Lingyue, and how Xiao Bai rescued them; Zhang Qingxuan’s killing intent spread through Spirit City as storm clouds gathered.

After Yun Qingyang’s meridians recovered, Zhang Qingxuan pushed him to keep cultivating and offered Yun Lingyue a chance to become his disciple if she improved during their upcoming journey. Zhang then confronted Qian Xunji over Spirit Hall’s failure to prevent Yun Qingyang’s crippling, leaving the Pope facing his anger.

• Qian Xunji ordered a clean list of families linked to Fallen Soul Masters sent to the Li Family, deciding not to protect them from Zhang Qingxuan.
• Yun Qingyang discovered that Zhang Qingxuan had healed his meridians, but despaired because his martial soul was ruined; Zhang ordered him to resume cultivating.
• Yun Lingyue asked Zhang Qingxuan to teach her, and he offered to consider accepting her as a disciple if she corrected her impatience and ignorance during their upcoming journey.
• Zhang Qingxuan met Qian Xunji in a teahouse and rejected the list as an inadequate response to Spirit Hall’s failure to keep the families under surveillance.
• Zhang Qingxuan told Qian Xunji he was in a very bad mood.

Zhang Qingxuan confronted Qian Xunji over the attack on him, then gathered his former students for a final practical combat lesson. He challenged several thousand students to attack him, and their combined assault began as he prepared to test their progress.

• Zhang Qingxuan threatened Spirit Hall and Spirit City unless Qian Xunji gave him a satisfactory answer, and Qian Xunji admitted fault and confirmed the attackers had been killed.
• Zhang Qingxuan visited Spirit Hall's treasury and chose to take a few items, excluding Soul Bones.
• Zhang Qingxuan returned to his former classroom and summoned everyone who had attended his lessons to the northern open ground for a practical combat lesson.
• Zhang Qingxuan enclosed the gathered students in a powerful white barrier and revealed his true appearance as he announced this would be his final lesson.
• Zhang Qingxuan told the students to attack him all at once, and after he urged them past their fear, they launched a combined assault.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress arrived at the Li Family to visit Zhang Qingxuan, who had temporarily moved there to care for an injured disciple. After Yun Qingyang mistakenly called the women his master's mistresses, he worried that Zhang Qingxuan's other admirers would punish him.

• Zhang Qingxuan's combat lesson ended with the young prodigies exhausted but grateful for his guidance.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress reached the Li Family gates, and Snow Empress used Zhang Qingxuan's Jade Pendant to gain entry.
• A servant told the women that Zhang Qingxuan was staying at Li Mansion because one of his disciples had been seriously injured.
• Yun Qingyang received Zhang Qingxuan's instruction to bring the women to his room, then called them his master's mistresses.
• Ice Empress scolded Yun Qingyang and led Snow Empress toward Zhang Qingxuan's room, while Yun Qingyang feared his master's other admirers would beat him.

Zhang Qingxuan invited Snow Empress and Ice Empress to join the force he planned to establish, and Snow Empress agreed. Later, Yang Wanqing confronted him about Li Yingxue’s feelings, leaving him speechless and Yingxue heartbroken before threatening to marry her to someone else.

• Li Yingxue, Xiao Bai, and Lin Meng'er panicked after hearing that two beauties had entered Zhang Qingxuan’s courtyard and been called his wives.
• Zhang Qingxuan said he would retaliate against those who harmed his disciple and use the opportunity to establish his own force.
• Zhang Qingxuan invited Snow Empress and Ice Empress to join his force, and Snow Empress accepted despite Ice Empress’s suspicions.
• Yang Wanqing visited Zhang Qingxuan with Li Yingxue and asked who Snow Empress and Ice Empress were; Zhang Qingxuan explained they were his partners who had helped him obtain his Ninth Soul Ring.
• Yang Wanqing asked Zhang Qingxuan what he thought of Li Yingxue, and when he fell silent, she threatened to arrange for Yingxue to marry someone else.

Yang Wanqing cornered Zhang Qingxuan into confronting his feelings for Li Yingxue, and Li Yingxue confessed her love and became his lover. The next morning, they discussed when her feelings had begun.

• Yang Wanqing challenged Zhang Qingxuan after he angrily refused to let Li Yingxue marry someone else.
• Li Yingxue kissed Zhang Qingxuan, and he returned her kiss as Yang Wanqing quietly left them alone.
• Zhang Qingxuan warned Li Yingxue not to mistake admiration for love, but she firmly confessed that she loved him.
• The next morning, Zhang Qingxuan asked Li Yingxue when she had fallen for him, and she said it began when he saved her from a dog at age seven.

After spending six nights with Li Yingxue, Zhang Qingxuan left Spirit City with Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Yun Lingyue to avenge Yun Qingyang and purge those allied with Fallen Soul Masters. When several guilty factions tried to surround him, Zhang Qingxuan revealed that he had trapped them and began cutting them down with Cold Abyss.

• Zhang Qingxuan invited Li Yingxue to join his journey, but she chose to cultivate in seclusion so she could stand beside him as his support.
• Zhang Qingxuan set out from Spirit City with Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Yun Lingyue, who carried his sword case as his sword-bearing maid.
• News of Zhang Qingxuan's departure spread, and families and factions tied to Fallen Soul Masters panicked as he wiped out their forces and accepted intelligence against them.
• Several frightened families united to ambush Zhang Qingxuan, but he told them that he had surrounded them instead.
• Zhang Qingxuan summoned Cold Abyss from the sword case and began slaughtering the assembled experts.

Yun Lingyue followed Zhang Qingxuan’s orders to kill Fallen Soul Masters, but hesitated and struggled with the violence. At a stronghold, a boy tricked her into slaughtering his own family and companions, then revealed he was a Fallen Soul Master who had used her to make her an “evil person” like himself.

• Zhang Qingxuan ordered Yun Lingyue to execute a wounded healing Soul Master, and she killed him despite her hesitation.
• Zhang Qingxuan sent Yun Lingyue alone to clear a remaining Fallen Soul Master stronghold, where she found a group of elderly and disabled people and a boy who claimed they had destroyed his village and killed his family.
• Believing the boy’s story, Yun Lingyue killed everyone in the stronghold and burned it down.
• The boy begged Yun Lingyue to take him with her, then bit her calf when she refused.
• The boy revealed that the people Yun Lingyue had killed were his family and companions, and that he was a Fallen Soul Master who had deliberately deceived her.

Yun Lingyue was drugged and nearly captured after trusting a deceptive enemy, but the Snow Empress rescued her. Afterward, the Ice Empress rebuked Yun Lingyue for her naivety, while Zhang Qingxuan and the Snow Empress watched to see whether the ordeal would change her.

• Yun Lingyue discovered that the boy had poisoned her with neurotoxin and incapacitated her with a toxin on his blade, then learned he had used a Disguise soul skill to hide his strength.
• The teenager threatened to make Yun Lingyue his captive and reached for her as she lost consciousness, but a snowflake appeared and froze him.
• The Snow Empress shattered the ice and eliminated the teenager, then carried the unconscious Yun Lingyue away.
• Yun Lingyue woke beneath a tree and checked that she was unharmed before the Ice Empress scolded her for trusting the enemy and ignoring Zhang Qingxuan's warning.
• Yun Lingyue admitted she had been wrong, while Zhang Qingxuan told the Snow Empress that she would have to change or return to Qingyang.

Yun Lingyue wiped out the Fallen Soul Masters at the stronghold but feared her Blood Spirit Demon Blade’s murderous aura was consuming her reason. Zhang Qingxuan accepted her as his disciple and taught her two divine mantras to purify the aura, while Ice Empress ended the chapter charging at him after he refused to reveal the other mantras.

• Yun Lingyue killed the Fallen Soul Masters and absorbed the blood energy from their corpses, strengthening herself as the murderous aura clouded her mind.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress warned Zhang Qingxuan that Yun Lingyue’s martial soul could corrupt her, and he said he had a solution.
• Yun Lingyue told Zhang Qingxuan she feared becoming a monster, and Snow Empress silently prompted her to ask him to become her master.
• Zhang Qingxuan accepted Yun Lingyue as his disciple and taught her the Heart Purification Mantra and Body Purification Mantra to refine the murderous aura.
• Yun Lingyue used the mantras to calm and purify her aura, while Ice Empress demanded to hear the other six divine mantras and charged at Zhang Qingxuan when he refused.